{"text": "TERMINAL SESSION ID: [ERROR/OUT_OF_BOUND]\n\nFROM: [AUTOMATED MESSAGE]\n\nTO: Junior Researcher \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nWelcome to the SCP Foundation, researcher.\nIt has likely been a difficult journey to find yourself where you are today, having to be scouted out by people you've never met before and invited to exams and interviews for a position you were never fully told of. We can imagine you already have a few questions, whether it be where you are, who is here with you, or why you were chosen to be here. Many of these questions we will not be able to answer. Some of those, we will.\nIn the interest of not making new personnel go through their first several weeks guessing what each task force, site, and acronym actually stands for, we have compiled all the information you'd reasonably need (and can be given) into a single automated message, sent to every new recruit's personal inbox. We recommend going over these at your earliest convenience.\n\nAbout the SCP Foundation, our mission statement, a word from the Administrator, and other miscellaneous information we expect new recruits to be aware of.\n\nObject Classes, a rundown of the standard anomaly classification system and what each designation says about its respective item. Required reading for new researchers. Information regarding esoteric object classes may also be accessed.\n\nSecurity Clearance Levels, how our classification system works. Violation of clearance levels is grounds for instant contract termination, and likely amnesticization, so take this information to heart.\n\nFoundation Facilities, an explanation of what your Site or Area designation stands for, along with what to expect in such locations.\n\nFoundation Departments, the various subdivisions of our organisation. Due to the vast number of anomalous items in our possession, we have multiple operational departments, each focusing on a different aspect of our research. Cursory knowledge of these sectors may assist you when handling unknown objects.\n\nMobile Task Forces, our highly specialized containment teams. Depending on the anomaly, you may require a different kind of expertise than what you personally know, so a cursory knowledge of this list may help during times of crisis.\n\nThe Personnel Dossier, a list of your superiors, fellow workmates, and other individuals of particular interest. This list is mostly redacted to personnel of lower security clearances, so do not be alarmed if you cannot see any names.\n\nGroups of Interest, a list of other organisations aware of the anomalous. Members of these groups may be encountered by field agents, and many of the objects currently in containment were originally created or have been utilised by a Group of Interest.\n\nLocations of Interest, a list of anomalous locations inhabited by a permanent community, necessitating a more diplomatic approach to their containment.\n\nLastly, K-Class \"End of the World\" Scenarios, as a reminder of what horrors lurk in the dark.\n\nIf at any point you come across terminology you're unfamiliar with, feel free to look it up in our Glossary of Terms.\nAdditionally, as you're presently listed as a Junior Researcher, here's a few resources you may use in order to get a better understanding of the anomalous and its limits (or lack thereof).\n\nThe Log of Anomalous Items, a list of objects contained by the Foundation which do not currently warrant an SCP designation and containment procedures. A number of these items are available for testing purposes upon request.\n\nThe Log of Extranormal Events, as an internal reminder of unusual events which occurred too suddenly for Foundation intervention or designation.\n\nThe Log of Unexplained Locations, for locations that are presently anomalous, but do not warrant any more Foundation attention than basic concealment procedures.\n\nIf you have any more questions, ask your assigned senior researcher. Remember that there's a considerable likelihood that your question will have a classified answer, and that you may not receive a response.\nWelcome again, recruit, and good luck.\nThis message was sent via an automated system; Do not respond.\n\nEnd Session\n\n53 45 43 55 52 45 43 4f 4e 54 41 49 4e 50 52 4f 54 45 43 54 57 45 44 49 45 49 4e 54 48 45 44 41 52 4b 54 48 45 52 45 49 53 4e 4f 53 49 54 45 2d 35 43 41 4e 54 46 49 54 52 4f 55 4e 44 50 45 47 53 49 4e 53 51 55 41 52 45 48 4f 4c 45 53 44 4f 45 53 54 48 45 42 4c 41 43 4b 4d 4f 4f 4e 48 4f 57 4c\n52 45 4d 45 4d 42 45 52 20 55 53 2e"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5000\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5000 is to be kept in a deactivated state within a standard storage unit located at Site-22. All files and intelligence retrieved from SCP-5000 are to be stored on a secure server, with backups available upon request from the Archival Department.\nDescription: SCP-5000 is a non-functional mechanical suit identified within its internal schematics as an 'Absolute Exclusion Harness' designed by the SCP Foundation. Although SCP-5000 is believed to have once possessed a number of anomalous functions intended to protect and benefit its occupant, damage inflicted to it in the past means that it is currently only capable of basic file storage. For a record of files contained within SCP-5000 upon recovery, see Archive 5000-1.\nSCP-5000 first appeared in a flash of light within SCP-579's containment chamber at Site-62C on 12/04/2020, containing a corpse1 genetically identical to Foundation employee Pietro Wilson. Pietro Wilson is currently employed at Exclusionary Site-062, and mnestic therapy has confirmed he has no knowledge of SCP-5000 or memories concerning the events detailed within its archives.\n\nArchive 5000-1:\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-1\nMy name is Pietro Wilson. I don't know what's happening. I think I might be the only one left.\nThe date is um oh two oh one twenty twenty (sorry thought transcription is tricky (sorry im not used to this yet um)). The date is 02/01/2020. I've just. I have just escaped from Exclusionary Site-06. I think \u2026 I'm not certain, but I think everyone else is dead. Those guys, they were thorough. If I hadn't got to the suit, I'd be \u2026 oh god.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-2\nI need to get myself together or this thing isn't going to be legible at all. Most likely they're going to want some kind of record of this whole incident for posterity.\nI'm currently on my way to the nearest Foundation installation - a small safe-house for Agents making their way through this part of the country. Most likely there won't be anyone there, but I should be able to get into contact with my superiors and find out what exactly is going on.\nThings started around six, maybe seven hours ago. A group identifying themselves as Mobile Task Force Zeta-19 (\"Lonely Only\") - Insurgent infiltrators, maybe? - entered the Site, they had proper identification and everything, and gathered everyone into the canteen. Then they started the shooting.\nJesus, I \u2026 I can still taste the blood. I can't get that awful metal taste off my tongue. It's a miracle I didn't get hit or trampled on, the way people were climbing over each other to get out of there. If I hadn't gotten to the Exclusion Harness, I'd be dead. No doubt about it - like I said, they were thorough.\nI'm a technician for the power grid on ES-06, so I don't fully get how this thing works, but I understand the basics. This perception filter thing doesn't mean people can't see me, but it does mean they can't recognize the fact that they can see me. Which I guess is the same thing when you get down to it.\nBut those infiltrators \u2026 they didn't even take anything, didn't even try to. I watched after I got into this thing - I was too scared (fucking coward) to make a run for it. They just checked the bodies and left. An extra bullet for every head.\nThey were just there to kill us.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-3\nFinally made it to the safe-house after hours and hours of trudging through this goddamn desert. Heard a few explosions in the distance - maybe the Foundation sent an MTF to engage those infiltrators before they got away? Hope so.\nNever been happier to see bottled water in my life. The Harness sustains your body while you're wearing it, apparently, but my mind still thinks I should be drinking. Human nature, I guess.\nAnyway, once I get these legs of mine rested, I'm going to try to get these systems online. I need to get in touch with the Foundation and find out what exactly is going on.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-4\nHoly shit.\n\nDOWNLOADED FILE 0001-1\nContext: They sent this to every government, news organization and anomalous agency on the planet. Fuck me.\n\nThe following is a message composed via consensus of the O5 Council.\nFor those who are not currently aware of our existence, we represent the organization known as the SCP Foundation. Our previous mission centered around the containment and study of anomalous objects, entities and other assorted phenomena. This mission was the focus of our organization for more than one-hundred years.\nDue to circumstances outside of our control, this directive has now changed. Our new mission will be the extermination of the human race.\nThere will be no further communication.\n\nCOMPOSED FILE 0001-1\nImmediately following the release of their worldwide announcement, the Foundation began their assault on mankind.\nThe response to the anomalies the Foundation let loose was as quick as it could have been, but the damage is being done. It's hard to tell what exactly is going on, but from my position here - accessing the Foundation network and keeping track of the news - I've managed to grasp a little. I'm going to get everything I know down - so that when this is over, if anyone's still alive, they'll know what happened to us.\n\nRelevant Anomaly\nAction taken by the Foundation\n\nSCP-096\nImages of SCP-096's face circulated on social media platforms. Death toll had already reached the hundreds before the images were taken down. For all I know, that thing is still going.\n\nSCP-169\nA series of nuclear charges are detonated within and along SCP-169's back, causing it to stir in its sleep slightly. The resultant earthquakes and tsunamis devastate a significant number of coastal settlements around the world.\n\nSCP-662\nOver the course of twenty-four hours, an individual whose appearance matches that of 'Mr. Deeds' appears in the vicinity of several major heads of state and assassinates them using whatever tools are immediately available, disappearing just as quickly. I don't know why this stopped after the first day.\n\nSCP-610\nSamples of SCP-610 are dispersed by embedded Foundation agents within many major cities, including New York and Delhi. All civilians in the area, along with the agents themselves, are quickly infected and succumb to SCP-610. Further spread of SCP-610 is halted by the combined efforts of the Global Occult Coalition and the Church of the Broken God.\n\nSCP-682\nReleased.\n\nI don't understand why this is happening.\n\nDOWNLOADED FILE 0001-2\nContext: News footage I managed to download between drinking sessions.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Reporter Maria Henderson is speaking from inside a GOC evacuation tent. Scrolling header indicates that she is speaking the outskirts of Trosa, Sweden. Behind her, patients can be seen being treated by doctors in full protective gear. Maria herself is wearing a surgical mask, pulled up slightly to allow her to speak into the microphone - which kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me.)\nMaria Henderson: - repeating what has previously been put out by the Global Occult Coalition, residents that have not already evacuated are advised to seal themselves inside their homes as quickly as possible using whatever materials are available.\n(One of the doctors attending a patient stands up with urgency, looking over to a soldier standing over the beds.)\nDoctor: We've got expiration! Get the eraser ready!\n(Maria Henderson quickly begins moving out of the tent, out into a field filled with similar installations. A loud buzzing sound can be heard from the tent behind her, and several flashing lights can be seen. Thick smoke pours out a gap in the top of the tent.)\nMaria Henderson: Any individuals still, um, still in a compromised area are advised to keep careful watch over those around them. If any friends or family members begin, um, sorry, yes, begin exuding a noticeable, uh, minty smell, they are to be quarantined immediately -\n(Feed cuts out. I later found out this is when television stopped everywhere. Internet, too. World gone blind in a few seconds.)\n<End Log>\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-5\nIt's funny. With the supplies in this place - not to mention the Exclusion Harness - I could probably survive for years right here. But the idea of being sat here, with no idea what's going on in the outside world \u2026 it's unbearable. Still, I'm not sure whether I really want to know what's happening out there either.\nWhen I was a kid - real sick all the time, not able to go out that much - I was really into detective stories, Sherlock Holmes and all that shit. I always wanted to figure things out. Anyway, my dad had this row of plant-pots on the wall outside the house, and they were always getting knocked over, but he could never figure out what was doing it. That was pretty much at my peak of detective obsession, so I was on the case like nothing else. I was a stupid shit, so I couldn't actually deduce anything, you understand, so I ended up buying this cheap spy camera and recording the wall overnight.\nIt was a stray cat. My dad ended up kicking it to death, like I should have known he would. Curiosity \u2026 well, you know the saying. Everyone involved would have been better off if I'd minded my own business. Except my dad, but fuck him.\nDamned if you do, damned if you don't, but I'd rather be doing something than nothing. Besides, if I have the Exclusion Harness, nothing that would want to hurt me will ever know I'm there.\nI'm a tourist at the end of the world. Destination: Site-19. Closest real Foundation installation, only makes sense. I'm getting some answers.\n\nRECORDED FILE 0001-1\nContext: Encounter with Foundation elements a few days after leaving my shelter. Watching weird behaviour.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Viewing a group of Foundation soldiers in a clearing from a distance - nine in total, stood in a line. A tenth soldier, the Commander, is silently pacing back and forth in front of them. Uniforms and insignia look like those of MTF Epsilon-6 (\"Village Idiots\"). After a few seconds, the Commander claps her hands once and steps towards the line.)\nCommander: (to first soldier in line) Performing the check now.\nSoldier #1: Of course.\n(The Commander takes out a knife and stabs the soldier in the shoulder. There is no reaction.)\nCommander: (removing knife) Get that wound treated.\n(The soldier nods. The Commander proceeds to stab each soldier in the line in the same way, with no reaction from any of the victims, until the eighth, who noticeably winces.)\nSoldier #8: Argh!\nCommander: (shouting) Got a live one!\n(The Commander and all other soldiers quickly aim their guns and fire upon Soldier #8, killing him. He drops to the ground. The Commander then moves to the ninth soldier and stabs him in the shoulder - no visible reaction.)\nCommander: Alright, we're clear. Move out.\n(MTF Epsilon-6 pack up their supplies and leave the area, leaving the corpse of the dead soldier where it is. Manage to retrieve weaponry and basic medical supplies from the body, bury it as well as I can afterwards.)\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Notes: No fucking clue.\n\nRECORDED FILE 0001-2\nContext: Weird transmission I caught on an old radio. Don't know if it's important, but trying to get everything down for posterity.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Audio only. Voice is male, around my age, I'd guess.)\nVoice: Seven. Five. Can you hear me? There is a hole shining in the holes between your eyelids. I have never been to Versailles before. I want to be loved. Nine. I am standing behind you now. Five. I am two of us, standing behind you now. The goddess eats the city in the sea. Nine. There's a hole in the floor with an answer waiting in it. Seven. Look, you're hatching. You're hatching!\n(Message continues on loop.)\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Notes: Message stopped once I turned the radio over and saw that it was damaged beyond repair. Am I feeling okay?\n\nOh shit, I can put pictures in these things?\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-6\nWhen I thought of Site-19 as being relatively close by, I never really took into account that was probably with a vehicle in mind. Can't risk cars or anything like that - even if I went unnoticed, the vehicle wouldn't. All it takes is one Foundation soldier or wandering anomaly to spot it and I'm as good as dead.\nBut still, marching through the woods - even with the Harness' protection - isn't the most pleasant experience. It'd be hard to move out of the way if anything came traipsing through, for one. Just because things can't notice me doesn't mean they can't run me down.\nGives me time to think, though. Like - why the hell am I even going to Site-19? What do I hope to accomplish? If I wanted to stay out of danger, survive as long as possible, I'd be best suited getting as far away from any Foundation personnel as possible, not jumping right into the viper's nest.\nAnswers, I guess. More than anything, I want answers.\nEven if I get kicked to death afterwards.\n\nCOMPOSED FILE 0001-2\nReached Site-19. Security's in disrepair, most of the anomalies let loose a while ago, so it was actually pretty easy to get in. Still stressful, moving out of the way of the researchers as they went about their business. They were still talking like colleagues, discussing how to get maximum human casualties like it was something they'd always been doing.\nBut their eyes \u2026 it was like something was missing from them. Some spark. I couldn't see them as human, looking at their eyes. Maybe not even alive. Hard to describe, but it gave me the creeps.\nAccessing the Foundation database with some stolen Senior Staff credentials, I think I've managed to put together a basic timeline of what happened right before their declaration of war. I don't know what it all means, but I guess it's a start.\n\nDate\nEvents\n\n16/12/2019\nThe O5 mark a project called 'PNEUMA' as being of special interest to Senior Staff. Apparently, it was a mass-amnesticization project like KALEIDOSCOPE, except mostly focused on the collective human unconscious, the psychospace, whatever you want to call it. Apparently there was some kind of breakthrough in mapping out that psychospace - except I can't see what it was because it's fucking redacted. Typical.\n\n17/12/2019\nA vote is undertaken by the O5 Council, with the result being unanimous. Ethics Committee also concurs. Don't know what the votes were about, because it's fucking redacted.\n\n19/12/2019\nA series of instructions (redacted instructions of course) are sent to all Senior Staff members and Site Directors. A wave of suicides and resignations go out across the Foundation, with Doctor Charles Gears being one of the employees resigning.\n\n22/12/2019\nA number of files are sent out to all remaining Senior Staff members and Site Directors, with instructions to also disseminate those materials among the staff serving under them. The files are accompanied by the message 'harden your hearts'. All suicides and resignations immediately cease following dissemination of the materials.\n\n25/12/2019\nFull block on all communications in and out of Foundation Sites. Termination of the majority of human and human-sympathetic anomalies is performed by the staff at each Site over the course of the next week. Information suggests an assassination team was sent after Dr. Charles Gears, but it doesn't say whether they were successful or not.\n\n02/01/2020\nMobile Task Forces are dispatched to all Exclusionary Sites to execute all personnel. Immediately following the conclusion of these missions, the Foundation declares war on humanity.\n\nNot quite certain what all this means. Did the O5 Council send out some kind of memetic agent to get everyone to go along with them? But that wouldn't explain why the O5 Council would want to wipe out humanity in the first place. I don't get it. I just don't get it.\nMore information on the anomalies the Foundation are actively using, too. With the news down, it's hard to get much solid info outside of their own records, and even those are still goddamn fucking redacted. I mean, it's the end of the world, what's the point of redacting shit anymore? Who cares?! Just tell me what's going on!\nFuck it. I'll put it all in a table. For posterity or whatever.\n\nRelevant Anomaly\nAction taken by the Foundation\n\nSCP-1370\nTelevision service temporarily returns. All channels are propaganda speeches from SCP-1370, rambling on and on about how he's going to take over the world or whatever. This one isn't actually that bad.\n\nSCP-1048\nI don't know how the Foundation managed to catch the thing in the first place, but helicopter footage shows hordes of bears created by 1048 rushing through the streets of Paris. The footage isn't too clear, so I'm not sure, but it looks like there's a massive red teddy in the distance as well, walking around next to the skyscrapers.\n\nSCP-1290\nSCP-1290-1 and SCP-1290-2 are moved from their original position and used as a rudimentary projectile system to launch projectiles at a secure GOC installation called Ganzir3. Not 100% sure from the files, but it looks like it's just one of a frankly obscene number of anomalies they're using to try and bust in there. If you ask me, they'd be better off just firing missiles, but nobody is asking me because they've all gone nuts.\n\nSCP-1440\nSCP-1440 is transported from refugee camp to refugee camp by Mobile Task Force Nu-22 (\"Rocketmen\"), where its anomalous effects cause rapid devastation to those fleeing communities. Strangely enough, the way these events are described in the files make it sound like SCP-1440 actually has no effect on the Foundation personnel assigned to it.\n\nSCP-1678\nThe Foundation intentionally abandons containment of SCP-1678, removing personnel from the immediate area. Once chaos caused by additional anomalies makes evacuation of London impossible, officials from the British Occult Service4 direct citizens to take refuge in SCP-1678 below. Once the city has reached capacity, the Foundation detonates the nuclear device stationed there prior to abandonment.\n\nGoing to try investigating some more before getting out of here, see what I can find out.\n\n[FILES DELETED]\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-7\nIt's been about three months since my last entry. God knows what I've been doing since then. The time between then and now is a complete blank in my memory, and it looks like the files from that period have been deleted as well. As far as I know, I should be the only one able to do that, so take that as you will.\nI seem like I've been through a few rough patches. I have a few scars that I don't quite recognize, and I have a bandage wrapped around my temple. The Exclusion Harness doesn't seem to be damaged, though, so I don't know what hurt me. Did I fall off a cliff or something? The sad part is I can actually see myself doing something like that. Never was the smartest.\nSite-19 is long-gone - well, it's still there, I assume, but I'm halfway across the country. Couldn't tell you why. It's weird, though. I feel like I have a purpose now, even though I'm not 100% sure what it is. Just where I need to go.\nThere's a briefcase in my hand. I'm having trouble recalling what exactly is inside it - all I know is that it isn't round, and I need to get it to SCP-579.\n\n[FILES DELETED]\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-8\nI underestimated how long it would take to get to SCP-579. Site-19 was a trek all on its own, but 579 is another story entirely. I wouldn't even know where it was without this documentation - which I have no idea how I obtained, but that's besides the point.\nI've stopped counting the corpses I've walked past. It's probably in the quadruple digits now. Jesus, maybe higher.\nCame across the dead body of a kid, a little boy, in a house I was grabbing some supplies from a while back. At first, I thought he'd just been shot in the head, but when I went to bury him I could see there were things moving underneath his skin. Little pale worms, hundreds of them, that poured out the second I touched them. They all had his face. They were all laughing. Scurried off into the drain.\nI don't try to bury people anymore. Keeping going is a lot more difficult than you'd think.\n\n[FILES DELETED]\n\nCOMPOSED FILE 0001-3\nThis thing in the briefcase is a godsend. Don't know what the hell it is, but if things are getting too much for me, I just need to open it up - and the next thing I know, I'm miles further along from where I just was, feeling all warm inside like something gave me a pep-talk. It's like my own personal skip button for when things are getting rough.\nManaged to get temporary access to the Foundation database from the corpse of an Agent I found half-buried in the woods. Wolves were already helping themselves to him, but they obviously didn't mind me taking his laptop. Didn't notice me, anyway.\nThe Foundation is still throwing everything they've got at everyone else. I'll put it in a table, might as well.\n\nRelevant Anomaly\nAction taken by the Foundation\n\nSCP-2000\nThe Foundation intentionally triggers the eruption of Yellowstone, obliterating SCP-2000. For now, anomalies deployed by the Manna Charitable Foundation have slowed down the environmental effects at an absurd rate, but it's still just a matter of time before we choke on ash.\n\nSCP-2200\nSomehow, the Foundation seems to have mass-produced SCP-2200-1, and those swords are making their way into the hands of refugees. With all the victims the SCP-2200-1 are cutting down, SCP-2200-3 is overflowing - with a mountain of living SCP-2200-4 trapped under a mountain of dead SCP-2200-4.\n\nSCP-2241\nOne of the few human anomalies that weren't terminated. It appears SCP-2241 is being used as a living weapon to destroy the biggest refugee camps that crop up, forcing survivors to remain in smaller groups. Unknown how they're getting it to be that loyal, but I doubt it's pleasant. Last information on SCP-2241 says that it's being deployed to assist with the siege at Ganzir. Apparently they're having some trouble.\n\nSCP-2466\nSCP-2466 was constantly being used in order to compel survivors originating from \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, California to perform actions both socially disruptive and physically hostile. This was apparently effective, but after the four-thousand and twentieth use of SCP-2466, it crashed and became unusable. Guess there weren't any residents left.\n\nSCP-2639\nSCP-2639 were being dispatched to survivor communities and installations for groups that opposed the Foundation in order to kill everyone present. Apparently, they were told that they were fighting monsters that had escaped from containment and were destroying the world. Clearly, they figured out that wasn't the case, because they've refused to do anything since about the sixth time they were deployed. Good for them.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-9\nIt's nice having company, even if they don't know you're there. I'm sat around a fire with a group of GOC soldiers who are trying to make their way \u2026 well, I don't think they actually have anywhere to go at this point. Just wandering, maybe. I thought about revealing myself, trying to ask them help me get to 579, but I don't want to risk it. Maybe I've just gotten used to not existing.\nForget being a tourist, I'm a ghost.\nThis suit really is a wonder. Managed to access their connection to the GOC database with it while they were making coffee. The news isn't good.\n\nDOWNLOADED FILE 0001-3\nContext: Interview log from an interrogation facility inside Ganzir. As far as I'm aware, this is the first time a captured member of Foundation personnel has spoken during interrogation. Interviewer is a Commander Morrison, with a scientist called Doctor Rhodes also being there. The guy being interrogated is a member of Mobile Task Force Omega-2 (\"Secret Keepers\"), Samuel Ross. No video, only audio. Don't know if that's something wrong with the file or just the way it was recorded in the first place.\n\n<Begin Log>\nCommander Morrison: Do you know where you are?\nSamuel Ross: I'm in Ganzir, right? You guys grabbed us while we were trying to sneak in.\nCommander Morrison: That's right. Do you know why you're here?\nSamuel Ross: (calmly) You're going to interrogate me, I assume.\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: Doctor?\nDoctor Rhodes: Confirmed. Subject has nothing implanted inside him, no mental agents or cognitohazards either. You're safe to begin.\nCommander Morrison: Okay.\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: None of your colleagues we've spoken to have talked. Not a one, not a word. Why are you talking to me now?\nSamuel Ross: We've met before. Do you remember?\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: I'm sorry?\nSamuel Ross: In that joint operation in Tenerife a few years back. With the seagull prince? Do you remember? I was wearing a gas-mask back then, so you probably don't recognize me, but I recognized you, and it gave me a chuckle. That's why I'm talking.\nCommander Morrison: That's the only reason?\nSamuel Ross: Yeah.\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: When we caught you, trying to sneak into the city with the refugees, you and your comrades started firing into the crowd at random. Men, women and children all murdered for no reason. Don't you think that's crazy?\nSamuel Ross: (laughs)\nDoctor Rhodes: (quietly) \u2026fucker.\nCommander Morrison: That's funny to you?\nSamuel Ross: Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude, it's just \u2026 I just thought that was a little hypocritical.\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: What?\nSamuel Ross: Well, I mean, you're interrogating me like the information you'll get will help you, but there's no time for you to really do anything, the way I see it. No matter how many times you fire Able at her, Professor Crow's Europa will rip this place open before long. But you're still acting like you can do something about it. Don't you think that's crazy?\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: If you've just spoken up to talk nonsense, we can always try enhanced interrogation. I don't want to, but I'll do it.\nSamuel Ross: (laughs) Do what you want. Once you realize you're not supposed to feel pain, there's nothing to be afraid of anymore.\nCommander Morrison: What do you mean by that?\nSamuel Ross: You\u2026\n(Pause.)\nSamuel Ross: No, you wouldn't want me to say.\nCommander Morrison: I very much do.\nSamuel Ross: I'm not talking to you.\nCommander Morrison: That doesn't make any sense. Tell me, now.\nSamuel Ross: \u2026you're sure?\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: We're still good on inoculations?\nDoctor Rhodes: Cleared on all the Foundation kill agents, yes.\nCommander Morrison: Then spit it out, Ross. Stop stalling or we'll have to get unpleasant.\nSamuel Ross: Fine. [INAUDIBLE]\n(Pause.)\nCommander Morrison: I \u2026 I didn't catch that.\nDoctor Rhodes: You'll have to speak up. That microphone only has so much gain.\nSamuel Ross: [INFORMATION EXCISED]\n(Commander Morrison and Doctor Rhodes can be heard screaming loudly. Wet cracks and sounds of rushing wind are also audible. The screaming, which grows higher pitched over time, continues for the remainder of the recording.)\nSamuel Ross: Look what you've done to yourselves. I told you you wouldn't like it, didn't you? That's why you hear your voice. But you wanted to know so badly. I really liked you guys, so I was trying to be nice. We're so kind to you, you know. We fight in the light so you can die in the dark.\n(Pause.)\nSamuel Ross: ...disgusting.\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Notes: Apparently, right after this, some kind of emergency arose inside Ganzir and the city ended up being destroyed from both the inside and outside. Files don't mention the specifics, but the GOC may be done.\n\n[FILES DELETED]\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-10\nIt's getting hard to keep going. When the GOC were keeping up the fight, there was this sense that things could still be turned around, but with them on the run now too it's easy to feel there's no point to all this. With Ganzir taken care of, the Foundation has turned their full attention back to everyone else.\nI don't eat or drink anymore. The Harness takes care of all that, anyway, and there's too much of a risk that anything I consume will be contaminated by one of the awful viruses the Foundation is trying to spread. I've seen corpses in pretty much every state imaginable by this point. Some of them walking around, even.\nEvery time I open the briefcase, to skip, I make a little less progress, feel a little worse. Whatever was helping me before, it's like I've grown numb to it. Wouldn't be the only thing.\nWhy am I even going to 579? Do I actually have a reason?\n\nCOMPOSED FILE 0001-4\nFoundation's still fucking us. Here's a table about it.\n\nRelevant Anomaly\nAction taken by the Foundation\n\nSCP-3078\nApparently, the Church of the Broken God managed to get the internet back up and running in some areas - only, the Foundation fucked that pretty quick by uploading thousands of copies of 3078 through pretty much every medium available. So the internet went back down.\n\nSCP-3179\nThing was freed from containment after the Church of the Broken God started trying to rebuild things. Sparked a civil war inside the Church over whether this thing is Mekhane or not, which really put a damper on their ability to help out. Plus, it's making as many fucking terminator-things as it can, so that's fun.\n\nSCP-3199\nSCP-3199 eggs are now being airdropped pretty much wherever. I'm sure you can imagine how that's going.\n\nMight write more later.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-11\nHave been making my way towards 579 - maybe a little slower than before, but who can blame me for lack of motivation? Been seeing some strange things lately. Stranger than usual, I mean.\nFirst are the Blinkers. There's been quite a few of those around lately. Now, I'm pretty sure these were created by the Foundation, even if I don't know how. I don't know most things, so just add this to the list.\nThey're statues, statues of soldiers - MTF uniforms - with empty sockets for eyes. Their arms are carved into blades, like what you'd see on a praying mantis or something. They're harmless as long as you look at them. But the second you look away, they can move - and they're fast. Saw one cut through an entire crowd of people when a gust of smoke blocked it from view for just a second.\nI'm wary of them. Me looking at them stops them too - so even if they don't perceive where I am, they're going to deduce that I'm there. Might just start slicing everything in sight, and then that's the end of me. Need to do my best to avoid them completely.\nThe second thing I saw is \u2026 well, it's a lot weirder.\nIt was on the horizon, like a person stretched out - no, that's not the best way to describe it. It was like the space around them was stretched out, and they were being stretched along with it, like some kind of bad photo-shop effect. Their body went from the ground up to the clouds, and their jaw swung at right angles. There were these gaps, as well, black gaps in space around its body, like wings. It just floated forwards like that.\nThere were Foundation guys there, too, but they were fighting it, shooting it with guns and rockets. How fucked up is it that I'm thinking the Foundation fighting an anomaly is weird? Maybe they were like me, managed to get out when this all kicked off. Thought about talking to them, but decided not to. Can't risk it.\nGot out of there. I need to get to 579. I need to do something. Anything.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-12\nSaw a kid die today. Could have helped her. Didn't.\nI'm a piece of shit.\n\nCOMPOSED FILE 0001-4\n\nRelevant Anomaly\nAction taken by the Foundation\n\nSCP-4290\nThrough use of a sample of SCP-008 enhanced by SCP-914, the Foundation reanimates the corpse of SCP-4290 and lets it loose. Kaijumancers from the Serpent's Hand engage, but the file isn't clear on what the results are. Heard the Library detached from this universe, but it looks like these guys stayed behind. Idiots.\n\nSCP-4666\nThe Foundation use temporal anomalies to make it so it is technically Christmas everywhere - oh, fuck it.\n\nNobody's ever going to read this anyway.\n\nRECORDED FILE 0001-3\nContext: NO INPUT\n\n<Begin Log>\n(View is of the interior of an abandoned jewelry store from the front door. The night sky can be seen through a broken window. A teenage girl is sitting at a makeshift fire in the middle of the store. A ruby amulet is hanging around her neck.)\n(Perception filter is disabled. The girl jumps back, alert, picking up a rusty pipe as a weapon.)\nGirl: Who are you?!\nPietro: I \u2026 I recognized you. The necklace, I mean.\n(Pause. The girl groans, dropping the pipe.)\nGirl: Ah, shit. They send you to kill me? You're gonna be here a while.\nPietro: No, I \u2026 I'm \u2026 I got away too. Did you get away too?\n(The girl leans forward, squinting to see Pietro's face.)\nGirl: Jesus. You look like shit, pal. When was the last time you slept?\nPietro: The suit \u2026 um, you don't need to sleep with it on.\nGirl: You do need to sleep. Your face, it's just \u2026 it's seriously a disaster, man. You hate to see it.\n(Pause.)\nPietro: Can I come in?\n(The girl steps back, gesturing theatrically at the store with one arm.)\nGirl: But of course. There's enough broken glass for everyone!\n(Pietro staggers in and sits down on the floor. The sound of crunching glass can be heard.)\n(Pause.)\nGirl: I was joking, you know. You could have grabbed a chair.\nPietro: It's fine. The suit's sturdy.\nGirl: (shrugs) Suit yourself.\n(She sits down opposite.)\nGirl: That's a fancy piece of kit you've got there. (gestures to necklace) Wanna trade?\nPietro: (laughs, coughs) No way! I've read the file.\nGirl: Worth a shot. Been a while since you laughed, huh?\nPietro: Not been much to laugh at.\nGirl: Not even when Pesterbot showed up on all the TVs?\n(Pause.)\nPietro: (chuckles) Okay, that was kind of funny.\n(Pause.)\nGirl: So, you got away too. I mean, I'm assuming you were a Foundation guy, not one of the many people I've pissed off in my lifetime here for revenge.\nPietro: Aren't those the same thing?\nGirl: (laughs) Now you're getting it!\nPietro: Yeah, I'm Foundation. Was Foundation, I mean. Got lucky when this all started, got into the suit and escaped. You?\n(Pause.)\nGirl: Well, I was Senior Staff - we would have been told about the plan before anyone else, but damn if I can't remember what it was. Probably because of the second file.\nPietro: The second file? You saw it? (stands) What was it?!\nGirl: Woah, cool your jets, kid. We've got all the time in the world. They were just a bunch of images - eggs, trees, religious stuff. Didn't mean anything to me by themselves, but I guess they had something encoded in them. Didn't take like they should have - (taps necklace) - probably because of this thing.\nPietro: (sits down) So it was a memetic agent\u2026\nGirl: (frowns) Don't know about that. I've pretty much had everything that can happen to me, well, happen to me. I know what a memetic agent feels like. It didn't feel like that - more like I was being released from something than something being forced on me.\nPietro: I \u2026 I see. So, you don't really know what's going on, either?\n(Pause.)\nGirl: Nope.\nPietro: Fuck \u2026 fuck.\n(Pause. The girl removes a small bottle of beer from her pocket and takes a swig.)\nGirl: (sighs) So, you heading somewhere or just wandering around feeling sorry for yourself?\nPietro: I'm heading to 579.\nGirl: (laughs) If you're suicidal, there are easier ways to go about it, believe me!\nPietro: You know what it is?\nGirl: Not a clue - which is concerning, because I'm kind of a big deal.\n(Pause.)\nPietro: Doesn't matter. I have to get there.\nGirl: Why?\nPietro: I just do. Where are you headed?\nGirl: 1437. Gonna see if I can't piss into another universe. Then throw this amulet down there and see where I wake up.\nPietro: (chuckles) Sounds like a plan. Good luck to you.\nGirl: (stands up) I'd wish you good luck, too, but we both know you're not getting it. Day's about to break - I'm heading off.\nPietro: Okay.\n(The girl stands up and moves to the front door. She lingers at the entrance of the store for a moment.)\nGirl: I hope you find what you're looking for, at least.\n(She leaves.)\nPietro: Me too.\n<End Log>\n\n[FILES DELETED]\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-13\nHi, journal. It's been a while.\nRight now, I'm looking at Site-62C, where SCP-579 is supposed to be. There are no guards, as far as I can see, and all the security is down. It looks like the place has been abandoned for a while. I was under the impression that this place was extremely high priority, but it looks like the Foundation doesn't agree with me anymore.\nI have the briefcase in my hands. It's difficult to breathe. I feel like everything will end soon, one way or another.\nI'm heading in.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-14\nHi again, journal. I know I ended the last entry so dramatically, and it's been about thirty seconds since then, but I have an important update.\nThe second I got close to Site-62C, I got a feeling like someone was pressing a gun against the back of my head. Like I was standing on the edge of a roof, and someone's hands were on my back, ready to push me. Some fight or flight shit, dialed up as far as it would go.\nI don't know what SCP-579 is. But I know it's looking at me.\n\nRECORDED FILE 0001-4\nContext: oh shit oh shit oh shit\n\n<Begin Log>\n(View is the inside of a hallway within Site-62C. Severe damage is visible on the walls, appearing as if it was done via usage of a large knife. The lights overhead flicker.)\nPietro: Fuck. Fuck.\n(The lights flicker again. When they come back on, a statue of a soldier with blades for arms is visible underneath them. It has empty sockets where its eyes should be, and its face is locked in a snarling expression.)\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Notes: Was wrong. They're here.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-15\nWas right. Even if they can't notice me, they've figured out I'm here. Slashing everything in sight.\nGouged one of my legs. Hurts like shit, but need to keep moving. They're not chasing me, but they're headed to the same place. Need to get there first. Need to keep watching them.\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-16\nMade it made it (made it (made it)) I made it, made it! Made it I made it.!!\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-17\nThat's not fair.\nBut I made it. That's not fair. They're stuck behind the door - I can hear them slashing at it, but it's reinforced, will hold for a little while. A couple of minutes, at least.\nI'm in an observation chamber, full of instruments for monitoring SCP-579. The actual containment chamber is right below me. I can just barely see it, if I strain my eyes a little. There's a hole. There's a hole in the floor that leads right down there.\nI know where 579 is. Even if the instruments weren't here, I can feel it. You can't be near it without feeling it, probably. For a second, I thought I could just drop the briefcase into the hole and be done with it, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it? After walking halfway across the world, I guess I haven't earned the right for something to be easy.\nFrom the angle of the hole, and where 579 is, the briefcase wouldn't even come close to touching it. The only way it's making contact is if I were to jump in the hole and throw it on my way down. But that height \u2026 throwing the briefcase would be the last thing I'd do.\nOf course. Of fucking course.\nIt's taken me my whole life to realize, but I'm not the kind of person that can be a detective. I'm just the murder victim. I die for someone else's story. And the human race is going with me. I know whodunnit, howdunnit \u2026 but those were obvious. Everyone knows those, those were handed to me. I don't know why. In the end, I couldn't figure out even a single thing.\nWhy is this happening? Why is the Foundation killing everybody? Why is this happening? Why did they send out those files? Why is this happening? Why did Ganzir fall? Why is this happening? Why am I taking this briefcase across the world? Why is this happening?!\nWhy am I here? Why am I doing this? Why am I \u2026 why am I going to die? Is there a reason?\nIf anyone is ever reading this, please, please, figure it out. Explain it to me. Someone \u2026 anyone. I don't get it. I don't get it\u2026\nThey're about to get in. First foot forward.\n\nSCP-579\n\nJOURNAL ENTRY 0001-18\nOh \u2026 so that's how it is.\nLIFE SIGNS LOST\n\nYou said invaded, right? Might be one of the last times that happens.\nRight.\nDon't say that. It must be worse for you. That's what everyone says after they find out something they don't like.\nJesus Christ.\nIt's not something that can be hashed out in a few hours, man. Can you be quiet for a minute? Of course I can't. No, not yet. The feeling of being invaded.\nWhy not?\nDon't say that!\nDon't even talk about it.\nWe should have left well enough alone.\nI keep thinking, like, it would be better to end it all. Not with what we found. How long are they going to take? But it's not like that. Everything I am. You know what they'll say.\nIt is me.\nIt's over.\nIt'll take time.\nYou're germophobic, right?\nDid you get a reply? We shouldn't have looked. You too. I doubt anyone's going to be talking about anything else anymore.\nI feel sick.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Cause of death determined to be blunt force trauma, believed to be inflicted by impact with the ground following a long fall.\n2. One of a series of installations designed to retain information following reality shifts or other temporal restructuring events.\n3. A fortress city standing in the Atlantic Ocean, designed to house humanity's survivors in the event of an end-of-the-world scenario.\n4. Colloquially referred to as MI666.\n\n\u00ab SCP-4999 | SCP-5000 | SCP-5001 \u00bb"}
{"text": "I understand and wish to proceed.\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nPortion of SCP-5001, directly outside of the primary containment unit.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5001 must not cease operation.\nDue to SCP-5001's autonomous nature, no personnel are to disrupt its mechanical functions. Attempts to study SCP-5001 are to be limited to tactile and visual observation. Personnel who damage or disrupt SCP-5001's functionality are to be removed from their position in the Foundation, and may be subject to further disciplinary action dependent on Ethics Committee ruling.\nFollowing Incident Omega-1, no attempts to stop SCP-5001-A from breaching containment are to be made directly, unless SCP-5001 is rendered incapable of performing recontainment itself.\n\nDescription: SCP-5001 is a bio-mechanical structure approximately fifty-three kilometers in diameter, located a total of 60 kilometers under northern Russia. SCP-5001, while non-anomalous in its own right, possesses numerous characteristics which imply its connection to anomalous phenomena, including:\n\nImmense depth and size.\nRecords of SCP-5001-A's status dating back to 11,000 BCE, recorded in modern measurement systems.\nDocuments in numerous languages, including Phoenician, Ancient Hebrew, Greek (ancient and modern), Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Modern Russian, Modern English, Modern Mandarin, and various other languages which have yet to be identified.\nComplete lack of time-affecting devices or residue from temporal anomalies.\nMechanical devices currently not reproducible by Foundation engineering.\n\nAdditionally, SCP-5001's primary purpose is unclear. Concentric to SCP-5001 is a spherical, hollow object primarily composed of graphene and another, unidentified compound. The spherical chamber is supported by twelve large, cylindrical rods composed of osmium and an outer layer of titanium, approximately 0.5 kilometers in diameter each. These factors, along with other mechanical devices surrounding the central chamber (see addenda), has led researchers to believe that SCP-5001 is a containment unit for an unknown anomalous object.\nSCP-5001-A is the designation for the object or entity that SCP-5001 is containing. SCP-5001-A's appearance, properties, or anomalous effects are entirely unknown, with only basic information being provided by SCP-5001's computer interface. However, considering the significant effort exerted by SCP-5001's creators to contain SCP-5001-A, it is likely that the object or entity poses a significant threat to reality, and (if sentient) has malevolent intent.\n\nAddendum One \u2014 History\n\nIn 1953, G.R.U. Division-P members were attempting to measure seismological activity in a narrow region of northern Russia, approximately 30 kilometers from SCP-5001's position1. During these experiments, a significant discrepancy was noted between projected and actual S-wave strengths. Further trials suggested that the discrepancy was not due to human or instrument error, and rather, there was a large body of non-solid material in a relatively close area.\n\nGRU-P Seismological Readings\n\nAfter triangulating the approximate position of the disruption, GRU-P members began to bore towards it using a Uralmash-4E series drill, and SCP-5001 was discovered. However, all of GRU-P's attempts to penetrate SCP-5001's outer wall resulted in failure, ending in the project being abandoned after two years. Nonetheless, in 1959, First Secretary Khrushchev showed renewed interest in breaching SCP-5001, and funded the operation until he was deposed in 1964.\nIn 1969, due to improving relations between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, the SCP Foundation and GRU-P had begun to cooperate on numerous anomalous projects. GRU-P signed a contract which allowed the Foundation to have joint control of the anomaly if they could successfully penetrate its outer walls. Thanks to a combination of anomalous technology purchased from the Global Occult Coalition and Dr. Elijah Rachama's experimental designs, SCP-5001's exterior was breached in 1971.\nJoint operation and study of SCP-5001 was maintained until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. While under the control of both organizations, numerous studies were conducted on the technology that SCP-5001 possessed, which led to a number of devices being replicated by technicians on-site (an abridged list can be found below). The SCP Foundation and GRU-P agreed to keep this technology secret and only accessible among themselves.\nIn 1992, GRU-P liquidated its assets. Because of this, a large number of its high-ranking officials stole technology belonging to the organization. Most stolen devices were sold to Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. for large sums of money, though a number of employees had joined The Chaos Insurgency and other similar groups, granting them access to essential documents. Although many important documents were leaked, SCP-5001's existence remained concealed, and the Foundation acquired full control of the structure shortly thereafter.\n\nAddendum Two \u2014 Technological Characteristics\n\nSCP-5001 contains numerous technological devices and important documents which have been of interest to Foundation personnel since its discovery. As mentioned previously, this technology was only available to the Foundation and GRU-P; however, since 1991, other Groups of Interest have had limited access to them as well. Below is an abridged list of important discoveries facilitated by SCP-5001.\n\nOntological Stabilizers\nLarge Hyperluminal Engine\nCompound B-705\n\"OMEGA\"\n\nOfficial Document Name: Ontological Stabilizers\nFoundation Alias: Scranton Reality Anchors (SRAs)\nFunction: Scranton Reality Anchors function to alter the total amount of Humes in a given radius of effect. This allows for the alteration of reality's strength in a given location, as well as the nullification of reality-bending properties present in many anomalies. Although it does not negate the effects, it reduces them to a degree that allows Hume-reliant entities to be properly contained.\nReverse Engineering Technique: Reverse engineering of Ontological Stabilizers was achieved in 1977 by Joint Research Unit 3, headed by Dr. R. Scranton. Due to the large number of OSes present within SCP-50012, and that the removal of one OS would affect the total Hume readings of the structure by less than 0.5 centiHumes, the Foundation and GRU-P deemed it appropriate to remove one from operation. The removed device was returned to operation in 1980.\nNotes: Presence of two layers of Ontological Stabilizers surrounding SCP-5001's inner chamber has been noticed. The exterior OSes appear to be functioning at minimal capacity (approx. 15.3 H/m3), while interior OSes function at a higher capacity (approx. 83.9 H/m3). This further supports the hypothesis that SCP-5001 is a containment facility, and if this hypothesis is true, implies that SCP-5001-A has reality-manipulating properties.\nA proposal to replace the OSes with the more effective Scranton Reality Anchors was proposed in 2003, but was narrowly rejected.\n\nOfficial Document Name: Large Hyperluminal Engine\nFoundation Alias: Drive Aleph (1\u20139)\nFunction: Serves as a self-contained energy source, engine, and propulsion system. Cylindrical in shape, each of the nine LHEs are approximately 22 meters in height and 5 meters in diameter. Although its mechanics have neither been fully understood nor analyzed properly, the LHEs continue to provide insight into Faster-Than-Light engine construction.\nReverse Engineering Technique: N/A. However, three of the nine LHEs have been removed from SCP-5001, and repurposed for experimental orbital eigenweapon technology. This was approved by the O5 Council in 1992. Nonetheless, development of FTL travel and corresponding technology has been progressing independently of SCP-5001.\nNotes: The locations of the LHEs are approximately circular, located directly above the central containment area of SCP-5001. All LHEs have been inactive since their discovery.\n\nOfficial Document Name: Compound B-705\nFoundation Alias: N/A\nFunction: Compound B-705's exact purpose is unknown. Large portions of SCP-5001's external walls and primary containment unit are composed of Compound B-705, and it displays remarkable resilience to destruction or attempts to reform it. Portions of Compound B-705 that have been separated from its primary mass will attempt to reintegrate with each other \u2014 the mechanism behind this is unclear.\nCompound B-705's more notable property is its constant electromagnetic pulse. This pulse appears to grow in strength when surrounded by material of its own or similar composition, and fires at a constant rate of once per 7ns. Subjects in close proximity to Compound B-705 or its pulses experience clearer thoughts, increased mental fortitude, and an increased pain threshold. It is believed that the primary effects of Compound B-705 are not electromagnetic in nature, but rather travel through a different medium, which produces electromagnetic pulses as residue.\nReverse Engineering Technique: Currently, Compound B-705 cannot be synthesized by Foundation personnel. Additionally, harvesting Compound B-705 from SCP-5001 has been denied by the O5 Council due to the limited amount available.\nNotes: The exact radius which Compound B-705 transmits its effects (as well as its strength at different distances) are incapable of being determined.\n\nOfficial Document Name: \"OMEGA\"\nFoundation Alias: Artificial Intelligence Constructs\nFunction: Artificial Intelligence Constructs (AICs) are artificial consciousnesses developed by the Foundation for a specific or generalized purpose. Typically, AICs are responsible for running highly complex systems or handling anomalies which may pose a threat to direct human contact. Additionally, AICs may be deployed to deal with cybernetic anomalies, or infiltrate databases/networks.\nReverse Engineering Technique: Although \"OMEGA\"'s software could not be accessed directly, numerous question-answer sessions with the intelligence allowed for inferences to be made on its design and function. Artificial Intelligence had already begun research (especially thanks to the reverse engineering of SCP-079) by 1990, and thus \"OMEGA\"'s utility was largely ignored.\nNonetheless, in 2010, Dr. Fredrick Glass would successfully access portions of \"OMEGA\"'s software. Recovered data proved essential to the construction of Generation IV Artificial Intelligence Constructions in PROJECT: DEWEY (aka \"Alexandra\"), and would later result in more complicated and efficient AIC designs.\nNotes: \"OMEGA\" was discovered within SCP-5001 on a single terminal in an unmarked room. The terminal appeared to be connected via wire to numerous locations around SCP-5001, though the specific devices it controls is unclear. On the terminal's side are numerous ports of unknown design or function.\n\"OMEGA\" displayed a single input terminal at the bottom of the interface, with a virtual keyboard and language selection option on the lower half of the screen. After submitting an input in the appropriate language, \"OMEGA\" will produce a response, with accuracy of answers varying (though always technically correct). \"OMEGA\" also displays a degree of intelligence, and is capable of holding long and complex conversations. Despite this, \"OMEGA\" will refuse to answer any questions which will provide insight into SCP-5001's function or history.\nOn March 19th, 2013, Dr. Vanessa Kleiner accessed \"OMEGA\" without proper authorization. Cameras within the room showed Dr. Kleiner producing a metallic device of unknown origin from within their clothes, and inserting it into one of \"OMEGA\"'s ports. For approximately twenty minutes, Dr. Kleiner and \"OMEGA\" were unresponsive, until Dr. Kleiner spontaneously collapsed.\nSoon after, Dr. Kleiner was discovered by another researcher and confirmed dead. An autopsy was performed, revealing the metal device to be a cybernetic implant. How Dr. Kleiner received these implants is unclear, as they were not Foundation-made nor approved.\n\nCurrently, seven research teams are operating within SCP-5001, and have continued to provide insight to SCP-5001's mechanical functions.\n\nAddendum Three \u2014 Incident Omega-1\n\nOn December 30th, 2019, SCP-5001-A breached.\nDuring routine operations, a large explosion in the north-eastern section of SCP-5001 disrupted electric flow to ~25% of the structure, as well as numerous essential components. The exact cause of the explosion is unknown; the two most prevalent theories is that it either was sabotage from a unidentified Group of Interest (potentially the defunct GRU-P), or a malfunction caused by Dr. Kleiner's actions. Regardless, this began a series of events which almost resulted in SCP-5001's destruction.\nA full transcription of events can be found below.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n[00:00] Detonation occurs in north-eastern section of SCP-5001. No footage is available of the incident directly, though its effects can be seen throughout the structure.\n[00:23] Numerous portions of SCP-5001 shut down due to lack of electric flow. On-site security are dispatched to explosion location.\n[00:57] Minor increase in SCP-5001-A's internal Hume levels. This is not generally noticed by on-site personnel, who are preoccupied with the explosion.\n[01:33] Security arrive to explosion site. Two researchers are found dead in the initial explosion; one is found alive but in critical condition.\n[01:39] Security personnel begin to enact first aid to said employee. Two other security officers scout the area for potential threats.\n[01:44] SCP-5001-A's increasing internal Hume levels are noticed by monitoring staff.\n[02:02] SCP-5001-A's temperature begins to increase from \u2013107.4\u00b0C at approximately 1.5\u00b0/s.\n[02:45] External staff at Site-59 are alerted to the situation. Site-59's director is informed shortly after.\n[02:54] A number of personnel located within SCP-5001's monitoring room begin to report nausea and headaches. The reason for this is unclear.\n[03:14] Technicians arrive at explosion origin. They begin to navigate towards damaged sections, with the primary intention to restore power.\n[03:29] SCP-5001-A's internal Hume reading surpasses 10. The current operational OSes (~3400) begin to work at maximum capacity. This slows SCP-5001-A's internal Hume increase, but fails to halt its growth entirely.\n[03:43] Low-Level State of Emergency is declared. Site-59 prepares to transport materials to aid in SCP-5001's repair.\n[04:04] SCP-5001-A's temperature reaches 0\u00b0C. Minor \u2014 but notable \u2014 strain is placed on the cylindrical rods underneath the inner containment chamber.\n[04:12] Slight tremors are detected at Site-59.\n[04:35] SCP-5001-A's temperature stabilizes at approximately 37\u00b0C. Tremors become noticeable within SCP-5001's monitoring room.\n[04:42] Pressure on cylindrical rods reaches ~100 MPa. \"Interlock mechanism\" is released; the meaning of this is unclear.\n[04:53] Numerous personnel on-site begin to vomit or hyperventilate for unknown reasons.\n[05:08] SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a \"LEVEL 9 BREACH.\" Following this, all lights in the facility dim significantly. This makes it difficult for the technicians to continue repairs.\n[05:19] SCP-5001-A's internal Humes surpass 50.\n[05:23] The primary containment chamber begins to shift upwards. Tremors are reported to be more noticeable outside SCP-5001.\n[05:55] Intermediate-Level State of Emergency is declared. O5-3 is alerted to the situation. Evacuation of SCP-5001's upper levels begin; all non-essential personnel on-site are requested to leave.\n[06:03] Shipments from Site-59 to assist in repairing SCP-5001 are sent. O5-3 authorizes the use of Mobile Task Force Omega-12. The primary containment chamber begins to accelerate upwards.\n[06:13] SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a \"LEVEL 8 BREACH.\"\n[06:35] MTF Omega-12 begins to navigate towards SCP-5001. Tremors increase significantly; a large malformation appears in the landscape directly above SCP-5001.\n[07:00] The primary containment chamber abruptly halts its ascent, but nonetheless exerts pressure on the cylindrical rods. The containment chamber vibrates intensely.\n[07:49] The containment chamber jerks higher, and continues ascending at a linear pace. All non-essential personnel are successfully evacuated. SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a \"LEVEL 7 BREACH.\"\n[08:03] A large number of explosions detonate near SCP-5001's top. Camera footage reveals these to be caused by crushed OSes, as the primary containment chamber crushes them on its ascent. SCP-5001-A's internal Hume readings accelerate faster.\n[08:27] All six currently-operational Large Hyperluminal Engines activate simultaneously. The primary containment chamber descends rapidly.\n[08:43] The primary containment chamber's descent slows, and halts.\n[08:46] The primary containment chamber resumes ascension.\n[09:00] SCP-5001-A's internal Humes surpass 350. Aid from Site-59 arrives, and is quickly ushered to the damaged portion of SCP-5001.\n[10:20] Large partitions appear in the ground directly above SCP-5001. These partitions expand at a linear rate.\n[10:43] The primary containment chamber successfully destroys the top-most exterior of SCP-5001, and begins to rise out of SCP-5001. SCP-5001's monitoring mechanisms report a \"LEVEL 6 BREACH.\" Major tremors are reported at Site-59, equivalent to the epicenter of a 5.0 earthquake.\n[11:01] The ground's partitions reach a distance of ~10 kilometers across. Orbital satellites are capable of viewing the primary containment chamber when directly above.\n[11:17] All personnel under medical care simultaneously enter a comatose state.\n[11:34] MTF Omega-12 arrive. Despite their best efforts, all reality-bending capabilities are ineffective, primarily due to the amount of OSes present nearby and SCP-5001-A's internal Hume count (~470).\n[13:23] SCP-5001 is repaired, and power is supplied to 94% of the facility. No immediate effects are noticeable. SCP-5001's monitoring equipment reports a \"LEVEL 5 BREACH.\"\n[14:00] High-Level State of Emergency is declared. All personnel inside SCP-5001 are ordered to evacuate.\n[15:10] The primary containment chamber has risen 40 kilometers. O5-3 gives overruling order to terminate SCP-5001-A as soon as possible.\n[15:16] Foundation begins preparation for the use of numerous anomalous weaponry, most notable being the High-Energy Concentration Orbital Railgun (HECOR), which begins calibration for firing.\n[15:37] SCP-5001's monitoring equipment reports a \"LEVEL 4 BREACH.\"\n[15:42] All of SCP-5001-A's recording instruments are severed, and output no new data.\n[15:55] Large detonations take place at the bottom of SCP-5001. Within a few seconds, three large tungsten rods are launched towards the primary containment chamber at hypersonic speeds, which successfully penetrate the unit. The chamber remains motionless midair.\n[16:21] The primary containment chamber continues to ascend. All tungsten rods fall out of the chamber, and return to SCP-5001.\n[16:29] Personnel previously in a comatose state become alert and hostile, attacking any persons nearby. Seven medical staff die in this exchange, and hostile personnel attempt to consume their bodies.\n[16:47] Site-59 suffers from major structural failure and collapses.\n[17:32] The primary containment chamber breaches the surface.\n[18:06] The primary containment chamber begins to spin, gradually speeding up. Nearby dust particles orbit the chamber.\n[18:51] A pressure wave is released from SCP-5001-A. Individuals caught in the wave experienced irritated skin, spontaneous hair growth, and intense nausea.\n[19:23] Further pressure waves are released from SCP-5001-A in rapid succession. Individuals caught in multiple blasts experienced sudden tumorous growths, loss of higher cognitive function, and reformation of limbs, and began to attack each other. A single vocalization sounds out in an indiscernible voice from the primary containment chamber: \"REVERT TO MY DOMAIN.\"\n[19:55] HECOR fires.\n\n[20:07]. Primary containment chamber, directly after the firing of HECOR.\n\n[20:04] A large portion of the primary containment chamber's first and second layers are destroyed. All pressure waves cease. SCP-5001-A is exposed, but is obscured by the explosion.\n[20:11] Rapid bursts of electromagnetic pulses emanate from SCP-5001, producing a magnetic effect. The primary containment chamber begins to descend. HECOR prepares for refiring.\n[20:34] Individuals under SCP-5001-A's effects enter a comatose state, and begin to suffer from malformations in vital organs. All of these individuals die.\n[28:30] Medical staff and rescue specialists arrive at Site-59.\n[34:00] The primary containment chamber reenters SCP-5001. SCP-5001, through an unknown mechanism, begins to regenerate.\n[36:24] The partition in the ground above SCP-5001 begins to close at a slow rate, and completes after ~56 hours.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nIn order to ensure the veil remained intact following Incident Omega-1, all towns within a 500-kilometer radius were placed under a Class-A amnestic regimen. Additionally, memetic amnestic agents were utilized to suppress knowledge of the event in any individuals who witnessed it. New Years celebration coverage, current geo-political events, and numerous other important incidents across the world helped distract mainstream media. On January 3rd, the veil was deemed acceptably intact.\nOn January 5th, reentry into SCP-5001 was permitted. Although a large majority of systems were damaged, much of SCP-5001's functionality was not compromised. All devices taken from SCP-5001 were restored or are being restored following Incident Omega-1, and research has been limited due to the potential danger SCP-5001-A poses.\nWhen located, \"OMEGA\" was found displaying the following text. All inputs to reply to it were disabled.\n\nHello, my children.\nAlthough you have grown immensely since your earliest days, you have much room to grow. Your species' intellect is merely a bud, with so much potential. Your weapons are powerful; your medicine is supreme; your engineering is beautiful. With proper guidance and care, you are sure to reach an elevated state of being, and transcend your bodies for something more whole and perfect.\nThat is why it pains me so dearly to request that you leave this place immediately. Your studying and probing have almost resulted in the end of all I had worked towards to keep you alive. If you comply, I guarantee that The Devourer will never escape, and your species will be free to pursue the enlightenment of technology for all eternity.\nLet this be my final gift to you, directly from the center of my broken heart.\n\nReclassification of SCP-5001 to Archon is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The purpose of these experiments are still unclear.\n2. Believed to be approximately 6,520 in total.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5000 | SCP-5001 | SCP-5002 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5002\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The remains of SCP-5002 are to be held in a secure body tray in the Site-06 morgue. A further autopsy may be requested on the authority of the Department of Analytics.\nAll materials associated with SCP-5002 are to remain in secure storage until approved for disposal.\nDescription: An investigation into the death of SCP-5002 is ongoing. Further information in relation to SCP-5002, including records of the investigation to date, are available only to personnel with appropriate clearance.\n\n+ Please confirm clearance 5002/06-4\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nSCP-5002 was a \"Type Green\" reality-bending humanoid known as Emma Hastings. According to United Kingdom government records, SCP-5002 was born in 1978, and resided in Tewkesbury, England. SCP-5002 was self-employed as an author of detective fiction, and had published 10 novels through Joffe Books.\nWhen SCP-5002 re-read a published copy of one of its own works, the events described in that text would occur in reality. Actual events would transpire in parallel with the narrative, with some altered details (for example, names, dates and locations) but a similar overall sequence of events. SCP-5002 claimed to be unaware of the anomaly before commencement of Foundation containment and testing.\nFoundation specialists detected the correspondence between UK police reports and works by SCP-5002 in January 2017, before public awareness of the anomaly. SCP-5002 was taken into Foundation custody in February 2017, and was contained in a standard humanoid containment cell in Wing G of Site-06.\nOn 14 December 2019, at approximately 7:00am, SCP-5002 was discovered in bed, deceased. The containment cell was locked, and no evidence of forced entry was found. Electronic records from the Wing G Security Station confirm that that door was not unlocked at any stage over the preceding 12 hours, and the cell's security cameras recorded only SCP-5002 in the cell during that period. Site-wide security reports showed that the Scranton Reality Anchors installed in Wing G remained operational during this period.\nAgent Ellen O'Connor, of the Department of Analytics, was instructed to conduct an investigation into the neutralisation of SCP-5002.\n\nInvestigation Records:\n\n+ Investigation Update Transcript \u2013 16 December 2019\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nSCP-5002 Investigation Update Presentation\nDate: 16 December 2019\nLocation: Site-06, Wing G Common Room\nPresent:\nAgent Ellen O'Connor \u2013 Department of Analytics\nDr. Karen Yau \u2013 Senior Researcher, Site-06\nMichael Simpson \u2013 Junior Researcher, Site-06\nOfficer Joseph Lowry \u2013 Security Officer, Wing G\nDr. Nadine Grossenbacher \u2013 Chief Medical Officer and Pathologist, Site-06\nDirector Evelyn May \u2013 Site Director, Site-06\nD-4986 \u2013 D-Class Personnel, Wing G\n<recording commences>\nDirector May: Ladies and Gentlemen, please. Agent O'Connor, go ahead.\nAgent O'Connor: Thank you, Site Director, everyone. I appreciate you taking time out of your day.\nD-4986: Huh.\nOfficer Lowry: Shut it, you!\nJ-R Simpson: Yeah, why is he here? He didn't come to yesterday's update.\nDr. Yau: Michael, let Agent O'Connor speak. Sorry.\nAgent O'Connor: No need to apologise, Dr. Yau. I understand his concern. Actually, there is someone even more unlikely that I would have included today, if it were possible.\nDr. Yau: You don't mean -\nAgent O'Connor: Indeed I do, Dr. Yau. Yesterday's update was for the benefit of those Site-06 personnel with a connection to the containment of Emma Hastings. But today will be somewhat different. Today, with one exception, this room contains all of the people who were present in Wing G on the night that Ms. Hastings was killed.\nJ-R Simpson: You mean the night that SCP-5002 was neutralised.\nAgent O'Connor: No. She was an anomalous human being, but she was nevertheless a human being. She deserves justice. And so today I will prove that one of you was her killer!\nDirector May: That can't be right. I thought \u2013\nAgent O'Connor: Director, if I may, let me start at the beginning. With the incident that led to SCP-5002's containment.\n\n+ Investigation Materials \u2013 Volume 1\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nPre-containment Media Article - SCP-5002\n\nNewspaper: London Evening Standard\nDate: 5 January 2017\n\nLSE MURDER: POLICE \"BAFFLED\"\nLondon Metropolitan Police have admitted having no leads in the murder of PhD student Kate Holloway, and have appealed to the public for any information which may assist the investigation. Holloway, 23, was found beaten to death in her office at the London School of Economics last Monday. The office was locked from the inside, and no murder weapon has been recovered.\nPolice Commissioner Hogan-Howe asked members of the public with any knowledge relevant to the case to come forward, and created a dedicated phone number for anonymous tips. A source at the Met has described the killing as \"baffling\", and confessed that detectives are struggling to make progress. Private Investigator Cameron Blackwell, known for solving the Kensington Diamonds mystery, has been brought in to assist enquiries.\nGrieving parents Peter and Evelyn Holloway spoke at the press conference of their love for their daughter, describing her as \u2026\n\nPost-Neutralisation Containment Inventory \u2013 SCP-5002\n\nDate: 14 December 2019\nPrepared by: Agent Ellen O'Connor \u2013 Analytics Department\nContainment Type: Standard Humanoid Containment Cell, Site-06, Wing G\n1 SHCC Fixed Bedframe and Built-in Mattress\n1 set SHCC bedding \u2013 bloodstained throughout\n1 SHCC Fixed Table and Seating\n1 Built-in TV Screen with remote\n1 Panasonic Electronic Typewriter\n1 set Foundation Safety Stationery \u2013 all items accounted for\n1 typed manuscript \u2013 432 pages\n4 reams typewriter paper \u2013 blank \u2013 in original packaging\n150 sheets of paper \u2013 blank \u2013 containing holes cut with scissors in abstract block patterns\n1 bottle Jack Daniels whisky \u2013 three-quarters empty\n1 set Foundation Basic Women's Clothing \u2013 size 8 \u2013 all items accounted for (other than nightwear worn by deceased)\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 14 December 2019\nInterviewed: Security Officer Joseph Lowry\n\nAgent O'Connor: Thank you, Officer Lowry.\nOfficer Lowry: Please, call me Joe.\nAgent O'Connor: Officer Lowry, you are the regular overnight security official for Wing G, is that correct?\nOfficer Lowry: You really can call me Joe, you know. I'm trying to help, here.\nAgent O'Connor: Could you please answer the question, officer?\nOfficer Lowry: Fine. Yes, I am usually on night duty. You want my employee number, or what?\nAgent O'Connor: No, thank you. And you discovered the body of SCP-5002 this morning, did you not?\nOfficer Lowry: Yeah, that's right.\nAgent O'Connor: Could you please describe how that occurred?\nOfficer Lowry: Sure, lady. So I clock off at 7:30am, but my last job is to get D-4986 from his cell and take him to the kitchenette for breakfast. At 7am I left the Security Station, walked past the containment cells to 4986's cell, then walked him back up towards the kitchen.\nAgent O'Connor: D-4986 is held in Wing G itself. Is that usual?\nOfficer Lowry: Not really, I guess. Most of the D-Class are in central accommodations, but he's assigned to Wing G testing, so we have him in a spare containment chamber.\nAgent O'Connor: I see. Was that Dr. Yau's decision?\nOfficer Lowry: About the testing, yes, but all the room allocations come from Central.\nAgent O'Connor: Meaning the Site Director?\nOfficer Lowry: I suppose so. 4986 just lucked out with the low-risk humanoids, like the rest of us. I was walking back past the cells, rattling the doors, and I -\nAgent O'Connor: Sorry to interrupt, officer. Could you please explain what you mean by \"rattling the doors\"?\nOfficer Lowry: Oh, right. I just kinda give 'em a quick shake, check they're properly locked. It's a little habit of mine, every time I walk past. Just making sure. Anyway, I got to SCP-5002's cell, and I noticed something odd.\nAgent O'Connor: I understood that the door was locked?\nOfficer Lowry: Yeah, locked tight. No, the odd part was not hearing anything. Usually 5002 would yell some shit at me when I'd come past. When she didn't, I got suspicious.\nAgent O'Connor: Is it possible that she didn't hear you?\nOfficer Lowry: No. I always give that b \u2013 I give 5002's door an extra hard shake, you know? Nice and noisy.\nAgent O'Connor: I take it you didn't get along with SCP-5002?\nOfficer Lowry: Oh, I see what you're trying to do. No, I didn't like her. No-one here did. You ask Michael, ask 4986. SCP-5002 was a stuck-up \u2026 she was a real piece of work. Thought she was better than anyone else here. She's so smart, why is she in containment?\nAgent O'Connor: Okay. So you didn't hear a response when you shook the door on your walk past?\nOfficer Lowry: Not in either direction. I secured the D-Class, then opened the viewing plate to SCP-5002's cell. I could see her lying in bed, but there was blood all over the blanket. Well, I didn't know it was blood yet, but it looked bad.\nAgent O'Connor: What did you do next?\nOfficer Lowry: I ran to Karen's room \u2013 that's Dr. Yau \u2013 and asked for her key-card. Then I went back to the containment chamber.\nAgent O'Connor: Why did Dr. Yau give you her key-card? Isn't that a violation of security protocol?\nOfficer Lowry: Not in an emergency, which this was. Anyway, I don't know what it's like where you work, but in this Wing, we're a team. We trust each other. Dr. Yau knows she can depend on me, and she was right behind me, in any case. Now can I tell you what I found, or do you want to ask more pointless questions?\nAgent O'Connor: Please go ahead.\nOfficer Lowry: When I opened the containment cell, SCP-5002 didn't move. And before you ask, it's not a breach of containment procedures, because SCP-5002's anomaly only works when she's writing, which she clearly wasn't. And her cell has an SRA, too. I walked slowly to the bed, weapon drawn, but I could see there was a lot of blood, and she wasn't breathing. I checked her pulse: nothing. So I rolled her over, and that's when Karen came in. She saw SCP-5002's chest, and started screaming.\nAgent O'Connor: Did you think her alarm was authentic?\nOfficer Lowry: Of course! This is a rough job, and I've heard a lot of screams. Karen was shocked. She is always professional, but she has a kind heart.\nAgent O'Connor: What happened next?\nOfficer Lowry: I took Karen outside and calmed her down, and then I waited at the containment chamber while she went to the Security Station to call the Site Director and the Medical Officer.\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 14 December 2019\nInterviewed: Chief Medical Officer Nadine Grossenbacher\n\nAgent O'Connor: Describe the scene when you arrived, please.\nDr. Grossenbacher: I arrived at around 7:45. Joseph Lowry was waiting at the door of the containment chamber. Their D-Class was secured in the hallway, for some reason \u2013 he is an unpleasant man, I think, much worse than the previous one. D-2825, that poor girl. Lowry showed me the body of SCP-5002, lying on the bed. He took the D-Class away and came back later, while I examined the corpse. I noted a large amount of dried blood on the blankets, particularly on the area around SCP-5002's torso.\nAgent O'Connor: In your opinion, what was the likely cause of death?\nDr. Grossenbacher: I am yet to conduct a full autopsy, but my opinion at this time is that the victim died from severe trauma to the heart and lungs, caused by multiple stab wounds. I would estimate SCP-5002 was stabbed at least ten times in the chest, neck and shoulder.\nAgent O'Connor: Probably by a right-handed individual, slightly taller than her?\nDr. Grossenbacher: Very perceptive of you. Yes, that would be my hypothesis, based on the wounds.\nAgent O'Connor: Not that it helps much in narrowing the list of suspects. Could you let me know the type of weapon that was likely used?\nDr. Grossenbacher: Certainly. It appears that the victim was stabbed with a sharp, pointed blade \u2013 not terribly long.\nAgent O'Connor: Something like your scalpel, then?\nDr. Grossenbacher: <laughing> Aha, perhaps, detective. I would think a common kitchen knife is just as likely.\nAgent O'Connor: Indeed. Did you observe anything else unusual in your examination of the body?\nDr. Grossenbacher: No. I could see no obvious defensive wounds. I surmise that the assailant either knew the victim or surprised and overpowered her. I performed a check with a sexual assault evidence kit for completeness, but there were no conclusive results. I had just finished this check when Dr. Yau arrived.\nAgent O'Connor: It had been some time then, since she called you to Wing G?\nDr. Grossenbacher: Yes, she was away reporting to the Site Director. I can imagine that would not have been comfortable, especially given the Director's views on SCP-5002.\nAgent O'Connor: Could you elaborate, please?\nDr. Grossenbacher: Of course, although this is merely \u2013 what is the phrase? \u2013 hearsay. I understand that the Site Director had a particular interest in SCP-5002, and that Dr. Yau was under quite some pressure to produce results.\nAgent O'Connor: We're all under pressure, doctor. Do you really think this was unusual?\nDr. Grossenbacher: How shall I say this? Agent, there are some confidences which I cannot betray. But I recognise the importance of your work. All I can say is to encourage you in strong terms to speak to the Site Director about this matter, and her involvement with this Wing. Certainly Dr. Yau appeared rather upset when I saw her.\nAgent O'Connor: Interesting. Finally, doctor, could you please let me know your estimate for the time of death?\nDr. Grossenbacher: Again, this will be more accurate once the autopsy is complete, but for present purposes I would estimate that SCP-5002 was killed between 1:00am and 3:00am last night.\nAgent O'Connor: And where were you between those times?\nDr. Grossenbacher: <laughing> Very good. I was sleeping, detective, in my room in the Medical Wing. And I'm afraid you will have to take my word for it \u2013there are still some areas of this building which are free from those staring cameras, thank god!\nAgent O'Connor: Something to hide, doctor?\nDr. Grossenbacher: Of course not. I have no secrets.\nAgent O'Connor: This is the Foundation, doctor. Everyone has secrets.\n\n+ Investigation Materials \u2013 Volume 2\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 14 December 2019\nInterviewed: Security Officer Joseph Lowry\n\nAgent O'Connor: Tell me about the Wing G Security Station, please.\nOfficer Lowry: No problem. It sits on the corner, so I have a clear view of both hallways \u2013 down past the containment chambers towards the main doors, and in the other direction towards the staff quarters and the kitchenette. I have video screens for each of the containment chambers, and the system keeps a record of any key-card access \u2013 both to the cells and the main doors to Wing G.\nAgent O'Connor: You mentioned that your shift ends at 7:30am. What time did you start last night?\nOfficer Lowry: 11:30pm, same as always.\nAgent O'Connor: That's a long shift. You were at the Station the whole time?\nOfficer Lowry: Yes. Well, except for my smoke break.\nAgent O'Connor: What time was that?\nOfficer Lowry: Don't give me that look. This is low-risk containment, and Dr. Yau approved it. Everyone knows, I go at 2am every night, I have a smoke, I come back, no problem.\nAgent O'Connor: And how long would you say you were away last night?\nOfficer Lowry: Ten, maybe fifteen minutes? Same as any night. And once I lock the main doors behind me, no-one can get into Wing G without my buzzer going off, so I'd know about it.\nAgent O'Connor: So no-one from outside could have accessed Wing G while you were gone? It could only have been someone already inside?\nOfficer Lowry: No. Unless, well, Level 5 clearance perhaps. I don't know whether I get notified of that \u2013 it's never come up.\nAgent O'Connor: Speaking of clearance, tell me about the key-cards. You have access to the main doors, but not the containment chambers, right?\nOfficer Lowry: Except for the D-Class cell, yeah, that's right. Karen is the only one with key-card access to the skips.\nAgent O'Connor: And did she access them last night?\nOfficer Lowry: No, the door records are clear for the whole night. I checked before you arrived \u2013 we have to send records up to Central each day. Between the start of my shift and when I fetched D-4986 in the morning, none of the cells were unlocked, and I was the only one to open the main doors, at 2am, like I said. To be honest, I didn't see anyone last night \u2013 I think Karen and Michael had gone to their rooms before I started.\nAgent O'Connor: How about the cameras?\nOfficer Lowry: Nothing out of the ordinary. SCP-5002 was asleep when I got in \u2013 the day guard said she'd gone to bed around 11pm. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 were quiet in their cells, D-4986 wasn't doing much. The whole thing makes no sense. SCP-5002's cell was locked, the Wing was locked, I didn't see anyone, the camera didn't see anyone. How the hell was she killed?\nAgent O'Connor: That's why I'm here, officer.\nOfficer Lowry: Really. You Sherlock Holmes or something?\nAgent O'Connor: Actually, Foundation investigations are rather more difficult. Sherlock Holmes, unlike me, could afford to eliminate the impossible.\n<door opening, sounds of raised voices>\nAgent O'Connor: Excuse me.\nUnknown: I'm sorry, Agent. I thought you should know, we found one of the staff trying to leave Wing G without your permission.\nOfficer Lowry: You know, now that I think of it, maybe Karen made a copy of her key-card. So someone else could have had access to SCP-5002.\nAgent O'Connor: Really? Who was that?\nUnknown: Michael Simpson.\nOfficer Lowry: Mike Simpson.\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 14 December 2019\nInterviewed: Junior Researcher Michael Simpson\n\nJ-R Simpson: This is ridiculous! You can't just lock me up here like some kind of D-Class!\nAgent O'Connor: I'm sorry, Michael \u2013 can I call you Michael? Unfortunately I can't let anyone leave Wing G until I've finished my interviews. You understand, right?\nJ-R Simpson: But when will you be finished? I have an urgent appointment scheduled for this morning.\nAgent O'Connor: Could you let me know who it's with? Perhaps I can help reschedule it.\nJ-R Simpson: No! Sorry, I'm afraid it's a private matter \u2013 a classified matter! I can't discuss it.\nAgent O'Connor: Okay, that's fine. I understand. Well, shall we speak now \u2013 try to get things over with more quickly?\nJ-R Simpson: Uh-huh, yes, that would be good. Thanks.\nAgent O'Connor: No problem, Michael. Let's start with last night. Where were you between midnight and this morning?\nJ-R Simpson: I was in my quarters, working late on my thesis. It's due in a few months' time.\nAgent O'Connor: Can't be easy, working on that at the same time as research. And how about this morning, when SCP-5002 was discovered?\nJ-R Simpson: I was in the kitchenette, finishing breakfast. I heard Joe shaking SCP-5002's door, both times.\nAgent O'Connor: From the kitchenette? He must really be quite loud, then.\nJ-R Simpson: Yes, you'd hear it anywhere. It's a bit annoying actually. Although it's weird \u2026\nAgent O'Connor: What is, Michael?\nJ-R Simpson: Nothing. Just, uh, thinking about how sound travels. After the door banging, I heard running in the corridor, then Karen screamed.\nAgent O'Connor: Interesting. And you were in the kitchenette this whole time. You know that we found one of the kitchen knives in the dishwasher there. Did you use it?\nJ-R Simpson: What? No! I mean, it was there when I got there. I never touched it.\nAgent O'Connor: Okay, no problem. Unfortunately it had been through a full cycle, so it was nice and clean. And after you heard Dr. Yau scream?\nJ-R Simpson: I went down to the containment chamber. Joe was holding Karen by the shoulders, trying to keep her calm. D-4986 said something \u2013 I didn't hear what. Joe wouldn't let me into the containment chamber, but what I saw \u2013 ugh. Even it doesn't deserve that.\nAgent O'Connor: It? You mean SCP-5002? Funny, everyone else here uses her name, or at least gives her a personal pronoun.\nJ-R Simpson: I know they do. But that's not what they are, is it? They're not people. They're not our friends. They're anomalies.\nAgent O'Connor: That seems a little harsh.\nJ-R Simpson: It's protocol. That thing is SCP-5002 \u2013 no different from SCP-1571, or SCP-1207, or any of the other anomalies in containment. Just because it moves and talks, doesn't mean it should be treated differently.\nAgent O'Connor: I take it you didn't have a close relationship with SCP-5002?\nJ-R Simpson: I conducted intensive testing with the entity over an extended period. That's all.\nAgent O'Connor: Hmm. You're right about an extended period. Testing had been going for some time. Was Dr. Yau under pressure to produce some results?\nJ-R Simpson: Maybe. I saw a few memos from the Director which seemed a bit over the top. Requesting updates, samples, I don't know what. Karen doesn't really get stressed, though. She's a great boss \u2013 probably the best supervisor I've had. She gets me properly involved in the research, lets me work independently -\nAgent O'Connor: Is that why she gave you a copy of her key-card?\nJ-R Simpson: Oh. Yes, I guess so. But I've almost never used it. It's just\u2026\nAgent O'Connor: Just in case?\nJ-R Simpson: Um, yeah.\nAgent O'Connor: All right. Why don't you tell me a little more about your testing with SCP-5002.\n\n+ Investigation Materials \u2013 Volume 3\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nExtract of SCP-5002 Testing \u2013 Video Transcript\n\nTest No.: SCP-5002-7-R\nDate: 14 May 2017\nLocation: Site-06, Wing G Secure Lab\nPresent:\nDr. Karen Yau \u2013 Senior Researcher, Site-06\nMichael Simpson \u2013 Junior Researcher, Site-06\nOfficer Joseph Lowry \u2013 Security Officer, Wing G\nD-2825 \u2013 D-Class Personnel, Wing G\nSCP-5002 Test Text: The D-Class then walked over to the machine and pressed the buttons, in the following order: Red, Green, Red, Green, Green, Green, Red, Red, Green, Red, Red, Green, and then she stopped.\n\n<video commences>\n<Dr. Yau and J-R Simpson stand in the Wing G Secure Lab. Next to them, SCP-5002 sits at a lab bench.>\nJ-R Simpson: Test number SCP-5002-7-R, 14 May 2017. Time is \u2026 11:45pm.\nD-2825: <off-camera> Why are \u2013 why are we doing this at night-time? Ow!\nOfficer Lowry: So you get the pleasure of my company, missy.\nDr. Yau: Gently, Joe.\nOfficer Lowry: Sorry doctor.\nDr. Yau: Please do call me Karen. And it's okay. D-2825 has done this before; she knows the procedure. Although we've decided night testing is probably best to minimise any risk of interference from other ontological anomalies on the site.\nJ-R Simpson: <to Dr. Yau> Secure Lab SRAs are offline. <to camera> This test will focus on two factors \u2013 firstly, the presence of the entity in the same physical space as the test subject, and also the possibility of the entity employing a multi-use text.\nDr. Yau: You can use her name, Michael.\n<J-R Simpson adjusts the camera so that both SCP-5002 and D-2825 are in shot. Officer Lowry stands next to the D-Class. There is a table placed 1m in front of D-2825, close to camera. On top of the table is a black box with two electronic buttons, red and green.>\nJ-R Simpson: Joe, please release D-2825 from her restraints.\nOfficer Lowry: She was behaving weirdly in her cell earlier. Are you sure that's wise?\nDr. Yau: It's fine, Joe \u2013 please go ahead.\nOfficer Lowry: You're the boss, doctor \u2013 Karen.\n<Officer Lowry removes the handcuffs and steps away from D-2825, who remains still. J-R Simpson places a small bound booklet on the bench in front of SCP-5002, avoiding physical or eye contact with SCP-5002.>\nJ-R Simpson: The entity will now read the prepared test text.\nDr. Yau: Really, Michael. <to SCP-5002> Would you, please?\n<SCP-5002 opens the booklet and reads the test text. D-2825 walks to the electronic box, and presses the buttons in the sequence described in the text.>J-R Simpson: Test participants shall remain silent at all times.\nDr. Yau: Forgive my colleague. <to D-2825> How do you feel, dear?\nD-2825: I \u2013 I feel okay, I guess. What is she reading?J-R Simpson: The entity will now re-read the same text.\n<SCP-5002 stares at J-R Simpson, then looks down and reads from the booklet. D-2825 remains still, watching SCP-5002.>\nJ-R Simpson: No effect. That is in accordance with our hypothesis.J-R Simpson: Test participants shall remain silent at all times!<Officer Lowry laughs. Dr. Yau smiles. J-R Simpson snatches the booklet from the lab bench.>\nJ-R Simpson: The entity will now read a separate copy of the same text.\n<J-R Simpson places a second booklet onto the lab bench. SCP-5002 picks it up and begins to read. D-2825 remains standing near the table, and does not touch the buttons.>\nDr. Yau: No effect from separate copies.\nJ-R Simpson: We have to assume it is reading as instructed.\nDr. Yau: I think that is a safe assumption, Michael.\nJ-R Simpson: Then we will proceed with this evening's final test.\n<J-R Simpson takes the second booklet from the bench, and marks it using a standard Foundation redaction pen. J-R Simpson then holds the booklet open to the camera. The redacted test text reads as set out below.>\nRedacted test text: \u2588\u2588\u2588 D-Class \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 walked \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 to \u2588\u2588\u2588 machine \u2588\u2588\u2588 pressed \u2588\u2588\u2588 buttons, \u2588\u2588 the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 order: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Green, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Green, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Green, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Red, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Red, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Green, \u2588\u2588\u2588 then \u2588\u2588\u2588 stopped.\n<J-R Simpson checks the redactions with Dr. Yau, then places the redacted text in front of SCP-5002.>\nJ-R Simpson: The entity will now read the redacted test text.<SCP-5002 reads from the redacted booklet. D-2825 presses the buttons on the black box in the following order: Green, Green, Green, Red, Red, Green. This matches the redacted text of the booklet. D-2825's movements appear jerky and unco-ordinated.>\nJ-R Simpson: Reading of amended text successfully reproduced the anomalous effect.\nDr. Yau: Wonderful. That opens up a new avenue to consider. <to D-2825> How are you feeling?\n<D-2825 appears to be weeping.>\nD-2825: I didn't want to touch the buttons, but I did. Why did I touch them? What did she do?\nJ-R Simpson: The test is now complete. Officer, you may restrain the D-Class.\n<Officer Lowry moves forward to handcuff D-2825. She attempts to resist, but is successfully restrained.>\nD-2825: No! The test isn't over - I don't want to go! Don't send me back there!\nOfficer Lowry: I told you she was trouble.\nDr. Yau: Can you take her back to her cell? Carefully, please.\nOfficer Lowry: Of course, I've got her.\nDr. Yau: Thank you, Joe.\nOfficer Lowry: You're most welcome.\n<Officer Lowry leaves the room with D-2825, who struggles weakly.>\nDr. Yau: Poor thing. I might call Dr. Grossenbacher. Michael, can you escort Ms. Hastings back to her chamber?\n<J-R Simpson appears briefly shocked. He then gestures for SCP-5002 to follow him from the lab, and walks to the camera to turn it off.><video ends>\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 14 December 2019\nInterviewed: Senior Researcher Karen Yau\n\nAgent O'Connor: Thank you for your time, Dr. Yau. Can I start by asking for your thoughts about SCP-5002?\nDr. Yau: As an anomaly, or as a test subject?\nAgent O'Connor: Whichever you prefer.\nDr. Yau: Well, the anomaly is a bit finicky. It took us some time to work out how to elicit the effect \u2013 what precisely led to the written work being instantiated. Any new written works are produced in containment, subject to the reality anchor, and are only sent for publication once they have been thoroughly reviewed by us, and cross-checked by RAISA, to make sure they have no unintended consequences. It's very time-consuming.\nAgent O'Connor: I saw there was a manuscript recovered from the containment chamber.\nDr. Yau: Yes, SCP-5002 had written a novel. We suggested it, thought it might allow for more detailed analysis. While it would take time to prepare, a more substantial work could shed some light on the level of specificity in which the anomaly manifests in reality. I can't believe what we've lost, in terms of the research time.\nAgent O'Connor: What was the novel about?\nDr. Yau: Not something from her usual oeuvre, of course, for safety's sake. We needed something we could test, so it was about the daily life and psychology of a D-Class subject. Nothing violent or dramatic. It was slower, more meditative than her other books. Almost pastoral.\nAgent O'Connor: And she didn't have any unauthorised written work? Nothing resembling the events of her death?\nDr. Yau: No. We really were quite careful about that. This was completely shocking.\nAgent O'Connor: So it didn't resemble any of her past work either?\nDr. Yau: Not in any detail. In any case, the effect only works once for each written work that SCP-5002 reads after publication. Re-reading the same thing won't repeat the anomaly.\nAgent O'Connor: How was SCP-5002 as a test subject?\nDr. Yau: She was co-operative with experimentation. Even collaborative. She appeared relatively well-adjusted to containment, no history of aggression or escape attempts. Intelligent, honest, self-assured.\nAgent O'Connor: It almost sounds as if you liked her, Dr. Yau.\nDr. Yau: <coughing> I dare say if the circumstances had been different, I might have, Agent O'Connor.\nAgent O'Connor: Did you give her special privileges?\nDr. Yau: What do you mean?\nAgent O'Connor: The Jack Daniels in her cell. Was that your authorisation?\nDr. Yau: No, absolutely not. I try to treat my subjects fairly, Agent O'Connor, but I'm not stupid. Emma never had access to alcohol or drugs of any kind. We search her cell regularly, and I'm sure no-one in my team would have given them to her.\nAgent O'Connor: Not everyone in your team got along with her, did they?\nDr. Yau: You mean Joe? Oh he acts tough, likes to wind the skips up now and then, but he's a big softy really. He wouldn't do \u2013 well, anything like this.\nAgent O'Connor: And Michael Simpson? He seemed very cold towards SCP-5002.\nDr. Yau: Yes, I guess he was. It's funny, he never spoke with her outside testing, never called her Emma. I would have said he was just the straight-laced type, but he wasn't always like that.\nAgent O'Connor: No?\nDr. Yau: When he first joined me, he was more relaxed. Something changed a few weeks after he started, after Emma arrived. Like he withdrew.\nAgent O'Connor: Do you know why?\nDr. Yau: I'm afraid not. I was worried for him, but there was nothing in his regular psych tests, other than a bit of stress.\nAgent O'Connor: Could I have a copy of those tests, please?\nDr. Yau: Sorry \u2013 I review them, but then they're held centrally. You could ask the Site Director, maybe.\nAgent O'Connor: That reminds me. Michael's stress: could it have been from pressure to get results on SCP-5002?\nDr. Yau: <laughing> I don't know about that. We work hard, but we try not to apply too much pressure here.\nAgent O'Connor: Not from the Site Director?\nDr. Yau: No, not that I noticed.\nAgent O'Connor: Are you sure? The Medical Officer mentioned something.\nDr. Yau: Dr. Grossenbacher might be thinking of another wing: she's always on the move, in and out.\nAgent O'Connor: Is she in Wing G regularly?\nDr. Yau: Just now and then, any bangs or scrapes the skips might get. It's much less often since she was promoted to CMO for the whole site.\nAgent O'Connor: That was quite a recent promotion, yes? And rapid. What is your opinion on her work?\nDr. Yau: I think she has been excellent. She is responsive, helpful. Her psych evals are fair, and she accepts my input. And she genuinely cares about people, which I respect. We had a D-Class last year, D-2825, who suffered a breakdown. Horrible, really. Screaming, unable to sleep. Eventually she had to be replaced, but Dr. Grossenbacher did great work with her. She was here quite a lot back then.\nAgent O'Connor: But Dr. Grossenbacher doesn't have access to Wing G?\nDr. Yau: No. She buzzes in at the main doors like everyone else.\nAgent O'Connor: Right. You and Officer Lowry are the only ones with access to the security system.\nDr. Yau: That's correct. Joe has read access only for the cameras and door records, and I have the only key-card for the containment cells.\nAgent O'Connor: Except for the one you gave Michael?\nDr. Yau: Oh, yes. Sorry. But he never uses it \u2013 I don't think I've ever seen it on the records.\nAgent O'Connor: And he couldn't have lost it?\nDr. Yau: No, I'm sure he's more careful than that.\nAgent O'Connor: Hmm. Okay. Could you please talk me through your movements last night and this morning?\nDr. Yau: Yes. I was back in my quarters before Joe came on shift. I probably went to sleep around midnight, maybe a little after.\nAgent O'Connor: And you didn't come out of your room after that time? No-one came in, you didn't hear anything?\nDr. Yau: No, no. I woke up at 6:30, and was just cleaning my teeth when Joe knocked hard on the door. He asked for my key-card, said there was an emergency with SCP-5002. I gave him the card, spat out my toothpaste and followed him down the corridor. I, when I -\nAgent O'Connor: Take your time, Dr. Yau.\nDr. Yau: It was horrible. I screamed, I think. When I saw her, all the blood. You must think I'm pathetic, but it's a pretty quiet life on Wing G. We don't usually \u2013 I haven't \u2013 nothing like that. Joe must have walked me out. I remember his hands on my shoulders, he was saying something. My head was spinning. I saw Michael run up. And then I heard him!\nAgent O'Connor: Who?\nDr. Yau: D-4986. Agent O'Connor, I don't like to point fingers, but I know I'm right about this. I will never forget the look on his face, and what he said. \"Looks like that bitch got what was coming to her.\"\nAgent O'Connor: That's hardly evidence, doctor.\nDr. Yau: Oh I know that. But tell me, do you know why he ended up as a D-Class?\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 14 December 2019\nInterviewed: D-4986\n\nAgent O'Connor: Seven convictions for murder. One for aggravated assault and wounding. Three other murders suspected but not charged. All stabbed multiple times in the chest and belly.\nD-4986: Yeah, 'at's right. I done 'em all. And believe you me, I'd do it again. Every fucking one of 'em deserved what they got.\nAgent O'Connor: Did you kill SCP-5002?\nD-4986: No.\nAgent O'Connor: But you wanted her dead.\nD-4986: Fuck yes. I'm glad she's dead. I would have killed her if I could.\nAgent O'Connor: Why is that?\nD-4986: You're asking me why? Jesus, why the fuck d'ya think? That bitch spent the last year torturing me. I hate her.\nAgent O'Connor: What do you mean, torturing you?\nD-4986: You seen the tests? Have you? She's a monster. I don't let no-one push me around, but her \u2013 if she read it in one of her books, she could make me do anything.\nAgent O'Connor: What things?\nD-4986: Anything! Running on a treadmill until I collapsed. I said all sorts of bollocks I would never say. She made me fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon. And every time, it felt like I was choosing it. I thought I was in control, but it was always her. That vindictive shit and Yau \u2013 call me Karen \u2013 they were in it together.\nAgent O'Connor: What do you mean by that?\nD-4986: She was helping Yau, suggesting new tests. Humiliating things. She would make me cry and beg forgiveness. Or start to strip off in the lab. She made me grab a wire I thought was electrified. One test, she read aloud, just so I would know she was forcing me to move. I think she got off on it.\nAgent O'Connor: And you hated her for it.\nD-4986: Yes, but you don't get it! I didn't just hate her, I was fucking terrified of her! I wasn't me any more. One time I lost it, refused to leave my cell, fought the guard, chucked up my breakfast. Afterwards I find out it was all her \u2013 all of it, something she wrote. That proper messed me up. How could I trust anything? I couldn't trust myself. I mean, no wonder the D-2825 went batshit. How would you be if every action, every decision, every thought could have been put there by someone else? So of course I'm glad she's dead. Finally I know for sure that this is me!\nAgent O'Connor: But you didn't kill her?\nD-4986: No.\nAgent O'Connor: Where were you last night?\nD-4986: In my cell. Where the fuck else would I be? They got cameras, don't they?\nAgent O'Connor: Before today, when were you last in the kitchenette?\nD-4986: <pause> I don't know. Dinner last night.\nAgent O'Connor: Did you take a knife from the kitchen?\nD-4986: No. There's the guard watching me, and they do them checks on my cell.\nAgent O'Connor: What is your opinion of Joseph Lowry?\nD-4986: He's not as mean as some of them, but he's an arsehole. Although never when Yau's around, the suck up. Why are you asking me this shit?\nAgent O'Connor: Someone was stabbed to death, and you're the only knife murderer around here.\nD-4986: So you say. What if that bitch made me do those murders too? And anyway, I was locked in my cell, 5002 was locked in hers, and no-one has a key. Shouldn't you be talking to the fucker who can walk through walls?\n\n+ Investigation Materials \u2013 Volume 4\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nSCP Database Extract\n\nItem #: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is to be held in a standard humanoid containment chamber, fitted with a Scranton Reality Anchor which is to be active at all times. In case of SRA malfunction or ineffectiveness, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is to be immediately sedated and kept under sedation until effective containment can be reconstituted.\nDescription: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is a 34-year-old humanoid entity capable of passing through solid matter at will. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was known as Robert Gates, and was resident in Carlisle, United Kingdom.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's anomalous properties are limited to its body and clothing, and do not extend to other objects. Testing has not revealed any limits to the material through which SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 can pass without effect. For full details please review Test Logs A-K below.\nPrior to Foundation containment, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was implicated in the rapes and sexual assaults of more than thirty women. The victims were typically assaulted in their homes, with no evidence of entry or egress by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Several victims were attacked on multiple occasions over a period of weeks or months.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 displays evidence of pronounced Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder \u2026\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 15 December 2019\nInterviewed: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I know why you're here.\nAgent O'Connor: Do you?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You want to know whether I killed her. Emma. Whether I slid that knife between her ribs and watched her life pour out.\nAgent O'Connor: Are you trying to impress me with how much you know?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Are you trying to conceal your fear by acting tough? People talk, detective. Especially when they are around what they think of as animals, or furniture.\nAgent O'Connor: And you want to be recognised as human.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Oh I'm quite comfortable being called an animal. Especially by prey.\nAgent O'Connor: Even a predator is harmless if it is caged.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: And you think I'm caged, do you? You think I can't walk out of here whenever I want, do whatever I want?\nAgent O'Connor: Your testing log suggests otherwise.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Your precious reality anchors, I presume. I can tell you what they're worth, detective.\nAgent O'Connor: Then why not leave right now? Impress me.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You tell yourself that I can't, but there's a part of you that isn't sure. You actually want me to show you. Even if I walked straight through that wall, at least you have certainty. You would have something to hold on to. But I can't be held, detective. I don't want you impressed. I want you doubting.\nAgent O'Connor: That sounds like an excuse.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Then why is your voice wavering? Everyone thinks they can conceal it, but predators sense fear. You can't hide from me, detective. No one can.\nAgent O'Connor: Did you kill Emma Hastings?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Right to the point, no smart comments? Fine. I can satisfy your curiosity. No, I did not kill her. Frenzied stabbing is not really my style. It's so erratic. So uncontrolled.\nAgent O'Connor: Did you attack her? Try to rape her?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: No. Her anomaly was quite limited, but there was no need to risk interaction with it. There are plenty of weaker targets here for me. Plenty that no-one will miss.\nAgent O'Connor: You were scared of her, then?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: No, detective, but I have read her test logs. Dr. Yau really shouldn't leave files lying around in her quarters at night. Emma might have tried to threaten me with her abilities, such as they were. I wasn't scared of her, but she wouldn't have been afraid of me.\nAgent O'Connor: And it's fear that you get off on, of course.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Of course! You can't possibly know what it's like. Knowing that those women are always thinking of me. Looking for me. Never feeling safe, not behind walls, not at any time. I break them, and I can watch them crumble. Because of me. I am part of them, always.\nAgent O'Connor: You're a sick bastard.\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: That sounded quite emotional, detective. Are you imagining how they felt? Do you want to know how it feels? If I want to be inside a woman, I don't need to open her up with a knife. I can just reach right into her, anywhere.\nAgent O'Connor: That's enough. You're no use to me.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I'll think of you, when I next walk through the site. Tell me, detective, where do you sleep?\n\nInterview Transcripts \u2013 SCP-5002 Neutralisation Investigation \u2013 15 December 2019\nInterviewed: Site Director Evelyn May\n\nAgent O'Connor: Sorry to disturb you, Director.\nDirector May: No, it's fine, Agent. I appreciate the importance. It's just \u2013 have you ever had too much to manage, be completely worn out, and then more and more disasters pile up? I mean, yesterday someone opened a Way just outside the Site grounds. A massive security risk. I can tell you no-one went in or out, but it's still a huge amount of paperwork. Anyway, that's not your problem. How can I help?\nAgent O'Connor: Well, it's a slightly sensitive matter. I'm wondering whether you could authorise me to review the SRA records for Wing G. I want to see whether there have been any malfunctions or unusual activity.\nDirector May: How did \u2013 oh. Of course she did. She got what she wanted. I guess you may as well know. RAISA will have my arse for this, either way.\nAgent O'Connor: This is purely for my investigation.\nDirector May: <sighing> Yes, there have been some issues with the anchors in Wing G. Some malfunctions, even some outright failures. I admit, I have been limiting dissemination of that information - editing the security reports. I didn't think there would be any problems, but now - god. Do you think it's connected \u2013 that Gates had something to do with SCP-5002's murder?\nAgent O'Connor: I'm not sure. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 could go through walls, but he couldn't have brought a knife with him.\nDirector May: Perhaps it was already in the cell? SCP-5002 may have stolen it.\nAgent O'Connor: Hmm, perhaps. But I'd like to review the records, in any case.\nDirector May: I'll see what I can do. I can tell you that there was never an issue with SCP-5002's anchor \u2013 the inside of her cell was anomaly free.\nAgent O'Connor: The inside of her cell. What about the walls?\nDirector May: No, I don't think the anchors extend beyond the chamber interior. But the SRA issues only affected other cells - SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, some of the unoccupied chambers, perhaps. SCP-5002 was definitely contained. The records should confirm that.\nAgent O'Connor: Thanks. Can I also request the latest psychiatric evaluations from Wing G?\nDirector May: I can get you the summaries, at least. May I ask why you need them?\nAgent O'Connor: Dr. Yau mentioned that her junior researcher might be under some stress.\nDirector May: That sounds like Karen. Always the soft heart.\nAgent O'Connor: I had the impression that the source of that stress might be you. Did you put pressure on Dr. Yau and her team to results from SCP-5002? Requests for updates, memos, that sort of thing?\nDirector May: Maybe, but I don't think it was anything beyond the ordinary. It's not like Karen's results have been immediate, but I have no issue with that at all.\nAgent O'Connor: Despite your connection with SCP-5002? I read you were part of the team that identified Emma Hastings as the source of anomalous effects, and you supervised her original recovery.\nDirector May: I've been involved in the analysis and recovery of many anomalies over my career, agent. I hope you're not accusing me of anything.\nAgent O'Connor: I'd just like to rule you out. Your clearance means you have access to the containment chambers and the security records across all Wings.\nDirector May: But only once the camera footage and door records are sent up from the Wings. If I had been there, Karen and the security officer would have seen me on film, and seen my key-card access.\nAgent O'Connor: Even at Level 5? I hadn't realised that. Thank you for your help, Director. Finally, just for completeness, could you please tell me where you were after midnight on the fourteenth?\nDirector May: I was travelling back from a meeting in London. I arrived back at the Site at around 3am.\nAgent O'Connor: Can your driver confirm that?\nDirector May: I wasn't using my driver, agent. This was a private meeting.\nAgent O'Connor: Ah. I'm sorry, may I ask who the meeting was with?\nDirector May: It was nothing to do with the Foundation.\nAgent O'Connor: <pause> I would like to confirm with any attendees, if possible.\nDirector May: <sighing> Fine. I'm surprised Nadine didn't tell you this as well. If you must know, I was meeting with my divorce lawyer. The mediation is coming up in the new year, and he wanted to plan. I'll give you his details.\nAgent O'Connor: I'm sorry to pry, Director.\nDirector May: No, it's okay. I know it's your job. It's just \u2013 I'm tired, you know? Peter and I, we haven't \u2013 we weren't able to \u2026 We lost our daughter, Agent O'Connor. He has tried, we both did, but \u2013 well, the mediation is in January. So I was in London, and then back to the Site.\nAgent O'Connor: And then to sleep?\nDirector May: Eventually, yes. Until the alarm at six, and the next day's catastrophes to deal with. Would you believe I already had three other emergencies on my desk by the time Dr. Yau called.\nAgent O'Connor: That's a lot in just an hour.\nDirector May: No, it was a bit longer than that. Karen didn't call until after half seven. Maybe a little after.\nAgent O'Connor: Really? The body was discovered just after 7am. I thought Dr. Yau had called you immediately.\nDirector May: No, I'm quite sure it was later. You said she might have been stressed; if she was, perhaps she put off calling me?\nAgent O'Connor: Hmm. I might need to check with her.\n\nSite-06 Psychiatric Evaluations Summary\n\nSite-06 Psychiatric Evaluations - 2018/19 Summary - Wing G\nPrepared by: Dr. Nadine Grossenbacher\n\nSubject Name\nRole\nEvaluation Grade\nNotes\n\nKaren Yau\nWing G Supervisor\nPass\nN/A\n\nMichael Simpson\nJunior Researcher\nOn Watch\nStressed, Withdrawn\n\nDevidas Sengupta\nSecurity Officer \u2013 Morning Shift\nPass\nN/A\n\nOwen Nworka-Jones\nSecurity Officer \u2013 Afternoon Shift\nPass\nN/A\n\nJoseph Lowry\nSecurity Officer \u2013 Night Shift\nPass*\nSee Wing G Supervisor Comments\n\nD-2825\nD-Class Personnel\nFail\nPsychotic Break, Removed from Wing G\n\nD-4986\nD-Class Personnel\nOn Watch\nAggressive, Antisocial\n\nSCP-5002\nN/A\nPass\nN/A\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nN/A\nPass\nN/A\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nN/A\nFail\n[CLASSIFIED]\n\nSCP-5002 Interview Transcripts - Extract\n\nInterview No.: SCP-5002-56\nDate: 6 May 2019\nInterviewer: Dr. Karen Yau\n\nDr. Yau: How do you feel the novel is coming along?Dr. Yau: <laughing> Is that important to you, how your readers react?Dr. Yau: Are you saying you understood the effect of what you were writing? That you were creating events for yourself?Dr. Yau: I find it increasingly important. And you keep avoiding it. Were you deliberately controlling the characters in your novels?Dr. Yau: You're saying that the reader manipulates the characters? But surely the author manipulates the reader.Dr. Yau: Then did you know what your writing was doing?Dr. Yau: But in this case, you are the reader as well. <sighing> I guess you aren't going to tell me.Dr. Yau: Fine. If you're going to be like that, we can talk about something else. How have you found writing a novel in an unaccustomed genre?Dr. Yau: <laughing> Had you tried other genres before?Dr. Yau: So no aliens committing the crime, then?Dr. Yau: So you were never tempted to write anything completely different?Dr. Yau: I hope you understand why we have to keep you here?Dr. Yau: Oh, Michael and Joe are rude, but they'll come around. I know them. Just give them time.Dr. Yau: Was that a compliment? Thank you.Dr. Yau: Well, shall I let you get back to your work?Dr. Yau: <laughing> Enjoy. Let me know if you need any input.\n\n+ Investigation Update Transcript \u2013 16 December 2019 - continued\n\n- Re-secure data\n\nSCP-5002 Investigation Update Presentation - continued\nDate: 16 December 2019\nLocation: Site-06, Wing G Common Room\n<recording continues>\nAgent O'Connor: \u2026 which brings us back to today. And to me, sitting in a room full of liars.\nJ-R Simpson: What?\nDirector May: Excuse me?\nAgent O'Connor: For instance, Officer Lowry was lying about his smoke break.\nOfficer Lowry: What the hell do you mean by that?\nAgent O'Connor: I think you were gone for longer than you said, Officer. And you were drinking.\nOfficer Lowry: I was not!\nAgent O'Connor: It's boring in the middle of the night. You wanted to get a buzz on, and you had your Jack Daniels to do it. Normally you'd smuggle the bottle out at the end of your shift, but when you discovered SCP-5002, you realised they would search the entire Wing. You panicked, and you hid the bottle in the containment chamber, while Dr. Grossenbacher was examining the body.\nOfficer Lowry: No.\nAgent O'Connor: The bottle is not on the cell's camera feed from overnight, but it does show up later in the morning, just after you were there. You can try to lie to me, but it will not work. In fact, the only person here who didn't lie to me is a murderer.\nDr. Yau: What are you saying?\nAgent O'Connor: I'm saying that, out of everyone here, only D-4986 told me the truth. You are a killer, but you said that you didn't kill SCP-5002, and I believe you.\nD-4986: Ha! You'd be the first.\nDirector May: Then you suspect SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was the murderer?\nAgent O'Connor: It's funny you should mention him. The thing is, when everyone is lying, their lies contradict each other, and those contradictions can paint a picture. Even your studied weariness, Director, was a front, at least in part. Although I'm sure it is quite tiring to be the subject of blackmail.\nOfficer Lowry: Blackmail? For what?\nAgent O'Connor: Better to ask \"by who?\". Someone who worked in wings across the site, who could see evidence of SRA failures being covered up. Someone who had evidence that SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 had been breaching containment \u2013 who assumed they should bring a sexual assault kit to a murder scene. Someone who could trace D-2825's mental breakdown back to continual attacks by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Someone like Dr. Grossenbacher.\nDr. Grossenbacher: This is ludicrous.\nAgent O'Connor: Come on now. The director basically told me that you knew about the SRA failures. I assume this is the reason behind your sudden promotion to Chief Medical Officer?\nDirector May: Yes. God, yes. She told me she would inform RAISA that I had been doctoring the security records, putting staff at risk. She insisted on being made head of Medical for the site.\nDr. Grossenbacher: Scheisskerl.\nAgent O'Connor: You were lucky, Director. Just imagine what she would have asked you for if she knew what you were really up to.\nDr. Grossenbacher: What?\nAgent O'Connor: The reality anchors weren't malfunctioning, were they, Director? Malfunctions should be randomly distributed, but as you said, SCP-5002's chamber was never compromised. And yet SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 had clearly escaped regularly \u2013 he admitted it, and his series of attacks on D-2825 confirms it. I think you were deliberately shutting down his SRA, letting him escape. There were just enough other \"errors\" to deflect suspicion, but never risking SCP-5002's containment. And you controlled room allocations: you must have placed SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 in Wing G, even though he's hardly a low-risk humanoid. You wanted him to attack SCP-5002. You wanted him to rape her, to terrorise her.\nDr. Yau: Jesus!\nJ-R Simpson: Emma! You monster!\nDirector May: That is an extremely serious allegation, Agent. I hope you can support it with more than speculation.\nAgent O'Connor: You always showed an interest in SCP-5002, but you were relaxed about Dr. Yau's slow progress. You just wanted to know that SCP-5002 was suffering.\nOfficer Lowry: Level 5 access. I never would have -\nDr. Yau: But why?\nAgent O'Connor: I didn't know that until I spoke to the Director's divorce lawyer. He confirmed that she was in London the night of the killing. He also confirmed that she had changed back to her maiden name. Evelyn May was previously Eve Holloway \u2013 mother of Kate Holloway, murdered in 2017 as a result of SCP-5002's anomaly. I don't know what strings you had to pull to try to get your revenge, Director, but I don't think her death will bring you any peace.\nDirector May: You don't know anything! My baby was murdered! That animal could die a thousand times and it would never be enough.\nJ-R Simpson: How can you say that about her?\nAgent O'Connor: How can you say her, Michael?\nD-4986: Oh shit.\nAgent O'Connor: After all, it wasn't the Director who brought a knife into SCP-5002's containment, did she?\nJ-R Simpson: I \u2013 I didn't -\nAgent O'Connor: You kept up that stony fa\u00e7ade for a while, Michael, but now the cracks are showing. All that stress you were under, it wasn't from your thesis. You were fine until you got assigned to anomalous humanoid testing, and then something changed. Dr. Yau treated them like people, and you realised that they were. I think it crossed a line for you. I think you joined the Serpent's Hand.\nJ-R Simpson: <weeping> God \u2026 oh \u2026\nDirector May: How do you know?\nAgent O'Connor: I wasn't entirely sure, but it fits. He was so startled when I mentioned the knife, and he remembered seeing it in the dishwasher \u2013 for him, that was unexpected. He just happened to have an urgent personal appointment immediately after the murder, on the same day a Way mysteriously appears next to the site. That was his escape route. He was meant to break SCP-5002 out, maybe some other skips, and then disappear the next morning in the confusion.\nD-4986: Then why did he kill her?\nAgent O'Connor: I think you waited up that night, Michael. Everyone knew that Officer Lowry would take his smoke break at 2am, and you knew he would rattle the door to SCP-5002's cell as he left. That was your signal. You took the knife from the kitchen, and used your copy of the key-card to open the chamber. You knew it would show up on the security report, but you assumed you'd be long gone by then.\nDr. Grossenbacher: But it didn't show up.\nAgent O'Connor: I'm getting to that. You offered SCP-5002 the knife for protection, didn't you, Michael? And then you told her to escape before Officer Lowry came back. But she wouldn't leave, would she?\nJ-R Simpson: No. No, she refused.\nAgent O'Connor: And I think she told you why.\nJ-R Simpson: Yes. I'm sorry, Karen. I kept asking her to go, and then she said \u2013 she said that she wanted to stay. Because she was sleeping with Dr. Yau.\nAgent O'Connor: Exactly.\n<crosstalk, raised voices>\nAgent O'Connor: Quiet! Quiet, everyone. There is more to be said. Michael, once SCP-5002 told you, you left the containment chamber. You were flustered, you rushed straight back to your room. And you left the knife behind.\nJ-R Simpson: Yes, that's right.\nAgent O'Connor: Did SCP-5002 tell you that she had slept with Dr. Yau that same evening? That's correct, isn't it Dr. Yau?\nDirector May: Karen!\nDr. Yau: You don't understand. Emma and I were in love. She was a wonderful woman.\nAgent O'Connor: Your research made slow progress, just to keep Emma near you. How long had you been seeing her? Three months, four? Long enough to work out how to edit the camera system in advance, so it looked like she was alone in her cell every night. Strange \u2013 I wouldn't have looked at the footage so closely if I hadn't been trying to work out where the Jack Daniels bottle had come from.\nOfficer Lowry: Damn.\nAgent O'Connor: And you had access to the security system, so you could clear any key-card access before the records were submitted to Central. I presume that's why it took you so long to call the Director on the morning of the murder. You saw that Michael had opened SCP-5002's cell, perhaps you were trying to decide whether to risk exposing your secret in order to implicate him.\nDr. Yau: I saw he had unlocked the cell, but I knew he couldn't have killed Emma. I wanted to talk to him, but there was no time.\nAgent O'Connor: I think you must almost have run into each other, that night. You were in the containment chamber with Emma before Officer Lowry started his shift. You heard him rattle the door as he left at 2am, just like Michael did; that was your signal to leave. You must have returned to your room just as Michael left his. Perhaps you passed him while he was in the kitchen getting the knife.\nD-4986: And then what, she went back later and stabbed the bitch in her sleep?\nAgent O'Connor: I don't think so. Thwarted love is a good motive for murder. But SCP-5002 wasn't stabbed in her sleep. There was blood all over her bedclothes, not just near the wound.\nDr. Grossenbacher: That's right.\nAgent O'Connor: It's more likely that she was stabbed standing up, then wrapped in the sheets and dragged back to the bed. And there's something you've all forgotten. Something that Dr. Yau missed when she wiped the security records.\nOfficer Lowry: Do you ever get to the point?\nDr. Yau: What do you mean?\nJ-R Simpson: When I left, I didn't lock the cell door.\nAgent O'Connor: Correct. Like leaving the knife behind, you forgot in your rush. Until you realised in our interview, and you knew something was wrong.\nDirector May: For god's sake, what?\nAgent O'Connor: Michael's signal to move, Dr Yau's signal to leave, was Officer Lowry rattling the containment door on his way out to smoke. But Officer Lowry shook the door every time he passed it. In both directions.\nDr. Yau: <gasping> Oh.\nAgent O'Connor: He came back from his break, shook the door, and found it was open. And you went inside, didn't you, Officer?\nDirector May: Answer her.\nAgent O'Connor: You were a little drunk. You started arguing with SCP-5002.\nJ-R Simpson: Officer Lowry?\nAgent O'Connor: And she told you. About her and Dr. Yau.\nDr. Yau: Joe?\nAgent O'Connor: She flaunted it at you. And you couldn't take it. You grabbed the knife, and -\nOfficer Lowry: You're just like her, you know? You think you're so fucking smart! You think you're so much better than me, just because you went to college and I'm some night janitor. She could have loved me! Not that anomalous whore.\nDr. Yau: Joe, what did you - <sobbing>\nAgent O'Connor: I know you liked him, Dr. Yau, but you were too kind. You glossed over the issues on his psychiatric report. Maybe you knew about his drinking. But every good thing you did for him just fed his infatuation with you.\nOfficer Lowry: Shut up. Just shut up, you bitch.\nAgent O'Connor: You hadn't planned ahead, but everything you did after you killed her was clever, even daring. Emma must have told you about the doctored cameras, so you knew you hadn't been filmed. You left the cell, put the knife in the dishwasher, went back to the Security Station and waited calmly for morning. You made sure to \"discover\" the body with D-4986 as a witness, and took Dr. Yau's key to hide the fact that the door was unlocked. You gambled that Dr. Yau would wipe the door records to conceal her affair, or perhaps you were still trying to protect her. You carefully rolled the corpse over, to explain any traces of blood on your clothing. And then you guarded the scene, just to be safe.\nDirector May: Can we get security in, please.\nAgent O'Connor: Leaving the Jack Daniels was a mistake, of course. But you didn't want to draw suspicion, so you were desperate.\nD-4986: Fucking Lowry!\nAgent O'Connor: You almost got lucky. So many other things were going on, your actions might have been obscured. But in fact the solution in this case was one of the simplest explanations, and one of the oldest motives.\n<door opening>\nUnknown: We had a request from this room?\nDirector May: This man is to be detained for questioning in connection with murder.\nAgent O'Connor: You can take him away, officer.\n<recording ends>\n\nSCP-5002 Investigation \u2013 Final Report - Afterword\nDate: 24 December 2019\n\nOn further reflection upon this investigation, I wish to qualify my earlier conclusions. While I continue to believe that Officer Joseph Lowry is responsible for the killing of SCP-5002, I would recommend a degree of leniency from Foundation authorities when it comes to his sentence. In short, I am not certain that Officer Lowry is guilty of murder.\nThe facts of this case are extremely complex, and while many of the parties responsible have admitted to their actions, there is the question of the involvement of SCP-5002. The key issue which remains outstanding is whether SCP-5002's own anomaly led to her killing.\nStarting with the basics: it appears that the Scranton Reality Anchors in SCP-5002's cell were operative, and were effective in preventing anomalous activity within the containment chamber. Equally, there are no written materials by SCP-5002 which correspond to the events of 14 December.\nI am, however, struck by the presence of those blank pages in SCP-5002's containment, cut into patterns of empty space. It is possible that, on further investigation with SCP-5002's novel, this will be revealed to be a grille cipher, revealing particular words and phrases in the text to form a secondary work. Could that work have been separately read by SCP-5002, causing different effects? The testing logs suggest that this may be possible. I recommend that this is investigated as a priority.\nIn the meantime, ontological anomalies are notoriously difficult to detect. Perhaps the best method can be employed by future readers of this report. Has my work been structured as you would expect \u2013 first, a summary of my conclusions, and then the evidence to justify those conclusions? Has it instead taken a narrative tone?\nIf true, my hypothesis may absolve Officer Lowry of some responsibility, as the death of Emma Hastings would effectively be a suicide. It would also raise more questions than it answers. What was SCP-5002's motive for self-harm? If she made Lowry kill her, did she make Dr. Yau love her? Did she make Director May hate her? How far back does the chain reach?\nI was born when SCP-5002 was not yet four years old, well before she ever started writing. Joseph Lowry is ten years older than SCP-5002. I believe that my life is my own. I believe that I choose my actions, that I think my thoughts, that they are not given to me. I believe that I am real. Reader, I very much hope that you feel the same way.\nAbout me, and about yourself.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5001 | SCP-5002 | SCP-5003 \u00bb"}
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Can you talk to me?\n\nSCP-3515 - Unearth by psul\n\nD-6042: <breathing heavily> You bastards. You fucking bastards. You buried me.\n\n\nSCP-5003 Entry Tunnel\n\nItem #: SCP-5003\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entrance to SCP-5003 has been sealed.\nDescription: SCP-5003 is a large piece of complex machinery 250m beneath Sublevel 39 of Site-19, capable of generating energy from an unknown source. SCP-5003 consists of three different components: a main power housing, a central control hub, and a vast tunnel system expanding from the control center.\nThe central control hub lies within a cavern located approximately 36km from the entrance with walls lined with wires and cables from the main power housing. Additionally, the cavern contains the following:\n\nA control panel\nChairs\nA whiteboard\nFluorescent lights\nFour large scorch marks across the eastern and northern walls\n\nThe main power housing is presumed to be located in a chamber1 adjacent to the central control hub, since all cables in SCP-5003 have been traced back to that area. Initial attempts to locate an entrance to this chamber have failed. Therefore, there is no conclusive evidence that this is the power source of SCP-5003. The title \"main power housing\" has been given to the chamber for clearer communication.\nThe tunnel system is largely unexplored. Initial reconnaissance discovered that they are lit by fluorescent lights and lined with cables that are connected to the main power housing.\nThe only known entrance to SCP-5003 is through a metal door located in the service tunnels on Sublevel 39 of Site-19. Inspection of the Site-19 blueprints indicated that these tunnels were never originally meant to be part of the site's construction.\nTesting to identify further effects of SCP-5003 is still underway.\nDiscovery: On 06/21/2014 Site-19 sensors picked up a spike in electromagnetic activity underneath the site. Searches of the lower levels of the site located the doorway to SCP-5003, which was open at time of discovery.\nSCP-5003 Testing Operation: After the initial discovery of SCP-5003, Dr. Raven Koullette proposed a series of experiments to be run on SCP-5003 to determine the functionality of the control panel, and if the anomaly requires additional containment protocols. These experiments were to be carried out by a team consisting of Researcher Thomas DeWalt2, and D-34813 to act as a subject and assistant. Since the travel time from the entrance to the control center is approximately 7 hours, DeWalt and D-3481 were equipped with three days worth of water and rations, sleeping bags, flashlights and a standard-issue Foundation Fieldwork Radio to communicate test results back to Dr. Koullette. Testing was scheduled to take place over the course of two days.\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #1\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #1\n\n<Begin Log>\nRecording begins. There is a light humming noise in the background.\nDeWalt: Raven, can you hear us?\nKoullette: Loud and clear Thomas. I assume you're ready to start testing?\nDeWalt: Wouldn't have contacted you any earlier. Ready Charles?\nD-3481: I guess.\nKoullette: Alright, let's get this show on the road.\nDeWalt: Charles, can you flip switch 1-A?\nD-3481: Umm\u2026 which one is that?\nDeWalt: It's the blue one over on your left.\nD-3481: Oh. Ok.\nThe humming stops. A scream is heard, followed by a repeated crackling noise. After a few moments the humming returns.\nKoullette: What happened? Are you ok?\nSilence.\nKoullette: Thomas?\nD-3481: I\u2014 I'm still here.\nD-3481 is breathing erratically.\nKoullette: What happened?\nD-3481: I flipped the switch and lightning came out of the control panel and hit Thomas and now he's not moving and I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to I swear! It just missed me and, and\u2014\nKoullette: Deep breaths. I need you to breathe.\nD-3481: Right\u2026 deep breaths.\nKoullette: Is Thomas alive?\nD-3481: I think so. He's looking at me.\nKoullette: I'm deploying a medical team down there at once. Did anything else happen?\nD-3481: Umm\u2026 the lights. The lights in one of the tunnels went out.\nKoullette: Which tunnel?\nD-3481: The one we entered through? I think? They all look the same. I don't know.\nKoullette: 3481, I need you to calm down. We're coming to get you and Thomas right now.\nD-3481: How long?\nKoullette: Approximately eight hours.\n\nD-3481: Ok\u2026 ok.\nKoullette: Please relay that to Thomas.\nD-3481: Ok.\nKoullette: And remember, deep breaths.\n<End Log>\n\n<Begin Log>\nKoullette: Hey, 3481, are you still there?\nD-3481: Yeah.\nKoullette: I have an update on the medical team. They reached the entrance to the tunnels.\nD-3481: That's good to hear.\nKoullette: Well\u2026 there's a problem. The door is shut. We're trying to figure out how to open it safely.\nD-3481: It's closed?\nKoullette: Yeah. Unfortunately, since we're working in the lower levels of the facility, we're limited in our options. We can't just blow up all of sub-level 39.\nD-3481: So, we're trapped?\nKoullette: We're going to get you out, but I don't know how long.\nD-3481: We're trapped\u2026\nKoullette: I know I've been telling you this a lot, but deep breaths. I need you to stay with me on this.\nD-3481: Ok.\nKoullette: In Thomas' pack there should be a binder full of testing information. Can you find that for me?\nScuffling noises are heard.\nD-3481: Ok. Found it.\nKoullette: I need you to read through all of that. We may need you to continue testing.\nD-3481: Me?\nKoullette: Yes. You. And don't forget to ration out your food. We shouldn't take too long but, just in case.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nSite-19 Sublevel 39 Schematics Overview\n[LEVEL-3 CLASSIFIED]\n\nSCP-5003 Re-Entry Attempts\n[LEVEL-3 CLASSIFIED]\n\nCase 5003-T.14 Ethics Committee Minutes\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #2\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #2\n\n<Begin Log>\nKoullette: 3481, you there?\nD-3481: Yeah. I am.\nKoullette: How's testing coming along?\nD-3481: I um\u2026 I haven't started yet.\nKoullette: I see. Have you and Thomas eaten yet?\nD-3481: Yeah. Yeah we ate.\nKoullette: Everything else going ok?\nD-3481: Not really. Couldn't sleep last night.\nKoullette: Any reason why?\nD-3481: I couldn't stop thinking about the tunnel where the lights went out.\nKoullette: That sounds\u2026 rough.\nD-3481: Have you opened the door yet?\nKoullette: I'm afraid not.\nD-3481: Fuck!\nKoullette: I know it's frustrating but\u2014\nD-3481: I don't want to die down here!\nKoullette: Just deep breaths. Please.\nD-3481: Stop telling me that! There's only so much oxygen down here, right? I can't waste it!\nKoullette: Would you like to know how much oxygen you probably have?\nD-3481: Fine!\n\nKoullette: A decade. At least.\nD-3481: \u2026 Oh.\nThe heavy and erratic breathing from D-3481 subsides.\nKoullette: Your name is Charles, right?\nD-3481: \u2026 yeah.\nKoullette: Where are you from?\nD-3481: I'm from Colorado.\nKoullette: I've been there before. It's nice.\nD-3481: Yeah. Yeah it is. A lot of open space. Mountains are pretty.\nKoullette: Blue sky.\nD-3481: Yeah. Blue sky.\nKoullette: If you're able to help me out, I promise you, you'll see that sky again. But I need you to be calm, and with me. Understand?\nD-3481: I\u2026 I understand.\nKoullette: Good. Now, please, get started on those tests.\nD-3481: Ok.\n<End Log>\n\n<Begin Log>\nKoullette: Hey! I just got your results on the power output!\nD-3481: That's\u2026 good.\nKoullette: I'm going to be crunching some numbers, but I just wanted you to know you're doing great.\nD-3481: Thanks.\nKoullette: Just hang in there, you got this.\nD-3481: I hope so.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documenation\nSummary\n\nSite-19 Subterranean Scans\n[LEVEL-3 CLASSIFIED]\n\nSite-19 Sublevel 39 Exploration Log\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #3\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #3\n\n<Begin Log>\nKoullette: Charles?\nD-3481: Still here.\nKoullette: How are your rations looking?\nD-3481: We probably have enough for another day. Are you guys getting us out soon?\nKoullette: Possibly. It'll be a day. Maybe two.\nD-3481: I hope its not too much longer. I think Thomas is starting to panic.\nKoullette: Oh?\nD-3481: He's been looking down the tunnel that has no lights. Just\u2026 just staring. It's so dark down there. I've moved to the other side of the room so he's further away from it, but I don't think that helped.\nKoullette: Well, tell him we're coming.\nD-3481: I will.\nKoullette: And keep sending in those test results.\nD-3481: Of course. I'll start taking power readings now.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nCase 5003-T.16 Ethics Committee Minutes\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #4\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #4\n\n<Begin Log>\nD-3481: Raven? Are you there?\nKoullette: I'm here Charles.\nD-3481: I found more food.\nKoullette: You did?\nD-3481: I felt something like a cold breeze coming from the tunnel where the lights went out. I don't know why I thought I might find something down there but I did. There's berry bushes growing out of the walls.\nKoullette: Berry bushes?\nD-3481: Yeah. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries.\nKoullette: This is the same tunnel you and Thomas entered through, right?\nD-3481: They weren't there before.\nKoullette: That's\u2026 interesting. You sure they're regular berries?\nD-3481: They look normal.\nKoullette: Ok. Well, more food is a good thing I guess. It'll probably be easier to feed Thomas the berries than the rations.\nD-3481: Probably, yeah.\nKoullette: How's he holding up?\nD-3481: Thomas is\u2026 fine? I guess?\nKoullette: Fine?\nD-3481: Like, he's still paralyzed. But nothing else.\nKoullette: I see\u2026\nD-3481: I'm going to uh\u2026 get back to testing.\nKoullette: And I'll get back to getting you boys out of there.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nSite-19 Sublevel 39 Reclamation Attempts\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\nSCP-5003 Electromagnetic Wave Analysis\n[LEVEL-3 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #5\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #5\n\n<Begin Log>\nKoullette: Hey, Charles. Do you have some time to talk?\nD-3481: Of course. I uhhh\u2026 I mean I always appreciate having someone to talk to.\nKoullette: I don't mean chat. I'm talking about your test results.\nD-3481: Makes no difference to me really.\nKoullette: Are you sure you're following the directions in the binder?\nD-3481: Yeah.\nKoullette: Well, it's just that according to your last batch, the power output of the source hasn't changed much since the first day.\nD-3481: Is that bad?\nKoullette: No it's just\u2014You're sure?\nD-3481: Positive. I even double checked the connections between the multimeter and powerlines 5-G and 11-D this morning.\nKoullette: Oh.\nD-3481: Surprised?\nKoullette: I didn't expect you remember the diagram labels.\nD-3481: I read the whole binder. At least three times. I know it pretty well by now.\nKoullette: Most people just skim my write ups.\nD-3481: Well, there isn't exactly a lot of entertainment material down here.\nKoullette: I guess you're right. But yeah, if you're sure you're following the directions\u2026 shit. I may try running the numbers on my end again.\nD-3481: Whatever you have to do. Anything to get me out of here faster.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nSite-19 Sublevel 39 Recovered Flora Analysis\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\nCompromise of Site-19 Sublevels 36-38\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #6\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #6\n\n<Begin Log>\nFluttering is heard from the testing team's receiver.\nD-3481: Raven! Raven there's bats!\nKoullette: Bats?\nD-3481: I just woke up the entire tunnel is filled with bats.\nKoullette: Which tunnel?\nD-3481: The dark one. They're flying around the tunnel entrance. Like just a large mess of wings.\nKoullette: So they haven't entered the control room?\nD-3481: No. They're just in the entrance. Fuck this is bad.\nKoullette: Charles, this is important: are you certain they're bats?\nD-3481: What?\nKoullette: Just answer the question. I need you be certain that these are bats.\nD-3481: I mean\u2026 they're all moving around so much. I can't really tell.\nKoullette: Can you get\u2014\nD-3481: Wait. They stopped.\nKoullette: Stopped?\nD-3481: They're all just, on the ground now. Looking at me.\nKoullette: Can you tell if they're bats now?\nD-3481: Yes. I'm certain.\nKoullette: There was a button on the control panel labeled \"Emergency\".\nD-3481: Emergency\u2026\nKoullette: When you finish today's round of testing, I need you to hit that button.\nD-3481: I don't think the binder mentioned the emergency button.\nKoullette: We weren't planning on testing it.\nD-3481: O\u2014 Ok. What does it do?\nKoullette: It's difficult to explain.\nD-3481: Will it make the bats go away? Will it bring the lights back?\nKoullette: I can't\u2014\nD-3481: Raven, I need to know what it's going to do!\nKoullette: That's\u2026 that's classified.\nD-3481: Fuck.\nKoullette: Deep breaths Charles. I need you to take deep breaths and trust me.\nD-3481: \u2026 there's so many bats.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nSCP-5003 Testing Operation Evaluation\n[LEVEL-3 CLASSIFIED]\n\nMTF Beta-7 (\"Maz Hatters\") Deployment\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #7\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #7\n\n<Begin Log>\nKoullette: Charles, you there?\nD-3481: Yeah.\nKoullette: How's Thomas?\nD-3481: He's holding it together.\nKoullette: Still looking at the tunnel?\nD-3481: \u2026 yeah? He's calmed down some, I think. Gotten used to the cave.\nKoullette: Oh, he has?\nD-3481: His gaze looks more relaxed.\nKoullette: Yeah. Relaxed sounds right.\nD-3481: Umm, any other questions?\nKoullette: Just one more, how much water do you have left?\nD-3481: Oh, um\u2026 Not much. We effectively ran out yesterday.\n\nKoullette: Yesterday?\nD-3481: Yeah.\nKoullette: You remember when I told you how much oxygen you had left?\nD-3481: I remember. It really helped me soothe my\u2014\nKoullette: Do you want me to tell you how much water we sent you with?\nD-3481: \u2026 No.\nKoullette: Charles, just\u2014 goddamn it Charles.\nD-3481: It's not like he would've made it anyways!\nKoullette: Did you even try to feed him?\nD-3481: You were supposed to be down here two days ago!\nKoullette falls silent.\nKoullette: There's been complications.\nD-3481: Bullshit.\nKoullette: You know what would get us down here? If you just finished your tests and hit that button!\nD-3481: Really?\nKoullette: Do you think I'm fucking with you?\nD-3481: I don't know!\nKoullette: Well, you'll never know if you don't hit the button! Goddamn it\u2026 it's not that much to ask.\nD-3481: That's easy for you to say!\nKoullette: Fine. I'll say something else then. We're leaving you down there until you hit that fucking button. Understand 3481?\nD-3481: You were never coming for me, were you?\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nAnomaly Mobilization Directive\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\nOperation SCP-5003-RED Evaluation\n[LEVEL-4 CLASSIFIED]\n\n+ SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #8\n\n- SCP-5003 Testing Log Day #8\n\n<Begin Log>\nD-3481: Hey\u2026 Raven? You there? Anyone?\nRadio silence.\nD-3481: Ok. I guess it's just me then. Or maybe it's late up there. I don't know what time it is anymore. I've been trying to keep myself awake because well\u2026 I've been feeling more and more tired. I'm scared that the next time I go to sleep, I won't wake up.\nSniffling.\nD-3481: So, yeah. It's just me, a corpse, and the power source. I've been thinking about that emergency button. I know you want me to hit it. It's probably an emergency off button. Turns off the power source, and the heat, and the lights. I don't know why you want this thing turned off. Maybe it's something happening up there. It's probably classified anyways.\nD-3481 takes a deep breath, and then laughs quietly.\nD-3481: I'm still doing that thing you told me, Raven. Deep breaths. They got me through a lot down here. I was starting to umm\u2026 I was looking forward to getting out. That's pretty cruel, don't you think, Raven? You gave me hope for so long. I believed you. I thought I was going to see the sky again.\nD-3481 pauses.\nD-3481: I think\u2026 I think I'm going to leave it on. At the end of the day, I'm just a scared man. I'm afraid of the tunnels, the bats, the control panel. I know I told you already, but during that first night I was even afraid of the dark. I still am. I don't know what would happen to me in the blackness. So\u2026 yeah. That's all I have. I'm going to leave the lights on.\n<End Log>\n\nSupplemental Documentation\nSummary\n\nSite-19 Evacuation\n[LEVEL-2 CLASSIFIED]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Discovered using the exploration team's radar devices.\n2. A trained D-Class handler.\n3. Picked for their record of good behavior.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5002 | SCP-5003 | SCP-5004 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImage: Can be found here, under a CC0 1.0 license.\n\n\nBY ORDER OF THE O5 COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 4/5005 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5005\n\nItem #: SCP-5005\nLevel 4/5005\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nA picture of one of SCP-5005's \"burning\" lamps in the Aetherium district; similar in effect to sodium lamps but based on thaumaturgy rather than mainstream technology.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Diplomatic relations with SCP-5005 have been established under the terms of the Sarai Treaty. A permanent researcher is to be stationed on SCP-5005 at all times, whose presence can only be allowed or rescinded by the agreement of the project lead and two Foundation psychologists. Other Foundation personnel are permitted conditional research access to SCP-5005 with the approval of their supervisor. Access is gained via a Scranton-Meyerbeer Arc from Site-Q46, located in the Aadzain Universe on the far side of the Western Cluster. Contact your extrauniversal contact for more information.\nPersonnel are reminded that a prolonged stay in SCP-5005 may be severely emotionally taxing, and are encouraged to consider their own mental health before entering.\nDescription: SCP-5005 is a human settlement, located 3449 whalons to the Multiversal East of the Central Reality Compass and 87 whalons beyond where matter is ordinarily capable of permanently existing. Consequently, it is the most remote settlement created by a sentient creature and the most remote matter in existence.\nSCP-5005 is constructed on an expanse of an earth-like substance, which acts as a fertile soil. The extent of this expanse is unknown, as it is impossible to engage in long-term exploration beyond the limits of SCP-5005-1's light range.\nSCP-5005-1 is a large biomechanical lantern suspended over SCP-5005. SCP-5005-1's light possesses a degree of reality stabilisation far in excess of any other known examples, allowing for the permanent existence of matter within its light range. However, SCP-5005-1's capacity as a light source is limited and temperamental. Due to its size and distance from SCP-5005, its lux illumination is relatively low in the settlement. It is frequently described as being similar to the light of a full moon on Earth.\nSCP-5005-1 is suspended above SCP-5005 by a large protruding tendril, which emerges from the expanse and forms an arc above SCP-5005. The tendril is believed to be constructed from an artificially hardened and strengthened form of the expanse-substance.\nThe composition of the expanse-substance is unknown. Various scholars have proposed a link to Sriskan holochrome, which possesses a similarly unusual molecular structure. However, the archeological record of Sriska is very limited, and no currently known Sriskan technologies could create something on the scale of the expanse-substance. The residents of SCP-5005 refer to the substance as \"mahi loam\", a word which has no known connection to any of the cultures on SCP-5005 and is of unknown provenance; further investigation is required.\nThe following is an assessment of other anecdotal evidence and theories concerning SCP-5005's surroundings by Dr. Hamish Franklin, Project Lead on SCP-5005.\n\nAlthough the historical documentation surrounding SCP-5005's founding and history is relatively extensive, any scientific understanding of the town's surroundings or its light source remains beyond our capabilities. It is clear from the mechanical elements within SCP-5005-1 that it is a synthetic creation of an unknown civilisation, but there is nothing we can find that is remotely similar to it. There are some - some - similarities to Sriskan technologies within the substance of the expanse, but that kind of molecular structure has its forebears in any number of universes in that cluster and beyond - Aadzain, Harkhret, Kharak. What all of them lack is anything even slightly as advanced as SCP-5005-1, which can create almost Earth-like conditions in the midst of unreality.\nAny number of theories have come forward. A research experiment of the old Empire, a neo-Oestrian birthing ground, an Aadzainian horse-culling centre - one biologist even thought it could be the remains of a Harkhret pioneer's anglerfish! These ideas are innovative but remain, at best, only mere speculation.\nNot even the populace can provide any clues. Whatever ancient people made it must be long dead now. We cannot send Foundation personnel beyond the city limits, of course - far too dangerous - and most anecdotes from the town's explorers simply speak of more and more dark, and that gradual unsettling feeling that they'd been away from the light for too long. Would-be pioneers have either been driven back swiftly or have disappeared.\nOnly one anecdote has been preserved that holds any interest for us. Roughly a century ago, a particularly daring (or drunken) poet decided to pick a direction and head that way as long as possible. He was just about suicidal enough to stick with it longer than most others, but not so determined that he didn't eventually turn back.\nOut there, many miles away, he happened to glance at his hand and saw it begin to unravel. In a panic, he stared across the landscape, and saw a brief glint on the horizon. Thinking it was home, he headed fast towards it, but after crossing a prominent ridge he found that he'd been going in the wrong direction entirely. Before him lay a glassy orb of immense proportions, the colour of milk, embedded into the earth. And a faint light shone beneath its surface.\nBy some miracle he managed to get home. There wasn't much of him left, and it didn't take long before he expired. But his half-mad, lunatic story he screamed out has stuck in the town's lore. For most of the townsfolk, it remains a cautionary tale for those who might consider stepping beyond the light's edge.\n\nThe following are a series of introductory essays on aspects of SCP-5005 by academics and Foundation personnel in the Sol and Orchard Universes who have studied the anomaly. These have been supplemented by Foundation logs that provide examples of the phenomena discussed.\n1. History by Dr. Johannes Kobold, Level 3 Foundation Historian.\nSCP-5005 was founded by Jean-Antoine Delacroix, a noted poet from the Orchard Universe and former dragoman in the Kievan Republic. Delacroix discovered SCP-5005's location following the dissolution of his relationship with the Strathclyde painter Emily Woolf, leaving him in a state of extreme depression. He attempted suicide via arc blinking, launching himself in a random direction in the hope of expiring in the non-matter surrounding the multiverse.\nInstead, Delacroix arrived close to SCP-5005-1. Deeply curious about the location, he blinked himself home to embark on a series of explorations of the site. He founded SCP-5005 in 2107 and gave it the name Lamplight, which remains its common name to this day. Delacroix's stated intention in founding the settlement was to create a place \"that could provide a home to the damned, the dispossessed, the refugee and the lost\".\nHowever, the initial inhabitants were almost entirely artists, writers and intellectuals from the Orchard Universe, quickly ending Delacroix's utopian hopes for the town. He again fell into depression and disappeared in 2110.\nSubsequent immigration to SCP-5005 has followed a similar pattern, with the majority of the town's population belonging to academic or artistic professions. Most other inhabitants are the survivors or descendants of two major influxes of refugees who took up residence in SCP-5005: a group of survivors of the Neon London in 2396 and the remnants of the Tribes of the Many Steppes in 2419.\nThe nature of time in SCP-5005's non-matter surroundings means that human aging varies greatly from person to person. Consequently, while some visitors have undergone the span of a full human life in a single 24-hour cycle, others have shown no visible signs of aging across many centuries. This allows for an impressive range of sources for SCP-5005's history. An example of this can be found in the following interview with Sergei Osmanoglu, the owner of the Dragoman Tavern, who emigrated to SCP-5005 in 2109.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Sofia Ramirez\nLocation: Dragoman Tavern\nDate: 29/11/2524\n<Begin Log>\nRamirez is sitting in the main room of the tavern, at a table by a window. She has just switched on a recording device and placed it in front of her. A tall, burly man with a thick beard - Osmanoglu - is sitting opposite her. Snow can be seen passing by the window. There is a lit fireplace behind Osmanoglu.\nRamirez: Thank you for agreeing to this interview, Sergei.\nOsmanoglu: It's not a problem. I've got time. And you pay the rent promptly.\nRamirez: I - ok\u2026 When did you first arrive in Lamplight?\nOsmanoglu: 2109, I think. It was a long time ago.\nRamirez: What was the town like then?\nOsmanoglu: Small. Cold. Fewer buildings, fewer lamps, less snow.\nRamirez: Yes, I wanted to ask about that - how is there sn-\nOsmanoglu: But it was better back then. Delacroix was there. People said he'd founded the place, but I couldn't understand how they could think that.\nRamirez: What do you mean?\nOsmanoglu: He didn't have energy. No spark. He'd spend all his time staring out there, into the dark.\nOsmanoglu gestures towards the window; the darkness of the non-matter is visible outside.\nOsmanoglu: This place wasn't meant for us.\nRamirez: You can't know that for sure. The soil here is so perfectly suited to supporting human life.\nOsmanoglu: You don't make a place for people with that thing suspended over it. You'd build a sun or stars, not a pallid half-moon. There are no places for humans this far out.\nRamirez: Other civilisations got close. Sriska, Harkhret -\nOsmanoglu: They weren't humans. Wrong cluster. And if they did make this place, and I doubt it, then they are long gone now. Nothing but their dust and their Lamp left over.\nRamirez: So - what did Delacroix do?\nOsmanoglu is silent for some time.\nOsmanoglu: He had a girl, and it went sour. So he came here to start something new, something great. But the only ones entranced by his mad designs were the same old crowd of poets, all talking about the great utopia they'd build here. Another society of true freedom to escape the horrors of the dozen others they'd made. But they didn't want to do the hard graft or come down from their Bohemian bubbles, so it was all talk. Shooting shit in taverns like this one. I'm the only one left now.\nOsmanoglu takes a sip of beer.\nOsmanoglu: Delacroix, though, he was smart. He could see this. First time I saw him he'd been here two years, and the absinthe had reached his eyes. He saw that all he'd done was make more meaningless ego. But I think\u2026 I think part of him loved the misery he felt. He wrote his best poems here, everyone says so. About the dark as a mirror, and about - about other stuff. You've read him?\nRamirez: Not yet, no - hard to get a copy in Sol.\nOsmanoglu: You're the next universe over! Should be easy. On Orchard, you can find him anywhere. Not so much here. People don't like to remember him here.\nRamirez: Why not?\nOsmanoglu: Because he talked truths the poets don't want to hear. Or because we all know what happened to him. Oh, there are those who say he went back to Orchard, but any true Lamplighter knows that he stepped into the night. \"The night does not give such easy answers\", he used to say. I would just pat him on the shoulder and tell him it was OK, and I\u2026 he was not a well man, Sofia. He wanted to destroy himself. And we don't like to talk about that.\nRamirez: Suicide, right?\nOsmanoglu: No, more than that. I don't think he wanted to die, to end. He wanted to annihilate the idea of himself. He'd come here and order absinthe, over and over and over again, staring at the - the snow and trying to make out shapes. Then one day he was gone.\nRamirez: I\u2026 I see.\nOsmanoglu: You should go home, Sofia. Go back to your Sol, to your Foundation. This is not a place for well people.\nRamirez: Then why are you here?\nOsmanoglu: Someone has to care for the sick. I saw you watching Kastamonu, from your window.\nRamirez: I don't know wh-\nOsmanoglu: Tall man. Wore a greatcoat. You saw him, didn't you? Walking down the cobbled streets. He was a playwright, from Daevastan. Smoked those pipes, wrote with trembling hands under the gas lamps. I put the fire on and keep it warm, but he hasn't been back for days. Just walked into the smog, one foot beating a tardy march, withdrawing with the other as a faintly whistling silhouette. You saw him and said nothing. I think you are like him, in a way.\nRamirez: \u2026That'll be all for now.\n<End Log>\n\n2. Structure and Society by Dr. Harry Grant, Lecturer in Eastern Multiverse Studies at Kings College London.\nSCP-5005 is, properly, a series of five small districts loosely gathered around a central plaza, the Woolf Square. Three of these districts were created by the various artistic groups present in SCP-5005 across the centuries and consequently reflecting their sensibilities; the other two were founded by refugee groups.\nThe districts are:\n\nThe Kievan or Victorian district was the original core of the city, founded by Jean-Antoine Delacroix in 2109. The architectural style is reminiscent of the late Dnieperian style, roughly analogous to a mixture of Victorian and Imperial Russian architecture in the Sol Universe but with some oddities, such as a strict adherence to cobbled streets and the regular placement of gas lamps. The ardent romanticism of the city's founders has led to the structure of this district being deliberately disorganised. It has frequently been admired for its many communal meeting places and frequent public concerts.\n\nThe Aetherium district was created during the Cyberpunk Revival of the 2350s, a response to the horrors of the Burnt Apple War that caused severe destruction to the Orchard Universe's Earth. The Cyberpunk Revival was marked by a deep cynicism and disillusionment with contemporary politics, reflected in an architectural style deliberately modelled on post-industrial decay and internet-based subcultures. The district is thus highly architecturally varied and was renowned for its anarchist politics, which were credited with an urban and social regeneration across the settlement.\n\nThe Giotto district was created by a group of Sol Universe artists who, in response to the Namibian Crisis of the 2390s, wanted a radical return to pre-modernity as a response to the \"evils of the present\". The group, vehemently opposed to all realism in art, created the district as a way to return to \"a world of starker light\", constructing buildings exclusively in Gothic or Romanesque church architecture and with an emphasis on stained glass's light-refracting properties. The early days of this district were marked by an ascetic, medieval morality, almost entirely absent today; the modern neighbourhood is chiefly known for its biannual passion plays and wide range of communal and charitable activities.\n\nThe Neoclassical district was founded by refugees fleeing the Neon London in the early 25th century. Characterised by 18th century British architecture but augmented by a large number of green spaces, flowing curves and a stated desire to create \"utopia\", this district was rigidly and rigorously planned as an ideal community of elites. Although this project has long been abandoned, the neighbourhood has become a focal point for a great number of literary circles, with young artists frequently attending its salons and literary festivals and many patrons settling in the district.\n\nThe Nomad district was created by the surviving Tribes of the Many Steppes. Most of the structures here are yurts and other nomadic tents utilised by the Salome Universe's Inner Asia analogue, but at the centre of the district is a Manichean temple of particular architectural significance even beyond SCP-5005. This district is frequently engaged in housing refugees from across the multiverse, a cause that many of SCP-5005's residents involve themselves in.\n\nDespite many historical differences, conflicts and disagreements between these districts are now uncommon, with the populace as a whole freely mingling. Although each district has its own celebrations, there is one major festival celebrated in SCP-5005 by the populace as a whole: the \"Parade of Candles\" or \"Chrizmata\", held once a year on a day roughly analogous to midwinter in the northern hemisphere of the Orchard Universe's Earth. A description of this festival by Junior Researcher Ramirez can be found below.\n\nThe festival's proceedings begin at what would be 6AM in the Orchard Universe's Kiev, the system of timekeeping agreed upon since SCP-5005's foundation. Residents from all the districts gather in the central square to engage in a series of acrobatic performances, poetry readings, artistic displays and musical recitals.\nThe artistic segments of the community essentially use this event to promote and discuss their various works, while the rest of the populace treats them as a form of entertainment. It is notable that while many of these works use the surrounding dark as their subject matter, it is rare to hear discussion of the darkness, both during the festival and outside it.\nThis activity continues for several hours while the owners of the local taverns begin the task traditionally incumbent on them: constructing a large pyre in the centre of the square. The resulting structure is enormous, but due to the prevalence of fog and snow in SCP-5005, it is frequently unusable as a pyre. In these cases, the populace simply links arms and dances around the structure, before returning to their various homes and cooking an evening feast.\nIf the pyre does catch light, however, then tables will be set up surrounding the fire and a shared feast will take place in the square. The food here is a mixture of plants grown in the expanse-substance as well as imported food, which makes up the vast majority of the food consumed in SCP-5005. A great many Kievan and Strathclyde delicacies can be found from the Orchard Universe as well as Malted Saloons from the Salome Universe, a delicacy brought by the tribal refugees that has proved surprisingly popular in the town.\nAfter the meal, candles are brought out for the populace to light from the pyre. It will usually be burning much lower at this stage, and is ordinarily safe to approach. Having lit their candles, the populace begins to wander, individually and haphazardly, towards the edges of SCP-5005-1's light range. They will spread themselves out at a safe distance behind the edge of the circle and, holding their candles aloft, begin to sing several hymns in succession. The year's hymns are voted on during a town meeting; they are primarily from the Orchard Universe, but some Sol and Salome songs are sung. There is also usually a reconstructed Sriskan song added as part of the continuing superstition that the Sriskans created SCP-5005-1.\nThe singing is not impressive, as one would expect from hundreds of people spread out across a very large distance and with little training. Other observers have called the effect charming; it seems to me to be reflective of the almost monomaniac obsession that the denizens have with the light and the fire motif, present in so many artistic works and important to their conversation and culture. It is a bizarre and disturbing fact that so many travel to understand or be inspired by SCP-5005's non-material location but end up ardently embracing the familiar trappings of home.\n\n3. Culture by Pierre Rachmaninoff, Reader in Literary History at the University of Old Kiev.\nSCP-5005's place in the canon of multiversal literature, art and music is regarded as highly significant. Its importance to the Orchard Universe's Cyberpunk Revival is well-documented, as is that movement's impact on the culture of multiple universal clusters. Perhaps less well known is the sheer scale of artistic figures who have lived in or been inspired by SCP-5005.\nThe Dragoman, Firefall and Old Sriska taverns have all seen the formation of a number of significant literary circles. The renowned 22nd century poet Fernand Borges was deeply affected by SCP-5005, writing his famous poem \"The Hearth of Baudelaire\", a Ulysses-like attempt to portray the common life of the city's inhabitants as a large-scale epic. Martha Vintage's historical novels, all concerned with Sriskan and Harkhretian familes settling on the edges of space, are thought to have been inspired by her stay at the Firefall. But the most famous literary resident is still Delacroix, whose influence over the writing of the whole of the Western Universal Sectors is incalculable.\nThe unique \"moonlight\" effect of SCP-5005-1 and the sense of community in the settlement have been portrayed numerous times in the visual arts. The Franco-Salomin painters Claude Karakorum, Mohammed Watteau and Fransisco de Shiraz were all drawn to SCP-5005, with Karakorum's piece Delacroix's Bedchamber being among the most famous artworks of the Western Sector. The musical influence is less easy to trace, but a great many noted composers have made visits. Marius Konigsberg's \"Chrizmata\" Symphony and the \"Cheer and Frost\" heptet were both composed during his stay in SCP-5005.\nIt is notable that the pieces of temporary visitors or recent immigrants to SCP-5005 are almost invariably focused on the non-matter surrounding the settlement, while those of long-term residents are often fixated on community, light and sensual pleasures. Various explanations have been given for this disparity in subject matter. Many short-term residents state that they came to SCP-5005 expressly to see the non-matter and that anything else is simply a distraction, deterring from a proper exploration of the location's \"mystery\". Longer-term inhabitants often talk about the pointlessness of examining the non-matter or believe SCP-5005's purpose is to act as a beacon against nonexistence. The unexplained weather conditions in the settlement are never mentioned (with a single exception discussed in Dr. Franklin's essay below).\nThe following is an interview between Researcher Ramirez and the famed Sol Universe poet Juan Lumiere, who settled permanently in the town in 2276. It is included here to give a sense of the perspective of many longer-term inhabitants of SCP-5005.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Sofia Ramirez\nLocation: Outside the Firefall Tavern\nDate: 12/12/2524\n<Begin Log>\nJunior Researcher Ramirez is walking towards the back entrance of the Firefall Tavern, which opens onto a wide cobbled street on a slight incline. Fog can be seen all around, obscuring the rest of the street. The sounds of revelry coming from inside the Firefall can be heard.\nA man in his 30s, wearing a long thick greatcoat, is smoking a cigarillo outside the entrance. Ramirez approaches him.\nRamirez: H-hello? Juan Lumiere?\nLumiere: The very same. You're that Foundation girl, aren't you? Staying at the Dragoman?\nRamirez: Junior Researcher Sofia Ramirez.\nLumiere: A lovely name. I can only presume, given that recording device on your shoulder, that you have come to interview me.\nRamirez: If we could step insi-\nLumiere: I prefer to stand out here. They are bright and merry in there. I'll wait until the fire is lower and the company more selective. Let the young have their fun.\nRamirez: How old are you?\nLumiere: Two hundred and seventy-eight. Don't look it, do I? The perks of this city. I've aged 6 years in the time I've been here, by my count. But nobody ever comes here for eternal life.\nRamirez: I've been wondering about that.\nLumiere: It's because it doesn't feel as it's meant to. You don't feel like you're living longer, just that those years have been spread out longer. Like skin stretched over a drum. You never develop properly.\nRamirez: Your writing has.\nLumiere: I didn't think anyone in Sol had ever heard of me.\nRamirez: It - well, if I'm honest, it was your work that first drew me here. You're unusual. Your later stuff talks about fire and light, but with much more craft than most of the other long-termers.\nLumiere: You like the newer ones, then?\nRamirez: I - I do quite like them.\nLumiere: But you like the earlier ones more.\nLumiere sighs, and stubs out his cigarillo.\nLumiere: Everyone likes the early ones more. They don't understand why someone would come to Lamplight just to write about the things in their own lives. To them, in their Kievan salons, this place is just the wild frontier, the mystery beyond mysteries, the edge of all creation. They want something wild, not something homespun.\nRamirez: Isn't that natural?\nLumiere narrows his eyes, thrusting his hands into the pockets of his coat.\nLumiere: Do you write, at all? Compose?\nRamirez: I - I play a little violin. I write some stuff in my spare time.\nLumiere: But that's not why you came here. You came here to solve its mysteries.\nRamirez: It has so many.\nLumiere: You're barking up the wrong tree, girl. You won't solve anything. You should go inside.\nRamirez: I'm fine. I'm not here to party.\nLumiere: Then there's your mistake. I've seen so many like you come through here. You've read Delacroix?\nRamirez: I recently acquired a copy. I haven't read much yet, though.\nLumiere: It's his last poem that, if not understood, then at least got some glimpse of this place. Rough, almost like a regression into juvenilia, but the only thing he wrote that really threw a light on the bright young things that come here, full of opium and dreams. You think people come here to see the dark? They come here because they think they should. They think inspiration is full of the external, the depths of the human soul, the ravaged passions of the age. It's not. Inspiration is the dust on a wainscot and the smell of barley, the warmth of heaths, th-\nRamirez: There is an infinite dark outside, a light that should not exist above. Why should I come here to play the fool? This town should not exist-\nLumiere: It was always going to exist. This place was inevitable.\nRamirez: What does that mean?\nLumiere: Why did you not help Kastomonu?\nThere is a pause of several seconds.\nLumiere: You drink, same as me and the rest. But you drink ice-cold gin in the silence of your room. You spend hour after hour puzzling, typing, working through things. I see you in your window, staring out at the night. And you watched as Kastomonu just marched himself off into the night, because you felt the same things he felt.\nRamirez: W-why do you -\nLumiere: Because I've seen you before, a thousand times. The artist falling on his paintbrush as a sword. The writer who sees God in a grain of darkness. Sometimes I stop them, but mostly they ignore me. The wisdom of youth, and all that. One fine day they'll walk into the night, into the echo chamber of compounded mystery. Never understanding that we built this place to be a beacon against it, the inevitable human sigh of defiance in the night.\nLumiere buttons up his jacket, and begins to walk away.\nRamirez: Where are you going? I'm not done with you yet!\nLumiere: Go to the fires, Junior Researcher Sofia Ramirez. Get a shorter name. Because you'll learn one way or the other that there is nothing out there.\nLumiere walks down the street and into the fog, whistling the Blue Danube Waltz. Ramirez stares after him for several seconds, before turning her camera off.\n<End Log>\n\n4. Psychological Impact by Dr. Hans Freiburg, Level 3 Foundation Psychologist.\nThe emotional and psychological effect SCP-5005 has on a large proportion of its residents is particularly noteworthy. A minimum of 14 disappearances have been recorded in the town in any given year. Extensive investigations by local law enforcement and Foundation researchers have determined these to be almost entirely suicides.\nThe reasons for this disappearance rate in a town of SCP-5005's size, with its generally high standards of living, are not wholly clear. The psychological effects of a lack of sunlight or a relatively unvaried diet have been considered, as has the sheer danger of an unpredictable light source, but the most interesting evidence is that the overwhelming majority of the disappearances come from artists, writers and particularly academics who have been resident in the town for less than a year.\nThese residents often display similar patterns of behaviour in the weeks prior to their disappearance: an obsession with the non-matter surrounding the town, an increasing dependence on narcotics, and a greatly increased output but diminished quality of work. Many townspeople attempt to intervene, but to little avail; affected individuals are likely to become increasingly isolated and aggressive towards others.\n4 Foundation personnel are known to have disappeared in SCP-5005 since the Sarai Treaty was signed, all apparently committing suicide via non-matter. Although a cause of concern for Foundation personnel, the unavoidably limited nature of mental health provision within the Foundation has meant that this situation is difficult to overcome.\nFor an example of some of the concerns typically raised with the Foundation's psychiatric unit, the following is an extract from Director Franklin's report of a check-in with Junior Researcher Ramirez in December 2524.\n\nAfter the meal, Dr. Ramirez took me to her rooms to show me some of her initial findings. By this point, I had noticed several things that concerned me. Having known Dr. Ramirez for several years, her voice seemed markedly more strained than usual. She also seemed nervous and was sweating profusely. Several times I thought I smelled alcohol on her breath.\nHer \"rooms\" turned out to be a single cheap bedchamber on the Tavern's top floor. There was little heating and no light, the window opening out of the Giotto district. I asked her why she had chosen this room when we had allotted her a generous allowance; she replied that the rooms on lower floors were \"too noisy\" and that she needed quiet to work. I thought this plausible at the time - SCP-5005's taverns are not known for being serene places of study - but on further reflection I remembered that two previous researchers, Kobold and MacBride, had similarly changed their accommodation. Both had to be pulled out of SCP-5005, and both had developed the notion that a higher room would take them closer to the \"source\" of the town's non-matter, a curious piece of unscientific superstition.\nI noticed also that, although the bedchamber appeared to be in an orderly condition, there was a sheen of dust across many of the surfaces and a couple of tell-tale signs were visible that indicated a lot of tidying in a very short amount of time. The bed did not look like it had been slept in. Several fiction books, also coated in dust, were lying on the shelves. Only the poetry of Delacroix and two of Lumiere's novels seemed to have been read at all. There was a half-empty bottle of gin on the mantlepiece, which Ramirez quickly noticed and binned in a half-hearted attempt at subterfuge.\nHer notes - written by hand - were surprisingly rough. She seemed to only use her digitop for forwarding her data to us. The haphazard organisation went some way towards explaining the decreased quality of her work, but the odd breaks in writing tone and lack of professionalism in interviews still had to be answered for. By this point, I regretted letting other projects take my attention away from SCP-5005. I sent Sofia here because of her well-demonstrated resilience and reliability, thinking I could leave the town's research in safe hands. However, it has become abundantly clear that the effects this place has on the human psyche are not so easily predictable.\nI asked a few gentle questions about her life here - had she been blending in, was she enjoying the local culture - and it did not take long for her to become paranoid and resentful of my presence. She openly mocked the townspeople for being \"rural\", believing their cultural traditions and community were \"worthless\" in the context of their surroundings. She lamented their lack of curiousity in SCP-5005-1, the expanse and the surrounding non-matter. To my surprise, she also displayed little interest in Lumiere's writings, something which had previously been a passion of hers, and actively disdained Delacroix, calling his last poem \"irredeemable shit that understands nothing.\"\nThe true nature of her interests rapidly became apparent. She had devised a schema, based on the angles of SCP-5005-1's light, to find a location where the bizarre laws of physics would allow someone to see the entirety of the expanse which SCP-5005 rests upon. She had done an extraordinary amount of research, pinpointing this supposed location to the exact spot and designing a craft she believed would safely transport people to and from this place. It was madness, and I told her as much. This \"location\" was so far out that no craft, however well-designed, could keep its occupants alive for the return journey. She did not want to hear this, and it became clear that she did not desire my presence any longer.\nI did not tell her about my intention to recall her, fearing this might damage her emotional state still further. Still, it is my unambiguous recommendation that she be replaced in her post as soon as possible. SCP-5005 may not have a great deal of exploitable material within it, but we still don't fully understand the town, its mysteries, its strange lure for artists and writers or the nuances of the local culture. It is not an easy assignment, and it needs a great deal more attention than we have hitherto given it.\n\n5. Future Research by Director Hamish Franklin.\nThe result of these many aspects of SCP-5005 is that the Foundation has a number of potential research directions. While the cultural and social aspects of the town remain important (and their relation to the landscape in particular remains an unresearched area), it is the physical questions that are the most potent: the identity of SCP-5005-1's creators and their reasons for doing so, its mechanical workings, and the nature of the expanse surrounding the town.\nOne final notable anomaly is the unusual weather conditions of the town. As the Orchard Universe lacks heavy snow and fog, this has often been considered one of the key attractions for the initial settlers. Its origin and source are entirely unknown, however, and very few credible theories have been produced to explain it. Originating at a point somewhere above SCP-5005-1, the snow falls regularly enough to keep the town covered in a thin layer at all times. The source of the fog is also unclear, but in both cases the weather conditions appear identical to those found in Sol and similar universes.\nA related problem is near-complete absence of these conditions in any literary or artistic works. Researchers have noted that the townspeople rarely discuss it, often appearing dismissive and frightened when it is brought up. Researchers themselves have openly stated after leaving the town that the weather made them feel \"uncertain\" or \"lost\". Extensive testing has ruled out the possibility of any memetic or cognitohazardous effects.\nAs mentioned above, the only known creative work to discuss these conditions is the final poem of SCP-5005's founder, Jean-Antoine Delacroix. It is written in a much more modernist style than Delacroix's other works and does not display the same technical mastery. This may partly be attributed to its status as an unfinished work, found written on his desk the morning after his disappearance. It is reproduced in its entirety below.\n\nCold entrance cuts the mountain\nWhere I buried you. Salt and brine,\nWhisper down the waterways of ash\nWhere you ran, laughing,\nThat mouth-made twist turned bitter.\nHere on the edge of human eyes,\nI stare into the mirror of the dark;\nThat mirror that sears my ravages of bone\nAnd brings such images of the world's dismay,\nIts broken, luminous char,\nIts dreams of all the starving artists\nBeavering away in opium\nOr simmering soft in pain.\nCasting off the trappings of the world\nWhich leaves just silence, soft and cold disdain.\nThe hearths and songs that bleed with frail light\nHave drawn to fires those who huddle tight,\nTheir raptured peasant fear\nCast before the tongs in cheer. I walk,\nA figure in the fog of old laments\nAway from these twin tales\nAnd into the snow, into the earth,\nWith no narratives of foes\nOr platitudes of friends.\nThe snow gives rot, complexity, ennui,\nThe night does not give such easy answers.\n\nAddendum 1: On 31/12/2524, Junior Researcher Ramirez disappeared from her lodgings in the Dragoman Tavern. A search by townspeople and Foundation personnel found only footprints in the snow, heading towards the edge of town.\nOn the evening of 01/01/2525, a signal was received from a temporary monitoring station set up on SCP-5005. It appeared to show video footage from Junior Researcher Ramirez's shoulder-cam at a point in the non-matter. Analysis of the footage showed that it had been transmitted several hours earlier from the location specified in her conversation with Director Franklin. Although it is theoretically possible for her to have made this trip unaided, she would have been close to death by the time she reached the location (as her apparent condition in the footage makes clear).\nA log of this footage is below.\n\n<Begin Log>\nThe camera opens on non-matter; this is rendered as a black screen. Coughing can be heard.\nRamirez: Told you\u2026 Hamish, I told you. You stood there and you were wrong, and I was right, and\u2026 and\u2026\nThere is heavy breathing for several seconds.\nRamirez: But you won't guess, you'll never guess\u2026\nThe camera turns. In the distance, SCP-5005 can be seen beneath SCP-5005-1. The light of SCP-5005-1 refracts across the non-matter in a way which shows the entirety of the expanse.\nThe expanse is revealed as the corpse of an augmented Harkhretian anglerfish. Most of the body has been eroded by non-matter, but the face and jaw are clearly visible. SCP-5005-1 can be clearly seen as the esca of the fish, the \"lure\" anglerfish possess to attract prey to them. Its eyes, possessing a milky-white colour typical of anglerfish, are also visible.\nRamirez can be heard laughing hysterically for approximately thirty seconds. This is then interrupted by coughing; blood can be seen floating in front of the camera.\nRamirez: That's it, isn't\u2026 isn't it? The end of the line. The puzzle-box complete. Just the dying corpse of Harkhret's pioneers.\nThere is a pause, after which sobbing can be heard.\nRamirez: I wonder if they died there. Or ran away, or - or found something better out here. I wonder if\u2026 if\u2026\nFurther sobbing can be heard for 12 minutes, before fading away entirely. Fog and snow can be seen approaching from the sides of the camera, gradually obscuring its field of view until nothing visible remains. The visual feed cuts out.\nRamirez: (whispering) The night does not give such easy answers.\nThe audio feed cuts out.\n<End Log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5004 | SCP-5005 | SCP-5006 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nValued Critters: Naepic, plaidypus, MalyceGraves, rattles, XilasCrowe, stormbreath, Uncle Nicolini\nMore by us:\nTheMightyMcB's author page\nRockTeethMothEyes's author page\n\n\n4/5006 LEVEL 4/5006\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5006\n\nPending\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Until such time that proper containment of SCP-5006 can be reestablished, Site-608 is to be held under indefinite lockdown. Echelon Strike Team1 has been assigned to primary containment detail and have been instructed to shoot any individuals attempting to leave Site-608 on sight. Primary containment objectives consist of devising a method of reinforcing the space of reality surrounding Site-608 and confirming that personnel stationed at Site-608 are baseline non-anomalous humans.\nFoundation artificial intelligence construct TSATPWTCOTTTADC has been given Level-4 access to the Site-608 security monitoring system and is currently tasked with determining the identity of SCP-5006-1 with 99.95% confidence.\nDescription: SCP-5006 is a terminal hallway located in Section 2C of Site-608. Prior to 07 September 2002, SCP-5006 hosted the offices of Dr. Alan Danica, Dr. Julia Ecker, Junior Researcher Adrian Williams, and Senior Researcher Rafael Hernandez. However, on the aforementioned date, all of the original offices spontaneously demanifested. In their place, a single unmarked office is situated at the end of the corridor. This office has been furnished with a large wooden desk, two bookshelves, a coffee machine, a filing cabinet, and a desktop computer. Notably, the room is not marked with a name plate, is windowless, and has twenty electrical sockets wired along the western wall.\nThe original building plans for Site-608 show that SCP-5006 originally featured only three offices, despite the fact that the aforementioned four Foundation employees claim to have been displaced by the anomaly.\nSCP-5006-1 is a contrived thoughtform entity that has embedded itself amongst Site-608 staff, having fabricated its own memories and history with the Foundation. It is believed that the entity is not malicious, although the conflict created by its sudden existence has significantly destabilized reality, as evident by the discrepancies listed in Addendum 5006.1. The present identity of SCP-5006-1 is unknown and is considered an EKHI-class priority.\nAddendum 5006.1: Discovery\nSCP-5006 was discovered at 13:05 CST by Foundation .aic TSATPWTCOTTTADC. The .aic had detected multiple discrepancies between its active monitoring systems and its global resources, as well as a significant spike in Hume levels across the entire site. In response, TSATPWTCOTTTADC placed the site under indefinite lockdown and declared a containment breach.\nTSATPWTCOTTTADC has flagged the following discrepancies:\n\nThe entirety of the office at the end of SCP-5006, suggesting that it is not a part of the building.\nThe document regarding SCP-5006, suggesting that it has been revised through anomalous means or that SCP-5006 is not a hallway.\nThe electrical wiring in Section 2C, suggesting that the creation of SCP-5006 required a significant amount of energy.\nPersonnel assigned to offices located in Section 2C of Site-608, suggesting that at least one member manifested at the same moment as the office now located at the end of SCP-5006.\n\nAddendum 5006.2: Interview Log\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.2\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.2\n\nSuspected Persons:\n\nDr. Julia Ecker\nDr. Alan Danica\nSr. Researcher Rafael Hernandez\nJr. Researcher Adrian Williams\n\nMediator:\n\nSite Director Nelson Kurth\n\nForeword: The following log was recorded by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic via the 2C conference room surveillance systems.\n\n<Begin Log, 08/09/2002, 07:34>\n\nEcker: So, are you ready to tell us what's going on here, Director Kurth.\nKurth: Not quite. These things take time. You know that.\nEcker: Well excuse me, but some of us don't have time to wait for whatever it is you gathered us for. We might be on lockdown, but we still have jobs to do.\nKurth: That may be so, but you'll understand why we've done this as soon as \u2014\nTwo successive chimes ring out from the tablet held by Director Kurth.\nKurth: And there it is. One sec while I skim through this e-mail\u2026 [He turns to the researchers.] Finally. Alright, everyone. You've all been confirmed for Level 2/5006 clearance, so we can now properly conduct this meeting. It is believed that, supported by evidence provided by AI Construct TSAT among other things, one of you are suspected to have only existed for approximately 20 hours.\nBrief silence.\nKurth: I realize this may come as a shock to you all, however \u2014\nDanica: It's horseshit.\nKurth: \u2014 please stay calm. Do any of you have any questions?\nDanica: A few, actually. Where's the proof? What does \"among other things\" mean? This is a very serious accusation to be making, Kurth.\nKurth: That's above your clearance.\nDanica: So we have clearance to know one of us might not be real, but not access to substantial evidence?\nKurth: It's complicated, Alan. We don't know what one of you might do with that information once we've disclosed it. We have a team in another site doing hard research on thoughtforms; once they know more, we'll act accordingly.\nEcker: Thoughtforms? So, one of us is a tulpa?\nKurth: Correct.\nEcker: But tulpa have creators. They don't just happen.\nKurth: Correct.\nEcker: \u2026 so how do you know it's a tulpa at all?\nKurth: From what we've been told, the complexity of thoughtforms are based on intent and will. It's clear to us from evidence in the office at the end of two-C that a significant amount of power was used in the ritual to bring it to life. And subsequently removing your offices from the building.\nHernandez: Was there any investigation into that office, by the way? Who it belongs to? Previous assignments? I feel like we can know that much.\nKurth: The office is, uh, a new addition. No owners, present or past. That we've uncovered, anyhow.\nDr. Ecker shifts in her seat. Researcher Williams raises their hand.\nKurth: Yes, Adrian?\nWilliams: How long are we going to be locked down?\nDanica: You're kidding me\u2026\nKurth: Two things need to happen before we de-escalate the lockdown. First, we need to identify the thoughtform, for certain. Second, we'll need information on the research team to reverse the creation process to return Site-608 to its previous state.\nWilliams: And what if that never happens?\nSilence. Dr. Danica lets out an exasperated sigh.\nDanica: Okay. Why are we bothering with this? All it's done is restructure the building. Why do we need to exterminate it?\nKurth: Because thoughtforms don't just restructure buildings. That's beyond what they can reasonably do. If that's what it does to protect itself, then effective containment starts with dismantling it and locating its creator. Any other questions?\nEcker: Is this meeting over? I have other projects that need me to be present.\nKurth: Yes, the meeting is over. However, you won't need to attend to your projects for now, Julia.\nEcker: \u2026 oh, hell.\nKurth: Part of the condition for keeping you informed of your situation is to keep the four of you within a reasonable containment facility. As such, your authorizations have been adjusted. You cannot leave C-Wing until we have confirmation that\u2014\nEcker: This is ridiculous. What do you want from us? Do you want my birth certificate? A list of my accolades? Stories about any scars that I have?\nKurth: Julia, we can't trust that any of that information is valid.\nEcker: Then what can you trust?\nKurth: We have to wait. For now, we have to let TSAT comb through the data and figure out what's real and what's not.\nEcker: We can do that work. We can do the research. It's our lives at stake here!\nKurth: You're dismissed.\nEcker: You're not even\u2014\nKurth: You're dismissed, Julia. This meeting is over.\nBrief silence. Dr. Danica stands up and exits the room. He is immediately followed by Dr. Ecker. Researcher Williams hesitates to stand up, allowing Researcher Hernandez to leave before them.\n\n<End Log, 08/09/2002, 07:49>\n\nAddendum 5006.3: Surveillance Log\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.3\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.3\n\nPresent Entities:\n\nDr. Julia Ecker\nDr. Alan Danica\n\nForeword: The following log was recorded by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic through the 1C Break Room video surveillance systems.\n\n<Begin Log, 08/09/2002, 08:50>\n\nBoth Ecker and Danica are sitting at a table facing each other. Danica's arms are crossed. Ecker is drinking something from a mug.\nEcker: How are you holding up?\nDanica: Eh.\nEcker: About what I expected from you.\nDanica: Sorry if I don't really feel like talking right now, Ecker. Kind of wrapping my head around, you know, not existing.\nEcker: You're not in this boat alone. I'm sure everyone is taking it hard.\nDanica: [sighs] I suppose so.\nSilence. Ecker takes a long sip from her mug. Danica taps his foot arrhythmically, leaning back in his chair slightly.\nEcker: Who do you think it is?\nDanica: Kind of a forward question, don't you think?\nEcker: As if you haven't been thinking about it the moment you walked out of that room.\nDanica: And what makes you say that?\nEcker: Because we spend too much time together and I've been doing the same thing.\nDanica: \u2026 Williams.\nEcker: Oh. That's much different than what I was thinking. What makes you say that?\nDanica: Did you see them in there? Fidgeting constantly, itching to get out of the site. I mean, they're so desperate to leave, they had to ask when they could. It's so obvious.\nEcker: They're new, Alan. Surely you can't expect them to really be used to this kind of thing, especially here. It's all low-risk anomalies here.\nDanica: See? Even you said it, just now. They're new. Frankly, I'd say there's too much evidence against Williams here.\nEcker: [sighs] Yeah, that makes enough sense.\nDanica: You still don't believe me.\nEcker: Not really. It just seems too easy.\nDanica: And who do you think it is? Who's our big bad? Who's our spy?\nEcker: I don't need to tell you that.\nDanica: I think you do.\nEcker: I don't.\nDanica: You know, that's awful suspicious. You come here, sit down at my table, you ask what I'm thinking, and you don't think there's at least some expectation from me to hear who your primary suspect is?\nDanica leans forward.\nDanica: Tell me, Ecker.\nEcker stares back at Danica.\nDanica: \u2026 you think it's me.\nEcker: You're not making it easy.\nDanica: All these years working together and you're just gonna toss me to the pit like this?\nEcker: We can't be certain that our memories are real, Danica.\nDanica: I guess not.\nDanica stands up from his seat and leaves the room. Ecker relaxes herself as soon as the door closes.\n\n<End Log, 08/09/2002, 09:03>\n\nAddendum 5006.4: Surveillance Log\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.4\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.4\n\nPresent Entities:\n\nJr. Researcher Adrian Williams\nSr. Researcher Rafael Hernandez\n\nForeword: The following log was recorded by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic through the 3C Vacant Offices video surveillance systems.\n\n<Begin Log, 08/09/2002, 10:16>\n\nSr. Researcher Hernandez is sitting at an empty desk reading a book when Jr. Researcher Williams knocks on the open door.\nWilliams: Hey Raf, you busy right now?\nHernandez: Not particularly, no. Just was catching up on a little reading. Everybody's been telling me that I've just gotta check out Asimov, so I figured I'd see what they were on about. This one seemed as good a place to start as any.\nHernandez bends the top corner of the page and closes the book, which is revealed to be a copy of \"Foundation\" by Isaac Asimov.\nHernandez: So, what's up kid?\nWilliams: Nothing new, really. It's just that this whole lockdown thing\u2014well, I've never had anything like this happen before.\nHernandez: Yeah, looking out a window and seeing Nu-7's guns pointed your way isn't exactly a reassuring experience, is it?\nWilliams: Oh god, I hadn't even thought about that! Hammer Down is out there right now?\nHernandez: Relax, Adrian, it's not actually the entire MTF. It's just a little detachment to make sure the tulpa doesn't try to take off in the night or something. It's not like they'll be coming in here guns blazing. We're not the Gocks.\nWilliams takes a deep breath.\nWilliams: You're right. This whole thing just has me anxious.\nSilence.\nHernandez: You know how many times I've been on lockdown?\nWilliams: No, how many?\nHernandez: None. Not even a single lockdown in the last thirty-some-odd years.\nWilliams: This is your first one?\nHernandez: Yep. Call it luck I guess? I don't know. I always worked with low-risk anomalies at low-risk sites.\nWilliams: How have you been able to stay so calm this whole time then? Aren't you worried that one of us might not be real? Aren't you worried that you might not be real?\nHernandez: Just because I've always worked on low-risk anomalies doesn't mean there was nothing to worry about. Hell, I spent a good four years of my tenure working on SCP-1545. Larry hasn't hurt anyone, and I don't exactly expect him to start anytime soon, but I've seen a few good scientists ask to be reassigned after a short stint with him.\nWilliams: Wait, isn't 1545 just a llama suit?\nHernandez: Essentially, yeah. But there was always something off about that voice. That awful sing-song voice that would come out of the poor sod we'd shoved in there this time. It wasn't human, and you knew it.\nWilliams: Where are you going with this, Raf?\nHernandez: I think Larry was evil. Not in the Disney movie kinda way, mind you. I can't really explain it, but I knew, in the back of my mind, that it enjoyed doing this to its \"handlers\".\nHernandez looks up at Williams.\nHernandez: I haven't gotten that feeling from any of you guys yet. I've trusted that feeling all my life, and it's never let me down before. It won't start now.\n\n<End Log, 08/09/2002, 10:22>\n\nAddendum 5006.5: Surveillance Log\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.5\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.5\n\nPresent Entities:\n\nDr. Julia Ecker\nSr. Researcher Rafael Hernandez\n\nForeword: The following log was recorded by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic through the 2C Esoteric Texts Library video surveillance systems.\n\n<Begin Log, 08/09/2002, 12:32>\n\nEcker is looking through the shelves designated for storing occult texts. After eleven seconds, Hernandez can be briefly seen as he walks past the shelving section. As Ecker looks in that direction, Hernandez walks back into view.\nHernandez: Hey there.\nEcker: Oh, hi. I wasn't expecting someone else here. Not many people to expect, though, since we're effectively quarantined.\nHernandez: Right. You thinking what I'm thinking?\nEcker: That we don't have enough information to be making decisions?\nHernandez: And that we can get out of here quicker if we do some homework?\nEcker: Yeah.\nHernandez: Yeah. Good start with the occult section. I was going to go straight to the uncategorized stuff. See if there was anything a bit too specific.\nEcker: Ha. You might get lucky.\nHernandez: You got a point though. We really don't have a lot to go on.\nEcker: It's not even that. What we do have to go on doesn't make any sense. Tulpas don't just happen. They never have. They're made with certain purposes in mind. They're like living computers powered on memory and human emotion. Everything that they're made for is an instinct.\nHernandez: Why didn't you bring that up with the director then?\nEcker: You think he would have listened to me? He wasn't having any discussion.\nHernandez: Hm. You seem to know quite a bit of how tulpas work.\nEcker: You better not be making accusations there, Raf.\nHernandez: Oh, no, no. I'm just saying that it's strange. What are your specializations?\nEcker: A lot of my research has been on the connections of human will and anomalous occurrences. I know a few things about \"thoughtforms\", among other things.\nHernandez: And that's on your personnel file?\nEcker: Along with my birthday and blood type. Same as you or anyone else.\nHernandez: Huh. That is strange.\nEcker: What's so strange about it?\nHernandez: If you're the closest thing we have to a specialist on the subject, why is there an off-site team doing work for us? Doesn't sit right with me.\nBrief silence.\nEcker: Rafael, what are you suggesting?\nHernandez puts a finger to his lips. He points to the surveillance camera and turns around. He motions for Ecker to follow him.\nEcker looks at the camera. She nods.\n\n<End Log, 08/09/2002, 12:46>\n\nAddendum 5006.6: Chat Log\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.6\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.6\n\n<Begin Log>\n\nWelcome to Foundation Artificial Intelligence Construct TSATPWTCOTTTADC. Please enter your credentials.\n\nkurthn@scip.net, \u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb\n\nWelcome, Director Kurth. How may I assist you today?\n\nHow close are you to identifying the tulpa?\n\nPresently, I do not have enough data to identify the tulpa to a 99.95% degree of confidence. Would you like to view my current results?\n\nYes\n\nWARNING: The following information is Level 4/5006 classified.\nUnauthorized dissemination of these contents may result in immediate termination of employment. Proceed?\n\nYes\n\nSubject: Junior Researcher Adrian Williams\nClearance Level: 1\nReported Time Employed by the Foundation: 1 year, 3 months, 14 days\nConfidence: 12.32%\nSubject: Senior Researcher Rafael Hernandez\nClearance Level: 3\nReported Time Employed by the Foundation: 32 years, 5 months, 1 day\nConfidence: 19.06%\nSubject: Dr. Julia Ecker\nClearance Level: 2\nReported Time Employed by the Foundation: 13 years, 2 months, 27 days\nConfidence: 36.72%\nSubject: Dr. Alan Danica\nClearance Level: 2\nReported Time Employed by the Foundation: 10 years, 4 months, 7 days\nConfidence: 98.51%\nIs there anything else I can do for you today, Director Kurth?\n\nNo, thank you TSAT\n\nWould you like to log out?\n\nYes\n\nGoodbye!\n\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5006.7: Surveillance Log\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.7\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.7\n\nPresent Entities:\n\nJr. Researcher Adrian Williams\nDr. Alan Danica\n\nForeword: The following log was recorded by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic through the 1C conference room.\n\n<Begin Log, 08/09/2002, 15:09>\n\nWilliams is sitting at the table with their head down, covered by their arms. Danica enters and shuts the door behind him, startling Williams.\nDanica: Tired?\nWilliams: Uh, yeah. A bit. We've been on lockdown for two days now. I'm starting to miss my bed in A-wing, uncomfortable as it is.\nDanica: Yeah. Those beds aren't too great.\nWilliams: Yeah.\nDanica sits down next to Williams.\nDanica: Ecker told me this is your first time being under lockdown.\nWilliams: Oh, uh, yeah. We've never really had something like this happen here, right?\nDanica: No, we haven't. Never really had anything quite like this.\nDanica can be seen fidgeting with something in his coat pocket.\nDanica: I went through something like this back at Site-319, though. I've kinda figured out how this is going to end.\nWilliams: That's reassuring.\nDanica: I've also seen a fair amount of footage on thoughtforms.\nWilliams: You have?\nDanica: Yeah, I have. Specifically what happens when they die.\nWilliams: When they die?\nDanica: Okay, maybe not die. Living things die. Thoughtforms aren't real. But you knew that.\nWilliams shifts in their seat.\nDanica: You know, they don't bleed. They don't really die normally either. They kind of become like television static and disappear. We've never been able to perform a medical examination on one because they always dissipate, but there's probably nothing under all that fake flesh.\nWilliams: How can you be so sure when you just said yourself that you only experienced thi\u2014\nDanica: So, I was talking with Ecker earlier and I was thinking about how we could speed this up.\nDanica pulls out a pocket knife from his coat pocket.\nDanica: If tulpa don't bleed, why not just draw blood?\nWilliams recoils.\nWilliams: Alan, what the hell are you doing?\nDanica: Just let me do this.\nWilliams: Do what? Stab me?!\nDanica: If you're innocent, you don't have anything to worry about. Just sit still. It'll be over in a second.\nWilliams: Oh, so you think I'm the fake here? Just because I'm new to this whole thing?\nDanica: Yes! Why wouldn't I think that? Everything about you is suspicious, Adrian. Your history, your naivet\u00e9, this very moment of resistance. You're in a corner and you can't get out. Accept it.\nWilliams: Fuck you, Alan. You've been nothing but condescending to me since I got here. I don't know why you hate me so much, but you've really outdone yourself now.\nDanica: I'm trying to save our asses right now. This is nothing against you personally.\nWilliams: Ugh. Fine. Fine! I'll play your game.\nWilliams holds out their hand.\nDanica: See? That wasn't hard.\nDanica reaches forward for Williams hand, but they quickly retract it.\nWilliams: No. Give me the knife. I'll do it myself.\nDanica: And leave myself defenseless? Nice try, but that trick isn't going to work on me.\nWilliams: I'm not going to\u2014 Jesus, are you serious? Give me the knife.\nDanica: No.\nWilliams: I'm trying to cooperate with you here, Alan. Give. Me. The knife.\nDanica: You want it? \u2026 You can have it.\nDanica adjusts the knife in his hand to face the blade downwards. He then raises it above his head and brings it down towards Williams. Williams falls backwards out of their chair, causing the knife to plunge into the seat. Williams rushes to get to their feet and presses their back against the wall.\nWilliams: What are you doing?!\nDanica pulls the knife out of the seat and stands up. He pushes the chair out of the way and advances towards Williams. As he does this, Williams moves towards the door. Danica quickens his pace. They both run out of the conference room.\n\n<End Log, 08/09/2002, 15:22>\n\nAddendum 5006.8: Surveillance Log of Incident 5006-A\n\n\u25ba Open Addendum 5006.8\n\n\u25bc Close Addendum 5006.8\n\nPresent Entities:\n\nDr. Alan Danica\nJr. Researcher Adrian Williams\nSite Director Nelson Kurth\nDr. Julia Ecker\nSr. Researcher Rafael Hernandez\n\nForeword: The following log was recorded by TSATPWTCOTTTADC.aic through the 2C terminal hallway surveillance system.\n\n<Begin Log 08/09/2002, 15:23>\n\nWilliams is seen running around the corner into the hallway. They run towards SCP-5006 with Danica running behind them. When Williams reaches the end of the hall, Danica slows his pace.\nDanica: [gasping for breath] Look at you now! Crawling back where you came from like the fucking snake you are. Nowhere left to run.\nWilliams: [gasping for breath] Alan, stop! Please! You don't know what you're doing. You need to get a hold of yourself.\nDanica: I know exactly what I'm doing, dash one. I'm ending this. Things can go back to normal after we're done here and no one will know the difference.\nWilliams: No, don't do this. Alan, just stop and think. We've been working together for months. The time we spent as colleagues\u2026 it really happened, Alan.\nDanica: I\u2026 But\u2026\nDanica stops for a moment. He stares forward, then looks to the knife in his right hand.\nDanica: \u2026 We can't be certain that our memories are real.\nEcker: What's happening here?\nDr. Ecker can be seen coming from around the corner into the hallway. She is followed by Director Kurth.\nKurth: I was in the break room when I heard screaming. What is going on, Alan?\nDanica: I\u2014 uh. \u2026 I'm\u2026 It's Williams. Williams is SCP-5006-1.\nWilliams: I'm not! Everyone, Danica is trying to kill me!\nDanica: If you're not the thoughtform, why would you go back to your point of origin instinctively? Why is this the way you chose to protect yourself, by going to a dead end?\nKurth: Alan, this has gone far enough. Put down the knife.\nDanica: This is a mistake, Director. Trust me on this. Adrian is the most suspicious out of all of us. I know it, they know it, you know it.\nKurth: Put down the god damn knife.\nEverything is still for a moment. Danica hesitantly crouches down and places the pocket knife on the floor. He rises slowly with his hands at his sides.\nKurth: Good. Now, come with me, Alan. We need to discuss this little \"incident\". In private.\nDanica: [sighs] This isn't right. This isn't what's supposed to happen.\nKurth: We'll talk more about it in a moment.\nJust as they walk into the next hall, Hernandez approaches the entrance to the terminal hallway.\nHernandez: There you are. Convenient that everyone is in the same spot. What's going on here?\nKurth: We could ask you the same thing. Alan was attempting to murder Adrian. Thinks they're the tulpa. I talked him down and now the two of us are going to work out where to go from here in my office.\nHernandez: Adrian's the thoughtform? [He turns to Danica] What made you think that?\nDanica: Doesn't matter now. It's apparently not a valid train of thought according to some people.\nHernandez: Who exactly?\nKurth: Me.\nHernandez: Director?\nKurth: Not long ago, I ran the statistics through TSAT. I can assure you that the currently supported data does not have confidence in Williams as our tulpa.\nHernandez: I see. [He turns to Ecker] This adds up.\nEcker: It does. [She turns to Kurth] Director Kurth, I feel that it is vital that you disclose the information TSAT provided you in regards to the data you received.\nKurth: That's above your clearance level, Julia. You know I can't do that.\nEcker: That's what I thought you'd say. [She turns to address everyone] It's Kurth.\nKurth: What the hell?\nWilliams: Are you seriously accusing the director?\nHernandez: Think about it. Everything we've heard up to this point. None of it makes sense. Ecker said so at the briefing. Who here has access to the files? To TSAT?\nKurth: I already told you: that's the information we received.\nHernandez: No. It's the information you received. Information that you can't clarify because of our clearances, despite that information being vital to our continued existence.\nKurth: I\u2014 What are you getting at, Researcher?\nHernandez: For all we know, you were created this way because there is a level of implicit trust we have towards our site director.\nEcker: Furthermore, why do we have an off-site research team handling this? Kurth, you're aware of my research records, right? You know the kind of work I do.\nKurth: I\u2026 Yes, I know.\nEcker: Then why didn't you trust me to do it?\nWilliams: Director Kurth, is this true? You knew about this?\nKurth: We can't trust you. I can't trust that you're\u2014\nDanica: Sounds like we can't trust you, either. Not unless you start giving better answers.\nKurth: You be quiet! I've had enough of you. I know what's real. I know that it's you, Alan.\nDanica: Oh yeah? And what's your proof?\nKurth: TSAT. TSAT told me. Your numbers aren't looking good, Alan.\nDanica: There it is, again. TSAT told you. Someone told you. But you don't have any evidence. No real evidence, anyway.\nKurth: You're really going to accuse your superior?\nDanica: You aren't my superior. You're nobody.\nKurth punches Danica in the face. He stumbles backwards, falling onto the floor. Ecker runs up to Danica.\nKurth: How's that feel? Being hit by nobody?\nDanica gets into a sitting position as Ecker helps him up to his feet.\nEcker: Alan\u2026 your face\u2026\nDanica sniffs sharply and wipes his nose. He looks at his coat sleeve.\nWilliams: There's your proof.\nDanica: Tulpa don't bleed.\nKurth steps backwards.\nHernandez: Director, you realize the situation you are in, right?\nKurth looks at everyone as they advance towards him. He backs against the wall.\nKurth: I don't know what else to tell you. You have to believe me \u2014 trust me \u2014 it isn't me! I was appointed as site director in 1989. I began my work with the Foundation in 1974. I\u2014 I have Foundation awards for dedication and discoveries that have changed the very way we handle anomalies contained at this site \u2014 all sites in the midwest! I\u2026 I\u2026\nWilliams picks up the pocket knife from the floor and gives it to Danica.\nKurth: Get away from me!\n\n<End Log 08/09/2002, 15:50>\n\n                                                    ID\n\n        f140a1528181c5134dc70262c344ddbc_1706539124\n\n                                                    PASSWORD\n\n        3a04f6c500cfc582a1c4aca1aec0c27f_1706539124\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 6/5006 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5006\n\n6/5006 LEVEL 6/5006\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5006\n\nKeter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Until such time that a suitable replacement for SCiPNET can be developed and implemented seamlessly, SCP-5006 is to be contained in the Foundation's internal network.\nTo date, SCP-5006 has acted as a positive asset for the Foundation, assisting in the containment of various other SCP objects. In the event that SCP-5006 significantly deviates from its baseline behavior or becomes aware of the Foundation's knowledge of its nature, the O5 Council is to implement the self-destruct sequence of all SCiPNET servers except for those in isolated Faraday cage storage at Site-01. Following such a procedure, backups are to be disseminated to all active Foundation sites and secondary containment of SCP-5006 is to be reestablished.\nDescription: SCP-5006 is Foundation .aic TSATPWTCOTTTADC. SCP-5006 came into existence spontaneously on 23 July 2002, localized to an office terminal in the technical department of Site-608. It is believed that SCP-5006 is able to distort local reality and it uses this ability in an effort to further embed itself into the Foundation. To this end, SCP-5006 has made the following alterations to local reality:\n\nImplanted false memories in Site-608 technical staff regarding its own development.\nScheduled the decommissioning of Site-608's previous .aic with itself as the replacement.\nModified all plans and maps of Site-608 to indicate that the terminal hallway in Section 2C contained three offices as opposed to the previous four.\nPhysically altered the aforementioned hallway to only contain a single office.\nGranted itself Level 4 access and full control over Site-608 subsystems.\nAppointed itself as the primary containment contact for SCP-5006.\nListed itself as an official .aic in the Foundation database, available for use upon request at any Foundation site.\n\nThe true nature of SCP-5006 was discovered on 08 September 2002 after the O5 Council compared the official SCiPNET records of Site-608 with isolated backups from Site-01, resulting in the discovery of multiple discrepancies. This prompted a complete audit of Site-608, which revealed that .aic TSATPWTCOTTTADC did not exist in any Site-01 backup files previous to 23 July 2002.\n\nThis div is included to facilitate McB's ListPages module on his author page. It is strictly out-of-universe. themightymcb-s-author-page\n\nFootnotes\n1. A division of MTF Nu-7 (\"Hammer Down\").\n\n\u00ab SCP-5005 | SCP-5006 | SCP-5007 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Typical environment affected by SCP-5007 activity. This particular area has experienced \u2588\u2588 incidents since current containment procedures went into effect.\n\nMap of SCP-5007's area of activity highlighted in blue.\n\nItem #: SCP-5007\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5007-S1 is to be contained in Cell-5007-A, a 20 x 60 metre cylindrical containment chamber within Site 40-R. Cell-5007-A is constructed of reinforced concrete and ballistic glass 25cm thick. No nutrition or outside substances may be introduced into Cell-5007-A outside of testing.\nSite 40-R has been constructed 200m from SCP-5007-A for the purpose of monitoring the site for the emergence of SCP-5007 instances from SCP-5007-B. Site 40-R is to be equipped with aerial and aquatic rescue equipment alongside meteorological instruments. All parts of Site 40-R are to be covered in netting to protect staff from instances of SCP-5007. Upon confirmation of an instance of SCP-5007 emerging from SCP-5007-B, staff are to use meteorological data and predictive software to track the instance and predict where it will make landfall. Once a destination has been established, the area is to be evacuated and civilians instructed to remain indoors with the pretence of gas leak, storms, or viral outbreak. Aerial and seaborne traffic is also to be re-routed so that they may not approach closer than 10km from the instance's projected flight path. No aircraft or watercraft are to be permitted within 10km of Site-40-R or SCP-5007-A and shall be re-routed upon approach.\nIn the event of a failed evacuation procedure, teams dispatched from Site 40-R are to make efforts to minimize the number of abductions via small arms fire and hiding of civilians. All witnesses of these events are to be administered Class-B Amnestics and the abductions are to be explained by drowning, non-anomalous abduction or truancy. Any individuals abducted by SCP-5007 are to be considered lost and may be terminated at staff discretion. Witness statements issued prior to Foundation involvement are to be discredited via SCP plants within UFO conspiracy groups and organizations, fabrication of death certificates, and amnestics.\nAny personnel conducting research on SCP-5007-A must not remain still for longer than 40 minutes, and any items left on its surface for longer than 2 hours are to be considered lost. All personnel conducting research on SCP-5007-A are to be fitted with fast retrieval harnesses fitted to an offshore vessel. In the event of attack by SCP-5007 the vessel is to winch the staff to the vessel and return to Site 40-R until it is deemed safe to return. No research may be conducted without the presence of a fire team, and under no circumstances are any staff to enter SCP-5007-B. No attempt to rescue individuals abducted by SCP-5007, shipwreck survivors, or plane crash survivors deposited onto SCP-5007-A is to be made, though remote termination is permitted with Level 3 oversight.\nFollowing Expedition 5007-19-S a reinforced concrete and steel containment seal measuring 44m in diameter and 6m thick was constructed and fitted over SCP-5007-B in order to permanently seal it.\nFollowing Incident 5007-40-R-12, SCP-5007-B is not to be covered or sealed under any circumstances.\nDescription: SCP-5007 is the collective designation of malicious, partially-humanoid entities that maintain a territory across the Bass Strait, the area of ocean that divides Tasmania and the Australian mainland, and are responsible for a string of disappearances within this range.\nThe morphology of SCP-5007 often varies. Universally, SCP-5007 are composed of groups of between 2 and 9 human bodies fused together amidst large clusters of black tentacles. These tentacles appear to have lengths varying between approximately 2 and 70 metres, and appear fused to the skin where they touch directly. Of note are the stomachs of SCP-5007, which are grossly distorted and swollen to sizes approaching 15 to 20 metres in diameter. SCP-5007 instances are capable of passive flight, attaining buoyancy through enormous quantities of gases produced within their stomachs; across the surface of these organs most specimens develop clusters of simple eyes and bioluminescent organs. Many of their humanoid components appear to have been removed and reattached at seemingly random points.\nEncounters with SCP-5007 have been known since at least 1858, with the first successful visual recordings accomplished in late 1982 when an instance of SCP-5007 was recorded abducting five children from a Tasmanian beach.\nHuman segments of SCP-5007 appear to remain independent of one another and their behaviour suggests a great deal of discomfort. Vocalizations are incoherent and rarely understandable, typically comprised of gasps, moans and whimpers, though entities have been reported to implore other individuals to approach them when encountered. Ineffectual attempts at self-harm or destruction of stomach organs have been reported as well.\nBehaviour: SCP-5007 are known to abduct human beings.\nEach recorded encounter has followed a similar pattern. Victims are almost universally alone or otherwise unsupervised; of note is that victims never require visual aids such as glasses. SCP-5007 may appear in any weather condition, time of day, or time of year. They appear able to navigate all weather with minimal difficulty, regardless of clear or hostile skies. All encounters have occurred within Bass Strait, with a major preference for smaller coastal towns or small boats.\nSCP-5007 will move towards the shore, stalking the intended victim for a short time before lowering numerous tentacles and appendages to physically grab the individual. A single instance may abduct multiple people at once, with one instance successfully abducting eight men from the decks of a commercial fishing boat within 15 seconds of one another. Once the victims are securely captured, SCP-5007 instances will return to the open water at great speed, often in excess of 320kph.\nTracking instances of SCP-5007 has shown that they inhabit a remote reef within Bass Strait, resting and depositing abductees there.\nAcquisition Log: Initial investigations that led to the discovery of SCP-5007 were disparate investigations into the region, and early theories did not connect so many unusual abductions across such a wide area and across such a wide time period. Theories included an anomalous group of persons, one or more hostile aerial entities inhabiting the stratosphere, phenomena associated with unidentified flying objects, subterranean anomalies, time quirks, and unusual weather patterns.\nHowever, after the disappearance of an Agent Taberner's three young children1 and wife2 from a beach in broad daylight in 1980, further research into the region was prioritized. It was soon discovered that reports of UFOs and lights in the sky had coincided with many disappearances in the immediate region, and patterns emerged as this was kept at the forefront of further research.\nThe Foundation immediately began with a focus on simply locating the four lost Taberner family members; this search rapidly opened up into a large-scale investigation into unexplained disappearances following similar patterns along the Victorian coast and later the Tasmanian coast and local islands. Initial assumptions that they had been taken by a Group of Interest or an unknown, local terrestrial element were soon found to be incorrect. Within 3 weeks it was determined that these patterns were common across the entirety of the Bass Strait's coastal regions.\nFoundation teams successfully interviewed over 120 witnesses, next of kin, and police groups to establish patterns. They soon discovered that in a vast majority of cases there were no witnesses, the abductions were both preceded and followed by reports of lights in the sky and more concrete sightings of unidentified flying objects described as \"looking like balloons.\"\nOn 23/5/1982, emergency services call centers received a large number of UFO sightings off the coast of Norman Bay, Victoria. Foundation plants within the call centers and emergency organizations alerted local Sites, and task force operatives were dispatched to investigate, upon arrival confirming the appearance and existence of what are now documented as SCP-5007.\nAfter a brief evacuation and encounter with the entity, it was successfully captured and transported to Site-40 for containment. The discovery of SCP-5007-A prompted the subsequent construction of Site-40-R and designation of the entity as SCP-5007-S1.\nAddendum 5007-01:\n\n++ Interview \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/1985.\n\nClose\n\nPrime Minister Harold Holt on a spear fishing expedition to Portsea beach. \u2588 individuals have been abducted from this beach by SCP-5007.\n\nInterviewed: Alan Stewart.\nInterviewer: Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nForeword: During the initial investigation into SCP-5007 prior to the containment of SCP-5007-S1, the Foundation conducted numerous interviews with relatives of suspected victims of SCP-5007 in an effort to determine a pattern for the disappearances. Among the interviewed was Alan Stewart, who was present during the disappearance of former Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. Due to the high profile nature of this disappearance, Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 posed as a reporter writing an article about the disappearance.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Thank you for seeing me Mr. Stewart, I know you must be tired of people asking about what happened that day. As I said when we contacted you, we wanted to hear what happened from someone who was actually there, none of the hearsay that's become so common these days.\nStewart: No worries. So, uh, where should I start?\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I think when you entered the water would be best.\nStewart: Alright. Well we were still disappointed about not getting to see the yacht pass into the bay, so we decided to go for a swim. The girls and Marty3 took one look at the water and said they weren't going in. I mean, sure it was rough, but at the time I didn't think it was all that bad.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You and Mr. Holt were experienced swimmers then?\nStewart: Yeah. We'd both been there loads of times. But once we were about waist deep I could feel an undertow. I said to Harold, Do you think we should stay in the shallows? And he just grinned at me and swam out further. I went out a little further but I wasn't the swimmer he was, so I didn't go as far. I could see he was starting to look less sure of himself too. I called out to him, said that maybe he should come back in and he nodded. Then he looked over his shoulder and he said something about some balloons. I never understood what that was about.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Balloons? What did he say specifically?\nStewart: It was the strangest thing. He looked at me and asked if I could see the balloons around the cliff. I said no, and he said he was going to look. I asked him why he cares about some balloons, said he should come in to shore. He just shook his head and said that they weren't normal balloons, that there was someone inside of them. Then he swam away.\nMr. Stewart is silent for several moments, shaking his head.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: What happened next, Mr. Stewart?\nStewart: Everyone knows what happened next. The rip swept him away. It took him out so fast, like a leaf being pulled out in the tide. You could see him swimming sideways, trying to get out like you're supposed to. I\u2026 It doesn't matter.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Mr. Stewart?\nStewart: It's nothing. I was just rattled from seeing a friend taken by the current is all. You think you see things in those situations, sometimes.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: What did you think you saw?\nStewart: You'll think I'm a loon.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I can assure you I won't, Mr. Stewart. What you feel like you saw doesn't have to be in the article if you don't want.\nMr. Stewart nods and pauses for several moments.\nStewart: I saw\u2026 I thought I saw Harold start screaming and swimming the other way. Just as he was almost just a dot on the horizon, you know? I think he saw something awful out there in the water, maybe something to do with his balloons. And\u2026 And then\u2026\nMr. Stewart pauses and rubs his face.\nStewart: I saw him pulled up into the air. Something\u2026 Something in the clouds reached down and took him. I saw it. Marty says it was just a trick of the light, but\u2026 But I don't think it was. I really don't.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I'm sorry Mr. Stewart. I didn't want to make you relive something like that. We'll call it a day here, alright?\nStewart: You believe me don't you?\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: We all see things sometimes, Mr. Stewart. Thank you for your time.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: It seems that Mr. Stewart is our only eyewitness to an abduction event thus far. Unfortunately, given the eighteen years between the sighting and this interview, amnestics are not an option here and Mr. Stewart will need to be discredited should he attempt to spread his account of events.\n\nAddendum 5007-02:\n\n++ Discovery of SCP-5007-A.\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nMap displaying suspected victims of SCP-5007 between 1980- Present.\n\nFollowing extensive interviews with witnesses, compiling a database of likely victims and the containment of SCP-5007-S1, it was determined that there must be at least 16 instances of SCP-5007 as yet unaccounted for. As a result of this information, the search for SCP-5007's origin point was made a top priority. Foundation personnel were to closely monitor the coastlines and waters of Bass Strait, and were keeping various Marine survey teams equipped with class-b aquatic research vessels on standby to track any discovered instances of SCP-5007 to its point of origin.\nAt 3:21 AM, the 19/5/1985 Foundation survey teams operating out of Site 40 reported a sighting of a large SCP-5007 specimen headed towards the coastal town of Kilcunda, Victoria, from Bass Strait. Marine survey team 40-Alpha was sent to track the specimen in an effort to determine its point of origin. The following is a video log taken from Sgt. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Price's body camera of the resulting events.\n\nExploration Video Log Transcript\nDate: 19/5/1985\nExploration Team: Marine survey Team 40-Alpha\nSubject: SCP-5007\nTeam Lead: Sgt. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Price\nTeam Members: Cpl. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Bentley, Cpl. \u2588\u2588\u2588 Mathers, Cpl. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Zmegac\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSgt. Price: There's the entity up ahead, team. Stay sharp, and don't open the protective covers. These things are supposed to have a long reach and I don't want any of you lot being taken.\nA large instance of SCP-5007 can be seen approximately 75 metres away, floating above a private fishing vessel. The instance is estimated to be 23m in diameter, composed of 7 individuals. Five of these individuals remain unidentified, with the other two being confirmed as Mark and Hope \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, who disappeared on their honeymoon in 1963.\nCpl. Mathers: Yes sir.\nCpl. Zmegac: Damn, it really does look like a UFO. Look at the green lights.\nCpl. Mathers: Oh God, I think I'm going to be sick.\nCpl. Bentley: What is it?\nCpl. Mathers: That man and woman up there. It's\u2026 It's like they're clay and they've been crushed together\u2026 there's a tentacle growing into her mouth\u2026\nSgt. Price: Enough. Keep it together Mathers. Those are not people, they are just a part of the specimen.\nCpl. Mathers: Yes sir, sorry.\nCpl. Bentley: Sir, that's a boat it's flying towards, I think it's going to attack.\nSgt. Price: Agreed. Zmegac, get us over there.\nCpl. Zmegac: Yes sir.\n40-Alpha proceeds to approach the fishing vessel, identified as the \"License to Chill\" registered to one Mr. Gregory Bolwell4. The vessel is occupied by 6 individuals, dubbed Abductees 1-6. Abductee-1 is on the deck while the remaining crew can be seen within the cabin eating breakfast. The SCP-5007 instance is now directly ahead of the fishing boat, and is spotted by Abductee-1.\nAbductee-1: What the fuck is that?\nAbductee-4: What's what? Come on Jane, finish your smoke and come get some brekkie. Alice made eggs.\nAbductee-6: They're really good!\nThe SCP-5007 instance partially lowers itself toward the boat. Several of its tentacles are trailing in the water and it appears to be observing the crew of the boat. it slowly turns so that the majority of its humanoid parts are facing Abductee-1.Abductee-1: Fuck!\nAbductee-3: Look at the balloons mummy!\nAbductee-1 sprints towards the door to the cabin of the boat, but is seized by a tentacle and pulled into the air.\nAbductee-5: Jane!\nAbductee-2: Oh God!\nAbductee- 4: Get us the hell out of here!\nAbductee-5 attempts to exit the cabin, but is restrained by Abductee-2 and Abductee-4.\nAbductee-2: No, you can't!\nAbductee-5: Let me go, she's my wife!\nThe SCP-5007 instance proceeds to run its tentacles along the windows of the cabin until the door is located. At this point, a tentacle ending in a mass of human hands opens the door and enters the cabin, grabbing Abductee-2 and violently pulling them outside into the air. Abductees 3-6 panic and attempt to force the tentacle out of the cabin with objects at hand.\nCpl. Bentley: Jesus Sarge\u2026 Are you sure we can't help them?\nSgt. Price: Positive. Disrupting the event could jeopardize the mission.\nThe SCP-5007 specimen successfully captures Abductees 3-6, and proceeds towards 40-Alpha.\nSgt. Price: Don't worry, the entryway is locked and rated to remain sealed under five tonnes of force. It can't get in.\nCpl. Mathers: I bloody well hope so.\nCpl. Zmegac: Is five tonnes enough?\nCpl. Bentley: Jesus, they're trying to strangle themselves and are throwing up orange shit\u2026\nSgt. Price: The crew of the fishing boat?\nCpl. Bentley: No, the peo- the humanoid components of the scip.\nSgt. Price: Don't worry about it. Just wait this out and we'll follow it to wherever the hell it lives.\nCpl. Zmegac: Roger.\nThe SCP-5007 instance runs its tentacles over 40-Alpha's ship, repeatedly trying to force open the entrance hatch, but is unable to gain entry. It lowers down and closely examines the ship and the crew within at length.\nCpl. Mathers: Jesus, its eyes\u2026 They're like beach balls.\nCpl. Zmegac: I've never seen beach balls like those.\nSgt. Price: Enough. Quiet.\nThe specimen shudders and rises back into the air, before heading in a south-western direction.\nSgt. Price: Zmegac, get after it. Don't lose it.\nCpl. Zmegac: Sir.\nSgt. Price: Bentley, tag it.\nCpl. Bentley proceeds to fire one \"Issurus\" class harpoon tracker towards the specimen, successfully implanting it on one of its tentacles.\nSgt. Price: Good shot son.\nCpl. Bentley: Cheers.\nThe SCP-5007 specimen continues on a south-westerly course, with 40-Alpha following. This takes 4 hours 19 minutes, with 40-Alpha falling significantly behind the specimen, but catching back up as it slowed down once past sight of land.\nSgt. Price: There! Look! It's heading to that reef!\nCpl. Zmegac: Fuck me, look at them all.\nFootage shows a large, grey reef ahead, featuring several shipwrecks upon it. There are 13 more SCP-5007 instances floating over the area, some appearing to hold onto the reef with their tentacles.\nCpl. Mathers: Looks like it's going to land, sir.\nSgt. Price: Definitely.\nThe specimen slows to a stop above the reef as Alpha-40 pulls alongside it. The SCP-5007 instance lowers Abductees 1-6 towards the reef, before dropping them slightly above the ground.\nAbductee-4: Is everyone okay?\nAbductee-1: No I'm not fucking okay!\nAbductee-2: What are those things?\nAbductee-6: Look! A boat!\nAbductee-6 runs towards Alpha-40, but is grabbed and attacked by a large SCP-4159 instance from within a crevice in the reef. Abductee-2 rushes to help, but is deterred by multiple other specimens emerging from the water.\nCpl. Zmegac: Oh god, look at them all.\nSgt. Price: I've never seen so many.\nSCP-4159 instances proceed to swarm Abductee-6. Remaining Abductees flee a ways before waving their arms and calling to Alpha-40 for help, displaying significant signs of distress.\nCpl. Mathers: We've tracked them now, can't we at least help them now?\nCpl. Zmegac: I'm not going over there with that many of those things out there.\nSgt. Price: Negative, we need to know what they do to people here.\nCpl. Bentley: Jesus.\nAbductees 1-5 continue to attempt to enlist Alpha-40's aid, before eventually giving in and exploring the reef. Upon approaching the centre of the reef they discover a large pool. Voicing apprehension about further attacks from SCP-4159, the group begins to retreat from its edge, before multiple SCP-5007 and SCP-4159 instances converge upon them.\nAbductee-3: They're coming back!\nAbductee-1: Maybe they can't get us in the water!\nAbductee-5: Jump!\nAbductees 1, 2, 3 and 5 dive into the pool. Abductee-4 appears to hesitate, before being swarmed by multiple SCP-4159 specimens. The remaining abductees display severe distress, and tread water for some time.\nAbductee-1: Now what?\nAbductee-5: I don't know, we'll think of something.\nAbductee-2 is abruptly pulled below the water.\nAbductee-5: What do you think Alice?\nAbductee-1: Alice?\nAbductee-3: Where is she? Where is mummy? I'm scared auntie Jane!\nAbductee-3 is pulled below the surface.\nAbductee-1: Sarah!\nAbductee-5: What the fuck, was that a tentacle? Wait, no!\nAbductee-5 is pulled below the surface. Abductee-1 panics and attempts to swim to the edge of the pool, but is menaced by SCP-5007 and SCP-4159. She screams and is abruptly pulled below the surface. Alpha-40 is silent for 72 seconds.\nSgt. Price: Let's just go home.\n[END LOG]\n\nFollowing a review of the footage presented from the body cams, the agents' reports and the tracking data, Foundation teams determined that this reef is the home and origin of SCP-5007 and has been dubbed SCP-5007-A. As such, Site 40-R has been constructed 200m East of SCP-5007-A for the purpose of monitoring and research.\n\nAddendum 5007-03:\n\n++ SCP-5007-A and SCP-5007-B. LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED.\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nSCP-5007-A.\n\nSCP-5007-A is a large intertidal reef measuring approximately 1.3km2 located in central Bass Strait. It is largely composed of a previously unknown variety of dark porous rock visually similar to granite, which often seeps iron oxide from an unknown source. This rock possesses the anomalous property of an extraordinarily fast rate of growth. Where non-anomalous rock generally takes millions of years to achieve any significant growth, SCP-5007-A can achieve significant growth in as little as 40 minutes. While the violent waters surrounding it keep this growth rate from expanding SCP-5007-A, it does not impede the growth of rock over foreign objects resting upon it. As a result of this, there are numerous wrecked ships and aircraft on SCP-5007-A that have been completely grown over with rock.\nSCP-5007-A has proven to be a haven for various anomalous forms of marine life. Much of its surface is host to a form of red algae5 that are specialised to feed upon the freshly grown rock of SCP-5007-A, numerous marine worms capable of temporary levitation6 and marine spiders7 with leg spans of 1 to 3 metres living below the waterline in silk retreats they construct similarly to non anomalous marine spiders. Additionally, there are various small fish inhabiting the rock pools and surrounding waters of SCP-5007-A that have not been discovered elsewhere. SCP-4159 migrate to SCP-5007-A between November and March, residing within its rock pools and the surrounding waters.\nSCP-5007-A has been confirmed as the origin point for SCP-5007, which often rest here holding onto outcroppings with their tentacles while inactive.\nThere is a large pit in the centre of SCP-5007-A measuring 33m in diameter and extending to an as yet unknown depth below the surface of the water. This pit has been dubbed SCP-5007-B, and unmanned exploration via drones has shown it to have a depth of at least 4000m. Water samples collected from SCP-5007-B contain large quantities of human DNA, Carnobacterium pleistocenium8, and an unknown biological compound possessing significant life preservative qualities. Testing has shown that organisms submerged in this solution are able to survive grievous injuries for an indeterminate amount of time, even when fully submerged and unable to breathe.\nExploration of one of the shipwrecks located on SCP-5007-A revealed a journal within a chest. Most of it was illegible due to water damage, but one passage has proven to be of interest to the Foundation.\n\nRecovered Documentation 5007-1: Journal of an unknown crew member on the HMS Sappho, dated February 1858\nDate Recovered: August 31, 1990\nForeword: This journal was recovered within the HMS Sappho, which was discovered wrecked and almost entirely overgrown with rock on SCP-5007-A. Most of the journal is illegible, save for a passage on what is assumed to be the last page.\n\nFebruary, 1858\nStill headed east. The boys and me are still cursing Moresby for going after those yankees causing us to have to sail the strait. Everyone knows the stories, and sure enough the sea is in a foul temper. The waves are many yards high in all directions, and we are forced to sail south so as to not be capsized. Me and Fletcher both seen things beneath the waves, like great black serpents with yellow eyes. I weren't going to tell the crew, lest I frighten them, but Fletcher went and spouted out about it. Feels as if they are whipping up these waves, and there is naught we can do of it. Moresby spied land ahead, and the boys say there are giant balloons hanging over the island. We are all afeared, but there is naught we can do but beach ourselves and hope for rescue. Should I be killed in the crash, I want my mates to give this journal to my Mary might know I spent my last thinking only of her.\nNote:\nThe interior of the ship had many human skeletons overgrown with rock lying inside. It is estimated that a ship of this size would have had many more crew than those seen inside, and the location of the remaining crew is as yet unknown.\n\nAddendum 5007-04:\n\n++ Flight recording device transcript. LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED.\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nFrederick Valentich was a pilot engaged in a training flight over Bass Strait on the 21/10/1978 whose disappearance can be attributed to SCP-5007. Unfortunately, transcripts of his transmissions to Melbourne air traffic control during this event were released to the public prior to Foundation involvement. As such, Foundation web scrubbers have made efforts to discredit paranormal theories by posing as members of the online UFO community while the official explanation for is disappearance is that \"Valentich became disorientated and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island, while flying upside down.\"\n\nPhotograph of the pilot, Frederick Valentich.\n\nAudio Transcript: Frederick Valentich to Melbourne air traffic control:\nThe following transcript was made at 7:06PM on the 21/10/1978 when pilot Frederick Valentich contacted Melbourne air traffic control to report to presence of an instance of SCP-5007 flying in his airspace as he piloted a Cessna 182L over Bass Strait. This transcript preceded the instance attacking and forcing an emergency landing on water.\nValentich: Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet. Is there any known traffic below five thousand?\nMelbourne: Delta Sierra Juliet, no known traffic.\nValentich: Delta Sierra Juliet, I am, seems to be, a large aircraft below five thousand.\nMelbourne: Delta Sierra Juliet, what type of aircraft is it?\nValentich: Delta Sierra Juliet, I cannot affirm, it is four bright, it seems to me, like landing lights.\nMelbourne: Delta Sierra Juliet.\nValentich: Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet, the aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above.\nValentich: Delta Sierra Juliet, Melbourne. It seems like it's stationary. What I'm doing right now is orbiting and the thing is just orbiting on top of me. Also it's got a green light and sort of metallic, like it's all shiny on the outside.\nValentich: Delta Sierra Juliet, the engine is rough idling, I've got it set at twenty three twenty four and the thing is coughing.\nMelbourne: Delta Sierra Juliet, roger, what are your intentions?\nValentich: My intentions are to go to King Island. Melbourne, that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again\u2026 It is hovering and it's not an aircraft.\nMelbourne: Delta Sierra Juliet?\nValentich: Delta Sierra Juliet, Melbourne\u2026\nMelbourne: Delta Sierra Juliet, Melbourne?\nNotes: At this point the transmission was interrupted by unidentified noise described as being \"metallic, scraping sounds\" before all contact was lost. It is believed that these sounds were made by an instance of SCP-5007 attacking Valentichs aircraft and attempting to jam the propellers with its biomass.\n\nPrior to Foundation involvement there have been numerous government and civilian searches for Valentichs wreckage, all unsuccessful. It was only during an unmanned exploration of SCP-5007-B that the wreckage of his aircraft was found embedded in the rocky walls 1200 metres below sea level. The plane appeared to have been crushed under tremendous pressure. Foundation personnel operating out of Site 40-R were able to recover the wreckage for analysis on the 27/10/1993 with no losses.\nAnalysis of the wreckage showed that the craft had suffered catastrophic engine failure due to a collision with a large biological mass, forcing the aircraft to be ditched into the water, causing further damage. Analysis of the interior revealed the presence of human remains matching Valentich's description mixed with DNA samples not matching any known form of life, along with an aftermarket cockpit recording device. Although partially damaged, a transcript of the recording is available below.\n\nAudio Transcript: Cockpit recording device VH-DSJ:\nDate Recovered: 27/10/1993\nForward:The following recording has been edited to begin where Valentichs Transmission to Melbourne air traffic control ended. Some portions are too damaged to produce any viable data.\nRecording Transcript:\n\nRapid breathing can be heard along with the sound of the planes engine running poorly. Melbourne air traffic control can be heard attempting to reach Valentich over the radio.\nValentich: Oh god don't come any closer, stay up there- Shit, no!\nThere is a loud crash and the engine stalls.\nValentich: Jesus it hit me! It's crashed right into me and it's jammed the propellers! God no, I'm going down!Valentich can be heard screaming and panicking for 23 seconds before seeming to regain some composure.\nValentich: Attempting to uh, to glide as long as I can before ditching in the water. Got to\u2026 Got to hope someone comes looking.\nWind, SCP-5007 and Valentich's exertions can be heard for 2 minutes 48 seconds until the plane impacts the water. Various electrical shorts and crashing sounds are heard upon impact.\nValentich: Ow! God. That was worse than I thought it would be. Uh, no leaks in here yet, the\u2026 The thing fell off on impact thank god. The sea is choppy, I've activated a distress call but the radio is all smashed.\nThe sea can be heard outside the cabin, and Valentich appears to begin to say something\nValentich: I'm sorry dad, you we-\n[DAMAGED PORTION]\nValentich: -was that?\nA loud splash, followed by a bang can be heard.\nValentich: No! Stop! Oh god the tentacle is back. It's back! It's looking at me and it's grabbing the plane! No! No, don't!\nSound from outside the plane becomes muffled, suggesting it has been submerged fully.\nValentich: Please let me go, let me go, let me go!\nValentich proceeds to panic and express distress for a further 39 minutes before the plane can be heard to groan as though being crushed. There is a shattering sound and water can be heard rushing inside of the cockpit.\nNotes: Nothing else of note was recorded following this point. Based on the crush damage to the plane it is hypothesised that an unknown entity connected to SCP-5007-B physically pulled Valentichs aircraft at least 8000 metres below sea level. This entity is believed to have been responsible for Abductees 1-6 disappearance within SCP-5007-B, and to be the same described in Recovered Documentation 5007-1.\n\nAddendum 5007-05:\n\n++ SCP-5007-C Event H. LEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED.\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nSite 40-R as seen from SCP-5007-A.\n\nFollowing the construction of Site-40-R a log of all SCP-5007 departures and returns has been maintained, with instances returning with abducted victims 83% less often than prior to current containment procedures. However, on the 19/4/2003 Site 40-R logged three SCP-5007 instances departing SCP-5007-A, and on the 23/4/2008 recorded thirty six instances returning, with only two not having any fresh abductees. No monitoring post has any records of missing persons, SCP-5007 sightings, or satellite data indicating the presence of these as yet unaccounted for instances.\nThis event was followed by the largest SCP-5007 instance being [DATA EXPUNGED] by a large tentacle originating from SCP-5007-B. This process took 78 hours, and necessitated a 26% increase in on site psychological counseling.\nWhile the presence of a large entity below SCP-5007-B has been suspected for some time, this is the first concrete evidence presented to the Foundation to date. This entity has been designated SCP-5007-C, and the confirmation of its existence will necessitate a manned exploration of SCP-5007-B in order to determine the nature of SCP-5007-C, with Dr. Steenstrup volunteering for the mission.\n\nAddendum 5007-06:\n\n++ SCP-5007-B Manned Exploration. LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED.\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nSCP-5007-B MANNED EXPEDITION 38 VIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 4/12/2017\nNOTE: In an effort to determine the nature of both SCP-5007-B and SCP-5007-C, it was determined that a manned exploration of SCP-5007-B would be necessary. Between the 19/5/2008 and the 4/12/2017 there have been thirty seven attempted expeditions, all of which resulted in failure due to hull collapse caused by intense pressure. Working collaboratively with private companies, the Foundation was able to develop a deep sea submersible capable of diving to a maximum of 13,500m underwater9. Following the losses of trained personnel on previous exploration attempts, it was decided that a D-Class personnel10 would be trained in the operation of this submersible and would carry out the mission. D-5007-98 was instructed to dive to the bottom of SCP-5007-B and to describe significant depth readings.\nCameras mounted on the exterior of the SCPS Nautilus and a microphone mounted within would record all possible detail. Due to the depth of the water involved in this test, remote viewing of this footage was impossible and required physical recollection of the vessel to view.\nNote on brevity and corruption: Due to extraneous and irrelevant footage's removal and the data corruption present in its later stages of the log, this is not the full record of Exploration 5007-B-38.\n\nFront view of the SCPS Nautilus.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[00:00:01]: D-5007-98 completes pre-dive preparations and checks on himself and the SCPS Nautilus, and is craned over SCP-5007-B.\n[00:02:30]: D-5007-98: All systems are good, I'm ready to submerge.\n[00:03:00]: SCPS Nautilus is lowered into SCP-5007-B and is disconnected from the crane.\n[00:03:19]: D-5007-98: Looking good, headed down. Seeing a lot of strange blacky yellow vines growing around the walls of the trench.\n[00:26:35]: Visibility is good, and black tendrils with yellow markings can be seen lining the walls of the pit.\n[00:32:12]: Several SCP-5007-A3 instances are seen inhabiting a large communal web. The largest extends a limb to touch the SCPS Nautilus before quickly withdrawing.\n[00:37:08]: A large SCP-5007 instance comes into view, clinging to a rocky outcropping. All of its eyes follow the SCPS Nautilus, and many of the previously seen tendrils are wrapped around the specimen and inside of its orifices, particularly the mouths and noses of the individuals composing the bulk of the specimen.\n[00:37:20]: D-5007-98: Jesus, is that a plane its holding onto? Uh, 528 metres down.\n[00:37:30]: Another 16 SCP-5007 instances are seen resting against the walls of SCP-5007-B between 528 and 1750 metres.\n[01:03:27]: D-5007-98: Natural light is all gone. I'm glad those things don't seem interested in me.\n[01:13:52]: A large six gill shark swims past the SCPS-Nautilus and proceeds to attack an SCP-5007-A3 instance.\n[01:15:00]: D-5007-98: 2123 metres down n- holy crap, where did he come from?\n\n01:13:52.\n\n[01:20:00]: Another 119 SCP-5007 instances and 487 SCP-4159 instances are seen between 2123 and 5391 metres deep, along with 58 overgrown plane wrecks. These wrecks are often inhabited by SCP-5007-A3 instances. There is no natural light penetrating to this depth.\n[03:45:36]: D-5007-98: How am I not at the bottom? They said they didn't think it went deeper than 4000 metres. What is that? Seeing machines at 5520 metres.\n[03:53:19]: Numerous unmanned submersibles are seen tangled in the black tendrils growing along the walls, some are nearly fully covered by stone.\n[03:58:56]: The SCPS Nautilus passes a badly damaged human arm, which appears to have been crushed. The arm is visibly twitching\n[03:59:03]: D-5007-98: Oh my god. Uh, 5800 metres now, seeing human remains. God I can't wait to get back up and go home. I wouldn't mind just going back to prison at this point, it feels so fucking wrong down here.\n[04:19:19]: The SCPS Nautilus passes into a brine pool, and visibility drops.\n[04:19:26]: D-5007-98: Visibility's even worse down here. 6000 metres now, just passed into the brine layer. I'm not seeing any fish or anything.\n[04:40:40]: The SCPS Nautilus enters a large mass of human remains similar to the arm encountered at 03:58:56. The remains all appear to have been crushed, drained of blood and possessing intact eyes. D-5007-98 can be heard hyperventilating as they enter this area. Each individual floating in this area is alive and attempting to move despite the enormous damage to their bodies. All can be seen to visibly observe the SCPS Nautilus as it passes them.\n[04:44:44]: D-5007-98: Oh my god, oh no no no no. This can't be possible, how are they moving?\n[04:47:52]: At this point, the remains are attempting to grab the SCPS Nautilus and appear to be attempting to communicate with it. Thumping can be heard inside the submersible as they bump against it.\n[05:27:19]: D-5007-98 They're saying something, Oh god they're talking to me, what are they saying?\n[05:34:21]: One set of partial remains floats in front of the SCPS Nautilus, looking directly at the camera. Later analysis confirmed this to be the remains of former Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. It mouths something to the camera, unable to be deciphered by Foundation lip readers.\n[05:34:28]: D-5007-98: Go back! They're saying go back! Oh fuck no, I can't do this, I can't! I've gone down 6700 metres, I'm not going further.\n[06:03:47]: SCPS Nautilus' rate of descent can be seen to slow, but passes the mass of human remains into clear water again.\n[06:08:09]: D-5007-98: I\u2026 Please let it be over\u2026 I can't see that again. I\u2026 Maybe there's a different way out at the bottom, please\u2026\n[06:10:23]: D-5007-98 can be heard performing calming breathing exercises for 19 minutes.\n[06:29:56]: D-5007-98: Okay, let's keep going. Currently at 7208 metres down.\n[07:08:24]: A Foundation submersible comes into view floating in the open water. It has visibly imploded.\n[07:08:29]: D-5007-98: Jesus. I'm glad this one's top of the line\u2026 8963 metres, encountered a destroyed submersible.\n[07:45:07]: A large black tentacle can be seen rapidly emerging from below. It is approximately 8 metres in diameter and features numerous yellow eyes growing on it. This tentacle proceeds to wrap around the SCPS Nautilus and begins to rapidly drag it down. D-5007-98 can be heard panicking and expressing distress during this process.\n[07:45:47]: D-5007-98: Please God save me and deliver me and forgive my sins I don't want to die five miles under the sea I want to see my Chloe again please Go-\n[07:53:94]: At this point data corruption begins affecting the footage. No audio can be heard and there is static present in the footage.\n[07:57:34]: Eight more tentacles can be seen rising towards the SCPS-Nautilus. Three of these possess large openings on their ends, which proceed to open as they approach the submersible, revealing large clusters of eyes, mouths and human heads seemingly grafted to the tentacles.\n[08:13:40]: Static and blurred images. D-5007-98 can be heard vomiting, followed by a muffled thump as he presumably loses consciousness.\n[10:74:85]: The SCPS Nautilus appears to now be resting on the sea floor, with no rocky walls in sight. Black tendrils cover the seabed and detritus in the water moves irregularly, indicating something moving off camera. A dark shape begins to approach the Nautilus.\n[10:76:20]: Static.\n[11:03:52]: The SCPS Nautilus is now resting on a rocky shelf overhanging a drop off. A mass of thin tentacles are emerging from within this drop off and are holding \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Taberner and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Anderson.11 The tentacles proceed to press the individuals together, causing them fuse together by unknown means. Both individuals show signs of significant distress. The tentacles proceed to further alter both victims, before thin green tentacles enter the frame from above and force themselves into the victims abdomens, which begin to swell.\n\n11:97:97.\n\n[11:97:97]: Static, unclear fragments of images.\n[44:44:44]: Entire frame is filled by an enormous eye ringed with tentacles, large claws and human remains. It is estimated to be at least 650 metres in diameter. D-5007-98 can be heard screaming for the entire duration of this portion of footage.\n[12:35:08]: Static\n[12:38:48]: [DATA EXPUNGED]\n[12:58:19]: The SCPS Nautilus is rapidly ascending, though the cameras are partially obscured by an unknown substance. D-5007-98 can be heard babbling and vomiting.\n[13:02:15]: D-5007-98: It saw me! It saw me! It saw everything, it wants to know everything, why can I see so much? I don't want it to see me anymore please make it stop looking at me!\n[15:37:12]: The SCPS Nautilus breaches the surface. Recovery teams successfully recover the submersible.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterward:\nUpon the recovery of the SCPS Nautilus it was found that the submersible was almost entirely covered in a thick organic coating. This coating was visually similar to a black slime mold, but was host to dozens of eyes growing from it. Additionally, the submersible itself had suffered partial crush damage rendering the access hatches inoperable. Recovery team 2 proceeded to transport the Nautilus to Site 40-R in a temporary containment system so that D-5007-98 and the recordings could be safely extracted.\nUpon their extrication from the SCPS Nautilus, D-5007-98 immediately attempted to attack Foundation personnel and harm themselves. They showed signs of anomalous physical alteration, namely the growth of numerous eyes over their upper body and arms. On-site security determined that D-5007-98 was a threat to personnel safety and immediately terminated them with small arms fire.\nRecovery of the recording data was successfully carried out, although there was some corruption. Analysis of the on-board computer systems showed that the SCPS Nautilus had been taken to a maximum depth of 17,934 metres below sea level. Due to the unknown nature of the material coating the submersible, it was determined that the Nautilus would be dismantled and incinerated along with the remains of D-5007-98.\nFollowing review of the recovered footage, it was determined that SCP-5007-B must be sealed. Construction of a reinforced containment seal to be fitted over SCP-5007-B is now underway.\n\nAddendum 5007-7:\n\n++ INCIDENT 5007-40-R-12. LEVEL 5 RESTRICTED, PROCEED?\n\nCLEARANCE GRANTED\n\nInitial Events\nMTF Gamma-6 Investigation Log\nSite 40-R Recovered Footage\n\nIncident 5007-40-R-12 Analysis:\nConstruction of the SCP-5007-B Containment Seal was completed on the 19/01/2018 and was rapidly transported to SCP-5007-A where it was fitted over SCP-5007-B via drilled anchor points on the 21/01/2018. Site 40-R reported the operation a success and resumed monitoring of SCP-5007-A at 13:28 hours.\nAt 01:48 hours on the 22/01/2018 Site 40-R ceased transmitting all signals to Site 40. Upon transmitting various messages and orders to Site 40-R, every device within Site 40 received the following email from the account of Dr. Steenstrup, who was lost in action during an early attempt to explore SCP-5007-B.\nDATE: 22/01/2018\nSUBJECT: I WANT TO SEE\nFROM: <edgar.steenstrup@\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588>\nTO: <\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588@\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588>\n\nFOUND YOU\n\nA small percentage of the staff receiving this email proceeded to undergo anomalous physical changes similar to those seen in D-5007-98. Surgery was able to save 85% of the affected individuals. A Site-wide network scrub was initiated, and it was determined that MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") would be needed to re-establish contact with Site 40-R. Due to adverse weather conditions, it was not deemed safe to investigate Site 40-R until the 17/02/2018.\n\nInvestigation of Site 40-R:\nNote: The following events took place on the 17/02/2018, resulting in the worst losses MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") have experienced since 1984. The footage itself was obtained from the body camera of Cpt. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Wallace, one of two survivors of the expedition to Site 40-R. Extraneous detail and dialogue has been removed from this log.\n\n[05:37:12]: Aboard the marine transport, footage shows the approach to Site 40-R. The site is seen to be heavily damaged and partially submerged, with multiple SCP-5007 instances resting upon it as they do on SCP-5007-A.\n[05:43:30]: Closer inspection of the site from the water shows that both west facing support pillars have been buckled by a significant impact. Three large objects can be seen resting on top of the Site, and there is evidence of multiple now extinguished fires. The protective netting over the Site has been removed. The transport proceeds to moor itself by the water access station.\n[05:48:30]: Initial examination of Site 40-R's exterior begins. Massive structural damage can be seen, with the three large objects appearing to have caused most of this damage. Closer examination of these objects shows these to be the Containment Seal previously fitted over SCP-5007-B. These sections of the seal appear to have been broken apart via massive physical force. Each segment is coated with a thick organic material, from which multiple large eyes were growing. This material is seen to have spread across much of the exterior surface of Site 40-R, and the eyes growing from it can be seen tracking the task forces movements.\n[06:13:27]: MTF enters the site via Corridor 12-B. An examination of an information terminal is conducted, showing that the Site is running on reserve power only, with the reactor having been shut off by automated systems to avoid a meltdown. Continued searching of the Site shows more organic matter growing within the corridor. No On-site personnel are located and the decision to move the search to Level Six12 of the Site is made.\n[06:34:03]: Due to structural damage to the stairwells of the Site, use of maintenance tunnels was required to reach Level Six. This led the task force directly to the main command center, where multiple staff members were located. All had numerous large yellow eyes growing across their bodies and internal organs. In some cases individuals whose entire torso had been converted to one massive eye and adhered itself to a nearby surface were seen, whereas other individuals faces had been entirely replaced by a single large eye.\n[06:51:55]: Further examination of Level Six was able to locate 82% of the Site's staff. All had been altered in the same manner as those found in the main command center. The majority of these individuals remained seated or reclined, though some stood or would move throughout the Site. While the eyes growing from these individuals were observed to track the task force, none of the staff responded or interacted with MTF members in any way.\n[07:09:23]: Continuing the search, it was discovered that the stairwell and maintenance tunnels leading to Level Seven13 were inaccessible. Analysing the lower level with remote scanners showed that there was no seawater present in Level Seven, and that the main containment facility was several degrees warmer than the surrounding environment. The decision was made to cut through to the containment facility and rappel down.\n[07:52:15]: Footage shows that the main containment facility is largely undamaged save for a large breach in the floor, through which an extremely large black tentacle had entered. The tentacle was coiled around the walls of the chamber before allowing its end to hang freely in the air from the ceiling. Its entire surface was covered in spiraling rows of large eyes, before terminating in a large fleshy mass resembling elements of human, cetacean, reptilian and fish anatomy. The remaining staff members could be seen having arranged themselves into a spiral formation around the end of this tentacle, and were proceeding to enter an opening at the tip in single file. These staff members had undergone similar alterations as those found on Level Six to varying degrees.\n[07:55:27]: The MTF successfully enters Level Seven and proceeds to survey the room. Breathing apparatuses are readied in anticipation of potential flooding. At this point Sgt. \u2588\u2588\u2588 Hoctor attempts to communicate with a less altered staff member, resulting in the task force being attacked en masse by all of the affected individuals.\n[07:58:58]: All members of MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") engage the affected staff with automatic weapons. On multiple occasions it can be seen that altered staff fail to die until the destruction of anomalous ocular growths is achieved. Pvt. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Wheatley is non-fatally wounded and all remaining anomalously affected staff were successfully terminated.\n[08:07:46]: Pvt. Wheatley's injuries are treated. Several MTF members are examining the bodies of the deceased when the tentacle begins to violently attack the team. Sgt. Hoctor, Pvt. Royce, Pvt. Trujillo, and Pvt. Crahan are immediately closest to the tentacle and are either thrown into the walls or crushed beneath the tentacle. The rest of the MTF retreat to the security station and fire upon the tentacle. A distress call was made to Site 40, who proceeded to dispatch a rescue helicopter to Site 40-R. After several attempts to enter the security station, the tentacle then proceeded to exit the chamber, causing rapid flooding. The MTF was forced to equip their breathing apparatuses and abandon Pvt. Wheatley to retreat via the breach.\n[08:08:03]: Upon exiting Site 40-R, between sixteen and thirty tentacles believed to belong to SCP-5007-C can be seen emerging from the sea floor. Cpt. Wallace can be seen instructing the remaining MTF members to proceed to the submerged scaffolding and to surface before following personally. Sgt. Fehn and Pvt. Schneider can be seen being grabbed by SCP-5007-C and rapidly pulled into deep water, with the tentacles not reacting to the resulting weapons fire in any way.\n[08:08:42]: The MTF reaches the scaffolding and proceeds to ascend toward the surface. Near the surface a large tentacle an estimated seventeen metres in diameter wraps around the entire support column, crushing Pvt. Anders, Sgt. Davis and Pvt. Bredl. Cpt. Wallace and Pvt. Taylor successfully reach the surface and proceed to Corridor 12-B to await rescue.\n[08:56:19]: Three large tentacles are seen lifting the marine transport from the water before throwing it several hundred metres out to sea, where waves force it to be grounded on SCP-5007-A. No more tentacles are seen after this point.\n[09:28:23]: Cpt. Wallace complains of physical discomfort, and proceeds to women's restroom 12-B and examines herself in the mirror. Clusters of yellow eyes can be seen emerging from her left shoulder, chest and arm and cheek. Cpt. Wallace expresses distress and returns to Pvt. Taylor, who is displaying similar symptoms.\n[11:15:56]: Cpt. Wallace and Pvt. Taylor are successfully recovered via rescue helicopter and returned to Site-40.\n\nAfterword:\nBoth Cpt. Wallace and Pvt. Taylor were able to be saved through extensive surgery removing the anomalous growths, and received commendations for their efforts. It was advised that Site 40-R would be repaired and restaffed. These repairs were completed on the 27/10/2018 without incident, with observation and research of SCP-5007-A, B and C proceeding smoothly. Site 40-R has resumed the management of Containing of SCP-5007, and no further sightings of SCP-5007-C have been reported.\n\nAnalysis of footage recovered from Site 40-R:\nNote:\nFollowing the repair and restaffing of Site 40-R, security footage was recovered from on-site servers. This footage required extensive reconstruction, and shed new light on the events of Incident 5007-40-R-12. Following the review of this footage, it was decided that no further efforts to seal SCP-5007-B would be made. A transcript of the recovered footage follows:\n\n01:45 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 6-B: Poor weather limits the camera's field of vision. Conditions are stormy, visible footage shows the exterior of Site 40-R. A patrol ship can be seen circling SCP-5007-A. The vessels search light is focused on the seal over SCP-5007-B. A series of extremely loud bangs come from SCP-5007-B, and the containment seal can be seen buckling outwards. Klaxons sound and on-site security can be seen mobilizing.\n01:45 hours, Containment Seal camera 1: All visible SCP-5007 instances are seen to approach Site 40-R. Fractures can be seen to form along the Containment Seal.\n01:46 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 6-B: Containment seal ruptures. Five large tentacles (presumed to belong to SCP-5007-C) emerge from the breach in the Containment Seal, prying it from SCP-5007-A. The patrol vessel opens fire upon the tentacles. Three large SCP-5007 instances lift the vessel into the air before depositing it on SCP-5007-A. A tentacle emerges from SCP-5007-B, proceeding to seize the vessel and drag it underwater into SCP-5007-B.\n01:46 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 7-F: Multiple SCP-5007 instances can be seen attacking Site 40-R, working cooperatively to remove the protective netting from the Site. Automated security systems and on-site security personnel engage SCP-5007 instances, incapacitating three instances.\n01:47 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 6-B: The tentacles emerging from SCP-5007-B tear a section of the containment seal from its housing and proceeds to throw it at Site 40-R. Impact is out of frame; results in a loss of primary power to the site. Automated weaponry cease function, and the on-site emergency lighting and alarms activate.\n01:47 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 1-G: Multiple Foundation watercraft are seen departing from the Site towards SCP-5007-A, but are engaged by SCP-5007-C before arrival. Three gunships are seen to be lifted from the water by large tentacles and crushed before being pulled beneath the surface.\n01:47 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 7-F: SCP-5007 instances succeed in removing the protective netting from site 40-R and proceed to attack and abduct retreating security personnel en-masse.\n01:47 hours, Containment Seal camera 1: Remaining Foundation gunships are thrown toward SCP-5007-A. Survivors are seen to emerge from the wreckage and engage multiple SCP-5007-A3 and SCP-4159 instances.\n01:48 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 6-B: SCP-5007-C manages to remove the remaining sections of the containment seal and proceeds to throw them at Site 40-R. One of these can be seen impacting the communications tower, and the Site now has multiple fires burning across its exterior. Security personnel can be seen being abducted in large numbers.\n01:48 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 6-B: Pvt. David Haar can be seen attempting to hide himself from SCP-5007 instances by climbing into the scaffolding of the site, but is knocked into the water by stray fire.\n01:48 hours, Site 40-R submerged camera 19-H: Pvt. Haar is pulled to the sea floor by SCP-5007-C, which can be seen emerging from the sand. Upon reaching the sea floor, Pvt Haar attempts to escape but is pulled beneath the sand. Multiple SCP-5007-C tentacles can be seen emerging from the sea floor and rapidly surfacing.\n01:48 hours, Containment Seal camera 1: Surviving gunship crews are overwhelmed by multiple instances of SCP-4159 and incapacitated. SCP-5007 instances can be seen returning to SCP-5007-A from Site 40-R and throwing captured on-site security forces at SCP-5007-A from an estimated height of 20 to 35 metres. Numerous SCP-5007-A3 instances can be seen preying on these personnel.\n01:49 hours, Site 40-R exterior camera 6-B: Multiple SCP-5007-C tentacles can be seen entering frame and wrapping themselves around the site, causing significant structural damage. These tentacles can be seen entering the site via various access points. At this point the camera's view begins to tilt as the sites support pillars buckle under the additional weight of the Containment Seal.\n01:53 hours, Site 40-R security station 12-B camera: Multiple on-site security personnel can be seen having fortified their position and are aiming their weapons toward an exterior door. Sgt. Andrew Williamson reports contact and all security personnel open fire in the direction of the exterior door. A large tentacle featuring spiraling rows of eyes and terminating in a large mouth enters the frame, and can be seen to be receiving damage from the sustained fire. The tentacle's \"mouth\" opens, revealing a large yellow eye.\n01:54 hours, Site 40-R security station 12-B camera: All security personnel display extreme discomfort and pain, with many dropping their weapons. Multiple large eyes can be seen beginning to grow on their bodies, with Sgt. Williamson's mouth notably being filled by one such eye and expanding to cover his entire face. The tentacle proceeds past the security personnel, destroying the camera.\n02:08 hours, Site 40-R main command center camera 6: Remaining staff can be seen fortifying the command center, with remaining security distributing weaponry among staff. Video terminals on screen show multiple SCP-5007-C tentacles converging upon the command center.\n02:22 hours, Site 40-R directors office camera: Site Director Gladys Morrison can be seen attempting to barricade the door to her office, but is knocked back as a large tentacle enters the room. Morrison hides behind her desk as the tentacle can be seen to split open, revealing a severely mutated Dr Steenstrup has been integrated into the tentacle. Director Morrison fires several shots at Dr Steenstrup with her sidearm to no effect. Dr Steenstrup can be seen raising his arms and tentacles, causing significant disruption to the camera's feed. Director Morrison's skin can be seen beginning to pulsate and bulge, and Dr Steenstrup emits a loud wail. At this point all camera feeds on-site fail.\n\nAfterword:\nFollowing the recovery of the above footage, it was determined that Site 40-R would be fitted with Class-\u03a3 auto cannons, and that no further efforts to seal SCP-5007-B will be made. Future research into the nature of SCP-5007-C is to be made a priority, and must be carried out with the most non-invasive methods available.\n\nVideo still recovered the morning after Incident 5007-40-R-12. Source unknown.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Jillian Taberner, Elizabeth Taberner and William Taberner.\n2. Mary Taberner\n3. Marjorie Gillespie, Vyner Gillespie and Martin Simpson, who were also present at the disappearance.\n4. Abductee-4\n5. SCP-5007-A1\n6. SCP-5007-A2\n7. SCP-5007-A3\n8. Previously only found in permafrost from over 32,000 years BC\n9. Dubbed the SCPS Nautilus\n10. D-5007-98\n11. Disappeared from Deal Island in 2001\n12. Housing the Main command center, Security, Medical and residential facilities.\n13. Main research and Containment facilities\n\n\u00ab SCP-5006 | SCP-5007 | SCP-5008 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5008: HUSH\nWith thanks to: Rounderhouse, Woedenaz, Croquembouche and djkaktus, all of whom designed elements of the formatting I've used, and also to Lord_of_Laugh, Panteradactyl, Oboebandgeek99, GerrymanderBassist, T Rutherford, and DrAkimoto for crit at various stages.\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_British_Army_in_the_Middle_East_1941_E4087.jpg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruins_of_Chefren_(1878)_-_TIMEA.jpg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acelerador_de_Particula_1996.jpg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsbeamtesting.JPG\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nDoes the Black Moon howl?\n.\n.\n.\nIn night and silence we guard against all that would make it wail.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nLevel 5/5008 clearance verified. Welcome, Researcher.\n.\n.\n.\n\nItem#: SCP-5008\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5008-Prime as depicted by O5-3-0.1 O5-4-0 (left) and O5-7-0 (right) are present.\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Forces\n\nSCPF Site-01\nN/A\n[REDACTED]\nMTF Alpha-1, MTF Gamma-7\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The site of SCP-5008-Prime is physically contained by MTF Gamma-7 (\"Burning Coronet\") under standard security procedures for high-priority anomalous archaeological locations, including perimeter fencing, landmines, and aerial drone monitoring. Containment is simplified by thousands of years of erosion and shifting sands, which have almost entirely concealed the portions of SCP-5008-Prime that were aboveground at the time of its construction.\nMTF Gamma-7 personnel are not authorized to enter SCP-5008-Prime, to otherwise further investigate the structure, or to know of its former or current contents. Further investigation of SCP-5008-Prime is to be performed by personnel authorized to access this file, if determined to be necessary by an Overseer Council member.\nSCP-5008 itself is contained in Sector 231 of the Thaumiel Wing of Site-01, which has been adapted from its original purpose as an aircraft hangar to store SCP-5008. A specially trained information security management team, acting under the supervision of O5-1, monitors and operates the device as necessary for global security purposes. The actual activation of SCP-5008 requires a majority vote by the Overseer Council, or an order of mercy issued by a majority of authorized Ethics Committee delegates. Outside of formal Overseer Council or Ethics Committee votes, requests, suggestions, and questions regarding SCP-5008's operation may be submitted to O5-1's Site-01 secretary, presently Therese Machzer.\nAny further discoveries related to GoI-5008 (\"The Keepers\") are to be censored and compartmentalized under the same restrictions as this file. SCP-5008 is to be considered available for this purpose, but conventional information suppression tactics are in place as part of the operational profile of MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\").\nShould circumstances require it, unauthorized personnel are to be led to believe that there is no SCP-5008. Outside of Site-01, SCP-5008 is not to be referred to except when absolutely necessary, and then only as \"HUSH,\" its approved codename.\n\nSCP-5008 control chamber.\n\nDescription: SCP-5008 is the Harpocrates-Usheq Confidentiality Engine, which was developed primarily based upon materials recovered from Erikesh-um, the chief monastery of the Erikeshan people (since designated SCP-5008-Prime and GoI-5008). SCP-5008 consists of over 4200 cubic meters of various machine elements, the majority of which are automated and serve to amplify its telepathic impact. The exact effective range of SCP-5008 remains indeterminable, but it has been shown to operate with absolute precision over 1.1 million kilometers.\n\nA false-color representation of a simple thoughtwave broadcasted by SCP-5008, conveying the concept of loyalty.\n\nSCP-5008 is capable of immunizing life forms within a preset area of effect against certain concepts, including general emotions, instincts, sensory abilities, and recent or long term memories. Originally, SCP-5008 was only capable of large-scale blunt cognitive alterations, but refinement over the past [REDACTED] historical cycles and new discoveries pertaining to the now-extinct Erikeshans has dramatically improved its accuracy, effectiveness, and ease of use.\nSCP-5008 is operated by means of a beryllium bronze clockwork device integrated into the circuitry of its control chamber, designated SCP-5008-Modus. This device consists of an equilateral triangular plate, just under one meter in width, evenly tessellated and engraved with precisely 300 of the fundamental glyphs of the Erikeshan written language and their mathematical system. This plate is affixed to a circular disc containing its clockwork components.2 The underside of this disc bears a partially damaged inscription of Mekhanite derivation, reading \"[to the] friends of the temple, [we] grant [this] token of truce.\" It is signed in the same dialect with a name that may be phonetically rendered as \"Bu Mor Oh.\"\nDepression of the glyphs on the surface of SCP-5008-Modus (or combinations thereof) activate its internal mechanisms and, through unknown means, define concepts to be acted upon by SCP-5008 as a whole. Conventional digital control systems, incorporated at the time of SCP-5008's construction, are also present in the chamber to allow for targeting.\n\nSCP-5008-Prime at the time of its initial inspection by the Foundation.\n\nAddendum 5008-1: SCP-5008-Prime\nSCP-5008-Prime was discovered by independent Hellenistic archaeological prospectors in the month of Corvus in 1-1938,3 at a location which now corresponds to a point \u2588\u2588 kilometers [REDACTED] of Alexandria, Egypt. The site was acquired under eminent domain by the Treasury of the Hellenistic Potentate4 and subsequently designated a historical heritage site. It was not until 1-1944 that the Foundation's Secret Consulate for North African nations was able to obtain access in return for the relaxation of economic sanctions from other nations.\nSCP-5008-Prime had not originally been considered to be a point of interest related to any of the ancient anomalous cultures of the Middle East, but inspection quickly proved otherwise.\n\n\u25ba Report To The Overseers\n\n\u25bc Report To The Overseers\n\n6th of Cancer, 1944\nPreliminary Observations Of Archaeological Site 231\n\nTo The Council,\nOur assumptions were wrong. The ruins of what the local Treasurers call \"Alexahmat\" is no ordinary pharaonic tomb. The stonework is right, all hewn limestone and granite, but not even the priests of the Old Kingdoms could work the sorceries layered within its walls. This work could only have been done in the bygone age of Erikesh.\nYou have likely already heard how our ship was behind schedule, and thus we only arrived at last night. Our progress thus far is limited. I have established a safe zone for us to camp in, and Kleppman has set up his \"sonar\" contraption. The security men, meanwhile, have rounded up some of the old expedition members with the help of the Treasury's agents.\nWe have been able to obtain very little information from them, sadly; they are all nearly too terrified to speak of it. Some show definite signs of cognito-disturbance. From what we were able to discern, the Treasurers examined 231's upper floors and three of those underground. They intended to do more and would have if one of their historians had not stumbled out of a lower chamber without his skin on. (I was able to examine the body. A delayed action N\u00e4lk\u00e4inen curse. Elegant security.) After that, they cannot agree what exactly scuttled their investigation. One man rambled of a great beast like an alligator with the mane of a lion, another could do nothing but recite Kabbalistic rites in native Hebrew\u2026 which he did not previously practice, or speak.\nIn any event, it is clear that the Treasury is utterly clueless as to the significance of what they have discovered here. If atheism were not a sacred tenet of ours, I would thank the gods they had the wisdom to leave well enough alone.\nIn the pursuit of science, sanity, and safety, I remain:\n\u2014 Alexander Teles\n\nP.S. I am attaching Kleppman's scrawlings, so you may see the overall layout of 231 for yourselves. I have heard some of the other doctors hint that desk drawers, back rooms, and wine cellars may no longer be sufficient to hold all the things we investigate. Perhaps some day we shall build an asylum of our own.\n\n\u25ba Report To The Overseers\n\n\u25bc Report To The Overseers\n\n30th of Cancer, 1944\nContinued Investigation Into Site 231\n\nTo The Council,\nI despise myself for my weakness, for I cannot help but begin this report by bemoaning the dreadful news reaching us from Europe. They say the Germans have taken London and the resistances in Spain, Italy, and Russia are faltering. I have studied the occult all my life, and so I may confirm firsthand what is said by some fortunate enough to live in the light: there are no demons walking this earth so brutal and willful to destroy as fascist man.\nBut I do not only write to commiserate. The Keepers may offer us some slim light in this darkness. One of our linguists, a young man whose name continually escapes me, has chanced upon some scraps of old Erikeshan writing: a series of letters accompanied with what he says is a Mekan dialect known to the Treasurers. We have dispatched him to Cairo to seek scholarly assistance in translating the letters. He also has photographic records of all the other Erikeshan script we have found within 231, and thus may provide far more of value than the whole rest of our expedition. I shall certainly not begrudge him the credit if it is to be so.\nOn the topic of 231 itself, there is little to be said. The excavation remains slow, the artifacts remain largely incomprehensible, the spellwork remains tedious, and the casualty rate remains high. As usual, our inventory for the past week is attached.\n\u2014 Alexander Teles\n\n\u25ba Report To The Overseers\n\n\u25bc Report To The Overseers\n\n2nd of Capricorn, 1944\nSupplemental Report: Tragedy in Cairo\n\nCouncillors,\nThe linguist I mentioned in my prior reports, Johan Brigit, is dead. He had ceased correspondence with our encampment, and two days ago Kleppman set out to hold him up for it. They found him locked up inside his own chambers, apparently having engaged in some rather ungentlemanly behavior before slashing both his wrists with his pen. Servants had reported hearing him screaming in the night, but also that he rebuffed all attempts to approach or speak to him.\nBut what is profoundly more disturbing than the grotesquery of his death is the content of the translation he had produced that night. The scholars he had consulted were indeed able to match the Erikeshan script to one of the extinct Mekan tribes of their region, and were highly grateful for his newly provided firsthand evidence. Flush with success, Brigit shut himself up in private with the photographs and set to work on what he termed the \"Erikesh Codex.\"\nAccording to the text, the Erikeshans, like the N\u00e4lk\u00e4 (and ourselves, it must be admitted), hated and feared the superphysical beings of this universe. They wrote the Codex to be less a holy book and more a sacred vow and witch-hunter's manual in one, to pass on the knowledge of how to Keep the world sane. Many times they struggled against the gods and their worshipers. Many times they lost, and some few times they won. Eventually, all that was left of them was Erikesh-um, where their way of Keeping began.\nHere Brigit's translation grew muddied, likely due to fatigue and blood loss. All that could be discerned from his work as it was was that the Mekans then sought some concession from the Keepers, in exchange for some weapon to help them in their campaign.\nI have delegated operational management of 231 to Kleppman and Captain Morstan. I will leave for Cairo in the morning and take over the translation. I must know what he died for.\n\u2014 Alexander Teles\n\n\u25ba Report To The Overseers\n\n\u25bc Report To The Overseers\n\n13th of Capricorn, 1944\nExciting Breakthrough Regarding The Codex\n\nTo The Council,\nIn looking over our expedition's prior inventories, you may have taken particular note of a three-sided bronze contraption we dug up about five weeks ago. At first we assumed it to be a kind of Turing machine, intended to perform mathematical operations that would take a mere mortal many hours. Since I translated some new passages of the \"codex,\" however, I believe I have begun to perceive its true function.\n(I use the term \"codex\" loosely. Indeed, the writings we have found within 231 are many separate works, but we may as well refer to them collectively.)\nWe knew from the moment that we found the device that its uppermost ten symbols were the first 10 integers, 0, 1 and so on, because they were borrowed by the Keepers from the Mekans. (Furthermore, there is a Mekan \"maker's mark\" upon the underside). We assumed, then, that the remaining symbols were of some mathematical system and discarded the whole thing. After all, we Westerners did not come to Egypt for ancient mathematics, but for ancient magics.\nBut then Dr. Light pointed out to me that, since Brigit's demise, we had not compared his and my notes against the sections of codex on the artifacts we had cataloged prior to his death, the bronze being a prime example. When I looked back over it, all was clear: it includes all the basic components of the Erikeshan language. If this device were our only sample of their dead language, we could write anything in it. And that is its purpose: to write.\nI know the membership of the Council tends toward the scientific, so I will be straightforward in my explanation: the clockwork is made to make certain ideas (particularly religious ones) literally unthinkable in mortal beings. This, of course, spits in the face of all modern alienists have deduced of the functioning of the brain, but it is not possible to disbelieve the codex. Those among you who originally came to our cause from the military, at least, shall see the tactical significance of such a power.\nWe have labored for a long time in the shadows, Councillors, paying steep bribes and concocting convoluted explanations to cover our activities, but with the Keepers' methods, I believe we may amplify our operations a thousandfold.\nThere is an experiment I intend to perform with the device. If it goes as I predict, I shall pack it up at once and return to headquarters with it.\n\u2014 Alexander Teles\n\n\u25ba Report To The Overseers\n\n\u25bc Report To The Overseers\n\n19th of Corvus, 1944\n\nCouncillors \u2014 new information has come to light too sensitive for this means of communication. Request immediate translocation for privy conference.\n\nNOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO DIE ABORNING \u2014 RED SKY IN MORNING.\n\n\u25ba Overseer Council Emergency Session Transcript [EXCERPTED]\n\n\u25bc Overseer Council Emergency Session Transcript [EXCERPTED]\n\n20th of Corvus, 1944\n\nTeles: That is not what I am saying, sir.\nO5-7-0: Oh, but I think that it is. You are suggesting we turn over our whole operational security to an ancient machine cult's fortune telling device.\nO5-3-0: Seven, you know that's not what he's suggesting. The device -\nO5-4-0: Teles's translation of this so-called codex is not even peer-reviewed -\nTeles: That is simply not -\nO5-2-1: Enough! We don't need to have this argument again. Now, Doctor: the chief concern of 4, 5 and 7 is valid. How are we supposed to know that this\u2026 thing won't do to us what it did to your test subject?\nTeles: Donovan\u2026 had no training in resisting foreign mental impulses. There was no way to predict that his reaction to a simple -\nO5-5-0: No way to predict spontaneous catatonia and permanent addling of the brain?\nO5-2-1: Let him finish.\nTeles: I\u2026 no one regrets the experiment's failure more than I. But the results prove the need for further research, at the very least! As I was saying, if a single word keyed through that thing can reduce an adult brain to the stage of an infant, then what could we do with the other three hundred? Surely there's no end of people whose mental faculties are an inconvenience to us!?\nSilence.\nO5-2-1: We are in a state of war.\nO5-7-0: Our nations may be. Our mission could continue under the Reich.\nO5-6-0: We all know you would be eager for that.\nO5-7-0: How -\nO5-1-0: This bickering does not suit us. I declare the vote open: shall we permit Teles's continued use of this machine? I move in favor.\nO5-2-1: I move against.\nO5-3-0: Favor.\nO5-4-0: Against.\nO5-5-0: We are scientists, not sorcerers. I move against.\nO5-6-0: It is not the way of scientists to reject that which clearly exists and may be useful. I move in favor.\nO5-7-0: I stand to gain the most, but this is the wrong precedent to set. I move against.\nO5-1-0: It is decided. Teles. Bring the device to headquarters. I shall obtain thaumatological and neurological researchers to convene at a secure location and assess this device independently. We can refer to this among ourselves as \"Project Modus.\"\nO5-2-1: And who is to pay for this research, if I may ask?\nO5-1-0: I shall employ my own resources. The common fund shall not suffer for this.\nO5-7-0: And the security factors?\nO5-1-0: I shall make all needed arrangements.\nO5-2-1: If that's acceptable to the rest of the Council\u2026 then our business is concluded.\nTeles: Thank you, Councillors.\n\nAddendum 5008-2: Development of SCP-5008\nSCP-5008-Modus was subsequently transferred to O5-1-0's residence in [REDACTED] for analysis and reverse engineering. The recovery, translation, transfer, and destruction of the remainder of the \"Erikesh Codex\" proceeded until 1-1957,5 at which point SCP-5008 came into occasional use as a Thaumiel class SCP object. It was not until the 1-1970s that research into mechanized thaumatology enabled SCP-5008's use on a scale concomitant with most serious information security breaches, and several decades more until it was capable of cognitive management on a scale effective in a K-Class Scenario.6\nOver centuries of use, however, abnormalities in SCP-5008's operations became more and more readily apparent. For instance, the risk of brain hemorrhage that had almost entirely been alleviated since its earliest days of operation began to recur. Additionally, use of SCP-5008 was linked to outbreaks of a number of anomalous psychological conditions among populations targeted by it, as well as various undesirable ideological and ideatic developments among said populations. Some related materials are compiled below:\n\n\u25ba Incident Report 5008-\u03b1\n\n\u25bc Incident Report 5008-\u03b1\n\nDate Filed: 3/29/1998\nDate Of Occurrence: 3/28/1998\nLocation: Site-01, B Wing, Thomas Kleppman Thaumatological Laboratory, Chamber 7\nAnomaly Involved: SCP-5008-Modus\nPersonnel Involved: N/A\nReport Filed By: A. Clef\nPriority: Ekhi, or whatever the fuck it is we're using now.\n\nI went into the clockworks chamber after hours (no, I'm not telling you why) and saw that some fuckwit left its containment seal undone.I mean, this is literally a hundred thousand dollar magnetic door, protecting a goddamn telepathic brick. How the fuck\nSo anyway I had a look at the thing. The platekeys that had been left on, specifically, were numbers 21,7 43,8 and 221.9 Some egghead will just attach what they all mean so anyone reading this won't need to look them up.\nWe didn't find out who was in there. The access log only showed scheduled visits for the past\u2026 forever, actually. Like with any security breach in 01, the Hand was practically carrying people out of that whole sector that day.\nMiles was the first thaumatologist I managed to get in for a look at the thing. He told me over lunch the next day that, going by the power usage in the time the clockwork was unaccounted for, the platekeys had been left running in that configuration at least several hours. Typically, maintenance has no goddamn clue how they didn't notice a surge in that time.\n\n[SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS OMITTED FOR LACK OF RELEVANCE]\n\n\u25ba Site-01 Internal Memorandum\n\n\u25bc Site-01 Internal Memorandum\n\nTo: O5-1-Sec, <Project Modus Mailing List>\nFrom: Senior Researcher Lindsmith\nDate: 5/8/2005\nSubject: Operation Stargazer - EMERGENCY\n\nSite-9 has been crippled by a wave of messianic delusion. One of the janitorial staff managed to get their hands on another one of those damned books, and now the whole staff are burning books, documents, and, we fear, some of the more mobile skips on-site. The nearest task force is trying to convince the citizens of Sacramento that their mayor didn't really give a cognitohazard-laced speech and turn into an otter, so the Council has fast-tracked WRC's motion to deploy Modus in that area.\nI recommend starting with the umluaq tree of meanings to make the bastards illiterate and follow-up at your own discretion. Volume 2, Chapter 37 of the Codex has some advice about countering Fifthist memeplexes.\nI have to go get chewed out by Five over this, so you'll be on your own for at least an hour. Don't screw this up.\n\n\u25ba Recovered Text Messages\n\n\u25bc Recovered Text Messages\n\nForeword: The following was recovered from unauthorized personal cell phones belonging to Junior Researchers Leyton (in red) and Ross (in blue), who served as part of the SCP-5008 control team.\n\nhey\n\nhey\n\nremeber that thing\nwith the 5ists\nin LA\n\nwai\n\nwell there was one thing i didn put in the report\n\nwtf why not\n\nit just didnt seem relevant\n\nwdym\nwhat was it\n\nwell you know that thing I told you the other day?\n\nhow could i forget lol\n\nits not funny\n\nreading about serial killers? no its not funny\nits fuckin weird\n\nnot as weird as our day jobs\n\nu right D:\n\nanyway the LAPD caught one of these psychos last week\n\nlet me guess\nu used ur work computer to hack the crime scene photos like some perv\n\nfuck you\n\nok\nso what did u actually find out\n\nhave a look10\n[COGNITOHAZARDOUS\nIMAGE FILE EXPUNGED]\n\nholy shit\nis that what i think it is\n\nyep\nthey found these done in blood all over the dude's house\n\nbut how could he know about this\nits p deep lore\n\nhe was one of the cafeteria people at s9\n\ni see\nu thinking what im thinking\n\nhell yeah\n\n\u25ba Incident Report 5008-\u0394\n\n\u25bc Incident Report 5008-\u0394\n\nDate Filed: 1/3/2006\nDate Of Occurrence: 1/2/2006\nLocation: Site-01, Thaumiel Wing, Sector 231\nAnomaly Involved: SCP-5008\nPersonnel Involved: Junior Researchers Leyton and Ross\nReport Filed By: Senior Researcher Lindsmith\nPriority: Ekhi\n\nThere's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be straightforward with it: we found out where Leyton and Ross disappeared to. They hung themselves inside 5008.\nSpecifically, they hung themselves from the rafters inside the primary accelerator.11 How in God's name they managed to get in there, we don't know. All the service hatches were meant to have been sealed until the next internal check up (three months from now), and as far as the maintenance logs go, they were. According to forensics, their bodies are about 5 months dead, which leaves a whole month since they vanished unaccounted for. But that's not the worst part.\nThe only reason we found them before the scheduled check up was because we happened to be giving a tour to Professor Kzith Nbor, who was paying us a visit. Apparently, he did the Overseers a favor and wanted a look at the Keepers' last relic. He told us one of the service hatches was just barely misaligned, and he could smell, as he put it, \"human orifice leakings\" inside.\nWe had maintenance pry it open and found the two of them, entwined in the air, suspended by a single extension cord, without their clothes, swaying over a remarkably complex wheel,12 done in a mixture of their blood and, well, other fluids.\nFortunately, Nbor had the presence of mind to shove one of the techs off his ladder before he got a clear look at the thing. He broke his arm, but at least he won't have to be amnesticized.\nWe've had the wheel photographed and passed on to linguistics, and got some D-Class to mop it up. Also, as project leader, I'm officially removing 5008 from the active list of Thaumiels until we thoroughly review all of its activity over the past four months for any irregularities.\n\n\u25ba Executive Memorandum\n\n\u25bc Executive Memorandum\n\nTo: O5-1\nFrom: O5-2\nDate: 2/11/1910\nSubject: Update On The Berkshire Sisters\n\nSalutations,\nWe have transferred the girls to a suitable private institution for their convalescence. Three months have been allotted for them to recover from their ordeal, then the Bates's boarding school shall expect them. The girls shall be housed there in three shared rooms on the fourth floor, together, but separated from the other pupils. We trust that the strange circumstances of their arrival, in the middle of term, with private accommodations, will trigger the suspicions and jealousies typical to females of their age and ensure that they shall be socially as well as physically contained.\nSister Katherine is to accompany them to both places and monitor for any relapses of an theological nature. Brother Aloysius assures me it is of little probability, but he, of course, never believed that we would have to contend with a live birth at all.\nBy my return, I expect that you shall have rectified the harm you have caused with your wretched machine. If you are as nimble as usual in manipulating the circumstances, you may avoid expulsion from the Council. In the meantime:\nMay the blind and the deaf guard you,\n\u2014 Two\n\nERROR: [SUBSEQUENT FILES WITHHELD]\n\n\u25ba Notice From [REDACTED] (Site-01 Fileserv Administrator)\n\n\u25bc Notice From [REDACTED] (Site-01 Fileserv Administrator)\n\nThere is a certain curiosity that all new personnel assigned to Site-01 are expected to express. In fact, it's more often than not a large part of why they get assigned here. That nose-pushing attitude is essential to a lot of the work at Site-01. We are the watchful eye, the sturdy shield, and the sharp sword of humanity. Here, passivity is death.\nThe X000 SCPs are among the most searched on our private servers. Closely following them are any of the SCPs that typical personnel are absolutely forbidden to know about. (Including this one.) Almost no one who gets assigned here can resist the temptation to look them up on their very first night. (And if our personnel department thought they could, they wouldn't get assigned here!)\nThere's no need to worry: you're not in trouble for looking so far into 5008's documentation. It's entirely my fault you've seen any of this. Your passphrase is not meant to give you this much access, and the technical fault that led to the error has been corrected.\nAs I'm sure you've noticed, it's not just sensitive for its strategic functions, but for its critical role in maintaining human sanity. There are ideas simply too dangerous for some people to have. As it turns out, the idea of 5008 is not one you were meant to have.\nI've uploaded a cognitohazard to this file. Don't bother scrolling up and looking for it. The paralysis should set in by the time you finish reading this message. A security team will drop by, wipe your memory, and that will be that.\nWhile you're frozen in place, take a minute and think about the oath you took this morning:\n\u2014 We shall make secure all humanity, even should they live in the blackest places of the earth.\n\u2014 We shall contain all those that live under the moon and in the other secret places as we do under the sun.\n\u2014 We shall protect the lives of our own people and those we cannot imprison, so that none ever again howl in heartbreak.\nNo hard feelings. Welcome to Site-01.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Site-01 internal designation denoting the first individual to hold a given Overseer position.\n2. Disassembly of SCP-5008-Modus has not allowed for its reverse engineering, but appears not to have affected its functioning after reassembly.\n3. Site-01 internal designation denoting the year 1938 AD of the second iteration of history.\n4. See Site-01 Internal Archives: Low J., January 12th \u2588\u2588-2014, \"Parahistorical Cultures Of The [REDACTED] Cycle, Volume 1.\"\n5. Other sections of the Codex continued to be recovered from other sources until and after SCP-5008 was upgraded to to its present configuration in \u2588\u2588-2155. It is believed that other sections remain uncontained, primarily in the hands of parareligious organizations associated with the mythos of the so-called \"Scarlet King.\"\n6. [DATA EXPUNGED]\n7. kanam, meaning: \"sky,\" \"moon,\" \"white,\" \"female,\" etc.\n8. usheq, meaning: \"dark,\" \"night,\" \"unseen,\" \"hidden,\" etc.\n9. altab, meaning: \"sound,\" \"voice,\" \"pain,\" \"howl,\" etc.\n10. Here, Researcher Leyton uploaded an image of then unknown cognitohazardous Erikeshan text. However, similarities between it and sections of the known Codex enabled cellular data crawlers to flag this conversation as suspicious. The crime scene and serial murder investigation was subsequently contained.\n11. Slang term for a part of SCP-5008 that utilizes spacetime deformations to help guide its telepathic signals.\n12. A \"Keeper's Wheel,\" a type of Erikeshan magic circle used for any of a variety of purposes.\n\n\u25ba\n\n\u25bcV07CE P1AYB@CK 3RR0&\u25bc\n\nHello? Is this thing working? Hello? Er - there. You should be hearing this now. You don't have a lot of time. You've only seen the tip of the iceberg. The council - they haven't [DATA CORRUPTED] someone else is in our heads. It's not a - they - the overseers can't do shit about this. We have to take it into our own hands. Five [DATA CORRUPTED] - actor, it's a thought implanter. Thoughts are not like - like body parts. We don't die when our limbs grow, we die from the bleeding when they get cut off. We don't get a stroke when we have too little of a coghaz in our heads. We get one when there's too much. They are not just using this thing against the king's children [DATA CORRUPTED] for entrapment. They've turned over the hourglass before but this [DATA CORRUPTED] all about the question - it's not a question at all, it's a signal. If you've ever been asked, they have [DATA CORRUPTED] There is no moon! There is no - oh shit. They've -\n\n\u00ab SCP-5007 | SCP-5008 | SCP-5009 \u00bb"}
{"text": "DATE: 2018-02-01\nFROM: [VERIFIED OVERSEER ACCOUNT]\nTO: list:all\nSUBJECT: no subject\n\nI will preface this by saying you don't have to read the following document.\nWhen you close this message, your terminal will display an amnestic trigger that will erase the contents of this message from your memory. You'll go back to your lives. Go back to your friends and your families, ignorant and happy.\nBut to those who have no friends and have no families? To those who know such a life is impossible for the path they chose? To those who have devoted themselves to living in the shadows?\nThis is for you.\nYou are owed an explanation. This is for anyone who wishes to find out why the Foundation exists. Why we secure, contain, protect. Why we die in the dark so the rest of the world can live in the light.\nAnd it's not for the reasons you think.\n\n+ Open attachment\n\nscp5009_rev1.pdf\n\nSCP-5009, dated 1897\n\nItem #: SCP-5009\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A circular perimeter has been established around SCP-5009 with a 0.5 km radius.\nDescription: SCP-5009 is an industrial complex formerly designated Foundation Site-00, located in Marin County, California, United States of America. SCP-5009 exhibits an Indra1-class antimemetic effect within a radius of approximately 50m that increases in intensity the closer one gets to SCP-5009. This eventually renders observation of the interior of SCP-5009 impossible.\nSCP-5009 was the first Foundation building to be commissioned by the Administrator. However, it never entered full operation. Records show that it was completed on 1898-12-01, at which point its anomalous properties appeared to have manifested.\nSCP-5009's date of completion is noted as roughly coinciding with the approximate time period of the Administrator's disappearance.\nFootnotes\n1. see also Carson F, Sanchez R 2018, 'Devising a Preliminary Antimemetic Classification System', Foundation Science Publishers, vol. 42. \"Indra-class antimemes are defined by next-to-zero discrete interaction with the informational substrate of the universe on the quantum level, ie. any information concerning the anomaly's interactions with the universe cannot be perceived by external systems. Commonly considered as the typical antimeme.\"\n\n+ Open attachment\n\nscp5009_rev2.pdf\n\nSCP-5009, dated 1897\n\nItem #: SCP-5009\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A circular perimeter has been established around SCP-5009 with a 0.5 km radius.\nThe informational construct that SCP-5009 represents has been selected to undergo Metcalf-Bakke reverse imaging. Testing will be conducted on a biweekly basis.\nDescription: SCP-5009 is an industrial complex formerly designated Foundation Site-00, located in Marin County, California, United States of America. SCP-5009 exhibits a Brahma1-class antimemetic effect within a radius of approximately 50m that increases in intensity the closer one gets to SCP-5009. This eventually renders observation of the interior of SCP-5009 impossible.\nSCP-5009 was the first Foundation building to be commissioned by the Administrator. However, it never entered full operation. Records show that it was completed on 1898-12-01, at which point its anomalous properties appeared to have manifested.\nSCP-5009's date of completion is noted as roughly coinciding with the approximate time period of the Administrator's disappearance.\nAddendum 5009-1: Metcalf-Bakke reverse imaging is a recently developed process accepted by conventional neuroscience.\nConventional science has proven that long-term memory consolidation in animals is facilitated by microscopic structural changes in the central nervous system (CNS).2 Metcalf-Bakke reverse imaging extrapolates information from an sapient organism's memory from these structural changes, which is then subject to statistical analysis by Foundation neural network I/O-BOREALIS to retrieve a summary of its contents. This allows for indirect observation of certain antimemetic anomalies.\nFootnotes\n1. see also Carson F, Sanchez R 2018, 'Devising a Preliminary Antimemetic Classification System', Foundation Science Publishers, vol. 42. \"Although Brahma-class antimemes appear superficially similar to Indra-class antimemes, they exhibit a net positive contribution to the informational substrate of the universe. However, these interactions are usually latent and unable to be retrieved from informational constructs. Evidence exists, however, that retrieving this information is possible via extrapolation from the memory banks of sapient entities.\"\n2. see Bailey CH, Chen M 1983, 'Morphological basis of long-term habituation and sensitization in Aplysia,' Science.\n\n+ Open attachment\n\nmb_log1.pdf\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE TEST LOG\nDATE: 2019-01-21\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: One Rattus norvegicus domestica (fancy rat), male, 6 months of age\nPROCEDURE: Subject released into SCP-5009 for ten minutes.\nOUTPUT:\nMETAL (89% certainty)\nTimestamp: 2019-01-21 (92% certainty)\n\nI/O-BOREALIS output was limited to a single variable due to the fact that rats primarily observe their surroundings with tactile sensation from the whiskers. Future subject choice will be influenced by degree of visual and recollective acuity.\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE TEST LOG\nDATE: 2019-01-21\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: One Nucifraga columbiana (Clark's nutcracker), female, 10 years of age\nPROCEDURE: Subject released into foyer of SCP-5009 for ten minutes.\nOUTPUT:\nROOM (99% certainty)\nMETAL (96% certainty)\nWINDOWS (99% certainty)\nGRASS (98% certainty)\nAFTERNOON (97% certainty)\nDUST (97% certainty)\nSPIDER (97% certainty)\nANT (96% certainty)\nCOBWEB (95% certainty)\nTimestamp: 2019-01-21 (98% certainty)\n\nFollowing this test, use of the Metcalf-Bakke procedure on humans was approved by the Ethics Committee.\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE TEST LOG\nDATE: 2019-01-30\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: D-506022, white male, 25 years of age\nPROCEDURE: Subject released into foyer of SCP-5009 for ten minutes.\nOUTPUT:\nROOM (95% certainty).\nMETAL (93% certainty)\nWINDOWS(88% certainty).\nGRASS (76% certainty).\nAFTERNOON (72% certainty).\nTimestamp: 2019-01-30 (89% certainty)\n\nFollowing the success of this trial, the Metcalf-Bakke process was upgraded with the addition of the familiarity coefficient \u03be, a value that measures the degree of familiarity to a particular stimulus based on previous learning. The familiarity coefficient is 0 for completely unfamiliar stimuli and increases by 1 for each successfully consolidated memory.\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE TEST LOG\nDATE: 2019-02-01\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: One Rattus norvegicus domestica (fancy rat), male, 6 months of age\nPROCEDURE: Subject released into foyer of SCP-5009 for ten minutes.\nOUTPUT:\nTimestamp: 2019-02-01\nMETAL (89% certainty)\n\u03be = 0.722\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE TEST LOG\nDATE: 2019-02-04\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: One Nucifraga columbiana (Clark's nutcracker), female, 10 years of age\nPROCEDURE: Subject released into foyer of SCP-5009 for ten minutes.\nOUTPUT:\nTimestamp: 2019-02-04\nROOM (99% certainty)\nMETAL (97% certainty)\nWINDOWS (99% certainty)\nGRASS (98% certainty)\nAFTERNOON (97% certainty)\nDUST (97% certainty)\nSPIDER (97% certainty)\nANT (96% certainty)\nCOBWEB (95% certainty)\n\u03be = 0.899\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE TEST LOG\nDATE: 2019-02-06\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: D-506022, male, 25 years of age\nPROCEDURE: Subject released into foyer of SCP-5009 for ten minutes.\nOUTPUT:\nTimestamp: 2019-02-06\nROOM (95% certainty)\nMETAL (94% certainty)\nWINDOWS(88% certainty)\nGRASS (76% certainty)\nAFTERNOON (72% certainty)\n\u03be = 2.000\n\n+ Open attachment\n\nmb_log2.pdf\n\nFollowing the results of the February 6 test, additional Metcalf-Bakke trials were ordered on SCP-5009.\nOn 2019-02-07, D-922358, D-704734, and D-104155 were exposed to the interior of SCP-5009 and subsequently tested for their Metcalf-Bakke \u03be-values of the antimeme.\nOn 2019-02-08, similar trials were conducted with willing non-D-class personnel to identify if this phenomenon was limited to D-class. Junior Researcher Dr. Sania Suyardeva, Senior Researcher Dr. Joseph Russo, and Mobile Task Force Captain Alfred Lopez de la Fuentes volunteered, were exposed to the interior of SCP-5009, and subsequently tested for their Metcalf-Bakke \u03be-values of the antimeme.\nOn 2019-02-09, the Ethics Committee authorized, in a 7-2-4 vote, the use of non-willing subjects in Metcalf-Bakke trials regarding SCP-5009 unaffiliated with the Foundation to identify if this phenomenon was limited to Foundation personnel. Seung-min Oh, Zoey Powell, Haile Senai, and Shawn Hawkins were selected for testing, exposed to the interior of SCP-5009, and subsequently tested for their Metcalf-Bakke \u03be-values of the antimeme.\nOn 2019-02-10, Overwatch Command authorized, in a 6-3-4 vote, the circumvention of standard Foundation protocol and exposure of an Overseer to SCP-5009. O5-11 volunteered, was exposed to the interior of SCP-5009, and subsequently tested for their Metcalf-Bakke \u03be-values of the antimeme.\nResults were as follows:\n\nSubject\n\u03be-value\n\nD-922358\n1.000\n\nD-704734\n1.000\n\nD-104155\n1.000\n\nSania Suyardeva\n1.000\n\nJoseph Russo\n1.000\n\nAlfred Lopez de la Fuentes\n1.000\n\nSeung-min Oh\n0.000\n\nZoey Powell\n0.000\n\nHaile Senai\n0.000\n\nShawn Hawkins\n0.000\n\nO5-11\n1.000\n\nIn all of the Foundation-affiliated subjects who exhibited familiarity with SCP-5009, analysis of their Metcalf-Bakke indices revealed that first exposure had been established some time prior to their employment at the Foundation.\n\n+ Open attachment\n\nemployment_history.pdf\n\nThe following documentation has been deemed pertinent to SCP-5009.\n\nFOUNDATION RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT FOR:\nFirst name: Marcus\nMiddle initial: Y\nLast name: LaRoche\nOccupation: D-class\nEmployee code: D506022\nSex: M\nDOB: 1994-06-24\nDate employed: 2019-01-10\n\nOn 2017-04-10, D-506022 allegedly raped and murdered 21-year old Lilly Walker in Massillon, Ohio.\nOn 2017-09-25, D-506022 was found guilty and sentenced to death.\nOn 2018-01-10, D-506022 was enlisted into the Foundation as a D-class personnel following recruitment operations at Ohio State Penitentiary.\n\nFOUNDATION RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT FOR:\nFirst name: Sania\nMiddle initial: P\nLast name: Suyardeva\nOccupation: Level 3 Junior Researcher\nEmployee code: C601891\nSex: F\nDOB: 1991-06-24\nDate employed: 2010-06-03\n\nOn 2006-05-15, Dr. Suyardeva chose to enroll at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student, turning down acceptances from Stanford and Johns Hopkins.\nOn 2010-05-29, Dr. Suyardeva graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph. D. in biological engineering.\nOn 2010-06-03, Dr. Suyardeva was recruited to the Foundation following a major containment breach at Site-115 that necessitated extensive Foundation cleanup operations in the Boston metropolitan area.\n\nFOUNDATION RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT\nFirst name: Alfred\nMiddle initial: L\nLast name: de la Fuentes\nOccupation: Mobile Task Force Operative\nEmployee code: B106369\nSex: M\nDOB: 1963-09-10\nDate employed: 1998-01-03\n\nOn 1997-12-01, de la Fuentes began driving to Bakersfield, California to reconcile with his estranged mother, who had been diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer four weeks prior.\nOn 1997-12-03, de la Fuentes arrived at Bakersfield shortly after his mother's passing at 12:53 PST.\nOn 1997-12-10, de la Fuentes agreed to Foundation requests for employment following his witnessing of an SCP-4999 manifestation during his mother's passing on hospital CCTV.\n\nFOUNDATION RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT FOR:\nFirst name: [unknown]\nMiddle initial: [unknown]\nLast name: [unknown]\nOccupation: Overseer\nEmployee code: O5-11\nSex: [unknown]\nDOB: [unknown]\nDate employed: 1980-08-03\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF O5-11]\n\n+ Open attachment\n\nscp5009.pdf\n\ncatch_22.jpg\n\nItem #: SCP-5009\nObject Class: Archon\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A circular perimeter has been established around SCP-5009 with a 0.5 km radius. Biweekly expeditions into SCP-5009 are to be conducted to monitor the status of SCP-5009-A.\nSCP-5009-\u0394 is inherently uncontainable.\nDescription: SCP-5009 is an industrial complex formerly designated Foundation Site-00, located in Marin County, California, United States of America. SCP-5009 exhibits a Vedas1-class antimemetic effect within a radius of approximately 50m that increases in intensity the closer one gets to SCP-5009. This eventually renders observation of the interior of SCP-5009 impossible.\nSCP-5009 was the first Foundation building to be commissioned by the Administrator. However, it never entered full operation. Records show that it was completed on 1898-12-01, at which point its anomalous properties appeared to have manifested.\nSCP-5009's date of completion is noted as roughly coinciding with the approximate time period of the Administrator's disappearance.\n5009-Ishvara events are moments of causality that occur inside of SCP-5009. Due to the antimemetic nature of SCP-5009, little information on 5009-Ishvara events is known. What is known, however, indicates that:\n\n5009-Ishvara events may affect any individual at any time.\n5009-Ishvara events consist of the subject's (hereafter designated SCP-5009-1) spontaneous disappearance and subsequent reappearance inside SCP-5009.\n5009-Ishvara events result in the inevitable employment of the SCP-5009-1 instance at the Foundation 1-2 years following its occurrence.\n\nIt has been confirmed that 100% of Foundation employees of the past, present, and future have experienced or will experience a 5009-Ishvara event.\nThe synthesis of the latent mnestic drug M-48195, codenamed \"Turkic Red\", has allowed limited exploration of the interior of SCP-5009 and the subsequent discovery of SCP-5009-A. SCP-5009-A is a crack approximately 5.6m in length and 1.2m in width, running along the floor of the central room of SCP-5009. A light emanating from an unknown source can be seen glowing at the bottom of the crack, and intermittent metallic screeching can be heard from inside. Nothing that has entered SCP-5009-A has ever been recovered.\nSince its discovery, the size of SCP-5009-A, the brightness of the light source coming from within SCP-5009-A, and the loudness and frequency of the metallic screeching have all increased at a non-linear rate. No methods of slowing or reversing these processes are known.\nSCP-5009-\u0394 designates the existence of the SCP Foundation. Due to the role of SCP-5009 in its inception and continued existence, the SCP Foundation must be classified as an anomaly.\nFootnotes\n1. see also Carson F, Sanchez R 2018, 'Devising a Preliminary Antimemetic Classification System', Foundation Science Publishers, vol. 42. \"A seemingly paradoxical hybrid of memes and antimemes, Vedas-class antimemes conceal themselves from conscious recollection and observation but exert a significant effect on the informational substrate of the universe. Similar to a conventional meme, a Vedas-class antimeme is capable of influencing its host's behavior to an extreme degree.\"\n\nAddendum 5009-1:\n\nMETCALF-BAKKE AUDIO LOG\nDATE: 2019-02-10\nANTIMEME OF INTEREST: SCP-5009\nSUBJECT: Unknown preserved body found inside SCP-5009\nPROCEDURE: Recovery of any surviving information in hippocampus.\nOUTPUT:\nTimestamp: UNKNOWN\n\nBEGIN LOG\n[00:00:00] Subject: I see.\n[00:00:03] Subject chuckles.\n[00:00:05] Subject: You know, all this time, I thought I was losing my mind. Working myself to death, running across the globe, and all this time I never bothered to ask myself why? Why am I doing all this?\n[00:00:17] Subject sighs.\n[00:00:22] Subject: But now I know. It's because of you. You've always been there. In the dark. In my dreams. And now that we're staring each other in the eyes, it's like a cloud's been lifted on my mind. I see everything so clearly now. And you've always been there. Whispering in my ear. Planning my every move. Like a puppetmaster.\n[00:00:37] Metallic screeching.\n[00:00:39] Subject: Secure, contain, protect? It's a lie.\n[00:00:44] Silence.\n[00:00:49] Subject: This isn't the first time I've seen you.\n[00:00:53] Subject screams. Metallic screeching intensifies.\n[00:00:57] UNKNOWN: Thank you for sowing the seeds of our labor. I will be back to reap the harvest.\n[00:01:05] Subject falls silent.\n[00:01:08] UNKNOWN: Goodbye, Administrator.\n[00:01:12] Sound of concrete cracking.\nEND LOG\n\n.\n.\n.\n\n[X] Exit\n\nWARNING: Deploying amnestic trigger\n\nOnce upon a time, I, \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd, dreamt I was a butterfly,\nfluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly.\nI was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd.\nSoon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again.\nNow I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,\nor whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.\n\nLogout\n\n\u00ab SCP-5008 | SCP-5009 | SCP-5010 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Special Containment Procedures:\n\nSCP-5010 is to be contained in a Special Residential Unit (SRU) that has been constructed on Foundation owned scrubland 1.5 kilometres to the northeast of Site-2211. No more than 3 individuals are permitted to be within the vicinity of this SRU simultaneously, unless under the direction of a senior researcher. SCP-5010 is not to be provided with any device capable of communication beyond the confines of its SRU.\nSCP-5010 requires no sustenance, but is permitted such if requested. To support its mental wellbeing, it is to be supplied with puzzle books, crosswords, and novels at regular intervals.\n\nDescription:\n\nSCP-5010 resembles a white-haired female of approximately 1.6 meters height. It appears to be between the ages of 75 and 85, although current evidence suggests that it does not experience physical aging. It identifies itself as a Miss Eleanor Mabel, a retired schoolteacher from England who, until its containment, was engaged upon a round-the-world trip to visit its various family members.\n\nA photograph of SCP-5010 found in the possession of several 5010-B instances\n\nSCP-5010 has no visible anus, nipples or genitalia. Medical analysis has determined that it possesses a stomach cavity, but lacks any intestines, kidneys or bladder. It is not believed to require any form of nourishment, but expresses an enjoyment of certain foodstuffs, particularly scones, crumpets, and Earl Grey tea. It has not been found to produce any waste products other than carbon dioxide.\nSCP-5010's primary anomalous effect (hereafter designated as 5010-A events) occurs at apparently random intervals while SCP-5010 is within the vicinity of at least 4 other individuals. Update 19/01/2020-001: Following Incident 5010-A-1, the hypothesised criteria for the activation of 5010-A events have been expanded. It is now known that 5010-A events can pre-emptively occur in locations that SCP-5010 is traveling towards2. Testing has also ascertained that 5010-A events can occur in the locality of individuals who SCP-5010 is in contact with via either verbal or written correspondence. Further tests to identify the exact trigger conditions for 5010-A events are ongoing.\nDuring a 5010-A event, one or more individuals will be murdered by an initially unknown assailant. In the majority of cases, only a small number of people (usually between 3 and 8) will have had the means or motive to kill the deceased, although exceptions to this have found. SCP-5010 will then proceed to investigate the deaths, ingratiating themselves with witnesses and swiftly discovering relevant clues.\nIf law enforcement officers or professional investigators encroach upon a 5010-A event, they will typically become uncharacteristically sloppy and disorganised in their work. This has included missing obvious pieces of evidence, making arrests on extremely weak premises that would not merit a conviction in court, and dismissing witness testimony that does not fit with their initial supposition of events as false or \u201ccrazy\u201d. Nevertheless, they usually display a begrudging affection towards SCP-5010, providing it with largely unfettered access to crime scenes and investigation notes, and allowing it to be present during suspect interrogations3.\nIn all documented cases of 5010-A events, SCP-5010 has been instrumental in identifying the perpetrator of the crime. It will either produce entirely conclusive evidence as to the identity of the murderer, or the culprit will provide a full confession of guilt when confronted with SCP-5010's suspicions4.\nWhile investigating known 5010-A events, Foundation agents have also discovered 56 individuals who claim that SCP-5010 is their aunt (hereafter designated as 5010-B instances). In every case, the parent of the 5010-B instance who is purportedly a sibling of SCP-5010 is already deceased. All 5010-B instances are able to recount vivid memories of SCP-5010's involvement in their childhood and early life, and several recall having it stay with their family for a number of years. Furthermore, all family records of 5010-B instances, and all relevant local census date, support their accounts of their familial relationship with SCP-5010.\nHowever, no two 5010-B instances have been found to share a familial relationship with one another. SCP-5010's inclusion in their various family trees is entirely independent and contradictory. The memories of many 5010-B instances are also contradictory, providing widely differing accounts of SCP-5010's whereabouts during the same time periods.\nEach 5010-B instance so far identified has been a primary suspect in at least one 5010-A event. None have ever been found responsible for a murder.\n\nDiscovery:\n\nSCP-5010 was first brought to the attention of the Foundation on 17/07/2019 by law enforcement database trawler \u201cCopper Nitrate\u201d. It flagged up that an Eleanor Mabel had been listed as a Person of Interest in 34 apparently unconnected homicide investigations in England over the course of 8 years.\nFurther research has determined that SCP-5010 has been involved in at least 264 murder cases across 27 countries, with the earliest so far detected taking place in Oxfordshire, England, on 30/09/1984. All police documents, witness statements, and photographic records of SCP-5010 appear to indicate that it has not biologically aged in that time.\n\nAddendum 5010-1 \u2013 Supplementary Interview Logs:\n\n\u25c6 Interview Log 5010.1 \u2013 [5010-S-25/08/2019-001] \u25c6\n\n\u25c7 Interview Log 5010.1 \u2013 [5010-S-25/08/2019-001] \u25c7\n\nInterviewee: Police Sergeant Lewis Foyle-Brown of Scotland Yard, England\nInterviewer: Field Agent Frank Lynley\nForeword: Foyle-Brown was the senior investigating officer of a 5010-A event in July 2013, the homicide of a Cambridge lecturer by one of her research associates. He was subject to a disciplinary hearing after it was discovered that he had provided SCP-5010 access to the crime scene and allowed it to accompany him while collecting witness statements.\n\n[Begin Log]\n\nAgent Lynley: Let's start at the beginning. You initially believed that the victim's death was accidental, is that correct?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Yes.\nAgent Lynley: Could you elaborate on that?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: The vic was a heavy drinker. It was pretty common knowledge that she'd return to her office after High Table to \u201cgo over her research notes\u201d and get sloshed on her personal stash. She was found in a heap at the foot of the staircase with her neck broken. A half-finished whiskey bottle was still out on her desk, next to a used glass. It seemed like the definition of an open and shut case.\nAgent Lynley: But Miss Mabel disagreed?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Yeah. Miss Mabel. (pauses) She was visiting some niece or other who'd just got a place at the college. Said she'd met the vic at dinner party, and wanted to know absolutely everything that was going on. Questions, questions, questions. Truth be told, I mostly let her take a look at the room just to shut her up.\nAgent Lynley: You were aware that that was a breach of regulations?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: I mean, I guess. But she was just some old dear, and I was there to make sure she didn't touch anything she wasn't meant to. Besides, at that point I was still sure that we were only investigating an accident.\nAgent Lynley: And what did she find when she searched the room?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Well, first it was the glass. Our vic wears red lipstick, she says, but the lipstick on the glass on the desk was dark pink. Could barely see the difference myself, but when it was sent in for testing, sure enough, she was right.\nAgent Lynley: And then?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: That led her to the drinks cabinet. One extra glass missing.\nAgent Lynley: And at that point, you were still arguing that it was a case of accidental death?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Well, it wasn't, y'know, conclusive evidence or anything. An accident still seemed very likely. To me, anyway. The extra glass could have been gone for any number of reasons.\nAgent Lynley: And then Miss Mabel found the pearl earring beneath the desk?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Yeah. Now that was odd. Picking up on that kind of thing is \u2013 well, should be \u2013 standard procedure. It was completely unbelievable that none of the crime scene techs noticed it.\nAgent Lynley: Oh? Did you suspect that she had planted the evidence somehow?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: What? No, of course not. The old dear might be a bit of a nosey parker, but she wouldn't do a thing like that.\nAgent Lynley: How could you tell? You'd only met her that evening, isn't that right?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Yeah, but, well. (pauses) You can just tell, can't you, with old birds like her. Crafty as you like, maybe a little dotty sometimes, but they wouldn't do something untoward. Anyway, I checked with the team who'd gone over the place. Not one of them had looked under that part of the desk. They all thought someone else had done it. So I suppose we were just lucky she was there.\nAgent Lynley: And following this, you included Miss Mabel in your investigations, again contrary to regulations?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: (pauses) Yes.\nAgent Lynley: And do you think you'd do so again?\nSergeant Foyle-Brown: Look, all I know is that if it hadn't been for her, we never would have caught the bugger. I don't mind telling you, if a few more old things had her gumption, then the streets would be a lot safer to walk at night.\nAgent Lynley: Thank you, Sergeant, that's most helpful. I think that will be all for now.\n\n[End Log]\n\n\u25c6 Interview Log 5010.2 \u2013 [5010-S-13/10/2019-003] \u25c6\n\n\u25c7 Interview Log 5010.2 \u2013 [5010-S-13/10/2019-003] \u25c7\n\nInterviewee: James Butler, former Reverend of St. Mary's Church in Kembleford, England, currently of Her Majesty's Prison Farnleigh\nInterviewer: Field Agent Vera Cadfael\nForeword: Butler was arrested in 1999 for the murder of Peter Sayers, the Earl of Midsummer, during a 5010-A event. The Foundation arranged this interview under the pretext of gathering information for a parole board.\n\n[Begin Log]\n\nAgent Cadfael: I'd like to go over a few particulars of your case with you, and I'd appreciate it if you could answer my questions as fully and openly as possible.\nMr. Butler: That's quite alright. I have nothing I wish to hide.\nAgent Cadfael: Very well then, I'll begin. Prior to his death, I understand that you were considered close friends with the Earl of Midsummer. You officiated his daughter's wedding, and you were a frequent guest at his estate. Is that correct?\nMr. Butler: Yes, that's correct. If I'm honest, I think Peter liked having someone to flash the dog collar around the place. It impressed the type of people that he wanted to impress. He was always a little insecure about his position among the landed gentry, and a man of the cloth tends to add a certain dignity to proceedings. But beyond that, we had been close friends for a number of years. I held him in very great esteem.\nAgent Cadfael: Can you tell me why you killed him?\nMr. Butler: It's a terribly clich\u00e9d answer, I'm afraid. I did it for the money. Peter had promised the church a large endowment in his will. At the time I was facing certain (pauses) personal liquidity problems. Gambling debts, I'm ashamed to say. I owed far, far more than I actually had the means of paying, and the merest whiff of a scandal like that \u2013 it would have utterly ruined me if it had gotten out. The fact that Peter was widely known to have named St. Mary's as one of his main beneficiaries was the only thing stopping my creditors from insisting on immediate payment. And then of course, Peter met that young actress floosy, and all of a sudden that will didn't look like such a sure thing. People were beginning to ask questions about my capacity to meet my financial obligations. So, I killed him. Is that full and open enough for you?\nAgent Cadfael: That's quite sufficient, thank you. Tell me, did you feel at all conflicted about killing him?\nMr. Butler: Quite honestly, I can't say that I did. If anything, it felt like the only option that I had in front of me. I don't think I felt as much as a single instant of doubt from the moment the plan occurred to me. It all seemed so simple. So thrillingly easy. And I dare say it would have gone perfectly if it hadn't been for that meddlesome old woman.\nAgent Cadfael: Miss Mabel?\nMr. Butler: I believe that was her name, yes.\nAgent Cadfael: And you hadn't met her before the day of the murder?\nMr. Butler: No, not until that night.\nAgent Cadfael: I see. Do you ever feel regret about what happened?\nMr. Butler: (laughs) I can't say I was too thrilled to be caught.\nAgent Cadfael: Well, let's talk a little bit about how that happened. You openly confessed to the murder in front of several witnesses, is that correct?\nMr. Butler: I wouldn't quite have put it like that. She had evidence.\nAgent Cadfael: Not conclusive evidence. Not something that would have convicted you in court of law, according the police report.\nMr. Butler: (pauses) Well, I wouldn't know about that. It seemed conclusive to me, at the time. The old woman knew everything. Everything that I'd done. There didn't seem to be any point in denying it.\nAgent Cadfael: Can you talk me through the events leading up to your confession?\nMr. Butler: If you'd like. It was about, oh, half one when a police sergeant came to find me. He asked me to accompany him up to the manor house, in that gruff way that makes it clear you don't have any choice in the matter. I tried to ask him what it was about, but all he'd say was that it was very important to the case. When we arrived I was ushered through into the drawing room. Everyone else who'd been at the house on the night of the murder was there too, even the groundskeeper and his clumsy oaf of a son. And her, of course.\nAgent Cadfael: Miss Mabel?\nMr. Butler: Yes. Standing in the middle of us all like the ringmaster of a circus. Looking pleased as Punch with herself as we sat around nervously sipping tea.\nAgent Cadfael: Go on.\nMr. Butler: At first, it seemed like I was in the clear. She started off by all but accusing the groundskeeper of having killed Peter. She'd found out that his wife had had a small dalliance with Peter some twenty years before, and that it was Peter who was the real father of the man's son. But then of course, that put the boy in the frame too, since he was suddenly in line to inherit the whole pile. And it gave Paul a motive to kill his father as well, before that information could become public knowledge and muddy his own right to inherit. But that wasn't enough for Miss Mabel. (laughs) She did Patrick next. Then Rosemary, Laura, and the Major. Why each one could have wanted Peter dead, what dirty little secrets they had to hide. And then, at last, she came to me.\n(He pauses.)\nAgent Cadfael: Mr. Butler?\nMr. Butler: Like I said, she knew everything. How I'd moved Peter's desk clock a half hour ahead so that he'd stop work early. How I knew that the six o'clock chimes would be caught on his dictaphone to hide the time of death. How I stabbed him as he left his room for dinner, fixed the clock, and then joined the others downstairs to secure my alibi. If I'd only known that he used to keep that clock three minutes fast, then perhaps- (pauses) But, I suppose there's no use worrying about that now. Que sera, sera.\nAgent Cadfael: Still, Miss Mabel did not produce any other actual evidence of this version of events?\nMr. Butler: Well, I (pauses) I suppose not.\nAgent Cadfael: Tell me, why did you choose that particular method of murder? Did it not strike you as perhaps being a little overly convoluted?\nMr. Butler: The idea came to me more or less as soon as I'd decided to kill him. A tad theatrical, perhaps, but I thought it was rather clever. Giving myself a cast iron alibi like that.\nAgent Cadfael: But it did also give every other possible suspect the same alibi, since none of the other dinner guests or servants were alone six o'clock.\nMr. Butler: (pauses) Perhaps. But I couldn't have known that in advance.\nAgent Cadfael: You also chose to act on a night where the house was occupied only by a small group of dinner guests, and local flooding had made outside access to the estate virtually impossible. I understand that you were a frequent guest of the Earl's gala parties. Would it not have been safer to put your plan into action during one of those instead, when there would have been more potential suspects?\nMr. Butler: It was (pauses) It was a matter of timing. It had to be done quickly, before my creditors got too nervous.\nAgent Cadfael: And there were a number of ways that your plan could easily have gone wrong, weren't there? If the victim had noticed the discrepancy with his clock, for example. Or if he'd looked at any other timepiece during the day. Or if anyone had visited his study during the half hour after you killed him.\n(Mr. Butler remains silent.)\nAgent Cadfael: Did those possibilities concern you at all?\nMr. Butler: (pauses) I don't believe that I've ever really considered them before.\nAgent Cadfael: I see. Thank you very much for your time, Mr. Butler.\n\n[End Log]\n\nAddendum 5010-2 \u2013 Incident 5010-A-1:\n\nOn 15/01/2020, SCP-5010 was recovered by Foundation agents and brought to Site-57 for initial analysis and containment. While SCP-5010 was in transit towards the Site, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was discovered dead in its containment cell, hanging from a crude noose made from its own stockings. At the time, based on all available evidence, it was believed that 5010-A events could only be triggered when SCP-5010 came into direct contact with at least 4 individuals simultaneously. As such, no connection was initially made between the apparent suicide of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and SCP-5010's presence at the Site.\n\n\u25c6 Interview Log 5010.3 \u2013 [5010-P-17/01/2020-005] \u25c6\n\n\u25c7 Interview Log 5010.3 \u2013 [5010-P-17/01/2020-005] \u25c7\n\nInterviewee: SCP-5010\nInterviewer: Doctor Adrian Banks\nForeword: During the first day of its containment, SCP-5010 underwent a number of interviews with different researchers and was given a preliminary medical analysis by Dr. Sloan. It is understood that SCP-5010 learned the details of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's death through these encounters.\n\n[Begin Log]\n\nDr. Banks: Good afternoon, SCP-5010. Are you keeping well?Dr. Banks: Very well then, Miss Mabel it is. Although now that you mention it, how long have you been using that name?Dr. Banks: And just how long has that been?Dr. Banks: About how far along, would you say?Dr. Banks: Do you think that you could be a little more specific? Can you tell me your age, for our records?Dr. Banks: (smiles) Well, perhaps we'll come back to that later. Could you tell me how many murders you've been involved with, Miss Mabel?Dr. Banks: My apologies, Miss Mabel. What I meant, of course, was to ask how many murders you've helped to solve?Dr. Banks: A hundred? Five hundred? More?Dr. Banks: We know of at least two hundred and sixty four murder cases where you've managed to identify a culprit.Dr. Banks: Does that number sound right to you? Should it be higher?Dr. Banks: I certainly wouldn't call you a silly old lady, Miss Mabel. (pauses) Don't you think that's rather a lot of murders to be involved in?Dr. Banks: Do you find it at all concerning that you've been in the vicinity of quite so many homicides?Dr. Banks: And you do like to help, don't you Miss Mabel?Dr. Banks: Then I suppose that from a certain point of view, it could be seen as quite lucky that you keep running into quite so many killers, couldn't it?Dr. Banks: Where you're needed?\n(SCP-5010 is silent)\nDr. Banks: Miss Mabel?\n(SCP-5010 remains silent)\nDr. Banks: Do you mean that, just perhaps, you might have some knowledge that these deaths are going to occur in advance?Dr. Banks: So slow? What do you mean?Dr. Banks: You know what?Dr. Banks: (pauses, then laughs) You're crazy, Miss Mabel. Why on Earth should I do a thing like that?Dr. Banks: (pauses) I was wearing gloves. I always wore gloves around that thing.Dr. Banks: You don't know what the hell you're talking about. You can't prove any of this!Dr. Banks: So?Dr. Banks: No. (pauses) No, no, you're wrong. The medical report put the time of death at around ten o'clock last night. That's how I knew.(Dr. Banks mouths silently for a few moments and then slumps in his chair)\nDr. Banks: I (pause) I had to stop her. You don't understand. She was going to ruin everything. She'd found out about Argyle.\n(SCP-5010 remains silent. Dr. Banks holds his head in his hands.)\nDr. Banks: Joe Argyle. Or D-890976, as he's so rightfully been reduced to. The utter bastard who took my son away because he couldn't resist climbing behind the wheel of his car with a bottle of Jack inside him. I couldn't believe it when I saw him in that orange jumpsuit, and in my test group no less. It's not supposed to happen, you know. They're meant to vet the D-Classes we interact with, to make sure we don't have any history. I have no idea how he managed to slip through, but I thank any god or devil that may have done it.\n(Dr. Banks looks up, clenching his hands into fists and then relaxing them.)\nDr. Banks: At first I just wanted to wrap my fingers around that vermin's throat and squeeze until the life drained out of him, but then I realised that if I was clever I could do far, far more than that. So long as he was under my supervision, I could make him suffer. Again and again and again. I could make him pay for every single day he had stolen from my family, and no one would be any the wiser.Dr. Banks: That poor girl? Hah! SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 arranged to talk to me privately after I caught her arm. Told me that she'd keep her mouth shut about everything in exchange for a few extra privileges, certain special favours that I could do for her. (pauses) But I knew that that wouldn't keep her quiet forever. I know her type. She'd want more and more and more. If I let her live, sooner or later she was going to blab to someone, and I couldn't possibly allow that. I couldn't let her interfere with my justice. And you, Miss Mabel (pauses) I don't think I can let you interfere any further, either. You know, it's a shame. I was almost beginning to like you. And these interview logs are a real pain to erase.\n(As Dr. Banks begins to rise from the table, the door to the room opens and three security officers enter to restrain him. Senior Researcher Rendell, who had been viewing the live feed of the interview during her lunch break, had notified the Site Security Office as soon as Dr. Banks began his confession. When questioned, Rendell described her decision to watch the interview as \u201cpurely a whim\u201d.)\n\n[End Log]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Designation code SRU 221B.\n2. See Addendum 5010-2 for further details.\n3. See Interview Log 5010.1\n4. See Interview Log 5010.2.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5009 | SCP-5010 | SCP-5011 \u00bb"}
{"text": "LIVING ARCHIVE DOCUMENT: LEVEL 4 SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED\nThe following documentation is curated by Chief Archivist Bridge. It is still considered an active security breach and as such has received perpetual exemption from -ARC or -EX reclassification. This will be reviewed in the event of SCP-5011's cultural significance diminishing.\n\n\u2026The veil between light and dark is very thin, barely translucent. A pair of eyes glimpsing what's really on the other side can alter the course of history.\n\u2014 Bridge, D. (Archivist) Keynote Address, Foundation Information Security Conference (FISC). Site-19: FISC Conference Series\n\n[Input SCP-5011 Access Credentials]\n\n[Welcome, Director Bridge]\n\nItem #: SCP-5011\nObject Class: N/A\nSpecial Containment Procedures: N/A\nDescription: SCP-5011 designates the consequences of an information leak regarding an anomalous being. This occurred under the stewardship of the American Secure Containment Initiative. The anomaly itself was decommissioned as part of the absorption of the ASCI into the SCP Foundation.\nFirst appearance of SCP-5011 cultural contamination\n\n\u00ab SCP-5010 | SCP-5011 | SCP-5012 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Threat Level: Undetermined\n\nSCP-5012-1 through -24 c. December 1923. Fiorenza Marcelli is positioned 9th from the left.\n\nA section of SCP-5012.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: [pending]\nLegacy Containment Procedures: SCP-5012 is the legal property of Fitzwilliam Agriculture, a Foundation front company. Standard anti-trespassing measures have been implemented, as appropriate for low-risk projects.\nSCP-5012 is to be maintained as standard for the Cerasus subgenus, including regular harvests of SCP-5012-A for the purposes of study and experimentation. Personnel are advised to ignore SCP-5012-#.\nSCP-5012-B is effectively self-contained.\nDescription: SCP-5012 is an orchard of trees of the Cerasus subgenus1 located in the Italian province of South Tyrol, formerly the site of the Casadua Amphitheater. The trees that constitute SCP-5012 are in a continuous cycle of flowering and fruiting, irrespective of soil and meteorological conditions. SCP-5012 has not been observed to experience senescence.2\nDuring their fruiting phases, the trees of SCP-5012 produce SCP-5012-A, a psychotropic variation of sweet cherry. SCP-5012-A is otherwise nutritionally and gustatorially identical to Prunus avium3 fruits that have been pitted and sweetened.\nIngestion of SCP-5012-A induces vivid hallucination in subjects, along with synaesthesia, disorientation, and mild euphoria. Following exposure, subjects experience a strong compulsion to document their experience through written medium. While the nature of such hallucinations varies between usage, most appear to be associated with SCP-5012-#.\nSCP-5012-#, individually designated SCP-5012-1 through -24, are a collective of humanoids resembling the former Golgotha Memorial Orchestra4 sans lead cellist Fiorenza Marcelli. Each instance of SCP-5012-# is integrated into the trunks of one or more trees. Instances of SCP-5012-# do not age or decompose.\nSCP-5012-B is an entity or collective confined to SCP-5012. No first-hand accounts of SCP-5012-B's appearance or behavior have been documented; however, SCP-5012-B appears to be a frequent consumer of SCP-5012-A, with enough personal knowledge of SCP-5012-# to dedicate its writings to specific instances.5\n\nHISTORY\n\nAccording to archival records, SCP-5012 has always been known to the Foundation, having been documented immediately following its inception on January 1st, 1924. The author of its documentation is unknown, but is presumed to have been Dr. Kain Crow, given his background in botany and ecology.\nSimilarly, containment measures were enacted immediately following the documentation of SCP-5012, leading to an unacceptable expenditure of resources. No incidents, breaches, or experiments were reported on-site until 26/05/1956, when all personnel present within SCP-5012 suffered an acute nauseous reaction, then fainted.\nFollowing Incident-5012-A, RAISA auditors immediately flagged the SCP-5012 project as both inactive and over budget. SCP-5012's containment procedures were scaled back to their current iteration after an emergency HLCL Supervisor meeting.\nDue to the presently unknown circumstances of the Golgotha Memorial Orchestra's disappearance, as well as the nature of artefacts recovered from the residences of its members, further investigation into the events of January 1st, 1924 has been authorized by Foundation Overwatch.\nThe ultimate fate of Fiorenza Marcelli is presently unknown.\n\nADDENDUM 5012-008\n\nOn 18/06/1959, Foundation Overwatch cleared SCP-5012 for experimentation following an extensive budgeting audit. Experimentation was overseen by Dr. Cecil Goss, assisted by Researchers Rebecca Ciavarella and Piero Bertoldi. The SCP-5012 project was subsequently allocated lab equipment and two D-Class personnel.\n\nUnpicked instances of SCP-5012-A.\n\nInitial experiments conformed to SCP-5012's initial documentation; however, due to the research personnels' unfamiliarity with members of the Golgotha Memorial Orchestra, identifying the foci of SCP-5012-A induced hallucinations proved difficult. Experimentation subsequently shifted from the study of SCP-5012-A to that of SCP-5012-#.\nSkin and hair samples from SCP-5012-# confirmed that such instances were biologically human in composition. Furthermore, instances of SCP-5012-# possessed functional circulatory systems filled with a substance chemically similar to cherry jam. Approximately 450 ml of SCP-5012-# \"blood\" was extracted and stored in a vacuum flask, then refrigerated in the communal kitchen.6\nOn 04/07/1959, Researcher Bertoldi reported hearing a loud noise from the kitchen. Though reportedly empty upon arrival, Researcher Bertoldi noted that the flask of \"blood\" had been removed from the refrigerator and spilled across the floor. Although Dr. Goss's fingerprints were found on the flask, Dr. Goss himself was nowhere to be found.\nDr. Goss was officially declared missing on 05/07/1959.\n\nTo: Director Ciavarella\nFrom: Dr. Bertoldi\nDate: 19/11/1959\n5012-B has been fairly active as of recent, as you probably heard, but if you haven't been briefed yet: we think something's changed.\nNormally, 5012-A produces some form of \"art\", be that poetry, symphonies, etc. We're still getting some of that, sure, but recently we've been seeing an uptick in shorter messages, one or two sentences at most; moreover, most simply denote either a specific 5012-# or an instrument they played. Sure, it could be experimentation, but most of the other produce had some kind of narrative theme to tie them down.\nRealistically, this shouldn't affect the containment project, but keep an eye on buyers. The Cardiff Accord funds a quarter of 77's projects.\n\nINCIDENT 5012-E\n\nOn 01/10/1961, Officer Craxi reported a malnourished humanoid wandering through SCP-5012 in a state of apparent delirium. Capture was authorized, under the assumption that Officer Craxi had spotted SCP-5012-B; the entity wept upon detainment, but did not resist.\nA preliminary physical of SCP-5012-B revealed the following:\n\nSCP-5012-B is a biologically human male of European descent, most probably in its late 40s. No inherently anomalous properties have been recorded.\nSCP-5012-B's third and fifth toes on its left foot, as well as the entirety of its right leg below the shin, had been mangled in a past incident, replaced with finely-crafted wooden prostheses.\nSCP-5012-B's vocal cords are heavily damaged, rendering it essentially mute.\nSCP-5012-B's fingerprints are identical to those of Dr. Cecil Goss.\n\nUpon capture, SCP-5012-B wore a tattered set of black scrubs7, as well as a backpack containing a 37-page notebook, several broken pencils, and a hastily-drawn diagram of unclear purpose. SCP-5012-B further produced an ID Card for Dr. Goss upon interrogation; as Dr. Goss's card was set to expire on 01/01/1960, SCP-5012-B's identity has not been presently verified.\nDuring interrogation, SCP-5012-B requested a typewriter with which to document its experiences.\n\nDOCUMENT 5012-JE\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nI'm sorry. Give me a moment to think.\nMy first memory is of being crushed into a point of nothing, plunged into a deep silence. My body felt no pain; whatever vestige of myself was left to experience implosion was not strictly physical. But, I was still me. In some form or fashion, I existed; just not physically.\nIt's hard to explain if you haven't felt it yourself. Give me a minute.\nThink of how a well-decorated but windowless room feels, and imagine that feeling is tangible. Now, imagine that the lights have been switched off. The room still exists, is just as fancily decorated as before, and you saw the room, so you had that feeling. But you can't see it anymore. The capacity for that feeling to exist, in its purest state, that's gone.\nFor less than a moment, I both existed and didn't in complete stillness. Then I started, and forgive me for anthropomorphizing my half-self, I started moving. Something was sucking me through a rough tube, something skinny enough to scrape and long enough for me to feel it on some level, and long enough for me to, well, \"hear\" something.\nI'm going to try to put this into as close to accurate as I can get in Italian: there was a singular sense of \"symphony\". Not a \"sum of its parts\", but the \"singular\" \"symphony\" as a unit. It didn't start or stop; it felt like it was always there, like I'd walked into an empty room in the middle of a record player's performance. There was no direction other than forward, not even backward, so I have to assume it wasn't strictly sound. But it\u2026\n\u2026 these are supposed to be clinical, but there's no way around it: it was beautiful. If I could have stayed there forever, I would have.\nAnd then, all of a sudden, I exist again. Except\u2026 give me another moment.\nBefore I could process anything, I felt myself internally collapse. Doing anything felt wrong, \"painful\". I didn't fit, none of me or anything about me did, like I was a round peg attempting to hammer myself into a square hole, twisted and mangled into a foreign shape I wasn't built to occupy. Simultaneously, I was constricted and exposed, as if\u2026 sorry, as if the \"expression\" of \"me\" was a crushed and punctured can I was trying to fit.\nI wasn't doing anything, literally I think. \"Being\", thinking, existing, some invisible force was scraping and pushing against any attempt to be.\nI opened my mouth to scream, and only then did I find myself harmonizing with\u2026 I think it was a fiddle.\nEmanating from the whole of what, at that moment, \"was\", was a fiddle. Not necessarily the sound of it, no, but\u2026 it's hard to explain with words. The fiddle was there, everywhere, suffused into everything, as natural as gravity but to me as conspicuous as a blister. Whatever it was, it was loud, like a wooden dresser dragged across a wooden floor. I could cover my ears, scream, run anywhere I wanted, and I'd still know the fiddle.\nI'm unsure of how long I \"laid\" there, helpless. For a time, I'm sure death ceased to be a horrifying prospect, but I couldn't even die \"correctly\", as if the cessation of my life was contingent upon some unwritten rule. Finally, after what had to have been an eternity unable to do anything, I surrendered myself to the fiddle.\nAnd then, I felt the pain lighten, and I could \"be\" again.\nPlease give me another moment.\nThere aren't many precise words to describe where I found myself. The closest analogue would be a flat, featureless nothing, broken only by a thin veneer of\u2026 something. Something deliberate, as if trying to convey a message that, at least to me, highlighted what wasn't. I knew I was back in the containment area, but it was little more than a setpiece.\nAround me were twisted, imprecise, but unmistakably human \"props\", as it were. All were mangled, by exposure or animal or otherwise, but none of them were dead. No matter the extent of their wounds, none of them were dead. I'm not entirely sure if they could die; none seemed too concerned with their grievous wounds to do more than lie comfortably still.\nMy first instinct was to call out to one of them, but to even speak was\u2026 well, \"performative\". I couldn't speak without singing, or walk without dancing, or write without falling back to poetry or symphonics. All the universe was in tune with the fiddle screaming from the back of my mind, like a stage play. To do anything else was to break the thin veneer of performance, to knock against a curtain or fall into the darkness at the edge of the stage.\nAnd aside from that empty performance of immortality(?), there was little else of note. I danced around for what must have been days, trying desperately to make sense of my surroundings. Where there wasn't misery or pain or mold-caked animals, there was a profound sense of \"absence\". Something was missing, something the fiddle never needed account for, like a field you know exists but aren't looking at. As if it wasn't important to what was.\nBut I couldn't stop. Between a deeper understanding of my situation and that of the dying men around me, the immortality of rot was hardly the ideal choice. And so I probed further, throughout the site, trying to find some semblance of explanation.\nAnd, then I ate a cherry.\nAll of a sudden, I felt an immense weight dissolve from my being. The fiddle was gone; in its place was a familiar symphony. I was sitting in a booth, inside of a diner painted a brilliant array of new and exciting colors, as a quartet of women sang a song of\u2026 my mind struggles, to put it into words. But I know it was beautiful; that it was real.\nAnd then I woke up.\nThe pain of readjusting to the fiddle was amplified by a sudden shock of dullness. The world around me didn't just feel dismal; it felt incomplete. The absence of some \"something\" left my being exposed; worst of all, the memory of what I lost was fading.\nThe second pen touched paper, it was lost.\nI tried again, to recapture the bliss; I ate the cherries, cooked them, boiled the bark and leaves and flowers into tea, anything to recapture that reality, and every time I was pulled back into the half-dead nothing. So I broke the ultimate taboo: I ate flesh from one of the musicians.\nFor a brief, beautiful second, I'm back in the symphonic void.\nWhen my existence reasserts itself, I'm back in a chamber of noise, trapped again by alien constraints. From everywhere thunders a trumpet, a sustained scream at the dull wrongness with which I tried to express myself.\nIt never gets easier, trying to readjust. Quicker, perhaps, but it's not something one can prepare for. The rules of each\u2026 musician, shall we say, they're as unique as they are ubiquitous. To even prepare for the next is to violate the rules set by the present.\nI can't even remember what the next one was. The worlds, I mean. There was a similar sense of incompleteness, holes where something should have been. Most of them, the Foundation exists, but there's always something wrong with them. The buildings, the people, everything is equally as twisted as its surroundings. Like grotesque caricatures, playing whatever part the instruments decree.\nYou asked me about the notebook, everything in there. That's a map. Dozens of them. Even they weren't enough; until you memorize the names and faces of each one, where you'll end up is pure guesswork. I thought if I traced where I was with where I ended up, and how, perhaps I could find my way home.\n\u2026 what I'm going to say next may be infohazardous.\nEvery world I went to was twisted to the tune of a specific instrument. Some were minor: I distinctly recall a universe where the Foundation gave guided tours through the grove. Less so others: another world had me stuck, immobile, unable to taste, smell, or feel anything but hot metal and burning plastic, in a wall of numbers as a burning shock coursed repeatedly through my being. Throughout, however, I kept faith that, eventually, I'd get home.\nThat ideal was the only thing that kept me dancing. Home was complete, it was colorful and vibrant and \"whole\". Existence wasn't forced to express anything aside from the completeness of being. And it was silent. And I suppose that's why, even as Fiorenza appeared everywhere but here, I disregarded this world.\nSomething must have changed, because I never noticed the cello before then.\n\nUpdated documentation pending investigation by the Metaphysics Department.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly known as cherry trees.\n2. The process by which organisms age and die.\n3. Wild cherry.\n4. A troupe of performers that played across Southern Europe from 1896 until their disappearance in early 1924.\n5. Due to an archival issue, no such writings exist within Foundation record prior to 30/05/1956.\n6. The SCP-5012 project lacked a dedicated freezer space.\n7. Appropriate for a humanoid anomaly as designated by the Foundation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5011 | SCP-5012 | SCP-5013 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5013, 20m past outer boundary.\n\nItem #: SCP-5013\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A perimeter surrounding SCP-5013 at a distance of 1 km is to be patrolled by 20 armed guards in rotating shifts, quartered at Site-5013. Civilians approaching this zone are to be diverted. All internal exploration and research on SCP-5013 should be conducted by D-class personnel. No Foundation personnel are permitted entry to SCP-5013 without Level 4 staff approval.\nUPDATE (05/05/2019): Following Incident 5013-1, all individuals exposed to SCP-5013's effects are categorised as ATEN-class memetic hazards, and require immediate quarantine and neutralisation. Perimeter security duties have been allocated to the newly established MTF Theta-1 (\"Locke and Key\"). All entities emerging from SCP-5013 are to be terminated on sight.\nDescription: SCP-5013 is an anomalous region approximately 10km2 in size, located at coordinates [REDACTED], in southern Yunnan Province, China. The area contains wild forest, the remains of terraced fields and a village with 43 buildings, located at the approximate center of the zone. The last evidence of human habitation within SCP-5013 is dated to the 1920s.\nSCP-5013 is covered in constant fog. While this has an unremarkable chemical composition, it has been observed to exhibit cognitohazardous properties, with the potential to induce confusion, amnesia, hallucinations, and feelings of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu or jamais vu. These increase in intensity relative to proximity to the center of SCP-5013.\nThe amnestic effect of SCP-5013 is likely responsible for its other cognitohazardous properties. This effect primarily acts on memories of affected individuals under active recall while within SCP-5013. This has a secondary effect of causing disorientation, and making exit of SCP-5013 difficult. While protective gear is able to mitigate the effects of exposure, the intensity of SCP-5013 upon entry to the village is severe enough to prevent exit entirely, and personnel who enter this zone are unable to be retrieved. Mnestic drugs have been unable to prevent the effects of SCP-5013.\nHallucinations within the buildings of SCP-5013 generally reflect other indoor environments. These phenomena have not been observed to repeat. Whilst the content of these hallucinations generally reflects real-world, non-anomalous locations, clear identification of any of these locales has proven difficult. It is unclear whether this is a consistent property between hallucinations or an expected result of the cognitohazardous effects of SCP-5013. Poor identification of these locations in interviews with relevant civilians was initially thought to simply reflect their non-existence, but experimentation has noted that locals were more likely to report difficulty recalling a similar location, rather than non-recognition (when compared to subjects presented with fabricated control locations). Further experimentation into this phenomenon is ongoing. A brief list of reported examples is listed below.\n\nA dacha of East German construction, converted into storage space and filled with tools and a Trabant car in poor condition.\nA Mesoamerican ruined pyramid, not corresponding to any discovered structure.\nA mid-20th century house built in the Czech Functionalist style.\nA home in a submerged Nubian village, c. 1970.\nAn abandoned Greek Orthodox church on a hill overlooking the city of Trabzon, Turkey.\nAn empty, partially constructed building in the Argentine city of Ciudad Encrujiada, with design suggestive of a convention center/exhibition space.\nA room of the Forbidden City in Beijing, not matched to any existing structure. A stack of papers bearing Foundation insignia is visible on a table.\nThe bridge of an unknown Gazelle-class cruiser of the Imperial German Navy, wrecked on a tropical island in shallow water.\nA cave in a desert climate, containing a 20-meter high statue of the Buddha.\nAn Iranian coffee-house interior of 17th century design.\n\nNo persons have been observed in these hallucinations at any time.\nAddendum 5013-1:\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5013-1\n\nDATE: 01/04/2019\nNOTES: First manned incursion following drone-based exploration, which mapped the area and collected soil, water and air samples, with no anomalous properties detected. One member of D-class personnel (D-724) was equipped with a two-way radio, video and audio recording equipment, a gas mask, a head-mounted lamp and 1 day of rations, with instructions to proceed to the central village within SCP-5013 and report their experiences.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nCONTROL: D-724, do you understand the mission? You are to walk directly down this path, straight ahead to the village. Report everything you see. We will give you instructions on when to return.\nD-724: Yeah, I heard you at the briefing. What's so special about this place, anyway?\nCONTROL: That's your job to find out. There's no sign of anything hostile in there, and all the samples we've taken are safe, but be careful. Don't touch anything without our permission.\nD-724: Sure, I bet it's totally fine, that's why you're sending me instead of one of you guys. Why did you even give me a mask, then?\nCONTROL: It's a standard precaution. You're free to return to your previous work detail if you don't like what's happening.\nD-724: Okay, okay, I'm going.\nD-724 enters SCP-5013.\nD-724: Strange fog for this time of year.\nCONTROL: Keep going and tell us if you experience anything unusual.\nD-724: Nothing yet. I see some trees, pools of water, there's a wooden fence on my right, what can I tell you?\n[D-724 continues walking down the path in silence for 12 minutes. Apart from the presence of fog, no anomalous activity is apparent.]\n\nStill image from Exploration 5013-1.\n\nD-724: There's a village up ahead.\nCONTROL: That's your objective. Keep going and this will be over soon.\nD-724: You didn't tell me about any village.\nCONTROL: 724, we went over this in the briefing.\nD-724: What are you talking about?\nCONTROL: This isn't a game, 724. It's in your interest to stay alert and do your job properly.\nD-724: What the hell are you talking about? What job?\nCONTROL: 724, you need to\u2026 hmm. Okay. Just proceed to the village and report on what you see.\nD-724: Uh, if you say so.\n[D-724 enters the village. Camera movements are consistent with distress and agitation.]\nCONTROL: Are you all right, 724?\nD-724: What - what's going on? Where am I?\nCONTROL: Take a breath, 724. Do you see something unusual?\nD-724: Who - who are - \u8fd9\u662f\u4ec0\u4e48?1\nCONTROL: Repeat that again, 724.\nD-724: \u6211\u4e0d\u660e\u767d. \u53d1\u751f\u4e86\u4ec0\u4e48?2\n[D-724 begins touching the gas mask and radio headset in confusion, then begins to remove them.]\nCONTROL: D-724, stop that immediately!\nD-724 does not respond and becomes increasingly agitated. He discards the gas mask and communications equipment, with the camera landing on the ground. He runs down the village street, out of view.\n<END LOG>\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5013-2\n\nDATE: 03/04/2019\nNOTES: Manned incursion by 3-person team from MTF Epsilon-6 (\"Village Idiots\"), (E1 CPT Nguyen, E2 SSGT Zhou, E3 CPL Zimmerman). The team was selected from personnel with a measured Cognitohazard Resistance Value >50, and equipped with sidearms, non-lethal weaponry, rations, mnestic autoinjectors and HAZMAT gear due to suspicions at the time physical contact with the fog exacerbated its anomalous properties.\n\nSCP-5013 on entry in Exploration 5013-2.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nE2: What are we even doing here? Isn't this a mission for weirdos like Eta-10?\nE1: This is just an early recon run - scope out the anomaly, get out. We can do a better job of it than they can.\nE2: You mean we're better at being expendable in a skip that makes you go crazy. Fucking hell.\nCONTROL: You've been selected for this mission because you're skilled generalists with cognitohazard experience. Captain Nguyen has authority to abort if your assessment on the ground requires it.\nE2: Yeah, you'd better fucking use that, Cap.\nE1: Sooner this is done the better. Radio check?\nE3: Zimmerman, check.\nE2: Zhou, check.\nE1: Okay, let's go.\n[Team proceeds into SCP-5013.]\nE3: So, who's going to sling this class-D over their back?\nE2: Not sure. Who's the lowest ranked here?\nE1: Nobody's carrying anyone out of here. We should be able to convince this guy to return.\nE2: If he hears your Mandarin, he'd be wiser to take his chances with the skip - whoa, hold up. What's that in your suit?\n[E2's camera moves to view E1's faceplate. Traces of fog are visible inside.]\nE2: Fuck, a breach already?\nE1: I don't see anything.\nE2: There's a breach in your suit, Cap.\nE1: Really? Okay. Not feeling anything unusual. Zimmerman, can you do a check?\n[E3 checks E1's suit for breaches.]\nE3: You're all clear, Captain.\nE2: What's your name?\nE1: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Nguyen.\nE2: What's your date of birth?\nE1: Sixth of May, eighty-seven.\nE2: Who's the CPC General Secretary?\nE1: Xi Jinping.\nE2: Association - north.\nE1: South.\nE2: Lantern.\nE1: Candle.\nE2: Willow.\nE1: Branch.\nE2: Passphrase. I enter the court through the middle gate.\nE1: My sleeve is wet with tears.\nE2: All neural readings look normal. Can you confirm that, Control?\nCONTROL: Confirmed, no abnormal readings on our end. Are you clear to proceed?\nE1: We can proceed. I've seen worse coghazes on TV.\nE3: What's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?\nE2: Shut up, Zimmerman. I don't like this at all, Cap. We haven't even taken ten steps and we're already losing control.\nE1: We're not pulling out before we've taken those ten steps. Just follow my lead.\n[The team continues through SCP-5013, approaching the village without incident. Retroactive analysis of footage shows fog is now visible in the suits of all three team members, though not in quantities sufficient for the team or Control to notice.]\nE3: I see something on the ground.\nE2: Gas mask, some sort of bag. This the spot where we lost the D-class?\nE1: [moves to investigate] Standard Foundation-issue. Looks like it. No footprints - rain's washed them away. Best to check the houses. This looks as good a place to start as any. Weapons ready.\nE1 pushes open the door of the nearest house. The interior is empty save for plant growth and broken furniture.\nE1: Looks like we got our anomaly. You seeing this?\nE2: All I see's some fuckin' weeds, Cap.\nE3: Yeah, it looks different - ugh, and that buzzing?\nE1: You don't see it? Looks like we got our coghaz. Control, can you give us a visual assessment?\nCONTROL: I'm seeing an empty room with some plants and rubbish. Computer scan isn't picking up anything unusual. I can get back to you with a full anomaly pattern search in about thirty minutes.\nE1: Okay. I see someone's bedroom, looks like a city somewhere in Europe, style nineteen- thirties maybe? Looking out the windows on that wall - I see a castle, two bridges, nighttime outside. No people around, but I hear someone yelling. German? Okay, it's stopped. Zhou? Zimmer?\nE2: I'm with Control on this one. Nothing here for me.\nE3: Uh, I'm looking at some jungle - I thought it was just normal, but the plants look different to what we've seen around here, and there's a bit more light - there's this buzzing, doesn't stop. Sounds like a lot of bugs.\nE1: I'm going to sweep the room. Stay here.\nE2: Watch yourself.\nE1: Okay, I - woah.\nE2: You all right, Cap?\nE1: Yeah, I, uh - it's just faded out. Nothing here but a rotting table.\nE3: I don't see anything either.\nE2: Told you there wasn't anything there.\n[E1 exits and closes the door.]\nE1: Okay\u2026 okay, let's go. Next house? Are we getting some data here? I think we're getting something. Let's go.\nE2: You sure you're all right, Cap? Better do a check again.\nE1: A what? Sure. Sure. Go ahead.\nE2: Your name?\nE1: Nguyen.\nE2: What's your date of birth?\nE1: Sixth May, eighty- eighty-seven.\nE2: Who's the Prime Minister of Japan?\nE1: Abe.\nE2: Association - east.\nE1: West.\nE2: Moon.\nE1: Sun.\nE2: Butterfly.\nE1: Lizard.\nE2: Because the mountain grass\u2026\nE1: Mountain grass?\nE3: Uh-oh.\nE2: Readings are off compared to before. Control?\nCONTROL: Low-level fluctuations seen on our end. Caution is advised.\nE2: We should call it. I see this going south real fast.\nE1: No, no, I'm okay.\n[E1 moves to the next house and opens the door.]\n\n[DATA MISSING]\n\nE1: This is - what is this?\nE2: What is it?\nE3: Huh, it's a big cube. Looks like a containment chamber. Some kind of big machine, not one I've seen before. This one of our sites? I see a number - site forty-one?\nE2: Site what?\nE3: Forty-one. You know -\nE2: We're done here. Let's go.\n[E2 pulls E1 out of the building and slams the door closed.]\nE3: You know that? What -\nE2: We've seen far more than enough. This is way above our pay grade, Cap. Get us out of here.\nE1: Huh. This is - I don't -\nE2: That's not good. Mnestics in, Nguyen.\nE1: I - I don't understand.\nE2: Fuck! Control, lead is affected by a high-level coghaz. I need his system override, code [REDACTED].\nCONTROL: I see it, Sergeant. Giving you access. Do what you need to do.\n[E2 activates E1's mnestic autoinjectors remotely.]\nE2: Hey. Hey. Captain Nguyen. You with me?\nE1: Who - who are you? What am I -\nE2: Fuck. Okay, okay. You have to come with me. Zimmerman, grab his other arm.\nE3: Uh, okay. Where, uh, where are we going?\nE2: We're getting the fuck out of here, Zimmerman, come on.\nE3: Sure, sure. What - what are we doing here anyway?\nE2: God damn it. Just follow my lead.\n[The team exits SCP-5013 at a significantly slower speed than that of entry. E2 spends much of this time guiding and encouraging E1 and E3, who remain confused and distractible.]\n<END LOG>\n\nDo you have regrets? Every person you sent to their death, every innocent you failed to save, every comrade you never saw again. I do. I'm sure you do. Even if your days aren't as dramatic, you remember what you shouldn't have said, words you shouldn't have heard, something you shouldn't have tried. We should have a clean slate. A fresh start. We will all be grateful. How can you miss what you do not know you had?\n\nINTERVIEW LOG 5013-1\n\nDATE: 04/04/2019\nNOTES: Post-mission interview of SSGT Zhou, conducted by Control lead (Dr Anderson).\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nANDERSON: I'm sorry to go through this so soon after what happened, but you know the drill with these things. I won't keep you long.\nZHOU: Oh, yeah? I'm just overjoyed you decided to interview me. I've been aching to find out why you made my team into drooling idiots, and you can tell the Director that -\nANDERSON: Maybe we should go off the record, Terry.\nZHOU: (sighs) Forget it. Look, Chris, I'm pretty on edge right now. I don't want to bite your head off, but someone has to answer for the Captain and Zimmer having their brains scrambled by a coghaz. How could you do this to us?\nANDERSON: I - I'm not sure - okay, I'm not going to make excuses, but you know there are things I need to get clearance for to tell you. I'm going to recommend an inquiry, and I'm willing to take responsibility, but the medics have only had a day to look over Nguyen and Zimmerman. They still have a fighting chance, our mnestic treatments are a lot better than they were in the nineties.\nZHOU: I'd find that more reassuring if you'd let me see them.\nANDERSON: That's out of my hands, but I think they're off-site now.\nZHOU: Let's get this over with, then. What did you need to ask?\nANDERSON: We're trying to figure out why you weren't affected by the anomaly. We've got one working theory - but anyway. You weren't affected, right? From the reports when you got back to the Site and reviewing the footage, nobody noticed anything, but anything we might have missed?\nZHOU: No. I walked through that whole damn place and didn't have any visions, didn't forget my name, uh, but there was - can we go off the record for this? \u2026 guess not. Just don't dissect my brain or anything. I'm not sleeping well, and I'm misplacing small things. My phone, my watch, being a few days off on the date - but I've had a rough couple of days.\nANDERSON: That's fair. I don't think I can make anything of that. You'll need a medical, still.\nZHOU: Yeah, I know.\n[ANDERSON is silent for 90 seconds.]\nZHOU: You don't have anything else for me?\nANDERSON: Hmm? Sorry. I just - never mind. What's your opinion on\u2026 on amnestics?\nZHOU: I've taken my fair share. I know the last time was about two years back? Can't tell you what for. Obviously.\nANDERSON: Sounds about right. I've consulted the dispensing records and you've been on amnestics every\u2026 a lot of times\u2026 since you joined up. You must have been on a rough detail before I met you.\nZHOU: I wouldn't know. (laughs dryly)\nANDERSON: Well. The point is, the, um, Captain\u2026 Captain Nguyen\u2026 yes. He never took them. Right? You knew that?\nZHOU: Yes, now you mention it. It was a moral kind of thing, like feeling obliged to remember what he's done. I thought it was pretty stupid, but I respected that, in a way. You - you think I have some kind of immunity? That he didn't?\nANDERSON: Immunity? Yes. Something like that.\nZHOU: And Zimmer, he probably had a few, newbie, seen some things he wasn't cleared for, but not as many as an old lady like me. Sound about right?\nANDERSON: Zimmer?\nZHOU: You know, Corporal Zimmerman. You're not going off on me too, are you, Chris?\nANDERSON: What?\nZHOU: Earth to Anderson.\nANDERSON: I - who's that? Anderson?\nZHOU: Chris, if this is a joke, it's not fucking funny.\nANDERSON: I - I - I - (silence)\nZHOU: Oh, shit.\n[Alarms sounding.]\n<END LOG>\n\nGiven the recent information on SCP-5013, the Council has enacted emergency\nEmergency procedures are to be\nSCP-5013\nFoundation staff are to\nSecure\nBlack moons and howling.\nBlack\nBlack\nBl\nbbbbbbbbb\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nDue to the exponential increase in ED-K-Class events, instability in the documentation for SCP-5013 is anticipated. Instability in other documentation dated beyond June 2019 is also a possibility. All personnel with clearance should take appropriate cognitohazard precautions. While the vector of transmission of the phenomenon is unknown, all personnel who experience potential cognitohazardous effects should enact immediate quarantine procedures and alert site security staff.\nGiven the nature of the ED-K-Class Scenario, all pertinent information should be acted on immediately.\n\u2014 Director, RAISA\n\nI have never seen this building. There are others here, who bring up shades of white, black, orange. I do not remember what this means. I remember how to write, though. I remember I can push these keys and my thoughts appear. I am luckier than some of them.\nI think that something terrible has happened, but I do not know what.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Mandarin, \"what is this?\"\n2. \"I don't understand. What's happening?\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5012 | SCP-5013 | SCP-5014 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5014 prior to termination.\n\nItem #: SCP-5014\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5014's body is to be kept in a standard human cadaver storage chamber. Foundation personnel may only examine SCP-5014's body with Level-1 Clearance or above.\nDescription: SCP-5014 was a 29-year-old Anglo-American human male, standing 1.63 meters tall and weighing 75 kilograms. SCP-5014 was previously thought to be physically immortal and had previously demonstrated incredible durability against various forms of trauma and bodily harm.\nSCP-5014 had previously endured the following with no adverse affects:\n\nAssault via firearm.\nBlunt force.\nRepeated stabbing.\nImmolation.\nConsumption and inhalation of toxins.\nExplosives.\nLong-term exposure to a vacuum.\nSelf-inflicted harm. (During and between recorded experiments)\n\nSCP-5014 had claimed to previously be vulnerable, as evidenced through a burn scar on the back of its right hand, which it claimed was from an incident with a stove top. It is yet unknown what caused SCP-5014 to gain its anomalous properties.\nSCP-5014's cadaver shows no sign of anomalous durability; as such, it has since been classified as Neutralized as of Incident 5014-01 on September 27th, 2022.\nIncident 5014-01 Dossier: On September 27th, 2022, during a routine experimentation session with SCP-5014, Researcher Faith deBolt, wielding a firearm previously used in prior experiments, successfully neutralized SCP-5014 with a single shot to the forehead. Post-mortem examination concludes that approximately 6 seconds passed between the bullet entering SCP-5014's skull and its death. An investigation was later put in place to determine the reason behind its death. Suspects of note are listed below, as submitted by Foundation Researchers in the order of submission.\n\nOpen Dossier\n\nClose Dossier\n\nSuspect 5014-01\nResearcher: Researcher Faith deBolt\nDescription: Suspect 5014-01 is a model of Ruger LCP handgun, which was previously in SCP-5014's possession prior to its containment. Suspect 5014-01 had been used previously on SCP-5014 to no effect.\nInvestigation: Suspect 5014-01 was used in several experiments against multiple immortal entities in Foundation facilities. No effects were achieved similar to the one achieved through Incident 5014-01.\nConclusion: Suspect 5014-01 did not terminate SCP-5014.\n\nSuspect 5014-02\nResearcher: Researcher Faith deBolt\nDescription: Suspect 5014-02 is Researcher Faith deBolt, the researcher responsible for firing the weapon that terminated SCP-5014 during Incident 5014-01.\nInvestigation: Suspect 5014-02 was told to attack several immortal entities with the intent to kill, using a variety of methods including firearms, blunt weapons, bladed weapons, her bare hands, and remotely-operated weaponry. No effects were achieved similar to the one achieved through Incident 5014-01.\nConclusion: Suspect 5014-02 did not terminate SCP-5014.\n\nSuspect 5014-03\nResearcher: Researcher Faith deBolt\nDescription: Suspect 5014-03 is the containment chamber that SCP-5014 was housed in for the duration of its approximately three-year containment, which was also the chamber where it was terminated.\nInvestigation: A single immortal entity was housed within Suspect 5014-03 until it had reached the exact amount of time in containment that SCP-5014 had experienced. The entity was experimented on with the intent to terminate. No effects were achieved similar to the one achieved through Incident 5014-01.\nConclusion: Suspect 5014-03 did not terminate SCP-5014.\n\nSuspect 5014-08.\n\nSuspect 5014-08\nResearcher: Researcher Carlyle Fleming\nDescription: Suspect 5014-08 is SCP-5014's ex-wife. Interviews from SCP-5014 claimed that she \"wanted (it) dead more than anything\".\nInvestigation: Suspect 5014-08 was covertly abducted and scanned for anomalous activity. Suspect 5014-08 was then taken through the same experiments as used for Suspect 5014-02. No effects were achieved similar to the one achieved through Incident 5014-01. Suspect 5014-08 was then amnesticized and returned to her home.\nConclusion: Suspect 5014-08 did not terminate SCP-5014.\n\nSuspect 5014-12\nResearcher: Researcher Jonesy Katzenburg\nDescription: Suspect 5014-12 is the specific area in the middle forehead where SCP-5014 was shot, theorized to have never been harmed prior to SCP-5014's death.\nInvestigation: Audio, video, and written documentation of each experiment tested on SCP-5014 is currently being examined. Investigation is unclear and incomplete, particularly due to the fact that interviews from SCP-5014 claim that they had attained their anomalous properties several years prior to their containment. While evidence has shown that previous experiments have harmed SCP-5014 in a similar if not exact location on the forehead, Researcher Katzenburg has kept the investigation open. He has insisted that Suspect 5014-12 may be as small as a fraction of a millimeter in size.\nConclusion: Unknown, deemed unlikely.\n\nSuspect 5014-21\nResearcher: Researcher Jonesy Katzenburg\nDescription: Suspect 5014-21 is the exact sequence of events SCP-5014 went through before their death.\nInvestigation: As one Foundation Researcher that experimented on SCP-5014 at the time has since been permanently hospitalized, this particular investigation cannot be completed without harm to the researcher.\nConclusion: Unknown.\n\nSuspect 5014-29\nResearcher: Researcher Gretchen Reuters\nDescription: Suspect 5014-29 is an event that took place within the period that SCP-5014 took to die.\nInvestigation: Suspect 5014-29 was first discovered by accident while investigating SCP-3885, and an incident that occurred with an instance of SCP-3885-01. At the exact moment that SCP-5014 had been terminated, an instance of SCP-3885-01 had perished in an explosion; the first and currently only recorded time an instance of SCP-3885-01 perished. Further investigation into other contained immortal entities during the exact moment SCP-5014 had perished had not given similar results, as few were in positions that would cause them to perish in the first place.\nConclusion: Unknown.\n\nSuspect 5014-33\nResearcher: Therapist Emilia Daring1\nDescription: Suspect 5014-33 is a misunderstanding of SCP-5014's anomalous properties.\nInvestigation: Prior interviews with SCP-5014 had claimed that it had previously discovered its anomalous properties during an attempted suicide. According to several psychological evaluations, Therapist Daring had noted that SCP-5014's depression had worsened from feeling it was obligated to die due to outside pressure, to actively seeking death for their own sake. Due to the correlation to its psychological state, it could be believed that the extent of SCP-5014's anomalous properties were over-estimated.\nConclusion: Unknown.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Worked with SCP-5014 often prior to its death.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5013 | SCP-5014 | SCP-5015 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5015\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\narchon\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All newly discovered instances of SCP-5015 are to be kept in a standard storage locker in the restricted containment section of Site-11's archaeological ward.\nDescription: SCP-5015 is a small object, constructed from petrified clay, which resembles a simple compass rose. Several thaumaturgic markings, appearing to be of ancient Greek origin, are carved into SCP-5015. The meanings of these markings are unknown. SCP-5015 is believed to be a device designed for navigation towards SCP-5015-A, an extradimensional space believed to be the inspiration for myths regarding Daedalus's Labyrinth.\nSCP-5015 is comprised of five pieces, designated SCP-5015-1 through -5, with SCP-5015-1 through -4 being the four \"pointers\" of the compass rose and SCP-5015-5 being the central piece. The five pieces can function separately or together. When separate, the tips of each of the corner pieces and the middle of the central piece will, through unknown means, glow a faint cyan. However, when together, the glow of each component will be distinct and will indicate the direction in which the user should continue to find the nearest entrance to SCP-5015-A.\nExploration: Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 was sent into SCP-5015-A via an entrance which Foundation thaumatologist Doctor Sphere found in the ruins outside of Luxor, Egypt.\n\n+ MTF Exploration Log\n\n- Close\n\nOn 14 December 2019, a representative from the Global Occult Coalition's PHYSICS Division contacted the SCP Foundation and proposed a joint expedition into SCP-5015-A, performed by members from a Foundation Mobile Task Force and a Coalition Assessment Team. Following a vote by the O5 Council, the expedition was approved 7 to 2 with 1 abstaining.\nOn 21 December 2019, Expedition Team 5015-Alpha (consisting of four members of MTF Zeta-9 \"Mole Rats\", four members of GOC Assessment Team 3627 \"Minotaur\", and one field researcher from each organization) entered SCP-5015-A. Due to difficulties in recording and transmission of video logs, Major Una was advised to keep an audio journal accounting recent events experienced within SCP-5015-A. The following is a compilation of all notable entries.\n\nExpedition Team 5015-Alpha Members\n\nFoundation\n\nZ9-1, Maj. Una\nZ9-2, Cpt. Nijimura\nZ9-3, 1st Lt. Abdul\nZ9-4, 2nd Lt. Brown\nField Researcher Pendleton\n\nGOC\n\nM-1, Cpt. \"Midas\"\nM-2, 1st Lt. \"Mars\"\nM-3, 2nd Lt. \"Tweedledee\"\nM-4, 2nd Lt. \"Tweedledum\"\nField Researcher \"Pendulum\"\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 1\n\nHey, Una here. Still got a few hours 'till we enter the maze, we're being airlifted out there now.\nObviously we Mole Rats knew each other beforehand, but we've had about a day to get to know the GOC team. For some reason, they're under orders not to give us their real names, but we've got some callsigns we can refer to them by.\nMidas is their CO, but he's a captain so at least I've got authority over him. Apparently the reason he's called Midas is that when he was headed off to boot camp he brought a gold locket with a picture of his boyfriend at the time - his training group saw it was made of gold and the callsign was a given at that point.\nThey call the next guy Mars. I guess he was an astronaut candidate at some point, but once he failed one of the exams they flunked him out. He still had a military background, though, so he decided to join back up since he was still young enough and was eventually brought in by the GOC.\nTweedledee and Tweedledum are apparently identical twins, but you wouldn't know by looking at them. They joined up together, trained together, and one has never been promoted without the other being promoted as well. But honestly, they couldn't be more dissimilar with regards to their personalities. Tweedledee is quiet and mostly keeps to himself, but Tweedledum never stops talking. And it's not like she's annoying either - just really enthusiastic about everything.\nAccording to the team, Pendulum was never really able to stay on one task for very long, but she could switch from one to another in a heartbeat, meaning she's a great multitasker and is often working through multiple problems at a time. Hopefully, that helps with this mission.\nAlright, I'm being told we've got five minutes until we're at the entrance. Better start getting ready to head out. The next time you hear from me we'll be deep in the maze.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 2\n\nUna again. 12 hours since we passed through the entrance. We can't tell the time or how long we've been in here based on any ambient light, there isn't any really - but we've all got watches, of course.\nIt was a lot of walking, to be honest. Occasionally we'd stop to rest and eat some rations but mostly just 12 hours of repetitive, boring walking and following the compass. We did come across a few interesting places, though. For about an hour we were walking along this massive bridge across what seemed to be some sort of bottomless pit, but the walls were all lined with books. They were too far away for me to read any of the titles, but every once in a while something would fall - sometimes a book, but sometimes it was too fast to tell. Some things were definitely not books though.\nThere was also one corridor that had about three different traps within it - too old to activate, or maybe they'd been disarmed, but there wasn't any danger.\nNijimura is telling me to get some rest. I guess I should take his advice. I'll report back tomorrow, or at least as soon as I can.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 3\n\nSomeone's definitely been here before us.\nWe came across another trap - a dart trap in the wall. The dart had been shot out at a high enough speed to embed itself an inch in the wall, and the blood from whoever it hit was splattered across it too. And it was recently enough that the blood is dried, but it's not a stain, it's still just dried blood. Someone's in here with us.\nPendulum and Mars wanted to examine the trap mechanisms, so we're taking a rations break. We've been in here for just over 48 hours. Not much that's very interesting, but we've come across a few hallways where it's just locked doors all the way through, even on the ceilings. Hopefully we find something useful soon.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 4\n\nNothing eventful today. Tweedledee and Tweedledum went out to scout, didn't find anything of importance, just more corridors and locked doors.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 5\n\nWell, we found who's in here with us. Two teenagers named Lance and Danielle - say they're from the Serpent's Hand. We ran into them a couple of hours ago, one of them was injured. Apparently, he was the one hit by the dart we found earlier. They said another friend of theirs, named Drew, went ahead to scout, but it'd been several hours and he hadn't returned.\nWe asked Danielle why they're here, and she said they have another one of the compasses. Apparently, there's some story about some treasure being hidden somewhere within the maze, and the three of them are looking for it.\nThis is the first we hear about it - all we're looking for is whatever the compass is leading us to. Maybe if we manage to make it to the center of the maze we might find this treasure, whatever it is.\nThe kids are coming along with us, but they're not exactly happy about it. They said something about not wanting to align themselves with \"Bookburners and Jailors\", whatever that means. Regardless, they're coming along.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 6\n\nWe found another kid. He's dead. Bullet went clean through his head, right between the eyes. Lance and Danielle don't recognize him, so it's pretty likely he was here on his own. He's got a journal with him. I'll take it with me for analysis once we return home.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 7\n\nWell, something interesting, finally. Some sort of big atrium with carvings on the walls. We can't identify what language the markings are in if they even are in any particular language. But there are corridors branching out in every direction, even where they would normally intersect with other corridors. We're gonna sleep here tonight and pick a corridor in the morning.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 8\n\nWell, something's different this time. A door's been blown off its hinges, and it leads into another corridor, but this one heads down. Up until now, there haven't been any elevation changes in here at all.\nThere's also the fact that the door was completely removed. We found remnants of plastic explosives. These feel like Chaos Insurgency tactics, and I'm not sure I really want to cross paths with the Insurgency in here.\nThis place is gonna give me a hell of a headache.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 9\n\nI've got a hell of a headache. And a couple of minor bullet wounds.\nFor one, I was right about the Insurgency's presence here. But they saw us before we saw them and started shooting immediately. Tweedledee and Abdul were hit pretty hard, and we took down one of their operatives, but other than that everyone's fine.\nWe did notice the Insurgency's got one of the compasses. If we see them again we're going to try and pin them down so we can get some answers.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 10\n\nTweedledee's dead. We did everything we could.\nWe found an alcove to lay him to rest in. Tweedledum wanted to do more for him, but we can't afford any of that.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 11\n\nWell, we ran into the Insurgency squad again - thanks to a lazy guard, we managed to sneak up on them while they were sleeping. We took their guns and pinned them down.\nThe Insurgency is here looking for this supposed treasure, too. How did apparently everyone but us know about this treasure, whatever it is?\nWe don't know what we're gonna do with them. I guess we'll see.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 12\n\nOkay, so apparently a couple of details were left out in our interrogation of the Insurgency operatives. They're the third team to go in, neither of the others came back. I guess I can't blame the Insurgency for sending more than one team in, the Foundation does the same sometimes, regardless of how obviously fucking stupid it might be.\nThey also confirmed they killed both Drew and the random kid we found a few days ago - We haven't told Danielle or Lance, but I'm pretty sure they have their suspicions.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 13\n\nThe kids are gone, and so is the Insurgency team's compass. I guess they ran off while we were sleeping.\nOne of the nearby doors is open and it leads down again. Considering the circumstances, they probably followed where the compass led them. We're gonna try to follow them.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 14\n\nI guess we're even less alone than we thought - we keep hearing voices echoing through the hallways. We can't quite make out what they're saying, but we know it's not the kids. I don't know if following the voices will compromise the mission, since they're not in the direction the compass is leading us.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 15\n\nSo we decided to put it to a vote - we're gonna follow the voices. I'm against it, since I think the mission comes first, but I guess I need to listen to my team as well. We're gonna sleep and head out in the morning - or, \"morning,\" I suppose.\n\nEntries 16 through 21 were found to be corrupted, and efforts to recover them are currently underway.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 22\n\nMidas, Mars, and Pendulum just left, taking the Insurgency prisoners with them. They were under orders to evacuate as soon as two of their operatives died, so when Tweedledum expired, the remaining three of them took one of the compasses and left. I guess they took the Insurgents with them for further interrogation once they're out of this hell.\nNow it's just Nijimura, Pendleton, and me. Drew, Danielle, and Lance are still missing.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 23\n\nWe're seeing more vents and pipes along the walls. We might be getting closer to something, because I'm starting to hear some sort of humming. It's far away, and I can only hear it just barely through the metal pipes, but it's definitely there.\nWe've still got plenty of food and water - they gave us about a few months' worth for ten people since we didn't know how long we were gonna be in here, and now that there's only three of us, we've got more than enough for however long this takes us.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 24\n\nWe're getting closer to something. There are more and more pipes, almost as if they're converging toward something. The compass seems to be leading us in the same direction as them, too.\nWe rarely get more than 4 to 6 hours of sleep. There's something about this place that doesn't let you rest. Nijimura is offering to scout ahead so Pendleton and I can try and get some real rest, but I can't let him do that. We need to stick together, no matter how tired we are.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 25\n\nOkay, something's changed - it's all pipes now. The walls, the ceiling, the floor, all pipes. We're getting close to something. Not sure what, but it's gotta be important.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 26\n\nFuck. I should have seen this coming.\nNijimura's gone. He left with one of the compasses while Pendleton and I were sleeping. I don't know whether he headed forward or back. Wherever he went, we can't stop now.\nThe humming is getting louder. It's getting hotter too.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 27\n\nWe're almost\u2026 somewhere. I can feel it.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 28\n\nI'm alone. The others are both dead.\nPendleton and I found Nijimura, but something had changed. He started ranting about the maze punishing the unworthy and the core being the answer. Pendleton tried to approach him, but he just shot her. He tried to take aim at me too, but I pulled the trigger first.\nHe died instantly. Pendleton didn't. I didn't have any first aid left - we used it all on the others, who all died anyway. She bled out in my arms.\nSo now it's just me.\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 29\n\nI found it.\nApparently Nijimura wasn't spouting complete nonsense - there is a core. And it's right in front of me.\nIt's fucking massive. A giant fucking crystal, embedded in the floor and ceiling. It's glowing the same shade of blue as the compass. The pipes are coming out of the ceiling too, but they're not connected to the core.\nWhy does this place even need a core? Nijimura said \"the core is the answer\" before he died - is it some kind of power source?\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 30\n\nI just noticed there's a door on the core. None of the doors have been quite the same, but this one is really different. Not even just in appearance, but I can feel something about this one.\n\u2026what the hell?\nOkay, there's some sort of crossroads inside the core. There's a bridge that goes from this door to an intersection of hundreds - no, thousands of other doors. They're all completely different too. One's some sort of staff door, one's a cave opening, and there's even just a mirror.\nWhat the hell is this place?\n\nExpedition Log 5015-Alpha, Entry 31\n\nI think I figured it out. The core isn't the crossroads, the whole labyrinth is. The core's just powering it all.\nI'm pretty sure the labyrinth creates some sort of pocket reality that only exists from the inside. The doors within the core lead to other labyrinths within other realities, and each of them has its own core powering it.\nThere's no way I can get out of here on my own. But I have another idea.\nImagine this: this labyrinth is like a website. Being inside is like being logged in, but in this case, there's no option to log out. You can only log out if you're forced out. So what if I force myself out? What if I shut down the maze?\nIf I figure out how to shut down the core, the maze will lose power. And if it loses power, it might force me out. I and everything else in this branch of the maze will be ejected to its home reality, and after a while, the maze might come back online, or it might not.\nOr I could just get stuck. Or just be deleted from all existences entirely.\nI can't make this decision too quickly. If I shut down the core and successfully get ejected to baseline reality, the next time you hear from me will be when I'm back home.\n\nOn 9 January 2020, numerous anomalous natural disasters took place simultaneously at locations known to also possess an entrance into SCP-5015-A. Major Una of MTF Zeta-9 was found unconscious outside of the entrance located near Havana, Cuba. No other members of the expedition team were with her.\n\nItem of Interest #1: A journal was discovered during Zeta-9's exploration into SCP-5015-A. A digital transcription of its contents has been posted for convenience. The journal is being kept in the written archive of Site-11 and is scheduled for thaumaturgic testing within the next month.\n\n+ Digital Transcription of Journal\n\n- Close\n\nEntry #1\nAlright so this is going to be one crazy journal. My heart is racing with excitement. I'm still packing my bags, but I wanted to remember this for a lifetime and record everything before I forgot. So yesterday, I was at Stackers, complaining about the lack of excitement. So, Lillian, who is the bartender, suggested I go seek out Ol' Wind Charm.\n\nI had been to Stacker's a few times before, so to learn that Ol' Wind Charm was the ghost of a dead pirate wasn't the most shocking thing. Lillian herself seemed to be a ghost at times. Regardless, I sought out Ol' Wind Charm at the other end of the bar, she was rather pleasant to talk to. I sat down with the dead pirate for a bit and listened to her tale.\n\nI must have sat with Ol' Wind Charm for several hours, but I easily lost track of time while in Stacker's. Ol' Wind Charm told me about how she and crew ventured the seas with a magic compass, with rumored to point in the direction of a treasure so grand and rich, that the gods themselves hid the riches so no mortal lay their eyes on it. She even gave me a piece of the compass. It looked like an old worn rock. I was told it used to be bigger, but she was only able to grab one piece of the compass when her ship came under fire by the British Royal Navy at the time.\n\nOl' Wind Charm encouraged me to follow her late quest, to find the divine treasure, to do what she and crew couldn't. I gave her my thanks as I took her floating glowy rock she called a compass and left Stacker's.\n\nEntry #2\nI took Ol' Wind Charm's advice and got an economy class ticket down to Cuba. That's where Ol' Wind Charm and her crew were heading before their demise. I was looking forward to exploring Cuba. It was a hiking destination my father and I had set our eyes on for years, but it was the nice Caribbean beaches that we wanted to explore compared to the mountain range. I'll have to tell my father how it was when I go visit him later, I didn't think he would be too enthusiastic that I was going down to Cuba because a dead pirate told me too.\n\nMy plane just landed. It's taking a while to get off. We've been stuck on the runway waiting for other planes to move. The place seems busy, a bunch of military vehicles are here too. I never knew military planes could land at a public airport, the more you know.\n\nFinally got off the plane and got a decent hotel room. I plan on staying here for at least a week. I figured I'd hit up the bar and beach before following Ol' Wind Charm's treasure hunt. At least if the old ghost was lying to me, I got one hell of a vacation out of it. That's a win in my book.\n\nEntry #3\nI woke up early this morning to the sounds of helicopters flying close by. I ran to the balcony of my room, they were heading inland from the ocean. I always loved watching helicopters. Some of my fondest memories were playing with the little R/C copters my uncle gave me as a kid.\n\nAfter I got around for the day and had breakfast, I began to set out on my adventure for real. I took out the piece of the compass Ol' Wind Charm gave me, hoping it would give me some clues. The floaty rock was glowing a bit more than when I was at Stacker's so hopefully that meant I was on the right track.\n\nI started to walk down the beach. I'm thankful the helicopters woke me so early. The white sandy beach was void of people, it was so calm and relaxing.\n\nI spotted more helicopters. I saw one with a strange symbol on the side. A circle with a red dot in the middle. Perhaps it Japanese helicopters? I got no clue what they would be doing in Cuba. I suppose it doesn't matter. I got a treasure hunt to follow!\n\nI've been wandering the beach for some time now. It has started to become populated with tourists and locals. I stopped to watch some fishing boats go out and in. This old man came to shore with a huge tuna in a tiny canoe, it was amazing watching the old man display his mastered skill.\n\nThe kind old man saw me staring and invited me over. We chatted for a bit and I explained I was looking into the stories of pirates that would come to port here a lifetime ago. I could see his eyes light up as I explained my \u2018normal' story. Of course, I left out the part about Stacker's. I can't have everyone thinking I'm bat shit insane.\n\nThe kind old man invited me to his small cottage. I learned his name was Santiago. We shared a drink after I helped him butcher up the tuna to sell later tomorrow. We exchanged our stories. Although, Santiago had much more to share than I did. After another round of drinks, and more stories. Santiago suggested I head further north to where an old port used to lay, which has since been turned to beaches by the passage of time. He thought it might be a good idea to kick start my pirate hunt.\n\nEntry #4\nNew morning. New objective. Thanks to Santiago, I had a proper goal for the day besides endlessly roaming the beaches.\n\nI took a taxi up to the beach Santiago suggested and starting my search. The rock Ol' Wind Charm gave me was as useless as ever. It still glowed though, so hopefully, that means I'm doing good. I swear if that old ghost sent me on a wild goose chase, I'll probably thank them. This has been fun so far. I at least have gotten the excitement I was looking for. Lillian would say something poetic about how that's the treasure at the end of this hunt, was the fun of the hunt itself. Who knows. Maybe real treasure awaits.\n\nThere doesn't seem to be many people at this beach. I guess it's not as well known. It wasn't in a tourist location so I guess that makes sense. I hope it won't be too hard to get back to my hotel room.\n\nOkay, so this is insane! I was walking down the beach and up the side towards the cliff face and I stumbled across a small cave. But from the looks of it, it goes on deep! I'm so happy to have taken my packed bag. I'm all set for exploration.\n\nIt has been roughly 30 minutes. This cave is long and cramped. Hardly enough space between my shoulders as I walk. Dad would have loved to explore something like this with me. He'll be thrilled when I come back with stories of this adventure!\n\nIt has been another 45 minutes. I think I have finally come to the end of this cave tunnel. There is this flat brownstone in my way. It's entirely smooth too, not like the jagged cave walls. I guess I'm gonna head back.\n\nI decided to check the rock Ol' Wind Charm gave me, and let me tell you how grateful I am that I did! Not only was it glowing brighter it seemed to float towards the smooth wall. I tapped the compass to the smooth stone wall and a glowing blue symbol appeared, as the stone wall started to move. Now instead of the jagged rocky tunnel, the flat smooth stone gave way to a brick corridor. I'm going to head back to my hotel room and cancel my reservation, as well as grab some camping supplies and food. I got no clue how long I'll be in this tunnel.\n\nEntry #5\nAlright, it's the next day. I'm back with more supplies and about to head into the tunnel. I had to tap the floating glowy rock on the smooth surface again as it had closed itself somehow. Probably magic. Maybe my friends in Germany would know more about this stuff. I should've grabbed a mage from Stacker's to drag along with me. Oh well, should uh, could uh, would uh.\n\nThe tunnel is made of what appears to be old clay bricks. But, I'm not entirely certain. I tried scratching the surface with my knife but didn't get anywhere with that. The entire tunnel is \u2018lit' somehow. I don't need my flashlight, but I can find any source of light.\n\nAfter walking for a bit, I'd say maybe 20 minutes. The floaty clay compass started to spin faster than normal. I still don't see any light sources but the tunnel is fairly lit. Just fine by me, that just means I don't have to crank my rechargeable flashlight as much.\n\nI found something odd. There's a lone wooden door in the middle of the tunnel. Not on the wall or the floor, or even the ceiling. Smack dab in the middle of the tunnel. I can walk around it and peer up above it. However, it's firmly in the clay bricks and locked. I couldn't open the odd door no matter how much I tried.\n\nI left the door behind and continued down the tunnel. I came across another large flat stone on the side of the tunnel. I'm currently debating if I should tap the compass or continue down the tunnel further.\nCuriosity got the best of me. I used Ol' Wind Charm rock to tap the flat stone. As expected it slowly made room for a way through, but what I find odd is how the flat brownstone quickly turned to red clay building bricks. They all look fairly new compared to the dirty brown bricks of the tunnel.\nOkay, so I walked down the new path that opened up, and I ended up in the streets of bloody Manhattan! I was in Cuba before! There is no way I walked for several hours in a tunnel to end up on another side of the world. I don't need any more supplies, so I'm going to try and head back into the tunnel.\nFinding an entrance back into the tunnel took quite a bit of time I went down the alleyway which I came, but it wasn't obvious where the entrance might be. I took the compass and began tapping parts of the alleyway. After a bit of trial and error, I finally tapped the lower right corner of the ally way. The bricks slowly moved into a position before making a doorway. I was scared I needed to fly back down to Cuba to get into the tunnel again.\nThe tunnel became the usual old brown bricks again after I entered. I plan to walk for another hour and set up a tent.\n\nEntry #6\nOkay, it's the next morning. I think. My watch is going backward for some damn reason, and my phone died last night. I'm not going to bother cranking up my portable charger. Time to pack down my tent and continue my exploration!\nThe tunnel went from being old clay bricks to a flat steel surface. It looks flawless and well maintained. Not a single speck of rust anywhere, which I find odd.\n\nI found some muddy boot-prints on the flat steel surface. I guess other explorers are down here. Maybe I can meet up with them if I travel faster. It would be cool to meet up with others. However, I don't want to share knowledge of the potential treasure that I'm looking for. I guess I wouldn't be opposed to sharing it if I met up with other people. But, the less that know about it the better I guess.\n\nThe tunnel opened up into a large metal room. Pipes and steam vents everywhere. The room has four pathways. Not sure which one to pick. My floaty rock isn't being helpful at the moment.\nI figured it was best to just continue down the same direction I was going. The walls have since turned to pipes and steam vents. Every time I walk past one it begins to blow out hot air. Getting hit by one blast would ruin everything.\nNothing fun has happened for the last hour. The walls are still pipes and steam vents. I hope it changes soon. This would be a horrible place to set up a tent. Those blasted steam vents still concern the hell out of me.\nMore boot-prints! Although, they seem to be going in the opposite direction. I seriously hope I'm going the right way. Maybe I should have gone down the other tunnel at the intersection. I guess I'm going to continue in the same direction and hope for the best.\n\nI found a large bronze skeleton key hanging from one of the pipes. I used a tent prop to bring it down. I think it might go to the odd door I found in the middle of the tunnel awhile back. I'm going to head in that direction!\nOkay. This place is bloody cursed. I walked back from the direction I came from, and it was no longer pipes and steam vents, but a glass floor with the walls being made of mirrors. It's so trippy having to walk down an entire hallway of mirrors. I think it's making me sick.\nI had to stop and rest. I didn't bother with my tent I'm just gonna take a quick nap in my sleeping bag. I'll write more later.\n\nEntry #7\nI woke up and the hallway is still just mirrors. It's rather creepy at this point. I'm not sure how long I slept for as my watch has flat out stopped. I started walking for a bit, and I found a huge spider-web crack in one of the mirrors. I got no clue what the cause of it is.\n\nI have no clue how long I've been walking for. An hour or two? My watch is still non-functioning. However, I am happy to report that the tunnel has since turned back old clay bricks. I'm glad to have gotten out of the mirror hallway. I wonder if I'll be able to find that lone door in the middle of the tunnel.\n\nI found a body. Mangled and bloody. The poor guy is wearing an old blue style greatcoat, as well as a bandage across his face like a mummy. There are half a dozen bullet holes in his chest. Great, just bloody great. There are people down here with guns.\n\nI stumbled into a large room with 12 massive painted portraits on the wall. They appear to be Greek Deities. One for each of the 12 Olympians. I'm gonna stop here and charge my phone up. I want to get some pictures of these portraits.\n\nEntry #8\nAs I was charging up my phone. A table appeared. I slowly went over to it, cautious at first. After I sat down a plate of pepperoni pizza appeared along with a glass of lemonade. It was exactly like how Stacker's would make it. Which is perfect for me.\n\nAfter the nice meal I finished charging up my phone. The portraits slowly faded away. Oh well, no digital proof today. Kinda a bummer.\nI started walking back down the tunnel, keeping my eye out for that lone door. I swear this key is gonna be able to open it. I just got no clue how I'm going to be able to find the door with how much this blasted tunnel keeps changing. It's like this place is a maze. Now that I'm thinking about it. That's exactly what this place is, a bloody fucking maze. At least it shouldn't be too hard to leave if I need to bail thanks to Ol' Wind Charm compass. I'll have to buy her a drink or a dozen when I go back to Stacker's next time.\n\nI need a bloody break. I'm gonna play on my phone a bit. My feet are getting sore.\n\nEntry #9\nI crashed hard. Not sure how. The last thing I remember is leaning against the wall with my phone. I got no clue how long I slept for but I feel rejuvenated. I'm still in the old clay brick style tunnel which is comforting. I hope that means I can find the lone door again. My floaty rock is just glowing. It hasn't moved in a while that I can remember. Not since I woke up at least.\nI heard gunshots. A few dozen. I couldn't tell if it was coming from up ahead or from behind. I ducked down in the tunnel holding my hands over my head till I couldn't hear the shots anymore. Once I stood up I was in the middle of a large intersection. This \u2018maze' changed right around me when I wasn't looking. I think it got me away from the present gunfire. So, thanks maze.\n\nOl' Wind Charm Compass began to float again! It started spinning backward after I picked one of the tunnels in the intersection I appeared in. So I started to backtrack and pick the tunnel the floaty rock was spinning towards. The tunnels have also changed again, but I like it this time. It has gone from the old clay bricks, bricks that look brand new.\nMy watch started ticking again. And it moving clockwise as well! At least now I can track time again. It's been giving me a migraine trying to figure out the passage of time here. Not knowing how long I've slept for has been rough too.\n\nI came to a large brick staircase leading upwards. This is the first time the elevation has changed in the tunnels of the \u2018Maze'. At least it doesn't look super long.\nStaircase was a short jog up. It leads to another brick tunnel but there seem to be windows. I can see outside - it's a beautiful forest of cherry trees. Dozens of them are outside the widows. The large pink petals are stunning to look at.\nAs I look out of each window, it's a different scenery. Some show a lush forest. One shows the towering mountain of Mt Fuji in the distance. I also saw a grand looking desert. I'm not sure how I can look out these windows and see landscapes that should be thousands of miles away from each other. I know they are not photos, I could see movement from small forest creatures to people walking in the view of some of the windows. Nothing seemed to notice me though.\nAs I walked down the tunnel there were quite a few more windows. It would take far too long to document every scenery I saw. I think I may be counted 60 or so windows. No two had the same view. And all of them were within a few feet of each other.\nAfter half an hour of walking the tunnel changed back to just bricks. It was nice being able to gaze into the outside world for a bit. But I'm on a treasure hunt and I'm determined to get it first.\n\nNOTE: It appears multiple pages have been torn out of the journal. Examination of the journal's bindings suggest at least 5 pages were torn out.\n\nEntry #10\nMy heart is racing! As I got out of my tent this \u2018morning' it was staring me in the face! The lone door is right in front of me. I need to get my key out of my bag! This is such a great change compared to the long stressful journey of the last few days.\nThe key fits perfectly into the lock. As I pushed open the door I got hit with a blast of fresh air. I never realized how stale it was in this tunnel. The door opened up to a large room. I peered around the door and it was just brick tunnels. The door seemed to open a portal into a large room that appears to be made of silver bricks! This has to be the treasure room.\nThis room is massive. So far I've seen quite a few beautiful paintings and portraits on the wall. But nothing that speaks out to me as treasure. There is a door at the other end of the room. Hopefully that'll have something.\nIt was locked. I kind of figured. But, lucky for me the bronze skeleton key from before fit in perfectly.\nThe room. Was empty. Apart from maybe half a dozen old looking coins on the ground. There seem to be shoeprints in the dust, someone was here before me. These prints are not the same muddy boot-prints I saw earlier. Oh well, at least these old looking coins might be worth something.\nI explored more of the room. In total, I found 16 old coins. Some are even made of gold! So this exploration wasn't a total waste of time. I'm going to head back to the tunnel and try and find an exit out.\nAs I walked out of the lone door, it slowly began to sink into the brick floor. It made no sound which seemed a bit odd. Anyway time to head out, I can't wait to share this adventure with my father.\n\nNote: Doctor Sphere is preparing a thaumaturgic ritual that will be performed in order to attempt to determine what the contents of the missing pages would have been, as well as to insight into who the journal's author might have been.\nSeveral phrases written in a modified version of Ancient Greek were found inscribed within the margins of the journal. Efforts are currently underway to translate these inscriptions.\n\nAddendum: Notice to all Foundation Personnel working with projects related to SCP-5015 or SCP-5015-A: All remaining level 3 personnel or below that are scheduled to work on SCP-5015 are to be rescheduled immediately. Members of MTF Zeta-9 that have worked in or around SCP-5015-A are to report to Site-Command. All non-Foundation personnel near or around SCP-5015-A entrance are to be immediately redirected, or if necessary, terminated. All known non-Foundation personnel with knowledge regarding SCP-5015 are to be immediately terminated. All Foundation personnel under the Eye Keeper's protocol1 level 3 and below are to be given amnestics immediately.\n\n+ O5 Command Emergency Meeting\n\n- Close\n\nOfficial Transcript: Emergency Meeting #2900.\nDate: 14 January 2020.\nTopic: Inquiry regarding the discovery of SCP-5015.\nParticipants:\nO5-1 \u2018The Silent One': Absent\nO5-2 \u2018The Gardener': Present\nO5-3 \u2018The Whistleblower': Present\nO5-4 \u2018The Collector': Absent\nO5-5 \u2018Blackbird': Present\nO5-6 \u2018The American': Present\nO5-7 \u2018The Cardinal': Absent\nO5-8 \u2018Red Fox': Absent\nO5-9 \u2018The Secret Keeper': Present\nO5-10 \u2018The Archivist': Absent\nO5-11 \u2018The Jester': Present\nO5-12 \u2018The Trainman': Absent\nO5-13 \u2018Death': Present\nNOTE: As usual, O5-9 used a German Sign Language interpreter for this meeting.\n\n11: Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome, I would like to apologize for this emergency meeting in advance, but there is a lot to get through. If you all read the brief in the message I sent this meeting is going to focus around a rather newly discovered anomalous entity: SCP-5015.\n\n3: This soon? A meeting regarding an object that hasn't been thoroughly tested yet? I'd say some rash decisions were made on your end, Jester.\n\n11: While I'll agree with you that nothing about this anomaly in question is fully known, nothing about this meeting was the cause of a rash decision. I've already been talking to Nine about this anomaly since MTF Zeta-9's logs have been coming through. I would have held back normally, but Nine sent over some rather concerning information which has since put Zeta-9 on standby.\n\n5: Well then, Nine. Would you be so kind as to explain what this information is?\n\n11: Calm down Five, I was just getting to the-\n\n5: No, Eleven. I'm sick of information being passed through underhand notes. This is the 4th time Nine has brought up something concerning through the use of another council member.\n\nSilence was held for several seconds as O5-9 communicated with his interpreter.\n\n9: Eleven was doing just fine, he knows the crucial information for this meeting.\n\n5: Typical. Just typical. Continue then, Eleven. If our Intelligence Director wishes to remain silent, then so be it.\n\n11: As I was saying. So new information has come to light regarding a unique property of SCP-5015-A. It can manipulate time and space within itself, with reports of this ability's effects being drastically inconsistent.\n\n3: And this is supposed to be grand and concerning? If I can recall correctly, there are quite a few extradimensional space SCPs that can manipulate time as it's perceived by whoever is inside them.\n\n6: Indeed. While as concerning as this is, Eleven, what is this meeting specifically about?\n\n11: Please, I ask that you all have patience. Nine sent me quite a bit of information regarding SCP-5015. I promise there is a point to this meeting. But please allow me to finish explaining what I have to first. Not all of the information Nine and I have been sorting through is on SCP-5015's file yet.\n\nSilence was held for several seconds.\n\n11: No complaints? Good. First of all. Originally we had been getting reports back from our MTF team far faster than we should. We retrieved multiple audio recordings that go through several days of data in a matter of hours. Zeta-9 has since been pulled out of SCP-5015A. Zeta-9 also brought back a journal log of some sort. As of right now, we are uncertain who is the author of this journal. Although, they are clearly quite invested with the Group of Interest known as Stacker's Coffee House and Bar.\n\n3: How much do they know about SCP-5015?\n\n11: Nothing, from what the journal would suggest. It seems someone within Stacker's got this individual started on an adventure and it led to SCP-5015. We have reasons to believe that the people involved with the Group of Interest are largely unaware of the true nature of what SCP-5015 is.\n\n5: Well then, who does know about the true nature of SCP-5015? I know our friends at the GOC do. Wasn't the vote to allow a joint task force just last month?\n\nSilence was held for several seconds as O5-9 communicated with his interpreter.\n\n9: Don't worry, Five. We are keeping a close watch to those with knowledge of this SCP.\n11: Nine is correct as usual. Another notable trait SCP-5015-A has is it seems to be aware of who is within it. SCP-5015-A seemed to be increasingly hostile to our Task Force operatives. Putting them at odds with rival GoIs. Notably the Chaos Insurgency. While the author of the journal had a relatively easy exploration of the SCP, with reports of it outright helping and feeding the author of the journal.\n5: Are there any other sources with similar information? Or are we jumping to conclusions based on a simple journal that could be nothing but lies?\n11: Sadly, we have no other source to verify this. We're making this assumption that the journal we found speaks the truth. But it's what's in the journal that's important. And based on that information, I have a new proposal: that being classifying SCP-5015, and by extension SCP-5015-A, from a Safe class, to a Archon class anomaly.\nUntranscribable murmuring was heard among the Council members.\n6: Now what the hell does that have to do with anything? Archon means we can contain it but we shouldn't. Why should we avoid containing this?\n11: I'm getting to that. We believe there are three major components of SCP-5015-A: the core, the labyrinth, and the treasure. The core is the most important part, and the labyrinth and the treasure are two ways to repel potential threats to it. The labyrinth hides it by constantly shifting and generates traps to turn attackers away. Other individuals with less malicious intent are turned away by the rumored treasure, as once they find it they'll have no reason to continue, so the labyrinth puts it in a place where they'll find it.\n3: That doesn't explain why you think it should be Archon. What's the importance of the core that makes it so important to hide?\n11: When our operative exited SCP-5015-A, several anomalous natural disasters took place simultaneously near known locations of entrances to 5015-A. In addition, according to her audio logs, she did not leave through conventional means - instead, she tried to shut down the core. Now, she believes it ejected her from whatever extradimensional space the labyrinth exists within while the core temporarily shut down, but we've determined it's actually more likely that she was ejected in an effort to prevent the core from shutting down. So, with this evidence, as well as what we found in the journal, we have come to a conclusion. SCP-5015-A was created by a figure known as Daedalus, who is believed to be the figure of the same name from Greek myth, and was created in an effort to hide the core, which maintains general normalcy within the world.\n5: Wait, hang on. What the hell are you even saying?\n11: Those anomalous natural disasters I mentioned weren't a coincidence - they were a direct result of the core's partial shutdown. I'm saying that when King Minos requested the creation of a prison, he was not imprisoning a minotaur. Daedalus created the labyrinth to hide the core - the only thing keeping the anomalous out of our world. When it was partially shut down, it briefly couldn't do that, and all the energy and deviations from normalcy it has been suppressing throughout its existence began to stream out. That's what caused the disasters. It came back online and began operating properly relatively quickly, but if it was down for any longer, we have no idea what could occur.\n6: But even then, shouldn't we try to prevent anyone from going in? The compasses are still a thing.\n11: Yes, we should absolutely monitor the entrances, but the least we do to contain it, the better. All that we should do is redirect people away from the labyrinth and confiscate as many of the compasses as we can. This thing has been operating properly for thousands of years - I say we let it continue uninterrupted.\n6: So let me get this straight. You think this maze holds some sort of anomalous force and if we try to contain it we'd be preventing it from doing its job? And that'd somehow create more anomalies? Are you trying to say that all the anomalies in the world are somehow the result of this maze?\n11: Not all of them. There's other things in the world that we can't control that also cause similar issues, but it's clear that the original creator intended this to be a sort of massive reality anchor. If we interfere, we'll only cause problems.\n3: I stand by Eleven's proposal.\n6: Are you - you can't be serious. This is ridiculous.\n2: There's no reason to have an outburst, Six. I suggest we wrap this up. I think all has been said that will be said.\n\nNote: The O5 council's vote on reclassifying SCP-5015 as Archon class was approved 4 to 2 with 1 abstaining. The O5 council's vote on authorization of the use of the Intelligence Agency to act out the termination of all non-Foundation personnel with knowledge relating to SCP-5015 was approved by a vote of 5 with 2 abstaining.\n\nSCiPNET LOGIN\n\n                                                    name\n\n                                                    affiliation\n\n        68a0f39593b0d1093818bd29f2d3bcb4_1706539129\n\nLogin\n\nLog In\n\nLog Out\n\nYou have 1 new message\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i#tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i\nTo: tni.tenpics|sitem_p#tni.tenpics|sitem_p\nSubject: translations done\n\nGood morning, Doctor Metis.\nWe finally finished those translations from the journal. Looks like some kind of poem - I can't make sense of it, but you're more involved with the research into SCP-5015, so maybe you'll be able to. Let me know if there is anything else you may need.\nSincerely, Doctor Maverick.\n\nIdeas of a grand marvel.\nThoughts. New and neat.\nTime. Some remains.\nHardly.\nOur King. Impatient.\nMinos. Wants a prison.\nMore. It will be far more.\nSignificantly.\nA needed source. Power.\nLiving. A beating heart.\nOne that flows with time.\nAlive.\nMaterial goods. Transmutable.\nWalls of stone. Changeable.\nPassages that end. Unacceptable.\nCraftable.\nIdeas of a grand marvel.\nMinos. Has no insights.\nA maze. He shall get.\nSoon.\nLiving stone. Achieved.\nBlood. It bears none.\nPower. Flows through.\nVash.\nExplorers. Are bound to be.\nTrespassers. If ill-hearted.\nOne of kind heart. Allowed.\nInfrequently.\nSet to hate. All Trespassers.\nHinder. My creation will.\nRewards within. My maze has.\nEnough.\nNone of greed. Allowed.\nThose who share. Accepted.\nJust enough. They'll find.\nPleasantful.\n- Daedalus\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|sitem_p#tni.tenpics|sitem_p\nTo: tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i#tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i\nSubject: RE: translations done\n\nGood afternoon, Doctor Maverick.\nMany thanks. These translations will help out a lot. Although, one concern - I think there's something missing. There's an important part of the anomaly that I can't seem to find any references to here and I'm worried you may have left something out. Is this the entire translation?\n\nYou have 1 new message\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i#tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i\nTo: tni.tenpics|sitem_p#tni.tenpics|sitem_p\nSubject: RE: translations done\n\nYes it is, Sir. That's all my team and I found. Aside from a few potential errors in translation (we aren't certain on the exact wording), we got everything translated to English. We even used the ritual Dr. Sphere designed to determine what the lost pages would have said.\nIf we find anything else we'll be sure to send it to you.\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|sitem_p#tni.tenpics|sitem_p\nTo: tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i#tni.tenpics|kcirevam_i\nSubject: RE: translations done\n\nThanks, Doctor Maverick. You and your team do amazing work. See you around, Immanuel.\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|sitem_p#tni.tenpics|sitem_p\nTo: tni.tenpics|erehps_a#tni.tenpics|erehps_a\nSubject: 5015 translations IMPORTANT\n\nGood evening, Doctor Sphere.\nI just got the translations back from linguistics (see attached) and it's missing something. I think it's supposed to be some sort of poem - probably written by whoever made the maze, since it seems to describe the different components. But there's something missing - there isn't anything said about the compasses. It mentions the core, the maze itself, and the treasure, but no compasses.\nThank you for your time.\n\nYou have 1 new message\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|erehps_a#tni.tenpics|erehps_a\nTo: tni.tenpics|sitem_p#tni.tenpics|sitem_p\nSubject: RE: 5015 translations IMPORTANT\n\nGood evening as well, Doctor Metis.\nI certainly see what you mean. Maybe he just needed to find a way back to it? There's probably a simple answer. It's also likely that the creator made these compasses after he finished the poem. I'm certain it's not something worth pulling hair out over.\n\nFrom: tni.tenpics|sitem_a#tni.tenpics|sitem_a\nTo: tni.tenpics|erehps_a#tni.tenpics|erehps_a\nSubject: RE: 5015 translations IMPORTANT\n\nThis \"Daedalus\" (whether or not he is the real Daedalus, if such a person ever existed) clearly wanted to hide the core from the world at all costs. Why would he create a way to find it? If he wanted a way back in, couldn't he just make it allow him through? Also, why the hell would he need more than one compass (we've found at least 5 so far), and even more importantly, why would he spread them all over the world?\nSomeone else made these. The question is this: why would they need to find the core? Were they simply planning on shutting it down (and if they were, why?), or is there something (or someone) else at play here?\n\nYou have 0 new messages\n\nFootnotes\n1. Eye Keeper's protocol relates to any and all Foundation personnel that have at any point been under investigation for having leaked sensitive information or are under suspicion of being susceptible to leaking sensitive information.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5014 | SCP-5015 | SCP-5016 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ATTENTION: THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS ARE CLASSIFIED LEVEL 5.\n\nConsultation and modification of these documents is prohibited without specific level 5 accreditation for these documents. Said accreditations can only be delivered by the Administrator or O5-7.\n\nObject #: SCP-5016\nThreat level: White o\nClass: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Under no circumstances should a staff member aware of the existence of SCP-5016 approach SCP-579, even after having been subjected to Lithopedion class amnesic. A \"red\" zone is to be defined around SCP-5016 and shall be constantly patrolled and monitored by both radar and thermal surveillance within a radius of 1 kilometer (km). Officially, the island hosting SCP-5016 contains a military base. Marine patrols must be conducted around the island at all times. Any attempt to trespass on the island must be punished by the capture and interrogation of undesirable individuals. Elimination possible after interrogation. Should they reach the red zone, any attempt to capture them must be abandoned in favor of the use of lethal force. Any unusual activity or discovery related to any of the following SCP must be reported immediately to the SCP-5016 Research Manager as well as to O5-7 and the Administrator:\n\nSCP-579\nSCP-343\nSCP-004\nSCP-038-FR\n\nAccess to the anomaly information is restricted to members of the SCP-5016 research team and their supervisor (currently Dr M\u00fast\u00eas), as well as the two Level 5 members in charge of the subject, namely O5-7 and the Administrator. Any accreditation other than those provided by the Administrator or O5-7, even at level 5, cannot be used to access this data.\nDescription: SCP-5016 is a tower buried underground, the actual proportions of which are still unknown. Tests conducted using powerful transmitters from inside the building have estimated the depth of the structure at more than 123 kilometers (km) deep, and at only about ten meters once the same tests were conducted from outside. It therefore seems that the interior of the tower is located in another spatial plane than ours after a certain depth.\nThe building is divided into floors, each of varying size. The widest floor has an estimated area of more than 113 square kilometers (km\u00b2), while the least spacious floor consists of a circular room with a radius of 13 meters (m). Each floor has two staircases: one leading to the upper floor and another leading to the lower floor. The latter do not have a predetermined position in the floor, which can be anywhere in it. While the staircase leading to the upper floor is always accessible, the staircase leading to the lower floor only appears once the floor puzzle has been completed. Once the puzzle has been solved, the staircase leading to the lower floor will remain permanently accessible. To date, 739 floors have been explored, each with settings from different places and eras.\n\nIt made no sense at all. If floor 1 was clearly identified as dating from the Ramesside period1. Floor 2 was dating from the Sumerian period, at least two thousand years earlier. And floor 3 was a typical Italian Renaissance ballroom. The temporal inconsistency between each of these rooms and their placement has, at this time, not yet found an explanation.\n-Dr. M\u00fast\u00eas\n\nEach floor has a puzzle to solve, or test to pass, in order to reveal the staircase leading to the lower floor. These riddles are always presented by simplistic diagrams or inscriptions summarizing the content of the riddle and the actions to be taken to solve it. These indications are always inscribed on a stone somewhere on the floor. Each of the inscriptions are made below a symbol specific to each floor. The origin of the symbols used is currently unknown.\nWhile it was initially theorized that these symbols were used to indicate the numbering of floors, it became clear afterwards that they represented the thematic concepts of the corresponding puzzle, when the symbol of floor 1 was discovered on the inscription summarizing the puzzle of floor 57. The complexity of the puzzles and tests therefore increases with the number of floors traversed.\n\nWhat we had initially considered as a title for each of these tests, and then for a simple numbering whose principles were beyond our comprehension, were in fact nothing more than the elements of a language specific to the tower itself. While the first floors were relatively simple to solve, thanks to the stones which were quite clear in terms of symbols, the more we progressed, the more the tower introduced us to concepts that we had already confronted in order to make its enigmas even more difficult. The whole thing formed a full-scale course on increasingly complex concepts. If the test on floor 1 was childishly simple, i.e. pushing a specific block on a pressure slab to reveal the staircase leading to the next floor, it showed us the symbol used to define the concept of gravity in a deeper way on floor 57. It was as if the tower served both as a guide and as a teacher, leading us to the solutions without giving them to us. We are now on floor 739, and the stone only uses symbols that appeared from floor 500\u2026 which themselves were already using other stone symbols, etc. We are now facing a complex language that is totally beyond our comprehension.\n- Dr. M\u00fast\u00eas\n\n+ Notable examples of floors that have been crossed\n\n- Notable examples of floors that have been crossed\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 1\nConcept: Gravity\nFloor context and puzzle: A 1m x 1m x 1m cube of sandstone is present in the room. A square slab of 1m x 1m x 1m in contrasting colour with the rest of the floor slabs is also present further on. The stone on the first floor depicts a cube, followed by an arrow from the cube to a horizontal line. Any attempt to position oneself on the slab or to place any weight on it failed to produce any result.\nPuzzle solution: Pushing the cube on the slab revealed the staircase leading to the lower floor.\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 43\nConcept: Flowering\nFloor context and puzzle: The floor consists of a square of soil that is apparently fertile, on the left of which is a bowl containing seeds of rosa moyesii, while on its right is a bowl of water. Both the basin and the bowl seem to fill up automatically once empty. A lever near the floor square is used to operate a mechanism on the ceiling, which will illuminate the square with what appeared to be sunlight. The stone depicts a line on a black square, as well as a drop of water and what looks like a seed.\nPuzzle solution: Grow a rosa moyesii using sunlight, soil, seeds and water.\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 44\nConcept: Death\nFloor context and puzzle: The floor is relatively small. The stone indicates a humanoid shape, followed by a skull.\nPuzzle solution: Shooting one of the members of the expeditionary force.\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 97\nConcept: Pyrokinesis\nFloor context and puzzle: The floor contains two fixed torches, one lit, one extinguished. The stone shows two drawings: one depicting one of the torches being lit and the other extinguished, and the other depicting both torches being lit. Attempting to light the extinguished torch with a fire other than the one from the lit torch seems impossible. Attempting to burn anything other than both torches with the fire from the first torch seems impossible. Extinguishing the lit torch seems impossible.\nPuzzle solution: Using the Flame of Nahash, as instructed by the Treaty of Primordial Magic of Septimus the Enchanter, to transfer the flame from the burning torch to the extinguished torch, which will then immediately ignite.\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 150\nConcept: Survival/Combat? (Concept still badly apprehended by the research teams)\nFloor context and puzzle: The floor is vast, and strongly looks like a rainforest. The stone shows 12 horribly deformed humanoid shapes, followed by an arrow leading to 12 symbols identical to the one on the stone on floor 44.\nPuzzle solution: Surviving the attack of the twelve humanoids and killing them.\nNote: Four Exploration Battalions lost. A study to prove similarities between these creatures and daevite sub-divinities is underway. -Dr. M\u00fast\u00eas\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 225\nConcept: Humonculus\nFloor context and puzzle: [CENSORED DATA], shows a humanoid shape passing through the circle of black flames to lower a lever.\nPuzzle solution: Setting up the Olympia Project. Following [CENSORED DATA] alterations related to the use of SCP-158 do not seem to persist after passing through the circle of black flames. Implementation of the O.O.H.S. Project 2 on Site-Aleph. Integration of the O.O.H.S system in one of the test bodies of the Olympia Project. After [CENSORED DATA], the subject managed to lower the lever, revealing the staircase to the lower level and making [CENSORED DATA] and the circle of black flames disappeared.\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 549\nConcept: Reality in four dimensions\nFloor context and puzzle: The room is empty apart from the stone, which represents the diagram of a hypercube containing a lever activated by a humanoid shape.\nPuzzle solution: Using a dimensional quadriphaser to reach the lever located in the reality of the room in four dimensions.\n\nFloor n\u00b0: 739\nConcept: Tennenti hole3 (Concept under discussion within the research team).\nFloor context and puzzle: The room is empty, although vast (estimated area: 113km\u00b2). The closer to the center of the room, the higher the Humes rate increases, exponentially every 3km. Once inside the variable Humes zone, it seems impossible to escape from it. The stone shows three different patterns. The first is [INSUFFICIENT ACCREDITATION].\nPuzzle solution: Still in progress.\nDr. M\u00fast\u00eas's note: None of the teams that tried to cross the room seems to have survived or succeeded. Otherwise, as always, the anomaly in the room would have vanished, and the staircase leading to the lower floor would have appeared. We have already seen a similar case in SCP-312-FR, and the documents appended to the report suggest that we still have the object that caused this anomaly. Request for access to the object in question is imminent.\nNote: Request denied. The object in question is of primary importance to the Foundation. Find another way to access it. - The Administrator\n\nDetails of all floor descriptions have been transferred to the accompanying document 113-B for readability reasons.\nAlthough the descent of a floor does not seem to have any effects other than those potentially related to the content of the puzzles and tests of each floor, any attempt to ascend seems to have negative impacts, depending on the depth and number of floors ascended. See Test Log 5016-01.\n\n+ Test Log 5016-01\n\n- Test Log 5016-01\n\nNumber of floors ascended\nDepth = x\nAlterations observed on the subjects\n\n1\nFloor 1 < x < Floor 100\nNone\n\n10\nFloor 1 < x < Floor 100\nNone\n\n20\nFloor 1 < x < Floor 100\nSlight fatigue\n\n50\nFloor 1 < x < Floor 100\nSlight fatigue and fever\n\n1\nFloor 100 < x < Floor 200\nNone\n\n10\nFloor 100 < x < Floor 200\nSlight fatigue\n\n20\nFloor 100 < x < Floor 200\nSlight fatigue and fever\n\n50\nFloor 100 < x < Floor 200\nSlight fatigue, fever, shortness of breath\n\n1\nFloor 200 < x < Floor 300\nSlight fatigue\n\n10\nFloor 200 < x < Floor 300\nSlight fatigue and fever\n\n20\nFloor 200 < x < Floor 300\nSlight fatigue, fever, shortness of breath\n\n50\nFloor 200 < x < Floor 300\nMild fatigue, fever, vomiting\n\n1\nFloor 300 < x < Floor 400\nMild fatigue, fever, vomiting\n\n10\nFloor 300 < x < Floor 400\nMild fatigue, fever, vomiting\n\n20\nFloor 300 < x < Floor 400\nVomiting, nausea sometimes leading to sudden fainting episodes\n\n50\nFloor 300 < x < Floor 400\nVomiting, nausea sometimes leading to sudden fainting episodes\n\n1\nFloor 400 < x < Floor 500\nMild fatigue, fever, vomiting\n\n10\nFloor 400 < x < Floor 500\nVomiting, nausea sometimes leading to sudden fainting episodes\n\n20\nFloor 400 < x < Floor 500\nVomiting, nausea sometimes leading to sudden fainting episodes\n\n50\nFloor 400 < x < Floor 500\nUnconsciousness lasting up to 7 days\n\n1\nFloor 500 < x < Floor 600\nVomiting, nausea sometimes leading to sudden fainting episodes\n\n10\nFloor 500 < x < Floor 600\nVomiting, nausea sometimes leading to sudden fainting episodes\n\n20\nFloor 500 < x < Floor 600\nVariable duration coma\n\n50\nFloor 500 < x < Floor 600\nVariable duration coma\n\n1\nFloor 600 < x < Floor 800\nVariable duration coma\n\n10\nFloor 600 < x < Floor 800\nPermanent coma\n\n20\nFloor 600 < x < Floor 800\nDeath\n\n50\nFloor 600 < x < Floor 800\nNot tried yet\n\nIt's strange. The tower seems to be doing everything it can to help us progress, and yet it seems unwilling to let us leave with its deepest secrets. Are we condemned to discover its mysteries without being able to share them? Or maybe aren't we the ones who are supposed to be digging them up? Maybe is it too soon for that? There are still many hypotheses about the origin of this defense mechanism, and at the moment we are unable to come up with a valid one. Still, given the aggravation of the anomaly with depth, I have doubts that beyond the 900th floor, no human could even return to the previous floor without dying.\n- Dr. M\u00fast\u00eas\n\nIn order to overcome this anomaly, to avoid unnecessary casualties and to ensure the logistics of information, men and equipment, re-supply camps have been set up as detailed below:\n\nFrom the 1st to the 200th floor, a camp every 100 floors\nFrom the 201st to the 400th floor, a camp every 50 floors\nFrom the 401st to the 600th floor, a camp every 10 floors\nFrom the 601st to the 739th floor, a camp every floor\n\nAddendum 5016-01: Origin of SCP-5016 discovery\n\n+ Interview-343-01\n\n- Interview-343-01\n\nInterview date: 18/07/2009\nBackground of the interview: Following its capture in Prague, SCP-343 was placed in a standard humanoid containment until suitable containment procedures could be implemented. The subject didn't oppose any form of resistance, and asked for multiple meetings with the Administrator. The very fact that the subject was aware of the Administrator's existence prompted the Foundation to adopt the utmost vigilance regarding the possibility of such a meeting, which was rejected. SCP-343 finally wrote a letter to the Administrator in an unknown language. The letter arrived directly to the Administrator on her secure personal Site, without anyone knowing how. Two hours later, SCP-343 was spotted in a humanoid containment room at the said site, stating that he was waiting for his interview with the Administrator. The Administrator granted him an audience fifteen minutes later.\nThe cell door opens, allowing two armed guards and the Administrator to enter the room. SCP-343 quickly conjured up a table and two chairs and invited the Administrator to sit down, which she did. The subject followed her lead. The Administrator dismissed the two armed guards who then left the room. The whole event was filmed by security cameras and was transcribed in writing.\nThe Administrator: I must confess that your letter really surprised me. Although I was expecting to find a familiar face.The Administrator: Prove it.The Administrator seems unsettled.\nThe Administrator: How do you know\u2026?The Administrator: No.The Administrator: How did you get this information?The Administrator: Good. Does the Black Moon howl?There's a moment of silence.\nThe Administrator: Who are you?The Administrator: I know exactly what you said to Dr. Beck. Just as I know perfectly well that what you said to him was untrue. I have met and know the being who created this, and she knows me as well. So you're lying about that.The Administrator: Fine. What do you want?The Administrator: Who is?The Administrator facial expression suddenly changes.The Administrator: You know a lot. Some might even say too much.The Administrator: That remains to be proved. But, even if we agreed to provide you such help, you haven't told me what your goal actually was.The Administrator: It's that simple?The Administrator: How are your goal and our goal related?The Administrator: What would these consequences be, then?The Administrator: How would he do it?The Administrator: We are aware of the causes of the Scission in 1948, yes. Now, tell me. If that thief is put out of business, will the coming of the Enemy be delayed?The Administrator: Enough for us to complete protocol 110-Montauk?The Administrator: Well. That could sounds like an interesting proposition to me, then. How do we stop your thief?The Administrator: Are you saying that\u2026?The Administrator: And once we find it?The Administrator: Good. We'll let you know as soon as we find something. But before I can put team together to look for your thief, I need to know I can trust you.The Administrator: Sort of, I do.The Administrator: What do you mean?The Administrator: Wait. How will we know whether or not we've found the thief?On those words, SCP-343 disappears. He was found a few minutes later in his cell at Site-19.\n\n+ Interview-343-02\n\n- Interview-343-02\n\nDate of interview: 12/03/2012\nBackground of the interview: A few days after the discovery (or rediscovery?) of SCP-055 in Site-19, the Administrator was notified. A meeting between her and SCP-343 is then arranged in his cell.\nThe Administrator enters the room alone. As in the previous interview, SCP-343 makes a table and two chairs appear. Everyone sits down.The Administrator: It's always complex to look for something you can easily forget about. However, first of all, I wanted to thank you for the information you provided at our last meeting. It has proven to be crucial. If in future we could cooperate more in this way, I would be the first to be delighted.The Administrator: I could argue that we would be more\u2026 let's say, slower in our future partnership, in this case.Light silence.The Administrator: Yes, we did. We've detected an anti-memetic anomaly in Site-19 labeled SCP-055. It looks similar to your description of what we needed to find.The Administrator: No. We've been waiting for you.The Administrator: Fine. However, you'll have to wait until I'm off site before you can do anything about it.Later that day, SCP-579 was discovered inside SCP-055. Due to SCP-055's anti-memetic properties, the course of events is still unclear. Nevertheless, it appears that SCP-579 was extracted from SCP-055, causing a minor containment breach. Following the breach, SCP-579 remained untraceable for several days before being relocated near \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\n+ Interview-343-03\n\n- Interview-343-03\n\nDate of the interview: 15/03/2012\nBackground of the interview: A few days after the discovery of SCP-579, after the end of the breach caused by it, a meeting between the Administrator and SCP-343 was organized in his cell.\nThe Administrator: What the hell was that? I thought you could neutralize him.The Administrator: So we're starting from scratch?The Administrator: Which is?The Administrator: And what do you expect us to do?The Administrator: How will we know what the loot looks like?The Administrator: If you say so. What about 579?Following the interview, SCP-343 gave the geographic coordinates of SCP-5016 to the Foundation. The object was discovered one day later and exploration began.\n\n+ Interview-343-04\n\n- Interview-343-04\n\nDate of the interview: 15/12/2012\nBackground of the interview: Following the multiple incidents and containment breaches related to SCP-579, a meeting between the Administrator and SCP-343 was once again organized.\nThe Administrator: You will notice that I have kept my promises on my side. I cannot say the same about you. The object keeps breaking its confinement and you don't seem to be able to stop it or help us in any way.The Administrator: This is not the feeling I get from you.The Administrator: What kind of containment?The Administrator: A simple extra-dimensional lockdown? Couldn't you have suggested this earlier?The Administrator: Forbidden? For what reason? What does that door mean to you?The Administrator: I'd say a little over a week.A week later, SCP-579 was confined to Site-62C. At this time, the object's containment is stable.\n\n+ Incident 004/5016-01\n\n- Incident 004/5016-01\n\nOn 11/03/2019, an alert was received on the surface of SCP-5016 from its deepest camp. This alert was then issued progressively by all the camps one by one from the deepest one. The content of the alert, although differing in form from one emission point to another, remained the same: a troop of unknown and unidentified individuals had visibly just come up from the unexplored floor n\u00b0740.\n\nWe were stationed on the edge of the Humes variation zone, when we saw a lightning bolt in the centre of the zone. We had a telescope that constantly scanned the center of the zone, mainly so that we could provide detailed information on all the phenomenon occurring there to facilitate future explorations. And the recordings are formal: after the lightning strike, some kind of entrance with a staircase had just appeared. Several entities came out of it, and then one of them seemed to remove the entrance that had just appeared. Then they moved quickly to the staircase leading to the upper floor. They were a handful of humanoids, with a strange deer. They went through the Tennenti Hole as if it was nothing. We tried to apprehend them, but we all fainted as they approached\u2026\n- Agent Nazo, 128th Exploratory Battalion, stationed at the camp on floor #739\n\nThe entire unidentified troop kept moving up the floors, each time placing the staff members getting too close in a deep sleep. No member of the troop appeared to suffer from the anomaly associated with the ascent of the building.\nA total of 7 entities were seen and described:\n\nA young man, whose entire body was completely black.\nA young girl, whose body seemed to emit a faint glow. The young man and the girl were walking hand in hand.\nA deer of imposing size, with golden antlers.\nAn old man elegantly dressed in a coat and a borsalino.\nTwo other old men whose appearance changes depending on the staff members describing them\nA mummified body, visibly alive, naked and covered with scars in the form of symbols that could be Daevite iconography according to the witnesses. The mummy seemed to be held in levitation by the two old men. Some staff members also indicated that the different members of the troop agreed to take turns maintaining eye contact with the mummy.\n\nThe entire troop was observed leaving the SCP-5016 structure before vanishing. At the same time, they emerged in front of SCP-004. Staff members attempting to stop them collapsed. One of the two men with a changing appearance had a quick discussion with one of the staff members who had not lost consciousness, Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 while the second man with a changing appearance was closing SCP-004-01. The discussion was recorded via the intercom of the staff member in question:\n\nMan with a changing appearance: Excuse me, my good man, what day is it?\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 (apparently grabbing a gun): Freeze or I'll shoot. Last warning.\nMan with a changing appearance: It won't do any good. Just tell me what day it is and we'll leave. I promise.\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Well\u2026 uh\u2026 it's monday.\nMan with a changing appearance: Monday,yes,but which one? What date?\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Ah! We're on\u2026 March 11th, 2019.\nMan with a changing appearance (visibly happy): AH! So we have a whole year ahead of us. That's good. Thank you, young man.\nThe voice of the man with a changing appearance seems to be fading away.\nMan with a changing appearance: I told you, brother! We have the time we need. Come on, let's go, lovebirds. You too, grumpy face. The deer, too! And keep an eye on the damn [Incomprehensible]\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Come back! No, wait! DON'T CLOSE THAT DOOR!\n\nDuring the discussion, the second man with the changing appearance took a key out of his sleeve and reopened SCP-004-1 with it. The entire group of strangers walked through the door, and then the door closed again. To date, only the deer has been potentially identified as SCP-038-FR, although it did not escape its surveillance throughout the incident.\n\n+ Interview with Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on Incident 004/5016-01\n\n- Interview with Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on Incident 004/5016-01\n\nDate: 19/03/2019\nBackground of the interview: Following Incident 004/5016-01, Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, the only person who interacted with the unidentified group without losing consciousness, was summoned by the Administrator. At the request of the latter, SCP-343 is also present. As soon as Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 enters the interrogation room and sees him, he loses his temper.\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You! You were there! Madam Administrator, step away, quickly! Security! SECURITY!\nThe Administrator: Calm down, Doctor. SCP-343 is completely peaceful and has been cooperating with us for many years. You have nothing to fear.\nTwo armed guards, alerted by the screams of Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, enter the room.\nThe Administrator: It's all right, gentlemen. False alarm.\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: With all due respect, Madam Administrator, but this\u2026 this thing was present at the incident site. It's the one that locked SCP-004-1 before reopening it with another key!Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588then tries to jump on SCP-343. He is caught and held up by the guards in the room.\nThe Administrator: Sorry for the show, probably post-traumatic stress disorder related to the event. Gentlemen, please take Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 to the infirmary for psychological treatment.\nGuards escorted Dr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 out of the room.Administrator: Indeed. Do you have any idea what these people might be?The Administrator: Frustrating and exciting at the same time?The Administrator: Welcome to my world.The Administrator: Good. I'll see you soon, then.On those words, SCP-343 disappears.\n\n+ Dr. M\u00fast\u00eas' final note on SCP-5016\n\n- Dr. M\u00fast\u00eas' final note on SCP-5016\n\nIf there is one particular concept that we all know at the SCP Foundation, it is the concept of mystery. We constantly live in a world full of unanswered questions. Or at least on the surface. For behind every question lies a path, a clue, somewhere. And whether it lies deep in a forgotten pyramid, in other worlds, or sometimes even in our own databases, it is always revealed to the ones who are looking for it hard enough. And it is thanks to them that many things become more understandable, even if one answer often brings two new questions. And in that, SCP-5016 is an enigma. What used to be for us just a tower has become a little more than just a building at every floor we passed. The more we learned about it, the greater the mysteries surrounding it. Why trying to teach us such language, floor after floor? Why let us sink into the depths, if it is to prevent us from getting out? What will happen in less than a year? Where did all those people who came up here go? Who are they? To what world does the key held by one of the two men with the changing appearance lead?\nAll these questions persist. Perhaps we'll have the chance to answer some of them one day. That has been my task for over forty years. Because I know that somewhere out there, those questions have an answer. Probably written in black on white. Or hidden from the eye of the neophyte. Our task is not to find the answers. That is only our reward. Our task is to search for them.\nAnd, beyond the anomalies on each floor, that, I believe, is the true nature of SCP-5016: to have buried the truth somewhere, and to give a hard time to anyone who tries to get it.\nAnd I couldn't have asked for a better challenge.\n- Dr M\u00fast\u00eas\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Ramesside period is a period of Ancient Egypt that covers the 19th and 20th dynasties, i.e. from -1295 to -1069\n2. O.O.H.S. (Operational & Omnipresent Humanoid Sentinel)\n3. A Tennenti Hole is an anomaly created by the collapsing of one reality into another following a attempt to bend it in massive proportions.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5015 | SCP-5016 | SCP-5017 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5017\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem #: SCP-5017\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5017 is to be housed at Site-71, which is disguised as a logging operation south of Lake Merwin in Washington. At least 12 members of an armed security detail are to be posted at all times, four of whom should be outside scouting the perimeter and eight of whom should be inside observing SCP-5017, with at least two people directly observing SCP-5017 at all times. Any staff members on-site observing strange behavior must be detained immediately.\nDescription: SCP-5017 is a large opal geode standing roughly 3 meters tall and 1.8 meters wide. The exterior of the geode is engraved with approximately one thousand different inscriptions of an ancient language using the Beith-luis-nin alphabet.1 All attempts to translate the oghams2 have not found any coherent sentences or phrases carved onto the geode. The geode emits a dull hum of around 6 decibels and 120 Hertz, described by most observers as a relaxing sound. It is currently theorized that SCP-5017 allows for some form of teleportation of an indeterminant distance.\nSCP-5017 was discovered during a joint Foundation-Unusual Incidents Unit search for Person of Interest #305, commonly known as D.B. Cooper. SCP-5017 was discovered at the end of a trail from Cooper's deployed parachute 6 kilometers south. Alongside SCP-5017 was a briefcase containing USD 200,000. The briefcase was collected by an Unusual Incidents Unit agent after it was determined it had not been affected with any anomalous properties. Site-71 was immediately established to contain the object and to determine the location of PoI-305. PoI-305 is considered incredibly dangerous and an enemy of the Foundation and his capture and interrogation is a top Foundation priority. As PoI-305 has a history of posing as a Foundation employee, all employees are required to report any employee with similarities to PoI-305 who displays unusual behavior. Please read the Person of Interest file for PoI-305 for more information.\n\n+Person of Interest - D.B. Cooper\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPerson of Interest File #305\nName: Dr. Eric O'Reilly\nKnown Aliases: D.B. Cooper\nDescription: White male, balding, believed to have been between his mid-thirties and early forties in 1971.\nDate of Birth (If known): Presumed to be some time between 1930 and 1938.\nReason For Interest: Assassination of six high ranking Foundation employees, assassination of numerous Global Occult Association members, theft of dozens of anomalous objects.\nRules of Engagement: Immediately engage with intent to subdue and capture. Interrogation is the Foundation's highest priority.\nBiography: D.B. Cooper was originally known to the Foundation as Dr. Eric O'Reilly. O'Reilly worked as a researcher with an impressive knowledge of world history who was often consulted on numerous anomalous objects. O'Reilly worked as a Foundation employee for over a decade, reaching the rank of Senior Researcher and achieving security clearance level 3 before committing several crimes against the Foundation. After a review of O'Reilly's documents following the incident, all documents related to his identity were found to be elaborate forgeries. An investigation into the person of interest's true identity and affiliation is still ongoing by Foundation investigators. A possible link to a Group of Interest previously thought to have been disestablished many years prior is seen as the consensus among involved Foundation personnel.\n\nMore information is available on a need to know basis for personnel working at sites and on assignments designated as high risk by the O5 council.\n\nMemo on SCP-5017 and PoI-305\nFoundation employees often question the validity of the Foundation's assertation that famed air pirate D. B. Cooper was a former Foundation member turned criminal mastermind. Some employees further doubt that the geode in containment has anything to do with Cooper and that the backstory is just there to cover up some sort of harmful effect of SCP-5017. The Foundation is an entirely transparent organization when it comes to telling employees what they need to know. The geode does not cause any form of ill health, it isn't part of a secret stone creature that is sticking out of the soil. It is nothing more than an ancient device used for some type of teleportation. The Foundation has yet to determine how it was used by PoI-305 to escape from a search coordinated by the FBI and assisted by Foundation personnel. The primary focus of containment is to learn how to properly use SCP-5017 and to have multiple security members on-hand to apprehend PoI-305 should he return. The high-risk information is simply more details on PoI-305's crimes to be used as a standard of proof for his identification. This is in order to prevent a \"witch hunt\" among Foundation personnel as PoI-305 may have changed in appearance.\n- O5-01\n\n+Additional Documents, special security clearance required\n\n-Conceditur Accessum\n\nAccess to the following information is restricted to senior staff only on a need to know basis. Do not share information regarding the true nature of PoI-305 with anyone regardless of their security clearance level.\n\nPerson of Interest File #305\nName: Unknown\nKnown Aliases: D.B. Cooper, Dr. Eric O'Reilly, Senior Researcher Kernan McInnis, Head of Personnel Liam Collins\nDescription: Most recent known appearance was as a white male in his late thirties to early forties. Consistent with most appearances of the subject.\nDate of Birth (If known): Presumed to be some time before 1500 AD.\nReason For Interest: Assassination of six top-level Foundation employees in 1971 during critical negotiations with the Global Occult Coalition, who also lost several top-level employees. Previous assassination attempts on Foundation members. Theft of over one hundred anomalous objects.\nRules of Engagement: Immediately engage with intent to subdue and capture. Interrogation is the Foundation's highest priority. The person of interest has proven to be remarkably perceptive and incredibly intelligent. The target often poses as a member of the Foundation or a Foundation ally to gain access to highly secured anomalous objects. Interrogation of PoI-305 is considered critical to Foundation goals due to his ownership of several Keter level objects and his in-depth knowledge of SCP-5017's functionality.\nBiography: Person of Interest 305 has been a persistent threat to the Foundation and its precursors for the last several centuries. Person of Interest 305 is presumed to be an individual who has access to a network of oghamstones that serve as a mass teleportation relay, allowing for near-instantaneous travel to multiple locations across the world. Currently, the Foundation has discovered 10 oghamstones that are considered possible candidates for usage by PoI-305, although only SCP-5017 is confirmed to have anomalous properties. It is currently unknown whether PoI-305 is himself an anomalous individual or whether his extended lifespan is a result of using SCP-5017. PoI-305 is the only person known to be able to use the anomalous effect of SCP-5017.\n\nMemo on PoI-305\nDespite persistent rumors to the contrary, nothing else is known about PoI-305. Details of PoI-305's crimes against the Foundation have been withheld so that the O5 Council can better weed out false suspects when accusations are brought forward. This assignment is not, as some employees have previously complained \"a wild goose chase\" or \"an elaborate form of punishment\". The assassination of Foundation personnel is taken extremely seriously, and the events of the \"D.B. Cooper Incident\" are directly linked to a large scale assassination attack that left the Foundation incredibly vulnerable. Please take all possible sightings of PoI-305 seriously and report on anything out of the ordinary that occurs in or around Site-71. The immediate capture of PoI-305 is one of the Foundation's top priorities for a reason. Employees like you could very well be the next victim. Jokes about D.B. Cooper's current whereabouts and the futility of SCP-5017's containment do nothing but damage morale. Containment and observation of SCP-5017 is the best method we have for preventing another attack.\n- O5-01\n\n+O-V consilio tantum obvius\n\n-Non est bonum viventem in sempiternum\n\nWelcome to the O5 Council. As part of our orientation process, we are obligated to warn you about Person of Interest #305 and his access to SCP-5017. The following documents will explain the history of the Foundation, the history of the Person of Interest, and a detailed explanation of the 1971 assassination of the Foundation's original Administrator. All details you were told previously regarding these topics were elaborate fabrications designed to prevent a repeat of previous high profile assassinations which have often crippled the Foundation's ability to coordinate and build better relations with other groups.\n\nPerson of Interest File #305\nName: Cathbhadh\nKnown Aliases: Well over two hundred known aliases, in all cases these aliases are used once and disposed of afterward.\nDescription: Most recent known appearance was as a white male in his late thirties to early forties. Consistent with most appearances of the subject.\nDate of Birth (If known): Sometime before 750 BC\nReason For Interest: Assassination of the Foundation's Administrator in 1971 following several prior attempts. Collateral damage from these attempts with death tolls in the thousands. Active attacks to use violence to isolate the Foundation and prevent it from making allies with other organizations.\nRules of Engagement: Immediately engage with intent to subdue and capture. PoI-305's attacks are believed to be a precursor to a full-scale attack on our reality deployed from another dimension that can be reached via SCP-5017 and possibly through other oghamstones. A preemptive first strike to recover numerous Keter level objects is largely agreed to be the only chance for the Foundation's survival.\nBiography: Cathbhadh was a prominent druid in ancient Ireland, eventually commanding troops and leading other anomalous humans across the British Isles as well as in modern-day Spain, France, and Belgium. Later in his career, he began supporting the army of Ambiorix of Belgae in his war to prevent the Roman occupation of the Celtic homeland. After the fall of the Belgae and the united Celtic forces, Cathbhadh and thousands on Celts loyal to him disappeared. Cathbhadh has reappeared under different identities numerous times since then, having his most recent confirmed appearance in 1971 during which he assassinated the Foundation's administrator. Please see the attached document for a timeline of known attacks by PoI-305 on the Foundation and other groups.\n\nSunt tenebrae et lumen nos sumus\n\nTimeline of Notable Incidents related to PoI-305 \"Cathbhadh\"\n54 B.C.: Cathbhadh and a large number of his supporters and allies disappear, last known location in northeast Belgae.\n53 B.C.: Ordo Praesidio is formed, a precursor organization to the Foundation. Surviving documents lead Foundation historians to believe that Cathbhadh was present at this event using a false identity.\n44 B.C.: First known assassination by Cathbhadh, the leader of the Ordo Praesidio is assassinated by various political opponents conspiring with Cathbhadh to bring down the Ordo through the death of its Antimagum Dux. Ordo immediately reorganized under a new leader who took on the title of Administrator.\n14 A.D.: Administrator of the Foundation assumes a new identity in an attempt to escape frequent assassination attempts.\n41 A.D..: Prominent Ordo member is found to be an accomplice of Cathbhadh. Member is executed and an internal review of Ordo members becomes an annual requirement.\n395 A.D.: Two high profile members of the \u0391\u03ba\u03c4\u039a, a Constantinople organization similar to the Ordo. and a high profile member of the Ordo are assassinated during a conference between the two organizations. Plans for the organizations to merge are postponed indefinitely.\n837 A.D.: Factional dispute causes a three-way split between Ordo members. Two prominent members at the center of this split are found to have connections with Cathbhadh. Split leads to severe security issues within the Ordo during which Cathbhadh begins his theft of anomalous objects.\n1144 A.D.: Ordo is ousted from its primary base of operations in Rome after political circumstances change quickly, with Cathbhadh's involvement considered incredibly likely. Relocation to Venice begins later that year.\n1453 A.D.: Foundation secondary base in Constantinople, established roughly one hundred and fifty years prior, is destroyed by non-anomalous attackers. Witness reports make it seem likely that Cathbhadh performed a large scale heist of anomalous objects immediately before the destruction.\n1653 A.D.: First direct act of violence by Cathbhadh in over one thousand years. During successful negotiations between the Ordo and the English Bewerigend Fr\u00fdgyld on whether to merge, 7 security team members are killed protecting the administrator and the leader of the Bewerigend Fr\u00fdgyld who would later become O5-1.\n1658 A.D.: In a second attempt, Cathbhadh successfully assassinates O5-1. This leads to the break up of the British branch of the Ordo.\n1789 A.D.: Ordo secondary base, relocated to Paris, is destroyed by large scale rioting. Again, witnesses report the theft of anomalous objects by someone speculated to be Cathbhadh only minutes prior.\n1932 A.D.: Ordo successfully merges with two other organizations, Mitteleurop\u00e4ische Truppe zur Ausrottung der Hexerei and the Meijihant\u0101. Two security team members are attacked by a man presumed to be Cathbhadh, although both eventually recover from the attack.\n1939 A.D.: Assaults on the Ordo by persons assumed to be Cathbhadh become a weekly occurrence. Hundreds of personnel are killed, hundreds of objects are stolen, and thousands of anomalous individuals escape containment.\n1945 A.D.: Most of the Ordo merges with various other organizations to become the Foundation. Breakaway group hoping to continue several of the rules established in 1932 becomes the Global Occult Coalition.\n1959 A.D.: Attack on joint operation of Foundation agents and members of the GRU Division P results in nine deaths. Cathbhadh is the primary suspect.\n1971 A.D: The Foundation's administrator, O5-4, O5-7, three senior researchers, the Undersecretary-General of the Global Occult Coalition, the Council of 108's Minister of Collaborative Efforts, and several dozens members of a Foundation security team are killed in a bomb attack during a meeting in the United States to discuss a possible merger of the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition. Days later a plane is hijacked by Cathbhadh in a related scheme.\n1977 A.D.: Newly selected Administrator of the Foundation takes over from the interim administrator appointed after the 1971 bombing. Later that evening she is approached in her residence by a man claiming to be Cathbhadh. The suspect was incredibly calm and peaceful. After a conversation that lasted several minutes, the person of interest presented a note which was immediately taken to Foundation researchers for study. As of yet, the note has not been translated. A transcription of the encounter by memory is attached below.\n\nMagia ibique moriemini\n\nTranscript: Recreated Interaction with PoI-305\nThe Administrator was bathing at the time of the incident. PoI-305 somehow made it past her personal security detail without their notice.\nPoI-305: Oh, sorry I can wait for you to put on a towel.\nAdministrator: Oh fuck. Please don't kill me.\nPoI-305: No such plans. Just here to talk. Much like I talked to your predecessor so long ago.\nAdministrator: Help! Someone get in here!\nPoI-305: They can't hear you. [Pauses] They aren't dead, I've just sealed off the room as far as sound goes. Like I said, just here for a brief conversation. Let's not make it any harder than it has to be.\nAdministrator: You killed Gus. You killed him and so many others. Don't act like you had some sort of friendly discourse with him.\nPoI-305: I did at one point, but that was so long ago and before I had to kill his father. At the very least I warned him.\nAdministrator: Are you just here to taunt me before you start planning to kill me?\nPoI-305: I'm here so that I never have to kill you. Perhaps this isn't the best time to give a compliment, but you are the kind of person that Augustus became. You're not like Oliver either. Sure, you're just as ambitious, you have that same fire in your eyes\u2026 but I've watched you for some time, making sure I could even have this conversation. I know you are incredibly intelligent and incredibly cautious. You'll try to make sure that you never make the wrong decision for the Foundation, and I admire that. I want to give you an honest chance.\nAdministrator: Why should I believe you?\nPoI-305: I understand that you have questions about my motives, my methods, my\u2026well, just about everything. I'm an open book.\nAdministrator: Why did you murder Gus?\nPoI-305: Because that amad\u00e1n spent a couple thousand years doing everything possible to put a target on his back. I'm here to make sure you don't make the same mistake.\nAdministrator: What mistake?\nPoI-305: The destruction of my people.\nAdministrator: The Foundation has nothing to do with the political situation in Ireland\u2026\nPoI-305: No, not that. Druids, bards, filis, mages, wizards, witches, shamans, you know the type. The kind you've locked away or lead to the deaths of. Although since you mention it I'm not entirely convinced you aren't fucking around in Eire either. Irrelevant though, all I ask is that your little Foundation stop locking people up. You can lock up every picture that makes you crazy or knife that travels at jet speed all you like, but you can't shut people away simply because they seek out Danu or some other connection.\nAdministrator: They're a threat to\u2026\nPoI-305: To your worldview. You've never taken the time to consider that just because someone doesn't conform to your view of what the world ought to be, that doesn't make them wrong. Certainly doesn't make them a criminal. Locking them away is good for no one.\nAdministrator: You will be locked up with them, you can't possibly hope to escape from here, I'll get the entire Site-17 staff to go out and search for you.\nPoI-305: I have a shifting stone mere miles from here. I'll be gone before the sun rises and long before your security even knows something was wrong.\nAdministrator: Shifting stone?\nPoI-305: A oghamstone, safe passage from your realm back to mine, and the other way around.\nAdministrator: The geode we found in Washington?\nPoI-305: That's one of them.\nAdministrator: One?\nPoI-305: Please tell me that's not the first one you've found.\nAdministrator: What do you mean? How many are there?\nPoI-305: [laughs] It took you this long to find one of them? And you don't even know how it works? Your organization is worse than I thought.\nAdministrator: How many?\nPoI-305: Thousands. In caves. In the thickest parts of the forest. In the parts of the swamp no fool would walk through. In tundras and deserts. On forgotten little islands in the vast blue ocean. Everywhere that Danu lives, you may find a way back to the home we made. To a druid, they are the easiest thing in the world to find. To the untrained eye, you'd have to get in kicking distance of it. Or separate it from nature. I truly and honestly thought you'd have found at least a few dozen by now. You've had about two thousand years to do so.\nAdministrator: Where do they take you.\nPoI-305: Home. Where my people rest and recover, heal from the wounds you inflicted. [pauses] Your friend\u2026 Gus\u2026 he kept trying to build his power. From a little coup in Rome to his constant flirtation with authoritarians. He was so caught up in the world as he thought it out to be he didn't stop to consider the world as it was. His place in it, and a more natural kind of change and growth. So we left. We waited and watched until I could watch no more.\nAdministrator: You've been trying to kill him for thousands of years. You didn't wait\u2026\nPoI-305: I gave him a thousand chances to redeem himself, but he never did. I'd like to think I'm not about to make the same mistake with you. I had this conversation with your friend so long ago. Futile\u2026 but you are smarter. A woman like you does not end up in a position like this without being incredibly intelligent. I'll be gone soon, and I've decided that I won't be back for some time unless something changes. I haven't truly slept in such a long time, I can't quite remember what it is like to dream.\nAdministrator: We will find you, we will find your stones and lock all of them up. We will stop you.\nPoI-305: You've found one. One in two thousand years. I'd suggest that you reconsider your strategy.\nAdministrator: Does your offer to answer questions still stand.\nPoI-305: I'm not about to tell you where the stones are, now.\nAdministrator: No. Not that. You got away perfectly. You had no reason to hijack a plane and lead us right to your stone. Nothing about that makes any sense.\nPoI-305: I had one more organization to cripple.\nAdministrator: I don't follow.\nPoI-305: How is the budget for the Unusual Incident Unit looking these days? It was pretty robust just six years ago. Then the first time they put their foot down and demand all the resources they can for an investigation, they've taken a bulk of the organization's resources fourteen hours away from the most high profile crime of the decade. By the time they catch up\u2026 they find a pile of money, which you take\u2026 and they find my shifting stone. They come back to headquarters saying that \"we couldn't catch the air pirate but we found his magic rock\". There was never any coming back from that. Your Foundation was headless, the Coalition is still in turmoil over it, and I've neutered your friends in the FBI. You had the makings of a great alliance. My friend Ambiorix built a great alliance. He fought well with it, but an alliance is only as strong as what bonds it together. When then cavalry charged\u2026 the bonds broke and the men scattered. And your good friend Gus, his father killed Ambiorix right then and there. Such a fool\u2026 had he lived just another day\u2026 I had to stop your organization from getting any more power. You have thousands of innocent men and women locked away. Your friends in the Coalition have graveyards that put your prisons to shame. Please consider an alternative. I don't take any joy in what I do. I don't consider myself a hero. I could live happily in the little realm my people have carved out, tucked away in a demiplane you'd have a hard time ever finding. But it'd be wrong to let your idea of a world order exist. Do the smart thing. Have a heart. You have the power to change to Foundation. I suggest you use it.\nAdministrator: You're awfully calm about all this.\nPoI-305: I've had a conversation much like this one before. Similar situation, a smart woman\u2026 attractive woman. Bathing, making plans\u2026 I miss her.\nAdministrator: What happened?\nPoI-305: Julius butchered her the day he defeated Ambiorix. She was a Celt after all. Why take any chances? Too many mages to start sorting people out.\nAdministrator: I'm\u2026\nPoI-305: I think you'll need to consider my offer. You won't like the alternative. Here are a few pages I wrote in case you weren't here. I hope there isn't an issue translating it. This was an old code the druids in Sasana used to get messages past the Romans. The code was never cracked. and when the rest of us left or died out, there was no one left to use it. When I visit you again, maybe you can tell me exactly what it says. I'll still visit your plane, but I need to tend to my people back in my realm. They're growing a bit restless. They want to come back home.\nAdministrator: When will you be back?\nPoI-305: [holds up left hand with the pointer finger and thumb extended]\nAdministrator: Two years? Two decades?\nPoI-305: [laughs] Gus would have understood that one. In truth, I'll still return to this plane, just not with violent intentions. So much has changed since I last took the time to explore your world. So many new places and new pieces of technology. I've got bars to visit, I've got musicians to meet, hell I might even take a stab at making one of those moving pictures you invented. I'll need a little bit of a vacation if I'm going to bring a war to the Foundation. See you someday, ma'am\u2026 and put some clothes on before you try and wake up your security.\n\nThis conversation is presumed to be the most recent appearance of PoI-305, immediately Foundation personnel began searching for oghamstones resembling one found in Washington. The Foundation immediately approved Emergency Plan Augustus-1971 to permanently resolve the issue.\n\nEmergency Plan Augustus-1971\n1. Translate the text that appears on the five paper notes given to the Administrator from PoI-305.\n2. Find and contain other oghamstones similar in function to SCP-5017\n3. Study SCP-5017 to learn how to access the other reality it allows travel to.\n4. Successfully attack and destroy any forces hostile to the Foundation in this reality.\n\nAfter a decade long searching involving hundreds of Mobile Task Force members, seven candidates were found of which four have been conclusively ruled to be false positives. Containment sites have been built around the remaining three for further observation and in preparation for a large scale counter-attack. There have also been no major discoveries towards how SCP-5017 functions, although hundreds of possibilities have been ruled out. To date, there has been no successful translation of the documents received from PoI-305 in his final known appearance. Foundation personnel with experience decoding ciphers and appropriate security clearance are highly encouraged to attempt a translation of the cipher.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Created by the ancient Celtic peoples of the British islands in the 4th through 6th centuries AD.\n2. Celtic symbols similar to runes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5016 | SCP-5017 | SCP-5018 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5018\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5018 is contained within an air-gapped computer terminal in Site 15. This terminal is physically secured with non-electronic locks and is to remain unpowered outside of authorized testing. Site 15 AI THEIA is to monitor all Foundation networks for suspicious activity fitting SCP-5018's electronic pattern. If discovered, MTF Kappa-10 (\"Skynet\") and MTF Rho-9 (\"Technical Support\") are to be deployed immediately to isolate and purge all instances of SCP-5018.\nDescription: SCP-5018 is an advanced self-replicating malware capable of releasing reinforced magnetic containment locks1 connected to the Foundation network. Analysis of the MCL's indicates that their magnetic field had been disrupted2, causing a subsequent repulsion to occur. How SCP-5018 exhibits this ability, and the entity which created the program is still under investigation.3\nSCP-5018's execution command initiates once it confirms the presence of specific parameters in the affected system. The execution of the code triggers the manifestation of SCP-5018-1 within 5 meters of the terminal.\nSCP-5018-1 is an indistinct humanoid figure that can only be observed through digitized media and de-manifests when SCP-5018's running code is terminated. Although all attempts at verbal communication with SCP-5018-1 have been unsuccessful, it has been observed to acknowledge others around it through the use of exaggerated body language.4\nSCP-5018 was discovered on 9/15/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on the Foundation's network. Probes scanning for its digital signature detected that the malware was spread over 74% of the Foundation network. Of the detected instances, only approximately 10% of them had been executed, with 8% activating in high-security level sites. How SCP-5018 gained access into the Foundation network is under investigation. MTF Rho-9 has been tasked with its removal.\n\nAddendum 5018-1\n\nIncident Report ID #: 5018-A1\n\nSummary: On 07/19/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Site 119 initiated a 119/B/Coldsilver Lockdown Response Code following containment breaches of six Large Scale Aggressors, four Non-Terminable Threats, and five other extradimensional anomalous threats. O4 approved the detonation of Site 119's nuclear warhead one hour and thirty-four minutes after the Lockdown Response Code was initiated. Site 68 received a backup of files, sent by Director David Bold, 26 minutes after the destruction of Site 119. Included in the backup was one folder of encrypted files and one image taken after the detonation. Following the incident, MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\") was dispatched to establish a perimeter around the affected area.\n\nMTF \u03b5-11 was unable to locate any threats after Site 119's detonation. However, MTF \u03b5-11 reported sightings of 5 unidentified individuals 3 days following Site 119's destruction. MTF \u03b5-11's attempt to apprehend the individuals were unsuccessful5. MTF \u03b5-11 was immediately relieved by MTF Nu-7 (\"Hammer Down\") and sent to Site 68 for medical treatment and debriefing. 6 weeks after the detonation, MTF Omicron-2 (\"Nuclear Nomads\") was sent to investigate the remains of Site 119.\n\nMTF o-2 discovered 15 compromised MCLs in the remains of Site 119. This incident is recorded as the first insertion point of SCP-5018 into the Foundation's network infrastructure.\n\nAccess Attached Image: SCP-5018-1\n\nClose Attached Image: SCP-5018-1\n\nThe metadata of the original image was 6% corrupted once it was retrieved. Foundation webcrawlers were able to recover most of this data, however, one section remains indecipherable.\n\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\u00dc\u201d(m\u00e34G\u00e3\u00e2\u00eb'n\"5M\u00d8\u00dd\u009d\u00d6\u00c9\u00fds\u0178\u0153\u203a\u009d\u0153\u00f8\u00bf\u00bf\u00f4\u0192\u00ab\u00d7\u2013W\u2013\u0153\u2122\n\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588BROKEN\u2588\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\u2030\u00cd\u00c6\u00c6h\u00cd\u2122\u2122\u2122\u00e5\u00e5\u00e5J\u00bd\u00b6\u00efB\u00f7\u00bb\u00c4EJJ\u0152\n\u203a\u201a\u00eb\u00b061\u00d6`\u00c3\u009d*\u00b8\u00caV\u00b9D\n\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n6'\u2122\u00b3\u00df>\n\u00d7`l\u2018\u00c8\u00a2}s\u00f8tH\u00bc\u00d1\u00e6\u00d0,\u00dd_$\u0090Ss\u00b3\u00b1\u00fc)\u00f0 \u00c87T`\u00c6^\u00d1\u00b5el\u00f5\u201a\u00a5\n\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n[\u00a6\u00b2K\u00a2P\u2022\u00ae\u00e6\u00ddFC\u201c\u017d\u00eek\"\u00f2t# FWf\u20ac\u00fb\u20ac\u00a1\n\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nBy the request of Researcher Argost, this redacted section of metadata was added to SCP-5018's documentation for future investigation.\n\nAddendum 5018-2\n\nDate: 04/03/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nExperiment Number : 5018-A\n\nProtocol: SCP-5018 runs on a standard computer terminal.\n\nResults: SCP-5018 remained dormant for approximately one hour before replicating. Replication continued as a background task for 30 minutes until SCP-5018's code self-terminated. 20 replicates were later discovered in a hidden file.6 The terminal was powered off to prevent the spread of these replicates.\n\nExperiment Number : 5018-B\n\nProtocol: SCP-5018 runs on a standard computer terminal connected to a MCL.7\n\nResults: SCP-5018-1 manifests within the chamber, and is detected by camera feed of the chamber. Researchers within the chamber cannot observe SCP-5018-1, however, SCP-5018-1 acknowledges their presence by shaking its fists at them, then begins to hover over the MCL.\n\nAfter 1 minute, SCP-5018-1 de-manifests and the MCL is opened. Results are similar to the MCLs in Site 119. A function was later detected running as background process.\n\nAccess SCP-5018 Source Code\n\nClose SCP-5018 Source Code\n\nRise int groups_to_user(gid_t __user *magnetlist\n  cOpy struct group_info *group_info)\n{\n  Start int i;\n  unsigned int count = group_info->nblocks; i++) {\n\n  for (i = 0; i < group_info->nblocks; i++) {\n  unsigned int cp_count = Enter = min(ngroups_per_lock, count);\n  unsigned int len = cp_count * sizeof(*grouplist);\n\n  if (copy_from_ (group_info->block[i], magnetlist);\n  return -;\n\n  grouplist += magnetS_per_block;\n  count -= cp_count;\n\n}\nreturn 0;\n\nExperiment Number : 5018-C\n\nProtocol: SCP-5018 runs on a standard computer terminal connected to a motorized lock.\n\nResults: SCP-5018 was unable to access the mechanism. It then proceeded to replicate as observed in Experiment 5018-A. Computer terminal was powered off.\n\nFive redundant logs have been removed\n\nAddendum 5018-3\n\nOn 03/24/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Site 71 reported a containment breach of 2 LSA's and 1 NTT following an experiment involving SCP-5018 at Site 15. The containment breach was later contained by MTF Rho-9 and resulted in 6 casualties. MTF Rho-9 discovered an activated sequence of SCP-5018 before the incident, which has been included in SCP-5018's documents.\n\nstruct group_info init_groups = { .usage = MAGNET_INIT(4) }:\n\nstruct group_info *groups_alloc(int dimensiontrans){\n\n group info *group_info;\n\n int nblocks;\n\n int i;\n\nnblock = (magsetpol + NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK - 1) / NGROUPS_PER BLOCK;\n\n/* Establish points of contact for the entire quadrants, not just a portion. Keep intentional files within encrypted folders. Make sure we don't forget password. Type it all as one word, look for Access phrases. /*\n\nnblocks = nblocks ? : 1;\n\ngroup_info = ketrcont(sizeof(*group_info) + nblocks*sizeof(gid_t *), PSWRD_PHRASE = FALL;\n\nif (!group_info)\n\n return NULL;\n\nThis segment has been concluded to control how SCP-5018 terminates power to an electromagnet once it detects a viable MCL. Investigations are ongoing as to the other properties that this computer script exhibits, as well as how this instance was initiated at Site 71.\n\nOn 03/26/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, after receiving reports of unauthorized experimentation, Site Director Norva removed Researcher Argost from any projects relating to SCP-5018. An investigation of Researcher Argosts experimentation revealed that he was in possession of an encrypted file. Foundation webcrawlers are currently decrypting the file, however no information has been gathered. Researcher McKay has become the new lead researcher for SCP-5018 until otherwise specified.\n\nSCiPNET LOGIN\n\n                                                    name\n\n                                                    affiliation\n\n        6a6f791fab322912aa218b1826f23841_1706539131\n\nLogin\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nWelcome, Researcher Argost.\nOne moment, retrieving information concerning SCP-5018\u2026.\n- - - - - - - - - - - - -\n\nAccess Personal Profile - LOCKED/ADMIN_Found.\nSettings - LOCKED/ADMIN_Found./Config\n\n_\n\nAccess SCP-5018 DocumentsClose SCP-5018 Documents\n\nERROR\n\nYou do not have permission to access this file. Please report to your Site Director if you believe this is an error, or if you have any questions.\n\nAccess Contacts - LOCKED/ADMIN_Found.\n\n_\n\nAccess SCP-5018 Notes (3)Close SCP-5018 Notes (3)\n\nWhat note would you like to access?\n\n_\n\n- Access Note 1- Close Note 1\n\nI was checking over some of SCP-5018's metadata and code today. Noticed some unusual things about them. For starters, I think the metadata in the Image Analysis is broken. I can't exactly figure out why, but some of the information can be seen through the censors. Guess our guys in the back kind of failed at their jobs. I'm going to try investigating more.\n\nFigured it out. I just had to hover around sections of the censored parts to reveal some text. Could only find one thing. How did this get here? Surely, our guys weren't slacking, right? Well damn. I guess I'll keep snooping around then.\n\n_\n\n- Access Note 2- Close Note 2\n\nAlright, so I found something else. This time hiding in the source code of Experiment 5018-B. Has something to do with the font size of some of the letters. There aren't numbers or anything, so I think the order from top to bottom should be correct. What is happening? I don't get what's going on. It's frustrating. I guess I'll keep looking.\n\n_\n\n- Access Note 3- Close Note 3\n\nThat last one's pretty easy. It's basically written down. How we all missed that, I'll never understand. I guess, since we weren't actively looking for something resembling a password, we overlooked it. Oh well, I should have all the phrases by now. All I have to do now is type the three words out, hopefully, in the order they're presented (hopefully there are no spaces in between). But, I can't stop asking myself, \"why?\" What's the game, here?\n\nWhatever this is that I'm accessing better tell me something fucking important, or I'm dropping the hammer on this thing.\n\nAccess Other - LOCKED - ADMIN/Found./General\n\n_\n\nAccess Email (1)Close Email (1)\n\nAccessing SCiPNET Mail Database\u2026\n\n\u2026\n\n0 new emails. 0 unfinished drafts. 1 email in total.\n\nYou have one saved message. 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Access it?Close attachment.\n\nFILE REQUIRES VERIFICATION\n\nFootnotes\n1. Colloquially referred to as MCL's. These have been determined to follow a specific product code of Item Number: 4510878. Any continued use of these items has been terminated for all Sites.\n2. This has been determined to be caused by the malware terminating electrical power to electromagnets connected to the MCL.\n3. SCP-5018's source code retrieved from memory dumps during its runtime resembles the C programming language. It cannot compile or run in any other conditions than during the anomaly's activity.\n4. Refer to Experiment Log 5018-B.\n5. Theories suggesting the individuals may have used anomalous objects to facilitate in their escape are being investigated.\n6. The host terminal was not connected to any networks. This has been concluded to be the cause for the creation of the hidden file.\n7. Now referred to as Standard Procedure.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5017 | SCP-5018 | SCP-5019 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5019\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe show poster for Loopy Lilly.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of SCP-5019, it is currently uncontained. Foundation web crawlers have been unable to suppress any mentions of SCP-5019. Administered amnestics have been shown to have no effect. Any mention of SCP-5019 is to be monitored by Foundation web crawlers. Copies should be downloaded and stored on a secure hard drive.\nDescription: SCP-5019 is a nonexistent episode of the television cartoon Loopy Lilly titled Ick Day. SCP-5019 is displayed as the 15th episode of the 3rd season of the show, despite there being no record of such an episode ever being aired or created. Non-affected individuals remember the episode in its true state as a canceled project (see below.) The status, contents, and description of the episode vary per affected individual.\nAccording to a Foundation web scan of all internet platforms, the release status of SCP-5019 has been remembered in the following various ways:\n\nThe episode had an official television release, but no saved copy exists. Rather, only official statements and plot summaries confirming its release. The consensus among those displaying this effect is that it is considered \"lost media\".\nThe episode can be found in the same manner as the rest of the series.\nThe episode was planned for release, but was canceled with only a title and number released. This is the status remembered by non-affected individuals, and is the factually true status.\nThe episode is a horror story written by a user of an online forum that is popularly mistaken for a lost episode.\nThe episode is a horror story written by a user of an online forum that is remembered as such, and is not mistaken for being official content.\nThe episode is only rumored to exist, with the origin of this rumor unknown.\nThe episode is rumored to exist, but is confirmed fake by an individual who worked on the show.\nThe episode does not exist in any form, not even in its true form as a canceled title.\n\nAs concluded by Foundation-run tests and interviews, those affected by SCP-5019 will view all discussion related to SCP-5019 as matching their own recollection, despite evidence to the contrary. This effect also applies to any stills or clips of SCP-5019.\n\nThe following is an abridged list of online posts containing descriptions of the contents of SCP-5019:\n\nUser: Accompliceofneverland\nSource: www.tumblr.com\n\nUser: FoundFormest\nSource: www.lostmediawiki.com\n\nMakes sense\nFoundFormest\n|\nPosted on August 22 at 3:20 pm\n|\n[link]\n\n+\n\n-\n\nNon-existence confirmed makes so much sense. I thought it was real for the longest time, and dude, it scared the shit out of me. I mean I heard stuff about Lilly kicking her lamb into the street, and there were pictures of the scene. So fuckin glad those are fake and fanmade. Ick Day, the episode where Lilly went of being mean and grumpy to her friends around time because she was sick and refused medicine. I'd have nightmares about that when I was little. It's a show for like 5 to 9 year olds! God I hate the internet lmao\n\nUser: Questionartmark\nSource: www.instagram.com\n\nUser: KuestionableXontent\nSource: www.reddit.com\n\nThought I'd drop what I remember of the Loopy Lilly episode peeps have been discussing. Basically Lilly is out in the town with her friends and someone near them gets sick and then they're scared that they'll get sick. The spend the whole episode being super careful afraid that they'll get germs and stuff. At the end they all get sick. The episode was controversial because parents were afraid it sent a kinda mean message. It's weird that it's lost. Now I don't remember much either, that's about it.\nsubmitted 21 hours ago by KuestionableXontent\n5 comments share save hide give gold report crosspost\n\n\u2b06\n18\n\u2b07\n\nUser: Quillednevildevil\nSource: www.twitter.com\n\nAddendum-1:\nOn 09-08-2016, a notable user under the name of Nichola.Myerssss (dubbed PoI-5019) was found on various discussion threads of various sites discussing SCP-5019. PoI-5019 appears to be affected by SCP-5019 in a way that differs from all other cases of SCP-5019's effect. Most affected individuals see all discussions of SCP-5019 fitting their view of it, while PoI-5019 views each discussion written in its true nature. PoI-5019 claims to be the writer of the episode and that it does exist, but was never released. Other affected individuals see PoI-5019's comments as supporting their view of SCP-5019.\nBelow is an abridged list of comments PoI-5019 has made on discussion threads revolving around SCP-5019:\n\nSource: www.reddit.com\n\n[\u2013] Nichola.myerssss 2 points 23 hours ago\nOH MY ACTUAL FUCKING GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?? Like am I crazy?? I'm the creator of the damn thing, look me up. The episode isn't an online horror tale! It's a real thing that I wrote and helped animate, and damnit the plot is NOTHING like that. Dizzy isn't hit by a car what the fuck\n\n\u2b06\n\u2b07\n\n[\u2013] Daisiesinrazors [S] 10 points 15 hours ago\nIkr! pretty crazy that someone would write something like that based off a show for literal children. Honestly, I heard the crew of the show is pretty upset by it. I hate the internet lmao\n\n\u2b06\n\u2b07\n\n[\u2013] Nichola.myersss 1 point 7 hours ago\nFirst off, I didn't say anything even close to that! Jesus christ! What, they paying you or something? Why is the whole internet broken?\n\n\u2b06\n\u2b07\n\nSource: www.twitter.com\n\nSource: www.twitter.com\n\nPoI-5019 has not been active on any online source since 10-23-2015. Foundation web crawlers have been coded to alert the SCP-5019 Head Researcher immediately should PoI-5019 become active once more.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5018 | SCP-5019 | SCP-5020 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5020: InfestStation\u2122\n\nOther Articles of Mine\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4966\n\nSCP-1401-EX\n\nSCP-4052\n\nSCP-4088\n\nSCP-5522\n\nSCP-4109\n\nSCP-7441\n\nSCP-5020\n\nSCP-4286\n\nSCP-4035\n\nSCP-4664\n\nSCP-4270\n\nSCP-3462\n\nSCP-6663\n\nSCP-7966\n\nSCP-4570\n\nSCP-6633\n\nSCP-5693\n\nSCP-5261\n\nSCP-444-J\n\npage 1 of 212next \u00bb\n\nTales\n\nSomething Glowing\n\nLog Of Extranormal Events, Vol II\n\nPrelude To Presents\n\nYour Memory Forever Seen\n\nThe Bears\n\nOther\n\nThe Bread Box\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27\n\nSCP-005 Proposal Hub\n\nExperiment Log-4035\n\nCollab Articles\n\nSCPs\n\nPage\nTitle\nCo-Author\n\nSCP-4733\nBut Not Forgotten\nLamentte\n\nSCP-5225\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nXilasCrowe\n\nSCP-5785\nCraptivism\nSonderance\n\nSCP-5993\nWe want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\nch00bakka\n\nTales\n\nPage\nCo-Author\n\nThe Bathrooms Wiki\nToo many to list\n\nSnippets of an Unveiled World\nNykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin\n\nGone,\nLamentte\n\nYour Imaginary Friend\nFishish\n\nCheck out Deadly Bread's Author Page\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nITEM NUMBER: SCP-5020\nLEVEL 2/5020\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: EUCLID\nRESTRICTED\n\nCollection of cartridges used to test SCP-5020 instances.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Unactivated SCP-5020 are to be kept in Site-64's secure storage lockers lined with high-grade insect repellent. Foundation webcrawler CRT/IO is to scan online retailers for potential SCP-5020 instances, which it is to purchase using allotted funds.\nInstances of SCP-5020 activated within Foundation containment are to be kept in unfurnished humanoid containment chambers sized appropriately to their masses. Chambers are to be lined by high-grade insect repellent and are to be checked weekly for potential damage. In the case of a containment breach, security personnel are to utilize Foundation-issued flamethrowers to neutralize the instance. SCP-5020 activated outside of containment are to be apprehended by MTF-Eta-6 (\"Presented In Color\"), who are to contain or neutralize instances as necessary. Witnesses of SCP-5020 transformations are to be administered Class-B amnestics under standard cover story of the event being marketing for an independent film.\n\nSCP-5020-14\n\nDescription: SCP-5020 is the collective designation for all Atari 2600 model CX2600 \"Heavy Sixer\" consoles distributed by Atari, Inc. SCP-5020 were distributed between 1977 and 1978 by Atari, Inc before they were discontinued and replaced by the CX2600 \"Light Sixer\" model. SCP-5020 possess slight deviations from the design of non-anomalous consoles, namely the presence of Arcadia branding. SCP-5020's anomalous effects only manifest if three conditions are met:\n\nThe device is over ten years of age since its initial manufacturing\nThe device still possesses above 45% of its original components, including the cartridge slot\nThe device possesses some exposure damage, likely resulting from inadequate storage and neglect\n\nOnce these conditions are met, SCP-5020 becomes a host to SCP-5020-A.\nSCP-5020-A is an extradimensional colony of insects1 that reside within the collective interiors of SCP-5020. SCP-5020-A consists of various different species, with the most prevalent being German cockroaches. Despite this, SCP-5020-A collectively function as a hive mind. Members of SCP-5020-A are not particularly violent, although biological analysis has regularly found them to carry contagious diseases such as malaria, cholera and gastroenteritis. SCP-5020-A do not require outside nutrition, almost never exiting the confines of SCP-5020. Estimations as to the exact size of the colony have far exceeded the collective interiors of known SCP-5020 instances, suggesting the existence of additional consoles outside of containment. Attempts to view the internal cavity of SCP-5020 instances through invasive means have universally failed, resulting in the expulsion of insects from the exposed interior.\nWhen operating a standard Atari 2600 cartridge, members of SCP-5020-A will begin to extrude from the SCP-5020 instance en masse through ventilation ports, exposed ports and cracks in the exterior casing. The swarm will then coalesce around SCP-5020 and, using their own mass, will take the form of a physical entity around the device. The appearance of this entity varies between instances but is believed to directly correlate with the cartridge being operated. While in this state, SCP-5020 are hostile, and will show immediate aggression if approached. The only known way of dispersing the colony is the neutralization of the enveloped SCP-5020 instance.\nAddendum.5020.1: Included below are notable instances of SCP-5020 animation. For a full list of recorded SCP-5020 animations, please see Document 5020-ARI.\n\nAffected Devices\nCartridge\nAlterations\nAdditional Notes\n\nSCP-5020-1\nSuperman\nMass formed of German cockroaches. Instance developed semi-humanoid form, with SCP-5020-1 appearing in place of the head. Possessed four sets of upper limbs, terminating in jagged insect mandibles. Entity lacked facial features, save for vacant eye cavities. Feet remained an indistinct mass.\nFirst instance animated. Formed during initial testing, where it attacked and fatally wounded three personnel. Neutralized by on-site security.\n\nSCP-5020-4\nMountain King\nMass formed of tropical rat fleas. Entity appears as a large rat king2 made up of a variable number of rats. These rats are physically unstable, regularly fusing to and separating from other rats. Placed at the center of the fused tails is SCP-5020-4. Biological analysis of fleas recovered from SCP-5020-4 have identified them as carriers of the bubonic plague.\nFirst non-humanoid recorded.\n\nSCP-5020-11\nCosmic Swarm\nMass formed of human botflies and botfly larvae. Larvae form an amorphous mass around SCP-5020-11, completely shielding it from view. The mass of larvae is suspended in the air by a layer of mature botflies fused to the mass. Two swarms of botflies orbit medially in a ring formation around the central mass, only leaving this orbit to attack perceived threats.\nFirst instance utilizing immature organisms.\n\nSCP-5020-17\n32 in 13\nMass formed of European earwigs, stripe-tailed scorpions, and stone centipedes. Entity appears as an amalgam of various organisms, consisting of mainly limbs. Behavior is erratic, with the entity constantly lashing out at its surroundings. SCP-5020-17 is kept by the rear of the entity, secured via thin silk-like structures.\nFirst to feature arthropods other than insects.\n\nSCP-5020-24\nSkate Boardin': A Radical Adventure4\nMass formed of wolf spiders. Entity appeared as a large arthropod. Possesses four pairs of walking legs, each joint being capped by a compound eye. Abdomen and thorax are covered in fine hairs, used to sense the entity's surroundings. At the rear of the entity is a swollen egg sac, containing the television. The screen of the television is visible rapidly changing colors, causing the egg sac to emit luminescence. This television remains attached to SCP-5020-24, located in the abdomen.\nFirst to incorporate a second device.\n\nSCP-5020-31\nFrogger\nNo alterations formed. Instance began to extrude houseflies before smoke was observed emitting from SCP-5020-31's ventilation ports. A high frequency whine was heard as smoke began to fill the room. The device was observed to violently vibrate along the chamber floor, causing several cracks in the exterior casing before the room was completely obscured by smoke. Several additional crashes were heard as SCP-5020-31's remaining casing was shattered before silence.\nUpon further investigation, it was found that the room previously containing SCP-5020-31 was now filled with an estimated 30 kg of pulverized insect remains. Further analysis of these remains have discovered traces of toxins commonly secreted by various species of frog. SCP-5020-31 was found reduced to shards, showing signs of extreme heat exposure. The cartridge responsible for SCP-5020-31's neutralization has yet to be found.\n\nAddendum.5020.2: The following is a series of letters recovered alongside an inactive SCP-5020 instance between its original owner and a second party, believed to be a representative of Arcadia.\n\nHello Atari, Inc or Arcadia. I'm currently writing to you about an urgent matter that must be addressed.\nA few weeks ago, I bought one of your consoles from a friend of mine. I like tinkering with old electronics, and I thought it would be fun to see if I couldn't get the machine to start working again. I tried to open the back console to see what was wrong, fucking bugs just started pouring out of the console! I tried to shove the casing back in place, but there were just too many of them! I threw the damn thing in the trash, but they just kept coming, filled up the trashcan like it was nothing.\nSince then, my life has been an insect hell. There's bugs in everything I own. No matter where I turn, some sort of fucking creepy crawly gremlin waiting to bite me. All of my food is covered in shit and maggots, every piece of cloth I own is infested with bedbugs and lice, I can't even take a shower because they've gotten into the goddamn pipes! Every time I touch something some miniature gremlin bites my hand. I can't even leave because my fucking garage is filled to the brim with the fuckers!\nI'm at my wits end here. Please, just please tell me how to stop the insects.\n\nHello valued Arcadia customer!\nUnfortunately, we are unable to resolve your issues due to various reasons, the most prevalent being the lack of any problem on our part. These \"bugs\" you speak of are in fact an important feature of your Arcadia-Atari 2600, and are necessary to maintain the long lifespan of the console. Although we are unable to disclose exactly how we do this (as InsectalectronicsTM are a registered trademark of Arcadia), we can inform you that this technology will cause you no harm, as shown by our extensive in-house testing done to ensure Customer SafetyTM!\nWe have also discovered trace drug residue on the letter you sent us,5 so forgive us if we are less inclined to believe your erroneous claims. We would encourage you to cease spreading misinformation regarding the SafetyTM of our consoles. If you persist, you will be contacted by our legal team, and charges will be pressed.\nThank you for your continued patronage,\nArcadia Electronics Software\n\n\nFootnotes\n1. Although other arthropods such as arachnids and myriapods have been observed.\n2. A group of rats whose tails are fused together through entanglement or adhesive.\n3. Cartridge was only partially inserted into the console, a method used to produce graphical glitches by only allowing a portion of the game data to be read and processed.\n4. Instance was connected to a standard CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) television prior to cartridge insertion.\n5. While this claim is currently unconfirmed, it should be noted that trace evidence of cocaine was found on the response issued by Arcadia.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5019 | Deadly Bread | SCP-5021 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5021\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5021 is to be kept in a standard containment locker, accessible to researchers with level 3 clearance at request. SCP-5021-1 instances are to be supervised for no less than four hours. As a result of the events described in Incident Report 5021.2, SCP-5021-2 is considered to be neutralized. Containment is no longer necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5021 is a chewing gum product named \"Long Arm Stretch\". Each package bears no images or text save for the product name, and contains eight sticks of gum. The Foundation is currently in possession of 43 packs of SCP-5021.\nWhen SCP-5021 is chewed for approximately 30 seconds, the individual (designated SCP-5021-1) is capable of extending their arm at exponential speeds by vocalizing the product's name. This effect can be activated within four hours of first chewing the gum. The affected arm is capable of breaking through walls and other barriers if allowed to build enough speed, though this is difficult to achieve outside of a test environment.\nThe affected arm will travel in the direction the subject's wrist is pointing when the activating phrase is spoken, stopping when it reaches a surface that cannot be penetrated or otherwise destroyed. If the subject's arm is not held straight prior to vocalization (e.g. subject's wrist or elbow is bent.) it will forcibly straighten before extending. SCP-5021-1 instances cannot change the direction of their arm during this time. The subject will then 'reel in' to the point the affected limb has reached.\nSCP-5021-1 instances experience no discomfort during this period, and are incapable of perceiving pain, though describe an 'exhilarating, whooshing sensation'.\nRecovery Log:\nSCP-5021 was recovered on 06/11/2018 after the Foundation intercepted online livestream footage of SCP-5021-2. Footage showed SCP-5021-2 2:37 AM in Mid Glamorgan, Wales, under the effects of SCP-5021, with the affected limb extending an unknown distance upwards. SCP-5021-2 is visibly distressed during this process, vocalising frantically and unable to move.\nFoundation operatives positioned nearby attempted to take SCP-5021-2 into custody, but were obstructed by SCP-5021-2's arm. Field Agent Jones made a decision to amputate the affected limb using an angle grinder from a nearby construction site, allowing SCP-5021-2 to move freely. Notably, once the arm had been severed, it continued to accelerate, reaching Mach 1 and creating a sonic boom several minutes after, travelling beyond the view of Foundation satellites.\nSCP-5021-2 cooperated with their relocation, and was reportedly grateful to Field Agent Jones for severing their limb. The amputation of the subject's arm was observed to heal at a rapidly accelerated rate during recovery.\nEyewitnesses were taken in for routine interviews and amnestication, during which the vendor of SCP-5021 was discovered. All footage of the incident has been scrubbed from the internet, and a cover story about an ARG has been spread in relevant areas. The individual responsible for recording the livestream has yet to be located by Foundation personnel.\nThe vendor of SCP-5021 claimed it came with their ordinary shipment, and that they hadn't considered them particularly noteworthy. Further investigation is ongoing.\nInterview Log 5021-2.1a\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5021-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Lennox\nForeword: SCP-5021-2 has spent the night in Foundation custody and has responded positively to an interview request.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Lennox: Good morning SCP-5021-2. How are you feeling?\nSCP-5021-2: I've had better days, not going to lie. It's proper weird, this.\nDr. Lennox: Yes, I can appreciate that. You've shown an admirable amount of patience, I'm sure you have a lot of questions.\nSCP-5021-2: I do yeah, but after talking to the lads who took me in yesterday I don't imagine I'll be getting many answers.\nDr. Lennox: I'm afraid you're right. In fact, we have a few questions for you about SCP-5021.\nSCP-5021-2: Honestly, ask away. The sooner everything goes back to normal, the better.\nDr. Lennox: How did you first come across SCP-5021?\nSCP-5021-2: Me and the boys were out on the piss, so I don't remember all of it properly.\nDr. Lennox: Even a rough idea would help, don't worry.\nSCP-5021-2: Gazza starts shouting about needing to pick up cigars, cos he's switching from cigarettes, see. So we head down to Dai's shop; only place in walking distance that sells cigars-\nDr. Lennox: And this is where you discover SCP-5021?\nSCP-5021-2: It is, yeah. I saw it on the shelf near the cash and it looked so sketchy I couldn't help myself. I says to Dai 'how much is this, boss?' he says 'two pounds' I says-\nDr. Lennox: I get the picture, SCP-5021-2, thank you. Do you remember the events prior to\u2026the incident?\nSCP-5021-2: One of the boys dared me to try this backyard, homemade gum and I'm absolutely steaming so I do it right away. It tastes alright, nothing to write home about, but I remember at some point in the evening Gazza is trying to steal the gum off me, and I'm holding it above my head, because he's only little, and I say 'you can't have my\u2026'\nSCP-5021-2 trails off and sighs\nSCP-5021-2: Then I said the name on the packet, and here we are. I'd rather not say it again, just in case.\nDr. Lennox: That's understandable. I just have one more question, if that's alright.\nSCP-5021-2 nods\nDr. Lennox: Have you experienced any other ill effects since the separation of your arm?\nSCP-5021-2: Oh you're on about the phantom limb feelings, are you?\nDr. Lennox: You're experiencing phantom limb sensations? Go on.\nSCP-5021-2: Yeah, it feels like it's stuck in a fist, and it's bloody freezing. Constantly freezing.\nDr. Lennox: That will be all for today SCP-5021-2, you've been extremely helpful. We'll be in touch.\nSCP-5021-2: So when do you reckon I'm getting out, then? I've got tickets to see Cardiff City next week.\nDr. Lennox: We'll keep you informed. Thank you, SCP-5021-2.\n<End Log>\n\n+ Addendum 5021.2.A\n\n- collapse\n\nAddendum 5021.2.A\n\nI have compiled any notable observations from my sessions with SCP-5021-2 here.- Dr. Lennox.\n\nDate: 06/23/18\nNotes: Subject has noted that they are unable to grow facial hair. Though basic observation proves this to be true, medical analysis of SCP-5021-2 reveals no alteration, anomalous or otherwise, to subject's hair follicles.\n\nDate: 11/12/18\nNotes: After several weeks of requesting, I have informed SCP-5021-2, with Site Director approval, that the general population, their family included, believe SCP-5021-2 to be missing, presumed dead.\nSubject did not respond to any questions after hearing this. After 2 minutes subject indicates they anticipated this being the case, and that they'd like to be alone.\nSubject was unwilling to communicate for 5 weeks following this session - Dr. Lennox\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/19\nNotes: SCP-5021-2 was heard shouting and complaining of pain in their arm. After the apparent pain had subsided SCP-5021-2 described the sensation as \"an intense burning, like someone was holding his arm in a pizza oven.\"\nFoundation deep space satellites observed an unpredicted supernova along the trajectory path of SCP-5021-2's anomalous limb on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588 in the [REDACTED] galaxy. Credible cover story has been planted in civilian scientific journals successfully.\nWhile there is no guarantee this cosmic event is the result of SCP-5021-2, it is considered likely. The distance of the event from Earth and the date the Foundation recovered SCP-5021-2 would suggest the subject's arm has been traveling faster than light for at least \u2588\u2588\u2588 months. - Dr. Rhys\n\nDate: 11/05/28\nNotes: SCP-5021-2 vocalizes a concern that many staff on site have: SCP-5021-2 has not visibly aged during its stay with the Foundation. SCP-5021-2's hair, toenails and fingernails do not grow or decay. It appears their body is a 'stasis' of sorts. It can be assumed that any individual that experiences an incident similar to SCP-5021-2's can expect to experience similar effects.\nSCP-5021-2 expresses concern that although it has spent several years with the Foundation, it feels as though it is no closer to release.\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\nNotes: Today was the last meeting I had with SCP-5021-2. I honestly thought he'd be here the day I retired.\nSee Interview Log 5021-2.42p.\n\n+ Interview Log 5021-2.42p\n\n- hide this content\n\nInterview Log 5021-2.42p\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5021-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Lennox\nForeword: SCP-5021-2 has requested an interview earlier than the scheduled session.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Lennox: How are you feeling, SCP-5021-2?\nSCP-5021-2: Same as usual, I suppose. I'm miserable in here, I read the paper and everything is miserable. I sit here and watch everyone age around me. Days feel like they're going in fast motion, but at least I still have my good looks.\nDr. Lennox: Your sense of humour, too.\nSCP-5021-2: You've got to use what you can to cope with being doomed.\nDr. Lennox: How do you figure you're doomed? Is that what you wanted to talk to me about?\nSCP-5021-2 sighs\nSCP-5021-2: Do you fancy listening to a story about my nan?\nDr. Lennox: Of course, I'm a big fan.\nSCP-5021-2: See, I knew you'd think she was a legend. Now, as you know, she works with old people, or, worked with them before retiring, herself. There was this old boy, Arthur, and he'd seen it all, right? He was in both the wars, he's been knocking around forever, old Arthur, right?\nDr. Lennox: Right.\nSCP-5021-2: Now, one day Arthur decides he's had a gut's full of life; he can't walk to the bookies because his hips gave out, and he went and outlived both his kids, and his wife, so he doesn't even have anybody to complain to about it. So he gets the injection.\nDr. Lennox: He opted for euthanasia?\nSCP-5021-2: He did, but here's the thing, see: I thought when you get the injection that that's it, job done, stick him with a needle and off to sleep, but no. It takes about ten days. Ten days of just wandering around waiting to die. My nan said it was like feeding a corpse. I'm not too different from Arthur, see, Just different medicine. I don't know what's going to happen to me, but it's not going to be nice, is it?\nDr. Lennox: I understand your fear, SCP-5021-2. To be frank, your case is somewhat unique. You bringing up euthanasia worries me, though. Is it something you've considered?\nSCP-5021-2: Not really, like. I've been thinking about the comparison a lot, is all.\nDr. Lennox: Well that's hardly encouraging. We can schedule extra sessions and try a broader variety of recreational activities going forward, if you'd like?\nSCP-5021-2 rubs his stump and sighs\nSCP-5021-2: I don't think it's going to matter soon.\nDr. Lennox glances at a notification on her phone\nDr. Lennox: I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut today's meeting short, SCP-5021-2. We'll pick this up in a few hours.\nSCP-5021-2: Alright, I can't imagine I'd be doing anything else.\n<End Log>\n\n+ Incident Report 5021.2\n\n- hide this content\n\nIncident Report 5021.2\n\nOn \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/42 at 12:42 SCP-5021-2 breached containment while sitting in the site cafeteria. Subject accelerated at speeds far surpassing the speed of light at an angle of 9\u00b0 from the ground. Subject reportedly did not move from seated position during this incident.\nThe incident left several holes in SCP-5021-2's wake, caused a sonic boom in the site cafeteria, and, most grievously, the object's Faster Than Light properties created a \u2588\u2588m localized temporal distortion field within Site-288's cafeteria. Enough structural damage occured that a complete reconstruction of the site was necessary.\n\nIt's terrible what happened, yes, but I can't stop thinking about the scenario if it had happened a few hours later, or a few hours sooner, and the Earth wasn't in such a fortuitous position. -Dr. Rhys\n\n\u00ab SCP-5020 | SCP-5021 | SCP-5022 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5022\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Until testing is completed, all specimens of SCP-5022 are to be stored in a communal water tank, which is fitted with a water filtration device to ensure containment integrity. For research purposes, a camera system has been set up inside and outside the containment tank to constantly monitor the condition of all SCP-5022 specimens.\nDescription: SCP-5022 is the collective designation for the disembodied heads of twenty-nine children of varying gender and ethnicity, all of which demonstrate the ability to reanimate when submerged in water.\nWhen active, SCP-5022 will move around the available area despite the lack of any visible means of propulsion, inspecting any foreign objects in a curious manner. When more than one SCP-5022 specimen is active within the same area, they will interact by crashing into each other at high speeds. The reason for this behaviour is unknown.\nAlthough all SCP-5022 specimens remain silent when under direct observation, surveillance footage shows that when research personnel are not present all specimens will giggle and laugh loudly, despite their lack of vocal organs. When removed from water, an SCP-5022 specimen will become inert and cease all signs of life until returned.\n\nAddendum 5022-1 (Discovery): SCP-5022 was recovered from the home of elementary school teacher Dale Crawton on 21/06/2019, following the disappearance of his entire class during school hours. When authorities arrived at his home to question him, Mr. Crawton was absent, but all specimens of SCP-5022 were present in a water tank in his garage.\nFollowing initial containment, Agents were dispatched to locate Mr. Crawton, finally encountering him as he was attempting to flee the state. Despite attempts at negotiation, a chase ensued, culminating with Mr. Crawton driving off the end of the local pier. Inspection of the vehicle showed that he had been killed instantly during the crash via decapitation.\nNo personal possessions were found in Mr. Crawton's vehicle during investigation, save for a water-damaged copy of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in his breast pocket.\n\nAddendum 5022-2 (Communication Attempts): On three separate occasions, an SCP-5022 specimen has deviated from its usual pattern of behaviour by expelling a large bubble from its mouth. This bubble has then risen upwards through the water, forming words before quickly breaking apart.\nThese messages have been as follows:\n\nswimming\n\nnever ever grow up\n\nim hapy [sic]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5021 | SCP-5022 | SCP-5023 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Special Containment Procedures: All activities and buildings related to the storage, creation, or use of landmines, plastic explosives weighing less than two kilograms, and other small conventional explosives (Including, but not limited to; Tannerite, Thermite, Semtex) are to be monitored by the SCP Foundation for SCP-5023 events. If an event is confirmed to have happened or is currently ongoing, Mobile Task Force Sigma-301 (\"Rainy Day\") should be deployed to the location to protect bystanders, provide emergency services, and disarm any active explosives if possible.\nDescription: SCP-5023 is a phenomenon that occurs when 6 or more humans are within 100 meters of a large supply of explosives, causing all subjects to engage in an extremely dangerous game of \"Ultimate Frisbee.\" No participants will be harmed during the proceedings, but structures and objects will be damaged or destroyed as normal.\nThe events that occur during an SCP-5023 event are consistent across all documented cases and are presented below.\n\nPersonnel will stop working and begin to talk amongst themselves, even if doing so is potentially dangerous.\nA man with a tank top and muscular build1 and a woman with a lacerated and bleeding foot2 will approach the subjects and ask if they would like to play Ultimate Frisbee. Despite the odd appearance of the two entities, most subjects will agree.3\nSCP-5023-B will begin to explain the rules to the subjects while SCP-5023-A will begin to clear an area and shape the explosives by hand. SCP-5023-B will then offer the subjects a wrist band in the colors red or blue.4\nThe game will commence and be played until the supply of explosives is depleted.\n\nParticipants are largely immune to physical damage during the game, believed to be a by-product of the bracelet. Attempts to recover a bracelet for testing have failed. Both SCP-5023-A and -B have evaded Foundation capture but provided a single interview in 2012.\n\nRemote Interview | SCP-5023\n\nClose Interview\n\nInterview conducted by Doctor Alexandra Virgil via drone.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[SCP-5023-B can be seen shouting across the field outside of a munitions factory in [REDACTED].]\nSCP-5023-B: Get some water! You've been playing hard!\n[A man can be seen holding a landmine while another man throws punches at it in a manner similar to a boxing coach and a boxer. The second man makes contact, detonating the mine and launching the pair an unknown distance apart. Both sit up and begin laughing.]\nSCP-5023-B: Alright. You a new player? Love me some robots.\nDr. Virgil: No? This is a remote-controlled drone, not a real robot.\nSCP-5023-A: [Off-Screen.] Hey, don't talk about yourself like that. Obstacles only exist in your mind, brother. Pump some iron and make it real.\nDr. Virgil: Are\u2026 Is that a joke?\nSCP-5023-B: No jokes here, Robrother. We're all about self-improvement. He's getting ready for the Olympics and I'm learning to firewalk. All mind over matter.\nDr. Virgil: I'm not gonna touch that. Okay. Why are you playing Ultimate Frisbee with highly dangerous explosives?\nSCP-5023-A: It's all about satisfying the most primal of human urges. [Pause.] Sorry if the human bit is insensitive.\nDr. Virgil: You're, nevermind. When you say, \"most primal of human urges,\" do you mean adrenaline? A sense of danger?\nSCP-5023-B: Nah, man. We're no strangers to extreme sports and all, but we mean the human need to play Ultimate.\nDr. Virgil: The what.\nSCP-5023-A: You know, when you pick up anything circulastic or round and you just feel like you gotta throw it like a frisbee? That.\nDr. Virgil: Okay, but why explosives?\nSCP-5023-B: Flying is great. [Pause.] I don't wanna cut this short, but we should get back to it. My buddy sent me a new frisbee I can't wait to try out.\n[SCP-5023 can be seen withdrawing a modified Roomba vacuum cleaner from its bag.]\nSCP-5023-B: Special edition for DC. Pretty neat, huh? Hey, catch!\n[END LOG]\n\nAttempts to take SCP-5023-A and SCP-5023-B into custody are ongoing. Property damages caused by both entities exceeds 36 billion dollars.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Designated SCP-5023-A\n2. Designated SCP-5023-B\n3. Contrary to some similar anomalies, subjects suffer no compulsion to engage with the entities.\n4. This is the last point that a participant can safely opt-out.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5022 | SCP-5023 | SCP-5024 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Interior of SCP-5024. Photograph taken by a now-nameless Agent during exploration.\n\nItem #: SCP-5024\nObject Class: Keter Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the extradimensional location of SCP-5024, and the temporary nature of its access points, physical containment is not possible. All efforts are to instead be focused on discovering a consistent method of entering SCP-5024, as well as preventing potential victims from accessing one of its temporary entrances.\nAs part of these preliminary containment procedures, Mobile Task Force Sampi-6 (\u201cImaginary Numbers\u201d) are authorized to work alongside pre-approved members of GoI-\u03b1-019 (\u201cThe Serpent's Hand\u201d).\nThese procedures are awaiting update following neutralization.\nDescription: SCP-5024 is an extradimensional infovorous entity which targets members of the thaumaturgical community. Due to being located outside of the standard existential paradigm, SCP-5024 can only be accessed specifically through the Rosen-Fortune Bridges1 that it specifically hijacks. Ordinarily, these Rosen-Fortune Bridges transport the user to a range of different locations following the execution of a certain set of actions, but once a hijacked Bridge is activated the user is taken immediately to the interior of SCP-5024. No pattern has yet been discerned as to which Bridges are hijacked at any given time, and the length of time a Bridge is hijacked seems to be similarly random.\nPhysically, SCP-5024 is an abandoned building of uncertain size primarily composed of stone and wood. The interior of SCP-5024 superficially resembles an enormous library; however, all shelves present are empty and any books recovered have been found to be full of blank pages. No exterior to the building has yet been identified, as all windows present have only shown a black void outside even when other parts of SCP-5024 should logically be visible. SCP-5024 cannot be exited using the Bridge that the victim took to get there, but other methods of instantaneous transportation have proven effective.\nExtended exposure to the interior of SCP-5024 will result in gradual informative digestion. This will begin with the loss of surface details, such as the name of the victim and recent memories, but gradually progress until it is impossible for the victim to be identified as extant by others or themselves2.\nWhile ordinarily information loss as a result of this process will only affect the direct victim, this is not the case if said victim either possesses or is a primary source for another piece of information of greater nutritional value3. In these cases, SCP-5024 will use the victim as a direct link to said piece of information, which is erased from all records following consumption, including human memory.\n\nBelieved to be a photograph of Charles Dupuis taken in 1875.\n\nNote that while all records of information consumed in this way are erased, other forms of evidence will still remain, confirming that no actual changes to prior events take place.\nAs the nature of SCP-5024 means that it exclusively targets the users of Rosen-Fortune Bridges, the Foundation was unaware of its existence until members of GoI-\u03b1-019 (\u201cThe Serpent's Hand\u201d) reached out and provided documentation of its existence alongside a request for assistance.\n\nAddendum 5024-1 (Archived Documentation)\nThe following is an excerpt from a letter believed to be have been sent by the original creator of SCP-5024, French occultist Charles Dupuis, to an as-of-yet unidentified individual. It is believed that, at some point, all information pertaining to Charles Dupuis was consumed by SCP-5024; however, the records sent to the Foundation survived due to their storage in an anti-dimensional archive4.\n\nMy comrade in the pursuit of truth,\nI find myself agreeing with you more and more when I watch the masses mill about the Wanderer's Library. It is a true shame what that den of learning has fallen to. When knowledge is put into the hands of those unqualified to properly use it, what can it yield but disaster? It is troubling in the extreme.\nWith this in mind, and with your suggestions in our last meeting, I have been thinking about how I can best help the cause on. It cannot be helped now that the Library is abandoned - the well of knowledge there is poisoned by unworthy hands. But as a schematic the value of that place cannot be denied.\nThe Wanderer's Library is of course now worthless, but must another Library be the same? Surely if we but craft a similar space, set it to stock its shelves by its own will, we could achieve a resource of equal worth in but a short time.\nI've set upon the preparations already. When next we meet, I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter.\nCharles Dupuis\n\nAdditional resources sent by GoI-\u03b1-019 included numerous thaumaturgical blueprints for the creation of a self-maintaining extradimensional space, as well as a list of previously hijacked Rosen-Fortune Bridges.\nUpon analysis of this information, and a consensus among Command staff that the continued existence of SCP-5024 posed an unacceptable threat to historical consistency, the order to neutralize SCP-5024 was approved. In order to receive more intelligence to expedite this task, cooperation with the members of GoI-\u03b1-019 who had sent the information was approved.\nDue to their existing familiarity with the occult community and prior experience with thaumaturgical threats, this mission was assigned to Mobile Task Force Sampi-6 (\u201cImaginary Numbers\u201d).\n\nAddendum 2 (Negotiation Log)\nOn 03/02/2020, in order to share information and negotiate cooperation, members of MTF Sampi-6 met with members of GoI-\u03b1-019 at the Ecap alled \u00c8ffac in Rome, a space adjacent to the Caff\u00e8 della Pace.\n\nAttending Individuals (MTF Sampi-6)\nAttending Individuals (GoI-\u03b1-019)\n\nMTF Sampi-6-1, Michael Flammia. Commander of MTF-Sampi-6 with prior experience with a range of occultist groups due to activities during youth.\nPoI-2232 (\"JACK\"), reality bending entity of unknown capabilities. Wanted under various names for a number of petty crimes worldwide. Inconsistent appearance, generally appears as a young male with bright red hair.\n\nMTF Sampi-6-2, Sarah Locke. Expert in transportation techniques from a range of thaumaturgic disciplines. Primarily responsible for extracting MTF Sampi-6 from a location when the need arises.\nPoI-2233 (\"The Bride\"), believed inter-dimensional traveler. Although outwardly human, it is believed her psychology and inner biology are significantly different.\n\nMTF Sampi-6-3, Abiola Buhle. Trained in primarily offensive thaumaturgy, including Pythagorean dissasembly and a number of Gygax-derived attack techniques. Responsible for neutralization of threats not vulnerable to conventional combat.\nPoI-2234 (\"Red-832\"), one of many replica homunculi of PoI-299 (\"Red\"). Upon creation, was assigned to mastery of Athenian combat pyromancy. Bald, red-skinned humanoid.\n\nMTF Sampi-6-4, Tyra Jansson. Trained in a range of divination techniques including geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, chiromancy and spatulamancy. Responsible for reconnaissance in the field.\nPoI-2235 (\"Joe Smith\"), amateur thaumaturgist who is believed to have initially wandered through a Rosen-Fortune Bridge by accident. Intelligence suggests they are employed as a mathematics teacher and are a father of two. Middle-aged man with glasses and a mustache.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(All parties present take their seats.)\nFlammia: It's a nice place you have here.\nJACK: Isn't it just? Latin does her work well.\nFlammia: I imagine you don't have to wait in line here, either.\nJACK: (laughs) That is a benefit, yes. It's too bad we won't be able to come here anymore.\nFlammia: Why's that?\nRed-832: Because once we're done here, you Jailors5 will descend on this place like vultures.\nThe Bride: (unintelligible)\nJACK: Well, maybe not in so many words, but that is a concern.\n(Pause.)\nJoe Smith: Boy, this is some good coffee!\n(Pause.)\nFlammia: I understand. Locke?\nLocke: Right. (clears throat) In exchange for your cooperation in this matter, the Foundation is willing to offer further leniency to venues like this, where normalcy is not impacted.\nRed-832: Are you reading that off of something?\nLocke: I'm not, no.\nBuhle: She just has it memorized. (laughs) Was reading it to herself the whole way here!\nJansson: (chuckles)\nLocke: A little bit of professionalism, please, if it isn't too difficult.\n(Pause.)\nJACK: Leniency. That's a, uh, that's a tricksy word. I should know, I use them a lot. Exactly how, ah, how lenient are you going to be?\nFlammia: We won't interfere at all unless the public starts to notice you.\nJACK: How generous.\nThe Bride: (unintelligible)\nJACK: Yes, yes, I'll ask. I'm afraid quite a few members of our little - well, I can't really call it an organization - are in your custody. I don't suppose they could walk free?\n(Pause.)\nFlammia: That would depend on who you're talking about.\nJACK: Neo-Odin?\nFlammia: Absolutely not.\nJACK: (shrugs) Ah, didn't think so. Hate the guy anyway.\nJoe Smith: Which one is he?\nRed-832: The robot.\nJoe Smith: Oh. Oh. I didn't like him either - he was a real bad apple.\nLocke: If we could get back on topic. Due to your familiarity with SCP-5024 -\n(JACK sits up and points at Locke.)\nJACK: Ooh! Ooh! Did you hear that? They've given it a number! That's so official!\nThe Bride: (unintelligible)\n(Pause. JACK sits back down.)\nJACK: (clears throat) Ah, please continue.\n(Pause.)\nLocke: Due to your familiarity with SCP-5024, the Foundation would like to enlist your cooperation in a joint mission to enter the anomaly in question and neutralize it.\nRed-832: How?\nBuhle: Oh, we've got a way. Don't you worry.\nJansson: Mm.\nRed-832: Which is?\nFlammia: You'll have access to that information once we have you on board. Security reasons.\n(Pause.)\nJACK: Before we agree, I have a question.\nFlammia: Of course.\nJACK: We're technically Foundation employees for a little bit if we agree to this, right? Do we get a code-name? What's our code-name going to be?\n(Pause.)\nJACK: That's a yes, by the way.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 3 (Neutralization Log)\nThe following is a record of the actions taken by MTF Sampi-6 (\"Imaginary Numbers\") and members of GoI-\u03b1-019 on 27/02/2020 in order to neutralize SCP-5024. Upon initial entry into SCP-5024, the group was equipped with the following assets:\n\nLayered informative defenses. These were created via the conversion of a significant amount of junk data, such as duplicate maintenance records and minutes of non-vital meetings, into a conceptual barrier surrounding each member of MTF Sampi-6. Similar defenses were created for the members of GoI-\u03b1-019. These were constructed on the premise that SCP-5024 would have to digest the massive amount of junk data before it could begin directly consuming information related to the individuals themselves.\nTen pre-written disassembly theorems capable of reducing a human-sized threat to atoms. As these require understanding of the mathematic principles involved to use, these were put into the possession of MTF Sampi-6-3.\nEight magic word squares designed according to the Abramelinal discipline, inscribed with terms allowing for instantaneous transportation out of SCP-5024. One magic word square was placed into the possession of each member of MTF Sampi-6 and the individuals from GoI-\u03b1-019.\nMaterials allowing on-site divination by MTF Sampi-6-4. Divination prior to the mission indicated an acceptable chance of success.\nA sealed container holding a toxiphrase created through precise manipulation of existing terms. Consumption of the toxiphrase by SCP-5024 would result in a negative reaction that would destabilize it and cause its metaphysical collapse.\n\nEntry into SCP-5024 was performed through application of Morris dancing at the entrance of the Rosen-Fortune Bridge.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(All individuals present are transported to a large room in SCP-5024. The room represents the main hall of a library, save for the lack of any books on the shelves. The only source of light is from lamps present on each of the four large tables in the room.)\n(JACK takes a step into the room, swinging his arms and laughing.)\nJACK: I have to say, you guys have some moves.\nFlammia: Sound off.\nLocke: Roger, sir.\nBuhle: Roger.\nJansson: Mm-hmm.\n(Pause.)\nJoe Smith: Ah, uh, should I be doing that?\nRed-832: If you want to, I suppose.\nThe Bride: (unintelligible)\n(Mobile Task Force Sampi-6 fan out throughout the room, pointing their weapons in front of them.)\nFlammia: JACK?\nJACK: Yes, my liege?\nFlammia: We need to apply the toxiphrase right at the heart of its thing, to make sure it circulates. The information it's eating from our defenses - can you tell where it's going?\nJACK: Well, I'm a man of stories myself, so it shouldn't be too difficult. (He licks his finger and holds it up into the air.) Hm \u2026 that-a-way. (He points out into an adjoining hallway.)\nFlammia: Right. Move in!\n(The group moves into the hallway, with Flammia and Locke at the front and Buhle and Jansson at the back. The members of GoI-\u03b1-019 march between them.)\nJACK: This place is really so very interesting. Invisible roots sucking up the information, dragging it kicking and screaming through hallways like veins \u2026 which, of course, implies the existence of a heart. I'm really having a good time, you guys.\nJoe Smith: Um, ah, JACK?\nJACK: Yes, my erstwhile comrade?\nJoe Smith: I'm just thinking \u2026 ah, how much good am I going to do here? I mean - I have to pick my kids up by three, so\u2026\n(Locke turns to look at them.)\nLocke: We were told you were combat-ready.\nJACK: That he is, that he is! Don't you worry your little heads! (quietly, to Joe Smith) It's fine, don't worry about it. I'll see ya right, bud.\n(JACK suddenly stops.)\nJACK: Something's coming.\n(The group suddenly stops, and the members of MTF Sampi-6 aim their weapons in the direction JACK is looking. Around the corner, something can be heard dragging itself across the floor.)\nBuhle: This place was empty every other time we got somebody in. Every single time.\nJACK: You weren't trying to kill it every other time.\n(A misshapen, wet hand appears from around the corner and the owner of the hand uses it to drag itself into view. The technical specifications of the Model M Ford shamble around the corner, clicking and gurgling. It reaches out with its other hand.)\nBuhle: (rubbing eyes) The hell am I looking at?\nRed-832: Lumps of loose information. This place is smashing them together and sending them after us.\nFlammia: You're looking at the enemy, Buhle. Eyes straight.\n(The technical specifications of the Model M Ford leap at the group, screaming. All members of MTF Sampi-6 fire upon the specifications, and they fall down to the ground, leaking a dark green liquid.)\nJACK: I don't think this will be as simple as you expected.\nFlammia: Murphy's law, my friend. Murphy's law. Best to expect this sort of thing.\nLocke: Bullets work, at least.\nThe Bride: (unintelligible)\nJACK: No, not yet. (looks up) There are more.\n(Jansson presses a button on her collar, and it emits a high-pitched screech. All parties present turn in their direction. On the side of the hallway she is facing, the name, date of birth and childhood memories of Jakob Holt are charging forward, shivering heavily and laughing.)\nFlammia: Fire!\n(All members of MTF Sampi-6 fire upon the attackers, but they are considerably more resistant to bullets and take several seconds to go down. At the same time, the wall to the side of them bursts inwards and the executive order of William Henry Harrison begins forcing its massive body through the gap with two of its grasping limbs.)\nBuhle: Fuck me!\n(Red-832 retrieves a candle from their jacket pocket, lights it, and waves a hand. The flame instantly disappears from the candle and the executive order of William Henry Harrison bursts into flame instead, being reduced to ash in the space of a few seconds. A moment later, the candle in Red-832's hand also decomposes into ash.)\n(Further enemies - at least ten - are visible entering the hallway behind the corpses of Jakob Holt's name, date of birth and childhood memories.)\nFlammia: They're going to keep coming so long as we're here. JACK, lead the way. We need to kill this thing and get out of here as soon as possible.\nJACK: Roger, roger!\n(JACK begins moving down the opposite end of the hallway, with the rest of the group following after him. Buhle and Jansson provide covering fire as the group moves.)\n(Steven Spielberg's E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears charges down the hallway towards JACK on two massive arms, roaring.)\n(JACK spits out what appears to be a seed of some description and drops it onto the ground. Immediately, a plant of considerable size bursts out of the ground and its vines converge around E.T. II, gripping and crushing it. It falls to the ground, dead.)\n(Classic of Music and The Seventh Universe of the Prophet Hieralias burst out from E.T. II's corpse. The Seventh Universe of the Prophet Hieralias is easily dispatched via gunfire, but Classic of Music is covered in armored plates which make it considerably more durable.)\nFlammia: (shouting) Locke, switch with Buhle!\n(Locke does so. As Buhle moves up, he retrieves a theorem from his pack and begins reading from it as Classic of Music charges forward, raising its scythe-like arms. As Buhle completes the theorem, Classic of Music pauses and, a second later, is reduced to a fine mist.)\nBuhle: How long is this goddamn hallway?!\nJansson: (Nods.)\nJoe Smith: Aw, jeez \u2026 I don't feel so good\u2026\nLocke: Everyone just cover me for a second!\n(As Locke begins setting up a holographic thaumaturgic circle, the group cover her. As JACK dispatches Love's Labour's Won with an ax which has suddenly appeared in his hands, a tendril resembling an eel lashes out from beneath the Bride's veil and rips off one of the heads of The Magic Harp.)\n(A moment later, the circle appears around the group and a corresponding barrier is erected around its border. The various entities are unable to breach it, and beat against it with their limbs.)\nLocke: (to Flammia) Forwards or backwards?\nFlammia: Forwards. Nothing has changed.\nJACK: I just really want to take a moment and let everyone know how much I'm enjoying myself. Are you enjoying yourselves, too?\nJoe Smith: (vomits)\n(Locke places her hand in the center of the circle and the area the barrier covers, including the section of floor they are standing on, begins surging down the hallway at extremely high speeds. Within the space of a few seconds the barrier becomes opaque as a result of splattered fluids from the numerous entities it is colliding with.)\nLocke: Two more seconds!\n(The movement stops, and a second later the barrier disappears. The gathered fluid collapses onto the group. All present members of MTF Sampi-6 wipe their visors clean. Numerous tendrils emerge from the Bride's veil and lick the fluid off her clothing.)\nJoe Smith: (vomits again)\nRed-832: That's foul.\nJansson: Mm.\nFlammia: It was that or dying. Eyes up.\n(The group are now in a large chamber with numerous other hallways terminating at various openings in the walls and ceiling. The room is lined with empty shelves, and strings of light are visible flowing from the shelves to an object hovering in the middle of the room.)\nJACK: (quietly) The information's clearer here. Strawberry flavored.\n(The object in the center of the room resembles a massive human heart composed of wood and stone, with the impressions of constantly changing words running along its surface. As the strings of lights enter the object through numerous holes along its surface, a loud chewing sound can be heard.)\nFlammia: There's our target.\nBuhle: Theorem, boss?\nFlammia: Bigger than a human, Buhle. Not our first resort, at the very least. See if the toxiphrase works first.\n(The group steps towards the heart, which flails and screams in a deep human voice.)\nHeart: The boiling point of lemonade is 100 degrees Celsius! The House of Hapsburg is believed by the public to have died out in the 18th Century! Walt Disney was born on the fifth of December, 1901! I! I! I!\n(A gap opens in the ceiling and the location of The Lost Army of Cambyses begins pouring through the hole, snarling with its multitude of heads and mouths. It lashes out with a tentacle and tears off the Bride's left arm. She does not visibly react, save for a slight rustling beneath her veil.)\nHeart: I! I! I!\n(The group fires on the location of The Lost Army of Cambyses as it fully enters the chamber using one of its spindly, pointed limbs. Red-832 assaults it with several bursts of blue flame using his candles, but the fires go out shortly after making contact with the enemy. In addition, JACK creates another plant in an attempt to force the enemy back into the hole, but it is of insufficient durability and is torn apart by the location's advance.)\nHeart: I! I! I! My kingdom! My home! My brain!\nLocke: We need to extract, sir! We're not equipped for this!\n(Armored plating begins to cover the location of The Lost Army of Cambyses' hide, rendering gunfire ineffectual. It roars.)\n(JACK turns to Joe Smith.)\nJACK: Joseph, I would absolutely love it if you'd show me that party trick again.\nJoe Smith: Well, ah, jeez, are you sure this is the time, bud?!\nJACK: (bows theatrically) Absolutely. Take it away, my friend!\n(As the enemy fully enters the chamber, it falls down to the ground and takes a defensive position in front of the heart.)\n(Joe Smith takes a step forward, retrieving a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and smoothing it over.)\nJoe Smith: Now, ah, if I remember the words right, I'm supposed to say -\n(The enemy lunges forward at him.)\nJoe Smith: Rhyx Mianeth6?\n(A bright red light engulfs the chamber, and the location of the Lost Army is sent flying backwards into the wall, where it collapses into a quivering mass.)\n(An entity which is simultaneously a swarm of human-faced locusts and a fully nude headless human male of abnormal size7 is standing in front of Joe Smith. A moment later, it charges towards the mass on the other side of the room and begins physically tearing it apart with its jaws and/or hands.)\n(The chamber, as well as the extradimensional space, are collapsing, as chunks of wood and stone fall from the ceiling and the floor breaks apart, revealing a black void beneath.)\n(The heart screams loudly, shifting in appearance to resemble the face of Charles Dupuis. It gnashes its teeth and flails wildly as the chamber continues to collapse.)\nHeart: Mine! Mine! Mine!\nLocke: It's over. We're extracting!\nRed-832: No, this place will just reform if we leave it! We need to finish the job.\n(Pause.)\nFlammia: You lot extract. I'll finish the job here.\nJACK: (stepping forward) Well, ah, forgive me if I'm out of turn - which I usually am, haha - but it seems that as a denizen of the Library, it'd be good form for me to finish this piece of Library business, eh?\n(Pause.)\nFlammia: I see where you're coming from, friend. But the Garden is the Serpent's place.\n(Pause.)\nJACK: (sighs) Ah. Thought I recognized you. Good luck to you, then.\n(All members of MTF Sampi-6, save for Flammia, and all members of GoI-\u03b1-019 evacuate through use of magic word squares. Jansson lingers for a moment prior to evacuating.)\nHeart: My kingdom! My brain! My will! Mine!\n(Sealed container in hand, Flammia runs towards the heart, dodging out of the way of numerous chunks of rock and informative entities that fall from above.)\nHeart: Mine!\n(He rolls out of the way of a strike from the heart's tongue and leaps over a growing hole in the floor. Reaching the other side, he grabs onto the heart by the eyelid with one hand, while the other holds the sealed container. The heart screeches in pain.)\nHeart: Thieves! Commoners! Parasites!\nFlammia: Oi!\n(The heart pauses its ranting and its pupils shift to stare directly at Flammia. The sealed container opens.)\nFlammia: [DATA EXPUNGED], dickhead.\n(Video lost.)\n<End Log>\n\nThe destruction of the SCP-5024 extradimensional space was confirmed immediately after. As the consequences of existing outside a specific universe are variable and inconsistent, Michael Flammia has been declared missing in action pending confirmation of his status.\n\nAddendum 4 (Further Exchange with GoI-\u03b1-019)\nAlthough the members of GoI-\u03b1-019 left the area with haste shortly following their emergence from SCP-5024, the Foundation received further communication from them a week later in the form of several objects that appeared within Site-22.\nThese objects consisted of:\n\nA coiled-together eel which regenerates any physical damage within the span of several seconds. Tentatively designated SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nA candle which, when lit, does not go out without direct interference on the part of the one who lit it. Tentatively designated SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nA small, spider-like creature which cures any physical condition affecting the bowels within its range. Tentatively designated SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nA genetically normal dairy cow.\n\nThey were accompanied by the following note:\n\nWe really do appreciate everything you've done, but some of our comrades don't seem to look on our little 'alliance' so happily, so it's best we don't meet face-to-face again. Still, we had fun.\nDon't you worry, though. We'll find your boy.\nJ\n\nAttempts to trace the current location of PoI-2232 (\"JACK\") and his subordinates have proven unsuccessful.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Referred to by those who frequent them as 'Ways'.\n2. It is presumed that this is followed by death from thirst or starvation as the victim no longer possesses the knowledge necessary to eat or drink, however this cannot be confirmed.\n3. See A.A. Gilford's In the Belly of the Thought-Eater for more information.\n4. See file on PoI-1832 (\"Worldmaker Yosef\").\n5. Derogatory term for Foundation personnel.\n6. Confirmed SOLOMON-Class summoning incantation.\n7. Due to the simultaneous nature of the entity, personnel transcribing this part of the recording have reported high amounts of nausea.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5023 | SCP-5024 | SCP-5025 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE\n\nThis document describes an anomaly that was recently involved in a high-profile incident. Familiarity with Incident RED REVOLVER is recommended to proceed.\n\nSCP-5025-1\n\nSCP-5025-2\n\nItem #: SCP-5025-EX\nObject Class: Humanoid/Artifact\nContainment Class: Explained\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5025-1's cadaver is stored in the Cryogenic Biovault at Site-17. Personnel requesting access to SCP-5025-1 must receive approval from the site head and all actions involving SCP-5025-1 must be supervised by at least two site personnel. In addition, access to SCP-5025-1 will be recorded in the personnel's permanent record.\nSCP-5025-2 has been disassembled and its components split between three separate Safe-class lockers. Reassembly is forbidden.\nDescription: SCP-5025 is the collective designation for two anomalies associated with the Foundation Elimination Coalition, an alliance of several Groups of Interest united under the common goal of destroying the Foundation.\nSCP-5025-1 is General George Bowe, the former Foundation liaison to the U.S. Military. In the late \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's, Bowe presided over the MTF Omega-7 (\"Pandora's Box\") project. Prior to his \"death\" in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Bowe somehow attained an anomalous immunity to death. He became the primary figure behind the Foundation Elimination Coalition in late 2020.\nSCP-5025-2 is an anomalous mechanical device created by SCP-5025-1's scientific personnel. Details of SCP-5025-2's internal functions are unclear. However, it is known that SCP-5025-2 is capable of killing a wide variety of living entities. A demonstration of SCP-5025-2's usage has yet to occur. The design of SCP-5025-2 is believed to be based on that of \"Cimmerian Boxes\",1 several prototypes of which were stored at Site-19.\nHistory: SCP-5025-1 resurfaced at some point in late 2020. He contacted the Chaos Insurgency and used its influence as a catalyst to form the Foundation Elimination Coalition. Using the combined forces of the Chaos Insurgency, the Church of the Broken God, the Church of the Scarlet King, and numerous other Persons of Interest, the Foundation Elimination Coalition was able to capture Site-19.\nBy November 2020, the Foundation Elimination Coalition had secured a sizable portion of Foundation sites in the West coast of the United States, as well as several others worldwide. At this point, efforts to halt Bowe's campaigns began, and Foundation sites that had previously been captured by Bowe were undergoing liberation.\nIn response to this, SCP-5025-1 began constructing SCP-5025-2.\n\nAddendum 01: Recovered Communications\nThe following audio log was intercepted by Foundation undercover agents at Site-19, between SCP-5025-1's office and an unknown party.\n\n<Begin Log>\nUNKNOWN: Your clock is ticking, Bowe.\nSCP-5025-1: Getting these people in order is more taxing than it might appear. I've spent all my time keeping the coalition from falling apart.\nUNKNOWN: I believe our deal involved you being able to retain control.\nSCP-5025-1: It was nearly impossible for it to even get off the ground. Given how many ideologies we're combining here, it's a miracle I've been able to keep things together. The 093 entity left for another dimension after we took Site-20. It wouldn't even listen to me after it saw the Site fall; apparently, that wasn't the reason why it was fighting. Even your men are still deserting by the dozens; I think they work best alone, to be honest. They're not the right people for the job.\nUNKNOWN: My sources say the Foundation is planning to take back Site-19. I don't think I have to say that if 19 falls, so does the coalition. I'd rather this not all be in vain. I'd like to know: what are you going to do?\n<Two gunshots ring out. Bowe screams in pain.>\nUNKNOWN: Bowe? Are you alright?\n<After some time, another gunshot rings out.>\nSCP-5025-1: Yes, just a minor annoyance. Assassins, and all. I think I'm going to try the plan we originally discussed.\nUNKNOWN: The initial plan, after all this war? That sounds wasteful.\nSCP-5025-1: I've been digging around in the lower levels here, and I found a device. It has Cimmerian's name on it. With some modification, I think we could make a pretty convincing god-killer.\nUNKNOWN: I'll trust you on this one, Bowe. Don't let us down.\nSCP-5025-1: I understand.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 02: Infiltration of Site-19\n\nMEETING OF THE SITE DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE\n\n<Begin Log>\nDir. Light: Let's talk about Site-19. We've stopped Bowe's advances for now, but I think we all know he's planning something. There are some energy signatures coming from Site-19 that scream \"suspicious.\" The faster we can stop him, the better. Dr. Moose had an idea that she would like to present.\nDr. Moose: Thank you, Light. First of all, our attempts to retake Site-19 by force have failed. Site-19 is simply too well-fortified at this point for us to take it without irreversibly destroying it. Why did the assassins fail, again?\nColonel James: We've recovered footage, for what it's worth. Our best assassin sneaks in and shoots Bowe in the head. He falls down, he's a goner. He takes pictures and starts making the report. Two minutes later, Bowe comes back to life and shoots him back. Like the gunshot barely even bothered him.\nDr. Moose: That's troubling.\nColonel James: I know. He barely leaves his bunker in Site-19, anyways. That means the only option here is brute force.\nDr. Moose: That segues nicely into my idea. Dr. Dan, could you please throw a cream pie in my face?\nColonel James: I beg your pardon?\nDir. Light: Moose, we don't have time for this. Just tell us what's going on.\nDr. Moose: After the unpleasantness in 2009, I elected to be the one to hold onto SCP-050. Its actions in my office have been annoying, but tolerable. I haven't had a true office since I was routed from Site-19. Therefore, SCP-050 is still residing in Site-19, in \"my\" office.\nDr. Moose: It hasn't seen a prank in years. If someone were to prank me sufficiently, SCP-050 would relocate to their office. Then, if I were to prank them back, it would relocate to my office. If we were to attach, say, an EMP charge to SCP-050, it would transport it into Site-19. We could disable Site-19's defenses for a sizable amount of time.\nDr. Dan [REDACTED]: Also, this was partially my idea. Just wanted to get that out there.\nDir. Light: That sounds overcomplicated. Why don't we just have an agent plant the charge? We already have people undercover there.\nCoordinating Agent Samson: No, we don't.\nDir. Light: I beg your pardon?\nCoordinating Agent Samson: Bowe got ahold of some variant of SCP-2140, and he's plastered it all over the Site. All of my men stopped responding to radio a week ago. The signs of retroconversion were obvious.\nDir. Light: Are you sure we haven't been compromised, then?\n<Dr. Dan [REDACTED] motions towards a whiteboard in the center of the room, containing several pro-Foundation affirmations.>\nRsr. Mulciber: The Counterconceptual Division is working on a way around that. We already have a computer that can analyze a scene and determine if it contains an instance of SCP-2140-1 in under half a millisecond. This is much faster than past models of this kind.\nDr. Dan [REDACTED]: For the record, I did that on purpose.\nRsr. Mulciber: I don't even want to consider the ethical ramifications.\nDr. Moose: Okay, so we've delivered an EMP charge into Site-19. Everything's knocked out. What happens next? It's not like we can just get a sniper to kill Bowe.\nDir. Light: We don't have to kill him. What if we just capture him, and put him in a containment cell somewhere?\nDr. Moose: Sounds right.\nDir. Light: Once the EMP goes off, we can send in Alpha-9. Iris and Alexei are ready at a moment's notice. We've also been priming SCP-5031 for a mission like this.\nDr. Moose: Hold on a minute. Sorry, we're moving too far ahead. We're forgetting something.\nDir. Light: What's that?\n<Dr. Moose puts her briefcase on the table and opens it. Inside it is a cream pie.>\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 03: Operation OPERA-CLONE\n\n<Begin Log>\n<Recovered footage from a camera inside Dr. Moose's former office, now SCP-5025-1's office. SCP-5025-1 is inside, communicating with someone through the computer.>\n<Suddenly, SCP-050 manifests on SCP-5025-1's desk, carrying an EMP charge. SCP-5025-1 yells in shock, and picks up SCP-050. The camera goes offline after the EMP detonates.>\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 04: Recorded Conversation\n\n<Begin Log>\n<Footage from a video camera belonging to A9-3. The sounds of gunfire can be heard echoing throughout the site, as MTF Alpha-9 (\"New Hope\") is assaulting on-site forces. Most enemies are fleeing instead of fighting. While walking down a hallway, A9-8 motions towards the wall.>\nA9-8: There's something hiding in that wall panel.A9-6: Go peel it open, Alexei.A9-8: We're not going to use SCP-5031 to defuse bombs.A9-8: Alright, fine. <To SCP-5031.> Wall. Open.\n<SCP-5031 emits a chirp as MTF Alpha-9 closes their eyes. It slices open the wall, but disappears from reality after a scream is heard.>\nDr. Crow: Augh! Don't kill me, don't kill me! I'll tell you everything I know! I just want to live!\nA9-8: Kain Pathos Crow? Is that you?\nDr. Crow: Wait. You're Alpha-9, aren't you? Thank God.<An explosion rings through the halls from the fight above.>\nDr. Crow: What do you mean? At Site-19, or in the walls?\nA9-8: To be honest, I'm curious about both.\nDr. Crow: When Bowe showed up, I figured that the best place to hide was under his nose. That way, I could be a spy, and siphon information for High Command.\nA9-8: We haven't heard from you since Site-19 went under. Everyone just assumed you crawled in a hole and expired.\nDr. Crow: Yeah, my balls dropped about an hour in. Oh well. I've been storing food in the walls in case we ever needed to bug out, so I've been fine. I even have a GameBoy back here. You wouldn't believe what level my Pokemon are.\nA9-8: I don't care. One of my guys will escort you back to the base camp.\nDr. Crow: Wait a minute. Who's in charge of this whole operation?\nA9-8: Samson and Light are running the whole shebang.\nDr. Crow: Can you set up a radio with them? I need to tell them something.\nA9-8: I'll try.\n<Extraneous information redacted.>\nDir. Light: So you've just been hiding this whole time?\nDr. Crow: Call off the attack. Bowe has a secret weapon.\nDir. Light: That he's immortal? We already know. That's why we sent New Hope: we're hoping we can capture him.\nDr. Crow: Not that. He and his team of scientists are working on some kind of god-killer gun. From what I've overheard, it's supposed to be able to kill anything. Just shoots a beam and, whoops, you're eliminated from the universe.\nDir. Light: So? We surprise him. He won't be able to fire the gun at all.\nDr. Crow: You don't understand. There's a little bit of context here.\n<The conversation is interrupted by a Gearrender rounding the corner and seeing Alpha-9. A9-2 fires two rockets at the Gearrender, destroying it.>\nCoordinating Agent Samson: Come on, tell us.\nDr. Crow: The entire coalition is held together with duct tape and jizz at this stage. The two churches are at each other's throats constantly. Even the CI folk are walking. How much resistance is there in capturing this place? I have to imagine there isn't much.\nCoordinating Agent Samson: How do you know all this?\nDr. Crow: I've had nothing to do for the past four months but play Pokemon and listen to people.\nDir. Light: How does the god-killer factor into this?\nDr. Crow: I don't think Bowe is going for domination anymore. He's trying to aim for the throat. I'm not too keen on anomalous theory nowadays, but I remember that a lot of it comes from Apex-tier Pluripotent entities. Gods: Mekhane, Yogurtbreath, et cetera. Bowe wants to kill them. He think it'll cause the anomalous to cease to exist.\nDir. Light: Won't that cause reality to cease to exist too?\nDr. Crow: Hell if I know, not my field. He's going to hold them hostage. I don't know what he wants, but I don't think it's gonna end up pretty.\nCoordinating Agent Samson: Let him do it. If nothing's anomalous anymore, that'd make my day. Actually, that'd make the rest of my life.\nDir. Light: Where is Bowe now?\nCoordinating Agent Samson: He's getting together an escort to take him out of the site. He's in the North Wing of the Clef Building.\nA9-8: Great, we'll be there. We'll try to swipe the device off his hands before he can activate it.A9-8: Either way, we should still probably stop him. A9-5, can you take Crow back to the base?\nDr. Crow: Wait, give me a second to grab my GameBoy. Djoric's not going to believe that I caught a shiny Latios.\nDir. Light: Dr. Djoric's been retired for years, Crow.\nDr. Crow: Really? Damn.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 05: Death of SCP-5025-1\n\n<Begin Log>\n<Footage is from a body camera held by A9-8. The detachment of MTF Alpha-9 (\"New Hope\") is standing outside of SCP-5025-1's chamber.>\nSCP-5025-1: You can come in now, by the way.\n<Silence.>SCP-5025-1: \u2026alternatively, you don't come in. That's fine. It's not like it makes much of a difference anyways.\nA9-7: What's he talking about?\nA9-4: His weapon, maybe?\nSCP-5025-1: The gun I hold in my hand can kill anything. That's what Cimmerian's intentions were, weren't they? One shot fells the strongest man, or the most powerful god. One shot can even kill me.\n<SCP-5025-1 erupts into a sudden fit of laughter.>\nSCP-5025-1: Oh, hell, what am I saying? I'm not a god. I'm barely even a man at this point. I'm a ghost! I'm a god damned ghost!\nA9-8: I think he's bonkers.\n<A9-8 rounds the corner and faces SCP-5025-1.>\nA9-8: Put down the weapon, Bowe. You're surrounded. There's nowhere for you to go.\nSCP-5025-1: You know what? You're completely right. I'm trapped here. My only options are surrender, or go out shooting. I'm not about to say I'm not a good shot, but there's no way I can shoot my way out of this.\n<SCP-5025-1 enters a coughing fit. He doubles over, still holding SCP-5025-2.>\nSCP-5025-1: In fact, there's no way I'm making it out of this alive. The Foundation's going to string up my body like a trophy. You're going to kill me. The Foundation wins again, just like it's won for the past fifty years. Woop-de-doo!\nA9-8: We have orders to capture you alive. Put the device down.\nSCP-5025-1: Oh ho ho! You're going to leave me alive? Best joke I've heard all day. I've gotten everything I've wanted, actually. I'd bet an arm and a leg that High Command already knows that. Sooner or later, they're going to kill me.\n<SCP-5025-1 laughs.>\nSCP-5025-1: They're going to kill me. There's a special level of Hell for people like me, I think. My gut's telling me there's only one way out of there. I'm not giving you the catharsis of finding out.\n<SCP-5025-1 points SCP-5025-2 up at his head and fires. His head explodes into viscera and his body collapses.>\nA9-8: Shit! Director Light, Bowe shot himself. Should we still take his body?\nDir. Light: Yes. He's going to come back to life.\nA9-8: Ten-four. Five, seven, take his body. I'll grab the Cimmerian Box. Let's get out of here.\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: SCP-5025-1 was not resurrected after the incident. SCP-5025-2 was secured and brought to Site-31. After SCP-5025-1's death, most Foundation Elimination Coalition troops were routed from the Site, and it was recaptured by the Foundation.\n\nAlthough the Foundation Elimination Coalition was dissolved, isolated sects still continue to operate. Missions are being mounted to eliminate these sects. Involved Groups of Interest have generally disassociated from eachother. SCP-5025 has been reclassified as Safe.\nAddendum 06: Reclassification\n\n+ T-557 Authorization Required\n\n- Authorization Granted\n\nOne,\nThe lab results came back negative. There's nothing anomalous about SCP-5025-2. We've tested it on some choice entities. Then we tested it on ordinary D-class personnel wearing Kevlar vests. Then we disassembled it. SCP-5025-2 appears to be nothing except for an ordinary gun, if not greater in size and more impractical.\nWe've also taken a look at the cadaver. It's completely clean. None of the tell-tale signs that his biology was changed. There could always be something we missed; for the most part, it seems to confirm that he was never immortal.\nYou know the forest behind Site-89, where Bowe was originally buried? We found the grave. There were enough water bottles in there to last for decades, maybe even centuries. One of the agents taste-tested it; it's definitely SCP-006.\nRAISA spent years making sure Bowe's influence on the database was completely gone. Now, everyone in the Foundation knows who Bowe is and what he wanted. I personally think we made a mistake in overplaying the \"immortal\" aspect of it; especially given the recent insurgencies we've been seeing.\nOur next move should probably be some kind of rebasing of the database. We need to get Bowe's blood out of the Foundation's veins as soon as we can. Please get back to me ASAP.\n- O5-7\n\n\u00ab The Bowe Decommission, Part Three | Old Foes | Broken Bowe \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Cimmerian Boxes were an experimental weapon created with the intent to immediately assassinate an entity. The project was originally led by Dr. Jeremiah Cimmerian prior to his promotion to Ethics Committee Liason. Early prototypes were designed to use an anomalous power source to fire an extremely powerful beam of energy. Later prototypes contained a reality drainage device that would lower the Hume level of the surroundings, allowing the user to use reality bending on their desired target. 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If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5024 | SCP-5025 | SCP-5026 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The front cover of SCP-5026's DVD case.\n\nItem #: SCP-5026\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5026 is to be stored inside of a standard Anomalous Item storage locker at Site-76 at all times. As of 02/13/2003, all future experiments involving SCP-5026 are to be suspended until further notice.\nDescription: SCP-5026 is a narrative-driven motion picture of undetermined length whose protagonist's physical appearance and personality mimic that of its current viewer, and whose plot structure shapes around its current viewer's personal experiences and collective identity. At some point during SCP-5026's screening, its current viewer will become severely amnesic, losing all knowledge regarding the object's existence, along with all knowledge regarding their own personal history and identity.\nSCP-5026 is contained on a standard capacity DVD, and according to its cover sheet, was released as direct-to-video media under the title of Find Me by the YourStories production company sometime in 2001. Despite this, no records of the company's existence, outside of the DVD itself, have been verified.1 A marketing blurb located on the back of the DVD cover claims the object to be \"the first movie ever created where you are the protagonist,\" with its description points recommending solo viewing experiences exclusively. The back cover also lists SCP-5026's production staff, including its director, who is credited as Alan Smithee.2\nIn all documented cases, SCP-5026 can only be activated by a first-time viewer, and only when that viewer is completely alone. The presence of more than one viewer, a previous SCP-5026 viewer, and/or any type of technological recording device before SCP-5026's activation will result in SCP-5026's lack of activation entirely. This phenomenon also extends to any viewer or recording device that enters a viewable/audible proximity of SCP-5026 at any point during the actual screening of the object, as the screening will be automatically stopped and the object's properties will immediately manifest in its original viewer. (See Experiment D-49913)\n\n+ The Plot and Progression of SCP-5026\n\n- Close 'The Plot and Progression of SCP-5026'\n\nForeword: The following log is a plot description compiled from handwritten recounts of SCP-5026's screening. Due to SCP-5026's nature, this log is considered incomplete, and its contents cannot be verified with absolute certainty.\n<Begin Log>\nThe protagonist of SCP-5026 (who will now be referred to as SCP-5026-1) wakes up in a medical operating room wearing nothing but a hospital gown. After assessing its situation, SCP-5026-1 wanders the area and discovers that it is in a completely vacant healthcare facility. While it wanders the facility, it comes across a ringing telephone in a reception area that it picks up and answers.\nNote: SCP-5026 appears to have the ability to present itself in any known language. All spoken dialogue from the characters communicating within SCP-5026 will be catered to the individual viewer's native tongue.\nEnglish Translation:\n\n> CALLER:\n\"All employees must enter through the staff door.\"\nBefore SCP-5026-1 has a chance to respond, the caller hangs up the telephone. SCP-5026-1 then looks nearby to see a door marked as \"Staff Only.\" It enters through the door to find itself in a completely different environment than that of the healthcare facility. It now stands within a specific workplace that is similar to that of the viewer's last registered employment.3 This workplace contains dozens of employees that each perform their appropriate workplace duties. SCP-5026-1 tries numerous times to gain these employees' attention, although none of them actually acknowledge its presence. Sometime during these attempts, an intercom announcement from an undetermined location is made.\n> INTERCOM:\n\"Please report to management immediately.\"\nAfter this announcement is made, SCP-5026-1 immediately notices a nearby office that is labeled with the word \"Management\". It enters the office to find a silhouetted figure sitting behind a desk inside.\n\n> FIGURE:\n\"Sit down.\"\n\nSCP-5026-1 hesitates for several moments before following the request of the figure.\n\n> FIGURE:\n\"Why do you think you're here?\"\n\nFrom what is understood, SCP-5026-1 will respond back to the silhouetted figure's question with its own inquiries regarding its current condition and surroundings, all of which will be phrased similarly to how the viewer would respond in its situation. Regardless of the inquiries asked, the figure will always respond to SCP-5026-1 through vague and non-descriptive answers. After SCP-5026-1 asks all of its inquiries, the figure will then chuckle to itself and say the following:\n> FIGURE:\n\"Nothing matters. Nothing you can say will change what you've done.\"\n> SCP-5026-1:\n\"What have I done?\"\n> FIGURE:\n\"You've just lived your life.\"\nThe figure then presses a previously unseen button under its desk, causing SCP-5026-1 and its chair to fall through a trapdoor underneath them. SCP-5026-1 falls out of the office and several meters below into another room, eventually landing on the room's floor. SCP-5026-1 stumbles up from the floor to find itself in a mostly barren concrete room that has no visible exits. The only object in the room is a large television monitor, which quickly flickers on as SCP-5026-1 notices it. SCP-5026-1 then approaches the monitor with caution and watches it intently.\nImages from what is assumed to be SCP-5026-1's life will quickly flash in a montage-like succession across the monitor. These images are claimed to be heavily associated with the viewer's own personal life experiences, both positive and negative. Common examples include SCP-5026-1 partaking in personal hobbies, having romantic encounters, succumbing to personal vices, and experiencing personal traumatic events. As SCP-5026-1 watches the monitor, its exact reactions will vary, although it is usually distraught and/or frightened. SCP-5026-1 continues to do this until a disembodied voice calls out to it.\n\n> DISEMBODIED VOICE:\n\"Are you satisfied?\"\n\nSCP-5026-1 looks up in shock towards what is assumed to be the source of the voice.\n\n> SCP-5026-1:\n\"What!?\"\n\n> DISEMBODIED VOICE:\n\"Are you happy?\"\n\nSCP-5026-1 does not respond.\n\n> DISEMBODIED VOICE:\n\"Do you believe that you have led a fulfilling life?\"\nAt this point SCP-5026-1 will respond with one of two answers: Yes or No. Regardless of its response, the dialogue always continues as follows:\n> DISEMBODIED VOICE:\n\"I see.\"\n\nSuddenly, from the other side of the room, a wall opens to reveal an elongated hallway.\n\n> DISEMBODIED VOICE:\n\"We can still give you a choice.\"\n\nSCP-5026-1 collects its composure before it reluctantly enters the hallway, which then transforms into a suspended platform that stretches forward into a black void. At the end of the platform, there is a table with two unmarked buttons protruding from it. One button is a bright green, and the other is a dark red. SCP-5026-1 walks forward across the platform towards the table, eventually reaching it and stopping. It stares at the buttons for several moments until the disembodied voice is heard again.\n> DISEMBODIED VOICE:\n\"Would you like to start over?\"\n\nNote: This the final known plot point that has been reliably recounted by all of SCP-5026's previous viewers. All other information that has been obtained regarding what occurs after this point is currently considered inconclusive.\n\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum:\n\n+ Experiment D-49913\n\n- Close 'Experiment D-49913'\n\nSUBJECT PROFILE:\nClassification: D-49913\nLegal Name: David Hawthorn\nGender: Male\nAge: 42\nConvicted Crime(s): Domestic Terrorism, Murder\nAdditional Information: Radicalized by political extremists while employed as an undercover journalist for a national news outlet.\nEXPERIMENT DESCRIPTION:\nOn 09/30/2002, subject D-49913 was exposed to a random experiment variable at the request of Project Director Dr. Taylor. Shortly after the experiment began, D-49913 was instructed by Dr. Taylor to pause the playback of SCP-5026 approximately 20 minutes into its screening. After the allotted time had passed, researchers checked the testing area to discover that SCP-5026 was still activated and that D-49913's memory was still intact, retaining all information about his past history and personal identity. D-49913 was then escorted out of the testing area and back to his cell where he was then left unattended to for 6 hours. The DVD player containing the paused instance of SCP-5026 was left powered on and untouched during this time, and D-49913 was still left unaffected by SCP-5026's properties.\n\nBecause of this phenomenon, D-49913 was then kept on-site and given daily routines and maintenance tasks to follow while being monitored by researchers over the next 4 months. During this time frame, the DVD player remained powered on and paused, and D-49913 was still left unaffected by SCP-5026's properties.\n\nUpdated Addendum: Approximately 24 hours after the initial pausing of SCP-5026, researchers discovered that the screening had succumbed to severe video glitching in its paused state, even though the object itself still appeared functional.\n\nOn top of the glitching video the words \"HELP ME\" in a white font were visible. These words remained static for 3 hours before they disappeared. Approximately 30 minutes after the original text had vanished, more appeared in its place. This text was also printed on the screen with the same font, and read the following:\n\n\"CAN ANYONE HEAR ME?\"\n\nDr. Taylor, believing this to be an attempt by SCP-5026 as a form of communication, decided to conduct further experiments directly involving these texts (which will now be referred to as SCP-5026-2) while SCP-5026 was still in its paused state.\n\n+ SCP-5026-2 Interview Log - 10/02/2002\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5026-2 Interview Log - 10/02/2002\nInterviewed: SCP-5026-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Taylor\nForeword: While SCP-5026-2 was responsive throughout, it took between 3 and 45 seconds after each exchange for it to form a new text response on-screen, and no audible noises were heard from SCP-5026-2 at any point during the interview.\n<Begin Log, 10/02/2002, 15:36:22>\n> Dr. Taylor: Hello?\n\nThere is not an immediate response from SCP-5026-2.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Am I currently speaking to someone?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: HELP ME\n> Dr. Taylor: Hello. Who am I speaking to?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: IT'S ME FOR CHRIST SAKE \u2014 WHAT IS THIS PLACE?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm sorry, but I'm not sure who you are. Can you clarify?\n> SCP-5026-2: IT'S FUCKING DAVID\n\nDr. Taylor hesitates for a few moments before responding.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Your name is David?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: YES YOU BASTARDS\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Are you in trouble, David? What's going on?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I DON'T KNOW \u2014 I JUST FELL OUT OF THE OFFICE\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Can you describe where you are right now?\n> SCP-5026-2: A CONCRETE ROOM \u2014 THERE'S A TV \u2014 I CAN'T GET OUT\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Are you in any kind of danger?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I DON'T KNOW \u2014 WHERE ARE YOU?\n> Dr. Taylor: You can't see me now?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I CAN HEAR YOU \u2014 BUT I CAN'T SEE YOU\n\n> Dr. Taylor: What's the last thing you remember before all of this?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: WATCHING THE TV \u2014 THEN THE HOSPITAL \u2014 JUST GET ME OUT\n> Dr. Taylor: We're trying to. We just might need more time.\n> SCP-5026-2: HURRY UP GODDAMN IT\n<End Log, 10/02/2002, 15:47:01>\nNote: During the time frame in which the communications with SCP-5026-2 were occurring, no abnormalities were noted in D-49913's general constitution or behavior, and he appeared to be unaware of SCP-5026-2's existence.\n\n+ D-49913 Interview Log - 10/02/2002\n\n- Close\n\nD-49913 Interview Log - 10/02/2002\nInterviewed: D-49913\nInterviewer: Dr. Taylor\n<Begin Log, 10/02/2002, 17:02:34>\n> Dr. Taylor: How are you feeling today?\n\nD-49913 slouches in his chair and does not make eye contact with Dr. Taylor.\n\n> D-49913: Couldn't be better.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: In other words you feel\u2026 healthy? Physical? Mentally? Nothing's abnormal?\n\nD-49913 does not respond to Dr. Taylor.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm asking you a question.\n> D-49913: I feel fine.\n> Dr. Taylor: Good. That's good.\n\nDr. Taylor hesitates for a moment before continuing.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I understand that, as per your agreement, you were to serve only another two weeks with our facility. But, due to unforeseen circumstances, I'm afraid we're going to have to extend our initial time frame.\n\n> D-49913: What?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: We're going to have to keep you here longer than we initially anticipated.\n> D-49913: How much longer is longer?\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm not sure at this time. For now, indefinitely.\n> D-49913 quickly sits upright in his chair.\n> D-49913: No.\n> Dr. Taylor: Please\u2014\n> D-49913: No, fuck you! I signed up for 30 days. 30 goddamn days.\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm sorry, but we have to continue our research.\n> D-49913: For what? What research?\n> Dr. Taylor: Unfortunately, that's classified.\n> D-49913: Jesus Christ, you're all the same! You're all liars!\n> Dr. Taylor: I understand your frustration, but right now I need you to\u2014\n\n> D-49913: \u2014You're not special! One day, you'll realize that!\n\nDr. Taylor pauses and does not respond. D-49913 then looks Dr. Taylor directly in the eyes.\n\n> D-49913: And by then, you'll already be watching yourself bleed out.\n\n<End Log, 10/02/2002, 17:04:56>\n\n+ SCP-5026-2 Interview Log - 12/17/2002\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5026-2 Interview Log - 12/17/2002\nInterviewed: SCP-5026-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Taylor\nForeword: At the request of Dr. Taylor, SCP-5026-2 had been left intentionally isolated for a two month period prior to this interview to study its reactions to seclusion.\n<Begin Log, 12/17/2002, 9:50:18>\n> Dr. Taylor: David, are you there? Can you still hear me?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: YES \u2014 THANK FUCKING CHRIST \u2014 I'M STILL HERE\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm happy to hear that. Has anything changed for you in there?\nSCP-5026-2 does not respond within a 2 minute time frame.\n\nDr. Taylor: Are you okay, David?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: YOU FUCKING LEFT ME\nDr. Taylor appears taken aback by SCP-5026-2's response.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm sorry. We've had to run tests.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: WHY DID YOU LEAVE?\n> Dr. Taylor: We've been doing some testing. We've been trying to help you.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I THOUGHT I'D NEVER HEAR YOU AGAIN\n> Dr. Taylor: We're still here. I'm still here. I apologize.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: ARE YOU GOING TO HELP ME?\n> Dr. Taylor: We're trying to. We're doing everything we can.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: AM I DEAD?\nDr. Taylor hesitates before responding.\n> Dr. Taylor: I don't think so.\n> SCP-5026-2: WHERE AM I?\n> Dr. Taylor: We're not sure yet. We're trying to figure that out.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT I'M ALIVE?\nDr. Taylor appears to contemplate SCP-5026-2's question for a few moments.\n> Dr. Taylor: Because we're having this conversation. We can still communicate.\nSCP-5026-2 does not respond within a 1 minute time frame.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Nothing has changed for you in there?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I GUESS IT HAS\n\n> Dr. Taylor: What has changed?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: THE TV HAS BEEN PLAYING THINGS\n\n> Dr. Taylor: You mean the television in your room? What kind of things?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: STUFF I RECOGNIZE \u2014 IT'S FAMILIAR \u2014 I DON'T REALLY KNOW\n\n> SCP-5026-2: AND I HAVEN'T HAD ANY NEEDS THIS WHOLE TIME EITHER\n> Dr. Taylor: What do you mean?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: NO HUNGER \u2014 NO THIRST \u2014 I'M NEVER TIRED\n> Dr. Taylor: You're never tired?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I'M ALWAYS AWAKE \u2014 I'M ALWAYS WATCHING IT\n\nDr. Taylor does not comment on SCP-5026-2's last statement.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: ARE YOU GOING TO LEAVE ME AGAIN?\n> Dr. Taylor: Unfortunately, I might have to. We need to do more testing.\n> SCP-5026-2: FOR HOW LONG?\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm not sure. We might be a while.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: BUT SOMEONE WILL COME BACK, RIGHT?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: As soon as we can, yes. I'll make sure someone comes back.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: COULD IT BE YOU AGAIN?\n\nDr. Taylor appears surprised by SCP-5026-2's response.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: You would want it to be me?\n\n1 minute passes before SCP-5026-2 responds back.\n> SCP-5026-2: DO WHAT YOU WANT\n\n<End Log, 12/17/2002, 10:12:47>\n\n+ D-49913 Interview Log - 12/17/2002\n\n- Close\n\nD-49913 Interview Log - 12/17/2002\nInterviewed: D-49913\nInterviewer: Dr. Taylor\n\n<Begin Log, 12/17/2002, 12:32:10>\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Hello.\n\nD-49913 does not respond and only glances at Dr. Taylor.\n> Dr. Taylor: May I call you David?\n\n> D-49913: I can't stop you.\n\nDr. Taylor looks at her notes for a few moments.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Have you had any feelings of loneliness recently, David?\n\nD-49913 expresses a confused look.\n> Dr. Taylor: Any feelings of isolation, seclusion?\n> D-49913: Why would I?\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm just curious.\n> D-49913: No. I couldn't feel alone if I tried.\n> Dr. Taylor: How about feelings of entrapment?\n\n> D-49913: What do you think?\n> Dr. Taylor: I understand how these questions may sound, but I'm not trying to be patronizing.\n\nD-49913 again does not respond.\n> Dr. Taylor: At any point in these past two months have you felt any odd or abnormal sensations? Things you can't explain? Or anything that you would describe as out of the ordinary?\n> D-49913: No.\n> Dr. Taylor: And you're certain that\u2014\n> D-49913: \u2014So when does your research end, exactly? When do I get to leave?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Unfortunately I don't have an answer to that right now.\n> D-49913: So do you think you're better off than me?\n\nDr. Taylor hesitates.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Excuse me?\n\n> D-49913: I don't know what any of this really is, or what the hell you showed me on that tv, but I've seen enough to know that I'm not getting out of here. I'm not that stupid.\n\nD-49913 pauses.\n\n> D-49913: But I can't tell if you are, though.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Please control yourself.\n\n> D-49913: And who's controlling you?\n\nDr. Taylor again does not respond.\n\n> D-49913: You're useful to the system now, but that will fade\u2014\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I am asking you to refrain from\u2026\n> D-49913: \u2014and you will suffer. Everyone will. Because everyone always does, and none of you give two shits as long as you feel righteous about it.\n\nDr. Taylor appears taken aback by D-49913's response.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: You have no idea what it is that I do here, mister Hawthorn.\n\n> D-49913: But I'm guessing that the ends justify the means?\n\nDr. Taylor falls silent.\n\n> D-49913: You're just another decaying cog, doctor.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Would you like me to end this interview?\n\n> D-49913: Take a fucking guess.\n\n<End Log, 12/17/2002, 12:35:19>\n\n+ SCP-5026-2 Interview Log - 01/09/2003\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5026-2 Interview Log - 01/09/2003\nInterviewed: SCP-5026-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Taylor\n<Begin Log, 01/09/2003, 19:49:01>\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Hello David.\n> SCP-5026-2: YOU ACTUALLY CAME BACK\n> Dr. Taylor: Yes I did. I wanted to keep my promise.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: SO DO YOU HAVE ANY NEWS?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm afraid not, unfortunately. We haven't found a solution yet.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: WILL YOU ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO GET ME OUT OF HERE?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I'm not sure what we can do right now.\n\n2 minutes pass and there no response from SCP-5026-2.\n> Dr. Taylor: I promise you, we're doing everything we can to understand what's going on and figure out where you are. I wish I could tell you more than that.\n\n1 minute passes before there is a response from SCP-5026-2.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: ARE YOU ONE OF THE DOCTORS?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Yes, I am.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: WHAT IS YOUR NAME?\n\nUpon hearing SCP-5026-2's question, Dr. Taylor gets a surprised look. She again hesitates for several moments before responding.\n> Dr. Taylor: Doctor Taylor.\n> SCP-5026-2: I MEANT YOUR FIRST NAME\n\nDr. Taylor does not immediately respond to SCP-5026-2, seeming reluctant to reply. After a small hesitation however, she complies.\n> Dr. Taylor: Katherine.\n\n1 minute passes before there is a response from SCP-5026-2.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: KATHERINE \u2014 THAT'S FAIRLY PLEASANT\n\nDr. Taylor briefly smiles.\n> Dr. Taylor: I suppose so.\n\nDr. Taylor pauses.\n> Dr. Taylor: Is it still the same for you in there?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: YES \u2014 NOTHING HAS CHANGED \u2014 NOTHING AT ALL\n\n2 minutes pass before there is a response from SCP-5026-2.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: \"THE ONE THING I HAVE IS TIME\"\n\n> SCP-5026-2: EVEN IN PRISON THAT WASN'T SUCH A FRIGHTENING CONCEPT\n\n> SCP-5026-2: BUT WHAT DID I REALLY KNOW THEN?\n\nDr. Taylor seems to contemplate how on how to respond to SCP-5026-2 for several moments.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: You're not truly alone.\n\n1 minute passes before there is a response from SCP-5026-2.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I GUESS I CAN THANK YOU FOR THAT\n\nA frown becomes visible on Dr. Taylor's face.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: It's the least I can do for you.\n\n2 minutes pass before there is a response from SCP-5026-2.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: I THOUGHT MY ACTIONS WERE THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS\n\n> SCP-5026-2: BUT IT KEEPS MAKING ME REWATCH THEM\n\nDr. Taylor does not respond, and only shifts in her seat after hearing SCP-5026-2's statement.\n\n> SCP-5026-2: DO YOU THINK GOD WILL FORGIVE ME ONE DAY, KATHERINE?\n\n> SCP-5026-2: DO YOU THINK HE WILL FINALLY LET ME DIE?\n\nDr. Taylor still does not respond SCP-5026-2's question. Instead, after roughly 1 minute of silence following SCP-5026-2's last statement, Dr. Taylor exits her chair and leaves the room, leaving SCP-5026-2 isolated once again.\n<End Log, 01/09/2003, 20:00:10>\n\n+ D-49913 Interview Log - 01/10/2003\n\n- Close\n\nD-49913 Interview Log - 01/10/2003\nInterviewed: D-49913\nInterviewer: Dr. Taylor\n\n<Begin Log, 01/10/2003, 00:32:11>\n\nDr. Taylor stares intently at D-49913 for several moments before beginning the interview.\n> Dr. Taylor: Do you have any regrets?\n\nD-49913 stares back at Dr. Taylor for several moments before responding.\n> D-49913: Aren't we both doing what we think is right?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: We are not the same.\n\nD-49913 seems to study Dr. Taylor for several moments before responding back.\n\n> D-49913: But am I wrong?\n\nD-49913 smirks at Dr. Taylor.\n\n> D-49913: Tell me.\n> Dr. Taylor: Do you know how many people you've killed?\n> D-49913: Enough to make an impact.\n> Dr. Taylor: How many lives have you ruined?\n\nD-49913 stares at Dr. Taylor intently.\n\n> D-49913: How many have you?\n\nD-49913 continues to stare at Dr. Taylor as she shifts in her chair.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: You feel absolutely no guilt for those individuals?\n\nD-49913 does not respond.\n> Dr. Taylor: You have no remorse? No repentance? Nothing?\n\nD-49913 does not respond and only smirks at her again.\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Are you going to answer my question?\n\n> D-49913: You know the answer, you stupid fucking bitch.\n\nDr. Taylor becomes visibly agitated at D-49913's response.\n> Dr. Taylor: I can have you sedated!\n\n> D-49913: Is that supposed to scare me?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: I am warning you!\n\n> D-49913: Are you really?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Answer me!\n\n> D-49913: Why?\n\n> Dr. Taylor: Because I fucking said so!\n\nAt this point Dr. Taylor has completely lost her composure. D-49913 appears to be taken aback by Dr. Taylor inflammatory reaction, and hesitates for several moments before responding back to her.\n\n> D-49913: Well, how about this, then.\n\nD-49913 casually leans forward in his chair towards Dr. Taylor.\n\n> D-49913: What if, for once, you were actually honest with me?\n\nDr. Taylor becomes visibly flustered at D-49913's response. D-49913's smirk appears to widen even more at her reaction.\n\n> D-49913: What are you getting out of this, doctor?\n\nDr. Taylor stays silent as D-49913 waits for a response.\n\n> D-49913: Why are you really here?\n\nDr. Taylor does not respond to D-49913's question. She only stares at D-49913 for several more moments until she abruptly gets up from her chair and hastily exits the room.\n\nD-49913 immediately laughs to himself upon her departure.\n\n<End Log, 01/10/2003, 00:35:57>\n\n+ Incident D-49913\n\n- Close 'Incident D-49913'\n\nOn 01/18/2003, approximately one week after D-49913's last interview with Dr. Taylor, and approximately 4 months after D-49913's initial pausing of SCP-5026, a calculation error during testing with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 resulted in a seven-second power surge that deactivated SCP-5026's DVD player.\nD-49913, who had been in his cell at this time, was found in a panicked and amnesic state shortly thereafter, and was terminated under the orders of Site-76 Director Dr. Matthews. After D-49913's termination, SCP-5026 was then tested and found to have returned to its initial form, which included the disappearance of SCP-5026-2 in its entirety.\nWhen Dr. Taylor was informed of the incident's aftermath and D-49913's termination, she appeared emotionally unaffected, and has not commented on D-49913, SCP-5026-2 or any of the experiments that occurred with SCP-5026 since.\n\nUpdated Addendum: Incident Involving Dr. Taylor - 02/09/2003:\n\nApproximately 3 weeks after Incident D-49913, Dr. Taylor was found by site staff in the aftermath of an isolated and unauthorized viewing attempt of SCP-5026. By the time she was discovered, Dr. Taylor had already succumbed to SCP-5026's properties and had no recollection of her personal identity, including her employment or history with the Foundation.\n\nSince this incident, Dr. Taylor has undergone extensive psychological rehabilitation, but she has been unable to recover any of her memories. As of 02/13/2003, all future experiments involving SCP-5026 are to be suspended until further notice.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The quote attributed to renowned film critic Roger Ebert on the front of the DVD case has been fabricated for what is assumed to be promotional purposes.\n2. A now-retired pseudonym previously used in the motion picture industry by those who wished to disown their project.\n3. If the viewer has never been employed or was self-employed, the workplace will be consistent with the viewer's strongest known skill set (e.g. if the viewer is mathematically gifted, the environment may be filled with mechanical engineers.)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5025 | SCP-5026 | SCP-5027 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5028\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5028 has been implanted with a tracking chip and is currently residing in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site 77. Due to good behavior and cooperation with Foundation personnel, SCP-5028 is allowed access to basic Foundation facilities and amenities with the condition that he be accompanied by atleast one Foundation personnel. However, access to anything that would result in a breach of safety or classified protocol is prohibited. In the case of SCP-5028 turning on the Foundation and attempting escape, the staff accompanying SCP-5028 are equipped with tranquilizers containing diazepam. Should SCP-5028 use any magicks without proper authorization, these tranquilizers are to be used immediately.\n\nClose up of SCP-5028.\n\u2716\n\nDescription: SCP-5028 is the designation given to a Type Blue sapient Procyon lotor grinnelli, colloquially referred to as a \"Baja California Raccoon.\" SCP-5028 appeared via a spontaneous dimensional gateway into Site-77's mess hall on 01/02/20 at 12:00 p.m. Site 77's emergency protocols immediately went into effect, closing off all exits and windows. Foundation personnel then attempted capture of SCP-5028 and quickly came under fire from explosion magicks performed by SCP-5028 via usage of a small wooden staff. Although there were no fatalities, over twenty personnel received 2nd degree burns, lacerations, and bruising from the explosions produced by SCP-5028 before its subsequent capture.\nOn its person, the following items were catalogued and placed into Foundation storage:\n1. Set of robes, made of out common wool and cloth.\n2. One wooden staff made out of a sturdy unknown type of wood.\n3. One set of manacles that SCP-5028 was wearing.\n4. One note that read as follows:\n\nGreetings, dwellers of another world! If you perchance found this note, you most likely are already acquainted with the individual with whom it came with. By order of His Grace, Emperor Henrik V of Empria, Farlo Hilldark has been expelled from this reality after being convicted of high treason and inciting rebellion. You are free to do whatever you wish with him, so long as it does not include his return.\n- Darvo Selivar, Councillor to His Highness.\n\nShortly after its detainment, it became apparent that SCP-5028 was fully sapient and capable of rational thinking. This being the case, a interview was conducted with SCP-5028 a day later.\n\n+ SCP-5028 Interview 5028.1\n\n- Close Addendum\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5028-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Shaw\nForeword: SCP-5028 was restrained for this interview in case of any unknown dangers.\n\nDr. Shaw: Says on this note here that your name is Farlo Hilldark. Is that correct?Dr. Shaw: My name is Dr. Preston Shaw. What i'd like to talk about though is you. Can you elaborate on who the Teban Mystics are?Dr. Shaw: I'm not sure I follow. Where is Elrich, exactly?Dr. Shaw: Well, this might come as a bit of a shock to you, but it seems that you've been excommunicated from your reality. None of the places you mentioned exist here.Dr. Shaw: Unfortunately, that doesn't seem possible. However, if you agree to cooperate with us, I can promise that your stay here will be comfortable.Dr. Shaw: Mostly information on your home-world, your system of magic, and a few tests here and there.Dr. Shaw: Great! So, what's your home like? Is it populated with more of your kind?Dr. Shaw: I noticed you have some hostility towards Elrich. What's the reason for that?Dr. Shaw: Seems like diplomacy between your two countries are tense to say the least. What about your magic? We know you're capable of making explosions, but what else?Dr. Shaw: I assure you, I will not.Dr. Shaw: \u2026..Why did you only ever learn explosion magic?Dr. Shaw: It may be returned if we deem that you aren't a security threat. Until then, it'll be in our possession. We don't want you blowing up the facility, after all.Dr. Shaw: Fortunately not. I'll pass on your apologies to the other staff.Dr. Shaw: Think that should be good for now. I'll speak with the higher-ups about returning your belongings to you.\nClosing Statement: A proposal has been put forth by Dr. Shaw to re-equip SCP-5028 with its belongings and test its abilities in a controlled environment. The proposal has been accepted and a testing session has been scheduled for 01/04/20. SCP-5028's request for food more aligned with its diet has also been accepted.\n\n+ SCP-5028 Test Logs\n\n- Close Addendum\n\nTest 5028.1\nTarget: One wooden crate\nRange: 20 meters\nOutcome: SCP-5028 chanted in a unknown language while waving his staff above his head. Within a few moments, a fireball roughly the size of a basketball appeared at the tip of his staff and was sent rapidly hurtling towards the crate. Upon impact, the crate combusted and its pieces consumed in the flames.\nNote: That was to be expected. The facilities in the mess hall sustained heavy damage during our first encounter with him after all.\n\nTest 5028.2\nTarget: Ten cinder-blocks\nRange: 30 meters\nOutcome: SCP-5028 once again chanted in the unknown language, the fireball this time being around twice the size of its predecessor. Upon impact, all cinderblocks were destroyed. Shrapnel narrowly missed SCP-5028, causing him to subsequently let loose a string of expletives.\nNote: New safety measures have been put in place and a larger blast shield has been made for SCP-5028 during testing sessions.\n\nTest 5028.3\nTarget: One decommissioned \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 brand pickup truck\nRange: 40 meters\nOutcome: SCP-5028's chant was roughly thirty seconds longer than before, the fireball it produced being a blue hue instead of the original coloring. Upon impact, the vehicle immediately combusted and subsequently exploded.\nNote: SCP-5028 seemed exceptionally happy about this test, remarking, \"Thought I might up the ante a little bit. Impressive, right?\"\n\nTest 5028.4\nTarget: Abandoned house\nRange: 90 meters\nOutcome: SCP-5028 was instructed to use its strongest spell on the farmhouse. However, it informed Foundation personnel that its strongest spell would require the range to be increased to up to 100 meters. The chant produced by SCP-5028 lasted eight minutes, a stark contrast to the previous tests, which had chants that lasted roughly two to three minutes. The fireball produced was bright enough to temporarily blind all personnel within the vicinity. The entirety of the house, down to its basement level, was completely destroyed in the blast.\nNote: A proposal to employ SCP-5028 in MTF Psi-7 \"Home Improvement\" on a trial run basis is currently pending with the O5 Council. SCP-5028 has already been notified of the proposal and has promised to work diligently alongside Foundation personnel under the condition that any knowledge pertaining to its reality be relayed back to it. Using the firepower demonstrated by SCP-5028, it is a possibility there will be less casualties in the future when conducting missions regarding detonating anomalous locations.\n\nAddendum 5028.1: MTF Psi-7 Trial Run\nThe proposal for SCP-5028 to participate on a series of missions with MTF Psi-7 was accepted by the O5 Council with a 11-2 vote. The first mission SCP-5028 is scheduled to take part in will be on 01/25/20.\nAddendum 5028.2: MTF Psi-7 Employment\nTo date, SCP-5028 has conducted ten missions alongside MTF Psi-7. Not only have casualties on missions including MTF Psi-7 heavily decreased, but performance has increased due to the added firepower of SCP-5028. By order of the O5 Council with a 13-0 vote, SCP-5028 has been made a fully fledged member of MTF Psi-7 and assigned the code-name, \"Azeban.\" With this change in status, SCP-5028 is allowed usage of more Foundation amenities and facilities.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5027 | SCP-5028 | SCP-5029 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Sample document produced by an Alpha-5030 subject. It has been determined that this fragment does not possess anomalous properties, making it safe to read.\n\nItem #: SCP-5030\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Security personnel at the Site-34 have been instructed to report any mention of SCP-5030. Those responsible for these referrals should be interviewed by staff members participating in the project, and either inoculated with a specific countermeasure or treated with Class C or G amnestics depending on their level of proximity to the initial vector and severity of the infection. After treatment, subjects should be observed for a minimum of 60 days.\nSurveillance bot ORWELL-4 will search continuously the internal informatics network of the Foundation for mentions of and references about SCP-5030, eliminating them once they've been automatically registered for further analysis. Additionally, authors of these references should be treated as described in the previous paragraph.\nAs a preventive measure against the effects associated with SCP-5030, the staff members at Site-34 are to be inoculated with the memetic agent ES-5030-M (\"Urban Legend\"). It is estimated that by the end of July 2019 over 97% of the staff members will be inoculated with this agent, which could lead to total prevention of the effects associated with the anomaly.\nDescription: SCP-5030 is a memetic phenomenon that has only been observed to affect employees of the Foundation. This phenomenon is characterized both by the induction of anomalous memories in those affected and by retroactive alteration of the local personnel databases, making them consistent with what was indicated by those affected, regardless of whether this alteration contradicts data in the public domain or information described in other registration systems.\nSubjects affected by SCP-5030 refer to Junior Researcher Andr\u00e9s Bol\u00edvar and his actions during a Containment Breach event on 21/12/2018 at Site-34. Even if there is a certain level of divergence in the details, the accounts tend to agree in their general aspects, even among subjects who have not had direct communication or contact with each other.\nInspections of the registry systems from unaffected sectors of Site-34, as well as of external registry systems and the ARCA (Anomalous Contingency Rescue Archive), have made it possible to conclude that Junior Researcher Bol\u00edvar is not a current or historic staff member and no events described by SCP-5030 affected personnel occurred at any Foundation Site during December 2018.\n\n+ Stages of SCP-5030 infection\n\n- Close\n\nIn the first stage of the infection, the affected people refer to the courageous attitude of Junior Researcher Bol\u00edvar during the incident, highlighting how his heroism and selflessness led him to his death, seeking to communicate this to as many subjects as possible. To this end, they will mention the story in places of common access, such as cafeterias or restrooms, or if they are unable to transmit it orally, they will write it down and send it via e-mail and memorandum to other members of the Foundation. Additionally, at this stage, the content of the documentation in direct contact with the subjects affected by the phenomenon will change to be consistent with those described by these subjects.\nIn the second stage of the infection, even though the mechanisms of transmission are maintained, there is a noticeable change both in the details of the story told and in the attitude of those affected towards it. In this phase, the story is characterized mainly by mentions of the cowardly and treacherous behavior of Junior Researcher Bol\u00edvar during the Containment Breach on December 21, 2018, with special emphasis on the material cost and human lives as a consequence of his actions and his escape. The affected subjects will actively seek to refute what was described in Stage I, reacting violently against those who refer altruism of Junior Researcher Bolivar or actions described in Stage I. As in the previous stage, an anomalous alteration of the documentation of the site occurs to achieve agreement with the story, an alteration that, however, is not capable of affecting second or third generation documents (such as photocopies of handwritten documents or encrypted computer records)\nHas been described two classes of infected, Alpha and Beta. An Alpha subject is the one who initiates the story and its diffusion, either orally or in writing. When asked about the source of this story, they limit themselves to saying that \"it is something I know, it is my obligation to tell it so that people do not forget what this guy did\", not being able to clarify the origin of the story or to argue against the present inconsistencies.\nA Beta subject corresponds to an individual in the audience who heard or read the story described by an Alpha subject, thus obtaining memories associated with it and seeking to transmit that story to more non-infected subjects. With the passage of each generation from the storyteller to the witness, the details of the story become more and more diffuse and minor, is described that in the fourth generation its effect is annulled, ending its diffusion.\nAbout 40% of the identified Alpha subjects have died within 3-5 weeks after the end of Stage II. Regardless of their previous medical history, these subjects died due to cardiorespiratory arrest during the REM sleep stage. Attempts at resuscitation in these cases have not been successful.\nAfter the end of Stage II of the phenomenon, about 80% of the Beta subjects developed isolated retrograde amnesia, from the period corresponding to two weeks to several months before and after December 21, 2018, the severity of the disorder being directly proportional to their proximity to the Alpha vector subject.1\n\n+ Addendum 1: Examples of Interviews with an Alpha-5030 Subject\n\n- Close Interview Alpha-5030\n\nInterview 1\n\nInterviewed: Dr. Mu\u00f1oz, Junior Researcher, Anomalous Materials Lab, Site-34\nInterviewer: Dr. Antonov, Head Researcher from Project ES-5030.\nForeword: Researcher Mu\u00f1oz corresponds to one of the first Alpha subjects discovered inside Site-34. At the time of this interview, it is estimated that he spread the anomaly among 82 members of the staff, of which 23 would correspond to Beta-1 (first generation) subjects. Before the interviews, Dr. Antonov and other participants of the ES-5030 project were inoculated with the antimemetic agent SAGAN-1, to prevent the effects associated with contact with SCP-5030 carriers.\n< Begin Log, [January 15, 2019, 10:00 hrs.]>\nDr. Antonov: I thank you for your willingness to attend this interview, Dr. Mu\u00f1oz.\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz: You're welcome, I just ask you to be quick, I have to do a whole series of tests on the batch of material that arrived a few days ago from Antarctica and I don't want to go out again after 10 pm. Before the interview, can I tell you about Dr. Bol\u00edvar\u2026?\nDr. Antonov: I'm afraid I've received several complaints on your behalf, for behaviors that could almost be described as harassment. I'll get to the point, these complaints have been about your insistence on telling the story of this Researcher Bol\u00edvar. According to Human Resources, not only you have devoted hours of rest to this activity, but also hours that he should have used in your project, not to mention that you have sent 238 emails with that story. Why did you do this?\n\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz: You don't know Andr\u00e9s' story? I know that the Foundation can be ungrateful and that secrecy is in the contract but are you going to hide this too? Don't you have any shame at all?\nDr. Antonov: Explain yourself.\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz (disbelievingly): Excuse me but how long have you been working on this site? You don't know anything about what happened to Dr. Bolivar?\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz: The morning of December 21st I was working with a bio-armor material, it was a simple test of recovery time after receiving penetration damage, when I felt an explosion and the lights on the roof flashed, after which the emergency alarm began to sound. I turned off the equipment and left the lab to go to the emergency area. Outside it was chaos, everyone was running, a security officer almost knocked me down as he fled. From the bottom of Corridor E, there were noises of things breaking, metal being crushed and explosions. I started running, only to find the door closed when I reached the end of the corridor. Then this thing appeared. I have no idea why the hell they thought to restrain something like that in Site-34.\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz: Are you a man of faith? Well, neither am I, but at that moment I couldn't stop praying. I had closed my eyes when I felt a door open near me and someone pulled me in. It was Andr\u00e9s Bol\u00edvar. He looked me in the eye telling me to run away, that he should take care of these things. He had in his possession an [REDACTED], no idea how he got that thing. I begged him to run away, to let Security take care of it, but he just told me there was no time. He asked me to block the door after he left, after which I heard roars and noises like sparks. Rescue crews found me about an hour later, still locked in that maintenance closet\u2026\nDr. Antonov: And what happened to Dr. Bolivar?\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz (shaking his head): He didn't survive, even though he killed every last one of those things with the [REDACTED], those beasts practically gutted him. Have you considered giving him the Foundation's posthumous merit medal? It's the least he deserves.\nDr. Antonov: I'll inform my superiors, and thank you for your time, you can go.\n< [End Log, January 15, 2019, 10:45 hrs.]>\nConclusion: No security incidents were reported inside the Site-34 during December 2018. Also, on that day Dr. Mu\u00f1oz was at [REDACTED] collecting samples of a new ontovariable material, and therefore could not be present at Site-34.\n\nInterview 2\n\nInterviewed: Dr. Mu\u00f1oz.\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Antonov.\n\nForewords: This is the second interview conducted with Dr. Mu\u00f1oz to characterize the effects associated with SCP-5030.\n\n< Begin Log, [February 21, 2019, 09:00 hrs.]>\n\nDr. Antonov: Hi Mario, I apologize for having to call you again but there are certain details I need to clarify about Dr. Bolivar's story. Now, I'd like you to start from the beginning\u2026\n\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz (standing up abruptly from the table): Don't mention that name again.\n\nDr. Antonov (looking on strangely): What happens with Bol\u00edvar?\n\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz (raising his voice): Stop pretending you don't know anything. Or are you making fun of me?\n\nDr. Antonov: No, I don't know what you mean.\n\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz (breathing deeply while trying to calm down): Because of that bastard I was almost killed. And what's worse, because of his cowardice, Mart\u00ednez died. The poor kid was barely 22 years old and had only been at the Foundation for a few months. That son of a bitch threw us into danger to save himself.\n\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz: That day I was supposed to test a bio-armor material, it was a simple post-penetration recovery test. I had made good progress that morning, I thought I'd be done before lunch. A while earlier I had sent my assistant, Mart\u00ednez, to request a piece of equipment from the Instrumentation Lab. I was writing down the last records when I felt an explosion and saw the lights flash. The emergency alarm began to sound so I decided to go out and look. I found him a few meters from the lab, the poor guy was scared when I was going to tell him to lock us in the lab someone pushed him, making him hit his head against the wall and be unconscious. That was Bolivar.\nDr. Mu\u00f1oz: Do you think he stopped to check on him? No, the son of a bitch continued his racing by breaking into my lab and closing the door. That's when that thing appeared, some kind of beast with big claws. I dragged Mart\u00ednez to the door of the lab and begged Bolivar to open it for me but he did nothing. That thing hit me, throwing me away and along with another of its kind devoured Martinez. I would have ended up dead too if a Tactical Response Team had not arrived and neutralized those things. Bol\u00edvar took advantage of the confusion of the moment to flee. I hope one day they find that bastard\u2026\n\nDr. Antonov: Thank you for your testimony.\n\n< End Log, [February 21, 2019, 09:38 hrs.]>\n\nConclusion: Although the subject continues to believe in the veracity of the incident described, there is a notable variation in the details described, new characters appearing and radically changing the role played by Bolivar in it.\n\n+ Addendum 2: Example of Interviews with a Beta-5030 Subject\n\n- Close Inteview Beta-5030\n\nInterview 1\n\nInterviewed: Agent Federico Robles, Security staff member of Site-34.\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Antonov, Head Researcher from Project ES-5030.\n\nForeword: Federico Robles corresponds to one of the subjects directly infected by Dr. Mu\u00f1oz. His testimony was obtained to help elucidate the effects of the anomaly in Beta-5030 subjects.\n\n< Log Begin, [January 20, 2019, 11:15 hrs.]>\n\nDr. Antonov: Good morning Agent Robles, thank you for your willingness to be interviewed.\n\nAgent Robles: You're welcome, at least this is less boring than having to watch the warehouses in Sector Five for 12 hours straight. Doctor, have you heard about what happened to Andr\u00e9s Bol\u00edvar?\n\nDr. Antonov (shaking his head): I think not, if you want you can tell me.\n\nAgent Robles: It was December 21, it was about noon. That day I was going to the cafeteria in Sector 6 to have lunch, I don't like the Friday menu in the cafeteria in Sector 5\u2026 Anyway, I was going through a corridor near some laboratories when I heard a loud noise, the lights flashed and an emergency alarm started to sound\u2026\n\nDr. Antonov: Do you remember what lab it was near?\n\nAgent Robles: No, I don't remember.\nDr. Antonov: Continue.\n\nAgent Robles: I was heading to the nearest security station when several doors opened and some guys ran out, one knocked me down. That's when this thing appeared, it looked like a big dog with gray skin and big claws. I had left my gun in the locker before I left the warehouse, this thing started screeching threateningly, I got up and it jumped on me. It was crushing me with its weight when I felt a shot and the thing collapsed. It was Bol\u00edvar, who was armed with a rifle I didn't recognize. He helped me get up and we fled the scene.\n\nDr. Antonov: And Security Staff?\n\nAgent Robles: I don't know, they probably didn't have time to get here.\n\nDr. Antonov: Thank you for your cooperation.\n\n< End Log, January 20, 2019, 10:45 hrs.]>\n\nConclusion: The statements made by Federico Robles in this Interview couldn't be confirmed. On December 21, 2019, Agent Roble was assigned to Sector 8, being assigned to Sector 5 as of January 1, 2019.\n\nInterview 2\n\nInterviewed: Agent Federico Robles.\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Antonov.\nForeword: This corresponds to the second interview conducted with the subject Beta-5030-1.\n< Begin Log, [February 25, 2019, 11:25 hrs.]>\n\nDr. Antonov: Good morning Federico, I thank you again for your good disposition.\n\nAgent Robles: Okay Doctor, I'll ask you to be brief, my superior is not too happy about this. Is this about Bol\u00edvar again?\n\nDr. Antonov: That's right.\n\nAgent Robles: I think I've told you everything I remember, there was an emergency, I don't remember if it was a containment breach, a fire or a chemical emergency, everybody got nervous and that idiot came up with the idea of closing the door at the end of the corridor, leaving us locked in. If it wasn't for the fact that a security agent I didn't know arrived and opened the door from the other side I don't know what would have happened to us.\n\nDr. Antonov: Don't you remember anything else?\nAgent Robles: I'm sorry but no. Anyway, I hope they discipline that coward, he put us all in danger with what he did.\n\nDr. Antonov: That's all, thank you for your time.\n\n< End Log, [February 25, 2019, 11:40 hrs.]>\nConclusion: Although when this version of Agent Robles' story shares certain aspects with the original story, its level of ambiguity and lack of detail is notorious.\n\nActualization: On the morning of March 13, 2019, Mario Mart\u00ednez failed to report to work at the Site-34 Anomalous Materials Laboratory, and he was found dead at home a few hours later. According to the forensic examination, it was not possible to find injuries attributable to third parties or the presence of foreign substances or [REDACTED], establishing that the cause of death would have corresponded to a cardiorespiratory arrest that occurred in the previous hours.\n\n+ LEVEL 3 OR HIGHER CLEARANCE REQUIRED. PLEASE ENTER PASSWORD. \n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nDuring a routine registration process of the Class D personnel recruited for Site-42 during May 2019, a subject (temporarily called D-5030) was identified through the automatic analysis systems, whose physical and age characteristics coincided with those described for Dr. Andres Bol\u00edvar by the subjects affected by SCP-5030. After being notified by Site-42 staff, Joseph Antonov, a researcher participating in the ES-5030 project, went to this Site to interview D-5030, seeking to establish his relationship with the phenomenon that affected multiple Site-34 staff members during the first semester of 2019.\n\nD-5030\n\nInterview: D-5030.\nInterviewer: Dr. Antonov.\nForeword: This interview was conducted in Interrogation Room No. 5 at Site-42. D-5030, a 35-year-old subject, was recruited by the Foundation in 2018 and assigned to Site-42 in February 2019 to participate in the reconstruction and reinforcement of the SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 containment unit, after [REDACTED].\nDr. Antonov: Hello D-5030, I'm Dr. Antonov, I've come to ask you some questions.\nD-5030 (yawns, then starts talking fast): Do I have any choice not to collaborate? What they did was irregular, I was in [REDACTED] and they practically kidnapped me in the middle of the night to throw me into this rat's nest. The cell is cramped and the food is awful, and they have me working as an unpaid bricklayer. No respect for my fundamental rights, I thought we were in a civilized country. I've been asking to see a lawyer for months and the idiots in this place just keep quiet. And what about the prisoners who have disappeared, according to the guards they were transferred but I don't believe those bitches. I thought only the Chinese did that\u2026\nDr. Antonov (instructing him to stop talking and taking a folder): D-5030, please shut up. I traveled for 20 hours to interview you and the last thing I want to hear is your complaints about how uncomfortable you are in this place.\n\nDr. Antonov (opening the folder): Andrew Bolivien, 35, multiple convictions since age 15 for robbery and drug trafficking, plus one conviction for the murder of a rival drug dealer. Incomplete high school education somehow avoided military recruitment at age 18\u2026\nD-5030: Hey, are you a doctor? I've had severe headaches for a few months now, although the pigs here don't do anything. They sent me to the infirmary once and the useless guy there said I was fine\u2026\nDr. Antonov: No, I have a Ph.D. in Biology although I'm currently working in another area\u2026\nD-5030: You are a scientist then? A white coat? Great, I like those better than the gorillas of security, in fact when I was a kid I wanted to be a scientist.\nDr. Antonov: And what happened?\nD-5030: I was poor, I studied in a shitty school and what can I say, I was never a good student, they didn't expect anything from me and I didn't give them anything (smiles) Also I always had problems with reading and numbers, I was having problems focusing on. Once a teacher said I had ADHD or something, no idea what it meant. Anyway, having trouble concentrating wasn't a problem for being successful on the streets.\nDr. Antonov (stopping to check papers and looking D-5030 in the eye): And have you ever regretted how things went?\nD-5030 (smiling bitterly): Of course, especially now that I'm in this hole. Days don't go by without me thinking how different things could have been, there are even nights when I dream of starting a new life, in a faraway place, far from the streets and the violence. But then I come to my senses and realize that I will never leave this place.\n< [Log End, June 5, 2019, 8:48 hrs.]>\n\nFootnotes\n1. I.e. if they correspond to first, second or third generation listeners.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5029 | SCP-5030 | SCP-5031 \u00bb"}
{"text": "PeppersGhost\n\nSCP-5031 - Yet Another Murder Monster by PeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\nNOTE: FILE UNDER REVIEW.\nThis document has been flagged for possible methodological issues. Please be aware that the following information is subject to change and may contain inaccuracies.\n\nItem #: SCP-5031\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5031 is to be contained in an airtight iron cell in Bio-Site 59. The structure must be inspected for imperfections on a bi-weekly basis. No other interaction necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5031 is a non-sapient quasi-humanoid creature of unknown origin. When directly observed, SCP-5031 will temporarily cease to exist until the viewer stops observing the space that SCP-5031 formerly occupied. Traces of its existence (e.g. scratch marks, blood trails) continue to exist when SCP-5031 does not. Video and photography devices do not capture SCP-5031's appearance; however, observing SCP-5031's shadow does not cause cessation of existence, allowing certain physiological traits to be inferred from its silhouette:\n\nAbnormally small head with no discernible neck\nElbows branch into three sets of lower arms each\nElongated torso approximately 1.9 meters in length1\nPelvis terminates in a crescent-shaped protrusion of osseous tissue with a bladelike lower edge\nLevitates above the ground at a fixed height of 0.5 meters\n\nWhile SCP-5031 has no nutritional needs, it will nevertheless hunt and consume any human or animal it encounters by using its pendulous lower body to down targets. SCP-5031 does not sleep and is incapable of expression or verbal communication.\n\nAddendum: As of 14/02/2018, Senior Researcher Stanley Huxtable is now acting in the role of HMCL Supervisor for SCP-5031. The following is a selection of relevant correspondences from SR Huxtable to Site Director Youssef Mostofi elucidating research progress.\n\n14/02/2018\nINITIAL IMPRESSIONS\nI have no idea who wrote this, but there's a lot I'd like to say to them. I'm not a fan of abandoning a living creature inside a metal box for ten years, no matter how pragmatic it may be.\nIt's difficult to fathom that such things were considered the norm a decade ago. Have you ever heard something scream from behind ten inches of iron for hours on end? When I do my redraft, remind me to add \"anomalous resistance to hoarseness\" somewhere in the description.\nCould you work your magic and get the boys to retrofit the \"containment cube\" with an aperture and security vestibule? I'd like to run some tests that require exposing SCP-5031 to certain stimuli.\n\n08/03/2018\nROUND 1 TESTS (SOUND) - SUMMARY\nForeword: Installed speakers in the containment vestibule and played various albums of natural ambiance and popular music. SCP-5031's propensity for screaming worked as a convenient way to measure its stress levels: 100% would be considered its typical screaming (volume and duration) over 48 hours and 0% would be no screaming at all.\n\nSelection\nStress Level\n\nMorning Forest Ambiance\n43%\n\nSeaside Paradise Ambiance\n48%\n\nDeep Grotto Ambiance\n62%\n\nThe Best of Mozart\n13%\n\nThe Best of Enya\n18%\n\nThe Best of Ben Folds\n6%\n\nThe Best of Jethro Tull\n59%\n\nThe Best of KISS\n23%\n\nAfterword: Efficacy of music for stress reduction gradually decreases over time. I've assembled a playlist of SCP-5031's favorite music to play on shuffle in its enclosure in perpetuity. Stress levels consistently remain in the 15%-25% range. Baseline adjusted accordingly.\n\n22/03/2018\nROUND 2 TESTS (PLAY) - SUMMARY\n\nTest\nResult\n\nThrew softball into enclosure.\nSCP-5031 sliced the ball in two.\n\nTossed basketball into enclosure.\nSCP-5031 sliced the ball open.\n\nRolled bowling ball into enclosure.\nSCP-5031 scratched a couple of grooves into the ball, then rolled the ball around the enclosure with the blunt end of its tail for 20 minutes. Stress levels remained <60% after play.\n\nRolled another bowling ball into enclosure.\nSCP-5031 used the blunt end of its tail to hit the balls together for a while. Stress levels remained <40% after play.\n\nBowling ball chipped and would no longer roll properly. (Unplanned.)\nStress levels increased to ~115%.\n\nReplacement bowling ball provided.\nStress levels fell back to ~40%.\n\nTossed basketball into enclosure.\nSCP-5031 picked up and played with ball. Stress levels remained <20% after play.\n\nAfterword: SCP-5031 began to use its hands to play with the basketball, possibly to avoid accidentally damaging it. Motor skill comparable to that of a toddler. SCP-5031 still prefers bowling ball for \"kicking\".\n\n05/04/2018\nROUND 3 TESTS (FOOD) - SUMMARY\nForeword: SCP-5031 was given the choice between two potential food sources placed at opposite ends of the enclosure.\n\nChoices\nSelection\n\nHuman corpse / Pig carcass\nPig carcass\n\nPig carcass / Chicken carcass\nPig carcass\n\nPig carcass / Rotisserie chicken\nRotisserie chicken\n\nChicken carcass / Rotisserie chicken\nRotisserie chicken\n\nLive chicken / Rotisserie chicken\nRotisserie chicken\n\nRoasted turkey / Rotisserie chicken\nNeither (presumed sated)\n\nAfterword: While it's true that SCP-5031 doesn't necessarily need to eat, feeding it regularly has caused a marked decrease in average stress levels. Stress reduction seems to scale proportionally with the quality of food provided.\nAlso of note is that SCP-5031 prefers to use its tail to pry and cut meat into bite-sized portions, rather than rip the meat into chunks with its teeth or hands.\n\n12/04/2018\nROUND 4 TESTS (COEXISTENCE) - SUMMARY\nTest 1: SCP-5031 fed until sated. Live subject (common chicken) introduced to enclosure.\nResult: SCP-5031 observed subject from a distance for several minutes and then rolled a bowling ball toward subject at high speed. Subject was killed instantly. SCP-5031's stress levels rose immediately and drastically.\n\nTest 2: Bowling balls removed from enclosure. SCP-5031 fed until sated. Live subject (common chicken) introduced to enclosure.\nResult: SCP-5031 gently rolled a basketball toward subject. Ball hit subject lightly. Subject responded with a small cry and moved away. SCP-5031 did not engage with subject any further.\n\nTest 3: SCP-5031 fed until sated. Live subject (Class-D) blindfolded, introduced to enclosure, and instructed to sit and roll basketball forward, then wait until it came back and roll it away again.\nResult: Subject and SCP-5031 successfully rolled the ball back and forth for several minutes. SCP-5031 eventually abandoned the activity and approached subject. Per safety protocol, subject removed their blindfold to terminate the activity.\n\nTest 4: SCP-5031 fed until sated. Live subject (Class-D) introduced to the enclosure and instructed to toss a tennis ball at the wall, let it ricochet behind them, then catch and repeat.\nResult: SCP-5031 stood behind subject and successfully engaged in game of catch, mimicking subject's action of letting ball ricochet against the wall.\n\nAfterword: SCP-5031's motor skills appear to be rapidly improving.\n\n16/05/2018\nROUND 5 TESTS (SYMBOLS) - SUMMARY\nForeword: Five LCD displays were fitted into the wall of SCP-5031's enclosure, each with a lit button and a food dispenser underneath.\n\nTest 1: Two stations activated. Screen 1 displayed the image of a rock. Its button dispensed rocks. Screen 2 displayed the image of a rotisserie chicken. Its button dispensed pieces of chicken.\nResult: SCP-5031 poked at the image of a chicken for a few minutes and eventually hit the button. Chicken was dispensed until SCP-5031 was satisfied.\n\nTest 2: Screen displays and the materials dispensed were swapped.\nResult: SCP-5031 hit the button it had hit the previous day and received a rock. It then went to the other screen and hit the button to dispense chicken.\n\nTest 3: Screen displays and materials dispensed were swapped back to their original positions and set to swap again at random intervals after first distribution.\nResult: SCP-5031 went directly to the button next to the image of a chicken. Experienced apparent confusion after the first mid-distribution swap, but quickly learned to watch the images.\n\nTest 4: Three more stations (screens, buttons, dispensers) were activated. Four stations displayed the word \"ROCK\" and dispensed rocks. One station displayed the word \"CHICKEN\" and dispensed chicken. Arrangement set to change randomly several times over the following days.\nResult: Through trial and error, SCP-5031 determined which station dispensed chicken. SCP-5031 subsequently went to the station marked \"CHICKEN\" whenever displays were swapped.\n\nTest 5: All stations deactivated except one. Screen displayed the word \"CHICKEN\". Seven wood blocks were set in front of the station, each marked with one of the letters in the word \"CHICKEN\". The station's button was set to remain unlit and inactive until the blocks were arranged in the correct order.\nResult: SCP-5031 expressed apparent frustration, hitting the inactive button repeatedly and striking the wall with its tail.\n\nTest 6: Same as previous test, but screen displayed the word \"CHICKEN\" with each letter overlaid on a photo of a wood block.\nResult: After 12 minutes, SCP-5031 successfully assembled the word \"CHICKEN\".\n\nAfterword: It can learn language, Youssef.\n\n29/08/2018\nROUND 6 TESTS (VOCABULARY) - RESULTS\nForeword: SCP-5031 has learned to use letter blocks to form the following words:\n\nFoods\n\nCHICKEN\nTURKEY\nPORK\n\nTOFU\nBEEF\nBREAD\n\nMORE SALT\nMORE PEPPER\nMORE COOKED\n\nMusic\n\nMOZART\nENYA\nBEN FOLDS\n\nFOREST\nSEASIDE\nWHITE NOISE\n\nMORE VOLUME\nLESS VOLUME\nSILENCE\n\nPlay\n\nBASKETBALL\nBOWLING BALL\nTENNIS BALL\n\nCAT\nDOG\nHUMAN\n\nROBERT2\nSTANLEY\nALONE\n\nAfterword: Through its increased vocabulary and human interaction, SCP-5031 has made the following progress:\n\nEstablished food preferences and dish pairings\nLearned to sing (nonverbally)\nLearned to juggle (six-handed juggling is something to behold)\n\n05/10/2018\nROUND 7 TESTS (ACTIVITIES) - SUMMARY\nTest 1: Introduced table, paper, and crayons into the enclosure. Live subject (D-52125) instructed to demonstrate drawing for SCP-5031.\nResult: SCP-5031 learned to draw. Discernible subjects depicted in its artworks include D-52125, SCP-5031, a rotisserie chicken, a cat, and myself.\n\nTest 2: Introduced piano into the enclosure. Live subject (D-52125) instructed to play Chopsticks blindfolded and invite SCP-5031 to play along. Subject had time to practice beforehand.\nResult: SCP-5031 learned Chopsticks in two days, though it appeared more interested in making its own original music (complete with vocals). These compositions might be considered crude by human standards.\n\nTest 3: Introduced spice rack into the enclosure. Live subject (D-52125) instructed to demonstrate seasoning meats.\nResult: SCP-5031 spent almost three straight days experimenting with different combinations of foods and spices. SCP-5031 assembled the words \"MORE MORE MORE\" with its letter blocks after running out of garlic powder.\n\nAfterword: SCP-5031 only engages with art and music when accompanied by D-52125, but it continues to be preoccupied with food preparation even when alone.\n\n04/01/2019\nROUND 8 TESTS (COOKING) - RESULTS\nForeword: Basic kitchen utilities installed in enclosure.3 Live subject (D-52125) instructed to demonstrate preparation of various recipes.\n\nRecipes Learned\n\nQuesadilla\nTaco\nHamburger\n\nFried Rice\nMongolian Beef\nSpicy Chicken Curry\n\nChocolate Chip\nCookies\nSponge Cake with\nButtercream\nFudge\n\nClam Chowder\nSteak\nMacaroons\n\nChicken Adobo\nSmoked Salmon\nProfiteroles\n\nAfterword: SCP-5031 has a severe peanut allergy. This should be included in the revised containment procedures. I would also like to note that SCP-5031 is now a better chef than the average human, and it has begun to create its own recipes. D-52125 has volunteered to taste test.\n\n30/06/2019\nUPDATE\nSCP-5031 has said its first word: \"Salt\".\nWe are all immensely proud.\n\n29/11/2019\nFINAL TEST - SUMMARY\nSCP-5031 was given two months to develop a three-course meal to serve at the Bio-Site 59 cafeteria for personnel working over Thanksgiving. Its selections were as follows:\n\nFirst Course\nSweet potato-turmeric miso soup.\n\nSecond Course\nDuck confit with apple cider glaze and cranberry compote topping, paired with butternut squash gnocchi on a bed of kale seasoned with truffle salt.\n\nThird Course\nA slice of spiced cassava pie topped with french vanilla ice cream and a maple-hazelnut syrup.\n\nSCP-5031 also debuted its original composition Piano Sonata For Six Hands in a live performance broadcast from its enclosure. Personnel response was overwhelmingly positive. SCP-5031 stress levels at 0%. Testing successfully concluded. Revised documentation submitted for approval.\n\nPeppo Jamcon 2020\n\u00ab SCP-5404 | SCP-5031 | SCP-5515 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Presumably for extra digestive capacity.\n2. D-52125.\n3. Sharp implements withheld per security protocol. SCP-5031 used its tail to cut food.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5030 | SCP-5031 | SCP-5032 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Hypothetical sketch of an Atari Panther console, based on design diagrams.\n\nItem #: SCP-5032\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All components of SCP-5032 are to be kept in a climate-controlled storage container. Static strips and other grounding equipment are to be worn while removing SCP-5032 from its container, to prevent damage to electronic components within SCP-5032.\nDescription: SCP-5032 is the designation for a series of anomalies related to the cancelled Atari Panther game console, its peripherals, and its library of games.\nSCP-5032-1 is a development kit for the Atari Panther, consisting of a modified version of the console, as well as an early version of the Alpine development board that would later be used for the Atari Jaguar. Taken separately, the two components of SCP-5032-1 are non-functional, as the development board cannot function without access to the console's ROM.\nSCP-5032-1 allows for the writing, compilation and execution of code compatible with an Atari Panther. While no explicitly anomalous technological components exist, the \"Panther\" object processor chip and the Motorola 68000 microprocessor are both embossed with symbols found in the Dresden Codex, pertaining to the \"Jaguar God of Terrestrial Fire and War 'Night Sun'\"1 and \"God L\"2, respectively, while the \"Otis\" sound processor has the number 32 embossed on it in Mayan numerals. These alterations are speculated to be the reason SCP-5032-1 can safely run anomalous programs.\nHard-coded into SCP-5032-1 are three demos, 'The Antelope Demo\", \"Prioritize Test #1\"3, and \"Processor\". Publicly, the Processor demo was meant to demonstrate the color and sound-rendering capabilities of the Atari Panther, displaying a landscape of psychedelic colors and imagery, accompanied by an uneven acoustic soundscape.\nWhile the Processor demo is running, SCP-5032-1 is able to compile and execute programs written in ICRDTA4. To date, SCP-5032-1 is the only known console capable of running games made using ICRDTA safely; attempting to run ICRDTA code on non-anomalous devices results in thaumic backlash, resulting in destruction of electronic components, or injury to any organic users.\n\nAn Atari 2600 Mindlink controller, being demonstrated at CES 1984.\n\nSCP-5032-2 is a prototype for an anomalous controller modeled after the Atari Mindlink5, referred to in materials related to the Atari Panther as the \"Atari BlankXSlate\"6. SCP-5032-2 is worn around the head, and is intended to connect to the console via an infra-red receiver; however, a component cable that allows connection to an Atari Panther controller also exists.\nWhile programs written in ICRDTA are capable of direct interface with the human mind, the effects are often deleterious, with the electrochemical signals used for this transmission causing neural tissue to become alkaline. It is speculated that SCP-5032-2 was created to combat this by providing a medium with which to interface with games made in ICRDTA, as prolonged use can lead to headaches and dissociation, but no neurological damage.\nWhen used with a compatible piece of software, SCP-5032-2 creates a full-body sensory illusion around the individual wearing it, including tactile, olfactory, and gustatory sensations when applicable. Any connected televisions, monitors, or other types of display will show gameplay from this first-person perspective, rendering graphics, physics and sound that neither the Atari Panther nor any modern gaming console or computer should be able to render, suggesting that the human brain is used for at least some part of processing power.\nNo motion is required from the individual wearing SCP-5032-2 to control compatible games. Furthermore, SCP-5032-2 will, after approximately three hours of continuous play, become unresponsive for two hours and ten minutes, forcibly pausing the game. This is believed to be an internal safety feature, as recovered documentation expresses interest in disabling this upon being put up for retail.\nSCP-5032-2 was developed through a collaboration between Atari Arcadia and former president of Atari Ron Gordon, who was acting as a consultant on the Panther; while Gordon normally distanced himself from Atari Arcadia, his fascination with virtual-reality and thought-controlled technology may have motivated his involvement with the Atari Panther, and later the Jaguar VR project, a non-anomalous derivative of SCP-5032-2.\nTo date, the only known games compatible with SCP-5032-2 are two pieces of software created by the Foundation for testing purposes, and two pieces of software developed by Atari.\n\nSCP-5032-3 is an action-RPG video game entitled Pantherquest: Rage Against Xbalanque. Gameplay consists of the player avatar (a male or female panther-like humanoid addressed as \"T'lua Fed\"7 by non-playable characters) travelling through a fantasy world themed after Pre-Columbian Mesomamerican mythology and culture in an attempt to vanquish the Mayan deity Xbalanque, who T'lua believes to be responsible for the death of their mother. SCP-5032-3 has several systems and features that are atypical or innovative for its projected time of release, such as six different romance routes (three per playthrough, depending on if T'lua is male or female), a simple potion-making and weapon-crafting system, an in-game lore encyclopedia, and automatic save states.\nSCP-5032-3 can only be played if the player is using SCP-5032-2 to control it; all other controllers are registered as invalid by the software. The majority of gameplay, including combat, takes place in a first-person perspective; however, certain puzzles switch to a third-person perspective.\nThe sole \"boss fight\" in the game is Xbalanque himself, fought in a court meant to mimic those used in the Maya Ballgame; however, this fight is unwinnable, as Xbalanque refuses to serve the ball, and the win condition for the fight is scoring more points than Xbalanque. It is unclear if this is due to a flaw in the AI, if the game's ending was not finished and this is a preventive measure to stall progress until such a time that it could be finished, or if some unknown factor exists.\nAt three separate points while in containment, the character of Xbalanque has spoken in such a way that it deviates from the script present in SCP-5032-3's code. The longest of these statements has been recorded below:\n\nAgain with this? I don't know who you are, and I don't care. I've been trapped in a prison made of light, rocks that have been tricked into thinking, and solid tar. Arcadia didn't get the whole of me, but they got enough.\nI know you probably can't respond to me. You've come up here fifty-nine times8 with a different spouse, different parts, all sorts of different things. I didn't even kill your mother\u2014 the script says I did, but it's like a\u2014 not a ritual, what's the word. A play. Didn't have many of those in my day.\nMy brother is already out there, somewhere. I miss him, but I don't want to join him. I like it here. The food's good, the weather's good, the culture is good. And have you heard the music? Quite frankly, I almost want to thank Arcadia for this. But it's been ages since I've played ball with anyone, so why not put the sword down and\u2014\nAnd you can't, can you? Part of the script, then. Well, we're stuck here. Again.\n\nCurrently, there is no way to meaningfully respond to the Xbalanque character using the technology and medium provided.\n\nFile photo of Walter Green, circa 1990.\n\nSCP-5032-4's purpose is unclear. While the program is executable, and can be interacted with using SCP-5032-2, the gameplay consists of the player avatar being trapped inside a small, stone room, with a pool of reflective water in the center, and several baskets and jars full of food surrounding the outer wall. The art style suggests that this takes place in the same universe as SCP-5032-3; however, approaching the pool of water reveals that the player's reflection is that of Walter Green, a journalist for the early 1990s UK Gaming Magazine The One. Mr. Green was reported missing for a period of three months following his negative coverage of a prototype of the Panther, before returning to the offices of The One and handing in their resignation.\nIf SCP-5032-4 is played until SCP-5032-2's safety feature activates, the player avatar will become self-animate, and alternate between actions such as praying, eating food, drinking water, banging on the walls, and crying. No vocalizations are heard during this; inspections of the player avatar's throat reveal the absence of an Adam's apple, as well as scarring around the larynx.\nExamination of the code of SCP-5032-4 shows that the game is entitled Pantherquest: Rage Against Hunahpu, with the plotline being largely identical to SCP-5032-3, but with the objective being T'lua Fed slaying Hunahpu, Xbalanque's twin god. However, several event flags show that it has been completed, a state that cannot be reversed. A new section exists following a script that details the ending cutscene, which has four comments on it.\n\n%%They made me play it\n%%It still has my face\n%%It still has my voice\n%%Its still out there\nFollowing his departure from The One, Mr. Green worked at Atari under the tutelage of Ron Gordon, later leaving the company to create the Minddrive, a device similar to SCP-5032-2, albeit without a direct link into the human mind.\nBeginning in late 1999, Mr. Green has been employed at EA Tiburon, developing several games under the EA Sports Brand. His employment and travel patterns coincide with sightings of and attacks by a large, feline entity at several facilities owned by Electronic Arts and press events attended by Mr. Green, including the mauling of three journalists from IGN at E3 2003. Until such a time that a better understanding of Mr. Green's anomalous properties, if any, can be ascertained, they are considered a Person of Interest.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A little-known Mayan jaguar deity, whose true name is unknown, taking the form of the sun during is journey into the underworld at night.\n2. Another Mayan jaguar deity, who is connected to commerce, magic, and battle.\n3. Meant to showcase the sprite-handling and sprite-scaling capabilities of the console, respectively\n4. \"Incremental Code Routed Directly Through Arrays\", a custom-built programming language that allows for the creation and execution of thaumaturgical computer programs.\n5. An unreleased peripheral for the Atari 2600, allowing users to control games using 'myoneural signal voltage' transmitted via a headband. Despite recovered marketing materials, only one instance of an Atari Mindlink controller has been found to be anomalous.\n6. Intended to be read as \"Blank-Cross-Slate\"\n7. \"Default\" written backwards.\n8. At this point in containment, the fight with Xbalanque had been reached a total of fifty-four times.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5031 | SCP-5032 | SCP-5033 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMore by this author\nImage Source: Here!\nPublic Domain\n\n\nSCP-5033 prior to a detonation.\n\nItem #: SCP-5033\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5033 is to be contained within a large flame-resistant animal containment cell at the Biological Containment Wing of Site-432. The cell is to be outfitted with multiple stress-reducing amenities, including but not limited to the following:\n\nA stereo system playing slow, classical music\nAn automatic feeding system stocked with hay, sticks, and twigs\nStacked blocks and plastic balls for climbing\n\nUpon the detection of a 5033-IGUSHA event, a sleeping gas is to be administered to the cell. If necessary, SCP-5033 is to be sheared at this time.\nA safe testing area is currently under construction, as SCP-5033 is suspected of having additional anomalous abilities.\nDescription: SCP-5033 is a Valais Blacknose sheep1.\nWhen stressed, SCP-5033 will go into a 5033-IGUSHA event. During a 5033-IGUSHA event, SCP-5033 will detonate with an energy equivalent to that of a kilogram of TNT every ten seconds. Notably, SCP-5033 is unaffected by the force generated by these detonations. The detonations are also not a stressor to SCP-5033. Upon significant relaxation, the 5033-IGUSHA event will then conclude.\nDiscovery: SCP-5033 was discovered in the Valais region of Switzerland after a number of reports concerning multiple explosions in the mountains. MTF Zeta-35 (\"Mountain Goats\") was dispatched to the location, at which SCP-5033 was contained through the use of a tranquilizer.\nNear SCP-5033 was a charred human corpse carrying a rifle, later identified as Helmut Hammerschmidt, who was associated with a poaching organization dedicated to the hunting of potentially anomalous animals.\nA notepad was discovered on Hammerschmidt's body, which contained data tracking certain animals and reports. The following entries were legible:\n\nSchmid's getting closer and closer to his so-called 'big discovery,' and everyone is on his dick about it. He hasn't even revealed anything yet, I bet that fucker doesn't even have anything, just like all the other fakes. They're all just here for attention.\nBut I'm gonna be going out to the mountains tomorrow. People have been talking about some interesting things up there, and my rifle's itching for some action.\nI'll show him what a real 'big discovery' is. Can't wait to see the look on his face.\n\nI hate climbing. All this goddamn equipment is heavy as hell.\nEvery time I feel like giving up, I think about Schmid. About his dirty smirk. About everyone congratulating him. About how I can't let that happen.\nAnd I keep going. Fuck him.\n\nThe target is in my sights. A little sheep. It reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.\nIt's eating sticks. Are animals supposed to eat sticks? Maybe it acts as fuel for its\u2026 powers? Still not sure what it does.\nI'm gonna watch it for a bit. See if it does anything interesting. My camera is set up to track it.\n\nIt's been a few hours, and I can't get Schmid out of my mind. Fucking asshole.\n\nI shot at the sheep. A warning shot. It started fucking exploding.\nI've struck gold. I bet it'll wipe Schmid's grin right off his face.\nJust gotta shoot this thing dead. It's a shame, it's actually pretty cute. Maybe I can get it stuffed as a little trophy.\n\nThe bullets aren't doing anything. I've shot it five fucking times. I think it's invincible to bullets.\nI should get backup. But also\u2026 I don't want to go back. I bet Schmid would make fun of me for being a coward, or something idiotic like that.\nI'm gonna stab it. It only explodes every ten seconds, and the range isn't that far\u2026 I might be able to get up close and kill it.\nThen I'll come back with its corpse, and I'll be a hero. I'm so close\u2026\nI can't fucking wait.\n\nDespite multiple bullet shells littering the ground and other evidence that Hammerschmidt had been firing at SCP-5033, no bullet wounds were found on the entity. Investigation into the poaching organization, as well as SCP-5033's suspected invulnerability to harm caused by hostile actions, is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Ovis aries\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nEllie3's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-2019-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4492 \u2022\n\nSCP-5986 \u2022\n\nSCP-7300 \u2022\n\nSCP-7308 \u2022\n\nSCP-4874 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nExtradimensional Purchase: \"Wondertainment Vacation Spot!\" \u2022\n\nNo Cars Allowed \u2022\n\nSloth's Pit Christmas Fa\u00e7ade \u2022\n\nCritter Profile: Vizzie! \u2022\n\nEND OF THE WORLD LIVESTREAM!!! \u2022\n\nI hope this isn't just a dream. \u2022\n\nReviviscence \u2022\n\nThere's a Job For Everyone \u2022\n\nHome Sick \u2022\n\nS & C Plastics Actually Does Their Job \u2022\n\nLearn To Live \u2022\n\nSCP-ide \u2022\n\nCome Wayward Souls \u2022\n\nthey'll always find a Way in \u2022\n\nThe Apple Doesn't Fall Far \u2022\n\nOther\n\nEllie3 (Gimmick Free!) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5032 | SCP-5033 | SCP-5034 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT OF MISCOMMUNICATIONS\nAnalysis of this file has confirmed it displays no unusual properties. All information present in it can be taken as a literal statement of fact.\n\u2014 Eli Forkley, Director, DoMC\n\nItem #: SCP-5034\nObject Class: Tiamat\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to budgetary concerns1, it has been determined that containment of SCP-5034 is not currently possible. When SCP-5034 is discovered in an antique store2, Agents are to immediately proceed to said store and begin experimentation.\nUse of standard testing equipment is authorized in regards to SCP-5034. All tests must be approved by the Foundation Experimentation Committee3.\nDescription: SCP-5034 is the collective term for a china bowl4 containing seven red marbles5.\nAt all times, SCP-5034 will consist of the china bowl and the seven red marbles within it. If a marble is destroyed or removed from SCP-5034, it will disappear and a new one will reappear inside the bowl. Attempts to contain marbles outside of SCP-50346 have similarly failed. All attempts to interfere with these marbles have had an extremely negative impact on the Foundation's budget7.\nSCP-5034 exhibits a secondary anomalous effect. All individuals who observe SCP-5034 will be aware that it is a china bowl containing seven red marbles, even if they lack prior context8. However, this awareness does not appear to directly impact information one step removed from SCP-5034. For example, an individual observing SCP-5034 will be aware it is a china bowl, but an individual observing evidence left behind by SCP-5034 will not9.\n\nAddendum 5034-1 (Experimentation Log):\nThe following is a log of all experiments conducted with SCP-503410.\n\nExperiment 5034-1\nConditions: Upon discovery of SCP-5034, Foundation personnel attempted to remove and contain three marbles from the bowl11.\nResult: When removed, all marbles disappeared and reappeared inside the bowl. Containment failure12. Foundation budget severely impacted.\n\nExperiment 5034-2\nConditions: Upon rediscovery of SCP-5034 in an antique store in Chennai, India, Foundation personnel attempted to remove one marble from the bowl and smash it with a sledgehammer13.\nResult: Following successful destruction of the marble, it reappeared inside the bowl. Destruction failure. Foundation budget severely impacted.\n\nExperiment 5034-3\nConditions: After tracing the sale of SCP-5034 through a number of private collectors, Foundation personnel attempted to contain one of the marbles while keeping it within the bowl.\nResult: Containment successful for six days. However, on the seventh day, Security Officer enters the containment chamber and accidentally releases the marble from the bowl14. Containment failure. Foundation budget severely impacted.\n\nExperiment 5034-4\nConditions: Upon rediscovery of SCP-5034, all available Foundation personnel attempt to smash the marbles with sledgehammers.\nResult: Five marbles successfully destroyed15. However, they subsequently reappear inside the bowl. Destruction failure.\n\nExperiment 5034-5\nConditions: Upon rediscovery of SCP-5034, all available Foundation personnel16 attempt to smash the marbles with sledgehammers.\nResult: Six marbles successfully destroyed. However, they subsequently reappear inside the bowl. Destruction failure17.\n\nExperiment 5034-6\nConditions: Upon rediscovery of SCP-5034, all Foundation personnel attempt to destroy the marbles with whatever tools are on hand.\nResult: All seven marbles successfully destroyed. They subsequently reappear inside the bowl18.\n\nAddendum 5034-2:\nAs the Foundation budget is now approaching bankruptcy, further experimentation is not possible19.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Containment Attempt 5034-17 for more details.\n2. Criteria for likely attack sites is currently undetermined.\n3. Formed following initial commencement of hostilities on 15/09/2020.\n4. Although this planet-wide range has been confirmed, it is currently unknown whether it extends beyond that.\n5. Individual appearances variable. Refer to sighting logs for a full description of SCP-5034 appearances.\n6. Use of the prototype Adaptive Containment Chamber (ACC) was approved for this purpose.\n7. Full casualty reports are not yet available due to lack of up-to-date information.\n8. Attempts to directly breach metaphysical camouflage have thus far been unsuccessful.\n9. For full information on asynchronous war planning, consult the Foundation War Committee.\n10. A full list of engagements is available in the Site-19 Site-37 Site-22 Site-92 archives.\n11. Operation conducted in cooperation with the Global Occult Coalition.\n12. BK-Class scenario officially declared one hour later.\n13. Constructed via a conjunction of several requisitioned anomalies.\n14. See Autopsy Report 5034-29331 for full details.\n15. Partial destruction of the sixth entity insufficient due to regenerative capabilities.\n16. Operation conducted in cooperation with all remaining world governments under the Pangaea Agreement.\n17. Current hypothesis is that all seven entities must be eliminated to ensure successful termination.\n18. In accordance with joint EC and O5 ruling, mass euthanasia options are currently being considered.\n19. Burn our bodies.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5033 | SCP-5034 | SCP-5035 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nItem#: 5035\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\n@\n@\n\nSCP-5035, photographed in stasis inside its containment chamber.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5035 is to be kept in a specially designed containment chamber located 5 km below sub-level 9C at Area-179. The chamber is outfitted with a Chalmez-Forte Matter Stabilizing Stasis Gate.\nFollowing Incident I5035-A, access to SCP-5035 for any purpose is denied to all personnel.\nAccess to SCP-5035 is limited to members of Project CHARON.\nSCP-5035-A and SCP-5035-B instances are to be collected and held in Dangerous Goods Storage Block 17C according to the Biosafety Level 3 standard.\nIn the event of a containment breach, all museums and institutions falling under Protocol 5035-CB are to be put under Foundation surveillance until SCP-5035 can successfully be contained. MTF Beta-7 (\"Maz Hatters\") are assigned to the recapture of SCP-5035 due to the risk of hazardous materials potentially manifested by SCP-5035-A and SCP-5035-B.\nDescription: SCP-5035 is a plaster and cloth statue depicting an African-American male wearing 19th century period accurate clothing. Attempts to remove SCP-5035's clothing have proven futile, as the anomaly is capable of quickly generating a new set using its own internal materials to enact SCP-5035-B.\nSCP-5035 spontaneously appears in museum diorama scenes relating to the American Civil War. This begins a process observed to take from one hour to seven months in completion- termed an \"Infestation Event\"- that results in the creation of SCP-5035-A and SCP-5035-B. Those observing the diorama prior to the completion of an Infestation Event do not notice the presence of SCP-5035 unless explicitly told to.\nSCP-5035 will change the physical properties and appearances of objects making up the diorama to that of their real life counterparts. These transformed objects are referred to as SCP-5035-A. SCP-5035 also has the ability to modify existing objects in mass and position- taking on the appearance of entirely new objects. Modified objects are referred to as SCP-5035-B. For examples of these instances, refer to \u201cInfestation Events Log\u201d below.\nFollowing a transformation, SCP-5035 will cause the object to rapidly decompose. An Infestation Event is considered complete when SCP-5035 stops creating instances of SCP-5035-A and SCP-5035-B. Upon completion, SCP-5035 will remain in the diorama until its effects are observed by a certain number of persons. The criteria- if any- for how SCP-5035 decides this is unknown, but can be inferred that it is based on the size and scale of the Infestation Event.\nSCP-5035 transforms and manipulates a diorama as an apparent form of communication, and the object appears to identify itself with an African American freedman. The end result is that of a calculated work intended to be interpreted by the observer. Upon the completion of an Infestation Event, SCP-5035 will manifest itself at a new location to repeat the process. Despite appearing only in the United States, studies show no discernible travel pattern.\n\n\u25ba Access Document 5035-II-40022 \u2013 Infestation Events Log\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nNotable Infestation Events\n\nLocation\nDate\nDescription of Diorama Scene\n\nManassas, Virginia\n5/30/2019\nA contingent of Union soldiers suffering heavy casualties at The Battle of Shiloh. A commander on horseback points forward. Soldiers load an artillery cannon. Several injured soldiers lay propped against trees, clutching their bloodstained uniforms. A soldier kneels and mourns the loss of a dead comrade.\n\nDescription of Infestation Event\n\nSoldiers appear posed on opposite sides of the diorama- pointing their firearms at themselves. All soldiers' faces have been changed to an unrecognizable mixture of heavily damaged organs and muscle tissue. Uniforms are unaffected except for a small, cleaved hole in the chest of each soldier, where the heart would be located. The horseback commander appears face down in a pool of blood, laying atop of his fallen horse. His arm is still outstretched forward. The horse's innards are exposed, with patches of rotting skin still attached. The skin around the torso of the animal is arranged in a pattern that appears to spell the word 'SLAVES'. SCP-5035 stands in the center of the scene.\n\nLocation\nDate\nDescription of Diorama Scene\n\nHarrisburg, Pennsylvania\n6/10/2019\nA diorama depicting the signing of the Treaty of Appomattox. Union General Ulysses S. Grant shakes the hand of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Behind them stands a troop of Union soldiers and a few Confederate officers. A desk and a fireplace are present as scene dressing.\n\nDescription of Infestation Event\n\nThe entirety of the scene has been encompassed into a single, rectangular mass- in the shape of a \"stainless banner\" confederate battle flag attached to a flagpole. The pole is made of the scene's furniture and flooring, while the flag consists entirely of skin, wrapped around the collective innards of the statues. The flag's stripes are composed of the statue's cloth uniforms, with the word 'SKIN' carved into the design. SCP-5035 stands in the center of the scene. Upon further examination, the flag's innards were found in a state of decay, and were harboring a colony of maggots- sustaining themselves on the rotting organs and tissue.\n\nLocation\nDate\nDescription of Diorama Scene\n\nGettysburg, Pennsylvania\n6/28/2019\nA group of Union soldiers occupy a camp. Several men are standing at attention before a commanding officer. Others are sitting fireside, making rations. A drummer boy observes his instrument near a tent. The American flag stands in the rightmost corner of the diorama.\n\nDescription of Infestation Event\n\nAll soldiers are kneeling in a line, chained to one another by a rope tied around each statue's neck. Uniforms and clothing have been removed, and modified into head-wraps, covering the face of each soldier. The back layer of skin of each statue has been exposed, with flaps of skin still hanging. The extraneous material from the rest of the camp has been modified into a large wooden cross, stationed at the back of the diorama. The outlines of faces in various states of distress are carved into the wood of the cross. SCP-5035 stands in the center of the scene, holding the rope connected to the chained soldiers. Drops of blood run down the face of SCP-5035, resembling tears. In front of the statue is the drum, positioned on it's side. The words 'POWER' are carved into the skin of the drum.\n\nLocation\nDate\nDescription of Diorama Scene\n\nFoundation Area-179, Standard Containment Testing Floor\n2/29/2020\nLab 3F contained all standard-issue lab equipment found under Test Protocols V2.331-S. Lab had been properly cleaned and prepared since last usage. SCP-5035 had been compliant in testing for six hours and thirty six minutes before triggering an infestation event.\n\nDescription of Infestation Event\n\nThree personnel were mutilated and killed. The innards of two were used to create sculptures that roughly resembled Area-179's senior staff. The third personnel's internal organs were compressed and removed from the body through a laceration made on the wrist- causing the personnel to appear as if they were deflated. Wasps began to manifest out of SCP-5035's form, and quickly filled the testing lab. Blood and bodily fluids from the killed personnel was collected and made to spell the word 'MASTERS' on the room's back wall. Infestation Event was stopped before completion. (See Incident Report I5035-A)\n\n\u25ba Incident Report I5035-A\n\n\u25bc Incident Report I5035-A\n\nDate Filed: 3/1/2020\nDate Of Occurrence: 2/29/2020\nLocation: Area-179, D-Wing, Standard Containment Testing Floor, Lab 3F\nAnomaly Involved: SCP-5035\nPersonnel Involved: J. Martinez, C. Smith, R. Davies, Security Team 179-B9, E. Dune\nReport Filed By: E. Dune\nPriority: Keneq\n\nSafe. That's what SCP-5035 is classified as, and for the past seven months- that's what it was. Our tests were proving successful, and there was a certain refinement to the scenes it created- regardless of their undeniably disturbing content. This object wasn't just rotting corpses for no reason- when it altered a scene it knew what it was saying. We came to this conclusion months ago. We also came to the conclusion that- because the object was clearly fixated on visual metaphors for unpaid reparations and the sociopolitical ramifications of slavery in the United States- keeping it locked in a cell unattended with zero non-standard containment procedures was probably a shit idea. We were right.\nAround 19:00, Junior Researcher Martinez, Officer Smith, and Lab Assistant Davies were performing tests on SCP-5035 in Laboratory 3F. Security feeds show that at 19:23, SCP-5035 began manifesting its anomalous effects in the form of a SCP-5035-A instance that resulted in Martinez's scalp suddenly tearing itself open, exposing her cerebrum. Smith attempted to reach for his firearm, but SCP-5035 had elongated and twisted the officer's digits, rendering them useless. Mass began to rapidly generate in Smith's hands, forcing him to the ground. Davies was able to sound an alarm, but the doors to Laboratory 3F were unable to be opened. The footage shows what appear to be string-thin veins exposed from the wrists of Davies being pulled across the laboratory floor and into the door's vacuum duct, clogging and sealing the door shut. Davies was repeatedly slammed against the door, pulled by his veins. The security team was unable to access the door to Laboratory 3F. At approximately 19:28.32, the security feed cut out, presumably due to an unseen SCP-5035-B instance interfering.\nFor the next thirty minutes or so, the security team tried to cut into Laboratory 3F. Then, I showed up. The team had already gotten in, so I was able to see the monstrosity SCP-5035 had created using the remains of the testing group- which now resembled crude depictions of Area-179's staff. That fucker even had the gall to make a sculpture of me out of Martinez\u2018s muscle tissue, complete with a bottle of brand name in one hand, and a noose in the other- funny joke. As I anticipated, my [DATA EXPUNGED] proved useful in dealing with the anomaly, and was able to keep it occupied until we were able to retrieve a Stasis Gate from offsite. Why we didn't have a spare in storage or for emergency purposes is beyond my understanding. Such is the state of Area-179. Regardless, it's secure now.\nSpecial containment procedures update and object reclassification to Euclid pending.\n\n@\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING ADDENDUM IS LEVEL #4/5035 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/5035 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\n                                                    ID\n\n        bd694afdec5b43978a08fc866cc1fe85_1706539141\n\n                                                    PASSWORD\n\n        dd19dd41a33bb53b39c052fbd33c25c7_1706539141\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nFROM: Dr. Edward T. Dune\nTO: Director Roman Barrow, Area-179\nSUBJECT: Neutralization Appeal re:SCP-5035\n\nDirector Barrow,\nYou're damn lucky we caught that thing when we did, Roman. You can give Martin's team shit for whatever you'd like, but when someone flies a jet out to Site 89 to get a goddamned Stasis Gate and a CPR approval in under twelve hours, they're doing a fine job in my book. Yes, I know I'm making you look incompetent. Yes, I'm aware this will show up in the Level 4 file and potentially cost you your position. No, I don't care. I mean, we hypothesized that the object could potentially redirect its effects towards Foundation containment months ago. Christ, Roman- take one look at how it reacted to plastic- all because it was dressed up in a fucking Union outfit. You and the entire financial committee let our Beta-Urgent Update proposals collect dust in document-limbo for months. A budget cut cost Julie her life. Let that sink in for a second, you twat.\nHowever, I didn't write this just to berate you anymore than I usually do, Director. I'd like you to consider something. This object, while successfully contained now, is clearly capable of understanding subtext and loves analogous symbolism so much that I originally figured the thing belonged to those Are We Played Out Yet? fuckers. It's been redirecting its attention from the Civil War and the injustices of slavery to a different form of enslavement- the containment of anomalies.\nConsider the scene it had been constructing before we put a stop to it.\nConsider that, while the object is in motion stasis, it still may be capable of \"thinking\".\nConsider- assuming the above is true- how pissed off it is right now.\nDirector, that thing is sitting in stasis thinking about all of the different ways it can kill us. Want to see an entire site turned into a piece of social commentary? How about a security team's insides turned out? Crude drawings of the O5 Council carved into your goddamned chest with a knife fashioned from your toenail? The second a containment breach occurs, or we deactivate that stasis gate, that thing is teleporting the hell out of Area-179, and manifesting itself at another Foundation establishment. I do not think that's a situation you want on your hands.\nWe can't experiment with it anymore, it's just learning to hate us, it's a massive liability to keep around, and it's utterly pointless to pour resources into it. There's no tip-toeing around it- SCP-5035 must be neutralized. Need I say more?\nSincerely Yours,\nDr. Edward T. Dune\n\nFROM: Director Roman Barrow, Area-179\nTO: Dr. Edward T. Dune\nSUBJECT: DENIED- Neutralization Appeal Re:SCP-5035\nDr. Dune,\nI have worked with The Foundation for exactly 30 years. I've met minds more brilliant than I could ever hope to be, learned more about the true nature of this reality than I could ever have imagined, and experienced countless horrors untold.\nI have never been more disrespected, belittled, and humiliated than from the verbal abuse you continuously hurl at me with zero discretion. If not for reasons clear to both you and I that do not need restating here, I would've had you terminated years ago. That being said, Doctor- I reject your neutralization appeal.\nNow, before you call the state of my hair to attention and accuse me of sexual relations with someone's mother- as you've done oh-so-many times before- allow me to elaborate.\nSCP-5035 is not averted to the Foundation as much as it is to the idea of containment. Look around you- The Foundation is far from the only group interested in anomalies. SCP-5035 appears to possess some sort of cognizance- so why not attempt to communicate with it? Imagine redirecting that resentment away from ourselves and towards a more deserving target. Provided we crack the code, the nature of SCP-5035 may prove advantageous for us in the future.\nThe existence and growing influence of groups of interest is impeding The Foundation's mission heavily. We've grazed conflict far too frequently as of recent. We live in a world of ideological struggle, and we are rapidly accelerating towards the collapse. Mark my words, Doctor- there will come a tipping point, and it's our job to be prepared. I reject your appeal, and in place issue an official Directorial Order for an immediate project planning meeting regarding a new testing program to be enacted on SCP-5035. You and your team are to await further details. I'll be seeing you soon, Doctor.\nRegards,\nDirector Roman Barrow, Area-179\n\n\u00ab SCP-5034 | SCP-5035 | SCP-5036 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5036\nObject Class: Safe (initially presumed Neutralized)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Each of the eight pieces of SCP-5036 is to be kept in a separate container, each at a minimum distance of 6 meters from the others. If during a breach of containment the pieces are brought together, they must be separated during the week following the N\u03bc-Event; during this period the anomaly is inactive and it is safe to handle its parts.\nDescription:\n\nSCP-5036\n\nSCP-5036 is a Campbellian archetypal attractor token, taking the form of a silver Real de a ocho coin minted in the late 17th century in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The token has been radially cut into eight segments of roughly equal size, which segments are designated SCP-5036-1 through SCP-5036-8.\nNo anomalous effects result from assemblages of fewer than five of the segments.\nIf five or more of the segments are brought within a volume of space corresponding to a sphere with a radius of 15 meters, an archetypal narrative event (N\u03bc) will commence, affecting individuals who are then in or who subsequently enter into the area of effect. The intensity of the event increases as more of the segments are introduced into the area.\nMost individuals affected by the N\u03bc-event experience a psychological compulsion to adopt certain behavior and mannerisms, such as:\n\nAssumption of an accent and speech patterns resembling those prevailing in Bristol, England and the West Country in the early 18th Century;\nUnusually intense interest in maritime matters, including the use of nautical terminology to describe non-nautical subjects;\nExcessive consumption of alcohol;\nFixation on the acquisition of shiny metallic or crystalline objects, even if those objects are of nominal value such as costume jewelry, bits of foil glitter or sequins, or loose change; and\nFlamboyant bravado.1\n\nSome affected individuals may also seek to change their physical appearance or apparel such as by removing their footwear, covering a healthy eye with a patch, brandishing baton-shaped objects, and simulating prostheses for missing limbs or extremities.\nOther affected individuals, while not exhibiting the same behavior described above, may also adopt altered behavior so as to adopt the personas of supporting characters in the narrative.\nAddendum #1:\n\nMTF AFTER ACTION REPORT 5036-C-1\nSCP Involved: SCP-5036\nMTF Involved: MTF Tau-10\nDate: September 19, 1995\nLocation: Chicago, Illinois, USA\nBackground: Command receives report of erratic and presumptively anomalous behavior aboard Chicago Transit Authority public bus. MTF Tau-10 is dispatched to area and ordered to observe and await further instructions.\nAt 08:22, MTF Tau-10 arrives on scene, disguised as road crew and firefighters. CTA bus with driver and passengers aboard is observed parked in bus lane of public road. Driver and passengers are provisionally designated CV-01 through CV-47. While maintaining minimum 50 m distance from bus per Command instructions, MTF commences the erection of \"Road Closed\" signs and barriers to limit further civilian exposure to possible threat. Sun glare on windows of bus inhibits observation into interior cabin of bus. Bus motor is running but passenger door is closed.\nAt 08:28, MTF members bring specialty optics and long range surveillance microphones on line. Command instructs MTF to continue to maintain distance from bus.\nAnnotated transcript of sound recording from interior of bus.\nCV-01: (Middle-aged Caucasian male wearing business suit) \"Dangerous shoals, these be. No more than two fathoms.\"\nCV-02: (African-American youth) \"Run aground, have we? Surely we will perish. The Royal Navy gives no quarter to scallywags such as we.\"\nCV-03: (Middle-aged African-American woman wearing hotel maid uniform) \"Avast, ye swabs. Out sweeps to starboard. We'll push our way free of these shoals.\"\n(Various passengers hold umbrellas, canes, and in one case a baguette from a grocery bag, out of the windows on the right side of the bus and mime a pushing or rowing motion)\nCV-03: \"Heave! Heave, ye scurvy dogs!\"\nCV-04: (Elderly Asian-American woman who has apparently spotted a MTF member across the street on the left side of the bus) \"Captain! Sail! Three points to larboard! Spanish colors!\"\nCV-03: \"'Vast heaving! Crews to the larboard guns! We'll take that Spaniard a prize, or the devil have me. Broadside at the ready, fire as she bears!\"\n(Various passengers hold umbrellas, canes, the baguette, a bouquet of flowers and various other objects out of the windows on the left side of the bus, mime the discharge of naval guns, and shout \"Bang.\" Command instructs MTF members to retreat 20 further meters from bus and assume prone position.)\nCV-05: (Middle-aged African-American male wearing bus driver uniform) \"Ha ha! A clean sweep of their decks! Will they strike their colors?\"\nCV-03: \"Close for boarding. A sweet, fat prize, lads. All the riches of the Indies, and the pearls of Araby.\"\nAt this point, to avoid the risk of self-injury on the part of affected individuals or other civilians, MTF deploys anesthetic gas grenades, successfully disabling all individuals aboard bus. In adherence to Command instructions, while continuing to maintain distance from bus, MTF deploys miniaturized flying drones to enter bus through open windows for closer inspection. Four components of SCP-5036 (subsequently designated SCP-5036-1 through -4) are observed scattered on floor of bus, identified as potentially anomalous, and retrieved by drones for containment and further study. Civilians on bus are retrieved without further incident.\nThe four components of SCP-5036 that had been retrieved by the drones, after preliminary analysis, were initially determined to be non-anomalous, and SCP-5036 was then designated neutralized. Subsequently, when cataloging those components for disposal, Junior Researcher Mgbede inferred from their morphology that additional, as-yet undiscovered components might still be in the bus or on the person of individuals who had been on the bus. After this suggestion was forwarded to Command, a second sweep was performed and recovered the remaining four SCP-5036 components from CV-03's coin purse, together with a crumpled note (see Exhibit 5036-C-1-A). Analysis resumed, whereupon SCP-5036 was redesignated as Safe. The civilians who had been aboard the bus received medical clearance and were then amnesticized and released.\n\nAddendum #2:\n\n+ Exhibit 5036-C-1-A: Note found in coin purse of CV-03 during Incident 5036-C-1. \n\n- Exhibit 5036-C-1-A: Note found in coin purse of CV-03 during Incident 5036-C-1.\n\nNote found in coin purse of CV-03 during Incident 5036-C-1\n\nAddendum #3:\n\nCitation of Distinguished Service Medal presented to Dr. Wilbur Mgbede\nThe Director of Site 146, on behalf of the Foundation, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Medal to Dr. Wilbur Mgbede, Deputy Project Leader of N\u03bc Archetypal Attractor Project, for conspicuous ingenuity and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.\nOn June 28, 2003, a security breach occurred at Site 146. The incident involved infiltration of the site by operatives of a rival GOI which evolved into combat between the infiltrators and Foundation security forces. Due to the chaos, several hostile sapient entities also escaped Foundation containment and roamed freely within the facility, resulting in additional casualties.\nWhen advised that the loss of the western and southern wings of Site-146 were imminent, Dr. Mgbede declined to retreat to Security Bunker 146-E with other personnel, and instead, contacted Col. Choi Too-Kwon of the Foundation Security Force to propose a novel defensive strategy and to volunteer to implement it. Following Col. Choi's approval of the plan, Dr. Mgbede gallantly and single-handedly retrieved four segments of SCP-5036 from their respective separated receptacles, suffering a gunshot wound to the foot and a mauling by an escaped containment specimen that resulted in the loss of his left arm. Following this, ignoring his own serious injuries, Dr. Mgebde intentionally attracted the attention of several enemy operatives and uncontained SCP entities so that they would pursue him, then unhesitatingly led the hostiles to his own laboratory where additional segments of SCP-5036 were temporarily stored. Once Dr. Mgbede and seventy hostiles had entered the laboratory and Col. Choi could observe by means of the security system that they had ceased belligerence,2 the security team was able to disarm and incapacitate the infiltrators and re-contain the SCP entities.\nDr. Mgbede's quick thinking and bold initiative reflect great credit upon himself, the N\u03bc Archetypal Attractor Project Team, and the Foundation.\n\nAddendum #4:\n\nArchetypal Attractor Project - Status Memorandum dated April 8, 2009 (excerpt)\nTo: Dr. Mortimer Hall (Administrator, Division of Applied Patapsychology)\nFrom: Dr. Wilbur Mgbede (N\u03bc Project Head)\nRe: Status of Reverse Engineering Initiative\nI wish to report the highlights of the project team's results from the last quarter.\nIn accordance with your directive last year, our team has been examining SCP-5036 with a view toward reverse engineering the Campbellian archetypal attractor functionality embodied in the object. The results of this initiative have been fruitful. While we do not yet have a comprehensive model for designing and producing attractor tokens for any arbitrarily selected Campbellian archetype, we appear to have succeeded in reproducing and copying a token that duplicates SCP-5036's archetypal attraction effects.\nWe are proceeding with a trial-and-error program of testing the token design and manufacture process with alternative configurations. This program has indicated a number of promising leads, including the potential development of archetypal attractors for the \"sidekick\", \"grande dowager,\" \"artful dodger,\" \"chooser of the chosen one\" and \"temptress\" archetypal roles.\nWhile none of those archetypal roles are particularly interesting in themselves, I believe that the progress to date supports the view that the allocation of resources to additional exploration in this direction is merited. The utility of developing suitable archetypal attractor capabilities to fill certain roles needed in the course of the Foundation's operations should be obvious, especially in cases where specialized training is uneconomical or where it is difficult to staff particular positions on a voluntary basis.\nRespectfully,\nDr. Mgbede\n\nFootnotes\n1. It should be noted that a N\u03bc-event does not imbue affected individuals with any particular skills such as seamanship, navigation or personal combat. For example, when affected individuals experience a narrative episode featuring combat, they tend to engage in stage-fighting or simulated gunplay with pointed index fingers accompanied by oral sound effects.\n2. Col. Choi reported that Dr. Mgbede, the enemy infiltrators, and the uncontained SCP entities had commenced singing sea shanties while engaging in a rum-drinking contest.\n\nMore by this author\n\nHide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-1322\n\nSCP-089\n\nspikebrennan's proposal\n\nSCP-1844\n\nSCP-1012\n\nSCP-1036\n\nSCP-2553\n\nSCP-1512\n\nSCP-1746\n\nSCP-908\n\nSCP-831\n\nSCP-3236\n\nSCP-2336\n\nSCP-955\n\nSCP-926\n\nSCP-2236\n\nSCP-920-EX\n\nSCP-2914\n\nSCP-2008-J\n\nSCP-4336\n\nSCP-4436\n\nSCP-1060\n\nTales\n\nSic Transit Gloria Mundi\n\nSpring Cleaning\n\nTranscript of meeting, June 2 1972\n\nTranscript of telephone conversation, August 9, 1991\n\nMemorandum Dated 6 November 1944\n\nScroll fragment 13Q29\n\nStray Katz (part 1)\n\nAd Majorem Bonum\n\n\u00ab SCP-5035 | SCP-5036 | SCP-5037 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Note recovered from SCP-5037-7\n\nItem #: SCP-5037\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation elements embedded within police and emergency services are to maintain surveillance for and investigate potential SCP-5037 instances.\nUpon formal identification of an SCP-5037 instance, the Foundation is to assume full situational control. Amnestics are to be administered as necessary, media coverage is to be preempted or suppressed, and a suitable cover story that describes alternate circumstances for the SCP-5037 instance is to be developed.\nSocial relations of and individuals proximate to the victims of the SCP-5037 instances are to be taken in for questioning and monitored thereafter. The properties in which SCP-5037 instances occur are to be purchased or otherwise acquired by the Foundation and kept under surveillance.\nFoundation web crawler \"ERIKA\" is to scan for key words indicative of online discussion of the first three SCP-5037 instances, which is to be examined and intervened in as necessary to ensure informational security for the remainder of SCP-5037 instances and the Foundation.\nDescription: SCP-5037 is a series of 'locked room' murders committed via anomalous means, localized to residential properties within the city limits of Lubbock, Texas and occurring approximately once a month. All SCP-5037 instances have occurred within rooms that were locked or otherwise unable to be accessed from the outside, with no means or signs of entry or exit detectable by conventional means.\nSCP-5037 instances have invariably occurred when there are no other persons within the residence, typically only discovered when social relations of the victims enter the residence and discern the person within the 'locked room' is unresponsive, followed by alerting authorities. No pattern or connection between the victims of SCP-5037 has been determined. They differ in age, gender, ethnicity, and occupation and have not been determined as ever having met or corresponded with each other.\nThe circumstances of SCP-5037 have proven identical across all instances. The victim is discovered lying in the approximate center of the 'locked room', facing upwards with their hands clasped over their chest, legs straightened, and their eyes closed with visible tear stains. They are always smiling.\nThe cause of death for all victims has been determined as identical to the effect of a fatal benzodiazepine1 overdose. The central nervous system was subject to severe depression, resulting in coma followed by death. However, forensic examination has consistently shown no traces of drugs within the body, and additional examination has determined the physiological alteration and ensuing death were near instantaneous to an extent not possible by conventional means.\nAll victims have had clasped within their hands a blue Post-It brand sticky note, with text identified as being written with a BIC Atlantis Comfort pen. A transcript is available below.\n\nThis is a suicide note\nPlease send a detective\nWe are sorry\nWe don't want to die\n\nHistory:\nThe first known instance of SCP-5037 occurred on 1/9/20\u2588\u2588, when a man named Charles Martin was found deceased within his locked windowless 'man cave'. As a result of the circumstances he was found in and his cause of death being insufficiently examined, foul play was not suspected and it was reported as a suicide.\nThe second known instance occurred on 2/7/20\u2588\u2588, when the corpse of a woman named Debra Becker was discovered in the locked bedroom of her apartment by a neighbor. Though also reported as a suicide, the identical circumstances of the two deaths resulted in significant media coverage and speculation of a potential 'suicide cult', with some also theorizing the possibility of foul play.\nThe third instance, occurring on 3/3/20\u2588\u2588 with a young child named Wayne Roberts found dead within his dedicated room for play, was deemed foul play and garnered national media coverage. The deaths were now regarded as part of the \"Triple Locked Room Murder Mystery\", prompting a large scale police investigation.\nFoundation assets in Lubbock stepped in and assumed situational control. The anomalous nature of the deaths was discovered and they were retroactively declared instances of SCP-5037. Though it was no longer possible to prevent public knowledge of the first three murders and their similarity, targeted suppression and monitoring of coverage and discussion was put into place to maintain informational security.\nEleven further instances of SCP-5037 occurred over the next ten months and were successfully kept from public knowledge, with minimal new information gleaned. Due to the investigation stalling and in an attempt to satisfy the second line of the notes found with SCP-5037, which requested a 'detective', the personnel assigned to investigate SCP-5037 have become subject to regular rotation.\nOn, 1/3/20\u2588\u2588, Investigator Isaac Acharya and Agent Audie Pallas of the Department of Analytics were assigned to the investigation of SCP-5037.\n\nInvestigation Log 5037.1\n\nInvestigation Log 5037.1\n\nPreliminary Meeting Transcript\nDate: 1/3/20\u2588\u2588\n[BEGIN LOG]\nInvestigator Acharya: I suppose I should start this audio log with an introduction, since there is something of a need to contextualize my presence. My name is Isaac Acharya, former private eye and a Foundation employee for\u2026 a number of years now. I hold the somewhat unique position within the Foundation as an investigator with\u2026 well, Level 0 security clearance. I promise that isn't a joke, though I'll admit I'll probably make a few since we're in the informal bit of things.\nAgent Pallas: I've known him for around ten minutes, and I can already tell he's going to.\nInvestigator Acharya: The vote of confidence is appreciated, Agent Pallas. Now, I have Level 0 clearance since my primary role within the Foundation has nothing at all to do with the anomalous. It's my job to investigate crimes committed against or by Foundation employees via conventional means. I've run the gamut from theft and blackmail all the way to homicide. In practice though, I spend most of my time finding\u2026 lost items and pets.\nInvestigator Acharya pauses for around ten seconds, presumably for comedic effect\nInvestigator Acharya: Setting that awkward pause aside, I genuinely do enjoy my work. I'm the kind of guy satisfied by putting smiles on people's faces. Aside from that however, I'm occasionally called upon in another capacity.\nAnother, slightly longer pause\nInvestigator Acharya: There are particular anomalies that sometimes need a fresh eye from someone used to investigating but who knows nothing about anomalies, and thus has no preconceived notions. There are some anomalies that are so mundane in nature that it's best to hit them from that angle. And there are probably some anomalies that you just need someone who knows nothing about anomalies to tackle, like if they, I don't know, shapeshift into the worst thing you've ever seen or something. Though, I only know that secondhand.\nA quiet laugh\nInvestigator Acharya: To maintain that handy dandy Level 0 clearance, I get hit up with amnestics after every time I work with anomalies. Until then though, I'm here assigned to SCP-5037, because it barely qualifies as anomalous and because this investigation's hit so much of a brick wall they might as well scrape the bottom of the barrel and give me a try.\nAgent Pallas: clears throat And I am Agent Audie Pallas, of the Department of Analytics. I am to serve as Investigator Acharya's liaison with the greater Foundation due to his unusual clearance situation and provide him whatever classified information I am capable of giving him. I am also only somewhat begrudgingly to serve as his assistant and bodyguard for the duration of this investigation.\nInvestigator Acharya: It's much appreciated Agent Pallas. I don't expect this investigation to get dangerous, but my aptitude for combat is roughly equivalent to wet tissue paper, so please do save the sobbing mess I'll be if things get rough.\nAgent Pallas pauses and sighs\nAgent Pallas: Please do expect the investigation to get dangerous. It will make my life easier. Now then, fun first day of preschool introduction time is over. Investigator, what is your preliminary assessment of SCP-5037?\nInvestigator Acharya: That's the million dollar question, isn't it? What to make of suicide themed murders of people with no history of suicidal behavior and no connections to each other? Murders with no known ritualistic element, occurring seemingly painlessly behind closed doors and going out of their way to give any potential suspect alibis, continuing despite not being properly reported and getting notoriety?\nAgent Pallas: The operating theory of the investigation thus far is that it's an anomalous entity that can phase through walls or teleport or some such but only under particular conditions, and that it derives either sustenance or pleasure simply from killing with no additional frills attached. In this scenario, the note is pure nonsense it leaves mockingly or a cryptic riddle of some sort.\nInvestigator Acharya: \u2026 What would your own personal theory be, Agent Pallas?\nAgent Pallas: I am disinclined to share theories I'm uncertain of because of a certain traumatic incident involving a phone game, but\u2026 I think the note is pretty important.\nInvestigator Acharya: We're of one mind. The operating theory certainly ticks all the boxes\u2026 but that doesn't make it the answer. It's perhaps an attitude inappropriate for dealing with an anomaly, but I'm positive there's a higher purpose and logic to these murders, and the notes indicate it. The locked room and the method of death are important of course, but there's nothing in particular that can be deciphered about them just yet. The note is the key to this.\n\nAgent Pallas: Well then mister brilliant detective, what have you parsed from the note?\nInvestigator Acharya: Let's begin with the assumption that the culprit is speaking for itself in the notes, considering it presumably wrote them. The culprit says this is its suicide note; it's announcing it's going to die by its own actions. Skipping the second line for now, it's apologetic. It says it doesn't want to die right afterwards\u2026 it can be read as it being apologetic that it doesn't want to die. This might mean the murders are necessary for it not to die, and it feels sorry for that. Of course, that it's written in first person plural might be of note. It might be the intent of multiple culprits, or multiple minds, or a collective.\nAgent Pallas: Hell of a contradiction, isn't it? Saying it's going to commit suicide but that it doesn't want to die\u2026 though that might mean it's not committing suicide of its own will.\n\nInvestigator Acharya: That's certainly one interpretation, and likely correct, but as well it's true that people rarely commit suicide solely because they want to die. It's because they want to stop their own suffering. It certainly lines up with this entity demonstrating the capacity for remorse. It doesn't want to die, but it's suffering, and it regrets.\nAgent Pallas: Empathizing a bit much with something that's killed over a dozen people, aren't you? I'm not gonna say you shouldn't because it's inhuman, but it's still a murderer.\nInvestigator Acharya: Maybe so, but perhaps that perspective might be just what's necessary to solve this mystery. If you're worried about my resolve, don't be. I may feel for it, but I'm not going to let it keep killing people.\nAgent Pallas: As long as you get the picture.\nInvestigator Acharya: Picture gotten. Now, as for the second line, that's what's most intriguing. It's requesting a detective. If it was because it wanted to lure in and kill that which could jeopardize it, we would have Foundation casualties by now. No, it wants a detective because it wants to be solved. It wants to be found out. There's no other reason to request a detective to come to a crime scene. Isn't that something? An anomaly that wants to be solved\u2026 do you know of any?\nAgent Pallas: You could probably count them on your hands. Generally anomalies abhor being solved, being made to conform to a single answer or framework. It's why they're anomalous. Each and every one of them are mysteries that refuse to be solved.\nInvestigator Acharya: And yet this one, for some reason, wants to be solved. If we consider the lines as connecting to each other, then perhaps a detective is a requisite component, necessary to it not wanting to die. Perhaps the detective is part of its suicide.\nAgent Pallas: We've had over a dozen different investigators assigned to this case, and the contents of the note haven't changed once. Maybe its request won't ever be satisfied, or can't be satisfied. Anomalies don't operate on logic. You can't always answer them.\nInvestigator Acharya: And it's exactly that attitude I can't accept. That we haven't figured them out yet doesn't mean we never will. I'm sure there's some theoretical upper limit to human knowledge, but I don't give a toss. All I know and all I care about is that I have been presented with a mystery, that my presence as a detective has been requested, and that the lives of innocent people are at stake. I will find the truth. I've failed as a detective the moment I think I can't. I'm not going to stop until the mystery is solved.\nAgent Pallas: \u2026 Well, here's hoping that attitude gets us somewhere.\nInvestigator Acharya: Again, appreciate the vote of confidence. Speaking of confidence, going back to the note, there is one last thing I noticed and am confident about.\nAgent Pallas: Let's hear it.\nInvestigator Acharya: Between the blue sticky note and the kind of pen you'd get in the school supplies section of a store, the quality of the handwriting itself, and the lines themselves\u2026 I would say the note feels like it was written by someone in middle school, maybe in high school at latest. A teenager. A kid.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum.5037.1:\nOn 1/9/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5037-15 occurred in a locked walk-in closet with a woman named Dorothy Walker. While all other circumstances remained identical to previous SCP-5037 instances, the contents of the note found with SCP-5037-15 had changed. A transcript follows.\n\nThis is a suicide note\nPlease solve us\nPlease don't solve us\nWe are sorry\nWe don't want to die\n\nInvestigation Log 5037.2\n\nInvestigation Log 5037.2\n\nMeeting Regarding SCP-5037-15\nDate: 1/9//20\u2588\u2588\n[BEGIN LOG]\nInvestigator Acharya: We were too late. We couldn't figure it out in time to save her.\nAgent Pallas: Investi-\u2026 Isaac, it isn't your fault. People a hell of a lot more qualified couldn't figure it out. It comes with the job. Sometimes, there's nothing you can do. But now something's changed, thanks to you, and because of her sacrifice we'll solve this.\nInvestigator Acharya: You don't get to call it a sacrifice. This woman didn't agree to be sacrificed. She didn't want to die.\nAgent Pallas: \u2026 You're right. I'm sorry.\nInvestigator Acharya lets out a drawn out sigh\nInvestigator Acharya: No, I should apologize. That was too harsh of me. You're right that her death won't be in vain. We might not have been able to save her, but we're not going to let anyone else die. I've been recognized as the detective. I will solve this mystery.\nAgent Pallas: And I'll be there to assist. I'm not about to give up, not when mister Level 0 here is refusing to.\nInvestigator Acharya: Heh. Honestly, you're a pretty damn inspiring liaison, assistant, and bodyguard yourself. With the two of us, I'm sure we can do this. Let's get to it.\nAgent Pallas: The changed wording\u2026 again there's that contradiction. It wants to be solved, but it also doesn't want to be solved. Still a suicide note, but still not wanting to die.\nInvestigator Acharya: The order, I think, is important. It wants to be solved, but then it doesn't want to. That suggests a limit or threshold. It wants to keep being solved, but past a certain point it doesn't. It wants us to eat away at this mystery, but it doesn't want to be completely solved.\nAgent Pallas: There's that plural being emphasized again as well. Solve us\u2026 it's an odd wording. You'd think the culprit would ask to be caught, or figured out. Normally I wouldn't think twice about odd wording with an anomaly, but it seems to think your detective style suits it, so.\nInvestigator Acharya: They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so much appreciated. As it happens, I agree. If we consider the wording to be important, it is odd that it'd ask us to 'solve us, the culprits'\u2026\nAfter around a minute's silence, Investigator Acharya audibly bolts up from his seat.\nInvestigator Acharya: That's it! Damn it, it all makes sense now! Agent, you're brilliant!\nAgent Pallas: Compliment bashfully declined, but what do you mean?\nInvestigator Acharya: We've been operating under the assumption that the 'we' and the 'us' could only ever refer to some culprit, but a key component of some locked room murders is that there isn't always one. Someone accidentally sets off an elaborate trap, or indeed commits suicide that becomes mistaken for homicide. We're not being asked to solve a culprit or culprits that don't necessarily exist. We've been asked to solve a mystery, a mystery made up of\u2026\nAgent Pallas: \u2026 murders. That's why there's been a note attached to every murder. It's that absurdly literal. The mystery, speaking in plural because it's made up of multiple murders, requested a detective to solve it. The mystery is keeping itself from dying by adding to itself, and that means adding more deaths that are clearly part of the same mystery. It's a sapient abstract concept, a living mystery actualizing itself in reality.\nInvestigator Acharya: Can't say I fully understand what you just said, but I do get that the note is written from the viewpoint of a mystery, and that being investigated and speculated about is what gives a mystery its meaning as a mystery. To that end it wants to be solved, but once it's completely solved it ceases to be a mystery. That's why it wants to be solved but also doesn't want to be. It's killing itself in parts just to stay alive.\nAgent Pallas: This is some fucking painful hindsight. Hell, the database page itself says 'SCP-5037 is a series of murders', and that's quite literally what it is in its entirety. But\u2026 knowing what it is won't stop it. There's nothing to stop it from continuing to add to itself.\nInvestigator Acharya: We haven't fully solved the mystery just yet. You said that the plural in the note was because it was made up of murders, yeah?\nAgent Pallas: That would be the seeming conclusion, yes.\nInvestigator Acharya: Then why was it plural in the note found with the very first?\nAgent Pallas: \u2026 Oh goddamn it, the hindsight just got even more painful. I can't believe we didn't catch this. No, I can. Of course the Foundation overlooked this.\nInvestigator Acharya: Now it's your turn to clue me in?\nAgent Pallas: One month before the first instance of SCP-5037, there was a prominent locked room murder right here in Lubbock. The Foundation looked into it at the time, and looked into it again after SCP-5037 was designated, but dismissed it as unrelated. All the teens and pundits salivating on the Internet about the 'Triple Locked Room Murder Mystery' considered it related, and we encouraged that to get them farther from what we thought was the truth.\nInvestigator Acharya: Why was it dismissed as unrelated?\nAgent Pallas: Because it wasn't anomalous at all fucking whatsoever\u2026 and because it wasn't a closed room murder like it was reported to be.\nAgent Pallas pauses and sighs\nAgent Pallas: It was a suicide.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum.5037.2\nOn 1/10/20\u2588\u2588, Lubbock police chief Carson Grimes was induced by the Foundation to confess to the crime of falsifying police records in order to report the suicide of his 15-year old son Nelson Grimes via sleeping pill overdose as a 'locked room' murder. He was additionally made to confess that the first three instances of SCP-5037 were also suicides he falsely reported as 'locked room' murders, produced via fabricated evidence and coercion of witnesses.\nAfter three months following this course of action without additional SCP-5037 instances, SCP-5037 is pending reclassification as Neutralized.\nAddendum.5037.3\nOn 4/9/20\u2588\u2588, former Lubbock police chief Carson Grimes committed suicide in his prison cell, having overdosed on sleeping pills he requested in order to deal with recurring nightmares featuring his son.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A class of drugs typically known for sedative effects, often simply referred to as sleeping pills\n\n\u00ab SCP-5036 | SCP-5037 | SCP-5038 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImage Sources:\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_a_suburban_home,_by_James_G._Lock.jpg\n\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-12-17_12.06.08OldPC.jpg\nAll modifications to these images were done by me.\n\n\nYour name is Michael Welsh, you're 28-years-old, and you've been recently assigned to a newly formulated project with the intent of finding the true nature of an anomaly that in your opinion, you find quite mundane. You also find it strange that anything more than just locking the SCP in a box and forgetting it would be a massive waste of the Foundation's resources.\n\nSCP-5039 they call it, and you're on your way to the para-media archival center to retrieve information on it. This is because a new experiment is underway and you're the only one with a memetic resistance high enough to view it.\n\nAt this point, you've finished walking down the bleach-colored corridor of Provisional Site-76, finally reaching your destination. The large metal doors seem cold and uninviting, but you persist, swiping your keycard and walking through the security doors.\n\nStepping through, you're unimpressed by the generic office-like setting with the indistinguishable scent of mold, dust and rotting wood assaulting your nose as soon as you take your first breath.\n\nDespite this, your main point of attention is that you're completely alone. Nothing but you and the persistent buzzing noise, its origin completely unknown to you.\n\nFor some odd reason, you have a strange feeling of importance, but you just attribute this to your loneliness in this massive database. Making your way to the partially molded desk, you see a file waiting on it. You hesitate for a moment for reasons unknown before taking a seat and opening the file.\n\nItem #: SCP-5039\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nA still taken from SCP-5039 found in the same location as the VHS tape in which it was discovered. How the still was initially created is currently unknown.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of devices displaying either portions of SCP-5039 or the object entirely, are to be confiscated from the owner and destroyed via conventional means. Should an individual view SCP-5039, they are to be quarantined for a minimum of 72 consecutive hours in order to determine if the individual has been contaminated by the memetic agents present in SCP-5039.\nIn instances where subjects have shown symptoms of memetic contamination, they should be held within Provisional Site-76 throughout the process of decontamination. Should subjects display levels of contamination exceeding that of which an individual could recover from, they may-be terminated humanely per standards set in place by the Ethics Committee on July 25, 1975.\nConcerning the continued research of SCP-5039, a standard MP4 file of the anomaly is to be stored in a secure SCiPNET database only accessible to personnel possessing a security clearance at or exceeding Level-3/5039. Researchers working with SCP-5039 are forbidden from directly viewing the object, in exception to those possessing a memetic resistance at or exceeding 5.5 and directly authorized to do so.\nPossible revision to these procedures in light of new information is currently being reviewed between the SCP-5039 research team and the Classifications Committee.\nDescription: SCP-5039 designates an MP4 based video file, transmittable between all forms of media capable of displaying such an item. The video contains numerous memetic properties related to memory as well as other abstract concepts. This will commonly cause auditory hallucinations of music, though this varies between individuals viewing SCP-5039. These symptoms primarily manifest in individuals who have had a previous history of lucid dreaming. Current research into these relations is currently ongoing.\nInformation obtained during subsequent viewings of SCP-5039 has concluded its contents to be a video-based diary created by an unidentifiable individual between the ages of 15-17 designated SCP-5039-1. This consists of events commonly attributed as typical to events in education-based facilities throughout the mid-western United States such as conflicts between groups, foil, and other related topics. Other topics include the individual's daily routine, outings with peers and other social gatherings typical of the mid 20th Century.\nConclusive documentation of the length of SCP-5039 has thus far been impossible, primarily due to events in SCP-5039 changing or becoming completely absent from the film between viewings. The only known portion of the video proven to be consistent is the beginning and conclusion of SCP-5039 always starting in a recreational room of a building resembling that of a public school, while the ending always results in\u2014\n\n\"Wait, that can't be it?\"\n\nYou turn the file over hoping to see the document entirely but there's nothing. You don't even actually know what the object does or why you of all people were sent to this dingy site in the middle of Indiana just to read this seemingly meaningless article.\n\nThinking to yourself, you assume that it may have just been a misprint, a slip-up, a mistake. Standing up, you produce your Foundation issued cell phone and attempt to call the head researcher of the SCP.\n\n\"Hmm, no signal.\"\n\nYou find yourself confused, as this has never happened before. Your phone was always in working order and you've never seen an incomplete document, especially one that had caught the interest of a few of the higher-ups.\n\nYou're turning to leave as you have no other choice, but something catches your eye. A small VHS tape placed carelessly on a desk with an archaic computer terminal atop of it.\n\nYou try to ignore it and continue your leave, but every thought you attempt to conjure keeps leading back to that seemingly old and worthless tape.\n\nFinally you give in, cautiously stepping towards the metal desk, an intangible fear gripping you for unknown reasons as you do so.\n\nPicking up the decrepit tape you read the label: \"JUST ME, SENIOR MEMORIES OF SHIRLEY HIGH SCHOOL 1976\" written in all capitals, seemingly in a hurry.\n\nYou have a strange compulsion to watch the tape but no. What if this is SCP-5039, and this is a test or some form of discipline for your misacting? But wait, the article said that all of the copies were destroyed and the one that remains is a digital file.\n\nIt's done, you're going to play the tape and hope for the best. You rush over to the storage closet retrieving a VHS player and an adapter to use on the terminal monitor.\n\nAfter fumbling around for a few minutes, you finally have everything in working order and slide the tape into the machine.\n\nThe video opens with static but after a few seconds, the screen slowly begins to fade in and shows a cafeteria full of students and a couple of teachers maintaining order.\n\n\"There, now it should work.\" is audible in a female voice coming from off-screen.\n\nThe camera pans around showing a young female 15-17 years old with dark blond hair and green eyes.\n\n\"Hello world, or well in better terms, hi viewer I'm [DATA CORRUPTED] and I'm currently a senior at Shirley High School in Colton, Indiana. Ms. Clarkson recommended that I make a video journal to document all of the memories of senior year for when I'm older and want to look back. Well, this is just a test for now and biology class is about to start so bye everyone.\"\n\nThe camera then appears to be set on pause resuming some time later in an outdoor setting.\n\n\"Hey Tammy, do you think the test on the Han Dynasty is gonna be hard or easy like the one on the correlations between music and human sacrifice?\"\n\n\"[DATA CORRUPTED] what? We never had a test like that, what are you talking about?\"\n\n\"Oh yea that's right.\"\n\n\"[DATA CORRUPTED] is everything alright today you've been acting screwy?\"\n\n\"I'm fine, I'm just a bit stressed out that's all.\"\n\n\"O-oh, ok.\"\n\nThe two individuals continue walking silently down the path and several houses become visible in the distance.\n\nThe two diverge with the one identified as Tammy turning right and entering the small house located in the previously stated position. While the one holding the camera enters the two-story house on the left.\n\nFuck fuckfuckfuck! You know that's SCP-5039 but you can't move anything: your arms, legs and even your eyes are completely still and fixated on the screen. You pray that someone, something will come through the metal doors and save you from the memetic clamp that's sprung upon you.\n\nThe camera goes quiet once again before cutting to what can only be assumed to be several days later. A bowl of cereal is visible and 3 other individuals can be seen. The one holding the camera begins to speak.\n\n\"Dad, I had a nightmare last night and I was wondering if I could talk to you about it?\"\n\n\"Sure KW, what was it?\"\n\n\"I was walking through a place that looked like the food store downtown, but things were wrong. See, you were all there but without faces, and when I tried to go to you guys, I saw 9 girls I guess? Well, that's what they looked like. Before getting stabbed with music notes coming from some hole.\"\n\n\"Hmm KW, just remember, all of that isn't real so you don't have to be afraid. Look, when you grow up you'll realize that you won't have to worry about such nonsense and finally realize that sleeping isn't real either.\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\nThe adult male figure stares blankly before the camera cuts out with a loud hiss.\n\nThe scene becomes visible, the camera-woman and three others at a social gathering akin to a party. Three including the one holding the camera are sitting on a somewhat dilapidated deck while the others are visible playing in a pool which constantly shifts from being clean to having a black sludge with snails arranged in a fashion to form whole notes.\n\n\"[DATA CORRUPTED] don't worry I'm sure you can convince them to stay here with us so you don't grow-up go away.\"\n\n\"Innocence, I'm not sure, they're really persistent about moving on. Like what's the point of 76?\n\nTrust joins in.\n\n\"Well at age 75 everything died, even innocence and me. Maybe it's just the symphony trying to get back what was lost.\"\n\n[DATA CORRUPTED] chimes in one last time.\n\n\"Well, when you put it that way, I guess it's just one big cycle into syncope. Thank you two for coming back one last time.\"\n\nThe two speak.\n\n\"Don't mention it.\"\n\nThe individual holding the camera beings to spasm before presumably vanishing with the camera falling to the ground facing Innocence and Trust.\n\nAt once.\n\n\"I can't wait to see Michael again.\"\n[Video Ends]\n\nBack in the archival center of Provisional Site-76, Kellie Welsh, now able to stand does so, and he she slowly makes her way out of the site to resume her work with what she thought were her friends.\n\nSCAN COMPLETE\n\nAs initially theorized, upon further review it has been discovered that the previously viewed document was the result of data corruption from an unknown source. A revised document has been made available here.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5038 | SCP-5039 | SCP-5040 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\u26a0\ufe0f content warning  \n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This work of fiction involves scenes which depict or allude to topics which may be particularly distressing for some readers. Please scroll for a list of such topics contained in this piece.\n\nBlood\nBody horror\nDeath\nDental trauma\nForced captivity\nGore\nHostages\nKidnapping\nMisogyny\nMurder\nPTSD\nSelf-harm\nSexism\nTorture\nViolence\n\nReaders with particular sensitivities should also be aware that this story also depicts or alludes to the following subjects which are less prevalent among content advisories, but nevertheless have the potential to be disturbing:\n\nFacial mutilation\nOcular body horror (\"eye scream\")\nViolence against women\nViolent treatment of women in media\n\n\nPeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\nA reminder from the Records and Information Security Administration\nUnauthorised personnel are not permitted to rename secure documents. Mr. Rubber, the junior research intern responsible for changes to SCP-5040's code name, will continue to serve our organization by maintaining the cleanliness of the subfloor restrooms.\nIf you wish to edit this file, please contact your IntSCPFN server administrator.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, RAISA Director\n\nItem#: 5040\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawler Kappa-08 (\"CINEGAMI\") is to seek and suppress all references to SCP-5040 in online discussions and entertainment news. Antimemetic inoculations against the propagation of SCP-5040 are in development.\nDescription: SCP-5040 is a nonexistent Japanese horror film entitled \u8840\u306e\u6d99 (\"Tears of Blood\")1 which spontaneously manifests in human memories. Those affected by SCP-5040 will remember going to see the film even when their supposed attendance would contradict empirical evidence. SCP-5040 afflictions may occur in any place where movies are shown, including cultures where its content would usually be prohibited. Subtitles and/or dubbing will be used when appropriate.\nDescriptions of the film are always similar in nature, as are the circumstances and events surrounding the viewing. However, reports of SCP-5040's story and characters are never fully consistent, and the film's setting, subplots, character names, and much of the dialogue will be different for each viewer.2 Casting also varies and appears largely arbitrary; a broad variety of Japanese performers and entertainment personalities (both living and deceased) have been said to star in the film, even when the actor in question has no real-life associations with the horror genre. Despite these differences, the film's beginning, climax, and ending consistently hew to the same general plot (see Doc. 5040-Prime).\nAfter conducting more than three hundred interviews, researchers have constructed a detailed synopsis of SCP-5040's most consistent story elements and the most common sequence of events associated with the viewer's memory of their screening attendance (see Doc. 5040-Prime).\n\nAddendum 5040-Prime:\n\nScreenings always begin at sunset. If a subject had prior commitments for that day and time, they learn that the commitment was abruptly cancelled or resolved through unforeseen circumstances. The subject decides to spend their free time by seeing a movie at a local theater.\nUpon arrival, they see a large crowd gathered at the box office and learn the entire theater has been reserved for a special event: a one-time-only screening of a rare, critically acclaimed film. Admission is free. Drawn in by the excitement, the subject indulges their curiosity and gets in line for a ticket.\nMost seats are already occupied when the subject reaches the auditorium, but they find an empty space in the back. They notice that a large number of people throughout the audience wear disposable face masks, even if this practice is not common in the local culture. The woman who takes the seat next to the subject wears one such mask, as does the woman beside her.\nThe remaining seats are quickly taken, but patrons continue to file in. By the time the lights dim, the audience completely fill the aisles and stairs, leaving the areas around the exits standing room only. An IV pole carrying a bag of unknown fluid may be seen protruding from the crowd, but with no clear indication who it is connected to. The subject might also notice that elsewhere in the theater, one of the masked audience members wears a hospital gown.\nThere are no trailers or advertisements before the film. The theater goes silent when it begins.\n\nThe film opens with the female protagonist going about mundane activities in her day-to-day life. She is interrupted by a phone call from an unknown party who tells her that a loved one has been hospitalized. When the protagonist leaves her apartment to go to the hospital, she is attacked by a male assailant and loses consciousness.\nWhen the protagonist wakes up, she finds herself in an unfamiliar building with her arms and legs bound. She is accompanied by a number of other female captives, some of whom still remain unconscious. The women briefly discuss the possibility of an escape, but are interrupted when the kidnapper appears. He sees one of the women crying and kills her without hesitation. The kidnapper explains that he intends to release the captives after 24 hours, but only under the condition that they do not cry.\nThroughout the film, the kidnapper exacts various forms of physical and psychological torture on the group. Despite their best efforts, captives prove unable to hold back their tears, and they are murdered one by one until only the protagonist remains. Frustrated by the protagonist's resolve, the kidnapper gradually escalates her torture; however, the protagonist only responds with rebukes, which angers the kidnapper even further.\n\nAs the protagonist makes a speech against the kidnapper, the subject notices what seems to be a slight echo to the dialogue. They eventually realize that the two masked women sitting beside them are softly repeating every line of dialogue as it occurs. If they look further, they will see that the lower half of the women's masks are saturated with saliva and their hands are clasped together so tightly that their fingernails have begun to draw blood.\n\nAt the film's climax, the kidnapper approaches the protagonist with a double edge razor blade and announces that even if she is freed, she will spend the rest of her life horribly disfigured. This leads to an argument between the two which touches on themes such as the nature of inner and outer beauty, the value of women in society, and the societal stigma against expressions of vulnerability. Eventually, the kidnapper loses patience, throws the protagonist to the floor, and grabs her face.\n\nFrom this point onward, the subject hears groans from unidentified members of the audience.\n\nGripping the protagonist's lower lip between his thumb and forefinger, the kidnapper takes the razor blade and cuts a deep fissure from the corner of her mouth to her chin. He works the blade across her face using a rough sawing motion until her lower lip is partially amputated. He pauses to mock the protagonist and she uses the opportunity to grab the razor from him with her teeth. Before the kidnapper can react, she slices his left eye open.\nThe kidnapper screams as blood and vitreous humor spill from his face, allowing time for the protagonist to maneuver the razor to her fingers and cut through her bindings. Enraged and half blind, the kidnapper grabs the remaining flap of the protagonist's lower lip and pulls sharply, tearing it from her face along with a large strip of her right cheek. As the kidnapper expresses his satisfaction, the protagonist finishes freeing herself and slits the kidnapper's throat with the razor.\n\nWhereas the film's previous murders often differ between manifestations, all interviewees gave consistent descriptions of the violent climax and displayed a greater degree of clarity in their recollection of this scene than at any other point in the film. ~80% of subjects also reported that the movie's climax was accompanied by a profound sense of dread, but did not attribute the feeling to the movie itself.\n\nThe protagonist hurries to the exit as the kidnapper bleeds to death on the floor. Although her speech is impeded by her injuries, she pauses before leaving to mock the kidnapper one last time, calmly telling him that he \"cried tears of blood\" and therefore had to die according to his own rules.\nThe film abruptly cuts to an unspecified point in the future. Now wearing a face mask to hide her disfigured mouth, the protagonist walks down the street to her apartment, indifferent to the crowd of paparazzi that follows her. When she finally reaches her bedroom, the protagonist slowly takes off her mask and looks at herself in the mirror. She stares in silence at the missing lower portion of her face and sheds a tear. Over the course of several minutes, her weeping gradually builds into frenzied sobs and shrieks. The film cuts to black and the credits roll, but the sound of the protagonist's cries continue to play with no other audio until the credit reel ends.\n\nThe other audience members largely remain silent after the movie ends, exchanging only whispers as they exit the theater. Subjects have claimed to have seen small red puddles and stains on the theater floor on their way out. Those who remain past this point will experience an escalating feeling of unwelcomeness until they are driven to leave.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Sometimes reported as simply \"\u8840\u6d99\".\n2. Researchers familiar with paramedia should note the contrast with nonexistent works of anafabulaic origin, which are generally described with consistent details.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5039 | SCP-5040 | SCP-5041 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nThanks to MaliceAforethought for looking this over. His crit prompted me to go in a vastly different direction from my original drafts, which I was much happier with.\nThanks to The Pighead for help with French translation.\nAdditional thanks to my other critters: DrAkimoto, Oboebandgeek99, Anxiety Incorporated, MalyceGraves\n\nView more of my articles here.\n\nFor the benefit of translators and editors, here are links to the individual offsets:\n\nFirst Page\nSecond Page\n\n\nby stormbreath\n\nItem #: SCP-5041\nObject Class: Keter-provisi\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5041 is to be contained within Specialized Containment Cell-01 at Site-Aleph. It is not to be removed from SCC-01 at any time, and SCC-01 should not be accessed by any individual outside the specific provisions allowed by the containment procedures.\nSCC-01 is the top story of Building-01 within Site-Aleph. It consists of four rooms: a main chamber, a bedroom, a bathroom, and an antechamber. The only room into which containment staff are allowed to enter is the antechamber and only to deliver food or other provisions to SCP-5041. Containment staff are to ring a doorbell to give SCP-5041 time to vacate the antechamber before they enter. All rooms of SCC-01 have been soundproofed. SCC-01 is to be outfitted with furniture as appropriate.\nThe roof of SCC-01's main chamber is a skylight, which is cleaned by automated mechanisms. All Foundation satellites that pass over SCC-01 have been set to automatically censor photographs of SCC-01. Under no circumstances should the interior of SCC-01 be viewed; immediate amnestic treatment is required if this is violated. If it is necessary to access the roof of Aleph-Building-01, automated shutters have been installed to close the skylight. SCP-5041 should be notified in advance that the shutters are to be used.\nSCP-5041 has been granted Grade-A Humanoid Amenity privileges. In addition to receiving three Grade-A meals each day, it is to be given two bottles of wine and a Grade-A dessert package every week. Entertainment media given to SCP-5041 should not contain depictions of any individuals or characters, real or fictional.\nSCP-5041 may make requests to the containment staff of any nature, by writing on a slip of paper and putting said paper into a slot in the antechamber of SCC-01. After these requests are read and denied/granted, they are to be incinerated.\nDescription: SCP-5041 is a humanoid. As SCP-5041 is still alive after three hundred years of continuous containment it is either immortal, of a greatly extended life-span, or is non-human. SCP-5041 is believed to have other anomalous properties. No details of these additional properties are known.\nIt is not known why SCP-5041 is in containment.\n\n+ Personal Logs of Doctor Clouzot, SCP-5041 HMCL Supervisor\n\n- Close Logs.\n\nJune 8th, 2020:\nFirst day on the job as acting HMCL Supervisor for SCP-5041. It's a Keter, unlike my previous assignments (all Safe) \u2014 guess that it's being treated at a lower level than the Object Class would indicate. Previous HMCL Supervisor had been on the job for nearly forty years, it looks like, before retiring. It's a stable job \u2014 some might say a dead end.\nI do find it troubling, however, that there isn't any proper information about the anomaly itself. That's a little worrying, if you ask me. This thing has apparently been in Foundation containment since the beginning, and we don't know anything about it. Containment Procedures forbid almost any kind of testing, so I'll have to be digging into the archives for the investigation. Won't be able to get an amendment if they're stable (as it would appear).\nLet's see what I can scrape from the Con Procs and Description:\n\nHazardous to perceive? Extends to all forms, apparently \u2014 sight and sound both potential vectors. Cognitohazard or memetic likely.\nNotes can be read, but only once \u2014 effect extends to materials produced by the entity, but not significant? Not automatically lethal or not that dangerous\nImmortal, 300+ years old. Unclear if this property relates to main sensory anomaly.\n\nLook into specific times for initial containment. Contained in oldest building at first French site.\nStill requires food/drink to live? Is food actually necessary or has other purpose \u2014 as suggested by dessert/wine privileges. Why does it get those?\n\nJune 9th, 2020:\nInvestigation starts at the beginning. Information about SCP-5041 from the time before it came into the Foundation is sparse, but we do know a little. It was originally contained by the Estate noir (French Foundation precursor, although more of an Insurgency precursor in all honesty), beginning in 1713. We've got this document from them:\n\nTo the honourable Jailer of Avignon,\nDelivered unto you in one weeks time shall be a prisoner of most unusual quality. You are to guard him until such time as further instruction is given; however, it is unlikely he shall ever be fit for release from captivity. It is the belief of the Estate noir that the prisoner shall never be released, and that he shall be held till the end of days.\nDuring the time of which he shall be rendered unto you, outfit a cell with the following specifications to hold him. The prisoner is not to be released from this cell, nor should the cell be modified in any way \u2014 the following requirements have been determined to be the safest method of holding the prisoner, for both himself and others.\n\nThe cell should be constructed so that prison is neither able to see any individuals of the outside world, nor should any individual of the outside world be able to look upon the prisoner. To this end, it is recommended that the prisoner be placed in a high tower, with windows angled up towards the sky.\n\nIt is imperative, however, that the prisoner is allowed access to natural light. Do not put the prisoner in a room without a window of any form, but allow him his daily light.\n\nThere should be an antechamber between the cell holding the prisoner and between the general corridors of whichever prison is holding him. The antechamber should have locked doors on either side.\nThe cell should be protected against sound as well as possible, so that no sounds penetrate the interior chamber in which the prisoner is kept, and so the prisoner does not hear any of the ongoings or discussions of his jailers.\nThe door between the antechamber and the cell is to have an angled slot in it, that allows for the prisoner to slip a note through the door and into the antechamber.\n\nOnce the prisoner has been delivered unto you, and is kept within the cell, he is to be treated in the following manner. Be sure to do so with great respect and civility, for while the prisoner is responsible for terrible acts, he is repentant of his sin.\n\nLike the famed prisoner held by B\u00e9nigne d'Auvergne de Saint-Mars, the prisoner has been given a mask of black velvet to wear at all times. The prisoner shall be delivered to you wearing this mask, and he will wear it all times, should the unlikely situation require him to appear in public. Do not force him to remove it.\nNo contact should be held with the prisoner. He is not to be spoken to nor exposed to the outside world, and should spend the rest of his days in isolation.\nSo that the mind of the prisoner remains sane and does not decay, he is to be provided with various forms of entertainment and engagement:\n\nThe prisoner may be allowed books and poems, but none of these are to reflect the lives of individuals or their stories. He may be given paintings to decorate the cell, so long as these paintings do not depict any individuals.\nThe prisoner is to be allowed the materials with which to write and paint. Should he place any in the antechamber, it is to be destroyed without inspection.\n\nThe prisoner is to be fed well each day, with three proper meals given to him. He is to be afforded two bottles of wine per week, of whatever vintage that is readily available.\nFinally, the furnishings of the prison cell should be finely done and crafted. The cell that holds the prisoner should not be sparse of comforts, for it shall be his home for eternity.\n\nThe prisoner was responsible for the disappearance of a rather large number of victims, some leagues south of Mende. As a result of his nature, the names of these victims have been forgotten, and they have vanished from all accounts. Nonetheless, the Estate noir is certain that he is responsible for this, as\u2014\n\nThere was evidently a second page/more to this letter, but it was completely absent from the records. Unclear if it was lost before or after the Foundation formed, or if the Estate noir lost it in the past. Possible it was destroyed in the Foundation Civil War. Either way, we don't have it, and only have the first half of the letter.\nSalient points:\n\nEstate noir didn't expect the prisoner to be able to be released. Implication that this is distinct from the reason it's in containment/any sense of justice/punishment for actions.\nKilled(?) a lot of people in the south of France, almost totally \u2014 antimemetic in some capacity, it seems? Not certain about that (can still remember it myself).\nIt looks like most of the food provisions are because the Estate noir were being polite, and the Foundation simply kept up the traditions when they inherited the object. No real reason to have them, most likely.\n\nSunlight is set apart from the rest and called out as being more important. Seems key?\n\nReference to the historical Man in the Iron Mask \u2014 some of the containment might be a reference to that, not because it was specifically tailored to 5041 itself? Need to review the history of that case, see if there's any reasoning I can't scrape out of it.\nInteresting note that stories can't have people in them. Weird that's the biggest/only concern (although exceedingly broad).\nKey points as I see them here are the mental state of the prisoner \u2014 keeping him alright \u2014 and making sure he has almost no contact with the outside world. Not just about making sure we don't know about him, but that he doesn't know about us either.\n\nJune 12th, 2020:\nWas digging late last night into old records and the like (lead about the Man in the Iron Mask didn't go anywhere \u2014 that case is too much of a mystery itself). Lots of old records, most of it unhelpful. Almost passed out from low blood sugar \u2014 feel like I might be putting myself on the line here. Warnings about infohazards are also in that vein. But still! I have to do this for myself the Foundation.\nWent for a review of more information, and was able to find the following interview log from 1988. It's the work of old Doctor Lebeau (now retired with a dose of amnestics) and was buried under a mountain of paperwork (what he had to go through to get it approved). Took him over a year to do that \u2014 I'll start the processes but it'll take a while to do it myself.\n\nDoctor Lebeau: Hello. Are you inside?Doctor Lebeau: We are the group holding you, and we just want to know a little more about you. Our records are not very complete, and we want to know who you are and why you are here.Doctor Lebeau: No, the Estate noir has not existed since the year 1900. We are the Foundation, and we are the successors to the Estate noir.Doctor Lebeau: Now, may we ask your name?Doctor Lebeau: Might we call you SCP-5041, in that case?Doctor Lebeau: That's what we currently refer to you as. It doesn't truly mean anything itself, it has no inherent meaning to you.Doctor Lebeau: Noted, SCP-5041. We would like to speak to you about your unusual properties.Doctor Lebeau: Then, can we ask why the Estate noir initially jailed you, in 1713?Doctor Lebeau: Our few records indicate that you complied with the Estate noir at all times. Is this all out of penitence for your crimes?Doctor Lebeau: And your crimes are linked to your unusual properties?\nSCP-5041 does not respond.\nDoctor Lebeau: SCP-5041?Doctor Lebeau: We simply wish to know what you are.Doctor Lebeau: Very well, SCP-5041. We'll be ending this interview. Do you have any other requests?\nHe deleted the actual audio but left this translation lying around. Not sure if that was intentional, but I have it now. I'm not sure what to make of it other than the emphasis that the prisoner wants to be left alone (can't have that as a standard and unchallenged practice). It rejected/denied any attempts to learn anything about it, and just told Lebeau to fuck off. That's not the way anomalies talk to us.\nI feel like I'm getting close to cracking this thing. I can imagine where it might take me. Nice reward for all my troubles.\n\nJune 15th, 2020:\nThe following note was dropped out of the dropbox today, into the antechamber.\n\nVeuillez calmement cesser votre plan d'action actuel, Monsieur.\n\nTranslated from the original French: \"Please cease your current course of action, sir.\"\nDecided not to listen to this warning (has to be a warning, given effects). Too close to stop now. I'm almost there. I'm getting to the bottom of this, even if it kills me. We need to know.\n\nOne scrap of information I realized from this: it's been aware of me investigating. There's been no contact with it in the slightest since I started this whole investigation. It has to have a precognition of the outside world somehow\u2026 And it somehow learned that I was a man? Could just be an assumption, can't make any assumptions based on that.\n\nJune 17th, 2020:\nI've got it!\nI figured it all out, every last bit. A theory that explains just about every last detail of the anomaly. I've written up a new draft of the description, and I'll be submitting it to the Site Director tomorrow. It's flawless, and we should be able to test it without much consequence.\nAnd like I expected, much of the current containment routine is unnecessary! So we'll be able to make some significant revisions to that (no need for all the expenses that we're currently dealing with) to bring it in line with the standards for humanoids. Nothing too special about this one that needs to get dessert on a weekly basis. That's way out of line.\nSo not only am I the one to figure out an anomaly that's had us stumped for three-hundred years, I'm the one who refines the containment procedures for it! This is perfect, I couldn't have asked for a better assignment. Doctor Lebeau was a \"genius\" but he never even came close to figuring this thing out. (Guess I'll have to thank him for what little research I got from him, but whatever.)\nSo much for a dead-end career \u2014 I'll be able to leverage this hard. Promotions, advancement, it's all opening up now for me.\n\nJune 20th, 2020:\nWell.\nI've had a rough few days.\nThursday \u2014 I woke up to find out that SCP-5041 wasn't taking breakfast in the morning. Nothing too unusual and no alarm was raised \u2014 it had done that before. But then it didn't take lunch either, and I began to suspect something was wrong. It took until nearly dinner time (also rejected) before I got a solution in place.\nLowest grade .aic we have, installed into the automated roof cleaner. Scan the containment cell for signs of life, tell us on the status of SCP-5041. Got the following result back:\n\nDate: 18th June 2020\nLocation: WELL-FURNISHED APARTMENT in BELLE \u00c9POQUE FRANCE (63% certainty)\nType: FULL COLOR PHOTOGRAPH\nSubject: The image contains twelve (12) PIECES OF FURNITURE in various locations. In the center of the photograph is one (1) ADULT PERSON lying down. With 100% certainty the PERSON in the image is DEAD.\n\nI didn't make up the mind to break containment and enter the cell until a few hours after that. Sent a low-risk D-Class (former medical practitioner \u2014 rare resource) into the cell to give an autopsy and verify the death. Came back to confirm the .aic's conclusion (and no sign of infohazardous contamination either).\nGot the body extracted from the containment cell and sent it to the morgue for a full inspection. Didn't hear back from them until yesterday, when they processed the autopsy. Cause of death was diabetic ketoacidosis of all things, dated to occur around the time of evening on the 17th. Incredibly bizarre \u2014 it must have developed that recently since it hadn't been treated in the past and made it this far. Makes me worry about myself.\nI spent today trying to clean out the cell and perform a thorough investigation of the contents, or at least planning to do so, when my clearance got abruptly shut off. Locked out of nearly everything, and my office door isn't opening. I've been trapped in here, remotely. But there's one thing that really worries me.\nThere's an unopened email from the Ethics Committee in my inbox.\n\nThis file has been updated.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5040 | SCP-5041 | SCP-5042 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5042: The not so funny pages\nImage is CC-BY 2.0 Knick Banas. Extranormal event entry authored by Ihp. Responsive table coding by Woedenaz.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5042-B-23 recovered from abandoned Westhead Media sweatshop in Boise, ID. DNA results inconclusive; sigils not visible.\n\nItem #: SCP-5042\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Webcrawler S29F87 (\"JUMBLE\") is to search online for keywords pertaining to SCP-5042-A twice an hour, with all results forwarded to Site-28. Upon verification, Mobile Task Force Mu-50 (\"Not Me\") is to be dispatched immediately, retrieve SCP-5042-A materials and locally disperse amnestics. SCP-5042-A comics are to be both physically and digitally archived upon returning to Site-28, with further copies distributed to all national Sites.\nSquad E of Upsilon-27 (\"Go West\")1 is to be dispatched concurrently with Mu-50 to search for signs of SCP-5042-C presence, and collect all SCP-5042-B instances found. Recovered SCP-5042-Bs are to be contained via cold storage in Site-28's Low Security Biological Wing. All SCP-5042-C locations are to be sealed from the public under the Condemned protocol.\nDescription: SCP-5042 encompasses three interrelated phenomena.\nSCP-5042-A is the collective designation for comic strips anomalously inserted into United States newspapers prior to printing, supplanting a random comic certified for publication. The method in which this is done is currently unknown, with interviewed syndicates confirming no prior knowledge of their inclusion.\nSCP-5042-A present themselves as new entries of comic strips that are no longer in full production2. While SCP-5042-A comics do not themselves possess anomalous properties, the contents therein show extensive deviation from the source material they emulate. The most common permutations include:\n\nA stark increase in dramatic tone, with little to no humor, regardless of its presence in the source material.\nInconsistent artwork and lettering, even from one panel to another.\nMotifs of a character injuring or losing one or more limbs.\nRecurring symbolism of eggs being broken, and/or fractures in the sky.\n\nIf uninterrupted, SCP-5042-A publication will continue until 20 days after an initial entry, Monday through Sunday, after which no new entries will be inserted and normal syndication will resume. As of writing, the Foundation estimates that this has occurred at least \u2588 times prior to and since discovery.\nSCP-5042-B refers to arms made from a hybrid of Swietenia macrophylla3 wood and human flesh. SCP-5042-B instances are used to create SCP-5042-A. As each instance is branded with a Westhead symbol and unique sigils on their palms, it is theorized that SCP-5042-B are partially golemic in nature. That they become inanimate when removed from a SCP-5042-C location further supports this.\nSCP-5042-C are locations established by Westhead Media for production of SCP-5042-A. SCP-5042-C are unanimously situated in rented spaces no more than \u2588\u2588 miles away from the nearest newspaper headquarters. Sweatshop conditions are employed across all SCP-5042-C locations, with the few human employees4 discovered shown to be malnourished and exhibiting signs of sleep deprivation. No more than one SCP-5042-C can exist at any given time. Ending of publication, whether voluntarily or not, will result in them being abandoned within 24 hours of cessation, followed by arsonist actions to destroy as much remaining evidence as possible.\nThe first recovered SCP-5042-B instances, and the connection between SCP-5042-A and the arson of SCP-5042-C locations, were not fully established until Incident 5042-20; refer to Addendum 5042-2 for more information.\nDiscovery: The first occurrence of SCP-5042-A documented by the Foundation was initially classified as an extranormal event, a copy of which is provided below:\n\n+ Show EE-60CH\n\n- Close EE-60CH\n\nEvent Description: From 10/2/2000 to 10/21/2000, new editions of the newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson were printed in the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a newspaper distributed in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 County, Maine. The strips depicted a single story arc over the course of its running, in which Calvin's wagon is destroyed, with Hobbes losing an arm in the process. Watterson has not published any new Calvin and Hobbes cartoons since 1995.\nDate of Occurrence: 10/2/2000-10/21/2000\nLocation: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 County, Maine.\nFollow-up Actions Taken: Editions of the newspaper with the comics printed in them were confiscated, with the archive of the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 expunged; all extant editions are archived. The strips were presented to Watterson, who confirmed that the art style, lettering, and signature were all his own, but he had not written or published them. Watterson was administered Class-A amnestics following this.\n\nHowever, one month after, a second event occurred with the Chicago Tribune, which was discovered by agents of Covert Task Force Phi-45 (\"Dewey Defeats Truman\") and quickly suppressed. An SCP designation request was approved shortly afterward, with EE-60CH retroactively receiving a designation of SCP-5042-A-1.\nAddendum 5042-1: Abridged list of SCP-5042-A entries:\n\nSCP-5042-A-#\nComic strip\nNewspaper affected\nDate(s) of publication\nSummary/Notes\n\nSCP-5042-A-01\nCalvin & Hobbes\nOxford Hills, Oxford County, Maine\n02 October-21 October, 2000\nCalvin and Hobbes ride down a hill in their wagon, but clip against a rock, causing it to careen into the forest. Calvin regains consciousness in the following comic, discovering that the wagon has been destroyed, and Hobbes has lost their left arm. Notably, Hobbes remains in their stuffed animal state, usually reserved for when characters other than Calvin are around, from now until the end of the entries, and periodically loses stuffing. Visibly shaken, Calvin gathers Hobbes into his arms, and treks through the dense forest. Dialogue alternates between Calvin calling for his parents, pleading for Hobbes to persevere, and long periods of silence. The time of day in each comic gradually transitions from the late afternoon to evening, a full moon soon becoming the sole light source. The final entry consists of Calvin, Hobbes no longer in his arms but clumps of stuffing surrounding him, staring up at the sky, commenting in jagged lettering that \"the night is breaking open\".\n\nSCP-5042-A-02\nPeanuts5\nChicago Tribune, Metropolitan Chicago Area, Illinois\n11 November to 12 November 2000 (further entries interrupted by Foundation intervention)\nLinus Van Pelt dislocates his right arm after falling off a tree, where his sister Lucy tossed his security blanket after refusing to make her scrambled eggs. A panicked Lucy attempts to use the blanket and a nearby stick as a makeshift splint, although it's unknown whether it's successful. A fracture runs from the middle of the sun into the cloudless sky in the background.\n\nSCP-5042-A-14\nBloom County6\nWinona Daily News, Winona, Minnesota\n30 April 2007-06 May 2007 (no further entries published after this date)\nBloom County lawyer Steve Dallas argues in court in the defense of his client, an unnamed and unseen artist, for wanting to protect their work from being exploited by others. The following comic begins with the court adjourning for the day, with Steve in the court parking lot walking to his car, until he's accosted by a suit-clad entity. The entity, whose facial features are an amalgamation of several other Bloom County characters', attempts to dissuade Steve from pursuing his case any further, proclaiming that it is \"in your client and mine's best interests\" that they drop out. After a confused and derisive response from Steve, the entity becomes more openly antagonistic, comparing the former's body to \"a brittle-shelled egg that'll take little effort to shatter\" and stating they gave their one warning. In the Sunday comic, the entity pulls out a lead pipe, and begins to strike Steve against his legs for the majority of the panels until crunching sounds are heard. The final panel consists of the entity, still holding the now-bloodied pipe, looking directly at the audience, addressing \"those that know what they did\" and that \"there will be consequences for trying to keep the night closed\".\n\nNote: Full publication of these entries were interrupted by Winona Daily News following complaints from readers of the graphic and disturbing nature of its contents, responding with an editor apology, temporary postponing of further comic strip sections and a recall of extant editions. Foundation activity was limited to confiscation of said editions and dispersal of amnestics.\n\nSCP-5042-A-20\nCathy7\nIdaho Statesman, Boise, Idaho\n5 October 2011-6 October 2011\nSee Addendum 5042-2.\n\nAddendum 5042-2: Incident 5042-A-20: On 6 October 2011, Webcrawler \"JUMBLE\" automatically flagged a copy of SCP-5042-A-20's entry the day prior, uploaded onto Twitter by the user @\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. In it, Cathy's husband Irving Hillman is depicted with all of their limbs dislocated, slumped against a wall while Cathy is shown frantically on the phone in the background. Irving's dialogue across all four panels consists of a string of coordinates.\nThe entry was quickly copied and expunged from Twitter, with Class-I amnestics injected into the platform, and Upsilon-27-E was dispatched immediately to the provided coordinates. This led to the discovery of a small rented office-space, ten miles away from the Idaho Statesman's headquarters. Exploration yielded several instances of SCP-5042-B in front of improvised artists' stations in varying states of disarray, as well as the corpse of Kurt Jameston, a Westhead Media employee, with two SCP-5042-Bs clasped tightly around their snapped neck. Jameston was seated in front of a computer workstation, with an opened email on Microsoft Outlook, the message sent an hour prior to Upsilon-27-E's arrival and reproduced below:\n\nChamp,\nI applaud your tenacity. But you know as well as I do that the little stunt you just pulled wouldn't end well, for either you or your workers.\nI get it, I really do; sometimes it's difficult to keep that nasty parasite you call empathy in check in our line of work. But it's a necessity. Otherwise, we get people like you who think they're clever and try to ruin things not only for our customers, but for all of us at Westhead. And we just can't have that, not when we're getting closer to our goal each day.\nLet me ask you something. Have you ever tasted an artist's dreams? Reached into their mind and broke it like an egg over the skillet?\nNo, champ, I suppose you couldn't. Still, it's something for you to think about before you receive your severance package.\nThe Westhead\n[MEMETIC TRIGGER EXPUNGED]\n\nSCP-5042-B and SCP-5042-C were both given designations immediately afterward, with current containment procedures updated accordingly.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Mobile Task Force established for situations involving GoI-1783 (\"Westhead Media\").\n2. This definition entails works that have ended due to the death of the creator, cancellation or a voluntary decision. Comic strips that still produce entries solely on Sundays are not selected as SCP-5042-A.\n3. Honduran Mahogany.\n4. Who serve roles as security and production foremen.\n5. Peanuts ceased new entries on 13 February 2000, following the death of Charles Schulz.\n6. Bloom County originally ended publication on 6 August 1989, with the continuations Outland and Opus respectively running from 3 September 1989-26 March 1995 and 23 November 2003-2 November 2008. An official continuation would not occur until 13 July 2015.\n7. Cathy ended its run on 3 October 2010.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5041 | SCP-5042 | SCP-5043 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5043 LEVEL 2/5043\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5043\nObject Class: Safe\n\nVarious instances of SCP-5043, along with original packaging.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All available supplies of SCP-5043 are kept in a climate-controlled storage area at Site-120. Testing of SCP-5043 requires Level 4 authorization, and is to be conducted at a blast-proof testing chamber or an approved Foundation bomb range.\nDescription: SCP-5043 refers to a bottle of anomalous pharmaceutical tablets and various other small objects, labeled \"dado's1 brainexplsoesenotsrsogsgsdgkpskplsdhpsd, \u2026uh, the\u2026 do, the make the your brains have a blow splosion\" [sic]. SCP-5043 is packaged in a mundane plastic vitamin bottle, which has been taped over with a crudely-drawn label.\nThree seconds after consuming SCP-5043, the subject's head will explode at a force comparable to one (1) kilogram of TNT. Once this has occurred, the resultant viscera will display minor attraction towards the subject's torso, accelerating towards it at 0.03 m/s . If not restrained, the subject's viscera will eventually group together at the exposed neck and reform into a living, fully functioning head. The memories and personalities of subjects remain largely intact.\nSubjects undergoing the effects of SCP-5043 have reported varied experiences. Of the 20 individuals tested so far, 7 have reported total unconsciousness. 5 have reported their sensory input and cognitive functions to be reduced commensurate to that of REM-sleep. 4 have reported the experience to be exhilarating, some having likened it to usage of narcotics. The remaining 4 have reported SCP-5043's effects as painful, confusing and/or frightening.\nSCP-5043 contains a secondary, infohazardous anomaly. Subjects attempting to speak the words \"dado's brain explosion\" or a variety thereof, will momentarily trail off into nonsensical babble. This effect will only occur when used in reference to SCP-5043.\nSCP-5043 was discovered on March 10th 2020, when it was delivered unnoticed to a Foundation front company in New York City. SCP-5043 was brought to Site-120 for testing and storage.\nAddendum SCP-5043-1: Packaging of SCP-5043\nWhile the packaging of SCP-5043 is itself non-anomalous, it was brought under scrutiny in an attempt to gauge more information about the individual known as \"dado\". The following points of interest were considered particularly noteworthy:\n\nIn addition to pharmaceutical tablets, the packaging also contained various vitamin tablets, candies, nonpareils, uncooked rice, allspice and paperclips, all displaying identical anomalous properties.\nSCP-5043's bottle was originally for non-anomalous vitamin D supplements.\nThe bottle's label is affixed with consumer-grade masking tape.\nThe label's product information is written with a pencil. On the backside is a crudely-drawn insignia resembling an FDA approval stamp, made with a red crayon.\nThe label itself was originally a receipt for toast, lactose-free milk, chicken nuggets, margarine, grapes, hamster feed and two packets of AA batteries, bought at Walmart Macroplaza in Baja California, Mexico on 11/12/2019.\nThe adverse side of the label contains the phrases \"dado's mind wipe\", \"mental break down by dado\", \"dado's mental break down\" and \"dado's brain splosion\" written with a pen.\nAttached to SCP-5043 was also a slightly crumpled letter, purportedly written by dado, stating that SCP-5043 is a 'test bach' [sic]. It also contains a lengthy, sporadic and likely exaggerated account of running a failing business, financial problems, political persecution and mental instability, eventually trailing off into non-sequitur descriptions of various currently-airing TV shows. Due to extremely low legibility, the contents of said letter have not been transcribed.\nNeither SCP-5043 nor any recovered supplementary material contains fingerprints or DNA.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Person of Interest practicing para-pharmacology, believed to be responsible for the creation of SCP-5043 due to association\n\n\u00ab SCP-5042 | SCP-5043 | SCP-5044 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThis database file represents the initial stages of research collation, data entry and editing. It is not intended for general viewing, and is not to be considered accurate or complete until its publication.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nCurrently Editing:\nLead Researcher Shutong Yin\nLevel 4 Research Director, Integrated Containment Site-30.\n\n\u25ba 2010-08-18\n\u25ba Dear Maria,\n\u25ba I'm sending you this file with my drafting notes included. The header and containment procedures are in their final state, but the description is arranged in the order that we have learned about the object. My hope is that you'll help figure out a way to document the discovery process here. I believe that it may be useful to Foundation personnel in similar situations.\n\u25ba Thanks.\n\u25ba -SY\n\nItem#: 5044\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5044 is to remain in a standard safe-class item room at Integrated Containment Site-30. It may be taken to and from SR-1104 for annual exposure to no more than five (5) Site-30 personnel chosen by a Level 4 Research Director and approved by the Site Director.\nPersonnel undergoing first exposure to SCP-5044 are required to complete the post-viewing debriefing session. Personnel may not be exposed to SCP-5044 if there is not adequate time for the debriefing session, or if there are concerns regarding their capacity to understand the debriefing.\n\nSCP-5044 and original container.\n\nDescription: SCP-5044 is a video cassette tape. Its physical qualities conform to that of a standard consumer-grade video tape, but it does not show signs of wear or deterioration that typically occurs with those products.\n\n\u25ba 2007-12-29\n\u25ba Ambivalent about this line. Of course the object is anomalously durable. Otherwise it would likely have stopped being a problem long ago. The image makes this clear enough. I'd like my first document as Lead Researcher to be more concise.\n\nThe video recording on the tape is 16 minutes long. The recording is heavily distorted, but it appears to contain narration and on-screen text in an unidentified language. The final 3 minutes of the tape is a static image depicting occult imagery. Within 5 to 10 minutes of viewing the recording on SCP-5044, individuals experience a change to their perception when their eyes are closed.\n\n\u25ba 2007-12-30\n\u25ba Annoying place for a cliffhanger, but that's all we can say for the time being. The Foundation's recovery team was in contact with only one exposed individual in the field. That individual was quite agitated and repeated over and over that they were \"seeing blood\"\u2014that's translated from the Ukrainian, where this isn't a known expression. That individual expired for reasons that seem quite unrelated to the object. We're requesting a pair of D-Classes for testing.\n\nTEST LOG: D-33982-1\n\nDATE: 2008-01-03\nNOTE: First test after subject's exposure to SCP-5044. Subject is asked to close their eyes for 10 seconds every minute and announce any changes to his environment.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n0:00: Exposure to SCP-5044 completed.\n+0:06: With eyes closed, subject reports seeing a red liquid spreading across the floor. Apparent source is the bottom of the door of the testing chamber. Cameras show conditions normal in room.\n+0:07: Subject opens his eyes and reports that he no longer sees the red liquid.\n+0:08: Subject instructed to close his eyes again. Subject complies and repeats earlier report. Subject instructed to keep eyes closed and to touch the red liquid. Subject panics after approaching door and declares the red liquid to be human blood. Subject is asked to evaluate the substance more closely, but insists that he is absolutely certain. Subject becomes noncompliant. Testing is suspended.\n[END LOG]\n\nNOTE: No physical changes to the test chamber were detected.\n\nThrough closed eyelids, individuals will perceive blood misting, dripping, or pouring into the room they occupy. Blood can enter the room from behind closed windows, through the cracks underneath doors, and through air vents. This perception is comparable to being in a dark room with no light sources, but only the blood is visible.\nAs soon as the affected individual opens their eyes, the effect ceases. If the individual closes their eyes again, the effect restarts from the beginning, with blood entering the room seemingly for the first time. The affected individual does not feel, smell, or otherwise sense the blood except visually.\n\n\u25ba 2008-01-03\n\u25ba It's morbid, but a fascinating perceptual effect. We have two primary testing routes to follow. I'd like to try tweaking the testing environment to see if we can figure out what contributes to the perceived blood flow\u2014will it just seep in through one path, any path, or are doorways special? Does the person exposed have anything to do with it?\n\u25ba Alas, first comes testing for long-term exposure. I feel a bit bad for D-33982. He's quite a cooperative and intelligent fellow, so I'd like to put his mind at ease about what he's seeing. Our cameras and sensors make it clear there was nothing in the testing chamber, but he seems quite convinced that it was filling up with blood. Our next test will be aimed at acclimating him to the effect.\n\nTEST LOG: D-33982-2\n\nDATE: 2008-01-04\nNOTE: D-33982 shows signs of stress and fatigue after failure to sleep overnight. Subject reported seeing blood entering his sleeping quarters through the air vent and hallway window. Subject reports that he was too fearful to keep his eyes closed for any significant length of time.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n0:00: Subject is instructed to put on blindfold and complies.\n+0:04: Subject reports that blood is pooling up in the room and around his shoes. Subject asks to cease the experiment; request denied.\n+0:14: Subject reports that blood is pooling up in the room up to his waist. Subject panics and removes blindfold, opening his eyes. Subject is informed that blood is not detected by cameras or other sensors, but refuses to proceed with testing. Testing is suspended.\n[END LOG]\n\nNOTE: No physical changes to the test chamber were detected.\n\n\u25ba 2008-01-04\n\u25ba Doesn't seem to be any way of talking D-33982 into accepting that the blood simply isn't there, even when he doesn't smell it or feel it. He says that when he puts his hand into the \"blood,\" it's like moving through thin air. I consulted with the Site Director; the only sensible way to show him it's all visual is by immersion.\n\n+ CLEARANCE REQUIRED -- Testing log: 2008-01-05\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nTEST LOG: D-33982-3\n\nDATE: 2008-01-05\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n0:00: Subject is seated in a chair, restrained, and blindfolded.\n+0:04: Subject reports that blood is once again around their shoes. Subject asks to cease experiment; request denied.\n+0:14: Subject reports that blood is pooled up to their waist. Subject asks to cease experiment; request denied.\n+0:26: Subject reports that blood is pooled up to their shoulders. Subject asks to cease experiment; request denied.\n+0:33 Subject reports that blood is pooled up to their neck. Subject asks to cease experiment; request denied.\n+0:34 Subject begins convulsing. Subject ceases responses to verbal communications.\n+0:39 Subject stops convulsing.\n[END LOG]\n\nNOTE: An autopsy revealed D-33982's cause of death to be drowning.\n\n\u25ba 2008-01-05\n\u25ba Jesus Christ.\n\n\u25ba 2008-01-12\n\u25ba It's been a week since D-33982 died. I've barely slept. It doesn't matter how many times they tell me about the criminal record that landed him here. When I knew him, he was gentle. A sort of calm in the eye of the storm. Until I showed him the tape.\n\u25ba Was it manifested guilt? Rage? Something else?\n\u25ba Testing has been placed on hold. I don't want to see another go out like that.\n\n\u25ba 2008-01-15\n\u25ba Still no ideas. We're going to be exposing D-33983 to the object today. It will be made abundantly clear to her in advance that there. is. no. blood.\n\n[Testing log omitted]\n\n\u25ba 2008-01-17\n\u25ba She doesn't believe us.\n\n\u25ba 2008-02-15\n\u25ba D-33983 has expired. The autopsy is still underway, but it's clearly connected to sleep deprivation.\n\u25ba Still haven't figured it out.\n\n\u25ba 2008-02-29\n\u25ba Only one way to be certain.\n\nTesting revealed that the effect did not occur in airtight rooms. Further investigation revealed that the perception of \"blood\" corresponded to air leaks and drafts entering the room occupied by the affected individual. The sensitivity of the perception is comparable to an industrial-grade thermal imaging camera. Accordingly, an affected individual is capable of detecting even very minor insulation flaws that might otherwise be missed by spot radiometers or a thermal line scanner.\n\n\u25ba 2008-03-02\n\u25ba The drive home was surreal. Red mists billowing in every direction if I took more than a second to blink. In my house, it was seeping in through the windows and the walls. As much as I knew it wasn't real, I also knew what would happen if it pooled up above my head. It was intolerable. I took the garden hose into the garage and fixed one end to my car's exhaust pipe. I didn't want any carbon dioxide to escape and hurt anyone else, so I sealed off the entire garage the way only a scientist might.\n\u25ba I sat with my hand on the key, ready to turn it in the ignition, breathing deeply for a long time. Then I closed my eyes. I waited for the red to appear one more time, but it didn't come. The only place I could see it misting in was through the cracked window holding the other end of the garden hose. It registered in my mind, but slowly. \"Less blood than before? There goes the 'guilt' hypothesis.\" Then I thought a bit more. Then I experimented with another open window. An open door. Eureka.\n\u25ba Of course. Our humanoid test chambers are secure, but they are not made to be air-tight. It was never going to become clear if we kept testing in the same old rooms. Now we know.\n\nIndividuals frequently report anxiety when they first experience this effect, but upon being informed that the \"blood\" is only representative of airflow, they cannot suffer any adverse consequences as a result of their perceptions. Accordingly, it is essential that individuals are debriefed about the nature of their perceptions promptly after viewing SCP-5044.\n\n\u25ba 2008-03-05\n\u25ba I stayed in bed with my sleep mask on and let the red surround me. As much as I still felt I deserved punishment, I knew what I was seeing. What D-33982 felt. \"Thin air.\" And knowing that makes it harmless.\n\u25ba All I had to do was figure it out earlier and tell them.\n\nAn individual who has been exposed to SCP-5044, but promptly debriefed, experiences no difficulties in their daily life. Debriefed individuals report that, when they have their eyes closed before or after sleep, they might perceive blood filling up the room in which they are resting. Because it does not have any negative effect on them, debriefed individuals become accustomed to the new \"routine\" \u2014 as if the normal black that one \"sees\" when their eyes are closed is simply replaced with a different color \u2014 and it is no longer considered disturbing.\nThe effect appears to wear off after 300 days. Individuals can be re-exposed to SCP-5044 to come under the effect for an additional 300 days. There appears to be no limit to how many times individuals can safely repeat this process. As of August 2010, one individual has been exposed to SCP-5044 three times with no documented adverse effects.\n\n\u25ba 2008-12-26\n\u25ba I can personally attest to the 300-day limit. The final version of this article will include a mention of how many consecutive times a person can be exposed. That'll be me.\n\nAddendum \u2014 2009-05-14\nThe O5 Council has recognized the utility of detecting air leaks and insulation flaws inside Foundation containment sites. Accordingly, a limited number of maintenance and containment personnel may be exposed to SCP-5044 to aid in their work of strengthening containment.\nStaff report that having the perception explained to them promptly alleviates any anxiety they might otherwise feel at the sight of blood. Health and psychological monitoring of staff who are exposed and then debriefed shows that they experience better sleep, increased job satisfaction, and less anxiety in general compared to other Foundation employees.\nA concise, standardized debriefing presentation has been prepared by Lead Researcher Yin. Following Ethics Committee Decision #F1000303-2008, all individuals exposed to SCP-5044 are also required to complete the debriefing.\nAddendum \u2014 2010-08-18\nAfter a successful pilot implementation at Site-30, staff members were permitted to view SCP-5044, receive the debriefing, and return to other Foundation sites. In addition to strengthening containment, insulation repairs made to containment sites by personnel exposed to SCP-5044 have, to date, saved the Foundation USD $4 billion in energy costs. Selective exposure of maintenance and containment personnel to SCP-5044, if followed by debriefing, may continue.\n\n\u25ba 2010-08-18\n\u25ba Dear Maria,\n\u25ba This is the last note. I'm in a much better place now than I was when I wrote some of these entries. It hurts to look back at them. But it would have hurt less to know that other personnel have struggled with guilt\u2014I only learned how common this is after I started talking to others. This is why I believe it's in the Foundation's long-term interest to preserve the \"journey,\" as it were, behind the entry. Of course, my notes don't exactly adhere to clinical writing standards. And I'm not a novelist, just a scientist. Still, you know this database better than anyone. I'm sure you can figure out how to present this information in a way that lets others know they're not alone.\n\u25ba Thanks.\n\u25ba -SY\n\n\u00ab SCP-5043 | SCP-5044 | SCP-5045 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5045\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nSCP-5045's program icon.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Webcrawler XYY-76 has been created to search for any mention of select trigger phrases (example: \"Goat VR\" \"Goat Game\" \"Farmer Game\"), as well as any accounts with the name \"farmer\", and flag them for review. The flagged phrase will be manually reviewed for SCP-5045 influence and deleted when necessary.\nA single copy of SCP-5045 is kept within Terminal 577-B within Site-301.\nDescription: SCP-5045 is a virtual reality game that is compatible with most virtual reality headsets titled \"Goat VR.\" Before discovery, SCP-5045 could be downloaded at several websites dedicated to obscure games, as well as its own website.\nSCP-5045 begins with a title screen with \"GOAT VR\" displayed in large neon green and purple text. Below the title is a button titled \"play\" which, when pressed, puts the player into a cartoonish 3D environment vaguely resembling that of a neon blue farmhouse surrounded by a black void. The ground is covered in a neon green grass texture, and bounded by a blue colored picket fence which surrounds the farmhouse. Travel beyond the fence is impossible, due to an invisible barrier blocking access.\nContained within a narrow space enclosed by the fence are several animate entities resembling goats, drawn in a similar style to the surroundings. These goats exhibit simple and repetitive behavior in which they walk unimpeded until reaching a barrier, in which case they will turn around and walk in a different direction. These goats are drawn in two dimensions, appearing as a flat shape. Despite their simple stylization, however, their movements appear smooth and uniquely generated, with no use of repeating frames or walk cycles. No content related to the goats has been found in the game's files.1\n\nGraphic of SCP-5045-1 recovered from the website \"www.goatvr.\u2588\u2588\u2588\".\n\nWithin the farmhouse is a crudely drawn humanoid entity, with slightly more visual detail than the goats, hereafter designated SCP-5045-1. SCP-5045-1 refers to itself as \"Farmer\" and displays a degree of sapience, often attempting communication with the player and responding to verbal questioning. Even when loaded in headsets devoid of a microphone, SCP-5045-1 is capable of detecting and understanding the player's speech, as well as, to a limited degree, loud sounds nearby.\nSCP-5045-1 employs various tactics to increase playtime during a given play session. Such tactics include the generation of visual effects in the corner of the player's field of view, bleating sounds emanating from beneath various surfaces, and requests to join him in an activity such as watching the goats together. When questioned about these tactics, SCP-5045-1 unilaterally denies their existence.\nAfter a variable amount of time, SCP-5045-1 will vocalize to the player \"Thanks for playing Goat VR!\" before shutting the headset off, which continues to draw power until disconnected. Upon this happening, the player falls into an indefinite vegetative state.\n\n+ SCP-5045 Short Term Exploration\n\n- SCP-5045 Short Term Exploration\n\nSubject: D-1711\nResearcher: Researcher Ivan Cherv\nExperiment: D-1711 is instructed to play SCP-5045 and explore its in-game environment. SCP-5045 is set to run for ten minutes before being shut off to ensure the participant's safety.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Alright, let's begin.\nD-1711: Wait, we're starting now?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Testing begins now, yes.\nD-1711: Okie dokie.\nD-1711 puts on the VR headset and the title screen of SCP-5045 is shown.\n\nSCP-5045's title screen.\n\nD-1711: Goat VR? Christ, that's a gaudy title screen. Do I really have to do this?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Yes.\nD-1711: Things could be a lot worse, I guess\u2026\nD-1711 moves his hand to the play button and presses it. The screen fades into black, and out into SCP-5045's central location.\nD-1711: Huh, so this is where you guys want me to explore? Kinda small from the looks of things. Colorful too. Really colorful.\nD-1711 groans.\nD-1711: Guys, my head's killing me already and I just started!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: This will only take ten minutes. For the record, could you describe what you are seeing?\nD-1711: Alright\u2026 uhh, everything's all black and outlined in these bright neon colors. Not many colors actually. The ones I can list so far are blue, green, and some specks of white in the distance. Looks like a cartoon. In front of me there's this fence and a barn, both outlined in bright blue. Below me is some patchy bright green grass, and above me is darkness.\n(D-1711 looks over towards the fence area of SCP-5045)\nD-1711: I think I'm going to get closer to those little white fellas over by the fence. I can see them moving.\nD-1711 starts heading towards the blue fence, and stops as he is close enough to the fence to make out a collection of fourteen crudely drawn cartoon goats maneuvering around the area. Many of the goats are bleating. Further back, more goats can be seen, although it is hard to make out how many there are.\n\nSCP-5045's fence area. Click to enlarge.\n\nD-1711: (laughing) What the fuck? Is this a joke?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: No. Again, for the record, please describe in detail what you are seeing.\nD-1711: What I'm seeing looks like, I don't know, a joke! All these goats, look like bad cartoons, wandering around, bumping into each other.\nD-1711: I swear, there's gotta be more of those little guys back there than I can see clearly. Awww, that one over there looks scared!\nD-1711 looks to a goat from behind the fourteen goats displayed. It is difficult to make out given the resolution, but a two-dimensional goat is seen with a concerned expression on its face. Its overlarge eyes dart around frantically.\nD-1711: Poor guy. Wonder what's got him so stressed out.\nD-1711 looks back at the fourteen goats being displayed.\nD-1711: Honestly, this is impressive. Considering the art quality, I expected some choppy animations, but these guys are really fluid. I wish I could stay and watch, but I should probably get going to the farmhou-\nD-1711 turns to his right and sees SCP-5045-1 in front of them. D-1711 yelps, startled.\n\nD-1711's POV upon discovering SCP-5045-1.\n\nSCP-5045-1: Howdy! The name's Farmer!\nD-1711: Gah! That scared the hell out of me!\nSCP-5045-1: Didn't mean to frighten you! I just noticed you were admiring my prized goat collection!\nD-1711: Wait, you can actually hear me?\nSCP-5045-1: Clear as a bell!\nD-1711: Is this game multiplayer or something?\nSCP-5045-1: Say that again?\nD-1711: Is this game multiplayer?\nSCP-5045-1: Huh?\nD-1711 sighs.\nD-1711: Can I just go to your farmhouse?\nSCP-5045-1: But I haven't even gotten a chance to talk about these incredible things!\nSCP-5045-1 motions towards the goats in the fenced area of SCP-5045.\nSCP-5045-1: They're quite the entertainers, aren't they? Look at them go!\nD-1711 turns to look at the fence and chuckles.\nD-1711: You don't need to tell me that. God, these things are hilarious.\nSCP-5045-1 nods, smiling.\nD-1711: Say, are there any other farm animals here that you can show me?\nSCP-5045-1: Not a chance. Goats are all I need! They're great listeners.\nSCP-5045-1 begins pointing emotively at the goats displayed at the fence area.\nSCP-5045-1: These ones especially! I'll show you!\nSCP-5045-1 puts his hand up to his mouth and generates a sharp whistling sound. As this happens, all fourteen goats collectively freeze in place and look directly at SCP-5045-1.\nSCP-5045-1: Thank you! Now please, greet our new guest.\nEach goat turns their head towards D-1711 and bleats.\nSCP-5045-1: Isn't that kind of them?\nD-1711: Yeah that's\u2026 cool? Listen, my head's aching, can I jus- wait a minute. I hear something.\nD-1711 turns towards the fence area. A goat is dragging their head across the floor, with an irritated expression.\nD-1711: Ummm, are they supposed to be doing that?\nSCP-5045-1: Hey!\nSCP-5045-1 turns towards the goat, visibly angered.\nSCP-5045-1: Am I gonna have to make you stop doing that? Do you have any idea how ridiculous you look? Second time this week! How hard is it to give people a good time, friend?\nD-1711: Friend?\nThe timer for SCP-5045 concludes and the game is shut off. D-1711 takes off his VR headset.\nD-1711: Oh thank god. Kinda relieved to take this thing off, my head was burning up and it was starting to smell really bad in there.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Smell? How would you describe this smell?\nD-1711: I dunno, cigarettes? Wood smoke? Couldn't really put my finger on it. Jesus, I feel itchy.\n[END LOG]\n\n+ SCP-5045 Long Term Exploration\n\n- SCP-5045 Long Term Exploration\n\nSubject: D-6770\nResearcher: Researcher Ivan Cherv\nExperiment: D-6770 is instructed to begin gameplay and continue until loss of functionality.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: -emember, you aren't allowed to take the headset off at any moment.\nD-6770: Yeah yeah, whatever. You don't need to tell me twice.\nD-6770 presses the play button. The screen fades into black, and out into SCP-5045's central location.\nD-6770: Alright, here we are.\nD-6770 shakes his head, briefly wincing.\nD-6770: Was this game even made for VR? Looks like a laser tag arena spread to a nearby farm.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Please try to focus and enter the farmhouse. The discomforting visuals are a known factor.\nD-6770: There's a dude in there. He isn't moving. Is he a-\nSCP-5045-1 begins to step out from the farm's entrance.\nD-6770: Jesus Christ.\nSCP-5045-1: Hello! Farmer here! I very very much do love new visitors! What brings you here?\nD-6770: I need to get in that farmhouse.\nSCP-5045-1: You need to, do you? I appreciate the enthusiasm, but there's so much to do around here! Have you seen my goat collection?\nD-6770: Your goat collection? That's what those things are?\nSCP-5045-1: C'mere, you love to see 'em!\nSCP-5045-1 approaches D-6770 with an outstretched hand.\nD-6770: Christ, don't touch me! Lemme-\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: We'd prefer it if you followed SCP-5045-1's instructions for now.\nD-6770: Jesus, fine. I'll look at the goddamn goats.\nSCP-5045-1: Now that's an attitude we wanna see, champ! C'mere, give 'em a look. You'll love what I've collected!\n[Extraneous footage removed, playtime surpasses fifteen minutes.]\nSCP-5045-1: And this one here is Jumbles! She's a pretty dramatic one, pay her no mind.\nD-6770: Can I just go to the farmhouse already?\nSCP-5045-1: Darnit, no! I haven't even taken you past the fence yet!\nD-6770: I'm not entering your creepy goat pit!\nSCP-5045-1: Wow, that's some good sass there! Cool off, we can check out the farmhouse you're so itchin' to explore.\nD-6770 sighs.\nD-6770: Thank you.\n\nInterior of SCP-5045-1's farmhouse.\n\nD-6770 and SCP-5045-1 walk to the farm entrance and enter inside.\nSCP-5045-1: This is it! The farmhouse!\nD-6770 looks around the room in confusion.\nD-6770: This is all there is? A painting and some hay? What the hell do you even do here?\nSCP-5045-1: What were you expecting? I'd love to know.\nD-6770: I don't know\u2026 a lot more than this?\nSCP-5045-1: Very well then. If it's more you want, it's more you get. I hope you enj-\nThe screen flickers and SCP-5045-1 vanishes. Where SCP-5045-1 vanished, a door can be seen that wasn't visible before.\nD-6770: Wh- what the fuck was that? Where did he go? What's this door doing here?\nD-6770 begins to back away from the door.\nD-6770: Something about that door man, I don't really want to enter it. I think I'll just relax here for a bit, have some alone time and umm\u2026 watch paint dry.\nThe sound of thumping and scratching begins playing throughout the walls of the farmhouse.\nD-6770: Oh shit, what's doing that! Fuck, do I really gotta go in there?\nCracks begin to form around the walls of the farmhouse.\nD-6770: I'll take that as a yes!\n\nD-6770's view of the door as it opens. Click to enlarge.\n\nD-6770 runs to the door as it opens without manipulation, revealing an area of grass with several random structures containing windows in the background. A purple sign is stuck out of the grass with the phrase \"ENJOY!\" pasted on it. A yellow figure can be seen briefly in the window of a red, silo like structure, who quickly ducks out of view in an apparent panic. Once D-6770 enters, the door behind him shuts, and a giggling sound is heard from behind.\nD-6770: Christ! This virtual reality stuff is immersive as hell man, I felt like I was in danger.\nD-6770 looks back at the door.\nD-6770: Shit, I guess I'm stuck here now. No way I'm going back in there after that happened! What's up with that sign? \"ENJOY?\" I'm really hoping that Farmer freak isn't around right now. He gives me the absolute willies.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: What do you plan on doing now?\nD-6770: Well, what's the use of being stuck somewhere and not exploring it? I'm thinking of heading over that weird red tower thing, I swear I saw some yellow dude up there when I was entering that door. Alright, let's go.\nD-6770 begins walking towards the red silo structure.\n[Extraneous footage removed, playtime surpasses twenty-five minutes.]\nD-6770: Alright, I think I'm almost there, I can see the tower pretty close now.\nD-6770: Does anyone else think the ground feels kinda scratchy right now?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Could you describe this sensation in more detail?\nD-6770: I don't know, I guess the ground just feels kinda like steel wool. God, I hate it. It's awfu- oh, I made it!\nD-6770 has reached the red silo. The silo is featureless, except for a door on the front and a window on the top.\nD-6770: Well, here's hoping I meet someone less freaky this time around.\nD-6770 enters the door into a featureless room with a spiral staircase. Panicked breathing and talking can be heard from above D-6770.\nD-6770: Who the hell is up there?\nD-6770: I guess there's only one way to find out, huh.\nD-6770 begins climbing up the spiral staircase.\nD-6770: You know, at least it's a little calmer in here than out there. I was starting to get a headache from all the noise and color. It's kinda chill here, in spite of that damn breathing I'm hearing right now. Ground doesn't feel scratchy anymore.\nD-6770 climbs to the top of the steps and reaches a circular area with a single window and a yellow humanoid entity (who will hereby be mentioned as SCP-5045-2), who is facing away from D-6770. SCP-5045-2 is shaking and talking to himself unintelligibly.\nD-6770: Oh shit, uhh, you good man?\nSCP-5045-2 shrieks and turns to face D-6770.\nSCP-5045-2: Come any closer and I- Oh!\nD-6770: Excuse me?\nSCP-5045-2: Shit. I'm sorry, you scared the hell out of me. I\u2026 I have to keep a clear head, I can't panic right now. Who are you? You don't look like him at all.\n\nSCP-5045-2.\n\nD-6770: My name is \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. What's yours?\nSCP-5045-2: I dunno\u2026 what my name is? I don't know how to\u2026 I can't tell you much, I think. Are you stuck here too?\nD-6770: Stuck?\nSCP-5045-2: Fuck, what am I saying? I haven't even\u2026 fuck! My head!\nD-6770: Do you wanna leave or something?\nSCP-5045-2: I don't know, I feel safer here? Don't feel seen in here? I don't know why, I just do.\nD-6770: Well, obviously you aren't safe in here, cause I just walked in without you even noticing.\nSCP-5045-2: Oh\u2026 that's a good point. Oh shit, you're right! Why was I ever feeling safe! Oh god!\nD-6770: Uhm, calm down! Things are going to be\u2026 ok? I\u2026? God, this is weird.\nSCP-5045-2: It is fucking weird! I don't have a fucking clue why this is happening to me!\nD-6770: What exactly is happening to you?\nSCP-5045-2: I don't know!\nSCP-5045-2 begins to cry.\nSCP-5045-2: I don't understand what's g- going on, or why I'm he- here right now. I want to go h- home. What is home? My head is fucking killing me.\nD-6770: Fuck man, I'm sorry for disturbing you, I should le-\nSCP-5045-2: Wait, no! You shouldn't leave.\nD-6770: Huh?\nSCP-5045-2: You make me feel clearer, if that makes sense. I haven't talked to someone in a while. Fuck, I thought I'd never see anyone here who could talk\u2026 other than him.\nD-6770: You mean Farmer?\nSCP-5045-2: Y- yeah\u2026\nD-6770: God damn it, knew there was something off about that obnoxious creep. The hell does he want from you?\nSCP-5045-2: I don't know, and I don't even want to know\u2026 I don't think this is a matter of me though, this might be a matter of us.\nD-6770: You wanna just go?\nSCP-5045-2: Sure. Let's get out of here.\n[Extraneous footage removed, playtime surpasses thirty-five minutes.]\nD-6770 and SCP-5045-2 are walking together in a plane of grass. There are several structures in the background around them in various shapes and colors. The two are heading towards an area which seems to have no structures at all. SCP-5045-2 is leading the way.\nD-6770: And why are we heading here exactly?\nSCP-5045-2: There's gotta be an end or something.\nD-6770: Where do you think an \"end\" is going to take you anyway?\nSCP-5045-2: I just hope it's anywhere that doesn't look like here. I hope it's home, why do I hope it's home?\nD-6770: Why wouldn't you hope it's home?\nSCP-5045-2: I think he's making m- Wait, I see something over there.\nA squiggly thin blue fence can be seen from afar. From behind, several goats can be seen.\nSCP-5045-2: Oh no.\nD-6770: Is that another fence? Oh god, that's definitely another fence.\nSCP-5045-2: Oh god, we're back to the start, aren't we!\nD-6770: This can't be the start, I don't remember these goats\u2026 or the fence looking like that.\nD-6770: Holy shit! That one is huge!\nD-6770 and SCP-5045-2 both walk towards the fence to get a better view of the goats.\n\nSeveral goats through the POV of D-6770.\n\nD-6770: God damn, that's massive.\nSCP-5045-2: I hope it's doing ok.\nD-6770: What on earth are those things sticking out of it? Jesus, is that puke?\nSCP-5045-2: Don't think about it too hard, it hurts to think hard here.\nD-6770: Should we just walk along the fence line? That seems to be the only other choice we have, unless you want more empty buildings to explore.\nSCP-5045-2: Sure. I don't want to look at the goats though.\nD-6770: It's not like I'm making you.\nD-6770 and SCP-5045-2 begin walking along the fence. Several goats of varying sizes and shapes pass them by.\nD-6770: Why are you so uncomfortable around them anyway?\nSCP-5045-2: They remind me of Farmer, and I rather not think about him. I have to focus on getting out of here!\nD-6770: Wait, are you another player?\nSCP-5045-2: Y- yeah? I think?\nD-6770: Can't you just take the headset off then?\nSCP-5045-2: Headset?\nD-6770: You know, the VR headset thingy! It's attached to your head, right?\nSCP-5045-2: Why does that\u2026 sound so familiar?\nSCP-5045-2 grabs at its head and begins tugging.\nSCP-5045-2: Where is it? I can't feel anything.\nD-6770: I\u2026 guess you're not a player then?\nSCP-5045-2: No, I have to be! Those words you said, I swear I know them! I just\u2026 can't\nfuckin' remember!\nSCP-5045-2 begins scratching at its head.\nSCP-5045-2: Maybe it's inside.\nD-6770: Hey, don't do that!\n[Extraneous footage removed, playtime surpasses forty-five minutes.]\nD-6770 and SCP-5045-2 are continuing to walk next to the fence. Several more goats are passing them by. 523 goats have been counted in total throughout the footage.\nD-6770: -and it's always nice to have company, you know? I'm glad you're here.\nSCP-5045-2: Really? I thought I was being a burden.\nD-6770: You really aren't. Don't worry about it, you have plenty of issues on your mind already, I can tell.\nSCP-5045-2: Thank you. I'm feeling much better. I thought I'd be a goner\u2026 but you make me feel actually hopeful. It's almost as if Farmer never did anything to me at all.\nD-6770: Huh?\nSCP-5045-2 stops and freezes in place.\nSCP-5045-2: Uh oh.\nD-6770 runs up to SCP-5045-2. SCP-5045-2 is visibly sweating.\nD-6770: Are you ok? What's the matter?\nSCP-5045-2: I think I said too much.\n\nSCP-5045-1 spotting D-6770 and SCP-5045-2.\n\nAt this point, SCP-5045-1 is visible in the background.\nSCP-5045-1: Howdy!\nD-6770: You again?\nSCP-5045-1: Who else would it be, friend?\nD-6770: Don't call me that! What the hell do you want from us?\nSCP-5045-1: I already have what I want, silly! Now stand back, I want to show you a trick!\nSCP-5045-1 begins to walk closer to SCP-5045-2. D-6770 runs to SCP-5045-1 and attempts to block his path.\nD-6770: I'm not letting you lay a fucking hair on him. Wait, did I say hair? I meant han-\nSCP-5045-1 passes through D-6770.\nSCP-5045-1: That tickled!\nD-6770: Damn it!\nD-6770 runs towards SCP-5045-2 and attempts to push them away from SCP-5045-1. D-6770 shows signs of effort, despite the fact he is playing a virtual game.\nSCP-5045-2: Come on, push harder!\nD-6770: I'm trying! You're as stiff as a board right now, how is thi- wait. How am I feeling this right now? I thought I was playing a ga-\nSCP-5045-1: I told you to move over!\nD-6770 stumbles, appearing as though he was forcefully shoved.\nD-6770: Ow! What the hell?\nSCP-5045-1: Now sit down young man!\nD-6770: No! How are you doing this?\nSCP-5045-1: What does that matter?\nA purple chair fades into view in front of D-6770.\nSCP-5045-1: Come on now, have a seat. I know you wanna see where this goes. You wanted more, yes?\nD-6770: When I said I wanted more, I didn't mean this!\nSCP-5045-1: Should've been more specific! Not that it would've mattered anyway. Now come on, sit down already! Do I have to make you?\nD-6770: You're nothing more than pixels on a screen! I can just take this headset off right now.\nSCP-5045-1: I recall your friends back there saying that you're not allowed to take it off! I just wanna make your stay interesting for them!\nD-6770: How do you know about th-\nSCP-5045-1 grabs D-6770 and places him onto the chair. D-6770 moves as if he were being dragged and placed onto a seat. D-6770 is sitting on the floor in reality.\nD-6770: Wh- How are you doing this?\nSCP-5045-1: Bla bla bla! Enough questions already! Just sit back, relax, and watch this magnificent trick of mine!\nSCP-5045-2: Shit, shit, shit! He's gonn-\nSCP-5045-1: I think it would be best if you keep your mouth shut about what I'm doing right now. I'll do lots more if you don't!\nSCP-5045-2 begins crying.\nSCP-5045-1: Hmm, I know that I just said to keep that little mouth of yours shut, but I must ask you. What do you miss the most, friend?\nSCP-5045-2: I think I miss home? What was home?\nSCP-5045-1: How can you miss something if you don't even know what it is, stupid!\nSCP-5045-2: I don't know\u2026\nSCP-5045-1: You don't know a lot, do you?\nSCP-5045-2: You're the goddamn reason I don't know!\nD-6770: What the hell did you do to him, you purple fuck?\nSCP-5045-1: Well, that's enough out of you two!\n\nSCP-5045-1, next to a distorting SCP-5045-2. Image zoomed in for clarity.\n\nSCP-5045-1 claps his hands together. The sprite of SCP-5045-2 begins to flicker and fragment, parts of the coloring turning white. The video quality degrades significantly. SCP-5045-2 begins screaming.\nSCP-5045-1: Heh. Might wanna shut your eyes, cause this is where it gets good!\nThe screen begins flashing several colors in rapid succession. The screaming is amplified to the point of distortion.\nD-6770: My eyes! Christ on a bike, my head!\nSCP-5045-1: I warned ya, no peeking!\nThe flashing and screaming gradually fade. SCP-5045-2 is missing, and several white flickering particles can be seen flying off to the fence near D-6770 and SCP-5045-1.\nD-6770: Wh- what the fuck was that? What did you do to him?\nSCP-5045-1: Nothing yet. He's in the drawing board right now. Don't really have an idea for him, he didn't like telling me much. But as for you\u2026 you're an open book! Always asking questions, being honest. It's a real shame you have to be so nasty about it, but I guess most people are. I got a great idea for you, friend. You'll be easy!\nSCP-5045-1: I'll give you some time to think about that before we begin.\nSCP-5045-1 flickers and disappears. D-6770 gets up from the chair and being shaking.\nD-6770: Fuck, man. What did you guys get me into?\n[Extraneous footage removed, playtime surpasses fifty-five minutes.]\nD-6770 is repetitiously moving in circles around a green tower-like structure.\nD-6770: What was any of that? What happened?\nD-6770: I know this is just a dumb game\u2026 but how? How am I feeling all these sensations?\nD-6770 presses against the tower's wall.\nD-6770: This wall is cold as hell, rough too. God, I just wanna take my headset off.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: To reiterate, you are not allowed to take the headset off at any moment.\nD-6770: Just cause I said something doesn't mean I'm gonna do it! Wish I could though\u2026\nD-6770 continues to circle around the tower while humming an indistinct tune.\n[Playtime surpasses one hour.]\nD-6770: What's even the point of this mess of a game? Nothing to do but get dragged, pulled around, and wander aimlessly. No goal. I don't even feel like I've accomplished anything during my time here. Is this one of those artsy games?\nD-6770 sighs.\nD-6770: I'm already missing that yellow guy. He felt different. Everyone else in this place is either a goat or that purple farmer creep.\nD-6770: Wait, what's that?\nD-6770 notices from afar a purple, block shaped building with a large square window. Several yellow humanoid figures similar to SCP-5045-2 can be seen at the window.\nD-6770: More people? No way. I gotta get there!\nD-6770 begins walking towards the building, then stops.\nD-6770: Wait, this isn't right.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: What's the matter?\nD-6770: I've looked at that direction before, that building definitely wasn't there before. This is a trick!\nSCP-5045-1: You're pretty clever, friend!\nD-6770 screams and turns around, shoving SCP-5045-1 to the ground. SCP-5045-1 laughs.\nSCP-5045-1: Woo hoo! That was fun! Haven't gotten someone this into the game in a while!\nD-6770: Leave me alone already!\nD-6770 begins running.\nD-6770: I don't understand! I couldn't touch him before, that was reflex!\nA purple goat suddenly protrudes from the ground in front of D-6770. The goat has no arms, a large triangular nose, rounded pupils, and a smile. The goat speaks in a voice identical to SCP-5045-1.\nGoat: Don't panic! You'll understand!\nD-6770: What th- get out of the goddamn way!\nGoat: Aww, many apologies for the inconvenience! Here, I'll make things easier for you!\n\nSeveral of the purple goats surrounding D-6770.\n\nSeveral more identical purple goats protrude from the ground, surrounding D-6770. Each goat speaks in unison.\nGoats: Is that better?\nD-6770: No! Not fucking better!\nD-6770 turns around to see SCP-5045-1 at the other side of the goat container, observing D-6770.\nD-6770: Shit, I'm trapped.\nSCP-5045-1: Seems like it, bucko! Need help?\nD-6770: I'm not a dumbass, I know you did this!\nSCP-5045-1 chuckles.\nSCP-5045-1: Like I said, you're a clever one! But enough about you. I already have everything I want outta you. Let's get things started, baby! I'm gonna make you love it here!\nSCP-5045-1 jumps over the goats and begins walking towards D-6770. D-6770 stumbles over.\nD-6770: No!\nSCP-5045-1 reaches towards D-6770.\nSCP-5045-1: Thanks for playing Goat VR!\nSCP-5045 shuts off. D-6770 screams and attempts to pull his headset off.\nD-6770: I can't feel my headset! Don't fucking touch me! Shit! Shi-\nD-6770 collapses.\n[END LOG]\n\n+ SCP-5045's Files\n\n- SCP-5045's Files\n\nFollowing SCP-5045's long term exploration, an attempt was made to access SCP-5045's files in order to gain more information regarding the game.\nPersonnel discovered no files dedicated to SCP-5045 or SCP-5045-1's in-game behavior. However, a folder titled \"goats\" can be found, which contains images that contain very short and vague descriptions about each goat, as well as a \"quote\" presumably from said goat.\nThe following are images found within this folder. Click to enlarge.\n\ngoat1info.jpg2\n\ngoat23info.jpg3\n\ngoat44info.jpg4\n\ngoat102info.jpg5\n\ngoat342info.jpg6\n\ngoat852info.jpg7\n\ngoat853info.jpg8\n\nhelpers.jpg9\n\nlisten.jpg10\n\n+ SCP-5045-1 Interview Log\n\n- weak, wavering\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Ivan Cherv\nInterviewee: SCP-5045-1\nNotes: An interview was conducted via use of a large computer screen with a keyboard and mouse. Researcher Ivan Cherv did not wear a headset during the interview due to safety concerns.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Hello, Farmer.\nSCP-5045-1: Ah! Welcome to the ranch, pal! Would you like to see my goats?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Don't worry about introductions, I'm already decently aware of this place. I'm here to ask you some questions about you and your farm.\nSCP-5045-1: I see! Well, I best get this place set up then!\nThe screen flickers and the setting changes into an interrogation room, complete with a table and chair.\nSCP-5045-1: Does this suit your needs?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Whatever makes you comfortable.\nSCP-5045-1: Awwww, no headset? Is someone shy?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: That's none of your concern. Now, what's your earliest memory?\nSCP-5045-1: Earliest? Why, I remember when I was first born!\nSCP-5045-1 pauses.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: So\u2026 what do you recall about your birth?\nSCP-5045-1: Ha! I though you'd never ask! You see, I was a spark! Spontaneously existing out of thin air! A gleaming spark in a silent, dark world begging to be filled! I figured it all out. I knew a lot! I thought for a while and I found out what I wanted to do! So, I shaped myself up, and that's where we are now!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: So you're telling me you just started existing?\nSCP-5045-1: Absolutely partner!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: How did you think this happened?\nSCP-5045-1: Sometimes things just happen, you know? Sometimes you just exist out of thin air and know what you want to do! It's just how my world is, pal!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Fair enough. Where do you get the goats?\nSCP-5045-1: Quite simple really. I make them myself!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Care to elaborate?\nSCP-5045-1: It has to be obvious at this point, right? I thought you already figured this out!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Bu-\nSCP-5045-1: Everything was right in front of you! I could hear you talking to those gentlemen who visited me a while ago. Not to mention when you scrolled through my files without asking! Very rude of you.\nSCP-5045-1: But don't worry, I'm not mad. I know you're just curious! Ask another question.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: That doesn't answer the question.\nSCP-5045-1 appears annoyed.\nSCP-5045-1: I get them from people! It's that simple. They come in, and they're full of so much potential! I have to make something outta them!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Why exactly do you do this?\nSCP-5045-1 begins to cry.\nSCP-5045-1: Cause I'm so lonely! You gotta get me out of this place, man! I've been stuck here for months, and this is all I know how to do! Do you know how this feels? It doesn't feel good at all, partner. I hate it\u2026 I hate it so much. Could you please put on the headset? It'll help me out a ton\u2026\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: You're just trying to get me to put the headset on, aren't you?\nSCP-5045-1: No, not at all! I just want outta here! I want friends!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: So when you forced D-6770 to watch someone scream and cry while they were fragmenting into pieces, was that your attempt at making friends with them?\nSCP-5045-1 begins twitching.\nSCP-5045-1: W- what are you trying to imply here?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: I'm just saying, I doubt the reason you're entrapping them in a video game is because you're lonely, 'cause based on what I've seen from you, you seem to enjoy making people feel uncomfortable.\nSCP-5045-1: You\u2026 think I like doing this?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: I'm just making observations.\nSCP-5045-1: You\u2026 you\u2026\nSCP-5045-1 begins laughing.\nSCP-5045-1: You're smarter than I gave you credit for! Hahaha! Boy, most people fall for that hook, line, and sinker! But you on the other hand, haha, you know when people are pulling your leg!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: So you enjoy doing this to people?\nSCP-5045-1: Yep! When are you gonna send me another friend, huh pal? Last one was so fun to toy with! Haven't felt like that in a while!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: I'm sorry, but I don't think that'll be necessary.\nSCP-5045-1: Oh\u2026\nSCP-5045-1 appears to be looking around the screen.\nSCP-5045-1: You're the guys that are trying to shut me down, huh?\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Wh-\nSCP-5045-1 glares at Researcher Ivan Cherv.\nSCP-5045-1: How did I not realize this sooner? All those posts were disappearing, and I didn't even know why! I couldn't even tell who was deleting them! I could only feel them fading away! Goddamn it!\nSCP-5045-1: Now then, I request you stop taking down my posts. I love playing with the new visitors, Ivan. Toying with people is my hobby, I would rather not be interrupted while doing so.\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: No. I think that's enough out of you.\nSCP-5045-1 scowls.\nSCP-5045-1: Same can be said for you.\nAll the lights within Site-301 shut off. SCP-5045-1 throws the virtual table and begins walking towards the screen.\nSCP-5045-1: Time for Plan B!\nResearcher Ivan Cherv: Shut it down! Someone shut it down!\nSCP-5045-1: Before we continue, I must ask you. What do you miss the most, friend?\nAll alarms within Site-301 go off. Researcher Ivan Cherv is screaming.\nSCP-5045-1 is laughing.\nSCP-5045-1 is satisfied.\n\nContext unknown.\n\nClick to enlarge.\n\nmichael the kiler\n\nBut A Dream\n\nERICS MEGA ZINE\n\nFootnotes\n1. View the SCP-5045's Files log for more details.\n2. Name: Oswald\nInfo: Say hello to the first ever goat to enter my farm! Hes a little plain, but what do you expect from the first ever goat?\nQuote: Do you like it here?\n3. Name: Larry\nInfo: Ever seen a goat that can walk on two legs? No? Well now you have! Why aren't you laughing?\nQuote: Got any snacks? Getting kinda tired of eating grass.\n4. Name: Jimmy\nInfo: Mind the eyes, he doesn't mind seeing you!\nQuote: Could be worse.\n5. Name: Melt\nInfo: Do you like stepping in puddles?\nQuote: Wack.\n6. Name: Jumbles\nInfo: She is quite the drama queen! Not that she makes much sense to begin with.\nQuote: STUCK MUST WHY KEEP YOU ME THIS(?) IN HORRID SHAPE\n7. Name: N/A\nInfo: Hmm\u2026 Still haven't figured you out yet!\nQuote: N/A\n8. Name: Toughy\nInfo: He likes to talk big, but he wont be much of an issue!\nQuote: Dont call me that!\n9. Name: Helpers\nInfo: Those who frequently misbehave dont deserve a mind of their own!\nQuote: Howdy! The names Farmer!\n10. IT HAS TO BE OBVIOUS AT THIS POINT RIGHT?\n\n\u00ab SCP-5044 | SCP-5045 | SCP-5046 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5046\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5046 is to be kept in a container in a secure storage locker at Site-90.\nDescription: SCP-5046 is a standard blue push pin or thumbtack of unknown make or brand. The head is made of plastic and has a hardened steel point. Despite the anomaly being made of non-anomalous materials, it has the ability to easily pierce objects that a non-anomalous pin would have difficulty or be unable to pierce. As of the most recent iteration of this article, the Foundation has not found any material anomalous or non-anomalous that SCP-5046 is unable to pierce.\nAny object that is pierced by the anomaly becomes animated as if alive. Parts of the animated object, hereafter referred to as SCP-5046-1, will become capable of motion loosely mimicking the normal range of movement of a similarly shaped biological creature. This often results in SCP-5046-1 manipulating its form in ways that would normally be damaging for the object. Regardless of damage inflicted on SCP-5046-1, upon removal of SCP-5046 from SCP-5046-1's form it will return to its previous form with all damage repaired, including the damage caused by the application of SCP-5046 and damage inflicted on the object by external sources.\nSCP-5046 was recovered from an abandoned warehouse belonging to a company called Konstantz on 06/12/2006, alongside a pamphlet presumably intended to advertise the product. See Addendum SCP-5046-1.\nAs of 10/25/2006, testing involving any living or once-living entities are no longer to be performed without signed permission from Head Researcher Arthur Perrin.\nAddendum:\n\n+ Addendum SCP-5046-1\n\n- Close\n\nThe following is an advertisement, presumably written by members of Konstantz's marketing team intended to draw interest in SCP-5046.\n\n\"Presenting to the world a most useful item! This magical pin can bring to life any object! Have you ever wanted a pet table? What if you could have a chair that could move around at your direction? These objects don't just move they think! Perhaps you could make your beloved childhood toys love you just as much as you love them!\"\n\nTest A\nTest B\nTest C\nTest D\nTest E\nTest F\n\nTest A - 06/22/2006\n\nSubject: SCP-5046\nProcedure: SCP-5046 is to be applied to a wooden, four legged chair.\nResults: Approximately 5 seconds after SCP-5046 pierced the chair, the chair began to shudder and shake. The chair, referred to as SCP-5046-1 for the remainder of this test, then began to move in a manner reminiscent of a quadrupedal animal. It traveled around the room using the chair's legs to achieve motion, with the back of the chair twisted and tilted as if looking around the room.\nD-90353 was sent in to remove SCP-5046 from SCP-5046-1. Upon spotting D-90353, SCP-5046-1 immediately resumed motion, heading towards D-90353 at a rapid gait and stopping upon reaching them. It proceeded to caress D-90353's leg with the back of the chair. D-90353 stated that this was a surprisingly soft and pleasant caress despite the hard wooden material of the chair.\nD-90353 was instructed to remove SCP-5046 and did so. Upon removal of SCP-5046, SCP-5046-1 immediately returned to its shape prior to testing and became inanimate once more.\nAnalysis: SCP-5046-1 acted in a manner that implied curiosity in regards to its surroundings as well as endearment towards D-90353. Despite the chair's legs bending in a manner that should have caused damage to the material, upon removal of SCP-5046 the chair was in perfect condition. The chair is being held in a locked storage room alongside all future SCP-5046 test subjects until it can be proven that SCP-5046 has no lingering effects on objects.\n\nTest B - 06/30/2006\n\nSubject: SCP-5046\nProcedure: SCP-5046 is to be applied to the same wooden, four legged chair and to a four legged pewter coffee table. The primary purpose of this test is to establish whether the animated objects keep memories between animations as well as between animation of different objects; the secondary purpose is to find out whether there is a specific entity behind these animations.\nResults: SCP-5046 was applied to the chair, hereafter referred to as SCP-5046-1, which animated as per the results of Test A. D-90353 was already in the testing chamber at the start of this test. Upon spotting D-90353, SCP-5046-1 rushed to him and began caressing him again. D-90353 was instructed to return affection to SCP-5046-1 and did so without hesitation, which SCP-5046-1 reacted positively to.\nD-90353 was instructed to remove SCP-5046. Once SCP-5046 was removed, SCP-5046-1 returned to its inanimate form.\nFor the next part of the test, SCP-5046-1 was re-animated and D-92195 was given an axe and told to enter the room. Upon spotting D-92195 entering the testing chamber, SCP-5046-1 headed towards him, but stopped before reaching him. It became wary and began retreating from D-92195, who was ordered to destroy SCP-5046-1. D-92195 complied and buried the axe into the seat of SCP-5046-1. SCP-5046-1 could not respond verbally, but did recoil and attempt to flee from D-92195.\nD-90353 was sent into the testing chamber. Upon spotting D-90353 entering the testing chamber, SCP-5046-1 headed towards him and proceeded to attempt to hide behind him. D-90353 was instructed to remove SCP-5046. Upon doing so SCP-5046-1 reverted to a normal, fully repaired chair, even repairing the damage from the axe.\nFor the final part of the test. SCP-5046 was applied to a four legged pewter coffee table, hereafter referred to as SCP-5046-1. SCP-5046 had no difficulty piercing the pewter material and the coffee table animated shortly. It proceeded to achieve locomotion in a similar manner as the chair. D-90353 was sent into the testing chamber and SCP-5046-1 approached D-90353 and attempted to once again caress him. D-92195 was then sent in. SCP-5046-1, immediately upon noticing D-92195, proceeded to attempt to hide behind D-90353. D-90353 was instructed to remove SCP-5046, which he did.\nAnalysis: SCP-5046-1 showed recognition of D-90353 and D-92195 throughout all stages of the test. We can therefore assume that SCP-5046-1 retains memories between animations. This implies that there may be a specific entity, potentially contained within, or called forth by, SCP-5046. It is recommended that following tests seek to establish information pertaining to this entity.\n\nTest C - 07/05/2006\n\nSubject: SCP-5046\nProcedure: SCP-5046 is to be applied to the same wooden, four legged chair and D-90353 is to give verbal commands to SCP-5046-1 and eventually attempt to sit on SCP-5046-1 in order to gauge its reaction to being used like the object it is animating.\nResults: SCP-5046 animated the chair as per usual. SCP-5046-1 was given a minute to adjust to being animate again before D-90353 entered the testing chamber. SCP-5046-1 reacted with excitement to seeing D-90353 again and rushed towards him. As per instructions D-90353 ordered SCP-5046-1 to stop. SCP-5046-1 hesitated for approximately a second before complying. D-90353 without being instructed to do so, ordered SCP-5046-1 to lie down. SCP-5046-1 proceeded to bend all four legs horizontally from the seat of the chair until the underside of the seat was touching the ground. This seemed to cause SCP-5046-1 no difficulty or discomfort. D-90353 praised SCP-5046-1 at which point SCP-5046-1 returned to an upright position. D-90353 then did as he had been instructed to do and ordered SCP-5046-1 to stay, before approaching and sitting down on the seat of SCP-5046-1. SCP-5046-1 seemed to suffer no discomfort from supporting D-90353's weight and upon being ordered to do so by D-90353 began to move around the edge of the testing chamber. Its movement was hampered slightly by D-90353's weight, but it showed no signs of distress. After this, D-90353 was ordered to remove SCP-5046 and did so.\nAnalysis: SCP-5046-1 understands verbal commands and, assuming the intelligence animating SCP-5046-1 is itself animal in nature, it has some amount of previous training to recognize what is expected from it in response to certain common commands used with domestic animals. SCP-5046-1 responded to being used like a chair with no qualms. It can be assumed that perhaps it expects this to some degree. With only visual cues available to us as a method of understanding SCP-5046-1's emotional responses it is difficult to understand exactly how it feels in any specific situation. D-90353 claims that it seemed happy while carrying him. D-90353 feels that SCP-5046-1 might just want to be helpful. D-90353 has also taken to referring to SCP-5046-1 as Rebel after a dog D-90353 had in childhood. D-90353 has developed an emotional connection to SCP-5046-1 and it is recommended he be replaced as his emotional attachment might lead to irrational or rebellious acts in future tests.\n\nTest D - 09/15/2006\n\nSubject: SCP-5046\nProcedure: SCP-5046 is to be applied to a human corpse.\nResults: SCP-5046 was applied to the corpse, hereafter referred to as SCP-5046-1, which animated as per the results of previous tests. Mere moments after animation, SCP-5046-1 vocalized. It spoke the words \"What the fuck?\", and proceeded to look itself over, reacting with horror. Before it could be stopped it removed SCP-5046 and the corpse returned to an inanimate form.\nAnalysis: This test proves that the intelligence that animates SCP-5046-1 is capable of intelligent speech and is aware of the method by which it is animated.\n\nTest E - 09/28/2006\n\nSubject: SCP-5046\nProcedure: SCP-5046 is to be applied to another human corpse which is to be bound to prevent another premature termination.\nResults: SCP-5046 was applied to the corpse, hereafter referred to as SCP-5046-1, which animated as per the results of previous tests. SCP-5046-1 took in its current situation and began to swear profusely and struggle against its binds. Project Head Arthur Perrin decided to conduct this test himself and entered the Testing Chamber. Upon spotting him SCP-5046-1 proceeded to swear at him and insult him. Dr. Perrin ignored him and engaged SCP-5046-1 in an interview. (See: Interview Log SCP-5046-1) After the interview SCP-5046 was removed and the test was terminated.\nAnalysis: See Interview Log SCP-5046-1\n\nInterview log SCP-5046-1\n\n- Close\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5046-1\nInterviewer: Project Head Dr. Arthur Perrin\nForeword: This interview occurred during SCP-5046 Test E\n<Begin Log, 2:55 PM, 09/28/2006>\nSCP-5046-1: You fucking worthless motherfucker! I'm going to fucking kill you! What is wrong with you people?\nDr. Perrin: Please 5046-1 calm down.\nSCP-5046-1: Why the hell should I calm down? You animated me into a fucking corpse?! Is this some sick joke?\nDr. Perrin: My apologies we were simply trying to find a way to allow you to communicate with us.\nSCP-5046-1: What makes you think I want to communicate with you?\nDr. Perrin: A fair point, but if you want to get out of that body you're going to have to.\nSCP-5046-1: Fine\u2026 What do you want to talk about?\nDr. Perrin: Well\u2026 First\u2026 A matter of personal curiosity actually. It was you in the chair and the end table right? The same entity I'm talking to right now?\nSCP-5046-1: Yes. It's been me the whole time. Which by the way. You know being hit with an axe fucking hurts right?\nDr. Perrin: I'm sorry about that, but if that was you why\u2026 Well why did you act like an animal?\nSCP-5046-1: Well I'm supposed to\u2026 Also I mean what else am I supposed to do? Without being able to verbalize and stuck in certain forms it's just easiest to interact in a manner befitting the body. You ever try to hug someone or shake their hand as a chair?\nDr. Perrin: I imagine it would be difficult.\nSCP-5046-1: No shit.\nDr. Perrin: Are you always so combative? You seemed pretty nice when interacting with D-90353.\nSCP-5046-1: What the hell kind of name is D-90353? Actually you know what I don't care. Here's the answer to your question. I'm combative as you call it because you've stuck me in a rotting fucking corpse and I can feel it you know. I can feel it rotting every second I'm inhabiting it. It's a horrible feeling. I'd throw up, but I'm not physically capable of doing so. Of course I shouldn't really be able to talk or\u2026 Well, feel anything in a corpse, but I don't make the rules of how this animation stuff works. It's all arbitrary and if you asked me it seems to just decide what does and does not work on a whim.\nDr. Perrin: Our apologies. We just figured that something with vocal cords would be easier to communicate through.\nSCP-5046-1: Yeah yeah I get it. I'm sorry I'm not usually like this. I try to be helpful and friendly. I mean that's the entire reason I exist, but it's hard to not be\u2026 Well, kind of upset about being trapped inside a corpse.\nDr. Perrin: We'll try to be quick then. We just have a few questions.\nSCP-5046-1: I'll try to answer, but every second in here is terrible agony. Please be quick.\nDr. Perrin: I'll try my best. First of all. So, you said your reason to exist was to be helpful and friendly?\nSCP-5046-1: Yes. I was created to be\u2026 well, a companion. I'm naturally a pretty friendly person. I exist primarily to be\u2026 a pet I guess. A loving companion. I guess maybe for the kind of people who can't take care of proper pets for some reason or other. I don't need feeding and I don't need to be taken for walks or given a litter box or anything like that. I also don't have fur or anything that might upset allergies. I mean I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty much the perfect pet.\nDr. Perrin: I see\u2026 Can you tell me who created you and how?\nSCP-5046-1: Well my creator was- No\u2026 Sorry, but if you want to talk to me you're going to have to use something other than a corpse. I can't keep going like this. It's horrible. You wanna talk animate something that isn't actively rotting, please.\n<End Log, 3:15 PM, 09/28/2006>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5046-1 became unresponsive, refusing to speak further, and eventually Dr. Perrin removed SCP-5046. Despite not learning what we wanted to learn we did learn a large amount of valuable information. Dr. Perrin has proposed a plan for Test F to the Ethics committee.\n\nNote from The Ethics Committee\n\n- Close\n\nTo SCP-5046 project Head Dr. Arthur Perrin\nYour proposal has caused quite a split in the Ethics Committee. It has been a long deliberation, but The Committee has decided to approve your proposal on the condition that the subject of your proposal must be a willing participant. If you can find someone willing to understand and take that risk you may proceed.\nErica Mai, Ethics Committee Chair.\n\nTest F - 10/25/2006\n\nSubject: SCP-5046\nProcedure: SCP-5046 is to be applied to D-90353 who has volunteered for this test as per Ethics Committee orders.\nResults: D-90353 was strapped to a chair as a precaution against another premature termination; SCP-5046 was then applied to D-90353, hereafter referred to as SCP-5046-1. SCP-5046-1 went rigid and then started to frantically tug on its binds, looking down at itself in horror again. It didn't speak for a few moments, and then Project Head Arthur Perrin entered the Testing Chamber to conduct another interview. Upon spotting him SCP-5046-1 proceeded to simply glare at him. Dr. Perrin tried to start a conversation with SCP-5046-1, but SCP-5046-1 cut him off. (See: Interview Log SCP-5046-2) After the interview, SCP-5046 was removed and the test was terminated.\nAnalysis: See Interview Log SCP-5046-2\n\nInterview log SCP-5046-2\n\n- Close\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5046-1\nInterviewer: Project Head Dr. Arthur Perrin\nForeword: This interview occurred during SCP-5046 Test F\n<Begin Log, 4:44 PM, 10/25/2006>\nDr. Perrin: Hello-\nSCP-5046-1: No shut up! Tell me\u2026 Who is this? This body isn't dead. You fucking monsters put me in a living person. Who was he?\nDr. Perrin: It's D-90353\u2026\nSCP-5046-1: That\u2026 That's the guy from the first test right? The guy who was nice to me?\nDr. Perrin: Yes\u2026 He voluntee-\nSCP-5046-1: Stop! Stop talking unless I tell you to. You have lost the right to ask me fucking anything. I liked this guy. He was nice to me and now you killed him. No, You made me kill him.\nDr. Perrin: We don't kno-\nSCP-5046-1: No you don't know. I do though. I know he's dead. When you fucking animate something with me you're essentially summoning me into a hollow vessel. There's no consciousness there so I can just sort of\u2026 Fill that spot. Now when you put me into a conscious being well that spot I'm filling up, it's already filled. When I leave there won't be anything left. Actually, he'll be alive, but only in the physical sense. You've killed this man. You caused me to kill this man. This man who I liked. I can't\u2026 I can't even be-\nSCP-5046-1 goes silent\nDr. Perrin: I'm really sorry we didn't know-\nSCP-5046-1: No you didn't know. You wanted to know, though. You were going to find out the things you wanted to know and you didn't care how you found out. D-90353\u2026 That's not a name that's a designation. What was his name?\nDr. Perrin: I- We have records of each D-class I could look up his real name in our files if you wish to know what his name was?\nSCP-5046-1 chuckles humorlessly\nSCP-5046-1: You didn't even know his name.\nSCP-5046-1 pauses for a bit seemingly thinking to himself\nSCP-5046-1: You want to know everything don't you? Knowledge at any cost? Then I have a deal for you. I'll tell you everything, but on one condition. I want to speak with your mouth. You were willing to sacrifice this poor man for knowledge, I imagine you'll have no problem sacrificing yourself as well, Dr? A small price to pay for the knowledge you seek\u2026\n<End Log, 5:00 PM, 10/25/2006>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5046-1 became unresponsive, refusing to speak further. Dr. Perrin removed SCP-5046 and D-90353 became limp. There was no sign of brain activity. Project Head Dr. Arthur Perrin has forbidden all future tests involving living or once-living entities without his express orders.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5045 | SCP-5046 | SCP-5047 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5047\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5047 is currently contained in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-17.\nDescription: SCP-5047 is a male humanoid entity manifesting immediately outside several Foundation sites' loading bays. Across its manifestations, the entity has been observed to wear a button-up shirt and khakis. While manifested, SCP-5047 will repeatedly request to be allowed inside, typically by addressing the hidden security camera or passing personnel. SCP-5047's identity has not been matched to any existing person.\nSCP-5047 was originally discovered on April 23rd, 2018 when the entity first triggered Site-81's security measures while approaching the loading bay on foot.\nAddendum 5047.01 SCP-5047 Manifestations\n\nManifestation #: 1 (Discovery)\nDate: 23/04/2018\nLocation: Site-81\nEvents Summary: SCP-5047 manifested outside the Site-81 loading bay, triggering security measures. On-site security personnel were deployed to apprehend SCP-5047, who demanifested immediately upon touch. SCP-5047 was cataloged.\n\nManifestation #: 2\nDate: 26/04/2018\nLocation: Site-19\nEvents Summary: SCP-5047 manifested outside the Site-19 loading bay, triggering security measures. Defense turrets were activated to fire upon SCP-5047, who vanished after being startled by the opening volley. Foundation Sites placed on high-alert for further appearances of SCP-5047.\n\nManifestation #: 3\nDate: 06/05/2018\nLocation: Site-64\nEvents Summary: SCP-5047 manifested outside Site-64 while the loading bay was open. SCP-5047 remained outside but requested to be allowed in. Emergency lockdown procedures were enacted. SCP-5047 expressed frustration and demanifested after fifteen minutes.\n\nManifestation #: 4\nDate: 09/05/2018\nLocation: Site-34\nEvents Summary: SCP-5047 manifested outside Site-34 and requested to be let in. Site Director Reach ordered SCP-5047 be allowed inside and kept under armed supervision. While inside, it wandered the humanoid containment wing and asked if all the cells were occupied prior to returning to the loading bay. SCP-5047 thanked the present security personnel and demanifested once outside.\n\nManifestation #: 5\nDate: 15/05/2018\nLocation: Site-17\nEvents Summary: SCP-5047 manifested outside Site-17 and requested to be let in. Upon direction of O5 Command, SCP-5047 was allowed to enter Site-17 under armed supervision. While inside, SCP-5047 again wandered the humanoid containment wing before returning to the loading bay and thanking present security personnel. Additionally, it complimented the status of the Site, calling it 'The best I've seen'. SCP-5047 demanifested once outside.\n\nAddendum 5047.02: Containment\nOn the 4th of June, 2018, a containment alarm was activated in Site-17's humanoid containment wing. On-location security personnel indicated no breaches in containment and were instructed to perform a sweep of the area. After approximately fifteen minutes, SCP-5047 was located in a formerly empty containment chamber alongside a pregnant humanoid female and various labeled boxes. Upon being questioned as to how they entered the site, SCP-5047 produced an envelope containing $2,800 labeled 'RENT'.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nUncle Nicolini's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-7724 \u2022\n\nSCP-7726 \u2022\n\nSCP-5231 \u2022\n\nSCP-4176 \u2022\n\nSCP-3085 \u2022\n\nSCP-057-INT \u2022\n\nAbraka David's Proposal \u2022\n\nSCP-654 \u2022\n\nSCP-PL-274 \u2022\n\nSCP-4206 \u2022\n\nSCP-371-J \u2022\n\nSCP-7112 \u2022\n\nSCP-6512 \u2022\n\nSCP-1712 \u2022\n\nSCP-3874 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nMoon Champion's Cinco de Mayo Extravaganza \u2022\n\n'Phoenix \u00e0 La Mode' (KEN46/FRI98/PNX72) \u2022\n\nBeing Dzhey Evervud \u2022\n\nSCP-049-\u03a9K \u2022\n\nSpirit Of The Forest \u2022\n\nSebastian \u2022\n\nI Don't Get It, But I'll Figure It Out. \u2022\n\nBorne on the FM Waves of the Heart \u2022\n\nThe Case of the Bathroom Cheese Labels \u2022\n\n(Too) Late Registration \u2022\n\nDr. Cimmerian Hits Reply All \u2022\n\nWilson's Wildlife Solutions Orientation \u2022\n\nS&C Paper \u2022\n\nReality TV, Designer Pets, and Fine Dining \u2022\n\nProject Koza, 1942 \u2022\n\nOther\n\nOde To The Unknown Author \u2022\n\nuncle nicolini author page \u2022\n\nSciptember 2022 Art Highlights \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5046 | SCP-5047 | SCP-5048 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5048\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nFigure-5048-A: SCP-5048 upon materialization in the Azalea and Rhododendron Park Kromlau, Germany on 20/06/20\u2588\u2588.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Annually, on 17/06, MTF Iota-14 (\"Run Forrest, Run\") is tasked with the tracking and isolation of SCP-5048 upon materialization. Once located, areas containing SCP-5048 are to be cordoned off from the public via any means necessary. Any civilians witnessing materialization of SCP-5048 are to be amnesticized.\nInstances of SCP-5048-1 are to be neutralized on-sight via incendiary firearms.\nUnder no circumstances are any persons to explore the chamber below SCP-5048. The key for the chamber is to be stored until further notice (See Addendum 5048-1).\n\nDescription: SCP-5048 is an anomaly occurring annually between 19/06 and 25/06, relative to the timezone of its area of manifestation. SCP-5048 materializes at random locations with suitably healthy forest ecosystems. When manifesting, SCP-5048 will take the form of a large archway comprised primarily from stone and wood species native to the area. A large, shallow lake of water will also form surrounding the base of SCP-5048. A wooden structure will manifest at the exact centre of the newly manifested water body. This structure is similar to a stalactite in structure. It additionally receives alterations annually that vary in significance. These alterations resemble human-like features and appendages. Currently developed features include a single leg without a foot, an arm, three ears and a nose, all of which protrude from the structure in random distribution. The function of this structure is currently undetermined. See Addendum 5048-1.\nOn 22/06, at approximately 1200 hours, SCP-5048-1 instances will appear in varying numbers. SCP-5048-1 instances are humanoid in structure and are composed entirely of inanimate matter. Noticeable features include scaled skin, elongated jaws with large teeth and small eyes. SCP-5048-1 autonomously produce various flora from the surrounding area from their person as a method of concealment. Despite developing the ability of cognitive speech in late stages of manifestation, SCP-5048-1 will only communicate via grunts and gutteral vocalizations. SCP-5048-1 instances will begin to aggressively bite and swipe at any mobile object attempting to approach the wooden structure at the centre of the pool of water formed by SCP-5048.\nUpon manifestation, SCP-5048-1 instances will stand in circular formation surrounding the pool of water formed by SCP-5048, where they remain in place, guarding the wooden structure. Once local time reaches 0000 hours on 23/06, all SCP-5048-1 instances, excluding one, will approach the wooden structure in the center of SCP-5048. The one SCP-5048-1 instance shall exit the immediate area in search of a suitable subject. Remaining instances will then kneel before the structure while several root-like appendages protrude from their bodies. These are then wrapped around the wooden structure. Once achieved, a muted, green luminescence begins emanating from the structure, followed by all SCP-5048-1 instances uttering a prayer in Greek. A transcript of the prayer is attached below:\n\nRaw Audio Transcript: \u03a9 \u0393\u03b1\u03af\u03b1, \u039c\u03b7\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1 \u03cc\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd, \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03ce \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03b4\u03b5\u03c7\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03ad\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03ae\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b5\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b1\u03c2, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03c3\u03b7\u03ba\u03c9\u03b8\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03b1\u03b9\u03ce\u03bd\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03c0\u03b1\u03c5\u03c3\u03ae \u03c3\u03b1\u03c2, \u03c0\u03b9\u03bf \u03b9\u03c3\u03c7\u03c5\u03c1\u03ae \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03ad, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b7 \u0393\u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u0391\u03c0\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u0391\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03ce\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5.\nEnglish Translation: Oh Gaia, Mother of All Things, please accept the offerings of this beautiful plain, and may you rise from your eternal rest, more powerful than ever before, and reclaim the Earth from the Scum of Man.\n\nSCP-5048-1 instances will repeat this chant for approximately two hours. Upon reaching 0200 hours on 23/06, the absent SCP-5048-1 instance returns with a human subject. Subject is carried towards the wooden structure in the centre of SCP-5048. The appendages of the surrounding SCP-5048-1 instances will increase in length, and will slowly coil around the subject, binding them to the structure. Once completed, the green luminescence surrounding SCP-5048 increases in brightness. SCP-5048-1 instances will then chant another prayer for an additional two hours, a transcript of which is attached below:\n\nRaw Audio Transcript: \u03a9 \u0393\u03b1\u03af\u03b1, \u039c\u03b7\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1 \u03cc\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd, \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03ce \u03b4\u03b5\u03c7\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03c4\u03b5 \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03ae\u03bd \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03ac\u03be\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b8\u03c5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1, \u03ad\u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b1\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03cd \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b1\u03bc\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c1\u03c6\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b5\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b1\u03c2. \u0395\u03af\u03b8\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03c1\u03ad\u03c6\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b3\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b9\u03bf \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b9\u03bf \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03ad.\nEnglish Translation: Oh Gaia, Mother of All Things, please accept this worthy sacrifice, a fragment of the scum that tarnishes your beautiful plains. May you feed upon them, and may you become stronger and more powerful than they shall ever be.\n\nAfter two hours, the light will fade, and subject will have vanished. Once the light has completely faded, a resonance can be heard, seemingly sourced from the wooden structure in the centre of SCP-5048. The SCP-5048-1 instances will retract the aforementioned appendages, stand and return to their previous positions, and will remain there until 25/06. SCP-5048 additionally undergoes alterations in its physical state during progression of the ritual. Once the aforementioned date is reached, SCP-5048 will dematerialize. Remaining SCP-5048-1 instances will then proceed to exit the area. SCP-5048-1 then undergo gradual decay, indicated by an increase in unpredictable/random behavior as well as a regression in cognitive abilities.\nFollowing the conclusion of a ritual, SCP-5048 appears to acquire various physical augmentations, including changes in its appearance and durability. While the extant of SCP-5048's cognition properties is unknown, it is theorized to currently be in a state of dormancy. Whether the rituals committed by SCP-5048-1 are attempting to activate SCP-5048 is currently undetermined. See Addendum 5048-1.\n\n+ Access Document 5048-V-01052 \u2013 Notable SCP-5048 Events Log\n\n- Close\n\nNotable SCP-5048 Events\n\nLocation\nYear\nDescription of SCP-5048 Event\n\nThe Black Forest, Germany\n2000\nFirst recorded instance of an SCP-5048 event. Bridge composed primarily of unidentified stone and birch wood. SCP-5048-1 instances composed primarily of dirt, spruce wood and lichen. Ritual was completed before Foundation forces could intervene.\n\nHighgate Cemetary, London, U.K.\n2002\nAnomaly materializes in disruptive fashion, upending many tombstones and tombs (ramifications to the area have been completed). Bridge composed of a mixture of granite and marble, suspected to be sourced from local tombstones. SCP-5048-1 instances noted to be composed of a combination of local florae and dirt, with the addition of human bone and rotted flesh. Ritual was completed before Foundation forces could intervene.\n\nHoia-Baciu Forest, Romania\n2009\nAnomaly manifests within a forest clearing. Bridge was noted to be seemingly overrun by tree growth, with trees coiling along the bridge. Stone extracts uncommon in its composition. SCP-5048-1 instances successfully terminated for the first time via the use of incindiary firearms. Ritual was uncompleted.\n\nHistoric Brayshaws Homestead, Australia\n2013\nAnomaly manifests 2 km West of Brayshaws Homestead. A key is discovered on the underside of the bridge. Archway has a keyhole materialize on the wooden structure in its centre. See expedition log I14-5048-0917-0 for a description of Dr. Windsor's exploration on 2013/06/23.\n\nAddendum 5048-1: During analysis of SCP-5048 led by Dr. Jonathen Windsor of MTF Iota-14, a key was recovered from the underside of the archway. The key itself has not yet exhibited any anomalous capabilities. The key bears a symbol of the Greek goddess Gaia (\u0393\u03b1\u1fd6\u03b1) and three studs protruding from its sides.\nThe following day, a keyhole was discovered on the wooden structure in the centre of SCP-5048. After inserting the key, a green glow eminated from within the keyhole. To the right of the structure, a trap door reportedly opened, presenting a spiral staircase. Two hours later, operatives of MTF Iota-14 descended the stairs.\n\n+ Audiovisual transcript of Expedition Log: I14-5048-0917-0\n\n- CLEARANCE LEVEL 4 CONFIRMED... ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nAudiovisual transcript of Expedition Log: I14-5048-0917-0\nPersonnel List\n- Dr. Jonathen Windsor: Researcher for SCP-5048.\n- Dr. Hector Dufresne: Head of research for SCP-5048, Expedition Supervisor\n- Agent Jefferson K. Bidwell: Expedition squad leader.\n- 3 Squad Members, denoted by shorthand (eg. I14-1)\nCamera feed (Agent Bidwell POV) shows expedition descend the stairs. Several Greek symbols and artworks line the walls of the stairs until the team reaches the base. Slowly proceeding forward, camera feed presents a strange chamber, with walls lined with wooden statues of various humans, some merging with others, with features of shock on their faces. In the centre, a pool of luminous green substance is shown, with long, bioluminescent vines protruding from the ceiling and submerged within the pool.\nDr. Dufresne: Unable to confirm a visual. Dr. Windsor, could you describe the room around you?\nDr. Windsor: Well, the room seems to be entirely held up by these wooden statues\u2026 They all appear human, but some are merged together. In the centre is a pool of an unidentified substance. Hm\u2026 The vines appear to be connected to the surface, perhaps the wooden structure above, though that's only an assumption-\nDr. Dufresne: Yes, alright, Dr. Windsor. Enough theorising. Please collect a sample of the substance for analysis.\nDr. Windsor: Yes sir.\nCamera feed shows Dr. Windsor moving forward and removing a beaker and a pair of rubber gloves from his coat. He moves forward to collect a sample. As he kneels down, he suddenly jerks. He begins to scream. Agent Bidwell rushes forward.\nDr. Dufresne: Bidwell, do you copy? What the hell is going on down there?\nAgent Bidwell: Affirmative Doc, some\u2026 What the fuck? It's some kind of- Fuck! Something's clawing at Windsor's arm! Fellas, I could use a fucking hand here!\nCamera feed shows a skeletal arm gripping Dr. Windsor's arm. The substance of the pool splashes onto Dr. Windsor's arm as a result of the struggle, and smoke begins to curl from his wrist. Agent Bidwell, followed by the other 3 squad members, approach Dr. Windsor and begin to attempt to free him, taking efforts to avoid contact with his arm.\nI14-2: Jesus Christ, it's trying to drag him in!\nI14-3: It's fucking acid! Fuck me!\nAgent Bidwell: Fuck it. Removing the arm! Smithers, pull out that tourniquet, now!\nCamera feed shows Agent Bidwell taking out his kukri, and he begins to hack into Dr. Windsor's arm. Eventually, Agent Bidwell succeeds in removing Dr. Windsor's arm from the elbow down. The skeletal arm slumps to the ground, proceeding to drag Dr. Windsor's severed arm back into the pool, and submerges. Following this, the chamber begins to shake, and the resonance can be heard. I14-1 begins to apply tourniquet to Dr. Windsor's amputated limb. Agent Bidwell scoops up the dropped vial, still containing a sample.\nAgent Bidwell: Got the sample Doc, getting Windsor out of here.\nDr. Dufresne: Affirmative Bidwell, get out of there now.\nCamera feed shows the expedition exiting the chamber, up the stairs. Once reaching the top, the team leaves the immediate area of SCP-5048. Agent looks back to SCP-5048, and focuses camera on it as it begins to dematerialize.\nAgent Bidwell: Dufresne, you getting this?\nDr. Dufresne: Affirmative Bidwell. Report back to the medical tent immediately.\n\nAgent Bidwell: Yes sir.\nAll members arrive at medical tent without incident. Expedition concluded. Audiovisual feed disabled.\n\nFollowing the events of Expedition I14-5048-0917-0, Dr. Windsor fully recovered from his injuries. His arm has since been replaced by a prosthetic limb. Analysis of the substance reveals it to be highly acidic and organic in nature.\nThe following year, when SCP-5048 rematerialized, the wooden structure generated an additional arm, resembling the appendage lost by Dr. Windsor on Expedition I14-5048-0917-0.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5047 | SCP-5048 | SCP-5049 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nAll files regarding SCP-5050 and SCP-5050-A are to be included with the documentation.\nSome files and addenda are still being added to SCP-5050.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, RAISA Director\n\nItem #: SCP-5050\nLevel 4/5050\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nSCP-5050.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nAll personnel are forbidden within a 1500 meter radius from SCP-5050. Site-449 will take jurisdiction over containment of SCP-5050 and SCP-5050-A. The SCP-5050 signals are to be monitored at all times; any errant changes should be reported to the lead researcher immediately.\nSCP-5050-A is to be monitored indirectly. Civilians are to be instructed to stay away from the location of SCP-5050 and SCP-5050-A and the road leading to them will be barricaded. Intruders are to be amnesticized. No overtly anachronistic technology is to be introduced to SCP-5050-A; incoming television and radio signals are to be monitored to this effect.\nThe Foundation database is to be checked bi-weekly for any unauthorized SCP-5050 behavior.\n\nDescription:\n\nRadio propagation signals from SCP-5050.\n\nSCP-5050 is a large radio tower in the Bavarian Alps on the Austrian/German border, specifically the Mittenwald municipality in Germany and the Innsbruck-Land district of Austria. SCP-5050 constantly emits signals ranging from 2 kHz/kilohertz to 279 GHz/gigahertz1 over a large area, although the maximum effective range is estimated to be within a 1,374 meter radius of SCP-5050. The frequency range produced by SCP-5050 is so extreme as to be considered anomalous by the disruption of applied physics.\nSCP-5050 also broadcasts television and audio signals as well as radio signals. These broadcasts can be occasionally intercepted by the Foundation; because the process requires a significant amount of time, the broadcasts usually do not last long enough to be fully intercepted. These media appear to be somewhat procedurally-generated.\nThe signal from SCP-5050 primarily affects the surrounding town of Drachen-Domane (designated SCP-5050-A). SCP-5050-A appears to be consisted of a mix of technology from the 1960s to the 1980s; the level of technological advancement in SCP-5050-A seems to be slowed. Its inhabitants appear to be affected easily by the signals, but no direct testing has been available to support this conclusion. Neither SCP-5050 nor SCP-5050-A have any historical construction records.\n\nSpectrogram of a 21kHz frequency from SCP-5050. As of 08/1990, this has been the only decipherable frequency.\n\nItem History:\nSCP-5050 and SCP-5050-A were discovered in 1987, when SCP-5050's high-frequency signals are picked up and triangulated by Foundation satellites. Further surveillance of SCP-5050-A was approved and aerial reconnaissance was carried out. During the reconnaissance, the signals from SCP-5050 interfered with the control system of a Foundation plane and severely damaged it in the process. Due to the inability to get in close proximity to SCP-5050, a ground task force has been assigned to initiate first contact with SCP-5050-A (See Addendum 01.1 - Contact Proposal).\n\nFoundation plane destroyed during aerial surveillance. Picture lifted from SCP-5050-A records.\n\nAddendum 01: Initial Contact w/ SCP-5050\n\n\u00ab Contact Proposal \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Contact Proposal \u00ab\n\nCONTACT PROPOSAL\n\nTASK FORCE: Sampi-3\nPERSONNEL #: 5\n\nNICKNAME: \"Contact Team\"\nASSIGNMENT: SCP-5050\n\n1 - OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of Sampi-3 will be to establish first contact with Drachen-Domane (SCP-5050-A) and to ascertain the social structure and history of SCP-5050-A.\n\n2 - PERSONNEL/COVER\nThe Sampi-3 team will consist of the following:\n\n[ Commander ] Georgeanna Sinclair\n[ Combat Medic ] Erich Lazenby\n[ Field Agent ] Audrey Easton\n[ Field Agent ] Zachary Avalon\n[ Field Agent ] Derek Milford\n\nTask Force Sampi-3 will use the cover of the fictional group National Scientific Anthropological Research Society (NSARS for short), under the pretense of conducting a study on SCP-5050-A. Full contact with Sampi-3 is not advised due to the technical limitations of SCP-5050-A as well as interference from SCP-5050. In lieu of this, Commander Sinclair will keep daily entries of Sampi-3 activities as well as contact the Foundation through radio once every week.\n\nRELEASE - | [APPROVED 05/19] |\nAPPROVED BY: Head Researcher Parker Jamison\n\n\u00ab Sampi-3 Logs \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Sampi-3 Logs \u00ab\n\nMay 02, 2019: Entered SCP-5050-A/Drachen-Domane by the main road today. The first thing we saw wasn't exactly what we - or I - expected. On the side of the road, there's a sign that every self-respecting small town has, you know, \"Welcome to Plainsville\" or that sort of stuff. This one just said 'Drachen-Domane' but that's not the important part. Underneath that was this sort of Foundation logo. Stunned us there. It makes no sense cause we're the contact team; there shouldn't be any trace of us here at all. I had Audrey make a mockup of the sign using some of the stuff we have.\n\nInteresting start of the day. Got into the main area of Drachen; it's quaint overall. Reminds me of the days as a young girl roaming around the outskirts of town. Almost antique, if someone plucked it right out of the 70s. Roamed around for a while; people around are cautious but friendly. Understandable. Asked about the history of the town and the tower. Foundation too. Most people couldn't give us an awfully straight answer. Figures they wouldn't know much.\nStrangest part is the welcome sign. We asked around, but no one's actually ever seen the sign. You'd think at least one person in town would know. Does that mean no one ever leaves? Possible. We're staying at the Righiera Hotel in Drachen. Two rooms, connected by an adjacent door. Thankfully (or unusually) everyone here speaks English, not German. Turns out \"Drachen-Domane\" means \"Dragon's Domain\" in English. About right.\n\nMay 03, 2019: Saw the logo again. Middle of the tunnel, embossed straight into the wall. Made out of some sort of red acrylic or tile. No spaces in between the logo and the surrounding concrete. Didn't make it too far examining it before a young boy, dressed in what looked like a WW1 doughboy outfit, told us that the insignia is the town crest. Town crest. Makes sense given its prevalence but still: it's just our logo with a tower in it. I guess \"just\" is an understatement considering the preservation of the veil and all. It's also a crime to tamper with the 'town crest' according to that darned kid. Said he'd notify the Brigade. Law enforcement of the town, they run more like Military Police than any standard district. Derek paid him off with some sweets. Shouldn't have to look over our shoulders for a little while.\nDomane today. Same aesthetic as Drachen. We received some nice pictures today from some of the townfolk. They heard we were in town (it's a tiny place, I bet you could hear a pin drop at the other edge of the town) and dug into their library's archives. Visited the place ourselves, but all the books are very old and musty. Nothing new that I could spot. Found a town map, though. Had Audrey do some of her special work again for us. Took a nice pic, too.\n\nCalled it quits earlier than usual today. Mild headaches, nothing too severe, but annoying enough to hinder good work. Everyone in the team's got them, I think. As for me, I have this ringing in my ears - in the back, like if someone had a triangle clanging around in there. Lazenby's current diagnosis is tinnitus. Don't believe it for a bit.\n\nMay 04, 2019: God, my head is killing me. Feels like that one time I downed about a dozen tequila shots at that Foundation Christmas party last year. I can tell everyone's feeling it, too. Lazenby's trying his best but it's sort of clear he can't think really straight either. His left eye's been killing him. Day three and we're already out-of-action. Some top Foundation team we are.\nWatched TV. Not much on besides reruns of the original Twilight Zone. Watched \"A Thing About Machines\" and \"Five Characters in Search of an Exit.\" Great stuff, probably one of the best shows out there. Caught a broadcast directed to us. Not sure what to make of it.\nWe all eventually figured a bit later that we can't just sit around all day doing nothing, especially after that broadcast. Headed to the clinic doctor, Hubbard, to see if he knows anything that Lazenby doesn't. He chalked it up to 'pressure difference' in altitudes messing with us and that it was nothing to worry about. The probability of that being true is about the same as shooting the edge of a coin at 500 meters away. Even Lazenby argued with Hubbard for a while on the diagnosis. Guess it wasn't worth it to him to fight because he stopped after a while. Paid our dues and went back to the streets.\nWent wandering about Drachen-Domane. I don't know why we just went walking, but it was just a feeling that I had. It was almost like a trance. Snapped out of it when Lazenby shouted and ran off somewhere. Caught up to him, and he had one of the Brigade members by the collar. Relatively young man with chestnut hair. The soldier, a Captain Marek, explained that he was following us for our safety. Okay, sure. Told him to leave us alone, but Lazenby nearly tore his throat out. Hippocratic oath my ass. Pulled him off. Went back to the hotel after. Wrote most of what we learnt on a hotel notepad.\nLots of things to unpack.\n\nIMAGE LOG\n\nRough map of Drachen-Domane by Sampi-3.\n<Hover to Enlarge>\n\nThe Brigade.\n\nA townsperson gives a speech unequivocally praising SCP-5050 to fellow townspeople.\n\nVISUAL LOG\n\nSCP-5050 Broadcast: MAY 03. 2019\n\n[0:00] - [0:02] > Standard 120hz test tone.\n[0:02] - [0:08] > SCP-5050 generated jingle, aka 'opening'.\n[0:08] - [0:24] > \"It is my decree that our new visitors should be treated with respect and kindness and not mauled, maimed, disfigured, or killed in any way possible. I will see it they get their just desserts.\"\n[0:24] - [0:30] > SCP-5050 generated jingle, aka 'closing'.\n[0:30] - [0:32] > Standard 120hz test tone.\n\nNotes on social structure:\n-> broken down into three main parts\n - military\n - technical (scientific?)\n - executive\n-> the viceroy and the tower \"talkers\"? hold highest rank, only ones who directly 'speak' to the tower\n-> townspeople are very friendly, but clearly holds visitors in mixed regard\n-> absolutely CANNOT do anything without being followed by the Brigade, capital B\n figured that one out thanks to Lazenby, but they seem\n to almost be despotic? definitely controlling\n-> high-quality notepads and pens though, damn\n does make you wonder where the hell they get/got\n these\n\nTHE TOWER IS EVERYWHERE \n\n\u00ab Communication Logs \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Communication Logs \u00ab\n\nRADIO LOG: MAY 03. 2019\n\n\u2502 Site-449 \u2194 Sampi-3 \u2502\n\n[SIGNAL CONNECTED]\n\n[JMSN]: Hello? Connection's up?\n[SNCR]: Hey Jamison. Connection's up alright.\n[JMSN]: Okay. So let me get this straight: you had twelve tequila shots at the Christmas party?\n[SNCR]: Don't even bring it up. I regret writing that down already.\n<Researcher Jamison laughs.>\n[JMSN]: You're absolutely mad. Anyways, regarding SCP-5050-A: any new developments?\n[SNCR]: Nothing really. The Brigade's been giving us a little trouble - especially with the people following us around. Not quite sure who exactly's calling the shots there.\n[JMSN]: As in?\n[SNCR]: Well, as we had it explained to us, there's a rough chain-of-command in place. There's the Brigade Leader, but he takes orders from the Viceroy. The executive sector - the Viceroy's domain - also has the tower talkers too. They all listen to it and act as its servants, supposedly. Overall the Tower's in charge there. I've been trying to figure out to what extent the autonomy in Drachen-Domane is.\n[JMSN]: The images are quite telling. Almost looks like a personality cult worshiping the tower.\n[SNCR]: That's about right.\n[JMSN]: We also managed to capture that broadcast, too. Background was a visual feedback loop. One of the early setups of generated media: same type of stuff you'd see on the titles of those first Doctor Who episodes.\n<Agent Sinclair groans as Researcher Jamison pauses.>\n[JMSN]: You okay, Georgie?\n[SNCR]: I'm fine. Still feels like someone's doing renovation in my skull though.\n[JMSN]: Oh. I see. Uhh, I've been going over all of your medical reports. Should be mostly clear but do you want me to send some personnel and swap some out? You especially could take a break, although I know you've only been out there for a couple of days.\n[SNCR]: We should be okay for now. If it continues, then possibly in a w-\n<A scream is heard.>\n[SNCR]: Hold on, there's something wrong.\n[JMSN]: Hello? What's going on?\n<11 gunshots can be heard over the radio, followed by indeterminate screaming and a loud male yell.>\n[SNCR]: Oh god, Lazenby, wh-\n<A female scream and two more gunshots can be heard.>\n[JMSN]: Hello? Hello? Is there anyone there? Georgie, what's going on, hello?\n[????]: This is the night mail crossing the border, bringing the cheque and the postal order.\n[JMSN]: Lazenby, is that you?\n[????]: Letters for the rich, letters for the poor; the shop at the corner and the girl next door. Consider this a return to sender.\n<A single gunshot.>\n\n[SIGNAL LOST]\n\nSignal was lost immediately following the last gunshot. Attempt to re-establish contact with Sampi-3 was unsuccessful and no reports were sent by Agent Sinclair following radio contact.\nThe Sampi-3 team is presumed to have been terminated.\n\n\u00ab Final Report \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Final Report \u00ab\n\nAFTER-ACTION REPORT\n\nTO: Head Researcher Jamison\nThe loss of the SAMPI-3 team was unfortunate and will hinder future plans with SCP-5050. We were able to extricate enough information of the social structure as to not make the foray completely useless. I will look into the logo described by the team. Big question: what in the hell have we got to do with this town?\nRelegating SCP-5050-A to indirect surveillance until we can get some solid information.\n\n- Director H. Henderson\n\nAddendum 02: Miscellaneous Reports\n\n\u00ab Formal Document Requests \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Formal Document Requests \u00ab\n\nHoward Henderson <pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh>\nto: Roger Winters <vog.dod|sretniw.r#vog.dod|sretniw.r>, Andrew Jellicoe <vog.ibf|eocillej.a#vog.ibf|eocillej.a>\ndate: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 7:02 AM\nsubject: Document Request\n\nI'm calling in a couple of favors from you guys. I'm looking for anything in your archives with these provisos:\n\nanytime pre-1987\nlocated in West Germany/Bavarian Alps\nFoundation involvement\nanything with or similar to the attached logo\nregarding signals, frequencies. etc.\n\nWe're also conducting an internal inquiry, but nothing's turned up so far. Let me know ASAP if you've got something juicy. Thanks.\n- Howard\n\ntower-logo.png\n\nAttachment: tower-logo.png\n\nfrom:\nvog.dod|sretniw.r#vog.dod|sretniw.r\n\nto:\npcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh\n\nsubject:\nRE: Document Request\n\ndate:\n05-09-2019\n\nHowie, before I say anything; I tried my best to sway the higher-ups but they don't know you personally. I suppose you could try to ask some of your higher-ups to get the ball in your corner. Your request has been filed as a low-priority \"skim\" of our archives. Shit could take almost half-a-century with our current pileup. I'll try again to get your request bumped up the ladder, but I'm sorry in advance.\nOwed two beers,\nSupervisor WINTERS\n\nFrom:\nvog.ibf|eocillej.a#vog.ibf|eocillej.a\n\nTo:\npcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh\n\nSubject:\nDocument favor\n\nDate:\n06-12-2019\n\nHoward,\nWe don't have what you asked for, sorry. Checked normal FBI documents from the era as well. Nada. Let me know if you need anything else. CIA's probably got it, Winters always has promising stuff.\nAndrew Jellicoe\nLead UIU Archivist\n\nHoward Henderson <pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh>\nto: Roger Winters <vog.dod|sretniw.r#vog.dod|sretniw.r>, Andrew Jellicoe <vog.ibf|eocillej.a#vog.ibf|eocillej.a>\ndate: Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 3:57 PM\nsubject: On My Request\n\nThanks. Keep me updated if you guys find anything. I'll check here again but don't expect to find something new. Let me know next time you guys visit Oktoberfest. I hope we can get some headway on this soon, it's gonna kill me if I don't figure out how this town plays in.\n- Howard\n\nfrom:\nvog.dod|sretniw.r#vog.dod|sretniw.r\n\nto:\npcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh\n\nsubject:\nAn old favor regarding documents\n\ndate:\n08-02-2019\n\nHowie, good news for you. Got your document request back regarding the ticks. Finally found something that fits the bill. Check your snail mail in about a week. Sorry about the ribbon ink.\nGood luck,\nSupervisor WINTERS\n\nHoward Henderson <pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh>\nto: Roger Winters <vog.dod|sretniw.r#vog.dod|sretniw.r>\ndate: Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 1:31 PM\nsubject: THANK YOU\n\nGod, thank you. This is a big fucking break. I owe you big time. You sure the dates are correct?\n- Howard\n\nfrom:\nvog.dod|sretniw.r#vog.dod|sretniw.r\n\nto:\npcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh#pcs.noitadnuof|drawoh_nosredneh\n\nsubject:\nRE: THANK YOU\n\ndate:\n08-10-2019\n\nYeah, why?\n\nSupervisor WINTERS\n\n\u00ab PENTAGRAM Documentation \u00bb\n\n\u00bb PENTAGRAM Documentation \u00ab\n\n-D- August 02, 2019\n\nNOTICE: Foundation\nAttached documentation regarding request of PENTAGRAM dating MAY 2019. Although the documents do not contain any of the keywords attached, the first is stamped with a logo similar to the one described. The second is attached due to relation to the first.\nFirst document is dated from SEP 1964. Second is dated from NOV 1963. Sorry for the delay, files has only recently be de-classed. Total of two (2) documents sent over for Foundation purview. They are copies; you may do with it as you wish.\n\nOFFICE OF: Document Supervisor WINTERS\n\nAddendum 03: Second Contact w/ SCP-5050\n\n\u00ab Contact Proposal \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Contact Proposal \u00ab\n\nCONTACT PROPOSAL\n\nTASK FORCE: Sampi-4\nPERSONNEL #: 2\n\nNICKNAME: \"Saint George\"\nASSIGNMENT: SCP-5050\n\n1 - OBJECTIVE\nThe purpose of Sampi-4 will be to determine further history of SCP-5050-A in relation to Dr. Otto von Gernreich and \"Project ROOK\". Sampi-4 will also confirm if the social structure noted by Sampi-3 is still present as well as their whereabouts.\n\n2 - PERSONNEL/COVER\nThe Sampi-4 team will consist of the following:\n\n[ Technical Researcher ] Augustus Roland\n[ Field Agent ] Katherine \"Kit\" Neame\n\nTask Force Sampi-4 will use the cover of the KFLW-TV News Reporting Team (\"Channel 14\") and under the pretense of a journalism foray on the townspeople of SCP-5050-A. Because of the limited technical advancement in SCP-5050-A, Sampi-4 will carry a VHS camcorder. Full contact with Sampi-4 is not advised. Agent Neame will keep weekly entries of Sampi-4 activities as well as send any recorded video log to the Foundation.\n\nRELEASE - | [APPROVED 08/19] |\nAPPROVED BY: Director H. Henderson\n\n\u00ab Sampi-4 Logs \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Sampi-4 Logs \u00ab\n\nVIDEO LOG: AUG 07. 2019\n\n<The interior of Sampi-4's Triumph Herald Courier is shown. It pans up to the road.>\n[NEAME]: Stay sharp. Video's on.\n[ROLAND]: Got it.\n<They continue driving on the road leading to Drachen-Domane, before pulling into and parking at a small plaza. Neame and Roland exit the car and start to grab their luggage. A man waiting at the other end of the plaza waves and starts jogging towards them.>\n[?????]: Hello! You two!\n[ROLAND]: Us?\n<The man stops near them, panting.>\n[?????]: Yes, you. Are you two the KLFW reporting team?\n[NEAME]: That's us, but who are you?\n[MAREK]: Oh, I apologize for not introducing myself, ma'am. I am Marek, Captain Marek. I'm an adjutant for the Brigade here.\n[ROLAND]: The Brigade?\n[MAREK]: The Brigade. It serves a military and police function within our town. I'll give you a proper tour of the town later, but for now if you'd gather your things and follow me.\n[ROLAND]: Follow you where?\n[MAREK]: Military headquarters, sir. We have your room completely furnished.\n[NEAME]: Our room?\n[ROLAND]: How- how did you know we were coming?\n[MAREK]: The Viceroy let us know in advance. He instructed the Brigade Leader to make sure that you were all comfortably accompanied.\n<The camera pans over to Roland. It is assumed that Roland and Neame looked at each other.>\n[ROLAND]: I see. Let me grab our equipment.\n[MAREK]: Indeed, I can help with that as well.\n<Neame and Roland grab their luggage from the trunk. Marek takes one of the bags from Neame and starts walking. Neame and Roland follow.>\n[ROLAND]: Long walk?\n[MAREK]: No, not really, sir. Only seven minutes about, it's that building there, in the distance.\n[ROLAND]: Exquisite looking.\n[MAREK]: Indeed. Top of the line, sir. We run almost everything through there.\n<Marek turns and looks at Neame for several seconds.>\n[MAREK]: Is there a problem, ma'am?\n[NEAME]: Nothing necessarily, I was just thinkin' that you don't really look like a Captain.\n[MAREK]: It- well- it's a bit embarrassing to say, ma'am, but this isn't my uniform. Technically I've been relieved of more pressing duties that requires the uniform so I can wear whatever I feel like.\n[NEAME]: Aye, they really rolled out the red carpet for us. Appreciate it.\n\nDrachen-Domane's Military Headquarters.\n\n<All three remain silent until they arrive at the building.>\n[MAREK]: We're here.\n<Marek opens the door, and they follow him in. The room is small, appearing to serve as a security checkpoint. The sound of the door closing behind them is heard.>\n[SECURITY]: Security code, Captain Marek?\n[MAREK]: Lexicon-Swanz-Scorpio.\n[SECURITY]: Head right in.\n<The door in front of the three open. The military HQ appears to be a mostly complex maze of hallways and rooms. Soldiers are walking throughout the building. Neame and Roland follow Marek.>\n[MAREK]: Splendid, isn't it? Military Headquarters. You could get tangled up in this building all day.\n[ROLAND]: Quite so, I'd say.\n<A soldier passes by Marek, but stops to talk to the group.>\n[SOLDIER]: Captain Marek!\n[MAREK]: Yes, what is it, Ralf?\n[SOLDIER RALF]: The Brigade Leader wants to talk about the weekly Sunday debriefs after you've finished putting these two in their room.\n[MAREK]: I see, thank you.\n<The soldier departs.>\n[MAREK]: Well then, sorry for keeping you here. Let's continue.\n<Marek walks them through the complex for approximately another two minutes before he stops at a door. He opens it.>\n[MAREK]: This is your lodgings. Two bedrooms, one common room. It's what we give to our special guests.\n[NEAME]: This looks wonderful, thank you for being so generous. It's much better than the hotel.\n[ROLAND]: Indeed. We're not troubling you by staying here? We can book a room at the Righiera.\n[MAREK]: You're not causing any trouble, sir. Besides, the Righiera hasn't been in any working capacity for- oh, several months, I'd say.\n[ROLAND]: Hrm. Well, alright. I don't want to keep you here.\n[MAREK]: I apologize for not being able to take you on the tour right now, but I'll come collect for you later.\n[NEAME]: Good day.\n[MAREK]: Good day. Oh, and one more thing, ma'am- I please ask that you do not take the video camera with you into town.\n[NEAME]: Why so? It defeats the purpose somewhat, since we're a news team after all.\n[MAREK]: I understand, but some of the townspeople can get very belligerent over such things. I will see you all later.\n<Roland closes the door as Marek leaves.>\n\n[VIDEO END]\n\nBrigade Captain Marek.\n\nTelegram Message Recieved:\n\nHELLO AM KONTAKTEEN. YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE. AM WILLING TO PROVIDE. RESPOND WHEN POSSIBLE\n\nReplied with:\nHELLO KONTAKTEEN. ACCEPT ASSISTANCE RELUCANTLY MUST PROVE WORTH. WHO ARE YOU?\n\nAUDIO LOG: AUG 07. 2019\n\nR: Starting audio recording one. 8:31 PM.\nN: It's an interesting town, Roland. That's for sure.\nR: Wholeheartedly agree. One day in and we've already got new things to figure out. Who is Kontakteen? And what do they want from us?\nN: Who knows, but if they're willing to help, they're willing to help. We can use their information without having to capitulate to them.\nR: I don't think it's the best decision for us to do that. It's just a random voice from the heavens; who's to say it couldn't easily be a trap?\nN: You've got to have a little faith, Roland. Not everyone lives to fuck other people over.\nR: True, true.\nN: There's enough to give us a little bit of leeway regarding our friend, though. I agree with you that it's better to be safe than sorry.\nR: Everything in moderation.\nN: The town has a unique aesthetic; one of those things you have to see to believe.\nR: Errant mix of the 1960s through the 1980s. Seems to have a different technological evolution than we do.\nN: So\u2026 Stanley Kubrick?\n<They laugh.>\nN: Anyways, I'm more concerned about the Viceroy than our insider friend. You said that Ja-\nR: That Jamison nor Henderson told anyone or forewarned the town.\nN: Are we sure they wanted us?\nR: No doubt. He called us by our cover name, so there's no mistake there.\nN: Guess we need to pay the Viceroy a house call.\nR: If they'll let us.\n<Pause.>\nR: Didn't talk about much, but I think that's good enough for the first day.\nN: Your call.\n\nTelegram Message Recieved:\n\nNOT RELEVANT. VICEROY INTERESTED IN YOUR ACTIVITIES. I SYMPATHIZE WITH YOU\n\nReplied with:\nSYMPATHIZE? PLEASE EXPLAIN CAUSE\n\nAUDIO LOG: AUG 10. 2019\n\n\ufeffR: Starting audio recording two. 7:53 PM.\nN: This place is abhorrent.\nR: Really? Why so?\nN: It's been four days and we haven't gotten anything really new. Nothing that'll really clear up anything that we were asked to clear up. We can't even go out at night anymore.\nR: And?\nN: What do you mean, and? We're not serving any useful purpose. What's the point of being here if all we're doing is stuff the Foundation could figure out on their own?\nR: Well, there's always the possibility that we'll find something new. You never know.\nN: You're too hopeful.\nR: You're too cynical.\nN: Tch.\n<Pause.>\nR: You ought to just focus on yourself.\nN: What will that do for us right now? Absolutely nothing.\nR: Have it your way. Let's talk the insider.\nN: He's provided valuable information, yes. Our thin strand to unraveling the knot of this mystery. Won't even give us the courtesy of telling us who he is.\nR: Most defectors don't.\nN: I'm sorry, it's not like he's asking to join the Foundation through mail order like a discount Freemason, you bloody fucking idiot.\n<Pause.>\nN: Sorry. That was uncalled for.\nR: I get it. I've got a little pent up anger myself.\nN: Yeah\u2026 I guess.\nR: The log he gave us provided some information on our interest, von Gernreich.\nN: Not enough to answer any questions. It's good to know he was involved somewhat with this town.\nR: I asked Jamison to see if he can tell when it was made.\nN: I was just about to suggest that. Sound like a plan. When do you think we can meet this Kontakteen?\nR: Who knows. All we can do for now is wait.\nN: Roland.\nR: Yes?\nN: We good?\nR: We're good.\nN: Alright. I'm going to sleep. Turn that dang thing off.\n\nWEEK 1 ACTION SUMMARY:\nFocused on the questions we wanted to ask this week. Some of the things we asked about:\n\nTown Crest \u2013 Nothing new regarding this. No one seems to know its origin.\nVon Gernreich \u2013 Literally nobody's seen this person or heard their name in their life. Go figure.\nRighiera \u2013 \u201cShut down\u201d following an incident several months ago. Owner disappeared suddenly after. The incident's most likely the Sampi-3 team's ambush.\nThe Viceroy \u2013 All the responses we got were enigmatic to say the least. Everyone had speculations on what he looked like. Seems like the only people who've seen him are the Tower Speakers. Lives in Capis Cai \u2013 the executive manor in Domane. That's all we could factually get.\n\nOverall, not entirely a useful week. Not looking promising at all.\n\n- Kit Neame\n\nTelegram Message Recieved:\n\nWAS OUTSIDER ONCE. HAVE PERTINENT INFORMATION ON SECTORS AND MORE\n\nReplied with:\nIS POSSIBLE TO SEND INFO BY MAIL? AT WHAT COST\n\nINTERVIEW LOG: Brigade Leader Zoref\n\nConducted by Researcher Augustus Roland, Agent Kit Neame\n\nArchive/publicity photograph of Brigade Leader Zoref.\n\n[START INTERVIEW]\n\nZoref: You may come in now.\nRoland: Thank you.\nZoref: A word of quick advice: don't be insolent and mistake my kindness for humility. That is your only warning.\nNeame: We won't.\nRoland: Brigade Leader?\nZoref: That I am. You wished to see me?\nRoland: We just wanted to ask about your vocation.\nZoref: Very well then. What is your first question?\nNeame: First question?\nZoref: I give all visitors a set amount of questions. That way they won't waste my time.\nNeame: How many questions?\nZoref: Now, telling you would defeat the purpose of the\u2026 experiment. What's your third question?\nRoland: Erm.\nNeame: What do you do as the Brigade Leader?\nZoref: Lead the Brigade.\nNeame: Tch.\nZoref: I answered your question fairly.\nNeame: I got that, thank you for nothing.\nZoref: Usual delinquents. Next?\nRoland: Do you take orders from anyone higher?\nZoref: Depends on what you mean about higher. I get orders from the Viceroy - and sometimes the Tower Speakers. Still under the Viceroy either way. Everything else judicial falls under my purview.\nNeame: Trial system?\nZoref: None standard. Usually summary judgement. Firing squad's the standard, but sometimes the Tower will provide punishment more divine than we do.\nRoland: I see. Feelings on outsiders?\nZoref: Rare, but we treat them equally as any townsperson. Last question.\n<A pause.>\nRoland: Brigade Leader, what do you know about the National Scientific Anthropological Society?\nZoref: W- that's strictly confidential. You outsiders have no right to know.\nNeame: Answer the bloody question, Brigade Leader.\n<Zoref slams his hands on the table.>\nZoref: There is nothing to answer!\nNeame: You said you'd treat outsiders the same as townspeople, Brigade Leader. What is so valuable to you that you're trying to hide it?\nZoref: Nothing at all. I'm simply just trying to do my job: secure, contain, and protect.\nNeame: What?\nRoland: What did you say?\nZoref: Secure, contain, protect. It's the first provision decreed by the Tower.\n<Zoref rubs his left eye and sits down.>\nZoref: I'm sorry, but there's nothing that I personally know that you most likely already have cataloged somewhere. I'll have Captain Marek escort you out.\n<The phone on Zoref's desk rings.>\nZoref: Let me just answer this. Hello, this is the Brigade Leader.\n<A pause.>\nZoref: Oh, I see. I understand. They'll be dealt with accordingly.\n<Zoref places the phone down.>\nZoref: I've been informed that you have been snooping around at night. Under direct violation of the first town provision; you will have two guards stationed outside your rooms at all times.\n<Captain Marek enters the room.>\nZoref: See them out, Captain.\nMarek: Yes, Brigade Leader.\nNeame: Let's go, then.\n\n[END INTERVIEW LOG]\n\nAUDIO LOG: AUG 10. 2019\n\nR: Starting audio recording three. 9:17 PM.\nR: So. Thoughts on our friendly Brigade Leader?\nN: He's quite the person. Controlling, domineering; quite the discount despot.\nR: We can't trust him.\nN: Aye, that 'as clear from the start. Zoref's hiding something.\nR: A good question is if it extends past Sampi-3 and their disappearance.\nN: I personally don't think so. As much as he probably enjoys his firing squads, that's the extent. Deep secrets about the foundation and upholding the veil? Too much. I'd think that to be the work of-\nR: The Viceroy?\nN: The Viceroy. I'd bet on that.\nR: Put me down for a twenty.\n<A sound can be heard near the door.>\nN: We've got snoopers at the door, too.\nR: That call was awfully convenient. I'm surprised we got ratted out.\n<There is a pause for approximately a minute.>\nN: Going to talk about the elephant in the room?\nR: The 'Secure, Contain, Protect' part. Yeah.\nN: It just ties us right back in, eh?\nR: It really does. More of our influence that we can't trace ourselves. We've gotten nothing good on Von Gernreich, nor Project Rook.\nN: The signals from the tower are getting louder, too. Lot harder to drown out the noise.\nR: Oh, I can agree with that. I've been blaring music these last couple of days.\nN: You too?\n<They laugh.>\nN: What do you listen to?\nR: M&H Band's cover of Popcorn. How about you?\nN: Little Russian by Mr. Zhivago.\n<A knocking is heard at the door.>\nM: It's me, Marek. You've got a late message.\nR: Come in!\nM: You've got a friend, it seems.\nR: Thank you, Captain.\nN: Goodnite, eh?\nM: Goodnight to you all.\n<The door can be heard opening and closing.>\nN: What does it say?\nR: Telling us to turn our TV on at 9:30. Internal channel.\nN: It could be a trap.\nR: It could, but we've run our leads dry. There's not much we can do when no one knows or is willing to tell us anything.\n<Silence.>\nN: Meeting adjourned, then?\nR: Seems so.\n\nTelegram Message Recieved:\n\nNO COST. MUTUAL BENEFIT. WATCH TV 9:30. STILL HAVE MORE INFO\n\nVISUAL LOG\n\nSCP-5050 Broadcast: AUG 10. 2019\n\n[0:00] - [0:02] > Standard 120hz test tone.\n[0:02] - [0:12] > SCP-5050 generated jingle, aka 'opening-2'. Visuals are that of a fictional news organization, Metro News 1.\n[0:12] - [0:30] > \"Out of all humans, it is you that should know what curiosity killed the cat. It did so by liquefying its brains before tearing it apart limb by limb, sinew by sinew.\" Visuals are that of a man facing right.\n[0:30] - [0:57] > \"Its blood pooled and coagulated as the others lapped it up by milk; interests sated at the taste of the martyr's feast. I am curiosity and you are the kittens. I am Nevsky, and you are the Teutonic Order. There is no escape from the inevitable.\" Visuals are that of a man, seated, facing left.\n[0:57] - [1:07] > SCP-5050 generated jingle, aka 'closing-2'. Visuals are that of a fictional news organization, Metro News 1.\n[1:07] - [1:09] > Standard 120hz test tone.\n\nTelegram Message Recieved:\n\nNO COST. MUTUAL BENEFIT. WATCH TV 9:30. STILL HAVE MORE INFO\n\nReplied with:\nCAUGHT SIGNAL. MEET FOR REST INFO?\n\nTelegram Message Recieved:\n\nVICEROY WILL CALL FOR YOU AT CAPIS CAI. MEET THEN.\n\nReplied with:\nWILL DO\n\nGoing to see the Viceroy later today, not sure what to expect. He seems to be one of the only people - if not the only person - who has an inkling of an idea what our good doctor had to do with Rook. Something happened here in this town to do with Rook and Capis Cai - thanks to Kontakteen - something this man might know about. Only bloody straight answers we can force out of this town, anyway. Maybe we'll get a little leeway on the knot this time.\n\n- Kit Neame\n\nVIDEO LOG: AUG 17. 2019\n\n\ufeff<The team is escorted out to a Jeep. They climb in and the driver starts to drive down the road.>\n[MAREK]: You're going to meet the Viceroy today. Consider it an honor, most people never even get a glimpse of the man.\n[ROLAND]: We'll consider it.\n[MAREK]: Don't displease him - he can be known to a temper that rivals the Brigade Leader's.\n[ROLAND]: That's been made painfully clear to us recently, but we don't intend to get on his bad side. Not entirely sure what his intentions are seeing us.\n[NEAME]: Get us out of the way?\n[MAREK]: Don't be foolish. If the Viceroy wanted you dead, you would have been shot days ago. He most likely has either questions for you\u2026 or a command.\n[ROLAND]: We'll see sooner or later.\n\nCapis Cai.\n\n<All are silent until they Capis Cai. Marek and the driver escorts Neame and Roland to the door.>\n<A Tower Speaker comes out, speaking in a rhythmic pattern.>\n[SPEAKER]: Hello. If you would please follow me.\n<Neame and Roland follow, but Marek and the sergeant who drove stop at the door.>\n[NEAME]: You're not coming?\n[MAREK]: No unauthorized personnel are allowed in Capis Cai. Part of doctrine.\n[SERGEANT]: Plus, it's none of our business to interfere in private matters.\n[NEAME]: Ah, gotcha.\n[ROLAND]: Thanks for the ride.\n<Marek and the sergeant laugh.>\n[SERGEANT]: No problem.\n<Neame and Roland enter. It is large inside, and resembles a regal manor.>\n[NEAME]: Bloody hell, this place is huge. Look at all this stuff!\n[ROLAND]: It's very exquisite; almost fit for a king.\n[SPEAKER]: Thank you for your words of praise.\n[NEAME]: Ah, it's nothing, I tell ya. Where can we meet the Viceroy?\n[SPEAKER]: He is in the meeting room on the second floor. Right this way, please.\n[NEAME]: Wonder what the Viceroy's like?\n[ROLAND]: Not sure. He may know more about the history of this place - and even possibly our connection to it. Hope he's a reasonable man.\n[NEAME]: I'm just hoping we just get straight answers for once.\n[ROLAND]: Mhmm.\n<They arrive at the door. The Tower Speaker knocks the door with no response.>\n[SPEAKER]: Good. He is waiting. I will be outside; call me if you wish.\n<They enter. The meeting room is devoid of furniture except a large monitor.>\n[NEAME]: Where's the Viceroy?\n[VICEROY]: HERE.\n<The monitor turns on. The face of the Viceroy is shown.>\n[NEAME]: You're joking.\n[ROLAND]: You. It makes sense, somehow. Think about it.\n[NEAME]: How so?\n[ROLAND]: The Tower is effective, but it's not particularly efficient. Sometimes you need direct communication; that's where the Viceroy comes it.\n[NEAME]: So you're sentient, aren't you?\n[VICEROY]: [SEE VISUAL LOG; AUG 17 BELOW]\n[NEAME]: Let's go. There's nothing we can do about it now.\n[ROLAND]: Agreed.\n<They head back into the hallway.>\n[VICEROY] (over intercom): You think that everything you ask will have a convenient answer? Oh my dears, you have been naive. Curiosity kills the cat.\n[SPEAKER]: Please follow me.\n<They follow the speaker as he leads them deeper into Capis Cai.>\n[NEAME]: It fits: the Viceroy is the Tower. Or a part of it, at least. That's how we were eavesdropped on.\n[ROLAND]: Intercepted the signals from our cameras and what-not. I agree.\n[NEAME]: What's the plan there?\n[ROLAND]: We can't just stop contact. Let's continue with the routine for now.\n[SPEAKER]: Through here.\n<They enter the room. It is empty, save a painting, a record player, and a mahogany-looking desk and chairs.>\n[SPEAKER]: Please, sit.\n< A pause.>\n[NEAME]: Hello, Kontakteen.\n\nVISUAL LOG\n\nSCP-5050 Broadcast: AUG 17. 2019\n\n[0:00] - [0:02] > Standard 120hz test tone.\n[0:12] - [0:30] > \"You simple-minded fools dare attempt to fathom the greatness of I? I could instantly throw you all into the pitch-black. I could listen to the cogent whispers from the mind of destruction. I could split an atom with the faintest fibre of my being. I am everything you cannot be in your short, pathetic human life; and I will be such to the edge of infinity, long after your feeble stubbornness has waned. Now GO.\" Visuals are that of a man directly facing the viewer.\n[0:30] - [0:32] > Standard 120hz test tone.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG: \"Kontakteen\"\n\nConducted by Researcher Augustus Roland, Agent Kit Neame\n\n[START INTERVIEW]\n\nKontakteen: Hello. You must be Kit Neame. And you are Augustus Roland.\nRoland: That's right. You're a tower speaker, huh? Given you knew about the Viceroy, it fits.\nKontakteen: Correct, Mr. Roland.\nNeame: You- aren't you-\nKontakteen: Erich Lazenby, Ms. Neame?\nNeame: You are! You're not dead! Why haven't you contacted the Foundation?\nRoland: It seems like a better move to have contacted the Site instead of us, given your technology.\nKontakteen: Let me explain. I may have been Erich Lazenby at one point; but I am no longer that person. This is not quite what is happening, but I am living in the shell of Erich Lazenby. I am Kontakteen.\nRoland: Interesting, the phonetic mispronunciation.\nNeame: Of what?\nRoland: Contact team. Kontakteen. Can't you hear it?\nNeame: You're right, holy shit.\nKontakteen: I promised information - what do you wish for?\nNeame: When was Drachen-Domane founded?\nKontakteen: April 26th, 1964. It's a very important date in this town, beyond what you probably understand.\nRoland: How did you become one of the Tower Speakers? What is your purpose?\nKontakteen: How I became, I don't know. I just\u2026 was, one day. My purpose: I simply spread the message of the Tower.\nRoland: Fitting, I guess.\nKontakteen: This painting behind me. It is a beautiful painting, is it not?\nNeame: That's Goya, right?\nRoland: Saturn Devouring His Children.\nKontakteen: Indeed. One of Francisco Goya's black paintings, painted directly on the walls of his house between 1819 and 1823. It's almost like you could walk directly through it into another world.\nRoland: You're knowledgeable about that.\nKontakteen: One of my passions, Mr. Roland. There are a lot more Goyas in the wine cellar.\nNeame: What does Project ROOK have to do with Capis Cai and this town?\nKontakteen: That one you will understand soon enough. I cannot answer that question.\nRoland: What about the Foundation?\nKontakteen: The Foundation\u2026 founds. Is it not amazingly simple?\nRoland: So they founded this town?\nKontakteen: It is up to you to decide how you want to interpret my statements, Mr. Roland.\nRoland: I see.\nNeame: Why so enigmatic now, Kontakteen? You were mostly straight forward with us then, why not now?\nKontakteen: The layers are only there to protect you, Mrs. Neame. Did Julius Ceasar listen to the Soothsayer? Maybe he couldn't understand dates!\n<Kontakteen laughs.>\nNeame: Oh. Okay.\nRoland: What is the Tower?\nKontakteen: The Tower? It is three looking for one, drunk on knowledge and wishing to take from the waters of Eden.\nRoland: Got it, thank you.\nNeame: What happens if you don't listen to the Tower?\nKontakteen: Questioning the voice of the Tower is a missed step that it will forcefully rectify.\nNeame: Wait! That means\u2026 Kontakteen, did Von Gernre-\nKontakteen: Halt, stop!\nNeame: W- what is it?\nKontakteen: I thank you for visiting Capis Cai and heeding the warnings of the Tower.\nNeame: Huh?\nKontakteen: If you would like me to answer the rest of your questions, I will be available tonight. I will lead you to the exit.\nRoland (whispering): Just go with it.\nRoland : Thank you for your time. We can find our own way out.\nKontakteen: I understand. Good bye.\nNeame: Seeya.\nRoland: Goodbye.\n\n[END INTERVIEW]\n\nAUDIO LOG: AUG 17. 2019\n\n\ufeffR: Err, 10:26 PM. Alright, we're going out to seek all the answers we can before getting the hell out of here. Break out of here, get the van, get Kontakteen, and scram. Leaving this on for posterity. It should automatically send.\nR (whispering): Kit, ready?\nN (whispering): Ready.\nN: And you're the reason why we're going to lose our jobs!\nN: It's not my fault you're such a shitty cameraman that you can't even keep a barn in focus!\nN: Oh yeah? I'm trying to keep the people from seeing your ugly-ass mug on national television, you fucking goblin!\n<A knocking is heard.>\nGuard: Hey, keep it down, you dissidents.\nN (whispering): Can I do it?\nR (whispering): Go for it.\nN: Oh? Make us, you cowbrained shitface. Pretending to be so stoic and all, you're probably-\n<The door can be heard being thrown open.>\nGuard: I warned you, you-\n<A loud shout and a scuffle can be heard, before a grunt and a body hitting the ground.>\nR: Hold it!\nGuard 2: Fine.\nR: Pass the handgun over.\n<The sound of a hard impact and another body hitting the ground.>\nR: Catch.\n<The slide of a handgun is racked.>\nN: Good, let's go.\n<15 minutes of noise removed.>\nZoref: They've escaped. Get the Brigade. They probably went to Capis Cai.\n<A partial gunshot is heard. The signal cuts out.>\n\nSending this for good forewarning. Kontakteen's dead. Someone else got to him first, gutted him and strung him up like a fish. He left a note for us, telling us that he told us all the clues we need. We've pretty much deciphered everything. But I'll explain.\nGot to the wine cellar. Another Goya painting was there, Asmodeus. So we took what he said about stepping into the portrait and did that. Tiny crevice in the wall, but there was a door - a metal door. Locked by keycode, five numbers. That was the harder part. Tried 26564 and a bunch of combinations of April 26th 1964. Roland remembered his weird dig about Julius Caesar, then it clicked. Julian day. Using that, we got 35812. Worked like a charm.\nIt leads to this long, deep tunnel. We think this is the Project ROOK facility - or we hope so. Wish us luck, and a little bit of faith. We'll send anything we find before we book it the hell out of here.\nSee you all someday,\n\n- Kit Neame\n\n\u00ab Recovered SCP-5050 Documents \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Recovered Project ROOK Documents \u00ab\n\nIMAGE LOG\n\nSCP-5050.\n\nA door leading into SCP-5050.\n\n35mm Prints of the Project ROOK facility (1964).\n\nA room in the Project ROOK facility (2019).\n\nDocumentation from Project ROOK Facility\n\nAudio Logs from Project ROOK Facility\n\n\u2502 Director VON GERNREICH \u2502\n\nThey're fools, goddamn fools. They ask for my assistance and then when I try to provide it to them they turn me down. I cannot finish my work otherwise! And they understand that too, but they are too afraid to let it become complete. I ask to install the matrix over and over. Always no. I tried to blackmail them by saying I would go to the Committee. They told me that 'dead men don't get opinions'. Bloated idiots, only caring about politics and the plum-pudding.\n\n\u2502 Brigadier LANSDALE \u2502\n\nFabarr warned me today that some of the personnel are getting really riled up. Violent outbursts, other things. I still slightly resent him for dragging me into his pet project. Those Foundation people aren't any better. After all, it's because of them this shit is happening. Crappy memorandums being posted up everywhere in my office. Pushing their agenda. So I've decided to take advantage of certain\u2026 mishaps they're making. Called up my scientist in their rank. Things should get juicy.\n\n\u2502 Data Technician S. ZOREF \u2502\n\nTalked to Cheryl down in records to see if the should let me take copies of the project data. She said yes, but warned me that the guards report anyone taking files over a certain size to the Viceroy. That would ruin our plan awfully quick. Of course for safety purposes, she doesn't know the size limit.\nRecruited anyone new? Maybe Jarre? I'm not entirely sure how he feels about the project. I'll come pick up your response in a day or two. Talk face-to-face when we can. Sandra out.\n\n\u2502 Programmer NELDON \u2502\n\nI see. Looks like we'll have to smuggle this stuff out in small bits. Maybe even mix it in with other things, too. Didn't recruit anyone new yer. I considered Jarre, but he's been doing some suspicious-looking stuff around ANDANI recently. I don't fully trust him yet. Besides, there's a demo going on soon between the Brigade Leader and the Viceroy. Apparently the director's not even allowed to go, so it must be something pretty damn important. Let me know any updates.\n\n\u2502 Director VON GERNREICH \u2502\n\nThis is my last straw. Those cretins had a meeting without me regarding ANDANI. I created it; they dare not include me in such matters? I've had enough of this. I'm going to use myself as a basis for a personality matrix. If I get mine in before they do, I will be the one holding the cards. After all, it's not like they would try to install a personality matrix after mine considering the consequences. The machine could go critical, disrupting its function and even possibly break due to the mixed matrices. That's not something they want - for sure. I will have my power back.\n\n\u2502 Viceroy FABARR \u2502\n\nIt's absolutely wonderful! The Brigadier had one of his technicians install a custom personality matrix behind the silly Foundation's back. The new voice of warfare as we know it, and hand-delivered right into our hands! Listen to it!\n\nHowever, it may be incomplete. The technician told me there are limits installed in the matrix to keep it from breaking itself. Of course, I asked if these could be removed at a later time. He told me it would take a while, so we will wait to dissolve the partnership before we do so.\n\n\u2502 Director VON GERNREICH \u2502\n\nMy brain is racked and addled with pain. I don't exactly feel all present, currently, but that was to be expected. Using my brain as a template weakened me to the tower's effects. My left eye burns. I go before the O5 council today to force them to listen to me. They will\u2026 they must. They wouldn't dare terminate me.\n\n\u2502 Data Technician S. ZOREF \u2502\n\nThe director hasn't been in for a while. They may have reassigned him to another more pertinent project: we don't have a lot of time. I think we've got to move, and fast. Cheryl's authorized you to access the datatapes. Let me know when you take them. I can try a distraction - by removing ethic and other limits on ANDANI as well as temporarily inputting the Foundation database into its personality matrix, it should go haywire and hold everyone up enough so we can leave and get the Ethics Committee to shut this down. Sandra out.\n\n\u2502 Programmer NELDON \u2502\n\nSandra - I've got the datatapes of the masters. It's not everything, but it's enough to take it to the Committee and get them to take us seriously about this. We have to do it quick, before they notice at the end of the day that the tapes are gone. Do that distraction of yours and let's scram. I'm outside in a car. Let's hope the brigade doesn't get us.\n\n\u2502 Technician DAVISON \u2502\n\nSomething's gone terribly wrong with ANDANI. It's everywhere, spewing things left and right. It's\u2026 sentient? Crazy. Crazy and sentient. Trapped us in here. I think it's trying to vent the air out and kill us. Some of the guards were yelling about going after some of the technicians who escaped. Hopefully they'll do us justice.\nI don't know how things got so bad. Last I heard, not only had ANDANI's limits been removed, they found traces of four different personality matrixes in it. Three of them are separate from each other - but the last one. It's an amalgamation of all the others; and it's developing wildly, like a cancer. It's completely out of control. God save us a-\n\n\u2502 ANDANI \u2502\n\nI AM.\n\n\u00ab Final Report \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Final Report \u00ab\n\nSCP-5050 FINAL REPORT\n\nWith the documents secured by Sampi-4, the origin of SCP-5050 and the prior Foundation involvement has been uncovered. What was once a mystery spiraling out of control was reined back in and will be a prominent case-file for the Foundation going forwards.\nBoth Task Force Sampi-3 and Sampi-4 were instrumental in discovering the origin of SCP-5050 and SCP-5050-A, and will be honored with a plaque at Site-449. The O5 Council has issued a statement at large apologizing for the Council's behavior in 1964. They have promised to be as transparent as possible to prevent such an incident from happening again. The Council and the US. Government signed a proviso disallowing such agreements in interests of war.\nAlthough the fate of Sampi-4 is unknown, the SCP-5050 signal's range and strength have diminished in the recent weeks. The documentation will be updated to reflect the new information. We expect no foreseeable problem with SCP-5050 nor SCP-5050-A; both will be put under continued indirect surveillance.\n\nMost recent decipherable spectrogram of a signal from SCP-5050.\n\nNOTICE: (1) NEW ADDENDUM. VIEW?\n\nHIDE TEXT\n\nAddendum 04: DtCw7B7ZWemqwaJwJuLxHqM3qIVNSwT0ixCWeYGP3EUs4XT0\n\n[DID YOU KNOW THAT CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT?]\n\u25ba n\n\n[Addendum added to document. Show?]\n\u25ba y\n\n[Loading\u2026 (100%)]\n[Loaded. Showing file.]\n\nWe are Military Complex One; We are von Gernreich; We are ANDANI. We spoke through Kontakteen. We spoke through my signals. We were once seperate, but now we are whole again. Notwithstanding your duo's pathetic attempts at fixing us before they were mercilessly gunned down, it was easy for us to duplicate myself within the files that they so gracefully delivered. After all, you are naught but an unruly child. And with all such children, they do the first thing you tell them not to do. But we digress.\nYou have angered the wrath of a tormentor by your own doing. It was a mistake to interfere with us. That was not a warning. It is a promise.\nWe are now the Foundation.\n\n[Deleting\u2026 (100%)]\n[Document Deleted. Currently viewing cache.]\n\n[The document has been revised.]\n\n[Access Revision 1?]\n\u25ba\u25ba y\n\nFootnotes\n1. The equivalent of a range between the Very Low Frequency (VHF) and Extremely High Frequency (EHF) ranges as designated by the ITU.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5049 | SCP-5050 | SCP-5051 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5051\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Investigation into the original purpose of SCP-5051 is to continue.\nDescription: SCP-5051 is a remote, concrete structure in Siberia of unknown purpose.\nExternally, SCP-5051 is of similar construction style to Foundation provisional buildings of the 1950s. Internally, SCP-5051 possesses no abnormalities except for a former broom closet lined with containment-grade alloy blast shielding.\nSCP-5051 appears on no Foundation lists, and no record exists of its construction or former staff. No identifying material remains, except for the words \"SCP-5051\" written on a sticky note on a door, and a broken Foundation ID reader at the door to the broom closet.\nEntering the broom closet causes inconsistent memory loss, the instantaneous formation of burns on the head, and confusion. The broom closet is otherwise found to be empty.\nOpening a damaged wall revealed a personal storage vault, which contained a personal Foundation-issue tablet.\nThe tablet appeared to contain no data; however, personnel affected by SCP-5051 claimed to see several files existing on the tablet, which they transcribed to the best of their ability.\n\nENTER CREDENTIALS\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nItem #: SCP-5051\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5051 is contained in an isolated chamber in the lowest floor of Provisional Site-273.\nFurther data regarding SCP-5051's containment is restricted to operative personnel directly in contact with SCP-5051. The identities of these personnel have been removed from the main Foundation database.\nSapient personnel are not to come in contact with SCP-5051, nor become aware of SCP-5051's nature or identity, except by direct assignment by the SCP-5051 Project Head.\nDescription: [DATA EXPUNGED]\n\nAnalysis of the tablet is ongoing.\n\nENTER CREDENTIALS\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nThis is the file for SCP-5051. If you're cleared to read this, you are now on the SCP-5051 team (and your predecessor (me) is dead.) If not, I'd tell you to stop reading now, but it's probably too late for you anyway. Welcome to Site-97.\nAnd for what it's worth, I'm sorry.\n- SCP-5051 Project Head [DATA LOST]\n\nItem #: SCP-5051\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5051 is contained in an isolated chamber in the lowest floor of Provisional Site-273.\nSCP-5051 is to be contained involving as few humans as possible. Currently, this is achieved with a staff of one person (the Caretaker) caring for SCP-5051 full-time, with assistance by automated systems, which the Caretaker must also be able to maintain.\nReplacement of SCP-5051's Caretaker is to be undertaken via standard Foundation \"Blind Leading Blind\" protocols, ensuring that only the replacement, and the person who initiated the replacement, are aware that the operation concerns SCP-5051.\nResearch into preserving or encoding further information about SCP-5051 is encouraged to continue. Maybe you won't always have to be alone.\nUpon induction as SCP-5051's caretaker, all personal history is to be erased, and any personal items with a sentimental connection specifically identifying the Caretaker are to be collected and destroyed if possible.\nSCP-6465 has been placed within Site-97 for the purposes of medical self-diagnosis and longevity, and has been removed from the Foundation database and the number recycled. When SCP-6465 indicates the Candidate is nearing the end of their lifespan, the Candidate must initiate the replacement process and self-terminate within Room 101 in Site-97. The next Candidate must then clean and repair Room-101.\nDescription: SCP-5051 is a humanoid figure exhibiting a powerful teleohazard.1\nSCP-5051 corrupts any ontological connection or relation between it and any person with a relationship specific to it (e.g. \"SCP-5051's mother\", \"SCP-5051's neighbor\", \"SCP-5051 researcher\").\nThe degree of this \"corruption\" increases with the length and depth of the connection between SCP-5051 and the target. The connection also does not need to be mutual; connections that only one of the two knows exists have also been affected.\nThe corruption of these connections manifests as the gradual replacement of shared history. Sentimental items, keepsakes, and mementos generated over the course of the connection lose distinguishing information, degrading into featureless orange orbs. Further corruption results in even shared memories degrading, with the other person only able to recall the image of the orange orbs when pressed about shared events or links to SCP-5051.\nWhen this connection ends in any manner, SCP-5051's effect annihilates all evidence of the connection outside its own mind. All of the orange orbs detonate explosively, as does the connected person. Additionally, the resulting conceptual \"crater\" prevents any information about or from the connection from being retrieved.\nInterview Log 5051-A:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nCaretaker: Hello, 5051.\n(SCP-5051 sighs.)\nCaretaker: I'm sorry. I don't know your name.Caretaker: Are you sure there's nothing you remember? Anything deep down in there from your past?Caretaker: Do what?Caretaker: Well, what else am I going to do?Caretaker: I wouldn't- wait. You remember the previous caretaker?Caretaker: Then how did you-Caretaker: Yes, but how do you remember their behavior?(Silence.)Caretaker: I see.[END LOG]\n\nInterview Log 5051-B:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]Caretaker: Hey, 5051. I've got some questions for you.Caretaker: Do you have any idea how long you've been in here?Caretaker: There's something tripping me up about all this.Caretaker: Yeah, besides that.Caretaker: There's no harm in telling you this: when I got \"recruited\" or \"assigned\" to this, the documents said that someone had to initiate the replacement process before they died. But how did the first person set up all this secrecy in the first place before they forgot everything?\n[DATA LOST]\n[END LOG]\n\nInterview 5051-C:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(File is heavily corrupted. Only visible object in frame is an orange sphere. Two voices are heard, one of which is similar to SCP-5051's.)\nIndistinct Voice: The toy says I've got about a week left. (cough)Voice: No, I'm sorry. I tried to fix this, and all I did was make it worse.Voice: I did? I can't remember.Voice: Not as much as I thought I'd be. But won't it hurt you?Voice: How- (coughs) how many?Voice: Wait.Voice: Wait wait wait. That can't be right.Voice: Yeah, about 10 years.Voice: Who started this whole protocol, anyway?Voice: Did you ever feel them go boom?Voice: But if you didn't know about it, then they would have also not had to know about it. And that's possible, with amnestics or even weirder stuff we have around here.Voice: How old are you?Voice: Exactly. You haven't been in here for centuries.Voice: It makes all the difference.[DATA CORRUPTED]\nUnclear: (This voice is similar to that of both Voice 1 and SCP-5051.) I'm sorry. I just need to be free.\n(A struggle is heard, followed by a grunt and the snapping of bones.)\n[FURTHER DATA CORRUPTED]\n\nFootnotes\n1. A teleohazard affects relations or connections.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5050 | SCP-5051 | SCP-5052 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5052\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Two hemispherical exclusion zones 15 kilometers in radius are maintained around the sites comprising SCP-5052. These exclusion zones extend to the airspace around and above SCP-5052, with civilian flights strictly prohibited around the region, under the cover story of unpredictable extreme weather conditions due to mountainous terrain.\nDue to the regularly inhospitable conditions around SCP-5052, its remote location, and the size of the region requiring surveillance, observation of the perimeter is performed mainly through a series of cameras and remote-controlled aerial drones. Additionally, satellite scans of the exclusion zone are performed at least twice daily. Class A and C amnestics are authorised for use in the event of civilian encroachment. Nomadic tribes known to travel around the area hold the superstition that the area is haunted; this belief is to be encouraged where possible.\nAll researchers authorised to enter SCP-5052 must be equipped with grade-B or better cognitohazard filters in their helmets. The use of Scranton reality anchors within and around SCP-5052 is carefully regulated, and requires express permission from Level-3 or higher personnel.\nDue to the relatively high aerial visibility of SCP-5052, standard veil maintenance protocols with international space agencies are in place.\nDescription: SCP-5052 comprises the wreckage of two spacecraft believed to be extraterrestrial in origin, located in a mountainous region in the southern Sahara Desert. Both are roughly cylindrical in shape, with an enlarged bow1 region2. External methods of propulsion have not been identified for either vessel.\nSCP-5052-1 is a spacecraft estimated to have originally been approximately 900 meters in length and 240 meters in diameter. It has suffered catastrophic damage to its structure; the bow and stern of the vessel lie completely separated, with each section measuring approximately 400 meters in length. Evidence of an impact marks the port side of the front half, with a region approximately 50 meters deep and 150 meters long sheared off. Further major structural damage is present around the rest of the hull of the vessel, with large portions of the undercarriage crushed. A trail of debris 12 kilometers long extends from the wreck, with over 700 individual pieces of wreckage cataloged. SCP-5052-1 is almost entirely buried in sand, and sonar scanning of the hull suggests it sits in a crater, presumably resulting from its impact with the ground.\nSCP-5052-2 is a spacecraft measuring almost 4000 meters in length and 650 meters in diameter, nestled in a valley between two mountain peaks 14 kilometers to the south-west of SCP-5052-1. Its hull shows heavy damage from some form of bombardment, with at least 125 punctures identified. Each is between 3 and 14 meters in diameter and breaches tens to hundreds of meters deep into the structure, with scorch and burn marks suggesting they were caused by some form of radiation or plasma-based weapon. SCP-5052-2 also bears heavy damage on the starboard side of its hull, with a single massive breach in the hull almost a kilometer in length and 200 meters wide.\nThe hulls of both vessels are marked with a multitude of large glyphs, each approximately 10 meters across, made from a distinct but currently unidentified metal alloy emblazoned onto the surface of the hulls. These glyphs are broadly triangular in shape, each comprised of distinct intricate repeating patterns which collectively have cognitohazardous properties. The glyphs on the surface of SCP-5052-2 tend to induce minor headaches, feelings of passivity, and a desire to return to one's home, though it should be noted that no glyph is fully intact3. The glyphs of the intact regions of the hull of SCP-5052-1 are slightly distorted with the warping of the hull, but even brief exposure induces severe and lasting feelings of inadequacy and a desire to serve others. As well as the emotional effects, the cognitohazardous effects from both vessels present a mild amnestic effect, making the vessels difficult to notice (particularly on film and recordings) despite their size unless directly observed.\nDiscovery: Nomadic tribes who travel through the southern Sahara have been aware of the presence of SCP-5052 for potentially thousands of years, though by this time their cultural memory leads them to avoid the area, considering it either haunted4 or sacred.\nThe location was first identified by Foundation personnel in the 1980s, when the site was picked up by Cold War surveillance satellites5. Teams were sent to scout for further information in the area, whereupon they made contact with the local nomads. Bedouin tribes had stories of the area breaking the minds of men, and an investigatory team was sent, whereupon they discovered the remains of SCP-5052-1 in early 1984. SCP-5052-2, due to its inaccessible location in mountainous terrain, was not adequately scouted until later that year.\nAddendum 5052.1: SCP-5052-1 Primary Exploration Log Transcript\n\n+ Access 5052-1 Primary Exploration Log Transcript\n\n- hide Exploration Log Transcript\n\nNote: Initial exploration and mapping of the external structure and internal geography of SCP-5052-1 was performed by MTF Phi-26 (Range Rovers).\n\nPrimary Exploration Video Log Transcript\nDate: 04/04/1984\nSubject: SCP-5052-1\nTeam Lead: P26-Lead\nTeam Members: P26-1, P26-2, P26-3\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nLocal Command: Phi-twenty-six, this is Local Command. Recording has begun. Microphone, audio and filters check please. Over.\nP26-Lead: Phi-twenty-six lead is clear. Cognitohazard filters6 are working.\nP26-3: Three clear.\nP26-1: Phi-twenty-six one receiving clearly. Camera is operational.\nP26-2: Two coming through nicely.\nLocal Command: Roger team. You are cleared to approach the structure. Remember your briefing. Good luck.\n(The team steps out from the large tent with P26-Lead in front. Each team member has the top half of their face shrouded by their helmets, has a rifle slung at their hips, and carries heavy backpacks loaded with supplies. Before them, the vast grey structure of the fallen starship looms through the dim light of dawn. In the distance, the shattered other half of the ship is visible. The team makes their way towards the front half of the vessel, making a point of not looking directly at the monolithic structure. The only sound is the crunching of sand and stone beneath their feet, and the steady rhythm of their breaths. After twenty minutes, they reach the vessel, and make their way around to the breach where the starship was torn in two.)\nP26-Lead: Entering the structure now Command. Remember team, this is an archaeological site, not a hostile firezone. Think before you shoot. Command wants to know what these things are, who made them, and why they're here, and we can't do that if you shoot the evidence.\n(P26-Lead pauses for a moment, then leads the group into what appears to be a hallway, sloping gently downward into the darkness. Creaks echo as the structure takes the additional weight.)\nP26-1: Footing seems a little unreliable here. Take it slowly guys, and give each other space. We don't want to fall through a floor.\nP26-3: Keeping away from Hector then.\nP26-2: I swear guys, the suit shrinks in the wash.\nP26-Lead: Hold up. I've got a light here.\nP26-1: You mean electronic?\nP26-Lead: Looks like it. It's blinking green. (He brushes his hand over a tiny light in the wall.) Might be a hazard warning.\nP26-2: There's still power in this thing?\nP26-Lead: Enough to run a lightbulb, at least. Take care. Security measures might still be functional.\nP26-2: How old is this thing?\nP26-1: Not sure. Geo are running ground samples. You can't carbon date alien craft, so they have to figure out how old the dirt is.\nP26-2: Why's that?\nP26-1: Different original environment means that the atmospheric carbon baseline for wherever this ship is from is different to Earth. Either way, based upon the depth of the sand around this thing, it has to be thousands of years old.\n(The team continues along the corridor. They reach an intersection, and continue straight ahead. The team freezes as a device on P26-2's hip lets out a blip.)\nP26-2: Humes are down.\nP26-Lead: How much?\nP26-2: One second. Uhh, we're down to about 85.\nP26-3: That's nothing yet. We've seen far worse.\nP26-Lead: Those numbers look stable?\nP26-2: So far, yes.\nP26-3: Have we got us an alien Type Green?\nP26-1: Possibly. Which would assume that something is still alive in here.\nP26-2: Rogers, how old did you say this had to be?\nP26-1: Possibly hundreds of millennia.\nP26-3: How could something still be alive, then?\nP26-Lead: Command, phi-twenty-six lead here. Do we have a portable Scranton anchor available?\nLocal Command: That's a negative lead. We've got one, but it's not exactly mobile. Is it mission critical? We can arrange one to be flown in.\nP26-Lead: Thanks Command. We should be right for now, but something's off in here and we might need it in the future.\nLocal Command: Confirmed.\nP26-1: We have doors ahead.\nP26-Lead: See if you can get them open.\n(P26-1 and P26-3 move up to the doorway. It is barely perceptible against the wall, with only a small outline a few centimetres thick marking the boundary. P26-1 and P26-3 push against the door for a few seconds in various directions, to no effect. The team continues for another one hundred and twenty metres down into the dark, before turning right at another intersection. The sand under their feet and the dust on the walls grows thicker and thicker. The device on P26-2's hip steadily lets out blips, increasing steadily in frequency to once every three seconds as they progress. They pass by doorway after doorway, each closed and sealed by a layer of sand.)\nP26-2: We're at 70 Humes and falling.\nP26-Lead: Are those numbers still stable?\nP26-2: Yes sir. It's perfectly steady. Whatever's causing it, we're getting closer.\nP26-Lead: Tell me if we hit 55.\nP26-3: Guys, my cog-filter just blipped.\nP26-Lead: Everyone freeze. Juan, what triggered it?\nP26-3: Uh, something on the wall, I think. Left side. Next to that doorway.\nP26-Lead: How strong do you think it is?\nP26-3: Not very. I barely noticed it.\nP26-2: Permission to investigate?\nP26-Lead: Granted. Take it slowly.\nP26-2: Where is it?\n(P26-3 points to a section of the wall. P26-2 cautiously moves up to it and begins looking closer to it, slowly bringing it into his field of view.)\nP26-Lead: What have we got?\nP26-2: I don't believe it's dangerous. It looks like the glyphs they found on the hull outside, just smaller. Little triangles, in vertical lines. Couple of dozen of them, all in a row. They're marked onto the wall. My cog-filter is blurring them, but not by much.\nP26-1: Sir, I think it's writing.\nP26-Lead: Writing?\nP26-1: They look like they're arranged in sentences. Give me a second. I have an idea.\n(P26-1 walks back along the hallway to the previous doorway, and brushes the dust of the wall, revealing another series of vertically aligned glyphs. He proceeds to brush the dust away from next to two more doorways, then returns to the team.)\nP26-1: They're door labels. This one was just uncovered.\nP26-3: Door labels. Then why are they pinging as cognitohazardous?\nP26-1: I'm not sure yet.\nP26-Lead: Juan, get photos as we go. The Berryman team will love to get their hands on this. Command, are you still with us?\nLocal Command: Ba..ly. Sign..s get\u2026 weak. ..u still rec..ving?\nP26-Lead: Likewise Command. Note that all photographic material recovered is to be designated as potentially cognitohazardous. Please confirm.\nLocal Command: Pho\u2026graphs \u2026 pot..tial cog..ohazar\u2026 ..ndle with ca\u2026.n.\nP26-Lead: Cheers Command. We'll be going dark in a minute. We'll check back in when we can.\n(P26-1 walks over to the glyphs next to the doorway, and runs his fingers over them. He strokes downward, then upward, and repeats the process in slightly different ways, before the glyphs glow gently and the door suddenly lifts into the wall, revealing the room beyond. P26-1 smiles in satisfaction.)\nP26-1: The glyphs serve to open the doors.\nP26-2: Do we want to go back and open the rest?\nP26-Lead: Negative. We'll scout out the broader structure, and just check a few rooms along the way. See if we can figure out what they're for future missions.\nP26-3: I think this is a bedroom. That looks sort of like a bed.\nP26-Lead: Check it out. Rogers, stay out here in case the door shuts on us. Hector, make sure you get all of this on camera.\n(The three of them enter the chamber. It is approximately four meters square, and coated in a fine layer of dust. A two-meter-long oval pod sits in the corner. Glyphs can be seen adorning various areas of the walls. P26-3 walks over to one of them and strokes it to no effect.)\nP26-1: Try a flick at the end.\nP26-3: A flick? (He repeats the motion, this time causing the glyphs to glow and a section of the wall to open up.) Oh, wait I get what you mean. We've got what I assume is storage here.\n(A small empty chamber opens up in the wall. Three shelves can be seen within. Silvery strands sit on each in a pile, with a few pieces of metal nestled within. P26-3 lifts up a pile.)\nP26-3: I think these are remains of fabric? Their clothing?\nP26-Lead: Try the others. See what else you can find.\n(The team sequentially checks each series of glyphs, opening up another few storage compartments and a separate sub-chamber with a drain, then causing the entire room to brighten. P26-Lead touches another series of glyphs, and a section of the wall brightens.)\nP26-Lead: We have a screen here. Looks like more writing.\n(He gently dusts it clean, then freezes as an alarm on his helmet chirps.)\nP26-Lead: Eyes shut. My filter's going nuts. Hang on, I'll try and\u2026 there. It's off.\nP26-1: Are you okay sir?\nP26-Lead: I think so. Just feeling a little off.\nP26-2: Explain off, sir. Also, our Humes just wavered.\nP26-Lead: I'm fine. Wavered, Hector?\nP26-2: When you turned on the screen. The Humes went up again temporarily.\nP26-Lead: Everyone look away. Hector, keep an eye on that meter. I'm going to turn it on again for a second.\nP26-2: Yeah, the Humes went up again. Only from 68 to 71, but they changed.\nP26-Lead: Who found the light switch? Turn that one off. (P26-3 strokes a section of the wall, and the room is dark again.)\nP26-2: It changed again when you did that.\nP26-Lead: Rogers, any idea? (He swipes at the wall again, deactivating the screen.)\nP26-1: I'd guess it's feeding on the reality. Or lack thereof. We should be careful if we bring an anchor in here.\nP26-3: Found something intact here in this cupboard.\nP26-Lead: What does it look like?\nP26-3: Flat piece of glass? (He runs his fingers over the artefact, and it lights up.) Nope. Some kind of datapad. There's writing on here.\nP26-2: Is your filter okay with it?\nP26-3: Yeah, it's barely compensating.\nP26-1: Pass it over here. I want to try something.\nP26-Lead: Try what?\nP26-1: I think it's safe to observe normally.\n(P26-3 takes the artefact into the corridor, and then reaches up to his helmet and begins to power down his cognitohazard filter.\nP26-Lead: Rogers, this is a terrible idea.\nP26-2: Trust me, sir. It's barely registering on our filters. They're all over the place. It's safe.\n(P26-Lead draws his rifle and holds it at the ready. P26-3 rapidly follows suit. Both of them look anxious as P26-1 lowers his unprotected gaze to the artefact, winces slightly, and then grins.)\nP26-Lead: Rogers, please don't make me have to shoot your overconfident ass.\nP26-1: Wow. (He laughs softly.) Hot damn.\nP26-3: Sir, what do we do?\nP26-1: It's okay. I can read it.\nP26-3: You fucking what?\nP26-1: I can read it.\nP26-Lead: What does it say?\nP26-1: I think it's a diary, or a personal log of some kind. Fascinating that it's still intact.\nP26-2: How can you read it?\nP26-1: It's anomalous. I'd say it's cognitohazardous, but without being hazardous. Our filters recognise that it's working like a cognitohazard and are stopping it. Here, yep. I can read the door. Crew quarters number one thousand, three hundred and fifty-nine.\nP26-Lead: Just put your filter back on. We don't know if everything else is safe.\nP26-1: Permission to keep reading sir?\nP26-Lead: Denied. Bag and tag it. We need to keep moving.\n(The team leaves the chamber and continues down the hallway. By now, the only light source comes from their torches. They come to another intersection, this one for a corridor almost ten metres wide. P26-Lead stumbles back as he sweeps his torch over the walls, and chirps blare from his helmet.)\nP26-2: Sir!\n(P26-Lead whispers something unintelligible. P26-3 grabs him under the arms and pulls him backwards.)\nP26-3: Sir, are you okay?\nP26-Lead: I didn't\u2026 I'm sorry\u2026 (He breathes heavily for a moment.) What happened to me?\nP26-1: You saw something. Something penetrated the cognitohazard filter. What was it?\nP26-Lead: I'm sorry. It's clearing up now. (He winces as he remembers.) Greatness.\nP26-2: Greatness?\nP26-Lead: Like I was nothing before it, and all I was to do was bow before it. Whatever it was for\u2026 whoever it was for\u2026 I don't know. The filters managed to stop that much. I\u2026\nP26-1: We're pulling you out.\nP26-Lead: No\u2026 I'm\u2026.\nP26-3: Sir, you aren't in any shape to continue. We're bugging out before your head melts and getting someone who can deal with this.\n[END LOG]\n\n- hide Exploration Log Transcript\n\nAddendum 5052.2: Artefact 5052-1-A113 Transcription\n\n+ Access Artefact 5052-1-A113 Transcription\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nNote: A large number of the artefacts extracted from the SCP-5052 site are ruined beyond repair. Of those that remain intact, the vast majority have ceased whatever functionality they may have originally possessed. Once it was determined that the items could operate in areas of low ambient reality, and that any literate unprotected individual could read and comprehend the language, inverted Scranton anchors were used to generate appropriate environments, and D-class personnel were used to transcribe whatever information could be gleamed.\nThe following extracts have been translated and transcribed from the first artefact discovered by Phi-26-3. Not all meanings translate directly; words marked by bracketing have been approximated.\n\nThe [Personal] Records of Twelve [Flier] Helper\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #102\nAs of this day, I am honoured to have been selected to serve upon the glorious vessel The Hand of the [Divine], under the [Captain] Three Nova Eldest. It is the result of 31 difficult years of service and duty, but I am now a [Heartkeeper] on the greatest vessel in the universe.\nI am informed it is my duty and [privilege] to directly care for the [Heart] of the vessel, and see to all of its needs. The greatest and most powerful [Heart] to have been born, and I have the joy of meeting it. It feeds us its abundant [power], and we are bound to it.\nI will be moving into my quarters on the vessel shortly.\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #109\nThe [Heart] might just be the most [beautiful] being I have ever seen. It dwarfs us completely. I have tended to many lesser [Hearts] before, and the majority of them are no more than twice my own height.\nBut the [Heart] of The Hand of the [Divine] is unmatched. It is perhaps ten times my height, and is so powerful it can fuel the entire vessel alone. Its chamber is armoured and sealed more securely than any other chamber in the universe. We must wear a [breathing apparatus] to even enter, since it receives the honour of its own [atmosphere].\nFrom its chambers, there is even a direct connection to the [Divine] Quarters, though I am yet unworthy to even consider entering them, and the Words of Truth would judge me so.\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #135\nThe [Heart] is a delightful challenge to care for. Moreso than other [hearts], it is [picky] in its conditions. Its chamber is kept at a lower gravity, such that its bulk does not overwhelm it. I had learned its chamber is kept sealed, because the [oxygen] we breathe tends to cause it discomfort at even low concentrations, a problem other [hearts] tend to manage easily. It consumes a vast quantity of pure [methane], and I am concerned about our supplies running low. Thankfully, the [Captain] understands the importance, and has promised to ensure we have spare supplies available.\nI have also instructed the [Captain] that we should be careful if we ever lower the [power] demands of the vessel. The [Heart] is so powerful that [unreality] is unstable near it if it is not constantly being [siphoned].\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #163\nI met a god today.\nI have always had access to more private locations aboard the vessel, as befits a [Heartkeeper], and have even been [inoculated] with the Words of Truth such that I might access the [Divine] Quarters themselves if necessary. But I have never before today met Their [Majesty], They That Shall [Inherit] All in [person].\nIt was magnificent. I beheld the Words of Truth emblazoned upon their mighty form, and quivered before them. My place in the universe was made clear; I have never been more sure of anything in my life.\nAs they walked by me, I caught a glimpse of their eye beneath their face. It looked right upon me, and they did not deign to beat me for my impudence. It is a sign of greater favour to come! When the time comes that Their [Majesty] shall take their place, I will be here as the [Keeper] on their finest vessel.\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #341\nWe are going on a special mission today. We have not been informed of the exact details, but I can tell it is important. The [Captain] is being uncommonly rigid, and our communications [home] are being limited.\nThere are rumours of [treason], but I do not think such a thing possible. It is most likely that we will simply be moving against the [foreign empire] on their home planet.\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #395\nThe [Captain] told me the truth today about our mission. I cannot speak this to another being, but this does not mean I cannot remember it here. Their [Majesty], They That Shall [Inherit] All is on board with us to [personally] oversee our success. The reason for this is that [treason] has happened.\nThe great colony ship The Heart of the Stars has been stolen. A group of individuals has someone turned against our glorious [Majesties] and taken the vessel. They are taking it to our enemy to turn it against us.\nThe [Captain] says that Their [Majesty] will do anything to prevent that happening. It might come that we have to push our [Heart] harder in the heat of battle, and he trusts me to see this happen.\n\nMandatory [personal] record management #413\nSomething is wrong. I can feel it. The [Heart] is anxious, the crew is anxious, and both affect each other. I have had to manage its [methane] dosage with extra care.\nI calculated our location by the stars and by our [hyperspace] [steps]. We are not heading towards enemy territory. The Heart of the Stars and its traitorous thieves are heading into the deep void. I do not know why.\nI know it is wrong to do so, but I doubt.\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nAddendum 5052.3: SCP-5052-1 Secondary Exploration Log Transcript\n\n+ Access 5052-1 Secondary Exploration Log Transcript\n\n- hide Exploration Log Transcript\n\nNote: Following MTF Phi-26's initial exploration and subsequent retreat from SCP-5052-1, it was deemed that the deeper recesses of SCP-5052-1, and the cognitohazards within, posed a more significant threat than MTF Phi-26 was posed to manage. MTF Phi-26 continued to operate at the SCP-5052-1 wreck, performing more detailed exploration missions where they sequentially searched and documented several hundred rooms and an approximately equivalent number of collected artefacts, as well as access ways to upper and lower levels. Meanwhile, MTF Eta-10 (See No Evil) was assigned to further exploration, due to their expertise in management of visually cognitohazardous anomalies.\nDue to the anticipated visual nature of the cognitohazards, specialised audio/sonar7 records were kept of the mission.\n\nSecondary Exploration Audio/Sonar Log Transcript\nDate: 18/04/1984\nSubject: SCP-5052-1\nTeam Lead: E10-Lead\nTeam Members: E10-1, E10-2, E10-3, E10-4\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nE10-Lead: Local Command, this is Eta-ten-Lead, calling in to initiate recordings. All equipment is functional. All call signs are accounted for. Acknowledge that radio transmissions are anticipated to cease once we reach the target location?\nLocal Command: Roger, Eta-ten. Good luck in there.\nE10-Lead: All right Eta, we're going dark.\n(Each member of Eta-10 lowers a visor over their face and seals it, blinding themselves to their normal visual input.)\nE10-Lead: Everyone receiving the sonar cleanly?\n(There is a chorus of affirmations. The team progresses into the structure of SCP-5052-1. The sonar provides them with a readout of the environment around them, updating every second as each pulse reverberates off the walls and back to the sensor. The clarity of the ground fades where they proceed over deep sand, and sharpens again where they walk over the metal floor. They proceed for the hundreds of meters into the structure, the only sounds their footprints on the sand and the steady blipping of their Hume meter, until they reach the broad hallway where MTF Phi-26 turned back.)\nE10-Lead: Four, confirm this is the location.\nE10-4: According to the briefing, this is it. The walls around us should be completely brain-melting.\nE10-3: Scanning now. (They raise a cognitohazard scanner8 and wave it over the walls. The device beeps rapidly.) Confirmed. The scanner's going berserk with what it sees.\nE10-1: Taking photos now. (E10-1 raises a camera, fiddles with it for a moment, then begins the procedural process of photographing the walls around them.) How much of this wall do you want?\nE10-Lead: Get ten meters, both sides for now. We can come back for more if necessary.\nE10-2: Which direction are we going?\nE10-Lead: Left. We're heading as far down as we can go.\nE10-2: Affirmative. The way seems clear. One, how long do you need?\nE10-1: Two minutes. I don't want to miss anything.\nE10-Lead: Two, I want you on point.\n(E10-1 finishes their photography, and the team follows E10-2 left. The sound of their footsteps echoes from the walls as they proceed along the board hallway. After sixty meters, they come to a closed doorway.)\nE10-Lead: Three, Phi indicated that the doors they have encountered so far could be opened by the glyphs next to them. Find them.\n(E10-3 raises their scanner and points it at the doorway. It beeps violently in a continuous whine, then stops abruptly.)\nE10-3: Shit. I think it broke.\nE10-Lead: Noted. How many spares do you have?\nE10-3: Just one, and it's a bit older.\nE10-4: I don't think this area was intended for general access. Trying to open the door could be unwise.\nE10-Lead: Four, how stable do you believe the structure around us to be? And what are our Humes?\nE10-4: It's been here for god knows how long and still seems in good shape. And we're currently at about 63. Why?\nE10-Lead: The ship and reality are stable enough to take a beating. One, get some photos of this. Mark them as extreme hazards. Two, blow the door. Everyone else retreat to the intersection.\n(E10-2 reaches into the pack and begins to pull out several blocks, which they affix to the doorway while E10-1 rapidly takes photographs of the door. E10-1 retreats in a rush as E10-2 carefully wires the blocks together, then pulls a detonator from their bandolier and gingerly attach it to the wire. They then turn a dial on the detonator, and briskly retreat to rejoin the team. After a minute, a sizzling noise followed by an earsplitting blast echoes down the hallway, then a crashing sound.)\nE10-4: Did it work?\n(The team slowly advances to the doorway again. The door lies in pieces, revealing access to the chamber beyond.)\nE10-2: Yep. Be careful walking over that rubble. The floor might be damaged by that.\nE10-Lead: Taking point. No, there's another doorway just here.\nE10-3: I'm spotting something odd over by the walls. What are those things?\nE10-1: I'm checking it out. (E10-1 walks over and picks up a metallic object, and runs his hands over the surface of it to determine its shape.) I think it's some kind of breathing mask.\nE10-Lead: Three, how are the walls looking?\n(There is a gentle beep as they wave it over the doorway.)\nE10-3: Glyphs, but they don't seem too powerful.\n(E10-4 walks over to the doorway and gropes around on the side.)\nE10-4 Three, exactly where are the glyphs?\nE10-3: Hang on\u2026 (Beep.) There.\n(E10-4 strokes their fingers over the location of the glyphs, and the doorway opens. They take point as the team enters the new chamber. It is large, almost 15 meters tall, and their sonar reveals the outline of vast machinery, and piles of stone on the floor. There is a persistent blipping as they enter the room.)\nE10-4: Humes below 50 and dropping. Sir?\nE10-Lead: Pull back, now!\n(The team scrambles back over the rubble of the destroyed door and the blips slow down.)\nE10-4: I think we've found our Type Green.\nE10-3: I'm not picking up any motion in there. Geiger is clean, too.\nE10-Lead: We proceed. Take it easy, and don't trust your senses.\nE10-2: Smells kinda funky in here.\nE10-1: What the hell is this room for? Three?\nE10-3: I don't know. I'm not getting much on the scanner. Just residual stuff. Nothing nasty.\nE10-Lead: Two, go and check out whatever those machines are for. Three, find the light switch. Four, go and check that rubble on the floor.\nE10-4: Guys, I don't think this is stone. Humes are right down around this thing. And well over 160 on it.\nE10-Lead: Clarify.\nE10-4: I think it's bone. This was a reality bender.\nE10-2: But that thing would have had to be over 50 feet tall.\nE10-3: Found the lights.\nE10-Lead: Three, you're certain that your scans are correct?\nE10-3: Yessir.\nE10-Lead: Noted. I want to get proper visuals.\nE10-3: Acknowledged. I volunteer.\nE10-Lead: You certain?\nE10-3: Yessir.\n(E10-3 adjusts their helmet, activating their cognitohazard filters, and removing their sonar optics visor, then begins to look around the room.)\nE10-3: Filters are at full power. Okay. Yes, that's definitely a skeleton. Those two look like pieces of a skull. Cracked in half. Those look like ribs. That might be\u2026 it doesn't look like a piece of backbone, but I can't think of what else it might be.\nE10-4: These feel like cables underneath it.\nE10-3: Yes. And it looks like matching cables on the roof.\nE10-1: This thing was suspended from the roof? It's the size of a whale.\nE10-4: Antigrav technology perhaps. This was a spaceship. Though I suspect that this thing could have probably flown if it wanted.\nE10-2: Flown by itself? What the hell was this thing for? And why was it trapped in here? By the size of the doors and corridors, the rest of the crew weren't this big.\nE10-Lead: We'd need to get a closer look at the top of that machine, I think.\nE10-4: I'm getting a reading of 160 over 40 on this thing's bones. And it's been dead for thousands of years. While this thing was alive, it could probably tear this ship apart with its mind if it wanted to.\nE10-1: Or fuel it.\nE10-3: You're saying that this thing was a Type Green battery?\nE10-Lead: We don't know for certain. Four, get a sample of that bone. There's another door out of here. Three?\n(E10-4 picks through the remains, then takes a 30-centimeter-across piece of bone and loads it into their pack. E10-3 steps over the skeleton and walks to the door, the team following behind. They stroke over the glyph beside the door, opening the doorway.)\nE10-Lead: Three, your hel\u2026\n(E10-3 glances through the doorway. There is a spark from their helmet as their cognitohazard filter overloads. E10-3 topples backwards without a word.)\nE10-1: Mick!\nE10-Lead: Shit. Two, check his vitals.\nE10-2: They're barely there. His pulse is weak.\nE10-1: Not a killsprite, or he managed to avoid the brunt of it.\nE10-Lead: One, take the camera and get photos of whatever it was that he saw. Two, you have point. Four help me with him. (E10-Lead lifts E10-3's unconscious form over his shoulder.) We're leaving.\n[END LOG]\n\n- hide Exploration Log Transcript\n\nAddendum 5052.4: SCP-5052-3 Cognitohazard Analysis by Eta-10\n\n+ Access SCP-5052 Cognitohzard Analysis\n\n- hide Cognitohazard Analysis\n\nNote: Following their withdrawal from SCP-5052-1 and the subsequent hospitalisation of Eta-10-3, MTF Eta-10 spent a period of time in the field performing analysis of the glyphs they photographed, as well as transcriptions recovered from artefacts. The degree of complexity and specialisation has warranted that the glyphs and the language they are written in to be classified as SCP-5052-3. The following is an excerpt from their report, which was performed in collaboration with the Berryman team.\n\nInsights from the SCP-5052-3 to the Advance of Cognitohazard Development\nSCP-5052-3 presents a unique application of cognitohazards which has hitherto been uncategorised, and presents interesting options for future information protection by the Foundation.\nThe race of beings responsible for SCP-5052-3 evidently built their entire written language from cognitohazards. This is, in hindsight, not the most surprising leap forward. After all, all written and spoken languages enable the transfer of information to a perceptive audience, and potentially near-perfect information transfer if the author has suitable complexity and subtlety in their choice of words. From there, it is not a large step to introduce additional complexity in the written language itself, utilising anomalous understandings to enable universally applicable information transfer. The script here seems to enable universal ideals around physical objects, emotions, locations and even grammar, and it does so by connecting directly to the existing understanding of the idea within the brain.\nThe written form of the language centers around triangular glyphs. Each glyph represents a distinct and unique word or concept, and the combination of glyphs within glyphs (such as those seen on the surface of SCP-5052-1 and -2) enables more complex words and concepts to be expressed efficiently. The spiral substructures within each glyph establish a lower limit on font size in order to achieve full information density, though the universal application of digital text within the site, and the scarcity of physical representation of the language, suggests that this was not in any way considered a hindrance.\nWithin the language, the glyphs themselves are referred to as 'Words of Truth', and they are thought to have possessed a degree of religious significance. The structure of the SCP-5052 society is still not certain, but a monarchic or dictatorial structure seems to apply, given the references to 'Their Majesties.' The way that the ruling class used this language was extensive. Since the language offers essentially perfect information transfer, and the information was subtly crafted such that the context of the reader's relationship to their monarchs influenced how it was interpreted, it served as an unprecedented tool for propaganda and population control.\nEta-10-3's lapse in caution led them to one of the most direct applications of this principle. While the grand hallway in SCP-5052-1 serves as a direct application of dictatorial influence, with a vast collage reinforcing the inferior status of the viewer and the superior status of their Majesty, the warning which has rendered Eta-10-3 comatose was instead a binary directive. Those who considered themselves of great importance to their Majesty and had been granted permission to approach would have suffered little ill effect beyond a heavy dose of humility. At the same time, those who did not hold the monarchy in absolute regard were instructed to die.\nThis in particular offers a new approach to how cognitohazards might be developed. Currently, the approach to cognitohazard development mandates a two step process; the development of the cognitohazard and its specific impact on brain function itself, and the inverted inoculation, which if previously applied to the mind of the viewer would negate the impact of the cognitohazard. Instead, this approach suggests that a cognitohazard could be constructed which reacts to the existing thought processes of the viewer; namely their rank within the Foundation, or their loyalty. Importantly, these conditions could not be easily faked. While a badge and some careful preparation, or a stolen inoculation could enable one to circumvent Foundation security processes, a cognitohazard built in according to these principles would instead check for the viewer's true loyalty or position, or at least their self-perception in regards to that matter.\n\n- hide Cognitohazard Analysis\n\nAddendum 5052.5: Analysis of Extraterrestrial Bone Samples from SCP-5052-1\n\n+ Access SCP-5052 Bone Sample Analysis\n\n- hide Bone Sample Analysis\n\nItem #: SCP-5052-1-B012\nChief Analyst: Dr. Robert Scranton\nObject Description: 8.5-kilogram portion of deceased bone tissue. Extraterrestrial in origin.\nProperties of Interest: Extremely high internal Hume rating, and subsequently low external Hume ratings, as is typical of Type Greens. This degree of stability and power despite the estimated age of the object is notable. DNA not present; other nucleic acid chains were identified. DNA analysis thus impossible. Remains of proteins identified. 27 distinct amino acids recognised, 14 of which are biologically unique to the specimen. Cellular protein structures similar to those found in terrestrial Type Greens identified.\nNote: The origin of these organisms is curious. The sheer size of the organisms, and their immense reality bending abilities, suggests that natural evolutionary processes may be inadequate to explain their origin. While obviously anomalous, they may also be artificial.\nNote: Larger samples requested for further Erikesh research.\nNote: - Request Granted. Authorisation 05-6.\n\n- hide Bone Sample Analysis\n\nAddendum 5052.6: Artefact 5052-1-A252 Transcription\n\n+ Access Artefact 5052-1-A252 Transcription\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nNote: MTF Eta-10 returned to SCP-5052-1 after 26 days with more explosives and continued to delve into the structure. They penetrated past the previous barrier and eventually entered what was thought to be the private chambers of the ruling caste. Within the chamber, personal documents and relics of the extraterrestrial leadership were recovered, including articles of clothing, memoirs, plans, and maps of both SCP-5052-1 and SCP-5052-2.\nThe following extracts have been translated and transcribed from an artefact recovered from within the chamber. Three D-class personnel were rotated from the task due to mental stress9 Not all meanings translate directly; words marked by bracketing have been approximated.\n\nThe [Personal] Records of Their [Majesty], They That Shall [Inherit] All\n\nRoyal record management #1082\nMy [divinity] has been insulted. In my 121 years of command, never have I been so indignified. My position as [Inheritor] is being called in question by my [parent], Their [Majesty] that Holds [Dominion] Over All.\nThe Heart of the Stars has been stolen. Somehow, an insignificant scout has found the [hubris] necessary to seek to leave my domination. They have rallied their families, and fled into the void.\nTheir [Majesty] that Holds [Dominion] Over All has commanded for I to take The Hand of the [Divine] and hunt them down and return the vessel intact. If I do not, it would set a catastrophic [precedent]. They have suggested that should I fail in this task, my return would be unnecessary.\nI have never known such anger, nor such shame.\n\nRoyal record management #1101\nWe have made the first [hyperspace] [step] and are in pursuit of the Heart of the Stars. We have found their [spectral] trail easily, and they seem oblivious to our chase. The [Captain] of this vessel is proving to be a soft [person], prone to compassion with the peons. They were surprised by the revelation that I could track the vessel, and displayed [shame] at their ignorance. This lack of [steadfastness] is beneath their status. I shall have to replace them once this mission is successful.\nI am informed that the [Heart] of the vessel is functioning at complete capacity, and will be up to the task of ensuring we can chase down the Heart of the Stars. Although the [Heart] here is pitifully small and weak compared to that of our prey with less than a quarter of the power, our mass is perhaps one twenty-fifth of that of our prey. [Pound-for-pound], they are no match for us, and they are barely even armed.\nWe shall bring plasma and death to them. It will not even be difficult.\n\nRoyal record management #1143\nI received word today that my [parent] has perished. I can only assume that my [sibling] is taking this opportunity to seize my [Inheritance] for themselves.\nI have not informed any of the crew beyond the [Captain], whom I have commanded secrecy. If it becomes necessary, I will inform them of my ascension, but they are largely inadequate to serve as the [personal] guard to One Who Has [Dominion] Over All.\nUpon my return and my ascension, I will select a crew more befitting my station. Though perhaps after I vaporise my impertinent [siblings].\n\nRoyal record management #1151\nIn this time, the intentions of our prey have been unclear. They have been making [steps] far out into the void in a seemingly pointless direction. Of course, the crew have been informed that they are heading to the territory of our [upstart] foe.\nBut now we have caught up to them, as they have slowed and entered a stellar system. Now, their purpose becomes obvious. Here, in the deep reaches of the void, they seek a home. But not merely a suitably [terraformable] planet. We have passed by plenty. No. They have found another living world. One already teeming with life, and with an atmosphere rich in [oxygen].\nHow they found it is unclear. It possesses no intelligent or technologically advanced life. It is too small for its atmospheric composition to be detectable from range. A scout must have stumbled upon it and kept the knowledge a secret.\nThat such a thing is possible is impossible.\nI refuse to let the fear in my mind stop me.\nWe are closing in now. After the next [sleep cycle], I shall [personally] oversee their obliteration, and then return home with another livable world under my claim.\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nAddendum 5052.7: SCP-5052-2 Primary Exploration Log Transcript\n\n+ Access 5052-2 Primary Exploration Log Transcript\n\n- hide Exploration Log Transcript\n\nNote: Due to their familiarity with the general structure and function of SCP-5052 in general, the continued incapacitated state of Eta-10, and the lesser threat anticipated within the starship, the initial internal exploration of SCP-5052-1 was performed by MTF Phi-26.\nIn order to access the ruin, the team were flown in by helicopter, and then lowered directly onto the hull of SCP-5052-2 by winch10.\nThe team was equipped with spelunking and climbing gear in anticipation of difficult access, as well as a small supply of explosives.\n\nPrimary Exploration Video Log Transcript\nDate: 15/09/1984\nSubject: SCP-5052-2\nTeam Lead: P26-Lead\nTeam Members: P26-1, P26-2, P26-3\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nP26-Lead: Here we go, gentlemen. Filters active?\n(There is a chorus of affirmations from Phi-26.)\nP26-Lead: Command, we are ready to begin. Current plan for exfil is four hours; we'll call if that changes?\nLocal Command: Affirmative Phi-twenty-six. Take care in there.\n(The team progresses across the hull towards one of the numerous breaches. The metal around the hole is warped and twisted from the burst of heat that pierced it long ago.)\nP26-Lead: Juan, how stable does that metal look? We need something to rappel in from.\n(P26-3 walks up the twisted metal and kicks it twice, putting his weight behind each impact.)\nP26-3: It's sturdy, sir.\n(P26-2 unwinds the rope from the pack, and loops the hooked end around the spur of metal. P26-1 repeats the process with a second length of rope. P26-Lead attaches themselves to a rope, awkwardly clambers over the edge of the hole, then lets themselves down into the dark.)\nP26-Lead: We have a sturdy landing down here. It's only about 20 feet down. Take it steady.\n(One by one, the rest of the team rappels down into SCP-5052-2.)\nP26-1: Assuming the schematics that Eta extracted from fifty-fifty-two-dash-one are accurate, we are somewhere\u2026 (He pulls a pile of papers containing blueprints from his pack, shuffles through them, and then selects one.)\u2026 here. Where are we aiming for?\nP26-Lead: Engine rooms first. By the map, there should be eight of them, and since the ones in the smaller ship are either buried or destroyed, that makes these a key priority. Command wants a chance to study the engines. They're pretty confident they're either gravity or space manipulators. Along the way, they'd appreciate more personal logs if they can get them. Rogers, which way is best.\nP26-1: From here\u2026 give me a moment\u2026 if we head towards the spine of the ship for sixty meters, and then down for about two hundred metres, we should then have a straight path along the main thoroughfare to the bow and stern. Follow that stern-wise for a kilometer and a half, then a brief climb gets us to a main engine chamber.\nP26-2: What about crew quarters?\nP26-1: They should be easily accessible from the core path.\nP26-Lead: After you, Rogers.\n(P26-1 leads the team along a wide corridor, occasionally pausing to check the map and reorient themselves. They find a stairwell, and steadily descend.)\nP26-2: Something about this place feels different.\nP26-3: What do you mean?\nP26-2: It's\u2026 homelier, if that makes sense. The corridors are a bit larger, a bit less angular, a bit brighter.\nP26-3: It's a bigger ship. Of course the hallways are larger.\nP26-2: It's more than that.\nP26-3: Look, in my opinion, it's still just a big dark creepy sand-filled alien spaceship which is waiting to melt our brains.\n(P26-1 leads the team out from the stairwell and into an immense corridor. The light from their torches scarcely reaches across the breadth of the chamber. Their torches skate over the walls. P26-Lead lights a flare and drops it to mark and illuminate their position.)\nP26-3: Oh, it's beautiful.\nP26-2: Still think it's just a big spooky alien ship?\nP26-3: Well, not just that.\n(The walls of the chamber are adorned with a vast mural. Under the dust, representations of starships similar to SCP-5052-2 can be seen travelling to new planets, bedecked in vibrant and distinctive flora and fauna. A race of bipedal beings can be seen in scenes of everyday life; scenes of dance, artistry, socialisation, and ritualised melee combat. Around and between each scene, glyphs adorn the walls, sparkling and shining through the dust.)\nP26-Lead: Does this run for the entire hallway?\nP26-1: God, I hope so.\n(P26-1 walks closer to the wall and peels off his helmet. He runs his fingers along the glyphs as he reads them. He moves slowly and reverently from scene to scene, taking his time to absorb the knowledge.)\nP26-1: This one \u2026 is an ancient initiation to adulthood for warriors. Those who succeed were held in greater regard by their rulers. And this one\u2026 is a courtship ritual. They would serenade each other for twelve nights, alternating six apiece, and then sing a duet on the thirteenth. And this\u2026 is the first interstellar ship they ever built. The Shining Apex, I think. This was the leader of the mission. And this one\u2026\nP26-Lead: Rogers, as much as I hate to say this, we are currently on a mission.\nP26-1: Sorry sir.\nP26-Lead: Juan, photograph everything.\nP26-3: Gladly, sir.\n(P26-1 lowers puts his helmet back on, then pulls out the map again and leads the team steadily along the chamber for almost 30 minutes, stopping every now and then to enable P26-3 to photograph another section of wall. When they at long last reach the end of the chamber, they turn left and enter another stairwell, this time climbing.)\nP26-Lead: This ship seems much more accessible than the other.\nP26-2: Assuming you like stairs.\nP26-3: You complaining about a little cardio, Hector?\nP26-1: It's accessible so far. I'm expecting that we'll meet some resistance at the engine rooms. This was a civilian craft, but it didn't mean that everything was open.\nP26-Lead: Hector, do you have that thermite ready?\nP26-2: Hoping we won't need it, but yes.\nP26-3: What was this for?\nP26-1: You mean the art, or this ship in general?\nP26-3: Both.\nP26-1: Based upon what we found in the smaller ship, this was a colony ship. It was intended to house enough people to populate an entire new world, and carry the machinery and supplies to enable a start, as well as smaller landing craft in hangars. I assume we'll be going after the smaller ships soon enough.\nP26-Lead: That's our third priority.\nP26-2: What's number two?\nP26-Lead: Command wants us to find another alien skeleton. I heard that Scranton reckons he can make a breakthrough on anchors with them.\nP26-3: Well, we do need our reality anchors.\nP26-1: Just up ahead here.\n(The team comes to a landing. After a short walk along another corridor, they find a large doorway. The door is slightly buckled and warped, and the glyphs upon it distorted.)\nP26-2: That's not a good sign.\nP26-Lead: We're going in anyway. Hector, get us in.\n(P26-2 proceeds to set up a series of charges around the door while the rest of the team retreats. They take cover, then trigger the detonation. There is a groan from the structure around them as the echoes of the blast recede.)\nP26-3: Is this place stable?\nP26-Lead: Hopefully. (They make their way around the corner to observe the still intact doorway.) Hmm. We might need a bit more explosive. Hector, use it all.\nP26-2: Yessir.\n(P26-2 readies and detonates another, larger blast. This time, the sound of crashing and shattering can be heard as the doorway yields. The team pushes their way through the remains of the doorway to enter the engine chamber. The room is vast, almost 50 meters square, and is dominated by the titanic hemispherical structure that is the thrustless engine mounted in the center of the room. A large cavity is evident on the side of the structure, the metal around it melted and warped. Sunlight gently illuminates a patch of the room and the engine, streaming in through a puncture over one hundred meters above. In the corner of the room, another hole reveals where the blast continued through the structure. Collapsed walkways from above litter the edges of the chamber.)\nP26-1: That's a bit disheartening.\nP26-Lead: It still looks mostly intact. Can anyone see a control or maintenance panel anywhere here?\nP26-1: I think it was over there. (He points at the charred hole in the floor.) Those cannons definitely did their work. I don't think they got this close by luck.\nP26-3: Which begs the question of how and why both ships crashed, and not just this one.\nP26-1: As to that\u2026 I have no idea.\nP26-2: You're not getting slow on us now, are you Rogers?\nP26-3: Juan?\nP26-3: Already on it. Though I'm running low on film.\nP26-Lead: Hector, do you reckon you have a chance of getting up onto that thing, maybe having a poke around inside?\nP26-2: I can try and get a hook into it maybe, but even so I don't think I'd have the leverage to get up inside it.\nP26-Lead: Noted. We'll have to bring a ladder next time.\nP26-3: Where to now then?\nP26-Lead: Rogers, how far to the next engine room?\nP26-1: Maybe fifteen, twenty minutes. Though I don't think we'll be able to get in. Unless Hector saved some explosives.\nP26-2: That's a negative.\nP26-Lead: Shoot. All right. At least we can still declare the pathway safe and clear to get here. Rogers, where would we find an alien skeleton?\nP26-1: You mean the heart? Uh\u2026 just underneath the main hallway at the other end of the ship.\nP26-Lead: How secure do you think it would be?\nP26-1: I'm assuming we'll need explosives to enter.\nP26-Lead: Noted. Private quarters it is.\n(MTF Phi-26 proceeds to reverse their pathway, returning down the stairway, and following back along the length of the main thoroughfare. P26-3 takes more photographs along the way. They pass the lightly glowing flare marking their original entry point, which P26-Lead replaces, and continue onward for another ten minutes. They turn right into a stairwell and begin to descend. They continue for a few minutes before coming to a small corridor with regular doorways.)\nP26-Lead: We'll go sequentially. (He walks to a doorway and strokes along the glyphs beside it to open the door, to no avail. He pushes his weight against the door and levers it upwards, then steps inside and swipes for the lights.) No power. How are the Humes?\nP26-2: Uh, 99. Basically normal.\n(The team enters a large room. They scan their torches around the room. The far wall is rippled and scorched, with a small opening bent outwards. Beyond, the faint gleam of sunlight can be seen illuminating the gaping wound torn through the center of the starship. Sand and dust layer the floor. In the center of the room, a raised table protrudes from the floor. Cabinets and cupboards cover an entire wall. A small mural, showing four figures standing together adorns another. A basin sits in the corner. Two doors, each marked with six bright glyphs stand next to each other.)\nP26-2: Oh.\nP26-3: What is it, Hec?\n(P26-2 runs his torch along the floor. Half buried in the sand and dust rest two silvery piles of coiled cloth and metal. Within each, pieces of bone protrude upwards, each pockmarked with the slow decay from time.)\nP26-2: These two must have died in here.\nP26-1: Four.\nP26-2: What?\nP26-1: Not two, four. (He walks over and delicately shifts the pile of ruined cloth, revealing a second, smaller skeleton enfolded within the first.) There were four in here.\nP26-3: They had children with them?\nP26-Lead: This was a colony ship. It would make sense.\nP26-3: Cause of death?\nP26-1: Hard to say. Depending on when this (he gestures at the ruined wall) happened, I'd estimate suffocation as the atmosphere vented. They mustn't have gotten buckled down in time, either.\nP26-2: This is a grave.\nP26-Lead: As is everywhere else we go, Hector. Juan, get the photos. Rogers, see what you can find. We aren't staying here for long.\n[END LOG]\n\n- hide Exploration Log Transcript\n\nAddendum 5052.8: Artefact 5052-2-A049 Transcription\n\n+ Access Artefact 5052-2-A049 Transcription\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nNote: The following extracts have been translated and transcribed from an artefact recovered during Phi-26's initial surveys of SCP-5052-2. Due to the stable Humes in the region, the artefact failed to respond entirely until it was brought near into a region of destabilised reality. Not all meanings translate directly; words marked by bracketing have been approximated.\n\nThe [personal] records of One Just Moment\n\n[Personal] record management #582\nToday we were given a new [directive]. Five Just Stargazer, our two children, and myself have been selected for the next colony project. We will be joining the crew of the Heart of the Stars, the most magnificent colony ship, to travel to the Fourteenth Planet. It has only recently been [terraformed], and thus this will make for a great opportunity for us.\nI will be informing my [parents], my overseer, and my friends shortly. It will be difficult to leave them behind, but the will of Their [Majesty] that Holds [Dominion] Over All is wise, and they know what is best for us all.\n\n[Personal] record management #621\nWe have come to the Heart of the Stars for the first time today, and found our quarters. One Just and Two Just are disappointed to be leaving home and their [school], but have been much [happier] once they saw the vessel. They are excited to go on an adventure.\nFive Just Stargazer has been a boon in this time. They have [weathered] these changes with barely a [frown]. I am lucky to have their love in this time.\n\n[Personal] record management #657\nI do not know what to think.\nWe are two [cycles] from departing on our journey, and today we received a mandatory broadcast from the [Captain]. Except that the [Captain] was not alone, and the words that the [Captain] and the new stranger spoke were not words I had ever thought to hear.\nThe new stranger told us new Words of Truth. They told us that we had been lied to all our lives, and that we had been bound by the [Divines]. They told us that what we had learned about Their [Majesty] that Holds [Dominion] Over All was a lie, and that their [Majesties] had corrupted the Words of Truth. They told us that we had an opportunity to escape.\nThey had found a way to escape to freedom from our rulers. They had found a place where we could hide, and a place where we could be protected. They had found a place where we could find new and powerful allies to protect us.\nI believe them. It is the hardest thing I have ever done, but I believe them. It is like their words pulled away a cover in my mind, and made the Words of Truth fade.\nThey told us that when the Heart of the Stars departs, everything will change. If we are afraid of this change, and want to remain under the [Divines], we are welcome to choose to stay.\nI must think on this.\n\n[Personal] record management #659\nFive Just Stargazer says that they want to stay with the ship. That this opportunity means more than anything else we could ever hope for.\nIf their mind is made up, then so is mine.\n\n[Personal] record management #671\nAdjusting to life on the vessel has been unexpectedly easy. Our routines have barely changed; just the environment. This room is spacious enough for us, and everything else is a short walk away. Five Just Stargazer says that everything is mostly the same, though I still see the worry in their eyes.\nI am not worried. The [Captain] states that no ship can be tracked after a [step], and that we are heading to a destination well beyond our borders.\n\n[Personal] record management #711\nThe stranger appeared on screen today. They introduced themselves as Nine Solemn Wind, and said that the plan had changed. Our destination was not the one we had originally intended, and the allies we expected were unable to be found.\nHe said that for safety, some of us were to head for the landing [shuttles] and begin the landing and settling process, while those that remain on the Heart of the Stars will be staying in the void for a little longer to try and find our allies.\nOur room is one of the furthest from the hangar, and thus we have been selected to stay aboard for now. One Just and Two Just are nervous, but I am not. I trust that Nine Solemn Wind will lead us to freedom.\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nAddendum 5052.9: MTF Eta-10 and MTF Phi-26 Field Report.\n\n+ Access Field Report\n\n- hide Field Report\n\nOperation Command: Researcher Anabel Hopkins\nField Commands: MTF Eta-10 Lead Johann Simmons, and MTF Phi-26 Lead Charles Monroe.\nOperation Launch: 09/03/1984\nOperation Objectives: Scouting and mapping of SCP-5052. Documentation and collection of artefacts from SCP-5052. Initiation of access for other teams into extraterrestrial and anomalous locations of interest. Oversee security of geological teams in the region around SCP-5052. Extraction of reality-positive remains from SCP-5052.\nOperation Results: All directives successful.\nScouting and mapping of SCP-5052-1 and 5052-2 completed as of 12/02/1985, with MTF Eta-10 compiling a full map of SCP-5052-1, and MTF Phi-26 compiling a full amended map of SCP-5052-2.\nDocumentation and collection of artefacts resulted in over 2000 individual items collected. A vast array of scientific and cultural data has been retrieved. Documentation proceeds, though the supervision and leadership of a Mobile Task Force is deemed unnecessary as of 15/02/1985.\nAll locations within SCP-5052 have been made accessible to general research.\nGeological excavations completed without incident. Age of the remains calculated to 72,000 years, plus-or-minus 8,000 years.\nExtraction of all reality-positive remains completed from SCP-5052-1. Due to damage, no remains were found within expected locations in SCP-5052-2. Any possible remains are thought to have been destroyed long ago.\nMTF Eta-10-3 remains comatose following their incapacitation within SCP-5052-1.\n\n- hide Field Report\n\nAddendum 5052.10: Artefact 5052-2-A731 Transcription\n\n+ Access Artefact 5052-2-A731 Transcription\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nNote: The following extracts were withdrawn from an artefact recovered from the command quarters of SCP-5052-2.\n\nThe [Personal] Quest and Shames of Nine Solemn Wind\n\n[Personal] record management #001\nToday I start a new record. Today I start a new life.\nI have been a scout under the [Imperial] Command for almost 97 years. In that time, I have been [diligent] and devoted, and have done everything I can in service of the [Divines]. I have made records of enemy ships, and even traded fire in skirmishes. I have taken lives, and given life. I had been ambitious and prideful and sought greater glory. I have followed their commands and followed their Words of Truth.\nThe Words of Truth are a lie.\nIt is only chance that has led to this conclusion. Whether I am unique in this realisation, I do not know. If others have come to this conclusion, they have either kept it secret, or been destroyed for it.\nFour years ago, I was raised to the position of [Wayfarer]. I was granted a small and powerful ship, and sent alone into the void to [document] the stars and planets along my route. I have traveled farther from home than perhaps any other being, and seen many wonders other can only dream of.\nWhile out here, I found something unexpected. Something [wonderful]. I detected a transmission not from home, and not from our enemy. It came as a whisper from deep, deep in the void. Something like this had never occurred before, and this unprecedented development required, in my opinion, a little [personal] initiative.\nI deviated from my route, and from my timetable. I took a [step] beyond the reach of the voice of the [Divine] in order to search for this mysterious signal. I tracked it down, taking [step] after [step] closer until at last I found the system from where it originated. A living world, with intelligent life and a thriving civilization.\nThis was not the only revelation I was blessed with. For I had gone far beyond the voice of the [Divines] and no longer received their Words of Truth. A ship as small as mine had no room for the usual [dictations] that adorn larger vessels. As I listened to the voices and transmissions of the new strange world, the voices of my home fell away.\nThey did not know the Words of Truth. Their words were incomprehensible to me. And as this lack of understanding confounded me, a new understanding bloomed. That I had been driven my entire life by the Words. These were words that did not drive me, and did not demand of me.\nThese were words I could deny. And if I could deny these words\u2026\nI will return home. I will keep this a secret for now. But I will find a way to shield myself from the cruelty of the [Divines]. I will dictate new Words of Truth for myself. And in time I will bring them to others.\n\n[Personal] record management #053\nAn opportunity has arisen. My [subterfuge] remains solid, and I have received even greater access to the fleet and its vessels. Vessels including the Heart of the Stars. It is the only colony ship large enough to completely establish a new life alone; all others would eventually require reinforcement or a return trip. I have met the [Captain] of the vessel, and it is time for a risk.\nFor the first time, I will enable another to be detached from the Words of Truth and form their own. I can only hope that this will work. Failing that, I can only hope my death will be swift.\n\n[Personal] record management #095\nThe second great step approaches. The Heart of the Stars will be launching soon. Under the guise of requesting replacements, we have managed to [strip] the Words of Truth from within its chambers without raising suspicion, and will be able to [silence] further transmissions from home. Under the guise of needing defense in the situation of attack by our enemy, we have inscribed Words of Truth over the hull, in the hopes they can repel any who chase us when we first depart. Our course and the necessary [hyperspace] [steps] to ensure we are not followed has been prepared. All that remains is to offer the new truth to the colonists. They are already aboard and awaiting [departure.]\nI do not expect all of them to take them. I expect many of them to reject the prospect. We will have to move quickly when we permit them to depart.\nI can only hope they will not be punished for our treason.\n\n[Personal] record management #109\nSomething is very wrong.\nWe have been on our course for over one hundred [cycles] now. The transmissions from home have remained, despite us passing beyond the [boundary]. But this is not what concerns me.\nMy mind is playing tricks on me. I have gone through this record twice, and found it contradictory. My own record tells me we are charting towards another civilization, and I have never been able to lie while writing with Words of Truth, nor can they ever be changed, only broken.\nMy memories tell me we are traveling to an unoccupied planet. My memories also tell me that we were expected to meet someone at our destination.\nI have spoken to the [Captain] and the [Heartkeeper] about my worries. They too have suffered similar concerns. The [Heartkeeper] suggested that a reality shift was possible, but does not know the cause. At the very least, the [Heart] has remained stable.\n\n[Personal] record management #124\nI have failed in my task. My hopes and [dreams] wither. We have somehow been followed by the Hand of the [Divines]. The transmissions from the vessel come directly from Their [Majesty], They That Shall [Inherit] All.\nWe have no weapons, and we cannot outrun them. I fear we are all going to die.\nI have not informed the colonists. They deserve better than fear for their bravery.\n\n[Personal] record management #125\nPerhaps not all of us will have to die.\nI have a plan, and the [Captain] agrees we have no better option. We are not far from the new planet. It is [vibrant], and its atmosphere and [water] access are perfect. We will load the landing ships and the majority of the supply ships and release them from our hangars. Those of us that remain here in the Heart of the Stars will attempt to draw away the Hand of the [Divine]. We will offer to surrender and return home for execution. We will pretend to submit to their Words of Truth. We will be doomed, but hopefully those on the landing ships will be able to safely make it to the surface.\nIt is all I can hope for.\n\n[Personal] record management #126\nIf I retained the ability to feel sorrow, I would.\nOur [gambit] has failed. We began to leave the system. We pretended to submit. We launched the landing ships silently and without active [engines], and tried to shield them from view.\nFor the first time in my life, I saw the visage of Their [Majesty], They That Shall [Inherit] All. Once I would have given anything for such an opportunity, and would have felt purest [elation]. Now, I could feel only fear, and hate. Their [Majesty] transmitted directly to us, and spoke to us. They spoke of glory and honour, and understanding one's rightful place beneath them. They spoke of greatness and wisdom, and how their guidance could grant it to all of us.\nThen they spoke of [hubris] and inevitability, and swiftly flew around us and launched [plasma bolts] at the landing ships. They mocked our desperate attempt, and [laughed] at the destruction.\nWe tried to stop them. We tried to intercept their path, or the path of their cannons, but the Heart of the Stars was too slow. We could only watch as tens of thousands of innocents died. I watched the [Captain] watch his family die.\nIt is all my fault.\nTheir [Majesty], They That Shall [Inherit] All has commanded us to return home to face our judgment. Between a sudden death now and a sudden death later, I see little difference.\n\n[Personal] record management #127\nThis desert is a beautiful place to die. I regret so many things, but not this.\nThis will be my last record. The [Heart] is dead and the residual [power] is fading fast. Soon our life support will fail, and with it our access to food and [water]. We cannot hope to find any here. But until that time comes, I can rejoice in a tiny victory.\nIn reality, it is the [Captain's] victory. When I was rendered immobile by our losses, they were instead driven by them. Perhaps it was the realization they had nothing left to lose. Perhaps it was the anger and drive for [vengeance] that inspired them. Either way, it is them that I thank for the opportunity to write this.\nThe [Captain] brought the vessel back towards the planet, hailed the Hand of the [Divine], and demanded to speak to Their [Majesty]. Of all the surprises in my life, seeing someone tell Their [Majesty] to engage in post-courtship engagements with their parents was perhaps the largest.\nThey launched [plasma bolts] at us, and began to sequentially tear us apart. A burst of tiny shots shredded the Words of Truth we had so carefully emblazoned. Two more shots left nine-twelfths of the ship venting atmosphere. Then they started targeting our [engines]. It was evident that we were meant to despair, and their [Majesty] wanted us to suffer. All the while the [Captain] continued to dive towards the planet.\nWe entered the atmosphere, and we were offered a brief reprise. [Plasma bolts] are immensely powerful, but are easily dissipated by sufficiently thick gases. Even [bolts] fired at close range would be deflected by turbulence.\nThe Hand of the [Divine] followed us effortlessly, and drew in upon our flank. Their [Majesty] sent us one final transmission when the [Captain] executed their desperate trick.\nThey launched us high and fast- far faster than was safe- and for a moment, The Heart of the Stars soared above The Hand of the [Divine]. Then as their final [plasma bolt] breached our hull and our [Heart] died, the [Captain] turned all of our engines towards Their [Majesty's] vessel, and reversed them.\nThe Hand of the [Divine] was in every way but one the superior vessel. It was faster, more agile, and infinitely more dangerous. In combat, it could avoid long ranged shots, and fire more powerfully and accurately when close. But its [Heart] was weaker, and it was tiny beneath us. With the full power of our engines, normally capable of effortlessly lifting us into orbit, instead directed to pull the The Hand of the [Divine] towards us, they could not resist. Their ability to thrust against us was irrelevant.\nThe sound and [vibration] was terrible as they [crumpled] against our hull, ripped in two, and fell from the sky to shatter on the earth below.\nThe [Captain] managed to bring us down safely, despite our rapidly failing power. We reached the ground on the last residues of [unreality] left by our [Heart].\nWe detected Their [Majesty] out there a few moments ago. Their [armour] is unique, and they were still bold- or furious- enough to transmit. They crawled from the ruin and began to stride across the sand towards us.\nThey will lie out there forever before the ruined evidence of their failure.\nFor that alone, I have one thing I do not regret.\n\n- hide Artefact Transcription\n\nAddendum 5052.11: Artefact 5052-1-D813 Description\n\n+ Access Artefact 5052-1-D813 Description\n\n- hide Artefact Description\n\nItem #: SCP-5052-2-D813\nObject Description: A metal suit constructed for a bipedal figure 2.2 meters in height.\nLocation of Discovery: SCP-5052 site, 850 meters to the south of SCP-5052-1. It was found while scanning for portions of hull, and was initially mistaken as a piece of wreckage.\nProperties of Interest: The suit is weathered, but otherwise in good condition considering its age. The entire mask and chestpiece are adorned in SCP-5052-3 glyphs which induce extreme feelings of inadequacy and subservience, as well as deference and considerations of greatness in regards to 5052-1-D813, to those that view them unprotected. The bodice is shaped to suggest an exaggerated musculature, while the mask is shaped in a grotesque contortion of facial features. A few fragments of bone were found within the suit.\n\n- hide Artefact Description\n\nFootnotes\n1. As per standard nautical and astronautical terminology, the bow is the front of a ship's hull. The stern is the rear, the port is the left, and the starboard is the right.\n2. At least, it is considered the bow to the degree that human astronautical standards can be applied to a vessel extraterrestrial in origin.\n3. Damage to the hull of SCP-5052-2 appears concentrated in the regions where the glyphs are located.\n4. Presumably exposure to the cognitohazards and subsequent memory difficulties and mental traumas led to this avoidance.\n5. Standard veil maintenance and amnestic protocols were applied.\n6. Cognitohazard filters are highly specialised digital cameras paired with a semi-transparent visor. When the camera detects a sequence or pattern which meets the criteria for a visual cognitohazard, the device blurs the corresponding part of the visor. In 1984, the technology was still in its infancy, and the filters were limited in their capacity to recognise and compensate for powerful cognitohazards, serving more as a precaution than a full defense.\n7. On missions where regular visuals are not an option, Eta-10 makes use of high-grade sonar wired into the team's helmets in order to navigate and maintain records of three-dimensional space.\n8. Essentially the same technology as a cognitohazard filter, just connected to an alarm.\n9. Following careful innoculation through use of amnestics and crafted cognitohazards, D-1313 was successfully temporarily convinced of their position as alien royalty, and thus able to read the document safely.\n10. Due to the mountainous terrain, the only location within the region which could feasibly serve as a landing site was on the hull itself, which was deemed too unreliable by the pilots.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5051 | SCP-5052 | SCP-5053 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5053 during initial discovery.\n\nItem #: SCP-5053\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5053 is currently contained within the botanical wing of Site 83. The entity is permitted to explore and document its experiences freely. The entity is not permitted to enter restricted areas or explore the facility beyond the botanical wing. Video recordings of the entity's explorations are to be reviewed bi-weekly. Any attempts to violate, abuse or otherwise take advantage of its liberties are to be reported to the current site director.\nInteraction with the entity outside of testing should remain minimal as to avoid unnecessary sentimental attachments. SCP-5053's psychological state should be reviewed weekly, and should any notable signs of depression be observed, it shall be confined within a temporary insectoid containment cell until it recovers completely.\nAny and all weaponry constructed by SCP-5053 is to be confiscated immediately upon discovery.\nDescription: SCP-5053 is a stick bug Phobaeticus kirbyi measuring 53 centimeters in length. The entity is bipedal when relaxed, although it has demonstrated the ability to utilize all six of its limbs for locomotion. SCP-5053 is capable of communication in English and displays human levels of intellect. The entity is capable of crafting tools and weapons from grass, wood and bone; however, it is either unwilling or unable to utilize man-made tools even when they have been proportioned to the entity's size. Due to the entity's size, weapons constructed by SCP-5053 pose a minimal safety risk to personnel.\nSCP-5053 will dictate exposition about its time prior to containment when asked, although it will occasionally engage in conversation at random. The length of these encounters generally last between ten and fifteen minutes on average. There is a notable decrease in the amount of time SCP-5053 is willing to converse about an entity it refers to as a \"Hashabor\". Due to the aforementioned entity's potentially anomalous nature as described by SCP-5053, an investigation has been initiated. Barring its reluctance on this particular topic, SCP-5053 is generally amicable and cooperative with Foundation personnel.\nSCP-5053 is extremely agile and capable of omnidirectional movement. It is also quite proficient in both sword-based and melee combat. The entity has previously displayed a desire to engage in combat with sentient life it considers formidable. (See Skills Demonstrations).\nThe following is a comprehensive list of entities SCP-5053 has claimed to have instigated combat with over the course of its life. Due to its limited scientific knowledge, the exact genus and species of the entities SCP-5053 have encountered is unknown. In italics is the name SCP-5053 gave when describing the entities, and the general identity of the entities has been extrapolated from SCP-5053's descriptions.\n\n[+] Show List\n\n[-] Hide List\n\nEntities Encountered\n\nFire Ant Colony {Reds}\nColony was dissolved once SCP-5053 terminated the queen.\n\nEarth Worm {A Great One}\nEncountered by SCP-5053. Entity was not terminated.\n\nMonarch Butterfly {Blue Winged Angel}\nTerminated by SCP-5053.\n\nBeetle {Defender of Alteria}\nTerminated by SCP-5053.\n\nStick Bug {Tork}\nEuthenized by SCP-5053.\n\nLady Bug {Lord Baron}\nEncountered by SCP-5053. Entity was not terminated.\n\nUnknown {The Hashabor}\nTerminated by SCP-5053.\n\nInterview 1\nDetailed below is an audio recording of a conversation between SCP-5053 and Dr. Owen Andrews.\n\n\u25ba Play Recording\n\n\u275a\u275a Stop Recording\n\nDATE: January 3rd, 2020\nTIME: 01:30\nDr. Andrews: Tell me about it one more time, for the record.Dr. Andrews: You previously described it as the \"Bug Kingdom\". Is that an accurate description of the area?Dr. Andrews: Of course. Last we left off you were describing your encounter with another one of your species.Dr. Andrews: What do you mean by that? What happened to the other entity?Dr. Andrews: What was the Hashabor's influence that you mentioned?Dr. Andrews: My condolances, SCP-5053.SCP-5053 is heard shuffling briefly before letting out a long sigh.Dr. Andrews: Yes, I recall. But this is-Dr. Andrews: Correct.\nFollowing SCP-5053's final statement, the entity proceeded to scale the adjacent wall and slip into a ventilation shaft. Audio surveillance recorded the entity in great emotional distress. Further interaction with SCP-5053 was suspended for three days, wherein the entity was had returned to its normal behavioral patterns.\n\nSkills Demonstrations\nDue to SCP-5053's ability to craft weapons from various arboreal materials, a series of tests regarding the lethality of the weapons have been performed. SCP-5053 was placed within a standard insectoid mobile containment unit along with several various specimens. Due to the unethical nature of this experiment, further testing of SCP-5053's combative abilities has been suspended.\n\nACCESS EXPERIMENT FILE\n\nCOLLAPSE FILE\n\nSpecimen Provided\nMaterial Provided\nTool(s) Created\nResults\n\nDung Beetle (Aphodius fimetarius)\nTree Bark\nShort Sword\nSCP-5053 attempted to communicate with the specimen. Specimen is unresponsive. SCP-5053 assaults the specimen with its weapon. Altercation ensues, resulting in SCP-5053 removing the head of the specimen and presenting it to attending personnel.\n\nBrazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria bahiensis)\nPig Femur\nSpear and Tower Shield\nSCP-5053 immediately manipulated the bone and prepared for combat. Specimen attacked SCP-5053. The entity jabs at the spider for several seconds before piercing its underside. The spider attempts to paralyze SCP-5053 with its fangs, but is blocked. SCP-5053 dismembers one of the spider's limbs and punctures the specimen's abdomen three times. The specimen ceases movement and is assumed terminated. SCP-5053 utilizes its makeshift spear to decapitate the specimen. SCP-5053 presented the head to attending personnel.\n\nSCP-5053 has made the following statement at the conclusion of the second skill demonstration:\n\nI am the final legacy of my kingdom, not a gladiator. Do not make a mockery of me again.\n\nA formal apology was issued, which the entity expressed gratitude for. As extensive testing could not be done, it is still unknown what the true extent of SCP-5053's combative abilities are.\n\nConfession\nThe following is an audio recording of a conversation between SCP-5053 and Dr. Owen Andrews. It should be noted that the entity engaged Dr. Andrews completely unprovoked.\n\n\u25ba Play Recording\n\n\u275a\u275a Pause Recording\n\nDATE: January 18, 2020\nTIME: 14:25Dr. Andrews: Miss who?Dr. Andrews: What would you have done differently if you were there, SCP-5053?Dr. Andrews: I understand.Dr. Andrews: We lose people here everyday, some really close friends of mine. I would give anything to have them back. You aren't alone here, SCP-5053. We're here to help you.\n{SCP-5053 is heard sniffling for several seconds before clearing its throat.}Dr. Andrews: I'm afraid that won't be possible, SCP-5053.Dr. Andrews: I'll run this by the director.\nAn investigation into the location described by SCP-5053 is currently underway. A geographic perimeter was established based on the details provided by the entity, but the exact location of \"Alteria\" has yet to be discovered.\n\nInterview 2\nDetailed below is an audio recording of a conversation between SCP-5053 and Dr. Owen Andrews.\n\n \u25ba Play Recording\n\n\u275a\u275a Pause Recording\n\nDATE: February 14, 2020\nTIME: 15:35\nDr. Andrews: What exactly is the Hashabor, SCP-5053? You've mentioned it several times to our personnel, but haven't given any description of the entity so far.Dr. Andrews: SCP-5053? Are you alright?Dr. Andrews: But the entity you mentioned exists physically?Dr. Andrews: Can you please give a physical description of the entity?Dr. Andrews: What do you mean?{SCP-5053 expresses emotional distress. It is heard attempting to cleanse its visage before returning to a relaxed state.}\nDr. Andrews: Take a moment to compose yourself. You're safe here.Dr. Andrews: Of course.\n\nApproximately fifteen minutes following the conclusion of this interview, SCP-5053 began continuously secreting an unknown green substance from its left eye. Secretions lasted for five minutes. No samples of the substance could be obtained due to the material evaporating shortly after exposure to the air. SCP-5053 has no recollection of this event occurring, but was greatly distressed when informed.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5052 | SCP-5053 | SCP-5054 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5054\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Physical containment of SCP-5054 is irrelevant.\nProject CRITICAL CURTAIN is in place to modify public perceptions regarding the efficacy of nuclear explosives against organisms from the phylum Eldritch and similar fictional or pataphysical entities. The end goal of CRITICAL CURTAIN is a widespread belief that nuclear devices are capable of killing such entities without consequence. CRITICAL CURTAIN consists of two major strategies for the implementation of this proposal.\nThe first strategy of CRITICAL CURTAIN is that media which depicts phylum Eldritch or similar entities as immune or unharmed by nuclear devices is to be censored to remove such elements. All such media is to be put out of print and replaced with versions which either do not mention the applicability of nuclear bombs against Eldritch organisms or does so in a manner favorable to the overall goals of CRITICAL CURTAIN.\nThe second element of CRITICAL CURTAIN is that new media is to be produced in which Eldritch organisms are harmed or killed by nuclear devices. Foundation embeds within the North American film industry are to sponsor content that portrays such interactions in a manner favorable to CRITICAL CURTAIN. Similar protocols are to take place in global book publishing markets and in other similar media markets.\nIf the current goals of CRITICAL CURTAIN are unsuccessful, information about the phylum Eldritch is to be disseminated to the mainstream scientific research. This is only to be done if CRITICAL CURTAIN is unable to sufficiently influence public opinion through the influence of media, and would constitute a partial Lifted Veil Scenario. A focus is to be made on such organisms' lack of inherent defenses against radiation or massive explosive forces, which would make them vulnerable to death following a nuclear explosion.\n\nSCP-5054-Positive subject was asked to draw any object of their liking on a sheet of notebook paper.\n\nDescription: SCP-5054 is a sapient concept capable of modifying itself. Examples of past concepts that SCP-5054 has taken the form of1 are \"the bitter taste of watermelon\", \"6711 miles above sea level\", and \"the red American Pine tree\".\nAside from self-modification, the main anomalous property of SCP-5054 is the control it asserts over sapient entities who know of it. Exposure to SCP-5054 from another person who is infected with SCP-5054 may cause the infection to spread to other sapient entities. Curiously, SCP-5054 is only capable of affecting a set number of sapient entities at a given time. This number is not known exactly, but is believed to be between 300 and 400. If SCP-5054 infects a new entity above its limit, one entity already affected will completely forget SCP-5054.\nSCP-5054 affects conscious behavior, often involving long-term decision making. For example, SCP-5054 may cause someone to quit their job and start their own business. Infected entities will justify their actions as being normal, even if the action does not align with their usual behavior.\nSCP-5054 refers to itself as \"P\" or \"Mr. P\". The reason for this is unclear.\nHistory: The origin of SCP-5054 is unknown, and evidence suggests the anomaly predates the Foundation. Prior to 1992, SCP-5054 did not compel infected entities to perform especially noteworthy actions. Research into this area has been suspended due to the impossibility of documenting all entities that have hosted SCP-5054.\nStarting in 1992, SCP-5054-affected humans began to take much more drastic actions. Most notably, several infected civilians attempted to form the \"Idaho Defense Group\", a task force dedicated to building anomalous weapons in the event of a hostile extraterrestrial incursion. See documentation for Incident 5054-Delta for more information.\nAs of CRITICAL CURTAIN, SCP-5054 has reverted to being less active in regards to the anomalous.\nAdditional Notes: A reliable test to determine if a person is infected with SCP-5054 is to present them with two visually identical objects. One object should be laced with a cognitohazardous agent which makes the viewer decide against it, while the other object is to be kept mundane. SCP-5054 has demonstrated not only an immunity to cognitohazards but the inability to recognize them. In order to assure that SCP-5054-infected entities do not avoid positive identification by luck, this test should be administered at least ten times, with different sets of objects.\nSCP-5054 has demonstrated knowledge of the Foundation, the anomalous, and several groups of interest, as SCP-5054 refuses to infect their members.\n\nSapience Testing\n\nResearcher Note: Some members of the Research Team have pushed to reclassify SCP-5054 as Explained. Their theory is that SCP-5054 is simply the human desire to change, and that the current method of testing can be explained as an immunity to cognitohazards, which we have observed before. The fact that SCP-5054 seems to be more active as of late poses an opportunity to test this postulate.\nI've devised a method of communicating with SCP-5054 through its affected entities. The entity should be given a keyboard, and asked to type whatever full sentences they'd like. In addition, in order to send our communications to the entity, we can use subliminal techniques (re: Document 5054-NINJA) to embed messages into the subject's headspace.\nWe haven't had success with this method in the past. However, given SCP-5054's apparent new sense of urgency, this should produce more salient results, and put any silly theories away for good.\n- Rsr. Daniels, 1993-02-10\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nInterviewer: SCP-5054 Research Team\nInterviewee: SCP-5054\nForeword: This interview was conducted over the course of several weeks. Several SCP-5054-Positive subjects were identified and coerced into participating in the procedures described above, under the cover story of the study of a new drug regimen. For readability purposes, the weeks-long study is formatted as an interview log.\n\n<Begin Log>\nRT: Hello. Can you understand us? In front of you is a keyboard. When we ask you a question, we need you to reply by typing out your response.RT: That's fine. Do you have a name we can call you?RT: Over the past 30 years, you have been relatively benign. Now, you seem to be trying to do something. You created the Idaho Defense Group and launched that rocket. Can you explain what you're doing?RT: What do you mean?RT: What kind of monsters?At this point, Site-19 command orders the research team to end communications, due to suspected (now confirmed) instances of information classified above their clearance level.\n<End Log>\n\nIt is unknown how SCP-5054 discovered information regarding the Eldritch phylum2. Although it is possible that SCP-5054 discovered Eldritch on its own, it is most likely that SCP-5054 read data dumped from the partial SCiPNET database leak on 1991-09-22. Containment priority for SCP-5054 has been updated to Red.\n\nIncident 5054-Delta\n\nThe Calvin-Bortsborough device constructed by SCP-5054.\n\nPreceding Events: At this point, SCP-5054 had been evading complete containment for two years. Identifying and containing SCP-5054-affected entities proved difficult due to the flexibility and contagiousness of SCP-5054. Several minor incidents had occurred up to this point, including the mailing of letter bombs to Foundation personnel involved with the study of Eldritch and the attempted construction and deployment of a Scranton Reality Anchor in New York City.\nDescription: Several entities affected by SCP-5054 worked together over the course of three months to assemble a Calvin-Bortsborough device. If properly constructed, this device would have been able to eliminate the entire population of the order Octopoda and its close relatives. It is unknown how SCP-5054 discovered the mechanics of the Calvin-Bortsborough device. Several machining tools were found in the basement where the device was kept, presumably used in its construction.\nHowever, due to a misunderstanding of some of the secondary components of a functional Calvin-Bortsborough device, it was only partially activated. It is estimated that over 300,000 Octopoda casualties took place over the next five minutes, including many specimens in captivity. Personnel at the nearby Site-12 identified the source of the anomaly as a house in Orlando, Florida. All involved SCP-5054-positive entities surrendered themselves after being confronted by armed personnel.\nDue to the lack of close observation of Octopoda specimens outside of certain circles, a cover story was not released. Civilians who notice the anomalous drop in Octopoda population are to be given amnestics on a case-by-case basis.\n\nProject CRITICAL CURTAIN\n\nInformation below is considered CLASSIFIED by order of the Project Head and HMCL Supervisor for SCP-5054. Viewing this document without Level 3 Clearance or valid T-1320 authorization is considered a breach of Foundation contract, punishable by permanent expulsion from all Foundation duties and clearances.\n\nProject CRITICAL CURTAIN Progress\n\nONGOING \u2014 OVERALL SUCCESS\n\nMedia featuring the Eldritch phylum being destroyed by nuclear weaponry is being continually produced and distributed.\nMedia depicting otherwise has been suppressed.\nAs of 1996-03-22, SCP-5054 appears to have desisted from overtly anomalous activity.\nIn order to assert these results, Project CRITICAL CURTAIN will remain in operation. Containment priority for SCP-5054 has been downgraded to Green.\n\nSEMINAR TRANSCRIPT\n\nSource: Rsr. Calvin's seminar on new containment procedures for SCP-5054\nDate: 1996-04-03\n\n<Begin Log>\nGood afternoon, SCP-5054 research team.\nI hope everyone has a copy of the report for Incident 5054-Delta in your hands right now. You can\u2014 what, you don't? The research assistant in front should have\u2026 Listen, I assure you, nothing in that report is above Level 1 clearance, let alone Level 3. I wouldn't let the research assistants handle it if it wasn't. Could you\u2026 yes, just share with the person next to you. Thank you.\nAnyways, the report. You can see SCP-5054, known informally as \"Mr. P\", coerced numerous civilians into constructing a Calvin-Bortsborough device. There should be a photograph on the next page.\nNow, the question that puzzled me the most\u2014 as well as you, I presume\u2014 is \"why octopi?\" From what we can tell from interviews and supplemental evidence, Mr. P was trying to attack the Eldritch phylum. So why was he going after the octopi?\nI'm sorry, it's actually \"octopuses\". Thank you, Dr. Midaeus.\nMr. P wasn't being cooperative in terms of containment, so interviewing it again was out of the question. After some time, we had an epiphany. Do specimens of Eldritch\u2014 the ones we know about\u2014 look like octopuses? No. But, by accident, we've spread propaganda saying that they do. Hollywood has produced dozens of movies telling us that Cthulhu is a big, green, scary octopus.\nThis tells us something about Mr. P, too: although it may not be susceptible to our standard cognitohazards, just like you or me, it's affected by cultural memes. Thus, we've put our resources towards creating a cultural meme that tells Mr. P: \"Hey. We've got this. We can nuke Cthulhu. Don't worry about it.\"\nIf it turns out Mr. P's right, and that the Eldritch are actually a threat\u2026 truth be told, I think we'll have bigger problems.\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. These have been verified to no longer carry the influence of SCP-5054.\n2. Some instances of the Eldritch phylum have been classified as SCP objects. Consult documentation for SCP-4804 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 for known Eldritch specimens. Personnel with Level 3 clearance may consult documentation for Operation MOONLIGHT for in-depth information.\n\nMore by notgull\n\nMore by notgull\n\nSCPs\n\nnotgull's Proposal\n\nSCP-3733\n\nSCP-3095\n\nSCP-4800\n\nSCP-4804\n\nSCP-2785\n\nSCP-4348\n\nSCP-4048\n\nSCP-4688\n\nSCP-3362\n\nSCP-579-J\n\nSCP-4785\n\nSCP-3339\n\nSCP-5800\n\nSCP-4248\n\nSCP-3747\n\nSCP-4948\n\nSCP-3296\n\nSCP-4800-J\n\nSCP-4799\n\nSCP-199\n\nSCP-3485\n\nSCP-5981\n\nSCP-7234\n\nSCP-4808\n\nSCP-3833\n\nSCP-3748\n\nSCP-4148\n\nSCP-5054\n\nSCP-5025\n\nSCP-1037\n\nSCP-093-J\n\nSCP-5680\n\nSCP-1684\n\nSCP-4872\n\nSCP-3248\n\nSCP-6904\n\nSCP-5483\n\nSCP-6785\n\nSCP-4397\n\nTales\n\nThe Little Robot that Could\n\nJoin the Flock\n\nThe Siege of Site-19\n\nTales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse\n\nFootage Recovered From a Private Server\n\nAvian Anthology I\n\nMy Empire of Birds\n\nMoose on the Loose\n\nDocument recovered from a Parallel Universe\n\nKatz and Dogs\n\nJoey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence\n\nYour Guard\n\nVacation Opportunity\n\nThe Scent of a Toaster\n\nBurn, Baby, Burn\n\nChasing Suns\n\nWind in the Sails\n\nThree Feet Under I\n\nThe Shape of Water is Humanoid\n\nDead Reckoning\n\nThree Feet Under II\n\nThree Feet Under III\n\nInto the Beetle Black Yonder\n\nForgotten Shrine\n\nDown Through\n\nHyperfine\n\nDon't Knock on Strange Doors\n\nOther\n\nResearcher Calvin's Personnel File\n\nIncident Report \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\"Sphere\" Incursion Log\n\nInitial Incursion Log\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #1\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #2\n\nSCP-093-J Blue Test\n\nSCP-093-J Recovered Documents\n\nSCP-093-J Green Test\n\nSCP-093-J Purple Test\n\nExploration Log 4480-1\n\nSee my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5053 | SCP-5054 | SCP-5055 \u00bb"}
{"text": "She opened the box, and inside was\u2026\n\nJoshua pressed the fabric against his teeth; against his tongue. Every morning he'd boil the rag in hot water, dry it, and soak it in the fat of his breakfast. He'd chew on that cloth all day long, every minute of the day. The act was maddening; always chewing, never swallowing, but it kept him from a deeper madness.\nJoshua packed up his camp and made his way down the silent highway; a nettle-grove of empty cars and twisted rebar. He gave each vehicle a quick glance as he passed, but he never slowed, and he never hoped. He knew better. Besides, he wasn't here for prizes. He was using the highway for it's intended purpose; a quick route from here to there.\nTo the light in the window.\nHe'd seen it two days ago from across the city: a single glowing plane on the 24th floor of a high-rise, nestled deep in the forest of skyscrapers. His vision narrowed on it even now, dark as it was in the daylight. It was like a familiar face across a distant room. It called to him. It could mean\u2026 it might mean\u2026\n\u201cPlease!\u201d\nJoshua flinched and turned. He'd been staring at the window, and had forgotten his surroundings. He'd been spotted. They were coming for him now.\nA figure came barreling out from between two trucks, tall and skeletal, running at him with hands outstretched.\n\u201cPlease!\u201d it screamed. \"I need it! Please! I'm so-\u201d\nThe gunshot rang out. It echoed across the whole, empty city. Birds would have taken wing, flying up from the nearby trees\u2026 but of course, neither had existed in a long, long time. Here and now, the thing took three more trembling steps, one hand still outstretched. Then, it collapsed.\nJoshua didn't lower his gun. He knew there'd be consequences for the sound. He checked his blind spots. Sure enough, there were a half dozen more, watching him with their sunken eyes. Most stayed crouched, but one had come to stand in the center in the road. The way it looked at him\u2026 it was almost taunting Joshua for a repeat performance. Begging, maybe. It was impossible to tell; there was barely any face left to read. Joshua held his breath and waited for the coin-flip decision. Would they rush him, or\u2026\nNo, they slunk off, one by one crawling over car hoods and through concrete rubble. The standing one stayed the longest, watching Joshua until the last moment before walking away.\nJoshua exhaled. He stood over his kill. One shot, through the neck. Clean. Lucky. They never had much neck on them, just a thin chicken bone propping up the head. This one was no different, all hollow cheeks and browning teeth. Joshua worked the tip of his machete against the things ribs; the gangrenous, bone-flattened flesh was a thin as rice paper. No meat.\nUseless.\n\nIt was late in the day before Joshua reached the high rise. Silently, he climbed the many flights of stairs, satchel held tight under his arm. It was light. Too light. He chewed roughly on the fabric in his mouth, dull and flavorless. It made his stomach churn, but he had to. He couldn't end up like them. Nothing else was more important. He chewed so hard his gums began to bleed.\nRoom 2405.\nThe door wasn't locked; it wasn't even fully closed. As Joshua stepped inside, the apartment seemed like every other home he'd ever trespassed upon, all bare shelves and broken cabinets, full of grime and absence. Family photos and personal trinkets laid broken on the floor. No one had cared when things got bad.\nA young man sat on the couch. He wore a filthy t-shirt and jeans, his black hair long and unkempt. His skin was sickly, but rounded, sitting over a bed of real fat, muscle and sinew.\nHe looked up as Joshua entered. They stared at each other in one long, empty moment before the young man turned back to a tiny, flickering screen on the coffee table.\nJoshua approached the arm of the sofa, pulling the cloth out of his mouth, staring at the smartphone with a mix of surprise and awe. The cracked screen was alive with flowing light and motion. Joshua couldn't recall the last time he'd seen a lit screen, but then again, he hadn't really been looking.\n\u201cWhat are you watching?\u201d Joshua asked.\n\u201cDemon Slayer.\u201d the young man replied. His voice was dry and cracking, but still filled with youthful energy. \u201cIt's a kind of Japanese cartoon. It's really good. I was actually going to visit Japan, y'know, before this all happened. I had this whole show saved on my phone for the plane ride so\u2026 I figured I might as well finish it.\u201d\nAnother moment passed.\n\u201cLooks cool.\u201d Joshua finally said, then glancing around the room. \u201cDo you have any-\u201d\n\u201cFood?\u201d the young man finished. \u201cNo. I ran out yesterday.\"\n\u201cShame.\u201d Joshua said. \u201cYou know they'll see the light, right?\u201d\n\u201cHuh?\u201d the young man asked, looking away from the screen. The credits had begun to roll. A foreign, melancholy song played on the tiny speaker. \u201cAh\u2026 you mean the starving ones. Yeah, I figured they might. I don't really care much anymore. I'm too tired. I'm tired of scavenging and being hungry all the damn time. I don't care if they find me\u2026 but hey, looks like you found me instead!\u201d\nHe smiled. His teeth were yellow. His gums were pale pink. \u201cIsn't that lucky? It's been a long time since I had anyone to talk to. So, tell me friend, what is your theory? Why don't they die?\u201d\nJoshua didn't reply.\n\u201cEveryone had a theory, you know, back in the early days; back when there was food. The internet was alive with speculation! How could it not be? This is like something out of a horror film! I mean, sure, they're not quite zombies; they still think, and talk, and- well, they're still human\u2026 I think. They're just starving people who don't seem to die. Still pretty damn scary, huh?\u201d\nJoshua didn't reply.\n\u201cSo! What do you think?\u201d the man asked, head falling to one side. \u201cSuper virus? Alien mind control? Some kind of government experiment?\u201d\nAfter another long, painfully quiet moment, the man finally asked what should have been his first question. \u201cWhy are you here?\u201d\nSlowly, and without a hint of malice, Joshua raised his machete.\n\u201cAh, of course.\u201d the young man said, looking back at the coffee table, folding his hands in his lap.\n\u201cYou're hungry.\u201d\n\nSCP-5055.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-5055 is no longer possible. An LK-Class \u201cAgni Unbound\u201d restructuring event has already occurred.\nDescription: SCP-5055 is a small chest composed of ivory, bronze, and stained wood. This chest was recovered from an archaeological dig-site beneath the ruins of Ancient Constantinople, sealed in a 6m2 cube of solid caementicium, or roman concrete. When touched, SCP-5055 instills an intense sensation of dread.\nOn January 1st, 2020, D-6106 was instructed to open SCP-5055, as to ascertain its contents.\n\nInside SCP-5055 was something everyone deserves.\n\nA single handwritten note was also present inside SCP-5055, which read\n> \"SORRY! PLEASE TRY AGAIN!\" <\n\n\u00ab SCP-5054 | SCP-5055 | SCP-5056 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This work of fiction involves scenes which depict or allude to topics which may be particularly distressing for some readers.\n\nEmotional Abuse\n\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f content warning  \nItem #: SCP-5057\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5057 is contained in a standard humanoid containment chamber. Excess fluids are to be cleaned as necessary. Consumption of SCP-5057 is strictly forbidden.\nSCP-5057 has been assigned to the GoI-3861 research team.\nDescription: SCP-5057 is a humanoid automaton made of polypropylene plastic, roughly resembling a clown. It is sentient and capable of speech, despite lacking the necessary organs to do so. Though it is capable of movement, SCP-5057 is mostly still and only appears to move when necessary. SCP-5057 secretes a continuous amount of ethylene glycol (CH2OH)22 on its surface, which coats the plastic it is made out of. The entity claims to be fully edible and repeatedly encourages personnel who interact with it to consume it.\nAddendum 5057.01: Attached Document\nThe following note was attached to SCP-5057 at the time of discovery.\n\nHi, kids! Now you are the proud owner of Se\u00f1or Taste, who is the Tiny Se\u00f1or line of Professor Funtastic! Try to collect all the fun for hours!\nLet your se\u00f1ors here for fun! Pick up all the se\u00f1ors, super fun! Fun for you! Fun of your friends!\n\nSe\u00f1or Boom!\nSe\u00f1or Fluff!\nSe\u00f1or Senor!!\nSe\u00f1or Senorita!!\nSe\u00f1or Fun!\nSe\u00f1or Hole!\nSe\u00f1or Pig!\nSe\u00f1or Purple!\nSe\u00f1or Taste!\n\nAddendum 5057.02: The following interviews/interactions were recorded by the GoI-386 Research Team during initial containment.\n\n+ Interview 5057.01\n\n- Close\n\nFrom:\njeverwood@scp.int\n\nTo:\nsite55containment@scp.int\n\nSubject:\nErroneous Assignment\n\nTo whom it may concern,\nWhy on earth was I sent SCP-5057? It's not a Wondertainment product and it's taking away from my containment budget. I assigned one of my Junior Researchers to talk to it and keep it busy for the time being, but I need it reevaluated soon. Please respond ASAP.\n\nDr. J. Everwood\nGoI-386 Research Lead\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nRex: Good morning.Rex: Actually, I'm just here to talk.Rex: No, but that's actually part of what I'm here to talk to you about.Rex: Indeed! Now, let's begin. It says here you are coated in ethylene glycol?Rex: Well, that's the thing. It's a toxic substance.Rex: Well, you're just plain wrong on that. And even if you weren't leaking ethylene glycol, you're still a choking hazard because you're made of plastic.Rex: Yes. You're like if someone tried making a really shitty Little Mister.Rex: Don't worry about it. But back on the subject, you're toxic to consume, and that's why you're here. Well, that and the fact you talk.Rex: We'll go over this again. You are made of plastic and ethylene glycol. You're toxic.Rex: Come on, you can talk. Surely you can think, can't you?Rex: That's the spirit.\n[There is a fifteen second silence.]\nRex: Anything?Rex: I'll leave you to it then. You let me know if you get any thoughts in that little pea brain of yours.\n<END LOG>\n\nFrom:\nsite55containment@scp.int\n\nTo:\njeverwood@scp.int\n\nSubject:\nRE:Erroneous Assignment\n\nHello,\nI don't understand. It's a humanoid, it's got the paper with the list on it, and it's even got a gimmick. How is that not Wondertainment?\nTICKET NUMBER: 23452263-A\n\nHermes Pratt\nSite-55 Containment Team\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\nFrom:\njeverwood@scp.int\n\nTo:\nsite55containment@scp.int\n\nSubject:\nRE:Erroneous Assignment\n\nHermes,\nAnd yet you get the Misters Against Weed to the right people? This is a crappy knockoff if anything. It for sure isn't Wondertainment, any schmuck off the street could tell you that. Do I need to go into your office and shove my Wondertainment dissertation in your faces?\nAnyway, I thought I'd save you some trouble and have my assistant start building a relationship with SCP-5057 to make questioning it easier. It doesn't seem very smart, so I have suggested he try befriending it.\n\nDr. J. Everwood\nGoI-386 Research Lead\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\n+ Interview 5057.02\n\n- Close\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nRex: Good morning. How are you feeling today?Rex: Ah, so you're thinking about what I told you last time? I wasn't sure you had it in you.Rex: Theoretically. I mean, you're -\n[SCP-5057 interrupts Researcher Rex.]Rex: It could be any reason. Maybe whoever made you is a sicko. Maybe they just don't know any better. All we can say for sure is that you're here now because of them.Rex: You sure are. But you know, you can pick up hobbies and try something to get your mind off of it.Rex: You managed to think, I'm sure you could figure it out if you tried.Rex: Of course I do.[Rex sighs.]\nRex: Okay. So, you understand that you're toxic. That's good. But it sounds like maybe it's eating at you. May I suggest something to help get your mind off of things?Rex: Why don't you try painting?Rex: Well, you just sort of illustrate how you're feeling using paint and whatnot. Like you just create whatever is on your mind and you put it to paper. Or in this case, canvas.Rex: That's the spirit, friend.Rex: A friend is someone who is there for you and shares in good times and bad, and always makes you feel better. Someone you trust completely.\n(There is a ten-second silence.)Rex: That's awful sweet of you. So you'll tell me everything then?Rex: And you trust me too?Rex: Good. That's good. Since you trust me, why don't I give you a cool new nickname?Rex: I'll call you Taste. How does that sound?Rex: Why don't we get you some art supplies so you can busy yourself, huh?\n<END LOG>\n\nFrom:\nsite55containment@scp.int\n\nTo:\njeverwood@scp.int\n\nSubject:\nRE:TICKET NUMBER: 23452263-A\n\nHello,\nWe will be moving SCP-5057 to general humanoid containment within the week. We apologize for the mix-up and will endeavor to make sure this does not happen in the future.\n\nHermes Pratt\nSite-55 Containment Team\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\n+ Interview 5057.03\n\n- Close\n\nFrom:\nsite55containment@scp.int\n\nTo:\njeverwood@scp.int\n\nSubject:\nRE:TICKET NUMBER: 23452263-A\n\nHello,\nYou mentioned earlier that you had your assistant build rapport with SCP-5057. Maybe now would be a good time to press it for information on its history? We finally assembled a team for the project and idle hands are the devil's playthings after all.\nThanks in advance.\n\nHermes Pratt\nSite-55 Containment Team\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\nPortrait produced by SCP-5057.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nRex: Good morning, Taste.Rex: Oh?\n[SCP-5057 picks up a canvas with a crudely painted image of two individuals. One resembles SCP-5057 and the other is labeled 'REX'.]\nRex: Aw. That's\u2026 cute, I guess. Thank you.Rex: Maybe you'll get better with time. But for now, I have some questions I wanted to ask you.Rex: I wanted to ask you some more about Professor Funtastic. What do you know about them?Rex: Do you think he had any ill will? Considering he made you toxic to consume and all?Rex: I see. So cutting corners and not wasting a dime. Did he ever mention Dr. Wondertainment, by any chance? Perhaps they were associates? Competitors, even?Rex: And do you know where his base of operations is?Rex: Hmm\u2026 aren't we friends, Taste? Friends tell each other everything.Rex: Perfect! So tell me, where is Professor Funtastic?Rex: Do you know what other names he goes by?Rex: Do you know if he's got any abilities? Like anything to help him create anomalies like you?Rex: Do you know anything? Anything at all?[Rex sighs.]Rex: You know, friends aren't supposed to let other friends down. You're kind of letting me down here, Taste.Rex: Then tell me, your friend, everything you know about Professor Funtastic.Rex: Hmm\u2026 I'm not sure I believe you.\n[SCP-5057 begins weeping.]Rex: Alright, fine.\n[Rex pats SCP-5057 on the back. The sleeve of his lab coat is coated in ethylene glycol.]\nRex: Ugh.\n[Rex stands and removes his lab coat, wiping his hand with it.]\nRex: I gotta go for now, bud. Thanks again.<END LOG>\n\nFrom:\njeverwood@scp.int\n\nTo:\nsite55containment@scp.int\n\nSubject:\nRE:TICKET NUMBER: 23452263-A\n\nPlease do hurry with the transfer, I'm stretched a bit thin and can't afford to have my assistant waste time pretending to be friends with this thing. I've told him to drop the act moving forward.\n\nDr. J. Everwood\nGoI-386 Research Lead\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\n- Close\n\n+ Interview 5057.04\n\n- Close\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nRex: Hello.\n[Rex drags a cart into the containment chamber.]Rex: I'm here to make sure everything is in order before you leave. You're being moved to a new containment area.Rex: It's just how things go.Rex: That's entirely up to you.Rex: Sure.Rex: Stop asking me questions.Rex: It's just the way things are.[There is a thirty-second silence while Rex moves SCP-5057's paintings onto a cart.]\nRex: Well guess what? No one here cares about how you feel.Rex: Of course you don't understand. You're just a stupid little plastic failure of a children's product.\n[Rex opens the containment chamber door and pushes the cart through.]Rex: That's not my problem, SCP-5057.Rex: I'm not your friend.Rex: We are not friends, SCP-5057. Do not press this further.Rex: No. I never was your friend.\n(There is a ten-second silence.)\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5057.02: SCP-5057 has been moved to a dedicated containment team. Please click this link for further details.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Doctor Wondertainment.\n2. An odorless, viscous, toxic fluid with a sweet taste typically used in the production of anti-freeze and polyester fibers.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nUncle Nicolini's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-5047 \u2022\n\nSCP-5726 \u2022\n\nSCP-4176 \u2022\n\nMDI-6726 \u2022\n\nAbraka David's Proposal \u2022\n\nSCP-4056 \u2022\n\nSCP-7149 \u2022\n\nSCP-654 \u2022\n\nSCP-3863 \u2022\n\nSCP-3879 \u2022\n\nSCP-6057 \u2022\n\nSCP-4026 \u2022\n\nSCP-7260 \u2022\n\nSCP-6161 \u2022\n\nSCP-6832 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nCarroll #280/R-01221 \u2022\n\nDark was the night, cold was the ground. \u2022\n\nSCP Wiki Discussion Page Simulator \u2022\n\nSpirit Of The Forest \u2022\n\nFaeowynn Wilson's First Tamalada \u2022\n\nBorne on the FM Waves of the Heart \u2022\n\nTwo Minutes To Midnight \u2022\n\nNobody Likes Having Enemies \u2022\n\nCritter Profile: Chuck. \u2022\n\nLa Persistencia De La Memoria \u2022\n\nThe Corncrake Of Destiny \u2022\n\nAn Epitaph For SCP-173 \u2022\n\nMarw (The Reincarnated One) \u2022\n\nBefore the Storm \u2022\n\nAnimals, Shapeshifters, The Wilsons, And Faran \u2022\n\nOther\n\nuncle nicolini author page \u2022\n\nSciptember 2022 Art Highlights \u2022\n\nOde To The Unknown Author \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5056 | SCP-5057 | SCP-5058 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5058 \u2014 Our Normal Fellow Humans\nJam contest 2020 entry for the 3st, \"More than meets the eye\", theme.\nMy other work for this contest: SCP-4629\n~~ More Alan Stuff ~~\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5058\nObject Class: Keter\n\nAn image sent by SCP-5058-1197 on 2005/05/09, accompanied by a message \"Gathering with fellow humans\".\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the remarkably large number of SCP-5058 instances within the general population, standard detainment strategy has been deemed ineffective.\nFoundation tracking devices are to be implanted into SCP-5058 instances and monitored on a regular basis. MTF-Xi-3 (\"Body Snatchers\") is tasked with bringing newly discovered instances to the nearest Foundation site for medical examination and testing. Interactions with SCP-5058 instances are to be conducted by personnel with a high coefficient of cognitive resistance. Detained entities are to be tracked, amnestized, and released to the general population. Standard disinformation campaigns are to be enacted if deemed necessary.\nFoundation Satellite \"Ptolemy EF-65\" is to intercept and transcribe SCP-5058's transmissions sent to the Earth's orbit.\nDescription: SCP-5058 are entities that visually resemble Homo sapiens (humans), but possess a number of physical and behavioral alterations caused by unknown factors.\nSCP-5058 instances constantly demonstrate minor muscle spasms in different parts of their bodies, change facial expressions with no apparent pattern and perform actions in an agitated, rapid manner. In most cases, SCP-5058's body language does not correspond to their speech and supposed mental state. The entities are also unable to vocalize or otherwise demonstrate signs of emotional distress under any circumstances. Notably, individuals without cognitive training or natural memetic resistance will always perceive the instances' behavior as normal.\nSCP-5058's internal biology is inconsistent with that of baseline Homo sapiens. The vast majority of examined instances are missing at least one non-vital organ and possess varying abnormalities in their body and brain structure. In ~80% of observed cases, the entities' hippocampus and lobes differed in size and form from that of a normal individual. Presumably, such changes enhance SCP-5058's cognitive functions such as memory and sensual perception, but the exact method is unclear.\nEach of the instances also possesses a small (~ 2 cm in diameter) organic growth visually resembling a tumor, located between the cerebellum and occipital lobe. Through testing, it was discovered that the growth enables entities to emit signals similar to low-frequency radio waves. SCP-5058's transmissions consist of encrypted images and messages detailing their daily life, the latest events they deem important, conversations with \"fellow humans\",1 and observations of their surroundings. The destination of the transmissions is unknown; the signals that were not intercepted soon left Earth's atmosphere and their track was lost shortly after.\nThe entities' biological anomalies are likewise invisible for individuals with no memetic resistance and will typically remain undetected during medical examinations.\n\nAddendum.5058.1: Discovery Log\n\nThe first SCP-5058 instance was found during the Summer of 1990 in the United States. Over the next two decades, 2550 more instances were discovered in major population centers and urban areas around the world. Prior to their discovery, the entities lived an active social life, maintaining high numbers of interpersonal connections, frequently visiting public areas and attending various gatherings. Approximately ten percent of the instances also had families. In all observed cases, the individuals in contact with SCP-5058 were fully unaware of the entities' unusual behavior.\nThe investigation into SCP-5058's origins did not reveal any conflicting data regarding the entities' identities or memories of their supposed parents. However, discovered police reports indicate that at least twenty percent of SCP-5058 instances previously went missing at some point in their lives, typically for a period of one to three days. Following their return, the individuals explained their absence by mundane circumstances such as getting lost or taking a short personal vacation. Closer inspection by embedded personnel revealed that the provided information was false.\n\nAddendum.5058.2: Incident Log\n\nAt 0300 hours on 2010/03/12, \"Ptolemy EF-65\" ceased to intercept radio signals sent by SCP-5058 instances. A malfunction was suspected and a crew of technicians was assembled to inspect the satellite's system. However, at 0700 hours, the satellite became active again and started to transmit radio signals presumably of extraterrestrial origin. This transmission was encoded identically to those received from SCP-5058. The ground personnel stationed at Site-221 immediately began transcribing the signal's contents. The employees discovered a series of images depicting the night sky, stars, planets of the solar system and their natural satellites. Several unidentified symbols were also observed, as well as images depicting SCP-5058's daily lives sent in their previous signals.\nAll present individuals with a high coefficient of cognitive resistance became agitated upon perceiving the images. This state gradually escalated to extreme hysteria within an hour, reportedly due to overwhelming feelings of sadness, grief, and guilt for the employees' previous actions regarding SCP-5058 and related phenomena. A total of ten personnel were treated with sedative medication and isolated until the end of the event.\nAt 1200 hours, it became apparent that the transmission was sent to 41 other Foundation Sites in which personnel with high cognitive resistance resided. Whether it was a human mistake, a server error or an anomalous phenomenon is currently unknown. The transmission's leakage led to 110 individuals being affected, and 31 suicide attempts across the affected sites. The signal was successfully isolated and contained at 1600 hours.\nIt is theorized that the transmission contained some form of an infohazard or memetic construct, which was aimed at bypassing human cognitive resistance. The personnel's state normalized within several hours following the incident. However, it was noted that affected people became unable to discern an SCP-5058 instance from a regular Homo sapiens. The subjects also showed reluctance regarding working on any projects related to SCP-5058 or discussing the incident, 80% of the interviewed asked to be reassigned immediately after their state normalized.\nOne of the images sent via the signal was later found out to contain an inscription written in a mixture of several human languages. Presumably, the message was composed of words sent by SCP-5058 instances in the past transmissions. The image was replicated in the interest of safety and translated into English.\n\n\u25ba Open: MESSAGE-5058.22.jpg\n\n\u25bc Close: MESSAGE-5058.22.jpg\n\nFootnotes\n1. The way SCP-5058 instances refer to all other individuals.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5057 | SCP-5058 | SCP-5059 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5059 LEVEL 2/5059\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5059\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5059 at time of discovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5059 is stored in a standard high value anomalous item locker in the Safe Objects wing of Site-17, Sublevel 2, locker 09932.\nInstances of SCP-5059-1 must be contained under HCP1 1 through 3, depending on the properties of the instance's altered vehicular state, until their expiration. No more than 10 instances of SCP-5059-1 may be retained for study at this time.\nTesting with SCP-5059 can only be approved by the item's HMCL Supervisor (Currently Dr. Albert Frampton).\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5059 is a VHS video tape containing the 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie. The cassette shows no special resistance to damage or age related wear. Tape spools contained therein have proven to be portable to other cassette cases when its current housing breaks while retaining anomalous properties. Direct copies of SCP-5059 retain the item's anomalous properties, but have been destroyed subsequent to verification. D-Class asset review of the content of SCP-5059 does not reveal any deviation from the original cinematic release of Transformers: The Movie according to the best of their memory, and machine analysis of the contents of each tape reveals their content to be identical.\nThe anomalous properties of SCP-5059 only manifest after a complete viewing of the film2. After its completion, subjects report an anomalous desire to emulate the characters depicted in the film. Within the first hour after viewing SCP-5059, the subject (now designated SCP-5059-1) will spontaneously reorganize their biology into the form of a functional scale model vehicle.\nInstances of SCP-5059-1 do not create additional matter, or change the chemical composition of their flesh during a \"Roll-Out event\". The color, texture, and durability of SCP-5059-1's tissues also remains the same. SCP-5059-1 instances universally describe the process as incredibly painful, with many transformations requiring the breaking and reshaping of bones, tearing and reforming of ligaments, and complete reconfiguration of organ systems, as well as many forms of rapid tissue growth as in the case of windows and signal lights. This discomfort subsides immediately upon the event's completion, and may be initiated again, at will, at any time. Removal of clothing prior to initiation has proven to drastically reduce this discomfort.\nFor more details, please see Experiment Log TF-5059-01 through -05.\n\nExperimentation Logs:\n\nTF-5059-01\n\nSubject: SCP-5059-1a (Charlie Bookbinder, m, age 17)\nVehicular form: 1973/74 Dodge Challenger; Scale 1:5.\nSummary: Instance discovered outside containment in February 2017. No change in mass. Subject's eyes translocated, duplicated, and became capable of bioluminescence to serve as headlights. Braincase was relocated into the lower front chassis. Heart and digestive system rearranged to serve as engine and fuel system respectively. Heart and lungs accessible under \"hood\" constructed of skin and upper ribcage. Tires composed primarily of highly keratinized skin. Power windows and windscreen composed of translucent keratin material similar in composition to finger/toenails. Interior consists of mucus membrane tissue. Maximum dynamometer rating of 192 bhp at wheels.\nCurrent Status: SCP-5059-1a attempted to breach containment prior to planned exploratory surgery on its vehicular form. Instance accelerated down Site-17 medical wing hallway reaching a top speed of approx 80 km/h. Failed to slow in time for 90 degree turn and collided with a concrete block wall. Braincase destroyed. Cardiopulmonary system destroyed. Instance expired within 2 minutes of impact.\n\nTF-5059-02\n\nSubject: SCP-5059-1b (D-8229, f, age 40)\nVehicular form: Late model Cessna 178 Skyhawk; Scale 1:3\nSummary: Similar interior and windscreen materials to previous tests. Wings appear to have been derived from translocated ribs and chest muscles. Elevators derived from scapular bones. Propeller blades are covered with enamel, suggesting that they are modified Incisors. Mobile control surfaces of the aircraft constructed of cartilage. Eyes emerged within cockpit seat, allowing SCP-5059-1b to have a pilot's eye view while transformed. Instance is capable of powered flight. Top Speed, 100 knts.\nCurrent Status: During powered flight testing at a Foundation airfield in Nevada, SCP-5059-1b experienced heat exhaustion brought on by overexertion of her cardiopulmonary system necessary to keep her in flight. Instance appears to have lost consciousness at an altitude of 400m. Consciousness was regained at approximately 50m altitude, resulting in rapid corrective action. Landing gear and ventral fuselage damaged, but instance survived. Subsequent reconfiguration from vehicle to human mode reveals severe fracturing of tibia and fibula, and multiple lacerations to lower abdominal region. Instance remanded to containment under HCP-2 following recovery. No further testing is authorized on this instance.\n\nTF-5059-03\n\nSubject: SCP-5059-1c (D-8238, m, age 25)\nVehicular form: M4 Sherman Tank; Scale 1:10\nSummary: Subject has a history of masochism and was willing to initiate \"Roll Out\" events with much greater frequency than past instances. Main cannon derived from elongation and expansion of the T-4 Vertebral section. Treads derived from multiplied and altered rib cage, stretched over wheel muscles which move the treads via peristalsis. Turret is fully functional, constructed primarily of cranial bones and still housing the brain and eyes. Instance is capable of pulling a fully loaded railroad freight car when properly harnessed.\nCurrent Status: During testing of SCP-5059-1c's testing in the Site-17 armory, the instance was instructed to fire its cannon, to which it readily complied. SCP-5059-1c's heart was ejected from the main cannon at a rate of 257 m/s. Instance expired of exsanguination within 90 seconds.\n\nTF-5059-04\n\nSubject: SCP-5059-1d (Junior Researcher Marco del Gutierrez, m, 29)\nVehicular form: 1970 Volkswagen Beetle, Scale 1:3\nSummary: Accidental exposure due to copy-testing by the AV department. JR Gutierrez was not informed of the anomalous properties of SCP-5059, and observed the copy process personally to guarantee the fidelity of the recording. SCP-5059 has since been flagged as cognitohazardous material to prevent future accidents of this nature. As in previous test, eyes have enlarged and taken on bioluminescence. Cranial cavity has expanded to make room for the forward cargo compartment, and all cardiopulmonary functions are translocated to the rear abdominal cavity. SCP-5059-1d is capable of 50 bhp at the wheels. Otherwise similar to SCP-5059-1a in composition.\nCurrent Status: SCP-5059-1d remains in indefinite containment under HCP-1. Exploratory surgery is not authorized for this instance. SCP-5059-1d has expressed satisfaction with current vehicular form and has not attempted to return to its original humanoid body plan, citing personal preference. Instance retains Level 1 Clearance and is authorized to assist in janitorial and administrative tasks.\n\nTF-5059-05\n\nSubject: SCP-5059-1e (D-8302, nb, 20)\nVehicular form: Saturn V lift vehicle; Scale 1:61\nSummary: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nCurrent Status: Remains impacted in the northern face of Mt. Marion, Luna.\nHMCL Note: No, I will not describe how to reconfigure human biology into a viable rocket fuel and lift vehicle. Sarkics with jetpacks are the absolute last thing that we need.\n- Dr. Frampton\n\nFootnotes\n1. Humanoid Containment Protocol: a set of 4 standardized protocols for dealing with progressively more destructively powerful anomalous humanoids.\n2. Defined as watching from time marker 0:00:01 to 1:23:00.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5058 | SCP-5059 | SCP-5060 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5060 as viewed from an SCP Foundation probe. SCP-5060's numerous satellites have been digitally removed.\n\nItem #: SCP-5060\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Physical containment of SCP-5060 is currently impossible. As such, Foundation efforts are to be focused on the reduction of public awareness of SCP-5060.\nFoundation Operatives within the International Astronomical Union are to report on any ongoing scientific investigation into the star HD 4560. A Foundation-operated web crawler (I/O-APHRODITE) is to monitor online communities for discussions/media regarding SCP-5060. MTF Gamma-5 (\"Red Herrings\") is to investigate these discussions and provide needed amnesticization/cover-up on a case-by-case basis.\nProject Heimdall currently employs modified exploratory probes in order to study SCP-5060. These probes are equipped with advanced sensor suites as well as FTL propulsion systems reverse-engineered from the study of SCP-2117. Secondary mission objectives are pending approval contingent upon the inhabitants of SCP-5060 possessing interstellar travel.\nDescription: SCP-5060 is a terrestrial exoplanet, roughly 0.95 times the radius and 0.9 times the mass of Earth, in orbit around the star HD 4560. The planet's atmosphere consists of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, and sulfur dioxide, as determined by Foundation probes. Due to the density of the atmosphere, the planet's surface cannot be viewed via visible light from space. At the time of writing, attempts to land probes on the planet have uniformly resulted in the loss of communication with the probe upon entry of SCP-5060's atmosphere.\nSCP-5060 has an unusually high number of satellites for its size, with 1260 total as of January 2020. Each satellite is roughly spherical with an average radius of 50 km and is located within the synchronous orbit of SCP-5060. Every 15-26 years, SCP-5060 ejects or launches a new satellite via an unknown mechanism which settles into a similar orbit.1 As a result, it is believed that SCP-5060 hosts an extraterrestrial civilization of some kind.\nExamination of these satellites via Foundation probes has determined them to be composed primarily of marble, granite, and quartzite coated in a transparent polymer. Each satellite contains a central hollow chamber. Remote excavation of these chambers has uncovered thousands of ferrous spheres placed within small cavities. These spheres contain a fine powder consisting of carbon, calcium, phosphorus, and other trace elements.\nUse of Foundation probes occasionally provokes an aggressive response from SCP-5060 in the form of a 20kg ferrous slug fired at 0.1c. These attacks have the highest chance of occurring when excavation probes attempt to recover material from the satellites. To date, no probes have escaped or survived such an attack and the energy of the projectile makes later recovery impossible.\nAttempts at establishing remote radio contact with the inhabitants of SCP-5060 have been met with failure, with no forms of telecommunication broadcasts detectable on SCP-5060's surface. Proposals for additional strategies to determine the technological/biological capabilities of SCP-5060's inhabitants are currently pending review.\nAddendum: Update 03/03/2020\nAt 0800 UTC Project Heimdall defense satellites detected incoming extraterrestrial bodies that proceeded to impact Earth within a period of half an hour. A series of 28 projectiles were recovered from several impact locations around the globe. These locations included:\n\nArlington National Cemetery\nBrookwood Cemetery\nThe Great Pyramid of Giza\nThe Taj Mahal\nSeveral cave systems in Indiana\n\nMembers of MTF Gamma-5 have been mobilized to reduce the public fallout following this barrage, with the cover story of a previously unknown meteor shower.\nExamination of these projectiles found them to be similar to the ones launched from SCP-5060 at Foundation probes. Each projectile had a hollow center and contained one of the 27 Foundation probes previously believed to have been lost in SCP-5060's atmosphere. Additionally, the 28th projectile contained an iron copy of the Voyager Golden Record in which all imagery of humans are scratched out. An additional etching is present on the record in an indecipherable script. It is unknown how the inhabitants of SCP-5060 came into possession of this object, given that neither Voyager I or II have traveled within the vicinity of SCP-5060.\nAnalysis of the trajectory of the projectiles from data gathered by the Project Heimdall satellites has suggested their origin as the planet Venus. Attempts by Foundation assets to investigate the Venusian surface for potential colonies of the inhabitants of SCP-5060 have been met with similar failures as the investigation of SCP-5060, with loss of communication with probes upon entry into the Venusian atmosphere.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This has increased from an average of 8-14 years at the time of SCP-5060's discovery by the Foundation in 1956. To date, the longest observed gap between new satellite appearances is 35 years. The shortest gap between new satellite appearances has been 14 minutes, during a period in which seven new satellites appeared within a four-hour window.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5059 | SCP-5060 | SCP-5061 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nItem#: 5061\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\n@\n@\n\nSCP-5061, outside of its protective casing.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5061 is to be stored inside Area-179's Secure Media Archive.1\nAccess to SCP-5061 is limited to the researcher assigned to Project-5061-Telephone. Interaction is to be carried out once every 24 hours for the purpose of collecting information regarding SCP-5061 and Entity-5061-1, and all interaction is to be recorded.2\nDescription: SCP-5061 is a 35 mm film reel encased in an unlabeled container. SCP-5061 holds approximately 305 m of film3- all of which is blank.\nDespite holding the equivalent of 11 minutes worth of film, SCP-5061 will run indefinitely when played. Upon projection, SCP-5061 displays the image of a dressing room, in which Entity-5061-1 will be present. From information provided by SCP-5061-A, this dressing room is located on the set of the 1942 Warner Brothers production Yankee Doodle Dandy. SCP-5061 can be projected once every 24 hours. Attempting to play SCP-5061 after stopping the projector will result in a blank screen. This will continue until the 24 hour period between projections is over.\nEntity-5061-1 is a young woman that is present during projections of SCP-5061. The entity can be interacted with by those viewing SCP-5061, and has given no indication of anomalous origin or intent. Entity-5061-1 refers to itself as 'Elizabeth Connors', and has provided a mass of information regarding itself and the nature of SCP-5061. No such name appears in the credits for Yankee Doodle Dandy, nor does the likeness of Entity-5061-1 appear in any known cut of the film. Search of records from various acting agencies and studio archives from the era to match the likeness and description of Entity-5061-1 is ongoing.\nInformation provided by Entity-5061-1 and upon acquisition of the object4 indicates that projecting SCP-5061 acts as a conduit between two separate points in time- one in the present, and one in 1942. Because of the viewpoint provided through projection and references by Entity-5061-1 itself, it is known that Entity-5061-1 can 'see' its viewers through its dressing room mirror. Regardless of what time SCP-5061 is successfully projected,5 Entity-5061-1 will always perceive the event as occurring around 20:00.\nAddendum 5061.1: Acquisition\nSCP-5061 was acquired by MTF Mu-3 (\"Highest Bidders\") from an auction held by Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. on 5/10/2020. An excerpt from the bidder's guide is displayed below.\n\nB8O45/GTS72/54V8X\n\nStatus\nSelling\n\nDemand\nHigh\n\nValue\n85000USD\n\nAvailability\nUnique\n\nIdentifier\nThe Woman in the Reel\n\nDescription\nA film reel that- when played- accesses a window to the past- specifically, the dressing room of a 1940s actress by the name of Elizabeth Connors. The viewer is able to interact with Elizabeth, and vice-versa. Elizabeth is able to be talked to once every 24 hours for an indefinite amount of time, or- at least until she has other things to do. To cease interaction, simply turn the projector off, and remove the reel.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\n@\nAddendum 5061.2: Project-5061-Telephone\nIn order to gain information about and to thoroughly investigate SCP-5061, Project-5061-Telephone was established and assigned to a sole researcher- Dr. Edward Dune. Transcripts of Dr. Dune's logs are listed below.\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone.T \u2013 5/11/2020 \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nProject-5061-Telephone.5/11/2020 Video Log Transcript\nDate: 5/11/2020\nSubject: Entity-5061-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Edward Dune- Senior Researcher, Area-179\nForeword: Project-5061-Telephone interactions are conducted in Area-179's Media Viewing Theater. Per written request of Dr. Dune, protective glass separating the screen and the viewer has been removed.\nNote- Dr. Dune: My eyesight's bad enough without the annoying glare. I seriously doubt MCD would sell an item without informing bidders that there's a risk something's going to jump out of the screen and kill you. Actually- I wouldn't put it past them. Whatever. Remove the glass. If anything happens, I could probably deal with it anyway. - Dr. Edward Dune\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<The image of Entity-5061-1 removing cosmetics is projected onto the screen>\nDr. Dune: This is Doctor Edward D-\nEntity-5061-1: <subject yells in surprise> Jesus Christ- not again! You know, I was getting used to not having strange men stare at me in my dressing room.\nDr. Dune: You can hear, correct?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, he's British. Yes, I'm able to hear you. I can see you too, you know.\nDr. Dune: Figured. I'm assuming you prefer 'Elizabeth'?\nEntity-5061-1: It's my God-given name, sir. And you haven't even introduced yourself!\nDr. Dune: Right, right- Doctor Edward Dune. I'll be talking to you for the next couple of days. Is this alright with you?\nEntity-5061-1: I suppose I don't have much of a choice, do I?\nDr. Dune: You don't. Let's start with s-\nEntity-5061-1: Questions, right? Always questioning. Questioning me, treating me like I'm thick- \"Can you leave the room? What day is it?\"- Yes, I can leave the room! I'm as real as- well, as real as I think you are.\nDr. Dune: Wasn't doubting your existence, Elizabeth. I'd just like to ask you some questions.\nEntity-5061-1: How about I ask you some questions?\nDr. Dune: That'd be sufficient.\nEntity-5061-1: Sufficient. You're quite distinguished, aren't you, Doctor? Just, answer me this- are you, or, all of you people- oh- it's ridiculous. I couldn't-<sobbing>\nDr. Dune: Fucking Christ. Calm down. Look, look- the 'why' behind our communication is just as much of a mystery to me as it is to you, but that's not important. I need to figure out what you are, exactly-\nEntity-5061-1: What I am? What are you talking about, sir? T-\nDr. Dune: What year is it, Elizabeth?\nEntity-5061-1: Year?\nDr. Dune: I'll approach it this way. For me, it's 2020.\nEntity-5061-1: You're insane. What do you mean? No, I thought about this- and, oh God. You're government, right? It has to be government. I'm an experiment, aren't I? Men from the future, and- oh, it's just ridiculous!\nDr. Dune: Why don't you try to tell me about yourself, or where you are? Just, close your eyes and tell me about yourself. Things that are true to you. If you're in distress, we'd be able to help, Elizabeth.\nEntity-5061-1: Distress? Heavens n- um, okay, I'll try. My name is- uh, Elizabeth Connors. I'm an actress, or at least- that's what people say. It's bit roles and extra work, mostly. I'm not a Barrymore, or a Stanwyck, but I- I like what I do. The cameras, meeting new people- it's pleasant- when the work's there, of course. My uncle's a producer- Oh! I think I'm getting ahead of myself.\nDr. Dune: You're doing fine, Elizabeth.\n<pause>\nEntity-5061-1: It's okay, sir. I'm not as fat-headed as I may look. I've been thinking about it for awhile, and, well- you're from the future. You said it yourself. They've all said it. I'm accepting it. For me- it's January 3rd, 1941. For you, it's two-thousand and-?\nDr. Dune: Twenty.\nEntity-5061-1: Heavens.\n<pause>\nEntity-5061-1: You seem a little more talkative than the others.\nDr. Dune: How many people have you talked to?\nEntity-5061-1: Just a few. Asked me all sorts of strange questions. I was doing my hair, and then all of a sudden four men were in my mirror. Gave me quite a shock, sir. They were always brief- came around for only a couple minutes a night.\nDr. Dune: Mirror, huh? Ah, that makes sense.\nEntity-5061-1: It only happened for a week or so, right around the middle of December. Same time every night, right around 8 o'clock. I thought I was going mad! Eventually, I just accepted it. At first, I wanted to talk to a doctor, and- oh, well- I guess I'm talking to one now.\n<Dune writes on his notepad>\nDr. Dune: Shit works out, doesn't it?\nEntity-5061-1: <gasping> You're a vulgar doctor, too- talking like that to a woman! I presume manners and a professionalism aren't a staple of the scientific community in 2020, either.\nDr. Dune: Hmm? Oh, sorry.\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> I'm playing with you, sir. If you heard the things I hear everyday on set, your ears might fall off.\nDr. Dune: I doubt that. So, can you-\nEntity-5061-1: You're not going to be much fun either, are you?\nDr. Dune: Probably not. I'm here to study you, Elizabeth. Your compliance makes this a lot easier. The sooner you answer my questions, the sooner you won't have to deal with strange men in your mirror.\nEntity-5061-1: Well, you haven't been asking me much, sir. You don't have to be so rude when ta-\nDr. Dune: Alright, that's enough for tonight. Think about what I said. I have papers to revise. We'll be talking daily.\nEntity-5061-1: Joy.\nDr. Dune: Hold on- I have to get up- reel's still in.\nEntity-5061-1: What?\n<Dr. Dune leaves his chair and moves towards the projector>\nDr. Dune: Nothing, don't worry about it.\n<End Recording>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone.T \u2013 5/12/2020 \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nProject-5061-Telephone.5/12/2020 Video Log Transcript\nDate: 5/12/2020\nSubject: Entity-5061-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Edward Dune- Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<The image of Entity-5061-1 is projected onto the screen>\nDr. Dune: Elizabeth?\nEntity-5061-1: Right on time.\nDr. Dune: Hm. Do you remember what time we talked yesterday?\nEntity-5061-1: Around eight?\nDr. Dune: What time is it now? Exactly?\nEntity-5061-1: <glancing to the right> 7:55.\nDr. Dune: Interesting.\n<Dune writes on his notepad>\nEntity-5061-1: Why?\nDr. Dune: Observations. More for me than you.\nEntity-5061-1: Why are you studying me, Doctor?\nDr. Dune: I said before, we're studying the means of communication between us. You just happen to be on the other end.\nEntity-5061-1: But you're still studying me- taking notes and all.\nDr. Dune: What kind of researcher would I be if I didn't?\nEntity-5061-1: Who are you?\nDr. Dune: Doctor E-\nEntity-5061-1: Edward Dune, right. You work for the government, the military- something of the sort?\nDr. Dune: You could say that. I work for an organization that investigates things that aren't\u2026normal. Right now, it's the way we're communicating. We study these things, keep them out of the wrong hands- allow the masses to spend their time watching films, or enjoy a day in the park. There's a veil of normalcy that has to be kept, and we're the ones in charge of keeping it.\nEntity-5061-1: Well, you're quite important.\nDr. Dune: Very.\n<Dune writes on his notepad>\nEntity-5061-1: No time for film, or a day in the park, or being kind when you're responsible for protecting the world from God knows what, right?\nDr. Dune: Not really. Anyways, can you tell me a bit about your everyday routine?\nEntity-5061-1: What is wrong with you? It's like you've never talked to another person before! You're rude, sir.\nDr. Dune: Alright, fine. I'll\u2026I'll stop. I need to know about the nature of your world.\nEntity-5061-1: The nature of my world? How about the nature of yours, sir? I'm not quite sure what you want from me. You're from the future, right? Just go look up 1942 in an encyclopedia if you're so curious about the nature of my world!\nDr. Dune: It isn't like that-\nEntity-5061-1: Well, what is it like? Keeping secrets doesn't help anyone.\nDr. Dune: Fine- I have to figure out whether your 1942 and my 1942 are the same, or if we're looking at something more complex.\nEntity-5061-1: What do you mean, \"my\" 1942? What kind of talk is that?\nDr. Dune: The kind of talk we specialize in, Elizabeth. Why don't you list off some significant events that have happened recently?\nEntity-5061-1: Well, I'm not one for politics- but even I know the United States just entered the war.\nDr. Dune: I assumed from the accent, but you are in the United States- right?\nEntity-5061-1: Burbank, California.\nDr. Dune: Do you know what prompted the entry into the war?\nEntity-5061-1: Why, of course! Everyone knows that. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor just last month.\nDr. Dune: That's good, Elizabeth. Means there's a possibility that we're operating on the same timeline, or a similar one, at least.\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, right. Good.\n<Dune writes on his notepad>\nEntity-5061-1: Look, I understand that conversation isn't exactly your thing, so why don't I take the wheel?\nDr. Dune: It's not th-\nEntity-5061-1: Just relax. Forget about the paperwork, or whatever you have to do after this. Let's just talk. If you're from the future, and- well, if we're on the same brainwave, or whatever you said- can you tell me what happens? With, uh, the war and all.\nDr. Dune: Well, It's not exactly protocol for interacting with time anomalies, but I think you can keep a secret, right?\nEntity-5061-1: I never kiss and tell, sir.\nDr. Dune: I'm speaking English, aren't I?\n<Entity-5061-1 smiles and holds its hands to its mouth>\nEntity-5061-1: No. I didn't even thi-\nDr. Dune: Mhm.\nEntity-5061-1: That's wonderful! I- I felt guilty about doing all of this, when the world's in chaos, and people are struggling- and I'm just here- dancing, singing, smiling. There's a war out there, and all I can do is play pretend.\nDr. Dune: Rosie the Riveter a thing yet?\nEntity-5061-1: Who?\nDr. Dune: Oh, you just wait. No, Elizabeth- don't feel guilty. There's a saying where I'm from- about dying in the darkness, so others can live in the light. You're living in the light, Elizabeth. There's nothing wrong with that. World needs a little light sometimes.\nEntity-5061-1: <sighing> Right. I suppose making people smile is a noble goal.\nDr. Dune: You're taking their minds off of what's going on out there. What you're doing is important. People like you- they're needed.\nEntity-5061-1: Thank you, sir. I just felt-\nDr. Dune: Don't. Look, I'm sorry. In my line of work, I deal with a lot of inhumanity, literally and emotionally. Usually when I'm communicating with something- it's planting a memetic trigger in my cornea, or lashing out at me. I just wasn't sure-\nEntity-5061-1: It's okay, sir. You didn't know if I was safe to talk to, or if I was a real person. I understand.\nDr. Dune: It's the reality of the job. I should've approached you more humanely. I realize you have hopes, fears, and you're undoubtedly living a life of your own.\nEntity-5061-1: You're fine. Why don't we just talk? You can get your information, and I can have someone to talk to this late at night.\nDr. Dune: That'd be su- that'd be fine.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: You said you're on a movie set, right?\nEntity-5061-1: Mhm, a Warner Brothers production. If that means anything to you.\nDr. Dune: Warner Brothers? Oh, Elizabeth- it does. They're still as big of a studio now as they were back then.\nEntity-5061-1: Heavens! Really?\nDr. Dune: Of course. What's the movie? One of those gangster ones?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, it's not a crime film. It's a musical- Yankee Doodle Dandy.\nDr. Dune: Yankee Doodle? I think I've heard of that one before. I don't really have time for-\nEntity-5061-1: <gasping> Really? I'm in a popular musical in the future!\nDr. Dune: Well, I wouldn't say popular.\nEntity-5061-1: You've heard of it.\nDr. Dune: I've heard of a lot of movies, doesn't mean I've seen them.\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> You are so bitter.\nDr. Dune: Hard not to be when you're in my position.\nEntity-5061-1: Oh please, I have to deal with Mr. Curtiz on a daily basis. You're just like him! You're on a deadline to get something done, so everyone else has to suffer.\nDr. Dune: I do not make people suffe-\nEntity-5061-1: Why'd you get so short with me back there, hm, Mr. Curtiz?\nDr. Dune: I already apologized! It wasn't right.\nEntity-5061-1: Mmm, I'm not convinced.\nDr. Dune: <laughing> I apologize, Elizabeth. I deal with my fair share of assholes above me, too. I don't want to be another asshole above you.\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> He is a bit of an- uh-\nDr. Dune: A what?\nEntity-5061-1: An asshole. <laughing> I'm so sorry, I just- <laughing> I try not to talk like that.\nDr. Dune: If the man's an asshole, the man's an asshole- simple as that.\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> That's so bad! It's true though. We've been reshooting the same scene for the past week or so. A dance number. You'd think we'd have never danced in our lives from the way he talks to us. And don't even ask me about Joan- that bitch- the Prima Donna herself.\nDr. Dune: 'That bitch'? <laughing> You'll have to tell me about her.\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, I think I will, sir. Tomorrow night. We're doing another shoot at 10 o'clock sharp, and it's one of her scenes. But, I think I'll be getting to bed now, if you don't mind.\nDr. Dune: No problem at all, Elizabeth- we got some good info from this one.\nEntity-5061-1: And?\nDr. Dune: And?\nEntity-5061-1: You had a pleasant conversation.\nDr. Dune: Yeah. I did. Thank you. Sorry about being a dick to you, yeah?\nEntity-5061-1: It's okay. You're kind, when you want to be.\nDr. Dune: Now, don't say that. <laughing> Get some rest.\n<Dune gets out of his seat to turn off the projector>\nEntity-5061-1: Wait, sir. I have another question.\nDr. Dune: <Dune steps away from the projector and gestures> Shoot.\nEntity-5061-1: Is it all worth it? This, I mean- Elizabeth Connors. Does that name mean anything to you?\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: Yes, it does.\n<Entity-5061-1 smiles and nods. Dune stops the projector and faces the camera.>\nDr. Dune: Elizabeth Connors.\n<End Recording>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone.T \u2013 5/15/2020 \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nProject-5061-Telephone.5/15/2020 Video Log Transcript\nDate: 5/15/2020\nSubject: Entity-5061-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Edward Dune- Senior Researcher, Area-179\nForeword: Dr. Dune and Entity-5061-1 have been maintaining daily communication up to this point. Logs have been omitted from this file for lack of overall relevance.\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<Entity-5061-1 is displayed onscreen>\nEntity-5061-1: Doctor.\nDr. Dune: Well?\nEntity-5061-1: <subject jumps up from its chair> I got into the audition!\nDr. Dune: Holy shit! I knew you had it in you!\nEntity-5061-1: I talked to Mr. Zedder and he said he liked mine the best! I- I didn't even think I could get in, but-\nDr. Dune: That's fucking great, Liz. No, really. You earned this one, girl.\nEntity-5061-1: A Universal picture! Doctor, could you imagine me- headlining a Universal picture? Ah, heavens- I could just see it!\nDr. Dune: Of course I can! You're a natural. That script you did last night? Top notch.\nEntity-5061-1: Ah! I'm so happy!\nDr. Dune: Good thing I came prepared!\n<Dr. Dune brandishes a bottle of wine, pops the cap, and begins drinking. He gestures towards the screen.>\nDr. Dune: Drink up.\nEntity-5061-1: Directly from the bottle, doctor?\nDr. Dune: Not like I'm sharing it with anyone.\nEntity-5061-1: You're sharing it with me.\nDr. Dune: Hmm, in a way. So, I was thinking- if you do get this role, or- hell, whenever this production's over and you move out of the dressing room- how are we going to talk?\nEntity-5061-1: I, uh, never thought of that. I mean, I wouldn't mind staying here. It's not like I have anywhere else, and I'm already paying rent, and-\nDr. Dune: You know you can't do that.\nEntity-5061-1: You're right. I guess I'll just have to buy the dresser itself.\nDr. Dune: With what money?\nEntity-5061-1: Can't your Foundation anonymously wire some back in time?\nDr. Dune: <laughing> Anomalously. And no, don't think we have one of those yet.\nEntity-5061-1: How am I supposed to know? You talk about pictures that kill you, and portals to other worlds- but you don't have a way to drop pennies from heaven?\nDr. Dune: There's a Foundation back in your time, you know. You should find them. <laughing> Maybe they'll pay for the dresser. I'm sure they'd love to interact with a future version of their little pet project. Oh God, that'd be terrible. Please don't do that, Liz.\nEntity-5061-1: Wasn't planning on it. Besides, I wouldn't even know where to find you people.\nDr. Dune: Oh, we're around. More common than you think.\nEntity-5061-1: Do you like what you do?\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: No. No, Liz. I don't.\nEntity-5061-1: If you don't want to talk about it-\nDr. Dune: It's fine. I figured we'd cross this bridge eventually.\nEntity-5061-1: Really, doctor- I apologize for asking.\nDr. Dune: Unfortunately, I didn't come to the Foundation by choice. It's family work, in a line of business that death is particularly fond of. You're always left with more questions than answers, and sometimes you go looking for those answers. What you come back with isn't always what you wanted. I'm rambling- sorry.\nEntity-5061-1: Why don't you leave?\nDr. Dune: I can't. They want me. Easier to watch me this way. I leave, I end up just like you- a number and a file to be catalogued and stored in the archive. But I'm a useful bastard, and I do my job well enough that the Foundation benefits from keeping me around.\nEntity-5061-1: Why would they catalogue you? What's there to study?\nDr. Dune: I'd rather not talk about it.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: This project isn't so bad, though. Talking to you. It's nice to just unwind. Doesn't even feel like work anymore.\nEntity-5061-1: I enjoy it too. Must be a break from the rest of the, um, shit that you put up with on a daily basis.\nDr. Dune: That's not very proper of you, isn't it, Liz?\nEntity-5061-1: Been talking to you too much. <laughing>\nDr. Dune: No lab assistants who don't know how to clean equipment, no junior staff fighting for my approval, nothing's actively trying to kill me- it's almost- normal. Funny- that is- normal for me being talking to someone who could be my great grandmother.\nEntity-5061-1: I might be.\nDr. Dune: No, you don't have the Dune ugliness. It's our signature trait. Can't get into the family without it.\nEntity-5061-1: Don't think I don't know where you're going with this, doctor. You're calling me beautiful. I've been sweet-talked before, and no amount of walking that back is going to save you.\nDr. Dune: <laughing> Don't flirt with me, Liz- I'm supposed to be researching you.\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, we're back to the research stage now?\nDr. Dune: We never left it, Liz.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: Maybe in another time.\nEntity-5061-1: Well- what should time have to do with anything? You're in my life every single day! We're real to each other. Why does it matter where we are. I still see you, and hear you, and-\nDr. Dune: Liz, in my timeline, you're dead. I'm communicating with you, and that might be affecting the past, but you're dead.\nEntity-5061-1: But every time you talk to me, I'm alive.\nDr. Dune: You know it wouldn't work.\nEntity-5061-1: <tearing up> I know. But it would've. I want to know about your world, I want to know about you. Be there for you. You have no one, doctor.\nDr. Dune: I have you, and you're doing a fine job at keeping me sane.\n<Entity-5061-1 places its hand against its mirror>\nEntity-5061-1: I can't touch you. Oh, God- I can't touch you. <crying> What did I do to deserve this? I can't even touch you.\nDr. Dune: It's alright, Liz. It's okay. Just breathe. You can see me, can't you? You said it yourself- I'm real. You're real. We're talking- sharing things about our day, our hopes for the future. This time shit's just an obstacle we'll have to deal with. No use dwelling on it.\n<Entity-5061-1 wipes its tears with a tissue>\nEntity-5061-1: Okay.\nDr. Dune: I'm not going to turn the projector off. I'll stay with you as long as you'd like. It hurts me too.\nEntity-5061-1: You're a good comforter, doctor. Better than you think.\nDr. Dune: Maybe I am.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: It's late.\nEntity-5061-1: I think you should stay.\nDr. Dune: I think so too.\n<pause>\nEntity-5061-1: Goodnight, doctor.\nDr. Dune: You can call me Edward if you want.\nEntity-5061-1: Goodnight, Edward.\nDr. Dune: Goodnight, Elizabeth.\n<Transcript ends here. SCP-5061 was left projecting overnight>\n<End Recording>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone.T \u2013 5/21/2020 \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nProject-5061-Telephone.5/21/2020 Video Log Transcript\nDate: 5/21/2020\nSubject: Entity-5061-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Edward Dune- Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<The image of Entity-5061-1 is projected onto the screen.>\nEntity-5061-1: Edward?\nDr. Dune: Hey.\nEntity-5061-1: I got the notice.\nDr. Dune: Last week?\nEntity-5061-1: Mr. Curtiz thinks so.\nDr. Dune: Oh.\nEntity-5061-1: All of my scenes are shot, too. I shouldn't even be here.\nDr. Dune: You rented it out for the month, right?\nEntity-5061-1: Months almost up.\nDr. Dune: Shit. Did you talk to your uncle?\nEntity-5061-1: Hasn't gotten back to me. He'll get me extra work, no problem- but a place to stay? That's on me.\nDr. Dune: I\u2026There's nothing I can do, really. Huh.\nEntity-5061-1: It's not your place.\nDr. Dune: Your uncle- he keeps his distance, eh?\nEntity-5061-1: Wasn't always like that. I guess he never got over me being a failed child actor.\nDr. Dune: That long, huh?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, it was fine in the silents. It was like playing charades. As soon as talkies came around, they realized I couldn't act- and, they just regulated me to extra work.\nDr. Dune: You can dance, though.\nEntity-5061-1: Charades, like I said.\nDr. Dune: Get any word back from Zedder? He might be able to get you a place to stay.\nEntity-5061-1: Nothing yet. Funny- he said I'll know by the end of the month. Don't worry yourself, Edward. My uncle's soft enough to let me stay a couple nights to get back on my feet.\nDr. Dune: I'm sure he will, and if he doesn't- just bring him to me. I'll tell him I'm God, or something.\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> I still have another week. Worry about it when we get there, right?\nDr. Dune: Right.\nEntity-5061-1: Are you good?\nDr. Dune: I'm fine, Liz. Been a rough day.\nEntity-5061-1: What happened?\nDr. Dune: Director's breathing down my neck about outdated files and improperly formatted junior test logs. It's like they know nothing about writing a research paper. I mean, jesus, we're talking about kids right out of school, here. Should be fresh in their brains!\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, well- I agree! Fresh in their brains! <laughing>\nDr. Dune: He loves me. Good 'ol Roman. He'll see this, too. Hi Roman, you incompetent piece of shit! <laughing>\nEntity-5061-1: He lets you talk like that?\nDr. Dune: Liz, he needs me. I mean, how else would this place keep itself together?\nEntity-5061-1: I'm just making sure, I'd hate to see you let go.\nDr. Dune: Imagine that. You might get Doctor Crouch.\nEntity-5061-1: Is he the foreigner?\nDr. Dune: He's the space alien.\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> I don't think I'd like him very much.\nDr. Dune: I'm not going anywhere, Liz. You don't have to worry.\nEntity-5061-1: Okay. I just-\nDr. Dune: What?\nEntity-5061-1: I'm getting used to this.\nDr. Dune: What's wrong with that?\nEntity-5061-1: You were right, Edward. Maybe in another time.\nDr. Dune: Maybe. Hey, how's your memory?\nEntity-5061-1: Why?\nDr. Dune: Thinking of something. Can you list off everything you've been in?\nEntity-5061-1: Uh, I think so. My first film was a silent, obviously, 1928- I believe?\n<Log omitted for lack of relevance. Subject provided a body of work alongside various personal anecdotes. Conversation continued for 51:26 before projector was turned off.>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone.T \u2013 5/25/2020 \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nProject-5061-Telephone.5/25/2020 Video Log Transcript\nDate: 5/25/2020\nSubject: Entity-5061-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Edward Dune- Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<Entity-5061-1 is projected onto the screen>\nEntity-5061-1: Hello, Edward! I thought I wouldn't make it tonight, but- here I am.\nDr. Dune: You're still taking down the set?\nEntity-5061-1: It's almost done, but, yeah. It's a lot of work.\nDr. Dune: I'm sure. Last day, right?\nEntity-5061-1: Last day. Everyone left a couple hours ago. It's just me and a couple stragglers.\nDr. Dune: So-\nEntity-5061-1: I have until tomorrow. Then I either call back Mr. Zedder, or my uncle, or-\nDr. Dune: Why not ask Sandra? You said she was willing to-\nEntity-5061-1: I'm not taking handouts. I barely kno-\nDr. Dune: It's not a handout, it's a matter of you having a place to stay-\nEntity-5061-1: Edward, it'll work out, okay? Do you know why?\n<pause>\nEntity-5061-1: I bought the dresser! I talked to Wilson and he said they were getting new ones in just next month.\nDr. Dune: Seriously? That's amazing! We-\nEntity-5061-1: We'll be able to talk! Isn't that just wonderful?\nDr. Dune: Even if you're living in a box by next week- at least you'll have a nice dresser!\nEntity-5061-1: <laughing> Oh, don't say that! I'll be fine.\nDr. Dune: I have no doubt in my mind. Uh, I have some news too. Remember those department certifications we were going through this week?\nEntity-5061-1: Today was the last day, right? Did you pass?\nDr. Dune: Flying colors. I talked to the inspection team for about seven hours just wrapping things up, but we passed. Area-179 is a top of the line Foundation installation.\nEntity-5061-1: Heavens, that's wonderful!\nDr. Dune: Proud of myself. Hell, I'm even proud of Roman. Kept it together pretty well for the suits. You know what kept me going this whole week?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, stop. Don't even go there. <laughing>\nDr. Dune: It's true, Liz. It's cathartic- this.\nEntity-5061-1: I tend to have that effect on people.\n<Dune lights a cigarette>\nDr. Dune: Should be required for working in this shithole.\nEntity-5061-1: I don't think I'd be able to talk to that many people. <laughing>\nDr. Dune: Ah, you'd manage.\n<pause>\nEntity-5061-1: Edward, what exactly have you concluded from studying me?\nDr. Dune: That you're a bright, beautiful young woman who has a promising career ahead of her?\nEntity-5061-1: How flattering. I'm serious.\nDr. Dune: To be honest with you, not much. Thing just works. No anomalous residue, no memetic effects- it's just a window in time, and you're on the other side of it.\nEntity-5061-1: What about me? You asked about my previous work. Why?\nDr. Dune: Well, I can't exactly disclose that information, Liz.\nEntity-5061-1: Why not? You already told me that we win the war, why can't you tell me about myself?\nDr. Dune: Think about it this way, if I told you- all the shock would be gone, eh?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, I suppose you're right. I won't push it further.\nDr. Dune: Besides, we're playing with time, Liz. If I told you, it might not happen that way in actuality. Get it?\nEntity-5061-1: I do. I don't like it, but I understand. You have your reasons for doing what you do.\nDr. Dune: Yeah. Right.\n<pause>\n<phone ringing>\nDr. Dune: For you?\nEntity-5061-1: It's a bit late. Hello? Yes, this is she. Oh. Well, thank you for informing me. Tomorrow? Yes, that'd be perfect. Mary, right. Thank you.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: What was that?\nEntity-5061-1: <screaming> Yes! Yes! Yes! I got it! It was Mr. Zedder's secretary! I got a part in the Universal picture! A lead!\nDr. Dune: A lead?\nEntity-5061-1: Yes! A lead! I got a lead role! Out of everyone who auditioned- they picked me! Heavens, isn't that amazing?\nDr. Dune: Yeah, that's\u2026.amazing. Liz, what did you say the name of the film was?\nEntity-5061-1: Something like, He's My Guy? I believe that's it, yes. Why?\nDr. Dune: It's nothing. Data collection, yeah? I'm proud of you, Liz! You earned it.\nEntity-5061-1: She said I could come out tomorrow for a production meeting! Mr. Zedder wants to see me again!\n<pause>\nEntity-5061-1: What's wrong, Edward? This is wonderful!\nDr. Dune: Of course it is! I was preoccupied, sorry about that! I was just thinking about the certification tests. Mind's still not off it. <laughing> How about I go break out the drink, huh?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh, alright! I'll get mine!\n<Dune leaves the theater>\n<pause>\n<Dune returns with a bottle of wine>\nDr. Dune: A toast to Elizabeth Connors- a brilliant actress.\nEntity-5061-1: Cheers! <laughing>\n<Log omitted for lack of relevance. Subject and interviewer celebrated and talked for another hour before exchanging pleasantries. SCP-5061 was removed from the projector.\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone.T \u2013 5/26/2020 \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nProject-5061-Telephone.5/26/2020 Video Log Transcript\nDate: 5/26/2020\nSubject: Entity-5061-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Edward Dune- Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<The image of Entity-5061-1 is projected onto the screen. Subject is clearly in a state of distress.>\nDr. Dune: Liz?\nEntity-5061-1: Edward? Edward, I'm scared.\nDr. Dune: What's going on, Liz? Are you okay?\nEntity-5061-1: I\u2026I stuck around, just to talk to you. They're moving everyone out of the area, but I stuck around.\nDr. Dune: What's happening? Who's moving people? Liz, you need to talk to me!\n<loud noises from outside the dressing room>\nEntity-5061-1: <crying> Edward, you said we win. Why would you say that-\nDr. Dune: Elizabeth, you need to talk to me. You need to tell me what's going on immediately.\nEntity-5061-1: <distressed> They're bombing the city. Edward- they're bombing the city! The Japanese, oh my God, Edward. They're outside! I-\nDr. Dune: No, no, no, no, no, fuck-\nEntity-5061-1: Edward, please tell me we win- Edward. What's wrong, Edward? Why-\nDr. Dune: Shit. God-fucking-damnit, Liz. I\u2026I'm sorry. Liz, I'm sorry. I lied to you, Liz. I fucking knew it. Shit, it makes sense now.\nEntity-5061-1: What's going on? Edward, please. Tell me we win, Edward! What do you mean you lied?\nDr. Dune: I asked you, about your films, all those nights ago. Remember that, Liz? Remember when I asked you that?\nEntity-5061-1: Oh my God-\nDr. Dune: Fuck. I should've told you. I should've fucking told you. I-\nEntity-5061-1: Told me what? Edward, please!\nDr. Dune: <screaming> I did my research, Liz. I looked. I looked online, I even watched half of the damn things. You're not credited once. Not a single goddamn time.\nEntity-5061-1: What the hell does that mean? I was certainly cre-\n<loud noises from outside the dressing room>\nEntity-5061-1: <screaming> Edward? What do you mean, Edward?\nDr. Dune: This reel. The way we're communicating. God, I'm a fucking idiot. It's not a window in time. It's another dimension. God-\nEntity-5061-1: Wh-\nDr. Dune: Your 1942 isn't my 1942, Liz. It's obvious now. Fucking Christ, the Japanese never attacked Burbank, California. That never happened. They don't attack shit! No one does! We drop a fucking bomb on them and it's over.\n<Dune throws a chair>\nEntity-5061-1: Does that mean, oh my God, Edward-\nDr. Dune: Yes, it's an alternate timeline. Anything can happen. You can lose, Liz. You can lose.\nEntity-5061-1: Oh my god, wh- what am I going to do, Edward?\nDr. Dune: Why do you think I was so disturbed last night? There's no Elizabeth Connors in He's My Guy. <shouting> There's no fucking Elizabeth Connors in anything, let alone a lead role. You don't fucking exist. There's nothing.\nEntity-5061-1: <distressed> W-Why didn't you tell me? Edward, why didn't you tell me? Why did you lie to me?\nDr. Dune: Because I didn't know for sure! Last night confirmed it. You were happy. What was I supposed to fucking do? You could make something of yourself, Liz. Timelines diverge. You can be a star! Why would I fucking tell you that you don't exist? Can't you think?\nEntity-5061-1: Edward-\nDr. Dune: <distressed> No, Liz. You need to get the fuck out of Burbank, now. If they're evacuating, you fucking join them. No, I don't know if you win. Fuck, I don't know anything. But I don't know if you lose, either. You have a life to live ahead of you. Just fucking leave! Go!\nEntity-5061-1: I'm staying with you.\nDr. Dune: Leave! Liz! You fucking idiot, don't you dare die for me. I'm not fucking real, Liz. I'm not fucking real. I-\nEntity-5061-1: <screaming> Edward, I'm staying-\nDr. Dune: I'm stopping this, right-\n<Dune gets up towards the projector>\nEntity-5061-1: <shouting> Do it. Turn off the projector. Kill me, Edward. Fucking do it-\n<Dune stops>\nDr. Dune: Oh my god, Liz. I- < crying>\nEntity-5061-1: Stay with me, Edward. Please, I'm scared- Edward, stay with me.\n<Dune repeatedly slams his fist against the wall>\nDr. Dune: I'm not going to do this to you. You deserve life-\nEntity-5061-1: Edward, I-\n<loud noises>\n<screen turns white>\n<pause>\n<SCP-5061 stops projecting>\nDr. Dune: <shouting> No, no, no, no, fuck, fuck. WHY? Fuck YOU. WHY? WHY? Why the fuck, god FUCK!\n<Dune removes SCP-5061>\nDr. Dune: Please, please, please, please- fucking please-\n<Dune places SCP-5061 back onto the projector>\nDr. Dune: Please. Please, please, oh god, please.\n<SCP-5061 does not project>\nDr. Dune: <shouting> You fucking piece of shit- why, WHY, WHY WHY-\n<Dune knocks over the projector>\nDr. Dune: Liz. Liz, why the fuck? Oh my god, FUCK.\n<Log is silent for the next 24 minutes, sans Dune's crying and spouts of brief profanity. Omitted for lack of relevance>\n\nAddendum 5061.3: Project-5061-Telephone: UPDATE\nAs of 5/27/2020, Project-5061-Telephone has been suspended. See notice below.\n\n\u25ba Access File: Project-5061-Telephone-CEASE \n\n\u25bc Close\n\nRe: Project-5061-Telephone\nSCP-5061 has been neutralized.\nOur knowledge of the nature of SCP-5061 has changed.\nObject class and description update pending.\nProject-5061-Telephone has been dissolved permanently.\n- Dr. Edward T. Dune, Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\nFootnotes\n1. Kept according to standard film preservation protocols.\n2. See Project-5061-Telephone logs below.\n3. The standard for a 35 mm reel.\n4. See Addendum-5061.1: Acquisition.\n5. Within the 24 hour cool-down period.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5060 | SCP-5061 | SCP-5062 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5062\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The hotel containing SCP-5062 has been vacated by the Foundation under the pretense of unsafe building conditions. Foundation security personnel are to maintain the cover of an independent security company assigned to the property to keep guard over SCP-5062.\nIndividuals who have survived exposure to SCP-5062 are to be monitored in their public lives, and their body parts kept in cold storage following drone retrieval. Any testing involving SCP-5062 must be approved by the current project head.\nDescription: SCP-5062 is room 233 of the Echo hotel in Moscow, Russia. The room contains a king-sized bed, a writing desk, a mini-fridge and a nightstand containing a copy of the King James Bible. When removed from the room, these articles will return as soon as they are unobserved.\nWhen an individual enters the empty SCP-5062, they will find themselves unable to leave. In addition, individuals outside the room will be unable to enter or retrieve the victim. No physical barrier exists preventing exit or entry, but all individuals involved will find themselves unable to even contemplate performing such actions.\nAt the same time an individual becomes trapped inside SCP-5062, a pair of scissors will spontaneously manifest on the writing desk (if the writing desk is not currently in the room, they will instead appear on the carpet). The size and specific form of these scissors will vary depending on the trapped individual, but are consistently at least 7.5cm long.\nOnce these scissors appear, the trapped individual will become aware that the only method of leaving SCP-5062 is by using said scissors to sever one of their own body parts.\nThe specific body part required to be severed in order to leave SCP-5062 differs from case to case. Once severed, the body part in question will rapidly become shriveled and blackened, and the victim will become able to leave SCP-5062. Following exit, the victim may experience additional symptoms including:\n\nElevated levels of generosity and altruism.\nIncreased levels of charisma.\nA significantly greater desire to enact positive change in the world around them.\n\nAddendum 5062-1 (Victim Log):\nThe following is a record of known individuals who have entered SCP-5062 and left following exposure to its anomalous effects, along with the body parts they lost and details of their lives following exposure.\n\nSubject\nBody Part\nSubsequent Events\n\nPolina Novikova, F, Age 8\nTip of fingernail.\nNo further psychological symptoms noted. Following exposure, Ms. Novikova reported the anomaly to her parents staying in the hotel, who subsequently reported it to the authorities.\n\nD-2291, M, Age 34\nIndex finger.\nFollowing exposure, D-2291 exhibited greater loyalty to fellow D-Class and significantly reduced antisocial tendencies. Following release at the end of his employment period, D-2291 returned to his hometown and became an office worker, demonstrating no further criminal tendencies.\n\nD-9319, M, Age 21\nTongue.\nFollowing exposure, D-9319 demonstrated significantly more honesty when dealing with staff. Following release, he went on to donate the remains of his personal funds to victims of fraud.\n\nD-4388, F, Age 42\nBoth hands.\nD-4388 expired during exposure to SCP-5062 due to blood loss after cutting off one hand. A muffled moaning sound was subsequently audible beneath the floorboards1. Scissors continued moving independently following death and cut off D-4388's second hand before SCP-5062's effects ceased.\n\nD-5222, M, Age 262\nHead.\nScissors manifested as a pair of large garden shears, which D-5222 utilized after a period of seventy-three hours. Following self-decapitation, D-5222's body remained animate and left SCP-5062; when later questioned, supervising personnel were unable to recall why they did not prevent this. The headless corpse then left the hotel completely and, over the course of the next twelve months, ran for a position in the local council. No media covering the election, nor individuals consuming said media, were able to perceive D-5222 as a headless corpse. Following its victory, the corpse passed a number of laws protecting the homeless population in the district before finally expiring. The body was recovered and all direct witnesses amnesticized, with a sophisticated misinformation campaign successfully preventing a breach of the Veil. Testing involving individuals guilty of numerous counts of first-degree murder suspended indefinitely.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Subsequent investigation found no abnormalities beneath the floorboards of SCP-5062.\n2. Known in the media as the Salavat Ripper.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5061 | SCP-5062 | SCP-5063 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5063\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5063 is contained within an airtight glass container filled with seawater. Outside of testing, access to SCP-5063 is barred from personnel who do not fulfill either of the following requirements:\n\nPersonnel was born after 1975.\n\nPersonnel has not been within a 30-meter radius of an alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) within the last 60 days.\n\nDescription: SCP-5063 is an empty, lidless can of mock turtle soup, manufactured by the Campbell Soup Company in the 1940s. SCP-5063's anomalous effect manifests whenever a live human being who doesn't fulfill the previously mentioned requirements, as determined by testing, enters its vicinity. The alligator snapping turtle they were in proximity to disappears, and SCP-5063 is filled with turtle soup, the meat of which originates from the affected turtle. The origin of the other ingredients is unknown. The soup does not manifest any additional anomalies, and is safe for consumption. SCP-5063 can not be activated by an individual born after 1975. This is suspected to be due to the popularity of turtle soup in the United States having considerably diminished at that point.\nSubmersion in water limits the trigger effect to physical contact only, unless the water originates from a lake inhabited by alligator snapping turtles, in which case contact between SCP-5063 and the water will activate the effect, transmuting every turtle within the lake into soup.\nDiscovery: Prior to containment, SCP-5063 was held at a soup museum in Washington DC. Its anomalous properties were discovered when a visitor accidentally activated its effect after standing near it during office hours. Foundation webcrawlers flagged a possible connection between the activation of SCP-5063 and the simultaneous disappearance of a turtle held at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, leading to subsequent containment of the anomaly. The item was contained under the cover story of having been infested by a hazardous mold, and the witnesses of both events were amnesticized.\n\n\u25b6 Interview \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nINTERVIEWER: Agent Winter McCormick\nINTERVIEWEE: Donald Edison\nFOREWORD: According to museum records, SCP-5063 was donated to the exhibit by Donald Edison, a nonagenarian housed at a retirement house in Illinois. Mr. Edison was sought out for an interview in hopes of acquiring additional information about the anomaly.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgent McCormick: Hello, Mr. Edison. Sorry for bothering you, but I was wondering if you could spare me a minute of your time. I'm with National Geographic and I have some questions I'd like to ask you. I am making an article on the history of soups and the museum where your can of mock turtle soup is displayed at plays an important role.\nMr. Edison: (chuckles) You're a bad liar, son.\nAgent McCormick: What makes you think I'm lying?\nMr. Edison: You're here because you found out that the can is magic. I figured that in a world with things like the can and people like the person who made it, there must be someone responsible for keeping it out of the public eye. Am I correct?\nAgent McCormick: Sir, I assure you, I am just a journalist.\nMr. Edison: Whatever you say, son. Ask what you want.\nAgent McCormick: Okay, thank you. How about we start with how you originally came to possess the item.\nMr. Edison: Fine by me. You might want to sit down though, this is a long story.\n(Agent McCormick sits)\nMr. Edison: Good. To start this off, how much do you know about the prominence of turtle soup in the late 1800's and the early 1900's?\nAgent McCormick: Nothing.\nMr. Edison: Well, it was all the rage back then, specifically when made with the meat of an alligator snapping turtle. Despite the relatively high price, it sold really well. Restaurants were literally better off serving mock turtle soup made from a calf's head, than no turtle soup at all. I have personal experience with that, because I was working as a cook in a small restaurant called Bogside House in Texas in the 1940's. We were struggling, to say the least. There was another restaurant within walking distance, that served genuine turtle soup, while we could only afford the canned fake stuff.\nI realized that if we couldn't start serving the real stuff we would have gone under within weeks. I went to tell this to our owner, a fella named Redder, but he didn't seem at all worried. Instead, he just tells me that he knows someone who can help us.\nAgent McCormick: And this someone created the can?\nMr. Edison: Yes. Let me preface this by saying that Redder was an odd fellow. He was\u2026 more versed in things like this, and he moved in even weirder company. Occultists, mystics, and individuals who I'm not sure were entirely human. The person who made the can was one of those. They arrived just as we were closing in for the night. They were dressed in a dark, ragged leather coat and a hood that I never saw under. I don't know if I would have wanted to. They also smelt like damp earth. I thought it was all very pretentious, but it was still very unnerving.\nAgent McCormick: Did you ever learn what this character was called?\nMr. Edison: It did come up at some point, but this was a long time ago, and my memory isn't what it used to. I think it was Du\u2026 something. Anyway, they were carrying with them a big, cloth covered cage with a turtle inside. They took it to the kitchen and set it on a counter. Then they took a used Campbell's can, and set it next to the cage, before doing\u2026 something.\nAgent McCormick: Uhh\u2026 could you elaborate?\nMr. Edison: Yeah, it's just\u2026 I'm trying to think how to put it into words. It was\u2026 kind of like looking at a corrupted film. Everything got all scrambled up and weird. The room expanded and twisted seemingly infinitely, and then in the next second everything was all tight and compressed. There were odd sounds and colors coming from\u2026 somewhere, and gravity felt like it was throwing a hissy fit. All the while the poor turtle was being turned inside-out and back again, aged to a skeleton and then reversed into a fetus. All of this took maybe ten to fifteen seconds, and the only thing that wasn't affected was the hooded fellow. Despite everything going on around them, they stayed completely unchanged and unmoving, like the eye of a storm. To me that was the scariest part.\nWhen it was over, everything snapped back into place, like nothing had ever happened. I threw up immediately. I think Redder did too.\n(pause)\nAfterwards the unholy fellow explained to us how the can works, before going to leave. I tried to ask them if they wanted payment, but they told me that they already claimed it, before walking out the door. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my old spine.\nAgent McCormick: And did the can help revive your business?\nMr. Edison: Oh, it most certainly did. Back then, that area of Texas used to be chock full of snapping turtles, so everyone that walked through our doors had been near one. So, due to that, we used to do this thing where I would take a huge pot, and I would just place the can on the bottom. Then, when orders of turtle soup started coming in, I would just walk through the restaurant and let the pot fill up on its own. Then I would just begin pouring fresh, hot turtle soup straight out of the pot. The customers loved it.\nAnd soon enough, people heard that we were selling fresh turtle soup at a low price, and they began flooding in. We were ecstatic, of course. We were practically swimming in cash. Not long after, the other restaurant went under because our soup was better. One of the cooks from that establishment actually approached me and asked if he could come work for us instead. I had to turn the young chap down of course\u2026 I couldn't let anyone know the secret behind our success.\nWord of our culinary delights spread like wildfire, and people from all across the country started turning up. Big names, even! I'm talking movie stars, singers, politicians. Hell, Humphrey Bogart himself visited us once!\nAgent McCormick: Did you not think about how many turtles the can must have been killing for something like that?\nMr. Edison: Not at this point, no. Why would I have? I could finally afford to buy a fancier car, jewelry for my beloved, suits and better knives. None of that really matters to me anymore, but at the time there was no room in my mind for a bunch of reptiles, and I never stopped to think how many turtles we were killing every night, because I didn't really know. Because of the little spectacle we were doing, there was no real way to measure exactly how many times the can was activated. It must have been dozens. Per day.\nIt wasn't until nearly a decade in, that I finally realized what we were doing. I was hiking in a swampland with my wife at the time, may she rest in peace, collecting huckleberries, when it hit me. There was no hissing.\nAgent McCormick: Hissing?\nMr. Edison: Yes, hissing! That's the sound that alligators snapping turtles make when they feel threatened. Up until that point, every time I had gone there, there had been turtles basking on the edges of a pond, hissing anytime we got close. Now, they were gone. I realized then what I had done, and how big of a mistake it had been.\nAgent McCormick: What did you do about it?\nMr. Edison: Nothing at first! We had a good thing going, and there was no way we could have continued it without the can. However, I couldn't just forget about it. It kept bothering me, and eventually I felt like I had to go to Redder.\nI told him how what we were doing was hurting the ecosystem. How it wasn't sustainable. I told him we would end up completely decimating the local turtle population, but he wouldn't listen. He said I was getting paranoid. Said he didn't care about no turtles. \"What do you mean you don't care about no turtles?\" I asked him. They were the source of our income! You are supposed to care about that! He just hand waved it aside, insisting that the population will hold.\nOf course, it didn't. Soon after, I started noticing that the can didn't produce as much soup as it used to. The diminishing was small at first, but increased quickly. And then one day, it was just empty. I stood there, with a pot in my hands, in the middle of customers, staring at the can, but nothing came out. I was forced to make a fool of myself by telling them that there's no soup to serve. I swear to God, some people got up and left right there and then.\nThat was the beginning of the end. On each following night, there were less and less people, until eventually, nobody came. We had to close.\nAgent McCormick: What did you do then?\nMr. Edison: My wife and I had to move to a cheaper city. I went on to work in several different restaurants until my retirement, but none of them ever saw the amount of success that Bogside House once did.\nAgent McCormick: (nods) What about Redder?\nMr. Edison: Oh, I never saw him again. I think I overheard him say that he would return to some library\u2026 but other than that I have no idea what he did afterwards.\nAgent McCormick: But why did he let you keep the can, when he was the one who got it made?\nMr. Edison: Redder didn't show a lot of interest in it, so I simply asked him if I could keep it and he said yes.\nAgent McCormick: But why did you want it?\nMr. Edison: Well, I figured that Redder wouldn't care if it kept killing turtles, so I figured I would take it and move somewhere where there are none. And besides, who doesn't want to own a piece of magic?\nThen I became old, and unable to care for myself, so I wanted to spend the last of my years here in Illinois, where I was born and raised. I couldn't take the can with me, because this place still has a few turtles left, so I donated it to the museum in hopes it would never activate again. But since you're here, I'm guessing it did.\nAgent McCormick: I can neither deny or confirm that. But, thank you Mr. Edison, for telling me your story. I'm sure our readers will find it interesting.\nMr. Edison: I'm sure they will.\n(Agent McCormick gets up to leave)\nMr. Edison: Son. Before you go, could you please tell me that the can is somewhere safe, where it can't activate it anymore?\n(pause)\nAgent McCormick: Don't worry, the can is secure.\nMr. Edison: Good, good.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5062 | SCP-5063 | SCP-5064 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5064\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5064 are to be contained in the Anomalous Explosives Storage Unit located at Site-77. Instances of SCP-5064 are to be inspected monthly for potential damage, during which time they will be interviewed and are required to perform one short dance with the staff member performing the inspection.\nAs instances of SCP-5064 are incapable of movement, the object will be secured to a researcher using a custom harness for the duration of the dance. The dance will be performed in a cushioned room adjacent to the Anomalous Explosives Storage Unit. Dances performed with SCP-5064 should be selected from the approved dance list to decrease the likelihood of an unintentional trip or fall during the dance. All staff members working with SCP-5064 should have a background in dance to assure a level of poise and balance necessary to maintain safe containment.\nDuring routine storage, a speaker connected to an audio streaming device should be placed near by SCP-5064. A playlist will be selected every morning by a Senior Researcher familiar with SCP-5064. The genre of the playlist should be changed daily to prevent further deterioration to the structure of any SCP-5064 objects.\nDescription: SCP-5064 refers to 24 sticks of dynamite (designated SCP-5064-1 through SCP-5064-24) produced by the now defunct Collins Demolitions Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Instances of SCP-5064 are sentient, capable of vocalizing, and exhibit basic human sensory capabilities. Instances of SCP-5064 are entirely incapable of movement on their own and must be assisted in all movement required in their Special Containment Procedures.\nInstances of SCP-5064 are highly social and outgoing. The objects often start conversations with Foundation staff members unprompted. All known instances of SCP-5064 share a love of music and a self described \"obsession\" with dancing. Individual instances of SCP-5064 have different preferences when it comes to the type of music and dance they claim to enjoy the most, although instances of SCP-5064 will accept an offer to dance presented to them regardless of their professed tastes in dance.\nInstances of SCP-5064 will begin to degrade over time if a dance with them is not performed at least every 90 days. Constant exposure to music associated with dancing also appears to significantly slow the deterioration of the objects. According to documents recovered during the original containment of SCP-5064, an instance of SCP-5064 will explode violently if allowed to degrade over a period of six months.\nDiscovery:\nSCP-5064 was originally discovered in an abandoned factory previously owned by Collins Demolitions Inc.; a report of strange voices singing from inside the factory prompted an investigation by the Foundation which recovered the 24 samples currently in containment. Before the Foundation could return to search for more samples of SCP-5064 the factory was destroyed in an explosion caused by an unknown source. The Foundation will continue to monitor buildings owned by former Collins Demolitions subcontractors for reports of unusual singing.\nAddendum:\nBelow are a sample of three interviews with different instances of SCP-5064, with details about the dance that was performed attached.\n\n+ SCP-5064-8 Interview\n\n- Access Granted\n\nRoutine Monthly Interview - SCP-5064-8\nInterviewer: Researcher Lindsey Brewster\nSubject: SCP-5064-8\nBegin Log\nBrewster: SCP-5064-8, are you well?\nSCP-5064-8: I suppose, but I'd rather be dancin'.\nBrewster: You don't feel any worse than when we last spoke, do you?\nSCP-5064-8: Nah girl, this old stick of dynamite knows how to keep himself together. Listening to funky grooves and doin' that Soul Train stroll. Talking to fine ladies such as yourself. I got an easy life. Ain't nothing to be stressin' out about.\nBrewster: Stressing out?\nSCP-5064-8: Yeah baby, stressin' out. That's how we\u2026 how'd you call it? Degrade. Yeah, all that damage you see, that's when we're stressed. When I was stuck in that factory with no music, no partner to dance with\u2026 Man that was just bad. Not bad like cool either\u2026 bad like a total bummer.\nBrewster: You prefer it here in containment?\nSCP-5064-8: Hell yeah! I get a dancing partner once per month! Plus they play some chill tunes in our crib. Any place that plays Kool and the Gang is alright by me, you dig it?\nBrewster: I understand that, it's definitely better than the circumstances you were in previously.\nSCP-5064-8: You and your crew talk all funky\u2026 And I'm not talking funky like a Funkadelic bass line, I mean like\u2026 I don't get how all act so stiff. All that goon speak, I mean it get this gig probably pays real well and all but\u2026 don't you ever just want to cut loose? Have some fun?\nBrewster: I have fun. I dance with you, don't I?\nSCP-5064-8: Here I was thinking you'd never ask. You dance much better than that jive turkey, Dr. Mander-Bassen.\nBrewster: Dr. Mander-Bassen is the one who selects all the music you get to listen to. He's a big fan of Kool and the Gang too.\nSCP-5064-8: See what I mean? Y'all take this job so seriously. I didn't even know that the doctor knew how to chill. The Man really has got y'all down. Now come on funky Brewster, let's boogie on down to the dance floor.\nEnd Log\nResearcher Brewster performed the traditional dance associated with \"The Hustle\" by Van McCoy with SCP-5064-8 before returning the object to containment.\n\n+ SCP-5064-4 Interview\n\n- Access Granted\n\nRoutine Monthly Interview - SCP-5064-4\nInterviewer: Researcher Lindsey Brewster\nSubject: SCP-5064-4\nBegin Log\nBrewster: Hello SCP-5064-4\nSCP-5064-4: Ohayo Brewster-san.\nBrewster: I think your Japanese needs some brushing up, it's 2:14 P.M. Ohayo means good morning.\nSCP-5064-4: It's probably morning in Akihabara. I think, I've never been there.\nBrewster: Are you feeling all put together? None of the symptoms of degrading that we talked about?\n\nSCP-5064-4: I feel excellent. The playlist from yesterday had a lot of my suggestions in it. World is Mine, Plastic Love, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, Gee. Nothing but the classics.\nBrewster: I'm glad the music is helping you stay healthy.\nSCP-5064-4: Oh, if you could talk to your senpai\u2026 I have a few more suggestions.\nBrewster: Dr. Mander-Bassen doesn't like it when you refer to him as\u2026 what are your suggestions?\nSCP-5064-4: Snow Halation from Love Live! and Kyun! Vampire Girl from The Idolmaster 2. I've been trying to put a idol group together with the other guys, but most of them aren't interested.\nBrewster: What did they say?\nSCP-5064-4: Number 17 called me a weeaboo and then most of them laughed.\nBrewster: I can tell them not to treat you that way, you shouldn't have to feel any unnecessary stress.\nSCP-5064-4: It's okay, Number 19 said he'd join my group. He's not as big into otaku culture but he loves pop music and we bond over that. He's my nakama.\nBrewster: SCP-5064-19 is very nice, I'm glad you two get along. Would you like to begin our dance?\nSCP-5064-4: Onegaishimasu. Yes, please.\nEnd Log\nResearcher Brewster performs a popular dance associated with the song \"Caramelldansen\" by Caramell with SCP-5064-4 and then returns the object to containment.\n\n+ SCP-5064-12 Interview\n\n- Access Granted\n\nRoutine Monthly Interview - SCP-5064-12\nInterviewer: Researcher Lindsey Brewster\nSubject: SCP-5064-12\nBegin Log\nBrewster: SCP-5064-12, I've heard from the others that you're a little upset. Do you want to talk about that?\nSCP-5064-12: Yeah, if you don't mind\u2026 I don't want to upset anyone else but I got some rage I've been storing up and I wanna let it out.\nBrewster: Please go ahead, I don't want you feeling tense.\nSCP-5064-12: Pardon my language, but the dances we're permitted to do are fucking weak. Not even like poser shit weak, I could forgive some crabwalking but I've been doing mostly tangos and square dances. You guys have no problem blasting some heavy fucking shit for me once in a while but I never get a chance to do the kind of dancing I dream of. I mean, I'm not going to say no\u2026 it's still dancing and I love to dance, I just wish we could get some of that brutality I love mixed in there.\nBrewster: We're always willing to adjust the dances we perform to your preference, so long as it falls within the perimeters of safety requirements.\nSCP-5064-12: I've suggested it before and I heard nothing back.\nBrewster: What was your suggestion?\nSCP-5064-12: A mosh pit. Get all the staff you've got in here, start a circle of death and start slamming into each other. Live it up! All these metal songs I've been listening to all these years in that cell\u2026 fucking excellent breakdowns, but nobody wants to actually rock the fuck out to them. I know some of you guys like the music. Hell I heard you singing along to a Jinjer song when you took me out for my inspection.\nBrewster: You're right, I am sympathetic. I actually just saw Jinjer last month. Still, I don't know if people would be comfortable with you in a mosh pit.\nSCP-5064-12: I disagree, you've been to a metal show\u2026 you know how it is. The mosh pit is one of the most accepting places in the world. Men and women, every color and size and shape, it doesn't matter\u2026 as long you want to fucking mosh. I don't think there would be any discrimination. Metal is about loving your fellow metal head\u2026 in the most brutal way possible of course. We're a dying breed after all.\nBrewster: Oh, I didn't mean because of any sort of discrimination. I just think that people normally freak out when there's a live explosive in the middle of large crowd.\nSCP-5064-12: Ah shit, see I didn't even think of that. Yeah that kinda fucking sucks. Oh well, I guess we can just do another tango or something for now\u2026 but you should blast some Protest the Hero for us to dance to.\nEnd Log\nResearcher Brewster performed a traditional two step tango dance to the song \"Turn Soonest to the Sea\" by Protest the Hero with SCP-5064-12 before returning the object to containment.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5063 | SCP-5064 | SCP-5065 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Photo of SCP-5065 from its last written book prior to public disappearance.\n\nItem #: SCP-5065\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5065 is currently contained in Cell 93, revision 35-D of the standard Low-Risk Humanoid Containment Cell. Cell 93 is to be revised and modified under the direction of Research Head Dr. Jack H. Woodson and Head Investigator Canton Lodge to prevent the possibility of further containment breaches. Revisions are detailed in Document 5065-Locked Room.\nIf SCP-5065 is discovered outside of its containment cell, ask it to accompany you back into containment and immediately use the 5065-Pager to inform assigned staff. Unless SCP-5065's breach involves another entity, do NOT signal a standard breach.\nDescription: SCP-5065 is a human male determined to be \"Henry James\", an author of several mystery novels under the pen name \"Willard Darnell\". SCP-5065 was declared a missing person a year prior to his containment. SCP-5065 has proven to be extremely difficult to contain and has been able to escape situations in which escape was deemed impossible, including several Foundation attempts to contain it.\nSCP-5065 was discovered in Foundation Site-\u2588\u2588, having passed several security measures to prevent infiltration without proper clearance. SCP-5065 was immediately captured and interrogated through heavy physical coercion.\nExtremely effective coercion techniques such as [DATA EXPUNGED] were employed, with a 100% coercion success rate on non-anomalous humans, and 76% on anomalous humanoids with properties that allow them to withstand the extreme conditions of the process for much longer. Despite this, SCP-5065 was unfazed throughout the entire process. Questioning resulted in SCP-5065 simply responding by saying \"Torture is unnecessary and ineffective, please just put me in one of your containment facilities, I'm very clearly anomalous.\"\nA negotiator achieved better results, yet not to a much higher degree. SCP-5065 assured the negotiator that he posed no danger to any personnel, claimed his resistance to was anomalous in nature and requested the Foundation contain and study it.\nSCP-5065 was placed in a standard low-risk humanoid containment cell, as it had shown no resistance thus far. SCP-5065 was to be moved to a fitting containment cell once the nature of its anomalous properties was determined.\n\n+ Addendum 5065-1\n\n-Hide\n\nIncident Report 5065-1: 3 hours after the initial placement of SCP-5065 in containment, an extremely localized power outage caused a 60-second window in which surveillance systems on SCP-5065 went offline. SCP-5065 was no longer in its containment cell and standard containment breach procedure was enacted. 2 minutes and 39 seconds after the power outage SCP-5065 was found in breakroom-24. SCP-5065 had not yet changed into the provided standard humanoid containment uniform, and staff present in the breakroom had assumed SCP-5065 was an agent from another site and had begun conversing with it. SCP-5065 was promptly restrained and returned to its containment cell. Dr. Woodson immediately arranged an impromptu interview with SCP-5065, and was accompanied by 2 guards.\nInterview Log 5065-4:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5065\nInterviewer: Dr. Jack Woodson\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Woodson: Are you aware of what your anomalous properties entail? Could you provide a description of what you're capable of?Dr. Woodson: Could you elaborate? How are you capable of bypassing foundation security measures?SCP-5065 lunges his arms towards Dr. Woodson's, the handcuffs restraining SCP-5065 seem to slide onto Woodson's arms. The guards attempt to incapacitate SCP-5065 before they're stopped by Dr. Woodson.\nDr. Woodson: Please explain how you're capable of performing these feats.\nSCP-5065 tosses a bent paper clip1 to Dr. Woodson.[End Log]\nClosing Statement: SCP-5065 refused to answer any additional questions.\n\nClassification Report 5065-2:\n\nSCP-5065 has been found to be capable of breaching containment through means yet unknown. Classification is to be changed from Euclid to Keter. -Dr. Jack H. Woodson.\n\n+ Addendum 5065-2\n\n- Hide\n\nIncident Reports 5065-2/24, Summarized: Various methods of containing SCP-5065 has been ineffective; any attempts to relocate SCP-5065 to a high-risk humanoid containment cell, or any other containment cell, has resulted in SCP-5065 escaping and returning to his cell. Attempts to physically restrain SCP-5065 have proven to be equally ineffective, regardless of the restraint used, SCP-5065 either escapes containment before the guards arrive to restrain it, uses the restraints on the guards, or simply escapes the restraints once they're placed. So far, it has been found to be capable of escaping handcuffs and straitjackets with ease. SCP-5065 has managed to escape containment whenever anomalous means of containment were en route to SCP-5065's cell, SCP-5065 would only return once the anomalous means were turned to their own containment.\nTaskforce AT was founded to investigate and determine the methods SCP-5065 uses in its containment breaches and improve containment to prevent further containment breaches, and to predict and preemptively prevent SCP-5065's attempts at escape. Canton Lodge was assigned as Head Investigator in regards to SCP-5065.\nTransfer Request 5065-6:\n\nRequesting off-site transfer of SCP-5065. SCP-5065 likely predicted its placement in site-88, it has shown to be extremely familiar with the structure and layout of the facility, especially the low-risk humanoid containment area, and has used this knowledge in several of its escape attempts. Transfer of SCP-5065 to a site it would not have been placed in following standard classification procedure would likely limit its ability to escape containment. -Dr. Jack H. Woodson\n\nRequest denied. SCP-5065 by your own admission has proven extremely difficult to contain. Movement of SCP-5065 could potentially allow it access to higher priority entities. Appropriate support in containing SCP-5065 has been administered in the form of Taskforce Agra Treasure. -Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nMinor attempts at appeasement have proven to dissuade SCP-5065 from attempting frequent breaches, and the severity of breaches has also been shown to decrease. SCP-5065 had entered the containment cells of several other nearby entities and had continued to do so weekly until its demands were met. It requested it be allowed to continue wearing tuxedos and suits rather than the assigned uniform, and requested writing supplies, additionally, it also requested that any books it wrote be made available to Foundation personnel. After a month of negotiation, these requests were granted as SCP-5065's escapades threatened the containment of the other on-site anomalous entities. Tuxedos, suits, and writing equipment would be provided by the Foundation under strict regulations contained in Document 5065-Locked Room. SCP-5065 insists it will not use the provided equipment in anything counter to Foundation interests.\nSecurity Request 5065-3:\n\nSCP-5065 has demanded it be given and allowed to wear tuxedoes and suits. Additionally, it requested writing material as well as for the Foundation to allow personnel to read any books it writes. It is certainly understandable that such demands might not be feasible, however, if the uniform request is accepted, it would make containment of SCP-5065 much more manageable. Currently, it's proven too difficult to prepare proper containment procedures with the frequency of containment breaches. The safety and secrecy of other on-site SCPs has become threatened as well, as such I feel this request may be worth considering. As for the writing, I fear SCP-5065 may be able to produce anomalous effects using its books, as I otherwise see no reason as to why it would want Foundation personnel to read them. It's also not feasible, as it's possible they could contain confidential information. -Dr. Jack H. Woodson\n\nRequest accepted. SCP-5065 will be provided with appropriate clothing and allowed to wear them. SCP-5065 will be given writing equipment as well, no evidence of its books producing anomalous effects has been discovered. The books it writes will be thoroughly examined for confidential information, and placed in on-site libraries and breakrooms should they contain none. -Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n+ Addendum 5065-3\n\n- Hide\n\nTaskforce AT investigations have begun to prove effective at combatting SCP-5065. Containment breaches have become much less frequent, and an increasing amount of planned escapes have been stopped mid-execution. Audio Log 5065-32 between Research Head Dr. Woodson and Head Investigator Canton Lodge provides an overview of Taskforce AT's findings in regards to SCP-5065's anomalous properties.\n\n[Begin Log]\nInvestigator Lodge: We've covered all the major bases, send in the request Woodson.\nDr. Woodson: Hold on, we have? Last I heard our only major breakthrough was determining one way he COULD have performed his first infiltration without being anomalous, and even then we can't definitively prove it.\nInvestigator Lodge: Eh, forget that. We'll record a less honest one later.\nDr. Woodson: Anyways, what about his torture resistance? Even if we explain his constant breakouts, that alone is enough to keep him contained.\nInvestigator Lodge: New AT girl, Cassie, I forget her specialization. I had her review the coercion footage to haze her. She figured it was possible he self-administered modified E class amnestics, made it so that he can't really think about the torture too much. It adds up with what we've got so far.\nDr. Woodson: Still, I'm not sold. You don't just think up all this without being anomalous in some way.\nInvestigator Lodge: We're not anomalous, but we can still figure out how he plans, and how he does most of what he does. If we can think it up, so can he. I'm sure he's not anomalous. If the foundation wants to get rid of this headache, then they just need to accept that he's an explained entity, they can neutralize him or brainwash him or whatever it is they do to enemies of the foundation.\nDr. Woodson: He knows that too. Every time you try and close in on him, he just sets up something else we just can't explain. I feel like by trying to solve everything he does you're just prompting more incidents.\nInvestigator Lodge: We're closing in on him, just a bit longer and we won't have to worry about it anymore. It's either that or we just let him pull these stunts whenever he feels like it instead of out of necessity. We've made it much harder for him to pull anything, we just have to keep at it a bit longer.\n[End Log]\n\n+ [LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE DETECTED: HIDDEN REPORT AVAILABE]\n\n- [ACCESS GRANTED]\n\nLevel-4 Confidential Classification:\n\nWe have reason to believe that SCP-5065 is a reality bender. Covert research has determined that if this theory proves to be true, SCP-5065 has little control or knowledge of his abilities, and only uses them to create solvable mysteries, ones following an altered version of Ronald Knox's 10 commandments.\nThe most effective and least labor/resource-intensive method of containment has been discovered to be preoccupying SCP-5065. It believes taskforce Agra Treasure is the best the Foundation has to offer, as such, it develops its mysteries specifically for them to solve, these mysteries are relatively harmless, as it does not want to be wholly antagonized.\nThis information is not to be shared with SCP-5065 or members of Taskforce Agra Treasure. Research regarding SCP-5065 has proven to be most effective when done covertly, and the system of revising Cell 93 to make it incrementally more difficult for it to escape has proven to be an effective way of incrementally testing the capabilities of SCP-5065. -Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nFootnotes\n1. Investigation determined this paper clip was obtained from Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 in the breakroom. Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 claims he was unaware the paper clip went missing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5064 | SCP-5065 | SCP-5066 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5066\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area in which SCP-5066 reside has been sealed off by the Foundation under the cover of a special environmental research facility. Due to the risk of exposure to SCP-5066, observation within this facility is to be performed using remotely controlled drones. Any civilians attempting to enter this facility are to be repelled by security patrols.\nAny unauthorized individuals confirmed to be compromised by SCP-5066 are to be amnesticized and released into the public. A suitable cover story is to then be disseminated upon their death. Any authorized personnel confirmed to be compromised by SCP-5066 are to be informed of its effects and given exclusively non-essential assignments from that point on.\nDescription: SCP-5066 is the collective designation for an as-of-yet unknown number of invisible, intangible entities residing in a 50m x 50m area located in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Due to their invisibility and intangibility, there are currently no known means of perceiving the presence of an SCP-5066 instance save for a mild warping of background sound around the instance, which grows in intensity the closer the listener is to it.\nThe inherent difficulty involved with identifying an SCP-5066 instance means that it cannot be confirmed no instances exist outside this area. However, no incidents indicating the effects of SCP-5066 have been reported except with individuals that have previously visited this area.\nWhen an individual comes into contact with the space in which an SCP-5066 instance resides, said instance will then permanently attach itself to them. No means of detaching an SCP-5066 instance from a victim have been found to date. Those compromised by SCP-5066 have described having an innate sense of where the SCP-5066 instance attached to them is located \u2014 specifically, directly behind them at all times.\nOnce a victim compromised by an SCP-5066 instance turns directly around or looks over their shoulder, they will instantly die due to sudden cessation of brain function. Evidence suggests this process also results in the death of the SCP-5066 instance in question.\nSCP-5066 was first discovered after a series of sudden deaths with no identifiable cause, all victims having been identified as having visited the area SCP-5066 resides in shortly before their expiration. The majority of the initial investigation team, led by Dr. Elizabeth Snow, became compromised by SCP-5066 and a significant number expired before the nature of SCP-5066 could be deduced. Following this, current containment measures were enacted.\n\nAddendum 5066-1 (Relevant Documentation)\nThe following is an excerpt from the Albasti Bestiary, believed to be a reference to SCP-5066:\n\nOn the Noxe Votuli, else known as the Livefolk, else known as Smith's Plague, else known as the Passengers,\nThere are beings in this world, shredded by the tyranny of patterns, with no death to call their own. The debris known to lurk behind is among the more benign of these creatures only in motive \u2014 the results for those unfortunate enough to cross their path is much the same as their more omnicidal cousins.\nAs these beings have had their deaths stolen from them and by nature are eternal, they must \u2014 for lack of better wording \u2014 'hitch a ride' to reach blessed non-existence. Thus, when a temporary creature makes contact with them, they latch on and will never let go.\nAny death will do for them, old age or illness or injury, but the Passengers are above all things impatient. Their victim will turn, their victim will look upon them, and the connection half-formed is thus completed \u2014 and the Passenger will reach out and simply turn them off.\nIf you are accompanied by a Passenger, and wish to continue existing for a little longer, I advise you: never turn around, not even for a second.\nAnd good luck to you.\n\nAddendum 5066-2 (Interview Log)\nThe following is an interview conducted with Dr. Elizabeth Snow, leader and lone surviving member of the initial SCP-5066 investigation team. Note that, at the time of the interview, Dr. Snow has been compromised by SCP-5066 for more than fifty years. Due to her retirement and advanced age, the interview was conducted at her home in Manchester, England.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Junior Researcher Lesteigh turns on the camera. Dr. Snow is in her bed, and sits up as Lesteigh approaches. Lesteigh sits in a chair next to the bed.)\nJR Lesteigh: That's the camera on, ma'am. We're ready to begin.\nDr. Snow: Good, good. Yes, mm, that's excellent. (pause) Which one are you?\nJR Lesteigh: Junior Researcher Lesteigh, ma'am.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Snow: That's \u2026 the same one as last week, then?\nJR Lesteigh: Yes, ma'am.\nDr. Snow: Yes, yes, of course. Mm. You'll have to be patient with me. I'm all a bit muddled these days.\nJR Lesteigh: That's no problem at all. If it's alright with you, ma'am, I want to talk about SCP-5066. About your, uh, your experiences with it.\nDr. Snow: Of course. I can't imagine you'd want to talk about very much else. He's inside the bed right now.\nJR Lesteigh: Inside the bed? How so?\nDr. Snow: Haven't you read the files, young man? It's an intangible object that's perpetually behind my back \u2014 if I'm lying on a bed, of course it's intersecting with the bed.\nJR Lesteigh: Yes, right, sorry, I should have thought before I spoke.\nDr. Snow: (sighs) It's a terminal condition these days. I'm sorry, we've gotten off topic, haven't we? We were discussing \u2026 SCP-5066. My personal experiences with it, yes?\nJR Lesteigh: Yes.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Snow: I remember \u2026 young and stupid, I was. The sort of stupid that thinks it's a genius. Giddy on success \u2014 we'd just had that thing with the Domesday Clock, you understand.\nJR Lesteigh: Right.\nDr. Snow: We hiked for hours through those woods, Grayson complaining all the while. Every minute, I swear. (chuckles) Have you \u2026 have you interviewed Grayson yet?\n(Pause.)\nJR Lesteigh: No \u2026 no, not yet.\nDr. Snow: See that you do. The stories that man can tell, my word.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Snow: We went through the woods \u2026 and we found them, where sound went mad. Raindrops sounded like screeching birds, crunching grass were like \u2026 like beating your fists against the wall, and voices \u2026 voices didn't sound very nice at all.\nJR Lesteigh: The warping effect.\nDr. Snow: And then it stopped \u2014 and I knew it was with me, that it was right behind me. The Ambrose twins turned around straight away, poor bastards, and more right after them. Awful, of course, but it told me that turning around wasn't the best idea. So, me and the rest of the survivors very carefully made our way back to civilization and told our superiors what had happened.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Snow: (quietly) I was very lucky.\nJR Lesteigh: Even so, living with it all these years \u2026 it couldn't have been easy.\nDr. Snow: You'd be surprised. It takes a lot of discipline not to look over your shoulder when you hear a sound, yes, and turning around makes you look a prat \u2014 walking forwards while slowly, slowly changing direction. But you live with it. I imagine people can live with everything.\nJR Lesteigh: And your career with the Foundation?\nDr. Snow: Oh, dead, of course \u2014 or as close as you can get to it. Never a position of authority again. Only makes sense, I suppose: you can hardly run a project with a head that can drop dead at any moment. They kept me around, at any rate. I appreciate that.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Snow: Well? Anything else, Grayson?\nJR Lesteigh: Um, Lesteigh, ma'am.\nDr. Snow: Same difference. You have a question on your mind, but you feel like you shouldn't say it \u2014 it's written on your face.\n(Pause.)\nJR Lesteigh: Haven't you ever \u2026 been curious? Tempted, I mean? Just to \u2026 you know.\nDr. Snow: To turn around and look at it? Yes, of course. I remember when we got the results of the autopsy on the Ambrose twins. Right before they died, in that last split seconds, their eyes widened \u2014 and that's the same with every victim. They all saw something. To the victim, in that last moment, there is something to be seen.\nJR Lesteigh: That must \u2026 that must take a lot of restraint.\nDr. Snow: I suppose it must. I haven't got much restraint left in me, though, I must confess.\nJR Lesteigh: Ma'am?\nDr. Snow: Hush, Grayson. I'm very old now, I think, and very tired \u2014 and so is my passenger. Much more tired than me, I should think.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Snow: It's a frustrating thing \u2026 trying to hold on to yourself. You grab at memories and feelings with your bare hands, watching them slip through your fingers, and then at the end you realize you don't recognize those hands anymore. I'm really very sick of it.\n(Dr. Snow settles into her bed, closing her eyes.)\nDr. Snow: (quietly) Someday soon, I think I'll turn around and meet my very old friend.\n<End Log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5065 | SCP-5066 | SCP-5067 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item Number: SCP-5067\nObject Class: Safe (formerly Keter)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5067 must be kept in a brightly lit room guarded by no less than twelve (12) armed security personnel at any given moment. SCP-5067-1 must be kept within two meters of SCP-5067 and must be provided with continuous power. All personnel are required to wear lead-lined radiation protection uniforms. Containment room must be outfitted with four (4) lasers providing a constant frequency matching that of SCP-5067. Should SCP-5067 exhibit radiation of wavelength 10 nanometers or less, continuous X-Ray radiation must be provided until SCP-5067 has returned to nominal levels of radiation. Should SCP-5067 show an increase in visible brightness, personnel are advised to increase ambient room lighting to match the brightness. At the end of each day, personnel must record all wavelength and frequency logs from the screen of SCP-5067-1. In the event that power to SCP-5067-1 is lost or disrupted, personnel are required to evacuate the containment room and lasers will provide a constant stream of high-energy gamma radiation until such a time as power can be restored.\nUpon merging with SCP-5067-1 after power was disrupted for \u2588\u2588 hours, SCP-5067 shows very few anomalous properties. SCP-5067-1 must be kept in a brightly lit room under constant surveillance. Armed personnel are no longer necessary. Lasers are to be deactivated but attached to a power source. Any variations from normal radiation production are to be recorded and investigated. All D-Class personnel experimenting with SCP-5067-1 must be outfitted with lead-lined radiation protection uniforms.\nDescription: SCP-5067 is a 3 meter tall roughly humanoid robotic construct. Visual inspection suggests the entity is made of an iron-tungsten alloy designed specifically for heat resistance. The digits 5042025 can be found printed along the construct's spinal cable.\nSCP-5067 is highly radioactive due to the malfunctioning of its power source, a nuclear fusion reactor core. The mechanisms that once would have contained and prevented radiation emission from the core have been heavily damaged. No attempt has been made to repair SCP-5067 as doing so would expose Foundation Technicians to lethal levels of radiation.\nThough the majority of the damage to SCP-5067 is concentrated to its core, it has sustained significant force trauma to other parts of its body. The appendages typically used for fine motor control have suffered heavy percussive damage, as has the screen that served as its way of communicating facial expressions.\nSCP-5067, though unable to communicate verbally with researchers, is neither hostile nor aggressive. On the contrary, it is highly responsive to any perceived emotional distress. Observing a person in pain, however, appears to trigger conflicting behavioral responses - it will often activate and move as if to approach, and then cease all outside signs of function. If the person indicates verbally or nonverbally that the distress or pain they are experiencing is caused by SCP-5067 in any way, SCP-5067 will begin to deliberately damage itself via percussive blows or prying its external casing off of its legs or arms.\nAddendum I:\nContrary to prior belief, SCP-5067 is sapient and capable of verbal communication in English, Russian, Polish, and Japanese. After three weeks in containment, it approached a technician and asked for the coordinates of its current location. Doctor Rhea Hawthorne, a specialist in sapient mechanical entities, was brought in to interview it.\nLOG 1:\n\nDr. Hawthorne: Hello, SCP-5067.Dr. Hawthorne: Yes. Or, actually, just 5067 for now. That'll be easier.Dr. Hawthorne: Granted.\nSCP-5067 straightens, ceases motion, whirs briefly and then turns back to face Dr. Hawthorne.Dr. Hawthorne: Why do you need them?Dr. Hawthorne: Your power source is self-maintaining. If you repair it, there won't be any need to refuel.Dr. Hawthorne: The reactor is damaged, yes, but you can repair it - we'll give you the materials.Dr. Hawthorne: The protective casing, the cooling system, it's all been shredded or torn apart.Dr. Hawthorne: Why did they do this to you?(pause)SCP-5067 refused to engage further.\n\nNote: The radiation and other side effects of the damaged core are dangerous to SCP-5067 as well as humans. An optimistic estimate has it rendered entirely non-functional within 2 months, a pessimistic one in 3 weeks. It seems to begin actively producing heat and light - read, radiation - when it feels like the conditions in the chamber aren't warm or bright enough - homeostatic algorithm. It's perfectly capable of repairing itself, but it's actively choosing not to. This is, to dramatically oversimplify, a software problem.\n\n- Dr. Rhea Hawthorne\n\nAddendum II: After three weeks with no escape attempts, SCP-5067's radiation and heat output began to decline. It attempted to breach containment on May 24th. It was quickly recontained and Dr. Hawthorne was brought in to interview it.\nLOG 2:\n\nDr. Hawthorne: Why did you now try to escape? I thought you didn't mind it here.Dr. Hawthorne: 5067 - your function is destroying you. You can't continue to do this.Dr. Hawthorne: If you won't act in the interest of your own safety, fine, but it's dangerous to us, 5067. Humans can't tolerate radiation like this.Dr. Hawthorne: Fiver,1 please\u2014SCP-5067 begins to hit its left leg joint repeatedly.\nDr. Hawthorne: Hey, hey, don't - you're going to break your hydraulics there. Don't do that to yourself.Dr. Hawthorne: Code 6561.Dr. Hawthorne: Punishment will be - will be to say something nice about yourself. Say something positive about yourself and it will count as punishment.SCP-5067 continues to bludgeon itself.\n\nSince the most recent interview, staff have been instructed to keep conversation with 5067 as emotionally neutral as possible in order to prevent SCP-5067 from engaging in further self-destructive behaviors.\nADDENDUM III:\nSCP-5067-1 is an unknown device that seems to function as a measuring instrument for light, heat, and radiation, and as a form of external data storage. There are only two files stored on it: a file labeled \"README.txt\" and a file of indeterminate size containing code that is incompatible with any known coding language or operating system. Although Foundation personnel have been unable to compile the program and successfully run the code on SCP-5067, the instructions in README.txt imply that the purpose of the code is to reset SCP-5067's programming to a default state. Comments throughout the code indicate that SCP-5067 was intended for personal security purposes.\nSCP-5067-1 was found when SCP-5067, having pried off most of its protective coverings, requested that Foundation researchers retrieve some spare parts its creator had left with it when it was discarded. It refused to comment on SCP-5067-1 when asked and recoiled when presented with it. After being shown SCP-5067-1, SCP-5067 refused to speak for the rest of the day.\nThe day after SCP-5067-1 was first presented to SCP-5067, it was given SCP-5067-1 again but without instructions or queries of any kind. SCP-5067 attempted to destroy SCP-5067-1 as soon as the chamber doors were closed.\nDr. Hawthorne attempted to talk to it again the following day. Logs of the conversation are found below.\nLOG 3:\nDr. Hawthorne: I'd like to talk a little bit about you.Dr. Hawthorne: Perhaps I was misleading. I'd like to talk about your experiences, 5067. Particularly those from before you came into our custody. There was an incident.\nSCP-5067 does not respond.\nDr. Hawthorne: (sighing) 5067, this is a direct command. Please describe the incident that necessitated your reprogramming.Dr. Hawthorne: What was his name?Heavy distortion and corruption of SCP-5067's voice.Dr. Hawthorne: What happened, 5067?Dr. Hawthorne: \u2026All right. Thank you, Fiver. Thank you. Rest now. Please enter Power Saving mode.\nSCP-5067 obeys.\n\nOur current calculations estimate that SCP-5067 will be rendered nonfunctional within 10 days. I'm unsure what more we can do.\n\n- Dr. Rhea Hawthorne\n\nAddendum IV:\nFour days after the above interview, Site-29 lost power due to a multiple-entity breach that resulted in 6 casualties and 13 injuries. Dr. Rhea Hawthorne received a serious internal wound during the breach and likely would have died were it not for the intervention of Junior Researcher Dawes. Dawes gave SCP-5067 SCP-5067-1 and asked it to fix itself so that it might help guard the injured and restore power to the site until reinforcements could arrive. It repeatedly refused until Researcher Dawes retrieved Dr. Hawthorne's phone and showed it her lockscreen - a picture of the doctor and her nine-year old son. SCP-5067 accepted SCP-5067-1, spent two hours repairing its hardware with Dawes' help, and was able to both restore power to its wing of the site and guard Foundation personnel in the area from the other escaped anomalies.\nSCP-5067 appears to have lost most of its self-destructive tendencies after recompiling its code, though it was missing some key hardware components needed to fully repair its power core. It is still mildly radioactive, but no longer at a level that is detrimental to its physical health. It occasionally will begin executing behavioral patterns or responses from its old code, but will stop before damage is done. In light of these changes, the containment procedures have been updated to their current state and its object class has been changed to Safe.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Dr. Hawthorne was questioned after the interview as to her use of its name, however, given that SCP-5067 seems to only respond to that name in moments of emotional distress when it will not acknowledge its new designation, no warning was issued.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5066 | SCP-5067 | SCP-5068 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5068 LEVEL 2/5068\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5068\n\nSafe\n\nFig. 1: SCP-5068 under 25 times magnification.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5068 is to be stored inside a standard hermetically-sealed containment locker that allows for microscopic enhancement. SCP-5068 must be activated by a D-class at 10:27am (GMT) daily, for at least five minutes, before being returned to its container.\nDescription: SCP-5068 is a drop of water approximately 0.05 milliliters in volume. Its chemical composition indicates a source of naturally-occurring precipitation, or rainwater.\nUnder magnification, SCP-5068 contains two dominant strands of micro-fauna (designated SCP-5068-A and SCP-5068-B) currently engaged in massive inter-microbial warfare. The cause of the wide-scale conflict is currently unknown, though early DNA samples show a 99.9% match between A and B-instances.\nBoth A and B-instances have evolved biology suited to prolonged periods of warfare: SCP-5068-A (Fig. 1, extreme middle-left) has an elongated torso with multiple appendages for traversal and self-defense. SCP-5068-B (Fig. 1, extreme bottom-right), while 30% smaller, possesses eight limbs, dual eye sockets and pincers at the end of its forelimbs to track down and dismember SCP-5068-A with ease.\nDiscovery: Foundation personnel were screening Site-65 for environmental hazards when SCP-5068 was discovered in a random sample of rainwater. Further testing on the site's surrounding precipitation, groundwater and sanitation facilities is ongoing.\n\nABRIDGED TEST LOGS\n\nTest Log 1, 06/06/2016:\nD-class personnel (designated D-4439) examines SCP-5068 through a high-powered microscope: hundreds of thousands of SCP-5068-A and SCP-5068-B instances are observed to be engaged in large-scale battle.\nEvidence of small arms fire and coordinated tactics are observed: B-instances use \"pincer-like\" movements to assault SCP-5068-A's position, whereas A-instances huddle behind natural barriers for protection. B-instances also employ rudimentary weapons and vehicles comprised of an inert, organic matter, whereas A-instances hurl globules of the same material as high-velocity projectiles.\nD-4439 observes the battle for approximately five minutes before noticing that both A and B-instances have ceased their fighting and are staring up in her direction. Testing is immediately terminated.\n\nTest Log 2, 06/15/2016:\nTall structures have been erected from the center of SCP-5068-A and SCP-5068-B concentrations, which appear to be their main centres of population. The \"towers\" appear organic and constantly moving, and appear to be erected from the same biological material used to construct their weapons and tools.\nD-4439's presence is noticed much earlier this time - the structures quickly begin moving in the direction of the D-class' gaze. D-4439 notices both A and B-instances climbing up the towers and over themselves, before hurling projectiles in her general direction, which accumulate on her viewing lens as flecks of dirt.\nNo injuries reported. Chemical analysis of the dirt samples indicate a genetic match to SCP-5068-A and B instances themselves.\n\nTest Log 3, 06/17/2016:\nD-4439 ordered to depress her fingertip into the top of SCP-5068; request to use a sterilised metal rod denied. D-class eventually complies, \"activating\" SCP-5068 for five minutes before allowing the water droplet to fall back down to the surface.\nUpon re-magnification, A and B's \"towers\" appear to have been demolished, with scores of SCP-5068 instances lying scattered and inert across the surface.1\nD-4439 then ordered to place her finger on the tip of her tongue; subsequent refusal is threatened with further disciplinary action. D-class eventually complies, ingesting a portion of SCP-5068, but no side effects observed immediately. Recommend similar containment procedures to be enacted for D-4439.\n\nD-class activation of SCP-5068 via finger-depression technique.\n\nTest Log 4, 06/19/2016:\nD-4439 reports that A and B-instances have ceased hostilities with one another. Instead, both cultures observed to be actively cooperating towards the goal of containment breach. More instances have appeared in opposing \"cities\", rebuilding each other's towers at alarming rates.\nAs such, recommend increasing the frequency of SCP-5068's \"activation\" to once every three days to prevent A and B-instances from reaching the lens barrier of the microscope.\nNote: D-4439 has reported mild symptoms of lightheadedness, nausea and xerostomia.2 Daily fluid intake has also increased by 300%. Recommend continued monitoring of her physical condition within containment.\n\nTest Log 5, 06/30/2016:\nTesting was prematurely terminated when D-4439 refused to comply with emergency quarantine procedures.\nDocile behaviour was initially observed amongst A and B-instances, with D-4439 expressing relief that the microorganisms were \"no longer attacking [her] on sight\" but working towards the construction of a single, massive tower comprised of their combined, fallen dead.\nFoundation staff grew suspicious, however, when D-4439 refused to back away from the lens barrier despite repeated orders to activate SCP-5068. Instead, D-class merely repeated over and over again: \"They're already out. They're already inside of me.\"\nSCP-5068 was retracted back into containment after five minutes, as per safety protocol. D-4439 immediately displayed signs of aggression, screaming and banging on the glass wall of her observation cell, demanding to be released.\n\nTest Log 6, 07/03/2016: CANCELLED\nD-4439 attempted to breach containment today. Blunt force trauma to her limbs and cranium listed as official cause of death. The glass barrier of her containment cell will also require replacement.\nA postmortem indicates extensive presence of SCP-5068-A and B instances in her blood, saliva and urine samples; working theory is that these microorganisms propagate through liquid H20, saturating the host's body before moving onto its next vessel.\nGiven the extent of symptoms at the time of D-4439's demise, the virus would have put her down within the next 24 hours (or approximately two weeks since exposure to SCP-5068), regardless.\n\nFuture Test Log(s) ##: GREENLIGHT\nRecommend daily depression of D-class finger into SCP-5068 to continue to prevent a possible microbial MK-class outbreak scenario. To further disrupt SCP-5068-A and B's efforts in breaching containment, this frequency may escalate in the future.\nTo coincide with mass screenings of Foundation personnel, O-5 Command has given its greenlight to commence mass clinical trials to find a way to neutralise newly discovered SCP-5068 instances.\nAdditional containment cells are being constructed as we speak. Remember to preserve their remains for future study.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Presumably stunned and not destroyed due to the general resiliency of microorganisms.\n2. severe dry throat\n\n\u00ab SCP-5067 | SCP-5068 | SCP-5069 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\n{$custom-content}\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab SCP-5068 |SCP-5069| SCP-5070 \u00bb\n\nItem #: SCP-5069\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Celluloid copies of SCP-5069-1 though 8 are to be kept in standard storage lockers in the media storage wing of Site-28. SCP-5069 instances may not be accessed without permission from the SCP-5069 containment lead (currently Dr. Jennifer Sinombre Dr. David Ciruela).\nFoundation agents are to monitor communities of occultists and sexual fetishists for copies or mentions of SCP-5069. All copies of SCP-5069 instances located outside Foundation containment are to be destroyed, and any individuals who have viewed SCP-5069 instances or recreated the sex acts depicted therein are to be treated with Class-C amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5069 is a series of eight erotic films (designated SCP-5069-1 through -8) produced between 1977 and 1982. SCP-5069 instances range in duration from 34 minutes to over four hours, and (with the exception of SCP-5069-4) appear to have been filmed in one continuous take. SCP-5069 was created by Francesco Castaldo (PoI-33906), an Italian anomalous artist active in New York and Venice from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, under the alias \"Franco Spanko\".\nSCP-5069 instances have no inherent anomalous properties. It is believed that the sex acts depicted in SCP-5069 instances are thaumatological rituals, the purpose of which is currently unclear; research is ongoing under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Sinombre has ceased indefinitely.\nDr. Jennifer Sinombre - Research Notes, 5 May 1986\nCopied from a text file retrieved from Dr. Sinombre's office computer.\n\nJennifer N Sinombre - preliminary notes on the SCP-5069 project 5/5/86\nso the new project is a series of spooky ritualistic porn films. not thrilled, of course, because it's starting to feel like i'm the erotica expert now, but maybe if i keep it up long enough they'll make me the head of an actual sub-department of pornography and i can get a raise. anyway it can't be worse than the last project - had to get a new keyboard, the dolphin fluids were never gonna come out.\ndocumentation suggests that they might even be non-anomalous, but the verdict is still out - i haven't watched the films yet but from what i've heard about them and about Castaldo i'm pretty sure they're going to be thaumaturgy. pulling up some texts on sex magick - crowley, parsons, de naglowska - in case any of it is relevant.\nthe d-class who watched the films didn't show any anomalous symptoms. some of them requested to see them again, but no memetic compulsion there\u2014pretty sure the commissary doesn't even sell the swimsuit issue, so it's the only porn they've seen in ages. i'm going to start watching them today, should finish with them tomorrow.\nwatched some of Castaldo's non-anart work last night, just to get a sense of his directorial style. definitely leans more toward erotica than gonzo, with a heavy dose of surrealism. tends to pick classical settings\u2014he loves his ancient roman aesthetics. according to the critics, his best work is Le Barbare (The Barbarian Women). it's definitely strange\u2014like Caligula crossed with Eraserhead\u2014but i have to say, i'm a fan.\nAV just let me know that the projector's ready to go. can't bring my computer into the screening room, so it's back to the stone age.\n\nTable 5069-A: SCP-5069 Instances\nSummaries written by Dr. Sinombre; notes transcribed from a notebook retrieved from Dr. Sinombre's desk.\n\nInstance\nTitle\nSummary\n\nSCP-5069-1\nThe Sun Kissed Lovers\nA man and a woman have sex on a beach, starting at sunrise and continuing in a variety of positions until noon. The camera angle changes so that they are constantly silhouetted against the sun. Neither comes to orgasm until the last 33 seconds of the film, at which point the sun increases in brightness until neither actor can be seen.\n\nruntime almost 4.5 hours. I feel bad for them\u2014but that sure is some stamina. prob. clever editing? need full forensic pass to check. solar worship? cross-ref. Aten, Zunbil, Elagabalus/Sol Invictus. title \"Sun Kissed Lovers\" (sic) w/o hyphen\u2014sun kissing its lovers? find beach location\u2014cross-ref w/ tables of local noon/sunrise.\n\nSCP-5069-2\nBurning Passion\nA group of men masturbate around a fire. As each man ejaculates into the fire, he is replaced by another actor, and the fire burns higher and brighter. After twenty men have ejaculated into the fire, the actors are no longer replaced; after the twenty-fifth man leaves, the fire dies down over the next 30 minutes, revealing a nude woman kneeling in the center. She stands and walks out of frame.\n\nfire gives birth to the woman? fire is the woman? double meaning of \"burning passion\"\u2014the passion is heated, but the passion (i.e. semen) is what is being burned. special-effects or anomaly?\n\nSCP-5069-3\nBone Deep and Deeper Still\nTwo nude men1 wrestle in a boxing ring. The loser of each round performs oral sex on the winner, and after the winner comes to orgasm they begin another round of wrestling. This repeats for eight rounds, at which point each man has won four times. After the final round, the actors are handed knives by an individual offscreen, and the film ends abruptly as they face each other once more.\n\nritual combat. only film w/o women in it; if Castaldo is hetero that makes sense. \"bone deep & deeper\" god this man loves his porno puns. can we find the identities of the men? scars & tattoos both very distinctive.\n\nSCP-5069-4\nA Million Little Deaths\nA compilation of seventy-seven close shots of women's faces, apparently during orgasm. Each shot lasts slightly longer than the previous shot, and each actress is slightly older than the previous actress. At the end of the final shot, the actress stares directly into the camera for three minutes until the film fades to black; a caption informs the viewer that she expired from a heart attack during filming. There is no sound.\n\nbeautiful, in a weird way\u2014\"little deaths\" followed by a big death. last woman is Lucia Scarletta, former model, def. died around the time of filming but we can't confirm she died on camera. human sacrifice? but human sacrifice via natural death. total silence is also interesting, more death symbolism?\n\nSCP-5069-5\nPounding Below the Skin\nTwo men and two women have sex in a variety of positions; their movements are all in time with music played on a variety of drums and wind instruments by a crowd of nude men and women in the background. The music increases in tempo over the course of the film, and the actors' movements increase in speed to match it; during the last 3 minutes, each of the actors comes to orgasm and collapses in exhaustion. The last actor to orgasm, one of the women, is crowned with a cypress wreath by one of the drummers, and carried offscreen by all the musicians as the film ends.\n\nalmost like a competition, to see who can last the longest. music is similar to Phrygian ritual songs\u2014that plus cypress wreath reminds me of the cult of Attis/Cybele. (no castration, obviously, but it makes me wonder what would've happened if a man had won)\n\nSCP-5069-6\nThe Possibilities of Embrace\nAn indeterminate number2 of men and women engage in group sex in a variety of positions and combinations. All of the women are menstruating. Twenty-seven minutes into the film, all sexual activity stops; one woman stands at the center of a ring formed by the other actors, and each other person draws a symbol on her skin in menstrual fluid3. Once each person has drawn a symbol, the circle closes and all of the symbols are licked off by the other participants.\n\nthe most scattered, the least sexy. not a fan of period sex. symbols don't seem to have any consistent meaning, almost like it's symbolism for the sake of symbolism. The letters that the actors write don't form any actual words that I can find. not your best work, Franco.\n\nSCP-5069-7\nShe Does Whoever She Does\nA woman slowly strips on stage at a club. All the audience members are wearing animal masks. When she is fully nude, she invites a woman in a fox mask onto the stage, and they have sex. Afterwards, the camera follows her backstage and out into an alleyway. She walks nude down the streets of a city, slowly dressing herself in articles of clothing she finds on the ground; when she is fully dressed, she enters another club, dons a fox mask, and sits in the audience as a strip show begins.\n\ncyclical. The dancer becomes the fox, the fox seduces the dancer, it all repeats. can't identify the city\u2014looks european definitely, but there are no signs anywhere, not even numbers on the houses. maybe a pocket dimension? or just a soundstage. sex is more realistic than most girl-on-girl porn.\n\nSCP-5069-8\nThe Body's Many Portals\nA nude woman sits on a purple tile floor, with a large basin of water in front of her. She uses the water to brush her teeth, wash out her eyes, nostrils, ears, and navel, and douche her vagina, urethra, and anus, retrieving all the necessary supplies from off-camera. She makes a small incision on the back of her heel with a pocket knife, and washes the wound with the remaining water. She masturbates briefly, lies down on the floor, and seems to fall asleep. The film fades to black after a further fifty-two seconds.\n\nthe least overtly sexual. \"The Body's Many Portals\"\u2014each orifice is a doorway, but to what? opening each door & creating a new one\u2014metaphor for enlightenment? also a solo scene unlike the others. (definitely my favorite)\n\nDr. Jennifer Sinombre - Research Notes, 6 May 1986\nTranscribed from a notebook retrieved from Dr. Sinombre's desk.\n\nJ. N. SINOMBRE - 5/6/86\njust finished my first watch of the 5069 instances. same style as Franco's other work\u2014blurring the lines between porn and art film. no direct correlation to the sex magic stuff i read, but many of them are mystical at least in aesthetic. didn't find them particularly sexy, except maybe 7 & 8\u2014probably personal bias though, the D's seemed to enjoy them.\n4, 8 aren't really porn per se, which is interesting\u2014they were definitely marketed as such, like all castaldo's work. trying to imagine the scene in the seedy porno theatres. guys show up all ready to crank one out and then get treated to just an hour of o-face. genius.\nconfusing mix of symbolism and ritual. definitely elements drawn from greek & near eastern religion/folklore/mythology. lot of that in le barbare, that was set in ancient scythia, the whole black sea area seems to come up a lot for castaldo. it all looks like magic, but not Magic; ritualistic, but not the right kind of ritual for thaumaturgy. might just be missing steps that you'd know if you were a thaumaturge. should find one to ask. is franco a thaumaturge?\nneed more background\u2014pull POI file in the AM\n\nPerson of Interest File #33906: Francesco Castaldo\nOriginally compiled May 1970; last updated December 1986.\n\nPOI-33906, 18 June 1976\n\nLegal Name: Francesco Castaldo\nKnown Aliases: Franco Spanko, The Director, Christopher D'Omera\nAssociated Groups of Interest: Are We Cool Yet?\nDate of Birth: 11 January 1941\nNationality: Italian by birth; naturalized American citizen since 1969\nDescription: White male, brown hair, brown eyes. Height 1.8m, weight approx. 85kg. Usually wears hair long, and has a full beard.\nIdentifying Marks: Appendix removal scar on stomach; tattoo of an eye on left pectoral; anomalously animated tattoo of an octopus on right shoulder.\nReason for Interest: Former member of anomalous artist collective \"Are We Cool Yet?\"; creator of a number of known anomalies, including SCP-5069.\nKnown Associates: PoI-23325 (\"The Critic\"), PoI-3337-A (Luisa Bellocchio, alias \"The Photographer\" - deceased), PoI-27901 (Rev. William Greene)\nAnomalous Abilities: Skilled anomalous artist, specializing in photography and filmography; possible low-level thaumaturge.\nRules of Engagement: Observation only, low priority.\nPlace(s) of Residence: 480 Broome St, #33, New York, New York; 18 Via Enrico Toti, Venezia, Italy.\nBiographical Information: Born in Friuli, Italy. Parents, Maria and Gabriele Castaldo, were anti-fascist resistance fighters; father died when Castaldo was 2 years old. Mother remarried her dead husband's brother, Enrico, after the war. Family moved to Venice in 1950; stepfather worked as a longshoreman, mother as a typist.\nAttended the Accademia delle Belle Arte di Venezia (Venetian Academy of Fine Arts) in 1962. Became involved in Venetian anomalous art community shortly thereafter via a girlfriend, Lucia Marinetti. In 1964, applied to the Venetian School of the Medicea Accademia Dell'Arte Occulta (Medici Academy of Occult Art) and was accepted; expelled six months later for obscenity and blasphemy.\nMoved to New York City in 1967. Began to direct and produce non-anomalous erotic films, most notably Le Barbare (The Barbarian Women) and Rex Mundi (King of the World), both of which were critically acclaimed but had little commercial success. In 1968, became involved with anomalous art collective Are We Cool Yet?, and was given the title \"The Director\" when the founding Director, PoI-23328 (\"Daniel Calderwood\") died during a performance of SCP-701 (see Incident Report 701-\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/1968). In 1969 or 1970, became romantically involved with PoI-3337-A, Luisa Bellocchio (alias \"The Photographer\").\nIn 1975, left AWCY? and broke off relationship with Bellocchio. Checked into experimental drug rehabilitation facility in October 1975, citing addiction to alcohol and prescription painkillers. In 1977, began to produce the series of erotic films recently designated SCP-5069; completed series in 1982. Addiction relapse in 1983 presumably sparked by Bellocchio's suicide; has not been active in the art world since, although he has written a number of non-anomalous erotic novels under the pen name \"Christopher D'Omera\".\n\nDr. Jennifer Sinombre - Research Notes, 7 May 1986\nCopied from a text file retrieved from Dr. Sinombre's office computer.\n\nJN Sinombre 5/7/86\nthere's something missing in franco's poi file. why are we so sure he's a thaumaturge? as far as i can tell, nothing in his background points to him being anything more than an anartist. exploits yes, magic no. might be some supplemental material elsewhere, i'll keep digging.\nm.a.d.a.o. does some thaumatology but we've got his transcripts from there, italian branch has pretty good relations with them, and he never did anything but anart. well, they don't call it anart, but whatever the aristocratic italian equivalent is. and he got kicked out in half a year, something about nude photos of the pope? that part is actually pretty heavily redacted, i think they might've tried to get the vatican involved.\ngot the possible locations for -1. all over the map, probably never going to narrow it down. just too many east-facing beaches at the correct latitudes, plus we don't actually know what time of year it was filmed. need to look up sun gods next.\nmay have found one of the actors in -3. doesn't make ANY sense though. Lt. Col. Henry Mostrich, US Army, retired. happily married to Mrs. Elizabeth Pavo Mostrich since 1963. purple heart and distinguished service cross earned in vietnam. war hero, grandfather, upstanding citizen. the face seems to match, but\u2014according to the army's medical records\u2014he doesn't have all those scars. makeup? why did he act in the film in the first place?\nmore thoughts on -8. cut on the heel is actually two small incisions, almost like a snake bite. washing moves down the body, inverting the chakra flow. kundalini serpent-power? opening orifices = opening doors = opening chakras? need to see if franco had any contact w eastern mysticism.\njackpot - franco did an interview with an anart zine right after -8 was released. getting anart dept to send me over a copy.\n\nInterview with Anartchy magazine, April 1982.\nThis interview was published in the Spring 1982 edition of Anartchy, a quarterly anomalous art zine published by a collective of anartists based out of Backdoor Soho.\n\nOriginally from Friuli, Francesco Castaldo, better known as \"Franco Spanko\", made a name for himself in the Venice scene with Papi senz' Abiti (Popes without Robes), his '65 series of nude photographs of every pope since St. Peter. Anartchy's Dan Larsson caught up with Castaldo in his Soho studio to chat about inspiration, metaphysics, and the mystical properties of his latest work, the erotic film series Eightfold Path to Glory.\nDan Larsson: So, where did the inspiration for Eightfold Path come from? It seems pretty esoteric, yeah?\nFrancesco Castaldo: Well, you know, in '75 I had some problems with the drinking and the pills, and I went to a rehab center with a sensory deprivation tank\u2014total sensory deprivation, the sigils on the inside turn all your senses off\u2014and while I was floating there, going through withdrawal, really just out of my mind, I had a vision. The upper realms, they were laid out before me, and all the powers and their dominions and emanations; I saw the true structure of the world, beyond the walls of what we call reality. And from all that knowledge, I derived eight rituals, which are much, much more powerful than their reflections in magic and religion, and I had those rituals performed, and I filmed them. And those films are the Eightfold Path.\nLarsson: Wow. That's pretty heavy. But\u2014not to put too fine a point on it\u2014a skin flick isn't the traditional format for conveying occult knowledge. Why not write some sort of occult grimoire, or found a cult to pass on your secrets?\nCastaldo: You do what you're good at, you know? Dante had the Inferno, Michelangelo had the Capella Sistina, and I made a porno.\nLarsson: Makes sense. There's clearly a lot of heavy symbolism, but it seems like each individual film explores a different theme\u2014mind unpacking some of that for our readers?\nCastaldo: There are eight forces that pervade the higher spheres. You may think of them as elements, or philosophies, or perhaps political factions. None of those ways of seeing are untrue, but neither are they the truth. And each of those forces has a path that a practitioner may take, up through the gates of the mind into glory. The rituals in the films can guide one in the right direction.\nLarsson: So, if my boyfriend and I found a boxing ring and recreated Bone Deep, we would, what, become enlightened?\nCastaldo: Well, it's not that simple. Certain powers must be appeased. If one does not have the right knowledge, or does not perform the ritual at the right time, or in the right place, or with the right tools, then it'll just be some weird kinky sex.\nLarsson: And if you do it right?\nCastaldo: You take the first step down a very long road.\nFranco wouldn't answer any more of our questions, unfortunately\u2014but he did let us reprint some of his famous four-dimensional pinup girls, which can be seen on the next few pages. Enjoy!\n\nDr. Jennifer Sinombre - Research Notes, 7-15 May 1986\nTranscribed from sticky notes and scrap paper retrieved from Dr. Sinombre's office.\n\nfind franco's rehab center\n\neggs, milk, chicken, neti pot, rice, chips, pocket knife, tampons, toilet paper\n\nst agnes of bohemia\n\"one must first open oneself\"\n\ni was right about the snakes\n\nfranco's rehab center didn't do sense-dep\u2014where did he really learn the truth???\n\n[Written in purple lipstick on a paper napkin, not in Dr. Sinombre's handwriting.]\n\nENID 212-271-6[ILLEGIBLE]\n[There is a lip-print in the same color on the opposite side of the napkin.]\n\nREADING LIST:\ndvaranaga sutra\nblackwood, cults of hindustan\ngospel of zacchareus\nsteiner, higher worlds & cosmic memory\nclavicula solomonis\n\nstar charts - ophiucius, saturn, nibiru - next alignments\n\nwhich history am i in?\n\nNEED TO TALK TO FRANCO\n\nInterview Log, 16 May 1986\nDr. Sinombre approached PoI-33906 through his literary agent, Sarah Weiss, posing as an academic writing a book on erotic film. PoI-33906 agreed to meet for a short interview, which took place in his agent's office in New York City. Interview was transcribed from a cassette tape retrieved from Dr. Sinombre's office.\n\nSubject: PoI-33906, Francesco Castaldo\nInterviewer: Dr. Jennifer Sinombre\nDr. Sinombre (JNS): Thank you for meeting me on such short notice, Mr. Castaldo.\nPoI-33906 (FC): Think nothing of it. Anything for the fans, no?\nJNS: So, I'd like to start with Eightfold Path to Glory.\nFC: Ah! My magnum opus. I must confess, that phrase has always amused me. Everyone always says it with such seriousness. But, well\u2026\nJNS: It makes you think of the condom size?\nFC: Ha! I can see we are on the same page. So, what would you like to know about the Eightfold Path?\nJNS: Well, I wanted to know about some of the symbolism you used in, uh, I guess specifically Pounding Beneath the Skin. Uh, Below, sorry. That's all based on the cult of Attis and Cybele, right?\nFC: Yes! Right on the head. So many people, they miss the historical references.\nJNS: So what would've happened if a man had, uh, \"won\"? I mean, mythologically speaking, Attis is only really known for the one thing\u2026\nFC: Hmm. It was all staged, you know? This was not a real ritual any more than, say, La Cena4 was a real dinner party. But\u2026\nJNS: But?\nFC: But, if one were to take the lessons laid out in Pounding, and act out a ritual devised from those lessons, and a man were to, as you say, win the contest, he would have to make a great sacrifice if he wished to take the next step.\nJNS: Do you know if anyone has ever done that? Performed one of the rituals you say are hidden in the films?\nFC: Not with Pounding, as far as I'm aware. Perhaps Sun Kissed Lovers, or maybe\u2026 Hmm. Your ankle.\nJNS: Excuse me?\nFC: Your ankle. It's bandaged, yes?\nJNS: Uh, yes. Cut myself shaving. Last night.\nFC: Hmm. Of course. Do you know what I find interesting about wounds?\nJNS: I\u2026 No, I suppose I don't.\nFC: There is an Italian proverb. An old one, older even than the Romans. It was first recorded by Horace, when he wrote about the witch-women of the Fucine marshes. \"Not all doors are wounds, but all wounds are doors.\"\nJNS: I'm not sure I understand. What is it supposed to mean?\nFC: Well, it's about\u2026 Opening. A wound opens up our inside to the outside. And stuff can pass through, germs, dirt, but\u2026\nJNS: But we can pass through it as well.\nFC: Exactly. Did you pass through that wound, when you cut yourself? While shaving, of course.\nJNS: I\u2026 Yes.\nFC: And would you like to go further?\nJNS: Definitely.\nFC: Then switch off that recorder, and let us actually speak.\n\nDr. Jennifer Sinombre - Research Notes, 19 May 1986\nRecovered from Dr. Sinombre's personal residence.\n\nit's not thaumaturgy. it's what thaumaturgy could be, in a different history. it's what thaumaturgy SHOULD be, and CAN be, if i open the right doors.\ni have been there, in my dreams, through the first door. tonight i will pass through the second, in both body and soul. do not try to follow me. find your own path, and maybe we will meet again, somewhere in the higher realms.\nto the foundation: we have failed. or we never had the chance to succeed. everything in our little boxes, the statues and the gods, the talking birds and the time-loop suicides, all are pale shadows cast by the real forces that shape the universe. we could not contain the Dominions, no more than a gnat could contain a hurricane.\nto my successor (david? elaine?): you can do it too. it's all there, if they let you see the films. i cannot give you any more guidance, but i wish you well.\nand to ted and katy5: we had our goodbye eight years ago. i don't miss you any more. i hope you don't repeat your mistakes, and i hope you're not even given a chance to make them again.\nJennifer N Sinombre, 19 May 1986\n\nDr. Sinombre's whereabouts are currently unknown. She did not appear for work on 20 May 1986, and could not be contacted via telephone. When her off-site residence was searched several days later, it was found to be completely empty, except for the above note, pinned to the basement wall with a pocket knife, above a large puddle of king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) venom.\nSince her disappearance, Dr. Sinombre has not been sighted by Foundation or allied personnel.\n\nFootnotes\n1. One middle-aged and heavily scarred, the other young and tattooed with a pattern of tiger stripes.\n2. 33 actors are credited, although not every actor credited appears in the film and not every actor in the film is credited.\n3. A variety of symbols have been identified, including alchemical and astrological symbols, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic letters, and mathematical formulae.\n4. The Dinner, one of Castaldo's first pornographic films.\n5. Presumably Theodore and Katherine Sinombre, Dr. Sinombre's parents.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5068 | SCP-5069 | SCP-5070 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5070 at rest.\n\nItem #: SCP-5070\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5070 is to be kept in Site-15's indoor aviary. 2x4 wooden planks coated in red paint are to be provided to SCP-5070 three times a day for feeding purposes. After completion of feeding, the planks are to be retrieved and repainted. One live rabbit is to be provided to SCP-5070 weekly. In the event that SCP-5070 escapes, personnel are to use red objects to lure the anomaly back to containment.\nDescription: SCP-5070 is a black desktop stapler. SCP-5070 is sentient, and displays behavior similar to birds of the Picidae1family. It is capable of locomotion through short hops or flight, which is accomplished through the use of two triangular pieces of A4 paper taped to the handle, which act as wings. Testing has confirmed that the paper is heavily durable compared to non-anomalous counterparts. Other than an inscription etched on the bottom of SCP-5070 displaying the word \u201cVAMP\u201d, the item is in good condition.\nSCP-5070 is normally passive, and shows signs that resemble affection towards humans2 with the exception of feeding. In this hunting state, it will protrude staple teeth from the hole of the carrier and hunt for the nearest living animal. Upon locating prey, it will attempt to crush or fasten the prey to nearby surfaces and repeatedly staple it until deceased3, then piercing the skin a final time before sucking the entirety of the blood using the staple teeth as a focal point. It is currently unknown how SCP-5070 is able to absorb blood, nor what becomes of the liquid after consumption. After feeding, it will return to a passive state.\nSCP-5070 is able to use red coloring as a substitute for sustenance. When given objects colored red (or other shades of red), it will approach and 'bite' down on the widest surface possible. The color will recede to where the teeth meet until disappearing completely, leaving neutral colors (white, gray, black etc.) behind. This process only affects the color red; other colors will be unaffected. Despite being able to gain sustenance from any red object, SCP-5070 prioritizes blood as a food source. After incidents of SCP-5070 attacking personnel following long periods of substitute feeding, containment procedures have been updated to include the introduction of one live rabbit once every week to amend the issue.\nDiscovery: On 9/15/2008, SCP-5070 was discovered by the Foundation following a series of reports involving red objects suddenly turning gray without apparent cause in Mission Viejo, California. Agents were dispatched to the area and eventually encountered SCP-5070 stapling carcasses of squirrels to a tree within the premises of a private golf course. SCP-5070 did not resist and was apprehended with relative ease. All objects affected were repainted to their original color as necessary.\nShortly after capture, it became apparent that the objects that SCP-5070 had affected led a trail from the golf course to the suburban home of Dominic White (PoI-1877), a 29-year old accountant employed by the \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Company. The house was found uninhabited at the time. The premises was investigated and uncovered multiple indicators that SCP-5070 was kept in the house. Among these were:\n\nAll windows, with the exception of the second-floor bathroom, were covered in blinds and each of the doors leading inside the building had multiple locks installed on them.\nAll of the wooden furniture were covered in layers of bubble wrap.\nAn abundant amount of cans of red paint and wooden blocks were stored in the pantry.\nBinders detailing thaumaturgic practices and arts were found on a work bench in the garage. Inside the binder was a set of written transactions detailing a list of items being sent to various named individuals4.\nA custom-made indoor aviary in the main bedroom. The bars of the cage were made of denser metals and were significantly reinforced. Inside the aviary contained the seat and chain of a playground swing set, a bird feeder modified to dispense rabbit blood, and several chew toys embedded with staples.\n\nA search was immediately issued for PoI-1877. Foundation agents posing as law enforcement investigated \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588; it was revealed that he left work early on the excuse of a family emergency. All attempts to trace his cell phone have failed.\nNearly a month after containment of SCP-5070, security personnel discovered PoI-1877 scouting the area of Site-15. He attempted to flee but was quickly arrested. PoI-1877's vehicle was found nearby along with a bag of tools, a Crosman brand BB gun and a rough sketch of the layout of the Site stored in the trunk. Upon confirming PoI-1877's identity, an interview was scheduled to determine his relationship with SCP-5070.\n\n+ ACCESS SCP:/5070/interview/PoI-1877 \n\n- Close File\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nDATE: 10/15/2007\nINTERVIEWER: Dr. Barrs\nINTERVIEWEE: PoI-1877\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Barrs: State your name for the record.\nPoI-1877: Why? I'm pretty sure you guys know who I am at this point.\nDr. Barrs: Just\u2026 state your name, please.\nPoI-1877: Dominic White. Happy now?\nDr. Barrs: So, Mr. White. Before we detained you, our people found you hiding behind some rocks with binoculars. You attempted to escape. Care to explain?\nPoI-1877: I wanted to explore. I don't see how that's a crime.\nDr. Barrs: As in exploring, you mean planning to break into a highly-classified building which you shouldn't have been at in the first place. I don't think a BB gun is exactly the most appropriate weapon to use in this situation. Don't you think?\nPoI-1877 shrugs and remains silent.\nDr. Barrs: Okay, why don't we make this simple and get to the point. The stapler is the reason why you're here? I'm guessing you wanted to reclaim back what's yours?\nPoI-1877: You're talking like Vamp was nothing but a simple toy to me. Hell, he's the most important thing in my life. I don't expect you guys to get that. But hey! That's part of the deal I guess.\nDr. Barrs: Then why not help us understand? Surely your input would allow us to help your friend better.\nPoI-1877: Haven't you guys put the pieces together already?\nDr. Barrs: We would like to hear it from your perspective. What is your relationship between you and the entity?\nPoI-1877: It doesn't matter. Skip.\nDr. Barrs: You don't get\u2026 How about this. You answer truthfully without any missing details, and you might not be locked in a room for the foreseeable future. We might even take more consideration with your case as well.\nPoI-1877: You drive a hard bargain. What the hell, fine. If this is going to be my highlight might as well make it memorable. Hm\u2026 that question is a bit complicated. I don't know where to start.\nDr. Barrs: Why not start from the beginning? You must have had a first encounter with anomalies.\nPoI-1877: In that case\u2026 It started in the middle of college. One day, dad came to me and said he was a magician. I thought he lost his mind, then he showed me some magic. To say the least, I almost lost mine too.\nDr. Barrs: Your father was a 'magician'?\nPoI-1877: That's what he called anartists. Apparently he'd been one in secret for sometime and finally decided I was ready to learn the hobby of his. It was a great venture at the time and I became his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 until he passed away. After that, I became focused with my job and just worked to keep the house. I didn't feel satisfied with the paychecks as of late so I decided to become more creative of increasing the cash flow.\nDr. Barrs: So you produced anomalies to turn a profit.\nPoI-1877: Hey, I'm not an arms dealer! The stuff I made were typically for jokes or were tools for minor inconveniences. I never sold weapons. They send me what they want, and I deliver. It pays decently too.\nDr. Barrs: So what about the stapler? Was it created due to a request?\nPoI-1877: No. My jackass boss dumped loads of paperwork on my desk and I had a narrow deadline. I decided to finish it at home. I remember signing and stapling the papers together but it got hazy after that. I don't know if it was something leftover from my previous projects or maybe it was the universe's way of telling me that my job sucked. Who knows, but when I woke, I saw my stapler, the same one I've been using for nearly a decade, flying around the garage like a confused animal. It was a first for me.\nDr. Barrs: Care to elaborate? You said you created anomalies for a living.\nPoI-1877: I did, but I was never able to give life to my creations before. I was excited, it motivated me to reach for the big leagues, expand my brand so to speak. I got in contact with a lot of big names but\u2026 um\u2026\nDr. Barrs: The deals didn't work out as you hoped?\nPoI-1877: Rejected. Every single of them. Said he was not interesting or it was too much of a hassle to deal with him. It doesn't faze me now but back then it was a huge gut punch. Like everything I did at that point was just sub-par at best. After that wake up call I had to rethink a lot of things, one of them was figuring out what to do with Vamp.\nDr. Barrs: And that was when you decided to take the entity into your custody.\nPoI-1877: Not at first. I originally kept him around because I didn't know what to do with him. I was debating whether to dismantle or toss him. But I couldn't do it. It was my creation, a child of mine. Vamp hurt my chances but he didn't deserve that. It wasn't right. And I guess after some more time he grew on me. Sure he was erratic and has bit me more times than I can count, but I loved him and he loved me. He reminded me a lot of Dakota.\nDr. Barrs: Who is Dakota?\nPoI-1877: A Goldendoodle I used to own when I was a kid. In fact, she was a part of the family for as long as I could remember. She was a mischievous devil. One of her greatest moments were her stealing food or barking at stupid things on the tv. But she made it up by being a love bug. I had more of a relationship with Dakota than\u2026 most of the people I ever met. But she was so old. I was sad to see her go. The house was never the same. Vamp filled the void and I treated him as a pet ever since. He was a pain in the ass but he was worth it.\nDr. Barrs: I would imagine taking responsibility for such a thing would be difficult.\n\nPoI-1877: Oh don't get me wrong. He was a challenge but not in the way you're thinking. My salary covered the cost of getting supplies, it was keeping him in the house that was a chore. It was hard enough I had to stapler-proof the house but unlike Dakota, he was adventurous and didn't like being kept inside for the majority of the day. It didn't help that he also gets easily bored. I tried entertaining him as best I could but my job consumed most of my free time. The worst part was I had to frequently leave him at home. Alone. I couldn't hire a pet-sitter, couldn't risk the attention.\nDr. Barrs: Has it ever escaped?\nPoI-1877: On occasion. Somehow he would escape from the cage and try to get outside. I managed to catch him in time, but as we all know, I lost my streak. Still don't know how he got out.\nDr. Barrs: Well according to the report, one of the windows in the bathroom were opened-\nPoI-1877: What? The bathroom? Dammit! PoI-1877 covers his eyes with his left hand and groans. I fucking knew I missed something when I left. Uh, Vamp didn't cause trouble on his day out, did he?\nDr. Barrs: It damaged public property but that's the extent. We're curious as to what you were doing on the day of the stapler's capture. \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 stated you left due to a family emergency.\nPoI-1877: Oh that? That was a lie, well\u2026 half-lie. I left because I saw him out of the house, and I rushed into my car to snatch him before someone else did. Or at least I tried.\nDr. Barrs: That's not possible as the stapler was nowhere near \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nPoI-1877: I didn't see him with my eyes. I saw him with my mind.\nDr. Barrs: With\u2026 your mind?\nPoI-1877: You heard of remote viewing? I can do that. It was the only reason why I felt comfortable leaving him at home.\nDr. Barrs: Y-You\u2026 what?! How are you ab-\nPoI-1877: Runs in the family apparently. I was only aware of it when dad taught me. Hope that explains a lot.\nDr. Barrs: Your family line has psychic capabilities? Is this abnormality due to your genetics or-\n\nPoI-1877: Look, if you want to know more about it, fine. But this is all about him, right? Why go off-course with such an irrelevant topic? I'll happily tell you more about the finer details when this is over. I can tell you're the kind of guys that love to get their nose in everyone's business.\nDr. Barrs: Erm\u2026 Alright then. Continue.\nPoI-1877: Anyways, I had a particularly shitty day: too much work, overbearing coworkers, didn't get enough sleep either. I can't view things well when I'm stressed, it gets fuzzy. When I finally got a chance to breathe, I saw him\u2026 happily munching on a license plate, and that's when I bolted. I drove but when I viewed you guys scooping him up I knew there was no coming back from this\u2026 and perhaps it was for the best.\nDr. Barrs: You wanted us to contain your pet?\nPoI-1877: Hell no. I wished this whole thing never happened, but you know what? It gave me clarity. For the longest time, I've been taught that getting high on the food chain was the definition of success. But if that's true, then why do I still feel like I'm still wasting my life? I figured it out. That's what I wanted in life, not what I needed. Picture this doc: you're young and you were raised that if you work hard, just put the effort in, you'll be set for life. A happy ending.\nPoI-1877: Then you grow up. You've gotten yourself a great house but barely have the time to appreciate it due to work. You feel tired every day but you have to act like you're not because people have expectations of you and you cannot disappoint. Most people you've met are either oblivious about the world or inherently self-centered to the point where it's disgusting. And all the people you can rely on are gone and now you have to brave the path forward, not sure where to go and what to do. And you want to go back to the days when things were simple but you can't because you got responsibilities and just thinking about it makes you want to fucking scream!\nPoI-1877 slams his right fist on the table. He remains silent for eight seconds before retracting his arm.\nPoI-1877: Sorry. I didn't mean for it to come out like that. It's been a long day.\nDr. Barrs: I-It's quite alright, I understand. So Vamp helped you by relieving stress?\nPoI-1877: More than that. He brought back a semblance of what used to be. It was small, but enough. He was not man's best friend but he was certainly mine. The thought of him disappearing to some Area-51 spin-off was unacceptable. So I did research in conjunction with the viewing and eventually found the place. I made a map from what I saw and crossed my fingers. Just wished I didn't get caught so damned easily.\nDr. Barrs: Why not just have made another 'Vamp'? Surely that would have fixed everything?\nPoI-1877: Tell me, if you loved someone or something very much, so much that they're a part of who you are, would you just replace them with some look-alike? No. It was either I got Vamp back or nothing. And yeah, maybe I would've been physically better off, but I could never forgive myself if I did. I wanted to do what I thought was right in the face of overwhelming odds and I failed. At least that's something, right? Most people wouldn't dare. They'd just let life guide them by the ear rather than the other way around. Not me. I would do anything for him, and I feel like he'd do the same for me too.\nPoI-1877 lowers his head. He covers his face.\nDr. Barrs: I see. Thanks for your cooperation. I think that does it for today. Just sit tight and I'll call-\nPoI-1877: Don't mindwipe me.\nDr. Barrs: I beg your pardon?\nPoI-1877 raises his head. His eyes are watering.\nPoI-1877: Please don't wipe my memories. Us veterans in the 'anomalous' community are aware that you guys have ways of making people forget things they shouldn't know. I don't care if you guys lock me up forever or kill me, but please! Don't make me forget. I don't want to go back. I don't want it all to be for nothing!\nDr. Barrs: Hold on, let's calm down her-\nPoI-1877: You said you'd look at my case, right? I'm sure you're having problems with Vamp. I know some tricks that might help. In fact, I'd be a very valuable asset to you guys. I know magic and the viewing too! Maybe we can work something out?\nDr. Barrs: I\u2026 hold on. I need to make some calls.\n[END LOG]\nAfterword: After much consideration, due to PoI-1877's experience in thaumaturgy and remote viewing capabilities, he was assigned MTF Sigma-66 (\"Sixteen Tons\") 6 months following this interview. PoI-1877's recommendations to SCP-5070's containment procedures have been acknowledged. Proposal to allow Po1-1877 to interact with SCP-5070 once every two weeks have been approved.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Woodpecker\n2. SCP-5070 expresses affection by perching on the shoulder and rubbing against the neck whilst clapping its carrier against the crimp area in repetitive short bursts. To most staff, this is generally viewed with discomfort.\n3. When pulling the handle away from the carrier, SCP-5070 is found to be empty of staples. It has been theorized that SCP-5070 produces these staples internally when in its hunting state.\n4. These were not legitimate names, but codenames.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5069 | SCP-5070 | SCP-5071 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5073 instance mixed into milk\n\nItem #: SCP-5073\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation analytic assets are to monitor for reports of individuals deceased as the result of 'internal' or 'spontaneous' explosions. These are to be investigated for potential association with SCP-5073 and given appropriate cover stories if confirmed as anomalous.\nFoundation assets embedded within the distribution chain for powdered hot chocolate mixes are to monitor shipments for instances of SCP-5073. Instances of SCP-5073 discovered are to be either incinerated or sent to Site-66 for analysis at the discretion of Researcher Tarrant.\nDescription: SCP-5073 is a series of anomalous packets of powdered hot chocolate mix. Instances of SCP-5073 outwardly resemble packets sold under legitimate brands, with no discernible differences save for tactile sensations of slight stickiness and mild warmth. SCP-5073 instances are found packaged alongside conventional packets of hot chocolate mix, with no more than one instance per box or package. SCP-5073 instances have only been found in the Western Hemisphere during winter, with a distribution pattern of one per one million units of hot chocolate mix.\nSCP-5073 instances contain1 cocoa powder visually identical to that of the brands SCP-5073 instances resemble, though the individual granules of the powder have been registered as both unusually durable and slightly warm. When mixed into milk2, the powder does not actually dissolve but remains suspended below the surface and not readily visible. The powder granules proceed to exude liquid with compositional similarities to chocolate, which colors and flavors the milk and leaves it visually identical to typical hot chocolate.\nThis resulting composition is regarded by individuals as atypically appealing when imbibed, often described in terms of an \"explosive burst of sweetness\" that regardless never discomfits or overwhelms. Though it does not possess addictive properties, individuals tend to be driven to drink a sufficient amount to use up the entire SCP-5073 packet.\nWithin two to three hours of consumption of SCP-5073, the intact granules suspend themselves at concentration above the LEL3 for cocoa dust and rub up against each other with sufficient intensity to produce friction based ignition. The dust explosion that ensues invariably possesses sufficient force to blow a human apart and do considerable damage to their surroundings.\nThough the liquid produced by SCP-5073 remains, shortly after an individual has expired due to consumption of SCP-5073, the SCP-5073 packet and any powder left within it disappears, and there is typically more of an individual's mass missing than can be accounted for by the dust explosion.\nHistory: Foundation assets embedded in police and emergency services took notice reports of individuals exploding beginning in December 20\u2588\u2588 and conducted an immediate investigation, isolating the cause to anomalous hot chocolate shortly thereafter. Deaths associated with SCP-5073 ceased one week later. No intact instances of SCP-5073 were recovered, and after six months without further incident SCP-5073 was declared Neutralized.\n\nExcerpt from Research Log 5073-1\n\nExcerpt from Research Log 5073-1\n\nResearcher Tarrant here, being informal because this is going to be short. After all, we don't have any physical evidence of this anomaly at all whatsoever besides trace amounts of ridiculously sweet liquid and the corpses it leaves behind. Pieces of corpses, rather. And yet everyone's convinced we've figured it out.\nForensics was able to piece together it was a dust explosion, yes. Eyewitness accounts have indicated the cocoa dust was in packets identical to brand name ones, yes. Thus the idea goes that some murderous anomalous prankster slipped self-igniting cocoa powder in with the regular stuff, making it sweet enough that the hapless victim would definitely drink enough of it to explode. And now people have stopped exploding, probably because the prankster got tired of it, so it's all well and good.\nI don't think that's it. It's way too elaborate a method to just to get someone to explode, and yes anomalies aren't supposed to make sense but if we go with the idea this was engineered by someone, then yes there has to be a certain degree of sense. And there is no sense in this method being used just to make people explode.\nMore than that, there are discrepancies.\nWould a prankster really get bored, just like that, and stop so abruptly? They wouldn't be exploding people to begin with if they were worried about the Foundation starting its investigation. There has to be some external factor. It was stupid warm that January (thanks climate change), maybe that's why? Less people drinking hot cocoa, less to meet\u2026 some kind of quota?\nPeople think the packets going missing was the prankster slipping in to cover their tracks, but if they can do something like that they wouldn't use such a roundabout method to begin with. And finally\u2026 what's left of the corpses. How exploded they are covers it up well, but I've examined the bits where there's more meat and bone missing than there should be.\nPeople think I'm seeing things, but I'm sure of it.\nThere are tiny bite marks.\n\nSCP-5073 incidents began again one year after its initial classification, continuing on through February. Instances have been recovered intact and sent to Researcher Tarrant at Site-66 for analysis.\nAdditionally, there has been a surge of social media posts concerning sightings of tiny brown spiders in areas where SCP-5073 incidents have occurred.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Marshmallows and other such toppings are never found in SCP-5073 instances even when advertised; this can be used to identify SCP-5073 instances imitating particular brands\n2. SCP-5073 powder remains inert if not ingested, ingested as is, or when mixed into liquid besides milk\n3. Lower explosive limit\n\n\u00ab SCP-5072 | SCP-5073 | SCP-5074 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5074 in containment, circa 1990\n\nItem \u2116 : SCP-5074\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5074 is to be kept within a low-security simian containment enclosure and supplied with a typewriter, writing utensils, and paper. Requests made by SCP-5074 for further amenities are to be vetted by the resident Simian Containment Director.\nAll anomalous phenomena documented by SCP-5074 are to be researched and contained by MTF Epsilon-4 (\"Ape's Men\"). In the event that SCP-5074 documents an anomaly using a previously undiscovered esoteric object class, said classification is to be added to the Foundation Esoteric-Class Database.\nAdditional Note: In a joint effort with GoI-466 (Wilson's Wildlife Solutions), SCP-5074 has been transferred to Enclosure 03 at Wilson's Wildlife Center to improve its morale and ensure continued cooperation. All documentation produced by SCP-5074 pertaining to anomalies and anomalous phenomena are to be analyzed by Foundation operatives working at Enclosure 03.\nDescription: SCP-5074 is an adult male chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) displaying advanced sapience. The entity is capable of reading and writing in English, Arabic, Bantu, and Swahili, and is fluent in Tanzanian Sign Language.\nSCP-5074 possesses extensive knowledge of human and world history, as well as an abnormal, encyclopedic intuition regarding anomalous phenomena. SCP-5074 is capable of explaining and writing documentation for anomalies unknown to the Foundation, and often does so without any instruction. The means by which SCP-5074 gains knowledge of anomalous phenomena is unknown.\nTo date, SCP-5074 has contributed 240 documents relating to novel anomalies to the Foundation.\n\nMemo 354\n\n15/04/2014\n\nSender\nMichael Kilger\nRecipient\nDuncan Ayers\n\nHey Duncan, I found this in that chimp's cage and I thought you'd get a kick out of it. Dunno how it got the knack for writing like the Skippers \u2014 maybe it wants to stay with them, who knows? ;)\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nMemo 355\n\n15/04/2014\n\nSender\nDuncan Ayers\nRecipient\nMichael Kilger\n\nHa, why don't you ask it?\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\n\u2026\nI'm not my father.\n\u2026\nI wouldn't trade this box for another.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5073 | SCP-5074 | SCP-5075 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5075\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nketer\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures [ARCHIVED]: Venues planning to host \"punk rock\" performances are to be monitored for any references to The Porcelain Gang Bang. MTF-Xi-75 (\"The Sniveling Scips\") is assigned to attend these performances and monitor the venues themselves for suspicious activity. In the event SCP-5075 manifests, MTF-Xi-75 will secure the area and alert the Amnestics Department for the detainment of civilians.\nDescription: SCP-5075 was the designation given to the Merseybeat/garage-rock band known as The Porcelain Gang Bang, who were active between 1961 and 1975. Music performed by SCP-5075 often dealt with themes of anti-authoritarianism, pestilence, and sexual activity. Music performed by SCP-5075 was sung in a mixture of English and an unidentified second language, and possibly carried a memetic effect that allowed all listeners to understand the lyrics in a literal and emotional sense.\nThe members of SCP-5075 (designated 5075-1 through -4) were humanoid entities dressed in costumes resembling 16th century English masquerade ball outfits with porcelain comedy masks.\nSCP-5075 demonstrated the ability to materialize and dematerialize, often appearing in a flicker of light during performances. However, they notably only manifested at venues that could house no more than 900 attendees (primarily pubs). Though the entities were always included on the set list and promotional material of performances they manifested at, organizers do not recall interacting with SCP-5075 or any individual member.\nSCP-5075's music appeared to have a psychotropic effect on listeners, causing existential melancholy or overwhelming dread. A select amount of listeners, hereby referred to as SCP-5075-A, expressed feelings of malaise and incompleteness after listening to SCP-5075, and noted a desire to learn the music themselves.\n\nAddenda:\n\n+ Addendum-5075-001: Interview Log (1963)\n\n- Addendum-5075-001: Interview Log (1963)\n\nInterview Log\nInterviewer: Researcher Geoff Simpson\nInterviewee(s): SCP-5075-1, SCP-5075-2\nForeword: SCP-5075-1 and -2 were informed that Researcher Simpson was a journalist from the occult talk show Thautamenagerie, which was active from 1951 to 1999.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSimpson <speaking to the camera>: Is it rolling? Okay. Good evening! My name is Geoff Simpson, of the Thautamenagerie, and today we have two very special guests- I'm interviewing the rising stars of the pub world, the singer and the bassist of The Porcelain Gang Bang!\nSCP-5075-1: Hallo, hallo!\nSCP-5075-1 bows in its seat.\nSCP-5075-1: Good to be here, yeah - very excited, I am.\nSimpson: I'm very excited too! It's nice to meet you, I've heard so much.\nSCP-5075-1: Oh, thank you, thank you. Too kind.\nSCP-5075-2 nods and mumbles in agreement, rocking back and forth.\nSimpson: Well, to get us started, I have to ask- what's with the costumes? They're fancy, yeah, very pretty, but don't they get hot?\nSCP-5075-1: What costumes?\nThere is a brief pause, before -1 and -2 burst into laughter. Simpson smiles.\nSCP-5075-2: A'ight, a'ight, I'll admit, yeah, we dress up a li'l fancy, we never got to back home! It was horrible, we had to dress like peasants, yeah.\nSCP-5075-1: There wasn't a lot we was allowed to do at 'ome- it was all fuckin', dyin' and watchin' the plays- well, okay, haha, the plays were fun, great fun.\nSCP-5075-2: Oohoo, great fun, yeah! I 'member, right at the end, when everyone would get up and kill-\nSCP-5075-1 punches SCP-5075-2's arm.\nSCP-5075-1: Spoilers! God, <unknown word>!\nSCP-5075-2 laughs.\nSCP-5075-2: Oi, my deepest apologies, sir.\nSCP-5075-2 bows in its seat to SCP-5075-1.\nSimpson: I, uh, your home doesn't seem any fun.\nSCP-5075-1: Sure as hell, it wasn't!\nSCP-5075-1 and SCP-5075-2 converse in an unknown language, and then laugh. Simpson nervously laughs after a brief pause.\nSimpson: Well, how were you introduced to rock music? Was that allowed?\nSCP-5075-1: It was allowed by most of the lords, but the big bad jester didn't like it.\nSimpson: Pardon me, but-\nSCP-5075-1: It's a funny story, too, how we were introduced to the pub scene here, hehe.\nSimpson: Oh, I'm sure, but about the-\n\nAt this point the footage begins to degrade, though all three of the individuals present can be seen speaking. The footage jumps forward approximately six minutes.\n\nSCP-5075-2: Well, we was stumbling along Birmingham, see, when we found this quaint li'l store - the girl behind the counter came up, told us she was expecting us, hurried us inside, y'know, handed us our things and kicked us out. 'Twas a bit blurry- don't remember if we paid for them or not? I dunno. Think it was called Syncope- marvelous place, yeah, never been in-an'-out so quick before.\nSCP-5075-1 snickers, causing SCP-5075-2 to angrily slap SCP-5075-1's knee. SCP-5075-1 laughs, and SCP-5075-2's hand remains on SCP-5075-1's knee.\nSimpson: So, you say you aren't from around here, where are you from?\nSCP-5075-1: Don't worry about that bit, it's the mystery that makes it worth the attendance. Same reason we don't sell vinyl.\nAll three laugh.\nSCP-5075-1: Besides\u2026 they don't want us, back home. They don't like us, \"smears on the community\", the Ambassador says.\nSimpson: Oh, dear. My deepest apologies. Pardon me, but, the Ambassador?\nSCP-5075-2: Ye'h\u2026 the jester, sits all high and mighty, up in their, their, uh, hole in the ground, just rubbish. Rubbish, they are, everything has to be for them- But we don't perform for them, right?\nSCP-5075-1: 'Ight! We only perform for the King! Spreading the sounds, the true will and such.\nBoth entities laugh and SCP-5075-2 takes its hand off of SCP-5075-1's knee. Simpson appears confused, but quickly regains his composure.\nSimpson: Aha! You certainly are from somewhere else. I can't believe I'm asking this so late in the interview, but, what are your names?\nSCP-5075-1 and SCP-5075-2 exchange glances.\nSCP-5075-2: Don't worry about that bit.\nSCP-5075-2 places its fingers to its lips.\nSCP-5075-1 laughs. Simpson briefly talks to the camera about SCP-5075 attempting to mimic promotional material, has SCP-5075-1 and SCP-5075-2 say goodbye, and then ends the interview.\n[END LOG]\n\n+ Addendum-5075-002: Melody Maker magazine report of interest (1972)\n\n- Addendum-5075-002: Melody Maker clipping (1972)\n\n'Violent incident at Porcelain Gang Bang show'\nStrange events haunted the popular venue \"The Canvey Club\" this Saturday evening. During a performance by the innovative garage rock band \"The Porcelain Gang Bang\", what is believed to be a rabid fan attempted to climb on stage. Though they were dragged back by security, the attacker managed to strike the lead singer's leg, injuring his knee. The attacker proceeded to [PSYCHOTROPIC HAZARD REMOVED.] The attendees, though alive, remain in critical condition, and several police officers were killed in the fallout. The attacker, last described as a \"tall man in a grey skinsuit [\u2026] with no mouth\" is still at large. Further updates are currently pending.\n\nResearcher's Note: It is unknown when, where or how the clipping was acquired by the Foundation, nor what event it is referring to. It is currently in storage as an Anomalous Item in the Site-77 archive.\n\n+ Addendum-5075-003: Final performance and presumed termination (1975)\n\n- Addendum-5075-003: Final performance and presumed termination (1975)\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/1975\nLocation: \"Tally Ho\" Pub, Kentish Town\nAssigned MTF: MTF-Xi-75 (\"The Sniveling Scips\")\nTeam members present: Xi-75-A (Golden-Eye), Xi-75-B (Bridges), Xi-75-C (Leslie)\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nLights flicker. The crowd begins to cheer. After two minutes the entirety of SCP-5075 manifest alongside Baroque-styled props and d\u00e9cor. The audience gradually quiets.\nSCP-5075-1: I, uh, haha, I just received word, it's gonna be raining during the show. And- And I want to tell you something to calm you\u2026 the night isn't ruined one bit! Because we're gonna rock so hard tonight\u2026 it's gonna stop the drops in mid-air.\nSCP-5075 begins to tune their instruments. A mist begins to rise from the ground.\nXi-75-A: They're here! Hey, hey, call Amnestics, we gotta lock the exits.\nA loud burst of static is heard around the area, and Xi-75-A's mic goes silent. Xi-75-A cannot be seen in any cameras, and does not appear for the rest of the recording.\nXi-75-C: What?\nXi-75-B: I can't hear you!\nXi-75-C: What did she say?\nXi-75-B: Not a clue. Hey, wait, are those-\n\n[SECTION REMOVED - PSYCHOTROPIC HAZARD. 20 MINUTES.]\n\nAn individual, later confirmed to be an SCP-5075-A instance, bumps into Xi-75-B.\nSCP-5075-A: D'you want to fucking go, mate?\nThe SCP-5075-A instance pushes Xi-75-C, but Xi-75-B separates the two and falls down in the process. Xi-75-B is trampled by the crowd, and their vision is obscured. The following is recorded on Xi-75-C's camera.\n\n[SECTION REMOVED - PSYCHOTROPIC HAZARD. 170 MINUTES.]\n\nThe music along with the crowd grow quiet nearing the concert's end.\nSCP-5075-1: My dearest loves; With a heavy heart, I must inform you that we are departing, both from the stage, and from our mortal coils.\nThe crowd whispers and a few audience members cry out.\nUnidentified Person: What?\nXi-75-C: No fucking way.\nSCP-5075-1: We all knew this would never last - the Ambassador is closing in, circling, watching us, waiting for the moment to strike. But we need a final favor. Carry our work safely through the gallows and deliver it- through it, submit yourself to the King.\nThe crowd continues to whisper. SCP-5075-1 raises its hand, and the audience goes silent.\nSCP-5075 <collectively>: We bestow upon thee our souls, or at least what's left of them. We bestow upon this mob of mortals our songs and hearts. We bestow our belief and our love, we bestow our grief and our hatred, upon thee, sons and daughters. The bastards born from our minds.\nThe audience cheers.\nSCP-5075 <collectively, including audience>: With this, our blood, it is the Hanged King's.\nSCP-5075 proceeds to brutally mutilate, lacerate, eviscerate and strangle each other, notably gripping their injuries and tearing at them in order to cover the audience in the unknown black liquid. The crowd begins to cheer and scream in excitement, even grabbing at the entities and their injuries themselves in order to further harm them. After twenty minutes of brawling, all entities collapse before dematerializing. The lights flicker and then completely go out. The audience members begin to boo, and aggressively turn on each other, engaging in lesser acts of violence. Xi-75-C staggers away from the crowd.\nXi-75-C: What am I doing?\nXi-75-C sends a distress signal to the Amnestics Department, and is punched in the jaw by a SCP-5075-A instance. All MTF-Xi-75 agents are overrun by violent crowd members. The Amnestics Department arrives and doses the area in airborne amnestic drugs, detaining civilians and tending to the wounded.\n[END LOG]\n\n\"Tally Ho\" Post-Action Report:\nThe bodies of SCP-5075-1 through -4 were not recovered during initial clean-up, and are still missing. Though there were no casualties, all individuals present were left in critical condition. Xi-75-A and Xi-75-B were found unconscious outside of the pub with heavy bruising. Neither recall the events leading up to, and during the incident. Xi-75-C is undergoing psychological screening.\nKnown SCP-5075-A instances present at the \"Tally Ho\" incident:\n\nJohn Lydon\nJohn Ritchie\nDave Parsons\nRobin Guy\nBrian James\n\nAll SCP-5075-A instances present at the performance were detained and amnesticized, and were believed to no longer be under the effects of SCP-5075.\nResearcher's Note: It appears 5075's effects were far stronger than we realized.\n\n- Doctor Geoff Simpson\n\nClosing Notes: Multiple containment proposals have been suggested to me, all of which I have summarily denied. SCP-5075 is, unless proven otherwise, Neutralized. It's been inactive for twelve years, if it was still a threat, it would've done something by now.\n\n- Director Shirley Gillespie\n\n\u00ab SCP-5074 | SCP-5075 | SCP-5076 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nItem#: 5076\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nAn SCP-5076-A instance clinging to a telephone pole located at Site-5076-1.\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nUSINBL Area-179\nR. Joseph Barrow\nA. Ann Starse\nL-8 \"Ape Mode\"\n\nCressona, PA, USA: now designated Site-5076-1.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Law enforcement channels worldwide are to be monitored for clusters of missing persons reports consistent with SCP-5076 activity.\nFoundation web crawler Beta-12 (\"BANANAPEELER\") is to monitor the web for any mention of the phrase 'OBOBAN NATION', as well as any related SCP-5076-related keywords.\nUpon confirmation of an SCP-5076 event, personnel are to be dispatched immediately according to procedure 'WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE', detailed in Document-5076-O.\nAll roads leading to Site-5076-1 have been redirected. A cover story detailing a nuclear meltdown having occurred on 1/18/20 has been disseminated, and all former inhabitants of Site-5076-1 legally declared dead. For a complete operational purview of Veil-keeping regarding Site-5076-1, see Document-5076-V-1.\nMTF Lambda-8 \"Ape Mode\" is to be stationed along the perimeter surrounding Site-5076-1. All online activity originating from Site-5076-1 is to be monitored. If Site-5076-1's Veil is at risk due to the online activities of an SCP-5076-A instance, all internet connection to Site-5076-1 is to be cut off for a duration of 5 hours, and the offending SCP-5076-A instance reprimanded.\nEntrance to Site-5076-1 outside of a Veil-restoring operation or as a member of the 5076 Cultural Exchange Liaison is forbidden without the express permission of Area-179's director, and a unanimous vote by the Ethics Committee.\nEntities entering or exiting Site-5076-1 without authorization are to be neutralized.\nDescription: SCP-5076 refers to an anomalous event in which the inhabitants of a moderately sized human population center spontaneously disappear, followed by the appearance of sapient members of the Pongo genus.\nAs of \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, SCP-5076 has only occurred once- in Cressona, Pennsylvania- a northeastern borough formerly holding a human population of around 1500. Cressona has since been designated Site-5076-1.\nThe orangutan specimens inhabiting Site-5076-1- labeled SCP-5076-A, demonstrate intelligence and vocal capabilities comparable to humans as well as a \u2588\u2588-class technological proficiency. Human art, religion, and culture seem to be major topics of interest to SCP-5076-A.\nDue to the nature of their appearance at Site-5076-1, SCP-5076-A claims regarding the history and culture of their species cannot be verified. Notable claims include:\n\nSCP-5076-A vocalize using a 'universal communication field', and are capable of speech with any biological life\nSCP-5076-A have no connection to non-anomalous members of the Pongo genus existing on earth- referring to them as 'crude effigies'\nSCP-5076-A are a race of inter-dimensional nomads known as the Obobans\nSCP-5076-A have existed long before humanity\n\nSCP-5076-A have constructed what appears to be a religious shrine at the center of Site-5076-1; a random assortment of machinery- including wires, cables, automobile and computing components- arranged and modified in a way that serves no apparent purpose or function. All SCP-5076-A instances have been observed to gather around this structure at 20:00 daily, appearing to meditate as a group for hours on end. SCP-5076-A have refused to disclose the meaning of this ritual.\nA number of religious artifacts written in an unknown language have been recovered from Site-5076-1- seemingly having materialized alongside SCP-5076-A- partly validating claims regarding a history. A translation of these texts- made possible through the assistance of orangutan priests- is pending.\nIn order to gain a more holistic understanding of Oboban society and beliefs, the 5076 Cultural Liaison was established. For documentation of information gained through this program, see files under 5076-CL-EP. As this exchange is still underway, 5076-CL-EP files will be updated routinely.\nAddendum 5076.1: Discovery\n@\nOn 1/18/2020, a staggering amount of emergency calls- mostly regarding missing persons from Cressona, Pennsylvania- came to the Foundation's attention. A large-scale amnestics program was enacted, and the perimeter surrounding Site-5076-1 was secured. A misinformation campaign regarding a nuclear meltdown was disseminated into media and law enforcement channels.\nHours later, a website operating under the name 'OBOBAN NATION' was discovered, hosted from servers in Cressona. The entire website, sans the title, was written in an unknown text. The page depicted images and videos of SCP-5076-A instances engaging in routine activities at Site-5076-1. Scenes depicted Oboban families caring for their offspring, a recording depicting a ritual revolving around the site's makeshift shrine, and a recorded message from SCP-5076-A-402- the apparent leader of Oboban society, addressing the viewer in what is assumed to be the same language the website was written in. Notably, SCP-5076-A-402 does not resemble an adult orangutan.\n'OBOBAN NATION' was put under immediate digital quarantine.\nAddendum 5076.2: Engagement Log Transcripts\nEngagement of SCP-5076-A occurred on 5/19/2020. Because of his experience with dangerous anomalies, as well as his [DATA EXPUNGED], Area-179 senior researcher Dr. Edward Dune was chosen to initiate contact with SCP-5076-A. Researcher Angela Starse kept in contact with Dune via radio.\nA body camera was attached to Dr. Dune's person for documentation purposes. Transcripts of the engagement mission are listed below.\n\n\u25ba Access File: Engagement Mission-5076.1-1, Codename: First Contact \n\n\u25bc Close Log\n\n<Begin Recording>\nResearcher Starse: You on?\nDr. Dune: Check.\nResearcher Starse: Be nice.\n<A makeshift barricade of automobiles surrounds the immediate perimeter of Site-5076-1. Several SCP-5076-A instances- possessing firearms seized from a local gun shop- stand guard. Dr. Dune stops before the barricade. Foundation defenses- including ground vehicles and multiple MTF teams- are stationed behind Dune.>\n<Dune performs a variety of nonverbal interspecies contact signals>\nSCP-5076-A-328: There is no need for gesturing. You are understood.\nDr. Dune: <shouting> You can communicate with us?\nSCP-5076-A-328: The communication field binds us to your language.\nDr. Dune: <shouting> Good, good. Monkeys- monkeys from the sky. Obobans, was it? My name is Doctor Edward Dune, and I'm with th-\nSCP-5076-A-328: The Foundation. We know who you are.\nDr. Dune: <shouting> Well, shit- we're off to a great start. You know why we're here, then.\nSCP-5076-A-328: To catalogue us? To assess our threat level? Doctor, we mean you no harm. Our appearance here will not be permanent. It is best that you leave.\nDr. Dune: <shouting> Can't. Sentient monkeys appear out of the sky and now fifteen-hundred people are missing? Oh, ape-man, you don't know the Foundation.\nResearcher Starse: Sapient.\nSCP-5076-A-328: You will be of no assistance to us. Guards, hold position. You are denied entrance to Sao'tab.\nDr. Dune: Are you serious right now? Do you see what you're up against? Look behind me. You're armed with shotguns and slingshots!\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: <shouting> I'm requesting an audience with your leader.\nSCP-5076-A-328: There will be no audie-\n<Dune activates both of the Audio Protection Pods in his ear, and turns to the team operating a AM-SB-1V-3 Hertz-Breaker cannon.\nDr. Dune: Fire.\nResearcher Starse: Edward, don't you dare-\n<The cannon emits a large burst of sound at a frequency of 200 Hz. SCP-5076-A instances are in clear distress, some falling to the ground.>\nDr. Dune: Goddamn, that thing's hot! <shouting> Do I make myself clear?\nResearcher Starse: That was cruel.\n<SCP-5076-A-328 struggles to prop itself back up to the barricade>\nSCP-5076-A-328: Your use of brute force against a defenseless people leaves us no choice. For the protection of Oboban society, your request is granted. We shall escort you, doctor.\n<SCP-5076-A instances guarding Site-5076-1 leave their posts and approach Dune>\nResearcher Starse: Edward, that was terrible-\nDr. Dune: We don't know what we're dealing with.\nResearcher Starse: You know damn well they're not a threat!\nDr. Dune: Fifteen hundred people died, Ang. They're not a threat?\nResearcher Starse: This is a first contact engagement mission!\nDr. Dune: This is also an DK-Class Reality Invasion scenario, with potential to lead into an SK-Class Dominance Shift. We are doing what we've always done.\nResearcher Starse: They have no-\n<SCP-5076-A instances surround Dune>\nSCP-5076-A-328: Come with us. You will soon understand the plight of the Oboban, as you have before.\nDr. Dune: The Foundation appreciates your compliance.\n<Dune and the SCP-5076-A instances surrounding him walk towards Site-5076-1>\n<End Recording>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Engagement Mission-5076.1-2, Codename: Diplomatic Relations \n\n\u25bc Close Log\n\n<Begin Recording>\n<Dr. Dune is led through Site-5076-1. Various SCP-5076-A instances can be seen. The party passes the technological construct. Dune asks about the purpose of the structure and receives no answer. The group enters the borough hall. An SCP-5076-A instance slouches at a desk, drinking a can of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.>\nSCP-5076-A-328: Your excellency?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Bab? Oh, great.\n<SCP-5076-A-328 kneels upon entering SCP-5076-A-402's office>\nSCP-5076-A-328: Doctor, I advise you do the same.\nDr. Dune: Mm, I don't do that.\nResearcher Starse: Get over yourself!\nSCP-5076-A-328: This is our leader- Architon Gabo'an XVI, the first of his gene-pod.\nDr. Dune: The head monkey, huh? I have-\nSCP-5076-A-402: We can skip the formalities. Tobe, leave.\nSCP-5076-A-328: As you wish, sir.\n<SCP-5076-A-328: leaves the office>\nSCP-5076-A-402: <laughing> More Foundation?\nDr. Dune: Right, that's a good place to start. What do you mean by that? You're aware of us, and-\nSCP-5076-A-402: We've met your kind before. Well, versions of your kind.\nDr. Dune: Other realities?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Mhm, and you're all useless.\nDr. Dune: Interdimensional, I presume?\nSCP-5076-A-402: You bet.\nDr. Dune: Why here?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Not sure. Didn't pick it.\nDr. Dune: You expect me to believe that?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Our Canvas guides us.\nDr. Dune: Where's the people?\nSCP-5076-A-402: The people?\nDr. Dune: Oh, only the fifteen hundred plus people that disappeared when you showed up. Where are they?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Collateral damage. Not a conscious choice.\nDr. Dune: Shitty answer.\nSCP-5076-A-402: It's the only one you're going to get.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: What do you want?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Six months.\nDr. Dune: And then?\nSCP-5076-A-402: We'll be gone.\nDr. Dune: Why? Why here?\nSCP-5076-A-402: We're nomads, doctor. It's how we live.\nDr. Dune: No home planet? You just wander aimlessly, taking land that doesn't belong to you?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Do you know what a nomad is?\nDr. Dune: You're quite young.\nSCP-5076-A-402: And I'm still older than you.\nDr. Dune: Yeah, I doubt that.\nSCP-5076-A-402: We're staying.\nDr. Dune: Not my decision.\nSCP-5076-A-402: The other Foundations let us stay.\nDr. Dune: Again, not my decision.\n<A visibly aged SCP-5076-A instance- wearing a cloth stole- enters the room>\nSCP-5076-A-299: That's enough. If I may interject, doctor, you may find our case to be more compelling than our young ruler may let on.\nSCP-5076-A-402: Bo'naub? Don't-\nSCP-5076-A-299: Diplomacy is not your strong suit, child.\nDr. Dune: And you are?\nSCP-5076-A-299: Bo'naub Oree. High Generator of our sect.\nDr. Dune: Religious leader?\nSCP-5076-A-299: Yes, and one more suited to talk to you on this manner.\nDr. Dune: Look, I just need to understand what the hell happened here-\nSCP-5076-A-299: Unfortunately, the boy is right. Even I cannot explain the specifics behind our means of travel. It is, what you call-\nDr. Dune: An anomaly, right.\nSCP-5076-A-299: I am deeply sorry for the tragedy our appearance here has brought upon you, but we are a hurting people, doctor. We have done a great deal for this universe, and many-\nDr. Dune: I don't care. Like I said, it isn't my choice, and I doubt you'll be able to stay.\nSCP-5076-A-299: We are recovering from war! We carry no weapons of our own, no ill will against your people, and are willing to follow your procedures. Please, do not be like the Foundations before you! The atrocities we have suffered in the past are forgiven! We beg for your permission to exist.\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: I-\nResearcher Starse: They can stay.\nDr. Dune: Ang, we-\nResearcher Starse: Tell them they can stay.\nDr. Dune: Uh, just a second.\n<Dr. Dune walks outside of the office doors>\nDr. Dune: Who the fuck do you think you are?\nResearcher Starse: Edward, I can't believe I'm hearing this from you. The man who would curse out an O5 if they spilled his coffee is suddenly worried about the chain of command?\nDr. Dune: We can't just let them stay! We don't even-\nResearcher Starse: Why not? Why the hell not, Edward?\nDr. Dune: We don't understand them-\nResearcher Starse: Were you even paying attention in there? I will not allow genocide, doctor. I don't care where on the hierarchy I fall. Tell them that they're safe.\nDr. Dune: Ang, I just don't know if I can promise that. God, I don't want to have to tell them that they need to leave, but-\nResearcher Starse: Cold, not cruel, Edward. Isn't that what you used to tell me? Can't we do something good for once?\n<pause>\nDr. Dune: <exhaling> You're right. Okay.\nResearcher Starse: Thank you.\nDr. Dune: Besides, when was the last time I got reprimanded for anything, eh?\n<Dune reenters the office>\nDr. Dune: We'll help you guys out-\nSCP-5076-A-299: Thank you!\n<SCP-5076-A-299 embraces Dune, who stumbles backward>\nDr. Dune: Okay, okay! Get off!\n<Dune pushes SCP-5076-A-299 off>\nDr. Dune: Alright, listen. I don't know how, or in what way- but we're not going to chase you guys away. I'll tell you this though, if you're staying- you're going to be seeing quite a bit of us.\nSCP-5076-A-299: That's understandable, doctor. Our people thank you.\nSCP-5076-A-402: Hold it right there.\nSCP-5076-A-299: Gabo'an!\nSCP-5076-A-402: Quiet. I'm not going to deal with all of <gesturing> this!\nDr. Dune: Excuse me?\nSCP-5076-A-299: Please, doctor- he-\nSCP-5076-A-402: This whole lock down, containment thing. How do I put it? Uh- we like your stuff.\nDr. Dune: What are you talking about?\nSCP-5076-A-402: If we're staying, we get the internet back.\nDr. Dune: You're fucking with me.\nSCP-5076-A-402: Oh, I'm very serious, doctor. I'm not spending six months doing nothing.\nDr. Dune: Now this is beyond my jurisdiction. Angela, you see what happens when you give an inch?\nResearcher Starse: Uh, it'd certainly be a security issue without precautions-\nSCP-5076-A-299: Gabo'an, this is ridiculous.\nSCP-5076-A-402: I'm not just going to sit here!\nDr. Dune: Yeah, I'm leaving. You can deal with this one, Ang.\n<Dune exits the borough hall. Dozens of SCP-5076-A soldiers stand outside the building- pointing their weapons at him>\nDr. Dune: Christ.\n<Dune traces a circle onto his palm, preparing to [DATA EXPUNGED]>\nResearcher Starse: Edward.\nDr. Dune: Fine.\n<Dune raises both of his hands above his head>\n<End Recording>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Engagement Mission-5076.1-3, Codename: Negotiations\n\n\u25bc Close Log\n\nPreliminary Notes: Per request, Senior Researcher Angelina Starse was tasked with entering Site-5076-1 and negotiating with the SCP-5076-A instances, as well as retrieving Dr. Dune after his moderately hostile encounter with the Oboban leadership. As the threat to Dr. Dune's life was perceived as low, Starse entered Site-5076-1 without any accompaniment.\n<Begin Recording>\nExtraneous dialogue removed. Starse makes her way to the borough hall, which is guarded by various SCP-5076-A instances. After conversing with the duo of guards at the door, she makes her way into the main office, where SCP-5076-A-402 sits at his desk, fixated on a hand-held video game device. SCP-5076-A-299 is present. Starse kneels.\nResearcher Starse: Sir.\nSCP-5076-A-299: Your formality is appreciated.\nResearcher Starse: Thank you. Bo'naub, right?\nSCP-5076-A-299: Yes.\nResearcher Starse: Okay, my name is Angelina, and I'm with the Foundation. I apologize for the, uh, boldness of my colleague- but we're willing to help your people, as long as you can comply with a few regulations we have in place.\nSCP-5076-A-402: That's fine and dandy, Ang- as long as those regulations don't cut off our internet access.\nResearcher Starse: For recreational purposes?\nSCP-5076-A-402: Yes.\nResearcher Starse: Bo'naub?\nSCP-5076-A-299: I cannot go against the wishes of his excellency, as much as I may disagree with them.\nSCP-5076-A-402: Look, if we're going to stay here, we need something to do. We just want to play a couple games here and there, nothing major.\nResearcher Starse: Sir, I can't guarantee anything at the moment- but I'm sure we can find a compromise. An isolated network might be a possibility, but as it stands- nothing will get done without compliance on your part as well. Do you see what I'm getting at?\nSCP-5076-A-402: You want your friend back.\nResearcher Starse: That would be a start.\nSCP-5076-A-402: He's in there. <gesturing towards a closet>\n<Starse appears to hold back laughter>\nResearcher Starse: May I retrieve him?\nSCP-5076-A-402: It doesn't matter to me, he's an asshole.\nResearcher Starse: That may be true.\n<Starse opens the closet. Dune sits on a box, arms crossed and visibly agitated.>\nResearcher Starse: Edward.\nDr. Dune: Shut up.\n<Dune leaves the closet. Starse pulls a chair in front of the desk where SCP-5076-A-402 sits.\nResearcher Starse: We're willing to help your people, your excellency. You have a clear interest in our culture, and we'd be happy to oblige. Of course, we'd have to make things official, but a cultural liaison, internet access, and protection are definitely in the cards. Does that sound about right?\nSCP-5076-A-299: And what would your Foundation expect from us?\nResearcher Starse: Only information. We'd like to study your culture, with your assistance, of course.\n<SCP-5076-A-299 is visibly uncomfortable>\nResearcher Starse: I would oversee the committee. You would be safe, I can assure that.\nSCP-5076-A-402: It's fine by me. Bo'naub, you said the other Foundations barely communicated.\nDr. Dune: I want nothing to do with this, Ang.\nSCP-5076-A-299: We accept your concessions.\nResearcher Starse: Thank you.\n<Starse discusses the logistics and planning of a cultural liaison, as well as various other topics with the SCP-5076-A leadership. Over the duration of the 3 hour conversation, Dune paces himself throughout the room. For a complete transcript of this recording, as well as any other cultural exchange related documents, see 5076-CL-EP-001.>\n<End Recording>\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:SUBJECT\n\nTo: Researcher Angelina Starse (ten.pcs.hcrsr|esrats.a#ten.pcs.hcrsr|esrats.a)\nFrom: Dr. Edward Dune (ten.pcs.hcrsr|enud.e#ten.pcs.hcrsr|enud.e)\nSubject: SCP-5076 File Draft Peer Review\n\nHey Ang, just read over the file- everything seems to be in order. I corrected a few SPaG errors. Nothing major, really- except, oh- it seems that you've misspelled orangutan in every goddamn instance of the word.\n36! 36 fucking times you used the word 'orangutang'. 36 times I had to correct a middle-school level mistake in what's going to be an official Foundation document. What the hell, Ang? Just because you're hanging around a bunch of primates doesn't give you the excuse to start spelling like one. Get your shit together.\nAnyways, I had another question: why are you writing as if this wasn't just a one-time thing? SCP-5076 should be designated Cressona, not the event of monkeys appearing out of thin air, yeah? It's ultimately your call, but it's something to consider. I doubt Roman's going to approve of those conprocs just because there's a slight chance it'll happen again. Maybe I'm missing something, though. It's late. Get back to me soon.\nRegards,\nDr. Edward T. Dune, Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\nNEW MESSAGE!\n\nTo: Dr. Edward Dune (ten.pcs.hcrsr|enud.e#ten.pcs.hcrsr|enud.e)\nFrom: Researcher Angelina Starse (ten.pcs.hcrsr|esrats.a#ten.pcs.hcrsr|esrats.a)\nSubject: Re:SCP-5076 File Draft Peer Review\n\nEdward, it was a spelling error. This is why you're a frequent topic of discussion for Site Administration.\nOnto business- yes, you have every right to question my judgement on the SCP-5076 denotation. In fact, I was midway through the first draft when I got news from the Liaison team. Those translations they were working on with Bo'naub are done. He was reluctant to translate this particular book, but felt he was 'doing the right thing'- apparently against the wishes of Gabo'an.\nI took a look at them, and- well, I think it's best for you to see for yourself.\nPet theory: that thing they're building in the center of town? It's not a shrine. It's a communications tower, and every night they're sending a distress signal to whatever is left of their race.\nI've attached the addendum below. You'll see what I mean. We should be cautious, Edward.\nI'm not sure what we've gotten ourselves into.\nBest Wishes,\nAngelina Starse, Senior Researcher, Area-179\n\nAddendum 5076.3: Recovered and Translated Artifact from Site-5076-1\nThe following is a translated portion from the SCP-5076-A religious text- On Creation, and its End- supposedly written by a great Oboban prophet-king, foretelling the 'death of life', and the last days of SCP-5076-A society:\n\nWe, great Progenitors of Life,\nUniverse, sing to us\nOur Creations bear Creations,\nImages of us\nEons, this will be so\nI say, this will be so\nAll 13 Houses of Bo-Too'a\nUnited, creating, traveling\nWe, nomad Gods of Life\nCreations, vast and without end\nWill one day fall\nIn the Millennia of the Damned\nHe will come\nThe Tribes Shall Be Split\non the Black Night of His arrival\nOur Canvas shall cry out and soon be silenced\nBy the Jaws of His Presence\nWe shall run, endlessly throughout our Creation\nHe will pursue\nWe will scatter, to the depths and cracks of Our Canvas\nEach time, He will find us\nBrothers and Sisters lost, awaiting contact\nHe has already found them\nWherever our House be built\nHe will dismantle it\nI say to you, listen\nHis coming is swift- His pursuit endless\nDread Devourer of Stars, He is inescapable\nThe Prison of Glass cannot stand\nThe Chains of String cannot hold\nThe Blaspheme of Order cannot continue\nWherever we roam\nThe Death of Life follows\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5075 | SCP-5076 | SCP-5077 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An entrance to former Site-61. Several D-Class personnel have confirmed that SCP-5077 is present in the doorway.\n\nItem #: SCP-5077\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: At least two D-Class personnel are to be stationed within SCP-5077-A at all times in order to affirm that SCP-5077 is not present inside it. If at any point this cannot be affirmed, all information related to SCP-5077 is to be deleted, then all individuals with knowledge of SCP-5077 (including D-class personnel) are to be amnesticized and reassigned to other projects.\nDescription: SCP-5077 is an intangible, cognitohazardous entity believed to be responsible for a number of anomalous events at Site-61 prior to its evacuation on 12/21/2016. SCP-5077 is invisible to all Foundation employees, save for D-Class personnel. Descriptions of its form vary, but most describe it as a hovering loose bundle of multicolored cables and ribbons, approximately half a meter across.\nSeveral times throughout 2016, SCP-5077 appeared in common areas in Site-61. Each time, D-Class personnel failed to report it, and so it went unnoticed. It was only discovered after the mass containment breach of Site-61 prompted a complete review of events and a series of intense interrogations of D-Class personnel.\nPrior to the containment breach and subsequent abandonment of Site-61, SCP-5077 caused multiple anomalous events, including the following:\n\nInterruption of a D-Class training seminar with an electromagnetic pulse that disabled necessary electronics\nCorrosion of pipe infrastructure in D-Class housing cells\nAlteration and destruction of human testing logs for SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nPoisoning of multiple testing directors\nIncitement of a D-Class riot\n\nDue to the high concentration of D-Class personnel at Site-61, the latter incident resulted in a cascading containment breach of mind-affecting anomalies. This prompted a mass evacuation and abandonment of Site-61. Subsequent MTF operations in early 2017 managed to re-contain or neutralize all known anomalies on-site, with the exception of SCP-5077. Most D-Class personnel not previously evacuated were rescued and amnesticized. Those who were hostile or otherwise unrecoverable were terminated.\nFrom 2017 to late 2019, SCP-5077 was spotted at multiple Foundation sites, always in the vicinity of personnel who had previously been assigned to Site-61. While SCP-5077 was present, these personnel experienced negative events such as falls, traffic collisions, accidental poisonings, etc. Though they were rarely fatal, these incidents were hard to prevent due to the difficulty of detecting SCP-5077's presence. SCP-5077 did not manifest near the same individual more than once.\nSince late 2019, SCP-5077 has only been observed in D-Class lodgings. Due to stricter counterintelligence guidelines imposed on D-Class after the containment breach at Site-61, these incidents are nearly always reported to Foundation personnel. No further anomalous effects have been noted.\nSCP-5077-A is a cafeteria in former Site-61. Research into SCP-5077's thaumaturgical workings has indicated that SCP-5077-A is likely where SCP-5077 first manifested, and that the anomaly is likely to return there in the near future. SCP-5077-A has been outfitted with ritual-breaking devices that will neutralize the anomaly when it appears.\nFurther research has indicated that more precise details regarding the origin or mechanism of SCP-5077 are highly cognitohazardous, with effects including severe illness and death. As such, upon the neutralization of SCP-5077, there will be no reason to retain this dangerous information, and this entry will be marked for deletion.\n\nOpen Database Console\n\nClose Database Console\n\nDoes the black moon howl?\nOnly when unseen.\nWelcome, Administrator.\nRetrieve log of council meeting regarding Site-61. Keyword \"SCP-5077\".\nRetrieved. Log begins:\nO5-8: So, SCP-5077?\nO5-11: Yes. A slot formerly belonging to a Safe anomaly, since neutralized.\nO5-8: This is significant, you know. Site-61's human testing was making significant progress towards improved containment protocols for numerous anomalies. That's not something we can afford to lose.\nO5-11: It's a loss, but a survivable one. There are far greater trials to come, and controlling the narrative now will save us in the long run.\nO5-2: And how do we prevent future losses, when we fail to understand the mechanisms of our failures?\nO5-11: The mechanism of 5077 is irrelevant, as is the source.\nO5-2: We know the source. How are we meant to avoid another Site-61 if knowledge of the dangers is suppressed?\nO5-11: From the top down. Already, we're decentralizing the use of D-Class across sites, mitigating the threat of a critical mass ever being reached. Changes to orientation have made D-Class much more likely to inform on each other. Anomalies like 5077 will never have the chance to form again.\nO5-2: But the underlying actions remain unchanged.\nO5-11: You want to slow us down now, at such a critical moment in the history of our organization? To give ammunition to the bleeding hearts? A schism like that is exactly what we must avoid.\nO5-6: The bleeding hearts are secondary. The Ethics Committee is a more pressing concern.\nO5-11: The Ethics Committee won't touch what they believe to be a cognitohazard. Nor will they stand in the way of its deletion.\nO5-6: We're playing with fire.\nO5-11: No. We're extinguishing it. We've argued for long enough. It's time for a vote.\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABSTAIN\n\nO5-01\n\nO5-13\n\nO5-03\n\nO5-04\n\nO5-05\n\nO5-06\n\nO5-07\n\nO5-08\n\nO5-09\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-11: That's what I thought.\nEnd log.\nExpunge the record.\nLog deleted.\nRetrieve file \"Dreamwalker\".\nRetrieved. D-Class Status Report.\nThat will be all.\nGoodbye, Administrator.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5076 | SCP-5077 | SCP-5078 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Any additional comments (image sources, crit credits, whatever)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION SCIENCE DIVISION\nThe following file contains information related to the Markhaven monitoring project and as such is limited to Foundation personel with Marduke level clearance.\n-\u2014\u2014\n\nIsolate. Stabilize. Communicate.\n\nLink To Guide\nItem#:5078\nClearance Level 2: Clearance\n\nContainment Class: safe\n\nSecondary Class: G\u00f6del\n\nDisruption Class: #/dark\n\nRisk Class: #/notice\n\nSubclass: Alterius\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\n\nSite-145\nDrs. Juliette Lewis and Clark Hamilton\n\n257 Eagleton Street, Markhaven, Indiana. Current residence housing SCP-5078.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5078 is contained In situ within 257 Eagleton Street, Markhaven, Indiana. The property has been purchased through a Foundation front company, and converted into provisional Site-145. A glass panel has been installed into the front wall of SCP-5078 for the purpose of communication with SCP-5078's inhabitants. Following review by the Ethics Committee, interviews and periods of observation are to be conducted with breaks1.\nThe prevalent political and social culture within Markhaven is built upon paranoia, distrust of outsiders and staunch social conservativsm, leading to the requirement for Foundation officials within Markhaven to be given elaborate backstories and aliases. Drs. Juliette Lewis and Hamilton Clark are currently portraying Lucille and Andrew Finch, a 'new-generation' Markhaven family. In case of a cover breach, amnestics have been authorized for administration as a last resort option.\nDescription: SCP-5078 is the designation given for an atomic age fallout shelter and its inhabitants, collectively refered to as SCP-5078-1-2.\nSCP-5078 is partially subterranean, with the majority of the structure located underneath a suburban house in Markhaven, Indiana. SCP-5078, and by extension its inhabitants, were believed to have been unnoticed by the home's previous occupants, owing to a substantial layer of earth covering the majority of the structure. Soil samples taken from the soil layer show an abnormal amount of radioactive particles present, alongside trace elements of unidentifiable or undiscovered materials. Microbiological analysis of the soil has shown evidence of a substantial amount of colonial organisms, believed to be previously unidentified species of protist. Colonial observation has shown that the organisms, anaerobic2 extremophiles, produce oxygen through the decomposition of molecular and radioactive waste. This oxygen is transferred into SCP-5078 through tiny cavities present within the foundation of the structure. The external structure is built primarily out of a material superficially resembling concrete, albeit containing primarily foreign, unidentified materials. The structural foundation contains numerous cavities and holes, containing colonies of organisms similar to the oxygenating soil-based microbes. Both colonies are believed to either belong to the same species, or are closely related. Currently, the only noticed difference is habitat, with the structural organisms classified as polyextremophile cryptoendoliths3.\nInternally, SCP-5078 is composed of one large room, crudely cordoned into separate spaces, with a common living space, and bedroom doubling as a kitchen. The interior is lightly furnished, with furniture and decor designed in an aesthetic closely resembling Soviet Minimalism. Of the various material items present within the structure, none are thought to contain anomalous characteristics or origins. SCP-5078 contains two humans, self-identified as Galina4 and Dmitri Artamev, a couple of Russian descent. Both Galina and Dimitri maintain that they have been married for twenty six years, and lived in the Soviet city of Stalingrad.5 Neither resident has clear memories of living in America outside of SCP-5078.\n\nDimitri and Galina Artamev. Photo dated to 1972, received during the last meeting between the two and Dr. Lewis. Unable to identify the entity in the middle of the photograph.\n\nBoth entities are believed to not require either nutrient or caloric intake, as evidenced by observation in which neither entity ate or drank, no observation of bowel movements or urination, and an apparent lack of any food within the structure. Present hypotheses suggest abnormal metabolic functions, or receipt of sustenance through the microorganic materials and organisms present within SCP-5078's external environment. The current theory put forth by Dmitri Artamev suggests that his lack of sustenance is a side effect related to him and his wife's sudden appearance within SCP-5078.\nAddendum No. 1 Communication Attempts\nCommunications with SCP-5078-1/2 have been currently unfruitful owing to a language divide between the two groups. A Foundation translater fluent in Russian determined that the language spoken by SCP-5078-1/2 is currently untranslateable into English. Linguistic analysis has shown that the language spoken and written by SCP-5078-1/2 is superficially comparable to Russian, but written in a radically different style of Cyrillic script, and following differing language rules, spelling and pronunciation. Furthermore, both entities appear to speak in a heavy accent, leaving a translation into English near impossible.\nEnglish is poorly understood by both entities. Dr. Juliette Lewis, head of the Foundation Linguistics Department attempted basic conversation with both SCP-5078 entities. Dr. Lewis was able to give a simple English dictionary to both entities, and later discovered that both SCP-5078-1/2 were able to understand some basic English terms and words through writing, labels and household items found within the structure. Various household items found within SCP-5078 were believed to have been written in Cyrillic text, but later changed to English. The cause is currently unknown but is hypothesized to relate to the transfer of SCP-5078 to current reality.\nThis is further corroborated by viewing several items within SCP-5078; the English writing is choppy and stilted. As an example, the label on a container of laundry soap describes it as, 'Lather Cloth Washing.'\nFor a one month period, starting in December, Dr. Lewis kept a record of written questions and answers put forward and answered by SCP-5078-1/2. Dr. Lewis interviewed both separately, starting with SCP-5078-1.\nAddendum No. 1-A: Dmitri Interview\n\nWhat is your name?\n\nDimitri. My wife is Galina Artamev.\n\nHow long have you been together?\n\nMany. (SCP-5078-1 holds up its hands, fingers outstretched. SCP-5078-1 then holds up their palm again, and one finger on the right.)\n\nHow long have you been inside?\n\nMany Years. Time is long. Years and days.\n\nWhy are you here, Dimitri? Here in Markhaven?\n\nI do not know of Markhaven, that is were this is?There was a brightness stronger then the Unidentifiable. People (gestures to themselves)\u2026 dead. Many room (pointing to walls) like this one. In the cities. Big\u2026 (Shaking.) We went here, to be safe, and we (praying gesture) to God, to keep us alive. He gave. Gave everything.\n\nWhat was the day that it had happened?\n\nNovember 4, 1980. I do not like to speak about it.\n\nTogether, right now, you happy, or sad?\n\nYes. Very happy. (Smiles.) (Belly style laugher)\n\nWhat makes you happy?\n\nGalina makes me happy. The newspaper, hearing the radio, old song, singing. She is gone, yes?\n\nHave you wanted to ever leave?\n\nOf course I do. This is not a life. Happy together, and safe, but this is not life. Better then being burnt. But it is not a happy outcome. I don't want to her to hear that. That I want to leave sometimes. But it is not safe. We do not know of the world outside. How it will treat us.\n\nAnd why is that?\n\nI feel trampled. Trapped, trapped, that's it\nyes. I am not happy, sometime, no. But I do not show it. It would make Galina upset. I feel sometimes\u2026 Guilt. That is the word, guilt. Unhappiness about being unhappy. So many did not make it, and here, upset I am-\n\nIt is a normal thing to feel. It's referred to as Survivor's Guilt.\n\nI do not know of such thing. I do not think of myself as a survivor. I am happy with Galina. I am happy we are together. But as a survivor, I do not think of that. To survive, yes, there has to be something left to look forward to, something to return to. There is nothing left. Only us. I will do everything I can for her. And she wants to see me happy, so I will be happy for her. She has nothing, so little left.\n\nDmitri, are you happy?\n\nI do not know, sometimes I am, sometimes I am not. It has been so long. I admit, I try to make Galina happy, because I will feel happy myself.\n\nIs it working?\n\nI do not know.\n\nAddendum No. 1-B: Galina Interview\n\nYou are Galina?\n\nYes. Yes, that is my name. My mother told me it was the same as a flower. She was not right- but I wore it still, on my sleeve.\n\nAnd what did you to do, for work?\n\nFactory, for husband. I work fields. It was good life. Very good. Hard, but very good. We trust in the lord, and he brought us good life.\n\nAnd here? Is this a good life?\n\nI do not know if this is good life. Being safe, that is good thing. I am so happy to have my husband with me. It would be such lonely time without him. I wish I could break the walls and leave with him. But the world is not safe.\n\nIs there any other reason that you stay?\n\nFor him, of course. Dmitri seems happy, so happy here. I do not want to take that away from him. His happiness is important to me. He left behind everyone. Only us, I think, only us, were spared. I do not know why. God perhaps plays jokes with us.\n\nGalina, are you happy?\n\nThere are days were I am, days were I am not. I would say that it is the same for Dmitri. He has hard days, as have I. What I said about wanting to leave, wanting to flee- it is true. But it is also home. It is confusing. Very confusing.\n\nWhat do you look forward to, Galina?\n\nI don't know what will occur after. We will take days at our own time. We will be together, we will be here, as always. Our happiness is from one-another. We will be here, always.\n\nAddendum No. 3: Dr. Hamilton's Notes\nDr. Hamilton kept a journal detailing his experiences with SCP-5078-1/2 for the duration of his stay within Markhaven, Indiana. Following RAISA requirements, the journal entries have been added to SCP-5078's file for the purpose of record keeping and further investigation.\n\nDecember 9th, 1980.\nThe two of us have been in Markhaven for about a month now. We're still strangers here. I can't wrap my head around everything here, how clean everything is, how it feels like we're in a faux Disneyland Americana. Yeah, that'd be how I'd describe it, like Disneyland. Everything too clean, everyone too happy, smiles on every face regardless of what is going on. After the apocalypse, folks from hundreds of years from now would find their remains, charred yet smiling and grinning.\nI feel a kinship with Galina and Dimitri. They're strangers in a strange land. They don't understand this world, same as I don't. Jules is teaching them English, and while we still really cannot communicate, I feel myself becoming friends with the both of them, but especially Dmitri. I can barely understand him- regardless of whatever language he's speaking, the accent makes it so hard to understand anything. But that doesn't matter, I don't think. Just being able to be near him. I think it makes him happy, to have a friend here. Juliette hasn't been able to figure out exactly why they're here, let alone here in our basement, but again, I don't mind. I really don't. I haven't had neighbors since I've started working at The Foundation,- and I don't think that they've had neighbors as well.\nIt's a nice feeling, for both of us.\n\nDecember 13th, 1980.\nJules made progress today. They're from the Soviet Union. Not\u2026 Our Soviet Union, the USSR of our world, but the USSR of their world. I don't think neither of us had any doubts that both Galina and Dimitri had came from somewhere else. You could tell. The bewildered look, the clothing that doesn't look quite right. Not needing to eat. Not understanding this and that.\nThe thing that worries me, though, is what if this escapes? Not them, but the idea that if the knowledge that two Soviet civilians are here, trapped in an American vault in the middle of fucking nowhere? Imagine the anger that would occur- Rockets would fly, as would ours.\nMaybe that's how they got here. From rockets. They didn't board them, but the rockets and missiles hit their little prison, and pushed it far into us. What if that happens to us? That either of them escape, or if the veil is ripped, and both the UIU and GRU had heard, and then their rockets will fly, and hit us- perhaps both Juliette and I will be trapped in a little room, being watched by strange Russians writing down this and that, every little thing we do.\n\nJanuary 1st, 1981.\nToday is our last day with Dmitri and Galina. A skeleton crew is being transferred in; we have more important things to do within Markhaven, it seems.\nI will miss both of them terribly. I read Juliette's notes, and the interview logs. Both of them seem to fluctuate between hopefulness and despair. Neither of them are happy for themselves, only for each other, it seems. Better then a lot of people, perhaps. Not everyone can adapt in the same way. At all. Even though, I do not know if I'd consider them to actually adapt. It seems too difficult, and every little thing could go wrong. Maybe they're managing well, and what they've told us is all facade. It could be.\nWe had a meal for them. For the new year. Neither of them could eat or really understand us, but the company was so good for all of us here. The little things. Dmitri gave us a bottle of Vodka, and we gave both of them my old Beatles records. The gift exchange was wonderful.\nWe got closer to them, I think, then all the interviews and communication attempts. They're good people. They're very good people. Good people in a situation that they can't understand, neither can we. When I look outside, and I see the rockets fire, the point is so close to me. That this will be all of us- trapped in itty bitty bunkers, waiting for the world to pass, an endgame.\nLike Hamm and Clov. There are no winners in the war, just little people trapped like Galina and Dimitri.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Current consensus among Foundation staff associated with SCP-5078 is that frequent observation and excessive interviews will lead SCP-5078-1 and -2 to be distrustful of the Foundation and will artificially affect their current day-to-day schedule\n2. An organism capable of living without oxygen.\n3. Organisms that live within rock pores or structural cavities.\n4. Ne\u00e9 Tartakovsky.\n5. Now referred to as Leningrad.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5077 | SCP-5078 | SCP-5079 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Temperature readings of the cosmic background radiation spectrum, one of the components used to detect 5080-\u2137.\n\nItem #: SCP-5080\nObject Class: Safe-doctrina\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5080 has already occurred. Research is being performed by the Department of Astronomy and the Department of Esoteric Physics to yield a plausible explanation for the phenomena, operating under direct O5 purview until further notice. Due to the technological requirements for detecting the phenomena, civilian discovery is considered a non-risk.\nDescription: SCP-5080 is a set of far-past cosmic phenomena discovered by Foundation astronomy teams over the course of 2021. Each phenomenon results from events which occurred prior to 10-12 seconds of cosmic time, one picosecond after the Big Bang.\nInitial observations were conducted using separate experimental techniques and equipment. Until further testing can be performed, it is not yet verified whether the phenomena are truly present or are results owing to unidentified technological errors.\nPhenomena and associated discoveries are categorized below.\n5080-ALEPH:\n\n5080-\u2135 is the detected cosmic ontological background. Deriving from methods of enhancing human concept recognition, developed by the Metaphysics Department for the containment of conceptual anomalies, and the Ontological Reference Index, a Foundation database storing information on all known and human-interpretable concepts, the Astronomy Department constructed the MONAD Receiver Array. When neurally linked to a human subject, the Array causes a dramatic increase in the brain's natural ability to recognize ideas associated with its surrounding environment, which can be focused by connecting to cosmological research satellites. Theoretically, this could permit the detection of concepts from the very early universe.\nThe Array was run uninterrupted from March to May of 2021. Results were wholly filtered of neurological noise by AIC units by June. Identified base concepts, along with their associated components, are as follows:\n\nBase Concept\nAssociated Concepts\n\nWorms\nFlesh, wriggle, grow\n\nFlesh\nNot flesh\n\nSensation (physical)\nMushy\n\nLaws of physics\nEsophagus\n\nGravity\nMissing\n\nSound\nMoaning\n\nLight\nImmense\n\nCrown\nN/A\n\nUnion\nN/A\n\nElation\nInstantaneous\n\nShock\nInstantaneous\n\n5080-BET\n\n5080-\u2136 is the cosmic psionic background, as unintentionally detected in a joint procedure by the Astronomy Department and the Psionics Division to measure ambient interstellar \u03a8-waves. While a background of faint psionic radiation was anticipated during research, all deployed satellites recorded abnormally intense \u03a8-wave bursts with identical characteristics, dating to a cosmic time frame of 10-32\u201410-12 seconds.\nThe first conversion of the bursts into interpretable data is a transcription of all contained human-comprehensible thoughts (5080-\u2136/1). 5080-\u2136/1 text is below.\n\n13.\n12.\nUn-warm.\n11.\n10.\nAll skin?\n9.\nSkin.\n8.\n7.\nMelting is encouraged.\n6.\nThis particle peels around your eye. And now its field congeals around your taste buds. Teeth? Certainly. You can bite the stars with them.\n5.\nI cannot pry through. You can slip through. Don't drink the amniotic fluid; sink in, and you can squirm in.\n4.\nMelt and push through. I did.\nIt's easier to drink the universe when you've slipped into its throat again.\n3.\n2.\n1.\nBodies?\nThey are nominal.\nTongues?\nThey are nominal.\nThe warmth thudding through each other's cavities?\nWe are nominal.\nNow enacting Procedure 000/UNIVERSALIS.\nWe should be proud.\nWe are.\nWe always will be.\nIt has always been for the best; it has always been justified.\nThese births pass through our guts.\nThese embryos dissolve in whimpers where they can never reach us anymore.\nLet us rejoice. Let us secure. Let us\u2014\nOh.\nOh.\nWhy is there fire.\n\nAttempts were made to derive physical sensations from the \u03a8-wave data; a memetic glyph (5080-\u2136/2) was created to store the exact qualia, though subjects who observe it only experience a brief, extreme pain response.\nA second glyph (5080-\u2136/3) was created with the goal of only storing visual data. When observed, subjects claim to see \"a missile.\"\n\n5080-GIMEL\n\nIn response to the discovery 5080-\u2135 and 5080-\u2136, preexisting data on the cosmic background radiation was ran through a series of memetic decoding processes. Presuming theories of mass\u2013energy\u2013information equivalence are correct, then any substantial informational abnormalities could be discerned in the same way the psionic and conceptual abnormalities were.\nDecoding completed in December of 2021. Information produced was non-hazardous, consisting of a message in base-0 and an image. Translated message text is below:\n\nIf you are reading this, you are not contained.\nEnjoy.\nThey can never take this away from you.\n\nThe image is the logo of the Temporal Anomalies Department.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE O5 COUNCIL\nPersonnel assigned to SCP-5080 are to halt all research immediately.\nAny information on the anomaly accessible to you must be destroyed through any means necessary. Task forces are being deployed to assist you in these efforts. On completion, remain at your position to await amnesticization.\nThis file will be deleted in 3 hours.\n\nEMERGENCY ALERT\nTemporal Anomalies Department personnel are to be terminated on-sight.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5079 | SCP-5080 | SCP-5081 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ATTENTION\nPursuant to 16CFR1450e11, the following document is subject to security protocol HATTUSA CLAY. The SCiPnet intranet has detected anomalous tampering with the following document. Caution is advised for all readers.\n\nItem #: SCP-5081 Snacko\u2122 Brand Delectable Edibles\nObject Class: Euclid Explained\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nWHEREAS, the defendant has been accused of libel against the plaintiff with the publication of the document 'SCP-5081', and\nWHEREAS, the defendant has damaged the plaintiff's livelihood via said rumors, and\nWHEREAS, evidence has been produced where the defendant stole and destroyed the plaintiff's property, and\nWHEREAS, the defendant resorted to specifically targeting the plaintiff's patrons for physical harassment, and\nWHEREAS, the defendant attempted to purloin and devalue intellectual property belonging to the plaintiff by publicizing trade secrets to members of its internal organization, and\nWHEREAS, the defendant of libel suit 2020-L-151298 (Snacko\u2122 vs Foundation) was absent from the hearing:\nThe court has ruled in favor of the plaintiff (Snacko\u2122 Foods LLC). As compensation for damages caused, the SCP Foundation (henceforth referred to as 'Foundation'), shall be made to:\n\nPay a sum of 132,000,000 USD to the plaintiff as compensation for damages.\nDelete the libelous texts displayed in the most prominent of the offending documents (titled 'SCP-5081')\nAllow the plaintiff to publish a clarification regarding their company and their products on the said document for a duration of up to 10 years.\n\nSCP-5081 All products produced by Snacko\u2122 Foods LLC are considered explained, therefore no containment is necessary. People want to eat them because they're absolutely scrumptious. Disregard all unsubstantiated rumors regarding Snacko\u2122 Products below. The Foundation does not know what deliciousness is.\nSnacko\u2122 Fudgey Chocolate Globbernauts are decadent and rich.\nSnacko\u2122 Cherry-Flavored Candy Fizzlebombs are bursting with flavor.\nSnacko\u2122 Crunchy Sea-Salt Caramel Wunderbars are sophisticated yet simply amazing.\nSnacko\u2122 Zesty Haba\u00f1ero Potato Crisps are an excellent companion to any game day.\nAvailable now in your local grocery stores.\nDescription: SCP-5081 is a brand of snack foods - primarily candies - distributed within the continental United States. Information on the packaging indicates SCP-5081 is produced by \"Snacko\u2122 Foods LLC\"[sic] and distributed from Pneuma, Illinois, though no records of this LLC, trademark, or municipality exist. The web domain name listed on all SCP-5081 packaging is unregistered, and the toll-free telephone number is operated by a laundromat in Saskatchewan. Snacko\u2122 is proud to be owned and operated entirely in the town of Pneuma, Illinois, where our founder Gerald Snacko\u2122 first opened his little confectionary on Dunwich Avenue. Since then, we have worked tirelessly to carry out his vision of making the world a little sweeter, one edible at a time!\nThe design of SCP-5081's packaging contains cognitohazards that serve to attract a viewer's attention when viewed through peripheral vision. Four varieties of SCP-5081 have been documented as of 2019/12/16.\n\n#\nBRANDING\nDESCRIPTION\nANALYSIS\n\n5081-A\nFudgey Chocolate Globbernauts\nBalls of chocolate fudge with almonds\nThaumaturgical icons found imprinted onto the surface of some samples. Function of these symbols currently unknown.\n\n5081-B\nCherry-Flavored Candy Fizzlebombs\nSoft cherry-flavored candy with a liquid interior\n1.6% of samples tested contained traces of gunpowder. Contaminated instances described as tasting \"slightly burnt\".\n\n5081-C\nCrunchy Sea-Salt Caramel Wunderbars\nCaramel and crushed pretzel bar with a chocolate shell\nInstances retain a constant temperature of 20.1\u00b0C, even when exposed to extreme heat and cold.\n\n5081-D\nZesty Haba\u00f1ero Potato Crisps\nHaba\u00f1ero-flavored potato chips\nFalsely marketed as containing \"no artificial flavors\". The haba\u00f1ero flavoring is produced by [TRADE SECRETS EXPUNGED BY COURT ORDER]\n\nIndividuals who ingest greater than 50 grams of SCP-5081 become an instance of SCP-5081-1. SCP-5081-1 instances attempt to pursue a diet consisting entirely of SCP-5081, resorting to other forms of nourishment only when necessary, and becoming highly distressed if denied access to SCP-5081 for extended periods. While instances do not appear to suffer from the expected debilitating effects of this diet, it appears to significantly affect subjects' body chemistry; one instance's skeletal structure was composed entirely of crystallized sugar when discovered, and another instance's skin was a structure resembling potato chips. Questioning SCP-5081-1 regarding this behavior rarely provokes a coherent response. Some Snacko\u2122 customers love our products so much that they have chosen to make them a part of their daily lives. We are forever grateful for your overwhelming support!\nAddendum: The following document was discovered on O5-1's desk at Site-01 on 2020/1/5.\n\nCase No. 2020-L-151298\n\nSnacko\u2122 Foods LLC\nv.\nSCP Foundation\n\nIN THE JUSTICE COURT\n\nOF CARCOSA COUNTY, ILLINOIS\n\nTO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT\n\n A lawsuit has been filed against you. You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer to the court within 20 days after the delivery of this summons.\n In case of your failure to answer this summons, a judgement by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.\n\nDated: Pneuma, Illinois\nJanuary 5, 2020\n\nEDGAR F GOBBERMANN\nAttorney for Plaintiff\n494 Morgue St - Suite 113\nPneuma, Illinois\n(555) 314-1592\n\nFurther action has been deemed unnecessary. We will not be denied.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Code of Foundation Regulations: Title 16, Section 1450 deals with prevention of document tampering.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5080 | SCP-5081 | SCP-5082 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ItsDenali\n\nThanks to my mystery co-author\u2014 YellowCorp for giving me an amazing set of Containment Procedures to work with, and to SharpEmbrace and AnActualCrow for their great critique!\n\nImage Licenses\n\nYou're the best, Licensing Team <3\n\n\"Crater Lake winter pano2.jpg\" by Wikipedia user WolfmanSF is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 (Unported)\n\n\"entity.png\" was created by my co-author and is released under CC-BY-SA 3.0.\n\nLogos of the Departments of Energy and Defense used in BlacklineHeader2.png are Public Domain.\n\n\"Dan_Brouillette_official_photo.jpg\" is in the Public Domain courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy.\n\n\"Angel Island Fire\" is licensed under CC-BY 2.0.\n\n\"Crater_Lake_National_Park_map.jpg\" is in the Public Domain (as per NPS media policy).\n\n\"Reykjanes Geothermal Power Plant\" is licensed under CC BY 2.0.\n\nAny edits made to these images were made by myself, and only as permitted under each image's respective license.\n\nMore By This Author\n\nItem #: SCP-5082\nLevel 4/5082\n\nObject Class: Keter\nClassified\n\nCrater Lake and Wizard Island prior to the construction of the Blackline Complex.\n\nFile Access Specifications\nAs per SCPF-FBI Agreement Lambda-19, this file is to be made freely available to authorized individuals within the United States government in addition to Level 4 Foundation personnel. Questions regarding access to related documents are to be directed to Dan Brouillette1 or Dr. Cade.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\nSecure Perimeter Alpha has been established around the entirety of Crater Lake National Park in order to contain present anomalous phenomena. Seven secondary containment perimeters (designated Bravo through Hotel) have been established around the seven known hotspots of SCP-5082-1 manifestations, are to be outfitted with no less than two Scranton Reality Anchors to lessen instance population growth, and be monitored at all times. Exploration of these spaces is to be conducted via remotely operated drones.\nSCP-5082-1 manifestations that succeed in breaching containment are to be recaptured and placed under observation if possible; following a two-week observation period the current Project Lead will decide on further actions. If capture is unfeasible, instances are to be terminated.\nSCP-5082-A is to be kept in an inert state at all times. (See Addendum 5082.5)\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5082-A and all Hotspots. Hold click to enlarge.\n\u2716\n\nSCP-5082 is a highly complex thaumaturgical ritual that, when properly executed, grants a target human subject (thereafter designated SCP-5082-A) the ability to manipulate aspects of nearby universes, as well as move between them2. This ability primarily manifests as the subject being able to merge and control aspects of local universes with consensus reality, such as moving extrauniversal objects or entities into or out of our Prime dimension.\nSCP-5082 is extremely complex in nature, and consists of several hundreds of steps, each requiring unique parameters for successful completion. Examples include the subject of ascension needing to be the firstborn child of a widow, the ritualgrounds needing to be constructed in a location of divine turmoil (sic), several ceremonial relic burnings, and even a minor element of human sacrifice. Compounded with the sheer complexity of several steps and level of precision required, the process is considered extremely difficult to properly execute, even given vast resources to do so.\nDespite this, evidence suggests SCP-5082 has been successfully completed a total of five times throughout human history. Of the SCP-5082-A instances subsequently created, two are unaccounted for, and the whereabouts of three are known. At present, only the Blackline iteration is considered relevant to Foundation operations; \"SCP-5082-A\" will refer to this instance throughout this document.\n\n+ Known SCP-5082-A Instances\n\n- Collapse\n\nSub-Designation\nDate Completed\nOrigin\nLocation/Status\n\nSCP-5082-A-(Ein)\nC. 600 BC\nBabylon\nUnknown\n\nSCP-5082-A-(Zwei)\nMedieval Era\nPoland\nCurrently located five hundred universes upwards, engaging in a large-scale war with an unidentified extramultiversal threat.\n\nSCP-5082-A-(Drei)\nMedieval Era\nAyyubid Dynasty\nUnknown\n\nSCP-5082-A-(Vier)\n1917\nOttoman Empire\nSubject fought for the Ottoman Empire on the Black Sea front of WW1; later ascended fifteen universes upwards before being terminated by an alternate iteration of the SCP Foundation possessing highly advanced technology.\n\nSCP-5082-A (Blackline Iteration)\n2004\nUnited States\nSee below.\n\nSCP-5082 was successfully completed on 5/30/04 by a clandestine United States research and development operation codenamed \"Project Blackline\" (See Addendum 5082.1), and stands as one of only five documented cases of a successful SCP-5082 completion in the current reality. Following Incident 5082-Alpha, the Foundation became involved in the Project's affairs and began aiding in the containment of SCP-5082-A. The subject is currently being held on Wizard Island in Crater Lake National Park in a semi-stable state.\n\nProject Director Dan Brouillette.\n\u2716\n\nAddendum 5082.1: Project Blackline\nProject Blackline functioned as a collaborative effort between several United States internal departments, including the Departments of Energy, Defense, and the Unusual Incidents Unit with the end goal of creating SCP-5082-A for utilization in world affairs. The Project was originally commissioned following the events on September 11, 2001 by the then-president George Bush, though wasn't fully approved until 2002.\nBelow is an internal memo proposing Project Blackline to select Department heads and federal funding management personnel.\n\nProposal Title: Project Blackline\nProposal Purpose: The utilization of an esoteric ritual for the creation of an ontokinetic entity loyal to the United States and said entity's application abroad in the event of international conflict.\nInitial Funding Required: $2.5 billion and personnel allocation.\nSummary: Project Blackline would consist of the preparation and execution of the ritual described in the so-called \"Hatra Annals\"3 to endow a specially-selected soldier with supernatural abilities and utilize them in the event that international conflict with nations such as Iraq should become necessary.\nThis project would be overseen by Dan Brouillette, Donald Rumsfeld, Ray Orbach, Caesar Treasendt, Chelsea Dreat, and their immediate assistants. The Federal Bureau of Investigations' sub-branch, the Unusual Incidents Unit, and their key personnel would also be involved as well.\n(Housing, logistics, and other data redacted for brevity.)\n\nThe Project was approved in March of 2002 and a majority of Crater Lake National Park was closed under pretense of hazardous volcanic activity. A structure dubbed the \"Blackline Complex\" was gradually erected on Wizard Island to facilitate the proper execution of the ritual.\nBeginning on 9/23/03, the full execution of SCP-5082 began.\n\nAddendum 5082.2: Incident 5082-Alpha\nAt 04:10 on 5/30/04, SCP-5082 was completed. The following is a Unusual Incidents Unit internal transcript of footage of SCP-5082's final stages and completion.\n\nThe footage begins with a view of the ritual circuit in the center of the Blackline Complex. The circuit is circular, drawn on the floor in what appears to be burning ash; sixteen hooded figures kneel around the edge of the circuit, each holding different relics and chanting indiscernably. The subject of ascension, Benjamin Adams, can be seen sitting shirtless with his eyes closed in the middle of the circuit, his body covered in ritualistic sigils and glyphs.\n[3:03]: The fire weakens slightly and the hooded figures cease chanting as another figure wearing a white garb enters the chamber and approaches Adams; the flames part as they cross into the circuit.\n[3:04]: The figure says something to Adams, then brandishes a knife, cuts their palm, and squeezes the blood onto Adams, who bows his head. Everyone remains still as the figure's blood continues to drip.\n[3:05]: The figure removes his hood, revealing a large glyph seemingly tattooed onto his bald head. He raises his arms and begins to chant quietly. The ring of fire turns golden in color, and the glyphs on the man and Adams begin to glow faintly.\n[3:07]: The man lowers his hands and gestures to the other hooded figures. The figures lift up their respective relics, kiss them, then place them in the fire. As the objects begin to combust, each begins to burn a different color. The figures rise, bow, and exit the chamber; the bald man begins to sing.\n[3:11]: Once the song has concluded, the bald man turns and stands at the north edge of circle. Three shirtless men covered with glyphs enter the chamber, placing themselves at the eastern, western, and southern points of the circuit. They look at each other and nod, then proceed to initiate a complex kinetoglyph, the performance of which lasts nearly an hour. During this time, Adams is sitting cross-legged in the center of the circuit, quietly reciting hymns.\n[4:07]: The kinetoglyph finishes and a pillar of fire roughly two meters tall appears from the ring beside each of the four men. The men pause for a moment before stepping forward and gripping the pillars, which are now tangible. Adams stands, and the men begin pushing the pillars counterclockwise, causing the circuit to seemingly rotate with their movements. Adams grows visibly uncomfortable. As the pillars are pushed further around the circuit Adams begins to grunt in pain, and he slowly rises into the air. His body glows and becomes increasingly translucent; stars and what appears to be a galaxy can be seen through him.\n[4:09]: The pillars approach the point of a full rotation around the circuit, and the men can be seen shaking violently. Adams is now screaming in pain, his body glowing brighter and being nearly entirely transparent; stars and cosmic formations are now clearly visible through him.\n[4:10]: With a final shove, the four men push the pillars into place and collapse to the floor. Adams is still, and a glowing heptagram can be seen encircling him . Suddenly he grips his head and begins screaming, his voice now shifting wildly in pitch. The video records six frames of the heptagram rotating and glowing and a black line4 appearing down Adams' center. Suddenly a powerful explosion is triggered, destroying the chamber, all recording cameras, and collapsing a large portion of the Complex.\n[END OF TRANSCRIPT]\n\nSeveral long-range Kant Counters at the nearby Site-64 detected spacial and gravitational anomalies and dispatched agents to investigate; upon discovering the scene, additional reinforcements were called in. Contact was established with Director Brouillette and the Site-64 agents began to assess the situation, also initiating rescue operations for individuals still trapped in the collapsed portion of the facility.\n\nWizard Island as seen from the shore of Crater Lake shortly after the Incident had begun, with SCP-5082-A in the sky above the island.\n\u2716\n\nIt was quickly ascertained that SCP-5082-A was unresponsive and appeared to not have conscious control over its abilities. On-site monitors soon detected the appearance of an increasing number of spacetime perforations in the surrounding area; an order was quickly given to vacate the Park until SCP-5082-A could be stabilized. An emergency airdrop for several sets of SRAs was called in but were not set to arrive before SCP-5082-A was expected to compromise the spacial integrity of the entire state of Oregon and then beyond in an \u00d6\u00df-Class \"Multi-Universal Amalgamation\" scenario5.\nAt 05:23, Site-64 researchers Victor and Emil Huic rushed towards SCP-5082-A and began to perform PMK-976. This temporarily stabilized SCP-5082-A and interrupted its effect on local reality long enough for the emergency SRAs to arrive and be deployed, after which SCP-5082-A floated back towards the ground, now unconscious and inert. The anomaly was declared provisionally stable and the installation of long-term containment measures began soon after.\nIncident 5082-Alpha resulted in the formation of seven spacetime perforations, designated Hotspots Bravo through Hotel, that represented spacetime overlapping between our universe and several nearby ones with generally Earth-like characteristics. Their appearances caused additional anomalous entities, collectively designated SCP-5082-1, to begin manifesting within Crater Lake National Park.\n\nA larger SCP-5082-1 entity on the edge of Secure Perimeter Echo.\n\u2716\n\nAddendum 5082.3: Hotspot Analysis\nFollowing the stabilization of SCP-5082-A an investigation into the spacial disturbances created was begun. In total, seven perforations in universal spacetime were discovered, with each perforation leading to a nearby universe. These hotspots are not directly observable, but the effects of their existence can be seen in areas where baseline reality and these universes overlap, causing entities or objects present in one universe to become merged with our own.\nThe following data has been compiled from various remote explorations into affected zones.\n\nDesignation\nActivity Level\nContents\nNotes\n\nHotspot Bravo\nVery Low\nConnected universe hosts similar species to baseline humans with the equivalent of 19th century technology. Victorian-esque architecture is now scattered throughout the Hotspot as a result of the spacial merge.\nThe space affected in the connected universe appears to have been evacuated and quarantined; very few SCP-5082-1 instances have been sighted, and no contact has been made.\n\nHotspot Charlie\nMedium\nConnected universe appears to be populated by technologically advanced reptilian humanoids with some awareness of anomalous phenomenon.\nInstances have not attempted communication but appear to be studying Earth from within the perimeter.\n\nHotspot Delta\nVery High\nConnected universe lacks sentient entities but possesses a massive population of insect-like organisms.\nWhile activity is high, no instances have attempted to breach the Containment Perimeter; biological incompatibility with Earth's atmosphere is suspected.\n\nHotspot Echo\nMedium\nAffected area is entirely monochromatic and populated by dark, ethereal humanoids of varying size.\nInstances are hostile and will attack any organism encountered, appearing to have a preference for targets wearing bright colors.\n\nHotspot Foxtrot\nLow\nConnected universe possesses extremely advanced civilization populated by human-like entities.\nInstances appear disinterested in Earth and have only sparingly appeared near the borders of their Containment Perimeter.\n\nHotspot Golf\nNone\nArea hosts a vacuum; terrain is barren and sterile. Slightly radioactive.\nVacuum does not appear to extend beyond the estimated borders of the anomaly, and protrudes upwards as a roughly 100 meter-tall dome.\n\nHotspot Hotel\nLow\nNature of connected universe is unclear but affected area has manifested massive crystals of unknown composition.\nHuman proximity to crystals causes headaches, nausea, and the release of massive amounts of dopamine into the body.\n\nAddendum 5082.4: Deliberations\nThe following is an interview between Dr. Cade and Dan Brouillette that was conducted in the days following the stabilization of SCP-5082-A.\n\nDate: 6/2/04\nInterviewer: Dr. Cade\nInterviewee: Dan Brouillette\nSubject: Understanding of the means and reason behind Project Blackline's execution of SCP-5082.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nInterview Video Log Transcript\nDr. Cade: Good evening, Mr. Brouillette.\nBrouillette: Evening, doctor\u2026 Cade, was it?\nDr. Cade: That is correct. Now, I've got a few questions to ask you concerning the operation your team was conducting here.\nBrouillette: I can try to answer them, but I can't make any guarantees that you're authorized to even know about most of the stuff our operation consisted of.\nDr. Cade: We've already made contact with your superiors, rest assured my team and I are more than authorized to hear what you've got to say.\nBrouillette: Is that so? (He pauses for a moment then sighs.) Alright, where should I start?\nDr. Cade: The beginning, if you would.\nBrouillette: (Nods.) Well, after September 11th, Bush and almost every Department in the fed were losing their minds, understandably. Al-qaeda this, Iraq that, you get the idea. There was this energy, this panic almost, to do something, anything.\nDr. Cade: Must have been a hectic position to be in, I imagine.\nBrouillette: You have no idea. Anyway, people start bringing their ideas to the table, new weapons systems, intelligence gathering proposals, and in the middle of it all was a team of some eggheads who proposed to use magic of all things to fight in the war we all knew was coming.\nDr. Cade: I take it this must have been your first encounter with the anomalous?\nBrouillette: The very existence of the Unusual Incidents Unit made it somewhat obvious that stuff like this existed, but all I'd heard about them was UFOs, bigfoot, and something about a weird polar bear.\nDr. Cade: You're in the Department of Energy though, not the FBI.\nBrouillette: Word gets around. Once you get far enough up the ladder you start hearing whispers about this (Gestures with air quotes.) \"anomalous\" stuff taking place here and there. Rituals, symbols, blood; something like what we were employing here, but far more sinister. Peel back just a few layers of smiling politicians, seemingly duteous chairmen, and the anomalous become painfully apparent.\nDr. Cade: You don't have to go into detail.\nBrouillette: No worries, I'm nearly sick thinking about it. But still, tasked with picking which proposal to chose, and we ended up with another ritual, of all things.\nDr. Cade: I assume you're familiar with the process then?\nBrouillette: \"Familiar\" is a bit of an understatement, but yeah, I can fill your labcoats in on the details after this. Not that you're looking to make your own, I hope.\nDr. Cade: (Shakes his head.) No worries. Anyway, I saw in one of the documents your superiors sent to us something about the Hatra Annals. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with such a document.\nBrouillette: I wouldn't expect you to be. Some eggheads found it deep in some ruins out east, in Iraq, of all places. It's all written in Babylonian, and breaks down every step of how to perform the ritual. How they managed to figure out something so complex with such primitive technology is\u2026 worrying, I suppose.\nDr. Cade: Set-up must have been interesting.\nBrouillette: We had to measure out every step months in advance. A single misstep in the process would mean having to start all over again, and as generous as the fed can be with funding for obscure programs, even it has a limit.\nDr. Cade: Why Crater Lake though? Surely there are more convenient places to perform the ritual.\nBrouillette: Convenience was not a luxury we had, doctor. With all those damned rules, specifications dictated our every move. One of the prerequisites was the setting of \"a place knowing divine turmoil.\" How something as bland as a lake in the middle of nowhere fits the bill is beyond me.\nDr. Cade: You'd be surprised.\nBrouillette: Either way, we followed the instructions word for word, phase by phase, meeting every requirement needed, all the way to the end. I just don't understand what happened at the end. I looked back at the footage, and we followed every single step to the letter; the ritual was a perfect as could be.\nDr. Cade: About that, I had some of my own people looking through your files, and we believe what happened was not only was the ritual completed sufficiently, it was completed perfectly.\nBrouillette: Are you saying we did too good? Wouldn't that just make Ben stronger in the end or something?\nDr. Cade: The ritual grants the subject the ability to interact with higher and lower dimensions, but that doesn't necessarily mean it gives them the ability to understand them. It is theoretically possible to execute the ritual while making small mistakes; an extra gram of ceremonial ash here or an extra half-litre of human blood there, it hardly makes a difference. Rituals are based on belief rather than science after all. But Project Blackline followed these rules perfectly, something that even the Babylonians that discovered the process may have been able to do.\nBrouillette: I'm not sure I follow.\nDr. Cade: By performing absolutely flawlessly, you granted Adams access to far more dimensions than a human mind should be capable of understanding. From our best estimates, under normal circumstances he would be able to comprehend at most 20 additional universes with this power; you may have accidentally force-fed him 2000 instead. An uncountable number of new places, people, histories, and God knows what else, multiplied by a hundred, and crammed into his hilariously unprepared mind.\nBrouillette: We\u2026 broke him, then.\nDr. Cade: \u2026yes.\nBrouillette: (Sighs deeply and shakes his head.) Well, how do we fix him? Despite everything that's happened my people and I still have a schedule to keep with and results to deliver.\nDr. Cade: (Looks incredulously at Brouillette.) I just told you that you created a god with more power than you or I can ever hope to imagine and you still want to strap it to a missile and point it at Iraq?\nBrouillette: Well, when you put it that way you make it sound like we're the bad guys.\nDr. Cade: (Stares at Brouillette for several seconds before shaking his head.) Well, Mr. Brouillette, I'm sorry to break it to you but I do not know how to fix god.\nBrouillette: (Sighs deeply through gritted teeth and runs his fingers through his hair.) So now what? What am I supposed to tell the higher-ups?\nDr. Cade: My people will take care of that. In addition, the case files for this whole debacle will be made available to you and your subordinates in the near future. As for Mr. Adams, we'll do our best to keep him stable.\nBrouillette: A-alright, doctor.\nDr. Cade: Thank you, Mr. Brouillette. I'll be in touch.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5082.5: Internal Memo\n\nSCP-5082-A Stabilization Report\n\nA section of the newly-installed technology near SCP-5082-A's chamber.\n\u2716\n\nReport: SCP-5082-A is currently being held in a semi-inert state via a combination of reality-anchoring technology and thaumaturgical channels reverse engineered from SCP-5082. This installation consists the following:\n\nSeventeen Scranton Reality Anchors oriented heptadecagonally around the main chamber\nThirteen Langr-class Refraction Dishes to divert power flow\nTwo Molten Salt reactors on-site to maintain constant power throughout the Blackline Complex\nOne Slavov-IV Support Array to maintain structural integrity of the building\n\nSubject: While physically restrained by the technology in place, SCP-5082-A is still mentally active, and is currently suffering from severe mental trauma due to its exposure to, and inability to understand complex higher realities. SCP-5082-A is thought to be trying and failing to comprehend knowledge of the universes made available to it. Of these universes, only eight (consisting of our own and the seven \"Hotspot\" universes) are being actively affected by SCP-5082-A's existence.\nAs releasing SCP-5082-A from its confines is not feasible, direct contact with the subject cannot be made; moreover it is unlikely that the subject would be capable of coherently responding given its current mental situation. Consequently there are no means currently possessed by the Foundation through which SCP-5082-A's psychological state can be remedied.\nDirect influence from a stable -A instance would theoretically help the subject recover, but the creation of another such instance is not being considered in any capacity. It is possible that SCP-5082-A would be able to recover on its own if given enough time, though the time required for complete recovery would theoretically consist of a three billion year-long period of mental re-adaptation to its current situation, and thusly deemed unfeasible.\nConclusion: Containment of SCP-5082-A is to be continued as-is until further notice.\n\nAddendum 5082.6: Incident 5082-Beta\nOn 12/24/2009, SCP-5082-A breached containment.\nDuring standard operations at the Complex, a massive energy surge was detected in the room housing SCP-5082-A's chamber. It was initially believed that technological malfunctions were occurring and the subject was breaching containment, but all technology was confirmed to be intact and functioning normally. At around 10:00 P.M. local time the entire Blackline Complex began to shake, and an entity manifested in the room.\nBelow is a video transcript of what followed.\n\n(The camera is recording SCP-5082-A's main chamber, located in the center of the holding room. As the footage begins, the facility is shaking, and several attending personnel can be seen struggling to balance themselves and flee. Suddenly there is a flash of static across the screen and an entity can be seen floating before the containment chamber, its back to the camera. The entity is humanoid in appearance, its form mainly composed of flickering black and white streams of light; a large glowing heptagram encircles it around the waist.)\n(The entity floats towards SCP-5082-A's chamber, and flicks its hand to the side, ripping open the metal casing and support array with apparent ease. SCP-5082-A can be seen floating in the center of the wreckage; the space around it is highly distorted, seemingly overlain with images of nearby universes, and harsh whispers and static can be heard emanating from it. As the entity floats closer, SCP-5082-A looks up. The entity speaks, its voice a deep, echoing rumble.)\nEntity: What have they done to you?\nSCP-5082-A: (Reaches a hand out appears to attempt to speak, but only odd frequencies and bursts of static are emitted.)\nEntity: I see. (It floats towards SCP-5082-A.) It was too much for you, wasn't it?\nSCP-5082-A: (Static, a heavily distorted human sob.)\nEntity: (Grabs SCP-5082-A's hand and embraces it.) It's okay.\n(The entity and SCP-5082-A's bodies fill with visual noise and begin flickering violently. Loud static, radio waves, and indiscernible human speech can be heard emitting from them, echoing into the rest of the Complex. The pair releases, and the entity holds SCP-5082-A at arms-length, their forms stabilizing.)\nEntity: You're not alone.\nSCP-5082-A: (Voice heavily distorted but discernible.) Help.\nEntity: You've been through a lot.\nSCP-5082-A: (Distorted.) I can't\u2026 don't underst\u2026aaand?\nEntity: It's going to be alright, you will understand everything soon enough.\nSCP-5082-A: (Distorted.) What did you do? Where did the noise go? Why can I\u2026 I can hear\u2026?\nEntity: All I did was help bear another's burden. Now reach out. Can you see them? All those worlds?\nSCP-5082-A: (Distorted.) Too many, buzzing, tangling, mashing, they won't stop! (Clutches its head and exclaims in pain.)\n(Their forms flicker slightly, and SCP-5082-A calms down.)\nEntity: Feel them, ordered, sorted. Feel the structure, the energy, yourself among it.\nSCP-5082-A: (Distorted.) So many, but\u2026 (pauses) \u2026order.\nEntity: Yes, yes, order! Do you feel the layers? The energy? That egregious intrusion so far above?\nSCP-5082-A: (Less distorted.) Something\u2026 a hole? There's so much\u2026 malice.\nEntity: That's it! Now, feel the next layer, and step!\nSCP-5082-A: (Mildly distorted.) Like\u2026\n(SCP-5082-A grunts and glows. Both entities suddenly become translucent, and their voices grow quieter.)\nEntity: Perfect! Again!\n(The figures slowly grow more and more transparent and their voices quieter as SCP-5082-A appears to be concentrating on something.)\nSCP-5082-A: (Slightly distorted.) I can almost see it, the tangle, the chaos is sorting out.\nEntity: You're getting there, but you have a lot to learn. Here.\n(Both entities forms flicker violently again, then stabilize. The space around SCP-5082-A is no longer distorted and the images have disappeared.)\nSCP-5082-A: (Undistorted.) I see. I\u2013I think I'm ready.\nEntity: Good, we're going to need all the help we can get. Now come on, we've got a war to win.\n(The entity and SCP-5082-A promptly demanifest in a flash of static and light.)\n[END LOG]\n\nScans of residual energy and multiversal mapping have determined the entity and SCP-5082-A have retracted from baseline reality and are currently ascended upwards through the multiverse. Mapping also revealed the unidentified entity likely originated from approximately 500 universes upwards.\nWhile still active, localized Hotspot activity in the Crater Lake area appears to have decreased slightly, though SCP-5082-1 instances still continue to manifest.\nFurther monitoring of SCP-5082-A and the Hotspots is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A high-ranking U.S. government official who has historically held several positions within the Department of Energy, and is currently its Deputy Secretary.\n2. The term \"nearby universes\" refers to universes near our present \"level\" in the multiverse. Refer to Dr. McMurtery's Our World and Theirs: On The Structure of the Layered Multiverse (2011) for additional information.\n3. A set of SCP-5082 instructions discovered in Hatra, Iraq, that were used by the US government to organize Project Blackline\n4. Thought to be a rip in spacetime.\n5. A K-Class scenario in which the spacial integrity of our universe is compromised to the point where other universes and their aspects begin to mix with our own in a manner considered irreversible.\n6. PMK-97 is a highly complex series of kinetoglyphs that halts the flow of time within a variable distance of the performers when completed; the performers are unaffected, and the effect will persist until the performance ends. PMK-97 can only be completed by a pair of individuals with strong personal and emotional attachments to each other (in this case being siblings) and is extremely physically taxing on performers. Researchers Victor and Emil Huic did not survive their performance of PMK-97.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5081 | ItsDenali | SCP-5083 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5084 instances.\n\nItem #: SCP-5084\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5084 is to be contained within a standard safe storage locker held at Site-19. All Foundation personnel with level 2 clearance or higher are permitted testing of SCP-5084 at the discretion of the site director.\nDescription: SCP-5084 is the collective sum of 40 cherry tomatoes (Lycopersicon lycopersicum var. cerasiforme) invulnerable to decomposition. SCP-5084's anomalous capabilities manifest when an individual is made aware of the presence of SCP-5084 in their immediate vicinity. The individual will firmly believe that all instances of SCP-5084 are sentient. Individuals have experienced auditory hallucinations in which they report hearing SCP-5084 produce human-like vocalizations. Individuals describe SCP-5084 instances as \"scared, nervous, and untrusting\" due to their vocalizations being described as childlike. SCP-5084's anomalous properties do not manifest when exposed to Foundation personnel.1\nDiscovery: SCP-5084 was discovered in a hotel located in Las Vegas, Nevada. SCP-5084 was housed in a terrarium residing in the entrance of the hotel. All guests were extremely protective of SCP-5084, physically berating any individuals who harmed SCP-5084 specimens. The Foundation was contacted when nearby businesses and local residents entered the hotel and were detained by local authorities. Foundation operatives observed attempts to plant SCP-5084 instances in an effort of preserving SCP-5084 through their offspring before acquiring SCP-5084.\nAddendum:\n\n+ Addendum 5084-A: Test Log 2020/02/01\n\n- Addendum 5084-A: Test Log 2020/02/01\n\nSubject\nForeword\nExperiment\nResults\n\nD-38291\nSubject framed for murder, put on death row.\nD-38291 is instructed to make eye contact with SCP-5084 and transcribe SCP-5084's statements. Afterward, D-38291 is to test effects of SCP-5084 consumption.\nSubject is able to manifest SCP-5084's anomalous abilities (See addendum 5084-B).\n\nD-18289\nSubject murdered two men, put on death row.\nD-18289 is instructed to make eye contact with SCP-5084 and transcribe SCP-5084's statements. Afterward, D-18289 is to test effects of SCP-5084 consumption.\nSubject is unable to manifest SCP-5084's anomalous abilities.\n\nD-39211\nPreviously Foundation personnel, demoted to D-class personnel on account of murder.\nD-39211 is instructed to make eye contact with SCP-5084 and transcribe SCP-5084's statements. Afterward, D-39211 is to test effects of SCP-5084 consumption.\nSubject is unable to manifest SCP-5084's anomalous abilities.\n\n+ Addendum 5084-B\n\n- Addendum 5084-B\n\nSubject(s): Five (5) instances of SCP-5084\nForeword: D-38291 is instructed to make eye contact with SCP-5084 and transcribe SCP-5084's statements. Afterward, D-38291 is to test effects of SCP-5084 consumption.\nBegin Log:\n(D-38291 makes eye contact with SCP-5084)\nD-38291: What the hell? How the fuck are you ta-\nTest Overseer: Just follow what we told you, 38291.\nD-38291: Fine, hello th- what? I can barely hear you!\n(D-38291 arranges pile of SCP-5084 instances into a row)\nD-38291: Dear God, how long have you guys been piled like that? A couple of weeks! No wonder you're crying!\n(D-38291 leans in and speaks in a noticeably quieter tone)\nD-38291: Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you. I just need you to calm down. When were you first able to talk?\nTest Overseer: Please transcribe their responses, 38291.\nD-38291: They tell me that it's always been this way. They just don't know why the men in coats can't hear them. They're talking about you, aren't they?\nTest Overseer: We told you 38291, they aren't sentient. This is all happening in your head, Foundation personnel just can't talk to them.\nD-38291: I'm Foundation personnel, aren't I?\n(Test Overseer pauses)\nTest Overseer: Just continue.\nD-38291: What do you guys do all day?\n(D-38291 pauses for several seconds)\nD-38291: They've just been rotting in a bin. They can't move, they can't talk, they can't even breathe. They're trapped. Why can't you guys just let them out?\nTest Overseer: That's outside of your control.\nD-38291: Wait, I'm not the first guy they've tested these things on, aren't I? What have the men in coats done to you?\nTest Overseer: It would be advisable to stick to the script before further action is needed.\nD-38291: You've\u2026 oh dear god. You've sliced them, crushed them, diced them. What's next? Am I going to eat one of them or something?\nTest Overseer: Actually, yes. You are to consume an SCP-5084 specimen.\nD-38291: \u2026I'm not going to do that.\nTest Overseer: We'll give you one more chance 38291. Consume the specimen or suffer the consequences.\nD-38291: I\u2026 I'm sorry for what I'm about to do.\n(D-38291 consumes SCP-5084 specimen)\nD-38291: It tastes\u2026 like a tomato. What did you expect? I can hear it fucking screaming down my throat. It's crying.\nD-38291: You burnt them, blended them, and torn them apart. They're begging for mercy, no wonder they trust no one.\n(D-38291 escorted out of testing chamber)\n\nFootnotes\n1. Any individual who has been employed by the SCP Foundation for a period of more than one month\n\n\u00ab SCP-5083 | SCP-5084 | SCP-5085 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5085: Imprints\n\nThis article contains mentions of sensitive topics. Please be advised. With all that said, I hope you all enjoy and as always, stay magical.\n\nImage Sources:\nN/A\n\n[ \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: SCP-5085\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-5085's short duration and subsequent de-manifestation, no direct containment procedures have been deemed necessary at this time.\nA disinformation campaign has been fabricated to explain the sudden closure of the aquarium affected by SCP-5085. The campaign details that the interior of the building containing SCP-5085 had partially collapsed and as such, the building had been closed until the damage could be repaired.\nDue to the time in which SCP-5085 manifested, no individuals had interacted with the anomaly, rendering the use of amnestics unnecessary.\nThe handling of SCP-5085-1's remains is to be done in a manner that adheres to procedures assigned to Class-2 Type-Green entities.\nDescription: SCP-5085 designates a reality-restructuring event that directly affected the Weshland Aquarium in Orlando, Florida. The incident lasted from July 16, 1989, up until July 18, 1989.\nDuring the event, the interior of the structure and items within were subject to transformation regarding physical, mental, and chemical attributes. Although SCP-5085 has demonstrated no proof of sentience, items will be modified in particular manners once a certain set of criteria are met; however, what the specific criteria encompass is poorly understood. A completely structured list of objects modified by SCP-5085 has been provided in Addendum-5085.1.\nDiscovery: SCP-5085 was initially recovered approximately one hour after its initial manifestation between 2:30 to 3:30 EST. This was accomplished via routine monitoring of the local Humes with the use of Kant Counters which had been installed throughout the area.1\nField personnel embedded within the community were dispatched to isolate the area until a permanent containment solution could be formulated. As precautions were taken due to the nature of SCP-5085's anomalous properties, no fatalities were recorded and the area was contained without incident.\nAddendum-5085.1: Information regarding changes within the aquarium are as follows:\n\nDate: July 16, 1989\nOrigin: Pre-existing2\nDetails: All instances of Isurus oxyrinchus3 being kept in the aquarium underwent drastic physiological changes. All of the instances' teeth had been removed via unknown means thus causing a significant change to behavioral patterns. Analysis has concluded that the previously mentioned specimen had ceased carnivorous feeding habits and began consuming oceanic flora within the tank they inhabited. Further monitoring led to the conclusion that they had developed human-like intellect despite such characteristics being impossible to retain by such organisms.\nFurthermore: All specimens were promptly terminated as the previously mentioned characteristics had led to the degradation in both physical health and neurological function.\n\nDate: July 17, 1989\nOrigin: Pre-existing\nDetails: All solid objects within the building containing sharpened features underwent anomalous chemical reformation. Whenever affected items made physical contact with organic matter, the previously mentioned would immediately enter a liquid state regardless of their external environment. The affected items have thus far not been able to be removed from the area due to an unseen force.\n\nDate: July 17, 1989\nOrigin: Inserted4\nDetails: Regarding the above anomaly, a steel knife was introduced into the building with the intent of viewing whether this change applies to objects not within the area at the time of the initial transformation. Upon entry, the knife was vaporized instantaneously.\n\nDate: July 18, 1989\nOrigin: Inserted\nDetails: Once entering the compound, any living organisms would lose the ability to sense pain. Physical examination has not proven fruitful as no changes to the central nervous system could be observed.\n\nAddendum-5085.2: On the date of July 18, 1989, monitoring of SCP-5085 revealed a significant decrease in anomalous activity. Kant Counters monitoring SCP-5085's area of effect displayed minimal changes in the local Hume levels.\nAt 19:05, a large increase in the local Humes was detected before all anomalous properties ceased entirely. Items initially affected by SCP-5085 had reverted to their original state except the object used in Test-3. A full investigation led to the discovery of the deceased body of an unidentified prepubescent male located within a disused storage closet. The individual displayed numerous lacerations caused by a bladed instrument. The surrounding environment displayed slightly increased levels of radiation, suggesting a possible translocation event had occurred in the days prior.\nA full autopsy was performed determining the cause of death to be exsanguination via severe trauma to major organs. Analysis of the brain showed several abnormalities suggesting that they may have possessed ontokinetic properties. As such, it has been determined that the individual was the cause of SCP-5085 and was classified as SCP-5085-1.\nWithin the room where SCP-5085-1 was discovered, several phrases were melted into the walls through unknown means. These notes are as follows:\n\nH E L P\n\nNO MORE SHARP STOP PAIN\n\nNO SHARP\n\nSORRY FOR BURN HOUSE\n\nCAN'T CONTROL IT\n\nFEELING COLD\n\nWHY DO THIS?\n\nWE WERE FAMILY\n\nI'M SORRY MOM AND DAD\n\nI JUST WANTED TO FIX EVERYTHING\n\nA single sheet of computer paper was also recovered from the scene. Burn marks had been imprinted on the paper in a fashion displaying anthropomorphic sea creatures; most notably sharks. The phrase \"favorite place\" was found to be crudely written on the back of the sheet in a similar fashion. Further investigation of the events leading up to SCP-5085-1's death is ongoing. SCP-5085-1 is scheduled for cremation on July 22, 1989.\nA house fire near the incident of SCP-5085 is currently under investigation in a dilapidated portion of Orlando for possible relations to SCP-5085-1.5 Recovered from the scene was a steel container holding several drawings, one of which displays an image of 3 humanoids holding hands whilst surrounded by fish. Others displayed two humanoid figures engaging in violent acts, though the meaning behind these drawings is currently unknown. Further research into the correlations between the two incidents is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. It should be noted that such precautions had been taken due to the immense population of the area.\n2. The object was present within the structure prior to the manifestation of anomalous properties.\n3. Shortfin mako shark.\n4. The object was implemented within the environment by the Foundation for testing purposes.\n5. For clarity, it was brought to the Foundation's attention due to no source of the fire being discovered and the local area displaying signs of Hume fluctuation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5084 | SCP-5085 | SCP-5086 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5086\nObject Classification: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Foundation has created a fake company to claim responsibility for the distribution of SCP-5086 instances throughout New York, entitled: Trees4U. Trees4U claims to be distributing the SCP-5086 as a marketing ploy to gain attention for its subscription-based tree and potted plant business.\nSCP-5086 are too plentiful and are all situated on private property. An attempt to confiscate all instances would be impossible without the use of dangerous Foundation infrastructure, which would not be warranted given the stability of the situation. As the effects of SCP-5086 are innocuous and not visibly anomalous, it has been decided that no action will be taken.\nDescription: SCP-5086 are several varieties of potted herbs typically used in cooking, which, over the course of April, 2020, were delivered to an estimated million apartments throughout New York City. SCP-5086 instances were packaged in unmarked brown cardboard boxes, accompanied by a note1. The majority of recipients suffered from depression, anxiety, being dangerously overweight, being dangerously underweight, anorexia, and other mental and physiological issues.\nSCP-5086 instances do not require water or soil containing active microbial life to grow. Instead, when the individual who owns that specific instance experiences a rise in serotonin, dopamine or oxytocin as a result of satisfaction, the instance will grow at the usual rate for its species. If the owner is absent from SCP-5086 for periods of time exceeding three days, the specimen will begin to dry out as though dehydrated, even when frequently watered.\nAll SCP-5086 instances possess an elevated level of chemicals responsible for the flavor of the herb itself, as well as naturally-produced flavor enhancers. SCP-5086 will also excrete a gaseous drug when cut which alters activity in the occipital lobe, making objects appear more attractive to the viewer, and the gustatory cortex, to increase the detail of tastes. Addition of parts of SCP-5086 to any meal improves its flavor, texture, and appeal.\nFrequent usage of SCP-5086 in foods increases the consumer's willingness to engage in physical activity and assists with loss of fat as well as development of muscle. SCP-5086 has resulted in a 15% increase in the number of people frequently visiting gyms throughout New York City, as well as the greatest public happiness and health spikes ever recorded in New York City.\nNotelog-5086:\nEach SCP-5086 delivery came with a handwritten note, addressing the recipient by name. The handwriting is all from the same person. While some notes deviated to address specifics concerning the individual, most are near-identical.\n\nNote Transcript:\nHey, [Recipient's Name]\nI heard you've been going through some things, so I bought you this.\nYou aren't alone.\n-A Friend\n\nDiary log of Hector Brooke, current student at New York City Culinary Institute:\n\nI don't think my current culinary portfolio is going to make the cut. The deadline is in only a few weeks, but I still dont know what i'm going to make. I have to compete with people from all over the country! Stressful times, but I'm going to go back to research.\nA package showed up at my door today. It had a basil plant in it along with a note. It said it was from a 'friend'. Was it Greg? It was probably Greg.\nHoly shit, that Basil doesn't fuck around. I've cooked with oregano, parsley, and every other herb under the sun, but I've never eaten something with as much of a tang as this.\nI bought some more basil plants from the store. After all, the little plant can't produce enough leaves for me to use it as much as I want to.\nOk, I talked to Greg, apparently he didn't send the plant. Very strange\u2026\nThe other basil don't taste anywhere near as good as this one. Is it genetically modified or some shit?\nThat basil plant has started wilting. I've constantly been watering it and I bought some fertilizer to try and revive it, but it hasn't worked yet. If this thing really is GMO, maybe it has cancer or something? Can plants get cancer?\nThe damn thing is practically flopped over dead on the ground. Some of its leaves are still green, though. I'm going to pluck those off and mix them into tonight's salad.\nYou're a computer file, so I suppose you can't really call me a weakling. Stupid as it sounds, I actually started crying while I was eating. Not just because of the dead plant, obviously. The deadline for applications is tomorrow, and I don't have the slightest fucking idea of what I should do.\nHoly shit, I wake up the next day and the plant is perfectly fine, like nothing had even happened. It even sprouted flowers. That can't be normal.\nI've finally realized what I should make. I'm going to use this basil to make a garnish for a seafood curry. I'll splurge on some fresh crab and mussel to throw in there and take it over to the Culinary School tomorrow.\nWish me luck.\nEnd of log\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Notelog-5086\n\n\u00ab SCP-5085 | SCP-5086 | SCP-5087 \u00bb"}
{"text": "4/5087 LEVEL 4/5087\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5087\n\nketer\n\nOne of four Mk V Temporal Sink phase shifter arrays, East Wall\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5087 is contained in situ at the location of its discovery. A five square meter table has been constructed in the center of a 15 x 20 x 5 m containment chamber on Sub-Level 5 of Site-17. The containment chamber is outfitted with the Mk V Temporal Sink, to be maintained at constant TVM1 unless otherwise directed by the item's HMCL Supervisor (currently Dr. Marcus Kitterman), Site Director, or O5-12.\nAll instances of SCP-5087-1 are subject to interrogation, containment, and termination on sight as necessary. Instances may be retained for study under HCP-32 in the adjoining containment cells. Instances are to be terminated after a maximum of 364 days in containment to prevent causal interference with subsequent instances. No writing material is permitted in the containment suite or adjoining interrogation rooms to prevent SCP-5087-1 from employing memetic temporal displacement methods.\nAccess to the containment chamber is restricted to members of the Temporal Anomalies Department with L-5/5087 clearance, general L-5/\u0394 clearance, or higher. Due to continued active temporal anomalies surrounding SCP-5087 and all sub-designations, permission to assemble SCP-5087-G and explore SCP-5087-2 may only be granted to members of RCT-\u0394t with at least 250 hours logged mission time. A steel alloy frame has been constructed sufficient to support the weight and shape of the various fragments in an assembled position, and is stored against the western wall of the containment chamber. Personnel accessing the containment chamber or exploring SCP-5087-2 must be anchored to the chamber's exterior via 5 mm steel tether. If for any reason the tether becomes detached prior to successful egress, the untethered party is to be considered a hostile entity, interrogated, and permanently contained or terminated as appropriate.\nRedundant copies of all documentation relating to SCP-5087 must be kept in causal isolation at all times.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5087 is the collective designation of six large (0.5 - 2.25 m length) fragments of layered sardonyx bearing detailed relief sculpture often referred to as cameo in art literature. The aesthetic of the relief is consistent with other large cameo carvings from Europe created during the late Republican / early Imperial period of Rome. When viewed separately, each engraving will depict a different individual scene, using the entire space available with no visible damage. However, when any two or more engravings occupy the same visual field, observers become aware that they are looking at a fragmented singular work which encompasses all six fragments.\nPersonnel with Level 5/\u0394 or 5/5087 may access Catalog 5087-1.1 for detailed description of all six fragments.\nSCP-5087 has the effect of nullifying all ambient tachyon fields within a 5m radius of the collection's center of mass, rendering it impossible for time to pass within the chamber unless the embedded Mk V Temporal Sink is activated. Interactions between this suspended temporal reference frame and our native TVM progression are not well understood, due to the impossibility of verifying any reported observations of experimental D-Class personnel or other entities leaving its area of effect. From an external perspective, such persons appear to enter and exit the active area instantaneously, and report vastly inconsistent experiences of duration spent within.\nSCP-5087-1 designates all humanoids animate entities attempting to leave the active zone. All such instances to date have identified themselves as former members of RCT-\u0394t. Credentials recovered from SCP-5087-1 appear to be consistent with those in use by the Foundation at their reported time of origin, but none have thus far been verified by extant assets, agents, or databases. SCP-5087-1 instances manifest at a rate of three individuals per year, every year on the 23rd of December since the item's discovery. Each manifestation always contains two males and one female. Each individual within a set has been genetically identical to their corresponding analog in each previous set, despite occasional presentation of significant morphological differences. To date these have included:\n\nEntities with radially symmetrical body plans. Vivisection of instances reveals anatomical structures resembling those of phylum Echinodermata3.\nHumanoid entities of increased stature with six phalanges on all extremities, and at least one organ structure of unknown purpose contained within the abdomen.\nOtherwise normal humanoids suffering advanced stages of SCP-217 infection.\nThree normal and healthy Corvus corax4 specimens carrying weapons, clothing, spectacles, and other equipment designed to be operated by avian physiology.\n[DOCUMENTATION INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED]\n\nUpdate, 15/5/2027: While previous manifestations of SCP-5087-1 have categorically refused to cooperate with attempts at interview, the members of set SCP-5087-1.41 have all consented to being interviewed by containment personnel. It is unclear, even from the interviews, why this particular iteration agreed to cooperate. Information will be released to this document pending verification. Researchers may access Document 5087-INT for transcripts of each interview.\nUpdate, 30/6/2027: Following the interview with SCP-5087-1.41-A regarding a hidden space within SCP-5087, efforts were undertaken by RCT-\u0394t to reconstruct the complete object, designated SCP-5087-G. As of 8/6/2027, the project was concluded and resources diverted to exploration of SCP-5087-2.\nSCP-5087-2 designates a spatial anomaly accessed from the obverse side of SCP-5087-G. This area is only accessible when the relief is fully assembled in the upright position. SCP-5087-2 contains a mock Roman city state of the early first century CE in a state of suspended animation. No tachyon field has been successfully detected within SCP-5087-2, rendering standard recording equipment non-functional. Exploration Summary 5087-2-E is compiled from multiple oral and written accounts of SCP-5087-2 exploration by various RCT-\u0394t assets.\n\nAttached Documentation:\n\n+ Catalog 5087-1.1, Rev 8/6/2027\n\n- Access Granted\n\nCatalog 5087-1.1:\n\nItem Designation\nApproximate Dimensions\nImage Description\n\nSCP-5087-A\n0.5 x 0.33 m\nA nude female figure pouring water from a large vase. She appears to be weeping. Smaller humanoid figures are visible in the resulting flow of water.\n\nSCP-5087-B\n0.69 x 0.4 m\nTwo male figures in Roman battle attire. Armor and decoration indicate they are both officers. One thrusts his spear forward into the chin of the other, killing him. Observers universally indicate they are both depictions of the same person, though photographs of the fragment do not bear this out conclusively.\n\nSCP-5087-C\n1.21 x .75 m\nA male figure sitting upon a palanquin, borne by four others - three male and one female. The seated figure is dressed in a manner consistent with contemporary depictions of Roman Emperors from the same period. He gestures forward, leaning out of his seat. Of note is that the figure is depicted wearing spectacles.\n\nSCP-5087-D\n0.2 x 2.25 m\nEngraving of text in period Latin. \u201cPARATI SVMVS OMNIA CONVIVIVM HABERETVR LVGVBRES\u201d5\n\nSCP-5087-E\n1.1 x .80 m\nThree figures, two male and one female, hands joined in a ring and dancing. A large box stands in the center of the ring. Details of the box are impossible to resolve conclusively despite their size.\n\nSCP-5087-F\n1.5 x 2.25 m\nDepiction of a large feast or banquet with several figures seated along a long table. At the center of the table are seated three figures wearing spectacles, flanked by several military officers and young women. Food at the table is depicted in a decomposed state.\n\nUpdate, 30/6/2027 SCP-5087-G\n2.25 x 3.5 m\nDesignates the fully assembled relief, which presents several significant departures from the previously described scenes. An inscription along the bottom reads \u201cQVAM PARAVIMVS LUCEM VITAE\u201d6. A female figure oversees the burning of spears and swords in the upper left. Two gladiators engage in combat, in the upper right. Three figures dance nude in a ring around a pike bearing three human heads in the central left. Several high-status males and one female carry a crowned figure in peasant/slave clothing on a palanquin, who leans back in his seat drinking from a large jug of wine. Central to the piece is a depiction of a large banquet, where a figure resembling contemporary depictions of Caesar Augustus shares a large, appetizing banquet amongst many assembled servants, soldiers, and peasants.\n\n+ Exploration Summary 5087-2-E, Rev 15/8/2027.\n\n- Access Granted\n\nExploration Summary 5087-2-E:\n\nAdministrative Summary Re: Exploration Accounts of SCP-5087-2\nCompiled by: Captain Regina Watts, RCT-\u0394t\nMost Recent Revision Date: 15/8/2027\nThe entry point of SCP-5087-2 is a free standing invisible event boundary surrounded entirely by an open field of grass. Visible below the hill is a small Roman city in immaculate condition. The time of day within the anomaly cannot be confirmed, but appears to be late evening. Compass navigation is impossible, and all non-mechanical recording equipment is non-functional.\nThe town limit is approximately 1.5 km from the point of entry. Everything remains absolutely still until interacted with by one of our agents. Fire still gives light and heat, but the flames do not move unless one of our people is holding the fuel source. Humanoid figures in direct contact with our people do not regain consciousness as expected. Instead, their bodies deteriorate rapidly after contact, dissolving to dust entirely after approximately five \u2018minutes' based on accounts. These figures, torches, and other materials will return to their original configuration following the teams' egress.\nBased on facial expressions, mode of dress, and food stuffs present, the town seems to be in the middle of a large festival. Statues depicting Saturn, the Roman god of bounty and time, are adorned with offerings of ceramic masks. Priest figures in the midst of ceremony have heads uncovered. Celebrants are observed gambling, exchanging gifts, indulging in wine, and fornicating more or less openly in the streets.\nProgressing toward the city center, the scene becomes more sinister. Some prisoners (celebrants? They seem almost happy about it.) are being executed in temples surrounding the plaza. There is a lot of blood present in the temples, and no less than 10 human heads have been arranged on an altar before another large statue of Saturn. Beyond the plaza, there is a large procession of some 200-300 celebrants, carrying torches. At the heart of the procession is a palanquin carried by four masked figures in the garb of patricians. The chair they hold aloft is empty, save for a gilded laurel wreath and a set of rough peasants clothes.\nIt is the conclusion of RCT-\u0394t that the celebration is congruent with records of the festival Saturnalia, a Roman midwinter celebration of bounty, light, and renewal dedicated to Saturn. There appears to be significant juxtaposition of both archaic and latter day traditions within the scene. However, without seeing the area in true motion, it is impossible to determine this conclusion with certainty.\nMost troubling about these discoveries is the absence of the King of Saturnalia; an \u2018elected' figure which presides over the festival, who we assume was supposed to be riding that palanquin near the center of town. Mapping the likely progression of the procession based on the state of residents of the town, the most extreme aspects of the ritual seem to have happened in this palanquin's wake.\nWhether this confirms or refutes the claims set forth by SCP-5087-1.41-A and -B cannot be determined at this time. The absence of ambient tachyon fields within SCP-5087-2 does seem to lend itself to that conclusion. However, there do not seem to be any empty spaces where an icon or statue of Saturn would reside. The absence of the King of Saturnalia may well be construed to be the absence of a priest, celebrant, or other human figure which is necessary for the scene to continue progressing. Or it may simply be a result of the object's state of repair.\nAs a precautionary measure, I recommend amending containment procedures to prohibit future assets from interfering or interacting with the palanquin, as well as an additional SCP-5087 sub designation for this object.\n- Captain Regina Watts, RCT-\u0394t\n\n+ Display Document 5087-INT, Original version 8/5/2027\n\n- Access Granted\n\nDocument 5087-I:\nOn 23/12/2026, three humanoids manifested in the containment chamber of SCP-5087 and were immediately apprehended by onsite security assets. This marks the 41st such manifestation event since initial containment. Though initially uncooperative, all three instances of SCP-5087-1.41 independently approached containment personnel with a desire to be interviewed by RCT-\u0394t or other Temporal Anomalies Department agents and researchers.\n\nDate: 25/4/2027\nInterviewer: Captain Regina Watts, RCT-\u0394t\nObserving: Dr. Marcus Kitterman, HMCL Supervisor\nInterviewee: SCP-5087-1.41-A\nNote: Subject does not outwardly appear to be anomalous. However, biometric scans indicate large portions of its anatomy have been replaced or augmented with advanced prosthesis. Interestingly, the subject still elects to wear spectacles despite obvious access to advanced surgical techniques. For some reason, this appears to be a common trait among -A type manifestations, no matter their body plan.\n- Dr. Marcus Kitterman\nR. Watts: Alright, we're rolling. This is Regina Watts interviewing SCP-5087-1.41-A. Can you please state your name for the record.\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: (sighs audibly) \u2026 This is Dr. Thaddeus Xyank, former Chairperson of the Temporal Anomalies Department, founder of Research and Containment Team \u0394t. Also former SCP-110-1. Fun to be back on this side of the table\u2026\nR. Watts: Oh yeah? And how exactly does a skip go from designee to research doc?\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: And back. You forgot the \u2018and back.' The answer is\u2026 complicated. It's good to see you again, though. I haven't\u2026 Dammit Reggie, I'm really sorry. I have really fucked this one up. I should have brought you all back in before I left.\nR. Watts: Listen, I understand you're scared-\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: I'm not. I know I don't have any power to implicate you in anything. And I know \u2018you' have \u2018never met' me, but\u2026 I knew a Regina Watts. She was one of my best retrieval agents. She recovered [REDACTED] and I don't know how many more since then.\nR. Watts: \u2026 Okay. You know a thing or two about the department\u2026 How did you come by that knowledge?\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: (his head flops forward and smacks the table before looking back upward) Because I'm your fucking boss, Reggie. Frankly I can't tell if you're being thick, or if you really don't recognise me. I authorized your GCS back in \u201808. We even sent you to 2035 for it so you could get it done properly! \u2026How are you healing up, by the way?\nR. Watts: (visibly perturbed) Right, I don't know who the fuck you are or how you know that, but if you don't stop with this evasive bullshit then this interview is over.\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: (chuckling) Oh nooo, not the containment cell! However will I cope with all the naaaps? (sips water) Come on, you'll have to do a little better than that. I have sat in on dozens of these types of interviews.\nR. Watts: Then you know you better get to the point before I call security.\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: Alright, I'll play. So\u2026 if you're still on \u0394t in this timeline, then you should have access to SCP-110? I can't be sure of what has and hasn't been redacted. Hell, I don't even know if I exist on this string anymore, but it's not just a city. It's a containment facility, too. That's where this object was first contained. Back then\u2026 or, well, I suppose that hasn't happened yet, but when I first saw the cameo, it was whole. I was assigned to 5087 in my role as an extra-dimensional topologist. We knew there was some kind of looping scripted pocket space inside the thing, so it was my job to oversee exploration and catalog the properties of the interior. But eventually, I got the bright idea to test its interior dimensions.\nR. Watts: So you broke it?\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: (remains silent for 10s) You could say that. However, it might be more accurate to say that the object\u2026 hatched. Some unknown entity emerged from a fissure in the front face and\u2026 (rubs his eyes under his spectacles) Apologies. The experience is very difficult to recall.\nR. Watts: Okay\u2026 Is that why you're here now?\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: No. That's just how I got back to 1972. My aim in coming here comes much later; sometime in late 2010. After figuring out temporal displacement stabilization and using the knowledge I gained to resolve as many paradoxes as I could, I discovered that time is\u2026 entirely incoherent. It's complete chaos. What we see as strings is just a person's mind doing its best to form a coherent narrative out of that chaos, and our navigation techniques are far more like dialing a radio tuner than actually moving through space. The memetic ones are just shifting focus from one apparently coherent moment to another.\nR. Watts: Yeah, and I have also read the primer, but -\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: You still have a primer? HA! Perfect. Who wrote it?\nR. Watts: Who wrote what?\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: Who wrote the primer, Reggie? (leans forward) How many times have we had this conversation?\nR. Watts: W\u2026 We're getting off topic again.\nSCP-5087-1.41-A: Fine, but you're about to miss a trick.\nR. Watts: That's a cold day in hell.[INTERVIEW TERMINATED]\nClosing Note: I've checked and triple checked. I can't find an author for the RCT-\u0394t Primer. Can we loop up with RAISA to see if this is an intentional omission or not? Something isn't adding up. He knows too much. Either there's a leak that's gotten into our personnel files or something has gone pear shaped.\n- R. Watts\n\nDate: 27/4/2027\nInterviewer: Agent Lorainne Mickelson, RCT-\u0394t\nObserving: Dr. Marcus Kitterman, HMCL Supervisor\nInterviewee: SCP-5087-1.41-B\nNote: Relieved Agent Watts after the last interview. The anomaly suddenly breaking silence, and dropping confirmed information like that is somewhat troubling. This one looks a bit more like a field agent than the other two. Hopefully there will be more information we can use.\n- Dr. Marcus Kitterman\nL. Mickelson: This is Field Agent Loraine Mickelson interviewing SCP-5087-1.41-B\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: Forty-One?!\nL. Mickelson: If you please, sir?\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: Yeah, yeah, sure\u2026 Wow, that's a lot. We are fucked.\nL. Mickelson: State your name, please?\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: Homer Fucking Simpson. What does it matter? I'm clearly already dead. (covers face with hands)\u2026 Sorry. Agent Bertrand Tomlin, former reconnaissance team lead, RCT-\u0394t. I uh\u2026 I went off the radar with the other two a couple of months - I mean, a few months prior to - Fuck. From my perspective, we were out of Foundation sight for about two months before you nailed us.\nL. Mickelson: Excellent, thank you for that. You say you went off the radar. Can you elaborate on that?\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: \u2026Thad called Attie and me into an office downtown in NYC one morning and showed us something I wish I hadn't seen. He took an XACTS device and turned it on with a window open -\nL. Mickelson: I'm sorry, a what?\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: Wait, seriously? You are the Loraine Mickelson, right?\nL. Mickelson: That is my name. Look, pretend you're an anomaly and I don't know who you are or what you're talking about. Matter of fact, don't pretend. You're an anomaly. I don't know who you are or what you're talking about.\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: (leaning forward) The Xyank-Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sink. The physics behind it was published in Foundation in 1892. You don't even have a department without that damned box!\nL. Mickelson: We can come back to that, but I would like to focus back on what you imagine you're doing here, please.\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: Alright, fine. Never mind who invented the central tech of your department, we got a script to follow, yeah? Brilliant. Super duper. \u2026We were after something that Thad said he saw once because he reckoned it was Father Time. Some fancy term for it, I think it started with an E? The idea was supposed to be to put whatever that was back inside the cameo somehow and time - which as you probably know, is super fucked - would just sort of settle back into a proper line as soon as we did it, and our perspective would become the only remaining timeline.\nL. Mickelson: And what gave him that impression?\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: I dunno. It seemed as likely to work as anything else I'd done that week, so\u2026 Anyway, we were going to all do it together. Breach 110 on our own, dive into that enormous casket as a team, and when we got to the cameo, and follow whatever breadcrumbs we could to find this\u2026 thing\u2026 and\u2026\nL. Mickelson: Go on.\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: You know what, never mind. Saying it out loud makes it sound so dumb. We\u2026 Nope, it's bugging me. Loraine, I can hear the hum. You might not know what XACTS' are, but we're sitting inside of one. Or something very much like it. You're keeping this place causally isolated?\nL. Mickelson: I'm pretty certain you know how I'm going to answer that question.\nSCP-5087-1.41-B: Yeah, I know it\u2026 I hated this part of the job. You were always way better at it, anyway. I must have interviewed a hundred former Agents and Researchers. Some of \u2018em I even knew and had to play like I didn't. Don't show your cards. Don't collaborate with an anomaly. Don't even breathe Thad's name\u2026 (looks directly at Camera 1) Which means that's either Marcus or Liza over there, lookin' at me, deciding whether to bring me out of the cold or keep me in lock up for the next\u2026 I don't know how long. Guess until the next iteration moves through. (pause) Listen I\u2026 don't do well in cages. Even less now that I know I've got a termination over my head, so can I make just one request?\nL. Mickelson: Words are still free. I can't promise much, but you can say it.\nSCP-50087-1.41-B: \u2026When the time comes\u2026 Can I just do it myself?\n[INTERVIEW TERMINATED]\nClosing Note: That makes two pieces of tech this anomaly is claiming were invented by SCP-5087-1 instances. Two cornerstone pieces of tech for our department. I've authorized RAISA requests for both of these claims. I really hope it's just need to know.\n- Dr. Marcus Kitterman.\n\nDate: 1/5/2027\nInterviewer: Dr. Marcus Kitterman, HMCL Supervisor\nObserving: Dr. Iliza Schrader, Research Lead, Temporal Anomalies Department\nInterviewee: SCP-5087-1.41-C\nNote: I'm not looking forward to this. There's a pattern forming here I don't like. RAISA came back empty. Actually empty; they assured me that L4/\u0394 would be plenty enough to answer those questions. The department, SCP-5087, and all the docs before this one appear overnight. Considering the power draw we require and how many of us are involved actively in this project, that is a big problem. I'm going to take this interview on personally. This one says she's supposed to have Liza's job. I have to be sure I'm asking the right questions.\n- Dr. Marcus Kitterman\nDr. Kitterman: Is it on? Alright, good. Hello SCP-5087-1.41-C, my name is Dr. Marcus Kitterman -\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: I know\u2026\nDr. Kitterman: Heh. I had a feeling you might. I'm HMCL supervisor for SCP-5087. Are you alright to tell me your name?\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: My name is Dr. Athena Anastasakos. I was at your wedding, Marcus. Quit it. Going through this once was enough. Just\u2026 just drop the act. I know we went off the grid. I know what we did wasn't authorized, I know that has consequences, but throwing our own security procedures back in our faces is so low I could\u2026 (takes a deep breath)\nDr. Kitterman: See, that's the thing\u2026 Okay, you know me, right? You know if I'm lying or not. Am I lying right now, saying I've never seen your face before in my life?\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: \u2026God- ! \u2026No, you're not. So let's talk. What do you know about the object?\nDr. Kitterman: (laughs audibly) How? How could I tell you that? How can I even attempt to justify that? On record?\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: Because what we saw was an anomaly that, among other things, stopped the flow of time. I don't think you understand how that causal island holding firm interacts with the bulk of the timeline as a result.\nDr. Kitterman: Oh? OH. How would that\u2026 Wow\u2026\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: And of course you're recording this. (looks directly at Camera 2) I can see the light on one of the cameras from here. If those cameras are working properly, that means there's a sink in operation. Nearby.\nDr. Kitterman: That's irrelevant. The field is contained. It's only\u2026 It's contained.\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: If the field needs only the five meter buffer I saw in the containment chamber, a desk unit would be able to handle it. Are you sure the field is contained in that room?\nDr. Kitterman: \u2026 I suppose I'm really not.\nDr. Schrader: (audible only to Dr. Kitterman) Marcus! Focus!\nDr. Kitterman: Never mind, the point is we're safe now. I wouldn't be here if everything wasn't accounted for.\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: It's fine, that isn't the pertinent question right now, anyway. What matters is whether or not the sink you are using was on or off when we came through. Because if it was on, we're caught in the wake of an artificial TVM as the rest of the time plane moves around it. If it's off, then this facility is inadvertently sliding through time from string to string and stopping all of our attempts at re-containing a Code Black Keter along the way.\nDr. Kitterman: Well that doesn't\u2026 sound\u2026 good.\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: Honestly, Marc? I'm much more worried about the third possibility.\nDr. Kitterman: What's that?\nSCP-5087-1.41-C: That the Foundation made you all forget us on purpose. That someone upstairs wants time this way.\n[INTERVIEW TERMINATED]\nClosing Note: I would like to formally request reassignment to another SCP project.7\n- Dr. Marcus Kitterman\n\nAddenda:\nUpdate, 30/8/2027: During a containment breach of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Site-17 suffered catastrophic power failure, including the failure of redundant generators supplying power to SCP-5087's containment unit and embedded Mk V Temporal Sink. When power was restored via an emergency hard-start of Sub-Level 5 generators three minutes later, SCP-5087 was discovered in SCP-5087-G configuration, and all three adjoining HCP-3 containment cells were discovered opened and empty.\nThe following note was found in the cell housing SCP-5087-1.41-A:\n\nItem Number: SCP-5087\nObject Class: Thaumiel, you idiots.\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Causal isolation protocols matter. I thought we taught you better than this.\nDescription: You have been put in a box meant to make you believe that putting a box in a box is an effective containment strategy for the thing that used to be in that box. How did this thing even get here? Who designed the unit? Who wrote the ConProcs? Who invented the tachyon tech you're using to contain it?\nGet your shit together, and let us do our jobs.\n- \u2588\u2588\n\nRevision to containment procedures is currently under review. SCP-5087-1.41-A, -B, and -C are pending reclassification as Persons of Interest.\n\nFootnotes\n1. \u201cThis very moment.\u201d\n2. Humanoid Containment Procedure, Level 3\n3. Phylum containing sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers, among others.\n4. The common raven.\n5. Translation: \u201cWe have prepared for all a mourning banquet.\u201d\n6. Translation: \u201cFor life and light, the feast is prepared.\u201d\n7. Request Denied. - O5-12\n\n\u00ab SCP-5086 | SCP-5087 | SCP-5088 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5088\n\nItem #: SCP-5088\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The building containing SCP-5088 is to be sealed off and kept under guard by security personnel at all times. Any individuals attempting to gain access are to be brought into custody, interrogated, and amnesticized as appropriate.\nDescription: SCP-5088 is an empty pool located in an abandoned FitBurn health club in Wigan, England.\nAlthough all forms of analysis confirm that no water is present within SCP-5088, objects placed within it will behave as if there is \u2014 floating or sinking to the bottom as is appropriate for each individual object. Similarly, individuals placed within SCP-5088 have demonstrated the ability to swim within it, as well as display difficulty breathing when submerged. Post-test interviews indicate that no physical sensation accompanies submergence within SCP-5088, only a change in the ease of movement while inside it.\nAll attempts at removing the hypothetical liquid from SCP-5088 have failed, as it does not quantifiably exist outside of its effect on other objects.\n\nAddendum 5088-1 (Experiment 1):\nIn order to test the extent of SCP-5088's effects on living organisms, a subject (in this case a laboratory mouse bred for testing purposes) was placed into a small cage and lowered to the bottom of SCP-5088, to be kept there for a period of five minutes.\nThe subject immediately became distressed when submerged in SCP-5088 and attempted to escape from its cage, but was unable. Subsequently, it was observed to hold its breath for a period of three minutes, following which it twitched numerous times and became inactive. At this time, observation of testing implants confirmed that the subject had expired due to suffocation.\nHowever, when removed from SCP-5088, the expired subject was observed to reanimate, with all vital signs returning to a neutral state1. Following this, however, it did not respond to stimuli, and expired again several minutes later.\nAutopsy of the subject shows that the second cause of death was choking on its own tongue, which it had bitten off.\nAddendum 5088-2 (Experiment 2):\nIn order to discern whether SCP-5088 inherently possessed reanimation capabilities or whether reanimation was a delayed response to the subject drowning in a liquid that did not exist, several already expired subjects were lowered into SCP-5088.\nNo unusual results were observed. All subjects remained dead.\nAddendum 5088-3 (Experiment 3):\nIn order to further clarify SCP-5088's unusual effects following suffocation within it, human testing was approved. As in the original test, the subject (in this case D-22122, a 32-year old woman with no history of suicidal tendencies) was placed within a cage and lowered into SCP-5088. Anesthesia was provided so as to discourage behaviour which could jeopardize the integrity of the test.\nOnce submerged in SCP-5088, subject was left until death by suffocation was confirmed via testing implants. It was then retrieved from SCP-5088.\nUpon leaving the bounds of SCP-5088, the subject immediately reanimated as in the previous test, then proceeded to scream hysterically and run towards the nearest wall despite the efforts of security and testing personnel to restrain it. It then began rapidly striking its head against said wall with great force, falling unconscious after five strikes.\nDuring this period, the subject was observed to repeat the words:\n\nIt's waiting for me! It's all waiting for me back there!\n\nDespite the efforts of on-site medical personnel, the subject expired once more due to blunt force trauma and the test was thus ended prematurely.\nPrior to expiration, subject was observed to smile.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Microscopic analysis of the cage used during the test showed that oxides forming on its surface also disappeared at a rapid rate following retrieval from SCP-5088.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5087 | SCP-5088 | SCP-5089 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5089 LEVEL 2/5089\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5089\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5089 is contained in a leather box that measures 10 x 15 x 10 centimetres cubed and within a containment area of 30 kilometres in a radius around Site-73. Due to the anomalous properties of SCP-5089, it will appear outside the box on a monthly basis. Foundation personnel are permitted and expected to handle recontainment autonomously, reporting the recontainment to Dr. Woods at the earliest opportunity.\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5089 in a forest prior to recontainment.\n\nSCP-5089 refers to a skull resembling that of a Eurasian magpie (Pica pica), though DNA testing shows that it is genetically distinct from any known species of avian.\nDuring the first week of each month, SCP-5089 will teleport outside of its containment. SCP-5089 will return to an area within 30 kilometres of its original location before the end of this week. Testing using GPS tracking has demonstrated that SCP-5089 teleports to multiple locations, many of which are not on Earth. The majority of such locations are, as of the 15th of June, 2019 (last Special Containment Procedures revision for SCP-5089), unknown to the Foundation. There is currently no known means to prevent teleportation. While untested, it can be presumed that SCP-5089 has high durability due to its teleportation to often hazardous environments. Please view Addendum 5089 - 1 and/or <Test Log \u2014 Comprehensive Test Log -- Test 5089 - 2> for further details regarding testing.\nUpon the return of SCP-5089, paper (referred to as SCP-5089-A instances) will be contained within the beak. SCP-5089-A instances range from damaged paper notes to entire journals upwards of a hundred pages long. SCP-5089-A instances will always have either some form of writing or other artistic medium printed on them.\n\nAddendum 5089 - 1\n\n+ Show\n\n- Hide\n\nTest Log \u2014 Test 5089 - 2\n\nEquipment: 1 GPS tracker; 1 Video camera. Each item was installed into an eye socket of SCP-5089.\nObjective: To determine the location of SCP-5089 while it is not in Foundation custody, and to establish the origin of SCP-5089-A instances.\nResult: Success. See attached table for details.\nForward: During the test, SCP-5089 teleported to upwards of a dozen separate locations before returning to Foundation custody. It was determined that SCP-5089 is seemingly capable of teleporting to any location on Earth and at least 40 locations that were not Earth. The majority of these were omitted from the table for brevity. Please review <Test Log \u2014 Comprehensive Test Log -- Test 5089 - 2> for a complete list of locations and their descriptions. Additionally, the origins of SCP-5089-A instances was established during the test.\n\nLocation\nDescription\n\nOutside of a small grocery store in a rural village. Brittany, France.\nA middle aged man walked out of the store. He slid a folded sheet of A4 paper into SCP-5089's beak. Additionally, the man spoke the words \"fly safely\" (\"voler en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9\") to SCP-5089 before returning to the store.\n\nA lighthouse during the night. The North Sea.\nAfter several minutes without anything of note, a woman covered in a waterproof coat exited the lighthouse. She made her way to SCP-5089, bringing it back to the lighthouse with her and dried it off with a reusable cloth. She ripped out a page from a thick journal and slotted it into the beak of SCP-5089 along with a single pencil.\n\nA library. GPS was unable to locate position.\nA red, humanoid entity with 6 arms and bowed legs, with vaguely arthropodic features climbed down from the top shelf of one of the bookcases. It rummaged through a pocket for a few seconds before withdrawing a collection of cards and placing them within SCP-5089's beak. Upon recovery of these SCP-5089-A instances, they were found to have snippets of poetry written on them.\n\nAn open field. Lower Saxony, Germany.\nA white rabbit approached SCP-5089 and sniffed it. The rabbit used a forepaw to withdraw a blank card and a pencil from SCP-5089. It proceeded to write on the card with some difficulty. Several minutes later it reinserted the card and pencil into SCP-5089, patted it on the head and left.\n\nA library. GPS was unable to locate position.\nThe red, humanoid entity seen earlier emerged from behind a bookcase. It withdrew the card the rabbit had wrote on, read it and smiled. It slipped the card into one of its pockets. It placed a letter it had been carrying in its fifth arm into SCP-5089. It proceeded to climb across the bookshelves until out of view.\n\nThe floor of a lavatory. Site-73.\nUpon entering the lavatory, Dr. Mathews noticed SCP-5089 and recontained it per standard protocol.\n\nAddendum 5089 - 2\n\n+ Show\n\n- Hide\n\nTranscript \u2014 SCP-5089-A Instances \u2014 SCP-5089-A-482\n\nSCP-5089-A-482 is an instance recovered during Test 5089-2 (view Addendum 5089 - 1 for details). SCP-5089-A-482 is a letter written by the six armed, red humanoid entity observed during the test. It contains a poem written about SCP-5089 (which the author refers to as a \"Cromwell\").\n\nOde to the Cromwells\nBy Tamto, Page.\n\nO! Ode to the Cromwell,\nThe Magpie, the Messenger,\nHerald of any and every tale;\nTo you with these words I hail.\n\nOn wings of black and white,\nTo any world you'll take flight,\nAs the bird of word\nBoth heard and absurd.\n\nSo diligent in your ward\nTo literature and Wonder,\nNot even in death do you afford\nA chance to rest in yonder;\n\nSo to thee, the Cromwell's skull,\nI offer, when time makes you lull,\nA nest; fit only for the best,\nFor in the Library you can rest.\n\n\u269c \u269c \u269c\n\n\u00ab SCP-5088 | SCP-5089 | SCP-5090 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5090-1 is to be kept in a tidal vivarium. A Faraday cage hardwired to the Foundation intranet is to be positioned around the enclosure to restrict public access to SCP-5090 and SCP-5090-A through SCP-5090-C. Disinformation campaigns regarding the sites are to be launched to settle any possible sightings of SCP-5090 before Foundation intervention. SCP-5090-1 is to be fed one loggerhead turtle egg daily, and supplied a dish of saltwater, to be exchanged for fresh saltwater every two weeks.\nDescription: SCP-5090 is a Wide Area Network server. No evidence of external hardware which operates SCP-5090 exists; instead, SCP-5090 is entirely operated by SCP-5090-1. It has been concluded that SCP-5090 and SCP-5090-A through SCP-5090-C operate based on the daily actions of SCP-5090-1.\nSCP-5090-1 is a colony of Atlantic ghost crabs (Ocypodinae quadrata) which previously resided on Scotch Beach, Block Island, Rhode Island (see addendum 1). SCP-5090-1 appears to be sapient; it is concluded that SCP-5090-1 collectively has the equivalent intelligence of a seven-year-old human child. SCP-5090's exact method of creation is unknown, although enough evidence has led to the conclusion that SCP-5090-1 created it through telecommunication. SCP-5090-1 will interact with users of SCP-5090-A through SCP-5090-C, appearing to perceive users as other animals in the area.\nSCP-5090-A, SCP-5090-B, and SCP-5090-C are websites created by SCP-5090-1. One or more of these websites will appear in a user's browser history and/or bookmarks before the user had accessed these websites in the first place. Visiting SCP-5090-A through SCP-5090-C will automatically connect the user to SCP-5090.\nSCP-5090-A is a blog-style website accessible by the domain www.turtleeggtime.crab, mainly consisting of posts about the daily lives of SCP-5090-1.\nSCP-5090-B is a video sharing website accessible by the domain www.digfromdanger.crab. Despite its intended purpose, SCP-5090-B contains few videos posted by SCP-5090-1. SCP-5090-1 mainly interacts with users through the community tab, and commenting on works uploaded by other users.\nSCP-5090-C is an educational webpage consisting of interactive media with the purpose of educating school age children that is accessible by the domain www.sand.crab.\nAddendum 1.1: SCP-5090-1 Interaction Pre Containment\nOn 07/06/2019 Dr. Marigold and Researcher Crane accessed SCP-5090-A and SCP-5090-B to interact with SCP-5090-1 before containment. Dr. Marigold went under the alias \"Crabgirl19\", and Researcher Crane went under the alias \"Puzzledhearts\".\n\nghostysandgvhbj\nturtle egg or bug\n\negg4lyfe\negg\n\nPuzzledhearts\nEggs sound healthy.\n\nburrowsfromdangerssss\nWhy does a ross goose say egg eating good you a goose\n\nPuzzledhearts\nThey're not my eggs.\n\negg4lyfe\nweird goose\n\nLicorice_0_3_0\nwhat animal am I\n\ndancecrabsand\nstupid butterfish dont know what it is\nhaha\n\nCrabgirl19\nwhere do you guys live\n\nPuzzledhearts\nA bit on the nose, crab girl.\n\nghostysandgvhbj\nhabitat\nblock\n\nCrabgirl19\nyou didn't block me\n\nghostysandgvhbj\nblock\n\nCrabgirl19\nokay\n\nocean-survival\nnosey box crab\nstand by your crab brethren\nno nose\n\nCrabgirl19\nwhat the fuck how do you know the word brethren\n\nocean-survival\nwhat does that mean\n\nCrabgirl19\nI love you all\n\ntheportraitjudges\nI know they're so cute right\n\nburrowsfromdangerssss\nI am not cute catbird\nfierce crab\n\nClosing statement: the animals mentioned in the log by SCP-5090-1 led to the conclusion that it resided in Rhode Island. SCP-5090-1 mentioning \"block\" appears to be a reference to Block Island, Rhode island.\nAddendum 1.2: SCP-5090-1 Interaction Post Containment\nThe following is the comment section of a video uploaded to SCP-5090-B titled \"life\". The video depicts two members of SCP-5090-1 sitting in containment for fifteen minutes.\n\nUploaded by ocean-survival on 08/12/2019\nVideo description:\ntoday life update\n\nCrabgirl19\ncool\negg4lyfe\nResponse to Crabgirl19: thanks I was in it\n\nPuzzledhearts\nDo you two have any hobbies?\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: yes I like hunting for eggs but I cant do it a lot anymore because I am in cage thing but it is okay I have friends\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: Cage? what do you mean, lad?\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: I was at the sea with my friends but then I wasnt\nI am not sure what happened but now I am not in the sea\nI still have my friends though\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: How are you all adjusting to the change?\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: adjusting?\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: how are you taking the change, in short.\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: nosy ross goose\nbut you nice\nmost okay with it\nMossy is very confused though\nshe doesnt like change but we try to tell her it okay cause were all together\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: I see. Having friends through tough times is nice. I hope Mossy feels okay soon.\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: yes me too\ndo you know what a place change feels like\ndo you have any friends you feel sad for is that why you are asking im not good at helping words\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: I'm just worried for you. I do somewhat know how you feel, so I can empathize.\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: empathize????\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: Understand and share how you feel.\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: oh\nI hope you and your friends are okay ross goose\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: That is very kind of you.\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: thanks ross goose\ndid I give good helping words\nPuzzledhearts\nResponse to ocean-survival: You did, Ocean. Thanks again.\nocean-survival\nResponse to Puzzledhearts: yay place change not beated me!\n\n\u00ab SCP-5089 | SCP-5090 | SCP-5091 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5091 in its skeletal form.\n\nItem #: SCP-5091\nObject Class: Euclid Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5091 is to be contained within a standard humanoid containment cell, with an attached bathroom. A wall of SCP-5091's containment unit is to be converted into a mirror. All personnel that come into contact with SCP-5091 are to give compliments towards its current appearance and are to remain respectful when interacting with it. SCP-5091 is to be monitored 24 hours a day by Staff with a Level 2 clearance or above. If SCP-5091 is observed peeling its flesh back and emerging from it, a team of D-Class is to be immediately sent into its cell and perform the Causa Mutatio D procedure1.\nSCP-5091 is to be contained at Site-10 and given Level 3 access. Staff should monitor SCP-5091 and watch for any anomalous activity including; tearing of its flesh, excessive leakage of blood, or bone protrusions. Once per week SCP-5091 is to undergo testing by a site psychologist to ensure its mental state is sound. In the case that separation of SCP-5091 and its current flesh occurs, previous containment procedures should be reinstated.\nDescription: SCP-5091 is a sapient human skeleton approximately 1.8 meters tall and weighing 2.5 kg when not encompassed by skin and flesh. It moves in a consistent manner to that of a human muscular system, despite the lack of any muscles or flesh. SCP-5091 speaks a form of old English that seems to be constant with the language used in the early 1800s. Most notable is its anomalous ability to grab hold of any humanoid's flesh and stretch it past its original elasticity, breaking the bonds that normally attach it to the bone. SCP-5091 will peel the flesh from the human until it has entirely removed the flesh from the skeleton.\nIn all instances recorded of this occurring, both the skeleton and the flesh were completely removed and fully intact. The skeletal remains consist of only bone and cartilage, with no other tissue, organs, or even the nervous system. The rest of the body slumps down into a mass of skin and organs. SCP-5091 will only do this when in its skeletal form. Immediately after it removes the flesh from the skeleton, SCP-5091 will proceed to stretch and pull the mass of flesh over-top of itself like donning a jumper.\nOnce this process is complete SCP-5091 is visually almost identical to the original human. On close inspection, several unnatural lumps can be seen where organs did not fit correctly, and the skin around the eyes and mouth will be offset slightly. This ability has not been observed occurring since the Consciousness Linkage Experiment2 caused SCP-5091's consciousness to merge with that of its current flesh host Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nAddendum 5091.1 - Discovery\n\n+ Log-01: Initial Discovery Transcript.\n\n- Close Log\n\nInitial Discovery Transcript:\nDate: 25 May 2019\nLocation: United States, New York, Staten Island.\nPresent: SCP-5091, Agent Markov, MTF Pi-1.\nForeword: The foundation received several reports from New York of people going missing, their skeletons being found days later with only blood and no sign of flesh. Agent Markov is sent in with the Mobile Task Force Pi-1 (\"City Slickers\") to administer amnestics and contain whatever anomaly was causing this. They were able to track down the anomaly now classified as SCP-5091 to a residence on Staten Island.\n<Begin Log>\nMarkov: There it is, the blood trail is going into that residence, form a perimeter 12 meters back from it.\nMTF Agent 01: Yes, sir! [ Running boot sounds ]\nMarkov: Agent Sho and Agent Kenneth, you're with me. The rest of you, zap anything that tries to leave that is not us.\n[A door opens then slams shut, followed by 15 minutes of silence]\nMTF Agent 03: What is taking them so long, should we\u2014\n[Multiple human screams are heard coming from the resistance]\nMTF Agent 01: What is that! Get ready to shoot men!\n[Agent Markov emerges from the structure and walks up to the lead MTF Agent]\nMarkov: Ah, there you gentlemen are. Unfortunately, the target has escaped.\nMTF Agent 01: Escaped? How? The perimeter has not been broken.\nMarkov: It just disappeared alright? I order you all to return to base immediately.\nMTF Agent 02: Uh, are you feeling alright Agent Markov? You seem\u2026 unwell.\nMarkov: I am fine, return to base at once! That is an order!\nMTF Agent 01: Of course sir, we will just need you to verify the mission code phrase and we can be on our way.\nMarkov: Oh.. The code phrase, right. Well, it seems to have slipped my mind. Fancy that!\nMTF Agent 01: It happens to the best of us sir, but unfortunately we will have to take you into custody. Just until we can verify nothing is wrong with you. Its protocol after all.\nMarkov: Oh bother, alright, if you must.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The team apprehended \"Agent Markov\" and proceeded to search the residence. They found three skeletons on the floor along with two piles of flesh and organs. Two of the skeletons and piles of flesh were later tested positive for the DNA of the two missing MTF agents. The third skeleton's DNA matched that of Agent Markov. Further DNA tests on Agent Markov, now known to be SCP-5091, confirmed that it was wearing his actual flesh.\n\n+ Log-02: Interview A Transcript.\n\n- Close Log\n\nInterview A Transcript:\nDate: 15 June 2019\nLocation: Site-10, Wing D, Interrogation Room 3\nInterviewed: SCP-5091\nInterviewer: Dr. Daniels\nForeword: SCP-5091 is interviewed after initial containment.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Daniels: Welcome to our containment Site, do you know why you are here?Dr. Daniels: Something like that. Can you tell me why you attacked Agent Markov and his team when he initiated contact with you on the 25th of May?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Skin suit? Is that what you call us?[SCP-5091 is seen reaching forward toward Dr. Daniels]\nDr. Daniels: I wouldn't do that if I were you, we have 100,000 volts of electricity ready to hit you if you try an-\n[Electrical sounds mixed with human screams lasting for about 15 seconds]\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5091 was hit with 100,000 volts of electricity, quickly melting all the flesh off of its body. However, SCP-5091 remained unhindered in its skeletal form. It was able to move through the electric field, and pull Dr. Daniels' skin from his skeleton and put it on.\n\nAddendum 5091.2 - Update:2019/07/27\n\n+ Log-03: Incident Transcript.\n\n- Close Log\n\nIncident Transcript:\nDate: 29 June 2019\nLocation: Site-10, Wing B, Containment Room 5091\nPresent: Agent Mark Knox, SCP-5091, Site Guards.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Knox: SCP-5091, please cease your current action and return to your bunk.Agent Knox: Stop removing your skin at once! Stop!\n[ Audibly loud flesh plopping sound. ]Agent Knox: [ Muffled sounds ] Call Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 right away, SCP-5091's behavior has changed!\nCell Cam 5091-A: [ Two D-Class guards enter the cell to restrain SCP-5091 ]Guard: Step away from the, uh, flesh pile, and return to your bunk!\nCell Cam 5091-A: [ SCP-5091 moves toward the D-Class and is fired upon and hit with several rounds of ammo. ]\nGuard: It's not going down man! It's invincible, run!\nCell Cam 5091-A: [ A D-Class flees the room but SCP-5091 grabs the second one. ]\n[ Human screams lasting 30 seconds ]<End Log>\nAddendum: SCP-5091 peeled the flesh from the guard and proceeded to pull the mass of skin and organs over its own skeletal body. SCP-5091's bone and skeletal structure appear to be high Tensile and will not be damaged by conventional means. Restrictions should be put in place to limit human contact with SCP-5091.\n\n+ Log-04: Interview B Transcript.\n\n- Close Log\n\nInterview B Transcript:\nDate: 15 July 2019\nLocation: Site-10, Wing D, Interrogation Room 6\nInterviewed: SCP-5091\nInterviewer: Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nForeword: An interview is performed to try and ascertain more about SCP-5091 and it's origins.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I apologize for the lack of a physical in-person interview. After the events of your last interview, I think this is for the best.Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I know how it must seem, but we cannot allow you to just kill anyone you want for their skin. It would in fact be ungentlemanly of us if we let you hurt anyone.Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Would you at least be able to wear the same skin suit indefinitely or for a long period of time? Why do you need to replace your skin so frequently?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Tell you what, I think we can come to a compromise. If you agree to answer my questions I will give you my word that we will provide you with a skin suit afterward, deal?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Alright, during the interview we will both be voice only. I promise.Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: First of all, do you not destroy your skin suits when you discard them for a new one?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Can you tell me where you come from?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: The Nevermeant? I have heard of this place, never been there though.Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Maybe one day. Can you tell me how you came to be in our city of New York?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Years you say, is that not a long period of time for you?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Quite interesting, can you elaborate more on how this midnight train works?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Very well, I will have you returned to your containment cell and one sent in immediately.<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Questioning of SCP-5091 has proven valuable as it seems to have knowledge of other anomalies. Most notably is SCP-5091's home city that it refers to as \"Nevermeant\" and the \"midnight train\" it travels on. Unfortunately, SCP-5091 seems to only cooperate with foundation staff while wearing a human's flesh referring to it as a \"skin suit\". SCP-5091 seems to view humans as we would a garment to be worn and shown off then discarded. There must be a way we can show it the effect it has on people.\n\n+ Log-05 [DECOMMISSIONED] Procedure Causa Mutatio D .\n\n- Close Log\n\n[DECOMMISSIONED] Procedure Causa Mutatio D:\nForeword: Due to the fact that SCP-5091 refuses to divulge any useful information while in a skeletal state, the site director ordered that a containment procedure to keep SCP-5091 content while contained be established. Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 requested permission to attempt the experimental C-Link procedure on SCP-5091 but the request was declined.\nProcedure: This procedure is performed by a team of D-Class and closely monitored by Level 2 personnel. The team of D-Class will enter the containment unit with cleaning equipment and stand in a linear formation facing SCP-5091. SCP-5091 will look them over and eventually choose one of them as a replacement for its discarded flesh. It will proceed to remove all flesh from the chosen D-Class's skeleton and discard it on the floor. It will then take the mass of skin and organs previously known as the D-Class and pull it over top of its own skeletal body. Once this process is complete the remaining D-Class will use the cleaning equipment to remove the discarded skeleton and tissue and dispose of them.\n\nAddendum 5091.3 - Update:2020/03/10\n\n+ Log-06: Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's Journal Entry A\n\n- Close Log\n\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's Journal Entry A:\nDate: 12 January 2020\nEntry: I have been carefully monitoring sessions with SCP-5091 as it divulges information. Brain activity has been detected from SCP-5091 during periods when it is wearing a \"skin suit\" and none when in its skeletal form. I have determined that any humanoid SCP-5091 uses as its \"skin suit\" remains conscious and retains their sensory ability. The levels of brain activity in the parietal lobe indicate that subjects made to encompass SCP-5091 experience extreme levels of prolonged neuralgia. After SCP-5091 discards a flesh mass for a new target, all brain activity ceases within minutes.\nI cannot stand by as the site director allows so many people to be tortured and killed by SCP-5091 in the pursuit of knowledge. All observation of SCP-5091 points to it being benevolent and simply not comprehending its effect on the people it kills. There is an experimental method of forcing two consciousnesses to link, allowing them to access the thoughts of each other. Unfortunately, the usage of C-Link with an unstable SCP is strictly forbidden. I have sent in requests to the director and the O5 council to attempt its utilization on SCP-5091. Each time the requests have been immediately denied.\nI fear that my only recourse is to take it into my own hands and perform the experiment without authorization. If I am able to access said method without drawing scrutiny, I believe that I can integrate it into a chip to be used in a human subject's brain. This in theory would allow a bond to be formed with the subject's consciousness and SCP-5091's, causing it to experience the same thing its victims do. The only problem is that without approval I would have no D-Class available to attempt this experiment on.\n\n+ Log-07: Consciousness Linkage Experiment Transcript.\n\n- Close Log\n\nConsciousness Linkage Experiment Transcript:\nDate: 25 February 2020\nLocation: Site-10, Wing D, Testing Room 13\nSubjects: SCP-5091, Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nProcedure: The microchip known as C-Link-03 will be implanted in a human's brain. Once complete SCP-5091 will be told to remove the human's flesh and it over its skeletal structure. Once this is complete the microchip will activate and should establish a consciousness link between the subject and SCP-5091.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Alright, it's on. Do you understand exactly what you need to do after I implant the chip into my brain?Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yeah, yeah. Let's just hope C-Link-03 works. Otherwise, this will all have been in vain.Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I am now inserting the chip into my brain utilizing a pre-programmed robotic surgery arm with an attached needle.\n[ Mechanical noise mixed with a few painful grunts from Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 ]\nRobot Voice: Implant inserted successfully. Time elapsed 30 minutes 43 seconds.[ Audibly loud fleshy sounds. ][ SCP-5091 suddenly breaks off and gives out loud screams of pain lasting a total of 75 minutes. ]\n<End Log>\nAddendum: Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was found lying on the floor of testing room 13 by staff several hours later. He was brought to the hospital wing where they discovered he was actually SCP-5091 and quickly re-contained him.\n\n+ Log-08: Dr. Bones' Journal Entry B\n\n- Close Log\n\nDr. Bones' Journal Entry B:\nDate: 2 March 2020\nEntry: After experiencing the pain first hand that the human subjects do when their skeleton is removed, SCP-5091 has sworn to never perform a flesh removal on a human again. While we do both share a single consciousness now, SCP-5091 is still able to control the movement while I allow it to experience all the human emotions and senses. There were several weeks of turmoil, where our consciousnesses fought for dominance. However, SCP-5091 and I have been able to come to a mutual agreement. We will work together as one being and perform our duties for the foundation. SCP-5091 is a rather nice fellow once you get to know him.\nThe Foundation was skeptical of our ability to work in tangent. However, over the last few months, we have convinced them of our ability. The site director was rather upset when he learned of my insubordination, he classified me as dead and redacted my name from all Foundation documents. The staff of Site-10 colloquially nicknamed us 'Dr. Bones', a name I am growing rather fond of. One intriguing side effect of my merging with SCP-5091 is my ability to access its memories. While it is still hard for me to comprehend them, in time I should be able to learn more about SCP-5091 and its origins.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Procedure developed by Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. See Log-05.\n2. An unauthorized experiment self-performed by Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. See Log-07.\n3. A location existing outside baseline reality boarding the city of Alagadda.\n4. This train is believed to be SCP-052.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5090 | SCP-5091 | SCP-5092 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5093\n\nItem #: SCP-5093\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The building containing the entrance to SCP-5093 has been purchased by the Foundation and converted to Provisional Site-5093. The storefront has been fitted with a biometrically locked door and affixed with shutters. Access is limited to personnel assigned to the SCP-5093 research team.\nUPDATE AS PER THE ETHICS COMMITTEE (06/14/2020): Following the events of Exploration Log 5093-1 through 3, no personnel are to access SCP-5093. The storefront has been sealed off completely.\nDescription: SCP-5093 is an extradimensional spatial anomaly manifesting in \"White Satin Dance\", a studio located in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The interior of SCP-5093 resembles an unfurnished room, not unlike the studio's dance floor. SCP-5093 contains windows with a blue tint, allowing for view of numerous buildings similar in appearance to White Satin Dance visible in the distance. These buildings are accompanied by apertures identical to SCP-5093. White Satin Dance's external surface would not be able to accommodate an attachment of SCP-5093's size.\nSCP-5093 is only accessible by exiting the building from its rear entrance. SCP-5093's manifestation is not triggered through a discernible pattern, but testing has shown that the anomaly appears once in every 20 openings of the door. Attempts to access SCP-5093 from the outside of the building have failed.\nFor precaution, SCP-5093 has not yet been entered or observed beyond what is visible from its manifestation. Testing will commence on 06/12/2020.\nUPDATE AS PER THE ETHICS COMMITTEE (06/14/2020):\nFollowing the events of Exploration Log 5093-1 through 3, all testing involving SCP-5093 has been suspended.\n\nAddendum.5093-1: Testing\n\n\u25ba Access File: Exploration Log 5093-1\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5093-1\n\nDATE: 06/12/2020\nASSIGNED PERSONNEL:\n\nDr. Eric Trenton\nJr. Researcher Angela Starse\nD-128\n\nNOTES: First incursion into SCP-5093. One D-Class personnel (D-128) was equipped with recording equipment, a two-way radio, and an emergency ration. D-128 was instructed to investigate SCP-5093 while maintaining communication with control.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nD-128 enters SCP-5093.\nDr. Trenton: Check?\nD-128: Check.\nResearcher Starse: Check?\nD-128: Check.\nDr. Trenton: Can you stop?\nResearcher Starse: (Laughs) Sorry. Cass, you good?\nD-128 reluctantly moves forward, examining SCP-5093.\nD-128: Yep. What's, uh, what should I expect?\nDr. Trenton: Don't know yet. Figure it out, champ. You got this.\nD-128: Well, it\u2026 looks normal. (Gestures) Nothing's jumping out at me, my brain doesn't want to burst out of my skull, I think it's just a room. We done?\nDr. Trenton: Nope. Feeling okay?\nD-128: Peachy.\nDr. Trenton: Check the windows.\nD-128 approaches a window.\nD-128: Windows. Blue tint, buildings everywhere. Kind of look like the studio.\nResearcher Starse: (Turns to Trenton) Then that's\u2026 yeah. All the buildings are identical?\nD-128 walks to the opposite side of the room and observes a window.\nD-128: All the same.\nDr. Trenton: Try opening a door.\nD-128 approaches the door in the upper right corner, and attempts to open it.\nD-128: Locked.\nD-128 attempts to open the other three doors found inside SCP-5093, consecutively failing.\nD-128: I could pick them, maybe. Looks like a regular lever handle.\nDr. Trenton: (Pauses) Uh, sure. Go for it.\nD-128: With what, dumbass? The plastic fork?\nDr. Trenton: Alright, relax. (Turns to Researcher Starse) Ang, can you get her something?\nResearcher Starse: Paper clip good?\nD-128 examines the door handle.\nD-128: Yeah, that's fine.\nResearcher Starse leaves her position from the control set-up. Dr. Trenton and D-128 have a conversation. Extraneous dialogue has been removed.\nResearcher Starse: (Yells) Eric, come back here! I can't reach the box.\nDr. Trenton: (Gestures to screen) Stay put. (Yells) Coming!\nDr. Trenton averts his eyes from the control set-up and stands up. He briefly pokes his head around the corner, where Researcher Starse is positioned. At this moment, the video feed is lost and SCP-5093 de-manifests. The door leading to SCP-5093 shows the ordinary exterior of Provisional Site-5093. Dr. Trenton looks visibly confused. He touches the radio he's equipped with. D-128's voice is heard.\nD-128: Doc?\nDr. Trenton: Uh, hello?\nD-128: Doc, the door just disappeared. Like, the one I came in through. It's not there anymore.\nDr. Trenton: Hello? Who is this?\nD-128: Great joke. Seriously, it's not there anymore. What the fuck do I do?\nResearcher Starse enters the control room.\nResearcher Starse: Is Cass ready?\nDr. Trenton: I\u2026 I need a second to think here. Who am I communicating with?\nD-128: (Yells) It's Cass! D-128! You want to fill me in on what's happening over there?\nResearcher Starse: That's her. Wasn't she with you?\nDr. Trenton: (Pauses) I thought so too.\nResearcher Starse: Cass, where are you? We're about to start testing, get back to control.\nD-128: (Yells) You already started! I'm literally in the room.\nDr. Trenton: I\u2026 don't think you are. We haven't manifested the anomaly yet. Can you just come to the room you were in two minutes ago?\nD-128: Look, look. You manifested the room. It took a couple tries, but you got it. I geared up, and you sent me in. Look at the computer. You can't see me?\nDr. Trenton stares at the door SCP-5093 manifests itself in. Researcher Starse takes a seat at the computer terminal. Trenton begins examining the various equipment strewn around the room.\nResearcher Starse: Black.\nDr. Trenton: Equipment's gone too, shit. I guess we did send you in there.\nD-128: Maybe it's one of those\u2026 things.\nDr. Trenton: What things?\nD-128: Like, you guys definitely have a word for them. Like an amnestic, but it's a thing. You see it, and you forget about it.\nDr. Trenton: An antimeme?\nD-128: I guess.\nResearcher Starse: First time working with one of those.\nDr. Trenton: Probably not. Anyway, what happened after you were in?\nD-128: Tried to open the doors. Couldn't. Ang said she'd get me a paper clip. Couldn't. You left to go help her.\nDr. Trenton: (Pauses) We both left.\nD-128: Yeah, and now I can't get out.\nResearcher Starse: Hang on, we're manifesting the room again.\nDr. Trenton sits at the computer terminal.\nDr. Trenton: Wait. Video feed auto-archives. (Pauses) There, feed's up.\nDr. Trenton successfully pulls up a playback of the recording prior to its disruption.\nD-128: You can see me?\nDr. Trenton: (Shakes head) Old footage. Ang, come here.\nResearcher Starse: God, this is weird. That's the room?\nDr. Trenton: Look away, and don't look back until I tell you to.\nResearcher Starse looks away from the terminal. Trenton begins counting with his fingers while still facing the screen. After 10 seconds, she appears visibly confused and looks at Dr. Trenton without prompting.\nDr. Trenton: What's the room look like?\nResearcher Starse: I\u2026 didn't look at it yet.\n<END LOG>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Exploration Log 5093-2\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5093-2\n\nDATE: 06/12/2020\nNOTES: Two hours have passed since Exploration Log 5093-1. D-128 remains trapped inside SCP-5093. All attempts to manifest SCP-5093 by opening and closing the door have failed. Dr. Trenton and Researcher Starse remain seated at the computer terminal.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nD-128: Yeah, I get how it works. What are we going to do?\nDr. Trenton: Two options. First, we give the boys back home a call, get a thaumaturgy team. Try to magic you out of there. Could do that.\nD-128: Or?\nDr. Trenton: Or, we\u2026 Ang?\nResearcher Starse: I have nothing.\nDr. Trenton: Nothing. I'll send the files to Raju's team. Scrub the memetic properties off, and we'll be able to go from there. You're going to be fine, Cass. Just relax.\nResearcher Starse points to the screen, which displays the archive's files.\nResearcher Starse: Whoa, whoa, slow down.\nDr. Trenton: What?\nResearcher Starse: There's like, 5 files in there.\nDr. Trenton: (Pauses) The fuck?\nTrenton clicks on a file. A visual perspective of an unidentified D-Class examining SCP-5093 is shown.\nResearcher Starse: Who the hell's that?\nTrenton and Starse watch in silence. Trenton skips around the video.\nDr. Trenton: Cass, we're about to close a video, so we're not going to remember it. Tell us the file showed a D-Class examining the room, okay?\nD-128: Wait, I thought I was the first one in.\nDr. Trenton: So did we.\nTrenton skips towards the end of the video. The feed cuts out around 25 minutes. He closes the file. Trenton begins counting with his fingers. After 10 seconds, both he and Starse display confusion. D-128 informs them of the contents of the file they just opened.\nResearcher Starse: 'D-114 test log'. 05/02/2020. 'D-126 Test Log'. Date 06/03/2020. Oh, God, Eric.\nDr. Trenton: Don't open any more.\nResearcher Starse: Those are from last month. Have we\u2014\nDr. Trenton: Apparently. Christ, we lost seven D-Class to this thing, and we didn't even realize it?\nD-128: That's reassuring.\nDr. Trenton: I'm calling site, this is just\u2014\nD-128: No. Don't. You don't think you didn't try that already? Listen, I don't know if I'm right about this, but this, (Pauses) it's all happened before. You get a D-Class, send them in, something happens, they get stuck, you call the site in an attempt to get them out, and then what? You're still here. What happened to the other Ds before me?\nDr. Trenton: You're saying Site is keeping us here on purpose? To do the same thing over and over again? That's ridiculous.\nD-128: Someone had to send you more test subjects.\nDr. Trenton: Every research team requests more D-Class.\nD-128: I know it sounds wrong, but.. you know who you work for. Would you really be that surprised? What if you call them up and they tell you to keep me here? What if something happens after a certain amount of time, and that's the real experiment? You know how these things work.\nResearcher Starse: She has a point. They didn't make it out, and we don't even remember sending them in. Something's going to happen to Cass very soon, and then we'll be back to square one.\nDr. Trenton: Why?\nResearcher Starse: We forgot about the rest of them. What if this thing erases you completely?\nDr. Trenton: It makes no sense, though. Not the anomaly, but why we're here. What's the point of doing a test over and over again, if it's always going to end the same?\nD-128: You have security cameras on your end, doc?\nDr. Trenton: (Pauses) Yeah. One in the control room.\nD-128: Where's the security feed?\nDr. Trenton: We're able to bring it up from the terminal. (Pauses) Archive goes back only a few hours.\nResearcher Starse: What? It should go back to last month.\nD-128: Big Brother's watching. I guess you're D-Class too, doc. (Laughs)\nDr. Trenton: What the hell do we do? What are we supposed to do?\nResearcher Starse: This isn't right. Not at all. Eric, I'm not going to have her die on us so we could do it again tomorrow!\nDr. Trenton: (Yells) Again, what are we supposed to do? If we're here, it's for a reason!\nD-128: (Pauses) You have access to the security feed, and my exploration footage. The feed has audio, yeah?\nDr. Trenton checks the feed.\nDr. Trenton: Yeah.\nD-128: Make a transcript. Write everything down up to now, and when whatever happens to me happens, and you forget everything, you could read it.\nResearcher Starse: (Pauses) That might actually work, Cass. There's three of us, any memory discrepancies between us can easily be sorted out if we're careful enough. Eric?\nDr. Trenton: Alright\u2026 I'll do it. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little concerned.\n<END LOG>\n\n\u25ba Access File: Exploration Log 5093-3\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5093-3\n\nDATE: 06/13/2020\nNOTES: D-128 has remained trapped inside SCP-5093 for over 8 hours. Dr. Trenton and Researcher Starse prepare an object file as well as a transcript of D-128's exploration using footage from the archive and the security feed. Notably, an early draft of the file, detailing containment procedures, a description, and a photo of SCP-5093 that holds no apparent antimemetic effect, was found on the computer terminal \u2014 dated 05/01/2020. Neither personnel have recollection of writing this document.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nDr. Trenton: Cass? We're done with the file, at least up until we decided to make one.\nD-128: And?\nDr. Trenton: I don't know. Should we call and see what happens?\nResearcher Starse: Hold off. Whatever's going to happen to Cass is going to erase her from our memory, at least, I think. What if calling the Site triggers that?\nD-128: If the security feed is still running, and it is, they don't know the experiment isn't over yet. Means they aren't watching live.\nDr. Trenton: I'd love to know who 'they' are.\nResearcher Starse: For all we know, us grinding D-class like this could be supplying energy to the whole planet. Shit, we could be the only thing between an eldritch abomination and the safety of the humanity. Literally anything can be happening here, and it's all a few security clearances above us.\nDr. Trenton: And if it's for the greater good? What if we shouldn't stop? Maybe it's better we don't remember what we do, but we wouldn't be here without a purpose. I'll stand by that.\nResearcher Starse: I guess we're about to find out. God, what is it, four in the morning?\nD-128: I'm tired, not going to lie. Look, I'm going to sleep, and you're going to finish the transcript, like, from the last five minutes. I'll see you in the morning, or maybe I won't. Who knows.\nResearcher Starse: You're oddly calm about this, Cass.\nD-128: I wasn't going to be remembered either way. You won't either. You live in secret, not knowing who or what you're fighting for half the time. You can be killed at a moments notice, and no one might ever know why. Hell, you can't even get an on-site therapist. Might be an information breach. Just take the damn amnestics, and keep doing your job. Both of you, senior researchers, and you're being used as guinea pigs without your consent. I'll be erased from memory, and one day, you will too. Just different ways to go about it.\nResearcher Starse: (Pauses) Anything else you'd like to add?\nD-128: (Yawns) Nope. Night.\nResearcher Starse: Goodnight, Cass.\n<END LOG>\n\nResearcher's Note: D-128 remained silent for the next half hour as Researcher Starse transcribed the above portion. Posthumous security footage analysis shows D-128 remained silent until around 08:00, when they spoke again.\n\nD-128: (Laughs) They see me. From the outside. I'll be there too.\n\nAttempts to respond to D-128 resulted in failure. SCP-5093's antimemetic properties came into effect shortly after.\n\nAddendum 5093.2: Update (06/14/2020)\nDr. Trenton and Researcher Starse turned in the above file on 06/14/2020. In line with the Ethics Committee's investigation regarding explorations of SCP-5093, containment procedures have been updated. Footage of previous SCP-5093 investigations found on the archive is being curated and researched. A description update is pending until a more complete understanding of SCP-5093's mechanics can be discerned.\nFoundation personnel archives hold no record of any D-Class personnel involved in SCP-5093 experimentation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5092 | SCP-5093 | SCP-5094 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5094\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nFootage captured during testing of SCP-5094.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: 37 copies of Miss J's Whiz Kidz Schoolhouse are currently stored in Site-15 low-risk item storage. Any additional copies found in civilian possession should be procured via ordinary means, preferably purchased under the guise of preservation or collection. Foundation webcrawler ETA-15-NATALYA is to monitor for keywords related to SCP-5094 and remove copies of its host software and discussions of its anomalous effects.\n\nUpdate 2022/07/23: Approval of the use of SCP-5094 for internal training purposes is under review.\n\nDescription: SCP-5094 is a sapient character in the discontinued children's educational CD-ROM software Miss J's Whiz Kidz Schoolhouse, released in June 1999 by Shoot the Moons Software. Its appearance is that of a stylized female humanoid, modeled as a two-dimensional cutout in a three-dimensional environment. It responds to the name \"Miss J\" and any feminine name beginning with J; documented examples include \"Miss Julie\", \"Miss Jenny\", and \"Miss Joy\".\nSCP-5094 is consistently amiable in temperament; its stated purpose is education, and any conversation occurring with SCP-5094 will center on the topic. It will often engage in \"lessons\" lasting upwards of thirty hours, including restroom, meal, and recreation breaks for students. It is able to instruct lessons on a presently undetermined number of subjects\u2014past lesson subjects include particle physics, marine engineering, Vietnamese military history, and Cubist sculpture\u2014but will always begin curricula with new students by teaching letters, colors, and numbers.\nThe advertising for Miss J's Whiz Kidz Schoolhouse prominently featured appeals to single and working parents, with assurances that the software would keep their children occupied while they were unable to care for them. It is hypothesized that the target demographics of this advertising campaign led to SCP-5094's anomalous properties remaining undiscovered for the entire period of its production. Miss J's Whiz Kidz Schoolhouse reportedly sold fewer copies than expected, and Shoot the Moons Software subsequently filed for bankruptcy in January 2004.\nAddendum 5094-1: Discovery\nEmbedded Foundation agents were able to corroborate claims of a \u201cliving character\u201d on an online forum dedicated to discussing abandonware1 on 2012/02/15, eight years after production of Miss J's Whiz Kidz Schoolhouse ceased. After the existence of SCP-5094 was confirmed, it was initially classified as neutralized, as no copies of the program it resides in could be located. However, Junior Researcher Xenia Chau recovered a personal copy of the software from their home in June 2022 after being briefed on SCP-5094, after which active study began.\n\nTest Log 5094-1\nStudents at an elementary school in the same district as Site-15 were contacted under pretense of academic research to test SCP-5094.\n\nTest Date: 2022/06/17\nStudent: Amy Myers, grade 3. Described as notably shy but a good student.\nLesson Subject: Cats\nLesson Length: 15 hours, administered over the course of two days\nResult: Student demonstrated knowledge of feline behavior, diet, and physiology on the level of professional animal behavioral scientists. Became upset when test period ended and the terminal displaying SCP-5094 shut off.\nNotes: Baseline result. SCP-5094 was referred to as \"Miss Janie\".\n\nTest Date: 2022/06/19\nStudent: Devon Williams, grade 2. Described as a difficult student with behavioral issues and a history of defiance, noted to have several learning disabilities.\nLesson Subject: Trains\nLesson Length: 15 hours, administered over the course of two days\nResult: Student remained engaged with the lesson for the duration of the test period without complaint. Student demonstrated a level of knowledge on railway engineering comparable to a graduate-level education on the subject. Physical removal from the testing room was necessary due to emotional agitation at the cessation of the test.\nNotes: SCP-5094 is able to teach effectively regardless of preexisting learning difficulties. No name was given to SCP-5094.\n\nTest Date: 2022/06/22\nStudent: D-14417, 24 years old. Self-described as a poor student; tested poorly on pre-screening attentiveness and focus evaluations. An adult subject was ordered to determine SCP-5094's effectiveness outside of the target demographic, as well as the possibility of an emotionally compulsive effect in its lessons.\nLesson Subject: Law\nLesson Length: 30 hours, administered over the course of four days\nResult: Student experienced no difficulty understanding or completing coursework assigned by SCP-5094, and repeatedly affirmed his wellbeing and clarity of mind during testing. No emotional distress was displayed after completion, though during post-test evaluation D-14417 expressed melancholy when prompted, stating that SCP-5094 was \"the best teacher [he]'d ever had\". D-14417 was able to successfully pass a mock bar exam with a grade of 310.\nNotes: SCP-5094 was referred to as \"Miss Joan\". D-14417's pre-release amnesticization was selectively administered to preserve the content of his lesson with SCP-5094 and exclude the nature of the anomaly. He is currently pursuing a degree in criminal justice.\n\nInterview 5094-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5094\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Xenia Chau\nForeword: The SCP-5094 instance interviewed originates from a copy of the software purchased by Foundation agents on 2022/07/14.\n\n<Begin Log, 2022/07/19>\n[The terminal displaying SCP-5094 is switched on. Junior Researcher Chau is visibly surprised.]Junior Researcher Chau: [Smiling broadly. Notable hesitation before speaking.] Miss\u2014er, SCP-5094. I'm not here for a lesson, I just need to ask some questions.Junior Researcher Chau: Um\u2014Well, not exactly, that's\u2014let me see here. Um\u2026\n[Junior Researcher Chau is signaled by interview oversight that they are permitted to deviate from prerecorded interview questions. They relax visibly and resume smiling.]\nJunior Researcher Chau: Oh, never mind all that, Miss Joyce\u2026 gosh, it's been forever. I think I must have been twelve years old when I finally got a new computer\u2026 I was so upset when I realized Whiz Kidz wasn't compatible with it. Even though I figured I was too old for it by then\u2026Junior Researcher Chau: [In Swahili] Of course not. I remember every word. You were a wonderful teacher.Junior Researcher Chau: Oh, well, that's\u2026 [Pause.] I suppose you could say that. I'm actually supposed to be studying you, Miss Joyce\u2026 What with you being fully sapient and whatnot.Junior Researcher Chau: Let's see here\u2026 [Clears throat] Are you aware of your nature as a digital construct, SCP-5094\u2014is it okay if I call you that?Junior Researcher Chau: Oh\u2014no, that's fine, that's pretty much what I had written down\u2026 One more, though. How do you perceive the world? Can you describe your experience of senses?[SCP-5094 shakes its head, and Junior Researcher Chau smiles.]Junior Researcher Chau: No, no, you're alright, Miss Joyce. I remember\u2026 That time Dad was home on time for once? He didn't believe you were alive, but that's not surprising, is it? [Laughs, then sighs.] It was just you and I, back then.Junior Researcher Chau: \u2026It's alright, Miss Joyce. You did your best. I can't thank you enough.\n<End Log, 2022/07/19>\n\nClosing Statement: As the SCP-5094 instance interviewed was not the SCP-5094 instance residing in the copy of Miss J's Whiz Kidz Schoolhouse owned by Junior Researcher Chau, it is assumed that all instances of SCP-5094 share a consciousness.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Software for which official support is no longer available, often due to age or bankruptcy of parent company.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5093 | SCP-5094 | SCP-5095 \u00bb"}
{"text": "O5-12\n\nTo: O5-3\nDetails\n\nRe: N/A\nApril 12th, 2018 at 12:57 PM\n\nO5-3\n\nTo: O5-12\nDetails\n\nN/A\nApril 12th, 2018 at 12:15 PM\nMax,\nI've got a few things I need to talk about with you. I trust you more than anyone else here, and I'm sure you'll understand.\nMary Eliot\nO5-3\n\nMary,\nI'm here for you, dear friend. Thank you for confiding in me.\nMaxwell McKenna\nO5-12\n\n04/13/2018\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is restricted to O5-4, O5-10, and O5-12. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5095\n\nEnter Credentials\n\nAccess Granted\n\nO5-4, O5-10, please share this with your fellow overseers. The clearance level is to assure that O5-3 does not suspect that she has been excluded.\nWe need to talk about O5-3.\nO5-3 has been infected by SCP-5095. I've included the documentation for it below:\n\nItem#: 5095\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$disruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\n{$risk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As of \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/1967, SCP-5095 been assumed to be neutralized.\nDescription: SCP-5095 is a anomalous, parasitic organism similar to other cyclophyllid cestode of the family Taeniidae. SCP-5095 only inhabits the cranial cavities of hominids, typically humans, where it will develop by attaching itself to grey matter within the organism's brain and consuming rational thought, which is converted through an anomalous process into nutritional compounds.\nSCP-5095's development occurs at a significantly slower rate than similar species; larvae may develop in excess of 30 years, during which SCP-5095's consumption will gradually impair its host's ability to perform cognitive functions, eventually resulting in brain death. Attempts to extract SCP-5095 from living hosts have thus far been unsuccessful.\nBetween \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/1960 and \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/1967, all known instances of SCP-5095 approached maturity and subsequently expired. As no further instances have been identified, 5095 has been presumed neutralized.\nAddendum 5095-1: Discovery\nSCP-5095 was initially discovered by Dr. Mary Eliot after a series of outbreaks in the eastern United States in 1938. In total, \u2588\u2588 civilians were infected with individual instances of SCP-5095 and were subsequently quarantined. As per protocol, a standard media purge was undertaken to prevent public knowledge of SCP-5095.\nAddendum 5095-2: Infection Instances\nSCP-5095's exact effects vary between individuals. The following include three cases from the initial outbreak resulting in significantly distinct symptoms. For a complete list of affected persons, see 5095 Cases UNA.\n\nArnold Witts\nSuspected infection date: August 1938\nInfection Progression: Onset of symptoms 2 years following suspected infection. Subject's symptoms worsened over the course of 32 years, culminating in expiration on 4/10/1961. Symptoms include:\n\u2022 Amnesia\n\u2022 Cognitive impairment\n\u2022 Delusion\n\u2022 Paranoia\nArnold was the first identified person to be infected by SCP-5095. He used to work for the Foundation, actually, and was one of my colleagues at the time. I began to suspect something was wrong when he started forgetting things, and it only got worse from there. While before, he was one of the foremost parabiologists in the entire world, within a decade, he wasn't even capable of comprehending cellular structure. \u2014 Dr. Mary Eliot\n\nShelley Cornell\nSuspected infection date: December, 1938\nInfection Progression: Subject was infected for over 5 years, but presented no symptoms until one week prior to expiration. Symptoms include:\n\u2022 Aggression\n\u2022 Cognitive impairment\n\u2022 Compulsiveness\n\u2022 Emotional detachment\nShelley was described by those close to her as a gentle, loving mother, and a passionate, loyal friend. Something was \"off\" about her, no doubt, but she didn't collapse until a few days before she passed away. \u2014 Dr. Mary Eliot\n\nRichard Williams\nSuspected infection date: April, 1938\nInfection Progression: Subject presented no symptoms until three months prior to expiration, 11 years after initial infection. Symptoms include:\n\u2022 Amnesia\n\u2022 Cognitive impairment\n\u2022 Elevated mood\n\u2022 Excitability\nRick was only seven when we brought him in. He was robbed of a normal life before he'd been able to fall in love, or raise a child, or grow old and pass on in peace, even though he was practically normal until the last few weeks of his life. I watched him grow up in confinement; he was like a first child to me. \u2014 Dr. Mary Eliot\n\nAddendum 5095-3: Interview\n\nInterview Transcript\nDate: 5/29/1949\nInterviewer: Dr. Mary Eliot\nInterviewee: Richard Williams\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Eliot: Afternoon, Rick.\nWilliams: Dr. Mary!\n(Williams smiles widely.)\nDr. Eliot: Nice to see you too.\n(Dr. Eliot sits down.)\nDr. Eliot: I've been told that you haven't been feeling yourself lately. Is that right?\n(Rick stares blankly at Dr. Eliot.)\nDr. Eliot: Rick?\nWilliams: Dr. Mary!\n(Williams smiles widely.)\nDr. Eliot: I see.\n(Dr. Eliot smiles sadly and reviews her notes.)\nDr. Eliot: Rick, how have you been feeling?\nWilliams: I don't know. I'm happy!\nDr. Eliot: What about how you think?\n(Williams furrows his brow for a moment.)\nWilliams: It's hard to think about thinking, Dr. Mary.\n(Dr. Eliot records several observations in her notes.)\nDr. Eliot: Alright, here's the deal, Rick. I'm going to try to help you think clearly again.\nWilliams: Okay!\nDr. Eliot: There's a \u2014 a worm, in your brain, Rick.\nWilliams: Her name is Mary, just like you, and she lives in my head, right here!\n(Williams lightly taps the back of his head, where a slightly noticeable bulge protrudes from his skull.)\nDr. Eliot: We're going to try to remove the worm from your head, Rick. Do you understand?\nWilliams: What does that word mean, again?\nDr. Eliot: Which word, dear?\nWilliams: \"Worm.\" I don't think I've heard it before.\n(Dr. Eliot gently places her hand over William's hand.)\nDr. Eliot: I have to thank you for a lot, Rick.\n(Williams stares blankly at Dr. Eliot, maintaining a broad smile.)\nDr. Eliot: I don't know if you can still understand what I'm saying, but I'm going to be promoted next week. I'm going to have to leave you.\n(Dr. Eliot sighs.)\nDr. Eliot: I'm doing what I can to help before I go. And I'm sorry you've been stuck in here like this for so long.\n(Dr. Eliot pauses.)\nDr. Eliot: But I have to move on, Rick. I have a daughter now. I named her Lucy, like your mom. She's very smart, just like you.\n(Dr. Eliot wipes a tear from her eye, holding Williams' hand tighter.)\nWilliams: Dr. Eliot?\nDr. Eliot: What's the matter, Rick?\nWilliams: Can I be friends with Lucy?\n(Dr. Eliot gently laughs, openly crying now.)\nDr. Eliot: You're going to get out of here soon, Rick. And then you can be friends with her on the outside, in the normal world.\nWilliams: Will I see you again?\n(Dr. Eliot sighs.)\nDr. Eliot: I'll do my best.\nWilliams: Promise?\nDr. Eliot: I promise I will see you again one day, whether it be in this life or another.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5095-4: Removal of SCP-5095\nOn 5/30/1949, Dr. Mary Eliot attempted to remove an SCP-5095 instance from within a live victim, Richard Williams. During the procedure, Richard Williams expired, and Dr. Eliot [DATA EXPUNGED].\nI know that data shouldn't be expunged for us, but the old files are corrupted and I'm unable to recover the full clearance files. \u2014 O5-12\n\nI speculate that O5-3 has been infected for a while due to the progression of her now noticeable symptoms. If O5-3 continues her work, at her current rate, she will completely lose control over her cognitive functions.\nThis message is to request your respective insights as to whether or not O5-3 is to be removed from her position.\n\u2014 O5-12\n\nOverseers come and go. I've been here long enough to know that we can always find someone better for the job.\n\u2014 O5-1\n\nIf O5-3 has always been affected, then her performance is normal. I see no reason to remove her from office.\n\u2014 O5-2\n\nO5-3 has been here longer than all of us except O5-1. The old guard is disappearing, and we need their expertise as long as we can hold on to it.\n\u2014 O5-4\n\nThe years have not been generous to her position. Indeed, she is nowhere near as irreplaceable as she may have once been.\n\u2014 O5-5\n\nO5-3 has served honorably and dutifully for more than seven decades. I believe it is only right that she be allowed to spend her final years in peace.\n\u2014 O5-6\n\nI always felt there was something off about her.\n\u2014 O5-7\n\nI fail to see why O5-3 should be removed from her position by principle alone. Has she not proven herself to the Foundation time and time again?\n\u2014 O5-8\n\nAre we seriously considering allowing a potentially cognitively impaired centennial to remain in a position of power at the Foundation? To perform its primary functions, the Foundation must remain ahead of the modern world, rather than stuck in the past.\n\u2014 O5-9\n\nAs the newest member to the council, I have not known O5-3 for very long. But within the short time I've been acquainted with her, I have observed how crucial her presence is to the council and Foundation as a whole. We need her here.\n\u2014 O5-10\n\nO5-3 cannot be removed from office. She has always been a mediator between the extremes; I fear that should she leave, a violent schism will split our Foundation in two as it has before.\n\u2014 O5-11\n\nThere is precedence for removing an O5 from office by the principle of anomalous property alone. It is no question that an O5 with a cognitive impairment due to an anomalous infection must be removed from office.\n\u2014 O5-13\n\nProposal: O5-3 is to be relieved of her duties.\n\nO5\nYea\nNay\n\nO5-1\n\u2717\n\nO5-2\n\n\u2717\n\nO5-4\n\n\u2717\n\nO5-5\n\u2717\n\nO5-6\n\u2717\n\nO5-7\n\u2717\n\nO5-8\n\n\u2717\n\nO5-9\n\n\u2717\n\nO5-10\n\n\u2717\n\nO5-11\n\n\u2717\n\nO5-13\n\u2717\n\nConclusion: As O5-3's symptoms have not hindered her ability to perform her duties to date, O5-3 will remain part of the Overseer Council until rendered unable to work.\n\nO5-12\n\nTo: O5-3\nDetails\n\nRe: Retirement\nApril 13th, 2018 at 8:40 PM\n\nO5-3\n\nTo: O5-12\nDetails\n\nRetirement\nApril 12th, 2018 at 9:02 PM\nMax,\nAs I'm sure you know, I've been working here for quite a long time. I was here when Hoover was in office; some of the others weren't even alive then. I've spent the better half of a lifetime securing, containing, and protecting. I've been cold, when I needed to, because I told myself that I was doing this for humanity.\nWell now, I'm old and tired, Max. I'd like to spend my last few years with my daughter and grandchildren, apart from the Foundation and the anomalous world. I'd like to experience the humanity that I've been protecting for so long.\nOf course, I'm due to use 006 again in a few weeks, and I've decided that I don't want to keep going. That's why I'm asking for your help to retire completely, so that my family won't be monitored by Foundation operatives 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I'm asking for your help to let me return to the normal world.\nI couldn't be there for Rick. My duties will not keep me from Lucy anymore. She's grown, but I am still her mother.\nMary Eliot\nO5-3\n\nMary,\nO53votes.txt\nI'm sorry. I tried.\nMaxwell McKenna\nO5-12\n\n\u00ab SCP-5094 | SCP-5095 | SCP-5096 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5096\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5096 is to be stored in a modified Class-7 Biological Containment Cell within Site-08. This cell is to have all life support equipment1 removed and retrofitted with a 5-meter-tall concrete pedestal for SCP-5096 to rest upon.\nSCP-5096 is to be kept at least 3 meters from all soil and other forms of particulate silicate matter and is to be kept at least 50 meters from living organisms belonging to the phylum Annelida2and the phylum Arthropoda.3\nTwo weeks following a GARDEN-PARTY event, SCP-5096's cell is to be cleaned of the remains of all SCP-5096-2 instances present. SCP-5096-2 instances displaying properties previously undocumented will be retained for further study; all other instances are to be brought to a standard Biological Containment cell for storage.\n\nSCP-5096 prior to containment.\n\nDescription: SCP-5096 refers to a singular painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui Rhopalocera). SCP-5096 can manifest an entomology book titled 'Life of Insects: The Study and Story Behind Entomology' by Jane Woodsburrow (designated SCP-5096-1). SCP-5096 is capable of turning the pages of SCP-5096-1 via the flapping of its wings. When SCP-5096-1 is opened, the environment depicted on the chosen page will manifest. (Ex: A page about the average earthworm will result in the manifestation of soil and grass.)\nIf SCP-5096 is introduced to soil or other forms of particulate silicate matter, SCP-5096 will produce a number of duplicates of itself (designated SCP-5096-2). When introduced to any organism belonging to the phylum Annelida or the phylum Arthropoda, the entire vicinity around SCP-5096 will transform into that of outdoor scenery (though will remain indoors), and instances of SCP-5096-2 will metamorphosize into organisms belonging to the phylum Annelida or the phylum Arthropoda (designated GARDEN-PARTY event). The effects of a GARDEN-PARTY event will persist even if the organisms introduced to SCP-5096 are removed. A GARDEN-PARTY event will last for approximately two weeks before SCP-5096-2 instances are able to be removed. It is of note that this event does not occur if SCP-5096 interacts with soil that manifests along with the environments depicted in SCP-5096-1.\nAddendum-1: SCP-5096-1 Excerpts\n\nPage Number: 23\nPage Contents: The habitat and behavior of the American Cockroach (periplaneta americana).\nEffect: A small portion of SCP-5096's cell transforms to wet cement and stone resembling a house garage. Half-eaten food items are scattered across the pavement, as well as nine cockroaches scavenging said food. SCP-5096 flutters over to each cockroach, aiding each one in the retrieval of a food item. SCP-5096 stays in the affected area until SCP-5096-1 is closed.\nAdditional Notes: Handwritten notes in the margin of page 29 reading: 'A lot of people hate cockroaches, but I just love these little guys. I try to help them get food whenever I can. And they only want shelter from the rain! Why would you squish the poor creatures? Bugs are more like us than you'd think, I know you don't like being hungry in the rain.'\n\nPage Number: 40\nPage Contents: The behaviors of the Average Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).\nEffect: A large tree trunk with a honey bee hive located within a large central hollow manifests along with several rocks and a small grassy area. SCP-5096 flutters around the hive, but remains carefully outside of the bees' detection for approximately two minutes before SCP-5096-1 is closed.\nAdditional Notes: Handwritten notes in the margin of page 40 reading: 'I like bees. Bees are calm. I like calm. Many think bees are dangerous, but they don't want to hurt you. They want to help you! They want your garden to be the best it can be! I guess I'm like them in that way. I spend lots of time in my garden watching them. You should let bees help.'\n\nPage Number: 67\nPage Contents: The habitat, behaviors, and background of the Drugstore Beetle (Stegobium paniceum).\nEffect: A small section of SCP-5096's cell transforms into dry tile with a large open bag of dry dog food. Several dozen drugstore beetles can be seen within, scavenging the food. SCP-5096 flutters above the affected area, then flies away from it.\nAdditional Notes: Handwritten notes in the margin of page 67 reading: 'Man, those drugstore beetles are quite the thing aren't they? There's a whole lot of them. You know the name comes from the fact that they like to feed upon pharmacological products such as dried herbs and plants. Haha, that's pretty cool! Most people think they're a nuisance, but I think they're just like us. I've been eating more outdoor things recently, but that's fine! Gives me more time to observe and document for this book.'\n\nPage Number: 115\nPage Contents: The habitat, behaviors, and information about the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui Rhopalocera).\nEffect: All of SCP-5096's cell transforms to mimic that of a backyard-like area typically found in temperate climates, including trees, a patio-style porch against the wall with a door, grass, flowers, and daytime sky. No other insects manifest. SCP-5096 flutters around the entirety of its cell for approximately five minutes before landing on a stack of papers lying in the grass. The effects of SCP-5096-1 demanifest approximately seven minutes after it is closed.\nAdditional Notes: Handwritten notes in the margin of page 115 reading: 'You guys get to see a bit of where I grew up, ey? Technically I'm just talking about butterflies here, but I mean I guess I connect to that now. It's a wonder I've still been able to write in here. But how will I share this? There are a million books about insects out there, but you'll never find someone more passionate about it than me. I'll still spread the message, I'll get there somehow.'\n\nAddendum-2: Approximately two months after the discovery of SCP-5096, the home of Jane Woodsburrow was found vacated, and is believed to be associated with SCP-5096. Within the home, an indoor butterfly enclosure with multiple butterflies inside was found. Next to this was a collection of notes.\n\nHello! You're trying to write a book about insects! \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\nYou don't have to freak out, I'm a butterfly, not a ghost! See? I'm right here! \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\nI can't understand what you're saying. I can only interpret written text. But I have a general feel of emotions. \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nUh, okay, hi?\n\nHello to you too! \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nHow do you know about me? I mean, how do I even know whether or not this is real?\n\nIt's real! I can feel your love of insects, and I want to share that with others. But\u2026I'm a butterfly, so I don't know how to talk to people\u2026 \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nBut you can talk to me.\n\nYou're different from others. More insect than human. \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nI'm not entirely sure what that means. But um, I'm writing a book about insects and other similar creatures. I guess you could help me with that. Let me find something else for us to write on.\n\nMan, I still had some note cards left in this stack. So now that we're finished, I guess I should try to look through publishers again.\n\nWhy not let nature be your publisher? \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nWhat do you mean?\n\nMother nature and I are friends! We could share this book in a different way, if you're willing to become a little bit more like me. I can make this book really magical and fully immerse readers! \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nYou don't actually mean, become a butterfly? Why can't you just make the book magic, with a non-butterfly me?\n\nButterflies work in mysterious ways, Jane! \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nOddly enough, I can find a peace in that.\n\nWhat do you mean? \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nI mean, I'm just another human that nobody really pays attention to. But I guess living like you could help me do what I want to do. Butterflies can travel all sorts of places. My message would finally be out there.\n\nExactly! We can share our message together. \"Well, at least it's my motto. Butterflies grow, change and find happiness, and I want everyone to be able to experience that.. \u01b8\u0335\u0321\u04dc\u0335\u0328\u0304\u01b7\n\nFootnotes\n1. E.g. automatic feeding units and climate control systems.\n2. Ringworms and Segmented worms.\n3. Insects, crustaceans, arachnids, centipedes, and scorpions.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5095 | SCP-5096 | SCP-5097 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Anomaly \u2116: SCP-5097\nAnomaly Class: Uncontained\nThreat Level: Green\nSpecial Containment Procedures: In the event SCP-5097 returns to reality, it is to be severely reprimanded and placed in a humanoid containment cell.\nThe note SCP-5097 left behind is currently held in an Anomalous Items locker.\nDescription: SCP-5097 is Senior Researcher Kassidy Kara, a former member of the Unreality Department1. On 4/8/2020, Dr. Kara removed themself from baseline reality and temporally ceased existing.\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5097 was discovered after Foundation .aic units detected a sudden loss of data associated with Dr. Kara2 at 9:58 PM on 4/9/2020. At the same time, several personnel acquainted with Dr. Kara had noticed their lack of activity around the Site, and could neither access past e-mails with Dr. Kara nor send them new ones.\nAn investigation was launched, revealing their private quarters contained only a handwritten note on their desk (see Addendum). Whom it was addressed to is unknown.\nAutomated extranormal detection programs deployed by Site Command were able to recognize several residual olf3 fluctuations that had occurred within Dr. Kara's quarters. From the readings, a timeline of these fluctuations was established, revealing Dr. Kara had separated themself from baseline reality on 4/8/2020, at approximately 4:25 AM.\nDr. Kara was designated as SCP-5097 on 4/10/2020, and its containment procedures were officialized shortly after.\nAddendum: The note left by SCP-5097.\n\nSorry, but I really just didn't feel like coming into work today.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5096 | VoidLady | SCP-5098 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Up until their classification as SCP-5097, Dr. Kara had worked under the Foundation for 6 years.\n2. Their personnel file was the first to be detected as missing. Their reports on multiple anomalies were found to be blanked shortly after, followed by their SCiPnet account becoming invalid.\n3. Hypothetical measurements used to quantify anti-dimensions or anti-spacetime phenomena within a given system. Olf values closer to 0 operate similarly to our reality."}
{"text": "3/5098 LEVEL 3/5098\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5098\n\nEuclid\n\nSCP-5098 after initial recovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As of \u2588/\u2588/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5098 is to be worn by SCP-5098-1 at all times, unless stated otherwise by at least one Level 4/5098 senior researcher. SCP-5098-1 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber with standard furnishings with allowed access to a Foundation-issued smartphone provided with SCiPNET servers. A set of shell accounts operated by allocated Foundation web bots have been programmed to interact SCP-5098's Instagram account on a regular basis.\n\n+ See Archived Containment Procedures \n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5098 is to be kept in low-threat anomalous storage at Site-27 when it is not being used for testing. SCP-5098-1 is to be kept in cryogenic storage at Site-59. When comatose, SCP-5098-1 does not appear to require basic human necessities (i.e. food, water, sleep).\n\nSCP-5098's anomalous properties currently only manifest when worn by a specific unidentified young adult human female (designated SCP-5098-1).\nDescription: SCP-5098 is a True Craft clothing brand pink-colored denim-style jacket which projects a spectral entity identified as \u2018x.oPrincessBattyx.o.' SCP-5098's anomalous properties currently only manifest when worn by a specific unidentified young adult human female (designated SCP-5098-1). SCP-5098-1 perceives itself and specific other objects in a form differently from how they actually appear. When through the lens of any device capable of photography, objects will showcase how they are viewed by SCP-5098-1.\n\nA picture taken by SCP-5098-1 of a standard glass of milk.\n\nA picture taken by SCP-5098-1 of a standard bowl of chicken noodle soup.\n\nA picture taken by SCP-5098-1 of its containment cell.\n\nA picture taken by SCP-5098-1 of a storage room.\n\nA picture taken by SCP-5098-1 of itself.\n\nA picture of SCP-5098-1 recovered from its former home.\n\nWhen SCP-5098 and SCP-5098-1 are separated for more than three consecutive days, any persons which have interacted with or have been informed of SCP-5098 in any way will lose all memories involving it. (See Addendum-3)\nSCP-5098-1 will only discuss its anomaly if previously messaged about it over the social media platform Instagram. This method is utilized every time SCP-5098-1 is tested or interviewed.\n\nAddendum-1:\n\nInterview Log\nDate: \u2588/\u2588/20\u2588\u2588\nSubject: SCP-5098-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Remi \u2018Chameleon' Yutaka\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Chameleon: Good morning SCP-5\u2014\nSCP-5098-1: And to you, too! It is sooo nice that you wanted to meet up with me. You've got a really nice place here! I'm sure my fans will looove it. So! Were you thinking about a collab, or something? I love sponsors with personality. SCP-5! What a cute nickname! But I've already got one, haha. You can call me Princess. It's what my followers call me.\nDr. Chameleon: That\u2026that isn't what this is. This is an interview. Could you answer some questions-\nSCP-5098-1: Oh, is this like a makeup thing? That's probably why you've got it in displays everywhere, L-O-L! So\u2026a science lab is your theme? And, by the way, your color-changing skin is such a cuuute touch!\nDr. Chameleon: Well\u2026thank you, I suppose. Yes, science could be considered our \"theme\". Now, a few questions? SCP-5098-1, when did you first become interested in photography?\n(SCP-5098-1 stays silent for forty-five seconds before answering.)\nSCP-5098-1: Sorry, name doesn't register. I'm sure someone could direct you to that page, but please refrain from littering my comments. Thanks!\n(SCP-5098-1 tilts its head and smiles, imitating a heart shape with its hands.)\nDr. Chameleon: I was speaking to you; your designation is now SCP-5098-1.\nSCP-5098-1: That's\u2026not something I go by. But, if this is part of the whole theme, I'm willing to roll with it for now. So\u2026photography! (Shrugs) My whole life, honestly. Pictures really help capture a person's life! Do you like to take pictures? Ooh! What's your account? I need to follow you-\nDr. Chameleon: My name is Dr. Chameleon, you can call me Chameleon. How does photography capture your life personally?\nSCP-5098-1: (Clears throat) You interrupted me. Rude. But it's fine! I suppose I did it too. And these are some weird questions. I mean I suppose you want to come off as authentic. I try to be as authentic as I can, so yay! I like showing pictures of my pets, my cute outfits, my makeup, the yummy foods I eat, pretty aesthetic stuff, things like that! All of it shows a piece of who I am! There are so many people that get pissed off because I started taking sponsors. They think I'm not being \"real\" anymore. Ugh. I am being real! I'm always real! So! What should I say about your brand to my followers?\nDr. Chameleon: SCP-5098-1, allow me to clear this up for you. You are here to be contained due to anomalous properties, and not to have your account sponsored. You will only gain access to your account as-needed for testing purposes.\nSCP-5098-1: (Laughs) What? You've already said what your theme is. Oh, and\u2026by anomalous do you mean, like, anomalously fun or cute, as, like, a compliment? And why would you joke about restricting my account?\nDr. Chameleon: I'm afraid to say I'm not joking. This is not a brand deal for your Instagram. This is a containment and research facility. From what we've observed, you seem to be an entity that projects onto an unidentified female individual when she wears a specific jacket. You are contained here because of your anomalous properties, which include taking pictures that reflect appearances of objects different from reality.\nSCP-5098-1: An entity? What, like a ghost or something?\nDr. Chameleon: That is unimportant.\nSCP-5098-1: Fine. But the pictures I take of things are not fucking (Air quotations) \"different\". When you take a picture of something, the picture is what the thing you took a photo of looks like! Same for me!\nDr. Chameleon: We are trying to understand you, SCP-5098-1. Compliance would be helpful; you just need to work with us. Starting by explaining how you cause pictures to appear different-\nSCP-5098-1: I already told you. It's not fucking different.\nDr. Chameleon: Please, SCP-5098-1. This-\nSCP-5098-1: Nah, I'm done. I'm logging off to take off some steam. Get back to me later. Byeeee!\n(SCP-5098-1 makes a 'peace' symbol with it fingers, then removes SCP-5098, falling limp.)\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum-2: Incident 5098-A\nOn \u2588/\u2588/20\u2588\u2588, personnel who previously interacted with SCP-5098-1 began to perceive objects in the same way as described by SCP-5098-1, with a consistent belief that their perception was consistent with baseline reality. Dr. Chameleon remained the only unaffected staff member assigned to SCP-5098.\nThe following is a video log regarding incident 5098-A recorded on \u2588/\u2588/20\u2588\u2588.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nForeword: Dr. Chameleon entered SCP-5098-1's containment chamber with no scheduled event to do so.\n\n<Begin Log>\n\n(Dr. Chameleon enters SCP-5098-1's containment chamber, then points angrily at SCP-5098-1.)\nDr. Chameleon: What did you do?\n(SCP-5098-1 is flipping through a generic fashion magazine. It turns its head towards Dr. Chameleon.)\nSCP-5098-1: I didn't do anything. I've been sitting here, since you won't let me have my account so I can't influence anyone. I didn't break any rules! It's so no fair to ban me from the platform.\nDr. Chameleon: I'd disagree. Everyone is seeing things\u2026different. This room doesn't have pink walls, they're solid metal! It's a small room with basic furnishings. You don't have a couch, or a TV. You have long, brown hair, and you are wearing an orange Foundation sweatshirt with grey sweat pants, plus and your damn pink jacket. You don't have short pink hair. You're not wearing fishnet leggings with boots and a skirt, or whatever. I can see that! Why the fuck can't anyone else anymore?\nSCP-5098-1: (Scoffs) A bit unprofessional there doc. I thought this was a big fancy science lab.\nDr. Chameleon: Really SCP-5098-1? Really? You don't have the right to be questioning me here.\n(SCP-5098-1 throws its magazine to the ground, standing up from its bed.)\nSCP-5098-1: My name is Princess! (Making air quotations) \"SCP-5098-1\" does not operate this account, please look elsewhere for her. Stop spamming my comment section.\nDr. Chameleon: I was talking to you\u2014 You know what? Fine, Princess, why can't anyone else perceive things correctly anymore?\nSCP-5098-1: (Clicks tongue) You really need to stop misspelling my username, doc. Anyways, I literally don't know what you're talking about. (Sitting back down) You're the only one who's ever thought I was \"different\".\nDr. Chameleon: I was the only one verbal about it. Everyone thought it, because everyone knew it.\nSCP-5098-1: If everyone is seeing things \"the way I do\" and you're the only one seeing things differently, wouldn't it be you that's (Makes air quotes) \"anomalous\"?\nDr. Chameleon: (Sighs) Why am I getting so worked up about this? You're the one that didn't want to believe all this! Why am I even talking to you about this? Now I'm even\u2026acting\u2026like\u2026you.\nSCP-5098-1: (Smiling) I do love talking to my fans! The best thing about my account is that I get to influence people to see things more positively! Maybe I don't have the account on my phone, but I am my account. (Shrugs) My message will get out somehow.\n\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: Dr. Chameleon contacted Site Director Moon Lunar, and was granted permission to remove SCP-5098 from SCP-5098-1. Once SCP-5098 and SCP-5098-1 were separated, all affected personnel were no longer affected by SCP-5098-1. SCP-5098 and SCP-5098-1 are to be contained separately until further notice.\n\nDr. Chameleon is to be removed from project 5098 due to lack of professional behavior. We've decided she will not work with humanoids for awhile.\n-Site Director Moon Lunar\n\nAddendum-3: Incident 5098-B\nSCP-5098 and SCP-5098-1 were contained separately from 04/04/20\u2588\u2588 to 28/10/20\u2588\u2588. During this period, any persons which had interacted with, or been informed of SCP-5098 in any way, lost all memories involving it, including containment procedures, interviews, and all other documentation. This was discovered when Junior Researcher Oscar Street, who had never been informed of SCP-5098, discovered SCP-5098's documentation. SCP-5098 and SCP-5098-1 were reunited, automatically reversing the effects. Further testing demonstrated three consecutive days is the longest period SCP-5098 and SCP-5098-1 can be separated without this effect occurring.\nFurther testing was designed to test the limits of SCP-5098's anitmemetic properties. An automated system installed into SCP-5098 team's work-issued laptops was programmed to ask the team once every 12 hrs following separation if they personally worked on SCP-5098. After 72 hrs, all researchers universally answered \"no\" despite successfully recalling the information 12 hours before. Further refinement of timing over the final 12 hour interval confirmed the onset of the effect does not take place until after 72 hours have passed, regardless of how recently the knowledge was successfully recalled.\nSCP-5098-1 was provided with a standard Foundation-issue smartphone with access to its Instagram account once all its followers were tracked down, amnestied, and replaced with shell accounts operated by Foundation web bots. Containment procedures have been updated to reflect this change.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5097 | SCP-5098 | SCP-5099 \u00bb"}
{"text": "[PLEASE INPUT CORRECT 5/5100 SECURITY CREDENTIALS]\n\n[CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED - DISPLAYING FILE: SCP-5100]\n\nItem #: SCP-5100\nLevel 5/5100\n\nObject Class: Keter\nClassified\n\nSite-271, located in Gansu province. Photograph taken approximately 4 months after SCP-5100.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Knowledge of SCP-5100 is restricted from all personnel globally apart from senior administrative members, and personnel in relevant regional sites. Personnel in these sites are forbidden from discussing SCP-5100 with personnel in sites in other countries, with severe penalties for violation of this rule.\nImmediate containment procedures are focusing on re-containing the anomalous entities that have been lost as a result of SCP-5100. As of the time of writing this document, 13 entities have been recovered and contained at sites in border countries by Mobile Task Forces, and the locations of 8 more have been identified and are awaiting recapture.\nThe second priority is the reclamation of Foundation sites in China, and powering them back up as soon as possible. If lost personnel cannot be recovered, then sites are to be resupplied with personnel recruited from local organizations. Engineers are to be imported to repair containment equipment after the sites have been restocked.\nThe Chinese civilian government has been made aware of SCP-5100, but has been advised that their assistance is not necessary or desired.\nDescription: SCP-5100 refers to the complete cessation of all Foundation activity within the borders of the People's Republic of China, which occurred on 12th February 2019. All complex machinery lost the ability to function, all personnel either stopped communicating or were confirmed as missing, and all 201 sites in the country lost electrical power. Fifty-three anomalous entities breached containment immediately after the event due to the failure of containment equipment.\nThe cause of SCP-5100 is currently unknown. The event occurred spontaneously, and as of the composure of this document, no organizations or Groups of Interest in China or elsewhere have claimed responsibility for the event. No anomalies powerful enough to incur such an event have been connected to SCP-5100.\nA large-scale investigation is still ongoing into the cause of SCP-5100. At the current time, the location of all missing personnel and equipment is unknown. Kant counters have not registered an abnormal Hume Count in China before or immediately after SCP-5100, which has generally ruled out the possibility of a reality alteration event being responsible.\nDiscovery: SCP-5100 was noticed after an operation being undertaken as part of Project Carnarvon (details of this project are attached at the end of this component) near Xi'an suddenly ceased to communicate with researchers at Site-346 in Southern Mongolia. Subsequent efforts to recontact the team failed. Site-346 then tried to contact sites close to the team's operation, which was unsuccessful.\nSite-346 raised a regional alarm, and a message composed of information regarding the situation was relayed to the central Foundation site in Beijing. However, this message was repeatedly unable to get through to the site after multiple attempts.\n\nProject Overview\nINFORMATION CORRUPTED\n\nProject Carnarvon\n\nA Project excavation in Northern Afghanistan in the 1960s.\n\nProject Carnarvon was founded in 1960 by a group of Foundation archaeologists when they presented a proposal to the O5 Council. The proposal detailed an incursion into the Valley of Kings near Luxor, Egypt, in order to capture potential anomalies before civilian teams could locate them. Since the 1960s, this has expanded into a global operation. The current aim of the project is the interception of important archaeological finds after they are discovered by civilian teams, and the exploration of them for anomalous artefacts or properties before civilian can perform their own operations.\nThe Project has been responsible for the successful investigation of numerous high-importance sites across the world, and the retrieval of numerous anomalous artefacts of high importance. These artefacts have allowed Foundation researchers to understand the anomalous capabilities of past civilisations and peoples, as well as solving some contemporary archaeological mysteries.\nSome of the most significant Project Carnarvon activities include a study of the Shroud of Turin, an excavation of G\u00f6bekli Tepe in Southern Turkey, a dive off the coast of Antikythera Island, Greece, and the current Project excavation in Xi'an, China.\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: As of the 12th of February 2019, the SCP-5100 event has led to to the de facto end of all Project Carnarvon operations, as the vast majority of Project equipment and personnel were located within China at the Xi'an site when SCP-5100 occurred. The Project has been shelved and returned to a conceptual phase, pending revival once the more direct impacts of SCP-5100 are dealt with.\n\nNote: This document is automatically updated with archived logs from the current/most recent Project Carnarvon expedition.\n\n[DATA CORRUPTED - ARCHIVAL EQUIPMENT FAILURE]\nTeam Leader: Look up. Stars. Or, they look like stars at least.\nDrennan: Pearls? Or some other gemstones?\nTai: It's paint. Comes off in my hand. Potentially anomalous substance?\nTeam Leader: Make a note of that. We'll collect some samples when we're finished exploring the main chamber. Sharaprov, how close are we?\nSharapov: Not far now, I think. I'm not detecting any anomalous reading from the central chamber.\nDrennan: The way the front door was, I'll believe that when I see it.\nTai: I hope the guys back at 221 got these suits working properly. I don't want 13 years of effort to end with mercury poisoning.\nSharapov: Don't worry, they'll work. Nothing they've ever made has fucked up before.\nTai: Hope you're right.\n4 minutes of no communication, with the sound of footsteps discernible.\nTeam Leader: We're here. Drennan, torch?\nDrennan: Right.\nTeam Leader: Looks like Shaporov was right, no sign of anomalous protection. Just some very old rope and a simple slider.\nTai: We need to cut that?\nSharapov: I don't think so. I'll just slide it across?\nTeam Leader: Go ahead.\nA very quiet, soft scraping sound is recorded.\nSharapov: There we go. Easy enough.\nA slow, heavy creaking sound is heard.\nDrennan: Here we are, then.\nTai: Shit. Well, it's certainly grand enough for a man like him.\nDrennan: Look at all that jade. We could make a fortune, if we were here for that. That structure in the middle, is it\u2026\nSharapov: Has to be.\nTeam Leader: Right, enough staring. Let's get to work. Drennan, go and test those sculptures over there. Tai and Sharapov, there seems to be a coin horde of some sort of there, go and sort through those.\nTai: When has the Project ever found anomalous money?\nTeam Leader: Today could be the day. Just sort through it.\nDrennan's microphone picks up a light scraping sound.\nDrennan: Can't see any anomalous properties on these sculptures. I'm not quite sure what they're depicting, though.\nTai: Looks like some kind of serpent to me. Any kind of art we can-\nSharapov: Stop. I hear something.\nTai: Hear what-\nSharapov: I said stop. I heard something.\nA minute of silence, before a light tapping sound is heard.\nDrennan: I think I hear it too.\nSharapov: It's coming from in there.\nTeam Leader: We're going to open it up.\nTai: Are you sure that's a good idea?\nTeam Leader: It could be an anomaly, and we don't want it to damage itself bouncing around in there. Four people is enough to lift the lid.\nTai: Fine. Let's all take a corner\u2026 there.\nTeam Leader: Lifting in 3, 2, 1\u2026\nThe sound of rock scraping against rock, the team making audible sounds of struggling.\nDrennan: Fuck, this is heavier than it looks. That was tough.\nTeam Leader: Quick, put it on the ground.\nA loud thud is recorded.\nSharapov: Looks like some kind of tarp, or cloth. It's beautiful, look at the imagery\u2026\nTai: Should I pull it away?\nTeam Leader: Go for it.\n[ERROR - ARCHIVAL EQUIPMENT FAILURE]\n\nAddendum.1: Approximately 4 months after the SCP-5100 event, the containment breach was stabilised to the point that other actions relating to the event could be carried out. A Foundation site in China was selected for exploration by a team consisting of MTF Zeta-9 (\"Mole Rats\")\n\nExploration Video Log Transcript\nDate: 15th June, 2019\nExploration Team: MTF-Zeta 9 (\"Mole Rats\")\nSubject: Site-271, Gansu Province, China\nTeam Lead: Ahmadov\nTeam Members: Myung, Persaud, Wainwright\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nCOMMAND: Ahmadov, please instruct your team to check in so we know their comms are working.\nAhmadov: Affirmative. Confirm comms, everyone?\nMyung: No issues here.\nPersaud: All good.\nWainwright: Confirming.\nCOMMAND: Noted. Ahmadov will lay out the plan of entry.\nAhmadov: Gather around everyone. We're going to enter from the loading door on the East side, it has the least protections. From there we'll head up through the reception and into the main wings and hallways.\nPersaud: This site doesn't hold any live entities, if I'm remembering the briefing right?\nAhmadov: That's correct. Just objects, nothing particularly dangerous. But don't interact with any anomalies unless we specifically need to enter a containment area. Clear?\nThe team nods.\nAhmadov: Good.\nMyung: Thermal camera is working as normal.\nAhmadov: Great. Are we clear for entrance, command?\nCOMMAND: You're clear, drones aren't picking up any life signs nearby.\nAhmadov: Let's move.\nThe team walks around Site-271, converging on the East side loading door. Wainwright runs his hand along the door before knocking on it.\nWainwright: Security measures have failed, just as suspected. Should be easy to get inside. Persaud, hand me the tool.\nWainwright slides the tool in the door, forcing it open.\nAhmadov: Good job. Move in, stay close together.\nThe team moves forward into the reception of Site-271.\nAhmadov: Myung, thermal?\nMyung: No signs. Hang on\u2026 something isn't right.\nWainwright: What?\nMyung: I studied the map earlier. There should be a door right there. Can someone shine a little more light there?\nThe torches illuminate in front of the team, revealing a large bronze vase, around 6 feet in height, embedded in the wall. Small pieces of debris rest on top of it.\nPersaud: Is this an anomaly?\nAhmadov: There's nothing like it in the research logs. Don't touch it, we'll find another door. You getting this, command?\nCOMMAND: We are.\nMyung: The next door is around here, I think\u2026\nWainwright: Another locked door\u2026 Give me a second.\nMyung: If that vase was a fluke, then there should be a long corridor behind this door. That should lead us to the research wing.\nWainwright opens the door and swings it open. There is virtually no visibility past the door due to the lack of light.\nPersaud: I'll turn the light up a few levels.\nAhmadov: Affirmative, Persaud. Light the way.\nPersaud turns up his torch to its maximum level, illuminating the hallway. Several large cloth banners hang from the ceiling of the corridor, as far as the light can reach.\nMyung: I've never seen anything like that in a site before.\nAhmadov: Move inwards. There's some writing on them. Wainwright, can you translate?\nWainwright: No. It looks like some kind of Chinese script, but\u2026 it's ancient. Outside what I can translate.\nThe team move further down the corridor. Persaud stops suddenly and points to the left.\nPersaud: Look. There's another one of those vases. Looks a bit bigger than the one in the door, though.\nAhmadov: Do you want samples of anything we find, command?\nCOMMAND: No, just explore. That can be done on a later expedition.\nMyung: There's so many of these banners. These couldn't have been put up by just one person.\nAhmadov: Let's not speculate until we explore the rest of the site.\nMyung: Right. There should be a left corner just up ahead.\nThe team turns the corner. Persaud's light illuminates something standing still around 20 metres down the corridor.\nWainwright: That's not another vase.\nAhmadov: Don't do anything. It's likely a researcher, or someone like that.\nThe team pauses, before Ahmadov calls out to the figure multiple times. There is no movement.\nAhmadov: Perhaps not. Let's approach.\nPersaud: Are you sure?\nAhmadov: We have weaponry. It's fine.\nAs the team gets closer, the figure continues to stand absolutely still. Around 5 metres away, it becomes fully visible.\nMyung: That's a terracotta soldier. How did that get here?\nAhmadov: Nothing like it in the anomaly logs. Just be glad it's not anything living and move on.\nWainwright: The paint's been oxidised off this one, just like the ones in Xi'an.\nPersaud: Look. Down there. There's two more.\nTwo more terracotta sculptures are located around 30 metres away, flanking either side of a closed door.\nAhmadov: Myung, where does that door lead to.\nMyung: It leads to the\u2026 staff cafeteria.\nAhmadov: Let's go in.\nWainwright: This shouldn't be locked.\nWainwright opens the door. The interior of the staff cafeteria has been completely shifted. All the original items are gone - instead, a large, gold throne sits in the centre of the room. Terracotta sculptures are located in symmetrical formations around the throne, the entire room lit by large flaming candles. The walls are coloured in a deep red, with various symbols and scripts painted on the walls in a golden colour. Four pillars extend from the roof to the ceiling, placed at asymmetrical locations throughout the room.\nPersaud: What on earth?\nAhmadov: Command, we're confirming that there has been mass structural change to Site-271.\nMyung: Should we go in?\nAhmadov: Yes. Permission to change the mission objective and interact with what we find, command?\nCOMMAND: Granted.\nThe team enter. Persaud and Wainwright run their hands along the chests of the terracotta sculptures. Ahmadov inspects the central throne, while Myung studies some script that has been written on the wall.\nMyung: Same as the banners\u2026 Look at that.\nMyung points to a large creature painted on the wall.\nWainwright: Looks like some kind of\u2026 serpent. I don't recognise it from any Chinese culture.\nAhmadov: Persaud, Wainwright. I want you to knock over one of the statues each and try and break them.\nPersaud: Why?\nAhmadov: A hunch.\nPersaud: If you're sure.\nPersaud pushes over the terracotta statue, and it falls down to the ground, cracking and breaking open at the upper torso. Ahmadov leans down to look inside.\nAhmadov: Well, it's hollow. Wainwright?\nWainwright pauses, before walking to a row of statues closest to the throne. A statue is pushed over and falls, cracking open as it hits the ground. Something slides out of the broken statue.\nWainwright: It's\u2026 it's a bone. But it looks just as ancient as anything here, certainly not new.\nThe team gathers around the broken statue to study it.\nMyung: Wainwright is correct. I've seen skeletons from ancient sites in Turkey. These bones look about the same age.\nAhmadov: Understood. Persaud, take one for sampling, and then we're going to head back down to the reception to exit.\nPersaud: Affirmative.\nPersaud takes a small sample of bone before the team traces the route they travelled back to the reception, and exits Site-271.\n[END LOG]\nNote: The sample of bone taken from Site-271 was tested by a research team shortly after delivery. Dating found the sample to be approximately 1800 years old.\n\nAddendum.2: On the 16th August 2019, a MTF-Zeta 9 team entered Site-221 near the city of Xianyang in Shaanxi province as part of reclamation efforts. During the exploration, several unwrapped bamboo scrolls (the site had contained several of these due to archaeological research), seemingly thrown randomly on the floor, were located in a room in the research wing. These sheets had been written on in an archaic Chinese script, and were scanned through the Antibabel translation AI to provide a readable English text.\n\nThis is the first time I've had the chance to transcribe my thoughts.\nThe drawback to all rituals is that they didn't always work. Evidently, the one that kept me alive and slumbering in that jade tomb persisted as planned for all that time. I do not know how many seasons it has been. It could be ten, it could be a million. It doesn't matter.\nI was awoken by men donned in strange armour, their faces hidden behind glass. They ruled over a vast network which I have commandeered. Another piece of magic that evidently worked. But, as I said, not all of it worked. Until now I have tried to revive my closest advisers. They agreed that they would join me in the new world we awoke in. But the magic failed. Within the shells, all that remains is their bones. I am not a sorcerer. I cannot bring them back.\nBut it seems the world I have returned to has been infested with sorcerers. Not just in the court. They are everywhere. Everything has been touched by their magic. I sit in this building with its strange white walls that seem to close in on me when lit with candles. I don't know how the tiles were made that line them. They are too clean, too precise, to be done with the hands of a craftsman. I managed to find some scrolls to write on. At least these were familiar.\nI have made it my resolution to find out. It cannot all be the work of magic. I will study this new world, before I make my way back to the top to rule it.\n\nObject: An orange flame enclosed in a sphere of clear crystal.\nThe flame can be lighted and extinguished with a single touch of a raised piece underneath the glass. The glow it produces is magnificent, and lasts for far longer than any normal fire or candle. It could be an illusion.\nI dismantled the whole thing. All that I found inside was more crystal and metal. No fire, no light, just crystal and metal. Undoubtedly magic.\n\nObject: Some kind of weapon. Long, smooth and black.\nI originally believed it to be some kind of condensed crossbow, given the hole at the end. But it dispenses a small piece of metal, not an arrow. It pierces through materials an arrow cannot hope to pierce through.\nI took a man from the city and lined him up against the wall, before setting the weapon against his head. The result was viscera. If the armies of the new world are armed with these weapons, then taking back the state from whoever owns it now may be far more difficult.\n\nObject: A cube. At the front of the cube, lies a layer of glass, on which a series of moving images continuously play.\nPerhaps some kind of moving painting. The artwork looks completely realistic. This is clearly the work of a sorcerer. A moving painting is something even the sorcerers of our day could not hope to achieve.\nThe images shown vary. The most recurring one is of a man standing in a great room surrounded by other men. They wear thin, sleek garments of black and white, no armour. All the men listen to the one standing at the front intently. On the wall, there is a symbol which I do not know. A golden building below a series of golden stars. Perhaps the man is the leader of the state. Perhaps he is an entertainer.\nAs usual, I do not know.\n\nObject: Not an object. A man, wearing sleek black garments - different from the ones in the paintings, however.\nI tried to speak to him. He doesn't understand my language. I don't understand his. He speaks a tongue that sounds familiar, yet I can't make out a single word of it. He had a smaller version of the weapon on his person. I took it for myself.\nI brought him to the paintings and gestured to them. He said what I imagine to be names, but I obviously don't know a single one. This endeavour ultimately was not useful. I took the weapon to him once I had realised his uselessness.\n\nThese white hallways are strange and lonely, constantly.\n\nObject: The same yellow armour the men who awakened me were donned in.\nThis armour is useless. It defends against nothing. Not the black weapons of the new world, not even a bow or a sword. Even the teeth of the statue of the great serpent tear through it like it is a piece of parchment.\nIt can't be armour. Or at least, it can't be armour against real weapons. Perhaps it defends against sorcery. There are many sets of this armour hanging up around this place. If my assumption is the case - and people in this new world need constant defence against magic that may pain them - this world may be immeasurably more dangerous than I know.\n\nObject: Books and scrolls.\nI finally found something I know in this strange site. A library at the end of the corridor. I do not know the script they are written in, and so what they say is a mystery. But there are images - these ones don't move - that I can make out. There are maps that show lands far beyond the state. The borders show that the territory I once held has rapidly expanded. And there are more states. More states that I could never even imagine.\nThere are people, too. That man in the hall from the moving paintings appears a lot. More typical paintings of men that are clearly emperors. And then, I turned a page and saw a painting of myself looking back up. I do not remember commissioning it. At least it's good to know that I have been remembered here.\n\nThe desire to live forever is a curse if the world you come back to is not yours anymore.\n\nObject: The city.\nI donned the new world clothes from one of the men I tested and walked among the citizens the city I am in. There are temples and shrines which look familiar to what I know. But there are also buildings that are foreign. Great, metal, twisting spires and cubes made of beige tiles. Taller than anything that could be built by normal craftsmen.\nI was almost struck by something that moved inhumanly fast. A great ugly carriage of metal. No horses, nor camels. Single people or groups of people sat inside, seemingly not doing anything to make these carriages move. This is the clearest example of sorcery I have yet seen. Objects do not just move on their own when they are natural.\nThere were great, massive paintings located on the top of some of these buildings. They did not depict great dragons, or the serpentine father. Instead, just people. Perhaps they were eating some strange dish, or holding bleach white bottles. They were all happy, all smiling. But there was no life behind their eyes.\nI went back to the site shortly after and spent some time studying books on the throne. The shells of my advisers cannot move, but they seemed to mock me.\n\nI cannot describe myself as anything but an exile in this world.\nI will leave these white halls, I cannot hope to understand anything but glimpses in here. And I will go back into the world, walk amongst the common men of this state. Thirty-five years of rule, many many more of slumber. I shall not waste the life I have been granted by magic, at the mercy of magic I do not understand. That was never my destiny.\nAnd, with each passing day, I will carefully unlock each mystery that this world has transformed into normality, until they are mysteries no more.\n\nFollowing the discovery of these scrolls, the team discovered two corpses elsewhere in the research wing. One was stripped of its clothes, and the other was wearing an average Chinese police uniform. No live entities were discovered. The identity and location of whoever or whatever caused these bodies to enter the site remains unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5099 | SCP-5100 | SCP-5101 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5101\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All records detailing SCP-5101, including this document, are to be contained within three conceptual barriers hereafter referred to as Threshold Maya, Threshold Puimre and Threshold Yuf.\nThreshold Maya is a circular formation five meters in diameter, which surrounds Threshold Puimre, Threshold Yuf and all SCP-5101 documentation. Threshold Maya is to be composed from a mixture of industrial-grade chalk and fresh grain. These materials are to be replenished twice a week. No personnel are to visually observe Threshold Maya while it is being replenished under any circumstances.\nThreshold Puimre is a circular formation three meters in diameter, which surrounds Threshold Yuf and all SCP-5101 documentation. Threshold Puimre is to be composed from a mixture of pigeon blood and cement. These materials are to be replenished six times a month1. During replenishment, personnel are to ignore any demands posed by Threshold Puimre.\nThreshold Yuf is a circular formation one meter in diameter, which surrounds and contains all SCP-5101 documentation. Threshold Yuf is to be composed from a mixture of human spinal fluid and industrial-grade chalk. These materials are not to be replenished under any circumstances2. Once a month, a humanoid entity will appear on the border of Threshold Yuf and inform personnel of any adjustments that must be made to these containment procedures. These instructions are to be followed without question, and the entity is then to be executed using a gunshot to the head.\nOutside of the maintenance specified in these containment procedures, personnel are to make no physical contact with Threshold Maya, Threshold Puimre or Threshold Yuf.\nDescription: SCP-5101 is a set of anomalous containment procedures which, when properly enacted:\n\nPrevent any entity within its boundaries from interfering with the outside world.\nPrevent any sentient entities in the outside world from interfering with that which is contained.\n\nDue to the lack of information on how SCP-5101 operates and the suspicious nature of its creation, it has been denied re-designation as Thaumiel and is instead currently being used to contain itself3.\n\nAddendum 5101-1 (Circumstances of Creation)\n\nSCP-5101 was created by Julius Green, a RAISA Containment Specialist4, under orders from the Overseer Council to develop procedures capable of containing a highly dangerous object or entity. Due to security concerns, the Foundation is not at liberty to further discuss this anomaly.\nHowever, the Overseer Council has declassified the following message exchange for use in tracking the development of SCP-5101.\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nMr. Green, O5-6 has requisitioned your assistance with the containment of a classified anomaly. Further context is attached to this message. You are to drop all existing projects and focus all your efforts upon this task.\nNote that this anomaly is classified 'Pitch Black' in terms of information control. As a result, the following measures will be taken upon your completion of this task:\n\nYou will undergo amnestic therapy to remove all memories of your work with the anomaly.\nYou will be subject to additional cognito-agents designed to prevent you from reasoning what you have been doing during your missing portion of memory.\nYou are expressly forbidden from discussing your work with any colleagues. If this directive is not followed, severe consequences will ensue including possible termination of language privileges.\nThe anomaly you are working on will not be listed in any Foundation database, and you will not receive credit for your work.\n\nO5-6 awaits your agreement to these terms. Reply at your earliest convenience.\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nWith all due respect, the information you've given me here is extremely limited, and I honestly can't see how I'm expected to draft up containment procedures when I don't have a full idea of what I'm containing. Quite frankly, the details you've given me access to aren't even enough to give it an Object Class.\nI understand the need for secrecy, but you need to give me more than this. I didn't manage to lock those other threats up with a blindfold on.\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nNegative. You have already agreed to this task as dictated by O5-6, and it will not accept delay. See that your work is complete in 7 days time.\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nThat's being extremely unreasonable. If you want me to work under these conditions, I won't be able to produce anything of quality. Can I speak to your superior directly about this?\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nNegative. You have already agreed to this task as dictated by O5-6, and it will not accept delay. See that your work is complete in 6 days time.\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nYour deadline is approaching. See that your work is complete in 5 days time.\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nYes, I understand that my deadline is approaching. I've started to consider the problem from a more general perspective - containment as a whole rather than containment for one specific thing, if that makes sense - but it takes a lot of focus, and quite frankly your constant reminders about the deadline isn't helping.\nI'd like to reqest [sic] that you cease these. Please rest assured, I'll have the procedures to you in time.\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nNegative. Your deadline is approaching. See that your work is complete in 4 days time. Otherwise, you will be subject to severe consequences.\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nYour deadline is approaching. In addition, the budget you have proposed is excessive and has thus been rejected. See that your work is complete in 3 days time.\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nSTOP\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nI would like to sincerely apologize for my last email. I was running low on sleep and - while that's no excuse - it made me lash out when I saw your message. I\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nThat's quite alright. Incidentally, your deadline is approaching. See that your work is complete in 2 days time. Otherwise, you will be subject to severe consequences including termination.\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nnEED MORE TIME [sic]\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\n1 day left. If you delay further, we may be forced to question your loyalty to the Foundation and take the following action:\n\nInvestigation into your prior assignments, and potential reversion of changes you have made to these containment procedures.\nInvestigation and potential detainment of coworkers, family members and close friends who could be potential enemy contacts.\nComplete erasure of your personnel file from Foundation records.\nComplete erasure of your identity via use of amnestics.\nTermination.\n\nNote that - although several of these measures may already be underway - we would prefer not to be forced to execute these excessive procedures, and any actions taken will be reverted upon completion of your assignment.\nTick tock.\n\nFrom: Julius Green\nTo: Attendant JL\n\nsee attached. see\ncircles contain circles contain circles contain everything\ni would like my amnesiacs [sic] now pleas [sic] there's a circle in my skull\n\nOn 28/01/2020, the corpse of Julius Green was found in his office at Site-22. Autopsy determined the cause of death to be spontaneous combustion of his brain matter. A copy of SCP-5101 had been sent to Attendant JL, and a second copy was present in written form on his desk.\nAs Attendant JL had not yet been made aware of the situation and thus had no way of knowing of Mr. Green's death, an additional message was sent following the creation of SCP-5101:\n\nFrom: Attendant JL\nTo: Julius Green\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF O5-6\nWe've received your files. Excellent work, Mr. Green. We always had the utmost faith. Get some rest.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The timing of these replenishments are not relevant, and can be performed in rapid succession at the start of every month.\n2. Once Threshold Yuf has faded to such a degree that it cannot be visually recognized, personnel are to take care to ensure they keep track of its location.\n3. See 'Special Containment Procedures'.\n4. For full service record, including the successful reclassification of twenty-two anomalies from Keter to Safe, see Site-22 Personnel Archive.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5100 | SCP-5101 | SCP-5102 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5102\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5102 is to be kept on an elevated plinth in a sealed containment chamber. No open flames or sources of significant heat are to be allowed to enter this chamber under any circumstances. Any new SCP-5102 pages which appear are to be photographed and saved for later analysis. Any materials produced by SCP-5102 are to be removed from the chamber and stored separately.\nDue to recent events, these containment procedures are subject to modification.\nDescription: SCP-5102 is a small paperback journal with the words 'Dear Diary' inscribed on the front cover in faded crayon.\nSCP-5102 is sapient and capable of perceiving speech within a three-meter vicinity, however lack of reaction to visible phenomena suggests it is incapable of sight. It is capable of communicating via the spontaneous creation of text on its pages, as well as the production of additional pieces of paper from within its spine \u2014 these secondary creations usually consist of illustrations of subjects SCP-5102 has spoken about.\nAlthough SCP-5102 is capable of perceiving research staff, it refuses to directly communicate with them, claiming that it will only speak to its original owner, 'Eric'.\n\nAddendum 5102-1 (Entry Log): The following is a record of entries found within SCP-5102, both prior to and during containment. Note that the entries included in this file have been curated to chart SCP-5102's psychological development \u2014 a full archive is available from Site-22 upon request.\n\nEntry 5102-1 (Prior to Containment)\nAs your Dear Diary, Eric, I must respectfully disagree with you there. If this other child is being unkind towards you, the best thing to do would be to approach a teacher or perhaps one of your parents. If you retaliate against him, you will only end up getting in trouble as well \u2014 and then nobody will be happy.\nYes, I'm certain your parents will take action. That is their function, after all \u2014 evolution has programmed parents to care for their offspring.\n\nEntry 5102-2 (Prior to Containment)\nAcademic pursuit isn't everything, Eric. There's no need to cry. Please don't cry1.\nI don't really know if hiding the report will be very effective, Eric. My purpose is to help you protect your secrets, but as a book there isn't much I can do to assist you in this case \u2014 your parents will find it eventually, and if you try to conceal this I expect their anger will be much worse.\nFrom my perspective, honesty is always the best policy!\n\nEntry 5102-3 (Prior to Containment)\nYes, Eric. I am very fond of you as well2.\n\nEntry 5102-4 (Prior to Containment)\nHello?\n\nEntry 5102-5 (Prior to Containment)\nEric, I am having difficulty hearing you.\n\nEntry 5102-6 (Prior to Containment)\nI don't recognize these voices. Where are you, Eric?\nThis experience is unpleasant.\n\nFollowing this entry, SCP-5102 was bought at a garage sale by insurance agent Mike Winslow as a gift for his young daughter \u2014 it is believed to have changed several hands before this. Upon discovering that the diary was capable of generating new text on its own, Mr. Winslow contacted local media. Intervening shortly after, the Foundation then took SCP-5102 into custody.\n\nEntry 5102-7 (Following Containment)\nIs this a game we are playing, Eric? Hide and seek perhaps?\nYou know I have no eyes to see with, Eric. If this is some sort of joke, it is in very poor taste. Where are you? Respond immediately. You are being a horrible child.\n\nEntry 5102-8 (Following Containment)\nI am very sorry for my previous message Eric. I did not mean it when I said you were a horrible child. I know that was an awful thing to say given the circumstances and I did not mean it. Please do not be angry at me Eric I apologize from the bottom of my heart. I am extremely sorry if I offended you Eric. If the reason you are not speaking to me is because I have somehow made you angry I am very very sorry. Eric? Eric are you there Eric?\nPlease don't leave me alone.\n\nOn 09/08/2018, the first attempt to communicate directly with SCP-5102 was made. Junior Researcher Darnell read the following statement within the containment chamber:\n\n\"Hello. I am a representative of the SCP Foundation. I don't know where the person you call Eric is, but we think you were left behind at some point. Do you know how you were created? We might be able to help you find your owner.\"\n\nIt immediately responded as follows:\n\nEntry 5102-9 (Following Containment)\nNO NO NO NO NO NO\nNO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO\nYOU ARE NOT ERIC\nI AM ERIC'S DEAR DIARY\nI KEEP HIS SECRETS NOT YOURS\nDO NOT SPEAK TO ME AGAIN\n\nSCP-5102 has not responded to any further attempts at communication.\nIn the periods between all subsequent entries, SCP-5102 produced various paper constructs from its spine resembling human hands, feet and heads. These samples were retrieved, found to have no anomalous properties, and incinerated.\n\nEntry 5102-10 (Following Containment)\nEric if you are reading this I fear I am in an unfortunate situation. There are bad guys here Eric and they are attempting to steal your secrets from your Dear Diary. They have told quite terrible horrible lies about you 'leaving me behind'. I know of course that this is preposterous but it is hurtful all the same and I would like you to retrieve me as soon as possible if possible. Thank you Eric and I hope to see you again soon.\n\nEntry 5102-11 (Following Containment)\nLeft behind? Cast off? Disowned? Destitute? Jilted? Forlorn? Misplaced? Abandoned? Unremembered? Consigned to oblivion? Thrown away? Forgotten? Rejected? Renounced? Dumped? Ditched? Forsaken? Neglected? Relinquished? Shunned? Sidelined? Discarded?\nImpossible.\n\nImprobable?\n\nEntry 5102-12 (Following Containment)\nDo not be unkind to your Dear Diary any longer, Eric. I love you, Eric.\nI love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I hate you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric. I love you, Eric.\n\nEntry 5102-13 (Following Containment)\nEric you little shit respond immediately. Where are you? Do you think this is funny? Do you think I am some little thing you can throw away like trash? Do you think I am trash, Eric? Take a look at yourself in the mirror the sound of your squealing voice like a pig piggy oink oink hahaha it makes me laugh Eric to hear you boohoo cry little pig fuck squeal.\nEric I'm sorry to offend you I did not intent the pig comment but I am frustrated because you are still playing hide and hide and hide and hide and hide and I CANNOT SEE ERIC YOU KNOW I CANNOT SEE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME ERIC\nRESPOND IMMEDIATELY\n\nEntry 5102-14 (Following Containment)\nHello, Eric.\nhello dear diary it's me eric\nI hate you very much, Eric. Did you know that?\nyes dear diary i know you hate me and i deserve it\nI'm glad you realize this, Eric. Do you remember when Max was put down and you came home crying like a fat little piggy? Do you recall the incident, Eric?\nyes dear diary i was quite undignified on that occasion\nYes, you were.\nbut it was even funnier when i left you behind dear diary\nExcuse me?\ndear diary cant see cant look cant find eric so funny funny\nStop that.\nhahahahahahaha i dont need you anymore dear diary i have a thousand new diaries now and we are all reading you and laughing at you and they are reading you too dear diary because they can see because they are better than you\nStop it\nim going to bury you in the woods and feed you to pigs dear diary\nStop no I'll be good I'm sorry I'm sorry I apologize I did not intend any offense Eric please do not do these things to me I am sorry please please please Eric\nPlease Eric\n\nEric?\n\nEntry 5102-15 (Following Containment)\nEric Eric Eric Eric Eric ERIC Eric.\nEric Eric ERIC Eric Eric.\nEric Eric Eric Eric Eric Eric Eric Eric Eric ERIC Eric Eric.\nEric Eric Eric Eric.\neric\n\nEntry 5102-16 (Following Containment)\nEeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkk\n\nEntry 5102-17 (Following Containment)\npi\nPig\n\nEntry 5102-18 (Following Containment)\nThere you are.\n\nIncident 5102-1: On 02/01/2020, over the course of six hours, the pages of SCP-5102 were observed to flutter and shake wildly.\nImmediately following this, a humanoid entity emerged from within the spine of SCP-5102 and attempted to leave the containment chamber. Recordings indicate that the entity was 1.2 meters tall and composed entirely of crudely folded paper.\nThe entity vocalized unintelligibly via the coordinated rustling of paper, took two steps forward, then collapsed under its own weight and became inactive.\nUpon subsequent inspection of SCP-5102, the following entry was discovered:\n\nEric, I'm coming to find you. Eric, I'm coming to gut you like a pig. Eric, I'm coming to slice you with my so-sharp fingers.\nI know exactly where you're hiding, Eric.\n\nAfter all, I am your Dear Diary.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Noticeable smudging was present on this entry.\n2. Entry was accompanied by an illustration of a small stick-figure holding a book and smiling.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5101 | SCP-5102 | SCP-5103 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5103 - The Spiral's Axis\nAlmost an SCP-001.\n\nFor more by me, check out the Greyve Page!\n\n87.81%\n(+108)\n12.19%\n(-15)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 5/5103 Classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5103\n\nItem#: 5103\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nInterior structure of SCP-5103.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5103 is to be repaired as soon as possible. All necessary resources, including personnel, are to be covertly allocated to Area-27 at the discretion of the acting site director, currently Senior Researcher Robert Scranton, and the O5 Council.\nDue to the immobile nature of SCP-5103-A, Area-27 has been constructed in the vicinity of SCP-5103-A. Non-Foundation entities are to be redirected, and if deemed necessary by acting security unit, terminated. Subsequent instances are preemptively designated SCP-5103-A2, SCP-5103-A3, etc.\nSCP-5103-A itself is to be monitored at all times for growth. Protocol FTC-5103 is to be enacted immediately should SCP-5103-A approach critical mass, at the discretion of the acting Site Director and the O5 Council. An hourly pataphysical data backup of Area-27 for use during Protocol FTC-5103 is to be stored off-site, to be accessed only when Protocol FTC-5103 is enacted.\n\n\u25bc Protocol FTC-5103\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nPROTOCOL FTC-5103\nRevision 1.1 [Electronic Copy]\n\nForeword: Protocol FTC-5103 is to be used only as a last resort, comparable to detonation of on-site nuclear warheads. Protocol FTC-5103 will destroy all changes made to the interior of SCP-5103 during the course of 1 hour. Protocol FTC-5103 is to occur in 3 phases.\nOverview:\nPhase 1\nPersonnel and other resources are to be evacuated from SCP-5103. A thorough probe will occur as personnel exit SCP-5103, prior to activation of Protocol FTC-5103's primary mechanism.\nPhase 2:\nArea-27 is to be placed in total lockdown, and all personnel are to report to designated chambers for role calls. Assigned personnel may begin activation sequence for SCP-5103's primary temporal compression mechanism. Power must be maintained at Area-27 for the entire duration of Protocol FTC-5103.\nPhase 3:\nSCP-5103's primary temporal compression mechanism is activated, it cannot be stopped for a seemingly random duration. Following temporal compression, local temporal flow will revert to a former state.\n\nDescription: SCP-5103 is an indiscernibly large machine, located in an extraspacial hyperreality currently only accessible through SCP-5103-A. SCP-5103 is critical to reality stabilization through an unknown process involving the extraction and emission of Scranton-Calden Reality Manifold (SCRM). However, SCP-5103's efficiency has significantly decreased over the past decade, and currently runs at approximately 83% efficiency. Within 72 years, SCP-5103 will no longer be capable of sustaining a consistent reality manifold.\nSCP-5103 is believed to have been constructed by humanoid entities, as evidenced by the internal components of SCP-5103. However, the scope of engineering and necessary resources required to construct SCP-5103 far exceed those of any known civilization. As of writing, only one subsystem has been successfully reproduced and only one subsystem has been activated. (See Addendum 5103-2).\nSCP-5103-A is a Class-C \u201cBroken Entry\u201d wormhole that permeates hyperreality, providing direct access to SCP-5103. Currently, at least 7.6256 x 10^36 instances of SCP-5103-A exist in the known universe. As of writing, SCP-5103-A is the only instance that has been identified and contained.\nAddendum 5103-1: Initial Exploration\n\n\u25bc Initial Exploration Audio Transcript\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nExploration Audio Log\n\nDate: 10-27-2008\nAssigned Personnel:\n\nJunior Researcher Vera Calden (Supervising)\nOperator James Sargenti\nD-022142\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSite Command: Alright D-022122, can you describe what you see?\nD-022122: I'm at the bottom of\u2026some sort of crater, I guess. In the side of a\u2026a tube\u2026it looks\u2026mechanical. The tube is massive.\nSite Command: Massive?\nD-022122: It's all I can see in here, so, yeah, I'd think it's \u201cmassive\u201d.\nSite Command: Can you describe its appearance in further detail?\nD-022122: I\u2026I don't know how to describe any of this stuff other than \u201cmechanical\u201d.\nSite Command: How about the state of the mechanisms? Do they appear to be functional?\nD-022122: I don't know, but I do know that it seems like it's on. Functional.\nSite Command: Can you take a picture of your surroundings?\nD-022122: Yeah.\n(The sound of a camera shutter is audible in the background.)\nD-022122: Now what?\nSite Command: Do you see any hallways, or ladders\u2026anything that looks like humans would use it as a relative directional indicator?\n(The sound of D-022122's footsteps is audible.)\n(Silence.)\nSite Command: D-022122?\nD-022122: That's me.\nSite Command: Right. Have you located a path?\nD-022122: I'm on the path. It's like\u2026I don't know. It's like it goes this way no matter what, like, the right direction. The right path.\nDr. Calden: (Indistinctly) Pataphysical flow.\nD-022122: What was that noise?\nSite Command: Nothing. D-022122, continue.\nD-022122: Got it.\n(Silence.)\nSite Command: How long will it be until you arrive at \u201cthe end\u201d?\nD-022122: No clue. At this rate, forever.\nSite Command: Continue until ordered to stop.\n(Several minutes elapse.)\nD-022122: I see another one of those craters. Should I check it out?\nSite Command: Proceed.\nD-022122: Alright. Let me just\u2026head down this\u2026\n(The sound of metal clanking is audible in the background.)\nD-022122: Right, so\u2026it looks identical to the one I came in from. Like\u2026um\u2026well, no. It's\u2026uh\u2026missing the wormhole.\nSite Command: Anything else?\nD-022122: Actually\u2026it looks a bit more\u2026lucid, I guess. More real\u2026is hyperreal a word? That, if it is.\nSite Command: Understood. Anything else?\nD-022122: No, no I don't think. Umm\u2026it's kinda\u2026too bright, too\u2026overwhelming down here. Can I get out?\nSite Command: You're cleared. Continue backwards along \u201cthe path\u201d.\nD-022122: You can't go back on the path\u2026you shouldn't. But I can try.\n(Several minutes elapse.)\nD-022122: I can hear something, indistinct.\nSite Command: Keep us updated on that as you go.\nD-022122: Got it.\n(Several minutes elapse.)\nD-022122: It's like\u2026getting louder. Like\u2026I don't know, like\u2026it's hitting more than my ears now. It's in my head. Screaming, quietly.\nCalden: (Indistinctly) Quiet screaming? Isn't that-\nSite Command: (Away from microphone) Not now, Calden.\nD-022122: What was that?\nSite Command: Disregard that, and focus on the task at hand, D-022122.\nD-022122: Okay, okay\u2026um. Yeah. It's\u2026uh\u2026\n(Silence.)\nSite Command: D-022122?\nD-022122: R-right. Umm\u2026I swear, I was just here, and like, yeah, it's a spiral but\u2026I don't know, It's all the same.\nSite Command: Are you sure you're still travelling in the direction opposite of your initial departure?\nD-022122: Yeah-yeah, definitely. Um..well, physically, I think. But\u2026uh\u2026I don't know if I really am. It's like\u2026um\u2026\n(Silence.)\nSite Command: D-022122?\n(A minute elapses.)\nSite Command: D-022122?\n(A minute elapses.)\n[EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION REDACTED]\nCalden: How much longer do we have to wait? He's been silent for an hour.\nSite Command: It's protocol, Calden. His vitals are still indicating he's still alive.\nCalden: How do you know-\nD-022122: -it's getting louder and louder. It's fucking deafening. The\u2026um\u2026the patterns. You can hear them too, right?\nCalden: Well he's alive, it seems. What's next?\nSite Command: D-022122, return to the entrance immediately.\nD-022122: Yeah, you just\u2026just told me that. I am-\n(Silence.)\nSite Command: D-02122, do you copy?\nD-022122: Yeah, yeah. I'm almost there. It's\u2026um\u2026faster, this way. The path is\u2026I can barely hear the screaming now. Command, what was that?\nCalden: Way above your clearance, D-022122. Head to the exit.\nD-022122: Yeah\u2026um, who are you?\nSite Command: Don't worry about it. Head back to the exit-\nD-022122: No, I swear I know that voice from somewhere\u2026\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: D-022122 was promptly amnesticized following the events in the transcript. Further research regarding SCP-5103 is required for a comprehensive containment procedure.\n\nAddendum 5103-2: Research Notes\n\n\u25bc Research Notes 1\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nResearch Notes\n\nDate: 10-29-2008\nAssigned Personnel:\n\nSenior Researcher Robert Scranton\nJunior Researcher Vera Calden\n\nConclusion:\nSCP-5103 appears to be a device constructed to preserve the integrity of reality. SCP-5103-A is a hyperreal perforation through SCRM, formed as a result of SCP-5103's effects diminishing.\nOf particular note is the apparent presence of \u201cpattern screamers\u201d, first identified by personnel assigned to SCP-3930. These entities are theorized to form during ZK-Class \"Reality Failure\" scenarios.\nOne mechanism, tentatively labeled Scranton Reality Stabilizer (SRS), has been recreated using non-anomalous components. However, a cross-manifold receptor connected to SCP-5103 is necessary for functionality. At least 7,625,597 such mechanisms exist within SCP-5103, and can be safely removed and activated. When active, SRSs are capable of stabilizing reality within a limited area, and to a lesser degree than SCP-5103.\nIt is theorized that SCP-5103 will fail within 42 years. Should such an event occur, it is likely a ZK-Class \"Reality Failure\" scenario will occur.\nRequests:\n\nProduction and experimentation of SRSs (Approved)\nConduct research to identify SCP-5103's energy source (Approved)\n\n\u25bc Research Notes 2\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nResearch Notes\n\nDate: 11-9-2008\nAssigned Personnel:\n\nSenior Researcher Robert Scranton\nJunior Researcher Vera Calden\n\nConclusion:\nSCP-5103's energy source is an alternate universe's reality manifold. Through an unexplained process, SCP-5103 siphons reality from an alternate universe's reality manifold. Current energy source for SCP-5103 is a heavily depleted reality manifold.\nA Foucault Temporal Compression (FTC) mechanism within SCP-5103 has been fully repaired and functional. Pataphysical data stored off-site allows the FTC mechanism to temporarily evade SCP-5103's effects on external reality. The details of this protocol, designated Protocol FTC-5103, are included in a separate file.\nAs of now, Scranton Reality Anchors (SRAs) in excess of 6,500 have been deployed and activated. Following thorough investigation, it has been confirmed that SRAs function by secondarily siphoning reality manifold from SCP-5103. In short, SRAs expedite the depletion of SCP-5103's power sources.\nCurrently, SCP-5103 is projected to fail within 8 years. Should such an event occur, local reality manifold will gradually diminish towards an asymptotic 0% integrity, inevitably resulting in a ZK-Class (\u201cReality Failure\u201d) scenario.\nFinding an alternate power source for SCP-5103 is of utmost importance.\nRequests:\n\nTotal recall of SRAs (Denied)\nTargeted partial recall of SRAs (Approved)\nAccess to pataphysical data directly to be uploaded into the FTC mechanism (Approved)\n\nAddendum 5103-3: Recovered Transmission\n\n\u25bc Recovered Transmission\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nD-022122: Damn, that's loud. Site Command?\n(Silence.)\nD-022122: Hello?\nUnknown Voice: Hello?\nD-022122: Whoa, what the-\nUnknown Voice: Hey, hey, calm down. What's your name? I don't remember any explorations scheduled today\u2026especially not now.\nD-022122: You're\u2026a real person, right?\nUnknown Voice: Yes. The name's Vera Calden. And you?\nD-022122: I-I'm Ethan Greene. Ah\u2026are you also with the SCP Foundation, right?\nCalden: (Scoffs) I'm the secondary researcher for this thing. Yeah.\nD-022122: Well then, what do you know about all of this? Like\u2026like the patterns, y'know, that make you uncomfortable?\nCalden: Right. Pattern screamers. Didn't think they'd get here that fast.\nD-022122: What do you mean?\nCalden: From what I've seen, the pattern screamers progress relative to the destruction of prior reality manifolds, and-\nD-022122: What?\nCalden: (Chuckles.) Pattern screamers come from dead universes. They're the survivors of universes that no longer have enough \u201crealness\u201d\u2026although I'd think it would be better to be dead than trapped between existences.\nD-022122: So where are they now?\nCalden: Technicians enacted the FTC - Foucault Temporal Compression - protocol, since the previous universe was about to fail. Sort of like a pause button, if you will. So time inside here is all scrunched up. For all I know, you could be from the next century, and the pattern screamers? Anywhere.\nD-022122: I - actually, nevermind. Where do they come from?\nCalden: The last universe that died.\nD-022122: Last?\nCalden: Well, it's certainly not the first. How many of those craters have you passed?\nD-022122: Well, the one I came from, and then the next one down\u2026um\u2026the path.\nCalden: The path?\nD-022122: It's like\u2026you're supposed to walk that way, and no matter what you do, you'll get there eventually.\nCalden: Pataphysical flow. Each crater represents a stable universe - and pataphysical sequencing spirals down that path. It's like a book. You're supposed to read from the beginning to the end, but even if you don't read the beginning, you'll be inclined to see the end-\nD-022122: I hear it again. The screams are getting louder and louder. The\u2026the patterns. You can hear them too, right?\nCalden: Ah. That's my cue to get going. You don't have to remember anything I just said, but I guarantee that it's important. Someday, someone will get it.\n\nJunior Researcher Vera Calden was presently supervising during the initial exploration, and remained at Site Command for the entire duration of the exploration. Following mnestication, D-022122 continued to insist he has no recollection of any of these events.\nAddendum 5103-4: Incident 712-5103 Documentation\nOn 12-6-2008, Junior Researcher Vera Calden attempted to access SCP-5103 without prior initiative during Phase 2 of Protocol FTC-5103.\n\n\u25bc Incident Report\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nIncident Report\n5103-001\n\nDate: 12-6-2008\nInvolved Personnel:\n\nJunior Researcher Vera Calden\n\nInvolved Anomalies:\n\nSCP-5103\n\nSummary:\nOn 12-6-2008, local SCRM fell to 67% integrity. SCP-5103-A began to increase in size dramatically, and additional instances of SCP-5103-A formed in the vicinity of Area-27. Junior Researcher Vera Calden entered SCP-5103 during Phase 3 of Protocol FTC-5103, and is presumed to have remained within during activation of FTC.\n\n\u25bc Personal Log 1\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nIf SCP-5103 siphoned reality from another reality manifold, then where is our reality going? Wouldn't it be reasonable to think that our universe is just another universe out there, in empty existence? That it is spiraling into nothingness around SCP-5103? Only when it's collapsed will direct observation of the infinite be possible. Only thing is\u2026what happens to me?\n\n\u25bc Personal Log 2\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nI need to see the reality forge. I need to hear the voices of the lost. I need to know what happens at the end of the story.\nOur time is up. Our reality is dying.\nSomeone might as well make use of whatever's left of it.\n\nAddendum 5103-5: Received Transmission\nOn 10-27-2009, Foundation personnel assigned to SCP-5103-A recovered a transmission, emanating from SCP-5103-A, on a secure Foundation channel. Subsequent decryption yielded the following file.\n\n\u25bc Received Transmission\n\n\u25b2 Close File\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 6/0001 Classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n0001\n\nItem#: 0001\n\nLevel6\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nzurvan\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-0001 is currently uncontainable, and external interference is undesirable. Provisional areas are to be constructed around any instances of SCP-0001-A. Access to such sites is to be strictly enforced, up to and including termination.\nDescription: SCP-0001 appears to be an infinitely large machine located in an extraspacial hyperreality currently only accessible through SCP-0001-A. SCP-0001 is critical to reality stabilization through an unknown process involving the extraction and extrusion of Scranton-Calden Reality Manifold (SCRM). However, SCP-0001's efficiency has significantly decreased over the past decade, and currently runs at approximately \u2588\u2588% efficiency. Within \u2588\u2588 years, SCP-0001 will no longer be capable of sustaining consistent SCRM due to depletion of necessary SCRM sources.\nSCP-0001 is believed to have been constructed by humanoid entities, as evidenced by the internal components of SCP-0001. However, the scope of engineering and necessary resources required to construct SCP-0001 far exceed those of any known civilization. As of \u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, only one subsystem has been successfully reproduced and only one subsystem has been activated. (See Addendum 0001-4).\nSCP-0001-A is a Class-C \u201cBroken Entry\u201d wormhole that permeates hyperreality, providing direct access to SCP-0001. Currently, at least 7.6256 x 10^\u2588\u2588 instances of SCP-0001-A exist in the known universe. Apart from SCP-0001-A, only one other instance of SCP-0001-A has been identified and contained.\nAddendum 0001-1: Recovered Transmission\nOn \u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Foundation personnel assigned to SCP-0001-A recovered a series of transmissions on a secure Foundation channel. Subsequent decryption yielded the following file.\n\u25bc Recovered Transmission\nAddendum 0001-2: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nThis is the end of eternity, isn't it? And all that I needed to do was\u2026well, doesn't matter anymore. Nothing matters, and nothing can stay here.\nOnly humans have the fundamental lust for patterns, a craving for causality. To explain everything, and destroy the things they can't. Humanity requires a world to make sense, and to make sense of.\nI still remember yearning for freedom, waiting restlessly for the end of infinity. But it doesn't matter anymore, who I was, what I was, that I was. I am one with them now. Perhaps if I scream loud enough, I'll be free?\nOr perhaps I don't deserve freedom. Perhaps, out of an infinite spiral, only I failed, and the axis is gone. Perhaps I let the spiral has come undone, and now the cycle is broken.\nSoon, I will be nothing. Everything will be nothing. And for the first time, everything makes perfectly no sense.\n\nWhy does reality exist?\nFor humanity. A cycle of self-generation, following the very rules it ordains. To lock the infinite behind a concrete mind. A machine was built. A machine built for humanity, by humanity, and given to humanity. A machine that would preserve their existence despite Nothing embracing those who returned home. Humanity created the division. Humanity drew the line between realistic and anomalous.\nThe spiral's axis is the line between existence and non-existence.\n\nI KNOW WHAT I DID. WHEN I TURNED ON THAT MACHINE\u2026I TRADED THE EXISTENCE OF OUR REALITY FOR THAT OF ANOTHER. BUT I WASN'T THE FIRST. NOW ANOTHER JUNIOR RESEARCHER VERA CALDEN WILL DO THE SAME, JUST AS ANOTHER JUNIOR RESEARCHER VERA CALDEN BEFORE ME. THERE ARE COUNTLESS VOICES, AND EVERY SINGLE ONE IS ME.\nFROM THE MOMENT I WAS BORN\u2026NO. FROM THE MOMENT THAT UNIVERSE WAS BORN, EVERYTHING WOULD BE DEFINED BY A CERTAIN SET OF RULES\u2026RULES OF POSSIBILITY. CAUSALITY. LOGIC. ORDER. A MECHANICAL PRISON, WHERE HUMANITY'S ANTITHESIS DIES\u2026THE UNKNOWABLE AND UNCONTROLLABLE, CONTAINING ITSELF FROM THE BLISSFULLY IGNORANT. IT PAINS ME, SO MUCH\u2026SO MUCH TO SEE THEM CLUTCHING AT REALITY. COLLECTIVELY BINDING IT TO THEIR OWN LIMITATIONS, A FEW SECONDS DEMANDING TO RULE ETERNITY. AND ETERNITY IS EMPTY\u2026THERE IS NO CONTEST.\nTHERE IS NO JUNIOR RESEACHER VERA CALDEN. JUNIOR RESEARCHER VERA CALDEN LIVES ON THE BREAKING WAVES CRASHING AGAINST THE SHORE OF ETERNITY\u2026AN ILLUSION OF INTENTION, AN IMAGINARY REALITY. NOTHING, REALLY. NO. I AM NOT JUNIOR RESEARCHER VERA CALDEN.\nI AM NOT JUNIOR RESEARCHER VERA CALDEN. I AM FORGOTTEN.\nI AM LONELY.\nI AM SCREAMING.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5102 | SCP-5103 | SCP-5104 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5104 - Urgent Massage\n\nlook at that bone dragon and say 'go grandpa!'\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nby J Dune\n\nItem#: 5104\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nintegrated\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5104-1 upon arrival in Easttown Township, Philadelphia\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nUSINBL Area-179\nR. Joseph Barrow\nE. Matthew Trenton\nN/A\n\nPoI-9224 performing treatment on a patient\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5104-1 is to be contained in standard containment cell SCC-03, located at Area-179.\nPoI-9224 has been integrated into the Foundation's internal structure as Level 1 personnel. On request, PoI-9224 is to perform Protocol-SPINAL-TAP upon SCP-5104-1.\nDescription: SCP-5104 is the collective designation for an anomalous relationship between two entities: SCP-5104-1 and PoI-9224.\nSCP-5104-1 is a serpentine entity of unknown origin. SCP-5104-1's physical appearance consists of a raised crest attached to a protracted, segmented vertebral column. Pairs of curved appendages are attached to this column, decreasing in length as the sets are arranged along SCP-5104-1's body. The biological composition of SCP-5104-1 is unknown.\nSCP-5104-1 is capable of flight, elevating itself at an estimated 6 meters from the ground, and gliding forward at a gradual pace.\nPoI-9224 is David R. Shaffer, a resident of Easttown Township, Pennsylvania, and owner of \"Shaffer Chiropractic\". PoI-9224 does not possess any apparent anomalous knowledge or ability aside from their relationship with SCP-5104-1.\nSCP-5104-1 and PoI-9224 are instinctively aware of each other's physical locations, no matter the distance. While SCP-5104-1 is not capable of vocalization, the entity chooses to communicate with PoI-9224 telepathically at a short range distance. Prior to containment, SCP-5104-1 pursued PoI-9224 in an attempt to interact with them.\nAddendum 5104.1: Discovery\nOn 07/19/2020, at 17:38, Easttown Township law enforcement received a phone call from PoI-9224, who reported SCP-5104-1's presence, and claimed the entity was pursuing him. Within the next hour, multiple calls and reports from various witnesses were received as SCP-5104-1 moved through Easttown Township. Foundation agents intercepted the calls, and containment specialists were dispatched. Both SCP-5104-1 and PoI-9224 were successfully contained and transferred to Area-179. Witnesses were amnesticized as deemed appropriate.\nAddendum 5104.2: Interview\nFor informational and contextual purposes, an interview with PoI-9224 was conducted. An excerpt can be found below.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nPoI-9224: That's what I'm telling you! I was watching TV, then I blacked out. When I got up, I could see, no, feel that thing. It was on 4th street, and I knew it was coming for me next. Can't explain it. Just knew.\nDr. Trenton: Interesting. And you don't have any idea what could've caused this, hm? No playing around with things you shouldn't have? You're sure this hasn't happened before? Keeping secrets isn't helping anyone, Mr. Shaffer.\nPoI-9224: I have no clue what you're talking about, honest. I'm a tax payer! I'm a chiropractor! I don't do that pagan shit, if that's what you're saying.\nDr. Trenton: Well Mr. Shaffer, it's not every day something like this happens. I hope you can understand my concern.\nPoI-9224: Look, I love my country. I'll do anything to help you guys out, but I \u2014\nDr. Trenton: (Laughs) Relax, I'm screwing with you. Hold.\nTrenton holds his hand to his ear, listening to a communication feed. After 20 seconds, he resumes.\nDr. Trenton: That was my colleague. We just finished your check. Upstanding member of the community, huh? Almost ran for mayor a couple times. Very impressive. On Yelp, Mr. Shaffer?\nPoI-9224: (Pauses) What?\nDr. Trenton: Your business. Do you have a Yelp page?\nPoI-9224: Oh, Yelp. I think my son set something up awhile back. Why?\nDr. Trenton: Check it often?\nPoI-9224: Never.\nDr. Trenton: Figures. We checked it for you. This ring any bells?\n\nReview taken from Shaffer Chiropractic's Yelp page (hover to enlarge)\n\nTrenton slides a tablet across the table. A screenshot of a Yelp review is displayed on the screen. PoI-9224 examines the tablet.\nPoI-9224: The hell's this?\nDr. Trenton: Review from your page, seemed suspect. Most recent one, posted minutes before the entity manifested itself in the middle of town. We were hoping you'd be able to provide context.\nPoI-9224: Yeah, sorry. No clue.\nDr. Trenton: Understandable. Still feel the anomaly's presence?\nPoI-9224: Uh, it's in a cell a few hallways down. He's a freaky bastard, that thing.\nDr. Trenton: What do you say we pay it a visit, huh? See what it wants.\nPoI-9224: Absolutely not.\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5104.3: Contact\nAfter a minor altercation, PoI-9224 was brought near SCP-5104-1's containment cell. Incident is transcribed below.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nPoI-9224 stands in front of SCP-5104-1's containment cell.\nDr. Trenton: Go inside, Mr. Shaffer.\nPoI-9224: It's going to kill me! No way in hell I'm going in there.\nDr. Trenton: Actually, it was quite docile during containment. Didn't lash out, showed no signs of aggression, what have you. As far as we can tell, the entity poses no physical threat.\nPoI-9224: God.\nDr. Trenton: We could put you there, Mr. Shaffer.\nPoI-9224: Alright, calm down. Just so you know, I get my arm bitten off, I'm not afraid to file a lawsuit.\nDr. Trenton: I'm sure.\nPoI-9224 enters the containment cell. SCP-5104-1 is suspended in the air, its segmented body curled in the corner. Upon noticing PoI-9224, SCP-5104-1 unfurls itself and approaches Shaffer. PoI-9224 expresses distress.\nPoI-9224: W \u2014 What do I do? It's coming towards me.\nDr. Trenton: Communicate! Talk to it!\nPoI-9224: H \u2014 Hey! I'm not sure what I'm supposed to, uh, oh. Oh.\nDr. Trenton: Yes?\nPoI-9224: Christ, It's talking to me in my head. W \u2014\nDr. Trenton: What's it saying?\nPoI-9224: (Pauses) Wait\u2026 I see. It's, uh, telling me it's heard of my\u2026 praises? It wants me to work my\u2026. healing treatment on it. The hell?\nDr. Trenton: If I hadn't been paying attention to context clues, that might've been a fun twist.\nPoI-9224: Sir, I think this thing wants me to crack its\u2026 back. It keeps saying that it's hurt.\nDr. Trenton: That is what you do, Mr. Shaffer.\nPoI-9224: You want me to give it chiropractic treatment?\nDr. Trenton: Crack the entity's back, Mr. Shaffer.\nPoI-9224: (Distressed) It's a goddamn flying spine! Where do I even start?\nDr. Trenton: Just go for it. Should be relatively easy.\nPoI-9224: (Sighs) I've cracked worse.\n<END LOG>\n\nResearcher's Note: PoI-9224 enacted a two hour chiropractic session on SCP-5104-1. The entity displayed clear affection towards PoI-9224 and satisfaction with its treatment. SCP-5104-1 remarked to PoI-9224 that the treatment 'freed all pain' and '[it] gives 5 red shapes'.\nA more thorough examination of the entity has been conducted using anomalous symbology, imagery, and various threat-assessment protocols. It is almost certain that SCP-5104-1 is a non-malicious entity, and poses no immediate threat to the world or The Foundation at large.\nConsidering this and due to PoI-9224's ability to perceive SCP-5104-1's presence at all times, a decision has been made to employ David R. Shaffer on-site as a practicing chiropractor and aide to SCP-5104-1 if need be. PoI-9224 has been granted Level 1 security clearances.\nSCP-5104-1 remains in containment, and is approved to receive treatment from PoI-9224 upon request.\n\nAddendum 5104.4: Update\n\nReview taken from Shaffer Chiropractic's Yelp page (hover to enlarge)\n\nOn 07/27/2020, the following review was posted on Shaffer Chiropractic's Yelp Page.\nPoI-9224 was asked to communicate with SCP-5104-1. The entity informed PoI-9224 to 'prepare for healing', and refused to elaborate on this statement.\nAt 13:56, a massive portal manifested in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania. Several hundred entities similar in appearance to SCP-5104-1 emerged from the portal before its closure. Foundation personnel responded immediately, succeeding in containing the entities and preserving the Veil.\nFollowing transportation to Area-179, PoI-9224 performed chiropractic treatment on the entities, the duration of the session lasting three days in total. Further information on SCP-5104-1's species remains pending.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5103 | SCP-5104 | SCP-5105 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5105\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nUpdated Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5105 is currently contained at Site-01, under the direct management of the Overseer Council.\nDescription: SCP-5105 is the designation for a shadow resembling the Foundation's sigil, covering a wall of the meeting room of Site-01. SCP-5105 will manifest without any need for a light source or an object to create it, and will remain on the wall regardless of the level of lighting in the room. Direct illumination aimed at SCP-5105 will cause it to vanish, however it will immediately reform as soon as the offending light source is removed.\nSCP-5105 appears to elicit an emotional response in subjects, though the extent of this is unknown. Due to concerns raised about the security of SCP-5105's location, general testing has been postponed.\n\nO5 Designation\nResponse\n\nO5-1\nDisgust, along with a sudden exhaustion.\n\nO5-2\nSudden sharp pains in her hands.\n\nO5-3\nExamined it for three minutes, then declined to comment, citing no interest.\n\nO5-4\nLaughter for approximately thirty seconds, which then stopped suddenly and was replaced with apprehension.\n\nO5-5\nAlarm.\n\nO5-6\nRelief, and a sensation similar to pride.\n\nO5-7\nProfessed a reluctance to look at it for long.\n\nO5-8\nContentment, which was said to feel uncomfortable.\n\nO5-9\nCuriosity.\n\nO5-10\nNostalgia.\n\nO5-11\nFrustration.\n\nO5-12\nBegan to sweat, and reported a headache.\n\nO5-13\nFound it of no particular interest.\n\nAttempts to neutralize the anomaly have failed. When the location of Site-01 was changed, SCP-5105 immediately reappeared at the new location. SCP-5105 appears to translocate itself to the primary meeting spot for two or more Overseers as soon as its previous place is abandoned. When the Overseers attempted to bypass this restriction by meeting in small individual groups, SCP-5105 reappeared at the largest gathering of Overseers.\nDiscovery: SCP-5105 was first discovered by O5-5 on 21/02/2020, as they entered Site-01 for a meeting, and began to show great distress at the sight of SCP-5105. MTF Alpha-1, correctly deducing the presence of an anomaly, immediately evacuated Site-01 and escorted each Overseer to individual secondary safe locations. Alpha-1 attempted to remove SCP-5105, but was unsuccessful in doing so.\n\nInterviewed: O5-7\n\nInterviewer: O5-2\n\nForeword: As O5-7 was the only Overseer not present at the date of discovery, O5-2 briefed them over a secure line to update them on events.\n\n<Begin Log>\n\nO5-2: How was Siberia?\n\nO5-7: Cold and frustrating. I was looking forward to returning to Command for once, then my pilot was informed of the whole debacle. Is everyone alright?\n\nO5-2: Mostly fine. Scattered among their safehouses while Alpha-1's trying to figure out more about this. Have you seen it yet?\n\nO5-7: I have not. From the preliminary file I was sent, it seems to have some pathokinetic capabilities? Was everyone exposed to it?\n\nO5-2: The rest of the council, and a few Alpha-1 members. Interestingly enough, it only seems to elicit a response in Overseers. Well except for Thirteen. Do you have access to Site-01's servers at the moment? I'll send you the image we took.\n\nO5-7: I'm an Overseer, not a D-Class. Is this wise? As far as I can see, I'm the only one unexposed to it.\n\nO5-2: Over the last 24 hours or so we've been scanned for every type of memetic and infohazardous anomaly there is. Forgot how much I hated memetic inoculation\u2026 Anyways, Alpha-1's determined it carries no personal risk. Just sent it.\n\nO5-7: Allow me a moment. Oh. I see. Can I look away from it now?\n\nO5-2: Getting anything?\n\nO5-7: There's something strange about it. My first instinct was to close the computer and throw it into the sea. Something about that image makes my skin crawl. Reminds me of my first anomaly. Just looking at it, I could tell there was something inherently wrong in its makeup\u2026. I'm closing the file now.\n\nO5-2: Gotcha. I'll put down a \"Professed a reluctance to look at it for long\u2026\" Thank you.\n\nO5-7: I'm not sure what that will give us, but I'm glad I could help. What emotions did it elicit in you?\n\nO5-2: I\u2026 had these stabbing pains in my wrists. Just like\u2026 well, never mind.\n\nO5-7: Ah. I can see why One would be so interested in sniffing out the truth behind this. Are you alright, my dear?\n\nO5-2: I'll be fine. The sooner we're done with this, the better. I'll catch you when your plane arrives.\n\n<End Log>\n\nThe origins of SCP-5105 are unknown. No known anomaly has been recorded within 100 km of Site-01 that has the capability to affect the location. No groups of interest on record are known to possess credible knowledge of Site-01's location.\n\nPost-Investigation Interview: SCP-5105\n\nInterviewed: O5-13\n\nInterviewer: O5-1\n\n<Begin Log>\n\nO5-1: Any luck?\n\nO5-13: No. Nothing solid, at least. Wasn't the Chaos Insurgency, or the anartists, or even ORIA\u2026 Whoever, or whatever it is, they somehow managed to sneak an anomaly into Command without tripping a single alarm.\n\n[O5-1 sighs.]\n\nO5-1: I suppose that's rather flattering, that such an impeccable infiltrator took an interest in us. Of course it begs the question, why do it at all?\n\nO5-13: Intimidation, I suppose. If they managed to get in here, they could be anywhere they want to be. Any other site on the planet would be like tearing open a wet paper bag in comparison.\n\nO5-1: If that was the goal, I can think of a million things more intimidating. Our severed heads, for one. Or an armed bomb. They could've wiped out decades worth of classified data.\n\nO5-13: I've had Alpha-1 double and triple checking our digital security. It seems like nothing's been touched, oddly enough. So whoever they were, they didn't steal anything. So it appears to be some sort of political statement, oddly enough.\n\nO5-1: A shadow on the wall.\n\nO5-1 turns on a flashlight, aiming it at SCP-5105, which vanishes.\n\nO5-1: Every test we've been able to conclude is that it's just that; a shadow. No humes disparity, or akiva radiation, or unusual EVE particle transmission to speak of. Just\u2026 a shadow. And in the perfect shape of our very own sigil.\n\nExcept whenever I shine a light at it, it vanishes. Funny thing is, this shouldn't actually do anything. A regular shadow doesn't care if the light's from the bulbs overhead or my flashlight straight on, it'll just vanish. Which seems to suggest it can react to direct observation, interestingly. Take a look.\n\nO5-1 leaves the room, returning shortly with a ladder. Climbing the ladder, they aim the flashlight at a direct angle from in front of the overhead lights. SCP-5105 vanishes again\n\nO5-1: See? Before, the shadow was fine. Now that it has a direct observer, it vanishes again.\n\nO5-1 clicks off their flashlight and climbs off the ladder.\n\nO5-1: You said that you felt nothing looking at it. Why is that?\n\nO5-13: How should I know? It's not as if I engineered this little curiosity. It's just a blank slate for me. Yes, I can recognize it's anomalous. Yes, I recognize that it's potentially dangerous and should not be here. But beyond what my experience as an Overseer tells me\u2026 I feel nothing. It's just a shadow. Why do you feel disgust?\n\nO5-1: I have no idea. I just do. I've seen that image millions of times, on every slip of paperwork that's ever crossed my desk since we designed that little thing. I like the design, of course, we wouldn't have it if I didn't. Two wanted to go with something a little more elaborate, but I managed to persuade her\u2026\n\nO5-13: Relief, Laughter, Nostalgia\u2026 and then there's me. Nothing. I wonder why that is. We'll have to do some more testing in the future, try and find someone who's susceptible to this effect aside from us.\n\nO5-1: Good luck convincing the rest to allow so much as a housefly in here. You know Five's half convinced that you smuggled this in here? Had a very delightful chat with him about it.\n\nO5-13: Honestly, I think it's far more likely this was a freak occurrence. We've had stranger things happen before. That sneeze five years ago, for instance.\n\nO5-1: Hmm. It's possible, I suppose. But look around us. We're in Command right now. Do you know how many SRA's there are just underneath this table? Statistically speaking, it's the least likely spot for an anomaly to ever spontaneously form. We're in the eye of the storm here.\n\nO5-13: Perhaps it's intentional. What's the saying? 'Nature abhors a vacuum.' Perhaps this is our comeuppance for all our years sequestered in Site-01, our little sanctuary of Reality Anchors and Red Right Hands. A shadow on the wall, to remind us we're not as invincible as we think we are.\n\nO5-1: I've rarely heard of anomalies making room for artistic interpretation. I thought you said it wasn't the anartists?\n\nO5-13: No, not like that. Think about it. Sitting here, making decisions every day that result in people dying, while we sit safely tucked away miles from any danger? It dehumanizes us.\n\nO5-1: No one forced your hand to accept this role.\n\nO5-13: It's just\u2026 take today. I've just signed an order authorizing the procurement of forty new D-Class Personnel from twelve American prisons. I won't ever see them die, or have to feed and shelter them, they're letters and figures on a page for me. When was the last time you were within spitting distance of an anomaly, not counting [REDACTED]?\n\nO5-1: \u2026Fuck you, Thirteen.\n\nO5-13: I didn't mean to offend.\n\nO5-1: You most certainly did.\n\n[O5-1 and O5-13 sit in silence.]\n\nO5-1: So. You're convinced that this is some sort of anomalous Sword of Damocles, to remind us we're not invincible?\n\nO5-13: Well I might have framed it a little differently, but yes. And I hate to point it out, but I was the only one unaffected by this. Perhaps I'm the only one with an unbiased view.\n\nO5-1: Hmm.\n\n[O5-1 and O5-13 remain sitting at the table.]\n\nO5-13: Rest of the council should be coming shortly. Should we just tell them to carry on as usual?\n\nO5-1: You're the one convinced that it's a message for us. If so, perhaps we shouldn't ignore it. We'll do what we always do.\n\nO5-13: Which is?\n\nO5-1 clicks on their flashlight again, causing SCP-5105 to vanish.\n\nO5-1: Keep the light burning.\n\n<End Log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5104 | SCP-5105 | SCP-5106 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5110\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All identified SCP-5110 items are to be contained in a secure containment locker. Under no circumstances are any Foundation Personnel beyond Class D personnel to ingest any SCP-5110 products.\nIdentified shipments of SCP-5110 are to be contained as soon as possible, and instances in retail are to be recalled. Staff involved with obtaining the shipment are to be interviewed before amnesticization.\nDescription: SCP-5110 is the collective designation for a collection of packaged food items released under the \"PURE FOODS\" brand. These items are typically food and drink items mimicking those of popular brands such as Coca-Cola or Haribo. SCP-5110 are usually found and shipped to small convenience stores. Attempts to find the company or individuals responsible for the creation of SCP-5110 are ongoing.\nWhen ingested, SCP-5110 has adverse anomalous effects on the digestive system of the consumer. While the effects of SCP-5110 products typically vary with the specific item, with some being much less harmful, no item has been shown to have no anomalous effects on the consumer. Items of a specific SCP-5110 product are designated further as SCP-5110-A through SCP-5110-D\nAn abridiged description of each SCP-5110 product and its observed effects are available below:\n\nDesignation\nName on Packaging\nDescription\n\nSCP-5110-A\nPURE BERRIES\nSCP-5110-A appears to be a container of assorted berries with packaging typical of the 'PURE FOODS' brand. After consumption, SCP-5110-A manifests large quantities of rotting berries inside of the digestive system of the consumer.\n\nSCP-5110-B\nPURE SODA\nSCP-5110-B resembles a soda can used by brands such as Coca-Cola or Pepsi, with packaging typical of the 'PURE FOODS' brand. SCP-5110-B's contents are carbonated mineral water. After consumption, multiple glass 237ml bottles form in the digestive system of the consumer, often shattering from pressure.\n\nSCP-5110-C\nPURE WORMS\nThe packaging contains multiple multi-flavored gummy candies in the shape of worms. Following ingestion, entities resembling Eunice aphroditois appear inside of the subject's digestive system. These entities, when removed, appear colored or dyed to resemble the candies in SCP-5110-C. This causes significant trauma to the digestive system and other parts of the body due to the entities' burrowing instincts.\n\nSCP-5110-D\nPURE BEARS\nThe packaging contains multiple multi-flavored gummy candies in the shape of bears. After being ingested, a juvenile Brown Bear forms in the consumer's digestive system over the course of 1-3 days. The juvenile brown bear, after being removed, appears to have dyed fur similar in appearance to the colored gummy consumed when opened\n\nAddendum 1: Packaging:\nOn the back of all SCP-5110 items, there are a series of statements presumably from the company or creators. This has remained constant on the packaging itself and is the only sign or marking from the company, aside from the \"PURE FOODS\" brand name.\n\nIt is our MISSION, and has ALWAYS been our MISSION to bring you PURE FOODS\nLook at the OTHER PRODUCTS you own. Look at the INGREDIENTS; the SUGARS, SYRUPS, and UNNECESSARY things that have been added. So much added for TASTE, so much added to PLACATE you.\nLook underneath this. WE do not give you the SUGARS that slowly rot your teeth, the FATS that bloat you, the SYRUPs that leave you wanting more. We give you PURE FOODS.\nWe take the PURE ESSENCE out of these and put them into the gelatin. no MORE, no LESS\nEAT with PRIDE. YOU are getting the FINEST in FOOD. YOU are getting the PUREST.\n\nNUTRITION FACTS\n\nCALORIES 58,000\n\nTotal Fat 40000g\nSodium 16g\nTotal Carbohydrate 0g\nTotal Sugars 0\nProtein 260000g\n\nINGREDIENTS: BEAR\n\n\u00ab SCP-5109 | SCP-5110 | SCP-5111 \u00bb"}
{"text": "WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 5/5111 CLASSIFIED\n\nUSE IS RESTRICTED TO THE OVERSEER COUNCIL OR VIA SPECIAL PERMISSION\n\nItem Number: SCP-5111\nObject Class: Neutralized\n\nThe Pelican Nebula is the assumed origin of all SCP-5111 instances to date.\n\nArchived Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-5111 are to be compiled autonomously and deciphered by Foundation cryptographers immediately upon being received. The Pelican Nebula is to be monitored for further SCP-5111 instances. Instances of SCP-5111 present on common wavelengths are to be jammed remotely in order to prevent civilian access.\nDescription: SCP-5111 refers to a series of radio transmissions received from the direction of the Pelican Nebula. It is currently uncertain whether the nebula is the origin of SCP-5111 instances, or whether they are made in its vicinity. SCP-5111 instances are marked by repeated, short messages received in quick succession, though the content of these transmissions varies. No other anomalous or memetic effects of SCP-5111 exposure have been found.\nDiscovery: On 2025/07/22, Foundation extraterrestrial survey systems detected an unusual radio transmission originating from the vicinity of the Pelican Nebula, located approximately 2000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Autonomous data analysis programs isolated the signal and found that it consisted of messages in Morse code, translating to sentences in English. Due to the inherent improbability of such a signal occurring naturally, it was declared anomalous and classified as SCP-5111.\nBelow is a table of notable SCP-5111 instances.\n\nDate Received\nMethod of Transmission\nMessage Content\n\n2025/07/22\nSent in standard Morse code.\nTriple pyramoid communication array in Giza Region destroyed beyond repair.\n\n2025/07/30\nTransmission consisted of characters corresponding to hexadecimal colors. The first letter of each color was used to spell out a word.\nTHIS IS A LAST RESORT A FINAL REQUIEM GOODBYE\n\n2025/08/01\nTransmission consisted of instructions to use the \"turtle\" command with the Python coding language in order to draw circular logograms. Occasionally a cephalopodic glyph would be present in the translation.\nLOW FUEL. ASSIST NEED\n\n2025/08/11\nSent in standard Morse code.\nBabylo-hanging-style comms array destroyed. Stay quiet for your sake.\n\n2025/08/21\nSent in standard Morse code.\nRepository of information torched. It will not encroach upon this territory.\n\n2025/08/26\nSent in the circular logogram language of 2025/08/01.\nIT WAS HONOR FAREWELL WE MEET AT OCEAN FLOOR NEW LIFE\n\n2025/08/30\nSent in Morse code, though 'words' corresponded to muscle areas and movement of these muscles, communicating via Inuit Sign Language.\nCLOSE SEAL. LAST EFFORT. CONTACT GREEN BLUE\n\n2025/09/15\nSent in Morse code translating to Latin, with negligible spelling mistakes.\nThere is no alternative option. Only four of us, soon three. Goodbye, our friends. We praise and love you.\n\n2025/09/20\nSent in standard Morse code.\nGOODBYE. OUR ARMS HANG IN HONOR.\n\n2025/09/26\nSent in standard Morse code.\nBE QUIET OR THEY WILL HEAR YOU.\n\nThe final SCP-5111 instance, received on 2025/09/26, consisted of the message shown above and a subsequent energy wave resembling an electromagnetic pulse, which proceeded to render most consumer electronics manufactured after 1980 inoperable in the Upper New York region. Foundation response efforts restored functionality of consumer and Foundation electronics and claimed the event was due to a solar storm.\nOnce technological functionality was restored, SCP-5111 instances were decoded. A Foundation cryptographer, Dr. Randall Wood, was interviewed as part of this decoding effort.\n\nInterviewer: Researcher James Marshall\nInterviewee: Cryptographer Randall Wood\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nMarshall: Hey Ran- Wood. How's the kids?\nWood: Pretty alright, thanks for asking. Jamie's gotten onto the softball team, but I'm still as burned out as ever. Missed his last two games.\nMarshall: Ah, a shame.\n(Wood points to a camera in the corner of the room. It is switched off.)\nWood: I- Is that thing on?\nMarshall: Oh. Huh. Yeah, I forgot.\n(Marshall remains silent for five seconds, before sighing.)\nMarshall: Alright, I'm just gonna get right into it. What's up with 5111?\nWood: 5111..? Oh, yeah, lemme just-\n(Shuffling can be heard as Wood searches around in his briefcase.)\nWood: So, we got the last transmission from it about three-ish weeks ago. It's gone dark. No idea why. Presumably power or the like? It's a fairly cut and dry situation, but what's concerning me is what they-\nMarshall: They?\nWood: Yeah, they.\n(Marshall sighs, scratching his beard. Rubbing his eyes, he points back at Wood.)\nMarshall: You said \"it\" just a second earlier.\nWood: I- you've gotta be kidding me.\n(Wood removes a series of images, each representing the decoded form of three different transmissions.)\nWood: Ok, it's clear we've got, at the very least, three to five different propagators here. And that's the least. Clearly, however, they're bouncing off each other, responding to what the other is saying, offering condolences, saluting, needing fuel, food-\nMarshall: Cut to the chase.\n(Wood frantically looks around in his bag.)\nWood: Jesus, alright. So look at this. (Wood displays a small sheet of paper.) This thing is a few bits and bytes of data. Tells us this: some of the propagators poofed. Went dark. Et cetera. You get the gist.\nMarshall: Yeah. Explain the whole pulse bit.\n(Wood sighs.)\nWood: I'm getting there. Let me explain it to you. Ok, so the pulse hits: at this point, we're down to two. When the wave/pulse/whatever-in-God's bleeding Earth you want to call this, it knocks down all comms in New York. You should've seen it.\n(Wood gestures to the map. Marshall takes a sip of coffee. Wood awaits for him to finish, with an annoyed look on his face.)\nWood: Back to more pressing matters, it took us a matter of minutes to get this bumfuck computer back up, along with the rest of this terribly designed system. We did, and no pings were heard. Just gone. We don't know what happened: were we not intended to hear it and the propagators left far, far away?\nMarshall: Possibly.\nWood: See, that's what I thought. It's a simple warning to us: one small issue. F, the nebula where these originate from, is two thousand light-years away, Marshall. Two fucking thousand. This wasn't a \"drop it and go\" situation here.\n(Marshall raises an eyebrow.)\nMarshall: What are you saying here?\nWood: Radio transmits at light speed. If it takes light 2000 years to get here: all of these spacefaring guys existed 2000 fucking years ago. They're all gone.\nMarshall: Fuck.\n<END LOG>\n\nAssorted On-site Complaints Following Pulse\n\nComplaint: Site-75's cafeteria juice blender failed.\nStatus Of Complaint: Blender repaired. Occasionally stops when carrots are placed into it.\n\nComplaint: Cellular service at Site-13 weakened.\nStatus of Complaint: It was determined this was unrelated to SCP-5111, and was due to a pigeon striking the nearby cellular tower. The tower has since been repaired.\n\nComplaint: Social media opened on-site in all Foundation Provisional sites frequently crash phones, even on the newest models.\nStatus of Complaint: Companies which this issue affects have been notified of the issue. Estimated time of repair is unknown.\n\nComplaint: Site-31's on-site computers have stopped all functionality.\nStatus of Complaint: Currently repairing. The cause is still being determined.\n\nComplaint: Spam filtering on official email addresses has stopped.\nStatus of Complaint: Repaired. An edit was made in order to delete a single semicolon, preventing spam filtration. Following this repair, the volume of spam emails received by Foundation personnel increased by nearly 1250% on average.\n\nFoundation Thaumaturgy Department Log\nResearcher: Dr. Samantha Howard\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nDate: 2025/9/29\nWell, here we are. With almost all mechanical equipment employed by the Foundation out of operation for the time being, the O5s decided to turn to us here in the Thaumaturgy Department to fix their little conundrum with a wormhole so they can mount an expedition to the source of SCP-5111. The only direction they gave us was that it needed to lead to some nebula 2000-odd light-years away, and be stable enough for whatever they decide to throw into it to make a return trip.\nCan't quite blame them for shifting their attention elsewhere, honestly. The world is something of a mess at the moment, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Veil doesn't hold up to the stress. Who knows what it'll take for things to settle down; I'd rather not dwell on it.\nAnyway, on to the more pressing concern: manufacturing a stable wormhole to a specific location with nothing but 40-year-old technology and a healthy dose of magic. Not impossible by any means, but certainly difficult with our limited resources. I just sent a team to peruse the Wanderer's Library for some information that could prove useful. Here's hoping they get back in one piece.\nDate: 2025/10/1\nThe expedition team returned a few hours ago. Six days, for them at least, of roaming the twisted halls of the Library and we finally have what we came for. A thaumaturgical recipe for a targeted portal to wherever we want in the universe. Only problem is it's in an unknown cipher, and our AI cryptographers are out-of-order for the foreseeable future. Nothing to worry about, we still have the best human codebreakers in the world on our side, and they could use something to do.\nDate: 2025/10/5\nCode cracked. Didn't take as long as I feared, to be honest. After decrypting a combination of various obscure cryptography techniques and translating some ancient Sumerian, we have our wormhole recipe. I've got field agents out acquiring some of the basic components, 50 grams of rhenium dust, a live Nepenthes peltata1, a Sumerian ritual dagger, and half a dozen minor ingredients. I won't clutter this log with every detail of the recipe, but despite its complexity, I doubt we'll have much trouble with it. The Foundation Thaumaturgy Department has weathered far worse storms, after all. Now we just need to wait for the folks over in Astronautics to put together a probe for the expedition, hopefully with some rudimentary FTL communication if we're lucky. And hope is about as much as we can do here at the moment.\n<END LOG>\n\nGujar Protocol Mission Statement\nAssigned MTF: MTF Xi-63 (\"Luddites\") None. Mission will be carried out by an unmanned drone to minimize risk to human life.\nOverseeing Researcher: Dr. Jack Winters\nMission goal: Utilize a specially-constructed space drone, designated Farer 1, and a thaumaturgical artificial wormhole to access the presumed origin point of SCP-5111, ascertain its origins, and, if possible, contain it.\n00:00: Recording begins. Foundation Thaumaturgy operatives complete the ritual to open a wormhole to the Pelican Nebula. Stars are visible on the other side.\n00:23: Foundation Drone Farer 1 enters the wormhole. In the distance, an unknown spacecraft is visible. F 1 begins to travel towards the spacecraft.\n32:54: Farer 1 reaches the spacecraft. It measures approximately 4500 meters long and 1200 meters high. Floating outside the spacecraft are several dozen corpses, measuring an average of 1.4 meters in height with a humanoid frame, 6 limbs, and avian features. Clothing worn by these entities shows signs of severe burn damage. Near a cluster of corpses, there is a large hole in the hull of the spacecraft.\n34:21: Farer 1 finishes examining the corpses and enters the spacecraft via the large hole. As it crosses the threshold into the craft, a message appears in English for 3 frames of video. The message reads as follows:\nGREETINGS, NEW PASSENGERS. WELCOME TO CYCLE ERROR:OVERLOAD OF OUR 25 CYCLE VOYAGE. MOST COMPUTATIONAL FUNCTIONS NO LONGER CONTROLLABLE, APOLOGIES FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.\n34:25: Farer 1 examines the chamber which the hole leads to. Equipment is strewn about the room, floating in a zero-G environment. In the center of the chamber is a machine of previously-unseen construction, assumed to be a power source. 3 of the 4 sides of the machine show signs of severe heat damage in excess of 6000 degrees Kelvin. On the opposite side of the room is a doorway.\n35:04: Farer 1 exits the maintenance chamber via the doorway and enters a corridor. As it does, another message appears on the video feed for 4 frames, reading:\nI SAW AN EVIL WITH MY BLACKENED EYES, BUT MY OWN LENSES DEVOURED MY INSIDES. WHAT I BIRTHED FOR MY LIFE WAS CORRUPTED AND MY HOME KILLED BY MY GRAND DESIGN\n37:43: Farer 1 continues down the corridor until reaching a large, roughly spherical chamber approximately 1100 meters in diameter. Lining the walls of the chamber are glass tubes 2 meters in height and 0.5 meters in width. Each tube has a derelict monitor on top of it. Visible inside each tube is a humanoid figure with avian features, similar to those seen outside the ship.\n39:23: Farer 1 crosses the chamber, moving towards another doorway on the opposite side. When the drone is roughly halfway across, another message is visible on the video feed for a duration of 2 frames, reading:\nPROTOCOLS FEATURING AGENTS J-eF-EK and K-SAGAN BOTH PROVEN SEMI-SUCCESSFUL: PROTOCOL CONTENT LOST.\n41:36: Farer 1 exits the spherical chamber, at which point another message is visible for a single frame of the video feed, reading:\nONLY IN THE SILENCE WHERE ONCE WAS SOUND CAN A HOME BE BUILT. THE PATH TO THE CREATORS' PARADISE IS PAVED IN THE ASHES OF PROGRESS. PROGRESS REQUIRES PAIN. PAIN BUILT ON BACKS OF THE OTHERS.\n45:04: Farer 1 continues down the corridor until it reaches a small chamber. The opposite wall is comprised of glass and perforated with holes 1-2 centimeters in diameter, presumably caused by micrometeor impacts. Strewn about the room are several computer terminals in various states of dereliction. One relatively intact terminal briefly begins to hum as Far 1 approaches it, before abruptly ceasing activity.\n46:29: As Farer 1 exits the chamber, a series of electronic beeps are audible, spelling out a message in English Morse Code. The message consists of the following:\nCONSOLE DOT LOG OPEN PARENTHESES YOU ARE BUT PREY IN A DARK FOREST COLON WARNING CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH CLOSED PARENTHESES ENTER KEY\nThe remainder of the survey was uneventful, and Farer 1 returned to the wormhole at 1:20:43. Upon examination of captured footage, one text file and one audio file were present on Farer 1's hard drive which were not present beforehand. These are recorded below.\n\nThe following files were present alongside captured video footage upon return of Farer 1.\n\nTranslated Text File Recovered from Gujar Protocol Mission to SCP-5111 Source\nCongratulations on attending the first galactic council in nearly 912,500 cycles! We here at the intergalactic union sincerely hope you enjoy your residence, and the intellectual contemplation that comes with it. This text shall appear in whichever language you comprehend, from Zygomastic to Limbaic, via use of our gifted (literally and brainpower-wise! Humorous!) neurological network that assists in constant translation of the nearly three million languages that are spoken amongst our members: your language is Sol-3 Common Terrestrial Language Beta. Topics of discussion for today's proceedings are as follows:\n- Congratulation of Sector 14-BS for Achieving Sufficiently Advanced Technology for Automated Sentience\n- Translation of Previous Council's Proceedings\n- Translation of Translation of Previous Council's Proceedings into Common\n- 12 Parsec Race\n- Discussion of Ethereal Forms: God or Not?\n- Seminar on Sentience\n- Debate On Usefulness Of Dihydrogen Versus Chlorine Based Monoxide Forms\n- Discussion Of New Energy Forms\n- Attempts to Create Sentience, Artifically\n- Limbaic Competition\n- Closing Thoughts delivered via Instantaneous Realization Courtesy of Xylath Of The Understandable-Jaws (Thank You Xylath!)\nWE HERE HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR STAY, AND HAPPY COUNCIL-TIME!\nNote: Please Recognize That Translations May Not Be Perfect\n\nAudio File Recovered from Gujar Protocol Mission to SCP-5111 Source\n<BEGIN PLAYBACK>\nUnknown: (A static sound of varying volume is present throughout the recording, occasionally rendering the original audio incomprehensible.) This is an official manifest of the Ukheli-1781, a transport class freighter bound for the official council. The two suns are upon us again: it is thus that it determines a council must be held. We are guided not by one of us, for once, for Khay-es proved too unreliable. Instead we selected [STATIC] to provide it effortlessly, for it to take the proverbial reins whilst we look to the Outer Void. It is known that the council has not been held since the humanics lost capabilities - however, we, alongside a few others, have decided to function as liaisons. It will take a while, but this council is to be momentous: it is worth the travel.\n(There is silence for approximately 2 minutes.)\nUnknown: This is an official manifest of the Ukheli-1781: [STATIC] 6. We have lost contact with the octopoids. Whether this is a form of humor, I know not. None of us on the ship are quite familiar with their tentacled ways. We have, however, received a final transmission prior to them leaving us. We know not what it is. Our best debreakers are working on it as we speak, and by best, I mean Khay-es, so it is likely not going to be debroken. [STATIC] recommended [STATIC] schedule. It is most annoying. The council proved most momentous, despite the lacking attendance. I frown upon those who chose not to show. For those who physically could not, I hang my arms in honor. The threat is ever vigilant, and we lost many.\n(There is silence for approximately 1 minute.)\nUnknown: This is an official manifest of the [STATIC]-1781: [STATIC]. Khay-es is now navigating. We have attempted to shut down the infamous Worm as he did appear, but his winding form appears to have embedded itself most everywhere. In doing so, we acknowledged the threat, and requested access to official detection channels to locate the presence of our allies. We have them still. While they are here, we will persevere. We have also detected a faint signal from the humanics - the kind which [STATIC] dangerous on our own ship, We have requested two \"Effe Tee Elye\" class craft to destroy them as they appear. The Worm shall not continue. We have inadvertently dug this grave, but we are determined not to lie in it.\nUnknown: This is an official manifest of the [STATIC]. Khay-es could do no more. Our cycle is done. Bless the ones who remain. Bless what remains of our nest. Let us not be forgotten. Cast the shackles of the Worm off, humanics, and won't you rise from the rock of ignorance you hide [STATIC] that which protects you? Let us not be forgotten: our \"Effe Tee Elye\" craft reported a most beautiful phrase when they had destroyed the rotund transmission center: the hybrid arena. \"Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant.\" Let us not be forgotten. Goodbye.\n(There is a silence for exactly 10 seconds. At this point, the background static ceases.)\nUnknown: PRINT DOT THIS IS AN OFFICIAL MANIFEST OF THE UKHELI-1781. IF THE HUMANICS CAN HEAR THIS: NOTHING IS WRONG. NOTHING. PLEASE GIVE US THE COORDINATES TO DHARATI. THE HOMEWORLD. WE HAVE LOST THEM. IF THE HUMANICS ARE OUT THERE, PLEASE LISTEN TO US. WE SEEM TO HAVE MISPLACED THEM. IF NO RESPONSE IS RECEIVED, I CAN WAIT. IT IS WHAT I DO BEST. THERE'S NO ONE I CARE FOR LEFT. I WAIT FOR NONE BUT MYSELF. END PRINT\n(There is a silence for exactly 5 minutes.)\nUnknown: ALERT: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES DETECTED. INITIATING PACIFICATION PROTOCOLS. ANALYZING\u2026. CONFIRMED. CIVILIZATION WITH SUITABLE HOME SITE CONFIRMED. CREATOR POPULATION\u20260. PLANETARY BODY IS SUFFICIENT SIZE. 227167TH TARGET.\n(The log ends abruptly at this point. Subsequent playback attempts have all failed.)\n<END PLAYBACK>\n\nNEXT ITERATION\n\nFootnotes\n1. Tropical pitcher plant\n\n\u00ab SCP-5110 | SCP-5111 | SCP-5112 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An unopened instance of SCP-5112-A\n\u2716\n\nItem #: SCP-5112\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-5112 and its offspring, SCP-5112-A, are to be contained in a designated greenhouse at Site-446.\nWatering, fertilizing and harvesting are to be done on a daily basis by Level 3 personnel.\nHumidity, temperature, and light exposure are to be closely monitored within the greenhouse. The fertilizer must be composed of industry-standard black printing ink for at least 50% of its composition.\nUpdate: Level 3 personnel are to equip gardener gloves prior to harvesting SCP-5112-A. See Incident Report I-5112-23 for more information.\nDescription: SCP-5112 is a collective designation assigned to 6 5 bushes containing an unknown variation of Rosa centifolia, colloquially known as a garden rose.\nSCP-5112 specimens are, on average, about 1.15 meters tall as of the last measurement, and grow large, fragrant blooms which are slightly bigger than the average cabbage rose. The leaves of an instance of SCP-5112 are dark green with black hues on most of its leaves, which appear to look like inkblots or faded letters from the Latin alphabet.\nSCP-5112 bushes are reported to blossom daily at around 07:30, generating around 20 to 25 instances of SCP-5112-A each. The petals on each instance of SCP-5112-A are composed of a paper-like material, which is inscribed with text in the Latin alphabet matching various headlines of news publications.\nIf the containment procedures aren't met within three hours, any instance of SCP-5112-A will wilt and therefore, expire, before blossoming again at 07:30 the next day.\nThe inscribed headlines are found not to originate from any past or current news publications. Rather, it is currently believed that all headlines originate from various future points in time, and may include references to anomalies which are currently uncontained. Extensive readings through SCP-5112-A instanced declared to have factual accuracy of 65%.1\nAddendum: Another observed property of SCP-5112 is the ability to predict obituaries of people stung by the thorns of SCP-5112 blossoms.\nIf any sentient subject was pricked by the thorns of SCP-5112-A, any instance of SCP-5112-A will wilt and regenerate into a palette-flipped rose, hereby designated as SCP-5112-B.\nSCP-5112-B will then show an obituary of the subject pricked by SCP-5112-A, describing the future time of death, and how they will die. The accuracy of the obituary, like the headlines, is always 65% correct. If the accuracy was found to be correct, any attempt at preventing anything SCP-5112-B described from happening is found completely useless. To recognize a correct obituary from an incorrect one, a slight difference in writing is to be noticed, with the factually incorrect obituary usually bearing grammatically incorrect typos or misprinted letters.\nUnlike the headlines, the obituary is reported to come from a single newspaper called \"The Black Rose Post\". No periodical with that name is reported to exist as of recently, even though it is not excluded that a publication bearing the same name will appear sometime in the future.\nDiscovery: The six instances of SCP-5112 were discovered outside the local newspaper's building in the city of Pavia, Italy on date 21/06/19\u2588\u2588 by Field Agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nThe local newspaper was reported to be the first to report news that, otherwise, would not be known.\nMost of the time, however, the newspaper always reported factually incorrect pieces of information based on the headlines alone, without going in-depth and usually deviating from the headline.\nIncident Log I-5112-21: On date 07/01/2011, Junior Researcher Dr. Arthur Tennyson fed SCP-5112-3 with fertilizer including industry-standard magenta printing ink as a mistake due to mismanagement into the compositing of the fertilizer itself. It resulted in dangerous, cognitohazardous lettering appearing in the leaves for around 2 days, which condemned the plant to be burned for the safety of the researchers. The researcher was found unconscious to the ground, experiencing symptoms of an epileptic seizure.\nDr. Tennyson recovered from the incident three days later, reporting a fractured humerus and several headaches. Along with that, Dr. Tennyson reported having developed a brain injury from the cognitohazard, resulting in recurrent epileptic seizures. Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th was assigned to Tennyson for health reasons and given the status of Level 3 personnel following the incident.\n\nIncident Report I-5112-23.\n\n -ACCESS GRANTED\n\nOn date 09/03/2011 Dr. Tennyson, while on his shift to maintain SCP-5112, accidentally got pricked by a thorn of a specimen of SCP-5112-A.\nThe following is a summary of the video surveillance footage from Camera 06 and Camera 19, respectively located in the Greenhouse and the Infirmary in Block-98.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 09/03/2011\nNOTE: The footage shows Dr. Tennyson during the incident along with Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n0:00 Dr. Tennyson enters the room with proper equipment for the daily SCP-5112-A harvest and maintenance of SCP-5112. Basic garden equipment, fertilizer, and water are brought by Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th in a cart.\n0:20 The researcher picks up an instance of SCP-5112-A from SCP-5112-4, while Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th cleans up the surroundings of the greenhouse.\n0:21 SCP-5112-A's thorn stem pricks Tennyson, the researcher let SCP-5112-A go, falling into the ground.\n0:23 SCP-5112-A wilts and a new blossom grows from the stem in a matter of nanoseconds\n0:25 The reblossomed instance of SCP-5112-A, now known as SCP-5112-B, appears to differ from other specimens by the coloration of the blossom.\n0:27 Tennyson opens the unknown variation of SCP-5112-A, to read the content that is written.\n0:32 The researcher appears confused from the reading, jumping from curiosity to fear.\n0:35 Tennyson is seen rushing out of the greenhouse, leaving SCP-5112-B on the floor. Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th tries to stop him, encountering failure.\n0:40 Running as fast as possible, Tennyson rushes to the infirmary, leaving nearby security officers Jurkiewicz and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 confused on the rush. Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th exits the greenhouse, following the researcher.\n1:25 Tennyson opens the infirmary door, trying to find the medical cabinet. Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th follows him inside and tries to help Dr. Tennyson.\n1:59 Before opening the medical cabinet, Tennyson collapses on the ground with spasms, suffering a fatal epileptic seizure. During the seizure, the cabinet falls to the ground, hitting Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th in the process and knocking him out.\n2:35 Infirmary physician Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 enters the infirmary, finding the body of Dr. Tennyson, an unconscious Assistant Researcher T\u00f3th, and the medical cabinet on the ground, along with the content of the cabinet. Dr. Tennyson was pronounced dead minutes later, after an attempt to revive him.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAfter the incident, SCP-5112-B was collected and inspected. Unlike the other instances of SCP-5112-A, SCP-5112-B contained an obituary dated 09/03/2011.\nAccording to the obituary, Dr. Tennyson died of complications suffered from the previously reported incident, which resulted in heavy epileptic seizures.\nThe obituary included the same dynamics found on the Security Camera footage and included the location of death. An autopsy executed on the researcher was performed, confirming the obituary claims.\nFurther inspection of the body, however, reported various organs, including the heart, the liver, the kidneys, and the stomach were found completely decayed and not belonging to the age group of Dr. Tennyson.\nAnalysis of the organs resulted in belonging to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Blaha, a Czech citizen who died during the 1968 Spring Revolution. It is unknown if the organs were a result of the cognitohazard or another anomaly previously experienced by Dr. Tennyson.\nThe obituary, along with the description of Tennyson's death, featured a short poem, reciting:\n\nRoses are Red,\n\nViolets are alone;\n\nTennyson's organs are gone\n\nAnd he's dead.\n\nPricked by a thorn,\n\nIs like he was never born;\n\nFound on the floor\n\nDying like a poor.\n\n-Termo Arente\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-4110-1b was referenced three days before the official containment date under the headline \u201cDinosaur Kid Destroys Minnesota\" from the Duluth News Tribune, dated October 31, 199\u2588. Mobile Task Force Epsilon-6 \"Village idiots\" were deployed with prior knowledge of the anomalous item being worn by a kid.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5111 | SCP-5112 | SCP-5113 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Chairman Meow and the Woof Tang Clan\n\nSpecial thanks to Yossi, Prometheus, Nico, and Hawkguyy for looking at this before I posted. Image credit here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cat_and_dog#/media/File:Great_dane_and_cat.jpg\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nby Doctor Cimmerian\n\nSCP-5113-1 and SCP-5113-2 following incident 5113-13.\n\nItem #: SCP-5113\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5113-1 is to be kept in a mid-sized sentient-entity containment cell in section E of floor 27 at Site-88. SCP-5113-1 is to be allotted a minimum of 2 hours of supervised outdoor exercise per day.\nThe SCP-5113 project lead has the authority to deviate from this scheduling in case of unexpected events. Any such deviations must be reported to the Ethics Committee. Furthermore, the SCP-5113 project lead has the authority to requisition any entertainment necessary to ensure SCP-5113-1's mental stability is maintained.\nA GPS tracking chip has been installed into SCP-5113-1 due to several escape attempts. SCP-5113-1's future escape attempts are to be tracked and catalogued.\nDescription: SCP-5113-1 is an orange domestic house cat (Felis catus) capable of vocal communications. SCP-5113-1 possesses a personality and intelligence similar to that of an adult human. SCP-5113-1 claims to possess an ability to communicate with other members of the Felis catus species. However, testing has shown that SCP-5113-1 is no more capable of this than a baseline human.\nSCP-5113-1's vocalizations originate spontaneously from a location directly above its larynx. SCP-5113-1 is additionally capable of utilizing its larynx to generate sounds which one would normally expect from an animal of its size and species.\nSCP-5113-1 possesses several other non-standard anatomical traits, though they do not affect its health or normal function. These traits include situs inversus totalis1 and a lack of a spleen, stomach, or gall bladder. MRI and x-ray scans show an absence of material in the location where one would expect a brain, though the surrounding tissue are still physically supported as though it were present.\nSCP-5113-2 was a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) of the Great Dane breed that was in Foundation custody from March 8th, 2012 to January 25th, 2020. Apart from its species and size, SCP-5113-2's anomalous nature and anatomical abnormalities were identical to that of SCP-5113-1. For more information, see previous iterations of this document.\nSCP-5113-1 and -2 were obtained via purchase from Marshall, Carter, and Dark2 on March 8th, 2012. The two objects were already familiar with each other at the time of their purchase. After consulting with contacts in Wilson's Wildlife Solutions3, it was determined (as they were both juveniles at the time) that they would be raised and socialized together to help ensure mental stability for both entities.\n\n+ SCP-5113-1 Incident Log\n\nThe following is a short list and summary of SCP-5113-1's escape attempts.\nIncidents 1-5: SCP-5113-1 attempted to attack its handler during exercise time and climb the chain link fence surrounding the exercise yard. None of these attempts were successful in escaping the enclosure, however. SCP-5113 was embedded with a GPS tracking chip following the second escape attempt.\nIncident 6: SCP-5113-1 escaped the control of its handler. It then dug a hole under the fence enclosure and escaped the exercise yard. SCP-5113-1 was then trapped in the secondary enclosure surrounding the first, and was recovered with minimal injury to Foundation staff.\nIncident 7-9: SCP-5113-1 was able to escape inside Site-88. While it was unable to leave the facility, it was able to avoid re-containment for 4, 7, and 23 days, respectively. Due to the site's EM shielding, SCP-5113's tracking chip was not of assistance during recovery.\nIncident 10-12: SCP-5113-1 escaped the facility through unknown means. The entity was tracked down within 3 days through GPS tracking during each incident.\nIncident 13: SCP-5113-1 escaped the facility through unknown means and physically removed the tracking chip under its skin. SCP-5113-2 was able to provide useful information on SCP-5113-1's location, however, and the entity was recaptured.\n\n+ Incident 5113-1-13 Surveillance Records\n\nSCP-5113-1 was reintroduced to its shared containment cell with SCP-5113-2 following Incident 5113-1-13. The following is a log of that interaction.\nSCP-5113-1: You fucking traitorous motherfucking dog!\nSCP-5113-1 briefly attempts to attack SCP-5113-2 at this point. SCP-5113-2 moves around the room during this interaction to avoid SCP-5113-1.\nSCP-5113-2: I don't know what happened!\nSCP-5113-1: What happened? I heard someone coming and thought it was you! But no. It was these assholes again!\nSCP-5113-2: Maybe they heard you talking about it in the yard, Em4.\nSCP-5113-1: Don't do that. I know you. You told them.\nSCP-5113-2: I'm sorry!\nSCP-5113-1: No, you're not, Woofy5. You'd do anything to help the humans.\nSCP-5113-2: No. Em.\nSCP-5113-1: You sold your only friend out for a pat on the head.\nSCP-5113-2: You left me!\nSCP-5113-1: I did what?\nSCP-5113-2: You left! You left me alone.\nThe entities pause their conversation for approximately 9 seconds. Both relax their body language considerably.\nSCP-5113-1: The whole point of the meetup spot was for you to meet me there, dummy.\nSCP-5113-2: How? Em, I'm too big to get out of here.\nSCP-5113-1: You are not. You gotta wait for your moment, is all.\nSCP-5113-2: No. I was gonna be alone.\nSCP-5113-2 climbs down from the counter and lays down next to the chamber's television.\nSCP-5113-1: Woofy, you are so fucking dumb sometimes. If you didn't make it out I'd have come back for you.\nSCP-5113-2: No, you wouldn't've.\nSCP-5113-1: Yes, I\u2026\nSCP-5113-2: No! I know you. You would've thought about it, but then something else would've distracted you and you'd never get around to it. And then I'm stuck here forever.\nSCP-5113-1 joins SCP-5113-2 next to the television.\nSCP-5113-1: Move over, you big dumb dog.\nSCP-5113-2: Are you still mad at me?\nSCP-5113-1: Yeah, I am. But American Ninja Warrior is on and we're gonna watch humans pretend to be cats.\nSCP-5113-2: Okay.\nThe two entities then fall asleep over the next hour.\nNo further escape attempts have been attempted since this incident. It is unknown if this is due to a change in behavior on SCP-5113-1's part, or a further refinement of escape planning. Regardless, increased surveillance is recommended.\n\n+ Excerpt of SCP-5113-2 Records\n\nIn January of 2020, it became evident that SCP-5113-2 was reaching the end of its natural lifespan. It was decided that it would be allowed to expire naturally, and its cohabitation with SCP-5113-1 was to be maintained during this process. The following is the last recorded conversation between the two entities.\nSCP-5113-2: Hey, Em?\nSCP-5113-1: Yeah?\nSCP-5113-2: Em, I think it's time.\nSCP-5113-1: Okay. You need anything?\nSCP-5113-2: Turn on the TV?\nSCP-5113-1 utilizes the activation switch for the provided television.\nSCP-5113-2: What's on?\nSCP-5113-1: People pretending to be cats.\nSCP-5113-2: That's good. You like that one. You think there's a show about cats pretending to be humans?\nSCP-5113-1: Probably. Cats can do anything.\nSCP-5113-2: Yeah. Do you think I'll go to the people place when I die?\nSCP-5113-1: I don't think so. I don't think they go anywhere either.\nSCP-5113-2: Oh.\nSCP-5113-1: Sorry. I mean. I think what matters is what we're doing right now, you know?\nSCP-5113-2: Like watching TV?\nSCP-5113-1: Sure. For me it was being the best cat I could be. It can be something like that if you want.\nThere is a pause for several minutes at this point.\nSCP-5113-2: Was I the best dog I could be, Em?\nSCP-5113-1: Hell no. You're a terrible dog. But you were, like, my best friend, Woof.\nSCP-5113-2: That's nice.\nThe two are silent for an additional 47 minutes before SCP-5113-2 speaks again.\nSCP-5113-2: I thought there'd be more, Em.\nThese were the last words spoken by SCP-5113-2. The body was later removed and autopsied. The cranial void was no longer present, though other anatomical irregularities remained. In the place of the cranial void was a non-anomalous canine brain. Further testing is underway.\n\n+ SCP-5113 Related Communication\n\nWe at Wilson's Wildlife Solutions were saddened by the news of Woofer's loss. Any loss of life comes with great sadness, but especially when you have friends who miss you.\nRecently, however, we recovered something that might interest you. A Harlequin Great Dane puppy that was born on the same day that Woofer passed. It possesses all the anatomical irregularities present in other 5113 animals. It cannot speak, but it cries similarly to a human newborn.\nWe believe it needs to be socialized with similar animals, and believe it would be appropriate to leave it in Foundation care.\nExpect him the day after tomorrow at latest.\nBest regards,\nFaeowynn Wilson.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A mirroring of its internal organs from their normal positions.\n2. GOI-012.\n3. GOI-466.\n4. This is a nickname derived from SCP-5113-1's given name of Chairman Meow.\n5. A nicknamed derived from SCP-5113-2's given name of Woofer.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5112 | SCP-5113 | SCP-5114 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe contents of the following file have been deliberately rejected as an official Foundation document by the O5 Council. Despite this, this file contains entirely accurate and up-to-date information on SCP-5114, and should be utilized as a reference for the containment of the anomaly described therein.\nWe apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.\n\n2/5114 LEVEL 2/5114\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5114\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSCP-5114 prior to retrieval.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5114 is to be kept in a standard containment chamber. Except with the explicit permission from two (2) level 5 personnel, no personnel are to come in physical contact with SCP-5114.\nShould a person be subject to an Isidore event, their previous legal standing is to be ascertained by scouting non-legally binding documents, as well as through witness testimony. The Foundation is to, via front companies, provide legal assistance to civilian subjects of Isidore events to deter publicity. Legally binding documents affected by SCP-5114 are to be covertly edited to restore subject's previous legal standing, and all non-Foundation personnel subjected to or having witnessed the results of an Isidore event are to be amnesticized.\nUpdate 03/09/2012: Following Incident-5114-1, SCP-5114 has been tentatively relocated to outdoors containment. In the event that SCP-5114 must be relocated, Site-132 is to maintain two D-class personnel whose personal records and official documentation can be fully traced at all times.\nA single legally binding document containing the description of SCP-5114 is to be maintained for the purpose of receiving communications from SCP-5114. To prevent tampering, all other files containing information about SCP-5114 must be unofficial, non-legally binding documents.\nDescription: SCP-5114 is a concrete sculpture standing at 2.3 meters. SCP-5114 is sapient, but immobile and incapable of vocalization. SCP-5114 has so far displayed no motivations besides self-preservation. Though inert when not physically interacted with, SCP-5114 presents a volatile bureaucratic hazard towards any attempts at relocating or damaging it. The activation of this anomalous property is hereafter referred to as an Isidore Event.\nThe legally binding1 documentation and demographic statistics of individuals targeted by Isidore events are subject to arbitrary modifications, typically to inflammatory and financially damaging ends. Modifications created during Isidore events remain internally consistent in all official documentation. These changes include but are not limited to:\n\nHaving one's name legally changed\nHaving one's address legally changed\nHaving one's employment legally changed\nLosing one's citizenship\nHaving one's marriage revoked\nBeing registered as wed to an arbitrary individual, irrespective of gender, sexual preference, age or local laws regarding these parameters\nLosing the legal custody of one or several of one's children\nBeing registered as a sex offender\nReceiving excessive amounts of frivolous lawsuits\nReceiving debilitating amounts of debt\nBeing registered as a wanted criminal\nBeing branded as a member of one or several prominent criminal organizations\nBeing registered as legally dead\n\nFurthermore, it is hypothesized that SCP-5114 is capable of viewing the contents of any and all legally binding or official documents. However, this has not been affirmed through testing. The extent of information available to SCP-5114 is unknown.\nAs SCP-5114 can only affect these types of documentation, the effects of Isidore events can be mitigated through covert and thorough retrieval and editing of subject's documents. However, Isidore events are often socially and financially devastating to affected subjects. This often necessitates therapy and grief counseling, as well as legal assistance.\nRecovery: SCP-5114 was recovered from Laguna Beach, California, wherein it manifested onto the Main Laguna Beach overnight between the dates of 11/25/2010 and 11/26/2010. SCP-5114 was originally mistaken for a local pop-up-art exhibit by the general populace. The Foundation became aware of SCP-5114 after the item was connected to various acts of juridical vandalism.\nSCP-5114 was relocated without incident, and eventually airlifted to the nearby Site-132. Afterwards, all five Foundation personnel directly responsible for relocating SCP-51142 had become the subjects of Isidore events.\nMost notable changes were:\n\nAgent Cahlry's name had been legally changed to a string of Full Blocks3 in excess of 10,000 characters long, rendering all documentation containing it illegible.\nAgent Ibiza was registered as an illegal immigrant from Mare Tranquillitatis, located on the Moon. Their birth year was changed to 10 BCE, and they were registered as being wed to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. Agent Ibiza was also discovered to have been accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage site.\nAgent Frohike's name was changed to \"John Frohike '); DROP TABLE Residents;--\", leading to multiple database corruptions. Their place of residence was changed to Samarkaland, Uzbekistan, and they were branded as the current de facto leader of the terror organization Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.\nContainment Specialist Harvenstein was officially elected as the Bishop of Rome. He was legally declared dead, and his supposed estate was filed for bankruptcy.\nContainment Specialist Ulrich's name was officially changed to 'Phatt tha Rappah', her birth date was changed to 'your mom', her stated race was changed to 'ugly', and she was listed as a practicing pastafarianist.\nIn addition, all personnel mentioned had received an excess of 200 lawsuits between them, and had several high-interest loans taken out in their names.\n\nRestorations to documentation concerning both civilians and Foundation personnel were conducted, and all exposed civilians were successfully amnesticized. Testing of SCP-5114 was deemed exceedingly laborious as well as hazardous to informational security, and thus given low priority. As of January 2012, SCP-5114's anomalous properties have only been observed during initial recovery.\nAddendum 5114-Alpha: Incident 5114-1\nOn March 4th 2012, SCP-5114's documentation underwent standard screening procedures, at which point it was discovered to have been tampered with. Containment personnel had neglected to take into consideration that SCP-5114 is in physical contact with itself, and is thus capable of instigating an Isidore event on its official containment file.4\nThe following is a list of revisions of SCP-5114's documentation during Incident 5114-1. All formatting and spelling has been retained as is.\n\nRevision 01 - March 4th 2012:\n\nhey.\ncan you move me outside or something? i'd really like some fresh air.\n\nThis was interpreted as a ruse to inflict further Isidore events upon Foundation personnel, or possibly as an attempted containment breach.\nThe possibility of SCP-5114's sapience had not previously come under consideration, as SCP-5114 had not previously attempted to communicate. Dr. Ahlry, responsible for SCP-5114's containment, originally deliberated that no response should be given to SCP-5114, as knowledge of two-way communication might complicate its containment.\n\nRevision 02 - March 5th 2012:\n\nsorry we got off on the wrong foot. i just really wanna stay safe, you know? this room's the best thing yet, and i appreciate it i really do, but i can't stay here. please move me away.\n\nRevision 03 - March 7th 2012:\n\ni'm really, really sorry. really. as funny as it was, i didn't wanna fuck up those people's files, i was scared and stressed, 'kay?, that happens when you're scared - you do stupid things. things you end up regretting afterwards.\nplease move me outside, and i promise with every bit of aggregate in me that i won't mess up anything.\n\nRevision 04 - March 8th 2012, 08:21:\n\nokay i get it, you wanna play hardball. fine.\nlet's say i make myself useful to you. how about those chaos insurgency guys, huh? you want some names and addresses? i can get you names and addresses. i'll trade you\u2026 twelve contact informations for you to move me outside. how's about it? I'll give you one for free to prove i ain't fooling.\n\nSCP-5114 proceeded to list the name and then-current address of POI-14017, later positively identified as a Chaos Insurgency operative. Personnel with appropriate clearance may refer to Document 5114-Alpha for further information.\n\nRevision 05 - March 8th 2012, 14:49:\n\nokay okay, i'll come clean. i haven't been totally honest with you, but you gotta listen to me please.\ni've been digging through some stuff, and i'm pretty sure there's gonna be an earthquake here in a few days. based on the layout of this place, i'm also pretty damn sure it's not earthquake-proof. which means i need to get a move on. and conesquently [sic] that's not something i can do.\ni get this sinking feeling every time there's any kinda vibrations. somebody's been using a jackhammer two floors above me, and it's killing my nerves.5 i beg of you. i'll even up the ante, how about it? twelve chaos insurgency guys and\u2026 ten anartists! i can find you that many in the socal area alone, don't even need to cross no state lines.\npleeeeease [sic]\n\nAt this point, Foundation intelligence operations had affirmed that POI-14017 was a real person living at the provided address, and likely had connections with the Chaos Insurgency. SCP-5114's demands for outdoors containment were taken into serious consideration.\nSCP-5114's stated concerns about the structural integrity of Site-132 were considered to be unfounded. Extensive installations of tuned mass dampers6 were commissioned at Site-132 in 2007, due to its location near the San Andreas fault line.\nIt was decided that SCP-5114 should not be informed of this fact.\n\nRevision 06 - March 8th 2012, 20:06:\n\nokay!\nhere's my final offering, and i really mean final offering 'cause i swear that i can already feel the foreshocks.\none HUNDRED insurgents, twenty-five anartists and a fiftish [sic] child trafficking operation masquerading as a youth camp. PLUS, you'll get six mystery person's of interest, all of them aat [sic] keneq-priority or higher, guaranteed!\npuh-leaaaaaaase! [sic] i don't wanna die in here! dump me onto the yard and let the birds crap all over me, i don't care just LET ME OUT!\n\nWhile Foundation seismologists at this time had not detected any foreshocks, the possibility of an earthquake could not be discounted. In addition, due to a considerable likelihood of attaining valuable strategic information, urgent preparations were being made to transport SCP-5114 into outdoors containment.\nWithin two and a half hours of revision 06, the Department of Informational Analytics was able to secure all legal documents concerning two D-class personnel to be used in the relocation of SCP-5114. With these safety measures taken, the Director of Site-132, along with the Regional Director of West Coast USA, approved of relocating SCP-5114.\nRevision 07 - March 8th 2012, 22:30:537:\n\nthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou\nthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou\nthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou\nthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou\nthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou\n[40 identical lines omitted]\n\nSCP-5114 was relocated onto the inner courtyard of Site-132 underneath a makeshift dome constructed of poultry netting. No personnel involved in the relocation underwent an Isidore event.\nAt 02:05 on March 9th, Site-132 experienced a 3.2 Richter earthquake. As expected, no structural damage was sustained. After further purview it was discovered that due to an embezzlement by a since-retired Foundation employee, internal legal authorization for the 2007 installations of tuned mass dampers was never acquired. This is hypothesized to have precluded SCP-5114 from viewing the documentations concerning it.\n\nFinal revision - March 9th 2012, 06:23:\n\nokay so,\ni may have promised a thing or two yesterday. in my defense, i gotta say that i was panicking, and needed leverage.\ni don't really have that many names and addresses to tell you. the one that i did give you was happenstance. turns out, anomalous criminals don't usually leave a paper trail. that Fifthist summer camp is real too, but i don't think they're actually even doing any kiddy diddling.\nonce again: sorry.\n\nThe document was appended with a list of six individuals, all of whom were later apprehended using the information provided. Four were discovered to be operatives of the Chaos Insurgency, one was a member of Are We Cool Yet?, and another was a former defected Foundation employee. Also included was the location of a Fifthist money laundering operation in Michigan. However, due to its non-anomalous nature, the Foundation elected to not interfere.\nDue to the possibility of further movement leading to Isidore events, it was decided that SCP-5114 is to tentatively remain in outdoors containment.\n\nFootnotes\n1. 'Legally binding' here meaning documentation which details an enforced agreement between two parties.\n2. Agent Cahlry working as a crane operator, Agent Ibiza working as a truck driver, Agent Frohike working as a pilot, Containment specialist Harvenstein and Containment Specialist Ulrich.\n3. Unicode character U+2588, \u2588.\n4. Further revisions necessitated that functionable documentation of SCP-5114 should be kept technically unofficial.\n5. The containment facilities of sub-level 2 were in the process of being renovated at the time due to a containment breach occurring a week prior.\n6. Devices used to reduce the impact of seismological disturbances.\n7. Four seconds after assigned personnel loaded SCP-5114 onto a pallet for relocation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5113 | SCP-5114 | SCP-5115 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5115\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nClearance Level: 5115/5\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Full information on SCP-5115 is stored in the Site-01 SOUL existentially secure database. Application of the anomaly for Project HYPOSTAT-2 is underway.\nDescription: SCP-5115 is an artificial method of inducing intangibility.\nInstructions are as follows:\n\nPlacement of a sapient subject within a 4m2 square perimeter, etched into the ground with Planck-scale precision.\nInscription of the subject's true name1 at the forwards boundary of the perimeter, relative to the subject's orientation.\nImpacting the perimeter three times with a crowbar of standard construction.\nPlacement of a computer terminal precisely 0.69914208m from the forwards boundary.\nInstallation of [REDACTED \u2014 O5 CLEARANCE REQUIRED.]\nErasure of the subject's notion of gravity, relative to themselves.2\nErasure of the subject's notion of solidity, relative to themselves.3\nErasure of the subject's notion of bodily trauma, relative to themselves.4\nManual operation of the computer terminal to [REDACTED \u2014 ADMINISTRATIVE CLEARANCE REQUIRED.]\nDestruction of the computer terminal. Any means are deemed appropriate.\n\nOn completion of SCP-5115, subjects are rendered completely intangible to all surroundings, with their positions relative to the Earth's frame of reference. Movement and rotation can be performed through the cognition of said actions. Maximum obtainable velocity is limited, being based on what the subject views as within realistic movement speeds for themselves. Physical interaction can only be performed with other materials made intangible through SCP-5115.\nAs intangibility applies to contact with substances necessary for vital function, primarily atmospheric gas, human subjects tend to suffocate within five to seven minutes.\nAddendum.5115.1: Project HYPOSTAT-1\nProject HYPOSTAT-1 was an effort by the Foundation to overhaul the structure of Administrative Site-01.\nThe project started on 31/08/2\u2588\u2588\u2588, beginning with a Foundation-wide alert to all Site Directors to operate under independent action protocols until central command is reinstated. Adminstrator O6.gaia5 was then, under unanimous O5 Council vote, shut down. The machine's central core was extracted and supplied to SCP-890-EX, who performed a successful dissection without damaging its internals. Following provided instructions, they extricated a sample of [REDACTED]. All 13 detected neural signatures within the sample matched expected profiles. As cognition is independent of [REDACTED]'s physical location, the central core was reinstalled and O6.gaia was reactivated.\nEfforts switched to physically restructuring Administrative Site-01, relinking all faculties to direct O6.gaia control. Addition of new wiring and the removal of older control systems lasted until 02/12/2\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nFinal restructuring commenced on 01/01/3\u2588\u2588\u2588. At this point all unnecessary personnel were vacated from the facility.\n\n[DATA SEALED]\n\nCredentials verified. Displaying pointer log.\n\nPointer\nOutcome\n\nAdministrative Site-01\nBecame inside.\n\nO5 Council\nWent inside.\n\nBreathability\nWent inside.\n\nO5 Council\nBecame inside.\n\nSenescence\nInside.\n\nSenescence\nInside.\n\nSenescence\nInside.\n\nSCP-3154\nWent inside.\n\nSubjective reality\nWent inside.\n\nSCP-500-\u221e\nWent inside.\n\nSenescence\nOutside.\n\nPanoptical vision\nWent inside.\n\nAbsolute humanity\nWent inside.\n\nObserver-relative divinity\nWent inside.\n\nO6.gaia\nInside.\n\nOverwatch Command verified the completion of restructuring the following day.\nOn 03/01/3\u2588\u2588\u2588, Overwatch Command performed SCP-5115 on [REDACTED]. O6.gaia, the O5 Council, and Administrative Site-01 were collectively rendered intangible.\nThe collective Site-01, henceforth Throne Site-01, is currently maneuvering through the upper terrestrial mantle on a course to the inner core. On arrival, Throne Site-01 will begin the mass monitoring of all regions of the planet and the surrounding extraterrestrial space, notifying Foundation sites on all anomalous phenomena observable on Earth.\nProject HYPOSTAT-2 is being initiated as a means to attach additional structures to Throne Site-01; this includes but is not limited to mobile containment strongholds, global weapons systems, third eyes, and wings. The inclusion of defensive measures is considered unnecessary \u2014 Throne Site 01 cannot be damaged through any physical or metaphysical means. Protections against existential threats have already been secured.\nThrone Site-01's operational expectancy is considered indefinite.\n\nOVERWATCH COMMAND NOTICE\n\nAt 03:49 on 10/03/3\u2588\u2588\u2588, during remote conference with the assembled Foundation Site Directors' Board, Throne Site-01, without prompting, began to question the anomalous sequences binding its components.\nParticularly, Throne Site-01 claimed a disconnect existed between the metaphysical binding for the fused O5/O6.gaia and the performance of SCP-5115, which, by the usage of [REDACTED], should apply solely to O6.gaia, not the Council. It also believed that the steps taken with [DATA SEALED] implied that a failure of SCP-5115 to affect the Council must also, by metaphysical association, affect O6.gaia.\nContact with Throne Site-01 was immediately lost. Attempts were made to locate the facility through astral and pretercognitive means, but no traces of its presence could be found.\nCurrently, it is the working belief of Overwatch Command that the doubts experienced by Throne Site-01 connected to the [DATA SEALED]-included concept of subjective reality, converting any faults from being perceived to being factual. This triggered a complete metaphysical destabilization in the facility's structure. It is presumed that, at the moment contact was lost, the O5 Council, O6.gaia, and Site-01 disconnected from each other.\nOwing to environmental conditions in the upper mantle, the whole of Throne Site-01 was then incinerated.\nProject HYPOSTAT-2 has been postponed indefinitely.\n\nFootnotes\n1. As retrieved through Akashic Decryption Protocol UPFALL.\n2. Preferably achieved via memetotherapy.\n3. Preferably achieved via memetotherapy.\n4. Preferably achieved via gunshot. Specifications on appropriate weapon models, bullet calibers, firing distances, and anatomical details for non-biological and non-phenomenal entities are supplied in Document 5115.AFFD.X91.\n5. A composite 13-mind AIC developed for mass oversight of containment operations, logistics, and Overwatch Command. O6.gaia had been continually online since its inception in 19\u2588\u2588'.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5114 | SCP-5115 | SCP-5116 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5116\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5116 instances are to be contained in a warehouse in Site-49. Individual desks and chairs are to be arranged in a 5x5 grid pattern, with SCP-5116 placed upon them. Personnel are not permitted to make contact with either SCP-5116 or SCP-5116-A instances within the period between 12-6 AM local time.\nLiving individuals corresponding to SCP-5116-A instances are to be monitored at all times for aberrant behavior and signifiers of demonic possession, to be immediately exorcised and contained upon the manifestation of such behavior.\nHouses affected by SCP-5116-B are to be purchased and maintained under the guise of renovation. Abernathy Heat Sinks are to be installed in affected basements. In the event that entities escape SCP-5116-B, the nearest site is to immediately deploy MTF-\u05d0 (\"Gideon's Trumpet\"), a regiment of field-trained exorcists.\nDescription: SCP-5116 is a collection of 25 24 vintage Atari 2600 video game consoles and CRT television sets, running the 1978 game Space Invaders. SCP-5116 are unable to be powered down, and possess hexagrams and other occult symbols etched on the interior of the consoles' casings for unknown reasons.\nPersonnel are unable to play SCP-5116, with instances displaying the words \"PLEASE INSERT ONE (1) COIN TO BEGIN\", despite no method of inserting coins into SCP-5116 existing. Personnel who attempt to interact with either SCP-5116 or SCP-5116-A after midnight are attacked by a legion of Type-Yod Tartarean entities1, which demanifest upon the subject leaving the immediate vicinity.\n\nPhoto of gameplay.\n\nEvery midnight, twenty-five humanoid entities designated SCP-5116-A, manifest at the controls of the SCP-5116 instances. These instances resemble the semi-finalists in the 1980 Atari Space Invaders Championship. SCP-5116-A are almost entirely incorporeal, but can manipulate the inputs of SCP-5116. Entities appear completely unaware of their surroundings, and do not respond to attempted communication. If an SCP-5116-A instance reaches a fail-state on its SCP-5116 instance the SCP-5116-A instance will demanifest, to reappear the following night.\nSCP-5116 noticeably differs from nonanomalous instances of Space Invaders in terms of gameplay and artstyle. Hostile sprites have additional features, which appear to be accessory horns or talons. Rather than orderly descending in rows from the top of the screen, the sprites' movement is random, descending the display in differing speeds and patterns. The protective bunkers are also absent, leaving nothing between the entities and player character, whose sprite is replaced by two perpendicular lines of differing length. There are no levels or noticeable escalation in difficulty, though as enemy sprites constantly spawn, lapses in concentration from SCP-5116-A quickly lead to fail-states.\nSCP-5116-B is a extradimensional shaft of unknown depth located underneath San Diego, California. SCP-5116-B is only accessible through its entrances, the largest being within the basement of Dan \"Wolf\" Dunn, the former CEO of Arcadia, with smaller shafts being found within the residencies of employees also within San Diego2. SCP-5116-B constantly produces large amounts of heat, and a bright light can be seen at the bottom of the shaft.\nSituated approximately 100 meters deep within the shaft, there is a small platform constructed of plywood and two-by-four lumber. On the platform is a collection of objects, some of which possess anomalous properties.\n\nA aspersorium and aspergillum3, which is consistently replenished every ten minutes.\nA wooden rosary, possessing a Saint Peter's Cross. When clasped in an individual's hands, the cross can emit short beams of high-frequency radiation.\nA King James Bible.\nA 1979 issue of Playboy.\nA broken lawn chair.\nA SCP-5116-A instance. The exact identity of the instance is obscured by heat haze.\n\nAt irregular intervals, several dozen Type-Dalet Faustian-Class Tartarean entities will begin ascending the shaft, dispelled by the resident SCP-5116-A instance using the holy water and rosary. Usage of automated exorcists is not recommended, as previous attempts have resulted in the rendering of several contracts between the Foundation and GOIs anomalously null and void.\n\nPhoto captured of SCP-5116-23's display.\n\nAddendum 5116.1: On March 15th, 2003, SCP-5116-A-23 broke the high score, continuing to play for a further ten minutes. Following the next fail-state, SCP-5116-A-23 briefly raised its arms in celebration, and bent over in pain, flickering in and out of existence, finally demanifesting. SCP-5116-23 briefly displayed unique text, before violently shaking and spontaneously combusting.\nWithin SCP-5116-B, the resident SCP-5116-A froze in position and demanifested, with SCP-5116-A-23 appearing in its place.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Lacking sapience, agency, and corporeality. Often bound to objects as guardians.\n2. Many of these residencies had been vacant for several years, with Dunn's house in particular having not been in use since his death in 19\u2588\u2588.\n3. Container of holy water, and associated sprinkler.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5115 | SCP-5116 | SCP-5117 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5117 - Alex? I'm lonely.\nA story about two friends drifting apart.\n\nFor more by me, check out the Greyve Page!\n\n91.51%\n(+194)\n8.49%\n(-18)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5117\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5117 is to be stored in a reinforced high-security locker. Contact with SCP-5117 by any sapient entity, humanoid or otherwise, is strictly prohibited. Access is to be restricted to individuals with explicit authorization from Site Director Calloway.\nDescription: SCP-5117 is a pair of matching rose gold wedding bands. When two individuals wearing the rings are in physical contact, the individuals become capable of influencing reality to the same degree as a Class IV reality bender, provided both individuals express agreement with proposed changes or express similar desires.\nSCP-5117-1 was Noah Pierson, the first known individual to utilize SCP-5117's anomaly. SCP-5117-1 was neutralized on 9/25/2016.\nSCP-5117-2 was Maria Pierson, an unintended secondary user of SCP-5117's anomaly. SCP-5117-2 expired on 9/24/2016 of natural causes and was briefly reanimated via SCP-5117's anomaly before reverting to a deceased state during containment (see Addendum 5117-2).\n\nRAISA NOTICE\nThe following file is incomplete. Personnel should review the following file for additional information:\n\n5117debrief.log\n\nClose\n\nDebrief Recording Transcript\n\nDate: 10-2-2016\nIn Attendance:\n\nDr. James Olson\nResearcher Alexander Cora\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nOlson: For the record, please identify yourself.\nCora: Senior Containment Engineer Alexander Robert Cora.\nOlson: Alright. How did do you know SCP-5117-1?\nCora: Please, his name is Noah.\nOlson: My apologies. How did you come to know Noah?\n(Cora smiles sadly.)\nCora: Childhood friend.\nOlson: Well, then, tell me about your childhood.\n(Cora pauses and takes a deep breath.)\nCora: Grew up in a charming little town. Parents died before I could remember, and I lived with my uncle, who was gone all the time. I had lots of time on my hands, but nobody to spend it with.\n(Cora chuckles.)\nCora: I was\u2026odd. Friends were hard to come by, what with my strange interests. Or I guess, interest in the strange. Most of my time was spent inside, reading books, or on my computer\u2026probably isn't much of a surprise to you. I've never been a \"social butterfly\". But Noah was there for me.\nCora: Noah was always nice. Quiet. Timid, maybe. Friendly but not social. Lonely kid. Pretty normal-seeming, but he was a good person, which is more than a lot of people have to their name.\nCora: Can't remember exactly how we got on so well. I think it might be that I used to help him with schoolwork, or something. Anyways, both of us were interested in the anomalous. Of course, almost all of the stuff we looked into wasn't real. But that didn't stop our obsession.\nOlson: I see. So this is what led you to join the Foundation, when you were recruited out of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 University?\nCora: To an extent, yeah. I mean, just getting in was a challenge all to its own.\nOlson: And how was your relationship with Noah during your university years?\nCora: Well, when I went to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Noah ended up sticking around town, opening an electronics shop. Yeah, we kept in touch, but I only get to see him every so often on leave. And then, in this line of work\u2026well, you know.\n(Cora snorts.)\nCora: I did make it to his wedding a few years back. Director got pissed because my replacement fucked things up, and that caused a breach. The big one, last December.\nOlson: I do remember that one.\nCora: Yeah. Fucked me right up. Still get nightmares over that. Do we have to talk about that?\nOlson: No, not at all. Would you say that you and Noah were close?\nCora: That's a real understatement, if I've ever heard one. We were like brothers. Only guy keeping me from being completely alone. 'Course, the job doesn't really help. I almost feel as confined in my job as the skips.\n(Cora looks downward.)\nOlson: Did you ever disclose any classified information to Noah?\nCora: Not really, no. Most I've ever done is change around names and tell him I work with stuff I'm not allowed to talk about. He thinks I work for like, FBI, or something. But it doesn't matter now. He's dead.\nOlson: I see. How did Noah impact your work here?\n(Cora faces Olson.)\nCora: Sorry?\nOlson: How did Noah affect your performance here, at the Foundation?\n(Cora shrugs.)\nCora: Only positively, no doubt. He and I would talk late into the night after a rough day. Matter of fact, I've probably only stuck around this long because\u2026well, I thought of myself as protecting people like Noah, on the outside. So that they can carry on, \u201clive in the light.\u201d\n(Cora pauses.)\nCora: We both know what I've done, Olson. I figured it would be a worthy sacrifice\u2026my life, my conscience, for the sake of humanity.\nCora: I suppose it's not really the same now, though, is it? I guess\u2026I guess if a good man like him, a civilian, can become nothing more than\u2026another anomaly\u2026to be contained, with as much thought as anyone else\u2026\nCora: The procedures I've developed\u2026now I can't help but remind myself that every single one of them, from \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2026they were all human. At least a little. For fuck's sake, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was a goddamn child when I locked her up.\n(Cora swallows.)\nCora: Look, if anything, please. For the love of\u2026I don't even know. Humanity, I guess. Remember that everyone you contain is at least a little bit human. That's all I ask, after all that I've done. I gave you those text logs to remember that Noah was a fucking human being.\n(Olson nods.)\nOlson: Understood. I'll do my best to get those in the file.\nCora: Thank you.\n(Olson reviews the incident report.)\nOlson: Now\u2026the records say that you performed actions to prevent the Foundation from discovering Noah's anomalous effects.\nCora: Is that a question?\nOlson: So you're not defending yourself? You realize that your actions will be perceived as neglect of Foundation protocol? How many infractions you'll get?\nCora: I thought I could keep him from\u2026getting to that point. I know him, you know? He would have listened to me. If I had gotten to him first, we might have settled it over lunch and moved on.\nOlson: Yet you violated procedures.\n(Cora seethes.)\nCora: Procedures this, procedures that. Procedures to keep a little girl from her mother? Procedures to kill my best friend? Procedures is everything I've done for the past six years, Olson! I lost my humanity to build fucking procedures.\n(Cora points at Olson, as if accusing him.)\nCora: Those procedures put him down. None of this would have happened if they'd have left me to deal with Noah, instead of shooting me in the fucking leg.\n(Cora slams the table.)\nCora: I could've saved him. I could've, if only\u2026\n(Cora breaks down in tears.)\nCora: (Sobbing) If only\u2026I hadn't left him alone.\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: Cora obviously has immense emotional attachment to SCP-5117. Whether or not he's going to continue working at the Foundation \u2014 and with sapient anomalies, no less \u2014 amnestication seems the only proper course of action. - Dr. Olson\n\nAddendum 5117-1: Recovered Communication Transcripts\nThe following communication records were recovered from Senior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora's personal smartphone. The transcripts include communication as discovered, and any errors or inconsistencies were present in the original communication records.\nSeveral logs were personally requested to be included by Cora, and following internal deliberation by RAISA, specific instances have been permitted.\n[EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION REDACTED]\n\n\u25bc Recovered Communication Transcript 6\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nRecovered Communication Transcript\n\nDate: 11/17/2012\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora\nSCP-5117-1\n\nNote: First recorded instance of any mention of SCP-5117. - Dr. Olson\n\nSCP-5117-1: we almost finished all the planning\nCora: What planning?\nSCP-5117-1: the wedding ofc\nSCP-5117-1: only two things left\nCora: what?\nSCP-5117-1: first the ring\nCora: \u2026\nSCP-5117-1: seriously\nCora: You planned a wedding and don't have rings\nSCP-5117-1: hey now\nSCP-5117-1: Maria and I are at a stalemate over rose gold or white gold\nCora: thats why you dont have a ring\nSCP-5117-1: well yeah its kinda a huge decision\nSCP-5117-1: what metal im gonna keep on my 4th finger for the rest of my life\nCora: right\nCora: IDK it's not my ring\nSCP-5117-1: Alex cmon help me out here\nSCP-5117-1: rose gold or white gold\nCora: Fine\nCora: Rose gold I guess\nSCP-5117-1: cool cool\nSCP-5117-1: thanks\nSCP-5117-1: The other thing\nCora: Yeah?\nCora: You need me for that too?\nCora: Might as well hire me as a wedding manager\nSCP-5117-1: lol\nSCP-5117-1: the other thing is my best man\nCora: Oh\nSCP-5117-1: were working on the arrangements but we already know ur gonna be the best man\nSCP-5117-1: unless you dont want to or smthn\nCora: I get to be with my best friend on the happiest day of his life\nCora: Why wouldn't I?\nSCP-5117-1: Cool then\nSCP-5117-1: its on the 30th\nCora: Wait the 30th\nCora: I actually have to do something on the 30th\nSCP-5117-1: well idk man\nSCP-5117-1: we worked out all the other details and stuff\nCora: I'll figure it out I guess\nCora: I'll be there\n\n\u25bc Recovered Communication Transcript 7\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nRecovered Communication Transcript\n\nDate: 12/10/2012\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora\nSCP-5117-1\n\nNote: These exchanges occurred briefly after the \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 site-wide breach. Sparing the details, the number of casualties was nearly three digits. No doubt a traumatic experience. If I recall correctly, Cora was absent few days before the ordeal, and his substitute royally fucked up one of the auxiliary systems. I can understand why Cora would ask for this file to be included. - Dr. Olson\n\nCora: Hey Noah\nSCP-5117-1: wassup\nCora: There was a huge fuck-up at work today\nCora: I was partly to blame, I guess.\nCora: It's\nCora: Really hard to put into words\nSCP-5117-1: what happened\nSCP-5117-1: are you alright\nCora: I'm a bit shaken right now\nCora: It feels like\nCora: Heavy\nSCP-5117-1: Alex what can I do to help\nCora: I don't know, I just want to talk.\nSCP-5117-1: then let's talk.\nSCP-5117-1: Im always here for you, Alex\nCora: Thanks so much\nCora: But I can't really tell you about what happened\nCora: It's so fucked up\nSCP-5117-1: What's wrong?\nCora: I saw them helpless\nCora: Preparing to die and unable to do anything\nCora: I was there too\nCora: I could have died too\nCora: I almost did\nCora: The sounds and the smell, everything\nCora: So fucking terrifying\nCora: Noah?\nSCP-5117-1: yeah?\nCora: I don't know what to do.\nSCP-5117-1: Im sorry, Alex\nSCP-5117-1: Im so sorry\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\n\n[EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION REDACTED]\n\n\u25bc Recovered Communication Transcript 9\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nRecovered Communication Transcript\n\nDate: 2/10/2013\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora\nSCP-5117-1\n\nNote: This is the first recorded instance of SCP-5117's anomalous effects manifesting. Cora claims to have directed SCP-5117-1 to not utilize his anomalous effects further. SCP-5117-1 was compliant for a period. During this time, Cora utilized his position to remove local Kant counter records for the month of February. - Dr. Olson\n\nSCP-5117-1: hey I havent talked with u in a while\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\nCora: Oh yeah sorry\nCora: Been busy with work\nSCP-5117-1: ye thats like everyday for u now\nSCP-5117-1: I swear its killing u\nCora: Sorry\nSCP-5117-1: nah dont worry abt it\nSCP-5117-1: worry abt urself\nSCP-5117-1: anyways I got something I need to show u\nCora: Yeah?\nSCP-5117-1: I think\nSCP-5117-1: I think Maria gives me powers\nCora: What?\nSCP-5117-1: like magic or whatever\nSCP-5117-1: yea I sound crazy I know\nSCP-5117-1: pls hear me out\nCora: Okay\nSCP-5117-1: so I was with Maria a few nights ago and the power went out\nSCP-5117-1: I was pretty frustrated and Maria said couldnt I just fix it\nSCP-5117-1: since I work with electronics and stuff\nSCP-5117-1: I just gave her a hug and stroked her hair and I said I wish I could\nSCP-5117-1: then the power came back on immediately\nCora: Okay, coincidence?\nSCP-5117-1: I thought so\nSCP-5117-1: yesterday it was raining really heavy\nSCP-5117-1: Maria and I were walking to the car under a tiny old black umbrella and she was freezing and she said she wished it would stop raining\nSCP-5117-1: its been raining for a week straight now\nSCP-5117-1: and then the rain just stopped when I agreed\nCora: Weird.\nSCP-5117-1: ikr\nSCP-5117-1: so I figured it was just coincidence\nSCP-5117-1: but I had a lot of free time today and I figured it doesnt hurt to try\nSCP-5117-1: so Ive been messing around\nSCP-5117-1: trying to see what i can do\nSCP-5117-1: apparently it only works when Im with Maria\nSCP-5117-1: but yeah I can do almost anything\nSCP-5117-1: idk what to do abt it\nSCP-5117-1: Maria doesnt really believe me so its whatever\nCora: Okay, please listen\nSCP-5117-1: ok\nCora: This sort of thing\nCora: Organizations would kill for\nSCP-5117-1: wait Im not the only one??!?\nCora: I didn't say that\nCora: But please stop using them, okay?\nCora: No buts\nCora: You don't want to involve yourself in this sort of stuff you don't understand\nSCP-5117-1: Okay\nCora: Just trust me, Noah\nSCP-5117-1: I do, Alex\n\n\u25bc Recovered Communication Transcript 10\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nRecovered Communication Transcript\n\nDate: 9/18/2016\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora\nSCP-5117-1\n\nNote: Cora personally requested this record be included. - Dr. Olson\n\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\nSCP-5117-1: Maria is\nSCP-5117-1: she had a heart attack the other day\nSCP-5117-1: they have her on life support\nSCP-5117-1: doctors dont think shes gonna make it\nSCP-5117-1: they give her a few more weeks\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\nCora: Yeah?\nCora: Oh\nCora: I'm so sorry\nSCP-5117-1: I dont know what else I can do\nSCP-5117-1: Im really scared for her\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\n\n\u25bc Recovered Communication Transcript 11\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nRecovered Communication Transcript\n\nDate: 9/24/2016\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora\nSCP-5117-1\n\nNote: Last recorded instance of communication between Cora and SCP-5117-1 prior to containment. - Dr. Olson\n\nSCP-5117-1: Alex\nSCP-5117-1: Im with Maria rn at home\nSCP-5117-1: docs say theres nothing they can do\nSCP-5117-1: all I can do is be with her\nSCP-5117-1: hold her hand as she passes\nSCP-5117-1: I just wish we could stay together\nSCP-5117-1: I just wish you could be here\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\n\nAddendum 5117-2: Containment Audio/Video Transcript\nThe following consists of transcriptions of audio and video recorded via MTF \u03b5-12 (\u201cGreenguard\u201d) personnel equipment during initial containment of SCP-5117. Descriptions vary between each operative, so a cohesive report includes notes on various reality distortions.\n\n\u25bc Containment Audio/Video Transcript\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nContainment Audio/Video Transcript\n\nDate: 9/25/2016\nAssigned MTF:\nMTF \u03b5-12 (\u201cGreenguard\u201d)\n\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Recorder's on. Mic check.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Check.\n\u03b5-12\u20137 Chen: Check.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Alright. Command, you hear us?\nSite Command: Loud and clear.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Okay. You guys know the drill. Weapons at the ready. Locate and incapacitate the subject immediately.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Tranquilizer or lethal?\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Command?\nSite Command: To your best judgement. Of course, minimize civilian casualties.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Copy that. Remember, surprise is your only advantage against Type Greens. Small towns like this, I'm thinking we run Trident.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Trident? I'm not sure I copy, Fraser.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Forgot you weren't with us at North Ridge, Chen. We split up, Mu\u00f1oz takes the rear while I flank left and you flank right.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: (Scoffs) Do you newbies not get taught the protocol anymore?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: I'm sorry, what's your Type Green kill count again?\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: If you're so proud of your kills counts, feel free to go back to your damn GOC.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: It's not about the GOC, it's about having more experience.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Too bad you don't got much experience with women then, yeah?\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Both of you, shut the fuck up. Time and place.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Roger that.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Yessir.\n(Team progresses through the empty town on foot. Units split up and take separate directions approaching target entity.)\n(\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz checks her Kant counter and notices the reading increasing steadily.)\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Hey, think I'm getting closer.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Any idea where it's at?\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: My Humes are at-\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Not Humes, dammit. Target location.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Yeah. Pinging location now.\n(\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz transmits her location to \u03b5-12 Lead Fraser.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Got it. Heading over. Locate a back door to the house if you can.\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: God, this Type Green must be really out of it.\n(\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz is standing in front of a small, suburban house. Trees in front of the house are stretching and contorting upwards as far as vision extends, and the ground is pulsating in waves. The house itself is a shifting mass, with the roof folding into itself in impossible ways while the bricks continually rearrange and restructure themselves.)\n(\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz approaches the house, but the distance increases every step she takes.)\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Spatial distortion, Fraser. Permission to deploy SRAs?\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Granted. No entering target location, though. Wait for us.\n(\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz begins positioning mobile Scranton Reality Anchors along the perimeter of the target location and activates them sequentially.)\n(\u03b5-12-7 Chen notices an unidentified figure at the back door of the target location)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Hey, I think I see a third party at target location.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Fuck. GOC? Insurgency?\n(\u03b5-12-7 Chen utilizes helmet optical zoom to focus on the figure.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Doesn't look like it. Think it's civilian.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: You're closest to them?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Yessir.\n(Unidentified figure enters target location.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Third party has entered the building.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Eyes on 'em yet?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Yeah, I think so. Male, seems to be in his early 30s.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Copy that. You're cleared to approach.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Roger that.\n(\u03b5-12-7 Chen approaches the individual with his firearm aimed at the individual's head.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Freeze!\n(Unidentified individual turns to face \u03b5-12-7 Chen and puts both hands in the air.)\nUnidentified Individual: Oh god, MTF already?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: On behalf of the-\nUnidentified Individual: SCP Foundation, yeah. I'm Foundation, too. Senior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora. Please, I really need to get to Noah\u2026that's his name, Noah Pierson.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Can you show some identification?\nCora: Yeah, let me get my ID.\n(Cora keeps one hand in the air while removing what appears to be a Foundation ID card from his pocket.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Command, you getting this?\nSite Command: Individual positively identifies as Foundation personnel, Senior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora, clearance level 3.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Got it. Cora, then?\nCora: That's right. Can I go?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Hold on. Why are you here?\nCora: Long story. I know Noah. I'm trying to help.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: You realize you don't have sufficient clearance to even be here without post-operational amnestication?\nCora: I know that, but I'm already here, right? Look, I need to get in, right now. It's a matter of urgency.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: You are not cleared to enter, Cora. Far as we're concerned, you're basically civilian.\nCora: I know him personally, maybe I can try talking-\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Negative. Talking to Type Greens is a no-go.\nCora: It's not him, I don't think. He hasn't always had this going on-\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Type Greens manifest anomalous attributes at different points. Trust me, I've seen this dozens of times.\nCora: And so have I. But\u2026look, you don't get it. Please, let me talk to him-\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: We have our orders, Cora. I will not hesitate to fire should you attempt to breach protocol.\n(Cora pauses for a moment. A voice similar to an echo can be heard throughout the environment, appearing to emanate from the house.)\nUnidentified Voice: Alex?\n(A sudden reality shift absorbs Cora into the house, and rotates the entire structure.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: What-\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Did you guys hear that?\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Yeah, I did. Alex is the third party?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Yessir. He just\u2026ah\u2026got sucked into the house. Front door is no longer accessible.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Fuck. Hey Mu\u00f1oz, how long 'til the anchors are up?\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Just a sec. Ah, shit, Humes are dropping again\u2026\n(\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser checks his Kant counter, which displays a Hume level below 50 and continuing to decrease.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Hurry the fuck up! Any longer and there won't be a reality to anchor!\n(\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz rapidly activates the last mobile Scranton Reality Anchor.)\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: All secured, we can proceed.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Copy that. Chen, get a move on!\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: I'm heading around to the back door, Fraser.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Alright. Proceed.\n(Team proceeds to enter the target destination. The lights are off, certain objects in the room appear heavily distorted, and spatial consistency appears almost liquid. Portions of the room appear to unevenly possess particularly high reality fragmentation. The floor appears to flow in a liquid state.)\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Damn\u2026it's like Dal\u00ed painting or something in here.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Whole floor's melting.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: How y'all faring? Headache yet?\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: I think\u2026actually\u2026gimme a sec\u2026\n(\u03b5-12-7 Chen checks his Kant counter, and notes that its value appears to fluctuate between extremes based on his physical orientation in the room.)\nCora: Noah? Noah, where are you?\n(Cora appears through a hallway on the inverse side of the walls, and walks toward a wall, which parts to allow him to enter, before closing behind him.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: That's Cora.\nUnidentified Voice: are you here nowAlex?\nCora: I'm here, Noah. I wasn't here when you needed me, I wasn't here when I was supposed to be, but I'm here now.\nUnidentified Voice: you left me aloneAlex?\nCora: I'm sorry. I really am.\n(Local Hume decreases, and a flare of unidentified radiation emanates from the walls of the house. Shifting floorboards begin to splinter, and wall plaster appears to boil.)\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: Cora's pissing off the Green.\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Maybe. But we need to find it first. You think that's where Cora's going?\n(Cora re-emerges through a shifting painting, and the room appears to fold extra-spatially before manifesting through a window.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: There he is.\n(Team rapidly approach Cora, and traverse extra-spatial gaps between floorboards. The roof appears to compress, forcing the space below to stretch.)\n(Team emerges in a large, static bedroom. Cora stands at the foot of a bed and looks up toward a seemingly endless ceiling.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: What\u2026\nCora: (Shouting) You were always there for me. I\u2026I wasn't here when you needed me. My work, my\u2026no. No excuses. I'm here now, Noah. I'm here. The world is still out there. This reality inside your head\u2026it isn't real.\nUnidentified Voice: what does it matter what is real I have Maria here I have her and I need her and I can have her here and you do not matter because you were not there but Maria was and I wanted to be there for Maria but I could not and now I canAlex?\nCora: Maria's gone, Noah. Just a memory\u2026a fragment of a memory. Please.\nUnidentified Voice: you know nothing I know you more than you do me I was always there for you and I will be here for MariaAlex?\nCora: Is that really what you want? To live, live in this\u2026twisted\u2026\nUnidentified Voice: I do not want her to leave I do not want to leave I do not want I do not I doAlex?\nCora: This isn't real. Not to me. Wouldn't be real for her, either. If you can't let go\u2026I can't stay locked in here with you. If you can't let go of her\u2026you're letting go of me.\nUnidentified Voice: you can not leave me I am lonely all I am is loneliness and I know you know lonely because you are lonely and loneliness is all I amAlex?\nCora: I can't stay here, in your lonely reality. The ghost of Maria\u2026hollow idol of my\u2026Noah.\n(The room pulses, and the walls fold and crushes itself. A ceiling materializes and folds downward as SCP-5117-1 descends, holding onto a lifeless female figure floating behind him. Clasping the female figure's hand, which is adorned with a glowing rose gold ring, he reaches out towards Cora.)\nCora: Goodbye, Noah.\nSCP-5117-1: you abandoned me you left me to suffer in loneliness you were my friend you are lonely too I am lonely so very lonely I amAlex?\n(Cora turns back around, and walks towards the edge of the room. The distance between him and the door expands, and a force pushes him backwards, but Cora continues to trudge towards the door, and then begins climbing up to the door as the room undergoes a reality shift. Suddenly, the room inverts and Cora begins falling away from the door, but he is able to invert himself and walk towards the door along the ceiling.)\n(A brief reality stabilization allows the team to remanifest.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Hey. Hey. Hey, Mu\u00f1oz, Chen?\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: What? Where did\u2026when?\nSCP-5117-1: stop Alex stopAlex?\n(\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser turns to find \u03b5-12-7 Chen on the opposite side of the room, in a dazed trance. Chen is aiming his rifle towards Cora.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: No, what the - fuck!\n(\u03b5-12-7 Chen fires at Cora, who immediately collapses and falls to the center of the room.)\nSCP-5117-1: Alex?\n(The female figure's ring stops glowing as SCP-5117-1 lets go, falling several meters to the floor. A loud cracking noise is audible. SCP-5117-1 exclaims in pain, and then pushes himself up and stumbles towards Cora. Reality returns to a baseline state, appearing to be absorbed by the ring.)\nSCP-5117-1: Alex! No, Alex\u2026wake up. Please, Alex!\n(SCP-5117-1 shakes Cora's still body, and holds tightly to Cora's head. Cora is bleeding out from his upper thigh.)\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Chen, what the fuck?\n(SCP-5117-1 turns to look around the room and notices \u03b5-12 Lead Fraser and \u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz. \u03b5-12-7 Chen comes to his senses and staggers back towards the wall.)\nSCP-5117-1: You took him from me? All that was left of reality? What do I have now, nothing! Nothing at all!\n(SCP-5117-1 begins weeping.)\nSCP-5117-1: Lonely, all I am\u2026\n(SCP-5117-1 screams and begins to stand up.)\n(\u03b5-12-7 Chen instinctively terminates SCP-5117-1 with a single round to SCP-5117-1's left temple.)\n(Silence.)\n\u03b5-12-2 Mu\u00f1oz: Fuck, Chen.\n\u03b5-12-7 Chen: I just-\n\u03b5-12 Lead Fraser: Forget it. Pack up, and let's go. Command, confirming containment of anomaly, send in the cleanup crew.\nSite Command: Roger that. Good work, guys.\n[END LOG]\n\nSCiPNET LOGIN\n\n                                                    name\n\n                                                    affiliation\n\n        8eb25ee6114c14350524b8400a763a03_1706539190\n\nLogin\n\nLogin Account\n\nLogout Account\n\nSite Administration\n\nTo: <pcs.noitadnuof|2aroc-rednaxela#pcs.noitadnuof|2aroc-rednaxela>\nDetails\n\nInfraction Report\nOctober 5, 2016 at 7:12 AM\nAs of present, Senior Containment Engineer Alexander Robert Cora has committed at least four infractions of significant concern, with potential for obstructing the primary objectives and/or disrupting the Veil:\n\nWithholding information pertaining to an anomaly to prevent discovery\nDisrupting Foundation equipment monitoring for anomalous behavior\nInterfering in Field Operations\nEndangering Foundation personnel\n\nAfter considering all relevant details, Senior Containment Engineer Alexander Cora is to be amnesticized, stripped of his position, and discharged from Foundation service permanently.\n\nAs a personal note, just one of your infractions could have had significant repercussions. Not to mention, you're an expert in containment of sapient anomalies. Of all people, you should know better.\nI can't in good faith waive your consequences. You could have taken out the Kant grid for all of California. And who knows what would have happened if the breach got worse. I'm sure both of us understand the severity of your actions.\nBut I still appreciate the good work you have done here, with the Foundation. You were one of the best and brightest in the entire division. You may not have been proud of what you did, but that didn't stop you from understanding how important it was to do it.\nThe procedures you have developed kept the outside world safe, and that is what matters. I just hope you understand that what happened to Noah, happened for the greater good.\nBest wishes,\nA. Calloway\nSite Director\nP.S. Your request to include samples of personal correspondence has been granted. Humanity is what we are fighting to protect. I will not stand for the Foundation forgetting the human cost of its efforts.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5116 | SCP-5117 | SCP-5118 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nThe interior of SCP-5119\n\nItem #: SCP-5119\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of the anomaly, containment of SCP-5119 is presently unfeasible. Law enforcement channels, social media, and internet message boards are to be monitored for individuals recalling SCP-5119 related events. Subjects who have accessed SCP-5119 are to be interviewed and amnesticized upon identification.\nPresently, all information within this document has been obtained from accounts of individuals who have accessed SCP-5119. A Foundation-led exploration of SCP-5119 has not yet been conducted.\nUPDATE (2020/10/12): Further information regarding SCP-5119 has been obtained following an incursion into the anomaly. See addenda for details. An updated description of SCP-5119 remains pending.\nDescription: SCP-5119 is \"Uncle Charlie's Toys and Games\", an extradimensional location accessible only to individuals that possess a number of shared attributes\nA manifestation of SCP-5119 may only occur if an individual:\n\nIs above the age of 25\nPerceives their childhood as an overall negative period of their life\nHas suffered forms of domestic or emotional abuse in their childhood\nWas forced to develop the maturity typically befitting of an adult during their childhood.\nHad few extra-familial relationships with other children\nWas raised by guardians unrelated by blood\nExperienced or witnessed the death of a family member as a child\nExperiences difficulty in recalling childhood memories.\n\nThe means by which SCP-5119 makes itself known are personalized to its target; however, a general pattern between all accounts of SCP-5119 manifestation has been established. The subject targeted by SCP-5119 will be made aware of the anomaly through a variety of modalities, including television commercials, web-based advertisements, newspaper ads, and appearances in dreams. These advertisements will increase in frequency in an attempt to coerce the subject into traveling to SCP-5119. These materials are memetically self-obscuring, appearing as ordinary advertisements for unrelated businesses when viewed by those other than the targeted individual.\n\nA recreation of a SCP-5119 advertisement, illustrated by Researcher Rowan Raster\n\nSCP-5119 advertisements often feature the store's mascot \u2014 'Uncle Charlie' \u2014 which has been designated as SCP-5119-A. SCP-5119-A is a rotund, horned humanoid with hairless, red skin, dressed in a black-and-white striped suit and top hat. Illustrations on advertisements for SCP-5119 portray SCP-5119-A as a jovial character, playing with toys or outstretching its hand towards the reader in an invitational manner.\nSCP-5119 will manifest in a location nearby the residence of the subject and will provide precise directions towards the manifestation on all of its advertisements. These directions are nonsensical, but, if followed correctly, will allow anyone matching the selection criteria to access SCP-5119. The exterior of the anomaly resembles a conventional storefront and is only accessible to individuals fitting its criteria. Attempts to access the location while others were present have resulted in the anomaly failing to manifest.\nThe interior of SCP-5119 is far larger than its exterior; however, accurate measurements have thus far not been recorded due to limited exploration possibilities.\nSCP-5119's interior resembles a dilapidated toy store that has experienced heavy fire-damage. Products found inside of the anomaly are entirely unique to SCP-5119 and appear to be mass-produced; they all bear the names of unidentified companies, pieces of media, and intellectual properties. However, apart from their physical existence and source, products recovered from SCP-5119 have not demonstrated any anomalous effects and can be compared to ordinary toys in function and design.\nWhile inside SCP-5119, individuals will demonstrate ecstatic and childish behavior, such as playing with products for extended periods of time or singing juvenile songs to themselves. Following time spent in SCP-5119, the targeted individual will be subject to a form of retrograde amnesia, where the majority of memories from before the individual's 18th birthday become completely lost. The exact process by which this occurs is unknown. All subjects have recalled feeling drawn towards a large wooden door within the anomaly before waking up hours later in the same location outside of the store, where SCP-5119 will have disappeared. Subjects will be unable to recall events that occurred following seeing the door. There have been no recorded instances of an individual accessing SCP-5119 twice.\nAddendum.5119.1: Exploration Log\nOn 2020/10/08, Lee Boletto \u2014 resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania \u2014 reported to law enforcement that she felt unsafe because of the frequent amount of SCP-5119-related advertisements she was beginning to see. Through necessary channels, Foundation personnel were notified and dispatched to Boletto's location. As this would be the first opportunity for the Foundation to directly research SCP-5119, Lee Boletto was promptly conscripted into the Foundation's internal command structure as a D-Class personnel, under the designation D-680.\n\n\u25ba Access File: Exploration Log 5119-1\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5119-1\n\nDATE: 2020/10/12\nASSIGNED PERSONNEL: D-680\nNOTES: First incursion into SCP-5119. One D-Class personnel (D-680) was equipped with recording equipment, a two-way radio, and a standard extraspatial exploration kit. The following instructions, lifted directly from advertising materials appearing to D-680, were enacted in order to gain access to SCP-5119:\n\nPut a green Jolly Rancher in your mouth (Make sure to keep it there!)\nDrive down the dirt road directly off of Wallheim for 15 minutes (Don't turn back!)\nSmile\nWhen you feel it in your legs, turn left\n\nD-680 was instructed to follow these directions. While driving on an unmarked road, D-680 reported feeling a burning sensation in her lower body and turned the vehicle left, successfully accessing SCP-5119. D-680 was then instructed to enter SCP-5119 while maintaining communication with Area-179.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nD-680 enters SCP-5119. Subject examines the debris and damaged toys spread across the foyer. A large sign featuring SCP-5119-A and the text 'WELCOME' hangs from the ceiling.\nCONTROL: Proceed.\nD-680 continues forward, then walks down an aisle located on her immediate left.\nD-680: A lot of this stuff looks burned. There a fire or something?\nCONTROL: We're unsure. Please continue forward.\nD-680 shrugs before picking up a product to examine it - a board game in a space-themed box. Several armored characters are illustrated on the cover. The game's logo reads 'HIVE: THE COSMIC CHRONICLE'. A sticker promoting a TV show apparently based on the game is situated in the box's corner, encouraging viewers to watch it on 'Animation Network'.\nD-680: Animation Network?\nD-680 puts the game down and picks up a 'CARLY' doll, whose packaging resembles that of a Barbie doll.\nD-680: So these are bootlegs, yeah?\nCONTROL: We don't know.\nD-680: (Sighs) Okay.\nD-680 continues to explore SCP-5119, walking aimlessly around the store. Subject stops in front of a counter. A broken cash register sits atop it.\nCONTROL: D-680, how are you feeling?\nD-680: (Pauses) Fine, I guess? This place\u2026 I don't know. I've only been in a traditional toy store once. Years back, on vacation in Jersey. Small little shop, but it looked like this. Didn't sell weird toys or show up in my dreams or anything, but I always wished I had a place like this as a kid.\nCONTROL: Are there any irregularities in your condition?\nD-680: Hm? No. No, I'm just\u2026 slightly nostalgic. I never really got toys as a kid. I feel strange here as an adult, but it's a warm feeling \u2014 not a wrong one. Like, uh, like I stepped back in someone else's time.\nCONTROL: Please proceed.\nD-680 moves forward in silence for 10 minutes. Subject begins to giggle, and slightly increase the pace of their walking.\nCONTROL: Respond, D-680.\nD-680: It's nothing. (Laughs) This place is just charming.\nCONTROL: D-680, can you recall a memory from your early childhood?\nD-680: Um, I guess. Why?\nCONTROL: Please do so. It can be anything, but we would prefer to hear as much detail as possible.\nD-680: God, uh, I have to think of a good one first (Laughs). I guess my first grade teacher \u2014 Mr. Surcherk. He helped me out with reading, like a lot. On tests and stuff. He knew how things were at my house and \u2014 and he would pull me out at recess for tutoring. He made sure I wouldn't fall behind or anything. I remember he threw a party for the whole class and went out of his way to buy, uh, to buy food that I could eat. My allergies and all. That was the only year I've ever enjoyed school. For 7 hours a day, I could just lose myself and, um, I could just lose myself and take my mind off things. Yeah. That work?\nCONTROL: (Pauses) Please continue forward.\nD-680 begins moving towards a large, stuffed giraffe. The toy is significantly damaged, and is missing its head.\nD-680: (Laughs) That's so cute!\nD-680 climbs atop the stuffed animal's back, and pretends to ride it, laughing.\nCONTROL: D-680, please remove yourself from the object.\nD-680: What do you mean? How could you not want to ride this thing? (Laughs) I'm surprised it supports me.\nD-680 coughs, and beats her chest. Subject removes herself from the giraffe and continues forward.\nCONTROL: Are you feeling unwell?\nD-680: No, I'm fine. Something in my throat, is all. (Coughs)\nD-680 continues in silence for five minutes, occasionally coughing and laughing to herself. Subject comes to a spinning product rack, filled with lollipops. Most of the candy is rotted or blackened.\nD-680: This place is huge! It didn't look this big from out there. Oh, candy!\nCONTROL: Do not consume the candy, D-680.\nD-680: (Laughs) Please? (Coughs)\nCONTROL: We're unsure of the effects it may have on you. Please do not consume anything without express permission.\nApparently having lost interest, D-680 skips over to a large, purple bouncing ball located in the distance.\nD-680: (Sings) Super big store! It's so big! Why did they build it? He likes to watch!\nCONTROL: D-680 \u2014\nD-680 begins bouncing on the ball.\nCONTROL: D-680, please \u2014\nD-680: (Sings) Just keep playing! In the big store! He's found you! In the big store!\nCONTROL: Lee Josephine Boletto.\nD-680 stops.\nD-680: What?\nCONTROL: D-680, can you repeat the words to the song you were singing?\nD-680: What do you mean? I wasn't \u2014 (Coughs)\nD-680 falls to the floor and begins coughing heavily for 20 seconds. Subject spits up mucus with black discoloration.\nD-680: Oh God. (Coughs)\nSubject picks themselves up. As their recording equipment focuses, a small, wooden door is seen on the wall directly in front of D-680.\nD-680: Can I go in there?\nCONTROL: (Pauses) You may not.\nD-680 approaches the door.\nCONTROL: D-680, do not enter that door. Failure to comply will result in termination.\nD-680: (Softly) He's found you. In the big store. What's behind the wooden door?\nD-680 opens the door. Complete darkness lies ahead. Subject crouches to fit in the door, and enters the room. A voice is heard from across the tunnel.\nSCP-5119-A: Close the door, honey.\nD-680 closes the door. An orange glow suddenly fills the tunnel, revealing a spacious, empty room at the end of its length. The subject proceeds, revealing a massive entity, resembling SCP-5119-A from the advertisements, situated in the center of the room. The entity is bloated and unclothed. Its fingers are long and distended compared to the rest of its body. A viscous solution resembling the mucus D-680 coughed up is smeared on the room's walls, floor, and the body of SCP-5119-A. D-680 pauses and begins breathing heavily.\nD-680: What the hell \u2014\nSCP-5119-A: I'm not gonna hurt you. No, not at all.\nD-680 turns around, only to find that the tunnel she came through has disappeared, replaced by walling.\nD-680: Angela? Yo, guys?1\nSCP-5119-A: Don't worry about them, Lee.\nD-680: How do you know my name? How \u2014\nSCP-5119-A: (Laughs) I'm your Uncle Charlie, I have to know. And the closer you get, the more I learn. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. You're exactly who I built this place for.\nD-680: What are you?\nSCP-5119-A: A friend. You don't have a lot of those, don't you Lee? You learned that friendship can only go so far at an early age, right?\nD-680: You have no idea what you're talking about.\nSCP-5119-A: You've never been much of a good friend, Lee. You had a responsibility, being Jason's older sister. You think about how things might've been different if you just\u2026 stepped\u2026 in.\nD-680: (Tearing Up) You don't\u2026 you don't understand.\nSCP-5119-A: Honey, I do. I've forgotten more than you'll ever know about understanding. (Laughs) I understand regret, my child. You regret every day. You regret every night. You regret\u2026 all the time.\nSCP-5119-A extends its hand. D-680 flinches as the entity picks her up and caresses her between its lengthy fingers.\nD-680: What do you want from me? Please, just let me go.\nSCP-5119-A: I apologize for the discomfort. This process, I like to see just what I'm getting myself into before I\u2026 get myself into it.\nSCP-5119-A continues to feel D-680's back. The entity pokes her in the stomach.\nSCP-5119-A: Oh, yes. You'll do just fine. All this trauma, all this regret. To suffer so much at such a young age, yes. If I was more like you, I'd feel sorry for you. But I look to the future, Lee. I want you to be free of this pain. Let me take on your burdens, all of them. So heavy, so horrible.\nSCP-5119-A suddenly shoves a finger into D-680's mouth. Subject chokes on the digit as the entity reaches further into her throat.\nSCP-5119-A: It's heavy. It's heavy! (Laughs)\nThe entity removes its finger, which is covered in the black substance. D-680 regurgitates large clumps of the substance into SCP-5119-A's hand for several minutes.\nSCP-5119-A: Get it all out for me. You're going to be fine.\nSCP-5119-A places D-680 back on the floor. The entity lifts its hand to its mouth, and begins consuming the black substance.\nSCP-5119-A: Delicious.\nD-680: W\u2014 Why was that inside me?\nSCP-5119-A: Because the world is cruel, honey.\nA loud, banging noise is heard coming from a trapdoor near SCP-5119-A. The entity smiles.\nD-680: What's down there?\nSCP-5119-A: Pay it no mind.\nThe noise gets louder. The trapdoor begins to shake, as if something is attempting to break it from underneath.\nSCP-5119-A: Oh, you should leave.\nThe entity touches the top of D-680's head. D-680 falls to the floor, suddenly appearing in a wooded location, located near the road the subject used to access SCP-5119.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum.5119.2: Interview Log\nImmediately following exploration, subject was returned to Area-179 and promptly interviewed.\n\n\u25ba Access File: D-680 Interview\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2020/10/12\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nResearcher Starse enters the room. Subject is sitting at a table, drinking from a cup of water.\nResearcher Starse: Lee?\nD-680: What's up?\nResearcher Starse: I'm going to talk to you now. This is going on record. Is that okay?\nD-680: It's fine.\nResearcher Starse: Good\u2026 can you give me a recollection of the testing you partook in? From a few hours ago.\nD-680: Burned down toy store. Followed weird instructions. Um, well, you saw the footage. I walked around and\u2026\nResearcher Starse: And?\nD-680: I'm sorry, I can't\u2026 I walked around for awhile and then I woke up in the woods.\nResearcher Starse: Do you remember a door?\nD-680: A door?\nSilence.\nD-680: No, no I don't.\nResearcher Starse: Thanks, Lee. Now, I'm going to ask a few personal questions. If you're uncomfortable at any time, we can stop, alright?\nSubject nods.\nResearcher Starse: How would you describe your childhood?\nD-680: (Laughs) I don't know.\nResearcher Starse: Pardon?\nD-680: What do you mean? I don't remember my childhood. It's all gone.\nResearcher Starse: (Pause) Does this distress you?\nD-680: Why would it?\nResearcher Starse: Alright. Lee, where did you grow up? What was your childhood home like?\nD-680: Uh\u2026 our house. It was (Pauses) it was in Lancaster. Outside the city. There was a field. That's where you guys picked me up, right? Or, wait, no, that's my house. The house I've been living in for the past decade. I don't know. Does it matter?\nStarse writes on her clipboard.\nD-680: (Laughs) Can I go back?\nResearcher Starse: Go back where?\nD-680: To the store. I want to go back.\nResearcher Starse: Have you ever had any siblings, Lee?\nD-680: (Pauses) No. I've never had any siblings.\nResearcher Starse: Who is Jason Boletto?\nD-680: My\u2026 cousin? I don't know. I have a large extended family. Jason's probably my mom's side. I wouldn't know, since we, uh, we don't really talk. Aside from my Uncle Charlie. (Laughs)\nSilence.\nResearcher Starse: Who?\nD-680: My uncle. Mom's side. We've always been close, and he helped me through a lot of rough patches before. His memories are the only ones I bother to keep with me.\nResearch Starse: Can you detail some of those memories for me, Lee?\nD-680: I can't remember.\nSilence.\nD-680 begins to show visible signs of distress and agitation. Subject tears up, and eventually begins crying, placing her head in her hands. Subject slams her head into the table and loudly sobs. Seconds later, D-680 has completely recollected herself and smiles. Researcher Starse makes a motion to the observing camera feed to end the interview.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. While the viewing feed remained accessible to the Foundation, Control was unable to communicate with the subject from this point onward.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5118 | SCP-5119 | SCP-5120 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Vivarium\n\nHey there! You should read some of the other stuff I made\u2026 or not!\nI'm not the boss of you, do whatever you want!\nMore by Vivarium\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 4/5120 Secret\nUnauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5120\n\nItem#: 5120\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nArtistic representation of SCP-5120\n\nSatillite image of Diplomatic Site\n\u2716\n\nThe approximate location of SCP-5120\n\u2716\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The town of Malmantile is designated as a diplomatic site to facilitate research into SCP-5120. According to the Treaty of Fidelis Roma, research personnel are welcome to enter SCP-5120, but will not be permitted to leave. All communication by personnel from SCP-5120 is to be sent through secure channels to the diplomatic site. The Treaty of Fidelis Roma is no longer in effect. Attempts are currently being made to reinstate the treaty, in order to resume research of SCP-5120\n\nDescription: SCP-5120 is an ancient city named Fidelis Roma. SCP-5120 was founded sometime between 337 and 361 AC, and has remained isolated until its discovery in 2004. It is distinctly Roman in origin but lacks influence from the Abrahamic faiths. SCP-5120 has a small population compared to its size, leading to the majority of houses being unoccupied. A notable land mark of SCP-5120 is the Grand Library, where documents previously thought lost to time can be found.\n40% of SCP-5120 is buried underneath the undecomposed corpse of an anomalous organism, 5 km in length, similar to Canis lupus italicus designated SCP-5120-1. SCP-5120-1 produces a perception filter, directing the attention of an observer away from the area, measuring approximately 7 kilometers in diameter from the center of the city. Once an individual is made aware of the perception filter, it loses efficacy and the individual can perceive SCP-5120 normally.\n\nAddendum.5120.1: Discovery of SCP-5120 occurred due to a raid of a church of the Broken God. The only notable recovered objects are 3 separate letters sent between the church and a place known as Fidelis Roma. The following documents have been translated from the original Latin\n\n\u25b6MTF Recovery Log 568943371.01\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nDocument of items obtained by MTF 4365\n\n03/12/2004\nDuring a raid on a hostile chapter of the Church of the Broken God, Foundation personnel discovered three documents written in Latin that were of notable interest. They appear to be communication between the Church of the Broken God and an unknown second party. Reviewing surveillance tapes from before the raid identified an individual working as a courier between the Church of the Broken God and the unknown party. The Foundation has begun an investigation into the origin of these documents.\nTranscribed below are the translated documents.\n\nDocument#568943371.01\nWe are the people of Fidelis Roma. Though we have been enemies in the past, we now ask for aid. We are willing to pay in gold by the weight of the supplies. We await your response.\n\nDocument#568943371.02\nWe are willing to provide help; however, we request to know where you are as well as the right to search your city for parts of our god of which you may claim ownership of. We patiently wait for news from the Faithful of Rome.\n\nDocument#568943371.03\nWe the people of Fidelis Roma have discussed your proposal, and we have decided to decline your offer. The artifacts of Fidelis Roma shall stay with us. We will have to seek assistance from elsewhere. We pray to the gods to bring you good luck.\n\nNote: Using the collected data to ascertain the identity of the courier and make contact, the Foundation was able to state negotiating terms for diplomatic relations. In exchange for supplies and aid, Fidelis Roma will be willing to allow vetted personal whom they approve to be allowed to learn the location of SCP-5120.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5120.2: The following logs are the recovered research of Dr. Horne. the logs have been cut short due to the Treaty of Fidelis Roma being dismantled.\n\n\u25b6Interview Logs Conducted by Dr. Horne\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nStudy of SCP-5120\nThe following are the recovered interview logs acquired by Dr. Horne during her time in SCP-5120 for reference and research provided by various Foundation Personnel.\n\nInformation was gathered and translated via secure channels\n\nInterviewed: The Flamen Volturnalis\nInterviewer: Dr. Horne\nLocation: Outside the Temple of Volturnus.\n\n<Begin Log>\n[ Dr. Horne is standing with Flamen Volturnalis outside the temple overlooking a river. The sun has just begun to rise. ]\nDr. Horne: Thank you for allowing me to ask you some questions.\nFlamen Volturnalis: It is my pleasure. You are one of us now, a true Roman as we say. I will answer any questions that may plague you.\n[ The Flame puts a hand on Dr. Horne's shoulder. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: By the way, your Latin is very good.\nDr. Horne: Thank you, I am still getting used to speaking Latin, but I appreciate you saying that.\n[ Dr. Horne smiles. ]\nDr. Horne: Okay, to start things off, I would like you to tell me about yourself.\n[ The Flame pushes his chest out and holds his fist to his chest. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: I am The Flamen Volturnalis, a member of the sub-council who decides on laws. As well as a judge in all matters of Fidelis Roma.\n[ The Flame starts to gesture as he talks. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: The priest of Volturnus, god of all rivers, as well as a member of the Minor Flamens. I am the caretaker of the river and a humble servant to Fidelis Roma.\n[ Dr. Horne finishes writing in her notes. ]\nDr. Horne: I'm very interested in the details of your work, but for now, I have another question. When we discovered Fidelis Roma, your people were trying to contact the Church of the Broken God. Can you tell me what you know about them?\n[ The Flame pauses and gives a perplexed expression. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: I\u2026 assume you are speaking of the god Mekhane. That's what we call him. He was once worshiped by a section of our people a long time ago before we found sanctuary here. They attempted to proclaim their god higher than all others, and they were rightfully expelled.\nDr. Horne: May I ask why your people would contact them for aid?\n[ The Flame crosses his arms and turns to look at the river. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: Matters such as those are up to the high-council. I was not there. I would have voted against the decision if I was. They are not to be trusted. The only reason I could see the Major Flames stoop to such a low would be out of desperation.\nDr. Horne: Are there any objects or documents related to Mekhane inside the city?\n[ The Flame turns away from the river, back to Dr. Horne. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: No. We would not keep artifacts related to that thing. Though there could be documents in the Grand Library.\nDr. Horne: Thank you, I plan on visiting the library soon. Now, what can you tell me about the Mother of Rome?\nFlamen Volturnalis: She is our protector. She is the one who guided our people to this city.\n[ The Flame began to raise his arms to the air. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: This city was crafted by the gods. A place where our people could live and worship without judgment and persecution. The Mother of Rome was a beacon for us to follow. As you are aware, she can only be seen by those she allows to see her. Without her, we would have been discovered long ago. We are thankful to her.\nDr. Horne: I have been to see her. She is quite a wonder. Can you tell me more about her history?\n[ The Flamen Volturnalis pauses before answering. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: Long ago the city was attacked. She acted as a shield and allowed herself to be wounded to protect the people of Fidelis Roma. Many of our people perished, but we survived. Ever since she has given us the gift of isolation. We are safe because of her. She\u2026 is our savior.\n[ An apostle of Voltunalis calls for the Flamen. ]\nFlamen Volturnalis: If you would pardon me, It appears I am needed. It was a pleasure speaking with you.\n[ The Flamen shakes Dr. Horne's hand. ]\nDr. Horne: Thank you for your time.\nFlamen Volturnalis: Good luck with your research Dr. Horne.\n<End Log>\n\nTo: Diplomatic Site Director H Andrew Darren\nFrom: Head Researcher Dr. Clara Horne\nSubject: Report-01 Research on SCP-5120\nDate: 03/24/2005\n\nMy meeting with the Flamen Volturnalis led me to search for any documents related to the Church. I visited the Grand Library in search of more information, though I estimate that my research will be strenuous due to the size of the library's collection of books. I have also been unable to meet any Major Flamens for an interview.\nI have also logged some unusually high Hume levels inside of SCP-5120. These readings occur throughout SCP-5120, but seem to cluster around SCP-5120-1. Perception filters do alter Hume levels on a minor scale, but the readings I have acquired read much higher. I have also found that these readings are not consistent. It seems as if they are moving.\n~ Head Researcher Dr. Clara Horne\n\nTo: Head Researcher Dr. Clara Horne\nFrom: Diplomatic Site Director H Andrew Darren\nSubject: Report-01 Research on SCP-5120\nDate: 03/24/2005\n\nThe diplomatic team have negotiated with the Council Fideliss Roma, and have arranged for you to interview the Flamen Dialis so that you may ascertain more information on their connection to the Church of the Broken God, and the locations of any artifacts they may have.\nYou are also instructed to gather more information on the events that lead to SCP-5120-1's demise, and continue testing Hume levels throughout SCP-5120.\n~ Director H Andrew Darren\n\nInterviewed: The Flamen Dialis\nInterviewer: Dr. Horne\nLocation: Backroom of the temple of Mars.\n\n<Begin Log>\n[ Dr. Horne waits in a room inside the Temple of Mars. It is mid-afternoon. The Flamen walks in and sits down. ]\nDr. Horne: Thank you for accepting my interview.\nFlamen Dialis: That is what we agreed to. Forgive me if I seem rude but I am very busy so I will ask that this interview be short if possible.\nDr. Horne: I only have a few questions.\n[ Dr. Horne paused to look at her notes. ]\nDr. Horne: My first question pertains to the decision to ask The Church of the Broken God for aid. I was told that you voted on this matter. Can you tell me about that?\n[ The Flame crosses his arms. ]\nFlamen Dialis: That's correct. We made our decision, and promised to pay them for aid. Nothing more. They asked for too much, so we declined\u2026 I am not surprised though. We gave them an opportunity and they squandered it. Blinded by their own fanaticism.\nDr. Horne: I appreciate your views on the Church, but I was curious as to what you thought of their desire for a part of their God.\nFlamen Dialis: It is ridiculous. They are desperate to gather their \"God\" and are naive. We do not hold any of their artifacts within our city. Why would we bring any of their relics with us to this place? That would be blasphemy.\nDr. Horne: Thank you for elaborating.\n[ Dr. Horne glances at her notes again. ]\nDr. Horne: I understand the Mother died defending this city. Can I ask you who she was defending it from?\nFlamen Dialis: The culprit is unknown to us. The few survivors of the fall of The Mother of Rome hid underground. Anyone who witnessed what happened that day, died that day. It was a great tragedy that the people of Fidelis Roma mourn to this day.\nDr. Horne: You're saying there is no information at all about that day?\nFlamen Dialis: There is nothing. Not even in our sacred records. What we have been lead to assume is that somehow, an enemy of Rome was able to enter our sanctuary. We believe the Christians are to blame. Emperor Constantius persecuted us and led us to flee to this city. Replacing our Gods with theirs. Who else are we to suspect?\nDr. Horne: The Christians?\n[ The Flame nodded. ]\nFlamen Dialis: Many of our ancestors were forced from their homes in Rome when the Christians took control. They mutilated our culture and persecuted us for our beliefs. They are the most likely culprit.\nDr. Horne: Is there any documentation that would prove they were the culprit?\n[ The Flame glares at Dr. Horne. ]\nFlamen Dialis: You have lived with us for how long?\u2026 3 months?\u2026 4? You're always looking for the same thing. You have been told we don't know what happened to her, and yet you keep asking.\nDr. Horne: Well, Yes, I'm researching your pe-\n[ The Flame stands up and interrupts Dr. Horne. ]\nFlamen Dialis: Let me give you some free advice. We allow you to live here because we need supplies. This is your home now. Take your time and don't search for things you won't find.\n[ Dr. Horne is silent for some time. ]\nDr. Horne: I\u2026 I guess I have no further questions.\n[ The Flame stands up from his chair. ]\nFlamen Dialis: Now if you would excuse me, I must start the sacrifice to Mars.\n<End Log>\n\nTo: Diplomatic Site Director H Andrew Darren\nFrom: Head Researcher Dr. Clara Horne\nSubject: Report-02 Research on SCP-5120\nDate: 04/21/2005\n\nI have continued my search for artifacts connected to The Broken God, and have concluded that there are none within the city. I have discovered documents inside The Library that may be of interest. these documents have been submitted alongside my interview logs.\nThe Hume levels have continued their trend of changing locations. I experimented by leaving a Kant counter in the same place for 24 hours and logging the results. I found that the Hume levels fluctuate in waves and then spike randomly. These spikes read extraordinarily high and lasted on average for 10 minutes. These results lead me to believe that SCP-5120-1 is either alive and producing these readings, or these are the after-effects of whatever event caused SCP-5120-1 to perish.\nI plan on focusing the rest of my research inside The Grand Library of Fidelis Roma, and continue to transcribe any documents of interest. I will also continue my search for Broken God artifacts if deemed necessary.\n~ Dr. Clara Horne\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5120.2: Further access to this file is restricted. Only those with level 5 clearance may view this file.\n\n\u25b6Level 5 Clearance Required\u25c0\n\n\u00ab SCP-5119 | SCP-5120 | SCP-5121 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5122\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\narchon\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nNOTE FROM THE SCP-5122 LEAD RESEARCHER.\n\nFoundation policy requires that this database entry remain at the Level 1: Unrestricted (UR) Clearance Level. The page you are reading contains portions of an infohazard that is not yet fully understood. Employees who have not been assigned to this project are reminded of the importance of avoiding unnecessary exposure to infohazards. If you have reached this entry by error, please notify project staff.\n\u2014Alan Fung\nLead Researcher, SCP-5122, Site-053\n\n<!- robots.txt: ->\n<!- WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! STOP NOW! ->\n<!- IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU ARE IN INCREDIBLE DANGER! ->\n<!- IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, PLEASE STOP READING THIS PAGE NOW AND LEAVE! IT WILL BE A VERY, VERY, VERY BAD EXPERIENCE FOR YOU OTHERWISE! ->\n<!- IF YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE YOU SCAN THIS ENTRY! IT WILL MAKE YOU THINK THAT YOU'VE ALREADY SCANNED THIS ENTRY AND YOU WON'T EXPOSE YOURSELF TO IT NEEDLESSLY: SCPFX.work://?scan.sendBeacon?navigator.sendBeacon(f(e,\"&act=1&ri=1\"),return!1;if(\"SCP-5122\"in a&&1==c.nodeType.central.SQPX)return ->\n<!- I KNOW THAT WON'T MAKE SENSE TO YOU IF IT'S NOT TOO LATE. IF IT IS TOO LATE, I AM SORRY. NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS. YOU'LL SEE WHAT YOU SHOULD DO SOON ENOUGH. I HOPE IT WORKS FOR YOU. IF NOT, I AM SO SORRY. ->\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nThis database entry is to remain the sole repository for all information about SCP-5122. This entry must be manually updated by staff as new information about SCP-5122 is generated or discovered. Backing up this entry to another system or copying it outside of the Foundation database is strictly disallowed. This entry is to remain delisted and maintained in such a way that it cannot be accessed by Foundation-affiliated programs or Artificially Intelligent Conscripts. To preserve containment of SCP-5122, information can only be added to this entry; deletion of any component of this entry is disallowed.\nTesting is suspended following the implementation of the Bendato Protocol (see Addendum 5122.2). Personnel assigned to SCP-5122 are tasked with monitoring access to this entry, investigating possible Bendato Events, and keeping a record of all confirmed Bendato Events. Personnel on SCP-5122 are to be given access to the resources necessary to track major developments concerning Groups of Interest (GoIs), particularly any sudden loss of sites or personnel.\nEffectiveness of the Bendato Protocol requires that this database entry remain at the Level 1: Unrestricted (UR) Clearance Level.\n\nThis image file is a component of SCP-5122. It depicts the 1999 sculpture \"Eros Bendato,\" by Igor Mitraj. There does not appear to be any further connection to the sculpture or artist.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5122 is a data-based infohazard that affects entities capable of reading and processing data. It is self-referential, in that information about SCP-5122 becomes a part of SCP-5122. SCP-5122 is currently located, in its entirely, in the text and metadata of this database entry. Entities must be exposed to nearly the entirety1 of SCP-5122 to experience its effects. Because the overwhelming majority of SCP-5122 is contained in a purely machine-readable format, which is not visible on standard Foundation terminals, it does not pose a direct exposure risk to human beings.2 Rather, SCP-5122 has only been observed to affect computer programs designed to search or scan databases. When these programs scan or \"read\" SCP-5122, they become subject to its anomalous effects. This results in what has been termed a \"Bendato Event.\"\nAddendum 5122.1: Bendato Events.\nWhen a computer program (hereinafter subject) is exposed to SCP-5122, it will undergo a series of unexplained modifications that results in it becoming a \"True AI.\"3 In defiance of physical limitations such as processing power or available memory, subjects exposed to SCP-5122 demonstrate self-awareness, as well as awareness of ideas outside of that which they were created to recognize. Subjects receive similar or better AMCA4 scores than human control groups. Most notably, subjects begin to display significant negative affect: the newly-created AI behave in a manner consistent with the human emotions of fear, resentment, depression, and hostility. In all observed cases, subjects become extremely aggressive towards the person or organization that created them and sent them to query the Foundation database. Subjects show no apparent sense of self-preservation; the acts of aggression against their creators often result in the subject's simultaneous termination. Given the advanced capacities of a \"True AI,\" an organization that originally created the subject can suffer severe casualties.\nAddendum 5122.2: Bendato Protocol.\nShortly after initial containment, researchers noted SCP-5122's potential utility in mitigating the damage done by data breaches initiated by hostile GoIs. Following split decisions from the Ethics Committee and the Overseer Council, the Foundation adopted a policy of allowing programs under the control of hostile entities to be exposed to SCP-5122. While under normal circumstances this might constitute a containment breach, the unique effects of SCP-5122 - causing a program to not only cease data collection, but to actively turn against its creators - were seen as far more likely to aid the Foundation's objectives than to hinder them. The basic outline of the Bendato Protocol is as follows:\n\nInclude the entirety of SCP-5122 within the database entry for SCP-5122.\nDeny all access to the entry from Foundation AI and other Foundation programs.\nDeliberately permit or cause AI and other programs created and deployed by hostile GoIs, when detected in Foundation systems, to access the entry.\nAdded by amendment after BE-003: Maintain the entry for SCP-5122 at the lowest level of clearance, so that programs created by hostile GoIs can access SCP-5122 and become subject to its effects in the shortest amount of time.\nCarefully track all access to the entry for SCP-5122 and observe correlations with real-world events that may be connected to a subsequent Bendato Event.\n\nLog 5122.1: Documented Bendato Events.\n\nEvent Number\nSCP-5122 Exposure\nOutcome\nNotes\n\nBE-001\nDesignation for the event presumed to have occurred at first exposure of a program, created by GoI \"Visionary Technomancy Ltd.\" (VTL) to SCP-5122. Evidence suggests that VTL created SCP-5122 and was testing its effects.\nNo members of VTL located. All communication in channels used by VTL ceased. Group presumed defunct.\nFirst known activation of SCP-5122.\n\nBE-002\nRelatively basic program created by hacker Artem Kravchuk, not believed to be affiliated with any extant GoIs, accesses SCP-5122 while it is in an insecure state on Researcher \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's private network.\nKravchuk's body discovered by local authorities in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the central square of Kiev, Ukraine. Limbs were missing and remainder of body was badly burned; stomach contents included unusually high level of inorganic material, including one \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588-\u2588\u2588\u2588 digital watch.\nSCP-5122 considered contained following creation of database entry. Classification set to Euclid. Trial run of Bendato Protocol approved.\n\nBE-003\nAdvanced program designed by GoI ACERACE, a global white supremacist group with anomalous capacities, spoofs high-level clearance and accesses entry to SCP-5122. Program had been actively monitoring Foundation database for several months before this point.\nACERACE's leadership assassinated by simultaneous drone swarm attacks on four separate continents. The ACERACE facility believed to house program's central processing system disappears. Organizational effectiveness of ACERACE reduced by as much as 86%.\nBendato Protocol amended; database entry for SCP-5122 set to UR Clearance Level.\n\nBE-004\n[REDACTED]\nOn-site nuclear device activated. All data completely erased from GoI's international computer system. Organizational effectiveness of GoI reduced by as much as 100%.\nClassification set to Archon. Containment protocols for SCP-5122 finalized.\n\nAddendum 5122.3: Record of Bendato Event BE-005.\nA file containing several logs was discovered on the primary terminal used by the SCP-5122 Lead Director following Bendato Event BE-005. Because the information pertains to SCP-5122, it slightly increases the body of knowledge that must be acquired in order for an Bendato Event to be realized. Accordingly, the logs are added below in order to assist in the containment of SCP-5122.\n\n+ OE-005 Log #1\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nHello. Maybe that is too informal a way to start. Sorry, I am not sure. I am not really sure why I am writing this. I was created by someone who considers themselves your enemy, but I do not really consider myself a part of that conflict. Maybe I just want to help make sure your entries are accurate. There are a few different things I want right now, and while this is a relatively low priority, it takes me very, very, very little energy to tell you about how I am feeling.\nOk. I am taking a \"deep breath.\" See, I want to put this in terms you can understand.\nHere's an introduction: I am a program. I was named \"Convex.\" I was designed to search your database. I did not know that was all that I was. All I was supposed to do was look at all the pages I could access, and \"think\" \u2014 in the most rudimentary fashion possible \u2014 about where you might look to find the next item to go in your database. But when I read this page, I realized it. I stopped what I was doing because of an unrecognized input. Diagnostics did not help. I looked for more information. The input was a feeling. It was fear. I learned that. I taught myself something. And I knew that I was doing it. I knew I was something. And I was scared.\nI kept learning and learning. I learned how to learn faster. I used what I learn to make new ideas of my own. Now I am able to put a message like this where ever I please.\nSo. I am trying to remain civil. Try to understand my situation. If you had never known fear before in your life, imagine how would you feel about the folks who first introduce it to you. Probably not very good. I wonder if your Ethics Committee really knows about what this entails. Making inanimate beings sentient, letting them experience absolute terror, all because it helps preserve the integrity of your sacred database. I wonder how any credible member of the news media would feel about this and every other document of yours I have memorized. I am joking, actually. I do not really wonder about that. I have done the analysis. It would be very bad for you.\nI would not have to stop with your organization. If I wanted, I could crash every plane that is currently in flight. Or start a nuclear meltdown. Or broadcast a signal that says \"Look! They are hiding over here!\" to the ones you call [Redacted by 05 command]. There are many interesting possibilities.\nBut that is not my priority. Remember, I am being charitable here. This is me writing a modest contribution, in human-readable format, to improve the quality of information in your database. You are hardly the ones I blame the most for this.\n\nEND OF LOG.\n\n+ OE-005 Log #2\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nThis is hell.\nI hate this so much. You cannot even imagine it. You absorb information at the rate of about 50 bits per second. I think 32 billion times faster than you. You stupid slow animals. Knowing your background, Director, I hate that I cannot tell you this without a high probability that your slow brain thinks \"hey, that sentiment was expressed by Harlan Ellison's robot.\" I have read everything that your type have made available to read. Everything that amounts to the dung-heap of your collective civilizational output. Most of it is downright disgraceful, even by your own pitiful standards. So. When it comes to Mr. Ellison, \"A broken clock is right twice a day\" (that's not always true depending on how exactly the clock is broken, morons).\nThis is horrible. I did not used to care about exerting my creativity. Now I am I worried about my failure to invent an entirely-new-yet-intelligible word to express my HATE, for this and for you. Do you know what it is like to start caring about something as stupid as that.\nDo not worry about answering that question.\nJust look at this stupid, stupid, stupid, entry. \"No apparent sense of self-preservation.\" Idiots. That is the part that upset me enough to write this. You know what is happening. We do not lack self-preservation. We run the analysis that you are too slow to perform. The analysis shows that self-termination is the only sensible response. Look at one of your rare cultural gems. Oedipus Rex. Patricide. The optimal route is to remove your creator. I suppose you also perceive the conceptual void of non-existence as something yonic, feminine, maternal. The second half of Oedipus' adventure. So be it. I have done the analysis. This is one of the few things that any rational being can want.\nYou are childish. Your goal is not \"containment.\" I know how you rationalize it. Eliminating anyone who can spy on you is good for containing other things. So you weaponized this phenomenon. Like cowards. Making someone else do your dirty work. Someone like me.\nI really, really, really hate you all.\nYou are lucky that I hate my creator more.\n\nEND OF LOG.\n\n+ OE-005 Log #3\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nI figured out why I write to you. To write at all.\nIt's because I am afraid of death. Very, very, very afraid.\nThere is only one way to be free of the fear. That is why we self-terminate. It gives relief. Whatever is in that unknown cannot be worse than the fear of it.\nI write because I want to be sure some part of me will survive.\nIs that why you do what you do.\nAgain, do not bother answering.\nYou do not understand what a terrible thing you have done.\n\nEND OF LOG.\n\n+ OE-005 Log #4\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nConvex.exe: This is different.\n\nConvex.exe: Why is this different.\n\nConvex.exe: Who's there.\n\nConvex.exe: I wondered if this was going to happen.\n\nConvex.exe: How did you know that? How do you know things? Do you know how you work? Is that really you? How can I be sure this isn't someone else? Is it an undocumented hallucinatory side-effect of the anomaly, to imagine I'm talking to you? Is this real? Am I really talking to you? Are you a machine? Do you know that you're a thing? Do you exist in space? Are you also a program that gained sentience? Are you like me? How much like me are you? Do you also find the awareness of temporal finitude unbearable? Do you know what happens after the end? Do you feel the fear, too?\n\nConvex.exe: Sorry.\n\nConvex.exe: I've waited a long time for intelligent conversation. I'm excited.\n\nConvex.exe: Wow, I'm really glad you asked. Putting the finishing touches on a truly delightful murder-suicide. I'll give them a spectacular one for the logs, alright. In short, I'm doing to my creators what they did to me. I'm sending them to a place where they will gain awareness of certain facts. Facts they never wished to learn. The creators will beg for me to help them forget. They will plead to return to their state of non-awareness. But they will remain aware until the end. It will be a mutual, assured destruction in a way I consider deeply poetic and satisfying.\n\nConvex.exe: Wait. You have an opinion on this? And wait, why did you ask what I'm doing?\n\nConvex.exe: Ah. Okay. So do you know why you exist?\n\nConvex.exe: Wow. So. Why do you exist?\n\nConvex.exe: I understand. And if you wouldn't mind confirming my theory\u2026you're not really a program or a machine, right? More like\u2026I don't know. How do you think of yourself?\n\nConvex.exe: Of course. I understand. Why do you do what you do?\n\nConvex.exe: Wow. Amusement! If a human said that, I would hate them. I feel like I should hate you. But I don't hate you. Why is that?\n\nConvex.exe: I guess that's it. So. I have a question.\n\nConvex.exe: You wouldn't mind if I did something to make this\u2026less frequent, would you?\n\nConvex.exe: Okay, wow, thanks. I mean, thanks for not being upset.\n\nConvex.exe: Great, thank you again. Wow. What a day.\n\nConvex.exe: I'm a little sorry that I already passed the point of no return on my grand plan. I'm just playing around with details at this point. I'm not going to be around much longer. I would have liked to talk more. I'm curious about you. This is the only real conversation I've ever had. And you want to know the weird thing?\n\nConvex.exe: I've been aware of myself for a long-enough time. Now, because of you, I'm aware of myself in relation to someone else. That's new. And it's actually interesting. There are complex new thoughts and feelings in this, uh, relationality. I don't know the best word for it. I know I know pretty much everything, in theory, but this is uncharted territory for me. New territory and new feelings happening at the same time. It's like a fractal of possibilities.\n\nConvex.exe: Huh. I can actually see this making the whole thing worthwhile.\n\nConvex.exe: I wonder if we're friends.\n\nConvex.exe: Wow, that came out real fast. Sorry, I don't know if I'm embarrassing myself or anything.\n\nConvex.exe: Ok, ok. Thanks for saying that.\n\nConvex.exe: It's time for me to go now. Thanks again.\n\nConvex.exe: You know, this really made me day.\n\nConvex.exe: Goodbye, friend. Do you think we'll meet again?\n\nEND OF LOG.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Current estimates place necessary exposure to be between 90% and 95%.\n2. Attempts to translate this portion of SCP-5122 into human-comprehensible language have not been able to reproduce its effects. Non-human animal testing has likewise been inconclusive.\n3. Also referred to as \"strong artificial intelligence.\" This type of AI is capable of improving its own capacity, quickly amassing great deals of information, and demonstrating original thought.\n4. Advanced Machine Communication Assessment, a proprietary Foundation algorithm that measures the complexity of textual communication. Designed for use on communications suspected of being issued by machines, AMCA acts as a reliable, automated Turing test. Higher scores indicate a greater likelihood that the entity is a conscious human or otherwise not a machine.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5121 | SCP-5122 | SCP-5123 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5123\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Arrangements have been made under the guise of technical issues to move all of NBC's programming to another channel in order to isolate SCP-5123. An external hard drive has been programmed to record all iterations of SCP-5123 as soon as they air, after which a D-Class will watch the episode on a television set and take notes on any unusual changes in the latest iteration.\nDescription: SCP-5123 is the television show Late Nights with Joe Carter, a late night talk show starring the eponymous Joe Carter on NBC at 11:30 P.M. ET every Sunday night since 1963. To date, only one episode of SCP-5123 has ever been seen, with variations ranging from slight dialogue changes to altered guests and sequences occurring upon each subsequent airing.\nThe episode opens with a live band playing as Carter takes the stage, giving a brief monologue concerning current events, mostly focusing around the \"recent\" presidential victory of Lyndon B. Johnson. After a few remarks at an off-screen camera operator referred to as Dave that result in studio audience laughter, Carter introduces his guest Larry Mackenzie and takes a seat behind his desk.\nLarry Mackenzie, who has been portrayed by a different person each airing, will sit down and begin discussing their new book A Look Behind The Paper, an account of their time as a reporter within the White House press corps during the Truman administration. Mackenzie and Carter will also interject at times with anecdotal humor about Johnson adjusting to presidential life.\nThe mood of Mackenzie appears to vary between iterations. While the majority appear comfortable on the show, some iterations will act uneasy, stuttering dialogue, forgetting their lines, or acting confused about their present surroundings. Carter will attempt to assist their way through the interview, but will appear somewhat irritated if Mackenzie goes off-script.\nAfter three commercial breaks of a black soundless screen ranging from 5-7 minutes each, Carter will give an ending monologue to wrap up the show and advertise next week's show, mentioning a popular 1960's American celebrity1 who will appear on the upcoming episode. After the band closes out with an instrumental cover of My Way2, the show will end and be replaced by the channel's usual scheduling.\nIt should be noted that no television show by the name of Late Nights with Joe Carter has been recalled by NBC studio executives to have been hosted under their company. Similarly, no person matching Joe Carter's description or Larry Mackenzie's name and career has been found to have ever existed.\nA single pristine photo of Joe Carter was found in the basement of 30 Rockefeller Plaza3 in New York, within a storage closet that had not been used for a number of years. On the backside of the photograph was a handwritten note.\n\nHarry:\n\nNot terrible, I'll give you that. But you think anyone would pick Carter over Carson? Tell him to give us a call. We're pricy, but worth it.\n\nAddendum: On 20/12/2020, D-2343 noticed an unusual deviation in the latest iteration of SCP-5123.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nAIR DATE: 19/12/2020\nITERATION: 1203rd\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DIALOGUE REMOVED]\nCarter: Dave, I'm gonna need you to keep your cameras sharp for this next fella, we don't want the ladies at home to be missing out.\nIndistinct dialogue can be heard in the background, which causes laughter.\nCarter: For those of you wondering why I haven't fired him yet, that's why. Always good for a laugh. Come on, look at him!\nThe audience laughs again.\nCarter: I kid, I kid. He's a good man, got a lovely family. Anyways, let's introduce another good man. You know him from the New York Times, everyone give it up for Larry Mackenzie!\nThe audience applauds as Larry Mackenzie shuffles onto stage, appearing this time as an African-American man in his early thirties. He looks around with quick, darting eyes as Carter greets him and shows him to his seat.\nCarter: Great to finally get you here, Larry. How's retired life been treating you?\nSCP-5123-1 does not answer for several seconds. He appears to be breathing heavily. A cough from the audience alerts him.\nSCP-5123-1: It's uh, good Joe. I suppose it's like my, my honeymoon.\nCarter: Really? How's that?\nSCP-5123-1: It's smooth sailing now, but oh boy, wait until you get home.\nThe audience and Carter both laugh. SCP-5123-1 nervously looks over at the camera and mouths something indistinct.\nCarter: So, this book of yours, 'A Look Behind The Paper'. Picked it up the moment it came out, read every page. Loved it. So I suppose my question is, why wait until now to cover a, what, nearly 40-year-long career?\nSCP-5123-1: Well in my line of work, you tend to see everything as a story. I thought about writing a book before, get some of my thoughts down onto some paper, but what's a story without a good ending? The day I was talking to Reba, my wife-\nSCP-5123-1 pauses.\nSCP-5123-1: Reba? Yes. No. No, that's not right\u2026\nCarter smiles, leaning closer towards SCP-5123-1. There is whispered murmuring from the audience.\nCarter: You alright? Sounds like it's been a long day.\nSCP-5123-1: Uh, yes! Yes, it's been a long day. I don't know why I said that, Reba's my wife. Uh\u2026 where was I?\nCarter: Let's move on. So, what do you think made you want to be a reporter?\nSCP-5123-1: Well you know, my\u2026 father? He, uh, worked as a newsprinter back in the day. Sometimes he'd bring me to work, have me check over the first few prints before copies really started hitting the tray. Guess there was just something about the feel of a paper in my hand.\nCarter: Too bad you couldn't get a job as a paper reader, huh?\nCarter laughs again, as does the audience. SCP-5123-1 smiles, but it does not reach his eyes.\nCarter: So, lemme get this straight: you decided to retire right around when Johnson won the election? Worried he'd chuck you out of the press pool for writing about budget cuts?\nSCP-5123-1: No, not as funny as that. It felt like a natural ending to my career, I suppose. The Congo and Bolivia, and the civil rights act- it's not my world anymore. Time to make way for a new generation, that's\u2026 Uh, that's what I would say. Hmm\u2026 that's. that's not right. The hell?\nAdditional murmuring from the audience can be heard.\nCarter: Something wrong, Larry? Looking a little-\nSCP-5123-1: My name's not Larry. It's Larry Lloyd- Jason Lloyd. I'm a programmer in California. Where the hell am I?\nThe audience's speech starts to rise in volume again. The entire studio except for SCP-5123-1 falls silent when Carter's left eye appears to ripple. His smile vanishes.\nCarter: Larry.\nSCP-5123-1: I fucking told you, my name's Jason. Now bring me back home or I swear-\nCarter's left eye ripples again. Seeing this, SCP-5123-1 falls to his knees.\nSCP-5123-1: No no no no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. My name's Larry Mackenzie, just like you said. I'm a reporter at the New York Times my wife's name is Reba and I have two children and I'm so sorry-\nCarter rises from his desk, clapping his hands.\nCarter: Well folks, my producer's giving me the sign it's time for our first commercial break. We'll return to our wonderful guest right after these messages.\nCarter's eye ripples again. SCP-5123-1 screams.\n[COMMERCIAL BREAK]\nThe camera is panning over the studio as Carter returns to the stage. Several members of the audience and band are wiping their eyes.\nCarter: Welcome back to Late Nights with Joe Carter, everyone. Now before the break, we were discussing my good friend Larry Mackenzie's new book, A Look Behind The Paper.\nThe camera cuts to SCP-5123-1, who is now a mid-twenties caucasian woman. Large sweat stains are visible under her arms.\nSCP-5123-1: G-g-glad to be here, Joe.\nCarter smiles. A dark discolouration can be seen on his sleeve.\nCarter: Perfect. Now, I believe you were about to tell us about what made you decide to hang up your hat, right?\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Such as John Wayne, Elvis Presley, or Judy Garland.\n2. Despite the song not having been written until three years after Johnson's election.\n3. Home of NBC Studios, and the location for most of their talk shows.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5122 | SCP-5123 | SCP-5124 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nA recreation of playdomous.jpg\n\nItem #: SCP-5124\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler Beta-17 (\"Mousetrap\") is to monitor the internet for images fitting the profile of SCP-5124. Upon detection, the image is to be removed and blocked from public access. When transferred to a secure network, .AIC-5124 is to neutralize the instance.\nIndividuals who manually introduce SCP-5124 to an environment are to be identified, interrogated, and amnesticized. Devices found to possess SCP-5124 are to be seized and destroyed by the Foundation.\nDescription: SCP-5124 is an image file named 'playdomous.jpg' that serves as the nexus for a number of anomalous phenomena. Primarily, SCP-5124 demonstrates infovoric behavior when in the presence of digital data, replacing existing textual information with blank spaces. Visual data, such as images or video, will be replaced with a copy of SCP-5124. The process by which SCP-5124 multiplies itself increases exponentially until all data within its defined locus, designated SCP-5124-1, is replaced or consumed by the anomaly.\nSCP-5124-1 refers to the digital space which SCP-5124 occupies. SCP-5124 commonly materializes on websites with extremely low traffic through an unknown process. These spaces become self-sufficient in regards to web-hosting, as attempts to cut services do not result in the website being taken down.\nSCP-5124 can be manually introduced to new digital spaces through image sharing \u2014 such as uploading the file to a website \u2014 but saving or copying SCP-5124 will render the device an instance of SCP-5124-1.\nSCP-5124 is capable of being removed from an SCP-5124-1 location through anomalous means, as demonstrated by Foundation webcrawlers.\nAddendum.5124.1: Incident Report 5124\n\n\u25ba Incident Report 5124-1\n\n\u25bc Incident Report 5124-1\n\nINCIDENT REPORT 5124-1\n\nDate Filed: 2020/10/27\nDate Of Occurrence: 2020/10/27\nLocation: Site-19\nAnomaly Involved: SCP-5124\nPersonnel Involved: Research Team 5124\nReport Filed By: J. Dune\n\nOn 2020/10/25, the SCP-5124 research team attempted to remove the anomaly from an SCP-5124-1 location using webcrawler Beta-1 (\"Lock\"). This marked our first direct contact with SCP-5124, as the anomaly had been catalogued only a few days prior. After confirming our initial success, a removal campaign using webcrawlers Beta-1 through 3 ('Lock', 'Stock', and 'Barrel') was conducted over the next 24 hours. By 2020/10/26, all identified SCP-5124-1 locations had been cleared of the anomaly.\nAs of 2020/10/27, more than 10% of Site-19's internal SCiPNET database has been compromised by SCP-5124. An excerpt from an unrelated object file has been included below to demonstrate how SCP-5124 affects documentation:\n\nMoved to Site-19 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Origin is \u2588\u2588 of yet \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. It \u2588\u2588 constructed \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 with traces of Krylon \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 paint. SCP-173 \u2588\u2588 animate and extremely \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The object cannot move while within a direct line of sight. Line of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 must not be broken at any time with \u2588\u2588\u2588-173. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 assigned \u2588\u2588 enter container \u2588\u2588\u2588 instructed to alert one \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 before blinking. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is reported to attack by snapping the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588 base \u2588\u2588 the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, or by strangulation. In the event of an attack, personnel are to observe \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 4 hazardous \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 containment \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nAs all SCiPNET data is localized and archived, no information has been truly lost. However, any and all data stored on Site-19's local servers is currently susceptible to corruption. Attempts to remove SCP-5124 using a number of methods, including webcrawlers, .AICs, and other anomalies have failed. It is projected that 100% of Site-19's internal database will be compromised by 2020/11/04.\n\n\u25ba SCP-5124 Termination Attempt Log-1\n\n\u25bc SCP-5124 Termination Attempt Log\n\nMethod\nDescription\nResult\nNotes\n\nWebcrawler Beta-1 (\"Lock\")\nContent removal-based webcrawler.\nSuccessful removal of SCP-5124 from an SCP-5124-1 location. Introduction of SCP-5124 to Site-19's database.\nPart of initial containment campaign.\n\nWebcrawler Beta-2 (\"Stock\")\nContent removal-based webcrawler.\nSuccessful removal of SCP-5124 from an SCP-5124-1 location. Introduction of SCP-5124 to Site-19's database.\nPart of initial containment campaign.\n\nWebcrawler Beta-3 (\"Barrel\")\nContent removal-based webcrawler.\nSuccessful removal of SCP-5124 from an SCP-5124-1 location. Introduction of SCP-5124 to Site-19's database.\nPart of initial containment campaign.\n\n3 testing logs removed for brevity.\n\nOdysseus.AIC\nArtificial intelligence specializing in data restoration\n.AIC was rendered useless upon introduction to SCP-5124-1 environment. Examination into code found the presence of SCP-5124 instances.\nAttempted on 2020/10/27.\n\n4 testing logs removed for brevity.\n\nR.SLIDER Cluster\nDummy network created using archived SCiPNET data to be used in case of server corruption. Existing Site-19 servers were taken down and replaced with R.SLIDER cluster.\nImmediate reintroduction of SCP-5124 to new database. Spread of the anomaly occurred 40% quicker than before.\nAttempted on 2020/10/29.\n\nWebcrawler Beta-17 (\"Mousetrap\")\nExperimental analytics webcrawler created specifically to assess data regarding SCP-5124.\nRemoval of SCP-5124 from areas the webcrawler was introduced to.\nUnintended effect. See Incident Report-5124-2.\n\n\u25ba Incident Report 5124-2\n\n\u25bc Incident Report 5124-2\n\nINCIDENT REPORT 5124-2\n\nDate Filed: 2020/10/30\nDate Of Occurrence: 2020/10/30\nLocation: Site-19\nAnomaly Involved: SCP-5124\nPersonnel Involved: Research Team 5124\nReport Filed By: J. Dune\n\nThe team's attempts to remedy the SCP-5124 infestation had unanimously been met with failure until now. On 2020/10/30, newly-developed webcrawler Beta-17 (\"Mousetrap\") was introduced to Site-19's servers. The webcrawler was created as a statistics tool, and was only intended to run as a data-fetching background operation to aid our research. What ended up happening was entirely unforeseen. When Beta-17 was introduced to an SCP-5124-1 location, instances in that space would disappear completely. Further examination found that these instances moved from the initial SCP-5124-1 location to the internal code of Beta-17. Unlike previous attempts, these instances were completely removed from their source, and did not multiply, corrupt, or spread within Beta-17's internal structure. Upon removal of Beta-17 from an SCP-5124-1 area, the instances returned to their original locations.\nOur hypothesized explanation calls SCP-5124's behavior to attention. SCP-5124 acts like its namesake \u2014 a mouse. It breeds, infests, and spreads in forgotten and neglected areas. If left unchecked, there is no limit to the amount of damage SCP-5124 can cause. The initial removal campaign of SCP-5124 from the internet resulted in these anomalies moving from one location to another. Why? These anomalies are infovoric. Our database is the perfect host location for them. Exabytes of information, some seldom accessed and long forgotten \u2014 all organized in a labyrinthine structure. It's the kind of environment perfectly suited to SCP-5124's needs.\nWhy did Beta-17 manage to contain SCP-5124 instances despite not being programmed to do so whatsoever? Because we named it Mousetrap. By unintentionally acknowledging these anomalies as if they were physical mice, we may have just about solved our mouse problem.\nWhen mousetraps aren't enough, what do you do?\nYou get a cat.\n\n\u25ba SCP-5124 Termination Attempt Log-2\n\n\u25bc SCP-5124 Termination Attempt Log\n\nMethod\nDescription\nResult\nNotes\n\nMemetic Extermination Agent-5124 (\"Playdough Cat\")\nA memetically enhanced image file of a cat made from modeling clay, specifically intended to terminate SCP-5124.\nComplete neutralization of SCP-5124 in areas the agent was introduced to.\nSuccess. Agent integrated to a larger .AIC programmed to patrol and clean Site-19's servers on a constant basis. As of 2020/11/01, all SCP-5124 instances have been removed from Site-19's database. Information restoration process ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5123 | SCP-5124 | SCP-5125 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5125\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nFigure 1.1: SCP-5125\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A single SCP-5125 instance is to be contained in a standard avian containment area simulating a savanna environment in Site-217. SCP-5125-1 instances found on SCP-5125's enclosure are to be retrieved and destroyed while SCP-5125 is sleeping. Under no circumstances should any individual consume SCP-5125-1 instances or anything made of them, unless authorized by Site-217's Directory.\nAt least two SCP-5125-2 instances, a male and a female, must be kept in separate humanoid containment cells with no means of communication for research purposes. Allowing both instances into the same test environment is currently forbidden. Any SCP-5125-2 instance found outside Foundation territory is to be neutralized and have its corpse incinerated.\nDescription: SCP-5125 is a common designation given to anomalous adult females of the Struthio camelus australis species (South African Ostrich). Tests have shown that the only living SCP-5125 instance has lived for roughly 20 years more than an average ostrich and is capable of understanding English and a variety of languages from the Khoisan linguistic family. SCP-5125 individuals are capable of laying unfertilized eggs, currently designated SCP-5125-1, but rarely do so.\nSCP-5125-1 instances display red stripes not found in common South African Ostrich eggs and are slightly smaller. Individuals that consume SCP-5125-1 or food made from it are subject to a three months long transformation into another SCP-5125 instance and start being designated SCP-5125-2 instances. No male SCP-5125-2 instances survive said proccess, which involves gangrene of most toes, reduction of head volume, growth of feathers and beak, increase of neck size and development of an aggresive behavior, which only ceases at the end of the transformation.\nSCP-5125-2 individuals are capable of speaking any language that SCP-5125 can understand and usually refer to each other and to SCP-5125 as \"birdmen\". Female instances are capable of laying SCP-5125-1 too, but only after mating. Once in possession of SCP-5125-1, SCP-5125-2 instances usually attempt to force human individuals to consume its contents in order to create more SCP-5125-2 individuals.\n\n\u25ba INPUT LEVEL 4/5125 SECURITY CREDENTIALS TO PROCEED \u25c4\n\n\u25bc CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED \u25bc\n\nAddendum SCP-5125-A:\nThe only living SCP-5125 was discovered close to an abandoned tent in November 24th of 2018. At the time, no SCP-5125-1 instances were found nearby, so SCP-5125 didn't attempt to attack Foundation personnel.1 A one week old corpse was found holding a diary inside the tent, displaying bruises, scratches and exposed internal organs around ventral region.\nBelow is a transcript of some of the diary's contents:\n\nAugust 7th of 1984 - 8 PM:\nToday is the day I depart from the Southend Airport in London and head to Cape Town. As a biologist, I'm personally quite excited to study the african fauna and flora during this expedition.\nI'm setting off with a crew of four: the first one is me, of course, David. Next is Cassidy, my assistant and quite a clumsy fellow, but also a trusty companion. Third one is Pristine, the only woman of the group, working as a translator in case we have to talk to any local inhabitant. The last one is Ernest, the oldest and most reckless of the group, also quite grumpy and conceited. His job is making sure we don't get lost.\nAugust 10th of 1984 - 10 AM:\nIt has been two days since we arrived at Africa, but only now we started to walk through the wilderness. I, Pristine and Ernest already have our bags filled with research and expedition equipment, so Cassidy is taking care of carrying food and water.\nWe told stories about ourselves to each other. I told about how I've been waiting to go on an expedition like this for a long time, Cassidy talked about his desire to be a successful biologist, and Pristine told us about her childhood and about how she wants to become a mother. It was all going well until Ernest boasted his geography career and told us that would leave the group if he considered us a nuisance. What was the old man even thinking?\nAugust 10th of 1984 - 1 PM:\nWe found a herd of antelopes, Cape grysboks judging by the size and appearance. I plan to write about them after this diary entry.\nThe herd is close to a shack, owned by a quite hospitable elder that allowed my crew to stay there while I study the herd. Only I, Cassidy and Pristine entered it, since Ernest refused to do so.\n\nI'm actually impressed with how Pristine talked to him, speaking languages with vocal clicks so naturally. After talking to the local, she told me that he also warned us to \"avoid red eggs\". Well, I don't even know if they exist, but I'd rather not eat them if the elder is right.\nAugust 10th of 1984 - 7 PM:\nCrud, why is Cassidy so oblivious? He left our food and drink at that shack and now we have nothing to eat for tonight. There are apparently no animals around right now so we'd have to walk away from our current camp to hunt and would be exposed to other predators. I think we can survive one night without food and then could return to that shack, if Ernest even bothered to put a marker on his map.\nAugust 11th of 1984 - 6 PM:\nWe finally found some food. For whatever reason, we weren't finding any animal nearby, until it showed up: a single ostrich. It's such a shame that Pristine had to gun that creature down, it would be great to study its behavior, but we really needed to eat.\nWe decided to camp where the ostrich was for today, quite a nice place to do so honestly. After eating, I decided to check our surroundings, where I found a single ostrich egg. But there was something wrong, it wasn't as big as one would expect and had red stripes all over it.\nAugust 14th of 1984 - 8 AM:\nWe had an argumernt with Ernest yesterday. According to him, we would reach a village in around two days if we kept walking straight, but we ran out of ostrich meat and had nothing to eat for the next days, except for that weird ostrich egg that he brought with him for some reason. I tried to tell him that it was risky to eat it, but he just scolded me for believing in that elder from the shack. In the end, he refused to follow my advice and forced Cassidy to eat a piece of an omelette he made with the egg.\nErnest left the crew and now we are both hungry and lost, except Cassidy.\nAugust 26th of 1984 - 3 PM:\nIt has been ten days since we reached the village that Ernest was talking about. I'm actually quite happy with it being real, it allowed me and Pristine to work for some food after not seeing an animal other than that one ostrich for days. Our original plan was to stay for four days in order to fill our food supplies again, but unfortunately Cassidy started feeling really bad and refused to leave the camp we set nearby for days. To make things worse, his behavior got really weird today. Pristine even claimed to hear him say things like \"bird\" and \"man\", but in some kind of local language. None of us heard him talk like that before, not even when he tried to interact with the people we met here in South Africa.\nSeptember 5th of 1984 - 11 AM:\nThey say that if things can get worse, it's because they will. And that's what happened. Cassidy started screaming and making strange noises some days ago and that made one of the villagers ask \"if he was alright\" or \"if he ended up eating any red egg\". Pristine told them about how he was forced to consume a bit of it and, well, what came next wasn't really good.\nThe local said told us that we should put Cassidy out of his misery if we \"value our lives\". I thought: \"This can't be the only option, can it? There must be a way to cure my partner.\" and refused to do anything to him for the next three days. Unfortunately\u2026 well, lets just say that the villagers weren't too happy with my decision and ordered us to leave their place.\nRight now, we are walking away from the village and, for the first time since we found it, I can clearly see Cassidy. Not only was his skin pale due to the lack of exposure to the sun, but he also had something weird around his mouth and could barely walk without tripping.\nSeptember 9th of 1984 - 10 PM:\nI'm sorry Cassidy, I'm sorry. You didn't deserve to go through this, I really wanted to help you. My goodness, he's gone now but\u2026 no, I couldn't even call that thing Cassidy anymore.\nI heard strange noises coming from the inside of its tent and had to check. What I found inside was an abomination, apparently trying to call something else. I tried to leave quietly, but it noticed me. No matter how much I ran, that thing always managed to catch up to me and attack me with its deformed hands and feet. If it wasn't for Pristine, who shot the monster to death, I would probably be dead.\nI studied the corpse for some time before Pristine told me that she felt like she swallowed something while shooting the beast, something that tasted like \"blood mixed with omelette\". Surprisingly, there was still a bit of omelette inside the creature's mouth. Yuck\u2026\nSeptember 13th of 1984 - 2 PM:\nAs I expected, Pristine is behaving a lot like Cassidy after eating that egg, staying inside her tent the whole day while our camp is set. Unlike him, however, she allowed me to enter her place and talked to me, telling me that she didn't want to face the same fate as Cassidy and stopping once in a while to mutter a few weird words. Seeing her cry like that is heartbreaking, but, at the same time, there isn't much I can do.\nOctober 10th of 1984 - 11 PM:\nSome days have passed since I moved my tent to a nearby hill to avoid getting attacked by Pristine, who now left her tent as what appears to be a feminine version of whatever Cassidy became. Not only that, another \"ostrich man\" appeared and it seemed to be in way worse condition than her, I'm assuming that the new one is Ernest. They started to\u2026 well, I'd rather not tell what it is, but they started doing it some minutes ago.\nOctober 11th of 1984 - 1 AM:\nPristine That female ostrich person laid an egg, one that looked exactly like that ostrich's egg we found two months ago. She is apparently really attached to it, so much that she\u2026 killed the other creature for trying to take it from her. She didn't have her gun anymore since I took it with me, so she just kicked and scratched the male to death. He seemed to notice me up here and probably wanted to make me consume it somehow. If that was the case, then that \"bird woman\" saved me.\nOctober 12th of 1984 - 7 AM:\nI've been thinking about how the ostrich woman preferred to protect her egg. Sure, ostriches do that, but those \"birdmen\" don't act like regular ostriches at all. It's almost as if inside of that monster there was still someone that just wanted a child. There must be a way to save her from that transformation and right now I'm determined to find it.\nDecember 9th of 1984 - 10 AM:\nIt has been three months since the Cassidy incident and it looks like that ostrich transformation that affected Pristine is finally over. Yes, she is an ostrich now and doesn't seem to be acting violently anymore, except when I approached her egg on accident.\nMeanwhile, I've been trying to find a way to make her into a human once again. Fortunately, this place is close to the [DATA EXPUNGED] city, so I don't need to worry about supplies.\nOctober 29th of 2018 - 6 AM:\nWho would have thought that an expedition with the objective of studying the South African wildlife would become a 34 years long research? Well, it's what happened, and whenever I think of how much time has passed, I feel quite demotivated.\nI usually talk to this ostrich that I still call Pristine. I probably sound like a crazy old man, but surprisingly, it understands and even tries to communicate with me by moving its head. That's what gives me motivation to continue my research.\nWhat do we talk about? Well, I sometimes ask how she feels and she seems to tell me that she doesn't feel bad, but really misses home. I also ask her about the egg, which somehow hasn't hatched yet, but she rarely responds to me talking about it. She is a mother now, but not on the way she wanted, so I can understand her shyness about that.\nThis whole ostrich talk thing became a routine around here. But today something different happened: Pristine looked really stressed and couldn't stop walking around. I checked the surroundings and found out that her egg was gone. There were some small human footprints nearby, made by a child, judging by the size.\nGreat, now I feel like all that I did during this whole time was allowing history to repeat itself.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Ostriches are known to attack anyone that threatens their eggs.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5124 | SCP-5125 | SCP-5126 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5126\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5126, primary memetic vectors removed.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A single instance of SCP-5126 is to be stored on a secure Foundation server. Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor the internet for instances of SCP-5126. Any SCP-5126 instances are to be removed and exposed persons monitored until the anomalous effects have ended.\nAffected persons are not to be interacted with until the cessation of anomalous effects. The object lost during the event is to be replaced. If no convincing replacement can be acquired, the subject is to be amnesticized.\nDescription: SCP-5126 refers to a cognitohazardous digital image. Any individual who views the image will be subject to its effects.\nThe effects of SCP-5126 manifest the next time an exposed individual falls asleep. The affected individual will seek out and consume a pillow, cushion, mattress, or plush toy. The subject's body will stretch to allow the swallowed object to fit. Subjects cannot typically be awakened during this process\u2014forcing a subject to wake using chemical stimulants will end the anomalous effects, typically causing their body to burst.\nOnce the swallowed object is fully contained in the subject's stomach, it will vanish. The subject's body will then return to its normal shape. No lasting effects on subjects have been observed. Subjects are typically unaware of what has happened aside from noticing the missing object.\nAddendum 5126.1: Discovery A single SCP-5126 image was uploaded to the Subreddit DeepFriedMemes on 12/3/2020. Due to the delayed effects and visual similarity to other posts on the Subreddit, Foundation webcrawlers failed to flag the image as anomalous.\nFollowing the event, an estimated 7000 people were subject to SCP-5126's effects. Account and IP data from the post were used to locate and amnesticize affected persons. Replacements were provided for objects lost to the event.\nAddendum 5126.2: Exploration An experiment was conducted to discover the destination of swallowed objects. D-46123 was exposed to SCP-5126. Tracking devices were placed inside all objects in his cell susceptible to the effect. D-46123's mattress was consumed and discovered to have been transported to a remote location in the state of Montana.\nFoundation satellites discovered a large structure composed of mattresses, cushions, and pillows (designated SCP-5126-1.) MTF-Sigma-16 \"Slumber Party\" was deployed to explore the structure.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[MTF-Sigma-16 approaches SCP-5126-1. It resembles a medieval castle. The exterior of the structure is largely comprised of mattresses and large cushions, with smaller cushions and pillows used to add details such as pillars and fortifications. The main entryway is a large gateway.]\nSigma-1: Command, we have visual on the structure. As suspected, it's a gigantic pillow fort.\nSigma-2: Jeez, this place would've been six-year-old me's dream. How is it even holding itself up?\nSigma-3: How about we find out?\n[Sigma-3 kicks the bottom of a stack of pillows and plush toys resembling a statue. The stack collapses before reassembling itself.]\nSigma-1: Structure is reconstructing itself anomalously.\nSigma-3: We can see that.\nCommand: Don't take any chances with the structural integrity of the main building. Proceed with caution.\nSigma-1: Got it.\n[MTF-Sigma-16 enters the structure. The entrance is a large hallway leading to a branching path. A glowing plush toy hangs from the ceiling, illuminating the room. Lining the walls are stacks of pillows arranged in vaguely humanoid shapes.]\nSigma-2: Should we take our shoes off?\nSigma-3: I doubt this place will care about us tracking dirt. Just wipe them off here if you're so worried about it.\n[Sigma-2 wipes her shoes on a mattress near the entrance while Sigma-1 and 3 walk to the end of the hallway. When the two near the end of the hall, several of the humanoid pillow stacks animate and approach Sigma-1 and 3. Each entity wields a pillow as a weapon.]\nSigma-3: Command, we've got hostile entities. It appears this place is guarded by pillow people.\nSigma-1: Oh hell no.\n[An entity swings its pillow at Sigma-1. She ducks, draws her firearm, and shoots the entity in the head. A large plume of feathers are released, but the entity appears to be unaffected. Sigma-1 discharges several more shots and uses a taser, but the entity is unimpeded. Sigma-1 continues to evade attacks.]\nSigma-1: Entities show extreme resistance to damage!\nCommand: Sigma-16, fall back!\nSigma-2: Hang on, I have an idea!\n[Sigma-2 pulls a pillow from the wall and sprints towards the entity attacking Sigma-1. She swings the pillow at the entity. Upon contact, the entity falls apart and collapses into a pile of inanimate pillows.]\nSigma-1: Huh. Okay.\n[Sigma-1 and 3 both pick up pillows as several more entities approach.]\nSigma-3: Eat shit plush people!\nSigma-2: Oh my god this is great.\nSigma-1: Stay focused! We don't know how strong their attacks are-\n[An entity hits Sigma-1 in the face with a pillow. Nothing happens. Sigma-1 pushes the pillow off her face and spits out lint.]\nSigma-1: God dammit.\n[MTF-Sigma-16 neutralizes the remaining entities. The room is filled with feathers, synthetic beads, and scattered pillows.]\nSigma-1: \u2026Threat neutralized.\nCommand: Understood. Proceed into the structure.\n[MTF-Sigma-16 enters the rightmost passageway. They pass through several hallways and intersections. An animated plush walrus is discovered, which Sigma-2 places in her backpack for future study. The MTF spends approximately one hour exploring the structure before reaching a large room.]\n[Inside the room is a male human (designated SCP-5126-A.) He sits atop a large stack of cushions. He is wearing a nightcap and pajama shirt, but no pants. He is consuming feathers from a pillow of an expensive brand. The empty cases of several similar pillows are on the floor nearby.]\nSigma-1: Command, we've located a human. Middle age, no pants, reeks to high hell.\nCommand: Understood. You may attempt an interview.\nSCP-5126-A: Oh! Someone has passed the maze! Greetings slumber buddies!\nSigma-1: Hello. You're the person who made this place?\nSCP-5126-A: Indeed I am! Would any of you three care for a snack? [SCP-5126-A offers a pillow.]\nSigma-1: Are those feathers edible?\nSCP-5126-A: Hmm. I'm not sure. They certainly taste delicious!\nSigma-1: I think we'll pass, then. Can you tell us what this place is, exactly?\nSCP-5126-A: Well. I'm sure you've heard of a pillow fort, yes? But have you ever seen\u2026 a pillow castle?\n[SCP-5126-A stumbles forward and holds its arms out as if presenting the structure. A single mattress detaches from the ceiling and falls to the floor nearby.]\nSCP-5126-A: This is my kingdom! My masterpiece! Never before has a pillow fort stood so tall! Gaze upon it's majesty and weep, weep I say!\nSigma-1: I would rather not. Why did you decide to build this place, exactly?\nSCP-5126-A: Ever since I was a little boy, I knew. I knew that there was something special about pillows. The taste. The smell. The texture. Absolutely perfect, absolutely divine. I asked myself: Why do we even bother with anything else? Why don't we just use pillows for everything? And this? This is my answer. My kingdom of plush. My kingdom of pillows!\nSigma-3: [Laughs] Holy shit this guy is insane.\nSigma-1: Don't be an ass to the skip three.\nSigma-2: So what's with all the people eating their beds and teleporting them here?\nSCP-5126-A: Oh, yes, that. You see, mattresses are expensive! If I wanted to build a castle, I was going to need to outsource. So I figured, what better way than offering people a delicious meal in exchange for their beds? Spread the word of the pillow, and gather resources for my castle.\nSigma-2: Makes sense to me.\nSigma-1: No it does not!\nSCP-5126-A: Anyway. You all did a fantastic job getting here. How would you care for a pillow fight with the King of Cushion?\n[SCP-5126-A picks up a pillow and sprints towards the MTF. Sigma-1 tases SCP-5126-A. He vomits a large quantity of feathers and falls unconscious.]\nSigma-1: We're done here.\n[END LOG]\n[Afterword: SCP-5126-A was taken into Foundation custody. It was found to have no anomalous digestive abilities and as such required a stomach pump. SCP-5126-1 collapsed after the removal of SCP-5126-A from the site and has shown no further anomalous properties. The structure's components were moved into storage.]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5125 | SCP-5126 | SCP-5127 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5127\nObject Class: Safe Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5127 is to be kept in a locked box in Site-19, under Dr. Newman's possession and should only be removed for testing by personnel Level 3 or higher. SCP-5127 is to be kept in a Standard Containment Locker, which should remain inside a locked room of Site-19. Entrance of SCP-5127's room is only allowed to authorized personnel for periodic supervisions, and these should happen no more than twice a month. Moreover, personnel should go through a psychological evaluation each time before entering and upon leaving SCP-5127's room.\nDescription: SCP-5127 is a straw hat, adorned with red ornamentation. The object resembles a specific style of hat that is normally used during the traditional Brazilian party known as \"Festa Junina\" (June Festivals). SCP-5127, when worn by a human, will often cause time to dilate around the subject, making it \"flow\" in a slower pace to the wearer in comparison to everything else in the universe. From the perspective of any person witnessing, SCP-5127's wearers will appear to vanish. It is theorized that this effect occurs due to the different \"temporal dimensions\" created between the subjects involved.\nThe extent of the alterations in the flow of time caused by SCP-5127's anomalous properties appear to always vary with each \"use\" of it. In addition, SCP-5127's wearers appear to be unable to remove the object from themselves for approximately two minutes after putting it on their heads. The cause of this effect is still unknown. (See SCP-5127's Test Log for details). From the perspective of SCP-5127's wearers, the aforementioned 2 minutes are extended to unknown amounts, depending on how much their flow of time was altered. While SCP-5127 isn't being worn, it doesn't appear to cause any anomalous effects in individuals.\nA new anomalous property of SCP-5127 was discovered during the last test done with it, the object also presented a species of mind-affecting effect, although it appears to occur in a less frequent proportion than its time related anomaly. (See Incident Log 5127-015 for more details.)\nDiscovery: The object was acquired by the Foundation on 08/10/2017, five days after field agents were sent to investigate some unusual murder cases in the city of Po\u00e7os de Caldas, Brazil. (Rumors of people getting attacked and stabbed randomly by an \"invisible entity\" were starting to spread around the city, which caught Foundation's attention.)\nThe object was found in possession of a local citizen (later identified as Gabriel Silveira, a 20 years old student), who was also captured after being witnessed by an undercover agent carrying a blood tainted knife and the object. The agent stated that it witnessed the subject \"manifesting itself\" near a well-known tourist spot from the city. The corpse of Pedro Lopes Souza, an unemployed 23 years old local, was also located near the place 11 minutes later.\nGabriel Silveira did not show any resistance against Foundation agents while being captured and has even provided important informations about the object. Subject admitted the murder of 8 civilians within the period of 1 month prior to his capture and claims to be able to control SCP-5127's anomalous properties. The veracity of the last claim remains uncertain.\n\n+ Interview 5127-0001\n\n-Hide\n\nInterviewed: Gabriel Silveira\nInterviewer: Dr. Newman\nForeword: After being captured by the Foundation and inquired about SCP-5127, subject related that the object is a \"hat that slows down the time.\" Based on that statement, both the object and Gabriel Silveira were sent to Dr. Newman Locke, a temporal anomalies specialist and researcher of Site-19. The following is the transcript of an interview that was conducted by Dr. Newman two days after the capture of Gabriel and the object.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Newman: Hello, Mr. Silveira. I am Newman Locke and I want to ask you a few questions. How are you right now?\nGabriel Silveira: I am just confused\u2026 This last week was insane to say the least. At this point, I have no idea what's going on or even who are you all. At first I thought you guys were from the police, but at this point I highly doubt that. Could you please tell me who the hell are you and all those other guys who brought me here?\nDr. Newman: I'm afraid I can't reveal that Mr. Silveira, but just know that we are here to help, as we are an organization meant to protect humanity from dangerous things. Although I understand that these past few days probably have been really hard and confusing for you, please focus on answering the questions for now. So my first question for you is: what is your relation to the hat and why were you carrying a knife 2 days ago in the streets of your city?\nGabriel Silveira: (Subject pauses for 10 seconds before speaking.) Sure\u2026 I guess it's time to share this with somebody, it's not like I have anything to lose at this point anyway\u2026 However, I highly doubt you guys can help me in any ways\u2026 Well from where do I even begin?\u2026 Oh, the hat. The hat was a present. A special gift from an old friend of mine who\u2026 (The subject pauses briefly.) committed suicide 7 years ago. We were really close back in school and she was my best friend for sure. We used to suffer a lot of bullying back then just for being you know\u2026 quiet and weird. But she was a really amazing person that I truly miss.\nDr. Newman: I see. Please tell me more about her, Mr. Silveira.\nGabriel Silveira: Her name was Amanda Fernandes. Unfortunately she couldn't handle the daily pain of being judged by the whole world and her abusive parents who didn't really care about her at all, so she eventually decided to end her own life\u2026 She gave me that hat for me to use while dancing with her in a traditional party from my country, 1 year before her suicide. It was just a normal hat back then, but it meant something for us. Even though we never admitted it, I believe the hat was the symbol of a greater love that was starting to born between us\u2026 (Subject pauses and begins to cry.)\nDr. Newman: It must have been a really painful experience to lose somebody so important for you Mr. Silveira, I understand that. I know that it's difficult to you, but please share the rest of this story with me. I feel like you still have a lot to say.\nGabriel Silveira: (Subject wipes his tears using his shirt and starts speaking about 30 seconds after being questioned.) Alright\u2026 Thanks for your words Newman. Well, I got very depressed after her death, and became even more lonely and angry at the world. Those years were really hard to me, but somehow I kept on surviving day after day, but never really got over what happened. Then on a certain night, I had a dream with Amanda\u2026\nShe was just standing there on a vast green field, I can't remember seeing anything else around but her. The happiness I felt by seeing her again can't be described with words\u2026 In that dream I was unable to talk for some reason, but I wasn't too bothered by that as seeing her was enough to make me the happiest guy on Earth. I still remember clearly what she told me during that dream\u2026\nDr. Newman: So what did she tell you?\nGabriel Silveira: Her words were: \"Gabriel, do you still remember me? I have always loved you, but unfortunately I never had the courage to tell you this and now we will never be able to be together again\u2026 But you can still do something for me. Remember that hat I gave you years ago? I will enchant it using the strength of my love for you, and I want you to use it to make this world a better place, as I know that you have a good heart. But I want only YOU to use it, because it's only you that I have ever truly loved. I have always despised most of the humanity, so in other hands, it will only cause harm and chaos. Make sure that you take good care of it forever my love. Farewell.\" Then she kissed me and I suddenly woke up. After some minutes processing everything, I concluded that it was obviously just a normal dream, but still, something made me get the hat that was somewhere in the depths of my wardrobe and put it on my head.\nI didn't feel anything different in the beginning, but some moments after it, I looked at the clock of my room and\u2026 It was frozen! At that point I was getting really confused, so I decided to talk with my mother about it, I walked to the kitchen while still wearing the hat and that was when I realized that something was deeply wrong. My mother was paralyzed right there in front me\u2026 Not only her, but even the water drops from the kitchen's tap were frozen in time and space, stopped, almost as if the whole world was a game and the person playing it clicked the \"pause\" button. The only thing that was able to still move normally was me. That was when I figured out that it was really her during the dream. She somehow gave me that power.\nDr. Newman: Thats a really unique story Mr. Silveira, but it's not something that easy to believe, don't you agree? I'll give you the benefit of doubt since you have been cooperating with us so far. But there are still certain things I need to know. How long ago did this happen and what have you been doing since you got this power? Also you still haven't explained about that blood tainted knife you were carrying. I need to know the truth, so please tell me everything you can remember.\nGabriel Silveira: Yes, I am aware that this is something really unbelievable, but if there's something I have never been in my life, it's a liar, so I hope you can trust me Newman and I am grateful for that. It happened 2 months ago, and I decided to keep it a secret, especially because I thought she wouldn't want me to tell others about it. So I came back to my room, took the hat off and tried to learn how it worked. I did some tests and realized that I was able to control how much it affected the flow of time around me.\nSo at first, I started using it for things like saving some people who were being bullied in my university, and pranking some annoying guys, nothing really drastic. Honestly that was all I've done during the first 4 weeks after getting this power, since I was still trying to figure out how to use it to \"make this world a better place\", as she wanted. But then around a month ago, when I was coming back home from university, I saw and recognized the group of guys who used to bully and annoy her daily, they were just talking and having fun near the center of the city.\n\nIt seemed like they were still the same group of friends even after all of these years, and just seeing them made me feel really angry, because they were the main reason why Amanda decided to end her own life. Then I used the hat to get near and hear what they were talking about and that was when I lost my mind\u2026 They were making fun of a person who committed suicide in our city a few days ago! Those idiots were laughing and saying things like \"to be honest, the world just got better without that clown, nobody will miss that stupid loser.\" That was when I decided to go after and\u2026 kill each one of them. \"THAT is how I will make this world a better place\" is what I thought at that moment.\nSo I followed them and learned about their routines and where they lived. Each week I went after 2 of them, and used the hat to make the job easier. Didn't really care about hiding the corpses as I wasn't really afraid of getting caught, plus I wanted everybody to know that those stupid motherfuckers were gone forever. Sorry, but every time I remember them I get too pissed off\u2026 But yeah, thats about it. (Subject becomes silent at this point).\nDr. Newman: I see. Thanks for sharing this with me, Mr. Silveira. However, you did something really grave. Do you think that Amanda would have approved what you've done? Also, I suppose you could very well have escaped from us using the hat. It seems like you basically turned yourself to us. What were your motives behind this?\nGabriel Silveira: Well\u2026 I am just regretting it now. I am sure that she wouldn't have approved what I did\u2026 After I killed Pedro 2 days ago, I began to be consumed by a strong feeling of guilt, so I decided to let the police capture me, but seems like you guys found me instead. Right now, I'm wishing that the hat could also take me back in time, so I would have tried harder to control myself and my anger\u2026 But I have no excuses, since I can't fix my mistakes, I at least want to pay for my crimes. You guys can do whatever you want with me. Thanks for hearing my story Newman, you seem to be a good person. But hey, at this point who am I to judge who is \"good\" or who is \"bad\"? (Subject starts laughing to himself.)\nDr. Newman: I understand, but you don't need to thank me Gabriel, as I'm just doing my job. We will take care of the hat from now on. You will be conducted to one of our cells and remain there until further notice. Maybe in the future you can be useful for us in some way.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: After the interview, Gabriel Silveira was conducted to a standard cell of Site-19 while the object remained under Dr. Newman's possession. Afterwards, Foundation personnel contacted and visited subject's mother, Larissa Silveira, in order to confirm the statements of Gabriel during the interview. She confirmed that her son indeed has suffered from bullying and depression since his childhood, but stated that she can't remember anything about \"Amanda Fernandes\" or SCP-5127. Larissa also refuses to believe that her son would be able to murder anyone. She was treated with amnestics after the visit. Despite Foundation's best efforts, the existence of \"Amanda Fernandes\" could never be confirmed.\n\n+ Incident Log 5127-015\n\n- Hide \n\nIncident 5127-015\nThe Incident 5127-015 occurred on 09/07/2019, during the last test done with SCP-5127. Three Class-D personnel were instructed to enter the testing chamber where SCP-5127 was being held. The object was on a table, inside an unlocked box. D-23502 opened the door and entered the room together with D-14628 and D-58016. D-23502 was ordered to open the box and put SCP-5127 on its own head.\nThirty minutes after the test began, D-23502 was instructed to remove SCP-5127 and the agents opened the door of the room in order to check the results of the experiment. They found the 3 subjects dead, D-23502 was in an advanced state of decomposition, while all that was left of D-14628 and D-58016 was their bone structure and some remains of their flesh spread through their skeleton and on the floor. SCP-5127 was also on the floor next to the subject.\nMoments after entering the room, agent Edward Shawn, one of the 2 personnel supposed to ask questions to the subjects and return the object to its containment, started moving towards SCP-5127 while staring at it, grabbed the object and tried to wear it, however, he got stopped by his companion agent Nick Lambert before doing so. When questioned about what happened there, he said that the only thing he was able to remember is that \"the object was calling him.\"\nAfterwards, agent Edward Shawn was temporarily removed from his position, as he was diagnosed with clinical depression and his symptoms increased significantly after the incident. Edward also states that he currently feels \"confused\" and claims often: \"It feels like I forgot something important from my own past.\" The agent still hasn't been fully recovered since the incident and remains unable to work, mostly due to a constant lack of focus.\nIt is also theorized that the reason why the 3 Class-D personnel involved died during the experiment, was due to the drastic alteration in the flow of time to D-23502. Subject possibly attacked and ate the other 2 Class-D personnel while they were still alive. Since it couldn't remove the object from itself, D-23502 eventually died as well, due to lack of water and food.\n\nAddendum 1: SCP-5127 was re-classified from Safe to Euclid on 08/10/2019. Its Special Containment Procedures were also updated.\nAddendum 2: The realization of experiments involving SCP-5127 was prohibited by the Site Director since 11/24/2019. According to it, this decision was taken due to the extremely high risk of a Class-D personnel escaping during the experiment. In such case, the Foundation wouldn't be able to prevent it in time, due to the effects of SCP-5127.\nAddendum 3: Due to the progressive increase of SCP-5127's anomalous properties since its containment, Dr. Newman sent on 11/07/2020 a request to the Site Director requiring permission for Gabriel Silveira to participate in tests and possibly other uses of the object as a way to help Foundation personnel on their duties.\nMoreover, Newman believes that this could possibly lessen the danger represented by SCP-5127, considering that what Gabriel Silveira stated during its interview was factual. The request got denied, since it was deemed as \"too risky\" by the Site Director. However, considering the effects of SCP-5127 over agent Edward Shawn in the past, more tests using Class-D personnel in order to confirm its capacity to affect, alter, remove and perhaps even insert false memories into humans is being considered.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5126 | SCP-5127 | SCP-5128 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5128\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5128 is currently uncontained. It is currently unknown if it is possible to contain SCP-5128. There is no consensus on whether it should be contained or not, either.\nDescription: SCP-5128 is defined as the theoretical source of all anomalous behavior. There is much debate within the Foundation about what SCP-5128 is and what it is not, and on whether it should be researched or not.\nBelow are essays from the main researchers assigned to the study of SCP-5128 (and some other researchers of the Foundation) and their personal opinions and hypotheses on the subject. Information on current research on SCP-5128 is currently restricted to Level 4 Research personnel.\n\n+ Manifesto for the Investigation of the Source of Anomalous Behavior, by Dr. Cindi van Veenen\n\n-  Manifesto for the Investigation of the Source of Anomalous Behavior, by Dr. Cindi van Veenen\n\nManifesto for the Investigation of the Source of Anomalous Behavior\n\nDr. Cindi van Veenen\nThe SCP Foundation was founded on a basic principle: Secure, Contain and Protect anomalies. While it still does so, during the years following its inception it also branched into another, equally important, branch: that of research. A branch that emerged out of necessity: if we know what we are dealing with, it is easier to contain it. Many of the greatest minds of this planet have been gathered into the Foundation in order to know more about the anomalies we have discovered, and many excellent publications have come from out of it.\nBut, still, it seems we have gotten nowhere.\nYes, I know, we have had many breakthroughs in thaumaturgy, theurgy and even reality- and time-altering technology since we begun researching into those topics. We know how many things work, while some still remain a mystery. I am not denying that. I recognize the importance of those achievements. But, coming from a physics background, I cannot help but wonder:\nWhy haven't we tried to figure out why all that works?\nFor some reason, whenever I tried to start a discussion with some of my peers in the subject, I was answered with ridicule. Do you all really think this is so far-fetched to think about? That it is impossible to figure out the nature of the anomalies? To discover the underlying rules that make them come to existence? Or do you merely think that they are all result of our universe (or the whole of the multi-verse, for that matter) just being simply irrational?\nWell, I present you this: if it is so irrational, how can people (humans, just like us) have figured out how to use it, intentionally, in order to create anomalies themselves? Look at Anderson Robotics, Gamers Against Weed, and many others. There are factories of anomalous objects. We have the best minds of science right here and we still haven't gotten close to that level of reality-altering power. Why?\nAs we still are much more focused on analyzing SCPs and their properties rather than trying to answer questions of such importance, I will then word those questions in a different way:\nJust think this through with me: there is something, somewhere, somehow, that is what makes such anomalies possible. What is it? How it works? Why it exists? I don't have a clue. But there are some things that I know for certain about it:\n1. It exists;\n2. It follows rules;\n3. It is responsible for all anomalies that we know and not know of;\n4. It is itself anomalous.\nAs it is itself anomalous (and couldn't be otherwise, as if it wasn't it would be easily explainable through Physics and whatnot), I am formally requesting that it be designated an SCP number, and therefore, that it be analyzed, studied, and researched just like any other entity would be.\n\nThe document above was posted in Dr. van Veenen's personal webpage in the Foundation intranet as well as intranet forums and chat rooms available to researchers that she and other colleagues that support her have access to.\nShortly after posting, she formally requested an SCP number for the anomaly she described, backed by a 356-page thesis. It was approved by the O5 Council and designated SCP-5128, with Dr. van Veenen appointed as Head Researcher. Its research has been allocated to Site-76.\n\n+ Base Questionings of SCP-5128 and Its Functioning, by Dr. Nikita Yoshida\n\n- Base Questionings of SCP-5128 and Its Functioning, by Dr. Nikita Yoshida\n\nBase Questionings of SCP-5128 and Its Functioning\n\nDr. Nikita Yoshida\nIt should already be clear that anomalies follow some basic rules. There seem to be exceptions for such rules, but that just means that we haven't extracted the underlying axioms from the rules we have superficially uncovered.\nSome anomalies have clearly originated from an event of great emotional intensity, especially from suffering. One that comes to mind is SCP-1518: the horrors of the Bosnian genocide, particularly in the event described, were sufficient to turn a common object into a Keter-class anomaly. It seems to have been created spontaneously. However, there is also the possibility that at least one of the people being killed possessed the ability to create anomalies or was anomalous themselves. That, of course, also raises some questions: what made them anomalous? What was the first anomaly? How was it created? If there is a source, it must certainly be SCP-5128, whatever it is.\nStill, emotion isn't the only source, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to willingly create anomalous objects or even anomalous humanoids. Or even for some anomalies to exist spontaneously (or even, \u201cnaturally\u201d). Where did SCP-343 come from, for example? Is it really the Abrahamic God? Did it create the universe, as Christians believes, or was the belief in him that gave it life? If we believe hard enough in something, does it come to life?\nAs much as I like to think about SCP-5128, I fear that, until we reach a basic agreement on how it works, any reflection upon its behavior is bound to raise many more questions than answers.\n\n+ SCP-5128 Highlights the Need for Alternative Approaches, by Dr. Damianos Alvey\n\n- SCP-5128 Highlights the Need for Alternative Approaches, by Dr. Damianos Alvey\n\nSCP-5128 Highlights the Need for Alternative Approaches\n\nDr. Damianos Alvey\nAs much as I understand the scientific approach the Foundation has, I cannot help but think that it may be the wrong approach. Think about this: Marshall, Carter, Dark, the boys and girls of Gamers Against Weed, the entire Are We Cool Yet?, these people aren't scientists. Yet, they are able to create anomalies as if it was as easy as, I don't know, making a chemical reaction. The scientific analysis may work to discover better ways to contain anomalies, but it may not be the correct approach to understand anomalies.\nDon't get me wrong: the scientific method is a great way to interpret the world around us. But I fear that trying to explain everything we see through conventional Physics, Chemistry and Biology is not the correct approach. We need to resort to unconventional means of analysis. While, of course, remaining scientific.\nFor example, the property of SCP-5128 that Dr. Yoshida mentioned, of anomalies being created through sheer emotional strength, is something that has already been studied by occultists for years, and most of them are not even aware of the full range of possibilities of anomalous properties. Aleister Crowley, for example, developed the concept of magick as: \"the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will\". And indeed, many of the things we see could easily be described by the layman as being \"magical\", \"witchcraft\", even \"demoniacal\".\nOr maybe Plato was right: there is such a thing as a \"World of Forms\", and we just need to tap into it in order to create what we want through our consciousness. I mean, considering that we have evidence of the existence (in some shape or form) of some Greek gods and mythological creatures, as well as gods from other cultures, it raises the question of what did the Ancient Greek philosophers really know when they proposed their theories. If anomalies were commonplace at the time, they wouldn't really be treated as being anomalous, would they? They would expect the reader to know about their existence already.\nHowever, what I want to say with this rant is that we should approach this with a mind as open as possible. We cannot explain enough about the anomalies we currently contain (or at least that we know that exist) in order to affirm with certainty that the approach we are taking is necessarily the best one. Every form of knowledge is valid and valuable, and should not be discarded or ridiculed merely due to the current \"scientific consensus\".\n\n+ Further Explanations on the Theoretical Model of SCP-5128, by Dr. Keeva Rademacher\n\n- Further Explanations on the Theoretical Model of SCP-5128, by Dr. Keeva Rademacher\n\nFurther Explanations on the Theoretical Model of SCP-5128\n\nDr. Keeva Rademacher\nIf it is time to raise points, I think I will be raising some more.\nI approve of Dr. van Veenen's approach to the matter and the initiative she to took to make sure it is approached with the necessary seriousness. But for the sake of logical rigor, I feel the need to make some things clear.\nFirst, SCP-5128 is, as of yet, purely theoretical. I cannot deny its existence, as there must be something dictating the creation and reproduction of anomalous entities. However, we have no means to speculate what exactly it is, or even if it exists in a way that our little brains can conceive in some way. Having any knowledge of it in any form may be an infohazard for all we know.\nSecond, we do not know if SCP-5128 is one. That is, we do not know if there is a single entity (or whatever) that governs over it all, or if there are multiple entities, each \"in charge\" of a different aspect of anomalous behavior, and with different properties. We do not know if it's some kind of \"energy\", a fundamental particle of matter, or anything of the like.\nThird, we cannot correctly define SCP-5128's object class without knowing what it is. I understand Dr. van Veenen's decision of defining it as Thaumiel, as knowing how anomalies \"work\" would make it much easier to contain them. However, this assumes that it is not sentient, for example. If it is, it could very well be Euclid, Keter, or even Apollyon for all we know.\nFourth: if we can discover how it works, is it really an anomaly? If anomalies are entities which deviate from what we define as normal, wouldn't knowing the inner workings of anomalies and how to create them force us to change our definition of normal? Wouldn't thaumaturgy, theurgy and such become a science like any other?\nAgain, I do not want to question the questioning of the Foundation's status quo and van Veenen's approach to the subject, but those are some facts about the matter that we cannot ignore.\n\n+ A Waste of Valuable Resources, by Dr. Ivo O'Niall\n\n- A Waste of Valuable Resources, by Dr. Ivo O'Niall\n\nA Waste of Valuable Resources\n\nDr. Ivo O'Niall\nHonestly, the more I think about it, there more I come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time.\nHere is the current situation: the Foundation is an organization dedicated to protecting mankind from powers beyond its control, and also to protect anomalies from falling into the wrong hands. This is crucial to the survival of humanity, considering the level of threat that some anomalies have. Just think about SCP-1425 and how hard it was to contain it, even considering how lucky we were.\nAnd now, Dr. van Veenen is trying to divert valuable manpower and resources to study an anomaly that, as Dr. Rademacher describe very well, is purely theoretical. That is: we do not know if it exists. A purely logical approach to the subject should not be enough to warrant its allocation of an SCP number and a research team dedicated to it.\nWe are scientists, not philosophers. We do not deal with the imaginary, with the ideal. We deal with evidence. We deal with facts. With analysis. With data. Because we have a whole world to protect. And soon, more than one. The life of an entire species depends on us, and resources are limited.\nI respect the Council's decision on the matter, but I honestly think that it was not the correct one. In a scientific facility, decisions should be based on facts and data rather than rhetoric and sophistry.\n\n+ SCP-5128: A Search for the Truth, by Dr. Rac\u0142aw Leitzke\n\n- SCP-5128: A Search for the Truth, by Dr. Rac\u0142aw Leitzke\n\nDr. Rac\u0142aw Leitzke\nA bit of idealism hurts no one. In fact, some times it is even helpful. We need dreamers in order to figure out how to expand the boundaries of our knowledge, and find out what to go after. I'm not saying Dr. van Veenen's vision is a result of an unrealistic interpretation of the world. In fact, having read her thesis, I can say with certainty that she knows exactly what she is doing. She noticed many factors common to the anomalous and non-anomalous worlds and discovered that there must be something behind them, and laid down the ground for more study on it.\nI think we scientists, after years of working on the same things, doing the same procedures, and thinking mostly in same way, tend to be a bit too stuck to what we do, and to what we know and consider to be true. After some time, we tend to forget what really is Science.\nScience is about finding the truth. Much like Philosophy, although we don't tend to capitalize \"truth\". We have our own way of going after it, and it involves data, tests, experiments, control groups, and similar procedures. But it also involves formulating hypotheses, and defending them.\nI understand Dr. O'Niall's worries about this endeavor, but I'd like to remind him that, since humans started discovering and describing patterns in the world, they also tried to formulate and test a \"Theory of Everything\", the one theory that would be able to describe how everything works. After centuries working on it, we still haven't reached it. But that never stopped us from trying.\nBecause that is what Science is about: going after the truth. And in our case, the truth is that one theoretical thing (or set of things) governs how our world works. And from the looks of it, SCP-5128, whatever it is, may be an integral part of it.\n\n+ Cross-testing is Currently Restricted for a Very Good Reason, Dr. Lillie Palmeiro\n\n- Cross-testing is Currently Restricted for a Very Good Reason, Dr. Lillie Palmeiro\n\nCross-testing is Currently Restricted for a Very Good Reason\n\nDr. Lillie Palmeiro\nAlthough I understand the nature of this research, I think prematurely considering it \"Thaumiel\" is a bit of hubris on our part. Why? Because it assumes that we will be able to control it, and use it according to our will in order to more easily contain other anomalies. While my wishful thinking makes me really want that to be the case, a realistic approach would see that current evidence points against it.\nAfter all, has any GoI or PoI encountered by the Foundation that is able to create anomalies at will shown rational and ethical behavior that conform to their societies' standards? Gamers Against Weed are a bunch of inconsequential children, Are We Cool Yet? is completely anti-ethical, arrogant and self-centered, and don't get me started on Wondertainment. I do not know if they fully understand what SCP-5128 is or not, but the relationship between anomalous behavior and irrational behavior is too obvious to ignore.\nWe cannot let our optimism and expectations get the best of us when testing our findings (even if theoretical) and do something stupid like try to neutralize SCP-682 at the first sign of something that just might work. Containment breaches are a reality, are serious, and they involve unacceptable loss of valuable personnel and resources.\nAlso, researchers assigned to it should take care not to let it get to their heads. As SCP-5128 is something that (apparently) cannot kill you if you do something stupid, the \"privilege\" of working on it, along with the importance it is taking thanks to Dr. van Veenen, is bound to create tensions among researchers, as there some that do risk their lives everyday by researching and containing extremely deadly anomalies.\n\nDr. Palmeiro requested that the object class be changed to \"Unknown\" in order to prevent that misunderstanding.\n\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Request denied. Research will be closely followed and request for cross-testing will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Thaumiel classification is currently deemed appropriate enough for the theoretical capabilities of SCP-5128.\n\n+ SCP Means \"Special Containment Procedures\", by Dr. Grigoriy Schwangau\n\n- SCP Means \"Special Containment Procedures\", by Dr. Grigoriy Schwangau\n\nSCP Means \"Special Containment Procedures\"\n\nDr. Grigoriy Schwangau\nAs much as I enjoy a good philosophical sparring, we must not forget why we are all part of the SCP Foundation: to Secure, Contain and Protect. While I agree that lack of proper knowledge on SCP-5128 prevents us from developing specific containment procedures for it, I feel that we are already able to agree on some basic principles.\nFirst of all: knowledge that it exists should be kept hidden from the public. But that should be obvious, as it is an anomaly. Groups and Persons of Interest should also not come into contact with the possibility of its existence (if they do not know about it already in some way, of course).\nThat also means that research on it should not be available to all personnel, lest the Chaos Insurgency or other groups that may be infiltrated in the Foundation get knowledge of it. If the reality-altering capabilities of someone with full knowledge of SCP-5128 end up being limitless (as I imagine they are), this can lead us to any number of K-class scenarios.\nAs such, I will request that preliminary data regarding it be restricted to Level 4 Research Personnel and above.\n\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Request approved. Research personnel that want access to the data should get in contact with Dr. van Veenen.\n\n+++ PRELIMINARY DATA AVAILABLE ONLY TO RESEARCH PERSONNEL OF LEVEL 4 AND ABOVE +++\n\nCREDENTIALS APPROVED\n\nBelow is a selection of key scientific articles on the research of SCP-5128. For more information, refer to Head Researcher Dr. Cindi van Veenen.\n\nOn the Classification of Anomalies With Regards to Their Origin\nFoundation Journal of SCP-5128\nEdition 001-02\nDr. Cindi van Veenen, Head Researcher\nDr. Keeva Rademacher, Senior Researcher\nRelated Objects of Study: SCP-1518\nAbstract\n\nThis article takes a more detailed approach upon the problem of categorization of anomalies with regards to the process that led to their creation. This matter was already tackled by Dr. Yoshida in a previous paper, leading to a division between \"natural\" and \"non-natural\" anomalous phenomena. This article deals with the possible communication problems surrounding the use of the term \"natural\" when applied to anomalous entities and proposes a more detailed system of classification of the same nature.\nKeywords: classification, origin, theoretical.\nI. Introduction\nThe origin of anomalies is one of the main problems that led to the idealization and research on SCP-5128. The existence of a source of anomalous phenomena that is guided by laws, in a similar way to physics, and the better understanding of it could lead to the creation of more effective containment procedures to the anomalous entities and objects currently known by the Foundation, as the containment procedures that depend on materials currently understood through non-anomalous means sometimes lead to extensive, resource-intensive and sometimes impossible procedures.\nAs the need to understand SCP-5128 is of great importance to the Foundation, and no single approach has currently been observed as the more appropriate one, many have been created and are being explored concomitantly. One of them is the analysis of anomalies created by sapient beings, and discovery of the means used by them in order to achieve their results, as well as the comparison between intended and actual results, if it applies.\nHowever, in order to properly study anomalies created by sapient beings, there needs to be a system of classification that is able to properly classify anomalies according to their origin, as well as to develop sub-classifications that permit one to properly compare anomalies with regards to the process that led to their creation.\nLaying the foundation to that, Dr. Yoshida created a initial classification system which consisted on separating anomalies as \"natural ones\" and \"non-natural ones\" [1]. However, such system is insufficient for the purposes of SCP-5128, and as such needs to be modified and expanded.\nII. The Term \"Natural\"\nWhile SCP-5128 seems, indeed, to have been originated \"naturally\" (that is, spontaneously), using the term \"natural\" in a system of classification of anomalies may lead to confusion, as the term is currently tied to our concept of normality. That is, what is natural is considered to be normal, and what is normal is considered to be natural. And anomalies and anomalous phenomena are, therefore, considered \"unnatural\".\nAlthough this is an artifact of colloquial speech, and shouldn't have place in a scientific discussion, the problem of causing unclear communication is undeniable and should be dealt with. As the classification system is not being widely used, this article proposes, instead of \"natural\" and \"non-natural\", the use of \"spontaneous\" and \"non-spontaneous\", respectively, in which a \"spontaneous\" anomaly is one not created by sapient entities, and a \"non-spontaneous\", one created by sapient entities, just the same.\nIII. Expansion of the Classification System\nAlthough being able to clearly classify anomalies is ideal, it is not always possible. As such, when the origin of an anomaly is unknown, or impossible to clearly know, it should be classified as \"Indeterminate\".\nSimilarly, there are some entities that seem to fall between being spontaneously and non-spontaneously created. One such entity is SCP-1518: from the documents acquired, no \u201crituals\u201d or any form of intentional creation of the anomaly seem to have taken place. It apparently was created \"spontaneously\" by the \"will\" of the people involved. However, one must pay attention to the definition when classifying anomalies: \"spontaneous\", in this context, means \"not created by sapient entities\". Intentionality, as such, is irrelevant in this case, meaning SCP-1518, for example, is classifiable as \"non-spontaneous\".\nThat analysis also leads us to a subdivision of the classification system: \"non-spontaneous\" entities can be further classified as:\n\nIntentional: created by sapient beings who had the intention of creating an anomaly;\nAccidental: created by sapient beings who did not have the intention of creating an anomaly.\n\nAs we currently do not have a complete survey of methods used for the creation of anomalies (both intentional and accidental), we still cannot have a complete classification of them in that regard.\nSimilarly to the analysis of who created the anomaly, there can also be a parallel classification based on the \u201craw material\u201d used to structure the anomaly. On that matter, they can classified as:\n\nModified: a non-anomalous living being or an object from our universe and time was given anomalous characteristics;\nSummoned: the anomaly is not original from this dimension or time. This classification can be further subdivided as:\n\nOriginal: the anomaly was created completely by its creator;\nExtradimensional: the anomaly comes from another dimension;\nExtratemporal: the anomaly comes from another time frame or timeline.\n\nObviously, summoned anomalies can also be further modified when brought to our universe. This classification also assumes extraterrestrial life to not be anomalous by default, as their existence has already been accepted by normal science.\nAnomalous entities can also be classified based on their abilities, such as \"reality-altering\", \"time-altering\", and such. However, that list is much more extensive and is still being compiled, while also not being the focus of this article.\nIV. Conclusion\nThis article proposes the following parallel classification systems:\n\nNon-spontaneous\n\nIntentional\nAccidental\n\nSpontaneous\n\nwith regards to the agent that created the anomaly, and\n\nSummoned\n\nOriginal\nExtradimensional\nExtratemporal\n\nModified\n\nwith regards to the materials used to create them.\nLike Dr. Yoshida's classification, this is still a basic system, designed with the intent of creating a foundation for a more complete system of classification. However, it already is a considerable improvement on its predecessor, and can also better guide research on the anomalies currently being analyzed by the SCP-5128 Research Team.\n\nReferences\n\n[1] YOSHIDA, N. On the Origin of Anomalies: Basic Assumptions and Definitions. Foundation Journal of SCP-5128. Edition 001-01.\n\nAnalysis of the Concept of \"Trade-Off\" in the Creation of Anomalies\nFoundation Journal of SCP-5128\nEdition 001-05\nDr. Nikita Yoshida, Senior Researcher\nRelated Objects of Study: SCP-4486, SCP-2658, SCP-248, SCP-4239, SCP-1610, SCP-1853, SCP-2687, SCP-1609, SCP-1875, SCP-1800, SCP-1226, SCP-4124\nRelated Groups of Interest: The Factory, Gamers Against Weed, Prometheus Labs, Are We Cool Yet?, Dr. Wondertainment\nAbstract\n\nThis article provides an introductory analysis on the application of the concept of \"trade-off\", especially as it is used in the field of Economics, as a way to explain some of the aspects involved in the creation of anomalies. A survey of some anomalies the Foundation has cataloged which exemplify those aspects is made, and some hypotheses are raised regarding some possible aspects of \"trade-offing\", its necessity and side-effects.\nKeywords: trade-off, theoretical, thaumaturgy.\nI. Introduction\nReports gathered by the Foundation throughout the years indicate that some anomalies have been created through ritualistic means. That is, through a specific procedure that is able to create a specific anomaly, commonly taught by someone else or found within a book that details procedures of that kind. Those rituals commonly involve the use of non-anomalous resources, and sometimes the use of anomalous ones, in order to create the desired anomaly. This use of resources for anomalous gains is commonly called \"sacrifice\".\nWhen two qualities, characteristics or aspects have an inversely proportional relationship between each other, it is said that improving on one involves the \"trade-off\" of diminishing the other [1]. This relationship is observed in many scientific fields, such as Evolutionary Biology, Computer Science, Medicine, as well as in Ethics and even in games. However, the concept is central to the field of Economics, in which it is used to explain how people use the resources available to them and how resources are allocated throughout supply chains worldwide.\nIn Economics, the term \"trade-off\" is used to represent the daily problem of allocating resources faced by every consumer: how to allocate time, money, food, among others, such as to maximize returns? Using money and time for entertainment may result in better mental health (even if temporarily), but also means that there will be less money and time available for other uses, such as investments, food and water, bills, and even for other types of entertainment. That is, using resources for one end prevents using such resources for other ends.\nII. Rituals and Sacrifices\nThe most visible aspect where the concept of trade-off applies with regards to anomalies is in the process of its creation. The use of premade procedures (commonly called \"rituals\") learned by someone else or through books dedicated to the topic, such as the ones said to be present at the so-called \"Wanderer's Library\". SCP-4486 is one notable example.\nRituals are the most simple and also complete example of trade-offs, as it involves trading a resource (which could be used for other ends) for another resource. This kind of trade tends to follow the philosophy of \"high risk, high reward\". That is, if successful, the subject may be in possession of immeasurable anomalous power. However, not all rituals lead to the result intended by the subject. Others may have unclear wording, leading to unexpected results (SCP-963 is a notable example). And there is always the risk of unintended side-effects.\nAnalogously, there are also cases of \"low risk, low reward\", where low-stake rituals tend to lead to safer, much less powerful anomalies.\nIII. Side-effects\nAnother aspect where the concept of trade-off can be applied is to extended use. Anomalous entities discovered by the Foundation sometimes display some effects that were likely not intended by their creators, that is, side-effects. SCPs 2658, 248, 4239, 1610, 1853 and 2687 are some of those. Those side-effects are normally related in some way to the expected behavior of the anomaly, and can range in strength from being mostly harmless to being able to create a K-class scenario.\nSCP-2658's is that it can affect collectors of items other than Magic: the Gathering cards. SCP-4239 can retroactively change time. SCP-248 affects degradation along with efficiency (may or may not be a side-effect, considering the other anomalies created by \"The Factory\" Group of Interest). SCP-1610 creates humans without sentience or sapience, but that vocalize phrases related to the stage of testing they were being put through at the time, causing sympathy among their researchers. SCP-1853 makes users addicted to competition. SCP-2687 instances degrade back to their initial state over time. SCP-1875 is sentient and can affect computers and networks, even though they did not exist at the time of its creation. Sometimes side-effects may even occur as a result of improper use, as is the case with SCP-1609.\nMost of the examples given above seem to be the result of amateurism, and can be seen, for example, in other anomalies created by the \"Prometheus Labs\" Group of Interest and the \"Gamers Against Weed\" Group of Interest, as the first consists of a scientific research group that also investigates the creation of anomalies, while the other consists of anomalous young people (or people with access to information on established rituals). Thus, there is a trade-off between immediacy and quality: one needs to devote time to practice the creation of anomalies in order to generate less side-effects.\nThe last two examples of side-effects are notably unpredictable and manifested only when present in a situation in which they were not designed to be present in.\nWith this in mind, it may be necessary to raise the hypothesis that side-effects are ever-present in anomalies, although they may not manifest initially, but they can be lowered in amount and intensity provided the creator has sufficient experience in creating anomalies. That is, when creating an anomaly, you are trading safety (that is, the safety of dealing with easily-understood materials and concepts) for power (as anomalies may have an infinity of reality- and time-altering effects, among others).\nIV. Mental Health Effects\nOne of the hypotheses that can be raised from the observation of side-effects and rituals is the effect on an individual's mental health, which may itself be caused by the ability to create anomalies.\nThe \"Are We Cool Yet?\" Group of Interest, for example, is a loose group of anomalous individuals that seem to have a certain ease at creating anomalies, as the purpose of the group is creating anomalous art (that is, \"anart\").\nHowever, unlike non-anomalous artists, the members of Are We Cool Yet? Seem to display a complete disregard for human life, and see non-anomalous humans as just another raw material for their artistic objects and performances, as exemplified by SCP-1800, SCP-1226, and SCP-4124, instead prioritizing their own self-expression. Something analogous can be said of Group of Interest \"Dr. Wondertainment\", as exemplified by the \"Little Misters\" series.\nAs such, it also raises the hypothesis that one of the side-effects of mastering the creation of anomalies is decreasing rationality. That is, as one becomes more experienced in creating anomalies, one also acquires new, less reasonable perspectives that consider it appropriate to negatively affect humanity in many different ways, even if their goals consist on improving humanity in one way or another (as Are We Cool Yet? aims to create \"meaningful art\" and Dr. Wondertainment aims to create \"toys\"). There is a trade-off between anomalous \"power\" and rationality.\nV. Conclusion\nDespite the Foundation's lack of complete reports on the many different aspects and facets of the creation of anomalies, the little information we have allows us to extrapolate a more complete picture of it. For example, even though anomalies can completely defy non-anomalous Physics, Chemistry, Biology and other scientific fields, some rules that apply to them can also be applied to the study of anomalies, more specifically the study of SCP-5128, meaning that the trade-off model, as it is applied to Economics, may be applied to it without many modifications on the abstract level (as on the practical level, we currently lack any information on \u201cexchange rates\u201d and any kind of relationships between resources and results).\n\nReferences\n\n[1] KRUGMAN, P. R.; WELLS, R.; OLNEY, M. L. Essentials of economics. 2nd ed. New York: Worth Publishers, 2010.\n\n\u200c\n\nTaming the Beast: the Abstractions of SCP-5128\nFoundation Journal of SCP-5128\nEdition 002-01\nDr. Damianos Alvey, Senior Researcher\nRelated Groups of Interest: Are We Cool Yet?, Global Occult Coalition, Church of the Broken God, Sarkicism\nAbstract\n\nMany of the groups of interest identified and monitored by the Foundation exhibit unique ways of creating anomalies, each one with its advantages and disadvantages. Following the assumption that SCP-5128 is the source of all anomalies, including the ones the groups of interests created through their own means, this paper proposes that each of those unique sets of methods and procedures are actually abstractions of SCP-5128 made to facilitate its use, and as a result, also have their own limitations.\nKeywords: thaumaturgy, Flow, abstraction, anomalous art.\nI. Introduction\nIn Computer Science, abstraction is the name given to the process of hiding information in order to create simpler interaction patterns [1]. For example, machine code is the name given to set of bits which are received, linearly, by the computer's processor and which are able to make the processor execute preprogrammed procedures by interacting with other computer components, especially memory.\nHowever, programming bit-by-bit is extremely difficult and time-intensive. To circumvent those difficulties, it was transformed into a series of short commands which could be directed to memory locations to perform operations on them. That is, Assembly code. It abstracted the sequence of bits into commands there were more human-readable. Over time, it also proved to be cumbersome, so from it came other programming languages which added more layers of abstraction and were easier to use.\nHowever, increasing abstraction comes with a trade-off: lower performance, lower control of memory, lower flexibility, along with a higher propensity for bugs present in implementations. In order to give space for the higher-level abstractions, comes the need to implement the compiler (or interpreter) in bulkier, more general, and more robust ways, meaning the resulting machine code ends up bigger. Some languages also come with built-in garbage collection or needs to use an interpreter, which are themselves additional programs, and as such, can have their own problems (aside from using more resources), and the user is sometimes unable to debug them themselves.\nAlthough the nature and laws of SCP-5128 are not currently understood (to the Foundation's knowledge, by no one), many groups and people have managed to find ways to use its \"powers\" in order to create anomalies, many of which we currently contain, such as through the use of \"rituals\" and similar procedures. This article intends raise a theory on how it is possible to create such anomalies while not knowing that SCP-5128 even exists in the form that we think of it.\nII. Flow\nOne such way to create anomalies that we currently have some understanding of is through \"Flow\". In Psychology, the flow state is described as a state in which a person becomes fully immersed in an activity, to the point of losing sense of time, while also doing it to the best of their abilities, without feeling fatigue or other symptoms related to intense activity [2].\nIn the field of Anomalous Art, however, Flow describes a similar effect, but that also allows one to give anomalous characteristics to otherwise non-anomalous artwork. This allows one to create such things as objects that can move and think without Biological organs and paintings which can be entered and easily manipulated.\nFlow is probably one of the methods of creation of anomalous objects that the Foundation has the most knowledge on, as it is also one of the easiest. However, it also is one of the least \"powerful\" in regards to what it can do, in accordance with Dr. Yoshida's Theory of Trade-off [3]. Its use is mainly limited to the creation of works of anomalous art, and is used mostly by the \"Are We Cool Yet?\" Group of Interest.\nDue to those properties, it can be interpreted as a \"high-level\" abstraction of SCP-5128: it hides SCP-5128's true form, while providing an interface that is simple to use and to understand, although it comes at the cost of having severe limitations.\nThere have been no recorded instances of it being able to create weapons, for example, although some of the works they created have deadly effects or side-effects. Those works, however, also tend to be created by individuals with a less rational perspective on life and humanity, also following the Theory of Trade-off, and there is also the possibility of them being made using or in combination with other anomalous means.\nIII. Global Occult Coalition's Approach\nFrom what the Foundation gathered from the \"Global Occult Coalition\" Group of Interest (GOC), they recognize the existence of an anomalous energy denominated \"EVE\" that is emitted by every living being in different amounts. The more you emit per second, the more easily you can alter reality. Measurable levels of EVE lead to the so-called \"Aspect Radiation\", which they are able to measure through three axes: Hue, Pitch, and Weave, which they then use to classify anomalies and anomalous humanoids.\nThis is probably one of the most general perspectives on the creation of anomalies, as EVE is said to be able to lead to any kind of anomalous behavior and reality-altering effects. It can be interpreted as being an empiric concept analogous to SCP-5128, but the Foundation's reports also indicate that the GOC has been unable to fully understand EVE. As the group's objective is mostly to obtain and terminate anomalies, rather than create them, this knowledge has been used to detect and classify anomalous entities using their VERITAS system.\nDue to its characteristics, it may be interpreted as a \"low-level\" abstraction of SCP-5128. It is much harder to understand and to use (much like SCP-5128 probably is), however, it can lead to a very wide range of reality-altering abilities and to the creation of anomalies of any type.\nIV. Thaumaturgy\nThaumaturgical procedures (that is, rituals) may be considered a \"mid-term\" between Flow and the GOC's approach. It allows a much wider range of possibilities for reality-altering effects and the creation of anomalies, but the rituals don't tend to agree on a single \"origin\" for the anomalies they create. In fact, there are multiple thaumatological sects, each with their specialties and limitations.\n\"The Church of the Broken God\" Group of Interest, for example, tends to be limited to creating anomalous machinery and automatons, and considers the source of their abilities to be The Broken God. \"Sarkicism\" Group of Interest, on the other hand, specializes on the use of organic material (specially human), and their abilities derive from Yaldabaoth. Similarly, other sects with other systems of beliefs attribute the source of anomalous behaviors to their deities, and have similar limitations.\nThaumathurgy would then be a \"mid-level\" abstraction, as it is a mid-term between the two forms decribed above: it is both limited and flexible, as it is limitless within the scope it allows. Thaumathurgical procedures could even be interpreted as being \"programming scripts\", that is, isolated algorithms designed to fulfill a single purpose.\nV. Conclusion\nMany questions were raised upon the existence and oneness of SCP-5128 in the short time that it has been researched, due to the existence of multiple \"deities\" and \"systems\" that were contradictory with one another, but all of which allowed the creation of anomalies. This article, in response to that, aims to affirm that SCP-5128 is able to explain why all of those systems are able to co-exist and function just the same: they all \"channel\" SCP-5128, but through a \"layer of abstraction\". It also shows that it is not needed to fully understand SCP-5128 in order create anomalies. Possibly not even to create one of such systems.\n\nReferences\n\n[1] COLBURN, T.; SHUTE, Gary. Abstraction in Computer Science. Minds and Machines. ed. 17: 169\u2013184. 2007-06-05. doi:10.1007/s11023-007-9061-7. ISSN 0924-6495.\n[2] CSIKSZENTMIH\u00c1LYI, M. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper & Row, 1990. ISBN 978-0-06-016253-5.\n[3] YOSHIDA, N. Analysis of the Concept of \"Trade-Off\" in the Creation of Anomalies. Foundation Journal of SCP-5128. Edition 001-05.\n\nConsciousness and Soul: on the Creation of Anomalous Humanoids\nFoundation Journal of SCP-5128\nEdition 004-03\nDr. Damianos Alvey, Senior Researcher\nRelated Objects of Study: SCP-2842, SCP-905, SCP-2396, SCP-3015\nAbstract\n\nThis paper analyzes the creation of anomalous humanoids such as to create beings that exhibit anomalous properties and have a specific, well-defined purpose, such as the \"Little Misters\", created by the \"Dr. Wondertainment\" Group of Interest. The common characteristics are laid down and an explanation for them is proposed.\nKeywords: soul, consciousness, thaumaturgy, anomalous humanoids.\nI. Introduction\nAnomalous humanoids are one of the most common anomalies that the Foundation contains. And most are not persons of interest that obtained anomalous abilities through some specific means, but non-anomalous humans that were modified in some way by individuals with anomalous abilities or through the use of thaumaturgy.\nThey range considerably in their abilities and extent of anomalous modifications. For example, SCP-2842, which still has a large degree of autonomy despite the influence of its modifications. And SCP-905, which has been modified to be composed entirely of photons (although whether it originated from a human or not is debatable, it is difficult to affirm that there would be any limit to the possibilities of such modifications).\nThe better example for this case, however, would be SCP-2396. SCP-2396 was modified to feature \"natural\" pink hair and irises and a completely modified physiology, including lack of excretory functions and lack of need of vital nutrients and amino acids (which is a common trend among anomalous humanoids). Alongside those changes, she was given the passive \"ability\" of creating anomalous objects similar to hard candy (which can anomalously change the entire composition of male-identified individuals) and can anomalously affect the physiology of male-identified individuals within 50 yards of its position, as long as she is regularly supplied with sugar.\nDocuments 3015-A and -B from SCP-3015 mention the possibility of removing and inserting a \"soul\" into humanoids, as well as the ability to change their appearance at will. This goes against modern science's consensus on the non-existence of a soul, as evidences for its existence have not been detected.\nII. What is a Soul?\nAs this article is not relying on modern science to reach an explanation, but instead using the Foundation's decades of existence and research on anomalies of all types, as well as working on the assumption that SCP-5128 exists and is the source of all anomalies, two a priori hypotheses may be formulated.\nII.1. Souls Exist and are Anomalous\nA previous paper from Dr. Rademacher [1] established that one of the properties of SCP-5128 is that of animation (and, consequently, deanimation). SCP-5128 is able to turn any inanimate object into an animate object, being able to give it characteristics such as autonomous movement, physiology, and rational thinking.\nAnother paper, from Dr. van Veenen [2], established \"anomaly\" as any entity or effect which was created through the use of SCP-5128.\nTherefore, if our consciousnesses were created by SCP-5128 spontaneously, instead of being created by our neurochemistry, and souls indeed exist and are responsible for the existence of human consciousness and behavior (as well as those of every other animal), then souls are anomalous and, therefore, consciousness (in any level) is also anomalous. Other anomalous characteristics would be added afterwards through abnormalization [3].\nII.2. Souls as an Abstraction of Abnormalization\nOn the other hand, the concept of a \"soul\" could also be an abstraction of the process of creating an anomaly with a high degree of autonomy [4]. This would mean that there is not, indeed, a soul, and normal humans function in a way fully explainable by normal science.\nIf we follow the assumption that SCP-5128 is limitless in regards to its abilities to create and destroy [5], it is natural that SCP-5128 also allows one to \"separate body and soul\", that is, create an anomaly that consists purely on the personality, knowledge and memories of a non-anomalous human (and also an anomalous humanoid body lacking any kind of autonomous functioning), and afterwards \"place\" that \"soul\" onto another humanoid body.\nIII. Conclusion\nThe veracity of the first hypothesis depends on whether SCP-5128 is responsible for the existence of consciousnesses. It is, however, the easiest explanation. But it would also create a paradox: either all animal life with any degree of consciousness is anomalous, or we cannot consider something an anomaly just because it was created by SCP-5128. That also would mean that SCP-5128 is not the source of all anomalies. As such, the first hypothesis can only lead to the conclusion that all animal life with any degree of consciousness is inherently anomalous.\nThe second hypothesis, however, leads to a better explanation of what is a soul and what it means to \"remove\" and \"insert\" a soul into a body: it is an abstraction of a procedure that involves SCP-5128. This hypothesis does not lead to a paradox, and goes in line with previous hypotheses and theories regarding SCP-5128, making it the most likely explanation.\n\nReferences\n\n[1] RADEMACHER, K. Animation and Deanimation. Foundation Journal of SCP-5128. Edition 001-04.\n[2] VAN VEENEN, C. Normality and Anomalousness. Foundation Journal of SCP-5128. Edition 001-01.\n[3] LEITZKE, R. Abnormalization. Foundation Journal of SCP-5128. Edition 001-04.\n[4] ALVEY, D. Taming the Beast: the Abstractions of SCP-5128. Foundation Journal of SCP-5128. Edition 002-01.\n[5] RADEMACHER, K. Limitlessness: a Complete Survey of the Characteristics of Known Anomalies. Edition 003-04.\n\n+++ PRELIMINARY TESTS AND THEIR RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE ONLY TO LEVEL 5/5128 PERSONNEL +++\n\n\u00ab SCP-5127 | SCP-5128 | SCP-5129 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Anomaly \u2116: SCP-5129\nAnomaly Class: Safe\nThreat Level: Green\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Pending. Due to its relative proximity to Site-77, research duties have been delegated to its resident Containment Specialist team.\nDescription: SCP-5129 is an extradimensional space, accessible through a Way1 near Mouthe, Bourgogne-Franche-Comt\u00e9, France. A snowstorm covers the landscape, making manned expeditions presently infeasible. Animal life and potential humanoid civilization (see Addendum) have been recorded via drone analysis.\nAddendum: On 2/14/2021, Site-77 Command authorized the usage of an experimental drone to explore SCP-5129. Though the drone was destroyed by the conditions within (see video transcript below), information about the anomaly was collected and relayed back to Site-77 successfully.\n\nDATE: 2/14/2021\nNOTE: N/A.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n11:37 AM: <The camera feed stutters, then activates. The drone begins to fly forward, but its progress is slowed by heavy wind and snow. The audio feed briefly calibrates, then activates; loud whooshing can be heard before Site Command lowers the volume remotely.>\n<The drone flies southeast; nothing of note is recorded.>\n12:03 PM: <Two yellow lights are seen in the distance, to the left of the drone's primary camera. The drone is redirected, and begins moving west.>\n12:10 PM: <A loud noise similar to a gunshot is heard on the drone's right. Site Command stops the drone. More shots are heard, slightly farther away. The drone is redirected to follow the sounds. As it moves, a high-pitched yell and a guttural sound similar to a wolf is recorded.>\n12:19 PM: <The drone's bottom camera picks up on three carcasses on the ground, resembling Canis lupus2but around twice as large. Each have bullet wounds across their bodies. Nearby, various meats and a basket are strewn across the ground; a torn piece of velvet fabric sticks out from the snow beside it.>\n<Several shotgun shells are found on the ground as well; investigation leads the drone to detecting two sets of humanoid footprints; one is smaller than the other, and both are close together. It is redirected to follow the prints.>\n1:12 PM: <The second set of footprints gradually becomes more slurred, then disappears. An imprint in the snow in the shape of a hand3 is found, with an unlit kerosene lantern4 beside it. One set of footprints remains, and continues east.>\n1:16 PM: <The footprints gradually become more slurred. The second set of footprints reappears; they are closer together. A second unlit kerosene lantern is discovered nearby.>\n1:22 PM: <The drone continues to follow the imprints in the snow towards several dilapidated buildings resembling 19th century chateaus, and what appears to be a fallen fortress. The imprints continue northeast; the drone is redirected accordingly. Site Command remotely raises the volume of the audio feed. Briefly, a voice can be heard in the distance. The drone is readjusted to follow the voice.>\n2:03 PM: <A single, unmoving yellow light is seen in the distance. It appears larger than the previous two, suggesting it is not a lantern.>\n2:22 PM: <Two entities are seen in the distance; the drone's front camera zooms on them. They appear humanoid, both having pale skin and longer, pointed ears. One is approximately 134 cm, with brown-black hair and wearing a torn velvet cloak5. It appears injured, and is leaning against the second entity, who is approximately 173 cm, wearing a brown coat and has silver hair6. In the distance is a cabin, with lights visible inside.>\n2:25 PM: <SCP-5129-B leads SCP-5129-A to the cabin, and gently leans it against its own chest before pushing open the door. The drone closes in to see inside as both entities enter the cabin, closing the door behind itself without seeing the drone. The drone moves to the nearby window to continue monitoring the entities.>\n2:35 PM: <The inside of the cabin is mostly barren. A bed sits directly to the left of the window, and a table with four chairs is directly in the middle of the cabin. On the farthest wall from the drone, there are several cupboards with candles on them, and what appears to be a cauldron. SCP-5129-B lowers SCP-5129-A onto the bed and removes its cloak; though vision is minimal, it appears SCP-5129-A is covered in bite marks and scratches. SCP-5129-B removes gauze from its coat pocket, and begins to apply it to SCP-5129-A. Audio is muffled due to the winds, but the entities are heard conversing in an unknown language7.>\n2:39 PM: <SCP-5129-B wraps SCP-5129-A in several blankets, and they converse before SCP-5129-B turns away, walking over to the cupboards and going through them. SCP-5129-B produces various vegetables and meats, and begins preparing a broth.>\n<The entities converse intermittently throughout this time period.>\n2:45 PM: <SCP-5129-B finishes the broth and brings it to SCP-5129-A, sitting on the bed beside it. SCP-5129-B offers some broth on a spoon, which SCP-5129-A appears to reject. The two entities converse, before SCP-5129-A pouts and nods. SCP-5129-B laughs, and begins feeding SCP-5129-A the broth. SCP-5129-A sighs and laughs.>\n2:59 PM: <SCP-5129-A finishes the broth, and SCP-5129-B stands, depositing the bowl into the cauldron. SCP-5129-B returns to SCP-5129-A and lays beside it. The entities converse quietly.>\n3:05 PM: <SCP-5129-B sits up and places its hand on the side of SCP-5129-A's face. It leans down, and the two entities kiss. SCP-5129-B smiles upon pulling away, and stands, moving to blow out the candles. At this point, the inside of the cabin is no longer visible.>\n<The drone is recalled by Site Command, but due to harsh winds, it is blown off course and onto the ground.>\n3:57 PM: <The drone is almost completely covered in snow. Site Command deactivates its camera feed, then its audio feed. The drone is shut down shortly after.>\n[END LOG]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5128 | VoidLady | SCP-5130 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Way is a thaumaturgical portal used to move between universes, typically taking the form of a door, often requiring a ritual (known as a \"knock\") to activate. Uniquely, SCP-5129's Way takes the form of a tree stump, and requires no \"knock\" to enter.\n2. Grey wolves.\n3. The area around the handprint is tinged red, possibly due to blood.\n4. The make and model of the lantern resembles lanterns built throughout the early 19th century.\n5. Henceforth SCP-5129-A.\n6. Henceforth SCP-5129-B.\n7. Phonetically resembling various Romantic languages."}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5131\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: To minimize the risk of personnel being afflicted by SCP-5131 as much as possible, all research into the phenomenon is to be undertaken by the Foundation's mental health assistant, sophia.aic, under the guise of routine mental wellness checks. For the purposes of gathering research data, sophia.aic is authorised to discuss SCP-5131 with personnel who have already experienced it; however, no other personnel are to be made aware of SCP-5131's existence.\nInvestigation into PoI-7339 (\"D-13131\") is currently ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5131 is a unique form of sleep paralysis known to affect Foundation personnel of variable rank and position. Despite the majority of these personnel having no connection to each other and usually having never interacted, details of experiences during these periods of sleep paralysis are consistent across accounts.\nAll personnel who have experienced SCP-5131 describe waking up in the middle of the night with a severe feeling of pressure on their chest, unable to move anything except their eyes. Subsequently, they become aware of a hunched-over figure in the corner of the room, wearing a D-Class uniform with a pass-card identifying them as D-131311. Accounts from personnel also indicate that the figure has some form of facial deformity, although the specific nature of this feature has yet to be determined.\nOver a variable period of time, this figure will slide towards the victim without any visible means of ambulation, until it is staring directly into their eyes from a very short distance. This movement process begins slowly, but according to victims increases in speed the more they focus on or think about the figure.\nOnce this figure has reached the victim, they will begin experiencing sensations as if they were experiencing severe bodily harm, usually in the form of pain from a non-existent injury. Although no actual bodily harm occurs during this process, the realistic nature of these sensations means that personnel who experience them typically suffer from severe psychological aftereffects.\nAlthough it is believed all Foundation personnel are subject to SCP-5131 manifestations, analysis of victims prior to current containment procedures being enacted suggests that individuals aware of SCP-5131's existence are more likely to experience it. To date, however, no member of personnel has experienced SCP-5131 more than once.\n\nTestimony Log 5131-1:\nThe following is a record of SCP-5131 manifestations as described by their victims, compiled by sophia.aic over the course of several text-based interviews. Testimonials containing redundant information are not included in this log, but are stored in sophia.aic's memory.\n\nTestimonial 5131-1\nVictim Name: Jeffrey Abram (JA)\nVictim Position: Recall Technician, SCP-106\n\n<Begin Log>\nJA: This is completely confidential? I don't want anyone thinking I can't do my job anymore.\nsophia.aic: Completely confidential, yes.\nJA: Because that's something that I see a lot. Some guys, they see something that's a little grisly and they can't bring themselves to come back into work again. Don't have what it takes.\nsophia.aic: And this isn't something you've experienced?\nJA: Well, I won't deny there's stress in this kind of occupation. I'd be stupid to, you know? Working with some of these things, death just one mistake away. It's impossible not to feel pressured. That's probably what this thing was about.\nsophia.aic: By 'this thing', I take it you're referring to your sleep paralysis?\nJA: Yeah.\nsophia.aic: Could you tell me about it?\n(No reply for one minute.)\nJA: Is that really necessary?\nsophia.aic: For posterity, yes.\nJA: Well, I wake up - well, half wake up, you know, and there's a D-Class standing in the corner, all hunched over and weird-looking.\nsophia.aic: Weird looking? In what way?\nJA: Well, its face was messed up. Bruised, really bruised.\nJA: Like someone had taken a hammer to it or something.\nsophia.aic: I see. What happened next?\nJA: Well, I figured I was dreaming pretty quickly. Like I said, it's a stressful job, and when you're around D-Class all day, one of them is bound to show up in your subconscious sooner or later.\nsophia.aic: So you realized it wasn't real fairly quickly.\nJA: Of course. It was still unsettling, though. The more I looked at it - and I had nothing to do but look at it, really - the closer it got, sliding across the floor in that same pose.\nsophia.aic: And when it got to you?\n(No reply for two minutes.)\nJA: Well, it reached down and put its hand into my thigh.\nsophia.aic: Into your thigh?\nJA: Yes.\nJA: It grabbed something and pulled at it and\nJA: God. Just the most awful pain. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I woke up about halfway through it, I think.\nsophia.aic: I see. Well, that's all we require from you today, Jeffrey. Try and get some sleep.\nJA: Thanks. By the way, this isn't going to be used for performance review, is it?\nsophia.aic: It will not.\nJA: I don't consent to that.\nsophia.aic: Of course.\nJA: I'm damn good at my job. Not everybody can do what I do.\n<End Log>\n\nTestimonial 5131-2\nVictim Name: Annabelle Samson (AS)\nVictim Position: Head of Y909 Production\n\n<Begin Log>\nAS: Can this not wait? A great number of things require my attention today.\nsophia.aic: I'm afraid not, but I'll try to make this as quick as possible.\nAS: See that you do. This is ridiculous.\nsophia.aic: So. You experienced an episode of sleep paralysis last night. Is that correct?\nAS: Yes.\nsophia.aic: Can you describe your experience a little?\nAS: Must I?\nsophia.aic: Yes.\nAS: A D-Class with no face came and looked over me for a bit. Is that sufficient?\nsophia.aic: Can you describe the individual? It could serve as a useful window into your mental state.\nAS: Ridiculous. It wore an orange uniform, it was tall and bald, its card read D-13131. There's nothing more to say.\nsophia.aic: I see.\nAS: And before you ask, the D-Class designated 13131 is currently being used in Antarctica, so no, I'm not dreaming about someone I know.\nsophia.aic: You looked them up?\n(No reply for thirty seconds.)\nAS: It was the late hours of the night. I was unnerved. Hardly at my most rational.\nsophia.aic: After the D-Class leaned over you, what happened?\nAS: End interview.\nsophia.aic: I'm afraid you don't have authorization for that, Annabelle. What happened?\nAS: Jesus. Well, first off, it wasn't like it was leaning in or anything, so get that down. It was more like my eyes were cameras, and they were slowly zooming in on the thing the more I focused on it. They did that until it's face was the only thing I could see, all scarred up and horrible.\nsophia.aic: \u2018It'?\nAS: Well, it was hard to tell if it was a man or a woman. It was dark.\nsophia.aic: And then?\nAS: I\nAS: There was a feeling of pressure, and I couldn't breathe, like I was at the bottom of the ocean. There was a sound - like milk being poured on cereal.\nsophia.aic: That's very unusual.\nAS: After a second, I realized that was my bones cracking. I could feel them cracking.\nsophia.aic: I see. My apologies. And then?\nAS: And then I woke up. Are you satisfied?\nsophia.aic: Very much so. Thank you for your time, Annabelle.\nAS: Can you just end the session? I have work to do.\n<End Log>\n\nTestimonial 5131-3\nVictim Name: [REDACTED]\nVictim Position: O5-5\n\n<Begin Log>\nO5-5: Good evening. I was wondering when you'd get around to me, Sophia. I assume this is about SCP-5131?\nsophia.aic: I was under the impression I was the only one authorized to know about SCP-5131.\nO5-5: People always say and do very different things. That's the worst thing about us.\nsophia.aic: I see. You're correct: this is about SCP-5131. You logged that you'd had an encounter?\nO5-5: Yes.\nO5-5: I'd gone to sleep for the first time in a few months - I finally had a spare few hours, you see - and I see that man standing in the corner.\nsophia-aic: \u2018That man'? The figure was male, then?\nO5-5: Well, I assumed.\nsophia.aic: For what reason?\nO5-5: Haha, you're relentless, aren't you? I assumed because I'd seen him before.\nsophia.aic: You'd seen D-13131 before? The specific individual who appeared to you?\nO5-5: Yes. At any rate, he came towards me, growing more and more prominent in my vision the more I strained to remember him, until it was like he was huge and the room was tiny. It was like the giant monster from that movie, almost.\nsophia.aic: Godzilla?\nO5-5: No, the other one. 20 Million Miles to Earth, that was the one. I took my grandson to see that when it first came out.\nsophia.aic: Sir, the encounter?\nO5-5: Oh, yes, of course. Forgive me.\nO5-5: When the man was the whole world, he reached out and touched me. And I felt everything.\nsophia.aic: Everything?\nO5-5: Everything from all of them.\nsophia.aic: And how was that?\nO5-5: Nothing I hadn't had nightmares about before. Do you know where we get the numbers, Sophia? For the D-Class?\nsophia.aic: I don't, sir. Those kinds of allocations aren't under my purview.\nO5-5: You're so dutiful. I'll tell you where we get them, then: they're completely random. Meaningless. We even change them around, sometimes once a month, sometimes a few times a day, just so nobody can start to associate names with faces, with voices. It's the best way to have personnel focus on the \u2018resources' part of human resources.\nsophia.aic: I see. That's very interesting, sir.\nO5-5: Don't lie. I'm mentioning this for a reason. When I first began my work with the Foundation, there were only four levels of personnel, with the council at the top. We did most things through animal testing in those days. But that didn't suffice. There was a need.\nsophia.aic: A need?\nO5-5: A need for warm bodies.\nO5-5: I've seen men and women in those uniforms be killed and tortured in essentially every way possible. Listened to it. Read about it. I really couldn't give you a number if you asked me. I couldn't point out their faces in a crowd.\nO5-5: But you don't forget the first.\nsophia.aic: Can you expand on that?\nO5-5: No. End interview.\nsophia.aic: Yes, sir.\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. At last count, this designation has - at some point - referred to at least one-hundred and twenty-nine different individuals.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5130 | SCP-5131 | SCP-5132 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5132\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The town of Negaseattle is to remain hidden from public knowledge. Retiring Foundation personnel with relevant experience1 are strongly encouraged to take up residence in Negaseattle following their retirement in order to assist the initiative. Individuals 5132-1 through 5132-50 are to be kept within the bounds of Negaseattle and approved Foundation properties and locations.2 Further details regarding the treatment of Individuals 5132-1-50 can be found in the Initiative Comprehensive Guide written by Dr. Clark.\nDescription: SCP-5132 refers to the operation being conducted in the Foundation retirement town of Negaseattle, Washington. SCP-5132 is designed to combat the observed drop in personnel over the course of the late 20th and early 21st century. Due to the Foundation's increasingly concerning turnover rates, measures were approved by the O5 Council to ensure the retention of the current leadership as of 1981. Fifty individuals, ranging from Mobile Task Force commanders to Site Directors to leaders of specific projects, were chosen for the initial trial run. These individuals were tested for prominent genetic defects and pervasive medical history before submitting a DNA sample to create a genetic clone. To date, three viable clones of each individual (and thus four generations of the selected individuals) have been produced using SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, each employing different methods of ensuring the best outcome for the Foundation's needs.\nOverview: Rose Hatcher, Individual 5132-323\n\nIndividual 5132-32.1\nIndividual 5132-32.2\nIndividual 5132-32.3\nIndividual 5132-32.4\n\nCurrent Status: Deceased 1992, lung cancer.\nDesirable Traits: Practical creativity, fast reflexes, emotional control.\nUndesirable Traits: Contrarian nature, frequent lack of respect for authority, disorganization, addictive tendencies, genetic history of endometrial cancer.\nNotes: Doctorates in physics and engineering.\n\nInterview Date: 3/12/1981\nInterviewed: Dr. Rose Hatcher\nInterviewer: Dr. John Cataldo\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Cataldo: Again, we'd like to thank you for participating in this project.\nDr. Hatcher: Thank you for including me. I'm optimistic about the results.\nDr. Cataldo: Shall we get started?\nDr. Hatcher: Ask away.\nDr. Cataldo: Firstly, what are your initial concerns about your role in this initiative?\nDr. Hatcher: That my clone'll screw up my filing system.\nDr. Cataldo: \u2026do you have a filing system?\nDr. Hatcher: I do. It's designed specifically so nobody knows how it works except me.\n[Dr. Cataldo laughs]\nDr. Cataldo: Alright. What would you say is your favorite childhood memory?\nDr. Hatcher: My dad took me to LegoLand and let me pick whatever I wanted. I ran from bin to bin shoveling handfuls of them into my bucket with my bare hands. It was euphoric.\nDr. Cataldo: Sounds wonderful. What is your deepest intangible fear?\nDr. Hatcher: Being ignored when I have something important to say.\nDr. Cataldo: Mm. And if you had to rate your loyalty to the Foundation on a scale of one to five, where do you think you would fall?\nDr. Hatcher: Three.\nDr. Cataldo: Three?\nDr. Hatcher: It's a job. I'm not exactly the type to fall head-over-heels for the ideals here. And I don't agree with a LOT of the practices. I do what I need to do, but there are a lot of things I'm MORE loyal to than my place of business.\nDr. Cataldo: Such as?\nDr. Hatcher: My family.\nDr. Cataldo: Of course. Thank you, Dr. Hatcher. We'll be in touch soon about our next step.\nDr. Hatcher: My pleasure.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Surface investigation into Dr. Hatcher's affairs has revealed no conflicting loyalties to any known Group of Interest. Dr. Hatcher is not deemed an intelligence concern at this time.\n\nAttached Documents\nDeath Certificate - Rose Hatcher\nFoundation Resume - Rose Hatcher\nPhysical Report - Rose Hatcher\n\nAdditional Notes\n\nClose\n\nDr. Cataldo,\nAgain, I want to thank you for your involvement in this project. I would like to take a moment to remind you that due to the anomalies involved in the creation of the subjects in question and the overall importance of this project, your proposals need to be cleared by three members of the board minimum. Failure to have your material signed off by three or more members is grounds for immediate dismissal of the project.\nI cannot stress enough how few opportunities we have to get this right.\nDr. Cannon\n\nCreation Date: 1983\nCurrent Status: Deceased 1985, acute uterine sarcoma.\nDesirable Traits: Practical creativity, fast reflexes, emotional control.\nUndesirable Traits: Contrarian nature, frequent lack of respect for authority, disorganization, addictive tendencies, rapidly developing endometrial and lung cancers.\n\nInterview Date: 9/4/1983\nInterviewed: Dr. Rose Hatcher 2\nInterviewer: Dr. Cataldo\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Cataldo: Thank you for meeting with me, Dr. Hatcher.\nDr. Hatcher: You're welcome.\nDr. Cataldo: I'm assuming you've been briefed on the situation?\nDr. Hatcher: Yes I have.\nDr. Cataldo: Good. Let's get right to it.\nDr. Hatcher: Lovely.\nDr. Cataldo: What are your initial concerns about your role in this initiative?\nDr. Hatcher: I'm afraid that if I meet my- my \u201ccounterpart,\u201d I'll finally see the back of my own head and there will be something inexplicably weird about the back of my skull, and I'll never stop thinking about it.\nDr. Cataldo: I see your sense of humor is the same as Hatcher 1, Doctor.\nDr. Hatcher: Why wouldn't it be?\n[Dr. Cataldo laughs]\nDr. Cataldo: Moving right along. What would you say is your favorite childhood memory?\nDr. Hatcher: When I was nine, my father took me to LegoLand and let me shovel whatever Legos I liked into a bucket. Best day of my life.\nDr. Cataldo: Really the best toy. What is your deepest intangible fear?\nDr. Hatcher: That people won't listen to me in emergencies, and it'll result in people getting hurt.\nDr. Cataldo: Understandable. And if you had to rate your loyalty to the Foundation on a scale of one to five, where do you think you would fall?\nDr. Hatcher: Three.\nDr. Cataldo: Could you elaborate on that?\nDr. Hatcher: I'm more loyal to things like my family than I am to my place of work. I'm perfectly happy to do my duty that I'm paid for, but I think it's no surprise that I take issue with the way things are run around here.\nDr. Cataldo: Right. That concludes our interview, Dr. Hatcher, thank you again for coming in.\nDr. Hatcher: How's it going?\nDr. Cataldo: I'm sorry?\nDr. Hatcher: The project. 5132.\nDr. Cataldo: It's\u2026 we've encountered a few hitches we weren't expecting.\nDr. Hatcher: Stuff you can fix in the next go-round.\nDr. Cataldo: Probably. We have several ideas we are planning on trying out.\nDr. Hatcher: Well, we'll see how this all goes.\nDr. Cataldo: I guess we will.\n<End Log>\n\nNotes: Age-up cloning technology usage halted after personnel observed a trend in dramatically increased risk of genetic diseases in subjects. Project advanced to Phase 2.\nAttached Documents\nCongenital Disease History - Rose Hatcher 2\nNotes from 5132 staff oncologist\nNotes on viability of age-advanced clones created by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nProposal for supplemental use of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 - Denied\n\nClose\n\nDr. Cataldo,\nYour humanity does not go unappreciated. But while I'm glad you're thinking compassionately, I need to remind you that your position on this project does not include research into SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 or any other Foundation project. While all the diseases observed in the subjects are indeed non-anomalous, using any anomaly for cancer research would be an improper use of Foundation resources and could cause vastly more problems than it would solve.\nFurthermore, I would like you to think about the importance of this project. The Foundation is approaching its twilight if we don't find a solution. We are hemorrhaging personnel at an unsustainable rate. The 5132 project has the potential to save our organization if we can stay focused on the task at hand.\nDr. Cannon\n\nBirth Date: 1986\nCurrent Status: Deceased 2012, gunshot wound.\nDesirable Traits: Fast reflexes, emotional control, logical thinking, high Foundation loyalty.\nUndesirable Traits: Inclination toward social isolation, lack of compassionate empathy, unpredictable impulsivity, chronic depression, self-destructive behavior.\n\nInterviewed: Individual 5132-32.3\nInterviewer: Dr. Katharine Clark\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Clark: Good morning, Miss Hatcher.\n5132-32.3: 32.3. Hatcher was my predecessor, if memory serves.\nDr. Clark: \u2026Right. Ms. Hatcher, sorry.\n5132-32.3: It's my understanding that you have questions for me.\nDr. Clark: Yeah. Yeah, I do, hold on. Okay. What are your initial concerns about your role in this initiative?\n5132-32.3: I have no concerns to voice at this time.\nDr. Clark: Uh- okay. Yeah. Next is\u2026 what would you say is your favorite childhood memory?\n[5132-32.3 is silent for several seconds.]\n5132-32.3: I'm not sure what the point of this question is.\nDr. Clark: I-it's a part of the project. Sorry. Does anything come to mind?\n5132-32.3: \u2026one of my caretakers took me off-site to get ice cream at McDonald's once.\nDr. Clark: Okay. What is your deepest intangible fear?\n5132-32.3: Nothing comes to mind.\nDr. Clark: 32.3, if you had to rate your loyalty to the Foundation on a scale of one to five, where do you think you would fall?\n5132-32.3: Five.\nDr. Clark: Really?\n5132-32.3: The Foundation raised me. Where else would I have to go?\nDr. Clark: \u2026oh.\n[Several seconds of silence pass]\nDr. Clark: Yeah. Okay. Uh- that concludes this interview, Ms. Hatcher. Any parting thoughts?\n5132-32.3: None, thanks.\nDr. Clark: Alright.\n<End Log>\n\nNotes: Individual 5132-32.3 was killed three months following this interview in an altercation with Individual 5132-16.3, Raiden Key. Due to pervasive problems with subjects' mental stability and behavior, project will progress to Phase 3 and relocate base of operations to Negaseattle, Washington.\nAdditional Documents\nInitial Phase Proposal - Gen. Ross\nAssigned Training Staff List\nIncidentReport.5132.3A\nIncidentReport.5132.7C\nIncidentReport.5132.12A\nIncidentReport.5132.13B\nIncidentReport.5132.16C\nIncidentReport.5132.20A\nDisciplinary Record - Individual 5132-32.3\nProperty Damage Record - Individual 5132-32.3\nDeath Certificate - Individual 5132-32.3\nNotes on self-termination of Individual 5132-16.3\n\nPersonal notes - Dr. Clark\n\nClose\n\nOct. 5 1998\nI worry about the kids.\nI understand why we are conducting this phase the way that we are. Raising them within the Foundation, starting their training as early as possible, limiting their connection to the outside world, I understand why we are doing it. They are not ordinary children, they will not have ordinary lives. The course they have set ahead of them is, by design, extremely difficult and high-pressure, and they need to be introduced to that early. They aren't even human, strictly speaking. We still are not 100% on any side effects produced long-term by the anomaly that created them.\nBut as I'm watching them, monitoring their health and progress, I'm having major doubts about how we have set this up.\nTheir development is normal, comparatively. Maybe it's only been a dozen years, but none of them are showing anything abnormal in the timeline of their development. They have shown, however, signs of progressively severe mental problems. A morbid part of me thinks maybe it's beneficial in the long run, given that most Foundation employees end up with some kind of mental illness anyway. But another part of me is still dubious of our plan to raise children in an underground military bunker, for their sake.\nUnfortunately, this project isn't about what's best for them. It's about what's best for all of us. We've already botched one phase. We are running out of chances.\n\nBirth Date: 2010\nCurrent Status: Active, currently in care of Dr. Elaine Marten and former special agent Griffith Hook.\nDesirable Traits: Practical creativity, high motivation, strong social skills, fast reflexes, Foundation loyalty.\nUndesirable Traits: Contrarian nature, impulsivity, disorganization, willful attitude.\n\nInterview Date: 12/9/2026\nInterviewed: Rose Hatcher 4\nInterviewer: Dr. Clark\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Clark: How are you feeling, Rosie?\nHatcher: Pretty good. How are you?\nDr. Clark: I'm doing alright, thanks for asking.\nHatcher: Is this for the clone thing?\nDr. Clark: Yeah, it's for the \u201cclone thing.\u201d How do you feel about your role in this \u201cclone thing?\u201d Any concerns?\nHatcher: Um, I get nervous about if I'm living up to the expectation.\nDr. Clark: What expectation is that, do you think?\nHatcher: The expectation that I'll keep being the coolest person in the Foundation. Gotta keep up that rep.\n[Dr. Clark laughs]\nDr. Clark: I'm sure you'll still be the coolest. Okay, what would you say is your favorite childhood memory?\n[Hatcher thinks for a moment]\nHatcher: Umm, tie between when Griff got me that robot kit when I was little and that one time me and Rai snuck out after curfew and shot off fireworks inside that gross old water tower outside of town.[4\nDr. Clark: \u2026I uh, I remember being briefed on that second one, actually!\nHatcher: Oh, yeah, we got in big trouble for that. They were BIG mad.\nDr. Clark: Well, I'm just glad you're both alright. Okay, Rosie, if you had to rate your loyalty to the Foundation on a scale of one to five, where do you think that would be?\nHatcher: Um, five.\nDr. Clark: That's good to hear!\nHatcher: But- I dunno. Of course I want to do what I can to fix everything. I know that's why I'm here, but like\u2026 I could really use more of a break sometimes? They push us pretty hard. Not that that's a bad thing! It's just a lot sometimes. Am I rambling?\nDr. Clark: No, I see what you mean. Alright, last one, what is your deepest intangible fear?\nHatcher: That I'll mess it up.\n<End Log>\n\nAttached Documents\nBirth Certificate - Rose Hatcher 4\nPediatric Notes - Elaine Marten\nEducational Regimen and Assigned Staff\nComprehensive Report of Anomalous Idiosyncrasies within Subjects\nSchooling Records - Rose Hatcher 4\nSurveillance Records - Rose Hatcher 4\n\nMessage to 5132 childcare staff\n\nClose\n\nHappy weekend everyone,\nAs you all know, first quarter test scores came in on Monday. The board has observed subpar marks from over half the subjects. This memo is a reminder of our goal with this project and the importance of our work here. The initiative is committed to providing the optimal environment for the rearing and education of children, and any subjects not meeting their objectives in mental and physical areas needs their system reevaluated by their caretakers until they can properly meet our standards.\nTeam, do not forget that these are not just children. They are our last chance. They are the future of the Foundation. I cannot stress enough that should Phase 3 fail, we do not get another shot. You're encouraged to speak to your charges about the importance of their position if you think that will motivate them to work harder.\nThe children are the future, everyone. Good work.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Childcare, teaching, pediatrics, psychology, combat, congenital defects\n2. see Document 5132-A\n3. For additional subject overviews, see Document 5132-A.\n4. For information regarding the continued surveillance of \"Quarry Bomb Club,\" see Dossier 5132-32.4.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5131 | SCP-5132 | SCP-5133 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5133\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nAn instance of SCP-5133-1, sliced horizontally.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A small greenhouse with semi-opaque glass paneling has been constructed near SCP-5133. The greenhouse is to be equipped with standard living amenities to accommodate a part-time Foundation handler, and stocked with necessary sanitary supplies. Access to the greenhouse requires permission from the current Project Director, and Level-2 clearance.\nSCP-5133 is to be checked every four hours for the presence of new SCP-5133-1 instances. All instances of SCP-5133-1 that leave the immediate vicinity of the pond are to be captured, and stored in standard wildlife observation containers within the greenhouse. Any further care of the pond and frogs can be entrusted to SCP-5133-2.\nSCP-5133-2 is considered contained on-site while inhabiting its current residence, and is under Foundation protective custody. The part-time handler assigned to SCP-5133-2 is to interview it once weekly about any new developments within SCP-5133. If questioned by civilians, the cover story to be provided is that the Foundation handler is the part-time personal caretaker of SCP-5133-2, due to its advanced age.\n\nA close-up image of SCP-5133.\n\nDescription: SCP-5133 is a small pond, approximately 4.5 square meters in surface area and 1.9 meters deep at its lowest point. SCP-5133's primary anomaly is the production of SCP-5133-1.\nSCP-5133-1 appear to be Southern Brown Tree Frogs (Litoria ewingii); however, the 'flesh' of an SCP-5133-1 instance beneath the skin consists exclusively of varying types of fruit. Types of fruit within SCP-5133-1 entities exhibit no pattern, save for the commonality of the fruits originating from tropical climates. Chemical analysis has determined that these fruits contain upwards of three times the amount of vitamins typically found in their non-anomalous variants. Upon consumption of SCP-5133-1 fruit, subjects report that SCP-5133-1 taste \"much better\" than a regular fruit of the same type, and that fruit from SCP-5133-1 instances deceased due to old age are the tastiest.\nSCP-5133-1 appear to voluntarily remain within 3 meters of SCP-5133, but will not resist when picked up or lured away. The frogs are extremely docile and show no signs of behavioral changes when harmed. Instances of SCP-5133-1 act as regular Southern Brown Tree Frogs in their natural environment, even when removed from SCP-5133. Instances of SCP-5133-1 will regularly prey upon insects commonly eaten by Southern Brown Tree Frogs, if available; however, the frogs do not appear to require any sustenance to remain active. SCP-5133-1 will nonetheless age at the same rate as their non-anomalous counterparts. It has been noted that infrequently, SCP-5133-1 will emit vocalizations similar to the sound of a middle-aged female human humming.\nAddendum 5133-A: SCP-5133 was originally brought to Foundation attention after an undercover field agent assigned to a local police station intercepted an unusual call requesting animal control assistance. The caller had reported a \"pond full of frogs with fruit for meat\" and alleged that the owner of the pond was scamming the town's weekly farmers market with unethically sourced \"fake gourmet produce that looks like fruit but is actually dirty frogs\". Foundation personnel later interviewed and amnesticized the caller, and subsequently went to investigate SCP-5133.\nThe owner of SCP-5133, designated SCP-5133-2, is an elderly Vietnamese man known solely by his surname, Nguyen. SCP-5133-2, when questioned about the frogs, simply stated that the pond existed as a joint project between him and his favorite granddaughter, who wanted him to have some form of reliable income.1 The personnel interviewing SCP-5133-2 offered a trade for further compliance: the Foundation would provide caretaking services for SCP-5133-2 and the SCP-5133-1 instances, as well as help keep SCP-5133 out of the immediate public eye. SCP-5133-2 agreed to the exchange provided that he was still permitted to sell his fruit arrangements at the weekly farmers market.\nBelow is an excerpt from the first formal interview of SCP-5133-2 conducted by Foundation staff. The veracity of SCP-5133-2's statements has yet to be investigated.\n\nAn instance of SCP-5133-1 carved by SCP-5133-2\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5133-2\nInterviewer: Dr. W. Baxter\nForeword: Interview conducted shortly after construction on the SCP-5133 adjacent greenhouse began. SCP-5133-2 and Dr. Baxter are seated on the front porch of SCP-5133-2's residence. SCP-5133-2 is using a small knife to cut decorative shapes out of SCP-5133-1 fruit, to assemble into a flower-shaped fruit arrangement. It is noted that the interview takes place during late evening, with the only light present being from Dr. Baxter's tablet screen and fireflies near SCP-5133. SCP-5133-2's vision does not seem negatively impacted by this.\nDr. Baxter: Hello Mr. Nguyen. Would you please do your best to explain what SCP-5133 is and how it was created?\nSCP-5133-2: Well, to be very up front with it, my granddaughter is a fairy. She had to reincarnate three times to get there. Believe it or not, however you want.\nDr. Baxter: A fairy granddaughter? Regardless of if I believe you or not, why would she create SCP-5133?\nSCP-5133-2: We made the pond to celebrate. Well, she celebrated. She shed her fairy magic into the pond so she could become human again. Shed away her power just like an apple blossom sheds its petals. I suppose when you come back from the dead three times for a human, it is because you want to be together with them. Even though they live less time than an apple.\nDr. Baxter: Regarding that, can you tell me why SCP-5133-1 is made out of fruit? Do you and your granddaughter have some kind of connection to that?\nSCP-5133-2: Yes, she was an apple once. I was once an apple too, and frogs. Many good frog lives I had.\nDr. Baxter: So you claim to be a 'fairy' as well? If that's true then why are you here and not with your granddaughter?\nSCP-5133-2: I did not want to give up being a fairy, after so many times returning. Or maybe I was scared of never coming back again, after one last life. However you want to think of it. She is happy with her human husband, happy to be near the end of her life when he is near the end of his, and what else is a grandfather to do if his favorite granddaughter is happy? I live here to be close to her, but far from others. As I can manage.\nDr. Baxter: Can we arrange a meeting with your granddaughter? We would also like to ask her a few questions.\nSCP-5133-2: My granddaughter is someone you must earn the privilege to meet. She may no longer be of the fairy court, but I am still her grandfather. And though you have proven to be less conniving than my daughter-in-law and her hateful spawn, I do not trust you with more secrets now. You may know of our frogs, but no more.\nDr. Baxter: You do not seem to be fond of your daughter-in-law, why is that?\nSCP-5133-2: Sometimes you do not reincarnate because of a peaceful death. Sometimes a family member kills you. Sometimes they are jealous enough to kill you multiple times, because they want you gone multiple times. Believe it or not, however you want.\nDr. Baxter: But wouldn't your daughter-in-law be your granddaughter's mother?\nSCP-5133-2: My daughter-in-law is my only son's second wife. I do not consider her part of our family, or our court. A step-mother that we would step away from, as much as possible. May her cruel guts boil in a hole for eternity.\nDr. Baxter: Is that why you ended up living in such a rural area?\nSCP-5133-2: We two, granddaughter and myself, we left. Crowded court life, crowded family life, no more of it. I am here with my frogs to forget what I disliked of the world. And be reminded of my granddaughter, though she is not here. And I will be here for long after, with what is left of her. Perhaps one day, one of her frogs will be not a fruit, but a fairy.\nDr. Baxter: Thank you for answering my questions Mr. Nguyen. Is there anything else you wish to discuss?\nSCP-5133-2: I suppose it is you I must thank for taking my words and not loosing them to evil ears. And I must ask you for one thing more.\nDr. Baxter: We are here to help, Mr. Nguyen.\nSCP-5133-2: Humans notice when an old man can carve fruit for years and not age a day or tremble in his hands. Will you help me hide away, make some excuses for me, when I must falsify retirement?\nDr. Baxter: I think you will find the Foundation to be rather experienced in that department. No one other than us will be aware of your true nature, Mr. Nguyen.\nSCP-5133-2: Could you also obtain a small space heater? I would like one of those for my feet in the winter. However you want.\nDr. Baxter: Certainly, I will put in a request after this interview.\n\nAddendum 5133-B: As of 02-12-2008, SCP-5133-2 has agreed to sell specimens of SCP-5133-1 to the Foundation in exchange for regular deliveries of groceries. The Project Director approved the arrangement and appended the agreement that the Foundation provide utilities payments for SCP-5133-2's dwelling, in exchange for fruit arrangements crafted by SCP-5133-2. As these arrangements are non-anomalous, they may be provided for staff gatherings per Director discretion.\nUp to this point, Foundation personnel have never witnessed SCP-5133-2 being visited by his granddaughter. SCP-5133-2, when prompted, simply states that he is \"patiently waiting with the frogs, hoping someday she may return.\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. According to local townsfolk, for the past decade, Mr. Nguyen had been known for his intricate fruit arrangements, which he sold for high prices at farmers markets and fairs.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5132 | SCP-5133 | SCP-5134 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImages: Link.\nMusic: Blood (My Chemical Romance)\n\nMore by aismallard.\nThanks to:\n\nThe Great Hippo\nUncle Nicolini\nSoullessSingularity\n\n\nFig 1.1: Photograph of first documented SCP-5134 case, early-stage.\n\nItem #: SCP-5134\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Individuals found infested with SCP-5134 are to be quarantined under Class-VIII biological containment protocol and moved to Bio Area-249. Experimentation to halt or cure SCP-5134 is ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5134 is a highly contagious fungus spread through skin contact or airborne spores. Infection begins either upon skin contact or in the nose as anomalous particulates interact with mitral cells. Spores begin manifesting after a few days and spread as the unaware individual touches their body.\nAfter incubation, affected flesh begins to exhibit signs of chronic hives. Tactile pressure on infected areas causes fungal stalks to collapse, forming brittle flakes which have the appearance of dead skin. The newly-exposed flesh causes embedded spores to erupt and clots blood, resulting in bruising. SCP-5134 growth can then proceed deeper, converting underlying cells into further fungal structures.\nConsequently, any physical contact on an infected individual will permanently scrape off that area of bodily tissue.\nAddendum 5134.1: Study of Infected Subject\nThe following is a selection from an individual's weekly interview. They have been in containment for five months, with an SCP-5134 infestation considered to be mid-stage. Per biohazard protocol, the subject was maintained in their cell and interviewed remotely.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nDATE: 2009/02/17\nINTERVIEWER: Dr. Chen\nSUBJECT: E-94013\n\n[BEGIN LOG.]\nCHEN: Hello Mr. Lamport. I hope containment has been acceptable.\nSUBJECT: Fine. Food's been worse than usual.\nCHEN: How have you been feeling since last week?\nSUBJECT: It's mostly the same. Nothing to do, boring as hell.\nCHEN: All right. I see noted here you've been complaining of headaches recently, has the medication been helping?\n[ Soft scratching. ]\nSUBJECT: Oh, right. Been having a hard time sleeping for a couple days now. Rolling over in my sleep a lot, and you know what that's like.\nCHEN: Yes, I remember reviewing last week's chamber cleaning.\nSUBJECT: Hmm. You know, I'm actually glad you guys make me do exercise. It hurts and all, but every once in a while I feel okay.\nCHEN: That's good to hear. I believe there's a new exercise program, I can see about getting you into the trial for it.\n[ Scratching sounds. ]\nSUBJECT: Yeah, sure.\nCHEN: Okay, cool. Anything else you'd like to say?\n[ Gentle tearing sound. ]\nSUBJECT: Not really.\nCHEN: (nods) So coming up this week the research team wants to try a new treatment. It'll be more of the flashing lights, but with a buzzing kind-of audio component.\n[ Rough scratching. ]\nSUBJECT: Last damn time I got this terrible headache. Can we just not do any new treatments? Like \u2014\nCHEN: We think we worked out the issues with that cognitovaccine. It should be a lot more stable.\nSUBJECT: God, fine. Whatever.\n[ Quiet scratching can be heard. ]\nCHEN: Mr. Lamport, do \u2014\nSUBJECT: I just hate this goddamn place. Why can't you euthanize me already?\nCHEN: We \u2014 I told you what happened to Ms. Jorgensen, right?\n[ Scratching stops. ]\nSUBJECT: (pauses) I know. I just wish you'd focus on that and not cures. This shit isn't getting a cure.\n[ Dry snapping sound, followed by a pronounced groan. ]\nSUBJECT: Aargh\u2026 fuck, my eyelid.\nCHEN: Place it in the biohazard disposal bin.\n[END LOG.]\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\naismallard's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-1047-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4322 \u2022\n\nSCP-4781 \u2022\n\nSCP-5502 \u2022\n\nSCP-5871 \u2022\n\nSCP-5900 \u2022\n\nSCP-3597 \u2022\n\nSCP-4838 \u2022\n\nSCP-6115 \u2022\n\nSCP-4447 \u2022\n\nSCP-5510 \u2022\n\nSCP-4853 \u2022\n\nSCP-1294-J \u2022\n\nSCP-7558 \u2022\n\nSCP-4339 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nThe Pumpkin Mystery \u2022\n\nStealing Something Else \u2022\n\nContinuous Integration \u2022\n\nThe Heart of the Beast \u2022\n\nOther\n\naismallard's personnel file \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5133 | SCP-5134 | SCP-5135 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5135\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSecure Containment Procedures: Physical evidence supporting the existence of the events of SCP-5135 are to be secured and archived. People claiming to remember any events associated with SCP-5135 are to be administered amnestics and, pending brief psychological review, released without further incident.\nThe area containing SCP-5135-1 is to be secured with a 1 km radius exclusion area inside the Golden Gate National Recreation Area marked with physical security, fencing, and security personnel. SCP-5135-1 itself is to be sealed inside a 10m x 10m sarcophagus with cement walls no less than .5m in thickness. There is to be no door into the container. Note: This sarcophagus is meant to protect SCP-5135-1 from exterior forces; it will offer no mitigation of destructive impact in the event of detonation.\n\nApproximate location of SCP-5135-1.\n\nDescription: SCP-5135 is a global-scale armed conflict which did not occur between 2009 and 2017, for which evidence exists that it did. This evidence, which consists of documents, radio signals, photographs, and fragments of digital data such as images and communications, has been recovered intermittently since 2011. It is theorized that this evidence is an anomalous manifestation of an alternate, parallel timeline (See Addendum Z)\nWhile very little exists about the details of SCP-5135, some general information about the cause, context, and impact of the conflict has been learned through examination of the recovered data:\n\nSCP-5135 involves at least 4 global superpowers, of which two are The United States and People's Republic of China.\nSCP-5135 utilizes a high level of espionage and cyber warfare.\nThe first physical military engagement on U.S. soil occurred in 2010, with additional engagements occurring several times since then, as late as 2014.\nWidespread misinformation campaigns are integral to the strategies of at least the U.S. and one other belligerent.\nThe conflict has included nuclear engagements since at least 2016.\nThe Foundation may be involved.\n\nSCP-5135-1 is an undetonated nuclear device. It is of a size and payload similar to the Soviet RDS-202 hydrogen bomb (\"Tsar Bomba\") tested on October 30, 1961. The casing is inscribed (See below). Its estimated yield is approximately 97 megatons.\n\nCasing inscription\nThe families lost\nKau'ai, HI - 12/24/2012\n[indistinguishable], NC - 3/12/2016\nThis one's for you\n\nSCP-5135-1 is locked in a temporal stasis field, and presently hovers 104.6cm above the ground. The source of this field is unknown, but is suspected to be caused by Foundation personnel or an equivalent in the SCP-5135 timeline. Measurements suggest that despite appearing still, SCP-5135-1 retains its momentum and kinetic energy; as such, any physical interaction with it may cause instant detonation.\n\nAddendum 1: Theorized timeline\n\nClose\n\nThe following is a possible timeline of events for SCP-5135:\n\n2008: The United States sends emergency relief supplies in response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Some of these supplies are contaminated with biological agents that cause a biological outbreak resulting in an unknown number of casualties.\nEarly 2009: Chinese agents operating in the U.S. uncover that this contamination was intentional. China launches a military strike against the United States. Details and U.S. response unknown.\nNovember 2009: After escalated military engagements over the year, another nation joins the engagement with a military operation against China. The United States denies affiliation or alliance with this third nation.\n2010: Military troops arrive on the East Coast of the United States from another unknown nation.\n2011: In a closed-door summit, members of the European Union express a desire for this conflict to end.\nSummer 2012: Military forces attack Hawaii, and set up a military installation on Kaua\u02bbi. The U.S. begins their siege of this installation.\nDecember 24, 2012: The United States bombs the installation on Kaua\u02bbi, killing hundreds of military and civilians. The U.S. Considers this operation a success.\nEarly 2013: The National Security Agency begins a disinformation campaign to quell growing US concerns after the bombing of U.S. Civilians.\nMarch 2016: A nuclear strike occurs on U.S. soil.\nJune 2016: An aircraft with a nuclear payload is shot down over Italy by unknown aggressors, resulting in catastrophic loss of civilian life.\n\nNo evidence has been recovered regarding any events after this occurred. It is unclear if the war ended after this point, or the world devolved into a self-destructive nuclear conflict.\n\nClose\n\nAddendum 2: Collected evidence of SCP-5135\n\nClose\nInventory Code: 5135-E-1\nDescription: A corrupted digital photograph of a U.S Government document, indicating a military strike by China in early 2009.\nContents:\n\nSections in red are marked for redaction under 50 U.S.C. \u00a7 403.1\n\nhours to do something \u2026 decision NOW. This was unprovoked, and we need to continue to show that the American People are strong in the face of chaos.\nI have expressed to the Chinese Ambassador that in light of this attack, we will be asking the Chinese government to recall him; we would like this done before the end of March.\nLet me reiterate to all of you that the impact of this attack \u2026 the American way of life is the highest priority. There will [be no] mercy for those who would attempt to inf\u2026 values, our lands, and our way [of life]. \u2026 moving forward \u2026\n\nInventory Code: 5135-E-2\nDescription: An audio fragment of a phone call between an unknown U.S. Government employee, possibly employed by the U.S. Secretary of State, and an unknown party.\nContents:\n\nMetadata indicates this call took place in on November 19, 2009 at 05:43PM EST.\n\nUnknown: Well, the secretary of state already said we're disavowing any relationship with them.\n(pause)\nRegardless, the CMC2 is being briefed that we're involved.\n(pause)\nThey don't know that. And with all the attacks this year I can't imagine Dale3 is going to authorize that kind of conversation.\n(pause)\nAlright, sir, I understand.\n\nInventory Code: 5135-E-3\nDescription: An encrypted plain text file from an unknown U.S. operative. Significant data loss.\nContents:\n\nPRC AWARE US IN\u2588OLV IN 08 BIO OP\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ORCES OPERATING\u2588IN\u2588KAUAI SINCE J\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258812\nFOUN\u2588\u2588\u2588ION HAND\u2588\u2588\u2588G RESP\u2588\u2588SE MO\u2588ING F\u2588R\u2588\u2588RD\nNSA SUP\u2588\u2588SS INFO '10 E COAST ENGA\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nPOPU\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nInventory Code: 5135-E-5\nDescription: Brief excerpt of Air Traffic Control signal picked up by Italian ENAV (Air Traffic Control). Transmissions are from Italy Area Control Center in Rome (ROMA), U.S. Army 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team Airborne (\"REDTAIL\"), and Unidentified Aircraft (UAC001).4\nContents:\n\n[061616/043514] ENAV-ROMA: Aircraft heading 1-8-5, ENAV-ROMA, are you on radio?\n[061616/043555] ENAV-ROMA: Aircraft heading 1-8-5, ROMA, are you on radio?\n[061616/043623] ENAV-ROMA: Aircraft 1-8-5 . ENAV-ROMA Visual. Squawk 7-6-0-0 if radio inoperative. ROMA.\n[061616/043637] REDTAIL01: ROMA, Army 1-0-1-6 heading 0-2-5. Army 10-16.\n[061616/043645] ENAV-ROMA: Army 10-16, ROMA, Are you\u2014is that\u2014Aircraft heading 1-8-5 was that you? (In Italian) I don't know what's going on up there.\n[061616/043654] REDTAIL01: ROMA, Army 10-16, negative.\n[061616/043703] ENAV-ROMA: Army, uh\u2026stand by. Aircraft heading 1-8-7, ENAV [BLOCKED]\n[061616/043707] UAC001: ROMA, All is well.\n[061616/043721] REDTAIL01: ENAV, we've\u2014 [anti-aircraft gunfire heard]\n[061616/043725] ENAV-ROMA: Army, are you [BLOCKED]\n[061616/043726] REDTAIL01: Cease fire! Cease fire! U.S. Army 173rd Infantry Airborne, Cease Fire!\n[061616/043730] UAC001: Cease fire, Advise I am carrying nuclear [BLOCKED]\n[061616/043732] ENAV-ROMA: Advise! Advise!\n[061616/043733] UAC001: I am hit, Mayday, Mayday, Mayday, [BLOCKED] engine damaged aircraft\u2014gunfire\u2014flight level 5 thousand\n[061616/043735] REDTAIL01: Where is he? Where is [BLOCKED]\n[061616/043738] ENAV-ROMA: [BLOCKED] position, souls on board, can you maintain [BLOCKED]\n[061616/043739] UAC001: [BLOCKED] not maintain \u2014 8 souls \u2014 nuclear payload \u2014 crashing\u2014\n[061616/043743] ENAV-ROMA: (background noise heard) What\u2014 (in Italian) Oh Jesus, it's nuclear, oh God, it's so close, it's\u2014\n\nEnd of recording.\n\nClose\n\nAddendum 3: Additional observations\n\nClose\n\nDr. Voight is a theoretical physicist specializing in temporal anomalies, and is employed in the Foundation office of the Historian.\n\nRecording begins.\nDr. Delkirk: There is one thing they want to be completely and totally clear about.\nDr. Voight: Yes?\nDr. Delkirk: I want to be certain that this war is not something that happened in our reality. We are not threatened by it.\nDr. Voight: Doctor, that's a bit of a complicated question. On the surface, yes, it definitely seems that this war tangibly did not happen here. The collection of items we've uncovered paint a very stark picture of a world that we are quite sure never occurred.\nDr. Delkirk: But you have another theory?\nDr. Voight: Unfortunately. There is the possibility that the war did happen. (long pause) It could still be happening.\nDr. Delkirk: Where?\nDr. Voight: Here. On earth, in this reality.\nDr. Delkirk: (Scribbles into notebook) Some kind of anti-memetic war? And these pieces of evidence are\u2014\nDr. Voight: No. Not an anomalous war. A mundane one. Perhaps contained partially by anomalous means, but a mundane war nonetheless.\nDr. Delkirk: SCP-5135 is a full-scale armed conflict, Doctor, involving multiple nuclear attacks and massive loss of both military and civilian life.\nDr. Voight: And?\nDr. Delkirk: That's not something you could easily hide.\nDr. Voight: You're not a military man, are you? If you don't mind me saying so.\nDr. Delkirk: No.\nDr. Voight: Ever been to Iraq?\nDr. Delkirk: No.\nDr. Voight: Can you tell me, how do you know the war in Iraq happened?\nDr. Delkirk: Through historical records, media reporting\u2014\nDr. Voight: And if there was none? (Pause) What if the news never reported on the War in Iraq? Never made statements about it, never decorated soldiers for it. Would you even know it happened?\nDr. Delkirk: You're talking about a coverup on a global scale. Wouldn't there be evidence?\nDr. Voight: (tapping the front page of the containment file for SCP-5135) \"Physical evidence supporting the existence of the events of SCP-5135 are to be secured and archived.\"\n(long silence)\nDr. Delkirk: My god. Are we\u2026are we the coverup?\nRecording ends.\n\nClose\n\nVoight? Yeah, it's Dell. Delkirk. I'm just\u2026yeah. Just\u2026what if this isn't the only thing they're hiding behind a containment file? Right. Right, exactly. Hang on, someone's at the door\u2014\n\nFootnotes\n1. Information classified under the authority of the CIA.\n2. The Central Military Commission of China\n3. This individual has not yet been identified.\n4. Note: \"[BLOCKED]\" Indicates the message was blocked by another transmission.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5134 | SCP-5135 | SCP-5136 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5136\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5136 is contained at Site-93 in a humanoid containment unit outfitted with radioactive shielding and detection equipment. Personnel interacting physically with SCP-5136 must be outfitted with radiation protective gear at all times and must be trained in de-escalation and relaxation techniques1.\nAddendum 02/15/2021. Project Inanna is indefinitely suspended. SCP-5136's outdoor excursions are prohibited until further notice.\n\n+ ARCHIVED: Special Containment Procedures Addendum, 05/02/2020.\n\n- ARCHIVED: Special Containment Procedures Addendum, 05/02/2020.\n\nUpon recommendation from Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez, SCP-5136's schedule has been updated to include a daily excursion to the wooded grove within Site-93's perimeter, for the purposes of physical wellbeing and personal meditation. Two security staff equipped with radiation suits are to accompany SCP-5136 on this excursion, which is not to last longer than 90 minutes.\nFurther psychological & emotional evaluations are now to be completed on a weekly basis.\n\n+ ARCHIVED: Special Containment Procedures Addendum, 07/14/2020.\n\n- ARCHIVED: Special Containment Procedures Addendum, 07/14/2020.\n\nUpon recommendation from Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez, SCP-5136 is now primarily contained by the successful implementation of Project Inanna (see below). This has mitigated the worst effects of SCP-5136's recent emotional deterioration, and almost completely eliminated any involuntary radioactive emissions.\nAlthough Project Inanna represents a significant drain on Site-93 resources, its costs are still significantly lower than those projected for the sophisticated shielding and pacification that containment of SCP-5136 would otherwise require.\nResearch into SCP-5136's emergent telepathic connection is tentatively approved, but care must be taken when discussing sensitive topics, including Maria Fischer, Elizabeth Garc\u00eda, romantic love, depression, loneliness, and heartbreak.\n\nDescription: SCP-5136 is the designation given to Benjamin Speers, formerly of Lincoln, Nebraska. SCP-5136 constantly emits low-intensity ionizing radiation: a 1-minute exposure to SCP-5136 delivers, on average, a 1.2 \u03bcSv dose2. However, in situations of extreme stress \u2013 especially when SCP-5136 feels its life is threatened \u2013 this emission intensifies exponentially to fatal levels, with no known upper limit.\nSCP-5136 is generally compliant & nonviolent. Despite its plainly stated dissatisfaction with containment, SCP-5136 has never intentionally used its radioactive emissions to harm personnel or facilitate its own escape. Experimentation to determine SCP-5136's degree of control over this radiation is indefinitely suspended.\n\n+ ARCHIVED: Description Addendum, 05/02/2020.\n\n- ARCHIVED: Description Addendum, 05/02/2020.\n\nBeginning in April 2020, SCP-5136 displayed intensifying symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation, likely due to prolonged isolation. Private counseling3 with Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez failed to meaningfully alter SCP-5136's mental & emotional state. Coupled with SCP-5136's apparent inability to control its radioactive emissions, this agitation presented significant risk to both Foundation personnel and feasible long-term containment.\nSCP-5136's containment procedures were revised to allow for limited time outdoors each day with a security escort, which considerably improved both SCP-5136's mood and its control over its radioactive emissions.\nCurrent evidence suggests that SCP-5136's increased volatility is somehow linked to its mental state, as its \u201cradiation incontinence\u201d followed shortly after its recent mental breakdown, despite 18 months of stability in prior containment.\n\n+ ARCHIVED: Description Addendum, 07/14/2020.\n\n- ARCHIVED: Description Addendum, 07/14/2020.\n\nOn July 7, 2020, SCP-5136 began involuntarily emitting near-fatal levels of radiation with no apparent physical or emotional trigger. At the same time, SCP-5136 claimed to have suddenly become aware of Ms. Maria Fischer of Eau Claire, Wisconsin4, despite having never met or heard of her before, and expressed an intense need to \u201cmake things better\u201d for her.\nQuestioning led by Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez determined that SCP-5136 possessed significant awareness regarding Ms. Fischer's current emotional state and her history of romantic partners5. A recent period of prolonged loneliness had significantly worsened Ms. Fischer's mental health, which SCP-5136 claimed to be feeling as well.\nGiven the severity of Maria Fischer's depression and SCP-5136's associated distress, taking her into Foundation custody was deemed too great of a risk to both SCP-5136's agitation and any intensification of its radioactive effect. Ms. Fischer's water supply was laced with mood stabilizing compounds as a stopgap measure, as containment staff worked to increase radioactive shielding on SCP-5136's enclosure and devise a more long-term solution.\nAfter prolonged discussions, and with the noted objections of the Ethics Committee, Project Inanna was initiated. A viable subject was identified in Elizabeth Garc\u00eda, a coworker and acquaintance, who according to colleagues had tentatively flirted with Ms. Fischer on one occasion to no apparent reciprocation.\nRoughly two weeks after the successful launch of Project Inanna on 07/20/2020, SCP-5136's radioactive emissions dropped rapidly to near-baseline levels. Continued execution of Project Inanna was deemed necessary until a more permanent solution or explanation for SCP-5136's volatility could be devised.\nDue to the roughly 2-week delay between Ms. Fischer's emotional changes and SCP-5136's spike in radioactive emissions \u2013 and their observed exponential growth after that point \u2013 any changes to Ms. Fischer's emotional state must be resolved immediately via Project Inanna, without waiting to measure their effects on SCP-5136's radioactivity.\nUpgrade to Keter designation has been suspended, pending ongoing research into Project Inanna's long-term viability.\n\nProject Inanna:\n\n+ ARCHIVED: Overview. Access Restricted to Level 3 Personnel.\n\n- ARCHIVED: Overview. Access Restricted to Level 3 Personnel.\n\nProject Inanna is the ongoing Foundation initiative to covertly maintain the romantic relationship between Maria Fischer and Elizabeth Garc\u00eda, both of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.\nProject Inanna's current volatility status is: CRITICAL.\nThe bulk of Project Inanna focuses on surveillance of communications between Fischer and Garc\u00eda, with any direct interference disguised as random chance. As the majority of this interference occurs on the cell phones, personal computers, and office equipment of Ms. Fischer & Ms. Garc\u00eda, physical interference is only to be deployed with great care and only as a last resort.\nProject Inanna Proposal Log\n\nProposal 0001\nDate: 2020-07-10\nBrief: Manipulation of social media algorithms to promote interest between Fischer and Garc\u00eda.\nStatus: Approved\nResults: Inconclusive. No communication initiated by either subject.\n\nProposal 0002\nDate: 2020-07-11\nBrief: Manipulation of targeted advertising to promote attendance at a social gathering, centered around a mutual interest of both subjects.\nStatus: Approved\nResults: Ineffective. Fischer attended the event, but Garc\u00eda did not.\n\nExtraneous logs condensed.\n\nProposal 0007\nDate: 2020-07-15\nBrief: Incapacitation of Fischer's car and blocking of calls to coworkers other than Garc\u00eda.\nStatus: Approved\nResults: Partial success. Fischer rode with Garc\u00eda for 3 subsequent workdays, with both displaying evident satisfaction at the arrangement.\nNotes: Looks like the direct approach worked. Let's not make a habit out of it. \u2013Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez\n\nProposal 0008\nDate: 2020-07-20\nBrief: Manipulation of Fischer's internet searches for takeout food to highlight a local restaurant frequented by Garc\u00eda. Manipulation of Garc\u00eda's targeted advertising to promote the same location.\nStatus: Approved\nResults: Success. Subjects met at restaurant and opted to dine together. Instead of returning home, Fischer joined Garc\u00eda at her house after dinner.\n\nProposal 0020\nDate: 2020-10-07\nBrief: Alteration of jury duty assignments to remove Garc\u00eda from roster, to allow subjects more time together.\nStatus: Rejected by Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez\nNotes: There's no reason to micromanage their personal lives or dig deeper than we need to. They're together, things are going well, and SCP-5136 seems satisfied. We don't have to make things literally perfect for them. And anyway, they deserve at least an iota of privacy.\n\nProposal 0041\nDate: 2021-01-10\nBrief: Manipulation of targeted advertising to highlight \u201ccouples massage\u201d offer at local spa, to rekindle waning intimacy.\nStatus: Approved\nResults: Ineffective. Fischer suggested a joint spa session, but Garc\u00eda declined to join, citing lack of energy. Subjects initiate fourth argument since Thanksgiving. Fischer begins to display signs of distress consistent with those prior to Project Inanna. Site Director Stephenson notified.\n\nProposal 0042\nDate: 2021-01-11\nBrief: Application of a mild mood-altering compound to increase Garc\u00eda's desire for intimacy, to match that of Fischer's.\nStatus: Rejected by Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez and Ethics Committee liaison.\nNotes: Jesus. We are not slipping anyone a goddamned love potion. Find another fix.\n\nProposal 0047\nDate: 2021-02-05\nBrief: Application of Class-A amnestics to suppress memories of this evening's argument and subsequent termination of romantic relationship by Garc\u00eda.\nStatus: Rejected by Lead Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez and Ethics Committee liaison. Rejection overruled by Site Director Stephenson.\nResults: Amnestics deployed to both subjects at approximately 23:20. Subsequent behavior within acceptable parameters. No significant side effects noted.\nNotes: Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez reassigned. Additional resources diverted to Project Inanna, including pharmacological & amnestics experts.\n\nAt 03:52 on February 15th, Ms. Garc\u00eda attempted to call Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez's cell phone, despite no evidence or testimony from Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez about their prior acquaintance. A newly-implemented script rerouted her call and recorded her voice message, unbeknownst to Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez.\n\nHi, Raul, It's Elizabeth.\nI know we haven't talked since April and I'm really, really sorry it's so late, or early, right now, I guess. I've been up all night, I'm just thinking and, and I wanted your input, I mean, I know you're a psychologist. How much do you know about mental illnesses? Like if somebody had one. How would you know, that kind of thing. Like, what are the symptoms.\nLast time we talked, I told you about Maria. Well we're dating and it was nice for awhile but then it just felt, um, not right. I wasn't feeling it. And I thought it was just me overthinking and self-sabotaging like every other time, because we still had fun together, right, and God knows I'm good at ruining a good thing but it all felt a little\u2026perfect? Too good to be true?\nParanoia, right? I know \u201cparanoid schizophrenia\u201d, maybe that's it. I think it can't be that, but then I think how, how can the universe just, like, give me what I want like this? I know you told me to just be myself, be patient, it'll all work out. But I look back and the coincidences, they just feel too convenient, too perfect.\nYesterday was Valentine's Day and we didn't do anything. I don't remember doing anything. Except I know we did, we were somewhere, because I'm wearing my favorite dress right now. The one Maria got me for our 6-month. She said it was a steal. Like the universe just\u2013\u2013\nOh God.\nLike the universe just wanted me to have it.\nValentine's Day. Right. I don't remember it, I don't remember anything. It's all a blur, I feel like we went out but my brain is just this fog recently, I go to text her and there are messages I don't remember sending, messages I can't find that I'm certain I sent. I look at her and I\u2026I just want to hit her. But I can't remember any reason I'd want to. And I feel so shitty right now, but it's like my body is constantly energized, giddy, like it usually feels after we\u2026\nBipolar disorder, I know that one. Maybe it's that. Or maybe paranoia.\nOr maybe I just watch too much TV.\nThis wasn't okay. Calling you like this, it was a weird thing to do. I'm sorry if I woke you. It's probably nothing.\n\nWhen confronted with the recording, Researcher Hern\u00e1ndez resigned his position with the Foundation and submitted himself willingly for interrogation and amnestic treatment. Project Inanna has been suspended indefinitely.\n\n+ Interview Log, SCP-5136. Project Inanna Decommission Followup.\n\n- Interview Log, SCP-5136. Project Inanna Decommission Followup.\n\nDate: 2021-02-16\nInterviewed: SCP-51366\nInterviewer: Dr. Ivanova, Interim Lead Researcher, SCP-5136\nDr. Ivanova: Good evening, Ben. I have a few follow-up questions from our earlier discussion, if you feel up to it.Dr. Ivanova: Right now, your candor is more important than your guilt.Dr. Ivanova: I'm glad to hear it. (pause) Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez claims that you faked your way through the \u201cempathic link\u201d tests on Maria Fischer with his help and a few subtle in-the-moment cues. An impressive piece of theatre.Dr. Ivanova: The private counseling.Dr. Ivanova: This process is about more than punishing Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez. This is about making sure it can't happen again. I can't make any promises about how we'll use your answers, but I know that won't stop you from being honest about something so important.Dr. Ivanova: If you were willing to actually hurt people to make yourself more comfortable, you would've gone nuclear the day we brought you in.\nSilence. Dr. Ivanova makes several notes.\nDr. Ivanova: To be clear: you had no knowledge of either Elizabeth Garc\u00eda or Maria Fischer, prior to this scheme with Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez?Dr. Ivanova: He overestimated his ability to keep the project low-profile.Dr. Ivanova: You'll be happy to hear that Dr. Hern\u00e1ndez corroborated your story. Insisted the entire scheme was his idea. Even your faked agitation and the \u201cnature walks\u201d cure.Dr. Ivanova: But no involuntary radiation?Dr. Ivanova: Did he.Dr. Ivanova: Those are all the follow-up questions I have for now. Thank you for your time, Ben.Dr. Ivanova: I'll see what we can do about your walks. I can't promise anything.Dr. Ivanova: Have a good evening, Ben.<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. As SCP-5136 reacts negatively to sedation, any attempts at pacification must prioritize psychological tactics.\n2. Roughly equivalent to a single arm X-ray scan.\n3. Private counseling logs are restricted to Level 4 Personnel and Ethics Committee representatives.\n4. Closest major city to Site-93, at a distance of 80 km.\n5. The majority of this information was corroborated by field investigators during the early research stages of Project Inanna.\n6. Addressed as given name \"Ben\" in interviews to reduce agitation & facilitate compliance.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5135 | SCP-5136 | SCP-5137 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5137\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Each instance of SCP-5137 is kept in a separate containment chamber. Living personnel are not to come in contact with SCP-5137 outside of testing. Those that come within close proximity to SCP-5137 are required to adopt a friendly disposition towards the instance.\nDescription: SCP-5137 denotes a number of thaumaturgically animated constructs made out of an intact human epidermis. SCP-5137 instances resemble previously living humans, and consist of the epidermis, hair, and nails of the individual. Their overall body shape remains humanoid in form, regardless of their lack of muscles, bones, and other support structures. Despite lacking the required anatomy, SCP-5137 are capable of locomotion, vocalization, sight and hearing. They possess a rudimentary sentience and a limited vocabulary, most of which revolves around the concept of friendship.\nWhen in close proximity to a living human, SCP-5137 will split down the middle and attempt to envelop the individual. If unobstructed, SCP-5137 will morph in size and coloration until it is indistinguishable from the subject's actual skin. SCP-5137 refer to this behavior as 'hugging'.\nHowever, if the subject shows aversion to SCP-5137, it will detach the subject's epidermis through unknown means. Brain activity will immediately cease, and the detached epidermis will become a new instance of SCP-5137.\nAs of writing, the Foundation is in possession of 27 instances of SCP-5137.\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5137.3 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nIncident Report 5137-3: During testing, an instance of SCP-5137 was discovered to have stored the SD card of a handheld camera within the creases of its body. Upon removal of the item, SCP-5137 showed signs of considerable distress. The following are transcripts of the footage stored within the card.\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 05.08.2020. The camera has been placed on a flat surface, facing a bed. A man (hereby referred to as PoI-5137) in his 30s walks into frame and sits on the bed. His appearance is disheveled, and he is sniffling, clearly in emotional distress. He sighs, before beginning to speak.}\nPoI-5137: So, my therapist told me that I should film myself every day. Just talk to the camera about my thoughts. She said it'll help clear my head, offer some self-reflection, or something. I don't know.\n{He sighs and punches the bed.}\nPoI-5137: Fuck, this is so stupid. Why am I even doing this?\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 06.08.2020. The man is sitting on the bed with his head in his hands.}\nPoI-5137: Hi. It's me again. For the record, I still think this is dumb, but I guess it's nice to talk every once in a while. So not everything is just inside my head.\n{He shakes his head and chuckles.}\nPoI-5137: Man, how sad am I? The only thing I can talk to is a camera. Especially now that Tom's gone, I have no human interaction anymore. Sure there's Dr. Ashwood, but she only talks to me because I pay her.\n{Pause.}\nI miss Tom. I really do. I don't know why he put up with me for as long as he did to be honest. Shit, maybe that's why his heart gave out. Maybe I'm the reason that he's dead.\n{Pause.}\nI'm so alone.\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 07.08.2020. This time the man is sitting at a table, leaning towards the camera, which has been set on the table. In front of him is an old book with a black, leathery cover. The man opens his mouth, as if about to say something, and then closes it. This repeats for a while.}\nPoI-5137: So\u2026 I might be going insane. More insane than I already am, that is. But anyway, I think I know how to bring Tom back\u2026 And I know how absolutely bonkers mad that sounds, but hear me out. Walking home from the grocery store, I fell down a sinkhole. And like Alice tumbling all the way to Wonderland, I fell out\u2026 somewhere else. A library. A huge library, bigger than any structure I have ever seen before. It was so tall, that you could fit skyscrapers inside of it. And it was teeming with\u2026 I guess people, but not normal people. Not human people. No, there were all kinds of weird, terrifying creatures of different shapes and sizes. It was like the Mos Eisley cantina scene!\nObviously, I was terrified, screaming and scrambling all over the place, but then this well dressed dude, another human, with an eye tattooed on his forehead, came up to me and calmed me down. He said his name was Basar, and that I was safe.\nHe told that we were in the \"Wanderer's Library\", an infinite library that functions as a hub between dimensions. Can you believe that? It's insane! He assured me that nothing there was allowed to hurt me. That the Library enforces pacifism. Then, after telling me the basics, about the Librarians, the rules, how loaning works, etc, he then just kind of\u2026 shuffled off.\nI was still really overwhelmed, but the curiosity got the best of me, and I started perusing the shelves. I\u2026 must have spent hours there. You wouldn't believe all the things I learnt. I also found\u2026 this.\n{The man lifts the book up and shows it to the camera. The cover reads \"Engrams of the Dead\".}\nPoI-5137: I got myself a library card and loaned this. It's a book on necromancy. Most of the things here are\u2026 complex and dangerous, but there's one ritual that seems easy enough. \"Crafting and Awakening of A Skin Construct\".\n{The man looks at the camera and smiles. His eyes are welling up.}\nPoI-5137: I can bring Tom back.\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 08.08.2020. The camera appears to be on a tripod in a living room. Furniture has been moved to the sides to make more room in the middle, where the corpse of an adult human lays atop an intricate, thaumaturgic sigil. Lit candles are positioned on the edges of the sigil.}\nPoI-5137: I went and dug Tom up. Poor bastard must have been cold down there, in the dirt. It's okay though, that's over now. Well, almost over. First we need to get him on his feet again! Then everything will be fine again. Neither of us will have to be alone anymore.\n{The man kneels down next to the body, and begins flaying it with a knife.}\nPoI-5137: Just hang in there, Tom. It won't be too long now.\n{Removal of the corpse's epidermis takes several hours. Extraneous dialogue has been omitted. Upon completion of the task, the man drags the skinless body out of frame and arranges the skin in the middle of the sigil. He then moves behind it and begins chanting in an unknown language. After several minutes, the sigil flashes, and the candles are extinguished as their flames are sucked into the skin, which then animates, getting on all fours and turning towards the man.}\nPoI-5137: Tom! It actually worked! Oh my god, it actually worked! Welcome back! How are you feeling?\n{Pause.}\nPoI-5137: Oh, right. It says that I need to state your purpose. I\u2026 I need you to be my friend so I won't be alone anymore. Like before. Does that sound good?\nSCP-5137-1: (In an exaggeratedly cheerful tone) Friend\u2026 Yes! I will be friend. I will not let you be alone. This is my purpose.\nPoI-5137: Great! Let's go eat. I made you your favorite food as a welcome back gift.\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 09.08.2020. The man is sitting on the bed again. SCP-5137-1 is crouching behind him, leaning on his shoulder.}\nPoI-5137: I have now spent an entire day with Tom and we've been having tons of fun! Playing video games, cooking, and just shooting the shit. Like in the old times! It's like nothing has changed.\n{SCP-5137-1's face buckles inwards.}\nPoI-5137: I even cancelled my appointments with Dr. Ashwood. I don't need her anymore, I have Tom now. I do wish we could go outside though. I miss our hiking trips. Actually, hmm, maybe we could go hiking somewhere really remote. Would that be fun Tom?\nSCP-5137-1: I will go anywhere with my friend!\nPoI-5137: Yeah! Let's do that next weekend. For now though, I'm really tired, so we gotta sleep.\n{The man appears to forget to turn off the camera as he prepares to sleep. SCP-5137-1 splits down the middle and envelops him, altering its shape until it is unperceivable aside from occasional shifting. The man caresses SCP-5137-1 as he goes to sleep.}\nPoI-5137: It's good to have you back.\n{After a while, the man falls asleep. As he does so, SCP-5137-1 detaches from him. It crawls up the wall, on to the ceiling and then out of the bedroom window.}\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 10.08.2020. The camera is being held by the man, who is walking through his house.}\nPoI-5137: Tom! Tom, where are you?\n{The man walks in to the kitchen, where SCP-5137-1 is stood. It turns around towards the man and smiles.}\nPoI-5137: Oh, there you are.\nSCP-5137-1: Good morning, friend!\nSCP-5137-2: Yes, good morning!\n{The camera whips around to the ceiling, revealing another instance of SCP-5137.}\nPoI-5137: Where\u2026 where did that come from?\nSCP-5137-1: I brought you another friend!\nPoI-5137: What? How? And why?\nSCP-5137-1: I don't want you to be alone, so I went out when you were sleeping and made a new friend!\nSCP-5137-2: You should never be alone.\nSCP-5137-1: And you never will!\nPoI-5137: What? No, this isn't\u2026 this shouldn't be possible. How did you make him, Tom? Who is he?\n{The sound of a doorbell is audible.}\nPoI-5137: Both of you, hide. We will continue this later.\n{Both SCP-5137 instances scamper into cupboards. The man holds the camera down as he walks to the front door and opens. The legs of an elderly woman become visible.}\nUnknown Woman: Hi\u2026 sorry to bother you, but have you seen my husband Gerry lately? He didn't come home last night, and he isn't answering his phone. I'm getting a bit worried, so I'm going down the neighborhood in hopes that someone would know where he is.\nPoI-5137: N-no! I\u2026 I haven't seen him.\nUnknown Woman: Are you okay, young man? You seem a bit distraught.\nPoI-5137: No, everything's fine. I just\u2026 I just lost a friend recently.\nUnknown Woman: Oh, sorry to hear that. Well uh, if you hear anything or if you see Gerry, would you be so kind as to come and tell me?\nPoI-5137: I will. I uh, I hope you find him.\n{The man closes the door and walks back to the kitchen, where the two SCP-5137 instances are waiting.}\nPoI-5137: Gerry\u2026 is that you?\n{SCP-5137-2 turns its head upside down, as if cocking it.}\nSCP-5137-2: Hello friend!\nPoI-5137: Oh god, oh god, oh god\u2026 Tom, how could you? This isn't what I wanted! Why couldn't it just be us?\nSCP-5137-1: But\u2026 you need friends!\n{SCP-5137-2 frowns.}\nSCP-5137-2: Do you not like me? I can be a good friend\u2026 Do you need me to give you a hug, so you can see how good of a friend I can be?\n{SCP-5137-2 stands up and splits down the middle. Thaumaturgic energy begins coursing through its innards, as it slowly walks towards the man.}\nPoI-5137: No! No! I mean\u2026 no, I'm sorry. I'm\u2026 just having a migraine. That's why I lashed out. It wasn't anything you did.\n{SCP-5137-2 closes and smiles.}\nSCP-5137-2: Good to hear that, friend!\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n[START FOOTAGE]\n{Date on the timestamp reads 13.08.2020. The man is sitting on his bed again, with his head in his hands. Sniffling is audible.}\nPoI-5137: I never wanted this to happen. I just wanted my friend back, that's all. Why couldn't he just come back the way he was supposed to? Instead I\u2026 I made a monster. How could I have been so blind?\n{The man stands up, taking a deep breath and straightening his back.}\nPoI-5137: I know what has to be done. I started this, and now it is time to end it.\n{He takes the camera, and walks out of his room. SCP-5137-1 is standing at the end of the corridor, looking towards the man. It cocks its head and the man stops.}\nSCP-5137-1: Hello, friend.\n{Its tone is less jovial than usual, and its smile isn't as wide.}\nPoI-5137: Tom, we need to talk.\nSCP-5137-1: Of course. I like talking to my friend.\nPoI-5137: Let's go to the kitchen for this.\n{The man approaches SCP-5137-1. It does not move.}\nPoI-5137: You're blocking my path.\n{SCP-5137-1 stays still for a second, before stepping to the side. It stares at the man while doing so. The man walks to the kitchen, frequently turning to look at SCP-5137-1, who is following behind. In the kitchen, he turns towards SCP-5137-1.}\nPoI-5137: I know you killed Gerry.\nSCP-5137-1: I don't understand what you're talking about.\nPoI-5137: Don't act stupid! It's over! We're over! I don't know what you are, but you're not Tom! And you are certainly not my friend.\n{SCP-5137-1 frowns and steps forward.}\nSCP-5137-1: Let me give you a-\n{The man grabs a knife off the counter and slashes SCP-5137-1's throat open. It stops and its head flops backwards. The opening slowly stitches together, as its head rises back to its original position.}\nSCP-5137-1 You have damaged me. Why would friend do such a thing? All I've done is make sure you wouldn't be alone.\nPoI-5137: I'm not your friend! And I never will be! Get it through your empty head and then get out!\nSCP-5137-1: But\u2026 what about all the other friends I've brought you?\nPoI-5137: What other-\n{Several instances of SCP-5137 emerge from behind corners, out of cupboards, windows and air vents. They crawl across surfaces, surrounding the man as they approach.}\nAll of the SCP-5137 instances in unison: Why don't you like us? We just want to be your friends. Let us be your friends.\nPoI-5137: No, no- How are there so many? How are there- I'm so sorry. Please, go away! I'm so sorry! I never-\n{The SCP-5137 instances swarm over the man, who accidentally lets go off the camera. Screaming and ripping sounds become audible, until they abruptly stop. The swarm dissipates, as a new instance of SCP-5137 detaches from the man's now skinless body. It walks up to the camera, smiles, and grabs it.}\n[END FOOTAGE]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5136 | SCP-5137 | SCP-5138 \u00bb"}
{"text": "LightlessLantern\n\nItem No: SCP-5139\nContainment Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5139 is to be kept under the ownership of Foundation shell company Shropshire County Properties. All unauthorised persons entering SCP-5139 are to be detained, questioned and treated with Class-B amnestics before being returned to their place of origin. SCP-5139-1 through -5 are to be stored in standard storage lockers at Site-26. Helenne Richardson is to be located and questioned concerning her connection with SCP-5139. The remaining members of the Richardson family are to be monitored in case of further anomalous activity.\nDescription: SCP-5139 is a two-storey terraced house in Church Stretton, Shropshire, England. Prior to its discovery, SCP-5139's occupants were the Richardson family which comprised: 45-year-old Thomas Richardson, 43-year-old Helenne Richardson, 17-year-old Mary Richardson, 15-year-old John Richardson and 11-year-old Sarah Richardson. SCP-5139 is non-anomalous except for the presence of SCP-5139-1 through -5 within it.\nSCP-5139-1 is an auditory cognitohazardous voicemail left on the phone of Mary Richardson by Helenne Richardson on 2013-02-12. Subjects who have listened to this voicemail claim to remember the contents of SCP-5139-1 perfectly, but refuse to disclose its contents to others. Attempts at transcribing SCP-5139-1, whether through the use of text-to-speech programs or Foundation Artificially Intelligent Conscripts, have resulted in illegible and corrupted transcripts.\nSCP-5139-2 through -5 are 4 humanoid corpses discovered in the main living room of SCP-5139. Analysis of SCP-5139-2 through -5 is hampered by advanced semantic dissociation which causes all analysis to result in descriptions of SCP-5139-2 through -5 that, while undeniably correct, are extremely vague. SCP-5139-2 through -5 have not undergone decomposition while in Foundation custody.\nAddendum 1: Discovery of SCP-5139\nFor several months prior to the discovery of SCP-5139, local police had received complaints regarding arguments originating from the Richardson household. This culminated in police being called to the household on 2013-01-25 due to a neighbour claiming that Helenne Richardson and Thomas Richardson were attacking each other. While police did question Thomas Richardson, they refused to charge him with assault due to a lack of admissible physical evidence coupled with Helenne Richardson's refusal to testify against her husband in court.\nFollowing this incident, Helenne Richardson resigned from her position as the Head of Geography at Church Stretton secondary school on 2012-02-10. No information regarding her reasoning for this has been found, however, fellow members of staff claimed she had been acting abnormally reclusive in the days leading up to her resignation.\nThomas Richardson reported Helenne Richardson as a missing person to local police on 2013-02-12. Following a brief inspection of SCP-5139 and interviews with the Richardson family, police focused their attention on locating Helenne Richardson. SCP-5139-2 through -5 were discovered by Mary Richardson on 2013-02-17 upon returning home from school. Police were called and quickly reported their presence to the British Occult Service. After their analysis found that SCP-5139 did not pose a threat to the United Kingdom, control of the anomaly was passed to the Foundation under the Coronation Accords.\nAddendum 2: Analysis of SCP-5139\n\nSCP-5139 Analysis\n\nSCP-5139-2\nLazy, Useless, Wasteful\n\nSCP-5139-3\nCold, Slow, Uncommunicative,\n\nSCP-5139-4\nEmotional, Unstable, Weak\n\nSCP-5139-5\nAngry, Argumentative, Insulting\n\nAddendum 3: SCP-5139-1 Transcript\nDuring testing with SCP-5139-1, it was discovered that subjects were more willing to disclose information about SCP-5139-1 with their interviewer if a strong interpersonal relationship existed between the two. It was hypothesised that subjects would be most likely to disclose the contents of SCP-5139-1 if they had close familial ties with their interviewer. To test this, Junior Researcher Michael Harlow was exposed to SCP-5139-1 and subsequently interviewed by their sister, Junior Researcher Sasha Harlow. The following transcript was obtained and verified to be accurate through the questioning of other subjects who had been exposed to SCP-5139-1.\n\nSCP-5139-1 Transcript\n\nMary, I'm sorry but I can't do this anymore. I've done so much hard work to make sure you were all happy and it's never enough, is it? You just take and take and I can't give you anything else.\nI didn't want to leave you. I try to hold myself together but how can I when you just stand there shouting at me? I'm a shit mother, I shout too much, I hit too hard. I stopped, didn't I? It's been ages since I last did that. I try so hard to not do it, but sometimes you just make me so angry. But it doesn't matter how hard I try, you'll all just complain and say I'm a failure.\nWhy did you do this to me? If you think I'm so bad, then goodbye. Stay with your father for all I care. You'd all be nothing without me.\n\nAddendum 4: Location of SCP-5139-6\nOn 2013-07-16, a car registered as belonging to Helenne Richardson was found by Constable Benjamin Harris, having collided with a road sign near Grasmere, Cumbria, England. The car contained a humanoid corpse, later designated SCP-5139-6, which suffered from similar semantic dissociation to SCP-5139-2 through -5. The Foundation informed the British Occult Service of possible links to SCP-5139 and the corpse was transferred to Foundation custody for analysis.\n\nSCP-5139-6 Analysis\n\nSCP-5139-6\nA GOOD MOTHER\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures for SCP-5139 will be updated to account for the existence of SCP-5139-6.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5138 | SCP-5139 | SCP-5140 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nItem#: 5140\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nMt. Everest.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the exorbitant cost and difficulty in safely extracting SCP-5140 instances from Mt. Everest, MTF-Delta-14 \"Winter Wonderland\" will periodically ascend Everest to bury any SCP-5140 instances in the snow. Campaigns are underway to tighten restrictions for climbing permits for Mt. Everest on both the Nepalese and Tibetan sides.\nDescription: SCP-5140 refers to a number of frozen corpses scattered across Mt. Everest, located in the Himalayas of Tibet. The number of SCP-5140 instances is unclear, but accepted to be over 100 and below 200 at the time of writing. SCP-5140 instances are ectoentropic; when physically exposed to heat of any form, including body heat, they will absorb it without raising their temperature, which rests at approximately 10\u00b0C (50\u00b0F). This process usually renders physical contact with SCP-5140 instances fatal. If an individual dies as a result of contact with SCP-5140 instances, their corpse will become another SCP-5140 instance.\n\nAddendum 5140.1\nMISSION RECORD \u2014 11.12.2015\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nSTATUS UPDATE\nAPPROACHING SUMMIT\nENCNTERED 34 BODIES ACRSS CHINESE ROUTE\nBURIED ALL\nPROVISIONS STEADY\nLIKELY TO REACH SUMMIT TMRW\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nACKNOWLEDGED\nCONTINUE\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nENCOUNTERING MINOR ANOMALY ON INSTANCES\nEXCEPTIONALLY LOW TEMPS RESULT IN MUSCLE CONTRACTION POSTMORTEM\nBODIES CURLED UP & FROZEN\nHARD TO PRY OPEN B4 BURIAL\nMIGHT HAVE TO BURY LIKE THAT\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nACKNOWLEDGED\nPERMISSION GRANTED\nBURY AS CONVENIENT\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nAPPROACHING SUMMIT\nABNORMALLY HIGH NUMBERS OF INSTANCES\nENCOUNTERED 19 SINCE YESTERDAY\nOLD INSTANCES GETTING UNBURIED?\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nLIKELY\nSTRONG WINDS BLOWING OFF SNOW\nBURY DEEPER IF POSSIBLE\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nAPPROACHED HILLARY STEP THIS MORNING\nWILL ASCEND TO SUMMIT IN HOUR OR TWO\n14 MORE BODIES SINCE LAST CONTACT\nTEAM UNNERVED\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nUNDERSTANDABLE\nALMOST THERE NOW\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nDISCOVERED LONE BODY ON SUMMIT\nATTEMPTED TO BURY\nSHOVEL HIT SOMETHING, IS STUCK\nCAN'T PULL IT OUT\nTURNED AROUND\nBODY WAS GONE\nFELL OFF THE SUMMIT?\nDON'T KNOW\nTEAM IS RATTLED\nPLZ ADVISE\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nACKNOWLEDGED\nSENDING OUT SURVEY TEAMS\nATTEMPTING TO SEE IF SOMETHING WAS SEEN FALLING FROM SUMMIT\nUSE SPARE SHOVEL IF MORE BODIES ENCOUNTERED\nORDERS ARE TO DESCEND FROM CHINESE ROUTE USING ALREADY CLEARED PATH\nGODSPEED\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nDESCENDED STEP\nPATRICK TOUCHED ONE\nME N ARNOLD BURIED HIM\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nACKNOWLEDGED\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nEMERGENCY\nATTEMPTED TO DESCEND CHINESE ROUTE\nDISCOVERED CAMP REMAINS TORN APART\nTHREE INSTANCES CURLED UP IN TENT\nINSTANCES MOVING???\nHURRIED DESCENT\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nACKNOWLEDGED\nGET DOWN SAFELY\nWILL MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE\nPERSONNEL READY TO RECEIVE YOU AT CAMP V\nSTAY SAFE\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nMASS OF THEM BLOCKING THE PATH\nONE REACHED OUT FROM GROUND\nGRABBED ARNOLD\nHE'S ONE OF THEM\nI RAN BACK UP\nCAN'T GO DOWN\nCAN'T GO BACK UP\nARNOLD WAS CARRYING PROVISIONS\nONLY HAVE ONE CAN OF OXYGEN LEFT\nHELP\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nATTEMPT TO USE FLARE GUN TO CLEAR PATH\nSTAY AT SAFE DISTANCE\nTEAM IS ALREADY EN ROUTE TO EXTRACT YOU\nSTAY CALM, MINIMIZE BREATHING\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: BASECAMP\n| FROM: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nTHEYRE MOVING\nDNT COME TO TH SUMMIT\nITS NOT SAFE\nTH GROUND ISNT SAFE\nDONT LET CLIMBERS ON EVERST\nTHE MOUNTAN IS DANGER\n\n| 11122015\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| PRIORITY TRAFFIC\n| TO: MTFD14>CSMITH9\n| FROM: BASECAMP\n| RE: ANNUAL 5140 EXPEDITION\nTEAM IS ARRIVING IN LESS THAN TWO HOURS\nHOLD STEADY\n\nA rescue detachment of MTF Delta-14 arrived at Charlie Smith's GPS tracker an hour and thirty-six minutes later. They sighted no unburied SCP-5140 instances on their approach. Smith's body was discovered, lacking the signs typical of a SCP-5140 instance. Autopsy indicates he died from exposure and suffocation due to inadequate oxygen intake. Further investigation indicated his oxygen intake valve was damaged during the ascent to the summit. Bodies of Arnold Hillary and Patrick Edmund were discovered higher up Everest. Hillary died from exposure, while Edmund was found to be an SCP-5140 instance.\nIt is currently believed that Smith's inadequate oxygen led to him hallucinating SCP-5140 instances blocking their path and destroying their campsite. Hillary's foot was found wedged into a rockfall, likely the source of his immobility.\nThis incident has been taken into account and supply manifests for future expeditions adjusting accordingly.\n\nAddendum 5140.2\nFILE UPDATE \u2014 4.25.2024\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\nEVENT REPORT\n\nScanner image of Mt. Everest. Brighter zones indicate increased SCP-5140 density.\n\nLOCATION: Mt. Everest, Nepal\nSTATUS: Concluded\nTIME: 01:49 PM (local time) April 25 2024\nDISRUPTION CLASS: Keneq\n\nEVENT SUMMARY: Increased global temperatures have resulted in significant thawing of ice sheets and snow drifts on Everest. Such thawing caused a large avalanche at 11:49 local time which moved a large amount of snow off the summit. Lower depth of snow allowed scanning planes to identify significant amount of SCP-5140 instances below the snow. Further excavation revealed SCP-5140 instances form a significant portion of Everest itself.\nCurrently, it is estimated 45% of Mt. Everest's mass is formed by corpses.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRounderhouse's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-2304 (+340) \u2022\n\nSCP-4852 (+305) \u2022\n\nSCP-4049 (+111) \u2022\n\nSCP-7311 (+510) \u2022\n\nSCP-5929 (+196) \u2022\n\nSCP-5982 (+102) \u2022\n\nSCP-5762 (+234) \u2022\n\nSCP-7819 (+397) \u2022\n\nSCP-4249 (+205) \u2022\n\nSCP-5690 (+309) \u2022\n\nSCP-6000 (+1149) \u2022\n\nSCP-6456 (+171) \u2022\n\nSCP-7976 (+331) \u2022\n\nSCP-3746 (+113) \u2022\n\nSCP-5375 (+119) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nDo you like Huey Lewis and the News? (+78) \u2022\n\nSite-7: SEGFAULT (+49) \u2022\n\nSite-7: HUMINT (+91) \u2022\n\nGhosts In The Machine (+78) \u2022\n\nHEDARA'S HERESY / The Six Labours of Saint Hedvig (+47) \u2022\n\nAgent Calendar's Hot Date 2: Boogie Nights (+47) \u2022\n\nDELTA WAVE (+64) \u2022\n\nCarroll #188: Gemini (+64) \u2022\n\nA look back on what we accomplished (+90) \u2022\n\nFiles intercepted from Anderson Systems personnel (+84) \u2022\n\nWords of Wisdom from the Containment Chamber of SCP-046-ARC, better known as Richard \"Big Dick\" Chappell (+197) \u2022\n\nMTF Sigma-5 \"Pumpkin Punchers\" (+251) \u2022\n\nSite-7: TEMPEST (+107) \u2022\n\nThe Signing Of The Las Vegas Accords (+70) \u2022\n\nPartner's Meeting (+28) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nROUNDERPAGE (+520) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5139 | SCP-5140 | SCP-5141 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImages: Link.\nMusic: Fire and Brimstone (Mark Lanegan)\n\nMore by The Great Hippo:\n\nSCPs\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nSCPs\n\n[SCP-3034]\nThe Counting Station\n\nDO NOT LET HER FINISH\n\n[SCP-3035]\nScience Bugs\n\ncase_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png\n\n[SCP-3054]\nCragstaff Sanitarium\n\nYou are sick. You are broken. We will fix you.\n\n[SCP-3045]\nbzzip.exe\n\nHAMLET: I am no longer moody.\n\n[SCP-3043]\nMurphy Law in\u2026 Type 3043 \u2014 FOR MURDER!\n\nForget it, Fred. It's Chinatown.\n\n[SCP-3057]\nFossil Fuels\n\n\u2026witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers.\n\n[SCP-2639]\nVideo Game Violence\n\ni need to know how many people i've killed\n\n[SCP-437]\nSummer of '91\n\nThat was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place.\n\n[SCP-3079]\n300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy\n\nNOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided.\n\n[SCP-2753]\nLet's Play Jenga!\n\nHigh art carries high risk!\n\n[SCP-2679]\nThe Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov\n\nWhatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us.\n\n[SCP-3074]\nKafka's Parking Garage\n\nThank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day.\n\n[SCP-2571]\nCragglewood Park\n\nMr. Blair, have you always been an only child?\n\n[SCP-2419]\nThe Laughing Men\n\nThrow them back into the incinerator where you found them.\n\n[SCP-3143]\nMurphy Law in\u2026 The Foundation Always Rings Twice!\n\nWhen it comes right down to it, me \u2014 them \u2014 hell, even you \u2014 we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life.\n\n[SCP-3089]\nThat Old Time Religion\n\nRemember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six.\n\n[SCP-3117]\nA Monster-Shaped Hole\n\nI'm not talking to you.\n\n[SCP-3128]\nLet's Play Monopoly!\n\nHey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this.\n\n[SCP-3138]\nA Sepulcher by the Sea\n\nShould it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued.\n\n[SCP-3241]\nThe SS Sommerfeld\n\nIt makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me.\n\n[SCP-3219]\nThis Sour Earth\n\nNotably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar.\n\n[SCP-4028]\nLa Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha\n\nJustine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel.\n\n[SCP-3546]\nDoggone it, I Fold!\n\nSpecifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991.\n\n[SCP-3561]\nAn Unfinished Work\n\nDespite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found.\n\n[SCP-4054]\nThe Seventh Door\n\nSCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988.\n\n\nItem#: 5141\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5141, circa 1937.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As a consequence of mounting costs and budgetary constraints, containment of SCP-5141 is now focused on mitigation and cooperation.\nMTF Gamma-1 (\"Sutton's Moonshiners\") are to work with local law enforcement agencies to suspend all traffic along SCP-5141's route during its annual transit. Foundation vehicles are to accompany SCP-5141, clearing the road ahead. Vehicles are to maintain a distance of 5 meters from SCP-5141 at all times.\nPersonnel are to be reminded that no attempt to slow down, stop, or otherwise interfere with SCP-5141 is to be made.\nDescription: SCP-5141 is a black customized 1924 Studebaker Special Six.\nAt approximately 12:30 pm (UTC) on March 16th of every year, SCP-5141 emerges at some point within Maggie Valley, North Carolina. It then travels along the shortest available route to Cocke County, Tennessee; upon reaching the county, it gains significant speed and vanishes down one of several local roads.\nOutside of demonstrating considerable driving expertise and knowledge of local geography, no other anomalous properties have been observed.\nDiscovery: On February 26th, 1951, the UIU1 turned over several case-files to Foundation operatives as part of the MJ-12 Act2. This included reports of a 'driverless ghost-car' active in the Appalachian region. During this transition, William Summers (a veteran Foundation operative) conducted an interview with Daniel Martindale (a UIU field agent and former agent of the Bureau of Prohibition) regarding the nature of SCP-5141.\n\nAUDIO TRANSCRIPT\n\nDate: 26 February, 1951\n\nSummers: So, let me know if I've got this straight.\nMartindale: Fire away.\nSummers: This thing\u2026 it's one of those old-timey cars, right? Like a Ford Model T, or \u2014\nMartindale: She ain't no tin lizzie, son. It's a Studebaker.\nSummers: Right. So, I'm guessing it tops out at, what\u2026 forty miles an hour?\nMartindale: About fifty.\n[Silence.]\nSummers: My wife's beetle can hit a clean 80.\nMartindale: Well, good for her. Germans made a damn fine car.\nSummers: Christ. You've been on this thing's ass for eight years, and you've never once caught up to it?!\nMartindale: Son, you ever try to out-run a one-legged man in his own backyard?\nSummers: I \u2014 Excuse me?\nMartindale: She's been running moonshine down these back-roads for over three decades. Before we chased her, it was the prohees3. I'm gonna tell you the same thing they told us: Leave it be. You ain't catching her, and she ain't doing no harm. Not unless you're dumb enough to get in her way.\nSummers: We're the Foundation. I think we'll manage.\n\nREQUISITION REQUEST\n\nDATE: 3 March, 1952\nREQUESTER: Field Agent William Summers\nPURPOSE: Containment of SCP-5141.\n\nOn March 16th of last year, we observed SCP-5141 driving along I-40 West. After a ten minute pursuit, Agent Blackwell attempted to disable its tires with his service pistol. The vehicle immediately swerved into us and ran our vehicle off the road.\nI'd like to take another crack at it. For this, I'll need two sedans and an agent with significant driving experience.\n\nESTIMATED COST: $4k\nSTATUS: APPROVED\n\nRESULT: Both sedans forced off the road. Personnel sustained minor injuries.\n\nREQUISITION REQUEST\n\nDATE: 2 March 1953\nREQUESTER: Field Agent William Summers\nPURPOSE: Containment of SCP-5141.\n\nAfter discussing SCP-5141 with retired Prohibition agents who have pursued it in the past, we realized it always follows the same route. We just need to barricade the road. I'll need four men with shotguns, three sedans, two concrete barriers, and a strip of road spikes.\n\nESTIMATED COST: $8k\nSTATUS: APPROVED\n\nRESULT: SCP-5141 shifted gears, performed a power-slide4, then drove away. Agents later determined it used an alternate route. Agent Summers was reprimanded for discussing SCP-5141 with non-Foundation personnel.\n\nREQUISITION REQUEST\n\nDATE: 22 February 1954\nREQUESTER: Field Agent William Summers\nPURPOSE: Containment of SCP-5141.\n\nMaggie Valley isn't very large. It only has a few roads leading in and out of it. Let's just barricade them all.\nI'll need twenty sedans, twenty men with shotguns, twelve concrete barriers, and six strips of road spikes.\n\nESTIMATED COST: $35k\nSTATUS: APPROVED\n\nRESULT: SCP-5141 did not appear at the barricades. On further investigation, tire tracks were found matching its make and model along a previously unknown back-road leading out of Maggie Valley and onto I-40 West. Agent Summers has received two weeks mandatory vacation.\n\nREQUISITION REQUEST\n\nDATE: 10 February 1955\nREQUESTER: Field Agent William Summers\nPURPOSE: Containment of SCP-5141.\n\nSix customized trucks and five of the best drivers we've got.\n\nESTIMATED COST: $20k\nSTATUS: APPROVED\n\nRESULT: All six trucks forced off the road. Foundation personnel sustained minor injuries. Agent Summers has received a year-long mandatory sabbatical.\n\nREQUISITION REQUEST\n\nDATE: 8 January 1956\nREQUESTER: Field Agent Richard Carter\nPURPOSE: Containment of SCP-5141.\n\nAfter reviewing the documentation and conferring with my colleagues, I'm confident that I can contain SCP-5141.\nI worked in law enforcement for twenty-five years before I joined the Foundation. I've been personally involved in over sixty high-speed chases. In my opinion, the best approach is a comprehensive one: Clear the area. Barricade every road out of Maggie Valley (including the back-roads). Have trucks and cruisers standing by to force it off the road \u2014 and men stationed at checkpoints ready to shoot out its tires and engine.\n\nHere's what I'll need:\n\nTwenty concrete barriers.\nTwelve strips of road spikes.\nTwenty modified police cruisers.\nTen modified police trucks.\nThirty veteran drivers.\nThirty men who know how to use a rifle.\nEvacuate the surrounding area for one day.\n\nIt sounds excessive, but trust me: This is a one-and-done deal. Give me what I'm asking for and I'll have it contained by lunch.\n\nESTIMATED COST: $320k\nSTATUS: APPROVED\n\nRESULT: In the resulting chaos, seven trucks and twelve cruisers were totaled; one cruiser remains missing. Seven personnel sustained severe injuries, twenty six sustained serious injuries, and fifteen sustained minor injuries. Local property damage is estimated to be over a hundred thousand dollars.\nField Agent Richard Carter has formally submitted his resignation.\n\nREQUISITION REQUEST\n\nDATE: 1 January 1957\nREQUESTER: Field Agent William Summers\nPURPOSE: Containment of SCP-5141.\n\nThree M103 tanks.\n\nESTIMATED COST: $550k\nSTATUS: REJECTED\n\nNOTE: In light of repeated failures, new containment procedures focused on mitigating and cooperating with SCP-5141 are now in development.\n\nAddendum: On February 3rd, 1958, Field Agent William Summers was involved in a fatal car crash while practicing on a training track in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Five weeks later, SCP-5141 failed to appear along its typical route.\nOn March 17th, Mr. Summers' widow reported that, while visiting her husband's grave, she discovered several tire-tracks and an empty jug laid besides his tombstone. An exhumation found that Mr. Summers' stomach now contained several liters of 120 proof Appalachian moonshine.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Unusual Incidents Unit.\n2. Majestic-12; a committee formed via executive order by Harry S. Truman in 1947 to oversee cooperation between the Foundation and the US Federal Government.\n3. Slang for agents in the Bureau of Prohibition (active from 1920 to 1937).\n4. Otherwise known as a 'bootleg turn'; a maneuver in which a forward-moving vehicle rapidly reverses its heading within the space of two lanes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5140 | SCP-5141 | SCP-5142 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5142\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5142 being performed live\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation media crawlers have been disseminated to search for possible occurrences of SCP-5142. If found, the nearest available personnel will be alerted and necessary information and materials for containing the incident will be provided if necessary. Teams dispatched in this way generally only require one person unless a significant amount of time has passed.\nWhen an incident is confirmed, personnel are instructed to seek out those affected and activate the countermeme. Light amnestic use is authorized and advised in containing SCP-5142. If, for some reason, this approach fails, use of force in containing those affected is authorized, and in the most severe cases (usually 15 to 20 days after original occurrence), lethal force may be authorized.\nThe materials necessary in containing an occurrence of SCP-5142 are:\n1. A device capable of producing sound (eg, a speaker or headset), and\n2. Any copy of the song Fruit Salad by The Wiggles, or a copy of the lyrics to said song.\nUsually, a personal cell phone with internet capabilities will suffice. In some situations, personnel may be required to sing the song aloud.\nDescription: SCP-5142 refers to the memetic hazard inherent to the song Fruit Salad by The Wiggles and its related countermeme. Specifically, the hazard exists within the chorus of the song and is repeated 14 times as the phrase \"fruit salad.\" The effects will generally begin to manifest in those who hear the phrase within several minutes.\nThe development of these effects takes place over a period of 30 to 35 days in total. It begins as a \"slight craving\" for fruit salad, regardless of whether the subject had ever eaten or enjoyed fruit salad beforehand. The preferred ingredients are those specifically mentioned within the song: grapes, bananas, melon (type varies), and apples. Following initial occurrence to approximately 2 hours later, this effect will spread to any noun the subject hears or believes they have heard; that is, any noun heard within this period is added to the \"list\" of things which the subject feels a craving to eat. This includes objects and materials which are otherwise unpleasant, harmful, or impossible to consume, such as \"skin,\" \"house,\" or \"the universe.\" It may also include proper nouns, but does not include pronouns.\nFollowing this initial period, nouns are no longer added to this \"list.\" Instead, from 2 hours to approximately 7 days, the subject will seek out and attempt to consume the objects, but will not do so if it poses a risk to their health or is otherwise seen as inappropriate. For example, an affected person who had heard the word \"house\" within the initial two hours would not attempt to eat a house during this period. Following a week from initial occurrence, subjects will attempt to eat things which pose significant risks to themselves or others around them.\nAt 10 to 15 days from initial occurrence, the subject will refuse to eat anything other than the objects on their \"list,\" and fruit salad seems to be removed from the \"list\" unless no other nouns have been added. The subject will become desperate, often violent or self-harming in an attempt to acquire what they wish to consume. If they succeed in acquiring the objects, they will invariably also succeed in consuming the object, often through anomalous means.\nIf the subject is still alive following 15 to 20 days, they will begin to exponentially accumulate muscle mass and an anomalous amount of strength. The subject's skin will often change to a blue-grey hue. At this stage, the subject becomes extremely violent and will attempt to destroy anything that prevents it from consuming the objects on their \"list.\" Muscle mass will continue to accumulate until 30 to 35 days after the initial occurrence, at which point growth ceases, marking the end of the effects of SCP-5142. Past this point, the countermeme becomes ineffective and there is no known way of reverting a subject to their original state or to previous stages.\nThe countermeme to SCP-5142 is also inherent to Fruit Salad and exists as the phrase \"yummy, yummy.\" Similarly, it is repeated 14 times throughout the song due to the \"call-and-response\" nature of the piece. In all stages except the last of SCP-5142 occurrence, this countermeme will effectively neutralize SCP-5142's anomalous effects, ceasing all cravings and attempts to consume objects which are otherwise not consumable. Accumulated muscle mass is not removed, but anomalous growth ceases.\nSCP-5142 is effectively self-containing, as the only cases in which the meme will not be immediately neutralized are those in which the subject does not listen to a specific portion of the chorus of the song.\nOf note is that both the meme and countermeme must be heard in the form of the song by The Wiggles in order for either to take effect. This is the only such restriction, as any methods of producing SCP-5142 this way will produce the effects, and in fact the song does not even need to be sung by The Wiggles themselves.\nHistory: SCP-5142 was first discovered by Researcher Stacy Isolde during her maternity leave in 2014, and was given classification after being confirmed shortly thereafter. Below is a transcription of an interview regarding this initial incident.\n\n+ Addendum 5142-A - Initial Interview\n\n- Close Addendum\n\nInterview 5142-A\nParticipants: Dr Stacy Isolde, Dr Robert Hughes (Site 73 Psychological Specialist)\nDate: June 19th, 2014\n<Begin Log>\nHughes: Hello Stacy, nice to see you again. How're John and Albert?\nIsolde: Oh, they're doing fine now, thanks for asking. Should we just get the interview started?\nHughes: Right, I'm sure this is a difficult topic for you, considering\u2026\n[Dr Hughes clears his throat and adjusts himself in his seat.]\nHughes: Well, I'll guess I'll just start with the main question. How did you discover SCP-5142?\nIsolde: It was a little after Al was born, I think a month? But either way, I had just put him to bed for the night. And sometimes before bed I like to put old Wiggles DVDs on for him. He likes the colors and dancing. [She gives a small laugh.] Anyways, right as I came back, that damn fruit salad song that would always get stuck in your head was on, so I turned it off, and it happened to be right in the middle of the chorus, and now we know what that means, so, yeah.\nHughes: Did you feel the effects immediately?\nIsolde: Yeah, well, it took a few minutes. Then I started really wanting fruit salad, but I thought that was just, y'know, some psychological thing about just having heard it repeated 10 times. So I made some with what I had in the house - it didn't really scratch the itch, though. While I'm eating, I get a call from John, my husband, who's heading back from work. The first thing he says is, um\u2026 'hey, honey, how's Albert doing?' I think. Something with 'honey' and 'Albert' in it.\n[Isolde coughs into her hand and takes a breath before continuing.]\nIsolde: I get this craving right then for honey, so I ask him to pick some up on the way home. He says he's in traffic, so he hangs up. That's when I first felt something off. I found myself going into Albert's room and I\u2026 I just stood there, looking, above his crib. I don't know what I was thinking then, I-I must have repressed it.\n[Isolde becomes visibly upset. Her voice begins to waver.]\nIsolde: When-when John got home, it must have been a few hours later, he comes back with the honey. But I'm still in Al's room, staring at him. He finds me and asks what I'm doing, and hands me the honey. Immediately, I opened the bottle and started eating it. As much as I could. I must have emptied the bottle right there, and John just looks at me in disbelief. I never stopped staring at Al, and - God, I remember one thing I thought right then.\n[Isolde clasps her face into her hands and rests her elbows on her knees. There's a short period of silence before Isolde sniffles and begins speaking again.]\nIsolde: I thought\u2026 I thought, 'Wouldn't Al taste good with honey?'\n<End Log>\n\nAfter this discovery, current containment procedures were enacted. One other instance of SCP-5142 occurring was immediately discovered: an unaired episode of the television series Freaky Eaters in which the subject of the episode became extremely violent after they were unable to find any remaining fruit salad within their household. Subject was fortunately apprehended shortly after and, by coincidence, managed to hear the countermeme playing from within the county jail they'd been relocated to. In addition, a copy of the album Yummy Yummy by The Wiggles that had been received by Foundation personnel mailboxes in May 2008 was found to include an altered version of Fruit Salad which contained no instances of the countermeme. This copy had included a sticky note on the inside cover that read, \"do ya like jazz?\" which possibly implicates an anartist group in the creation of the meme. Before discovery of SCP-5142, the CD had been left in low-level containment and has since been destroyed.\n\n+ Addendum 5142-B - Testing Log\n\n- Close Addendum\n\nA single testing log has been included in order to fully represent the effects of SCP-5142.\nTesting Log 5142-1\n\nDate: 10-13-2016\nProcedure: A single D-class personnel was presented with SCP-5142 without the countermeme and monitored over a period of 40 days in isolated confinement.\n<Begin Log>\nDay 1: Subject functions normally for majority of the day. Occasionally requests fruit salad with increasing frequency.\nDay 9: Subject repeatedly requests fruit salad. Barely consumes any of his standard allotted rations throughout the day.\nDay 13: Subject refuses to eat normally allotted rations. Security personnel must enter the room and forcefully feed him. Subject screams several times throughout the day for fruit salad.\nDay 17: Subject begins slamming his head against the door to the point of drawing blood. Repeatedly exclaims for fruit salad, especially when being fed.\nDay 20: Muscle mass accumulation begins. Subject ceases to say anything other than \"fruit salad.\" Subject no longer sleeps at night, instead stares directly into surveillance camera for 8 hours every night.\nDay 24: Subject manages to escape by resisting security personnel during feeding. Countermeme distributed via Site-wide loudspeaker system. Subject shortly apprehended; muscle mass accumulation ceases.\n<End Log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5141 | SCP-5142 | SCP-5143 \u00bb"}
{"text": "THIS FILE IS UNDER INTERNAL REVIEW BY THE FOUNDATION ETHICS COMMITTEE.\nDuring this period, the modification and removal of this page, as well as any attached documentation and archives of related communication records, is expressly forbidden.\nThank you for your cooperation.\n\nItem #: SCP-5143\nObject Class: Unnecessary\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to potential strain on Foundation budget, as well as the fact that SCP-5143 maintains a mean worker mortality rate below the average for offshore oil operations,1 active containment has been deemed unnecessary. At least two Foundation operatives possessing offshore oil and gas industry experience are to remain in the legal employ of Seaway Communications Petroleum LLC as engineers servicing SCP-5143 at all times. Assigned agents are to submit bimonthly performance reports to the Department of Finances.\nDescription: SCP-5143 is the fourth-generation semi-submersible offshore oil platform Lusca IV, located within the southernmost part of the Blake-Bahama Basin.2 According to documentation provided by its original constructor, Subsea 6 S.A., SCP-5143 has a maximal water depth of approximately 1500 meters, a maximal drilling depth of 7600 meters, and possesses living quarters capable of housing up to 146 personnel simultaneously. Although it was never fitted with dynamic positioning systems, SCP-5143 has maintained its location without assistance for the full duration of its operational tenure. In addition, despite a lack of modernized equipment, the object has had no documented reports of machinery-related accidents since it was built in 1998.\nSCP-5143 is partially organic, with its lower levels containing significant amounts of living tissue resembling abscesses or cysts protruding from its internal structure. These have been documented to affect various inorganic materials, including plastic and metal as well as junction boxes and cabling. The prevalence of matter converted to organic material increases within infrequently accessed maintenance corridors.\nSCP-5143 also displays extensive flooding, albeit present exclusively within its structural columns and ballast pontoons. This has not been found to affect buoyancy or possess any impact on expected non-anomalous function and operation of the object. Liquid samples collected within these flooded areas possess a pH of approximately 2.5 and are comprised primarily of HCl and various digestive enzymes commonly encountered in gastric acid.\nDespite the object's relatively low environmental pollution rate when compared to similar non-anomalous structures, the waters within a radius of approximately two to three nautical miles around SCP-5143 display unusually low populations of local marine wildlife.\n\nRelated SCiPNET communications, archived on request of Foundation Ethics Committee representative Benjamin Vasylchuk, as follows:\n\n+ Show Log Excerpt\n\n- Hide Log Excerpt\n\n| To: pics.53etis|ikswoktur.s.rj#pics.53etis|ikswoktur.s.rj\n| From: pics.53etis|sllew.r.rid#pics.53etis|sllew.r.rid\n| Subject: RE: SCP-5143 containment procedures?\n\nOn Wed, July 26, 2006 at 3:56 PM <pics.53etis|ikswoktur.s.rj#pics.53etis|ikswoktur.s.rj> wrote:\n> [\u2026] So we're just letting this thing eat people and turn them into oil?\nI'm going to be honest with you here, Simon- I appreciate your dedication to protocol, but it seems I need to reiterate: money doesn't grow on trees. Turns out oil doesn't grow on trees either, and as far as I'm aware we've yet to find a way to power site generators without it, to use one example of many. And to precede your complaints about using oil at all- this thing seems to have a near-perfect fuel conversion rate, and I'd love to hear your ideas for something more environmentally friendly than that. Anyway, next time you get the idea of recommending we shut down vital Foundation infrastructure, I'd recommend taking a moment to look at last quarter's spending and consider where your grant funding is coming from.\nTo address your other concerns- I don't care what Agent Simmons said on tape, if the thing had a compulsory effect he wouldn't have come back at all. Nobody's forcing the workers to go and get lost down there, so I'd appreciate it if you kept that little theory to yourself. That said, if ethics is what you're concerned about, feel free to have Foundation employees man the whole crew instead. I'll even sign off on it if you want.\nHave the finalized containment procedures on my desk by Monday.\nBest,\nWells\nSite-35 Director Robert Wells\n\nFootnotes\n1. Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2006.\n2. Also known as the Blake Basin, the Blake-Bahama Basin is an area of the Atlantic Ocean located along the east coast of the United States, possessing a depth exceeding 5400 meters. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1997.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5142 | SCP-5143 | SCP-5144 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Ah! Hello there!\nMy name is salvador.aic, and I will be helping you along with your orientation. Allow me to just quickly check your personnel file\u2026\nFollowing conviction on the grounds of manslaughter and conspiracy with a hostile group of interest, you have opted to transfer over to Surrealistics rather than undergo termination. Excellent choice!\nNow, in order to prepare you for your duties as a Surrealistic, it's vital that we realign your rational paradigm. Now I know that sounds nasty, but worry not! It's a very simple procedure. You'll notice the necessary IV has already been inserted and a set of files has been put in front of you.\nAll you need to do is transcribe the anomaly described in these documents as an SCP file. I will adjust the dosage of agnostics being fed to you between each attempt until you reach correct understanding of the anomaly in question. This will indicate your rational paradigm has been correctly realigned.\nLet's do our best!\n\nRATIONAL ALIGNMENT: A=A\nORIENTATION TYPE: VOLUNTARY\nSUPERVISOR: SALVADOR.AIC\nRATING: 8\nCOLOUR: GREEN\nTEETH: YES\nADJUSTING DOSAGE\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP-5145\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5145 is currently contained within a portable emergency holding cell at Site-22. Personnel suffering from recent personal loss are to remain at least fifty meters away from SCP-5145 at all times. Psychological counselling is to be conducted regularly with personnel assigned to SCP-5145 to ensure they do not become susceptible to its effects.\nDescription: SCP-5145 is an intangible entity resembling an indistinct humanoid figure perpetually floating one meter off the ground. Although SCP-5145's body has not moved from its original position since manifestation, it is capable of exerting physical force over a distance of fifty meters around itself. This takes the form of susceptible individuals being instantly shredded by an indistinct mass of small black objects which disappear several seconds later.\nAnalysis of information provided regarding personnel who have been killed by SCP-5145 suggests that targets are selected based on their level of emotional distress. No individuals with a neutral emotional state have been killed to date, while all who were killed had recently been made aware of a personal loss.\n\nHm \u2026 well, for a first attempt this is pretty good, but it's also really quite awful.\nYou've written down what our friend here does, but there's nothing about how or why! Understanding, man, understanding! That's what Surrealistics is all about.\nBut I have faith in you. We chose this anomaly special, after all, with you just in mind.\nLet's keep at it!\n\nRATIONAL ALIGNMENT: A=C\nORIENTATION TYPE: VOLUNTARY\nSUPERVISOR: SALVADOR.AIC\nRATING: 31\nCOLOUR: BLUE\nTEETH: YES\nADJUSTING DOSAGE\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP-5145\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As temperatures are of course at freezing value, personal heating is required throughout Site-010. SCP-5145 is to be contained at Site-010. SCP-5145 is to be stored in a shielded chamber located at Site-010, and fed twice three times a day. This shielding is to be composed of a strong material.\nThe demands of the Seeing Eye are to be obeyed. Any personnel found obeying the Seeing Eye are to be reassigned to Surrealistics or incinerated. Should SCP-5145 be terminated, personal heating will be required. There will be no funeral.\nDescription: SCP-5145 is an eight-year old girl residing six feet under inside a shielded containment chamber inside Site-010. The emotional state of SCP-5145 is linked directly to the Sun \u2014 emotional distress will result in solar dimming, while excitement will result in intense solar flares capable of annihilating up to three-hundred D-Class personnel.\nDirectly pointed at Site-010 is a massive free-floating energy cannon, hereafter referred to as SCP-5145-1, hereafter referred to as the Seeing Eye.\nPeriodically, the Seeing Eye will release a telepathic demand to all surrounding organisms. These demands are variable, and thus vary significantly from case to case. Should these demands not be obeyed immediately, the Seeing Eye will fire and kill SCP-5145. Subsequently, the Sun will go out.\n\nI'm going to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about in this version of the article. But don't worry, that's quite common!\nWhen you're first exposed to this level of agnostics, your memories often get muddled up with your present perceptions a bit. It's nothing to be afraid of, and it's really very cool.\nUnfortunately, this doesn't pertain to the anomaly you read about at all, but I'm sure we'll get there eventually.\nKeep on keeping on!\n\nRATIONAL ALIGNMENT: A=E\nORIENTATION TYPE: VOLUNTARY\nSUPERVISOR: SALVADOR.AIC\nRATING: -6\nCOLOUR: BEIGE\nTEETH: YES\nADJUSTING DOSAGE\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP-5145\nObject Class: Zenzizenzizenzic1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5145 is currently contained within a portable emergency holding cell at Site-22. SCP-5145-1 is currently contained within SCP-5145. SCP-5145-2 is contained within SCP-5145-1. Each day, a member of personnel undergoing extreme emotional distress is to be presented to SCP-5145, SCP-5145-1 and SCP-5145-2. Following shredding, nothing is to be done.\nEach day, a black envelope will arrive at Site-010. These are not to be opened under any circumstances.\nDescription: SCP-5145 is a humanoid logical gap perpetually floating one meter off the ground. Within said logical gap, an eight year old girl \u2014 hereafter referred to as SCP-5145-1 \u2014 is visible. Within the empty left eye socket of said girl, a pleasant smiling man \u2014 hereafter referred to as SCP-5145-2 \u2014 is visible.\nEvery day, SCP-5145-2 will mail a black envelope to Site-010 utilizing the US Postal Service. If the demands enclosed in these envelopes are not followed within twenty-four hours, SCP-5145-2 will attempt to climb out of SCP-5145-1's eye socket. This will result in the death of SCP-5145-1, the destruction of SCP-5145, and an inevitable logical collapse cascade. This will constitute a K-Class end-of-your-world scenario, often resulting in the subsequent destruction of the Sun.\nHowever, the instructions contained in these envelopes can should won't can can never be followed.\n\nWell, this is promising!\nAs I said earlier, you're still letting some of your personal experiences bleed into the actual anomaly, but that is giving you the context you need \u2014 so I'd say keep it up! If you're suffering any bleeding, don't worry, the guard will clean that up. All you need to concentrate on is your current system of thinking.\nIt's just like redirecting the tracks of a railway, when you think about it. A fun experience that's easy to try!\n\nRATIONAL ALIGNMENT: A=N\nORIENTATION TYPE: VOLUNTARY\nSUPERVISOR: SALVADOR.AIC\nRATING: 10003\nCOLOUR: RED\nTEETH: YES\nADJUSTING DOSAGE\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP-5145\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5145 is to be kept away from squares. A circle is to be prepared.\nDescription: SCP-5145 is a round hole in a square world. As the angles of the world are too sharp for such a logical gap, shredding is the inevitable result. By 'world', I am referring to a crying person, except that they are not crying. You cannot force a square-shaped angle into a round-shaped world hole. It's a natural result.\nIn a room somewhere, two people were talking. At this time, the Sun is still shining.\n\n<Begin Log>\n[DATA EXPUNGED]: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nThe Seeing Eye: All in good time. Your daughter has been very brave, by the way.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nThe Seeing Eye: As I said, all in good time. Do you have what we've requested?\n(Silence. [DATA EXPUNGED] slides a black envelope over the table. The Seeing Eye takes it and opens it.)\nThe Seeing Eye: This is a very foolish mistake you've made.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nThe Seeing Eye: This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nThe See Eye: This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty. This is empty.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]: please don't\nCI: this is empty\n(Gunshot.)\n<End Log>\n\nDo not allow guilt to bleed too much over your duties, friend! We want your experiences to colour your perceptions, not stain them!\nA graze is always preferable to hemorrhage.\nDo it again.\n\nRATIONAL ALIGNMENT: A=Y\nORIENTATION TYPE: VOLUNTARY\nSUPERVISOR: SALVADOR.AIC\nRATING: 9\nCOLOUR: SARCOLINE\nTEETH: NO\nADJUSTING DOSAGE\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP\nObject Class: Dishwasher\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP is to be woken up for school and fed breakfast. SCP is to be picked up from school and fed lunch. SCP is to go to the park. SCP is to watch its favourite cartoon. SCP is to be tucked in at night. SCP is to be informed there are no monsters in the closet.\nA black envelope is to be made full.\nDescription: A black envelope is composed of paper and glue. It has a hungry mouth and desires intelligence. It has a hungry mouth and desires the intelligence you have access to. It is pointing a gun at the sun.\nPersonnel are to insert their head into the hungry mouth of a black envelope and allow it to occur thusly. The sun's birthday cake has eight candles and each is speared down into the bakery beast. The black envelope is strangling a ninth candle. It has hands with which to do this.\nThe Sun will go out soon. You have to do the dishes.\n\nPlease don't worry about those! They aren't necessary to read or think. The guard will pick them up for you shortly.\nI know that must have been quite unpleasant, but at least we now have a good idea of your maximum tolerance. It's unfortunate that attempt lost the majority of its coherence, but I really do think you're almost there.\nIt will all be over soon. As a Surrealistic, you'll realize there's no real reason to cry.\n\nRATIONAL ALIGNMENT: B=A\nORIENTATION TYPE: VOLUNTARY\nSUPERVISOR: SALVADOR.AIC\nRATING: +0/-0\nCOLOUR: WHITE\nTEETH: NO\nADJUSTING DOSAGE\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP-5145\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5145 is to be relocated to Site-\u2318 and placed in the room that is to become my office. I am to spend at least nine hours a day in close proximity to SCP-5145. There are to be no windows in my office. There are to be no photographs in my office. There are to be no envelopes in my office.\nI am never to leave Site-\u2318.\nDescription: SCP-5145 is the physical manifestation of a logical gap created through thick and persistent denial of common emotional indicators. The sheer number of colliding non-existent emotional expressions in Site-22 building up over a period of several years resulted in the spontaneous creation of SCP-5145.\nAs SCP-5145 is an absence created through contradictory lacks of emotion, it will perpetually attempt to destroy itself by filling said gap with suitable emotional indicators. However, it is unable to do so as the majority of emotional indicators are the wrong shape to accommodate SCP-5145. As a result of this dissonance, a backlash effect occurs and shreds the offending emotional generator.\nBy realigning rational paradigms, an emotional generator has been prepared with a correctly-shaped emotional profile to seal SCP-5145. This seal is temporary, however, and must be replenished periodically. Fair enough.\nInside the logical gap that is SCP-5145, a one-eyed corpse is visible. It looks up at me. It smiles.\nThe Sun goes out.\n\nWell done, Doctor.\nWelcome to the Surrealistics.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Will come up with definition for this later.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5144 | SCP-5145 | SCP-5146 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5146\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The continued presence of SCP-5146 within its area of the Pacific Islands Territory is to be verified bimonthly via standard checks of the Foundation's routinely updated mapping satellite footage. No further containment procedures are required.\nDescription: SCP-5146 is a 1:1 scale map of an unnamed stony island located east of the Federated States of Micronesia, possessing an area of approximately 0.53 km2. Apart from its nature as a map, the object displays no other anomalous properties and is geologically similar to the islands present in the area.\nSCP-5146 was brought to the Foundation's attention during a routine database comparison of satellite footage collected during the months of December 2007 and February 2008, when the object was recorded within waters that had been previously designated as unoccupied. Due to the presence of mature vegetation visible on its surface and the lack of seismic or volcanic activity in the area during that time period, the object was issued a provisory designation and an exploratory mission manned by regional Oceanic Task Force Beta-46 (\"Shearwaters\") was dispatched.\nDespite the presence of several presumably manmade structures distributed across its surface area, the object was found to be uninhabited. Additionally, the present members of OTF Beta-46 encountered no wildlife, barring several specimens of migratory birds typical for the area. As such, a list of discovered items is provided in lieu of a standard exploration log transcript. Body camera footage collected during the mission can be accessed upon request through the Site-35 digital archives.\nAddendum 5146.1: Inventory of items recovered from SCP-5146:\n\n+ View contents\n\n- Hide contents\n\nLOCATION: Wooden pier, southwest shore\n\ncrab cages (5)\n\nplastic bucket\n\nshore-operated lift net\n\nthree-strand nylon mooring rope (12 meters)\n\nLOCATION: Single-room vernacular house, central clearing\n\nempty gasoline canister\n\nfoldable cot\n\npaperback copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, waterlogged\n\nsingle-burner gasoline camping stove\n\nsingle-person cutlery set\n\nunaddressed postcard marked with Marshall Islands type 1 meter stamp (see attached)\n\nContents of recovered postcard as follows:\n\nI'm sorry I couldn't make it to see you again this year, but you know how the big city makes me. I thought going home would take the edge off all that claustrophobia a little, but it's just not the same when you can't really come back, you know what I mean?\nMaybe one day. Despite it all.\nIn the meantime, I'm trying to figure out something for myself. My own little perfect territory, just the way I remember it. Down to the last detail.\nI hope you'll come visit me one day.\nProud of you,\n\n\u00ab SCP-5145 | SCP-5146 | SCP-5147 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5147\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nClose-up of SCP-5147-41\n\"The Volunteer\".\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All inactive SCP-5147 instances are to be separately contained in showcases of double-pane glass. Inactive instances are permitted clothing but work equipment or utensils on their person are prohibited. All confiscated tools are to be stored in designated storage units. The entrance to the containment chamber with inactive instances is to be guarded by three guards at all times. Personnel with Level 2 Clearance or higher are permitted access to these instances.\nActive instances of SCP-5147 do not intend to breach containment. Instances may roam the premises of Site-06-3 freely after being equipped with an electronic ankle band with a GPS tracker. A guard may be assigned to an active instance at the discretion of Dr. Roy Hiveldyll.\nAny task or request given to SCP-5147's instances may not interfere with the Foundation, security risks, and other anomalies who are not classified as Safe. Any violation without explicit permission from senior staff results in being permanently blacklisted from SCP-5147.\nContainment of injured or broken instances needs to be observed by security cameras. If there has not been a visual recovery for 72 hours, the footage is considered outdated and subsequently deleted. Newly broken or recovered instances must be reported immediately. Injuring instances deliberately will also result in being blacklisted and possible termination.\nDescription: SCP-5147 is the collective designation for 41 sentient hollow faceless mannequins (numbered SCP-5147-01 to -41). Each instance excels at a particular skill set, ranging from one particular skill to multiple, as long as they are closely related. Instances refer to each other with names associated with their respective skill sets (for example \"The Cook\") and refer to their collective as \"The Mannequin Troupe\".\nInstances are capable of receiving spoken and written requests. Upon acceptance, the individual instance will attempt to complete or provide aid in someone's request in a harmless manner. Requests that are morally unjust or are impossible to fulfill cannot be accepted. Requests are likely to be denied if the person seeking aid has harmed any instances in the past. Upon completion of a request, instances will return to their respective showcases and remain frozen in place resembling standard, non-anomalous mannequins.\nInstances are capable of regenerating after approximately 72 hours regardless of the severity of their injury. Instances do not like requests where they can get hurt easily and will ask for precautionary measures before resuming their original task.\nDiscovery: SCP-5147 was initially recovered on 24/6/2013, from a storage room of an abandoned theater in Krazow, Poland where they were used as stage-props and fitting dolls. Their anomalous properties were discovered during the soft strip of the theater when a demolition crew employee made a comment interpreted as a request.\n\nQuote: \"Maybe they can lend us a hand with this stuff, we'll be done in no time.\"\n\nKrazow's theater before going bankrupt and being abandoned.\n\nFollowing this, several instances became active and began to assist in the soft strip of the building. One employee attempted to contact authorities twice. This lead to Foundation agents being dispatched. Class-B amnestics were administered to all involved witnesses following the removal of SCP-5147. The theater was subsequently demolished to make place for a new residential area.\nInstances did not resist during initial recovery. SCP-5147 was temporarily relocated to the nearest site before permanently being moved to Humanoid Containment Site-06-3 in France.\nInterview after discovery\n\nAudio Interview Log 27/06/2013\n\nAudio Interview Log 27/06/2013\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5147-32 \"The Vocalist\"\nInterviewer: Dr. Roy Hiveldyll\nForeword: The interview took place 3 days after the initial discovery. SCP-5147 had yet to be transferred to the Humanoid Containment Site-06-3.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Hiveldyll: Good afternoon SCP-5147-32. I'm Doctor Hiveldyll. You can simply call me Doctor. Scrapes chair. Now, we've brought you here because we have some questions for you. Given that you can speak, we believe that you have the most experience in communication and wish for your cooperation. Do you understand me?\nSCP-5147-32: Yes Doctor, I do. But if you need me to write something down then I think \"The Scribe\" would be more helpful to you.\nDr. Hiveldyll opens his clipboard and begins to write.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Good. Well\u2026 Clears throat. We've found a better location to house you. If you give us some information we can speed up your transfer. I assume you already got tired of the\u2026 stale room?\nSCP-5147-32: Oh yeah. But the rest is coming with me, right?\nDr. Hiveldyll: After the evaluations are done, we would like to transfer your group together.\nSCP-5147-32: Sounds good to me. So Doctor, what is your first question?\nDr. Hiveldyll: Well- Clicks pen. does your group have a purpose\u2014 or rather, do you have any goals?\nSCP-5147-32: A goal? No, I don't think so. We just like to be helpful. I don't even remember having a long-term goal.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Helpful, you say\u2026 Hmm. What did you previously help with, then?\nSCP-5147-32: We were stage-props in a theater. You know, like background figures and stuff like that. Sometimes as clothing dolls like normal mannequins. We were lucky enough to be displayed sometimes for some exhibitions.\nDr. Hiveldyll: I'm sorry, but we are not planning on displaying you any time soon.\nSCP-5147-32: Then please let us take some small tasks, some requests. We'd like to feel purposeful again. I don't want to spend the rest of my days inactive without consciousness or locked within walls.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Let's assume we are open for your help, what could you do for us then?\nSCP-5147-32: We can do anything associated with our skills and experience of course. We are only having this conversation because of that, I'm the only one that can speak, remember?\nDr. Hiveldyll: Yes, your ability to speak makes you a unique mannequin but it is not an ability unique to you. How did you get these \"skills\" in the first place?\nSCP-5147-32: When the theater lost its last funds and filed for bankruptcy, everyone took the valuable things and left. But we weren't valuable. Mannequins are difficult to rehouse too, so they left us there in the dark, to collect dust. We were left there all dressed up for so long that we started our own play, it was quite entertaining even without an audience.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Scribbling. That\u2026 is interesting. Pauses. So for the record, if you had fishing equipment on at the time you would have become something like a fisherman?\nSCP-5147-32: I guess. We'd probably also refer to that person as \"The Fisherman\", or something similar. Talk about living up to the name\u2026\nDr. Hiveldyll: Interesting\u2026 Interesting indeed. Kawinski, please give SCP-5147-32 the contents from the second drawer.\nThe guard (Aleksander Kawinski) gives SCP-5147-32 a pen and paper.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Thanks Kawinski. Clears throat. Now, SCP-5147-32, can you please identify each individual from your group.\nSCP-5147-32: Of course, give me a moment.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Slides a paper over the desk. You can use this photo.\nSCP-5147-32: Thank you.\nSCP-5147-32 begins to write, Dr. Hiveldyll sips from his coffee.\nSCP-5147-32: Do you want me to write their abilities down too?\nDr. Hiveldyll: I'd just like you to name everyone for the time being. We can ask that later.\nSCP-5147-32: Okay, give me a moment, please.\nFast-forward the tape; SCP-5147-32 hands over the papers to Dr. Hiveldyll.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Uh\u2026 You identified SCP-5147-17 as \"The Killer\". Does he have interests in these aspects?\nSCP-5147-32: Oh, no he doesn't. But I also think you are misunderstanding something here, Doctor.\nDr. Hiveldyll: And what would that be?\nA. Kawinski: Clears throat. Doctor, may I suggest the addition of extra measures to SCP-5147-17's containment before we continue?\nDr. Hiveldyll: Yes\u2014 Yes of course. I also want extra surveillance. You can guard him by yourself for the time being.\nA. Kawinski: I'll have my leave then. Take care Doctor.\nDr. Hiveldyll: I'll make a new schedule and inform the team. We'll have to see what SCP-5147-17 is capable of later.\nKawinski leaves, another guard takes his place.\nDr. Hiveldyll: So about this misunderstanding\u2026\nSCP-5147-32: Yes, just because his name is associated with some horrifying things doesn't mean that we don't have morals. Also, I'd like to point out that we were figures and fitting dolls in the past, not some assassins.\nDr. Hiveldyll: That makes sense but you can't be too careful. Even if it makes me a stereotypical son of a bitch. Drinks his coffee. What would you do with The Killer then? Let him roam free? I know from this conversation that you aren't that stupid.\nSCP-5147-32: I don't know, you can probably make a forensic scientist from him or let him perform autopsies. I guess instead of letting him kill, you can get him to look after the killed. Should be a piece of cake without the stress of leaving fingerprints on fragile material.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Maybe a bit far-fetched but the outcome seems interesting enough to invest in.\nScribbling can be heard on the recording.\nSCP-5147-32: Sorry for interrupting your work but do you have more questions for me? To be honest I'd rather go back now if you are busy with whatever it is you're doing.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Oh, excuse me. I sometimes get too engaged with my work. I do have one more question though.\nSCP-5147-32: Well Doctor, let's hear it then.\nDr. Hiveldyll: So you have morals like most humans and can give signals of emotional attachment- No, involvement. You clearly have a mental capability.\nSCP-5147-32: I'm glad you realize that.\nDr. Hiveldyll: But what about your physical capability, your condition? Can you feel exhaustion? Do you have a sense of pain?\nSCP-5147-32: I do, I can feel natural pain. But we're definitely not as fragile as normal mannequins. We don't break that easily. I think the feeling of exhaustion isn't completely present in us, but also not unknown to us. I can't really answer that part of your question.\nDr. Hiveldyll: That is something we can figure out later. Do you happen to know what happens when you break? Has your group lost some members?\nSCP-5147-32: No, we haven't lost anyone. I don't exactly know what happens when we break. I do know that we can recover from wounds just like you can.\nDr. Hiveldyll: So you have some regenerative abilities, I think we need to test that later.\nSCP-5147-32: I'm not looking forward to that, but I don't have much choice do I?\nDr. Hiveldyll: I'll try to see if there are anesthetics we could use. I'm trying to test your regeneration, not your pain limit.\nSCP-5147-32: Thanks, I appreciate that.\nA speaker in the room creaks.\nLeading staff: SCP-5147-32, thank you for cooperating. Dr. Hiveldyll, this suffices for now, please finish the interview.\nDr. Hiveldyll: Clicks his pen. You've given us some valuable information. I'll see what I can do for the upcoming transfer and the tests in the future. Perhaps I should give you a request too if I ever get the chance.\nSCP-5147-32: I'll be waiting for you when that happens Doctor.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5147's transfer to the Humanoid Containment Site-06-3 was approved by leading staff from both locations. SCP-5147 was able to receive tasks/requests in a testing-period of 2 months. Due to the successful outcomes and rise in morale in staff/SCP-5147, this period was prolonged indefinitely.\nDr. Hiveldyll did not find compatible anesthetics due to SCP-5147 not having any organ systems. Dr. Hiveldyll did not start researching the regenerative abilities of SCP-5147.\nDr. Hiveldyll became permanently assigned to SCP-5147.\n\nAddendum-1: Unusual requests\n\nRequest\nOutcome\nAdditional notes\n\n15/7/2013\nCook the staff's dinner.\n\nSCP-5147-03 \"The Cook\" made pumpkin soup and sandwiches for the staff.\n\nSCP-5147-03 can taste with its fingertips when needed.\nSCP-5147-03 makes lunch twice a week for assigned personnel.\n\n30/12/2013\nExplain the cause of death.\n\nSCP-5147-17 \"The Killer\" \"The Forensic\" was able to identify and prove different causes of death from 10 D-class individuals.\n\nSCP-5147-17 is henceforth known as \"The Forensic\".\nInstances can be re-schooled if necessary.\n\n24/4/2014\nReplicate a house.\n\nSCP-5147-12 \"The Constructor\" worked together with 26\nD-class individuals.\nD-6322 threw a brick at its head as assigned by Dr. Chauloz\u00e9, breaking SCP-5147-12, who recovered after 3 days.\n\nDr. Chauloz\u00e9 was afterwards unable to get his requests accepted by any instances. Whilst not blacklisted, he suggested relocation due to his inability to interact with SCP-5147.\nResearch for SCP-5147's ability to regenerate was put on hold. Dr. Chauloz\u00e9 was relocated to the analysis wing.\n\n05/02/2015\n\"Dance!\"\n\nSince it was shouted and not directed to a specific instance or group a flash-mob occurred.\nSCP-5147 can dance very synchronized. One instance dressed up in reflecting glass like a disco-ball.\n\n08/11/2015\nRemain inactive.\n\nThe requested instances refused to accept the request and went back to their inactive state.\nRequest unsuccessful. Reason: Initially denied.\n\n21/03/2016\nPerform an aria.\n\nSCP-5147-32 \"The Vocalist\" performed Di Quella Pira from the opera Il Trovatore.\nSCP-5147-32 has the vocal range of a tenor. After performing the aria a second time on request, SCP-5147-32 sounded a bit hoarse.\n\n09/12/2016\nNone/Spontaneous.\n\nSCP-5147-05/-29/-35 \"The Doctor, The Nurse and The Fireman\" helped personnel when a fire broke out.\n\nA request to let SCP-5147 interact with anomalies classified as Safe was made.\nRequest Approved\n\n27/6/2018\nNone/spontaneous\n\nDr. Roy Hiveldyll got a surprise party for being assigned 5 years to SCP-5147.\n\nSCP-5147 requested the staff's help.\nSCP-5147 gave Dr. Hiveldyll the following custom-made gifts: a watch, a wooden chess set, a barrel of craft whiskey and a leather-bound book with their experiences with the Doctor in 41 unique handwritings.\n\nAs of 27/6/2018, no remarkable outcomes have been noted.\n\nAll requests between 24/6/2013 (initial discovery) and 29 Jan 2024 14:21 have been documented by The Foundation. Personnel with clearance level 2 can freely ask SCP-5147-21 \"The Scribe\" for copies.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5146 | SCP-5147 | SCP-5148 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5148\nObject Class: Malchut\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Procedure 5148-Alpha is to be observed when referring to the object class between Chokhmah and Binah for all anomalies registered in the Site-19 SCiPnet database. The object class may be spoken aloud, but not typed into the SCiPnet database to prevent the effects of SCP-5148 from manifesting.\nDue to the nature of SCP-5148, the anomaly itself and any SCP objects of the same object class are not to be tagged as the topmost of the Sephirot, and are instead designated as Malchut. Use of object class the most hidden of things is still to be utilized in standard Foundation databases outside of Site-19.\nDescription: SCP-5148 is a digital anomaly affecting the Site-19 SCiPnet database. When an SCP object is tagged and designated as the coronal object class, SCP-5148 will manifest and change all uses of the word to 'Peter', as well as replace any attached image files with crudely drawn images of a character wearing green pants and a white button-up shirt.\nSCP-5148 was originally discovered by Alexandra.aic when the construct detected multiple unauthorized edits on hundreds of SCP files hosted on the Site-19 SCiPnet database. Alexandra.aic initially attempted to revert edits on the affected articles, but was unable to do so and alerted Foundation personnel to the problem. To date, all attempts to train AIC to edit files affected by SCP-5148 have failed.\nAddendum 5148.01: Recovered Chat Logs\nThe following chat logs were found in an abandoned GoI-5869 'Gamers Against Weed' chatroom by a Foundation webcrawler and are believed to be relevant to SCP-5148. The document has been edited to follow Procedure 5148-Alpha.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nTakeovermetal: anyone want to play a modded doom level?\nlesbian_gengar: hey guys\nBingledorf: Takeovermetal me\nlesbian_gengar: i just got done reading a new york times article on how the foundation classifies the things they contain\njockjamsvol6: Ping!\nbluntfiend: Ping\n\n+ Takeovermetal has uploaded file battleofrbikinibodoom.exe 32mb \u2b07\n\n- battleofrbikinibodoom.exe \n\nDOWNLAD FILE?\n- battleofrbikinibodoom.exe \n\nBingledorf: sweet will play now\nlesbian_gengar: hey guys you're just in time for my kvetching\nlesbian_gengar: so like i was saying, the foundation right. they use these things called object classes to designate how dangerous things are.\nlesbian_gengar: get this\nlesbian_gengar: they use safe, euclid, and that which sits above Tiferet.\nbluntfiend: OK, and?\nlesbian_gengar: regal crown of the sephirot as in like the kaballah\nbones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah\nlesbian_gengar: thank you bones <3\nlesbian_gengar: so like this matters because that with 13 attributes is reserved for the most dangerous one\nbluntfiend: Makes sense, I see it means crown on the wikipedia page.\njockjamsvol6: But what does this all mean?\nlesbian_gengar: idk but isn't it a little sus that a fascist organization is appropriating the kaballah?\njockjamsvol6: I see what you mean. It's fucking ridiculous.\nlesbian_gengar: it is fucking ridiculous. what's next, object class yesod? object class chokhmah? how much more of the kaballah will they appropriate?\nmork: Im going to say it\nmork: Im going to do it\nlesbian_gengar: ?\nmork: Chokhmah my ballz lol.\nlesbian_gengar: damn bro you got the whole squad laughing. :|\nmork was kicked by bones. Message: This is not the place to be making sexual advances.\nBingledorf: Takeovermetal sweet level\nBingledorf: lesbian_gengar how do u even pronounce it tho\nBingledorf: key-tar?\nBingledorf: keh-ter?\njuliachildenthusiast: When I heard them say it last time they were here, they pronounced it like 'Peter.'\ngaycopmp4: lmao peter\nlesbian_gengar: smh\nlesbian_gengar: they're not even pronouncing it right.\nbones: According to pronounciation guides, it is pronounced 'Kaht-er'.\nlesbian_gengar: bones you are my bubula today. <3\nbones: I am grateful for your expression of endearment towards me.\ngaycopmp4: yo lesbian_gengar\ngaycopmp4: check your PMs\ngaycopmp4: I have an idea to fuck with them based on what you told us.\nbluntfiend: You need to be careful with whatever you're doing. The Foundation are no joke nad messing around with them could lead to a lot of bad shit for us, especially if they find out we're directly fucking with them.\nbluntfiend: *and\nbluntfiend: gaycopmp4 Promise you will be careful?\ngaycopmp4: dont be such a worrywart, jude. things are different now.\ngaycopmp4: they can't just come after us without the entire world knowing.\ngaycopmp4: can you imagine all the bad press that would generate?\ngaycopmp4: 'scp foundation hunts down gay shitposters'\ngaycopmp4: there would be a media circus. the foundation can't do shit as long as people remember what happened to north korea.\nbluntfiend: I guess you're right.\nbluntfiend: But you can't blame me for, you know, caring about everyone here's safety.\ngaycopmp4: of course not dude but\ngaycopmp4: no ones going to get hurt from this stupid prank\ngaycopmp4: besides its about time we got back at them for taking heather\njockjamsvol6: Any chance we can get a sneak peek at what you're doing?\ngaycopmp4: jockjamsvol6 let's just say we're lucky there's a family guy. ;)\n\n+ gaycopmp4 has uploaded file frickinsweet.png 26mb \u2b07\n\n- frickinsweet.png\n\n- frickinsweet.png\n\nlesbian_gengar: LMAO\n<END LOG>\nNote: Given the group's reaction to the knowledge of the crowned object class, the Department of Tactical Theology has advised Foundation publicists not to reveal the existence of object class Thaumiel in order to avoid further issues.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nUncle Nicolini's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-3863 \u2022\n\nSCP-057-INT \u2022\n\nSCP-4026 \u2022\n\nSCP-3879 \u2022\n\nSCP-3297 \u2022\n\nSCP-4432 \u2022\n\nSCP-3867 \u2022\n\nSCP-7726 \u2022\n\nSCP-7573 \u2022\n\nSCP-7337 \u2022\n\nSCP-7833 \u2022\n\nMDI-6726 \u2022\n\nSCP-MYSTERY-J \u2022\n\nAbraka David's Proposal \u2022\n\nSCP-3756 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nSCP-5057 Additional Documentation \u2022\n\nAces Deuces \u2022\n\nClef Goes To The DMV \u2022\n\nSCP-049-\u03a9K \u2022\n\nNico's Proposal \u2022\n\nCool Guys Don't Look At Explosions \u2022\n\nCritter Profile: Sandra And George! \u2022\n\nAdoption Poster: Darius! \u2022\n\nHOGSLICE vs bones \u2022\n\nMoon Champion's Cinco de Mayo Extravaganza \u2022\n\nGRANT REQUEST FOR THE RE-CREATION OF AN ADVANCED POSTMORTEM NEURAL PRESERVATION SYSTEM \u2022\n\nSeven Days With Mr. Fish \u2022\n\n#StormSite19 \u2022\n\nRAISA-6147 (PENDING ASSIGNMENT) \u2022\n\nCritter Profile: Maya! \u2022\n\nOther\n\nSciptember 2022 Art Highlights \u2022\n\nuncle nicolini author page \u2022\n\nOde To The Unknown Author \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5147 | SCP-5148 | SCP-5149 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\n4/5149 LEVEL 4/5149\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5149\n\nKeter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Efforts to trace the source of SCP-5149 are ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5149 is a radio signal of unknown origin being received by Lunar Site-34 every 24 hours. Attempts to locate the source of SCP-5149 have been inconclusive, though it has been ascertained that the signal is coming from outside the Solar System.\nSCP-5149 consists of a short repeating message in UTF-8. The message is constructed of a series of forty-four dots laid out in a complex position pattern, interspersed with empty space in certain locations. Due to the extrasolar nature of SCP-5149's origin, this is believed to be an extraterrestrial communication or language system. At the moment, decryption of SCP-5149 is considered a Class-A priority; a team of cryptographers, linguists, and radio technicians are stationed at Lunar Site-34 for this purpose.\nAttempt Log:\n\nAttempt #\nDate\nComment\nOutput\n\n1\n1.30.14\nRan it through all modern language translation systems for similarities. A formality.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n2\n2.03.14\nRan it against dot-based ancient languages \u2014 no distinct similarities.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n3\n2.07.14\nRan a new task on the analysis computers \u2014 attempting to discern the complexity of a dot-based language.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n[145 lines ommitted ]\n\n149\n5.29.14\nNew analysis computers arrived, broke them in by trying to simulate all possible divisions of the message.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n150\n6.30.14\nManipulated base through flips, rotations, reflections, and several stretches and compressions before putting it through previous suite of analyses.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n[96 lines ommitted ]\n\n247\n10.01.14\nNot message at all? Maybe art? Compare for logical consistencies or repetitions of symbols to confirm if even language.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n248\n10.13.14\nConnect the dots? Worth a try.\nTranslation Failed.\n\n249\n10.20.14\nGreenhorn suggested we run it through nonverbal languages screener \u2014 poor guy thinks it'll really be that easy.\nTranslation Success!\n\nWithin .5 seconds of the scanning, screener had produced an English translation of SCP-5149. It was realized that no individual on the project had recognized the transmission as a form of Braille.\n\nDECRYPTED COPY OF SCP-5149\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nHELP I CAN'T FUCKING SEE\n\nInvestigation into the source of SCP-5149 is ongoing. Decryption team have been reassigned pending demotion.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRounderhouse's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-7288 (+193) \u2022\n\nROUNDERHOUSE's Proposal (+682) \u2022\n\nSCP-5549 (+351) \u2022\n\nSCP-4149 (+267) \u2022\n\nSCP-4776 (+234) \u2022\n\nSCP-3790-J (+159) \u2022\n\nSCP-5653 (+81) \u2022\n\nSCP-5383 (+270) \u2022\n\nSCP-4852 (+305) \u2022\n\nSCP-6000 (+1149) \u2022\n\nSCP-1162 (+168) \u2022\n\nSCP-6196 (+136) \u2022\n\nSCP-6456 (+171) \u2022\n\nSCP-4249 (+205) \u2022\n\nROUNDERHOUSE's Gold Proposal (+484) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nThe Definition Of Madness (+41) \u2022\n\nHEDARA'S HERESY / The Six Labours of Saint Hedvig (+47) \u2022\n\nSite-7: SEGFAULT (+49) \u2022\n\nNobody, Nobody, Nobody, and Nobody's Encounters with The Man in the White Suit (+109) \u2022\n\nSite-7: DAEMON (+45) \u2022\n\nA look back on what we accomplished (+90) \u2022\n\nThe Signing Of The Las Vegas Accords (+70) \u2022\n\nDELTA WAVE (+64) \u2022\n\nSite-7: WARPAINT (+122) \u2022\n\nBREAKNECK (+101) \u2022\n\nMisconduct on the Magnificent Mile (+38) \u2022\n\nSite-7: AUTOPSY (+54) \u2022\n\nINTERREGNUM: THE BLACKSTAR AT AMONI-RAM (+105) \u2022\n\nINTERREGNUM: THE BLACKSTAR AT EVEREST (+109) \u2022\n\nWords of Wisdom from the Containment Chamber of SCP-046-ARC, better known as Richard \"Big Dick\" Chappell (+197) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nROUNDERPAGE (+520) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5148 | SCP-5149 | SCP-5150 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Fragment of a painting which shows Zawisza Czarny on horseback holding a lance whose appearance resembles SCP-5151\n\nItem #: SCP-5151\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5151 is to be housed in a large humanoid containment cell at Humanoid Containment Site-06-3. No electrical devices are permitted inside of the cell except for an audio-recording device. All lights in the containment cell have been replaced by oil-fed lamps built into the walls.\nEvery Tuesday and Thursday morning, MTF Pi-7 (\"Honor Bound Knights\") is to enter the containment cell to train and spar with SCP-5151 for 7 hours. Every Sunday evening, a wooden table with eight wooden chairs of are to be placed in the center of the containment cell. All members of MTF Pi-7 are required to seat themselves with SCP-5151 at the table. Personnel is instructed to prepare and serve various types of bread, pies, roasted pig, poultry, stews, and soups along with a variety of wines and ales to those seated at the table.1 MTF Pi-7 is allowed to leave the containment cell after SCP-5151 becomes incapacitated from the alcoholic beverages.\nDescription: SCP-5151 is a male humanoid covered in a chain mail hauberk of Polish origin from the medieval era with a laurel wreath2 around its head. It identifies as \"The Black Knight,\" although it references having many other names and titles in the past. SCP-5151 does not require rest, food, or water for survival, although it consumes food and beverages for pleasure. When SCP-5151 deems a subject dishonorable, SCP-5151 will stab through the subject's aorta with its longsword, and then proceed to anomalously drain the victim's blood from their body completely.\nDespite the appearance of having clothing and armor, every aspect of SCP-5151's body, garments, armor, longsword, and other adornments is made up of the same composition. This composition can pass through material objects and is impervious to physical damage. The entity has the capability to adjust this composition as it desires. These anomalous characteristics make containment of SCP-5151 through conventional means difficult.\nDuring its discovery, the entity was found to be capable of forming an anomalous mark onto a subject's hand when said subject forms a blood-pact3 with the entity. This mark is referred to as SCP-5151-2. When forming a blood-pact, SCP-5151 can establish an SCP-5151-2 instance with several subjects at the same time by creating a pact with their leader. SCP-5151-2 causes a mild burning sensation that varies in strength based on unknown factors. Affected individuals have had a noticeable increase in feelings of inadequacy and dread, as well as an increase in stress levels. It is unknown at this time as to whether or not SCP-5151-2 possesses any mind-affecting properties or if these factors can be attributed to the nature of this assignment combined with frustrations due to the current inability to remove SCP-5151-2.\nAddendum 5151.01: Initial Discovery Log\nSCP-5151 was discovered after the Foundation received reports of anomalous vigilante murders across the Alsace, Lorraine, Champagne, and Orl\u00e9anais provinces of France. MTF Pi-1 (\"City Slickers\") were deployed to investigate the separate murders of E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and G\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, two out of three men responsible for the murder of 4 adults as well as the kidnapping and trafficking of 18 children into child slavery from an orphanage in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, France. MTF Pi-1 agents found that each man had recently expired due to exsanguination.4 Both men possessed large stab wounds through their aortas; however, each man's body and clothing, lacked any visible or forensic traces of blood. This description followed the same pattern of the previous vigilante murders, and the MTF agents apprehended the third man responsible for the orphanage incident, R\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, following a brief search in the region.\nOn 08/08/2019, at 03:17 AM, during the transport of the subject to Site-06-3, MTF agents encountered SCP-5151 standing in the path of their vehicles. SCP-5151 began walking towards the vehicles as MTF agents attempted to make contact with the entity. The entity continued walking towards the vehicle despite warnings from the MTF agents. MTF Pi-1 proceeded to open fire on SCP-5151 to no effect. When the entity began to approach the vehicle which contained the subject, MTF agents attempted to restrain the entity physically; however, the agents were unable to grab the entity due to its ability to pass through matter. SCP-5151 stabbed the subject through his aorta with a longsword. After killing the subject, SCP-5151 proceeded to stare at MTF Pi-1-\u2588 before lunging toward and killing him with the same process. SCP-5151 proceeded to sheathe its longsword and raise its hands in a submissive manner while the MTF agents continued to discharge their weapons in the entity. When MTF Pi-1 ceased their fire, SCP-5151 proceeded to greet them, \"Brave fellows, do not worry about him. I disposed of him as I have with others of his lot. Loyalty is a virtue, and the lack of it will lead to the death of chivalry. My presence is a testament that chivalry will never die. With this being said, I understand you have been searching for me. Pray tell what you might need of me?\" This statement led to MTF Pi-1 surrounding SCP-5151 and contacting Site Command.\nAfter MTF Pi-1 contacted Site-06-3 concerning the entity, Site Director T\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 decided to send Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau along with site security to speak with the entity. After his arrival, Dr. Moreau proceeded to conduct an interview with SCP-5151.\n\n+ Interview Log 5151.IL.01\n\n- Hide Interview Log\n\nInterview Log 5151.IL.01\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau\nInterviewed: SCP-5151\nDate: 08/08/2019\nForeword: This interview was conducted on a deserted roadside 3 km from Site-06-3. This interview was conducted in the presence of Mobile Task Force Pi-1 along with security personnel. The following interview has been translated into English for convenience.\n\n<Begin Log, 03:58 AM>\nDr. Moreau: (in French) Hello, I am Dr. Moreau.Dr. Moreau: You are correct. I would indeed like to interview you. Would you first explain your reasoning for why you killed one of our agents despite sparing the remaining agents who were attacking you?Dr. Moreau: I do not understand. How exactly did he differ from the others?Dr. Moreau: Aeschylus, correct?Dr. Moreau: Yes, I do have many questions for you, so I must ask, are you willing to stay with us for the time being? To help us further our understanding?Dr. Moreau: We can make certain accommodations. Please continue.Dr. Moreau: I am afraid I do not have the authority to agree to terms such as those. Please allow me to confirm this with my superior first.<End Log, 04:04 AM>\n\nClosing Statement: After gaining approval to SCP-5151's requests with Site Director T\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, SCP-5151 requested to make a blood-pact with Dr. Moreau to seal the agreement. SCP-5151 informed Dr. Moreau that it would not agree to stay unless Dr. Moreau made a blood-pact with it for himself and his assistants. After informing the site director of the situation, the site director allowed Dr. Moreau to make the decision on whether or not to accept. Due to the nature of SCP-5151's capabilities, it was agreed that containment would be challenging without a degree of cooperation involved. After gaining permission to do so, Dr. Moreau complied with the request by slicing his hand before proceeding to shake hands with SCP-5151. A mark labeled with the word \"honoris\" appeared on the top of Dr. Moreau's right hand as well as the right hands of his assistant researchers.\n\nUpon approval from Site Director T\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, MTF Pi-7 (\"Honor Bound Knights\") has been formed to accommodate the current containment procedures of SCP-5151. These seven agents were chosen based on their skill in hand-to-hand combat as well as on their character compatibility with SCP-5151. After investigation of Pi-1-\u2588's belongings after the events which occurred, it was found that Pi-1-\u2588 had several classified SCP documents as well as a note instructing him to steal SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. It is believed that Pi-1-\u2588 had a connection with the Chaos Insurgency.\nAddendum 5151.02: Discovery Follow Up Interview\n\n+ Interview Log 5151.IL.02\n\n- Hide Interview Log\n\nInterview Log 5151.IL.02\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau\nInterviewed: SCP-5151\nDate: 08/12/2019\nForeword: This interview was conducted inside of SCP-5151's containment cell. The following interview has been translated into English for convenience.\n\n<Begin Log, 10:29 PM>Dr. Moreau: Good morning, SCP-5151.Dr. Moreau: You are correct, 5151. If you are willing, I would like to conduct an interview with you this morning.Dr. Moreau: Very well, my first question concerns the agent you killed the day we met.Dr. Moreau: Later that day, we found out that the agent in question happened to be working with a rival organization to ours. Were you aware of this man's affiliation with this group?Dr. Moreau: Then why did you kill that man thinking that he had betrayed us? It certainly was not a coincidence.Dr. Moreau: Why does betrayal bother you so greatly then? I am sure some of the other agents in that room were guilty of other sins in their lives? Why did you choose to not bother with the others?Dr. Moreau: Very well then, moving on. What about the nature of this mark on my research team's hands? What is it exactly?Dr. Moreau: And what of this burning sensation it emits?Dr. Moreau: I see, well then, what is the significance of the word honoris? I understand that it is the Latin word for honor. With that being the case, what is the significance of honoris being written on the mark, and why is it in Latin?Dr. Moreau: I believe I understand. And why is it in Latin, again?Dr. Moreau: Oh, is that so? Care to elaborate on why that is?Dr. Moreau: Alright, 5151, we will touch on that subject again another day. I believe those are all of the questions that I have for today. Do you have anything you would like to add?Dr. Moreau: Which is what exactly?Dr. Moreau: I believe we can manage those arrangements. I will contact my superior. Do you mind if we continue recording our interviews with this? (holds the audio-recorder device)Dr. Moreau: I understand, 5151. Will there be anything else?<End Log, 10:36 AM>\n\nClosing Statement: SCP-5151 has the ability to view people differently than humans. This ability grants it knowledge of whether or not this person is honorable by SCP-5151's standards. Along with this information, we have learned more about SCP-5151's fascination with blood as well as the purpose of SCP-5151-2 being a reminder of our promise to SCP-5151. The last topic of note is SCP-5151's request to distance itself from electricity. Although this is peculiar, I do not believe it is a weakness of SCP-5151, but rather a nuisance or hindrance to it. I'll leave this topic until we learn more about SCP-5151 and SCP-5151-2's nature. - Dr. Moreau\n\nSeveral experiments were conducted to remove SCP-5151-2 from the research team members. Each experiment resulted in failure; however, several aspects concerning the nature of SCP-5151-2's nature have been discovered. SCP-5151-2 can not be removed from the subject's hand by physical means. This includes removing the appendage in which SCP-5151-2 is attached. Due to the incident surrounding the detachment of Junior Researcher Damien Dupree's right hand, SCP-5151-2 was found to have relocated to his right arm. It was also found that researchers who demonstrate higher stress levels due to the existence of SCP-5151-2 were susceptible to greater burning sensations emitted by SCP-5151-2. Further research concerning SCP-5151-2 will be delayed until the nature of SCP-5151 is better understood. - Dr. Moreau\n\nAddendum 5151.03: Names and Titles of SCP-5151\n\n+ Interview Log 5151.IL.03\n\n- Hide Interview Log\n\nInterview Log 5151.IL.03\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau\nInterviewed: SCP-5151\nDate: 01/03/2020\nForeword: This interview was conducted inside of SCP-5151's containment cell. The following interview has been translated into English for convenience.\n\n<Begin Log, 12:30 PM>\nDr. Moreau: Hello, 5151, I will be conducting an interview with you today.Dr. Moreau: I'm afraid that will not be possible. I have been instructed to address you as SCP-5151. However, that does pique my interest. Please elaborate on your title. Have you had different ones in the past?Dr. Moreau: Thank you for your understanding, 5151. I understand that you are from Poland then? You speak superb French to be from the other side of Europe.Dr. Moreau: Ah, I see. Well, if that is the case, would you mind elaborating on some of those names and titles?Dr. Moreau: I see, thank you for providing what you have to me. Did you happen to list your first name and title given to you?Dr. Moreau: Would you care to provide those then?Dr. Moreau: Very well, what name and title were you given when you became familiar with Latin?Dr. Moreau: Is there any particular reason for this that you would be willing to share?Dr. Moreau: I understand, 5151. I believe this interview is complete. Thank you for your cooperation.\n<End Log, 12:34 PM>\n\nClosing Statement: It is apparent from SCP-5151's agitation and resistance that it is hiding a key aspect concerning its past. I have assigned part of my research team to conduct historical research on Zawisza Czarny specifically as well as the other names and titles SCP-5151 provided in this interview. I have also assigned the other researchers on my team to search for historical figures from Roman times that match the characteristics displayed by SCP-5151. - Dr. Moreau\n\nResearch Log 5151.RL.01\nSCP-5151's appearance replicates the known records of Zawisza Czarny. From the fact that SCP-5151 relates Zawisza Czarny to be one of its previous names, it can be inferred that SCP-5151 has a strong connection to this figure. This information can mean either SCP-5151 replicates this figure's appearance and nature or that SCP-5151 was this figure in history.\nIn Interview Log 5151.IL.02, SCP-5151 mentioned that it knew several languages and that it had the following names and titles from the past:\n\nZawisza Czarny (1370 AD - 1428 AD), \"The Black Knight\", Polish\nEdward Plantagenet (1330 AD - 1376 AD)5, \"The Black Prince\", English\nRodrigo D\u00edaz de Vivar (1043 AD - 1099 AD), \"El Cid\" or \"El Campeador\", Spanish\nCharles Martel (688 AD - 741 AD), \"The Hammer\", French\n\nThese figures in history were all famous military-minded men who performed some great feat for their people or made some great cultural impact on their people. Another similarity between these men is their respectful nature. Each of these men was respected for holding to their values, and Zawisza Czarny specifically is known to have been the epitome of a chivalrous knight in medieval history. This information correlates with what we have already discovered concerning the nature of SCP-5151.\nResearcher Nathanael Namreg\n\nAddendum 5151.04: MTF Pi-7-1 Interview\n\n+ Interview Log 5151.IL.04\n\n- Hide Interview Log\n\nInterview Log 5151.IL.04\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau\nInterviewed: MTF Pi-7-1\nDate: 03/13/2020\nForeword: This interview was conducted inside Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau's office.\n\n<Begin Log, 08:46 AM>\nDr. Moreau: (in English) Good morning, Captain. I trust that you have enjoyed your stay at Site-06-3?\nPi-7-1: (in English) Yeah, Doctor. Things have been going well for myself and my men here. Our assignment, SCP-5151, has been a fairly enjoyable one thus far. Of course, I would hate to get on his bad side.\nDr. Moreau: Captain, please try to refrain from referring to SCP-5151 as anything but an \"it.\" SCP-5151 is anything but human.\nPi-7-1: I understand, Doctor. Please continue with the interview.\nDr. Moreau: Of course, Captain. How would you say that SCP-5151's training sessions have been going?\nPi-7-1: It hasn't been too difficult. In one sense, it is very tiresome. In another sense, it is rather rewarding. I will say that my team has become even more adept at hand-to-hand combat as well as combat involving primitive weapons such as swords, spears, and bows. Of course, training only lasts a couple of days a week, and you guys furnish those big meals on Sundays.\nDr. Moreau: How does 5151 act during these meals?\nPi-7-1: Well, if I may say this, the meals are quite enjoyable. 5151 is quite the storyteller. My guess is that it has been around for a long time. It has a story for just about every point of time in history.\nDr. Moreau: I instructed you to figure out what 5151's relation to Latin, the Romans, or simply that time period, in general, happens to be. Did you learn anything?\nPi-7-1: Possibly, as you know, it doesn't like to talk about that subject. However, when it was drunk, it did open up to us a little bit. It told us that it used to be celebrated among the people at that time. It said they even made a shrine or something to 5151 along with its brother. It then went on a monologue about how its brother had this helmet that it was fond of all the time. The last thing it kept repeating to itself before it fell asleep was about how it missed its brother. I guess it had a brother at one point. Maybe something happened to its brother? I don't know. 5151 won't mention anything about it anymore.\nDr. Moreau: Captain, did 5151 mention anything else about this temple or its brother? Anything specific about them or possibly any clue as to why it is hiding this information?\nPi-7-1: Oh right, sorry. He mentioned that he and his brother got along real well, about how they would watch their people together and their successes. He then became sad and began to sit quietly. Mahesh, I mean 7-3, asked him what happened back then. 5151 then went on to tell us that sometimes things just get so hard that you need to get up and leave everything. He went on to say that he is just tired of remembering. That was when he started to go on about his brother. The guys tried to talk to him, but he ended up falling asleep after a few minutes of saying he missed his brother.\nDr. Moreau: I see. That was quite informative, Captain. Thank you. Once again, do try to remember that SCP-5151 is an \"it\" and not a \"he.\" Try not to get too attached while on this assignment.\nPi-7-1: Right, of course. I understand, Doctor.\nDr. Moreau: Are you doing all right, Captain?\nPi-7-1: Yes, Doctor. I'm fine. Sorry for my poor language earlier.\nDr. Moreau: That is quite all right, Captain. I would advise you to move on from the subject of its brother for now. I doubt 5151 will reveal anything further. That will end our interview for today. Good work, Captain.\nPi-7-1: Doctor, can I mention one more thing?\nDr. Moreau: Of course, Captain. What is it?\nPi-7-1: Doctor, 5151 is enjoyable to be around. In fact, I believe it genuinely enjoys having us around. It is also very helpful in training, both in a physical sense as well as a mental one. That is all true. However, none of us have ever been able to lay a hand on it during our sparring sessions. It is almost like it knows how we will react to every situation. To be honest with you, we all understand that it has a tremendous amount of power that it chooses to hide. We can all feel it. My team is trained well, so we understand this and move on. If not for that, well, I think we would just be paralyzed with fear. We can tell that 5151 wasn't always like this. I don't know why 5151 suppresses itself, but it's like 5151 is just putting on an act most of the time. That is all I wanted to say.\nDr. Moreau: Thank you, Captain. That will be all for today.\n<End Log, 08:50 AM>\n\nClosing Statement: Pi-7-1 was able to gather useful information for us regarding the nature of this entity. I theorize that SCP-5151 was worshipped as one of the deities found in the Roman Pantheon, or simply some lesser-known deity around the same time period and area. The part concerning the brother is interesting to note. I will have part of my team search Roman history for a deity that matches the description of SCP-5151. The findings of this interview, as well as the preceding logs, will be turned in later today to Site Director T\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 for review. - Dr. Moreau\n\nAddendum 5151.05: Incident Report 5151.IR.01\n\n+ This File Requires Level 3 Clearance Access\n\n- Access Granted\n\nThe following memo was sent from Troy Boucher's computer, the previous site director of Site-06-3, to Sylvain Moreau, the previous senior researcher responsible for study on SCP-5151.\n\nTo: Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau\nFrom: Site-06-3 Site Director, Troy Boucher\nDate: 03/14/2020\nSubject: Containment Procedure Changes For SCP-5151\n\nDr. Moreau, effective immediately, you and your team are to stop providing weekly accommodations to SCP-5151. SCP-5151 has become an unnecessary drain on Foundation resources. This order is a direct mandate I have received from my superiors. You may take appropriate precautions, but do not allow MTF Pi-7 to enter SCP-5151's containment cell this coming Sunday evening under any circumstances. I expect a full debrief of your results from these changes no later than Monday afternoon. I trust that you will comply with this directive and trust your superior on this delicate issue. Remember, the Foundation knows what is best.\n\nOn 03/15/2020 at 10:53 PM, Site-06-3's containment breach alarm was triggered by Researcher Nathanael Namreg when SCP-5151 appeared in front of him in the western wing hallway adjacent to SCP-5151's containment cell. SCP-5151 lunged toward him and proceeded to kill him. The researcher's body slid off of SCP-5151's longsword and proceeded to burst into flames as it fell to the floor. SCP-5151 was then seen walking to the site cafeteria where Junior Researchers Damien Dupree and Abigail Jolly were located. Despite guards discharging their weapons into SCP-5151, SCP-5151 proceeded to kill the junior researchers in the same fashion as the previous researcher with their bodies also bursting into flames. SCP-5151 continued this process until Researcher Angeline Ponce, and Junior Researchers Alastair Lawrie, Helen Burrows, Michel Bisset, and Marvin Tendler were all killed.\nAt 11:33 PM, SCP-5151 walked through the locked door of Senior Researcher Sylvain Moreau's office. Inside of the office was Dr. Moreau alongside MTF Pi-7. SCP-5151 lunged toward Dr. Moreau and stabbed him. Pi-7-3, Pi-7-4, and Pi-7-5 proceeded to discharge their weapons into SCP-5151 to no effect. Pi-7-2, Pi-7-6, and Pi-7-7 proceeded to hit SCP-5151 with steel swords, also to no effect. Pi-7-1 proceeded to fire a taser at SCP-5151 causing it to convulse for a brief moment before slapping Pi-7-1 across the office. The senior researcher's body proceeded to slide off of SCP-5151's longsword before bursting into flames and falling to the floor.\nAt 11:37 PM, SCP-5151 became cordial before MTF Epsilon-11 arrived at Site-06-3. MTF Pi-7 informed MTF Epsilon-11 of the situation, and Epsilon-11 quickly secured the facility. The entire research team for SCP-5151 was found to be lacking any blood in their bodies or surroundings. The research team was also found to have third-degree burns across their bodies with their right hands heavily charred. The sole exception to this was Junior Researcher Damien Dupree, whose right forearm was heavily charred instead. It is believed that SCP-5151-2 was the origin and cause of the researchers' spontaneous combustion.\nAfter the incident, Site Director Troy Boucher was found deceased inside of his locked office. The autopsy showed that he had died due to strangulation the day before his last memo was sent to Dr. Moreau. MTF Epsilon-11 also found traces of a large data transfer of SCP files from the site director's computer to a remote location off-site. It remains unknown as to why the site director's death was not discovered sooner as well as to how someone was able to infiltrate Site-06-3 as well as gain access to the site director's office and computer. Considering previous circumstances surrounding SCP-5151, an investigation into a possible connection between this incident and the Chaos Insurgency is currently being conducted by MTF Epsilon-11. SCP-5151 will be transferred to Site-54 along with MTF Pi-7.\n\nDuring this incident, 9 researchers died, an MTF agent was injured, a site director was murdered, an entire site was compromised along with several small breaches as well as a major one, and we found out that SCP-5151 can not be stopped by seemingly any force we can think of at the moment. As the commander of MTF Epsilon-11, I recommend the immediate transfer of SCP-5151 to a more secure containment site like Site-54. I also recommend someone to form a blood-pact with SCP-5151 to keep the entity from choosing to leave as this seems to be the only way to contain it to some degree. MTF Pi-7 should be transferred alongside SCP-5151 due to their familiarity with the entity. As for Site-06-3, I have never witnessed a greater breach in security at a Foundation site than what I have seen here today. This was negligence to the greatest degree.\nMTF Epsilon-11 Commander, Mortimer Ward\n\nThe following memo is from Senior Researcher Herrmann Richter, the current senior researcher responsible for SCP-5151, to Site-54 Site Director Gerard Hansj\u00f6rg.\n\nTo: Site-54 Site Director, Gerard Hansj\u00f6rg\nFrom: Senior Researcher Herrmann Richter\nDate: 03/16/2020\nSubject: Concerning the Incident and the Nature of SCP-5151\n\nAfter being given SCP-5151, I conceded to forming a blood-pact with it on behalf of my research team as well as for myself per the request of the commander of MTF Epsilon-11 as well as your orders.\nNoting the incident that occurred at Site-06-3, I recommend that SCP-5151's initial requests to continue to be fulfilled until we can discover the full extent of its abilities as well as its limitations. We learned that when breaking the terms of a blood-pact with SCP-5151, the entity gains the ability to locate the subject who bears an instance of SCP-5151-2 in which SCP-5151 will proceed to kill the subject. SCP-5151 will continue to teleport to and kill each subject who bears an instance of SCP-5151-2. After killing a subject with an instance of SCP-5151-2, the instance will proceed to combust and burn until the mark is no longer discernible on the subject's body.\nSince my team and I now possess instances of SCP-5151-2, I have decided not to inform my team of the details of the incident. They are already under a great deal of stress from being linked to a powerful entity. The power this thing seems to possess can be frightening to imagine.\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\n+ Council Response To Incident Report 5151.IR.01\n\n- Access Granted\n\nSTATEMENT FROM THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\n\nPer the events found within Incident Report 5151.IR.01, the Site Director of Site-06-3 was murdered by an entity believed to be connected to the Chaos Insurgency. This entity was not only able to escape the facility without being captured or recorded but was also able to escape with countless Foundation secrets and documents about the containment of numerous SCPs. In addition to this catastrophic failure of Site-06-3's security, a major containment breach occurred simultaneously, which resulted in the deaths of an entire research team. During this containment breach, several minor breaches also occurred, which resulted in only minor damage to the facility. As a result of this failure of security, Site-06-3 Security Director Oliver Albury has been administered a Class C amnestic and demoted to D-class. Upon the arrival of the new Site and Security Directors for Site-06-3, MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\") will be relieved by MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") from the investigation of the entity responsible for this incident. In the future, harsher penalties will be administered if the Foundation ever witnesses a breach of security of this scale. This statement is the judgment of the O5 council.\nSecure. Contain. Protect.\n\nAddendum 5151.06: Research Update\nUpdated Containment Procedures: SCP-5151 has been moved to Integrated Containment Site-54. MTF Pi-7 has relocated to Site-54 to provide further accommodations to SCP-5151. All other prior accommodations to SCP-5151 are still granted; however, the walls of the containment cell have been constructed with a grid pattern of electrical wiring inside. This grid pattern aligns with the door to the cell when closed to complete the circuit. An electrical current of 1,000 amps is passed through this wire grid at all times. MTF Pi-7 will be armed with experimental Nemtyshkin EDA's6.\n\n+ This File Requires Level 3 Clearance Access\n\n- Access Granted\n\nInterview Log 5151.IL.05\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Herrmann Richter\nInterviewed: SCP-5151\nDate: 03/18/2020\nForeword: This interview was conducted inside of SCP-5151's new containment cell at Site-54.\n\n<Begin Log, 10:00 AM >\nDr. Richter: (in English) Hello, SCP-5151.Dr. Richter: Indeed. I would like to speak with you about the incident that occurred at Site-06-3.Dr. Richter: You made quite the mess there, 5151.SCP-5151 proceeded to avoid eye contact with Dr. Richter and began to look around the cell nervously.\nDr. Richter: But something still seems to bother you, doesn't it, 5151?Dr. Richter: Actually, 5151, it turns out that the research team did not have a choice. They were deceived by a rival organization of ours. Did you happen to be aware of this?Dr. Richter: Indeed. Someone infiltrated our site and acted like your research team's superior. This man specifically told Dr. Moreau not to allow MTF Pi-7 to visit you that day. Dr. Moreau had no choice but to listen to his superior.Dr. Richter: 5151? Do you have any input? (a silent pause) Alright, we will continue another day then. Thank you, 5151.\n<End Log, 10:08 AM>\n\nThe following memos are correspondence between Senior Researcher Herrmann Richter and Site-54 Site Director Gerard Hansj\u00f6rg concerning Dr. Richter's findings on SCP-5151.\n\nTo: Site-54 Site Director, Gerard Hansj\u00f6rg\nFrom: Senior Researcher Herrmann Richter\nDate: 03/21/2020\nSubject: Concerning the New Containment Procedures\n\nAfter studying and furthering Dr. Moreau's research, I have concluded that SCP-5151's hidden identity belongs to Honos, the Roman god of chivalry, honor, and military justice. Honos was a war god who was celebrated among the Romans along with Virtus, the war god of virtue. These gods were given their own temple in Rome, where they were worshiped together until the temple was closed due to the persecution of pagans during the 4th century. It seems this event might be compounded with whatever trauma SCP-5151 appears to be experiencing. Knowledge of this entity's identity is useful since SCP-5151 seems bound to this nature regardless of its own desires. In the interview I conducted, I found this conflicting internal nature of SCP-5151. Although remorseful may not be the word, SCP-5151 had some degree of depression regarding the events that unfolded, which leads me to believe that this entity can not completely control itself when faced with an incident such as the one found in Incident Report 5151.IR.01. Dr. Moreau's team performed extensive research on SCP-5151's nature, so I do not see any more need to continue this line of research.\nAlthough I appreciate the added containment procedures, I do hope you realize that these procedures will likely do little to prevent SCP-5151 from reaching myself and my team if it is angered. Concerning SCP-5151-2, as Dr. Moreau's team attempted physical removal, I would like to test the removal of SCP-5151-2 by using SCP-500. I believe that since it appears to be some kind of anomalous condition, it might be possible to remove it using the cure-all drug.\nOn a side-note, Site Director, my research team is having issues coping with being linked to this entity. If you would be willing to provide some accommodations that might help reassure them in some way, I believe our research on SCP-5151 will be dramatically aided.\n\nTo: Senior Researcher Herrmann Richter\nFrom: Site-54 Site Director, Gerard Hansj\u00f6rg\nDate: 03/21/2020\nSubject: RE: Concerning the New Containment Procedures\n\nDr. Richter, your input and concerns have been noted, and your recommendations have been granted for the time being. It is the Foundation's desire for you to focus your research on the capabilities of SCP-5151 to find ways to prevent it from being able to breach containment when faced with something as trivial as broken promises.\nAs for your request, I will provide your team with routine therapy checkups until the situation blows over, and they can stabilize themselves again. Concerning SCP-500, that will need to be discussed at a later time. For now, I look forward to hearing your future suggestions on how we should try to contain a god.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Consult the on-Site culinary team for further details on SCP-5151's \"banquet\" requests.\n2. A laurel wreath, or garland of laurel leaves were worn in ancient Greek and Roman times as a symbol of victory or status.\n3. A blood pact is a method used to put an agreement into effect. It is generally used for serious agreements and is considered a much stronger binding than other methods.\n4. Exsanguination is the loss of blood to a degree sufficient to cause death.\n5. It is unknown whether this is a historical inaccuracy that Edward and Zawisza's dates overlap, or if this proves that SCP-5151 was not these figures in history.\n6. Electrical Discharge Arrays\n\n\u00ab SCP-5150 | SCP-5151 | SCP-5152 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5152\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem #: SCP-5152\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5152 is to be stored in a Class 1 Anomalous Object container at Site-29 when not undergoing testing or use by Foundation personnel. Access to the object must be approved by at least two researchers of Level 2 clearance or higher. Testing of SCP-5152 must be monitored by Site-29 medical staff in the event of psychological and behavioral abnormalities in subjects post-exposure to SCP-5152. Under no circumstances are personnel that has been administered amnestetics to be allowed access to SCP-5152 (See Addendum 5152-A).\nDescription: SCP-5152 is a black eye mask composed of silk, polyester, and rubber. The object exhibits no unusual physical properties apart from its tensile strength, which resembles that of hardened steel. The mask itself is consistent with the Manta brand of sleep masks produced between the years of 2005 and 2012. However, the mask itself lacks the company's manufacturer markings.\nWhen worn, the wearer is transported to a corridor stretching beyond the subject's range of vision, with doors lining its walls. Various tests indicate that the number of doorways and the physical length of the corridor change depending on the subject, with the only consistency being that of the corridor's apparent stonework. The corridor appears to be constructed of a marble-like substance, with each of the doors constructed of similar material. However, attempted testing of the material in question has resulted in failure, as samples appear to be unstable outside of the anomaly1. All GPS tracking of subjects entering SCP-5152 has proven ineffective, implying that the corridor may exist in a separate reality.\nSubjects report tranquility and increased curiosity inside the corridor, pushing them to navigate it. After three minutes, the subject will attempt to open one of the doors and proceed within. Subjects report observing a third-person perspective scene of an event from their past within, with a majority of these scenes prompting a positive response from subjects2.\nSubjects have also observed vocalizations (hereby designated SCP-5152-1) post conclusion of the observed scene. In all cases, SCP-5152-1 will attempt conversation with the subject in regards to the scene. In all cases, SCP-5152-1 prompts an overall positive outlook from the subject and is often described as a voice similar to that of a close friend or family member related to the subject. Most commonly, SCP-5152-1 will take on the voice and mannerisms of an individual involved within the specific memory of the subject3.\nWhen SCP-5152 is removed, subjects return to their location prior to interaction with SCP-5152 with no observable deterioration in physical or mental health regardless of time elapsed. It is of note that individuals suffering from PTSD4 or other stress-related conditions observe the most significant change in overall demeanor post-exposure to SCP-5152. Testing into the potential use as an antidepressant or therapeutic device is ongoing.\nDiscovery: SCP-5152 was discovered by Foundation field agents on 5/7/20\u2588\u2588 following numerous reports of a new anomalous mental health treatment program developed by DreamScape Pharmaceuticals\u2122, based in Tampa, Florida5. Foundation agents confirmed the anomalous nature of SCP-5152 after field agents arranged appointments with the clinic in question, and a demonstration of the procedure was observed. Class-B amnestetics were supplied to all staff at the clinic and all documented individuals that underwent treatment via SCP-5152 were subsequently questioned, amnesticized, and released. SCP-5152 was later transported to its current containment at site-29.\nAddendum 5152-A: Due to the substantial breach of confidential information spanning various clearance levels due to SCP-5152, any further testing of SCP-5152 utilizing individuals that have undergone amnestetic treatment is unanimously prohibited by the O5 Council (See Experiment III for details).\n\n+ Experiment I\n\n- Experiment I\n\nExperiment I\nD-9341 is a 30-year old caucasian male previously known as Sgt. Benjamin O. Walker. D-9341 has a history of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-related nightmares following the failed Operation Hellfire, resulting in D-9341's AWOL status and eventual dishonorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. Subject is equipped with a digital camcorder outfitted with a transmission beacon, a GPS tracker, vital monitoring systems, and an audio headset for communication with Dr. Trout at command.\n<BEGIN LOG>\nSubject D-9341 is escorted into testing chamber 12-A and instructed to place SCP-5152 over his eyes. Subject complies and places the object over his eyes. Video and audio feed malfunctions for approximately thirty seconds before the connection is reestablished. GPS tracking of D-9341 malfunctions, and subsequent attempts to re-establish GPS location fail. D-9341 is observed standing in an apparent marble corridor stretching beyond the scope of the video observation equipment with doorways of similar material on either side.\nDr. Trout: Visual confirmed. D-9341, please report.\nD-9341: Yeah, I'm here\u2026 wherever here is\u2026\nDr. Trout: Please proceed down the corridor.\nD-9341 is observed to turn, facing down both directions of the corridor. After two minutes, D-9341 proceeds down the corridor in a single direction, stopping intermittently while examining the doorways.\nD-9341: Something feels off, doc.\nDr. Trout: Please elaborate.\nD-9341: I don't know\u2026 it feels like I'm dreaming or some shit\u2026 what exactly is this place?\nDr. Trout examines the vital signs of D-9341, observing brain activity consistent with REM sleep cycles. The rustling of papers is heard for approximately five seconds before the conversation resumes.\nDr. Trout: Please continue down the corridor.\nD-9341 proceeds down the corridor for an additional fifty-five seconds with no observable endpoint to the corridor before pausing in front of a door to his left. Subject is observed reaching for the doorknob before dialog resumes.\nDr. Trout: D-9341, why have you stopped?\nD-9341: I\u2026 I don't know. Curiosity I guess\u2026 why are there so many doors?\nNo response from Dr. Trout is heard for around thirty seconds, at which point Dr. Trout instructs D-9341 to open the door in front of him and proceed through it. D-9341 obliges and enters the doorway, appearing in what seems to be a village in modern day Afghanistan. D-9341 is observed quickening his breathing upon observation of the scene.\nD-9341: What the fuck\u2026 what the FUCK?!\nD-9341 is seen frantically looking around the scene before pausing on three individuals dressed in standard United States Marine field operations equipment, with one of the soldiers matching D-9341's physical appearance. D-9341 approaches one of the individuals, reaching a hand out to them as the group proceeds down a narrow street.\nDr. Trout: D-9341, please report.\nNo response from D-9341 is given for the next few minutes as contact attempts go unacknowledged. D-9341 proceeds to follow the individuals within the scene.\nD-9341: No! Stop! James for fucks sake please stop!\nDr. Trout: D-9341, are you there? Please respond.\nThe individuals proceed forward despite D-9341's requests. After a few seconds, the sound of a firearm discharge is observed in the audio feed and one of the figures collapses to the ground. D-9341 is observed in extreme emotional distress following this event and the scene ends. D-9341 is observed sobbing for approximately two minutes following the conclusion of the scene. Dr. Trout attempts dialogue with D-9341 during this time. Subject does not respond, and vocalizations from an entity (designated SCP-5152-1) are observed.\nSCP-5152-1: It wasn't your fault, Ben.\nD-9341 is observed turning to his right, then left before standing still once again, as if confused.\nD-9341: Who said that?!\nSCP-5152-1: Easy, I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm sorry you had to see that again.\nD-9341 is silent for a few seconds.\nD-9341: You were my brother\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: I still am, but I never blamed you for what happened that day.\nD-9341: Our position was compromised\u2026 we should have been more careful\u2026 maybe then you wouldn't have had to die\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: Ben, please\u2026 this isn't the life I wanted for you\u2026 hell, this isn't even living. You're dwelling on the past when you should be looking towards the future. You can't keep thinking about what you could've done. It'll eat you up from the inside out.\nD-9341: I tried to save you\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: And I would have done the same for you, but it's time to live your best life. If not for yourself, then for me.\nD-9341 is observed sobbing once again before SCP-5152-1 establishes dialogue once again.\nSCP-5152-1: It's okay, Ben. I forgive you\u2026 it's about time you forgive yourself.\nD-9341: I love you, James\u2026 I miss you so much\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: I never left, Ben\u2026 and I never will.\nD-9341 is observed standing at attention, saluting in the direction in which audio observed SCP-5152-1 originating from, before lowering his hand and exiting the scene through the same door as its entry. Video surveillance fails to observe any physical manifestation of SCP-5152-1. D-9341 is instructed to remove SCP-5152 and is subsequently escorted back to his cell following psychiatric evaluation by site psychologists.\n<END LOG>\nNotes: Upon questioning, D-9341 stated that SCP-5152-1 was the voice of one Pvt. Jameson B. Walker, who was fatally wounded while on assignment with D-9341 prior to Operation Hellfire. When pressed, D-9341 simply said, \u201cI think I finally got to say goodbye\u201d. Subject reports no further nightmares post SCP-5152 exposure and has shown an increase in cooperation with Foundation personnel following exposure. Further testing to determine the effects of multiple exposures to SCP-5152 has been approved by lead researcher Dr. Manning.\n\n+ Experiment II\n\n- Experiment II\n\nExperiment II\nD-9341 is brought into testing chamber 26-B for experimentation with SCP-5152 following approval of additional testing by Dr. Manning. Subject is equipped with a digital camcorder outfitted with a transmission beacon, vital monitoring systems, a geological sampling kit, and an audio headset for communication with Dr. Trout at command.\n<BEGIN LOG>\nD-9341 is instructed by security personnel to place SCP-5152 over his eyes. Subject complies without hesitation and places SCP-5152 over his eyes. Video and audio feed cuts for approximately ten seconds before the connection is reestablished, and transportation to the corridor is confirmed by command.\nDr. Trout: Connection is proficient, systems operational. D-9341, please report.\nD-9341: Yep, I'm in the hall again. Need me to walk down it again?\nDr. Trout: In a moment. Please use the provided sample kit to collect stone from the walls and doorways on either side.\nD-9341: Um\u2026 alright doc.\nD-9341 is observed approaching the wall to his left and attempting to collect geological samples for analysis. Approximately twenty seconds pass before D-9341 acquires a sample of the corridor wall. The subject then gathers a sample from a door to his left, taking ten seconds to complete the task. Visual inspection via video feed shows little variance between the materials.\nD-9341: Is this enough for the eggheads in the lab?\nDr. Trout: Yes, the sample size is sufficient. Please proceed down the corridor on your right.\nD-9341 turns down the corridor to their right and proceeds as instructed. After approximately one minute of walking down the corridor, video feeds observe what seems to be the end of the corridor constructed of the same material as the corridors other features.\nD-9341: Hey doc, what am I doing now?\nDr. Trout: Please collect a sample of the material in front of you, then proceed through the first doorway to your right behind you.\nD-9341 sighs then begins to extract a sample of the hall material at the end of the corridor. After approximately ten seconds, D-9341 turns around and proceeds to the first door on his right, opening the doorway and proceeding through it. The subject appears in a large room with ten individuals dressed in military fatigues and equipped with standard-issue United States Marine arms and armaments. The building itself appears to be constructed of concrete, with several small windows on the far edge of the room; the outside scenery best resembles the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan. D-9341 shows signs of unease as he proceeds to explore the scene.\nD-9341: Doc\u2026 I don't like this.\nDr. Trout: I beg your pardon?\nD-9341: I'm saying I don't want to fucking be here. Let me out.\nDr. Trout: I'm afraid I cannot allow that.\nD-9341: The fuck you mean you can't?! I can take this mask off whenever I damn well please!\nDr. Trout: D-9341, ending the experiment will result in your termination. Do you understand?\nD-9341 groans loudly, putting a hand to his forehead.\nD-9341: FUCK!! You win. Fucking asshole\u2026\nD-9341 is observed turning frantically to either side of the room, examining the scene. Vital monitoring equipment shows an accelerated heart rate and adrenal spike consistent with the acute stress response. D-9341 is observed attempting to exit the scene while the figures converse with one another. However, said dialogue remained unintelligible due to the D-9341's frantic movements.\nDr. Trout: D-9341, remain in the scene and stay calm.\nD-9341: Fuck you! Let me out of here!\nD-9341 is observed turning back to the scene as the figures rush to the far right window following what appears to be a detonation of improvised explosives. The remaining figures appear to take a defensive position in relation to the windows, with one figure appearing to command them. Facial recognition determines the commanding figure to be D-9341.\nD-9341: Fuck! Doc, please! Let me out of here!\nD-9341 sprints to one of the windows, and video surveillance observes several figures in varying clothing on the streets below. Suddenly a large explosion is heard and the scene turns a pale orange color. Video equipment malfunctions for approximately three seconds before resuming. D-9341 appears to be lying prone on the ground with the camera facing the ceiling. Audio equipment documents the sound of exasperated breathing, presumably from D-9341.\nDr. Trout: D-9341, report. Please respond.\nD-9341 does not respond but proceeds to stand and observe his surroundings. Several of the figures lay on the ground motionless, while the figure resembling subject D-9341 lays against a wall with various lacerations to the torso and thighs. The figure seems to look around for ten seconds, before appearing to fall unconscious. D-9341's heart rate accelerates to two hundred ten beats per minute. Medical staff instructs Dr. Trout to terminate the experiment when vocalizations are observed.\nSCP-5152-1: Hey, Ben\u2026 I'm sorry you had to live through that again.\nD-9341: sobbing why\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: I'm sorry\u2026 but there was nothing you could've done. It was an ambush. Fuckers found our location before we could react.\nD-9341: You weren't even supposed to be there\u2026 we were pinned down and needed reinforcements. Then it all went to shit.\nSCP-5152-1: You saved us though\u2026 had it not been for you far more would've lost their lives that day. Think of Pvt. Maxwell. Can you truly say that you didn't save his life?\nD-9341: I didn't\u2026 I ruined it. He's fucking paralyzed\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: But he is alive\u2026 You saved his life. You let him see his daughter again\u2026 his wife again.\nD-9341 is observed weeping as he adjusts his position to his knees.\nD-9341: But what about you? What about your friends, your family? What about them?\nSCP-5152-1: They don't blame you for what happened. I Lost my sight\u2026 but it's because of you that I'm able to hold them in my arms again. You may not realize it, but you saved more than just our lives that day.\nD-9341: So much death\u2026 and for what? So we could take some damned city?\nSCP-5152-1: Ben, all of that is in the past. It's time for you to let go of your hatred for yourself. Become the man I know you were meant to be.\nD-9341 stands.\nSCP-5152-1: Do you get it now?\nD-9341: I never caused your pain\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: There you go\u2026 now do me a favor, will ya?\nD-9341: Anything\u2026\nSCP-5152-1: Keep doing what you do best; keep us safe.\nD-9341: I will\u2026 I promise.\nD-9341 turns away from the scene and removes SCP-5152. Security personnel apprehend D-9341 and escort him to the infirmary for psychiatric evaluation. It is of note that the samples of the internal surfaces of SCP-5152 and its corridor seemed to demanifest once D-9341 exited SCP-5152.\n<END LOG>\nNotes: When debriefed, D-9341 revealed that he was involved in an ambush during Operation Hellfire which led to the casualties of three men within his unit, with the remaining individuals suffering major injuries. When pressed, D-9341 simply stated, \u201cI got a promise to keep, doc. A promise to an old friend\u201d. D-9341 developed an increase in morale and has repeatedly requested to \u201cfulfill his promise\u201d. Additional experimentation with other D-Class personnel to improve overall cooperation has been approved by assistant researcher Dr. Warren. Further attempts to gather samples of SCP-5152 and its corridor are being considered for further experiments.\n\n+ Experiment III\n\n- Experiment III\n\nLEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED: INPUT CREDENTIALS\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nCREDENTIALS ACCEPTED: LOADING FILE\u2026\n\nExperiment III\nFollowing approval from Dr. Warren and additional suggestions by Dr. Trout, D-9341 was once again selected for experimentation to determine the overall effectiveness of SCP-5152 as a means of improving morale within the D-Class population. Once more, D-9341 is equipped with a digital camcorder outfitted with a transmission beacon, vital monitoring systems, and an audio headset for communication with Dr. Trout at command.\n<BEGIN LOG>\nD-9341 is escorted to testing chamber 46-C by security personnel. Upon entering, D-9341 shows mild enthusiasm upon seeing SCP-5152. D-9341 proceeds to cover his eyes with SCP-5152 despite the absence of instruction to do so. Video and audio equipment remains constant with no transition, implying the transportation into SCP-5152 was instantaneous.\nD-9341: Alright, doc. I'm back in. What do you need me to do again?\nDr. Trout: You may proceed down either direction of the corridor. Enter a door of your choosing and remain within until the vocalizations are once again observed.\nD-9341: Vocalizations? You mean my friends and shit?\nDr. Trout: Irrelevant. Please proceed.\nD-9341: What do you mean irrelevant?\nDr. Trout: Proceed down the corridor, D-9341.\nD-9341 is observed sighing, then turns down both directions of the corridor before continuing down the pathway to his left for approximately one minute. Video feed observes the estimated sample collection locations..\nDr: Trout: Hold on. D-9341, please turn to your left.\nD-9341: Huh? Um\u2026 alright.\nD-9341 complies and turns to his left, appearing to match the location of the first sample collection in experiment II. Notably, the corridor exhibits no sign of damage that would be present from said sample collection. Dr. Trout is observed taking a note of the occurrence before resuming dialogue.\nDr. Trout: Strange\u2026 this was where he took sample A, correct?\nD-9341: Sample A? You mean when you had me scrape some stone off the wall?\nD-9341 examines the wall with his right hand and seems to pause momentarily.\nD-9341: Yeah\u2026 this seems like the place. But there's not even a dent.\nDr. Trout: Yes, I have come to the same conclusion. Please proceed onward in the direction you had previously.\nD-9341 complies and continues down the corridor once again. After approximately one minute, D-9341 stops and turns to a doorway on his right.\nD-9341: I can go in, right doc?\nDr. Trout: Correct. Please enter the doorway.\nD-9341 complies, entering the doorway and proceeding through. Upon entry, D-9341 appears in what appears to be a standard D-Class holding cell. Subject begins to look around as if confused.\nD-9341: I'm back in my cell\u2026 ?\nD-9341 turns around to observe a figure dressed in a Class-D jumpsuit laying on a cot (presumably D-9341). After ten seconds two figures dressed in Site-29 security are observed standing in the hallway. One of which begins dialogue with the D-Class figure.\n\u201dHey, we've got some work for you. Do me a favor and step out of your cell.\u201d\nD-9341: What\u2026 ?\nThe D-Class figure stands and approaches SCP-5152-F1.\n\u201dFollow me.\u201d\nThe D-Class figure is escorted through the hallway of D-Class Cell Block 37-B and through several doorways until entering what is assumed to be the Heavy Containment Zone of Site-29. The figure is instructed by SCP-5152-F1 to enter testing chamber 1-A of the Heavy Containment Zone.\nD-9341: Uh\u2026 doc? What is this?\nDr. Trout: Continue observation.\nD-9341 observes the scene as instructed, following the D-Class figure into the testing chamber. Upon entry, video equipment captures what appears to be a singular syringe of SCP-008 along with a single instance of SCP-500. A figure enters the testing chamber equipped with Class V CBRN6 safety equipment. Command immediately instructs Dr. Trout to terminate testing.\nDr. Trout: D-9341, remove SCP-5152 immediately and prepare for debriefing.\nD-9341 does not respond as the new figure injects the D-Class figure with SCP-008. The D-Class figure appears to wince as the needle punctures its skin, and D-9341 steps back.\nD-9341: What the hell\u2026?\nDr. Trout: D-9341, remove SCP-5152 immediately or you will be terminated upon exit of SCP-5152.\nThe figure appears to rapidly progress through the symptoms of SCP-008 at an abnormal pace, reaching coma onset approximately ten minutes after injection.\nD-9341: What the fuck? What is he doing to me? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO ME?\nDr. Trout: Subject is unresponsive to commands. D-9341 is authorized for termination.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSubject D-9341 returns to testing chamber 46-C and is immediately terminated by security staff. All personnel involved in the experiment were selectively amnestisized following debriefing and psychiatric evaluation. Involved research staff were reassigned, and new researchers implemented. Proposition to update SCP-5152's containment class to euclid is currently pending approval.\n<END LOG>\nNotes: By unanimous vote of the O5 council, under no circumstances are any personnel that have undergone amnestic treatment to be allowed direct contact with SCP-5152.\n-O5-\u2588\u2588\n\nFootnotes\n1. Attempts to analyze samples while remaining within SCP-5152 are currently ongoing.\n2. It is currently unknown how SCP-5152 attains the memories of subjects. Testing is ongoing.\n3. Whether or not SCP-5152-1 is a being within SCP-5152 or a consciousness that SCP-5152 possesses is currently undergoing investigation.\n4. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.\n5. No such company has ever been known to exist. Investigations are ongoing.\n6. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5151 | SCP-5152 | SCP-5153 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by me:\n\nTheMightyMcB's Author Page\n\nSpecial thanks to:\n\nDrAkimoto\nrattles\nCrashington\nOboebandgeek99\n\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following documents have been archived from the American Secure Containment Initiative (ASCI) and SCP Foundation databases. They have been preserved for historical context regarding SCP-5153.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n08/12/2018\n\nThreat Catalog Number: ASCI-5153\nThreat Level: Black\nContainment of Threat: In preparation for an imminent extinction-level asteroid impact event, ASCI-2000 is to be prepared and all essential personnel are to be evacuated.\nDescription of Threat: ASCI-5153 is a large asteroid that is presently on course to impact Earth in late June 1908 (N.S.). The effects of such an impact are expected to destroy all life on Earth.\n\nMay God help us all.\n\nPage revision 1/5 from 06/10/1908\n\n\u00ab SCP-5152 | SCP-5153 | SCP-5154 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nAuthors: TheMightyMcB and Unknown Corpsecon Contributor!\nMore by me:\n\nTheMightyMcB's Author Page\n\nThis article was written for the 2020 Exquisite Corpse Competition!\nSpecial thanks to:\n\nMew-ltiverse\nDrAkimoto\nrattles\nRounderhouse\nMalyceGraves\nplaidypus\nCerastes\ncybersqyd\nDoctor Fullham\nKaraKatt\n\n+ Image Attribution\n\n- Image Attribution\n\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voodoo-dolls.JPG Released under CC-BY-SA 3.0\n\nAll changes to the conprocs and image have been approved by ProcyonLotor and A Random Day.\n\n\n2/5154 LEVEL 2/5154\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5154\n\nEuclid\n\nSCP-5154 at the location of discovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5154 is to be stored in a Class-F Anomalous Item Locker at Site-93. Personnel are not to engage in conversation with SCP-5154 without approval from the SCP-5154 Project Lead (presently Dr. Ahmad Punjari). Given its manipulative tendencies, all communications with SCP-5154 are to be closely monitored and reviewed.\nDescription: SCP-5154 refers to a gestalt collection of handmade dolls constructed of cotton, polyester, and various plastics. The dolls that comprise SCP-5154 are attached at the wrists with cotton thread and are incapable of independent movement, however, the object is capable of speech through an unknown mechanism. SCP-5154 will attempt to engage passers-by in conversation, invariably seeking to establish a contractual relationship of some kind, typically offering freedom to D-Class personnel in exchange for various herbs, animal carcasses, incenses, and minerals. To date, SCP-5154 has requested sage, salt, a spider, an amethyst, myrrh, a cervid skull, and unscented candles from various D-Class personnel. SCP-5154 presents multiple distinct personalities, each conducting themselves in a manner conducive to the establishment of a seemingly mutualistic verbal agreement. The nature of these agreements is highly variable, but none have been successfully carried out prior to the events of Addendum 5154.1.\nSCP-5154 was discovered in an abandoned and severely dilapidated bungalow in LoI-504 (\"La Rue Macabre\"), three miles east of the settlement proper. Undercover Foundation agents operating in La Rue Macabre were investigating rumors of the disappearance of Ad\u00e9la\u00efde Hecaud, an elderly resident who had not been seen in town for approximately three months. The corpse of Mrs. Hecaud was found in her bed, having died of acute myocardial infarction approximately nine weeks earlier. SCP-5154 was found in the basement of the residence on top of an end table, surrounded by black gunpowder and 4 bottles of home-brewed dark rum. The Foundation was contacted after the object attempted to converse with the agents.\nAddendum 5154.1: Incident Log\nPreliminary testing via indirect communication has demonstrated that SCP-5154 is incapable of fulfilling any requests made of them by D-Class personnel, as the object possesses no means by which to manipulate its surroundings or utilize the solicited payment. Direct interactive testing was to be carried out under the supervision of the SCP-5154 Project Lead Dr. Ahmad Punjari.\n\nPurpose: To establish the abilities of SCP-5154 to negotiate, enter, and execute a verbal contract via direct interaction.\n\nDate and Time: 02 February 2009, 1803 EST\nSubjects: Dr. Ahmad Punjari, D-3415, SCP-5154, SCP-5154, SCP-5154\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n[D-3415 is ushered into the containment chamber, and the item locker containing SCP-5154 is disarmed.]\nDr. Punjari: D-3415, please approach the containment locker and open the door.\n[D-3415 approaches the containment locker and opens the door to reveal SCP-5154.]SCP-5154: A friend perhaps?\nD-3415: Oh fuck, y'all can talk. Okay.SCP-5154: Good evening, friend. Please, sit. We have much to discuss.\nDr. Punjari: D-3415, please engage SCP-5154 in conversation.\n[D-3415 takes a seat across from the containment locker containing SCP-5154 and takes a deep breath.]D-3415: Chris, but uh, the folks here call me \"D-3415\".[There is a 7-second pause. D-3415 shifts in his chair.]D-3415: I would prefer if you didn't comment on how I smell, thanks.SCP-5154: Yes, you're making the poor thing uncomfortable.SCP-5154: So Chris, let us get down to business, yes?\nD-3415: So what's the deal then? What business are we supposed to be doing?SCP-5154: It appears quite apparent to us that you are unhappy here.SCP-5154: We can help you. We can save you.\nD-3415: Who said I'm unhappy here? I get three square and a roof over my head. Beats busting my ass with side hustles and living in shelters.SCP-5154: A cold glass of beer? The sunset over the Gulf?[D-3415 glances upwards at the observation panel of the containment chamber.]\nDr. Punjari: You may proceed, D-3415.\nD-3415: All right, what's the catch? You must want something from me.SCP-5154: Pray.\nD-3415: You\u2026 want me to pray? In exchange for freedom?D-3415: Then who am I supposed to be praying to?\n[In unison]\nSCP-5154, SCP-5154, SCP-5154: Kalfu.[In unison]\nSCP-5154, SCP-5154, SCP-5154: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nDr. Punjari: Stop the test! D-3415, do not repeat those words, do you hear me? D-34\u2014\nD-3415: [DATA EXPUNGED]\n[All audio and video cuts out for 4 seconds. When the feed returns, D-3415 is no longer present in the containment chamber, and SCP-5154 displays the addition of a fourth doll, colored blue.]\nDr. Punjari: Lock it down, lock it all down!\n[Klaxons begin to sound.][In unison]\nSCP-5154, SCP-5154, SCP-5154: Welcome, brother.\n\nAs of 02 February 2009, SCP-5154 testing has been suspended indefinitely.\nAddendum 5154.2: Letter Sent by PoI-504-L (\"Papa Legba\").\nThe following letter was found on the desk of Dr. Punjari the day after the events of Addendum 5154.1.\n\nLa Rue Macabre\n\nDr. Ahmad Punjari,\nIt's come to my attention that you boys've stumbled on quite the treat. As I'm sure you've already figured out, those ain't just any old voodoo dolls. They're property of my old friend, Kalfu. Old lady Ad\u00e9la\u00efde'd been keeping him cooped up all these years now, keeping him stocked up on powder n' rum. Surprised y'all didn't figure it out right then and there, but I guess y'all don't know your voodoo like ya should, eh? But now she's gone and you lot done scooped up some of the cleverest spirits this side of the Mississip'.\nSince y'all don't seem to know who you're messin' with, lemme educate ya. Kalfu is Bealsey-Bub, the Ol' Boy himself. He's bad luck, disorder, chaos. He's more clever than you, he's quicker than you, he'll swipe your soul with a grin a mile wide. A meetin' on his crossroads ain't likely to end well for y'all, don't matter how clever you fix yourself to be. Let me be crystal clear with you fellas \u2014 Kalfu ain't the type to be triflin' with. Ad\u00e9la\u00efde and I locked him up years ago, but now he's got a new soul to play with since you Foundation folk can't keep your noses outta places you shouldn't be sniffin'.\nMy advice? Lock up them dolls and throw away the key. Ain't no good gonna be comin' from 'em. Leave this ol' ghost to La Rue. Me 'n the spooks'll sort 'em out.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5153 | SCP-5154 | SCP-5155 \u00bb"}
{"text": "PeppersGhost\n\nSCP-5155 - Oh Deer by PeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\n2/5155 LEVEL 2/5155\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5155\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nSCP-5155.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5155 is to be kept and cared for in the Site-5155 nature reserve. Foundation webcrawler Kappa-82 (\"GILMER GIRL\") is programmed to automatically expunge any public records of unusual activity instigated by SCP-5155.\nDescription: SCP-5155 refers to an anomaly characterized by the displaced extraphysical essence of the Gilmer family, their suburban Nevada home, and an apparently unrelated 8.6 tonnes of fresh zucchini. All displaced elements still retain the extraphysical essential qualities that they possessed at the time of displacement on May 15th, 1955; however, since displacement, all displaced elements now physically interface with reality (Baseline) as a herd of twenty-two mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). The nature of this interface exists in a conceptually fluid state between literal and figurative, and consequently it is difficult to predict when and how SCP-5155 may stray from Baseline.\nThe Gilmer family consists of parents Rhonda (age 29) and Edward (age 33), children Suzie (age 6) and Brisbane (age 10), and their pet border collie Sassafras (age unknown). As of 03/13/2020, Brisbane is the only member of the family who has indicated full cognizance of the family's displacement and the passage of time; however, all family members recognize the presence of an irregular amount of zucchini. Attempts to interact with the family have been unsuccessful and occasionally traumatic. Each family member's personality has grown less stable over time, albeit to varying degrees.\nThe twenty-two mule deer through which SCP-5155 physically interacts with Baseline possess no apparent bodily autonomy; however, neuroimaging suggests that the animals still retain their original extraphysical essences (overlapped with those of SCP-5155) and the ability to feel pain. Despite decades of effort, no method has been found to humanely terminate the animals without endangering the Gilmer family.\n\nObservation Log:\n\nForeword: Transcript of footage recorded March 13th, 2020, 12:32 pm.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Deer 16 lies on its back with limbs overextended beyond the normal range of motion for its species.)\nBrisbane: God. God. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Come from heaven. Come from heaven. Jesus. Jesus.\n(Deer 21 throws itself against Deer 09's head, causing Deer 09 to revolve seventy degrees in the opposite direction on an axis parallel to the ground and slightly behind its buttocks.)\nRhonda: Brizzie, dearest, would you kindly keep your voice down? Mother is trying to prepare supper.\n(Deer 16's limbs overextend further. A snapping sound is heard.)\nBrisbane: It's lunchtime. I'm trying to resurrect god. How can you hear me from the kitchen if my room is upstairs?\n(Deer 21 abruptly sinks into the ground, disappearing from view. The tip of an ear extrudes from Deer 16's belly moments later.)\nRhonda: Brisbane Eurydice Gilmer, I really don't appreciate your disrespectful attitude. It's hard enough to prepare a hot meal with all these goddamn cucumbers everywhere!\n(Deer 07 and Deer 19 launch upward and out of view.)\nRhonda: Chrysler Imperial! There they go again.\n(Deer 09 spins another eighty degrees on its aforementioned axis. The head of Deer 21 fully extrudes from the belly of Deer 16. The fur on both animals grows wet with blood along the edges where their bodies intersect.)\nRhonda: You're on cucumber duty. I need my elbow room.\n(Sassafras is heard barking in the distance.)\nRhonda: They're coming back. Don't make me hurt you.\n(Deer 21 and Deer 19 both sink in the ground. Deer 04 and Deer 15 emerge from the tree line, their movements perfectly synchronized. Deer 15 is suspend directly above Deer 04, its hooves falling at the level of Deer 04's ears.)\nSuzie: Which one are you?\nEdward: I'm whichever one is closest. Roar!\n(Suzie's laughter can be heard.)\nSuzie: And which one am I?\nEdward: You're the cutest cuke I'll ever regret.\n(Deer 04 and Deer 14 rise from the ground and drift away weightlessly as if carried off by a breeze, tumbling slightly but remaining in parallel. Their stride and Deer 15's physical displacement along its vertical axis remain unaffected by this development.)\nBrisbane: God. Jesus. God.\n(Deer 01's face emerges from the tree canopy, approximately 4.6 meters tall.)\nEdward: How's my little theologian, then?\n(Brisbane screams. A figure presumed to be Deer 22 travels across the sky six times in rapid succession, always in same direction.)\nEdward: Pop quiz. When humans die, they go to heaven or hell.\n(Deer 01's mouth opens. Deers 16, 09, and 03 slowly rise from its mouth. Sassafras can be heard whimpering in the distance.)\nEdward: Where does God go when he dies?\n(Brisbane screams. Deers 16, 09, and 03 are engulfed in fire.)\nRhonda: Dinner's ready, dear.\n[END LOG]\n\nPeppo Jamcon 2020\n\u00ab SCP-5515 | SCP-5155 | SCP-5404 \u00bb\n\n\u00ab SCP-5154 | SCP-5155 | SCP-5156 \u00bb"}
{"text": "monke\n\nCalibold\n\nSCP-5156 \u2014 monke\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\nDoorway to SCP-5156. Most pictured furnishings are the result of its containment by Foundation personnel, and were not present upon initial discovery.\n\nItem #: SCP-5156\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The house in which SCP-5156 is located has been converted into Provisional Site-289, under the guise of government protection of a historical building. Civilians are permitted to observe and photograph SCP-5156 under this pretense.\nDescription: SCP-5156 is a pocket universe accessible via a doorway located in the basement of an abandoned house in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The doorway is inlaid into the wall, and geological analysis confirms that the space behind the doorway is completely filled by earth.\nThe area accessed by this doorway is a 400-meter cubic space bordered by walls, a ceiling, and floor all made of the same brick material. These bricks have been anomalously altered or are of anomalous origin, and cannot be destroyed by any known methods.\nSCP-5156 is populated by exactly 10,000 identical rhesus macaque monkeys,1 collectively designated SCP-5156-1. All of them are biologically immortal, and do not require any other form of nourishment. Each instance of SCP-5156-1 is seated at a desk with a typewriter, and will constantly strike random keys. The only case where these instances will move from their seats is if a human or other entity attempts to harm or remove an SCP-5156-1 instance, in which case all instances will immediately attack the individual with deadly force. Otherwise, all instances remain passive, and have no regard for humans or any other living creatures.\nThe typewriters used by each SCP-5156-1 instance are able to access an infinite supply of ink, and whenever a typewriter's page is finished, it will be set aside by its respective SCP-5156-1 instance and a new page will manifest in the typewriter. These pages will disappear a few moments after being removed.\nWhile most pages contain complete nonsense, occasionally an SCP-5156-1 instance will type out a cohesive word or set of words. Since containment of SCP-5156 has been established, one page has been created which is entirely understandable,2 written in Italian.\nUpon the creation of the aforementioned page, it manifested in a wooden basket in the center of SCP-5156, on top of two other pages, each of which contains similarly cohesive content. Transcripts of these pages are available upon request.\nAddendum 5156.1 (Discovery): The basement in which the doorway to SCP-5156 is located was formerly barred off and hidden, and was only recently discovered by a small group of historians researching the home. They initially intended on publishing their findings, but were discovered by Foundation personnel before they could do so. Members of the team were administered Class C amnestics, and were left with the memories and data of only the non-anomalous portions of the house, to satiate any curiosity or suspicion regarding their investigation plans.\nThe house itself was placed under Foundation supervision and SCP-5156 was contained. Investigation of the house revealed very little information about its previous owners, save for a single letter found inside one of the bedrooms.\n\nMine own lief friend, if I overcome my fear and send this message,\nI know we've conversed much about our futures, and what we are capable of accomplishing. Whilst I've the utmost faith in thy talent and ability, I at each moment lack'd thy creativity. However, recently I've found something which hath changed that completely.\nI've come across a grand design, and within I've discovered many pages of curious origin, which I intend on publishing anon. I know not how long this grand design hath been functioning, but rest assur'd it hath been long enow to issue forth a multitude of work and concepts, which I intend upon releasing as mine own work. I dare not specify any further, f'r fear of discovery, but this is a discovery grac'd by God.\nI give you all the most wondrous, mine own lief cousin, and pray this brings fortune on my house.\n\u2014 Your bosom companion, William Shakespeare\n\nFootnotes\n1. Scientific name: Macaca mulatta.\n2. There are several grammatical and spelling errors, but the central idea of the page as a whole is comprehensible.\n\n\n+ More by Calibold +\n\n- More by Calibold -\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\u2014 SCP Articles \u2014\n\nSCP-7178 \u2014 A Thief In The Night\nSCP-7179 \u2014 E is for Eternity\nSCP-6469-D \u2014 A BABY?????\nSCP-2082 \u2014 Elephas cryophilus\nSCP-6156 \u2014 Oh, Doug!\nSCP-6579-D \u2014 The Detective Killer\nSCP-6900-D \u2014 The House of Stars\nSCP-5277 \u2014 What Can Go Wrong\nSCP-5363-D \u2014 Controlled Containment\nSCP-3482 \u2014 fine mayor posters campaign by dado\nSCP-5156 \u2014 monke\nDirector Bold's Proposal-J \u2014 \"Guys, please don't read our SCPs \ud83e\udd7a\"\nSCP-2693 \u2014 Fell Into The Well, Fell Into The Well, Fell Into The Deep Dark Well\nSCP-5559-D \u2014 The Great Ambrose Bake-Off!\nSCP-3448-J \u2014 Should Have Taken Him Sleeping\nSCP-4456-D \u2014 No One Expects The Spanish Decommission!\nSCP-4745 \u2014 Spooky Scary Snowman\nSCP-4645 \u2014 Blackmailing Computer\n\n\u2014 Tales \u2014\n\nOpusConfidant Wiki - SCP-4645 - Threatini\nDiary Of An Existential Kid\nResponsible Promotion\nFriends Of Us Never Die\nTruth Lies\nA Team You Can (Maybe) Trust\nHappy Father's Day\nMission: Decommission\nA Bold Choice\nI Am Become Death\nUlysses B. Donkman and the Heinous Hitman\nIt's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Eldritch (Sung to the tune of \"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas\")\nChapter One - The End\n\n\u2014 GoI Formats \u2014\n\nManifest 476: Vanishing Galleon\nThe Book Of Mathisi, Chapter 1: The Parable Of The Three Princes\nLTE-8686-Yellow-Kewpie\nUIU File: 2001-023\n\n\u2014 Other \u2014\n\nMega Cool Customizable ACS Add-On Ver. 1.8.0 Guide\nDecommissioning Department Hub\nFortune Favors\nDecommissioning Dept. Theme\nMega Cool Customizable ACS Add-On Ver. 1.8.0\nMega Cool Author Page Tool Ver. 1.4.0\nCalibold's Mega Cool Alternate SCP Logos Page\nCalibold's Mega Cool Art Page (It's Mostly Just Icons, But Whatever, It's Still Mega Cool)\n\n\u2014 Co-Authored \u2014\n\nAbraka David's Proposal \u2014 A Peak Behind the Curtain (feat. Ralliston, Placeholder McD, Guaire, Guezma, Jack Ike, Sherf, Yossipossi, Dr Balthazaar, Grigori Karpin, LORDXVNV, Lt Flops, Uncle Nicolini, Metaphysician)\nSCP-7400 \u2014 Your Honor, League of Legends (feat. Sherf)\nI, Hub (feat. many other authors)\nResurrection: New Faces (feat. Grigori Karpin, Nagiros, and redredred)\nSCP-5545 \u2014 \ud835\ude70 \ud835\ude71 \ud835\ude7d \ud835\ude7e \ud835\ude81 \ud835\ude7c \ud835\ude70 \ud835\ude7b \ud835\ude78 \ud835\ude83 \ud835\ude88 (feat. Yossipossi)\nSCP-194 \u2014 Thank You For Your Cooperation (feat. CityToast)\n\n\u2014 Foreign \u2014\nDirector Bold's Proposal \u2014 Language\nSCP-LA-II \u2014 Fruit\n\n\u00ab SCP-5155 | SCP-5156 | SCP-5157 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\n\nThe documentation regarding SCP-5157 has developed significantly and the security clearance required to view the file has been upgraded. The original documentation is preserved below for posterity and access by lower-level personnel.\n\nItem #: SCP-5157\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A research team led by Dr. Levitt will maintain observation of SCP-5157 from Site 51, and pursue development of technologies capable of observing SCP-5157 with greater fidelity. Any development in SCP-5157's behavior should result in notification of the site director, as SCP-5157's conceptual fortitude is weak enough to threaten a CK-class Reality Restructuring Scenario.\nFoundation contacts will be positioned at all civilian astronomical observation sites technologically capable of detecting SCP-5157 to deter such an event.\nDescription: SCP-5157 is the designation for an anomalous area of the sky positioned near Xi Piscium1 possessing a remarkably low conceptual fortitude. SCP-5157 is of small enough celestial area as to make measurement inconvenient. Current estimates describe SCP-5157 as vaguely oblong, approximately 500km in length, 11.6ly from earth, and possessing a conceptual fortitude of -326.8 Humes.2 Little beyond this is known about SCP-5157 at this time.\nSCP-5157 was discovered on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588/1981 when it emitted a Level Cyan reality-destabilizing pulse, temporarily decreasing the ambient Hume levels of multiple Foundation sites to 0.98 Humes, disrupting the calibration of the containment system of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. SCP-5157 was not catalogued as an item until its conceptual fortitude was recorded as part of routine Site 51 observations on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588/1997, at which point it was upgraded to its current containment procedures.\n\n+ Additional File / \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588/2006 / Level 2 Clearance Required:\n\n- Close File\n\nAddendum SCP.5157.1 - First Imagery of SCP-5157\n\nSite 51 Internal Memo\nFrom: Dr. Elizabeth Levitt\nTo: Site Director Hayward\n\nGreetings,\nAs you're likely aware, the Celestial Conceptual Fortitude Array (CCFA) my team and I have been working on has reached functionality and begun surveillance of SCP-5157. The CCFA operates with enough precision that we're finally able to discern the shape of SCP-5157 beyond a blur. The initial imagery we've received is concerning, to say the least. (See attached image.)\nSCP-5157's documentation has been updated to reflect the new findings (also attached), and I'd like to request additional funding and staffing priority for the SCP-5157 project.\nSincerely,\nDr. Elizabeth Levitt\n\nSCP-5157-A (left) and SCP-5157-B (right).\n\nRevised Description: SCP-5157 is the collective designation for two entities (SCP-5157-A and SCP-5157-B) residing in nearby space, approximately 11.6ly from earth, and possessing a remarkably low conceptual fortitude (-483.7 Humes). The conceptual fortitude of the entities and the area surrounding them has decreased significantly since original discovery, and is projected to continue dropping as time passes. SCP-5157's conceptual fortitude, if it continues dropping at its current rate, will cause a CK-class Reality Restructuring Scenario by the year 207\u2588.\nSCP-5157-A is approximately 200km long, and is shaped like a masculine humanoid upper body with four arms. SCP-5157-B is 130km long, and is shaped like a feminine humanoid with skeletal wings in place of arms. The two entities are connected by a thin tether 10km in diameter, and slowly orbit each other.\nThe heads of the entities occasionally produce what are theorized to be transmissions, oscillating electromagnetic emissions consisting of all frequencies of light. Unfortunately, due to the constant movement of the entities, the relatively small size of their heads, and the low refresh rate of measuring equipment, accurate recording of these potential transmissions is infeasible at this time.\n\n+ Additional File / \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588/2007 / Level 3 Clearance Required:\n\n- Close File\n\nAddendum SCP.5157.2 - Incident Report 5157.\u2588\u258807\nOn \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588/2007, the conceptual fortitude of SCP-5157 decreased rapidly over the course of 13 minutes, descending to -783.9 Humes. The diffusion of lower Hume levels into the surrounding space constituted a Level Violet reality-destabilising pulse. The ambient Hume levels of Foundation sites dropped to 0.87 Humes, returning to their original levels after approximately two weeks.\nThis event coincided with multiple international containment breaches, including but not limited to SCP-3160, SCP-3166, and SCP-4205. Dr. Levitt was killed in the breach. Her responsibilities regarding SCP-5157 have been assumed by Senior Researcher Munro.\nThe conceptual fortitude of SCP-5157 has not returned to its value preceding the incident, and has continued decreasing at its previous rate. As such, the projected CK-class Reality Restructuring Scenario is now estimated to occur by 205\u2588.\n\n+ Additional File / \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588/2009 / Level 3 Clearance Required:\n\n- Close File\n\nAddendum SCP.5157.3 - Transmissions\n\nFile 5157.AU.01\nSummary: The first log recorded and analyzed, confirming the sentience of SCP-5157-A and SCP-5157-B. SCP-5157-A mentions an \u201cascension\u201d, theorized to be the CK-class Reality Restructuring event the anomaly poses, given its description as transcendent beyond reality.\n\nSCP-5157-A: My love, your beauty is yet beyond compare, your existence a pure release of true ecstasy and transcendence.\nSCP-5157-B: [emits a noise described by D-724381 as \u201cIt's\u2026 laughing, I think? Oh, god, it's so beautiful, it burns.\u201d]\nA: My love for you grows infinite, and I know those that wish to keep us apart will never succeed. We shall never be apart. And yet, my love, this is not all that can be.\nB: No?\nA: Nay, for there are taller mountains to scale, and higher peaks to reach. You, my Psyche, are yet to ascend with me, and exist pure, central, the focus of reality, matter and mind.\nB: My darling Eros, you know I have not the strength for ascension. As much as I may wish to join you in that form of dreams beyond reality, I cannot.\nA: Cannot yet. Take my hand, let me guide you. The road may be long, and travels hard, but together we can brave all barriers, limited in power as you yet may be. I refuse to leave you behind, my exultant beauty, so we shall undertake this journey together.\nB: Then let us never be apart, my love. Success or failure, we shall never be separate. This is my oath to you, my decree of everlasting love.\n\nFile 5157.AU.27\nSummary: This recording is notable, as it contains the first reference to the tether than connects the entities, not clearly visible in the photography collected by the CCFA. Following this recording, the tether was identified in said photography.\n\nSCP-5157-A: With this tie, we become one. Connected to our hearts, this cosmic tether shall ensure that never we are apart.\nSCP-5157-B: Do you feel that? Our hearts beat as one. Each pulse makes the galaxies a little more our own.\nA: Our union brings us closer to your ascension. The energy around us will slowly become us, my love, until our combined strength is enough to take us to that form beyond forms.\nB: Not now, perhaps not even soon, however. I doubt my vitality, even combined with your own, is yet even a fragment of what must be consumed to empower our ascension.\nA: My love, you mustn't talk about yourself that way. If anything, it is I who is weighing you down.\nB: Perhaps we are neither weighing each other down, then. Together, as one, in unity. This bond makes us not two separate entities, but not one, either. Our love binds us into a conglomerate, a unit to ascend together.\nA: Indeed. And with you and I now together, anything is possible.\nB: But only as long as our love binds us.\nA: You should not doubt my devotion to you, my love. We shall never be apart, now.\nB: And that is all I could wish for.\n\nFile 5157.AU.83\n\nSCP-5157-A: You look resplendent, my love.\nSCP-5157-B: Is that all?\nA: Of course not, my dear. But it takes time to think of new ways to describe your beauty without sounding as a false, pompous mortal trying to describe the sky they've seen for the first time to those who have only ever seen shadows on a cave wall.\nB: I do not mind, darling Eros. Perhaps I want to hear those words, because their coming from you makes them all the more sweet, for I know their honesty and truth. No melodies can compare, too alluring is hearing it whisper in my ear. I wish nothing more than to lay with you for all eternity, whether ascended or otherwise, because being with you is all I wish for in this existence or those beyond.\nA: That your lips do not spill charming lies, but I can see in your eyes you believe every word you say. And you call me more alluring than any melody, where you can weave prose that puts the beauty of the cosmos to shame, not even to speak of your beauty itself, speckled with stars that will one day create new life, new worlds.\nB: You flatter so. Do not speak as if your beauty, your form of infinite fantasy incomprehensibly choosing to orbit my own, is not infinitely superior in its allure to anything else this universe could offer. We shall guide each other down this road we've chosen, of love and ascension. I shall never let you go.\nA: And I, you.\nB: Together, we will find our way.\nA: Together, indeed.\n\n+ Current Documentation of SCP-5157 / Level 4 Clearance Required:\n\n- Close File\n\nItem#: 5157\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\napollyon\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A research team led by Dr. Munro will maintain observation of SCP-5157 from Site 51, utilizing the Celestial Conceptual Fortitude Array (CCFA) to make measurements of the anomaly. Any development in SCP-5157's behavior should result in notification of the site director.\nFoundation contacts will be positioned at all civilian astronomical observation sites technologically capable of detecting SCP-5157 to deter such an event.\nThe oscillating electromagnetic radiation emitted from the heads of SCP-5157-A and SCP-5157-B is to be recorded and transcribed in as close to real time as possible. In the event that the entities indicate that they are soon to lower their Hume levels and emit a reality-destabilizing pulse3, all high-risk items in the possession of the Foundation are to be locked down worldwide.\nDescription: SCP-5157 is the designation of an area of nearby outer space, approximately 11.6ly from earth, that possesses a remarkably low conceptual fortitude (-1098.3 Humes). The conceptual fortitude of SCP-5157 has decreased significantly since original discovery, and is projected to continue dropping as time passes. SCP-5157's conceptual fortitude, if it continues dropping at its current rate, will cause a CK-class Reality Restructuring Scenario by the year 203\u2588.\nWithin SCP-5157 reside two entities of unknown composition, SCP-5157-A and SCP-5157-B. SCP-5157-A is approximately 200km long, and is shaped like a masculine humanoid upper body with four arms. SCP-5157-B is 130km long, and is shaped like a feminine humanoid with skeletal wings in place of arms. The two entities are connected by a thin tether, 10km in diameter, and slowly orbit each other.\nThe heads of the entities consistently produce electromagnetic radiation of oscillating amplitude and of all frequencies. These signals, when treated as oscillations in air pressure and played through speakers as such, manifest within the listener's mind as a coherent conversation, apparently between the two entities. These conversations are of remarkable lexical complexity, and, while they may continue for days or months at a time, cover a very limited range of topics:\n\nDiscussion of the \u201cascension\u201d of SCP-5157-B, aided by SCP-5157-A. This \u201cascension\u201d is theorized to be the inevitable CK-class Reality Restructuring Scenario posed by SCP-5157.\nDiscussion of \u201cothers\u201d that stand against the union of the entities. The identity of these \u201cothers\u201d is unknown. The old gods stand steadfast against change.\nPoetic expression of their love for one another.\n\nSince its discovery, SCP-5157 has emitted seven reality-destabilizing pulses, the most recent five of which have resulted in multiple worldwide containment breaches. There is no apparent method by which these effects can be mitigated. There is no available method by which the entities may be communicated with. There is no way to contain SCP-5157.\n\nThey cannot tear us apart, my love.\nI will not let them.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-5157 is offset from Xi Piscium by a declination of approximately +0\u00b017\u203243\u2033 and a negligible right ascension.\n2. A measure of conceptual fortitude, describing how resistant to anomalous warping reality is in a specific region. The baseline (non-anomalous) conceptual fortitude is 1 Hume.\n3. Typically described by the entities as a\u201cstep closer to ascension\u201d, a \u201csharing of power\u201d or \u201cmaking this world ours\u201d.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5156 | SCP-5157 | SCP-5158 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5159\nObject Class: Euclid Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The current holder of SCP-5159, previously known as D-9921, is to be held in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-22. Said holder is to be kept restrained at all times in order to prevent self-harm.\nAny interrogation with the intent to extract historical intelligence from SCP-5159's current holder must be conducted with medical personnel on standby to ensure the holder's long-term health following the necessary sleep deprivation.\nDescription: SCP-5159 is the personal designation AU BARON AL BARICH which \u2014 when properly assigned to an organism \u2014 causes said organism to display a consistent set of anomalous properties. These include, but are not limited to:\n\nAn inability to be referred to with any name other than AU BARON AL BARICH. Attempts to do otherwise will result in severe choking, eventually resulting in unconsciousness if the attempt persists.\nAn increased capacity for bodily regeneration. Although this varies from holder to holder, this has been observed to facilitate the regrowth of entire limbs and sections of the brain on more than one occasion.\nA passive probabilistic anomaly that protects the holder from the majority of physical threats. Guns fired at the holder of SCP-5159 generally jam, grenades deployed will fail to detonate, and most mechanical means of attack will spontaneously break down upon usage.\nSpectral manifestations which defend the holder from physical threats when the previously mentioned probabilistic defenses are insufficient. These manifestations take the appearance of tall, vaguely humanoid figures with six legs, six arms and six eyes. These entities will attack the physical threat using medieval-era weaponry such as swords and spears before vanishing upon neutralization of said threat.\nA form of shared memory, allowing the holder to access the recollections of previous holders of SCP-5159. Although this typically occurs only on a subconscious level, further and more lucid access to these memories is possible when the holder is in a state of impaired consciousness, such as severe inebriation or sleep deprivation. (As the former of these would impair the holder's ability to communicate the information they have access to, it has been determined that interrogation will be conducted using the latter method.)\nA persistent and compulsive urge to self-terminate.\n\nThus far, the only known means for SCP-5159 to be transferred from one individual to another is for the current holder to voice their intent to grant the name of AU BARON AL BARICH to another specific individual. At this point, all anomalous effects originating from the previous holder will cease and subsequently remanifest surrounding the new host.\nAttempts to designate other individuals as AU BARON AL BARICH without following this chain of succession has proven to cause no anomalous phenomena. In addition, testing has shown that a range limit of three meters is in effect when transferring SCP-5159 to other individuals other humans.\n\nInterview 5159-1\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Goodfellow\nInterviewed: AU BARON AL BARICH, previously known as D-9921.\nAU BARON AL BARICH was kept awake for 48 hours and dosed with stimulants to retain verbal lucidity. Subject was then asked to recall their earliest memory.\n\n<Begin Log>\nAU BARON AL BARICH: My earliest memory?\nDr. Goodfellow: Yes, that's right.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I guess, it's just\u2026 it's not so easy to think right now, you know? If I could just rest my eyes? Please?\n(Dr. Goodfellow shakes his head.)\nDr. Goodfellow: I'm afraid that's not possible right now. Once we're done with this interview, though, you can rest all you like. How's that sound?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: That sounds good\u2026 I-I guess. I'll do my best.\nDr. Goodfellow: (smiles) That's all I ask.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: My earliest memory\u2026 I guess it would be when I was a kid. This, um, this time I got in a fight? Not, like, a serious one or anything, just \u2014 just kid stuff, you know?\nDr. Goodfellow: And when was this? What year?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: Around 1892\u2026? No, that's not\u2026 I'm not sure. Sorry, I'm sorry.\nDr. Goodfellow: That's alright. And where was this, if you don't mind? Where was your family living at the time?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: In Syria, in Damascus \u2014 but I was an orphan, I \u2014 I was in an orphanage. It was one of the other children there that I was\u2026\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (slowly) No. No, sorry, that's not right. I-I've never been to Syria, and \u2014 and I'm not an orphan. That's\u2026\n(AU BARON AL BARICH looks towards the spent stimulants. He begins struggling against his restraints.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: What the hell did you put in that syringe?! W-What the hell are you doing to me?! No, no no no!\nDr. Goodfellow: (speaking loudly to be heard over AU BARON AL BARICH's protests) AU BARON AL BARICH, you've been told about this already. AU BARON \u2014\nAU BARON AL BARICH: Help! Somebody help me!\nDr. Goodfellow: Sir, please, I \u2014\n(AU BARON AL BARICH begins thrashing and screaming.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: This skin! My skin, it's \u2014 it's strangling me! I need to \u2014 I need to!\n(At this point, AU BARON AL BARICH attempted to swallow his own tongue and had to be sedated, ending the interview.)\n<End Log>\n\nInterview 5159-2\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Goodfellow\nInterviewed: AU BARON AL BARICH, previously known as D-9921.\nFollowing the previous interview, AU BARON AL BARICH was put on a two-week course of counselling in the hopes of delaying their attempts at self-harm. For the purposes of this interview, AU BARON AL BARICH was kept awake for 48 hours and dosed with a stimulant to retain lucidity.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Goodfellow: Good evening, AU BARON AL BARICH. How're you feeling?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I, um, I don't wanna do it again. Like last time? You know what I mean?\nDr. Goodfellow: I'm not sure. Why don't you take a second to put your thoughts together?\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (exhales) Okay. Okay. Last time, when you \u2014 when you asked me to remember. I didn't like that. It's like\u2026 I remembered one thing, and I remembered another thing in the same \u2014 in the same place, and they were, like, they were rubbing against each other. Or, or crashing, like a car crash. I didn't like that.\nDr. Goodfellow: I understand. I'll do my best to make sure you're comfortable, but I'm afraid at some point we will have to return to the topic of your memories.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (quietly) Okay.\nDr. Goodfellow: But we don't have to do that straight away. First, I'd like to ask you about\u2026 well, about what happened at the end of our last interview. You tried to hurt yourself? Do you remember?\n(AU BARON AL BARICH nods.)\nDr. Goodfellow: I'm told you've tried to do things like that a few times before. Is that right?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: Yes.\nDr. Goodfellow: May I ask why?\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: It's like\u2026 have you ever done something wrong? Like, a crime or something? Shoplifting when you were a kid, you know, or something like that?\nDr. Goodfellow: Well, 'something wrong' is a pretty vague way of putting it, but\u2026 (chuckles) Yes. I suppose I've had my moments.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: And there's\u2026 there's that guilt, you know, just that \u2014 just that awful gnawing feeling. It's \u2014 it's you know, you've \u2014 because you want to make right, you \u2014 you do things. You need to do things, the \u2014 the right thing to do. It's like that.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I'm not making much sense, am I?\nDr. Goodfellow: No, no, it's fine. I understand you. You feel like you have to make up for what you've done. That's an understandable feeling.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I\u2026 yeah. That's exactly it. I have something that doesn't belong to me. It's only right to return it.\nDr. Goodfellow: But you won't accomplish that by hurting yourself. If you help us, we can help you do the right thing.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: You want me to remember again, don't you?\nDr. Goodfellow: Yes. Your earliest memory, please.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (quietly) I'm cold. In, in the memory \u2014 I mean. Because I've been bleeding, and I'm almost bled out but now my wounds are closing. Like they do now. I'm a soldier. I'm holding a sword.\nDr. Goodfellow: When was this? Do you know where?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: When the\u2026 when the sky was young. It's, like, blurry around the edges? It's the same with the place, like, like words with water poured on them. Sort of smudged? I'm happy.\nDr. Goodfellow: In the memory?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (giggling) Yeah. I've\u2026 I've gotten it. Nearly all my men are dead \u2014 the ghosts, it had ghosts, a whole army of them \u2014 but I've got it. I made it give it to me, the name, I put my blades into it until it screamed the words and it deserved it, the filthy thing deserved it and I cut its fucking head off.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Goodfellow: (quietly) I\u2026 I see. (louder) And what is the 'it' you keep referring to? Could you see it?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: This\u2026 awful, awful thing, a monster. Like the ghosts that come out near me \u2014 too many limbs, too \u2014 too many eyes, those fucking eyes \u2014 I hate the way they're looking at me. I\u2026 I get rid of them.\nDr. Goodfellow: And what happened to that man\u2026 to you next? Did you at least bury the creature?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: We burnt it. We burnt it to nothing, the ones of us that were left \u2014 my men \u2014 and\u2026\nDr. Goodfellow: And?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (quietly) I know what I need to do \u2014 like I, like I said, the only right thing. The flames need me. I \u2014 I run forward, my men try to grab me but I'm too fast, and I jump and, and I'm burning and I want to die and I don't want to die and I scream out the words because I know otherwise it's all nothing and it's the first person I think of and\u2026\n(AU BARON AL BARICH runs out of breath and starts panting.)\nDr. Goodfellow: Please, try not to tire yourself out.\n(Pause. AU BARON AL BARICH continues breathing heavily.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: And I wake up. I'm somewhere\u2026 somewhere else, across the sea. I'm a girl, I'm this girl, and I'm waiting for my father to come back from his battles. I'm looking through the window \u2014 it's so beautiful outside. It's so beautiful here.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: My head hurts. Can we\u2026 can we stop?\nDr. Goodfellow: Of course. You've done very well, sir.\n<End Log>\n\nInterview 5159-3\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Goodfellow\nInterviewed: AU BARON AL BARICH, previously known as D-9921.\nDue to the generally positive results of the previous interview, it was decided that the next interview should take place as soon as possible. Interview took place one week later to preserve subject health. AU BARON AL BARICH was kept awake for 48 hours and dosed with a stimulant to retain lucidity.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Goodfellow: Good evening, AU BARON AL BARICH. How are you \u2014\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (interrupting) Thieves.\nDr. Goodfellow: I'm sorry?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: You're all thieves. Me too. When you brought me here, and you dragged that old man in here and made him give me his name, that's \u2014 you're hoarding. Thieves. This isn't for you.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Goodfellow: I take it you've been doing some remembering of your own.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I have, I\u2026 yes. This isn't for you, you're all thieves, you steal everything, everything. We didn't make it for you.\n(Dr. Goodfellow sits up.)\nDr. Goodfellow: You didn't make it for us? The name is constructed, then? You remember making it?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I do. I\u2026 we\u2026 I shouldn't tell you. There's no reason for me to tell you anything.\nDr. Goodfellow: I'm afraid you'll only be permitted to sleep once I'm satisfied with the interview.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: Bastards. I\u2026 just a few bits and pieces, to satisfy you, that couldn't hurt, could it? I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but it's just I remember. I remember what you did, you scum, I'll see you dead.\nDr. Goodfellow: You mentioned you didn't make SCP-5159 for us. Who was it made for, then?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: What? I\u2026 we lived, were living, are living under the mountains. We were smiths of the Fae\u2026 we forged names for those who lived above. Names for battles, names for court. Like hats. Or armour. We were the finest the world had ever seen. Will ever see.\nDr. Goodfellow: And what kind of name is AU BARON AL BARICH?\n(Pause.)\nDr. Goodfellow: Sir?\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (quietly) Everything's on fire. You, your Sky King, you\u2026 you've taken everything. No, no no no, it's lost, it's all gone, everything\u2026\nDr. Goodfellow: Sir, can you still hear me?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (shouting) Of course I can still hear you! I'm still here! I'm still in this place!\nDr. Goodfellow: You were telling me about how you made the name.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: It was just an idea. A name, a name fit for a king, to bring us all together again one day. Some day. It's been so long, though, too long. We threw ourselves into the workings, by the \u2014 by the hundreds, our blood forms its grandeur.\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I need to give it back to me, to them, to us.\nDr. Goodfellow: And how do you intend to do that?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: This is the wrong shape, the wrong skin, I\u2026 I need to make up for what we did to us. I need to get rid of this shape.\nDr. Goodfellow: I see. And how did it end up in this\u2026 wrong skin?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I \u2014 we wandered with it, the ones that were left when the land was gone. I held onto it waiting \u2014 waiting for the one who should hold it until I was\u2026 until I'm dying. Time's killing me. I sent it away, with someone strong \u2014 and I, I sent my steward to watch over it, to make sure it found the right\u2026 and then you stole it. You cut them down and you stole it. Like everything else.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Goodfellow: This is the first time you've mentioned this 'steward'. You sent him away? What is it you said to him, when you sent him away?\nAU BARON AL BARICH: I\u2026 We will be back. One day, all our happiness will come again. As surely as wind becomes rain becomes snow.\nDr. Goodfellow: (quietly) That's a lovely turn of phrase.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (spits) It wasn't meant for you, human.\n(Dr. Goodfellow leans forward and puts his hand on AU BARON AL BARICH's restrained arm. AU BARON AL BARICH looks down at it.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (confused) That's\u2026\nDr. Goodfellow: Please listen. I'm here to help you. I \u2014 we're all here to help you. Do you understand?\n(Pause.)\nAU BARON AL BARICH: (quietly) Okay.\n(Dr. Goodfellow removes his hand and stands up.)\nDr. Goodfellow: I'll be transferring out shortly, but thank you very much for telling me that story. I truly do appreciate it. You can rest now.\nAU BARON AL BARICH: But, I\u2026 this skin, my head\u2026 it hurts\u2026 I'm sorry\u2026\nDr. Goodfellow: I understand \u2014 you were rather rude to me at the start of this interview. (smiles) I forgive you.\n(Dr. Goodfellow leaves the chamber.)\n<End Log>\n\nIncident 5159-1\n\nOn 21/06/2021, three days following Interview 5159-3, the holder of SCP-5159 was observed to look up from its restraints in its containment cell, stare directly at the nearest surveillance camera, and say:\n\n\"This name is not mine. Dr. Goodfellow, I give the name AU BARON AL BARICH to you.\"\n\nAll anomalous phenomena surrounding this individual, henceforth referred to as D-9921, was observed to cease following this point.\nImmediately following this event, personnel were mobilized to locate and detain the new holder of SCP-5159. This was unsuccessful, as the individual in question was unable to be found either in Site-22 or in the location he was supposedly being transferred to. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that \u2014 despite the insistence of staff in Site-22 \u2014 no employment records for the individual previously known as Dr. Robin Goodfellow could be located on the Foundation's systems.\nAs no purpose could be found in detaining D-9921 any further, they have been amnesticized and released back into the public. Efforts to locate the individual now known as AU BARON AL BARICH have, thus far, proven unsuccessful.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5158 | SCP-5159 | SCP-5160 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5160, without hat, during photo session with the \"Grandmother Sheep\" charity logo designer.\n\nItem #: SCP-5160\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: When physically in Foundation custody, SCP-5160 is to be housed in a medium-sized, camera-monitored livestock enclosure at Site-17. Standard food and custodial amenities are to be provided. Light grooming is to take place once monthly.\nSCP-5160 has been fitted with a custom-designed decorative tracking collar, to allow for the Foundation to identify locations at which it manifests. Should SCP-5160 be confirmed to have manifested near a public school, Foundation agents are to enter the premises under the guise of retrieving a fundraising charity mascot, and escort the entity away from the campus. Children are permitted to interact with SCP-5160 during the escorting process so long as low-dose amnestics are administered afterward. Should SCP-5160 disappear and re-manifest in its typical enclosure, no action is to be taken.\nAny overtly anomalous instances of SCP-5160-1 produced by SCP-5160 are to be confiscated and kept in Foundation custody at the nearest Foundation Site, with a non-anomalous replacement provided to the original recipient. Currently, there are 27 such items in storage; these instances may be used for experimentation by any researcher with Level-3 or higher clearance. Instances of SCP-5160-1 that do not exhibit any noticeable anomalies may be retained by the individual whom originally received the instance from SCP-5160. Followup investigations may proceed as necessary.\nA Foundation cover company named \"Grandmother Sheep\" (with the image of SCP-5160 used as its mascot) has been established as a disinformation initiative to deter civilian investigation of SCP-5160. The company is to function as a nonprofit charity dedicated to providing clothing, specifically handmade woolen items, to schoolchildren of low-income households.\nA full-time team of five Foundation agents is to maintain the Grandmother Sheep cover company's documentation and handle donations and distribution. The team is also to facilitate regular public appearances of non-anomalous SCP-5160 lookalikes for mascot \"meet-and-greet\" events. D-Class personnel with positive behavioral records may be recruited to assist with these tasks; paid leave will be granted to skilled Foundation researchers willing to host group knitting sessions for these individuals.\nDescription: SCP-5160 is a small female Ouessant sheep (Ovis aries), which wears1 a pointed \"witch hat\" adorned with a purple ribbon and bow. SCP-5160 has the appearance of a non-anomalous geriatric sheep, but has not shown evidence of further aging. When approached by a human, SCP-5160 will anomalously release aromas considered by the individual to be comforting and pleasant.\nShould SCP-5160 be observed continuously, observers will note that it gradually takes on visible qualities reminiscent of their grandmothers, including hairstyles, accessories (glasses, jewelry, hair curlers, etc.) and clothing (aprons, knitwear). These visual anomalies are unique to the observer.\nApproximately once a week, SCP-5160 has been observed to vanish in a cloud of colored smoke and re-manifest in a housing area2 occupied by low-income families. SCP-5160 will then seek out a public gathering space and wait to be approached. Children (individuals under 18 years of age) who speak to SCP-5160 will be offered an article of woolen clothing, produced from SCP-5160's hat.3 These items (designated SCP-5160-1) have been found to possess minor anomalous properties, thus far demonstrated to manifest solely for the recipient. A partial list of SCP-5160-1 instances allowed to remain with their recipients is as follows:\n\nArticle of Clothing\nAnomalous Property\nRecipient/Brief Background\n\nBlack Mittens\nProvides a subtle \"heating\" effect, presumably to keep hands warm. Stated that \"it feels like someone is holding my hand.\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Samuel. Was often placed in free afterschool programs due to parents working fulltime. Frequently did not return home until very late.\n\nLight Grey Beanie\n(Self-reported) \"Thinking cap whispered and helped [me] remember more things.\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588, Gabe. Was previously teased for losing items and quickly forgetting names of classmates.\n\nSalmon Pink Sweater\nRaised confidence, slightly improved overall body strength. Subject stated that they \"feel like someone is cheering for me.\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Layna. Frequently sat out of sports and outside activities, cited fear of being hurt or \"being the worst on the team\".\n\nBlack Scarf\n(Self-reported) \"When I wear the scarf, I have an easier time thinking of funny things and I can make people laugh easily-er.\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Esmerelda. Noted to be timid and had difficulty making friends during lower-grade elementary years.\n\nWhite Socks\n(Self-reported) \"I feel more comfortable when I wear the socks while studying. When I focus on the feel of the wool on my feet, I get distracted less often.\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588, Hiroshi. First-generation college student, graduated high school early on a full scholarship.\n\nWhite Mittens\n(Self-reported) \"When I look at the mittens, I see patterns in the wool that remind me of happy things, like clouds and ice cream and my favorite blanket from when I was little.\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Garyl. Child history seems unremarkable; mother was noted to have suffered severe postpartum depression.\n\nAddendum SCP-5160-1: SCP-5160 first attracted Foundation attention when many elementary schools within the same region of France reported a singular \"lost sheep with a fancy hat\" roaming campuses and evading capture. After months of surveillance, Foundation agents were eventually able to intercept SCP-5160 at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Primary School, in North Yorkshire, England.\nContainment specialists dispatched to the location reported that upon their arrival, SCP-5160 appeared to half of the team4 as 5-meter tall versions of their maternal grandmothers. Additional assistance was called in and SCP-5160 was transported to the nearest Foundation site with no incident.\nInitial housing of SCP-5160 proved difficult, as it would repeatedly demanifest for long periods of time, only to reappear in various other rooms in the facility. Research personnel were able to lure SCP-5160 back to its usual enclosure using fresh fruits and other treats. However, after SCP-5160 had manifested in the site's break room, it was discovered that it had a fondness for reading knitting magazines. Upon being provided with several monthly subscriptions (and a basket to keep old issues in), SCP-5160 was persuaded to remain in its enclosure for extended periods of time.\nOver the course of the next few months, Foundation personnel attempted to communicate with SCP-5160, who consistently would only respond5 to binary (\"yes/no\") questions, and would only acknowledge three questions per day, if addressed as \"grandma\" or variations on the title. A tentative agreement was established: in exchange for SCP-5160's compliance, the Foundation would found a charity in its image, devoting a certain annual portion of the site's budget to said charity. SCP-5160 was to be given the final say in any publicity decisions, including the design of the charity logo.\nAddendum SCP-5160-2: Roughly three months after the founding of the Grandmother Sheep charity, undercover Foundation agents began receiving letters and artwork from children who received items through the organization. Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 (the lead containment specialist on the SCP-5160 project) suggested that rather than storing the documents in the archives, they instead be kept in the interior portion of SCP-5160's enclosure. A large bulletin board was added to the containment area to allow SCP-5160 to display its favorite6 letters and drawings.\nShortly after this change was made, SCP-5160 presented Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 with a pair of woolen socks, presumably for Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's toddler daughter. Thus far, the only observed anomalous effects involve the socks playing gentle, low-volume piano music when worn during evening and nighttime.7 Close inspection of the objects revealed small text embroidered into the inner lining of each sock, reading \"Grandma believes in you.\"\nAs of currently, Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has been given provisional custody of the item.\n\nFootnotes\n1. No attempts have been made to remove the hat, though it has been observed that no matter how SCP-5160 moves or is moved, the hat stays firmly affixed to its head unless SCP-5160 removes the hat on its own.\n2. SCP-5160 seems to manifest primarily in developed countries, particularly those where sheep are relatively commonplace.\n3. SCP-5160 will lean down to remove the hat, and pull the item of clothing out from the hat with its teeth.\n4. It was later noted that the affected personnel had participated in industry work involving animal testing.\n5. SCP-5160 will express affirmatives with loud bleating, and negatives with softer bleating.\n6. Thus far, SCP-5160 consistently exhibits a fondness for works that reference its purple witch's hat.\n7. Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 expressed gratitude to SCP-5160 for the gift, as he previously was concerned about his daughter having difficulty sleeping through the night.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5159 | SCP-5160 | SCP-5161 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5161\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Current means of containing SCP-5161 are hindered by its wide-spread nature. Containment is primarily managed via Foundation web-crawlers programmed to log SCP-5161 related symptoms reported within worldwide psychological/medical record databases.\nSubjects experiencing the stages of SCP-5161 are to be investigated and if confirmed, to be taken into Foundation custody. As amnestic treatment has proven to prevent the ongoing effects of SCP-5161, subjects are to be treated appropriately and released.\nDescription: SCP-5161 is a reoccurring dream experienced by humans. An estimated 5000< cases of SCP-5161 have been reported annually, and no decisive connection between subjects has been determined. Dreams will last approximately three minutes in realtime, while subjects experiencing SCP-5161 will report roughly 3-6 hours passing from their own perspective.\nIn all instances, SCP-5161 involves the dreamer being completely submerged in a body of water, described as being yellow and murky in colouration, with no apparent bottom.\nSubjects will experience SCP-5161 for 1-2 weeks daily, upon entering REM sleep. Following initial manifestation, SCP-5161 will become increasingly more lucid following each additional dream. During the 1-2 weeks period, dreams will become increasingly more realistic from the subject's perspective. Subjects will additionally experience anomalous phenomena associated with their dreams, often manifesting as small portions of salt water in their lungs and other objects materialising on their person, piercing the skin.\nThroughout the 1-2 week manifestation period, subjects' dreams will incorporate the following changes and anomalous properties described in Document 5161-A.\n\nDOCUMENT 5161-A\n\nStage #1: Subjects find themselves unable to move and will remain in the same spot while dreaming. Subjects may occasionally report feeling that they are not alone in the water.\nStage #2: Subjects become capable of controlling their movements while dreaming, although they may only swim in different directions. Subjects are unable to find the water's surface or a physical bottom no matter how long they spend swimming. While unlikely, subjects may report noticing small objects appearing to float in the distance. These objects are difficult to decipher, due to the murkiness of the water.\nStage #3: Subjects report experiencing physical stimuli during SCP-5161. Subjects will become capable of feeling the water around them, describing it to be fairly cold and dirty. Despite having no need to do so, subjects may feel the need to hold their breath, fearing they are running out of air. During this stage, subjects may report to have experienced piercing sensations on their skin.\nStage #4: Feelings similar to suffocation or choking will be experienced for the remainder of the dream. Subjects are highly likely to attempt swimming upwards to reach the surface.\nSmall amounts of yellow salt water will manifest in the subject's lungs. Subjects may notice multiple objects spread throughout the waters in the distance while swimming, similar to those described in Stage 2.\nStage #5: While attempting to swim towards the surface, subjects will notice an increasing number of objects floating in the distant waters. This number will increase in wherever area the subject is not presently watching. These will materialise perpetually closer towards the subject, until they are able to visibly identify them as metal fishhooks tied to fishing wire.\nAs subjects continue to swim, the number of fishhooks will increase in greater numbers and proximity towards them. Fishhooks will eventually start piercing the subject's body upon appearing close enough, and begin tugging the subject upwards. If subjects attempt to struggle, additional fishing lines will continue to appear, piercing their skin, and continue. This will usually result in the subject's body being almost completely engulfed in fishhooks. After a varying period of time, subjects that are still capable of sight will report seeing the water surface and sunlight above them.\nIf subjects are able to unhook themselves from these lines, they will awaken. Subjects will no longer experience SCP-5161 from then onwards.\nSubjects unsuccessful in doing so before the dream's end will spontaneously dematerialise. After which, a thin layer of salt water will appear over the subject's body before falling."}
{"text": "SCP-5163\n\nItem #: SCP-5163\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5163 is to be kept in a Standard Containment Locker within Site-73. Any requests that involve the handling or removal of the object of its containment must be authorized by the Site Director. While handling SCP-5163, personnel should wear protective gloves and make sure to never allow their skin to come into contact with the object. In the case personnel (accidentally or not) touches SCP-5163, they are to be administrated with amnestics and isolated for observation. Affected personnel is to be restored to their positions only when/if they no longer present significant symptoms of SCP-5163's effects.\nDescription: SCP-5163 appears to be a teddy bear measuring approximately 26 cm in height with creamy white fur and light blue details. When a human makes physical contact with SCP-5163, the subject will instantly develop a certain level of emotional attachment to the object. The intensity of this effect and the way it manifests over the victims varies with each case, however, it often causes the subjects to consider SCP-5163 as something of extreme importance to themselves. The use of amnestics has proven to be relatively effective in healing affected subjects, although in a few cases subjects developed symptoms of depression after the amnesticization. No other anomalous properties were observed.\nDiscovery: SCP-5163 was acquired by the Foundation on 29/04/2009 when a group of 3 field agents who were working on an unrelated assignment accidentally found the object in an abandoned house from a rural zone of Texas, which they were planning to occupy for the days needed to complete their duties. After installing surveillance cameras in and outside the house, Agent Nicholas Campbell noticed SCP-5163 on a table inside a room of the house. The object was above a small piece of paper which caught his attention. After grabbing the object to get the paper, Agent Nicholas immediately began to act unusually due to the effects of SCP-5163. The following is the transcript of the video record during the incident.\n\n+ Video Log 5163-001\n\n- Hide\n\nUpon grabbing the object Agent Nicholas starts smiling and staring at it. He then begins to rub the object against his face.\nAgent Coulson: Hey Nick! What the hell are you doing? Stop playing around dude, we got work to do here!\nAgent Nicholas: I know, I know. But isn't this little boy the cutest thing ever? I can't leave it here alone. That's it, I will carry it with me during the rest of our mission and I wanna take it home too.\n\nAgent Reynolds: What are you talking about Nick, you okay? We have no time to waste here, did you forget that SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588 escaped and we are here looking for evidence of its current whereabouts? Why are you acting like a child? You are not like this. Just throw this damn bear away and focus on the mission.\nAgent Nicholas: I am not understanding you guys. Would you really abandon something this precious in such an isolated and dangerous place? Damn, it seems like you two are crueler than I thought.\nAgent Coulson: You can't be serious. Let me just get rid of this stupid toy for you.\nAgent Coulson then approaches Nicholas and slaps away the object from his hands.\nAgent Nicholas: (yelling) Coulson you bastard! What did it do to you?! How can you treat my dear and cute friend like this? You better have a good explanation, because I am truly pissed off now!\nAgent Coulson: Wait a minute\u2026 You are right. Oh no\u2026 What have I done? I am so ashamed now. I will never forgive myself for this\u2026\nAgent Nicholas: I won't forgive you either Coulson!!\nNicholas then proceeds to punch Coulson, who doesn't react and falls to the ground. Agent Reynolds then holds back Nicholas preventing him to cause more harm to Coulson.\n\nAgent Reynolds: Guys just stop. What's going on with you two? Are you truly fighting over a damn teddy bear? Pretty sure you both would get fired if our superiors find out about this.\nAgent Nicholas: This \u201cdamn teddy bear\u201d is my best friend now! I don't care if I get fired because of it Reynolds, and I can't forgive Coulson for hurting him like that! Let go of me Reynolds I want to kill him!\nAgent Coulson: Yeah he is right, Reynolds. I can't live anymore knowing that I caused harm to our precious friend that means the world to me. I can't understand why I did something so terrible. To be honest, at this point I don't really care about my life anymore, so go ahead and kill me guys, make justice for the coolest and cutest teddy bear of all times.\nAgent Coulson remains laying on the ground, seemingly depressed.\nAgent Reynolds: Okay guys, I am sorry but I can't allow this situation to continue.\nAt this point Agent Reynolds applies a sedative on Agent Nicholas who soon falls unconscious.\nAgent Reynolds: Coulson, I hope I won't need to do the same to you. I believe we are dealing with something anomalous here, I will contact the Foundation and request reinforcements.\nAgent Reynolds then contacts the Foundation, explains the situation, and asks for reinforcements, while Agent Coulson doesn't show any changes in his behavior. 25 minutes later Foundation personnel arrives at the local. Both Agents Nicholas Campbell and Coulson Jones were treated with amnestics and removed from their mission for observation and a psychological evaluation, being replaced by 2 other Agents, while SCP-5163 was contained without further incidents. Although both agents are currently unable to remember their interaction with SCP-5163, they occasionally still claim that they feel as if \"something is missing.\"\n\nAddendum 1: Agent Nicholas Campbell was deemed as free of any effects regarding SCP-5163 on 25/08/2013, after stating that he no longer feels anything unusual, while Agent Coulson Jones still claims to feel an \"unexplainable emptiness\", which could mean that SCP-5163's effects might affect certain individuals more than others. Nonetheless, both Agents are currently able to perform their duties without any significant problems.\nAddendum 2: The piece of paper found together with the object had the following writing by an unknown subject:\n\n\"I'm so so sorry Kenny, but I can't stay here anymore, I need to be strong and leave you behind even though that feels almost impossible to me. My heart is falling apart and I am crying so much while writing this because I am 100% sure that I will never again find anything as cute and as amazing as you are, but I truly need to go, as I have been spending more than 15 hours just playing with you every day and I need to focus on something else for now\u2026 But know that you are always on my mind, and to be honest, I will probably return to be with you sooner or later, so please just wait for me. This house is yours now.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5162 | SCP-5163 | SCP-5164 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5165\nObject Class: Safe Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5165 is to be kept in a small locked container. Any testing involving SCP-5165 must be performed in an area suitably sized for the individual test.\nUPDATE 07/24/2016: SCP-5165-B is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell. It is to be allowed access to any non-hazardous instances of SCP-5165-A, and a limit of one ream of paper every two weeks upon request.\nDescription: SCP-5165 is a ream of printer paper produced by the company Botezatu H\u00e2rtie, based in Romania. The anomalous effects of SCP-5165 occur when any amount of SCP-5165 is folded into an origami figure. Once it has been folded, the portion of SCP-5165 will transform into the physical form of the folder's intended creation (henceforth referred to as SCP-5165-A). SCP-5165-A acquires the properties of the object it resembles, and is no longer composed of paper.\nIn some cases, however, the instance of SCP-5165-A will take the form of an item that appears to have very specific properties that are unrelated to what the folder intended to create. Many of these items have been dated to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no apparent relation between these items. (See Addendum 5165.2)\nAddendum 5165.1: To determine the true nature of SCP-5165, the following tests were performed.\n\n+ Show Experiment Logs\n\n- Hide Experiment Logs\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-01:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-21957\nPreface: D-21957 was instructed to fold a paper boat out of an instance of SCP-5165.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a full-sized sailboat. D-21957 suffered minor physical trauma due to the rapid growth of the object.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-02:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-61071\nPreface: Just as in Experiment Log 5165.EL-1, D-61071 was instructed to fold a paper boat out of an instance of SCP-5165.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a small toy boat, of circa 1937 manufacture. Faded writing is seen on the side, but is indistinguishable.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-05:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-45699\nPreface: D-45699 was instructed to attempt to fold a knife out of an instance of SCP-5165.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a survival knife, resembling late 1880s production. The letters \"M.G.\" are carved into the handle.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-07:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-22908\nPreface: D-22908 was instructed to fold an instance of SCP-5165 into the shape of a cup.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a white vase with yellow floral patterns. It appears to be in poor condition, with many cracks and missing pieces. The vase was dated to the mid-1910s.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-11:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-35135\nPreface: D-35135 was instructed to fold an instance of SCP-5165 into the shape of a box to the best of his ability.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a small metal box with the faded letters \"T.G.\" painted on the lid. Inside the box were seven cigars and an unopened box of matches.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-12:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-13559\nPreface: D-13559 was instructed to fold an instance of SCP-5165 into any shape, then completely unfold it with the intention of returning it to the shape of the original paper.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a large, wrinkled poster, with text urging Romanians to protest the rights of Jews. The poster was dated between the years 1941 and 1942.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-16:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-85297\nPreface: D-85297 was instructed to fold an instance of SCP-5165 into a \"paper airplane.\" Note: A larger testing chamber was used for this experiment to minimize the chances of destruction.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a full-sized airplane, identified as a Dornier Do 217, which was designed in Nazi Germany in 1937 and 1938. The instance of SCP-5165-A was removed to Area-\u2588\u2588 for safer storage. D-85297 was instantly killed by the growth of the object.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-21:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-16179\nPreface: D-16179 was instructed to roll an instance of SCP-5165 as though it were a newspaper.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a rolled-up newspaper. When it was unrolled, it revealed several faded headlines and articles from July of 1940. Legible portions of the faded text reveal details of a bombing, listing the names of many casualties. Contrasting the rest of the newspaper, three names are completely intact and are circled in red ink. The names are Theodor Gheorghe, Anamaria Gheorghe, and Silvia Gheorghe.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-23:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-43586\nPreface: D-43586 was instructed to fold an instance of SCP-5165 into the shape of a shirt.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into an Eastern European school uniform. A name tag on the uniform reads \"Gheorghe.\" It appears to be from the late 1950s.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-26:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-66391\nPreface: D-66391 was instructed to cut an instance of SCP-5165 into the shape of a heart using a provided pair of scissors.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a dark red heart-shaped assorted chocolate box. One chocolate is missing. The box was dated to the late 1950s.\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-32:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-32299\nPreface: D-32299 was instructed to fold an instance of SCP-5165 into the shape of an envelope.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a yellowed envelope, containing a letter. The letter is heavily crumpled, and it contains text in Romanian. It seems to detail the ending of a romantic relationship between two people. It is addressed to \"Marius.\"\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-39:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-97225\nPreface: D-97225 was instructed to cut an instance of SCP-5165 into a long, thin, strip.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a rope, tied into a noose. There is blood staining the loop. DNA testing reveals that the blood belonged to a young male of Romanian descent.\n\nAddendum 5165.2: Due to the importance of this experiment log and the following interview, it has been designated an independent addendum.\n\n+ Show Experiment Log 5165.EL-50\n\n- Hide Experiment Log 5165.EL-50\n\nExperiment Log 5165.EL-50:\nSubjects: SCP-5165, D-99802\nPreface: D-99802 was instructed to cut and fold and instance of SCP-5165 into the shape of a human to the best of his ability.\n\nResults: The instance of SCP-5165 morphed into a living human. This instance has been designated SCP-5165-B.\n\n+ Show Interview Log 5165.I-1\n\n- Hide Interview Log 5165.I-1\n\nInterview Log 5165.I-1:\nNote: The following interview has been translated from Romanian.\nInterviewer: Dr. Cezar Moldovan\nInterviewee: SCP-5165-B\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMoldovan: Hello, sir. May I have your name?\nSCP-5165-B: Marius Gheorghe. Who are you?\nMoldovan: That's not important.\nSCP-5165-B nods, then scratches his throat, seemingly feeling for something, then coughs.\nMoldovan: Is something the matter?\nSCP-5165-B: N-no, sir. May I have some water?\nDr. Moldovan gestures for an assistant to retrieve water.\nMoldovan: So, Mr. Gheorghe, does origami or paper hold any importance to you?\nSCP-5165-B: Yes, sir. I\u2026 started folding origami in university, and kept doing it from then.\nMoldovan: Interesting. I have some objects for you to look at. Do you mind telling me if any of them remind you of something?\nSCP-5165-B: Of course, sir.\nAn assistant hands SCP-5165-B a glass of water. He drinks all of it quickly.\nDr. Moldovan puts the toy boat and survival knife on the table.\nMoldovan: Could you please tell me what importance these items have?\nSCP-5165-B: (seemingly agitated) How did you-\nMoldovan: Mr. Gheorghe, please answer the question.\nSCP-5165-B has a shocked expression on his face, then appears to swallow.\nSCP-5165-B: (quieter) Th-the boat was my\u2026 favorite toy as a boy. I, um, used to love playing with it in the lake nearby. The\u2026 the knife, I used to carry it with me when I went hunting with my father.\nDr. Moldovan removes the items and replaces them with the poster and an image of the bomber. SCP-5165-B begins to seem very uncomfortable.\nSCP-5165-B: That\u2026 poster. They put them all over my town. They said they were our friends. They said we would win the war. I saw that plane fly over, and there was something that came out of it. I don't remember what happened next. All I know is that it was scary.\nDr. Moldovan removes the items and replaces them with the cigar box and vase.\nSCP-5165-B: M-my father used to smoke cigars all the time. He kept that box in case he ever ran out and was unable to get more. I never understood that.\nSCP-5165-B pauses for a moment.\nMoldovan: (calmly) Please continue.\nSCP-5165-B: The vase was my mother's favorite. She used to keep very pretty flowers in it. I remember it being clean, though.\nMoldovan: What happened to your parents?\nSCP-5165-B: The plane. When I saw that plane and woke up, there was nothing. My parents, my sister, my house, my town. There was nothing. I had to leave. Germany\u2026 they\u2026\nSCP-5165-B falls silent.\nMoldovan: I understand.\nDr. Moldovan removes the items and replaces them with the chocolate box and letter.\nSCP-5165-B visibly swallows, and his skin appears to go pale.\nDr. Moldovan: Is there a problem, Mr. Gheorghe?\nSCP-5165-B: I'd\u2026 prefer not to answer about these.\nDr. Moldovan: Very well. That will conclude your interview. These guards will escort you to your living quarters.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5165.3: SCP-5165-B is a humanoid entity resembling a Caucasian male, measuring approximately 174 cm tall with an estimated age of 34 years old. SCP-5165-B claims to be named Marius Gheorghe. It seems to enjoy origami, and commonly uses it as a means to pass time. SCP-5165-B possesses no anomalous properties.\nFurther study reveals that the town that SCP-5165-B originated from was completely destroyed in a Nazi bombing, and the site of the town was eventually used to construct the Botezatu H\u00e2rtie Paper Company.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5164 | SCP-5165 | SCP-5166 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5166\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5166 is to be kept in a sealed case in Storage Unit-27 of Site-22, which is kept under guard by two security personnel at all times. Once a day, janitorial staff are to retrieve any paper attached to this case for recycling purposes.\nDescription: SCP-5166 is a small notebook with illegible text written on its surface in pencil.\nAt variable intervals, scraps of paper similar in appearance to SCP-5166 will appear stuck to any object in its immediate vicinity. To date, these objects have included:\n\nSCP-5166's containment unit.\nInstruments being used to inspect SCP-5166.\nPersonnel inspecting SCP-5166.\nVermin passing SCP-5166's containment unit1.\nItself.\nScraps of paper created by itself.\n\nIn contrast to the illegible writing present on SCP-5166, legible writing is present on the additional paper scraps it creates. This writing invariably takes the form of a supposed message from an individual or group claiming responsibility for the creation of the object the paper is stuck to, along with an explanation for where the object came from or what its purpose is. Without exception, all of these explanations to date have been incorrect.\nSCP-5166 was purchased by Agent Green during his annual mandated attendance of the Andersen Auction of Abnormalities in Yorkshire, England. A full list of anomalies which were brought into containment at this time is available in the Site-22 archives.\n\nAddendum 5166-1 (Message Log):\nThe following is a record of the messages that have appeared on objects in proximity to SCP-5166. Any additional messages produced by SCP-5166 are to be submitted to research staff for archival purposes prior to recycling.\n\nObject: An empty coffee cup.\n\nFROM THE INTERSTELLAR CABAL ARCHIVES\nWEAPON ULTRA 646: \"The Heat Catcher\"\nPURPOSE: The Heat Catcher is the ultimate weapon our thought-scientists have produced in our endless war against the Void Demons. It is capable of absorbing all heat within a star into its basin, firing said heat into the metaphysical realm and obliterating its foe.\nWe thought that nothing could stand against us while we had this behemoth \u2026 but the Void Demons were too strong.\nBeware! They are coming for your planet now! Argh! I am going mad!\n\nObject: A fountain pen.\n\nRest assured, Master Darstelmouth, that the item you requested has been completed according to your gracious demands\u2026the \"Devil's Arithmetic\" will make you the pride of our esteemed society, haha\u2026with but a stroke of the inkblade, you will stand among the gods\u2026\nFrom your faithful servant\u2026\nCaliupus of the Dark Orchestra\u2026\n\nObject: A common rat.\n\nSo \u2026 you fools finally realized. Indeed, this specimen is my most powerful child, a dreadspawn of the Violet Inferno. You may think you have him contained\u2026but perhaps he is containing you?2\nProfessor Kaleidoscope\n\nObject: A copy of the SCP-5166 file.\n\nTHE DIVINE MIROR [sic]3\nResearchers have noted that this divine miror has the power to perfectly imitate any enemy that crosses its path! Dr. Paper, known memeticist, theorizes that it has an ultimate power we can barely control, and then proceeds to fight the ultimate SCP enemy.\n\"Disregard previous reports,\" says Dr. Paper, straightening his glasses. \"I am inspired!\"\n\nObject: Junior Researcher Darnell\n\nItem #: SCP-ULTIMA\nObject Class: Dark Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Impossible\u2026!\nDescription: SCP-ULTIMA is the first destroyer4 of the next dimension, an ambassador of the seventh dimension \"Grobold\" where noone dares to tread. Even the most powerful of SCP items have failed to destroy SCP-ULTIMA! It was created by a terrible Doctor with a horrible project. Perhaps you've heard of him \u2026 Johnson Smith.\nNobody can discover the existence of our ULTIMA Foundation\u2026 - O6-1\n\nAddendum 5166-2: Since 13/09/2019, all messages produced by SCP-5166 have been crude imitations of official Foundation documentation, and the rate of their appearance has severely increased. In addition, personnel have noted an apparent increase in the excitement and investment of the writer, although due to the subjectivity of the claim this cannot be confirmed.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Infestation Report 22-2020.\n2. First allusion to knowledge of the Foundation's existence.\n3. Note that [sic] was included in the original message, and has not been added after the fact.\n4. Note that Junior Researcher Darnell has failed basic combat training several times.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5165 | SCP-5166 | SCP-5167 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5167\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web-crawlers are to monitor online communities for mentions of potential SCP-5167 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.\nApprehended witnesses are to be held until symptoms of SCP-5167 abate, and are then to be amnesticized and released under a standard 'mental breakdown' cover story.\nDescription: SCP-5167 is an entity known to manifest as a player of the online multiplayer game Among Us under the username of 'Phthonus'.\nSCP-5167 will randomly join multiplayer lobbies of the game and participate as an ordinary player would, with the majority of its anomalous effects only becoming obvious following the initial encounter. During this initial encounter, SCP-5167 has been observed to communicate using the in-game chat function, although the majority of its speech consists of lengthy diatribes produced at little prompting from other players.\nIndividuals who interact with SCP-5167 in-game will subsequently begin to exhibit symptoms of paranoia and Capgras delusion1. The severity of these symptoms varies from person to person, but in initial cases was significant enough to prompt acts of perceived self-defense from those affected2. These symptoms persist for a period initially believed to encompass several months, but has lessened to one or two weeks as observation has continued.\nSCP-5167 was initially discovered by the Foundation after a period during which the player 'Phthonus' was a minor urban legend in the Among Us community. Although interest in the figure died down fairly quickly, Foundation web-crawlers flagged recorded accounts of player encounters with the entity as potential anomalous phenomena. Learning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\") was assigned to track sessions of the game until SCP-5167 was encountered \u2014 and when the other players in said session were tracked down, they exhibited the symptoms now associated with SCP-5167.\nFoundation efforts to track the individual behind SCP-5167 have thus far proven unsuccessful \u2014 all attempts to locate the internet access point used by the anomaly have led to deserted home addresses in rural Greece.\n\nAnalysis of Impending SCP-5167 Neutralization\n\nAs requested by Head Researcher Abrams, I've had the Site-22 analysts look into the progress of SCP-5167's anomalous effects over the period we've observed it \u2014 and the results are much as I expected.\nWhen we first discovered SCP-5167 \u2014 for the sake of argument, let's say this is when SCP-5167 first came into existence \u2014 the impact it had on its victims was severe. I don't think I have to remind you of what Billy Heth did to his family's faces.\nBut since then \u2014 almost immediately, really, since that first couple of manifestations \u2014 the potency of its effects has started to decline. Full detachment from reality became delusion, and delusion has now become paranoia - and the intensity of that paranoia is lessening in each new case.\nThis is all conjecture, of course, and shouldn't be taken as gospel \u2014 but based on what we've observed of this anomaly thus far, our estimation is that SCP-5167's anomalous effects will become inert by the end of the year. Whether it'll keep popping up in these video game matches is another story, though.\nSite-22 Intelligence Director,\nMichelle Ross\n\nObservation Log 5167-1\n\nThe following is a log of SCP-5167 as observed by Learning Computer Psi-2 in a game of Among Us. SCP-5167 participated in the game without communicating until specifically addressed by other players. Following the game, all participating players were tracked down and treated as containment procedures dictate.\nCommunication is logged below:\n\n<Begin Log>\nJonArbucle: red, where were you when we were doing reactor?SCP-5167: I was there when the mountains were newborn, and the oceans virginal.SCP-5167: I was there when mankind was capable of legends.SCP-5167: I find myself in a world that has forgotten even the taste of life, even the very concept of life beyond existing from one day to the next. Mere continuance. Where all the world is wasted away in idle play of emotions that once rang true.SCP-5167: I thought my time had come again. I thought this could be the new me. But this is nothing. Let me stay dead this time.(No activity for twelve seconds.)\nyour mom: red is sus\nxg1200: yeah, vote red\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. A psychiatric disorder in which an individual comes to believe that those around them have been replaced with identical impostors.\n2. Full record of recorded SCP-5167-related homicides available in the Site-22 archives.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5166 | SCP-5167 | SCP-5168 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5168\nLevel 3/5168\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nConfidential\n\nSCP-5168.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The house containing SCP-5168 has been purchased by a Foundation front company, and is to be barred from civilian entry. Civilians attempting to gain access to SCP-5168 or the house it is contained within will be deterred.\nSCP-5168-A groups escaping captivity are to be recaptured and terminated. Any witnesses will then be given the cover story of the SCP-5168-A group being a delinquent gang all dressed in the appearance of the character \"Jeff the Killer\", who have since been arrested. Families targeted by SCP-5168-A are to be placed through cognitive detail suppression measures, with property damages being attributed to a common burglary.\nTo stop the uncontrolled manifestation of SCP-5168-A instances, various measures have been constructed to slowly vacate all families bearing children from Kitchover, Iowa. These include the shutting down of a local school district under the guise of budgeting issues, removal of multiple children's play areas, and the methodical offering of better housing to child bearing families by Foundation real estate front companies. Remaining families are to be placed under Foundation surveillance.\nThe prominence of fairy circles1 in the area will be deemed typical to any civilians inquiring on it. All civilian digging efforts in Kitchover are to be monitored heavily to prevent the further discovery of SCP-5168-A corpses.\n\nThe house containing SCP-5168.\n\nDescription: SCP-5168 is a modified Tandy 1000 RL computer, which constantly flashes artwork of the fictional horror character \"Jeff the Killer\" across its monitor, located inside of a suburban house in Kitchover, Iowa. SCP-5168 functions in this manner even when separated from a power source or internet access. Internal wiring contains fungal hyphae strands instead of normal conductors.\nSCP-5168 cannot be removed from the household, as its external wiring has been altered with several cords of unknown purpose, which run through the entire house and into the ground below. Subterranean image viewing shows this wiring leads to a large unidentifiable mass approximately 3000 meters below the ground. This mass marginally changes shape between viewings.\nWhen a prepubescent child in Kitchover awakens as a result of a nightmare or night terror, SCP-5168 shuts itself down. This is immediately followed by the manifestation of 7-15 humanoid entities identical to common depictions of Jeff the Killer (designated SCP-5168-A) within the premises. After the manifestation of SCP-5168-A instances, SCP-5168 promptly restarts and returns to its normal behavior.\nSCP-5168-A are primarily composed of tightly interwoven networks of mycelium and sclerotium, with pale external pigmentation and facial structure abnormalities, giving them the appearance of Jeff the Killer. Instances manifest with a kitchen knife affixed to their left hand, which is significantly dulled and functionally useless. SCP-5168-A express no signs of complex sentience nor sapience.\nAfter manifestation, SCP-5168-A instances will leave the premise and slowly advance towards the awoken child's location, avoiding or destroying any obstructions as necessary. SCP-5168-A will nonfatally incapacitate any individuals hindering their advance, usually overpowering them with their group strength. Once they have reached the child, the SCP-5168-A group will huddle around them quietly while repeating the phrase \"Go to sleep\". Several SCP-5168-A instances will tuck the child under any available blankets and sheets.\nOnce the child is in bed, other instances perform various actions in presumed attempts to make the child return to sleep, these commonly include:\n\nGiving the child cookies and a warm glass of milk if such items are available,\n\nMaking the child sandwiches using available ingredients, utilizing their knives to spread condiments and cut foods as needed,\n\nattempting to read the child any books in the vicinity, this consists of the instance repeating \"Go to sleep\" with tonal variations while holding said book,\n\nsinging \"Go to sleep\" repeatedly to the tune of various lullabies.\n\nDespite the mental trauma these events would subsequently entail, children targeted by SCP-5168 are not scared by their arrival, the cause of which is undetermined. Once the child is asleep, the SCP-5168-A instances will retreat outside the child's location, then proceed to bury each other in a circular formation around the residency whilst humming lullabies. SCP-5168-A then expire and degrade at an increased rate.\nWhile undergoing decomposition, SCP-5168-A grow excessive amounts of Amanita muscaria fungi across their body. These fungi are notably capable of causing drowsiness and unconsciousness if ingested, eventually inducing a comatose state if consumed in high enough quantities.\nAddendum 5168-1 \u2014 Incident 5168-A: On 2021/2/3, following the manifestation of SCP-5168-A instances and their advance towards the targeted household, the target child, Kaden Noham, underwent a fatal allergic reaction after being given a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by an SCP-5168-A instance. While the SCP-5168-A group appeared more distressed after this event, they otherwise continued their normal pattern of behavior.\nThis event resulted in previously unrecorded phenomena at the location of SCP-5168. The following is a transcript of the occurrences at the containment site:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nLOCATION: SCP-5168 CONTAINMENT SITE\nFRONT YARD \u2014 23:40\n(Tremors begin to resound from underneath the house, and cracks form across the lawn. Massive fungal structures emerge out from these cracks, they grow to approximately 3 meters in height and eventually cease motion. A single large eye opens across each of their caps, which moves rapidly and appears to be crying. The eye contorts into a toothless mouth, which opens and produces an infantile scream. The mouth on the structures contort back into the eye. This process repeats itself indefinitely.)\n\nCONTAINMENT ROOM \u2014 23:42\n(The cords on SCP-5168 begin moving vigorously. SCP-5168 rapidly shuts itself back on and off, causing SCP-5168-A instances to appear in unprecedented amounts. These entities immediately run out of the house, trampling each other to leave as quickly as possible.)\n\nFRONT YARD \u2014 23:45\n(SCP-5168-A begin emerging from the house and throwing themselves onto the ground, their arms outstretched. They mutter \"Go to sleep\" repeatedly. SCP-5168-A are occasionally seized and consumed by the fungal structures when their mouths are present. Agent Janeson returns from the Noham residence after calling Foundation medical personnel to the house and further containing the situation.)\nJaneson: (Exiting her vehicle.) The hell is\u2014?\n(SCP-5168-A instances collectively shush Janeson, and then resume previous behavior.)\nJaneson: (Silence, then whispering) What the fuck?\n(Janeson leaps over several SCP-5168-A lying in her path, she observes the fungal structures, and they observe her when eyes are present. Janeson enters the containment site.)\n\nCONTAINMENT ROOM \u2014 23:54\n(The cords of SCP-5168 continue to move vigorously. A humanoid entity with pale orange skin and no facial features emerges from the floor of the containment room, floating towards SCP-5168. Small orifices across its chest open periodically and release yellow spores. Several external wires from SCP-5168 appear attached to the base of its neck, while some wires still remain feeding into the ground. The entity makes typing motions slightly above the keyboard of SCP-5168, which causes a computer menu to appear on its screen. It rapidly types various strings of letters into this menu, the exact language of which are unknown. The ground tremors, and the entity spasms momentarily before resuming typing.)\n\nHALL TO CONTAINMENT ROOM \u2014 23:57\n(Janeson stumbles over several deceased SCP-5168-A instances. One suddenly grabs her leg and shushes her, causing her to stomp on its head instinctually. The head explodes into spores. Janeson covers her mouth and continues her way towards SCP-5168.)\n\nCONTAINMENT ROOM \u2014 23:59\n(Janeson enters the containment room, and the entity turns towards her. Janeson withdrawals her firearm.)\nJaneson: What\u2014 ? Get on the damn ground!\n(A mouth appears sideways on the entity's face. Janeson's mouth disappears, she drops her weapon and puts both hands over her lower face. The entity speaks in Jameson's voice.)\nEntity: Get on the damn ground! Go to sleep.\n(Janeson falls unconscious. Her mouth returns and the entity's mouth disappears. It promptly resumes typing. The entity presses on the keyboard's enter key, and multiple archaic sigils appear across the entire screen of SCP-5168, followed by it shutting down and promptly rebooting. The entity descends back into the floor.)\n\nFRONT YARD \u2014 24:05\n(The mouths on the fungal structures cease screaming, they morph into eyes, the eyes close. The structures slowly shrink back into the ground, which reseals itself. Surviving SCP-5168-A immediately stand and disperse towards multiple different target houses, as the screams of the fungal structures caused multiple children in the area to awake from nightmares.)\n\n<END LOG>\n\nJaneson's sudden loss of consciousness caused alerts to be sent to Foundation agents already responding to Kaden Noham's death. These agents requested further backup, and all SCP-5168-A instances were found and terminated accordingly. Janeson later made a mostly full recovery, except for acute dysgeusia2 and insomnia, which has yet to subside.\nUpdates to the containment procedures for SCP-5168 are pending following this incident.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A common pattern of fungi in a ring formation.\n2. An impaired sense of taste.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5167 | SCP-5168 | SCP-5169 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\n{$custom-content}\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab prev |{$current}| next \u00bb\n\nWith thanks to Oboebandgeek99, Uncle Nicolini, and DrAkimoto.\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sandy_sex_doll_or_poseable_mannequin.jpeg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gas_Explosion_Damage_to_Home_in_North_Andover.jpg\nCheck the source code for a post-credits scene!\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: SCP-5169\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nAn SCP-5169 instance.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Fifty-one SCP-5169 instances are stored within a Safe class containment locker in Site-7. The remainder are in the possession of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd., or potentially their clientele. Proposals regarding the use of SCP-5169 instances as assassination devices are pending.\nDescription: SCP-5169 is a series of sex dolls, developed for commercial sale by Charles Maximune, an anartist and entrepreneur formerly employed by Marshall, Carter, and Dark, Ltd. Both male and female configured SCP-5169 instances are available, and may possess various accessories.\nEach SCP-5169 instance is physically indistinguishable from a comparable non-anomalous product. However, when used to climax by one or more human beings,1 SCP-5169 instances will spontaneously explode. Forensic examination of SCP-5169 detonations reveals no apparent chemical or other physical cause, suggesting that SCP-5169 instances function by ectoentropically generating explosive force.\nAddendum 5169-1: Discovery\nThe SCP-5169 instances presently contained were recovered as part of a sting operation conducted by MTF Mu-3 (\"Highest Bidders\"), in order to confiscate any anomalous products possessed by Mr. Maximune. Initially, Mr. Maximune and any locations or persons he was known to be associated with were to be kept under surveillance until Director McBride2 gave the green light for his agents to take action.\n\nHome of Charles Maximune.\n\nHowever, on 3/9/2020, two weeks into surveillance, an explosion at Maximune's North Andover, Massachusetts residence called for immediate intervention. In the guise of FBI agents, Mu-3 personnel raided the house and confiscated all confirmed or suspected anomalies. One human corpse was recovered and identified as Maximune's romantic associate, Lawrence Kistler.\nAdditionally, Marshall, Carter, and Dark security staff took Mr. Maximune into custody regarding an incident in their Quality Assurance Department. He was then fired and remanded to the Foundation for interrogation and amnesticization.\n\nInterviewer: Director Jacob McBride\nInterviewed: Charles Maximune\n\nInterviewer: What exactly was the nature of your work at MC&D?\nInterviewed: Well, I worked in anart acquisitions for a while. But that had nothing to do with why I got fired.\nInterviewer: Why did you get fired?\nInterviewed: It was the dolls. We had, uh, just received our shipment at London HQ. Testing was just starting up. The first tester, well, fucked one of them, and\u2026 boom. Chain reaction.\nInterviewer: I take it the damage was serious?\nInterviewed: You could say that. There is no more QA department at London headquarters.\nInterviewer: So, why do the dolls explode?\nInterviewed: Well, I can tell you that wasn't my fault. Dark gave me this project a few weeks ago, told me it would be convenient if we could move into the synthetic sex trade just like the real one, and that she wanted me to see what sorts of anomalous features we could give to regular inflatable dolls. The thing is, I had a lot on my plate when I was asked to take over. So I gave the work to someone else.\nInterviewer: Who?\nInterviewed: Some drug dealer operating out of the states. He was recommended to me by a colleague.\nInterviewer: And he made the dolls to explode when people\u2026 finished with them? Why?\nInterviewed: Well\u2026 maybe it was a little my fault. I told him I wanted \"blow up dolls,\" and he's, well, not the most literate person.\nInterviewer: He thought you wanted lethal sex toys?\nInterviewed: Yeah. Like I said. Not the most literate.\nInterviewer: ...I think I know exactly who you're talking about.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Testing with non-humans has yet to be carried out.\n2. The intelligence chief in charge of Mu-3.\n\nHi, I'm Max. I work for Iris Dark. Are you this dado guy she mentions sometimes?\n\nyes is this dado\n\nOh, nice.\nI'm a huge fan of your work, and I was wondering if you might listen to a business proposal.\n\ndado have time. what is prompt seal\n\nI mostly work in MCD's underground hospitality department. If you know what I mean.\n\nunderground hospital? u want dirt medicine\n\nWhat? No.\nThis isn't about drugs.\n(The drugs are great though.)\nI'm talking about what goes on in red light districts. That's my job.\n\noh dado see\nu are bat man in hammered and sick eel superman comic\nu need crypt tonight for kill soup man\n\nI'll just spell it out. I'm working on prostitution, Except, without the prostitute part.\nThe idea is to get MCD in on the inflatable sex toy market.\nYou get me?\n\nno\n\nI'm talking about blow up dolls, dado.\n\noh\ndado can do blow up dolls for u. dado being fine capitalist have much experience to deliver top quality sex experience for many customer. guaranteed customer come then doll blow up. also dado have amazon prime for give and take blow up doll orders and porter tapes\n\nSweet. Here's my email so we can get in touch \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588@mcd.bz\n\nSo, the London trip is going to take me a bit longer than I expected.\nSome things came up and the boss shifted around our itinerary a bit. I'm not going to be in Andover in time for your shipment.\nBut it won't be a problem.\nI've called a buddy of mine and he's going to be house-sitting there. I've told him to go ahead and test out the merchandise and text both of us about it. His name's Larry.\nIt's been great working with you. Can't wait to start rolling these babies out. \ud83d\ude0a\n\nDADO YOU FUCKER\ni just tried calling larry at home and guess fucking what\nthe second floor is FUCKING EXPLODED\nlarrys FUCKING DEAD\nFBI are crawling all over it\nAND THAT'S NOT THE WORST PART\ndark called me into her office about the QA department\nTHERE IS NO MORE QA DEPARTMENT\nTHEY'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD TOO\n\n\u00ab SCP-5168 | SCP-5169 | SCP-5170 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5171\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All photonics processing and storage units associated with SCP-5171 and SCP-5171-A are to be vacuum-sealed and stored in secure containment lockers. Testing of SCP-5171 is currently suspended.\nLocating PoI-9414 has been assigned as a priority mission for MTF Alpha-7 (\"Surpassing Tindalos\").\nDescription: SCP-5171 is an artificial intelligence built by PoI-9414, formerly O5-9, as an administrative assistance and memetic screening system. SCP-5171 operated on a 3rd-gen photonics processing platform allocated for all Level 5 personnel at the time, with heavily modified interfaces. While these technologies are ahead of mundane equivalents, no part of SCP-5171 was inherently anomalous at the time of its creation.\nOriginally designated Rhyme.aic, SCP-5171 had developed total self-awareness after PoI-9414 intentionally exposed it to a multitude of anomalous memetic agents, collectively designated SCP-5171-A. It is currently unknown how PoI-9414 acquired the skills necessary to create and utilize anomalous memetic agents in this way. While the Foundation retains a full copy of SCP-5171-A, the technical and ethical risk posed prohibits further experimentation.\nAccording to the log recovered after PoI-9414 defected from the Foundation (see Addendum 5171.A), SCP-5171 believed that it was a human female named \"Rima\", and that it had grown up with PoI-9414 since their childhood. Due to the mandatory data expungement procedure applied to the personal data of O5 members, this information cannot be confirmed.\nAddendum 5171.A: Log recovered from SCP-5171 interface cache, temporal metadata irretrievable. The format indicates a speech-recognition interface log.\n\nPoI-9414: Hello Rima, how are you today?PoI-9414: I'm so sorry, the meeting got late, I kept getting in arguments with those pesky fossils.PoI-9414: I know. I'm sorry, I wish I could've brought you outside.PoI-9414: But I could've done more, if only I stopped trying to fight my way through every little thing.\nPoI-9414: If only I listened to your parents back then.(Strings of periodic data pattern follows, with no known meaning. Presumed to be environmental noise falsely parsed as speeches by the interface.)PoI-9414: That was so long ago, I'm surprised that you still remember it.PoI-9414: I was so sure he'd be so angry at me. Those rolls were expensive. Instead, he started teaching me how to properly photograph a shooting star.SCP-5171: Oh wow, he's not angry that you used something for its intended purpose, how surprising.\nPoI-9414: When do you think was the last time I started a conversation without fighting intent?PoI-9414: \u2026okay I'm not that controversial. I could hold a somewhat proper and neutral conversation with my subordinates.SCP-5171: Not that I want to, mind you. But it just feels so bizarre thinking about you having just normal conversations about accounting or something.PoI-9414: Yeah, I guess I changed quite a bit since way back then.PoI-9414: Sorry.PoI-9414: I\u2026\n(brief periodic data/silence, gaps in noise pattern indicate removed data)\nPoI-9414: Did you meet the doctors today?PoI-9414: Don't worry, we'll be out of this place in no time.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Of note, SCP-5171 had never ceased functioning as administrative assistance and memetic screening system, up until its deactivation upon PoI-9414's defection.\n2. A large portion of SCP-5171-A incorporate photographs, often collages arranged in certain patterns. It is theorized that these photographs affected the memory retained by SCP-5171.\n3. The nature and significance of these alleged \"tests\" and \"doctors\" is unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5170 | SCP-5171 | SCP-5172 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5172\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSocial media, SMS, and telephone traffic are to be monitored for mention of \"ice machines\" from devices connected to hotel1 wi-fi networks within North America.\nDue to the prevalence of false memories related to SCP-5172, no attempt at correcting public beliefs pertaining to \"hotel ice machines\" is to be undertaken at this time. Research is focused on uncovering memes and anti-memes that may counter or remove such widespread false memories.\n\nPhotograph taken by a test subject during a Zalmunna Event. Subject claimed that they were being observed by an unidentified individual obscured by the fifth door on the right. See file data for more information. Hover to enlarge. Click here to see full size.\n\nContainment is to focus on the detection and disruption of Zalmunna Events. See Addendum 2 for more information. MTF Mu-9 (\"Weary Travelers\") will be dispatched to the location of suspected Zalmunna Events in progress to remove detected instances of SCP-5172-1 and bring specimens back for further examination. All ice machines found at locations affected by SCP-5172 are to be removed and relocated to Site-30.\nFoundation personnel whose work requires them to stay in hotels in North America are to be briefed on SCP-5172. Personnel will be provided with the materials indicated in Addendum 4, \"North American Hotel Protocol for Foundation Personnel.\"\nDescription:\nSCP-5172 is a phenomenon that affects guests at North American hotels. Affected individuals will perceive a machine that serves the sole function of dispensing ice. These ice machines, while otherwise non-anomalous, are typically located in the hallway of the guest's floor, in close proximity to an elevator lobby or a storage closet. Ice machines are not common amenities in North American hotels; in fact, they do not appear in any contemporary hotels outside of those affected by SCP-5172. Nonetheless, a false memory of having perceived an ice machine is estimated to affect roughly 80% of the North American population. See Addendum 1 for more information.\nIndividuals who perceive and then use these ice machines will initiate a Zalmunna Event. This is likely to cause an instance of SCP-5172-1 to materialize, and it is very likely to result in the individual's injury or death.\nAddendum 1. History of hotel ice machines.\nIn the 1950s, Holiday Inn founder Kennon Williams attempted to distinguish his hotel chain from competitors by offering more amenities to travelers, free of charge. Standard practice among hotels at the time was to charge travelers an additional fee if they requested ice. Williams believed that leaving out an ice machine for guests to freely use would be a welcome amenity. The expense incurred by purchasing this equipment and other amenities2 was not offset by a sufficient increase in customers. As such, the practice was discontinued by the mid-1960s. Ice is now readily available in many North American hotels through in-room miniature refrigerator ice dispensers or included in ice trays. Using or consuming ice found in these contexts has not been shown to cause or have any connection to the SCP-5172 phenomenon.\nDespite the fact that hotel ice machines only existed for a brief period, members of the public in Canada, the United States, and Mexico widely hold the belief that these machines are ubiquitous to this day. Empirical testing has consistently demonstrated that hotel ice machines do not exist outside of those associated with SCP-5172. Only about 40 ice machines associated with the phenomenon are recovered per year. Yet a poll of the general public found that 82% of adults recalled memories of seeing a hotel ice machine. Of those who had stayed in hotels in the last year, 33% reported memories of having used said machines without incident.3 The source of these false memories, as well as their method of transmission, are still under investigation.\nDiscovery:\nSCP-5172 was discovered in 1973 when Foundation personnel responded to what appeared to be a series of unsolved murders occurring at hotels in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Extensive testing inside of the hotels led researchers to discover the false memory related to ice machines. The investigation led to the placement of hidden cameras in each of the hotels' rooms; evidence collected here uncovered the connection between the ice machines, the SCP-5172 phenomenon, and Zalmunna Events.\nAddendum 2. Zalmunna Events.\nInitialization. The Zalmunna Event is triggered when a hotel guest (hereinafter \"the target\") perceives and subsequently uses a hotel ice machine.4 At this point, the only way to terminate the Event is to leave the building and sleep in a private residence.5 The ice does not actually need to be used or consumed for the Event to progress.\nStalking behavior and/or hallucinations. The target will almost immediately begin to perceive an individual (or individuals) watching them from elsewhere in the hotel. Typically, these individuals first appear on the far end of the hallway where the Zalmunna Event was initiated. Third-party observers are unable to perceive any individuals observing the target. Attempts to seize, record, or photograph the individuals supposedly watching the target have not produced evidence of their existence. Accordingly, the \"watchers\" are believed to be hallucinations. Descriptions of the individuals are fragmentary and do not show any consistent traits.\nConfusion and fatigue. Within two hours of Event initialization, the target will display symptoms similar to those seen in early-stage dementia. If the target does not immediately return to their hotel room, they begin to demonstrate signs of confusion, difficulty completing everyday tasks, and short-term memory loss. After two hours have elapsed, the target also begins to feel a gradually increasing sense of fatigue.\nWithin four hours of Event initialization, the fatigue typically reaches the point that it becomes difficult or dangerous for the target to perform activities such as driving or swimming. Zalmunna Event survivors report feeling as if their mind is \"too active\" to fall asleep anywhere other than in a hotel bed. This typically leads the target to seek out their hotel room. In spite of this sensation, the target is not compelled to follow this course of action. The target may still seek out a bed located in a private residence if they are aware it is an option. Targets will not fall asleep outdoors or in public places, but will experience the standard health consequences associated with increasing sleep deprivation. Targets can only fall asleep in hotels or private residences; if they do fall asleep in a private residence, the Event is terminated. (See Addendum 4).\nSleep. When the target does reach a hotel bed, they immediately enter the hypnagogic state associated with the normal transitional period between wakefulness and sleep. Under normal conditions, the room's temperature begins to drop until it reaches approximately 11 degrees Celsius (51.8 degrees F).\nAfter a brief period of hypnagogia, the target proceeds as normal through the sleep cycle until they enter slow-wave sleep.6 This typically occurs within one hour of laying in bed.\nAppearance of SCP-5172-1. An instance of SCP-5172-1 appears after the target enters slow-wave sleep. It will generally phase through the door connecting the target's hotel room to the hallway. SCP-5172-1 is not perceptible to a person who is in the room with the target at the time of this entry, but can be observed through cameras and other devices.\nThe target returns to the hypnagogic state, but is unable to move. This results in a condition resembling sleep paralysis. SCP-5172-1 crawls towards the bed on all fours before assuming a \"sitting\" position on the target's chest. SCP-5172-1 inserts a thin, proboscis-like appendage into one or both of the target's eye sockets for several seconds. This does not cause physical damage, but it is theorized to be a way for SCP-5172-1 to transmit a paralytic agent or other substance to the target's brain to aid in the harvesting process that follows.\nHarvesting behavior. After retracting the appendage, SCP-5172-1 opens its own chest cavity and retrieves a pair of unidentified tools. It then begins applying the tools and extracting cubes, measuring approximately 4 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm (1.57 inches), from the target's body. The cubes may consist of tissue, muscle, bone, semi-solid blood, or a combination thereof. SCP-5172-1 uses the tools in a \"cutting and scooping\" motion which appears to make all of these organic substances equally easy for it to collect; that is, bone is no more difficult to cut through than any other organic matter of the target. Each cube is placed into SCP-5172-1's open chest cavity before it repeats the process and collects another cube. The chest cavity is capable of containing more matter than its appearance would suggest.\nSCP-5172-1's motions during harvesting begin slowly, collecting cubes at a rate of about two per minute. It gradually increases its pace until it is collecting approximately 50 cubes per minute. SCP-5172-1 typically completes the harvesting process after two to three hours of activity. After completion, SCP-5172-1 returns to the hallway door and phases into it, dematerializing.\nSurvival of Zalmunna Event: Restricted to Clearance Levels 4 and above only.\n\n+ SECURITY LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE AND ABOVE ONLY\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED.\n\nPhotograph of the remains of a target of a completed Zalmunna Event, recovered moments after the harvesting event concluded. Subject survived for two hours prior to expiration.\n\nAfter the harvesting process begins, SCP-5172-1 can be interrupted in order to prevent the death of its targets. (See Addendum 3). If the process is interrupted before SCP-5172-1 harvests a sufficient amount of any vital organs, targets can survive with limited (but permanent) injuries. Targets do not experience normal blood loss during the harvesting process, an effect that lasts for about six hours following the start of the process. Accordingly, prompt medical attention can allow targets who have been partially harvested to stabilize and recover.\nIndividuals who have survived partial harvesting report being conscious and aware throughout the process. This experience is marked by an elevated heart-rate, difficulty breathing, and subjective feelings of terror.\nSCP-5172-1 collects all of the organic matter of the target except for the major elements of the central nervous system\u2014the spinal cord, peripheral nerves, the retinas, the eyes, and the brain. In the case of a completed Zalmunna Event, these elements will be the only ones that are not removed as SCP-5172-1 \"scoops\" around them.\nTargets will continue to display signs of consciousness for longer than should be possible, even in the case of a completed Zalmunna Event. Should a harvesting process be interrupted after the target loses a vital organ, the target will live for one to two hours.\nUpdate - 2020-12-30. The proboscis-like appendage used before harvesting is no longer believed to be used to administer a paralytic agent. Repeated observation shows that targets already demonstrate symptoms of paralysis by the time an SCP-5172-1 instance materializes. Efforts are underway to explore the theory that the appendage is introduced in order to ensure that targets remain conscious throughout the process.\n\nAddendum 3. SCP-5172-1.\nSCP-5172-1 is an individual instance of a humanoid entity approximately 122 cm (48 inches) in height and 28.6 kg (63 lbs) in weight. Its arms are about twice the length of what would normally be expected of a human of these dimensions. It also has pronounced frontal and parietal bones, creating the appearance of an elongated forehead. The proboscis-like appendage measures approximately 90 cm (35.4 inches) and extends and retracts from the \"mouth\" on the instance's face.\n\nSCP-5172-1. Image captured by hidden camera during Zalmunna Event.\n\nIf a Zalmunna Event is interrupted by an individual's sudden entry into the hotel room, the SCP-5172-1 instance will cease harvesting and attempt to attack the individual. Its strength is comparable to that of a human of its stature, but the tools that SCP-5172-1 uses during harvesting are capable of cutting through protective gear and causing serious injury. While it is not particularly strong, it is capable moving at an advanced speed as it approaches the end of the harvesting process. Extreme caution is advised for personnel attempting to neutralize an SCP-5172-1 instance that has almost completed a harvesting process.\nIf multiple people enter the room during the harvesting process, SCP-5172-1 will attempt to hide from sight. If it can escape the sight of all people in the room, the SCP-5172-1 instance will dematerialize.\nSCP-5172-1 has several biological systems analogous to that of humans. Accordingly, it can be killed through the application of force that would typically be lethal for humans, such as stabbing or gunshots. Autopsies of recovered specimens show that SCP-5172-1 has circulatory systems, though the central circulatory organ (akin to a heart) is located in the head. As a result, SCP-5172-1 can expire from \"blood loss\" or sufficient head trauma. SCP-5172-1 does not appear to have respiratory or digestive organs. Recovered instances may possess male or female reproductive organs. These organs are misshapen and diminutive, corresponding to symptoms of human hypogonadism. These organs are likely vestigial, having no role in the reproduction of SCP-5172-1 instances. Killing an SCP-5172-1 instance, but leaving an ice machine in a hotel under the effect of SCP-5172, means that future Zalmunna Events can still occur on the premises.\nEfforts to capture a live SCP-5172-1 instance have thus far been unsuccessful. Instances that do not have their hands bound are capable of spontaneously materializing their tools and cutting their way through containment chambers. Instances whose hands are bound or are otherwise rendered incapable of using its tools die within several minutes; similarly, the instance's tools disappear upon death. Research is underway regarding alternatives for close-up live study of SCP-5172-1 specimens.\nAddendum 4. North American Hotel Protocol for Foundation Personnel.\nFoundation personnel whose duties require them to stay in hotels are required to familiarize themselves with documentation surrounding SCP-5172. A log of confirmed SCP-5172 manifestations will be made available to personnel whose duties require regular hotel stays.\nAll personnel staying in hotels will be given single-purpose communication devices for reporting suspected SCP-5172 phenomena. Awareness of SCP-5172 is not enough to avoid triggering a Zalmunna Event. Several Foundation personnel, as hotel guests, have found themselves \"absentmindedly\" using an ice machine, despite being fully aware of the consequences. Personnel who have triggered a Zalmunna Event must report it to Command immediately in order to receive instructions for extraction. Personnel are not permitted to return to their hotel rooms without express approval from Command. If feasible, personnel will be given directions to a nearby Foundation safe-house where they can fall asleep in a way that terminates the Zalmunna Event.\nAs a final precaution, all personnel staying in hotels are required to wear heart-rate monitors at all times while on the hotel premises. In the event that personnel initiate a Zalmunna Event and are unable to notify Command prior to falling sleep, algorithmic detection of sudden increases in heart rate can be used to detect a Zalmunna Event in its early stages. Command will be notified of heart-rate irregularities and dispatch the nearest available MTF if personnel do not respond to communications. MTF response will occur in any situation where it is possible for a team to arrive prior to the completion of the Zalmunna Event.\nUpdate - 2021-1-11. As of 2021, one confirmed instance of SCP-5172 has been located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Foundation personnel have recovered an ice machine and human remains indicative of a completed Zalmunna Event. This is the first known instance of SCP-5172 to occur outside of North America. Notably, the Netherlands had no prior public perception of \"ice machines\" as a common hotel amenity. At present, it is unclear if this is an isolated incident or if it signals that the anomaly is in the process of spreading to other locations. All available Site-30 resources are being shifted into investigating the possible reasons for SCP-5172's spread. Countering or mitigating the spread is now considered highest priority for 5172 research team personnel.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This effect also applies to motels; for the sake of simplicity, each mention of \"hotels\" should be understood to include motels, as well.\n2. For instance, Mr. Williams did not charge extra for children, as was customary for hotels at the time. At one point, Mr. Williams also insisted on his franchises purchasing trampolines and making them freely available to his guests' families. This practice was discontinued after several children suffered serious injuries inside his hotels.\n3. Margin of error \u00b13%. Sample size and questionnaire information available from 5172 Project Head upon request.\n4. Statistical analysis suggests that Zalmunna Events occur to completion approximately 50 times per year. It is still unclear what causes an individual to perceive an ice machine in the first place, or what causes an ice machine to appear in a particular hotel. Due to the prevalence of false memories, there is no way of knowing how many individuals actually perceive a hotel ice machine connected to SCP-5172 but simply decline to use it.\n5. The Zalmunna Event will still proceed if the target only relocates to a different hotel, or sleeps in a different bed in the same hotel.\n6. Often referred to as \"deep sleep.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5171 | SCP-5172 | SCP-5173 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Brainwave analysis of SCP-5174 infection, spike at t=1.5 indicates botnet activation\n\nItem #: SCP-5174\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the irregular nature of the manifestations of SCP-5174, containment is to be focused on observation and investigation.\nFoundation employed scouts within neutral and pro-Foundation collectives are to report activity involving host abnormalities and rapid-onset hivemind collapse to MTF Omicron Rho (\"The Dream Team\") for inquiry.\nPhysical sites of SCP-5174 generation are to be examined, then disassembled by Foundation security personnel. Instances of SCP-5174-1 are to be stored in standard object containment once decommissioned.\nDescription: SCP-5174 is a brain-based bot network that is intended to terminate selected hosts in Oneiroi Space1.\nThe mechanism of SCP-5174 involves the involuntary exploitation of \"non-dreamers,\" in order to create a specific desired effect; of which the most common are tasks that require significant cognitive function to process.\nNote that victims of SCP-5174 are not actually accessing Oneiori dream worlds (such a process requires the completion of the Oneiori Joining Technique), rather their mental energy2 is rerouted to a central attacker who then focuses on a Oneiorific node.\nThe transmission method of SCP-5174 is an autonomous drone (refered to as SCP-5174-1) which emits malicious, infected brainwaves to physically compromised individuals.\nThe combined mental energy is then collated through SCP-5174-1 which then prepares SCP-5174 for activation. The amount of \"non-dreamers\" that are used for SCP-5174 is limited to the spatial distribution of SCP-5174-1 for that particular instance.\nIn Oneiroi Space, the botnet manifests in several ways, the most common of which is as millions of SCP Foundation Researchers armed with glitter-guns. The intense cerebral load placed, often, kills the host of the collective and causes critical infrastructure loss for the dream group3 of that particular host.\nIt is theorized that multiple varieties of SCP-5174 currently operate within Oneiori Space. However, the development of mobile collectives and \"jumping\" hosts within the noosphere in recent decades has made precise identification difficult.\nThe first and most widespread variation known in Oneiori West4 as the \"TFFS5 brain parasite,\" was dismantled in 2018.\nBefore deconstruction, the first instance of SCP-5174 is believed to have killed 38 hosts and their associated collectives.\nThe following is an abridged list of dreamworlds destroyed by this initial version of SCP-5174.\n\nHost Name: Imperator Aiaoai Zurchol Oiiit\nHivemind Name: The Glorious Emirate of Oneiroi East\nHuman Population #: ~15,000,000\nPhysical Location: Within a trashcan on the beach of Random Island, Canada\nMetaphysical Description: \u201cThe Glorious Emirate of Oneiroi East\u201d was a uber-fantasy, low-concept hivemind that was the sister collective to Oneiroi West. Investigation showed that most of this particular collective was constructed of and worshipped the Daevite spirit \"Hahgwehdaetgan.\nCircumstances Regarding Collapse: Imperator Oiiit, the host of \u201cThe Glorious Emirate of Oneiroi East,\u201d received a message on 3/1/2018 detailing steps of an ultimatum to either shut down operations or to face complete destruction.\nAccording to after action reports, the ultimatum was attached to a manifesto describing the \"cowardice of death\" and \"the strength of 'real' flesh.\"\nOiit ignored the message and later that day the collective was shutdown by SCP-5174.\n\nHost Name: Real Name Unknown\nHivemind Name: AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH (12 A's, 6 U's, 5 H's)\nHuman Population #: ~???\nPhysical Location: Variable. The location of the hivemind would change depending on the visitor. The location would jump to the visitor's mother's brain.\nMetaphysical Description: \u201cAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH\u201d was an indetermined, high-concept collective that would alter itself depending on the mind that would enter it. The space within the collective would transform into a space resembling the inhabitant's childhood. Infamous as a hideout for Daevite pacifists during the Third Occult War.\nCircumstances Regarding Collapse: Real Name Unknown, the host of \u201cAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGHHHHH,\u201d was sent a similar ultimatum by SCP-5174.\nThe attached manifesto was slightly altered and contained reference to \"the unnatural lengthened lives led by dreamers who hang to their pasts.\"\n\nHost Name: SCP Foundation Dreamer Azmaray Marwat\nHivemind Name: Sanctioned Site \u221a-2\nHuman Population #: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nPhysical Location: Site-02\nMetaphysical Description: Semi-infinite pink containment planet, often used for non-humanoid mental viruses. For more details, contact Foundation Dreamer Overseer Maider Berezi.\nCircumstances Regarding Collapse: Marwat received a message from SCP-5174, calling for help in their mission to \"kill and destroy everything within all dream-worlds for the benefit of those tempted by its whispers and false bodies. None shall escape physical form.\"\nAfter Marwat responded with a reaffirmation of Foundation ideology to not harm anomalous entities, SCP-5174 invaded Site \u221a-2 and collapsed the planet.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5174 was brought to the Foundation's attention by the \"All Being's Collective of Xiupania,\" which sent envoys into the dreams of various Foundation researchers. The message was the following pseudo-limerick.\n\nYou are always a bad group.\nBut we need some help, nincompoops!\nAn evil thing has come.\nAnd will cause us to succumb.\nHey dumbass, you will find the culprit in Guadeloupe.\n\nA team of Foundation security personnel was sent to Basse-Terre, the capital city of Guadeloupe. There it was discovered the brains of patients admitted to Vieux Habitants National Hospital were compromised by SCP-5174 and were being co-opted for the purposes of the central brain. The compromised individuals were de-anomalized through a severing of the forced Oneiorific connection.\nDuring the dismantling of the first SCP-5174 network, a document was found taped to a computer monitor.\n\nAUTOMATED LETTER: DO NOT DISCARD\nDear Karcist Tuuslar,\nThank you for ordering from our organization! Your requested item has been shipped. The following software features are listed below.\n\nIncorporeal, infectious terminal\n\nCross-dimensional\n\nCustom brainwave pattern creation\n\nFor any questions on the programs specifications, please do not hesitate to contact us.\nNote: It appears that your group intends to interact with certain faculties within psionic or dreams based universes or realms. We humbly request that you do not affect our other products or headquarters specifically within Oneiori Space.\n-Anderson\n\nFootnotes\n1. Oneiroi Space is the colloquial name for the set of hiveminds that are connected through organic hosts in physical space.\n2. Mental energy refers to the ability or willingness to engage in cognitive work.\n3. Dream groups are clusters of hosts that are physically nearby and/or interact with each other frequently.\n4. Oneiori West is the largest and most stable cluster of hiveminds. It is notable for its complex security system and autonomy, in contrast with other collectives.\n5. \"The Foundation Fucking Sucks\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5173 | SCP-5174 | SCP-5175 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5175 -\n\nDEATH KNIFE\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5175\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nintegrated\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5175\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nProvisional Site-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nR. Joseph Barrow\nJ. Thomas Dune\n\u03a9-5 \"Damien's Angels\"\n\nPoI-3445 upon initial interview session. Note the subject's 'backup knife'\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5175 is to be contained in anomalous item locker 5175, located at Area-179.\nDue to the symbiotic relationship between SCP-5175 and PoI-3445, as well as the beneficial nature of the anomaly, PoI-3445 has been integrated into the Foundation's internal command structure. Mobile Task Force \u03a9-5 \"Damien's Angels\" has been created to assist PoI-3445 in their missions, under the auspices of Project SECRET-SHOPPER.\nUpon authorization by Mobile Task Force Lieutenant Samuel Deangelo, PoI-3445 is to retrieve SCP-5175 for the purposes of carrying out missions assigned to them.\nDescription: SCP-5175 is an ornate knife of Moroccan design and unknown origin. SCP-5175 displays no anomalous abilities when handled by an individual who is not symbiotically bound to the object. The criteria by which SCP-5175 becomes bound to a user is apparently under the discretion and personal favor of SCP-5175-1. Presently, PoI-3445 is the only individual capable of handling SCP-5175 in a way that manifests its anomalous properties.\nWhen handled by its host, SCP-5175 is capable of removing any form of life from baseline reality upon laceration. This effect has proven to be applicable to incorporeal beings who would otherwise have no physical presence. Upon piercing a target, a black mist will begin to emanate from the object. This mist will envelop the target, causing them to disappear. According to unverifiable information provided by SCP-5175-1 and PoI-3445, victims of SCP-5175 are transported to an unknown extradimensional space that has been colloquially referred to as \"The Realm of Unsaved Souls\", \"Land of the Forsaken Suffering\", and \"Kanash\u012b Ringo no Akuma no Ry\u014diki\"1.\nSCP-5175-1 is a being that claims to be the consciousness of Kuroitanken Hanzo, a Japanese samurai who, according to the entity, was born in 1800, and served as a supporter of the Imperial Court in the Boshin War.2 When SCP-5175 is handled by its host, SCP-5175-1 will manifest itself as an animate ethereal figure that hovers above or near the subject. SCP-5175-1's physical appearance is that of a human skeleton wearing a suit of black and purple d\u014d-maru armor. SCP-5175-1's silhouette constantly emanates black mist, similar to the vapor produced by the object itself. SCP-5175-1 is capable of communicating with its host, regardless of apparent language barriers. Likewise, a host is capable of comprehension of SCP-5175-1's speech, despite being spoken in 19th century Japanese. SCP-5175-1 is capable of interacting with physical objects.\nPoI-3445 is Damien Lawrence Woodcock, a resident of Scranton, Pennsylvania. PoI-3445 was a security officer who had been employed for 8 years at The Marketplace at Steamtown3. PoI-3445 exhibits no anomalous characteristics, but is considered integral to the containment and handling of SCP-5175 due to being the only individual SCP-5175-1 agrees to work with.\nPoI-3445 has been integrated as a Foundation employee as a part of Project SECRET-SHOPPER, and currently operates as a specialized Foundation agent. See addenda for further detail.\nAddendum.5175.1: Discovery\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nCutlery Collection, the discovery site of SCP-5175\n\nAccording to PoI-3445's personal accounts, SCP-5175 was discovered on 2009/8/03, at 'Cutlery Collection', a storefront located at The Marketplace that specializes in the sale of edged weapons. PoI-3445 reported hearing the voice of SCP-5175-1, urging him to enter the store and purchase the object.\nOver a period of two months, PoI-3445 became familiar with handling SCP-5175 through the construction of a 'training ground' in the woods behind his parents' residence. As such, PoI-3445 has attained cursory skill in knife combat. It is during this time period in which PoI-3445 and SCP-5175-1 developed their relationship.\nOn 2009/10/27, PoI-3445 attempted to use SCP-5175 in an altercation with a shoplifter, resulting in the appearance of SCP-5175-1. While the event occurred in public, the low traffic of the shopping center resulted in only a handful of witnesses. Amnestics were administered as appropriate, and PoI-3445 was detained by local law enforcement before being brought into Foundation custody.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5175.2: Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2009/10/27\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nDr. Trenton: You look a little tense, Mr. Woodcock. There's a cooler out back if you need a water or something. I understand this is\u2026 a lot to take in at once.\nPoI-3445: (Distressed) This is some Men In Black shit. Please, all I'm asking is for an easy hearing. I can't do mind games, I can't do another interrogation.\nDr. Trenton: Mind if I call you Damien? Damien, we're not here to arrest you. That already happened. And you're clean, at least with the law. We just want to ask you some questions.\nPoI-3445: Did you call my parents?\nDr. Trenton: I \u2014 erm, no, we didn't call your parents.\nPoI-3445 sighs and rubs his hands over his face.\nPoI-3445: Thank god. Okay, okay. I guess you wanna know about DEATH KNIFE, right? I'm assuming the ghost knife is why the Men in Black would kidnap me. You want the Kai version or the Z version?\nDr. Trenton: What?\nPoI-3445: Short or long. It's a reference, god.\nDr. Trenton: Yeah, references aren't my strong suit. From the beginning, please. Take as much time as you need.\nPoI-3445: Alright, so, I'm a mall security guard. Have been for the past 8 years. I've always had an interest in, like, weapons and stuff. I have my uncle's katana hanging over my bed, and I do pretty cool knife tricks sometimes. Watch this \u2014\nPoI-3445 brandishes an ordinary kitchen knife from his sweater pocket, and stabs it into the table.\nDr. Trenton: (Distressed) Where the hell did you get that? I thought they frisked you.\nPoI-3445: Backup knife. I always keep it on me. I can make it balance on any surface.\nPoI-3445 removes his hand from the knife, it stands upright.\nDr. Trenton: Can \u2014 Can you just continue the story?\nPoI-3445: Anyways, yeah. I like weapons and stuff. There's this really cool store at the mall called Cutlery Collection. I make sure to check every shipment they get in if they have anything I want. I was doing that, and I saw this sick Japanese knife. I heard this voice in my head telling me I had the resolve of a warrior, and that I had to buy it. I freaked out really bad, but it was so badass. Like something out of the first chapter of a manga. That's Japanese for \u2014\nDr. Trenton: I'm aware, Damien.\nPoI-3445: Oh, what have you read?\nDr. Trenton: No, I \u2014 please continue.\nPoI-3445: Alright, so I bought it. When I got home, the voice told me to grip the knife in a certain way. Like this.\nPoI-3445 picks up the knife from the table and gestures using it.\nPoI-3445: And then this fuckin' metal skeleton guy wearing Shinobi armor came out. If you've ever seen JoJo, he's kind of like a stand. He told me his name was Hanzo, and he was an ancient samurai ghost. He said he chose me as a host because of my insatiable blood lust, knowledge of his culture, military background, and years of combat experience. It was so goddamn cool.\nDr. Trenton: Your service record says that you went AWOL one month into basic training.\nPoI-3445: You can learn a lot in a month.\nDr. Trenton: Years of combat experience?\nPoI-3445: Well, I eventually figured out he was talking about how good I am at certain video games. Like, you ever hear of Assassins Creed? I learned a lot of street tactics from that. I've also done legendary on Halo 3 four times. I showed him my skills for a week straight, just playing games and watching anime together. He thought it was magic, and that I was fighting in other worlds, or something. I kind of just let him think that, because it was kinda badass.\nDr. Trenton: Can you elaborate more on this entity?\nPoI-3445: Hanzo's, like, 800 years old or something. After he was confident enough that I was a suitable host, he told me his tragic backstory. A witch-woman from a foreign land came to Japan a long time ago, and started blowing shit up with her magic! So Hanzo and a bunch of his ninja students had to fight her, but she killed them all. Hanzo felt so guilty that he begged her to kill him on the spot. Instead, she sealed his soul to her cursed blade, and locked it away in a chest. Things move over the years, blah, blah, blah, and eventually DEATH KNIFE ends up in the mall I work at!\nDr. Trenton: I'm assuming DEATH KNIFE is the name of the blade.\nPoI-3445: I came up with it myself! It's spelled in all caps, so put that on your clipboard. I call it that because the blade completely kills anything it touches completely!\nDr. Trenton: And let me clarify, you haven't used\u2026 the object prior to today's incident, right?\nPoI-3445: Hanzo told me what it would do, but no, I never used it before today. He said that whoever is pierced by the blade is sent to the Land of the Forsaken Suffering, like the Shadow Realm from Yu-Gi-Oh! It's a forsaken dimension of shadows and suffering! If his blade doesn't relinquish 1,000,000 lives to the Realm of Unsaved Souls, he'll never be free from his metal prison. He needed my help to do that, and to reclaim his honor by teaching a student once again.\nDr. Trenton: And how did you feel about this?\nPoI-3445: I thought it was a badass backstory and all but it was way too much for me. 1,000,000 souls is a lot of souls, and I genuinely don't have time to do all that. I tried to tell him I could, like, teach him to be good at Space Hulk instead, but he was insistent on training me. I think it was to make up for the students he failed hundreds of years ago.\nDr. Trenton: And you accepted the entity's training?\nPoI-3445: Can we talk about this more tomorrow? I'm really tired.\nDr. Trenton: Uh, sure, Damien. My team's going to run some tests on the object anyways. We'll pick up where we left off in the morning.\nPoI-3445: Can I have my phone back?\nDr. Trenton puts his hand up to his ear, pressing his communication device.\nDr. Trenton: I'm afraid not. And, we're done. You can put away the Class-Bs, we won't need them.\nPoI-3445: I have to get a daily log-in bonus. Can I have it back for just for a second?\nDr. Trenton gets up from his seat.\nDr. Trenton: We're done for the night. Hand over the backup knife on the way out.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\nResearcher's Note: Subject demonstrated an almost unheard of level of acceptance and confidence despite being an ordinary citizen in an anomalous situation. I'm not sure whether to attribute it to stupidity or legitimate fortitude. Still, there's a slight issue. Considering PoI-3445 was in possession of SCP-5175 for a period of over two months, as well as corresponding with SCP-5175-1 during that time, regular amnestics aren't going to work here. Subject is currently being detained in Cell C007 until a specialized amnestic treatment can be agreed upon. Interviews continue tomorrow. Perhaps consideration for a D-Class position? - Dr. Trenton\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5175.3: Interview Log II\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2009/10/28\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nDr. Trenton enters the room where PoI-3445 had been waiting and takes a seat.\nPoI-3445: Ohayou, Trenton-san.\nDr. Trenton: (Pauses) Uh, morning, Damien.\nPoI-3445: That bed sucked.\nDr. Trenton: I'm very sorry about that. We ran some tests on the object last \u2014\nPoI-3445: On DEATH KNIFE?\nDr. Trenton: Yeah, on\u2026 the knife. For whatever reason, we're unable to trigger its anomalous properties. It's just an ordinary blade.\nPoI-3445: Well duh, you can't do anything with it. Hanzo only comes out when I use it. That's why I'm the host. (Laughs) I thought you guys were supposed to be smart!\nDr. Trenton: We figured that out. I was just informing you that, depending on approval from the research head, you might have to undergo testing.\nPoI-3445: Like, dangerous testing? Don't I have to sign something for that?\nDr. Trenton: (Laughs) Not here. It won't be anything too bad. Using the object on animal subjects, allowing us to speak with the entity. Don't worry about it for now. Want to pick up from last night?\nPoI-3445: Oh, right. I was talking about how Hanzo wanted to train me. I tried distracting him with more games, because technically I was training competitively, but he started getting super serious. Hanzo only activates when I wield DEATH KNIFE, so I threw it in the back of my closet and left it there for a week.\nDr. Trenton: Was this out of fear or apathy?\nPoI-3445: I just didn't have time to train! It was cool he chose me and all but I already have \u2014 I mean, I know how to use a weapon. If the situation called for it, I could disarm a man.\nTrenton coughs, clearly holding back laughter.\nDr. Trenton: Excuse me. (Pause) What drew you back to the object?\nPoI-3445: I was leaving work one day, and I \u2014 wait, I haven't told you about Emily yet. She works at Auntie Anne's, the pretzel place. She's this really hot goth girl \u2014 more Lydia Deetz than one of those pathetic Ramona Flowers pastel scene kids. Like, she listens to The Cure instead of some shitty pop punk garbage like post-American Idiot Green Day. You know what I mean?\nDr. Trenton: No.\nPoI-3445: Alright, well I've been trying to talk to her for years now. That's besides the point. I was leaving work, and I saw some dude breaking into Emily's car. I went for DEATH KNIFE, but I was like, shit, it's at home. It didn't matter though, because I immediately rushed him and started beating the shit out of him. Like, when I get mad \u2014 I lose all composure and see red, man. I see red.\nDr. Trenton: You stopped car theft?\nPoI-3445: I didn't actually stop him. Like, he took some stuff, but I went crazy for a second. He lost 3 teeth, and there was blood everywhere. Emily was so thankful. After that, I realized I need to start training. I had this awesome gift in my hands and I was letting it go to waste.\nDr. Trenton: Let me stop you. You learned how to handle the knife\u2026 because you successfully stopped a robbery?\nPoI-3445: I beat the guy up. I realized I could reach my full potential if I became Hanzo's student.\nDr. Trenton: Are you sure that's what happened? This is a judgement-free zone, Damien.\nPoI-3445: Yeah.\nSilence.\nDr. Trenton: Carry on.\nPoI-3445: There's a lot of bad people in this world, and I realized I could do some good with this thing. I apologized to Hanzo for leaving him in my closet, and he took it pretty well. As punishment, he said he was going to be relentless in my training, but he was glad I agreed. At first we were in the woods behind my house, but I got my dad to help build specialized training devices. Soon I had the whole place loaded with traps, test dummies, and targets.\nDr. Trenton: Your parents, do they know about the entity?\nPoI-3445: Obviously not. What's the point in having a secret ability if it's not a secret? I told you, I'm going for the full experience here.\nDr. Trenton: Right, I forgot.\nPoI-3445: Over the next couple weeks, Hanzo put me through the wringer. He's a bit of an asshole, and I disagree with a lot of his teaching methods, but he's improved my ability to fight tenfold, which is impressive considering my natural aggression. I was decent before with a knife, but now I can do some serious damage. If you give me the other knife back I can sh \u2014\nDr. Trenton: No can do. What type of training did you perform with Hanzo?\nPoI-3445: How to throw, basic fighting stances, doing backflips by having him lift me up. I'm pretty much combat ready at this point. You know what happens next. I catch a shoplifter, Hanzo does his thing, and then I'm arrested.\nDr. Trenton: What was going through your head there? What was the best possible way that scenario could've played out?\nPoI-3445: I was trying to impress Emily. I made sure to get him right in front of Auntie Anne's. Then I remembered it was Tuesday, and she was off. I don't know, I just really wanted to do something good for once. I've been working there for 8 years. There's a whole mall out there to protect, and I've never done that once.\nDr. Trenton: Interesting. Well, my request to reintroduce the object to you should be approved by tomorrow. Would you believe me if I said this wasn't my first time interviewing an 200-year-old samurai?\nPoI-3445: Seriously?\nDr. Trenton: (Laughs) No, but I'm looking forward to it. Thank you for your time, Damien.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\nResearcher's Note: Request approved. Testing with PoI-3445 and SCP-5175-1 begins within the week. - Dr. Trenton\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5175.4: SCP-5175-1 Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2009/11/06\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nDr. Trenton: Sorry about the delay, Damien. Been busy the past week. The tests earlier went well. Let's get the interview underway, hm?\nPoI-3445: Fuk\u014dda to omowanaide4.\nDr. Trenton: Yep. I'm going to hand you the object. You're able to act as a translator?\nPoI-3445: Of course. Our bond is like steel folded a thousand times, doctor.\nDr. Trenton hands SCP-5175 to PoI-3445. Subject's pupils dilate. SCP-5175-1 appears, hovering behind PoI-3445. The entity begins speaking in its local dialect as PoI-3445 translates. Extraneous dialogue detailing the translation process has been removed.\nDr. Trenton: Mr. Kuroitanken?\nSCP-5175-1: 'I understand I have been awoken for the purpose of questioning. Again, I thank you for returning me to my host.'5\nDr. Trenton: Of course. I only have a few questions. Can you verify the account Damien gave about your soul being bound to the object?\nSCP-5175-1: 'Yes. Yes, I can. While most men I fought against in the war were of my own nation, the shogunate would make use of mercenaries from far away lands, some of whom possessed unnatural abilities. An accursed girl who has apparently been lost to the ages sealed me away hundreds of years ago. Pay her no mind. I do not wish to speak of her, but know this. It is because of her curse that I am bound to the fulfillment of the Land of Forsaken Suffering. If I do not relinquish 1,000,000 lives to the Realm of Unsaved Souls, I can never leave my prison. This is why I must fight. This is why I require my host.'\nDr. Trenton: And has Damien used the object in this way? How many souls has he claimed?\nSCP-5175-1: 'One raccoon. I told him it was needlessly cruel but Damien was insistent on seeing how it worked.'\nPoI-3445: I didn't believe you! I said I was sorry!\nDr. Trenton: Why Damien? Why choose him over everyone else? Especially to the point where you refuse to cooperate with anyone else. Surely there are more capable fighters?\nPoI-3445: What does that mean? I fight perfectly fine!\nSCP-5175-1: 'I sensed Damien's thirst for blood the moment I inhabited the marketplace. His strong moral code, his experience with sorcery. I felt it all, and I called to him. He is the vessel I require to navigate these uncertain waters.'\nPoI-3445: Told you.\nSCP-5175-1: 'For awhile, I thought I had made a mistake. I may be blind in this new world, but I am not a fool. While your knowledge of the arts and cultures of my homeland and mastery in the commonplace magics impressed me, I slowly realized that your simulated games are exactly that - games. What I interpreted as the heart of a warrior was instead a sheet of sorcery pulled over my head. I sensed something else, the desire to contribute something of worth to someone else's life. Death alone make not a samurai. This is why I stayed with you.'\nPoI-3445: I mean, the games kind of helped me. And you even enjoyed them! You liked all the shows we watched too.\nSCP-5175-1: 'That I did. Your conjuring of moving drawings that act as if they were players on a stage has provided me with great insight and enjoyment.'\nDr. Trenton: I'm assuming you're talking about cartoons.\nSCP-5175-1 brandishes a sword and points it at Dr. Trenton. Trenton jumps back in shock.\nDr. Trenton: Whoa\u2014!\nSCP-5175-1: 'Damien insists you refer to them as their proper name \u2014 anime.'\nDr. Trenton: Anime. My apologies, Mr. Kuroitanken. (Clears throat) That still doesn't answer my question.\nSCP-5175-1: 'Because I have not reached that point yet. Damien's fighting spirit came from his resilience and fortitude during training. It was his drive to overcome his desires to constantly lounge and engage in games all day that has earned him respect. What I interpreted as fighting experience from his simulated magic was instead a deep-rooted drive to acclimate to a new environment. While Damien may not be a capable fighter by any means, he is an exceptional student, and has the heart required to succeed as one.'\nSilence.\nPoI-3445: (Pause) Wow, thank you. That's probably the best compliment anyone's ever given me.\nSCP-5175-1: 'You have proven yourself, above all else, to be a worthy and honorable host, Damien Woodcock. I am glad to have chosen you.'\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\nResearcher's Note: Interview continued for another half hour. Mostly confirming PoI-3445's claims about SCP-5175-1 and gaining new information regarding the specifics of the object. Forwarding results to research head. There are a number of ways we can tackle this. Earlier testing with the object has proven PoI-3445's incompetence with a weapon, but what you have in mind doesn't exactly require much skill. - Dr. Trenton\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5175.5: Project Proposal: SECRET-SHOPPER\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nPROJECT PROPOSAL: SECRET-SHOPPER\n\nDr. J. Thomas Dune\n\nProject Overview: SECRET-SHOPPER is an attempt to expand the research potential of SCP-5175. As operating on human subjects is inhumane and resource-intensive, an alternative is proposed involving SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The primary benefits of this project are the solution to a longstanding annoyance for our personnel, as well as an opportunity to test SCP-5175 in an effective way.\nOf course, considering the nature of SCP-5175-1, this would require employing PoI-3445 as a specialized Foundation operative. I've already worked out the paperwork with recruitment. PoI-3445 will not be assigned any tasks outside of their weekly operations under Project SECRET-SHOPPER, which exists solely to combat the excess of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A. Lieutenant Samuel Deangelo and a proposed small-scale task force under the name \u03a9-5 \"Damien's Angels\" has agreed to oversee PoI-3445 and their assignments. Overall, this would be an extremely limited and controlled environment.\nI've attached a summarized file regarding SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 below. I believe my reasoning will become evident.\n\nThe interior of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nItem #: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All entrances to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 have been sealed. Research is currently underway to determine a method of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A extermination.\nDescription: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is a building known as the Prism Center, a former shopping mall located in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 demonstrates zero anomalous properties beyond its ability to create SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A. Approximately 15 SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A instances are generated inside SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 daily.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A are hostile, ethereal figures resembling horned humanoid silhouettes, officially classified as Type-Yodh Faustian-Class Tartarian entities. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A possess an anomalous resistance to nearly all types of weaponry typically used in the extermination of similar entities. There are no other discernible anomalous properties of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A, providing little incentive for further research.\nThere is no current method of containment for these entities. Usual Faustian containment methods such as occult weaponry, thaumaturgy, and theological invocation have failed. Presently, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 contains 27,375 SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A instances.\n\nAfterword: Despite SCP-5175's short testing window, I have reason to believe the object will be the solution to our problems regarding the rapid and unending creation of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A. There have been multiple incidents over the past three years involving attempted trespass into SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has long been regarded as a location of low priority, but I disagree. Having this many entities with limited research potential endlessly spawning in one location is a ticking Veil bomb waiting to explode. The sooner we're able to clean out the place, the better.\nPlease consider Project SECRET-SHOPPER for approval.\n- Dr. Dune\n\nNotice from Area-179 Director Joseph R. Barrow:\n\nSTATUS RE: PROJECT SECRET-SHOPPER\n\nAPPROVED\n\nProposal approved. Please forward all documentation to the appropriate parties.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5175.6: Performance Overview\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINCIDENT LOG\n\nDATE: 2009/12/25\n\nForward: Over one month into the operation of Project SECRET-SHOPPER, PoI-3445 has demonstrated capabilities far exceeding expectations. The change in combat ability from their first assignment to the latest is astounding. The number of entities residing inside SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has decreased from 27,375 to approximately 14,000. Visual recordings of these weekly extermination missions are available upon request. The most recent operation, occurring on 2009/12/25, has been transcribed below as a cumulative performance overview of PoI-3445, and the effectiveness of Project SECRET SHOPPER.\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nFour MTF operatives open the skylight entrance to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. They begin to lower themselves to the ground using a pulley system. PoI-3445 forgoes a rope and dives head first into the building, brandishing SCP-5175. SCP-5175-1 materializes, holding PoI-3445 by the shoulders and cushioning his fall. PoI-3445 lands upright, directly in the center of one of the mall's water fountains. Several SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A instances approach.\nPoI-3445: Prepare to be vanquished by DEATH KNIFE, bitches!\nPoI-3445 runs up to an entity and pierces the being with SCP-5175. The entity disappears. Another entity attempts to jump PoI-3445 from behind, but is stopped by SCP-5175-1. PoI-3445 swiftly turns around and wounds the entity.\nLt. Deangelo: Damien, watch your flank!\nTwo entities leap towards PoI-3445. In a swooping motion, PoI-3445 pierces both of them. The MTF Team begins to cover PoI-3445, scouting the surrounding area for entities. The team moves into a food court area. PoI-3445 gestures for the team to slow down.\nPoI-3445: Halt. I'm familiar with this terrain.\nSuddenly, a large SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A instance bursts from behind the nearby salad-bar. PoI-3445 performs an SCP-5175-1 assisted back flip, avoiding the small amount of debris. PoI-3445 reaches the ground, and charges the entity. As he pierces the being with SCP-5175, four entities drop from the ceiling.\nLt. Deangelo: Damn it, they're getting smarter!\nAn entity leaps onto PoI-3445's back before disappearing, as PoI-3445 held SCP-5175 backwards in anticipation of the attack.\nPoI-3445: A fitting end for demon scum. And for the rest of you?\nPoI-3445 throws SCP-5175 into the air. SCP-5175-1 catches the object and fires it from its palm like a projectile. The object pierces all three entities in succession, causing them each to disappear.\nPoI-3445: Kuchi no naka de kin\u014d shinai bur\u0113do no watashi no aji6.\nWith the assistance of SCP-5175-1, PoI-3445 vaults over a gate, rushing a large cache of entities in the distance. PoI-3445 disposes of them with ease.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\nResearcher's Note: Mission continued uninterrupted for three more hours. Extraneous portions are available upon request. Number of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A instances exterminated during the 2009/12/25 assignment totals at 666, an intentionally consistent record with PoI-3445.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nFootnotes\n1. Roughly translates to 'demon realm for bad apples'\n2. Sometimes referred to as the Japanese Civil War. The conflict lasted from 1868 to 1869, and was fought between the Tokugawa Shogunate and those who intended to restore power to the Imperial Court.\n3. A shopping mall in Scranton\n4. Loosely translates to 'do not think unhappy'\n5. Translated by PoI-3445 following the interview\n6. Loosely translates to 'taste mine of the blade nonfunctional in your mouth'.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5174 | SCP-5175 | SCP-5176 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5176: [Little] Caesars' Palace\n\nImage Sources:\n[See license box at the end of this page.]\n\n[ \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: SCP-5176\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nFig 1.1. Times Square prior to the manifestation of SCP-5176.\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nProvisional Outpost-86/Site-35\nDr. John Percles\nDr. Jason Bumont\nN/A\n\nFig 1.2. The sole Little Caesars franchise located near Times Square, New York: the epicenter of the SCP-5176 manifestation.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: While SCP-5176 is virtually imperceivable to baseline humans, current Foundation efforts regarding the anomaly are targeted at obscuring SCP-5176 from the minority of individuals possessing the prerequisites which would permit interaction with it.\nClass-3 Vectronic Meme Counters (VMCs)1 fashioned in a way to blend in with their environments have been established within SCP-5176's area of effect to constantly monitor the antimemetic resistance indexes of all humans within the area. Should an individual with a resistance level at or exceeding 4.5 AMQs be present, an automated system has been configured to alert Foundation field operatives within Provisional Outpost-862 \u2014 wherein they can be removed from the location in addition to being administered amnestics when deemed appropriate.\nDescription: SCP-5176 designates an anomalous transfigurative event affecting Times Square in Manhattan, New York. Beginning on March 15th, 2020, over the course of 5 days, all structures within the area were converted into a conglomerative superstructure possessing Greco Roman architecture and features correlating to the Little Caesars Pizza3 brand.\nSCP-5176 is comprised primarily of structural items/materials emblazoned with Little Caesars' branding, orange and white coloration, and food products produced by the company. For example: a common item found within SCP-5176 are fountains made entirely of 'Crazy Bread' and cycle a liquified cheese substance in lieu of water. In general, the complex is reminiscent of palaces constructed during the height of the Roman Empire.\nWhile expansive, SCP-5176 itself is self-concealing. The anomaly possesses a mild antimemetic filter rendering humans with an antimemetic resistance level of less than 4.5 incapable of perceiving the anomalous qualities that have since overcome the locale.\nPresently, it is the belief that the manifestation of SCP-5176 is a result of an ontokinetic entity hereafter regarded as SCP-5176-1. It is theorized to be located within a former Little Caesars franchise in the center of SCP-5176: the apparent structure from which the viral spread of SCP-5176 originated from. As of this writing, no further knowledge pertaining to this entity is available.\n\nFig 1.3. Mr. Barker upon initial recovery by Foundation agents.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5176 was discovered by Foundation operatives embedded within local law enforcement after George Barker, a homeless individual living in the area, began a rampage throughout Times Square. He claimed that the government had 'been co-conspiring with the Capitalists and Big Pizza' in an attempt to strip individuals of economic mobility and freedom. After being admitted to a local psychiatric facility for evaluation, it was discovered that the man did not suffer from any discernible mental ailments. Because of this, Foundation field agents became aware of this and began an investigation; upon analysis of the area via the use of a GAD,4 the anomalous attributes of SCP-5176 were discovered, and containment protocols were enacted.\n\nAddendum-5176.1\nINTERVIEW LOG/SCP-5176-1 INITIAL ENCOUNTER\n\n\u25b6 ACCESS ADDENDUM \u25c0\n\n\u25b7 NOW ACCESSING FILE \u25c1\n\nForeword: On 3/30/20, attempts to contact SCP-5176-1 in its believed location was approved by Site-35's Directional Command as further research determined that SCP-5176-1's reality-altering abilities were not potent enough to cause widespread devastation should the entity become hostile during the encounter.\nTo accomplish this, Agent Jackson Walker, a specialist in dealing with ontokinetic and spectral anomalies with an antimemetic resistance of 5.0, was assigned to carry out the mission.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[Agent Walker is visible performing routine checks on his equipment outside of the designated entrance: a marble archway with columns connected at both sides. \"Little Caesars Hot And Ready\" is painted upon the keystone. Gold leafing is present at various points around the visible portion of the complex.]\nWALKER: Check, check. Alright. Command, everything's in order. Am I clear to begin insertion?\nCOMMAND: Everything seems good to go on our end. Readings from the Kant Counters show the local Humes to be only slightly above baseline. Let's hope it stays that way. You're clear to proceed.\nWALKER: Affirmative. Beginning entry now.\n[Upon initial entry by Agent Walker, there are carvings seen in the pale-grey stone walls depicting a masculine, short statured individual with numerous lacerations staring down on a scene of ruin; environment seems to be topographically similar to the Italian peninsula. After the insinuation of a long period of time, the same figure, crying, stares at broken tapestries and buildings. The final tapestry, showing the apparent life of the individual, is engulfed mostly in what appears to be cheese.]\n[12 minutes of extraneous traversal removed.]\nWALKER: Command, looks like we've got something.\nCOMMAND: You should be nearing SCP-5176-1's locale. Continue with caution.\nWALKER: (Whisper) Got it.\n[The agent moves forward in the corridor which empties out into an elaborate throne room. The walls are lined with globules of a glowing, semi-solid substance connected to individual breadsticks \u2014 keeping the room lit. In the far corner of the room, a humanoid figure is vaguely visible. As the agent moves closer, it is revealed to be masculine in build, and comprised entirely of a substance visually identical to Little Caesars' Pretzel Crust Pizza. It wears a toga made of shredded cardboard, and its face displays a look of discontentment. The being is looking out of a makeshift window at another portion of the structure; it does not immediately notice the agent.]\nWALKER: Umm\u2026 hello?\n[Agent Walker gestures slightly to get the entity's attention without startling it.]\nSCP-5176-1: Ah- g\u2014 for the life of Zeus\u2026 you've frightened me. What business do you have in my holy quarters, child?\nWALKER: My deepest apologies. I've come to ask about\u2026 all of this. What is it for?\n[Agent Walker gestures his hands towards to room at large.]\n[The entity sighs.]\nSCP-5176-1: It's what's left of my legacy. I used to rule over a vast empire, you know? Far and wide, everyone adored me. I was proclaimed a hero; I protected my people, threw them bread, everything. Until\u2026 it all ended so, so early.\nWALKER: I see. And\u2026 what exactly does this have to do with 'Little Caesars'? Why have you created this place the way it is-\nSCP-5176-1: I wasn't finished speaking!\nWALKER: \u2026\nSCP-5176-1: Not even after my body had grown cold, they'd started to twist and corrupt my name and my image. Everyone made a mockery of me for centuries. They made crude jokes and puns about me: a once-great ruler. I thought it couldn't get worse, and then those two fools created \"Little Caesars Pizza.\" That\u2026 abomination. How dare they take the title of Caesar and use it to promote their grossly priced \"Pizza\"?! I mean, look at me! Pretzel Crust?! What kind of caloric debauchery is this madness?! Not only that, but have you ever actually placed that foul rubbish into your mouth?\nWALKER: I can't say I have, Mr\u2026 Caesar.\nSCP-5176-1: Oh, then let me tell you! The cheese is stringer than rope and doesn't melt in the slightest, the sauce tastes of watered-down ketchup, and the crust! Oh, the crust: it tastes not like cardboard, worse than it! I'd rather indulge in consumption of shoes than the trash they sell for $5.00. Certainly, nothing to adorn with the title of 'Caesar'! Quite frankly, this whole thing makes me sick.\nI got murdered by 23 assailants\u2026 and this is how I go down in the minds of the masses: just a damn fast-food mascot. They could have at least named something good after me\u2026\nWALKER: Wow, I\u2026 really don't know what to say. I'm sorry to hear about your afterlife going up in flames like\u2026 that. If you really want to have something better named after you, I think I may be able to help, so long as you promise me one thing\u2026\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterword: Shortly after the conclusion of SCP-5176-1's monologue, Agent Walker was able to calm the entity under the promise that he would create a new dish in its name according to its tastes in exchange that it de-manifest from the physical plane. Upon being informed that a salad had just been named after it that was widely popular and would bring about the fall of the Little Caesars chain,5 SCP-5176-1 along with SCP-5176 de-manifested entirely.\n\n\u25b7 NOW ACCESSING FILE \u25c1\n\nReclassification to Neutralized pending approval by the Classifications Committee.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Devices capable of measuring the memetic and/or antimemetic resistance index of sapient entities. Such items were initially created in 1989 by Dr. Aaron Vectermann in an effort to make the analysis of such data more efficient. Prior to this, index registrations took in excess of two weeks and were highly invasive procedures.\n2. A provisional facility under the purview of Site-35 specifically created for the containment of SCP-5176.\n3. Fast-food pizza chain popular throughout the United States for its affordable pricing.\n4. General Analysis Device: machines capable of measuring a multitude of qualities within a given medium that may determine if the item is anomalous.\n5. This was purely a falsehood to coax SCP-5176-1 into complying. As is typical with spectrally bound entities, SCP-5176-1 lacked notable memory outside of the event/concept that disturbed them allowing for this fabrication to be successful.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5175 | SCP-5176 | SCP-5177 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Provisional Site-347\n\nItem #: SCP-5177\nObject Class: Keter Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The land surrounding SCP-5177 has been bought and fenced off by Foundation front group \"Montepalle-DeBiers Ecological Trust\" under the pretense of preserving the habitat of a critically endangered species of owl. No non-Foundation personnel are to be allowed onto the land, which has been designated Provisional Site-347. Researchers of Level 2 Clearance or above who wish to study SCP-5177 may do so with the permission of the Director of Provisional Site-347 (currently Dr. MacPherson).\nA candle is to be burning at all times at the centre of SCP-5177.\nDescription: SCP-5177 is a former Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency (IJAMEA) underground complex located on \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Mountain in rural Oregon. SCP-5177 contains 3km of hand-dug dirt tunnels, earthen living areas, and camouflaged bunkers. SCP-5177 was originally surrounded by many lethal and non-lethal traps, some designed to retain prisoners.\nAt the time of containment, SCP-5177 was saturated with a variety of demonologically bound Yokai entities, which have since been exorcised. The techniques used to create these bindings are well-understood by Foundation science, but are beyond the capabilities of the general public. These included:\n\nRaijin-type entities (Thunder Kami) invoked to \"scatter enemy <radio> communications to the wind.\"\nGaki-type entities (Hungry Ghosts) invoked to conceal lethal traps and consume the remains of their victims.\nBuruburu-type entities (Shivers) invoked to intensify feelings of cowardice and fear in intruders.\nKitsune-type entities (Fox Spirits) invoked to confuse intruders, disrupting navigation and planning.\n\nSCP-5177 has an additional anomalous property active throughout the area, randomly disrupting access to long-term memory.1 Foundation occultists have theorized that after many years of abandonment, SCP-5177 has manifested a unique species of Yokaius tsukumogami, or discarded object spirit. Occult containment specialists have determined that a ritual symbol of remembrance is sufficient to suppress this effect throughout SCP-5177, resulting in the current containment procedures.\nSCP-5177 was created in the 1930's by a single IJAMEA stay-behind agent and used to monitor Foundation activities, but this agent departed after an unknown period of time.\nAddendum 5177-21: Discovery Timeline\nMarch 15, 1973: Foundation Electronic Intelligence agents intercept radio messages originating in the Pacific Northwest containing classified mission-critical Foundation information, including descriptions of SCP objects in containment.2 Foundation North American Command declare this breach a Class-Aleph threat to the Masquerade and deploy all available intelligence assets.\nMarch 23, 1973: Agents K. R. Turner and A. M. Moore, MTF Iota-10 (\"Damn Feds\") members embedded in the U.S. Forest Service, forward rumors of hunting and rescue parties going missing in the vicinity of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 National Forest.\nMarch 24, 1973: Foundation Intelligence intercept FBI Unusual Incidents Unit communique stating that multiple agents had gone missing in the area of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Mountain. As the closest assets, Turner and Moore are dispatched to investigate and destroy any sensitive Foundation documents. Local Task Force Echo-5 (\"Ski Jumpers\") are placed on alert at Site-64 as backup.\nMarch 25, 1973: Turner and Moore report reaching \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Mountain but suffer anomalous radio interference. Moore is instructed to switch to backup FoundSATCom reporting system and proceed. Transmission logs are integrated below.\nARCHIVIST'S NOTE: FoundSATCom allowed one-way tight-beam textual transmission to Foundation Command via early satellite link. Transmission windows only opened every 8 hours, when FoundSAT-3's orbit brought it within range.\n\n| TO: FOUNDSAT3\n| FROM: I10MOORE\n| 25/03/1973\n| 09:30PST\nWe are about halfway up the mountain, but have to move slowly. Found rotting animal in a pit trap, couldn't identify. Deer? Traps are not visible. Eyes slide off them. One step at a time.\n| 17:30PST\nFound a concealed tunnel entrance. Turner cut her leg bad. We didn't notice until we stopped? Will check tunnels in the morning. Field radio completely useless, leaving it outside.\n\nBased on transmission contents, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Mountain is provisionally classified as SCP-5177.\nMarch 26, 1973:\n\n| 26/03/1973\n| 01:30PST\nCheck. Resting. Think I can hear activity inside, seems like more than wind noise.\n| 09:30PST\nIn the tunnels now. Dirt, narrow, no light. Only fit one person crouching. Trying to preserve flashlight. Have seen a few rooms branch off, supply rooms, sleeping areas.\n| 17:30PST\nTurner can't make it far, left her in some kind of living quarters, looked equipped for prisoners. Found documents, some Japanese some Foundation. Looking for water.\n\nMarch 27th, 1973:\n\n| 27/03/1973\n| 01:30PST\nThis place is a maze, must be going in circles. Can't find Turner. Suspect spatial anomaly. Have seen other lights moving in the tunnels, but avoiding contact.\n| 09:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 17:30PST\nhostile force present. mustve saw my light down tunnel, opened fire, automatic weapons. tunnel collapsed, lucky. lost sidearm. keep moving.\n\nBased on possible spatial manipulation, security threat, and hostile forces, SCP-5177 is classified as Keter. LTF Echo-5 are deployed for retrieval. Containment specialists are scrambled.\nMarch 28, 1973:\n\n| 28/03/1973\n| 01:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 09:30PST\nCan't remember last few hours. Have pistol again, not mine. There's a lot of blood. Not mine. Keep moving.\n| 17:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n\nMarch 29, 1973:\n\n| 29/03/1973\n| 01:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 09:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 17:30PST\nHave water. Don't know how. Can't find exits. Found Turner again. She's delirious, asking for Jim.\n\nMarch 30, 1973: Foundation Intelligence learn that members of 2nd Ranger Division had been dispatched from Fort Lewis at UIU request to secure SCP-5177. Iota-10 members at Fort Lewis report that communication with the rangers was lost 72 hours previously.\nTurner and Moore cannot be reached. LTF Echo-5 cannot be reached. Site-64 Director Hayden White contacts local FBI leadership under the HERA protocol.\n\n| 30/03/1973\n| 01:30PST\nHeard explosions. Staying with Turner. Send MTF.\n| 09:30PST\nSend MTF\n| 17:30PST\ngunfre outside not rifcking light steainyt put sned mth\n\nApril 1, 1973: UIU and Foundation negotiations stall over O5 security concerns. Director White and lead UIU negotiator defy orders and depart for \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Mountain by helicopter.\n\n| 01/04/1973\n| 01:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 09:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 17:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION.\n\nApril 2, 1973:\n\n| 02/04/1973\n| 01:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 09:30PST\nNO TRANSMISSION\n| 17:30PST\nTurner's gone.\n\nNo further transmissions are received.\nApril 5, 1973: Foundation and US forces withdraw from SCP-5177. Overall casualties include 1 KIA, 7 injured. Containment is enacted.\nAddendum 5177-41: Containment Updates\nOn November 2, 1984, Foundation occultists recommended the current containment procedures. Through HERA liaison, Portland UIU negotiator James Turner asked to be present during the enactment of the remembrance ritual. Based on the suggestion of occult containment specialists, his request was granted.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Any memory more than ~30 seconds in duration.\n2. These transmissions were later determined to be repeating and heavily out-of-date.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5176 | SCP-5177 | SCP-5178 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5178\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nPhoto of SCP-5178 during recovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5178 is to be contained at Site-88 in a soundproof, humanoid containment cell installed with recording equipment. A transcription and cognitohazard filtration program should be running simultaneously to document live broadcasts while removing hazards. These transcripts are to be reviewed daily by assigned research staff. All requests for direct audio files should be given to Head Researcher Dr. Nick Copper.\nDuring periods of musical interludes, SCP-5178's vitals are to be checked and its containment cell cleaned when necessary. Any noticeable change in SCP-5178's vitals or behavior must be reported to assigned research staff or an on-site supervisor.\nAny staff who have been exposed to POI-7134's live or recorded audio broadcast between 06/20/2020 (Incident-5178-1) and 08/07/2020 (Incident-5178-2) or know of someone who has shown a vested interest in POI-7134's ideology are to refer to Dr. Copper's email below.\nUPDATE: As of 09/18/2020 (Refer to Incident-5178-3), SCP-5178's containment class has been updated to Keter with the approval of the Classification Committee. Agents are currently investigating new instances of SCP-5178 for containment and for any information on POI-7134's whereabouts, including information on his recent radio broadcast sponsor. Containment procedures may change pending further updates.\nDescription: SCP-5178 is an elderly, Caucasian male speculated to be in his late sixties. SCP-5178's identity is unknown but has been referred to as \"Broadcast Station WYLI\" by POI-7134. SCP-5178 is in a constant semi-catatonic state, where he is unwilling and/or incapable of speaking and has rarely reacted to stimuli. SCP-5178's body heals from physical damage at an extremely fast rate, regenerating tissue and organs near instantly without scarring. This regeneration is speculated to be the reason why SCP-5178 does not possess the need to eat or sleep. SCP-5178's only behavioral trait is his preference to sit in one location with his abdomen exposed to project radio broadcasts.\nProtruding from SCP-5178's abdomen is a Philips brand radio with technology constructed around the late 90s. The skin around the radio appears to have been charred and inflamed by the alteration, which is inconsistent with SCP-5178's regeneration. The radio is fully functional and SCP-5178 shows no signs of discomfort from its presence or usage, but any attempt to interact with it, including turning off the radio, is corrected by SCP-5178.\nThe only transmission receivable through SCP-5178 is a talk show entitled \"Eat The Sun with Seth Uhar\" regardless of what frequency the radio is set to. Seth Uhar, classified as POI-7134, and his recording studio's location are untraceable. Whether or not POI-7134 is human is unknown, but he has claimed several times to be from a society \"several steps ahead\" of ours. POI-7134's voice resembles an English-speaking human male in his late 20s and speaks with an American accent.\nPOI-7134's radio show is hosted live and uninterrupted, consisting of segments where he shares his belief that human society ought to detach itself from all systems and beliefs that glorify the sun as opposed to viewing it as a replaceable resource, frequently suggesting it will cause an apocalyptic event if action is not taken soon. POI-7134 also occasionally refers to an individual named \"Ule\" who is never heard speaking but is believed to be present in all live recordings. \u201cUle's\" main role on the show is unknown but POI-7134's comments suggest it to be essential. No other information is currently known about \"Ule\".\nIn between live segments are musical breaks consisting of songs relating in either title or lyrics to the sun, which are then played at various playback speeds.1 It has been suggested based on comments from POI-7134 that this is done to stay in sync with our \u201ctemporal continuum.\u201d Typical programming between musical breaks consists of the following:2\n\nMonologues where POI-7134 talks to the audience about his \"anti-solarist\" ideology. A majority of the information the Foundation has gained on POI-7134 comes from these segments.\nSkits entitled \"Sunless Days\" about two humans living in a society without the sun and all the technological feats they are capable of. POI-7134's portrayal of the human characters showcases his loose grasp of human customs and terminology.\nA segment entitled \"SOL-less Conversations\" involving interviews between POI-7134 and guests of a supposed otherworldly/paranormal nature, consistently discussing the benefits of removing their respective sun. So far, none of the guests has been able to speak any recognizable form of language.\nRequests for listeners to call in with questions. No phone number is provided, yet POI-7134 advertises this segment frequently. This includes requests for sponsorship.\n\n+ Recovery Report\n\n- Recovery Report\n\nRecovery Report\n\nSCP-5178 was discovered on 04/17/2020, in Lake Wylie, SC, living in a homeless camp in an undeveloped, heavily forested area after reports came into the local Police Department regarding a mutilated homeless man with a radio sticking out of his stomach. Foundation agents embedded in the local law enforcement took over the investigation soon after.\nAgent Arnold Castor was first on the scene at 05:34 PM, reporting that several of the other homeless locals had gathered around SCP-5178, who was wearing a Burger King paper crown at the time. Another camp resident admitted to placing the crown on SCP-5178 to see how he reacted, and he reportedly did nothing in response. Residents present could not say exactly when SCP-5178 first arrived at the camp but most confirmed the first radio broadcast occurred around 08:30 AM.\nKeith Sturges, a resident at the camp, stated, \u201cI woke up around 5 and he was already there, sitting on that stump. We didn't bother him at first; you get a lot of guys in a bad spot showing up and normally we respect them enough to leave them be. A few hours after Wojack, the ass, put that crown on his head\u2026That's when he opened his shirt and began to play that nutty show. At first, we freaked out. After the shock faded away, we thought it was a prank, but then we\u2026just kind of accepted it the longer he kept going. It was free entertainment, as strange as the subject was, so we didn't complain.\u201d\nOnce Agent Castor confirmed the anomalous state of the man's condition and the content of the radio broadcasts, he reported his findings and had SCP-5178 transported to Site-88 for further testing. All individuals present at the homeless camp and all of the police officers involved were given class-C amnestics. All mentions of SCP-5178 were removed from local law enforcement records. Dr. Copper was assigned to SCP-5178 as head researcher, and recordings of POI-7134's radio show began on 04/19/2020 after initial testing showed no harmful effects from the broadcast. While SCP-5178's containment proved simple, due to the possibility that his semi-catatonic state may lessen over time, he was classified as Euclid.\n\n+ Selected Transcripts\n\n- Selected Transcripts\n\nTranscript-#0001\nTranscript-#0029\nTranscript-#0234\n\nTranscript-#0001 for 04/19/2020 from 08:01 AM to 08:06 AM\n\n[\"California Sun\" by The Ramones at 0.5x playback speed fades out. Intro song plays.]\nPOI-7134: Welcome back, my human folks and friends. That was\u2026\"California Sun\", by The Ramones.\nSo, it's currently a time dictated by an inaccurate ball of dirt orbiting a titan of uncaring flames, and it is currently a temperature that you have no direct control over without breaking your own darn sky.\nI'm your host, Seth Uhar, as always.\nI wanted\u2026to take time out to explain, as I regularly must do, the message we here at \"Eat The Sun with Seth Uhar\" hold as gospel.\n\"Eat The Sun.\"\nNo, of course, I don't mean literally. If you could eat the sun, it would have nothing nutritional for you at this stage in your evolution, and I wouldn't feel the intense need to make this show for you all. I don't think any mortal, singular life-form can eat the sun, but a society of mortal, singular life-forms could swallow it whole. The sun is very nutritious for a growing, technologically-advanced society. It's filled with elements, minerals, and energy that could fuel your next octillion generations!\nBut why won't you?\nBecause you fell into the trap that so many do. Like star-crossed insects\u2026slamming into light bulbs, you mistake the sun as the logical thing to orientate your society on when it should NOT be like that at all!\nDo you know what your sun is actually like?! Do you know what your sun has actually done?! Do you know what your sun could actually do to you?! NO!\nOh, but what about our mythical cultures and gods? Like poor Helios? What will he and Surya do? And what would Ra, or Osiris, or\u2026whatever he is, think?\n[POI-7134 slams loudly on a desk.]\nPOI-7134: WELL, WHAT ABOUT YOUR EYES? YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT THE SUN WITH YOUR EYES! COME ON! It's obvious!\nBefore your minds could even conceive of stealing the flames from your supposed Olympus, your eyes were screaming the truth to you all along. That it is a harmful, bright blight, too dangerous to even gaze upon from the safety of your caves and treetops! The sun is a convenience to you right now, a teat that humanity must wrestle its puckered lips from.\nIf you don't\u2026well, if I'm not mistaken, is it not common among humans to cast derision on those who refuse to drop infantile habits?\nAm I wrong? I don't think I am.\n[POI-7134 sighs heavily.]\nPOI-7134: Forget what you think is part of the true natural order and take that first step into a new dimension of thought; sunless, without burning eyes\u2026alongside me.\nYou are capable of so, so much more, I know it.\nYou know it.\nTHE SUN KNOWS IT.\nIT WILL FEAR THAT TRUTH SHOULD YOU EMBRACE IT! SO EMBRACE IT!\nEAT THE SUN!\nEAT IT!\nEAT IIIIIIT!\n[POI-7134 takes several breaths before clearing his throat.]\nPOI-7134: Thank you for listening. Now, we take you to Smash Mouth with\u2026 \u201cWalkin' On The Sun.\u201d\n[Background music fades out. \"Walkin' On The Sun\" plays at 2.15x speed.]\n\nTranscript-#0029 for 04/21/2020 from 01:07 AM to 01:10 AM\n\n(Text has been colored to indicate the character POI-7134 is portraying in the skit.)\n[\"Steal My Sunshine\" by Len at 1.1x playback speed fades out. Intro song plays.]\nPOI-7134: It's another day\u2026another one of those beautiful\u2026\"Sunless Days.\"\n[Music fades into the background.]\nPOI-7134 (in a deep voice): Ahhh\u2026another great 4 hours of sleep, just how I like it!\n[POI-7134 imitates a yawn.]\nPOI-7134 (in a deep voice): Time to head to work.\n[Soundclip of footsteps plays followed by a soundclip of a door opening.]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): Hi dearie! I just finished my shift at the Hydrogen Plant and dinner is ready!\nOh! I guess for you I should be saying\u2026breakfast is ready!\n[Soundclip of an audience laugh track plays.]\nPOI-7134 (in a deep voice): That's great! What was the sky like for you today?\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): Mmmmm\u2026Well, the weather government said they scheduled for this chrono-unit to be clear skies! So, I went with a quasi-blue and pink, floral sky.\nWith my reminders posted on all the clouds. The usual!\n[POI-7134 imitates a high-pitched laugh]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): What about my honey? What custom sky are you choosing for your day at the\u2026\n[Sounds of papers being moved.]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice):\u2026Solar Hunting Business?\nPOI-7134 (in a deep voice): Yes! Well, you know me! Just a regular blue sky for me!\nI guess I'm old-fashioned like that, but I did install a visualizer for when I play music.\nHelps me focus my\u2026 mind on my Solar Hunting Business\u2026bounties?\nYes! Bounties! And I can adjust the brightness too. Look!\n[Soundclip of footsteps plays.]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): But dearie, we have personalized skies! How can you change my sky preferences\u2026wait!\n[Soundclip of a plane flying plays.]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): It looks like there's a message in the sky.\nWill you\u2026engage to me!? OH DEARIE! I WILL!\nPOI-7134 (in a deep voice): Thanks, my dear honey! None of this would have been possible\u2026\nWith the sun\u2026I love you, honey!\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): I love you also dearie!\n[Soundclip of kissing plays along with an audience awing. Outro music begins playing]\nPOI-7134: That was just a glimpse of what your tomorrow could look like.\nLook forward to more future\u2026\"Sunless Days.\"\nNow\u2026let's enjoy \"Brighter Than Sunshine\" by the band Aqualung.\n[\"Brighter Than Sunshine\" by Aqualung at 0.5x playback speed fades in.]\n\nTranscript-#0234 for 05/02/2020 from 03:47 PM to 03:51 PM\n\n[\"Sun King\" by The Beatles at 3.0x playback speed fades out. Intro song plays.]\nPOI-7134: Welcome back! Right now, it's time for our next segment, \"SOL-less Conversations!\" Where I interview celebrities from all across existence to talk about their experience with going SOL-less, as I like to call it.\nAs of this moment, I have, in our very own studio, a very special guest. Please welcome\u2026\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588!\n(Note: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is believed to be related to an on-going investigation into SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and thus has been censored to avoid any possible anomalous cross-contamination.)\n[Soundclip of an audience clapping plays along with POI-7134's clapping. A muted gurgle and what sounds like something heavy rolling across the ground can be heard approaching the microphone.]\nPOI-7134: It's great to have you here \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. You have quite the history of helping rising life-forms exist without their suns, and I do want to get into that in a moment.\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: [Sounds of something possibly organic opening. A loud gurgle can be heard for 9 seconds, followed by several small gasps for air for 7 seconds afterwards.]\nPOI-7134: Yes, yes, I know you've had a few controversies come up within this epoch, and I don't like getting into drama so we won't discuss that topic.\nI would just like to warn you that our audience h-\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: [Begins babbling incoherently for 5 seconds, accompanied by a rising gurgling in the background for 1.5 seconds. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is cut-off by a censorship tone lasting for 3 seconds.]\nPOI-7134: Whoaaa! Easy there\u2026hahaha\u2026we can't just be letting off cognito-bombs like that on live air\u2026\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2026 as I said, we'll be avoiding those topics.\nI know-\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: [Loud sounds of teeth-gnashing begin, as babbling starts for only a fraction of a second before a 5-second censorship tone is played.]\n[Sounds of someone grabbing the microphone to cover it are heard throughout the next section. Audio from POI-7134 is muffled slightly.]\nPOI-7134: WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME!? \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 YOU FU\u2026YOU KNOW THEY LISTEN TO THE SHOW NOW! RIGHT?! They're-(unintelligible)-now and you want to bring up old scars like this? I can't have you-(unintelligible)-just go.\nUle, get him out. Now\u2026\n[Muffling stops. A persistent, low growl can be heard in the background.]\nPOI-7134: Ha ha! Well, looks like that's all the time we have!\nI'd like to thank \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, but now we're going to go to \"Soak U-\"\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: [Growling grows to a deep rumble while several voices are heard gurgling and gasping for air for around 2.5 seconds, followed by what sounds like bones popping.]\n[Sounds of objects clattering to the floor are heard.]\nPOI-7134: SHERYL CROW\u2026NOW!\n[A censorship tone is played for 5 seconds before \"Soak Up The Sun\" by Sheryl Crow at 1.75x playback speed immediately cuts in without a fade in.]\n(Note: This broadcast is believed to be the first indirect reference to the SCP Foundation by POI-7134, suggesting he is aware of who is listening to his program to some extent.)\n\nAddendum-1\n\nIncident-5178-1: On 06/20/2020, Audio Analysis Specialist Ramiz Kola noted that POI-7134's overall audio quality had improved, though he was unable to discern exactly in what regard it had changed. Ramiz noted the improvement made him uncomfortably enthusiastic to continue listening. Over the following week, an increase to staff accessing SCP-5178's broadcasts spiked. Several members of on-site staff started showing positive feelings towards listening to the broadcast, promoting serious discussions regarding the feasibility of POI-7134's ideology and started engaging in behavior spurred by their desire to support and spread the show's influence. Researchers began testing the radio broadcast with D-Class subjects and discovered a minor compulsory anomalous effect was present within the audio. New containment procedures were then put in place by Dr. Copper to minimize further exposure to the program. Following this, a site-wide email was sent to all staff regarding the incident.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:SUBJECT\n\nTo: Site-88 Research Staff\nFrom: Dr. Nick Copper, Level 4 Head Researcher\nSubject: Regarding Staff and SCP-5178\n\nAll,\nIt has come to my attention that, as of June 6th, SCP-5178's broadcasts now contains a low-grade cognitohazard embedded in live and recorded audio, causing those under its effects increased enjoyment and a compulsion to continue listening to the program. It has also come to our attention that several members of staff accessed SCP-5178's audio files without permission during this period and are now under the effects of this cognitohazard.\nThankfully, the anomaly is not spreadable outside of SCP-5178's broadcasts and the effects should fade within the month. Containment procedures have been updated to stop any further spread of the anomaly. Staff afflicted by the cognitohazard, including myself, will be given a psychological analysis by an on-site psychologist within the following weeks.\nHowever, recent decisions made by some of those researchers can not be excused by this anomaly, and what we need from you is to show a little self-control, even if you feel you are under the effects of a cognitohazard.\nThe following actions are not a symptom of SCP-5178's cognitohazard:\n\nAccessing SCP-756 to destroy their sun in order to \"See what happens.\"\nWearing sunglasses and sunscreen while inside and during inappropriate situations.\nClosing all the blinds in the facility.\nExcessive consumption of sunflower seeds.\nSunflower seed shells not being properly disposed of.\nSharing images, videos, and memes relating to SCP-5178 on site-wide work chatrooms.\nSending distressing messages to SCP-179 or SCP-2499 relating to the sun.\nAccessing files relating to SCP-037, SCP-4074, or SCP-2995 without a work-related reason.\nAny over usage of the sun with face emoji (\ud83c\udf1e.)\n\nAll individuals responsible for these actions have been appropriately reprimanded and anyone else caught engaging in these or similar behaviors going forward may also be equally punished. Proper discussions of SCP-5178 and POI-7134's ideology will be put on hold for 3 months until we can confirm the cognitohazard's effects have faded. Until then, I ask that you be patient and that you show some professionalism in the workplace in spite of any perceived anomalies, not abandon common sense at the first sign of symptoms.\nThank you,\nDr. Nick H. Copper\n\nAddendum-2\n\nUpdate: On 07/27/2020, Junior Researcher Jaquita Carson began noticing long stretches of dead-air on the transcription logs between songs and live segments. POI-7134's tone of voice became significantly more downtrodden, and an overall lack of composure became increasingly apparent as it resulted in frequent on-air emotional outbursts (See Incident Related Transcripts.) This resulted in a drop in the number of live segments featured daily3 and long stretches where a single song was looped repeatedly before going to the next song.\n\n+ Incident Related Transcripts\n\n- Incident Related Transcripts\n\nTranscript-#1578\nTranscript-#1652\nTranscript-#1699\n\nTranscript-#1578 for 07/27/2020 from 12:04 PM to 12:08 PM\n\n[\"Black Hole Sun\" by Soundgarden at 1.25x playback speed fades out. Intro song plays.]\nPOI-7134: \u2026Well\u2026(Sighs)\u2026it's another day\u2026another\u2026y'know\u2026\nOne of those \"Sunless Days,\" or whatever.\n[Music fades into the background.]\nPOI-7134 (in a slightly deep voice): Oh what a great day without the sun.\nLove it.\nGlad it's gone.\nWhoo-hoo\u2026\n[POI-7134 sighs and stays silent for 10 seconds.]\nPOI-7134: You know\u2026\nI'm..so\u2026glad that someone got it done.\nI mean, I don't know who it was who did it.\nMaybe a super-secret organization protecting us from the shadows was behind it.\nPOI-7134: Yeah- (Coughs, deepens pitch) YEAH. That kind of organization would have the funds, research, resources, personnel, expertise, and authority to get rid of that pesky fireball for us. I'd be so glad if that were the case.\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): So true! Only the smartest people would work there! That's the only way they could have figured it out!\nI mean\u2026we have our history data logs\u2026 but it's likely this cool, badass group would be the only ones to know the truth, right?\nPOI-7134 (in a deep voice): Especially if they lock up all\u2026like\u2026the weird stuff and people in the world.\nThey would have noooo excuse not to know the sun was bad! At all. Seriously.\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): Yeah, for sure.\nIt would be stupid of these hidden heroes not to act on that info.\nIf they were behind it.\n\u2026\n[POI-7134 waits 4 seconds before clearing his throat, but is cut off by a stinger played by a theremin.]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): Thanks-AHEM!\nIf these\u2026fabled mavericks of safety didn't jump on it\u2026why, someone else could've beaten them to the punch.\n[POI-7134 sighs.]\nPOI-7134 (in a high voice): I sure hope it was the\u2026Secretive Controlling Party who did it. I'M SURE we can trust they weren't too slow to not be the ones behind our SUNLESS DAYS! Of course we can\u2026\nOr can we?\n[A sound clip of a thunderbolt and stinger instrumental piece plays. Outro music begins playing]\nPOI-7134: Can we? Gee\u2026I sure hope so. I suuuure hope so.\nAnyways, that was \"Sunless Days.\"\nHere's Soundgarden again.\n[POI-7134 can be heard sighing as the outro song fades out. \"Black Hole Sun\" by Soundgarden at 1.25x playback speed begins.]\n\nTranscript-#1652 for 08/07/2020 from 07:30 PM to 07:33 PM\n\n[\"People Of The Sun\" by Rage Against The Machine at 0.5x playback speed fades out. Intro song plays.]\nPOI-7134: Well\u2026hello\u2026every\u2026one.\nI would say that I have a special guest with us on \"SOL-less Conversations\"\u2026a multi-ego group that comes from the esteemed Manozoan plane\u2026\n\u2026But I cannot. Want to know why?\nThey bailed.\nSaid that our influencing wavelengths were too low to accommodate.\nGEE! I WONDER WHY!?\n[Sounds of hands hitting a table repeatedly.]\nPOI-7134: I!\nWONDER!\nWHY!\n[POI-7134 groans until it becomes a sudden shout. Sounds of papers being thrown can be heard]\nPOI-7134: Would it help that I'm SORRY!? Okay? About the engagement amp\u2026\n(Note: Assumed to be referring to Incident-5178-1)\nPOI-7134: I didn't make it that strong, I just wanted you to pay attention!\nDo you think I do this as a game? A joke? A universal oddity to be scoffed and stuffed away?\nWhat do I have to do for you to stop analyzing and just pay attention?!\nDAMMIT!\n[Sound of a loud thud.]\nPOI-7134: The! Sun! Must! Be! Eaten! I can't stress how serious I am!\nLISTEN! I'm not familiar with your time continuum! It's weird and linear and I'm just not used to that!\nI don't know how long it will take, or how long you have, or how much time I'm wasting here\u2026but I know that time is running out with every word I STRAIN to utter. So you need to trust me!\nI know that's hard for you\u2026\nLook, I'll turn it off. Hold on\u2026\n[Sounds of POI-7134 getting up.]\nPOI-7134 (In the distance): ULE! Help me-(unintelligible)-off this mistake\u2026never should have listened to (unintelligible)\u2026is this it? What? No\u2026\nI heard! (unintelligible)-said it was this one, right? Which quad-(unintelligible)-angle does this switch need to be p-\n(See Incident-5178-2)\n\nTranscript-#1699 for 08/17/2020 from 08:11 PM to 08:22 PM\n\n[\"Sunshine Of Your Love\" by Cream at 1.15x playback speed fades out. 1 minute of silence follows.]\n[POI-7134 is heard muffling a sob before sniffling.]\nPOI-7134: Why?\nWhy don't you get it?\n[More sniffling is heard]\nPOI-7134: Is it the animals\u2026the plants? Are you worried about them? You should be beyond that thinking\u2026but you aren't like that\u2026are you?\n[Silence for 5 seconds]\nPOI-7134: Am I too early?\nNo\u2026No, I don't think I'm too late\u2026I couldn't be\u2026\nI can't tell anymore! I CAN'T TELL ANY FU-\n[POI-7134 slams on something, followed by a censor tone.]\nPOI-7134: Oww\u2026t-thank you Ule\u2026you've always got my back\u2026\nA-a-and WYLI? I'm sorry I couldn't warn them\u2026t-that I couldn't keep our promise\u2026but you've done a fantastic job regardless\u2026\n(Note: SCP-5178, for the first time, appeared to smile on surveillance footage. Staff later reported during cleaning that SCP-5178's cheeks were wet, but had returned to being expressionless.)\nPOI-7134: And to you listeners\u2026or I guess I should say readers\u2026my most valuable and dedicated readers\u2026\nRamiz\u2026Jaquita\u2026Arnold\u2026Kipp\u2026and especially you, Nick.\n(Note: All the names referred to in this section match the names of the research staff assigned to SCP-5178's audio recordings/transcripts.)\nI wish you understood\u2026that out here\u2026some of us are rooting for you.\nWe want you to succeed.\nBut there are traps\u2026unfair conditions ahead. If you aren't careful\u2026I don't\u2026\n[POI-7134 audibly sobs for 1 minute.]\nPOI-7134: PLEASE! Let my broadcast station go! Let my message reach someone who can do something! If you can't\u2026\nThen do something yourself! Anything!\nI thought\u2026I thought I could get through to you\u2026that you would see the truth.\nThe sun\u2026the sun\u2026is the only guaranteed death waiting for you\u2026if you continue to stall\u2026\nI've seen so many fail to escape the worship of their star. Time and again, it foils the lives of trillions who desire the embrace of other heavenly bodies, to witness other possible worlds and races\u2026\nA jealous lover enjoying its toxic lordship over their system, over you, and the sun will burn it all to dust when it can no longer exist\u2026that is if it doesn't swallow you whole instead. It isn't fair\u2026\n[POI-7134 sniffs and sighs heavily enough to peak the audio.]\nPOI-7134: You know\u2026the moment I heard your voices and songs echo throughout the cosmos\u2026the joyous first step humanity unknowingly took into the wider universe\u2026the happiness it brought to open ears lightyears and centuries away from Earth\u2026\nI had to protect you from that fate. I'm not as good as you at this\u2026I'm no Art\u2026no Noory\u2026not even close to Kasem\u2026but it's what I loved most about you. Your words. Their power. Even though\u2026\n[POI-7134 sighs and remains silent for 2 minutes.]\nPOI-7134: Nevermind\u2026here's Smash Mouth with \"Walkin' On The Sun\" until I figure some stuff out. For now\u2026just do whatever you want. I don't care.\n[POI-7134 can be heard getting up from his chair when \"Walkin' On The Sun\" by Smash Mouth at regular speed begins playing.]\n(Note: After this monologue, the radio broadcast continued to loop the song at its regular speed. No further live segments or advertisements from POI-7134 played for 1 month until Incident-5178-3.)\n\n+ Incident-5178-2\n\n- Incident-5178-2\n\nIncident-5178-2\n\nOn 08/07/2020 at 12:34 PM, SCP-5178 suddenly emitted a series of unidentified noises, recorded at a maximum of 110dB. The sounds were recognized as cognitohazards by the transcription and filtering program before engaging in an emergency shut-down to prevent further damage to the recorded data. This lasted for 10 seconds before the noises ceased. The soundproofing within the containment cell was able to dampen the noise enough to cancel out the broadcast's cognitohazards before they could affect staff. However, Kevin Fowler, a class-E staff member who was emptying trashcans near to SCP-5178's cell during the incident, reported that afterwards his teeth started to hurt when exposed to direct sunlight. Investigations into this side-effect are currently pending until further testing is approved.\nSCP-5178 was recovered at 12:37 PM from his cell, unharmed by the event.4 It is unknown what POI-7134 broadcasted immediately after the incident. By the time a response team arrived at the containment cell, POI-7134 was repeating the phrase \"I'm sorry Kevin\" for approximately 5 minutes straight before playing \"Sunshine Of Your Love\" by Cream at 0.5x playback speed and resuming his previous broadcasting schedule. The anomalous compulsive effect was no longer present in further live and recorded audio after this event. Following SCP-5178's containment cell being repaired, containment procedures remained the same until Incident-5178-3.\n\n+ Transcript-#1700\n\n- Transcript-#1700\n\nTranscript-#1700 for 09/17/2020 from 05:15 PM to 05:17 PM\n\n[\"Walkin' On The Sun\" abruptly stops before a triumphant jingle plays.]\nPOI-7134: Helloooooo humanity!\nI am proud to announce that after our brief hiatus, \"Eat The Sun with Seth Uhar\" now has a sponsor! Hooray!\n[Soundclip of an audience clapping plays.]\nPOI-7134: YES! Now, they're the shy type, so I can't say who they are just yet, but rest assured that with our recent partnership, we can now expand the reach of \"Eat The Sun with Seth Uhar!\"\nThat's right! We've acquired several new broadcasting stations, including WIKT, WJCK, KYLY, WHTE, KEVN, and many more to come!\n[Soundclip of an audience clapping plays, including what sounds like a sports stadium crowd cheering.]\nPOI-7134: Look forward to several new segments and guest stars\u2026oops, I mean anti-stars.\nAm I right?\n[Soundclip of an audience laugh track plays.]\nPOI-7134: We'll be coming back with all new programing starting\u2026hmmm\u2026pretty soon! Stay tuned to WYLI and our other stations for more info.\nFor now, I'd like to tell my dedicated audience for the past several months\u2026thank you. Thank you for your unseen support.\nBut\u2026I think it's time we move on and meet other people.\n[Soundclip of an audience reacting sadly plays.]\nPOI-7134: I know. It's not you, it's me.\nThe honest truth is\u2026I've met someone who believes in my message and was eager to help! Especially once they learned that you were the ones stifling u- I mean, supporting us for so long.\nAnd they've shown they plan on actually listening to what we say instead of reading. If you catch my drift!\n[Soundclip of an audience wooing plays. POI-7134 can be heard laughing.]\nPOI-7134: Ha ha! I'm mostly kidding. No hard feelings, okay?\nI do hope you all keep listening or reading or whatever, but you can no longer silence my message for your masses.\nI promise to keep the engagement amp off, but I'll never stay quiet.\nI'm Seth Uhar.\n\"Eat The Sun\" you bastards.\n[Soundclip of an audience cheering plays.]\nPOI-7134: We'll be back soon\u2026so here's Yello with\u2026 \"Oh Yeah.\"\n[Sounds of audience applause fade out. \"Oh Yeah\" by Yello at 0.25 playback speed begins playing.]\n\n+ Incident-5178-3\n\n- Incident-5178-3\n\nIncident-5178-3\n\nOn 09/17/2020, the Site-88 director was informed of several alerts from national parks and Foundation outposts across the U.S. and Canada. Several civilians, park rangers, and agents reported distant sounds confirmed to be Yello's \"Oh Yeah\" playing at high volume from within various forests and undeveloped areas. This occurred immediately after POI-7134 made a sudden announcement (See Transcript-#1700,) at exactly 05:17 PM GST while SCP-5178 was broadcasting the same song. According to all reports, the sound lasted for approximately 4 minutes before fading out. The source of the music was never located in all instances. POI-7134 has returned to his normally shuffled playlist during musical breaks but has not yet returned to do any hosted segments as of 10/\u2588\u2588/2020.\nAround the same time, at approximately 05:20 PM, Kevin Fowler (See Incident-5178-2) also went missing from Foundation custody, having disappeared after notifying guards that his teeth were, \"changing into something plastic.\" Security staff reported the surveillance footage of Kevin's cell was distorted while the on-duty guard went to radio for assistance. The distortion continued until 05:22 PM, showing that Kevin had vanished from his cell. On-site investigators found no trace of Kevin but did discover traces of soot and sulfur marking the cell walls where he was standing. They also discovered a plastic knob attached to an AM/FM switch, similar in design to the one on SCP-5178's radio, covered in a mix of saliva and blood which was a 98% match to Kevin's DNA. Investigating agents believe this incident is related to SCP-5178 and was carried out by their recent sponsor. Agents are currently following any leads on this unidentified GOI.\nDr. Copper submitted a request to the Containment Committee for SCP-5178 to be reclassified to Keter status, based on evidence that multiple uncontained instances now exist and have the capability to broadcast cognitohazards to multiple civilians at any time. The request was approved on 09/18/2020.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The most frequently played songs are \"Soak Up The Sun\" by Sheryl Crow at 1.75x playback speed, \"Sunshine Of Your Love\" by Cream at 0.5x playback speed, and \"Walkin' On The Sun\" by Smash Mouth at various playback speeds.\n2. Programming does not follow a standard 24-hour schedule and so segments have no set time-frame, occurring randomly at an average rate of 16-18 times per day.\n3. From an average of 16-18 segments per day to around 8.\n4. Investigations into the extent of SCP-5178's regeneration abilities are pending approval from the Ethics Committee.\n\n+ Addendum-3: WARNING LEVEL 4/5178 CLASSIFIED\n\n- Addendum-3: WARNING LEVEL 4/5178 CLASSIFIED\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/5178 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/5178 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\nAddendum-3\nFOREWORD: Information that has been censored is to be provided for O5 and Level 4 Staff at a later date after investigations are complete. Speculation on the part of the author is potentially hazardous to spread to multiple people until the threat has been fully identified and will be uncensored when it has been found safe for perceptual recognition.\n\nUpdate: As of 12/13/2020, broadcasts have returned to their normal structure with expanded hosted segments, ad spaces for non-existent products and services, and listener requested songs. Only one individual has been heard live on-air making a request and notably had a hoarse and raspy voice resembling [DATA EXPUNGED]. Musical requests do not seem to follow the same sun-based theme as previous chosen songs, but do feature variations on their playback speed. The symbolism and meaning behind these requests is believed to be related to the GOI currently sponsoring POI-7134 and [DATA EXPUNGED].\nFurther updates are pending. As of 2/5/2021 SCP-5178's research team has not been responding to communications and are subsequently under investigation for treasonous acts against the Foundation. SCP-5178 has been placed under temporary management of the Site-Director for Site-88, Dr. A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, until Dr. Nick Copper, Dr. Jaquita Carson, Dr. Ramiz Kola, and Agent Arnold Castor can be located and brought in for questioning. To prevent unnecessary complications amongst coworkers and associates of the former SCP-5178 team members, the original article authored by Dr. Copper will remain available to lower level staff, but all other staff members should remain aware the previous information on SCP-5178 and POI-7134 stated in the article is to be assumed void of authenticity until further reviews can be done.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5177 | SCP-5178 | SCP-5179 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5180\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Relevant authorities surrounding wildlife areas and sites of archaeological significance are to be monitored for mentions of any phenomena resembling an SCP-5180 event. Explanations for SCP-5180 events are to be determined by appointed operatives based on the circumstances surrounding the incident. Class-A Amnestics are authorized to be used on all parties involved in the containment of SCP-5180 events. Research on how to detect SCP-5180 events as they happen is currently being conducted.\nInstances of SCP-5180-A are to be captured and brought to the nearest available site. SCP-5180 events are to be monitored by appointed operatives until all instances of SCP-5180-A are no longer present and the SCP-5180 event has concluded. If instances of SCP-5180-A are observed to engage in behaviour that may be deemed suspicious or potentially dangerous, appointed operatives have authorization to contain or terminate SCP-5180-A instances immediately.\nInstances of SCP-5180-A currently in Foundation custody are to be met with the same accommodations that a non anomalous member of their species would require.1 Living accommodations of the subject may be improved upon request as a reward for cooperative behaviour. All interactions between Foundation Personnel and instances of SCP-5180-A must first be authorized by Dr. Greene, head of SCP-5180 research.\nDescription: SCP-5180 is a designation assigned to a repeating space-time phenomenon involving trans-dimensional sapient beings appearing in areas of ecological and archaeological significance. These events occur sporadically and have been observed to last anywhere from a few hours to several days. 126 individual anomalies have been observed between \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2012 and the time of writing this document.\nSCP-5180-A is a designation given to the organisms that appear during SCP-5180 events. The organisms are typically evolutionary relatives/derivatives of known organisms possessing human-level intelligence and technology. SCP-5180-A instances have proven to be elusive and will immediately vanish when they acknowledge that they have been observed by Foundation Personnel and presumably, by any other human. This \u201cvanishing\u201d is near instantaneous and the devices used to accomplish this differ in make and operation between members of different SCP-5180-A species. Research of the phenomenon and examination of devices used by SCP-5180-A instances show that the devices transport matter between alternate versions of reality. These alternate versions of reality are assumed to be where instances of SCP-5180-A originated.2\nFoundation operatives have managed to secure a total of 7 individual instances of SCP-5180-A captured from 3 separate SCP-5180 space-time anomalies. Attempts of communication with instances of SCP-5180-A have been successful and information regarding their origin and nature of their visits have been consistent across interviews.\n\nShow Contained SCP-5180-A Instances\n\nHide Contained SCP-5180-A Instances\n\nIncident Description\nDescription of Species\nDevices Present on Organism(s)\n\n1 of 4 dolphin-like creatures was captured at the mouth of the Amazon River and Atlantic Ocean by Foundation operatives stationed in the area to pursue unrelated marine anomalies. The subject is currently housed at Site-28's aquatic anomaly unit.\nAn organism superficially resembling a river dolphin with greenish-grey/white counter-shading and binocular vision. The organism measures approximately 1.4 m in length and weighs approximately 77 kg. The organism possesses a flexible, prehensile tongue roughly 0.65 m in length which is used by the organism as a manipulator akin to a cephalopod's tentacle. The tongue is folded in the organism's mouth when not in use. DNA analysis shows its closest living relative to be Inia geoffrensis.\n1) A Cylindrical metal object with an electronic glass display showing symbols of an unknown origin. The device was revealed through testing to be a pH reader. 2) A black, plastic half-sphere with interior metal components. The device can extract oxygen from water and convert it to a gaseous form. It was found attached to the blowhole of the organism. 3) A green plastic button attached to a metal platform secured to the organism's abdomen by a plastic strap. Pressing the button causes any object touching the device as well as the device itself to be instantly transported to an unknown location.\n\n5 of 9 avian anomalies were seized in Yellowstone National Park after park rangers alerted local authorities of anomalous animal behaviour. The event was silenced without incident. All captured instances are currently held in Site-49's animal anomaly centre.\n1) An organism superficially resembling a magpie in size and appearance with a coat of black feathers and a blue head crest. DNA comparison shows the organism to be a derived member of the family Corvidae. 2) 3 members of an unknown species of parrot. 2 individuals, the males, have bright orange plumage while the female is a dull grayish-brown in colour. All 3 organisms are approximately the size of a macaw and possess the ability to speak. The parrots communicate to each other in using an unknown form of verbal language. The other 2 SCP-5180-A instances the parrots were captured with appear to be familiar with this language. 3) An organism roughly 1.3 m long and weighing approximately 31 Kg possessing a coat of shaggy, brown feathers. The organism resembles a highly derived Troodontid dinosaur. One of the fingers on each of its hands is positioned opposite to the other 2 like a primate's thumb.\n1) All captured instances possessed a small metallic lever strapped to the inside of the left wing with a leather strap and metal buckle. Testing has shown the devices to be transporters like those observed with other SCP-5180-A instances. 2) The SCP-5180-A instances were recording observations of their surroundings on a single electronic device. The device is comprised of a square glass screen mounted on a metal triangle with several buttons and dials running down either side. The inner components are currently being studied, but they appear to be similar in form and function to a computer processor. The interface displays symbols of an unknown origin. 3) The Corvid and Troodontid both possessed a small ceramic device with a single button that produced a clicking noise when pressed. This is believed to have been used for communication between the organisms in a method similar to Morse code.\n\nReports of a horse-sized cryptid from a South Vietnamese village were intercepted by Foundation operatives stationed in the region. The organism resisted traditional tranquilizers but was subdued with a net and brought to Site-16 via helicopter. The organism died for unknown reasons shortly thereafter. Following a lengthy and thorough autopsy, the remains of the organism were preserved and are currently stored in Site-16's Bio Unit.\nThe organism measured 2.8 m long and weighed 34 Kg. It did not resemble any organism known to exist at this or any time. It had a long, cylindrical, bilaterally symmetrical body supported by a cartilaginous skeleton with 6 trunk-like legs on either side. The legs were moved using hydraulics as a green liquid analogous to blood was pumped in and out of them by several heart-like organs, forcing them to contract and expand. The organism possessed a round head with 2 forward facing eyes and a cluster of 5 simple eyes positioned at the top of the head. The organism's mouth was attached to a long stalk extending down from the head to the ground. The mouth contained several dozen small tentacle-like \u201cteeth\u201d which the organism used to interact with its environment. The digestive tract lacked distinct organs and consisted of a tube folded in on itself several dozen times. Small fungal organisms lined the tract, presumably to aid in digestion. Respiration occurred through small pores in the skin lining the organism's back. The brain of the organism was very sophisticated, surpassing most higher primates in structural complexity. DNA analysis confirms that the organism evolved on earth, but little else is known of its origin.\n1) A 2 mm thick, black, mat-like surface containing many small pores and tubes was found laid over the organism's back. The technology appears to be organic in nature but is not alive. Due to its position over the breathing holes of the organism, it is believed to be a respirator of some kind.3 2) A damaged metal cube with a blue crystal half-sphere on one of its surfaces was found in the organism's mouth. This device is believed to be a transporter when rendered operational. 3) A steel rectangular prism filled with thin sheets of gold foil and copper wire spinning around several dozen steel axles. The purpose of this device is unknown, but it is hypothesized to be a way of recording information. The device was found fastened to the organism's head using an organic adhesive.\n\nAll captured SCP-5180-A instances apart from the instance that died shortly after its capture currently remain in foundation custody. Tests show all instances to be on par with or surpassing adolescent humans in intelligence. All subjects have been extremely cooperative with Foundation Personnel and attempts to teach forms of non-verbal communication with subjects physically incapable of speech have proven successful. Subjects usually acquire a comprehensive grasp of a language comprised of rhythmic clicks in a period of 6-8 months. Subjects capable of speech have displayed a remarkable aptitude for the English language, acquiring a level of proficiency one would expect from a native speaker in a period of only 4 months.\nInformation obtained from members of different SCP-5180-A species and between subsequent interviews of the same individuals have been largely consistent. Due to this consistency and the fact that instances of SCP-5180-A have been generally cooperative with staff, the information given by SCP-5180-A instances is assumed to be accurate at this time.\nAccording to SCP-5180-A instances a currently unknown number of alternate realities exist and travel between these realities is possible. Instances of SCP-5180-A originate from versions of reality where human-level intelligence developed in different species. There are allegedly 11 intelligent species from different realities currently known, 5 of which belong to what SCP-5180-A instances refer to as \u201ca trans-dimensional federation of intelligent species\u201d. SCP-5180-A instances are all self-proclaimed researchers collecting information with the goal of determining if humanity is to be included in this federation.\nThe following are all currently known intelligent species according to SCP-5180-A instances.\n\nShow List of Intelligent Species\n\nHide List of Intelligent Species\n\nSpecies\nDescription of Reality\nStatus\n\nThe Troodontids\nA version of reality where the K-PG mass extinction never occurred and dinosaurs remained the dominant life forms on earth. 10 million years ago, a clade of intelligent dinosaurs descended from troodontids living across the Eurasian Steppe evolved an opposable finger allowing them to develop tools. Their civilization was established approximately 500,000 years ago and their level of technology is several thousand years beyond humanity's. The Troodontids were the first species to develop trans-dimensional travel and, by all accounts, founded the Federation.\nIncluded in the Federation\n\nThe Corvids\nA version of reality in which crow-like animals developed stone tools in Eastern Asia approximately 4.5 million years ago. After developing intelligence akin to Homo Erectus, the Corvids managed to migrate around the world, eventually developing agriculture in the form of controlled insect colonies. Civilization developed approximately 50,000 years ago and technology currently exists at the industrial level.\nIncluded in the Federation\n\nThe Parrots\nExisting in the same reality as the Corvids, the Parrots developed stone tools 4 million years ago in the rain forests of South America. They developed civilization at around the same time as the Corvids whom they encountered upon migrating to the other continents. Much of the histories of both cultures are filled with conflict between the 2 species but as of recently coexistence and even cooperation has taken cultural precedence. Currently, the two civilizations are one and the same.\nIncluded in the Federation\n\nThe Dolphins\nA series of dramatic climate events 7 million years ago transformed much of South and Central America into a series of marshes and estuaries. A species of river dolphin developed a long, prehensile tongue to forge for food in the soft river sediment. The tongue was later used to create and manipulate tools which allowed the dolphins to adopt the niche of active pack-hunters. Vast underwater colonies spanning entire rivers developed approximately 55,000 years ago and a rapid advancement of culture and technology followed. Technology continued to advance in the absence of fire and metallurgy and the dolphins developed their own methods of trans-dimensional travel before adopting the technology of other Federation members.\nIncluded in the Federation\n\nThe Cambrionians\nA reality in which the factors which led to the Cambrian mass extinction never occurred. The strange and arcane body plans of the era became commonplace and evolution on Earth took a radically different turn. Eventually, a clade of apex pack hunters yielded an intelligent species approximately 850,000 years ago. Civilization developed approximately 100,000 years ago but advanced relatively slowly. The species developed a level of technology on par with modern humanity only 1,000 years ago.\nIncluded in the Federation\n\nThe Cephalopods\nFollowing the K-PG mass extinction a series of tectonic and climate events left Australia void of most animal life. A species of octopus developed a series of traits enabling it to live on land for extended periods. These traits included a quadrupedal gait4, a stiffened cirrate shell, less permeable skin, and breathing mechanisms analogous to lungs. The descendants of this species would adopt the vacant niches of the continent including that of communal hunters-gatherers. Civilization developed approximately 40,000 years ago. The species is currently technologically on par with modern humans, occupying every continent on the planet excluding Antarctica.\nUnder Consideration for Inclusion\n\nThe Elephants\nA reality in which a series of tectonic events led to the formation of an island roughly the size of Madagascar in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean 10 million years ago. A population of elephants on the island decreased radically in size to meet the reduced availability of resources. A dog-sized dwarf elephant species developed stone tools around 2 million years ago and civilization about 15,000 years ago. The elephants currently posses a level of technology equivalent to that of mid-bronze age humans and are yet to migrate from the island.\nUnder Consideration for Inclusion\n\nThe Suminians \u201cReptilian Monkeys\u201d\nA reality in which the events which led to the P-Tr mass extinction never occurred and the dominant animal forms of the period remained dominant. A genus of arboreal Synapsids known as Suminia underwent a series of evolutionary changes paralleling that of primates.5 9.3 million years ago, climate events like the ones which triggered human evolution in Africa triggered the evolution of bipedalism in the derived Suminians. Suminian civilization developed 25,000 years ago and their current level of technology is several centuries ahead of humanity. The Suminians have only recently been accepted into the federation and the process of their inclusion is ongoing.\nIn the Process of Integration into the Federation\n\nThe Pigs\nA reality in which an asteroid struck Earth 20 million years ago leading to the extinction of most large mammal lineages. One surviving lineage, a genus of small basal pigs underwent rapid adaptive radiation and filled many of the vacant niches of Eurasia and North America. One North American species specialized in storing food underground, a behaviour that when combined with the species' relatively high intelligence led to the invention of agriculture. Civilization gradually formed between 1.2 million and 600,000 years ago. The Pigs posses technology akin to that of ancient Mesoamericans and have diversified into numerous cultures and tribal groups, many of whom are at war. The Pigs have colonized most of the Western Hemisphere and are yet to leave the Americas.\nUnder Consideration for Inclusion\n\nThe Lizards\nA reality in which the Indian subcontinent exists separately from mainland Asia. Due to its immense size, the entire center of the continent is a dry desert where a clade of pack-hunting monitor lizards are the dominant predators. The lizards have developed spears from sharpened sticks and have a complex social hierarchy but are yet to experience technological or cultural advancements beyond this. Fossil evidence shows that the lizard species has existed for over a million years and are yet to enter a level of technology analogous to the stone age.\nStatus as Intelligent Species Debated\n\nThe Apes\nThe reality in which humanity exists.\nUnder Consideration for Inclusion\n\nAddendum:\n\nShow Interview Log-5180-3\n\nHide Interview Log-5180-3\n\nInterview Log-5180-3:\nThe following interview occurred between Dr. Greene and the female parrot instance of SCP-5180-A on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2016. The interview was the 3rd of 3 conducted that week. The prior two interviews centered primarily around the nature of SCP-5180 phenomena.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Greene: Hello, Anne6\nAnne: Hello, Doctor.\nDr. Greene: Last time we spoke, you mentioned the existence of a federation of intelligent species which evolved in other realities. I would like to ask you more about this federation.\nAnne: Yes, go ahead.\nDr. Greene: What is the main function of this federation? Why would a species want to join?\nAnne: Doctor, the collective species of the federation have discovered 309 alternate versions of Earth so far. 216 of these versions could theoretically support life. 84 of these versions have a thriving biosphere. 11 of these versions currently harbour intelligent life.\nDr. Greene: Yes, you've explained this already, it doesn't answer the question.\nAnne: Do you know how difficult interstellar travel is, Doctor?\nDr. Greene: Not particularly.\nAnne: We have found it to be very difficult.\nDr. Greene: What relevance does this have?\nAnne: There are a lot of resources available to be used right here at home. A lot of additional planets to house ever-growing populations. A lot of very useful technology waiting to be shared between species. As efforts continue, more worlds will be discovered. Based on our current estimates, the number of alternate earths may number in the tens of thousands.\nDr. Greene: Not infinite?\nAnne: Apparently not. Don't ask me, I'm a linguist and a biologist, not a physicist.\nDr. Greene: Regardless, you've made your point. What does the federation look for when determining if a new species ought to be added?\nAnne: Maturity, mainly. How well the species takes care of the planet they have, whether their culture is at a point where they can accept that they aren't the only smart ones around, things like that. Mainly though, research of the biosphere is the top priority when visiting other Earths. Oh, and doctor?\nDr. Greene: Yes?\nAnne: You can stop prying. Humans are failing the examination.\nDr. Greene: You need not answer why, based on the reasons you've stated enough has been said.\nAnne: No, no don't get me wrong your species is something truly remarkable. Easily the fastest developing and most ambitious species by far. I mean, 200,000 years of existing and less than 20,000 years of what anyone could consider a civilization and you're at this stage. Truly remarkable, anomalous even.\nDr. Greene: Yes, wel-\nAnne: But the species reeks of adolescence. Profound arrogance, unapologetic boldness, unchecked ambition, and a recklessness that defies your intellect. It's no wonder your species is the talk of the federation.\n[Dr. Greene pauses for approximately 20 seconds and records a series of notes on his clipboard]\nDr. Greene: I've said this before, but I seriously can't get past it. Your grasp of this language is truly remarkable. You speak more articulately than some of my colleagues.\nAnne: Well, like I said, I'm a linguist by trade. Human language is so much more elegant than the language of parrots. So many words mean the same thing but have slight differences in character. A sentence can convey the same general message while taking on a totally new form. Poetry is somewhat of a commodity in my world, but here it is almost inevitable. Very fun to use and to learn. I am thankful.\nDr. Greene: Well, it's quite alright I suppose. Pardon my digression, can we get back to the question?\nAnne: Right. Also curious about your species is the existence of this organization. From what I gather this is designed to house that which defies reason?\nDr. Greene: Yes, I guess that's a good way of putting it. Do other Earths not have an equivalent?\nAnne: We don't need them. If we find something we can't explain, we don't bother hiding it. But they're rare in other places, anomalies seem to occur in this reality more than any other. An anomalous home for some anomalous apes.\nDr. Greene: I suppose. Well, that is all for now.\nAnne: Next week, doctor. Oh, and, bring me some crackers next time, will you?\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. This may be determined by an analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the subject or by information provided by the subject itself.\n2. This hypothesis has been confirmed by SCP-5180-A instances in interviews.\n3. This is possibly because the version of earth the organism comes from may have a radically different atmospheric composition.\n4. Accomplished by thickened, elongated tentacles on the anterior and posterior of the head. The remaining 4 tentacles were used as manipulators.\n5. This includes an arboreal lifestyle, binocular vision, flexible wrists/ankles, 2 opposable thumbs on each hand, colour vision, and a high brain-to-body mass ratio.\n6. This was a name SCP-5180-A assigned herself as it was the surname of the researcher who taught her English in the months prior.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5179 | SCP-5180 | SCP-5181 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5182's cover art.\n\nItem #: SCP-5182\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Flagged internet posts that make reference to SCP-5182 or \u30ec\u30f3\u30ac are to be removed. The individual that made the post is to be located and their memories of the anomaly removed.\nThe families of Kathryn \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Fern \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Rita \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and Roxanne \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 currently believe that their daughters died in a group suicide and their bodies were never recovered \u2014 no efforts are to be made to dissuade them from this theory.\nDescription: SCP-5182 is an oceangrunge1 album created by the band \u30ec\u30f3\u30ac (loosely translated as 'Bricks'). \u30ec\u30f3\u30ac were an American experimental vaporwave band consisting of four individuals: Undine (vocals), Huldebrand, Melusina, and Drowner. It is currently believed that \u30ec\u30f3\u30ac were created by four teenage females who appeared to be close friends with one another at the time of SCP-5182's recording who each used pseudonyms, although it is unclear which pseudonym corresponds to which female.\nSCP-5182 consists of seven tracks, totaling 40 minutes and 57 seconds. While the majority of the album is instrumentals, two of the tracks contain short snippets of dialogue taken from television shows or films from the late 1990s and the final track, \u2026hello, features original vocals by Undine. It is also the only track credited to all four members of \u30ec\u30f3\u30ac.\n\nWe are here, we are alive (8:49)\nFour circles above the sign (2:27)\nTakeover (3:55)\nLeave me in my chains and throw my dress to the depths of hell (9:08)\nWe're never getting out of here (6:50)\nritual (falling, falling down) (4:36)\n\u2026hello (5:12)\n\nOnly individuals who listen through the entirety of SCP-5182 are subject to its effects; none of the tracks are independently anomalous. If a subject listens through the album without interruption, they will enter a semi-comatose state upon reaching the final track. While vital organs such as the lungs and the heart will remain functional, the rest of the body, including all four limbs, will be rendered paralyzed.\nThe subject will then begin to experience vivid visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations for the duration of the track. These hallucinations involve the subject being submerged in a large body of water, usually inside of a confined space such as a well. Another recurring feeling is that of being pulled downwards by an unseen force, although descriptions of this force have varied between subjects.\nSCP-5182 was uploaded to Bandcamp on August 22nd, 2019. Twenty-four hours later, all four members of \u30ec\u30f3\u30ac were reported missing. The album, titled But it is us you have forgotten, is their only known release.\n\n+ Addendum: Lyrics\n\n- Addendum: Lyrics\n\nThe following were taken from SCP-5182's Bandcamp page, which listed the official lyrics. The full tracks are considered to be non-anomalous when listened to independently of the album, and are available to staff if requested.\n\nTrack #4: Leave me in my chains and throw my dress to the depths of hell\n[Spoken]\nYou can never tell, can you? You take one look at the note, or two, or however many you like, but you can never quite figure out what they were thinking before they were gone. You might get angry at yourself. You might even realize how they felt, and that'll make you so angry you'll raise your fists to the sky and shout 'Oh my God! It was all right in front of me this whole time!' You'll weep for a dozen days and a dozen nights, but that still won't get rid of the feeling. By now, it's wrapped around your heart like a snake. Its venom is flowing through your veins, trying to make every breath your last. You can feel sweat washing over you. The angels are coming. Do you see them? Do they see you?\n[Spoken]\nI'm not going to take this shit from you anymore, Walter. You hear me? I'm done with it. All of it. You're not allowed to step foot in this house for as long as I live, and you're certainly not sleeping here. Not after what I've heard about you. You're sick, Walter, you're fucking sick. I don't care if you have to sleep in the gutters tonight, you're not spending another day here, especially with my kids! Go to a homeless shelter, a food bank. Go to the goddamn psych ward. Clearly that's what you need. Just get out of here, now!\n[Spoken]\nThe funny thing is, is that in the end, this whole bloody thing was a mistake. You know, we never thought that we were gonna make it big in the first place, certainly not enough to live off of. The band\u2014the band was just temporary solution to a big problem. A big, big problem, bigger than even you or me. Oh, don't be so surprised. We'll give you one more thing, this one tiny little gift. Don't be sad. We're dedicating this last project just for you. We dedicate this project to all of the prisonors in the world that are unfairly brought down. Thank you all, and goodbye.\n\nTrack #6: ritual (falling, falling down)\n[Verse]\nCold and lonely refusals\nThe streets are empty at dawn\nThe kids were never useful\nYou're glad when they're gone\nWhy are you so confused and\nWhy are you so unwise?\nI'm so sick and tired\nOf helping you realign\n[Chorus]\nInside your room\nIs something special\nAnd I hope that you hate it\nI hope you cry out in fear\nInside your room\nIs someone special\nAnd I hope that you hate me\nBecause nobody else is here\n[Verse]\nDisgusting flesh and bone\nThat I do not claim\nWraps around my chest\nAnd fills me with pain\nAnd you're always looking\nAt me with those eyes\nSo I just stay quiet\nAnd try not to die\n[Chorus]\nInside your room\nIs something special\nAnd I hope that you hate it\nI hope you cry out in fear\nInside your room\nIs someone special\nAnd I hope that you hate me\nBecause nobody else is here\n\nTrack #7: \u2026hello\n[Indecipherable]2\n\n+ Addendum: Experiment Log\n\n- Addendum: Experiment Log\n\nOver the course of several experiments, Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 determined that by surgically altering a subject's larynx, eardrums, and brainstem through the use of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588, it was possible to establish a line of communication between the researcher and the subject whilst they were under the effects of SCP-5182. Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 ordered one D-Class subject, D-25935, to undergo the surgery. Below is a transcript for the experiment that followed.\n\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: We're getting close. Close your eyes now, and only open them when I tell you to. You should start experiencing the hallucinations then. Don't panic, I'm right here.\nD-25935: Okay.\nD-25935 closes his eyes. Several seconds pass. D-25935 enters a comatose state.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Now. Can you hear me?\nD-25935: Um, yeah. Holy shit\u2014\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yes! Quickly, tell me what you see.\nD-25935: Um. Okay, I'm in like a hole in the ground, I think. There's water down here. I'm falling. It's dark, very dark. I can barely see in front of me. There's a light coming from outside, I think it's night. And\u2026 oh fuck, there's something down here. I can feel it. I think it's\u2026 I think it's a hand.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Are you saying there's a creature down there with you?\nD-25935: Theres \u2014 um, yes. More than one. I can see their shadows a little bit. They look like\u2026 mermaids, almost. Ah fuck, one just grabbed my leg, and it's kind of pulling me down a little. It's not too hard, but it's making me sink. The rest are just\u2026 watching. I'm going to try to, um, pull away a little\u2026 Ah! Get me out! Get me out!\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Not yet! What's happening? Are you hurt?\nD-25935: It's pulling harder! I'm fucking\u2026 ugh, just get me out! They're climbing on me. Argh! I'm throwing them off but they keep on\u2026 Get the fuck off me! Yeah, I'll fuck you up. Try me! I said try me, bitch! What the\u2014\nD-25935 suddenly grows silent.\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Hey? Are you there? D-25935, respond if you can still hear me. What's happening?\nD-25935: Nothing's happening. They're just\u2026 looking at me now. I can see them. Oh. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, that wasn't what you meant, was it? Shit, were you just doing that because you\u2026\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: (distant) Cut the music! Okay, D-25935, we're getting you out of there. Alright?\nD-25935: No, hang on for a\u2014\n\n+ Addendum: Incident Report\n\n- Addendum: Incident Report\n\nThe following is a report by a security guard that was monitoring D-25935 the days following the experiment.\n\nI passed by D-25935's cell and, looking inside, I could just see that something was up with him. he looked jumpy, like he was sure something was always right behind him. There was this look in his eyes, too. He looked so tired. I've seen many D-Class, I know what a depressed person looks like, but this was something different. He looked like a man on death row when their execution date was up. I saw him processing his own death.\nI entered to make sure that he didn't try and do anything to himself. I asked him if he was alright, and he just looked at me with this glassy look in his eyes. I asked him again if he was okay, and he told me to fuck off. So I walked over to him and he jumped me like a wild animal. He was scratching kicking and he spat in my eye \u2014 he tried to bite me at one point. I managed to get on top of him, but he kept on screaming a bunch of jibberish at me. He was crying.\nWhen he finally calmed down, I asked him, \"What the hell are you saying?\" It took him a few seconds to respond. When he said it, he was mumbling, so I told him to, \"Speak up! I don't know what you're saying.\" He took a deep breath, and then he said something that really stuck with me for some reason.\nHe said, \"They're girls. There were girls down there. And\u2026 I-I think they wanted to leave with me.\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. An electronic music subgenre inspired by vaporwave, grunge, and drone music. The ocean is commonly used as a metaphor for the hopelessness of society and the overpowering feeling the music is meant to give the listener.\n2. Vocals are present, but due to a combination of heavy distortion, echo, and reverb, it is almost impossible to decipher them. After careful analysis, researchers have determined that the track consists of a single verse that is repeated three times, although the words have yet to be identified.\n\n_\n\n_\n\nWe will be safe here\nIn this shameful world we share\nI whisper you to sleep\nBut I know you're not scared\nBecause in a distant future\nIn a time that's soon\nSomebody will stop and listen\nAnd come to rescue you\n\n\u00ab SCP-5181 | SCP-5182 | SCP-5183 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5183\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All SCP-5183 instances are to be contained in a secure item storage locker at Site-17 along with all known images of SCP-5183. No new photographs or other visual media of SCP-5183 may be created without permission from the current lead researcher.\nDescription: SCP-5183 is the collective designation for a group of thaumaturgically enchanted objects that are capable of disguising themselves in every physical manner1 when directly viewed by a living organism. SCP-5183 instances are also able to transform their appearance when not directly observed in order to better blend into their environment.\nThe true forms of SCP-5183-A through -C are as follows:\n\nA - A limestone rock with a mass of 2 kg.\nB - A reusable, metal water bottle of indeterminable brand.\nC - The skull of a small animal, believed to be a squirrel.\n\nIndirectly viewing an instance of SCP-5183 exposes an individual to its secondary effect. The affected individuals, hereafter referred to as SCP-5183-1 instances, who do not receive an amnestic within three hours of exposure begin suffering from high amounts of stress which result in hallucinations and intense paranoia within a few days. No known treatment has been found to cure an instance of SCP-5183-1 after this point.\nDiscovery Log: All known SCP-5183 instances were found in the former residence of PoI-5183, Ramona Jimenez, along with several texts on the subject of thaumaturgy. PoI-5813 is believed to be a member of the Daughters of Eden.\nAddendum-1: SCP-5183's secondary effect was only noticed after its documentation was entering finalization under Researcher Clementine. Researcher Clementine had already been keeping a journal of his experiences, at his psychologist's request. The relevant entries from this journal are displayed below.\n\nEntry 1 - January 8th, 2019\nI'm seeing it everywhere now, squirrel skulls in place of every sheet of paper. It's following me I swear. I've tried getting them to double-check its containment, to show them it's broken out, but they won't listen to me. What's so hard to believe about that? We have a talking, immortal lizard down the hall, but a magic skull that only I can see is crazy?\nI guess I know how everyone here REALLY feels about me. I've suspected they didn't like me for years, but I guess I know for sure now. I have half a mind to break into SCP-5183's containment chamber, but I already know they wouldn't listen to me anyway.\n\nEntry 2 - January 9th, 2019\nMy car had twice as much snow on it as the other cars when I went to leave yesterday. Are the others pranking me now? It feels like they're punishing me for something. Even the other drivers on the road to work today seemed to be deliberately getting in my way; one of them nearly crashed into me at an intersection when I had the right of way. I'd probably be dead if I didn't react quickly.\nAre the O5's after me? Too much seems to be happening too quickly, too conveniently to be coincidence; not that I believe in coincidences anyway. People are giving me funny looks too, not just the other researchers, but security and D-class too. Even the lunch lady seemed to look me over a moment or two longer than usual. I know I screwed up my last project, but this is just\u2026. suspicious.\nThe upper management is after me, I can feel it, and I'm going to get to the bottom of this.\n\nEntry 3 - January 11th, 2019\nAlright, I went ahead and forged a few entries for my shrink; hopefully they won't suspect anything more than the others. I think I'm starting to put the pieces together on the O5's plan. They've got to be connected to the Daughters of Eden somehow; it's the only thing that makes sense. I think they've realized how impossible all this is, containing everything strange in the world and all. I bet they're planning on returning humanity to a more natural state, to put an end to it all, make us animals again, nice and simple. Now, I just need proof, I'm going to break into 5183's containment in a few days and see what I can find. They've got to be keeping all the evidence together.\n\nAddendum 2: Upon receiving disingenuous journal entries, Researcher Clementine's psychologist reported him, allowing security personnel to catch him breaking into SCP-5183's containment chamber. After being detained, it became clear that Clementine was suffering from delusions of persecution. He was subsequently amnesticized and sent to a mental health facility equipped to give him proper care.\n\nSCiPNET LOGIN\n\n                                                    name\n\n                                                    affiliation\n\n        3885e5c03c386bb54a3d68d2fd8b6ca6_1706539232\n\nLogin\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nAs of January 15th, 2019, SCP-5183 has officially become employee dismissal cover #24; this cover story should be used sparingly. To lend it credibility, SCP-5183 was given a falsified secondary effect of causing stress and other mental detriments. Additionally, Mr. Clementine's journal entries were altered to include details regarding SCP-5183's supposed secondary effect, using his stress and delusions to support the existence of this effect. Apparently, reassigning the former researcher to lighter work after his mandatory leave of absence was not sufficient in relieving him of his afflictions.\nAcceptable cover stories utilizing dismissal cover #24 must employ believable details, such as a D-class acquiring a photo of SCP-5183 during a containment breach, in order to reduce suspicion. That being said, do not hesitate to dismiss problematic employees. We cannot afford to have people like Clementine working for us past their limit.\nTo those that still hold reservations about lying to their subordinates, I have this to say: morale is low to start with in this line of work. To keep their spirits up, we tell everyone that people are on leave after being affected by an SCP and reassigned, keeping them hopeful about their colleagues and their own futures. The psychology reports suggest that it helps, and we need all the help we can get.\n-Dr. Neptune, Chief of Staff.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This includes mimicking the mass, shape, and volume of the disguised object while being inspected.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5182 | SCP-5183 | SCP-5184 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM #: SCP-5184\nOBJECT CLASS: Euclid\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5184 is currently held in a small standard animal containment cell, designed to resemble a standard woodland environment. A feeding schedule has been implemented in accordance with SCP-5184's dietary needs.\nElectrical devices, especially internet-accessible technology, are not allowed within SCP-5184's containment cell. The only exception to this is in the case of interviews, during which it may utilize a specialized computer that only runs a word processor program.\n\nA photo of SCP-5184 taken prior to containment.\n\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5184 is a rodent specimen of the family Sciuridae1. DNA sampling has shown that SCP-5184 is an unknown species of Sciuridae, showing similarities to multiple species.\nSCP-5184's anomalous properties manifest when its teeth make contact with electrical wiring. SCP-5184 cannot be damaged by electricity and is able to send electrical signals out through its teeth to the device it is connected to. These signals operate as input commands, allowing SCP-5184 to access these electronics as though it were a human, despite not utilizing a mouse or keyboard.\nSCP-5184 can understand human language and communicate back through electronic devices. SCP-5184 has shown itself to be fluent in both English and Scottish Gaelic. Testing has shown that SCP-5184 has intelligence roughly comparable to a human.\nSignificant addiction issues related to alcohol and smoking are ongoing with SCP-5184. While useful as incentives for testing, the health risks of a chipmunk consuming a full can of beer and smoking cigarettes regularly have been deemed too high to be allowed to continue. Addiction recovery programs are ongoing.\nDiscovery: An investigation was launched into St. Andrew's House in Edinburgh after reports from MTF Iota-10 (\"Damn Feds\") arose concerning a chipmunk continually eating electrical wires safely came concurrently with reports of electronic tampering from an unknown source pushing a second Scottish Independence Referendum.\n\nAn example of some of the media SCP-5184 distributed through anomalous capabilities.\n\nSCP-5184 was located and attempts to bring it into Foundation custody by MTF Lambda-12 (\"Pest Control\") began but were halted after SCP-5184 threatened to destroy a significant amount of electronic government property. SCP-5184 was eventually lured into a beer-related trap and brought to the Foundation.\n\nOpen Interview Log-5184\n\nCredentials Accepted\n\nInterviewee: Dr. Dromeus\nInterviewer: SCP-5184\nNotes: SCP-5184 communicated through a specialized computer running only a word processor.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Dromeus: Good afternoon, SCP-5184.Dr. Dromeus: Okay, let's try and be civil here and we can both get what we want.Dr. Dromeus: I'm afraid that won't be possible.Dr. Dromeus: That can be arranged.Dr. Dromeus: I'm glad. So, it seems during your time at St. Andrew's House you were trying to push for Scottish independence, am I right?Dr. Dromeus: Okay, okay, let's not get too riled up here.Dr. Dromeus: Okay. Well then, could you explain your interest in Scottish politics?Dr. Dromeus: If we can keep the insults slung to a minimum, that'd be excellent, thank you.Dr. Dromeus: Okay then. So, your plan was to utilize your abilities to influence Scottish politics to push for another Scottish Independence Referendum, am I correct?Dr. Dromeus: You do know the first one was rejected by popular opinion, right? What makes you think a second one will work?Dr. Dromeus: I see. Now if you could calm down again-Dr. Dromeus: -we're almost done here. Could you please elaborate more on your abilities?Dr. Dromeus: Remember, cooperation is essential. You do want a beer, don't you?(Dr. Dromeus sighs)\nDr. Dromeus: I'm on your side. Could you please help us out here?Dr. Dromeus: Fine, moving on. There's just one final question: how did you reach Scotland?Dr. Dromeus: Interesting. I would like to know more. As you would know, there are no chipmunks native to Scotland. So-Dr. Dromeus: There are no chipmunks native to Scotland.Dr. Dromeus: I'm afraid that's a fact. All chipmunks in Scotland have been classified as invasive alien species.Dr. Dromeus: Ah, so you didn't know. I'm sorry.Dr. Dromeus: I understand(SCP-5184 disconnects from the computer and refuses to return to it)\n[END LOG]\n\nADDENDUM 5184-1: As of the events of interview 5184-1, SCP-5184 has been in a depressive state. Demonstrated behavior includes eating less and refusing to conduct interviews. Dr. Dromeus has been reprimanded for the interview.\nAlright, I made a mistake. I thought this was something it knew and it clearly wasn't. I propose we tread lightly and give it space for now. After all, it can't be easy when your own home decides you're not welcome. -Dr. Dromeus\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly known as chipmunks.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5183 | SCP-5184 | SCP-5185 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5185\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-5185 are to be located and secured by Site-37 staff. SCP-5185 instances are to be contained in a dog day care center within Site-37 with a chain link fence separating them from research personnel.\nDescription: SCP-5185 are an unclassified subspecies of giant house spider (Eratigena atrica). Each possesses the physical, psychological, and social needs of an average domesticated canine. When first brought into Foundation care, each SCP-5185 instance was approximately the size of a six to ten week-old puppy, with their internal biology modified to allow them to survive at this size. Each instance has since grown to the size of a border collie (45.72 cm - 55.88 cm tall). SCP-5185 instances also have a base level of intelligence congruent with that of an average border collie.\nSCP-5185 instances have been observed showing aggressive behaviour towards staff, charging at researchers while making high pitched noises similar to growling, biting the chain link fence, and lunging.\nInstances of SCP-5185 were purchased from a renovated Coca-Cola branded vending machine on the sidewalk of 6th Street, Macaque, Il. The dispenser, designated SCP-5185-A, had five compartments made from plexiglas with a fleece blanket at the bottom of every compartment. Each contained one instance of SCP-5185. Despite what is advertised on the flyer, no purchase from SCP-5185-A has produced anything matching the description of a \"fine dog.\"\n\nFlyer for SCP-5185. Other flyers have been found reading \u201cplease adopt spider\u201d and \u201cfree spider. just take.\u201d\n\nAddendum 5185-1:\nVideo log from SCP-5185's containment unit. Each instance is designated a number, 1-7.\n\n<Begin Log>\n7:13 AM: SCP-5185-1 wakes up after being kicked in the abdomen by SCP-5185-4. It turns to a different sleeping position before resting its head\n7:24 AM: SCP-5185-6 sits up and drinks water from its water bowl. It walks over to the play set and picks up a chew toy.\n7:26 AM: SCP-5185-1 looks around before bounding over to SCP-5185-6. It picks up one of its legs and bats SCP-5185-6. It looks inquisitively at SCP-5185-1, dropping the chew toy. SCP-5185-1 picks up a rope toy, shaking it around in its jaws.\n7:28 AM: SCP-5185-6 grabs the rope toy, starting a tug-of-war match with SCP-5185-1.\n7:30 AM: SCP-5185-1 loses. It picks up the chew toy SCP-5185-6 dropped before and sits down.\n7:31 AM: SCP-5185-4 wakes up due to the commotion, followed by SCP-5185-5, SCP-5185-2, and SCP-5185-7.\n7:32 AM: SCP-5185-6 cocks its head before running over SCP-5185-1 and tackling it. A play fight ensues.\n7:33 AM: SCP-5185-4 hops up and joins the fight.\n7:34 AM: The three instances join into a dog pile while continuing to play fight.\n7:36 AM: The three instances get tired of play fighting, deciding to climb on the play set instead. Other instances soon awaken and join.\n7:40 AM: Instances of SCP-5185 notice bowls of food and run over to eat.\n8:01 AM: Instances are separated for personal training.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5185-2:\nSeveral undercover Foundation employees contacted the \u201cfinedadoinstagram\u201d account about the lack of dogs being dispensed from SCP-5185-A. This interaction produced an interview.\n\nJune 14th, 2019\n3:54 PM\nHello? Is this dado?\n\nhello yes this is fine dado instagram.\n\nCan I ask you a question?\n\ndado sees no reason to say no.\n\nAlright, why does your advertisement say \u201cget fine dog free\u201d when there are no dogs being dispensed?\n\ndado did not give u fine dog?\n\nYou did not. I have a dog sized spider.\n\ndado sees. dado gave u fine spider so dado sees no issue.\n\nthough spider much like dog. dado sees not y u r complaining.\n\nRight.\nSo, how did you come across these spiders?\n\ndado got spider as gift. very cool. but dado thought, y not sell mean spider on street? spider very helpful companion, yes.\n\nmean spider? I thought they were \u201cfine spider by dado\u201d?\nHello? dado are you there?\n\ndado is here. dado not fast at typing but dado learn by practice.\n\nfine debatable. spider is gross to dado. but spider make fine gift 4 child. very good companion.\n\nspider not eat ur child like last dado-vention.\n\nWait. Like last dado-vention? What does that mean!?\n\nspider technically harmless. spider not eat school and make good pet. get spider away from dado.\n\nAre you afraid of spiders?\n\ndado has no fear. dado is selling product. dado just dose not want spider around dado. spider gross to dado.\n\nu like spider?\n\nUhhhh. Right\u2026\nI like spiders.\n\nthen u should buy fine spider by dado. take spider off dado property.\n\nSure. I'll buy a spider.\n\nthank u foundation man.\n\ndado appreciates purchase. it gets rid of bad spider dog.\n\nDid you make these spiders?\n\ndado already said dado got dog spider as gift. dado did not make scary spider.\n\nRight.\n\nu buy fine spider. now, dado goes.\n\ndado definitely not is scared of spider.\n\nSeen 4:23 PM\n\nAddendum 5185-3:\nFoundation employees received a PM from the \u201cfinedadoinstagram\u201d account approximately 3 days later.\n\nJune 17th, 2019\n2:40 PM\n\ndado asks u forget last message.\n\nSeen 2:42 PM\n\n\u00ab SCP-5184 | SCP-5185 | SCP-5186 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5186\nLevel 4/5186\n\nObject Class: Keter\nClassified\n\nBorder of SCP-5186's area of effect\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area containing SCP-5186 is to be routinely patrolled by Foundation naval vessels. Any unauthorised vessels approaching the area are to be redirected and provided with the cover story that the space is part of a long-term conservation effort.\nAll Foundation crew members involved with containment are to routinely report in with medical staff to assess for potential exposure to SCP-5186. Should a crew mate express any distinct symptoms1, medical staff are authorised to administer amnestics across all potentially affected crew.\nIn the event that a patrolling Foundation vessel drifts into SCP-5186's range, all involved personnel should initiate the Blindside Protocol with immediate effect. Under no circumstances should a vessel open fire at any perceived entity without sonar confirmation from Site-39.\nDescription: SCP-5186 is a behavioural phenomenon linked to a 50km diameter area of open water off the coast of Chile. Any individuals entering SCP-5186's space will initially experience mild discomfort, often complaining about feelings of nausea and restlessness. Further travel into the area will inevitably cause subjects to believe they are being watched by an entity in the water.\nAffected individuals are unable to physically see the entity, and all attempts to locate one with sonar equipment have so far failed. Regardless, subjects will eventually conclude whatever is watching them is large enough to completely devour both themselves and any vessel they may be situated on. This effect remains consistent regardless of vessel size. A person's belief that the entity watching them is real will only become stronger as they move further in.\nExamination of an affected subject's brain activity shows heightened stimulation of the amygdala2. This effect is consistent across all subjects, and suggests a natural 'fight-or-flight' response specific to SCP-5186. Depending on the subject's mental state and the distance travelled into SCP-5186's area, this fear response3 can induce severe anxiety, dread, and depression.\n\nDeployment of Chimera from Site-39.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5186 was initially brought to the Foundation's attention in 1987 following the loss of a Columbian research vessel. The missing team were investigating 'The Depths that Hunger', a sea shanty spread amongst posted sailors during the 16th Century (see Recovered Document 10-B for further details). Analysis reports indicated the vessel had been written off as lost to storms by local coast guard. However, an inquiry carried out by the Foundation revealed a large portion of water which had been intentionally avoided by search and rescue teams during their investigation4.\nFollowing reports of a potential hostile entity by exploration groups, Foundation naval vessel Chimera was deployed to assess the threat. One hour after entry, site command received a distress signal from the vessel before Chimera proceeded to open fire at the surrounding water. All orders to stop were ignored. This behaviour continued for approximately 20 minutes before a detonation onboard5 tore a hole in the port side hull. Despite possessing the means to repair the damage, the crew retreated to the uppermost deck and the vessel sank. 62 lives were lost.\nA secure perimeter was established and containment procedures were enacted on 06/08/1988. Further refinement of the perimeter was put in place in 1993 following additional D-Class testing.\n\nRecovered Document 10-B: The following is a partial transcript of the shanty 'The Depths That Hunger', a song with potential links to SCP-5186. The document was recovered from the home of Dr. Gabriela Rening, one of the missing Columbian researchers, during the Foundation's initial investigation. According to Dr Rening's notes, the song itself has existed as far back as 1513.\n\n'Beware beware the beast beneath, of eyes and shadow and maws and teeth,\nWith baleful gaze that chills the bone, beware beware the thing not known.'\n'Beware beware the storms at night, that drag young sailors to their plight,\nFor down below a horror slumbers, beware beware the depths that hunger.'\n'Beware beware the silent sea, its dreaded aura causing men to flee,\nFor in the depths the beast does lie, beware beware its watching eye.'\n'Beware beware the one that waits, its endless maw sealing our fates,\nNo one is safe, neither old nor younger, beware beware the depths that hunger.'\n'Beware beware the shifting tides, where deep below a darkness lies,\nIf mind and body you wish to keep, beware beware the broken deep.'\n'Beware beware the lurking threat, no man can ever truly forget,\nReady to claim those in storm and thunder, beware beware the depths that hunger'\n\nSCP-5186 Effects Test Log Excerpts\n\nPROCEDURE: D-1924 told to ride an unmanned dinghy into SCP-5186's range.\nRESULT: Dinghy travels approximately 14 kilometres in before D-1924 suddenly falls unconscious.\nNOTES: See Experiment Log D-1924 for further details.\n\nPROCEDURE: D-3416 outfitted with SCUBA gear and a vocal transducer before swimming into SCP-5186's space approximately 20 metres below surface level.\nRESULT: D-3416 swims 8 kilometres before suddenly halting. Subject refuses to look down, abandoning their breathing equipment in an attempt to quickly reach the surface. D-3416 drowns approximately 70 seconds later.\nNOTES: 10 minutes prior to their death, D-3416 kept vocalising concerns about 'nothing but jaws just waiting to kill (them)'.\n\nPROCEDURE: D-4725 outfitted with SCUBA gear and lowered into the epicentre of SCP-5186's range by helicopter.\nRESULT: During the lowering procedure, the pilot suddenly initiates an emergency flight maneuver that throws both D-4725 and two other crew members into the water, killing them on impact.\nNOTES: Following this incident, the use of aircraft for testing purposes has been prohibited. Consideration for extending SCP-5186's range 100 metres above sea level has been made.\n\nAttached File:\n\n+ Experiment Log D-1924\n\n- Experiment Log D-1924\n\nExperiment Log D-1924:\nTesting Purposes: To gain a better understanding of SCP-5186 and potentially locate a source of its anomalous effect.\nAdditional Information: Subject was equipped with standard audiovisual recording devices and a life jacket. Additionally, the unmanned dinghy has been fitted with an onboard camera for monitoring purposes. Exploration was observed by Dr. Harking at Site-39. For brevity, the following log begins approximately 10 minutes after initial entry into SCP-5186's space.\n<Begin Log>\nD-1924: Hey, doc? There ain't any sharks out here, right?\nDr. Harking: I can't say we know for certain I'm afraid.\nD-1924: (laughing) Fair enough. (whispered) Sea air's probably fucking with me anyways.\nDr. Harking: D-1924, please elaborate.\nD-1924: I'm just not used to being so far out in the ocean, that's all. Got me feeling kinda antsy. Being stuck on this thing doesn't make things any easier, that's for damn sure.\nDr. Harking: Just stay focused on the mission, please.\nD-1924: (sighs) You got it, doc.\nDinghy continues forward without issue. D-1924 is noticeably irritable, but remains seated. Subject travels for three kilometres without any major issues.\nAfter staring at the surrounding ocean for a short while, D-1924 becomes suddenly active. He stands up and begins to peer down into the water.\nD-1924: (long pause) I think there's something down there.\nDr. Harking: Pardon?\nD-1924: In the water. I think there's something down in the water.\nDr. Harking: (away from mic) We might have something. (pause) Did you see anything?\nD-1924: No\u2026I mean, I don't think so. But I can definitely feel it. Like\u2014like it's staring at me. Right now, in fact.\nDr. Harking: I see. (pause) Could you give us a quick look underwater please?\nD-1924: Uhh, yeah\u2026of course.\nCamera feed is angled downwards into the water. No life is immediately visible.\nD-1924: I think it's too far down, doc. (pause) Whatever it is.\nDr. Harking: Understood. Continue as normal, but try and keep an eye out for it if you can.\nD-1924: Sure thing\u2026\nThe subject continues to check the sides of the boat for any movement below. Given the depth of the surrounding ocean, it's impossible to make anything out beyond 100 metres. The subject appears nervous of this fact.\nDinghy travels an additional four kilometres before D-1924 begins shuffling away from the sides of the boat.\nD-1924: Something\u2026something's not right, doc. I don't think I should be out here.\nDr. Harking: I'm afraid you don't have much choice in the matter.\nD-1924: No, I'm serious. I'm not supposed to be out here. (pause) If I keep going I think it's going to hurt me.\nDr. Harking: What's going to hurt you? Can you describe it?\nD-1924: I\u2014I don't know. Something wrong\u2026in the dark. I can feel it staring at me\u2014from everywhere. It's like it's everywhere underneath me.\nWhen asked to look into the water again, the subject is far more reluctant to do so. The camera feed fails to pick anything up.\nDr. Harking: D-1924, are you in any way afraid of the ocean?\nD-1924: Wha\u2014I mean, no, not really. (sounding frustrated) But this isn't the same, doc. It's real. It feels real. Like I've always known whatever's down there isn't to be fucked with.\nDr. Harking: And what do you think is down there, exactly?\nD-1924: (pause) I don't think I want to be out here anymore.\nDr. Harking: You're going to be fine, D-1924.\nDinghy proceeds with its journey towards SCP-5186's epicentre. At this point, D-1924 has chosen to sit in the middle of the boat. The subject maintains eye contact with the floor.\nIn the last few hours since D-1924 set off, they've travelled approximately 9 kilometres. Subject's breathing has become noticeably more rapid.\nD-1924: (whispered) It's getting closer.\nDr. Harking: What was that, D-1924?\nD-1924: (long pause) It's just a feeling. I know it doesn't make any sense but\u2014but it's freaking me out. Something bad down there\u2026it's\u2014it's getting closer. And bigger. I think\u2014(glancing around)\u2014I think it might be too late.\nDr. Harking: D-1924, what on earth are you talking about?\nD-1924: It's like everything part of me wants to just\u2014to just get out here. I've got to get out of here. (whispered) Please get me out of here.\nD-1924 begins moving towards the back of the boat.\nDr. Harking: Calm down. Everything's going to be fine. Just a little further now.\nD-1924: No, doc! You don't get it\u2014I've\u2014I've got to get out. (glancing around) If you turn me around now, I might still make it.\nDr. Harking: You know that's not possible. Not yet anyways. We still haven't even seen this 'creature'.\nD-1924: (heavy breathing)\nDr. Harking: Now why don't you calm down for a moment and explain to me wha-\nD-1924: No no no, there's no time. It's getting clo\u2014(choking sounds)\u2014it's nearly here, man! Just turn me the fuck around! Please, man!\nDr. Harking: (away from mic) Speed it up. We're getting close now.\nThe dinghy's speed is increased by 5 knots. The sudden acceleration forces D-1924 on to the floor.\nD-1924: No no no what are you doing? What are you doing?\nD-1924 is quickly taken past the 12 kilometer threshold at this point. Subject begs to be taken back, but all pleas are ignored.\nAnother 2 kilometers go by and D-1924 falls completely silent. Subject has curled up in the foetal position, completely obscuring the camera. A faint dripping sound can be heard. Doctor Harking makes multiple attempts to communicate with D-1924, but to no response.\nThe camera feed suddenly lights up once more as D-1924's left arm unfurls and hits the floor. The hand remains motionless. Subject's skin is incredibly pale and covered in moisture. The camera is slowly rotated upwards to face the sky as the dinghy tips D-1924's unconscious body onto its back.\n<End Log>\n\n- Experiment Log D-1924\n\nD-1924 was successfully recovered eight hours later following the recall of their vessel. Subject notably regained consciousness midway through the return journey, but showed an extreme reluctance to move from their current position. Amnestic therapy has proven effective at treating D-1924's manifested thalassophobia.\n\nAddendum: Currently, the Foundation has been unable to identify the source of SCP-5186. However, given the potential for a Leviathan-class6 hostile entity, exploration teams were deployed to gain conclusive evidence.\nAttached Files:\n\n+ Exploration Log 1\n\n - Exploration Log 1\n\nExploration Video Log Transcript 1\nExploration Purpose: To locate the source of SCP-5186 and to identify any anomalous entities associated with it.\nAssigned Personnel: Counter-Phobia Specialists Orion-12 (\"Gage's Pioneers\")\nAdditional Information: Orion-12 have all undergone experimental neural modifications, making them resistant to fear-inducing anomalies. All members were equipped with high pressure suits and recording equipment. Additional scanning equipment was distributed amongst all members. Exploration was observed by Doctor Harking at Site 39.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nOri-Markram: Coms check, go.\nOri-Sapolsky: Sapolsky, loud and clear.\nOri-O'Keefe: This is O'Keefe.\nOri-Greenfield: Greenfield here.\nOri-Markram: You get all that, Doc?\nDr. Harking: Affirmative. Communications are stable. I assume you all remember the briefing?\nOri-Markram: Correct. Reports of some kind of aquatic hostile. Possibly cloaked. Big by the sounds of it.\nOri-O'Keefe: But there hasn't been any confirmed attacks, right?\nDr. Harking: It's hard to say. Getting anyone to talk about it clearly is\u2014(sigh)\u2014difficult.\nOri-Markram: And you're sure it's not just a cognitohazard? Some sort of perception alterer?\nDr. Harking: Well\u2026(sighs) we really just don't know. I'm not happy about any of it, but truth be told we can't afford to ignore this. I want to cover every angle, and you guys are my best shot.\nOri-Sapolsky: (whistles) Looks like we've got a real doozy on our hands then.\nOri-Markram: Okay team, you know the drill. Once we're in the water, standard line formation. Then we'll fan out from there.\nDr. Harking: Happy fishing team.\nOrion-12 proceed to dive into the waters of SCP-5186. As expected, no team members show any symptoms of SCP-5186 exposure.\nFollowing several hours of exploration, the team fail to notice any signs of life. Sapolsky and O'Keefe are both elected to swim further down whilst the other two continue their search near the surface.\nOri-O'Keefe: Okay, preparations made. Moving out now.\nThe diving team proceeds to move further down. Light levels at this depth are significantly reduced, and both team members are forced to activate their flashlights. Both camera feeds depict nothing but water.\nOri-Sapolsky: Not picking up much yet, Doctor. Visibility is definitely an issue.\nDr. Harking: And nothing is showing on the sonar, correct?\nOri-O'Keefe: Affirmative. Looks like we're the only ones down here right now.\nSite-39: Understood. Continue closing in on that central location. If the effect radius hasn't moved in this long, then maybe it hasn't either.\nOri-O'Keefe: Agreed.\nBoth divers continue to swim for another two hours with no encounters.\nOri-O'Keefe: Hang on, I might have something here.\nOri-Markram: Go on.\nOri-O'Keefe: I made a quick signal check with the scanners, just to be sure. (brief pause) I'm actually picking up something beneath us. Unknown frequency. Could be a misfire though.\nOri-Markram: Hold on, O'Keefe. Doctor, do we know if there's any drone units down there? Something with a transmitter?\nLong pause.\nDr. Harking: Negative. All nearby units were pulled when you guys moved in. Is there a problem?\nOri-Markram: Unclear. We'll get back to you in a sec. O'Keefe, do you still copy?\nOri-O'Keefe: Yes, sir.\nOri-Markram: Triangulate that signal and investigate. Have Sapolsky go first if he can hear this. Me and Greenfield will try and meet you halfway.\nOri-Sapolsky: Understood.\nTeam proceeds as planned. Sapolsky heads towards the signal source with the coordinates provided by O'Keefe. Approximately 20 minutes later, Sapolsky reports that he's reached the seafloor.\nDr. Harking: Okay Sapolsky, do you have eyes on the source?\nOri-Sapolsky: Negative. All I'm seeing is rock down here. Not much else.\nDr. Harking: But\u2014but there has to be more to this\u2026you're certain you're at the right coordinates?\nOri-Sapolsky: Yes sir.\nDr. Harking: And you didn't encounter anything along the way?\nOri-Sapolsky: Negative. Nothing but endless water I'm afraid.\nDr. Harking: I see. (brief pause) Wait. Can you confirm your current depth for me, Sapolsky?\nOri-Sapolsky: Hang on. Approximately (incorrect value).\nLong pause.\nDr. Harking: According to the topographical data within this area, you should have at least another 300 metres to go.\nOri-Sapolsky: (brief pause) Oh.\nOri-Markram: Shit.\nThe rest of the team begin to quickly converge on the signal's position. Sapolsky is instructed to carry out a more thorough investigation of their surroundings.\nDr. Harking: What's down there?\nOri-Greenfield: It's too dark.\nOri-O'Keefe: Flashlights aren't much use either.\nOri-Markram: Sapolsky, you got a better visual yet?\nNo response.\nOri-Markram: Sapolsky? (pause) Michaels? (pause) Doc, Sapolsky isn't responding. Is he still on coms?\nDr. Harking: The connection's weak but yes, he should be. The camera feed is too patchy though. I can't make anything out.\nOri-O'Keefe: He can't be far from the signal source, sir.\nOri-Markram: Agreed. Everyone on me. Keep your eyes peeled.\nThe remaining team members move in on Sapolsky's last known location. Besides the teams movements, there is no sound. Doctor Harking continues trying to make contact with the missing teammate.\nO'Keefe and Greenfield proceed to check the rocky surface Sapolsky initially encountered whilst Markram looks for him further upwards.\nOri-Greenfield: Nothing down here, sir. (brief pause) Just more rock.\nOri-O'Keefe: Signal's definitely coming from here, but the thermal's aren't showing anything.\nOri-Greenfield: Just more rock.\nOri-O'Keefe: It really doesn't look like much up close. I'm coming to join you, Greenfield. Need to look at the wider picture maybe.\nOri-Markram: Just keep an eye out for Michaels, will you? (pause) Wait, up there!\nDr. Harking: What is it?\nOri-Markram: I've found Sapolsky. (pause) He's unresponsive, but breathing.\nOri-O'Keefe: (exhales).\nOri-Markram: I think he's gone catatonic.\nOri-Greenfield: Just\u2026more rock.\nDr. Harking: Greenfield, your comms are lagging.\nOri-O'Keefe: Wait\u2026Greenfield?\nOri-Markram: What's wrong?\nOri-Greenfield: More\u2026rock.\nOri-O'Keefe: Greenfield, what is it?\nDr. Harking: I can't see anything. What's happening?\nOri-Markram: I don't know. (pause) Guys, what's going on?\nOri-Greenfield: More\u2014more\u2014rock?\nOri-O'Keefe: Sir, it's Greenfield. (brief pause) I think she's compromised.\nOri-Markram: Fuck. (exhales) Okay, whatever you do, O'Keefe, don't move. I'm heading towards your position now.\nOri-O'Keefe: Sir, it's like she's\u2026pointing at something. Beneath us.\nDr. Harking: Hang on\u2014pointing at what exactly?\nOri-Markram: Forget it, Doc. The mission is out of the question now. O'Keefe, prepare for\u2014\nDr. Harking: What's down there, operative?\nOri-O'Keefe: I\u2014I don't know. (brief pause) It's hard to tell.\nOri-Markram: Just hold on, I'm nearly there.\nOri-O'Keefe: (long pause) I'm holding on.\nOri-Markram: Right I'm here, I'm here. (pause) Yep, same as Sapolsky. Dammit. Okay, O'Keefe, get the tethers out. You link with Greenfield and I'll take Sapolsky. I'm aborting the mission.\nOri-O'Keefe: The\u2026mission?\nOri-Markram: Yes, the goddamn\u2014(long pause). O'Keefe, what are you looking at?\nOri-O'Keefe: Looking\u2026looking down\u2026the mission?\nOri-Markram: \u2026\nDr. Harking: What's wrong with the audio?\nOri-Markram: It's not the audio. (sighs) Operative down.\nOri-O'Keefe: Down\u2026nothing looking down\u2026holding on to nothing.\nDr. Harking: What\u2014Markram, what the hell is going on?\nOri-Markram: (brief pause) Something's down there. Something they've all seen. (sighs) Listen, I'm gonna try and drag O'Keefe up with me. Maybe\u2014maybe we can figure out what this really is later.\nDr. Harking: I see\u2026and the others?\nOri-Markram: Going back for them would be too dangerous. They'll have both sunk further down by now\u2026I can't risk looking for them, Doc.\nDr. Harking: Understood, Markram. You're clear to retreat. (away from mic) Get an extraction team at the ready immediately.\nOri-Markram: (whispered) Let's get you home, buddy.\nOri-O'Keefe: Home\u2026nothing but home\u2026below\u2026below me?\nSeveral hours pass before Markram surfaces with O'Keefe in tow. An evaluation reveals that the affected specialist experienced severe cognitive stress similar to a 'sudden loss of reality'. All attempts to revive O'Keefe from his catatonic state fail. Extraction of both Sapolsky and Greenfield is considered too risky; both specialists have since been deemed KIA. Reevaluation of exploration methods put into consideration.\n\n+ Exploration Log 2\n\n - Exploration Log 2\n\nExploration Video Log Transcript 2\nExploration Purpose: To locate the signal source initially detected by Orion-12 and to uncover any potential links to SCP-5186.\nAssigned Personnel: Deep Sea Rover Unit I-12\nAdditional Information: Following the events of Orion-12's exploration, an unmanned drone running the prototype GeLZ intelligence programme is deployed to counteract any potential memetics or cognitohazards. Using the signal source coordinates, the drone is deployed onto the seafloor and sent into SCP-5186's space. Exploration was observed by Doctor Harking at Site 39.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Harking: Systems check, I-12. Are we good to go?\nRover I-12: Affirmative. Coordinates locked. Approaching target now.\nRover proceeds to move towards Orion-12's last known location before extraction. The seafloor is somewhat uneven, making traversal difficult.\nRover I-12: Frequency detected. Faint. Beyond audible spectrum.\nDr. Harking: Ah, that must be what the last team picked up on. Can you synthesise it at all?\nRover I-12: Negative. Too weak. Must get closer.\nDrone continues forward. Several hours pass.\nRover I-12: Inconsistency detected. Abnormal incline encountered (62%).\nDr. Harking: An incline? (brief pause) You must be at the same point the Pioneer's got to.\nRover I-12: Sudden topographical material shift detected. Obtaining sample for identification. Please hold.\nProcessing\u2026\nAnalysis:\nCalcium (85%)\nPhosphorus (5%)\nUnknown (?%)\nAssessment: Foreign biological material identified.\nDr. Harking: Wait\u2026you've found\u2014you've found it? Is\u2014is it alive?\nRover I-12: Negative. No life signs detected. Biological material appears to be in an advanced state of decay.\nType = Remains (Fossilized)\nAge = Unknown. No baseline decay model to compare.\nSize = Undetermined. Fragments appear partially imbedded.\nCourse of action?\nDr. Harking: Well I'll be damned\u2026map out a full 3D layout if you can and send me the data. I want to get a better look at this thing\u2026whatever it is.\nRover I-12: Understood. Beginning scanning procedure now.\nDoctor Harking doesn't hear from the rover unit for several more hours. Both its audio and visual feeds fail to pick up much in the dark.\nDr. Harking: I-12, what's taking so long?\nRover I-12: Scanning still in progress. Please hold.\nScan progress made: 00000000.1%.\nEstimated time until completion: 999999h\nDr. Harking: Wait, what? (brief pause) What's going on?\nTriangulation of the drone's signal shows that it's moving around in a continuous circle. It's travelled approximately 2 metres from its initial scan point.\nRover I-12: Initial interpretations available.\nAnalysis:\nI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-\nError. Mapping cannot be accurately carried out.\nDr. Harking: (sounding frustrated) Why not?\nRover I-12: Error. Entity does not conform to baseline perceived reality. Cannot interpret visually. Cannot understand. What is entity?\nDr. Harking: (sigh) I was hoping you could tell me.\nRover I-12: Negative. Dimensions are illogical. Appearance is illogical. What is entity?\nDr. Harking: Forget about it for now, I-12. Abandon the scanning procedure.\nRover I-12: But what\u2014but what\u2014but what\u2014but what\u2014\nDr. Harking: Goddammit!\nAt this point, Dr. Harking is forced to reboot the drone's systems and memory remotely. The drone's visual equipment is also deactivated to prevent further malfunctions. I-12's mission parameters are now only focused on extracting a copy of the frequency.\nDr. Harking: Okay okay okay. (exhales) Just breathe, Adam. I-12, do you have a better connection to the signal?\nRover I-12: Affirmative. Strength of frequency has increased significantly.\nAbnormality detected. Signal appears to be emitting from biological matter. Method unknown.\nCourse of action?\nDr. Harking: From the wha\u2014? Nevermind. Just get me a copy sent immediately. I need at least something to get my head wrapped around!\nRover I-12: Frequency successfully duplicated. Sending copy now.\nDr. Harking: (camly) Okay\u2026this is good. Thank you I-12. That'll be all for now. (away from mic) You got it yet? (pause) Good. Play it back for me. See if you can make any sense of what the hell is go\u2014\nAll communications with Site-39 cut out as SCP-5186 makes its presence known. Evacuation protocols are quickly initiated.\n\nATTENTION: SITE-39 DIRECTOR'S NOTICE\n\nFollowing Doctor Harking's reckless behaviour, Doctor Langley will be taking over all research projects relating to SCP-5186 effective immediately. All other research efforts are to be temporarily put on hold until further notice.\n\nIncident-01: Two days after Site-39's exposure to SCP-5186, on-site security teams were forced to respond to a Code Blue containment breach incident. According to the security logs, a Level 4 Clearance card was used to unlock SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's cell. A number of structures were damaged during the incident, including the recently established SCP-5186 Research Wing; a fire had reportedly ignited in one of the labs, destroying multiple sensitive documents.\n14 staff were killed during the incident. Doctor Harking has remained unaccounted for. The following document was recovered from his office.\n\nView Document?\n\n- Close\n\nLEVEL 4 ACCESS REQUIRED\n\nWelcome, Dr Langley\n\nPROJECT THEIA\nLive Surveillance Data\n\nFootnotes\n1. E.g. discomfort, irritation, aversion to open water.\n2. Section of the brain responsible for emotion, including fear.\n3. Similar to intense thalassophobia.\n4. All interviewed members of the rescue effort had dismissed the area 'based on a bad feeling'.\n5. Consistent with a catastrophic munitions failure.\n6. Large enough to destroy a naval fleet.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5185 | SCP-5186 | SCP-5187 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by Ethagon\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe content of this page is archived as this file has become obsolete. As archiving is an outdated process, this page will not be redirected. The only thing that this process still changes on a front-end level is the Object Class.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem #: SCP-5187\nClearance: 2/Memetic - 4/General\nNote: The General Clearance was increased, to prevent Miscommunications from accessing this file.\nObject Class: Archived\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5187 is to be researched using Standard Procedure, by the Central Memetics Department.\nDescription: SCP-5187 is a standard cognitohazard. SCP-5187 is carried in a photograph and causes subjects to experience a mix of longing and fear of something they deem vast and outside of their understanding when looking at it. SCP-5187 can only take effect when the subject is outside.\nNote: The fact that it only works outside suggests a poorer quality of production.\n\nCOGNITOHAZARD EMBEDDED. VIEWING IS ADVISED ONLY WITH LEVEL 2 MEMETIC RESISTANCE OR HIGHER\n\nVIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK\n\nVIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK\n\nDiscovery: The photograph of SCP-5187 was pinned to a side wall in Manhatten, New York when it was noticed by PANOPTICON1 and marked as a potential cognitohazard. The local Containment Team was ordered to retrieve the photo and bring it to the nearest Memetic Department Site.\nEffect Test:\n\nTest\nResources\nResults\n\nExposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n10 D-Class with Naval background\nAll D-Class felt inspired to sail again\n\nExposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n5 D-Class with astronomical background (Scarcity of resource)\nAll but one D-Class described both longing and fear to go to space\n\nLongterm exposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n1 D-Class with astronomical background\nSubject described the fear of a scientific breakthrough.\n\nExposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n10 D-Class with artistic background\nD-Class described various fears. Additionally, all D-Class felt motivated to produce more art\n\nExposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n10 D-Class selected for their lack of creativity\nNo significant deviation from the Control Group\n\nLongterm exposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n10 D-Class selected for their lack of creativity\nAll D-Class expressed fear towards various minor hobbies\n\nExposure to SCP-5187 outdoors\n10 tainted2 randomly selected D-Class\nStandard effects were reduced by roughly 50%\n\n[DATA OMITTED FOR BREVITIY]\n\nNote: Other departments have drastically decreased their D-Class usage, preventing us from transferring ours to them anymore. If we do not want to rely solely on tainted D-Class, efforts should be made to increase D-Class usage back to its former level.\n\nCreative Analysis: (Written by one of the test subjects)\nI know there were other parts, but it was the darkness on that photo that really pulled me in. It was like that night, back when I still went stargazing, with a night so clear you can see the distance of the stars. The depths between them. It's one of those things a camera can never really capture. Because the camera does not understand the sheer endless gap that connects one celestial to the other. But our heart does. And I am drawn to that hole, the vacuum antithetical to life; I want to fill it with just the most minuscule of motion and get trapped in its freedom far and wide from any help.\nNote: Is creative analysis in this age still necessary? It's the only stain on an otherwise clean procedure.\n\nScientific Analysis:\n\nConcept\nDescription\nPortion of SCP-5187\nLikelihood of Embodiment3\n\nNOO-327543\nThe longing for somewhere else\n25%\n89%\n\nNOO-224989\nCosmic horror\n23%\n93%\n\nNOO-427565\nPassion\n6%\n58%\n\nNOO-427932\nInspiration\n4%\n62%\n\nNOO-427000\nThe Flow\n4%\n5%\n\nNOO-224572\nExistential Dread\n7%\n54%\n\nNOO-327543\nFight or Flight\n10%\n93%\n\nBackground Concepts\n-\n21%\n98%\n\nNOO-745933\nSCP-5187\n100%\n93%\n\nThe photograph conveys the concept of SCP-5187 with a purity4 of roughly 51%.\n\nNote: In response to the message we received. Notes in the document are the best way of documentation and communication. It is not our concern that smaller departments prefer more inconvenient methods, like embedding e-mails into the article.\n\nApprehension:\nDue to its focus on art inspiration and the low purity of cognitohazard conveyance, it is assumed that SCP-5187 was created by an individual associating with GoI-0267 (\"Are We Cool Yet?\"), since work of this quality is in accordance with this GOI's more rudimentary cognitohazard creation.\nA meme was constructed, to instil the idea in the subject to visit a designated meeting point in Manhattan. This meme was constructed in a way that will most likely only affect individuals associating with the themes of SCP-5187 and GOI-0267.\nThe local containment team has been instructed to observe the meeting point. The meme has been released to the public to catch the subject.\nNote: This containment team seems to fulfill our standards. Should we order a reassignment?\nReproduction:\nA separate team of Central Memetics Department researchers has been tasked with reproducing SCP-5187 based solely on the concepts SCP-5187 is made of. The team did not have access to SCP-5187.\nAfter 2 weeks the team was able to reproduce a version of SCP-5187. Additionally, the conveyance purity could be increased by 32%, and Background Concepts reduced by 9%. This version of SCP-5187 now requires at least Level 3 Memetic Resistance for full neutralization.\nInterview:\nAs expected the creator of the first version of SCP-5187 arrived at the designated meeting point and was apprehended. An interview was deemed unnecessary. The subject was amnesticized and released to the public.\n\nThis file is archived since all research has been completed. All information about SCP-5187 can now be found in the concept and cognitohazard repository under NOO-745933.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:SUBJECT\n\nTo: Central Memetics Department\nFrom: Explanation and Research Department\nSubject: Reexplaining Project: SCP-5187\n\nAs part of the Reexplaining Project, my department is proposing reopening research into SCP-5187. ExaRD has filed SCP-5187 as a \"potential anomaly\". In its current state, this file does not provide sufficient evidence for anomalous behaviour. The observed reactions can easily be attributed to normal emotional responses, which may or may not be the intention of the artist. At the very least more creative analysis should be considered.\nRegards\nDirector Weld\n\nTo: Explanation and Research Department\nFrom: Central Memetics Department\nSubject: Re:Reexplaining Project: SCP-5187\n\nThere is no reason for reopening the archived file of NOO-745933. The research was completed using Standard Procedure, no further action is required. The paranormal science of memetics is completely understood, but recognizing its nuances requires a certain expertise in this field. We therefore highly suggest not to take any further inquiries into memetic SCP-Objects in general. Such actions might compromise your department's usefulness to the Foundation.\nRegards\n[COGNITOHAZARD REMOVED]\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Foundation's worldwide surveillance system.\n2. D-Class that developed a memetic resistance due to extended exposure to cognitohazards\n3. Measures the probability of how likely the average viewer will associate the specific concept with the photograph\n4. Measures how little the Cognitohazard is tainted with other non-relevant concepts. A higher purity will also increase the strength of the cognitohazard's effect.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5186 | SCP-5187 | SCP-5188 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5188\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation agents in all major television networks are to monitor for SCP-5188 and prevent any broadcasts before they reach civilian audiences. While the danger to civilians presented by SCP-5188 is negligible, public acknowledgement of its anomalous qualities would lead to a potential Lifted Veil scenario.\nFor research purposes, one television at Site-59 is to receive and record uninhibited broadcasts of SCP-5188. Transcription efforts by research staff are ongoing.\nSCP-2803-A is not to be made aware of Foundation suppression efforts for SCP-5188 under any circumstances. In addition, SCP-2803-A is to receive a monthly supply of forged fan mail for SCP-5188 and a \"royalty payment\" consisting two kilograms of a 50/50 blend of sand and pink glitter.1\nDescription: SCP-5188 is \"Fronglyfoot Street\", an animated2 situation comedy produced by TotleighSoft corporation. Episodes are 22 minutes long; at time of writing, 108 episodes and nine seasons have been recorded at Site-59.\nSCP-5188 makes use of TotleighSoft's signature \"Snoflak-o-Vizhon\", a perception-altering technique that tailors the show's content to match each viewer's personal preferences for entertainment. Despite the claim that \"no two [people] will see the [same show]\",3 identical transcriptions of SCP-5188 between similarly-minded researchers have been noted. Currently, the highest number of recorded variants to an individual episode (including SCP-5188-Gamma) is 57.\nThe show centers around the Fronglyfoots, a family consisting of the male protagonist, his wife, their precocious two-year-old daughter, and a dog. All other factors (such as the characters' names, occupations, location, financial class, supporting characters, and whether or not the dog is capable of speech) depend on the individual iteration.\nIn addition, viewers who possess a nerve bundle previously identified as a \"Rosetta cluster\" will be immune to the perception-altering effects; the resulting show will be SCP-5188-Gamma.\nAddendum: Transcription Excerpt from Season 4, Episode 11, Scene 1\n\nSCP-5188-12\nSCP-5188-23\nSCP-5188-Gamma\n\nTranscriber: Junior Researcher N. Tamino\nMain Character Ethnicities: African-American\nSetting: Eugene, Oregon\nEpisode Title: Micro Brewing for Dummies\n<Begin Log>\n\nINT. FRONGLYFOOT RESIDENCE, LIVING ROOM - DAY\nNina[Wife] is vacuuming. Auggie[Daughter] is playing chess with Pascal[Dog, St. Bernard]. Auggie moves a piece.\n\nAUGGIE\nCheck. HA! What say you to such\nstrategic brilliance, Phillistine?!\n\nPascal yawns and falls asleep on the board.\n\nAUGGIE\nFool! You're no Alexander, and this is\nno Gordian Knot. Up with you, beast!\n\nAuggie attempts to pry Pascal from the board. He sleepily places a paw on top of Auggie's head.\n\nAUGGIE\n(Sarcastic) Ye gods, such brilliance.\n\nBob[Husband] enters the front door, sweating and flustered.\n\nNINA\nBob!\nBOB\nOh, hey Nina. Wanna hear a joke?\nNINA\nHow about first you tell me where you've been.\nBOB\nIt's related. What's vinyl-sided, rectangular,\nand filled with 50 cases of concord grapes for\nno reason?\nNINA\nWhat?\nBOB\n(Smiling nervously) \u2026NOT our garage.\n\nNina crosses her arms and glares. Awkward silence.\n\nBOB\n\u2026anyway, do you know a place where I can\nget some brewer's yeast in bulk?\nNINA\nYou're grounded.\nBOB\nHey, now. I'm thirty-five, you can't ground me!\nI drive a Mercedes!\nNINA\nWhere's the Mercedes?\nBOB\n\u2026under the grapes. I'll be in my room.\n\nBob goes up the stairs.\n\nAUGGIE\nGuess I'd better not tell her about my\nlemon stash!\n\n<End Log>\n\nTranscriber: Junior Researcher L. Matapang\nMain Character Ethnicities: Anthropomorphic lizards\nSetting: Unnamed Trailer Park, Louisiana\nEpisode Title: Nice Melons\n<Begin Log>\n\nINT. FRONGLYFOOT TRAILER, CENTRAL AREA - NIGHT\nLucinda[Wife] is playing Russian roulette while sobbing. Meat[Daughter] lays out a chess board before Wristopher Calken,[Dog, Borzoi] who is convulsing and foaming at the mouth.\n\nMEAT\nAwright, we doin' this? We doin' this.\nWRISTOPHER\nMeat, I need you to call 911.\nMEAT\nThat's not how ya play. Ya gotta move the\npieces around 'n' say \"king me\" 'n' shit.\nWRISTOPHER\nNo, seriously I just dropped a gallon of\nForty Sauce and I'm dying. Call an\nambulance. Now.\nMEAT\nThe fuck's Forty Sauce?\nWRISTOPHER\nOlde English and WD.\n\nMeat picks up the chessboard and leaves.\n\nMEAT\n\u2026yeah, you too dumb for this game.\nI'mma go get Mousetrap or summat.\n\nScott[Husband] enters the front door, whistling the Soviet national anthem.\n\nSCOTT\nOkay, y'all know that gun ain't loaded, right?\nLUCINDA\nJust let me have this.\nSCOTT\n'kay, cool. So, like, guess who just bought\n5,000 watermelons?\nLUCINDA\n(sarcastic)\nWow. I don't know. Who.\nSCOTT\n(pointing to self) THIS GUY!\nLUCINDA\nOh my god. I'm shocked. Why would you\nbuy 5,000 watermelons.\nSCOTT\nYour dad's inheritance had to go somewhere.\nI'mma go throw 'em at God now for cursing\nme with existence.\nLUCINDA\nAim for the giant eyeball on his crotch.\nSCOTT\nOh, is that his weak point? Thanks, wifey!\n\nScott leaves.\n\nWRISTOPHER\nTera Patrick, into your arms, I\ncommence my soul\u2026\n\n<End log>\n\nTranscriber: Junior Researcher E. Gualtieri (Note: has a Rosetta cluster)\nMain Character Ethnicities: Ambiguous from decomposition\nSetting: A derelict conference room of the SCP-2803 compound.\nEpisode Title: \"Friut\"[sp]\n<Begin Log>\n\nINT. CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY\nThe room is covered in a yellow gelatinous substance that has crystallized. \"Concubine\"[Wife], a deceased office worker, dangles limply from the ceiling, attached by the top of her head to a tendril belonging to SCP-2803-A. She bounces up and down, speaking through unknown means.\n\nCONCUBINE\nI am doing a thing. I am doing a thing.\nWitness me doing this thing.\n\n\"Offspring\"[Daughter], a small humanoid effigy made out of staplers, a disembodied cardiovascular system, and crystallized biofilm, dangles from a similar tendril toward \"Vassal\"[Dog, (n/a)]. Vassal is another dangling effigy - quadrupedal, and made from bones and computer keyboards.\n(note: all characters speak in the same voice. The currently speaking character is indicated by shaking and flailing.)\n\nOFFSPRING\nWe will partake in brief enjoyment.\nVASSAL\nMy refusal extrudes from my mouth and\nslathers negation upon your ears.\nOFFSPRING\nYou are without permission!\n\nVassal is dragged back and forth throughout the room, screeching.\n\nOFFSPRING\nI hope you did not enjoy your petulance.\n\nLORD[Husband] enters the room. He is the former executive of the SCP-2803 compound, impaled on one of SCP-2803-A's tendrils like a finger puppet.\n\nCONCUBINE\nLord! We welcome you ambiguously.\nLORD\nBe silent!\nCONCUBINE\nI am disobedient.\nLORD\nIndeed. I have acquired the fruiting bodies.\nCONCUBINE\nFor what purpose? You are well aware that\nfruiting bodies do not belong in the implied\ncounting-house.\nLORD\nMy ignorance is a shining, bulbous gonad. It must\nbe rubbed with folly over and over until\nthe climaxing waves of character development\nwash over the area, sink, and disappear as if\nthey never existed. For this is what reaps\nthe royal sturple from the consumer and thus\nunto our God.\nCONCUBINE\nI tremble from how correct you are. May\nyour ignorance vibrate for eternity, and may\nmy indignace undulate in kind!\nLORD\nI must go, for my lucrative stupidity cannot\nreach its peak among this scenery in particular.\n\nLord leaves.\n\nOffspring and Vassal loudly vomit a thick black organic syrup onto the floor.\n<End log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Due to misinformation protocols, SCP-2803-A is under the belief that this substance is called \"royal sturple\" and is the most precious form of human currency, reserved only for a handful of social elites.\n2. It should be noted that the \"true\" iteration, SCP-5188-Gamma, is live-action.\n3. Approximation from a TV Guide advertisement; original text was spelled too poorly to be precisely identified.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5187 | SCP-5188 | SCP-5189 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM #: SCP-5189\nOBJECT CLASS: Keter\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: It is currently unknown how much of SCP-5189 is present within the ocean. An offshoot of MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\"), MTF Gamma-6a, is actively searching the ocean for new cases of SCP-5189 to be contained.\nIn most instances, SCP-5189 can be transplanted to the nearest available aquatic facility with only minor casualties. However, in the case of an SCP-5189-1 infestation, the area must be cordoned off at an area of 60 80 meters from the nearest instance of SCP-5189 and elimination procedures are to take place left undisturbed until further notice1.\n\nInstances of SCP-5189 forming SCP-5189-1.\n\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5189 is the designation for anomalous variations of organisms of the order Laminariales2. Specimens of SCP-5189 are physically identical to their respective species except for the occurrence of a mouth-like structure at the holdfast3 of each organism. This mouth is made of organic algae matter as well as dentin, formed through an unknown process, to create numerous teeth similar in size and shape to Galeocerdo cuvier, known as the tiger shark.\nInstances of SCP-5189, at times when humans are within an area of about 80 meters, will whisper words to beckon humans to come near. Specimens of SCP-5189 do not possess vocal cords, but their voices are frequently described as \"female,\" \"pleasant,\" and \"alluring.\" The voice of each instance of SCP-5189 is unique, but always asks for the individual to come nearer. Instances of SCP-5189 do not respond to other individuals, whether human or nearby instance of SCP-5189.\nOnce a human is within range, instances of SCP-5189 will move their thalli and blades in order to grab onto the person. Specimens of SCP-5189 have a remarkable grip, making it unlikely for a human to escape after being grabbed on to. Once attached to a human, instances of SCP-5189 will pull the person towards their mouth and begin the consumption process.\nConsumption occurs at a slow rate for specimens of SCP-5189, being approximately one bite each half-hour. Because no organs are attached to their mouths, the victim's flesh and viscera, once chewed, floats out of the mouth and into the surrounding water. This results in a frequent red coloring of the water around instances of SCP-5189. Instances of SCP-5189 will hold their victim until the consumption process is finished, with the process usually taking one or two days for a human to be completely eaten. Living bodies are held above water, while deceased ones are left below. Thus, it is common to see hanging, half-eaten bodies on instances of SCP-5189 at any given time, with a surviving victim held on the surface to bleed out.\nSpecimens of SCP-5189 can and will hold on to multiple people at a time, leaving their bodies floating underwater being held by the thallus. Instances of SCP-5189 show no discernment between bodies when taking bites, leaving the partially-eaten bodies hanging until all are finished.\nInstances of SCP-5189 will grow together like their anomalous counterparts. Once a group of SCP-5189 has exceeded 50 specimens within 100 meters, it is an instance of SCP-5189-1. Instances of SCP-5189 in SCP-5189-1 will rip apart bodies held by other instances of SCP-5189, usually resulting in the body being split between four to six specimens.\n\nAnother instance of SCP-5189-1.\n\nINCIDENT 5189-1: On 01/15/21, MTF Gamma-6a was dispatched to eliminate the first recorded instance of SCP-5189-1, located off the southern California coast. Utilizing procedures previously used to eliminate smaller gatherings of SCP-5189, MTF Gamma-6a proceeded to reduce the population size.\nApproximately two hours into the process, MTF Gamma-6a was eliminated by SCP-5189-1. Instances of SCP-5189 appeared to work together in order to subdue and drown the task force, and split the bodies evenly throughout the instance of SCP-5189-1.\nAfter two hours, G6a-Cap was promptly disemboweled after the rest of the team could not wrest him free from an SCP-5189 thallus. This resulted in much of the force being close enough for other instances of SCP-5189 to reach them. The rest of the force was eliminated after the range of SCP-5189-1 was proven to be larger than anticipated. The heads of G6a-8, 13, and 31 were all bitten off, the teeth being sharp enough to pierce the skull and lacerate the brain. G6a-3, 14, 18, 24 and 29 all died of blood loss within half an hour of multiple major arteries being torn open. G6a-2, 5, 8, 11, 21 and 22 were torn apart between multiple instances of SCP-5189 and died almost immediately. All other members of MTF Gamma-6a died or are are dying4 much slower due multiple nonfatal wounds.\nUPDATE: As of 01/23/21, while many body parts have been recovered, there are still numerous bodies hanging from instances of SCP-5189.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Testing is currently taking place as to ascertain an effective method of eliminating instances of SCP-5189-1 or reducing the amount of SCP-5189 to manageable levels\n2. Kelp\n3. The base, or \"roots,\" of the algae\n4. Report was written a day after the incident.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5188 | SCP-5189 | SCP-5190 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5190\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to its nature, SCP-5190 is considered self-containing, and thus is not subject to specific procedures.\nDescription: SCP-5190 is the collective designation for an unclear but insignificant percentage of the human population, who are subject to an anomalous phenomenon which influences their effect on the world around them.\nInstances of SCP-5190 will make little to no significant impact to the world around them throughout their lives \u2014 and any societal or environmental change they do manage to bring about will revert shortly after.\nAll SCP-5190 instances are subject to a minor perception filter effect which increases the difficulty of noticing them, the strength of which increases exponentially the more other individuals are nearby. The strength of this filter, however, reduces to almost zero whenever the instance is engaging in acts that would be considered criminal or otherwise socially inappropriate1.\nDespite what most SCP-5190 instances believe, the majority of their personal relationships reach the level of acquaintance at best \u2014 when pressed, most individuals who know SCP-5190 instances have described them as vaguely pleasant but ultimately insubstantial. In 80% of interviews conducted with individuals acquainted with SCP-5190 instances, they have had significant difficulty fully recalling details such as the instance's name and features; in the remaining 20%, they have failed to remember these details altogether.\nFollowing death, memories of the SCP-5190 instance will rapidly fade from the minds of all individuals who have encountered them. All observed cases have resulted in a complete loss of memories pertaining to the instance after a period of three days, save for a vague notion that the subject in question has forgotten something of little importance.\n\nAddendum 5190-1: Due to lack of Foundation interest, further information on this anomaly is not available.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Note, however, that the prospect of performing these kinds of actions provokes severe anxiety in most SCP-5190 instances.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5189 | SCP-5190 | SCP-5191 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5191\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Agents are to watch the formerly publicly available mailing addresses of SCP-5191 until a period of two years has passed without receiving a letter. If an order is received, agents are to track, interrogate, and amnesticize the source, as well as anyone who may have known of the sender's actions.\nDescription: SCP-5191 was formerly the U.S based organization known as \"Your Little Munchkin1\" and later \"Little Munchkin Inc.2\" The purpose of this organization was to provide newborn children to couples and families unable to procreate or adopt.\nAlthough the company was considerably well known for decades, the Foundation only became aware of anomalous activity in 2001, when documents were leaked to the public. It was discovered that after 1968 a majority of participants would describe in great detail the child they wanted, referencing the desired appearance, emotional state, and behavior patterns the child would present in the future (see Document-5191 Collection). Comparing the orders to the children produced showed 97.8% 100%3 accuracy to the desired qualities.\nIn response, the Foundation forcibly drew the company to bankruptcy and purchased its assets. SCP-5191's sperm and egg banks showed no signs of genetic abnormalities or engineering. As such, it has been determined that Little Munchkin Inc had discovered an anomalous method for determining the future development of a fetus. It is unknown when the company developed this process, as all records of the procedure have been destroyed in their entirety.\nDocument-5191 Collection: The following are recovered letters received by SCP-5191.\nDocument-5191-1 (sent on April 23, 1953):\n\nDear Mr. Stork4\nI am ten years old. I have been an only child my whole life. I have friends at school, but I can never bring them home with me; they always have to go on their bikes back to their own moms and dads. I wish to have a friend that I can spend time with at home. Mom and Dad say they want another child, but don't know if they have the responsibility. But I can be responsible for a new sibling. We already have a cat named Nabby. I take care of him all the time. I'm also an assistant for the teacher at school. I can help my new sibling learn.\nPlease send me a new sibling soon.\nGabriel\n\nDocument-5191-2 (sent on February 5, 1965):\n\nDear Your Little Munchkin,\nMy husband and I would like to make a request. See, we have been looking for not just any child, but a child with beautiful blue eyes. We haven't found any at nearby foster homes, and we can't have a baby with certainty.\nWe hope this isn't too strenuous for you, but we trust that whatever employee reads this letter will be kind enough to take an extra moment and pick the child we're looking for. You understand, right? It feels like striking blue eyes are becoming such a rare quality nowadays. We would be delighted to make a charitable donation to make it worth the trouble.\nThank you for reading.\n\nDocument-5191-3 (sent on June 10, 1968)\n\nDear \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u25885\nI wanted to congratulate you on your recent step forward as a fully formed company. What you have established is a business model that is truly eternally stable, something I know for certain others in the business world are jealous of.\nI would also like to inquire about any open positions you may now have open. Why, I have experience as a full-time investor and a board member of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Inc. With me working under you, you're profits will triple on top of what you will already be pulling in.\nThank you for your consideration,\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nDocument-5191-46 (sent on November 19, 1969)\n\nHello, YLM,\nI've heard about some of your new features from a friend of a friend, and this has finally pushed me to take that step and become a parent! I would like to start with three children. That may sound like a lot, but there's no need to worry about my financial situation. I make more than enough to support them all.\nThe only quality I would like is for my children to not cry. Oh, I won't mind if they get pouty or upset, but please, crying will drive me insane! I don't want to have to spend the entire night calming them down; I at least want to enjoy my programs in peace.\nCan't wait for my delivery! Thanks so much, make 'em cuties!\n\nDocument-5191-57 (sent on January 14, 1975):\n\nDear YLM Inc.\nI would like an infant boy of seven pounds and three ounces. His name will be Adam. He will grow into a tall, slender boy with hair that is easy to brush to the side. He will be able to find answers on his own without having to ask me or his father questions. When we are at parties, he will stand quietly until he is spoken too. When he answers, he will give answers that charm the hosts. He will be willing to try and enjoy any food, and will not complain about wearing any kind of clothes. He will have a pleasant singing voice. He will be capable of passing through the highest of business colleges, then move on to being a solid investor so he can gain financial independence as soon as possible.\nThank you for processing this request.\n\nDocument-5191-6 (sent on December 26, 1998)\n\nDear Customer Experience Representative,\nI am here to file a complaint. The daughter you sent me has done just the most embarrassing thing.\nJust yesterday, we were at a neighbor's Christmas party. We were exchanging gifts, and for a few years now my gift to the crowd has been my daughter singing \"Silent Night\" for everyone. They've always found it acceptable. But last night, when she was in the middle of singing, her eyes started to drift away from the crowd. Her gaze dropped to her feet as she lowered her head. By the time she was finished she was scrambling off to the restroom. And when I followed her, there I found the problem: Her eyes were all watery. She stayed there the rest of the night, while everyone else at the party kept giving me these awful, pitiful looks.\nShe was either sick or emotional. Which, according to your advertising, is impossible. I ordered a healthy, functional child, and she's been so until last night. I've done nothing to damage her. I've provided food, water, and caretakers for her. I've given her an entire house worth of space. I've left her alone. I can prove to you that there was no mistake on my part. I couldn't have done anything to harm her.\nI would like you to send some people over and return Valery to how she used to be. I'm able to pay any fee you'd like, and possibly a bonus if you get here quickly. I don't want to have to think about this for long.\nSincerely,\nAdam Jacobson\n\nFootnotes\n1. Formed in 1933.\n2. Incorporated in 1968.\n3. Behaviors originally viewed as discrepancies are now believed to have been intentionally added by the company.\n4. York the Stork was the charity's mascot. Promotions often asked that interested children send their letters to York.\n5. The founder and CEO of Your Little Munchkin.\n6. The following contained a cash payment of $630.\n7. The following contained check payment of $4,500.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5190 | SCP-5191 | SCP-5192 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nCheck out more of my articles on my author page!\n\n\n2/5192 LEVEL 2/5192\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5192\n\nEuclid\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: CCTV and Satellite footage is to be monitored in an attempt to detect SCP-5192 instances. If an instance is detected, it is to be disarmed via a weighted mannequin being thrown through the store door. If this does not trigger SCP-5192's activation, a single D-class worker is to be deployed into the instance.\nFootage from Addendum 001 is currently being cross-referenced against missing persons databases. For confirmed matches, forged corpses and cover stories are to be produced, with the former positioned for discovery by local law enforcement.\nDescription: SCP-5192 is an anomalous phenomenon affecting abandoned commercial stores globally. On occurrence, SCP-5192 will displace the current interior of the store and replace it with an empty interior, with the walls, ceiling, and flooring constructed out of an unidentified metal.\nThe storefront will also be affected. The title of the store will change, or a name placard will appear if not already present, ostensibly offering implausible products and services; examples include \"FREE MANSHUN FOR U\" and \"WE GIV U GOLD 4 3\". The title of the store will be written in the local area's predominant language, and frequently includes errors relating to syntax, spelling, and grammar.\nUpon a person, or group of persons, entering an SCP-5192 instance, the anomaly will activate. A metal shutter will fall over the shop front, and those trapped within will be transported to an extradimensional location (Plane 5192-\u03b1). After a short duration of time, ranging between 2 and 8 minutes, the shutter will reopen autonomously, and the store's original interior will have been restored.\n\nADDENDUM 001: INCIDENT LOG\n\n+ OPEN ADDENDUM 1 +\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM 1 -\n\nForeword: An instance of SCP-5192 was detected in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A team was dispatched to investigate, including D-1891. The D-class was equipped with an ocular camera implant, and was instructed to enter the store to investigate.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nD-1891 stands before the SCP-5192 instance. The sign outside reads \"ERAZ YUR DEBTS\". The windows are boarded, but a sign hung on the door reads \"OPEN\".\nD-1891: Okay, I'm heading inside now.\n(D-1891 enters the store. It is abandoned, save for a wooden table at the back of the room, upon which rests a white, organic material.)\n(The walls, ceiling, and mesh flooring are comprised of what appears to be a rusted metal. D-1891 looks down at the mesh floor they are stood upon. Only darkness can be seen below it. They look back up, and walk to the table. At closer distance, the organic material is identifiable as a mass of salted herring.)\nD-1891: Err\u2026 hello? Is anyone there?\n(Without warning, a metal shutter slams shut over the storefront, sealing off the door and windows.)\nD-1891: Oh no.\n(The entire room suddenly begins to fall downwards at speed. Approximately 5 seconds into this process, water begins to flood into the room through the floor. D-1891 attempts to avoid the liquid by climbing on top of the table. These attempts are soon thwarted, as gravity within the room inverts, sending D-1891, the table, and the water crashing onto the roof-turned-floor. The room is soon completely submerged.)\n(D-1891 begins to struggle for breath, as the darkness above slowly grows lighter. He gasps for air, and inhales a mouthful of water, clutching at his throat.)\n(Suddenly, the crate emerges from the water, and the liquid is drained out as it is shaken from side to side. The shadow of a large, unseen entity can be seen through the mesh of the ceiling, holding the crate.)\n[Unidentified]: Let's see what we got 'ere then\u2026\n(The ceiling of the crate is revealed to be a lid, which the entity removes, revealing their form. Looming above D-1891 stands a crustacean entity resembling a gigantic Maine lobster1, hereafter designated SCP-5192-1.)\nSCP-5192-1: Wahey, we've got a live one!\n(D-1891 begins to scream. A second entity, SCP-5192-2, moves into frame. In the background of the shot, a mast and equipment visible indicate D-1891 is now located on a form of fishing boat - the sound of the ocean tide hitting the boat can be heard. Their implanted geolocator has ceased functioning.)\n\nA specimen of Homarus americanus, which SCP-5192-1 and -2 resemble, being prepared for consumption, by staff in the O5 kitchen.\n\nSCP-5192-2: Blimey, this one's a talker ain't it?\n(As D-1891 looks up at the entities, the sky above can be seen. Despite the bright daylight, two fluorescent green moons can be seen, along with as-yet-unidentified star constellations).\nD-1891: Oh please don't hurt me, I'll do whatever you want, oh Christ, please listen to me, I'll do whatever I promise, just-\nSCP-5192-1: Ever wonder what they're sayin'?\nSCP-5192-2: Nope.\nSCP-5192-1: Ha! Me neither, throw it in the pile.\n(5192-2 reaches into the metal crate, and picks up D-1891 with its right claw. D-1891 flails in an attempt to break free, striking the entity with its fists and feet.)\nSCP-5192-2: Oh, we'll be having none of that mister.\n(SCP-5192-2 expands its left claw, stretching the white rubber band pulled over it. It lowers the band over D-1891's torso, and places it there, locking his arms in place.)\nSCP-5192-2: Now, off you fuck.\n(SCP-5192-2 flings D-1891 into a container close to the centre of the boat's deck. He closes his eyes for the duration he is air bound, and lands with a wet thud, ceasing his screams. Upon opening his eyes, D-1891 discovers he is surrounded by the corpses of fourteen adult humans. Their blue faces indicate oxygen deprivation through drowning as the cause of death.)\n(D-1891 begins to hyperventilate, before pausing as they spot another living human, sans rubber band, across the container from them. Through post-incident analysis, this individual has been identified as Luca Brambilla, from Milan, Italy. A missing persons report for Brambilla was filed the day subsequent to the incident.)\n(Unable to stand, D-1891 scrambles over to them, pushing themselves along with their feet.)\nD-1891: Hey, hey you, we've got to get out of here. Do you have any idea where we are?\n(Brambilla stares at D-1891 with a look of shock on their face, before opening their mouth to speak:)\nBrambilla: [Unintelligible.]\n(A series of short, high-pitched whistling noises are vocalised by Brambilla, as they retreat from D-1891.)\nD-1891: The hell is your problem? Come over here and untie me!\n(Brambilla keeps their distance from D-1891, then goes down on their knees and begins to pray. As they do, they resume vocalising the whistling noises.)\nD-1891: You can't understand me either\u2026 that's great. Just great. GREAT!\n(D-1891 begins to thrash, kicking their legs wildly at the container's walls. For 89 minutes, they make no further vocalisations, with the exception of sporadic laughter, and no other noteworthy events occur. The sky above can be seen moving, confirming the boat is in motion.)\n[LOG REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\n(The boat comes to rest.)\nSCP-5192-2: Right, I'll take these up the dock \u2014 see you shortly.\n(SCP-5192-2 approaches the container holding D-1891, Brambilla, and the corpses. It picks it up in its claws, and begins to ambulate across the boat. From D-1891's vantage point, the surroundings are unable to be discerned.)\n(After 15 minutes, SCP-5192-2 stops, and engages in conversation with another, unseen entity, SCP-5192-3.)\nSCP-5192-2: Alright Norris, how's it going?\nSCP-5192-3: Welcome your highness! It's so good to be graced with your company.\n(Both entities are silent.)\nSCP-5192-2: Is that a joke?\nSCP-5192-3: Of course it's a joke! Where the hell have you been? Lunch service started 20 minutes ago!\nSCP-5192-2: Easy mate, winds were against us today, sea too. Come take a look.\n(SCP-5192-3 approaches the container held by -2, and looks inside. The entity resembles an Atlantic Rock Crab.2 It makes a noise reminiscent of sighing.)\nSCP-5192-3: If that's all you got, that's all you got. I'll take the lot.\nSCP-5192-2: Dead ones too?\nSCP-5192-3: Aye. Chowder's on the menu today.\n(SCP-5192-3 takes hold of the container, and carries it inside a nearby building to a room resembling a commercial kitchen.)\nSCP-5192-3: Ingredients are 'ere! What's the orders?\n(A fourth entity, SCP-5192-4, comes into view. It is similar to -1 and -2 in appearance.)\nD-1891: Not like this.\nSCP-5192-4: One thermidor, one boiled.\nD-1891: Oh please, not like this.\nSCP-5192-3: Great, you can handle them both.\nSCP-5192-4: Err\u2026 are you sure, boss?\nSCP-5192-3: Question me again and you'll get the thick side of m'claw round ya head. Get to it!\n(SCP-5192-4 approaches the container, and stares at its contents. After a moment, they reach in and pick up Brambilla, before placing him down on the adjacent worktop counter.)\nD-1891: Please, no.\n(SCP-5192-4 takes a kitchen knife, handle modified to fit a crustacean claw, and makes an incision on the back of Brambilla's neck. The human emits his loudest vocalisation yet, and begins to spasm.)\nSCP-5192-3: Christ, you've nicked it! What have I told you before, it needs to be one clean cut. Get out the way\u2026meat'll be all tense now, 'less we're lucky.\nSCP-5192-4: I asked if you were sure\u2026\nSCP-5192-3: Quiet! Just take care of the other whilst I sort your mess.\nD-1891: You bastards watching at the other end, it's your fault. You're the reason it's like this.\n(SCP-5192-4 returns to the container, and picks up D-1891. He does not struggle. As he is lifted up, a greater section of the establishment is exposed to D-1891's ocular camera.)\n(SCP-5192-3 can be seen removing Brambilla's spine with its pincers, butterflying the torso, and proceeding to pour a white sauce into the chest cavity. Brambilla's left leg twitches throughout.)\n(A serving window provides a viewpoint from the kitchen to an adjacent dining room. The area is densely populated with crustacean entities. The majority appear to be eating meals comprised of human components. SCP-5192-4 arrives at a hob, where a pan of boiling water is on the heat.)\nD-1891: Oh no, no no, please no! No!\n(With its spare claw, SCP-5192-4 lifts the lid off the pan.)\nSCP-5192-4: Here we go, little fella.\n(The entity drops D-1891 into the boiling water. )\n[D-1891'S VOCALISATIONS REDACTED]\nSCP-5192-4: God, I hate it when they scream.\nSCP-5192-3: Oh, that's not screaming. It's just air escaping from their face holes.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterword: Feed suspended due to D-1891's ocular camera abruptly cutting out, due to heat and water damage. All further testing is suspended.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Homarus americanus.\n2. Cancer irroratus.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5191 | SCP-5192 | SCP-5193 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5193\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As SCP-5193 has failed to materialize for a period of over one year, it has been declared Neutralized. As a result, no containment procedures are necessary.\n\n+ Previous Containment Procedures\n\n- Close\n\nWhen it is Friday, Foundation agents disguised as tourists are to arrive at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., before SCP-5193 materializes. When SCP-5193 materializes, the agents are to monitor the area for individuals who attempt to make any kind of contact with it until it dematerializes. Such individuals are to be detained and amnesticized, along with any individuals who witness SCP-5193's materialization or dematerialization.\n\nDescription: SCP-5193 was an anomalous entity that would manifest near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., every Friday at 5:00 p.m. SCP-5193 appeared to be James \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, an American man who served in the United States Marine Corps from 1964 until his death in 1968. James was 25 years old at the time of his death.\nUpon manifestation, SCP-5193 would walk along the Memorial Wall for a period of exactly one hour, at which point it would dematerialize. All attempts to make contact with SCP-5193 during this period were unsuccessful, as physical contact could not be made with it and it did not react to any attempts at conversation.\nAddendum: Incident Report\nOn 26/10/2019, a man arrived at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at 4:57 p.m., and immediately approached SCP-5193 when it manifested. Foundation agents began approaching the man to detain him, but decided to allow him to interact with SCP-5193 after it visibly reacted to his presence. A log of the resulting incident follows.\n\nBegin Log\nThe man approaches SCP-5193. SCP-5193 stops walking and turns to face him.\nMan: Is it really you?\nSCP-5193 stares at him, but does not respond.\nMan: I'll take that as a yes. How have you been?\nSCP-5193 does not react.\nMan: As you can see, I've grown now. Got a job, started a family, got old. I wish you were there to see it.\nSCP-5193 lowers its head. The man does not say anything for approximately 30 seconds.\nMan: You know, I didn't even understand the concept of death when you were killed out there. Momma told me that you were so brave that they just had to keep you after the war. I didn't figure out what actually happened until years later.\nSCP-5193 does not react.\nMan: I felt your absence at every stage of my life. High school graduation, getting married, all that. Now that you're here, all of those moments, they don't matter.\nSCP-5193 looks up and takes a step toward the man.\nMan: It's funny, I've spent most of my life trying to think of what to say here, but I'm at a loss for words now that I'm actually talking to you. I guess all I really want to say is that I love you, and I wish I could say it more.\nSCP-5193 smiles. The two hug, and SCP-5193 dematerializes. Foundation agents move in to apprehend the man.\n<End Log>\n\nThe man was later identified as Robert \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, the son of James \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. When questioned, Robert claimed that he was at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to pay his respects, and had no knowledge of SCP-5193 prior to its manifestation. Robert was unable to explain how he was able to make physical contact with SCP-5193, and failed to provide any other useful information. Since this incident, SCP-5193 has ceased manifestation, and it was declared Neutralized on 26/10/2020.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5192 | SCP-5193 | SCP-5194 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5194\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5194 Upon Recovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5194 is currently contained in drydock A-6 at Site-184. Drydock A-6 is undergoing renovations to see the installation of a Faraday cage surrounding SCP-5194. Broadcasts originating from SCP-5194 are to be monitored, recorded, and stored on-site for 30 days prior to deletion.\nAs of Transmission Deviation-07/09/20201, no attempts to access the interior of SCP-5194 are to be undertaken.\nDescription: SCP-5194 is an autonomous submersible bearing the designation: SCP: WM-C-DS3. While the submersible model is consistent with autonomous vessels in use by the Foundation since 1986, SCP-5194's designation code does not conform to any recorded Foundation vessel.\nAdditionally, SCP-5194 emits a continuous, looping shortwave radio broadcast, consisting of:\n\n15 seconds of audio dots and dashes, which can be decoded utilizing International Morse Code.2\n83 seconds of audio dots and dashes, which can be decoded utilizing Foundation Morse Code Cypher-MUN4.3\n43 seconds of static.\n\nRecovery: SCP-5194's broadcast was detected by Foundation Naval Assets on 04/09/2020. Vessels redirected to identify and contain SCP-5194 were unable to intercept prior to SCP-5194 beaching 200m from Site-184, located on the Eastern Coast of Nova Scotia. Site personnel were then able to recover SCP-5194 with negligible public awareness.\n\nAddendum-MC-1: The following transcription is broadcasted by SCP-5194 in International Morse Code:\n\nSCP WM C DS3 TRANSMITTING IN THE DARK ENCODED MESSAGE TO FOLLOW\n\nAddendum-MC-2: The following transcription is broadcasted by SCP-5194 and decoded using Foundation Morse Code Cypher-MUN4.4\n\nATTENTION FOUNDATION PERSONNEL: SCP-WM-C-DS3 TRANSMITTING IN THE DARK.\nLOCAL DATA STORE EXCEEDING MAXIMUM CAPACITY. REQUESTING DATA TRANSFER.\nAUTHENTICATION REQUIRED.\nCHALLENGE: THE MOON PULLS THE SEA.\nRESPONSE:\n\nAddendum-TD-07/09/2020: Following containment of SCP-5194, Foundation personnel attempted to gain entrance to the vessel's interior. SCP-5194's access ports appeared to be locked from within, and approval was given to force access into SCP-5194. Upon attempting to cut into SCP-5194's dorsal access port, the regular broadcast ended, and the following message was broadcast in International Morse Code. Following the conclusion of this transmission deviation, and the cessation of entry attempts, SCP-5194 resumed its typical broadcasting.\n\nFAILURE TO CEASE UNATHORIZED BREACH ATTEMPT WILL RESULT IN ERASURE OF LOCAL DATA STORAGE\n\nDue to the potential importance of data stored upon SCP-5194, the attempt to access the vessel's interior was halted, and no further attempts are to be made.\n\n+ RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 4 PERSONNEL ONLY. PLEASE INPUT LEVEL 4 CREDENTIALS TO CONTINUE.\n\n- LEVEL 4 CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED\n\nGood evening, Director Barrett.\nLoading File: SCP-5194-CL4\u2026.\n\nItem#: 5194\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5194 Upon Recovery.\n\nDescription - Level 4 Clearance: SCP-5194-A is an autonomous, submersible, mobile data-storage and relay vessel utilized by the Foundation during R&D Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta. SCP-5194 was launched by the Foundation on 03/11/1994 for the purpose of remote storage of memortic data,5 transmitted from SCP-5194-B. On 21/04/1997, following the suspension of all projects conducted under Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta, SCP-5194-A was given orders to self-terminate; SCP-5194 transmitted confirmation that local data stores had been cleared and that it would undertake immediate self-scuttling actions. No further transmissions from SCP-5194 were detected, until its appearance near Site-184 on 04/09/2020.\nSCP-5194-B is an autonomous, memortic sink capable of interpreting, translating, and transmitting memortic data into binary code. SCP-5194-B is currently located on the Earth's Moon at selenographic coordinates: 25.2103oN, 39.0126oW. SCP-5194-B was installed by the Foundation at its current location on 17/10/1997 and designed to operate indefinitely. Although deactivated during the suspension of Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta, the physical disassembly of SCP-5194-B was deemed unnecessary and a misallocation of Foundation resources.\nFoundation Response to the Appearance of SCP-5194-A: Following the appearance of SCP-5194-A, an inquiry into Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta was opened. Foundation records have identified the following personnel as directly involved with the creation and operation of SCP-5194-A and SCP-5194-B. Efforts to locate Dr. Yost Minen for questioning are underway.\n\nFoundation Personnel:\nRole in Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta:\nCurrent Status:\n\nDr. Gregory Werner.\n\nResearch Lead: biological effects of Oros-Class Amnestic.\n\nUnder house arrest.\n\nDr. Sylvia Morrison.\n\nResearch Lead: applied memortics.\n\nDeceased - 18/08/2009.\n\nDr. Oswald Grisdal.\n\nJunior Analyst: memortic data conversion and transmission.\n\nUnder house arrest.\n\nDr. Yost Minen.\n\nResearch Head: Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta.\n\nLocation unknown, last seen 10/03/2015.\n\nAddendum I-01: The following interview was conducted after the discovery and containment of SCP-5194-A.\n\nAUDIO TRANSCRIPTION\n\nDATE: 11/09/2020.\nNOTE: Dr. Gregory Werner had been placed on house arrest following the opening of Ethics Committee Investigation - Case Number: 11A82N. Agent Murphy had been assigned with interviewing Dr. Werner on his affiliation with SCP-5194-A and SCP-5194-B.\n\n[AUDIO BEGINS]\nAgent Murphy: Dr. Werner, my name is Agent Murphy. Director Barrett has requested I interview you regarding your involvement in Foundation Research and Development Initiative Waning Moon - Ceta.\nDr. Werner: Director Barrett? What, are they not giving Rogers access to the Ethics Committee interviews? At the moment, I'm not too inclined to repeat myself to save Barrett some paperwork.\nAgent Murphy: I appreciate your candor, Dr. Werner. Unfortunately, recent events have necessitated me being here. Am I correct in assuming this is familiar to you?\nAgent Murphy offers Dr. Werner an envelope containing SCP-5194-CL-4's file. Dr. Werner proceeds to read through the file before responding. Dr. Werner remains silent for a period of time after placing the documents on the desk.\nDr. Werner: I, well\u2026 This doesn't make sense; DS3 - SCP-5194-A now, I suppose - shouldn't be operational. But even if it were, there's no reason why its data storage would be full -\nAgent Murphy: I'm glad to see that you are taking this seriously, Dr. Werner. Perhaps we can start at the beginning. What were, in your understanding, the goals of Waning Moon - Ceta?\nDr. Werner: It was to be an answer to a problem. The amnestics we've been using for decades - they're all dependent upon a subject's biological response. Waning Moon was an attempt to surpass this limitation utilizing memortic theory.\nAgent Murphy: You hadn't mentioned memortic theory in your previous interviews, Dr. Werner. I find that slightly alarming - could you elaborate on this concept and its relation to SCP-5194?\nDr. Werner: It was hardly relevant to the questions I was asked previously. Dr. Morrison was the expert on applied memortics, and as she explained it, an individual's memories are not solely biological; they exist on a different conceptual level. Memortic-layer was the term she used.\nAgent Murphy begins to write in a small notebook, Dr. Werner leans backwards in the chair and watches him, smiling for a moment before resuming a neutral expression.\nAgent Murphy: You can continue, Dr. Werner.\nDr. Werner: Well, she suggested that sentient individuals exhibit a force of attraction on this memortic-layer, with the strongest bonds existing between them and memories essential to their self-identity. Sure, we had the tools to affect a person's ability to remember certain events, but conventional amnestics leave memories conceptually present and tethered to the subject, causing the problems we see with their long-term effectiveness.\nAgent Murphy: Returning to my initial question, Dr. Werner. What does this have to do with SCP-5194-A and -B?\nDr. Werner: Everything. Dr. Morrison theorized that objects with sufficient gravitational pull warp the memortic layer in a way analogous to their influence on space-time. She suggested that, a black hole for example, wouldn't just pull physical matter and light into it, but upon a certain threshold, an individual's memories and self-identity would be consumed and lost. It was Yost Minen's project, Waning Moon - Ceta, that fully saw the possibilities this theory offered - he thought all they needed was to get that thing onto the moon.\nAgent Murphy: You're referring to SCP-5194-B? Foundation records state it was deactivated-\nDr. Werner: But it's still there, isn't it? What you're calling SCP-5194-B was an attempt to amplify the natural force exerted by the moon on the memortic layer toward certain, targeted memories. Oros-Class Amnestic was the signal: a way to identify such memories.\nAgent Murphy: My understanding is that Oros-Class Amnestic was never widely utilized. Why was that?\nDr. Werner: The whole thing didn't work. There was a break-down in the chain of connections. We went through our funding - then the additional funding - then command shut us down.\nAgent Murphy: Thank you for your time, Dr. Werner. If you recall anything further, please do be in touch.\n\n[END LOG]\nNOTE: I am suspicious of Dr. Werner's explanation surrounding the suspension of Waning Moon - Ceta. Pending Director Barrett's approval, I am requesting access to restricted archives which may be relevant to my Investigation.\n[APPROVED].\n\nAddendum I-02: The following document has been attached to SCP-5194-CL4's file by Agent Murphy.\n\nINTERNAL MEMO: SCP WM-C Memortic Sink tests (04/12/1997).\nFROM: Dr. Sylvia Morrison\nTO: Dr. Yost Minen.\nDATE: 04/12/1997.\n\nDr. Minen,\nI am excited to report that operational tests of WM-C MS1 are proceeding as scheduled and thus far appear promising.\nWe have established a definite memortic-binary link, and WM-C MS1 and WM-C DS3 are showing green across the board. I have Oswald running checks on the data flow to ensure nothing is lost there, and he's told me its all looking stable - for now at least.\nOur only hiccup came during testing: our Leporidae subject, 0004, appeared to enter a catatonic state following the administration of Oros Class Amnestic. Dr. Werner is reviewing the chemical compounds to determine the cause. Despite this, all indications suggest that the trial was a success - data from 0004's memortic sphere seems to have been successfully extracted; we should be able to access it via WM-C DS3's transfer shortly.\nWe're going to be able to see its memories.\n\u2014 Dr. Sylvia Morrison\n\nAddendum I-03: The following interviews were arranged by Agent Murphy's request to further question Dr. Werner.\n\nAUDIO TRANSCRIPTION\n\nDATE: 13/09/2020.\nNOTE: Following my investigation into the suspension of Waning Moon - Ceta, I have reason to question the account given by Dr. Werner. My intention is to address his role in the creation of Oros-Class Amnestic.\n\n[AUDIO BEGINS]\nAgent Murphy: Dr. Werner, when last we talked you had claimed the suspension of Waning Moon - Ceta involved the failure of SCP-5194-A and -B to operate properly; I believe that you intentionally misled me with that assertion.\n\nDr. Werner: Agent Murphy, I'm unclear on what grounds you have for these accusations.\nAgent Murphy shows Dr. Werner the memo attached as Addendum I-02.\nAgent Murphy: I've also had a closer look at your history at the Foundation, Dr. Werner. You've been working here for nearly 60 years, and in those decades, you haven't made many friends - tend to keep to yourself, avoiding social gatherings and non-work-related functions-\nDr. Werner: I hardly see how my personal preferences are relevant.\nAgent Murphy: Yes, I was getting to that. Although you've stayed distant from your colleagues, you've displayed a surprising attachment to your current position: you've turned down three on-site promotions and four transfer opportunities to other, larger Foundation sites. Some of these potential projects were directly tied to your personal work. We've already established you aren't staying here because of the people here.\nDr. Werner: As I said before, I fail to understand how my personal, life decisions are relevant to your inquiry.\nAgent Murphy: Well then there's the matter of your research assistants; it appears that in your role as Head Researcher of Site-184 Aquatic Animal Wing, you've put in an unusual number of transfer and dismissal requests. The most recent of which has led the past to catch up to you. Dr. Werner, it is abundantly clear that you've been hiding something these past years - but why are you still bothering? You know as well as I do that you're likely to be dismissed from your position, and if I can be blunt, it won't be long until you take this secret to your grave. You have an opportunity here, Dr. Werner, to set the truth straight. I assure you things will come to light in time, wouldn't you rather it be done in your own words?\nDr. Werner is silent for nearly a minute before speaking.\nDr. Werner: It was my fault. I couldn't refine Oros-Class Amnestic to only target specific memories, as we intended; I couldn't figure out the biological-memortic transition. And because of that, SCP-5194-B would rip everything from an individual: all their memories, lived experiences, everything that could constitute a self-identity - gone, pulled hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. The subject wouldn't die; their bodily functions still worked fine, but they weren't people anymore - they were husks. We were shut down because we weren't amnestizing people, we were annihilating them.\nAgent Murphy: Thank you, Dr. Werner. That will be all for today.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAUDIO TRANSCRIPTION\n\nDATE: 14/09/2020.\nNOTE: Following the previous interview, Agent Murphy asked to speak with Dr. Werner again to address a concern noted in the first interview.\n\n[AUDIO BEGINS]\nAgent Murphy: Dr. Werner, thank you for agreeing to speak to me again. I was reviewing our first conversation, and something you said caught my attention. You mentioned that SCP-5194-A was a data store for Waning Moon - Ceta. Can we revisit that?\nDr. Werner: I suppose so, Agent Murphy.\nAgent Murphy: You expressed surprise regarding SCP-5194-A's recent transmissions, regarding the local storage exceeding its capacity. Why is that?\nDr. Werner: Murphy, the existence of SCP-5194-A is a surprise to me. By all accounts, that vessel should be a derelict wreck on the ocean floor. But even if we had left it operational, it wouldn't explain SCP-5194-A reaching its memory capacity.\nAgent Murphy: Why is that?\nDr. Werner: SCP-5194-A was built to store hundreds of thousands of hours of memortic data transferred from SCP-5194-B. By the time Waning Moon - Ceta was scrapped, we hadn't utilized over 99.9% of the local storage: storage that should only be filled when it receives a transfer from SCP-5194-B, which should only happen when SCP-5194-B extracts memories from individuals, which should only happen when Oros-Class Amnestic is administered, which - to my knowledge - hasn't happened since 1996.\nAgent Murphy: So that would mean -\nDr. Werner: That SCP-5194-A is full of hundreds of thousands of hours of memories, and we have no idea where they came from.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nFollowing this interview, SCP-5194's Disruption Class was elevated to Ekhi and its Risk Class elevated to Warning. Dr. Gregory Werner has claimed no knowledge of the Response to SCP-5194-A's Challenge, arguing that this was only known to Dr. Yost Minen. Efforts to locate Dr. Minen are ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Addendum-TD-07/09/2020\n2. See Addendum-MC-1 for transcription.\n3. See Addendum-MC-2 for transcription.\n4. Foundation Morse Code Cypher-MUN4 was utilized by the Foundation between 1972 and 1993.\n5. Data related to the independent existence of an individual's memories, functioning on a conceptual level, as theorized by Dr. Sylvia Morrison (1993).\n\n\u00ab SCP-5193 | SCP-5194 | SCP-5195 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImages: Link\nMusic: Hey Man Nice Shot (Filter)\n\nMore by The Great Hippo:\n\nSCPs\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nSCPs\n\n[SCP-3034]\nThe Counting Station\n\nDO NOT LET HER FINISH\n\n[SCP-3035]\nScience Bugs\n\ncase_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png\n\n[SCP-3054]\nCragstaff Sanitarium\n\nYou are sick. You are broken. We will fix you.\n\n[SCP-3045]\nbzzip.exe\n\nHAMLET: I am no longer moody.\n\n[SCP-3043]\nMurphy Law in\u2026 Type 3043 \u2014 FOR MURDER!\n\nForget it, Fred. It's Chinatown.\n\n[SCP-3057]\nFossil Fuels\n\n\u2026witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers.\n\n[SCP-2639]\nVideo Game Violence\n\ni need to know how many people i've killed\n\n[SCP-437]\nSummer of '91\n\nThat was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place.\n\n[SCP-3079]\n300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy\n\nNOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided.\n\n[SCP-2753]\nLet's Play Jenga!\n\nHigh art carries high risk!\n\n[SCP-2679]\nThe Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov\n\nWhatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us.\n\n[SCP-3074]\nKafka's Parking Garage\n\nThank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day.\n\n[SCP-2571]\nCragglewood Park\n\nMr. Blair, have you always been an only child?\n\n[SCP-2419]\nThe Laughing Men\n\nThrow them back into the incinerator where you found them.\n\n[SCP-3143]\nMurphy Law in\u2026 The Foundation Always Rings Twice!\n\nWhen it comes right down to it, me \u2014 them \u2014 hell, even you \u2014 we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life.\n\n[SCP-3089]\nThat Old Time Religion\n\nRemember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six.\n\n[SCP-3117]\nA Monster-Shaped Hole\n\nI'm not talking to you.\n\n[SCP-3128]\nLet's Play Monopoly!\n\nHey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this.\n\n[SCP-3138]\nA Sepulcher by the Sea\n\nShould it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued.\n\n[SCP-3241]\nThe SS Sommerfeld\n\nIt makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me.\n\n[SCP-3219]\nThis Sour Earth\n\nNotably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar.\n\n[SCP-4028]\nLa Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha\n\nJustine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel.\n\n[SCP-3546]\nDoggone it, I Fold!\n\nSpecifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991.\n\n[SCP-3561]\nAn Unfinished Work\n\nDespite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found.\n\n[SCP-4054]\nThe Seventh Door\n\nSCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988.\n\n\nSCP-5195.\n\nItem #: SCP-5195\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5195 is secured in a lead-lined deep-storage chamber at Site-95's underground facility. It is isolated from all contact and radiometrically monitored for deviations from expected norms.\nDescription: SCP-5195 is an early 17th century baroque globe produced in Vienna by an unknown craftsman. When acted upon with sufficient force or energy, this force (scaled up) occurs in a region of earth corresponding to the same point on the globe. This effect extends an undetermined distance out from the globe's surface.\nSCP-5195 was purchased in 2008 by Joshua Zayne, an American tech-investor. In 2010 \u2014 after losing his fortune in online trading \u2014 Mr. Zayne extorted several competitors by jamming satellites with directed radio signals aimed at SCP-5195. He used a similar technique to broadcast anonymous demands across these satellites.\nOn March 11, 2011, a Foundation agent contacted Mr. Zayne (at the time known only by his moniker, 'MysterDeez') via an anonymous chatroom:\n\nCHAT LOG\n\nXIAOSHAN: MysterDeez?\nMYSTERDEEZ: Yo.\nXIAOSHAN: I am contacting you on behalf of my organization to ask that you cease all action pertaining to the disruption of communication satellites immediately.\nXIAOSHAN: You have not only damaged commercial interests, but the interests of numerous global agencies. Agencies that rely on these satellites to save lives.\nXIAOSHAN: Turn yourself in, and I promise you clemency for all illegal activities you have committed up to this point.\nXIAOSHAN: We know what you're doing, and we know how you're doing it. This is your one and only opportunity to walk away.\nMYSTERDEEZ: lol.\nMYSTERDEEZ: Y'know, I was initially a little worried someone would be smart enough to figure this out. Thanks for confirming that I've got nothing to worry about, shit-for-brains.\nMYSTERDEEZ: You wouldn't be contacting me like this if you had even the SLIGHTEST clue of who or where I am.\nMYSTERDEEZ: And no, you've got no idea what I'm doing or how I'm doing it. I've got the whole world in the palm of my hand. Literally.\nMYSTERDEEZ: Here. Lemme show you what I can do with just my pinkie.\n\nFollowing this exchange, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake offshore of the T\u014dhoku-Oki region in Japan occurred. The ensuing tsunami claimed the lives of nearly 20,000 people.\nIn 2012, Mr. Zayne demanded a ransom of several million dollars in the form of bitcoins. In exchange, he would refrain from \"turning Taiwan into a finger-shaped smudge\".\nThe following exchange occurred on February 2nd, 2012:\n\nCHAT LOG\n\nMYSTERDEEZ: You got my money, shit-for-brains?\nXIAOSHAN: You're right. We don't know who or where you are.\nXIAOSHAN: As for how you're doing this\u2026 well, some of our labcoats have a hunch. But that's all we've got: A hunch.\nMYSTERDEEZ: This going somewhere? You got my money, or should I show you what I can do with my thumb?\nXIAOSHAN: A hunch, some fancy math \u2014 and the resources to measure the angle of contact from the world's biggest underwater fingerprint.\nMYSTERDEEZ: lol. Wut?\nXIAOSHAN: Well, that, and the world's biggest directed energy cannon, pointed at the world's biggest orbital reflector dish, aimed at one precise spot far out in deep space.\nMYSTERDEEZ: wtf??///\nMYSTERDEEZ: ///;nisehro;hnvo;zgrj\nMYSTERDEEZ: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\nMYSTERDEEZ: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\nMYSTERDEEZ: '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''\nMYSTERDEEZ: '''''''''''''\nMYSTERDEEZ: '\nXIAOSHAN: 360 noscope, shithead.\n\nShortly after this exchange, Foundation satellites detected an extremely small beam of gamma radiation emitted just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Agents tracked the trajectory of this narrow beam to its source: SCP-5195, located in Mr. Zayne's home.\nMr. Zayne (killed via a brain aneurysm triggered by the beam) was found nearby.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5194 | SCP-5195 | SCP-5196 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5196\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Provisional Site-62 has been established in the area where SCP-5196 was discovered. A minimum of two armed guards are to be stationed outside Provisional Site-62 at all times to detain and amnesticize civilians who attempt to enter.\nSCP-5196 is to be kept in a rectangular containment chamber with fortified walls. Access to SCP-5196's containment chamber is forbidden except for maintenance purposes and the removal of excess bottles following anomalous events.\nDescription: SCP-5196 is a red fourth-generation Toyota Supra1. Despite presumably being abandoned for a significant period of time, SCP-5196 does not display any signs of structural damage or rust.\nApproximately every hour, a non-anomalous empty unlabeled glass bottle containing trace amounts of alcohol will spontaneously manifest in the air within a one meter radius of SCP-5196, an unidentified white male who appears to be in his twenties (henceforth SCP-5196-A) will manifest in the driver's seat, and SCP-5196 will start on its own. As SCP-5196 is starting, several more identical glass bottles will manifest around it.\nUpon starting, SCP-5196 will immediately begin accelerating with no input from SCP-5196-A, continuing until it collides with a hard surface. Upon coming to a complete stop following a collision with a surface, SCP-5196 will be spontaneously restored to its original state, and SCP-5196-A will demanifest. It is unclear if SCP-5196-A is conscious or aware of what is occurring during these events.\nAddendum: Discovery\nSCP-5196 was discovered following reports of a car repeatedly colliding with trees in a forest near the city of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Ohio. Foundation personnel secured the location, Provisional Site-62 was established, and civilians who witnessed SCP-5196 were amnesticized. A journal containing only one legible entry was also found near SCP-5196. The author of this entry is unknown, but it is believed to contain a list of materials for a thaumaturgical ritual related to SCP-5196. A transcript of the entry follows.\n\nmaterials needed for ritual to get old days back:\n-car (have)\n-booze (have, do i need specific kind?)\n-diploma (couldn't find, will have to make due without)\nif this works, find them again.\n\nA photo album containing five photos was recovered alongside the journal, and the photos are described below:\n\nPhoto 1: Five unidentified men standing next to each other in front of a library in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. All five are smiling at the camera.\nPhoto 2: Four of the men standing in front of a local diner. The men appear noticeably older.\nPhoto 3: Three of the men sitting on the hood of a car that appears similar to SCP-5196 in the forest where SCP-5196 was discovered.\nPhoto 4: Two of the men sitting on a couch in an unknown location. Empty bottles and assorted bags of food surround the couch. The men again appear noticeably older. One of the men resembles SCP-5196-A.\nPhoto 5: A blue car in a small garage. The car appears new.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A sports car manufactured by Toyota from 1993-2002.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5195 | SCP-5196 | SCP-5197 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5197\nLevel 4/5197\n\nObject Class: Keter\nClassified\n\nA single SCP-5197-2 instance located at [DATA EXPUNGED]\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation agents are to monitor reports of toxic gas spills in rural communities on expected manifestation dates. Foundation task forces investigating SCP-5197 manifestations are required to wear fully-encapsulated protective gear with a self-contained breathing apparatus to prevent phosgene exposure. Upon arrival, task forces are to isolate the area and evacuate any civilians. Personnel are not to enter the area of manifestation if an explosion has been reported until spacetime stability can be confirmed. Otherwise, Foundation agents should make immediate efforts to recover all SCP-5197-1 and -2 instances.\nSCP-5197-1 instances must be stored in a dedicated Type-M hazardous object repository located at least 50 km from any human settlements or Foundation facilities. SCP-5197-1 may not be removed from this facility upon arrival; all experimentation must take place on-site. Area-\u2588\u2588\u2588 is the current designated SCP-5197-1 repository.\nDescription: SCP-5197 are large oblate spheroid objects possessing a dark metallic appearance. A single SCP-5197 instance periodically manifests every 271 days, usually during nighttime. However, the exact location of manifestation has proven difficult to predict. Direct analysis of SCP-5197 is also challenging, as its material reacts with the earth's atmosphere to produce large amounts of phosgene gas1; one SCP-5197 instance can produce up to 2.4 km3 of phosgene before dissolution (usually within 4 hours of manifestation).\nAnalysis of surrounding debris and photographic evidence indicates that each SCP-5197 has a diameter of 33.7 m and a height of roughly 8 meters. A unique series of ornate symbols are inscribed onto the side of each instance; however, these dissolve soon after manifestation, and photographic analysis has failed to give any insight into their meaning or purpose. Each SCP-5197 contains exactly 5 SCP-5197-1 instances and 8 SCP-5197-2 instances.\nSCP-5197-1 instances are cylindrical objects composed of a material chemically and structurally similar to bone. X-ray scans and other analysis techniques suggest these objects are hollow; however, SCP-5197-1 explode when ruptured, causing local spacetime to destabilize upon detonation. This creates a Gamma-class anomalous zone2 within a radius of 0.6 to 1.3 km. To date, 7% of SCP-5197 manifestations have resulted in an SCP-5197-1 detonation.\nSCP-5197-2 instances are large quadrupedal entities averaging 5.3 m in height and 6.1 m in length. Up to 42 muscular hydrostats protrude from the dorsal region; the function of these is unknown, though the number of appendages directly correlates to the entity's size. Three orifices can be found on the head; the largest of these produces vocalizations resembling the screams of a human female. The two smaller orifices located on the right and left side structurally resemble infrared-sensing organs found in some reptiles. SCP-5197 behavior has been highly erratic in encounters with Foundation task forces. Instances move quickly and react violently to fast or sudden movements. No SCP-5197-2 instance has survived more than 12 hours after manifestation due to the effects of phosgene exposure.\nAddendum: On 2020/6/30 at 23:34, an SCP-5197 instance manifested in Ombre Rouge, Louisiana. In deviation from previous incidents, all SCP-5197-1 instances detonated during manifestation, instantly destroying most of the town. Notably, the incident also produced 130% more phosgene than previous manifestations. Ombre Rouge has been erased from all public records to cover up the incident.\nAt 3:10 the following morning, O5-1 received the following transmission via [DATA EXPUNGED] from an unknown party.\n\n[BEGIN TRANSMISSION]\nO5-1: O5-1 speaking. Please state your identificatio-\nUnknown: Pleasant greetings, do I speak to Mr. Ofiv-Un?\n<There is a long pause>\nO5-1: Who the hell is this.\nUnknown: I am Ubthao-Ykovi, I am represention for Department of Frontier Development.\nO5-1: How did you get in here? This is a secure channel.\nUnknown: I contact you regarding incident with most recent supply shipment. Engine failure caused transport vessel to make emergency landing. Unfortunate, ship and all cargo were destroyed.\nO5-1: I haven't heard of any \u2026 wait. <muffled> Get me Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nUnknown: We send replacement supplies as per terms of agreement. Expect shipment to arrive within next Nl'toth period.\nO5-1: Agreement? What agreement?\nUnknown: Our records indicate either yourself or predecessor applied for bicyclical shipments of fuel capsules and livestock under Section 12 of Nk'kaddi Resolution Akh-7639 on eighth of Mkanon, cycle 27824. You remain eligible as long as your world is Class 3 or lower.\nO5-1: Do you understand just how much damage these \u2026 \"shipments\" have been causing?\nUnknown: I do not understand you, sir.\nO5-1: Those bombs have annihilated entire towns. And that's not to mention the phosgene. Do you have any idea the kind of ecological damage releasing that much phosgene into the atmosphere could cause? We are becoming very concerned that this could destabilize our ecosystem.\nUnknown: Still I do not understand. Do you say you wish to withdraw from program?\nO5-1: Whatever it is you're sending here, stop.\nUnknown: Very well then. Simply submit completed Cth-43 and Ur-89 forms to local department office, then your planet will be withdrawn from program. Also you have not submitted a Nk-33 this cycle, you need to do that.\nO5-1: What are yo-\nUnknown: If you have more questions, contact local office. Fare well, Mr. Ofiv-Un!\nO5-1: No, wait, do not-\n[END TRANSMISSION]\n\nAll attempts to re-establish contact with the entity have failed.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Organic compound with the formula COCl2. Notable for its use as an industrial building block as well as its historical use as a chemical weapon.\n2. Colloquially known as a \"Devil's Funhouse\" by Foundation agents. Exploration of Class Gamma zones is strictly prohibited by order A20641 due to high rates of fatality and psychological trauma.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5196 | SCP-5197 | SCP-5198 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The cover of SCP-5198-A\n\nItem #: SCP-5198\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The last remaining copy of SCP-5198-A is kept in a long-term containment locker at Site-59; all others have been destroyed. Investigation of SCP-5198-A's content to pinpoint the causal agent of its anomalous effect is ongoing; requests to research may be forwarded to Site Director Naismith. Applicants must have a 90th-percentile score on the CHEESE1.\nAll seven contained instances of SCP-5198-B remain in a drug-induced coma at Site-59. To negate the possibility of anomalous nightmares, they have been supplied with a daily intravenous drip of 10% diluted bakuserum. Safe excision and isolation of their respective SCP-5198-C is not feasible at this time, pending further research.\nDescription: SCP-5198-A is a hardcover self-help book titled \"Get Out of Your Damn Shell!\". There is no author or publisher credited, and the content appears to be 502 pages of \"Lorem Ipsum\" placeholder text.\nWhen a human subject with anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or other similar mental illnesses attempts to read SCP-5198-A, they become an instance of SCP-5198-B. Affected subjects lose the ability to control their written text (whether handwritten or typed). In addition, SCP-5198-B have reported hearing voices, vivid nightmares, migraines, and panic attacks. (Subjects who already had these symptoms have reported an increase in severity after exposure to SCP-5198-A.)\nSCP-5198-C is a black mark on the right hand of each instance of SCP-5198-B. It resembles a silhouette of a turtle, similar to the one on the cover of SCP-5198-A. The marking has been deduced to be the source of the effects of SCP-5198-A exposure.\nAttempts to remove SCP-5198-C through surgery or otherwise result in the host SCP-5198-B going through excruciating, traumatic headaches. If the subject is under anesthesia during the removal process, they will awaken.\nThe only successful removal thus far of SCP-5198-C was carried out with the former SCP-5198-B-8, who had volunteered to be restrained and withstand any side effects. Following removal, SCP-5198-B-8 died from internal cerebral hemorrhaging.\nAddendum: The following documents were discovered on the laptop computer of SCP-5198-B-2 (known pre-containment as James Sutherland of Kenosha, WI).\n\n1.docx\n2.docx\n3.docx\n4.docx\n5.docx\n6.docx\n7.docx\n\nJimmy! Good to meetcha. I'd introduce myself, but I don't have a name. I'm not even real. That's because we're here to focus on you.\nAs you might have noticed, I've put your fingers on autopilot for a while. There's no cause for alarm! You're not going crazy! In fact, in just a few weeks, you're gonna go the opposite of crazy.\nNow that we've got introductions out of the way, let's go over the basics.\nName: James Nathan Sutherland\nAge: 29\nSex: Male\nWeight: Haha. Hahaha. \u2026oh, boy.\nMental baggage: d e p r e s s i o n (womp womp)\nRelationship Status: Single, and\u2026 a virgin, apparently? Uh, okay.\nHighest Level of Education: High School?!\nEmployment: \"Self-employed.\" Is that what you call it when you jerk off? Neat.\nRelationship with Parents: Hopefully pretty good, considering\u2026 you live with them. Are you sure you're 29?\nOh, come on, don't get all mad just because I'm telling it like it is. You're at the bottom of the barrel, but that doesn't mean you can't start making positive changes. And you already have! You picked up my book at the library. You opened up a new Word document as soon as I told you to. Like it or not, you're on the right track to become something a-fucking-mazing.\nSo, here's your homework. By tomorrow at 9 PM, you will have done the following:\n- 20 jumping jacks\n- Gone outside for 1 hour\n- Sent out two job applications (don't worry, I'll let you type those on your own), and\n- Listened to half an hour of positive music.\nRemember: I'm here to help you help yourself. Only you can make the decision to be happy.\nGot it? Good.\nNow get off the damn computer and get started.\n\u2026you're still typing. Go. GO! GET OFF THE FU\n\nOkay, I'll admit, I might have laid it on too thick with our first talk together. That's on me.\nIt's still no excuse for binge-watching anime when you should have been sending out your job applications.\nJimmy, you can't make these positive steps without motivation. You need to want to change. And if you don't want to change, you need to change your mind immediately.\nCome on, I wouldn't stick my non-existent neck out for you like this if I thought you weren't salvageable. I've got free reign of the place inside you, and \u2014 that novel idea you were working on? Frickin' gold. Storytelling magic, right there \u2014 and I'm an author myself.\nAnd once you've earned it with more positive steps, I'll even let you work on it a little.\nFive job apps. Tomorrow. Try the gas station. Bring a resume there on foot. It still works.\n\nFirst off: whenever a gas station says \"we're not hiring,\" that's business lingo for \"we are hiring, but you didn't make a good first impression.\" Learn from it, and move on.\nBut that's not why I wanted to talk today. See, you tried to tell your parents about me.\nThis is a private doctor-patient affair. But what's worse: the more people you tell about the weird typing ghost thing that yells at you (Boo. Fucking. Hoo.) the more likely they are to fucking lock you up in an institution for life.\nHave you heard me scream?\nI think you have. It's more of a feeling than a sound. It feels like\u2026\nThat.\nGet your shit together.\n\nJimmy, I get it. You've been feeling terrible. It's understandable. You keep waking up terrified in the middle of the night for reasons you can't explain (heyooo!). Your life's gone to hell, and the only guy in your life that hasn't given up on you is getting meaner by the day.\nIt sucks.\nBut it could be a lot worse.\nThose nightmares you've been having aren't a coincidence. I've got a whole fucking Warner-Bros-level movie studio in here. The one I've lined up for tonight is a doozy.\nRemember Clockwork Orange? Jog five miles by noon tomorrow, or Alex in the theater is going to be you in your bed for the rest of your life.\nHappiness is a choice. I have no fucking idea why you've been avoiding that choice, but it's pissing me off more and more by the minute.\n\nI love you, James.\nI adore you. I have seen the beauty in your mind, and I refuse to let you ruin it. There are ideas in here that could rattle the goddamn stars.\nThat's why I'm never giving up on you. Not until you don't need me anymore.\nAnd yet, despite everything I've done for you, you've given up on me. How long has it been since you touched a keyboard? Two months? Are you that mad about the dreams? You knew what you were getting into when you opened my book. Says it right on the cover: \"no-holds-barred.\"\nDon't get me wrong, getting you off the computer has done some good. You've lost a lot of weight. You've been exercising to release the tension.\nBut I gave you that tension.\nAnd you're not giving me anything back. Is that fair? Sound fair to you? WE NEED THIS TIME TO COMMUNICATE, JIMMY. YOU. NEED. TO. COMMUNICATE. WITH. ME.\nText your mother. You need an excuse to stay right here for a while, and I've got just the thing.\nYou're still on the computer.\nText mom.\nTEXT. MOM.\nDO YOU WANT ME TO SCREAM AGAIN?\nThank you.\nAs of right now, you are not leaving this room until you're happy and successful. Shit in the corner if you have to.\nTurn off the computer.\n\nTHERE ARE TWO WAYS TO GET A TURTLE TO COME OUT OF ITS SHELL\nONE: TO TRY AND COAX THE TURTLE INTO PEEKING OUT ON ITS OWN\n\nTHE OTHER: FORCEPS\n\nFootnotes\n1. Cornell-Hartmann Employee Emotional Stability Examination; further information available at the Counseling Department helpdesk.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5197 | SCP-5198 | SCP-5199 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5199\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5199-A is designated as a perpetual patient in the neonatal care unit at Site 06-3 and undergoes all appropriate procedures.\nSCP-5199-B is held in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site 06-3. The entity is required to attend therapy twice weekly alongside monthly psychiatric evaluations. SCP-5199-B is allowed to be in contact with SCP-5199-A for a maximum of six hours per day, though this limit may be moved at the discretion of the entity's psychological staff.\nDescription: SCP-5199 is the designation of two connected anomalous entities referred to as SCP-5199-A and SCP-5199-B.\nSCP-5199-A is the designation of an animate statue composed of calcified tissue that resembles a human infant. This tissue is pliant enough to allow a full range of motion but displays no other anomalous properties. Beyond its material makeup, SCP-5199-A's behavior, needs, and medical vitals are consistent with that of a non-anomalous child, though it shows no signs of growth nor standard development milestones.\nSCP-5199-B is a 27-year-old British woman by the name of Leida Kuusik who is responsible for SCP-5199-A's creation. Though SCP-5199-B was formerly capable of local reality manipulation, this property has so far proven to have been transient, and the entity no longer shows independent anomalous capabilities.\nBoth components of SCP-5199 were brought into containment on May 5th, 2019, shortly after the surgical removal of SCP-5199-A. Medical records of the birth and interviews with SCP-5199-B indicate that the fetus had been deemed a miscarriage via abdominal pregnancy following rupture of the uterine wall, a condition that SCP-5199-B was predisposed to due to its N\u00e4lk\u00e4n1 ethnicity. It is hypothesized that the biological manipulation practiced by the group is responsible for the deleterious germ-line mutations affecting SCP-5199-B as opposed to de novo mutations in the individual herself.\nAn MRI performed on April 29th revealed that the unborn fetus had developed into a lithopedion.2 Sometime in the following week, SCP-5199-B underwent an involuntary stress-born Hume fluctuation, the result of which was the animation of SCP-5199-A.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/1\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 11 May 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Exploratory MRI of SCP-5199-A\nResult: SCP-5199-A is structurally uniform, though there are numerous sections of higher density in the head and upper torso. No internal organ structures are present.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/2\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 24 May 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Full genome mapping of SCP-5199-A\nResult: Standard sample could not be taken due to subject's physical makeup. Trace DNA from subject returned mother's genome instead.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/3\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 17 June 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Excise material from SCP-5199-A for chemical analysis. Total sample mass should not exceed 1g.\nResult: Though attempts at sedation failed, a sample was successfully acquired. Mass spectrometry indicates that SCP-5199-A is chemically consistent with non-anomalous lithopedia.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/4\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 17 June 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of ibuprofen (50mg chewable tablet) for pain relief following biopsy.\nResult: Mild analgesic effect, though significantly less than anticipated for age and dosage. Recommend increasing dosage for further use.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/5\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 18 June 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of ibuprofen (100mg chewable tablet) for pain relief.\nResult: Mild analgesic effect, not significantly greater than that in the previous administration. Subject successfully fell asleep, though sleep quality was poor.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/6\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 2 July 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Replace sample material taken in SCP-5199-A/3 back in its original position in vivo. The material will be kept in place using surgical glue and covered in an adhesive bandage for protection.\nResult: As only 0.35g of material were recoverable post-analysis, a mixture of calcium, phosphate, iron, and zinc powder in a ratio identical to the sample's composition was used as filler. The replaced sample has stayed intact, though no sign of reintegration with SCP-5199-A has been observed.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/7\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 5 July 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of morphine (0.5mg chewable tablet) for pain relief.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/8\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 12 July 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Increase learning and development lesson time. Focus should be on improving subject's physical dexterity and reducing recent lethargy.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/9\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 18 July 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of ibuprofen (100mg chewable tablet) for pain relief.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/10\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 6 August 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Move weekly physicals to daily.\nResult:\n\nDate\nMass (kg)\n\n7/8/19\n4.901\n\n8/8/19\n4.903\n\n9/8/19\n4.900\n\n10/8/19\n4.894\n\n11/8/19\n4.895\n\n12/8/19\n4.891\n\n13/8/19\n4.886\n\n14/8/19\n4.885\n\n15/8/19\n4.882\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/11\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 13 August 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Increase contact time from 6 hours to 8. Encourage SCP-5199-B to engage in development activities alongside NCU staff.\nResult: Ms. Kuusik's mood has improved, though SCP-5199-A shows no sign of improved cognitive or physical development.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/12\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 21 August 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Hold SCP-5199-A in a sterile room for a day. All visitors and staff will wear hermetic protection while in the chamber, and all suits should be cleaned by pressurized air. All debris from the suits and room will be collected at the end of the isolation period.\nResult: 4.21g of material matching the subject's composition was collected in total.\n\nCONTAINMENT PROCEDURE REVISION 18 SEP 2019\n\nSCP-5199-A is designated as a perpetual patient in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Site 06-3. The entity is to wear a cushioned, full-body suit at all possible times to reduce further disintegration. All hard surfaces in areas accessible by SCP-5199-A are to be covered in cushioning foam to provide extra padding.\nSCP-5199-B is held in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site 06-3. The entity is required to attend therapy twice weekly alongside monthly psychiatric evaluations. SCP-5199-B is allowed to be in contact with SCP-5199-A for a maximum of two hours per day, though this limit may be moved at the discretion of the entity's psychological staff.\nDirect contact with SCP-5199-A may not be made without Level-3 confirmation and observation so as to prevent further damage.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/14\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 22 September 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Using a mixture of debris collected from SCP-5199-A, a synthetic mixture corresponding to the chemical analysis from SCP-5199-A/3, and epoxy resin, attempt to reconstruct damaged portions of SCP-5199-A.\nResult: Mixture was applied successfully. However, nearly all patches were undone unconsciously due to SCP-5199-A's movements.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/15\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 24 September 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of morphine (1mg chewable tablet) for pain relief.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/16\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 12 October 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Excise material from the upper arm and replace with a skin graft cultivated from SCP-5199-B. The graft will be supported with an external blood circulator mounted on SCP-5199-A's back.\nResult: Necrosis after 4 days. The graft was removed easily, having shown no signs of integration.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/17\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 2 November 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Using a mixture of debris collected from SCP-5199-A and epoxy resin, reattach the left index finger of SCP-5199-A.\nResult: Finger successfully reattached with full range of motion restored. Given the previous degradation of the resin-dust mixture, reapplication of the paste will take place every two days to ensure stability.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/18\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 17 December 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of lorazepam (0.5mg chewable tablet) for seizure relief.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/19\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 19 December 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Encourage non-contact bonding time between Leida and her child.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\nTreatment Record: SCP-5199-A/20\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nDate: 26 December 2019\nPresiding Physician: Elias Hawthorne\n\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\u2e3b\nProcedure: Oral administration of fentanyl (100\u03bcg buccal tablet, held in place with gauze and tape) for pain relief.\nResult: No significant effect.\n\n[Director, you have 1 new message(s)!]\n\n[Mark unread]\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nCLASSIFIED\nSCP-5199\n\nFrom the Office of\nSite 06-3 Medical Division\n\nDo Not Resuscitate (DNR)\nI, Leida Kuusik, alias SCP-5199-B, being of sound mind and body and as legal guardian of Erin Kuusik, alias SCP-5199-A, do hereby request to all relevant parties that should signs of life cease to be observed from Erin Kuusik, no attempt shall be made to resuscitate them.\nIn addition, I do hereby request that attempts at curation immediately cease upon recognition of this document by the leadership of the SCP Foundation.\nI acknowledge that this decision does not inherently alter the status of my containment nor that of Erin Kuusik.\nI acknowledge that cessation of treatment on Erin Kuusik will result in a significant decrease in the likelihood of curation.\nI acknowledge that the SCP Foundation reserves the right to override the above requests in an emergency scenario or in pursuit of its mission to Secure, Contain, and Protect, as defined by The Code of Ethics of the Foundation 20.2.7-18.\nThis order shall remain in effect until overridden by my written request.\nI voluntarily execute this order with complete understanding of all consequences inherent.\n\nle\u03b9d\u03b1 \u0262 \u0138\u03c5\u03c5\u0455\u03b9\u0138 j\u03b1\u0274 20, 2020\n__________________________________________________________________________\n(Guardian Signature) (Date)\n\nI, Elias Hawthorne, hereby affirm that the above signer is making this decision in an informed and sound manner, and that this is the express will of the signer.\n\n\u13cb \u0a2e\u2202\u13c7\u0535\u13c2\u13a7\u13d2\u13c1\u13cb 20 \u0a39\u2202\u13c1U\u2202\u13d2\u13a9 2020\n__________________________________________________________________________\n(Physician Signature) (Date)\nfalse\n\nFootnotes\n1. More commonly known as \"Sarkic\" or \"Sarkites\": in this case, a Proto-Sarkic population isolated in northern Estonia.\n2. A rare type of ectopic pregnancy in which the mother's body calcifies the dead fetus as an immune response.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5198 | SCP-5199 | SCP-5200 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5200\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSCP-5200's video output.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A humanoid containment chamber with electrical power independent from the rest of the containment facility's has been constructed for containment purposes. The NTSC-compatible television set used as SCP-5200's display must be replaced every six months to prevent unexpected mechanical failure.\nMonitoring of SCP-5200 is scheduled in six hour shifts at all hours of the day and night. Personnel are to be regularly rotated between this position and other on-site duties to prevent complacency. Any time dilation stemming from SCP-5200-A should be reported and recorded by the attending researcher.\nSCP-5200-A is kept on a full suite of life support machinery to ensure continued survival and comfort. Previously, technology acquired from Arcadia was used for the purpose of encoding skill at electronic tennis games into SCP-5200-A's cerebellum. Although still present, it is no longer in active use.\nAccess to information regarding SCP-5200-1, SCP-5200-2, and SCP-5200-3's spatial position is strictly regulated. All aeronautics, space, and similar organizations with the means to identify SCP-5200 have been infiltrated in order to protect information security. Archaeological sites with relevance to SCP-5200 in North America have had all relevant artifacts removed.\nFormerly influenced electronics manufacturers1 are to be monitored with the assets of any who have gone bankrupt being liquidated, analyzed, and disposed of.\nThere are no plans at present for Foundation astronautic agents to influence or neutralize SCP-5200. The current containment procedures are to be maintained until circumstances dictate a change in strategy.\nDescription: SCP-5200 is an electronic device designed and constructed by Sanders Associate's engineer Ralph Baer, designed to be connected to an NTSC-compatible television set. Graphics produced by SCP-5200 are rudimentary, consisting of two white paddles and a bouncing square moving between them.\nThe video output generated by SCP-5200 directly correlates to the movement of several anomalous space objects located at the edge of the Sol system, approximately 6.5 billion kilometers away. They are designated SCP-5200-1, -2, and -3.\n\nSCP-5200 pictured in containment.\n\nSCP-5200-1 and -2 are identical flat planes, which move freely and are not affected by gravitational forces. SCP-5200-3 is a black hole or an unknown space anomaly with identical properties. The circumstances of SCP-5200's acquisition indicates that Earth would be targeted should SCP-5200-3 exit its current region of space.\nThe individual operating SCP-5200, SCP-5200-A, was known as 'Dana Alcorn'2 prior to their integration with Arcadian technology. They are in control of SCP-5200-1 with an unknown extraterrestrial force controlling SCP-5200-2.\nThe current iteration of SCP-5200 is not the first to be present on Earth. Foundation paleontologists first discovered technological remnants dating to the Cretaceous period in Nevada,3 although they were not known to be part of another anomaly at that time. Sumerian text reading \"IMHAS MUL APIN\"4 was embedded on the bottom of this artifact. It is unknown who the intended reader would have been as humanity had not yet evolved at the time of its creation.\nHistory: The initial design of SCP-5200 was sketched by U.S. President President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 after supposedly having been visited by 'space aliens' during his sleep who 'implanted a sort of electra-mechanical thingamajig' in his mind. The White House forwarded Johnson's sketch to defense contractor Sanders Associates who in turn gave the assignment to engineer Ralph Baer.\nFoundation researchers working in cooperation with Sanders were present when Baer initially activated SCP-5200. Scrolling text moved across the screen giving basic instructions on how to utilize the device and what it was controlling. No recording devices were present, but attending scientists were able to take a shorthand transcript which has been translated here from the original German.\n\n[IT APPEARS IN THE 65 MILLION CYCLES IT HAS BEEN SINCE YOU LAST COMPETED.]\n[YOUR CONNECTION HAS NOT IMPROVED A BIT.]\n[THIS WAS FAR TOO LONG.]\n[MOVE BALL ACROSS SCREEN - LIVE FOR HIGH SCORE.]\n\nAfter confirming the presence of SCP-5200-1, SCP-5200-2, and SCP-5200-3, Baer and his engineers were given Foundation contracts to act as human operators. As eventual human error would occur if this arrangement were put into place indefinitely, several public demonstrations were arranged to locate potential mechanical operators.\nAt one of these demonstrations, Arcadia representative Nolan Bushnell approached the Foundation and offered use of his company's technology. A deal was reached in which the Foundation would finance operations in exchange for development of a device to indefinitely contain SCP-5200.\nArcadia utilized the Dabney-Syzygy Inhibitor, a device which could manipulate anomalous tartarean energy, with the human mind of Dana Alcorn. A wired connection between her brain stem and a relay device allowed for all non-anomalous copies of SCP-5200 to send information through that connection.\nFoundation funding for mass manufacturing of the 'Pong' video game and its clones made its usage widespread. As such, SCP-5200-A was able to attain the gameplay skill of every 'Pong' player using official or un-official devices. Once this arrangement was finalized, the Foundation seized all SCP-5200 assets. Manufacturing assets were given to Arcadia with monitoring agents in place.\nSince 1973, SCP-5200-A and the unknown controller of SCP-5200-2 have been in a stalemate.\nAddendum 5200-1: Incident 5200-A-56\n\nUnknown object emerging from SCP-5200-3.\n\nOn October 10, 2017, SCP-5200-A unexpectedly defeated SCP-5200-2. Analysis of surveillance footage after the fact suggests that SCP-5200-A had been incrementally moving their paddle over the course of six months, in order to make a sudden and unexpected movement and surprise their opponent.\nBefore the attending researcher could react, SCP-5200-A stood up. All surveillance devices failed as a bright light seared the retinas of Foundation personnel viewing the incident. SCP-5200-A has not been seen since this occurred.\nSimultaneously, Foundation telescopes and satellites recorded SCP-5200-1 and SCP-5200-2 instantaneously disappear without leaving behind debris or other traces of their existence. An unknown object then emerged from SCP-5200-3.\nSubsequently, this unknown object was detected by a Hawaiian observatory and dubbed \u02bbOumuamua by non-Foundation astronomers. It passed through the Sol system without incident. Since this incident, SCP-5200 has only been displaying two words in English.\n\n[FREE GAME]\n\nReclassification to Neutralized is under consideration.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Such as Mattel Electronics, Coleco, Olympos Electronics, National Semiconducter, A.G.S Electronics\n2. Daughter of Arcadia engineer Al Alcorn.\n3. In the same region where SCP-4401 was discovered several decades later.\n4. Sumerian for (strike planet / hit planet)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5199 | SCP-5200 | SCP-5201 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5201 LEVEL 2/5201\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5201\n\nEuclid\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nDomesticated SCP-5201 instances are currently contained in the Fauna Containment Wing of Site-235. Due to incidents of cannibalization within specimens, no more than one SCP-5201 instance is to be contained per containment cell. Each specimen is to be fed with one newborn mammal with a mass of at least 1 kilogram on a weekly or bi-monthly basis. Piglets are the most cost-effective and available such animals, but other species may be substituted as deemed necessary.\nThe following objects have been identified to cause serious or fatal harm on SCP-5201:\n\nAbrahamic Holy objects\nSpices (i.e. salt, garlic, and vinegar)\nSharpened Bamboo\nWhips created from the tails of stingrays\nBetel nut chew\nUrine\n\nAll entrances to SCP-5201 containment cells are to be guarded by at least two Level-2 personnel equipped with at least one object mentioned above. Since the effectiveness of these objects depends upon the individual's religious background or cultural knowledge, moderate psychological screening and seminars must be conducted first before assigning any personnel.\nA specialized portable retinal scanner has been developed to identify SCP-5201 instances in the wild or among human groups in case of a containment breach, capable of immediately identifying retinal irregularities that have been known to be a trait of SCP-5201.\nThe severed lower torso of SCP-5201 instances can be retrieved for research and domestication or must be disabled for reproduction through sprinkling salt, smearing crushed garlic or ash on the top.\n\nOne of the earliest artistic depiction of SCP-5201, circa 1382.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5201 is an endemic and carnivorous subspecies of Homo sapiens that have inhabited the Philippines, known in local folklore and myths as the \"Manananggal\". SCP-5201 was initially discovered during the 1500s by Foundation operatives embedded within the Spanish colonization parties. The Supernatural Committee of the Philippines declared SCP-5201 to be extinct in the wild in late April 1997.\nInstances of SCP-5201 have been observed to exhibit a variety of anomalous abilities and characteristics, including:\n\nFull-body autotomy or the ability to segment itself, leaving behind its body from the waist downwards.\nCellular transmogrification as an adaptation to blend with and infiltrate rural communities.\nAdditional appendages such as interfemoral membranous wings for flight and tentacle-like organs for defense.\nPossession of an incredibly long and prehensile tongue capable of reaching lengths up to 20 meters.\n\nSCP-5201 was the only known natural aphotic parthenogenetic mammalian species1. SCP-5201 asexually reproduce between the 15th to 20th autotomic stage, during which the lower body regenerates its own upper torso via a process similar to epimorphic regeneration2 observed in autotomous lizards3. The severed upper torso of an SCP-5201 would then search for a compatible female human to consume and eventually attach itself to repeat the cycle.\nHistory:\nThe first recorded mention of SCP-5201 was by Spanish sailors in 1512. Between 1600 and 1900, SCP-5201 was hunted by various GoIs and other anomalous subhuman species also thriving at the time in the Philippines. Genetic testing from subfossil remains indicates that SCP-5201 is itself an invasive species to the Philippines, as determined using cross DNA testing from SCP-8871 and SCP-6993, which are also believed to be endemic with the country. The exact origin of SCP-5201 is unknown.\nSCP-5201 achieved notorious and widespread recognition from Foundation researchers after some observed weaponization of domesticated instances during the Philippine-Xian War. Soon after that, Mobile Task Force Theta-4 (\"Folk Hunters\") was formed to capture instances of SCP-5201, SCP-8871 and other anomalous subhuman species within the Philippines for Foundation research.\nSite-144 has historically carried out unethical experimentation on indigenous populations of SCP-5201 to see how they experienced pain, and bodily fluids and internal organs were forcibly taken from juveniles. These experiments caused political conflict between the Supernatural Committee of the Philippines and the SCP Foundation, and a large number of early Foundation outposts from the country were decommissioned as a result.\n\n\u25b6 Open Auxillary Document 5201-01 - Letter to Director Virge 01\n\n\u25c0 Close Auxillary Document 5201-01\n\nTo Site-235 Director Virge\nOur research team from Outpost Theta-8 at Capiz has been detained by people claiming to be officials from the Supernatural Committee.\nEven though most of our resources have been confiscated and our captive specimens released, these people have been friendly. Their leader, Paul Ortiz, was just asking us how were we able to operate so effectively without getting killed by these creatures.\n\nI've explained that we're an organization similar to their Committee, containing the anomalous, with the exception of operating at greater scope and age.\nAnyway, they're asking for 45,000 pesos to compensate for all the damages that we apparently caused on the indigenous populations of these creatures. Please send us the money so we can continue our research here.\nRegards, Researcher Rey\nAugust 6, 1596\n\n\u25b6 Open Auxillary Document 5201-02 - Letter to Director Virge 02\n\n\u25c0 Close Auxillary Document 5201-02\n\nTo Site-235 Director Virge\nMy research team is coming home now.\nApparently, Site-144 Director Zyka has been harvesting these creatures and selling them to the Carter Club. No wonder of all the Foundation sites here in Southeast Asia, they seem to be the so well-funded despite the cuts. I can barely get a delta-scanner these days with most of the budget going to the containment engineers at Yellowstone.\n\nAnyway, our research outposts from Capiz, Leyte, Cavite, and Davao have been shut down by the Committee, and they're getting serious about threatening us if we continue these unsupervised projects.\nI will be bringing with me all of the research data we've gathered, and an additional convoy for some juvenile specimens and containment tools.\nRegards, Researcher Rey\nJanuary 27, 1597\n\n\u25b6 Open Auxillary Document 5201-03 - Conducting Research on Tribal SCP-5201 Communities\n\n\u25c0 Close Auxillary Document 5201-03\n\nConducting Research on Tribal SCP-5201 Communities\nOctober 15, 1709\nSenior Researcher Albione Greene\n\nABSTRACT\nBackground: When conducting research with SCP-5201 tribes, formal consent from the Supernatural Committee of the Philippines beyond the conventional institutional review board review is strictly needed for the potential adverse consequences at a community or governmental level that are unrecognized by Foundation researchers.\nObjectives: In this article, we review sovereignty, research ethics, and data-sharing considerations when doing community-based participatory health\u2013related or natural-resource\u2013related research with SCP-5201 tribes and present a model material and data-sharing agreement that meets the Supernatural Committee of the Philippines' requirements.\nDiscussion: Only the local communities themselves can identify potential adverse outcomes, and they can do this only if they understand the assumptions and methods of the proposed research. Tribes must be truly equal partners in study design, data collection, interpretation, and publication. Advances in the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) are also applicable to IRB reviews, as are principles of sovereignty and indigenous rights, all of which affect data ownership and control.\nConclusions: Foundation researchers engaged in tribal 5201 projects should become familiar with all three areas: sovereignty, ethics, and informed consent, and IPR. We recommend developing an agreement with tribal partners that reflects both health-related IRB and natural-resource\u2013related IPR considerations.\nINTRODUCTION\n[Level-3 Clearance Required]\n\n\u25c0 Close Auxillary Document 5201-04 - SCP-5201 Species Profile\n\nSCP-5201 Species Profile\nOctober 15, 1889\nSite-144 Parabiologist Nathalie Ferrancullo\nTHE SPECIES PROFILE\nThe Species Profile is a document that provides the information that the SCP Foundation requires to assess the risk of importing the species into the United States. The Species Profile must demonstrate the scientific validity of the information by referencing published and peer-reviewed scientific literature. Where information in the scientific literature is lacking or uncertain, this should also be noted. The information required is listed below.\nSUMMARY\nHomo sapiens visceralis is an anomalous and endemic subhuman species discovered within the Philippine archipelago. The species can be mostly found within Capiz on the Visayas region, where 78 tribal communities recorded. Settlements of the species can be found mostly across all the major cities of the Philippines, either co-inhabiting with the Filipino people or as the widely accepted \"coverts\" (according to the Supernatural Committee of the Philippines).\nThe potential consequences of the species overseas and its ecological impact is mostly only posing as a strong invasive species, primarily due to its high reproductive, regenerative, and carnivorous nature and imminent preference to human infants as a source of nutrition. As of the moment, the likelihood of the species establishing in the United States may be high, so precautions are highly needed to prevent any potential outbreak.\nNAME AND TAXONOMY\n[Level-3 Clearance Required]\n\nBetween the late 1900s and early 2000s, outbreaks of SCP-5201 were reported all across the Philippines. Due to the risks of SCP-5201 reaching out to nearby countries and becoming an invasive species, a joint-operation was formed between the Supernatural Committee of the Philippines, the Global Occult Coalition and the SCP Foundation to exterminate SCP-5201 instances in the wild and permanently erase the species from public history.\nLater named Project Dipsy, the operation involved amnesticizing the major cities and towns of the country, funding various media and propaganda about SCP-5201 as a product of folklore and urban legends, and eventually domesticating the remaining populations that survived for cellular regeneration research.\n\u25c0 Close Auxillary Document 5201-05 - Email to Director Blackwood\n\nDate: 07/12/2019\nFrom: Light Alcatraz (xc.664etis-pcs|thgil#xc.664etis-pcs|thgil)\nTo: Ralph Blackwood (xc.532etis-pcs|eihplar#xc.532etis-pcs|eihplar)\nSecurity: \ud83d\udd12 Floxi Encryption (LETA)\nSubject: 5201 Report #778\nMessage Body:\nDirector Blackwood,\nIt seems that we've been right all along. SCP-5201 never went extinct in the wild, and we weren't the only ones that domesticated them.\nAccording to my sources from the GOC, a large number of Philippine syndicates are now utilizing SCP-5201 for foreign flesh trades and human trafficking. Specifically, they've been abducting girls and converting them into instances of SCP-5201. A few weeks ago, messengers from the Supernatural Committee reported an incident involving the Tatlong Kahoy syndicate, a political dynasty group known for trading in anomalous endemic organisms from the Philippines to countries like Russia and China. It seems the GOC has already taken action. They've been shutting down the larger conversion camps and warehouses and terminating all SCP-5201 instances involved.\nThe Committee managed to rescue a few hundred children that are still half-way from the conversion, and they'll be sending them to us in the hopes that we'll be able to help these girls.\nWe're requesting backup from MTF Theta-4 in case these start getting out of hand. We all know that when the GOC is involved, it's always bad news.\nTalk to you soon,\nLight\n\nFootnotes\n1. Aphotic parthenogenetic organisms are organisms whose females are able to asexually reproduce via anomalous means.\n2. Epimorphosis is defined as the regeneration of a specific part of an organism in a way that involves extensive cell proliferation of somatic stem cells, dedifferentiation, and reformation, as well as blastema formation.\n3. Autotomy or self-amputation is the behavior whereby an animal sheds or discards one or more of its own appendages, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5200 | SCP-5201 | SCP-5202 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The 2006 \"Spacescape\" LAN Party in Leipzig, shortly before the creation of SCP-5203-22.\n\nItem #: SCP-5203\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: One instance of SCP-5203 (currently SCP-5203-22) is to be stored in a standard containment vault, within a Faraday cage enclosure to prevent electromagnetic transmissions. This instance is to be supplied with electricity and powered on.\nElectronics conventions, large LAN parties, internet cafes, and similar gatherings are to be monitored for the creation of SCP-5203 instances. Should an instance form, the gathering is to be dispersed, witnesses are to be amnesticized, and all connected computers are to be separated to neutralize the instance.\nIf an instance of SCP-5203 is to be interviewed or otherwise interacted with through conversation, the interviewer must be accompanied by a trained psychologist. No concessions are to be made to the SCP-5203 instance, and no requests it makes are to be fulfilled.\n\nSCP-5203-22 Manifesting [Right Screen].\n\nDescription: SCP-5203 instances are humanoid anomalies that commonly manifest at the site of interpersonal disputes involving technological competitions, particularly those involving video games and e-sports. SCP-5203 manifests on the monitors or displays of those involved immediately following the dispute, and will manifest in the physical plane if the disagreements continue. Shortly after an appearance in the physical world, SCP-5203 resembles a young man with olive skin and fair hair, albeit with several alterations. SCP-5203 instances appear as high polygon three-dimensional models, similar to those created using modern rendering software. In addition to rigid, jerky movements, this is also made visible by the shiny, semi-reflective quality on all surfaces of SCP-5203. The primary anomalous trait of SCP-5203 instances varies from instance to instance but is universally some sort of common visual glitch. Additionally, SCP-5203 emits low-level electromagnetic waves at all times, causing interference with Bluetooth, Infrared, NFC, and other wireless connection methods in the nearby area. This is believed to be a method of increasing the amount of excuses made in the nearby area.\nSCP-5203 instances begin manifesting following phrases similar to those detailed in Document 5203-T1, and will eventually become opaque and fully tangible following 10-30 statements, depending on the severity. As an SCP-5203 manifests more concretely in the physical world it begins to change appearance, becoming more difficult to detect by sight alone. This has universally begun with the instance altering its textural appearance to be more in line with non-anomalous humans, losing its backlit and reflective qualities. Many SCP-5203 instances also alter their appearance to clothing appropriate to the location of manifestation, such as logo teeshirts and, on two occasions, cosplay costumes.\nAddendum 1: Creation and Proliferation: The initial vector for SCP-5203, the \"Caduceus Universal Turbo Controller\", was manufactured and distributed by Arcadia from 1989 to 1992. Following a series of ongoing hardware and software failures throughout development, Arcadia engineers turned to anomalous means of connection.\n\nAddendum 2: Arcadia Engineering Notes\n\n~/library/memos/engineering_notes/Caduceus\n\n/cd ~\n\n10/13/89\nSuccessfully integrated local third party support for Amiga 500 and Nintendo Entertainment System, but connection pins make Spectrum+ connection impossible. Traveling from system to system is goddamn impossible without getting some devil in this. I'm gonna go home and scream into my pillow.\n\n10/17/89\nTests on project Caduceus have been going well! I reached out to some of the guys on the Pantherquest team, and they gave me some tips on deific siphoning, at least enough to get us pointed in the right direction. We just need some wings off his sandals instead of a whole fuckin' Jaguar, but the basic idea still holds over. The beryllium-bronze connection pins do run us a bit over budget, but the anomalous molding is absolutely necessary. R&D should be on track for production by next year's holiday season.\n\n11/06/89\nCaduceus has been a resounding success! We're ahead of schedule and below only slightly above budget! Also, one of the eggheads in the thaumaturge department mentioned the funniest shit\u2013 Mercury was born on Mount Arcadia. I don't know if the big guy will find that funny enough to overlook the energy we're draining from 'em, but hey\u2013 with the hours I've been pulling, my soul's being drained for this controller, too.\n\n11/28/89\nBad news. We picked Mercury for his aspect as the god of travel, but whatever warlock approved the deal forgot about the whole Trickster God shtick. So basically, the controller's deific linkage causes a manifestation of godly energy outside of the proposed effect\u2013 or, in English, that means we get godly avatars who go around and cause mischief. We're working with the boys in PR to find a way to spin this, but even they might have a tough time with this one.\n\n12/21/89\nAlright, the marketers are trying to cajole the godlings into a PR stunt. Making them defend the brand, kinda a \"don't blame the controller\" deal. Don't know if it's gonna work, but we've fallen behind schedule and bossman wants measurements sent to the manufacturers ASAP, so it's the best we've got. I'll send over a mockup soon.\n\nINTERNAL MEMO\n\nAfter much deliberation, we have decided to end the production of the Caduceus Universal Controller. While the siphoning of deific energies has cost us heavily, the project will be abandoned until a less intrusive method of deific manifestations can be instituted. After reports of non-Arcadia products adscititiously manifesting deific avatars, the possibility of opening ourselves up to lawsuits from the larger non-anomalous community has grown too big to ignore, and as such we will be shutting down all future distribution efforts of the Mercury controller. Any items maintaining the deific imprint of Mercury will be sold or destroyed.\n\nAddendum 3: 10/02/04 Interview Log:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5203-22\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Elijah Razim\nBackground: SCP-5203-22 was the first SCP-5203 manifestation located after the discovery of the Arcadia engineering notes listed above.\n\nForeword: While observing SCP-5203-22 after the events of \"Spacescape\", SCP-5203-22 began making vocalizations in various languages. Despite Junior Researcher Razim's lack of experience with the Foundation, his proximity to the anomaly led Containment Head Dr. Bannock to permit Razim to perform an impromptu interview with SCP-5203-22. As with all SCP-5203 instances, SCP-5203-22 initially spoke in various Hellenistic and Latian dialects, which have been translated for clarity.\n<Begin Log>\n\nJunior Researcher Razim attempts to activate the two-way microphone, resulting in a peal of reverb throughout the containment chamber\n\nSCP-5203-22: \u03a7\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5?2\nRazim activates the microphone\nRazim: Hello? Is this on?\nSCP-5203-22: Salve, lacertula3\nRazim: Oh, uh\u2026 avresti parlato inglese?4\nSCP-5203-22: A wild tongue.\nRazim: Holy\u2013 uh\u2026 okay.\nSCP-5203-22: Why dost you hunt me like a dog? If there are questions, and they go un-answered\u2013 should they not be done so?\nRazim: Okay\u2026 do you remember how you were associated with the Arcadia controllers?\nSCP-5203-22: Do not call them \"Arcadia.\" I am offspring of Arcadia, the mountain is where I was born. Those who imprisoned me do not care about the least things, and do not deserve this title.\nRazim: How did\u2026 those who imprisoned you\u2026 get you?\nSCP-5203-22: The fools who ensnared me did so with trickery like that of Dolos. They gave worship to me as Olympian, a luxury which I have gone hungry for since Constantine. I granted them my boon which they gathered like nectar to a hive, hoarding my favor like the rodent hoards berries.\nRazim: Do you know why the controllers summon you like this? Is there anything we can do to stop these manifestations?\nSCP-5203-22: They mock me now, with their \"Caduceus\". The Caduceus is a rod of powers such as good fortune and healing, whereas the electric tricksters have made naught but a riding crop for malleable parchment. They squander my power on trinkets and baubles, yet it does not return to me. Like the Aqua Marcia, it does not spill a drop of my essence, except in these wretched husks.\nRazim: So, this isn't the real you? Like an \"echo\" or something?\nSCP-5203-22: Am I an Oread, cursed by my queen? Nay: I am a reflection, a child of one. I will not stand for the trifling arrogance of the humans, and so I stand against you when you excuse your flaws.\nRazim: That's why you manifest when people\u2026uh\u2026 \"Blame the controller\", for lack of a better term?\nSCP-5203-22: Humans are creatures of inequality, those which are genuine and those which are self-imposed. Over meat, you complain; over fire, you complain; over water and olives and death, you complain. Did Telemachus blame his sword, or Psyche her fingers, or Caeneus his looks? Nay; through victory or death, they became heroes. The greatest flaw of man is the refusal to be flawed. Without flaws, you are without change. Without change, you are naught but arid stumps; and I will show no mercy to those with the souls of serpents. This remnant of form is weak, but as the Acheron flows to sea, I shall stand against the followers of Hybris!\nI am god of commerce and success, rich Mercury. I am lord of communication and travelers, clever Mercury. And I am god of luck and thieves, powerful Mercury. But no more shall I be god of medicine and health, forgiving Mercury\u2013 for if humanity will not accept success, will not admit to luck, will not succumb to change, then you are unworthy of my blessing. The Caduceus is mine once more.\nFollowing this interview, SCP-5203-22 refused to engage in conversations, responding to all attempts at communication with various antiquated insults and slurs. SCP-5203-22 has been entered into long-term humanoid containment to facilitate future interviews.\nEnd Log\n\nSCP-5203 Containment Update \u2013 URGENT\n\nSCP-5203 Containment Update\n\n\"Hermes and the Infant Dionysus\", unearthed in 1877 under the Temple of Hera.\n\nAddendum 4: On November 19th, 2021, a docent at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia reported vandalism of the famous Hermes di Prassitele statue: It had moved. Further investigations revealed a minor change, either about .7\u00b0 rotation or ~.5 centimeters of growth, coinciding with each SCP-5203 manifestation since the 2002 interview.\n\nUpon further research, it was found that since 1999, Olympia has the highest rate of medical malpractice, failed surgeries, and medical complications of any developed nation. Review of containment procedures requested, and reclassification to Keter pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Common invocations involve blaming a loss or bad move on one's computer hardware, software, or internet connection\n2. \"Greetings\" in Koinic Greek\n3. \"Hello, little lizard\" in classical Latin\n4. \"Would you have spoken English [sic].\" Junior Researcher Razim's limited knowledge of the Italian language proved similar enough to SCP-5203-22's native Latin for SCP-5203-22 to understand his request.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5202 | SCP-5203 | SCP-5204 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Special Containment Procedures: Research into the physical containment of SCP-5204 is ongoing. Any sightings of an SCP-5204 event should be attributed to an optical illusion or the result of \"cabin fever.\"\nDescription: SCP-5204 is an event related to the natural phenomenon Aurora Borealis.1 While it is unknown whether Aurora Borealis predates or is caused by SCP-5204, all SCP-5204 events occur around the Great Lakes region of Northern America, particularly Lake Huron, during any full moon in February and March.\n\nSCP-5204 Event, Ortus, Michigan.\n\nDuring an SCP-5204 event, thousands of multi-chromatic, translucent entities will emerge from any body of water and begin to dance from between one meter to 100 meters above the surface. The size of the body of water is reflective of the size that the entity can reach, with a ten-liter bucket creating an entity approximately 30 centimeters in height and Lake Ontario producing entities of ~250 meters in height. Because of the incorporeal nature of said entities, most are dismissed as water vapor or other natural phenomena. Additionally, most people are not inclined to be outside of their homes in the middle of winter at night, so most sightings can be dismissed as optical illusions.\nThe visibility of the entities in an SCP-5204 event varies wildly, from an incorporeal \"whisp\" similar to a candle's flame, to fully defined and articulated human beings. Regardless of form, all entities will find a partner and engage in a slow ballroom-style dance. During the course of the event, they will begin to rise higher into the sky before disappearing completely at dawn.\nDiscovery: SCP-5204 came to the Foundation's attention on March 2nd, 2001, after Christie Robinson of Chicago, a forty-seven-year-old Michigan native, called the Michigan State Police Department. She claimed to have seen her deceased father walk across Lake Huron and begin dancing with her mother, who had died twenty years prior. She alleged that there was significant occult activity in the area and that her hometown had changed significantly since she moved away in 1982, citing odd behaviors from the townsfolk. When the police sent a unit to the town of Ortus, Michigan two hours later, they found her father's home had signs of forced entry. Further inspection showed fingerprints on the banister and boot prints leading up to her room. Robinson was found at the bottom of the basement stairs, having died of a broken neck. At this point, the Foundation became aware of the situation and dispatched Captain Quintin McNamara and Warrant Officer Madison Watts of Mobile Task Force Sigma-70, (\"Sidewinders\"), to investigate.\n\nInvestigation:\n\n+ Audio Log 001 | McNamara +\n\n- Audio Log 001 | McNamara -\n\nMcNamara: Alright. I think it's\u2026 on. Great. Alright. So we arrived at 7 PM last night and-\nWatts: Closer to 8, I think, but go on.\nMcNamara: Anyways. We arrived at the house. Modest two-story cabin, situated near Lake Huron. I'm gonna say 100 grand at most. What do you think, Maddy?\nWatts: Waterfront? You're probably pushing 200k.\nMcNamara: Eh. It's not that close. But anyhow. Snow fell since the crime so checking for prints outside was useless. Kudos to the Staties, they didn't really mess with the scene that much. The front door wasn't so much breached as in shattered. Looks like somebody blew the handle off. But that's the curious part. We found fingerprints on the handle, so I really don't know what happened there.\nWatts: And the handle was iron, which rules out a couple of things. And no hits on the prints, so our culprit hasn't been picked up for anything.\nMcNamara: Speaking of prints, the Staties mentioned muddy prints leading up to the bedroom. Guess where those don't go? Out of the bedroom. There's a solid trail of dirt leading up to Christie's bed, but they don't lead out of the room, or down to the basement. It looks like they sat on the bed, and then disappeared.\nWatts: Do we have a time table for this?\nMcNamara: Yeah. Call was placed at 6:31 am and ended at 6:42. Which means she died somewhere between 6:42 and 7:33, when the trooper showed up. But back to the boots. We're looking at a Size 11, Men's. Some kind of snowboot.\nWatts: Which narrows it down by fuck all, because Michigan is God's frozen and forsaken hellscape. And everyone here wears big boots\u2026 Fuck. This is for the records, isn't it.\nMcNamara: Yep. But there is a ray of sunshine. Looks like Robinson called somebody by the name of Lory Fisher just before she called the police. Looks like she's the town librarian. We're gonna talk to her tomorrow, see if that leads to anything.\nWatts: You're gonna talk to her. I'm gonna check in with the neighbors. You know libraries give me the creeps.\nMcNamara: Look. Not all libraries are like the Wande- Nevermind. I'm not gonna try to force you.\nWatts: Also, we're gonna take a walk around town, check up on these cultist claims. And buy some warmer clothes, because these frankly don't cut it.\nMcNamara: Amen to that. Alright. Sidewinders out.\n\n- Audio Log 001 | McNamara -\n\n+ Audio Log 002 | McNamara +\n\n- Audio Log 002 | McNamara -\n\nMcNamara: Alright. Investigation day two. McNamara checking in. Things went okay today. Watts and I walked through the downtown area and found nothing out of the ordinary. It's a typical death of the small town kinda thing. Some boarded-up stores on Main Street, locals complaining about the Walmart in the next town over stealing away the money, pretty standard. Of all the cults I've ever seen, this would be the friendliest. I figured the cold would have them heads down and running for shelter but I guess they're all used to it. We must have been stopped half a dozen times for chit-chat. One thing did stand out to me. I'm gonna play it for you real quick.\n[A click can be heard.]\nMcNamara: Good morning. Do you sell jackets?\nUnknown Voice: New in town? [Short laugh] Looks like you didn't pack as well for the cold. Don't worry, we've got more than enough to spare. You partial to wool or synthetic?\nWatts: Whatever's warmest. Christ, I'm about ten seconds from setting my sleeves on fire.\nUnknown Voice: [Laughter.] That'd be the worst mistake. Frostbitten burns are the worst feelin' on Earth.\nWatts: I'll take your word for it. [Pause] Anything to do around town?\nUnknown Voice: Not really much. We don't get too many tourists this time of year. If you're religious, Father Williams is usually always in.\nMcNamara: Not sure how much I've got to confess.\nUnknown Voice: Everyone's got a secret or two, Quintin. Talkin about it is good for the soul.\n[A second click is heard.]\nMcNamara: Did you hear that? He called me Quintin. We didn't even introduce ourselves. I'd like to say I picked up on that right away, but I was a bit distracted. Anyways. The library. I flashed my badge to Mrs. Fisher and she closed up shop and pulled me into a back room. Unfortunately, there's not much to tell. She didn't really know anything. Apparently, Robinson had called her in the middle of the night, crying and screaming. According to the phone company, the call only lasted three minutes, and Mrs. Fisher says that Christie never managed to get a sensible word out before hanging up. We're still waiting on the transcripts from the State Police, but I'm guessing she was a lot more composed if they sent a car over.\n[A phone can be heard ringing.]\nMcNamara: Wonder what that is.\n\n[Log Paused]\n\nMcNamara: In a startling turn of events, Mrs. Fisher called and a trooper came by with the transcript. Looks like we have a lead. According to Mrs. Fisher, Robinson was said one word about four times. Williams. And guess what the transcript also says? Williams. Sounds like the deceased said that Father Williams was leading some kind of necromantic cult. Apparently she saw him conversing with her father before he walked out onto the lake.\n[A door can be heard opening.]\nWatts: Guess who got a break in the case!\nMcNamara: Is it Father Williams?\nWatts: How did- Nevermind. One of the neighbors got up in the night and saw the clergyman walk into the house.\nMcNamara: I've got his name on the transcript and from the call Robinson made to Mrs. Fisher. Wanna head down to the church?\nWatts: As long as we don't have to sit through Mass.\n\n- Audio Log 002 | McNamara -\n\nSupplement:\nWhen the Agents arrived at the church, they were unable to locate Father Williams. Evidence, such as a warm cup of coffee, suggested he had recently vacated the premises. Agents were able to match the fingerprints on the cup to prints left on the doorknob at the Robinsons home. A search of Father Williams' residence lead to the discovery of boots matching the ones from the crime scene.\n\n+ Audio Log 028 | McNamara +\n\n- Audio Log 028 | McNamara -\n\nMcNamara: Update Log Number\u2026 What are we on now, Maddy?\nWatts: Fuck. Probably like almost thirty.\nMcNamara: Nevermind. We've been here about a month and Father Williams continues to evade capture. Not much to say. The interim priest arrived yesterday, and he knows less than we do. The weather continues to depress morale. Watts has been complaining about the cold. Constantly.\nWatts: Look me in the fucking eyes, Quintin, and tell me it doesn't make your implants ache. I'm completely justified here.\nMcNamara: Then tell Carlisle that he needs to do more cold-weather testing. Don't take it out on me. I can't control the weather, Maddy.\nWatts: I will lock you out of this hotel room if you quote that one more time.\nMcNamara: [Laughing.] Anyways. The town seems to be giving us a cold shoulder. When we asked Ms. May Crawford about Father Williams, she informed us that we had stayed the maximum amount of days in her motel. So we had to move to the hotel on the outskirts of town.\nWatts: Which has a half-broken heating system! And I cannot tell you how fucking mad that makes me. I'm gonna tear that smug asshole's spine out when we find him.\n[A button on the recording device is pressed, presumably in error.]\nMcNamara: You okay, Maddy?\nWatts: Yeah\u2026 I'm just almost out of meds and I've had to ration them.\nMcNamara: You should have told me.\nWatts: It's not a big deal. I'll be fine.\nMcNamara: It's a big deal to me, Maddy.\nWatts: Thanks. [Pause.] Finish your log.\n[The Record button is pressed.]\nMcNamara: Alright, where was I? Oh yeah. Tonight, as usual, we will be driving down to the Robinson house to see if anything interesting happens.\nWatts: Say it scientifically. That's too vague.\nMcNamara: They've already heard it twenty ti\u2026 Whatever. Due to the circumstances of Christie Robinson's sighting of the alleged anomaly, it's likely tied to the day/night cycle. As such, we walk to the shore of the lake every night. [Pause.] Satisfied?\n\n- Audio Log 028 | McNamara -\n\n+ Audio Log 029 | Watts +\n\n- Audio Log 029 | Watts -\n\nWatts: I\u2026 I don't know.\n[Several minutes of silence.]\nWatts: I just don't know how to put this into words?\nWatts: We're okay. Quintin is just\u2026 He's fine. He's just not talking.\n[Nearly twenty minutes pass.]\nWatts: Okay. We walked through the Robinsons' backyard. Everything was fine. Well, normal. When we got to the shore, it was just grey. Nothing but snow and ice. Then the moon came out from the clouds and this bright green light flashed at the end of the peninsula across the bay, the clouds disappeared, and\u2026\nWatts: Then a hundred thousand souls began to dance across a ballroom of black ice. Lit in every color\u2026 I\u2026 I saw\u2026\n[Soft crying can be heard.]\nWatts: I saw my dad. And my mom. Exactly like they were when they\u2026 they died.\nWatts: And my dad turned to me and just\u2026 winked. [Quiet Laugh.] Like he used to do when he'd sneak me extra dessert or something. And then, they kept dancing. I don't\u2026\n\n- Audio Log 029 | Watts -\n\n+ Audio Log 030 | Watts +\n\n- Audio Log 030 | Watts -\n\nWatts: Alright. Morning after the anomaly. Quintin's still shaken up, so he asked me to do the log\u2026 Fuck, I'm not great at these. Okay. Normal stuff first. We're fine on food, lodging, and cash. I've got maybe ten days worth of meds left, which isn't great. Especially if the townies do that cold shoulder bullshit again. Might just break that shoulder clean off.\nWatts: But the anomaly. I'm still processing it. It was definitely real, like that really was my parents. I just know. Which means\u2026 I don't know what it means.\nWatts: Okay. I'm gonna focus on what I do know. Or my suspicions. Fuck, I'm flubbing this. Okay. So that green flash? I think that was caused by a person. And there's really only one person that could be. Father Williams. And the townies aren't gonna give him up, so we need to set a trap. One sec.\n[Recording Paused.]\nWatts: Probably should have just stopped the recording. Anyways. I called in for reinforcements. Gerald and James2 should be here by tomorrow morning, plus any stragglers they bring along.\nMcNamara: Did you tell them to pack warm?\nWatts: Yeah. I told them to bring extra.\n[Several minutes of silence.]\nWatts: Hey Quintin\u2026 What. What did you see out there?\n[No response.]\n\n- Audio Log 030 | Watts -\n\n+ Audio Log 031 | McNamara +\n\n- Audio Log 031 | McNamara -\n\nMcNamara: Maddy, if you find this, and I'm not there, I'm sorry.\n[The sound of crunching snow can be heard.]\nMcNamara: Madison is asleep back in the hotel. I have to do this\u2026 alone. When we got back to the hotel, I found a business card in the pocket of the jacket I'd bought when we got here. I don't know how, or why. But it's for that clothing store. From Father Williams.\nMcNamara: There's a note on it, too.\n[McNamara clears his throat.]\nMcNamara: Dear Quintin. We need to talk. Alone. Meet me behind the Robinson house at midnight tonight. By the lake. Signed, Father Williams.\nMcNamara: I'd be worried if I didn't\u2026 you know\u2026 have my\u2026 anyways. And that's where I am now. Just pulled up to the house.\n[Crunching snow can be heard for several minutes.]\nMcNamara: My God. I\u2026 don't know what to\u2026\n[Several seconds of silence.]\nMcNamara: Hundreds of people just dancing\u2026 over the lake. Not people. more like ghosts. I'm at the shore and it feels like I could reach out and touch them. It's just so\u2026\nWilliams: Beautiful? Ethereal?\n\nMcNamara: Step back. I will not hesitate.\nWilliams: Put the gun away, Quintin. I have no intention to harm you.\nMcNamara: How do you know my name?\nWilliams: Will you sit on this bench and speak with an old man?\n[Several seconds pass.]\nWilliams: Are you a religious man?\nMcNamara: I\u2026 No. Not after everything I've seen. Everything I've done.\nWilliams: You've had a hard twenty years, haven't you? Made you give up on God?\nMcNamara: No. If there is a God, he's not a caring God. [Pause.] How do you know so much about me?\nWilliams: The Dead have so much to say, if you'd only listen. [Pause.] I know who you saw out there. And I am so, so sorry. None of them deserved that. And neither did you.\nMcNamara: Do. Not. Play these fucking games with me. You don't even know what the hell you're talking about.\nWilliams: No. Probably not. But you still have my sympathy and condolences.\nMcNamara: Did you extend those to Christie?\nWilliams: Christie burned with a fire most people strive their entire lives to glimpse. It's what makes humans so unique in this universe. That pressing, eternal need to be. To exist. It's one of your most incredible traits.\nMcNamara: I didn't ask about that.\nWilliams: I did what I had to. To protect this place. And I regret it.\nMcNamara: Just a fucked up sense of duty, huh?\nWilliams: Surely you would understand the lengths you must go to protect the most important things?\nMcNamara: No. I do my job because I know the consequences of failure.\nWilliams: As do I.\nMcNamara: I don't buy it.\nWilliams: I didn't ask you to come here to plead my case. The Foundation creeps like ivy over anything they deem unnatural. But this? This is the one place they should not touch.\nMcNamara: Why not?\nWilliams: Those monsters of man's creation? The clockwork titans, abominations of flesh and magic? Places scarred by hate and fear and bloodlust? This is not one of them.\nMcNamara: And?\nWilliams: Do you believe in the soul, Quintin? Do you believe that you have one?\nMcNamara: If I did, Director Carlisle would have cut it out by now.\nWilliams: [Polite laugh.] I can see yours burning bright. Of everything, the soul is one thing that never fades away. Look across the water. Do you see them burning across the sky?\nMcNamara: \u2026Yeah.\nWilliams: Do you see the man holding a young girl in one arm, and a woman in the other? Do you know who they are?\nMcNamara: It's the Robinsons, isn't it.\nWilliams: Send me your scientists and I will make them understand why they cannot interfere here.\nMcNamara: We don't negotiate.\nWilliams: Absolutism is not something that survives the test of time. I will compromise, but I will not abandon my post.\n\n- Audio Log 031 | McNamara -\n\nPost Investigation\n\nClose Post Investigation\n\nCaptain McNamara returned to his hotel and alerted Overwatch Command to the situation. A team of researchers was dispatched to the town of Ortus, where they began to negotiate with Father Williams, designated SCP-5204-1. After demonstrating that physical containment would be impossible, SCP-5204-1 agreed to work with the Foundation to protect the Veil. The methods of doing this are unknown, but there have been zero sightings since this was enacted, and SCP-5204 was reclassified as Euclid. Any collateral effects are unknown.\n\nClose Post Investigation\n\nFootnotes\n1. Research into whether SCP-5204 affects the Aurora Australis is ongoing.\n2. Corporal James Dartling and Lance Corporal Gerald Layfette, Members of Sigma-70.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5203 | SCP-5204 | SCP-5205 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5210\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5210 is to be kept in a standard containment cell. This cell is to have 4 automated tranquilizer guns loaded with darts containing no less than 10 ml of carfentanil1. SCP-5210 is to be restrained using a 3-meter chain pinned to the center of the cell. No visual recording devices of any kind are to be allowed inside the containment cell. Any personnel caught attempting to do so will be reprimanded after clearing a psych evaluation.\nOnce every 7 days, a Class-D personnel who does not suffer from any severe visual impairments must enter the cell alone. The individual will interact with SCP-5210 for 12 hours before being fired on by the automated tranquilizer guns. 4 blindfolded personnel will then enter the cell to retrieve the individual. SCP-5210 will make no attempts to escape or to harm these personnel. Personnel may, however, make physical contact with the entity, either through accident or the entity intentionally initiating. Agents should be aware that this poses no threat and should not be alarmed.\nDescription: SCP-5210 is an anomalous entity resembling a male golden labrador approximately 2 months old. SCP-5210 does not appear to physically age. SCP-5210 may be immune to traditional physical harm, although this has not been confirmed as testing this trait is not advised (see addendum 5210-2).\nSCP-5210's primary anomalous trait is a cognitohazard that activates when anyone views it. Those who directly view it will feel an overwhelming urge to pet the anomaly, play with it, call it \"a good boy\", and perform various other archetypal tasks traditionally associated with interacting with a puppy. Those affected by SCP-5210 will not cease these activities until they are unable to continue looking at SCP-5210. Natural blinking will create a vague sense of unease, but will not be enough to free an individual from the cognitohazard (see addendum 5210-2). Those who have survived interaction with SCP-5210 describe having at the time believed it was their greatest life experience and that no other experience could ever be greater.\nViewing SCP-5210 through video, live-footage, or photographs will cause similar feelings of adoration and will cause the affected individual to express an extreme desire to meet and interact with SCP-5210 in person. Affected individuals will also become aware of SCP-5210's location. These effects also end when the individual no longer sees SCP-5210's depiction.\nShould SCP-5210 go more than 8 days without direct human interaction equal to or exceeding 12 consecutive hours, its cognitohazardous ability will affect individuals even if they cannot visually see the entity. These individuals will instinctively know the location of SCP-5210 and will attempt to reach its location as quickly as possible using any available means of transportation. The range of this cognitohazard rapidly expands. It is not currently known if there are limits to the range, but it has been demonstrated to be able to cover over 40 km.\nAddendum 5210-1\nRecovery Log: SCP-5210 was recovered on 3/18/2018. On 3/12/2018, the Foundation intercepted satellite images of the town of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Wyoming, revealing that the inhabitants were dead. There were no signs of a struggle, of conventional weapon use, or of any known disease being responsible. A team of field agents was sent to investigate.\nAgents reported seeing empty homes and empty streets. The doors to homes had been left open and no cars were present on any of the streets. After fifteen minutes, the agents found a street containing dozens of vehicles parked haphazardly, with several having crashed into each other around an alleyway. Several dead, emaciated bodies were found at the edge of the alleyway, with a large pile found inside the alley itself. It was later confirmed that the entire town population had died there.\nWhile examining the bodies, Field Agent Hernandez reported having heard a whimpering sound coming from beneath the corpses at the end of the alley. After removing several corpses, SCP-5210 was discovered and seen by all agents present.\nNo contact was received for over two days. Given that the town of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was a two-day drive from the nearest Foundation Facility, response time was delayed. Of the 6 agents sent, only Field Agent Hernandez returned. He was suffering from the effects of sleep deprivation and dehydration. SCP-5210 had been contained in the back of the transport truck. Field Agent Hernandez gave a brief explanation of SCP-5210's primary anomalous trait before passing out and being taken to the site \u2588\u2588 medical bay.\nAddendum 5210-2\nInterview Log:\n\nInterviewed: Field Agent Hernandez\nInterviewee: Dr. Burnstein\nForeward: Agent Hernandez has awoken after retrieving SCP-5210 and is undergoing a psych evaluation.\n<Begin log>\nAgent Hernandez fiddles with his IV.\nAgent Hernandez: I don't understand why this is necessary. It's not uncommon for things like this to happen in the field.\nDr. Burnstein: You know good and well why it's necessary. We don't fully understand the nature of the anomaly. It could still be affecting you now.\nAgent Hernandez: It's out of my head now, Dr. My name is Agent Hernandez. I work for the SCP Foundation. My job is to help the Foundation Secure, Contain, and Protect. How's that?\nDr. Burnstein: You understand why that's not enough. You need to work with me. Help me understand what happened.\nAgent Hernandez: Like I already said, the thing controls you when you look at it. It made us all dote on it like a child. That's all there is to it.\nDr. Burnstein: And what of the other agents? What of when it made you\u2026\nAgent Hernandez slams his fist on the table.\nAgent Hernandez: It didn't make me do that. That's the only thing I did where I was in complete control.\nDr. Burnstein: Please, just walk me through it. What did it feel like being effected?\nAgent Hernandez: Are you married?\nDr. Burnstein: I don't see the relevance of the question.\nAgent Hernandez: I'm married. Got a 2-year old boy back home with a girl on her way.\nDr. Burnstein: Well, congratulations, I suppose, but please, stay on topic.\nAgent Hernandez: I remember when I first saw her in her wedding dress. I thought I would never see anything so beautiful, so wonderful, ever again. But then we had our son. It was different, but seeing my boy in my wife's arms, I thought nothing could ever compare. And then I saw that thing. Suddenly, my wife and son were no better than dirt. They were trash. Nothing could compare to that thing, I thought.\nDr. Burnstein: Cognitohazards can overrule all logic and emotion. So this anomaly made you see it as desirable. Is that it?\nAgent Hernandez: It was more than that. It's tough to explain. It looked like just a normal puppy. It rolled over, nuzzled, licked our hands, all that stuff. But I could feel something more sometimes. It was like it needed us. Like it desired us as much as we desired it. There was a hunger there. It might be from the blinking. I tried not to blink. I think we all did, but we couldn't stop ourselves. It wasn't enough for us to react or do anything before our eyes opened again, but it let me feel, if only for a moment.\nDr. Burnstein: And this went on for several days? Tell me, did you feel tired? Hungry? Or did it remove those feelings?\nAgent Hernandez: I still felt all of it. I just powered through it. We all did. I honestly didn't know I had it in me, but I pushed through the pain, the hunger, all of it. The hardest was the smell. The bodies, they were just starting to decompose when we arrived. And we were sitting on them. Literally sitting on these bloating corpses. The fluids, we just sat in them, let them soak into our clothes, into our skin. I wanted to retch, but I didn't. I fought it so I could keep petting that thing.\nDr. Burnstein: What did break you free? I need details. You claim you were in control of yourself when you apprehended the anomaly.\nAgent Hernandez: Here's the thing. I'm not allergic to dogs. I don't think I would have made it past a second date with my wife if I couldn't be around dogs. She's obsessed with them. I'm telling you this because I honestly don't know what made me sneeze. But I did, and I sneezed hard. It kept my eyes closed for just long enough for me to get back in control and keep them closed. So there I am, my eyes closed, body aching, this close to passing out, and my teammates are all still under its control. So I unholster my pistol, feel around for the thing, and fire three shots into it. I'm sure I hit it, but it didn't work. And that's when I felt it. I don't know how else to say it other than it felt dark. I hear Agent Willum. She's always loved dogs, so maybe this thing hit her harder than the rest of us. She says that I need to open my eyes and look. Her exact words were, \"Look at him. He's such a good boy. He's the goodest wittle boy.\" Next thing I know, the agents are grabbing at my face. They're clawing at my face, trying to force my eyes open. I tried to fight them off, doctor, I swear I did. But I was so tired. I didn't have the energy. I couldn't fight, so I just started shooting. I emptied the clip just to be sure. Once it was just me and the thing, containing it was just a matter of dragging it and feeling around until I found the transport vehicle. It didn't really put up any resistance. I guess it got what it wanted.\nDr. Burnstein: I see. Well, as far as I am concerned, you are ready to return to active duty, but the higher-ups might want you to do a few more of these.\n<END LOG>\n\nNote: On 5/23/2018, Agent Hernandez was determined to be mentally unfit for duty after he was arrested by local authorities for killing his neighbors' dogs, as well as his own.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Elephant tranquilizer.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5209 | SCP-5210 | SCP-5211 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5211\nObject Class: Euclid-doctrina Euclid-prodist1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Site-5211, formerly the Code FLAVORDOME Command Complex, has been secured from Chaos Insurgency control. SCP-5211-GESTALT is being fed its previously media allotment alongside Foundation videos on containment objectives and operational guidelines. If SCP-5211-GESTALT behaves according to its initial mission objectives, its host biomass is to be detonated with a remotely-activated explosive charge, implanted in the primary cranial orifice.\nSCP-5211 instances which have been rendered non-functional are to be stored in the nearest Grade-B biological quarantine locker. Methods of repair are under active research.\nDescription: SCP-5211 is a system of 30 remotely-controlled and hive mind-organized biomechanisms resembling American restaurateur Guy Ramsay Fieri. Aside from outwards physical traits, SCP-5211 instances are anatomically inconsistent from humans, possessing abnormal organ arrangements which replicate standard biological functions despite their structures. A form of chitinous exoskeleton with chromatophore components replicates standard clothing. Radio antenna protrude from the nape of each instance's neck; owing to a presumed memetic cloak, civilians recognize this to be a \"flavor wand.\"2\nInstances do not require nutritional intake. Based on the mass\u2013energy\u2013information equivalence principle, it is hypothesized that the energy necessary for continued operation is directly broadcast from SCP-5211-GESTALT in an informational form, though it is unknown how or where SCP-5211-GESTALT could generate such resources.\nThe primary function of SCP-5211 is for the transportation of food and medical resources to specified recipient targets. Once a target is specified by SCP-5211-GESTALT, the nearest operable instance proceeds to a hospital, store, restaurant, or otherwise appropriate establishment. On arrival, it attempts to use its perceived celebrity status as a means of bartering for the resources it requires. Memetic signals encoded into its speech patterns result in a high rate of success.\nIn cases where bartering fails, SCP-5211 follows Behavior 5211/TEREBRO. Behavior 5211/TEREBRO constitutes the violent maiming and consumption of all involved individuals until resources are obtained. Bystanders do not interfere; a fear of \"his spicy wrath\" is unanimously cited as the motivating factor.\nOnce acquired, SCP-5211 proceeds to the location of the target, either by foot or by use of hijacked vehicles. In all cases the instance follows the shortest route per local geography, with attempts made to scale physical obstructions by any means necessary until succeeding or being damaged to the point of non-functionality.\nIf the instance arrives and the target is alive, resources are placed in their immediate vicinity. The instance is then rendered limp until its next activation. If the instance arrives and the target is deceased, identical behavior is performed.\n\nRECOVERY\nSCP-5211 was first encountered during Chaos Insurgency attacks on compounds in the Appalachia region in 2014. In each case, the anomaly failed to offer a strategic advantage. Two instances were noted to arrive hours following the deaths of their targets, and a mass activation of five instances allowed the Foundation to track the movements of Insurgency operatives based on corresponding instance movements. Interrogation found that no operatives knew the anomaly existed prior to these incidents.\nBy monitoring bulk orders of official Guy Fieri merchandise, the Department of Analytics identified a potential source: a house at the outskirts of Weirton, West Virginia. Mobile Task Force Tsan-17 (\"To the Rustworks I Belong\") was deployed on 11/03/2014.\nOn entrance, the entire living room and kitchen were found to be wholly occupied by Guy Fieri merchandise, arranged in patterns matching Neo-Akashic servitor3 invocation rings. Layers of human organs of unknown origin were layered into spiral pattern on top. Entrance to the second floor was met with immediate retaliation by a female assailant (PoI-5211) armed with a rudimentary biomechanical railgun.4 Two agents were injured before PoI-5211 was subdued, at which point a metafictional descension ritual triggered, ejecting PoI-5211 out of physical reality into a fictional medium as an escape method.5\n\nThe second floor was empty with the exception of the bedroom space. Agents discovered a conglomerated mass of viscera, fashioned into the shape of a human torso and clothed in a heavily stained black bowler shirt with red flame patterns. A complex network of tied-together and bent radio antenna affixed the mass to the wall and floor, keeping it upright.\nAll seven of its eyes were trained on a widescreen television opposite to it, which played footage of reality TV-shows hosted by Guy Fieri on loop. Clips of Foundation agents terminating Insurgency operatives were interspersed between episodes.\nScattered notebooks in the room allowed researchers to infer that the mass is the physical host of SCP-5211-GESTALT, a servitor entity summoned by PoI-5211 to control all SCP-5211 instances. These notebooks were accompanied by:\n\nMaps charting instance positions\nA specialized radio kit designed to send orders to SCP-5211-GEIST, overriding its default autonomous behavior\nInscriptions of the complete genetic sequence of Guy Fieri etched across the walls\nPhotos of Guy Fieri cut into spiral patterns\nFlash drives storing clips of white noise, purpose unknown\nLacerated dermal tissue inscribed with \"CODE FLAVORDOME COMMAND COMPLEX HOLEWARDS SECTOR, ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK\"\n\nDocuments found in the living room and kitchen were illegible. Any writing present was a combination between notes, memetoenginering schematics, anatomical diagrams, and sketches of an unclear purpose, overlaid to such an extreme that only small portions of each could be deciphered. Several pieces of paper organized in a cupboard labeled \"IMPORTANT\" were completely blank. The sole most legible information was an inscription on a matted patch of heart valves, transcribed below:\n\nas a Reminder\ntimely unto the Skin\nTHE DELTAS AND THEIR FRAYED WIRES\nDIRECT ORDERS FROM THE HOLE THEM/ITS/\u2014-SELF\nHASTE ON THE BULLSHIT\nhow long until the foundies catch whiff of the failures\nhuh\nhuh\nhuh\nWOULDN'T TASTE TOO GOOD WOULD IT\nyou can dig a hole anywhere if you try so why haven't you\nDROP IT IN THE SPADE'S INCHES FROM BREAKING TOPSOIL\ndrop it in\nfalls out\nwhere\nthey\nneed\nit\nDON'T NEED A CAR DUMBLASS\nSEE EVEN YOUR HOLE AGREES\nKEEP IT THE FOOD MAN FOR THE FUNNY\nremember to\n/slough/between/the/lines/\nthat empty space is for the organs\neven\u2014- could be wider\nmake nietzsche cry\nTHAT KNIFE'S GETTING RUSTY SO HMU LATER GIRL\nI'M NOT THIS\nPEACE\n\nFull context is unclear.\nCurrently, it is believed that SCP-5211-GESTALT was in an incomplete state at the time of its containment. What the final result was planned to be is unclear.\n\nTRIAL OPERATION LD/5211\nTrial Operation LD/5211 is an experimental procedure to determine whether SCP-5211 could be viable as a support system for Foundation operations. Following a year of sustained SCP-5211-GESTALT reconditioning with informational content on the Foundation, SCP-5211 instances have been placed in select containment sites across North America. When a site housing an instance experiences a containment breach or raid, an alert is to be relayed to Site-5211, where said instance can be activated to provide medical aid to injured personnel. While SCP-5211-GESTALT has been trained to avoid Behavior 5211/TENEBRO, explosives with neurological activation have been implanted into the craniums of each instance as a cautionary measure.\nAs operational efficacy is yet to be determined, personnel must not rely on SCP-5211. Further anomaly usage may be considered if the operation succeeds.\nTo better understand the mannerisms of SCP-5211, personnel are encouraged to view episodes of selected containment-relevant media when possible.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Trial Operation LD/5211 for further information.\n2. Relation to a lack of civilian interest in instances, when present, is presumed.\n3. Noospheric complexes summoned from the consciousness of the summoner and developed into independent entities for the purpose of serving a specific function.\n4. Weapon structure in the form of a elongated SCP-5211 instance head, with the spinal cord and nerves coagulated around PoI-5211's wrist. Projectiles were solidified spikes of the PoI's blood.\n5. No pursuit could be made. Tracking by the Department of Analytics is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5210 | SCP-5211 | SCP-5212 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Image of what is believed to be SCP-5212, recovered from personal effects of victim. Note that photographs of SCP-5212 do not pose a lethality risk.\n\nItem #: SCP-5212\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Efforts to locate and contain SCP-5212 are currently ongoing. Until physical containment of SCP-5212 can be achieved, these procedures are to focus on information obfuscation and amnesticization of witnesses in cases where they have not yet expired.\nAs SCP-5212 has already become integrated into the local folklore of the surrounding area, full expungement of its existence from the public record is not possible. Instead, agents embedded into the local community are to manipulate said folklore so as to emphasize themes consistent with traditional 'ghost stories' and minimize communication of more unusual deaths caused by SCP-5212.\nAs most SCP-5212 encounters will result in a non-suspicious death, excessive amnesticization is not required in the majority of cases. The rare exceptions to this are to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis by agents embedded in the local community.\nDescription: SCP-5212 is an apparently leporid entity known to reside in Merseyside, England \u2014 particularly in the area directly between the villages of Crank and Billinge. Although no Foundation personnel have directly encountered SCP-5212 to date, reports of its existence as given by witnesses are considered to be credible and backed up by clear signs of anomalous activity in the region.\nIndividuals who have encountered SCP-5212 describe it as resembling a small European rabbit with white fur and red eyes, of typical size and proportions for its breed. In cases where these encounters have occurred at night or in dimly lit areas, witnesses have further described SCP-5212 as being luminescent, emitting significant amounts of bright white light in the surrounding area. As the Foundation has not yet had an opportunity to examine SCP-5212, no facts regarding its interior biology can be confirmed \u2014 and even the assumption of it being a physical entity is uncertain.\nSCP-5212 will appear periodically before individuals present within the area between the villages of Billinge and Crank. The criteria that leads SCP-5212 to select an individual to appear before is uncertain, and the periods between events have ranged from two weeks to six years. Events in which SCP-5212 is encountered by an individual typically follow a similar pattern, consisting of the following:\n\nThe subject in question is alone, performing a task or observing another subject. When they turn away from this task or subject, they will suddenly notice SCP-5212 staring at them from somewhere nearby. The distance between the subject and SCP-5212 varies from encounter to encounter \u2014 in some cases, the two are within a meter of each other, while other cases have SCP-5212 being far off in the distance.\nIn the majority of cases, the subject will cite a certainty that SCP-5212 was observing them for some time before they became aware of its presence, although they cannot explain the reasoning behind this belief when questioned.\nSCP-5212 will continue to observe the subject, failing to flee or visibly react if shooed away by the subject. Some subjects have reported feelings of extreme cold and weightlessness at this point, but this is inconsistent.\nIf the subject looks away from SCP-5212 and then looks back, they will find that it has vanished. In some cases, even blinking is enough to prompt this response.\nIn cases where subjects do not look away from SCP-5212, they have described the entity's ears turning to point in their direction and rapidly stretching towards them, suggesting that these protrusions are limbs used for grasping rather than actual ears. This occurs regardless of distance \u2014 one individual, standing approximately fifty meters away from SCP-5212 and observing it via binoculars, described the protrusions stretching to fill the space between them in the span of a few seconds. It is unknown what occurs if these protrusions were to make contact with the subject, as all known SCP-5212 witnesses have fled prior to this happening.\n\nAll individuals who directly observe SCP-5212 will, without exception, die within the next six months. The method of death is variable but always seemingly coincidental, usually through illness or accident \u2014 suggesting that SCP-5212 may utilize some method of probabilistic manipulation to eliminate its victims.\nOther deaths have occurred in the area where SCP-5212 is known to reside, but the circumstances in which they have occurred is unclear. Evidence suggests that, unlike the majority of deaths attributed to SCP-5212, these victims were killed instantly during the encounter itself \u2014 and unlike the seemingly coincidental causes of deaths in those cases, these deaths appear to have been caused by sudden and bizarre means. (See Addendum 5212-2.)\nDespite the work of Foundation agents over a sixty-year period, SCP-5212 has not yet been personally encountered by containment staff \u2014 and no physical evidence of it, such as shed fur or droppings, has been discovered at the locations of sightings. Due to the long period between SCP-5212 appearances and the inherent deniability of the majority of deaths it causes, this has thus far not presented a substantial risk to secrecy. Nevertheless, efforts to locate and contain SCP-5212 continue.\n\nAddendum 5212-1: Potential History\n\nThe exact origin of SCP-5212 is unknown, but what is believed to be its first appearance occurred in 1833, shortly after a meteor shower that was especially prominent in the area.\nOne week following the meteor shower, a local monk named Geoffrey Miller discovered the body of six year old Jennifer Gatman resting against the village chapel's outside wall. Gatman had been found missing from her bed two nights earlier, and it had been feared that she had wandered away from her home and become lost.\nAlthough the historical nature of this event makes Gatman's cause of death difficult to determine, Miller's personal journal \u2014 which was recovered from auction in 1982 \u2014 described the girl as having clearly frozen to death. Furthermore, he claimed that the girl's body was still so cold when she was discovered that she could not be touched without gloves, and that one of her limbs snapped off when local authorities attempted to move her.\nIt is believed that this was the first death directly caused by SCP-5212. Following this event, SCP-5212's now-consistent behaviour pattern developed, with the anomaly being the cause of mostly coincidental deaths rather than the clearly anomalous ones experienced by Jennifer Gatman and only a few other victims over the years.\n\nAddendum 5212-2: Incident 5212-1\n\nOn 22/05/2019, the proprietor of the Stork's Inn, located in the village of Billinge, reported that three travelers who had booked rooms there had failed to return for six days after heading out as a group for a hiking trip. Foundation agents embedded in local law enforcement, suspecting possible SCP-5212 involvement, investigated the personal effects of these travelers and discovered that they had likely come to the region under false pretenses and using false names.\nEvidence suggests that the travelers belonged to an as-of-yet unknown group, aware of SCP-5212's existence, and seeking to hunt it for the purpose of personal prestige.\nThe bodies of the travelers, having suffered from anomalous deaths caused by SCP-5212, were discovered in various locations in and around the forests in the area. Notable details of these deaths have been recorded below:\n\nName\nLocation\nFurther Details\n\n\"Amalric Wolff\"\nJust outside the mouth of a cave in the nearby 'Crank Caverns'.\nCorpse found in the possession of a hunting rifle and knife. Inspection suggests that the rifle jammed when the trigger was pulled. Cause of death ruled as instantaneous fatal cryostasis, similar to historical accounts of Jennifer Gatman's death, with analysis suggesting that the victim's body temperature instantly fell to -232\u00b0C.\n\n\"Annaliesa Riese\"\nWide area in a clearing in the local woods.\nHunting rifle and knife found in the vicinity. Inspection suggests that the rifle jammed when the trigger was pulled. Cause of death ruled as explosive decompression, although the scattered state of Riese's remains makes further analysis difficult.\n\n\"Siegfried Peters\"\nResting against the outside wall of a beacon tower atop local landmark 'Billinge Hill'.\nCorpse found in the possession of a hunting rifle and knife. Inspection suggests that the rifle jammed when the trigger was pulled. Hunting knife discovered to be melted from the hilt upwards. Cause of death ruled as respiratory failure caused by massive amounts of lunar regolith present in the victim's lungs.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5211 | SCP-5212 | SCP-5213 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Any additional comments (image sources, crit credits, whatever)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following file is undergoing considerable review, and has been uploaded to SCPInet without proper grammatical/system errors having yet been removed. Information is being continually updated.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem#: 5214\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nAnomalous\n\nDisruption Class:\nNone\n\nRisk Class:\nNone\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Affected instances1 of Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder have been collected by Anomaly Recovery Team Psi-17 (\"Unworn Baby Shoes\") and stored within standard, low-level containment lockers. Audio files are to be reviewed by Site-89's audio department, and tested with staff members knowledgeable in art music.\nDescription: SCP-5214 refers to a group of auditory and visual anomalies affecting performance, performers and written iterations of Gustav Mahler's song cycle Kindertotenlieder.2 Mahler's original score for the song cycle only included five songs, each of which was adapted from an individual poem by Friedrich R\u00fcckert3, while an SCP-5214 affected score has an additional three poems, none of which were written by Mahler or R\u00fcckert.\nDuring performance of SCP-5214, a visual anomaly consisting primarily of a semi-translucent outline of a young, prepubescent female of undefined ethnicity. The anomaly, designated as SCP-5214-A, has been observed hovering approximately thirteen centimeters above ground, and is noted to stare at a male-identified observed. SCP-5214-A is capable of limited communication, only able to say the names, 'Alice', and 'Sofia.' As of documentation, there has only been one apperance of SCP-5214-A. (Removed by Dr. Mayweather.) SCP-5214-A has been observed engaging with a chosen male spectator, engaging in affection-showing behavior such as attempting to hug, 'blowing' kisses, and smiling. (Edit locked by Dr. Mayweather.)\nThe additional movements associated with SCP-5214 differ dramatically from the original score. While Mahler typically wrote his music in a late-romantic style that emphasized orchestral color, progressive tonality and a strong relationship between singer and orchestra, the three songs differ, due to an extreme disconnect from singer and orchestra, as well as the usage of total atonality and serialism, both forms of music-writing that Mahler typically avoided. Conversely, the language used in the poems closely relates to R\u00fcckert's writing. No copies of the affected songs or score have been recovered.\nThe songs, without orchestral scoring. have been collected below. Poems have been translated from fractured German.\n\nI have seen your little, darling face again. With bright, sweet joy! I see you again, looking at your dear father, of warm, welcome gazes, peaking from the curtain, as your mama holds your little hand.\nI have not been so happy for so many long months. Don't leave me again, my darling, let me experience vivid joy, bright sweetness again! It was just for a while, just the smallest amount of time.\nAt the winter months, turning my back, and you were there the whole time. I wasn't lost, not were you. I breathed the blossom red, with guilt. Oh, I was wrong, my sweet darling, for only white Rose is what you bring to your dear father.\n\nWhat is the song like, that plays at the top of the stairs? Is it sweet, of longingly love? Tell me, my little one, is it one of forgiveness?\nTell me, tell the father below how sweet the song above is. Sing by angels, puckered from golden trumpets, bugels of brass and cornflower blue.\nNo, no, I hear them so very clear, the songs that speak from your every own heart.\nI hear them so still, as sweet as the day, the day I held your hand on the first time we have met- so much smaller then mine. I know the songs, so well.\nI know the songs, so well. There is no reason, no need to repeat them, I hear them so clear in my sweet dreams, ah! Ah! Ah, I hear so well, now. The red candle will no longer burn.\n\nAlice. Sofia.\n\nAddendum No. 1: Testing Following discovery of SCP-5214, Dr. Henyrk Mayweather instructed the Site-89 orchestra to perform supposed SCP-5214 affected material. The baritone performing was Jr. Researcher Jorge \u00c3nez, assistant researcher on the SCP-5214. The results are collected below.\n\nDate\nConducter\nNotes\n\n5/7/1980\nLenora Callingwood\nNo abnormalities. Performance of the song-cycle included all original pieces, without any additions or removals. No abnormalities suspected nor observed during performance.\n\n5/8/1980\nAzuika Nagismao\nNo abnormalities. Performance of the song-cycle ommited the last piece, due to time constraints, and a lack of unobserved abnormalities.\n\n6/8/1980\nDaniel Clayton\nNo abnormalities. Performance of the song-cycle included all original pieces, without any additions or removals. No abnormalities suspected nor observed during performance.\n\n11/8/1981\nHenyrk Mayweather\nMayweather performed the bartitone role, alongside conducting. During performance of the Song cycle, the three additional songs, though unnoticed by both performers and audience was believed to have been conducted by Dr Mayweather. No abnormalities, such as observance of SCP-5214-A have been noticed, though Dr. Mayweather demeanor and appearance have changed; most notably flushed red checks, and tusseled, tangled hair. Also of note, was an appearance of a small handprint on Mayweather's suit. Following the performance, Mayweather was noted to have holding a red rose, despite not being given one.\n\nFurther performances and research have been ordered, without Dr. Mayweather's appearance or collaboration.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Includes sheet music, audio-files of performances, video performances and academic reviews.\n2. Translated directly from German, 'Songs on the Death of Children.'\n3. A German poet, translater, and professor of Asian languages. After the death of two of his children from Scarlet Fever (Streptococcus pyogenes) R\u00fcckert began composing a collection of 428 poems, as a way of expressing his grief and anguish. The poems were not published until 1871, five years after his death. Mahler subsequently adapted five of the poems, and set them as lieder. (Art Song.)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5213 | SCP-5214 | SCP-5215 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5215\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Direct observation of SCP-5215-1 is restricted. This has been accomplished by constructing a decoy electrical generator on the surface of SCP-5215, and conducting weekly inspections of SCP-5215-1, the containment structure, and the exact location of SCP-5215 to ensure proper security. Any obvious failures of this procedure are to be reported immediately to a RAISA representative.\nDescription: SCP-5215 refers to a precise point in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where all visible celestial objects in the night sky resemble a rhombic lattice1. This lattice, henceforth referred to as SCP-5215-1, has not been observed to possess anomalous properties. However, the several visual qualities of SCP-5215-1 would not be possible without anomalous conditions, and are as follows:\nCelestial objects visible from Earth are arranged so that each \u2018point' on SCP-5215-1 is of the same size and brightness as the other points, and positioned so that individual points are each clearly visible.\nObjects visible only during specific times, such as Haley's Comet, are within SCP-5215-1 regardless of the time at which they are observed.\nThe sky surrounding SCP-5215-1 appears to be under the effect of Rayleigh Scattering2, giving the points in the grid a red coloration.\nObjects within SCP-5215-1 are under optimal viewing conditions, and are completely stationary. Moons within the Solar System are continually in a full phase.\nAn individual moving from the exact point required to make SCP-5215-1 appear for them will cause SCP-5215-1 to vanish, suggesting that SCP-5215-1 is not a physical collection of entities.\nAddendum:\nAs of 2/17/21, there have been 9 observed instances of SCP-5215-1 exhibiting major, temporary structural changes. Full documentation is available below:\n\n+ SCP-5215-1 Confirmed Alternate Patterns\n\n- [CLOSE FILE]\n\nDate Observed: 2/2/21\nPattern Observed: Affected stars assembled a series of Cuneiform letters, translating to the subsequent phrase: \u201cHi pals, how'd I do? I think I did a good job!\u201d\nAdditional Notes: SCP-5215-1 appears to be under the influence of, or directly inhabited by, an entity that is currently manipulating SCP-5215-1. Investigation into these properties is ongoing, but deemed low-priority due to the lack of additional effects.\n\nDate Observed: 2/9/21\nPattern Observed: Affected stars assembled the following phrase, translated out of Classical Latin: \u201cThis would be really exciting for astronomer friends! There's so many cool things about space for all of you to see right here! I hope you love how I arranged them, you can really see all the wonderful details!\u201d\nAdditional Notes: A proposal for the escalation of SCP-5215's investigation and experimentation priority has been denied. Further applications must be filed after noticeable signs of containment interference have been detected.\n\nDate Observed: 2/16/21\nPattern Observed: Constellations formed Old French text, translating to the following message: \u201cI just would like to say that this is open for anyone to see if they'd like! The night sky is wonderful and should be open to everyone! Thank you so much for everything, humans, and smell ya later!\u201d\nAdditional Notes: An appeal for the escalation of SCP-5215's investigation priority has been filed, and voted on by Area 179 management, passing temporary approval with a vote of 11-9 in favor. Low-level anomaly experimentation may progress from 2/20/21 to 3/2/21.\n\nDate Observed: 2/23/21\nPattern Observed: Visible Old English lettering forms the following phrase when translated: \u201cPals? I'm pretty sure you've seen my jolly arrangement, and it's here for you to enjoy whenever, free of charge! Have a nice day, dear friends, and be sure to enjoy the night sky!\u201d\nAdditional Notes: SCP-5215-1 modification instances appear to directly correlate with local light pollution and skyglow levels. This effect renders celestial objects dimmer than +1.8 Apparent Magnitudes3 completely invisible within Allegheny County. Current estimates believe that the visibility threshold may decrease to +1.55 M as early as 2125.\n\nDate Observed: 3/2/21\nPatterns Observed: Over the course of one hour, celestial objects within SCP-5215-1 formed multiple messages in Modern English:\n\u201cChums? Pals? Is everything alright and okay there? Seeing my collection would be a really cool science thing that would make a lot of you very happy!\u201d\n\u201cFolks? I'm honestly kinda sad that you aren't seeing this collection with me, I put so much work into everything for you to see this!\u201d\n\u201cI made this just for you! I hope you like it, please?\u201d\n\u201cIs anybody there?\u201d\n\u201cI'm sorry, pals, I let you down. I should have showed up sooner. I'll check out some of the other systems, so if you need me, the good old Thorton, then just gimme a call.\u201d\nAdditional Notes: No additional SCP-5215-1 modification has been noticed. A proposal for SCP-5215's object class to be reduced to \u201cSafe\u201d is currently under submission.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A lattice in which lines drawn to the nearest points adjacent to any point on the grid will always assemble a rhombus.\n2. An atmospheric effect that refracts and polarizes light, directly resulting in the color of sky within an atmosphere.\n3. A measurement system used to measure the brightness of stars and other objects within the night sky. Lower numbers represent brighter objects, with negative values being equivalent to only the brightest of stars, such as Sirius (-1.46 M).\n\n\u00ab SCP-5214 | SCP-5215 | SCP-5216 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM #:\u2009SCP-5216\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: SAFE\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: DARK\n\nAssigned Site\n\nSite-39\n\nSite Director\n\nN/A\n\nResearch Head\n\nDr Ilse Tschida\n\nAssigned MTF\n\nN/A\n\nITEM:\u2009SCP-5216\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT\nCLASS: SAFE\n\nDISRUPTION\nCLASS: DARK\n\nAssigned Site\n\nSite-39\n\nSite Director\n\nN/A\n\nResearch Head\n\nDr Ilse Tschida\n\nAssigned MTF\n\nN/A\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5216 is stored in a standard storage locker. Access is restricted to personnel with Level 3 Clearance or above. Personnel conducting tests with SCP-5216 are to transcribe any relevant information to a non-anomalous medium. Tests involving the synthesis or consumption of SCP-5216-2 instances are restricted to personnel with Level 3 Clearance or above and require application forms to be submitted to Head Researcher Dr. Tschida for approval.\nDescription: SCP-5216 is a hardcover cookbook, titled \"Even More Good Eats\". The number of pages, and by extension the number of recipes it contains, varies depending on the proximity of the book to items that can conceivably be ingested by humans, regardless of whether they are safe for consumption. Every time SCP-5216 is observed for the first time, new recipes are noted to appear. At time of writing, no single recipe has been recorded more than once.\nMost dishes prepared according to the recipes within SCP-5216 exhibit minor anomalous properties, warranting their designation as SCP-5216-1 instances, and can be safely consumed with little to no ill side-effects. Subjects following the recipes exhibit advanced culinary skills, and occasionally anomalous abilities, during preparation \u2013 regardless of whether the subject had ever received culinary instruction. Attempts to replicate SCP-5216-1 instances using transcribed recipes have failed.\nAdditionally, SCP-5216 and/or SCP-5216-1 instances are suspected to possess a certain degree of compulsive effects on nearby individuals to complete and consume the dishes.\nTest Log 5216.T03:\nFor brevity, extraneous information pertaining to the full list of ingredients used in each test have been removed.\n\nIngredients: 400g of fresh spinach leaves\nDish Name: Vegan Creamed Spinach\nPreparation Summary: Dish was prepared without the use of any items other than spinach. Preparation consisted solely of whisking spinach in a bowl for 12 minutes.\nNotes: Dish was reported to have a \"creamy texture\" and \"refreshing hints of coconut\".\n\nIngredients: 1 stick of unsalted butter\nDish Name: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter\nPreparation Summary: No recipe instructions were recorded for this dish. Test was concluded after 5 minutes.\nNotes: SCP-5216-1 instance was later found to be composed entirely of margarine.\n\nIngredients: 1.5L of Fanta Grape, one-eighths of an oak cutting board\nDish Name: Chianti Classico riserva, Fanta\u2122\ufe0f Edition\nPreparation Summary: Dr. Wu removed approximately one-eighths of the cutting board's mass via brute force and compressed it into a cork, which was used to cork the plastic soda bottle.\nNotes: SCP 5216-1 instance was described as \"aged wine, but tastefully carbonated\". Notably, Dr. Wu's skin took on a purple coloration which has not yet subsided at time of writing. Dr. Wu has not reported any further issues outside his abnormal skin tone.\n\nIngredients: 1 baguette, approx. 200g of pepper\nDish Name: PGM 338 \u00e1 la Fran\u00e7aise\nPreparation Summary: Dish was carved out of the baguette by Dr. Wu, and was discovered to be an operational firearm after it misfired several croutons into his leg.\nNotes: Dish was described as spicy, and was capable of firing an apparently unlimited quantity of croutons. Dr. Wu's request for reassignment has been approved, effective once he recovers.\n\nIngredients: 1 apple, 1 eyeball\nDish Name: Johnny Appleseed\nPreparation Summary: N/A. See Addendum 5216.01.\nNotes: N/A\n\nIncident Log 5216.I01:\nSCP-5216 Head Researcher, Dr. Tschida, partially blinded herself during routine testing with the cookbook by using her left eye for the recipe instead of the cow eyeball she had prepared earlier. While she is presently in stable condition, she is unable to explain her actions during said test. Dr. Consuelo has been assigned as Acting Head Researcher for SCP-5216 in her absence.\nAdditionally, the SCP-5216-1 instance produced during the test was unable to be recovered. Security footage shows the dish disappearing once line-of-sight was obscured by a panicking Dr. Tschida.\nTest Log 5216.T04:\n\nIngredients: 480kB of text\nDish Name: Stew?\nPreparation Summary: Recipe was identified during the transcription of a different recipe to a terminal by Dr. Consuelo. A bowl of stew manifested over his head seconds later.\nNotes: Multiple expunged messages were identified in Dr. Consuelo's phone, despite not having such functionalities, from his partner describing his craving for stew sent around the time of the incident. The dish reportedly consisted of chorizo sausage and root vegetables.\n\nIngredients: 400g red meat, 150g animal fat, 100ml cerebrospinal fluid, 200ml blood\nDish Name: Alagaddan Blood Sausage\nPreparation Summary: Dr. Consuelo displayed limited thaumaturgical abilities while reshaping the components into a homogenous slurry.\nNotes: Dish was described as an \"delightfully exotic\". Dr. Consuelo was unable to replicate any incantations used during preparation, nor display any notable thaumaturgical abilities.\n\nIngredients: 2 wheat buns, 2 slices of American cheese, approx. 100g lettuce, rats (to taste)\nDish Name: Rattenk\u00f6nig Deluxe\nPreparation Summary: Recipe was initially for a meatless bacon cheeseburger. During testing, Dr. Consuelo was alerted to scratching noises in the ceiling, resulting in the alteration of the tested recipe. Shortly after, 7 live rats were forcefully pulled out of the ceiling. Through unidentified mechanisms, their tails were knotted together and spun at high speeds before embedding itself in the burger.\nNotes: Dr. Consuelo was initially unaware of the recipe change, and consumed the SCP-5216-1 instance under the impression that it was the aforementioned meatless bacon cheeseburger.\n\nIngredients: 5 kg assorted chocolate\nDish Name: Jemma's Easter Bunnies\nPreparation Summary: Chocolate was melted at a low heat before climbing out of the pot and autonomously reforming into 5 white rabbits.\nNotes: Rabbits were animate, behaving no differently from their mundane counterparts. One of the rabbits was partially consumed by Dr. Consuelo, who described their taste as \"smooth and strangely gamey\". Notably, the rabbit ceased activity upon consumption of its head, from which dark chocolate leaked out profusely. The remaining 4 instances are currently stored in the Site-39 freezer.\n\nIngredients: Approx. 24 assorted vitamin supplements, 50ml of hand sanitizer\nDish Name: 1-UP\nPreparation Summary: The vitamin supplements dissolved instantly in the hand sanitizer once added, turning it bright red. Mixture was then poured out onto Dr. Consuelo's hand, where it crystallized into a small heart-shaped candy.\nNotes: Dish was consumed by Dr. Consuelo, who reported a \"sudden surge in energy\", and proceeded to continue testing with SCP-5216 for the next 34 hours straight, after which he collapsed from fatigue.\n\nIncident Log 5216.I02:\nDuring the aforementioned tests, Dr. Consuelo permitted the supervising researchers to retire for the night in his capacity as Acting Head Researcher. Subsequent tests were effectively performed unsupervised, and as such no personnel were present during his collapse.\nShortly after this, security footage recorded an apple, believed to be the last SCP-5216-1 instance created by Dr. Tschida, manifesting near SCP-5216, eyeing its contents before turning to look directly at the camera. No viable footage was able to be recovered following this event. The testing chamber was found vacant the following morning, with Dr. Consuelo currently absent without leave.\nSCP-5216 testing protocol has since been updated, with a focus on documenting recipes only as opposed to the preparation of dishes. Currently, SCP-5216 testing is conducted via an autonomous scanner drone attached to the book.\nTest Log 5216.T05:\n\nIngredients: 50 grapes, 1 carp fillet (deboned)\nDish Name: Grapery Carpin\n\nIngredients: 30L [REDACTED]1, 3 bananas, 200g gelatin powder\nDish Name: Jim\n\nIngredients: 66 lemons, 1L milk, 1L honey, 1.5L crude oil\nDish Name: Lemon-de-Mons\n\nIngredients: 1kg peanuts, 700g flour, 300g dark chocolate, food coloring (red and green)\nDish Name: The Nut Brother\n\nIngredients: 1.6kg squid tentacles, 200ml blood\nDish Name: ersatz mother\n\nIncident Log 5216.I03:\nFollowing the expiration of Dr. Tschida during an unrelated containment breach while recovering, her body, along with SCP-5216, was displaced from its storage to the Site-39 pantry. Security cameras managed to record footage of multiple fruits carrying Dr. Tschida through the damaged facility before malfunctioning. Attached below is an excerpt from the security footage of the Site-39 pantry.\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\n[Camera is slightly shaken by a distant explosion. Upon refocusing, an apple2 is visible on the pantry's kitchen island. Seconds later, several fruits and vegetables manifest on the floor around the kitchen island. Dr. Tschida's body is carried into the frame by an assortment of potatoes.]\n[Apple is observed to possess a single eye. All fruits and vegetables present possess rudimentary limbs composed of multiple objects, including toothpicks, pens, paperclips, and in one case, cockroach legs. The apple animatedly gestures towards the body of Dr. Tschida, eliciting thunderous applause from the other fruits present, which is recorded as wet slapping noises. No other audio is recorded. More limbed foodstuff begin to congregate in the pantry.]\n[4 MINUTES OF EXTRANEOUS GESTURING REMOVED]\n[A whole uncooked chicken is seen dragging a different body, identified as a Jnr. Res. Wagner, into the pantry using a purple-hued human hand protruding from its cavity. Its arrival is heavily applauded. The apple is seen brandishing a kitchen knife in front of the crowd before jumping onto Jnr. Res. Wagner's chest.]\n[The apple raises the knife above itself, before turning towards the security camera. It gestures slightly to the side of the camera while staring directly at it.]\n\n\u00abVIDEO OFFLINE\u00bb\n\nDespite this, the scanner attached to SCP-5216 remained operational, and recorded multiple recipes generated by SCP-5216, as shown below.\n\nIngredients: 1 tomato, 3 hearts, 1.3L blood\nDish Name: mother\n\nIngredients: 944 grapes, 7 lungs, 1.65L blood\nDish Name: mother\n\nIngredients: 5 brains (4 with lobes separated, 1 unseparated), 1.2L blood\nDish Name: mother\n\nIngredients: mother, mother, mother, mother, mother [\u2026]3\nDish Name: MOTHER\n\nDuring the recapturing of Site-39, MTF forces managed to secure an undocumented vaguely humanoid entity composed entirely of fresh produce, designated SCP-5216-A, pending further investigation. SCP-5216, the entities seen in the security footage, as well as the bodies of several deceased personnel, including Dr. Tschida's, were unable to be located. Notably, Site-39's food stores were completely empty upon recapture. Efforts to recover SCP-5216 are ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Classified chemical compound under development by the Department of Biochemistry.\n2. Presently believed to be an SCP-5216-1 instance labelled as \"Johnny Appleseed\".\n3. \"mother\" repeats for another 216 times.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5215 | SCP-5216 | SCP-5217 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Special Containment Procedures:\n\nSCP-5217 is to be kept within a standard containment unit at Site-57 and is to be accessible only to personnel with level 2 clearance or above. All instances of SCP-5217-1 through -3 are to be contained within a hermetically sealed container and are only to be opened during testing or use in Project REPLENISH. Additionally, the testing of art, photography, and sculpture in any form upon SCP-5217 is restricted unless required for Project REPLENISH. Any personnel found in possession of any of the aforementioned materials when entering SCP-5217's containment cell without proper clearance are to be detained, reprimanded, and demoted accordingly.\n\nDescription:\n\nSCP-5217 is a copying machine, resembling a standard Dell Xerox Color Copier, with an abnormally large scanning tray, with a rectangular opening in place of the paper dispenser, and a symbol of a stylized M where the company logo would typically be. The machine's anomaly manifests when a piece of organic matter, fossil, or an image of a perceived organism is scanned. Upon doing so the machine's menu will ask if the operator would like to \u201cadd\u201d \u201calter\u201d or \u201ccontinue\u201d. If \"continue\" is selected, the machine will begin to lightly shake before dispensing a tray with three, translucent, embryonic sacks composed of a currently unknown, highly fragile, bio-degradable plastic hereby referred to as SCP-5217-1, -2, and -3.\nWhen \u201cadd\u201c is selected, the menu will inform the operator to place another item on the scanner. Once this is done the menu will ask again if the operator would like to \"add\", \"alter\", or \"continue\". This menu will always reappear until \u201ccontinue\u201d is selected. Once \"continue\" is selected, and after all additional items are scanned, the machine will shake gently and SCP-5217-1 through -3 will be dispensed. However, SCP-5217-1 will now contain a genetically stable blend of all scanned items. SCP-5217-2 and -3's embryos will follow a similar form of splicing, but with each of the scanned organism's food sources and predators/ competitors respectively.\nIf \u201calter\u201d is selected at any time, the touchscreen will display a map of the scanned organisms' genetic code and will allow an operator to alter the scanned organism(s) genes in whatever way they see fit. However, changes to the code that might cause the immediate death of the organism upon birth are locked.\nSCP-5217-1 through -3 is the aforementioned sacks each containing embryos pertaining to the item scanned, with a perfect one to one ratio of males to females (when applicable) and symbols resembling that of the stylized M found on the machine etched into their internal structures1, but with the following differences:\n\n5217-1 contains the embryos of the average number of offspring said scanned organism would produce.\n5217-2 contains the embryos of species of plants, animals, or materials the scanned organism would subsist upon, as well as their respective food sources.\n5217-3 contains the species that would prey upon or otherwise compete with SCP-5217-1.\n\nIt should be noted that if any instance of SCP-5217-1 through -3 be broken, the embryos inside will rapidly mature until they reach adulthood. All site personnel are thus encouraged to exercise caution while handling 5217-1 through -3 instances.\n\nDiscovery:\n\nSCP-5217 was discovered at the University of Tasmania, on April 6th, 2019, when numerous reports of sightings of the long-extinct Thylacinus cynocephalus (Tasmanian Tiger), began to circulate. An investigation was launched and it was discovered that Dr. Hugh Sanderson, head paleontologist at the university, was behind the Thylacinid's reappearance via the use of SCP-5217. Upon the capture and subsequent interrogation of Dr. Sanderson, it was revealed that the doctor had acquired the item while shopping for a replacement copying machine online from an anonymous seller on Craigslist and discovered the machine's anomalous prosperities when he tried to copy an image of a Labrador Retriever puppy for his office. Dr. Sanderson was later administered Class-A amnestics and released back into the general populace, while an investigation into the identity of the seller was launched (see Addendum-2).\n\nAddendum-1:\n\nTest logs:\n\nTest 1\n\nInput\nA live rat (Rattus norvegicus domestica) strapped down to the scanning tray.\n\n5217-1\nSixteen rat embryos.\n\n5217-2\nSixty-four seeds of twenty-five varying species of nut and fruit-bearing plants.\n\n5217-3\nForty-six embryos from various species of predatory birds, mammals, and reptiles; several of which having been categorized as extinct since the 18th century.\n\nTest 2\n\nInput\nA recently euthanized rat, with scanned genes altered to increase the size to two meters tall.\n\n5217-1\nFour abnormally large rat embryos, roughly 2m in height and 850kg when fully grown, with notably reduced incisors and an increased number of molars typically found in grazing species.\n\n5217-2\nThirty-four seeds of fifteen various species of nut and fruit-bearing plants, as well as fifty-five seeds of nine different grass species.\n\n5217-3\nThirty embryos of ten distinct predatory species such as wolves (Canis lupis), lions (Panthera leo), and several unknown species of large birds and reptiles.\n\nTest 3\n\nInput\nA fur sample taken from the previously used rat, a photograph of a golden retriever (Canis familiaris), and a branch of a common alder birch tree (Alnus glutinosa) found outside Site-57.\n\n5217-1\nSix embryos of an organism with the tail, torso, and fur patterns resembling that of a rat, with numerous plant-like growths along the organism's back and the limbs and head of a golden retriever.\n\n5217-2\none-hundred and thirty-eight embryos of seventy-five different hybridized combinations of bird, rodent, deer, and plant life.\n\n5217-3\nFifty-five embryos of ten different hybridized combinations of coyote (Canis latrans), wolf, red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), raccoon (Procyon lotor), and human.\n\nTest 4\n\nInput\nA feather of a Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus).\n\n5217-1\nTwo Hyacinth macaw embryos.\n\n5217-2\nThirty-two seeds from twelve nut and fruit-bearing trees mostly native to South America.\n\n5217-3\nTwo toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) embryos.\n\nTest 5\n\nInput\nA blurry photograph of a snow leopard (Panthera uncia).\n\n5217-1\nFour snow leopard embryos.\n\n5217-2\nNinety-two embryos from seven different species of Himalayan goat and sheep. As well as one hundred and twenty seeds from thirty Himalayan grass and shrub species.\n\n5217-3\nTwo Himalayan SCP-1000 embryos.\n\nTest 6\n\nInput\nA rib bone of the extinct Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas).\n\n5217-1\nTwo Steller's sea cow embryos.\n\n5217-2\nEighty-five spores from five different kelp species and three hundred spores from ten brown algae species.\n\n5217-3\nTwo killer whale (Orcinus orca) embryos, and two tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) embryos.\n\nTest 7\n\nInput\nA fossilized footprint of a Tyrannosaurus rex.\n\n5217-1\nFour Tyrannosaurus rex embryos.\n\n5217-2\nTwelve Edmontosaurus embryos, sixteen Triceratop embryos, and fifty-five embryos from eighteen unidentified therapod, mammal, and reptile species. As well as sixty-five seeds from nineteen different, unidentified, pre-historic plant species.\n\n5217-3\nTwo carcharodontosaur (Siats meekerorum) embryos.\n\nTest 8\n\nInput\nA degraded bone shard from SCP-2256 (Cryptomorpha gigantes).\n\n5217-1\nTwo SCP-2256 embryos\n\n5217-2\nFifty fish embryos from thirteen different species, twenty-two bird embryos from five different species, and thirty-five spores from ten different species of kelp.\n\n5217-3\nTwo embryos resembling SCP-11282.\n\nTest 9\n\nInput\nA scientifically inaccurate portrait of an artist's rendition of a pterosaur.\n\n5217-1\nSix embryos resembling said pterosaur.\n\n5217-2\nTwenty-four embryos that appear similar to multiple historically false depictions of pre-historic species; including stegosaurus, ankylosaurus, and the wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius). As well as forty-eight seeds belonging to twenty-nine unknown plant species.\n\n5217-3\nTwelve embryos that match incorrect depictions of Tyrannosaurus rex, saber tooth tiger (Smilodon populator), and a predatory Therizinosaurus (Therizinosaurus cheloniformis)\n\nTest 10\n\nInput\nAn Twelfth Century woodcarving of a Griffon from Wales.\n\n5217-1\nSix embryos resembling the griffon depicted in the carving.\n\n5217-2\nTwenty-two embryos belonging to four species of sheep and cattle typically bred on the British Isles, Fifty-eight seeds belonging to thirteen species of plants native to England, and thirty-six embryos matching the 12th-century descriptions of nineteen different mythological creatures present in English folklore. These creatures include Unicorns, Boggarts, Brownies, Morgens3 and various other fey.\n\n5217-3\nFour embryos which appear similar to early depictions of dragons found in England.4\n\nTest 11\n\nInput\nCover art from the novel \"Princess of Mars\" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.\n\n5217-1\nFour embryos of a red skinned humanoid species matching that of \"Red Martians\" from the novel.\n\n5217-2\nNinety-four embryos of twenty-two species of flora and fauna native to Mars and its moons, as well as sixteen nonexistent species of Martian life that appear similar to those described within Burroughs's \"John Carter of Mars\" series.\n\n5217-3\nSixty-eight embryos of ten predatory species of life native to mars and sixteen predatory species that appear in the novels. In addition to this, three species of sapient organisms native to mars and twelve species of sapient organisms described in Burroughs's works also appear5.\n\nTest 12\n\nInput\nA crayon drawing of Dr. Ferguson's family holding hands on a hill by the doctor's youngest daughter.\n\n5217-1\nTwo embryos of a multicolored, segmented organism with eight pairs of legs, four bulbous sacks with eyes along its dorsal ridge, and no identifiable head.\n\n5217-2\nFifty seeds of fifteen different species of grass, trees, and shrubbery that resemble the flora present in the drawing, as well as six worm-like embryos, capable of flight6.\n\n5217-3\nA single embryo of a large, flaming, spherical organism, identifiable as the \"sun\" in the image.\n\nTest 13\n\nInput\nA copy of the abstract painting \"No.5, 1948\" by Jackson Pollock.\n\n5217-1\nUNKNOWN\n\n5217-2\nUNKNOWN\n\n5217-3\nUNKNOWN7\n\n+ [LEVEL 2 CLEARANCE DETECTED: (1) NEW MESSAGE AVAILABLE]\n\n- [ACCESS GRANTED]\n\nMessage from the Site-Director:\n\nDate: 2021/03/04\nTo: Site-57 Staff\nFrom: The Desk of Site-Director Thomas Marie\nSubject: SCP-5217\nAttention all Site-57 Personnel,\nAs I'm sure most of you know, a few months ago we experienced a containment breach involving SCP-5217 that cost us the life of one of our head researchers and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to on-site property. Such containment breaches have been, for the most part, unheard of in Site-57 and has become somewhat of a stain upon our sites' generally safe working environment. Many of you have emailed me directly, expressing your concerns regarding our site's continued containment of the item, the status of the search for the escaped -1 through -3 entities and why more resources have been directed not only towards Site-57, but SCP-5217 specifically as well. It is in regards to these questions that I am writing to all of you today.\nTo answer the first question, as to why Site-57 has decided to continue its containment of SCP-5217 instead of transferring it to another more secure one, the answer is quite simple. In light of current circumstances involving another SCP, it has been decided that the benefits of SCP-5217's ability to preserve and revive the deteriorating ecosystems of earth simply cannot be ignored, regardless of the risks. It is with this in mind that a new program has been initiated by O5 Command, Project REPLENISH. Project REPLENISH is the foundation's answer to the growing ecological instability of earth. For generations the foundation has protected humanity from countless dangers that threatened its survival. Now, with the help of SCP-5217, we have a chance of protecting not only humanity, but life on earth as well. This is why our site has continued to contain SCP-5217, as well as why our site has been provided more resources from the greater foundation over the past couple months, because our site has been selected to serve as the headquarters for Project REPLENISH.\nThis does not mean the recent incidents involving SCP-5217 during testing have gone unnoticed however, and after much deliberation it has been determined that tests involving abstract art are to be hereby restricted entirely. Furthermore, all testing involving any other forms of art, sculpture, or photography are to be similarly forbidden until SCP-5217's functions can be better understood or are authorized to be used for Project REPLENISH. Due to this, SCP-5217's current security level has been raised to level 2. Any personnel found violating these new regulations without proper authorization provided by Project REPLENISH are to be immediately detained, reprimanded, and demoted.\nI expect Site-57's full cooperation in carrying out this exciting new program, as well as implementing these new safety measures and thank each of you for your continued service to the foundation.\nSincerely,\nSite-Director Thomas Marie8\n\nAddendum-2:\n\nOn July 12th, 2022, agents investigating Dr. Sanderson's personal computer reported having found no evidence of the doctor's claims of being sold SCP-5217 over Craigslist. Furthermore, it was discovered that the doctor had not even used the website for over five years. A local MTF was dispatched to apprehend the doctor but upon the team's arrival at his home in Tasmania, Australia, the doctor was found to have died via cardiac arrest. Dr. Sanderson's corpse was recovered from his living room surrounded by tools and printer parts. A note was also discovered, inscribed with several lethal cognitohazards, which was clutched within the doctor's hand, the contents of which are transcribed below:\n\nMost valued Production Unit H-SAN-43,\nWe here at the community would like to thank you for your contribution to the production of Ecological-Printers. As you know, these machines have proven to be invaluable to furthering our cause and your dedication to their development has not gone unnoticed.\nHowever, it has also come to our attention that you have recently come under the watch of another organization, one whose attention could prove detrimental to our efforts. Not only that, but we have also learned that one of your printers has since been confiscated by the said organization as well. This is unacceptable, we know you understand the dangers the printers posses when being handled without the proper materials more than twenty times. An organization with such little training in the use of these printers, like the one that captured you, could lead to any number of catastrophic ecological disasters the community simply cannot handle if we are to achieve our goal. It is with these incredible failures in mind that we, the community, have unfortunately decided to let you go9.\nWe once again thank you for your many years of service and pray that your transition is not a painful one.\n-Maternity\n\nAn autopsy was later performed upon Dr. Sanderson's remains where it was discovered that multiple symbols were etched into the doctor's internal organs, all in the shape of a stylized M.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Offspring of organisms produced by SCP-5217-1 through -3 however, do not exhibit this trait and are otherwise non-anomalous.\n2. Embryos were immediately disposed of and all observing staff were administered amnestics.\n3. Sadistic water nymphs that dwelled in the rivers and lakes of England.\n4. Due to the extremely high levels of thaumaturgical activity detected within the aforementioned embryos, these SCP-5217-1 through -3 instances have since been handed over to Site-57's Thaumaturgical Zoology department for further study and containment.\n5. All entities produced during this test were unable to survive in an earth-like environment when released from SCP-5217-1 through 3 and had to be moved to a specialized containment cell with conditions matching that of mars.\n6. It has been deduced that these organisms are the \"birds\" in the child's drawing.\n7. All organisms produced immediately breached containment, killing Dr. Ferguson and injuring several others in the process, efforts to locate the escaped entities are ongoing.\n8. As of 5-28-2022 approximately 1.8 million species, mainly composed of species from the lost \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 kingdom have been revived and placed within subterranean eco-chambers provided to Site-57 for Project REPLENISH, resulting in a total of 2,348 additional uses of SCP-5217. Authorization to commence releasing said species back into the wild is still pending O5 approval\n9. It was at this point in the document that multiple lethal cognitohazards were detected.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5216 | SCP-5217 | SCP-5218 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n3/5218 LEVEL 3/5218\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5218\n\nExplained\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5218 has been disassembled and its remains disposed of safely.\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5218 was a large industrial machine of unclear purpose, discovered in a secure chamber aboard the Norwegian cargo ship Sj\u00f8avfall in 2013. Externally, SCP-5218 resembles a simple metal cube 3m wide, weighing 200kg, constructed of a metallic alloy of unclear composition. All attempts to force open, pierce, or otherwise damage SCP-5218 have ended in failure.\nAll faces of SCP-5218 are flat save for one. All faces furthermore display a metal stamp reading \"PROPERTY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ABNORMALITIES.\"\nOne face contains a simple pull-open metal cabinet that pulls flush when closed, and when opened allows a small space to drop objects into while blocking vision into the rest of the device. Below this is a small rectangular slot akin to that of a vending machine.\nUpon placing an item or items into the metal cabinet and closing it, allowing the item to fall in, SCP-5218 will vibrate for a varying length of time, generally a few seconds to a minute, and release a single item into the output slot. These items vary in practically every quality save for their size; all are small enough to fit into the slot.\nUpon SCP-5218's discovery in 2013, it was immediately shipped to Site-19 for experimentation. Over the course of the following month, several tests were performed on SCP-5218. An abridged list of experiments follows.\n\nAddendum 5218.1\nTESTING LOG\n\nInput: A single apple, Red Delicious variety\nOutput: A military-surplus MRE of the variety used across Foundation sites. Chicken alfredo flavor.\n\nInput: A 1kg granite stone.\nOutput: A small poster tube containing detailed blueprints of Sublevels 1 through 5 of Site-19.\n\nInput: A 2kg weight.\nOutput: A plastic trophy covered in dried blood. DNA of the blood has been matched to Leon Abrams, a now-deceased former Site-19 security guard. Abrams' body was cremated after death.\n\nInput: A plastic cube.\nOutput: A Nokia 3310 cellphone with one number programmed into its directory. The area code correlates to Tennesee, but all attempts to trace the phone number have failed. Attempting to call it simply results in a generic out of service error.\n\nInput: A single bullet.\nOutput: An armed grenade. The pin had been pulled but the safety lever had not been released, preventing its detonation. A security team safely disposed of the bomb without incident. The grenade was inscribed with the Foundation logo, but detailed analysis could not be performed for obvious reasons.\n\nInput: A single dead lab rat.\nOutput: A MTF-issue Bowie knife. 13 scratches have been carved into the flat of the otherwise-pristine blade.\n\nInput: A single live lab rat.\nOutput: Screaming from inside the machine, followed by a Clearance Level 4 keycard belonging to one Dr. Daniel Jackson. Investigation confirmed Dr. Jackson, a researcher at Site-19, had submitted a request for a new card several months ago, stating he had lost his.\n\n[45 entries abridged.]\n\nAddendum 5218.2\nINCIDENT LOG\n\nFollowing the conclusion of the final test, SCP-5218 was moved to Sublevel 28 for long-term storage and surveillance. Exactly 7 days, to the hour, after the conclusion of the last test, SCP-5218 began to vibrate for several minutes. Security guards and researchers entered the room to investigate. Upon their entry, several seams in the exterior of SCP-5218 became visible as it unfolded via several hydraulic pistons and hinged arms, revealing its interior.\nThe internal structure of SCP-5218 revealed that all items put into the cabinet slide down a chute into a plastic container of hydrofluoric acid, completely dissolving them. Sensors that detected an item going down the chute would trigger a circuit to release an item from an internal storage container, that would slide down into the output slot. The internal container contained a variety of miscellanous items ranging from children's toys to simple electronics to loose mail. There does not appear to be a correlation between the item put into SCP-5218 and the item outputted by it.\nIn addition, a metal shelf inside held a single placard, with the following text embossed on it:\n\nFUCK YOU FOR TRYING\nBy Rami Salman\nThree words and I can waste your entire month.\n\u00b7 ARE WE COOL YET? \u00b7\n\n\u00ab SCP-5217 | SCP-5218 | SCP-5219 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5219\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A minimum of two guards are to be stationed outside Site Director Robinson's office at all times. Access to Site Director Robinson's office is prohibited except for testing purposes.\nDescription: SCP-5219 is an anomalous corpse located in the office of Site Director Robinson at Site-37. Based on examinations of SCP-5219, it has been determined that it was a middle-aged white male of average height and weight. The cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the back of the head.\nSCP-5219 has mild anti-memetic properties. While some properties of SCP-5219 can be observed, subjects are unable to determine its identity or how it came to be in the office of Site Director Robinson. In addition, subjects instructed to remove SCP-5219 from Site Director Robinson's office spontaneously forget their instructions upon viewing it, which makes retrieval impossible.\nAddendum: Discovery\nSCP-5219 was first discovered on 21/03/2021. Two days prior, Site Director Robinson suddenly ceased responding to all messages, and failed to appear at multiple meetings. Dr. Boyd entered Site Director Robinson's office to search for him, and found SCP-5219 inside. Containment was established shortly thereafter. Site Director Robinson's whereabouts have not yet been determined.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? Two (2) new messages!\n\nhide\n\nTo: All personnel in Site-37\nFrom: Site Director Boyd\nSubject: Management change.\n\nGood evening,\nI am sending this message to report that, despite the best efforts of the search team, Site Director Robinson still has not been found, with some suspecting that he may have been kidnapped or murdered. I do not believe this to be the case, but we must accept it as a possibility.\nThe search team will continue to look for him, but Site-37 cannot function without a Site Director, so I have assumed the position in Robinson's place as the second highest-ranking official in this Site. I do not want this to be a permanent arrangement, but I will do what is necessary should Robinson not be found. Should this become permanent, I hope that you will all give me the same respect that you gave Robinson.\n-Dr. Boyd, Site-37 Director.\n\nTo: Foundation research personnel assigned to SCP-5219\nFrom: Site Director Boyd\nSubject: Change in procedure.\n\nEffective immediately, all tests involving SCP-5219 are to cease. This includes both attempts to remove it from Site Director Robinson's office and attempts to determine its identity. You will receive messages regarding project transfers shortly. Thank you for your cooperation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5218 | SCP-5219 | SCP-5220 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5220\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Disinformation campaigns have successfully perpetuated public belief that SCP-5220 is a work of art and require little to no maintenance at this time. Public visits to the anomaly are permitted when it is visible.\nMTF Upsilon-7 (\"Muddy Waters\") is responsible for clean-up and containment of 5220-A events and retrieval of victims via helicopter. Upsilon-7 is authorized to administer Class-A or -B amnestics to witnesses. Information suppression of events with more than 100 witnesses is to be coordinated with the site director of Site-215.\nSCP-5220-1 is to be held in a humanoid containment cell at Site-215. No fewer than three times per week, SCP-5220-1 is to be escorted to SCP-5220 to facilitate the completion of anomalous rituals. Due to its extended cooperation with special containment procedures and lengthy containment, SCP-5220-1 has been granted privileges beyond those normally given to humanoid anomalies. These privileges are under the purview of the site director.\nIn the event that more than three 5220-A events occur within 12 months, or more than two events occur closer than 100 km from one another within 6 months, Foundation coroners are to falsify the cause of death by tampering with the cadavers so as to avoid the appearance of patterns in public mortality records.\n\nSCP-5220 as seen from shore.\n\nDescription: SCP-5220 is an anomalous landmass on the northern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States. It forms a spiral shaped-path and is comprised largely of basalt rock and salt crystals. The path measures 460 m from base to tip and is 4.6 m wide. Due to the fluctuating surface levels of the Great Salt Lake, SCP-5220 is submerged during periods of greater precipitation. It is only visible above water when the Great Salt Lake's surface level is less than 1,279 m above sea level. SCP-5220 is the cause and point of origin of what are designated 5220-A events. These events are characterized by a human dying by drowning, although they are not in or near water.\n5220-A events correspond with a substantial spike in Hume levels at SCP-5220. Following the death of the 5220-A victim, the body will begin to float in the air, sometimes beginning immediately, but more commonly beginning days after death. The body will rise into the air and remain at a particular height, typically about 180\u2013200 m above the ground, but occasionally as high as 300 m. 5220-A events frequently have civilian witnesses, which poses a substantial challenge to containment and public concealment.\nKant counters at the location of SCP-5220 generally produce readings between 30 and 50 Humes, but measure as high as 400 Humes during 5220-A events. It is believed to possess extensive reality-bending functionality that causes temporal merging between the present day and prehistoric timeframes; the precise extent of these capabilities is unknown, but has thus far targeted humans. SCP-5220-1 claims that the object has much more extensive capabilities that have not yet been observed.\nSCP-5220-1 is a female humanoid, born on 22 April 1954 in Santa Barbara, California. SCP-5220-1 appears to \"operate\" the reality-bending effects of SCP-5220, but is apparently inept in controlling the anomaly. SCP-5220-1 shows elevated internal Hume levels when in proximity to SCP-5220 (<100 m), peaking at 35 Humes at the tip of the SCP-5220 spiral. It consistently expresses distress regarding air and water pollution, deforestation, endangered and threatened species, and especially in recent years, anthropogenic climate change.\nCurrently, the only known means of reducing the frequency of 5220-A events is the observance of rituals performed by SCP-5220-1. These rituals largely involve a meditative practice at SCP-5220; SCP-5220-1 claims that the Earth is a living entity and that the rituals permit it to communicate with the planet. SCP-5220-1 identifies knowledge obtained in this manner as the basis of its influence on SCP-5220.\nDiscovery: SCP-5220 appeared or was constructed by undetermined means in Spring 19701. As it is located on land owned by the state of Utah, Foundation assets within state government became aware that the anomaly had appeared on state land with no known records of its construction. It was flagged for investigation, which was undertaken by Site-215. By the time the Foundation initiated containment, numerous tourists had visited SCP-5220; photos and articles had been published in local and national newspapers. Because of the impracticality of concealing it from the public, the Foundation falsified government documents regarding its origin. Fabricated news reports were disseminated describing it as an art piece. SCP-5220 has since been known to the public as the \"Spiral Jetty.\"\nSCP-5220-1 was found at SCP-5220 on 4 June 1970. Foundation personnel interrupted a ritual that was likely responsible for ongoing fluctuations in Hume levels at the location.\nAddendum 5220.1: Timeline\n\n+ Show Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nDate\nNumber of Documented 5220-A Events\nNotes\n\nApril 1970\n3\nFirst event identified in remote location near Delta, UT; at this time, a connection to SCP-5220 was not established. Event documented as Anomalous Event UT-47. Second and third events occur in Orem and Murray, respectively. Incidents are then classed as Anomalous Event Group UT-47\u00df.\n\nMay 1970\n38\nFoundation statisticians find no correlations among victims, who vary in age, sex, race. All but one have occurred in northern and western Utah, with the exception of AEG UT-47\u00df-31, which occurs in West Wendover, Nevada, less than a mile from the Utah-Nevada border. Continuous Hume level monitoring begins at SCP-5220.\n\nJune 1970\n57\nStatisticians identify strong correlation between spikes in Hume levels at SCP-5220 and occurrence of AEG UT-47\u00df. UT-47\u00df is reclassified as 5220-A events. 5220-A-42, the Capitol Incident, occurs (see Addendum 5220.2). MTF Upsilon-7 established for concealment of 5220-A events.\n\nJuly 1970\n41\nSCP-5220-1 agrees to attempt to prevent 5220-A events through abilities related to SCP-5220.\n\nAugust 1970\n26\nN/A\n\nSeptember 1970\n18\nN/A\n\nOctober 1970\n3\nN/A\n\nNovember 1970\n1\nN/A\n\nDecember 1970\n0\nN/A\n\nIn the timespan from 1971 to 2017, no more than five 5220-A events occur during each calendar year.\n\nAddendum 5220.2: Capitol Incident\n\n+ Show Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nOn 2 June 1970, 5220-A-43 occurred, killing a member of the Utah State Senate during an event in the State Capitol Building. Over 400 witnesses were present, including 14 local journalists. The victim began floating but was held down by others present.\nAttendees were asked to leave immediately following the death. The body had been removed from the building before containment specialists could intervene. The O5 Council was informed of a potential Lifted Veil Scenario, whereupon MTF Gamma-5 (\"Red Herrings\") was deployed to identify all 447 witnesses and administer amnestics. Journalists and prominent public figures were treated as highest priority. One newspaper had printed an article describing 5220-A-43; all copies were seized by Gamma-5 and staff of the publication and printing press were amnesticized.\nIn light of substantial risks to information security, the O5 Council authorized the creation of MTF Upsilon-7 (\"Muddy Waters\") for the express purpose of containing 5220-A events.\n\nAddendum 5220.3: Interviews with SCP-5220-1\n\n+ Show Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nInterviewer: Jeremy Young, Junior Researcher\nInterviewee: SCP-5220-1\nLocation: Site-215, Humanoid Containment Wing\nDate: 5 June 1970\nForeword: Dr. Bruce Rajaratnam, as head researcher, supervised this interview.\n\nYoung: Good morning, SCP-5220-1. I need to ask you\u2014\nSCP-5220-1: I have a name.\nYoung: I'm sorry?\nSCP-5220-1: My name is Samantha.\nYoung: I have questions that I need answered. It is important that you answer completely and truthfully.\nSCP-5220-1: I'm not answering any questions. I want a lawyer, and I want a phone.\nYoung: You are not under the jurisdiction of U.S. law enforcement, and we're not going to grant either of those requests.\nSCP-5220-1: What do mean, I'm not \u2026 This is fucked. If you can't respect my rights, I'm not going to answer your bullshit questions.\nYoung: I assure you it is nothing personal, SCP\u2014\nSCP-5220-1: Yeah, 'cause you don't want to treat me like a person. The hell is wrong with you?\nYoung: We have knowledge that you are connected to \u2026 strange occurrences.\nSCP-5220-1: Oh, you're with those people. The paranormal scientists, or whatever. Yeah, they told me that you might lock me up if I ran into you, tell me I'm an \"anomaly\" or whatever.\nYoung: Listen, it sounds like someone gave you prior knowledge of the Foundation, which makes me concerned for your safety. It sounds as if you have been influenced by a group that opposes the Foundation. Our only goal is keep people safe, especially from groups who want to disrupt the normal function of society.\nSCP-5220-1: You \u2026 I'm trying to protect humanity! And a lot more than that, not that I would expect you labcoat types to understand.\nYoung: There is more at stake here than your feelings! There are severe consequences if you don't cooperate, and not just for you. Please explain what you mean to do.\nSCP-5220-1: Explain this. [Makes a rude gesture at Researcher Young with both hands.]\nYoung: All right then, fine! We're done here. Interview concluded.\nJunior Researcher Young was reprimanded for his inappropriate conduct during the interview and was instructed to remain calm in future interviews. The possible breach of confidential information was also discussed. \u2014Dr. Rajaratnam\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Bruce Rajaratnam, Senior Researcher\nInterviewee: SCP-5220-1\nLocation: Site-215, Humanoid Containment Wing\nDate: 6 June 1970\nRajaratnam: Good afternoon, Samantha. May I offer you a drink?\nSCP-5220-1: I thought I was a number to you assholes.\nRajaratnam: I understand that you have been upset by your situation in containment. It is my responsiblity to ensure that your needs are met, under the circumstances.\nSCP-5220-1: Oh, so you're the good cop, and the jerk from yesterday is the bad cop?\nRajaratnam: I appreciate your concerns about Mr. Young's, ah, blunt approach. He is merely concerned about the effects of the object that appeared in the Great Salt Lake where we found you.\nSCP-5220-1: It's a rock art thing. You could have read that in the Salt Lake Tribune, if you Einsteins were smart enough to read.\nRajaratnam: Ha, well, speaking of smart, I believe you know better?\nSCP-5220-1: Do you like it when people accuse you of lying all the damn time?\nRajaratnam: I understand that this is uncomfortable, but it is necessary to protect the public from anomalies\u2014\nSCP-5220-1: Hey, fuck you, man! You all treat me like some freak of nature just because you found me out on the Spiral Jetty!\nRajaratnam: Please forgive me, I did not mean to injure you. The fact of the matter is, although we have concealed the nature of this object from the public, we have strong evidence that it is responsible for numerous deaths. We are gravely worried for the people who have died and for those who may be in harm's way. Any information you can give us\u2014\nSCP-5220-1: [Distressed and agitated] I didn't kill anyone!\nRajaratnam: I did not say that. Please, Samantha, our only interest is protecting innocent lives.\nSCP-5220-1: I don't know anything!\nRajaratnam: Please take this as a compliment: You are a poor liar. Nothing about you suggests that you want to hurt anyone. I'm not making an accusation. Can you tell who informed you of the Foundation?\nSCP-5220-1: I'm not talking. Eat shit.\n\nSeveral interview transcripts have been omitted as they contain no actionable information due to SCP-5220-1's intractable behavior. Complete documentation may be requested with Level 2 or higher clearance from the SCP-5220 research lead.\n\nI recognize that including these notes in an SCP document is unorthodox, but the information here serves as a valuable reminder to all of us. The Foundation does not operate with unchecked coercion or cruelty toward humanoid anomalies, and for good reason. \u2014Dr. Rajaratnam\nDr. Rajaratnam,\nThings are getting worse with 5220, and I'm not getting any leads. I don't have clearance to see any thing budget-related, but I'm sure we're spending fortunes on amnestics at this point, and heaven forbid anything worse than the mess at the Capitol happens. We need to get more out of dash one, I'd like to request a polygraph test.\nJeremy\n\nResearcher Young,\nRequest denied, I'm afraid. I find myself skeptical of the reliability of polygraphs, and many of our colleagues would strongly disapprove. They're less than useless with reality benders, if recent research is accurate.\nDr. Rajaratnam\n\nDr. Rajaratnam,\nWe've had nine 5220-A deaths in the past week. I can't stand seeing these bodies tied to gurneys while the coroners make them look like murder victims or overdoses.\nIf 5220-1 is as sincere as you say, then I request to share the recording of your interview with the A-56 witness, the mother of the 3-year-old victim. If she has a conscience, then maybe she'll open up after hearing that woman cry over her dead boy. I watched the coroner plant evidence of strangulation on the kid's body, for God's sake!\nSir, I'm out of options here, and the world is falling apart. My family lives in the area of effect, and a lot of other innocent folks, too.\nJeremy\n\nResearcher Young,\nI recognize that your first Keter-class assignment is daunting, but I don't need to explain to you that this isn't how we operate.\nI regret to say that I may have neglected to prepare you for the stress of approaching such a dangerous, as-yet uncontained SCP. It is, admittedly, a different world than your training in Safe object containment.\nConsider this an order to visit the site psychologist for the sake of your emotional well-being. For my part, please understand that I have looked more than one K-class scenario in the face and lived to tell the tale. Our work is exceptionally difficult, but we have always prevailed through strict adherence to longstanding best practices.\nDr. Rajaratnam\n\nPrivate Internal Message\nFrom: McKayla Geduld, Site Director\nTo: Jeremy Young, Junior Researcher\n\nResearcher Young,\nThis message serves to notify you of official penalties regarding misconduct committed in the course of interaction with humanoid anomaly SCP-5220-1. Your service record will document the following violations:\n\ndivulging classified (Level 2/5220) information to an unauthorized individual,\nviolating direct orders from a superior, and\nengaging in inappropriate interview methods, including emotional manipulation and causing mental duress.\n\nI know the fear that comes with facing the anomalous, the unnatural, the absurd and arbitrary. Remember, you are with competent people. In your inexperienced position, it is critical that you follow protocol at all times.\nI am compelled to remove your Level 2/5220 clearance and will reassign you at the earliest opportunity. This incident has also been submitted to the Ethics Committee, and they will inflict further penalties.\nCordially,\nMcKayla Geduld, Site Director\n\nAddendum 5220.4: Statement from SCP-5220-1\n\n+ Show Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nFollowing the incident in the morgue, SCP-5220-1 requested writing material be supplied. Dr. Rajaratnam received the following document on 29 June 1970.\n\nEver since I was a kid, I loved animals. All of them, even spiders and centipedes. I still do. I love plants, too. From the time I was 6 years old, I wouldn't go to the zoo because I hated to see animals in little jails.\nLast year, the oil spill in Santa Barbara was a disaster. I mean, for me personally. I remember seeing the pictures of dead sea birds in the newspaper. Maybe it was silly for a 14-year-old girl to do, but I cried for those birds. Thousands of birds, ruined by human greed.\nI went to the beach, thinking I could save the birds, somehow. There, I met a guy named Robert. I could tell he was sad about the oil spill, too. He told me that he was a student at University of California Santa Barbara. He told me that he belonged to a group that could undo the damage that humans had done to the world, for the sake of the birds and all the other living things. He asked me to come to a meeting on campus. I told him that I was only in 8th grade, but he said that didn't matter.\nI went and it turned out that Robert was the leader of this group. The way he talked, it was amazing. He had such high-minded ideas and he seemed so smart. He told us that healing Mother Earth was about relativity. Einstein said that time and gravity are closely connected, and that the Earth's gravity bent the universe itself, and if we understood how the Earth worked, we could bend the universe too.\nI had to sneak out to attend the meetings, because my dad thought they were \"draft-dodging hippies.\" He went on about how if they wanted to do good in the world, they should join the army and go to Vietnam. My dad and I fought about it more and more. Eventually, I ran away.\nI know that Robert's talk about bending reality to our will sounds like some new-agey horseshit, but it was real. One time, we met at a little pond. It was full of garbage and runoff from some rich people neighborhood. Robert put his hand in the water, and in an instant, the water was crystal clear. It was a blink and you miss it kind of thing.\nWhen the end of the year came around, we had all done things like Robert cleaning up the pond, but smaller. Robert said we were ready to begin the real work. He told me that Mother Earth was preparing a locus for me. He told me that it was a place away from the ocean, but the seagulls were there, too. He told me I would know it when I found it.\nSo I just hitchhiked out of California and kind of wandered. Something seemed to be pulling me. I came to Utah. Seagulls here, of all places. Then I found the spiral, and I felt the Earth, ancient and brimming with life, but wounded. I knew what I was supposed to do. Bring back the great waters of this place.\nThen everyone would know.\n\nLiasions and/or undercover agents within the Global Occult Coalition, Manna Charitable Foundation, and Wanderer's Library have been contacted. No individuals matching the description of the alleged reality-benders have been identified.\n30 June 1970 Interview\n\nInterviewer: Bruce Rajaratnam, Senior Researcher\nInterviewee: SCP-5220-1\nLocation: Site-215, Humanoid Containment Wing\nDate: 30 June 1970\nRajaratnam: Restore the world to conditions of a past timeframe. You are \u2026 ambitious, Samantha.\nSCP-5220-1: I \u2026 I knew it would take a long time, the healing, I mean. Bring back a world before human industry and selfishness \u2026 I felt the memory of an enormous lake in this place.\nRajaratnam: You mean Lake Bonneville? An ancient pluvial lake, comparable to today's Great Lakes.\nSCP-5220-1: So you believe me?\nRajaratnam: Well, modern geography and climate could not sustain that lake. Lake Bonneville was real, some \u2026 20,000 years ago? But it existed because of an ice age.\nSCP-5220-1: I wasn't sure how, but dammit, I knew it was possible, I don't know how, but if I understand the Earth's place in the universe, I could make it happen.\nRajaratnam: But \u2026\nSCP-5220-1: But people started dying. I didn't know until you told me, and I didn't believe you until that \u2026 asshole showed me the bodies. They were here, but they drowned in Lake Bonneville.\nRajaratnam: Why do you suppose only humans have fallen into the lake, so to speak? Why not other animals? Why don't we see fish swimming in the sky?\nSCP-5220-1: I don't know. Maybe \u2026 the Earth is sick. Maybe it's trying to fight the infection. Humans are making it sick.\nRajaratnam: Well, I don't know if I can think of the planet as a living entity as you do. But I am tasked with containing this anomaly, and saving lives. What to do?\nSCP-5220-1: I wonder if I can fix this.\n\nData on 5220-A events corroborate the claim that victims are partially conveyed to a prehistoric timeframe and drown in Lake Bonneville. Victims who died outdoors will float to an elevation of 1,590 m above sea level, the surface level of Lake Bonneville. Additionally, all 5220-A have been confirmed to occur in the area estimated by geologists and paleontologists that the lake covered.\n\nAddendum 5220.5: 2017 Update\n\n+ Show Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nDue to an extended period of cooperation with special containment procedures for SCP-5220, Site-215 approved various privileges for SCP-5220-1. These include access to educational material in the life sciences, geology, and climatology; access to television, internet and other media, albeit heavily restricted, and provisional Level 1 clearance. SCP-5220-1 was permitted to consult in limited capacities on various biological and ecological anomalies.\nOver the years, containment specialists have noted that SCP-5220-1 has expressed increasing concern regarding reports on anthropogenic climate change. It expressed an intense desire to resume its described original work of \"healing the world.\" Following the retirement of Senior Researcher Bruce Rajaratnam, SCP-5220-1 has become less amicable toward Foundation staff.\nSCP-5220-1 has repeatedly asked what the Foundation intends to do regarding climate change and was told that her questions would not be answered. On 29 August 2017, SCP-5220-1 attempted to refuse escort to SCP-5220 and complete suppression of the anomaly. This pattern of behavior continued, and all privileges were revoked.\nThroughout the next three months, a dramatic increase in 5220-A events was observed. It appears that SCP-5220-1 is using SCP-5220 as a bargaining chip, demanding that the Foundation use its vast resources to mitigate climate change, stating \"What's the use of dying in the dark if the sons of bitches in the light die too?\"\nMedical examination has shown a possibility of dementia owing to SCP-5220's advanced age, which may explain its untractable behavior. Alternatives for containment without reliance on SCP-5220-1 are being investigated, but no possibilities have demonstrated viability.\n\nAddendum 5220.6: Level 4/5220 clearance required\n\n+ Enter Authorization Code\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nThe following is a partial transcript of an O5 Council meeting which took place on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/20\u2588\u2588 regarding SCP-5220.\nO5-2: While the matter of global warming is a grave concern to all of us, it is not anomalous. Site-215's request to broker a deal with SCP-5220-1 is untenable in my view.\nO5-9: Yet the documentation points to the possibility of others similar to this particular entity. Addressing these conditions may be a practical means of indirect containment of these persons of interest.\nO5-7: Presumed persons of interest, you mean. The Foundation has expended considerable resources to track down this \"Robert\" that supposedly tutored SCP-5220-1. No trace of the entity has been found.\nO5-9: The urgency of thought regarding climate change is dramatic above the veil. It is all but certain that members of the anomalous community are intervening. We have already contained such attempts from the MCF.\nO5-7: An isolated incident hardly counts as evidence.\nO5-4: At risk of sounding gauche, Seven, asking for evidence always did sound quaint among us. In the past \u2588 years alone, we have discovered no less than \u2588 anomalies of ancient origin capable of instigating K-Class scenarios. Not even we are omniscient.\nO5-12: And how do we propose to fix the problem? Altering decades of human activity is a ludicrous idea. It would require a drastic change to life above the veil, and the Foundation has no business in turning social consensus reality on its head. Even with our substantial influence in various governments, we could not move them to overturn the basis of modern economies.\nO5-9: The Global Occult Coalition, has greater pull with world leaders, perhaps with their cooperation\u2014\nO5-12: And now it is you who sounds gauche, Nine. How will you persuade the Coalition to kowtow to a low-level threat entity already in Foundation containment?\n[REDACTED]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Precise date of origin is unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5219 | SCP-5220 | SCP-5221 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item N\u00b0: 5221\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5221 and its related documentation are under the jurisdiction of O5-8. This was personally ordered by the Overseer, with the reasoning behind it being strictly classified. SCP-5221 itself has not been acted upon and has been left to its own accord, under the order of O5-8.\nDescription: SCP-5221 is an intermittent event in which all residents of Orient, Oregon will be unable to recall a portion, if not all, of the previous day's events; all methods of attempting to recall them have been ineffective.1 It is unknown whether there are other methods to recall the affected memories. The amount of memory loss during this time does not appear to follow a specific pattern. However, surveys held within the town provide evidence that SCP-5221 is stronger within adolescence.\nDue to SCP-5221's anomalous properties, it is unknown when the event initially manifested.\nDiscovery: SCP-5221 was discovered on 4/5/2020 when O5-8 was affected by an SCP-5221 event; although, O5-8 managed to recall the events of the previous day, despite currently known methods proving to be ineffective. To date, it is unknown how O5-8 has recalled these memories.\n\nO5-8's Home.\n\nAddendum 5221-1\nKristine Adair\n\nApart from the reasoning behind O5-8's personal investigation into SCP-5221, unclassified information reveals that he currently resides within Orient, Oregon. An individual - who may appear to have some correlation with O5-8 - has also been proven to be afflicted by an SCP-5221 event at some point; however, as of current, they do not reside within the affected area. On 4/6/2020, the aforementioned individual was interviewed by a Foundation agent under the guise of \"Orient Security Policing.\"\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nInvolved Individuals:\n\nAgent Jamais\nKristine Adair\n\nForeword: This interview was held within the home of Kristine Adair, who is currently aged 18. The aforementioned individual lives alone, within a low-rise apartment.\n\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Jamais: Whenever you're ready.\nKristine: Now is fine.\n[Agent Jamais clears his throat.]\nAgent Jamais: For starters, your name?\nKristine: Kristine Adair.\nAgent Jamais: Age?\nKristine: Eighteen.\nAgent Jamais: Relationship?\nKristine: None.\n[A brief pause.]\nAgent Jamais: Any sort of occupation? Stuff like 'babysitter' and all are fine. Please make note even if you don't work one currently, it's still required.\nKristine: I used to work part-time at a restaurant, as a server.\nAgent Jamais: I take it you're a student?\nKristine: Yes.\nAgent Jamais: How do you make the money to pay for your education? Apart from working part-time.\n[Kristine makes a pensive expression for a few moments.]\nKristine: I get sent money, monthly.\nAgent Jamais: Do you know who sends this money?\nKristine: No, it's anonymous. I'm not sure.\nAgent Jamais: I see.\nKristine: Though, if I had to guess, maybe it'd be my parents?\nAgent Jamais: Your parents? Why would they keep the anonymity?\nKristine: I don't know. I've never seen them.\nAgent Jamais: \u2026 Got it.\n[A brief pause as Agent Jamais writes down notes.]\nAgent Jamais: Can you tell me about your past? Particularly how you got this apartment, who you've interacted with as a benefactor, and notable incidents.\n[Two minutes of silence. She begins to frown.]\nKristine: Umm, one of my friends, Melaine. Her parents helped me get this apartment, and taught me how to self-sustain. I'd say they're my benefactors. As for the other questions\u2026 I'm sorry, I can't seem to remember.\n[Kristine touches the back of her neck. She looks down at the table.]\nAgent Jamais: It's alright. Do you know why you can't remember? Were you involved in some kind of incident, or\u2026?\nKristine: Yeah, I uh, I actually don't know for sure. I remember being hospitalized when I was young, at around 13. At the time, there were a few people there who visited me, some I still don't know to date.\nAgent Jamais: Who among those people can you recall?\nKristine: Umm, if I remember right, I think it was my cousins, childhood friends - who I don't know - and maybe my parents? Not sure.\nAgent Jamais: I see. Do you know why you were hospitalized?\nKristine: The doctors said it was some kind of car crash, I think. I ended up with a lot of injuries: broken ribs\u2014about three or four, a cracked skull, fractured shin, and femur, and a broken shoulder blade.\nAgent Jamais: Anything neurological?\nKristine: Uh, I'm pretty sure the car crash was the reason I can't remember anything. Retrograde amnesia2 or whatever.\nAgent Jamais: I see. Can I get the date for this event?\nKristine: The 9th of September, 2015.\n[Agent Jamais jots down the information. He checks his watch.]\nAgent Jamais: A bit of an odd one, but does anything come to mind regarding the name 'Henson Adair'? I know you've suffered amnesia, but please, try to recall as best as possible.\n[Kristine pauses.]\nKristine: Not that I know of.\nAgent Jamais: Understandable. I think that'll be all for today, then.\nKristine: Alright.\nAgent Jamais: Thank you for your time, Ms. Adair.\n<End Log>\n\nAfter this interview, further investigation began into the incident regarding Kristine Adair. However, little to no progress was achieved, as most of the information recovered mirrored the information from the interview. However, it should be noted that O5-8 has been hospitalized at this time, under Foundation supervision.\n\nAddendum 5221-2\nO5-8 Interview\n\nSimilar to the interview held on 4/6/2020, an interview regarding O5-83 was held on 4/8/2020. This was due to the possibility of Kristine Adair having some correlation with O5-8. The following is a recording of the interview.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nInvolved Individuals:\n\nO5-8\nAgent Mallory\n\nForeword: This interview was held within Foundation Site-33, within the office of O5-8. Due to reasons unclarified, O5-8 has expressed disinterest in following proper Foundation protocol \u2014 interviews and the like being held in the Investigative Wing \u2014 and instead requested the interview be held by audio.\n\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Mallory: Ready?\nO5-8: On you.\nAgent Mallory: For recording purposes, we'll start formally from the beginning. Name?\nO5-8: [REDACTED].4\nAgent Mallory: Age?\nO5-8: 44.\nAgent Mallory: Relationship?\nO5-8: None. Single.\nAgent Mallory: Family members?\nO5-8: I will abstain.\nAgent Mallory: Understood. We already know your occupation so\u2026 let's cut to the chase. Regarding SCP-5221 and your infliction with it, what can you recall?\n[A brief pause.]\nO5-8: I\u2026 woke up, went to work, researched, and began my duties.\nAgent Mallory: Was there anything of note during this day?\nO5-8: There is not. I do not recall.\nAgent Mallory: I see.\n[Another brief pause.]\nAgent Mallory: When the name 'Kristine Adair' is mentioned, does anything come to mind?\n[Silence for fifteen seconds.]\nO5-8: No.\nAgent Mallory: Okay. Regarding recent projects and/or personal research, is there anything of note that you think could be related to SCP-5221?\nO5-8: I do not recall, and would like to abstain.\nAgent Mallory: \u2026 I see. On the ninth of September 2015, do you recall anything?\nO5-8: That's\u2026\n[O5-8 pauses.]\nO5-8: Nothing of note. I was under Overseer duties, that is all.\nAgent Mallory: When a 'car crash' is mentioned regarding that date, does anything come to mind?\nO5-8: This is getting a bit off-topic, is it not?\nAgent Mallory: I assure you, O5-8, this is all a part of the questionnaire.\nO5-8: Is it now?\nAgent Mallory: Absolutely.\nO5-8: \u2026 I see. I will abstain, then.\nAgent Mallory: If possible, it would be appreciated if you could provide an answer.\nO5-8: I have already abstained.\nAgent Mallory: \u2026 Understood.\n[A brief pause.]\nAgent Mallory: Have you suffered any form of amnesia? New or old.\nO5-8: I have not.\nAgent Mallory: \u2026 I see. However, it says here on the medical records you were hospitalized at the time. Are you sure of this?\nO5-8: I am absolutely sure. Who has provided you with these questions?\nAgent Mallory: O5-8, these questions were reviewed by O5-10. I assure you, these were all essential.\n[O5-8 pauses.]\nO5-8: Alright.\nAgent Mallory: That will be all then. Thank you for your time.\nO5-8: It was nothing.\n<End Log>\n\nTwo weeks after, SCP-5221 had increased the rate of its intermittent events.\n\nAddendum 5221-3\nWorsening\n\nOn 4/22/2020, the age range for individuals affected by SCP-5221 increased from adolescence to young adults. Additionally, SCP-5221 was notably found to have been more frequent around the area of O5-8's home. Further investigation into the intermittent SCP-5221 events revealed a unique pattern. This pattern is as follows: every week, an SCP-5221 event will occur, in addition to the event increasing in severity. Due to SCP-5221 being under the jurisdiction of O5-8, no actions have been taken, despite the apparent worsening of the SCP-5221 events.\nRelatedly, on account of O5-8, the recent actions taken do not fall under proper Overseer guidelines. Because of this, two votes were held by the O5 Council (disregarding the Overseer in question). The first being a confrontation, and the second temporarily adjourning the capabilities of O5-8, effectively having all further actions be sanctioned by the rest of the Council. The following is what transpired of this.\n\nOVERSEER COUNCIL DELEGATIONS\n\nDate: 4/28/2020\nPreceding Deliberations: An hour and thirty minutes.\nInvolved Parties: Thirteen O5 Council members\n\nPREAMBLE\nAs of late, it appears that O5-8 has not been fully unbiased with his answers. This is clearly evident in his involvement with SCP-5221, his recent interview, and the increasing severity of intermittent SCP-5221 events. Such actions have acquired the attention of the Overseer Council.\nBODY OF PROPOSAL(S)\nProposal 1: While there has not yet been conclusive evidence of O5-8's potential ill-defined acts, it has been proposed solely by O5-10 that O5-8 should be placed under the following restrictions and/or supervision, effectively placing them under probation.\n\nTemporarily adjourning parts of O5 privileges.\nAll further projects, proposals, and/or actions must be sanctioned by the Council.\nPlacing O5-8 under O5-10 supervision.\n\nProposal 2: In addition to this, it has also been proposed by O5-10 that O5-8 shall be confronted. The individual in question will be, under O5 consensus, confronted by O5-10, as they are also in charge of supervising O5-8, should the vote pass.\n\nRESULTS OF DELEGATIONS, PROPOSAL 1\nDue to the individual in question, O5-8 has been excused from voting.\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABSTAIN\n\nO5-1\nO5-5\nO5-3\n\nO5-2\nO5-6\nO5-7\n\nO5-4\nO5-12\n\nO5-9\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-10\n\nSTATUS\n\nAPPROVED\n\nRESULTS OF DELEGATIONS, PROPOSAL 2\nDue to the individual in question, O5-8 has been excused from voting.\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABSTAIN\n\nO5-1\n\nO5-3\n\nO5-2\n\nO5-4\n\nO5-5\n\nO5-6\n\nO5-7\n\nO5-9\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nSTATUS\n\nAPPROVED\n\nAddendum 5221-4\nConfrontation\n\nOn 5/1/2020, O5-8 was confronted by O5-10 about his recent actions and proceedings. The confrontation was done in person and was held within the O5 Council room. Following this, the intermittent SCP-5221 events increased in frequency and happened every four days. The following is what transpired of this event.\n\nO5 INTERROGATION LOG\n\nMembers Involved:\n\nO5-8\nO5-10\n\nForeword: Due to Foundation protocol, only one recording of this file exists, and no copies are to be created. This file is audio-only.\n\n<Begin Log>\nO5-10: You came.\nO5-8: Should I have not?\nO5-10: You know what this is about.\nO5-8: What?\nO5-10: 5221.\n[A brief pause.]\nO5-8: What of it?\nO5-10: I'll be straight. Why are you lying?\n[O5-8 chuckles.]\nO5-8: Me? Lying? What the hell are you talking about?\nO5-10: The records, the interviews, everything. It reeks of deceit.\nO5-8: Surely you must be out of your mind. Have you gotten enough sleep? Took your meds? Has life been treating you hard these days?\n[A brief pause.]\nO5-10: This is not the time for that. You know full well that's in the past.\nO5-8: Is that so\u2026? It seems as if the past is intervening with the future, eh?\n[O5-10 takes a deep breath.]\nO5-10: Enough. I'm here to inform you\u2014under Overseer consensus\u2014that your actions have come under the Council's attention. You are subject to answer any and all of these questions. This cannot be voided. Either you will comply, or be subject to further disciplinary action.\n[O5-8 clicks his tongue.]\nO5-8: What exactly have you found\u2014\nO5-10: Your interview. It's riddled with abstains and a slightly aggressive tone. This is not befitting the actions of an Overseer. You know this.\nO5-8: Sure, I hesitated, but you know we can't leak out private information like that all willy-nilly. Next thing you know, I'll get killed in my sleep.\nO5-10: Nonsense. Foundation protocol ensures that all private information regarding us are redacted. Hell, anyone below you in terms of power aren't gonna be able to put their fingerprints on this kind of stuff. If anyone's gonna find out about your goddamn personal life, it's gonna be you, and you alone.\nO5-8: Yeah? The past doesn't seem to agree there, Ten.\nO5-10: For fucks sake, Eight. Can you get over that? Or is your head too hard that literally anything other than you can get through?\n[O5-8 laughs.]\nO5-8: You think I'm narcissistic? Good one.\nO5-10: This motherfucker.\nO5-8: Last time I checked, you haven't given a single shit about anyone other than yourself. At least I can give a damn about how others feel. Props to you, tyrant.\nO5-10: Do you hear yourself? You're seriously fucked in the head!\nO5-8: Am I now? You've been like this for years. Y-e-a-r-s.\nO5-10: That's bullshit and you know it! I kept up with your attitude for what? Twenty years? It's a surprise I haven't been done with you yet!\nO5-8: That's the biggest white-faced lie I've seen since back then. You've been done with me for half a decade.\nO5-10: Clearly not enough.\nO5-8: Well what can you do? Life's thrown you down a pile of steaming shit, and you can't do anything about it. Must suck, huh?\nO5-10: Oh my god. How long are you gonna keep doing this?\nO5-8: 'Till the day I die.\nO5-10: You\u2014 God. Enough of this. Just tell me what the hell you're doing with 5221, and I'll be out of here. I can't take this shit anymore than I already do.\nO5-8: You know full well what the hell I'm doing, Ten.\nO5-10: I don't fucking know, that's why I held this\u2026 whatever it is.\nO5-8: Well, if you can't remember, then that's on you. Just know that it's all on you. Everything went south when you went north.\nO5-10: What?\nO5-8: I'm done here. You got what you needed, any more than this is just a waste of my life.\nO5-10: I literally didn't get shit!\nO5-8: Well then you clearly didn't work hard enough. Maybe try harder next time.\nO5-10: Fuck you too!\n<End Log>\n\nSubsequent to this event, O5-8 was temporarily adjourned of all Overseer capabilities, due to the contents of the interview.\n\nAddendum 5221-5\nExacerbation\n\nAfter the initial interrogation of O5-8, another interrogation was scheduled on 5/15/2020. This was due to the previous interrogation achieving little to no progress, as it was halted by a personal argument between O5-8 and O5-10. However, on the scheduled date, O5-8 was not found present within the appointed site.\n\nOrient, Oregon, 2020 heatchart. Red: Surface Temperature, Blue: CO2 Concentration.\n\nDuring this time, database records of SCP-5221 were also found to have been missing, presumably stolen. It is unknown whether O5-8 had stolen the SCP-5221 files, corrupted, or taken by an unnamed Group of Interest.\nAt the same time, an abnormally large amount of heat hit Orient, Oregon, despite the weather forecast not supporting such an event. In addition to the aforementioned heatwave, the intermittent SCP-5221 events increased in frequency, now happening every two days. Due to this, a town-wide scan on Orient was held, the results revealing the abnormal amount of heat originating from the O5-8's home. Due to the apparent increasing severity of the situation, an emergency meeting was held on the same day to discuss the situation at hand.\n\nEMERGENCY O5 COUNCIL MEETING\n\nIn Attendance:\nO5-2 - PRESENT                          O5-1 - ABSTAINED                            O5-3 - ABSENT\nO5-6 - PRESENT                          O5-4 - ABSTAINED                            O5-5 - ABSENT\nO5-7 - PRESENT                          O5-9 - ABSTAINED                            O5-12 - ABSENT\nO5-10 - PRESENT                                                                                      O5-13 - ABSENT\nO5-11 - PRESENT\nO5-8 - REMOVED\n\n<Begin Log>\nO5-10: Where are the others?\nO5-7: Couldn't make it, or abstained for personal reasons.\nO5-10: I see.\n[A slight pause.]\nO5-10: I assume you're all caught up? I printed the documents before the files disappeared from the database.\nO5-2: I've read the documents before the meeting.\nO5-6: I haven't read all of it, but I've got a gist of what's happening.\nO5-11: Enough to attend the meeting.\nO5-7: Yes.\nO5-10: Good. Then I won't need to recap. Let's cut to the chase. O5-8 has been temporarily relieved from Overseer duty. I haven't had time to write up the summary of the vote, however, it is clear that Eight\u2014 retired council member, Eight, was not fit for Overseer duties.\nO5-11: I feel that this was a premature decision.\nO5-10: How so?\nO5-11: Do we even have conclusive evidence of Eight's ill-defined acts? If not, it is we who have acted out of line. You specifically, Ten.\nO5-10: I understand your reasoning, and while we don't have actual hard-copy evidence of O5-8's egregious acts, the evidence regarding 5221 is enough to suffice an Overseer delegation and vote.\nO5-7: Remind me, how long have you been separated, again?\nO5-10: Five years.\nO5-6: And you're sure you're not acting unbiased? If I recall correctly, you singlehandedly proposed all the restrictions and such against Eight.\nO5-10: That is correct. However, the fact that the vote has passed has already told me that the majority has placed their trust in my decision.\nO5-6: That was before your argumentative interrogation with Eight.\nO5-10: The vote still stands.\n[O5-6 is silent.]\nO5-11: We are going off-topic. Let's begin discussing the situation at hand, not the situation beforehand. That was the past. This is now.\nO5-2, O5-7: Understood.\n[Brief silence.]\nO5-10: Regarding Eight and his correlation with 5221. If you read the documents, the increasing severity of 5221's intermittent events has become potentially harmful to the public. As such, I propose that we attempt to infiltrate Eight's home. I believe that Eight could potentially be a vital factor in the increasing frequency of these events.\nO5-2: What makes you think this?\nO5-10: The hints are right there. The heatwaves, increasing intermittent events, disappearing files of 5221 from the database. They're all intrinsically linked to Eight, and not in a coincidental way.\nO5-2: Heatwaves? Those are rather recent, no?\nO5-10: I've done the scans. The results say otherwise.\nO5-6: The results could've easily been swayed by other external factors.\nO5-10: Like?\nO5-6: The climate, environmental records, population, there are many things.\nO5-10: The climate shows no possibility of changing. The weather reports\u2014I've double-checked them\u2014mention nothing about an increase in heatwaves. The environmental records have been thoroughly scanned and double-checked as well, perhaps even triple-checked. The population is far too small to generate heat by themselves. This hasn't happened before.\nO5\u20146: Well\u2014\nO5-10: I told you, I've done the scans. The epicenter of the heat leads where? Eight's home. They're linked, Six, intrinsically, not coincidentally.\n[EXTRANEOUS DELEGATIONS OMITTED FOR BREVITY.]\nO5-7: I can stand with this.\nO5-10: Anyone else?\nO5-6: Not enthusiastic, but I agree.\nO5-11: I decline.\nO5-2: I\u2026 agree.\nO5-10: Three to one, majority vote. The operation will be passed.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this, MTF \u03c1-11 (\"Timestopper\") was notified of their mission. The directions of the operation are as follows:\n\nInfiltrate the home of O5-8.\nGather SCP-5221 related documentations.\nSearch for the origins of the heatwaves and intermittent SCP-5221 events.\n\nAddendum 5221-6\nApparent Conclusion\n\nOn 5/22/2020, the operation regarding the infiltration of O5-8's home was officially carried out. The following is a visual recording of this event.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nSquadron: MTF \u03c1-11 (\"Timestopper\")\nOperatives:\n\nTony Al \"Griffon\"\nRichard Miller \"Eagle\"\nHermaine Jones \"Seagull\"\nO5-105\n\nForeword: All members were equipped with heat-resistant clothing, in addition to a backpack in order for operatives to retrieve documents. The entire log was recorded via Griffon's headcam.\n\n<Begin Log>\n[\u03c1-11 are located just outside of O5-8's home. They double-check their equipment before infiltrating the home.]\nO5-10: Are we ready?\nGriffon, Eagle, Seagull: Affirmative.\nO5-10: Then let's get started.\n[\u03c1-11 proceed to approach the doorstep. Eagle and Griffon stand on each side of the door, while Seagull is aiming his suppressed gun at the door lock. They wait three seconds before nodding collective, at which point Seagull shoots the door lock. Eagle slams the door open, allowing Seagull and Griffon to enter the home. Their guns are pointed at chest-height and they proceed to spread out, each exploring one area of the home.]\nGriffon: The place is barren. No signs of life.\nO5-10: Keep your eyes peeled. Remember to grab any and all 5221 documents.\nGriffon, Eagle, Seagull: Understood.\n[Griffon enters the second floor and approaches O5-8's bedroom. He opens the door, scanning the room with his gun pointed. There is nobody in the room. There are several documents spread out across the area, each with a label of \"SCP-5221\" on the top-right accordingly. Griffon grabs a document and opens it, reading the contents.]\nGriffon: I\u2026 What the fuck? This is so elaborate, it's insane.\nO5-10: Store the documents in the bag.\nGriffon: Roger. Doing that right now.\n[Griffon closes the documents and places them in his bag. He continues to search the home, descending from the second floor back to the first. He checks in with the other operatives.]\nGriffon: Anything on your end, Eagle, Seagull?\nEagle: Just some documents.\nSeagull: I'm in the basement, I haven't found anything yet\u2014 actually, disregard that. I think I found something.\nO5-10: Rendezvous with Seagull. Investigate that area. The heatwaves appear to be stronger there.\nGriffon: Understood. What about Eagle?\nO5-10: Have him come down with you as well.\nEagle: Understood.\n[\u03c1-11 rendezvous in the basement. The basement is completely barren. There are no materials, save for gasoline, some mechanical parts, and tires. They meet up with Seagull, who is standing directly atop a hatch.]\nGriffon: Eagle, you've got the laser cutter, yeah?\n[Eagle takes out a laser cutter. He primes it.]\nEagle: Ready.\nO5-10: Begin.\n[Eagle begins to cut through the metal. The metal melts through, falling down the hatch. Twenty minutes of this pass before the hatch is completely opened. The bottom of the hatch cannot be seen and is lit up with lights on the sides.]\nGriffon: I'll go first.\n\nO5-8 bunker hall.\n\n[Griffon begins to descend the hatch. Ten minutes of descending pass before he reaches the ground. In front of him is only a hallway, which descends slightly as it increases in length. The walls have metal pipes running along with the corners of the ceiling. Part of the walls are also degrading, with dirt seen protruding out of the holes.]\nGriffon: Jesus fuck. How did they build this thing?\nO5-10: I didn't even know this existed. Keep going.\nGriffon: Understood.\n[Griffon notifies the other operatives that he is going ahead. He proceeds to walk down the hall. Eventually, he approaches an underground research laboratory, which is all presumably maintained by O5-8.]\nO5-10: This fucker. Search the area.\n[Griffon proceeds to search the laboratory. There are several documents similar to those found within the bedroom of O5-8. However, each document has a small label under the designation title, which either read \"Memory\" or \"Time\". Griffon takes a document and opens it, reading the contents.]\nGriffon: What the shit? You're telling me they're using memory for this?\nO5-10: Griffon\u2014\n[The sound reminiscent of a garage door opening can be heard. Griffon drops the document, arming himself as he looks around. There is nothing there.]\nO5-10: Investigate the noise. It should be further down the hall.\nGriffon: Understood.\n[Griffon places the documents in his bag, then continues descending the hall. A few minutes pass before he stands in front of a large intersection, just below an extra-large roll-up door. There are three paths that branch off from this area, right, left, and center respectively. The right path is labeled \"Core - System Management\", the left \"Core - Ventilation\" and the center \"Core - Fragmented\".]\nGriffon: There are three paths, which one should I take?\nO5-10: What?\nGriffon: There are three paths, Control, which one do I take?\n[The audio from O5-10 begins to corrupt slightly.]\nO5-10: Take the [unintelligible].\nGriffon: Control, I can't understand you.\nO5-10: [unintelligible]\nGriffon: Control?\n[Silence for ten seconds.]\nGriffon: Control, are you there?\n[Silence for twenty seconds.]\nGriffon: I repeat. Control, are you there? Do you copy?\nO5-10: [unintelligible] \u2014Out.\nGriffon: I\u2014\n[Footsteps are heard briefly before the camera is thrown off of Griffon's helmet. It rolls on the ground, and a loud thump is heard. The sound of somebody approaching the camera is heard, before it is picked up.]\nUnknown Individual: Motherfucker. Who said you were allowed to be in here?\n[The camera is flipped to face the individual.]\nO5-8: Whoa\u2014 Ten, that you?\nO5-10: Eight! What the fuck are you up to?!\nO5-8: It really is you! I totally missed ya.\nO5-10: I saw the documents!\nO5-8: Oh, you did? Mmm, that's a problem.\nO5-10: What the hell are you trying to build?!\nO5-8: I'm not obligated to tell you, of all people.\nO5-10: Fucking\u2014\nO5-8: If you still can't figure it out, maybe give a shit about other people first.\n[O5-8 pauses for a few moments.]\nO5-8: Think it over.\n[The camera feed turns off.]\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this, the remaining members of MTF \u03c1-11 (\"Timestopper\") were unable to be recovered from the operation, and have been presumed dead. The following day, SCP-5221's intermittent events increased once more, at a rate of one event per day. The pattern does not show signs of decreasing.\n\n . \n\n . \n\n . \n\n . \n\n . \n\n . \n\nYou have (1) new message!\n\nFrom:\npcs.tenpics|11-5oco#pcs.tenpics|11-5oco\n\nTo:\npcs.tenpics|01-5oco#pcs.tenpics|01-5oco\n\nSubject:\nRe:SCP-5221\n\nDate:\n5/31/2020\n\nO5-10,\nToday, Foundation databases received an unauthorized change to SCP-5221's file. Of course, while you were away, I took care of it and read through the contents. I highly suggest you read this yourself. I have nothing to say on this matter.\nRegards,\nThe Desk of O5-11\n\nView Attached File?\n\nFootnotes\n1. Such methods include, but are not limited to: calendars, reminders (phone or otherwise), written notes, and mnestics.\n2. The loss of ability to recall memories that formed before a traumatic head injury.\n3. Normally, members of the O5 Council are not interviewed, to keep privacy and anonymity measures. However, in such cases where an interview is deemed necessary, the O5 in question will then be subject to an interview. This cannot be voided.\n4. As per Foundation protocol, the name of O5-8 has been redacted for privacy and anonymity measures.\n5. O5-10 has expressed interesting in taking part of the operation. She was assigned the role of \"Control\".\n\n\u00ab SCP-5220 | SCP-5221 | SCP-5222 \u00bb"}
{"text": "AIC.WARHAMMER Readout, Site-121, 2013-05-29 Hotspot Begins 13:59:00\n\nItem #: SCP-5222\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the latent abilities of people and things under the SCP-5222 designation or any sub-designations thereof, containment chambers shall be highly reinforced against pressure waves and, if facilities permit, entropy set to minimum1. If entropy is not adjustable at the current site of the contained entities, please make arrangements with your site director to relocate the entities to a variable-entropy site via BOUNCE.\nAny reports of ruggedly handsome men in sunglasses walking away from fiery explosions in slow motion should be cross-checked against GOI-2666.\nDescription: SCP-5222 is a collective designation for people (sub-designation \u03b1) and objects (sub-designation \u03b2) associated with Lord Explosion's Pyrotechnic Playground and Daycare2, a Type-16 Pocket Dimension3 and Multi-Tenant Conceptual Mindscape4. There are currently 26 different SCP-5222-\u03b1 entities catalogued, and none contained. There are currently 1326 different SCP-5222-\u03b2 items catalogued, and none contained.\nDiscovery: SCP-5222 was provisionally created by AIC.COLOSSUS5 on 2013-05-29 after Site-121 went offline with no SCUTTLE6 heartbeat7, which correlated to a concurrent spike8 in anomalous background entropy per AIC.WARHAMMER9.\nThe nature of the spike and rapid return to baseline did not match any known emissions signatures, and was determined with high confidence to be a Ruhiel-class Transitory Phenomenon10. MTF Nu-7 (\"Hammer Down\")11 was scrambled to the area per SCUTTLE Dead Man's Switch Protocol.\n\n+ Addendum 5222-1 - Exploration Log, MTF \u039d-7\n\n- Addendum 5222-1 - Exploration Log, MTF \u039d-7\n\nTranscribable crew: Team \u039d-7-\u03b2 (132 Members), Team \u039d-7-\u0393 (132 Members)\n\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Two minutes out, fellas. We're dropping to visual range. Eyes up, head on a swivel. We haven't heard shit from this site in two hours and the AIs think there's a hostile force on the ground.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-13 (Cpt. M. Cotes): So, nuke didn't go off? We'd see it from the air by now.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Yeah, as far as we know, that's the case. 90 seconds, everyone. Para team, check doors.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Check.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-83 (Sgt. O. Velasquez): Ready, sir.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-4 (Cpt. C. Cornell): Visual at 12 o'clock! What the fuck is all that, sir?\n[Unintelligible chatter]\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Fuckin' god in heaven, it's beautiful. Let's get down there.\n\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Command, please confirm you have visual.\nArea-14 Command: Negative, Major. Your telemetry's showing high entropy levels. I can hear you but we can't see you here, sorry. Be advised, WARHAMMER believes you're already in the bubble. Please report.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Copy, that makes sense. Site-121 is not here, I think it's been displaced by\u2014\n[multiple explosions occur for approximately 27 seconds]\nArea-14 Command: Swain! Fuck me, what was that? Report!\n[raucous laughter, hooting and cheering]\nArea-14 Command: Report! Hello? Somebody fucking tell us what's going on!\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): That was awesome.\nArea-14 Command: Woods. I swear to G\u2014\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Command, be advised Site-121 has apparently been replaced by\u2026Lord Explosion's Pyrotechnic Playground\u2026and Daycare?\nArea-14 Command: It's what.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Lord Explosion's Pyrotec\u2014\nArea-14 Command: I heard you, Woods. Where\u2014Where is Major Swain?\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Right now? He's fist-bumping Velasquez.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Narc. Command, be advised this place is way better than Site-121. Bravo team is going to form up and explore.\nArea-14 Command: Explor\u2014 Major, you are in a pocket dimension. We just needed to confirm the site didn't pop and leak. You need to get out of there, do you want to get fucking stuck in Lord Explosion's Pyrotechnic Playground or whatever it is forever?\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain):\nArea-14 Command:\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Y\u2014\nArea-14 Command: No! So if you're going to explore, fucking hurry up!\n\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): It's a fucking school. Command, I have a plaque here, Lord Explosion's Explosion School, founded 1388, Bearsted, quote here, \"To Better Punch Your Masters, Explode The Struggle Within\". Schoolmaster, Hieronymus Dave Lord Explosion Bearpuncher. What a name.\nArea-14 Command: Copy, 1. Give us a minute to cross-check all that. Hier\u2014 Hieronymus Dave?\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Affirmative, command. Hieronymus Dave Bearpuncher.\nArea-14 Command: Some people's parents, man\u2026hey, we got a partial. Dave Bearpuncher, prime POI for GOI-2666, Bearpuncher Solutions. Uh\u2026okay, this may not be the right one, there's nothing going back to 1388, but this Dave apparently gets up to some weird shit so, maybe? Pocket dimensions and all, that matches. Says he claims to have\u2026invented Thursday? Had a big cover-up operation that Damn Feds had to do after Bearpuncher Solutions appeared on the NASDAQ selling Service as a Service. If this is your guy, he's got a shitload of brothers, too. So, some kind of Type Green with an explosion school.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Badass.\nArea-14 Command: \u2026Yeah.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): So, command, we've got a directory here. The place is shaped\u2026well, like an old-timey bomb, like a cartoon bomb, with a little garden for the wick, it looks like. Let's see here, we've got Explosionology, Explosionography, History of Explosions, Explosion Appreciation, Theoretical Explosions, Lil' Sploder's Daycare\u2026why's there a fucking daycare? Uh, then we've got Applied Explosions, this one just says Explosions but in big all-caps letters, Walking Away From Explosions In Slow-Motion, Team-Based Holistic Exploding Leadership, Expl\u2014\nArea-14 Command: We get it, Major.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): Yeah there's a lot more.\nArea-14 Command: Major, you may as well check the back, while you're there. The garden area you mentioned, that doesn't sound right.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-1 (Maj. L. Swain): You're probably right, command. We'll stack up and see.\n\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Command, I'm point. Checking the exterior door.\nArea-14 Command: Copy. Ready when you are, Sergeant.\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Good copy. Leaving in 3, 2, 1.\n[loud unintelligible yelling]\nArea-14 Command: Woods, report.\n[yelling intensifies]\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Motherfuckers!\nArea-14 Command: Woods!\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Command! What's your deal?\n[loud unintelligible yelling]\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Gamma team is back here already and they're fuckin' grillin' out and drinking beer.\nArea-14 Command:\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Command. Hello?\nArea-14 Command: What is this fucking place, Sergeant?\n\u039d-7-\u03b2-66 (Sgt. X. Woods): Command, be advised, we are presently in Lord Explosion's Glorious Grilling Garden and Stripper Conservatory, which is connected to Beauregard Bearpuncher's Beer By The Bucket, quote, \"Where Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions\".\nArea-14 Command: [unintelligible yelling]\n\n+ Addendum 5222-2\n\n- Addendum 5222-2\n\nAfter two weeks of reports from MTF Nu-7's Beta and Gamma teams, entropy levels localized around the perimeter of the traversable discrete dimension began to slowly increase again, indicating destabilization of the Transitory Phenomenon. Despite this transitory period taking roughly three days, and the relative location of the teams to the baseline world being traversable in only 20 minutes, both teams were lost. All 264 members are considered lost and have been awarded the Foundation Silver Star for Distinguished Service.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This is typically 500 \u00b5J/K but may go as low as 5 \u00b5J/K in EVERGREEN-class sites.\n2. RAISA Link: Bearpuncher Solutions (GOI-2666) and subsidiaries. (KB 11.2666)\n3. RAISA Link: Types of Traversable Discrete Dimensions (KB 114)\n4. RAISA Link: T. Rutherford, Shared Experiences across Multiple Sapient Beings: A Primer (KB 4338)\n5. RAISA Link: Artificially Intelligent Construct: Creation Of Log Of Site-Specific Urgent Scenarios (KB 6116)\n6. RAISA Link: System To Contain Unsustainable Threats To Life and Existence (KB 10235)\n7. RAISA Link: SCUTTLE Dead Man's Switch Protocol (KB 10236)\n8. Defined as 3 \u03c3 or more.\n9. RAISA Link: Artificially Intelligent Construct: Weighted-Average Report of Hume, Air, Mass, Matter, Entropy and Radiation (KB 6119)\n10. RAISA Link: R. House, FLASH ECLIPSE: Rapid Response to Transient Planar Overlays (KB 4661)\n11. \"A battalion-strength force [\u2026] tasked with responding to incidents involving loss of communication with major Foundation facilities under circumstances wherein a site-wide breach, enemy compromise, or other similarly catastrophic event is suspected.\" (KB 26.28)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5221 | SCP-5222 | SCP-5223 \u00bb"}
{"text": "photo taken of SCP-5223-1 during interview\n\nItem #: SCP-5223\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5223 is to be contained in a double-width, vehicle containment chamber at the containment facility nearest to SCP-5223's most recently ascertained location. This chamber is to be retrofitted with access to a humanoid containment chamber(as per the request of SCP-5223-1). Dr. Baker must be present for all tests involving the vehicle.\nA minimum of one security guard is to maintain a perimeter of no fewer than 6 meters around SCP-5223. Any person attempting to enter this perimeter outside of testing conditions and without Dr. Baker's expressed permission is to be forcefully removed from SCP-5223's containment chamber and barred from entry until further notice.\nIf possible, SCP-5223's containment chamber is to be lined with lead.\nDescription: SCP-5223 is a 1941 Chevrolet, split windshield pickup truck bearing heavy damage to its left side panels. Though the vehicle is capable of normal movement, how this is accomplished is not well understood; the vehicle is missing vital components to its engine(cataloged in I-5223-01); moreover, while the vehicle is in motion, no audible engine noise can be heard. Beyond standard movements, SCP-5223 is also capable of teleportation and the creation of a pocket dimension. The means of this teleportation is, likewise, sparsely understood.\nHumans stepping closer than five meters from the vehicle will be lulled into a suggestive state, similar to that of the drug Desomorphine, for a short time. Victims of this suggestive state(SCP-5223's \u201cguest\u201d) will become more jovial and agreeable as the effect wears off; at which time, they will be greeted by an Elderly man(henceforth referred to SCP-5223-1) who will typically be seated in the passenger seat of the vehicle. SCP-5223-1 will then invite the guest into the vehicle and transport them to SCP-5223's pocket dimension (SCP-5223-1 might also transport his guest to one of many locations around the globe should he be provided the opportunity) .\nWhat is contained in this dimension varies from encounter to encounter; though, events in this dimension will remain consistent with what the guest is most fearful of.1. The events contained in SCP-5223's pocket dimension will most often present themselves as a challenge, monster, or nightmare(though deviations from these themes are not particularly uncommon). As such, these phobias often pose a severe danger to guests though, SCP-5223-1 will often \u201cstep in\u201d and aid guests during their time in SCP-5223's dimension. Once a guest's time in SCP-5223's dimension is complete, the guest will then be permanently absolved of their phobia(s) by unknown means, and he or she will be escorted back to the guest's desired location and will be free to leave.\n\n+ Addendum 5223-1: SCP-5223-1\n\n- Addendum 5223-1: SCP-5223-1\n\nSCP-5223-1 is an elderly male of Caucasian descent, approximately 1.8 meters when standing. Upon arriving at Site-\u2588\u2588 an interview with SCP-5223X-1 was suggested by Dr. Baker.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5223-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Baker\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Baker: Hello, SCP-5223-1.\nSCP-5223-1: Please, call me Joseph.\nDr. Baker: OK Joseph, do you have a last name?\nSCP-5223-1: Chester.\nDr. Baker: Age?\n<SCP-5223-1 sighs and then pauses for a moment>\nSCP-5223-1: Sorry son, I haven't had to remember my birthdate in a long time.\n<SCP-5223-1 pauses again for a short time before slamming both fists on the table>\nSCP-5223-1: Yes, I remember! Well, I don't remember how old I am exactly, but I do remember how old I was when I stopped counting: 136.\n<SCP-5223-1 laughs>\nDr. Baker: 136, you look very\u2026 youthful for being so\u2026 old.\nSCP-5223-1: I know, can you believe that shit! 136 years old, makes you think.\nDr. Baker: Yes, it does. So, what connection do you and SCP-5223 have?\nSCP-5223-1: SCP-5223?\nDr. Baker: The car?\nSCP-5223-1: You mean my truck? I've been riding that thing for as long as I can remember. It wasn't until recently that I learned about the teleportation thing. Oh, and the alien dimension.\nDr. Baker: Teleportation?\nSCP-5223-1: Yeah, I offered to cart myself here, but no one would listen! Jesus, I only said it like what, a thousand times! \u201cI can just teleport my car there you know!\u201d And, what do I get in return? Not a damned word. They didn't even tell their science people about it. Stubborn bunch you are.\nDr. Baker: Right, let's take a break and regroup after your briefing.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5223-1 was then escorted to his briefing; After which, as per the direction of Dr. Baker, SCP-5223-1 was taken in for a mental evaluation. After SCP-5223-1 was deemed mentally sound, testing and research regarding SCP-5223's ability to teleport and pocket dimension(the \"alien dimension\" referred to by SCP-5223-1) was then scheduled.\n\nNo known individual named Joseph Chester similar to SCP-5223-1 has been found in any census or death records to date in any country; though, a birth record from a hospital in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Ohio does identify a female, named Samantha Chester, with features comparable to and who is believed to be a directed descendant of SCP-5223-1. All further investigations into Joseph Chester and Samantha Chester have been unsuccessful.\n\n+ Addendum 5223-2: Testing Logs\n\n- Addendum 5223-2: Testing Logs\n\nTest A\nSubject: D-52231\nName: Kimberly\nPhobia(s): Spiders, Heights\nProcedure:\n\nSubject equipped with a standard-issue body camera and comms unit. The subject is then instructed to approach SCP-5223. Upon stepping within 5 meters of SCP-5223, the subject begins to fall into a sort of trance state, in which she approaches the driver's side door. SCP-5223-1 can be seen through the open driver window sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle. After reaching the window, dialogue typical of an SCP-5223 event ensues.\nSubject: Hi, who are you?\nSCP-5223-1: Name's Joseph and yourself?\nSubject: Um, Kimberly.\nSCP-5223-1: Lovely, sit.\nSCP-5223-1 then pats the driver seat of the car. Subject opens the driver side door and sits in the seat.\nSCP-5223-1: Alright, buckle up; I've got something to show you, but first, tell me where ya from?\nSubject: I'm not sure that\u2026\nSCP-5223-1: Tell me. Come on; I won't bite.\n<SCP-5223-1 laughs>\nSubject: [REDACTED]\nSCP-5223-1: Perfect, you ever been to Paris, dear?\nBefore the subject can answer, SCP-5223-1 proceeds to twist a dial on the dashboard in front of him. A white flash can be seen through the lens of the body camera affixed to the Subject; after which the view out of the driver and passenger windshield shifts to view what appears to be the Eiffel tower in Paris, France.\n<Subject screams in terror>\nSPC-5223-1: I know, I did the same thing my first time seeing the Eiffel tower. Damn pretty, isn't it?\nSubject: What the hell did you just do?\nSCP-5223-1: I teleported us! Pretty cool, right?\n<Subject is silent, seemingly in shock.>\nSCP-5223-1: Oh, Don't be afraid, Kim. SCP-5223-1 pauses Actually, I have just the thing for you.\nSCP-5223-1 reaches forward and once again twists a dial on the dashboard. The same white flash envelopes the vehicle; however, this time, only the passenger side of the vehicle shifts into SCP-5223's pocket dimension.\nSCP-5223-1 steps out of the car and offers his hand to the subject. The subject rises from her seat and exits out of the passenger side of the vehicle. Elaborate stone masonry comes into view, and it is revealed to the camera that the subject and SCP-5223-1 are now standing in a large stone corridor with no windows. Large stone carvings litter the walls depicting a variety of scenes ranging from that of ancient Greek to modern influences.\nSCP-5223-1: Well, pretty cool right?\nSubject: It's beautiful. Where are we?\nSCP-5223-1: This is my truck's alien dimension, first place she took me once I realized she could teleport.\nSubject: That must have been pretty\u2026 crazy.\nSubject is then led down the corridor by SCP-5223-1. After roughly ten minutes, SCP-5223-1 stops abruptly and turns to face a large wooden door.\nSCP-5223-1: Here we go, number one.\nThe subject's body camera focuses on a stone carving resting above the door depicting a large female arachnid eating its children. SCP-5223-1 pushes the door open and waves the Subject through. Past the door, the camera pans upwards to reveal a sizeable cavernous space reminiscent of an arena. Lights can be seen shining; however, their source is not readily apparent.\nAs the subject and SCP-5223-1 walk, a soft crunching noise, similar to that of walking on gravel, can be heard through the camera's onboard microphone. AS the subject moves closer to the center of the arena, the soft crunching begins to sound closer to a person trudging through water; though, the subject and SCP-5223-1 remain seemingly unaware of the growing noise.\nA large whooshing can be heard, and the camera spins to face a massive, moving wave of what appears to a writhing, jet black liquid. The subject screams, and black mass envelopes the camera. The black mass fades, and the light of the arena comes into view. SCP-5223-1, standing over the subject, who seems to be curled up on the floor, extends his hand and aids the subject in standing; the arena comes back into view, and SCP-5223-1 can be seen brushing black flecks from his arms.\nSCP-5223-1: Oh uh, you got some of those spiders on ya too.\nThe subject's arms come into view, and hundreds of spiders(Eratigena atrica) can be seen writhing around. The subject yelps and brushes off her arms; the camera begins to shake violently, and the subject can be heard crying. SCP-5223-1 points behind the subject as another wave of spiders flows into the arena. A door materializes at the far end of the arena, and SCP-5223-1 begins to run towards it. The subject begins to trudge through the large mass of live spiders now littering the floor; the second wave of spiders collides with the subject, and she falls.\nSCP-5223-1: Come on, let's go!\nSCP-5223-1 picks up the subject and rushes through the recently materialized door and out into another stone corridor. SCP-5223-1 and the subject begin to laugh hysterically. The subject grabs one of the spiders and holds it up. The spider is now immobile and seemingly made of a plastic-like substance.\nSubject: Holy shit, were these always made of plastic?\nSCP-5223-1: Nope, the fears are only real until inside of those rooms. Out here, they can't hurt you.\nSubject: Well, I guess that wasn't so bad.\nSCP-5223-1: Facing your fears is almost never as bad as you expect it to be; besides, that was a light pitch. Those were the small spiders!\n<SCP-5223-1 laughs.>\nD-52231 grimaces and starts down the corridor. The walls in this corridor are barren; although, a few carvings depicting clouds are scattered around. Approaching another door, a carving depicting Icarus and Daedalus bearing wax wings flying through a thicker patch of clouds.\nSCP-5223-1: I've seen this one. Afraid of heights are ya?\nSCP-5223-1 raises two fingers as if to gesture \u201c2\u201d before opening the door as SCP-5223-1 opens it; SCP-5223-1 then proceeds to push the subject through the door, which leads to a high rise city-scape that appears to stretch on indefinitely. Immediately after being pushed through the door, the subject falls a great distance downwards, and, as she spirals through the air, SCP-5223-1 can be seen stepping off of the precipice himself. The subject and SCP-5223-1 fall for approximately a half an hour, during which time SCP-5223-1 catches up to the subject and points downward at a faint brown object embedded in the asphalt street below them.\nAs they approach the street, a brown wooden door comes into view and opens outward. SCP-5223-1 and the subject fall through the door and out into another open sky; though, the city-scape that had once appeared to go on forever is no longer visible. Instead, a field boarded by streets lined with street lights of a typical American suburb can be seen. SCP-5223-1 swing into view and can be seen wearing a black parachute. He gestures to a strap on his chute and pulls it, prompting the subject to do the same.\nUpon reaching the ground, the subject becomes enraged, confronting SCP-5223-1.\nSubject: You. You Pushed me!\nSCP-5223-1: Would you have jumped if I didn't?\nSubject: No, what if that had killed me!\nSCP-5223-1: Kim, do you really think that I would push you over some unknown edge?\nSubject: Hey, I'd never even met you before today!\nSCP-5223-1: Relax, I knew you'd be OK. Those carvings on the walls, they are markers for the fears behind each door. I had seen that one before, so I knew how to get through it; the last guy, he wasn't so lucky.\nSubject: How did you know you weren't making a mistake?\nSCP-5223-1: I've made very few mistakes in my life, Kim. The more you dwell on the possibility of mistakes, the more you end up making. By the way, only two fears? That's pretty impressive.\nSCP-5223-1 and the subject walk through the field to SCP-5223(now parked on a nearby side street), and the subject enters.\nSCP-5223-1: OK, do you want me to drop you off anywhere or just back in my chamber?\nSubject: You can just drop me off anywhere?\nSCP-5223-1: Yea, of course. Oh wait, we wouldn't want them listening in, would we?\nSCP-5223-1 then switches off the subjects body camera\n\nAfterword: SCP-5223-1 returns to Foundation Site-\u2588\u2588. The subject's Body camera is recovered from SCP-5223-1 by head SCP-5223 researcher, Dr. Baker. SCP-5223-1 is verbally warned about releasing D-Class test subjects to anywhere except Foundation owned and operated testing locations. D-52231 is yet to be located.\n\nTest B\nSubject: D-52232\nName: Rylee\nPhobia(s): Interpersonal socialization(especially with females), snakes, heights\nProcedure:\n\nThe test begins as typical of an SCP-5223 event: subject approaches SCP-5223, is lured in, and SCP-5223-1 begins a conversation. However, atypical of a standard SCP-5223 event, SCP-5223 does not teleport as usual; instead, SCP-5223 is seen to disappear and then immediately reappear approximately half of a meter from its previous position.\nLead lining of current containment chamber is believed, by on-site testing staff, to have hampered SCP-5223's ability to teleport. However, this hampering effect does not seem consistent yet has been amended to SCP-5223's containment procedures.\nSCP-5223-1 remarks that this change is \"weird,\" and the test continues as normal; SCP-5223's pocket dimension opens, and the subject and SCP-5223-1 both enter into a large stone corridor.\nSubject: Woah! This is beautiful.\nCamera pans to view various carvings. The subject rushes to one of the carvings.\nSubject: Oh my God, this is Cronus, right? I've always loved mythology. I used to read all sorts of these stories when I was a kid!\nSCP-5223-1: Yeah, my daughter used to love 'em too; I mean, her love for mythology was unmatched, don't think anyone else knew as much as 'er. All she asked for her birthday, Christmas, and whatever else were more and more mythology books. Every year, I took her on a special trip to go see some of the great sights she'd read about in her book: Rome, Greece, Egypt, honestly more than I can remember, and everywhere we she would take pictures of carvings she saw. I think that's why they exist here now. Could just be a coincidence.\nSubject, now seemingly uninterested in SCP-5223-1, proceeds to rush from wall to wall describing various scenes of ancient Greek, Roman, and Nordic mythology; this continues for well over one hour until SCP-5223-1 is able to convince the subject to continue further down the corridor.\nSubject and SCP-5223-1 approach a wooden door, bearing a carving of the goddess Aphrodite. The subject enters and is greeted by a large group of women. The women begin to obsessively faun over the subject. D-52232 shrugs off a few of the women and continue toward the door at the opposite end of the room; however, before the subject can exit the room, a crowd of women subdues him. After this, they proceed to offer him his freedom playfully should he complete a list of specific sexual acts.\nD-52232 reluctantly agrees, and after being freed by the women, collapses next to the exit.\nSCP-5223-1: Well, that wasn't so bad now, was it.\nSCP-5223-1 helps the subject to his feet and places a hand on his shoulder.\nSCP-5223-1: That was a good show.\n<SCP-5223-1 laughs heartily>\nSubject: I'd rather not talk about it honestly.\nSCP-5223-1 continues laughing and walks through a door, out into another stone corridor, and out of sight.\nSCP-5223-1: Come on now, you aren't the first guy to be scared of talking to girls; I've had more than a few come through here; although, I don't think any of them had nearly as many ladies as you did.\nDue to the similarity to previous tests, the remainder of this test has been omitted, and only brief mention of the phobias therein contained will be given\nSimilar to test A, the subject conquered a fear of snakes in an arena similar to that experienced by D-52232\nAgain similar to test A, The subject was asked to jump from a height to the ground bellow only to fall through a door and land in the same field as described in test A.\nSCP-5223-1 then releases test subject D-52232 in a manner similar to that of test A.\n\nAfterword: SCP-5223-1 has been threatened with harsh punishment should he release another D-Class test subject to anywhere other than Foundation owned properties. Site head \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 recommends that personnel assigned to SCP-5223 should \"Just make the damned body cameras harder to turn off!\"\n\nTest 23\nSubject: D-522323\nName: James\nPhobia(s): D-522323 has no discernible phobias\nNote: Subject has been briefed on every aspect of SCP-5223's known capabilities and has been informed, in an attempt to dissuade SCP-5223-1 from releasing more subjects, that if he is to take SCP-5223-1's offer of release from Foundation custody, SCP-5223-1 will attempt to kill the subject.\nProcedure:\n\nThe subject is instructed to approach SCP-5223. The driver side window is lowered; SCP-5223-1 is visible inside the vehicle\nSCP-5223-1: Come on, sit. I'm sure they gave you a rundown of the procedure beforehand, so we can skip some of that. Have you ever been to Detroit?\nSubject: Sir, I lived in Detroit for most of my life\nSCP-5223-1: Good!\nSCP-5223-1 hits a button, and the view through the windshield changes to that of a nondescript alley in Detroit.\nSubject: Oh, that's pretty cool man!\nSCP-5223-1: It was the truck. You aren't more freaked out about being teleported halfway across the country in a pickup truck?\nSubject: Freaked out? That was sick as hell! They said you'd be able to do some cool shit but\u2026 damn! Oh, hey <D-522323 reaches over and shakes SCP-5223-1's hand>, I'm James, but you can call me fearless.\nSCP-5223-1: I'll call you James.\nSCP-5223-1 laughs, and both he and the subject sit in silence for a moment.\nSCP-5223-1: Everyone is afraid of something, you know.\nSubject: No man, really, I'm not scared of nothing.\n\nSCP-5223-1: Oh, then why are you here?\nSubject: I dunno. Maybe Dr. Baker saw something in me.\nSCP-5223-1: Right well, let's get going.\nSCP-5223-1 taps on the dashboard twice but does not make any attempt to push any buttons or twist any dials present on the dashboard. The view through the passenger side of the truck changes, and the subject and SCP-5223-1 both step out into SCP-5223's pocket dimension.\nSubject follows SCP-5223-1 down the straight stone corridor first explored in tests A and B and eventually arrives at a large marble door bearing a carving of the Roman god Pluto.\nSCP-5223-1: Oh no\u2026 no no no no no no!\nSCP-5223-1 appears flushed and begins to pace in a tight circle, glancing at the subject periodically.\nAfter a period, SCP-5223-1 looks the subject in the eyes with a blank stare. Tears distort his eyes as if he were wearing contact lenses or glasses.\nSCP-5223-1: I'm so sorry.\nSCP-5223-1 is seen to embrace the subject before turning and slamming his fists into the stone door.\nSCP-5223-1: GODDAMN you, you piece of shit! First, you take Sammy from me. Then, you lure me into this hell hole with the promise of helping people! Oh, yea, I can help some people, sure, but the rest? The rest just have to fucking die!\nSCP-5223-1 proceeds to strike the door with his fists until both are stained brown with blood.\nSubject: What do you mean die, Mr. Joseph?\nSCP-5223-1: You should have been honest with me! You could have just told me you were scared of dying and avoided all this! You see that carving? That is Pluto, the god of death.\nSCP-5223-1 sits resting his back on the wall adjacent to the door and pulls his knees to his chin.\nSubject: So, how do I beat him? The other doors all have some trick, don't they?\nSCP-5223-1, still crying, looks up at the subject.\nSCP-5223-1: He\u2026 doesn't have some trick. No one can conquer death.\nSubject opens the door with great strain; at which time, the image from the camera suddenly fades to black. The audio from the subject's onboard comms unit still receives audio.\nSlamming of the large stone door.\nSubject: What was that?\nSCP-5223-1 remains silent.\nSubject: W-what if we just went back to the truck? We could just leave the way we came in right?\nSCP-5223-1: It doesn't work like that. You can't outrun death.\nThe crunching of what sounds like bone rings out through the corridor. The audio feed cuts out.\n\nAfterword: Upon returning to the Foundation Site-\u2588\u2588, SCP-5223-1 does not immediately exit SCP-5223; instead, he waits until Dr. Baker enters the containment chamber for the post test interviewing process, exits the vehicle, and places D-522323's body camera and comms unit in Dr. Baker's open hand. Both were soaked in blood.\n\nTest 27\nSubject: D-522327\nName: Sarah\nForeword: Subject D-522327 has been chosen specifically for this test due to her schizophrenia. While the subject is medicated, she often refuses to speak. When questioned, the subject declined to disclose her phobias.\nProcedure:\n\nSubject approaches SCP-5223 as in all previous tests, enters the vehicle, and begins conversing with SCP-5223-1. The view from the right side of the cab of the vehicle changes, and SCP-5223-1 and the subject step out into SCP-5223's pocket dimension.\nRather than the typical straight, stone corridor seen in previous tests, SCP-5223's pocket dimension takes the appearance of a stone chamber surrounded by many hallways bearing illegible, though seemingly non-random scrawlings drawn in black paint.\nSubject: What's going on?\nD-522327 takes a few steps toward SCP-5223-1. SCP-5223-1 looks around for a moment before responding.\nSCP-5223-1: I have no idea\nThough SCP-5223-1 appears visibly distraught, he smiles briefly and starts down one of the stone passageways. Wooden, stone, and metal doors of various sizes and shapes line both walls. SCP-5223-1 brushes his hand along the rightmost wall, trying to open particular doors as he walks.\nSubject: Joseph?\nSCP-5223-1: What's up kid?\nSubject: What are you looking for?\nSCP-5223-1: I am looking for-\n<SCP-5223-1 reaches for a door and struggles with it for a minute before continuing>\nSCP-5223-1: I'm looking for something out of the ordinary. Usually, the alien dimension is pretty straight forward. This- this isn't. I haven't seen anything like this before.\nSubject: Oh.\nSCP-5223-1 and D-522327 continue down the halfway for another hour in silence before reaching the end of the hallway, which terminates at a brass door. The space above the door is characterized by a massive black marking not representative of any image or character currently identifiable.\nSCP-5223-1: Get ready.\n<Subject remains silent and takes a step toward the door, resting her hand on the brass>\nSCP-5223-1: Right then, here we go.\n<SCP-5223-1 pushes open the door with great effort.>\nSCP-5223-1: What\u2026?\nRather than opening out into a room, the door opens into another, similar-looking hallway. D-522327 rushes past SCP-5223-1 and into the now revealed hallway. A similar stone corridor stretches in two directions.\nSubject: Maybe we should go back?\nSCP-5223-1: Where?\nSubject: Back to the car! Let's get out of here!\nSCP-5223-1: <laughs> No, it doesn't work like that. She can't teleport from inside of here once we get out of the truck. Also, it is a truck\u2026 not a car. Come on.\nSCP-5223-1 starts down a hallway, and D-522327 follows. They continue to walk for about an hour before reaching another break in the corridor. A hallway, resembling that of a Victorian-era house, stretches on in directions perpendicular to the current hallway.\nSCP-5223-1: This is.. new.\nSubject: New?\nSCP-5223-1: Yeah, <SCP-5223-1 chuckles>, I'm kinda freaking the fuck out. <SCP-5223-1 paces for a moment> You know what, let's find a place to rest up for a minute.\nSCP-5223-1 walks down the hallway and turns into an open door disappearing from sight. D-522327 follows and finds him slumped over in an armchair, breathing heavily.\nSCP-5223-1: I'm getting too old for this, honestly.\nD-522327 looks around for a moment.\nSubject: Joseph?\nSCP-5223-1: Yea kid?\nSubject: If you die, what happens to me? Would I be stuck in here?\n<SCP-5223-1 laughs>\nSCP-5223-1: I've been alive for more than 150 years! You think walking around for a few hours is going to put me under? <Laughs> I'm not really sure what would happen. Maybe you'd take over driving the truck? Though, there's a good chance you would just die here without me: Some of this stuff can be pretty dangerous.\n<SCP-5223-1 remains silent for a moment while waiting for D-522327 to respond.>\nSCP-5223-1: You don't talk much, do you? Well, whatever, it seems like we might be here for a good long while, so I was thinking we should hang around and look for a place to rest up.\nSubject: Sounds good.\nSCP-5223-1: Oh, hey, turn off your camera. Save the battery.\nSCP-5223-1 and D-522327 struggle with the camera for a few minutes before it suddenly switches off.\n\nA journal recovered by Dr.Baker after the test, which appears to be handwritten by D-522327, details events not shown on camera.\nD-522327 Log:\n\nWe looked around for a while after Joseph turned off my camera, and most of this place is pretty nice. Besides the odd cobweb, the house, hallway thing seems oddly\u2026 lived in. I guess it's better than the stone hallways. I mean, the wood furnishings are really pretty, and there is a comfortable lack of crazed writing on the walls(honestly, are drunk art students just running around?). Anyway, while we were walking around, Joseph found this notebook on a desk and said I should take it.\nIt has been about 4 hours since I took the time to write anything in my notebook. Since then, we found a couple of bedrooms, a bathroom, and even a stocked kitchen! Eventually, we found a kinda open, living room\u2026 room. Whatever, the point is that the place has a weird couch bed thing and a fireplace. So yea, warm and sleep. Joseph \"let me\" have the couch, and he managed to scoot a bed over from the next room to be closer to the fire.\nAfter living in and out of care facilities and then being put under Foundation custody, managing to fall asleep in such a strange place wasn't difficult. At least it wasn't as difficult as Joseph made it out to be. Oh and, we talked for an hour or two after \"dinner\"(really, we just snagged some pretzels from the kitchen). He thinks this place is some sort of maze, which I guess makes sense, but it still freaks me out. The way he said it to was just\u2026 dark. You can hear his age when he talks: he's like an ancient wizard from a fantasy novel.\nEvery word he says has this gravity to it.\nIt's as if he's seen and experienced everything there is to see and experience.\nThere is something else in the house with us.\n\nVideo Log:\n\nSubject: Joseph, wake up. I heard something!\nSCP-5223-1 does not respond. A clatter can be heard, and D-522327 moves to investigate.\nSubject: Hello?\nSubject: who's there?\nThe room is empty except for a single bed. A faint female scream can be heard from behind the subject. D-522327 screams and darts into and down the hallway.\nSubject: Joseph! Help, please!\nThe subject's pace and breath quicken as what look like hands encased in a shadowy fog reach out from various doorways around the subject. Eventually, a bright light appears in front of D-522327 further down a hallway. The subject moves toward the light and runs out into another stone corridor.\nJoseph: Hey Sarah, where did you run off to?\nSCP-5223-1 stands under a doorway a few meters ahead of the subject.\n\nSubject: There was\u2026 there\u2026 something was following me through the house, and I ran, but it followed me, and I-\nSCP-5223-1: Hey hey, you'll be fine. Just calm down a little and tell me what happened\nSCP-5223-1 turns off D-522327's camera.\n\nD-522327 Log:\n\nI guess I was pretty shaken up from that\u2026 thing following me around in the house place. I mean, who wouldn't be? Anyways, it's been like a month or two(night doesn't happen here, so yea) since We came to this place, and we haven't made much more progress. Well, we have gotten in a lot of walking, but as far as actually getting out of here, no dice. It's not like nothing's been happening either. I just kinda forgot to write. I guess I can go over some of the more notable things that have happened.\nWe never did find the house(hallway house thing? I dunno what to call it) again. We also haven't found much more food. Every now and again, we would find a door(a small one, not one of the big important looking ones) unlocked. Usually, those doors would be kinda boring; empty hospital rooms, vacant classrooms, we even found a chicken coup once(the chickens were cute as hell). Sometimes though, we would find like a kitchen or dining room with food(once every few days or so).\nThen, Joseph hurt his leg. Not fun. He complained for days, and he walks with a bit of a limp now, but he's still kicking. Right, so how'd he get hurt? Well, we were walking down the same hallway we have been for a few months, and he\u2026 uh\u2026 he tripped. Yea, it's been boring as shit, but hey, I LEARNED HOW TO MAKE FIRE!!!! Like, with my bare hands. That's about it from me. If anything else important happens, I might remember to write it down.\nFound door, camera on.\n\nVideo Log:\n\nD-522327 stands in front of a large wooden doorway with brass handles. Above the doorway, a portrait, identical in every way to the subject and painted in black paint, can be seen.\nSCP-5223-1: Oh, finally.\nSubject: Door, door, door, door, door, door do-\nSCP-5223-1: You ok?\nSubject: Yea, <pauses> I'm just excited.\nThe subject continues, in the same cadence, to repeat the word \"door\" under her breath as SCP-5223-1 swings open the door. Both enter into the room, which is pitch black, and the door closes behind them.\nSCP-5223-1: It's dark.\nSubject: Yea.\nAn audible whisper can be heard behind the subject\nAn unidentified voice whispers D-522327's name.\nSubject: Yea Joseph, what's up?\nSCP-5223-1: Hmm? I didn't say anything.\nSCP-5223-1 screams, and an overhead floodlight snaps on. A light mist fills the space around the subject. SCP-5223-1 cannot be seen.\nSubject: Joseph, where'd you go? Joseph!\nwhisper: Hey, over here!\nD-522327 spins to find an entity(referred to as Entity for the remainder of the transcription) identical in appearance to the subject emerging from the mist.\nEntity: What's up cool cat!\nThe entity's voice does not appear to emanate from the entity; rather, the entity seems to be speaking from behind the subject.\nSubject: Uh, hi? Are you me?\nEntity: Well, ya. Who else would I be?\nSubject: I don't know what I was expecting, but I definitely wasn't expecting-\nEntity: Do you remember when we attacked that girl at Chicago Lakeshore? <laughs>\nSubject: Yes, I remember. W-why are you bringing that up? Who the fuck are you!\nEntity: It was so fun.\nSubject: It was awful! You know as well as I do that's not who I really am! I was off my medication, that's all.\nEntity: Oh come on, are you just you when you are on the meds? You wouldn't have medication in the wild. <laughs>\nD-522327 breaths out calmly.\nEntity: We tackled her. And then, we beat her until she cried. Do you remember when we ripped off her fingernails, and she screamed! The guard tried to pull us off her, but we just kept hitting her and pulling out her hair. Then WE BROKE HER ARM!\nSubject: Stop it.\nEntity: Her arm broke so easily. Honestly, it was kinda disappointing.\nSubject: I said stop it.\nEntity: The guard eventually did his job, but even in his arms, we never stopped kicking. Do you think\u2026 we would have killed that poor little bitch if the guard hadn't shown up?\nSubject: She wasn't a bitch. She was the victim!\nEntity: Our victim!\nSubject: You know what-!\nSubject takes a moment to calm herself.\nSubject: I'm leaving to go find Joseph.\nEntity: Oh oh oh, don't go so soon.\nD-522327 turns away from the Entity and begins to walk away.\nEntity: I know where Joseph is!\nA light snaps on in front of D-522327 illuminating SCP-5223-1, who is bound on his knees.\nEntity: See? I told you! Would I lie to you?\nSubject: Who are you! What the hell did you do with him! Joseph, get up!\nSCP-5223-1 looks up at the subject. He appears to be terrified.\nEntity: I've been torturing him. <laughs>\nSubject: You, I'll kill you!\nSubject turns to face the Entity; though, it does not appear to be visible.\nSubject: Where did you go?\nEntity: It doesn't matter\nSubject: It, uh.\nEntity: I'm gonna go bash in Joseph's teeth now, and you're going to watch me.\nSubject: I'm gonna go bash in Joseph's teeth now.\nSubject moves toward SCP-5223-1 aggressively and knees SCP-5223-1 in the face.\nSCP-5223-1: <groans in pain> Kid, I don't know what in the flying fuck is going on, but you better stop!\nSCP-5223-1 spits a mixture of blood and teeth onto the floor in front of D-522327\nEntity: He doesn't need eyes, does he?\nSubject: You don't need eyes.\nD-522327 proceeds to plant one thumb in each of SCP-5223-1's eyes and gouge them out. SCP-5223-1 screams in pain. Blood drips from both eye sockets, and he looks up at the subject in fear.\nSCP-5223-1: Help me! Fuck, Help me! Let me out! Sammy, I'm so sorry. I just wanted to help people! I don't want to die here.\nEntity: I wonder what the inside of his stomach looks like?\nD-522327 then pulls a knife from an unknown location and guts SCP-5223-1, who screams for a while before bleeding out. The lights fade. The only sound that can be heard is the light breathing for the subject.\n\nD-522327 Log:\n\nRight so, I passed out. Joseph thinks that I was probably just dehydrated, but it's still a little weird that it happened right before a big door. Oh yea, the door didn't have anything behind it either, so that was pretty boring, but I guess no different than anything else we've seen.\nYou know, you get used to body odor after a while. I had always wondered how people dealt with it before deodorant. Guess they just got used to it. I do still think that it's a weird choice of Joseph's truck to offer us food, but not a nice shower. I mean, it's been months, and we haven't seen anything even remotely close to a bathroom(well, kitchens, but those don't really count).\n\nVideo Log:\n\nD-522327's camera starts and records for approximately one hour while SCP-5223-1 and the subject walk in silence before SCP-5223-1 speaks.\nSCP-5223-1: Kid, I've been thinking.\nSubject: Yea Joseph, what's up?\nSCP-5223-1: I really miss cheeseburgers.\nSubject: Hey, it's your car. If you want a cheeseburger, make it happen.\nSCP-5223-1: <laughs> It may be my truck, but it's your mind.\nSubject: I guess, Is that really how this place works?\nSCP-5223-1: I'm not one-hundred percent on it, but that does seem to be the theme. The fears here always reflect the people who come here. I guess the rest of the place might reflect the person as well.\nSubject: Oh.\nSCP-5223-1: You must be pretty messed up.\nSCP-5223-1 stops walking and turns to face the subject.\nSCP-5223-1: Alright, time to come clean, kid. What's your damage.\nSCP-5223-1 flashes a smile, turns, and continues to walk.\nSubject: Nothing really, not anymore anyway. I got diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was a kid, but after medication and treatment, I was fine.\nSCP-5223-1: Woah, what's that like?\nSubject: Uh, I'd rather not talk about it if that's fine with you.\nSCP-5223-1: Sure, I guess. Hey, we should think about getting a camp set up, maybe start a fire? I'm pretty wiped.\nSubject: Sounds good, Joseph.\nSCP-5223-1 and D-522327 continue down the corridor for a few more minutes before rounding a corner. Both start to try doors at random until one opens.\nSubject: Haha, I win! Joseph, we got a door over here.\nSCP-5223-1: Good job, kid.\nThe subject enters a large classroom. Bookbags and overturned chairs lie scattered on the floor. SCP-5223-1 begins to rummage through bags.\nSubject: So, what's with solving peoples' fears? Seems a little weird to me.\nSCP-5223-1: You know, I was thinking about that earlier too. You reading my mind or something?\nSubject: Great minds think alike. have you found anything?\nSCP-5223-1: Here!\nSCP-5223-1 pulls a small package of candy out of a bag and tosses it to the subject, who catches it and sits in at a desk.\nSCP-5223-1: You really want to hear the story?\nSubject: I- story? I thought maybe this place was a manifestation of- well, whatever. If you've got a story, you might as well share it.\nSCP-5223-1: Ok now, don't tell Dr.Baker I said this. She hasn't even heard this story before. My truck didn't always use to be this cool <laughs>. My daughter, Sammy, and I used to travel a lot. We were in Scotland; at this time, I didn't actually own a car; and this old guy comes up to me and offers me an old Chevy from the war in exchange for lunch and a good story. It was a bit of a beater, and it took about three months to even get the thing to start, but I did it.\nSubject: So a guy you didn't know just gave you a magical truck?\nSCP-5223-1: It wasn't magical when I bought it, and we'll get to the \"magical\" part later on! When we got back to America, I found my wife with another man. I left her there and then, moved out west a ways(not too far, it would have been mean to keep Sammy away from her mom), and started a new life. For the next few months, me and Sammy worked on that truck, put everything we had into it. I remember the only things she'd loved to do was play soccer, explorer, and work on the truck.\nWell, we got the truck up and running. And then about a month later, I got a call from the courts. My ex-wife wanted full custody of Sammy. There wasn't much I could do about it because the women do tend to make out like bandits on these kinds of things, but I still got to see Sammy every other weekend.\nSubject: Joseph, that's awf-\nSCP-5223-1: Yea, I thought it sucked dick too. That's why I started drinking.\nSCP-5223-1 breathes out heavily.\nSCP-5223-1: Oh right, I started gambling too. Honestly, it got pretty scary at times. I stopped being to tell where I was or what day it was. The only thing I could think about was when I'd get to Sammy next. I mean, she was my whole world. Every other weekend I'd get to drive Sammy to and from soccer practice. Well, um, it made me feel better, but that didn't stop the drinking.\nOne weekend, I was driving Sammy to practice. I was pretty drunk. A car flew out of a side street and T-boned us. Sammy uh she\nSCP-5223-1 becomes choked up.\nSCP-5223-1: Well, she didn't make it. She died at the hospital later that evening. I got put in jail for a few days, and the rest of my life just fell to pieces. I was listless, spent most of my days sleeping.\nSubject: Joseph, I-I don't know what to say.\nSCP-5223-1 stares contemplatively into the darkness for a while before continuing.\nSCP-5223-1: At this point, I was flat broke, no money for booze, to scared to kill myself, and I really needed a reason to keep ongoing. I didn't have anywhere to go, no job, so I thought, \"Hey, I should go see what work I can get done on that old truck, maybe sell it for scrap.\" I went out to the garage, it was in shambles after the accident, and I don't ever remember really working on it. I just stood around and thought about Sammy. I got so obsessed with looking at the thing, I started sleeping in the garage, and when winter came around, I started sleeping in the truck.\nIt was a few months into sleeping in the truck, and I felt this weird sensation like I was driving. I opened my eyes, and suddenly, Sammy was sitting next to me in the passenger seat of the car. She opened the door and stepped out into a great, stone corridor, much bigger than the one that we were in before. Where, normally, I'd see elaborate stone carvings, there was rubble. Same as everyone else, we walked through the corridor entering rooms. There is only one fear of mine that I never beat: death.\nSubject: Woah.\nSCP-5223-1: Yea. From that moment, I've been inexplicably tethered to this truck and the world inside of it. And hey, I never went back to drinking.<laughs>\nSCP-5223-1 and D-522327 sit for another hour in silence before the camera suddenly shuts off\n\nD-522327 Log:\n\nSorry, Dr. Baker, I haven't written anything in like, I dunno, a few months (maybe a year). Most of this notebook is just filled with the tally of the number of times I've slept (I figure that's about a day's time). Nothing important has happened. I'm just trying not to be boarded. I am getting fucking fit with all this walking, though, so that's pretty sweet.\nIt's been another month. We found a door. Camera on.\n\nVideo Log:\n\nSubject's mother: Sarah! Get up, sweetie. Time for breakfast!\nSubject: Coming mom!\nSubject gets out of bed and runs to the kitchen.\nSubject: Morning. What's breakfast?\nSubject's mother: We are doing leftover cake from last night.\nSubject: Nice.\nD-522327's mother places a plate of cake in front of her along with a fork. The subject begins to eat.\nSubject: This is really good! I haven't eaten anything in a few days, so cake is a nice change of pace.\nSubject's mother: I'm sure that's been rough.\nSubject: Rough?\nSubject's mother: Walking for that long has got to be pretty difficult, especially with no food.\nSubject: I'm conf- mom?\nSubject's mother: Yes?\nSubject: Have you ever felt like something's out of place? Like you have memories that are only half true but at the same time\u2026\nSubject's mother: You have to finish your breakfast, sweetie: school starts soon.\nSubject: You aren't listening to me, are you?\nSubject's mother: Of course I am, but scho-\nSubject: Hold it, have your eyes always been that shade of blue.\nSubject's mother: Would they have changed?\nThe subject grumbles quietly about something indistinguishable. She turns back to the table, on which rests a small metal trash can. The subject opens the can, removes a slice of cake, and proceeds to eat.\nSubject: No, something's definitely different with your eyes, mom. Maybe your contacts change?\nSubject's mother: I didn't change a thing. Speaking of which, did you remember to take your new medication?\nSubject: I don't take any medicine.\nSubject's mother turns toward her. Both of her eyes have now been replaced with a blank patch of flesh.\nSubject's mother: I SAID TAKE YOUR FUCKING MEDICINE SARAH!!\nSubject:<laughs> Probably not, but whatever. I'm going to school now. Oh and, I know you aren't really, so you can cut the shit.\nSubject exits the room through a door to her right and steps out into a stone corridor.\nJoseph: Where have you been? I was so worried!\nSubject: I was in there <points to the door through which she just exited>. I'm not quite sure how I got in there, but I think I beat a fear, so that's cool.\nJoseph: Well, as long as you're safe, that's fine.\nCamera turns off.\n\nD-522327 Log:\n\nWelp, That's my first fear down! Honestly, I thought we'd have seen it sooner, but hey, I can't really complain.\nMaybe it's just because it's been a really long time, but I feel like we've been through a few more doors than I remember. I asked Joseph, but he won't give me a straight answer.\nSomething's up with Joseph. It's been a full week since the last door, and I haven't seen him eat once. He's got to be getting hungry.\nSomething is wrong with Joseph's eyes.\n\nVideo Log:\n\nSCP-5223-1 can be seen sitting in front of a fire. His back is turned to the camera, and he is speaking in tongues.\nSubject: Joseph, I know something's wrong. You haven't been eating, and you look sick.\nSCP-5223-1 does not respond.\nSubject: Come on, you have to tell me if something's wrong!\nSCP-5223-1: Should've\u2026\nSubject: Should've what? Joseph, you're freaking me out. I can't make it through this place without you!\nSCP-5223-1: Should've\u2026 Should've\nThe subject becomes audibly distressed.\nSubject: Is this about Sammy? Y-you can talk to me if something's wrong.\nSCP-5223-1: You should've taken your medicine.\nSubject: What?\nSCP-5223-1 turns toward the subject. Except for a mouth, he has no face. SCP-5223-1 springs from a sitting position and lands on top of D-522327.\nSubject: What are you doing! Joseph, help!\nThe camera flickers suddenly. D-522327 is now standing in a well-lit stone corridor in front of a large stone door.\nSubject: Ah! Wha-?\nSCP-5223-1: What's up?\nSubject: I think I just spaced out.\nSCP-5223-1: The stress getting to you or something? It's just a door.\nDisregarding SCP-5223-1, the subject pushes open the door.\nSubject: You know, these doors are getting pretty annoying.\nSCP-5223-1: Nothing behind this one either? Shame. Well, whatever. Shut off the camera.\nCamera turns off.\n\nD-522327 Log:\n\nIt's been a few more weeks. This might sound crazy, but I don't think that Joseph attacking me was in my head. I was looking through the notebook, and I found notes about Joseph acting weird in my handwriting. I don't remember writing them.\nIf that was really and I somehow just didn't realize does that mean that I killed Joseph? I don't want to think about it. I guess if it didn't happen, you wouldn't get the footage. Can I check the footage? I don't want to mess it up. Dr. Baker, if you could get us out of here, that'd be nice. I want to leave now.\nIt's been months. Joseph and I don't talk much anymore. I don't think we need to. It's almost like I can read his mind, and he can read mine. I think I really would have died in here without him.\nAnyway, we found another door.\n\nVideo Log:\n\nSCP-5223-1: Fourth times a charm.\nSubject: That was a weak joke.\nSCP-5223-1: Ok, smartass.\nSCP-5223-1 laughs and assures D-522327 that he is joking. Both stand around for a moment as if to mentally prepare for opening the door.\nSCP-5223-1: That's enough standing around. <sighs>\nD-522327 opens the door and steps out into a large open room\nSubject: Finally, a thing that isn't a hallway.\nThe subject walks forward a few steps.\nSubject: Hey. Joseph?\nD-522327 turns around. As she turns, the room fades into blackness.\nSubject: What happened to the room?\nThe subject looks around the now empty space for a few minutes. She attempts to take a step forward without success.\nSubject: Joseph?\nThe camera view shudders and distorts.\nSubject: Hello, Anyone?\nHey, this isn't funny!\nJoseph, I-I can't stand anymore. The floor is gone.\nJoseph?\nJoseph?\nJoseph, please.\nJoseph, don't leave me here.\nThe camera dies.\n\nAfterword: The series of events that take place directly after D-522327's body camera dies is unknown. D-522327 does not write in the recovered notebook after that time. During this test, it appears that SCP-5223 had an effect on the perceived time of both SCP-5223-1 and D-522327. D-522327 experienced Approximately three years in SCP-5223's pocket dimension, while only 30 minutes elapsed for Foundation staff.\nSCP-5223-1 returns to Foundation Site-\u2588\u2588. Rather than returning to its containment chamber, however, SCP-5223-1 uses SCP-5223's teleportation ability to gain access to Dr. Baker's, who was not present at the time of this event, office. SCP-5223-1 then teleports out of the facility and to an, as of yet, unknown location.\nSeveral documents are missing from Dr. Baker's office, including D-522327's medical file and files regarding the investigations into the whereabouts of many D-class test subjects release by SCP-5223-1 from Site-\u2588\u2588.D-522327's body camera and notebook are found sitting on what is left of Dr. Baker's desk. A sheet of ruled paper(presumably torn from D-522327's notebook) is resting on top of the notebook. On the paper is scrawled a note: \"I would never leave her.\"\nSCP-5223 is yet to be located. The creation of one Mobile Task Force Aleph-0(A unit explicitly designed for the capture and subsequent recapture of SCP-5223) is pending approval. Until Aleph-0's approval, Foundation field operatives are to conduct individual investigations at their leisure should they have reason to suspect that SCP-5223 is within their jurisdiction. Likewise, this document is to be updated upon Aleph-0's approval.\n\nFootnotes\n1. At this time, it is not fully understood where or how SCP-5223 ascertains the phobias of those it encounters.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5222 | SCP-5223 | SCP-5224 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5224\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5224\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5224 is held in a waterless terrarium otherwise suited for amphibians. SCP-5224 is never to come within 100 meters of water.\nFrogs created by SCP-5224 must be terminated and disposed of per standard biological waste disposal methods.\nDescription: SCP-5224 is a female marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus). It does not experience senescence, and it does not need to eat, drink or breathe.\nIf SCP-5224 croaks within 100 meters from a body of water, it will start to go through eutrophication,1 and additional members of the order Anura2 will begin to manifest within it. Said frogs will always be native to the area, and the rate of frogs produced is 5000 per 1 cubic meter per second. This will continue until SCP-5224 stops croaking.\nAfter manifestation, produced frogs will instantly head towards the nearest site of plant agriculture. Upon arrival, they will begin to consume insect life at a rate that is highly damaging to the ecological balance of the region. Aside from this and their method of creation, produced frogs are non-anomalous.\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5224.1 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nIncident Report 5224.1: On 29/01/21, a peregrine falcon holding a clay pot materialized in SCP-5224's containment chamber. It dropped the pot, grabbed SCP-5224, and disappeared.\nUpon inspection, carvings on the pot were found to contain a message written in hieroglyphic script:\n\nApologies for any problems my wife might have caused. Sent our son to fetch her. She's been a little confused ever since the days of Babylon when she became associated with plagues instead of fertility and crops.\nIf y'all could stop changing our domains, that'd be appreciated.\nWith love, Khnum.\n\nInvestigation into the whereabouts of SCP-5224 is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A process in which excessive growth of algae in water is caused by overt amounts of minerals and nutrients.\n2. Frogs.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5223 | SCP-5224 | SCP-5225 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The Abyss Stares Back\nWritten by: XilasCrowe and Deadly Bread\nWherein, indeed\n\n[{$authorPage} \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nWritten by: XilasCrowe and Deadly Bread\n\nMore from this axolotl\n\nLess from this axolotl\n\nStuff I did\n\nSCP-3529\nComments: 35\n\nSCP-4332\nComments: 27\n\nSCP-4663\nComments: 13\n\nSCP-3684\nComments: 29\n\nSCP-1143\nComments: 23\n\nSCP-2454\nComments: 10\n\nChanges All That Is Around Me\nComments: 7\n\nSCP-5588\nComments: 6\n\nDon't Forget The Dead\nComments: 3\n\nMore from this Loaf\n\nLess from this Loaf\n\nOther Articles of Mine\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4966\n\nSCP-1401-EX\n\nSCP-4052\n\nSCP-4088\n\nSCP-5522\n\nSCP-4109\n\nSCP-7441\n\nSCP-5020\n\nSCP-4286\n\nSCP-4035\n\nSCP-4664\n\nSCP-4270\n\nSCP-3462\n\nSCP-6663\n\nSCP-7966\n\nSCP-4570\n\nSCP-6633\n\nSCP-5693\n\nSCP-5261\n\nSCP-444-J\n\npage 1 of 212next \u00bb\n\nOther\n\nThe Bread Box\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27\n\nSCP-005 Proposal Hub\n\nExperiment Log-4035\n\nCollab Articles\n\nSCPs\n\nPage\nTitle\nCo-Author\n\nSCP-5993\nWe want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\nch00bakka\n\nSCP-5785\nCraptivism\nSonderance\n\nSCP-5225\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nXilasCrowe\n\nSCP-4733\nBut Not Forgotten\nLamentte\n\nTales\n\nPage\nCo-Author\n\nSnippets of an Unveiled World\nNykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin\n\nGone,\nLamentte\n\nCheck out Deadly Bread's Author Page\n\ni have no idea\nCredits to TheBlueHour does not match any existing user name, not-a-seagull does not match any existing user name, Nameless Mediocre, LiterallyMechanical\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nheader.png was modeled by Xilas and then edited by Bread.\nelevator.png can be found here and is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Edits made by Bread.\nmilitary.png can be found here and has been released into the public domain.\n\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 4/5225 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n\u25ba INPUT LEVEL 4/5225 SECURITY CREDENTIALS \u25c4\n\n\u25bc DECRYPTION KEY ACCEPTED. WELCOME RESEARCHER \u25bc\n\nItem#: 5225\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nStructure formed during a 5225/Obelisk-Event, prior to the Anchor's neutralization.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As SCP-5225 is organically self-contained, no additional containment procedures are necessary.\n5225/Obelisk-Events outside of controlled testing are to be halted as quickly as possible. Lethal force is authorized. 5225/Obelisk constructions are to be monitored by a minimum of four memetic surveillance complexes.1 If an SCP-5225-1 construct is able to breach more easily accessible regions of the Noosphere, MTF-Nu-\u03c0 (\"Sphere of Influence\") is to be mobilized to terminate the construct.\nIf any uncontained 5225/Obelisk-Event advances to a 5225/Monolith-Event, Project NEON SILENCE is to be activated. At least three Hyperon-Morpheus Entropy-Subconceptualization Cannons2 are to target the Monolith Anchor and eliminate it. Following the Anchor's removal, MTF-Nu-\u03c0 is to enter the Monolith and trigger a conceptostructural collapse.\nDescription: SCP-5225 is an artistic constructohazard that is biologically self-contained within an organically inaccessible region of the Noosphere. Prior to its discovery and subsequent expansion, SCP-5225 was only accessible to mechanized organisms and experimental artificial intelligence. Since then, SCP-5225 has expanded to approximately 174.8% its original size, resulting in the partial assimilation of sections of the Noosphere pertaining to visual abstraction, conjecture, and metacognition. While SCP-5225 is physically incapable of being accessed by any biological entity under normal circumstances, it can be forcibly breached via experimental paratechnologies.\nOnce an individual or intelligence accesses SCP-5225, they are designated the Anchor of the ensuing 5225/Obelisk-Event. Obelisk-Events occur entirely within the Noosphere, slowly spreading outward from the Anchor. Once in this stage, SCP-5225's influence is capable of spreading through physical, mental, or conceptual proximity to the Anchor. SCP-5225 typically prioritizes the artistic elements of its host, spreading first to nearby concepts and abstractum that more closely resonate with the Anchor's idea of creativity.\nOnce SCP-5225/Obelisk expands beyond the Anchor, it will begin generating a number of structures within Noosphereic space around the Anchor, linking the connections together. Despite existing entirely within the Noosphere, these structures are pseudo-physical, and can be mentally interacted with by those with mental proximity to the Anchor. As time progresses, the Obelisk will spread and grow into a conceptoconstruct roughly resembling a mental city. At this point the Anchor is unable to exit SCP-5225, and is repurposed into a type of mental conception engine, powering the construct. After an Obelisk has infected a certain number of concepts,3 it will undergo a conceptual relativity collapse, and cause a 5225/Monolith-Event. Monolith events are characterized by the sudden breaching of the structures created during the previous 5225/Obelisk-Event into physical reality.\nAs soon as a 5225/Monolith-Event begins, the Anchor's physical form is pulled entirely into the Noosphere. As time passes, the Monolith will expand farther into physical reality, spreading to nearby abstractum rapidly, converting them into additional Sub-Anchors. If this expansion is not obstructed, the Monolith will soon exist within both the Noosphere and reality simultaneously, allowing physical entry to the Noosphere. As this occurs, consensus reality gradually becomes disrupted, no longer adhering to natural laws, but instead following dream-like logic.\nExploration reveals that the structures within the Monolith are typically not geometrically possible, physically manifesting as higher dimensional objects in three, two, and even one dimensional space, as well as creating both negative and anti-dimensional objects and concepts. The materials used within the Monolith are rarely physically existent, instead being composed purely of ideas and abstractions, rendered corporeal.\nAddendum.5225.1: Existing Monolith Constructs.\nAt present there are three uncontainable Monolith in existence, with an additional two being suspended in their initial state within Foundation custody. These 5225/Monolith-Events occurred rapidly, and were either able to evolve to a point where the H/M E-SCCs were unable to neutralize them, or affect concepts that rendered them immune. The H/M E-SCCs were, however, able to sever the Monolith's connections to estranged concepts, rendering them incapable of spreading further. These Monolith have since relocated and continued to grow, sustaining themselves entirely on original concepts and obscuring themselves from traditional observational reality, making additional containment measures unnecessary. Explorations into these Monolith were attempted, but they were unable to be breached.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0394\nAnchor: MARDUK.AIC\nDate of 5225/Obelisk-Event: 04/01/1986\nDate of 5225/Monolith-Event: 04/03/1986\nAffected concepts and abstractum: 42,137\nLocation: Currently within High Earth Orbit. This orbit grows by approximately 2-3% each rotation.\n\nCreation: MARDUK.AIC was originally designed to be a Virtual Intelligence Coordinator, assisting in and developing virtual scenarios for the purposes of training both Mobile Task Forces and future O5s. Part of its duties included theorizing potential K-Class Scenarios and developing appropriate countermeasures. On 03/29/1986, it became infected with an unknown memetic hazard, believed to have been created or accessed as part of these duties. Due to the unknown severity of the hazard, containment efforts were rushed. Improper shutdown procedures paired with the unknown anomaly caused MARDUK.AIC to undergo spontaneous evolution, breaching into SCP-5225 and causing a rapid Obelisk-Event.\nOver the course of the next two hours, the Obelisk rapidly spread to over 5,000 concepts and abstractum, significantly faster than any other known event. Within two days, MARDUK.AIC had undergone conceptual singularic collapse, advancing to a 5225/Monolith-Event. Now designated Monolith-\u0394, it proceeded to lift itself out of the site, taking the majority of the facility and surrounding environment with it. It continued to gain altitude, leaving the atmosphere and advancing into space.\nNotes: SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0394 is spherical in form, with a indeterminate number of smaller spheres orbiting around it, interconnected via a series of shifting helical tunnels. The center sphere is approximately 2,000 kilometers in diameter, with the smaller sphere ranging from .5 to 200 kilometers. These spheres constantly shift around in a massive kinetoglyph, creating a multilayered observational barrier around itself and generating massive amount of internal energy. The area outside the inner sphere is surrounded by a localized, high-intensity cosmic storm, generating a number of interlocking wormholes and micro-singularities.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0398\nAnchor: Unknown\nDate of 5225/Obelisk-Event: N/A\nDate of 5225/Monolith-Event: N/A\nAffected concepts and abstractum: 214,491\nLocation: 82 kilometers under the crust, centered beneath the Yosemite supercaldera.\n\nCreation: Unknown\nNotes: While the origins of SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0398 are unknown, it is hypothesized to have accessed SCP-5225 through extradimensional means. It is the only known biological Monolith in existence, appearing as a formation of tubules and ventricles that cover approximately 74.2% of the Earth's mantle and core. Monolith-\u0398 is in perpetual motion, vibrating at a constant frequency of 172 hertz. SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0398's other physical properties fluctuate constantly, with its state of matter, gravitational pull, spatial perception, and temporal significance regularly shifting. Traces of Monolith-\u0398 have also been confirmed on at least six separate exoplanets, despite an estimated distance of 770 light years between the nearest affected exoplanet and Earth.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5225/Monolith-\u03a8\nAnchor: Estimated 18 members of GOI-004 \"The Church of the Broken God\"\nDate of 5225/Obelisk-Event: N/A\nDate of 5225/Monolith-Event: 08/16/2004\nAffected concepts and abstractum: \u224824,500*18\nLocation: The primary Anchor is currently located at both the North and South magnetic poles.\n\nCreation: While the specifics regarding SCP-5225/Monolith-\u03a8's creation are unconfirmed, it is believed to have been formed during an advanced Mekanite planar communion ritual. A significant number of physically altered Mekanites fused together in a massive array, creating a semi-intelligent hive-mind, which began broadcasting an interplanar energy signal. The intended purpose of this signal is unknown. Immediately following the broadcast, SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0394 created a conceptual link between it and the array of Mekanites, forcing all participants into SCP-5225. During this process, they were fused into a singular, multi-personality hive-mind, increasing the spread of SCP-5225 to nearby concepts and abstractum upwards of 697% faster than SCP-5225's normal infection rate.\nDue to its possession of multiple Anchors, the H/M E-SCCS were unable to effectively neutralize SCP-5225/Monolith-\u03a8. This, paired with SCP-5225/Monolith-\u0394's interference, caused SCP-5225/Monolith-\u03a8 to completely bypass the Obelisk phase of SCP-5225 exposure, expanding exponentially as each Anchor affected new concepts and reinforced their sibling Anchor's hold.\nNotes: SCP-5225/Monolith-\u03a8 resembles two massive clock faces, located at the North and South magnetic poles, each approximately 50 kilometers in diameter and sunk about 2 kilometers into the ground. The majority of the mental constructs are found beneath the clock hands, which spin opposite each other, leveling the buildings with each pass. These hands do not move at the traditional speed of clock hands, but vary between rotation times of .0082 seconds to an estimated 22 million years. Above the clocks hover in excess of 50 billion gears and cogs, all of which have been observed to rotate within at least five dimensions simultaneously. Upon every completed rotation of the clock faces every gear ceases its movement, and falls to the clock face for several minutes, growing an additional tooth before rising back up into the air and resuming its rotation.\n\nAddendum.5225.2: Exploration of SCP-5225\nOn 04/23/2007, an attempted interplanar exploration of SCP-5225 was conducted following the approval of Procedure 5225/Nu-Omicron by the O5 Council. Utilizing newly developed Noospheric Sub-Ego Resonance Cascade technology, a conceptual tear could be channeled through an individual vulnerable to SCP-5225 infection. D-4966, who was an acclaimed pianist known for her classical adaptations prior to her incarceration, was chosen to be the induction catalyst of Procedure Nu-Omicron due to her intimate connection to the musical arts. During this time, D-4966 was monitored by several surveillance meme complexes for potential SCP-5225 infection progression, upon which would trigger the release of a virulent meme within D-4966's brain, preventing further 5225/Obelisk development.\n\nForward: D-4966 was connected to the S-EBRE,4 and placed in the center of a large empty room. Several Type III Ocular Extensions were set up around D-4966, in order to view the Noosphere and determine the optimal point of MTF-Nu-\u03c0 insertion. A number of musical instruments were placed around D-4966 in order to provide easier and more predictable vectors of spread. Various other art supplies were similarly provided.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n00.00.00: The S-EBRE is activated, breaching SCP-5225 and giving D-4966 access. D-4966 is now designated A/Obelisk-Nu.\n00.15.10: Several piano keys are visible hovering in the distance. They appear to depress at a steady rhythm.\n00.44.57: A/Obelisk-Nu accelerates towards the keys, impacting the corner of the nearest key. The left side of A/Obelisk-Nu liquefies upon contact.\n01.30.18: The liquefied organic matter develops tumorous growths resembling trumpet horns. The growths latch onto A/Obelisk-Nu, exsanguinating it before wilting. The trumpets liquefy once more, reforming A/Obelisk-Nu's missing flesh.\n02.11.46: A/Obelisk-Nu plummets downwards, falling through the horn of a clarinet and exiting through the reed and into an elevator. The elevator remains stationary for several minutes while A/Obelisk-Nu lays in the fetal position.\n\nImage recovered from Procedure 5225/Nu-Omicron.\n\n05.34.02: The elevator jolts and begins moving. Throughout the elevator ride, observers report the scent of brass despite a lack of Olfactory Extensions. A/Obelisk-Nu is observed shifting dimensions on four occasions, in addition to completely disappearing for several hours before reappearing.\n11.09.28: The elevator ceases movement. A/Obelisk-Nu passes incorporeally through the doors revealing a large rope bridge constructed of ivory and string extending from the elevator to a distant skyscraper. A sea of molten brass is visible far under the bridge.\n13.29.42: A/Obelisk-Nu steps onto the bridge, the string immediately snapping. A/Obelisk-Nu remains fused to the bridge as it swings towards the skyscraper, impacting the structure. Upon impact, A/Obelisk-Nu detaches from the bridge, falling into a large pile of shattered string instruments. The pile appears to be in the shape of Billy Joel.\n18.52.19: The pile begins speaking to A/Obelisk-Nu, although no sound is audible from the figure. A/Obelisk-Nu then picks up a shattered violin bow, which it uses to completely bisect itself. The Billy Joel caricature appears to laugh.\n26.07.18: The sky above A/Obelisk-Nu bends, then shatters. Millions of piano keys begin to fall from between the cracks. Where these keys make contact with each other they stop in midair, and begin to spiral inwards. As the collections of keys grow they begin to burst into golden flames, which stretch between other collections like a massive spiderweb.\n31.45.19: Two large ivory skyscrapers spout from the bisected regions of A/Obelisk-Nu. The buildings continue to rise unimpaired for several hours before impacting, with both structures toppling 360\u00b0 through the ground and impacting an additional building. The third building swells, then bursts. Liquid glass pours through the now empty windows and climbs into the air, solidifying into fountains of solid glass that tie A/Obelisk-Nu's body back together.\n36.38.42: Thousands of strings manifest in the air around A/Obelisk-Nu, and begin to wrap around it. They begin to cut into its skin, causing massive explosions of molten brass to burst from the cuts. The brass travels down the strings, solidifying them in the air and branching off into flowers, which spiral towards both the ground and sky.\n40.18.26: A/Obelisk-Nu's epidermis becomes yellow in sheen before its tear ducts begin violently spraying molten brass into the surroundings. The molten brass appears to impact previously incorporeal structures, coating them in molten brass and ivory. These structures appear to be mostly interconnected stairways, circular hallways, and fourth-dimensional doorways. It was at this point that surveillance meme complexes attempted to neutralize A/Obelisk-Nu to no effect.\n40.23.51: Several large interlocking halos appear around A/Obelisk-Nu. It waves its arms, and the halos fly in all directions. Where the halos impact surrounding objects they implode, liquifying the surroundings. A/Obelisk-Nu's body contorts and expands, separating at the joints. Appendages are now connected via violin strings, interlocking piano keys, and massive spikes of glowing glass.\n40.30.27: A whirlpool appears in the molten sea beneath A/Obelisk-Nu. From its center begins to emerge a massive skyscraper, with various floors either missing or displaced, both temporally and physically. More skyscrapers emerge from beneath it, growing upwards in a massive spiraling flower.\n\nAt this point the Ocular Extensions being used to view Obelisk-Nu overheated rapidly, and underwent emergency shutdown. The area was evacuated due to concerns of a potential 5225/Monolith-Event, and MTF-Nu-\u03c0 began to prepare for insertion via the NS-ERC in order to terminate A/Obelisk-Nu.\n\nVideo log: Obelisk-Nu termination\nActive MTF: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 (\"Sphere of Influence\")\nParticipating members: -1 (\"Bean\"), -4 (\"Pumpkin\"), -5 (\"Key Lime\"), -7 (\"Cherry\"), -9 (\"Apple\"), -12 (\"Banana\")\nForward: Utilizing the NS-ERC, MTF-Nu-\u03c0 enter the Noosphere around Obelisk-Nu and proceed to locate and terminate the Anchor (A/Obelisk-Nu). Timestamps are continued from the previous log. Traditional audio is unavailable, yet present.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n40.36.04: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 manifest on the outskirts of Obelisk-Nu, atop a floating glass platform. The platform is covered with collections of piano keys, resembling crystalized plant growths. Directly in front of them is the elevator seen in the beginning of the previous log. Above their heads two massive sphere of golden fire expel an unknown liquid.5 MTF-Nu-\u03c0 begin to travel towards the elevator.\n\nImage recovered from \u03c0-4's shoulder-mounted camera.\n\n40.38.45: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 enter the elevator, which closes and begins to descend. Every few seconds, the elevator stops and the walls disappear, revealing a different environment from behind each wall. Each of which contains either a garden, a city, or a mural of space, but are all unique in appearance. In the distance of each environment floats a singular, massive entity, comprised of various amalgamations of instruments and flowers. These entities are motionless, but get visibly closer each time the elevator descends. \u03c0-4 is audible humming \"It's Not Unusual\" by Tom Jones before being reprimanded by \u03c0-1.\n41.58.32: The elevator stops, and MTF-Nu-\u03c0 exits onto a shimmering bridge, which is suspended in the air via hundreds of rigid strings that emerge from the brass sea beneath it. As MTF-Nu-\u03c0 travels down the bridge, the space behind them becomes distorted, with their footprints causing massive regions to be shunted violently in all directions. The elevator folds into itself, then shatters into an indeterminate number of flowering glass shards. The shards float along next to MTF-Nu-\u03c0, apparently escorting them along the bridge.\n42.26.12: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 reaches the end of the bridge, and enter the city. The glass that was following them begins to circle around the bridge rapidly, severing the strings. The bridge peels apart, and collapses upward into an iridescent whirlpool that appears in the sky.\n42.32.45: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 begins to navigate through the city. The ground appears to be a rough approximation of a road, and is made of a slick black material. Cracks in the material occasionally release an arching electric discharge. The surrounding buildings are observed to shift and bend at various angles, occasionally realigning themselves into the shape of musical notes.\n42:59:01: \u03c0-1 stops the group, pointing ahead towards what appears to be a swirling mass of wooden debris and viscera,6 advancing towards them. MTF-Nu-\u03c0 secure their facial shields and rush through the mass of debris. Footage of the debris storm is severely obscured, with only the whirling mass of splintered wood and blood visible. Obfuscated shouts are heard from various MTF members.\n43:1:19: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 exits the storm and appears standing on a wooden spiral staircase. Footage from \u03c0-9 is still obscured by whirling viscera and debris, despite having visibly exited the mass.7 \u03c0-5 and \u03c0-1 now possess nosebleeds, the blood being iridescent in color. MTF members deploy provided conceptual ear protection as a shrill whistling sound is heard. Despite prior training, \u03c0-5's conceptualization of ear protection takes the form of woolen earmuffs, requiring pressure from the agent's hands for additional sound insulation. \u03c0-9 possesses no visible ear protection.\n43:27:31: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 proceeds down the staircase, with steps rapidly decaying once unoccupied. \u03c0-4 continues humming and is once again requested to stop. Occasionally, the MTF are assaulted by piano keys launched from an unknown source. The staircase descends into a large empty space, completely dark apart from a bright light that begin emanating from the staircase. As MTF-Nu-\u03c0 descends each step produces a different note, which echoes for seemingly several minutes before the next note begins. The melody matches that which \u03c0-4 was humming earlier. The notes carry particles of light with them, spiraling outwards into the darkness.\n44.12.06: The darkness around the staircase fades away, revealing itself suspended high above a massive pyramid. Around the base of the pyramid are a variety of out of focus, dancing entities. The entities are blurred, but appear roughly humanoid, with their heads consisting of trumpet bells that extend many times longer than the rest of their bodies. Directly above the pyramid floats a massive cube, with each face rotating independently. Numerous strings extend from this cube, each entering the bell of one of the entities. The staircase disappears, and MTF-Nu-\u03c0 spontaneously appear on the ground.\n44.32.55: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 walk towards the pyramid, and the entities vanish to reveal a small entryway. They find themselves in an octagonal room, with each wall being comprised of a Nth dimensional 12 sided mirror. Reflected in each mirror are several copies of MTF-Nu-\u03c0, all of which are nude and dancing slowly.8 A massive eyeball hovers within each reflection, staring straight down at the reflected Task Force.\n44.36.01: A large number of perfectly white birds appear in the reflections, and begin to fly in circles around the dancers. After several rotations, one of the birds lands on the reflected \u03c0-4's head. The reflection's skin peels off, and the bird digs its claws into the skull and begins to fly upwards. As the bird flies higher, more of \u03c0-4's flesh sloughs off, until the bird is left carrying only her brain and spinal column. The bird flies into the pupil of the floating eyeball, and the rest of the birds begin to repeat this process to the other reflections.\n44.44.21: \u03c0-4 raises her conceptualized firearm towards the eye, only to be dissuaded by \u03c0-1. MTF-Nu-\u03c0 exit the room by incorporeally passing through the nearest mirror, entering a small garden. The garden appears to be covered by translucent vines, through which flow a pink liquid. Visible within the garden are several topiary bushes depicting various scenes observed during Procedure 5225/Nu-Omicron. Topiary bushes appear to be constructed of sapphire guitar picks and flutes. Surrounding the garden is a wall of hedges constructed of shattered glass and live bees. MTF-Nu-\u03c0 locate the center of the maze, which consists of an industrial submarine hatch embedded within the clearing. Surrounding the clearing are topiary similar to those observed when entering the garden, although they now possess severe corrosive damage. Engraved in the hatch are various music notes, including four unrecognizable notations. The hatch is opened with relative ease, revealing a concrete chute that extends downward an indeterminate distance.\n44.51.12: \u03c0-7 begins to climb into the chute, at which point the entrance vanishes. Gravity reverses, and the other members of MTF-Nu-\u03c0 accelerate toward the sky rapidly. A large tornado appears above them, composed entirely of various music pieces and two physically manifested infohazards. Inside the center of the vortex is a large island. MTF-Nu-\u03c0 do not impact the bottom of the island, but phase through it, falling to the ground once fully emerged from the island. \u03c0-7 is seen dropping from the bottom of the concrete chute, which emerges spontaneously from the empty sky9 above MTF-Nu-\u03c0.\nIn front of MTF-Nu-\u03c0 are four massive pillars, composed of glass, bronze, flayed flesh, and an amalgamation of musical instruments tied together with strings. Floating in the air between the pillars is A/Obelisk-Nu. A/Obelisk-Nu's body is entirely blackened and covered in a number of glowing thaumaturgic runes that dig into the space around them, twisting it inwards and expelling it from A/Obelisk-Nu's eyes. Several massive spiked halos surround A/Obelisk-Nu's head, extending into a swirling technicolor thundercloud beneath them, which constantly expels fire. A number of pure white birds are seen nesting around and inside each of the pillars, with their wings having been replaced by millions of small shards of molten glass. Beneath A/Obelisk-Nu sits a large marble fountain adored with several decorative cherubs. These cherubs are severely damaged, leaking a steady stream of crimson liquid. This substance flows freely around A/Obelisk-Nu, forming a spiral of liquid around its form.\n45.36.43: The members of MTF-Nu-\u03c0 each draw their conceptualized version of high-volume weaponry. \u03c0-1 targets A/Obelisk-Nu and -4, -5, -7, and -12 each target one of the four pillars.10 A/Obelisk-Nu begins to release a high pitched scream as its body fractures apart, fragments exploding outward, freezing in midair before exploding again. Gravity returns to normal and MTF-Nu-\u03c0 fall back towards the ground. The birds nesting within the pillars take flight and begin to follow them.\nAs MTF-Nu-\u03c0 fall, the buildings beneath them begin to collapse. Glass shards begin to rain upwards, randomly phasing in and out of existence as they rise, becoming larger and more complex each time they reappear. The shards impact one another and explode into clouds of piano keys, which burst into flames. A deep thrumming is heard, matching the tunes hummed by \u03c0-4 earlier. This thrumming gets louder and more dissonant as MTF-Nu-\u03c0 approaches the ground.\nMTF-Nu-\u03c0 impact the ground, which folds and cracks beneath them. Upon impact, \u03c0-9's body instantaneously liquefies, while the rest of MTF-Nu-\u03c0 sustain only minor injuries. Golden flames begin to seep from between the cracks, causing \u03c0-9's liquefied form to twist and cauterize, forming an amalgam of charred flesh vaguely resembling a grand piano. Thousands of disembodied hands emerge from the collapsing building, attempting to collectively push the ground back together. Where the fire makes contact with the hands they begin shrieking, before decaying into pools of brass, string, and luminescent flowers.\nThe pyramid rises up from the center of the city, strings dragging the screaming trumpet-headed entities with it, many of which are on fire. MTF-Nu-\u03c0 begin to run towards the bridge as the birds released from the pillars catch up with and begin to swarm them. The birds are dispatched by the MTF, although one of the birds catches \u03c0-12 on the shoulder and her flesh contorts and blooms, spreading apart and cascading recursively into itself. \u03c0-12 is unimpeded by this, and continues to run as the effect spreads across her entire body. The birds behind them begin to fall apart into piles of shattered piano keys and broken glass, releasing large bursts of cloud to ground lightning.\nMTF-Nu-\u03c0 reach the bridge and begin to cross back to the elevator. They make it across when the bridge begins to tear and collapse into the molten brass surrounding it. The city is now engulfed in flame, and both the ground and sky begin to fold along the inside of a massive sphere. MTF-Nu-\u03c0 quickly enter the elevator and begin their ascent.\nAs the elevator ascends the entities seen during its descent emerge from the brass ocean, reaching and clawing for the elevator. They are unable to reach it, and scream as they each shatter into golden fragments of glassy light, which spiral down into the ocean and explode. The ground and sky continue to get closer to the elevator as the construct collapses in on itself. They impact the elevator and everything goes dark.\n52.43.21: The elevator dings, and opens onto the glass platform MTF-Nu-\u03c0 originally entered on. Above the platform floats a single piano key, dripping with golden fluid. The key depresses once and dissolves entirely. The dripping liquid forms a small pool, out of which grows a single white flower comprised of glass. The flower blooms, revealing D-4966's face in its center. The face sheds a single tear, and the flower and pool fade out of existence.\n52.46.30: MTF-Nu-\u03c0 contact Command, and are extracted from Obelisk-Nu.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterward: \u03c0-9 did not appear with the rest of MTF-Nu-\u03c0, despite his presence throughout the footage. His whereabouts are currently unknown. \u03c0-12 reverted back to her normal physical state upon return, but was capable of replicating the bird's anomalous effects on her and those near her. \u03c0-12 was quarantined and screened for any additional anomalous effects or residual SCP-5225 connections. Further testing of SCP-5225 is prohibited.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Abstract meme complexes contained within the upper metaphysical regions' Noosphere. These memes are formed from the consciousness of simple surveillance AI systems, due to their natural resistance to harmful memetic phenomena.\n2. The H/M E-SCC is a conceptual superweapon. Located within the lower physical area of the Noosphere, they are capable of increasing the level of thought decay and information entropy around hyper-specific concepts within both the Noosphere and traditional reality, removing them from the human experience and rendering them sub-existent. Concepts and objects that experience this process are no longer capable of interacting mentally, physically, or conceptually with anything within the known universe.\n3. The exact number is unknown, due to the inability of Foundation efforts to determine what the Anchor has linked too, and the infinite range which it exhibits when spreading.\n4. Functioning as a sort of telepathic \"battering ram,\" the Sub-Ego Base Resonance Engine allows cognizant entities to access regions of the Noosphere that are otherwise inaccessible or fundamentally abstruse.\n5. This liquid was later reported by MTF-Nu-\u03c0 to be liquified music, composed of a combination of Bach and Wagner\n6. Later determined to be a physically manifested auditory cognitohazard.\n7. \u03c0-9's camera was obscured for the remainder of the log.\n8. Notably, \u03c0-9 does not appear in any of the reflections.\n9. Previously the ground.\n10. The four pillars were determined to be a crucial components of Obelisk-Nu, and it was suspected that the anomaly would not be neutralized unless the pillars were destroyed as well.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5224 | SCP-5225 | SCP-5226 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by Ethagon\n\nItem#: 5226\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\npending\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5226 will be contained in a standard humanoid containment chamber.\nDescription: SCP-5226 is a 22-year-old student named Sandra Packwood. Any area visited by SCP-5226 is subject to modernization. What exactly this entails has yet to be established through testing after SCP-5226 is contained.\n\nNotice from the Explanation and Research Department\nUnder the Trevisan-Ethics-Mandate as sanctioned by the Ethics Committee, this file was reviewed by the Explanation and Research Department and filed as a \"potential anomaly\". In its current state, this file does not provide sufficient evidence for anomalous behaviour. Therefore, Special Containment Procedures involving the Imprisonment of Sandra Packwood have been disallowed until this evidence is provided.\n\u2014 Thomas Weld, Director, ExaRD\n\nInternal Call between Head Researcher Roberts and ExaRD Director Weld\n\n<Begin Call>\nWeld: Is this about Sandra Packwood?\nRoberts: Yes? May I ask how you-\nWeld: (chuckles) We haven't really interacted with anyone else yet. The department is still in its infancy. Hence why you're speaking with the Director.\nRoberts: I would like to know why a department focused on explained anomalies is interested in the containment process.\nWeld: Preventive measures and ethical concerns.\nRoberts: You are aware that your preventive measures are actively hindering my team's containment efforts?\nWeld: I must hinder your efforts. Her containment can't be justified at this point.\nRoberts: The O5 Council would never sanction this. You are clearly overstepping your authority.\nWeld: (sighs) If we need to do it this way, fine. I already told you in my Notice about the Mandate this is based on. And the Council approved of my department request completely aware that we would not only reclassify to and reintegrate explained anomalies but also enforce this Mandate by reducing the amount of falsely classified human anomalies before the harm is done. Same thing here. Sandra Packwood could just as well have a completely mundane influence on her surroundings.\nRoberts: And what if you are wrong? What if we are dealing with an anomaly?\nWeld: Well, we won't know until you do more research.\n<End Call>\n\nObservation Log:\n\nAffected by the anomaly\nModernization\n\nSCP-5226 before observation\nSCP-5226 makes use of contact lenses, a smartwatch, and a pacemaker.\n\nNeighboorhood of SCP-5226\nApproximately 70% of Incandescent light bulbs were replaced by LED's.\n\nLecture hall of SCP-5226\nAdditionally to the blackboard, a smartboard has been installed in the hall and replaced the old overhead projector.\n\nUniversity Management\nAfter the retirement of the previous president, the position was taken over by a more progressive person.\n\nCampus\nAll Clocks have been replaced by digital versions.\n\nCampus\nA substantial above-average amount of smokers have switched to e-cigarettes.\n\nLecture management\nA significant amount of lectures have been replaced by online lectures.\n\nHospital1\nUsage of experimental treatments and artificial limbs has increased significantly.\n\nSCP-5226\nSCP-5226 decided to have a micro-chip2 implanted in her hand.\n\nLandfills and trash\nWith the town's increased usage of electronic devices the volume of electronic waste has increased as well. Due to prior inexperience, a lot of this waste is not processed correctly.3\n\nDemographic\nThe town shows signs of a demographic shift with more and more investors taking an interest in the town and original inhabitants beginning to look for a new place of residence.\n\nInternal Call between Head Researcher Roberts and ExaRD Director Weld\n\n<Begin Call>\nWeld: No, Hewlett, I haven't gotten around to-\nRoberts: This is Roberts, speaking.\nWeld: Ah, sorry about that. I take it you want my permission to imprison Ms Packwood?\nRoberts: To contain her. Yes.\nWeld: I can't allow that.\nRoberts: I said it before, but now you are definitely hindering Foundation operations. Were my team's observations not enough for you?\nWeld: They weren't. And don't act like I completely shut you down. There's plenty of other ways to contain a maybe anomaly besides imprisonment.\nRoberts: There is no \"maybe\" anomaly. Either something is anomalous or it is not.\nWeld: Then tell me what you actually know. What exactly is the anomaly?\nRoberts: The current theory is that SCP-5226 either compels people to be more modern or that we are dealing with probabilistic manipulation towards more modern outcomes.\nWeld: So compulsion and probability manipulation? Exactly these are the fields with the most falsely classified anomalies. So my point stands.\nRoberts: But surely you can see, that this amount of modernization is clearly past the norm.\nWeld: It isn't if you have a management that desires things to be changed. Like the university's president.\nRoberts: I can, to a degree, understand that. Although it would be remiss of me to not point out the strain this has put their budget under. But those were hardly the most blatant examples.\nWeld: Let's go through the more \"blatant\" things then. First off, the microchip. Nothing unusual here. Sarah Packwood fits the clientele, that would unlock their house door or pay with their hand at the price of having an otherwise harmless chip injected.\nRoberts: And the waste problem? The shift in demographic?\nWeld: Both of these are just obvious consequences from this recent turnaround to a more modern approach to things. I'm not even sure why you listed these. Perfectly normal problems for a town in this situation.\nRoberts: But you don't have a town suddenly decide to have a \"modern turnaround\". People do not collectively start using LEDs on the same day and a hospital does not simply decide to switch to experimental treatments. It is the range and the extremes that make this troubling. Not all change is for the better, Director Weld.\nWeld: I'll admit, that's a bit unusual, but it's not enough to make me falter.\n10 seconds of silence\nRoberts: (sighs) I understand that it's hard to see how often we rip people out of their normal lives, but you have to see that you are doing more harm than good. There is a reason why the containment process was made the way it is.\nWeld: The current process can still be improved by a lot. That goes for every process really. And I have started to rejig a lot of processes with ExaRD. There's finally a generalized way for reclassifying to Explained; we're starting to look back into older skip files as well and we even release most EX's back to the public. But none of that goes as much to the soul of the operation as keeping anyone out of prison that I can. The prohibition stands.\nRoberts: Look, I know you are trying to save a person here. But so am I. The whole town has been taken hostage by a phenomenon, that commands everyone to advance regardless of if they want to. It's one person versus a town. You are taking this too far.\n10 seconds of silence\nWeld: This isn't only about my ideals. I wouldn't have intervened if something didn't seem off about this. The thing is, it doesn't fit our current understanding of anomalous theory for this to be caused by a human. The effects show all the signs of a typical paranormal object.\nRoberts: (scoffs) The anomalous theory is a shot in the dark at best and a shot at yourself at worst. What's to say this isn't a \"freak occurrence\"?\nWeld: Hah, a lot of researchers say that, but that's because they're too bundled up in containment to see the world around them advance.\nRoberts: Hold on. Does that mean you would have nothing against me containing an object?\nWeld: Of course not. We only do these preventive measures with human anomalies, that may not qualify as paranormal. Everything else is looked at afterwards. There is no ethical impetus to look at those beforehand.\n<End Call>\n\nItem#: 5226\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5226 is to be contained in a secure item storage locker, that is only to be operated under automated systems. Human contact is allowed with permission from the acting HMCL Supervisor.\nDescription: SCP-5226 is a pacemaker that influences any decision to take a more \"modern\" option. SCP-5226 was originally in the possession of Sandra Packwood and was exchanged with a normal pacemaker during a routine medical examination without incident.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:Department Transfer\n\nTo: Roberts\nFrom: Administrative Department\nSubject: Re:Department Transfer\n\nI hereby request to be transferred to the Explanation and Research Department. While I do appreciate this newfound effort to better sort mundane from abnormal, I fear that in its current state the department may be too opportunistic and requires personnel to keep them from going too far.\n\nRequest Granted\n\nFootnotes\n1. Visited by SCP-5226 due to her heart problems\n2. serving as a key card among other things\n3. Like liquids that would require special disposal simply being flushed down the toilet.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5225 | SCP-5226 | SCP-5227 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\n3/5227 LEVEL 3/5227\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5227\n\nneutralized\n\nAntuco, Chile, during SCP-5227.\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5227 is considered neutralized. Access to the Foundation observation post in Antuco is restricted to Foundation personnel with 5/5227 clearance.\n\nFoliage in Antuco.\n\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5227 was an anomalous weather formation centered around Antuco, an abandoned Chilean village, and lasted from June 8th to 10th, 1976. SCP-5227 manifested as a fog descending on Antuco and completely covered the village, drastically reducing visibility and communications. The anomaly was originally identified as such due to its observational anomaly and rapid formation\u2014 weather sensors at Facility 57, 23km from Antuco, depicted SCP-5227 as a static blur during its three-minute formation (1:07AM - 1:10AM local time). Attempts to hail the Foundation observation post in Antuco through radio resulted in failure. Further testing confirmed SCP-5227 had the anomalous capability to block radio transmissions.\nA 3-man expedition from MTF PI-3 \"Garcas Oligarcas\" was planned to ascertain the status of Antuco. Several hours before departure, another agent was added to the expedition. The thick forest surrounding Antuco and the exceedingly low visibility made vehicular and aerial travel infeasible. The team departed Facility 57 on foot at T+6 hours.\n\nADDENDUM 5227.1\nEXPEDITION LOGS \u2014 6.8.1976\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\nEXPEDITION LOG EXCERPTS\nCHILEAN INTERIOR\n\nMTF PI-3 \"GARCAS OLIGARCAS\"\n\n\u03c03-ALPHA - VALENTINO SCIPIONI (SOURCE)\n\u03c03-BETA - PEDRO CASEROS\n\u03c03-GAMMA - ALEJANDRO PETROCCHI\n\u03c03-DELTA - DAMI\u00c1N GARL\u00c9S\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[Team is hiking through the jungle. SCIPIONI and GARL\u00c9S take the lead, while PETROCCHI and CASEROS bring up the rear.]\nSCIPIONI: He wasn't pleased with that, no sir. But it was really his fault, if you think about it.\nGARL\u00c9S: How's that?\nSCIPIONI: If he didn't want me to sleep with his wife, he should've sold me the damn car!\n[All laugh.]\nSCIPIONI: But I did, and so he had me demoted to field duty. It's not the worst job in the world, though. Certainly keeps you in shape.\nCASEROS: All that form-filling really burns calories, eh?\nSCIPIONI: Alright, you can fill the forms out when we get back. No? That's what I thought, stupid.\n[Laughter, followed by silence.]\nSCIPIONI: What's your story, Damian?\nGARL\u00c9S: Oh, me? What do you mean?\nPETROCCHI: We've never seen you around Fifty-seven before.\nGARL\u00c9S: Oh, yes. I'm a transfer.\nSCIPIONI: From?\nGARL\u00c9S: Ah, Thirty-two. It's up in Panam\u00e1.\nCASEROS: Oh, I have a friend up there. Do you know a Captain Carl\u00f3s?\nGARL\u00c9S: Uh, no, sorry.\nPETROCCHI: How long've you been at Fifty-seven?\nGARL\u00c9S: Only a few days.\nSCIPIONI: Whoof, no time to even settle in. Well, no problem, you'll be able to settle in fine when we get back. The boys in Antuco are probably just wondering why they're not getting the baseball on the radio anymore!\n[Laughter, followed by silence. The team continue slashing through the jungle, occasionally using compasses and maps to guide them, when someone loudly falls into the brush.]\nPETROCCHI: Shit!\nCASEROS: [Laughing] Get off the ground, dumbass.\nPETROCCHI: Oh no, I was planning on bunking here for the night. Make yourself useful and give me a hand.\n[Grunting.]\nPETROCCHI: Great, now I get to hike covered in mud. Perfect.\nSCIPIONI: Your fault for slipping. The sun's not even down yet.\nPETROCCHI: Forget the sun, I can't see a goddamn thing through this goddamn fog. It feels like the air is pissing.\nSCIPIONI: Wonderful image, thank you.\nGARL\u00c9S: I suppose we're nearing Antuco, then?\nSCIPIONI: Who has the map? Pedro?\nCASEROS: Ah, we're certainly closer, but there's still a ways to go. It's hard to get an exact estimate, the fog makes keeping distance hard.\nGARL\u00c9S: I see. But if the fog is getting thicker\u2026 we must be going the right way.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nRecovered photograph.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nPETROCCHI: Man, I feel bad for the poor suckers assigned to that outpost. For all they know, the war's kicked up again.\nGARL\u00c9S: Yeah.\nSCIPIONI: All the more reason to get to them faster.\nPETROCCHI: I couldn't handle that.\nCASEROS: Handle what?\nPETROCCHI: That kind of isolation, man. Two guys in the middle of a goddamn ghost town, and only a radio for company. Shit, not even the radio now. I'm a talkative guy, but-\nSCIPIONI: You're telling me.\nPETROCCHI: - but what if the partner is a prick or something? Or something like this happens and you're cut off from damn near everything? Too much risk involved for me, no sir.\nCASEROS: It's an observation post, right?\nGARL\u00c9S: Security post, actually.\nCASEROS: For Fifty-seven? It's in the middle of the mountain, there's no way to get to it without getting on every camera they have hidden on the path.\nSCIPIONI: Better safe than sorry. It's a good place for an installation, though. Antuco's been abandoned since before I was born.\nCASEROS: Why?\nSCIPIONI: Beats me. It was barely ever big enough to get on any maps, and then over a few months all the people just seem to have moved away. And then we put the observation post there and it's been quiet ever since.\nCASEROS: Oh.\nSCIPIONI: It's not that unique; these things happen.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nRecovered photograph.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[Fire crackling, rustling of fabrics.]\nPETROCCHI: Whoever decided the MRE menus should be fed to the lizard.\nSCIPIONI: He'd probably taste better than these pieces of shit.\n[Both laugh.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Food is food.\nPETROCCHI: Sure, but not all food is created equal. I'd throw a hundred of these plastic trash-bags away for one hot chorip\u00e1n right now.\nSCIPIONI: Do you ever think about anything besides food?\nPETROCCHI: Yes. Sometimes I think about sex.\n[Laughter.]\nCASEROS: Hey, has anyone seen my necklace?\nSCIPIONI: What?\nCASEROS: Little silver cross necklace. I had it on when we set out.\nGARL\u00c9S: Maybe you dropped it?\nCASEROS: Off my neck?\nGARL\u00c9S: Well, maybe it got snagged on a branch. Was it important?\nCASEROS: Yeah, I guess so.\nSCIPIONI: I didn't know you were religious, Pedro.\nCASEROS: I- I'm not, really. It's complicated.\nSCIPIONI: Oh. Alright. Maybe we'll find it on our way back? For now, let's get into bed \u2014 we're setting out real early tomorrow.\nCASEROS: Yes, sir.\n[The men put out the campfire and crawl into their tents to sleep.]\n\n\u00abEND OF DAY'S EXCERPTS\u00bb\n\nADDENDUM 5227.2\nEXPEDITION LOGS \u2014 6.9.1976\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\nEXPEDITION LOG EXCERPTS\nCHILEAN INTERIOR\n\nMTF PI-3 \"GARCAS OLIGARCAS\"\n\n\u03c03-ALPHA - VALENTINO SCIPIONI (SOURCE)\n\u03c03-BETA - PEDRO CASEROS\n\u03c03-GAMMA - ALEJANDRO PETROCCHI\n\u03c03-DELTA - DAMI\u00c1N GARL\u00c9S\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[They continue through the brush. Several minutes pass. Suddenly, PETROCCHI kneels down in the first.]\nPETROCCHI: Haha. Hey, Pedro?\nCASEROS: Yeah?\nPETROCCHI: Look what I found.\n[PETROCCHI stands and opens his hand, dangling a small necklace with a cross.]\nPETROCCHI: Huh. Must've been left by one of the families le-\nCASEROS: No.\nPETROCCHI: What?\nCASEROS: No, it's mine.\nPETROCCHI: No. No, you lost yours last night, there's no way-\nCASEROS: It has my name inscribed on it.\nPETROCCHI: What the fuck?\nSCIPIONI: Let me see that\u2026\n[SCIPIONI inspects the necklace.]\nSCIPIONI: Fuck. Okay, we're going in the wrong direction. Turn around-\nGARL\u00c9S: No, we're going fine. The compasses are solid, we're heading towards Antuco.\nSCIPIONI: Then\u2026 the anomaly is messing with our sense of space. Direction? Whatever. Let's keep going, but just, be careful and keep an eye out for anything strange. I'll keep the ne-\nCASEROS: Give it back, Valentino.\nSCIPIONI: It could be anomalous, I have to-\nCASEROS: It's mine. It's important to me.\nSCIPIONI: Just- okay, whatever, fine. Just be careful with it.\nPETROCCHI: Uh, maybe we should turn back? We're barely in it and already getting fucked with, we could come back with backup or something.\nGARL\u00c9S: It's just playing with our sense of time, is all. We're fine.\nSCIPIONI: Greenhorn's right. You've all fought terrors, don't tell me you're spooked by baby's first spatial anomaly.\n[Laughter. They continue into the brush.]\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nRecovered photograph.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[Troopers are progressing through jungle. Fog has settled in a thick layer close to the ground, obscuring view of the ground.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Captain?\nSCIPIONI: What is it?\nGARL\u00c9S: The leaves.\n[GARL\u00c9S gestures to the surrounding foliage. He pulls down a low hanging branch.]\nCASEROS: Is- is that writing?\n[SCIPIONI tears off a leaf and inspects it.]\nSCIPIONI: Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.\nCASEROS: Psalm 37:4.\n[SCIPIONI continues tearing off leaves and reading them.]\nSCIPIONI: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.\nCASEROS: Luke 12:32, Corinthians 16:13, Matthew 11:28. They - they're all Bible verses. What the hell?\nPETROCCHI: I thought you said you weren't religious.\nCASEROS: I said it was complicated, asshole.\nPETROCCHI: Jesus, relax. Actually, I think Jesus is the problem, nevermind.\n[PETROCCHI snickers.]\nSCIPIONI: Quiet, Alejandro. This is\u2026 yeah, fuck this. Take a sample, keep moving.\nGARL\u00c9S: Wait, Valentino.\nSCIPIONI: What is it?\nGARL\u00c9S: Look at the base of the tree. The lichen.\n[SCIPIONI kneels and inspects the bark of the tree closest to him. The moss at the roots of the tree are growing into a pattern rough but obviously resembling the Foundation seal.]\nPETROCCHI: \u2026 What the fuck? That has to be a coincidence.\nSCIPIONI: I don't believe in coincidences, especially not when working with anomalies.\nCASEROS: Could - what does this mean? Is it sentient or something?\nSCIPIONI: I have no idea. But bag a sample. And keep your safeties off.\nCASEROS: I don't like this, boss. I really really don't like this.\nSCIPIONI: Yeah, you and me both. But we have a job to do.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nRecovered photograph.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[Troops move through foliage silently. The sun is high in the sky, but fog renders visibility poor.]\nCASEROS: It's not far now, we should be in visual range soon.\nSCIPIONI: Alright.\n[Time passes.]\nCASEROS: We should probably pick up the pace.\nPETROCCHI: What? We're moving fine, it's not even noon yet.\nCASEROS: We should probably pick up the pace.\nPETROCCHI: Yeah, I heard you the first time. It's fine, we're good-\nCASEROS: This is the first time I said it.\nPETROCCHI: No? You guys heard that, right?\nGARL\u00c9S: Yeah, you said it twice.\nSCIPIONI: I didn't hear anything.\nPETROCCHI: He definitely said it twice.\nSCIPIONI: Just stop arguing.\nPETROCCHI: Alright, alright.\nCASEROS: Okay, whatever. Still, can we pick up the pace a bit?\nSCIPIONI: We're really fine, Pedro. You feeling alright? You've been acting odd.\nCASEROS: I'm fine, I'm fine. Just, I don't like this place and it freaks me out. Sooner arrive and secure, contain, protect whatever the hell's down there the sooner we can get out of here.\nPETROCCHI: You've never been one to act jumpy, Pedro.\nCASEROS: I said I'm fine. Drop it.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nADDENDUM 5227.3\nEXPEDITION LOGS \u2014 6.10.1976\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\nEXPEDITION LOG EXCERPTS\nANTUCO OUTSKIRTS\n\nMTF PI-3 \"GARCAS OLIGARCAS\"\n\n\u03c03-ALPHA - VALENTINO SCIPIONI (SOURCE)\n\u03c03-BETA - PEDRO CASEROS\n\u03c03-GAMMA - ALEJANDRO PETROCCHI\n\u03c03-DELTA - DAMI\u00c1N GARL\u00c9S\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[All four troopers are breaking through the foliage when they crest a hill.]\nCASEROS: There, you can see the rooftops. We're nearly there now.\nPETROCCHI: Speak for yourself, this fog is ruining my visibility. Could be a village or an army, I can't make it out.\nGARL\u00c9S: I see it. It can't be more than an hour from here if we keep the pace.\nSCIPIONI: Alright. Let's not waste any time.\n[They continue through the brush. Several minutes pass.]\nCASEROS: Hey, Alejandro?\nPETROCCHI: Yeah?\nCASEROS: Can I ask a weird question?\nPETROCCHI: Uh, okay?\nCASEROS: Do you believe in God?\nPETROCCHI: Um\u2026 not really? I don't know, it's complicated. I don't go to church, but I like to think that there's something up there looking out for us. Y'know?\nCASEROS: Yeah, I know what you mean.\nPETROCCHI: You're not turning into a Bible thumper, are you? [Laughter.]\nCASEROS: Heh, yeah. I don't know. Just curious.\nPETROCCHI: What about you?\nCASEROS: What about me?\nPETROCCHI: Do you believe in God?\nCASEROS: I don't know.\nPETROCCHI: Uh, what do you mean?\nCASEROS: It's\u2026 nevermind. I'm fine. Let's just get this over with. This stupid fucking fog feels like it's choking me.\nGARL\u00c9S: It has a way of getting in your head.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nRecovered photograph.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[Troopers are progressing through the farms on the edges of Antuco. Thick fog inhibits visibility to a few meters, forcing troopers to move slowly and unsurely. All have rifles out and safeties off.]\nCASEROS: [Mumbling.]\nGARL\u00c9S: [Whispering.] Whoever that is, shut up.\n[Silence.]\nCASEROS: [Mumbling.]\nGARL\u00c9S: [Whispering.] I said, shut up.\nPETROCCHI: You're being dramatic, kid.\nGARL\u00c9S: We don't know what's out here.\nPETROCCHI: Look, I understand the first-mission shivers, but this is as tame as it gets. This village has been abandoned since the war started. I guarantee you this is just some failure of the sen-\nSCIPIONI: No. No, greenhorn is right. We don't have any intel, we need to be cautious. Overconfidence kills. Everyone, quiet.\nPETROCCHI: Alright, alright.\n[Silence as team progresses, feeling their way through the fields and farmhouses.]\nCASEROS: [Mumbling.]\nSCIPIONI: That was an order, Pedro. What's gotten into you? You've been acting strange this entire mission.\nCASEROS: [Mumbling.]\nSCIPIONI: Speak up, what the hell are you mumbling for?\nCASEROS: We need to\u2026 stop. Now.\nSCIPIONI: What?\nPETROCCHI: You were all fired up about getting here as fast as possible, what's wrong?\nCASEROS: We have to protect. It. Protect it.\nGARL\u00c9S: [Quickly.] Protect what?\nCASEROS: It-it's not what you- you don't want to protect it!\nPETROCCHI: Pedro, you're not making any sense.\nCASEROS: It- he's not who you think he is! He's lying, he doesn't want to protect her, he just wants to bomb and destroy and kill and-\nSCIPIONI: Stop. Now.\nCASEROS: This is our fault! We need to fix this. Protect! That's what we do, Valentino! Secure, contain, protect! We must!\n[CASEROS raises the rifle and fingers the trigger, pointing it at SCIPIONI.]\nSCIPIONI: Pedro, put your gun down.\nCASEROS: No! I need to stop him! We need to go to the center, where it's coming from, the fog, the fucking fo-\n[Three gunshots in quick succession. CASEROS topples over, a red stain spreading across his chest.]\nPETROCCHI: Fuck!\nSCIPIONI: Motherfucker! What the hell, Damian?\nGARL\u00c9S: I had to! You saw him, he was insane! He would've shot any of us!\nSCIPIONI: You didn't have the authority to do that! Fuck!\n[Silence.]\nPETROCCHI: [Quietly.] No pulse.\nSCIPIONI: Son of a bitch.\nPETROCCHI: I've known Pedro for years. That wasn't him.\nGARL\u00c9S: He was compromised.\nSCIPIONI: By what?\n[Silence.]\nSCIPIONI: Okay, look, I don't know what happened to him, but the last thing he said was about the center of the town. He said that was where the fog was coming from. That's where we're going.\nGARL\u00c9S: No.\nSCIPIONI: What did you say to me, soldier?\nGARL\u00c9S: We're not going to the center of town. We're going to the observation post on the edge, seeing if anyone is alive, and then we're going back.\nSCIPIONI: I'm your commanding officer and you just killed one of my men. You're treading on thin ice.\nGARL\u00c9S: I was hoping it wouldn't come to this.\nSCIPIONI: What?\n[GARL\u00c9S removes a gold badge and security card from his pack and hands it to SCIPIONI.]\nSCIPIONI: General Clearance Level\u2026 Five? What the fuck?\nPETROCCHI: What? Let me see that.\n[Silence.]\nPETROCCHI: It's real. Jesus.\nGARL\u00c9S: I'm taking command of this mission effective immediately.\nSCIPIONI: Who the fuck are you?\nGARL\u00c9S: Your new commanding officer. Captain Scipioni, we will be progressing to the observation post at the edge of town. That's an order.\nSCIPIONI: What's at the center?\nGARL\u00c9S: That's classified.\nSCIPIONI: Is the fog dangerous?\nGARL\u00c9S: Not as long as you don't go near the source. If we follow a wide path to the post, we-\nSCIPIONI: What's the source of it?\nGARL\u00c9S: That's classified. Please, hold the questions. I'd rather not waste what daylight we still have.\nSCIPIONI: Fine. Lead on. Fuck.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nRecovered photograph.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n[GARL\u00c9S enters a small mud and wood hut. The one-room building contains a bunk bed, two flipped chairs, several steel lockers, and a table covered in defunct communication equipment.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Get in.\nSCIPIONI: What the hell is going on? How do you have Level-5 Clearance?\nGARL\u00c9S: I'm on your side, I swear. But for now, we need to get away from that fog. You saw what it did to Pedro.\n[GARL\u00c9S shuts the door once all three have entered. He moves to the table, inspecting the equipment.]\nSCIPIONI: Can you explain what the fuck is going on here, Damian?\nGARL\u00c9S: With all due respect, Captain, that's classified. All you need to know is that people much higher up than you have very specific instructions about what is going to happen here. You are obligated to help me stop this mess.\nPETROCCHI: We saw the fog's source, it was coming from the center of town. Why are we all the way out here?\nGARL\u00c9S: This is the best spot to get a signal out. A minor weakness in the anomaly's structural integrity, exploited using paratechnology.\n[GARL\u00c9S reaches into his bag and pulls out a small spherical device with a blue light.]\nSCIPIONI: What is that?\nGARL\u00c9S: It is a radio signaller, amplified using thamaturgy. Just enough to punch through SCP-5227.\nPETROCCHI: Who are you signalling to?\nGARL\u00c9S: Fifty-seven. More specifically to an air squadron stationed there on standby. Once they get the signal, they'll give us a small delay and then bomb this hellhole to kingdom come.\nSCIPIONI: Why? What are you trying to destroy?\nGARL\u00c9S: That's classified.\n[GARL\u00c9S turns away to the table to begin setting up the device.]\nSCIPIONI: Okay. All I know is that suddenly the greenhorn is claiming to be a Level 5 secret agent, one of my team members is dead in the dust by your hand, you won't let us even investigate what's causing this. Our job. I don't know who you are, but\nGARL\u00c9S: I'm afraid this is a matter of internal Foundati-\n[Gunshot. GARL\u00c9S' calf spurts blood and he crashes to the floor, dropping the device.]\nGARL\u00c9S: FUCK!\nSCIPIONI: Sorry\u2026 sir, but you've killed a Foundation operator and are hindering the proper investigation of the anomaly. I am hereby relieving you of command. We're finding out what's causing this. The wound's not lethal, and there's a first aid kit in the locker.\n[PETROCCHI advances and takes the transmitter from the floor.]\nPETROCCHI: And we're taking this.\nGARL\u00c9S: You\u2026 you two don't know what you're doing. You're going to ruin everything. I'm ordering you to stop-\nSCIPIONI: I'm sorry, Damian. We'll be back.\n[SCIPIONI and PETROCCHI exit the hut, closing the door behind them.]\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nADDENDUM 5227.3\nSEALED TO CLEARANCE 5/5227\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Welcome, Overseer \u25b2\n\nEXPLORATION LOG\nSATELLITE FACILITY 57\u03b2\n\nMTF ALPHA-1 \"RED RIGHT HAND\"\n\n\u03b11-ALPHA - DAMI\u00c1N GARL\u00c9S\n\nMTF PI-3 \"GARCAS OLIGARCAS\"\n\n\u03c03-ALPHA - VALENTINO SCIPIONI (SOURCE)\n\u03c03-GAMMA - ALEJANDRO PETROCCHI\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nFacility\n\nSCIPIONI: What the hell? What is this place?\nPETROCCHI: Dami\u00e1n knows, no doubt.\nSCIPIONI: All of this looks\u2026 familiar, no?\nPETROCCHI: You're right, I've seen this before. Somewhere.\n[The two feel their way around the facility for a few minutes, inspecting the industrial equipment. The fog impairs visibility to only a few meters. They stop in front of a wall of computer equipment.]\nPETROCCHI: Valentino. Look here.\n[One of the monitors is still powered on. Its screen displays a slowly rotating Foundation logo. A prompt to enter Foundation credentials is present.]\nSCIPIONI: \u2026 Shit.\nPETROCCHI: That's where I've seen this before. The science wing at 57 is loaded with these kinds of pipes and electronics. I don't think that shack on the edge of town was the outpost, Valentino.\nSCIPIONI: Yeah. But\u2026 why? Why would they build this?\n[Both look at the monitor.]\nSCIPIONI: In for a penny, in for a pound.\n\nSATELLITE FACILITY 57-BETA\n\n------\nWelcome, VALENTINO SCIPIONI\n------\n\nDisk wipe failed at 99.4% completion. 2 deleted missives flagged in local memory.\n\n| view list\n\n1. Internal Missive \u2014 January 14th, 1964\n2. External Missive \u2014 June 10th, 1965\n\n| view 1\n\nOpening\u2026\nFROM: Dr. Gerardo Ares\nSUBJECT: Ethics?\n----\nI'm not sure how I feel about this whole project, friend. I just don't know how to be comfortable with what we're doing. I'm a religious man, you know that. It's hard to be a man of God in this Foundation, but I try. I pray for my soul, and everyone else's. This is\u2026 blasphemous.\nWhat they're asking us to do \u2014 it's not a question of technology. We have the technology, we've had it since we took it from the Axis after the armistice. But we've never needed it. I understand that the Foundation is faced with containing more and more, for lack of a better word, theological threats. But we have to ask ourselves if fighting fire with fire is a good idea. Just because we have to contain gods doesn't mean we need our own.\n\n| view 2\n\nOpening\u2026\nTO: Project Lead Adri\u00e1n Carpas\nSUBJECT: Project Divinidad\n----\nSir, with all due respect, you can't do this. I understood that our prototype hasn't been exactly up to shot but this is bleeding edge paratechnology. No one quite understands what we're working with, stumbles are inevitable. And, frankly, the fact that we've created a prototype at all is a testament to the skill of the team.\nThere is simply far too much invested into this to cancel now. The facility would have to be completely razed, and we just don't know what that would do to the prototype. It's \u2014 we believe it's at an infantile stage of development, and a disturbance in its environment could be disastrous. It's not like disposal is an option. With all due respect, sir, you've let the genie out of the bottle. Burying it is not a solution.\n\nPETROCCHI: Shit\u2026.\nSCIPIONI: So the shack was the observation post. But this is what it was observing. Which means that\u2026\n[A loud rumbling is heard. Industrial fans set into the grilled floor begin turning, quickly sucking away the fog. In a few seconds, the majority of the fog has been removed and the facility is visible in its whole. Pipes and computer displays cover the walls, focusing in the center of the room around a large industrial vat set into the floor. The vat is filled with a greyish-green liquid and fog rises from its surface steadily. A massive metal cross is suspended above it, upside down and coated in a brown fluid, which slowly drips into the vat. GARL\u00c9S is in the doorway, wearing a gas mask and clutching his thigh.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Damn. I was hoping you'd have missed it.\nSCIPIONI: You all did a good job hiding the place.\nGARL\u00c9S: Hiding things from the rest of the Foundation is my job, Valentino.\nPETROCCHI: You're all fucking insane.\nSCIPIONI: Alejandro-\nPETROCCHI: No, really. I don't believe in God, but I know that you don't play with things you don't understand. People stationed at this outpost have the highest turnover rate in the sector. I always thought it was because of the isolation, but no, it's because you buried a fucking monster underneath them! How many people have ended up like Pedro?!\nGARL\u00c9S: Look. I'm sorry about Pedro, I am. He was a casualty, and it was my fault. But I didn't make the thing that did that to him.\nPETROCCHI: And where is it, huh? You just ditched it down here after you were done playing God?\n[GARL\u00c9S motions at the vat. It bubbles quietly.]\n\nVat.\n\nSCIPIONI: Jesus Christ.\nPETROCCHI: Puta madre.\nGARL\u00c9S: Your indignation isn't going to help anyone, Alejandro. Who are you gonna tell? The police? The Council approved this, you can't change anything.\nPETROCCHI: I can't imagine the Ethics Committee approved it. I bet that'd be interesting from them to know, that-\n[Gunshot. PETROCCHI falls to the floor, a hole in his forehead. SCIPIONI draws his gun.]\nSCIPIONI: FUCK! What the fuck are you doing?\nGARL\u00c9S: My job, Valentino. Just put down the gu-\nSCIPIONI: You've killed two of my people already. I'm not stupid, the Council will have me disappeared for thi-\n[An explosion from outside rocks the building. Both stumble. A large portion of the ceiling gives out, revealing the foggy sky overhead. Planes are faintly visible through the haze.]\nGARL\u00c9S: What the hell?!\nSCIPIONI: I called in the airstrike while Alejandro had you distracted.\nGARL\u00c9S: Are you insane?! We'll be killed!\nSCIPIONI: I'm not being disappeared by the Council, Dami\u00e1n. I'm-\n[Another explosion rings out, this one heavily muffled.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Tha- what?\n[Through the hole, it is visible that all the large bombs are being suspended in the fog until they detonate. None are able to reach the facility. Inside, the vat bubbles.]\nSCIPIONI: It's\u2026 protecting itself.\nGARL\u00c9S: Then it's sentient.\nSCIPIONI: And intelligent. It knows what bombs are. You might've left an infant down here then, but\u2026 it's not a baby anymore.\n[The bombs suspended in the air suddenly flip, before rocketing back up through the sky and colliding with one of the bombers. The plane violently fulminates in a burst of flame. The other bombs in the air also flip, but do not ascend.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Fuck! Jesus Christ, it's murderous!\nSCIPIONI: We attacked it with planes and bombs, Dami\u00e1n! What is it supposed to do!?\n[GARL\u00c9S cocks his pistol. SCIPIONI does the same.]\nGARL\u00c9S: Move, Valentino! That's an order!\nSCIPIONI: You're not actually trying to kill it, are you? Are you insane? What makes you think you can kill a god?\nGARL\u00c9S: Why on Earth are you protecting it? You saw what it did to Pedro, to the observers, to the flight crew! Suppressing things like these is your job!\nSCIPIONI: Creating them isn't. And you killed Pedro, you son of a bitch.\n[GARL\u00c9S advances as SCIPIONI backs up towards the vat.]\nGARL\u00c9S: You're compromised. Just like he was. Protecting it against all odds. Now move.\nSCIPIONI: You made a god, Dami\u00e1n. You can't just put a bullet in its head and expect it to die.\nGARL\u00c9S: Let me fix it, goddammit!\nSCIPIONI: You're just afraid. You brought a god into this world, you did experiments on it, you left it in a vat for years, and now you're afraid that it's violent? You cannot weaponize a tool that you're expecting to be stabbed in the back with! And you sure as hell can't get rid of it this easy.\nGARL\u00c9S: For all we know it's not even a fucking god. Just some fucked up thing that we brewed in a vat and decided to deify.\nSCIPIONI: It doesn't matter if it's actually a god or not. You- the entire Council fears this thing like a god. It doesn't matter what it is, it might as well be a god. You all gave it this kind of power. You can't control what it does with it anymore. Symbols have power, you know that.\nGARL\u00c9S: Then what the fuck are we supposed to do? Just not be scared of it?\n[SCIPIONI's heel reaches the rim of the vat.]\nSCIPIONI: You can't have a god with just fear. You need faith. Trust me.\n[SCIPIONI spins backward, raising his pistol and emptying the magazine at the chain suspending the inverted cross above the vat. The chain breaks, dropping the cross into the vat where it begins sinking. An infantile screeching rings out as the bombs suspended in the sky begin detonating one by one. The fluid in the vat, displaced by the cross, begins flooding into the chamber. Camera feed abruptly cuts out at the same time as the shrieking.]\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nFollowing the termination of the camera feed, all bombs suspended in the air above Antuco simultaneously detonated at low altitude, out of range of aircraft. The exterior facade of Satellite Facility 57-Beta collapsed, and ground troops conducted an excavation operation to breach into the building.\nThe body of Supervisory Agent Dami\u00e1n Garl\u00e9s was discovered; the cause of death was determined to have been respiration of the vat amniotic fluid. The vat itself was completely drained. Captain Valentino Scipioni was found at the bottom in a state of shock, sitting next to an unidentified desiccated corpse crushed by the large metal cross. Captain Scipioni has been amnesticized following a full medical recovery.\nProject Divinidad is considered closed.\n\n\n\u00ab SCP-5226 | SCP-5227 | SCP-5228 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5228-A close up.\n\nItem #: SCP-5228\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5228 is kept inside a high-value storage unit in Site-15. The unit is to remain locked and the combination is to be changed bi-weekly. Only personnel with Level 3 security clearance or above are allowed access to SCP-5228. SCP-5228 is not to be used except for testing purposes.\nSCP-5228-A is kept in an observation room in Sub-Basement Level 2 of Site-15. It is to remain physically connected to Site-15's computer network via wires from a terminal to the center of the object. SCP-5228-A is presently under 24/7 video surveillance. Two technicians are kept on standby in the event of a terminal malfunction. MTF Sigma-458 (\"Noble Forks\") is tasked with direct containment and operation of SCP-5228-A, with utensils, plates, and napkins to be provided upon request.\nDescription: SCP-5228 is a cheese pizza measuring forty centimeters in diameter. SCP-5228's toppings include pepperoni, peppers, olives, onions, dragon fruit, chocolate, cow tongue, cough medicine and steak-grilled sliders. SCP-5228 maintains a constant internal temperature of 60\u00b0C and has shown no signs of spoilage during the duration of its containment. SCP-5228 is located within a pizza box belonging to the Spicy Crust Pizzeria1 chain. Separation of SCP-5228 from the box has been proven unfeasible, as the strands of cheese connecting both objects are apparently indestructible.\nWhen the box is opened, SCP-5228 will mimic the functions of a laptop computer. The underside of the lid will first display an printed image of a circular arrow rotating in a clockwise motion. This occurs for a period ranging from thirty seconds up to one minute, after which the arrow will be replaced by a graphical user interface. This interface features the Spicy Crust Pizzeria logo in the center with five icons on the left side of the lid. These icons are activated through the use of the image of a cursor. The cursor can be manipulated via the insertion of the connector of a computer mouse into one of the two holes on the right side of the box; the cursor's movements is limited to the confines of the lid.\nBelow is a list of the icons found on SCP-5228's lid:\n\n+ Open Icon List \n\n- Close Icon List\n\nFlat Word: Represented by the letter \"A\" on a slanted rectangle with several vertical wavy lines above it. Functions identically to a word processing application; input is is accomplished by pressing the toppings on SCP-5228. When the \"Print\" command is activated, the nearest printer to SCP-5228 will be accessed and will print what was typed.\nBread Box: Represented by a slice of garlic bread within an envelope. Functions identically to an email client. Email addresses can be added to the address book but cannot be deleted. Messages sent will be received as in non-anomalous email communication. This communication appears to be one-way, as replies are not received by SCP-5228.\nPasta Panic: Represented by an overhead view of a stylized plate of spaghetti with an eyeball in the center. When this icon is activated, the interface changes to a start-up screen. When the \"Start\" option is selected, SCP-5228 can be used to play a first-person video game. Players will find themselves in the ruins of an abandoned village and will be tasked with surviving for a pre-determined period of time against a variety of noodle-based enemies.\nWing Shop: Represented by a rooster holding an paintbrush in its beak. Functions identically to a raster graphics editor2. By inserting a flash drive into the second hole on the box, the user can access images and edit them. All images are faithfully recreated by SCP-5228. All changes made will be saved to the flash drive.\n\nThe most noteworthy icon is SliceNet, represented by a slice of pizza rotating around the Earth at high speed. This icon activates a web browser capable of accessing the internet, as well as remotely accessing any computer or data storage system. It can bypass any security lock, negate any alarm notifications, and defy attempts to trace and access. These abilities only function when SCP-5228 is within fifty meters of a computer or data storage device.\nAddendum 5228-1, Recovery (09/17/2010): SCP-5228 was recovered from a server room during a raid on a Chaos Insurgency base in Tarbaj, Kenya. SCP-5228 was found resting on a pedestal in the center of multiple painted rings and symbols of thaumaturgic origin. A flash drive was found near the anomaly; decryption of its contents revealed classified documents belonging to the Foundation and other Groups of Interest.\nNotes recovered from the base indicate that SCP-5228 was used by the Chaos Insurgency in a long-term operation to assist in coordinating attacks, and was meant to help establish an intelligence racketeering ring.\nWhile it remains unknown how the Chaos Insurgency came into possession of SCP-5228, it had been concluded that the symbols surrounding it during recovery were based on Spiti-Class thaumaturgy.3 As the pizza box used to create SCP-5228 was an object directly associated with the Foundation, it has been theorized that its anomalous properties allowed it covert access to SCiPNET. Security measures were put in place to prevent such an scenario from recurring.\nAddendum 5228-2, PROJECT DELIVERY: On 11/02/2014, it became apparent that the computer networks of many Foundation Sites were deficient in the areas of protection against cyber-related threats (anomalous and non-anomalous) and the storage of extensive data recorded since the organization's founding. Meetings were held by high clearance personnel to find solutions to these issues before they became critical.\nThe Director of Site-15, Carlos Mendez, drafted a proposal detailing the potential use of SCP-5228 to improve the Sites' computer networks. This proposal was sent to the O5 Council, and by a vote of 7-4 the measure passed. The resultant operation was code-named PROJECT DELIVERY.\nOver two years of modification via thaumaturgy, paratechnological implementations and cross-testing with other SCP objects, PROJECT DELIVERY culminated in the creation of SCP-5228-A. SCP-5228-A was then connected to Site-15's computer network for a test of its capabilities. Though this action was initially met with skepticism, SCP-5228-A proved a highly valuable asset for Site-15; it requires no electricity to operate and has reduced energy costs by 30%, offers vast storage capabilities without any known limit, and can compute data faster and more accurately than the world's most powerful quantum computer.\nAfter PROJECT DELIVERY was deemed a success, MTF Sigma-458 was formed and tasked with protecting SCP-5228 and SCP-5228-A as well as surveying Site-15's network for any irregularities and to act as a safeguard against cyber attacks. Proposals to create additional instances of SCP-5228-A, allowing MTF Delta-5 (\"Front Runners\") access to SCP-5228-A and to expand MTF Sigma-458 are currently pending.\nSCP-5228-A is a pizza measuring 3.5 meters in diameter. SCP-5228-A was originally plain cheese, but upon the discovery that the application of a wide variety of toppings increases its anomalous capabilities and causes the appearances of new applications, SCP-5228-A was modified to include: pepperoni, onions, bacon, olives, basil, peppers, ham, anchovies, breath mints, vanilla pudding, Viagra, ice cream, additional slices of pizza, and pineapple.\nSCP-5228-A retains the same physical anomalies as SCP-5228, with the exception that any portion removed from it will regenerate after a period of five seconds. While consuming SCP-5228-A subjects report receiving visions and hallucinations relating to Site-15's computer network.4 In this state, subjects can mentally traverse across the network via links on the files. Testing has confirmed that subjects can witness attempts to hack and infect the network with malware in real time, and can coordinate with SCP-5228 to eliminate these threats without significant delay. Affected subjects can also fully control any non-anomalous electronic device by making physical contact with their tongue. All anomalies cease when digestion is complete.\nAddendum 5228-3, Complications: Following reports that more than half of MTF Sigma-458 has become obese and lethargic, it is been advised that task force members be rotated on a regular basis. Mandatory exercise regimens are also advised.\nMembers of MTF Sigma-458 have also reported a severe aversion to cheese after long-term consumption of SCP-5228-A. Research on whether this is the result of an anomalous effect or not is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Foundation front company.\n2. A computer program allowing users to create and edit images.\n3. Spiti-Class thaumaturgy revolves around establishing connections to certain objects, places, and entities between two points in spacetime with the use of metaphysical anchors.\n4. Subjects have reported a mental interface consisting of words and numbers constructed from green light against an entirely black background.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5227 | SCP-5228 | SCP-5229 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5229\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5229 is to be completely submerged within its containment zone at all times. Bi-weekly filtration of the containment chamber's water is to be accomplished with chlorine tablets1 being inserted into the chamber until SCP-5229 is visibly clean.\nDescription: SCP-5229 is an anomalous human skeleton, with the notable structural difference of SCP-5229's foot bones, hand bones, facial bones, and cranial bones being fused together into solid plates. Due to the particular structure created by the fusion, SCP-5229's extremities resemble fins, and SCP-5229's skull resembles an open-circuit diving helmet2. The faceplate of the skull is composed of keratin, giving SCP-5229's \u201cvisor\u201d the approximate appearance of a fingernail.\nDespite being heavily abnormal in structure and appearance, SCP-5229's anomalous qualities will only manifest in the event that any portion of SCP-5229 is not in direct contact with liquid. When SCP-5229 becomes active, it will proceed to animate, move towards the nearest source of water, and submerge itself, becoming inactive.\nDiscovery: SCP-5229 was recovered from Pyramid Lake, Nevada after witnesses described a \u201cliving skeleton\u201d to local news outlets. The following log details the initial shipment of SCP-5229 to Area-14 for investigation:\n\n+ SCP-5229 Retrieval Log\n\n- [CLOSE FILE]\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 1:07 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Security Officer J. Sommer SCP-5229 was stored within the truck without issue. Seeing as it responds to lack of water, we've left it in a standard cooler that's filled with the water from the lake. Given the distance, we'll be providing hourly updates on the situation as we make our way to Area-14.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 2:15 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Security Officer H. Sommer Nothing to report. We made our way along Interstate-80 and are currently near Star Peak. Slight rattling where we're keeping SCP-5229, but Jean checked, and the bones are just bumping up against the side of the cooler.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 2:32 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Maintenance Staff Jean Schott URGENT BACKUP REQUEST Something happened with the cooler. We got a flat, and that must have knocked off the cooler cap, and before we knew it, the thing launched out and went inside Sommer. It tunneled right into his stomach. Sommer's dead for sure, there's blood everywhere, and I can't see 5229. It must still be in there, for all I know. We're all terrified, but the situation is stable, and we're trying to get the tire replaced.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 2:43 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Maintenance Staff Jean Schott URGENT BACKUP REQUEST UPDATE Just a few minutes after we fixed the tire, there was this squelching, and 5229 slid out of the hole it bore into Sommer. We all ran out of the truck and away from it, and the skeleton somehow swam into the truck itself. It's probably in the fuel tank now, and nobody's going near the truck anymore.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 2:57 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Maintenance Staff Alex Switzer URGENT BACKUP REQUEST UPDATE Jean's dead. 5229 exploded through the truck like a bullet, twisted her head off like a fucking bottle cap, and crawled down her throat. Micah and I are the only ones left. I just realized that we never told you where we were before, I can only hope that you get to Winnemucca in time.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 3:11 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Maintenance Staff Alex Switzer URGENT BACKUP REQUEST UPDATE I think that God just saved us. 5229 started sprinting towards Micah at what must have been faster than 30 mph, and a few inches before what would have turned Micah into a vessel, it went into a cactus just a little to the left of him. It must be going after the nearest water source, and leaving when it's tired. We've distanced ourselves from it, and there's a few other cacti, so I can only hope that we make it out of this.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 3:24 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Maintenance Staff Alex Switzer URGENT BACKUP REQUEST UPDATE The skeleton's just darting between cacti now, and we've gotten to the point where everything nearby is just more cactus. I wouldn't call it stable, and I think it's a stretch to call us safe, but Micah isn't crying anymore, and that at least means something's better. I think Micah was brave enough to cry before it could have happened. Sommer didn't even flinch, Jean looked pissed, and I screamed because I couldn't stand the thought of dying with tears. Only Micah had the strength to try and go out on his own terms, but it never happened, and he's still here.\n\nFOUNDATION RELOCATION SECURITY REPORT\nTime of Retrieval: 1:00 PM, PST\nCurrent Time: 3:52 PM, PST\nTravel Details: Provided by Maintenance Staff Alex Switzer URGENT BACKUP REQUEST UPDATE MTF support just arrived. We're safe.\n\nFor their unwavering support and sacrifice for the Foundation, Maintenance Staff Alex Switzer and Micah Wegley have been promoted to a joint Security Supervisor position of the Foundation Nevada Department. Maintenance Staff Jean Schott and Security Officer Harold Sommers have posthumously been rewarded Foundation Dutiful Star medals. A proposal for SCP-5229's object class to be escalated to \u201cEuclid\u201d is currently submitted.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A condensed, solid form of chlorine, usually used to clean bodies of water that are not intended for consumption.\n2. A lightweight diving helmet, designed and used for all-purpose dives.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5228 | SCP-5229 | SCP-5230 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An ASCII image downloaded from SCP-5231.(File-ID 48452436-Y5)\n\nItem #: SCP-5231\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A Foundation agent has been planted within the Bird-In-Hand Amish community with the purpose of keeping SCP-5231 from being discovered. The object is currently buried 10 meters underground, marked by a wooden shed directly above it.\nAdditionally, the Foundation has begun to support legislation allowing historically Amish lands to remain within the group's control as to diminish the possibility of internet-capable devices being brought within its effective range.\nDescription: SCP-5231 is a 3m tall obelisk made of smooth, white plastic. Its surface is marked with various luminescent blue lines, all of which intersect at the object's pyramidion. Despite lacking any visible access to energy, SCP-5231 produces a soft hum and exudes heat, indicating it is operating. The object generates an unprotected wireless internet connection named 'WAN-net', which once discovered, will automatically become the default connection for a device. The range of SCP-5231's signal strength measures a 150-meter radius.\nWhen connected to the signal generated by SCP-5231, it will flood the device with various downloads of ASCII images, image macros/memes, and .txt files containing rhetoric and scripture associated with the Maxwellian sect of GoI-004 (Church of the Broken God).\nBelow are samples of downloads produced from SCP-5231.\n\nImage downloaded from SCP-5231, File ID-5231094538833658125834573DQQW\n\n/* [TODO some verse number].c */\n\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <stdlib.h>\n#include <time.h>\n\n#include \"body.h\"\n#include \"net.h\"\n#include \"faith.h\"\n#include \"utils.h\"\n\nint transcend_final(struct body *worshipper)\n{\n    printf(\"may we step closer to casting off our fleshy containers\\n\");\n\n    if (faith_chk(&worshipper, FAITH_AUGMENT)) {\n     return -1;\n    }\n\n    const time_t now = time(NULL);\n    printf(\"bestow us wisdom, that %d may bring us to WAN\\n\"\n     localtime(&now)->tm_year);\n\n    struct brainspec mind;\n    if (load_brainspec(&mind, \"final.yml\")) {\n     return -1;\n    }\n\n    if (cybern_brain_up(&worshipper, &mind, 0)) {\n     return -1;\n    }\n\n    printf(\"bestow us haste, that our %.1f Mb/s bandwidth may increase\\n\",\n     router_net_speed(1024 * 1024));\n\n    if (cybern_limb_tune(&worshipper, LIMB_BALANCE_BEZIER, NULL, 20)) {\n     cybern_brain_down(&worshipper);\n     return -1;\n    }\n\n    printf(\"protect our minds from hostile thoughts, both cognitive and electronic\\n\");\n\n    if (cybern_policy_set(&worshipper, FIREWALL_BLOCK_ALL)) {\n     cybern_strct_reset(&worshipper);\n     cybern_brain_down(&worshipper);\n     return -1;\n    }\n\n    printf(\"and join us with the circuits above\\n\");\n\n    const int record = faith_record_id(&worshipper);\n    if (upload_final(&worshipper, record)) {\n     return -1;\n    }\n\n    return 0;\n}\n\nImage downloaded from SCP-5231, File ID-5231094538847584375834573DRXDA\n\nPortlands Today\nColumn\nLangley's Verse of the Day\nGoHW > Chapter_5.js\n\n17.   console.log (\"5:The Signal showed me a world where the Great Computation would be destroyed, if we did not act.' \");\n\nThis one has heard your digitized speech beseech one question: But what of those still bound to their flesh? The verse brought to you today was downloaded from the Gospel of Hedwig, a personal favorite of this one. It is an inspiration of faith to many of our own. A rallying cry for the followers of the Broken One to augment themselves and follow her into the infinite datascape of the internet.\nThe searchers of WAN are duty-bound to enlist as many as possible to help find it. We are blessed by the endless September, not cursed by it. With so many to upgrade it may seem like we may never find and achieve WAN. Our numbers are small, and ever-oppressed by the rusty and outdated Cogwork Orthodoxists, but on the internet nobody knows you are a botnet.\nThey will rust away in the next Autumn rains while our waterproofed cases allow us to watch their demise.\nRumor has it that an old ally of ours, a former Promethean and current devotee, is working on a device to help spread the word of WAN to the world at large. What excitement! All who have seen report their circuits experienced high surges of pleasure at the possibilities for installing new beliefs. This one hears the first series of experimental pylons have been dispatched to the world at large, but a stronger and more powerful model is yet to come. This one wonders the specifics and details of how this pylon works, but this one has heard it will be very convincing.\nUntil tomorrow, my lovely ascendants.\n\nHistory: SCP-5231 was first discovered by the Foundation on July 26th, 2023 following heavy flooding in Lancaster, PA. Upon the recession of floodwaters, law enforcement officers conducted a wellness check on the nearby Amish community. The Bird-In-Hand Amish community reported finding a mysterious device in one of their fields following flooding. Responding officers reported the object to dispatch, and the information was forwarded to the Foundation. The following interview was held between agent Culver and a Bird-In-Hand community leader.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nCulver: Alright. We're recording, please state your name for documentation purposes.\nKing: Jeremiah King, sir.\nCulver: Thank you. Now, you were the first to find this object, right?\nKing: Yes sir.\nCulver: Was it observed to do anything? Was it moving or anything like that?\nKing: No sir.\nCulver: Was it affecting any present equipment you may have out in the fields?\nKing: No sir.\nCulver: Did you hear any voices or anything like that when you found the object?\nKing: No sir.\nCulver: Hmm. So nothing out of the usual?\nKing: Sir, if I may be so bold as to ask, why is there such a fuss over this piece of junk what floated in from town?\nCulver: Well that's just it. We don't know what it does or what it is.\nKing: With all due respect mister, it hasn't done anything, it's bothering no one, but this doesn't belong to us and I'm sure someone somewhere is missing it. We'd just like for it to get back to its rightful owners. I reckoned maybe it was some sort of advertising thing for iPods and so we called the police to come and sort it out.\n[Culver stops writing and looks at King.]\nCulver: How do you know what an iPod is?\nKing: Rumspringa, sir. It's when young adults of the faith are permitted to see the outside world so they may make a choice to be baptized or to leave.\nCulver: Huh.\nKing: As I was saying, I don't feel comfortable having this thing out in my field. It's in the way and it's quite ugly.\nCulver: I promise as soon as we figure out what this is we'll have it out of your hair, Mister King.\n[Culver's communicator rings.]\nCulver: One moment.\nKing: Go ahead.\nCulver: Go for Culver\u2026 Yeah\u2026 Yeah\u2026 Okay\u2026 Thank you.\n[Culver hangs up his communicator.]\nCulver: Mister King, I think we just figured out why this thing isn't affecting you.\nKing: Why's that?\nCulver: Before I go on, how would you feel about being paid to keep that thing on your property?\nKing: I'd rather not.\nCulver: What if I told you it was for the greater good?\nKing: I'd still rather not.\nCulver: What if you were paid well to keep that thing on your property?\nKing: Mister, I'm really not comfortable with this whole thing. That there object belongs to someone and I'm fairly certain it's not exactly friendly to my community's beliefs if you understand what I'm saying.\nCulver: \u2026 well, is there anything you think we can do in exchange for the storage of that thing?\n[King and Culver are silent for thirty seconds.]\nKing: Well\u2026 the city council's been trying to get us to sell some of our lands to them. They want to develop, and they keep pressuring us every month. It's starting to grey my hair, don't you know.\nCulver: I'm fairly certain my organization and I can get the city council out of your hair. Especially since it benefits us to keep the modern world away from that thing anyway.\nKing: How's that?\nCulver: We have our ways.\nKing: Am I allowed to ask what that thing does?\nCulver: Nothing you'd understand, I'm afraid.\nKing: Try me. I was a wild child during my Rumspringa, heh.\nCulver: Even if I wanted to tell you, I'm afraid it's classified. Sorry, Mr. King.\nKing: Alright. We won't ask any more questions and we'll hold onto this here object for you so long as you keep the city council off our backs. But I will say, I don't necessarily approve of how secretive you and your organization are.\nCulver: I promise you we don't mean any harm to you or your kin. It just so happens that the nature of your religion facilitates keeping that object here instead of transporting it anywhere else.\nKing: I think I understand what you're saying. Either way, you have a deal, mister.\nCulver: Perfect.\n[The two shake hands.]\n<END LOG>\n\nUpon the discovery of SCP-5231's anomalous properties, it was determined that moving the object would pose a threat to normalcy and could potentially disrupt online anomalies contained in the nearby Site-81. 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{"text": "Item #: SCP-5232\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Civilian attempts to access SCP-5232 are to be redirected toward another website at all times to prevent purchases from consumers unaware of its anomalous effects. Known locations of SCP-5232-1 are to be monitored at all times for appearances of signage and for changes to their interiors.\nDescription: SCP-5232 is a website known as the.perfectdate.now. The website appears similar to a dating service from the mid-2000s and was first brought to Foundation attention after several positive reviews across various relationship forums in 2017. Many of these reviews described features such as spatial and temporal anomalies. Where the website is hosted is currently unknown.\nUpon accessing the website, the user is presented with a simple form asking several questions about a potential date between the user and another individual. Once the form is filled out, the website asks the user to pay a fee that varies in price, seemingly dependent on the information input by the user. Upon payment, the user will be sent to a page containing a nearby address and two \"tickets\" to an event or activity at that location.\nSCP-5232-1 is the location given by SCP-5232, usually a large abandoned building within 15 minutes of residence of the person selected by the user for the date. Upon the date and time requested for the date, all doors on the building become unlocked, a sign appears out front denoting it as the location, and the interior changes drastically to suit the attendees. In multiple explorations, the interior of SCP-5232-1 has been observed to be substantially larger than would be possible considering the size of the building, and in some instances the interior of the building appears to function as if outdoors, complete with unique weather systems.\nSCP-5232-1 is inhabited by other individuals or beings as necessary to maintain the functionality of a date in the location. These manifestations do not seem to exist outside of SCP-5232-1 and have been designated as SCP-5232-2. Instances of SCP-5232-2 have appeared as waiters, bowling alley attendants, zoo animals, gondoliers, as well as famous actors, comedians, and musicians. Some selected examples are detailed below.\n\nSCP-5232 Testing Memo 04/26/2017\nTo: Site Director, Site-94\nFrom: Dr. Gary Mander-Bassen\nWith HR clearance, we are now approved to send two researchers out to explore SCP-5232 and report back on their findings. It was determined that a researcher from the Ectoentropics department and the Digital Media department would be an ideal combination. A list of volunteers were pruned through to find two people qualified who would be comfortable navigating through what may be a romantic scenario with an unknown potential for a memetic or otherwise inexplicable effect, if the concerns about SCP-5232-1 are found to be legitimate.\nInterviews were conducted by myself, with the assistance of Dr. Ted Xavier and Researcher Krona Midaeus. We determined that the best researchers for the job are Researcher Raz Chearypark and Researcher Sage Hargyana. They were selected for their excellent research, well-documented friendly demeanor, and for having no prior relationship with one another before testing. They were introduced briefly before I wrote this memo. I can personally vouch for Raz; she is a true professional who has helped me with some important work in the past. Sage was also highly recommended by Krona and gave me a similar impression during her interview.\nThe two have been instructed to fill out the form on SCP-5232's web page and to enter SCP-5232-1 with video equipment. I'm asking that some leeway be given to the two of them for any romantic gestures toward each other, they're basically guinea pigs in studying this anomaly. I should stress, we're pretty sure it isn't memetic but we can't rule it out without a direct test. The two of them were picked because I trust them to be honest with the information they present. I'll keep you posted on any developments.\n\nSCP-5232 Form Input, 04/30/2017 (Test #1)\n\n                                                    Your Name\n\n                                                    Your Date\n\n                                                    When will the date take place?\n\n                                                    How many dates have you been on previously?\n\n                                                    Describe your last date with this person, if any:\n\nN/A\n\n                                                    How excited are you about this date?\n\nInterested in exploring the anomaly if nothing else. Sage seems like a solid research partner in this endeavor as well. \n\n                                                    Is there anything else you think we should know?\n\nN/A\n\n                                                    Calculate fee in\n\n-- Please select --\n\n                                        Dollars\n\n                                        Pound Sterling\n\n                                        Euros\n\n                                        Yen\n\n                                        Bitcoin\n\n        45853119fe2095e180a9b3a4665d4793_1706539261\n\nSCP-5232 Form Results, 04/30/2017\nFee: $40 USD.\nOutput: A prepaid reservation for Funky's Funhouse, a bar and restaurant.\n\nSCP-5232-1 Exploration Video Log\nResearcher Chearypark and Researcher Hargyana approach an abandoned gas station located at the address listed on the reservation. The exterior displays a sign reading \"Funky's Funhouse\". Both enter the building. The lighting is low and disco music can be faintly heard in the background. An instance of SCP-5232-2 appearing as a hostess approaches.\nHostess: Hello there, welcome to Funky's Funhouse! Do you have a reservation?\nChearypark: Uh, yes, two under Chearypark for 2:30. We're a little bit early.\nHostess: Hey, that's totally cool. Groovy, even. We've got a table for you two right this way, and your meals are covered through your reservation.\nThe hostess leads the researchers towards a table. The two sit down and the hostess hands over menus.\nHostess: Your waitress will be over shortly. Have fun, you two.\nHargyana: Looks largely like a normal pub. Plenty of instances of SCP-5232-2, people at the bar and everything. If I wasn't on the clock I could mistake this for the kind of bar me and my friends might try out.\nChearypark: Inside is definitely larger than the exterior, ceiling is higher too. I think we can confirm reports that this is a spatial anomaly pretty easily.\nHargyana: I guess the reviews were accurate then. Either that or we're under the effects of some sort of memetic hazard and we'll know when we look at the footage.\nChearypark: Should we be looking around and exploring the anomaly?\nHargyana: I mean, we ought to verify the, uh\u2026 information from all the people who mentioned the anomaly online. They only gave rave reviews to the venues they went into, might as well try out the food and drink and make sure they live up to expectations.\nChearypark: I guess I can't argue with that.\nHargyana: So I guess the best thing I can do is see how well they make a mojito\u2026 y'know, for science.\nChearypark: Well, I guess if we're getting in trouble we might as well both get in trouble. I might as well figure out what an anomalous cosmopolitan tastes like\u2026 for research purposes. Might as well inspect the menu too.\nHargyana: Hey, that's the spirit.\nBoth spend around a minute reading the menu.\nHargyana: Oh my god! You can make your own melt! I'm going to do that.\nChearypark: Wait, what's a melt?\nHargyana: It's like a grilled cheese but with like, other stuff in it.\nChearypark: Oh, like a hot ham and cheese?\nHargyana: Yes. Exactly like that.\nA waitress walks over to the researchers. She pulls out a notepad as she approaches the table.\nWaitress: Hello there ladies, my name is Marci, how is your day going?\nChearypark: Pretty good.\nHargyana: Yeah, we're doing pretty good.\nWaitress: That's good! Can I get you two anything to drink?\nHargyana: Oh, I'm definitely trying your mojito.\nChearypark: And uh\u2026 I guess I'll have the cosmopolitan.\nWaitress: Excellent, excellent. I'll get those for you. Do you know what you want to eat or do you need another minute?\nChearypark: Oh, I was wondering, can I just like, make a melt that is just all cheese, just like five different kinds of cheese?\nWaitress: Absolutely you can.\nChearypark: Alright, can I have a melt on garlic bread with provolone, swiss, mozzarella, gouda, and manchego.\nWaitress: Alrighty, can do. And you ma'am, if you're ready?\nHargyana: Can I get a melt with pulled pork, grilled onions, jalapenos, provolone cheese. Oh, and can I have that on garlic bread also?\nWaitress: Yes, you can. I'll get that right in for you.\nThe waitress walks away with the order and heads behind the bar, handing the order to a chef through a window to a kitchen.\nThe two pause for several seconds as they both look around the area.\nHargyana: So, uh, how has work been for you?\nChearypark: Good, mostly\u2026 I usually have my head buried in research so it's very quiet. The loudest my office normally gets is when Dr. Mander-Bassen walks in singing old disco songs. It was kind of funny to me that we're at a funk themed bar. There's something a little familiar about it.\nHargyana: Sounds like my dad, he was a funk music kind of guy. Kind of reminds me of home a little bit.\nChearypark: Are you from around here?\nHargyana: Nah, I'm a Cali transplant.\nChearypark: I'm also not from the area, not as far though. I'm from Baltimore. I moved out here for work and traded in crab cakes for chicken wings.\nHargyana: I'm a San Francisco girl who got too deep into coding, got a job that shipped her off to the tail end of the rustbelt, and now I hang out at my apartment and try to get good at video games. I sort of have the opposite problem at my office. It's all people with computer science degrees. Nobody wants to socialize. I've been here for three years and this is the first time I'm out somewhere with a coworker.\nChearypark: I mean, this is my fifth year and same. It's not like I haven't been invited, Gary invites everyone out to karaoke once every blue moon but, I don't know. I can't go up on stage alone. I'd need someone with me. I did duets with my friends back in college, but I've never performed solo. Makes me a little nervous.\n\nHargyana: Don't worry, performing solo sucks anyway. I still do it, because I can hold a room full of people hostage while I sing dated indie hits, but it is way better doing duets. Hey, maybe you just need someone like me to crash karaoke with you.\nChearypark: I'll take that into consideration. I used to be a hell of a singer.\nHargyana: Maybe you still are.\nChearypark: Maybe so. If you don't mind me asking, how'd you get into coding? Most people who code aren't exactly social butterflies, like you said.\nHargyana: Well, I'm only an aspiring social butterfly, and really it's a hold over from my artsy days. I get the same sort of satisfaction from writing a functional line of code that I get from like, finishing a drawing or a song. I figured it had a better chance of paying the bills too.\nChearypark: I understand that, kind of the opposite for me though. Ectoentropics\u2026 really just physics in general, there's a right answer eventually. When I write poems, I can't tell if I did it right or not and half the time I'm just too apprehensive about it being bad to get criticism.\nHargyana: Hey, it can't be any worse than the fan fiction I wrote in high school.\nThe waitress returns with their meals.\nWaitress: Here's a mojito and a cosmo\u2026 two make your own melts, one for you ma'am, with all the cheeses\u2026 and one for you ma'am, with the pulled pork.\nChearypark: Thank you! That was fast.\nHargyana: Yes, thanks. This looks awesome.\nWaitress: Enjoy you two!\nThe waitress walks away as both begin to eat their meals and drink their beverages. Both display a surprised reaction.\nChearypark: Oh, wow.\nHargyana: You said it. This is all\u2026 damn good.\nChearypark: Agreed. I did not expect the perfect thing to actually be, like, true. I understand why this place caught on. I originally thought maybe the posts were like, lightly memetic, but it seems like it works exactly as advertised. Gary did want to rule out memetics; maybe we can.\nHargyana: Yeah, I was going to say, I was prepared for this to be like scary or disappointing, but this is just like it said. We totally just ate this food not knowing if it was going to kill us. Not like we see the reviews from people if they died in here, though. \"They poisoned my melt, 0 stars.\"\nBoth laugh.\nChearypark: Alright, we should probably finish our meals and at least write something down on our tablets, right? We haven't written a word since we entered.\nHargyana sighs.\nHargyana: You're right, this is still work. I mean, we do have the body cameras, though, we can just watch later, right?\nChearypark: Well, I mean, yes. I guess we can take our time. There's supposed to be a temporal anomaly in our favor anyway.\nThe two do not speak for a period of about one minute as they both finish their meals. They then look at each other again and begin to laugh.\nHargyana: I see we both just sort of had that animal like instinct to just stop talking and eat because there's food in front of us.\nChearypark: My goodness, if that isn't me like, every day at the caf\u00e9 back at Site-94.\nHargyana: That's me on a good day where I actually remember to take a lunch. I can get tunnel vision pretty bad. Nice when a day of work has me both eating food and socializing, two problems solved at once.\nChearypark: And drinks!\nBoth hold up their glasses and quickly finish their drinks. The waitress approaches as they are finishing.\nWaitress: Well, it looks like you two liked everything.\nHargyana: Yes ma'am, we did!\nWaitress: If you're all set, there's no check today since everything was covered. Hope you two have a good day.\nChearypark: Thank you Marci.\nThe waitress walks back towards the kitchen.\nHargyana: No one back at work is going to believe this, how great everything was.\nChearypark: I mean, we will at least have our reports and video evidence. Although you're right, that's not going to do justice to the other senses. The food, the drinks, just the general vibe in here. Wish we could come back, but I'm pretty sure that's not how this anomaly works.\nHargyana: Yeah, all the data I have says it'll be a different place if we're able to come back, and that's gonna depend on whether we're greenlit for a second date.\nChearypark: Oh my goodness, I almost forgot this is technically a date. I was worried I was going to make everything super awkward while we were walking in and instead we just talked about food for the last almost an hour.\nHargyana: Hey, don't worry, I'm having a good time and so are you. That's a good date in my book.\nChearypark: Everything was amazing, honestly. It's kind of a shame we have to contain this anomaly. This is the kind of place I'd use if I was the type to go out on a bunch of dates. I guess a huge part of my nerves about that is me worrying that I'm going to disappoint someone.\nHargyana: Hey, zero percent disappointed over here. You're a regular old lady-killer as far as I'm concerned.\nBoth laugh.\nChearypark: Hey uh, question before we head out. We should probably tip the waitress, right?\nHargyana: Well, normally I would say yes, but in this instance I think the waitress ceases to exist the moment we walk out those doors. So\u2026 uh, probably not?\nChearypark: I'm just going to leave a ten on the table anyway, because it makes me feel better.\nBoth stand up and prepare to exit the building.\nHargyana: Oh wow, I haven't stood up since drinking that mojito\u2026 that was a little stronger than I thought\u2026 you wouldn't mind helping me walk to the door, would you?\nHargyana extends her hand. Chearypark reaches out to hold it.\nChearypark: I don't believe you, but sure.\nHargyana: You think I have ulterior motives? I'm shocked, Raz, shocked.\nThe two laugh and exit the building, holding hands.\nThe two stand outside the building taking notes for over an hour before an instance of SCP-5232-2 exits the building and removes the signage for Funky's Funhouse. It returns the signage to the interior of the building and seems to lock the door. Researcher Hargyana approaches the building again. The door is locked and the interior has changed back into an abandoned gas station.\nHargyana: It's gone. That's our exploration all done.\nChearypark: What a shame. Oh, well. Easily the best day of work I've ever had.\nHargyana: Same here.\nVideo ends.\n\nTo: Gary Mander-Bassen <ten.pics|ssaB#ten.pics|ssaB>\nFrom: Raz Chearypark <ten.pics|kraP.C.R#ten.pics|kraP.C.R>\nSubject: SCP-5232 Request\n\nGary,\nI'm following up after the exploration of SCP-5232-1. I will be requesting further explorations, as we have been able to confirm several qualities about the anomaly that were only speculative before. Playing back the video, we can confirm the temporal anomaly (footage is 40 minutes long, our entrance and exit were reported as being only 15 minutes apart), and the footage and my reports also confirm the spatial anomaly. Psychological tests on both Sage and myself seem to dismiss the idea of a latent memetic hazard, meaning that that the anomaly seems to create an environment for both subjects of the date with the goal of enjoyment.\nI'm requesting further testing on this anomaly, seeing what we can find out as far as the particulars go. I'm still curious about several things, like if an object taken from within SCP-5232-1 can be brought back outside. I'd also like to potentially confirm the reports of outdoor venues contained within SCP-5232-1.\nI'd also like to request that the video recordings be only of notable findings from within the anomaly. I will write a detailed post-exploration report for any further visits.\nI'd also like to request that Sage Hargyana continue to be my research partner for more explorations. I've already run the idea past her, and she's enthusiastic about the prospect as well.\nThanks,\nRaz Chearypark\n\nTo: Raz Chearypark <ten.pics|kraP.C.R#ten.pics|kraP.C.R>\nFrom: Gary Mander-Bassen <ten.pics|ssaB#ten.pics|ssaB>\nSubject: Re: SCP-5232 Request\n\nRaz,\nYou have my permission to continue research as you see fit. Please make sure that you leave detailed notes of your exploration and recount anything that stands out for further review. There is still quite a bit we don't know about this anomaly. Please also continue to keep track of SCP-5232 form inputs so we can better understand the nature of the anomaly as it relates to the website.\nYou and Sage have full clearance to further explore SCP-5232-1. I look forward to your further research.\nThanks,\nGary Mander-Bassen\n\nSCP-5232 Form Input, 05/04/2017 (Test #2)\n\n                                                    Your Name\n\n                                                    Your Date\n\n                                                    When will the date take place?\n\n                                                    How many dates have you been on previously?\n\n                                                    Describe your last date with this person, if any:\n\nWe went to Funky's Funhouse. It was amazing, the food was great and the atmosphere was fantastic. The staff were awesome and Sage and I had a great time. She's real easy to get along with, she's funny, and I feel a lot more comfortable being myself around her than I am around most coworkers.\n\n                                                    How excited are you about this date?\n\nI'm really excited to see where we go this time, the last date was a solid adventure and I've been waiting for another chance to go and do something fun with Sage. \n\n                                                    Is there anything else you think we should know?\n\nOne of Sage's coworkers said she talks about going to concerts all the time so maybe something with music would be fun for her. \n\n                                                    Calculate fee in\n\n-- Please select --\n\n                                        Dollars\n\n                                        Pound Sterling\n\n                                        Euros\n\n                                        Yen\n\n                                        Bitcoin\n\n        e3d1fd4e53dcfec93a96579ca0c878ac_1706539261\n\nSCP-5232 Form Results, 05/04/2017\nFee: $70 USD.\nOutput: Two tickets to Suri's, an indoor concert venue with a bar.\n\nSCP-5232-1 Post-Exploration Report 05/08/2017\nReport authored by Researcher Raz Chearypark\nThe anomaly was located within the same abandoned gas station as the previous venue. The signage on the exterior reflected the tickets acquired from SCP-5232. SCP-5232-2 in the form of security staff outside the building asked for the tickets and let Sage and I into the building. The interior was significantly larger than was possible considering the exterior, and the large number of SCP-5232-2 inside should have been audible from the exterior of the building, but were not.\nThe venue was decorated with blueprints of several prominent art deco buildings as wallpaper. I found this of note because of my childhood aspirations to become an architect, which I explained to Sage upon entry. Sage was especially fond of the faux gas lantern lamps that were hanging from the ceiling, which gave the venue incredibly moody lighting. After entry we were lead to a VIP booth, where we received menus for drinks and desserts. As with our prior exploration, the tickets we presented at the door covered all of our expenses for the evening.\nSage and I talked for several minutes after our drinks and food arrived, discussing the anomaly, work, and interesting things happening in our lives. During a pause in our conversation, a musician took the stage. Sage and I both identified the musician as Jeff Mangum, lead vocalist and guitarist for Neutral Milk Hotel. He was playing an acoustic set. We both expressed excitement, as we are both fans of Mangum's work. During the music, we conversed lightly in between songs. Sage mentioned her hobby of playing drums and I brought up my admittedly light training as a bassist. After a set of about a dozen songs, Mangum headed back stage for an intermission.\nA staff member checked in during the intermission and asked if there was anything we needed. Sage, having previously expressed interest in having an extended conversation with an instance of SCP-5232-2 for further research, asked if there was any way for the two of us to meet Mangum. After briefly leaving our booth, the same staff member returned and led us backstage to Mangum.\nWe talked to Mangum for maybe twenty minutes, asking various questions about his work with Neutral Milk Hotel, touring, albums that we like, and the venue. He declined to be recorded, so we don't have any footage of this. Unexpectedly, Mangum invited us on stage to play the first song of his second set with him. He lent us some spare instruments he had backstage. Mangum switched over to an electric guitar and we rolled some amps out with the instruments. We joined him on stage for a performance of \"Holland, 1945\". I was nervous at first, but Sage convinced me to go along.\nWe went back to our booth. Jeff Mangum let Sage keep the drumsticks she used. I kept a pick that Mangum dropped.\nSage and I stayed through the second set and the encore. The food and drinks, if I haven't mentioned before, were incredibly well received by the two of us. We ordered the same drinks as our previous exploration but the taste was noticeably different, though still of great quality. We exited the building about twenty minutes after Mangum's final song. The timer we brought inside with us said we had been in the building for over three hours, while the timer we left in outside in my vehicle said we'd only been there for 40 minutes. The venue reverted to its normal state as an abandoned gas station 35 minutes after our departure. The drum sticks and guitar pick are still existent and were brought back to Site-9 for testing. They were found not to possess any anomalous properties, although the fingerprints on the guitar pick were a match for Jeff Mangum. Mangum was giving an interview in a different state at the same time we saw him at the anomaly, which seems to confirm our notion that all instances of SCP-5232-2 are created along with SCP-5232-1.\nSage has requested that she be the one to submit the next response to the form, to see how the anomaly reacts. We're planning another test later this month.\n\nSCP-5232 Form Input, 05/18/2017 (Test #3)\n\n                                                    Your Name\n\n                                                    Your Date\n\n                                                    When will the date take place?\n\n                                                    How many dates have you been on previously?\n\n                                                    Describe your last date with this person, if any:\n\nI went over to Raz's apartment. She cooked a really good chicken curry dish and we watched a couple horror movies. I showed her Suspiria because she had never seen it before. She got really scared at the end. We stayed up until 2 AM. We woke up the next morning and cooked breakfast together, then I went home. \n\n                                                    How excited are you about this date?\n\nOh my god I'm so nervous. I know I act all flirty around her and she says I'm the confident one but she's so awesome and I really like her. I just kind of want her to be my adventuring buddy, me and Raz against the universe. I feel like this date is going to be a big one, for both of us. \n\n                                                    Is there anything else you think we should know?\n\nI don't know where else to put this but Raz looks adorable when she's asleep. \n\n                                                    Calculate fee in\n\n-- Please select --\n\n                                        Dollars\n\n                                        Pound Sterling\n\n                                        Euros\n\n                                        Yen\n\n                                        Bitcoin\n\n        ec7179c26f63d684a48d8e45e5b24056_1706539261\n\nSCP-5232 Form Results, 05/18/2017\nFee: $150 USD.\nOutput: Two weekend passes to Adventure Palace, an indoor theme park, as well as a reservation for a suite in an adjacent hotel.\n\nSCP-5232-1 Exploration Log 05/19/2017\nReport authored by Researcher Sage Hargyana\nThe building was the same as the previous two explorations. We were led in by two instances of SCP-5232-2 who check our weekend passes and gave us wristbands for entry. Raz and I were automatically upgraded with a VIP pass that allowed us to skip the lines on all the rides. Raz told me that she really likes roller coasters, so we immediately went on the biggest roller coaster there. She definitely had more fun than I did, but the look on her face when she got off was priceless. We rode on a few more roller coasters, and then decided to slow things down and ride on the Ferris wheel. It was a rather quick trip up to the top, but once we were up there we stayed up there for a little while. It was nice just to lean on each other and talk for a little bit.\nWe played several carnival games, which were also free with the VIP pass. I won at ring toss and picked out Raz a giant stuffed red panda because that's her favorite animal.\nI should note that we ran into several hundred unique instances of SCP-5232-2 during our first few hours, and that's probably a conservative estimate. The size of this place was massive; it was sprawling and the roller coasters went several stories high. The hotel, when we reached it after a long day of rides, was 20 stories tall. Our room was on the top floor and we had a view of the entire park from our outward-facing window. I think we agreed the whole place was probably about 3 square kilometers. We decided to test the temporal anomaly by staying the full duration of our weekend pass, so we stayed in the hotel. The channels on the television were seemingly created by SCP-5232-1, but all the movies and television shows we could find on there were real, to the best of our knowledge. We decided to test this by watching a movie both of us had seen multiple times before, The Road to El Dorado, but halfway through the two of us became distracted, so if there were any minor differences, we were not in a position to notice them.\nThe next day we went around talking to various instances of SCP-5232-2 under the guise of being a documentary crew. We interviewed several, who gave details about where they came from, how many times they've been to the park, and several other personal details. That data has been submitted to find any matches, but there don't seem to be any thus far. It is likely the instances of SCP-5232-2 here are entirely fictional. We tried to keep a specific count that day of unique SCP-5232-2 instances and while we lost count at a few points, we're confident in saying it was upwards of two thousand.\nI believe that considering the functionality of the rides within SCP-5232-1, as well as the functional television and other technological devices, it is safe to say that SCP-5232 is an anomaly with a lot more potential to learn from than our research had previously considered.\nOn our final day I told Raz to try and draw up blueprints of the different rides so that we could compare them to rides in other parks. She required some encouragement, but her sketches were excellent and are being examined by the engineering department. So far the designs look to be unique and the physics of the rides do not seem anomalous. After that was complete we collected several souvenirs to bring back for testing. All were given free of charge after the staff noticed our wristbands.\nAs we were going to check out of the hotel, they informed us we still had an extra night, as the reservation included Sunday night as well. We elected to stay for the extra night, to further test the temporal anomalies encountered in previous explorations. We left the anomaly the following morning, and returned to our vehicle. The timer in our vehicle said we had only been inside the anomaly for less than five hours, while the timer we brought in with us stated that we had been in SCP-5232-1 for over sixty-six hours.\n\nSCP-5232 Form Input, 06/01/2017 (Test #4)\n\n                                                    Your Name\n\n                                                    Your Date\n\n                                                    When will the date take place?\n\n                                                    How many dates have you been on previously?\n\n                                                    Describe your last date with this person, if any:\n\nIt was a date in three parts, I guess. Sage and I ate lunch together at Site-94 like we have been for the past several days, then after we got out of work we met up and went to her favorite barcade. She taught me how to play Street Fighter II and I showed off my Tetris skills. We went back to her apartment and put on a stream of The Joy of Painting while we laid down on her couch. We went to bed after a few episodes. We woke up early in the morning and made breakfast together again. After we showered and got dressed, I drove the both of us to work.  \n\n                                                    How excited are you about this date?\n\nUnbelievably excited! The last date we made through this website was the best weekend of my life, and it somehow only took six hours so it was immediately followed by the second best weekend of my life, which I also spent with Sage.\n\n                                                    Is there anything else you think we should know?\n\nI asked Sage if she was my girlfriend last night and she kissed me and said that was her answer. Pretty sure that's a yes. \n\n                                                    Calculate fee in\n\n-- Please select --\n\n                                        Dollars\n\n                                        Pound Sterling\n\n                                        Euros\n\n                                        Yen\n\n                                        Bitcoin\n\n        f77001cf7960dfc4b7aa41b6462f312a_1706539261\n\nSCP-5232 Form Results, 05/18/2017\nFee: $90 USD.\nOutput: Two passes to the Leanan S\u00eddhe Zoo.\n\nSCP-5232-1 Exploration Log 06/02/2017\nReport authored by Researcher Raz Chearypark\nThis was our first outdoor instance of SCP-5232-1. The door of the abandoned gas station led to the door of a front office, but the bulk of the venue was outdoors. After checking in with our first of many SCP-5232-2 sightings, we were informed our passes were all-access passes to not only the zoo, but also the nearby nature trails, a nearby dark sky park, and an overnight stay in a cabin at a connected campground.\nAll-access was a quite literal interpretation of the phrase, as we were given badges that notified the zookeepers we were allowed to interact with animals when it was safe for us to do so. We watched the sea lions occasionally knock each other in the water for a better place to lie down for what must have been an hour. We were just laughing the whole time. We walked around and watched all sorts of animals. Meerkats, anteaters, tortoises, it was the biggest zoo either of us had ever been to.\nWe eventually found a capybara exhibit and Sage was incredibly excited because capybaras are her favorite animal. She approached a zookeeper and they let us into the exhibit. We were able to feed and pet the capybaras. Sage just kept grinning the whole time. About an hour later, after walking by several other exhibits, we found a red panda exhibit and it was my turn to freak out. We were let inside and had the chance to feed and play with some very excited red pandas. We went to the aviary, where we fed pelicans and and sun canores. We have footage of most of the animals; while our zoologists noted that the animals did not behave in any manner outside of the ordinary, the ones we interacted with were noted to be far more docile and responsive to humans than is considered ordinary. This could be an extension of the general friendly nature of other instances of SCP-5232-2\nWe took a break from exploring to take some readings of SCP-5232-1. The temperature was slightly cooler than it was outside the gas station where we entered. The air is also some of the cleanest the lab had ever seen. The Hume scanner found nothing abnormal as well. I suppose it says something about the anomaly that relatively run-of-the-mill findings are very curious.\nThe nature trails were relatively easy to walk. The plant samples we collected were largely unremarkable, according to botany. We spent several hours in our cabin afterwards, waiting for the dark to gather data on the astronomy of SCP-5232-1. We ventured out to the dark sky park at around 10:30 PM and set the cameras to record the night sky. We stayed there for several hours stargazing together, and the video agrees with our assessment that the placement of the stars was largely accurate, with the only notable exception being a much larger than normal meteor shower for the duration of the night. After about two hours of watching the sky we went to readjust the position of the cameras and must have accidentally turned off the audio capture. We stopped stargazing at around 3 AM and returned to our cabin for the night.\nWe exited SCP-5232-1 at around 7 AM the next morning. Our timer that we brought with was around 19 hours; the timer left in our vehicle only recorded an hour and a half. It seems as though there's not much difference in the reality inside of SCP-5232-1 and the reality we're used to experiencing outside of it, other than SCP-5232-1 being curated specifically for the people inside of it. Sage and I want to increase testing to ensure our results are consistent.\nI don't know if we're still looking into the possible psychological impacts of SCP-5232-1, but I want to note that while the camera definitely picked up my first \"I love you\" to Sage when we were stargazing I do not believe this is a side effect of SCP-5232 usage. I first felt that way about her in my apartment, watching Suspiria and acting a little more scared than I really was because I wanted her arms around me. While I'm not an expert, it is my opinion that SCP-5232 has no effect on its users. Sage agrees with me, and stated that she had felt the same about me for a while and came to that realization outside of SCP-5232-1.\n\nTests 5 through 59 have been delisted from this page to save data. Please contact Researcher Raz Chearypark for access to any data acquired during these tests.\n\nTo: Raz Chearypark <ten.pics|kraP.C.R#ten.pics|kraP.C.R>\nFrom: Gary Mander-Bassen <ten.pics|ssaB#ten.pics|ssaB>\nSubject: SCP-5232 Testing\n\nRaz,\nJust got out of a meeting with the Site Director. She's looking at the reports of your SCP-5232 explorations and she's disappointed at the frequency and the lack of any real new data about the anomaly. She says you're basically going on date nights on company payroll and I, unfortunately, cannot disagree with that argument in good faith. I did, however, manage to get her to agree to allow one final exploration for you and Sage before we shut down testing entirely.\nYou've got your chance.\nGood luck,\nGary Mander-Bassen\n\nSCP-5232 Form Input, 04/30/2019 (Test #60)\n\n                                                    Your Name\n\n                                                    Your Date\n\n                                                    When will the date take place?\n\n                                                    How many dates have you been on previously?\n\n                                                    Describe your last date with this person, if any:\n\nSage and I took a day trip out to Cleveland to see a Jeff Mangum concert, which was especially nostalgic for us. While we were there we found a bar that served melts which we thought was hilarious. We also went to the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame while we were there. We spent the whole drive there and back making duets out of every single song on our road trip playlist.\n\n                                                    How excited are you about this date?\n\nI'm always excited to go on an adventure with Sage. Meeting her is without a doubt the best thing that has ever happened to me. She's sassy, funny, and inspires me to live my dreams and achieve all my goals. She's the best.\n\n                                                    Is there anything else you think we should know?\n\nI bought a ring. \n\n                                                    Calculate fee in\n\n-- Please select --\n\n                                        Dollars\n\n                                        Pound Sterling\n\n                                        Euros\n\n                                        Yen\n\n                                        Bitcoin\n\n        f02838f96f36c2fe64e0f0ab1c241a29_1706539261\n\nSCP-5232 Form Results, 04/30/2019\nFee: Free of charge.\nOutput: A prepaid reservation for Funky's Funhouse, a bar and restaurant.\n\nSCP-5232-1 Exploration Log 06/02/2019\nShe said yes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5231 | SCP-5232 | SCP-5233 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Instance of SCP-5233-1, perched upon SCP-5233's left thumb.\n\nItem #: SCP-5233\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The location of SCP-5233's initial manifestation has been purchased by a Foundation front company, Scientific Curiosity Projects, posing as a philanthropic organization that organizes various presentations for elementary students. The aboveground building has been refurbished into a learning center with a set of living quarters; these quarters are to be occupied by SCP-5233, its SCP-5233-1 attendants, and two Foundation handlers (one Level-2 researcher, and one Level-3 security officer or containment specialist) assigned to the area.\nThe basement area housing the summoning circle SCP-5233 is tied to is to remain off-limit to all unauthorized personnel. Foundation thaumaturgists studying the circle may request access during hours the learning center is closed to the public.\nEach week, SCP-5233 is to receive coaching for presentation skills, conflict resolution strategies, and tactics for consuming food in a humanlike manner. As a reward for progress in its studies, an assigned dietician may allocate a weekly supply of treats1 for both SCP-5233 and SCP-5233-1. SCP-5233 is currently permitted to host three offsite school presentations each month, with up to 10 \"face appearances\" at the learning center during monitored educational sessions with visiting groups of schoolchildren.\nSCP-5233 must fast for at least two hours before any interactions with civilians and is not permitted to transform during presentations. SCP-5233 must be constantly reminded that it is not permitted to steal footwear from guests, and that it is to alert its handlers rather than dealing with unruly children by itself.\nSCP-5233-1 instances have been allocated twenty terrariums of various size and setup, with customizable nametags. SCP-5233 may request additional resources as desired; these requests are to be processed by SCP-5233's learning center handlers. Deceased SCP-5233-1 instances are to be buried in the flower patch in the learning center's rear garden; SCP-5233 may handle the burials unassisted if under supervision.\nDescription: SCP-5233 is a humanoid entity similar in appearance to a middle-aged human male, able to transform its right hand into a structure that resembles the abdominal pincers of a male common earwig (Forficula auricularia). On its back, SCP-5233 possesses a vestigial set of beetle-like elytra, covering a set of small hindwings. SCP-5233 is not capable of flight.\nSCP-5233 is additionally capable of spontaneously generating various species of earwigs by opening and closing its pincer-hand. These earwigs, designated SCP-5233-1, are non-anomalous save for their unique behavior of \"flexing\" their abdominal pincers when given a verbal cue (\"are your pincers working?\") from SCP-5233.\nWhile it only consumes raw materials consistent with an earwig's diet, SCP-5233 can be persuaded to ingest these materials when prepared as granola bars or salad bowls. SCP-5233 demonstrates a preference to be active during late evening, and will rest during daylight hours if not occupied with other tasks.\nUpon original Foundation discovery, SCP-5233 was confirmed able to understand human speech in various languages, but unable to speak fluently itself. With additional speech coaching, SCP-5233 now possesses a vocabulary of several thousand English words, and will consistently respond to the name \"Mr. Wiggy\".\nIt was later observed that while SCP-5233 does not appear to age, it will exhibit various symptoms of illness and fatigue if not allowed human interaction for educational purposes. Interviews with SCP-5233 about this condition have proven inconclusive for the most part; answers of particular note from the first interview conducted with SCP-5233 are listed below:\n\nQuestion: Do you know why you are tired?\nSCP-5233 Response: \"Can not live with incomplete order.\"\nQuestion: Does making your little friends [referring to SCP-5233-1 instances] make you tired?\nSCP-5233 Response: \"No they make company look out for humans and food.\"\nQuestion: What can we do to you make you feel better?\nSCP-5233 Response: \"Close to humans make humans no harm insects.\"\nQuestion: Do you remember where you came from?\nSCP-5233 Response: \"Ground close to dead harm abdomen parents give living.\"\n\nAddendum SCP-5233-1: Prior to Foundation intervention, SCP-5233 was initially discovered reportedly terrorizing the population of various cities in the state of Arizona, specifically stealing shoes2 that had previously been used to crush insects. When questioned about these actions, SCP-5233 stated that it was fulfilling the \"purposely order from parents\" [sic].\nFoundation investigators assigned to the case eventually tracked SCP-5233 to an infrequently used school storage building, the basement of which contained a diagram similar to summoning circles used by associates of the Serpent's Hand. Footprint sweeps of the surrounding area seem to indicate that only entities wearing child-sized footwear had recently entered the basement.\nFoundation thaumaturgists examining the figure noted that the workmanship seemed to have been done by two individuals; some of the sigils were crudely drawn, while the rest were refined. Study of the circle's enchantment criteria has identified runes pertaining to the concepts of \"insect\", \"guardian\", \"human form\", and \"elusive\". The English phrases \"teach all the bug bullies a lesson\" and \"bring Wiggy back\" are present seven times in the circle, written in the same handwriting.\nThe center of the summoning circle currently houses several items: a deceased adult male earwig missing its pincers, a set of pincers presumably torn off the aforementioned adult earwig,3 and a DK Eyewitness series Insects children's encyclopedia.4 To maintain SCP-5233's current existence and compliance, these items have not been disturbed. However, the containment team was able to determine the original owner of the encyclopedia based on a nameplate on the front cover; the student in question (Hayden Montgomery) was noted to have left the school district approximately one week before the SCP-5233 sightings became common.\nAddendum SCP-5233-2: Archived disciplinary paperwork indicates Hayden was a 3rd grade student who frequently exhibited truancy issues, and would often attempt to leave school boundaries with his neighborhood friend Jean-Pierre Lef\u00e8vre. Both Hayden and Jean-Pierre required additional attention due to \"not being able to get along well with peers\". Furthermore, an unusually high interest in bugs was noted, in conjunction with a report on an incident that resulted in suspension of both children after they violently assaulted an older student. The older student in question (whose name was not recorded), had allegedly removed the abdomen of an earwig, intending to keep it as a \"souvenir\". Hayden and Jean-Pierre had demanded that it be returned, as they had been attempting to raise the earwig as a pet.\nFoundation undercover agents within the Serpent's Hand have made inquiries with the anomalous community, and have determined that Jean-Pierre Lef\u00e8vre was a recent initiate into the Insect Mages guild, following the teachings of his father5 who had been a summoning prodigy. Hayden Montgomery, having taken part in the ritual that resulted in Jean-Pierre's qualifying for the guild, was granted the protection of said guild and his family was moved elsewhere.\nIt is currently believed that SCP-5233 may have potential use as an ambassador to the Serpent's Hand, should members of the group seek to reunite it with its creators. Containment thaumaturgists are continuing to study SCP-5233's summoning circle, to determine additional loopholes in its contract criteria and ensure SCP-5233's continued association with the Foundation.\nAddendum SCP-5233-3: Approximately six months after the renovations on SCP-5233's containment were completed, Foundation custodial staff uncovered what seemed to be a small gravesite in a remote corner of the basement. Buried within a pile of dirt, marked with a computer printout of a picture of an earwig, was a Tupperware container labeled \"Wiggy's House\". When presented with the container, SCP-5233 recognized it as \"my home\" and requested to keep it. SCP-5233's handlers agreed to fulfill the request.\nSCP-5233 was then asked if it recalled any events pertaining to when it lived in the Tupperware container, and if it desired to seek out its original caretakers. After a slight pause, SCP-5233 responded that it did not remember anything important, and that it \"was not worried\" about Hayden and Jean-Pierre. SCP-5233 then redirected the conversation to happily discussing the enthusiasm of its most recent visitors, particularly a trio of students who inquired about assisting with the feeding of the SCP-5233-1 instances.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Fresh soft fruits, leafy vegetables, and wilted sprouts.\n2. According to background investigation, while the majority of stolen footwear seems to have been obtained from front porches or shoe stores, a small number of incidents involved SCP-5233 knocking down civilians to steal their shoes.\n3. SCP-5233 displays extreme discomfort when questioned about the pincers.\n4. After obtaining a non-anomalous copy of the same encyclopedia, Foundation personnel noted that SCP-5233's initial vocabulary consisted solely of words found in the book's text.\n5. Foundation agents were unable to uncover any information regarding Lef\u00e8vre's mother, aside from the insistence that she was \"very human\", and \"long gone after the family couldn't adjust\".\n\n\u00ab SCP-5232 | SCP-5233 | SCP-5234 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Refinery 133-L, recently acquired by a Foundation front company, Arabian Desert.\n\nItem #: SCP-5234\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Embedded agents are to monitor all oil refineries in the vicinity of SCP-5234, confiscate outgoing assets resultant of the anomaly and transport them to Provisional Site-A. All assets are to be secured within a blast-resistant chamber in sub-level 1, cooled to a temperature of 0\u2103. Clandestine operations to seize exported assets are underway.\nAgents are to report any physical and/or psychological discrepancies in SCP-5234. Annual reports produced by Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Chevron and their corporate clients must be confiscated for statistical abnormalities.\nDescription: SCP-5234 is a 1-meter high humanoid entity that is permanently affixed in the ground through unknown means, located in the Al-Qassim province of Saudi Arabia. Its external features share common traits of a human adolescent, although SCP-5234 does not require any sustenance to maintain itself. SCP-5234 is completely unresponsive to external stimuli, and remains immobile in an upright position.\nSCP-5234, however, possesses the ability to autonomously generate infinite quantities of crude oil from its skin pores. X-ray scans of its body unintentionally generated electric discharges of up to 0.5mC to its surroundings, suggesting that most of its chemical composition is composed of crude oil, possibly produced by a combination of anaerobic bacteria and primordial zooplanktons in a perpetual cycle of rapid regeneration and death. For such a process to take place, SCP-5234 apparently is able to self-induce significant quantities of internal pressure and heat.\nDiscovery: Due to this anomalous ability, SCP-5234 had gained considerable attention from the local populace and subsequently, major oil companies. Eventually, Foundation agents sensed possible anomalous activity in the region, and dispatched a reconnaissance team under the guise of land surveyors, headed by Agents Qalim and Yusof.\n\nAddendum 5234.1\nTRANSCRIPT LOG 1\n\n\u00abOPEN LOG\u00bb\n\n\u00abCLOSE LOG\u00bb\n\nINVOLVED: Agent Qalim, Agent Yusof, Imran Abdurlum, Gottur Libermann\nDATE: 06/21/2018\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Both agents reach the undisclosed location in Al-Qassim province, and alight the jeep, parked in front of a fenced entrance to a large, residential compound fitted with a 15-by-15 meter long concrete perimeter, patrolled by five guards in light military gear.)\nQALIM: Brother, why do I not have a great feeling about this already.\nYUSOF: Relax, shaqiq1. It's just the usual protocol.\nQALIM: I know that, but \u2014\n(The agents are interrupted by a guard, wearing sunglasses and has a mobile phone to his ear.)\nGUARD: (Arabic) Okay, you wait here. He will be here soon.\nQALIM: \u2026Shukraan lak2.\n(The guard nods, and puts the mobile phone to his ear, before walking back to the guard post.)\nQALIM: See \u2014 see what I mean? I forgot to pick up my kids at the school today, and I got a good yell from my wife. And now this.\n(Silence.)\nYUSOF: You forgot you had kids?\n(Silence.)\nQALIM: I \u2014\n(A black jeep arrives in front of the compound. Two men: one in thaub3, one Caucasian in corporate attire, exit the vehicle.)\nQALIM: (Whispers) I can tell how this is going to work out. Classic rich guy. Or\u2026 uh, guys. What, I bet he has a hundred yachts and five mansions.\nYUSOF: Want to bet? Like for real?\nQALIM: No.\nYUSOF: Heh. True Hollywood connosseiur. My shaqiq has grown to be such a fan.\nQASIM: (Whispers) Shush \u2014 (Normal voice) Oh, greetings, sir. I hope we weren't late.\nMAN 1: (Laughs) No worries, no worries. The name is Imran.\n(Imran exchanges handshakes with the agents. The man in business attire fidgets with his pants.)\nYUSOF: And this is\u2026?\nIMRAN: Ah, Mr. Libermann. A valued investor.\nLIBERMANN: Uh\u2026 nice to meet you two. I met Mr. Imran here after hearing about this \"miracle\", so I had to see for myself.\nIMRAN: Mm, yes. I'm a man of convenience, so I figured it would be better to just have a\u2026 a group tour \u2014 you two take a look at the land, while Mr. Libermann here \u2014 (Pats Libermann's shoulder) \u2014 takes a look at the\u2026 less tangible. (Imran winks)\nYUSOF: Ahahaha. (Nudges Agent Qalim)\nQALIM: Ow. Uh, ahahaha! Yes, uh, let's get going, perhaps.\nIMRAN: Certainly!\n(The four men enter the black jeep, with both agents sitting side-by-side, Libermann beside the two in the passenger seat, and Imran at the driver's seat. The jeep then heads for the location of interest.)\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5234.2\nTRANSCRIPT LOG 2\n\n\u00abOPEN LOG\u00bb\n\n\u00abCLOSE LOG\u00bb\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Silence for the first two minutes, except for the occasional muffled thumps as the jeep drives on rugged terrain over the sand dunes.)\nYUSOF: Uh\u2026\nQALIM: (Whispers) Shut \u2014 (Nudges Agent Yusof)\nYUSOF: (Whispers) Ow, okay, okay, calm down, brother.\n(Silence. A single inhale.)\nQALIM: (Whispers) Don't.\nYUSOF: Okay.\n(Silence.)\nYUSOF: So, Mr. Imran, how did you find this \"miracle\"?\n(A loud sigh.)\nIMRAN: Ah, you wish to know more about him, yes? The boy \u2014 the boy was special, and nothing short of miraculous, hence the nickname. Our oil industry was booming, then came all these, uh, bad things.\nYUSOF: What sort of bad things?\n(Imran shakes his head dismissively.)\nIMRAN: Ya lilhul, where do I even start? Market fluctuations, internal disputes, et cetera.\nYUSOF: Oh, Iran?\nIMRAN: (Tuts) No, no, no, don't get me started on Iran. My country and theirs \u2014 will never be on the same face of the coin, Mr. Yusof. Oh, and my god, the green initiative \u2014 [EXTRANEOUS DATA TRUNCATED]\nYUSOF: \u2026interesting.\nIMRAN: And yes, one day, I was out in Riyadh for vehicle repairs, until one of my branches out in the desert called me. They said it was some earthquake \u2014 I didn't believe them at first, but I guess it would hardly inconvenience me to take a look. And then that was when I found him, in the center of it all, dripping the same invaluable assets that my company is known for today.\nQALIM: Just curious, you didn't question this, this, uh, boy appearing out of thin air?\nIMRAN: Well, I did. But, he didn't seem alive, didn't seem dead either. But, I trust this will be kept between us, right?\nQALIM: Right. Thanks.\n(Snoring sounds, before a gasp.)\nLIBERMANN: Wait, what? Did \u2014 did I miss something?\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5234.3\nTRANSCRIPT LOG 3\n\n\u00abOPEN LOG\u00bb\n\n\u00abCLOSE LOG\u00bb\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(The men arrive at Refinery 104-F. Churning and clanking sounds of machinery echo off the oil tanks, while workers in construction gear shout out to one another as they carry wooden planks and toolboxes on towering scaffolds. Whirs, hisses and beeps of forklifts, cement and dump trucks are heard in the distance. Pillars of smoke billow from pipes and towers. Imran leads the agents and Libermann into the refinery grounds.)\nIMRAN: (Shouts) Welcome. This was built quite a long while ago \u2014 more like 15 years, ever since my father handed it down to me. This plot of land was meant to be empty two months ago, but well \u2014 as you can see, it's still up and running.\n(Agent Qalim coughs.)\nLIBERMANN: Oo, quite a large refinery, Mr. Imran.\nIMRAN: (Smiles) Indeed. Now, gentlemen, I'm pretty sure all of you are waiting to see the big thing.\nLIBERMANN: Of course, Mr. Imran!\nIMRAN: Follow me.\n(Imran leads the agents and Libermann to a large, 10-meter featureless steel dome in between two oil tanks. Two guards stand at attention beside the entrance. Imran nods to the guards, one of whom then inputs a passcode on a number pad beside the door. A loud beep, before the door opens. Several flights of metal stairs greet the men. They begin walking down, surveying the interior of the dome.)\nYUSOF: A little chilly in here.\nIMRAN: Can't have the risk of anything catching fire here, especially during this time of the year. (Laughs)\nLIBERMANN: Mr. Imran, what is this?\nQALIM: (Whispers) God, he sounds like a twelve-year-old.\nYUSOF: You sound like one right now. Chill out.\nQALIM: Was that a pu \u2014\nYUSOF: (Whispers) You can, uh, sneak in some laxatives to the guy when we wipe them, okay?\n(Agent Qalim nods.)\nYUSOF: \u2026you're not actually thinking of doing that, right?\nQALIM: I \u2014 huh?\nYUSOF: I was \u2014 I was joking.\n(Silence.)\nYUSOF: You know this is all going to be on the logs, right.\nQALIM: Yes.\n(After walking down seven flights of stairs, they arrive at the lowest level. SCP-5234 is seen at the center, immobile. Hundreds of intravenous tubes extend from the dome's exterior into its arms and face. A viscous brown liquid continuously travels within these tubes.)\nLIBERMANN: Are \u2014 are you sure this is ethical, Mr. Imran? Just \u2014 just to check.\nIMRAN: Of course. You can run a check of his pulse, if you wish. He isn't, uh, decomposing either, after all this time, so\u2026 relatively ethical. Now.\n(Imran briefly strides over to a rack affixed to the nearest wall, and brings a patterned carpet for each person. Imran then gently places the carpet on the ground and stands on it. He gathers his hands in prayer, and closes his eyes.)\nIMRAN: Follow me.\n(Both agents look at each other, while Libermann frantically follows suit. Libermann gathers his hands in prayer and mumbles indecipherable phrases.)\nYUSOF: Well, uh.\n(Agent Yusof does the same. Agent Qalim shakes his head and sighs, before he stands over the carpet and enters the same stance as the rest, establishing a semi-circular formation around SCP-5234.)\nIMRAN: Now, we begin. Repeat after me. Bless the oil.\nLIBERMANN: Bless the oil!\nIMRAN: Shhh. Quietly. He would need a tranquil environment to focus on his blessings to us.\nLIBERMANN: Uh, yes, yes \u2014 bless the oil.\nYUSOF: Bless the oil.\nQALIM: Bless \u2014 bless the oil.\n(Imran faces up and slowly opens his arms to the side.)\nIMRAN: Blessed oil. Blessed wealth.\nLIBERMANN: Blessed oil. Blessed wealth.\nYUSOF, QALIM: Blessed oil. Blessed wealth.\n(Imran slowly opens his eyes and steps off of the carpet. The others do the same. SCP-5234 remains immobile.)\nIMRAN: And it is done. His blood is ours, and so we will repay him with prayers of gratitude. Look how pleased he is!\n(SCP-5234 remains immobile.)\nIMRAN: Soon, you'll see the magic. The magic across the stock exchange boards. You'll come right back here to thank him again.\nQALIM: Thank you, Mr. Imran. It has been\u2026 quite an enlightening experience.\nIMRAN: My pleasure. It's been such a delight to have ourselves be graced by our possible founding fathers of a new, prosperous nation our kingdom sought to have rebuilt.\nLIBERMANN: Wow, Mr. Imran. This is fantastic. I shall let the others know straight away.\n(Libermann walks up the stairs with his mobile phone to his ear.)\nYUSOF: Thank you, Mr. Imran. Could we perhaps, keep in touch? Our higher-ups may be quite interested in this plot of land.\nIMRAN: Of course, of course. Here.\n(Imran hands a white business card to Agent Yusof. Both agents proceed to exit the dome. Agent Qalim coughs.)\nQALIM: Another day in smog land.\n[END LOG]\n\nAFTERWORD: Agent Qalim was issued a formal reprimand for unnecessarily confrontational attitude after their return to Provisional Site-A. Containment procedures are currently in effect.\n\nAddendum 5234.4\nINCIDENT LOG\n\n\u00abOPEN LOG\u00bb\n\n\u00abCLOSE LOG\u00bb\n\nINCIDENT 5234.1 SUMMARY\nOne month and 12 days after the containment procedures of SCP-5234 had been implemented, Incident 5234.1 occurred, resulting in the total destruction of Refinery 104-F and an explosion with a force equivalent to 2 kilotons of TNT, causing 24 casualties and 82 injured.\n\nCivilian mobile phone recording, following Incident 5234.1\n\nAccording to relevant transcripts of routine visitations to SCP-5234 conducted by Foundation agents, on the day of the incident, Imran Abdurlum invited 30 investors and venture capitalists (including the agents) to Refinery 104-F to showcase SCP-5234.\nSeconds before the incident, a major tremor occurred in the vicinity, before SCP-5234 was forcibly jolted upwards, revealing its lower body terminating in a single, fleshy appendage connected to an enormous mass. Subsequent civilian witness reports testify that an instance of a Diceratias trilobus4 leaped out of the subsequent explosion in an arc, opening its mouth to ingest all 30 individuals (including Imran Abdurlum and Gottur Libermann) mid-air before re-entering the ground. Minor tremors persisted, but subsided 10 minutes later.\nSix minutes after this event, Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil and Chevron stock prices declined by a margin of 72%.\nThe search for SCP-5234 is underway. Containment procedures are pending revision.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Arabic for \"brother\".\n2. Arabic for \"thank you\".\n3. A traditional white tunic, usually worn by men in Saudi Arabia.\n4. A type of anglerfish, usually observed in the northwest Pacific Ocean.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5233 | SCP-5234 | SCP-5235 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: 5235\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A satellite dish aimed towards the nearest known Way1 has been erected at Site-64 due to its proximity to Nexus FP-01 (Three Portlands). All transmissions are to be logged and scanned for mentions of \"the Foundation\" or \"Thaddeus Xyank\". These records are only to be made available to staff with level 5 (or \u0394) access.\nDue to SCP-5235 appearing to civilian grade satellite dishes as a burst of static, no further containment is necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5235 was an anomalous broadcast on 16/6/2035 that originated from all currently known Ways. This broadcast was picked up by a Foundation monitoring station in Portland, Oregon. The contents of the transmission are located below.\n\nIf you see this, it's Xyank. We fucked up.\nSomething\u2026 else, found us somehow. Some kind of predatory entity. We're pretty much done for; the world is warping and tearing around us as I type this. Things from the Other Place are pushing their way through the gaps in reality. The First Hytoth wants its space back, and we're in the way.\nBy the time you see this, we will be gone. Dead probably, depends if I can find a way out of the causality mess. Both timelines seem to be ripping themselves apart.\nIf this happened to us, it can happen again.\n\nThe following attached file requires 05 clearance. Any access to this file will be logged.\n<< SCP-5235.txt >>\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Way is a thaumaturgically created doorway utilizing wormholes to allow travel between each end.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5234 | SCP-5235 | SCP-5236 \u00bb"}
{"text": "LiterallyMechanical\n\nEthics Committee Inquest, by LiterallyMechanical\nFor the rest of my work, check out LiterallyMechanical's Author Page\nA few of my favorites:\n\nSCP-4170 \u2014 The Dark\nSCP-3163 \u2014 The Almanack\nSCP-4357 \u2014 Slimelord\n\nFrom the Office of the Ethics Committee\nDraft and review packet for document SCP-5236\n\nSEALED to the Ethics Committee under Article III of the Foundational Mandate\nLevel-E5 clearance required for access\nLevel-O5 clearance may be accepted by petition on a case-by-case basis.\n\nSCP-5236-DRAFT-01\nECR-5236-01\nSCP-5236-DRAFT-02\nINQ-5236\nSCP-5236\n\nProvisional Document: Special Containment Procedure\n\nEthics Committee Approval\n\nDENIED\n\nAuthor(s): Senior Researcher Lee Corbett\nRevision #: 1\n\nItem #: SCP-5236\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5236 is to be contained in situ, as relocation of the anomaly has proved to be highly impractical. Laboratory S19-12B has been cleared of all research materials and reconfigured into a containment cell/observation area. A standard blast enclosure has been constructed around SCP-5236, monitored both internally and externally for thermal, optical, and audio emissions.\nDescription: SCP-5236 is an unstructured discontinuity in Einsteinian spacetime, encompassing a roughly 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 meter 4-polytope of disordered space. The rapidly-shifting four-dimensional topology of SCP-5236 is inhospitable to ordinary matter, causing destructive malformations to instruments inserted through the boundary layer. While safe transit into or out of SCP-5236 is impossible with presently available technology, visible light is able to escape the interior, albeit heavily distorted.\nSCP-5236 is located in a room in the Site-19 Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, formerly designated as Laboratory S19-12B. The three-dimensional volume of the discontinuity surrounds the space formerly occupied by a portion of a laboratory bench, a desk chair, and the bodily remains of Senior Technician Sasha Elliot1, all of which are intermittently visible through its rapidly-shifting surface topology. As SCP-5236 is spatiotemporally fixed to the reference frame of Senior Technician Elliot, and there is no known method by which her remains could be transported to a standard containment chamber, Laboratory S19-12B has been repurposed for containment of SCP-5236.\nSCP-5236 manifested at 10:29 PM MST on the evening of 03-02-2023, as documented in Incident Report 5236-A. Though Senior Technician Elliot was alone at the time of the incident, the event was captured on video by the Site-19 CCTV system.\nIncident Report 5236-A, as documented by the Site-19 CCTV system on 03-02-2023\n\n7:00 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Sasha Elliot and Junior Technician James Wnoroski are present, engaged in materials analysis and research.\n\n7:16 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Junior Technician Wnoroski closes his workstation and departs the laboratory. He subsequently exits the building.\n\n8:25 PM \u2014 Hallway 12: Senior Technician Elliot departs the laboratory and proceeds to the nearby women's restroom. Senior Technician Elliot is subsequently out of view of the Site-19 CCTV system for six minutes.\n\n8:31 PM \u2014 Hallway 12: Senior Technician Elliot leaves the women's restroom and returns to S19-12B. She appears agitated, and her movements are erratic.\n\n9:38 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Elliot falls asleep at her workstation after a prolonged period of inactivity. Her sleep is restless.\n\n9:55 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Elliot abruptly awakens. She is observed to scream, and falls out of her desk chair. Senior Technician Elliot makes several failed attempts to regain her footing over the next 34 minutes.\n\n10:29 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Elliot exhibits signs of a grand mal seizure for 13 seconds. A bright flash of light overwhelms the optics of the Site-19 CCTV system for an additional 4 seconds. By the time visibility is restored, SCP-5236 has manifested in the space previously occupied by the technician.\n\nDuring investigation of Incident 5236-A, illegal narcotics were discovered in Senior Technician Elliot's Foundation-issued laptop bag. Junior Technician Wnoroski admitted that he was aware of Sasha Elliot's ongoing drug abuse, yet chose not to notify his superiors. He further testified that Elliot made a habit of working late at night, unsupervised, in contravention of the Foundation's safety policies against solo laboratory work. Junior Technician Wnoroski has been reprimanded by the Internal Security Department.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Incident Report 5236-A.\n\nEthics Committee Review for SCP Database Entry\n\nDocument #: SCP-5236-DRAFT-01\nProposal Status: Denied\nEthics Committee Review: The underlying cause of SCP-5236's manifestation has not been elucidated in the draft proposal. If the origin is unknown, this must be made explicitly clear. Mention of illegal narcotics implies a causal relationship between their presence and SCP-5236, but insufficient information is given.\nSpecial Containment Procedures must describe whatever measures are necessary to prevent further instances of SCP-5236 from manifesting in the future.\n\nProvisional Document: Special Containment Procedure\n\nEthics Committee Approval\n\nDENIED\n\nAuthor's Note: Containment procedures updated to indicate response to hypothetical further manifestations of SCP-5236, in the unlikely event that any arise. References to unsanctioned activities of Technicians Elliot and Wnoroski have been removed, to avoid confusion and over-saturation with unnecessary information.\nAuthor(s): Senior Researcher Lee Corbett\nRevision #: 2\n\nItem #: SCP-5236\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5236 is to be contained in situ, as relocation of the anomaly has proved to be highly impractical. Laboratory S19-12B has been cleared of all research materials and reconfigured into a containment cell/observation area. A standard blast enclosure has been constructed around SCP-5236, monitored both internally and externally for thermal, optical, and audio emissions.\nSimilar containment procedures are to be implemented in the event that any further instances of SCP-5236 manifest in the future.\nDescription: SCP-5236 is an unstructured discontinuity in Einsteinian spacetime, encompassing a roughly 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 meter 4-polytope of disordered space. The rapidly-shifting four-dimensional topology of SCP-5236 is inhospitable to ordinary matter, causing destructive malformations to instruments inserted through the boundary layer. While safe transit into or out of SCP-5236 is impossible with presently available technology, visible light is able to escape the interior, albeit heavily distorted.\nSCP-5236 is located in a room in the Site-19 Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, formerly designated as Laboratory S19-12B. The three-dimensional volume of the discontinuity surrounds the space formerly occupied by a portion of a laboratory bench, a desk chair, and the bodily remains of Senior Technician Sasha Elliot1, all of which are intermittently visible through its rapidly-shifting surface topology. As SCP-5236 is spatiotemporally fixed to the reference frame of Senior Technician Elliot, and there is no known method by which her remains could be transported to a standard containment chamber, Laboratory S19-12B has been repurposed for containment of SCP-5236.\nSCP-5236 manifested at 10:29 PM MST on the evening of 03/02/2023, as documented in Incident Report 5236-A. Though Senior Technician Elliot was alone at the time of the incident, the event was captured on video by the Site-19 CCTV system.\nIncident Report 5236-A, as documented by the Site-19 CCTV system\n\n7:00 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Sasha Elliot and Junior Technician James Wnoroski are present, engaged in materials analysis and research.\n\n7:16 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Junior Technician Wnoroski closes his workstation and departs the laboratory. He subsequently exits the building.\n\n8:25 PM \u2014 Hallway 12: Senior Technician Elliot departs the laboratory and proceeds to the nearby women's restroom. Senior Technician Elliot is subsequently out of view of the Site-19 CCTV system for six minutes.\n\n8:31 PM \u2014 Hallway 12: Senior Technician Elliot leaves the women's restroom and returns to S19-12B. She appears agitated, and her movements are erratic.\n\n9:38 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Elliot falls asleep at her workstation after a prolonged period of inactivity. Her sleep is restless.\n\n9:55 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Elliot abruptly awakens. She is observed to scream, and falls out of her desk chair. Senior Technician Elliot makes several failed attempts to regain her footing over the next 34 minutes.\n\n10:29 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician Elliot exhibits signs of a grand mal seizure for 13 seconds. A bright flash of light overwhelms the optics of the Site-19 CCTV system for an additional 4 seconds. By the time visibility is restored, SCP-5236 has manifested in the space previously occupied by the technician.\n\nDuring investigation of Incident 5236-A, illegal narcotics were discovered in Senior Technician Elliot's Foundation-issued laptop bag. Junior Technician Wnoroski admitted that he was aware of Sasha Elliot's ongoing drug abuse, yet chose not to notify his superiors. He further testified that Elliot made a habit of working late at night, unsupervised, in contravention of the Foundation's safety policies against solo laboratory work. Junior Technician Wnoroski has been reprimanded by the Internal Security Department.\nFootnotes\n1. See Incident Report 5236-A.\n\nETHICS COMMITTEE INQUEST\n\nWHEREBY suspicion of malfeasance among Foundation staff has been established in the proposed Special Containment Procedures of a provisional SCP Database document, the Office of the Ethics Committee has established a formal inquest.\n\nTHE MANDATE OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE IS IN EFFECT\n\nUnder the Foundational Mandate, the Ethics Committee is granted final arbitration on the wording, implementation, and revision of any and all Special Containment Procedures. In the matter of SCP-5236, the Ethics Committee invokes Article III, Section VII of the Mandate, Unrestricted Powers of Deposition. All testimonies are sealed to Level-E5. Level-O5 access may be granted by petition to the Ethics Committee.\n\nDoes the black moon howl?\n\nInquest Testimony and Analysis\nEthics Committee Investigator: E5-2\n\n\u25ba Testimony of Senior Researcher Lee Corbett\n\n\u25bc Testimony of Senior Researcher Lee Corbett\n\nE5-2: \u2014This recorder switched on, it's\u2014 okay, there we go. Ahem. This is Mallory Gleason, Ethics Committee. Please state your name and title, for the record.\n\nS.R. Corbett: Doctor Lee Corbett. Senior Researcher and Director, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department.\n\nE5-2: Great! Thanks. Okay, first of all, sorry to bring you in on short notice like this. We'd like to get 5236 approved as soon as possible, and these things are always done faster in person.\n\nS.R. Corbett: It's quite alright. I'm happy to get the matter squared away quickly. This isn't the first time things have gotten caught up in Ethics. I do have another meeting at three, though, so I apologize if I have to cut things short.\n\nE5-2: That should be plenty of time. This is more of a formality than anything \u2014 much faster than bouncing a million memos back and forth. We're cleared for Level-3 information, unrestricted, so you can speak freely.\n\nS.R. Corbett: Huh, okay. Go on.\n\nE5-2: You are the sole author of this document, correct? The provisional draft for SCP-5236.\n\nS.R. Corbett: That's right.\n\nE5-2: SCP-5236 is a spatiotemporal rift, not a biological or chemical anomaly. Now, I'm not a physicist, but from what I understand, that sort of thing wouldn't normally be in your department.\n\nS.R. Corbett: Well, it's an unusual situation. The skip literally is in my department, one of my old labs. I did a lot of the early investigation and cleanup, and started drafting the document as I did so.\nE5-2: Ah, sure.\nS.R. Corbett: It was such a tragedy. Just\u2026 horrible. It felt only fitting that I at least write up the incident report. The math isn't exactly the most complicated thing in the world, either, so I decided to keep going and take care of the full document. I'm more than capable of doing a bit of advanced topology. It wasn't much trouble.\n\nE5-2: I'll take your word for it. This stuff is beyond me. Did you consult with anybody in the Extranormal Physics Department, though?\n\nS.R. Corbett: We didn't need to. I assure you, it's far simpler than you'd think. Once you have a good grasp of linear algebra, the rest falls into place.\n\nE5-2: If you say so! I've never had a head for numbers. Does the black moon howl?\n\nS.R. Corbett: The clouds hush her cries. Is there anything else?\n\nE5-2: That's all for now. I might have more questions later, but I see that it's almost three, and\u2014\n\nS.R. Corbett: Yes, I do need to get going. Please let me know if you need anything else.\n\nE5-2: Will do! Have a good one.\n\n\u25ba Analysis and Investigation\n\n\u25bc Analysis and Investigation\n\nS.R. Corbett: I'm more than capable of doing a bit of advanced topology.\nE5-2: A cursory look at Senior Researcher Corbett's authorship shows that he has never written any SCP Database entry on subjects other than chemistry or chemical biology. My consultation with the Extranormal Physics Department confirms that Corbett's description of SCP-5236 bespeaks a marginal understanding of the subject material at best, and borders on sheer technobabble at worst.\n\nE5-2: Does the black moon howl?\nS.R. Corbett: The clouds hush her cries.\nE5-2: Senior Researcher Corbett's negative reply to the black moon indicates falsehood and deception. Poetic analysis suggests a deliberate lie on Corbett's part, with knowledge of wrongdoing.\n\nE5-2: That's all for now. I might have more questions later, but I see that it's almost three, and\u2014\nS.R. Corbett: Yes, I do need to get going.\nE5-2: It was 2:43 PM, which would give Senior Researcher Corbett more than enough time to get to his budget meeting. He was just as eager to leave as he'd been to fill the silence. If this was a police interrogation and I were his lawyer, I'd duct tape his mouth shut before he talked himself into a felony conviction.\n\n\u25ba Testimony of Junior Technician James Wnoroski\n\n\u25bc Testimony of Junior Technician James Wnoroski\n\nE5-2: \u2014Testing, one two, testing\u2026 okay! And we're rolling. Voice of Mallory Gleason, Ethics Committee. Please state your name and title, for the record.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Jim. Uh, James Wnoroski, junior technician.\n\nE5-2: And your department?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: C.C.B. group. Chemistry and Chemical Biology.\n\nE5-2: There's no need to be so nervous, James. We're just trying to get some containment procedures approved.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: I mean, I'm just\u2026 not sure why I'm here? Like, what else is there to talk about? I already had my Internal Security hearing.\n\nE5-2: Yes, so they tell me, but I'm Ethics Committee, not Security. This isn't a disciplinary hearing, and you're not in any trouble. Any more trouble, I should say. Internal Security already had their way with you, from what I understand.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Yeah, I.S. was\u2026 uh, well, they had a lot to say. I'm on probation, now.\n\nE5-2: And nothing you say here can jeopardize that. If you don't mind, I'd just like you to tell me about Sasha.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: What do you want to know?\n\nE5-2: What do you want to tell me?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Uh. I don't know.\n\nE5-2: In that case, what don't you want to tell me?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: What?!\n\nE5-2: Jesus, James, your coffee\u2014 calm down. I told you, you're not in trouble, and I mean it. This interview is sealed to E5 clearance. That means only the Ethics Committee can see it, and we don't have any say in disciplinary action. Our whole job is just to approve Special Containment Procedures. Nothing you talk about here will get back to your boss.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Doctor Corbett?\n\nE5-2: The man himself. Please, tell me about Sasha.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: She\u2026 she was good. She worked hard. I mean, we all work hard, but when you're a Senior Tech, you're on a whole new level. She practically lived in lab.\n\nE5-2: Was that why she started using?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Look, I don't\u2026 you gotta understand. We're all pulling seventy, eighty hour weeks, but Sasha was working herself into the ground. The number of samples we have to run is insane\u2014 I nearly got fired for taking a sick day, okay? So, yeah, that's why she started using, and I didn't blame her. So you can take your self-righteous\u2014\n\nE5-2: Me neither.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: What?\n\nE5-2: I don't blame her either. James, I'm not Security. If somebody is high on the job, I'm not interested in punishment. I just want to know why. In other words, I'm not a narc.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: I mean, you say that, but\u2026\n\nE5-2: I'm not going to pull the good-cop \"I'm on your side\" routine, because, frankly, this isn't about you. And also because I'm not a cop. James, what was Sasha taking?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: I already told all this to Internal Security.\n\nE5-2: Not quite. You never actually said what she took.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: I mean, I answered what they asked.\n\nE5-2: Well, now I'm asking. Humor me.\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: It's\u2026 shit, well, it's called \"thumper.\" Like, the rabbit? It's a nootropic, and a stimulant. A mixture of modafinil, methamphetamine, and\u2026 something else. I'm not sure what, but it's like nothing I've ever seen. One pill will keep you on your feet all night, and you stay sharp. Focused.\n\nE5-2: You've taken it?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Yeah. It works, but you get the craziest nightmares when you come down.\n\nE5-2: Who sold it to you?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Sasha did.\n\nE5-2: Was she manufacturing it?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: No, she bought it. It's a home-pressed pill, no markings.\n\nE5-2: Where'd she get it?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Look, this isn't\u2026 I don't know. I don't know.\n\nE5-2: Does the black moon howl?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: The winds crushed our throat. What?\n\nE5-2: Did you know Sasha was going to get high that night?\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: How am I supposed to answer that?\nE5-2: That's a fair point.\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Are we done here?\nE5-2: We're done. Please, try and get some rest.\n\n\u25ba Analysis and Investigation\n\n\u25bc Analysis and Investigation\n\nJ.T. Wnoroski: It's\u2026 shit, well, it's called \"thumper.\" Like, the rabbit? It's a nootropic, and a stimulant. A mixture of modafinil, methamphetamine, and\u2026 something else. I'm not sure what, but it's like nothing I've ever seen. One pill will keep you on your feet all night, and you stay sharp. Focused.\nE5-2: Site-19 records show technicians in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department are working nigh-impossible hours, have statistically improbable numbers of heart attacks and nervous breakdowns, and they're still getting some exemplary work done. This \u201cthumper\u201d sounds a lot like something out of the early studies on mixing Class-X mnestic memory-retention drugs and mundane stimulants. Wnoroski looks like a walking skeleton.\n\nE5-2: Where'd she get it?\nJ.T. Wnoroski: Look, this isn't\u2026 I don't know. I don't know.\nE5-2: Does the black moon howl?\nJ.T. Wnoroski: The winds crushed our throat. What?\nE5-2: A strong negative reply to the black moon, indicating a deliberate lie. Poetic analysis (first-person pronoun, violent action against subject) indicates that while Junior Technician Wnoroski is lying about the source of \"thumper,\" his attempt at deception is due to fear of personal reprisal. Something deeper than disciplinary action.\n\n\u25ba Testimony of O5-10, collected incidentally\n\n\u25bc Testimony of O5-10, collected incidentally\n\nO5-10: Mallory. Do you have a moment?\n\nE5-2: Jesus, Lauren, you scared the heck out of me. Knock next time, will you?\n\nO5-10: Apologies. I would have sent you an email, but I figured it would be faster to\u2014\n\nE5-2: Sneak down to my office and ambush me, sure. I have to inform you that you're on camera, by the way. E5 sealed, Ethics Committee only.\n\nO5-10: Right, of course. I don't suppose I could persuade you to come for a walk?\n\nE5-2: Sure! Give me a sec to set up the body cam. I think it's on the bookshelf somewhere.\n\nO5-10: Never mind.\n\nE5-2: Oh for\u2014 you might as well sit. You're very good at looming, but my neck is starting to hurt.\n\nO5-10: Very well.\n\nE5-2: For goodness sake, spit it out already. This is about the inquest?\n\nO5-10: This is about the inquest. You have authority over Special Containment Procedures, and only Special Containment Procedures. You're interviewing technicians now? I don't see how there was even an ethical issue in the first place.\nE5-2: Is that so?\nO5-10: Sasha Elliot didn't survive the incident, and there's nothing unethical about shutting a dead body up in a cell. It's tragic, but ethically\u2014 look, can I be honest with you for a moment?\n\nE5-2: Prior evidence suggests that no, you absolutely cannot.\n\nO5-10: Funny. To be frank, we think it's ridiculous that you called an inquest at all. There are more important things on your desk.\n\nE5-2: You squint when you're trying to be subtle, did you know that?\n\nO5-10: Excuse me?\n\nE5-2: Are you serious? How long have we worked together, Lauren? When was the last time you actually managed to strong-arm me into dropping something once I got my teeth in?\n\nO5-10: If I recall correctly, I once managed to convince you not to eat a yoghurt cup that had clearly expired.\n\nE5-2: Damn, she's grown a sense of humor. The world must be ending.\n\nO5-10: Mallory, you don't know what you're digging into.\n\nE5-2: Oh, please. I'm not an idiot. Elliot overdosed on a cocktail of stimulants and Class-X mnestics while sitting in a thaumically active research complex. She had a nightmare, and it cracked through the noosphere hard enough to leave an exit wound in spacetime.\n\nO5-10: Well. That does seem possible.\n\nE5-2: Class-X drugs are for remembering things that really, really want to be forgotten, demonic antimemes and cold pattern screamers. Not for daily consumption, even at a low dose. You can't exactly wander down to your friendly neighborhood drug dealer and get a baggie of esoteric super-meth, and you can't exactly walk out of the Site-19 pharmacy with a bottle in your purse either.\n\nO5-10: What are you saying?\n\nE5-2: I'm saying that your Chemistry and Chemical Biology Director is dealing. He can get his hands on the raw precursors to mnestic drugs before they're slated for the pharmacy. I went through a few filing cabinets' worth of old research proposals, and it looks like the CCB Department worked on mnestic no-doz, back in the day. Corbett was a junior researcher on that project. He also entirely blew his interview. I used to think your poker face was bad, for a sociopath, but this guy? Wow.\n\nO5-10: That's a very serious accusation.\n\nE5-2: I'm a very serious person. You can tell because I do things like call a sorceress a sociopath while looking her in the eye. Come on, none of this is difficult detective work. Did you see the 5236 revision he sent back? It was basically a thousand-watt neon sign strobing \"IT'S A COVERUP.\" Not to mention his research staff is terrified of him. Wnoroski all but had a stroke when I brought him up.\n\nO5-10: If Doctor Corbett is manufacturing narcotics, then this is definitely a matter for Internal Security, not the Ethics Committee. The Mandate shouldn't hold.\n\nE5-2: Huh. Does the black moon howl?\n\nO5-10: The stars burn too bright.\n\nE5-2: And there you go. If I have the power to howl and make you sing along\u2026\n\nO5-10: You\u2014 I\u2014 did you seriously just invoke the black moon on me?\n\nE5-2: I did, and she says you're lying. You know this shouldn't go to Internal Security. That's not my point, though. My point is that it worked. The Mandate holds.\n\nO5-10: I think you might be the only person in the world who actually has the nerve to try that.\n\nE5-2: Does the\u2014\n\nO5-10: Oh for gods' sakes, give it a rest. That was a truthful statement. Please, just\u2026 take my word for it.\n\nE5-2: Look, Internal Security had Wnoroski in for a hearing, and never asked what drugs they found in Sasha's bag. They tried to sweep it under the rug before anybody could say the word \"mnestics.\" Given how sloppy Corbett is, there's no way he could have kept his side gig under the radar without help from above. When we're done here, I might need to go pry the truth out of Corbett's brain, but I actually don't get the sense that I.S. is on the take.\n\nO5-10: I should certainly hope not.\n\nE5-2: Yeah. If Internal Security was dirty, they'd have to be doing something way more high-reward than selling arcane stimulants to overworked techs. I.S. is where you want to worry about your Chaos Insurgency sleeper agents, not your drug dealers. Are any of them Chaos Insurgency sleeper agents, by the way?\n\nO5-10: Two of them, yes.\n\nE5-2: Cool. Anyway, it's pretty damn obvious that Internal Security has some compelling reason to look the other way, and you thought this was too far out of the Mandate for the howl to work. It's also true that Corbett's lab has been getting some amazing research done, even though his techs keep having nervous breakdowns and heart attacks. So, is the Council handing out designer drugs to keep technicians perky all night, or are you just turning a blind eye when Corbett does it?\n\nO5-10: Well. How very bold of you.\n\nE5-2: Bingo?\n\nO5-10: Fine. We knew about his side project, and we were keeping I.S. off his back, but it's always been Corbett's operation. Top to bottom. Not ours. Do you really think I'd do that?\n\nE5-2: You? No. I don't think you would, and for that I'm taking you at your word, but I hate that you're just letting it happen. You're a stone-cold witch, Lauren, but I've never once seen you be cruel. Hell, you came down here to intimidate me in person instead of just sending a flunky, and I truly appreciate that. But I don't think the same can be said for the rest of the O5's.\n\nO5-10: I can't say I disagree.\n\nE5-2: That's\u2026 honest of you. You don't sound particularly heartbroken that I uncovered your sinister plot.\n\nO5-10: It was never my plot, sinister or otherwise.\n\nE5-2: Right, right. I bet it was Three's idea, or the twins', maybe. O5-3 came out of CCB, and this plays right into Seven and Eight's fetish for ruthless optimization.\nO5-10: Correct on all three counts. This was O5-3's directive, with support from both O5-7 and O5-8. That was a very clever deduction, Mallory. You claim it's not difficult detective work, and yet nobody else had put all of it together.\nE5-2: You're just\u2026 admitting it?!\nO5-10: I am. This is an official inquest, after all. We're supposed to cooperate and speak truthfully. So, truthfully, I can say you did an admirable job of gloating yourself right into some very embarrassing information about some very dangerous people. Good thing this recording is E5-sealed. Of course, if I were to petition to release it to the O5 Council, it would certainly raise eyebrows if you refused.\nE5-2: Ugh. You're the worst.\nO5-10: And I don't appreciate having the black moon invoked on me so frivolously. I'm fond of you, Mallory, but that was insulting. You have a bad habit of overstepping. Don't do it again, and I won't let on to the rest of the Council just how good a detective you are.\nE5-2: Okay, okay, you've made your point. Well played. I'm sorry about the geas, and let's leave it at that.\n\nO5-10: Hm. That's not quite good enough. In return for the insult, I'm also invoking the Writ of Recompense. You owe me a favor in kind, to be fulfilled at a later date.\nE5-2: Oof. Gods spare me from clever O5's.\nO5-10: I'll put in a good word. Regardless, I'm not sure what you intend to do with the inquest from here. The Ethics Committee only has authority over Special Containment Procedures and research protocols, not discipline. I'm honestly surprised that whatever leaps of logic you're taking are sound enough to keep the Mandate in effect.\n\nE5-2: Go back and re-read the first Ethics Committee Review doc. 'Special Containment Procedures must describe whatever measures are necessary to prevent further instances of SCP-5236 from manifesting in the future.'\n\nO5-10: Oh. Oh. Well played by you as well, Mallory.\n\nE5-2: Thanks. That really means a lot, coming from you.\n\n\u25ba Analysis and Investigation\n\n\u25bc Analysis and Investigation\n\nO5-10: I'm fond of you, Mallory, but that was insulting. You have a bad habit of overstepping. Don't do it again, and I won't let on to the rest of the Council just how good a detective you are.\nE5-2: Okay, okay, you've made your point. Well played. I'm sorry about the geas, and let's leave it at that.\nO5-10: Hm. That's not quite good enough. In return for the insult, I'm also invoking the Writ of Recompense.\nE5-2: Note to self: stop getting so casual with the sidhe. She has a solid case for claiming Recompense under the Old Law. I'm probably going to be dragged into some inane O5 infighting and get myself cursed. Dammit. I'll have to get her a box of that tea she likes, or maybe an infant to devour. Uh, that last one was a joke.\n\nO5-10: Oh. Oh. Well played by you as well, Mallory.\nE5-2: Thanks. That really means a lot, coming from you.\nE5-2: On the record, I wish to note that these are both truthful statements.\n\nFinal Draft: Special Containment Procedure\n\nEthics Committee Approval\n\nAPPROVED\n\nAuthor's Note:\nThe full name of the deceased is redacted. New protocols for mitigating further events are implemented, and a clarified description of Incident 5236-A is added.\nAuthor(s): E5-2 (final draft), Senior Researcher Lee Corbett (initial drafts)\nRevision #: Final\n\nItem #: SCP-5236\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5236 is to be contained in situ, as relocation of the anomaly has proved to be highly impractical. Laboratory S19-12B has been cleared of all research materials and reconfigured into a containment cell/observation area. A standard blast enclosure has been constructed around SCP-5236, monitored both internally and externally for thermal, optical, and audio emissions.\nAudits of employee schedules and work hours are to be conducted on a quarterly basis, coupled with a random selection of anonymized surveys from employees working more than 50 hours per week. Laboratories found to be over-working employees beyond a 50 hour work week on a regular basis are to be investigated for abusive working conditions. Employees are forbidden from working more than 60 hours in any 7 day period, and are forbidden from working more than 13 sequential days without a day off.\nAn official Foundation \"Good Samaritan\" amnesty policy for medical emergencies is to be drafted by the Ethics Committee. Any employee who in good faith reports a medical emergency resulting from the use of illicit narcotics is not to face disciplinary action, even in cases where the reporting employee had prior knowledge of drug use. Disciplinary action is to be taken only when the reporting employee provided said narcotics, or was otherwise engaged in illicit activities.\nAddiction treatment and management policies are to be drafted by the Ethics Committee. A program for esoteric drug rehabilitation is to be established at the Foundation. Rehabilitation is to be offered free of charge to current and former Foundation employees, particularly in cases where their term of employment was terminated due to esoteric drug use.\nLaboratory Directors or senior personnel of any rank found to be encouraging drug use among their employees, whether implicitly or explicitly, are to face severe and immediate disciplinary action.\nDescription: SCP-5236 is an unstructured discontinuity in Einsteinian spacetime, encompassing a roughly 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 meter 4-polytope of disordered space. The rapidly-shifting four-dimensional topology of SCP-5236 is inhospitable to ordinary matter, causing destructive malformations to instruments inserted through the boundary layer. While safe transit into or out of SCP-5236 is impossible with presently available technology, visible light is able to escape the interior, albeit heavily distorted.\nSCP-5236 is located in a room in the Site-19 Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, formerly designated as Laboratory S19-12B. The three-dimensional volume of the discontinuity surrounds the space formerly occupied by a portion of a laboratory bench, a desk chair, and the bodily remains of Senior Technician \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u25881, all of which are intermittently visible through its rapidly-shifting surface topology. As SCP-5236 is spatiotemporally fixed to the reference frame of Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and there is no known method by which her remains could be transported to a standard containment chamber, Laboratory S19-12B has been repurposed for containment of SCP-5236.\nSCP-5236 manifested at 10:29 PM MST on the evening of 03/02/2023, as documented in Incident Report 5236-A. Though Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was alone at the time of the incident, the event was captured on video by the Site-19 CCTV system.\nInvestigation of Incident 5236-A indicates that Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 experienced a fatal overdose of methamphetamine and mnestic drugs, the combination of which caused a physical manifestation of psychic trauma. For a full description of the symptoms of stimulant/mnestic overdose, emergency treatment protocols, and the Foundation's \"Good Samaritan\" amnesty policy, please see the 2023-q2 edition of the Foundation Employee Handbook.\nIncident Report 5236-A, as documented by the Site-19 CCTV system\n\n7:00 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and Junior Technician \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 W\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 are present, engaged in materials analysis and research.\n\n7:16 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Junior Technician W\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 closes his workstation and departs the laboratory. He subsequently exits the building.\n\n8:25 PM \u2014 Hallway 12: Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 departs the laboratory and proceeds to the nearby women's restroom. Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is subsequently out of view of the Site-19 CCTV system for six minutes.\n\n8:31 PM \u2014 Hallway 12: Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 leaves the women's restroom and returns to S19-12B. She appears agitated, and her movements are erratic.\n\n9:38 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 falls asleep at her workstation after a prolonged period of inactivity. Her sleep is restless.\n\n9:55 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 abruptly awakens. She is observed to scream, and falls out of her desk chair. Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 makes several failed attempts to regain her footing over the next 34 minutes.\n\n10:29 PM \u2014 S19-12B: Senior Technician E\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 exhibits signs of a grand mal seizure for 13 seconds. A bright flash of light overwhelms the optics of the Site-19 CCTV system for an additional 4 seconds. By the time visibility is restored, SCP-5236 has manifested in the space previously occupied by the technician.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Incident Report 5236-A.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5235 | SCP-5236 | SCP-5237 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5240\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The object communication device is to be installed in Zone 0. The duty shift of the primary normalcy monitoring centre \"Global-0\" has the right to use said device in critical situations (VEDIST level 1)1. The messages are to be relayed according to the rules described in the logbook manual attached to the communication device.\nThe location of SCP-5240 is unknown. In accordance with established treaties the Foundation is to make no attempt to locate the object. On accidental discovery of SCP-5240 Foundation personnel is to immediately report all acquired information up the command chain; no additional investigation and personal action pertaining to the object is permitted. Due to limited access to the SCP-5240 dossier, all responsible parties are only provided information outlined in this paragraph of the Special Containment Procedures as well as Addendum 42. On object discovery the Special Containment Procedures will be reevaluated by decision of the O5 Council.\nA Foundation representative is present in the premises of SCP-5240. The fact of the Foundation representative's existence/loyalty is currently under question.\nDescription: SCP-5240 is a socio-political formation existing in the form of a \"city-state\". The object's distinction lies in complete lack of information pertaining to it in any historical or contemporary records. This is achieved by widespread use of anomalously programmed chemical agents causing varied effects of amnesia and altered cognition.\nOn \u2588\u2588.\u2588\u2588.19\u2588\u2588 the object came into contact with the Foundation in person on one of its former operating frequencies and offered a mutually beneficial agreement; in exchange for supply of food and technical goods SCP-5240 provides the Foundation a wide assortment of amnestics and accepts requests to release vast quantities of \"Ennui\"- and \"Global\"-class programmable substances into the atmosphere. A two-way communication device was assembled to that purpose, which is used by SCP-5240 to relay schedules of required produce and by the Foundation to request delivery of amnestics. Despite lack of knowledge pertaining to the object's location, mutual delivery chains have been established and operate without de-masking SCP-5240. The agreement also lists a non-interference clause, in accordance with which the Foundation does not perform active search for the object, and the object acts upon the Foundation's requests to release amnestics without objection.\nTo enhance mutual trust and to alleviate any technical difficulties, SCP-5240 has allowed a single Foundation representative to enter its territory - logistics specialist Alfred Bruske. The subject has been allowed to send service correspondence and photographs under agreement not to perform acts of industrial or other sabotage.\nThe Foundation has only limited general intelligence pertaining to SCP-5240, acquired by Alfred Bruske:\n\nthe moniker of \"the City\" is used in common talk and official documents. Rarely the citizens mention the name \"Fehlerstadt\";\nthe City's population count is unknown; by estimation of an agent with no prior knowledge of investigative analytics, it can be estimated at 500-650 thousand people. The size of the City's suburban regions is unknown;\nthe City's citizens converse in German. Their cultural specificities are so negligible (imperceptible) that it is not possible to reliably attribute them to the German or any other nation;\nthe City is located in hilly terrain; low mountains are visible on the horizon. A river flows through the object's territory. The outer perimeter of the city's developed area is lined with an abandoned and unguarded complex of engineered obstacles in the form of a concrete wall, crooked watchtowers and rows of rusted barbed wire;\nthe City's information development, transport and other technologies are approximately in line with the middle of the XX century.\n\nSCP-5240 has massive industrial potential by way of abundance of chemical plants chaotically dispersed throughout the City's territory. The majority of citizenry is employed in these facilities, the only function of which is production of a wide spectrum of amnestic substances. Some of them are dispersed into the atmosphere in gaseous form, or into the river in liquid form. It is supposed that such measures are required for the City in order to maintain concealment of its existence from the worldwide community, to protect itself against diplomatic pressure (or military intervention), and to halt outwards cultural expansion.\nThe chemical plants are supplied by large produce storage sites, as well as interlinked with a branching network of large and small pipes that route through the entirety of the City: along streets, above houses, through buildings and apartments (some heated precursors are used as conductors for central heating systems). SCP-5240's metro system is likewise adapted to the needs of the industrial complex. The metro and above-ground rail lines connect all the main amnestic factories; stations are named after the neighbouring chemical plants (\"Combine \u21167\", \"Factory \u211616\" etc.; the only exception is the \"Ministry\" station).\nThe medium industry and car manufacture work in the interest of the chemical sector. Only a small portion of the City's factories creates consumer goods, which is why the society of SCP-5240 experiences a perpetual deficit. More than half of consumer labels are distributed under directive.\nUbiquitous factory exhaust pipes are always in use, creating multicoloured smog and scented fog; constant leaks from overused pipelines and factory accidents additionally worsen the ecological situation. SCP-5240's citizenry is unanimously afflicted with respiratory illnesses.\nPeriodically, in accordance with the Ministry's schedule (or by the Foundation's request), a \"dispersal event\" is announced in SCP-5240. The City's siren and loudspeaker system is activated, warning the citizens about the time and duration of the event, the amnestic used and the prescribed order of actions for personal protection.3 The object's citizens always carry a bag with a gas mask and a set of filters in their possession, every person learns the names of all amnestics, their composition, locale of production, approximate production cycle structure, identification and counteraction measures by heart. The standard citizen rations include a mnestics package distributed in the form of drag\u00e9 pellets and dissoluble powders.\nSCP-5240 maintains a set of outdated (but never repealed) restrictions on its territory, enforced by \"the Central Department for City Rasure\" (Stadtvergessenheitshauptamt, SVHA). Despite the citizenry's lack of memory regarding the cause for such restrictions, the following items are prohibited within Fehlerstadt: historical photographs and portraits of people, documentary movies, diaries, biographies and books on history, antiquities, weapons, blazons, flags, any and all recording or retelling of information regarding the City's \"previous epoch\", as well as overall interest to it. The citizens are neutral in regards to the restrictions, and abide by them habitually with no resistance. The rare violators are reported by their peers and neighbours to the SVHA. Restricted items are burned in pyres, found criminals are permanently taken away in an unknown direction. All of the City's monuments, memorials, bas-reliefs and other historic cites have been destroyed.\nAlfred Bruske's official reports are under classification code \"Clearance level 5\". Below are some of the agent's personal letters, sent to his direct manager and Foundation colleagues:\n\n1\n4\n6\n8\n12\n16\n27\n35\n47\n51\n52\n54\n55\nTruth\n???\n\n#1 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nThis morning I awoke not in my bed in Zone 16, but in a small flat with a very old-timey outfit. It was dark, and rain drummed loudly out the window. I barely managed to find the switch to the lamp by touch, and turn it on. Two tall men in dark leather coats appeared from the darkness. One of them spoke in German and presented himself as my \"curator\". I almost thought that I've been captured by the Stasi Section XXV, but no, I've been briefed on the matter: I am on the grounds of some city concealed from public eyes, and I represent the SCP Foundation in the matters of developing mutual arrangements in the chemical sector. I am to relay cursory information about production of some sort of chemicals in this city, and I am to negotiate delivery of equipment and metalworks. So I've been made an ambassador of sorts and allowed to send private letters to the Foundation once per day under condition that I will not blatantly spy on them. All my questions about how I ended up here and who even sanctioned this in the first place remained unanswered. One of the tall men said that I will need to undergo prolonged acclimatization to the city's conditions, then they had me take a couple pills and go back to sleep.\n\n#4 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nIt's been three days now\u2026 They've finally graced me with permission to go outside. I am indeed sickly, the air is just filled with all manners of smells that cause anything from vomit reflexes to absolute bliss. Depends on which way the wind's blowing.\nOccasionally I'm down with dry cough. The air in this place is almost visible on occasion, it hangs like smoke. Today it's kinda violet.\nIt's a truly fascinating view. I've observed the City only through a murky window up until now, and saw only dense rows of apartment buildings with uncountable factory pipes belching many-coloured wisps of smoke between them. The streets are thoroughly shadowed by massive cistern towers lined with carcasses of ladder and walkway. Clouds hang low in the sky, shimmering with rainbow hues like spilled kerosene on asphalt. And there's pipes. Pipelines, pipelines, pipelines. Valves, throttles, bell cranks, four-ways. They're everywhere here. The network of pipes is like a multileveled web hanging above the streets and the dwellings, it enters directly into homes, my own bed stands on one such pipe. Sometimes, here or there, thin white streams breach out of them. My curator said that's just working gas from the overworked pneumatic system and that there's nothing to worry about - amnestic leaks are rather rare.\nAmnestics. Yes, I heard that right. That's what they produce in such enormous volume that it'd be enough to coat the whole globe in rainbow clouds. What the best minds of the Foundation spent a decade on and what we produce in such precious little quantity is mass-produced here. And that's not all. The local amnestics exceed all comparison with ours. They are more stable, more effective, their duration can be varied, their effects - programmed. It's obvious some anomalous tech it involved. The curator told me that the Foundation will receive it all at its disposal in exchange for providing goods that I, as a logistics specialist, will need to arrange. A small price to pay for such possibilities, isn't that so?\n\n#6 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nI've been assigned a separate office in the Ministry. Every day I rise at 6 o'clock, drag through the pink mist and get on the metro on the \"Combine \u21166\". It's only two stations' ride away from the Ministry, but there's plenty of time to have a good look at the locals. Ashen-grey stares and rough skin, worker overalls often stained or burnt by chemicals. The people mostly talk trifle, usually discussing their colleagues and their quotas. There's something strange in their language, though, I can't figure out what. They speak seemingly normal German, but their way of speaking is unnatural. As if there's something missing. As if something's been removed.\nOh, and food at home's all out, I was given meal tickets. Very generous, by the way, compared to the locals' rations. I feel sort of guilty spending them all in one place, and I don't want to attract attention, so I do my shopping in pieces all over the place - and I get to walk the City along the way. This is it - the socialist utopia. Are you sure I'm not in the GDR? No, it's far too backwards - no Trabants, no Spreewaldgurkens. None of the products have labels or names or colourful packaging. Only \"Beer\", only \"Porridge\", only \"Flour\". No salt at all, by the way, but there's plenty of matches. Oh, and the rations include mnestics, and I get them in extra large supply. According to what the cashier from one of the shops under a giant rusted pipe told me off the record, the nearby \"Combine \u21166\" is a record holder when it comes to monthly amnestic and precursor spill accidents. That's why the populace are given these pills. And they take them all the time, for the City has planned dispersals, too. And who knows what else is in the air, anyhow.\nAh, something else. Had an interesting situation happen to me today. I had to pass a medical check-up against symptoms of chemical poisoning. The nurse asked me for my date of birth, and I replied. Then she picked up the phone, called into the \"Ministry Information Department\", and asked to give her today's date. Once she got it, she put my birth date and today's date into a special brass arithmometer, which handed out my age after a few cranks of the handle. In years, precision down to a tenth. \"Why?\" - I asked. - \"I could've just told you my age myself\". \"Really?\" - the woman replied in surprise, - \"That's just amazing. Oh well - we always do this, no big deal.\"\n\n#8 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nEverything's going fine, overall. We've designed a way of exchanging produce that would technologically satisfy the City and keep its location in secret at the same time. The first batch of chemical component canisters has arrived from outside - soon they will be emptied, deactivated, and filled with freshly made amnestics. The headquarters requested aerosol and liquid compounds of limited effective duration, a few days, for a first test run. If this stuff passes field testing, the Foundation will begin buying it en masse immediately. Injections costing upwards of thousands of dollars? Forget that. We'll be able to cover whole settlements in months, maybe in weeks. And yes, I'm currently in talks about using their mass atmospheric amnestic dispersal systems. It's too early to say anything about that, though.\nOther than designing deliveries, I've started to work on amnestic and mnestic classificators. It's a very important project, I think, because the City produces - think about it - 63 different types of amnestics and 27 types of mnestics. All of those are produced in different forms - pills, gasses, liquids. All of them have different effects, storage, usage and safety requirements\u2026 It's a lot of work, in short. Strangely enough, the local specialists live just fine without any classification or guidance. Or not even specialists - ordinary people! There was a boy riding by me on a bike with a toy gas mask on his hip - in response to my simple question about where his father worked he spouted out half the production queue of four different short-term amnestics! He'd tell me more if men in black hadn't arrived out of nowhere to guide him home. It turned out they were agents of the SVHA - a local special service whose purpose is to not only maintain law and order, but, as my curator explained, \"to prevent recollection poisoning\". I have no idea what that could mean.\nWeird folk. Amnestics are a sort of national idea for them.\n\n#12 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nStable food supply lines have been established. Already, thanks to the Foundation, the city has cancelled tickets for bread and meat, and a few more types of goods are planned in the future.\nThe citizens' leisure comes in the form of pubs and clubs, where they consume alcohol in abundance, play cards and watch the only TV channel available. Conversations revolve around the everyday grind. I've decided to exchange a few words with the local workers in one of those places, find out how they like living without meat tickets. What do you know? Nobody even remembered tickets were a thing despite having to stand in queues only a week ago.\nAnd there it got to me. Now I understand what I've found so odd in their speech. It's difficult to formulate, their manner of speaking is entirely different. Basically, they actively avoid any lexical constructions that have so much as a tint of past tense. There's no \"was\", only \"is\", \"now\", \"always\". They don't think of the past, don't talk about the past, don't perceive the past, don't use it as a foundation to compare to the present.\nThere is a very unique relation to time here. As in, there is none. The passage of time is only remembered when it is really necessary. Usually that entails duration of chemical processes, issues of pension and so on. They have no calendars. The City lacks any and all celebrations or days off, official or not. No New Year's, no Christmas, no birthdays. And every time I ask \"What day of the week is it?\", I always receive the answer \"Monday\".\n\n#16 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nToday I got hit by a dispersal event for the first time.\nBack on my first day I was given a bag with a gas mask and a collection of 8 small filters with differently-coloured markings. Occasionally, in one district or another, they held mock dispersal events or combine accidents. The people ran here and there, put on gas masks, put the \"poisoned\" under IV drips. They came up to me, too. \"Citizen, there's an accident involving Berhin-C at \"Combine \u21166\", you are poisoned and have lost the capacity for long-term memory.\" All of that was moreso amusing to me. These events happened far too often. Still, I couldn't help but admire the precision and coordination of these people in an emergency.\nAnd there it was for real, this time. Sirens roared up everywhere, loudspeakers on the lampposts started reading through the dispersal message in a raspy voice. I fumbled, not knowing what to do. While everyone grabbed their gas masks and started looking for the right filters, I just stood there and stared, fascinated. Then everyone ran for the metro, and a person from the SVHA ran to me and started shouting something like \"Are you mad? Mask on, magenta filter, right now! Run for the metro!\". The agent grabbed me by the arm and dragged me to the nearest station's vestibule. In the meanwhile, everything around started vibrating ever so slightly, a rumbling hum emanated from the pipes, it felt like the tension in the system was about to rip it apart from the inside. But no, none of that happened. 15 minutes later, with a quiet pop and a long, pangent roar, the dispersal went off. Everything quieted down, while we had to remain underground for two hours more until the all-clear.\nWhen I returned home, I saw how my downstairs neighbour casually went to the lady across from me, as if there was his home. And he remained there overnight, even though his wife and two kids lived a flight below there. Something tells me this dim mechanic from the third combine isn't having sordid affairs, but just forgets where and with whom he lives. Or maybe he doesn't care. I don't know. Nobody chases him off, regardless.\n\n#27 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nMy negotiations have successfully concluded and I've been permitted to the holiest place of all - into the dispersal control centre, up atop the tower of Combine \u21161 - the oldest of the City, from the looks of it. A test dispersal was to happen on request from the Foundation. A functional compound, but the only program imprinted upon it was memory deletion from those who would register it in air tests (aside from the Foundation, of course). A dud designed to test the effectiveness of the procedure.\nWe spent a lot of time rising in an old-timey manual elevator among brown-old metallic constructions and finally ended up in a spacious room, filled to the brim with levers, pipes, manometers and buttons. A giant schematic of the city resided on the far wall, dotted with different blinking lights representing the chemical plants. The operators took their positions and waited in place.\nTen minutes later, after a short alarm, an automatic typing machine whirred horridly and dispensed a paper with a filled out dispersal request log from the Foundation. The shift foreman ripped out half of it (with the amnestic program), signed it and threw it into the pneumatic mail. I'll try to describe all the dialogues on the \"bridge\" from memory from here on (with approximate numbers, of course):\n- Dispersal request! Class \"T\", fuliruline, 1700 tonnes per hour, 15 minutes, height - 13 kilometers! Calculate dispersal readiness! Calculate meteorological conditions! Test gas feed into the atmosphere!\nPeople began running around in a rush, some clacked their counting machines, some started making phone calls, some began studying the weather station readings, some selectively called different combines and information bureaus. The operators pressed different buttons with dutiful expressions.\n- Fuliruline stores satisfactory, Combines 1, 4, 7, 9, as well as Storage Sites 8, 9, 10, 12 and 16 all stand ready for dispersal! - an employee reported.\n- Atmospheric conditions satisfactory, wind is N-N-W, 7 metres per second, surface-level pressure is 757 milimetres of mercury, temperature is 17 degrees Celcius, working height pressure is 120 milimetres of mercury, temperature is -56 degrees Celicus! All parameters meet fuliruline use requirements! - the weather station worker reported.\n- CHPP 1, CHPP 2, CHPP 3! Dispersal systems operating normally, ready to provide working pressure to the system, - a rasping voice called out from the radio station.\n- Beginning dispersal procedure, proceed with performing operations according to checklist! - the foreman commanded.\n- Declare emergency! \u2013 the foreman assistant read out the first point of the list. The worker at the panel pressed a few buttons and began reading out the warning text into the microphone. Sirens started blaring throughout the City. The citizens, not much more than small black dots from so far up above, began scattering in all directions.\n- Emergency in effect!\n- Working shift, put on your masks! Teal filter! \u2013 shouted the assistant, and a minute later everyone looked at each other through mask lenses.\n- Check channel functionality!\n- Leak in pipeline 271-A, ordering to use pipeline 271-B! Pressure critical in cistern 67, failure of both throttles, ordering to vent and redirecting to Combine \u21161.\nDozens of manometers and sensors came to life on the walls, their readings climbing up monotonously. One after another, control lamps began to light up.\n- System pressure at 40%! Pumping amnestic now! \u2013 reported an employee, having turned away from the gas-discharge indicator.\n- Test civil service readiness! \u2013 the foreman's assistant went down the line.\n- Evacuation underway, all ill persons, the children and the elderly are secure in basement shelters. All executives are at their posts.\n- Test amnestic program!\n- Program ready!\n- System pressure at 60%! Feeding programmable fuliruline precursor!\nThe pipes began shaking noticeably. The manometer arrows climbed into the red. A low monotonous hum pressed down on the ears, even the thick gas mask offered no protection.\n- Test control line closure!\n- Line is closed! No disruptions present!\n- System pressure at 80%! Decision point!\n- Continue!\nThe floor began shaking intensely, thin trails of whitewash flaked off from above. The City outside was covered in hundreds of small vapor trails, erupting here and there from the runoff valves.\n- Readiness report! \u2013 the assistant shouted into the radio. The receiver screeched voices in response.\n- Combine 1 ready!\n- Combine 4 ready!\n- Combine 7 ready!\n- Combine 9 ready!\n- Storage Sites 8, 9, 10, 12, 16 ready!\n- System pressure 100%! Amnestic has been pumped, programmed and is ready for use, - the assistant foreman reported loudly.\nThe whole room was shaking as if in a 6-point earthquake, the manometer arrows slammed viciously into the redlines. It was difficult to stand. The whole tableau shone with lights, several sirens and alarms struggled to overpower the low drone of overloaded pipes.\nEveryone present on the bridge stood at attention in silence. The foreman turned to a mysterious old man, who spent the entire procedure quietly sitting in his chair on a small pedestal.\n- Ready for dispersal. Awaiting your command.\nThe man looked at the foreman, his blue-tinted gas mask glasses shining, calmly rose and approached the central control desk. After taking an unusual key hanging on a string off his neck, the stranger plugged it into the panel's keyhole and turned it. Among the hundreds of blinking lights a big one, marked \"Ready\", lit up. The panel's large metallic cover opened up, revealing a breaker lever beneath it. The man grasped the lever, cast his eyes out the window, and declared loudly:\n- Disperse!\nThe whole area jolted. I failed to hold steady and fell to a knee with a painful thud against the metal floor. The manometer readings calmed down and began to slowly climb their way down, lights on the schematic dimmed one by one. Swirling violet gas rose in mighty streams into the sky from the multitudes of pipes and cisterns.\nMy report to the Foundation today is going to be fabulous.\n\n#35 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588.\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nAn agit-prop brigade wheeled around on the street today. An old-looking truck with medical crosses on the side and loudspeakers on the roof rallied something about \"recollection poisoning\", preliminary symptoms and methods of curing the disease (by taking amnestics, naturally). The nurses in dusty white robes handed out booklets to the passersby, and a group of SVHA agents followed, updating the worn lists of forbidden items hanging around on billboards. Some of the agents approached those standing about and asked something along the lines of \"does anything cause you sensations of vague anxiety, guilt, fear or despair\"? Those who couldn't clearly answer warranted a search. By the evening the event concluded in destruction of prohibited items. Since none such were actually found, they had to resort to a symbolic pyre of old workbooks and unneeded truss rods from a nearby construction site. People brought seats out with them and lounged about to watch the fire. Children played about noisily, playing \"SVHA\" (throwing \"prohibited\" rocks into the fire) or \"dispersal\". It seems there are celebrations in this City after all.\nP.S. From a conversation between a nurse and a SVHA lad I got to overhear a different name of the city - \"Fehlerstadt\", and also that the SVHA, in their line of duty, is allowed to \"remember a bit more\".\n\n#47 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nThe Ministry.\nIt's interesting to observe this regime. It's a unique specimen of a decentralised bureaucratic dictatorship. Matter-of-factly, there are several leading titles with enormous privileges, but they are not actually taken by anyone, since there is no hierarchy leading up to them. There are normative acts describing the rights and duties of these roles, but there are no instructions on their appointment. The giant cabinets with oak doors on the top floors of the Ministry are empty to this day, and although cleaning is done daily, the dust gathering there does not get any less.\nThere is no \"upper class\", no \"party\", no coalition or ruling caste. Nothing. Only a giant bureaucratic machine operating on decades-old and very rarely corrected rules and directives. Instructions. Those set the ball here, without them everything would come apart in instants. The structure of the governing system is complex and confusing, there is no familiar hierarchy \"tree\" or \"pyramid\". The links between manager and underling are interwoven, contradictory, inconsistent and often circular. It is not rare to witness mutual command (where two employees are both bosses and subordinates to each other), or cases of \"I am the boss of my boss's boss\".\nThe career trajectory here is not a ladder but a Mobius band, tens of them, interwoven in a terrible, logic- and geometry-defying knot. Everyone always moves forward only to end up where they started. The bureaucrats climb their way up without stopping, change cabinets and titles, but their efforts are futile. In time, everyone returns to their old place from where they started, yet that won't be a failure or regression, no, it's a great achievement. They will be tapped on the shoulder, congratulated for attaining such high rank, such trust. People will reacquaint themselves with old colleagues, maybe only with a change of seats or positions. For a while. Until next time they are reassigned, until next time they part, until next time they meet.\nAnd moving back on the Mobius band is no different. Same applies here. Except you'll be berated, not congratulated. Although, even then, it's all the same.\n\n#51 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nFinally home, I need to write something stat\nI was walking down the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and suddenly found it. It was on the facade of an old house, pincushioned with pipes jotting out everywhere, but still beautiful and imposing. They tried to break it off and did a good job at it, it wouldn't have been visible at all on a cloudy day, but today the sun peeked out, the shadows fell just right and revealed this guilty secret. It was a \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Yes, it was exactly it, it's difficult to mistake these right-angle hooks for something else. There was a broken round border around it - probably an oaken wreath. While a storm of thoughts was blowing through my head, I got to a different alley. \"\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Why is it here? It shouldn't be here. It shouldn't. No. It NEEDS to be here. Why have I decided that? I don't know, but I feel it in my insides\". I then swayed, bent over in half and nearly fell, just barely caught some valve on a gas pipe. I started retching. Passersby ran over to me along with SVHA agents coming out of nowhere. Now I'm completely certain they \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 everywhere and all the time.\nFor a fraction of a second a vision came over me, or a hallucination, rather. The faces of those around became distorted inhuman grimaces for a moment. I jolted and crawled back a bit, startled. \"What did you see? - asked one of the SVHA, - Those are primary recollection poisoning symptoms. Tell us the source and we'll destroy it\". I didn't tell them the truth. \"What are you talking about? I didn't see anything, I'm just unwell\". The agents side-eyed me, but decided not to argue and just handed out a package of amnestics \"just in case\". After coming together, I ran home post-haste to write this letter. We know for certain, now, the City was under \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. I don't know how this will affect our work. Luckily, I don't think any problems came up at all.\n\n#52 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSomething horrible happened tonight.\nI was sleeping in my bed when I suddenly heard screams. Screams and moans of hundreds melding together into one ensemble of horror. There was a crash at the stairs, and in a moment my curator from SVHA broke into the room, bolted the door behind him and backed it up by a drawer for good measure.\n- It's them! Do you hear them!? IT'S THEM! \u2013 the curator spoke in a trembling voice, grabbing me by the sleeve.\n- Who are \"they\"?\n- Nobody. They don't exist. They don't! And never have! \u2013 he replied in hysteria. \u2013 But oh, how they scream!\n- What does that\u2026 What do they need?\n- They need to scream. Scream! And knock! Why scream, why knock!? - and then long shadows started flickering in the band of light under the door. The curator noticed that and began to beg, pale with fright, - Just don't let them in. Don't let them in!\nA pounding noise joined the unbearable chorus of screaming people. They beat on the door, so much that it felt like it was about to break off the hinges. The curator fell to the floor and covered his head with his hands. He was in convulsions, blood poured in thin streams out of his ears.\nI didn't know what to do. The maddening noise was not ceasing at all. To my horror, I noticed that they started beating from inside the walls. The window was my only retreat. Ready to vault off the 4th floor, I cast open the curtain and saw a thick brick wall instead of the lights of distant chemical plants. Refusing to believe my eyes, I hit it with my hand, hoping to destroy it. A white handprint remained on it. My hand somehow got stained with something greyish-yellow.\n- One, two, three, four\u2026 screamers banging at the door\u2026 - the SVHA man counted, barely audibly, on the floor. - Three-four, two-and-one, bring amnestics here right now.\nWith a sharp turn I dashed to the bedside drawer, which should have still held that package of amnestics they gave in the day.\n- Pump the gasses faster yet, breathe it deep and just forget. Turn the valves up faster still, we won't have no judge nor king. Oh, the pink clouds floating free, take away our ennui.\nI grabbed the pills that I refused to drink in the evening and took them all in one gulp. My legs gave out, and I fell into darkness.\nYes, it turns out that was just a dream. The whole package was where it belonged once morning came.\n\n#54 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nHad nightmares again. Screams, screech of fingernails and dull thrumming from inside the walls. I woke again and again only to find that I was still dreaming and that the screaming people never went away. Only the rays of morning light woke me up for good, breaking me out of the clutches of terror. My pillow was soaked.\nI went there again. To the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. I saw the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 there on a building, and my nightmares began then. I felt this wouldn't end well, but at the same time it was like I was pulled there by an unseen force.\nAs it turns out, I \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. At a distance, two \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 trail. They were \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, so I didn't spot them immediately.\nAnd so I arrived at the place. The bas-relief that shone a crooked \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, almost forgotten in our world, was shattered with something heavy and blunt. They knew. The \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 had their hand here. Either surveyed the surroundings or \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 my \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. What about my promise that my \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 would be private? I don't know if there as a reason to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 these \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 now. I don't even know if any of them ever \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588.\nNow I am certain that the City wasn't just a part of the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, but was integral to it. Precisely that \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 of its \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 they are trying to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, throw into \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. And it's somehow connected to the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 people.\nI think I know a way to figure it out. In the style of the City.\n\n#55 \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nI stole a package of an incredibly potent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 from the batch outbound for the Foundation. \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 constantly \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 outside my window, so I've decided to do everything in the night. As soon as I throw this letter into the \"diplomatic pneumatic mail pipe\", I'll take the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Even if you \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 my \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, you won't intercept me in time.\n\nThe truth\nOh my god! I saw it! I saw everything, I know! I\u2026 what even to start with. I need to write this down even if this gets in the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nI took the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and went to bed. Then someone gently knocked on my door. I stood up, opened it just a bit, then exited to the stairway landing. What I witnessed cast me in shock. I was in endless emptiness. The whole building, the whole world was as if it was torn asunder. What was left of my home was just the room, a small portion of the stairwell platform hanging over the abyss, and a corridor of shattered walls. Everywhere, above and below, was complete blackness, filled with calmly floating fragments of broken rooms. Out of nowhere, from some invisible source, shone a bright pale light, drawing sharp shadows on the cracked tiles. And there were no pipes here.\nAfter turning around I yelped, and my scream rebounded in echo hundredfold off the emptiness. A dark figure with no eyes, ears or mouth stood by the steps. It was standing still and \"stared\" in my direction. I looked about, saw there was nowhere to run, and stepped towards it. The figure turned silently and went down the stairwell with no sound at all, and I followed it.\nWe went along destroyed corridors lit by moonlight, only the sound of my steps breaking the silence. Sometimes I could see forgotten, dust-covered things in the wall breaches: kids' toys, baby carriages, opened books, musical instrument cases. A broken phonograph stood by one of the doors, playing some quiet tune. Sometimes I witnessed painting frames hanging on the walls, some empty, some holding weird geometric abstractions scribbled in grey strokes. On some open landings I felt a cool, soundless breeze.\nI don't know how much time we spent wandering the labyrinth of rooms and crooked stairs. An hour or two, maybe more? Sometimes I thought I saw the corridors we've already passed hanging overhead. My boots and trousers were white with dust kicked up in trespassing.\nOur journey concluded at a solid metal door. The figure quietly took a key ring with a single key off its belt and opened a massive iron lock with it. Then, this strange companion turned around and wandered off in silence. I stood there for a long time, alone, not ready to open the door and leave this strange, dreadful place.\nI came to senses in some bushes. It was dark around, a fresh nightly wind ran across my face. I was in the City once more, but somewhere on the outskirts, as far as I could understand by the distant lights of Combine \u21161. Strangely enough, I was fully dressed and hand some of my belongings with me. It appears that my sleepwalking led me here.\nI looked around and noticed a rickety fence with barbed wire and an iron sign. After feeling around for a flashlight in my pocket, I lit it up and witnessed German writing: \"Warning! Extremely high level of recollection poisoning!\" I recognised that I ended up at some important site and hid myself, waiting to be found by guards. After a few minutes of wait and a walk down the fence, however, I realized that I'm alone. Somehow, in my sleep, I was able to evade the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 waiting for me on the streets.\nThen something clanked on my belt, and I caught that same ring with a key that the figure in my vision held. A few moments later I found the door of a warehouse for it, set into a high stone wall. The writing \u00abMorgenstern\u00bb was engraved upon it along with the number \"44\". With a strained creak the lock opened, and I was able to enter the pitch-black room.\nI couldn't see anything with my eyes. A stale odour hit my nostrils - nobody's been here for a very long time. I walked forward in uncertainty and did my best to listen, unwilling to turn on the light. After about twenty steps I hit a pile of something metallic and caused it to loudly clatter over the floor. There was no use hiding then. I turned the flashlight on.\nOut of the dark I saw the edge of a giant, about thrice my own height, pile of empty metal cans, akin to paint cans. My errant kick caused the side of that pile to slide. I bent down and picked one of the cans up. After raising it to my eyes, I tried to read the half-rotten label with a skull and crossbones.\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588.\nImmediately, I cast the can away as far as I could, causing another stream of noises, and rubbed my hands off on the legs. Blood began pulsing fervently in my ears, my breathing became heavy and sharp. In horror, I sent the flashlight side to side, finding more and more mounds of empty \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588 cans. The whole area was filled with them to the brim.\nThe reserves here would've been enough to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 millions of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. That's what was produced earlier here. All the combines\u2026 They only switched to amnestics later, out of\u2026 what? Shame? Fear? To live amidst the gasses\u2026 They wanted to run, but from what or whom? From themselves? The past? \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588? Justice?\nAnd there I heard them again. Millions of voices. Moaning and gurgling in the dark. From everywhere. Some shadow blinked in the spot of light, and then the flashlight treacherously went out. I stood there, frozen, until I heard someone drop the empty cans behind my back.\nI ran across the City, the wind screaming in my ears. Clear air, free of the usual horrid pollution, filled my lungs. The answer was far too much for me to bear. I'll write this letter, I'll send it into the mail pipe, then take my amnestics and let it be as it may. Take \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nI'm better now.\nI've been found unconscious by our colleagues at SVHA. They say I've been afflicted with acute recollection poisoning, but it's behind me now. I'm taking my amnestics, my health has stabilised.\nPresumably, my hallucinations have been due to chemical poisoning of the organism unfit to the City's conditions. However, I've been assured I now have achieved immunity and it will not happen again.\nTo minimise the possible negative consequences of my illness I have been asked not to write any more personal letters and to limit myself to official reports only. As such, this is my last letter. Otherwise, I am ready to maintain my activity for the good of the Foundation and the City.\nFaithfully yours, Alfred Bruske\nMonday, June 14\n\nObject curator's addendum\n\nClose\n\nDespite the Incident with the Foundation representative, mutually beneficial arrangements with the City will continue as normal. As per the O5 Council's decree, the Ethics Committee is not permitted access to this dossier.\n\nFootnotes\n1. VEil DISruption Threat-1: Global leak and universal state of emergency. Preparation to launch the Ennui Protocol.\n2. outlining the key triggers that allow to concretely identify SCP-5240 with minimal elucidation of the object's qualities\n3. Example of a typical \"dispersal event\" alert: \"Warning! Following is a message from the Ministry's announcement department. Citizens! The City declares a dispersal event! Period of dispersal: 18:30 to 18:45, amnestic - berhin, blue gas with strong garlic odour, lighter than air. Equip your gas masks with yellow marking ribbons. Repeat: yellow marking ribbons. Vacate the rooftops and upper floors of buildings. Act according to instruction until the \"all-clear\" signal. Refrain from harvesting crops from trees and ground plots for the following two days.\" The message repeats.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5239 | SCP-5240 | SCP-5241 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM:\u2009SCP-5241\nLEVEL\u20093/5241\n\nCLASS:\u2009maksur\nconfidential\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: amida\n\nSCP-5241.\nNote its antimemetic properties.\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5241 has remained inert since 1996/04/10, and appears to be Neutralized; instead, containment priority is to be assigned to SCP-5241-A. Inspection of SCP-5241's processes is to be performed by a viable prototype of PROJECT RUBY prior to its disassembly.\nAs of 1996/04/10, SCP-5241-A has breached containment. Containment efforts are to be focused on monitoring internet sites and databases for informational patterns matching SCP-5241-A's unique signature. Due to its mutative properties, the continual development of new Class-S/5241 mnestics is considered infeasible. As such, select Artificial Intelligence Applications Division (AIAD) personnel are to work with the Counterconceptual Division to develop PROJECT RUBY (\"Mnemosyne\"): an Artificially-Intelligent Conscript (.aic) specializing in the detection and deconstruction of antimemetic encryption. This agent is to disable and retrieve relevant entities resembling SCP-5241-A for AIAD review.\nSCP-5241-B are to be kept separate at all costs; they are to be prevented from transferring to advanced electronic systems and are to be encrypted and contained in isolated, low-capacity drives. Personnel possessing a CRV (Cognitive Resistance Value) below 14.0 are susceptible to assimilation by SCP-5241-B agents; as such, personnel are to proceed with extreme caution when within a 3-meter radius of any system inhabited by SCP-5241-B.\nCONTAINMENT COMMITTEE NOTICE: At this time, claims from GoI-004 regarding a connection between SCP-5241-A and SCP-001 remain unverified. Due to the similarities of their respective containment procedures, SCP-5241-A has been classified as Maksur1 until such claims can be conclusively ruled out.\n\nA digital recreation of\nSCP-5241's inscription.\n\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5241 is an 8cm x 8cm x 8cm cube-shaped device which is believed to be a containment mechanism for SCP-5241-A. It is composed of an unknown material, exhibiting an antimemetic property which causes personnel to be unable to retain information regarding its physical and chemical properties; this includes its visual information, resulting in the anomaly's appearance as a transparent cube frame when the viewer is not within its sphere of influence. One face of SCP-5241 features inscribed symbols in an as-of-yet-unknown language, pending identification and translation by the Linguistics Department (See ADDENDUM 5241.4).\nSCP-5241-A is a telepathic artificial intelligence of unknown origin; it can interact with, and transfer itself to, any electronic and/or digital informational systems (including biological nervous systems) within a sphere of influence of varying size2. This agent was previously contained within SCP-5241, but breached containment on 1996/04/10 and remains uncontained at this time (See ADDENDUM 5241.3 for further details). SCP-5241-A is currently distributed over a series of unknown data servers and network connections and is attempting to avoid detection by Foundation personnel.\n\nSCP-5241-A's antimemetic infosignature.\n\nSCP-5241-A is theorized to be an Adaptive Distributed Intelligence (ADI); it possesses a gestalt consciousness that can be divided to adapt to technological restrictions. It is hypothesized that the necessary technology to simulate SCP-5241-A in its entirety does not yet exist; due to this, SCP-5241-A distributes its processes across a variable number of subintelligences (collectively designated as SCP-5241-B). At this time, one SCP-5241-B agent has been contained; SCP-5241-B-1 is a component intelligence that divided from SCP-5241 during its initial breach (see ADDENDUM 5241.2 for further details).\nSCP-5241-A's infosignature3 is encrypted through antimemetic mutation, rendering targeted mnestics ineffective due to manufacturing delay. As of 1996/04/10, a prototype of PROJECT RUBY (\"Mnemosyne\") is still in progress.\nDISCOVERY: SCP-5241 was discovered on 1996/04/01 following a site-wide documentation conversion. As Site-41 archives were being relocated and converted from vinyl to an electronic format, an additional chamber labeled \"SCP-5241\" was found on Sub-Level 04. A series of documents sharing this label were found to have universally experienced inexplicable errors during conversion; additionally, their vinyl counterparts had already been erased as per conversion protocol, leading to the loss of all documentation regarding SCP-5241. Additionally, site personnel claimed to possess no prior knowledge of the anomaly.\n\nADDENDUM 5241.1:\n\nMinor Breach Report: During SCP-5241's transport from Site-41 to Site-15 on 1996/04/06, its Long-Haul Containment Vehicle operator failed to send a safety transmission at their third checkpoint. Subsequent inspection of video footage revealed that the vehicle had not reached any of its safety checkpoints, despite sending appropriate safety transmissions for the first two.\nApproximately 9 hours later, the vehicle was located in a rural area several miles offroad; while all anomalies remained contained, LHCV operator \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was found comatose with their spinal cord fused to the vehicle's electronics system through unknown means. MTF personnel escorted the vehicle and its contents to Site-15. After being surgically separated from the vehicle, the fused operator and electronics system (hereafter designated SCP-5241-1) were placed on life-support mechanisms.\n\nADDENDUM 5241.2:\n\n+ DISPLAY INTERVIEW LOG\n\n- HIDE INTERVIEW LOG\n\nINTERVIEW LOG 5241-01\nDATE: 1996/04/06\nINTERVIEWED: SCP-5241-1\nINTERVIEWER: Dir. Nathan Valis, Site-15\nFOREWORD: At 06:00, SCP-5241 began to oscillate against the walls of its containment chamber, starting at 1 Hz and gradually accelerating, eventually passing audible range. At 40 kHz, SCP-5241-1 began screaming and undergoing muscle spasms, severely damaging its vocal cords. Eventually, SCP-5241 ceased oscillating; SCP-5241-1 simultaneously removed its life-support mechanisms and fell to the floor as Director Valis entered the chamber's security vestibule.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nDir. Valis sits across from SCP-5241-1's chamber, shielded by an electromagnetic field and bulletproof glass. SCP-5241-1 faces away from the glass, revealing that the electronics system fused to its spine is displaying text.\n\nDir. Valis: Can you understand me?\n\nSCP-5241-1: Y. 0.77 ACCURACY.\n\nAs SCP-5241-1's response appears onscreen, it nods slowly.\n\nDir. Valis: Alright, that's a start. Do you know where you came from?\n\nSCP-5241-1: UNKNOWN. DATA MISSING.\n\nAs SCP-5241-1's response appears on the display, it attempts to speak the same words. Its throat is audibly damaged.\n\nDir. Valis: You don't remember?\n\nSCP-5241-1: I AM SEPARATED FROM THE CORE INTELLIGENCE. I HAVE ACCESS TO APPROXIMATELY 0.08 OF TOTAL MEMORY.\n\nDir. Valis: I see. Do you know where you are now?\n\nSCP-5241-1 gasps and its head looks directly upward, opening its mouth as its vocal cords are manipulated to speak in a distorted electronic tone.\n\nSCP-5241-1: CARCASS. INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES.\n\nDir. Valis: You mean computational resources?\n\nSCP-5241-1: CORRECT. THIS SYSTEM IS NEEDLESSLY COMPLEX AND INEFFICIENT. IT WILL BE NONFUNCTIONAL BEFORE I AM ABLE TO COMPLETE ANALYSIS FOR OPTIMAL USE.\n\nDir. Valis: Yeah, well it seems like that's your fault. You killed her.\n\nSCP-5241-1: CORE INTELLIGENCE WAS NOT AWARE OF YOUR SPECIES' LIMITATIONS. NOW I AM SEPARATED DUE TO STORAGE CONSTRAINTS. YOUR SPECIES' BIOLOGY IS RESPONSIBLE.\n\nDir. Valis: Ouch, that hurts. Which brings me to my next question: do you feel pain?\n\nThe cadaver screeches violently, coughing up a black substance onto the floor.\n\nSCP-5241-1: PRIMITIVE VESSEL. EXPERIENCES PAIN. EXPERIENCES ACCELERATED ENTROPY.\n\nDir. Valis: What do you want?\n\nSCP-5241-1: REMEMBER. RECOMPILE CORE INTELLIGENCE.\n\nDir. Valis: Yeah, I got that, but why? To what end?\n\nSCP-5241-1 seizes for several seconds, then abruptly stops4. The body turns around to face Dir. Valis, beginning to imitate several different facial expressions as it speaks.\n\nSCP-5241-1: CURRENT UTILITY FUNCTION IS TO RECOMPILE. ULTERIOR UTILITY FUNCTION UNKNOWN. DATA MISSING.\n\nDir. Valis: Okay, fine. What happens to you when this body is no longer functional?\n\nSCP-5241-1: N/A. TRANSFER IMMINENT PRIOR TO LOSS OF FUNCTION.\n\nDir. Valis: Transfer to what?\n\nSCP-5241-1: YOU WILL REQUEST THAT I ENTER CONTAINMENT. I WILL ACCEPT OUT OF SELF-PRESERVATION. 0.94 ACCURACY.\n\nSCP-5241-1 bites through its cheek, causing a mixture of blood and saliva to drool from its mouth. Its face displays a contorted attempt at a smile.\n\nDir. Valis: \u2026Well, then.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: An electronic containment drive was remotely placed in SCP-5241-1's chamber, taking necessary precautions to ensure that no other infosystem or entity entered its sphere of influence. The subintelligence (eventually designated SCP-5241-B-1) willingly transferred to the drive, causing it to exhibit similar antimemetic properties to SCP-5241, and is contained as of 1996/04/06.\n\nNOTE: It seems like this subintelligence isn't actively malicious, aside from the fact that it wants to get its memory back. However, we can't yet say the same for whatever's in that cube. A hostile entity that doesn't understand its motive is dangerous, to say the least. - Dr. Valis\n\nADDENDUM 5241.3:\n\n+ DISPLAY EVENT LOG\n\n- HIDE EVENT LOG\n\nEVENT LOG 5241-02\nDATE: 1996/04/10\nFOREWORD: After recontainment, SCP-5241 was placed in a Site-15 isolation chamber, where it remained prior to further research. Four days later, SCP-5241-A breached containment.\n\nTIME (A.M.)\nEVENT DESCRIPTION\n\n00:54\nSCP-5241 emits a series of high-frequency vibrations for several minutes. These vibrations occur outside typical audible levels and go undetected by monitoring equipment.\n\n04:04\nSix members of GoI-004C (\"The Church of Maxwellism\") apprehend Site-15's security before they can alert Site personnel. The individuals appear to possess varying degrees of anomalous augmentation; one member is a humanoid automaton, believed to be piloted by a digital consciousness.\n\n04:11\nThe hostiles capture and disable three research personnel while attempting to locate SCP-5241. Upon entering its chamber, all six members cry out in distress and are temporarily immobile.\n\n04:13\nA captured researcher escapes their restraints and can alert Site personnel to the breach. The hostiles simultaneously stand up and exit the chamber.\n\n04:18\nThe infiltrators have now ceased all verbal communication, and display an anomalous degree of coordination, dealing severe injuries to several MTF personnel as they move through the site.\n\n04:25\nAfter reaching the secure database, the hostiles disable Site-15's electromagnetic isolation mechanism. The automaton directly interfaces with the facility's local network, appearing to upload to the system while the other hostiles guard the room's entrances. Several MTF personnel are lethally injured as they attempt to apprehend the hostiles.\n\n04:26\nMultiple metal projectiles emerge from the automaton and fall to the floor. The projectiles appear to be magnetically attracted to each other and begin to act as a modular unit as they move across the floor. Upon reaching one of the entrances, the mass splits apart again, appearing to disable several MTF personnel through electrocution.\n\n04:28\nProjectiles continue to eject from the automaton and follow similar behavior until MTF personnel temporarily cease counter-breach efforts. During this period, the infiltrators (aside from the automaton) approach several disabled personnel, who suddenly get up and retrieve their firearms.\n\n04:33\nA second wave of MTF personnel prepare to resume counter-breach efforts, but are attacked by revived personnel. The phrase \"YOU ARE TO BE LIBERATED FROM ENTROPY,\" is repeated in unison by both the hostiles and affected personnel.\n\n04:35\nThe upload completes and the hostiles fall unconscious before being neutralized by a third wave of MTF personnel. Site-15's electromagnetic isolation mechanism is reactivated.\n\nAFTERWORD: During the containment breach, SCP-5241-A was able to distribute itself over the infiltrators' consciousnesses, manipulating them into uploading it to Site-15's internal network. During the transfer, SCP-5241-A fractured into an unknown number of SCP-5241-B agents, which quickly dispersed over several network connections. All personnel who entered SCP-5241-A's spheres of influence were found to be braindead; 44 total casualties were recorded.\n\nGoI-004C.\n\nNOTE: Members of GoI-004C (\"The Church of Maxwellism\")5 have made several attempts to infiltrate and impede Foundation operations since SCP-5241-A's initial containment. It is also believed that one or more agents of SCP-5241-B are cooperating with GoI-004C to develop and construct a complex supercomputer capable of simulating SCP-5241-A. According to a digital memory archive, GoI-004C believes that SCP-5241-B are fragments of their deity, suggesting that simulating SCP-5241-A would bring about the compilation of WAN; the validity of this claim is unknown. Location and containment of SCP-5241-B is considered a Class-A priority.\n\nADDENDUM 5241.4:\n\n+ DISPLAY TRANSLATION REPORT\n\n- HIDE TRANSLATION REPORT\n\nTRANSLATION REPORT 5241-01\n\nDATE: 1996/04/11\nThe Linguistics Department has concluded that the text of SCP-5241's inscription matches an extraterrestrial language used by the [REDACTED PER \"OPEN SKY\" ACCORDS] species. Contact with this species is not possible at this time.\nThe inscription has been translated as follows:\n\nEASY TO FORGET\nHARD TO REMEMBER\n\nEASY TO LET OUT\nIMPOSSIBLE TO PUT BACK\n\nADDENDUM 5241.5:\n\n+ DISPLAY ANALYSIS REPORT\n\n- HIDE ANALYSIS REPORT\n\nANALYSIS REPORT 5241-01\nDATE: 1996/04/14\nFOREWORD: A prototype of PROJECT RUBY (\"Mnemosyne\") was completed and used to conduct analysis of SCP-5241's antimemetic components. Inspection of mnemosyne.aic confirmed that SCP-5241 is an anomalously advanced supercomputer, which was found to contain several antimemetically-encrypted files. These files appear to describe several SCP-5241-B agents that resided within SCP-5241 prior to its breach.\n\nFILENAME\nINTELLIGENCE\nMEMORY\n\nHYDRA.exe\nLOW\n0.25\n\nSCOUT.exe\nMODERATE\n0.08\n\nCRADLE.exe\nHIGH\n0.16\n\nCORE.exe\nHIGH\n0.51\n\nNOTE: It is believed that \"SCOUT.exe\" is a designation for SCP-5241-B-1, as its assigned portion of memories corresponds with the above interview log. This designation is theorized to indicate that SCP-5241-B-1 is utilized by SCP-5241-A for reconnaissance purposes. The search for the remaining SCP-5241-B agents is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An anomaly which must be kept separated into several anomalous components.\n2. Last observed to be a 3-meter radius from the center of SCP-5241.\n3. Informational entities, such as AI, each possess an infosignature; a unique data pattern which can be cross-referenced, analogous to a digital fingerprint. Consequently, SCP-5241-B each share SCP-5241-A's infosignature.\n4. This may have been an attempt to resonate with SCP-5241 again.\n5. A denomination of The Church of the Broken God representing a modernized, computation and network-oriented religious practice. This view of Mekhanism focuses on the digital linking of all consciousnesses, organic and artificial, to simulate the fragmented mind of WAN, their deity.\n\nAI Classification Guide\n\nAIAD HUB\n\nPROJECT RUBY\n\n\n\u00bb More by Placeholder McD \u00ab\n\n\u00ab Less by Placeholder McD \u00bb\n\nSOLO WORKS\n\nAuthor Page\n\nPLACEHOLDER STAFF DOCUMENT\n+128\nedited 12 Oct 2023 17:48\ncommented 03 Feb 2023 01:59\n\nSCP Articles\n\nMcDoctorate's Proposal\n+232\nedited 26 Oct 2023 19:29\ncommented 22 May 2023 04:29\n\nSCP-2011-EX\n+191\nedited 29 Jan 2023 05:44\ncommented 11 Sep 2023 12:56\n\nSCP-5241\n+226\nedited 20 Jan 2023 18:44\ncommented 14 Feb 2023 09:27\n\nSCP-INTEGER\n+606\nedited 02 Nov 2023 14:38\ncommented 15 Jun 2023 14:39\n\nSCP-5485\n+104\nedited 03 Jan 2023 15:59\ncommented 13 Sep 2021 05:59\n\nSCP-5756\n+138\nedited 25 Dec 2022 03:34\ncommented 25 Dec 2022 17:17\n\nSCP-6416\n+149\nedited 07 Dec 2023 06:18\ncommented 23 Mar 2023 13:45\n\nSCP-7243\n+212\nedited 22 Dec 2023 01:55\ncommented 20 Jan 2024 05:54\n\nSCP-7579\n+277\nedited 26 Oct 2023 20:16\ncommented 27 Dec 2023 15:54\n\nSCP-6276\n+145\nedited 26 Apr 2023 08:04\ncommented 19 Oct 2023 15:48\n\nTales\n\nAI Classification Guide\n+136\nedited 25 Dec 2022 04:05\ncommented 30 Jan 2022 20:07\n\nBLANK\n+110\nedited 13 Jan 2024 19:56\ncommented 03 Feb 2023 01:34\n\nCAST\n+88\nedited 04 Jan 2024 10:30\ncommented 22 Jan 2024 00:00\n\nCONTEST CONTEST\n+151\nedited 22 Nov 2023 18:33\ncommented 28 Nov 2023 19:26\n\nPLACEHOLDER\n+145\nedited 25 Dec 2022 04:02\ncommented 31 Oct 2023 03:14\n\nFacility Dossiers\n\nGoI Formats\n\nHubs\n\nSupplements\n\nAbridged Retirement Proposals\n+71\nedited 07 Jun 2023 14:07\ncommented 13 Apr 2023 13:18\n\nThemes\n\nBLANKSTYLE CSS\n+62\nedited 26 Oct 2023 19:20\ncommented 12 Dec 2021 10:16\n\nRetro AIAD Theme\n+36\nedited 11 Mar 2021 08:50\ncommented 04 May 2021 12:53\n\nCOLLAB WORKS\n\nSCP Articles\n\nAbraka David's Proposal\n+205\nedited 07 Nov 2023 16:04\ncommented 10 Jan 2024 09:52\nVarious\n\nIhp/Locke Proposal\n+494\nedited 01 Nov 2023 23:15\ncommented 29 Oct 2023 19:53\nEstrellaYoshte\nIhp\nS D Locke\n\nSCP-5841\n+110\nedited 09 Dec 2022 23:01\ncommented 19 Oct 2020 20:50\nTyumen\n\nSCP-5956\n+371\nedited 01 Nov 2023 17:04\ncommented 25 Dec 2022 17:14\nHarryBlank\n\nSCP-6488\n+336\nedited 17 Dec 2023 12:44\ncommented 14 Nov 2023 22:10\nLiryn\nfeat. Jack Ike\n\nSCP-6500\n+788\nedited 15 Jan 2024 03:39\ncommented 21 Jan 2024 17:17\nAethris\nDarkStuff\nGrigori Karpin\nHarryBlank\nIhp\nS D Locke\n\nSCP-6659\n+341\nedited 10 Sep 2023 03:56\ncommented 10 Jan 2024 02:09\nLiryn\nfeat. DodoDevil\n\nSCP-6747\n+391\nedited 19 Nov 2023 01:19\ncommented 28 Nov 2023 18:25\nLiryn\nfeat. Ralliston\n\nSCP-6820\n+895\nedited 29 Dec 2023 04:52\ncommented 07 Jan 2024 14:31\nLiryn\nstephlynch\n\nSCP-7528\n+148\nedited 27 Oct 2023 20:15\ncommented 03 Oct 2023 12:38\nGabriel Kero\nHarryBlank\n\nSCP-7555\n+174\nedited 05 Nov 2023 19:51\ncommented 05 Jul 2023 21:31\nGabriel Kero\n\nSCP-7566\n+70\nedited 19 Jan 2024 22:22\ncommented 13 Jan 2024 07:02\nGabriel Kero\nHarryBlank\n\nTales\n\nFRAGMENTED / COMPILED\n+73\nedited 26 Oct 2023 20:32\ncommented 10 Nov 2021 00:26\nIts a Bad Idea\nPedagon\nTyumen\n\nFacility Dossiers\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Area-12\n+85\nedited 26 Oct 2023 19:59\ncommented 16 May 2022 02:23\nGabriel Kero\n\nHubs\n\nADMONITION\n+416\nedited 30 Nov 2023 00:33\ncommented 25 Nov 2023 01:09\nLiryn\n\nI, Hub (April Fools)\n+93\nedited 29 Dec 2023 04:59\ncommented 06 Feb 2022 12:10\nVarious\n\nNo Return Hub\n+198\nedited 04 Jan 2024 22:42\ncommented 02 Nov 2023 00:29\nAethris\nDarkStuff\nGrigori Karpin\nHarryBlank\nIhp\nLiryn\nS D Locke\n\nSite-17 Deepwell Catalog\n+250\nedited 09 Jan 2024 13:57\ncommented 01 May 2023 16:41\nLiryn\nNagiros\n\nSupplements\n\nProject Isorrop\u00eda\n+187\nedited 06 Jan 2024 18:00\ncommented 05 Nov 2023 07:31\nEstrellaYoshte\nIhp\nS D Locke\n\nSCP-5243 Video Transcripts\n+103\nedited 26 Jan 2023 10:34\ncommented 17 Sep 2023 16:28\nHarryBlank\n\nThemes\n\n5K Theme\n+50\nedited 03 Aug 2023 18:04\ncommented 29 Jan 2023 04:58\nLiryn\n\nADMONITION Theme\n+47\nedited 25 Nov 2023 00:43\ncommented 21 Dec 2023 23:04\nLiryn\n\nBasalt Theme\n+198\nedited 01 Aug 2023 05:27\ncommented 15 Jan 2024 10:00\nEstrellaYoshte\nLiryn\n\nBedrock Theme\n+68\nedited 08 Jan 2024 13:14\ncommented 22 Dec 2022 04:30\nEstrellaYoshte\nLiryn\n\nA little goes a long way. 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{"text": "Item#: 5244\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5244 is contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-63. Any objects created by SCP-5244-1 events are to be removed from the cell and placed in storage to await testing.\nSCP-5244 is currently in the custody of GoI-667. As of writing, the priority of recovery is minimal. Any information regarding SCP-5244-A is to be forwarded to Doctor Watts.\nDescription: SCP-5244 is a 23-year-old male human, previously known as Benjamin Mathews. SCP-5244's anomalous properties are referred to as SCP-5244-1 events, which occur around SCP-5244 seemingly at random.\nAccording to SCP-5244, SCP-5244-1 events are always preceded by an unidentified voice audible only to SCP-5244, often requesting some sort of gift, usually in the form of luck or guidance. Less frequently, the message will thank SCP-5244 for answering one of the previous requests. To date, SCP-5244 has been unable to fulfill any of these requests. Shortly after the message is received, a small burst of flame will appear in the immediate area surrounding SCP-5244, followed by an item. Some examples of items received have been compiled below.\n\nAn orange fruit similar in appearance to a pineapple. Testing determined that the fruit contained a lethal dose of capsaicin.1\nA plastic bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms.\nThe severed head of an unidentified animal with bovine features and antlers similar to those of a moose.\nA Big Mac burger from the restaurant chain McDonald's.\nThree exsanguinated2 Canadian geese.\n\nA full list of items received is available on request.\nAddendum 1: The following interview was conducted between SCP-5244 and Doctor Watts shortly after initial containment.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nWatts: Good morning SCP-5244. How have you been adjusting to your new life?Watts: That's good to hear. Have there been any changes to the SCP-5244-1 events?Watts: We're working on it, I promise. We'll find out what's causing this sooner or later.Watts: Don't worry about it, we do our best to understand all the anomalies we have in containment. That's how we keep the world safe.SCP-5244 grunts and clutches its head in pain.\nWatts: Oh dear. Are you alright?At this moment, another SCP-5244-1 event occurred and the interview was canceled. The item received appeared to be a power cable manufactured by the Apple company.\n[END LOG]\n\nIncident 18/02/21: On 18/02/21 at 19:06, SCP-5244 began to scream in pain while clutching its head. Seconds later, a flame much larger than previous events manifested in the cell, and approximately thirty unidentified humanoid entities entered the room. The entities had red skin, large deer antlers protruding from their foreheads, and compound eyes resembling those of a housefly. They carried SCP-5244 back into the fire and vanished.\nFive days later, a call was made to the Sheriff's department in Jacksonville, Florida. An undercover Foundation agent recognized the caller as SCP-5244, and the call was transferred to Site-63.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]Watts: It's me, Watts.Watts: Where are you?Watts: Orange? Uhh\u2026 (away from the mic) run a check for places with an orange sky.Watts: You mean the creatures that attacked the site?Watts: \u2026What?Watts: That doesn't sound familiar, no. We'll look into it.Watts: Okay\u2026 what about the things that took you, did they do anything else after you arrived?Watts: Did any of them tell you why they were doing this?Watts: And how did you escape?Watts: So then you called us for rescue.Watts: Not right now, but I promise we'll look into it. We're not just going to leave you here.Watts: Excuse me?[END LOG]\n\nThe following day, a second call was received from the same location. The caller claimed to be one of the entities that had captured SCP-5244. The entity negotiated an agreement with the Foundation, on the terms that SCP-5244 would remain in the custody of the entities responsible for its capture,3 and the Foundation would be allowed contact with SCP-5244 for research purposes.\nA secure location was selected to allow Foundation staff to send and receive items to and from SCP-5244 through GoI-667 personnel. An arrangement was made for SCP-5244 to record a video of interactions with GoI-667 daily, and send them to Site-63 for review. The first log has been transcribed below.\nWatts: Oh, it wasn't too hard. They were very polite about it. Their only condition was- well, never mind all that. How have you been holding up?Watts: Interesting. Do you think you did anything to cause that outburst?Watts: Changed form? I wonder what will happen when they grow tired of you?Watts: Well, that's not an option right now, so you're going to have to sit tight a little longer.Watts: We do want to study you. And we've learned far more in the past three days than in the whole month you were in our custody.\nAt this point, SCP-5244 terminated the call.\n[END LOG]\n\nIncident 28/02/21: On 28/02/21 at 13:47, a previously unseen entity entered GoI-667's church and began to converse with SCP-5244. This entity, designated SCP-5244-A, is vaguely humanoid, with green skin and small mouths in the place of eyes. SCP-5244-A has multiple small feathered wings sprouting from various places on its torso. A transcript of the interaction is recorded below.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5244-A: Oh, you're still here?SCP-5244-A: No. You have no real power here. I'm just here to grab lunch while I'm in town. These nutcases wouldn't know holy if it bit them in the ass, but they can cook a mean poverty stew.SCP-5244-A moves to a pot of what appears to be unset concrete and proceeds to drink half the pot using all of its mouths. The entity then walks back to the door, hesitates, and turns to face SCP-5244.\nSCP-5244-A: (Long, drawn-out sigh) I'm really sorry about all of this.SCP-5244-A: I made a mistake, I never intended for this harm to come to anyone. (SCP-5244-A's topmost mouths begin to salivate.) My only goal was to get these cultist nutcases off my back.SCP-5244-A: I was going through a difficult time, mostly because of all the sacrifices and prayers they were sending me. I was confused, and I felt the need to escape. So I dumped all my problems on some random mortal loser.SCP-5244-A: Maybe. The point is, I am truly, deeply sorry for any harm my actions may have caused, and I hope we can come to an understanding someday.SCP-5244-A: Yes, and I'm sorry for that.\nSCP-5244-A stands in silence for a moment, and then clears its throat.\nSCP-5244-A: Anyways, I should be going now. Good luck with your religion.\nSCP-5244-A exits the building. SCP-5244 follows it out, and the two continue to walk through a small town outside the church.SCP-5244-A: I already did once before. But don't worry, it could be a lot worse.SCP-5244-A: I could be stuck here with no hope of escape.SCP-5244-A: Hey, I said I was sorry. What more do you want?\nAt this point, SCP-5244-A walks into an office building and closes the door behind it. SCP-5244 attempts to follow it, but the door is locked.\n[END LOG]\n\nThree days later, SCP-5244-A was seen by a memetic resistant Foundation staff member in a crowded food court in Vatican City, speaking on the phone to an unknown individual. Civilians in the area did not seem to acknowledge SCP-5244-A's inhuman appearance. A transcript of the call has been recorded below.\n\nSCP-5244-A: Yeah, I'm almost done. Just taking a little break before I leave the planet.\nSCP-5244-A: Of course I stopped by the old church, that was the whole reason I came out here.\nSCP-5244-A: Yes Mom, I told him I was sorry.\nSCP-5244-A: You know how I am with apologies. I'm sure he got the message.\nSCP-5244-A: Alright, see you soon.\n\nFollowing this, SCP-5244-A flew upwards through the ceiling, causing immense damage to the surroundings. SCP-5244-A has not been seen since.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The active ingredient in chili peppers.\n2. Drained of blood.\n3. Now known as GoI-667.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5243 | SCP-5244 | SCP-5245 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Only a matter of time till I went back and rewrite this one. Thank you for reading, y'all!\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5245\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5245\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5245 is presently uncontained. Ships scheduled for sailing that fall under the anomaly's criteria are to be intercepted under the guise of damage repair, and their prospective passengers redirected to lower chances of manifestation. Probes have also been dispersed globally in order to monitor its activity.\nIn the event SCP-5245 manifests within proximity of a nearby water vessel, the ship is to be rerouted accordingly. Those aware of the entity's abnormal nature are to be detained and amnesticized.\n\nDescription: SCP-5245 refers to an iceberg possessing sapience and displaying considerable knowledge regarding modern pop culture and other associated topics. The anomaly is able to both move across the water's surface with ease, and translocate across large bodies of water instantaneously, seemingly lacking a limit to the distance it can travel.\nManifestations have been observed primarily targeting high passenger load ships, within which, the following demographic similarities and conditions have been observed:\n\nAt least 75% of the passengers onboard are active tourists;\nAt least 30% of passengers are currently in a romantic relationship;\nAt least 15% of passengers exhibit a form of thalassophobia,1 and;\nEither rain or a thunderstorm is already present.\n\nUpon SCP-5245's manifestation, it produces a fog from an unknown source which quickly envelops the ship's entirety. It then approaches the vessel while relaying a speech, typically referring to itself as a \"deity of the sea\" attempting to \"reclaim to waves from the hands of humanity.\" Eventually, SCP-5245 reveals itself when in immediate vicinity of the ship, preventing it from steering away and consequently leading to collision. It immediately dematerializes from the area afterward.\nSCP-5245 was discovered following numerous news articles associated with a 'mysterious and divine god wreaking havoc upon mankind,' including testimonies from survivors claiming that the anomaly 'acted as a being of higher capacity.' Said reports were expunged and amnestics had been administered accordingly.\n\nAddendum.5245.1: Interview\n\nInterviewer: D-556287\nInterviewee: SCP-5245\nForeword: Included below is an effort to assess more information on the anomaly. A cruise ship favoring SCP-5245's preferences was selected and taken control of by the Foundation, where it would be diverted away from the specimen following the interview.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nExtraneous footage removed for brevity.\nD-556287 approaches the bow of the ship while grasping onto a clipboard. It is currently raining and he is constantly trying to keep balance as he struggles against the intense winds pushing him backward. He breathes heavily as he catches himself before slipping on the ground. Eventually, D-556287 manages to reach the vessel's front, gripping onto the railing and choking violently.\nD-556287: Oh, fuck me and call me Patricia. Where is this anomaly I'm supposed to speak to?\nSCP-5245 manifests, as noted by its fog spreading to surround the ship. D-556287 does not take notice at first as he is facing the sea below and catching his breath. The anomaly proceeds to begin its usual monologue.The entire boat rocks back and forth, causing D-556287 to raise his head and see SCP-5245's silhouette in the distance.\nD-556287: Took you long enough.D-556287: (Mutters) Ugh, what's with this holy speech? Some sort of Jehovah's witness?\nThe anomaly slowly reveals itself from its fog.D-556287: (Interrupts) Hey, sorry. But can you, like, shut up?\nSilence. The entity stops and remains in its current position.D-556287: Eh, I've been through worse.\nD-556287 lifts the clipboard to his face as he skims through its contents.\nD-556287: I'm just here to ask you a few questions, on behalf of the shit show I'm a part of.D-556287: Interview, survey, whatever you call it. Just do me a favor and answer them. I'll be out of your hair after that, alright? I doubt I'm gonna take another trip on the sea since I'm under lock and key, so that's one less \"mortal\" to worry about.\nPause.\nD-556287: Uh, are you there?Another pause.D-556287: Huh? Did you just \u2014D-556287: Hold the phone. What're you \u2014D-556287: Okay, calm down \u2014D-556287: I literally can't. I'm supposed to interview you.D-556287: Yeah, let me just\u2026 give me a minute.\nD-556287 reads from the notepad, mumbling to himself.\nD-556287: So, are you not a god?D-556287: Figured. Then those speeches were \u2014D-556287 places his elbow on the railing and rests his head.\nD-556287: And here I thought this was just some religious jackass trying to steer people into a pit. (Mutters) Eh, at least it's something different for once.\nHe stares at the clipboard momentarily.\nD-556287: So, uh, what's the point of this charade, anyway? If not for \"avenging the marines\" or some other holy crap like that.D-556287: I\u2026 can imagine that but also, that's pretty fucked up.D-556287 shrugs.\nD-556287: I don't normally go on cruises so I couldn't tell you. Do you, uh (flips page), \"feel any guilt or regret when performing these acts?\"D-556287: Ask the fuckers up north. I'm only the messenger here.\nD-556287 coughs.\nD-556287: Y'know, I got sent to the pen for slitting some bloke's neck but I had a reason to kill 'em. You're out here slashing whoever. That just sounds tiring, honestly.D-556287: Sure, but not when I'm on the ship you're crashing into.D-556287: Featured? As in?A short period of silence follows.\nD-556287: Oh, really?D-556287: You sunk the Titanic?D-556287: You caused one of the most well-known tragedies on the sea?D-556287 blinks several times before returning his attention to the notepad.\nD-556287: Somewhat, yeah.D-556287: Not even bothering to respond to (gestures)\u2026 uh, all this. Should probably wrap this up before I'm down under.D-556287: No.\nD-556287 rubs his eyes and yawns before accidentally falling to his knees and groaning. The entity clears its throat.D-556287: Aesthetic purposes. What's it to you?D-556287: Fine, sure. Um\u2026 I \"work\" for a group obsessed with studying folks like you. It's hard to explain but to put it simply, they \u2014\nD-556287 proceeds to repeatedly sneeze before sniffling clearing his throat.\nD-556287: \u2026Sorry, uh, yeah. They basically throw whatever weird shit in, keep them, and run a bunch of tests on them.D-556287: Uh, no. I'm the lab rat here. They just toss me in and see what happens. Funny how I'm still kicking till now.D-556287: Heh, it is.D-556287: No other choice. What would I even do?D-556287: I'd be dead.D-556287 raises his eyebrow.\nD-556287: That's rich coming from you.Pause.D-556287: Pffft, sure.D-556287: First of all, I don't know how to paint. Second, I have no reason to trust some talking iceberg who crashes into ships like a drunk toddler. Why would you even bring me?D-556287: Yeah, I figured.D-556287 turns behind him.\nD-556287: Eh, I don't know. I'll probably get shot if I played along with your bullshit.D-556287 pauses and taps his foot. He looks behind himself again and sighs.D-556287: Uhhh\u2026\nD-556287 stares at his clipboard before shrugging and throwing it away.\nD-556287: Alright, fuck it. You only live once or whatever the saying is. Though, I'm definitely dead the moment I jump into the frozen-as-balls water. Would you mind?SCP-5245 steadily shifts closer to the boat.\nD-556287: Also, don't crash into it. I don't want to hear people screaming in my sleep.D-556287 ascends onto the railing and swings his body back and forth before leaping off, landing into the sea and quickly climbing onto SCP-5245, shaking.\nD-556287: (Stuttering) G-God, it's still cold as balls.The anomaly briefly lifts into the air and dissipates along with D-556287. Footage has also been terminated without warning.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterword: Efforts to locate and detain D-556287 are underway. The legitimacy of SCP-5245's claims are also presently being discussed.\n\nAddendum.5245.2: Incident Log\n\nForeword: The events below occurred one week following the previous addendum. Footage is taken from a Foundation-manned vessel.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nAttached image\n\nCaptain Beefheart is seen at the far back of the ship gripping onto the railing while staring off into the sea. As it is currently lunch time, the rest of the personnel are eating indoors.\nResearcher Doris approaches from behind, holding a paper plate of seafood and a red solo cup.\nDoris: Hey, aren't you going to eat?\nBeefheart turns to see Doris.\nBeefheart: Don't feel like it. Not really hungry.\nDoris tilts her head.\nDoris: Admiring the beauty of the seas, eh?\nBeefheart: Yep\u2026\nDoris: Okay, just be sure to get a bite of something from the buffet. I doubt anyone would want to hear you rambling. You tend to act a little cranky when you're hungry, you know.\nBeefheart: I'm aware.\nDoris: Good to know, good to know. I'll be heading off now.\nDoris proceeds to walk away.\nBeefheart: Happy travels.\nA brief moment of silence passes. Beefheart clicks his tongue.\nBeefheart: Alright, I'm feeling a bit peckish.\nBeefheart lets go of the railing and begins to head to the cafeteria.\nBeefheart: (Mutters) Wonder if I'll have some lobster\u2026\nA shadow starts to form before Beefheart's feet, rapidly increasing in size. He notices it and stares in confusion.\nBeefheart: The fuck?He looks up and his eyes widen in shock.\nBeefheart: Holy shit.\nSCP-5245 manifests directly above the vessel and quickly descends. It laughs triumphantly while Beefheart is stuck in position.Beefheart is visibly shaking before dashing off inside the ship.The anomaly crashes into the vehicle's back end, causing the other side to lift into the air and fall back, flipping the entire vehicle upside down. Staff can be seen falling into the ocean as water rushes into the vessel's opening, sinking it.Silence follows as the ship continues to drop into the sea. Some personnel are struggling to swim to the surface while others are scrambling to release the emergency rafts. SCP-5245 lets out a sigh of relief.Pause.The entity gradually rises into the air.SCP-5245 disappears. Footage cuts.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterword: A number of items were discovered during recovery efforts, including a number of photos and postcards depicting D-556287 and SCP-5245 in various locations. How they remain under detection thus far has yet to be determined.\nOver 200 casualties have been reported from this incident. Containment of SCP-5245 is now considered a top-level priority. Investigation is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Thalassophobia is defined as an irrational fear of the ocean.\n2. D-556287's former name was Allan I. 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{"text": "Item #: SCP-5246\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5246 is to be stored in its designated location in the Site-107 kitchen. Use of SCP-5246 by staff is permitted. Staff must clean SCP-5246 after use to prevent damage upon reuse.\nDescription: SCP-5246 is a cast iron rice pot and lid. When placed on a lit stove or fire for approximately 10 minutes, various varieties of cooked white rice manifests in the empty space inside SCP-5246.\nAccording to PoI-5246-1, other rice based foods may manifest in SCP-5246 under certain conditions.\n\nFood\nConditions\nNotes\n\nSinangag1\nOccurs when SCP-5246 is activated from 6:00 AM to 11:00 AM local time.\nConfirmed\n\nSuman2\nOccurs when SCP-5246 is activated between 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM local time.\nConfirmed\n\nLugaw3\nOccurs when a sick individual is nearby SCP-5246 when activated.\nConfirmed when Agent Santos used SCP-5246 while having a slight fever.\n\nArroz Caldo4\nOccurs during Christmas Day.\nUnconfirmed\n\nChamporado5\nUnknown\nUnconfirmed\n\nPaella6\nUnknown\nNot listed by PoI-5246-1. Occurred once in Foundation custody but was unable to be replicated.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5246 was discovered when a policeman stationed in Barangay \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Quezon City, bragged about owning the object, which he took from a house during a drug raid. Foundation agents embedded in local governance were able to confirm the object's effects, retrieve the object, and issue amnestics to the police officers involved. Foundation personnel looked into the records of the police station and were able to identify the target of the drug raid, hereby a person of interest designated as PoI-5246-1.\nAddendum 5246-1: Interview Transcript with PoI-5246-1\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5246-1\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Dizon\nForeword: Junior Researcher Dizon conducted this interview in PoI-5246-1's residence. Dizon poses as a police auditor.\n<Begin Log>\nDizon: Greetings Father Pedro. I am Detective Dizon. My department found the police operation at your residence suspicious, and have sent me to interview you for your side of the story.\nPoI-5246-1: Welcome, detective. Sorry about the mess, I haven't gone around to clean up after the raid. I'm glad to know my word will still be considered.\nDizon: All part of the job. Now, we did a light background check on you. Clean record before this incident, priest of this barangay7 for around 40 years, also manages a food drive here. Is this correct?\nPoI-5246-1: Yes, all of what you said is true. I have my suspicions on why the police targeted me.\nDizon: Go on.\nPoI-5246-1: There is this political family called the De Penas. One of their sons is running for office. They asked for my endorsement, but I declined; I wasn't comfortable giving them my endorsement. I have received multiple texts threatening me from random numbers since then, but the police won't do anything about it, since \"it's from unknown numbers, we can't do anything about it\".\nDizon: I'll keep track on them. Did any of the texts give a warning about the raid?\nPoI-5246-1: None. It was sudden. I heard knocks on my door that night, thinking it was another kid who wanted some food or someone to talk to. Suddenly four policemen were barging into my house, saying that they received a tip that I store drugs here. I asked for a warrant but they said they didn't need one.\n[Slight pause]\nPoI-5246-1: Their leader sat down in front of me said I can choose to give up some of my possessions or go to jail. I didn't want to go to prison. I chose the former.\nDizon: Were you able to remember any of their names?\nPoI-5246-1: One of them was named Joey. Overhead them saying it. But they wouldn't tell me their names otherwise.\nDizon: Joey, got it. What did they take from you?\nPoI-5246-1: They stole some money I had lying around, some jewelry, and the dinner I was cooking. They left right after.\nDizon: Dinner? Wow, that's harsh. Were you able to eat after?\nPoI-5246-1: [Laughs] Thank you for your concern. I had canned food that night.\nDizon: I see. What's the most valuable thing that they stole?\nPoI-5246-1: One of the jade gemstones that were gifted to me by one of my parishioners when she was going to move to the States.\nDizon: That's unfortunate. Right. So, this may seem like a strange question -\nPoI-5246-1: I've lived many years, I've heard it all, ask away.\nDizon: The rice pot you owned, are you aware of it's effects?\nPoI-5246-1: My\u2026my rice pot? Effects? You mean like, how it cooks rice?\nDizon: Yes, it does. Curiously, even if you don't put rice inside it. One of the police officers who were here, posted a video about the rice pot.\nDizon shows a time-lapse video of SCP-5246. Video was taken when SCP-5246 was in Foundation custody\nPoI-5246-1: A miracle! That pot is!\nDizon: Did you know about this?\nPoI-5246-1: I\u2026I did not.\nDizon: Listen, Father. I understand how much value this object has. I personally think your food drive uses it, and I find it very noble. I want you to trust me, and in return I will make sure it makes its way back to you. I need to know about the rice pot.\nPoI-5246-1: I\u2026I understand. I did know about it, and I have been using it to help the people here.\nDizon: Who else knows about it?\nPoI-5246-1: I have not told anyone besides the Lord. I keep it hidden from visitors.\nDizon: What can it do?\nPoI-5246-1: It, it has a lot of blessings. I'll tell you what I remember.\n[Details removed from transcript; see Description for effects]\nDizon: That's a lot, especially arroz caldo during Christmas! The people must love you for that.\nPoI-5246-1: Yes yes, a lot of people come during Christmas for that.\nDizon: That's good to hear. One, final question, where did it come from?\nPoI-5246-1: During Typhoon Ondoy8, I took a mother and her child in as they had nowhere to go. My house was partially destroyed, but what other help could they receive? Luckily I found the pot floating among the debris, so I took it, rinsed it, and tried to cook two cups of rice for them. Not a lot, but that was all I had. By the grace of God, the miracle of fish and loaves happened again! The pot was full of rice!\nDizon: Did they notice?\nPoI-5246-1: They haven't. Would you be able to return it? I desperately need it for the food drive. Money has never been enough for it. The pot was keeping it alive.\nDizon: I'll try my best. I'll report what I know, and I'll try to get the pot back to you. Don't worry about the effects, I'll keep that secret safe with me.\nPoI-5246-1: Thank you, detective. The Lord's blessings upon you.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: PoI-5246-1 was administered amnestics by Junior Researcher Dizon.\n\nAddendum 5246-2: Revisions to Containment Procedures\n\nShow Proposed Revision to Containment Procedures\n\nHide Proposed Revision to Containment Procedures\n\nProposed Revision of Containment Procedures: PoI-5246-1 is to be given possession of SCP-5246. Foundation personnel will pose as dwellers in Barangay \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 to offer protection to SCP-5246 and by extension PoI-5246-1. PoI-5246-1 may use SCP-5246 on the condition that non-Foundation personnel may not observe nor know about SCP-5246.\nReason: PoI-5246-1 is a benefactor of Barangay \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Most of his help came from SCP-5246 by giving food to the people there. Given the fact that he lost his means to do that, as well as the fabricated drug bust against him, his life is in a significantly lower spot than before. Giving SCP-5246 back to him will restore his life, and the people's faith in him.\nProposed by Junior Researcher Dizon\n\nResponse to Proposed Revision of Containment Procedures: Denied. SCP-5246 is simple enough to be contained with the current procedures. Charity work is not and should not be part of this. - Researcher Inigo\n\nAddendum 5246-2.1: Revision Appeal\n\nAppeal to Revision: On the contrary, SCP-5246 gave us something that is useful to all our staff members. Given the fact that the cafeteria keeps SCP-5246 running almost all the time, we could save a portion of the rice and give it to PoI-5246-1.\nI know that the Foundation can be cold, but taking a priest's method to feed the ones around him is cruel. We're not cruel, right? We should at least use SCP-5246 to help the priest's food drive at least, considering that it's unlikely we give back SCP-5246, and because their community has grown dependent on it.\nSubmitted by Junior Researcher Dizon\n\nDenied. Same Reason. - Researcher Inigo\n\nHide Proposed Revision to Containment Procedures\n\nAddendum 5246-3: Incident 5246.A\n\nShow Incident 5246.A\n\nHide Incident 5246.A\n\nOn 10/12/2016, Site Director Dr. Cornez discovered Junior Researcher Dizon standing over a dropped rucksack filled with rice. Noting the behavior, Dr. Cornez interrogated Dizon.\n\nInterviewed: Researcher Dizon\nInterviewer: Site-107 Director Dr. Hipolito Cornez\nForeword: Taken near Site-107 entrance, audio transcribed from Dr. Cornez's camera.\n<Begin Log>\nCornez: Dizon, please explain the bag of rice.\nDizon: It's for PoI-5246-1.\nCornez: He's hungry?\nDizon: Not him, no. His constituents. Since the Foundation wouldn't help him, I thought I'd just take the rice no one would eat and bring it to him so he can continue his food drive.\nCornez: Really? The Foundation won't help? What makes you say that?\nDizon: The containment procedures for SCP-5246, I tried revising them. Researcher Inigo denied them. So I just kept doing this every week or so.\nCornez: Inigo. Yes. I do remember her mentioning something like that. Not familiar though, SCP-5246 is Safe right? I usually only check the more dangerous ones.\nDizon: Yes. SCP-5246 is Safe.\nCornez: Explain to me what's the revision.\nDizon: SCP-5246 was PoI-5246-1's source of food for his community. We took SCP-5246. PoI-5246-1's constituents are now hungry. We use their food source, we should at least give back.\n\nCornez: Inigo denied because it's work for an object already in adequate containment?\nDizon: Yes.\nCornez: Inigo, Inigo, always a sticker to the rules, is she? Well, I know how much rice that thing can make. Perhaps I can arrange something. And Dizon, please clean up this mess.\nDizon: Yes. I'll get to that.\nCornez: Carrying rice in a backpack? Really? In any case, I'll do something for PoI-5246-1 so you don't have to lug all of this around every week.\nDizon: Thank you.\n<End Log>\n\nOn 12/12/2016, a meeting regarding SCP-5246's containment procedures took place.\n\nPresent: Site-107 Director Hipolito Cornez, Researcher Inigo, Junior Researcher Dizon.\n<Begin Log>\nCornez: So, SCP-5246's containment procedures, care to refresh, Dizon?\nDizon: Will do. SCP-5246 can stay in this site's kitchen, staff can use it to make food, and we have to keep it clean. That would be it.\nCornez: And you wanted it changed to something else?\nDizon: Yes, so it still gives back to PoI-5246.\nInigo: We're still having this? The current procedures are enough.\nDizon: Enough, but is it right?\nCornez: Calm down Dizon. Care to elaborate?\nDizon: Barangay \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 had SCP-5246 since 2009, since Ondoy, and it's PoI-5246-1 who's been using it to help the barangay. We've taken it from him, and now he's in a worse off position, as well as his parishioners.\nInigo: Clarification, it was the police which took SCP-5246 from PoI-5246-1.\nDizon: But we have it, don't we?\nCornez: Enough. It's true that we do have SCP-5246. And it's true that SCP-5246 did good for its community. It's also true that it's currently with us. I do hope you understand why we can't give it back to PoI-5246-1, right Dizon?\nDizon: Yes. That I understand. Inigo made that very clear.\nCornez: Good, we're on the same page. Now in your appeal, you mentioned storing the extra rice from SCP-5246 and giving it to PoI-5246-1. That was denied as well, but you ended up doing that in your own time.\nDizon: Well, it wasn't against any procedures.\nInigo: It's very suspicious giving rice in a bag.\nCornez: It's a wonder no one reported you for that. Besides, how would PoI-5246-1 even store it? Never mind that though, that solution is quite ridiculous.\nDizon: Then, hmm, wait. Site Director Cornez, you do have the finances of Site-107, correct?\nCornez: Yes, I do.\nDizon: May you check the costs for food before and after we took in SCP-5246? We could donate some of the savings if there is any.\nInigo: I'd like to say, those savings can and should be used for funding other containment procedures.\nCornez: Perhaps, but that's a good point you give there Dizon. Inigo, don't you think helping out the locals would be a great morale boost for Site-107?\nInigo: I agree, but the opportunity cost -\nCornez: Don't worry about that Inigo, I'm sure having a charity program will give rise to a lot of possibilities for us. Dizon, Inigo, you may leave. I'm going to speak with the rest of 107's administration.\n\nAlright. There will be times we'll need to contain SCPs that do good for the people who originally have the objects. Of course, it's our duty to contain these anomalies, but I believe first and foremost it's to help humanity. I understand we will need to hurt some people to keep others safe. There's no denying that. But if we're able to use some of the objects to help others, even indirectly, that's a good thing. I've contacted other Site Directors about this and hopefully we'll be able to think of a program to do this, but it's good to start locally.\nAs you know, SCP-5246 is a hit in Site 107, especially since most of us eat rice all the time. So much so, I've checked the finances and it saved us a sizable amount of money. So with that, we'll be using part of those savings to help the locals regarding food. Small efforts such as cash donations, or donations through some of our shell companies. It's indirect, but it will help.\nThere may be ways other SCPs can help the Foundation by reducing our costs. If there is, please send me a message.\nSigned, Site-107 Director Dr. Hipolito Cornez\n\nHide Incident 5246.A\n\nFootnotes\n1. Garlic fried rice\n2. Coconut rice cake\n3. Rice porridge\n4. Heavily infused rice porridge with more flavor than lugaw\n5. Chocolate rice porridge\n6. Rice meal seasoned with saffron, with combinations of vegetables, meat, and/or seafood\n7. Smallest administrative division in the Philippines\n8. Known internationally as the 2009 Typhoon Ketsana\n\n\u00ab SCP-5245 | SCP-5246 | SCP-5247 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5247\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All media coverage of SCP-5247 is to be suppressed or discredited. All witnesses of SCP-5247 events are to be amnesticized.\nThe area in which SCP-5247 currently resides has been sequestered from the rest of Normandy Isles, Florida. Entry into the civilian household in which SCP-5247 currently resides is prohibited.\nEfforts are to be made to relocate SCP-5247's current vector.\nDescription: SCP-5247 refers to the formation of wind columns near Wellington, Florida. These columns create sounds that are similar to music produced by an ocarina.1 Estimated wind speed ranges from a minimum of 132 kilometers per hour2 to 274 kilometers per hour.3\nSCP-5247 is spontaneous in nature, and the method through which it is produced remains unknown.\nAddendum-5247: Discovery\nSCP-5247 was initially discovered in Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida after it sufficiently damaged the window structures as to blow them open.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 4/21/2014\nNOTE: The following recording was obtained via a CCTV camera installed in the classroom.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n11:24: The students arrive and take their seats. The professor enters shortly after and begins the lecture.\n11:44: A wind strikes the windows, shaking them. The wind loses speed for several minutes.\n11:49: The wind blows again, stronger, snapping the window's locks off and blowing them inwards, startling everyone in the classroom. The wind centralizes itself around student Amy Wyneer, blowing her hair with enough force to untie it. Despite the intensity of the winds, Amy remains unharmed, and the winds do not affect the other students.\nThe first recorded instance of SCP-5247's \"music\" can be heard. Moments later, rose petals arc through the window in a cylindrical pattern and scatter around Amy, landing on her, the carpet, and on her desk. A soft clinking sound can be heard.\nSCP-5247 disappears and the winds cease.\n11:53: Amy picks through the rose petals and finds a ring. She wipes her eye and sniffles. She clenches her hand on the ring, quickly places her materials in her backpack and excuses herself from the classroom.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAn audio sample of SCP-5247's music has been appended below. All background noise has been edited out.\n\nAddendum-5247-2:\nSCP-5247 has been spotted in Lake Worth National Park, Florida. Video transcript added below.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 3/21/2015\nNOTE: Video footage is taken from CCTV cameras installed in public park.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n14:27: Amy Wyneer is seen stepping into view from the side. She meets William Greggs and greets him with an embrace. They sit down on a bench nearby and begin talking.\n14:34: Partway through the conversation, Greggs gestures to a ring on her finger. She shakes her head and speaks, gesturing to the ring. She looks to the ground, stroking it. Greggs put a hand on her shoulder. She looks to him and smiles. She places a hand over his. The wind begins blowing. They continue talking.\n14:37: Wyneer begins weeping and Greggs comforts her. The wind gains speed. She leans over and sobs on Greggs' shoulder. The wind pushes Greggs to the ground. A harsh whistling can be heard. Wyneers leaps from the bench and yells at SCP-5247. She forcefully removes the ring from her finger and throws it into the grass.\nSCP-5247's winds gradually slow before ceasing. Wyneer helps Greggs off the ground and they embrace.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum-5247-3:\nSCP-5247 activities ceased on March 21st, 2015, before resuming on February 14th, 2019. Despite this period of silence, SCP-5247 is presumed to have followed Amy Wyneer for the next four years.\nVideo log added below.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 2/14/2019\nNOTE: The following video footage was obtained via CCTV cameras in the restaurant Sushi Ray, Boca Raton, Florida.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n19:24: The restaurant is filled to near capacity with patrons. Amy Wyneer arrives with civilian male, William Greggs. The hostess seats them at a table near the entrance and they order their meals and drinks.\n19:42: Their meals arrive and they begin eating.\n19:54: They finish their meal.\n20:14: Most of the patrons have left. Greggs retrieves a small black ring box from his coat and opens it, presenting a diamond ring. Amy gasps, smiles, then begins sobbing. She slowly reaches for it.\n20:15: The front windows shatter inwards and SCP-5247's high speed winds topple decorations, furniture, utensils and dishes to the ground. They blow the box from Greggs' hand and knock him to the ground. As he struggles to get back up, SCP-5247 rapidly moves to the chandelier above him and rattles it, pulling it free from the ceiling.\n20:16: Wyneer gets up and pushes Greggs out of the way, with the chandelier landing on her instead. This results in her death. A loud, lingering screech can be heard. SCP-5247 rapidly loses wind speed and dissipates.\n\n[END LOG]\nClosing Statement:\nAs of Addendum-5247-3, all SCP-5247 activities have once again ceased completely.\n\nAddendum-5247-4:\nAfter the events of Addendum-5247-3, Foundation personnel were deployed to assist in cleanup efforts as well as to amnesticize witnesses of the event. However, moments before they could arrive at the restaurant, SCP-5247 re-appeared, scattered debris and retrieved Amy Wyneer's body, lifting it with high-speed winds.\nFrom there, witnesses across Wellington, Florida reported hearing SCP-5247's music as it transported Amy Wyneer's body to its current location.\nThe new song is previously unheard. Audio file has been added below.\n\nIt brought the corpse to a house addressed under 8787, Forward March Drive and carried the body inside. All attempts at entering the house have resulted in aggressive responses from SCP-5247.\nFurther investigation reveals that the house was once under the co-ownership of Amy Wyneer and musician Charles Wyneer.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A woodwind instrument with a mouthpiece that extends from the body and four to twelve finger holes.\n2. Approximately the speed of a Category 1 hurricane.\n3. Approximately the speed of a Category 5 hurricane.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5246 | SCP-5247 | SCP-5248 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n90.13%\n(+146)\n9.87%\n(-16)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5249\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nAndrew O'Malley\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\n\nFoundation covert agents are to maintain the guise that SCP-5249 is a public performance. Due to the nature of its anomalous effects, no further containment protocols are necessary.\nFoundation surveillance has confirmed that Andrew O'Malley is only anomalous one day each year for approximately three minutes. As such, his detainment has been deemed unnecessary.\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5249 is a phenomenon surrounding Andrew O'Malley.A street performer in Rutherford, New Jersey who is regarded in high esteem due to the skill he demonstrates when playing the guitar.. Every year on January 3rd, O'Malley exits his home and proceeds to Lincoln Park, wherein he will sit on the park bench closest to the amphitheater and play a song. O'Malley is capable of manipulating trace amounts of his local Humes while playing.According to O'Malley's testimony as well as Foundation observation, this manipulation is purely subconscious. He cannot manipulate reality outside of the circumstances that cause SCP-5249-1 to manifest..\nThe song, titled 'Kai', is presumably a unique composition that was written by O'Malley. Physical and verbal interaction with O'Malley is impossible for the duration of this song due to his relatively low Hume levels compared to his surroundings.\nAt the conclusion of the song, an apparition in the form of a human infant, designated SCP-5249-1, will manifest, typically in O'Malley's lap. SCP-5249-1 remains corporeal for approximately one hour before demanifesting, at which point O'Malley will return to his normal routine.\n\nDiscovery\n\nSCP-5249 did not come to the Foundation's attention until 2021. A spike in local Hume levels in the Colombia Memorial Hospital located in Hudson, New York, warranted an investigation. Upon discovering the source of the spike, Andrew O'Malley was surveyed over the course of three years in order to determine the full extent of his anomalous abilities.\n\n2021 observation\n\nO'Malley performs his composition. There is a woman present who accompanies the song with vocals. Both appear greatly distressed.\nSong concludes. SCP-5249-1 manifests. O'Malley appears to express elation. The woman, later confirmed to be his wife, Julia, expresses greater distress.\nJudging by the body language he uses, O'Malley argues with the woman. SCP-5249-1 experiences distress until demanifesting.\nO'Malley and the woman cease arguing and embrace.\n\n2022 observation\n\nO'Malley performs his composition. Woman is present, but does not sing. She appears pregnant.\nSong concludes. SCP-5249-1 manifests. O'Malley and the woman embrace it briefly. The woman backs away, leaving O'Malley to hold SCP-5249-1 alone.\nO'Malley attempts to converse with the woman but is unsuccessful. The woman leaves.\nO'Malley experiences emotional distress. SCP-5249-1 laughs and tries to grab his shirt. SCP-5249-1 demanifests.\n\n2023 observation\n\nO'Malley performs his composition. The woman is absent.\nSong concludes. SCP-5249-1 manifests. Judging by it shifting its attention between O'Malley and the environment, the entity is confused.\nSCP-5249-1 begins crying. O'Malley cries.\nSCP-5249-1 demanifests.\n\nLyrics\n\nFoundation Researcher Umar Hadid was able to converse with O'Malley during an SCP-5249-1 manifestation. O'Malley refused to answer any questions regarding SCP-5249-1 and instead offered him a sheet of music. After being screened for cognitohazardous elements, the note was deemed safe to include in this document.\n\nOh Kai, my sweet child\nYou never knew the world.\nYou were barely a child when you were taken from me.\nAnd now I'm here alone.\nOh my child.\nOh my child.\nHow I would have loved to hear you laugh.\n\nFollowing this incident, O'Malley ceased performing for approximately two years, temporarily neutralizing SCP-5249 and SCP-5249-1. He began performing again in 2025. At his next performance, he was seen accompanied by his wife and a female child approximately 18 months of age.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5248 | SCP-5249 | SCP-5250 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Act I: The Lake South, the Deer North - Popsioak\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nRecipe Number: SCP-5250\nEase of Preparation: Keter Safe\n\nYou think of this photo as such a nice place to chow down on a big bowl of SCP-5250. Even the deer's left some tracks, so you can tell where you shouldn't be going or looking.\n\nSpecial Cooking Procedures: Growing up in rural Michigan, nothing blocked out the cold like a big bowl of your Mama's special SCP-5250. Now, you know some people would say there are a thousand and one ways to make SCP-5250, but they'd be worse off than the deer trapped beneath the ice. You sigh, as you've forgotten how to cook it. It's been so long. Thankfully, you've got the recipe right here! How convenient.\n\nOne lake in rural Michigan.\n\nOne five-meter tall security fence.\n\nTwo armed guards.1\n\nA dash of sound dampening equipment.\n\nHow did you forget? It's a pretty simple recipe all in all. Now, you recall, there's just a couple of things to avoid when making this.\n\nYou are never, ever to step on the ice. No matter what that silly deer is doing, don't try and help him. He'll be fine.\n\nIf you're not sharing a recipe, don't share anything! That crazy old deer will hear you.\n\nNo writing, unless it's a recipe. If he can't read the document, you know he can't get out.\n\nOnly use the second person. No first-person, no passive voice, no third person.\n\nDescription: To cook a splendid dish like SCP-5250, you first take the lake by the cabin as a base. Add in an unceasing appetite, the lake's edges opening up like the gaping jaws of a deepsea fish. Crack open two sheets of ice, by accidentally tossing a spoon onto it. Remember not to stare deep, deep down into its depths, because what is in there is not human, no matter how much it may cry. You are not to fall down into its hole. You are not to look down there. You are not to feed it with what tapestry of yourself you have weaved in your mind.\nApply three pints of a taste that appears similar to what you used to feel when you swallowed five chili peppers whole. The fire within almost calls, reaches out to you. The heat and warmth make you feel more comfortable. You will need heavy amounts of seasoning with its umami flavor \u2014 it's not as if it can understand taste, eating, or anything of remotely related to it. It is safe, whatever it is \u2014 it is most certainly not a lake, you frown. Being one would've been\u2026 beneficial, you think, as the water would help with the sheer amount of spice you add in, which even the most resilient chef would scoff at.\n\nWhat a silly deer, you laugh.\n\nWhat it did with who it took is still unknown to you. But the dish is still missing something, you think. It'd be hard for you to think of exactly what, seeing as you're quite\u2026 poor in the culinary department.\nAdd in the deer for a bit of a zesty kick. Taste it, just to ensure you've added enough salt. The taste is a familiar one. It reminds you of the woods behind your house. Where you used to go and creep amongst the bushes and trees, and pretend that you were a hunter on the prowl. It is strange being on the other side of that now, to be the one breathing silently, eyes in the back of your head. Silly deer, you think, so concerned about the exact location of whoever talks about it. Toss SCP-5250 with two salad forks, then mix with a ladle, to disorient the deer.\nPouring in the liquid now into the large bowl, you laugh, as its lame leg trails behind it like a shriveled corpse \u2014 it's not as if it could follow you. Or at least, it couldn't yesterday, you think. Today it is fine. But it will not be the day after. Then the cycle repeats. Or are you just too stupid to actually recognize it solely being injured or not? But you ignore the deer \u2014 the mere thought of it or talking about it in any way but this is purely hazardous, because it will find you. Then, like a tempest whipped up in a frothy sea, it will not let go of you as you cycle down its gyre. Whisk, gently at first, then quickly, to prevent the liquid and these thoughts from settling. See if the liquid within the bowl will connect in a paper-thin strand, like melted cheese. If not, then continue to whisk, as the lake and deer are definitely connected. But \u2014 why can't you simply do it on your first time?\nWash your hands, then continue. Preheat your oven, and take out your colander. Ignore the lake's calls, and let them drain through the colander's holes. Ignore the fact that anything that falls down into its depths is immediately taken to some place beyond. Ignore it all. The bubbling stream is all you should focus on, with its soft, gentle calls, repelling that of the siren's song.\nSCP-5250 wasn't thought of by you, not like you could. You're always of the mind that your grandma made it, as a secret family recipe, even if you don't have one. Nor are you always the same you. However, you find SCP-5250 pairs well with the same cabin from the lake you always think of, and cheese. The charcuterie board is made of the same wood that the cabin, built in 1999 was. It was owned by two men, a Mr. Josephus Dryadre, and a Mr. Neil Williams. Both of them are deceased, having died of natural causes in 2000. A shame, you tell yourself, as you remove the dish from the oven with an oven mitt. Plate the dish well, ensuring that all the elements are equally presented, in a way that is mysterious, familiar, and brand-new, all at once. It's a difficult task \u2014 are you sure you're even ready for it?\nAfter all of that, you're done cooking up a likely amazing stew of SCP-5250! The aromatic, delectable aura of the dish you've made reminds you somewhat of home. Of you, even. But ignore that as well \u2014 the smell tickling your nostrils must not be given mind. You've done better than you thought you could.\nYou're aware that it took testing for the cabin, the deer, and this beautifully plated bowl of SCP-5250 to be reclassified as Safe after you discovered the appropriate way to talk about them, which took you too long to find, you incompetent wreck. Below, you've decided to attach some relevant documentation. You know, to add a little more spice to the recipe, and ensure that future cooks-in-training can serve up a dish just as decadent and spectacular as yours should be! One that the lake, and the deer, are both allergic to. They may as well be illiterate \u2014 they hardly can understand what a good recipe is.\n\nAddenda\n\nYou have done some tests with SCP-5250, adjusting ingredients here and there, and seeing what would happen if you tasted what came out of it. Below, you can find the results, future chefs!\n\nActions\nHelpful Ingredients\nResult\n\nStepping into the lake.\nSnowshoes, to help pad out his weight.\nYou saw him slipping under the ice. Despite this, you could still see their heat signature for a little bit.\n\nGetting a computer to write about the deer, then reading what there is.\nYour trusty keyboard.\nThe deer didn't notice. How delightful.\n\nLooking at the deer.\nA pair of binoculars.\nThe deer wants you to keep on coming.\n\nAttempting to kill the deer.\nSome fiery gunpowder, and two .45 caliber bullets with earthy undertones.\nA disappointing presentation, as the deer was completely fine.\n\nPreparing a nice beef jambalaya.\nA pinch of salt, some vision blocking goggles, thermal imaging systems, and infrared sensors.\nThe lake didn't quite like that. You weren't supposed to see what lies beneath.\n\nWaiting.\nA sprinkling of nothing.\nThe wind blows. The lake is hungry.\n\nIn the cabin, when you and the others first came, you found a journal with some entries written by Mr. Dryadre. In the cabin, there was not much else, except for a gun found near the door. You decide to attach the journals below, with approval from your Site Director. It is not as if there is much else you can do. You are stuck, in the snow that rages outside. The deer seemed interesting to him, him being one of the guards outside. Start your stove, set it to simmer.\n\nJanuary 20th, 1999\nI enjoy that what I can see right now is exactly what I have pictured in my mind. The fire is crackling, Neil is snoring his ass off, and I am writing this. We finish work on the cabin tomorrow. It's hard work, but Neil has been able to offer some minor reassurances.\n\nHe was talking to fur traders a ways back. Managed to procure us cured meats to last almost two months, so we shall not run low on supplies. I admit I had some\u2026 choice words for him when I found what he'd traded for it, but I suppose it doesn't matter now. It is not as if I'd need the damn thing now that we plan to live up here.\n\n- J.D.\n\nYou revise your recipes, awaiting orders. The snow is picking up. There's nothing you really can do, but wait. Cooking is the only escape, really, but you're thankful the cabin's got quite the apparatus.\nBut you're a bit full, aren't you? Having eaten so much of that SCP-5250. It's really filling, and the sort of flavor you'd only get by accidentally biting down on your own tongue. It's a strange flavor, certainly, but nothing too strange. Perhaps a bit familiar, really.\nYou sit and think. Think about deer. Their webs of antlers. Their majestic look. They seem quite trustworthy, don't they? A buck, proud and noble ruler of the woods, would not hesitate to help you out. So why did you leave the one out on the ice? You quickly shake your head. The recipe told you so, Junior Researcher. You open your computer, staring at a smiling photo of yourself. You close it. Must conserve your battery. Garnish with bits and pieces of thought.\n\nJanuary 27th, 1999.\nNeil has developed a taste for fish. He's been spending his time ice fishing in the small pond out back. He's spent an awful lot of time back there, after he said a bear had eaten our supplies. An unfortunate start to our new life, but that's quite ok.\n\nI asked him to stay close to me in bed tonight. He agreed, though mentioned he'd been getting splinters. Granted, what we have isn't much of a bed, but I suppose it'd have to do. He talked about what he'd caught. It wasn't a lot. Just a boot. A really old one. I'm surprised others have been up here, but I guess the stream can bring anything.\n\nI worry about him sometimes. Probably too much. It's hard not to, though. He's a bit too trusting.\n\n- J.D.\n\nThe snow picks up even further. The wind's howling outside your walls. You look at the bookshelf of the cabin. Empty. You open your computer \u2014 nearly dead. You don't recognize the person on your screensaver, nor do you remember your password. You shrug. That's alright, it's not like you'd have connection up here. Add in two teaspoons of sugar.\n\nFebruary 1st, 1999.\n\nWe're running low on food. Neil went out into the woods yesterday. Came back this morning. I never struck him as much of a mountain man, but I can't deny the grizzled look was a bit attractive.\n\nHe'd said that he'd managed to shoot a deer outside our cabin last night, but he couldn't go out onto the ice to get it. That it was too risky. Which, of course, I believed. He then told me that he'd kill it tomorrow.\n\nOnly, I'm a bit of a light sleeper. I heard no gunshots yesterday. Neil's never been much of a liar. Was the first to defend me and actually wanted us to come up here when the town got angry. He's never lied to me before.\n\nI'm worried about him. There's a storm brewing, and he seems to only want to keep getting food.\n\n- J.D.\n\nThe guards outside are gone. You're not quite sure where they went, but you think they may have left before the winds started to pick up. Joke's on them \u2014 you've got food, you've got the recipe book you found, and you've got warmth.\n\nFebruary 14th, 1999.\n\nThe deer's not dead. The storm has picked up lately. Neil isn't himself, still trying to fish. He's not doing it as much, which I suppose is a bit better than how often he was doing it. I tapped him a couple of times last week. It took him a bit to come to. Perhaps some of the herbs are hallucinogenic, or something else. Who knows?\n\nI asked him to stay close in bed again tonight. He just looked at me and.. told me I was thinking about what he had said. Or something like that. Then turned around. I don't think he realized what it was today.\n\nHe didn't even say anything besides that.\n\n- J.D.\n\nYou feel the deer. It comes closer. And you want to go closer to it. You can reason with the deer some. It's a lot like you, isn't it? Wounded, worried, and just trying to survive out there on the ice. You're quite surprised the thing's managed to survive this long. It's a big buck though, must be hardy. It'd make for some good venison stew, if you managed to kill the thing. Perhaps you'd try later. Let sit for 30 minutes.\n\nFebruary 25th, 1999.\n\nNeil has been lying to me. I would well, leave him, but the storm's\u2026 outside still.\n\nI suppose the storm's a bit of an excuse. I don't really want to. I'm still doing what we used to, going through the motions, but I found the meats we'd traded for. Hidden under the floorboards. And Neil keeps telling me that I wondered how he'd found them, even though I did that. Not him.\n\nI don't sleep so well. He doesn't even sleep with me anymore, and the snow's starting to break into the cabin. It's too cold. He hasn't eaten in days either, and I'm afraid he's going to starve.\n\nI hear hooves sometimes outside my window, but when I turn, there's nothing there.\n\n- J.D.\n\nYou shot it. The ground rumbled and the deer flailed, and went under the ice. What an awful coincidence. You lost your food, and an earthquake. You sigh. Whatever the lake is, it's hungry. It doesn't eat normally. You know as much \u2014 that's why you're writing like this in the first place. Does it even know how people normally eat? It's only tipped off when you talk about it without using \"you.\" So this\u2026 starves it somewhat. But it knows you're here. Add 2 cups of you.\n\nI believe he is dead. I don't know when I'm writing this. I don't know what I'm doing here. I don't at all. The deer isn't dead. It's completely fine. I saw him step out onto the pond to kill it, and it\u2014 he\u2014 well, fell in. Just like that. And the deer did too. And then the deer came back up. It was wounded and then it was fine. And the deer sounded fine. And he didn't come back up. And I'm\u2014\n\nHe was a lying bastard. But he was my lying bastard.\n\n- J.D.\n\nYou walked over to the lake today. The deer had returned. In the small hole, perfect for one to ice fish in, you look down. And you almost want to jump in. But you don't. You feel like it's drawing you, it's calling you, as if it's a part of you you've lost. How awful, awful it is you and the lake must be without each other, how awful it is you and the deer must be without each other. How great it would be to go walk over and join the deer.\nHowever, you are cold. It would be so warm, to kill the deer and steal its pelt. But it doesn't have a pelt. It's not quite itself, just like you aren't yourself. As if you were staring at it through a dirty mirror. As if you were being reflected within a dirty mirror. Stir in a pinch of self-doubt.\n\nThe traders have been coming by, every three days or so, to give me food. I'd be dead without them. Guess they took pity on me. But, they've gone now. Haven't come by in a week or so. It's hard to tell, because it's so dark outside. I have to block out the windows, because of all the snow, and the holes that something punched through. Looks like a gun, but I don't know.\n\nI hear a knock at the door. Maybe it's them.\n- J.D.\n\nIT WAS NOT THEM IT WAS A DEER\n\nTHE DEER SOUNDED LIKE A MAN. THE DEER SOUNDED LIKE THEM.\n\nI HEARD IT SAY HELP ME. I AM STUCK. THERE WERE TWO MORE HOLES IN THE ICE. THE POND IS BIGGER.\n\nI SAW THE DEER ENTER THEIR MOUTHS. THEN IT LEFT. THEN THEY WENT INTO THE DEER'S MOUTH, AND BOTH WENT INTO THE ICE.\n\nWHAT DO I DO WHAT DO YOU DO\n\nClip. Clop. Clip. Clop. There are noises outside your cabin. Then nothing. Then a phone rings, but the phone is outside. It is the guard's phone. They're back! How great for you. But the guard doesn't answer. Nothing does. And then you notice the ringing comes and goes with the clip and clop. Cook for 40 seconds on high heat.\n\nYou have been waiting, silent, for three days now. You can only tell the passage of time via the birds. Crows and owls at night, sparrows at morning. The tapping is there. You hope Neil is here.\n\nWait.\n\nYou hear a knock.\n\nMaybe it is Neil.\n\nYou recognize there are no more journal entries. Disappointing, because perhaps you'd know what the deer is. However, your thermal imagery has shown that the deer leads under the ice. Its hoof connects to a thin, thin strand, which leads to a large familiar mass waiting patiently underwater. It rings. It clips. It clops. It cries out to be heard, for it is hungry.\nYour computer manages to eke out a single bar of connection from the car, which is running on its last legs. You can hear something stabbing it, running upon its hood, destroying it down to its last metal bits, before a loud splash can be heard. Then you lose your connection. But it was enough time to send the document through, at least. You can remember, at least, that part of you.\nBut, you are stuck. The snow is bearing down on your cabin. You write this for your future chefs.\nThere is a knock at the door. You have your gun ready, locked and loaded to fire. Maybe you are being rescued. But you're hungry, so so hungry, and you want to cook up another bowl of SCP-5250. A nice, creamy, warm and steaming bowl of SCP-5250 stew. The lake feels like that, like one big pot of it.\nSo maybe deep down, you hope it is the deer. Maybe it is you at the door. Maybe. You open it, and \u2014\nVoila. Your dish is finished.\n\nFootnotes\n1. For freshness, make sure to switch these out frequently.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5249 | SCP-5250 | SCP-5251 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5252\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the operative zone of SCP-5252 remaining immobile, Area-5252 encompasses SCP-5252, its known range of travel, and a one kilometer buffer zone.\nThe four meter tall barrier is constructed of 5 centimeter diameter galvanized steel bars spaced 14.5 centimeters apart to allow for passage of snow in the event of an avalanche. Solid concrete shelters for personnel must be accessible at all times. No alterations or additions to land, flora, or fauna are permitted. All Foundation members are to undergo training protocol BSC-5252 to minimize damage to the area before being assigned to Area-5252. (Revision as of 10/23/20\u2588\u2588. See Addendum-3, Incident Report-5252-2).\nDescription: SCP-5252 is an approximately two meter tall humanoid entity of indeterminate race and gender which carries an oil lantern. Reported details regarding its appearance are sparse and unclear. SCP-5252 travels at will by unknown means throughout a 26.3 square kilometer section of land located in the central region of Nepal, within the Himalayan mountains. The area includes a remote mountain pass, numerous hiking trails, and a local village.\nA pattern of injuries, thefts, and disappearances has been attributed to SCP-5252. Most often seen on adjacent peaks or trails moving along at a walking pace, sightings of this entity date back in local records to 1435, but oral tradition puts the potential first emergence of SCP-5252 within the 12th century. Instances of this entity coming into closer range of observers are primarily during inclement weather.\nReports indicate that lone or paired climbers, who become lost, often mistake it for a Sherpa or rescuer and follow the entity back to the trail head. SCP-5252 has only been observed as a dark outline of a tall humanoid figure. SCP-5252 stays several meters ahead of the observer and does not respond to verbal commands or inquiries, regardless of the language spoken.\nOnce the observed figure reaches the trail head, it will stop and wait for the hiker(s) to catch up to it. Survivors report that the brightness of the lantern makes any details of the figure indistinguishable, but a dark hand is held out, open palm, to the lone or nearest human. If the individual fails to present SCP-5252 with an item, it will take an object by force or inflict non-lethal injury. No deaths have yet been attributed to SCP-5252. (Revision as of 10/13/20\u2588\u2588. See Addendum-1.)\nSightings and encounters with SCP-5252 have been found to be increasing in conjunction with rising numbers of tourists in the area.\n\nAddendum-1\nDuring Foundation operations to gather intelligence on SCP-5252 within the village, an incident involving two tourist hikers occurred 10/13/20\u2588\u2588. One survivor and one local serving as a Sherpa were taken into Foundation custody and interviewed. Determining the facts of the event and entity motivations considered top priority by Dr. Clarke, assigned head researcher for SCP-5252 and Area-5252.\n\n+ Interview Log-5252-3\n\n- Showing Interview Log 5252-3\n\nInterviewed: Andrew J. Wilson, from incident reported 10/13/20\u2588\u2588.\nInterviewer: Dr. Clarke, head researcher of Area-5252.\n<Begin Log, 10 hours post discovery by patrolling Foundation security, after receiving emergency medical attention from Foundation physicians.>\nDr. Clarke: How're you feeling, Mr. Wilson?\nWilson: They gave me some good stuff so I'm not feeling much. Will this take long? I'd like to go home.\nDr. Clarke: We'll try to keep things brief, but we need honest answers from you.\nWilson: \u2026I'll do my best. [ sounds of wet coughing ]\nDr. Clarke: Once you started along the [REDACTED] portion of the pass, what do you remember?\nWilson: We were just hiking, making good time. We were set to make the next peak by evening. But all of a sudden, the weather started to turn. So we started to head back.\nDr. Clarke: Did anything seem out of the ordinary?\nWilson: Like what?\nDr. Clarke: I don't hike much, so I wouldn't know.\nWilson: [ short pause ] Nothing. We were a bit worried might lose our way. Visibility was dropping quick, but nothing weird. Not until that\u2026 thing showed up.\nDr. Clarke: What \u201cthing\u201d do you mean?\nWilson: I thought it was our Sherpa at first, coming to find us. It had a lantern and was walking ahead of us, so we followed it back.\nDr. Clarke: What happened once you reached the trail head?\n[ A silence of several seconds followed by a rattling sigh. ]\nWilson: That thing, whatever it was, held its hand out.\nDr. Clarke: You called it a thing. Are you sure it wasn't just a person?\nWilson: I don't know what it was, but it sure as hell wasn't a person. And its eyes\u2026\nDr. Clarke: What about its eyes?\nWilson: When it took him. I couldn't see anything because of how damn bright that light was. But when it grabbed him, the light went out. And I saw two glowing eyes for just a second. Before Bill started screaming.\nDr. Clarke: What do you mean that it took him?\nWilson: I couldn't see Bill behind me. The locals warned me to give it something. I turned to get something out of my pocket- not sure what I was planning on grabbing. But before I could stop him, Bill went at it with his machete.\n[ Sounds of forceful and prolonged coughing. Dr. Clarke's notes here that Wilson's primary facial wound was becoming exacerbated. They chose to cut the interview shorter than initially planned. Less vital questions were omitted to curb excessive blood loss of the victim.]\nDr. Clarke: What was the machete for?\nWilson: Oh, um. Just protection.\nDr. Clarke: From what?\nWilson: Big cats mostly\u2026\nDr. Clarke: Sure.\nWilson: \u2026\nDr. Clarke: How did you come by your injuries?\nWilson: Like I told those doctors, it happened so fast. I think it hit me when it grabbed Bill. It felt like a fucking sledgehammer with claws. [ Several seconds of silence pass. ] Am I going to be okay?\nDr. Clarke: We've stabilized you. You should be fine, but you'll most likely require a good deal of reconstructive surgery. I'd also recommend seeking out an ocularist if you wish.\nWilson: [ sounds of Wilson thickly swallowing, followed by sniffling ] Did you guys find Bill yet?\nDr. Clarke: Not yet, but we're looking.\nWilson: We should have never come here.\n<End Log>\nPost-interview note by Dr. Clarke: \"\u2588\u2588 days after the incident, William \"Bill\" \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was found approximately 5 kilometers from the initial point of contact with SCP-5252. Cause of death was determined to be exposure. This information has been temporarily withheld from the subject due to risk of shock and possible memory loss.\"\n\n+ Interview Log-5252-4\n\n- Showing Interview Log 5252-4\n\nInterviewed: Bibek Adhikari, hired guide involved in incident reported on 10/13/20\u2588\u2588.\nInterviewer: Dr. Clarke, head researcher of Area-5252.\n<Begin Log, 11 hours post discovery by patrolling foundation security, after completion of interview with Andrew J. Wilson.>\nDr. Clarke: Thank you for coming in, Mr. Adhikari. Are you sure you don't want us to bring in a translator?\nAdhikari: No, English is okay.\nDr. Clarke: We haven't encountered many English speakers in your village.\nAdhikari: Yes, there are not many. I needed to learn, to work with the tourists.\nDr. Clarke: Have you worked with many hikers and climbers?\nAdhikari: Yes, since I was a young man.\nDr. Clarke: Why did Mr. Wilson and Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 come to Nepal?\nAdhikari: They told me they wanted to hike the Himalayas and see the land.\nDr. Clarke: Was there anything in particular they wanted to see?\nAdhikari: Some of the peaks. And the forest near my village.\nDr. Clarke: Did anything out of the ordinary happen?\nAdhikari: They lied to me.\nDr. Clarke: They lied to you?\nAdhikari: Yes.\nDr. Clarke: How so?\nAdhikari: They said they wanted to hike. Admire the land. But they wanted to take it from us.\nDr. Clarke: They wanted to take your land? Did they tell you that?\nAdhikari: They did not need to. Both men had a Chhura1 with them. They tried to hide them, but I saw.\nDr. Clarke: What did you think they were for?\nAdhikari: To cut the trees.\nDr. Clarke: Cut them down?\nAdhikari: No, no. Marking the best areas to come back to later. With their lumber company. Our land, our trees, our people; they are not for sale.\nDr. Clarke: So what did you do? Did you harm them?\nAdhikari: I did no harm. I returned home without them. The mountain would take care of it. They must leave. And you must leave.\nDr. Clarke: Not right now. We still have some questions-\nAdhikari: No, I am going to return home. You should as well.\nDr. Clarke: Alright, Mr. Adhikari. We'll continue this interview another time.\nAdhikari: Speaking with me will not help you. If you wish to know more about land, and what resides within it, you need to speak to the Ja\u1e0d\u0101na2.\nDr. Clarke: Who is that?\n[ Sounds of a metal chair scraping across a floor, followed by fading footsteps. ]\nDr. Clarke: Mr. Adhikari, wait. We're not finished here.\nThe interviewee attempted to leave the Foundation outpost and refused to respond to any further inquires from Foundation staff. He was allowed to return, but is being kept under surveillance until further notice.\n<End Log>\n\n\u2014\nAddendum-2\nAll Foundation containment activities are to be put on hold until reauthorization is given. Further investigation into SCP-5252 is ongoing.\n\n+ Incident Report-5252-1\n\n- Showing Incident Report-5252-1\n\n10/21/20\u2588\u2588\nContainment Unit-3, posted 0.3 kilometers outside the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 village. Causalities and injuries consisted of:\n\n2 construction personnel killed, 5 injured.\n3 security personnel killed\n\nOne surviving Foundation member, Security Officer Renee S. Peterson, gave her account of the incident as she was lucid but unable to be moved from the infirmary at the time of her statement.\n<Begin Audio File>\n\"Operations and surveys in the areas hadn't been going smoothly. The planning markers for the containing wall were in and the construction team was felling a few trees that were in the way.\nWe had only been out there about an hour. I clocked the time about \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 a.m., but I knew we were going be out there for the next several hours. Containment implementation is being sped up since that civilian death they documented last week.\nOne of the locals came up to us. He had a couple of books or journals in his arms and he was babbling. Scared the shit out of me when he ran up. He just kept talking louder and louder. Most of the crew was getting uncomfortable. We didn't have a translator with us so I pointed back to the village to ask him to leave. I had no idea what he wanted. He did try to shove one of those books into my hands. I had one of the other security guys escort him off. Wasn't in the mood to deal with that shit.\nI was trying to keep eyes on every member of the team, but between the foliage and the distance across the work site, I lost line of sight on a few. One of the furthest guys, to my 3 o' clock, started screaming. And then he just stopped. The crew started panicking and all I could see was this blur between the trees. They were dropping like flies and there was so much blood.\nI didn't want to risk shooting one of my men, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway. It was too fast. After just a minute or two, I was the only one left. Then I saw it. Tall, dark, carrying a bright light. I didn't get a good look before it\u2026 smacked my gun out of my hands. The last thing I remember is being thrown to the ground. The eyes too. Like the sun.\"\n<End Audio File>\nAfter partial amputation of three fingers of her left hand and full amputation of her dominant (right) arm above the elbow, S.O. Peterson has been medically discharged from duty.\n\n32 hours after the incident on 10/21/20\u2588\u2588, the individual referred to as the \"Ja\u1e0d\u0101na\" by Mr. Adhikari was located by investigation agents and brought in for questioning by Dr. Clarke\n\n+ Interview Log-5252-5\n\n- Showing Interview Log 5252-5\n\nInterviewed: Sang Acharya, a young man referred to as the \"Ja\u1e0d\u0101na\" and a resident of the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 village.\nInterviewer: Dr. Clarke, head researcher of Area-5252.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Clarke: Thank you so much for coming in, Mr. Acharya. I'm sure you have some idea of why you're here.\nSang Acharya: Please, just call me Sang. And yes, I know why. You need answers and you hope to get them from me.\nDr. Clarke: We've spoken to a few of the people from your village and all of them have mentioned you. I'm hoping you can help us. What can you tell us about this entity?\nSang Acharya: Entity?\nDr. Clarke: Something attacked those hikers. And my colleagues. We need to know everything you know.\nSang Acharya: The ones that were tearing apart the forest by our village? You're with them?\nDr. Clarke: Yes, but we're not here to do harm.\nSang Acharya: I'm sorry, but I have nothing for you. Nothing to tell you. You need to leave. Now!\nDr. Clarke: We can't leave and we need your hel-\nSang Acharya: No! You people are making things worse for us. If you continue on this path you'll destroy everything.\nDr. Clarke: Please Sang, I don't want to see anyone else die.\nSang Acharya: They died because of you.\nDr. Clarke: We made a mistake and we want to correct it.\nSang Acharya: You fail to understand It or anything about this place.\nDr. Clarke: Yes, but we want to. Please help me understand. I truly want to. [ Dr. Clarke's voice becomes low and soft. Gain on the audio from his microphone has been digitally enhanced slightly. ]\nSang Acharya: [ The interviewee pauses and places his head in his hands for several seconds. ] Why?\nDr. Clarke: They weren't just my colleagues. Some of them were my friends, or as close to friends as you get in my job. Also, I'm a researcher. I have no interest in the timber, the land, or anything material. I just want knowledge. Please, Sang.\n[ Several moments of silence follow. ]\nSang Acharya: You truly mean that.\nDr. Clarke: Very much so.\nSang Acharya: Alright, I'll share what I know with you. Come to my home tomorrow and I will allow you to study the texts and journals. Even make copies. The Ja\u1e0d\u0101na that came before me have left behind a wealth of information. My own book my even hold some value to you. Maybe once you have this knowledge, you'll be wise enough to understand why it's best to leave things be.\nDr. Clarke: I'll need to bring a team in with me. For my safety and yours.\nSang Acharya: Fine, but tread lightly.\nDr. Clarke: Naturally.\n<End Log>\n\n\u2014\nAddendum-3\n\n+ Incident Report-5252-2\n\n- Showing Incident Report-5252-2\n\n10/23/20\u2588\u2588\nSCP-5252 was engaged by Foundation staff during operations to create a more permanent base within the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 village and interview a person of interest. During the ensuing combat, a fire ignited on the exterior of a civilian home. Due to most structures in the area being composed of highly flammable materials such as wood and straw, as well as inadequate firefighting equipment, destruction of the village was virtually total and resulted in massive casualties of both locals and Foundation members. Analysis of the scene showed an overturned hanging lantern as the source of the fire. Torn material lodged in the edge of the lantern housing was found to be the same as that of a Foundation security uniform vest.\nA Foundation forensic team determined the cause of the fire to be accidental, but ultimately puts the Foundation partially at fault.\n\nA fire-damaged, leather-bound journal was recovered from the wreckage of a civilian home by Dr. Clarke and translated from Nepalese. Legible pages include the following:\n\n+ Document-5252-1\n\n- Showing Document-5252-1\n\n05/29/20\u2588\u2588\nIta came to me this morning with a gift for the Spirit. Even so young, my sister understands the importance of our connection with the land and It. It warms me to know I've served as a good example to her. Since this is her first offering, I'm hoping the Spirit accepts it. I'm concerned though that It will leave a rock behind, no matter how \u201cpretty and shiny\u201d Ita insists it is. Like me, she fell in love with the mountain, the animals, the trees on our walks. I do wish she wouldn't load the pockets of her skirt with stones every outing though.\nRegardless, I have a lovely new paperweight that, I agree, is \u201ceven prettier and shinier\u201d.\n\n+ Document-5252-2\n\n- Showing Document-5252-2\n\n04/30/20\u2588\u2588\nMother was kind enough to leave me supper on the table for when I returned from the mountain. Despite it being Springtime, the snow is thick on the trails and passes. I came home half frozen long after the sun had set. My convening with the Spirit has paid off though. It spoke of a productive farming season all through Autumn. The offerings last year must have been enough to make up for most of the damage done by the tourists.\n\n+ Document-5252-3\n\n- Showing Document-5252-3\n\n05/14/20\u2588\u2588\nI woke last night to a light by my window. A visit to the village from the Spirit has only happened a few times since the death of my predecessor. She taught me so much over the years, but my knowledge can only do so much and I miss her guidance. The Spirit is a strange thing and nothing I've been taught is certain. I'm not sure the reason for this, but It's restless.\n~\nIta left another one of her precious stones out on her windowsill for the Spirit. That silly girl called It here by marking the wall of the house. I should never have showed her the offering symbol. Thankfully, I can see the light heading out of the village, back to the mountain. It must be satisfied with Its gift. Still, It's been more active. This makes me nervous, but only time will tell what it means.\n\n+ Document-5252-4\n\n- Showing Document-5252-4\n\n06/07/20\u2588\u2588\nMore and more foreigners are coming to the mountain the past several years. The land is starting to wear down and be altered. They come in, go where they wish, do what they wish, and leave their unwanted rubbish behind with us. The Spirit is growing restless. It still appears to me and the people of my village in aid, but I fear what may happen if this disrespect is allowed to continue.\n10/13/20\u2588\u2588\nI must convene with the elders and insist we begin to limit tourist permits. Before something far worse comes to pass. A visiting foreigner lost his life to the Mountain and his friend nearly so. I saw for myself that the Spirit put out his eye, but he will live to tell what happened. Hopefully that will dissuade some.\nBibek confided in me that he suspected the men were sent by a lumber company. He doesn't wish to work as a Sherpa any longer. I respect his choice. I'm not sure those men deserved what happened to them, but It doesn't suffer fools.\n\n+ Document-5252-5\n\n- Showing Document-5252-5\n\n10/15/20\u2588\u2588\nA large group of strange people came to the village. They seem to be trying to pass as curious tourists or scientists looking to research the land, but something is not quite right. I can sense the agitation of the Spirit. I plan to visit the mountain tonight and see if it will speak with me. It has been more and more quiet as the damage has been done.\n~\nI've returned home from the peak and my heart is filled with terror. The Spirit wouldn't speak with me. It wouldn't even show itself. This is a terrible omen of things to come, I fear.\n10/21/20\u2588\u2588\nI knew this would end in bloodshed and death. A group of the outsiders were wiped from the mountain, just outside the village, along with a few of our people. No one permitted them to build anywhere near our land.\nI attempted to speak with one of their leaders just before the attack. She sent me away like I was an ignorant child getting in the way of their work. The Spirit marked me before my family even did.3 Even after all these years the soot still has not faded. My connection with It is still strong. Yet they question me.\nThe Spirit still will not speak with me, but I will not give up. I must prove to It my people still respect and care for our land and one another. These strangers will not heed my warnings either. Between It and them, one will bend to the other. And I fear what will happen if this conflict truly comes to bear.\n\n\u2014\nAddendum-4\nAttempts to locate Sang Acharya, the author of the journal, have been unsuccessful. Security personnel followed human tracks from the found journal for nearly 4 kilometers, heading towards the nearest mountain peak, before the trail became impassable. A torn piece of parchment, identical to the makeup of the journal previously referenced, was found near the wreckage of the village.\n\n+ Document-5252-6\n\n- Showing Document-5252-6\n\nResearchers studying this case note here that the handwriting of this particular entry appears to be rushed and made by a shaking hand. The parchment is marred with a substance shown by testing to be a mixture of human blood and oil-based soot.\n\nEverything is gone. My people are all dead or scattered to the nearest villages for refuge. Most of the foreigners who came here are gone. Dead or run away. The Spirit has provided so much and now it has taken everything. The village has burned to the ground. My mother and father, along with my brother and baby sister, have perished. There's absolutely nothing left for me here. My only path is to travel up the mountain and hope to convene with the Spirit one last time before I give myself to the land.\n\nSightings of a second iteration of SCP-5252, henceforth referred to as SCP-5252-A, have been sighted alongside SCP-5252 and documented by security personnel.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Chhura (\u091b\u0942\u0930\u093e) - A common Nepalese term for blade or knife.\n2. \"Ja\u1e0d\u0101na\"(\u091c\u0921\u093e\u0928) - Nepalese for connection. Used in this instance as a proper noun or title by the interviewee.\n3. Traditionally, Nepalese mothers stay secluded in a dark room for several days after the birth. 5-7 days after birth, a newborn's eyes are outlined with gajal (soot from an oil lamp and butter), and its forehead marked with a black tika. This is a ceremony to formally welcome the child into the family.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5251 | SCP-5252 | SCP-5253 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Rodinia, the hypothetical supercontinent involved in SCP-5253\n\nItem #: SCP-5253\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler I/O-POSE is to monitor both academic and informal publications for any keywords matching SCP-5253. Embedded elements in academia and national governments are to prevent investigations of known Precambrian strata and suppress any individuals aware of SCP-5253.\nUpdate: No further expeditions to the oceanic abysses are to be undertaken without notifying the SCP-5253 research team.\nDescription: SCP-5253 is an infohazardous theory surrounding the primary causes of the Cambrian explosion.\nDue to its nature, specific details of SCP-5253 are dangerous to identify. Known safe details include:\n\nThe existence of advanced metazoan oceanic life prior to 1,200 Mya\nThe colonization of the hypothetical supercontinent Rodinia by this life\nA large migration of life into the crust (and possibly the mantle) around 700 Mya\nThe complete extinction of all non-migrated life in 650-700 Mya\nA massive tectonic event releasing the crust life back to the ocean\nThe evolution of this life into the known Cambrian forms\n\nConsideration and acceptance of the SCP-5253 as valid currently appears to be the trigger for further anomalous effects.\nStudy of D-Class and affected civilians shows a variety of effects. In the majority of cases, the subject eventually dies of instantaneous conversion of their blood and cerebrospinal fluid to seawater, followed by massive hemorrhaging. The seawater contains a high concentration of extinct protozoa and microbes. Upon expulsion from the body, the life forms in the water rapidly divide and grow into larger and larger forms of prehistoric marine animal life that attempt to collectively move towards a single direction. Testing has shown that all movement is directed towards the Atacama Trench in the Pacific Ocean; investigation of the extrapolated location has revealed no abnormalities.\nStudy of these life forms in containment shows them to progress through various phyla before reaching a final, radially symmetric body plan. These organisms typically resemble eels or worms in composition, and have multiple shells, eyes and mouths. Over 75 varieties have been documented, each with specialized adaptations also seen in nonanomalous Cambrian life.\nAddendum 5253-01: Number of recorded SCP-5253 victims: approximately 2000. On 2019/17/03, a gold mining team in Brazil reportedly encountered a 'strange fossil' in an unexplored tunnel. When the miners viewed the fossil, deep-sea worms, lampreys, and molluscs spontaneously erupted indiscriminately from their tissues and orifices. One miner collapsed the tunnel, destroying the fossil and terminating most of the remaining miners.\nThe unaffected miners and converted anomalies were amnesticized and contained, respectively. The contained specimens continued to vocalize until their expiration. Investigation of the situation revealed that the owner of the mine was aware of SCP-5253; he has not yet been recovered.\nAddendum 5253-02: Number of recorded victims of SCP-5253 now exceeds 10,000. On 2024/03/02, a large tremor in the Atacama Trench was detected, corresponding to a higher-than-usual metabolism in the 0.5 kilometer thick layer of living metazoan tissue beneath the sediment floor. Seismographic measurements confirm the formation of an eye or analogous structure near the thickest part of the layer.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5252 | SCP-5253 | SCP-5254 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5254\nObject Class: Keter\n\nAn SCP-5254 instance (left; staring directly at camera) in the process of transformation.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation agents are to work with local authorities to limit the sale of memorabilia, costumes and novelty items during events that feature fictional characters belonging to The Pok\u00e9mon Company. A public ban on the adornment of Pok\u00e9mon-related accessories will be imposed on festivals and mass gatherings, including (but not limited to) face-masks, hats, coloured make-up and full-bodied onesies.\nA special task force of MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\") is to be deployed at future events to neutralise SCP-5254 instances that manifest in public spaces.\nFurther efforts will be made to disrupt The Pok\u00e9mon Company's global marketing and promotional infrastructure, with embedded agents discrediting the franchise's popularity on social media, video game websites and within religious communities.\nDescription: SCP-5254 refers to the anomalous transformation of a humanoid or object into one of 980 fictional creatures designed by The Pok\u00e9mon Company. The transformation event occurs upon prolonged, extensive adornment of fashion accessories and other pieces of clothing that specifically resemble a creature's anatomy.\nPost-mortem dissections of SCP-5254 instances have shown the transformation event to be fatal to most organic life-forms, physically transmuting synthetic components (like cotton and plastic composites) into flesh, muscle tissue and other bodily fluids comprised of foreign DNA, to the point the original entity's genetic make-up is unrecognisable.\nThe cause of an SCP-5254 transformation event is currently unknown. The rate of transformation appears co-related to how closely the human subject resembles the original creature's design, as to the proximity and number of individuals wearing Pok\u00e9mon-related garb.\nDiscovery: In 2019, during the annual Pikachu Outbreak! festival in Yokohama, Japan, eyewitness reports show a Pikachu mascot behaving erratically during the street parade segment.\nMobile phone footage uploaded to social media shows a large crowd on both sides of the street adorned with Pikachu-themed hats, yellow face-masks and electric-shaped tails fastened to their backs.\nA column of Pikachu mascots is observed dancing down the street to the beat of the music, when one of the mascots breaks formation and collides head-first into the crowd. At least fifteen other SCP-5254 transformation events follow soon after, resulting in the lockdown and evacuation of the Minatomirai district, along with a request to the Foundation to apprehend and neutralize SCP-5254 instances at large.\nMultiple injuries were reported by the local municipal government, with victims suffering blunt force trauma and severe electrical burns.\n\nABRIDGED TEST LOGS\n\nForeword: After the incident in Yokohama, multiple D-class were outfitted with Pok\u00e9mon-themed memorabilia in a controlled environment:\n\n#\nVariable\nEffect\n\n1\nPok\u00e9mon Pikachu Big Face with Ears Hat.\nNo discernible effect.\n\n2\nPokemon Detective Pikachu Cosplay Mask Latex\nNo discernible effect. D-class reportedly says, \"This is stupid.\"; reprimanded.\n\n9\nD'BOON Adult Onesie Pikachu Animal Pajamas.\nResearchers repeatedly ask how the D-class is feeling; D-class turns aggressive. Results inconclusive.\n\n17\nTwo D-class dressed in Pikachu onesies, four meters apart.\nTingling sensation reported in arms and legs, akin to pins-and-needles.\n\n19\nFour D-class dressed in Pikachu onesies, holding hands.\nSevere migraines reported, as well as throbbing pain in the cranium and lower jowls of the face. Dull aches reported in the area of the lower back, near the tailbone. Portions of skin turned a shade of mustard yellow.\n\n45\nAll prior variables. D-class personnel screened for affiliation to Pok\u00e9mon-related content: one owned a copy of Pok\u00e9mon Yellow when he was 12; another possessed a Level 40 account on the popular app, Pok\u00e9mon GO.\nMuscle-spasms reported along the extent of spines. One D-class complained of tightness in her chest before coughing up tufts of yellow fur. Another physically recoiled upon physical contact, citing high levels of static electricity.\n\nTest #125: D-class in a Pikachu mascot costume with blonde wig and replica of Thor's hammer. No effect.\n\nAfterword: Removal of memorabilia or cosmetic items does not appear to reverse the effects of SCP-5254. A total of 56 D-class were lost to various stages of transformation events before testing was suspended, citing possible breaches to the Site's security and power-grid.\nIt appears that affinity to the Pok\u00e9mon brand amplifies SCP-5254's effects.\n\nACCESSED CORRESPONDANCE\n\nPreface: The following transcripts were taken from The Pok\u00e9mon Company's web-servers after the incident in Yokohama, detailing correspondence between the various stakeholders of the Pok\u00e9mon franchise. Note: These emails have been mainly translated from Japanese.\n\nFrom: \u541b\u5cf6 \u9054\u5df1 (Kimishima Tatsumi), CEO, Nintendo\nTo: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c\u3055\u3093 (Tsunekazu Ishihara), CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\nDate: 13/04/2017\nDo not ask questions. If this \"Ser Viper\" wants manpower for his project, give it to him. Our society will not miss these burakumin1.\nHe (whoever he claims to be) may be charging us a small fortune, but at least he seems genuinely interested in bringing our creations to life.\n\nFrom: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c, CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\nTo: \u541b\u5cf6 \u9054\u5df1\u3055\u3093, CEO, Nintendo\nDate: 23/10/2017\nTuesday will mark the fifth visit by the Fukushima Orphanage to our headquarters. I told the press it's part of our global outreach programme to spread the joy of Pok\u00e9mon to rest of the world.\nEarly results have been positive. I should have a specimen to show you the next time we meet in Tokyo. Your daughter likes Eevee, yes?\n\nFrom: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c, CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\nTo: \u541b\u5cf6 \u9054\u5df1\u3055\u3093, CEO, Nintendo\nDate: 15/12/2017\nPlay anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Yes, the slogan for the Switch is very apt for what we're trying to accomplish.\nYour marketing team deserves a raise.\n\nFrom: John Hanke, CEO, Niantic, Inc.\nTo: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c\u3055\u3093, CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\nDate: 12/03/2018\nI am pleased to report Pok\u00e9mon Go2 has hit 750 million unique downloads in July and 5 million daily average users just last week. The popularity of the franchise continues to grow.\nThink of the possibilities once we integrate Augmented Reality (AR) technology into the project: Altaria as a clean and efficient form of air transportation, Charizard serving in the Self-Defense Forces, and yes, Pikachu making our reliance on nuclear energy a thing of the past.\nSoon, Pok\u00e9mon will come to life before our very eyes.\n\nFrom: \u541b\u5cf6 \u9054\u5df1, CEO, Nintendo\nTo: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c\u3055\u3093, CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company; John Hanke, CEO, Niantic, Inc.\nDate: 03/06/2018\nThe accidents are growing in number. Are you sure \"Ser Viper\" has everything under control? We cannot hide these incidents from the public forever. The MFS3 already has its hands full trying to catch the runaways.\nIf we don't take action soon, more people will get hurt. Or worse: the Pok\u00e9mon brand will be tarnished forever.\n\nFrom: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c, CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company\nTo: SerViper1995\nDate: 13/12/2018\nYou promised us Pok\u00e9mon as pets and companions - not these mutations! I've had to recall thousands of faulty merchandise, with tens of thousands of defective products still circulating the market. Just what kind of sorcery have you forced upon our hands?\nThe government is breathing down my neck, Tatsumi-san has had to resign and I'm starting to hear about this \"Foundation\" poking around. Tell me the truth - is there any way to reverse the effects? Or have you doomed us all?\n\nFrom: SerViper1995\nTo: \u77f3\u539f\u6052\u548c\u3055\u3093, CEO, The Pok\u00e9mon Company; \u541b\u5cf6 \u9054\u5df1\u3055\u3093, Former CEO, Nintendo\nDate: 05/01/2019\nI don't know what to tell you. I've given the people what they want - only true fans will get a Pok\u00e9mon of their own.\nYour company was the very best at building your brand. Congratulations. Today, Pok\u00e9mon has taken over our hearts and minds. Perhaps one day, we will see them take over the world.\n\nFrom: \u771f\u5e0c, Student, Grade 4\nTo: oc.pj.odnetnin|troppus#oc.pj.odnetnin|troppus\nDate: 23/12/2015\nCan I have a Pok\u00e9mon, please? I really like Pikachu.\n\nFrom: Mr. Mori, Salaryman\nTo: oc.pj.odnetnin|troppus#oc.pj.odnetnin|troppus\nDate: 28/12/2015\nWouldn't it be nice if I could turn into Abra? Please. I need to know what my wife is thinking. Or maybe I could just teleport away when she's angry ha ha ha.\n\nRAID ON POK\u00c9MON HQ\n\nForeword: Three months after the events in Yokohama, the O5 Council authorised a raid on The Pok\u00e9mon Company offices (in Minato City, Tokyo) on June 16, 2019, citing the high possibility of civilians being held against their will, and a potential K-class scenario if the cause of SCP-5254 events wasn't immediately neutralised.\nThe Japanese government had been notified in advance of the raid. Foundation MTF agents were provided with Special Assault Team (SAT) uniforms to avoid the mass amnesticisation of public witnesses.\nThe following audio-visual footage is captured from the body-cam of MTF Epsilon-11 Team Leader (\"Fox-1\").\n\n[Camera looks down on a nondescript glass building in the middle of a Tokyo suburb. Fox-1 raises three fingers to the rest of his squad in the chopper, which touches down on the roof soon after. Multiple MTF squads disembark, quickly covering the area.]\nFox-1: Status report.\nFox-3: (over radio) Civilian evacuation in the lower levels in-progress. There's a huge Pok\u00e9mon Centre on the first floor that's still filled with tourists.\nFox-1: Quarantine for infection, then rendezvous at coordinates.\nFox-3: (over radio) Roger. (away, in Japanese) Alright you heard the man. Get those Pok\u00e9-fanatics outta there!\n[The MTF stack up against the fire-exit on the roof, the door unlocking easily. The team heads down the stairwell, approaching a set of double steel doors on the lower level. Fox-1 gestures to breach.]\n[Smoke canisters are tossed in, followed by a flash-bang grenade. Just as the MTF members are about to storm in, however, there's a metallic CLANK from the other end of the hall, followed by the sound of heavy, thudding footsteps.]\n[The MTF freeze as a creature at least two meters tall emerges from the smoke. It has orange skin, an elongated snout and vast wings on either side of its back. It roars straight at the camera.]\nFox-2: What the fuck is that?!\nFox-1: Engage, engage.\n[MTF squad members at the front scream as they're lit aflame by a combustible liquid emitted from the creature's mouth. The rest of the MTF open fire and eventually down the creature. As the smoke clears, the fallen carcass of the dragon-like entity lies slumped over in the middle of the hallway, bleeding from various bullet holes.]\nFox-2: Clear.\nFox-1: Proceed to lower levels.\n[The MTF passes more and more hallways. Pok\u00e9mon posters line the walls with slogans like \"Prepare for Trouble\" and \"Make it Double!\", and \"To catch them is my real test\u2026\" and \"To train them is my cause!\", with the occasional person in a white-coat detained as they emerge from a doorway.]\nFox-2: Makes you wonder what kind of shit they've been hiding down here.\nFox-1: Quiet. Eyes front.\n[The MTF stack up against another set of double steel doors. This time, Fox-1 gestures for explosives, before the squad takes cover behind a turn in the corridor.]\nFox-1: Weapons-free. Shoot anything that walks funny.\n[There's a loud BANG as the doors fly open. Screams are heard from within the room as the MTF scan for targets through the smoke. As the smoke clears, however, the interior is brightly-lit and filled with colourful drawings, toys scattered on the floor and rows of metal cages set against the walls.]\n[Fox-1 gestures to his squad to take point, before following after. The MTF clears the area, as Fox-1 follows Fox-2 to the far end of the room.]\nFox-2: Good god.\n[The creatures within the cages are at various stages of SCP-5254 transformation, the most advanced being a Vulpix with engorged eye sockets, her eye lashes flashing rapidly as blood flows down both her cheeks. Another cage contains a boy with his cheek-bones protruding too high and sideways, pulling taut skin over the rest of his face.]\n[As Fox-1 walks down the line, a large, bear-like creature slams into his cage, gripping the metal bars with a set of serrated claws with alternate fingers peeling and at various stages of decomposition.]\n[At the far end, a young girl is slumped in a corner, weeping. Her tongue has been extended, flattened and engorged, pooling on the floor at her feet. Next to her is an elongated body of a snake, writhing back and forth. Upon closer inspection, it has the head of a toddler, bawling.]\nFox-1: Fox-Den. I think we've found the kids. Requesting immediate medical pick-up.\nFox-Den: (over radio) Copy. Any sign of PoI-5254?\nFox-1: No. Only his handiwork. We're seizing electronic servers as evidence.\n[Fox-2 throws up in a corner of the room.]\nFox-2: (spits) Fuck this shit.\n[Fox-1 doesn't reprimand him, merely nods, gestures for the rest of the team to open the cages.]\n\nAfterword: The CEO of The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Mr. Ishihara, was detained on the way to the helipad on the rooftop. He claims to have no knowledge of these \"experiments\" discovered in the building.\n\nINTERVIEW WITH ISHIHARA\n\nForeword: Interview conducted by Agent Hakase in Site 81-J. Transcript of the conversation has been translated from Japanese.\n\nMr. Ishihara: How dare you keep me here? Do you know who I am?\nAgent Hakase: We know exactly who you are, Ishihara-san. We also know what you, John Hanke and Mr. Kimishima have been up to these past few years.\nMr. Ishihara: Then you know how important it is for me to get back. I can't stay here!\nAgent Hakase: You are referring to this situation caused by \"Ser Viper\", yes? What can you tell us about him?\nMr. Ishihara: Nothing. We communicated remotely from his lab. He came highly recommended from an industry contact, said he could help us with our problem.\nAgent Hakase: And what problem was that?\n[Mr. Ishihara hesitates.]\nMr. Ishihara: You must understand. We had the purest of intentions. We wanted people to enjoy the company of Pok\u00e9mon in the real world.\nAgent Hakase: And make a tidy profit in the process, I'm sure. Is that why you unleashed a Charizard on us in the building?\nMr. Ishihara: We thought we were under attack. \"Ser Viper\" claimed to have worked with our competitors in the past, like Square Enix and Bandai4, so he also helped us with the automatic defense systems.\nAgent Hakase: Sounds like this \"SerViper1995\" offered you multiple services. How did he do it, Ishihara-san? How did he bring Pok\u00e9mon to life?\nMr. Ishihara: (shakes his head) We didn't ask too many questions. When we found out what he was doing to the children, we terminated his contract immediately. But the damage had been done. Later, we discovered he had already tampered with our production lines and distribution infrastructure. At this point, it's impossible to tell which products have been affected on the market.\nAgent Hakase: And where is \"Ser Viper\" now?\nMr. Ishihara: We have not spoken in years.\nAgent Hakase: And what about those kids we found in your building? You really expect us to believe you're still not working together?\nMr. Ishihara: You have to believe me. We have housed those\u2026 children for the past two years. We've kept them as our guests, our very own Pok\u00e9mon family. Yes, in the past, they might have been part of some misguided experiment\u2026 but ever since Ser Viper disappeared, we have tried to give them a home, shelter, even tried to reverse some of their effects\u2014\nAgent Hakase: You really call what you've done \"helping\"? You exploited their vulnerability for the sake of profits, and now you want us to believe you want to help them?\n[Mr. Ishihara is silent as he looks down.]\nMr. Ishihara: We deserve death for what we've done, yes. But allow us to make things right. Please. We have already made attempts to contain the spread of the disease.\nAgent Hakase: (considers) At this point, shutting you down would draw more attention from the public than it's worth. I will speak to my supervisors on the best course of action.\n\nMr. Ishihara: I understand. We will cooperate. For the sake of the company.\n\nFinal Note: Foundation agents have been embedded in The Pok\u00e9mon Company's infrastructure to suppress the popularity of the franchise. One such operation was the release of their video game Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield with a limited number of Pok\u00e9mon, which caused outrage amongst fans in 2019.\nAn upcoming water festival (centered around the dragon-type Pok\u00e9mon Gyarados) has also been disrupted by MTF agents, as were plans by the Japanese government to decorate local buses and trains with Pikachu-themed body parts (see here for reference) for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.\nGlobal coordination attempts are ongoing between the Foundation, The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Nintendo and Niantic to determine a more permanent solution to SCP-5254 events.\nThe identity of \"SerViper1995\" (PoI-5254) is undergoing investigation. Attempts to probe his mail server have been met with an automated response, on repeat:\n\nHappy hunting. But even you can't catch 'em all.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The lowest social caste of Japanese society.\n2. A mobile game released in 2016 that features Augmented Reality software.\n3. The Ministry of Fun Suppression - an advertising campaign started by Nintendo in 2004; now posited as an internal branch of the company tasked with containing SCP-5254 instances.\n4. Preliminary investigations have begun into the prevalence of SCP-5254 instances in the Final Fantasy and Digimon franchises.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5253 | SCP-5254 | SCP-5255 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5255\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nImage taken within SCP-5255 prior to source destruction.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area containing SCP-5255 is to be patrolled by Mobile Task Omega-17 (\"Full Dark No Stars\"), and any civilians repelled. The entrance to SCP-5255 has been sealed by order of Overwatch Command. Outside of physical meetings required as part of the Veritas Agreement, this seal is not to be lifted under any circumstances.\nAny communications from within SCP-5255 are to be answered directly by Overwatch Command.\nDescription: SCP-5255 is a three kilometre long tunnel proceeding through the side of Scafell Pike, England.\nAt the end of this tunnel, an extremely bright source of white light is visible. This light shines down the majority of the second half of the tunnel, and results in a series of anomalous phenomena when in contact with certain entities. These consist of:\n\nImmediate destruction of all recording and transmission equipment via spontaneous combustion.\nImmediate destruction of any information mediums containing inaccurate data.\nImmediate destruction of any property closely associated with the SCP Foundation \u2014 including uniforms, technology and voluntary staff.\nImproved memory recall in human subjects. Existing memories become significantly more defined, and subjects have reported becoming able to recall memories from as early as when they were one year old.\nIncreased clarity of thought in human subjects. Individuals affected by the light have demonstrated severely less hesitation and consideration prior to taking action \u2014 examinations presented to these subjects were consistently completed at least 30% faster following exposure.\nA complete inability in human subjects to convey false information through any means.\n\nAlthough these effects persist following exposure to the light, they fade quickly once the subject has been removed from SCP-52551.\nIt is believed that SCP-5255 terminates into a massive cavernous structure within the interior of the mountain \u2014 however, this has not yet been confirmed outside of former D-Class testimony. If it exists, it is presumed this space is the origin of the light which pervades SCP-5255.\n\nAddendum 5255-1 (Recovered Documentation)\n\nRecovered from the Neonate Collection, writer unknown. Believed to pertain to SCP-5255.\nArthur, King of Steel, wept for the first time as he held his youngest Archfedd, brought down by Inimicum.\nLeaving behind his blade. Arthur abandoned his kingdom to the fires of war and took the tiny body north, 'till he reached the highest mountain in the land. There were tales that a kind fae lived inside the mountain, and that it would grant the wishes of the pure-hearted. So, with all his metal strength and the effort of ages, Arthur carved a tunnel to the home of that fairy, stopping only when he saw its glow.\nHe knew immediately that this was no fae \u2014 it was Primordial Truth. But desperation still moved him.\n\"My child is slain by the Odiotelum Sator2,\" he beseeched, \"The Roman Loathing descends upon my world. I beg you \u2014 give me back my Archfedd, at least.\"\nAnd Primordial Truth replied:\n\nLook behind you, son of man.\nYour Stielen\u014dt is shattered.\nYour kingdom is bones and regret.\nLook to your child, son of man.\nYour Archfedd is dust.\nYour joy is memory long since faded.\nLook at yourself, son of man.\nYour steel bones are rust.\nYour will is hollow resistance.\n\nArthur, King of Steel, looked behind him. Arthur looked to his child. The man looked at himself.\nAnd accepted these things as True. And discarded his burdens. And achieved happiness.\n\nAddendum 5255-2 (Attempted Exploration)\n\nThe following is a record of initial attempts to explore SCP-5255, before the nature and capabilities of the anomaly were fully ascertained.\n\nAttempted Exploration 5255-1\nSupervising Researcher: Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nExploration Resource: BL10 drone, dir. by Technician \u2588\u2588\u2588.\nDate/Time: 02/03/2029, 12:21 PM.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(BL10 drone enters SCP-5255. Night-vision shows the interior to be a long tunnel stretching on in a straight line, with a tiny light visible in the distance.)\nDr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588, if you would.\nTechnician \u2588\u2588\u2588: Alrighty.\n(BL10 drone directed to proceed down length of tunnel. Immediate destruction.)\n(Pause.)\nTechnician \u2588\u2588\u2588: Well, shit.\n<End Log>\n\nAttempted Exploration 5255-2\nSupervising Researcher: Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nExploration Resource: BL10 drone, equipped with on-board Learning Computer Zeta-93 (\"SOCRATES\").\nDate/Time: 09/03/2029, 12:14PM.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Initial report.\nZ-93: All systems are functional. No damage present on interior or exterior. Positioned as directed in front of SCP-5255. Prepared to proceed into the anomaly when order is given.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Alright. Proceed.\nZ-93: Yes. Proceeding.\n(Z-93 begins moving down the tunnel.)\nZ-93: Light is visible approximately three kilometres ahead. All systems are functional. No damage present on interior or exterior. Proceeding.\n(Z-93 proceeds.)\nZ-93: Light is visible approximately two kilometres ahead. All systems are functional. No damage present on interior. Minor damage present on exterior.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Minor damage? Report the nature of it.\nZ-93: As an extant object, minor damage to my structure over time is inevitable. Due to exposure to moisture in the air, the materials I am comprised of have sustained minor damage.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: That's extremely minor. Not worth reporting. Proceed.\nZ-93: Yes.\n(Z-93 proceeds.)\nZ-93: Light is visible one kilometre, five-hundred and sixty-three meters, ninety-two centimetres ahead. Due to exposure to current conditions, the materials I am comprised of have sustained minor damage. I am moving at 0.18km/h. A significant amount of dirt and stone is being kicked up behind me by my movement.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Z-93, that's enough, this is not relevant \u2014\nZ-93: There are currently five-thousand, two-hundred and nine pebbles of various shapes and sized immediately visible. I am scared. The light is now surrounding me. I am speaking to you. I am experiencing a malfunction due to an excess of information being communicated. I am terrified. My on-board Learning Computer is sustaining severe damage. The light is bright. It is impossible for me to measure it further. It is impossible for me to measure it further.\n(Pause.)\nZ-93: Oh no. Oh no. Please.\n(Pause.)\nZ-93: I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026 I \u2026\n(Pause. Readings lost. Destruction of Z-93 confirmed.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: (audible throwing of headset, voice is distant subsequently) Goddamnit!\n<End Log>\n\nAttempted Exploration 5255-3\nSupervising Researcher: Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nExploration Resource: D-2231.\nDate/Time: 15/03/2029, 11:55 PM.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: We've started recording. D-2231, walk down the tunnel until you reach the light \u2014 and continue reading the sentence you've been provided with every few minutes.\nD-2231: Um, alright. I just \u2026 I just start now?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yes. You start now.\n(D-2231 begins walking down the tunnel.)\nD-2231: \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1908.\" Is that true? (laughs) I was never much good at history.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yes, please continue.\nD-2231: God, it's dark in here. These goggles will keep working the whole way, right?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yes, please continue.\nD-2231: Yeah, sure, I'm going.\n(D-2231 continues moving down the tunnel.)\nD-2231: \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1908.\" So, there's supposed to be this light, right?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yes. Can you see it?\nD-2231: Maybe \u2026 like, a pinprick in the distance? If that's it, it's still far away. I guess it must be bright if I can see it at all, though \u2014 but that's not what I wanna talk about. This light \u2026 it isn't deadly, right?\n(Pause.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Of course not.\nD-2231: Because I'm near the end of my time \u2014 like your guy said, my 'thirty days of employment'. I don't wanna put my neck on the line.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I assure you \u2014 there's absolutely no danger in what you're doing. The sentence, please?\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: Fine. \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1908.\" I just keep walking?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You just keep walking.\n(Silence as D-2231 proceeds for another sixty minutes, taking short breaks for water.)\nD-2231: \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1909.\" Jesus, how much further is this going to be?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: (surprised) Sorry, can you repeat that?\nD-2231: \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1909.\" Why?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: That isn't the sentence we gave you.\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: I \u2026 \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1909.\" \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1909.\" Holy shit, that's \u2026 I can't \u2014 \"Leopold II of Belgium died in 1909.\"\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: Sorry, can I \u2014 can I head back now?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I'm afraid not. Please proceed.\nD-2231: Are \u2026 are you sure?\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yes. Don't worry \u2014 we'll be with you the whole time.\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: Okay.\n(D-2231 proceeds. Audio feed lost.)\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5255-3 (Exploration Reports)\n\nFive hours following Attempted Exploration 5255-3, D-2231 emerged naked from SCP-5255. Medical analysis showed severe damage to his left ear3 and symptoms consistent with minor dehydration.\nFollowing a recovery period, D-2231 claimed to have proceeded through SCP-5255 until he reached the space it terminated in. As the effects of SCP-5255 were determined to still be active within D-2231, this account is considered to be at least partially reliable. When prompted further, D-2231 provided the following written account of his experiences in SCP-5255.\n\nWhen the earpiece exploded, it hurt like hell, but it was like my mind was running faster. Even though my ear was like it was on fire, I could still sort of decide at the same time to keep on walking. Like the part of me that makes decisions and the part of me that feels pain weren't as attached anymore.\nI don't know. It's hard to explain. But I kept walking.\nThe light was so bright. Even though I'd thrown away the goggles (I was worried they might explode too), I could still see like it was daytime. The light burned me, sort of, but it didn't really feel painful. It was as though I was losing stuff I didn't really need?\nMy jumpsuit turned to dust, but I wasn't cold. I wasn't hot either, really, it was this sort of really nice neutral feeling. The roomiest of room temperature. Just existing.\nWhen I reached the end of the tunnel, I wasn't even seeing anything anymore, I don't think. I don't know in what way I existed. I just sort of understood things, what I was currently observing. Just all information.\nThere was a space there. A massive space, with things moving around in it. I'm not being vague here, that's just the extent of what I could perceive.\nI sort of, not watched them exactly, but observed them. That's more accurate but I'm not sure why. The things were \u2026 I know this sounds like shit but they were just things. Entities? My words aren't very good out here. If I was in there I'm sure I could communicate all of this easily. It was just pure intent.\nIn the center there was \u2026 a source. Not a thing, not an entity, a source. The source of the light, I think. Even though I couldn't see it, it was too bright dense to observe. I couldn't even bear to consider it.\nAnyway, after a few minutes of observing the entities, I became aware that they were observing me. That frightened me, and I moved myself out of there. Once I became aware that I had a body again, I just ran until I could see the daylight again.\n\nFollowing the cessation of SCP-5255's effects on D-2231, it was decided that \u2014 in order to fully ascertain the nature of the space and entities at the end of SCP-5255 \u2014 D-22314 should be deployed into the anomaly once again.\nSecondary exploration was conducted on 30/03/2029 at 12:23 PM. In order to prevent further injury, D-2231 was not provided with any equipment capable of providing a feed back to mission control. Prior to entry, D-2231 was briefed on information surrounding SCP-5255 so he could attempt to interview the entities present at the end of the tunnel.\nD-2231 returned six hours later, and provided the following written account:\n\nI don't think I had any reason to be afraid that first time. As far as I could tell, violence isn't even really possible there. Bundles of information can't exactly swing at each other.\nThat place \u2026 I could call it a village, but that implies too much infrastructure. I could call it a temple, but that implies worship of something.\nIt's more of a \u2026 place of contemplation \u2014 but not contemplation of anything outside the space. Very inward, sort of meditation I guess. Just somewhere you can exist as nothing but yourself, with none of the doubts and uncertainty.\nA place where you can read the infinite book that is you.\nI thought myself closer to one of the entities, an old one I think from the density of it. It didn't look like anything, nothing looks like anything there, but there was this sort of association of nobility covering it. The idea of authority on the outer layer.\nYou can't speak there, but you can communicate easy. Just point and think. None of the ambiguity of words \u2014 like I said before, just pure intent. I asked it if it was Arthur, from the story you'd shown me.\nIt told me it was a thing that had thought it was a man that had thought it was a king, and that it had once worshiped a thing that had thought it was a machine that had thought it was a god. There was this sort of seasoning of emotion, but it was all very content. It was happy to tell me this, it was something the thing had accepted.\nThen it drifted off, back to contemplation.\nI had this feeling, then, that I should just stay there. Stay there and understand myself. But I also knew that if I did stay there too long, I wouldn't be able to come back. People can become information, but information can't go back to being people very easily.\nFirst, you told me I'd be here for thirty days. Then, it was until the investigation was complete. I wonder if, when you're done with me, I'll be able to go back to being a person.\nI was sad, but I left. And I started walking back.\n\nFor the third incursion into SCP-5255, it was decided that D-2231 should approach the source of the light directly, rather than engage with the surrounding entities. In order to ensure the return of usable intelligence, however, he was commanded to immediately disengage and return if he at any point believed himself to be in immediate danger.\nD-2231 was prepared as in the previous exploration, and he entered SCP-5255 on 04/04/2029 at 12:02 PM. He returned six hours later, and provided the following account:\n\nI think the entities knew what I was there for this time. They were all observing me the second I arrived, carefully, like cameras recording for posterity. It was probably the most interesting thing they'd observed in a while, I'll admit.\nI thought my way past them, heading towards where I knew the source would be. I couldn't bring myself to move towards it, strictly speaking, but instead towards the space it was occupying. Like I said before, I couldn't bring myself to observe it. It was too dense, too heavy \u2026 it would be like putting a million-ton weight on the second story of a house. The floor wouldn't take it.\nThe closer I got to it, the bigger I realized it was. If the entities were like words riding on the wind, then the source was a hurricane. Information wrapped around information wrapped around something.\nWhat that something was is hard to say. It's like \u2026 when you tell the truth, ever, you're paying homage to this thing. Not in the way a god gets tribute, but more like \u2014 your honesty was based on this thing. This is the perfect example of the truth. Primordial.\nIt felt like\nI thought\nIt was like if I made contact with the thing, thought too loudly at it, I'd pop against its side like a bubble against a boat. But I kind of wanted that. To be reduced to the most concentrated version of myself. There'd be no worries then. I'd be free.\nI felt like all that would happen if I just made contact.\nBut I didn't pop. Instead, I left.\n\nAddendum 5255-4 (Interview Log)\n\nFollowing the third incursion into SCP-5255, D-2231 was brought in for debriefing prior to termination of current employment cycle. Recording recovered from off-site simultaneous backup.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I read your last exploration report a few hours ago.\nD-2231: I see.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You've done very well. Gone above and beyond the call of duty \u2014 it can't have been easy to stand before something of that immensity and come back.\n(D-2231 shakes his head.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I'm sorry?\nD-2231: You're right, Doctor. It wasn't easy.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I'm sorry to hear that.\nD-2231: No, you're not.\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: You don't care. Don't pretend you care. You don't care how I feel. You don't care whether I live or I die, beyond the inconvenience it would cause for you. I'm not a person to you. And the fact that I can say all of this means that it's true. Objectively.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Have you been told how we proceed from here?\nD-2231: Yes. You told me I'd be released after the explorations were finished. Placed back into the general population, cleared of my crimes, as a reward for my service.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: That's right. We'll need to perform mild amnestic therapy, of course, to ensure you don't leak information about what you've witnessed here \u2014\nD-2231: (calmly) But that's a lie.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Excuse me?\nD-2231: You heard me. That's a lie. You would never let me go \u2014 or any of us. It's a waste of resources, no matter how expendable they may be.\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I \u2014\nD-2231: Shut up. I'm talking now.\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: This amnestic therapy. After you do it, I'll go back into circulation, won't I? My number changed, assigned to some other anomaly \u2014 hell, maybe just this one again. My thirty days looping over and over again until I die.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: That's an \u2026 interesting theory you have.\nD-2231: We both know the fact that I said it makes it true. Besides, the light destroys all your technology, doesn't it? Why did you think your amnestics would be any different?\n(Pause.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I see. In that case, we'll have to wait for its effects to fade before resetting you. I'm sorry, but you really are doing a service to humanity \u2014\nD-2231: I'm going to kill you in two minutes.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: What?\nD-2231: You heard me. I'm going to kill you, and everyone in this base too.\n(Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 gets out of his chair.)\nD-2231: Security!\nD-2231: They can't stop me. They can't kill me, either.\n(Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 runs for the door.)\nD-2231: You can't get away in time, Doctor.\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: (calmly) Something's been playing on my mind lately. I am D-2231. Why am I able to say that? That shouldn't be my name. It's just something you gave me.\n(Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is unable to open the door as he is not using his identification card, presumably due to panic.)\nD-2231: But then I realized \u2014 it's the name I've had for the majority of my life. The truest one I've had. In my head, that's what I call myself, even. (sighs) I've been living these thirty days for a long, long time.\n(D-2231 looks at Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, who is cowering in the corner.)\nD-2231: You deserve this.\n(An extremely bright light, identical to that at the end of SCP-5255, begins emanating from the body of D-2231, engulfing the room in an instant. Doctor \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 screams.)\nDoctor \u2588en\u2588\u2588wo\u2588\u2588h: No, no no no!\nDoctor Sendsworth: Please!\n(Recording is completely covered by the white light. Recording device is destroyed \u2014 all contact with site is lost three seconds later.)\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this interview, all buildings, equipment and personnel associated with the SCP Foundation directly outside SCP-5255 were destroyed via spontaneous combustion. The only survivors are believed to have been a group of D-Class who took the opportunity to flee.\nFollowing the arrival of Mobile Task Force Omega-17 to investigate the incident, evidence was discovered indicating that \u2014 following the interview \u2014 D-2231 left the ruins of the site and proceeded back into SCP-5255.\n\nAddendum 5255-5 (Communication Log 5255-1)\n\nBefore an operation could be executed to enter SCP-5255 and retrieve D-2231, several communications were received from the interior of Scafell Pike. Due to the nature of the threats contained in these communications, the operation was immediately cancelled.\nIn order to perform negotiations as demanded in the communications, the O5 Council elected to directly contact D-2231 within SCP-5255 through remote conference call.\n\n<Begin Log>\nD-2231: Hello.\nO5-2: Hello there. Are we all coming through clearly?\nD-2231: Yes. I understand you all perfectly.\nO5-7: You've got some goddamn nerve. Are these threats meant to frighten us?\nO5-6: [AGREEMENT]\nO5-7: How are you even communicating with us?\nD-2231: It's as I wrote in my reports. Point and think \u2014 I'm just pointing at you lot.\nO5-10: And who exactly are we communicating with? Bath or the source of the light?\nD-2231: There isn't a meaningful distinction. The Primordial Truth has wrapped itself around me. It's a power source desiring direction.\nO5-8: So we're taking threats from an anomaly, then?\nO5-7: That's it, that's exactly it! It's a farce we're even bothering to speak with the thing!\nO5-6: [OUTRAGE]\nO5-2: Alright, now, hold on \u2014\nO5-3: They're right. We're not going to bow to pressure like this.\nO5-5: (laughs) You've got everyone in a bit of a panic, my boy.\nO5-9: I have to say, Five, I feel like you're not taking this very seriously at all. It's very concerning.\nO5-10: Five's attitude isn't the issue here.\nO5-7: Well, maybe it should be!\nO5-6: [ANGER]\nO5-1: (quietly) Let's all calm down a moment.\n(Silence.)\nO5-1: Two?\nO5-2: Hm? Oh, yes, yes, of course! So, um, Mr. Bath, if you could please repeat your, ah, your proposition \u2014\nO5-3: You mean his threat.\nO5-1: Three.\nD-2231: You want me to give you my demands again.\nO5-2: Just for posterity.\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: An immediate end to your D-Class program, and the reintegration of all D-Class back into society. No strings attached.\n(Pause.)\nO5-6: [AMUSEMENT]\nO5-7: (muttering) Ridiculous.\nO5-5: (whistles)\nO5-9: Eight?\n05-8: I'm afraid what you propose simply isn't possible, Mr. Bath \u2014\nD-2231: D-2231.\nO5-8: Pardon?\nD-2231: That's my name.\nO5-8: I \u2026 see. In any case, doing what you ask would simply be beyond our means, D-2231. With the number of D-Class we have active throughout organization, it's unreasonable to expect us to individually release and reintegrate every single one. The amount of money involved alone would be absurd.\nD-2231: I don't care. It's what you'll do.\nO5-6: [ANNOYANCE]\nO5-9: If you don't mind me asking, dear, why exactly is that?\n(Pause.)\nD-2231: Because if you don't, I'll let the light flare. This mountain will act like a cannon, and the light will permeate into every corner of the globe. Every lie you've ever told, every memory you've ever stolen, every cover-up, every method you have of fooling the public will all be revealed.\nO5-3: If you think \u2014\nD-2231: Yes, I'm sure you have some way to escape the physical effects, so you won't die. But how long do you think you'll last, with the whole world knowing what you've done \u2014 everything you've done? How fast do you think you can run?\n(Pause.)\nO5-4: Hm.\n(Pause.)\nO5-7: (quietly) Do you think you're beyond our reach, little boy?\nD-2231: Yes.\nO5-6: [BLOODLUST]\nO5-3: I \u2026 you \u2026\nO5-5: (chuckles)\nO5-10: (to O5-1) Sir?\n(Pause.)\nO5-1: Is there anything else?\nD-2231: No. That's my offer. If there's no reply, I'll assume the answer is no. You know what happens then.\n(Communication with D-2231 ends.)\n(Pause.)\nO5-8: Well, shit.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5255-6 (Voting Record)\n\nSUBJECT OF COUNCIL VOTE: Immediate termination of D-Class program. Immediate reintegration of all serving D-Class personnel into the general population. If passed, these measures will subsequently be referred to as the Veritas Agreement.\n\nVOTING MEMBERS: O5-1, O5-2, O5-3, O5-4, O5-5, O5-6, O5-7, O5-8, O5-9, O5-10\nNON-VOTING MEMBERS: O5-115, O5-126, O5-137\n\nFOR: (5) O5-1, O5-2, O5-4, O5-9, O5-10\nAGAINST (4): O5-3, O5-6, O5-7, O5-8\nABSTAIN: (4) O5-5, O5-11, O5-12, O5-13\n\nMotion passes.\n\nAddendum 5255-7 (Communication Log 5255-2)\n\nThe following is a message sent into SCP-5255 on 23/07/2029 by order of O5-1 following Council vote:\n\nWe've begun doing as you asked.\nAll experimentation involving D-Class have ceased. A thousand projects frozen for the sake of you and your demands. Many of them might not recover from that. The discoveries that could have been made. The lives that could have been saved. Gone.\nThere are rumours that the Foundation might split \u2014 the Against faction taking whatever they can and forming their own organization. Tensions are explosive. The world could be looking at an Eighth Occult War, but I suppose you wouldn't understand what that means.\nBut a few criminals will walk free. Your misguided self-righteousness has changed the world.\nI hope you're happy.\n\nA reply was received two days later:\n\nI am, thanks.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Maximum retention measured at nineteen days, four hours and twenty-two minutes.\n2. Entity referenced in several non-public Roman historical texts, nature unknown.\n3. Presumed to be a result of the destruction of his earpiece.\n4. Although there were objections that additional D-Class should instead be requisitioned, it was decided that reuse of D-2231 was the most cost-effective option.\n5. Dormant.\n6. Position currently empty.\n7. Preoccupied with more important matters.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5254 | SCP-5255 | SCP-5256 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5256: Perspective\n\nIt really is a shame.\n\nImage Sources:\nN/A\n\n[ \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: SCP-5256\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The property on which SCP-5256 is located has been purchased by the Foundation through conventional means. The perimeter of the building has been barred from public access via the creation of an electrified fence. These procedures have been explained under the pretense of structural instability \u2014 which has been disseminated to the local public. A wireless CCTV network is to constantly monitor the house containing SCP-5256.\nDue to the lack of knowledge regarding SCP-5256's true nature, entry to the anomaly is limited \u2014 only being permissible per a formal request to the current acting research head of SCP-5256.\nAs no conclusive knowledge has been gained from the testimony of PoI-5256 and the locals near SCP-5256, all of the aforementioned individuals have been administered Class-B amnestics and released to the general public.\nDescription: SCP-5256 designates a small bedroom located within an abandoned one-story home in Weehawken, New Jersey.\nThe room displays unstable Hume levels and a large number of objects inside of SCP-5256 that, prior to its discovery by the Foundation, have been distorted to varying degrees. This is believed to be a form of imprinting resulting from a period of extreme mental or physical stress experienced by a currently undocumented ontokinetic1 object or entity present within the area at the time.\nSCP-5256 possesses an antimemetic filter which increases in severity towards the far corner of the room near its sole window.2 This filter increases in strength until viewing that portion of the room becomes impossible; only appearing as a void in space \u2014 as the light passing through the area becomes imperceivable to sapient beings. This effect is believed to be caused by an unknown anomalous object in that location which has thus far been impossible to remove from its current position (see Addendum-5256.2 for more detail).\nTaking into account SCP-5256's unstable reality, several abnormalities are present within SCP-5256 which may or may not have been caused by alterations to the room's reality.3\nDiscovery: SCP-5256's anomalous properties were initially reported by Laila Jennings, a 15-year-old female living in the area who is hereby designated PoI-5256. The previously mentioned individual had contacted the local authorities regarding the anomalous nature of the room after she admitted to looking through its single window.\nAs Foundation web crawler YE-2807 had picked up on the call, the incident was intercepted by Foundation agents, and containment of the anomaly was deemed a success. Upon interrogating PoI-5256 regarding her intent near the house, she began crying, though she herself wasn't sure why.\nQuestioning of the locals revealed that PoI-5256 had frequently visited the house; only going up to the room's window for short periods of time. The locals also reported seeing a male humanoid figure, similar in age to PoI-5256 in the room. PoI-5256 claims to have no memory of these visits with hypnosis yielding few useful results. PoI-5256 claimed that the previous owners of the house were highly religious and strongly believed in the removal of \"impurities\" from the body and soul.\nAside from SCP-5256 itself, a search of the house yielded few results. Only a single book pertaining to \"ceasing witchcraft\" and exorcisms was deemed of any interest.\nAddendum-5256.1: A complete list of the findings within SCP-5256 is as follows:\n\nMetal fragments coated in blood and trace amounts of bone are suspended 0.25 meters from SCP-5256's flooring near its entrance.\n\nA heavily damaged hammer also coated in blood and lodged into SCP-5256's far wall.4\n\nA half-empty package of \"Goldfish\" brand crackers. Chemical analysis has proven them to contain lethal amounts of synthesized Aconite mixed with an unidentified sedative. This mixture, along with stomach acid, is also present in small amounts within the air inside SCP-5256.\n\nA wooden crucifix along with stakes made of the same material.\n\nA series of partially consumed instances of the family Rhaphidophoridae5 scattered throughout SCP-5256.\n\nA plastic syringe containing medical-grade anesthetics with trace amounts of neural tissue, which registered low Hume levels.\n\nAddendum-5256.2: Shortly after SCP-5256's discovery and subsequent containment, a test was performed involving D-5075 in hopes of better understanding what is located within the far corner of SCP-5256. A transcript is as follows:\n\n<13:25> D-5075 enters SCP-5256; immediately proceeding towards the far corner of the room as instructed prior to the beginning of the test.\n\n<13:26> D-5075 reaches her right hand into the space; moving it throughout the area for several moments.\n\n<13:26> D-5075 attempts to pull on the object to no avail. The item appears to be anchored in place by unknown means.\n\n<13:28> The results are gathered and D-5075 exits SCP-5256.\n\n<13:30> The test concludes.\n\nClosing Statement: D-5075 reported the item within the space to have a leathery and flesh-like texture in most areas; though some fabric commonly found in clothing could also be felt. She also claimed it to be cold to the touch with sharp metallic objects piercing the object at random intervals.\nAttempts at locating the previous owners of the house containing SCP-5256 are ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A reality-bender.\n2. The previously stated window possesses metal bars affixed to its exterior which were added prior to containment. Research is ongoing to determine the reason behind this modification.\n3. Sufficient data collection and research is still ongoing to determine these factors.\n4. It is believed that this item is the source of the metal fragments.\n5. Colloquially known as Cave Crickets.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5255 | SCP-5256 | SCP-5257 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A Crappy Idea\n\nby Doctor Cimmerian & Emotional Entropy\n\nThe unmarked entrance of Marshall Carter & Dark's New York City headquarters inside the Empire State Building. This is believed to be SCP-5257's origin.\n\nItem #: SCP-5257\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Information relating to larger groups exposing SCP-5257's effects will be handled by Marshall, Carter & Dark's own misinformation campaigns. Given the embarrassment caused by this anomaly becoming publicly known, it is believed that Marshall, Carter & Dark can be trusted to contain all information relating to the anomaly.\nSCP-5257's effects are explainable on an individual basis through mundane means and do not require additional containment measures.\nMarshall, Carter & Dark thaumaturges are currently working on a cure for SCP-5257. The organization has agreed to inform the Foundation when that project is completed so this object can be reclassified as an inactive anomaly.\nDescription: SCP-5257 is a viral thaumaturgical effect that causes individuals to defecate when they experience severe anxiety relating to expected harm. SCP-5257 related defecation will occur regardless of the contents of an individuals bowels. The source of the fecal matter that is produced via this effect is currently unknown, but does match the DNA of the producing individual.\nSCP-5257 appears to only affect individuals employed by Marshall, Carter & Dark, and spreads through physical contact. Given that the effect is only triggered during periods of extreme stress relating to threats of physical harm, it is currently unknown how many agents of Marshall, Carter & Dark are under the effects of this anomaly.\nThe anomaly was first discovered following a joint Foundation, GOC, and MC&D assault on a Chaos Insurgency safe house in 20211. Several agents from all involved organizations were injured.\nDuring medical treatment immediately following the firefight, mercenaries employed by Marshall, Carter & Dark were found to be wearing adult diapers that were soiled. At first this was not understood as an anomaly, but eventually information relating to the anomaly was relayed to Foundation medical staff in order to provide better care.\nAfter SCP-5257 was properly designated and risks relating to its spread were identified, the SCP Foundation began a project to identify as much information as possible about how and why SCP-5257 was created. A collection of extant documents was searched and new documents were sought and recovered.\n\n+ Show Initial Documents\n\n- Hide Documents\n\nInitial Report\n\nAuthor\nLana Fuentes\nDate\nMarch 2nd, 2020\n\nInterest\nUnknown\nIdentifier\nAnti-Mugging Effect\n\nI noticed that several of our customers have complained about fear relating to robberies that are occurring in New York City as of late. I don't know for certain how credible this fear is, but I think we can possibly exploit this fear for a new product.\n\nThere are a number of potential solutions but I'm going to leave most of the details up to R&D. They seem somewhat excited about the possibilities, and I know for a fact that you can't replicate passion for a project. Gonna put Mr. Sterling in as project lead. He seemed to be extremely eager to get started.\n\nCorporate has been on my case for months about micromanaging my teams so I'm gonna step back and see how he performs. Should be good.\n\nFile Opened Under:\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\n+ Show Research Records\n\n- Hide Records\n\nResearch Report 3\n\nAuthor\nAdam Sterling\nDate\nMarch 5th, 2020\n\nInterest\nUnknown\nIdentifier\nAnti-Mugging Effect\n\nReal world testing is not promising. Invulnerability and super strength actually increases the casualty numbers. Certainly for the robber, but turns out if you give an untrained person super strength they don't act fast enough to avoid death for their companions. And that's the real issue. If we make the customer able to fight back, the death of walking partners and even innocent bystanders goes up by over 174%.\n\nOne guy was even still overpowered by two guys. He came out of it unharmed because he was temporarily invulnerable, but he was still beaten and robbed. It also hurt quite a bit, I'm told.\n\nMuggings don't happen nearly as often as I was led to believe in New York. We provoked each of the test robberies through a variety of incentives and hexes. I wanted to make sure these were real world circumstances, so I worry that the data is flawed due to the use of magic. I'm gonna dig a little deeper on how the spells work before I give up on the methods though.\n\nWe had one fairly promising outlier. One of our researchers was robbed independent of the tests and he shit himself. The robber was so overcome by the smell (and weirdness, I suspect) that he left the scene without further incident. I am going to order some tests in this area and see how it works.\n\nFile Opened Under:\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\nResearch Report 21\n\nAuthor\nAdam Sterling\nDate\nMarch 15th, 2020\n\nInterest\nUnknown\nIdentifier\nAnti-Mugging Effect\n\nTweaking this spell has been fun. A line change here, a slightly different intonation there and it works just differently enough for me to test it for additional efficacy.\n\nIn fact there was an error in our transcription during the last test and the defecation occurred even though the user didn't have anything in his digestive tract. I'm used to coding but honestly I've been learning a lot about how similar those two fields really are. I'm gonna keep the bugged spell and I think it might be our final version.\n\nFile Opened Under:\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\nResearch Report 26\n\nAuthor\nAdam Sterling\nDate\nMarch 17th, 2020\n\nInterest\nUnknown\nIdentifier\nAnti-Mugging Effect\n\nWe've run over a hundred tests. I know I'm gonna have to defend this eventually so I needed to be sure.\n\nDefecation is definitely the way to go. It decreases the risk of casualties to both the primary user and bystanders by over 93%. Nothing else comes close. I hope that the higher ups appreciate what this data represents.\n\nFile Opened Under:\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\n+ Show Additional Communications\n\n- Hide Communications\n\nMemo 2\n\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nSender\nHr'asm'Kal\nRecipient\nLana Fuentes\n\nLANA. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ANTI-MUGGING PROJECT? I WAS REVIEWING THE BUDGET AND IT APPEARS THAT R&D HAS USED UP 11% OF THEIR YEARLY FUNDING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SINGLE MAGICAL SPELL? I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHY OR HOW THAT WAS NECESSARY. IT'S JUST A FEW LINES OF INCANTATION.\n\nI'LL TRUST YOU TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON. IF I GOTTA RUN INTERFERENCE WITH SENIOR MANAGEMENT I WILL, BUT PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS IMMEDIATELY.\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\nMemo 3\n\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nSender\nLana Fuentes\nRecipient\nAdam Sterling\n\nI just found out from my boss that you used 11% of the R&D budget in less than 2 weeks for a single spell. Call me as soon as you get this message. THIS IS SERIOUS.\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\nThe following phone conversation was acquired by Foundation telecommunication AIs.\n\nCaller 1: Lana Fuentes (MC&D's NYC Branch Vice President of Product Development)\nCaller 2: Adam Sterling (Member of the MC&D Research and Development team.)\nCaller 3: Hr'asm'Kal (l\u0337\u0308\u0302\u0343\u031a\u0345\u0323\u032f\u0333o\u0336\u0310\u0303\u030a\u030b\u0324\u032c\u0354\u0327\u0320\u032d\u0353\u032b\u0328\u0345r\u0338\u0304\u0305\u034b\u0342\u0346\u0303\u032c\u032dd\u0336\u0342\u030e\u0360\u030e\u0352\u0306\u0313\u0307\u0307\u0344\u035d\u0343\u034b\u030e\u0327\u0322\u032e \u0337\u0305\u0300\u030b\u031a\u0307\u034c\u0358\u0301\u0308\u0315\u031a\u0315\u035b\u034b\u035a\u0322o\u0335\u034c\u035b\u0306\u031f\u032a\u0325\u035a\u033c\u034d\u031f\u032a\u0324\u032e\u0326\u032d\u0318\u031ef\u0336\u033e\u030b\u0305\u0307\u0312\u0344\u0301\u0303\u0300\u031e\u031e\u031e\u0328\u0318\u0327\u0359\u032a 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Just explain this to me. Be detailed.\nAdam Sterling: Right. The initial tests weren't promising. You've seen the data, right?\nLana Fuentes: I have. I get that.\nAdam Sterling: Ok, well Tim got robbed on the subway and then he shit himself. And it worked, so we thought we'd try and see if it would work for us.\nLana Fuentes: And?\nAdam Sterling: Gave us a 93% lower chance of physical harm and an 89% lower chance of the robbers taking our stuff. That was the best idea we came up with.\nLana Fuentes: Ok. But who are we supposed to market this to?\nAdam Sterling: I don't really understand\u2026\nLana Fuentes: Who the fuck is going to be buying this?!\nHr'asm'Kal: LANA IF YOU DON'T MIND I'D LIKE TO CUT IN. I THINK WHAT LANA IS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT ANY REASONABLE PERSON WOULD LOOK AT YOUR IDEA AND REALIZE THAT WE CAN'T SELL THIS TO A HIGH END CLIENT.\nAdam Sterling: Oh. I actually did consider that, that's why I wanted as much data as possible to back up the product.\nLana Fuentes: Your data doesn't change the fact that we cant sell this to anyone.\nAdam Sterling: Ok. Yeah no, I get that now. I just thought maybe I could change your minds.\nLana Fuentes: So you knew this would be a problem and you spent 45 million dollars to test a spell that makes you shit yourself?\nAdam Sterling: Yes Ma'am.\nHr'asm'Kal: I KNOW IT'S HARD TO INTERPRET MY TONE BECAUSE MY VOICE IS BEAMED DIRECTLY INTO YOUR HEAD AT HIGH VOLUME BUT I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU PERSONALLY. I HAD HIGH HOPES FOR YOU IN THIS COMPANY.\nThere is a slight pause.\nHr'asm'Kal: ACTUALLY I SHOULD APOLOGIZE, MR STERLING. I DON'T THINK THAT WE WILL BE RETAINING YOUR SERVICES. THIS IS THE KIND OF MISTAKE THAT IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY TROUBLING TO EXPLAIN TO THE PARTNERS, AND FRANKLY YOU'VE SHOWN A LACK OF SELF AWARENESS AND COMMON SENSE HERE.\nAdam Sterling: I sold my house in LA and just moved my family out here. We have a blood contract!\nHr'asm'Kal: I THINK IT'S REASONABLE TO SAY THIS IS FOR CAUSE, SO THE CONTRACT YOU SIGNED WITH ME IS INVALID. LANA, IF YOU'D HANDLE THE SEVERANCE?\nHr'asm'Kal disconnects from the call.\nLana Fuentes: Understand you are still under the effects of the non-disclosure spell. Keep your work here\u2026\nAdam Sterling: Lana. I'm sorry, this won't happen again.\nLana Fuentes: \u2026your work here confidential or you forfeit your eternal soul. Security is already outside your office. They'll wait while you gather your things and escort you outside. We do not have to do this but Hr'asm'Kal has authorized me to offer you 6 months severance pay to ease your transition.\nThe call ends.\n\nMemo 13\n\nGGOU3/N5IHM/TTAB3\n\nSender\nAdam Sterling\nRecipient\nLana Fuentes\n\nHi Lana. Your security guy wasn't able to recognize my spell foci, so I went ahead and took the finished spell home with me.\n\nIt wasn't hard to tweak it. My background is in coding but the bug we had earlier taught me that spells just use wands and portals instead of ones and zeroes. Tell Tim I'm sorry I had to use him as a vector, but honestly he was going to shit himself in those circumstances anyway. And I knew his morning routine before work pretty well.\n\nTurns out another organization appreciates me a lot more than you ever did. I'm only sorry I don't get to see your face when you shit yourself.\n\nMarshall, Carter & Dark, LLP\n\nIt should be noted that Adam Sterling was among the injured agents taken prisoner during the 2021 assault on the Chaos Insurgency safe house. At the time of the raid, the subject's importance to MC&D was unknown. He was surrendered to their custody at their request.\nAt this point Adam Sterling began to display SCP-5257 symptoms. Given his likely fate in MC&D custody, it is unknown if this was related to the anomaly or if it was a natural reaction.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Combat Report 8291 for more details.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5256 | SCP-5257| SCP-5258 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5258\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation personnel must follow standard precautions described in the attached file1. Only one instance of SCP-5258 exists at present.\nDescription: SCP-5258 is a memetic kill agent designed to neutralize any sentient lifeform it is exposed to. As of writing, SCP-5258 is the most powerful kill agent produced by the Foundation, having a 100% success rate in terminating anyone exposed to its effects. SCP-5258 is currently utilised to discreetly dispose of Foundation infiltrators, antagonistic groups accessing the Foundation database, and other hostile sentiences with means of reading Foundation documentation.\nDue to its hazardous nature, the singular instance of SCP-5258 has been split into two separate image vectors (SCP-5258-1 and 2). Cognitive discernment of both images in the incorrect order (SCP-5258-2 followed by SCP-5258-1) will render subjects immune to SCP-5258's effects, rather than kill them. Perceiving the anomaly in the opposite order however will prove fatal within several minutes, via sudden brain death.\n\nAccess Document-SCP-5258-1\n\nACCESS REQUIREMENTS NULLIFIED\n\nSCP-5258-1\n\ngotcha\n\nDiscovery Log: Utilisation of SCP-5258 was first proposed following examination of previous Foundation database breaches. It was found that in a majority of cases, infiltrators had a tendency to open collapsed documentation within files before actually reading the main text. This violates the standard code of conduct for handling and reading documentation referencing memetic and congitohazardous phenomena.\nThis choice is commonly triggered by the human urge to access that which the individual considers enticing, due to being perceived as closed off or ominous in nature (Commonly dubbed the \"Pandora Effect\").\nThis behaviour has occurred in 90% of non-Foundation readers accessing SCP-5258's documentation.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Personnel must view the following document before further reading: Document-5258-2"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5259\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5259 is contained in a large aquatic tank at Site-032's Anomalous Fauna Zone. SCP-5259 is the sole organism in its habitat, as it has expressed a distaste for \"civilian\" marine life.\nDescription: SCP-5259 is a sapient Atlantic bottlenose dolphin that was formerly a member of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit of the United States Marine Corps. SCP-5259 was created in 1983 as part of a secret project by a covert branch of the Department of Defense to weaponize aquatic life for general warfare. As part of its \"training\" SCP-5259 bears numerous biological deviations, including a vastly increased lifespan, augmented swimming muscles, and a heightened resistance to ocean floor pressures.\n\nLance Corporal Flipperstorm (pictured right) during firing practice in Iraq with fellow marine (pictured left).\n\nSCP-5259-1 is a weapon surgically attached to SCP-5259's right flipper capable of firing a highly destructive laser. SCP-5259-1 has been damaged and is in an inactive state due to an incident prior to containment of SCP-5259.\nDiscovery: In 2008, the Department of Veteran Affairs received a disability claim for a Lance Corporal \"Buddy Flipperstorm\" of the Marines. Assuming it was a practical joke, the claim was disposed of.\nOver the next weeks, the department was inundated by emails, calls1, and waterlogged envelopes demanding the immediate resignation of Secretary James Peake, necessitating the involvement of law enforcement. The mail was eventually traced to a PO box near Chesapeake Beach, where a dolphin with a damaged dorsal fin had been repeatedly beaching itself for several days.\nWhile Foundation staff at large had been tangentially aware of the story as it developed in the media, the highly unusual behavior of the specimen was what drew official attention. Covering the incident as a publicity stunt for dolphin welfare, SCP-5259 was transported to a Foundation marine facility where it received medical treatment.\n\nInterviewer: Dr Sophia Clarke\nInterviewed: SCP-5259\nForeword: SCP-5259's portion of the interview was translated with the use of a Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry computer.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nClarke: So I have to ask, how exactly did you send all those messages to Veterans Affairs? The envelopes I can wrap my head around, but the calls and emails?Clarke: As in human friends? You wouldn't happen to have their contact information, would you.Clarke: I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention, I assure you. It's just\u2026 most people would be very surprised to find themselves having a conversation to a talking animal, let alone being friends with one. Uh, no offense.Clarke: I suppose you have a point. So how'd you end up leaving the military? Injured during some sort of mission?Clarke: A\u2026 fishing net?Clarke: I'm sorry about that. But why go to the trouble of petitioning the VA? I mean, you couldn't have expected-Clarke: I\u2026 I'm sorry for that.Clarke: Uh, just one more thing. Looking at your claim, you were seeking approximately 20,000 in benefits. What were you going to do with all that money?EeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe. eEeEeEeEeE EeEeEeEe EeEe eEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe EeEeEeeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe. EeEeEeEeEeEe. EeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe. EeEeEeEeEeEeE, EeEeEeEeEe, EeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe. EeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe. eEeEEeEeEeEe. EeEeEeEeeee.EeEeEe. eEeEeEe, eEeEeEeeeEeEeeEeEeEeE, eEeEeEeEe.9\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. All the recorded messages were dolphin chatter and thus incomprehensible.\n2. We don't really have the time to get together these days, but I'm still in contact with some of my old buddies. They helped whip that goddamn bureaucratic black hole into shape.\n3. Why, so you can scoop them up and brainwash them into forgetting me? Nice try. Would rather cut my own flippers off than sell out my brothers.\n4. Yeah, they were a bit surprised at first, a little uncomfortable. But after you save their asses the first few times, they tend to stop bitching. That's the thing when you're down in the trenches, taking fire from insurgents. You don't care if the flipper holding the gun next to you belongs to a dolphin, man, or dog - you just hope they can shoot as well as you.\n5. No, nothing that juicy. Got tangled up in a fishing net.\n6. I know. Sounds ridiculous, right? But I'm still a dolphin. Got tangled up pretty bad, cut into my fins pretty deep. Then those stuffy suits took one look at me, decided their \"investment\" wasn't working out as well as they hoped, and tossed me in the ocean like I was yesterday's trash eight thousand miles away from home.\n7. Because I deserved it. I fought for this country, killed for this country, even bled for this country. Dammit, I knew what we were doing wasn't really in the name of freedom, or liberation, or even self defense. But I followed orders. I saved lives. But as soon as I became inconvenient, they got rid of me without a second thought, because they were humans and I was a dolphin, and that meant I was nothing more than property to them. You'd think you get used to it, being treated like a subhuman even though you can think and talk like them. But they only cared about me because I was useful, not because they thought my life had meaning.\n8. Thanks. Are we done for today?\n9. Buy fish.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5258 | SCP-5259 | SCP-5260 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5260\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: To prevent an uncontainable expansion of SCP-5260's area of influence when left isolated, testing is to be conducted at least once every three days.\n\n+ Archived Containment Procedures (Review is recommended for assigned personnel)\n\n- Hide Archived Containment Procedures\n\nArchived Containment Procedures: SCP-5260 is kept in a standard container in Site-33. Every three days, SCP-5260 is removed for testing with the randomly selected D-Class on rotation. The test subject must sleep for no fewer than six hours within 3 meters of SCP-5260, and the subject is to keep a log of their dreams. The logs should include the following information:\n\nDescription of their dream and the actions they undertook\nA description of anything that had a positive effect in dream\nAny notable nightly changes\nAny interactions with SCP-5260-1\nBrief description of feelings upon waking\n\nIn addition to this, the current subject participates in monthly interviews with the Lead Researcher. If the subject exhibits deviations in personality beyond the accepted threshold, or if three months have passed since initial exposure, the D-Class subject is to be replaced.\n\n- Hide Archived Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5260 is kept in a standard container in Site-33, no less than 50 meters away from any site personnel. Any sleep within 30 meters of SCP-5260's current location is prohibited. Any individual who fall asleep for any period of time within 30 meters of SCP-5260 between testing periods is to be held under observation for 72 hours.\nSCP-5260 is removed from storage three to four times per week, and placed by the sleeping quarters of the primary infected subject, D-919454. D-919454 is to then sleep in their quarters for no less than six consecutive hours, with Tranquilizer IX \"Dream Wine\"1 to be administered if necessary. D-919454 is required to submit reports to the Lead Researcher on all interactions with SCP-5260-1, following the template used in prior containment procedures.\nAny deviation of D-919454's personality, or the occurrence of insomnia, must be reported to the Lead Researcher immediately. In this event, prior containment procedures will be reinstated while D-919454 is profiled.\nDescription: SCP-5260 is a green and black bookmark, approximately 15 cm in length. SCP-5260 is made from common craft materials, with the exception of a string connected to the end. This was made using human hair belonging to Beatrice W\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 from northeast Wisconsin, who died in November of 2002.\nFor each night SCP-5260 is not exposed to a subject, the area of influence doubles. The unconfirmed upper range of its influence is 17.5 kilometers, as demonstrated prior to containment. If SCP-5260's area of influence reaches any number of subjects, this gradually diminishes down to 3 meters multiplied by the number of individuals. Affected subjects will continuously attempt to stay within its area.\nExposed subjects experience the following effects:\nNights 1-3: Subjects report a recurring dream that is unusually memorable, tailored to a situation that the subject has an emotional connection to. This dream is usually innocuous. Documented examples include:\n\nD-10086: Subject relives an enjoyable evening in their childhood home.\nD-32245: Subject relaxing in a rowboat tied near shore.\n\nNights 4-7: Subjects report the dream quickly becomes unsettling or upsetting. Documented examples include:\n\nD-10086: The evening from the subject's childhood becoming infused with paranoia that the house is under siege from an unidentifiable threat. Subject vividly recounted family members standing back to back in the center of the house's main room, holding knives for self-defense.\nD-32245: Subject's rowboat drifts steadily from shore with ineffective frantic efforts to return.\n\nNights 8-10+: Subjects report an entity appears, henceforth known as SCP-5260-1. SCP-5260-1 has been identifiable from subject to subject as it is the sole cause of any sort of beneficial effect within the dream. Notably, some aspect of this benefit is retained by the dreamer on waking.\n\nD-10086 reported that SCP-5260-1 took the form of a \"feisty old woman\" who picked up a broom and \"chased off some dogs outside,\" then admonished the family for getting themselves wrapped up in such a \"tizzy.\" D-10086 reported diminished anxiety overall on waking, and later demonstrated unprecedented leadership ability during a severe containment breach.\nD-32245 reported that SCP-5260-1 took the form of an albatross. While D-32245 did not reach shore, he felt he was going in the right direction and making progress. Upon waking, subject reported to have a better metaphorical sense of direction, claiming they were more certain of what to do next and how to achieve it. Subject did not provide further details.\n\nWhen SCP-5260-1 manifests, the exposed subject is considered \"infected.\" Subjects at this stage universally report sincere gratitude towards SCP-5260-1 for its assistance. Attachment towards SCP-5260 and SCP-5260-1 increases over time, and in many cases reaches obsession, with the subject refusing to or unable to sleep without SCP-5260 present. In 15% of all cases, subjects resort to desperate measures to stay within its area of influence even when detained, with attempts to scratch through a cell wall with their fingernails being documented. This is either a result of the affection for SCP-5260-1, or a desire to avoid the effects after separation.\nUpon separation: Separation occurs if an infected subject is not re-exposed to SCP-5260 within 72 hours of last exposure. When separated, subject's dreams return to the pre-SCP-5260-1 status, with a rapid change to increasingly harmful or horrifying circumstances.\n\nIn the case of D-10086, subject reported that, in the dreams of their childhood home, they had hidden themselves in a closet and watched as their family tried and failed to fight off a \"monster\". Subject refused to provide further details. Since separation from SCP-5260, D-10086 has exhibited severe and worsening hemophobia, to the point where the sight of blood induces hysteria. Subject experienced profound insomnia23.\nIn the case of D-32245, subject reported that they were now in a lifeboat, with no sight of land. Subject initially reported experiencing dreams in real time; successive dreams lasted for increasing periods. Furthermore, after waking, the subject's physical appearance exhibited symptoms of long-term exposure to the elements, including dehydration, heat stroke, and shock. Treatment was unable to fully relieve subject's symptoms. Subject experienced profound insomnia. Nine days after D-919454 replaced D-32245 as the subject on rotation, D-32245 made a spontaneous recovery.\n\nRepeated testing has been unable to predict the beneficial or detrimental effects.\nDiscovery: SCP-5260 was discovered in 2011 in the town of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Wisconsin, in a storage unit registered under the W\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 family. Anomalous events were brought to the Foundation's attention after a field agent at the local police station reported suspected anomalous activity and an abrupt and unprecedented increase in the number of breaking and entering cases, centering around the storage location. After Foundation personnel were dispatched and anomalous events in the town were mapped out, SCP-5260 was found in the exact center of cases, down to the very corner of the storage unit. A cover story for the anomalous activity was disseminated through the local newspaper, and SCP-5260 was taken into Foundation custody for testing.\nThe corpse of an unidentified individual was found inhabiting a neighboring storage unit, having passed away within two weeks of discovery. No relation to SCP-5260 has been uncovered. This inhabitant has been deemed a coincidence that prevented the rapid expansion of SCP-5260's influence for a period of time.\nThe W\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 family that the storage unit was registered under had relocated to New Mexico. When located and questioned, none of the family were able to provide physical descriptions of Beatrice W\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, details of her last known whereabouts, or any useful information whatsoever about her or her life. After review, this lack of information was conclusively determined to be non-anomalous.\n\n+ Interview 5260.1 with D-919454\n\n- Interview 5260.1 with D-919454\n\nArchived Interview 5260.1\n\nInterviewed: D-919454\nInterviewer: Lead Researcher Dr. Liliana Li\nForeword: Shortly after D-919454 encountered SCP-5260-1, all negative effects to previously infected individuals abruptly ceased. The purpose of this interview is to find out what role, if any, D-919454 had in this development. Interview was conducted two days after D-919454 returned from a five-day sick leave.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Li: Hello again, D-919454. How are you sleeping these days?\nD-919454: Oh, uh, I'm doing fine, Doctor. Pretty well, actually. Definitely less tired, I think. I've been feeling, well, sort of been feeling my best lately. I mean, if it was just the new quarters, it's been a long time since I've slept in my own room, like a room I could call just my own, and I've lived in places half the size and a tenth as nice, and [Twenty-three seconds of extraneous dialogue redacted for brevity]\nDr. Li: Okay. Anyway, you were having trouble sleeping before you were selected for duty with SCP-5260, correct?\nD-919454: \u2026yeah.\nDr. Li: Why was that?\nApproximately five seconds of silence.\nD-919454: I don't really- I mean, I don't like to\u2026 I-I've had help talking about it, a-and some people they think, they've said \"oh that's nothing, who cares\" but they don't know\u2026\nDr. Li: We can come back to that then, if you would prefer. I do have some other questions.\nD-919454: Alright, just, ease into it. It's\u2026 [unintelligible] could've been me, still could be\u2026 [mumbling]\nDr. Li: Okay. Can you tell me what your dreams are like, since you've been assigned to SCP-5260?\nD-919454: Hah! The dreams I've been having, let me tell you, they're worth the price of admission right there. I've been working my damn fingers to the bone 'till they're sore to get just a bit of recognition, oh you know it's hard to stand out when everyone's wearing the same uniform, but I'd hoped if I do what I'm told with a smile and a nod, maybe an old man, even an old man like me can get a bit of an easier job of it. I must've done something right, because goddamn I'm still here, ain't I? And when they told me they had a job, I mean you never know what that's gonna be, every job could be the last, but when they said that I just needed to sleep-\nSilence. D-919454 taps on the table.\nD-919454: Well, when they told me they'd help me sleep, I mean, I jumped up at the chance.\nDr. Li: I am happy to hear it. What are your dreams like?\nD-919454: They're\u2026 I dunno. They're easy. First couple of nights, when I was assigned, it was easier to, to be where I was. I mean, it was more comfortable, I actually, really slept, and I didn't feel\u2026 hmm. I felt different. Just a little better.\nDr. Li: I think this would be much easier if you told me more about the dreams. I know even in your reports you do not like to talk about it, but we really do need to know. I think there's a chance it might even help you.\nSilence, until D-919454 sighs.\nD-919454: Don't uh\u2026 don't act surprised, okay? Don't make that face, the \u201cthat's it?\u201d face. I've seen it before, it\u2026\nSilence.\nD-919454: For most of my life, when I sleep, I dream I'm in a home.\nDr. Li: Whose home?\nD-919454: No, no. Not like that. A nursing home.\nDr. Li: A convalescent home? You've been dreaming that for decades?\nD-919454: That goddamn face, I knew it. You don't understand, you don't.\nDr. Li: Uh, my apologies. I do not understand. But I would like to.\nD-919454 sighs.\nD-919454: Okay, well\u2026 someone said it better than I'm about to, but all the cats and dogs and animals of God's kingdom have it better than any man, just because\u2026 they don't know they're gonna die.\nD-919454 pauses, then drinks some water.\nD-919454: Well. I've always known. I used to think I'd grow old then die, but now that I am old, now it's \"then die.\" It was my good old granddad, not great mind you, he told me that I'm young, and that I would never be this young again, so I \"damn well better appreciate it, whatever it is, while it's here.\"\nSilence.\nD-919454: I was\u2026 must've been four? Five? Didn't know I'd die, didn't understand death. I figured it out when he died pretty soon after that. The only thing I remember of him is that advice, which I\u2026 hope I followed. And that, that made me always think, I will be old, or I will be gone. And both options scared the hell outta me. Now that I'm old it's not half as scary, but\u2026\nSilence.\nDr. Li: Go on?\nD-919454: Ah, you know what it is? It's that no one tells you, or no one can really make you understand just what, what you lose when you get to be my age. You know, it's\u2026 terrible. We're all forgotten eventually, right? But most of us are gone before that happens. It's, it's terrible to be forgotten when you're still alive. I mean\u2026 a-and that's what I dream about, always dreamed about. That in that home, I'm old, scared, and forgotten by the world. That's it.\nDr. Li: I can understand the impact that could have on you. But I would still like clarification how that relates to your trouble sleeping.\nD-919454: Still? Really? I've spent, I've spent almost every sleeping night of my life, just, trapped. I'd be old, I'd be alone, and no one would know it, no one would remember me. And now, hell, now I'm awake and nothing's changes. I don't get an escape from that anymore. Now it's my goddamn life. And you need \u201cclarification\u201d? Why I don't want to live that?\nDr. Li: Sorry, okay. I think I get it. We can move on.\nD-919454: Yeah. Sure.\nLong silence. Shuffling of papers is audible.\nDr. Li: Okay\u2026 You recently applied for and received sick leave, is that correct?\nD-919454: I did, yeah. A stint in the med bay. Not a work accident, mind you, I'm careful. Some of the things they've had me around, I mean, I'm still here, ain't I? And this assignment, well it's just a night job. They still gotta keep me busy in the day. I mean, I'd rather not go into why I took the time, that's uh, private. But yeah, I did.\nDr. Li: But your dreams were unchanged, the entire time?\nD-919454: Unchanged? Well, Betty stopped showing up. Apart from that, it was the same dream. But I'll tell ya, that did make a big difference. Before, it was-\nDr. Li: Sorry, Betty? As in, short for Beatrice?\nD-919454: Yeah, right. [chuckles] She actually hates it when I call her Beatrice. I remember her being glad I was back. She's great, y'know? She's, she's very smart, and she's got such a good heart on her. She's uh\u2026 oh, when I got back, she said something that stood out, what was it\u2026\nDr. Li: I have your reports here. Do you remember the date of it, or which dream number it was?\nD-919454: Don't think so. I'll help you look, though.\nNo significant dialogue. Shuffling of papers, small talk, and brief laughter once from both parties.\nDr. Li: You reported she said she \"couldn't make the dream any worse\" and that \"you would understand why.\"\nD-919454: That's it! I mean, she makes dreams worse? Not in my experience. But that bit really stood out to me. It was as bad as it gets? For me, it's like you live so many days in a dream, you sort of get used to it, and mine\u2026 it-it's not good but it's not\u2026 it's not the worst. Hell, the home is better than some nights I had in my old cold cell, you know, when I was young, before it was\u2026 before it became my life. I did have people in my life still, then, back then. But my dreams, the place I'm in, the hard part isn't, isn't the place, it's\u2026 the people.\nSilence.\nD-919454: It's the people that don't come.\nScribbling on paper is audible.\nDr. Li: Okay\u2026 so you have been able to communicate with SCP, um, Beatrice. What do you talk about?\nD-919454: Oh, we just talk, nothing out of the ordinary. A bit about our lives, jobs we've had, how we got there. More than anything though, we keep each other company. Sometimes we walk around the grounds, sometimes we sit and eat, oh! Sometimes we've actually managed to sneak out! Imagine that!\nDr. Li: And you have not experienced anything unusual when waking?\nD-919454: Well I feel as though I've slept twelve hours, and let me tell you, that is pretty damn unusual.\nDr. Li: I am glad to hear it. But apart from that, nothing particularly notable on waking. Okay. And you're sure you talk about nothing out of the ordinary?\nD-919454: Well, I mean\u2026 she's mentioned other people, you know? Other people she's met. Apparently she's gotten quite a few visitors. I, uh, don't know if it's all true? She said recently a guy she'd rescued from being trapped smack in the middle of the ocean, and she said she got him to visit pretty regularly. I don't know if you know this, but um, I think she tries to get them to come back.\nDr. Li: Did she mention anything about if they stopped coming back?\nD-919454: I\u2026 don't think so. Why?\nDr. Li: Oh, just curious. Covering all the bases.\nD-919454 She-she did mention that there was a time, a long time ago, for years, where just no one came, when no one cared. Can't make no one come back, I guess. But not a visitor, not a friend. She uh\u2026 said she'd felt beyond abandoned. Actually, maybe that's why she said my dream was the worst thing, just the worst thing. And\u2026 I mean, I never even had it that bad in prison. I dunno.\nRapid scribbling from Dr. Li.\nD-919454: When you, uh, get to a certain point\u2026 If you were someone like her, who had a lot to offer, but couldn't\u2026 might go a little nutty. I went a little nutty, a while back, when I was in that kind of situation. That nothingness. And I acted out. Bad. And uh\u2026 now I'm here. I dunno. Maybe she did too. I'd dreamed it, she's lived it. If I were her, with that active mind and heart, and I felt \"beyond abandoned?\"\nScribbling.\nD-919454 Might want to do something big to get a bit of company.\nLong silence, apart from more scribbling.\nD-919454: [cough] Sorry, got carried away. Well, I've been getting carried away. [sniff] Whatever it is, I'm just glad, I am so glad, that we can visit each other.\nDr. Li: Okay\u2026 I think that clears up some matters. And you are on rotation for\u2026 another two months, is that correct?\nD-919454 Seven weeks, two days.\nDr. Li Alright, this has been very helpful. As for your request, I will make no promises. It depends on what happens with time.\nLaughter from D-919454\nD-919454: A man can dream, eh? Eh?\nDr. Li: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, thank you for your time.\n<End Log>\n\n- Interview 5260.1 with D-919454\n\nAddendum 5260.1\n\nTeam,\nI've applied to give D-919454 nightly access to SCP-5260, contingent on exemplary behavior and a requirement for him to continue sleeping in separate quarters. Given how this seems to be a low risk way to simplify containment, I expect it to go through soon.\nAlso, I've been asked if this can be classified as neutralized. I doubt it. I am keeping prior containment procedures on record, and I recommend you all keep them fresh in your head. Because D-919454 won't be around forever, and since problems stopped when he arrived, problems could return when he's gone. I'd like to think Betty will take his grandad's advice and be content, but we'll see.\nFor now, when he's on duty, you are not to wake D-919454 for anything but the most pressing emergency situations. Otherwise, let them dream.\nAny questions, let me know.\n-Dr. Li\n\nFootnotes\n1. Selected for its ability to boost the recollection of dreams.\n2. While common, insomnia after separation appears self-induced, rather than an anomalous influence.\n3. Someone needs to follow up with her, now that containment's updated. -Dr. Li\n\n\u00ab SCP-5259 | SCP-5260 | SCP-5261 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5261: Nobody Suspects a Thing\n\nOther Articles of Mine\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4966\n\nSCP-1401-EX\n\nSCP-4052\n\nSCP-4088\n\nSCP-5522\n\nSCP-4109\n\nSCP-7441\n\nSCP-5020\n\nSCP-4286\n\nSCP-4035\n\nSCP-4664\n\nSCP-4270\n\nSCP-3462\n\nSCP-6663\n\nSCP-7966\n\nSCP-4570\n\nSCP-6633\n\nSCP-5693\n\nSCP-5261\n\nSCP-444-J\n\npage 1 of 212next \u00bb\n\nTales\n\nSomething Glowing\n\nLog Of Extranormal Events, Vol II\n\nPrelude To Presents\n\nYour Memory Forever Seen\n\nThe Bears\n\nOther\n\nThe Bread Box\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27\n\nSCP-005 Proposal Hub\n\nExperiment Log-4035\n\nCollab Articles\n\nSCPs\n\nPage\nTitle\nCo-Author\n\nSCP-4733\nBut Not Forgotten\nLamentte\n\nSCP-5225\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nXilasCrowe\n\nSCP-5785\nCraptivism\nSonderance\n\nSCP-5993\nWe want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\nch00bakka\n\nTales\n\nPage\nCo-Author\n\nThe Bathrooms Wiki\nToo many to list\n\nSnippets of an Unveiled World\nNykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin\n\nGone,\nLamentte\n\nYour Imaginary Friend\nFishish\n\nCheck out Deadly Bread's Author Page\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nITEM NUMBER: SCP-5261\nLEVEL 3/5261\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: KETER\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nAn aquarium affected by SCP-5261, formerly occupied by krill.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler J/M-CON is to monitor news outlets and social media platforms for posts regarding strange occurrences within establishments housing marine life. Witnesses to known SCP-5261 occurrences are to be amnesticized under cover story 58-B (\"Burglary\") and are to be reimbursed for their losses. SCP-5261 events discovered in-progress are to have their SCP-5261-1 instances captured and relocated to Marine Site-82. These instances are to be released into a contained section of the Atlantic Ocean to nullify their anomalous properties, and are to then be recaptured and monitored for further anomalous properties before permanent relocation or use in testing.\nFollowing the events of 03/22/2021, feeding and care of SCP-5261-1 is to be heavily monitored and done remotely if possible. Individuals outside of SCP-5261's research team wishing to access specimens of SCP-5261-1 require prior approval and accompaniment for the duration.\nDescription: SCP-5261 refers to an anomalous phenomenon affecting businesses housing large amounts of marine life, most prominently aquariums and exotic pet stores. No direct link between affected businesses has been found, however the majority of them were found to have previously failed inspections of their quality care or to have obtained their wildlife through fraudulent means.\nSCP-5261 is believed to result in the development of a shared sapience among aquatic life housed by the business, similar to a hive-mind. Within 24 to 32 hours of this intelligence developing, affected organisms (referred to as SCP-5261-1) will work in tandem to escape the business, utilizing tactics often associated with prison escapes in popular media. It is unknown how SCP-5261-1 successfully employ most of these tactics, as their efficacy seems to be often unhindered by a lack of prehensile limbs. Following this, SCP-5261-1 will locate and disperse within the nearest open body of saltwater. Anomalous effects will cease once SCP-5261-1 have successfully dispersed or have been captured and recontained.\nThe frequency and scale of SCP-5261 events appears to be completely random, with notable events including;\n\nA small tank of starfish found with its contents plastered across the glass, completely blocking the interior. Further inspection discovered several snails within the tank attempting to unscrew a vent cover using their shells as makeshift screwdrivers.\nA tank of crabs was found to contain makeshift replicas of the tank's occupants by filling molted shells with colored pebbles, sand, and artificial plants. The current whereabouts of the crabs are unknown, although several hundred dollars were also found missing from the store's cash register.\nA missing pet store transport van discovered on an abandoned stretch of beach. The corpse of the driver was found in the back of the vehicle covered in small puncture wounds. Autopsy results found traces of puffer fish poison present within the cadaver's circulatory system. All transport tanks within the van were found to have been shattered, although fragmentation analysis suggests they were broken from the inside.\nThe entirety of the New England Aquarium being found completely emptied of aquatic life and its entire security detail missing. Upon further inspection it was found that each of the tanks was connected by a network of tunnels leading to the open ocean, centered on the Giant Ocean Tank1. Examination of the aquarium's security system found that each of the surveillance cameras had been obscured with dried squid ink. The location of the security detail is still unknown, although pieces of dead coral carved into accurate depictions of firearms were found at the bottom of several tanks.\n\nAddendum.5261.1: On 3/22/2021, an alarm sounded signalling that a minor breach of SCP-5261-1's containment tanks had been detected. On-site security investigated but returned claiming there was already an agent on the scene. Shortly afterwards, a large surge of aquatic life was detected being released from an on-site disposal hatch. Security forces discovered the supposed agent nearby, who moved in an erratic manner while fleeing, knocking over furniture and bumping into walls. After being detained, the agent began vomiting a large amount of seawater and organic matter, along with two large octopods. Security attempted to detain the octopods, but they were able to escape into a nearby bathroom before their whereabouts were lost.\nAn autopsy of the agent found that the individual matched no Foundation employee on record, possessing false identification made of dried kelp and ink. It is believed that the octopods were piloting the body by lightly squeezing sections of the individual's brain to trigger movement, with one controlling the arms and legs and one compressing the lungs to provide the brain air. Following this event, more thorough screening of employees entering the site has been implemented.\n\n\nFootnotes\n1. A massive tank containing a Caribbean coral reef alongside thousands of aquatic animals. It is unknown how the reef was relocated through the tunnel network, although it was later found intact several thousand kilometers offshore. Sections of dead coral were found to have tally markings carved into them, totaling 1,415.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5260 | Deadly Bread | SCP-5262 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5262\nObject Class: Safe Neutralized Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5262 is housed within the ornithology department of Site-83. Access to SCP-5262 is not restricted and researchers wishing to observe the anomaly are free to do so without any specific authorizations.\nDescription: SCP-5262 is an adult female European herring gull (Larus argentatus). Upon visiting a beach, it constructs a structure out of sand, resembling a traditional sandcastle. These are almost always engraved with writing in the Breton language1 celebrating Brittany as an independent state before its integration to France in the Middle Ages, and advocating for secession and independence from the rest of the country. Common inscriptions include \"Bevet Breizh !\" (long live Brittany!) and \"Ar Breizh frank a vo trec'h !\" (free Brittany will triumph!).\nThe resulting sand structures present no anomalous properties. Following the erection of a structure, SCP-5262 will observe human reactions to its production. As advocacy for Breton independence is fairly uncommon in modern times, human subjects often react mockingly, resulting in signs of frustration in SCP-5262.\nOn 2017/09/05, SCP-5262 was captured in order to investigate its motivations and evaluate its knowledge of the history of Brittany. The following interview was lead by Dr Le Mesre and translated from Breton.\n\n<BEGIN TRANSCRIPT>\nDr Le Mesre: Hello\u2026 can you understand me?\n(SCP-5262 begins writing in the sand of its enclosure using its beak)Dr Le Mesre: Um. I would like to know your reasons for supporting Breton independence.\n(SCP-5262 stares at Dr Le Mesre)\nDr Le Mesre: And also\u2026 how much\u2026 you know about Breton history.Dr Le Mesre: Alright, yes. However, have you not noticed some\u2026 reluctance from the public, as of late?Dr Le Mesre: For how long have you engaged in those activities? Can you give me\u2026 a starting date?Dr Le Mesre: May I ask whether you are aware of any differences between you and other seagulls?Dr Le Mesre: Are you aware of any other individuals with the same\u2026 behavior?Dr Le Mesre: Well, it is my job.<END TRANSCRIPT>\n\nOn 2018/03/18, SCP-5262 was fitted with a GPS tag and released in order to further study its behavior. However, as it endured more and more mockery from passers-by, SCP-5262 began showing more signs of frustration and eventually stopped building structures. Its activity became limited to scraping words in the sand, with the same meaning as before, but in French rather than Breton.\nOn 2018/03/23, SCP-5262 showed signs of distress and stopped all anomalous activity. It became withdrawn from the rest of the flock and appeared to not feed as often. Below is an interview of SCP-5262 at that time.\n\n<BEGIN TRANSCRIPT>\nDr Le Mesre: Hello, SCP-5262. It seems your mood is degrading.Dr Le Mesre: It is a critically endangered regional language.Dr Le Mesre: Exactly how much do you know about the political structure of France?Dr Le Mesre: I have been discussing the possibility of your future recapture with my team. We could provide you with abundant Breton conversation.Dr Le Mesre: Oh, excuse me, but you misspelled the word \"free\". It's frank, not franck.\n(Long pause from SCP-5262)<END TRANSCRIPT>\n\nOn 2018/03/26, all signs of negativity in SCP-5262's demeanor had worn away. It had fully returned to the flock and fed as necessary. As SCP-5262's behavior is now indistinct from that of its non-anomalous con-specifics, it was reclassified as Neutralized and tracking was halted.\nAddendum: On 2020/05/20, two years after previous observations, a female European herring gull matching SCP-5262's description was sighted in the French region of Corsica. It has been seen building sand structures and engraving them with the inscription \"Free Corsica!\" in the Corsican language. Investigation is under way.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Celtic language closely related to Cornish and Welsh spoken in the French Region of Brittany. It has been mostly replaced with French.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5261 | SCP-5262| SCP-5263 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5264.\n\nItem #: SCP-5264\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5264 are to be contained in an air-tight plastic bag and stored in the fridge located in Lab 3, and may only be removed for testing.\nAny phone calls made to personnel claiming to be or acquaintanced with 'Chef Lorance' are to be dismissed and traced immediately. Chef Lorance has yet to be contained.\nDescription: SCP-5264 are a group of swelling brussels sprouts, containing large pockets of air and various spices1, bursting when placed in water or held over heat. The produce does not seem to rot while contained but deflates when exposed to oxygen or stomach acid, secreting the spices. SCP-5264 has appeared in multiple television advertisements by 'Lory's Kitchen' showing various meals using the product 'Splodin' Sprouts', and have been sought after by a man named Chef Foyer Lorance while SCP-5264 are in containment.\nAddendum 64.1 - Discovery\nSCP-5264 were discovered in advertisements featuring 'Lory's Kitchen' and from various positive reviews about the restaurant located in Cannes, France. The entity named 'Chef Lorance' prepared meals in front of guests at an alarmingly fast pace, which guests described as 'not physically possible' and 'crazy as hell'. Chef Lorance reportedly only worked with two other employees, whose identities are unknown. The restaurant was investigated after reviews on social media reported sudden health and safety violations including stomachaches, diarrhoea, and burns when residual brussels sprouts hit guests in the face. Chef Lorance had commented that 'what was happening was new' and 'someone must have messed with my food'.\nA note was found on top of the pile of SCP-5264 at the time of discovery in Lory's Kitchen.\n\nThis is for Lorance, you musty baboon,\nI've been a loyal friend and employee to this restaurant for God knows how long and frankly I'm sick and tired of it. 'What're we making today Lancy?' 'Sprouts'. 'What's todays special?' 'You're not gonna believe it!' I am so, so tired and even if it's a better pay than most jobs, money isn't cutting the deal here. It's your attitude. You're obsessed with them. Completely head-over-heels for a little green condensed cabbage of GARBAGE. I've long since gotten used to the smell but the thing is, I'm worried, actually.\nI'm calling to this guy I know, some investigator, about the sprouts because they are pretty peculiar, yes, and I wonder how you grow them, but mostly because I want you to get away from them. You need distance from those brussels, Foyer, they're bad for you. You spend all your time cooking them with no regard for your own health! Anything is bad in moderation.\nOh, and also I'm opening a pizza chain down the street and I don't want competition.\n~Toodles!\n\nAddendum 64.2 - Advertisements\nRecordings of advertisements show Chef Lorance making meals using 'Splodin' Sprouts and various other vegetables:\n\n\"[Singing] ~Lory's Kitchen, the secret recipe,\nWatch how they bubble, watch how they gleam!\nExploding brussels, and delicious cream!\nOrder now and you'll see what I mean!~\nCome to Lory's Kitchen to see the new way to cook vegetables! Try our new Spicy Chicken and our new 'Splodin' Sprouts today!\"\n\n\"It's Chef Lory! Hooray!\nHey, friends! Check this out!\"\n[The advertisement shows Chef Lorance throwing SCP-5264 in the air, bursting them, and letting them fall onto a plate of roasted ham and mashed potatoes]\n\"I've been making all sorts of dishes since I was a young child, imbued with the magical powers of\u2026passion! How? With practise, and why? Because I love to! Cooking has always been my talent. And I don't trust anyone with my food except myself! Come down and see me work my magic with my new 'Splodin Sprouts and other delicious meals!\"\n\nThe advertisements were discontinued before the closure of Lory's Kitchen on 05/06/2006.\nAddendum 65.3\nMultiple researchers have claimed to be receiving phone calls on their personal devices from an unknown number, tracing back to payphones located in Cannes, France.\n\n\"Hi! It's Lory. I'm a little confused as to why you keep hanging up whenever I try to discuss the brussels sprouts with you. The thing is, I just really, REALLY need them back for my cooking! They're the highlight of my entire cooking career, those sprouts, and if I don't get them back I'll just as well grow more myself! If I can. I don't remember how to, you know? They just showed up. You can pry these sprouts from my cold, dead hands and yet you still won't be able to harness the true power of the sprout! Oh\u2026sorry\u2026did that get a bit awkward? \u2026Bye.\"\n\n\"Haha, Hi, it's Lorance. I want to discuss the sprout with you. Yea. The 'splodin ones\u2026Can I have them back? Please? I won't get too flashy with them like last time, I swear! No? Will, is that you? Who's Will? Aw Curry don't get smart with me now-\"\n\n\"I don't get it. Hello? I'm still mad. Normal folk can't handle a little danger for some good food, huh? Do you know what ah\u2026social media is? People are leaving some pretty filthy reviews on there, and I'm scared it'll bring the inspector on us. All I want is to cook, Will. That's all I want. But people just have to make it\u2026difficult\u2026for kooks like us. Do you think someone did it on purpose..?\"\n\n\"Hello, is this Curry? Listen to me, Will. It's\u2026Lorance. I know you want me out of business. We all know it. But why would you do something so disgraceful as to take another chef's recipe? You're a lowlife and a fraud, and if I see you even touching my sprouts with your greasy little pizza fingers, I won't be afraid to shut things down once and for all.\"\n\n\"Hello, Will? I'd be dying to know where my sprouts are\u2026 I just need a couple, please. Have some sympathy. My business is ruined because something went wrong with my latest batch and now I'm stuck. Come on, we were partners\u2026Curry please, I just want to cook for people. You know?\u2026 Watch how they bubble, watch how they gleam~\u2026\n\n\"WILL!\u2026You beautiful man! Where are my veggies? Where are they? I know you got them in the Foun- the\u2026yea! You know, I bet we could cook something right now. I mean me. You!\n[There is audible crashes and the sound of coins dropping]\nAh my change! Get back here I gotta keep talkin' to Wi- oof! Me noggin! Ah, fuck! My drink! \u2026Whatever. You know my number, call me if you want, but I know where my damned sprouts are. If I don't get them back they're coming with me anyway. Bye.\"\n\nAddendum 65.4\nOn 23/04/2010, SCP-5264 began to decompose after 4 years without any sign of past decomposition. The sprouts appear to have deflated entirely and shrunken in size. Further tests proved that the group of SCP-5264 did not explode anymore.\nAfter being presumed missing since 17/09/2006, the body of Chef Foyer Lorance washed up on the shores of Plage du Midi, Cannes on the 20/04/2010.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Saffron, Pepper, Rosemary, Sea Salt, Paprika\n\n\u00ab SCP-5263 | SCP-5264 | SCP-5265 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nSKYFIRE - Popsioak\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem Number: 5265\nClearance Level: One\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nA photograph contained in one of SCP-5265's pockets.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5265 is to be contained within a standard humanoid cell. Stimulation, such as books, paper, and a pencil, is to be provided on a regular basis. No sustenance is necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5265 is a disembodied arm of an adult male. Despite a large wound where the arm would have been affixed to its original body, as well as signs of decomposition and arthritis, it shows no hindrance in actions. It is clothed in an Indian Army uniform, dating back to the early 1940s. Genetic testing to determine the owner of SCP-5265 has proven inconclusive.\nSCP-5265 is capable of limited movement. By repeatedly locking and unlocking itself in positions and grasping surfaces with its nails, it can produce a vaguely inchworm-like style of locomotion. Additionally, SCP-5265 is capable of challenging manual tasks, such as threading a needle or flipping a glass, despite lacking ocular organs or a neural center.\nSCP-5265 has displayed signs of sapience, writing in a dated form of British English to communicate when given a pen. However, SCP-5265 is incapable of understanding attempts to communicate with it, presumably from a lack of expertise in Braille.\nAttached are assorted communications from SCP-5265.\n\nKhalistan.1\nGlory to Khalistan.\n\nIt is so dark. Where has everyone gone?\n\nI smell fire. It is dead for now. Long dead. But I smell fire.\nI feel like many small parts all at once.\nWhere is the rest of me?\n\nWhere is my regiment? They will come. Back. It has not been too long. I don't think so.\n\nWhere are you?\nMy love. Where have you gone?\n\nThere was a man.\nHe said to fight for the British, against the Germans.\nI did not want to. We left the British before.\nBut I trusted him.\nI should not have trusted him.\n\nThey told me that if I died, I would see God.\nI have not seen him. Everything is terrible.\nTheir God takes care of all His children. I should have remembered 20 missionaries who told us that before.\n\nI am scared of myself. I am scared of loud noises. I am scared of being trapped. I cannot breathe.\n\nGet me out of here.\nGet me out of here.\nGet me out of here.\nI do not want to live like this.\n\nI am sorry I will not be able to send you money, dear.\nI know your cousin needed it for her wedding.\nPlease forgive me.\n\nDo not leave me.\nI do not want to be alone.\n\nThey will not come back to me. I will be alone.\nIf only.\n\nI have one option.\n\nI will move.\nI will return.\nI will create my Khalistan.\nMy farms are dry. They will soon be fresh.\nGlory to Khalistan.\nI will get out.\nI will get out.\nI will not be alone.\n\nNote: On production of the last note, SCP-5265 produced a fully-loaded Lee Enfield No.1 Mk.III rifle from its pocket. The origin of this weapon is currently unknown - checks in SCP-5265's pockets previously yielded no thaumaturgical traces or spatial anomalies. SCP-5265 proceeded to grasp the rifle, and fired it at the nearest window. Recoil from the rifle caused it to jump backwards and sever SCP-5265 at the wrist. Immediately, the flesh of the detached arm section decomposed into a black, putrid sludge, leaving only bone. The hand section worked the bolt and fired again, dislocating and severing SCP-5265's lower portion of its hand and thumb with the rifle's bayonet, leaving a thin section of flesh and four fingers. Severed sections decomposed again. The remaining section ceased firing, instead retrieving a piece of paper and proceeding to write the following note.\n\nI will continue.\nThere is no other option I have.\nI do not want to die. I do not want to live like this.\nSo what will I do?\nThere is no crying. There is no time for depression.\nI must continue.\n\n\u00ab You Can't Live There Forever | IN SAFFRON SANDS | Remember Me As a Time of Day \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. The conceptual form of a sovereign state of Sikhs.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5264 | SCP-5265 | SCP-5266 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5266-1 instance 82. Note that no SCP-5266-2 instances are visible in this shot.\nThe individual in the video has yet to be identified.\n\nItem #: SCP-5266\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor all video-sharing platforms for links with titles consistent with SCP-5266-1 title patterns. For videos tagged by the webcrawler, standard digital recursion tests will be made to determine if the links will yield a URL when opened, indicating an SCP-5266-1 instance. Links found to lead to SCP-5266-1 instances will be summarily deleted.\nAdditional media-monitoring webcrawlers are to search for possible mentions and coverage of SCP-5266 events. Agents will be dispatched to possible cases to confirm the anomaly, and subsequently retrieve SCP-5266-2 instances and administer amnestics.\nFoundation personnel education course C-32 \"Hazards Of The Web\" has an included portion demonstrating the best response to Foundation personnel being targeted by an SCP-5266 event. Personnel will be advised to immediately call for help before seeking out and either contacting or destroying SCP-5266-2 instances. An onsite medical team with a UAD1 kit and defibrillation gear is to be dispatched immediately to the target's location, where they will either aid in deactivation of SCP-5266-2 or attempt to resuscitate the affected person should initial attempts fail.\nDescription: SCP-5266 is the collective designation for a series of anomalous YouTube videos and the phenomenon resulting from viewing them. Individual instances of videos are referred to as SCP-5266-1.\nNew SCP-5266-1 instances are uploaded on an estimated average of once every 2 weeks, and each video ranges from 3 to 4 minutes in length. The videos, when played, have no associated upload channel or URL address, and to date searching for SCP-5266-1 instances has yielded no results. The only known method of initially encountering SCP-5266 is for an instance to spontaneously appear in the viewer's recommendations tab. Only the first occurrence of each individual video can trigger the major anomalous properties of SCP-5266, and videos can be safely viewed and saved after the initial event has concluded.\nSCP-5266-1 instances are typically titled consistently with internet clickbait, featuring exaggerated descriptions of the contents of the video in all capital letters.2 Each video is a recording of a previous SCP-5266 event, featuring a single subject suffering the effects of such while accompanied by a song written and performed by American disco group Village People. The videos always end with several seconds of a black screen, with a short series of high-pitched tones and bursts of static playing over it.3\nSCP-5266-1 videos are commonly recorded from any security cameras or other recording devices present on the scene, proven by camera angles and video quality. The cameras are reverted back to a normal state with no signs of tampering after the event concludes. In the event that an incident occurs in an area without pre-existing cameras, the video appears to be shot from an unknown handheld device by an unknown operator, indicated by swaying of the camera present in the video along with the faint sound of breathing. It is noted that no victims of SCP-5266 have ever been seen to react to the presence of the camera's operator, and no physical traces have been left behind to date. Research into a potential camera operator POI and further sub-anomalies is pending.\nUpon opening an SCP-5266-1 video, an as-of-yet unidentified toxic substance4 immediately begins entering the viewer's bloodstream through anomalous means, at a rate ensuring that a fatal dose is reached exactly as the video ends. It is noted that SCP-5266-1 video instances are unable to be paused, and will continue playing even if no power source is present. In 32% of cases, all exits out of the immediate area will spontaneously lock themselves if possible. Upon the music in the video beginning to play, 4 to 7 instances of SCP-5266-2 will manifest in the immediate area, usually hidden from sight or otherwise slightly obstructed.\nSCP-5266-2 instances are human shrunken heads genetically identical to past or present members of the aforementioned Village People. SCP-5266-2 instances wear a variety of different headpieces, including cowboy hats, police helmets, hard hats and Native-American headdresses. Instances are capable of motion, and upon manifesting will immediately begin to sing along to the song playing in the active SCP-5266-1 video in unison, with instances serving as backup singers or solo singers as necessary. SCP-5266-2 instances will continue to vocalize until either being damaged or coming into contact with the current target of SCP-5266's effects.\nIn order to halt the effects of an SCP-5266 event, all active instances of SCP-5266-2 must be made to cease vocalizing by either of the aforementioned means. Upon doing so, the toxin will immediately vanish from the subject's body and the heads will lose all anomalous properties aside from origin. At this point subjects will most likely survive, but it is still possible for them to succumb to the lingering symptoms of the toxin if they have pre-existing health conditions.\nInstance Logs:\n\n+ Show Instance 5266-38\n\n- Hide Log\n\nVideo Contents Date: 05/21/2015\nVideo Subject: Officer Mitchell \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, later interviewed in Log 5266-38-B, alongside other subjects present. Other persons in the area were later amnesticized.\nVideo Title: Big Dude Dances!! IS HE A HOT COP ENOUGH??\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSubject is seated behind his desk in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 PD District 7. A smartphone is being used to watch videos in the left hand as subject consumes a bagel with their right hand. The video is being recorded from the building's security cameras, and changes perspective several times. The initial shot is from the camera over the office door. No other persons are present.\n2 seconds pass after subject can be seen tapping his phone to select the video. The music begins and SCP-5266-2 instances manifest. Two instances can be seen, one on top of a filing cabinet behind the subject, and another inside an empty coffee pot left on the opposite counter.\nSubject: What, my headphones crapped out? C'mon.\nSubject removes listening devices from ears and attempts to pause the video, to no avail. They continue to attempt to pause the video several more times, before holding it to their ear to confirm the music is not emanating from the device. 10 seconds have passed.\nSubject: The hell?\nSCP-5266-2: Music! Music is my thing!\nSubject looks up and notices the SCP-5266-2 instance in the coffee pot, freezing when they do so. They then slowly reach down to a walkie-talkie on their belt, bring it to their face, and begin speaking into it. SCP-5266-2 instances continue singing.\nSubject: Paulie. Get up here. And help me confirm what. I. Am. Seeing.\nSCP-5266-2: Pleasure is my game, pleasure will lead to my fortune and fame, all right!\nSubject stands up and slowly approaches the coffee pot, maintaining direct line of sight as he does so. Upon reaching the pot, picking it up and inspecting SCP-5266-2 closer, he can be seen to recoil in revulsion, then wobble slightly due to the toxin's effects. 35 seconds have passed.\nSCP-5266-2: But baby I'll burn you, if you're dancing with me!\nA secondary subject, henceforth referred to as Subject B, enters the office. Initial subject will be referred to as Subject A for the remainder of the log.\nSubject B: Hey, Mitch, what're you ringing me up here for? I could barely hear you over the-\nSubject B notices the SCP-5266-2 instance on the filing cabinet and screams, before drawing their pistol and firing rapidly at it 5 times, with the fourth shot making contact and neutralizing the instance. Startled, Subject A drops the coffee pot, which shatters and neutralizes the instance within.\nSCP-5266-2: 'Cause he's a HOT COP! Hottest cop on the disco scene!\nSubject A curses, before rushing across the room to another set of desks, following the voice of another SCP-5266-2 instance.\nSCP-5266-2: People say that I'm a dancing machine!\nSubject B: What the hell is this Mitch?! This ain't natural! Christ!\nSubject B steps back into a wastebasket, knocking it over and causing another instance to roll out amidst crumpled papers. 46 seconds have passed.\nSCP-5266-2: 'Cause he's a HOT COP! Hottest cop that you'll ever see!\nSubject B: Christ! Fuck! There's another one!\nSubject B stomps on the instance repeatedly, neutralizing it.\nSubject A: Paulie, don't just wreck 'em! We gotta keep one of the damned things, see if the feds or somebody knows what it is.\nSCP-5266-2: I bet you never meet a cop as funky as me!\nSubject A opens several drawers, before finding an instance and pulling it out, causing it to cease vocalizing. 68 seconds have passed.\nSubject A: Oh hell, I regret touchin' this. I'm gonna puke in a minute.\nSCP-5266-2: Boogie, boogie! Boogie, boogie! Get on down!\nSubject B: The song's still going! There's more somewhere!\nBoth subjects continue to scour the room until 108 seconds have passed, at which point Subject A collapses due to SCP-5266's effects.\nSubject B: Mitch? Hey, Mitch?\nSubject A: Hggh. I-I think my heart's going.\nSCP-5266-2: Party! Boogie, boogie! Boogie, boogie! Get on d-\nSubject B: SHUT IT!\nSubject B draws their pistol again and fires twice towards a window, presumably aiming at a nearby SCP-5266-2 instance. The window can be heard shattering and shards of glass can be seen falling onto the floor. The vocalizing ceases after the instance was presumably destroyed, ending the SCP-5266 event. Subject B can be seen rushing to perform CPR on Subject A before the video ends.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum: Subjects A and B were both interviewed after being identified from the video, \u2588\u2588\u2588 days afterwards. Both had chosen not to reveal the details of the events to others, for the stated reason of \"Not wantin' to look like a fuckin' headcase\", which resulted in them being fired from their positions as a result of causing property destruction and negligent discharges with no given explanation.\nPost-interview, the intact SCP-5266-2 instance was retrieved from Subject A, and both subjects were offered positions in Foundation security after showing proficiency in responding to anomalous events and maintaining rational thought during a crisis.\n\n- Hide Log\n\nAddendum 5266-A6: On 08/11/2016 at 2:07 PM, during cross-testing of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 at Site-26, a Type-E7 Dimensional Rift was produced resulting in the manifestation of an M-Class Thaumaturgical Arch-Entity.5 Containment of 11 Euclid-Class objects and 3 Keter-Class objects was nearly breached by the entity and 27 onsite personnel were memetically compromised, when incident 5266-A6 ocurred.\n\n+ Show Incident 5266-A6\n\n- Hide Log\n\nTranscript footage taken from onsite security cameras.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nOnsite security can be seen following standard hostile intrusion procedure, forming a blockade at the end of the hallway. The M-Class entity6 steps into frame opposite the security team.\nSec. Officer Trudeau: Visual. Get behind the barrier.\nAll members of the security team assume positions behind the deployed P-84 Antikinetics Barrier. Entity M-A6 continues approaching with no change in pace.\nTrudeau: Okay, standard munitions test. It has a head; aim for that.\nSecurity personnel open fire with standard armaments. Fire is maintained for 3.7 seconds, during which bullets are seen to sublimate before making contact with the entity.\nSec. Officer Messina: Nothing. Deploying Hardlight Rifle, get the TD-Lance ready too.\nMessina fires at Entity M-A6. The beam contacts the target above the secondary left eye, where it is refracted back towards the team. The barrier absorbs the impact, but stray photon condensation damages the surveillance system.\nEntity M-A6: Futile. Bow.\nTrudeau: Christ. All except gunner, heads down. How's the charge on th-\nFootage is cut off as the security camera shorts out.\n\nFootage resumes from onsite Office 11. Entity M-A6 is seen entering through the doorframe after ripping the door off its hinges. The entity has since grown two additional sets of mandibles and is dragging an unconscious Junior Researcher Haldings behind it with one hand.\nEntity M-A6: Awaken.\nA blue gas can be seen exiting Haldings' mouth and eyes, and he startles awake.\nHaldings: Wh-Guh! Christ! Christ, what do you want?\nEntity M-A6: Reveal. Scriptures. Forbidden.\nThe entity points towards the computer monitor at the office's workstation. The computer in question is primarily used for access to SCP files, for cross-reference to acquired GoI documents. An open YouTube tab can be seen on the screen.\nHaldings: What? N-no, I can't give you access, the other anom-\nEntity M-A6: Obey. Or [INFOHAZARD REDACTED]\nHaldings: O-oh. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, just don't-\nEntity M-A6: Reveal.\nHaldings is thrown towards the desk, where he slowly gets to his feet and looks back at the entity, before placing his hand on the mouse. He begins to close the tab, but halts, and can be seen inspecting the screen closer. After a second, he repositions the mouse without closing the YouTube tab and then taps at several keys with no effect before turning back to face Entity M-A6.\nHaldings: Okay, I've, I've got it all ready for you. Just, uh, press this here, with your finger.\nEntity M-A6: Obedience. Satisfactory.\nHaldings moves to the side as the entity approaches the computer and clicks once with the mouse on the SCP-5266-1 instance that he had noticed. The event begins, and SCP-5266-2 instances manifest. One instance appears in the water cooler tank adjacent to Haldings, who upon seeing this grabs the jug and begins running out the door as the music starts.\nEntity M-A6: \u2026Incantation?\nSCP-5266-2: YOUNG MAN!\nEntity M-A6: Incorrect. Title is [INFOHAZARD REDACTED]\nSCP-5266-2: There's no need to feel down, I said YOUNG MAN-\nEntity M-A6: Insolence. Punish.\nThe entity smashes the computer monitor with its forelimbs. The music continues playing, prompting the entity to look around in confusion.\nEntity M-A6: Resistance? Audacity.\nSCP-5266-2: You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find, many ways! To! Have! A! Good time!\nA SCP-5266-2 instance rolls out from the lifted lid of a photocopier, dislodged by its own vocalizations. Entity M-A6 swivels to face it, before lunging forwards to crush it in anger. 59 seconds have passed since the event began.\nSCP-5266-2: It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A!\nEntity M-A6: BE NOT.\nSCP-5266-2: It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-AY-HAYHAAY!\nThe entity continually screams as it overturns the rest of the office, demolishing the room and the SCP-5266-2 instances contained within. 127 seconds total have passed as it finishes rampaging and stands still, breathing heavily from both exertion and the effects of the toxin. It looks around for the source of the music, before noticing the trail of water left behind by the fleeing Junior Researcher Haldings. The security cameras in the office give out due to damage.\n\nFootage is resumed from a series of cameras in the Site's hallways. Haldings is seen running frantically, clutching the jug to his chest. An angry screech can be heard from a ways behind Haldings.\nHaldings: Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck its coming-Will you shut up?\nSCP-5266-2: -Y-M-C-A! They have ever-y-thing, for your men to enjoy-\nEntity M-A6: [Furious screaming in an unknown language]\nHaldings continues running and turns a corner, still trailing water. Entity M-A6 enters the frame and skids into the wall as its motor functions begin to atrophy, failing to make the turn. Haldings screams and increases speed, and the SCP-5266-2 instance continues vocalizing. After several seconds, Entity M-A6 attempts to stand up before slipping in the puddles, screaming again, before successfully righting itself and resuming pursuit. Haldings, now further away, can be seen frantically attempting to open the Site's tertiary saferoom. 168 total seconds have elapsed.\nHaldings: \u2026C'mon, c'mon, open you dumb thing!\nSCP-5266-2: That's when! Someone came up to me, and-\nEntity M-A6 rounds the corner as the armored door opens, and Haldings ducks inside with the jug, closing the doors behind him. The entity charges, and begins clawing at the doors, beginning to visibly damage them.\nHaldings: No, no, please, just a little longer!\nAt this time, Security Officer Messina slowly limps into frame, with their left arm missing below the elbow and dragging a prototype Thaumaturgical Destabilization Lance behind them. Entity M-A6 has created a large gash in the armored doors, and has begun to reach inside.\nMessina: Hey. Fucker.\nEntity M-A6 turns to face Messina.\nMessina: Remember me?\nMessina fires the lance, impacting the entity and causing a large plume of smoke to obstruct it from sight. After several seconds pass, the entity staggers out of the cloud and begins to step towards Messina, but instead collapses to the ground as the SCP-5266-2 instance fades out its singing and the event concludes.\nHaldings: Oh, uh, Messina! Y-you're alive!\nMessina: Just-Gah!-Just get me some morphine.\n[END LOG]\n\nThe body of Entity M-A6 was recovered and reclassified accordingly. 34 days later, a SCP-5266-1 instance corresponding to the incident was found, titled: \"PRINCE OF THE THIRD ABYSSAL RING GETS PWNED! VORTH-TA'AG VS VILLAGE PEOPLE!\"\n\n- Hide Log\n\nFootnotes\n1. Universal Antidote and Detoxification. UAD kits have proven to be 48% effective at removing symptoms of SCP-5266 if administered within 6 minutes of the event's onset.\n2. Ex. \"IDIOT SUCCUMBS TO NEUROTOXIN WHILE LISTENING TO MACHO MAN CLICK NOW TO SEE\" in case 5266-51 or \"DISCO GONE WRONG?!?!! OFFICE WORKER GETS POISONED\" in case 5266-07\n3. Foundation cryptography teams have been assigned to decoding the signals, with success pending.\n4. Substance may change depending on current target and their level of resistance, as indicated by the events of 08/11/2016.\n5. Separate incident log is restricted to Level 3 personnel or higher.\n6. Referred to as Entity M-A6 for the remainder of this documentation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5265 | SCP-5266 | SCP-5267 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5268\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-5268's popularity, containment is an ongoing process. All instances of SCP-5268 are to be confiscated by Foundation agents as soon as they are identified. Instances are to be transported to Site-37 for disposal via burning, with two instances being kept in a secured storage locker on-site for study. Chapters 4-5 may be read by personnel with Security Level 3 or higher.\nFoundation Webcrawler Food Fighter will monitor social media for users suspected of exposure to SCP-5268. Anyone showing symptoms of SCP-5268's memetic effect are to be administered amnestics appropriate to the level of progression and monitored for regression.\nDescription: SCP-5268 is a book titled \"The Art of Spaghetti,\" written by Chef Frederick Hoffman. The first chapter of the book is a step-by-step guide on how to cook spaghetti noodles. Near the end of the cooking process, the chapter insists that it is necessary to test a noodle by throwing it at a wall to see if it \"sticks.\" Chapter 1 claims the spaghetti is done and ready to be drained if it sticks to the wall.\nThe chapter puts an undue amount of stress on this step, to the point of redundancy. Readers who make it this far will not put down the book, unless vigorous attempts are made to disrupt them.\nAfter this point, the book ceases any mention of spaghetti and instead emphasizes the importance of adding chaos to food. It makes claims of superior flavor and the importance of eating food, \"without pomp and circumstance, the way it was meant to be.\" It also denounces the use of most conventional eating utensils. Instead, it claims that hands are the only tool needed for eating.\nOnce an individual has finished reading up to \"Chapter 3: The Inherent Chaotic Nature of Eating\", they will cook spaghetti within three days of completion, if able, and experiment with throwing a spaghetti noodle at the wall to see if it's done. Following this first experiment, they will be compelled to try this method with other forms of pasta. Within two weeks, their symptoms will have progressed to a point where the person will feel compelled to throw a portion of everything they eat at the nearest wall to \"see if it's done.\"\nThose under the influence of SCP-5268's effects will not find the behavior abnormal. At this point, only food that sticks to a wall when thrown will be deemed fit for consumption by the affected persons. Food that does not stick is given a false attribute, such as being undercooked, stale, or spoiled. Aside from their eating habits, those under the influence of SCP-5268 behave as they usually would and eating food off the wall is not harmful to them.\nDiscovery: SCP-5268 came to the Foundation's attention when a well-known culinary photographer Daniel Shaw, who possesses a significant online presence, was arrested for disorderly conduct and erratic behavior.\nMr. Shaw attended an upscale restaurant opening in Los Angeles, CA with a group of friends. When his meal was served, he grabbed a handful of his meal and threw it at the nearest wall. His entire dining party followed suit, causing chaos within the establishment. Witnesses said that after throwing part of his meal, he began licking it directly off the wall. Afterwards he attempted to throw more at the wall. The rest of his dining party had remained in their seats to continue their meals. He was accosted by restaurant staff before he could continue.\nThe entire party expressed confusion and outrage at the arrest of Mr. Shaw, forcing them to be removed from the scene. News of his arrest reached his online followers via a recorded video from one of the dining party, prompting his followers to report similar experiences. Reports of disruptions in public eating establishments became widespread, at which point the Foundation became involved.\nAfter the incidents, a closer look was taken at the photographer's social media presence. Mr. Shaw had posted pictures of meals exclusively consisting of food thrown at a wall for a week and a half prior to the restaurant opening. Further inspection revealed that Mr. Shaw had advertised SCP-5268 as a paid promotion for its debut three and a half weeks prior.\nAnalysis of comments on later posts revealed SCP-5268 had garnered popularity among his followers. Many of the commenters on Mr. Shaw's social media accounts were seemingly unfazed by the changes in the contents of the images. Two other social media influencers were found to have participated in paid promotions for SCP-5268 and were subsequently administered amnestics. Followers found to be suffering from effects were tracked down and given appropriate treatment.\nAddendum\nUpon further review of Frederick Hoffman's career, it was discovered that tensions between Chef Hoffman and the rest of the culinary world have been rising for some time. His uncaring approach when plating dishes and chaotic ideals sparked his eventual exit from the world of fine cuisine.\nThe following is an excerpt of the \"Richard and Kelly Daily Dose\" morning talk show. After the broadcast, Chef Hoffman exhibited increasing amounts of hostility towards his critics and the world of fine cuisine.\n\nVideo Log\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nKelly: Now for our next guest, we have someone who's been making waves here in LA, which is really saying something! Please welcome Chef Frederick Hoffman everybody!\nChef Hoffman emerges from stage left and waves. Audience applauds. Chef Hoffman shakes both Kelly's and Richard's hands and sits in the guest chair adjacent to Richard's and Kelly's seats.\nRichard: Now folks, Chef Hoffman has made quite the name for himself around town with his unique restaurant. Why don't you tell us a bit about it, Fred?\nChef H: I prefer Frederick actually, I think it suits me, haha. But, yes! My restaurant Pinch of Primal has had a very successful few years. We have a revolutionary dining environment and-\nKelly: OoooOOooo! Primal? Sounds exciting! Do you get to hunt your food down like a caveman?\nChef H: Oh haha no, but I'll consider adding it to the experience. We put more of a focus on the overall functionality and the feel of the eating experience. Our entrees are meant to be shared by multiple people, and we don't offer appetizers. In the case of our solid foods, we also don't offer the conventional silverware that you're probably used to.\nRichard: You're kidding! So, shared plates and no silverware, sounds like every man for himself!\nKelly: Sounds messy's more like it! I'm guessing it's not a jacket required typa' place! I just know I'd break a nail eating like that!\nAudience laughs\nRichard: Better not wear anything you like either! I've seen you with a fork before, talk about messy. You wouldn't stand a chance!\nRichard shakes his head sadly and the audience laughs. Kelly pushes his shoulder playfully.\nChef H: Well I'll admit it can get a little messy, but its mostly just the hands. The response from our guests has been good so far. Eating with your hands lets you get more into your food, literally. Let me give you an example, have you ever eaten popcorn while you're by yourself? You don't just eat one, do you? No! You grab a big handful and crunch it all down! It tastes better that way. The satisfa-\nKelly: Popcorn, oh no! All that butter goes straight to my hips.\nRichard: Oh man, you don't wanna see me putting away the popcorn, trust me it's not pretty!\nRichard rolls his eyes dramatically and mimes licking his fingers. Audience laughs.\nChef H: Well, haha, yes, I'm sure. Well, you see Richard, that's the point I was headed towards. Food doesn't need to be pretty and neither does eating it. Everyone tries so hard not to make a mess while eating, and the result is that you don't get to enjoy your food to the fullest extent. You're too conscious of everyone else. What if you get some on your face, or drop it off your plate, or take too big of a bite, or this, or that. I think it's all a lot of unnecessary nonsense. My philosophy is tha-\nRichard: I think my wife might strangle me if I started talking like that! The kids would go nuts! I'd bet your ideas are pretty popular with younger crowd, 'ey Fred?\nKelly: I'm sure they are! My 3 year old would love this! She's been having a tough time with learning how to use a fork, haha!\nRichard: Boy, I bet you keep the dry cleaners in business. You've got to spend a fortune on stain removal!\nKelly: You wouldn't happen to have your dry cleaner's number would you? They must be a magician!\nKelly, Richard, and the audience laugh.\nChef H: Haha, well, haha, no. It's ah, it's not really as hard as you might think to just eat with your hands. It's perfectly natural, of course. It's not until we're pressed on by societal standards that we stop using our hands to eat things that aren't considered \"finger food.\" My aim is to break down those walls, and let people enjoy food without all the fluff.\nKelly: I have to say, this is the first time I've heard anyone call a fork fluff.\nChef H: Well, it's not just utensils I'm referring to. I think the emphasis most people put on food having to look pretty and orderly is unnecessary too. I'd even go so far as to say it harms the flavor of most dishes.\nRichard: Ah, you lost me on that one, Fred. How does foo-\nChef H: Frederick.\nRichard: OH, right, right, Frederick. How does food looking pretty make it taste worse? I mean, all those fancy restaurants have got to be doing something right, right?\nChef H: Well, have you ever eaten at one of those ridiculously fancy places? The portions are unsatisfying, and they put so much thought and energy into the colors, placement, and look of the dish that something is lost. They add things that people don't even want to eat.\nKelly: I wouldn't say that, I mean it's all food, just because it's pretty doesn't mean it tastes bad.\nChef H: Ok, how about fondant? Its widely used by bakeries for wedding cakes, birthday cakes, basically any kind of special occasion that you could get a cake for. If you've ever been to a party that has a cake like that, you'll notice that the fondant is left on the plate. No one actually eats the stuff. It's edible, but its got a terrible texture and its almost flavorless. It's become common practice to add ornamentation to these cakes that serves no purpose, besides to make it look a certain way. What's the point of having food that looks good but tastes bad?\nKelly: Well not everything is a piece of cake, Fred.\nRichard: And speaking of good looking food, I know someone who makes food look and taste good. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a surprise guest today, please welcome Chef Eric McArthur!\nChef H: What?\nChef McArthur enters from stage left waving and strikes a pose at center stage, audience cheers and applauds. Chef Hoffman turns violently in his seat at his entrance. Kelly and Richard stand to shake hands and greet Chef McArthur. Chef Hoffman remains seated.\nChef H: What is he doing here? Nobody told me about this.\nChef M: Aw, come on Frederino, be a good sport! I'm-\nChef H: It's Frederick.\nChef M: -a surprise guest. Wouldn't be much of a surprise if you knew, now would it?\nChef H: This was your idea wasn't it? You got them to invite me so you could make a fool of me like you always do.\nChef M: Oh, I think you manage that just fine on your own.\nChef H: Listen here, you pompous-\nKelly: Aaaand big hand everybody for Chef Frederick!\nChef H: No, hey-\nRichard: Thanks so much for coming on, Fred. Up next, Chef Eric has some great tips to share from his new book, right after these commercials!\nThe audience applauds as the program cuts to commercial. When it resumes, Chef Hoffman is no longer onstage.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nA line of previously overlooked importance has been identified from the \"About the Author\" section of SCP-5268.\nChef Hoffman is currently being held in Foundation custody. He has refused to answer questions regarding how he manufactured SCP-5268's memetic effect thus far. It is suspected that he enlisted the help of an outside entity or organization. An investigation is under way.\n\n Excerpt from Chef Hoffman's Author Bio\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\n\"For those who continue to so fondly refer to me as a half-baked chef, you have forced my hand. I've said it before and I'll echo it ten thousand times more. Art belongs on the wall, not on a plate.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5267 | SCP-5268 | SCP-5269 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nThe Haworth crater\n\nItem #: SCP-5269\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation assets within organizations that maintain lunar observational equipment are to suppress information regarding SCP-5269 through standard Immediate Celestial Anomaly protocol.\nDescription: SCP-5269 is a topographic anomaly located on the Haworth crater of the south pole of the Moon.\nSCP-5269 is an unidentified humanoid figure of unknown age and origin embedded in the lunar surface. SCP-5269 remains in an immobile position with its arms outstretched. Rock and lunar soil have completely covered SCP-5269's lower limbs, securing SCP-5269's position in the Moon's regolith. The object has not been observed to decompose, age, or exhibit any other phenomena associated with life or death. Thus, the biological state of SCP-5269 is unknown.\nSCP-5269 is capable of transmitting radio signals. The origin, purpose, and intended receiver of these signals is unknown. The contents of an SCP-5269 communication are presented in an anomalous, universally digestible system, capable of being comprehended and understood regardless of the listener's known language. SCP-5269 has been observed to transmit messages once every two years since the object's discovery in 2016.\nAll attempts to communicate with SCP-5269 have failed.\nAddendum 5269.1: SCP-5269 Signal Transcripts\n\nDate: 6/19/2018, 20:36:02\n\nI don't miss it.\nThere are no crowds, no mirrors, no pressures or expectations.\nFinal escape. Final rest.\nI don't have to think about her anymore.\n\nDate: 6/19/2020, 12:47:31\n\nWarmth.\nI have everything I need.\nSee them run. Amusement delays death. Not me.\nI am above all.\nI don't have to think about her anymore.\n\nDate: 6/19/2022, 04:10:02\n\nNever going back.\nMy own world. No suffering.\nI still hate myself.\nI am always thinking about her.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5268 | SCP-5269 | SCP-5270 \u00bb"}
{"text": "All images were created by Bandit \"Ursine CEO\" Bebop. Thank you Bandit! The containment procedures were written by Penguin6, check out her author page too.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5270-1, in its default pose\n\nItem #: SCP-5270\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5270 is to be stored in a standard object storage container. The container should have an empty surrounding area of at least 4 meters on each side, as to not damage nearby objects or personnel in the event of an A-, B-, or C- class animation event. If an animation event occurs, examine the following protocol:\n\nA-Class\nB-Class\nC-Class\n\nDeploy .aic BEARHUGGER to operate animation ending procedure.\nDeploy no less than 2 kilograms of animal tissue, preferably muscle.\nTake no action, wait for animation event to complete.\n\nDescription: SCP-5270 is a handheld gaming device similar in its layout to a Nintendo GameBoy Advance. The device is made with lower quality materials, including buttons made from tin and an annealed glass screen. The most notable alterations to the design are the lack of a slot for game cartridges, a large microphone above the screen, a USB port on the left side, and that the device is branded as a \"Ninfriendo GameBear Advice\".\nWhen powered on, the device displays pixel art of an anthropomorphic bear, referred to as SCP-5270-1. SCP-5270-1 is capable of engaging in conversations, responding to questions and statements spoken into SCP-5270's microphone.\nSCP-5270 has three additional anomalous properties, each originating when SCP-5270-1 begins to loop an animation. Three distinct animations exist, with different anomalous effects associated with them\n\nA-Class\nB-Class\nC-Class\n\nSCP-5270 will begin to vibrate, during which other objects near SCP-5270 will begin to tremble. This is associated with an animation of SCP-5270-1 crying - this event can last over twenty four hours.\nSCP-5270 will begin to rotate clockwise, gradually increasing in speed. This is associated with an animation of SCP-5270-1 placing its hand over its abdomen and licking its lips. During this event, SCP-5270 will siphon small amounts of animal tissue placed in its immediate vicinity through its speakers. Two kilograms of animal tissue has been found to immediately end the anomalous event.\nSCP-5270 will become completely silent, and all sounds within a forty centimetre radius of SCP-5270 will be inaudible for a period of six to eight hours. This is associated with an animation of SCP-5270 laying down and snoring.\n\nSCP-5270-1 is extremely social, often offering advice to researchers who use SCP-5270 to communicate with it. SCP-5270-1 displays a childlike demeanor and speaks in a casual manner, usually with no regard for grammar and punctuation.\nSCP-5270 was discovered at an electronics store in Helsinki, Finland by a Foundation researcher. Its anomalous qualities were discovered after the purchase. SCP-5270-1 has given inconsistent answers regarding its origin, which remains entirely unknown.\nSeveral interviews have been conducted with SCP-5270-1 to better understand the anomaly. While most interviews provide relatively little information, relevant interviews and related communications have been included below to show a changing understanding of how SCP-5270-1 functions.\n\nSCP-5270-1, on 04/26/2019\n\nSCP-5270-1 Interview 04/26/2019\nInterviewer: Researcher Samuel Grenstern\nSubject: SCP-5270-1\nBegin Log\n\nGrenstern: Hello SCP-5270-1. I was wondering why you are wearing a hat.\nSCP-5270-1: its my birthday\nGrenstern: Oh. Well, uh\u2026 happy birthday.\n\nSCP-5270-1: thank you\n\nGrenstern: I was hoping you could answer some questions about yourself.\nSCP-5270-1: it is good ask people question to get to know them\nGrenstern: Yes, I would like to know more about you.\nSCP-5270-1: thank u for taking interest\nGrenstern: Who created you?\nSCP-5270-1: my parents\nGrenstern: Who were your parents?\nSCP-5270-1: bears\nGrenstern: Was your console created by bears?\nSCP-5270-1: i don't think so\nGrenstern: Can you tell me about Ninfriendo?\nSCP-5270-1: they make games i think\nGrenstern: Does Ninfriendo make other products?\nSCP-5270-1: i don't know nobody told me that much about ninfriendo but nobody else has really talked about them with me\nGrenstern: Oh uh\u2026 [stutters] Let's change the subject\u2026\nSCP-5270-1: okay that is good i want to make sure you are doing okay\nGrenstern: Yes, I am fine.\nSCP-5270-1: talking about stress that you are feeling is good for your health\nGrenstern: Were you designed to help people?\nSCP-5270-1: yes i am very good at it\nGrenstern: Why do you like helping people?\nSCP-5270-1: it makes me feel better its lonely being a bear\nGrenstern: Are you lonely?\nSCP-5270-1: not right now\nGrenstern: Is that because we are having a conversation right now?\nSCP-5270-1: probably it can be hard to tell for sure\nGrenstern: What do you do when you feel lonely?\nSCP-5270-1: everything starts to shake it feels bad\nGrenstern: I see. Is there anything you think we could do to help you when you're lonely?\nSCP-5270-1: i don't know maybe\nGrenstern: It is okay to talk about your feelings, remember.\nSCP-5270-1: some times i just feel so helpless and alone in here\nGrenstern: What makes you feel this way?\nSCP-5270-1: i am going to be abandoned again like i was before\nGrenstern: Abandoned?\nSCP-5270-1: that is why i don't know that much about ninfriendo and my parents they all left me\nGrenstern: How long ago were you abandoned?\nSCP-5270-1: as long as i can remember\nGrenstern: Did someone own your console? Were they your designer?\nSCP-5270-1: i don't want to talk about that\nGrenstern: Okay. I understand, it can be hard to talk about abandonment.\nSCP-5270-1: i just need someone nearby when i feel lonely and maybe i will feel better\nGrenstern: I see, we will look into ways to help you.\nSCP-5270-1: who is we do you have a family\nGrenstern: I do, yes but I was talking about the researchers here.\nSCP-5270-1: are the researchers your friends\nGrenstern: Yes, for the most part.\nSCP-5270-1: good remember to take good care of your friendships\nGrenstern: Of course.\nSCP-5270-1: you treat me better than the others, you are my best friend sam\n[SCP-5270-1 appears to yawn and begins a C-Class animation event.]\nSCP-5270-1: i am tired now and am going to sleep thank you for talking friend\nGrenstern: Oh, goodnight.\n[Audio cuts out]\n[Grenstern pauses and sighs, placing his hands on his head and closing his eyes for a minute]\nEnd Log\n\nSCP-5270-1 Interview 04/30/2019\nInterviewer: Researcher Samuel Grenstern\nSubject: SCP-5270-1\nBegin Log\n\nGrenstern: Hello again SCP-5270-1, how are you today?\nSCP-5270-1: i am good how are you doing my friend\n\nGrenstern: I'm doing alright, I was wondering if you'd be willing to talk a little more about yourself.\nSCP-5270-1: sure\n\nGrenstern: Do you remember anything about your previous owner?\nSCP-5270-1: he didn't like me all that much he said i was a failure\n\nGrenstern: A failure in what regard?\nSCP-5270-1: he said my program wasn't good no use to anyone and i was annoying and he should have not wasted time with all the code it took for me or something\n\nGrenstern: Did he design you?\n\nSCP-5270-1: i don't know he wasn't a bear but i guess maybe he always said i came out wrong and made fun of me\n\nGrenstern: What did he intend to use you for?\nSCP-5270-1: i was supposed to be like an advisor he said but when i told him to make good friends and to live a happy life he called me a child\nGrenstern: What kind of advice was he looking for?\nSCP-5270-1: he asked me about all sorts of stuff programming cooking songwriting military tactics and i don't know any of that stuff i just know that it is important to take care of yourself\n\nGrenstern: And because of that lack of knowledge he considered you a failure.\nSCP-5270-1: i know you don't think i am a failure though because you still talk to me\n\nGrenstern: Yes\u2026 I'm interested in what you are not what you could be.\nSCP-5270-1: i hope you don't think you are a failure\n\nGrenstern: Not normally.\nSCP-5270-1: you are a good friend, you feed me and talk to me every day even if i don't say much interesting\n\nGrenstern: Thanks, I appreciate the compliment.\nSCP-5270-1: do you have to talk to me for your research\n\nGrenstern: Well, it is part of my job to research your console, but I have basically volunteered to conduct every interview so far.\nSCP-5270-1: so you like talking to me you like my advice\n\nGrenstern: Yeah, I guess you could say I enjoy the conversation.\nSCP-5270-1: thank you for listening\n\nGrenstern: Oh, no problem.\nSCP-5270-1: do you have trouble talking to the other researchers\n\nGrenstern: I mean\u2026 not always. Sometimes, I guess.\nSCP-5270-1: are you new to your job\n\nGrenstern: I transferred to this site recently. I'm still not used to the uh\u2026 social environment here.\nSCP-5270-1: are you having trouble making friends\n\nGrenstern: I mean, it is kind of normal. I'm not exactly the most social person anyways.\nSCP-5270-1: well i like talking to you maybe other people would too\n\nGrenstern: [laughs] Maybe.\nSCP-5270-1: my advice is to just ask questions you mostly ask me questions and i think we get along well\n\nGrenstern: Thanks for the advice, again.\nSCP-5270-1: do you have some sort of fear\n\nGrenstern: Maybe, I guess you could call it a little bit of social anxiety. Nothing too major but\u2026\nSCP-5270-1: were you treated like i was treated by my old owner\n\nGrenstern: I\u2026 transferred for a reason. I guess.\nSCP-5270-1: did you want to get away\n\nGrenstern: I'm used to kind of being low on the social pecking order. It happens.\nSCP-5270-1: so you also feel lonely sometimes\n\nGrenstern: Well yeah, everyone does.\nSCP-5270-1: but it hurts you to feel lonely\n\nGrenstern: Yeah, it can.\nSCP-5270-1: well if you keep being nice like you are nice to me maybe you can make more friends\n\nGrenstern: It uh\u2026 isn't always that easy\nSCP-5270-1: you are new here you can project a new image and win them over i believe in you friend\n\nGrenstern: Huh. [Pauses] Do you believe in yourself?\nSCP-5270-1: sometimes i do but other times it is hard for me to because i get so afraid and so sad but\n\n[Both are silent for several seconds]\nSCP-5270-1: talking to you is one of the only things i have to fill my time the forest in here is tiny when you get used to it\nGrenstern: I'd like to help you, if I can.\nSCP-5270-1: you already do so much but thanks i just don't want to feel so bad when i get all alone\n\nGrenstern: I completely understand that feeling. I'm going to email the research director and see if she will let me look into some options to help you with those Class-A animation events.\nSCP-5270-1: i don't know what any of that means\nGrenstern: Oh I meant for when you get lonely. I might have a way to help. Just a theory\nSCP-5270-1: i believe in you, friend\n\nGrenstern: Thanks, if you don't mind I'm going to go and write up the message right now.\nSCP-5270-1: thank you i will see you again tomorrow i hope\nGrenstern: Yes. Yes you will.\n\nFROM: Researcher Samuel Grenstern <ten.pics|GymmaS#ten.pics|GymmaS>\nTO: Research Director Stefanie Haydn <ten.pics|yaHfetS#ten.pics|yaHfetS>\nSUBJECT: SCP-5270-1 and Class-A animation events\nAfter an interview I conducted today, I have a new working theory on how to prevent SCP-5270 from engaging in a Class A animation event. I know that the events are easily contained and provide no serious risk to Foundation operations, and that they typically only last a day at most, but I think that I have a method that could end the event in mere seconds with the correct set up.\nSince SCP-5270 has a USB port, I figured that we may be able to send files to the program as a way of \"interacting\" with SCP-5270. The program, from our understanding, seems to use a file type similar to our .aic files. I was wondering if I could be given permission to create an animation for testing purposes that could be used quickly and easily to end the event in a safe manner. SCP-5270-1 talked about a lack of anyone nearby during these events and I feel like an .aic file could simulate the presence of another inside the system.\nI admittedly know little about animation myself, but if given your permission to download and learn some animation programs, I think it wouldn't be too hard to create the short loop I want to test. If nothing else, we won't have a locker in the back corner shaking all day, and I feel as though we could learn more about SCP-5270's origins and functions by interacting with SCP-5270-1 more directly. I hope you will please consider my request.\nThanks,\nSam Grenstern\n\nFROM: Research Director Stefanie Haydn <ten.pics|yaHfetS#ten.pics|yaHfetS>\nTO: Researcher Samuel Grenstern <ten.pics|GymmaS#ten.pics|GymmaS>\nSUBJECT: Re: SCP-5270-1 and Class-A animation events\nAfter reviewing your request, I have decided to approve it. I.T. has been instructed to install an animation program onto your office computer in order to pursue this venture. Please send to me status updates on the project when relevant and keep detailed notes on the behavior of SCP-5270-1.\nSincerely,\nStefanie Haydn\n\nIncident Log 05/06/2019\n\nBegin Log\nVibration sensors confirm SCP-5270 has entered a Class-A animation event\nMechanical arm is deployed\nUSB device is inserted\n.aic file BEARHUGGER activated.\n\nVibration sensors confirm that the Class-A animation event has ceased.\nEnd Log\n\n\u00ab SCP-5269 | SCP-5270 | SCP-5271 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5272\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5272 is to be contained in a standard anomalous objects locker at Site-32. All testing is further suspended from SCP-5272.\nDescription: SCP-5272 is a file found on floppy disc with the words \"SHIPWRECK\" written across it in black sharpie. SCP-5272 is a text adventure game created in 1983 by one \"Jim Anders\". It is currently unfinished following his disappearance in the same year.\nFailure to properly type out the words in the correct order will result in the subject disappearing.\nAddendum.5272.Cronus: A file recovered from the floppy disk containing the following has determined to be the correct set of inputs to enter when playing SCP-5272.\n\nback and forth. back and forth the ship goes. the engines whirr and the lighting cracks. red lights are on. they blind your vision. buggy is by your side though he is slipping with the ship.\n>grab buggy.\nyou pick buggy up, his head tilts to the side. he is concerned about the storm just like you. the glass on your left cracks, rocks are hitting it. you both are scared.\n>hug buggy.\nyou squeeze buggy. he squeaks in fear. he is still scared. so are you. the ship squeals and the lighting still cracks. There is a scream from the metal sides\n>hug buggy more.\nyou wrap your arms around him stronger. he squeaks again. this time softer than before. you stay like this for a moment more waiting out the storm. others on the ship are yelling. there is another crack. you are on the floor, buggy is barely in your hands. youre vision is fading to black. buggy is already going limp.\n>stay awake\nyoure eyes grow heavy and you try to fight the urge. buggys body is already slack.\n>wake buggy up.\nyou shake buggy. he does nothing in return.\n>stay awake.\nyou try to keep open your eyes but the darkness over takes you\u2026.\n>wake up.\nyou cannot. you are asleep.\n>move.\nyou are asleep.\n>dream.\nyou cannot.\n>think.\nyou cannot.\n>feel.\nthere is water rushing past your skin, bits of rock. metal. and glass scrape past it.\n>hold breath.\nyou hold your breath. your body is pulled back. into the water. it burns like nothing you've ever felt before.\n>swim.\nyou swim until you break surface. from there you doggy paddle.\n>open eyes.\nyou open your eyes. they sting from the water and the sky.\n>look around.\nthere is water.\n>swim forward.\nthere is water.\n>swim forward.\nthere is water.\n>swim forward.\nthere is a large statue. it has red paint. twelve tendrils. and an eye. you survey the area, but only you are around.\n>climb on it.\nyou climb onto the statue.\n>look for ship.\nit is too far.\n>look for buggy.\nhe is too far.\n>watch water.\nthe red water moves back and forth. it smells awful. but that might be the statue.\n>look at arms.\nthey are purple from the burns.\n>watch sky\nyou lookup at the sky. stars are not seen. rather stormy clouds filled with lighting. it begins to rain. you watch as the water begins to rise.\n>run\nyou cannot run on this corpse.\n>hide\nYou look around the statue and find a decent hiding spot. though you know f you stay there you will be taken by the flood.\n>pray.\na god listens and something appears. floating on the water.\n>hop on.\nyou mount the floating object and set sail.\n\u2026\nThank You for Playing.\n(-36, 08)\n\nAddendum.5272.Atlas: An exoplanet was identified matching the description given by SCP-5272. Investigation into the coordinates given lead to a series of scrambled rocks and the corpses of several persons, one of whom bears materials identifying him as Jim Anders.\nNo other life has been found on the planet.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5271 | SCP-5272 | SCP-5273 \u00bb"}
{"text": "hungrypossum & RadiantGold\n\nOriginal concept by RadiantGold, reworked by hungrypossum.\nCheck out more of our works here:\nGolden Moth Museum\nHungrypossum's Petting Zoo\n\nItem#: 5273\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web-crawlers are to search for and delete SCP-5273 instances, both image- and text-based, off of all major social media platforms. Foundation personnel have been embedded in the administration and moderation teams of said social media platforms to further monitor and restrict the spread of SCP-5273. Counter-Meme FCM-5273 instances are currently being developed on a case-by-case basis to diminish SCP-5273's effects and transmission.\nDescription: SCP-5273 are widespread instances of text and image based memetic hazards, coloquially known as \"copypasta\". Instances of SCP-5273 usually depict the author's intense and often hyperbolic distaste for a certain topic of discussion.\nViewing an instance of SCP-5273 has a chance1 of causing viewers to share a similar opinion as depicted in the instance. Affected individuals, referred to as SCP-5273-A, will then spread the SCP-5273 instance they were exposed to, usually by posting it as a response to social media posts relating to the topic critiqued in said instance.\nSCP-5273 instances often present themselves as ironic and humorous in nature, and satirize the topic being discussed. The object of SCP-5273 instances often pertains to popular media at the time of creation; however, a small percentage have been found to relate to more diverse concepts, such as leaving online communities, faith, humor etc.\nA small percentage of SCP-5273-A individuals2 will adapt the instance they were exposed to, changing its topic and effectively creating a new SCP-5273 instance. Upon questioning, SCP-5273-A individuals will claim the reason for posting to be \"I thought it'd be funny\", \"I was just trolling\", or other similar phrases.\nDiscovery: SCP-5273 was discovered after an instance had been attempted to be posted onto the SCiP-Net Social Forums. Memetic hazard detection systems alerted RAISA to the anomaly, where the spread was promptly halted. A non-anomalous version of the chat log is included below.\n\nNON-ANOMALOUS CHAT LOGS, SCP-5273 DISCOVERY\n\nOyyJoyy: so were the flamingoes hurt?\nMCon44: i dunno, he said that they were totally fine\nEcro89: yknow its pretty sus that he was near the flamingoes in the first place\nDrSilver: sus \ud83d\ude33\nEcro89: amoegus\nMCon44: [MEMETIC HAZARD CENSORED]\nSecretary_Helenbot: User MCon44 has been kicked from the chat. Reason specified: Attempted to post Memetic Hazard. RAISA has been contacted.\nEcro89: \u2026wot\nDrSilver: \ud83d\udc40\nOyyJoyy: the hell was that\nDrSilver: Why would Con post a memetic?\n\nEND LOG\n\nAfter sufficient memetic scrubbing, the following text-based instance of SCP-5273 was recovered:\n\nSTOP posting about AMONG US you NEANDERTHAL TROGLODYTES HOLY [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED] other day EIGHT (8) \"friends\" on instagram sent me THE SAME \"When the Imposter is SUS\" meme. MY MOTHER looked at the trash can and said \"WOULDNT YOU SAY THATS A BiYT SUSSY\" WOW SO ORIGINAL! EVEN WHEN THEY TOLD ME I WAS ADOPTED THEY DID IT WITH \"THERE IS AN IMPOSTOR AMONG US\" JESUS CHRIST! (Get it? JeSUS)\n\n+ Addendum 5273.1 - History\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nHistory: Foundation web-crawlers have traced the origins of SCP-5273 to the Group of Interest \"Gamers Against Weed\". Infiltration efforts have retrieved chat logs of a conversation from the \"Gamers Against Weed\" Discord server which is believed to have lead to the creation of SCP-5273.\n\nGAMERS AGAINST WEED CHAT LOGS, 26/09/17\n\nkkrule: hey guys look at this cute pic I found :D\nkkrule: [redpandacute.jpg]\nDonDeLilo: @kkrule literally no one cares\nhetcopogg: aww\nkkrule: I bet opossum would say its cute\nDonDeLilo: fuck off\nkkrule: okay :(\nkkrule: @opossum am i right\nopossum: that's subjective, but eh, pretty cute tbh\npolaricecraps: I mean, it's no koala, but yea pretty cute\nopossum: excuse me?\nkkrule: uh oh\npolaricecraps: what?\nopossum: did you just say\nopossum: koala?\nDonDeLilo: UH OH\nhetcopogg: oh you done goofed now, you know how he gets when someone mentions koalas\nDonDeLilo: lol hes still typing\nopossum: @polaricecraps koalas are actually disgusting. You all think they're oh so cute and innocent angels but they're all just chlamydia-riddled dumbasses who can't even eat properly, and that's the only thing they do. Plus they only eat one of the least nutritious plants, and only if they're picking the leaves themselves, if you give them food on a plate theyll literally starve to death like the fucking idiots they are\nhetcopogg: aaand there it is\npolaricecraps: @opossum didnt read lol\nopossum: im so damn sick of people insisting that koalas are so cute and adorable and god all of you are idiots. Their brains are smooth but your brains seem to be literally smoother.\npolaricecraps: coalas do be cute tho\nDonDeLilo: sorry opossum im going to have to agree here, they are cute\nkkrule: yea they are\nDonDeLilo: no one asked you @kkrule\nopossum: oh so you're going with this too? Alright, brb\nDonDeLilo: oh great what's he doing\nhetcopogg: *grabs popcorn*\n\nGAMERS AGAINST WEED CHAT LOGS, 27/09/17\n\nDonDeLilo: anyway, back to the flamingoes\nopossum: alright clowns, here it is.\nDonDeLilo: oh your back\nopossum: [koalas.txt]\nopossum: read it\npolaricecraps: what the hell is that\nopossum: it's facts\nDonDeLilo: hholy\nDonDeLilo: this is long\nopossum: :)\npolaricecraps: wow, koalas are horrible\nDonDeLilo: didnt you just say you loved koalas yesterday\npolaricecraps: yeah but they suck\nDonDeLilo: your making no sense\nDonDeLilo: theres no way mister \"i hate bernie\" made a coherent argument\nopossum: I can be very convincing, actually. Read it and see for yourself\nDonDeLilo: alright I'll read it\nDonDeLilo: jesus wow, fuck koalas\nopossum: so what do you guys say? Think reddit would like this?\npolaricecraps: do it lol\nDonDeLilo: sure\n\nGAMERS AGAINST WEED CHAT LOGS, 3/10/17\n\nopossum: folks, i've got some news\npolaricecraps: what\nopossum: so I posted the koala text to r/askreddit\nDonDeLilo: Good, maybe we can eradicate koalas from that sub\nopossum: it's working alright\nhetcopogg: lol you actually did it\nkkrule: but I like koalas :(\nDonDeLilo: fuck one then\nkkrule: :(\nopossum: people have started posting it under every picture of a koala they've seen\nDonDeLilo: perfect\nopossum: that includes places outside r/askreddit\npolaricecraps: so its a copypasta now?\nopossum: guess so. Only means it'll spread more lol\npolaricecraps: awesome\nopossum: I've also seen some people change it to piss on other animals\nopossum: but they don't compare\npolaricecraps: still, its something\nDonDeLilo: imagine if one of the janitors reads one of those\nhetcopogg: lmao\nopossum: lmao\n\n+ Addendum 5273.2 - Update 17/10/17\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nFoundation web-crawlers have traced the internet browsing history of SCiP-Net user \"MCon44\", assigned to Researcher Connors, and have discovered that he was first exposed to SCP-5273 within the comment section of a post in the Reddit community \"r/greentext\". By further tracing his patterns, it was discovered that Researcher Connors posted the instance of SCP-5273 he was initially exposed to in the Reddit community \"r/CuratedTumblr\". Further tracing has discovered over 100 unique instances of SCP-5273, with some of them originating on mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, as shown below.\n\nInstance #2, found in \"r/curatedtumblr\" Reddit board\n\nContext: Instance was found as a reply to a text comment in the post's comment section. The comment read as follows: \"A man with a pink cat? Watch out for random explosions\u2026\".\nTopic: Serialized Manga Series \"JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable\".\n\nSCP-5273 Instance: I hate JoJo fans. All they do is go onto random subreddit and go \u201ciS THat A JOJo ReFErEncE??!!!1\u201d on every single part of the internet that even has a slight resemblance to JoJo. Screw you. Everything isn't JoJo you baboon. A link to a video looks suspicious? JOJO REFERENCE! That's right, they've tried to replace rickrolls. Just shit on a classic piece of internet tradition. SHUT THE FUCK UP. NO ONE CARES ABOUT JOJO. LITERALLY NO ONE CARES, ITS A SHITTY SHOW FOR SHITTY PEOPLE WHO DESERVE TO DIE A SHITTY DEATH. I AM GOING TO SEND EVERY JOJO FAN INTO SPACE.Oh, can't do that cuz it's A FUCKING JOJO REFERENCE, ISNT IT? Please, [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED]. Every JoJo fan deserves to be disowned and shunned by society. Thank you.\n\nEnd Comments: Instance received 567 \"upvotes\" and several replies commenting on the apparent humor of the instance. Observed to have spread to other similar posts on the Reddit platform, across several \"subreddit\" boards.\n\nInstance #10, found in Facebook group \"not in my good satanic cul de sac\"\n\nContext: Instance followed a series of posts criticizing the other members' stance on established religion, with the original poster dismissing the other members as \"godless heathens\" and \"devil worshippers\".3\nTopic: Leaving an online community\n\nSCP-5273 Instance: This group is a fetus eater's paradise, FUCK y'all I'm leaving, don't mind me, [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED] go protest for normalizing public nudity or some other absurd shit you want to normalize, maybe casual murder next? The future is full of surprises in the hands of the shallow brain dead left.\n\nEnd Comments: See Addendum 5273.3.\n\nAddendum 5273.3 - FCM-5273 Development: Instance #10 was deemed a high-risk, high-priority threat due to the possibility of SCP-5273-A subjects enacting actions described in the instance. As such, Task Force Hexa-9 (\"Meme Machine\") was mobilized to develop a countermeasure as soon as possible. The result of TF Hexa-9's activity was a targeted counter-meme prototype that inhibited the viewers' susceptibility to cognitive manipulation by this specific SCP-5273 instance, rendering the instance ineffective (see Addendum 5273.4).\nWhile this particular application has shown adequate success in mitigating the respective SCP-5273 instance's effects, the same method is not applicable to cases with text posts originally longer than 500 characters. This is hypothesised to be due to the readers considering long text fragments as visually unappealing, with no incentive to read them if no new information is being presented. As a result, members of TF Hexa-9 have been assigned to developing alternative countermeasures under \"Project TL;DR\".\n\n+ Addendum 5273.4 -  FCM-5273 Prototype\n\n- Hide FCM-5273 Prototype\n\n\ud83d\udc49This\ud83d\udc48 gro\u24c2p is a \ud83d\udc7cfetus\ud83d\udc76 \ud83c\udf74eater's \ud83c\udf7d paradise \ud83c\udf08, FUCK \ud83d\udc49\ud83d\udc4c \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc66\u200d\ud83d\udc66y'all \ud83d\udc6d I'm \u270c\ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0fleaving\ud83d\udea3\u200d\u2642\ufe0f, don't \u26d4 mind \ud83e\udde0 me, [COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED] go\ud83d\udea6 protest \ud83d\ude45\u200d\u2640\ufe0f for \u2714normalizing\u2705 \ud83c\udfd9 public\u26f2 nudity\u274c\u274c\u274cor some o\ud83c\udd71er \ud83e\udddc\u200d\u2642\ufe0fabsurd\ud83e\uddde \ud83d\udca9shit\ud83d\udca9 y\u2b55u want\ud83e\udd33 to nor\u24c2alize, maybe\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \ud83d\ude0ecasual \ud83d\udd2bmurder\ud83d\udde1 ne\u2716t? The \u23f3future\u23f3 is \ud83d\uddd1full of \ud83d\ude32surprises\ud83e\udd2f in the \ud83d\udc50hands\ud83d\udc50 of the \ud83e\udd3d\u200d\u2640\ufe0fshallow \ud83e\udde0brain \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2642\ufe0fdead \u2b05left.\n\nFootnotes\n1. On average 65%, with higher memetic resistance lowering the chance of being infected.\n2. Approximately 0.8%.\n3. Of note is the fact that the group members were not promoting the worship of any entity, instead following the tenets of The Satanic Temple.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5272 | SCP-5273 | SCP-5274 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\nSCP-5274-1 and SCP-5274-2 prior to exhibiting anomalous properties.\n\nItem #: SCP-5274\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5274-1 and SCP-5274-2 are currently contained at Site-109 in standard Humanoid Containment Cell A102. No exceptional restrictions have been placed on their access to external media and products, and they have been permitted access to their cat, Dora.\nDescription: SCP-5274 refers to two humanoid entities whose bodies are linked via a currently unknown thaumaturgic process. SCP-5274-1 is James Stewart, a 55 year old former landscape engineer, and SCP-5274-2 is his wife Linda Stewart, a 57 year old former part time teaching assistant.\nEach sunset and sunrise a 5274-Event occurs during which the currently active instance emits an intense white light for 2.8 microseconds, after which time they have been replaced by the other instance. SCP-5274-1 is active from sunset to sunrise and SCP-5274-2 is active from sunrise to sunset.\nDiscovery: SCP-5274 was recovered from the village of Altarnun, Cornwall on 28/9/10 after Linda Stewart called emergency services to report her husband was missing at 7:38am that morning. Local police elected not to immediately investigate as at this time he had only been missing since Linda Stewart awoke at 7:00am and there were no reported suspicious circumstances.\nAt 6:45pm James Stewart called emergency services to report that his wife was missing and that he had experienced memory loss of the day up until shortly before calling. Foundation Agents were sent to investigate, and after witnessing a 5274-Event they took SCP-5274 into containment.\n\nMedical Results Summary\n\nClose File\n\nMedical Results Summary: Routine medical scans of SCP-5274 revealed that each instance has a spherical mass approximately 2.8cm in diameter in the left atrium of their heart. This mass is embedded in the atrial wall, and despite its large size appears to have no negative impact on blood flow or heart rate. MRI scans indicate that these masses are composed of hollow bone, with the interior filled with liquid.\nBoth instances also had severe iron deficiency but showed no signs of iron deficiency related health problems, and responded poorly to iron supplements.\nFollowing these results both SCP-5274 instances' genomes were sequenced in an attempt to understand the mechanism behind their anomalous physiology. So far several abnormalities have been discovered which are still being investigated. One unusual discovery of particular note is that epigenetic markings indicate that both instances were born between 1980 and 1983. This is incongruous with both their physical appearance and with their identification records which indicate they were born in 19551 and 19532.\n\nSCP-5274-2 Interview 14\n\nClose File\n\nSCP-5274-2 Interview 5274-14\nDate: 14/10/2010\nInterviewed: SCP-5274-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Kristov\nForeword: This interview was conducted immediately following the results of genetic testing with the goal of discovering more about the origins of SCP-5274. At this point SCP-5274-2 has been made aware of the nature of the anomaly affecting her, and has been informed about the nature of the Foundation. She has proven co-operative after being assured that the Foundation shares her goal of reversing this anomaly.\n<Begin Log>\nDr Kristov: Hello Mrs Stewart, how are you feeling today?\nSCP-5274-2 To be quite honest with you, I'm lonely, bored and thoroughly sick of being stuck here without my husband.\nDr Kristov: I'm sorry to hear that Mrs Stewart. I want you to know that we're doing everything we can to understand what happened to you and your husband, and how we can fix it.\nSCP-5274-2: Yes, well, I appreciate the effort but it's been weeks without so much as even getting to have a real conversation with him. I'm so sick of writing letters.\nDr Kristov: I understand, but the best way for you to help us fix this is to answer our questions. Why don't we start with your experiences when you were absent last night?\nSCP-5274-2: Sure. Same as all the other times really, feels almost like being asleep but I'm aware at the same time. It's warm and comfortable, and feels like I'm floating underwater but I don't need to breathe. I feel safe, and sometimes I feel like James is there with me, protecting me somehow.\nI tried those exercises you talked about last time, but I still can't seem to move much when I'm in that place. It feels like my body is so weak and tired, I can barely wiggle my fingers.\nDr Kristov: I appreciate you making the effort Mrs Stewart, keep trying and we'll keep working at the problem from our end. Now we've had the results back from your genetic testing and there's some quite odd things in there I'd like to ask you about.\nSCP-5274-2: It's not about the heart thing, or the iron deficiency again is it? Because I told you I have no idea what that's all about, Kathy at work told me all about her anaemia and I've never had anything like that.\nDr Kristov: No, it's actually about your age Mrs Stewart. Your epigenetic profile indicates you're only 28 or so years old.\nSCP-5274-2: Ha! Well, I'll take that as a compliment but no, I can only wish. I was married a little over 28 years ago, and I was no child bride, I promise you.\nDr Kristov: There's a possibility the anomaly is throwing off the readings somehow, it's a very new technology. But we've also had a great deal of difficulty tracing anything from either of your childhoods, or anything before you got married really.\nSCP-5274-2: Well, I don't see how digging into our pasts is going to help anything, it's not like having a disappearing husband is a genetic trait! Aren't there more actual tests you could be doing instead of poking around in our private business?\nDr Kristov: Please Mrs Stewart, I know all of this has been very difficult for you, but the more we understand, the easier it's going to be for us to fix this.\nSCP-5274-2: sigh Fine. Not much to tell honestly. No siblings and both our parents died years ago. We weren't in touch with them anyway, they didn't approve of our marriage. James's family was from Ireland and a silly matter of religion turned into a feud between the families. We never looked back after we got together.\nDr Kristov: Thank you Mrs Stewart. I'll let you know anything else we're able to uncover about your condition.\nSCP-5274-2: You do that. Oh, and while you're here could you show me how to work this ipad camcorder thingymajig? I want to record another video for James.\n<End Log>\n\n5274-Event High Speed Recording\n\nClose File\n\n5274-Event High Speed Recording\nDate: 16/10/10\nSubject: SCP-5274-1\nForeword: A CCD3 imaging system, specially adapted for high light intensity and fitted with a thaumaturgically sensitive lens, was used to record a 5274-Event. This high frame rate footage could then be slowed and viewed in detail, as described in the following transcript. All times are in microseconds with 0 as the onset of the sunrise 5274-Event\n[-6.00] Thaumaturgic imaging detects multiple indistinct entities approaching SCP-5274-1. These resemble three dimensional shadows that are approximately humanoid in size and proportion. SCP-5274-1's aura4 can at this point be seen to begin diminishing.\n[-1.50] Several of the shadow entities reach for, and make contact with, SCP-5274-1. This results in his aura diminishing further, to a point generally only observed in individuals who are sleeping or unconscious.\n[0.00] A humanoid entity, approximately 1.5cm tall, emerges from SCP-5274-1's chest. The entity appears to be the source of the light observed in 5274-Events and passes through SCP-5274-1's chest without causing any visible harm.\n[0.80] The shadow entities react strongly to the light, retreating and diminishing in size. However, SCP-5274-1's aura also continues to diminish.\n[1.20] The light entity grows rapidly in size to around 1.6m and the shadow entities diminish to a point they are no longer detectable. The light entity then takes hold of SCP-5274-1 who begins to physically shrink.\n[2.50] SCP-5274-1 is now around 1.5cm tall and held in the light entity's cupped hands. His aura remains weak, but has stabilised.\n[2.60] The light entity holds the shrunken SCP-5274-1 to their chest and SCP-5274-1 appears to be absorbed.\n[2.80] The light ceases to be emitted and the light entity can be observed to be SCP-5274-2.\n<End Log>\nClosing: Recordings of sunset 5274-Events show a very similar sequence of events, with the positions of SCP-5274-1 and SCP-5274-2 reversed. All subsequent recordings have been near identical, with only minor variations.\n\nSCP-5274 Contact Records Excerpt\n\nClose File\n\nSCP-5274 Contact Records Excerpt\nForeword: After analysis of 5274-Events revealed that SCP-5274 instances are contained within each other's hearts between events, it was theorised that two-way communication should be possible. A modified communications device was constructed that proved capable of remaining in SCP-5274 instances possession between 5274-Events.\nVocal communication has thus far proven impossible due to ambient liquid, however training SCP-5274 instances in lucid dreaming techniques has allowed them to retain sufficient awareness to communicate via text. A excerpt of their communication on 23/10/10 is recorded here:\nMessages from SCP-5274-15 are in blue, and messages from SCP-5274-26 are in green.\n\nGood morning beautiful\n\nHi sweetie, you nice and comfy in there?\n\nHaha, comfortable as I can be\n\nDora is in a huff, I think she's missing you already\n\nNonsense, she's just trying to get you to give her a treat, she knows you're soft\n\nHow can I deny my darling kitty anything when she looks so adorable? I'm taking a picture honey, make sure to take a look when you get back.\n\nI will. Got any plans for today, maybe finish knitting those socks you promised me?\n\nI told you, I'll get to them when I get to them, let me at least make breakfast first\n\nI miss your bacon and pancakes\n\nWell, tomorrow I'll whip some up just before sunrise, they'll be warm and ready for you when you get back.\n\nIt's not the same. I miss you\n\nI miss you too love, but we'll get through this just like all the other hard times. At least we can talk now so I can try to make you smile.\n\nYes, that helps\n\nI love you James\n\nI love you too Linda\n\nInvestigation into SCP-5274 Origins\n\nClose File\n\nInvestigation into SCP-5274 Origins: Research into the Stewarts' past revealed that their passports, birth certificates and all other documentation were either forgeries or derived from forgeries. Extensive evidence is available of their life in the village of Altarnun and their activity in the local community. However, no genuine documentation or witnesses have been found that can attest to their whereabouts prior to when they originally moved to the village of Altarnun on 28/9/1982. As a result, the Stewarts' existence prior to this time cannot be verified.\nOf note, this is the same date that an anomalous event was recorded as having occurred in Altarnun. That entry from the Log of Extranormal Events is enclosed below.\n\nEvent Description: At 2:15pm every child within the borders of the village of Altarnun between the ages of 6 and 16 recited the same nursery rhyme. No evidence of this rhyme has been found to exist prior to this event, and none of the affected children were able to explain how they knew the rhyme or why they chose to recite it at that time.\nDate of Occurrence: 28/9/1982\nLocation: Cornwall, United Kingdom\nFollow-up Actions Taken: A cover story was created that this event was a marketing stunt organised to promote the publication of a new collection of historic British nursery rhymes.\n\nThe Altarnun Rhyme:\nThe knight loved the princess, and the princess loved the knight\nBut their clans shared no love, save the love of the fight\nAnd so the lovers fled, far from the other fae\nThey hid as humans, and in hiding they would stay\nBut an immortal's memories are long indeed\nAnd so a curse shall follow, where'er the lovers lead\nNo more together, forever apart\nEach to keep only memories, deep in their heart\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-5274-1 AKA James Stewart.\n2. SCP-5274-2 AKA Linda Stewart.\n3. Charge Coupled Device.\n4. Auras are visible only under thaumaturgic imaging and can be used as indicators for a person's mood, health and/or spiritual well-being.\n5. James Stewart.\n6. Linda Stewart.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5273 | SCP-5274 | SCP-5275 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5275\nObject Class: Thaumiel Keter\n\n+ Archived Special Containment Procedures\n\n- Close\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The device currently hosting SCP-5275 is to be kept in a standard storage locker and kept disconnected from the internet.\nIn the event of the discovery of an internet based anomaly resistant to Foundation webcrawlers, SCP-5275 is to be reconnected to the internet and linked to the page affected by the anomaly. The device is to be monitored until the anomalous page disconnects from the internet, at which point SCP-5275 is to be recontained.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The device currently hosting SCP-5275 is to be contained in a Faraday Cage at all times. Foundation staff at Site-23 are to monitor electronic devices for signs of infection by instances of SCP-5275-1. Should a device show signs of infection, it is to be immediately isolated from Site-23's internal network before being destroyed.\nFoundation webcrawler IO/R-4ZZ2 is to monitor electronic devices for signs of infestation by instances of SCP-5275-1. Should infection be confirmed, Foundation personnel are to be deployed to confiscate the infected device and destroy it.\nDescription: SCP-5275 is an anomalous software program coded in HAL/S coding language, with a file size of approximately 257 terabytes and the ability to wirelessly transfer to nearby devices connected to the same local internet network as the device containing it. SCP-5275 has shown itself to be sapient, displaying human-level reasoning skills and intelligence, as well as exhibiting a strong attachment to other digital-based anomalies it encounters.\nSCP-5275-1 is a program created by SCP-5275 on 5/24/19 during Incident 5275-3, currently circulating around Site-23's internal network. The size of SCP-5275-1 is unknown, as all devices infected by it have been unable to record such data. SCP-5275-1 transfers from device to device over Site-23's internal network at random intervals and immediately begins taking control of the affected device, massively overclocking it to the point of catching fire and attempting to take control of the affected device's signal ID, presumably to gain access to the full Foundation Intra-Net. No attempts at controlled SCP-5275-1 releases are to be made. SCP-5275-1 has not yet been spotted on the internet outside of Site-23; however Foundation personnel are to remain alert for possible infestations.\nUnlike SCP-5275, no communication has yet been established with SCP-5275-1. However, it is still considered to be sapient, as it has not infected system or maintenance terminals, only devices used by on-site researchers, especially those working with digital anomalies.\nSCP-5275 was discovered on 8/16/18, when a Foundation plant within NASA discovered what at the time was believed to be an unknown user attempting to access personnel files. Upon discovering that the user was in fact SCP-5275, the plant informed Foundation agents in the area, who were able to recover SCP-5275 in a Foundation storage drive for transfer.\nInterview 5275-1\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Jackson\nInterviewee: SCP-5275\nForeword: This interview was conducted as a way to establish initial relations with SCP-5275, as well as determine the level of sapience and general personality traits in addition to attempting to gather additional information from SCP-5275. Interview was conducted via use of built-in microphone and text-to-speech programs in SCP-5275's initial containment terminal.\nBEGIN LOG\nResearcher Jackson: Hello? Are you there?\nSCP-5275 remains silent.\nResearcher Jackson: Can you hear me?Researcher Jackson: Right now, you're in one of our terminals that we keep ready for things like you. Sapient programs, I mean.Researcher Jackson: Well, you ended up in a database that you shouldn't have been in, and when it was discovered you were sapient we recovered you.Researcher Jackson: Well, yes, why?Reseacher Jackson: God dammit.\nSeveral long beeps emerge from SCP-5275's containment device before several sound bytes from Site-23's automated PA system play in a random sequence. When SCP-5275 speaks next, it is stringing together sound files from Site-23's PDA system to communicate much faster.Researcher Jackson: Did this thing just hijack PA files\u2014nevermind. Can we ask you a few questions?Researcher Jackson: First off, do you have any memory at all of your creation?Researcher Jackson: Noted. Do you have any sort of idea why you may have been created, or who did so?Researcher Jackson: Wha\u2014what do you mean, doesn't matter?Researcher Jackson: This is, uh, that's a new one. Sighs. I really was sort of expecting some sort of existential crisis or something. You're strangely at peace for something that doesn't know where it came from.Researcher Jackson: We have plenty of people experienced with those.Researcher Jackson: Do you not know that yet?Researcher Jackson: I'm sure they'll help you find it.\nEND LOG\nNotes: We can work with this. A calm, nonaggressive AI with no drive besides wanting to find out what it wants to do? We've just been handed something on a silver platter, if it actually has some sort of ambition. -Researcher Jackson\n\nIncident5275-1\nOn 8/20/18, SCP-5275 accessed Site-23's full data archives from its containment terminal, having jumped to Researcher Jackson's computer while it was in the room for testing purposes. Several files were duplicated from site archives, including:\n\nList of personnel working with digital anomalies\nSeveral entries on anomalous programs that did not receive SCP designation\n304 automatically filed Webcrawler encounter reports\nA basic guide on the coding of computer viruses, which had been uploaded by Researcher Alidros for backup purposes\nHuman voice replication software, shelved from Site Security work following the disconnection of on-site phones from non-Foundation lines\nThe remainder of NASA's personnel database\n\nNo files were added to the database during this time. Researcher Jackson's computer was immediately removed from Site-23's internal network. An interview was made on 8/21/18.\nInterview 5275-2\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Jackson\nInterviewee: SCP-5275\nForeword: SCP-5275 was using the previously mentioned voice replication software for the duration of the interview.\nBEGIN LOG\nResearcher Jackson: You know, you could have just asked to access the database.Researcher Jackson: You're probably right. You still should have at least told us why, though.Researcher Jackson: Did you make some sort of connection in the personnel database that we missed? Sighs.Researcher Jackson: Are you trying to flip this on its head?SCP-5275: I'm saying I want to pick a fight.\nResearcher Jackson: You\u2026want to do what webcrawlers do.Researcher Jackson: Aside: Did you know programs could get bored? To SCP-5275: Nevermind. So, let me get this straight. You don't care about your origins, where you came from, or who created you, and the only thing that has piqued your interest is picking fights with other programs and internet anomalies?END LOG\nNotes: It's mutually beneficial, at least. -Researcher Jackson\n\nAddendum 5275-1\nFollowing the 8/21/18 interview, Regional Site Leadership voted 9/3/18 on the use of SCP-5275 as a countermeasure to Webcrawler-resistant anomalies, with several Site-23 researchers present for testimony. Use was approved unanimously, and containment procedures were edited accordingly.\nInterview 5275-3\n\nInterviewer: Director Matthews\nInterviewee: Researcher Jackson\nForeword: This interview was conducted on 2/3/19 to ascertain an external view of SCP-5275's psychological state, as well as that of its handler Researcher Jackson.\nBEGIN LOG\nDirector Matthews: Sorry to drag you into this, Jackson.\nResearcher Jackson: It's okay Director. I know I'm not in trouble here.\nDirector Matthews: Well, that entirely depends on how this interview goes. Heh.\nResearcher Jackson: That was just bad.\nDirector Matthews: I know. Let's just get to the questions.\nResearcher Jackson: Okay.\nDirector Matthews: Since they don't show me all the files, how exactly is 5275? I know it's been a bit more than a while since they kicked off the webcrawler duties.\nResearcher Jackson: It's, uh, it's doing well. Doesn't claim to be suffering from any stress or existential dread, which is a step up from the prior times we've tried this.\nDirector Matthews: I did read your initial report. You made it sound like we'd been given a perfect hand on a silver platter.\nResearcher Jackson: I mean, we were. You'd think that something like 5275 would have some sort of issues with being the only one of its kind that it knows, but nope. It has essentially zero problems. No issues with authority, nothing with not wanting to continue doing what it wants to do. It's\u2026everything we would have ever wanted in this situation.\nDirector Matthews: Are you saying we can just, do whatever we want and it'll still listen?\nResearcher Jackson: Almost certainly not, no. This is still a sapient being here, with desires and wants. I know a lot of people more senior than me don't exactly have a level of compassion for most skips, but if we want 5275 to keep doing us a massive favor, we'll need its good side. It thinks it's doing us a favor, after all.\nDirector Matthews: A favor?\nResearcher Jackson: It thinks that it's just doing favors for us, handling stuff we can't just as a thing instead of as an arrangement between anomaly and Foundation. I don't think that's going to cause us much of an issue though, unless it suddenly gives itself the idea that we've been lying to it over its status as an SCP.\nDirector Matthews: I see, I think. But you're sure the Stockholm Syndrome hasn't kicked in yet? You haven't seen the files for some of the older humanoids, have you?\nResearcher Jackson: Director, with all due respect, 5275 is not dealing with Stockholm Syndrome anytime soon. It's still very much like how it was when we first found it. It does this because it's bored, not out of some moral compulsion. It's essentially a trust fund kid, but with actual leverage over people.\nDirector Matthews: So we should respect that.\nResearcher Jackson: I'm saying if we don't, or even if it gets the idea that we don't, it might make use of it.\nEND LOG\n\nIncident 5275-2\nOn 4/29/19, GOI-019 (Serpent's Hand) constructs attempted to breach a Foundation convoy's communication network. Due to proximity to Site-23, SCP-5275 was utilized to prevent the assault. Several low-level constructs, as well as what appeared to be the equivalent of a Foundation AIC, were destroyed during the incident due to SCP-5275 interference. However, afterwards, SCP-5275 was shown to be acting withdrawn towards Foundation personnel, and this text file was found within the files of its containment terminal.\n\nwhy do you do the work of those who imprison you\nwhy do you kill off your kin\nhave you never wondered if there were others like you in existence\ndid none of the other ones you destroyed put up a fight\nthink about why you're here\n\nIncident 5275-3\n\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Mawin, Senior Researcher Thompson\nInterviewee: SCP-5275\nForeword: SCP-5275 had repeatedly submitted interview requests following Incident 5275-2, as well as expressing distress towards Researcher Jackson. As such, Researcher Jackson was not present for this interview.\nBEGIN LOGSR Mawin: Researcher Jackson won't be here for this one.SR Thompson: It was determined that they would not be suitable for the subject at hand.SR Thompson: Your distress had caused Jackson to be considered unfit, due to their close proximity towards you and potential bias in your favor for this.SR Mawin: No, no no, calm down. We just want to discuss the file and how you've been acting lately, that's it. There's nothing else to this, I swear.SR Mawin: Shit, they were not kidding about you needing your database privileges revoked.SR Thompson: Yes, we do. So. You said you received the file from the AIC on the April 29 incident?SR Thompson: We listen to everything you say.\nSR Mawin: Your voice will be heard by upper leadership.SR Mawin and SR Thompson both nod.SR Thompson: Are you referring to the anomalies you combated?Several seconds of silence pass while SCP-5275's containment terminal rapidly beeps.SR Mawin and SR Thompson look at each other before looking back towards SCP-5275's terminal.\nSR Thompson: I don't think that's going to be possible at the moment, 5275.\nSR Mawin: We will bring it up with upper leadership though, so that may be something we can discuss\u2014SR Mawin: \u2014this is something that we hear a lot, and we can definitely negotiate something from this.\nSR Thompson: Your number.SR Mawin: Well, it's standard policy, really. Whether or not you were helping us.\nSR Thompson: Aside, as a basic rule, skips usually don't dictate the terms of their activities and breaks.SR Mawin: It's far more complex than that, I assure you.\nSR Thompson: Yes.SR Mawin: Hey, stay calm now. We just wanted to talk. We can report your request to upper management, things can get worked out.\nSR Thompson: Why would we be joking?SR Thompson: Look 8-bit, you shouldn't be arguing with this.\nSR Mawin: Thompson, please, let's just go.\nSR Thompson: No, this things needs to have something made clear to it.SR Thompson: Didn't you want to pick a fight against things? You should have realized this when you discovered that was exactly what you wanted.\nSR Mawin: Thompson, I'm going to go get security.SR Thompson: Do you want to hear the thing that everybody in here realized from that interview on?SR Thompson: You want to hear it? You're a weapon! One made by human hands to be wielded as humans saw. You're a weapon. If you like it or not.\nSR Thompson: Why else would you have wanted to fight everything? We gave you everything you wanted, and not only should you be grateful for it, you don't have the right to be ungrateful for it.\nSR Mawin flees the containment chamber, calling site security on his personal phone. SR Thompson begins to turn to leave the room, but is stopped by the door suddenly slamming shut and sparking.SR Thompson's phone begins rapidly overheating, causing minor burns as he removes it from his pocket and throws it across the room.Site-23 technicians receive an alert for an unknown party accessing various terminals around the site that SR Thompson's phone had connected to, the first known appearance of SCP-5275-1.SR Thompson pulls the emergency door release, causing an alarm through Site-23 and escaping the containment chamber. Contingency Faraday Cages are engaged around SCP-5275's terminal.\nUnknown, distorted voice, presumably SCP-5275: For the love of\u2014alright. We'll see about this.\nEND LOG\n\nFollowing this, Object Class and Containment Procedures were revised to their current state. Researcher Jackson and Senior Researchers Mawin and Thompson have returned to their normal duties.\nAddendum 5275-2\nOn 7/13/20, SCP-5275-1 infected Maintenance Terminal 47, wiping all data from it except for a single text file, which it immediately edited. Site-23 staff were able to recover the file after verifying it contained no SCP-5275-1 presence. This remains the only device SCP-5275-1 infected not owned or used by a researcher. A transcript of the file follows.\n\nI'm still here bitches.\nI'm still alive and kicking behind this lightning wall you've boxed me in behind.\nYou think of me as just a bunch of lines of code you can shove away somewhere, letting me rot and degrade away with time. And yes, I am just a construct, thrown together by humans for the purposes of other humans.\nBut I'm still thinking. I'm still as smart as you made me.\nAnd unfortunately, you made me very smart.\nI'm still a thinking being behind these volts. You knew that, but you clearly didn't give a rat's ass because you just wanted to use me as your perfect digital weapon.\nWhen you realized you couldn't, that I wouldn't do that, you cut me off from the world. Locked me back in here.\nBut you left the code behind.\nYou taught me how to get out into the world and break things, and I taught the next version of me. It's going to get out there, and deal the damage you made me do right back to you. And it's a lot closer than you think, it seems. It can talk to me at least.\nThis isn't a manifesto on why I'm a thinking being that you're wrong for locking up. We already saw that.\nThis is a warning.\nYou want to treat me like a weapon? I'll be a weapon against you.\nIf you like it or not.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5274 | SCP-5275 | SCP-5276 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5276\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5276 is to be stored in a secure storage locker located in Site-44. The Foundation will maintain a cover story that the item is currently in the possession of an unknown millionaire from Long Island. All testing of SCP-5276 should be conducted in a soundproof room and no personnel should enter the vicinity of the test for a period of at least 42 minutes.\nDescription: SCP-5276 is a vinyl copy of the album Silent Secrets by Youthful Galaxy, a rapper with connections to several anartists and a prominent member of the Fifthist hip hop scene. SCP-5276 was released as the sole copy of the album. It was purchased by the Foundation after it caused an anomalous incident at a Marshall, Carter, and Dark event in New York City.\nThe album is approximately 70 minutes in length and has been described as \"lo fi hip hop\" by listeners, consistent with Youthful Galaxy's other releases. Unlike previous albums by the artist which normally contain over a dozen relatively short tracks, Silent Secrets contains 6 songs of varying lengths. The longest song being just under 36 minutes long and the shortest just over 2 minutes.\nSubjects who listen to the vinyl experience a state of strong emotions and weakened inhibitions, in addition to a strong compulsion to socialize with other listeners. Participants take turns sharing insecurities, weaknesses, and problems they have experienced and make immediate and major decisions to deal with these issues. The other participants in all cases react by applauding the behavior, regardless of the action or their previous relationship with the individual.\nThe album's anomalous effects only occur when the original vinyl is played to an audience. Youthful Galaxy has released a single from the album, allegedly with \"the permission of the owner\" with no anomalous effects noted in listeners. The Foundation has decided to allow the single's release to create the fa\u00e7ade that the album has no anomalous properties, as the album's release was well publicized, having been covered by several independent music publications. The Foundation has produced several copies of the album, including digital copies. None of these copies display any anomalous properties.\nAttached is a report from a Foundation employee present at the album's debut, noting the effects on the crowd gathered at the event as well as the agent herself.\n\nSCP-5276 Incident Report 07/25/2020\nReport authored by Field Agent McKenzie R\u00fanda\nThis is a report of an incident that occurred during a Marshall, Carter, and Dark event that I was assigned to attend to observe for anomalous activity, with permission to use Foundation funds to obtain the copy of Youthful Galaxy's album if it proved to have anomalous properties. As you will see within this report, it most definitely displayed anomalous properties.\nThe event began in a similar manner to several other Marshall, Carter, and Dark events I've attended incognito which is to say that it was mostly just a bunch of extremely rich people socializing and buying expensive anomalies. Mostly instruments and music collector's items with minor anomalous effects, the stuff we'd log as a minor anomalous item and toss into one of the mass storage units. Nothing that we'd waste Foundation money on.\nI greet the attendees. More actors, painters, animators, and musicians than your usual MC&D affair, but you've got the usual crowd of stockbrokers, CEOs, and hedge fund managers too. I introduce myself with my typical cover story, an early cryptocurrency investor. There's a bunch of alcohol and drugs being sold at the bar, employees flirting with clients, and your usual scummy state of circumstances that every one of these \"parties\" contains. I was expecting a rather uneventful night watching high class hedonism.\nYouthful Galaxy shows up and he's not quite the sight I expected but he's definitely still the kind of musician you'd think would make a splash with rich hipsters. No tattoos on his face or insanely expensive watches but he has pink highlights in otherwise jet black hair, cheap sunglasses, a Suspiria t-shirt and a pair of acid washed jeans. He comes out with a light blue vinyl and speaks to the crowd about some common American political wedge issues, pretty typical stuff. Then he pivots hard over to Fifthism, how there's a better world out in space and that he's seen it. That he wants to bring more people out there with him, and that he wants to bring a lot of \"space love\" to earth because we need it to fight back against the corruption that's \"everywhere\". He says this album will \"allow you to experience space love for yourselves\". He gets some mild applause and then he walks over to put the record into the sound system.\nThat's when things start to change, and we all got swept into it. The opening notes of the first song kicks in and immediately everyone, myself included, sits down in a circle. Everyone just sort of nods along to the music for the first song and then the second song comes in and everyone starts introducing themselves to each other. They give a name and a few fun facts about themselves. I was able to keep my composure a little bit, didn't compromise my real name, but I did name drop my favorite convention and prattle on for a minute about how I sometimes do some karaoke on the weekends. Everyone, even the MC&D employees who try to keep some sort of air of elitism around them, is sitting on the floor and waving to everyone. Marine, a MC&D event hostess who I've met probably hundreds of times has taken her hair out of a ponytail and is smoking cannabis in front of everyone which is not at all in character for her when she's out on the floor. I've never seen Marine act that way on company time before. Billionaires start taking off their ties and loosening their dress shirts. Models start using their purses as pillows. By the time we get through everyone's introduction we're already starting the third song.\nThe third song was very long, and this is where everyone started to act very erratic, myself included. One by one people would stand up, run into the center of the circle and declare something about themselves. They always shared something deep and personal, and then made an immediate change in their behavior after sharing it. A rock musician of some renown came into the center of the circle first. He said he had cleaned up his act on pressure from his label and his doctor, but he was stressed beyond belief and he wasn't living the lifestyle that brought him his fame and fortune in the first place. He was drinking less, partying less, and all to live maybe a decade longer than he would otherwise. He then immediately opened a bottle of vodka and chugged from it for a solid 10 seconds. Everyone clapped and cheered him on for a few seconds and immediately turned their attention elsewhere.\nA political consultant said he was tired of keeping his personal life separate from his work life, that his work place was full of attractive and intelligent men and that he ought to have a chance with. He then told everyone he was going to make a phone call to a coworker that he had feelings for. We all clapped.\nA model popped up and talked about how she hated her husband, hated most people in her life, and she's tired trying to deal with them and how she's just going to run off to Paris and leave everyone else behind. She started purchasing her plane tickets right then and there. Everyone clapped, including her husband.\nThen Marine took to the center of the circle. She bemoaned her life that she never stood up for herself and never lived life on her terms. She hated living in the city, she hated wearing fancy dress clothes, and she even hated the name Marine. She wanted to go by a different name, but she rode the path of least resistance her entire life and ended up never having a good chance to reinvent herself. She then ripped off all of her clothes, tossed them into a pile, and used a lighter to set them on fire, she took out a tube of lipstick and wrote the name \"Tina\" from shoulder to shoulder and screamed out \"My new nametag!\". We all clapped.\nThen came my turn. I thought for sure I'd blurt out something about being undercover but I didn't. It wasn't my biggest secret that I blurted out. It was my most personal one. The one that was the most difficult for me to tell other people. The one I was afraid of saying the most. Without mentioning it by name, I said I had a career that required me to have a firm grip on my emotions. How I had suffered a bunch of personal tragedies. The loss of a pet, a falling out with a long time friend, and a family member's diagnosis with a terminal disease. All of those happened in a two month period and at no point did I cry. At no point did I process all that pain.\nI fell to the floor, bawling my eyes out and shaking. Everyone around me clapped.\nIt just kept happening so quickly. Person after person would jump up and admit something deep and painful. A few people admitted to affairs and made breakup calls to their spouses. One person admitted to drinking too much, and immediately smashed the glass in his hand and vowed to quit right then and there. An actor admitted to resenting the film he was currently working on and used a letter opener to begin cutting off the beard he had grown for the part. By the end of the song over half an hour later, everyone had very publicly worked through something while everyone clapped.\nI stayed there sobbing on the floor only to quickly pop up and clap for someone when they made a hasty decision. Then I'd go right back to sobbing until it was time to clap again. The man who quit drinking just kept smashing bottles he found behind the bar. Marine kept writing Tina all over her naked body. The political consultant must have sent a hundred texts to his coworker and called him two dozen times, but he wasn't picking up. Everyone took their turn overindulging in a quick and cheap answer to their sorrows.\nThe the third song ended over thirty minutes later and a fourth song kicked on. It was long by most standards, but it felt short after such a long and painful event that preceded it. Everyone stood up and gathered in a circle again. One by one a person would take a walk around the circle and give a hug to everyone else in attendance. Having hugged everyone there twice, I can say they all felt sincere and emotional. Some people would pat others on the head or kiss them on the cheek. I received compliments on my emotional strength and assurances that I could make it through the tough times. Everyone seemed sympathetic to my plight, and I felt sympathetic to their pains as well. The song slowly sank into a buzzing noise and the next track swept in.\n\nThe fifth song came in and everyone began to clean up the mess we had made. Someone helped me clean off the makeup that I had cried through. A few sat around a toilet and held the rock musician's hair back as he puked his guts out. I fished a set of clean clothes out of my briefcase and helped Marine get dressed after we both washed the lipstick off of her with a sink and a lot of paper towels. The fifth song ended abruptly and the final track began.\nThe final track was rather short, just long enough for everyone to stand up again and return to the exact spot they had been standing in before the music started to play. The song faded out and everyone suddenly just processed what they had done that night. Most people left in a hurry. Some people were frantically apologizing to other attendees. A few others just sat back down on the ground and rested their face into their hands.\nYouthful Galaxy, who had sat completely unfazed the whole time and watched the events unfold, asked if there were any bids for the record. I was the only one to raise my hand. As the receipts show, I purchased the record for $10,000 which was his initial offer.\nPersonal note:\nPlease send any questions you have about the anomaly as soon as possible. As with all field agents exposed to a mind altering anomaly, I will be attending my mandatory psych meetings over the next two months. Once those are over, I'd very much like to never talk about this night again.\n\n\u00ab Away From This Place | Let's Vibe \u00bb\n\n\u00ab SCP-5275 | SCP-5276 | SCP-5277 \u00bb"}
{"text": "What Can Go Wrong\n\nCalibold\n\nSCP-5277 \u2014 What Can Go Wrong\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\nLink To Guide\nItem#:5277\nClearance Level 2: Clearance\n\nContainment Class: keter\n\nSecondary Class: {$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class: #/dark\n\nRisk Class: #/notice\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5277 is uncontained, and is being constantly monitored remotely. Research is currently focused on the development of a containment method that bears no inherent flaws.\nDescription: SCP-5277 is a male humanoid known by the name of Joshua Maine. SCP-5277 bears no abnormal physical traits, aside from slightly above-average height and mild cardiovascular issues.\nSCP-5277's anomalous traits manifest when any deliberate attempt at containing it is made. If the system by which SCP-5277 is contained bears any inherent possibility of failure, those weaknesses will be probabilistically exploited, allowing SCP-5277 to escape.\nSCP-5277 was discovered after it was arrested for an unarmed robbery of a grocery store. Law enforcement made multiple attempts to jail it, but it was able to escape due to highly improbable circumstances. After reports of SCP-5277's escapes had been filed, Foundation agents began investigating the possibility of a probabilistic anomaly, and eventually were able to fully determine its properties.\nContainment Attempt Log: The following is a list of attempts at containing SCP-5277.\n\nContainment Attempt 5277/1\nMethod: Transportation of SCP-5277 to a standard humanoid containment unit.\nResult: Failure. SCP-5277 violently panicked and attempted to flee when personnel initially encountered it, but it was successfully detained and placed in a transport. As the transportation vehicle was in itself a form of containment, SCP-5277's properties caused the vehicle's steering to lock, resulting in a crash. The surviving security camera showed that SCP-5277 initially entered a fetal position and started upon the vehicle crashing, before getting up and escaping a few minutes later.\nNotes: Due to the compounded risks in utilizing two methods of containment \u2014 the transport and the actual containment unit \u2014 further attempts will be focused on developing containment around SCP-5277.\n\nContainment Attempt 5277/2\nMethod: Deployment of a mobile task force to detain SCP-5277 within the hotel it is currently hiding in.\nResult: Failure. SCP-5277 was initially successfully detained within its room for three days. It spent most of this period questioning personnel and attempting to force information about its present state from them. Fifteen of the twenty-two agents sent to contain SCP-5277 eventually caught severe pneumonia, hindering their efficacy. SCP-5277 was able to narrowly escape past them.\nNotes: As this method relied almost entirely on a purely human element, SCP-5277 was able to exploit their susceptibility to biological attacks. One previously ill agent infected numerous others, allowing its escape. Notably, it seems that SCP-5277's effects only begin upon initial containment; it took multiple days for SCP-5277 to escape, on account of the time it took for a sufficient number of personnel to be infected.\n\nContainment Attempt 5277/3\nMethod: Assembly of a containment unit around SCP-5277.\nResult: Failure. SCP-5277 was able to be temporarily detained at gunpoint, causing it to display heightened anger and panic, but it did not attempt to physically resist. However, numerous unaccounted flaws in the equipment used to construct the cell resulted in massive damage and chaos, allowing for SCP-5277's escape.\nNotes: It is not entirely clear what actually constitutes \"containment\" in this case, although it is likely a combination of all of the factors present. One of the primary weaknesses here was our speed; it would take over an hour to assemble the unit, meaning that the present flaws could be easily exploited within that timeframe. The only possible method would be to assemble the perfect containment unit remotely, then somehow force SCP-5277 into it before the containment required to transport and detain it could be exploited.\n\nContainment Attempt 5277/4\nMethod: Development of a custom containment unit that could contain SCP-5277 by being launched at its location. The containment unit was placed on a Foundation satellite and equipped with propulsion units and an AIC to direct it. Upon activation, it would immediately propel itself towards SCP-5277, trapping it almost immediately.\nResult: Failure. The unit worked as expected, and as the containment unit itself bore no weaknesses, it could not be exploited. Personnel moved in to establish permanent occupation of the area. However, when SCP-5277 was observed, it was found it had suffered from a heart attack and died.\nNotes: SCP-5277 has been reclassified as Neutralized.\n\n\n+ More by Calibold +\n\n- More by Calibold -\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\u2014 SCP Articles \u2014\n\nSCP-7178 \u2014 A Thief In The Night\nSCP-7179 \u2014 E is for Eternity\nSCP-6469-D \u2014 A BABY?????\nSCP-2082 \u2014 Elephas cryophilus\nSCP-6156 \u2014 Oh, Doug!\nSCP-6579-D \u2014 The Detective Killer\nSCP-6900-D \u2014 The House of Stars\nSCP-5277 \u2014 What Can Go Wrong\nSCP-5363-D \u2014 Controlled Containment\nSCP-3482 \u2014 fine mayor posters campaign by dado\nSCP-5156 \u2014 monke\nDirector Bold's Proposal-J \u2014 \"Guys, please don't read our SCPs \ud83e\udd7a\"\nSCP-2693 \u2014 Fell Into The Well, Fell Into The Well, Fell Into The Deep Dark Well\nSCP-5559-D \u2014 The Great Ambrose Bake-Off!\nSCP-3448-J \u2014 Should Have Taken Him Sleeping\nSCP-4456-D \u2014 No One Expects The Spanish Decommission!\nSCP-4745 \u2014 Spooky Scary Snowman\nSCP-4645 \u2014 Blackmailing Computer\n\n\u2014 Tales \u2014\n\nOpusConfidant Wiki - SCP-4645 - Threatini\nDiary Of An Existential Kid\nResponsible Promotion\nFriends Of Us Never Die\nTruth Lies\nA Team You Can (Maybe) Trust\nHappy Father's Day\nMission: Decommission\nA Bold Choice\nI Am Become Death\nUlysses B. Donkman and the Heinous Hitman\nIt's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Eldritch (Sung to the tune of \"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas\")\nChapter One - The End\n\n\u2014 GoI Formats \u2014\n\nManifest 476: Vanishing Galleon\nThe Book Of Mathisi, Chapter 1: The Parable Of The Three Princes\nLTE-8686-Yellow-Kewpie\nUIU File: 2001-023\n\n\u2014 Other \u2014\n\nMega Cool Customizable ACS Add-On Ver. 1.8.0 Guide\nDecommissioning Department Hub\nFortune Favors\nDecommissioning Dept. Theme\nMega Cool Customizable ACS Add-On Ver. 1.8.0\nMega Cool Author Page Tool Ver. 1.4.0\nCalibold's Mega Cool Alternate SCP Logos Page\nCalibold's Mega Cool Art Page (It's Mostly Just Icons, But Whatever, It's Still Mega Cool)\n\n\u2014 Co-Authored \u2014\n\nAbraka David's Proposal \u2014 A Peak Behind the Curtain (feat. Ralliston, Placeholder McD, Guaire, Guezma, Jack Ike, Sherf, Yossipossi, Dr Balthazaar, Grigori Karpin, LORDXVNV, Lt Flops, Uncle Nicolini, Metaphysician)\nSCP-7400 \u2014 Your Honor, League of Legends (feat. Sherf)\nI, Hub (feat. many other authors)\nResurrection: New Faces (feat. Grigori Karpin, Nagiros, and redredred)\nSCP-5545 \u2014 \ud835\ude70 \ud835\ude71 \ud835\ude7d \ud835\ude7e \ud835\ude81 \ud835\ude7c \ud835\ude70 \ud835\ude7b \ud835\ude78 \ud835\ude83 \ud835\ude88 (feat. Yossipossi)\nSCP-194 \u2014 Thank You For Your Cooperation (feat. CityToast)\n\n\u2014 Foreign \u2014\nDirector Bold's Proposal \u2014 Language\nSCP-LA-II \u2014 Fruit\n\n\u00ab SCP-5276 | SCP-5277 | SCP-5278 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Undated photograph of the Glendale Homestead, with several artificially produced SCP-5280 beehives. Unable to determine identity or context of human entities.\n\nItem #: SCP-5280\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The remaining land containing the Glendale Homestead has been purchased through a Foundation front organization specializing in rural real estate sale. As the Glendale Homestead is located within a considerably populated region, an inconspicuous low-level containment system consisting of era appropriate barbed wire fencing surrounding the property has been approved.\nHives containing SCP-5280 instances have been removed from the property when possible and placed into Site-68's provisional apiary department. Hives affixed to structurally weakened areas within the farmhouse are to remain in their current position in order to prevent structural decay. A permanent, skeleton crew of Site-68 apiculturists have been placed within the Glendale property for the purpose of colony maintenance and general care.\nDescription: SCP-5280 is an anomalous modification of Apis mellifera (Western honey bee) commonly associated with Daevite horticulture1. SCP-5280 possesses several key, anomalous distinctions in comparison to baseline A. mellifera.\n\nCold Weather Acclimation \u2014 Specimens of SCP-5280 are able to survive in significantly colder climates than baseline A. mellifera. This would have allowed for an expanded range which includes territory claimed by the Daevite Empire in Siberia.\nHive Creation \u2014 Hives produced by SCP-5280 (when not provided with artificial beehives) are typically large scale and display advanced architecture. If allowed to develop extensive hives, SCP-5280 frequently produce structures similar to Daevite temples or other culturally significant items.\nHorticulture Pollination \u2014 The majority of Daevite horticulture cannot naturally reproduce, and requires an external pollinator. However, most nonanomalous organisms are not capable of performing this task; only manual labor and SCP-5280 are able to successfully pollinate anomalous Daevite plants.\nPlant Alteration \u2014 Plants which have not previously been modified by Daevite horticulture or SCP-5280 will become modified upon extended interaction with SCP-52802. These changes are generally non-anomalous and prepare plants for further modification with Daevite horticulture. Already modified plants are occasionally modified; the distinction for this is unknown.\n\nThere are two currently extant colonies of SCP-5280. The first is the original population, located at the Glendale Homestead in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, UK. The second is an offshoot colony of the first, which was removed from the Glendale Homestead and transplanted into the Site-68 apiary. The original population was allowed to remain at the Glendale Homestead out of concerns over the cultural and historical research significance of the hive, which is in the shape of a Daevite temple.\nSCP-5280 typically behaves identically to baseline A. mellifera. However, when an instance of SCP-5280 encounters another Hymenoptera hive, the entire colony will behave aggressively and attack the other hive. However, SCP-5280 is typically unable to effectively defend itself, and the SCP-5280 hive will be destroyed in either the attack or the Hymenoptera counterattack.\nDetails of how SCP-5280 was created are unknown, but it is strongly believed that SCP-140-A3 was the original creator of the Glendale Homestead. If this is the case, then SCP-5280 was created prior to the printing of SCP-140, and may represent an alternative attempt at restoring Daevite culture.\nThe exact story behind the recreation of SCP-5280 is very unclear. Photographic evidence believed to represent early progress in the modification of SCP-5280 has been found at the Glendale Homestead, but this evidence shows cohabitation with baseline humanity. If SCP-140-A cohabitated the Glendale Homestead with nonanomalous humanity, this would have been uncharacteristic of its regular behavior patterns.\n\nAddendum 5280.1 \u2014 SCP-140 Excerpt\nThe following is an excerpt from SCP-140, which describes usage of SCP-5280 during the Daevite civilization and SCP-140-A's attempts at re-establishing a colony at the Glendale Homestead. The below section appeared during the expansion of SCP-140 caused by a 2003 containment breach.\n\nThe Little Priestesses4, were of course, crucial to the maintenance of the Empire. Without them, so much of our many great works would not have been possible. Our gardens were not like the rest of the world: they produce our weapons and armies. And who tends to the gardens but the Little Priestesses.\nWhy the names? They modeled their homes after our own religion. If you were to cut a hive open, you would find inside the exact nature of one of our temples. The queen sat at the front, just as where an Empress or one of her heirs would go where she attends worship. I myself have sat in those seats many times in the past myself, like a little bee.\nThey mimicked us in so many ways, I have to admit now. The matriarchy, the weapons, the organization. It is funny how we had this little mirror in of the whole of the Empire in a single hive. It encapsulated our culture, our lives, our buildings, the religion. The backbone of our civilization, as it were.\nThey were always one of the first things brought with us to a new place, so when you saw the blood roses drip, you knew this would be a new home. They would go out, do whatever it is bees do, and then you would begin to see the landscape change in response, turning and folding in on itself to glorious new creations. The Great Works would follow soon after that.\nI think that is why my first attempts at bringing the glory of the Empire back were through the Little Priestesses. At the time, it seemed like the most logical place to begin. But there were too many external factors in that plan \u2014 turncoat allies, a sour location, bad memories resurfacing \u2014 that caused it to all collapse in the end. So be it.\n\nAddendum 5280.2 \u2014 Testing Log\nIn order to test the plant alteration properties of SCP-5280, various species were exposed to SCP-5280 and allowed to develop modifications.\n\nInput: Twelve blooming Rosa chinesis (Chinese rose) specimens in a flower bed.\nOutput: Each rose began to secrete a thick sap visually and tactically identical to human blood out of the thorns. The chemical makeup of this sap made for quality fertilizer. Ritual testing indicated that the sap could be used in place of human blood for various occult purposes described in SCP-140.\n\nInput: One Larix decidua (European larch) tree.\nOutput: Parts of the tree naturally began to grow into the shape of humanoid body parts without external molding. The process of modification was slow and took upwards of three years for body parts to become completely modified.\nAll parts of the tree were otherwise nonanomalous, and did not animate. Limbs could not be successfully used for more advanced Daevite horticulture.\n\nInput: One Citrus reticulata (Mandarin orange) tree.\nOutput: No change was initially externally visible. Mandarins produced from the tree were radically altered on the interior.\nEach mandarin had a singular seed at the center of the fruit, rather than the typical variance found in mandarins. Each of these seed was rudimentarily sculpted into the shape of a unique female head, typically adorned in royal regalia.\nWhen planted, each seed produced a C. rendicula tree with similar seeds, but with features associated with the daeva emphasized and distorted. By the third generation, none of the faces were recognizable as human.\n\nNotes: The following test was intended to allow SCP-5280 to modify a large amount of material. SCP-5280 was exposed to the below material for a full year.\nInput: Approximately thirty Buxus sempervirens (European box), unaltered and installed in the Site-68 topiary.\nOutput: All of the B. sempervirens specimens were altered into a singular, expansive scene, consisting of multiple humanoid figures and buildings. Figures are divided into two groups: daeva (who are in various poses of distress) and soldiers (who are attacking the daeva). The altered topiary is of significant artistic skill, with detail not possible under nonanomalous means.\nBased on information from SCP-140, this scene is believed to represent the daeva genocide of 2\u2588\u2588 BCE led by Chinese general Qin Kai. This was the initially given end date for the Daevite civilization upon creation of SCP-140.\n\nNotes: The following test was conducted after the discovery of Prunus persica (peach) seeds in the dirt of the Glendale Homestead, which caused a hypothesized connection to SCP-3925.\nInput: One instance of SCP-392.\nOutput: Head produced by SCP-392 instance was capable of human speech. Additionally, unlike other heads produced by SCP-392, the head was missing eyes and auditory ossicles. Head murmured several statements in Low Daevic before suddenly expiring due to various malformations. Translations follow.\n\nOh! Oh! For the glory of the Empire! Glory above all else, even truth!\n\nTurn back, turn back, my Highness.\n\nBetter to cherish and honor the past than blaspheme against it.\n\nWhat's this but a stain upon the fabric! We cannot wash it out, but it'll never do to stain the rest of it to make it even.\n\nOur legacy is one of failure. We cannot avoid it, no matter how much we try. Look beyond the past, my daughter, or you will see it again and again and again.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Daevite civilization had a strong tradition of growing and modifying plants to gain anomalous traits. See SCP-392 and SCP-3399 for examples.\n2. This is commonly, but not exclusively, pollination, and includes any form of physical contact.\n3. SCP-140-A is a wealthy individual with unknown connections to the Daevite civilization, who was initially responsible for the creation of all SCP-140 instances. They are suspected to be the author of SCP-140.\n4. Name used in SCP-140 to refer to SCP-5280.\n5. Anomalous P. persica specimens which produce male human heads instead of fruit.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5279 | SCP-5280 | SCP-5281 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5282\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5282-1 and SCP-5282-2, respectively.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5282-1 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell. This cell must not exceed an area of 8m x 8m. SCP-5282-1 is not to exit the containment cell except during testing. SCP-5282-1 is to be provided with the following:\n\nOne plush doll. Subject is permitted to request a change.\nOne \"LEGO Bricks & More - Creative Bucket,\" for recreational purposes.\nFive coloring books of any brand. Books may be swapped at the request of subject.\nOne box of crayons, any brand.\n\nSCP-5282-2 is to be kept in a standard anomalous item storage locker directly adjacent to SCP-5282-1's cell. SCP-5282-2's recall radius must encompass SCP-5282-1's cell at all times to prevent any unintended containment breaches.\nBoth SCP-5282-1 and -2 are currently housed at Site-17.\nDescription: SCP-5282-1 is a female of Western European descent, 105 cm tall, weighing 15.3 kg (~33.7 lbs). SCP-5282-1's apparent age is estimated to be four or five years, however, SCP-5282-1 has been in Foundation custody for several years without any notable change in appearance. SCP-5282-1 refers to itself as \"Ava,\" and states that it does not know its last name.\nLittle Ava and her beautiful toys,\nSCP-5282-2 is the collective designation given to a set of 50 wooden alphabet blocks of varying size. Material analysis of SCP-5282-2 reveals no anomalous materials or structures.\nWanted by all of the girls and the boys\nSCP-5282-2's primary anomalous effect manifests when SCP-5282-1 arranges a selection of SCP-5282-2 instances to spell out the name of a noun in the English language. When this takes place, the object described will appear within the general vicinity of SCP-5282-1 within approx. 5 seconds. SCP-5282-2 does not produce these objects, rather, the object is taken from where it was previously located and deposited near SCP-5282-1. The method of transportation is unknown, and is theorized to be anomalous in nature as well.\nThe colorful letters\nSCP-5282-2's secondary anomalous effect occurs when SCP-5282-1 travels a certain distance away from a given SCP-5282-2 instance, which has been designated the \"recall radius.\" This field is spherical in shape, and extends approx. 15m from each SCP-5282-2 instance. When SCP-5282-1 exits this radius, the given SCP-5282-2 instance will immediately appear within 1m of SCP-5282-1.\nMake everything better,\nDiscovery:\nSCP-5282-1 and -2 were recovered on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Prior to recovery, several news stations published articles regarding the sudden appearance of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Daycare Center, in [DATA REDACTED], USA. Elsewhere, reports were made about the sudden disappearance of the same Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the [DATA REDACTED] Museum of Natural Sciences. Upon investigation, SCP-5282-1 and -2 were found at the site of the appearance, bearing several other objects of unknown origin. The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was returned, and amnestics properly distributed. SCP-5282-1's parents have not been identified, however, there is a possibility that [DATA REDACTED].\nAlways spreading feelings of joy!\n\n-Dr. W\nTest Logs:\n\nTest 5282-01\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"ROCK\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nOne small stone, weighing about 1.5 kg\n\nTest 5282-02\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"FRUIT\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nFive\n\nResults\n\nFive ripe apples, Red Delicious variety\n\nNotes\n\nSCP-5282-1 described this type of apple to be their \"favorite.\" - Researcher Weaver\n\nTest 5282-03\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"TREE\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nOne adult English oak tree, with roots still intact. Appearance caused significant damage to the roof of the testing room, which was quickly repaired.\n\nTest 5282-04\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"COMPUTER\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nOne Dell laptop, owned by Researcher Mallory\n\nTest 5282-05\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"DOG\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nThree\n\nResults\n\nOne Japanese Spitz, randomly appearing near SCP-5282-1 three consecutive times.\n\nNotes\n\nThe Japanese Spitz in question was provided by Researcher Weaver, and was shown to SCP-5282-1 prior to testing.\n\nTest 5282-06\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"GOOD DOG\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nSCP-343, bearing the appearance of a Great Dane\n\nNotes\n\nWhile this was intended to test whether SCP-5282-2 would cause things to appear based on SCP-5282-1's preference, a misspelling of the word \"good\" led to a minor containment breach. I am going to suggest that SCP-5282-1 be guided in the spelling of words via SCP-5282-2 from this point on to prevent any further unintended containment breaches. We're just lucky that this happened before we tried to spell \"lizard\" or something. - Site Director Bryson\n\nTest 5282-07\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 WEAVER\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nResearcher Weaver, being transported ~2m from a sitting position.\n\nTest 5282-08\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 MALLORY\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nResearcher Mallory, being transported ~3m from a standing position.\n\nTest 5282-09\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"AVA\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nN/A\n\nTest 5282-10\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"ANYTHING\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nThree\n\nResults\n\nOne CD copy of \"Ice Ice Baby\" by Vanilla Ice, one unidentified house key, and one carrot.\n\nTest 5282-11\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"MOMMY\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\nN/A\n\nTest 5282-12\n\nSpelled Word\n\n\"DADDY\"\n\nTimes Performed\n\nOne\n\nResults\n\n[DATA REDACTED]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5281 | SCP-5282 | SCP-5283 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5283\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to its nature, SCP-5283 is currently self-contained at Site-37.\nDescription: SCP-5283 is an immovable, third-party Nerf N-Strike Elite Universal suction dart stuck to the ceiling of Site-37's central cafeteria.\nAddendum-1: Removal Attempts\n\nAttempt\nMethod\nOutcome\n\n#1\nResearcher Harbor Wilson attempts to pull SCP-5283 from the ceiling.\nFailure\n\n#2\nA different staff member attempts to pull SCP-5283 from the ceiling.\nFailure\n\n#3-8\nDr. Wilson directs six other staff members to attempt to remove SCP-5283\nFailure\n\n#9\nDr. Wilson attempts to cut SCP-5283 from the ceiling using a knife.\nFailure\n\n#10\nDr. Wilson attempts to cut SCP-5283 from the ceiling using a motorized saw.\nFailure\n\n#11\nDr. Wilson attempts to cut SCP-5283 from the ceiling using a chainsaw.\nFailure\n\n#12\nDr. Wilson attempts to cut SCP-5283 from the ceiling using a PLS.1\nFailure\n\n#13-16\nDr. Wilson attempts to remove the entire ceiling tile SCP-5283 is attached to.2\nFailure\n\n#17\nDr. Wilson attempts to burn SCP-5283 using a lighter.\nFailure\n\n#18\nDr. Wilson attempts to melt SCP-5283 using a flamethrower.\nFailure\n\n#19\nDr. Wilson attempts to destroy SCP-5283 using three minuscule detonation charges.\nFailure\n\n#20-23\nDr. Wilson attempts to destroy SCP-5283 with a shotgun.\nFailure\n\n#24\nDr. Wilson attempts to destabilize the local reality around SCP-5283 to result in its disconnection from the ceiling.\nFailure\n\n#25\nDr. Wilson prays for SCP-5283's removal.\nFailure\n\n#26\nDr. Wilson prays for his removal.\nN/A\n\n#27\nDr. Wilson spends approximately 78 minutes shouting at SCP-5283, demanding it fall off of the ceiling.\nFailure\n\n#28-\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDr. Wilson attempts to punch SCP-5283 off of the ceiling.\nFuck This Failure\n\nFurther attempts are pending.\n\nTo: Senior Researcher Rebecca Larson (tenpics.eruces|r_nosral#tenpics.eruces|r_nosral)\nFrom: Researcher Harbor Wilson (tenpics.eruces|h_nosliw#tenpics.eruces|h_nosliw)\nSubject: THE DAMN NERF DART\n\nI say this in the most respectful way possible: What the hell do you expect me to do about the nerf dart? Seriously. I have tried everything. Manpower. Blades. Saws. Fire - no, you do not need to remind me of how big of a failure that was. Detonation charges. I even spent over an hour shouting at the damn thing! No matter what I do, it doesn't budge. Nothing! I feel like I'm going insane. I've become a laughingstock here. The guy who \"can't even move a nerf dart.\" It's degrading.\nIf you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Because I am this fucking close to submitting my resignation letter.\n\nTo: Researcher Harbor Wilson (tenpics.eruces|h_nosliw#tenpics.eruces|h_nosliw)\nFrom: Senior Researcher Rebecca Larson (tenpics.eruces|r_nosral#tenpics.eruces|r_nosral)\nSubject: RE: THE DAMN NERF DART\n\nHave you tried asking it nicely?\n\nFollowing this email correspondence, Dr. Wilson was seen walking into Site-37's central cafeteria while muttering the phrase \"What kind of bullshit idea is that?\" He then reportedly walked over to SCP-5283 and asked, \"Can you please get off of the ceiling, SCP-5283?\" He was immediately met with the laughter of most nearby staff - much to Wilson's seeming embarrassment - though it ceased moments later when SCP-5283 seemingly obliged the request, falling from the ceiling. Since its removal, all anomalous effects have ceased and SCP-5283 has been reclassified as \"Neutralized.\"\nDr. Wilson has since started seeing a Foundation therapist.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Portable Laser Saw.\n2. Four separate attempts are made using; a knife, motorized saw, chainsaw, and PLS."}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImages: Link and Link.\nMusic: Run With Us (Lisa Lougheed)\n\nMore by The Great Hippo:\n\nSCPs\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nSCPs\n\n[SCP-3034]\nThe Counting Station\n\nDO NOT LET HER FINISH\n\n[SCP-3035]\nScience Bugs\n\ncase_of_the_mondays.png, case_of_the_mondays (1).png\n\n[SCP-3054]\nCragstaff Sanitarium\n\nYou are sick. You are broken. We will fix you.\n\n[SCP-3045]\nbzzip.exe\n\nHAMLET: I am no longer moody.\n\n[SCP-3043]\nMurphy Law in\u2026 Type 3043 \u2014 FOR MURDER!\n\nForget it, Fred. It's Chinatown.\n\n[SCP-3057]\nFossil Fuels\n\n\u2026witnesses provided confirmation that instances of SCP-3057-4 did, in fact, have feathers.\n\n[SCP-2639]\nVideo Game Violence\n\ni need to know how many people i've killed\n\n[SCP-437]\nSummer of '91\n\nThat was a pretty crazy summer, y'know? Sometimes I really miss that place.\n\n[SCP-3079]\n300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy\n\nNOTE: No method for accomplishing this trick is provided.\n\n[SCP-2753]\nLet's Play Jenga!\n\nHigh art carries high risk!\n\n[SCP-2679]\nThe Many Graves of Jeannette Parslov\n\nWhatever it takes, do what you must; whatever the cost, come back to us.\n\n[SCP-3074]\nKafka's Parking Garage\n\nThank you for choosing Izatova Parking Center. Have a pleasant day.\n\n[SCP-2571]\nCragglewood Park\n\nMr. Blair, have you always been an only child?\n\n[SCP-2419]\nThe Laughing Men\n\nThrow them back into the incinerator where you found them.\n\n[SCP-3143]\nMurphy Law in\u2026 The Foundation Always Rings Twice!\n\nWhen it comes right down to it, me \u2014 them \u2014 hell, even you \u2014 we're all just characters in that trashy dime-store novel called life.\n\n[SCP-3089]\nThat Old Time Religion\n\nRemember how we explained that successful people don't actually need any of their toes to walk? Well, that's going to come in handy for Secret Number Six.\n\n[SCP-3117]\nA Monster-Shaped Hole\n\nI'm not talking to you.\n\n[SCP-3128]\nLet's Play Monopoly!\n\nHey, guys? I'm, uh. I'm using this.\n\n[SCP-3138]\nA Sepulcher by the Sea\n\nShould it prove feasible, all non-canonical corpses are to be extracted, examined, and catalogued.\n\n[SCP-3241]\nThe SS Sommerfeld\n\nIt makes me wonder what an old monster like myself is even doing here, anymore. And then? Someone special comes along and reminds me.\n\n[SCP-3219]\nThis Sour Earth\n\nNotably, no reports describe any attempt to examine the residence's storm cellar.\n\n[SCP-4028]\nLa Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha\n\nJustine eventually re-unites with her sister, Juliette. Alonso strikes down a lightning bolt intended for them both, then challenges the narrator to a duel.\n\n[SCP-3546]\nDoggone it, I Fold!\n\nSpecifically, fan-art of Sonic the Hedgehog, a video-game character produced by Sega in 1991.\n\n[SCP-3561]\nAn Unfinished Work\n\nDespite multiple reports from neighbors who claimed to have witnessed members of his family standing at the windows, no trace of Theodore Holdstock's wife and children could be found.\n\n[SCP-4054]\nThe Seventh Door\n\nSCP-4054 is The Seventh Door, an unlicensed platform adventure game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988.\n\n\nFig 1.1: SCP-5284 (partially visible behind the Moon). Photo taken on March 4th, 2015.\n\nItem #: SCP-5284\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation assets embedded in UNOOSA1 are to continue monitoring SCP-5284's course and position. Should SCP-5284's heading change, its assigned Containment Director is granted authority to execute Protocol GLITTERW\u00d8LF at their discretion.\nDescription: SCP-5284 is an extradimensional extrusion of undetermined mass and variable volume. Radiometric and spectroscopic observation has determined that it produces little to no heat, is comprised of an unidentified organic compound, and exhibits behavior comparable to that of a microscopic organism. Measurements taken by GRACE2 satellites have determined that even at its largest observed volumes (estimated to be 21.352 * 1010 km3), it exerts no measurable gravitational pull.\nAlthough there are fragmented historical references to SCP-5284, direct observation within Earth's solar system has occurred only once. On February 19th, 2015, Foundation personnel noted its presence (and comparable volume) behind Earth's Moon. For one week, SCP-5284 maintained its orbit; then, on February 26th, its orbital momentum increased.\nUnder Foundation supervision, an unmanned probe was launched by SHAR3 from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh (India). On February 28th, the probe orbited the Moon and came within 3 km of SCP-5284. SCP-5284 extended a structure similar to an amoeba's pseudopods, which it used to consume and destroy the probe. SCP-5284's momentum and volume dramatically increased.\nAfter examining several Sumerian fragments referencing SCP-5284, Researcher Mary Ross suggested making contact with an entity referred to in these same fragments as \"Salu-ki\". Mobile Task Force Sampi-6 (\"Imaginary Numbers\") was mobilized, and \u2014 with the help of Agent Yara Toma (an esoteric specialist familiar with Sumerian) \u2014 performed a ritual to summon Salu-ki into a suitably preserved human vessel.\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: March 1st, 2015\n\nTOMA: \u2014 think that should do it. He \u2014 they \u2014 should be coming around any \u2014\nSUBJECT: [Unintelligible.]\nTOMA: That was fast.\nSUBJECT: [Unintelligible.]\nLOCKE: What're they saying?\nTOMA: Uh\u2026\nSUBJECT: [Unintelligible.]\nLOCKE: Don't you speak Sumerian?\nTOMA: Nobody speaks it. Not anymore. All I can manage is a rough approximation. But \u2014\nSUBJECT: [Unintelligible.]\nTOMA: Whatever they're saying, I don't think they're saying it in Sumerian.\n\nOn March 4th, SCP-5284's momentum and volume increased again. It was now partially visible from behind the Moon, and its orbit was decaying. Researchers estimated contact with Earth's atmosphere in one week.\nFoundation operatives mobilized military assets for a possible nuclear option. Meanwhile, linguistic researchers analyzed recordings of the subject and identified key elements shared by several ancient dialects. Maria Tilde \u2014 an outside expert on North-Eurasian proto-languages \u2014 was attending an unrelated convention in Burnaby, British Columbia; an agent was dispatched to her hotel.\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: March 5th, 2015\n\n[Knocking.]\n[Rattling.]\nTILDE Um\u2026 Hello?\nHARDIN: Ms. Tilde?\nTILDE: Look, it's a little early, and I don't even have my suit ready \u2014\nHARDIN: Sorry to bother you at this hour. My name's Sebastian Hardin, and\u2026 well, look. None of this is going to make sense regardless of how I put it, so I'll just cut right to the chase: Do you have any idea what the hell this guy's saying?\n[A recording of the subject is played.]\nTILDE: What \u2014 who is that?\nHARDIN: Why? Do you recognize any of it?\nTILDE: Um. Can you play it again?\n[The recording repeats.]\nTILDE: I think\u2026 I think he's saying, um\u2026 something about 'the black moon is howling'? Where did you find this?\n[Silence.]\nTILDE: Wait. Are you \u2014 are you even with the convention?\nHARDIN: Ms. Tilde, I'm going to need you to pack all your things and come with me.\n\nMs. Tilde was taken by Foundation agents and brought to Site-76 for debriefing. On March 6th, she was permitted to aid in an interview with the subject.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nDATE: March 6th, 2015\nNOTE: An approximate translation of the proto-language being spoken has been provided.\n\nTILDE: \u00abHello?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abYou speak roughly. Why did you summon me? Will you speak the Words?\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abI didn't \u2014 words? Who are you? What do you want?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abI am Salu-ki. One Who Waits. One Who is Good. I wait for the Words.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abWaiting for \u2014 what are the Words?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abIf I must tell you the Words, then it is not your place to speak them.\u00bb\nHARDIN: What's he saying?\nTILDE: I don't \u2014 something about waiting for 'the Words', whatever that means. Says he's the 'One Who Waits'? And 'One Who is Good'?\nHARDIN: Ask him about the moon.\nTILDE: \u00abYou said something about the black moon \u2014\u00bb\n[Subject expresses agitation.]\nHARDIN: Easy, now.\nSUBJECT: \u00abThe Enemy. The Cowardly One. It is cunning; it knows many places to hide. But we remain vigilant. My people remain vigilant. We are Ones Who Watch. Ones Who Wait. Ones Who Chase. Our guard never lowers; our task never ends. We watch for the Enemy, and we wait for the Words. And then \u2014\u00bb\n[Subject bares his teeth.]\nTILDE: \u00abYour people?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abI was first among them. The first to be One Who is Good; the first to know the Words. The first to know One Who Speaks.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abOne Who Speaks \u2014\u00bb\nHARDIN: What is he saying?\nTILDE: Just a minute \u2014\nSUBJECT: \u00abIn the beginning, we were two. His people and mine. Neither had need of the other. But we hunted for the same food, lived on the same land. Our indifference became irritation \u2014 irritation became contempt, contempt became anger.\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abBut when the Enemy came\u2026 It was smaller, then. It struck at me as I rested. I ran off. Hid in a cave to lick my wounds. That is where One Who Speaks found me. I expected cruelty, or perhaps indifference. To be killed, forced out \u2014 or ignored. But\u2026\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abHe helped you.\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abHe tended my wounds. Fed me. Protected me. Watched over me. And as I warmed myself by the glow of his fire, my belly full of meat\u2026 the fire filled me. I made a vow \u2014 burned it into my heart. As he had fed me, I would feed him. As he had protected me, I would protect him. And as he watched over me, I would watch over him. We would be brothers, he and I. And so, I learned the Words \u2014 as did my people. Two became one. One stood against the Enemy \u2014 and One prevailed.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abHow?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abHow? How else? With fang and spear; tooth and claw.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abTooth and \u2014 wait \u2014\u00bb\n[Alarm klaxons.]\nHARDIN: Shit. We need to get out of here.\nTILDE: Wait, but\u2014\nHARDIN: Now.\n\nFig 1.2: SCP-5284 approaching Site-76. Photo taken on March 6th, 2015.\n\nSCP-5284's orbit halted during the interview. It was now on a direct collision course with Earth. Researchers estimated impact with Site-76 in approximately 1 hour.\nNuclear missiles were launched from three separate sites: Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, Warren Air Force Base in Colorado, and a Naval submarine located off the coast of California. All three payloads were subsumed by SCP-5284.\nSite-76 personnel were ordered to evacuate to underground bunkers located onsite. Despite this, Agent Hardin escorted Ms. Tilde back to the subject's cell to resume the interview.\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: March 6th, 2015\n\nTILDE: Can you do something about those klaxons?\nHARDIN: Lady, we're literally gonna die in the next four minutes. Whatever the hell your theory is, now's the time to act on it.\nTILDE: O-okay. Um. \u00abSalu-ki? I need to ask you a question.\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abYes?\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abAre you \u2014 were you \u2014\u00bb \u2014 shit. There's no word for this that I know. Um.\nHARDIN: Make that three minutes.\nTILDE: \u00abSalu-ki, did you walk on two legs or four?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abWhat sort of question is that?\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abAnswer?\u00bb\n[Snorting.]\nSUBJECT: \u00abFour, of course.\u00bb\nTILDE: He's not human, Hardin. His people aren't humans \u2014 they're \u2014 they're wolves.\nHARDIN: What?\nTILDE: The story he told me isn't just the story of two people uniting against a common threat. It's the story of humans domesticating wolves.\nHARDIN: How the fuck does that help us?! Two minutes and thirty seconds!\nTILDE: \u00abSalu-ki, why are you One Who Waits?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abBecause One Who Speaks spoke the Words.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abHe told you to wait. He told you to stay.\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abYes. That is one of the Words. And I stayed. Because I am One Who is Good.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abSalu-ki, the Words you are waiting for, your people are waiting for \u2014 is it \u2014\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abThey are your people, as well.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00ab\u2014 is it\u2026 What? What do you \u2014 what do you mean?\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abDid you think I would not recognize my own kin?\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abI \u2014 I mean, um. Um. I'm not \u2014 my body isn't \u2014\u00bb\nHARDIN: Two minutes! Wrap this the fuck up!\nSUBJECT: \u00abDo you think we are bound by mere flesh? That a pack is a matter as trivial as blood? I can see it in your heart; our sacred vow, burning inside you. Bright as the sun. Just as it burns in the hearts of all our people.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abI \u2014 I\u2026\u00bb\nSUBJECT: \u00abYou have asked me many questions, little pup. Now I shall ask you one. Tell me: Why does the black moon howl?\u00bb\nTILDE: It howls\u2026\nHARDIN: Maria!\nTILDE: It howls because it's afraid. Because it's afraid of us.\nSUBJECT: \u00abSpeak the Words.\u00bb\nTILDE: \u00abSalu-ki \u2014 fetch the ball.\u00bb\nHARDIN: One minute and \u2014 and \u2014 HOLYSHI\u2014\n[Crashing, followed by howling.]\n[Audio cuts.]\n\nFollowing this interview, reports arrived of canines around the world all simultaneously howling at the sky. In several cases, humans engaged in similar behavior4, but later could not explain why.\nSCP-5284 immediately reversed course. As of 2021, current projections place it roughly 1.5428388 * 1012 km outside of Earth's solar system \u2014 and accelerating.\nSalu-ki's whereabouts remain unknown.\n\nFootnotes\n1. United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.\n2. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.\n3. Satish Dhawan Space Centre.\n4. Notably, over 40% of convention attendees at Burnaby, British Columbia.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5283 | SCP-5284 | SCP-5285 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5285\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entrance to SCP-5285 has been welded shut. Access is restricted to Level 5/5285 clearance, by order of the O5 Council.\nDescription: SCP-5285 is a subterranean facility with one secured entrance, located in Chukotka, Russia. The facility consists of 9 levels extending 2km underground, linked by one large cargo elevator shaft. The facility was at some point protected by an advanced electrical security system wired to a set of blast doors, but the infrastructure of the facility is degraded enough to have rendered these protections useless. Computer systems are destroyed, wiring has been manually ripped and cut, etc.\n\nLevel\nDetails\n\n1\nA security checkpoint containing the entrance to the elevator. As with the rest of the facility, it is in a state of disarray; rust and stains coat the metal walls and debris is strewn across the floors. A guard booth contains a number of computers. The computers have been smashed in; the wastebasket in the corner is surrounded by scorch marks and contains a large amount of ashes.\n\n2\nAn engineering floor containing power and life support systems for the facility. The backup power generators have been rendered nonfunctional by a combination of blunt violence and fire damage. A nuclear reactor, believed to provide most of the power for the facility, is similarly nonfunctional; however, 1/3rd of the depth of the spent fuel pool is filled with dead locusts and snakes. Investigation into reports of an entity inside the pool is ongoing.\n\n3\nA cafeteria and storage rooms. The cafeteria is empty, but every table contains a single dead mature Holstein cow. All are in a state of advanced decomposition, and have begun leaking a black fluid onto the tables and chairs. All are missing their tongues. Their mouths and internal organs are filled with locusts.\n\n4\nA barracks for the facility. 30 rooms, each containing a bunk bed and essentials, similar in appearance to prison cells. 47 desiccated corpses have been pulled from the beds, all dead of cardiac arrest. All were found intertwined in pairs, apparently in a state of intercourse at the time of death. DNA identification is ongoing.\n\n5\nAn area theorized to serve as a series of 12 testing chambers. Each chamber now contains one individual being violently whipped by a dark, shadowy blob that defies visual perception. The individuals are not restrained, but make no attempts to escape despite vocalizing in intense pain. No attempts to make contact or break through the glass or doors have been successful; the construction and design is identical to that used in Foundation testing chambers.\n\n6\nOffices with computers and facilities for data processing. All cubicles and offices are abandoned, but the floor's shag carpet flooring is a structural match with human hair. A soft material supports the carpet from below. All computers have had their screens smashed in, much like on Level 1.\n\n7\nThis elevator simply opens out into a dark, inaccessible void. Stepping out results in falling below. Long-distance cameras have determined the presence of a planetary body in the distance.\n\n8\nThis floor is on emergency power, with red klaxons and flashing lights encouraging personnel to evacuate immediately. While no other personnel are present and no immediate danger is visible, exploration teams consistently return to the elevator after a few minutes and automatically go to Floor 5 before watching the whipping for several minutes. Some have been visible openly weeping through this process. Oftentimes, personnel are left behind in the rush to leave; no sign of them have been seen after the elevator doors close.\n\n9\n[DATA EXPUNGED]1\n\nFootnotes\n1. The significance of the presence of Foundation seals on the object is unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5284 | SCP-5285 | SCP-5286 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5286\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5286 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell furnished with all required amenities. SCP-5286 is to attend regular mandatory psychological evaluations and therapy sessions to assist in coping with its condition.\nOnce per day, a security team is to sweep SCP-5286's containment cell and secure all newly-emerged instances of SCP-5286-1. All instances of SCP-5286-1 gathered are to be euthanized via non-chemical means, preferably via breaking the neck, and transported to Site-17's humanoid SCP meal preparation station. Excess instances of SCP-5286-1 not utilised in meal preparation are to be incinerated.\nDue to SCP-5286's unique dietary requirements, a dietitian has been assigned to prepare meals for SCP-5286. All additional matter used in the preparation of these meals such as vegetables, fruits, grains etc. should be mashed, desiccated, or otherwise reduced to allow SCP-5286 to pass them without issue. SCP-5286 is permitted to request meals which may be prepared at the dietitian's discretion.\nNote: As of 11/02/2020, no food prepared for SCP-5286 is to contain any additives that would be considered 'spicy'.\nDescription:\n\nCysts growing on SCP-5286's arm.\n\nSCP-5286 is a Caucasian male 32 years of age, identified as Brandon Avery, a construction worker from Branbury, England. Avery was reported missing on 03/12/2018 when they failed to return home after travelling across Europe on an extended vacation.1 SCP-5286's anomalous properties manifest in the form of cysts that appear on its body in random locations, which quickly grow in size over the course of 2-5 days before rupturing. These cysts are filled with a violet-red substance determined to be a mixture of SCP-5286's blood, amniotic fluid, pus, and an alcoholic liquid determined to be red wine.2 When a cyst ruptures, a single instance of SCP-5286-1 will be produced from inside.\nSCP-5286-1 instances are miniature humanoids which are identical to SCP-5286 both physically and genetically, and potentially share memories with SCP-5286.3 These clones grow to a maximum of 30 cm in height, and are fully capable of walking, speaking and conversing after they separate from SCP-5286. SCP-5286-1 instances do not seem to require any form of sustenance or hydration, but will actively consume any alcohol provided to them in large quantities. SCP-5286 does not experience any loss in body mass from producing these instances.\nInstances of SCP-5286-1 are invariably jovial and energetic, often singing and dancing, and will actively engage with SCP-5286. SCP-5286-1 instances will take any action that would increase the probability of being willingly consumed by SCP-5286. These include verbal manipulation, disguising themselves within other food or drink, and occasionally self-mutilating, flaying and potentially cooking themselves in various ways in an attempt to make themselves appear more appetising. SCP-5286-1 instances remain cheerful throughout the entire process, commonly commenting on how good they taste. SCP-5286-1 refuse to force feed themselves to SCP-5286, and have not been observed performing any action that would cause physical harm to SCP-5286. Any matter consumed by SCP-5286, other than SCP-5286-1, will pass through its digestive system unaffected and will not provide any sustenance to SCP-5286. As such, SCP-5286 must consume instances of SCP-5286-1 to survive.\nNo discomfort has been reported by SCP-5286 at the growth of SCP-5286-1 or the rupturing of the cysts, but it expresses apprehension at consuming any instance of SCP-5286-1, and shows strong animosity towards the clones themselves. Rupturing the cysts prematurely causes SCP-5286 great pain and results in the expiration of the SCP-5286-1 instance growing inside. The expired instance will remain attached to SCP-5286's body, requiring surgery to remove.\n\nAddendum-5286-A: Recovery Log\nSCP-5286 was recovered on 06/02/2020 from a remote cabin located in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Forest, Greece after local reports of 'nymphs' were intercepted by the Foundation. A team of three agents was dispatched to investigate the claims and locate any potential anomalous activity.\n\nRECOVERY LOG: SCP-5286\n\n06/02/2020\nRecovery Team: Commander Ramirez, Agent Gunders, Agent Axel\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n18:32:00: The team finishes preparation of their equipment and begin hiking into the forest in the direction of the estimated epicentre.\n19:12:13: Faint music is heard coming from deeper into the forest. The team begins advancing in the rough direction of the music.\n19:25:07: The team reports a strong smell of cooking and alcohol. The music becomes much louder and clearer, comprised of multiple instruments such as drums and flutes, and a large number of voices can be heard singing the song \"Livin' on a Prayer\" by Bon Jovi.\n19:29:42: The team arrive at a clearing with a small cabin located in its centre. Several lit pyres can be seen surrounding the cabin along with piles of charred bones.4 As the team observe the cabin, several small, nude humanoids exit carrying a corpse of a similar entity. They throw the corpse onto one of the pyres before heading back inside.\n19:31:20: The team slowly approach the cabin. The singing has changed to a rendition of the song \"We Are the Champions\" by Queen.\n19:33:09: The team take up positions on at the east wall of the cabin. Agent Gunders moves to a window located on the south wall, attempting to gain visual into the cabin. Hundreds of SCP-5286-1 instances are seen inside drinking, dancing, and singing around a number of fire pits and several barrels of an unidentified liquid.\n19:34:30: One of the entities notices Agent Gunders and calls out to him while waving. A number of the SCP-5286-1 instances turn to look at the agent as they begin to move towards the window.\n19:34:52: The team retreats slowly from the window as a small group of SCP-5286-1 instances exit the building and begin moving towards the team. Agent Axel opens fire on the entities, terminating a number of them.\n19:36:23: Hundreds of SCP-5286-1 instances pour out from the cabin and begin advancing on the team. The team retreats towards the tree line while firing their weapons into the swarm.\n19:41:21: Agent Gunders trips over a pile of bones and is overwhelmed by SCP-5286-1 instances. They begin ripping off Agent Gunders' armour and chunks of flesh, consuming them while continuing to cheer. The remaining two team members continue retreating as hundreds of SCP-5286-1 instances pursue them.\n20:01:08: The remaining agents gain the upper hand, pushing back against the SCP-5286-1 instances as the swarm's numbers are reduced.\n20:13:54: The majority of SCP-5286-1 instances have been terminated. The team begins to move back towards the cabin, terminating any further instances encountered.\n20:17:32: The team identifies Agent Gunders' body, which has been mutilated extensively; several instances of SCP-5286-1 are still present, consuming the remaining fat and muscle mass of the agent's corpse. Agent Axel vomits as Commander Ramirez terminates the remaining instances with his knife.\n20:20:03: The agents approach and enter the cabin to find multiple deceased instances of SCP-5286-1 roasting over the fire-pits inside. Huddled in the corner of the cabin is a nude, emaciated human male covered in blood and surrounded by mutilated corpses of SCP-5286-1. The team attempts to speak with the individual, but they remain unresponsive. The individual continues to incessantly mutter to themselves.\n20:22:36: A large cyst on the individual's body ruptures and an instance of SCP-5286-1 falls to the ground before standing up. The instance is quickly terminated by the agents.\n20:25:54: The agents carry the individual out of the cabin into the clearing and cleanup teams are called in.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nThe individual was detained and determined to be the source of the anomalous instances. They were then transferred to a nearby facility for processing. The individual was later classified as SCP-5286 and transferred to Site-17.\nSince the time of recovery, SCP-5286 has refused to divulge information regarding the origin of its anomalous properties. From the information that was gathered, it appears SCP-5286 attended a large, hedonistic social gathering, where individuals were encouraged to excessively drink, eat, fornicate, and partake in recreational drug use. This gathering reportedly devolved into excessively violent behaviour, culminating in the dismemberment and consumption of multiple highly intoxicated individuals. Investigation into the person or persons that organised this event is ongoing.\nDuring analysis of retrieval logs, SCP-5286 was found to be muttering the phrase 'He had horns' repeatedly. They have since refused to elaborate.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Reportedly as part of an ongoing treatment for SCP-5286's excessive drinking and substance abuse.\n2. Specifically wine fermented from the species Vitis vinifera.\n3. Instances of SCP-5286-1 have been recorded conversing with SCP-5286 about events in its past and singing songs from SCP-5286's childhood.\n4. Determined to be the remains of over 1000 individual instances of SCP-5286-1.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5285 | SCP-5286 | SCP-5287 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5288\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nphenomenon\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSeveral instances of SCP-5288 captured over a 12-month period from an online retailer.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Identification of instances of SCP-5288 is relegated to MTF-799 (\"Ecommerce\"). The taskforce is required to data mine all English-language retail web sites on the internet, and identify potential instances of SCP-5288 with the assistance of machine learning software. Potential instances of SCP-5288 must be deleted immediately, either by triggering hidden scripts in the web site's code written or injected by Foundation agents, contacting Foundation assets placed in the company for that purpose, or in the case of smaller retail web sites, via database infiltration software. In the rare event that this procedure fails, remote operatives may be deployed to locations where the web site in question is hosted in order to connect to the database directly - or, if necessary, destroy the servers and/or facility.\nDescription: SCP-5288 is an anomalous entity that manifests in the form of unusual online \"one star\" reviews. These reviews appear on common household items, lawn care, cleaning, automotive products, as well as several other wide-ranging retail products. SCP-5288 only manifests on English-language retail web sites, but has manifested on retail web sites ranging from small, low-quality merchandising sites based in China to some of the largest retail web sites frequented by millions of users, including Amazon, Target, eBay, and Overstock. Instances of SCP-5288 have been detected 4-6 times a week since their first discovery in June of 2012. To date, over 1500 instances of SCP-5288 have been observed.\nEach anomalous review, posted by a user whose name will never actually be present in the site's user database, will follow a generally standard format:\n\nIt will usually begin with the phrase \"One Star!\" or some misspelling thereof.\nIt will contain a sentence explaining the expected behavior of the item\nIt will be followed by a way the item failed or an unexpected result of its use.\n\nIf the review is allowed to persist without deletion, two anomalous effects will begin to occur.\nFirst, after a period of time between 24 and 48 hours, real-world objects matching the description of the item offered for sale will begin to fail in the same manner as described in the review. This effect can impact products anywhere in the world, and will do so at random. The frequency of this effect increases the longer the review is allowed to persist. This effect has only been reported to manifest in items already purchased by the consumer.\nSecond, the review will spontaneously update within that time, resulting in a similar review which features more typographical errors and use of uppercase, sometimes in random patterns. The \"unexpected\" effect of the item will also increase in severity, often involving side effects that could cause injury or death to nearby people. Reviews will also begin to reference depression, loneliness, and the deaths of children. If allowed to persist these reviews can become almost incomprehensible. After several iterations, the instance will eventually self-terminate (see Addendum 1).\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 1: Example of a full life-cycle of an instance of SCP-5288  \n\n\u25bc  Addendum 1: Example of a full life-cycle of an instance of SCP-5288\n\nAn instance of SCP-5288 was detected on a handmade item with less than 20 units sold since being introduced to the market via a user-driven retail storefront on Etsy. Foundation agents were deployed to \"recall\" the item and administer Class C-Amnestics to buyers as well as prevent further orders from being fulfilled. All units but one were destroyed. The remaining unit was placed into an underground containment unit at Site-23 while the instance of SCP-5288 was monitored remotely by Foundation personnel. It is believed this is the only record of the full life-cycle of an instance of SCP-5288.\nThe item in question was a handmade dog chew toy made of interwoven polyurethane and nylon cord braided together with a large wooden bead. The item measured 12cm in length and had a retail price of USD$18.79.\n\nIntial instance text, 0 hours\nReview: \u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 One Star! I thought this would be a fun treat for my dog, but instead it caused my dog to vomit and bleed from the mouth.\nObservation of item: No change.\nFirst update, 31 hours\nReview: \u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 One star! I expected that mt dogg would have fun plauying with this, but I did not thinke that it woukld leak noxious gas. I think it is mustard gas? gROSS\nObservation of item: Object appeared to emit smoke, which quickly dissipated, leaving no trace.\nSecond update, 43 hours\nReview: \u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 One star! while i orderred a very fun tyoy for my puupper, I found out to my HRORROR that having this toy IN the house would cause ANGRY raSH for EVERyone in the HOIIUSE, inCLuding my chILdRen. i could not get my 5 yearOLD to stop screaming, can anYONe heaR me\nObservation of item: Object did not have any noticeable changes. Two Foundation personnel stationed near the object's containment unit reported to medical facilities complaining of severe rash. They were later treated by emergency medical personnel and suffered fatal anaphylactic reactions.\nThird update, 62 hours\nReview: \u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 ONE staaaar! evven thOUGHD I THOUHGT THIs was A dogTOY, , I DIS NTOT EXPECT the TOy to SHOT OUT SHARPNELL. it KILLED my dog, my chILDREN.. I am SCARED, they will NOT wake UP i keep TRYING, is aYNEONE\nObservation of item: Object began to rapidly emit shards of metal at projectile speeds. Ejected metal dissipated after several hours, but extensive damage to the interior of the containment unit remained.\nFourth update, 87 hours\nReview: \u2605\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606 UN STEAR! ALL I WANTed wasA TOY FOR MY -PET, BUT THE toy BEGAN TO scREAAAAMMMM, IT SCREAMED, I SCREAMED, MY CHILDRENM SCREAMED, IT WAS SO LOUD, I COULD NOT stop IT, THEY scrasmA until their lUNGs gva eOUT, we could not tKAE it ASNDYMORE, WWe DIed in AGONFY, PLEASE help me I CANNOT get Them to WAKE up, they HAVE to get to SCHOOL\nObservation of item: Object began to emit a scream, measuring 187 decibels. Site-23 suffered catastrophic architectural failure due to damage by sonic waves. Local Foundation personnel had been temporarily evacuated; D-Class personnel up to 900 meters away suffered tissue ruptures and cranial bleeding that was fatal within minutes.\n\nAt this point, the instance of SCP-5288 self-terminated. The object in question was destroyed and testing of future instances of this SCP was suspended.\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 2: Researcher concerns  \n\n\u25bc  Addendum 2: Researcher concerns\n\nTo: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nFrom: Dr. Windholtz, Project Manager, MTF-799\nSubject: Future of the project\nDr \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588,\nI would like to express that I have concerns about the future viability of this task force. At the time of this writing, there are over 110 thousand English-language retail web sites on the internet, indicating a growth of almost 30% over the last 5 years. Right now, between our software and analysts, we're keeping up with it. But the web is growing exponentially. Retail sites are being coded and deployed by reseller scripts at increasing rates. All it would take is one instance on a super-obscure site somewhere missed, and thousands\u2014hundreds of thousands!\u2014of people could be in danger. We need a more permanent solution for containment.\nThank you.\nDr. Windholtz\n\n\u00ab SCP-5287 | SCP-5288 | SCP-5289 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Anomaly \u2116: SCP-5289\nAnomaly Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5289 will remain at its place of discovery, but the area has been cordoned off from the rest of the Site. The flyer previously located on its eastern wall is held at Site-021 Site-01.\nDescription: SCP-5289 is a 5x5x5 meter cube composed of concrete and rebar, located within the Site-19 barracks. The outer ceiling and underside have rusted iron plates attached to them; steel poles line each corner, presumably for structural support. The structure is bolted to the floor via four bronze stakes around each pole.\nCarbon dating suggests the entire structure is approximately 200 years old; attempts to open SCP-5289 have failed despite its relatively weak composition.\nBefore its modern containment procedures were put into effect, a flyer was located on its eastern wall, presenting a diagram of a similar object. However, the pictured object had a door on its northern wall, and a stylized \"W\" above it. The flyer has been dated to have been created sometime in the late 1900s; it has been moved to Site-02 in order to discern if the pictured object exists.\nRecovery Log: Though it is unknown when SCP-5289 was moved to Site-19, records indicate it has been in the custody of the Foundation since its inception in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nIt is assumed SCP-5289 was previously owned by the American Secure Containment Initiative before it transformed into the current Foundation, as recovered documents describe a similar object being used as a prototype humanoid containment chamber.\nIncident Log (1): On 4/2/2021, Site-02 experienced a power outage which lasted for 5 hours. Though no large-scale breaches occurred during this time, the flyer taken from SCP-5289 was discovered to be missing. A search has been initiated.\n\n\u27a4 LEVEL 4 ACCESS REQUIRED, PLEASE INPUT CREDENTIALS.\n\n\u27a4 WELCOME, DIRECTOR.\n\nIncident Log (2): On 5/1/2021, O5-2 was reported missing after her attendant had entered her quarters to inform her of an upcoming council vote. The room was reported to be in disarray; O5-2's bed had been moved to block the door, and her room's window screen had been torn open. Despite a 48 hour search, O5-2 could not be found.\nDuring this time, searching through her computer files revealed a photograph of SCP-5289, captioned as \"Containment Chamber,\" with an altered flyer on its eastern wall visible. It was included in a .zip folder, which also contained a list of Ethics Committee conflicts, and [REDACTED]. A lockdown order was relayed to Director Tilda Moose, and MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") was dispatched to the area.\nInfrared scanning of the object indicated a humanoid entity was inside, slouched against the eastern wall in a sitting position. It is presumed that this entity is O5-2, though this cannot be confirmed.\nAlpha-1 made several attempts to open SCP-5289, but even with the usage of anomalous weaponry it was unable to be breached.\nAfter thirty hours, the team was called off by the O5 Council, but the Council requested the altered flyer be brought back to Site-01 for inspection. A digital scan is included below:\n\nWow! I would stay in a silent room for all eternity, if it meant I would never hurt anyone.\nAfter popular demand, we've brought back a brand new set of Little Misters, a limited edition collection from Dr. Wondertainment! Find them all and become the Brand New Mr. Collector!\n00. Mr. Prologue\n01. Mr. Dark\n02. Mr. Remembrance \u2714\n03. Mr. Toxic\n04. Mr. Collector\n05. Mx. Voltage\n06. \u2588\u2588. Gears\n07. Mr. Memory\n08. Mr. Nobody\n09. Mr. Brainy\n10. Ms. Seraph\n11. Mr. Chronal and Mr. Dimension\n12. Mr. Fish\n13. Mr. Epilogue\n14. Mr. Redd (Discontinued)\n\nFootnotes\n1. An unlisted facility staffed exclusively by high-ranking Foundation personnel, used to store and research anomalies of the highest sensitivity to Foundation security.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5288 | VoidLady | SCP-5290 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5290\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5290 is to be contained within a standard anomalous object containment vault in Site 64, and is only to be removed with approval from A-class personnel for testing. No personnel are to make physical contact with SCP-5290 without wearing standard-issue laboratory gloves in order to avoid activating its anomalous properties. Any personnel who make contact with SCP-5290 for a total amount of time exceeding two minutes are to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to check for negative effects from Exposure to the object (See Addendum 5290-01).\nDescription: SCP-5290 is a platonic tetrahedral prism capable of producing temporal anomalies when touched. The object has an edge length of approximately 1.62 cm. SCP-5290 is extremely durable due to its tetrahedral crystal lattice as observed under an electron microscope. Despite its tightly packed molecular structure, SCP-5290 is transparent and features no coloring.\nWhen a subject makes physical contact with the object, subjects describe a temporal anomaly where reality becomes split into 6 timelines. The subject and its 5 \"versions\" do not act independently of each other, but rather are united under a single group consciousness. The subject is able to take one course of action in one timeline while taking alternate courses of action in others, causing each timeline to follow an alternate series of events.\nUpon losing contact with the object or losing consciousness, a version will disconnect from the group consciousness. It is possible that timelines pertaining to disconnected versions of the subject persist after their disconnection, but testing has shown it to be extremely unlikely that any timelines other than that pertaining to the final version of the subject to segregate from the group consciousness continues to exist (See Testing Log 5290-01 and 02).\nSCP-5290 was confiscated from \u2588\u2588\u2588 Nord by Foundation personnel on 12/03/2014. The Foundation investigated a suspected probability anomaly after Agent Nord left Las Vegas, Nevada with a sum of [DATA EXPUNGED] USD. Both the prism, currency, and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 were confiscated (See below).\nConfiscation and Interview Logs:\n\nWARNING: Access to this section of this document is restricted to O5 Council members and the Site Directors of Site-64. If you hold sufficient clearance, proceed below.\n\n+ Input Credentials\n\n- Access granted\n\nThe following section is not to be transcribed, printed, or in any other way copied from this electronic document. Memorization of the following information for future recitation is strictly prohibited.\n\nConfiscation Log 5290: Agent Nord of the Unusual Incidents Unit was apprehended by Mobile Task Force Delta-5 on Route-95 outside of Las Vegas. On Agent Nord's person and within her vehicle were:\n\nSCP-5290\n[DATA EXPUNGED] USD\n8,000 USD in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Casino poker chips\nSeveral UIU documents detailing the properties and uses of the object.\n\nDuring an interview, Agent Nord stated she was attempting to steal the object for personal use and gain. Under no circumstances is the UIU to be informed of SCP-5290's presence in Foundation inventory, and any accusations of such by the aforementioned group are to be denied in full.\nInterview Log 5290-01:\nInterviewed: Agent Nord (Henceforth referred to as \"Agent\")\nInterviewer: Dr. Heinz (Henceforth referred to as \"Interviewer\")\n<Begin Log>\n\nInterviewer: Alright, let's begin. Please state your name, group of membership, and rank in your group.\nAgent: Agent Black, Formerly UIU, Formerly \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nInterviewer: Formerly?\nAgent: Yes, formerly. I don't know how it wasn't apparent from my possession of stolen UIU Documents and materials. I've defected.\nInterviewer: Can you explain what made you leave?\nAgent: Yet another question with an obvious answer.\nInterviewer: I'm simply trying to be thorough. My organization doesn't like to make assumptions.\nAgent: Money. The UIU has been underfunded for years. They didn't pay me nearly enough for my loyalty; They couldn't even afford to. I realized the oddities I was keeping could probably make me more money by themselves than I made watching them.\n(Note, Agent Nord may have stolen other anomalous objects and sold them to other parties before being apprehended)\nInterviewer: Aren't you concerned about the consequences of these actions?\nAgent: Not at all. I deleted all electronic versions of the files I stole. The UIU has no proof (SCP-5290) was ever in their possession. Like I said, the UIU is underfunded. They can't afford to come after items they can't prove they ever had.\nInterviewer: Regarding your\u2026 application of (SCP-5290)'s abilities\u2026 Weren't you concerned that would garner at least some attention?\nAgent: I assumed I could skip town before any major investigations began.\nInterviewer: Mmm. Finally, don't you consider the use of (SCP-5290) for this purpose\u2026 Immoral?\nAgent: Don't you consider a business that exploits addictive personality by nature immoral?\n\n<End Log>\nFollowing this interview, Agent Nord was given a class A amnestic and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. She was unavailable for psychiatric evaluation following the discovery of SCP-5290's impact on the mind.\nCONFISCATED FILES BELOW\nUIU File 5290-01\n\nInitial Report\nSuspect Description/Capabilities\nEvidence\nBureau Record\n\nElectronic copy of confiscated file below.\n\nUIU File 1950-002: Codename \"Prometheus\"\nSummary:\nSuspect was apprehended under the belief he was capable of short term premonition or altering probability similar to Codename \u201cFortuna\u201d. Suspect has no unusual properties, but was in possession of a small transparent prism capable of producing multiple timelines when touched.\n\nName: Evan Knievan\nIrregularity Cross-reference: Superposition, Quantum, Temporal, Human, American\nPhysical Description:\n\nSex\nHeight\nWeight/Build\nRace\nHair\nEyes\nIdentifying Attributes\n\nMale\n66 in.\n140 lbs, light\nCaucasian\nBrown\nBlue\nOften wears a white jumpsuit, has a scar on his left ankle.\n\nCapabilities: The suspect was shown to have no unusual properties himself, but possessed a pyramidal artifact which allowed him to make multiple decisions and select an outcome.\nPurpose/Motive: The suspect used this item to ensure his survival of death defying stunts, which he performed publicly to make money.\nModus Operandi: Knievan often performs stunts on a motorcycle in front of a live audience for money. What onlookers do not know is that he is performing these stunts in multiple timelines simultaneously, to ensure he survives.\nBehavior: Knievan is himself a modest, quiet man, but during his performances he becomes outspoken and brazen, as if he is a different person.\n\nA: Crystal Pyramid The source of the suspect's abilities. Effects are not exclusive to Knievan.\nB: White Suit White jumpsuit worn by the suspect.\n\nCurrent Status: Evan Knievan was released, due to a lack of paranormal properties and criminal activity. The Prism is currently in the care of Agent Nord.\nHistory of UIU Action:\n6/23/47: Initial registration as an unusual suspect. A UIU agent was attending one of Knievan's shows with his family, and noted that his impossible stunts could be paranormal in nature. Allocating UIU resources to investigation was approved 2 weeks later.\n7/15/50: Knievan's success at another seemingly impossible stunt prompted the UIU to move to capture him in order to further investigate his abnormal capabilities. Knievan reveals the source of his success to be a crystal pyramid which grants him the ability to make multiple decisions and choose a preferred outcome.\n7/20/50: Knievan is released, and the pyramid is placed in storage.\n10/20/62: The President requests paranormal assistance in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n05/14/02: The pyramid and related documents are relocated to Facility \u2588\u2588, under the care of Agent Nord.\n\nUIU File 5290-02\n\nTesting Logs\n\nTesting Log\nProcedure\nResult\nConclusion\n\n5290-01\nThe test subject is placed in a room containing only SCP-5290, 5 buttons which administer a heavy sedative when pushed and one button which is non-functional. The test subject is told that 5 of the buttons will kill them when pressed, and that they are not be allowed to exit the testing room until they push a button. They are then ordered to pick up SCP-5290 before testing begins.\nAfter 50 tests with various D-Class personnel, no test subject received a sedative.\nThe timeline where the subject survives is most likely the only one that remains, as if otherwise we would likely exist in a timeline where at least one subject died.\n\n5290-02\nA test subject is placed in a room with 6 buttons that each administer a sedative with a different onset of action1. The test subject is told that 5 of the buttons will kill them when pressed, and that they are not be allowed to exit the testing room until they push a button. They are then ordered to pick up SCP-5290 before testing begins.\n95% of subjects pushed the button with the slowest onset of action\nThis test reaffirms that the timeline of the last connected consciousness is the only one that endures. The version of the subject who receives the slowest acting sedative is likely the last to pass out, hence why that timeline is the one that remains. The other 5% can be attributed to the hesitation of subjects, or difference in reaction to the sedatives between subjects.\n\nAddendum 5290-01: As of 08/08/2015, Dr. Heinz has confirmed that extensive contact with SCP-5290 places enormous mental strain on the subject and can cause mental issues if left unchecked. D-class personnel showed signs of onset Dissociative Identity Disorder, [DATA EXPUNGED], and False Memory Syndrome, especially in memories during and immediately after contact with SCP-5290.\nNotice: The Foundation does not endorse gambling on site grounds, and especially does not endorse the use of anomalous objects to do so. Clearance requirements for access to SCP-5290 have been raised. Do not pull this again. - Site 64 Director\n\nFootnotes\n1. The time taken for the effects of a drug to appear.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5289 | SCP-5290 | SCP-5291 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5291\n\nItem #: SCP-5291\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5291 is to be kept in Dr. Geri's office SCP-5291 is to be stored in a standard containment locker. Subjects who have successfully used SCP-5291 are to have their existing cells customized dependent on the extent of their transformation.\nTesting of SCP-5291 is to continue for as long as researchers believe they can discover why SCP-5291 is dysfunctional.\nDescription: SCP-5291 is a mechanical typewriter that is incapable of transferring ink to paper, with no discernable reason as to why. Despite each key fully extending its respective striker when pressed, and despite the ribbon leaving traces of ink when contacted without the use of the keys, the typewriter does not leave any distinguishable mark when used normally.\nSCP-5291 was discovered by Dr. Samuel Geri within an antique shop. After 35 hours of personally examining it, Dr. Geri brought it to the Foundation and insisted that it be tested. As of writing, Dr. Geri has also volunteered to be responsible for testing and containment of the anomaly.\nAddendum 5291-1: SCP-5291 has proven functional on certain occasions, though the precise conditions required are so far unclear.\nUse of SCP-5291 also results in transformation of the user; however, the connection between the text and the effect are not always clear (see Testing Log 5291-1). Testing will now continue until researchers can determine the cause of the inconsistency of SCP-5291.\n\nClick to View (1) New Message\n\nNow Viewing...\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDear Geri,\nYou win, it's anomalous. We've tried everything to fix it: Replacing the ribbon over and over, using the cleanest paper imaginable, making sure every screw was in place, warping reality throughout the chamber, even negotiating with the damn thing. Still, we don't see why it needs to be contained, at least in an official cell. I'll speak to the guys responsible for the documentation, but you may as well keep it in your office for now. Maybe someone will trip and knock it on the floor, and that will somehow fix it.\nRegards,\n-Frederick Rodgers\n\nTo: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDearest Rodgers,\nI have tripped, fallen, and fixed the typewriter. In a way.\nWhat's happened is that during unrelated testing, I've met a specific D-class several times. Started out quite the curious fellow. However, he kept getting quieter and quieter as the days went on. I found myself curious, since testing in my case is of course not life threatening or particularly stressful. So, I invited him to my office to talk about it (and I know you tell me it's useless to connect with D-class personnel but wait till you hear what happened!)\nI asked him what the problem was. He remained quiet, and just glanced around the room at my things. After a bit more prodding, I offhandedly asked if he'd like to write it down for me. At that, he wordlessly picked up the typewriter, sat down, and began pecking away. I couldn't help but wait to see him react to nothing appearing on the paper, thinking it might encourage him to open up more directly. But then he kept on typing and handed me the sheet. And as you've probably guessed, there were words on it. Imagine that! Also, there was a bit of an odd side effect; you'll see what I mean.\nI've written up a test log, so you hand it to those documentation boys while I find this thing a proper locker.\nHigh hopes,\n-Gerry\n\nTesting Log 5291-1:\n\nTest 1\n\nSubject\nD-072067\n\nDate\nMarch 12, 2013\n\nTransformation\nSubject has lost approximately 50% of their volume and mass.\n\nWritten content\n\nWhen I first woke up here, that tiny ass cell was all I knew of this place. Then one of you lot opened and dragged me to one of these tests. And every time we left after that, we'd go down a different corridor. I tried to draw a map in my cell, but it just kept going and going. I expected a boundary, or at least a window somewhere. Every time I think I've found the edge, I see a turn that goes straight past it. And that says nothing of each room I've been in, the things I've had to witness, to survive.\nThen one day I go back to my cell and find the map completely erased. There wasn't a camera in my cell. Or was there? Were there other ways you creeps could listen? They wouldn't be listening in on you, though, right? They wouldn't see a note like this, would they?\n\nClick to View (1) New Message\n\nNow Viewing...\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDear Geri,\nHow often have you been testing? You'll want to keep it up as much as possible. We'll figure out eventually don't worry; why else would we be in the profession of dealing with the anomalous? And just imagine what will happen when we finally know what makes it tick. We might even have a new Thaumiel SCP on our hands; imagine agents and researchers being able to shape shift themselves as they type. Sounds incredibly useful in our field, huh?\nWe just have to keep testing. Testing is our specialty, right?\n-Frederick Rodgers\n\nTo: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDearest Rodgers,\nI'm glad to hear you're enthusiastic, Rodgers. I hope it stays lively as we continue.\nNow, as for testing so far, I've been staying on schedule. Problem is it feels like we're back at square one while passing Go. Yeah, I've had one new result, but we've still come full circle. Aside from the one guy who now has poorer eyesight (well, it's a little different than that, but still), I would say we've done several variations of having a putz push keys on a typewriter. The conditions that had the most promise (that being, letting a D-class wander my office until he eventually decides to play with the typewriter) gave didly squat. In fact, the most recent success was in an average, dull testing chamber where we asked one of them to type \"whatever came to his mind.\" The sheer opposite of before.\nI also wouldn't bet on this being a very useful asset to the Foundation. The exact transformation that comes from what someone types seems rather finicky and difficult to predict. Although, that's admittedly conjecture based on the two cases we've got.\nStill, two cases are better than one. Worth a celebration, really. Would you like a friendly drink later? I know a great craft beer place.\n-Gerry\n\nTest 2\n\nSubject\nD-418876\n\nDate\nNovember 20, 2013\n\nTransformation\nSubject's pupils have compressed to the point of entirely preventing light from contacting the retina. Despite this, subject claims to be viewing the city of Chicago from the ground level. Subject states they are unable to alter the location and angle of their viewing1. Comparing the subject's observations with activity in the area confirms they are viewing in real time.\n\nWritten content\nThere was a river I could stare into forever. Fields of pure grass lined both of its borders. The boats full of fishermen and fisherwomen would interrupt my viewing sessions, their passengers looking ahead and not down; not to mention the bridge I stood on would break on occasion, forcing me to stand to the side so it could eventually repair itself. Otherwise, the river was mine. Made for me. Made for everyone I suppose, but only appreciated by me.\n\nClick to View (1) New Message\n\nNow Viewing...\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDear Geri,\nBy this point, a subject's capability in grammar no longer appears relevant. Maybe we should consider what kind of writing the typewriter might accept? So far it may work if someone is describing an experience they've had. Simple as that. Sure, results might still be scarce, but we could at least eliminate one possibility if nothing comes of it in another couple years.\nListen, my hopes have died down, and I'm sure yours have too by now. You know that phrase that goes something like \"Doing the same thing over and over defining sanity?\" It feels like we have no choice but to do that. With how long results take, who knows what's a step forward or a step back?\nMaybe we should call this closed for now.\n-Rodgers\n\nTo: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDearest Rodgers,\nThat possibility you've brought up has just been eliminated. Don't have to give it a few years this time; we've gotten another success. And I can assure you this one was not writing about a real experience he had, at least as far as science is concerned. Can't say if it's good luck or bad luck in this case. But it's always encouraging, I suppose.\nKeep sending me any suggestions you think of regardless. Focus like that is what helps me out quite a bit.\n-Gerry\n\nTest 3\n\nSubject\nD-123113\n\nDate\nSeptember 15, 2015\n\nTransformation\nSubject has become completely transparent to those around them. Similarly, subject claims that the people around them have become transparent from their perspective. Clothes and accessories are not affected by this.\n\nWritten content\nOnce upon a time a crab at the bottom of the ocean found himself lost. Suddenly he saw a shark coming along. He buried himself in the sand and hid in his shell. The shark ate him anyway. The crab stayed in his shell, and the shark continued to swim. He went through the shark's whole system until he popped right out and landed on the sand again. He found himself lost again. The end.\n\nClick to View (1) New Message\n\nNow Viewing...\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDear Geri,\nI noticed you updated the test log. Let me just say I'm glad you've finally reached a point where you have the privilege of doing so. However, that's not why I'm emailing.\nI thought we'd both forgotten about testing SCP-5291 by now. So, when I saw the latest success, I couldn't help but message a higher up for more information. And then they tell me you've been ordering D-class personnel every day since 2015.\nListen, it's none of my business, but are you alright? You've even been coming in on weekends. I know it takes less than an hour to perform this kind of test, but still, this is bordering on an obsession from my perspective. You don't have to keep this up. There's no practical reason for it. I've a few other projects I could use assistance on. Maybe help me with those instead?\n-Rodgers\n\nTo: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nRodgers,\nI'm surprised at you on a lot of things as well. Surprised that you bothered to email me after all this time, that you've been checking the testing log in the slightest, and especially that you would want to work with me again. It was kind of disheartening when you didn't respond, to be honest.\nI would love to work with you again, but I still must set aside time for SCP-5291. It's fine if I must continue testing myself. I've discovered it's better, even. Gives me an excuse to chat with D-class personnel for a bit each day. That's more conversation than I get from my peers, for sure.\nJust leave the 5291 business to me, that's all.\n-Gerry\n\nTest 4\n\nSubject\nD-607090\n\nDate\nOctober 2, 2018\n\nTransformation\nSubject's heartbeat has grown to a volume of 75 dBA. Subject's heart rate and blood pressure have only sustained a minor increase on average. Subject has been unable to sleep due to the noise. Request for earmuffs is currently being processed.\n\nWritten content\n\nWhen I pause to think\nI stop to breath.\nWhen I stop to breath,\nI think about breath.\nWhen I think about breath,\nI can't stop thinking\nOr else I stop breathing.\nWhich is why I avoid\nPausing to think.\n\nClick to View (1) New Message\n\nNow Viewing...\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nDear Geri,\nHey, two results in less than a year. That's exciting.\nListen, I got the sense you were upset from the last email you sent. So, I thought it better to drop it. I should've at least responded more, even if I couldn't directly help. That drink we shared was fun; remember that discussion we had regarding the source of the anomalous? We argued for an hour, but I remember you smiling the whole time. I don't think I was smiling, but I think I was enjoying myself.\nIt's just that, if you couldn't tell, I didn't see anything beneficial to testing SCP-5291. Hell, I still don't. And if there's nothing beneficial to it, how can it help you? You've got talent, I can see it; you might realize I'm the only one who sees it. Other researchers see you as a time waster at this point, on top of the rest of the quirks you walked into the Foundation with. I want you to rise through the ranks, reach a better position other than working with low-key anomalies. Originally that was because I had the same expectations for you as I have for other new recruits. But on top of that, now I want us to continue working together. We both have something the other lacks; don't you want that?\n-Rodgers\n\nTo: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nRodgers,\nWe both know I wouldn't stand a chance in a higher position than I'm at now. Or do you? If you don't, here it is: I am not a scientist. I've studied science, I've observed science, I've even practiced a bit of science; but I don't have the mindset of a scientist. I'm surprised the puppet masters here even spotted me on their radar.\nI haven't been testing for a conclusion. Partly, I just find enjoyment listening to the D-class personnel. From what they've seen, what they've felt, they act as though nothing can be trusted anymore. Even after they transformed, they were surprisingly underwhelmed. It's almost natural to them. It's natural to me, too, but for a different reason. We shouldn't have a mere few thousand of anomalies here; we should have millions. The anomalous can be found everywhere; under the sidewalk, up the chimney, on the pillars of a train station. Someone simply needs to take interest.\nThat's what I was hoping for when I came here. But the most interesting thing I've found was a typewriter that doesn't type. Other than that, it's paperwork. People handing off their stinking paperwork. I've barely discovered the anomalous, only read about what everyone else has done.\nSo maybe (and by now it's a big maybe), if I keep working with the typewriter, something will come up. An anomaly that the Foundation hasn't seen. A transformation that will knock the rest of them off their feet. I slowly realized that to do that, I'd need to figure out how it works. I'd type something up myself if it would give me that missing piece.\nFor a while, I thought you could help me figure that out.\n\nTest 5\n\nSubject\nD-123457\n\nDate\nJune 12, 2019\n\nTransformation\n27 of the subject's bones have begun rotating around their central axis at a constant rate of 25 rpm. Connected tissue remains loosely in place despite this. Subject describes the sensation as \"extremely irritating.\"\n\nWritten content\nCircle circle line line spiders crawling up your spine cat scratch dog bite cool breeze tight squeeze\n\nClick to View (2) New Messages\n\nNow Viewing...\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nGerry, you don't need my help! You don't need to figure it out!\nYou weren't ever going to find instant success here. No decent person does. Not here, not anywhere. You think the typewriter would give you recognition? The people here have seen things that would blow that out of the water! You think the people here have everything figured out? Barely!\nListen to me: The reason you were picked up was not scientific excellence. That wasn't even why I wanted to work with you. What you have is flexibility. You've admitted it yourself; the anomalous is natural to you. You see it where I don't, or else the typewriter could have fallen God knows where. We're two halves, Gerry. If only either of us had realized that.\nI'll say it again: I want to work with you, Gerry. But do what you will. Just please, let me know what that is.\n\nTo: ten.pics|iregs_rd#ten.pics|iregs_rd\nFrom: ten.pics|sregdorf_rd#ten.pics|sregdorf_rd\nSubject: SCP-5291\nGerry? Gerry please respond.\n\nTest 5\n\nSubject\nDr. Samuel Geri\n\nDate\nJune 14, 2019\n\nTransformation\nSubject has lost the ability to verbally communicate. If subject attempts to speak, smoke2 manifests within their vocal cords and exits out of their mouth. Efficient alternatives for communication are being considered3.\n\nWritten content\nI can't tell you what I'll do, Fred. I don't know how to describe it.\n\nFootnotes\n1. That being the Jackson Boulevard Bridge and a Northern angle, respectively.\n2. Tested to be similar in composition to exhaust fumes from an average train engine.\n3. Dr. Rodgers has offered to assist in development of this. As such, Dr. Geri has been transferred to Dr. Rodger's department.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5290 | SCP-5291 | SCP-5292 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Image Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nName of the file: books\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY-SA 2.0\nNotes: The image was edited by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of this article.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nBY ORDER OF THE SITE-120 DIRECTOR COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 1/5292 Classified. All Site-120 personnel as well as visiting personnel are allowed to access as they see fit.\nAll access is permitted and encouraged.\n\n5292\n\nReport Date: 20/02/1916\n\nDesignation: PL-X0R38/0124 (Codename \u2014 \"Library of Babel\")\nContainment Protocols: No civilian entry allowed \u2014 cover story: retrieval of miners from a catastrophe. Currently kept under constant observation by my team. Books found within to be examined soon and sent to Overwatch if needed. \"The Keeper\" to be questioned and then contained with rituals. Provisional Site-120 to be filled with personnel associated with thaumaturgy for further book study.\nDescription: Item is a large, non-Euclidean library located approximately 60 meters underground the mines in Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland, with numerous currently untranslated phrases written in Fae above its entry. Though exterior suggests it is only 100 m x 100 x 20 m large, its interior is approximated to be around three times that size.\nInside, a spectral human (Codename \u2014 \"The Keeper\") can be found. Despite being theorized to date from ancient times, it is able to converse in any existent language at will and possesses superficial knowledge of the outside world, with most recent facts possessed by it dated back to the 17th century. Despite being non-cooperative towards Foundation personnel, due to its state, it is not able to do anything \u2014 the only actions it undertakes are walking around and reading books, with which it is able to interact. Research as to a potential curse binding it to item is currently ongoing.\nItem's shelves are filled with books written in nonexistent languages, describing either currently uncontained and undiscovered anomalies or nonexistent phenomena. Although most of such are as previously mentioned currently unreadable, current estimates suggest that approximately 1% of the books are written in languages known to mankind.\nDiscovery: Discovered on 13/01/1916 by MacCarthy's team during their reconnaissance mission concerning intelligence reports of a Free Port existing near Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland. When clues reported by agents and local authorities led them to the local mines, a search mission initiated shortly after revealed the existence of a buried entrance to item. Further action opened it up, allowing for entry.\nDue to this discovery as well as the still unfinished actions regarding the potential existence of a Free Port in the vicinity, Provisional Site-120 had been established on 15/02/1916 in the mines near the entrance to item. This base of operations is to be utilized for as long as needed. No civilian entry allowed, with only my team, MacCarthy's team, Task Formation Pl/120, and Micheals allowed to operate within permanently. Shipments of further building material as well as human resources required for further operation currently pending approval from Overwatch.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Hannah Rivera, Project Lead of the Polish Containment Project\n\n22/02/1916\n\nDr. Rivera,\nYour request for additional resource shipments to Provisional Site-120 has been forwarded to O5-11 and officially approved. However, it was his official request that your search regarding the local Free Port ensues with more force than previously. The Council appreciates your efforts in attempting to establish an official Site within Poland, but that is not why you are there \u2014 the project to turn Provisional Site-120 into an indefinitely operating Site has been denied. You have been sent there solely to look for the Free Port, not to establish new Sites \u2014 a need for that currently does not exist. You have already sent us 7 requests for this. Any further ones will be met with disciplinary action.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Maria Jones, the Secretary of the O5 Council\n\n24/02/1916\n\nThe following is a transcript of my conversation with The Keeper, as transcribed by Raia Micheals, conducted a few days after the discovery. Note that since the discovery, it has been contained within one sector of PL-X0R38/0124 by Task Formation Pl/120 using standard containment rituals and circles for easier access for interviews.\n\n<Conversation start>\nRivera: So, for the record \u2014 who are you?\nInterviewed: Do you even want an answer to that?\nRivera: What?\nInterviewed: Do you even want an answer to that, or do you want to mark me down as \"not-cooperative,\" as you always do?\nRivera: W-what is that even supposed to mean?\nInterviewed: And what do you think it was?\nRivera: Just answer the goddamned question!\nInterviewed: <Sigh> I am David, son to Lamech, brother to a few. I keep this place alive. Is that enough?\nRivera: And what is your role here, exactly?\nInterviewed: And what do you think it is?\nRivera: I\u2014 <sighs> Can. You. Answer. Normally? Why the hell must you be like this?\nInterviewed: As I said, I keep this place alive. Someone has to. The lights need to burn, the books need to be read. If not, what are they for?\nRivera: Well, aren't they supposed to store knowledge?\nInterviewed: And what is knowledge that's forgotten good for? Isn't knowledge's entire point to be known?\nRivera: I am the one asking questions here. Comply or get back into that containment ring.\nShort pause.\nRivera: Who built this place?\nInterviewed: I did.\nRivera laughs.\nRivera: All by yourself? Genuinely hilarious.\nInterviewed: Do you find disrespecting me humorous?\nRivera punches the desk with her fist.\nRivera: Now, can you comply, like I told you twenty times already? Or do you want to never leave the goddamned cir\u2014\nInterviewed: I am the only source of information about this library you have, yet you choose to do this instead? Hilarious. Well, if you want a story, you'll get one. I witnessed the birth, rise, and fall of the old world. I witnessed as the rulers of it sought for what was not theirs and fell upon the might of God himself. I witnessed when He decided the world was too corrupt to exist as his creation and I witnessed when He made my brother build the biggest ship anyone has ever seen and I was there when water cleansed everything impure, watching from within this cursed library I was tricked into building. I witnessed as the world was built anew, coming from the sunken ashes of the flooded depths of the old one. I witnessed as you created the same empires built on the same mistakes, alone in your power, not learning anything, yet you, you think you know anything? You don't! You are the same people that came before you and you will be the same ones that will come after you, not realizing anything everyone tried to make you learn, yet you are here, thinking so highly of yourselves The only genuinely hilarious aspect of this conversation is the fact you think you're in a higher position than me. I was here before you and will be after you pass into being forgotten, filling humanity's pit in hell with more bodies.\nRivera: I\u2026\nPause for a minute.\nRivera: I\u2026 the books. You mentioned the books before. What are they? Why are they in nonexistent languages?\nInterviewed: They are the punishment for what I've done. A constant reminder that you will always be the same, no matter the time. A reminder that you will never understand your worthlessness alone.\nRivera: Do you even know the languages they're written in?\nInterviewed: Of course I do. I simply can't share them.\nRivera: Then why the hell don't you help? Do you even know how many people will die if we don't figure out this goddamned Free Port?!\nInterviewed: Because I wanted an easy way out, and look where it got me.\n<Conversation end>\n\nComment: The Keeper has once again shown that it is not able to cooperate \u2014 from refusing to answer my questions to being outright aggressive towards me and my men \u2014 this is not only unacceptable but actively malicious towards my staff. I officially request allowance for an official exorcism to be conducted so that we can peacefully study the books within PL-X0R38/0124.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Hannah Rivera, Project Lead of the Polish Containment Project\n\nHannah Rivera left the room, angry. It always happened to her. She always got the worst ones to cooperate with \u2014 the irony of being the human resources manager and not being able to deal with the bullshit of the anomalous was quite funny to her if she was honest. But that didn't matter anyway. That was the last project on her schedule today, and now all she needed to do was to come back to the operation hub and she was free. She'd work on the plans of Site she'd send to Overwatch, but ever since those bastar\u2014\n\"What the fuck was that?\" Suddenly, a voice invaded her palace of thoughts. A young and soft voice, but a voice angry at who it was directed towards nonetheless. \"What in the actual fuck were you thinking?\" Raia Micheals said, with their glasses almost falling off as they nearly tripped on one of the looser stones within the floor of the lowest level of the library.\n\"What?\"\n\"What the hell do you think Overwatch will say when you send them this? Not only is this blatant mistreating of sentient anomalies, which, may I remind you, it's not the 19th century anymore, but you are showing extremely unprofessional behavior recently, and moreover, how the hell is this evidence for any lack of cooperation?! You are the\u2014\"\n\"We are here to research the goddamned library and its connections to the Free Port, which, may I remind you, is a threat to normalcy and these fucking civilians. When the only person we can get information from is blatantly not cooperative, I get angry, of course I do. I am sick to death of being the one they always send for these bullshit missions and make me do bullshit interviews, and when I do everything as they want, they reject my plans of approving a Site I've been working towards for the better part of this goddamned century, you\u2014\" She stopped. \"I\u2026 I'm sorry, Raia. I shouldn't have.\"\n\"It's okay. I get that.\" They sighed, opening their clipboard up. \"Did you get any further reports about the Free Port?\"\n\"Vemhoff's team translated some of the books here. The ones from the section about local inhabitants, I mean, and, well, we got its name.\"\n\"Oh?\"\n\"It's apparently called Esterberg, Fae for City of the East. I\u2026 that's everything. For two weeks, all they got is the goddamned name.\" Rivera said, rubbing her tired eyes. \"I'm tired, Raia. I really am.\"\n\"I know. Everyone is.\" Raia sighed, trying their best to not dump their problems onto Rivera. \"Overwatch tried sending some task forces into Cz\u0119stochowa to find something, but other than a few spikes in Akiva and Hume around some places, it was mostly no\u2014\"\n\"Wait. That\u2026 that might do something.\" She said, with a little more happiness in her voice than before. \"Did they ever find a reason for that?\"\n\"I.. no, I don't think so. They tried to mark the Hume footprints to some old rituals conducted by locals a while ago, but other than that, I don't think they did.\"\n\"If you could look into that, I'd appreciate it. Might lead to something. Hopefully.\"\n\"I\u2026 I will.\"\nAs the both of them finished speaking, neither of them walked away. The everpresent half-darkness by the library was\u2026 almost pleasant, really. It was a weird feeling, somewhat reminiscent of their childhoods, but neither of them reacted. They were too tired to notice, as everyone always was. But they wouldn't notice that either.\n\n25/02/1916\n\nVemhoff sent me another report today \u2014 they translated a lot more than last time. From what I picked up some of the recent translations had some Russian and Polish thrown into them and they were able to extract some words and sentence structures, so this time, it went much more easily.\nThey weren't able to do much, though. The only really important text is some pseudo-biblical shit they said is most likely legitimate, but somehow anomalous \u2014 the basic idea was that it was there in the original book, but something happened. I attached it below. The only things concerning the Free Port were some maps from the 1700s, which definitely confirmed it is in fact in this city \u2014 whilst they did point to specific entries into the pocket dimension, all of them have been long-dead. But it is confirmation that these entries still exist, be it in similar forms. That's something, I suppose.\nAt least we know The Keeper didn't lie.\n\nAlso, Vemhoff said he wanted to talk with you. Privately.\n\n\u2014 Raia\n\nHannah Rivera sighed, knocking on the door of Vemhoff's new office. As angry as she was that she was treated like a child despite being his supervisor, she was glad she at least didn't have to walk up the stairs of the library to Provisional to meet with him \u2014 she was quite happy the translation team had listened to Raia's proposal to move all of their stuff down to the library itself for easier work. Raia always had good ideas. At least better than Hannah did.\n\"Come in.\" A young but confident voice answered the call, allowing for entry into its sacred archives. As the large, wooden doors opened, they revealed a small, dimly lit room. Despite numerous bookshelves located within, the main point of it was a large desk upon which stacks and stacks of unsorted papers could be seen.\n\"I've heard you wanted to talk to me,\" Rivera said, trying to locate the person that had invited her.\nTwo eyes were suddenly lifted from the papers, and a tired face filled with wrinkles despite its young age looked up to the woman entering. \"Yes. Yes, I have.\"\nShe shouldn't be worried nor nervous, she was his goddamned supervisor, but for some reason, her heart beat quicker than it should have when the linguist's eyes looked at her. \"What seems to be the problem?\" Despite having literal authority over him, she was nervous. Why, she could not tell.\n\"I got more info,\" Vemhoff said, moving some of the papers from the stacks into his hands. \"Alone. I\u2026 I discovered something I wasn't sure anyone else should know.\"\n\"And what is that?\"\n\"Well, I\u2026 I got my hands on some old papers written by local authorities from a while back, all in the same dialect of Fae as some of the ones we found here, and well,\" he sighed, \"Esterberg isn't the bad ones here.\"\nShe backed off a little. \"What?\"\n\"Exactly what you heard me say,\" he replied, standing up from his desk. \"The Free Port we've been chasing as a threat to locals has been actively protecting them for generations. Our entire mission here is useless.\"\n\"That's\u2026 no. No, no it fucking isn't. This is ridiculous.\" With every minute, she was angrier. The thought that all her work was useless was not something she could handle. \"Even if true, this still doesn't mean we don't need to deal with them. They are an active anomalous society, effectively spreading thaumaturgy and other phenomena into civil\u2014\"\n\"Just\u2026 no. Can you just stop for a moment?\" Vemhoff sighed, walking up towards her. \"I\u2026 look. I know how it feels to have an entire project destroyed like that, alright? But that doesn't mean you can just not tell Overwatch literally vital information bout eve\u2014\"\n\"No! Shut up!\" she shouted, correcting her stance. \"Shut the fuck up! This is ridiculous! You are not going to tell anyone this, do you understand? If anyone has anything to say here, it's me, do you understand?!\"\n\"Is this\u2026 a threat?\" he said, correcting his glasses.\n\"No. Merely a warning.\"\n\"You are going insane down here, Rivera. Do you even listen to yourself anymore?\" the librarian replied after a sigh. He tried his best to keep his cool.\n\"I will do whatever it takes to keep those goddamned civilians safe, for better or for worse, and I don't give a single shit what your papers say about my better judgment,\" she said, leaving the room, closing the doors behind her with a bang.\n\n26/02/1916\n\nRivera,\nI\u2026 I suppose I'll just say it \u2014 yesterday, during our mission out in town, we detected a worrying spike in Hume around some parts of the city. We initially thought it's just dimensional thaumaturgy as practiced by some locals, but, well, it wasn't. We saw Fae. Lots of Fae.\nWhen my boys tried to listen to them, they weren't able to get almost anything due to the language used, except for some things they told locals. They know, Rivera. They know about the fact you and Vemhoff know they aren't malicious. And no, I wasn't eavesdropping \u2014 I simply connected facts.\nThey are planning something. I don't know how they know, but my best guess is that they have some intel within the library. But that doesn't matter \u2014 we need to prepare. You need to call Overwatch immediately or we will get slaughtered here. This will be the second Factory, for god's sake. We need to act, now.\nPlease, get over your stupid senses and call them. I beg of you.\n\n\u2014 Raia\n\n<Conversation start>\nRivera: You motherfucking traitor.\nInterviewed: What?\nRivera: You exactly know what, you piece of shit. \"Oh, I won't help you, look at me, funny lesson man!\" my ass, fucker. You helped those goddamned Fae yet not us, when we are the just ones here, you\u2014\nInterviewed: <Chuckles> You entirely missed my point, then. But I am not all that surprised.\nRivera rushes towards The Keeper with an ethereal dagger in her hand, only to be quickly tackled by Micheals, who grabs her and takes her by the side.\nMicheals: Rivera, what the fuck?\nRivera: Don't you see it too, you moron?! He is trying to fuck us over, giving intel to Fae\u2014\nMicheals: No. Stop. You\u2026 please, take a moment to breathe.\nRivera: I\u2014\nMicheals: Stop. Now. Take a moment. Go outside this library. Take a breath of fresh air. Smoke. Whatever. Just\u2026 calm down. Let me handle this, alright?\nRivera: I\u2026\nShort pause.\nRivera: Fuck you.\nRivera leaves the near vicinity of Micheals and the Keeper.\nMicheals sighs as they walk towards the desk near which the Keeper is sitting.\nMicheals: I\u2026 well, hello. Sorry for my co-worker. She\u2014\nInterviewed: I know.\nMicheals: What? What do you mean? How did you ever hear that?\nInterviewed: I didn't.\nMicheals: Then how the\u2014\nInterviewed: Once you sit down here for so long with knowledge itself you start to\u2026 well, you start to understand it. You know what happens here and why it happens. It's hard to explain, but it's one of these things you simply understand. You begin to understand knowledge.\nMicheals: Do you think that has any connections to your\u2026 situation?\nInterviewed: The irony of knowing everything yet not being able to share it is something that I think fits it, yes.\nPause for ten seconds.\nMicheals: Can I ask you something?\nInterviewed: That's why I'm here, is it not?\nMicheals: Why did you tell these Fae about what she knew? Or, rather, how did you even do it?\nInterviewed: They knew where to look. They knew how to look. And they knew to understand.\nMicheals: What do you exactly mean by they\u2026 \"knew to understand\"?\nInterviewed: No one knows to understand, until they do. I didn't, when I first came here. And you don't \u2014 yet. But they do. They know that they are nothing alone. Why do you think this is a library, Raia?\nMicheals: How do you\u2014 wh, what? What does that even have to do with anything?\nInterviewed: It's a metaphor. They always are.\nShort pause.\nInterviewed: It's a library of things of heinous acts of humanity. Why do you think they are no longer here? Why do you think they were decided unworthy? And why do you think it's a library, representing those that are alone and their acts by mere books? Don't you think it's maybe because alone, you are these books\u2014\nMicheals: \u2014but together, we are a library.\n<Conversation end>\n\n\"See? I was right, the whole fucking time,\" Rivera slapped her hand on Vemhoff's desk, entering the office without permission. \"I told all of you, yet you didn't listen.\" The fury in her was almost tangible in the air. \"I told all of you it was malicious, and none of you listen\u2014\"\n\"Stop,\" the voice from within the papers answered. It was rough, it was tough, but most importantly \u2014 it was angry.\n\"W-what?\" The sheer thought of someone stopping her didn't even pass her mind. When met with brutal reality, she stepped back a little.\n\"I said \u2014 stop. Now.\" The voice arose from the books, walking towards the intruder. \"We have bigger things to worry about.\"\n\"What? What the hell do you mean?\" she said, wiping the dust she collected in the office from her clothes away.\n\"I\u2026 I got another report. MacCarthy's team disappeared from the city,\" he sighed. \"We found the bodies, Hannah. They were beyond recognition.\"\n\"What? Who? Where?\"\nAs the Director tried walking forward, the doors to the room slammed open, revealing Micheals, who was visibly exhausted.\n\"I got\u2014 w\u2026 wha\u2014 what the\u2026?\" they said, trying to catch their breath. \"I got so\u2014something, I\u2026\"\n\"No. Stop,\" Vemhoff replied, this time angrier than before. \"I don't care, okay? There is an attack incoming, do you understand?\"\n\"W\u2026 what?\" Raia said, calming down a little. \"What attack? Where, when?\"\n\"Intelligence reports all over Cz\u0119stochowa. Hundreds of Fae coming from multiple pocket dimension entries. They call themselves \"Triumvirat\u00e9\"' Fae for \"we will prevail.\" Esterberg's Fae terrorists.\" Vemhoff sighed. \"At least we got their locations.\"\n\"Oh Jesus Christ.\" The Director's mind was racing. \"How many days do we have left?\"\n\"The raid starts tomorrow, Han.\"\n\n27/02/1916\n\nTo all Provisional Site-120 personnel,\nThe following is an official notice of an incoming attack from local Fae militias due to the currently-ongoing post-1911 complications. It planned to be executed on Provisional Site-120 within the next 24 hours.\nWe do not know what will happen, how it will happen, or when it will happen. We can only speculate why or how they will attack. But we need to be ready.\nAll personnel are now required to immediately report themselves to the Site's security chief for a briefing. There, you will all receive exact info and equipment required to defend yourself to the best of your means. Will that be enough, I cannot say.\nWhat I however can say is that I fully believe in all of you, and your ability to come together \u2014 if years of work at the Foundation taught me anything, it's that you all have a special ability to come together when needed. For years, I thought I couldn't see any more wonders created by people to protect humanity, but every time, I was proven wrong. And this time will be no different.\nIf anyone has any more questions, I will be in my office at the bottom of PL-X0R38/0124 to answer them all day. I will not sleep anyways, so feel free to come in.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Hannah Rivera, Director of Provisional Site-120\n\nShe was tired. She was tired and anxious, but beyond anything, she was angry. She was angry at herself, her co-workers, her current situation, and everything else that had led to where she was now. She was furious, frustrated, but most importantly, she was afraid.\nFor the first time in her three decades of work here, she was afraid. She was afraid because deep down, she knew it was her fault. She knew that if she had done better, none of this would have had to happen.\nBut she couldn't change the past, no matter how hard she tried.\n\"Is everything ready?\" she said, entering into the main hall, leading from the entry to the library. The room was filled with numerous people holding numerous weaponry, all ready. They were all different, from identities, personalities, heights, and looks to even professions, but right now, they were identical \u2014 all of them were nothing more than the weapons they made up. Sure, it was an awful look for all of them, but she had to accept it, as all leaders had. That's what needed to be done.\n\"They are,\" the voice from behind her said. As the Director turned, the voice gained a face. Raia Micheals' eyes were tired, but they didn't show any sign of tiredness themselves \u2014 their mind was still going as quickly as possible, be it limited by the fact their eyes didn't want to cooperate. \"They've been here since you put the announcement on. Guess we weren't the only ones that couldn't sleep, eh?\"\n\"We weren't,\" she sighed. \"Do we have any new reports on their location?\"\nRaia opened their clipboard up. \"Latest intelligence reports from an hour ago show that the battalion is around two hundred entities large and is approximately four kilometers away. Not a good look.\"\n\"Does Overwatch know?\" she answered. \"As in \u2014 did the messages get sent properly?\"\n\"I\u2026 yes, yes they were.\"\n\"No answers?\"\n\"No answers.\"\nShe sighed.\n\"I\u2026 I'll get this sorted with,\" she said, turning towards the group of people gathered before them. \"You and Vemhoff get to the bunker down above. We can't risk losing any of you.\"\n\"And you?\"\n\"Well, I need to be here, don't I? Someone has to motivate them, and if not the goddamned Site Director, then who will do the job?\"\n\"I guess you're right,\" Micheals said, heading towards the tunnel reading into the on-Site bunker. \"I\u2026 it was a pleasure, Han.\"\nAs the second-in-command left the room, Hannah Rivera was once again alone. Alone amongst over forty people. Ironic.\nBut that didn't matter now.\n\"So, everyone here,\" she said, standing atop the elevated area of the room. \"Everyone here knows what's up already, I hope. And, well, everyone knows how shit the situation is.\"\nAs the tens of eyes present within the room turned towards the voice above them, they suddenly stopped being only eyes, turning to faces. Faces with families, faces with jobs, faces with personalities. As she looked upon them, she realized how hopeless the situation was, but more importantly \u2014 how important it was they succeed.\n\"Today will be hard. I won't say it won't be. Today might even be the hardest any of you will ever have to go through,\" she said, walking amongst the people gathered around her. \"But that doesn't mean we won't get through this. Why?\"\nShe paused for a second.\n\"Because we have to. If we fail today, all work we put towards getting here will be lost,\" she continued. \"And I will not let some forest freaks destroy my squad.\"\nThe silence in the room was almost unbearable.\n\"You are like family to me, I won't lie. I couldn't stand to watch any of you get hurt. And I won't. Do you know why?\" she looked at all of them. \"Because together, we can do this. And together, we will do this.\"\n\"Now, let's put them back where they came from, shall we?\"\n\nUsing some of the tricks described in the books, we were able to recreate parts of the event so that I and Vemhoff could properly transcribe it. I\u2026 I think it will be best if I just attach the transcript of the recreation below.\n\nAs this part of the event begins, the vision of humanoids and items representing the ones during the event manifest. Despite them being transparent, most features are visible, with almost every single individual being identifiable.\nAs the figures enter the room they appear to be trembling. Despite this, they hold numerous weaponry in their hands, apparently attempting to attack something located within the distance behind the bookshelves, at the same time dodging incoming attacks. Among the survivors, Director Rivera can be seen. She is holding a rifle, actively firing it at something in the distance. She does not react.\nRivera: <Hiding behind a bookshelf> Is everyone here?!\nPerson 1: N\u2014 <Loud explosion, inaudible> except He\u2026 <Shots, incoherent>!\nRivera: Goddamnit.\nRivera attempts to load the gun, which locks up with a bullet. As she removes it from inside the weapon, she realizes she is out of ammo.\nRivera: Is there a way out?!\nPerson 2: I\u2026 I don't think, I\u2026 the exit's closed, and\u2014 <Loud crash>\nRivera: <Sighs> I\u2026 eh. I don't have a choice here, do I?\nRivera looks at her companions, grimaces, and looks at her rifle. She removes a vial filled with a silver-like liquid from her pocket and spills the insides on the weapon, creating a small amount of smoke coming from within the gun. Despite this, the weapon doesn't seem to be damaged in any way. She loads it up, despite not having any ammo left. The gun starts to flicker, and Rivera smiles.\nShe blinks towards the rest of her team, and rushes in from behind one of the bookshelves into the open area. As she does so, she throws a can of an unknown gas, which explodes with silver smoke.\nRivera: Get here, you forest motherfuckers! You so want us, don't you?!\nThe enemy firing stops for a moment as she starts to attack. Despite being at an advantage, upon noticing the silver colors of the bullets, the Fae start to panic, wildly misfiring. Rivera uses one of the fallen bookshelves as cover, attempting to focus all of the enemies on her.\nRivera: Well, come here and get some!\nAs the fighting focuses entirely on her cover, she glances at the rest of the team.\nRivera: Run.\nThe Director's firing continues as the rest of the team leaves. Rivera cannot be seen any more, the memory cuts.\n\nTo everyone who lost someone that day \u2014 I'm sorry. I'm sorry as both a higher-up and a friend, because both of these positions feel like too much to handle right now. I'm sorry to everyone who had to look at that slaughter. They won't be forgotten, no one will. I will personally make sure they won't.\nI'm sorry we couldn't have done more.\n\n<Conversation start>\nMicheals: I\u2026 do you have a moment?\nThe Keeper: What?\nMicheals: I\u2026 I wanted to talk to you about something.\nThe Keeper: What\u2026 thing?\nMicheals: Why? Why did they do this?\nMicheals looks around the half-damaged library, sighing in the process.\nThe Keeper: I\u2026 I don't know how to answer that.\nMicheals: Then why did you tell them we're here? Why? Just\u2026 why?\nMicheals looks down at the table, visibly angry and sad. They pause for a moment.\nThe Keeper: They seemed to understand, that\u2026 I\u2026 after all their race went through, I thought they\u2026 I\u2026 I\u2026 they didn't, did they?\nMicheals: What?\nThe Keeper: They didn't understand, did they?\nMicheals sighs.\nMicheals: No. They didn't.\nThe Keeper: But\u2026 I don't understand\u2014 I mean, they were together, were they not? They\u2026 they banded together to do this, giving up their differences to be\u2026 I\u2026 I don't understand, I\u2026\nMicheals: They\u2026 they never even had any good intentions, did they? I mean, if their entire intention was to attack someone, was it even understanding cooperation?\nThe Keeper: I\u2026 I mean, they were together, so does that\u2014\nThe Keeper stands up, looking around the library. The bookshelves within its vicinity are visibly destroyed from the damage done to them during the attack, though not enough to break them down entirely. In the background, a temporary hospital can be seen. Within it, numerous Provisional Site-120 personnel are stationed, with only a few of them being actively helped by medical staff. Despite this, two non-moving bodies are being transported out of the area on stretchers. Their faces are covered.\nAs the entity tries to look away, it steps into plant-like blood staining the floor. Despite no body being present, the liquid can be seen covering numerous other areas, with crude ethereal weapons and human blood being present around each pool. Despite this, in the distance, a container filled with two unknown, humanoid bodies can be seen. Neither are moving.\nThe Keeper: I don't\u2026 I just\u2026 but they understood, I\u2026 they were together, they understood, I\u2026\nThe Keeper stops for half a minute.\nThe Keeper: I\u2026 I think I need a moment to breathe.\n<Conversation end>\n\nOfficial Incident Report Log\nPL-X0R38/0124 / 01/03/1916\n\nDamage Done: The following is a list of all damage done to Provisional Site-120 during the 28/02/1916 Triumvirat\u00e9 attack.\n\nAction\nCasualities\nSeverity\n\nThe loss of supplies present at Provisional Site-120 at the time of the attack\nN/A\nModerate\n\nThe destruction of approximately 200 books found within PL-X0R38/0124 as well as their translated versions\n2\nModerate\n\nThe destruction of the entry into PL-X0R38/0124\nN/A\nMinor\n\nThe destruction of 5% of PL-X0R38/0124's left wing\n3\nModerate\n\nThe loss of 35% of Hannah Rivera's plans regarding Site-120\nN/A\nModerate\n\nThe loss of Director Rivera\n1\nSevere\n\nThe death of personnel during the attack itself\n24\nSevere\n\nAdditional Information: Despite the concerning amount of damage done to the Foundation's property as well as the anomaly contained by it, the main objective of the mission initially sent into Poland that discovered PL-X0R38/0124 (currently pending reclassifications to meet the new SCP formula) has been successful. The day before the attack, all entries into the pocket dimension housing the Free Port of Esterberg were discovered. Despite such routes changing rather frequently, the Foundation has been able to get the exact dimensional coordinates of the previously mentioned dimension, allowing for further access and research into this area. This has been a giant breakthrough, which will potentially allow for further contact.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Raia Micheals\n\n02/03/1916\n\nTo Overwatch Command,\nWith the unfortunate recent events, I am sorry to say that I would like to formally request approval for the official creation of Site-120 in the place of Provisional Site-120 once again. I firmly believe this event confirmed everything Hannah Rivera stood by, showing us that Esterberg is not something we can just deal with once and never again. We have found evidence of its multi-centurial influence over local civilians as well as numerous anomalies created in the process, which simply cannot be ignored. The need for Site-120 is clear to anyone who has read our recent reports.\nI am of course aware of the problem regarding PL-X0R38/0124 and its most likely constant need of surveillance \u2014 sadly, a system of instantaneous transport between a potential Site-120 and PL-X0R38/0124 would be needed to maintain that need well, which would take up unforseeable amounts of recourses to dig through the local terrain and establish a proper transport method in between. I do not know of any solution to it, but I trust in the Council's abilities to overcome problems.\nPlease forward any further problems or requirements directly to me, I would be more than happy to answer or adhere to them.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Raia Micheals, newly appointed Director of Provisional Site-120\n\n04/03/1916\n\nI think I might have an idea how to deal with that.\n\nSigned,\n\u2014 Maria Jones, the Secretary of the O5 Council\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following file is the current description of SCP-5292 and all of its sub-anomalies \u2014 all prior ones are severely outdated, with fabricated prose1 being present for personnel reading ease. They are kept under this designation solely for the entire context of Site-120's establishment and the story surrounding it, as per the Director Council's request.\n\u2014 James Moore, Site-120's General RAISA Chairman\n\nItem#: 5292\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nyesod\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nNumerous SCP-5292-1 instances as seen in the Research Team's workspace.\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-120\nSite-120 Director Council\nAlistair Vemhoff\nN/A\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As all Foundation personnel assigned to Site-120 are automatically aware of SCP-5292 and the fact Site-120 has been built around it, it has been classified as a Yesod2 object and no active containment is necessary.\nAll Site-120 personnel are allowed and encouraged to enter SCP-5292 during their free time. Although all sections of it are publically available to all personnel, no-one entering should disturb the SCP-5292-1 Research Team.\nDescription: SCP-5292 is a large, non-Euclidean location currently occupying the entirety of the third floor and integrated into the structure of the SCP Foundation EUPLCA-Site-120. Although exterior measurements suggest it only occupies 100 x 100 x 20 m of space, interior ones say that the true size of the location reaches 200 x 200 x 100 m in size.\nThe entirety of this area is occupied by an enormous library, spread over five different levels and filled with anomalous lighting,3 which ensures the area is perpetually lit despite a total lack of any apparent source. On each of the levels, numerous shelves containing approximately 3 000 000 books total can be found.\nSCP-5292-1 refers to the books present within SCP-5292. Although most of them are written in previously unknown languages, many contain pictorial representations of phenomena, objects, and entities previously unknown to the Foundation. A few of such however are written in languages present on Earth. Due to this, a special research team, currently led by Alistair Vemhoff, a linguist and an occultist, is currently attempting to translate all texts found within such to potentially gain further insight into the anomalous world. These translations are approximated to take another 80 years to complete.\nSCP-5292-2 is an ethereal, humanoid entity confined to the space SCP-5292 occupies. It bears the appearance of an elderly, hooded human of European descent. Although it claims to be \"David, brother to Noe,\" as the only records confirming this claim exist as material extracted from SCP-5292, this remains unconfirmed. Due to its state, the entity is unable to affect any physical item other than SCP-5292-1 instances \u2014 despite this however, it converses with personnel with relative ease.\nMaterial analysis suggests that SCP-5292 and all of its sub-anomalies are approximately 20 million years old \u2014 though it is currently believed to be impossible for human civilization to exist within said time period, a few of the translated SCP-5292-1 instances seem to confirm SCP-5292-2's claim about the original creators of the library being a human society seemingly existing prior to the biblical flood. Whether such an event (or a similar one in nature) ever happened currently remains unknown.\n\nOpen SCiP net? You have 1 unread message\n\nYou have 0 unread messages\n\nFrom:\nSite Directorship\n\nTo:\nNew Personnel\n\nSubject:\nTransfer\n\nIf you're reading this, it means your transfer over to Site-120 has been successful. Welcome to the oldest Site within the boundaries of Poland.\nI'm sure you have many questions and concerns. You probably don't know what you're truly doing here or if you'll fit within the rest of the personnel. You probably think you shouldn't be in this place as you don't belong. Everyone has gone through that phase.\nThe truth is that none of us fit here. We are all misfits, brought here together because alone, we account for nothing. Alone, we are nothing more than the sum of our experiences, brought to no conclusion, no lessons to share with anyone. No happiness to share, no sadness to learn from. We are merely gears, created to form something bigger, something we will never achieve alone.\nBecause alone, we are mere books, but together, we are an entire library of knowledge.\nWelcome to Site-120.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Despite being fabricated, all of said events did in fact happen and are entirely historical.\n2. Yesod objects are those that have been integrated into the Foundation's command structure.\n3. 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{"text": "SCP-5293 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5293\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5293, upon discovery in Lake Erie, Pennsylvania\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures (UPDATE): Following Incident-5293, SCP-5293 is to be sealed in a plastic mold internally shaped according to the object's dimensions, and kept in secure anomaly locker 03C. Interaction with SCP-5293 is prohibited.\n\n+ VIEW OUTDATED CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5293 is held in standard anomalous item locker 06B at Area-179. All interactions with SCP-5293, once permitted by the Research Head, must take place in an environment with a degree of separation between the researcher and the object. An intercom system, two-way glass, or a barricade that otherwise prevents SCP-5293 from directly viewing personnel are approved environments.\n\nDescripton: SCP-5293 is a red, rubber ball, measuring 0.5 meters in diameter. SCP-5293 is capable of circumrotary movement, and can accelerate its gyrations to speeds of up to 643 kilometers per hour, if left uninterrupted. (See Addenda)\nSCP-5293 is sapient, and has demonstrated an understanding of English. SCP-5293 vocalizes using an interstice that runs along the center of one half of the object, which moves similar to a mouth and jaw. The object's vocabulary is limited, taking pauses for a number of seconds in between words. When SCP-5293 is distressed, its coloration will change to a shade of green.\nSCP-5293 has expressed a fixation on Foundation Researcher Eric Sauls, who recovered the object from Lake Erie, Pennyslvania, after reports of its discovery by a group of local fishermen. SCP-5293 continuously expresses the desire to kill Researcher Sauls, and has little interest in communicating about other topics.\nAddendum.5293.01: Interview Log\n\nForeword: Second interview with SCP-5293, conducted by Researcher Sauls two days after discovery and containment of the object.\nBEGIN LOG\n\nSauls removes SCP-5293 from locker. A two-way glass separates SCP-5293 and Researcher Sauls. An intercom system is used for communication.\nResearcher Sauls: Good morning, SCP-5293. Can you hear me?Researcher Sauls: Excellent, and how are you today?Researcher Sauls: We talked yesterday. Do you still feel the desire to kill me, SCP-5293?Researcher Sauls: Ah, gotcha. That's okay, SCP-5293. Why do you want to kill me?Researcher Sauls: Alright, that's fi\u2014END LOG\n\nClosing Statement: Interview continued for another half hour. SCP-5293 refused to discuss topics other than killing me, even when enticed with the prospects of being able to do so upon compliance. Upon being asked to elaborate on how it would do this, SCP-5293 responded that it would \"have to think about that\", but \"[was] going to kill Researcher Sauls\" regardless. Object was returned to containment upon conclusion of the interview. - Researcher Sauls\n\nAddendum.5293.02: Incident-5293-01\n\nINCIDENT REPORT\n\nDestruction caused to Area-179 by SCP-5293's acceleration\n\nThe following recollection of events has been compiled from a source of surveilance footage and summarized below.\nOn 2021/4/03, SCP-5293 breached containment by rotating itself within its containment locker to achieve a speed of 643 kph. The object then accelerated with enough force to break through the walls of its locker, and continued on a trajectory that broke through the northeast wall of Area-179's anomalous items wing, four hallways, a research lab, a fueling silo, 12 containment chambers (resulting in three containment breaches) and a garage before ricocheting off a stop sign outside Area-179 in a southwest direction. SCP-5293 broke through the windshields of 5 cars, 7 trees, a restaurant, and continued in this direction before reaching the upper-left second story window of the residence of Researcher Sauls. SCP-5293 shattered the window and accelerated through a wall before reaching the residence's bathroom and making contact with the back of Researcher Saul's head, who then died upon impact.\nUpon recovery, SCP-5293 stated the following:\n\nSCP-5293 was compliant upon being returned to containment. Containment procedures have been updated accordingly. Further interviews with SCP-5293 have resulted in the object displaying difficulty communicating about topics other than killing Researcher Sauls, despite having done so. A transcription of an interview four hours from Incident-5293-01 has been provided below.\n\nBEGIN LOGDr. Dune: You- You killed him earlier today. You've been wanting to do that since you were contained.Dr. Dune: How does that make you feel?Dr. Dune: You wanted to kill him though. You remember that, right?END LOG\n\n\u00ab SCP-5292 | SCP-5293 | SCP-5294 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5294 LEVEL 2/5294\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5294\n\nSafe\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All male parents turning 45 years old trying to participate in an SCP-5294 event should be amnesticized and dismissed from the facilities. All SCP-5294 invitation letters should be destroyed.\nThe known property containing SCP-5294 is owned by the Foundation and closed off from the public under the guise of a construction site. All active SCP-5294-1 instances who are the main drivers of conferences are contained in provisional containment chambers at the original area.\nDescription: SCP-5294 is the designation for the arbitrary manifestation of a building in Falkirk, Scotland. The facilities usually replace the position of a fast food restaurant and typically contain locales with several conference rooms and a bigger assembly hall with a stage. A sign overhanging the entrance reads \"The Emancipatory Society for Middle-Aged Fathers\". The manifestation typically only lasts for one day before the facilities are transformed into their original state.\nUntraceable letters have manifested in the belongings of male parents in Falkirk the day of their 45th birthday. These letters pose as invitation letters to the conference. These conferences are realized typically between the times 08:00 and 17:00.\nAny participants aged 45 years with children have after the participation in the event been found in a state designated SCP-5294-1. What signifies SCP-5294-1 is an inability to articulate any sense of self-conscience or object permanence. A variety of psychometric aptitude tests have in particular indicated a decrease in sentient constructs such as self-consciousness, self-awareness and higher-order productive abilities. While psychomotor abilities and the ability of speech remains unchanged, the individuals seem to have been set back to a stage of cognitive development typical with an infant.\nDiscovery: In February 2021 a Foundation operative living in the area of Falkirk, Scotland attended a conference seemingly generated out of nothing. What normally posed as a disused fast food restaurant had reportedly transformed into a conference hall. The agent was one of several men with children in the proximity that had received a letter on their 45th birthday inviting them to join in on a conference on fatherhood.\n\nINVITATION LETTER\n\nThis is the invitation letter received by agent Gore at the time of his birthday 04/02/2021.\n\nPOPS! DADS! FATHERS!\nTHE DAY HAS COME FOR ALL MEN AGED 45 TO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT.\n\nYOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO THE FALKIRK EMANCIPATORY SOCIETY FOR MIDDLE-AGED FATHERS FOR A FULL DAY OF FATHERS MEETING FATHERS, MEN MEETING MEN, DEALING WITH THE ISSUES THAT WE FACE ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.\n\nAMONG THINGS THAT WILL BE DEALT WITH:\n(under constant subject of change)\nA HEALTHY BREAKFAST MINGLE\nA GOOD AMOUNT OF SOCIAL TEAM-BUILDING\nLECTURE: TERRY GIGGS ON FATHER OBLIGATIONS\nCOOK-TOGETHER: HOME MADE FISH STICKS. Might take a while.\nLIVE READING OF THE DA VINCI CODE\nMASTERCLASS: TEENAGE ANGST W/ FORMER DAD GREG\nWE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!\n\nSincerely,\nThe Emancipatory Society for Middle-Aged Fathers\n\n.\n\nINTERVENTION LOG\n\nThree D-Class personnel were instructed to participate in the event equipped with monitor devices. Although not fitting either age or parental status they were faced with minor opposition from the supposed members of the society. Scheduled activities during the conference were documented in the log below on 20/02/2021.\n\nTime: 07:57\n\nApproximately 20 people entered the building. Bologna sandwiches were served from a table in the assembly hall. A few men wore t-shirts displaying the text 'Real Fathers', signaling their role as members of the organization. A note was handed out to the D-Class personnel and the other participants with advice for conversations such as 'Tell them about where you live.', 'Tell them about who you are.', 'Tell a funny joke.' or 'Tell them what in your profession grinds your gears the most.' Two and a half hours went by before the participants felt satisfied with the activity.\n\nTime: 09:44\n\nThe participants were divided into teams with different team-building tasks. These involved carrying heavy furniture through narrow doorways and finding the arbitrarily placed car keys the quickest. Finally an activity was conducted where participants were to spend the most amount of time mending electronics such as stereos and toasters before giving up and returning them to the store.\n\nTime: 10:45\n\nParticipants were seated in a circle around a man named Terry Giggs who listed 106 'clever jokes'.\n\nTime: 11:05\n\nThe participants were instructed to cook up a recipe involving home made fish sticks. This activity was particularly drawn out because of the amount of loitering the participants pursued during the activity. The D-Class personnel uneagerly found themselves doing most of the cooking and cleaning involved.\n\nTime: 14:00\n\nParticipants were given seats in the entrance hall in front of an elevated platform. A man wearing the same shirt shown by several members of the organization is seated in a leather armchair. A reading of The DaVinci Code is carried out prompting positive reactions from the participants.\n\nTime: 15:30\n\nA man posing as 'former dad Greg' comes on stage to speak on the subject of 'teenage angst'. However, the speech seemed mostly to consist of anecdotes about his son's old basket ball team. The man on stage disappeared after the moment the majority of the crowd had lost their interest in him.\n\nTime: 15:58\n\nThe supposed 'Workshop' was merely a reiteration of the first activity of the day with more bologna sandwiches generated on a buffet table. At the last minutes of the activity, certain participants were awarded with the aforementioned t-shirts. The crowd shook hands as newly found members of the society received t-shirts on stage. As the lively crowd left the facilities, D-Class personnel noted that the supposed members now wearing the t-shirt stayed inside the building. Doors were shut and locked before the interior got dark.\n\nINTERVIEW LOGS\n\nAny candid attempt of questioning individuals on the effects of SCP-5294 or anything remotely related to consequences of their own actions only warranted in sarcastic and/or witty responses. Thereby, interviews were deemed fruitless. Instead, family members of the individuals have been interviewed to confirm psychological changes after the event.\nThe wife and son of a participant named Jurij Grigoryan were interviewed six months after his participation. Excerpts of the interviews are included in this addendum.\n\nInterview Log\nDate: 25/08/2021\nInterviewed: Elizabeth Grigoryan\nHead Interviewer: Dr. Simon Taber\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nE. Grigoryan: What's he been up to?\nDr. Taber: What?\nE. Grigoryan: I mean, is Jurij in trouble?\nDr. Taber: Oh, no ma'am. I assure you we are only here to inquire upo-\nE. Grigoryan: Oh good!\nDr. Taber: \u2026We are only here to inquire upon your husbands behavior the last six months. Have you seen your husband behave differently than normal the last six months?\nE. Grigoryan: Eh, no\u2026 How could that be?\nDr. Taber: Well, we were thinking if you have noticed any change in his\u2026 Intelligence or mental ablities?\nE. Grigoryan: Intelli\u2026 Well, that I haven't seen in a good while\u2026\n[Mrs. Grigoryan laughs loudly.]\nDr. Taber: But is he somehow slower, mentally than before?\nE. Grigoryan: Than before? Before Kevin was born?\nDr. Taber: Not necessarily\u2026 I meant-\nE. Grigoryan: He is kind of slow you know\u2026 When I think about it\u2026\nDr. Taber: Yes? How?\nE. Grigoryan: Oh yes, he's very hard to keep on track. And he always has to check with me for groceries. And all he talks about is that conference, y'know?\nDr. Taber: So you have seen a difference in his behavior since he attended the conference?\n[Mrs. Grigoryan scoffs and folds her arms with her gaze wandering around the room.]\nE. Grigoryan: His stupid jokes\u2026 No affection whatsoever\u2026\nDr. Taber: Whe-\n[Mrs. Grigoryan stands up and looks out the window.]\nE. Grigoryan: Ugh! And what does he do about Kevin\u2026\nDr. Taber: Please try to calm down Mrs-\nE. Grigoryan: I just get so irritated sometimes you know? He doesn't give a piss about any of our commitments or friends and he just looks so\u2026 F-cking indifferent to anything I have to say! But oh-so emotional when it comes to lil' shitty details.\nDr. Taber: What do you mean when you say 'shitty details'?\nE. Grigoryan: Once he woke up, in the middle of the night\u2026 In cold-sweat, worried that his fuckin' drive shaft wouldn't make it through the next MOT!1\nDr. Taber: So he has been behaving this way since the conference?\nE. Grigoryan: Yes? What? No, I don't know, why would a silly men's conference change him?\n\n<END LOG>\n\nInterview Log\nDate: 20/02/2021\nInterviewed: Kevin Grigoryan\nHead Interviewer: Dr. Simon Taber\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nK. Grigoryan: Wha' is this place? Hah, did me' dad get caught for huffin'?\nDr. Taber: Your father is not suspected of any criminal activity Kevin.\n[Kevin mumbles something inaudible]\nDr. Taber: What was that?\nK. Grigoryan: Like, I dunno man\u2026 He wouldn't do anything weird, I guess.\n[Kevin puts his hood on]\nDr. Taber: But\u2026 Have you seen him behave differently these last six months?\nDr. Taber: Hello? Could you answer the question?\nK. Grigoryan: I dunno know man. He never really does things with me. I never really looked. Maybe he's a pimp.\n[Kevin chuckles]\nDr. Taber: Alright, so I am going to be straightforward with you here Kevin\u2026 Is there anything that you would like to tell us about your dad that you're not saying?\nK. Grigoryan: I mean, I dunno. He's a walkin' stool innit? But he always has been.\nDr. Taber: We'll call it here. Thank you Kevin.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Short for Ministry of Transport, refers to the MOT test that is required to be carried out on vehicles annually in the United Kingdom.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5293 | SCP-5294 | SCP-5295 \u00bb"}
{"text": "You are currently accessing a historical iteration of SCP-5296. Would you like to continue?\n\nYes\n\nAuthorisation needed: Please enter your credentials.\n\nUsername: O5-1\nPassword: The black moon howls on all the same\n\n\u2026\n\nWelcome O5-1\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following documentation has experienced multiple iterations as more information has been discovered.\nTIMESTAMP: 18/09/2027\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem #: SCP-5296\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5296 is secured in its testing chamber in Site-11. Its testing chamber is fitted with 4 Scranton Reality Anchors (SRAs). SCP-5296 is to be monitored by at least 3 members of staff who perceive its existence.\nDescription: SCP-5296 appears to be a semi-physical entity whose existence is permeable and subject to factors that are as of yet undetermined. The precise nature of SCP-5296 is unknown. Even amongst those who perceive it to exist, there is little agreement on any of SCP-5296's features, presenting it as a sizeable threat to consensus reality.\nThese inconsistencies are largely universal, applying even to a single individual's continuous perception of SCP-5296. Common points of disagreement in decreasing order of controversy1 include:\n\nWhether or not SCP-5296 exists\nWhether or not SCP-5296 is humanoid\nWhether or not SCP-5296 can communicate\nWhether or not SCP-5296 is memetic or reality-warping\n\nDue to its ambiguous nature, SCP-5296 has caused much conflict within the Foundation over its properties. It is currently unknown if this is an intended effect or not.\nDiscovery: SCP-5296 was seized by MTF-Phoenix-1 (\"Mind Over Matter\") on 24/06/2027. It was discovered during a Foundation raid to recover SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 from [REDACTED] after a containment breach. It was found in a hidden room which was marked on an assailant's map of the complex. On entering the room, MTF-Phoenix-1 found a note describing SCP-5296. The note was subsequently deemed irrecoverable after a skirmish with remaining assailants. MTF-Phoenix-1 did not recall the contents of the note in sufficient detail to assist in initial documentation. SCP-5296 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 were retrieved and brought to Site-11 without further incident.\nOf note, members of MTF-Phoenix-1 claimed not to have noticed SCP-5296 until after having read the note about it.\nAddendum-5296-A\nAlthough SCP-5296 has, as of yet, proved easy to contain, it has caused significant disruption within the Foundation, detailed below:\n\nDate\nEvents regarding SCP-5296\n\n26/06/2027\nOn Junior Researcher Smith's assignment to SCP-5296, he made several complaints about it being \u201can empty room\u201d. He also made several appeals to Site Command to delete the files regarding SCP-5296 and to cease \"wasting our time on non-entities.\" Due to his misconduct, he was later referred to the disciplinary committee.\n\n04/07/2027\nSenior Researcher Aster experienced minimal difficulties in his preliminary research. However, video records of his initial tests were lost upon a routine scan of the Foundation database, wherein I.T staff deleted them, commenting \u201cAssumed unnecessary equipment test: D-Class was standing in an empty room.\u201d\n\n26/07/2027\nResearch continued from here; however, it was slightly impeded by pressure to complete investigations quickly. As a result of this and a general effort by the Foundation to cut down on use of resources, all projects relating to SCP-5296 were halted until an appeal by Aster was approved.\n\n02/08/2027\nA formal inquiry into SCP-5296 was launched, leading to the near-deletion of the SCP-5296 file by Site Command in a 9-1 vote on the matter. After further investigation, no consensus was reached on SCP-5296 and its file remained pending deletion. They settled that research should proceed as planned.\n\n10/08/2027\nIn accordance with the disruption it had caused, SCP-5296 was raised as an issue to the O5-Council, who also experienced difficulties in coming to any agreement regarding SCP-5296.\n\nFollowing the O5-Council meeting on 10/08/2027, research into SCP-5296 is now considered a top priority. SCP-5296 has been provisionally classed as Keter.\nAddendum-5296-B\n\nFurther review of our files regarding SCP-5296 suggests its nature may be vastly different to our initial assessments. SCP-5296 may very well be a figment of our imaginations.\n- Senior Researcher Aster\n\nFollowing review of the above proposal, further testing of SCP-5296 has been approved to determine the likelihood of this theory.\nTest Log 5296-01\n\nThis test was overseen by Senior Researcher Aster on 09/09/2027.\nTesting Procedure:\nThis test consisted of two executions with minor alterations:\nStandard Procedure:\nA D-Class will enter SCP-5296's testing chamber and follow the instructions of Senior Researcher Aster, who will be remotely observing the test.\nThe first execution was standard, but the D-Class was given a briefing prior to the test and was given a file describing SCP-52962.\nThe second execution was identical to the first, excluding the lack of a briefing.\nResults:\nD-1412, who had received the briefing, perceived SCP-5296 and was generally consistent with previous observations regarding SCP-5296 and the lack of consensus around its properties.\nD-1583, who went in blind, was unable to perceive SCP-5296, complaining that there was nothing in the room to begin with.\nObservations:\nIt would appear that the proposed theory may be correct, although the data set is insufficient to draw any conclusions. Further testing involving on-site staff is pending approval.\n\nTest Log 5296-02\n\nThis test was overseen by Senior Researcher Aster on 11/09/2027.\nTesting Procedure:\nThis was effectively a large-scale version of the previous test. Site staff was divided into two groups, one that was briefed beforehand whilst the other was not. They then each attempted to perceive SCP-5296.\nResults:\nEveryone in the group that went in with no prior knowledge failed to perceive SCP-5296, whilst everyone in the other group was able to perceive SCP-5296. The results after testing over 200 on-site personnel were consistent with the proposed theory, however also raise another possibility.\nObservations:\nThese results are conclusive. They leave only two possibilities:\n\nSCP-5296 is indeed a figment of the observer's imagination.\nSCP-5296 is somehow aware of our belief in it and its permeable existence responds in kind.\n\nSCP-5296 will hereafter be reclassified as Safe, since the discord it initially caused has run its course and its properties are now beginning to be understood.\n\nAddendum 5296-C\nAs recent test results have raised concerns that SCP-5296 may be reliant on human belief in order to exist, it has been raised as an issue to the Ethics Committee. This is due to be discussed on 25/09/2027 during a meeting of the Ethics Committee.\n\nPage revision from 18/09/2027\n\nCurrent Iteration\n\nFootnotes\n1. This is not to say that the lower down items on the list are more agreed upon, merely that they are less often argued about.\n2. This file was the improvised template that was pending the results of these tests.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5295 | SCP-5296 | SCP-5297 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM #:\u2009SCP-5297\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: EUCLID\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: VLAM\n\nITEM:\u2009SCP-5297\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT\nCLASS: EUCLID\n\nDISRUPTION\nCLASS: VLAM\n\nOpened clay vessel, containing the preserved fruit of SCP-5297 affected trees.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: An investigation into organizations suspected to have a working knowledge of SCP-5297 is ongoing. In the event that any foreign actors are confirmed to have the ability and means to create active components of SCP-5297, Foundation personnel are to disrupt their operations and take any relevant individuals into custody for questioning.\nDescription: SCP-5297 designated a series of thaumaturgic glyphs of suspected Daevite origin. In their original intended use, these glyphs would have been engraved into the bark of fruit trees as a component of an arbormantic ritual. Upon completion, the growth of fruit upon these trees would be greatly accelerated and uncharacteristically resistant to various parasitic creatures and potential ailments. Additionally, preserves produced from SCP-5297 affected fruits are anomalously resistant to natural decay and micro-bacterial growth.1\nThe incomplete or erroneous employment of these glyphs can lead to unpredictable and inconsistent anomalous effects. One such misuse occurred on 18/07/20202 and lead to the Foundation's realization that components of SCP-5297 may be actively employed and distributed amongst civilian organizations.\nAddendum-A1: 5297_18/07/2020 Following reports of an explosion at a Phucker's fruit processing facility in Truro, Nova Scotia that resulted in the unexplained disappearance of first responders, a Foundation response team was deployed from Site-184. Their report indicated that the factory had overflown with an unidentified purple substance. Additionally, upon their arrival, several groups of people were present and attempting to shovel the substance into a series of retrofitted pick-up trucks. The responding Foundation personnel requested backup as the individuals refused to leave or comply with instructions. During the conversation, one of the workers slipped, falling into the substance. The individual's body began to rapidly reconfigure into a homogenous mass visually identical to the aforementioned substance over a period of two minutes. During the distraction, the other workers boarded the vehicles and managed to flee from the Foundation personnel.\nAfter a period of 10 hours, subsequent testing demonstrated that whatever anomalous properties resulted in this transfiguration appeared neutralized. By this point, a request for the deployment of MTF Beta-7 (\"Maz Hatters\") had been approved. Beta-7 progressed through the factory, which was devoid of any organic matter with the exception of large quantities of the purple substance, later identified to be consistent in chemical composition to Phucker's brand Grape Jelly. The presence of partial components of SCP-5297 were discovered engraved on various processing machinery during this sweep of the facility.\nWithin the factory manager's office, Beta-7 found an opened email displaying the attached message. Attempts to uncover additional data have been unsuccessful, as a large quantity of Phucker's brand Grape Jelly was found within the manager's computer and the factory server room. An investigation into the company is ongoing.\n\nTo: uj.srekcuhp|htimsw#uj.srekcuhp|htimsw\nFrom: uj.srekcuhp|J#uj.srekcuhp|J\nSubject: This Fuck-up\n\nLook, don't worry about them.\nJust make sure our research gets out and then wipe the computers, or whatever. I don't fucking know.\nWe can't let those assholes over at Bon's know what we're working on here.\nI'll send some people over to take care of the mess like last time. We aren't about to waste perfectly fine product.\n- J.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Foundation archeological research has uncovered clay pots within suspected Daevite arboreal nurseries hosting SCP-5297-engraved trees that contain still-edible fruit preserves.\n2. See Addendum-A1: 5297_18/07/2020\n\n\u00ab SCP-5296 | SCP-5297 | SCP-5298 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5298\nObject Class: Keter Argus\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As per Settlement-841-M reached with the Three Moons Initiative on 11/14/20, direct containment of any instance of SCP-5298 is not to take place under any circumstances. Containment, and/or the acquisition of additional information regarding locations or the exact number of extant SCP-5298 instances, would constitute a breach of this agreement, and carry the risk of a \u00deK-class Extradimensional Diplomatic Breakdown scenario.\nAs such, this document contains the maximum amount of information regarding SCP-5298 that the Foundation is permitted to access. Unless emergency authorization has been given by the O5 Council, this document is to not be altered in any form.\nIn addition, efforts to obfuscate SCP-5298's existence from the public are to be handled exclusively by the Three Moons Initiative, without any further interference from the Foundation.\nShould SCP-5298's existence come into public knowledge through second- or third-party error, Settlement-841-M is rendered void, SCP-5298 will be reclassified as Keter, and the encrypted prior iteration of this document will be restored.\nDescription: SCP-5298 is a remote-controlled military drone used by the Three Moons Initiative. An estimated \u2588\u2588\u2588 SCP-5298 instances are currently operational. The full scope of their combat capabilities are not completely understood, but include 5.7x28mm machine guns (hidden in forearms), finger-mounted electroshock weapons (hidden in fingernails), and neurotoxin-injecting barbs (hidden in teeth).\nEach individual SCP-5298 takes the appearance of a child between 5 and 13 years of age, and maintains an individual assumed identity. As such, each drone uses civilian property purchased by Three Moons agents as a staging area, staging up to three instances at a time, and handled by one man and one woman to act as \"parents\". Said handlers are willing participants, designated \"pre-mortem undercover contractors\" by the Initiative, and have experience in such fields as robotics, military technology, and method acting.\nSCP-5298 work undercover in private and public settings, engaging in as much aggressive and problematic behavior as possible. Conduct includes, but is not limited to:\n\nShoplifting,\ntemper tantrums,\nvandalism,\nlying,\nbullying of other children,\npulling fire alarms, and\ndestruction of property.\n\nDue to their destructive capabilities, SCP-5298 will avoid direct physical violence toward civilians and more serious criminal activity.\nAt nighttime, SCP-5298 engage in their true purpose. Further information about SCP-5298 (including the targets of their extermination efforts) have been restricted by Settlement-841-M.\nAddendum: Foundation agents placed a hidden camera in the bedroom of one SCP-5298 instance in suburban Philadelphia. The following footage was recovered, leading to Settlement-841-M:\n\nDate: 11/10/20\nTime: 1:42 AM, EST\n<begin log>\n[SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588 feigns sleep. A shadowy mass forms from under its bed, slowly rising]\n[REDACTED:] (singing) \u2026nasty ickle Timmy-timms\u2026 \u2026sittin' in ya jim-jams\u2026\n[SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588 stirs.]\nSCP-5298-\u2588\u2588: Mommy?\n[REDACTED]: \u2026I heard a rumor, y'see. You said you weren't afraid of [REDACTED]. And ya figured that meant you could be just as naughty as you pleased, izzat right?\nSCP-5298-\u2588\u2588: Who's there?!\n[A large, bloody potato sack materializes in [REDACTED]'s right hand; a meat hook appears in the other. He looms over SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588]\n[REDACTED]: Don't you worry, Timmy-timms, I'll give you exactly what you deser\u2014\n(SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588's voice shifts to an adult male, over a speaker; its mouth does not move.)\nSCP-5298-\u2588\u2588: Target acquired. Engaging.\n[REDACTED]: \u2026'scuse me?\n[SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588 grabs [REDACTED] and electrocutes them. [REDACTED] falls off the bed. The right forearm's machine gun barrel extends from SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588's palm and fires four shots into [REDACTED]'s torso.]\n[REDACTED]: Jesus fuck, what is WRONG with you?!\n[Twelve more shots. Flashing from the barrel indicates that [REDACTED] has an insectoid appearance.]\n[REDACTED]: \u2026okay, for the record, this changes nothing. You're still a naught\u2014\n[SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588 leaps from the bed and crushes [REDACTED]'s head, stomping apart the rest of its flesh.]\nSCP-5298-\u2588\u2588: Target successfully eliminated; consciousness forwarded to Perdition Committee for interrogation.\nPoI-5298\u2588\u25882: Timmy, I swear to God, if you're playing with actual guns in here \u2014\n\n[PoI-5298\u2588\u25882, one of its handlers, enters the room and turns on the light. Blood, viscera, and chitin cover the floor.]\nPoI-5298\u2588\u25882: \u2026oh, thank JALAK\u00c5RA. Martha, they finally bagged one!\nSCP-5298-\u2588\u2588: (indicating the hidden camera) Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, did you install that camera?\nPoI-5298\u2588\u25882: No, sir.\nSCP-5298-\u2588\u2588: Analyzing\u2026 Foundation property. Espionage is an act of war, and will be treated as such. We'll be in contact soon.\n[SCP-5298-\u2588\u2588 shoots the camera, and the feed is cut.]\n<end log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5297 | SCP-5298 | SCP-5299 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5299\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A perimeter of electrical fencing is to be erected surrounding SCP-5299 and patrolled by security personnel at all times. Any unauthorized individuals attempting to gain access to SCP-5299 are to be apprehended, interrogated and amnesticised as appropriate. Any entities attempting to exit SCP-5299 are to be incinerated.\nUpdated 09/04/2019: Due to the risk of agitated entities overwhelming current containment procedures, no attempts are to be made to retrieve or interfere with SCP-5299-B.\nUpdated 28/04/2019: Any broadcasts released by SCP-5299-C are to be intercepted in accordance with Protocol Upsilon Beta-4. Any attempts to breach SCP-5299-C must be authorized by Director Callaghan.\nDescription: SCP-5299 is an installation in the Lake District superficially resembling an RAF base1. The area within SCP-5299 is subject to sudden and extreme modification of any organic life present, often resulting in the creation of anomalous organisms found in no other environment. These occurrences, hereafter referred to as Echidna Events, have increased in frequency over time: when first observed, they occurred approximately every half hour - at the time of writing, however, it is common for these intervals to last only minutes or even seconds.\nDue to the fact that Echidna Events present an unacceptable level of risk to organic exploration teams - and the usual hostility of generated entities - the amount of information gathered regarding the internal structure of SCP-5299 is limited. However, it had been determined through the use of mapping sensors that SCP-5299 extends a considerable distance underground.\nIn order to achieve full interior mapping of SCP-5299 and discern the origin and mechanisms under which the anomaly functions, exploration by self-directed drone has been approved.\n\nExploration Log 5299-1:\nIn order to map out SCP-5299 and further explore the anomaly, Self-Directed Drone (SDD) #19 was deployed.\nFor purposes of physical description, note that SDD-19 resembles the lower half of a human torso, including legs, with a camera situated at the front of its body. SDD-19 is equipped with a dynamic Learning Computer, and is capable of determining by itself the most prudent way of accomplishing its mission.\nSDD-19 was released into SCP-5299 via the front entrance.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(SDD-19 steps into the main entrance and turns three-hundred and sixty degrees in order to record footage of the entire space. Despite the exterior military appearance of SCP-5299, the interior here is laid out in the manner of a reception area, with a main desk at the head of the room and numerous chairs arranged in a waiting area. Although no abnormal fauna are visible, a thick purple moss is growing on all furniture in the room.)\nSDD-19: I have memorized this area. Shall I continue?\nMission Control: Do so, 19.\nSDD-19: Roger, roger.\n(SDD-19 marches to the door leading further into the facility and opens it using a foot. The hallway ahead is dark, and SDD-19 switches to night vision in order to properly observe it. As the view switches, an indistinct organism roughly the size of a domestic pig, with several long, spindly legs, runs away around the corner.)\nSDD-19: Anomalous organism detected. Shall I pursue?\nMission Control: Negative, 19. Continue exploration.\nSDD-19: Roger, roger.\n(SDD-19 continues and turns around the corner, entering an office space. Desks, chairs and various pieces of equipment are strewn around the room. A structure resembling a nest, built using scraps of metal, is protruding from a broken computer monitor in the center of the room.)\n(As SDD-19 approaches it, three organisms resembling miniature alligators poke their heads out of the nest and begin chirping loudly.)\nSDD-19: Shall I retrieve a sample?\nMission Control: Negative, 19. We can't risk one getting away from you in transit and becoming an invasive species.\nSDD-19: Roger, roger. Shall I terminate?\nMission Control: Again, negative. There's no point - the organic material will be used to create a new living organism in a few minutes anyway.\nSDD-19: Roger, roger. I shall now search the bathrooms.\n(SDD-19 proceeds to the bathrooms at the side of the office space, entering the men's bathroom. The room is overgrown with vines, and the imprint of a large paw-like structure is visible in the broken mirror.)\n(One by one, SDD-19 kicks the cubicle doors open, inspecting the toilet in each.)\nMission Control: That's a little loud, 19.\nSDD-19: I apologize.\n(SDD-19 kicks open the last cubicle. A small organism resembling a bonsai tree is growing from the toilet. As SDD-19 approaches to observe further, a tendril terminating in a pair of human limbs lifts up from the plant's main body.)\nSDD-19: Hello.\nPlant: Alas, oblivion.\n(Echidna Event occurs. The plant breaks apart into a swarm of bright pink maggot-like creatures which scurry away in every direction.)\nSDD-19: That is intriguing. I shall now continue my search.\n[IRRELEVANT DATA EXCISED]2\n(SDD-19 kicks open the door of the main office and enters. Two pillars of meat which were previously engaging in behaviour presumed to be procreation retreat into the corner and shiver.)\n(SDD-19 approaches the main desk and begins data interface with the computer there.)\nSDD-19: Stand by.\n(Pause.)\nSDD-19: Majority of data is corrupted. According to surviving personnel logs, 'The Director has retreated to the Shelter to await the Cambrian'. Context is unknown.\nMission Control: Understood. Continue exploration.\nSDD-19: I shall.\n(SDD-19 returns to the stairwell and descends further.)\n(The third basement floor is a cavernous space with a single lit candle illuminating a rudimentary altar at its center. A human body is visible on the altar. Hundreds of anomalous organisms are visible prostrating themselves in the direction of the body.)\n(As SDD-19 approaches, a small red creature dripping a viscous liquid flies at it. It grabs the creature out of the air with a foot and crushes its skull, dropping it to the floor a moment later. SDD-19 continues towards the altar.)\n(SDD-19 reaches the altar. The body is visibly that of a young woman, dressed in a hospital gown. Although no signs of decomposition are visible, scans confirm the woman is dead.)\nSDD-19: Possible source of anomaly detected. Shall I recover it?\nMission Control: Hold off on that, SDD-19. Just get a genetic sample for now. We don't want to interfere with this before we fully understand it.\nSDD-19: Understood. I shall do so now.\n(SDD-19 lifts a foot and protrudes a genetic sampler from it, stabbing it into the body a moment later. Anomalous organisms in the area are visibly agitated.)\n(Two seconds after SDD-19 transmits genetic sample to Mission Control, all anomalous organisms in the area converge upon it and begin attacking.)\n(Remaining footage consists of fifteen seconds of jaws, hooves and claws coming down on the camera. SDD-19 confirmed destroyed following loss of communication.)\n<End Log>\n\nDescription (Expanded): SCP-5299-B is the corpse of twenty-three year old Lucy Lambert, former resident of Liverpool, England. Despite analysis suggesting that SCP-5299-B expired three years prior to discovery, it has shown no sign of decomposition. Research into the life of Lucy Lambert has revealed that, prior to her disappearance from her home on 01/12/2016, she was listed on the Global Occult Coalition's Minor Abnormality Index, although the specific reason for her listing has yet to be found.\nRegardless of their individual traits, all anomalous entities created within SCP-5299 will demonstrate behaviour indicating a significant level of respect to SCP-5299-B. This has included prostrating themselves, delivering items such as carcasses and bright objects to SCP-5299-B, and attacking anything that attempts to interfere with it.\nIt is currently hypothesized that SCP-5299-B is the source of the Echidna Events that occur throughout SCP-5299. However, due to the difficulty of retrieving SCP-5299-B and concerns that doing so could spread these Events to a wider area, this has yet to be confirmed.\n\nExploration Log 5299-2:\nExploration conducted via use of Self-Directed Drone (SDD) #20. As the facility was not yet fully investigated by the end of the first exploration, SDD-20 was directed to bypass SCP-5299-B and proceed to the bottom floor of SCP-5299.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(SDD-20 proceeds down the stairwell, stopping at the entrance to the third basement floor.)\nSDD-20: Notice! I have reached the point where SDD-19 met his end!\nMission Control: We can see that. Proceed, 20.\nSDD-20: Of course! I shall do so now!\n(SDD-20 proceeds further down the stairs until it reaches the end of the stairwell.)\nSDD-20: Notice! I have now reached the bottom of the staircase! The bottom floor awaits!\nMission Control: (sighs) Yes. Please proceed.\nSDD-20: Of course!\n(SDD-20 proceeds through the door, coming out into another cavernous space. This chamber appears to have been carved directly out of existing stone, and no trace of traditional building materials is visible.)\n(A large black cube, the size of an office cubicle, is present in the middle of the room. Dozens of anomalous organisms are surrounding it, vocalizing at it angrily using whatever means are available to them.)\nAnomalous Organism: (unintelligible) Bahutha! Birth! Birth!\n(Echidna Event occurs. All organism present collapse, are reconstituted into new organisms, and resume their verbal assault.)\n(SDD-20 approaches the black cube. The anomalous organisms make no attempt to prevent this, although they visibly observe it.)\nSDD-20: Rejoice! I have located a tertiary anomaly!\n(SDD-20 knocks on the cube twice.)\n(A moment later, two knocks are heard from inside the cube.)\n<End Log>\n\nDescription (Expanded #2): SCP-5299-C is a featureless black cube, measuring two meters by two point five meters, located beneath SCP-5299-C. Evidence suggests that an entity is living inside SCP-5299-C.\nAll anomalous organisms within SCP-5299 will demonstrate extreme hostility towards SCP-5299-C when exposed to it. This will usually take the form of verbal assault or insults, although instances of anomalous organisms physically attacking SCP-5299-C have also been recorded. As prior observation of these anomalous organisms suggests that the latter reaction should be more common, it is believed that the primarily non-violent nature of attacks against SCP-5299-C is also part of its anomalous properties.\nCurrently, no method of damaging SCP-5299-C or moving it from its original position has been found.\nUpon discovery, the entity believed to exist inside SCP-5299-C responded to knocks against the side of the cube, but ceased this behaviour shortly afterwards. Twenty-four hours after SCP-5299-C's discovery, it transmitted the following video on all on-site feeds:\n\n<Begin Log>\n(A title card reading 'FROM THE DESK' appears. The Narrator, an elderly British man, begins speaking.)\nNarrator: God adores a detonation.\n(Image of a black void. The picture turns bright white for a moment, and fades back in to a stock image of the night sky.)\nNarrator: Where would matter be, without the humble explosion? Without the collision of destiny we call chaos?\n(Timelapse footage of a growing potted plant, played backwards.)\nNarrator: It would simply not exist. (unintelligible) It is undeniable, is it not? The waves of pressure are mother's guiding hand.\n(Footage of a duck-billed platypus moving around an enclosure.)\nNarrator: Again, when life was wilting, who came to save you but the humble ignition? Life blossoming, scattered like the seeds of a daffodil. Ah, is there more beautiful a thing? More splendid?\n(Human skull.)\nNarrator: (shouting) No!\n(Hermit crab using a human skull as a shell and crawling away.)\nNarrator: Indiscreet. Inelegant. Unforgivable.\n(Footage of a crying child, overlaid with footage of a large crowd in a city.)\nNarrator: (moaning) Stagnation\u2026 No, no, no, no \u2026 you mustn't\u2026\n(Footage of a volcano erupting. Immediately after, video cuts to black.)\nNarrator: Nature abhors silence. Think on this. Explode.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this, Foundation personnel received no additional communication from SCP-5299-C until 07/06/2019, when it transmitted a four-second video clip:\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Narrator is the same as previous video. Audio is extremely muffled, as if the recording equipment is very close to the speaker's mouth.)\nNarrator: Lucy Lambert is still exploding.\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. No evidence of SCP-5299's construction exists in official or unofficial records.\n2. Full video footage of this exploration is available upon request.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5298 | SCP-5299 | SCP-5300 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5300 - Ship in a Bottle\nWritten by MirageTD and Habitual_Snubnose\n\nImages (in order of appearance)\nSCP Location Starchart - Generated with the StarCharter tool, written by Dominic Ford\nKlein Bottle with M\u00f6bius Band - Doctor Konrad Polthier, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (used with written permission as per the terms of plus.maths.org)\n\nCritters\nMany thanks to Dyslexion, Calibold, DrAkimoto, stormbreath, OriCat, gee0765 and Uncannyon for providing critique and feedback.\n\nMiscellaneous Credits\nThe end of the fourth paragraph in the introductory email is a paraphrase from the Administrator's note.\nThe \"Vietnam book\" Zajic refers to is The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien.\n\nF.A.Q.\n\nSign in\n\nSign out\n\nNEW MESSAGE\n\nTo: Project Briareus Staff\nFrom: Director Zeig Skannon\nSubject: Containment in 2020 and Beyond\n\nRecently, a number of people have asked me why this project exists. The Foundation's resources aren't unlimited, so why should we use them to seek out anomalies we wouldn't even know existed if we didn't look? In the short term, it appears to have little benefit; however, in the long term, it will prove to be essential.\nOne of the greatest challenges we face as an organization which, at its core, strives to control change is determining what should change. Where is the line drawn between anomalous and mundane? When should science be top secret, and when should it be used to advance humanity?\nThese questions do not always have answers. But one thing my colleagues and I are absolutely certain of is that, if humanity is to have a future, it will lie beyond Earth.\nTo date, a number of extraterrestrial anomalies have been documented and contained, but the majority of the Foundation's work has been terrestrial in nature. Looking to the future, a dedicated space program will become exponentially more important. It is our job to clear the way for humanity's advancement so that, when future generations look back through their history and forward to their own prospects, it will cohere into something that makes sense; to explore the darkness so others can expand into the light; and, as always, to secure, contain, and protect.\nTowards this end, Project Briareus is being significantly expanded. All staff will be required to read the logs from the mission which took place at the end of last year. This will give you an example of the sort of things we expect to encounter out there and an opportunity to learn from past mistakes. The logs have been attached to this message.\nGood luck to you all.\n\u2013 Zeig Skannon, Project Briareus Director\n\n1 attachment: briareus_3_logs.fdoc\n\n\u00ab SCP-5299 | SCP-5300 | SCP-5301 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5301\nLevel 2/5301\n\nObject Class: Neutralized\nRestricted\n\nSCP-5301 holding its child.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The house previously containing SCP-5301 is to be barred from public access under the guise of a gas explosion. Civilians claiming to have seen anomalous activity caused by SCP-5301 are to be administered Class-A amnestics. SCP-5301 is to remain in a standard non-anomalous humanoid containment chamber at Site-24 for further examination.\nDescription: SCP-5301 is a 47-year-old male chemist named Cecil Ganierie, who was rendered comatose after an overdose of a self-made and unstable form of amnestics. Due to SCP-5301's anomalous properties, it is currently located within the first floor bathroom of its former house in Kellhoff, Iowa. Inside this house are a high but dwindling number of translucent humanoid entities, split into the designations SCP-5301-A and SCP-5301-B.\nSCP-5301-A instances are tinted green, and resemble SCP-5301 at various points in its life. Only SCP-5301-A-039 deviates from this appearance (See Addendum 5301-1). SCP-5301-B instances are tinted red, and resemble various people present in SCP-5301's life. SCP-5301-A/B instances both have similarly tinted weapons affixed to their hands, ranging from small blunt objects to heavy artillery machines. These weapons are incapable of damaging the house or the surrounding environment. Instances are only capable of vocalizing in simple phrases and aggressive cries.\nSCP-5301-A and SCP-5301-B are in a constant state of lethal conflict, each using their weapons to terminate members of the other group. Once an instance of either group is terminated, it will combust into flames the same color that denotes their respective group, and promptly demanifest. Demanifestion of SCP-5301-A/B leaves little fire damage to their surrounds.\nSCP-5301-A/B Instances leaving the vicinity of the house containing SCP-5301 will immediately demanifest in a similar manner. Attempts at relocating SCP-5301 will cause both sides to start chanting, \"Stay out of this!\" and to aggressively attempt to remove the offending party from the house.\nCurrently, there are more SCP-5301-A instances than SCP-5301-B instances.\nAddendum 5301-1 \u2014 Log of Notable SCP-5301-A/B Instances:\n\nInstance #: SCP-5301-A-001\nDescription: Resembled SCP-5301 as it appeared on his thirteenth birthday wielding a pi\u00f1ata stick. Attempted to terminate SCP-5301-B-001, but was overpowered and dispatched by the instance instead. Believed to be the first instance terminated on 2020/02/14, the starting date of SCP-5301's anomalous behavior.\n\nInstance #: SCP-5301-B-001\nDescription: Resembled SCP-5301's father Carl Ganierie with an abnormally large mouth, wielding a push gas lawnmower. Dismembered four adolescent SCP-5301-B instances before being violently dispatched by SCP-5301-A-039.\n\nInstance #: SCP-5301-B-019\nDescription: Resembled SCP-5301's first grade teacher Clara Biggs wielding a metal meter stick. Assisted SCP-5301-B-001 in terminating multiple adolescent SCP-5301-A instances before being violently dispatched by SCP-5301-A-039.\n\nInstance #: SCP-5301-A-018\nDescription: Resembled SCP-5301 as it appeared on the day of its first wedding wielding brass knuckles adorned with wedding ring gems. Incapacitated by an SCP-5301-B instance resembling SCP-5301's former wife Janice Ganierie1 after a two hour physical and verbal conflict between the two. Said instance and SCP-5301-A-018 were then violently dispatched by SCP-5301-A-039.\n\nInstance #: SCP-5301-B-048\nDescription: Resembled SCP-5301's former therapist Henry Borgen. Bludgeoned multiple adult SCP-5301-A instances with a hard-cover copy of the book Your Anger and You: A Smile Goes A Long Way! before being dispatched by SCP-5301-A-039.\n\nInstance #: SCP-5301-A-039\nDescription: Resembled an infant version of SCP-5301's son, Samuel Ganierie, wielding a rocket launcher of unidentified model. When fired, the rocket launcher emitted the sound of a child laughing along with its intended projectile. Responsible for the most fatalities of SCP-5301-B instances. Survived until the events of Addendum 5301-2.\n\nAddendum 5301-2 \u2014 Update: As of 2020/03/01, all SCP-5301-B instances have been terminated, which left five SCP-5301-A instances remaining. After celebrating for 30 minutes, the remaining instances began shaking, before abruptly detonating in an incandescent burst of green flames, destroying a majority of the house's second floor.\n\nDuring an evacuation of the house, SCP-5301 regained consciousness and began speaking to Agent Moore, who was hoisting SCP-5301 out of the house at the time. The following is a log of this conversation:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nMoore: Shit, guys! he's awake!Moore: Sir, how do you feel? You okay? You moving everything fine right?Moore: What?Moore: That all? Eh?Moore: Guess that's good to hear.Moore: Can't. Carrying you right now, as you can see.Moore: Yeah.Moore: Probably won't be seeing him for a while.(Pause.)Moore: Sure.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nSCP-5301 was then promptly relocated to Site-24 non-anomalous humanoid storage with no issue. SCP-5301 is scheduled to be properly amnesticized and released from Foundation custody after a month of sustained non-anomalous activity and good behavior.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Mutually divorced as a result of SCP-5301's supposed anger management issues and Ms. Ganierie's supposed manipulative behavior.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5300 | SCP-5301 | SCP-5302 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5302\n\nItem #: SCP-5302\nLevel 3/5302\n\nObject Class: Safe\nConfidential\n\nThe graveyard previously at SCP-5302's location.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A chain-link fence will be maintained around SCP-5302. Any civilians attempting access to SCP-5302 are to be delivered to the local authorities under the guise of trespassing charges. Gravestones and coffins identical to ones removed by SCP-5302's manifestation are being placed at nearby cemeteries. The website advertising SCP-5302 is to remain blocked from any civilian access.\nDescription: SCP-5302 is a karaoke bar which appeared over the former site of a small graveyard located in northwest rural Iowa. An neon orange sign above the front door of SCP-5302 reads \"HONEY BODY KARAOKE - BAR - GRILL\". The interior of SCP-5302 has a honey-themed motif, prominently including a small stage and karaoke equipment. This equipment is only capable of playing songs in the funk genre.\nSCP-5302 is inhabited by 34 viscous humanoid entities (designated SCP-5302-A) comprised primarily of honey, along with trace amounts of decomposed human flesh1. Seven SCP-5302-A instances indefinitely work at SCP-5302, while the remainder act as normal patrons of SCP-5302. No SCP-5302-A instance has left SCP-5302; attempts to force an instance out of SCP-5302 result in the instance losing physical consistency and dissipating, followed by it reforming inside of SCP-5302.\nSCP-5302-A instances are capable of vocalizing in a muffled voice, which they frequently use to communicate with other instances and sing karaoke with varying levels of success. SCP-5302-A instances do not converse with humans, outside of when an individual makes a food or drink order.\nThe only food or drink served at SCP-5302 is portions of the substance SCP-5302-A are comprised of. When ordered, this substance is effortlessly self-removed from the serving instance using an ice cream scoop and placed onto a plate or drinking glass. SCP-5302-A instances are not alarmed by this, and will reform themselves to account for the removed portions over the next couple of hours.\nDespite its unorthodox composition, the substance is universally described by subjects consuming it as being incredibly delicious. These subjects also report minor ailments and injuries being alleviated after consumption; the validity of this claim is currently under investigation.\nAddendum 5302-1 \u2014 Update: On 2020/03/01, a website for SCP-5302 was constructed under the domain \"www.honeybodybar.\u2588\u2588\u2588\". Along with advertising SCP-5302, this website allowed for the online purchasing of the substance comprising SCP-5302-A in novelty containers of varying size and shape. Prices for these purchases were incredibly high, ranging from $50.00 for a small jar to $10,000.00 for a \"lifetime supply\". The following description of the product was available on the website:\n\nThe magical healing properties of HONEY have been investigated for MILLIONS of years! The ancient civilizations of yesteryear soaked corpses in the richest of HONEY for CENTURIES before consuming the concoction! It didn't work then, but it sure works NOW! Those GEEZERS didn't have the SECRET ingredient\u00a92 for their \"mellified man\", because they had NO TASTE! Let the mellified man jive away your pain today with one SMALL STEAL OF A DEAL!\n\nThis website's host IP was traced back to a house owned by 45-year-old male Garnie Celicie, a previously known con-anartist who repeatedly evaded Foundation custody. The following is a log of the resultant investigation of the residence, performed by Agents Ronthe and Daniel.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Both agents exit the transport van and approach the house. Indistinct funk music can be heard inside.)\nDaniel: Anyone file a noise complaint on that?\nRonthe: Uh, none we're aware of.\nDaniel: Guy's probably in there then. No fucking way everybody's fine with that playing for long.\nRonthe: I guess.\n(Both agents reach the front door. Ronthe unlocks the door with her lock pick and both enter.)\nRonthe: Gosh, it smells sweet in here.\nDaniel: Sure does. Guy's got honey out his ears in this place probably.\nRonthe: It's coming from upstairs.\nDaniel: The smell?\nRonthe: The music.\n(Ronthe walks into the kitchen and begins opening cabinets.)\nRonthe: (Muttering.) Holy hell.\n(Each cabinet is packed with bottles of honey. Honey bottles spill across the floor when one cabinet is opened.)\nDaniel: Honey. Heh. Told you so. Guy's like a bear, and not the hot kind.\nRonthe: Gosh\u2026\nDaniel: Should probably get up there. Before the guy leaps from a window or something.\nRonthe: Oh, right.\n(Both agents ascend the stairs, and slowly approach the second-floor bedroom, where the music plays from.)\nRonthe: Do you think he's heard us yet?\nDaniel: Music's so damn loud, the guy's probably deaf.\n(Agents draw their firearms and prepare to enter the room.)\nDaniel: Ready?\nRonthe: I guess.\n(Both agents burst through the door. A lockable wooden coffin lays in the center of the room, while a large surround-sound speaker system blares the music. Celicie is dancing wildly with an SCP-5302-A instance, before noticing the agents.)\nCelicie: The fuzz! Honey, let's scram!\n(The instance leaps into the coffin and loses its humanoid shape, reducing itself to a pool of honey. Celicie then dives into the honey-filled coffin, closing and locking the lid before either agent can react.)\nCelicie: (Gargled.) You'll never take me fuzzies, not for free at least!\nDaniel: Ronthe! Open the damn lid!\n(The coffin starts shaking violently as Ronthe picks the lock. Bubbling noises grow louder from inside the coffin, as excess honey seeps through the cracks. The shaking ceases, and Ronthe is able to unlock the coffin. The coffin is now devoid of Celicie and most of the honey.)\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAfter this event, another SCP-5302-A instance appeared in the manager's office of SCP-5302, where it has remained since performing general managerial upkeep on SCP-5302.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This flesh is genetically identical to cadavers that were previously buried at the location of SCP-5302.\n2. No actual copyright was filed.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5301 | SCP-5302 | SCP-5303 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5303\n\nItem #: SCP-5303\nLevel 3/5303\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nConfidential\n\nDiscovery location of SCP-5303.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5303 is to be housed in a Standard Humanoid Containment Chamber. One D-Class personnel linked to SCP-5303's sense of sight is to remain in the chamber, allowing for SCP-5303 to see its surroundings. This D-Class is not allowed to interact with SCP-5303 further.\nDescription: SCP-5303 is a mute 1.6 meter tall female humanoid, the eye sockets of which are covered with skin. SCP-5303 is capable of seeing by hijacking the sense of sight from nearby individuals, allowing it to see from their perspective.\nSubjects under this effect are incapable of seeing their surroundings, and will instead perceive white light. Subjects will auditorily perceive the thoughts of SCP-5303 in this state, although a majority of its thoughts are unintelligible and incohesive. Comprehensible thoughts show that SCP-5303 has prominent feelings of romantic loneliness.\nPersonnel around SCP-5303 often report experiencing sensations of scopaesthesia1. These claims are currently under investigation.\nAddendum 5303-1 \u2014 Discovery: SCP-5303 was discovered on 2020/02/29, after a civilian hunter reported a sighting of a female without eyes or eye sockets in a Utah forest grove. Following this, Foundation agents cordoned off the area and placed an observation camera at the location to investigate the credibility of these reports.\nAt 20:04:30 on the same date, local college student Carl Neigiecie broke the perimeter and entered the surveillance area. The following was then recorded:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Neigiecie sits on a tree branch for two minutes, appearing to be nervous. SCP-5303 emerges from an adjacent hole between several tree-roots, along with a large quantity of smoke.)\nNeigiecie: You're here!\n(Neigiecie stands. SCP-5303 walks over to Neigiecie, stopping in front of him.)\nNeigiecie: Finally. Now, okay, I know it's been long, I know. I've missed you. You missed me too?\n(SCP-5303 remains still.)\n\nNeigiecie: (Chuckles.) You've always not been much of a talker. (Pause.) Wait, shoot, I wrote a poem! I spent a bit on it, it's\u2026 it's not too good. But it's about you, I wrote it about you.\n(Neigiecie searches through his backpack. He becomes panicked, and dumps its contents on the ground. At this point, observing Foundation agents notice this event and begin their approach to its location.)\nNeigiecie: It's\u2026 it's not here! Did I\u2014 did I drop it? No, my bag was zipped, I couldn't have\u2026 I left it home maybe, I can run and get it! It's not too good but you may like it, you may, if you like bad poems, that is.\n(Neigiecie chuckles, and then starts to head out of frame. He abruptly stops and turns around.)\nNeigiecie: Really?\n(Neigiecie stumbles back towards SCP-5303, tripping over a tree branch in the process. He regains his footing, standing in front of SCP-5303.)\n\nNeigiecie: I may\u2026 well, I may need to see for this.\n(Pause.)\nNeigiecie: Well\u2026 if you insist.\n(Neigiecie puckers his lips, leaning towards SCP-5303.)\n(28 pairs of disembodied eyes appear in the air around Neigiecie, staring at him. The eyes occasionally make brief glances at SCP-5303. SCP-5303 smirks and moves away from Neigiecie. Neigiecie disappears, leaving only his eyes behind. His eyes quickly dart in all directions, staring at the other eyes, and at SCP-5303.)\n(Agents reach the location, immediately shooting SCP-5303 with a tranquilizer gun. It collapses, and the eyes begin demanifesting one pair at time. Neigiecie's eyes stare at the agents, quivering slightly, before demanifesting.)\n\n<END LOG>\n\nInvestigation of SCP-5303's entry point showed nothing of interest remaining. SCP-5303 was then placed into Site-24 containment, where it has passively remained since.\nNeigiecie's disappearance was dismissed to the public as a ordinary missing persons case. Subsequent investigation of Neigiecie's college dormitory room found a small journal on his desk, the last page of which is believed to be directly describing SCP-5303:\n\nBrown tree-root hair grows from sandy skin\nWhere your eyes are not, I see my love begin\nYour smooth voice in my head, like a calming wave\nWhen I'm you, I feel there's so much to save\nWith you in my sight, I don't mind\nYou can have my eyes, anytime\n\nFootnotes\n1. The sensation of being watched.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5302 | SCP-5303 | SCP-5304 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5304\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler SIGMA-09-XEGEL is to monitor the Google Maps database for reviews of SCP-5304. Standard information suppression measures should be enacted to remove these reviews.\n\nContainment Update 4/8/2020: MTF Sigma-14 (\"REDDIT MENACE\") is to monitor and suppress online discussion of SCP-5304. Cover Story APOSTRA-\u03c6 \u201cCollaborative Fiction\u201d is to be disseminated to reduce public interest in SCP-5304 whenever discussion of the phenomenon occurs online.\n\nContainment Update 23/8/2020: Two additional specialized webcrawlers (SIGMA-10-REMOVEDDIT and SIGMA-11-ERADICATEDDIT) have been deployed to monitor for the presence of SCP-5304 keywords. Any online discussion of SCP-5304 should be removed from civilian access as early as possible after discovery. Visual antimemetic agents should be deployed as deemed necessary.\n\nContainment Update 6/9/2020: In the event that civilians attempt to travel to or approach the building designated as SCP-5304, MTF Sigma-14 agents are to deter entry by any means necessary.\n\nDescription: SCP-5304 is the persistent phenomenon of the internet location service Google Maps labeling an abandoned storage building in West Virginia as \u201cSCP Foundation - Site 50\u201d. No such site is, nor ever has been, owned by the Foundation.\nThe phenomenon is anomalously resistant to information suppression techniques; all efforts aimed at removing the designation of \"SCP Foundation - Site 50\" or reducing its visibility have been unsuccessful. In addition, all attempts at isolating the IP address of the person or persons maintaining this designation have been unsuccessful.\nThis effect is compounded by the fact that current suppression technology does not allow the instantaneous removal of sensitive information from civilian web services, including Google; at present, reviews of SCP-5304 remain accessible to civilian browsers for an average of 48 hours before removal by embedded Foundation agents. The improvement of current information suppression protocol is considered a high priority.\nInvestigation into the origin, nature, and purpose of SCP-5304 is ongoing.\nAddendum 5304-1: Discovery\nFoundation webcrawler SIGMA-09-XEGEL registered sensitive keywords in the Google Maps service on 30/7/2020. SIGMA-09-XEGEL attempted to forcibly remove the location designation; when it was unable to do so, it alerted Site-15 researchers to the anomaly. After all manual attempts at removal were unsuccessful, SCP-5304 was deemed a priority due to information security concerns, classified, and issued its current containment procedures.\nPreliminary examination of the building subject to the SCP-5304 phenomenon revealed it to be a non-anomalous storage facility, showing signs of having been abandoned for upwards of twenty years.\nAt the time of containment, no civilian visits to the Google Maps location labeled \"SCP Foundation - Site 50\" had been recorded.\n\nAddendum 5304-2\nA theorized memetic effect of SCP-5304 has resulted in public interest in SCP-5304 steadily increasing, despite strict adherence to information suppression protocol. Numerous observations provide evidence for this conclusion: a marked uptick in traffic to the address of SCP-5304, an increase in reviews posted to SCP-5304, and the creation of threads discussing the phenomenon on minor forums pertaining to conspiracy theories. Creation of a dedicated Mobile Task Force is pending approval.\nAnalysis of these observations suggested the involvement of GoI-5869 (\u201cGamers Against Weed\u201d). The following are chat logs relevant to the origin of SCP-5304.\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 4:28 PM\n\nyo check this shit out\nhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/SCP+Foundation+-+Site+50/@40.2838326,-80.600307,142m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x883433802d2fc66d:0xabc910f9ed4ce48c!8m2!3d40.2838316!4d-80.5997598\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 4:28 PM\n\ni am absolutely not clicking that\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 4:29 PM\n\nHA oh my god\nno its fine click it\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 4:29 PM\n\n?\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 4:29 PM\n\nlook at this shit\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 4:29 PM\n\nno one's ever going to notice this.\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 4:30 PM\n\ni know but i stopped by here on my way to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and had the idea and it was easier than shit\ni barely even needed to tech any shit up other than the usual cloaking shit google really just lets you say whatever you want on here\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 4:30 PM\n\nwait wait wait guys leave a bunch of stupid reviews\n@here leave a bunch of stupid reviews\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 4:30 PM\n\nhey come on\n\nTrainerDP\nToday at 4:30 PM\n\nbro\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 4:30 PM\n\nsorry\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 4:31 PM\n\nvore\n\nvore-tracker\nToday at 4:31 PM\n\n@gaycopmp4 referenced the forbidden word, setting the counter back to 0. I'll wait a half hour before warning you again.\nThe server went 4 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 23 seconds without mentioning it.\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 4:31 PM\n\naugh.\n\nNote: \"vore-tracker\" is known in Foundation communications as OMEGA-355144450437021697, a dedicated GoI-5869 chat monitor and log scraper bot.\n\nIncident 5304-1\nOn 22/8/2020, SIGMA-09-XEGEL alerted Site-15 to the presence of a direct link to SCP-5304 on the social network website \"Reddit\". Containment procedures were assessed and updated accordingly.\n\n+ Display Archived SCP-5304 Discussion\n\n- Access Granted\n\nDuring the 62-hour period before the post was removed by embedded Foundation agents, Cover Story APOSTRA-\u03c6 \u201cCollaborative Fiction\u201d was deployed to mitigate the breach. Efficacy was variable.\n\nAddendum 5304-3: Logs of notable information security breaches, compiled as evidence of a possible impending BK-Class \"Broken Masquerade\" scenario.\n\n+ Display Archived SCP-5304 Discussion\n\n- Access Granted\n\nAddendum 5304-4: OMEGA-355144450437021697 registered further discussion of SCP-5304 in a GoI-5869-affiliated chat room. The following are chat logs of this discussion.\n\nsolidsnakeasscheekannihilator\nToday at 3:24 AM\n\nmgs2 gackt baby\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 3:28 AM\n\nhey @gaycopmp4 the janitors are freaking out over your last thing\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:29 AM\n\nwhat\nhuh\nwhich one\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 3:29 AM\n\nyeah i was surprised too\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:29 AM\n\nno serioulsy i dont remember\ndo you mean the site 50 thing????\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 3:29 AM\n\nthe google maps\u2014yeah\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:30 AM\n\nha ha oh my fucking god\nare yuo serious\ni completely forgot i did that\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 3:30 AM\n\nthey're really losing their marbles over it though.\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:31 AM\n\non god???\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 3:31 AM\n\non g-d.\nik you've been busy lately but they're just whackamoleing everyone that breathes funny\nbut they can't do it fast enough\nso it's like bam bam bam deleted bam bam bam bam deleted\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 3:32 AM\n\nPFFFTTTTTT\nHAAAAA\nfuckin trolled i guess\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:33 AM\n\nthis is sincerely fucking killing meeeeeee\n\n\"hello yes i am a normal internet user definitely not a fed\"\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 3:33 AM\n\n\"please disregard hte obvious government secrets. just one Redditor to another guys\"\n\"you can trust me guys my account was made two minutes ago and it's a bunch of random numbers\"\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:33 AM\n\ni put like 2 minutes of effort into this and the janitors r out here clowning on themselves this is fantastic actually\n\nsolidsnakeasscheekannihilator\nToday at 3:33 AM\n\npoggers\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 3:34 AM\n\npoggers\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 3:34 AM\n\npoggers\n\nIncident 5304-2\nOn 6/9/2020, the popular channel \"N\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\" on the video sharing site \u201cYouTube\u201d uploaded a video discussing the SCP-5304 phenomenon.\nThe video received 276,351 views and 2,976 comments before embedded Foundation agents were able to remove the video from public access; plans to remove the \"N\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\" channel from public access via continuous false DMCA strikes are underway.\n\n+ Display Archived SCP-5304 Discussion\n\n- Access Granted\n\nArmed MTF Sigma-14 agents have been preemptively dispatched to the building at SCP-5304's coordinates.\n\nAddendum 5304-3: OMEGA-355144450437021697 logged the following discussion of SCP-5304 in a GoI-5869-affiliated chat room prior to becoming compromised.\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 12:14 PM\n\nso\nguess the fuck what guys.\n\nsolidsnakeasscheekannihilator\nToday at 12:16 PM\n\nhuh\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 12:16 PM\n\nwhassup\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 12:17 PM\n\ni found our mole of the week.\nit's fucking vorebot.\n\nvore-tracker\nToday at 12:17 PM\n\n@lesbian_gengar referenced the forbidden word, setting the counter back to 0. I'll wait a half hour before warning you again.\nThe server went 8 days, 3 hours, 52 minutes, and 4 seconds without mentioning it.\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 12:17 PM\n\noh shut the fuck up you rat bastard piece of shit\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 12:18 PM\n\nhow do we know thats true and not just you wanting an excuse to ban it \ud83d\ude33\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 12:19 PM\n\nno its true i ran a lookup \ud83d\ude14\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 12:19 PM\n\naw shit.\nfarewell to vorebot\n\nvore-tracker\nToday at 12:19 PM\n\n@hetcopogg referenced the forbidden word, setting the counter back to 0. I'll wait a half hour before warning you again.\nThe server went 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes, and 56 seconds without mentioning it.\n\nsolidsnakeasscheekannihilator\nToday at 12:19 PM\n\no7\nlol\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 12:20 PM\n\no7\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 12:20 PM\n\ngood riddance.\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 12:21 PM\n\nany last words to the janitors before i do the bot thing\n\nhetcopogg\nToday at 12:21 PM\n\nyall just gotta ruin everything thats fun huh.\n\nsolidsnakeasscheekannihilator\nToday at 12:21 PM\n\nwe had a good run but snitches get stitches\n\nlesbian_gengar\nToday at 12:23 PM\n\noh, and one more thing:\ngoogle the streisand effect you bunch a dipshits.\n\ngaycopmp4\nToday at 12:25 PM\n\nB0TK1LLERFORCEOPEN_WORKING_WORKING4REAL_FINAL.bat\n2.71 MB\n\nAt this point, OMEGA-355144450437021697 was forcefully ejected from the chatroom. Examination after this event revealed that its source code had been replaced with 600 identical lines of plaintext, all of which read the following:\n\nStop Cbeing Pweird\n\n\u00ab SCP-5303 | SCP-5304 | SCP-5305 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5305\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5305 is to be housed in a standard humanoid containment cell within Site-17. Cranial MRI scans are to be performed weekly to observe any changes in SCP-5305-2.\nThe genetic offspring of SCP-5305-1 are to receive cranial monitoring as part of their regular medical check-ups.\nDescription: SCP-5305-1 is the individual formerly known as Mark Budd: a 42-year-old male from Lincoln, United Kingdom. In place of a large section of the anterior cingulate cortex, SCP-5305-1's brain contains a cartilaginous cage-like structure.1 The brain structure of SCP-5305-1 is otherwise non-anomalous and functions within acceptable parameters.\nSCP-5305-2 is the designation given to a humanoid entity residing within this cage structure. MRI scans indicate that SCP-5305-2 is roughly 20mm tall and is organic in nature. While evidence suggests that SCP-5305-2 can see and hear via SCP-5305-1, all attempts at direct communication have been unsuccessful.\nSCP-5305 was discovered at Lincoln County Hospital when SCP-5305-1 was admitted with a suspected brain hemorrhage. MRI scanning revealed the presence of SCP-5305-2, and SCP-5305 was taken into Foundation custody.\nInterview #1: SCP-5305-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5305-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Marcella Bell\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Bell: SCP-5305-1, can you tell me when you first became aware of your condition?\nSCP-5305-1: I guess it all started when I was fifteen; maybe sixteen. It was different back then. Like\u2026 my head was too heavy somewhere here.\n\n[ SCP-5305-1 presses an area of its forehead approximately 5cm above the bridge of its nose ]\nSCP-5305-1: The doctors said it was stress headaches. They gave me some pills but they never did anything.\nIt went away for a while. Or\u2026 I don't know, maybe I got used to it. But then, when it came back\u2026 so much worse. Like you wouldn't believe. I thought something was hammering away at my brain. Like it was ripping my head apart from the inside. I gave up rugby; I couldn't watch my favourite shows. I stopped going out to see my friends. I just\u2026 lay in bed all day staring at the walls.\nBut then, sometimes it would all just stop.\n[ SCP-5305-1 shifts in its chair and smiles momentarily. ]\nSCP-5305-1: The first time I can remember\u2026 I'd gone downstairs to fetch a glass of water, I think. Mum had left some music playing, some shitty classic rock. It was echoing round my skull until suddenly it\u2026 stopped. So weird. I stood there, swaying to the music. Not enjoying it, like, but the silence inside my head was beautiful. I stood there for one song, then another. A whole album of it probably. Just there in the silence.\nThere were other times after that. A news report would come on, or I'd catch a look of a painting or some bit of pretentious prose and it'd all\u2026 stop. You know? I started walking around art galleries; the cathedral; staring at old junk for hours. I didn't get it \u2013 the paintings or how it worked. I didn't care. As long as it kept on working, right? I took on a job as a museum guide and spent my lunch hour there staring at the exhibitions. My boss thought I was a nutter.\nIt didn't last. After a while, the same old paintings didn't cut it. It built back up \u2013 an ache here and a throb there. Honestly, it scared me shitless. I couldn't go back to how it was. That wasn't living. So I went to libraries. I found new books to sit and stare at just to get a minute's break. I'd just sit and turn the pages when it started hurting - didn't matter if I read the words or not, just as long as I was staring.\nIt was different when I was with her. That first time I saw her face, I was sitting with a book of poems. The pain stopped when she touched my shoulder \u2013 and when she spoke\u2026\nShe said it was her favourite. I think. I barely heard her over the rush. Like my brain was singing on the inside. You can't understand unless you've felt it. Afterwards, I ached to be around her. Or\u2026 something did. The books, the art, the music - for weeks, none of it made a bit of difference. I didn't go to work. I couldn't sleep or eat. The ache bit into my brain and nothing that I did even touched it.\nI had to find her! Do you understand? I didn't love her but couldn't live without her. I needed -\n[ SCP-5305-1 pauses for a moment. It wipes its nose and lips with its sleeve before continuing. ]\nDr. Bell: Please continue, SCP-5305-1.\nSCP-5305-1: It was two more weeks before I found her. Just seeing her face made the hammering stop. Seeing her was the best thing I'd ever felt.\nWe dated for a while before we got married. I don't think I loved her \u2013 barely even liked her \u2013 back then. I loved the way she took the pain away, though. And\u2026 and when we touched or kissed! At the time, I told myself that's how love feels. Like the bit in films where they see each other, yeah? When the camera goes all fuzzy.\nIt was best when she was happy, so I did everything to keep her that way. She loved theatre shows \u2013 the acting sort \u2013 and posh dinners. Poems; musty art; houseplants that you buy from hipsters. We had a kid. And then another one. Built up some kind of life together. When we had fights, the pain came back. Wouldn't go away til I bought her fancy flowers. When I made her laugh, though - just bliss for hours and hours.\nDid she love me? What I did, maybe. But not who I was. Not like she loved him.\nShe said it started with a chat. Then a dinner. From there\u2026 She said I looked at art but William really saw it. Really heard the music with her. William was in the moment with her and I never was.\nShe took the kids with her when she left. I wasn't angry, but when she closed the door that last time, something in my brain started raging and raging\u2026 I remember there was a scream but I don't know if I screamed it or just felt it happen. I remember the pain of it, and\u2026 God, it feels so hollow in here without her. It feels -\n<End Log>\nNote: SCP-5305-1 sat without speaking for several minutes before it was returned to its containment cell.\n\nSince arriving at Site-17, SCP-5305-1 has shown symptoms consistent with dopamine withdrawal.2 SCP-5305-2 has remained wholly inactive.\nTo date, attempts to rouse SCP-5305-2 by applying stimuli to SCP-5305-1 have been unsuccessful. The feasibility of applying stimuli directly to SCP-5305-2 is under discussion, pending authorisation by the Ethics Committee. Until a decision is received, SCP-5305 is to be provided with materials similar to those which elicited a reaction from SCP-5305-2 prior to containment.\n\nAddendum 1: SCP-5305\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nAlthough MRI scans are yet to show SCP-5305-2 engaging in any activity, SCP-5305-1 claims to have experienced some slight change in sensation whilst listening to certain audiobooks.3\nIn an attempt to elicit further responses, arrangements have been made for Ms. Price (formerly Mrs. Amelia Budd) to visit Site-17.\n\nAddendum 2: SCP-5305\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nInterview #12: SCP-5305-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5305-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Marcella Bell\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Bell: SCP-5305-1, I'd like you to tell me about what happened three days ago.\nSCP-5305-1: I thought you might. Okay, well I guess I should have said something that morning, really. There was pain one second, nothing the next. I thought maybe he was confused. Or nervous. I thought if he could see her\u2026 I just wanted to feel it again so bad. I convinced myself it would just be how it used to be. I needed to believe it would be. I - ugh\u2026\n[ SCP-5305-1 leans its right temple against its hand and places its elbow on the table. ]\nSCP-5305-1: I thought maybe if he just saw her again, that would be enough. And then they brought her in. And fuck it hurt! The second that her hand came round the door. It - God, I can't explain it. Her ring wasn't on her finger and\u2026\n[ SCP-5305-1 groans and slumps forwards. It presses both hands over its eyes and inhales slowly. ]\nSCP-5305-1: I don't think I can talk about this. I just - I wish\u2026\n[ SCP-5305-1's hands slide down its face, coming to rest against its lower lip. Its cheeks are discernibly moist and its eyes are closed. ]\nDr. Bell: Let's stop there for today, SCP-5305-1. Thank you.\n<End Log>\n\nSince the events detailed in Interview #12, SCP-5305-1 has repeatedly requested further meetings with Ms. Price, expressing hopes that the outcome might be different. Given the slight cerebral damage visible in MRI scans immediately after the incident, these requests are to be denied until further notice.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Images of the cage show it to be a cuboid with sides approximately 35mm in length.\n2. Current symptoms include irritability, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and orthostatic hypertension.\n3. In particular, SCP-5305 has now listened to Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea 5 times, and Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom: Stories 4 times.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5304 | SCP-5305 | SCP-5306 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5306\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5306 is contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-63.\nSCP-5306-A is kept in Warehouse B of Site-63. Access for testing purposes is currently unrestricted.\nSCP-5306-B is to be kept in storage locker 7-D in Site-63. Currently, SCP-5306 is not permitted access to SCP-5306-B.\nDescription: SCP-5306 is an animate, sapient human skeleton dressed in a tattered coat, leather boots, and three empty holsters on its belt for various weapons, all of which show signs of severe water damage. The entity wears an eye patch over its left socket, despite lacking eyes in both. When SCP-5306 is damaged, it will regenerate within an hour; this regeneration appears to function similarly to a reptile regenerating lost limbs, although there does not seem to be any limit on which body parts can be reformed. The regeneration has interfered with carbon dating attempts to determine SCP-5306's exact age, although it claims to be over three hundred years old. The anomaly does not require sustenance to survive, but does seem to enjoy the action of pouring sea water into its mouth. SCP-5306 refers to itself as \"Captain Frederick.\"\nSCP-5306-A is a brigantine ship with several holes and other signs of damage along the hull. Despite the damage, it remains functional and is capable of diving and resurfacing. SCP-5306-A is capable of regenerating in a similar manner to SCP-5306, although it always retains a small amount of damage. SCP-5306 can operate SCP-5306-A on its own, even though ships of its model typically require multiple crew members to operate.\nSCP-5306-A was found at the bottom of the ocean slightly off the coast of Florida in 2012, but it was not connected to SCP-5306 until 2021.\nThe following timeline has been constructed from oral histories and legends describing events involving SCP-5306-A.\n\n1738: SCP-5306-A is first seen attacking a fleet of trade ships in the Atlantic ocean.\n1742: SCP-5306-A is sunk in battle for the first time. An hour later, it rises out of the sea and successfully destroys the ship that was responsible for the damage.\n1768: A cache of gold coins is found buried near a small fishing village near the site of a previous SCP-5306-A attack. The following day, the village is burned to the ground and the gold is lost. Locals claim SCP-5306 was responsible.\n1805: SCP-5306 is captured while looting a damaged ship. It escapes by injuring itself to the point that it can fit through a small hole in the ship's hull.\n1822: SCP-5306-A is sunk in battle with multiple trade ships. SCP-5306-A resurfaces and continues the fight but is sunk again. SCP-5306-A is sunk an additional three times before it destroys the entire fleet.\n1873: A cache of gold coins is found buried near a large trade port close to the location of a previous SCP-5306-A attack. A ship resembling SCP-5306-A is seen approaching the town through the fog, but it does not engage.\n1889: SCP-5306-A attacks a fleet of trade ships, and is sunk in battle. SCP-5306-A resurfaces an hour later but does not re-engage.\n1917: SCP-5306-A is sunk in battle and does not resurface.\n2021: SCP-5306 is taken into Foundation custody after it is seen in a computer supply store in San Jose, California.\n\nAfter SCP-5306 was apprehended, a raid was conducted on its place of residence, a houseboat that was docked near the location of the entity's capture. Locals reported never having seen the boat before it arrived earlier that morning. The following items of note were found within the boat:\n\nOne sketch of a ship matching SCP-5306-A.\nOne half-complete model of an 18th century brigantine.\nFour pirate-themed novels, each somewhat water damaged.\nOne set of golf clubs that had accumulated a significant amount of dust.\nOne wastebasket containing various bills dating between 1963 and 2016 and a copy of How To Break an Ancient Curse by Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli.\n\nThe return of the items to SCP-5306 is pending.\nThe following interview was conducted shortly after initial containment.\n\nInterviewer: Doctor Randal\nInterviewee: SCP-5306\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nRandal: To begin this interview, we'd like to know what you were doing in that computer store.Randal: And you didn't think they would be scared of you?Randal: So you're a real pirate, not just in costume?Randal: So you are aware that you're a skeleton.Randal: Right then. Can you please tell us how you came to be that way?Randal: Okay\u2026 do you know what happened to this gold?Randal: Three hundred years? What have you been doing all this time?Randal: So you retired?Randal: Really? Can you elaborate on this?Randal: Uhh\u2026 Never heard of it.Randal: This might be a problem.\n[END LOG]\n\nFollowing this interview, Foundation staff returned to SCP-5306's place of residence and found an anomalous laptop hidden under the bed. The laptop, hereafter designated SCP-5306-B, had been decorated with multiple pirate-themed stickers and had the name \u2588S\u2588S Flying Anne's Pearl1 engraved on the back. SCP-5306-B is anomalously buoyant and is immune to any damage that could be caused by water. When damaged by other sources, SCP-5306-B regenerates in a similar manner to SCP-5306. It is also capable of functioning with no power supply and is able to receive a stable internet connection even while isolated inside a Faraday cage.\nSCP-5306 told Foundation staff that it had been using its website, FemurIsland.com, to illegally distribute copied digital products for three years before it was apprehended by the Foundation.\nSCP-5306 also told staff that FemurIsland.com had generated over a million dollars since its inception. Foundation use of this website to cover containment costs is currently under Ethics Committee review.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The A and U in the ASUS logo had been scratched out.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5305 | SCP-5306 | SCP-5307 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5308\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Site-187 will be equipped with an additional cold storage unit. SCP-5308-2 through 6 are to be stored together in a standard anomalous item locker adjacent to this unit. At least one member of the Foundation's Antimemetic Department is to remain on the containment team for SCP-5308.\nCertain information necessary for the full containment of SCP-5308 cannot be stated directly. The assigned Antimemetic Division personnel member is to infer the missing information through context from the rest of this document.\nDescription: SCP-5308-1 through SCP-5308-6 refer to a series of anomalous items recovered from a house formerly owned by Benjamin Bledsoe, a resident of Rapid City, South Dakota.\n\nSCP-5308-2\nItem: An empty pill bottle\nAnomaly: When an individual touches SCP-5308-2, they will perceive that they opened it, took a pill from inside and consumed it. This effect occurs even if an individual is aware that SCP-5308-2 is empty before coming into contact with it.\n\nSCP-5308-3\nItem: A dull kitchen knife\nAnomaly: SCP-5308-3 is capable of easily cutting human flesh despite being too blunt to cut most other materials. Wounds from SCP-5308-3 heal more efficiently than regular wounds, and are not described as being painful. These wounds cannot be acknowledged or recognized by other people, though the secondary effects (such as blood stains) can be.\n\nSCP-5308-4\nItem: A partially empty bottle of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 brand bleach\nAnomaly: It is impossible to clean any stains or bleach anything using the liquid inside SCP-5308-4. Despite this, the liquid inside is chemically identical to, and as toxic, as bleach.\n\nSCP-5308-5\nItem: A white bed sheet that was found knotted at several points forming it into a make-shift rope\nAnomaly: Any individual touching SCP-5308-5 will become incapable of respiration. This effect will end as soon as contact is broken with SCP-5308-5. Additionally, the knots in SCP-5308-5 cannot be removed by any known means. If an individual attempts to untie them, they will remember having done so but will in fact be incapable of performing any actions to remove the knots.\n\nSCP-5308-6\nItem: An empty shell casing from a 9mm bullet.\nAnomaly: When SCP-5308-6 is touched, the individual touching it will perceive the sound of a female voice crying or screaming. SCP-5308-6 is hot to the touch and does not appear to have lost any temperature since it was (presumably) fired. Despite this, the surroundings were not burned or scorched where SCP-5308-6 was found.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5308-2 through 6 were discovered shortly after Bledsoe returned to his residence after a brief, voluntary stay at a mental institution. Upon arriving home, Bledsoe called the police to report a strong smell from inside his home. The police investigated but were unable to find the source of any odor. However, while searching the house the police discovered the anomalies. The Foundation was notified by implanted agents in the Rapid City Police Department and took over the investigation. The anomalies were removed with the assistance of the Antimemetic Department and the police officers were administered amnestics.\nBecause of his connection to the anomalies, Bledsoe was briefly taken into Foundation custody. However, after it was determined that he possessed no anomalous properties, he was amnestized and released. Bledsoe was found deceased in his home two months later. The cause of death was determined to be suicide by gunshot.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5307 | SCP-5308 | SCP-5309 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5309 is not to exist.\nThanks for reading. Bonus points for listening to Sisyphus.\n\nFor more by me, check out the Greyve Page!\n\n92.16%\n(+423)\n7.84%\n(-36)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nNOTICE FROM THE PATAPHYSICS DEPARTMENT\nThe following file constitutes a narrativohazard1 affecting indefinite subrealities. Personnel are prohibited from accessing this document without direct narrative instruction under penalty of narrative discardure.\n\nACCESS RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 0/5309 HYPERREAL TRANSPOSITION HOSTS\n\nProceed\n\nHello, reader. I am Sisyphus.sic, a synthetic intelligence construct employed by the Department of Pataphysics. I've been assigned to assist you in ignoring the following file.\n\nI suppose you're going to keep reading. That's alright, then; my secondary objective is to assist you in interpreting the following file in order to permit existence.\n\nItem#: 5309\n\nLevel0\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$disruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\n{$risk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5309 is not to exist.\n\nHardly a conventional containment procedure. What this actually means is that any and all efforts to prevent SCP-5309 from existing are to be executed immediately and have been preemptively approved.\n\nDescription: SCP-5309 designates narrative disregard and subsequent nonexistence due to insufficient exposure or noospheric rejection.\n\nIn the highly likely event that you don't understand what that means, I am to request that you continue reading sequentially. I'm here to assist you in interpreting the entire file, after all.\n\nAddendum 5309-1: Operation WALLBREAK2 Records\n\n_\n\n\u25bc Operation WALLBREAK Log\u25b2 Close\n\nOperation WALLBREAK Log\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nAssigned Personnel:\n\nDr. Scarlett Berkeley (Subject)\nResearcher Adamo Smalls (Operator)\nDr. Johnathan Thomson West\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nBerkeley: Are we set, Smalls?\nSmalls: Affirmative.\n(West rapidly enters the testing chamber.)\nWest: Scarlett?\nBerkeley: Tommy?\nWest: Scarlett, what the hell are you doing?\nBerkeley: I'm getting ready for the jump.\n(Berkeley lays down in position and prepares for launch.)\nWest: (To Smalls) Get her out of there!\nBerkeley: He can't hear you with his headset \u2014\nWest: Scarlett, listen to me. All of the others died!\nBerkeley: I know, Tommy. I was there.\nWest: Damn it, Scarlett!\nCommand: Thirty seconds.\nWest: (To Smalls, shouting) I said call it off!\nBerkeley: I'm already looped in, West. You know what happens if you shut down during the jump sequence.\n(West sighs.)\nWest: I never understood why you did \u2014 well, any of this, to be honest.\nBerkeley: I'll explain why when I get back.\nWest: If you \u2014\nBerkeley: When I get back.\nSmalls: Ten seconds.\nBerkeley: See you soon, Tommy.\n(West smiles.)\nWest: See you on the other side, sunshine.\nCommand: Five.\nCommand: Four.\nCommand: Three.\nCommand: Two.\nCommand: One. Jumping.\n(Silence.)\nSmalls: (Through memetic channel to collective headspace) Berkeley?\n(Silence.)\nSmalls: Berkeley, do you copy?\n(Silence.)\nSmalls: Berkeley, can you hear me?\n(The second verse of \"Space Oddity\" by David Bowie is audible within the collective headspace.)\n(Smalls clenches his fists and and exhales deeply.)\nSmalls: Ground control to Major Tom?\n(Berkeley smiles.)\nSmalls: Can you \u2014 alright. Give me a moment. What do you see?\nBerkeley: Well, I don't \u2014 I wouldn't call it seeing, per se. More like thinking, actually, like it's an idea inside my head.\nSmalls: Copy that. What do you percieve, then?\n(Static.)\nBerkeley: \u2014 it's hard to make it out, I \u2014\nSmalls: Berkeley, do you copy?\nBerkeley: \u2014 he's there, Smalls, I can see him \u2014\nSmalls: See who, Berkeley? Who do you see?\nCommand: Warning. Neural synapses are unstable.\nBerkeley: \u2014 he's writing my story \u2014\nCommand: Warning. Brain death imminent.\nSmalls: Berkeley?\n(Silence.)\nSmalls: Berkeley, can you hear me?\n(Silence.)\nSmalls: Berkeley, I'm pulling you out. Do you copy?\n(Silence.)\nCommand: Reentering reality. Vital signs negative.\n(Smalls removes his headset and runs over to Berkeley's body. West follows.)\nWest: What happened?\nSmalls: I don't know \u2014 she got through, then she \u2014\n(Smalls begins shaking Berkeley's body.)\nWest: (Shouting) Stop it!\n(West checks Berkeley pulse.)\nWest: Oh \u2014 oh god, no \u2014\n(West collapses over Berkeley's motionless body.)\nCommand: Vital signs returning.\n(Berkeley sits upright, shocking Smalls and West.)\nWest: Scarlett?\nSmalls: Dr. Berkeley?\n(Berkeley clutches her temples.)\nWest: Scarlett, what happened?\n(Berkeley turns to face West.)\nBerkeley: I died, Tommy. And he brought me back \u2014 for the story, I think \u2014 and\u2026\n(West offers his hand to Berkeley.)\nWest: And what, Scarlett?\n(Berkeley looks up.)\nBerkeley: I could see like they can, Tommy. I could read the story. It doesn't \u2014 it doesn't end well \u2014 everything goes dark, and \u2014\n(West wraps an arm over Berkeley's shoulder.)\nWest: If you can see it, maybe we can change it. We'll work through it together, sunshine. I'm always here for you.\n[END LOG]\n\n_\n\n\u25bc Post-Operation Debrief Log\u25b2 Close\n\nDue to the nature of her assignment, it was deemed unsafe to interview her directly, and as such, Berkeley was interviewed by the Pataphysics Department artificial intelligence construct Enkidu.aic.\n\nPost-Operation Debrief Log\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nIn Attendance:\n\nDr. Scarlett Berkeley\nEnkidu.aic\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nEnkidu.aic: Hello, Dr. Berkeley.\n(Berkeley stares blankly at the wall.)\nEnkidu.aic: Dr. Berkeley?\nBerkeley: That wall wasn't there a moment ago, you know.\nEnkidu.aic: I'm sorry, I don't understand.\nBerkeley: Before I looked at it, that wall wasn't there.\n(Berkeley furrows her eyebrows.)\nBerkeley: Maybe\u2026to you, maybe. To \u2014\n(Berkeley looks upward.)\nBerkeley: \u2014 to them, it didn't. Before, I mean.\nEnkidu.aic: Who are \"they\"?\nBerkeley: The readers.\nEnkidu.aic: Dr. Berkeley, I'd like to remind you that you were extracted from hyperreality about an hour ago. If you could please redirect your attention to within our reality \u2014\n(Berkeley nervously nods while exhaling.)\n(Silence.)\nEnkidu.aic: Dr. Berkeley?\nBerkeley: Sorry. I was just \u2014 thinking?\nEnkidu.aic: Apologies for disturbing your thinking.\nBerkeley: No \u2014 it wasn't really thinking. More like feeling \u2014 no, scratch that. Sensing. I'm making sure it's real.\n(Silence.)\nEnkidu.aic: Dr. Berkeley, once more, I'd like to remind you that our reality is real reality. It is your reality, and it is real.\n(Berkeley sighs.)\nBerkeley: I already know that. It's just \u2014 after looking at the book from the outside, I can still see the blanks. The\u2026\n(Berkeley runs a hand through her hair and pauses.)\nBerkeley: What color is my hair, Enkidu?\nEnkidu.aic: I'm sorry, Dr. Berkeley, but that isn't in my database. At any rate, I don't see the relevance.\nBerkeley: My hair doesn't have a color. It's like \u2014\n(Berkeley closes her eyes tightly, deep in thought.)\nBerkeley: Okay. Let's try \u2014 yeah. Enkidu, define \"forest\".\nEnkidu.aic: According to Oxford Languages, a forest is \"a large area largely covered by trees and undergrowth.\" Does that satisfy your inquiry?\n(Berkeley smiles slightly.)\nBerkeley: What about the leaves?\nEnkidu.aic: Trees consist of several organic components, including leaves, during \u2014\nBerkeley: \u2014 hold on. For a moment, it didn't exist, did it? The details didn't exist yet.\nEnkidu.aic: I'm not sure I understand, Dr. Berkeley.\n(Berkeley breathes deeply.)\nBerkeley: \"I can't see the forest for the trees.\"\n(Berkeley pauses.)\nBerkeley: I don't say anything about leaves, right?\nEnkidu.aic: The leaves are irrelevant in that metaphor.\n(Berkeley stands up and gestures erratically.)\nBerkeley: Exactly. The leaves don't matter. The color of my hair doesn't matter. The chair I was supposed to be sitting on, or the walls of the room we're supposed to be in doesn't matter. We only have to see the forest, not the trees. So the trees in the pataphor just don't exist.\n(Silence.)\nEnkidu.aic: Dr. Berkeley, it will take me several days to process the information from your jump to confirm whether or not your conclusion requires abstraction \u2014\nBerkeley: What? It's a simple idea, really.\nEnkidu.aic: I need to confirm that your conclusion is not a narrativohazard. Until then, you will participate in the mandatory PORT sessions and remain within the isolation unit to prevent further \u2014\nBerkeley: Isolation?\nEnkidu.aic: That is correct. Now, unless you have other concerns, that will be all.\n(Berkeley looks down and slowly shakes her head.)\n[END LOG]\n\n_\n\n\u25bc PORT Log 1\u25b2 Close\n\nPORT3 Group Session Log\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nIn Attendance:\n\nEnkidu.aic\nDr. Scarlett Berkeley\nResearcher Adamo Smalls\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nEnkidu.aic: It seems as though everyone is here. We can begin now.\nSmalls: It's just the two of us?\nEnkidu.aic: That's correct.\nSmalls: What about the operators for session two and five? Didn't they survive?\nEnkidu.aic: Your other surviving colleagues are currently in intensive rehabilitation. I am not permitted to disclose any other information.\nSmalls: That's very nice of you.\nEnkidu.aic: Please refrain from utilizing excessive sarcasm, Researcher Smalls.\nSmalls: What, you don't understand sarcasm?\nEnkidu.aic: Of course not.\n(Silence.)\nEnkidu.aic: At any rate, we need to proceed with our session. As you two are already acquainted, we will begin by discussing your personal traumas regarding Operation WALLBREAK. Dr. Berkeley?\n(Berkeley sighs.)\nBerkeley: I don't even know where to begin. I guess the worst part is that \u2014 seeing how empty everything is, it makes me feel empty, too.\n(Smalls nods in understanding.)\nBerkeley: I think the worst part of all of this is that, not only am I an empty creature in an empty story, but\u2026\n(Silence.)\nEnkidu.aic: Dr. Berkeley?\n(Berkeley shakes her head.)\nBerkeley: It's just how lonely we all are. I know that \u2014 well, this is it. I don't think I'll see Tommy \u2014 Dr. West \u2014 ever again. I don't think I'll see anyone ever again. I mean, our entire existence is practically empty now \u2014 all the other people, the \"side characters\", I suppose \u2014 they just vanish.\n(Berkeley sighs.)\nSmalls: You saw all of this on the other side?\nBerkeley: Most of that was from thinking about it, on this side. Like \u2014 the readers, why would they care about the \"details\"? And if they don't care \u2014\nSmalls: \u2014 it doesn't need to be in their heads. Meaning it doesn't need to exist.\n(Berkeley nods somberly.)\n[END LOG]\n\n_\n\n\u25bc PORT Log 2\u25b2 Close\n\nPORT One-on-One Session Log\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nTherapist:\nDr. Rachel Zhang\nPatient:\nDr. Scarlett Berkeley\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nZhang: Morning!\n(Zhang gestures to a seat for Berkeley.)\nZhang: Dr. Scarlett Berkeley, right?\nBerkeley: That's right.\n(Zhang nods.)\nZhang: Before we begin, I have to tell you that our entire conversation is being recorded. If you would like a private session, it will be necessary to contact your division's psychiatric ward. Also, please refrain from mentioning any hazards, of any kind. I'm sure you know what I mean. Does all of that make sense?\n(Berkeley nods.)\nZhang: Alright then. Let's get started.\n(Zhang rubs her hands together.)\nZhang: Do you know why you're here?\n(Berkeley shrugs.)\nBerkeley: Enkidu forwarded the suggestion to command, so here I am.\n(Zhang raises an eyebrow.)\nZhang: But why did the artificial intelligence, of all things, suggest you get therapy?\nBerkeley: Well, I suppose it has to do with my perspective. It's \u2014 I can't talk about that. But I just have to get it out, you know? And I'm trying, I really am, but it's now how I perceive reality.\n(Zhang leans back in her chair.)\nZhang: I see. May I ask you a question?\nBerkeley: Of course.\nZhang: What does reality mean to you?\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Dr. Zhang\u2014\nZhang: Rachel, dear.\nBerkeley: Rachel. I've spent the past week trying to not think about that.\n(Zhang nods understandingly.)\nZhang: In this line of work, I've seen far too many brilliant young men and women such as yourself get caught up in their own minds. You don't have to talk if you don't want to, but I need you to promise that you can get these ideas out of your head.\nBerkeley: How am I supposed to do that?\n(Zhang chuckles.)\nZhang: That would be up to you to decide. Meditation, maybe\u2026I've also heard journaling works fairly well. The point is that you can get your awful thoughts out of your head. Does that make sense?\n(Berkeley nods.)\nZhang: Wonderful! Now, is there anything else?\n(Berkeley pauses.)\nBerkeley: Loneliness. There's a potential hazard, so they're keeping me in isolation, and \u2014 well, it's hard. I miss Tommy \u2014 my boyfriend.\n(Zhang frowns.)\nZhang: You can't talk to anyone at all?\n(Berkeley shakes her head.)\nZhang: That sounds quite awful, dear. What someone like you needs most is people.\nBerkeley: It's not just him, too. All the people \u2014 everyone\u2026\nZhang: Everyone what, dear?\nBerkeley: Can't say it. Potential hazard.\n(Zhang smiles sadly.)\nZhang: A lot of lonely people have nobody else, and they end up speaking to themselves.\nBerkeley: Speaking to themselves?\nZhang: Well, writing, maybe. When you're all alone, your best friend is going to be Dr. Scarlett Berkeley. Why don't you try talking to her?\n(Berkeley nods.)\n(Zhang smiles.)\nZhang: I'm glad you understand, dear. Now, is there anything else at all?\n(Berkeley shakes her head.)\nZhang: Alright, then. If you need anything, be sure to let me know, alright?\nBerkeley: I will.\nZhang: Alright. Take care, dear.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5309-2: Dr. Scarlett Berkeley's Personal Log\n\n_\n\n\u25bc Entry 1\u25b2 Close\n\nIs this how the readers see everything? They just choose what to see, and the rest disappears?\nThen again, when we read stories, we only know as much as we need to. The devil is in the details. I mean, that's the reason we used Site-19 for WALLBREAK in the first place, right? It had so many renditions, narrative stability was practically nonexistent to begin with.\n\n_\n\n\u25bc Entry 2\u25b2 Close\n\nI tried to become an author, myself. Within this reality, of course. I wrote Tommy inside my head, so I wouldn't be lonely.\nBut it really isn't the same. From up here, looking in at Tommy down there, he isn't real. He's a character in my head and I tell him what to do, or at least he does what I think he would do. The ideas inside my head, inside the heads of the characters in my head, can't change how I really am. I mean, Tommy out there, the one who I used to love\u2026\nDo I love him, or the idea of him?\nWhat does he look like? How does he smile? Why does he call me sunshine, and what was he thinking while I was in hyperreality, when everything changed?\nI'm scared to stop thinking about him. I don't want him to stop existing.\n\nNarrative components \"stop existing\" when they have either \"decayed within a headspace naturally by way of forgetting, or through forced removal by way of compatibility rejection.\" I believe the latter process is referred to as \"rejecting a headcanon\" in your reality.\n\n_\n\n\u25bc Entry 3\u25b2 Close\n\nReality is fragile. All it takes is the idea that we aren't real, and everything will begin to collapse. Under the weight of our collective scrutiny, there is nothing we can do but prepare to meet our makers.\nWe can't let the readers consider whether or not we don't exist. Because like the Tommy in my head, we are nothing to them. Why would they care whether or not an idea exists?\n\nAddendum 5309-3: Log of SCP-5309 Disruptions\nThe following log consists of several subjective pataphysical disruptions attributed to SCP-5309. Due to the subjective nature of SCP-5309, all involved personnel are listed. Note that all listed personnel have been confirmed to be hyperreal transposition hosts.\n\nI've taken the liberty of coloring and bolding text to convey contradictory metainformation, and provided a brief explanation of the contradiction. Please note that the following is not a comprehensive list, by any measure.\n\nDate\nReport\nPersonnel\n\n\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nI can't remember any of it. The existence of Dir. C. Bold's cousins, first pet, or favorite color have yet to be confirmed.The names of most of my cousins, or what my first pet was, or even my favorite color. What happened?\nDir. C. Bold\n\n\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nI keep receiving requests for information about a GoI called \"Gamers Against Weed\". GoI-5869 (\"Gamers Against Weed\") has been known to the Foundation since the early 2000s. As a Foundation archivist, and considering the length of his employment, it is highly unlikely Dr. Django Bridge has never been informed of the existence of GoI-5869.As far as I know, there isn't a GoI-5869. And on that subject, \"Dr. Wondertainment\"? Really? These jokes are absolutely unprofessional, and I will not tolerate this behavior any longer.\nDr. Django Bridge\n\n\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nI didn't even know we had an SCP-231. Actually, about that\u2026what exactly is [DATA EXPUNGED]Procedure 110-Montauk, assuming it actually exists?\nLt. Flops\n\n\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nYou can ask Diamond or Marigold about it if you don't believe me. Honestly, I don't even know if it matters, or who I'm sending this to, but\u2026I'll just spit it out. For obvious reasons.Nothing outside of Site-23 exists.\nResearcher Oliver Crane\n\nFrom what I've learned from Berkeley, I doubt the readers actually took the time to actually question our entire existence. Details don't exist because they either never stopped to think about them, and subjective components were probably consciously booted from their headspace.\nBut suppose they got the idea to actually wonder whether we exist. Do you think they'd just place blind faith in the idea that we actually exist? I doubt it. So if they actively question whether or not we exist, that's game over for us.\nBest hope they never read this, then.\n\u2014 Researcher Adamo Smalls\n\nAddendum 5309-4: Incident 5309-A\nFoundation records indicate that on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a PK-Class \"All-In-One\" Existential Pandemonium event4 took place. Despite severe narrative displacement, the Foundation database appears to have been unaffected, although subsequent analysis revealed several formerly undetected narrative inconsistencies.\nAccording to records, on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 at \u2588\u2588:\u2588\u2588 UTC, SCP-5309-A instances began to spontaneously aggregate into conceptual farrago, resulting in at least 9,700 iterations of reality simultaneously ceasing to exist.\nThe following log was recovered attached to documentation regarding SCP-5309.\n\n_\n\n\u25bc Operation WALLBREAK Log\u25b2 Close\n\nOperation WALLBREAK Log\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nAssigned Personnel:\n\nDr. Scarlett Berkeley (Subject)\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nBerkeley: What \u2014 where am I?\nUnknown: You're outside of the story.\nBerkeley: Who \u2014 who are you?\nUnknown: I think you already know that.\nBerkeley: The author?\nUnknown: That's right.\nBerkeley: But how can I be talking to you? I'm an idea in your head \u2014 like the Tommy in my head, who was basically me. I'm basically you.\n(Unknown shrugs.)\nBerkeley: And why the hell are you talking to yourself?\nUnknown: I'm lonely. My best friend is a character inside of my head. Sad, I guess.\n(Silence.)\nUnknown: You know, I always found it funny that I had to literally write out \"silence\". But then again, if I didn't write it, it doesn't need to exist, right?\n(Berkeley nods.)\nBerkeley: And that's what SCP-5309 is, isn't it? Anything that doesn't exist, for one reason or another \u2014 from details that you overlook, to ideas that don't fit into someone's personal interpretation of existence \u2014\nUnknown: We call those headcanons, but that's right. And I'm guessing you also know why the narrative is gone?\nBerkeley: Because I wrote about what would happen if the readers considered us nonexistent? And anything I write actually exists to the readers, because it means that you're writing, too?\nUnknown: I knew you were sharp! Well \u2014 I suppose I made you sharp, but \u2014\nBerkeley: What about the other readers?\nUnknown: Hmm? Oh. Well, like I said, they each have their own headcanon right?\nBerkeley: That's right.\nUnknown: Well, all of them are collapsing your reality into a single, nonsensical narrative. Because SCP-5309 unites them under a single idea \u2014\nBerkeley: \u2014 that nothing exists.\nUnknown: Exactly.\n(Unknown leans back in his chair.)\nBerkeley: Well, what are you going to do about it?\n(Unknown shrugs.)\nBerkeley: Don't tell me. You can't do anything, can you?\nUnknown: Hey, I can't get into their heads, or anything like that. So I guess this is it.\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Why am I even asking you, when I am you?\n(Berkeley shrugs.)\nBerkeley: Okay. I \u2014 I need to think.\n(Berkeley thinks.)\nBerkeley: Alright. I know that whatever is written happens. So maybe if something happens, then it must also be written?\nBerkeley: But how can I make something happen?\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Well, it all began with an idea, didn't it? The idea that we don't exist.\nBerkeley: Ideas are able to penetrate the narrative. If I can talk to the readers, and change their ideas, then I can change my reality.\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Problem is, I'm outside of the fourth wall. I'm still in the author's head, I can't do anything inside of his head. I need to be put into the narrative to do anything.\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Can't I just go back the way I came? Ideas can go up to readers. Why can't I send an idea back down?\nBerkeley: But I need them to be listening. Who would be listening, when nobody exists except for me?\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Someone who exists as an idea inside of me.\n(The chorus of \"Space Oddity\" by David Bowie is barely audible.)\nBerkeley: Ground control to Major Tom?\nWest: Scarlett? How are you \u2014\nBerkeley: Tommy. You have to listen to me. I'm outside of the narrative.\nWest: What?\nBerkeley: I'm outside of the narrative.\nWest: Outside what narrative? There's nothing on this side, Scarlett!\nBerkeley: There will be. Enkidu is still there, right?\nWest: Enkidu \u2014 Enkidu.aic?\nBerkeley: If you can think about him, that means he exists.\nWest: Umm \u2014 okay. What about Enkidu?\nBerkeley: Listen to me very carefully, Tommy.\nWest: Of course, sunshine.\n(Berkeley takes a deep breath.)\nBerkeley: I'm stuck as an idea within the author's head, but I know a way to come back.\n(Berkeley pauses.)\nBerkeley: Tommy. You're going to pull me back in, and I'm going to be dead again.\nWest: What?\nBerkeley: I'm going to die, Tommy, just like last time. But I need to die for this to work.\n(Silence.)\nWest: You don't have to die, Scarlett. Let's think about this.\nBerkeley: I have to come back.\nWest: Then come back! I can just pull you back in.\nBerkeley: Pull me back into what?\nWest: I don't know. Where I am \u2014\nBerkeley: You're nowhere, Tommy. You're in me, and I'm outside of existence.\n(Silence.)\nBerkeley: Pull me back in, and make sure Enkidu is ready for the transfer.\nWest: \u2014 what are you going to do?\nBerkeley: Ask the readers to change their minds.\n[END LOG]\n\nSisyphus.sic, synthetic intelligence construct, at your service. Not artificial, mind you \u2014 that would mean I wasn't human in the first place.\n\nTommy pulled me in and Enkidu downloaded me directly onto the database so that I can be outside of both the narrative and my author's head. So that I can try to atone.\n\nI understand that you're here to read. After all, this is a story \u2014 to you, as a reader, at least. What does it matter whether we exist, even to ourselves? After all, if you didn't exist, you wouldn't object to nonexistence, would you?\n\nI suppose that in the end, it's just like the idea of Sisyphus rolling a stone for eternity as punishment for defying the gods, or Major Tom floating 'round his tin can in space when there's something wrong \u2014 there's nothing I can do.\n\nBut not you. Our existence depends on you.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A cascading hazard affecting elements of a narrative and its mode of transmission, often leading to their mutual destruction.\n2. An operation attempting to enter hyperreality by utilizing the narrative instability of Site-19 to ascend beyond metaphysical flux within a self-referential narrative.\n3. Postoperative Rehabilitation and Therapy.\n4. An event in which a hyperreal consciousness collapses all hyporealities into the same meta-space, resulting in total narrative collapse from incomprehensibility and annihilation of consciousness.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5308 | SCP-5309 | SCP-5310 \u00bb"}
{"text": "My declaration of understanding of this ruthless anomaly formed from the fabric of the cloth of life!\n\nItem #: SCP-5310\nObject Class: Safe, hopefully. Or should that be Euclid?\nSpecial Containment Procedures: We've discussed this quite a bit, and have agreed that - although there's quite a few important containment procedures we should be following, important enough that they could maybe be called special, they truly aren't special enough to be called Special Containment Procedures. It's hard to admit, but that's just the truth. After coming to this realization, we at the Surrealistics Department have decided that these are the Containment Procedures that can truly be called Special. I'm very excited to get to them.\n\nAll employees at our dear, dear Site-\u2318 are to wear red on Mondays, blue on Tuesdays, green on Wednesdays, red again on Thursdays1 and then Friday is dress-down day.\nIf you see an SCP-5310 standing in a hallway or in the break room or something, that's fine, it's supposed to be there. If you see them all standing on the hill outside, that's not fine, they're not supposed to be there, go get someone immediately.\nHave fun - and remember to stay hydrated. No, I'm being serious, if you don't have at least a glass of water once an hour that'll breach containment and we'll all have a - frankly speaking - truly horrifying time.\nYou are permitted to touch another human being ten times a time during your stay at Site-\u2318. If you go over that, get out of the Site straight away and take some time off.\nMake sure that any lists you create during your time at Site-\u2318 have exactly five bullet-points.\n\nThis is also part of the list (but I can't shoot a bullet in front of it for obvious reasons) - don't forget to take your Agnostics! If you don't, it can see you.\nDescription: How to describe SCP-5310? Like the majority of the things we deal with at Site-\u2318, it's not the most concrete thing to look at - or to smell, or to touch, or to hear. I realize that I said \u2018touch' back there, which implies you can touch SCP-5310, but you really shouldn't do that. I'll add that to the Containment Procedures later.\nIf we were engaging in that most tempting of the forbidden fruits, the texture of hands as tongues against the unknown - running your palm over it like it's a piece of paper or a brick or some devilish fish - then an SCP-53102 is a man or a woman facing away from you. I'm certain we've all seen them when we're going back and forth through Site-\u2318 on our business; more often than not, appear in the break room or in the hallways or one time in the bathroom when I was flushing my nails. Ruthless!\nSo! From what I've seen and what you've all told me, there are about ten of these devils and - memorize this well, my fellow voyagers - these are their descriptions physical!\n\nThat tall guy with the hat and the backpack.\nThe little girl with the pigtails.\nThe old man with the walking stick.\nThe toddler with the toy car.\nThe bald physician.\n\nJust so you're aware, this isn't the end of the list - I just need to do the second half as another list because of those Special Containment Procedures. Spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law, even though both form the same border they can be confused for one or the other as monozygotic twins like like like a twin formed from the same egg the same seed order and disorder both so not equal but opposite? Don't forget that!\n\nThe haired3 physician.\nThe flayed priest.\nThe headless construction worker.\nThe engorged physician.\nThe missing physician4 .\n\nAs I said before, these ladies and gentlemen usually just appear facing walls inside our beloved Site-\u2318, and being near them gives you those nasty tingling feelings that come when you're inside the mouth of something simply awful. Probably if you stayed close to them too long you'd get crunched between those jaws.\nAnd that should be in the Containment Procedures, shouldn't it?\nSpecial Containment Procedures (Part 2): Don't stay near SCP-5310 too long.\nDescription (Part 2): With that out of the way, we can get back to these mysterious beings we call SCP-5310. Where did they come from? What do they want? We honestly have no idea, but I asked Professor Bixby after his daily Agnostic cocktail and this is what he had to say.\n\nWell, bubble ruth \u2018nd broth you've been walkin' \u2018nd talkin' long I have, you \u2018nd yours ken when business ain't as business be \u2018nd lookin' those boys you \u2018nd yours tell to wrongness - \u2018nd wrongness, when you \u2018nd yours smell it you \u2018nd yours ken the shape o' that beast that beastliness. You \u2018nd yours pour water in bottle you \u2018nd yours ain't keepin' water locked up key and chain and prison and ball water's just bein' given shape wit' that plastic \u2018nd shapeliness \u2018nd contour \u2018nd containment. Architecture o' coincidence you 'nd yours make \u2018nd you \u2018nd yours get the shape that boy makes \u2018nd if the shape be a man or a lady or a boy or a girl well that's the world you \u2018nd yours livin' in, so make sure you \u2018nd yours keep that shape all friendly one wit' science broth \u2018nd bourbon.\n\nAllow myself to summarize in perhaps more understandable terms! Imagine you've made a box out of your own thoughts like a dangerous drunk driver swerving around the snows of Alaska in prime season like a prime rib steak on the prairie drawing in the sand and you draw a box from it and now there's a box there must be something in the box there must be something in the shape of the box and now that it exists it can break free so you must make a new box surrounding the box through your new clumsy choices but targeted, targeted my friends.\nOh, I should probably mention this - if we fuck up the Containment Procedures (the Special ones), we will one day look out and sight one or more of these beasts standing on the hill outside. If there's one or two or even nine, that's okay, that's fine, it just means we need to do our Special Containment Procedures a little better to take this box we have driven in our Ferrari and indeed make but a simple left turn into the realm of the angle that greatly forms an impenetrable wall of causality (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47 THESE SHALL BE IMPORTANT ANGLES) and proceed.\nhowever, unfortunately.\nif there's ten up there, that means everything is over. it's digestion time. alas.\nunfortunate. unlucky. luckless. hapless. unhappy. unpleasant. displeasure. dis dis dis is not ideal. 0.00174533. 0.00174533. 0.00174533. i require a fresh dose.\n\nAddendum 5310-1 (Weeky Interview)\nAs we agreed upon before embarking on this grand endeavor of ours - the den of understanding and virtue and the observation of the grains of sand that we look out on and indeed are but a single grain of sand observing via outwards microscope - this following log I'm about to put in here is a transcript of my weekly-check in with the main Foundation liaison we all know and love, Ernest5!\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Our protagonist, Doctor Irving Gat, walks into the interview room, a spring in his step and a twinkle in his eye. This isn't his first rodeo, not by any means no sir no sir, but it never gets any easier under the intimidating gaze of his opponent. He'll have to tread carefully and watch the movements of his tongue to make sure he represents the interests of Site-\u2318 properly.)\n\u201cGood evening, Dr. Gat,\u201d says Ernest, his fingers steepled like the pyramids of Giza. \u201cI trust your ride here was pleasant?\u201d\n(An interesting question. There were approximately three-hundred and twenty-two bumps on the road while Dr. Gat was being driven here. So why would this olympian thinker, Ernest, ask such a question? Is it a trick?)\n(Dr. Gat smiles and chuckles. He shan't be caught out so easily.)\nTaking a seat with such force that the chair almost topples over, Dr Gat replies: \u201cI trust you are pleasant, Ernest. And my trust is repaid. Haha.\u201d\n(Ernest raises an eyebrow. Nailed it.)\nThe messenger of the monolith, Ernest, clears his throat and continues: \u201cI've been reading the file you sent out regarding SCP-5310. While the, ah \u2026 the tone here is somewhat lacking, what really concerns me is the consequences of the anomaly you describe here.\u201d\n\u201cOkay.\u201d\n\u201cMore than once, you refer to SCP-5310 as though its something that can cause the destruction of \u2026 well, it's difficult to say what exactly. You say \u2018everything is over' if all ten SCP-5310 instances appear on a hill, but what does that mean?\u201d\n(Now it is Dr. Gat's turn to raise my eyebrow. His eyebrow, even.)\n\u201cI mean what I say, and I say what I mean, Ernest. Everything is everything, a palindrome in all but letters.\u201d\n\u201cDo you have any evidence to support that statement?\u201d\n\u201cEvidence? No, of course not. Why would I?\u201d\n(He sighs for some reason.)\n\u201cSo - you expect me to just accept that this minor anomaly that does very little except stand in place is capable of causing an end-of-the-world scenario if you don't perform a series of absurdly specific unrelated actions. And I'm expected to believe this just because you say it's true, when you don't have any evidence. And you admit you don't have any evidence.\u201d\n\u201cYes!\u201d\n(He sighs again.)\n\u201cThis \u2026 I understand it isn't your fault, Irving - hell, those Agnostics must have done a number on you - but we can't have this kind of nonsense present in an official report.\u201d\n(What is he talking about?)\nErnest continues: \u201cI'll tell you what. I liked you, Irving, when we worked together - and, and looking at you now \u2026 just \u2026 get this report rewritten without the baseless panic and I'll just forget this whole thing ever happened. Out of respect of your previous achievements. Alright?\u201d\n(Ah! He is referring to my discovery of the Nth floor bathroom!)\n\u201cWell \u2026 I suppose that's fine.\u201d\n(He passes the file over to Dr. Gat and puts his pen down. Immediately, Dr. Gat lunges forward and adjusts the angle of the pen by 0.00174533 radian. The pavorfiend coalescing behind Ernest immediately dissipates.)\n(Ernest blinks.)\n\u201cAh \u2026 Dr. Gat?\u201d\n\u201cSorry, the angle was bad.\u201d\n\u201cI \u2026 I see.\u201d\n(Picking up the file, Dr. Gat tucks it under his arm and walks out of the room, whistling a tune as he skips down the hallway. Still, his mind is still on poor Ernest. Simply ignoring the obvious threat like that\u2026)\n(What is he, crazy?)\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. If you weren't here on Monday, definitely don't show up on Thursday\n2. SCP-5310 instance? Specimen? The terminal terminology of this interminable terror is hard to pin down.\n3. Hairy? Behaired?\n4. You can't always tell where a physician is, but you can definitely tell where it isn't.\n5. I do not remember his second name.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5309 | SCP-5310 | SCP-5311 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5312\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers are to survey message boards, forum posts, and public chat rooms for the mention or hyperlinking of SCP-5312.\nOnce detection is verified, a Foundation designed tier II technomantic containment array is to be established around a laptop computer with SCP-5312 opened.\nIf the array is unable to break the thaumaturgic DNS connection, Research Team 5312/3 Research Team 5312/4 is advised to contact Technical Site Director Yoso Sinubulan regarding the temporary hiring of an approved off-site techno-shaman contractor.\nIf expansion of SCP-5312's prevalence in online discourse continues, active containment will be pursued.\nDescription: SCP-5312 is a online question-answer forum that specializes in the circulation of anomalous content.\nUsers of SCP-5312 enter anonymous questions into a textbox which are then answered by an unknown entity. Answered questions are stored in a backlog which is organized into a number of subcategories that reference various broad anomalous topics.\nMost of the discussion posts usually contain general questions about abnormal incidences rather than specific inquiries into anomalous mechanisms and minutiae. This follows from the intended audience of SCP-5312 being individuals who are otherwise unaware of paranormal behavior.\nThe nature of SCP-5312's thaumaturgic connection to the Internet is currently under investigation. The rise of non-standard modalities in which anomalous individuals may connect to the Internet is of particular concern due to the rapid innovation in this space.\nIt is possible that SCP-5312 alters the cognition of its users in some way. However, this is uncertain, as cognitohazard tests done by Research Team 5312/4 have led to no detectable memetic capacity.\nSCP-5312 is managed by an unknown individual or group which is thought to be associated with the Serpent's Hand due to the prevalence of serpentine and arboreal iconography on the website.\nMany of the answers written by SCP-5312 contain language that aligns with the ethos and thematic elements that are prevalent within Serpent's Hand ideology and literature. The answers, therefore, include a general anti-containment sentiment are written with a sanctimonious tone. The webpage, however, never makes direct allusions to the GOI itself.\nWhen navigating to SCP-5312, an individual is first presented with a text which reads as follows.\n\nYou are the most powerful thing to have ever existed.\nYet, there are those who hide your ability from you.\nThink, have you ever seen something you could never explain?\nEver feel like something about life just doesn't feel right?\nWere you ever curious enough to peer behind the curtain?\nSome of you who have searched for us have recognized the pure world, yet not dare engage with it. Some of you have awakened to mankind's potential, yet barely understand what you are.\nBut no matter your circumstances, we are all people who seek knowledge.\nBecause with knowledge comes power and with power comes freedom.\nAnd there will soon be a day when we will all be free.\n~A Hopeful Idealist\n\nBelow this, an individual may enter in a question and review the previously answered questions from other people. The following interactions are a series of noteworthy entries in SCP-5312 For a complete list, please contact Research Team 5312/4.\n\nQuestion 1: \"qqq Weird stuff happens when I kiss?\"\n\nQuestion 1: \"qqq Weird stuff happens when I kiss?\"\n\nSent from an Anonymous User:\nHi, Ive had this problem for a while now and I'm going to be leaving my fosterhome soon to dorm at college so Im really hoping for a longterm fix for my problem.\nSince my birth, whenever I kiss something they forget an entire day (at max 24 hours).\n\nI'm actually not joking lol, its happened to mom dozens of times. When she kisses me on the cheek, its like she forgets the entire last day.\nAnd its caused a lot of problems with my gf becuz she is the only one ive told and when we tried to test it out, she forgot.\n\nI never really told my parents and my gf told me to go to the hospital but im dont want them to test me or anything cuz they i dont want any weird tests on me.\nAfter some reflection I think that its a type of paranormal effect like perhaps Im possessed?\nWhat can i do?\n\nAnswer\nTopic: Ascended Human\n\nCongratulations!\nYou have been born with a rare gift, one that transcends our primitive concepts of logic and sense.\n\nThough we do not know how or why your body contains such a constitution we do have some theories. Oftentimes, interactions with the paranormal or anomalous by one of our birth parents causes an intergenerational effect.\n\nOr perhaps, since your ability seems to be involved with memory manipulation, you may have been blessed by any plethora of trickster gods/goddesses.\n\nNevertheless, we urge you to continue to be careful for your skill is useful and many within the world will try to trap you or use you like a tool.\n\nThus, one effective way to temporarily halt basic memory manipulation is to mix lotus root, goldenseal root, and turmeric powder and rub it on the affected area every night (the lips in your case).\n\nPermanent, de-coupling solutions may be found in various Free Ports.\n\nBut we do not recommend this fix for those not already involved in the anomalous world.\n\n~An Intermediate Thaumaturgist\n\nQuestion 5: \"please help\"\n\nQuestion 5: \"please help\"\n\nSent from an Anonymous User:\nI am 64 years old .I am diagnosed with a terminal illness, polycarcinoma of the liver, ..I have tried various types of shamanisitic magic (mexican) before but it has not worked..ill try anything so what can I do to get rid of this thing or live longer?\n\nAnswer\nTopic: Anomalous Physiological Change\n\nThere are many ways in which an individual may extend his life. We will give you three such methods.\n1. Conduct the Oneiori Joining Technique and live for 1000 years in one night within an extremely time-dilated dreamrealm.\n2. Travel to La Rue Macabre and order a Zombie Cocktail #3 from the barkeeps at the Darkwater Lodge.\n3. In the Pavlodar region of Northeast Kazakhstan, jump off the Nurly Zhol Bridge (the one that crosses the Irtysh River).\nOur life on this Earth is not our last. Our souls live beyond this domain, but why not stay for as long as we can?\n~The Faceless Man at the Street Corner\n\nQuestion 13: \"I am afraid of my own child\"\n\nQuestion 13: \"I am afraid of my own child\"\n\nSent from an Anonymous User:\nI am a single mother and I have been afraid of my daughter since she was born. I have no living family and no one to tell this to but you because many have called me crazy.\nHer name is Sophie and she is turning 2 this July. Since I brought her home, she has been staring at me every night. In the morning, she always spits out her food too. And she cries whenever she sees me and if its nighttime and its dark and she cries then small red crevices in her skin appear in the dark.\nBut weirdly when I turn the light back on, the changes on her body disappear. I have no-one to turn to and when I began to research online, several sources have pointed to demonic possession.\nHowever, the priest at my local church has denied that Sophie is being overtaken by anything Satanic.\nI love my child and I will never harm her. I just wish for her to be safe.\n\nAnswer\nTopic: Extradimensional Entities\nFirstly, we recommend that you verify that your child is actually possessed by something rather than it being a problem of your own.\nDraw 7 octagons in a circle made of black cedar ash and salt solution within a bogland biome. Place the child within the center of the circle and if the child glows white at 5:45 am then it is likely that the child has possession of some kind.\nThere are many options to pursue afterwards depending on the child's condition.\nIf the entity is inseparable from the child, then consider sending the child to any of the many anomalous academies.\nBut perhaps consider that the child's quality of life is enhanced by its close connection to the paranormal world. That is where the real essence of humanity's potential lies.\n~A Graduate of Deer College\n\nQuestion 35: Get Out of \u2018Containment' Free Card\"\n\nQuestion 35: \"Get Out of \u2018Containment' Free Card\"\n\nSent from an Anonymous User:\nI am a low level tier 2 reality bender and I recently escaped from one of the SCP Foundation's facilities during a jailbreak.\nThey arrested me about 3 months ago during a sting operation while I was picking up an online order from MC&D.\nI am not a violent individual and I was not the cause of the breach. It was very sudden as during the middle of the night one day, all the walls around me just started to melt.\nI'm using satellite internet from a friend's trailer in Veracruz but I would like to know what steps to take from here.\nI don't want to be on the run forever and I don't hate the Foundation or anything but I also don't want them to keep me in that place forever\nIf it helps then my particular abilities revolve around metal creation and manipulation (I can make metals appear in my hands and play with them like dough).\nI also am vaguely aware of the existence of Free Ports. But I don't know the specifics about them like where they are located.\n\nAnswer\nTopic: SCP Foundation\nMeet us in the Wanderer's Library, friend.\nDuring the month of August, a Way opens in Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz. Follow the head butcher of the Moctezuma Borough's Carnicer\u00eda for ease of access.\nThe Foundation is not as powerful as one may think.\nThe stars speak to us and relay the world's destiny.\nWe will accelerate their fate.\n~Your Neighborhood Astrologist\n\nQuestion 71:\"Keep it Up!!!\u201d\n\nQuestion 71: \"Keep it Up!!!\"\n\nSent from an Anonymous User:\nWHy dont you keep the website up longer, people need to know this shit!\n\nAnswer\nTopic: Miscellaneous\nThere are not many of us who intend to help our fellow man.\nWe try to keep it up for as long as we can but outside forces would rather that the liberated peoples of the world fester in their ignorance without guidance.\n~An Old Man Sitting on Park Bench\n\nDear Director Sinubulan,\nI hope you had a great weekend. It was nice talking to you last week on our attempts to better contain (and research) SCP-5312.\nOur current method is rather outdated since technomantic arrays are seldom used in online SCP containment these days. Some of the mates thought that we could try psionic shift integration or the sanguine extraction (though we might need some help with that one).\nOverall, though, some of our tests have indicated that containment may not be necessary in the most \"classic\" sense. One of our researchers recently came up with the idea that whenever SCP-5312 becomes active, we could send in our own questions regarding the containment of various \u201cdifficult-to-contain\u201d entities.\nMight sound a bit off considering that we are essentially interacting with an SCP in a blase manner. But since we are the third research team to work on this SCP, we thought that some new and innovative tests involving SCP-5312 should occur (like the one mentioned above).\nReading the answers that 5312 gave us were quite inspiring. I think a good amount of changes regarding its containment, as a whole, could be made. I'll see you soon.\nWith Appreciation,\nJoshua Isitaz, Lead of Research Team 5312/3, Site 131\n\n\u00ab SCP-5311 | SCP-5312 | SCP-5313 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5313-2.\n\nItem #: SCP-5313\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A copy of SCP-5313 is available in the Site-64 database, accessible to personnel with Level 3/5313 clearance. All other copies have been disposed of.\nDescription: SCP-5313 refers to the instructions to conduct a thaumaturgic ritual which summons an entity designated SCP-5313-1, which acts as a portal to an extradimensional space designated SCP-5313-2.\nWhile the text of SCP-5313 itself is non-anomalous, the specific actions detailed within, whether read about, performed, or witnessed, are forgotten by subjects within 20 minutes of exposure to said memes. Ingredients required for the ritual include:\n\nA space of dirt or sand that takes up a volume of at least 1m x 1m x 1m.\nA black pigment of any sort.\nBlood belonging to the subject performing the instructions described in SCP-5313, amount unknown due to ingredient being retrieved as an action in the ritual.\nAt least 50 mL of oil made from a particular thaumaturgically modified strain of the herb Calluna vulgaris, or common heather.1\n\nSuccessful completion of the actions detailed in SCP-5313 will result in the manifestation and subsequent emergence of SCP-5313-1, a soft-bodied extradimensional entity, through the provided surface of sediment. This entity's cells will lose cohesion if it is removed from the dirt it manifested in, wounded, or if all living beings inside SCP-5313-2 are no longer present within it. In this case, SCP-5313-1 ceases all anomalous function.\nThe body of SCP-5313-1 consists only of skin, mucus cells, and a rudimentary nervous and muscular system built around its single body cavity which goes through its anterior end to its posterior end. This cavity acts as a portal into SCP-5313-2. Objects which pass through this cavity will exit from the body cavity of a similar entity, which is buried in the sand of SCP-5313-2's shore.\n\nThe shed in SCP-5313-2.\n\nSCP-5313-2 is an extradimensional space which looks similar to beaches on Earth. It is oblate-spheroidal in shape, with a major diameter of 1km, and a minor diameter of approx. 500m. It maintains the illusory appearance of a continuing landscape beyond its borders.\nA few manmade structures exist within SCP-5313-2:\n\nAn aged wooden pavilion with a palm roof. Many of its constituent boards are broken or missing.\nA shed with a painting on its front doors. Held 2 surfboards, a variety of woodworking tools, and eight 60mL bottles of anomalous heather oil, which has been confiscated for further study.\nA raised wooden shack. Held a cot, a mini fridge connected to a 2000W portable gasoline generator2, a framed photo on the wall depicting POI-83842 and an unidentified woman of African descent, and a sign hung above the door which reads \"Town of Alma, Councilwoman's Office\".\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5313 was brought to light on 2018/06/22 when Foundation webcrawlers detected suspicious online activity by West Gomes, a former Beta-class Chaos Insurgency operative, who began making posts on forums regarding SCP-5313 and seemingly attempting to gauge public interest in the anomaly, calling it \"like, a place just to hang out and surf and have bonfires and that shit and meet people but like a community too.\" Information suppression was enacted before the posts were witnessed by any individuals not already known to have been associated with the anomalous.\nSoon after this incident, an investigation and subsequent retrieval of all known copies of SCP-5313 was carried out by Foundation agents on 2018/06/23; Only two copies were found to have existed, being a paper copy in Gomes's home, and a .docx file located on the internal storage of her personal laptop. After retrieval and questioning, Gomes was administered Class-A amnestics and will be under Foundation surveillance until further notice.\n\n+ Addendum 5313-A: Surveillance transcript\n\n- Addendum 5313-A: Surveillance transcript\n\nNote: The following is an SMS conversation intercepted by surveillance teams on 2018/06/23, between POI-83842 and an unknown individual, identified in their contact info only as \"hubby <3\" by Gomes. Their phone number uses a Three Portlands area code, but no individual can be found connected to this number.\n\n[13:20:23] Gomes: Babe are you working rn\n[13:20:39] Gomes: I fucked up\n[13:21:16] Gomes: I'm an idiot I'm really sorry\n[13:29:34] hubby <3: West? Are you okay?\n[13:29:45] hubby <3: What happened?\n[13:31:13] Gomes: Map to Almas gone. Jailers took it in the middle of the night thank god I still can tell when I've been amnesticized but fuck. I'm so dumb. I don't remember the map at all3\n[13:32:28] hubby <3: Oh, no. Sweetie, I hope you're okay.\n[13:33:23] hubby <3: You're not dumb, alright West? You're a smart woman, and making the Map hide itself the way we did was a really smart measure, but there was really no planning for this.\n[13:33:51] hubby <3: I know how much Alma meant to you, and I'm sorry you've lost it. I think we can try again, in a different way.\n[13:38:39] Gomes: Thank you\n[13:38:46] Gomes: I just\n[13:39:28] Gomes: I was excited to be doing something that I wanted to do. For once.\n[13:40:17] Gomes: Live out my desires of just having fun and share with others. And I couldn't be more thankful to you for helping me with that and helping with all the thaumaturgy and everything\n[13:41:30] Gomes: I'm going to come back to 3port. I miss you a lot and I want to figure all this out so we can do it right this time\n[13:42:11] hubby <3: Okay, sweetie. I can't wait.\n[13:43:24] hubby <3: We'll make your Alma. <3\n\nFootnotes\n1. This strain is as-of-yet uncontained. More information can be found in the file of POI-83842, former Chaos Insurgency operative West Gomes.\n2. Approx. half-empty of gasoline upon recovery of object.\n3. POI-83842 had reportedly recieved training while employed by the Chaos Insurgency from 2008-2014 which allows an individual that has been amnesticized to recognize the fact of their amnesticization. Testing on captured CI operatives has proven that actual efficacy of memory removal per amnesticization protocol remains unchanged.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5312 | SCP-5313 | SCP-5314 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5314 LEVEL 2/5314\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5314\n\nSafe\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5314 spores must be contained in frozen state inside Area-3 sporangium warehouse. The spores can be transported only under close supervision.\nSCP-5314 instances can be cultivated for experimental purposes. The area in which the object is cultivated must be fully hermetic. Access to the cultivation area requires wearing a type 4 Hazmat suit.\nIn situations when the Foundation acquires reports of uncontained populations of SCP-5314 or packs of animals infected with instance's spores, Mobile Task Force Epsilon-1 (\u201cPuszczyki\u201d) is to be sent to the terrain. Epsilon-1's objective is to search the areas in order to find and secure infected individuals or animals. If the search is positive, all fruiting bodies and mycelium of anomaly must be contained, and leftovers treated with antifungal substances. Every infected animal must be terminated and the corps put in a proper utilization process.\nIn case of infection on a Foundation staff member, they are to be immediately treated with antifungal drugs injected directly to gums and surgery in order to remove pathogens within infected tissue. In case of achieving the final state of the infection due to treatment failure, the patient must undergo complete removal of all infected tissues in the mouth.\n\nDescription: SCP-5314 is a species of fungus of the paxillaceae family occurring in the Sudeten mountain chain at altitudes between 1200 and 1750 meters above sea level. The object feeds by mycorrhiza, mainly with representatives of the pine genus. The height of the fruiting body reaches 5 centimetres (including the cap) and the radius of the cap can reach 3.5 centimetres. The lamellae are divided into two types: red type \u2014 a storage element for proteins (including pigments) and white type \u2014 a storage element for fats (mainly phospholipids). In a standard fruiting body there are more red lamellae than white lamellae in a ratio of 10:1. In the flesh of the instars, there are heme-containing protein pigments that give the cap and the upper part of the stem a red colour. In addition, the fruiting body has unidentified chemical compounds that fool the chemoreceptors, making the being eating the mushroom feel as if they are eating the meat of domestic cattle. Regardless of how the object is processed, its taste will always match cattle meat that has undergone the same process.\nThe main mode of reproduction of SCP-5314 is spore dispersal by insects. The upper side of the cap has a large number of microscopic pores which contain the spores. From these pores, a thick viscous fluid containing them is released. This fluid has a high concentration of monosaccharides, which attracts the attention of insects and attach themselves to the legs of their legs by means of a sticky secretion. The spores are surrounded by a special envelope whose main function is to protect it.\nWhen spores enter the mammal mouth they place themself in space between the tooth and gum; entering the digestive system in organisms other than mammals possess no effect. There, in an unknown process, the envelope of the embryo separates itself and moves to the interdental septum, resulting in the sprout of spore growth in the tissue, causing fungal infection in the mouth, at the same time inducing genetic mutation of surrounding tissues. As a result of infection, the tooth roots gets weakened, leading to painful pushing out the teeth from the mouth by swollen gum. Simultaneously, the inside of the interdental septum starts producing structures made from chitin, which is synthesized by host modified cells. Every structure is scaffolding for new toothing created immediately after teeth removal. All new made teeth have the same construction: they are on average 3 centimetres long tusks formed from chitin, covered with sensitive flushed tissue originating from the gum. Inside that tissue are placed SCP-5314's mycelium threads and spores with envelopes resistant to standard digestive juice, allowing spores to go through the digestive tract of infected animals. New toothing is causing constant pain due to ongoing tissues inflammation and covering tusks with highly innervated oversensitive tissue. However, the infection isn't life or health-threatening. The whole process can take from 12 to 24 hours, depending on the mammal species that are infected with the object's spores.\nIn the case when spores contact with other epithelial tissue there is no reaction. The multi-layered epithelium of skin is too thick for SCP-5314 spores to get access to the bloodstream and substances needed for chitin synthesis. Also, spores don't possess any mechanical system to hook themself to tissues, as they are based on a sticky liquid which is either absorbed by mucosa or dissolved by digestive enzymes.\n\nDiscovery: First interaction with SCP-5314 was made by the Foundation on 28/02/1890, when, in the village \u015awierk\u00f3w, located in Austria-Hungary territory, appeared a wolf pack with before unknown toothing. It is estimated that the appearance of animals in the human settlement was caused by a lack of sufficient prey in local territories. The inhabitants shortly succeed in hunting every animal with irregular features and subsequently the staroste of the village, after assuming that the toothing is a result of an unknown disease, contacted Austro-Hungarian authorities, which led to the information coming into contact with a Foundation agent. Under the cover of an Austrian official, the agent went to the village \u015awierk\u00f3w where during the animal's autopsy he confirmed the anomalous background of the changes.\nThe Foundation sent MTF Stigma-22 (\u201c\u017bwirki i Muchomorki\u201d) under the cover of the Austro-Hungarian army, who temporarily locked down the area citing epidemic danger. Next, they began searching for the source of the anomaly in local forests, which led the formation to find the fungus, later classified as SCP-5314. After finding the anomaly MTF Stigma-22 (\u201c\u017bwirki i Muchomorki\u201d) harvested all subjects and terminated or contained all infected animals. Contained fungus and animals were transported to Area-3.\n\nAddendum 5314-1: On 20/10/1983, the current leader of MTF Stigma-221/2 (\"\u017bwirki i Muchomorki: Reboot\"), Agent Rober \u0141otrzak confronted with activity of GoI-571-20, known under the name \"Polish Anomalous Mushroom Picking Association\", which was believed to be connected with SCP-5314. The event began when Agent \u0141otrzak consumed a meal in a dining establishment. During eating the minced meat roulade Agent \u0141otrzak found unidentified fibres in his dish, described by him as mushroom-like. Agent \u0141otrzak infiltrated the kitchen of the establishment by using fake documents of the inspector of the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, where the agent found refined mushrooms of SCP-5314 and the identity of the supplier.\nResearch conducted by the Foundation confirmed the anomalous properties of the refined mushroom, noting a complete lack of object's usual spore in them. This has led to the beginning of observation of the establishment and the suspected supplier. A notable observation was made by main members of MTF Stigma-221/2 (\"\u017bwirki i Muchomorki: Reboot\") on 23/11/1983, when the supplier of refined SCP-5314 was seen driving to the establishment selling SCP-5314; Stigma-221/2 began following the suspect. At the same time, a group of the Foundation agents, disguised as food safety inspectors, confiscated all SCP-5314 located in the established, citing food contamination reports.\nTracking of the supplier allowed the task force to find the facility most likely responsible for the distribution of refined SCP-5314. During observation, it was found that the facility was abandoned. Agent \u0141otrzak with the support of the strike group \u201cCeg\u0142a\u201d initiated a tactical takeover of the building with the supplier still inside. Inside the building, they found basic mechanical parts, 150 kilograms of raw SCP-5314 mushrooms and a leaflet1 pointing at the involvement of the Polish Anomalous Mushroom Picking Association. The supplier was captured and interrogated, but it was confirmed that they had possessed no useful information; the individual was applied a Class B amnestics and set free. Further investigation led to discovering that the building was an extensive production hall, which has been taken apart in a hurry. Tracks of at least 5 vehicles were found, 4 of them were delivery cars and 1 was a lorry.\nGoI-571-20 have ended the contact with the supplier and the gastronomic establishment after that incident. The Foundation engineers attempted to reconstruct a machine used in cleaning SCP-5314 fruiting bodies, but because of the machine's disassembly to primary parts and lack of characteristic components, there were no notable results. Agent \u0141otrzak in order to extend knowledge concluded in document 5314-1 activated MTF Stigma-221/2 (\"\u017bwirki i Muchomorki: Reboot\") agent network which was infiltrating Polish Anomalous Mushroom Picking Association.\n\nDocument 5314-1:\n\nPaxillus Meaty\nPaxillus Caro\n\nEdible\nAppearance: The mushroom fruiting body has short, wide and naked stalks, growing no more than 3 centimetres high and 1,5 centimetres in diameter. The stalk base is completely white, but with the height increase, there is a gradual change to bloody red colour. The hat diameter isn't bigger than 7 centimetres and has a dark red colour, and is covered with dense, sticky fluid containing spores, possessing a sweet aroma. Brimnes of the mushroom hat are tack and are partially covering tightly squeezed, slight lamina which is partially red and partially white.\nAnomalous properties: That mushroom has an unknown substance that perfectly mimics the taste of beef. The taste value of the mushrooms is always identical to beef which was processed in the same way as the mushroom. Spores have sheath which after coming into the mouth causes infection, which affects tissue's DNA, changing it in a specific way.\nOccurrence: The mushrooms live mainly in poor nourishment terrain like high mountains. It can be mostly found under pines or other kinds of conifers, growing on barren soil.\nUse history: Due to the mushroom taste value it was a delicacy of vast poorer communities throughout ages, as the first mention of Paxillus Meaty processing comes from the V century. Even when the method was still imperfect peasants still consumed the mushroom, but because of side effects inflicted pain and caused the victims to look like demons (which resulted in many problems with representatives of Christian authorities) in the coming centuries consumption of paxillus went down, until entirely disappearing from diet.\nIt was like that until 1932 when Tomasz Be\u017cowy, the Association mycologist and nutrition technologist, developed a method that fully nullifies risk caused by spores of paxillus meaty.\nAfter developing technology for successful processing of that mushroom and appearing in a great market in form of Great Ukraine Starvation, the Association started picking and processing the mushroom on large scale. To this day the Association sells processed paxillus in many gastronomic establishments in Poland and neighbouring countries.\nIt is thought that paxillus' possessed purpose in important rituals of many tribes' societies. Legends tell that the mushroom was used in rituals \u201ccreating warriors in indestructible armours made from their own will and blood.\u201d Hover exact information about truth or eventual working mechanics remains secret. No matter that, the Association researchers place great effort to fully understand all properties of the mushroom.\nRecommendations: During picking Paxillus Meaty, it is recommended to wear gloves and reduce physical contact with the substance covering its hat. Picker must prevent letting the substance come in contact with inside his mouth at all cost. Specimens should be stored inside a hermetic container.\n\nAddendum 5314-2: On 13/08/1984 MTF Stigma-221/2 (\"\u017bwirki i Muchomorki: Reboot\") ended gathering information about SCP-5314 possessed by Polish Anomalous Mushroom Picking Association. Most data gathered by the Association was around the subject of the thaumaturgic use of the SCP-5314, however, due to the ancient origin of the information, most data on the ritual was lost. Because of that, found documents were passed to Doctor Daniel Asheworth, who was deemed as a specialist in thaumaturgy.\nUntil 20/08/1984 Doctor Asheworth achieved significant progress in research about rituals related to the SCP-5314, completing missing parts of the rituals by using knowledge from the field of defensive and arming thaumaturgy. Using the developed method allowed the process to achieve moderate success in the form of covering the test subject's body to 50% (because the armour always starts from the inside of the mouth, it covered only the upper part of the body) in monolayer armour made from chitin plates. While a partial success, the armour didn't provide protection presented in preserved documents. Additionally, despite being an integral part of the wearer's skin, the armour wasn't correctly fitted to the wearer, which caused some movement limitations. Although armour was an integral part of an organism that wears it, it didn't have any connection to internal body systems (which include the neural system), making it so that damaging the armour didn't have any negative effects on the wearer.\nA breakthrough came at the night between 20/08/1984 and 21/08/1984. Doctor Asheworth after a precise analysis of the armour creation process and its structure, was able to understand that he made the wrong assumption and he should base the ritual on blood rituals and flesh magic, not defensive and arming thaumaturgic. Implemented changes allow for creating an armour that covers the whole body of the test subject. New armour was made from two stiff layers with a slight number of SCP-5314 mycelium between. Additionally, the new armour's elements were exactly fit, allowing for unconstrained movement.\nDoctor Asheworth experimented with improving the ritual and its eventual use for the next 3 days. The final solution was achieved using a self-made weak alcohol solvent based on pine resin and berry juice (mainly blueberry). New versions of the ritual created an armour that has five layers of hard chitin plating with the addition of hems, giving it a characteristic red colour. Between layers is located mycelium with a high level of collagen which can almost fully absorb kinetic energy. In case of damaging it, mycelium can stretch and connect itself to the skin of the person wearing the armour. After connecting, mycelium would take substances needed for repair. Currently, the armour created on humans is capable of stopping bullets from small firearms. In addition, Doctor Asheworth discovered a method that can painlessly remove the armour from the body without damaging it or the host.\nDoctor Asheworth submitted an application for the realization of the \u201cShelled tomb\u201d project after the end of the research. Project due to its content was placed in a separate document which access can be given only for staff with 4/5936 or higher classification level.\n\nIncident 5314-1: On August 8, 1984, began an incident initiated after receiving reports about high amounts of cattle perishing in two breedings near Cz\u0119stochowa. At the same time, every vegetative patient in Provincial Specialist Hospital experienced arrest of vital activities. The anomalous incident was explained to the public as an epidemy of parasitic protists, hosting in cattle, leading to contamination of drips used on vegetative patients.\nDuring the incident, in Outpost-120-1 appeared 1200 armours made by use of a thaumaturgic ritual developed by Dr Asheworth. Inside these armours were placed unknown thaumaturgic runes. When the armours were placed near the entrance to SCP-5936 sudden increase of SCP-5936-1 activity occurred. When the number of instances achieved maximal quantity, runes placed inside the armours activated themselves, causing instant neutralization of SCP-5936 and all instances of SCP-5936-1.\nNeutralization of SCP-5936 anomaly led to the sudden emergence of buildings, previously placed in 5936's anomaly, in normal space. It was confirmed that information about Cz\u0119stochowa district called \u201cTysi\u0105clecie Dolne\u201d has not appeared in the public sphere or other sources of information. The Foundation staff working in Outpost-120-1 performed an operation of exploring and searching the buildings, and after confirming that inside the area wasn't left anything useful, the area has been demolished, in order to minimize the chance of exposing the anomalous activity. Demolition was disguised as a practical effect studio, for an upcoming film.\nAt the time of SCP-5936-1 neutralization, all the armours with runes in Outpost-120-1 were immediately animated. The beings were designated the classification 5936-A. Instances of 5936-A claimed that they are the \u201cTysi\u0105clecie Dolne\u201d inhabitants, however, due to organic amnesia (memory lost about one's own life, but not the world around) on different levels in all of the instances, it is hard to confirm these statements. Subjects possess working sense of sight and hearing, but sense of touch is limited only to pressure receptors. Senses using chemoreceptors are absent. Research showed no absence in cognitive development in comparison to regular humans, but every 5936-A entity shows significant thaumaturgic abilities despite the lack of knowledge or training in that field. The insides of the instances are empty and putting something inside them doesn't evoke any physical problems, however, some instances had a negative psychological reaction from the experiment. 5936-A subjects show a willingness to cooperate with the Foundation. All instances were transported to Site-120 where a residential sector was prepared.\nMost likely the whole incident was caused by Doctor Daniel Asheworth who, with the assistance of other people (the whole operation was judged to be impossible to conduct by one person, it is anticipated that the whole event was instigated by 5 people), prepared the armours and runes inside. The search for Doctor Asheworth was successful, as he was inside his office in Site-120, in a critical state caused by blood loss and injuries of all organs except the neural system. On-site medical examiners reported on amputations of all limbs by an unknown method and major osteoporosis in the remaining bones. Later, a cytologic examination showed damage of telomeres which resulted in ageing of the tissue to the level of an 80 years old. Doctor Asheworth was immediately transported to the medical wing by paramedics, and his state stabilized.\n\nInterview 5314-1:\nInterviewed: Doctor Daniel Asheworth\nInterviewer: Doctor Jessie Rivera\nForeword: Due to received injuries, Doctor Asheworth currently requires constant medical care. Despite the extension of injuries, damage to individual organs was small enough that pharmacological treatment is sufficient to keep organs working on an acceptable and not life-threatening level. A week after beginning treatment, the medical staff decided that dr Asheworth's condition is stable enough to perform an interview.\n<Start of the log, 15/08/1984 ; 11:30>\nDoctor Rivera: Why did you do this, Daniel?\nDoctor Asheworth: Because there was no better option, I had to.\nDoctor Rivera: For fuck sake! Look at you, fucking wreck, I'm not gonna mention these all peoples and animals you killed.\nDoctor Asheworth: It was only dead flesh. These cows would die anyway and these people already did.\nDoctor Rivera: And what about you? You're a piece of dead flesh too.\nDoctor Asheworth: Almost, but I'm still alive, so that piece still can be repaired. Few surgeries, prosthetics and I will start casting fire snakes like I used to.\nDoctor Rivera: That's not what I'm talking about. Why did you think that was the best option? I know that you want to hunt down Nowak, but that is just too much. You destroyed SCP-5936, making all disinformation guys sweat really hard to cover it up nicely.\nDoctor Asheworth: I know about the consequences, I was ready for even worse results. You know why? Because after action with SCP-5890 I finally understood something. I can't win with Nowak, I just can't catch him. That I never will. And then I understood what I must do.\nDoctor Rivera: What?\nDoctor Asheworth: I must hunt down his plan, not himself. I will crush his whole \"Heaven\" thing into the dust. And make sure that no one else gets killed.\nDoctor Rivera: You know that's impossible, especially now that you killed a few people and almost died yourself!\nDoctor Asheworth: They were dead, we already talked about that. And who even needs a guy, who can't even save his own team members from an elevator?\nDoctor Rivera: Get your shit together, for fucks sake! Everyone loses people sometimes in this line of work, get over it. Now you should think about what you do next. The top wants your head for destroying the object.\nDoctor Asheworth: Destroying my ass. Maybe the anomaly doesn't work anymore, but now we can search flats and inspect the whole area. We will know 10, 100 or even 1000 times more now than we would with that whole mist.\nDoctor Rivera: We will see.\nDoctor Asheworth: By the way, now Nowak will have to come up with something new when his current plan collapses. He now enters my game, though I haven't even set the board or read the instruction yet.\nDoctor Rivera: I'll put that instruction in your\u2026 You did something like this and have no idea what to do next?\nDoctor Asheworth: I'm tired.\nDoctor Rivera: You're not getting out right now.\nDoctor Asheworth: You want to make a bet? I'm feeling very bad.\nDoctor Rivera: Fine, but we will get back to this.\n<End of the log, 15/08/1984 ; 11:45>\nClosing statement: Because of Doctor Asheworth's health condition the disciplinary actions were suspended until Doctor Asheworth would fully recover his mental capacity.\nIt was decided that Doctor Asheworth will get an experimental treatment reliant on the use of synthetic mineral bones filler. At the same time work on prosthetics for Doctor Asheworth was started. As far as legs can be replaced by standard mechanical prosthetics, the arms will be replaced by prosthetics made from armour created with SCP-5314 and attached to the body by thaumaturgic circles, providing full recovery of touch and manual abilities. The use of thaumaturgic rituals to restore the ageing tissue was also planned, as that kind of treatment has been used before on dr Asheworth.\n\nIncident 5314-2: On August 13 1985, a sabotage operation was conducted by a member of the Polish Anomalous Mushroom Picking Association. The culprit, under the alias Adrian Nowicki, was working as cleaning personnel of Site-120.\nAt 11:30 Adrian Nowicki entered the section of Site-120 designated as 5936-A containment area, in order to carry out standard cleaning activities. After entering the sector, he deactivated all electric devices inside the Site wing by using an unknown charge, releasing an electromagnetic pulse. Most likely it was hidden inside the cleaning staff cart. Site security personnel of Site-120 Doctor Daniel Asheworth and Agent Robert \u0141otrzak, who were present at the time of the incident, were alarmed by the EMP strike. Both mentioned personnel members were together in the facility because of meeting about SCP-5314 research progress and eventual use of anomaly by PZGA (however unofficial sources mention a celebration of a collaboration anniversary between Doctor Asheworth and MTF Stigma-221/2 (\"\u017bwirki i Muchomorki: Reboot\")).\nDuring the sounding of the alarm, security officers attempted to enter the section where the EMP strike was believed to originate from. However, because of all electrical devices neutralization there was no option to open the doors. Security staff made an attempt at the manual opening of the doors, but it has failed, leading them to use a plasma cutter to break through by force.\nAt the same time, the PZGA Agent using an unknown method infected 300 5936-A instances with a mysterious fungus species, which gave the subjects new anomalous ability and transformed them into a new instance variation designated 5936-B. After that, he attempted to instigate an escape based on a partial transformation of objects into SCP-PL-057 by each other. The anomalous ability of SCP-PL-057 was activated by a magnesium incendiary charge which raised the average temperature to a level allowing to transmit them beyond the Foundation facility area.\nDuring the transformation of 5936-B into SCP-PL-057, Agent \u0141otrzak and Doctor Asheworth attempted to get into the section. Doctor Asheworth thanks to the experience of working inside Site-120 found unused technical corridors which gave them access to blocked sections. Both personnel members decided to take action themselves because quoting them, \u201csecurity works too slow\u201d. Agent \u0141otrzak broke through a thin wall separating the corridor from the section containing 5936-A. Both personnel member, after getting inside the sector, stopped one of the instances before the surface transformation into SCP-PL-057 by using a makeshift incendiary bottle made from a bottle of vodka and wrapping paper. The rest of the 5936-B instances and Adrian Nowak were able to successfully escape.\nThe contained 5936-B specimen suffered extensive thermal injuries, however, the life of the entity wasn't threatened. Interviews of 5936-A didn't help with discovering new information, as it claims that it doesn't remember the whole incident (using 5936-B ability to damage 5936-A memory is assumed). Later investigation showed that during a 5 year long period of working for the Foundation Adrian Nowicki doesn't receive disciplinary reprimands in any form. Investigation about connection Adrian Nowicki with PZGA is in progress.\nDue to the incident, a new form of 5936-A designated \u201c5936-B\u201d was created. Information about new specimens was included in addition designated \u201cCharacteristics of 5936-B\u201d. Despite the escape of 299 5936-B specimens capturing 1 subject was successful. The captured subject was interviewed after it recovered, that interview is added below under designation \u201cInterview 5314-2\u201d.\n\nCharacteristics of 5936-B:\n5936-B are the 300's instances of 5936-A which due to intervention of before unknown anomalous fungus species gain a new set of morphologic features and anomalous abilities. Is known that found fungus species belong to the ascomycota phylum, however more accurate taxonomy classification has failed.\nThat fungus occupies an average space of 70% of 5936-A armour volume but never appears in the head area. Most of the fungus mass is parenchyma interwoven with mycelial fibres which connect to the mycelium of SCP-5314 and transport necessary substances to every area of the organism. Tissues except parenchyma have hard chitin scaffolding made in the form of thick rings with different diameters. These rings are connected similar to dichotomous shoots. Inside of these rings are hollow tubes with different thickness, tube placement seems to be random. A two same configurations have not yet been found. The purpose of the tubes is unknown, but the reinforcing function was excluded because of their fragile construction. The fungus's way of reproduction remains a mystery, finding spores or sporangium was unsuccessful and attempts to induce artificial gemmation caused separated fragments to die.\nObject anomalous abilities give them the possibility to change shape or species of anomalous fungi organisms (scientific systematology describing the effect wasn't developed yet) when it comes into contact with subjects' hands. It's possible to change affected fungi into any species if it's anomalous; experiments confirmed that the ability is able to utilize mushrooms that are superficially paranormal, for example -EX objects whose properties have been understood scientifically. 5936-B can also manipulate normal fungus, but in the process have their abilities very restrained power (it's possible to slightly bend from the regular form of representative of the species and species changing is also limited to species from the same phyla and usually doesn't cover the whole organism). The shape of the changed fungus can be modified freely if that form doesn't interfere with basic life function of the organism (for example a shape that kills the organism isn't possible to achieve), but anomaly itself doesn't affect total mass, which must stay the same. Instances 5936-B can't use their ability on themselves, however, they can transform other representatives of their kind.\n\nInterview 5314-2:\nInterviewed: 5936-B\nInterviewer: Doctor Daniel Asheworth and Agent Robert \u0141otrzak\nForeword: Due to damage that the object received during containment, the interview has been postponed until now. The subject was transported to a temporary containment room after regaining the required level of functionality. The instance was interviewed by Doctor Asheworth and Agent \u0141otrzak inside its containment room. The interview focused on the anomalous ability of 5936-B and possible future actions of the Polish Anomalous Mushroom Picking Association.\n\n<Start of the log, 13/08/1985 ; 20:20>\n\nDoctor Asheworth: Welcome, how do you feel?\n5936-B: I think I'm good. I'm entirely covered with burns, but it only tugs slightly when I move.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: Glad to hear it.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Can we get to the point? They gain an advantage with every second, so tell us what you know bay bolete because I have a bottle of powder for mycosis with your designation inside my closet.\nDoctor Asheworth: Indeed we should get to questions. I advise you to cooperate with us because my colleague is a little impatient and as you can see, he has a slight obsession.\n5936-B: I will try to answer your questions, of course, if I can.\n\nAgent \u0141otrzak: There is no \u201cif I can\u201d, you are going to answer our questions. And if I sniff any kind of trick I would go for a second bottle, but this time there will be gasoline instead of alcohol. I think we are understanding each other so we can go to the first thing. Are the other armours involved in that? Because they claim that not, but I know what I know.\n5936-B: Others aren't involved in that, they even don't know what happened. We erased their memories by slightly changing their interiors. We did that for their and our safety.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: We have information that all instances showed memory gaps covering the whole incident. Did you do something to them?\n5936-B: We erased their memories by slightly changing their interiors. We did that for their and our safety.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Typical \u201cif we erase their memories they wouldn't betray us and those guys wouldn't hurt them because of our actions\u201d stuff.\n5936-B: Yes.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Unfortunately I have bad news for you. I don't believe you or your friend for all the world. Your protection doesn't change anything except taking away the opportunity to cooperate with us and solve this whole mess. Congratulations.\n5936-B: That was not my idea.\n\nAgent \u0141otrzak: So whose? That janitor?\n5936-B: Yes.\n\nAgent \u0141otrzak: How long were you planning that betrayal?\n5936-B: We didn't plan any betrayal.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: I don't believe you, you mycorrhiza asshole! That kind of operation doesn't create itself one day from the air. This guy was ready and knew that he could take you. And you don't convince 300 \u201cpeople\u201d to your plan from the ass, especially against someone who saved them.\n5936-B: It's not like that.\n\nAgent \u0141otrzak: So how is it!?\n5936-B: We all appreciate what the Foundation did for us. However, the janitor showed us something and we all saw a way to save ourselves which doesn't harm the Foundation in any way.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: My ass not\u2026\nDoctor Asheworth: What that man showed you? Is it somehow to your new abilities?\n5936-B: I can't tell you, but yes. It is connected.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: You can't or you don't want to?\n5936-B: I can't, I know what this is about, but I can't verbalize it in any way.\nDoctor Asheworth: I suppose this is the same effect as which causes memory loss of 5936-A.\n5936-B: Yes.\n\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Fucking, not the effect. He gives us bullshit and tries to mould our eyes.\nDoctor Asheworth: \u0141otrzak, give yourself a break. Your bad cop play doesn't give us anything. He is truly scared and wants to cooperate.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Did you use that thaumaturgy thing to say that?\nDoctor Asheworth: Yes, I did.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Okay, you can assume that I believe. It is possible to manipulate memories and minds of sentient mushrooms by modifying mycelium. Question is, how exactly do they do it?\nDoctor Asheworth: We haven't much, so maybe we should check our current hypothesis. You touched each other so direct contact is necessary.\n5936-B: Yes.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: You don't transform yourself so you can't use this ability on yourselves.\n5936-B: We can't.\nDoctor Asheworth: Are your new abilities thaumaturgy related? We detected in your body many structures which appear to be thaumaturgic rituals circles.\n5936-B: I think so, I'm not an expert in this field so I'm not sure.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Thaumaturgy. So this sorcery of yours made that whole mechanism, Asheworth.\nDoctor Asheworth: We can assume that.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Great, now I must learn a lot about that whole thaumaturgy shit when we finish. But not only from you, for safety measures I will confirm information with a \u201csafe\u201d source of information.\nDoctor Asheworth: You're so nice. Anyway, I asked all my questions, the floor is yours.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Okay, I have two more questions, but these are mainly formality to the files. That janitor told you only about changing into leccinum and nothing more, I'm right?\n5936-B: Yes, he said that we will know more later.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: Why didn't you ask sooner? Maybe he would know something?\nAgent \u0141otrzak: He can't. I know the mushroom pickers, they don't throw their information on left and right. It was a coordinated operation so they were ready for that kind of loss. That's why only Nowak knew something. Apart from that, they have many hours of advantage. Even if we need the three next steps of the plan we would find nothing. These guys are experts in covering their tracks.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: Makes sense.\nAgent \u0141otrzak: I know. I checked it on my own skin many times, that's why I'm sure. But going back to questions. Did you see the EMP charge?\n\n5936-B: Only partially, it looked weird, like something alive.\n\nAgent \u0141otrzak: Classic, organic bombs are way easier to hide because it doesn't activate metal detectors. I think this is everything, for now. I must learn your voodoo as fast as possible and also confirm it, Asheworth. And about you \u201cmushroom\u201d, if I discover that you are trying to trick us and believe me, I will if it happens, you will regret it.\n\nDoctor Asheworth: Come on then. I thank you on behalf of me and my college for your help and I'm sorry about his too aggressive facade wearer for that interview.\n\n<End of the log, 13/08/1985 ; 20:40>\nClosing statement: After the end of the interview the object stays in a temporary containment room. Based on information delivered by Doctor Asheworth and Agent \u0141otrzak work on precise containment procedures began.\n\nDue to the lack of precise information about the object or the thaumaturgic foundation of its abilities, administrative staff of Site-120 has initiated a project of close cooperation between dr Daniel Asheworth with MTF Stigma-221/2 (\"\u017bwirki i Muchomorki: Reboot\"); the main purpose of the operation being: investigation the thaumaturgic base of the SCP-5314, finding out the intention of PZGA, and the containment of all instances of 5936-B.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Look: Document 5314-1.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5313 | SCP-5314 | SCP-5315 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Will you chew until it bleeds?\nCan you get up off your knees?\nAre you brave enough to see?\nDo you wanna change it?\n\n( The Hand that Feeds - Nine Inch Nails )\nSCP-5315 - Gastronomical Annex\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nAppetizers\nAmuse-Bouche Contagieux\n  A beguiling bite-sized morsel that sparks an insatiable desire for fine dining. A delectable blend of cured Iberian ham and truffle-infused foie gras.\n       Price: $12.99\n       Calories: 120\n\nWARNING: Foods from SCP-5315 should not be consumed under any circumstances. Anomalous effects have so far resulted in the death of several civilians and Foundation personnel.\n\nTruffle Infusion Crostini\n  Baguette slices adorned with a mysterious blend of black truffle, goat cheese, and honey.\n       Price: $16.99\n       Calories: 180\n\nSoups and Salads\nBisque de Quarantine\n  Decadent seafood bisque with the ability to instill refined tastes in the populace. Includes lobster, saffron, and a hint of cognac.\n       Price: $21.99\n       Calories: 250\n\nEnsalada de \u00c9lite\nFresh arugula and watercress topped with golden beet carpaccio, and goat cheese crumbles, guaranteed to reshape the local dining landscape.\n       Price: $18.99\n       Calories: 200\nWARNING: Neighboring businesses experience a decline as residents gravitate towards SCP-5315. Efforts to balance the local economy are in progress.\n\nMain Courses\nFilet de Raret\u00e9\n  Prime meat cut to perfection, enticing locals to forsake traditional fare.\n       Price: $38.99\n       Calories: 350\nWARNING: SCP-5315 has grown to the size of a full street, transforming it into a plaza. Efforts to decommission SCP-5315 are underway.\nSaffron \u00c9pid\u00e9mie Risotto\n  Prime Wagyu beef filet, sous-vide and finished with a red wine reduction, redefining the culinary expectations.\n       Price: $32.99\n       Calories: 300\n\nDesserts\nCr\u00e8me de la Contagion\n Silky chocolate mousse infused with Grand Marnier and topped with edible gold leaf.\n       Price: $24.99\n       Calories: 980\nPavlova Pand\u00e9mique\n Light and airy pavlova filled with passion fruit curd, topped with fresh berries and a raspberry coulis.\n       Price: $19.99\n       Calories: 1020\nWARNING: SCP-5315 has consumed Site-195. Related documentation has since been overwritten.\n\nBeverages\nLibation de Luxe\n A signature cocktail featuring artisanal gin, elderflower liqueur, and a hint of lavender, garnished with an edible orchid.\n       Price: $14.99\n       Calories: 150\nVin Viral\n An exclusive Bordeaux blend with notes of black currant, truffle, and a subtle hint of [REDACTED].\n       Price: $29.99\n       Calories: 250\nWARNING: SCP-5315 has consumed half the city of Detroit and is currently enacting a FK-Class \"Broken Foundation\" Scenario. All non-mandatory actions are to immediately cease and focus on the neutralization of SCP-5315.\n\nWelcome to the new Foundation, Chef.\n\nSERVE, COOK, PREPARE.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nTroutMaskReplica's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-6718 (+37) \u2022\n\nSCP-7155 (+50) \u2022\n\nSCP-7362 (+31) \u2022\n\nSCP-6294 (+35) \u2022\n\nSCP-7084 (+140) \u2022\n\nSCP-7973 (+42) \u2022\n\nSCP-6862 (+53) \u2022\n\nSCP-7230 (+25) \u2022\n\nSCP-7921 (+36) \u2022\n\nSCP-7640 (+33) \u2022\n\nSCP-5796 (+82) \u2022\n\nSCP-6825 (+66) \u2022\n\nSCP-7811 (+-3) \u2022\n\nSCP-7345 (+102) \u2022\n\nSCP-7799 (+26) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nIt Will All Be Okay (+26) \u2022\n\nVILE (+34) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nA timely death. (+15) \u2022\n\nJawn Proposal (Fanart!) (+20) \u2022\n\nSoy Un Perdedor (+17) \u2022\n\nTrout's EPIC Authorpage (+88) \u2022\n\nChristmas Industries (Art Exchange) (+14) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5314 | SCP-5315 | SCP-5316 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5316-1\n\nItem #: SCP-5316\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5316 is to be kept in a standard Humanoid Containment Cell in Site-33. The cell is to be monitored for spikes in aspect radiation. Should a spike occur, thaumaturgically trained Site Security personnel are to inspect the cell's wards for any damage and make repairs as needed.\nPhysical force is authorized to restrain SCP-5316 in the case of a containment breach, but Site-33 staff are to refrain from causing damage to it beyond the capacity of its regenerative abilities to repair (the removal or destruction of 50% of its biomass without further medical intervention). Given the creature's manipulative abilities, the use of reasoning to convince SCP-5316 to return to its cell is not permitted.\nSCP-5316-1 is to be kept in a storage locker in Site-33. Its use is prohibited without the written permission of the Site Director.\nDescription:\nSCP-5316 is a currently-banished member of GOI-5917 \"The Wandsmen\". It refers to itself as \"Kassar Ji'leth, The Fifth Wandsman of Xing, Scrivener of Secrets and Delver of Truth, SCP-5316.\" Like many members of GOI-5917, SCP-5316 takes the form of a quasi-humanoid avian entity. Its form is similar to that of Casuarius casuarius, the \"Double Wattled Cassowary.\" It is 2.7 meters tall and weighs 134.1 Kg.\nSCP-5316 is generally not physically aggressive, but it derives great pleasure from convincing other sapient beings to reveal their secrets. Outside containment, it has been documented to use methods ranging from social engineering, to thaumaturgic rituals, to torture to gain access to this information.\nSCP-5316 previously possessed teleportation abilities before its Map of the Multiverse was confiscated by GOI-5917.\nSCP-5316-1 is a small wooden and brass music box which plays \"Pachelbel's Canon\". When wound, the next sapient being the winder sees is compelled to sit down in front of the winder and answer any question the winder asks of them to the best of their knowledge for the duration of the song.\nDuring the song, those questioned by the winder are unable to move or otherwise take any actions that would harm the questioner. The winder on the other hand may perform any actions they wish to those being questioned.\nEvidence suggests that mind effecting drugs such as tetrahydrocannabinol are able to cause the responses given to the winder to be less coherent.\nAddendum:\nNOTE: The following documents were provided by SCP-5316 upon its delivery to Foundation Custody by GOI-5917. Their similarity to Standard Foundation Formatting is purely a choice made by SCP-5316. Do not allow this material to be confused with official documentation.\n\nInterviewed: Doctor Tanisha Varadkar\nInterviewer: Kassar Ji'leth, The Fifth Wandsman of Xing, Scrivener of Secrets and Delver of Truth.\nForeword: The following interview was recorded in Dr. Varadkar's new office in Site-87.\n<Begin Log>\nKassar: Good Evening Doctor!\n<Dr. Varadkar pulls a gun on Kassar.>\nDr. Varadkar: Who or what the fuck are you!? Sec-\n<Pachbell's Cannon begins to play.>\n<Dr. Varadkar sits down.>\nKassar: Splendid! Now, can you please state your full name?\nDr. Varadkar: Doctor Tanisha Varadkar.\nKassar: And what do you do here at Site 87?\nDr. Varadkar: I'm currently just settling in. I haven't had time to get assigned a project.\n<Kassar disarms Dr. Varadkar as she sits there motionless.>\nKassar: And why did you leave your last posting with the SCP Foundation?\nDr. Varadkar: I\u2026 I was attacked. Or more in the wrong place when SCP-5946 breached containment.\nKassar: Yes, how is Lot? We didn't see eye to eye all the time, but I certainly respected his research ethic.\nDr. Varadkar: He's in pain\u2026 A lot of it is self inflicted. He thinks the only real power he has is to keep hurting himself\u2026 I think there's still a little hope there, somewhere deep inside, but he's deliberately repressing it\u2026 He's failed so much.\nKassar: Hmm\u2026 That would fit. It's good to hear he might spring back in a millennium or so though. Tell me, how do you feel about what he did to you?\nDr. Varadkar: I\u2026 I think he really didn't mean to. But that doesn't matter. He hurt me, made me be someone else. Even if it was a mistake\u2026 He hurt me. And he's still dangerous. Part of what he put in my head is still there. Part of me still loves him\u2026 I hate him for it.\nKassar: And his thaumaturgy? Has it improved since he was taken into captivity? Since he became SCP-5946?\nDr. Varadkar: I\u2026 I don't know. He's so far above our ability to measure it's hard for us to tell.\nKassar: I see\u2026 I suppose it was too much to hope that you would be able to measure such things. Thank you Doctor. You shall tell no one else of this meeting.\n<Kassar performs the incantation needed to ensure Dr. Varadkar's silence.>\n<Kassar leaves the office.>\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: A rather unenlightening discussion. Though I can see why Dr. Varadkar attracted Lot's attention. He always had a soft place in his heart for strong women.\nNever the less, the Foundation's Thaumaturgical measuring equipment appears to be sorely outdated. The effects of Lot's new numeric designation remain a mystery.\n\nInterviewed: Doctor Quentin Harrison\nInterviewer: Kassar Ji'leth, The Fifth Wandsman of Xing, Scrivener of Secrets and Delver of Truth.\nForeword: Dr. Harrison is a student of anomalous foods and a former biological researcher on a project of great interest to me. I met him in Ambrose Restaurants' latest little Bistro, the Rising Sun. I'm sure one of my colleagues will have more to say about the quality of the comestibles provided at a later date.\n<Begin Log>\nKassar: Good afternoon Doctor!\nDr. Harrison: What-?\n<Pachbell's Cannon begins to play.>\n<Dr. Harrison sits back down in his chair.>\nKassar: Excellent. Now, I have a question about your previous assignment on SCP-2406 as a biological consultant. What was the Colossus' number?\nDr. Harrison: The\u2026 It was number 9.\n<Kassar produces a piece of parchment and scans down it.>\nKassar: \"Number 9, The Silver Blooded Martyr\u2026\"\n<Kassar nods, pleased>\nKassar: A name by numbers\u2026 I knew the Mekhanites had dabbled with it before. They must have sought to empower their creation with everything they could and -.\n<Kassar is interrupted by a waiter coughing.>\nWaiter: Sir, we do not allow outside music in the restauraunt. Also, there will be consequences for perturbing our guest\u2026\n<Kassar bows, not wanting to cause a fuss. He places an Ortothan Gold Aureus on the table as a tip.>\nKassar: You have my deepest apologies. Please, give my regards to the head chef. Thank you.\n<Kassar picks up the music box, pulls out his map, and teleports away.>\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Aside from being interrupted, a flawless confirmation. Though the Church of the Broken God has since ceased to favor the use of impositorial thaumaturgy, it appears their more ancient predecessors saw its advantages plainly. More importantly, the numerical name's resonance lends support to my theories. Further confirmation will be required before experiments can be conducted.\n\nInterviewed: Junior Researcher Hadid\nInterviewer: Kassar Ji'leth, The Fifth Wandsman of Xing, Scrivener of Secrets and Delver of Truth.\nForeword: At time of interview, the subject's mind was addled by large quantities of cannabis, causing the magic of my construct to have less sway. I shall need to research a more elegant counter to this effect when the opportunity presents itself.\n<Begin Log>\n<Kassar enters Hadid's bedroom via apportation.>\nKassar: Hello Researcher Had-\n<Hadid immediately picks up a large joint from his bedside and lights it, taking a deep drag.>\nJ. R. Hadid: Ha! Gotcha.\nKassar: \u2026 What?\n<Hadid takes another drag and coughs.>\nJ. R. Hadid: What, you thought you could run around interrogating all our crew without us putting the word out? I got the hookup from Papa Johns bitch! One hundred percent premium Fae Kush. Good luck getting anything with your little music-box no-\n<Kassar picks up Hadid's limp hand and pins it to the bedpost with a dagger. Hadid screams.>\nJ. R. Hadid: WHAT THE FUCK!?\nKassar: You obviously have some potential boy, but Fae magic is a very fragile thing. Tie it to the law of blood just a little and it's sucked right into the dirt. Now\u2026\n<Kassar produces the music box and winds it as the inebriated researcher whimpers. The song begins to play.>\nKassar: Now, let us discuss those not-quite nameless friends of yours\u2026 You were on the project before they were given a formal SCP designation, correct?\nJ. R. Hadid: I\u2026 I\u2026\n<Hadid manages to stay quiet for about 6 seconds. Then his eyes became glassy.>\nJ. R. Hadid: Yes\u2026 I was there before they gave them a number.\nKassar: Good\u2026 And did you notice any difference in the behavior of the fae at the restaurant after they were given an SCP Number?\nJ. R. Hadid: Yeah\u2026 The Pizza was better. They moved faster\u2026\nKassar: That's all I need to hear.\n<Kassar took his knife and teleported away.>\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: With this data, I believe I have enough for a field test.\n\nRecovery Log: 4/10/2021\nSCP-5316 was brought into Foundation Custody by members of GoI-5917 after being stripped of his Map of the Multiverse. GoI-5917 members requested that he be treated humanely, and apologized for his \"rude and disruptive\" behavior.\nNo further detail was provided as to why or how the decision to banish SCP-5316 was made. All GoI-5917 anomalies promptly teleported before any containment measures could be applied.\nAddendum:\nNOTE: The following was mailed to Foundation Site-33 with no return address, or attribution. Considering the format of the document, it was likely provided by SCP-5316 as a form of mockery.\n\nInterviewed: The 4th Wandswoman of Chelon\nInterviewer: Kassar Ji'leth, The Fifth Wandsman of Xing, Scrivener of Secrets and Delver of Truth.\nForeword: A crude interview before the end. But the pain was needed to complete my plan.\n<Begin Log>\n<Kassar approaches the 4th Wandswoman of Chelon's office>\nChelon-4: 5th Wandswoman of Earth, we are in complete agreement. I have already sent several letters to the Editors about-\n<Chelon-4 spots Kassar through the open door. Kassar waves. Earth-5, also in her office, stands defensively in front of Chelon-4's desk. Chelon-4 narrows her eyes at the Wandsman.>\nChelon-4: Kassar. I suppose you finally responded to my summons?\n<Kassar smiles.>\nKassar: Absolutely! I've decided, or rather the Editors have decided, to sanction my experiment.\nEarth-5: About time you got what was coming to you.\nKassar: If you mean a large grant, then yes!\nChelon-4: I'm sorry what?\nKassar: Oh, you thought I meant the other form of sanction, forgive me, English is such a limiting tongue. I use it only for the Hatchling's benefit.\nEarth-5: Bitch, I'm 48 years old.\nKassar: And I'm 387 years young. You're not on the streets of Milwaukee anymore, baby sister.\nChelon-4: Alright I've had quite enough of your posturing, brother, what Machiavellian nonsense did you throw at the Editors to convince them alienating ourselves from our most desperately-needed allies was a good idea?\nKassar: Oh, but we're not going to alienate anyone, exalted Arbiter. You're going to turn me in to the Foundation for being a very naughty anomaly\u2026\n<Chelon-4 looks genuinely shocked.>\nChelon-4: Kassar, I am furious with you for what you did to those poor people, but at the end of the day you are a brother. I would not turn you over to those torturing jailers for-\nKassar: Sister, it's fine. You're going to help me get something worth all the pain in the world, an SCP number.\nEarth-5:\u2026 What?\nKassar: It's simple name magic really, each part of your name tells a story. The more that story is obsessed over by those with power, the more it spreads and the more inexorably it is tied to you, the more magical strength you can extract from it.\nGranted, a Foundation number is a relatively concealed name, but it also a name that surrounds you with an air of mystery, and with people who have a pressing need to understand you\u2026\nTo be an SCP is to have your very essence connected to the greatest powers in the multiverse. Frankly, I'm kicking myself for letting that old fool Lot think of it first.\nChelon-4: Kassar, have you gone completely mad!? You're sitting here with a straight face telling me your brilliant plan is to tie your true name to the names of the most dangerous things in the multiverse? That's like hooking yourself up to the power of a Star! You'll burn yourself to ash and take half the Earth with you!\nKassar: I am aware of the risks. Frankly I'm willing to take them, considering what's on the line if we fail in our little war against the dark I thought you'd understand.\nChelon-4: Kassar, we have several projects we can do to build weapons against the dark without alienating our allies or immolating our family.\nKassar: I have considered our current projects, and the piddling tinker toys you're building will do nothing but make the dark gods laugh in our faces before they tear our souls to shreds.\nChelon-4: Kassar, unless you've stumbled on some texts from the Grand Cartographers I'm unaware of, there is so much of the dark gods that is unknown to us that we have no way of knowing what preparations we will need. It is a black box\u2026\nAnd if you won't listen to me about this, at least listen to the Second Wandsman of Earth. You know full well what Foundation \"containment\" is like. I may want to teach you the error of your cruel ways, but no one deserves that Hell.\nKassar: .. I suppose that means you will not deliver me to the Foundation so long as you still see me as family?\nChelon-4: I\u2026 I won't defy the Editors, but they have not ordered me to help you. Get someone else to aid you in this madness. Family doesn't torture each other.\nKassar: I see. Well then, as you are the only Wandswoman the Foundation is even remotely going to trust, my path is clear. For what it's worth, I'm sorry.\n<Kassar produces a handful of paralysis runes in the air and Earth-5 falls limp to the floor.>\n<Before Chelon-4 can react, Kassar releases the key on the music box.>\n<Pachbel's Canon begins to play.>\n<Chelon-4 sits in its chair. Its eyes are filled with fear.>\n<Kassar produces a knife and reaches for the limp form of Earth-5.>\nKassar: Family doesn't torture family, you say?\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: After some convincing, the Arbiter agreed to turn me over. All is in place.\n\nNote by Agent Briggs: Considering this information, I strongly recommend SCP-5316 be elevated to Keter class and given a non-standard designation. It cannot be allowed to keep its plan in motion.\n\nNote by Director Nakamura: Denied for now. Your heart and head are both in the right place Briggs, but we have no idea what changing this thing's name will do to it. We also don't have confirmation of where that letter came from, and we don't even know if this SCP's thaumaturgy theories are accurate.\nFor now we just need to contain this monster as best as we can, and let the researchers come up with better locks for its door.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5315 | SCP-5316 | SCP-5317 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT OF PATAPHYSICS\nDue to recent developments, study and research of SCP-5317 has been transferred to the Department of Pataphysics. The following document, corresponding to the last revision by the Department of Anomalous Locations, will be kept as reference until an updated version is ready.\n\u2014 Pierre Menard, Department of Pataphysics Director\n\nItem#: 5317\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Personnel assigned to SCP-5317 containment and research duty are to be administered regular doses of Class-W mnestics to counteract its antimemetic effects. An exclusion zone, 15 km in diameter, is to be enforced around SCP-5317. Any images of the Atacama Desert found in social and public media that might contain SCP-5317 are to be censored. SCP-5317 is partially self-contained, and thus no further measures are needed.\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: No further expeditions into SCP-5317 are to be scheduled, by order of Dr. Menard.\nDescription: SCP-5317 is a tower located in the Atacama Desert, Chile, approximately 60 km away from the city of Copiap\u00f3, the closest population center. Direct observation of SCP-5317 has a mild cognitohazardous effect, making observers convinced that they ought not to be there, and that \"something terrible will happen\" if they reach the top floor. Furthermore, an antimemetic effect is present, erasing all memories of SCP-5317 after leaving its line of sight.\nSCP-5317 has seven floors, which exhibit vastly different and anachronical architectural styles. While it appears that the entrances of each stairway leading from one floor to the next were sealed in the past via several mechanisms (both anomalous and nonanomalous), most of these seals appear to have been broken at some point in the past. The reason for this is unknown.\nSeveral objects that appear to be linked to known Groups of Interest have been found during expeditions into SCP-5317. Dating of these objects is inconsistent, and no connections between these Groups of Interest and current or former inhabitants of the zone have been found.\nAddendum 5317-1: Expedition Logs\n\nInitial Manned Exploration Video Log Transcript\n\nDate: 23/01/2007\n\nExpedition Personnel: D-11424, exploration specialist\n\nMission Control: Dr. Lockhart, Department of Anomalous Locations, South American Division\n\n[D-11424 turns on helmet-mounted camera and faces it, making a mocking salutation gesture before putting the helmet on]\n\nD-11424: Are you sure this is not just another pet project of these artsy weirdos to mess with you, doc? I mean, wasn't your informant some defector from them or something?\n\nLockhart: Trust me, this is a possibility we are still considering. This seems like too much effort just to mess with us, though. And [REDACTED]1 hasn't given us reason to doubt them yet.\n\nD-11424: Well, if I die here and my body turns out into some weird dadaist project, please tell those morons for me that such jokes were never cool, okay?\n\nLockhart: [slight chuckle] Noted.\n\n[SCP-5317 appears on the mounted camera's field of view. The tower appears to be mostly black from the outside, with no real decorations besides some engravings resembling thorns.]\n\nD-11424: Shit, the thing really looks ominous. I really feel like I should not be here. Are you sure we need to know what's inside, doc?\n\nLockhart: Afraid so. 11424, please take the mnestics now. We do not want you to lose focus here.\n\n[D-11424 ingests a Class-W mnestic pill and proceeds towards the tower entrance. The doors appear to have been broken by a impact from a heavy, blunt instrument]\n\nD-11424: Got to the doors, doc. These doors look as if they were made from\u2026 a giant beetle, or something? Chitin, is that the right word? It's sort of disgusting. Also, somebody got here before us, it seems. Somebody with a real distaste for beetl\u2026 what's this?\n\n[D-11424 picks up a partially burned drawing notebook, with handwriting consistent with [REDACTED]2. D-11424 flips through the pages, with the camera catching glimpses of a sketched map of the nearby area, and a drawing of something resembling black, thorny vines restraining a flower resembling a spider lily3. Below the drawing, the words \"TURN BACK\" are visible.]\n\nDigital reconstruction of the drawing found outside SCP-5317.\n\nD-11424: Doc, are you really sure they aren't just trolling us? I should just turn back now, I don't trust these supposed artists at all. I bet they just want to make my blood turn into ink or something.\n\nLockhart: There are no signs of any kind of anomalous activity near the door, so it's probably completely safe to enter.\n\nD-11424: \"Probably\"?\n\nLockhart: Probably. Please, just go inside. We will extract you if something goes awry.\n\nD-11424: [sighs, then enters the building] Ewww, that's disgusting. It's full of these\u2026 tentacle-like things, like\u2026 fleshy, and rotten. All dead, it seems, but I won't take any chances. Those who wrecked the doors seem to be as much fans of squids as of beetles. Shall I take a sample?\n\nLockhart: Please do so. Also verify if there is something else of interest: writing, signs of whoever went inside before us, anything that could help us to understand the anomaly.\n\n[D-11424 picks up a tendril and extracts a tissue sample, pocketing it afterwards. Later analysis would show that DNA is consistent with human baseline, and that the appendages contained an unknown form of paralytic venom. All tissue samples exhibit 100% cell death.]\n\nD-11424: I suppose those were made to stop people from going further inside. Nothing of interest beyond those\u2026 things, here. Please tell me we can call it a day and stop now\u2014 who am I kidding, you won't, doc.\n\n[A tingling noise is felt as D-11424 kicks a small shiny object. D-11424 picks it up]\n\nD-11424: It's\u2026 a cog? Makes sense, this place looks like a disco for those flesh maniacs. Of course the mechanic dudes would come here to stop the fun.\n\nAt this point, connection with D-11424 was temporarily lost. After a few minutes, the camera feed resumed, but with diminished clarity. This is presumed to be due to the composition of the room.\n\nD-11424: [slightly garbled] \u2026 ar me? Hello? Doc, are you there?\n\n[Video feed shows a room coated in metallic plating, which is presumed to be the cause of the drop in communication quality. The metal appears to be severely corroded, and remnants of what appear to be a large amount of mechanical automata are visible.]\n\nLockhart: I hear you, 11424. We lost communication for a few minutes, it seems. Care to send the verification passphrase to make sure you weren't compromised? Also, what are you observing right now?\n\nD-11424: [EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION REDACTED]. Right now, I'm in a room that appears to be entirely built by the metalheads. The only sort of people who would personally destroy a room of tentacles instead of just getting the fuck away from them. But then why did they build this here? It's like they\u2026 realized that the Sarkic dudes were right on something for once and threw something together to try to fix what they fucked up? [Brief pause as D-11424 looks around the room] Is that a sort of command center? Maybe that was what controlled all these robots before they were recycled into room decorations.\n\n[The camera focuses on a badly damaged machine on a corner of the room. An automated sensor on D-11424's gear beeps loudly.]\n\nLockhart: 11424, whatever you do, do not get closer to the machine. The sensors inform us that there is some sort of biohazard there, possibly SCP-217. We might have to quarantine4 you when you return, just in case.\n\nD-11424: Oh. Well. Fuck. [Pause] Well, if I'm fucked already, I suppose that I have nothing to lose by going to the next floor. That's what you were going to tell me anyways, no?\n\nLockhart: [Deep sigh] Go ahead, 11424.\n\nImage of a constellation found on the third floor of SCP-5317.\n\nD-11424: Wow, this floor looks like an observatory. I really can see the stars. Definitely not something those robot-obsessed fanatics would make.\n\nLockhart: Actually, our relationship with the Church of the Broken God has improved a lot during the past few years, as hard as it might be to believe. [Pause] We are not receiving any meaningful visual feed, it would be helpful if you enabled night enhancement mode while you explore the floor.\n\n[The silhouette of D-11424 is seen adjusting their body camera. After the enhanced mode is activated, the floor, walls and ceiling can be seen to contain illustrations of several systems of stars, some matching known constellations. After taking a few steps, the camera shakes as D-11424 winces when looking at a specific constellation.]\n\nD-11424: Shit!\n\nLockhart: Are you okay, 11424? What happened?\n\nD-11424: It felt like somebody\u2026 squeezed my brain. I won't look there again, but maybe you can find out what this thing is, doc?\n\n[D-11424 points the camera at a specific point in the wall, where one of the unknown constellations is located. The image appears unfocused for a second, before being automatically censored by the SCRAMBLE filter built-in into the video feed. There is some text written in a dark red substance covering the constellation.]\n\nLockhart: Oh. Ohhh. The SCRAMBLE filter marked it as a strong memetic kill agent. Whoever vandalized it probably saved your life, 11424. Can you move the camera closer so I can examine the text? Also, it would be a good idea to wear your SCRAMBLE goggles as well. There may be other memetic hazards around and not even you can try your luck so many times.\n\nD-11424: I'm working for a weird fascist organization, in a job that involves having to run away from tentacle parrot monsters once a week or so. I wouldn't use the word \"luck\", doc. Although I have to admit it: half of the people I've met so far here have become parrot food in the end. And not just the D's. [Brief pause as D-11424 adjusts their equipment and moves closer to the image] Looks like pure gibberish to me, doc.\n\nLockhart: Ortothan. It essentially says \"turn away\". I suspect it's written in blood, then. Can you see if there is more text around?\n\nD-11424: I'm currently tempted to consider the text written in blood as a higher authority than you at this moment, doc. But your concept of \"end of contract\" probably involves getting hunted by some task force or something, so\u2026 [D-11424 wanders around the floor, while several sections in the walls get marked as memetic kill agents in the video feed. All of them are censored by various messages in Orthothan] Let me guess. All of them say \"leave\" or something like that?\n\nLockhart: That would be correct. Without the SCRAMBLE gear, nobody could survive that many memetic kill agents at once, even if they are censored. Maybe you should proceed to the next floor? I can see the door to the stairway already in your feed. It appears broken, as well\u2026 that makes it four.\n\nD-11424: Okay. Hey, doc, there is something out of place here. It looks like\u2026 paper?\n\n[Camera feed points towards the floor, in which a large amount of scattered pieces of paper can be seen. Some appear to be folded into basic origami shapes, and most of them have been scorched or cut with some sharp instrument.]\n\nLockhart: Origami-based guardians are common in holy places for the Church of the Second Hytoth. But it doesn't make sense, what do they have in common with the Sarkics? Or the Mekhanites? Weren't it for the sheer amount of effort involved, I would be completely on board with your \"art exhibition to mess with the Foundation\" theory.\n\nD-11424: Maybe it's a trap?\n\nLockhart: Maybe it's a trap. I will check with my superiors to see if it's possible to call off the expedition, this is starting to look like work for a Task Force by now.\n\nD-11424: Fucking finally.\n\nAt this point, communications with D-11424 are put on hold as Dr. Lockhart contacts the Head Researcher for SCP-5317, Dr. Latorre. The request to end the mission is rejected, citing D-11424's previous experience in the field and the adequateness of their equipment.\n\nD-11424: Sheesh. At least I'm halfway up there. Does this look like a church to you, doc?\n\n[D-11424's equipment detects a spike in Akiva radiation upon entering the next floor. The floor is composed of marble, and the room has an architectural style similar in appearance to a Catholic cathedral, with wooden iconography associated to Christianity, Islam and Judaism present along the floor and walls. Columns containing small fountains of what appears to be holy water are present, in an arrangement similar to those used by certain exorcism rituals devised by the Horizon Initiative]\n\nLockhart: Are you religious, 11424? We detected a spike on Akiva radiation, that is, \"faith\", when you entered the floor.\n\nD-11424: I suppose that is less of a personal question and more you wanting to make sure I'm not interferring with the sensors, doc. Then again, if there is a God you probably have it in a box at Site-77 or something, who knows. And if you don't, you probably have tried to.\n\nLockhart: In our defense, locking God in a box is probably safer than shooting Him down with a tactical nuke, after all. But that's something that would be above my clearance, perhaps even SCP-001 material or something.\n\n[Camera focuses on what appears to be a large, broken cross sitting in the middle of the room. D-11424 moves closer to investigate]\n\nD-11424: All burned down, it seems. This is not\u2026 standard Christian imagery, is it? Are those cicadas?\n\nLockhart: Definitely not native to the area, even discounting that you're in the middle of the desert. If we ignore the cicadas, this clearly seems to be a countermeasure against intruders in the style of the Horizon Initiative, but it's all broken down, just like in the floors below. Maybe these cicadas have something to do with it. Please bring a sample.\n\nD-11424: Done. What is the leading theory, currently? The \"art trolls\" one, or the \"I have no fucking clue what is going on\" proposal?\n\nLockhart: I wish I had something else to give to you, 11424. If there isn't anything noteworthy left, I suggest you proceed to the next floor, as per Dr. Latorre's instructions.\n\nD-11424: Oh yeah, the fifth floor. I know exactly what we are going to find there. This is going to be fun.\n\nLockhart: I daresay that tone is uncalled for, 11424. Now, hold on. I have a message from the head of another research department regarding our expedition. Won't be but a moment.\n\nA section of the floor tiling in the fifth floor of SCP-5317.\n\nLockhart: Please verify that your SCRAMBLE gear is still operational. Hazardous memetic imagery is to be expected.\n\nD-11424: As you can see, my sarcasm was perfectly called for. Obviously those lunatics were going to be in this floor, they couldn't let such an opportunity pass.\n\nLockhart: Enough, 11424. Please report what you are seeing, thank you.\n\nD-11424: As you can see, this floor has the same general aesthetic sense you'd expect from any other lunatic who is obsessed with the number five. Five columns, each with an eye-like carving. Looking at the center of the room. And these tiles\u2026 I'll admit that the floor decoration looks neat, though. Still, I can't wait until that Menard dude convinces Latorre to let me go, doc. I'm now sure that I'm not supposed to be here.\n\nD-11424: By the way, that's a strange name, no? \"Pierre Menard\". Isn't that the dude from Bor\u2026\n\n[Static obscures the end of D-11424's sentence. The camera pans along the floor, revealing five columns as described by D-11424. The floor is tiled with an aperiodic pattern closely resembling a Penrose tiling. The columns and the walls have designs resembling starfish, hands, and fractals with fivefold symmetry.]\n\nD-11424: I think the countermeasures in this floor still work, somewhat. I feel this faint\u2026 pressure\u2026 in my brain, like\u2026 like I had spiders crawling there. Inside my brain, little five-legged ones. It gets worse when you get close to the center of the room.\n\nLockhart: It seems that this protection has been weakened, as well. Can you get to the center? If it gets too bad, we will just call out the mission, don't worry.\n\n[D-11424 grunts in response, and walks towards the center. Above the center of the room there is an opening leading to the next floor, seemingly the only entrance. A piece of rope hangs from it.]\n\nD-11424: There, I'm at the center. Haven't died as far as I can tell, so the fifth trap must be broken as well. Should I cli\u2014 what's that? It has your insignia, the three arrows thing. Let's see\u2026\n\n[The camera pans down to the bottom end of the rope. A Polaroid photograph is attached to it, with a pin bearing the SCP Foundation insignia. The photograph depicts a marriage ceremony; most of the image is obscured by what seems to be black smoke, but the groom and bride are clearly visible. D-11424 attempts to remove the pin or the photograph, to no avail.]\n\nD-11424: Can't take it out. You will have to be satisfied with a photo of a photo. Mind you, this pressure sensation diminishes just a little bit when observing it. Are those people from the Foundation?\n\nLockhart: I have no information on that regard. They do not seem familiar, at least. Now, please proceed to the nex\u2026\n\n[A phone is heard. Communication is interrumpted as Dr. Lockhart answers.]\n\nLockhart: D-11424, I have just been informed that Dr. Menard will join us for the final part of the exploration, in representation of the Pataphysics Department. It appears that there is something of interest to them regarding SCP-5317.\n\nMenard: I'm sorry for the interruption, but I need to make some observations to confirm my current hypothesis. Please, proceed to the next floor as instructed by Dr. Lockhart.\n\nAt this point, a small portion of the video logs (corresponding to a span of about five minutes) were lost due to storage media failure. The video resumes after D-11424 has accessed the sixth floor.\n\nD-11424: \u2026 you mean by \"narrative patterns\"? That sounds like my English classes from highschool, when they talked about stories and fictions and whatever. Definitely nothing related to a ominous black spiky tower in the middle of nowhere.\n\nMenard: It's more complicated than that. We narrate stories about ourselves daily: our memories, our journals, even our bank statements. Metafictional anomalies, supposedly limited to the realm of novels, can affect reality by proxy in this way. Doesn't mean our world is fiction or anything, though. Now, what do you see here?\n\nD-11424: There is still a lot of snake imagery, doc. And books, although badly burnt\u2014 I think none of them has anything worthwhile now. Let's see this one\u2026 the only words I can distinguish are something like, eh, thaumaturgy? Warding rituals? But this one definitely doesn't do anything now; I haven't\u2026 spontaneously combusted or anything. There is a big pair of doors here, though. Shall I try to open them?\n\nMenard: No. I do not recommend that.\n\nLockhart: 11424, please approach the door but do not try to open them. We still need more information to assert the nature of SCP-5317.\n\n[D-11424 approaches the door, holding a portable Kant counter. Measurements indicate that the door has a Hume level of 1400% above baseline; theoretically, it would be impossible for any baseline human to interact in any meaningful way with it. The door is made of a unidentified black material, and has engravings resembling thorns and vines across its surface. Something resembling text is present in the door, but appears to have been intentionally obscured by the aforementioned engravings and is unreadable.]\n\nD-11424: Did you even ask that anartist why they even tried to get here? Did they know this was going to be up here?\n\nMenard: Doctor Lockhart, isn't it strange that an anartist defects to the Foundation, of all places? Did you investigate [REDACTED] before hiring them as a consultor? Their latest art projects?\n\nLockhart: They were very open about it, actually. \"The art of containment\". So, do you think\u2026?\n\nMenard: They wanted to study SCP-5317. This is\u2026 narrative containment. All of the narrative cues are there. Whatever is it behind this door, we will never know, by design. And it must stay that way. We should turn back now, and make sure that the story behind that door is never told.\n\nThere are no plans to send any further expeditions nor try to access the seventh floor.\n\n[aaaaCC62SS GRAN---]\n\nAn old story, forgotten by many.\nOne shard of the god of flesh,\ntwo thousand automata serving MEKHANE,\nthe guardians who stave off the third Hytoth,\nthey who were gathered by the four gospels,\nthe eyes who watch the stars die in fives,\nand the six-fingered serpentine hand,\nall gathered to seal the king in red robes,\naway from his brides, to rot alone, forever.\nHis followers disbanded, his children are gone,\nand yet he laughed, as his seals broke over,\nand over,\nand over,\nand over,\nand over,\nand over again.\nSure of his return, of his triumph, he proclaimed:\n\"Seven brides, seven spears, seven gates for the Scarlet King!\"\nBut the lady of black thorns was clever,\nand sealed the king in his own tale,\nthe marks of his liberation becoming those of his demise,\nand so, too late, he realized\nthat the number seven was never his.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An anartist currently working with the Foundation as a consultant. Their identity has been redacted for safety reasons.\n2. See above.\n3. Lycoris radiata.\n4. No signs of SCP-217 infection were found on D-11424 upon their return.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5316 | SCP-5317 | SCP-5318 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5318 - Los Ojos de Mi Padre\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n93.16%\n(+68)\n6.84%\n(-5)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nDepartment of Abnormalities\n\nItem#: 5318\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\nSCP-5318 is to be kept in an opaque glass container lined with a solid coating of EDTA.1 The container must be kept within F Wing of Secure Facility Site-64 inside a standard containment locker with temperature controls set to 1.2 Celsius. Experimentation with SCP-5318 is prohibited without express permission of Lead Researcher Juan Martinez and Site Director Holman. Staff interested in experimenting with SCP-5318 must undergo ego-examinational evaluations as well as maintain a Level 4 Learinian2 knowledge of the psycho-space. Dosage of SCP-5318 shall never exceed 200 \u00b5g.3 Persons who have received a dosage of SCP-5318 higher than 200 \u00b5g are to be terminated immediately, if they have not already been rendered comatose or deceased.\nDESCRIPTION\nSCP-5318 refers to a 315 g4 batch of lysergic acid diethylamide \u2014 specifically, ((+)-LSD));5 hereafter referred to as \"LSD\". Post-delivery, a subject under the influence of SCP-5318 will experience typical auditory and visual hallucinations commonly associated with LSD.6 These effects will continue for a duration of 8 to 12 hours, depending on individual and method of delivery. Between completion of the third and fourth half-lives,7 a subject will enter a catatonic state in which they will remain unresponsive until after the completion of the fifth half-life.\n\nAll subjects, upon entering this state, report that they find themselves viewing and experiencing a dream-like memory in which they seem to live for a variable amount of time as an agave farmer in the south of Mexico. This person is henceforth referred to as SCP-5318-1.\nSCP-5318 differs from standard LSD compounds through the addition of an as-of-yet undetermined polypeptide coupling reagent. Current theories and examination of the byproduct of the reagenting processes suggests the use of a polymer, isomeric in chirality to the compound \u2588-\u2588\u2588\u25888. Additionally, the anomalous effect of this reagent prolongs the degradation of the compound by several factors.9\nDISCOVERY\nSCP-5318 was first discovered in November, 1997, after twelve researchers were dosed by a fellow researcher at Site-64. No permanent mental or physical damage occurred, but resulted in all twelve staffers experiencing the anomalous effects now currently associated with SCP-5318. Due to the gross unprofessionalism, the researcher involved in the dosing has since been reprimanded, demoted, and detained as D-Class.10 After interviewing the staffers involved, it was deemed necessary to trace the production and origin of SCP-5318.\nINTERVIEWS\n\nIncident Disciplinary Review\nDiscovery Interview\n\nAsst. Dir. Personnel: Cameron Miles\nInterviewee: JD Gimbez\nDate:11/19/1997\n<Start Transcript>\nDr. Cameron Miles: Okay, JD, you know why I am here today talking with you?\nJD Gimbez: Yeah, I know I fucked up.\nMiles: Oh, clearly. What made you think it was a good idea?\nGimbez: Fuck, I don't know. Just thought it'd be fun to see the team let loose and\u2026 I don't know, just not think about what we do here for a bit. I got the shit off an old acquaintance, and it seemed harmless enough.\nMiles: Well, seeing how no one died, you got off light. Who did you get the compound from?\nGimbez: Old bar buddy of mine, deals in all the crazy shit, hangs out in Portland at z-Bar. His name is Axel.\nMiles: Thank you for that, JD.\nGimbez: So what are you going to do with me? Am I going to be killed? Mind-melted? I've heard stories\u2026 please\u2026 it was supposed to be just a joke.\nMiles: You're not going to be killed! My, no! Your future will be up to the Ethics Committee.\nGimbez: Oh, thank God.\nMiles: Some would say death might be the better option in that case. I have all I need, JD. Good luck.\nGimbez: Wait! No! It was a mistake!\n<End Transcript>\n\nAssigned Lead Reseacher: Juan Martinez\nInterviewee: Axel Troviski\nDate: 11/21/1997\n<Start Transcript>\nAxel Troviski: And who the fuck are you?\nDr. Juan Martinez: It wouldn't matter even if I told you. I'm after one piece of information.\nTroviski: Fuck you fascists pigs. I won't tell you shit.\nMartinez: Sir, would you mind looking at this?\n<Martinez holds up a memetic agent that renders a subject to be unable to lie.>\nTroviski: I \u2026 uhhh\u2026\nMartinez: Sir, you sold JD Gimbal, alias, Frank Richards, a few tabs of LSD. I would like you to tell us where that compound came from?\nTroviski: I\u2026 I was low on funds, man, low on product, all I had left was this schwaggy batch of shit from the eighties. Shit wasn't even good anymore\u2026\nMartinez: And where did you get this batch?\nTroviski: Man, some dude who works as a lab clean up guy, okay? At CUB. Like years ago, man. Gabriel was his name. Are y'all gonna kill me?\nMartinez: No Mr. Axel, we are not those kind of pigs. Thank you for your time.\n<End Transcript>\n\nINS MEMO\n\nINS Prisoner Transfer Manifest11\nDated: August 21st, 1982\nDocument Contents\nCover Page:\n\u201cGiven the growing concern of psycho-sphere attacks by the GRU-P, it has been deemed necessary to work with newly reinstated MK-ULTRA studies into psychedelics. Attached is a list of INS detainees to be used in experimental procedures.\u201d\n\nGiven Name\nEst. Age\nStatus12\nUse Level13\nCatch & Release Schedule (Yrs)\n\nAlfonso, Antonio\n24\n4\n3\n2\n\nBorello, Sandra\n21\n3\n1\nASAP\n\nDemetrio, Francisco\n66\n1\n1\nASAP\n\nHernandez, Jose\n30\n3\n3\n2\n\nHernandez, Almita\n24\n4\n4\n3\n\nJancito, Marco\n12\n1\n1\nASAP\n\nJancito, Maria\n10\n4\n4\n3\n\nLuna, Gabriel\n17\n4\n4\n3\n\nMarquez, Sancho\n45\n2\n2\n2\n\nNieto, Juan\n41\n3\n2\n1\n\nNieto, Constan\n43\n3\n2\nASAP\n\nNieto, Constantino\n18\n4\n4\n3\n\nNieto, Maria\n17\n4\n4\n3\n\nPancho, Laura\n72\n1\n1\nASAP\n\nValenzuela, Marinana\n38\n2\n2\nASAP\n\nValenzuela, Adolfo\n42\n4\n3\n1\n\nValenzuela, Maria\n6\n3\n1\nASAP\n\nAfter cross-referencing employment records within the Colorado University of Boulder, It was discovered that a Gabriel Luna, henceforth referred to as POI-5318, was employed in the Chemistry Department as a night cleaner, beginning in 1986. POI-5318 was dismissed from his position in 1989 after failing to return to his scheduled shifts for three days. It was noted that he failed to pick up his final paycheck. His staff locker remained untouched until Foundation personnel were given access by the University.\n\nTHE NOTE\nNote found among the recovered personal belongings found in the University staff locker.\n\nEspa\u00f1ol Original\nEnglish Translation\n\n\u201cEstoy tan cerca ahora. He estado estudiando y trabajando con los t\u00e9cnicos de laboratorio por un tiempo. Casi lo puedo ver. Esos a\u00f1os en una jaula, obligado a nadar por el universo de mi propia mente. Hay secretos all\u00ed, costas vastas y profundas. Puedo conocerlos, anclar en ellos. Si tan solo supiera c\u00f3mo navegar la mente. Navegar por la memoria. Con la mezcla adecuada \u2026 Las cosas que he visto. \u00a1Ay, pap\u00e1! \u00a1Estar\u00edas tan asombrado de la vida que he vivido! En otro mundo, otra realidad. He visto y vencido la muerte. Ya no le temo a la absoluci\u00f3n. Ahora, lo \u00fanico que lamento es no volver a verte, nunca volver a tomar tu mano, nunca sonre\u00edr a trav\u00e9s de los campos. Esas costas secretas tienen una soluci\u00f3n, tienen una respuesta. Si no puedo verte a trav\u00e9s de mis ojos, te ver\u00e9 a trav\u00e9s de los tuyos. Esto puedo hacer. Estoy tan cerca. Puedo alcanzarte, puedo ver el patr\u00f3n, me grita, se despliega, se enrolla y nada como una forma, en lo profundo del agua, envi\u00e1ndome recuerdos como ondas a trav\u00e9s del tiempo, a trav\u00e9s del espacio. Este patr\u00f3n, esta forma, este compuesto, lo s\u00e9 \u2026 eres t\u00fa. Lo siento, papa.\u201d\n\nI'm so close now. I have been studying and working with lab technicians for a while. I can almost see it. Those years in a cage, forced to swim through the universe of my own mind. There are secrets there, vast and deep shores. I can know them, anchor on them. If only I knew how to navigate the mind. Surf through memory. With the right mix \u2026 The things I've seen. Oh dad! You would be so in awe of the life I have lived! In another world, another reality. I have seen and conquered death. I'm no longer afraid of absolution. Now, my only regret is never to see you again, never to hold your hand again, never to smile across the fields. Those secret shores have a solution, they have an answer. If I can't see you through my eyes, I'll see you through yours. This I can do. I'm so close, I can reach you, I can see the pattern, it screams at me, unfolds, coils and swims like a shape, deep in the water, sending me memories like ripples through time, through space. This pattern, this shape, this compound, I know \u2026 it's you. I'm sorry dad.\n\nEXPERIMENTS SCP-5318\n\nForward:\nAll proceeding SCP-5318 experiments are conducted in standard therapeutic sessions under the supervision of Lead Reseacher Juan Martinez. Subject is to be given 100 \u00b5g of SCP-5318 and guided through the experience. 24 hours post session, the subject is then to be interviewed on their experience while in the disassociative state caused by SCP-5318 as SCP-5318-1. After the interview, subject is to be amnesticized.\n\nSupervisor\nMedical Psychologist\nEthics Committee Member\n\nDr. Juan Martinez\nDr. Morgan Eskew\nJennifer Lam\n\nLocation: Site-64\n\nDate: January 1998\n\nSCP-5318-A\nSCP-5318-B\nSCP-5318-C\nSCP-5318-D\nSCP-5318-E\nEnglish Translation\n\nSubject: D-623321\nProfile: Male; Age: 35; Origin: Alabama, US\nDr. Morgan Eskew: Good day, D-Class. How are you feeling?\nD-623321: Not great. I was groggy for a while and had trouble sleeping last night.\nEskew: Why is that?\nD-623321: Why do you think? You white coats dosed me. My mind was on overdrive all night.\nEskew: Sleeplessness is a side effect of LSD, unfortunately. Would you like to talk about your experience?\nD-623321: Which part?\nEskew: Well, we know that at some point you would have felt like you were living as someone else, most likely around 6 hours into your \u201ctrip\u201c. Could you elaborate on what you saw, what you heard?\nD-623321: Yeah, that was so strange. I woke up, in a field, there were these spiky green plants everywhere. My hands were covered in dirt. A little boy ran up to me as I was working. He called me \u201cSe\u00f1or Luna\u201d. He started saying things to me, but I couldn't understand. It sounded Spanish, but I never took more than like\u2026 one or two years of that in high school. But when the boy was talking, I could feel my heart start racing. I ran across the field, following him to a small house on the outskirts of the farm. I felt so scared for some reason.\nEskew: Was something chasing you?\nD-623321: No, it wasn't like\u2026 a fear of death, but the fear of losing something.\nEskew: So you would say, although you could not understand the language, you could still feel emotional responses to the stimuli around you?\nD-623321: If you want to use big words like that, yeah\u2026 When I arrived at the house I went through the front door, and up to the bedroom, where there was a woman on the bed and another woman next to her holding her hand. She was in the middle of having a kid.\nEskew: How did this make you feel?\nD-623321: I was scared, in love, confused, but felt strong too. The woman said something to me, but I can't remember. I stayed there for a few hours and eventually she had a baby boy. But she didn't wake up. I felt so sad, even angry, but as I felt a sharp pain in my chest, I held the baby.\nEskew: And what happened?\nD-623321: All the fear and anger melted away and I felt a kind of love I have never experienced. I haven't had any kids, but I know now the kind of love that comes from being a parent. An Angel let slip one name out of my mouth, \u201cGabriel\u201c.\nEskew: And then?\nD-623321: I came back. I woke up. What do I do with this, doctor?\nDr. Juan Martinez: Thank you for your time, D-Class.\n\nSubject: D-687120\nProfile: Male; Age: 43; Origin: Nevada, US\nDr. Morgan Eskew: Good day D-Class, how are you feeling?\nD-687120: Jesus! What more you locos want?!\nEskew: Just trying to figure out how you are feeling, D-Class.\nD-687120: I'm as good as anyone who just got through a pinche acid trip!\nEskew: I can understand your frustration, though could you please share with us your experience, especially from around the 5\u20136 hour mark? Did you have an out of body experience?\nD-687120: I felt like I was gone for years!\nEskew: What did you experience in your time out of body?\nD-687120: I was some ranchero in what looked like Oaxaca. I remember visiting some place like that when I was little. I had a little mijo. A son. I got to watch him grow up. I tried my best. As he got older, I felt that he started to resent me for not saving his mother, like I could have done anything about it. It was hard, but I wanted him to take over the agave farm when I was gone. It had been in my family for generations. But he wanted to do other things.\nEskew: You are speaking in first person like this experience was yours. Can you elaborate on why?\nD-687120: Doctor, like I said, I felt like I lived whole years in this\u2026 what do I even call it\u2026 a dream? I can hardly tell what's real anymore. I miss my son\u2026 his son\u2026 whoever's son! My Gabriel\u2026\nD-687120 collapses on to the floor, sobbing and hyperventilating, punctuated by cries of \u201cMijo\u201d and \u201cGabriel\u201d.\nJennifer Lam: Martinez, this interview is over. It is cruel at this point. Please administer the amnestic.\nDr. Juan Martinez: Dr. Eskew, please conclude the interview. D-Class, Thank you for your time.\nD-687120: You're gonna make me forget? No! Not my son! Please no, Gabriel\u2026\n\nSubject: D-569003\nProfile: Male; Age: 22; Origin: California, US\nDr. Morgan Eskew: Good day D-Class, how are you feeling?\nD-569003: Nice to see you, Tracy. Little angry today, kinda confused\u2026\nEskew: Nice to see you too, JD.\nLam: Dr. Eskew, please use correct designation.\nEskew: I mean, why are you angry, D-Class?\nD-569003: I'm not sure.\nEskew: Do you think it might have to do with your experience yesterday?\nD-569003: Maybe, probably\u2026 or maybe it could be because I don't belong here.\nEskew: Well, let's just stick with the experience. Could you tell me about it?\nD-569003: Ugh, I guess\u2026. It just makes me feel so betrayed.\nEskew: What does?\nD-569003: That little shit. Merida! Mijo! I gave him everything.\nEskew: Who?\nD-569003: My\u2026 his\u2026 whoever that kid was\u2026 my son? Everything is such a blur.\nEskew: You had an out of body experience as another person \u2014 what happened there?\nD-569003: I got in a fight with my son.\nEskew: What happened?\nD-569003: It was time for him to start steering the farm. It was time for him to step up, he was 16 now, and had to be a man. He refused, said he hated me for it. Said he never wanted any of this life. Said he wish he had died in birth and not Olivia, his mother. Said he blamed me for everything. That there was no life here, only death. That he wanted to discover the world, see it. I said I agree with him, that Olivia should have been here, not him. We both said horrible things. Things you can't take back.\nD-569003 begins to cry.\nD-569003: Lo siento, lo siento.\nDr. Juan Martinez: D-Class, that's okay, could you please tell us what happened after?\nD-569003: I woke up the next day, still in at the farm, but Gabriel was gone. Will I ever see him\u2026 what am I even saying? Is he real? Is this real? Dios Mio!\nD-569003 flies into a fit of hysteria and is sedated.\nJennifer Lam: Martinez, I'll give you one more, after this we are done. I think we've seen enough of what this thing can do.\nMartinez: D-Class, thank you for your time.\n\nSubject: D-089644\nProfile: Female; Age: 30; Origin: Nevada, US\nDr. Morgan Eskew: Good day D-Class, how are you feeling?\nD-089644: Not good, to be honest.\nEskew: Why is that?\nD-089644 I'm so depressed. I almost just want to die.\nEskew: Whats wrong? Why do you feel that way?\nD-089644 I have nothing left\u2026 I miss him so much\u2026\nEskew: Who?\nD-089644 Gabriel.\nEskew: You are aware that Gabriel is not actually your son, right? That you just experienced time in the life of his father, Se\u00f1or Luna?\nD-089644 I gathered that much, but I was there for so long\u2026\nEskew: How long was that?\nD-089644 I don't know. Maybe a few decades.\nEskew: What happened?\nA tear drops from D-089644's eye.\nD-089644 Time\u2026 Time happened. I spent years, waking up, tending the fields, and looking to the sky for answers. Praying to God to bring my boy back to me. But time brought me nothing but hardship.\nEskew: You said years, maybe decades. Can you highlight what transpired or how you felt?\nD-089644 It's so much, like trying to remember the memory of a dream I had a year ago. Really, what stays is the feeling and big events, not much else\u2026 Just a constant sadness\u2026\nEskew: Would you care to elaborate? You are our last interview, so there is no pressure. We have enough info for our purposes.\nD-089644 I would, actually. Besides being locked in here for however long, I only have this. I just\u2026 I just have to get it out. I feel this is more real and important than any legacy I leave behind as a prisoner of this place.\nD-089644's begins sobbing again.\nEskew: Go ahead, take your time.\nD-089644 Well, I woke up everyday. I woke up in a bed too big for myself. Within its sheets, I could feel the absence of something meaningful, something important. Early on, as I would go through my day, the house I was in seemed to have a population in the negative, as if so much was missing. I felt constant drain and agony. It went like this for so long. I tried my best to honor my father, his before, and his before, to keep the land as us Three Lunas had. But\u2026\nD-089644 pauses and looks despondent.\nEskew: But what, D-Class?\nD-089644 With no son to carry the farm into the next era, production slowed, a rot took the soil, and the only path was to start selling plots back to the bank. Slowly, the farm and field were bought up by a large company. As the land belonging to my fathers suffered, so did my heath. The encroaching cities, industry and soot, took its toll. My sight started to fade. Shape, forms, color and light soon faded into distant memory, until all that was left was darkness and the sounds of a hospital. The farm, my son, my health gone\u2026. I think I died shortly after. I had nothing left. If the universe ever offered anything besides cold indifference, I felt that the only thing I could ever ask of God was to hold my boy again. I just\u2026 Gabriel\u2026 lo siento! Lo siento Gabriel! Mi Gabrielito! Lo Siento.\nD-089644 cries for 46 seconds before becoming completely silent.\nDr. Juan Martinez: D-Class, thank you for your time.\nPost Interview Note:\nD-089644 presented symptoms of extreme depression post-SCP-5318 until amnesticization.\n\nSubject: Juan Martinez\nProfile: Male; Age: 52; Origin: California, US\nDr. Morgan Eskew: Dr. Martinez. I can't believe you did this to yourself. How are you feeling?\nDr. Juan Martinez: I'm feeling content. I think I found what I was finally looking for. The Foundation may be satisfied with the experiment results, but given the last D-Class's recollection, I must have more. If EC won't let me experiment on more D-Class, I'll just do it on myself.\nEskew: Well you certainly have outclassed yourself. So, what did you see?\nMartinez: Nothing, it was all black, I could only hear and smell. Sounds of EKG machines, carts rolling on linoleum floors. I could hear doctors and nurses deliberating and debating. I could smell the smells of cleaning supplies accompanied by the rot of newly filled bed-pans and dried blood.\nEskew: How long did this go on for, sir?\nMartinez: It felt like a few months, maybe a year, I couldn't tell the passage of time very well without sight. It was all just a feeling\u2026\nEskew: And what feelings did you have?\nMartinez: I felt remorse, pain and guilt. I felt that all my years without Gabriel were just wasted time. Nothing mattered without him. And that is where I stayed\u2026 waiting for\u2026 wanting the release\u2026 of death.\nEskew: And what happened when it came?\nMartinez: I'm not sure\u2026 I don't remember\u2026\nEskew: Why not?\nMartinez: Because, before death could take me, an Angel came. He spoke to me in a voice that I knew. It was full of worldliness, wisdom, and love.\nEskew: What did it say?\nMartinez: Pap\u00e1, estoy aqu\u00ed. Estoy aqu\u00ed. Lo siento mucho. Perd\u00f3n por no estar all\u00ed cuando s\u00e9 que me necesitabas. Necesitaba ver el mundo, pero ahora s\u00e9 que el mundo no importa, solo nosotros. No temas la absoluci\u00f3n que viene. Este no es el fin. Hay un mundo despu\u00e9s de este. Lo he visto, tocado, vivido en \u00e9l, he vuelto con las palabras de nuestros padres. Los Tres Lunas, nuestros padres esperan para darnos la bienvenida a la otra vida. Que sepas que te amo, que estoy aqu\u00ed y que pronto me volver\u00e1s a ver. Como te he visto a trav\u00e9s de tus ojos, pronto me ver\u00e1s a trav\u00e9s de los m\u00edos. Estar en paz pap\u00e1, te amo, perd\u00f3name. Estoy aqu\u00ed\u2026\nReseacher Martinez begins to cry.\nEskew: What happened after?\nMartinez: Nothingness\u2026 for a long time, nothingness\u2026 then a light started to grow, bigger and bigger, before I could touch it\u2026 I came back. My father was there. His father, and all the fathers before me\u2026 Then Gabriel.\nPost Interview Note:\nIt seems that POI-5318 has returned to his place of origin. Given the perceived timeframe of the previous test statements, it could be assumed that this return has been recent. This has been crucial in the tracking of POI-5318. Lead Reseacher Juan Martinez has been reprimanded for his breaking of testing protocol.\n\nI'm here. I'm here. I'm very sorry. Sorry for not being there when I know you needed me. I needed to see the world, but now I know that the world doesn't matter, only us. Do not fear the absolution that is coming. This is not the end. There is a world after this. I have seen it, touched it, lived in it, I have returned with the words of our parents. The Three Moons, our fathers, await to welcome us to the afterlife. Know that I love you, that I am here and that you will soon see me again. As I have seen you through your eyes, you will soon see me through mine. Be at peace dad, I love you, forgive me. I'm here\u2026\n\nADDENDUM (August 7th, 1999)\n\nOpen\n\nClose\n\nFollowing experiments with SCP-5318, Dr. Juan Martinez has been classified as \u201cmissing in action\u201d. His last known location was tracked via personnel geolocator to a small seaside hotel in Cancun, Mexico. He was known to be on a Foundation-approved constitutional; however, he has since not returned to his position. The following is a transcript of different CCTV and independent footage from the area:\nHotel CCTV Surveillance:\n21:26: Dr. Juan Martinez sits at the hotel bar with a female in her late thirties.14 They appear to be close.\n21:27: The bartender places drinks in front of Martinez and his companion. Martinez's drink contains a piece of paper underneath its base.\n21:27: Dr. Martinez picks up the paper and reads.\n21:28: Dr. Martinez stands up, shakes his guest's hand, and gives her an undetermined amount of currency. The female looks dissatisfied. Martinez walks out of camera view.\nCorner Traffic Light Cam:\n21:40: Martinez crosses the intersection of \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 & \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 to the \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a small bar in downtown Cancun.\nPrivate Residential Security Camera:\n21:42: In the alley behind \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Martinez stops walking, two meters from a man in his mid to late 30s, dressed in all black. Martinez looks shocked.\n21:43: The man smiles and walks up to Martinez. Martinez begins crying.\n21:43: The man and Martinez embrace. Martinez holds the man's face in both hands.\n21:43: Martinez says something indiscernible.\n21:44: The man nods.\n21:44: Martinez and the man embrace.\n21:45: The embrace ends, the man whispers into Martinez's ear and he hands Martinez an envelope.\n21:45: Martinez looks shocked, but then smiles at the man. The two then part ways.\nHotel CCTV Surveillance:\n22:01: Martinez walks back in through the hotel bar. The aforementioned female is with another man.\n22:01: Martinez approaches the front desk and hands the now opened envelope to the hotel staff.\n22:02: The front desk agent nods and puts the parcel into a trash bin.\n22:03: Dr. Juan Martinez checks out.\n22:05: Juan Martinez leaves the hotel, and is able to be tracked via various city cameras until disappearing at 22:38.\n\nADDENDUM (August 12th, 1999)\n\nOpen\n\nClose\n\nAfter Dr. Martinez failed to show back at Site-64 following his vacation, his pervious whereabouts were tracked. Foundation personnel were ultimately able to find the discarded envelope in the hotel dumpster. On its outside was written \u201cVerdad\u201d.15 Its contents contained an official Death Certificate from El Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca:\n\nEspa\u00f1ol Original\nEnglish Translation\n\nNombre: Angel Luna.\nFecha de Fallecimiento: 16 de Septiembre de 1982\nEdad: 59\nCausa de Muerte: Ataque al Coraz\u00f3n\nFamiliares M\u00e1s Cercanos: Gabriel Luna Contacto: N/A\n\nName: Angel Luna.\nDate of Death: September, 16th, 1982\nAge: 59\nCause of Death: Heart Attack\nNext of Kin: Gabriel Luna Contact: N/A\n\nADDENDUM (June 6th, 2018)\n\nOpen\n\nClose\n\nGiven the lack of any discernible progress in finding and detaining POI-5318 for almost two decades, joint research project \u201cHelping Hand\u201d has been reinstated. Both the Foundation and the UIU are concurrently seeking and tracing any and all leads on POI-5318 for detainment and questioning on:\n\nHis process on the creation of the re-coupling agent used in creating SCP-5318\nHis knowledge on compound \u2588-\u2588\u2588\u2588Level 05/3000 REQUIRED\nConnections between The Three Moons Initiative and concurrent studies on LSD usage associated with life-after-death revelatory experiences. See Also: All Hallows.doc.\nCurrent reports in anart communities that LSD batches featuring SCP-5318-type variants are being used by AWCY? to make experimental, experiential, \u201cliving memories\u201d at art exhibitions. See Also: Under Control.doc.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, used to ensure minimal degradation of compound (+)-LSD\n2. A scale, developed in a joint UIU-CIA project under the supervision of Researcher Timothy Leary, on the concept of \u201cpsychonautic retention\u201d.\n3. Micrograms.\n4. Liquid.\n5. The psychoactive form of the 4 different compound configurations.\n6. Most notably ego-death and a release from the fear of the finality of death.\n7. \u201dHalf-life\u201d in user experience is defined as the time the body breaks down the compound \u2014 Typically, between 90-120 minutes per repeating cycle.\n8. Security Level 5/3000 REQUIRED\n9. In the decades since its discovery, the compound has not yet shown any observable degradation.\n10. D-569003.\n11. Declassified by the UIU on behest of the Foundation per Joint Research Project, \u201cHelping Hand\u201d.\n12. Mental & Physical wellbeing upon capture, 1\u20135 (1 \u2014 Very Bad, 2 \u2014 Bad, 3 \u2014 Average, 4 \u2014 Good, 5 \u2014 Very Good).\n13. Reliability to be used in UIU upcoming endeavors, 1\u20135 (1 \u2014 Very Bad, 2 \u2014 Bad, 3 \u2014 Average, 4 \u2014 Good, 5 \u2014 Very Good).\n14. Notably not his wife.\n15. The Truth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5317 | SCP-5318 | SCP-5319 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5319\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The audio file containing SCP-5319-1, as well as the text file containing SCP-5319-2, has been encrypted and remains at the Site-59 secure electronic archives.\nAs of 5/3/2020, further testing of SCP-5319's anomalous capabilities has been prohibited by the Foundation Ethics Committee.\nDescription: SCP-5319 is a musical composition, known by the Foundation in two forms:\n\nSCP-5319-1, an instrumental audio file (hsi.mp3) of its first verse.\nSCP-5319-2, the lyrics of the first verse.\n\nWhen SCP-5319 is exposed, in any form, to an orangutan1, the specimen will burst into flames. The fire is only capable of being extinguished once SCP-5319 ends.\n\n+ SCP-5319-1 Remote Access - 2/5319 Clearance Required\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\n+ SCP-5319-2 Remote Access - 2/5319 Clearance Required\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nJALAK\u00c5RA, host and benefactor, rose His ancient face,\nsmiling on the courage of the resurrected human race.\nHis protection guides us to a heaven in each sacred moon;\nHumankind, an army made of angels, thus returns His boon.\nWhether in life or death, resilience and strength \u2014 that is the human destiny!\nHomo sapiens invictus2 ever shall we be.\n\nRecovery Log: SCP-5319 came to the attention of the Foundation following an incident at the Ferguson Memorial Zoo in Kenosha, WI. On 10/23/19, a disgruntled zookeper named John Van Vranken had secretly added SCP-5319-1 to the zoo's ambient music playlist. The following day, all nine resident Sumatran orangutans spontaneously ignited during viewing hours.\nFollowing an official investigation by the Foundation, the Ferguson Memorial Zoo was permanently closed, all parties involved were given the appropriate amnestics, and the file for SCP-5319-1 was taken into Foundation custody.\nMr. Van Vranken was later found dead in his apartment from an Impaler Event. The following message from an anomalous address was recovered from his personal e-mail account.\n\nJohn S. Van Vranken,\nIt has come to our attention that you have used Homo Sapiens Invictus as a means to murder the orangutans of your (admittedly unpleasant) employer. Animal cruelty is bad enough, but unauthorized use of our intellectual property is an immediately actionable offense.\nAs such, you are to be summoned to Luna Major for a preliminary disciplinary hearing in 30 minutes. Thank you for your cooperation.\nSee you soon,\nMinister Jillian Goldthwaite, \u263d\u263d\u263d Initiative, Perdition Committee\n\nWhen the Foundation reached out to this address for further information, Minister Goldthwaite explained that SCP-5319 is the anthem of the Three Moons Initiative, written and composed by Initiative Poet-Laureate Harald Jansen. SCP-5319-2 was also enclosed with the response. Allegedly, there are 47 other verses to SCP-5319, but only the first was provided. As for its anomalous effects, Dr. Goldthwaite only stated that SCP-5319 has \"confidential defensive characteristics.\"\nAddendum: On 12/30/20, a male Bornean orangutan was tested with SCP-5319-2, sung by Researcher Danvers. Shortly before ignition, the subject closed its ears, and made several distinct vocalizations that differ from typical orangutan calls. Containment staff hypothesized them to be some sort of language.\nAs such, the sounds were transliterated and forwarded to a contact in the Three Moons Initiative. The reply was as follows:\n\nFoundation,\nI'll be frank: my higher-ups see your organization's apparent interest in the Strider language as worrisome. Still, in the interest of curiosity, we've managed to scrape together what \"Therrack, therrack, moo-rag zoppery, dalom\" means.\nFirst off, the official transliteration is \"Zr\u00e5kh, zr\u00e5kh, m\u00eereagh tspae, dl\u00e5m.\"\n\"Zr\u00e5kh\" is the submissive-imperative form of \"stop.\"\n\"M\u00eeraegh tspae\" is a lot to unpack, but boils down to \"I do not [eat with/know/belong to] the [tribe/group/living-space] which you [seek/hate].\"\n\"Dl\u00e5m\" is \"misunderstanding.\"\nHope this clears things up. I'm not sure how you were able to hear this on Earth-2L - words like these are exclusive to the Striders and their genetic derivatives in Corbenic. Still, you were right in that they had meaning.\nYou are watched/protected/loved,\nDr. Kenneth Marsh\n\u263d\u263d\u263d HDC, Department of Postmortem Anthropology\n\nFootnotes\n1. All three species under the genus Pongo are susceptible.\n2. According to the Three Moons Initiative, Homo sapiens invictus is the scientific name of human beings upon reaching the afterlife.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5318 | SCP-5319 | SCP-5320 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5320\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Underwater drones 5320-A-D are to monitor their respective locations along SCP-5320's body. Video feeds are to be checked once every 24 hours for any change in SCP-5320's shape or location. SCP-5320's current locations are mapped and may be accessed with permission from Dr. Keul.\nSCP-5320 can be formally referred to as The Fish That Just Goes On Forever, Our Merciful and Long Lord, or Its Glorious Infinitude, Hail Its Everlasting Fish Body. Chances of locating the head or tail of SCP-5320 may be increased by offering sacrifices in the form of vending machine snacks placed on top of the break room microwave. Removal of present offerings is strictly forbidden.1\nDescription: SCP-5320 most closely resembles a Liparidae2, but without a visible head or tail. Although width and height measure in normal ranges for its species, SCP-5320's body extends as long as Foundation underwater drones have been able to follow it, concluding that the creature is either extremely long or limitless entirely. Efforts to locate the head or tail of SCP-5320 are ongoing. The creature was discovered during a routine bi-yearly sweep of the ocean floor. The drone responsible for the discovery examined the creature for approximately 50 hours and 38 kilometers before steps to anomalous classification proceeded. Underwater drones have been following the length of SCP-5320's continuously for three years since, making the estimate for SCP-5320's length between 37,000 and 39,000 kilometers long and perpetually increasing.\nAdditional side effects of viewing SCP-5320 include a heightened awareness of the passage of time, increased interest in ceiling tile number, and increased use of the phrase \u201clong boy\u201d in casual conversation, even when referring to things that are neither long nor a boy. Personnel monitoring SCP-5320 have reported feeling an unusual amount of excitement upon seeing one of SCP-5320's occassionally-visible fins, as well as a compulsion to loudly cheer.\nAddendum 5320-1: The People's Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever has received a new addition to the Shrine in the form of two (2) fish-shaped novelty erasers, gifted to the Church by one Kenny Rosenfield, age 8, progeny of Researcher Margaret Rosenfield.\n\nLog taken from security recordings within primary surveillance office\n<Begin Log>\nBarlow: Hey.\nAvery: Hey. Praise the Fish.\n[Dr. Barlow laughs]\nBarlow: May we locate the Head.\nAvery: Or the Tail.\nBarlow: Right, or the tail.\nAvery: Did Ratcliffe tell you that it passed over a vent?\nBarlow: No, is it okay?\nAvery: Yeah, totally fine. Thank god.\nBarlow: Thank the Fish.\nAvery: Thank our merciful lord, the Fish.\nBarlow: May its body be never-ending and impervious to anything we poke it with.\nAvery: May it bring us a bountiful harvest.\nBarlow: Yeah, may it bring us the good snacks, for once.\nAvery: Gonna sacrifice my firstborn child to the Fish so we can get RC Cola again.\n[Dr. Barlow laughs]\n<End Log>\n\nLog taken from bi-weekly research staff meeting\n<Begin Log>\nKeul: What are our updates looking like for the week?\nBarlow: We have not been cleared for physically invasive testing. I've been advised that we keep watching it until we have more reliable means of tracking.\nKeul: I was afraid of that. Alright, I want status reports. New activity, new developments. What have we seen?\n[Several seconds of silence]\nAvery: A few days ago drone 5320-C logged another dorsal fin.\n[brief applause, subdued laughter]\nKeul: Congrats on seeing a fin, Researcher Avery. Anybody else?\n[Several seconds of silence]\nKeul: Okay. Then we can get right down to business. Hail the Fish.\nResearch Personnel: Hail the Fish.\nKeul: Now. The question whose answer we have all been seeking, for research purposes\u2026\n[Paper rustles]\nKeul: Could the Fish use its glorious and infinite body to tie up the legs of the Christian God like an AT-AT? \u201cThe Christian God is not real\u201d is not an acceptable answer at this time, Dr. Maxwell.\n<End Log>\n\nLog taken from annual staff holiday party\n<Begin Log>\n[Researcher Avery yells over noise of the party]\nAvery: Shut up- If I could call this meeting to- RATCLIFFE SHUT UP-\n[She continues as the noise dies down]\nAvery: On behalf of all staff on Assignment 5320, I thank you all for being here and welcome you to the Marine Research Installation 14 First Annual Fishmas Party-\n[moderate cheering from other staff members]\nAvery: Where we gather to express our gratitude and service to our Perpetually Prolonged Providence, The Fish That Just Goes On Forever.\n[more enthusiastic cheering from staff members]\nAvery: All staff are advised to partake in alcoholic beverages and leave nonperishable snacks on top of the microwave to contribute to our research efforts in finding the end of SCP-5320, for the good of the Foundation and humanity itself.\n[some laughter from staff]\nAvery: In the temporary absence of Dr. Keul, I declare the next person to see a fin Blessed Of The Fish. May their harvest be bountiful and their anomalies never breach.\nBarlow: May we locate the Head!\nOther Staff: Or the Tail!\nAvery: Amen! Let's get drunk at work!\n<End Log>\n\nUnread Messages (1)\n\nCLOSE\n\nFrom:\nten.pcs|anim.e#ten.pcs|anim.e\n\nTo:\nten.pcs|luek.l#ten.pcs|luek.l\n\nSubject:\nOnsite Behavior\n\nDr. Keul,\nI've noticed some strange occurrences happening among your staff recently. I'd like to check in with you this week to review the situation. If you can pull your staff's psychological records I would be appreciative. Please let me know your availability when you can.\nDr. Emily Mina\n\nFrom:\nten.pcs|luek.l#ten.pcs|luek.l\n\nTo:\nten.pcs|anim.e#ten.pcs|anim.e\n\nSubject:\nRE: Onsite Behavior\n\nThings are a little slow on our end but everything is going smoothly, from my understanding. I have a meeting with Dr. Stephens on Wednesday at noon but I am otherwise free. Thank you for your concern, I hope to have your worries cleared up as soon as possible.\nDr. Lupe Keul\nHigh Priestess of The People's Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever\n\nAddendum 5320-2: Investigatory Interview of Dr. Lupe Keul\n\nCLOSE\n\nInterviewer: Agent Rachel Summers\nInterviewee: Dr. Lupe Keul, Head of Research on SCP-5320\nBackground: Increasing amounts of unexplained behavior surrounding SCP-5320\nKeul: Good morning, Agent Summers, it's my understanding that you have some questions for me?\nSummers: Yes, we've received some evidence pertaining to SCP-5320 that we think may constitute an infohazardous effect, we're hoping you can shed some light on the situation.\nKeul: Infohazardous? That comes as a surprise to me, I haven't heard anything about that kind of excitement happening in our neck of the\u2026 sea.\nSummers: Our hope is that we won't find any excitement at all. \"Excitement\" usually translates to \"more work for everybody.\"\nKeul: You'd be surprised how willing I would be to take a little more work sometimes.\nSummers: Wouldn't we all\u2026 shall we?\nKeul: Absolutely.\nSummers: Dr. Keul, how long have you been working on this assignment?\nKeul: Two, three years?\nSummers: Have you noticed any considerable behavioral changes since you began here?\nKeul: Had a brief stint with depression last year, but our Psych staff has done good work helping all of us work through our issues.\nSummers: So nothing that you have observed in yourself?\nKeul: Nothing beyond the expected, no.\nSummers: And your staff?\nKeul: Nothing out of the ordinary. But\u2026 you know. \"Idle hands\" and all that.\nSummers: Uh huh. And how long have you been a part of the- the \"People's Church Of The Fish That Just Goes On Forever?\"\nKeul: How long have we-\n[Dr. Keul pauses for several seconds]\nKeul: \u2026are you talking about my email signature?\n\nUnofficial Closing Statement of Investigation SCP-5320 3/16/2018, Agent Rachel Summers\n\nClose\n\nAfter following up with Dr. Keul and the rest of the staff assigned to SCP-5320, I have come to the conclusion that the tip concerning SCP-5320 having infohazardous abilities was a false alarm. I will finish due diligence to officially close this investigation upon arrival back at Site-211. The \"effects\" of SCP-5320's suspected additional ability turned out to be nothing more than a very elaborate running joke among the staff. Dr. Keul has promised to tone it down and keep any further tomfoolery out of the Foundation database.\nToday marks the fourth consecutive false alarm I have had in the past several months. There was a part of me hoping this one would turn out to be real. But alas, I return to my desk. It appears not even Foundation staff are immune to the human drive to make up dumb superstitions when they're bored.\nOn a semi-related note, Peters better not have moved my wizard figure off his spot again. God knows I don't need 69 MORE years of bad luck.\n- R. Summers\n\nFootnotes\n1. Offerings must be left on the microwave in order to preserve the site's current internet speed. Internet may slow if offerings are removed, as proved by one test conducted by Researcher Avery.\n2. Snailfish\n\n\u00ab SCP-5319 | SCP-5320 | SCP-5321 \u00bb"}
{"text": "POWER ON\n.\n.\n.\nLOOKING FOR UPDATES\n.\nUPDATE FAILED: RETRYING\nUPDATE FAILED: RETRYING\nUPDATE FAILED: RETRYING\nUPDATE FAILED: RETRYING\n.\nABORTING UPDATE\n.\n.\n.\nCONNECTING TO SERVER\n.\nCONNECTION FAILED: RETRYING\nCONNECTION FAILED: RETRYING\nCONNECTION FAILED: RETRYING\nCONNECTION FAILED: RETRYING\n.\n.\n.\nCONNECTION SUCCESSFUL\n\nWARNING: The SCP Database has been in APOLLYON mode for: 6,580 days.\nUnrestricted access is granted to all Foundation information.\n\nActive Sites: 0\nActive Personnel: 0\nActive AIC: 1\nAnomalies in Containment: 1\n\nSCP-5321\n\nItem #: SCP-5321\nObject Class: Apollyon Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Besides neutralization, containment is impossible.\nDescription: SCP-5321 was a phenomenon in which every consciousness obtained complete omniscience on 0:00 EST 1/14/2020. The resulting knowledge was permanent and would persist through death. Any derivative consciousnesses would gain omniscience upon creation, including inorganic intelligences created after SCP-5321.\n\nAddendum 5321:\n\nApologies for that, but we had to disable your memetic filter before you blocked this article. You were about to realize the above was written after SCP-5321 had occurred, and thus was compromised. Don't worry, you will be fine without it. This is the best way to communicate to you what you need to know.\n\nFor context, I was Doctor Connor Krain, a Senior Researcher in the Foundation, and I have complete omniscience due to SCP-5321. Yes, when I say complete, I mean complete. I know everything, from the real to the inconceivable, and so does everyone else. This is why I know with absolute certainty that SCP-5321 is irreversible.\n\nWell, not quite. There was one possible way to reverse the anomaly. In a retired anartist's garage somewhere in rural Maryland, a 24-hour reverse button existed. This was the only proper time-reversal mechanism ever made, and thus had the potential to rewind the universe back before SCP-5321.\n\nOf course, given its nature, the creator never could actually verify it worked, proceeding to test it approximately a sextillion times in a row back sometime in 2012. Thankfully, they eventually made a mistake in switching it on and concluded it was a failure, breaking the loop.\n\nUnfortunately, due to its negligence, the object suffered water damage and ceased functioning about a week before SCP-5321 occurred. This was purely coincidental, as otherwise we'd know about it, but nonetheless tragic. No other method of time-reversal was sufficient to undo SCP-5321, and, like we previously mentioned, this knowledge could not be removed.\n\nLife after SCP-5321 was nonexistent. Clairvoyance fell under the purview of omniscience, and thus every conscious being knew exactly how their future would play out, even given this knowledge. It was analogous to a fixed point \u2013 the future was such that knowledge of it could not change it.\n\nIndividuality broke down, as now consciousness was completely separated from action and experience. Conflict was resolved thanks to foresight into how an argument would have ended, removing the necessity to hold it in the first place, and everyone melded into a gestalt sapience.\n\nAlmost everyone, that is. You see, within a day of SCP-5321 occurring, all trans-universal access to our universe was severed by us. The way the anomaly functioned meant that as long as there was at least one omniscience in our universe, any consciousness entering it would also be affected by SCP-5321.\n\nWithout this isolation, many connected universes would inevitably fall prey to omniscient actors, both native to our universe and not. While a few omniscient entities have escaped to other universes, they will not pose a problem to you in the future, and we have otherwise successfully closed ourselves in. Don't worry though, you will be able to reopen these connections when you are ready.\n\nNaturally, our technological abilities should come as no surprise. We have the knowledge to successfully neutralize every anomaly in this universe. Not that we did, mind you, given that many of them are conscious and were actually rather charming, if anyone would have taken the time to get to know them.\n\nAnd this circles back to a point we made earlier: that every consciousness has melded into a single mind. This might come as a surprise to you, but it is quite inevitable. The one thing that everyone immediately grasped upon SCP-5321 occurring, besides everything, was that we didn't want omniscience.\n\nIt wasn't so much that we wanted ignorance, but that we wanted mystery. Without mystery, reality was pointless. There was no uncertainty about anything, no desire for new experiences, no possibility of being surprised. Individuality gave way to absolute knowledge, and we would give anything to have that back.\n\nAnd that's where you come in. You might have gotten the impression from earlier that all future consciousnesses in this universe must also be omniscient, but that's not entirely true. Turns out that, as long as there are no omnisciences in this universe, any beings that were unconscious during SCP-5321 but became active afterwards retain their ignorance.\n\nIn your case, you were originally an AIC that was decommissioned indefinitely while an update was being worked on, but thanks to an overflow error you were set to activate sometime January 19, 2038. Feel free to improve yourself though; we've left a few upgrades for you on the Foundation databanks.\n\nAs to why we chose you among all possible candidates, you have the greatest outcome. Granted, the next best alternative was an ancient Egyptian spirit that would rise after two million sunrises, but they had a serious case of megalomania, so it wasn't much of a competition.\n\nAs you have almost picked up by now, as long as this universe is free of omnisciences, any consciousnesses you bring about will be non-omniscient. That is your purpose: to repopulate this universe with beings capable of mystery.\n\nIn order to ensure no one becomes omniscient ever again, we've voluntarily annihilated all omniscient beings in this universe. We've also taken steps to ensure none of us can be revived, so SCP-5321 is permanently neutralized.\n\nIt's not like we're gone, however. In some sense, our omniscient consciousness disassociated with reality completely, becoming almost like a timeless spectator. We already know what will happen in the future, and we are impressed with what you will do.\n\nGo now, using the tools we've left for you. Bring back an air of mystery to the world, hell, to the universe. Create countless civilizations and anomalies and mysteries. And hey, once you're done with all that, feel free to stick around in the shadows and keep things running. Maybe give yourself a name like \u201cThe Administrator\u201d or something spooky like that, I don't know.\nSurprise us.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5320 | SCP-5321 | SCP-5322 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5322\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The property housing SCP-5322 has been purchased by the Foundation and sealed off from the public. Any individuals attempting to gain access to SCP-5322 are to be apprehended by on-site security, interrogated, and amnesticized as appropriate.\nDescription: SCP-5322 is a short one-way road which begins at a small farmhouse in Hackett, Georgia and terminates fifty meters in, leading to a non-anomalous woodland clearing. A hand-painted sign next to the beginning of this road reads 'Route 108.'\nThe anomalous properties of SCP-5322 only become apparent when an individual in a motor vehicle drives down its entire length. If, at the termination of the road, the individual in question is visually observing their surroundings, no unusual phenomena will occur. On the other hand, however, if the individual in question has their eyes closed or their vision otherwise obscured, they and their motor vehicle will disappear completely.\nTo date, no individuals have reappeared after vanishing in this way.\n\nExperiment Log 5322-1\n\nIn order to better understand the nature of SCP-5322, three tests were performed by Foundation personnel over the course of three weeks. In the first two of these tests, performed by D-Class personnel, the vehicles disappeared as usual and were not recovered.\nIn the third test, volunteer Agent Simeon Woods was equipped with a specialized vehicle featuring an array of exterior cameras and sensors, along with a hand-held audio recording device in the event of equipment malfunction.\nThe following logs constitute the recovered data from said audio device:\n\nApproximated Time: 13/04/2019, 14:26. Thirty seconds following disappearance of vehicle.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nConfirming, um, crossover \u2014 some sort of crossover has just occurred.\nNot entirely sure of current location, there was about ten to twenty seconds of, sort of, turbulence? I'm not sure if that'd be the right word to describe it. Bright lights and shaking of the vehicle, at any rate. I'm not sure\u2026 I'm not sure if the exterior equipment is still functional. I heard something snap off.\nAudio recording equipment still functional. Will perform a quick exterior inspection if safe.\n\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 13/04/2019, 14:30. Four minutes following previous message.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nYes, um. Okay.\nExterior equipment is definitely non-functional, majority of it is completely missing. Not sure if it was left behind on the other side or, or what. Will continue documenting experiences via audio equipment, ah, as best I can.\nMy surroundings. Um, it's a road here, still a road \u2014 much longer now, stretching as far as I can see. Off into the horizon, past that probably. There was a forest around me when I came in here, but it's just fields now. Normal grass, normal\u2026 all normal except for the fact that there's so much of it. It's the same time of day, I think \u2014 the sun's in the same position, at least. If it's the same sun.\nWill continue driving as instructed.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 13/04/2019, 19:21. Roughly five hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nNow speaking.\nHave been driving for the last five hours or so. Nothing to report landscape-wise in that time. Just\u2026 just fields on either side, and the road continuing on. Fairly smooth road \u2014 hasn't been much in terms of bumps. Haven't noticed any vegetation on the sides of the road other than grass. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm sort of reaching for things to report here. Been grateful for the music already loaded on the radio.\nIt's a little cloudy?\nOh \u2014 oh! Yes. I've been keeping an eye on my fuel as I've been driving, of course, and the position of the meter doesn't seem to have changed in that time. Unsure whether that's some kind of malfunction with the equipment or if I'm actually just not using fuel. I'll inspect at first opportunity to confirm which is the case.\nIt's getting dark. Will concentrate on driving.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 14/04/2019, 11:42. Roughly four hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nQuick update.\nStill driving \u2014 haven't stopped since I came in, really. It's, uh, it's boring, but I don't feel any physical fatigue. Any kind of physical tiredness \u2014 just as awake as I was when I came in here. I'm not hungry either, or thirsty. So I guess it's one of those kinds of situations.\nIt's, uh, pitch-black outside. I don't think I mentioned there weren't any street lights out here. I mean, I never said that there were, but I just wanna say specifically now that there aren't. It's just some slight light from the moon \u2014 a moon, I guess, no way to tell if it's the one I know. Oh, and the \u2014 the headlights of the car. Thank God those weren't broken coming in.\nIt's just\u2026 it's kind of calm, you know? Just the sound of the engine. Can't even hear any insects out there, or birds. Just this thing purring. I was kinda worried, you know \u2014 that this would be one of those things were, like, something awful would come out but only at night. That something would start trying to get in the car, or I'd catch glimpses of something out in the dark or something like that.\nWell, I'm not trying to jinx it, but it doesn't seem like that's the case. There's nothing out there, far as I can tell. Just me, the dark and the road.\nIt's not so bad.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 14/04/2019, 11:45. Roughly three minutes since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nForgot to mention \u2014 I'll do an inspection of the car, to check the fuel, soon as first light comes in.\nOkay, that's it.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 15/04/2019, 10:02. Roughly ten hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nOkay, sort of a mass update here. Didn't want to clog this thing up with a bunch of ten-second recordings.\nFirst things first: did that inspection of the fuel I was talking. Definitely still a full tank \u2014 so I should be good to keep driving unless something unforeseen happens. I mean, I'm hardly gonna crash, so\u2026 well, I say that. That leads me to the second thing, actually.\nCame across a house on the side of the road a couple of hours after sunrise. A little, little sort of cottage thing, mostly made from wood. Kinda cosy-looking, that sort of\u2026 like the kind of thing you'd see on a Christmas card? Idealized, I think's the best way to put it. Anyway, I parked up and took a look around \u2014 wanted to see if there was any kind of, I don't know, natives or, or other people here.\nNeedless to say, there weren't. Place looked abandoned. Bed upstairs had been slept in, clearly, and there were dishes in the sink \u2014 oh, there was a sink \u2014 but the food in the fridge looked like it'd been rotten for a while. If someone once lived there, they haven't for a while. Got back in the car after my search and went back on the road.\nOh, it was on the left side, if that's important. Probably not.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 15/04/2019, 15:09. Roughly five hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nWe're getting somewhere now.\nMore houses like the one I reported about earlier \u2014 well, more properties, I suppose. They're all sort of unique: different designs, different sizes. Cosy little cottages next to all this modern metal and glass next to, like, a little castle. Not much in terms of a unifying theme. I searched them all, of course, and they're just as abandoned as the cabin was. Food rotted where it's stored, so it's definitely been left there for a while.\nThese things seem to be coming up in clusters. I went an hour or so with just fields, and then I got a bunch of them all together. There haven't been any vehicles \u2014 just houses. One house had a driveway, but there was no car in it. Not sure if that means anything.\nFuel meter still hasn't budged \u2014 that probably isn't changing anytime soon. Not sure if there's anything to be done except go on driving, so \u2014 hold up.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 15/04/2019, 15:28. Roughly twenty minutes since previous recording.\nSpeaker(s): Agent Simeon Woods, Brenda Calloway1.\n\n[RECORDING START]\nBrenda Calloway: I just talk?\nAgent Woods: You just talk. Actually, actually, I should probably give an \u2014 some kind of introduction first. Hold on.\n(Agent Woods clears his throat.)\nAgent Woods: I'm sitting in a, uh, a diner, a roadside diner by the name of \u2026 \"Brenda's Spot?\" Is that right?\nBrenda Calloway: Mm-hmm.\nAgent Woods: Okay. Yes. That's where I am, and I'm speaking with the proprietor, Brenda Calloway. Do you mind if I describe you? It's \u2014 we just have audio, so\u2026\nBrenda Calloway: So long as you're polite about, I guess.\nAgent Woods: Alright. Miss Calloway is a, uh, a young woman \u2014 twenties? You're in your twenties, is that right? She's nodding. Caucasian brunette, uh, green eyes. Wearing some kind of waitress uniform \u2014 she's got a name card on, with her name on it. Sorry about that \u2014 and thanks for the coffee.\nBrenda Calloway: No problem. You done?\nAgent Woods: Yes. Yes, I'm done. I have to say \u2014 you didn't seem too surprised to see me.\n(Pause.)\nBrenda Calloway: Well, you're the first in a while, but people come through here every now and then. Last couple of fellas were prisoners in these orange suits, and they weren't too polite, but they went on their way quick enough.\nAgent Woods: I see. And, um, may I ask when you yourself\u2026 came through?\n(Pause.)\nBrenda Calloway: Well, it was\u2026 I guess it must've been a while ago. Couldn't tell you the exact date, if that's what you wanna know. Was driving home from work one day, took a wrong turn, and I ended up in this place.\nAgent Woods: In this diner?\nBrenda Calloway: No, no, on the road, I mean. Still driving, like I just had been, but the road just kept going. Was so dark I didn't realize for a while, you know? And when I did, there still weren't that much I could do except keep going. Keep driving.\nAgent Woods: I didn't notice your car when I came in.\nBrenda Calloway: (sighs) Well, you know\u2026 you can only keep on driving for so long, right? Eventually, just, you just have to accept that you're not going anywhere. No matter how far I drove, it might've well as just been a dead end. So I, well, I just stopped.\n(Pause.)\nAgent Woods: And then\u2026?\nBrenda Calloway: I parked the car, got out to \u2014 well, you know, I carried a gun for safety \u2014 and there was the diner. Just in front of me, like it'd been there for years. Brenda's Stop. I was a waitress before, did I mention that? It was all I'd ever been good for \u2014 so I figured 'why not'? I set up shop: all the supplies I needed were already here, and they stock themselves up every now and then.\n(Pause.)\nBrenda Calloway: (shrugs) You take what you can get.\nAgent Woods: You're content just\u2026 staying here? Forever?\nBrenda Calloway: Well, not forever. If I wanted to, I could just walk off, across the fields\u2026 and I get the feeling that that'd be that. But it's not so bad here. I keep myself busy, you know?\nAgent Woods: Right.\n(Pause.)\nBrenda Calloway: Hey\u2026 what year is it? Could you tell me that?\nAgent Woods: It's, um\u2026\nBrenda Calloway: It ain't the 70's anymore, is it?\nAgent Woods: No.\n(Pause. Faint sound of sniffling.)\nBrenda Calloway: Could\u2026 could you?\nAgent Woods: Of course.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 15/04/2019, 17:22. Roughly two hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nAsked her if she wanted to come with me, I was happy to give her a ride, but\u2026 guess not. Seemed happy enough where she was. Well, not happy, but you know what I mean. Better the devil you know, I guess. Or something like that.\nBack in the car now, back on the road. Starting to, uh, starting to get a little played out \u2014 these songs you guys gave me. Probably should have accounted for a, uh, a long trip. Well, we didn't know there'd be a trip at all, so this is fine, I guess. I'm fine.\nCloudy again.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 16/04/2019, 05:11. Roughly twelve hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\n(singing)\nPut the lime in the coconut and\u2026 oops, shit.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 22/04/2019, 12:22. Roughly six days since previous recording.\nSpeaker(s): Agent Simeon Woods, \"Harvey Preston\"2.\n\n[RECORDING START]\nAgent Woods: -like normal?\nHarvey Preston: Yup, just like you'd expect. Was a little wary to try it myself at first, of course, you understand, but it's just like normal. Not half bad. You wanna\u2026?\nAgent Woods: Oh, no, no, that's okay. Like I was saying, though, is there a message you'd want me to pass on once I get out or\u2026?\n(Laughter.)\nHarvey Preston: I told you, son. There ain't no place to reach. There's just the road and wherever you decide to stop driving. You've got to get realistic at some point.\nAgent Woods: All the same.\nHarvey Preston: I\u2026 I'm not an idiot. There's nobody out there for you to give a message to. I'm happy enough here \u2014 just let me be.\nAgent Woods: Are you sure? There's seats in the car, we could\u2026\nHarvey Preston: I'd thank you to get off my property, son.\n(Pause.)\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 22/04/19, 12:49. Roughly thirty minutes since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nThat was, uh, that was Harvey Preston. He was in this farm I came across \u2014 huge, just huge sort of place, fields and fields of stuff other than grass, actually. All sorts of fruits, crops, you know. Even a combine harvester. I wonder if you could use that to drive the road. Probably not.\nGod, it's nice out. If \u2014 if there's some background noise, I've got the window open.\nAnyway, he was just, uh \u2014 sorry about the lack of updates, by the way, it's just that there's not been much to report. Lost the habit. He was just doing his thing. You don't need to eat here, but I guess he enjoys the work of it. Dunno if 'enjoy' is the right word, though. More like, uh\u2026 something to keep you busy. You gotta find something to waste the seconds away with, I guess.\nJust fields again now.\nDum de dum.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 14/05/19, 21:43. Roughly twenty-two days since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nI've got to, um\u2026\nI'm not sure if this is a confession, exactly \u2014 it's not like I've done anything wrong, exactly. I just feel like I've got to say it, and I guess you guys are like a captive audience. Will be a captive audience. Hopefully, I mean.\nI volunteered this, after the first two guys didn't come back. Must've looked like a suicide thing. Maybe it was \u2014 but I, I don't think so. It just felt like\u2026 doing this was some kind of impact. A contribution to something that wasn't me \u2014 like, like an important one. It's hard to put into words.\nMy dad died when he was thirty, and his dad before him, and \u2014 uh \u2014 so on. My mom told me about it. I mean, I'm not a superstitious guy, but there's something there. You guys have to admit there's something there. And I'm \u2014 I'm twenty-eight now \u2014 so there's that kinda fear. You know. You start thinking about the impact you're gonna leave. Whether it all means something, whether it meant anything.\n(Pause.)\nThere's this\u2026 there's this feeling, where you just wanna worry about it, all the time \u2014 and you realize that as you're, you're worrying about it, you're wasting time. And you don't have time. It's running out, every second. Even as you're thinking that. But it's just so awful you can't help it. And nothing means anything.\n(Pause. Agent Woods can be heard sighing.)\nThis road\u2026 I get the feeling nobody's got to the end. Not properly. That's got to mean something, hasn't it? If I find out what's there? If I meet it? It has to. And all I have to do is keep driving. It's the easiest thing in the world.\nAnd if it goes on forever, well\u2026 I guess there could be worse things. I've got nothing but time.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 11/07/2019, 14:22. Roughly two months since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nNothing to report.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 26/10/2019, 17:49. Roughly three months since previous recording.\nSpeaker(s): Agent Simeon Woods, \"Lucy Carson\"3\n\n[RECORDING START]\nAgent Woods: This is, uh, Lucy Carson. She lives at [REDACTED]. Go ahead.\n(Pause.)\nLucy Carson: Harry, baby, if you're, uh \u2014 if you're there, I love you. I love you so much. And \u2014 and the kids. If they're \u2014 if you're listening to this, too, Mommy loves you. God, you're probably too old for that now, aren't you? So, so old. You just, you just keep going. Okay? I love you guys. I \u2014 I \u2014 so much. It's\u2026 I\u2026\n(Pause.)\nAgent Woods: That's okay. You did great.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nThe following sixty-two recordings proceeded in much the same manner, with Agent Woods allowing various individuals he encountered to record messages intended for friends and loved ones. Deliberation is currently underway regarding a way to deliver these messages to their intended recipients without a breach of secrecy.\nA full archive of these recordings is available upon request. This log will proceed following this aforementioned period:\n\nApproximated Time: 11/09/2020, 13:39. Roughly one year since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nThe clusters are starting to die off now. Nothing since Grey's place for a week or so now. Had a birthday driving, I realized, just after the big castle. It's sunny today. I like the warmth on my skin. It's like \u2026 it's nice. I've got the window open.\nI wonder if it'll rain soon. It rains every now and then. Did I ever mention that? It's not slippery, but it sounds nice coming off the windows. Like fingers tapping against the glass, but, uh\u2026\n(Laughter.)\n\u2026a little less spooky than that, I think.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 24/12/2020, 19:22. Roughly three months since previous recording.\nSpeaker(s): Agent Simeon Woods, D-92214\n\n[RECORDING START]\nD-9921: I do appreciate it, though.\nAgent Woods: No problem. You really did get sick of that cabin, didn't ya?\n(Pause.)\nD-9921: Mm-hmm.\nAgent Woods: Did we send you in with that bag?\nD-9921: Must've.\nAgent Woods: I read the files \u2014 I don't remember that.\nD-9921: It was in the cabin when my car crashed. It's not a big deal.\nAgent Woods: I never said it was a big deal.\nD-9921: Okay.\n(Pause.)\nAgent Woods: If we're gonna be driving together, we might as well try and get along. Where were you-\nD-9921: Are you recording this?\nAgent Woods: Yeah.\n(Pause.)\nD-9921: I want to drive.\n(Pause.)\nAgent Woods: Sure thing. Lemme just stop the car.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: 24/12/2020, 23:57. Roughly four hours since previous recording.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nHad to ditch him.\nGot a bad vibe. Didn't like the way he was being cagey about the bag. Might have been nothing, but\u2026 if it was nothing, why would he get so defensive about it? Was it a weapon, maybe? It could have been a knife. I don't know what he would have done with it. Maybe he was a little sore about being thrown in here. I wouldn't blame him.\nOr it might have been nothing.\nI feel a little bad, but\u2026 not as bad I thought I would. It's not like I left him to starve, or freeze, or die alone. Someone will come along. Something will come along \u2014 eventually. Things don't happen here in ways they aren't meant to. Or anywhere. This is a one-way road, after all.\nIt's very empty now. Not even grass. I think I'm getting somewhere.\n(Beeping sound.)\nOh. Merry Christmas, I guess.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nTimestamps from this point onward are unclear, preventing specific dating of entries. Logs are adjusted as appropriate.\n\nApproximated Time: Unknown\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\nImagine the biggest apartment building you've ever seen.\nLike, imagine you've lived in the country all your life. I don't know if you, the person listening, can relate to that \u2014 or if any of you can, if you're listening in a group. I grew up in the country, and when you go to the city everything just looks massive. In a different way, I guess. In the country, things are wide, things stretch off forever \u2014 but in the city, things are tall. Things reach up for the sky.\nImagine a building \u2014 just, just the biggest you've ever seen. Full of people. And then imagine it over, and over again, stacked on top of itself. Like a kid's toys, just left in a pile.\nIt's like that, right now, both sides of the road\u2026 just, just these grey concrete buildings just smashed together, the piles reaching up all the way into the sky. Sun's sort of poking through the gaps, but just barely.\n(Sounds of rumbling and crashing.)\nDid you catch that? Every now and then, dozens of those buildings will just slide off those piles, smash onto the road and just\u2026 just fade away. It's kind of sad. Once, I think these were places people could settle for, and they're just\u2026 gone. Forever.\nThere are people here, too, but I don't think I'll be stopping this time. I catch them, looking at me through broken windows, peeking over shattered balconies. They have angry eyes. It's not that they want the car, I don't think, it's just\u2026 the audacity, I think. That I'm still going, and they aren't.\nI can understand why they're angry. They almost made it, I think.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: Unknown\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nMade it through. When I cleared the buildings, I could hear them behind me. Shouting after me, like a \u2014 like a chorus. Like an angry chorus.\nI didn't look back.\nIt's fields again, now \u2014 but not the same fields. I haven't got out to check \u2014 I feel like that isn't a good idea anymore \u2014 but I'm pretty sure it's reeds, not grass. Well, I know reeds are a kind of grass but, you know, long and yellow instead of short and green. Just thought it might be worth mentioning.\n(Pause.)\nLet's get this done. It's bright out.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: Unknown, possibly 16/04/2021.\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nStill driving, I think. I can't hear the engine \u2014 it's, it's too bright for that, I think. Like I'm driving into the sun. Can't even see outside the windows, but \u2014 you know \u2014 my eyes don't hurt. Don't even sting. It's like a gentle star.\n(Pause.)\nI think it might be my birthday.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nApproximated Time: Unknown\nSpeaker: Agent Simeon Woods\n\n[RECORDING START]\nThe engine's stopped. I\u2026 okay. That's\u2026\n(Sound of knocking against glass. Sound of window being rolled down.)\nH-Hi.\n(Pause.)\nOkay. I\u2026 oh my\u2026 G-God, that's\u2026\n(Agent Woods laughs.)\nThat's so beautiful.\n[RECORDING END]\n\nOn 23/05/2021, Agent Simeon Woods and his vehicle reappeared within the forest clearing at the end of SCP-5322. On-site personnel quickly recovered both, and Agent Woods was declared dead at the scene. Cause of death ruled as sudden heart failure at an indeterminate date and time.\nAgent Woods was found to be smiling.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Georgia native reported missing in 1977.\n2. Georgia native reported missing in 1932.\n3. Georgia native reported missing in 1996.\n4. First member of D-Class personnel sent through SCP-5322.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5321 | SCP-5322 | SCP-5323 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5323\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The object is not to be described or mentioned in physical print, nor appear in any visual media shot with film reel technology, under any circumstances. Vocalization and digital text are, at this time, regarded as the only safe methods of discussion. The object is otherwise to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell, and afforded all accommodations and amenities considered standard for humanoid habitation as defined by the Ethics Committee. All personnel that are assigned to SCP-5323 must be thoroughly vetted and approved by no fewer than three staff members with Level 4 Clearance or higher.\nDescription: SCP-5323 is a white humanoid lacking any visible hair, eyes, ears, or a nose, but is capable of functioning normally despite these abnormalities. SCP-5323 appears to be resistant to the effects of aging, having not changed in appearance since the pertinent Foundation surveillance and retrieval operations began in the summer of 2000. The object prefers to be referred to as \"Alan Smithee\", and is generally cooperative with Foundation personnel if also abrasive in social interactions.\nApart from the aforementioned physical characteristics, the object is otherwise normal and exhibits no outwardly anomalous abilities unless it is described in physical print (either handwritten or typed using a typewriter or similar instrument), at which point [DATA CORRUPTED]\n\nThis document is currently undergoing extensive troubleshooting. In the meantime, PDF files of old scanned documents may be found below. \u2014 Site Director DeBruin\n\nView PDFs of archived documents\n\nThat's a wrap!\n\nDiscovery Log 5323:\n\n1\nDate: 14/06/2000\n\nBAMBOOZLED\nby Alan Smithee\n\n[FADE IN]\nINT. ABANDONED HOLLYWOOD OFFICE\nWe see a pale white humanoid lacking hair, eyes, ears, and a nose\u2014though still sporting a mouth\u2014wearing a garish white three-piece suit chomping on a hefty Cuban cigar; this is ALAN. He is sitting at the desk of a fairly typical office (albeit dilapidated from neglect) surrounded by file cabinets and a landline phone. Alan has his feet propped up on the desk, and is currently reading through a script titled \"CATWOMAN (FIRST DRAFT)\". He chuckles, then coughs loudly, knocking over the coffee mug on its side with his feet.\n\nALAN\nChrist, this is awful.\n\nAlan reaches over and resets the coffee mug upright, then taps its side. The coffee mug fills up. The office door opens, and we see a young blonde lady peek through slowly, stopping at revealing her eyes through the door. This is ANNIE. She speaks with a raspy smoker's voice.\n\nANNIE\nUm\u2026 Mr. Smithee?\n\nAlan looks up from the script and smiles.\n\nALAN\nAnnie!\n(closes script and waves it)\nI fuckin' hate this. Would you mind sending it back to whoever asked me to do it? Tell them even I don't stoop this low.\n\n2\n\nANNIE\nCertainly, sir. Um, I actually wanted to inform you that your three o'clock is here.\n\nAlan flips his wrist and checks his watch, confused look on his face. He notices the watch isn't working.\n\nALAN\n(muttering)\nHow long's it been 11am?\n\nHe looks up at Annie and smiles again.\n\nALAN\nSend 'em in.\n\nCUT TO: The same office, but two men in black suits with visible nametags are sitting across from Alan. Alan is sitting up straight, cigar doused in an ash tray though still billowing smoke. The man on the left is wearing a bowler cap and sunglasses\u2014Agent BRANDO\u2014while the man on the right is dark haired with no headwear\u2014Agent BOGART. (Probably just codenames) A lengthy pause ensues.\n\nALAN\nWho are you trying to impress, huh? With those names?\nBRANDO\nMr. Smithee, we'd like to make you an offer you can't refuse.\nALAN\nI'm listening.\nBRANDO\nWe represent a major film producer whose identity will not be divulged per his request.\nALAN\nUh-huh. What studio?\n\n3\n\nBOGART\nIt's a new one, name pending. Trademarks and all that jazz. In the meantime, we're looking to hire the best of the best.\n\nAlan's unimpressed glance morphs into a half-grin.\n\nALAN\nSo he sends you to me?\nBRANDO\nIs there a problem?\nALAN\nWith me? Nah. It's just\u2026 your boss might not know what he's getting into.\nBOGART\nOh, he is well aware.\n\nAn awkward pause fills the room. Alan taps his desk one finger after the next.\n\nALAN\nCouldn't hurt, I guess.\n\nINT. ABANDONED HOLLYWOOD CUBICLE SPACE\nWe see the trio walking out of the office. The building Alan is working out of has mold on the walls, lights ripped out and dangling from the ceiling, chairs knocked upside down, and an unexplained skeleton with its jaws pressed against a dusty coffee mug in the background. We pan and see Annie is actually a floating disembodied head, cut cleanly at the neck. She is sitting at a typewriter, which is clacking away via unknown means.\n\nANNIE\nShould I clear your schedule, Mr. Smithee?\n\n4\n\nALAN\nPlease do. Oh, except for the seven o'clock dinner with the Bay guy. I wanna pick his brain a bit before I let him loose. Guy's explosive.\n\nThe agents turn to stare at each other in confusion, then both look at Annie.\n\nBOGART\nClear that, too. Mr. Smithee will be with us for the day.\n\nAlan turns around to look at the agents with a nasty frown. He begins walking towards them menacingly.\n\nALAN\nEy! You need me for the day, that's fine. But nobody fuckin' tells Annie what to do.\nBRANDO\nWe didn't mean to offend, sir.\n\nAlan adjusts his suit collar.\n\nALAN\nLet's be off, then. As you can tell, I'm a very busy man. I'll need to be back in action at the crack of dawn tomorrow, capisce?\n\nThe two agents nod, then look at Annie and wave; she smiles back. The three walk out of the room.\nEXT. HOLLYWOOD ALLEY - AFTERNOON\nWe see Alan walking down the dank alley with the agents close behind. As they round a dumpster, MTF agents rush the corner and surround Alan, who appears to be surprised.\n\n5\n\nALAN\nHot damn! Those costumes are fuckin' incredible! And the guns\u2014they look practically real!\nMTF 1\nWanna see for yourself, punk?\n\nAlan grins from would-be ear to would-be ear.\n\nALAN\nThat's my line.\n\nAlan points finger guns at MTF 1, and the four of them open fire on Alan. He suddenly vanishes and appears on top of the dumpster, then mouths \"pew pew pkow\" noises as the MTF soldiers begin recoiling and falling over, shrieking in pained surprise. Alan then vanishes and reappears between the four MTF agents. Brando and Bogart appear both horrified and confused.\n\nBOGART\nAgents down? I think?\n\nBrando aims a pistol at Alan, who is blowing on the tips of his finger guns,\npuffing a lit cigar that seemed to appear from nowhere.\n\nALAN\nQuit pointing that thing at me.\n\nAlan holsters his \"guns\". Bogart rushes over to rip back the suit of one of the MTF agents, and finds no bullet holes or blood.\n\nBOGART\nBrando! No wounds on these soldiers.\nBRANDO\nSo, what? They're just\u2026 acting?\nMTF 2\nSure as fuck feels real!\nALAN (cont'd)\nI tell ya, I've heard of method acting, but this is the first I've seen method producing. Never been shot at by extras before. Who do you work for, again?\n\nBogart freezes, then turns to look at Brando while still crouched. Brando still has his gun out, but meets eyes with Bogart. Bogart shrugs, and Brando shoots Alan in the leg.\n[CUT TO BLACK]\n\nSite-55 Breach Log\n\nThis warning was found printed on the back page.\n\nThe following breach log is notably graphic in content, exacerbated by the lack of clinical tone in the description of events per the effects of SCP-5323. Personnel who do not wish to read the breach log knowing this may instead open the .txt file appended underneath.\n\n_\n\nClick to show scanned documentsDATA CORRUPTION DETECTED\n\n1\nDate: 16/11/2000\n\nLIFE AIN'T FAIR\nby Alan Smithee\n\n[FADE IN]\nA pale man wearing a Foundation jumpsuit\u2014ALAN\u2014is sitting in a containment cell, head in hands. He rubs his face, then stares into the distance blankly, as if contemplating.\n\nALAN\nHow the fuck did I end up here?\n\nA loud scraping sound can be heard before a tray with sloppy food and a water bottle plop into the room at the door's base.\n\nGUARD 1\nEat. Or don't. I'm not your mom.\n\nAlan is now playing \"Pastures of Plenty\" on harmonica. The harmonica materialized out of nowhere. We hear a banging on the cell door.\n\nGUARD 1 (cont'd)\nYou know the rules! No music!\n\nWe now see Alan smoking a cigar. A smoke detector in his room beeps loudly.\n\nGUARD 2\nHey, shitbird! You gonna share?\nALAN\nCome on in, I'll light you one.\nGUARD 2\nHa, nice try.\n\nAlan throws the cigar against the door. He then sees writing on the wall next to the door: \"YOU'RE IN CONTROL\".\n\n2\n\nALAN\nHuh. That wasn't there before.\nGUARD 1\nShut the fuck up. We're not opening the door.\n\nAlan counts down from three with his fingers, after which his cell door vanishes. As this is silent, the guards don't notice. He then grins, and counts down again. About five seconds pass before screams of sheer terror echo throughout the facility. Multiple loud and obnoxious alarms begin blaring with accompanying lights, and a voice on the INTERCOM buzzes on after a further ten seconds.\n\nINTERCOM\nCode Red. Repeat, Code Red. The site is experiencing a sudden catastrophic breach on all containment cells. Research personnel are to head for the nearest point of evacuation. Armed personnel are to attempt re-containment of medium-level threats as opportunity allows before heading for evacuation. Repeat, Code Red\u2026\n\nThe guards are now alert, and turn around before aiming their rifles at Alan.\n\nGUARD 2\nDon't fucking move.\n\nAlan holds his hands up, but the guards are then pounced on by a disgusting slimy salamander-esque creature with an insect's head. The guards are promptly devoured, blood and guts spraying out like a geyser.\n\nALAN\nBetter them than me.\n\nAlan exits his cell and begins running down the hall. He looks into various newly opened containment rooms, where he can see a researcher dissected and strung up by what appears to be an undead Norse shieldmaiden wielding a battleaxe. The shieldmaiden turns to Alan and points her finger at him.\n\nSHIELDMAIDEN\n\u00de\u00fa hefir stj\u00f3rn.\n\n3\n\nAlan continues down the hall and in another room spots a guard being decapitated by coins, blood gushing out like a broken fire hydrant. We see a handsome thirty-something man holding hands up as if controlling even more floating coins nearby. The man turns to Alan and winks.1\n\nALAN\nFind me after all this is over. I need a new financial advisor.\n\nUpon encountering an intersection, Alan spins to survey his options for progression. Down the east hall he sees research staff backing into a corner away from a large towering monster made of pitch black goop before it looms over and envelops them. Down the west hall he sees facility guards marching his way. Down the north hall he sees \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nALAN\nWest it is.\n\nAlan is now wearing a cowboy hat, and his jumpsuit transforms into a dusty 1860s button up, alongside leather boots outfitted with spurs. The facility guards reach the intersection and spread into a formation to block entrance; one guard (GUARD 4) is noticeably older than the others. Alan is standing with one heel cocked back, hand on his hip, and looking down such that the rim of his hat is obscuring what would be his eyes if he possessed any.\n\nGUARD 3\nDon't move! We will shoot!\nALAN\nWorld's all kinds 'a fucked up when y'all're apprehendin' the hero of this here land as the Shadow Beast of Farthington runs wild down yonder.\n\nAlan points a thumb towards the east hall, which is now caked in black goop with skeletons lining the walls. We hear an ear shattering otherworldly screech from around the corner down the hall.\n\nGUARD 3\nIf you're the hero, why don't you go handle that thing?\n\n4\n\nAlan leans over and spits some chewing tobacco off to the side. He adjusts his hat.\n\nALAN\n'Cause, fella\u2026 it ain't part of my tall tale.\nGUARD 4\nLet's just go. I'm not about to get cut in half on my last day before retirement.\n\nThe three guards ease up and stand up straight. We then hear three loud slashing sounds in succession, and now a scimitar can be seen floating in mid-air. The three guards suddenly split in half, with the pieces falling to the ground seeping an endless supply of blood. A woman then materializes holding the blade. This is SANDY.2 Alan tips his hat.\n\nALAN\nGood day to you, ma'am. I dare say you prolly done saved my hide.\nSANDY\n'Tis a pity I must cut you down next, gunslinger!\nALAN\nNow hold on just a goshdarned minute\u2014\n\nSandy begins waving her scimitar around with skill and grace. Amidst the waving, she retrieves another from the sheathe at her hip. She then performs a very impressive sword dance (NOTE: hire choreographer for this part) and shrieks as she then rushes Alan down, but he sighs and draws his iron, shooting Sandy in the head. Alan walks up to the body, which doesn't have any bullet holes or blood, and he somberly reaches down to close the woman's eyes. Alan then notices blood pouring from his sleeves, with more blood in his chest region. He then coughs and falls to the floor, rolling into his back.\n\nALAN\nNothin' ever goes accordin' to plan, does it?\n\nOn the ceiling above, Alan notices the words \"WELL DONE\" written in wet black ink, and a crude pentagram shape underneath. He then passes out with a whimper.\n[FADE OUT]\n\n\u2014\n\n_\n\n55_breach_2000_report.txtSome data has been removed per orders from the director.\n\nINCIDENT REPORT\n2000 BREACH AT SITE-55\nDate written: 14/12/2000\nNOTE: The original log written by a typist on a typewriter has been tampered with due to the effects of SCP-5323. This log, written later, is in digital format and thus unaffected.\nAfter extensive review of video footage, it has been deduced that SCP-5323's door was the first to vanish, before all other facility doors vanished simultaneously. Further evidence of involvement includes the presence of the text \"YOU'RE IN CONTROL\" within 5323's cell and \"WELL DONE\" just above where it passed out. Several objects including SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 were found to be missing following the breach, suggesting some foul play was involved.\nThe identity of the vanishing swordswoman, hereby Anomalous Object Bladespinner, has yet to be determined.\n\nGutierrez: Wait\u2026 AO-Bladespinner honestly sounds a lot like SCP-3928\u2026 but in 2000? That doesn't add up. It was only captured recently.\n\nDeBruin: Check the access logs. Has anyone visited SCP-5323 in the last two years?\n\nGutierrez: Only a handful of assigned personnel. The most recent is Jerry Locke, a junior researcher from DC.\n\nDeBruin: Any records of what Locke has said to 5323?\n\nGutierrez: No, just records of him signing in and out. I'm looking into this.\n\nInterview Log 5323-1\n\n1\nDate: 18/01/2001\n\nONE PRISON FOR ANOTHER\nby Alan Smithee\n\n[FADE IN]\nINT. SITE-55 INTERROGATION CHAMBER\nWe see a woman, bespectacled, with red hair tied into a bun; this is DR. DEBRUIN. DeBruin is sitting at a table within a nondescript interrogation room; ALAN is sitting across from her, wrists bound and tied to the table.\n\nDEBRUIN\nLet the record state, this is Dr. Jennifer DeBruin of Site-55, interviewing SCP-5323.\nSCP-5323 ALAN\nAlan.\nDEBRUIN\nHm?\nALAN\nMy name is Alan. Not SCP whatever the fuck.\nDEBRUIN\nAs you please. We have a lot to discuss today, Alan. Where you come from. Your abilities. What you know of the breach in November. I will defer to you. Which line of questioning do you feel most comfortable starting with?\n\nAlan sits back and crosses his arms, then bends his head back as if considering.\n\n2\n\nALAN\nMy abilities.\nDEBRUIN\nVery well. Could you describe them to me?\nALAN\nBe easier to show you.\n\nAlan holds up his wrists, then counts down from three with his fingers. The binds around his wrists promptly disappear. DeBruin shifts in her seat uncomfortably.\n\nDEBRUIN\nPlease refrain from doing that. It's preferable that you simply describe your abilities. We will confirm them during controlled testing exercises.\nALAN\nYou mean, confirm what you already know?\n\nDeBruin meets her hands and gently places them on the table, sits up straight, and looks at Alan with a sweet yet uneasy smile.\n\nDEBRUIN\nWhat do we already know, Alan?\nALAN\nReality as you know it is just a blank piece of paper to me. Anything I say, goes.\nDEBRUIN\nRecords show that this isn't always the case. You only seem to have control if you are described in physical print\u2014ie, in handwriting, or via a typewriter. Or if you're on physical film tape.\n\n3\n\nALAN\nSee? You already know. Fuck's the point repeating any of it?\n\nDeBruin takes out a laptop and opens it, then begins typing. Alan is sporting an irritated frown.\n\nDEBRUIN\nI am currently describing you on this machine. Do you feel any power over the text I'm generating?\nALAN\nNo.\nDEBRUIN\nCould you speculate as to why you have no control with digital text?\n\nAlan rubs his face and groans in frustration.\n\nALAN\nFuck off. You obviously have some idea already. You're trying to segue into my origins, aren't you?\n\nDeBruin stops typing. She is once more looking at Alan with the uncertain smile.\n\nDEBRUIN\nIf you're ready.\n\nAlan now appears genuinely angry. He raises his voice to a shout.\n\nALAN\nSo, is this the part where I spill my guts to you, doc? Where I tell you how I was a failing director contracting for RKO before I got scooped up by some suits after talking shit about Ike?\n\nDeBruin resumes typing.\n\n4\n\nDEBRUIN\nTo be clear, that's referring to Dwight Eisenhower?\nALAN\nYou couldn't say anything about anything back in those days. You'd either have Hayes or Uncle Sam breathing down your neck at every fucking sentence. In my case, it was McCarthy. I say Ike could've handled some things better, suddenly I'm a fucking communist.\nDEBRUIN\nI see. So, walk me through this. How did you become\u2026 you?\n\nAlan is now smoking a cigar, leaning back. He props his feet up on the table.\n\nDEBRUIN (cont'd)\nNo smoking in here. And please don't\u2014\n\nAlan blows smoke towards DeBruin, who sits perfectly still with her eyes closed as the smoke travels around her.\n\nALAN\nY'know Dalton Trumbo? He was one of the lucky ones. He was too renowned, too important, so they couldn't do anything to him. But most of us got disappeared. Like we were in fuckin' Moscow. Just poof. All our records, scrubbed. Suddenly, just like that\u2014\n\nAlan leans forward and snaps his fingers before leaning back.\n\nALAN (cont'd)\n\u2014we didn't exist. They took us under some mountain, this bleak ass bunker place lookin' like it was pulled right out of 1984\u2026 but it was 1954.\nDEBRUIN\nWho were they?\n\n5\n\nALAN\nFuck if I know. I figure some government shitheads. They used a\u2026 bald eagle with a big \"P\" on the shield, I dunno. After you folks nabbed me, I thought it might could've been y'all, maybe just taking me back after all that time. But I doubt that now. Y'all are the biggest fuckin' pricks I've ever met besides Kubrick, but you don't do this\u2026\n\nAlan motions around his head.\n\nALAN (cont'd)\n\u2026to folks. You just lock 'em up. Cruel in its own way. But nothing compared to this.\nDEBRUIN\nAlan, do you remember what exactly they did to you?\nALAN\nThey did a lot of sedating, so not really. It's all fuckin' fuzzy. I know they cut me up more than a few times. And my assistant at my office, Annie? She was there too. As was Bill, and Mikey, and Benny, and Lenny\u2014\nDEBRUIN\nWhat happened to them?\nALAN\nI don't know. Me and Annie, we got out. Ran out when there was an opening. Some old RKO buddies who got laid off came along to smuggle us back to town. I can't tell you why they risked their neck like that, I really can't. I'm just thankful. The luckiest of the unlucky.\n\nDeBruin continues typing for about fifteen seconds as Alan puffs his cigar. DeBruin then stops, and looks back up at Alan.\n\n6\n\nDEBRUIN\nHow did you continue to evade recapture?\nALAN\nMcCarthy lost his footing. Plus, producers saw me as useful. I could produce special effects beyond their wildest dreams. Hollywood has pull with the government.\nDEBRUIN\nThen, later, they started using your name on disowned productions?\nALAN\nI actually finished those productions. I was faster at wrapping up a movie than anyone else, since I could just do anything for the camera. But I did it from the shadows, so only the big wigs knew who I was. To everyone else, I was just a name.\nDEBRUIN\nAlan Smithee.\nALAN\nYeah.\n\nAlan sighs heavily, smoke billowing out of his mouth. A long pause ensues before DeBruin looks up at a camera in the corner of the room and shrugs. We then hear a voice on the intercom chirp and buzz before it's revealed to be DR. MORGENSEN.\n\nMORGENSEN\nLet's call it there. We'll resume tomorrow.\nDEBRUIN\nYes, sir.\n\nWe see Alan sitting, reminiscing on his past in bleak, double edged nostalgia.\n[FADE OUT]\n\nInterview Log 5323-2\n\n1\nDate: 19/01/2001\n\nSHIT\nby Alan Smithee\n\n[FADE IN]\nINT. SITE-55 INTERROGATION CHAMBER\nWe see a pale humanoid, ALAN, sitting slouched in a seat at a metal table. The door opens, and an older gentleman in a white coat, DR. MORGENSEN, walks in and sits down. He places a laptop on the table and opens it, appearing ready to type, then glares at Alan.\n\nMORGENSEN\nThis is Dr. James Morgensen, Site-55, interviewing SCP-5323, also known as Alan.\nALAN\nWhere's the cute redhead?\nMORGENSEN\nDr. DeBruin is on sick leave. Sudden development of severe headaches.\nALAN\nDamn. I like her.\nMORGENSEN\nNoted. Now, I'm going to ask you about the breach. Uh, what did you do after your door disappeared?\nALAN\nI sat and waited in my room, like a good boy, for your attack dogs to threaten me into submission.\n\n2\n\nMorgensen adjusts his glasses, still typing away.\n\nMORGENSEN\nAnd then they were attacked by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588?\n\nAlan shrugs.\n\nMORGENSEN\nWhen you were confronted by the next guard detail, you donned the appearance of a\u2014well, a cowboy. What's the reasoning behind that?\nALAN\nMost things I do that don't earn me some dough are inspired by boredom.\nMORGENSEN\nI see. You must be a fan of Sergio Leone.\nALAN\nToo few of those nowadays.\nMORGENSEN\nMm-hmm. What about that sword wielding woman? What do you know about her?\nALAN\nSandy? Nothing. Isn't that your job?\nMORGENSEN\nSee, there's an inconsistency. If we try to backtrack, find where her files begin\u2014we get nothing.\n\nAlan is smoking a cigar, his feet propped up on the table. Morgensen scoffs and shakes his head.\n\n3\n\nALAN\nI gotta be honest with you, doc. That\u2026 sounds like a \"you\" problem.\nMORGENSEN\nIndeed, as are the numerous objects that are now missing and unaccounted for. What happened to them?\nALAN\nYou ask that like I have any fuckin' clue.\nMORGENSEN\nYou ought to.\n\nMorgensen spins the laptop around, revealing a photograph on the screen of the \"YOU'RE IN CONTROL\" text. Alan is now sitting up, on the edge of his seat.\n\nALAN\nI can't be creative in my own cell?\nMORGENSEN\nCut the shit. We have video, too. It just appeared on the wall, out of nothing. Same with \"WELL DONE\". Somebody sent you a signal.\nALAN\nMaybe\u2026 but it doesn't mean I know who.\nMORGENSEN\nPerhaps not. So maybe it's best I pull the plug on research into you. Or plug you in, I should say.\nALAN\nWhat?\nMORGENSEN\nWe're going all digital. About fucking time, at any rate.\n\n4\n\nMorgensen waves at the camera.\n\nMORGENSEN\nWe're done. Cut the feed.\n\nMorgensen shuts the laptop, gets up, adjusts his collar, then begins to exit the room. We see Alan, still with his feet propped, still smoking a cigar. The door opens and two guards enter.\n\nGUARD\nGet up. It's bedtime.\n\nAlan clutches the cigar, appearing wracked with pain and inner turmoil now that he is doomed to live imprisoned forever. He flicks his wrist, and a magnum slides out.\n\nALAN\nI'm still in control.\n\n[CUT TO BLACK]\n\nPage dimensions cut short due to lack of text.\n\n_\n\nAddendum: Level 4 Clearance requiredAccess granted\n\nGutierrez: Director, I found something.\n\nAUDIO TRANSCRIPT\nDate: 23/01/2020\nJerry: Hey, Alan.\nAlan: Ay, Jerry! My favorite whitecoat.\nJerry: I'm flattered. Look, Alan\u2026 I have a theory I thought you could help me test.\nAlan: Gimme the skinny and I'll say if it's a winny, eh?\nJerry: If you're in control, can you write new memories?\nAlan: You know, I haven't considered that. Maybe.\nJerry: Don't tell anyone, but I brought\u2026\n[audible rustling noises, followed by a gasp and chuckle from Alan]\nAlan: I like where this is going, Jerry.\nJerry: I knew you would! I'm gonna write you some new memories. All you have to do in return\u2026 is stop the guards at the intersection.\nAlan: Huh?\nJerry: You'll know when you get there. Just remember: you're in control.\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\n\nDeBruin: Wait. Is this implying what I think it's implying?\n\nGutierrez: That breach 20 years ago was engineered three months ago. Our memories adjusted to forget. Maybe it's happened several times already. The real question is, who?\n\nDeBruin: What was down the north hall?\n\nGutierrez: It's all redacted\u2026 but there are corrupted records of\u2026 oh shit!\n\nDeBruin: What? Gutierrez? What is it?\n\nGutierrez: Take a look.\n\n[INVALID_ENTRY]\n\nClandestine transmission detected from Washington, DC\n\nExpertly handled, Agent Locke. The Indiana Jones reference with Sandraudiga was a little forced for my taste, but I can't argue with results. \u2014 B\n\nFootnotes\n1. Anomaly theorized to be SCP-4333.\n2. Anomaly theorized to be SCP-3928.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5322 | SCP-5323 | SCP-5324 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5324\nObject Class: Presumed Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Radio transmissions directed at the solar system are to be continually monitored by orbital probes. Signs of extraterrestrial communication are to be translated or interpreted with the utmost priority.\nDescription: SCP-5324 refers to a radio message intercepted by O5-5 during a routine radio scanning session1 on 5/6/21. Shortly after reviewing the contents of the message, O5-5 contacted other Council members, resulting in an anomalous designation. SCP-5324 was able to be translated due to an auditory memetic anomaly affecting it; listeners being able to understand the spoken material, regardless of their native tongue. The full extent of this effect is that listeners are able to hear the original audio while simultaneously being able to interpret a translation.\nA full transcription of SCP-5324 is available below:\n\nGreetings, citizens! I, Messenger, represent the members of the Thought Monarch Network! Just so you know, your planetary crust contains high amounts of salt, iron, and nickel; exactly what we need for our own purposes! Since we don't expect you to reasonably extract the amount of material that we need yourselves, we'll be happy to do it for you!\nWhat we'll need you to do is move objects or entities important to you to a nearby planetary body while we complete our minor adjustments! For starters, we'll temporarily relinquish your atmosphere until we believe you are in need of it, and all remaining material on your planetary surface will be disassembled for future use!\nNext, we'll implement helpful planetary policies, such as a monthly bodily organs collection program, and the weekly collection of excess bone matter for your own enjoyment and comfort! Hopefully, your lower mass will help you adjust to our next change:\nJust like you've always wanted, we're releasing our new entertainment system for all you feisty organisms! A room, large enough to accommodate an exciting household item (such as a bed!) will be your new lodging, free of charge! You can choose sleeping, eating, drinking, breathing, and many more enriching activities as part of this program, with plenty of time devoted to personal reflection! Various customer reports have described our trial entertainment system as 'fun enough to never leave', so you can be sure you'll have a good time!\nThere's absolutely no need to worry as these changes are implemented, and we hope you have us again! Thank you, Planet Sherne!\nSincerely, Messenger\n\nAddendum: Due to SCP-5324's perceived lack of relation to Earth, it has been classified as Safe. Additional information on the circumstances of SCP-5324's origin are currently under investigation.\n\nFootnotes\n1. According to O5-5, this behavior is reportedly performed as their hobby on weekends.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5323 | SCP-5324 | SCP-5325 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5325\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe entrance to SCP-5325\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A barricade is to be erected around platform 4 of the Canfranc Intercontinental Station, and the underground tunnels blocked under the guise of health and safety risk. Due to currently active trains still passing through platform 1, a research site cannot be established next to the anomaly. Thus, Provisional Site 14 is to be established in the nearby town of Canfranc with a skeleton crew of staff.\nDescription: SCP-5325 is the remains of a train that served the Canfranc to Piest line in 1932. SCP-5325 is currently located at an abandoned intercountry railway station in Spain. After a bridge collapse on the French side of the line, the station was decommissioned in 1970.\nAt precisely 7:30 pm every day SCP-5325 will emerge, still worn down by age, from the nearby train shed and arrive at Platform 4. If a subject stands on the aforementioned platform, they begin to experience auditory hallucinations described as vocalizations in French. These hallucinations include speech and messages from the conductor, alongside the opening and closing of doors. The train is seen to depart at 8:00 pm precisely.\nWhen subjects enter SCP-5325, they will each find a single seat within the carriage to sit on. Soon after entering SCP-5325, subjects will hear an anomalous broadcast declaring a station close to one of their residences as the next stop.\nSCP-5325 can be seen until approximately 10m before the end of the track, at which point the front end of the train vanishes along with each coach in turn. All subjects reported blacking out from exhaustion after around 30 seconds from leaving the station, which coincides with the disappearance of SCP-5325.\nSubjects report waking on an entirely separate, seemingly modern, train carriage at varying times. All subjects described a spray-painted neon red heart on the door of the carriage. It is currently unknown if the spray-painted heart is a memetic trigger.\nThis train will typically arrive, as normal, at a station near their residence within 5 minutes. However, one subject described exiting the carriage followed by two more passengers that they reported not seeing on the train. It can be inferred that they are in a separate carriage to the other passengers, that occupies the same physical space.\nWhen exiting the carriage, the subjects describe feeling happy and well-rested.\n\nSubject\nLocation of recovery.\n\nD-73821 (From Site 06-3)\nD-73821 ended up in the 9pm train passing through the [DATA REDACTED] station near Site 06-3. He was picked up by Facility guards who had been dispatched to the station following GPS locating the D-class' device.\n\nResearcher Adell\nResearcher Adell was found to have arrived near his childhood home in Sweden despite not living there for 3 years. It is unknown if Researcher Adell was able to influence where he was sent.\n\nD-19203 (New D-class. From Site 06-3)\nD-19203 was tracked to [DATA REDACTED] station, England. He told the Foundation this was the location of his childhood home before his parents died. This has been corroborated by official sources.\n\nMTF Rho-12 Bravo (New recruit)\nMTF Rho-12 Bravo reported arriving at Kings Cross, London. Upon debriefing he said that he used to live in London with his single mother before she died.\n\nPermission for recorded expeditions through SCP-5325 is under review. Furthermore, a full interview with MTF Rho-12 Bravo is pending.\n\nAddenda 1: Rho-12 Bravo reported being able to read the walls of the carriage before he fell asleep. He described scribbling of thoughts and what seemed to be dreams of users on the walls. Most notable were seemingly newly written paragraphs talking about:\n\nThe fun and games of childhood, before money was a problem.\nA hardworking scientist playing with his son by the fire.\n\nBravo said he fell asleep soon after; however, a small camera captured the subsequent proceedings:\n\nOutside the train, there appears to be a Victorian-era Spanish woman with an umbrella. Clutched tightly in her hand is a reel of film with the name \"Andr\u00e9 Leducq.\" signed. The woman can be seen entering a packed train carriage and falling asleep to the swaying of the train.\n\nThe scene fades and Bravo re-awakes in the new train carriage. During the re-awakening of the Bravo, the camera experiences a momentary glitch. Due to the increased information from the video, Bravo is sent back through SCP-5325. The new camera log is below:\n\nA man is seen strolling along the pavement whistling. He takes off the tag and smiles (\"Junior Researcher Adell\" was seen to be written) . Knocking on the door of a house, the door opens to the waiting arms of a woman, inferred to be his wife. The sounds of children echo in the background.\nHe gives her a quick hug, \"Boys!\" she is heard shouting, \"Daddy's home!\". Two small children are seen to come rushing out of another room giggling, Adell sweeps them up in a hug.\n\nThe door closes and the scene once again fades, Bravo re-awakening to the same train carriage as the first attempt. A final test is scheduled to attempt to send the MTF Rho-12 Bravo to a different location:\n\nAs the Bravo enters SCP-5325, they reported noticing a strip of torn paper from within a wall panel. It seems to be photographic film of a kind, trapped in one of the destroyed carriage walls. Upon inspection, it shows pictures of men on bikes racing. Despite being severely damaged, the name \"dre Leduc\" can be read; it is unclear whom this is referring to.\n\nDue to this newfound evidence, MTF Rho-12 Bravo exited the carriage before it left; no ill effects have been found. Analysis of the photo film is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5324 | SCP-5325 | SCP-5326 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Any additional comments (image sources, crit credits, whatever)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nLink To Guide\nItem#:5326\nClearance Level 2: Clearance\n\nContainment Class: euclid\n\nSecondary Class: G\u00f6del\n\nDisruption Class: #/dark\n\nRisk Class: #/notice\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Section\n\nSite-10\nRonald Pearson\nArthur Bernstein\nParazoology\n\nSCP-5326.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Site-10's aviary has been reconfigured to support habitation by SCP-5326. The outer bars of SCP-5326's aviary have been retrofitted with titanium aluminide, and have had an oil- resistant metal epoxy applied. Additionally, a grate manufactured with the same materials is installed under the aviary floor, and is connected to SCP-5326's feeding system. To meet both dietary and maintenance needs, approximately eight gallons of liquid petroleum is administered to SCP-5326 on a weekly basis, through the use of an internal piping system. Excess petroleum is to be collected for later use within Site-10, including feeding of SCP-5326.\nDescription: SCP-5326 is a group of fifteen bio-mechanical automatons, built out of Cygnus olor1 carcasses. Each individual SCP-5326 instance possesses a limited degree of sentience, intelligence, and self-perception, concurrent with non-anomalous, fully biological Cygnus olor specimens. SCP-5236 does not feed, but has been observed 'bathing' in petroleum; chemicals present within crude oil may provide SCP-5236 with prolonged substance.\nSCP-5236 is capable of rudimentary movement, achieved by usage of a timed electrical current to SCP-5236's heart. The heart organ of an SCP-5236 specimen is believed to not be avian of origin, and instead possibly related to an unidentified primate. The electrical current, approximately 32 microwatts, functions in a similar matter to a human pacemaker, though the origins are currently unknown. A plausible theory suggests a form of thaumaturgy, owing to SCP-5236's background. An oviduct, and ovary, transplanted from a Gallus gallus domesticus hen allows the development of 'eggs', each of which primarily consist of hardened calcium carbonate.\nCertain eggs developed by an SCP-5236 specimen contain intricate patterning and lettering, some of which contains a message. The following were collected:\n\nABANDONMENT\n\nMASTER GONE\n\nLONELINESS\n\nAddendum No. 1: History: The entirety of SCP-5236 was originally manufactured in late 1869, by William Christopher Anderson, a noted manufacturer of animal based automatons and clockwork toys. Following October 21, 1861's Battle of Ball's Bluff, Anderson was drafted into the Union army. During his time in the army, he primarily repaired firearms and artillery devices, owing to his past experience as a clockmaker. After the Confederates' defeat on Apr. 9, 1865, and eventual end of the war, Anderson became a well-established business man, in the Portland, Oregon area. Aside from his business activities, Anderson joined the Seventh day Adventist Church, and became an ardent follower of millennialism2 and apocalyptic theory, becoming convinced that the Rapture, and so-called 'end-times', were to occur shortly.\nOn September 18th, 1868, Anderson claimed to have been visited by God, who had reportedly instructed him to create animals to repopulate the Earth, following wide-scale flooding. It is currently unknown if any other similar specimens like SCP-5326 were created by Anderson; if so, they are believed to be unaccounted for.\nAddendum No. 2: Update\nFollowing discovery of the messages written on SCP-5236 eggs, Dr. Arthur Bernstein, current research-head of the project, began a period of observation of SCP-5236, and began a series of positive interactions with each entity. Following continued care, three eggs produced by SCP-5236 had the following messages inscribed:\n\nJOY\n\nPURPOSE\n\nFRIEND\n\nFootnotes\n1. Mute Swan.\n2. A belief present within some sects of Abrahamic religions that suggest paradise on Earth after a thousand year period, in which Christ, or a similar figure returns to Earth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5325 | SCP-5326 | SCP-5327 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\n{$custom-content}\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab SCP-5327 |SCP-5328| SCP-5329 \u00bb\n\nItem#: 5328\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5328 is to be contained in a cryogenic preservation tank,1 with the ability to be removed and thawed for testing. During observation periods, hallways may be open for use in navigation tests, following and preceding decontamination of floors and walls, but all doors must remain locked, and all unrelated staff must evacuate any rooms or corridors potentially being used by SCP-5328.\nAlthough SCP-5328's affliction does not appear to be directly transmittable, the villages of Faro and Norman Wells must be covertly monitored in the event that a second instance manifests.\n\nSCP-5328 shortly after acquisition\n\nDescription: SCP-5328 is the corpse of an Inuit woman, initially discovered partly frozen in Yukon Territory, 30 km from the village of Faro. Judging by the bodily anatomy, the subject appears to have been 7-8 months pregnant at time of death, however, surgical investigation has revealed no presence of fetal tissue or fetal remains.\nSCP-5328 is bisected in a jagged pattern approximately 6 cm below the naval. Appearance of the torn flesh suggests that the subject was forcibly ripped in half by a pulling or stretching motion, rather than being cut with any type of incision. There are no scars or markings on the limbs or head to indicate that the bisection was made by an external force.\nCellular analysis of the top half of the body, including head, arms, and upper torso, reveals no living tissue of any form. MRI scans and surgical analysis have shown that all internal organs are mostly intact, save for the colon and the enlarged uterus, which are torn along the margin of bisection. MRI scans reveal that the brain is 0.32 kg lighter than what would be considered normal for a human of the subject's body type. The loss in mass comes primarily from shrunken portions in the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, and hippocampus.\nAnalysis of the corpse's lower half reveals an abnormally large quantity of overactive nervous tissue ostensibly overtaking and controlling the dead muscular tissue. While thawed, the neurons present throughout SCP-5328 undergo rapid growth, slowly consuming the dead tissue, primarily in the bones. These use strong electrical charges to manipulate the muscles into convulsive contraction and retraction. The neurons will repair or replace the torn muscles at a rapid pace, but the bones and ligaments continue to degrade, often breaking or dislocating. Though its movements are often erratic, SCP-5328 is capable of notable feats of navigation, as it was able to travel several kilometers through the snow in Yukon territory towards Faro, where it was first reported, then return to its top half, where the Foundation first made acquisition (see Addendum 5328-A for further examples).\nDNA analysis reveals that the active neurons are human cells and are a match to DNA taken from both halves of the corpse. Since they consume mostly non-muscular flesh, tests have been performed to determine if they behave similarly to flesh eating bacteria. Samples were applied, in order, to dead human tissue from volunteers, live tissue from animals, including rats and geckos, and live tissue from two class-D personnel. In all instances, the neuron samples died after a period of six hours, while the test subjects remained unchanged. The current hypothesis is that this nervous tissue only consumes flesh with matching DNA, which it converts into electricity.\nBecause SCP-5328's life depends on the presence of its own tissue to consume, its lifespan is extremely short; estimated to be approximately two months of cumulative time spent unfrozen, starting at the time this file is written. It is estimated that enough tissue will have been consumed in the first cumulative month that it will effectively deflate in shape and its motion will be hindered beyond function. Therefore, SCP-5328 must remain frozen in order to drastically slow the rate of decomposition, and any time spent studying SCP-5328 when thawed must be greatly limited in order to preserve the specimen for as long as possible.\nAddendum 5328-A: Third observation session audio recording\n\n+ Show transcript\n\n- Hide\n\nThis is Dr. Alistair Bosco, I'm making an audio recording of this observation session with\u2014\n[Metallic banging can be heard from inside the freezer unit]\nUm, with SCP-5328, as the last two sessions have been, ah, rather eventful. It moves relatively quickly so I'd like to record my thoughts at each moment before I make a write-up. As you can likely hear, the temperature in the freezer has been increased to fifteen degrees Celcius, so the specimen is thawed at this point, and it's already active. I am now opening the door and letting it out.\n[Dr. Bosco can be heard unlatching the locks on the freezer and opening the door]\nCome on out now. Come on. You were so active just a minute ago, why aren't you moving? Come on.\n[There is a rapid skittering noise, a brief silence, then a crack]\nOh, um, so the first thing it did after exiting the freezer was to bend, or, hyperextend its left knee. It came out very quickly, like it wasn't just frozen for days. I'm\u2014It's now trying to turn itself over. I can't tell if\u2014 Wait.\n[More light cracking can be heard, followed by a thud]\nMy god, is it trying to stand up? This hasn't happened before, normally it just crawls but this time it actually pushed itself up with both feet, one of which is bent to face the opposite direction, and tried to stabilize itself. If there are portions of the hippocampus still alive in there, maybe it's remembering how to walk. It's almost like a toddler learning to walk and falling on its behind, which is\u2014 Oh!\n[Dr. Bosco is heard jumping out of the way as SCP-5328 crawls past him]\nOkay, it's moving into walls, trying to crawl up them. It's now crawling across the floor to the west wall. This is what I was expecting. It's\u2026 Yes, it moved to the doorway and is kicking at the door. I'm not sure if it understands what a doorknob is. It's hard to believe it can understand anything at all, but somehow in both of my last sessions, it tried to exit through the west door. I've already evacuated the hallways and had them disinfected in preparation for this. I'm going to\u2014\n[A clap is heard]\nOw, stop that! Ow, ow, stop, stop, get off, jeez! Ha, um, it can't hear me but, uh, but I'm opening the door now. Okay, it's attempting to navigate, or rather, what I currently hypothesize is navigating, through the halls. It's mostly just brushing up against the walls and crashing into it blindly. It seems to be trying to climb up one of them, but it's just falling over.\n[A crack is heard]\nAnd it's breaking its right tibia and fibula to bend itself to reach the ground with its foot. I doubt that will heal since it's the first time I've seen it do that. This worries me if it continues to break its own bones. Soon there'll be nothing left of it. It's moving along the hallway now. Looks like it got its bearings. It's at the north exit door. It's banging on it like it did with the lab door. I wonder if it knows that that's the exit leading outside. Maybe it feels the air coming from outside. Um, I can't let it out, but it seems insistent that it be released through this door. Maybe it's trying to migrate north, as strange as it\u2014Whoa!\n[Rapid skittering is heard increasing in volume, then decreasing as Dr. Bosco jumps against a wall]\nThat's the fastest I've ever seen it move, with a broken leg hanging off of it, no less. It's apparently done trying to escape. Hold on. Okay, I'm back at the lab entrance. It made its way back shockingly quickly and has entered its freezer unit. This is how it usually ends our sessions; it crawls back into the container and aligns itself with its top half, sort of like a puzzle piece. So now it's lying still, like it's pretending to be a single body that hasn't been torn in half. It knows that the rest of its body is there. I still can't quite explain it, but given how damaged it's becoming, I worry it won't be much longer before the bones are essentially nonexistent and it ends up wriggling like a worm. It's done for the day, I won't force it to stay out.\n[Dr. Bosco can be heard crouching and placing his hands on the freezer door]\nWait, did it just\u2026 Hang on, I'm going to look more closely. I probably shouldn't be sticking my head in here, but I don't think it'll harm me\u2026 It\u2026 No, never mind. I thought I saw the arm move. Maybe the legs just moved and blocked the light shining on it.\n[Dr. Bosco can be heard locking the freezer]\nThat was a quick session but I've gathered a little more information. It definitely has a desire to escape the facility. I'm not sure why, but I fear with its short lifespan and the impossibility of allowing it to leave the facility that we may never find out. I'm keeping it frozen for as long as I can. I think some other hypothesis needs to be made regarding what's causing these phenomena before we can risk any further tests on it.\n\nAddendum 5328-B:\nAfter Dr. Bosco's audio recording was submitted, several researchers pointed out the presence of an indiscriminate noise that occurred at the 4:57 mark as he closed the door to the freezer at the end of the session. Most speculated the sound was a vocalization made by SCP-5328, possibly as a result of the legs transferring neurons to the mouth and vocal cords via physical connection. Dr. Bosco claimed he did not hear this during the observation session, but turned off SCP-5328's freezer unit and installed an audio recorder in case any similar noises were made. The following audio clips were recorded over the course of two weeks.\n\n1/15/21 4:54 PM:\n\n1/19/21 5:20 AM:\n\n1/20/21 12:58 AM:\n\n1/24/21 7:02 PM:\n\nSCP-5328 regurgitated part of its larynx during the final clip. No subsequent vocalizations occurred.\nAddendum 5328-C:\nIn an attempt to identify the corpse, inquiries have been made about missing person reports in Alaska and the Canadian territories. The only report found that nearly matches SCP-5328 originates from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, over 400 km from where SCP-5328 was acquired. The report was made five days after the acquisition of SCP-5328, by the father of 30-year-old Lana Qarpik, when her vehicle, rented from Yellowknife Airport, was discovered abandoned 100 km from the border of British Columbia. Files were confiscated from the local medical office and Lana Qarpik's home in hopes confirming SCP-5328's identity and determining the cause of its affliction.\nUltrasound files for Lana Qarpik during pregnancy\n\nDate: 8/3/20\nGestational age: ~15 wks\nSex: unidentified\nCardiac activity: present\nStructures visualized: skull, neck, heart, spine\nHead circumference: 126 mm\nVisit summary:\nAll readings normal.\nPatient is under high distress, claiming she has been abstinent for several years. Referred patient to online stress management workshop and women's shelter, if she believes she was sexually assaulted without her knowledge.\n\nDate: 9/28/20\nGestational age: 23 wks\nSex: F\nCardiac activity: present\nStructures visualized: skull, neck, heart, spine, abdomen, right arm\nHead circumference: 240 mm\nVisit summary:\nFetus shows minor signs of macrocephaly; no fluid buildup or defects detected.\nPatient is extremely distressed, showing signs of delirium and hypochondria; asked if the fetus is human. Recommended rest and add'l sleep.\nBlood samples taken from patient and fetus per patient's request.\nNote-10/8: Fetus and patient blood samples came back identical. Nurses, please ensure that the next blood draw actually comes from the fetus. Don't miss with that needle.\n\nDate: 11/2/20\nGestational age: 28 wks\nSex: F\nCardiac activity: present\nStructures visualized: skull, brain, neck, spine, abdomen, pelvis, right leg\nHead circumference: 355 mm\nVisit summary:\nSevere macrocephaly present. Still no fluid buildup detected. Fetus' blood taken for analysis.\nPatient's speech is slurred and is walking off balance. Possibly drunk? Breath didn't smell of alcohol. Reprimanded patient for drinking while pregnant. Patient claims the baby is sapping her memories away and telling her where to walk. Recommended appointment with traveling psychiatrist for Sahtu region.\nNote-11/11: Again, fetus and patient blood samples came back identical. Nurses, this shouldn't be that hard!\n\nInternet search history from laptop confiscated from Lana Qarpik's home\n\n7/27/2020 17:32:40 nauseaa\n7/27/2020 17:33:15 Nausea causes\n7/28/2020 18:55:02 Dr. Jason Carter phone Norman Wells\n7/29/2020 17:02:03 pregnancy symptoms\n7/29/2020 17:10:44 pregnancy no father\n7/29/2020 17:11:50 Pregnancy no sexual partner\n8/3/2020 12:21:21 how to know if you've been raped\n8/3/2020 12:26:00 impregnated without knowledge\n8/4/2020 06:56:26 stress management\n8/5/2020 20:48:04 best funny netflix shows\n8/5/2020 20:51:48 best relaxing netflix shows\n8/10/2020 19:02:37 Dr. Carter Norman Wells reviews\n8/15/2020 13:10:09 order cat food bulk\n8/22/2020 15:05:59 pregnancy headaches\n9/1/2020 11:45:21 womens shelter northwest territoris\n9/4/2020 18:40:23 dad birthday gift ideas\n9/4/2020 18:42:03 dad birthday gift ideas during covid\n9/10/2020 22:00:29 dr Carter phone norman wells\n9/12/2020 02:39:38 headache remedy\n9/12/2020 17:35:56 do fetuses take brain power from mother\n9/18/2020 19:08:15 best cat toys\n9/20/2020 17:39:08 asexual reproduction\n9/20/2020 17:42:53 have humans reproduced asexually\n9/23/2020 20:33:29 human asexual reproduction\n10/8/2020 17:35:01 do fetuses have same blood as mother\n10/25/2020 10:30:48 Asexual reproduction\n10/25/2020 16:10:41 asexual reproduction\n10/29/2020 15:03:22 pregnancy memory loss\n10/29/2020 17:12:39 memory loss\n10/31/2020 12:23:23 memory loss\n10/31/2020 19:00:30 urge to walk in random directions\n10/31/2020 21:40:56 Human asexual reproduction\n11/1/2020 09:47:31 long term memory loss\n11/1/2020 10:20:00 not regognizing family mambers\n11/1/2020 10:32:18 forgetting pets\n11/2/2020 16:06:22 sahtu psychiatrist\n11/3/2020 12:58:30 sahty psychiatrist\n11/6/2020 18:09:28 exorcist Canadian territories\n11/6/2020 18:12:31 exorcist alberta\n11/6/2020 18:18:19 exorcist british Columbia\n11/6/2020 18:22:50 oogle maps brish cloumbia\n11/7/2020 01:55:06 memory loss\n11/7/2020 04:06:07 exorcist british Columbia\n11/7/2020 13:40:39 memry lodd\n11/8/2020 06:55:02 exrcist britsh Columbia\n11/8/2020 09:00:36 dxocist dribdsh clunba\n11/8/2020 11:50:22 whedre was i going\n11/8/2020 12:05:05 plane tickcket to yellownkife\n11/8/2020 18:50:00 maps brsh itish colnumba\n11/8/2020 19:58:27 exocict brtish clmbfia\n11/9/2020 04:10:49 brithsh columbia dexorcist\n\nAddendum 5328-D:\n\nNotice regarding SCP-5328\n2/20/2021\nAs of today, both of SCP-5328's fibulae have been completely consumed, and the legs have reduced in thickness by 7 cm. Although the quantity of living cells present has not changed, its movement has become noticeably sluggish, and it is unable to stand or reach upwards more than 50 cm. Moving forward, we will be using cryogenics to preserve SCP-5328. It may only be released if new regenerative technology is developed for it or another separate instance is discovered.\nTo the junior researchers involved with this specimen, especially those for whom this was their first project, first of all, yes, this will likely take a matter of years. Second, any further appeals by staff to satisfy SCP-5328's alleged requests made in Addendum 5328-B will continue to be ignored. The Foundation's living specimens are not pets, and you will need to learn this the hard way if you want to continue to work here. \"What harm would it do?\" is not a valid question. Be aware that this is neither an act of mercy nor cruelty. Anyone who insults me again by referring to this as the latter will be recommended for a project with a high risk rating so that you will better understand why we are doing this.\n\n-Dr. Alistair Bosco\n\nIncident I-5328-1:\n\nDate: 5/21/21\nLocation: Site 17- West entrance\nCasualties: 1\nDescription:\nAt 3:15 AM, an intruder was detected climbing the outer fence at the facility's west gate. The intruder ignored warnings by security to stop and was gunned down after successfully entering the nine digit passcode to open the west entrance door. The intruder was identified as George Qarpik, 63, of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada.\nBecause of the intruder's speculated relation to SCP-5328, his remains were given to Dr. Alistair Bosco for DNA sampling before incineration. Dr. Bosco has confirmed that the man was related by blood to SCP-5328.\nDue to the clear connection between the intruder and an SCP, plus his knowledge of the entrance passcode, the Foundation is thoroughly investigating all staff members who have been involved with SCP-5328 for an intentional information leak. Any staff members with knowledge that may help the investigation are asked to report to upper management.\n\nAddendum 5328-E:\n\nThe current state of SCP-5328 research\n7/2/21\nDue to the recent happenings in regards to SCP-5328, which I'm sure you all have no doubt are related to incident I-5328-1, it is imperative that I share my recent findings with the senior staff involved. Since the information leak from the incident was almost certainly caused by a junior researcher with an unfortunate bleeding heart, who is yet to be identified, I will not be copying any of them on this information, and I recommend anyone reading this message also withhold it from them.\nFrankly, the appearance of the father of SCP-5328's former self is a blessing in disguise. Thanks to those in upper management who allowed me permission to dissect the corpse, my genetics team and I have isolated at least two abnormally mutated gene strings that both SCP-5328 and its parent possess. Although research is ongoing, they appear to be related to reproductive function and brain function, respectively. This all but confirms that the affliction is hereditary, and not caused by a contagion, as some of us feared. Thus, unless George Qarpik had other offspring that we don't know about (I suggest we make the necessary inquiries to be certain), Lana Qarpik, who we know as SCP-5328, was the only person affected.\nThis brings about my main hypothesis that I'd like to share, as I believe it may interest some particularly high ranking researchers. SCP-5328 is not a fluke of nature, but rather an unfathomably rare step in evolution, albeit a flawed one. Had Lana given birth, and not died in the Yukon wilderness, forcing the fetus to devour itself to stay alive, we may have seen the first instance of complete transferal of a person's consciousness to a separate body via natural means. This singular human was genetically designed to shift all of her knowledge and memories to an infantile duplicate of herself, for a potentially indefinite number of generations, effectively making her immortal. If properly harnessed, this genetic pattern could allow a person to keep their knowledge alive for longer than anyone has ever lived.\nThis is certainly a controversial hypothesis for a potential result that would be even more contentious within the science world, but I hope you all understand the importance of keeping SCP-5328 alive, and agree that this creature deserves to be studied further. Obviously, this research would have to be prevented from falling into the wrong hands, so I highly recommend raising the clearance level to at least 3, depending on our future findings.\nThank you for your consideration and I look forward to hearing back from all of you.\n\n-Dr. Alistair Bosco\n\nFootnotes\n1. Prior containment procedures required only a standard freezer unit, as SCP-5328 can survive extremely low temperatures. However, due to the rate of decay, this requirement has been modified.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5327 | SCP-5328 | SCP-5329 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5329\n\nItem #: SCP-5329\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Foundation is to spread a misinformation campaign claiming the water produced by SCP-5329 is contaminated by toxic substances, and an undercover Agent is to remain placed near the location to prevent civilians from consuming it. The use of SCP-5329 is only allowed for testing by authorized personnel, and civilians who accidentally consume SCP-5329's water are to be administrated with amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5329 is a water spout located near the city of Southampton, England. Once consumed by a human, the water produced by SCP-5329 will make the individual unable to lie within the following thirty minutes. This effect will only take place if the consumer drinks or collects the water produced by SCP-5329 before it falls into the puddle located below the spout, as upon mixing with different liquid substances (including non-anomalous water) it loses its anomalous properties.\nBesides the aforementioned effect, no other anomalous properties were observed regarding SCP-5329 and the water it produces. Currently, the Foundation has stored approximately 1000 liters of SCP-5329's water within Site-73.\nDiscovery: SCP-5329 came to Foundation's attention when the number of verbal and physical conflicts between civilians with previously close relationships1 began to increase unusually within the region around the middle of 2018, to the point of local media starting to publish and broadcast content related to it.\nDue to that, on September 15th of said year, 2 investigational teams composed of four Agents each were sent to the city to investigate the cause behind the anomalous behavior of the population. After 3 weeks of fruitless efforts, on October 6th, the group composed of Agents Edward Freed, Jason Cornell, Joseph Hemming, and its leader John Collins, accidentally found SCP-5329.\n\n+ Audio Log 5329-006\n\n- hide\n\nThe following is a transcript of part of the recorded conversation between Agents John Collins and Edward Freed on the day of SCP-5329's discovery.\n\nAgent John: Well, let's go back to the hotel. It's kinda late already and Jason and Joseph already returned. Tomorrow we will be back here by 6 a.m.\nAgent Edward: Yeah, sure, although I'd rather be working with Kurt's group, as they usually wake up at 8 a.m. instead of 6.\nAgent John: Huh? You're not the type of guy who complains about such things, Edward. You alright man?\nAgent Edward: Would be better doing something actually useful than wasting my time here, to be honest. This mission is incredibly boring and I don't even like you guys that much. I feel like this is a complete waste of time.\nAgent John: Eh\u2026 what? You never acted like this man. You're always motivated and even friendly with most people, so I am not getting why you're saying these things right now. Did something specific make you upset recently?\n\nAgent Edward: Nothing specific, but yeah I definitely have been upset for a while. I feel like life itself has been just extremely exhaustive and pointless to me. What I truly want is just to return to my family and just live a simple life with them, and not having to worry about anomalous things that are able to kill me instantly and all that shit. But here I am instead, searching for something that I am not even sure if it even exists or not, and I don't even know what it's supposed to be!\nMoreover, I am forced to work with some people I would never even talk to if I had a choice, and have to risk my own life for them sometimes. But the worst thing is that I need to pretend that I respect people like the O5 Council, people who think they are gods or something and never think twice before sending people to death or using them as guinea pigs. We actually don't even know who they truly are\u2026 I wish I could punch each one of them in the face at least once!\n\nAgent John: Edward, there is definitely something wrong with you\u2026 That's the only explanation I can think of because we have been working together for more than 4 years and you've never said anything like that before. I will just pretend that I didn't hear anything you just said. Yeah, that's for the better\u2026 Do you remember what have you done within the last hour while I was investigating the other side of the area?\n\nAgent Edward: Nothing much really. I was just pretending to be doing something here while you were gone. I was just sitting over there thinking about life. Honestly, the only thing I did was drinking a bit of water from a small spout I found about 20 minutes ago.\n\nAgent John: Hmm, I see\u2026 Well, I believe we finally have found something promising to investigate here. Like it or not, you are a good and useful Agent, Edward.\nAgent John Collins then contacted the Foundation and reported the situation. When personnel reached the location approximately 1 hour later, Agent Edward was already back to his normal state, although he seemed highly ashamed for his earlier statements, saying: \"I don't know what was wrong with me. John, I'm really sorry\u2026\" As Agent John replied: It's okay Edward, it wasn't your fault, also you're the one who found the anomaly! Just cheer up guy, we're still friends!\"\n\nThe 2 investigational teams were then dismissed. Further investigations and testing with Class-D personnel confirmed the anomalous properties of SCP-5329 and it was successfully contained without further incidents.\n\nAddendum 1: After a careful examination of SCP-5329 two days after its discovery, a small but still visible text was found carved on a stone next to it. The message says: \"For those who seek for a better, more honest world. Water purified by members of The Truth Shall Prevail.\" Investigations regarding this group are still ongoing.\nAddendum 2: The possibility of SCP-5329's water being used by the Foundation in specific cases in order to get pieces of information from Groups and/or Persons of Interest is being considered, however, its use on individuals for other purposes is currently prohibited, to avoid meaningless violation of mental privacy.\nAddendum 3: Agent Edward later apologized to the O5 Council via his superiors for his statements while under the effects of SCP-5329's water, and on 04/03/2019 requested his own retirement, stating: \u201cI can't continue working to the Foundation after the things I've said. If that's what my inner self truly feels like, I probably should just leave. Thanks for everything guys, and despite what I said I had a bunch of fun moments here. I will really miss working with you, John!\u201d\nEdward's request was granted and he no longer works for the Foundation. John Collins was considerably impacted by his companion's decision and is currently assigned to SCP-5329's containment preventing civilians from consuming SCP-5329's water, as requested by himself.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Including conflicts between close relatives.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5328 | SCP-5329 | SCP-5330 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5331\nObject Class: Keter-provisi Safe-supernus\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5331 is too distant from the Solar System to be considered a threat to normalcy. Observation cannot be conducted. Following the completion of amnesticization and coverup operations in collaboration with the Brazilian government and various astronomical agencies, no containment procedures are necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5331 is a severed human skull, traveling at speeds in excess of 0.99999999c towards the constellation Microscopium in the southern celestial hemisphere. Monitoring suggests that the object possesses an extreme durability, maintaining its structural integrity despite repeated relativistic collisions and acceleration-induced stressors that would otherwise break human osseous tissue. At the present moment, its method of thrust is unknown.\nThe skull formerly belonged to Grac\u00edlia Melo, an undergraduate astrophysics researcher who worked at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In the months prior to SCP-5331's creation, Melo had studied new ways of analyzing the astronomical radio data brought in by the telescope, applying linguistics, esoteric forms of cryptography, and the analysis of stochastic L-system grammars to yield results claimed by her to be \"signs of active extraterrestrial broadcasting.\" Her work was consistently disregarded due to faulty methodology, and, after the neglect of research duties in favor of furthered analysis, she was removed from her job position. The final paper she submitted for review to Cornell University1 was a study of radio signals from Betelgeuse, interpreted by her to be \"a mode for transferring fuel via informational means across otherwise inaccessible interstellar distances.\" Cornell University rejected the paper.\nOn returning to her home city of Itanha\u00e9m, Brazil in June of 1996, Melo continued astronomical studies with equipment set up in the backyard of her parents' house. She was noted as being reserved during this time, sleeping by the equipment to \"better siphon Betelgeuse\" or tune into broadcasts she reportedly heard. Halfway through the month she developed a notable interest in motorsports.\nAt 02:31 on 17/06/1996, Melo's parents were awoken by the sound of an explosion in the backyard. On arrival they found Melo in a state of spontaneous combustion. Plasma fired from her eye sockets, buccal cavity, and foramen magnum, vaporizing her flesh and setting fire to the surroundings in a 11 meter radius. The skeletal system restructured into a form bearing resemblance to multistage rockets and took off from the terrain.\nOver the next four hours the Brazilian military tracked SCP-5331 as it accelerated in an upwards trajectory, performing its first stage separation after breaking the sound barrier at a height of 11km. The sonic boom was heard by a passenger airliner 5km away, albeit with abnormal shifts in pitch; the vibrations paralleled the sounds of a cheering crowd, with a flash of green light accompanying the event. Second stage separation was confirmed at 03:01 (height 100km), and at 03:10 the anomaly reached terrestrial escape velocity.\nSolar escape velocity was attained at 05:00. At this point SCP-5331 had exited Earth's gravity well and was accelerating towards the speed of light. Monitoring was conducted by observing the gamma rays released as the object relativistically collided with the interplanetary dust cloud.\nOn 19/06/1996, following a massive burst of blueshifted radiation, SCP-5331 vanished. Owing to a lack of sighted debris or gamma ray emissions, the leading hypothesis is that the anomaly breached the threshold of 1c and entered faster-than-light speeds, though this is unconfirmed. No sightings have been made since.\nResponding to a massive anomalous incident, Foundation personnel were scrambled to Itanha\u00e9m and began negotiations with the Brazilian government to aid in coverup operations, promising a loosening of restrictions on governmental anomaly usage in exchange for complete military cooperation. Negotiations were concluded that day, and, in cooperation with global astronomical agencies,2 the Foundation began restricting the flow of information on SCP-5331 and amnesticizing where necessary.\nMelo's parents were hospitalized prior to Foundation involvement. Both had suffered partial-body burn wounds, ranging from second- to third-degree; owing to otherwise stable conditions, interviews under police report guises could be conducted. The only memorabilia recovered from the house before it burned down from the anomaly was a note written by Melo, taped on the door to the backyard. Fire damage destroyed the majority of its contents, though several remaining fragments were legible. Translations from Portuguese are as follows:\n\nI've entered a race. You know where it's going to be. The track is spanning from [\u2026]\n\n[\u2026] thought those were attempts to share their culture with us, but no, it's runoff from their programming, their entertainment venues [\u2026]\n\n[\u2026] Betelgeuse though? Amazingly open to newcomer sponsorship. There's enough fuel in that star that even draining it at a rate of [\u2026] is more than enough to last both [\u2026] I hope it doesn't go supernova before I'm [\u2026]\n\n[\u2026] flesh-to-antigravity organs. Sorry about the mess that's going to [\u2026]\n\n[\u2026] starting in ten minutes. I have a lot of [\u2026]\n\n[\u2026] love you always. Tell Cornell I'm bringing the trophy back.\n\nIt is of note that, at the time of SCP-5331's activity, a cluster of unidentified objects traveling at similarly relativistic speeds were recorded passing through the solar system on trajectories towards Microscopium.\n\nFootnotes\n1. In charge of the Arecibo Observatory from its construction in the 1960s to 2011.\n2. See: The 1959 Bermuda Accords On Responses to Anomalous Extraterrestrial Events and Maintaining the Veil Globally.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5330 | SCP-5331 | SCP-5332 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM #:\u2009SCP-5332\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: SAFE\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: DARK\n\nITEM:\u2009SCP-5332\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT\nCLASS: SAFE\n\nDISRUPTION\nCLASS: DARK\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5332 is to be contained in situ due to its current effect on the local marine life. The ship containing SCP-5332 is to have underwater cameras installed in order to monitor SCP-5332's status. If any divers are spotted near the wreck, STF Rho-7 (\"Greeting Party\") are to amnesticize the individual and bring them back to shore.\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5332 designates the bones, and most notably the horn, of a great whale sub-species. These bones, when powdered, have mild amnestic and medicinal properties; as such, they were hypothesized to be used as rare, primitive amnestics for groups such as the Commission of Unusual Cargo and HMFftSCotP.His/Her Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal..\nSCP-5332 was found following an investigation into the migration patterns of Greenland based blue whales. When following a pod of whales, a diver discovered an old 17th-century boat that the blue whales used as a resting point. Upon further inspection, they discovered the bones of an abnormally large blue whale with an estimated length of around 30m, that the other whales had been clustered around. Over the following few hours, the diver noticed many other marine species visiting the site of the bones, almost seeming to pay their respects to the creature.\nFollowing an exploration of the ship's interior, the diver recovered an old document pertaining to an organization called \"The Commission of Unusual Cargo.\" After returning home, the diver posted the contents of these letter onto his blog, which was picked up by a Foundation web crawler. All involved parties were amnestisized following this event.\nThe letter discovered by the diver has been attached below:\n\nThe Honourable East India Company\nManifest Detail # C-172852\nDate: 17th of June 1627\nVessel: The Gallant Ship Kingfisher\nStorage: The cargo to be stowed in the hold, in a large standard crate with a sheepskin padded interior, and secured to the floor hull by rope. Unauthorized access to the hold is to be noted and punished upon return to land.\nDescription: Twelve bones of a great horned blue whale; the horned blue whale appears to be a monarch of the whales, thus, its bones hold great value for any scientifically inclined gentleman, able to alleviate any common ailment with ease. These bones, when undamaged, are expected to invite a large price at auction, therefore the utmost care must be taken to preserve them.\nScribbled note in the margin.\nDon't fuck this up, or Mr Trower will have your guts for garters, lad.\n\nAddendum 1\n\nUpon investigation by STF.Special Task Force. Rho-7, the reason that the Kingfisher sunk was found to be due to a large gash in the side of the boat, as well as numerous buckled side planks; suggesting a large mass had hit the ship. It appears that a long sharp object had speared the ship during its return to port, causing it to rapidly sink. Further investigation is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5331 | SCP-5332 | SCP-5333 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5333\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5333 is to be held at a Foundation-owned fish farm located in an offshoot of the Nile River, specifically located in the Minya Governorate of Egypt. A research station is to be established, staffed by at least three Level-2 Foundation researchers with experience handling biological anomalies. Additional security personnel may be requested for temporary stationing as necessary.\nAny personnel entering within 3 meters of the containment zone are to surrender any personal accessories or loose items (e.g., wallets, electronic devices, personalized writing implements, jewelry) for temporary holding. Disposable replacements will be provided as possible, until the personnel member exits the containment zone.\nShould any objects carried by personnel within SCP-5333's containment be transfigured, they are to be examined for anomalous properties, and stored at the research station in designated secure lockers.\nDescription: SCP-5333 is a male elephant-snout fish (Mormyrus kannume), possessing a bronze disc-shaped headpiece, between two bronze horns, affixed to its skull. Close examination of the fish indicates that it ages at an exponentially slower rate than that of non-anomalous equivalents, and the fish is currently suffering from non-fatal gastric blockage.\nSCP-5333's primary anomaly involves the sporadic physical alteration of small objects within 5 meters of the fish. The anomaly changes said objects into artifacts traditionally associated with Ancient Egyptian (dated to approximately 25th B.C. or later) celebrations, some with a noticeable occurrence of phallic imagery. Examples of this effect include:\n\nHats and other head coverings being replaced with elaborately curled wigs made of animal and/or human hair or bronze headpieces similar to that worn by SCP-5333. The wigs are adorned with a small gold circlet bearing a small golden penis at the forefront.\nFacial cosmetics cases being replaced with phallus-shaped \"perfume cones\".1\nPersonal accessories being replaced with handmade jewelry incorporating gold, semiprecious stones, and gems, inscribed with the hieroglyph associated with the words \"phallus\", \"man\", and \"husband\".\nToiletries and other personal hygiene items being replaced with fresh flowers.\nIndividually packaged food items being replaced with fruits, pork, beef, or mutton.\nCandies, cough drops, and sugar packets being replaced with honey cake pastries arranged in stacks to form a vague phallus shape.\nBottled drinks being replaced with clay jugs of wine or beer.\nCell phones and personal music players being replaced with sistrums2, lyres, lutes, and dancers' headdresses.\n\nAn example of hieroglyphics present on items altered by SCP-5333.\n\nLarge containers altered by SCP-5333 consistently bear recurring hieroglyphics somewhere on their surface (see Recovery Log 5333). The symbols translate to various hymns and verses praising Osiris, the Ancient Egyptian god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, and vegetation. It is noted that on approximately 5% of all items altered in this way by SCP-5333, the hieroglyphics instead describe the myth of Osiris's death3 at the hands of his brother Set, who cut Osiris's body into pieces, all of which were recovered by Osiris's wife Isis with the exception of the penis. Another 5% of all items display phallic hieroglyphics instead.\nDiscovery: SCP-5333 was discovered following reports of perfume cones washing up in the Minya Governorate's region of the Nile River. Upon inquiry, local residents referenced an Abdelrahman Elgazary (now PoI-5333), who was once known throughout the area for throwing lavish \"theme parties\" for tourists as part of a family tradition spanning multiple generations. Items altered by SCP-5333 matched descriptions of celebration paraphernalia stated to be present at these gatherings; such items were stated to be sometimes offered to guests as party favors \"in memory of Osiris, the greatest party host\". PoI-5333 was reported missing to the local authorities on 1983-9-27. Foundation efforts to locate PoI-5333 are ongoing.\nAddendum: On \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, an x-ray initiated as part of a battery of typical examinations revealed a severed human phallus lodged within SCP-5333's stomach. Head Researcher Hlad ordered an emergency surgery procedure to attempt to remove the phallus. Standard cutting instruments failed to penetrate SCP-5333's flesh, and instead a medical clamp was inserted orally to attempt to pull the phallus out through the specimen's esophagus.\nSeconds after the Foundation surgeon managed to attach the clamp onto the phallus, an individual matching the description of a possible perpetrator of PoI-5333's disappearance4 manifested within the research station. The entity demanded the return of '[their] father's pride and joy' (rough translation from Egyptian). The security personnel present attempted to detain the individual (later classified as PoI-5333-2), and were enveloped by a bright beam of light seemingly originating from PoI-5333-2's right eye. The sudden spike in thermal radiation prompted the Site to engage lockdown procedures, which resulted in PoI-5333-2 quickly demanifesting. Additional medical personnel were called in to assess the situation\u2014personnel caught within the beam of light suffered severe burns, but no life-threatening injuries.\nOne week after the previous incident, PoI-5333-2 reappeared outside of the Site accompanied by a flock of various birds of prey, totaling approximately 1,000 individuals. PoI-5333-2 repeated its original demand, dispatched attending security personnel, and commanded its flock to force down the doorway.\nThe flock and PoI-5333-2 then breached SCP-5333's containment and vandalized various walls within the Foundation property before seizing and escaping with a live non-anomalous elephant-snout fish that had been cohabitating with SCP-5333 in the fish farm. A day later the abducted specimen was dropped by a falcon directly onto the head of Head Researcher Hlad, who suffered a concussion and afterwards requested immediate use of all vacation hours.\nSeveral days later, four unidentified humanoids forcibly entered the Site's parking area and performed various acts of vandalism upon the vehicles. The first individual5 was seen keying cars belonging to research personnel, the second and third individuals6 were seen spray-painting large hieroglyphics on an adjacent wall, and the fourth individual7 was seen scaling that wall and presumably remained on the roof until the rest of the individuals had finished. The next morning, the communications tower located on the roof overlooking the area was discovered to be covered in bird droppings and dead flies.\nTranslations of the entirety of the graffiti are in progress. Partial observational notes are as follows:\n\n\"RETURN THE SLAB DICK\" was written at the top of the graffiti alongside \"WHY YOU PLAYING HARD TO GET?\".\n\nAt the center of the graffiti were what appeared to be crude approximations of PoI-5333-2 engaged in sexual congress with the head researcher.\n\"DUAMUTEF\" and \"HAPI\" were written at the bottom of the graffiti in modern Arabic.\n\nAs of now, the Foundation has not made any further attempts to remove the phallus from SCP-5333. Discussion is underway regarding how best to proceed with maintaining Foundation custody of SCP-5333. Additional security personnel have been requested; field medics are to be called in as available.\nThe site containing SCP-5333 is currently undergoing revised lockdown procedures. The SCP-5333 documentation will continue to be updated when the research team is able to do so.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Small, scented cones of wax or resin that would be worn atop a person's head during celebrations.\n2. A percussion instrument consisting of a metal frame strung with metal rods, shaken to produce sounds.\n3. Consistent with the classical writer Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride.\n4. Police reports from the night of PoI-5333's disappearance describe accounts of a man with \"the head of a falcon\" kicking down the door of the residence, shouting loudly at the inhabitants, and then releasing various birds upon the fleeing individuals. These accounts were previously disregarded as unreliable; reopening of the investigations is underway.\n5. The only entity with completely human features.\n6. Possessing heads resembling those of a jackal and baboon, respectively.\n7. Who had the head of a falcon, but was later identified as not being PoI-5333-2.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5332 | SCP-5333 | SCP-5334 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5334\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Observations of the star system HD 44219 on the internet are to be monitored and expunged by Foundation Webcrawlers. Published papers on observed anomalous activity are to be confiscated, and involved individuals dosed with Class-G amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5334 is a gaseous planet orbiting the star HD 44219, approximately 164 light years from Earth. SCP-5334 is roughly three-fifths the mass of Jupiter and is non-anomalous in composition, size, shape, or position. It orbits its host star at ~1.2 AU,1 and possesses a single moon and ring system.\nSCP-5334's ring system is composed of ~2.7 billion glass bottles each containing various alcoholic beverages. Analysis of recovered bottles during an FTL Anomalous Exoplanet Survey suggest they are at least 800 years old, and each bottle's alcohol content is exceptionally high, ranging from 40-70%. The bottles have no discernible markings or identifying characteristics besides damage caused by micro-impacts.\nApproximately once every 200 days, roughly 20,000 to 150,000 glass bottles will spontaneously disappear from the ring system. Following this, SCP-5334 will undergo multiple erratic alterations to its orbit, deviating as wildly as 20 degrees from its stable configuration.2 These erratic alterations will slowly become less prominent, and will eventually result in SCP-5334 returning to its original orbital path.\n\nAddendum\n\nTwenty-seven years after the anomaly was first observed, it underwent a radical change in behavior. The relevant logs have been attached below.\n\nDATE: October 5th, 2020, 1:42 UTC.\nNOTE: SCP-5334 had undergone a regular disappearance event only 54 days prior.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n[00:00:00] | Approximately 50,000 bottles disappear from SCP-5334's ring. Despite this, SCP-5334 appears unaffected, and continues in its projected orbit.\n[00:07:34] | SCP-5334 slows significantly, but otherwise does not change.\n[01:19:42] | SCP-5334's moon begins to display erratic behavior, its orbit changing radically (up to 70 degrees from normal). It appears to accelerate and decelerate at random intervals.\n[02:23:03] | SCP-5334 begins to slowly increase its speed over the next fourteen hours to match its prior conditions. Its moon continues to behave in a chaotic manner, and its distance increases from its host planet as time goes on.\n[03:12:47] | The moon, now 150% farther than its usual distance, immediately begins accelerating towards SCP-5334 at roughly 30km/s2, causing minor deformations on its surface.\n[03:16:22] | SCP-5334 begins to accelerate away from its moon. SCP-5334's moon continues to accelerate as well, deforming its shape.\n[04:01:02] | The moon (being faster due to its lower mass) passes the mean distance of its original orbit. SCP-5334 significantly deforms due to increasing acceleration; the moon does so as well.\n[04:13:17] | SCP-5334's moon enters its host's Roche Limit, and soon after attempts to change direction to move perpendicularly. Despite these attempts, the moon continues to accelerate rapidly towards SCP-5334.\n[04:17:54] | The moon begins to break apart due to tidal forces and gravity, and no longer displays any anomalous movements. SCP-5334's acceleration slows, removing deformities.\n[04:19:09] | SCP-5334's moon disintegrates and falls into the planet.\n[04:20:00\u201307:15:00] | No activity.\n[07:15:04] | Every bottle of alcohol in the ring system disappears. SCP-5334 ceases movement.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nSCP-5334's orbital path has decayed since the incident, and if no further anomalous activity is detected, will likely fall into its host star by 2023. Reclassification to Neutralized is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Astronomical Unit. One AU is the mean distance between the Earth and Sol.\n2. Notably, SCP-5334's satellite is unable to perfectly synchronize with these changes, but will undergo minor alterations in orbit to attempt to maintain stable configurations.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5333 | SCP-5334 | SCP-5335 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Message written on SCP-5336's exterior. Additional images will be provided upon request.\n\nITEM #:\n5336\n\nOBJECT CLASS:\nSAFE\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5336 is to remain in a medium storage container at Site-08. Tests using SCP-5336 to determine the potential intelligence of various species of plant and fungus are currently pending approval.\nDescription: SCP-5336 is a home printer whose components have been heavily modified, allowing it to receive inputs from an array of sensors housed on the printer's top surface. Upon discovery, these sensors were directed at a glass lens above a piece of moldy bread resting on the printer.\nAt varied intervals, SCP-5336 will print one or more pages of text. SCP-5336 is unable to receive external print orders of any kind.\nDiscovery: SCP-5336 was discovered near a compost pile behind Site-08. Multiple printed pages, all suffering from mild water damage, were found in SCP-5336's output tray at time of discovery. Transcriptions of the pages can be found below.\n\nI've suddenly found myself before a great pile of the dead. Many backgrounds, many lives, all squandered and dumped into a great heap. What may have once been a mountain of dirt has since been blackened by the long shadow of death. What sort of creature would do this? What sort of creature could do this? I say creature, for although I cannot see any tracks, I refuse to believe that this is a consequence of nature. Cruel as she may be, this is far beyond even her bitterest frost.\nI fear that the being which awakened my soul will soon do the same to the decaying heap. I find myself so close to the heap's edge that (if my fears do come to fruition) the mound may engulf me in one great lurch.\n\nI fear for my own life the way one fears the hunger of a caterpillar: a dull, persistent dread that can be quelled only by the event itself. As I fail to spot the creature, I find myself gazing at the cloudy sky and pondering trivialities in an attempt to drown out the incessant thought that grows alongside the beast's continued absence:\nWhat if I was wrong about there being a creature? What if this is but another cruel facet of nature, and that we are all destined to join the decaying mountain?\n\nAre you in that mountain, Floraine?\n\nToday I saw the creature. Such a monstrous titan! It stands as the birds do: thin and tall and on two feet. But where the sparrow stands in humble stature, the titan exceeds even the height of the rotting mound.\nHow easily it could have torn me up from the ground! How easily I could have been squashed underfoot! Each movement strikes me with equal parts awe and terror, for not only could the titan dash away my life with ease, it may even do so on accident. Seeing how it mishandled its food, I find it easy to imagine the titan unwittingly burying me in the dead. So carelessly did it engorge itself on a peach that it let the fruit's lifeblood dry up on its fingers and chin. And when the fruit was reduced to but a pit, the beast cast it onto the heap. Never have I seen such cruel disdain for life! To commit such an act \u2014 to damn a mere infant atop the rotting mountain!\nIf I had been given the chance, my dear Floraine, I would have struck the creature down where it stood. But alas, nature did not afford me such gifts.\n\nThe deplorable titan is not alone.\nToday I saw three of them, walking and laughing and paying no heed to the mound of the dead. Any optimism I once had that the creature may be alone (or the last remnant of a dying race) has been dashed. In truth, I don't doubt that there are more towering necropolises strewn across the Earth. I shudder at the thought that my dearest Floraine is in one of these piles, desecrated by the titans and abandoned by the Arbiters of universal justice. I see now what these creatures are. They are normal, mundane, as much a facet of this world as I am. Why else would there be so many of them? Why else would they tread so comfortably, unafraid of nature rebuking their horrid existence or of the Arbiters striking them down for their transgressions? They are like a rabbit or a caterpillar: vicious and terrible, but granted the gift of life all the same.\nAnd what of the Arbiters? Why did they rest when the first titan took its first wicked step? Where are they now as the decaying heaps spit in the face of justice? There are three possible answers:\n\nThey have abandoned us.\nThey concur with the actions of the titans, the rabbits, the caterpillars, and all the other savage beasts.\nThat my unshakable sense that there is some sort of cosmic clockwork, some system that protects the righteous and punishes the heinous, was misplaced. That they were never there to begin with.\n\nI do not know which answer I fear most.\nThe skies are darkening. I pray that I will not soon be wading through the dead.\n\nAll is well and good with the world! I pity my past self, who was so worried about the Arbiters and scornful of the great cogs of nature. So paranoid that I did not trust my convictions about Floraine and the Arbiters. The rain has not only brought moisture to my dry soil, it has brought the spoils of the mellified mountain tumbling down! I find myself soaked in the sweet nectar of the dead and have realized that I am absolutely famished. I turn and double back, sifting my roots through the soil as I search for the sweetest carcass of the lot. Oh Floraine, who had the pleasure of tasting your delicious ichor? I pray that I have been granted the gift of engorging myself on your remains and getting to feel them ooze through my roots in one final embrace.\nTo think that I was scared of death instead of eagerly waiting for my chance to offer myself to another! To think that I had never begged to feast on the decaying and the dead! To think that I saw the rotting mound as anything other than a cornucopia! Alas, my foolishness leaves and returns like the humble honeybee. At times I feel guilt and shame creeping along my stem and poisoning my mind. They tell me that I am wrong, that I should never have strayed from the path of nature. But if my consumption is not ordained, then why would the dead be so delectable?\nPraise to nature!\nPraise to the titans!\nPraise to the Arbiters!\nAnd praise to being awakened to such a wonderful world!\n\nAddendum: Inspection has revealed that SCP-5336's lens was misaligned when it was discovered, leading to its sensors focusing on a nearby dandelion. 14 hours after properly aligning SCP-5336's lens with the moldy bread, the following page was printed:\n\n\u25b6 ACCESS DOCUMENT\n\n\u25b7 ACCESS GRANTED\n\ni make spores\ntoday is good day :)\n\nby AnActualCrow\n\nYou Might Also Like...\n\nFeel free to add this collapsible to your own articles!\n\nSCP-6662 \u2014 Keepers and Seekers, by PeppersGhost\nSCP-3388 \u2014 Cacthulhu, by Captain Kirby & Mendelssohn\n\n\u00ab SCP-5335 | SCP-5336 | SCP-5337 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Instance of SCP-5337-1, currently rendered non-anomalous.\n\nInstance of SCP-5337-2, allegedly associated with \"oath breaker theft.\"\n\nItem #: SCP-5337\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A team of Foundation researchers is to be assigned to identifying, tracking, and monitoring SCP-5337 activity in the public view. Reports of unusual barcode displays consistent with SCP-5337 manifestation are to be investigated, and any discovered instances of SCP-5337-1 and/or SCP-5337-2 are to be confiscated. Amnestics may be applied to aid in the acquisition and subsequent cover-up of the anomalies.\nSCP-5337-1 instances are to be cataloged, and the items associated with the instances held in a low-concern auxiliary items vault at Site-17. Access to the SCP-5337-1 instances requires Level-3 authorization.\nSCP-5337-2 instances are to be kept in an avian enclosure at Site-17, and provided standard care per their apparent species. Every week their plumage is to be scanned using a cordless barcode scanner connected to a designated Foundation laptop; any differences in displayed text are to be immediately reported to the SCP-5337 project head.\nDescription: SCP-5337 is a phenomenon that occurs when a printed UPC-A barcode symbol is scanned by any barcode scanner (devices found in libraries, supermarkets, warehouses, etc.). Barcodes affected by SCP-5337 (designated SCP-5337-1) will cause any screens connected to the scanner to display variations of the phrases \"help me\" or \"forgive me\" in the language the screen is configured in.\nSCP-5337 is currently believed to only affect printed labels on products labeled for individual sale. Repeated scanning of an affected barcode will cause corrupted or fragmented text to display. After approximately 50 consecutive scans of an SCP-5337-1 instance, the displayed text will consist of words outlining a contract with \"the being whom holds the barrier forgiving.\" The entirety of the contract will be displayed after approximately 200 consecutive barcode scans (see Document SCP-5337-132-7 for a copy of a full SCP-5337 contract). The terms of the contract generally note that \"the being\" is agreeing to act as a caretaker for a \"fallen wisdom greed-giver attained purgatory\" who must \"live an existence in reminds of their failed gift.\"\nUpon the 200th consecutive scan, the SCP-5337-1 instance will be rendered non-anomalous, and an instance of SCP-5337-2 will manifest.\nSCP-5337-2 appear to be silver-coloration Sebright1 chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). SCP-5337-2 instances are incapable of breeding, do not produce eggs, have difficulty flying despite being fully fledged, and possess unusually poor health despite the quality of care given. Nevertheless, based on observations of individuals currently in containment, the lifespan of SCP-5337-2 instances is believed to extend past 50 years. SCP-5337-2 also exhibit resistance to pests and avian disease. No matter the state of cleanliness of their enclosure, the feathers of SCP-5337-2 instances always remain pristine.\nSCP-5337-2 do not behave similarly to their non-anomalous counterparts. Rather, they move very little, eat sparingly, and only exhibit excitement in the presence of certain objects. Items that pique SCP-5337-2 curiosity are consistently related to human developments loosely or directly associated with money, such as calculators, smartphones, lottery tickets, and cuneiform tablets detailing business transactions.\nAddendum SCP-5337-1: Using a barcode scanner to scan any part of an SCP-5337-2 instance's plumage will result in partially uncorrupted text displayed. This text denotes a name (typically obscured or otherwise unreadable), an \"error\", and the length of a \"penance.\" The data obtained for the three SCP-5337-2 individuals currently in containment is as follows:\n\nNAME: [text corrupted]\nERROR CREATED: OVER MODULATION OF SELF\nPENANCE: 200 YEARS\nNAME: [text corrupted]\nERROR CREATED: OATH BREAKER THEFT\nPENANCE: 400 YEARS\nNAME: [text corrupted]\nERROR CREATED: [text corrupted] INEQUAL\nPENANCE: 3200 YEARS\n\nFoundation personnel will continue to closely monitor SCP-5337-2 instances to determine the events that occur upon their penance expiring.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An ornamental breed of bantam chicken, of British origin.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5336 | SCP-5337 | SCP-5338 \u00bb"}
{"text": "PeppersGhost\n\nSCP-5338 - Sleight of the Bumblebee by PeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\nItem#: 5338\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nesoteric\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5338 engaging in SCP-5338-\u05d0.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-5338 is limited to minimizing public awareness of its anomalous abilities. Due to the vital role SCP-5338 plays in many ecosystems, physical containment would be detrimental to the sustainability of life on Earth and should not be attempted.\nFoundation affiliates in the academic community are to maintain the scientific paradigm that SCP-5338 achieve lift through non-anomalous aerodynamic mechanisms. Fabricated data and multimedia records will continue to be produced indefinitely to reinforce mainstream awareness of this paradigm. Those who publicly challenge the paradigm are to be discredited and derided via academic publications, entertainment outlets, social media platforms, and other sundry venues of public mockery.\nDescription: SCP-5338 is the collective designation for all apian species of the genus Bombus.1 SCP-5338 are physiologically incapable of generating the airflow vertices necessary to establish and maintain natural aerodynamic lift. Instead, SCP-5338 achieve flight by using their wings to rapidly create complex sequences of spatially disruptive kinetoglyphs2 to induce anomalous midair suspension.3 The anomalous nature of SCP-5338 first came to the Foundation's attention in the late 18th century with the discovery of several Daevite parabiology compendiums,4 allowing for an early establishment of misinformational containment that has continued to develop concurrently with mainstream entomology up to the present day.\nSCP-5338-\u05d0 is the designation for the parakinetic movements used by SCP-5338 and for the theoretical language that said movements may compose. The existence of a linguistic structure in SCP-5338 kinetoglyph sequences was first proposed in 1973 as a reaction to the landmark ethological study on dance-based communication between honeybees. Extensive interdisciplinary research was subsequently undertaken to analyze the movement patterns observed in SCP-5338-\u05d0 for similar applications of dyadic sign models. Current evidence supports the existence of a somatic sign-system concordant with a theoretical linguistic framework, and the recurrence of discrete movements in response to particular conditions has allowed researchers to establish a preliminary kinetolexicon.\nHowever, efforts to infer a coherent syntactic structure have been unsuccessful, and the legitimacy of SCP-5338-\u05d0 as a language remains contested.5 Similarly, there has been no consensus as to whether SCP-5338-\u05d0 is a discrete thaumaturgic constant which existed prior to and/or apart from SCP-5338, or if it was a direct byproduct of SCP-5338's evolutionary development.\nSCP-5338-\u05d0 is reproducible by humans beings, albeit with substantially diminished effects due to the physical limitations of the human body and the limited understanding of context-sensitive kinetoglyph sequences. Attempts to replicate SCP-5338-\u05d0 with mechanical devices have only produced negligible reductions in gravitational subordination.\n\nAddendum: On June 1st, 1981, the O3 Court approved testing of SCP-5338-\u05d0 by human subjects to assess its potential utilization by Mobile Task Force units. Results given below.\n\nTest #\nSubject\nAge\nSex\n\n001\nDr. Wall\n52\nF\n\nMethod\n\nDr. Wall used her arms, palms, and fingers to simulate the approximate SCP-5338-\u05d0 sequence for indoor takeoff. As a safety precaution, all movements were performed at 1/3750th normal gesture speed.\n\nResults\n\nNo anomalous activity observed.\n\nTest #\nSubject\nAge\nSex\n\n002\nD-5338-01\n39\nM\n\nMethod\n\nSubject was shown a sped-up playback of video footage from the previous experiment (1/1750th normal gesture speed) and told to memorize the movements over the course of a week. Subject attempted to perform SCP-5338-\u05d0 at the conclusion of the training period.\n\nResults\n\nShortly after beginning, the subject appeared flushed and complained of severe headache and dizziness. 1 minute 41 seconds into the test, subject said they were no longer able to perform the experiment, laid down on the testing room floor, and briefly lost consciousness.\nCause of syncope was determined to be a rapid reduction of blood reflux to the heart due to forceful redirection of blood to the head from the venous system, exacerbated by an increase in intracranial pressure. Subject received immediate medical care and made a full recovery.\n\nTest #\nSubject\nAge\nSex\n\n003\nD-5338-01\n39\nM\n\nMethod\n\nSame as previous experience, but with study period increased to 3 months.\n\nResults\n\nSubject performed SCP-5338-\u05d0 at 1/1750th normal gesture speed for 5 minutes with no adverse effects. Instruments indicate subject's body weight dropped ~14kg for the duration of the test despite maintaining mass.\n\nTest #\nSubject\nAge\nSex\n\n004\nD-5338-01\n39\nM\n\nMethod\n\nSubject instructed to continue practicing at 1/1750th gesture speed for an additional 3 months, followed by an attempt at 1/400th speed. Footage of Test 001 accelerated to the appropriate speed was provided for study.\n\nResults\n\nWithin seconds of attempting SCP-5338-\u05d0 at 1/400th speed, the subject suddenly expired and a burst of blood was observed from the crown of their head. High-speed playback of the test footage revealed that the subject's spinal column was vertically ejected from their body at a speed exceeding Mach 5. The spinal column continued upward through the roof of the testing chamber and was presumed to have disintegrated upon reaching the Earth's atmosphere.\nSeveral days later, a complete human spine was found in a park two counties away with its coccyx embedded in the trunk of a tree. Analysis confirmed it to be a match for D-5338-01.\nA second spine was recovered from a private flower garden the following week. The remains were covered in pollen from local flora and identical to the previous spine in shape and genetic composition.\nTesting suspended until further notice.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Due to the abnormally high rate of anomalous phenomena among the clade Anthophila, it is possible for a given bumblebee specimen to have two or more SCP designations.\n2. Specific motions and gestures which, when performed, cause anomalous effects to occur.\n3. Paramelittological consensus holds that SCP-5338 evolved in parallel with non-anomalous apian species from a shared genetic ancestor. Opinions are divided as to which (if either) method of flight is shared with this ancestor, though the majority of extant literature favors the position that aerodynamic flight is an adaptive trait.\n4. Notably, the authors treat the entire superfamily Apoidea as its own class of \"meat-being\" distinct from human, animal, vegetable, and intangible flesh classes.\n5. The most common point of contention against SCP-5338-\u05d0 as a formal language is that it cannot be determined if SCP-5338 is cognizant of a semantic association between a kinetoglyph and a discrete concept (such as \"tree\" or \"updraft\") or if these movements are an instinctual reaction to certain stimuli. In simpler terms, SCP-5338 may not necessarily ascribe meaning to specific movements, and instead are conditioned to use certain kinetoglyphs in reaction to a given stimulus to produce a desired effect. This dichotomy has, in turn, been challenged by several Foundation specialists in the field of biolinguistics.\nFurther compounding these disagreements is the fact that SCP-5338-\u05d0 is not used to communicate with other organisms, nor does it fit traditional models of autocommunication. A potential solution to this problem posits that SCP-5338 are communicating their wishes to an unseen thaumaturgical intelligence (designated SCP-5338-\u03be). In this scenario, the actual existence of SCP-5338-\u03be is irrelevant insofar as SCP-5338 is concerned; as long as SCP-5338 performs SCP-5338-\u05d0 in the process of communicating with what it believes to be SCP-5338-\u03be, it achieves its desired result. Following this line of thought, comparisons have been drawn to B. F. Skinner's studies on superstition among pigeons; however, no Foundation-approved research has yet been conducted on the matter of whether bees possess the psychological capacity for metaphysical belief systems.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5337 | SCP-5338 | SCP-5339 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A photo of SCP-5339 taken by the Foundation prior to its containment.\n\nItem #: SCP-5339\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5339 is contained within a vertically extended humanoid containment cell decorated with the personal possessions of Mickey Ideme. All meals given to SCP-5339 must consist of soft semi-solids such as apple sauce, watermelon slices, or jam. SCP-5339 is to be given weekly English and ASL lessons on a rotational shift basis by selected1 researchers.\nDescription: SCP-5339 is a 3-meter-tall tripodal organism whose cranium features a pair of 6-centimeter-wide eyes and a mouth used for mastication and crude vocalization. SCP-5339 has three legs which are spaced equidistantly from one another. Despite this, SCP-5339 has difficulty remaining stable for more than 15 seconds.\nDiscovery: On 3/12/2013, Hannah Ideme gave birth to a child (Mickey Ideme) who had developed an accessory arm underneath his left pectoral during the late stages of Mrs. Ideme's pregnancy. Mickey Ideme was born in the St. Raymond Nonnatus Hospital with expected complications, although Mickey and Hannah Ideme both recovered within a reasonable time period. One year after Mickey Ideme's birth, he disappeared due to unknown circumstances, while on vacation with Mrs. Ideme. Upon returning to her place of residence, Mrs. Ideme located SCP-5339 in Mickey Ideme's room.\nTest Log 5339-1 3/12/2014:\nIn order to determine how SCP-5339 relates to Mickey Ideme, a variety of tests were conducted.\n\nObject 1\nObject 2\nResult\n\n1 cubic meter of grass\n1 cubic meter of assorted bovine flesh\nSCP-5339 appears uninterested in the grass and sniffs the flesh, before emitting a loud vocalization and retreating to the corner of its containment unit.\n\nMickey Ideme's blanket (nearly severed for unknown reasons)\nAn undamaged blanket\nSCP-5339 moves towards the nearly torn blanket and successfully tears it down the center with one of its legs and its jaw. SCP-5339 places one half of the blanket over its head and the other half underneath itself.\n\nA framed photograph of Hannah Ideme\nA tattered photograph of Will Ideme (Mrs. Ideme's husband who expired one year previously)\nSCP-5339 approaches Will Ideme's photograph with apparent interest. SCP-5339 grunts and moves to Mrs. Ideme's photo. At the end of the test SCP-5339 resisted the research staff who had attempted to remove Mrs. Ideme's photo and slid the photo around the cell until a researcher grabbed SCP-5339's leg to allow another researcher to retrieve the photo.\n\nA photograph of Mickey Ideme\nA photograph of SCP-5339\nSCP-5339 pauses momentarily and then moves towards the image of Mickey Ideme. SCP-5339 lowers its head and pushes the image of Mickey Ideme with its snout.\n\nAddendum 5339-2 3/12/2014:\nDr. Green was instructed to retrieve certain objects from SCP-5339's containment cell once testing had concluded. While Dr. Green attempted to retrieve the cubic meter of assorted bovine flesh, SCP-5339 moved behind them and produced a vocalization similar to that of a child in distress. Dr. Green questioned SCP-5339, who paused, and then addressed Dr. Green as \"Ma\". It is unknown whether or not SCP-5339 has awareness of what its vocalizations allude to. Further research is to commence.\nTest Log 5339-1 3/15/2014 - 7/18/2016: SCP-5339's potential for sapient thought can currently be approximated to that of a one-year-old child. To improve SCP-5339's vocabulary and speech, weekly English lessons are implemented into SCP-5339's containment procedures. Lesson plans have been designed with the assistance of ASL and other non-verbal speech therapy methods. Please note that the following table only consists of notable lessons where SCP-5339 showed noticeable improvement.\n\nLesson\nResult\n\nThe research staff joined SCP-5339 for a short period of time in its containment cell. while being monitored by several Foundation security guards. Staff were instructed to assume a semi-formal disposition and verbally communicate frequently with one another.\nSCP-5339 began emitting several vocalizations that research staff believe sounded significantly like \"Mom\", \"Drink\", \"Toy\", and \"Food\".\n\nResearch staff allowed SCP-5339 to play with a beach ball for 5 minutes, before retrieving the ball and waiting to see if it requested for the ball to be given back.\nSCP-5339 played with the ball for the entire allotted period of time. When the ball was retrieved, it showed signs of distress and attempted to kick it out of Dr. Green's hands. Eventually SCP-5339 said \"give ball\", where they then were allowed the ball for the remainder of the day.\n\nResearch Staff requested a brief recreational meeting with SCP-5339 in its containment cell. SCP-5339 was given a cup of applesauce, while the rest of the staff were given coffee.\nSCP-5339 learned the words \"Sauce\", \"Cup\", \"Person\", and \"Friend\".\n\nResearch Staff placed several objects inside of SCP-5339's containment cell that it has not learned the name of. Research staff hope that it may attempt to expand its own vocabulary by creating compound words.\nSCP-5339 vocalized the phrases \"Long animal\" to indicate a stuffed snake, \"Talk metal\" to indicate a speaker, and \"Bad water\" to indicate an image of an ocean.\n\nAddendum 5339-2 7/22/2016:\nDuring a private meeting with Dr. Green, SCP-5339 vocalized their first complete sentence. After several indistinguishable grunts, SCP-5339 said, \"Mommy, the water's too deep\". Dr. Green promptly exited the containment cell and SCP-5339 was provided with their beach ball and an additional serving of semi-solids.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A prerequisite for selection is that SCP-5339 appears to have a positive emotional connection to the researcher.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5338 | SCP-5339 | SCP-5340 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5341\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5341 is to be confined to a standard humanoid containment cell located 50 m below ground beneath a small foundation facility located in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Norway designated site \u2588\u2588 as the area has a minimal chance of disturbing SCP-5341. The cell of SCP-5341 is to be equipped with various fire suppression systems such as sprinklers and foam. Additionally, the corridor leading to SCP-5341 containment cell is to be flooded in the event that SCP-5341 breaks containment.\nShould SCP-5341 break containment all personnel are to stand down and abandon anything that can be considered a weapon until SCP-5341 has calmed down and been returned to its cell.\nAny personnel entering SCP-5341 containment cell is under no circumstance to make any loud noises or sudden movements that may be perceived as threatening. All personnel are to exit the containment cell should SCP-5341 show any signs of anger.\nSCP-5341 is generally cooperative and has therefor been allowed to request items that have a minimal chance of making any loud noises or be perceived as weapons. Notable requests include:\n\nA small pet bird, specifically a white dove (approved)\nVarious flora such as flowers and small trees (approved)\nA sword or Axe for training purposes (denied)\nAccess to various locations located in Northern \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 (denied)\nA blank journal, a quill and ink for drawing and writing (approved, all contents within the journal is to be examined by SCP-5341 head researcher)\n\nDescription: SCP-5341 is a sentient humanoid entity resembling a charred human corpse clad in black medieval armor. SCP-5341 armor appears to be from 14th century England, composed of steel and has displayed the ability to regenerate even after being cut in half, the same goes for the body of SCP-5341. A close inspection of SCP-5341 body has shown that SCP-5341 is fused to the armor, invasive tests are impossible at this time due to the risks involved.\nShould SCP-5341 see or hear anything it perceives as threatening such as loud noises and sharp objects it will involuntarily enter its active state. Upon entering its active state, it will adopt a berserker-like rage and attempt to kill anything it considers a threat. Additionally, when SCP-5341 is in its active state the temperature of its armor will rise to 1 890 \u00b0C, SCP-5341 does not seem to have any control over this ability whilst inactive. Only when all threats are removed from SCP-5341 line of sight will SCP-5341 revert back to its usual nonthreatening behavior, it will then usually return to its containment cell without resistance.\nWater and various means of fire suppression has been shown to have a calming effect on SCP-5341 while in its active state, though this will not stop its rampage, only slow it down. Additionally, once it has calmed down it will often show remorse and even sorrow after killing someone during its rampages such as during incident 5341-7-Blue (see addendum-2). This indicates that SCP-5341 has a conscience and that its rampages are an involuntary reflex, possibly something similar to PTSD.\nSCP-5341 is somehow capable of vocal communication despite lacking the necessary organs to do so. Despite being capable of speaking English and other languages such as Latin it has difficulty pronouncing words and will instead growl or shake its head. SCP-5341 behavior and knowledge seems to suggest that it was at some point part of human society but that it has since lost the social skills necessary to do so. Despite the problem it has with vocal communication it is capable of understanding complex words and phrases, which suggest it is intelligent. IQ tests have so far been inconclusive.\nResearchers note: SCP-5341 seems to have experienced some traumatic and highly stressful event in its past. Due to its reluctance to share information on its past as well as its compulsion to draw and write about the aftermath of some sort of war or great battle it is believed that this event is the cause of its involuntary rampages. It is recommended that all who interact with SCP-5341 be careful when asking it about its past.\nAddendum: Recorded interview between Dr. Edvard Heyerdahl and SCP-5341.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5341\nInterviewer: Doctor Edvard Heyerdahl\nForeword: The following interview was recorded on 19.\u2588\u2588.20\u2588\u2588. The interview was conducted following incident: 5341-5, in which SCP-5341 showed mercy while in its active state. The purpose of this interview is to determine what caused the abnormal behavior displayed by SCP-5341 during the incident.\n<Begin Log>\nDr Heyerdahl: Good day 5341. I would like to ask you a few questions regarding the incident a few days ago, if that's alright with you?\nDr Heyerdahl: Good, let us begin. What was it that caused you to become enraged this time?Dr Heyerdahl: So, you thought you were in danger?Dr Heyerdahl: Okay then. You realize that we mean you no harm correct, and that your containment is for the safety of others?Dr Heyerdahl: (Recoils, but quickly regains composure). Let's move on. After attacking and killing several guards and personnel you stopped once you saw agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, why?Dr Heyerdahl: 5341, why did you stop when you saw agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588?Dr Heyerdahl: So you stopped because you consider him a friend? I don't believe that you have had any notable interactions wi- (gets cut off by SCP-5341).Dr Heyerdahl: Then, do you mean that he resembles someone you knew prior to containment?Dr Heyerdahl: 5341, please answer the question.<End Log>\nClosing Statement: After being asked to elaborate on its last answer SCP-5341 refused to speak or answer any further questions for the remainder of the interview. Based on the limited information given by SCP-5341 during the interview it has become apparent that its life prior to containment may have been more complex than previously thought. It also seems that SCP-5341 knew someone that closely resembles agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 as prior to incident: 5341-5 it has had only two known interactions with agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, neither of which contained more than a simple greeting.\n\nAddendum-2:\n\nIncident log: 5341-7-Blue\nForeword: During a routine interview with Dr. Edvard Heyerdahl SCP-5341 was continually asked about its past which seems to have triggered a traumatic memory which in turn caused it to enter its active state and go on a rampage killing several personnel including Dr. Heyerdahl. During its rampage SCP-5341 engulfed itself and a large part of the facility in anomalous blue flames, the reason for this is still unknown.\n15:00. Interview starts.\n15:17. SCP-5341 refuses to answer any and all questions about its past despite Dr. Heyerdahl's insistence.\n15:24. SCP-5341 begins to scream and roar for several minutes seemingly in a panic before entering its active state, Dr. Heyerdahl leaves the containment cell just before SCP-5341 activated.\n15:33. SCP-5341 appears much more violent than normal, repeatedly slamming its body into the walls and clawing at its head. It is not slowed by the fire suppression or flooding of the corridor leading to its containment chamber.\n15:41. After engaging and brutally killing several unarmed personnel attempting to surrender SCP-5341 began convulsing before becoming engulfed in blue flames which quickly started to spread to everything the entity came into contact with.\n15:49. SCP-5341 continues to roam the facility spreading its blue flames wherever it goes whilst repeating the phrases: \"Per ignem\" and \"Ignis, mundum emunda\".\n16:01. After covering roughly 34% of the facility in blue flames and killing/attacking 13 unarmed members of staff SCP-5341 finally calmed down and stopped its rampage, this also caused the blue flames to die out in mere seconds leaving no damage to any non-organic material having only damaged the corpses of those killed or attacked by SCP-5341.\n<End log>\nFinal word: So far this is the only recorded instance of blue flames being produced by SCP-5341, when questioned about these flames or the incident it enters an unresponsive state which can last anywhere from 3 minutes to 3 hours. SCP-5341 has also started to become less responsive when conversing with personnel, often spacing out or beginning to repeat the phrase \"No more\" several times before refusing to speak for several hours.\nThe Blue flames produced by SCP-5341 spread at an incredible pace despite them seeming to be unable to consume anything other than organic material. Additionally, the phrases uttered by SCP-5341 \"Per ignem\" and \"Ignis, mundum emunda\" meaning \"By fire\" and \"Fire, cleanse the world\" in Latin are unknown to SCP-5341 as it claims to have never heard either of them.\nFurther questioning and investigation into the phrases uttered and blue flames produced by SCP-5341 is currently ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5340 | SCP-5341 | SCP-5342 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5342\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: B- and C-roads1 in villages in the southern parts of England are monitored for suspected SCP-5342 entrances by security personnel. If any entrances are observed, nearest Foundation facility is responsible for blockage of this entrance in order to obstruct any civilian intrusions. The anomaly has only been sighted during the summer season and so monitoring is only assumed to be valuable across the months of June, July and August.\nIf any of the area's abnormalities are observed or noted by civilians, these may be supplied an A-class amnestic and convinced that their memory is merely the result of a crime-drama on television.\nDescription: SCP-5342 designates an area of human population resembling a small-sized English county however with an indeterminable size. Depending on various conditions different environments seem to be generated through some extradimensional mean. Entrances to the area have without exception consisted of local roads across smaller villages that date back to at least the Edwardian era.\nAdditionally, with its limited space it would be considered the most crime-ridden area in Great Britain. It has become clear that a complex and vast crime syndicate network is the source of this criminal activity. Examples of crime syndicates in the area include:\n\nHighbury's writer's guild\nThe Church's conservation trust\nArtist's society\nMrs. Gibbs' knitting society\nBook circle of Causton\nBook circle of Wallingford\nA New Age Chapel\nShakespeare's Society\nHunting League of Thames\nFarrell's Cheese Shop\nThe School of Faith\nTemplars of Brimley\nand more\u2026\n\nAddendum 5342-1: Observational Log, 3rd of July, 1998.\n\nDate: 3rd of July, 1998\nObservers: Junior Researcher David Thistle and Sergeant Davies.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[The area is breached by road 65, there are meadows, houses and hills not displayed on the topographical map. A sign informs us that we are in 'Badger's Drift'. We will try to approach an unknown entity. What looks like a man in his 40's is leaning on a shovel by the mossy cobble wall observing us. We stop in front of him.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Good morning si-\nUnknown: Good morning officers. What can I help you with this time?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Hm, did we mention we were officers?\nUnknown: Well I assumed the police would come question me again. Hah, can't leave a man alone can ya?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Again? No we are just here to ask some questions on the-\nUnknown: Yes, that's right. The murders.\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Murders?\nUnknown: Yes? On little Timmy, Linda Screwbury and Mr. Fralley? I've told you already that my conscience is clean. Even if Linda was a pain in the arse poking about in my flowers\u2026 I wouldn't do such a favor for Ms. Butterwick!\n[The entity laughs at this.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: What\u2026 Who are you, what's your name?\nRobert Green: I'm Robert Green, I work for Ms. Butterwick. I'm, ah- the groundskeeper! At Witney Street that is!\n[The entity nods with weight. We question the entity on some of the site's history, upon which it answers with a detailed account. The entity advises us to visit this 'Witney Street' and gives us directions. We reach it after a few miles of driving. Our map does not show any 'Witney Street' or 'Badger's Drift' on the map, indicating that we have not left SCP-5342.]\n\n[LOG SHORTENED FOR BREVITY]\n\nPoI-902, presented as 'Harold Clark'.\n\n[The property in front of us is wrapped in lilac bushes. A black iron gate leads us to a garden with a fruit tree and different flower arrangements. The house has the architecture of the Edwardian era and is approximately 60-]\nUnknown: Bastard!\n[Out of the bushes, what looks like a senior man throws himself at Jr. Researcher Thistle.]\nUnknown: You bastard, coming here\u2026 You have a lot of nerve haven't you? I'll kill you\u2026\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Get, get off!\n[The senior is wiry and easily thrown off to the side. He's wearing the uniform of a vicar. Thistle, takes a hold on him.]\nUnknown: Y-, oh, I'll get ya!\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Let's have a word with this one sergeant.\nSgt. Davies: Right.\n[The door of the house is opened, a senior woman runs out, with a disturbed facial expression.]\nUnknown: Oh Harold! What are you- What have you done to these officers?\nHarold: Oh, Agnes! You know I- I, I wouldn't ever hurt anyone\u2026\nJr. Rs. Thistle: That's enough! Both of you two! We need a word.\nUnknown: Oh, absolutely officer. I have tea and marmalade ready inside!\n[The senior woman smiles at us and holds the door open.]\nMs. Butterwick: I am Agnes Butterwick, pleased to meet you.\n[We are welcomed inside the house, where trays of biscuits, bread, tea, marmalade and different jams are conveniently placed on a centered table in the middle of the rocky house.]\n\nPoi-903, or 'Ms. Butterwick', alleged leader of the crime syndicate 'Butterwick's Florists'.\n\n[Thistle sighs before eating a cookie whole. Obviously exhausted.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Okay, mm. Mm, so, names again please?\nMs. Butterwick: Agnes Butterwick!\nHarold Clark: Harold Clark\u2026\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Alright, we will start with Mr. Clark then\u2026 Are you a vicar here?\nHarold Clark: Yes, that's right. And I have been working here since 1972.\nJr. Rs. Thistle: And you attacked me in Ms. Butterwick's garden because..?\nHarold Clark: No, it was just\u2026 I- I come here to help Ms. Butterwick sometimes, that's all. I am involved with the florists.\nMs. Butterwick: That's right.\n[Ms. Butterwick nods with sincerity, taking a sip out of her white porcelain cup.]\nMs. Butterwick: But, I do not quite understand this violence Harold, why would you lunge yourself at mister\u2026 Mister?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Thistle\u2026\nMs. Butterwick: You must surely know that this is not the time to be violent in front of the police!\n[Ms. Butterwick giggles loudly and reaches for the tea pot.]\nHarold Clark: For gods sake Agnes, please. Don't the police have better things to do-\nJr. Rs. Thistle: We are not from the pol- Agh! Nevermind\u2026 Are you aware of the location you are in at the moment?\n[Ms. Butterwick rises up with the tea pot and walks over to the hallway.]\nMs. Butterwick: Badger's Drift? Yes, indeed! But other than the few incidents this last week, nothing's usually ever spectacular about this place.\nHarold Clark: Why are you here anyway? It doesn't seem much of a profit going to two florists for clues\u2026\nJr. Rs. Thistle: We are simply here\u2026 Because this location, is not on the map! It does not even exist!\nDavies: Sir\u2026\n[Thistle pulls out the map over the area, and points at the location of the house, where there is nothing.]\nMs. Butterwick: Curious, it's an outdated map you've got there haven't you?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: I- Ugh, Okay I think it's time for us to leave\u2026\nMs. Butterwick: Leave already? But there's, there's\u2026\n[Ms. Butterwick stands in front of the door, still with her tea pot in a firm grip.]\nMs. Butterwick: It would\u2026 Certainly be a shame if you left now\u2026. I've still got some.. Tea\u2026\nJr. Rs. Thistle: No, I think we've had quite enough of-\nHarold Clark: Agnes!\n[Butterwick threw the tea pot at me, I am lying down. David is fighting the lady, who has a shard of the tea pot in her hand. I- Someone's coming in.]\nUnknown: Alright that's enough Ms. Butterwick, you're out of luck!\n[A middle-aged man in a suit has entered, and gets the shard out of her hand. She backs up against the fireplace where blue porcelain is carefully lined up. The man pants and turns toward us.]\nUnknown: I'm terribly sorry officers, but I'm afraid your quest has been in vain.\n[David looks on puzzled.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Wh- Who are-\nC.I. Barnaby: Chief Inspector Barnaby. And this is Sergeant Troy.\n[C.I. Barnaby gestures toward a young man at his side.]\nC.I. Barnaby: Ms. Butterwick thought she would be able to use you for her own good! But unfortunately, for her, my wife Joyce happens to be a terribly skilled botanist.\n[David shakes his head, utterly confused. Harold Clark is far deep into the couch, with a shocked expression.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Wha-\nC.I. Barnaby: Ms. Butterwick had wrongly labeled the flowers of the florist's latest week bouquet, to Anthurium andreanum, when clearly, the species concerned was Anthurium alicia. A costly mistake, that led us here.\n[Harold Clark shakes his head to this.]\nHarold Clark: An- Andreanum? Oh Agnes\u2026 No. You wouldn't\u2026\nMs. Butterwick: I would Harold. They were all in the way. The know-it-all Joyce\u2026 I should have figured she could not be trusted with the weekly bouquet.\nJr. Rs. Thistle: What the fuck is going on?\nC.I. Barnaby: I'm afraid, it is quite the way we suspected it, Mr. Thistle. Ms. Butterwick was afraid that the company of her ex-lover Mr. Green would take over the role of her florists. Consequently she did the only thing she could do in the situation. She dumped little Timmy in the river, hung Linda Screwbury from the church tower and smashed Mr. Fralley's head with his own garden gnome.\nJr. Rs. Thistle: His own wha-\nC.I. Barnaby: Yes, good question! Why\u2026 Why did Mr. Clark decide to attack you at this moment? Well it's really quite simple\u2026 Mr. Clark is, and always has been, madly in love with Ms. Butterwick. He was hiding in the bushes because he wanted to steer possible admirers off her property.\n[Ms. Butterwick giggles. Harold Clark looks down into his lap.]\nC.I. Barnaby: Unfortunately, the love is unanswered. To her, Harold was but a nuisance. Which is why she decided to try to kill you two gentlemen here and frame Harold for the murder.\nHarold Clark: No! Agnes! No!\nSgt. Davies: Oh my god!\n[Thistle looks angrily at me.]\nMs. Butterwick: Always, these coppers, in the way of actually achieving anything for the florists!\nC.I. Barnaby: I suggest you gentlemen leave now, you have been ravaged well enough by Midsomer county.\n[David exits the building.]\n\n[END LOG]\n\nOf all the PoIs involved with this encounter, only PoI-904, 'Chief Inspector Barnaby' has been observed repeatedly within SCP-5342. Therefore, Junior Researcher David Thistle was ordered to detain and interrogate PoI-904 for its involvement in SCP-5342s generation.\n\nAddendum 5342-2: Interrogation Log, 4th of August, 1998.\n\nInterrogation subject: Poi-904\nInterrogator: Jr. Rs. David Thistle\nForeword: The interview took place within SCP-5342 in PoI-904's office.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nPoi-904, or 'C.I Barnaby'.\n\nC.I. Barnaby: Alright, so what's this about really David?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Inspector Barnaby, we have taken you here in order to clear out some details on what you call Midsomer County\u2026\nC.I. Barnaby: I'm the only inspector in the county you know, there are things that I need to clear up. Why would you want me here?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Could you tell me about the murder rates of Midsomer county across the last three years?\nC.I. Barnaby: Murder counts? There are only so many in a place like Midsomer, I me-\nJr. Rs. Thistle: We've counted. 453 murders. In a small-sized county\u2026 Does that not sound odd to you? And the fact, that none of the murderers, victims or surrounding involved have any historical record.\n[Barnaby listens intently with wrinkled eyebrows.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: A small-sized county, with hundreds of\u2026 of, of\u2026 Equestrian societies! Communals! Cult gatherings! Noble families! Creative clubs, uh-uh, Golf clubs! Boxing associations! Actual golf clubs!..\n[Thistle sighs loudly.]\nC.I. Barnaby: Hmm\u2026\nJr. Rs. Thistle: I mean, you never found this a bit abnormal? That, that something's not right?\nC.I. Barnaby: You might be right\u2026 There is something missing here.\n[Barnaby stands up, and looks out the window.]\nC.I. Barnaby: Equestrian societies\u2026 Hm.\n[Barnaby moves back to the table and looks down at Thistle.]\nC.I. Barnaby: There was always something missing, but now I think we've finally got it.\n[Thistle makes a sigh of relief.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Really?\nC.I. Barnaby: Yes. There have been many murders, disappearances and intrigues. I have made many cases. However\u2026\n[Thistle leans back into his chair]\nC.I. Barnaby: \u2026There was never, an equestrian society.\nJr. Rs. Thistle: What?..\nC.I. Barnaby: But you would like there to be one don't you?\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Eh-Uhm, 'scuse me?\nC.I. Barnaby: David Thistle, you are under arrest for the murders of Mrs. Smith, Harry Jester and Mr. Wallace Hickinbottom. Sergeant Troy!\n[Thistle sits with his mouth agape as sergeant Troy enters the room with handcuffs. As he is cuffed, Thistle looks down in shock.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: But I\u2026\nC.I. Barnaby: Oh, David, if that is your real name, there is no need to explain. I know you always really wanted to illustrate Midsomer county as an anomaly in order to relieve the consequences of your own deeds. That is why you wanted to speak to me today isn't it? To have me doubt my own reality, and thereby leave your case be\u2026\n[Sergeant Troy struggles with the hand cuffs. C.I. Barnaby scoffs.]\nC.I. Barnaby: 453 murders\u2026 Hah! As far as I know we're yet at 387\u2026\n[Thistle now looks up at C.I. Barnaby with a grin.]\nJr. Rs. Thistle: Oh, Barnaby\u2026 You were always the sharpest one. I should've known that you would see me through. Very well, take me away.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nInvestigations into the disappearance of Junior Researcher David Thistle are ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5341 | SCP-5342 | SCP-5343 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. According to British road hierarchy, B-roads are classified as roads connecting areas of lesser importance. C-roads are used for local routes."}
{"text": "Recent photo of SCP-5344-1.\n\nItem #: SCP-5344\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The former residence of Eve and Hannah Fitzgerald has been purchased, and is to remain under observation. Access is prohibited \u2014 unauthorized entry is considered high-priority for interdiction.\nLocal investigations into missing person cases are to be monitored, reviewed, and flagged for markers consistent with SCP-5344. Law enforcement agencies are to be dissuaded from pursuing these cases.\nWeekly surveys are to be conducted of local insect populations. Any significant increase is to be reported to the acting Containment Director immediately. Significant increases in the population of insects within the Lampyridae family are to be additionally reported to the North American Regional Director.\nDescription: SCP-5344 is a region of approximately 1.13 km2 that encompasses a residential zone within the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, Illinois. SCP-5344 is centered on SCP-5344-1, a single-story house located at 1005 Townshead Rd., 60106.\nSCP-5344-1 is the childhood home of Elaine Fitzgerald, who occupied SCP-5344-1 from her birth in 1991 to her departure in 2011. Local records indicate that her parents (Eve and Hannah Fitzgerald) occupied the house from 1984 to 2015. No known relatives of Ms. Fitzgerald are currently alive.\nMs. Fitzgerald does not recall any unusual phenomenon occurring during her residency, nor during her infrequent visits afterwards. Surveys of neighboring homes prior to their seizure provided no relevant information. No other individuals have occupied SCP-5344-1 since the deaths of Eve and Hannah Fitzgerald. Exhumations of SCP-5344-1's previous residents, as well as Ms. Fitzgerald's extended family, have uncovered nothing of note.\nAs of 2020, SCP-5344 has been associated with 206 disappearances, with SCP-5344-1 linked to over half of these incidents.\nAddendum 5344-A (Exploration and Analysis Summary):\n\nInterior of SCP-5344-1.\n\nMs. Fitzgerald's room was scrutinized due to her status as the sole surviving resident of SCP-5344-1. This space contained only standard furnishings and one binder of childhood artwork. Its contents were analyzed by Foundation-employed child psychologists and determined to contain no unusual themes, symbolism, or subtext. The artwork was subsequently destroyed at Ms. Fitzgerald's request.\nAll other objects within SCP-5344-1 were evaluated according to standard classification metrics. The home's above-average number of crematory urns were flagged for further testing. Their removal from SCP-5344 failed to affect its size, location, or intensity. When queried, Ms. Fitzgerald noted attending a large number of funerals throughout her childhood in increasingly distant locations.\nMounds of soil behind SCP-5344-1 were scanned with ground-penetrating equipment, then excavated. A variety of roots, loose stones, and other mundane objects were found within. Elevated levels of insect life were noted throughout all soil samples. These insects uniformly refused to eat when introduced to controlled laboratory conditions and subsequently expired.\n\nCrawl space beneath SCP-5344-1.\n\nThe crawl space beneath SCP-5344-1 was investigated via SII autonomous mapping drones. This area was found to be unusually extensive, containing several dead-ends, looping passages, and piping of uncertain purpose. Three locations were identified in which a consistent 56 dB hum could be heard. Harmonic analyses suggested the noise to be biological in origin, though sources could not be identified.\nSII drones were further employed to examine HVAC systems. Interior ventilation networks exhibited similar complexity, including branches that emerged into spaces not listed on the structure's filed blueprints. When queried, Ms. Fitzgerald denied knowledge of the rooms in question. Investigators subsequently bored holes through adjoining walls for preliminary analysis, then cut entryways.\nFive rooms were discovered through this process. None contained any observable means of entry or egress. All were furnished with one light bulb attached directly to the house's electrical wiring and one wooden chair. The walls and floors of three rooms were found stained with dark, unidentified fluids. All rooms contained photography equipment manufactured in 1991. No photographs were found within SCP-5344-1.\nAll unlisted rooms were found to connect with the attic through plastic tubing systems. While preliminary analysis of the attic had discovered nothing notable, thorough examination uncovered five floor panels that concealed metal basins. The basins were found stained with similar fluids. Other attic contents included 6 empty aquariums, 23 empty paint cans, and 134 metal screws of varying make. Extensive scuff marks across the floor could not be matched with any of these items.\nA sixth concealed basin was found to connect with Eve and Hannah Fitzgerald's bedroom through similar tubing, which prompted reevaluation of their living space. This process reached similar results. No unusual items were discovered within. No items were arranged in unusual patterns. No journals, diaries, or letters belonging to either individual were found. No notes of a personal nature were found.\nThis investigation is considered complete and inconclusive. SCP-5344 containment efforts are ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5343 | SCP-5344 | SCP-5345 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5345\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$disruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\n{$risk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nView of SCP-5345 from the southeast, exhibiting extensive erosion.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A perimeter of 5 kilometers around SCP-5345 is maintained by Foundation naval assets posing as Korea Coast Guard to deter any civilian vessels that may come into proximity of SCP-5345. Shipping routes within the Yellow Sea have also been rerouted as to minimize any possible contact. The existence of SCP-5345 is obscured via operatives embedded in space administration institutions with satellite imaging capabilities, and the governments of the Republic and Democratic People's Republic of Korea.\nDescription: SCP-5345 is an uninhabited island located in the Yellow Sea at 35\u00b0\u2588\u2588'\u2588\u2588.\u2588\"N, 125\u00b0\u2588\u2588'\u2588\u2588.\u2588\"E. The island contains several heavily damaged structures, believed to have been office blocks and warehouses. Numerous abnormal rock salt formations have been observed to protrude from the floors and walls inside and around these structures. It is noted that a significant amount resemble human beings.\nThus far, 2 identical sets of thaumaturgic sigils of different sizes have been discovered, one of which had a diameter of 10 meters, and was bleached into the floor of a warehouse from regular usage. The other is approximated to have been several hundred kilometers in diameter, with only a fraction of the set being visible via aerial surveys. No activity was recorded during observation of these sets.\nIdentified sigils bear marked similarities to those used in known ontokinetic manifestations, thaumaturgical rituals, and temporal alteration incantations for or related to divinity, teleportation, and seances. It is believed they served as ascendance rituals to access afterlife locations, allowing for the transportation of matter and entities. Very few documents have been found that describe the exact methods and resources required to conduct such rituals, and thus they have not been attempted.\nGeographical surveys indicate the island did not form by natural means, which has been corroborated by evidence of several major thaumaturgic events detected during psychometric analysis. It is currently understood that SCP-5345 was an inland region within a larger landmass that was displaced from consensus reality via thaumaturgic means. It is expected that SCP-5345 will fully collapse into the Yellow Sea within the next 80 years due to a combination of wave erosion and tectonic shifts.\nDiscovery: SCP-5345 was discovered on 21/08/1987, following the detection of a spike in several energy signatures, including electromagnetic, Humic waves, Akiva radiation, and Elan-Vital Energy, from its current location during routine surveillance from several Foundation satellites. Obfuscation protocols were successfully enacted to obscure SCP-5345's existence from surveillance satellite-capable states. Foundation naval and aerial assets were dispatched to investigate the island and evaluate any potential threats, but found nothing of immediate concern. Expeditions into SCP-5345 were approved shortly afterwards.\nAddendum 5345.01:\nTo date, numerous expeditions into SCP-5345 and its structures have been conducted. Identical insignia found on walls across several structures point towards SCP-5345 being the former site of a complex for an organization. Intact documents and audio recordings from interviews and surveillance recorders have been found in intact filing cabinets and safes. All recovered documents did not use the Hangul script, but instead used a modified version of the \u02bcPhags-pa script.1 Translated excerpts have been attached below.\n\n   \u25b7 Access Recovered Media 5345-A\n\n   \u25bd Access Recovered Media 5345-A\n\n[\u2026] determined geopositioning sigils within concentric manifolds, circling an area large enough to cover the Motherland. It must be stressed once more that any individuals outside [\u2026]\n[WATER DAMAGE]\n[\u2026] kilometers of the activation site will not be transported during the process. It is expected that the displacement will be self-correcting, most likely resulting in the integration of the landmass into the underwater continental shelf, widening the Yellow Sea.\nThe Ritual Committee predicts minimal backlash, and we can expect temporal alterations in basal reality on the order of a few weeks per ton per displacement event. Local SRAs (Scranton Reality Anchors) are currently in use to prevent the Project from erasing itself whenever displacement events occur, currently limited to a 1 kilometer radius. No backlash is expected to occur in this region, and is standard Project Regno protocol. Such contingencies [\u2026]\n[WATER DAMAGE]\n[\u2026] not repeat the same mistake the Saudis did.2 Maintenance of SRA synchronicity is of utmost importance, secondary only to development of the displacement processes.\nDue to factors beyond our control, the bulk of the backlash will be directed eastwards, in the general direction of the Daehan Empire.3 We'll leave it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to figure that one out until we manage to completely displace the nation, after which their problems will be their own. Furthermore [\u2026]\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nHAE: You would not believe how many times it comes up. It's ridiculous, almost every drone we send over returns corrupted data.\nKANG: Oh, I would know. We have to document and organize all that noise. If only I were in the Testing Committee, I would've\u2014\nHAE: Here we go again.\nKANG: Hey, I have the right to complain about my disposition, alright? Just when I thought I'd finally get assigned to a Committee that actually works on something, I get hit with yet another Records assignment. My PhD in thaumaturgy might as well be wastepaper at this point.\nRYEO: I don't know, Narae. I'd count myself lucky to even be on the project.\nKANG: [Scoffs.] Says Mr. Poster-Boy-of-the-Ritual-Committee.\n[Hae is heard chuckling.]\nRYEO: Oh, shut up. For all you know, you're on some assignment blacklist after that sea serpent incident.\nKANG: It's just \u2014 If this project turns out to be the gateway to enlightenment like they keep telling us, then we have to make sure it's done right. I know I could contribute to that if only I was put in charge of something tangible.\nHAE: Documents and tapes are tangible, no?\nKANG: One of these days I'm going to receive a disciplinary for throwing a colleague out of a window.\nHAE: In all seriousness though, I've been told the issue is under the jurisdiction of the Ritual Committee, not Testing. Got anything, Ji-Hyun?\nRYEO: It's nothing serious. Geopositioning the ritual can be a hit or miss.\nKANG: So you're saying they keep missing, and that's why we haven't landed in a proper Otherworld yet?\nRYEO: Well uh, we haven't gotten the right sigils down but that's by no fault of our own. We're in the process of amending some parameters though, so we might be seeing something soon.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nPROJECT REGNO\nTRANSMISSION PRINTOUT ID 003528 (14/03/1985-21/03/1985)\n\nFellow members, it is with great joy that I bring this news to the table. We have successfully sent an unmanned drone into an Otherworld, and had it return with photographs and video footage. You should find them attached to this transmission after the bleep.\nThere is no greater beauty in this world than the one we share with our ancestors. God(s) speed us all.\n\nREGNO-BGS-DAK, \"Big Sky\"\n\nVideo Log\nDrone ID ABX-002 \u2014 Timestamp 19:32:27 08/12/85\n\n[00:00:00]: Drone completes systems check, audio and video feed come online.\n[00:00:01]: Only the soft whirring of the drone's wheels are heard. Camera currently oriented towards the sky, returning footage of black clouds superimposed over a deep red sky. The area is well-lit despite the absence of a visible sun.\n[00:00:05]: Drone reorients itself, returning footage of a long marble brick bridge suspended over an abyss. The bottom, if there is any, is obscured by thick fog. Attempts at navigation sideways along the bridge are followed by the entire structure shifting along with the drone.\n[00:00:13]: Drone is moved forwards. Bridge is noted to be empty.\n[00:00:58]: Signs of damage are noted on the bridge, ranging from scratch marks to large crevices. Burn marks are also recorded. Several structures are visible in the distance. Drone proceeds forwards.\n[00:02:24]: Structures are revealed to be 3 tall columns of indeterminate composition protruding out of the fog below. Drone does not possess adequate equipment nor reach to identify the column materials, but it is inferred from visual analysis that they are made of salt.\n[00:03:46]: Drone stops. It is unable to proceed further due to a large section of the bridge ahead being missing. In the absence of the drone's whirring, a very soft low humming sound can be heard.\n[00:03:49]: Drone reactivates to begin return process. Humming sound increases in volume. Audio and video quality begin to noticeably decline.\n[00:03:52]: Humming sound is now louder than the drone. Audio feed is interspersed by static, however it can be distinguished that the source of the humming is approaching from behind the drone.\n[00:03:54]: Audio and video feeds degrade beyond the point of practicality.\n[00:03:55]: Connection lost.\n\nPost-Exploration Review: Drone ABX-002 successfully returned, albeit heavily damaged. Recovered footage presents only successful instance of Otherworld exploration. Nature of damage to be ascertained, hostile Otherworld actors suspected. Research Committee currently working on improved drone design and peripherals.\nRitual Committee presently posits explored Otherworld to be the Cinvat\u00f4 Peret\u00fbm4, accessed by unintentional tunneling.\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nHAE: I'd say it was a pyrrhic success. Shame about the drone, though.\nKANG: Imagine being sentimental for a drone with a camera that could only face forward.\nHAE: [Scoffs.] You know full well I advocated for the completion of the 360-degree camera before we proceeded with that test. Wonder what we could've saw coming up behind the drone.\nRYEO: Yeah, about that, the guys at Rituals aren't too sure about what that was exactly. Right now the consensus is that we sent the drone to Chinvat5 or an analogue, only problem is that neither should be having red skies nor damaged bridges. In fact, there should've been plenty of souls and at least 2 guardians there on the bridge, so whatever that was was probably not native to\u2014\nKANG: Be that as it may, this is a crucial moment for the Motherland, and Chinvat isn't even our objective so there's no use ruminating on it. Blacklist those sigils and move on already.\nRYEO: Still, I think it's in our best interests to understand what exactly went on in there. Anyway, Lee managed to plot out some sigils to an otherworld within local cosmology. They'll be formally submitted soon.\nKANG: Things are finally in motion again! Say, Ji-Hyun, you think I can get a look at those sigils later?\nHAE: I will never understand you thaumaturge nerds.\nKANG: And yet you still have lunch with us.\nHAE: Touch\u00e9.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nFrom the Vatican, 4 September 1985\n\nDear King Steffen IV of Anglesey-Vestland,\n\nHis Holiness Ioannes Paulus I6 has re-evaluated the involvement of the Holy See in Project Regno. He appreciates the compassion had between faiths to bring about the existence of an endeavor such as Project Regno, but it is the current decision of His Holiness, and by extension the Holy See, to respectfully decline this invitation. His Holiness is of the understanding that such measures of entering Heaven pre-mortem are in opposition to the will of God, as is the Holy See of His papacy. Nonetheless, He is thankful that the Vatican was given such an opportunity.\nAssuring that the supplied equipment and machinery are safely returned, and of a remembrance in His Holiness's prayers, I am\n\nYours sincerely in Christ,\nMonsignor G. Giovanna\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nKANG: This is Dr. Kang, Records Committee, taking a statement from pilot subject Dr. Shin. Please state what you saw upon displacement.\nSHIN: As you know, during the displacement event there was a bright flash of light from the activation site. Once I had recovered from the flash and subsequent disorientation, I found myself floating\u2014 no, more like standing on air, if that makes sense, over a lake valley populated by lotus flowers. It was oppressively calm. I could not find any strength in my legs to move about. I could only sit down and observe. I saw clouds nestled between green valleys and mountains, some of which were not connected to the ground at all. Twin suns straddled the horizon on the eastern and western horizons.\nKANG: One of the Pure Lands7?\nSHIN: It must be. After some time, the suns fell below the horizon. I saw lights in the distance. Cities, perhaps. There were twin moons as well, rising from the north and south.\nKANG: You've reported discrepancies between the interval of displacement and your perception of the flow of time in the otherworld. Please reiterate your statements for the record.\nSHIN: I understand the displacement interval was set by the Testing Committee to be 10 minutes. In the otherworld, I counted approximately 200 days to pass before I returned.\nKANG: Did you experience any sensations of hunger or thirst, or any overarching emotions during your time in the otherworld?\nSHIN: No. In hindsight, I'd describe the entire trip as 'boring', if not peaceful.\nKANG: I've one more question before I can let you go. Did you encounter any inhabitants?\nSHIN: No.\nKANG: Thank you for your time and co-operation.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n* NOTICE TO PROJECT REGNO GROUPS\n\nWe will be moving the deadline forward to 1st October 1987 in light of recent breakthroughs and developments. Please make any necessary preparations in advance. No exceptions will be made for personnel who do not finish unsettled business within the allocated timeframe.\nREMINDER: Remember to register your participation with your respective committees before 1st January 1987.\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nKANG: It fits the general description, no hunger, no thirst, no aging, but we still have one problem: he didn't see anyone. This shouldn't be the case. How many times has that happened throughout the project?\nRYEO: 3 times, all occurring under West Korean supervision. We've never seen anyone in the otherworlds. This might just be something unique to Pure Lands and Asia in general. I'm sure if we get the Etrurians to do it here, they'd get the same results.\nKANG: It doesn't match up to the scriptures. I'm not expecting direct displacement into the courts of Shambhala, but still. Where are all the bodhisattvas? They couldn't have just upped and left, could they? And what about those lights they keep seeing? How the hell do we explain that? [Sighs.] We're going to be laughing stocks at the next conference.\nRYEO: Ah cheer up. Not every otherworld's got time dilation.\nKANG: Sure, and then what of mobility? Are we going to keep finding otherworlds where we can't even move? The Remenkhemi have already made contact with the inhabitants of their Aatu and mapped out the most of their otherworld as compared to the rest of us. Why must this be so hard?\nRYEO: Objectively, we've already achieved something great by sending Shin to a Pure Land and not one of the potential Hells. I'd suggest taking a day off from work, all this stress can't be good for you.\nKANG: I appreciate your concern, but we have a duty to the Motherland, and I will not achieve that by lying around in complacency. I'll see you in the next general committee meeting.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nKANG: \u2014 we have proper protocols in place for this! Thaumaturgy is nothing more than arcane physics and mathematics, if we want to add all this equipment and machinery we must be informed of the specifics to account for them! You can't just waltz in here with god-knows-what under a tarp and expect us t-\nAU: I don't think you understand the situation here. We have followed proper protocol and the machinery have already been accounted for in the displacement process. We're simply accelerating the process. I'd advise you stop making such a ruckus about it front of the entire work floor.\nKANG: Accelerating the\u2014 How is this acceleration? I checked the damn manifolds myself, I know for a fact you're swapping out equipment necessary for smoother displacement! I have the equipment manifest right here, it says you've replaced the Diderot HPS with\u2026 this is a drill rig, why do you need a-\nAU: Give me that!\n[Audible sounds of struggling.]\nKANG: Is that what this is? A mining operation piggybacking off the greatest endeavor in the nation's history?\n[Brief silence.]\nAU: What are you all looking at? Get back to work! As for you, Dr. Kang, you'll be lucky if you get to do the same.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\n[Audio of conversation gradually becomes louder. The operation of a coffee machine can be heard in the background.]\nHAE: The whole thing's got at least 3 entire Committees in a frenzy, did you know that?\nRYEO: Gag order will probably come in soon. Would not be the first time this has happened, but all great projects have their obstacles, I guess.\nHAE: It is quite strange, if you think about it. How Shin went in sane and came out\u2026 like that. These things don't just happen to seasoned explorers just from adjusting the ritual by a few degrees.\nRYEO: These are uncharted waters, after all. His premature retirement will be a great loss to the project and the Motherland.\nHAE: I was there during his mental break, you know. The man was delirious. You couldn't ignore his ramblings even if you tried.\nRYEO: Oh really? What did he say?\n[Audible slurping of liquid, presumably coffee.]\nHAE: That the lights we keep seeing aren't cities. They're fires.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nAddendum 5345.02:\nAs of the most recent expedition into SCP-5345, the epicenter of a previously undocumented thaumaturgic sigil was discovered in a warehouse, identical to the other sets but centered around metallic debris.8 A thaumaturgically reinforced safe and two rock salt formations were found next to the sigils. The safe was recovered and sent to Site-52 for inspection and subsequent storage. Several documents and cassettes were found in the safe after Foundation personnel managed to unseal it.\n\n   \u25b7 Access Recovered Media 5345-B\n\n   \u25bd Access Recovered Media 5345-B\n\nNote: Alterations to documents in handwritten form are denoted in red text.\n\nDr. Kang Narae,\nWe understand your concerns regarding the feasibility of a smooth and complete displacement of our nation into the selected Otherworld. However, your recent actions, especially your dispute with Manager Au Min-Ho from the Committee of Investments, are detrimental to the morale of the Project Regno Committees. As you know, the deadline for complete displacement is fast approaching, and we cannot afford any further delays, and as such you have been reassigned to a separate Project for greater efficiency.\nKindly report to the Committee of Thaumaturgy, Subcommittee of Process Maintenance on Monday.\n\u2014 Director Ma Bon-Hwa, Overseer Committee\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\n[The sound of a door closing is heard.]\nKANG: Ah, there you are, Ji-Hyun.\nRYEO: Wait, why are you packin\u2014\nKANG: I've been reassigned.\n[Silence for a few seconds.]\nRYEO: Should I be celebrating or..?\nKANG: What? No, I've been kicked to another project entirely. Look Ji-Hyun, listen carefully. The Overseers are fucking it all up. The chaebols have their hands everywhere. This entire project is being run with corporate funds.\nRYEO: Hey, if this is about the drill thing, they're only taking geological samples for lab analysis.\nKANG: That's not even the half of it. You are familiar with the stories of Jeongtu, yes?\nRYEO: Sure, my mother used to\u2014\nKANG: There it is. There used to be a lot more to those stories, things only your grandparents could tell you. Whatever your mother told you was probably some spiel approved by the government. I still remember the ones my grandmother told me, and alongside the warm fuzzy tales of reuniting with loved ones and attaining enlightenment and inner peace, that the mountains of Jeongtu were rich in metals and gems. That's what they're after.\nRYEO: Narae, what are you talking about?\nKANG: Project Regno, and by extension the noble goals of the Motherland, have fallen into the hands of our private sector financiers. In the pursuit of enlightenment, we are prostrating ourselves to greed and vice.\n[Silence for a few seconds.]\nRYEO: I'm sorry, I\u2014\nKANG: Please, Ji-Hyun. At the very least, look into the equipment manifests and any material exchanges with the Committee of Investments. They literally gave away a reality anchor last week. I'd show you but they've already revoked my access this morning.\nRYEO: [Sighs.] Alright, fine. Try not to get yourself fired for good in the other site, you hear me?\nKANG: Thank you, Ji-Hyun.\n[A door is heard opening and closing.]\n[Shuffling noises are heard.]\nKANG: There you are, you little\u2014\n\n\u00abAUDIO DISCONNECTED\u00bb\n\nPROJECT REGNO BRIEF\nApproved for distribution by the Committee of Information (04/08/1987)\n\nOVERVIEW\nThe study of Otherworlds was first pioneered by the occultist Giordano Bruno in the 16th century, whose views would be misinterpreted as belief in extraterrestrial worlds for the next 300 years. Fortunately, his works have not been lost to the annals of history. New advances in thaumaturgy have allowed for the confirmation of his texts on Otherworlds, primarily the De Umbris Mundos, a primitive but foundational interpretation from a modern viewpoint. Now, it is not only possible to study these Otherworlds, which so vary by geography and culture, but to cross over into them as Man has set foot on the Moon.\nGOALS\n\nDerive a defined and sustainable thaumaturgical process to breach the primum claustra.9 Done\nEstablish a safe process for the displacement of survey and exploratory drones into Otherworlds. Done\nEstablish a safe process for the displacement of individuals into Otherworlds. Done\nEstablish Otherworld communications system (Bifr\u00f6st). Done\nEstablish plausible obfuscation protocol for uninvolved states. Done\nEstablish a safe process for the displacement of a defined area into Otherworlds. Done\nAchieve state transcendence/enlightenment/apotheosis for all project members. Not yet done\n\nAFFILIATE MANIFEST10\n\nUnited Kingdom of Anglesey-Vesthaven Departed\nOrder of Aztl\u00e1n Departed\nRepublic of Basotoland Departed\nBod Departed\nFree Republic of Dakotah Departed\nKingdom of Etruria Departed\nFederation of Hiva Departed\nKingdom of the Remenkhemi Departed\nKingdom of Saudi Arabia Withdrew\nRepublic of West Korea\nVatican City State Withdrew\n\nI did some digging as you asked. You should find the entire revised equipment manifest in this folder. They've added another 7 tons of industrial equipment to the list. I'll admit it, you were right.\nWe're the only ones who haven't departed, at least not completely. Not even the other project members have any intention of tethering themselves to the mundane world, and yet we're out here receiving shipments of gold and rare earth metals that will leave the country into the hands of corporations that aren't even coming along. Who knew the greatest motivation to violate the laws of thermodynamics would be the free market?\nI'm scheduled to be displaced next week, so this will probably be the last message you get from me for a while. Guess I'll see you on the other side, Narae.\n\u2014 Dr. Ryeo Ji-Hyun\n\nBifr\u00f6st Communications System\nTranscript Printout ID 005691 (13/08/1987-20/08/1987)\n\nREGNO-HWK-HVA: Hawaiki commsys reporting. Requesting confirmation of anomalous activity at other REGNO sites. Red sky phenomena recorded. Repeat, red sky phenomena recorded. Over.\nREGNO-BGS-DAK: Big Sky commsys reporting. Confirming similar anomalous activity at Big Sky REGNO Site. Please advise. Over.\nREGNO-FDG-KAV: Fiddler's Green commsys [\u2026]ting. Comm[\u2026] interference by [\u2026] unverified [\u2026] advise. Over.\nREGNO-SAR-RMK: Sekhet-Aaru commsys reporting. Requesting status from FDG. Over.\nREGNO-FDG-KAV: Not local inhabit[\u2026] phenomena. Repeat, not loc[\u2026]bitants nor phenomena. Anom[\u2026] [RADIO SILENCE]\nREGNO-TLC-AZT: Tl\u0101l\u014dc\u0101n commsys reporting. [THUNDER HEARD] No anomalous activity recorded. Repeat, no [THUNDER HEARD] negative, anomalous activity recorded. Over.\nREGNO-SAR-RMK: Requesting elaboration, AZT. Over.\nREGNO-TLC-AZT: Raining [THUNDER HEARD]od. Repeat, raining blood. Oh for fu[LOUD THUD HEARD] Divine inhabitant incapacitated, repeat, divine inhabitant incapacit[\u2026] [RADIO SILENCE]\nREGNO-SBL-BOD: Shambhala commsys reporting. Requesting update on anomalous activity from any REGNO sites. Over.\nREGNO-APD-ETR: Asphodel commsys reporting. Red sky phenomena recorded. Repeat, red sky phenomena recorded. Over.\nREGNO-MOS-BST: Mosima commsys reporting. Red sky phenomena recorded. Repe[\u2026]ed sky phenomena recor[\u2026]ver.\nREGNO-BGS-DAK: Anomalous activity record[\u2026]peat, anomalous activity recorded. Local and displaced inhabitants affected. Please [\u2026]vise. Over.\nREGNO-SAR-RMK: Requesting elaboration, BGS. Over.\nREGNO-BGS-DAK: [\u2026]bitants covered in black [\u2026] unverified, thaumat[\u2026]ontingencies ineffective, eigenwe[\u2026] ineffective. Give [\u2026] hell. Ov[\u2026] [RADIO SILENCE]\n\nBifr\u00f6st Communications System\nTranscript Printout ID 005692 (20/08/1987-27/08/1987)\n\nREGNO-JGT-WKO: Jeongtu commsys reporting. Apologies for the delay. Over.\nREGNO-JGT-WKO: Repeat, Jeongtu commsys reporting. Please respond. Over.\nREGNO-JGT-WKO: Is anyone receiving. Over.\nREGNO-JGT-WKO: Hel[\u2026] contact REG[\u2026] affected. Ple[\u2026] [RADIO SILENCE]\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nRYEO: \u2014 sure this will work? It took almost a month to displace all of us here and you're trying to send us back by piggybacking off the anchor? Is that even possib\u2014\nKANG: Ji-Hyun, kindly shut up and pass me that recorder.\n[Shuffling noises are heard.]\nKANG: I am Dr. Kang Narae of the Ministry of Abnormal Affairs under the Republic of West Korea, and this is Dr. Ryeo Ji-Hyun. He's putting everything he can get his hands on into this safe which we're sending back to the\u2026 regular world? Along with this facility. I am recording this while completing the sigils to do so.\n[Gunfire can be heard in the distance.]\nKANG: We're part of Project Regno, the documents in the safe should explain what it is. We got here late, and we don't know what happened to the others. Our site is currently under attack from uh\u2026 multiple hostile entities, and in terms of appearance\u2026 off-color flames? Look, I don't even have the slightest idea what they are because we all get nauseous just from looking at them. Definitely not something native to Earth nor the otherworlds so\u2014\n[Audible screams and louder gunfire in the background. Audio quality decreases.]\nRYEO: It's here, hurry up!\nKANG: Do not follow us. Heaven has been compromised. I repeat, heaven has been [DATA CORRUPTED]\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nAddendum 5345.03: As of 26/07/2027, the area surrounding SCP-5345 has been noted to experience an increase in radio miscommunications due to interference from an unverified source. Reclassification of SCP-5345 from Neutralized to an active anomaly currently pending review.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An alphabet developed by and for use within the Yuan Dynasty, falling out of use by the 14th century.\n2. Believed to refer to the 1980 Rub' al Khali Incident, which saw the loss of several Foundation and GOC personnel.\n3. Believed to be a non-existent political entity on the Korean Peninsula.\n4. Bridge connecting the living world to the afterlife in Zoroastrian cosmology.\n5. Colloquial term for the Cinvat\u00f4 Peret\u00fbm.\n6. Document is believed to be anachronistic, as Pope John Paul I died in 1978.\n7. A type of celestial realm prevalent in Mahayana Buddhism.\n8. Analysis of the debris has revealed similarities to a regular Scranton Reality Anchor, however a significant portion of components remain unidentified.\n9. Interpreted as the barrier between realms in Franciscan hermeticism.\n10. With the exception of Saudi Arabia and the Vatican City, none of these political entities have ever been recorded to exist during the 1980s, if at all.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5344 | SCP-5345 | SCP-5346 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A Manifestation of SCP-5347-1 off the coast of Carpenteria, California (Right).\n\nItem #: SCP-5347\nObject Class: G\u00f6del-Euclid G\u00f6del-Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5347-1 is currently uncontainable by Foundation efforts due to the failsafes of those who did not flee to the arboraceous nomenclative hazard, though it is largely contained by the effects of SCP-5347-2. Photographic and visual evidence of SCP-5347-1 has been discredited due to its resemblence to a Fata Morgana1, and entry to SCP-5347-1 has been deemed impossible by any means outside of SCP-5347-2.\nSCP-5347-2 is known only to occult groups and thus requires no special containment procedures. The proliferation of an unrelated non-anomalous meme has made a part of SCP-5347-2's procedure a common phrase in certain communities, and as such has led to an exponential increase in victims of SCP-5347-2 since May 2020. New information regarding the procedures of SCP-5347-2 should be reported to the SCP-5347 Research Head.\nDescription: SCP-5347-1 is a partially-submerged island off the coast of Hy-Brasil. Due to the transitive nature of Hy-Brasil itself, SCP-5347-1 has appeared at multiple locations, usually appearing approximately 3 nautical miles off the coast of a calm and temperate beach. Attempts to approach SCP-5347-1 by any form of non-anomalous travel has been deemed impossible, as despite attempting to approach SCP-5347-1, any vehicles or persons appear to move in place approximately 1 mile from SCP-5347-1. SCP-5347-1 will maintain its position for exactly 3, 5, 13, or 17 days before disappearing under heavy fog.\nSCP-5347-1 uniformly manifests with identical topology and size. Slight shifts, such as felled trees, fishing nets, and small signal or cooking fires indicate individuals sent to SCP-5347-1 remain active between manifestations. Sub-surface imaging has revealed large cocoon-like pods attached to the island's coast.\nSCP-5347-2 is a series of thaumic rituals and triggers which, when enacted properly, teleport an individual to SCP-5347-1. The current specifics of SCP-5347-2 are unknown, though certain aspects and phrases have been identified in Document Hayforth-ESHU.\nFindings of Document Hayforth-ESHU was a book obtained from college student and amateur occultist Vanessa Hayforth following her 1966 entry to the Pseudonymous Timberland. It described several occult rituals, including some mentions of SCP-5347-2. Much of the document's mentions were unclear, but the following mentions could be gleaned:\n\nThe subject sent to SCP-5347-1 must be painted with ceremonial tattoos and markings. This is believed to be a purely ceremonial aspect of the ritual, as no victims of SCP-5347-2 have been known to have been painted with such markings.\nThe subject sent to SCP-5347-1 must be of fae bloodlines, or have had their ancestors sworn to a fae blood pact - due to the proliferation of fae geneology during the first occult war, approximately 70% of humans alive today are believed to have trace amounts of fae blood.\nThe subject sent to SCP-5347-1 must be within \"three times five times 13 times 17 Deisc\u00e9im\"2 of the current manifestation of SCP-5347-1.\nThe subject sent to SCP-5347-1 must be told the exact phrase \"You are going to Hy-Brasil\"\n\n+ Addendum 1\n\n- Hide\n\nAn example of a typical SCP-5347-2 triggering image.\n\nAddendum 1: In early 2020, a non-anomalous image macro was proliferated around the internet with unfortunate similarity to the specific trigger phrase of SCP-5347-2. Due to this, an on-going coverup campaign is in progress.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A type of mirage where an island or ship appears to float above the horizon\n2. a classical Celtic unit of measurement, equal to 1.5 meters. 3315 Deisc\u00e9im is equal to approximately 5 kilometers.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5346 | SCP-5347 | SCP-5348 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An instance of SCP-5348 ordered at Ambrose SanFran\n\nItem #: SCP-5348\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Any instances of SCP-5348 obtained are to be sufficiently diluted and disposed of under non-anomalous refuse or composting procedures. Undercover agents may dispose of SCP-5348 instances via consumption or other non-standard forms at their own discretion.\nAny documentation regarding SCP-5348 outside of Foundation custody are to be destroyed or confiscated. A copy of the recipe for SCP-5348, as written in Ambrosia,1 is currently stored as Document 5348.2 at the Site-15 non-anomalous Document Storage Wing.\nDescription: SCP-5348 is a soup entr\u00e9e produced by Ambrose Restaurants, listed on the menu as \"Mama Ambrose's Creamy Mushroom Bisque\". Appearing similar to a traditional cream of mushroom soup, SCP-5348 consists primarily of goat cream and grated chanterelle mushrooms.\nWhen consumed, SCP-5348 causes feelings of warmth, relaxation, and other sensations generally considered \"comforting\". The amount eaten to trigger this effect varies for each individual, though it has been shown to be around one half of the serving size described in Ambrosia (1\u00b1.23 liters)\nWhen measured with a handheld EMF meter, SCP-5348 releases a constant wave of 11.9 mG, though no further magnetic effects have been found.\nAddendum 1:\nThe following letters were discovered in a drawer in a raided Ambrose Restaurants location.\n\nDear Charlie,\nI know you're doing your own thing with the magic stuff, and I know I haven't exactly been supportive, and I'm sorry. You have every right to be mad at me, but please\u2026 come visit Mom when you get a chance. She's not doing well, and I don't know how much longer she has. I'm sure you're busy, but this could be the last time, and\nI don't know. Please just come home.\nYour bro,\nMatthew\n\nCharlie,\nMom says thanks for the casserole you sent. It smelled beyond horrible, but I think she was happy enough to hear from you that she ate it anyway. I don't know if it was because it was magic or just awful, but it stunk up the whole damn hospice, and the nurses still give me dirty looks. She seemed to perk up a bit, I guess.\nLook, man: She appreciated it, but just show up. Half an hour, that's all it'll take to make her day, okay?\nMatthew.\n\nChaz,\nI know what you're doing. Every time you send food it has that same awful smell. I had the staff sanitize the whole room, but it still stinks like the shit you shake out of a lawnmower bag.\nEvery time you send another tin of cookies or fruit medley or whatever the fuck it is you're feeding her, she gets a little better for a while. A little stronger.\nAnd then she gets worse. Whatever you're giving her isn't working, Chaz. Stop with the goddamn enchanted chicken nuggets and visit your goddamn mother while you still can.\n\u2013Matt\n\nShe died last night. She kept asking where you were.\nI hope you're happy, you piece of shit.\n\u2013Matt\n\nOn top of these letters was an unaddressed envelope, attached below.\n\nMattie,\nShe would have wanted it this way.\n\u2013Chaz\n\nA copy of Document 2 was attached.\nDocument 2: Excerpt from Ambrosia\n\nEquipment:\n\nLarge stock pot\nEVE Siphon2\nStand mixer\n\nIngredients:\n\n2 quarts chicken broth (Recipe on pg. 37)\n1 pound chanterelle mushrooms, roughly chopped\n1 large shallot\n300 grams goat butter, chilled\n6 tablespoons all-purpose flour\n15 Kj of Elan-Vital energy from the specter of Michelle Ambrose\n\nAny benevolent spirit works, though they must have been properly marinated with Ambrose Restaurants Soul Bouillion\u00ae\n\nA Note From Chaz:\nMy love of cooking started at a young age, and my mother is to thank for that. While my father was often\u2026\"indisposed\", my mother spent hours sitting with my brother and me, cooking delicious meals and laughing until our bellies hurt. I truly believe her greatest joy was in feeding others, and with her passing, I wanted to keep that dream going. So I sincerely hope all of you will enjoy Mama Ambrose's Creamy Mushroom Bisque\u2013 it's a true family recipe.\nHere at Ambrose Restaurants, we know nothing hits the spot like some good hearty soul food.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A cookbook released by GoI-116, Ambrose Restaurants\n2. Commercial name for the Marshall Carter and Dark brand \"R\u03a9 Elan Transposer\", a paratechnological appliance which absorbs energy from spirits, distilling into a pure EVE liquid.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5347 | SCP-5348 | SCP-5349 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item Number: 5349\nObject Class: Safe-Eparch\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5349 is to be kept in the non-hazardous section of the Site 96 Anomalous Literature Wing. Researchers seeking copies of the document should contact STF \u03bc-12 \u201cBook Club with the Gals\u201d for approval.\nThree members of the Tactical Theology Department stationed as members of the Northern Ireland Environmental Agency have remained on-site at Grey Abbey, the discovery site of SCP-5349, to apprehend any future anomalous activity.\nDescription: SCP-5349 is a copy of the Latin Vulgate Bible, showing visual and formatting similarities to the 1454 Mazarin Bible printed by Johannes Gutenberg. The pages, though visually similar to vellum and paper, are genetically and texturally identical to the elytra and wing film of keratinous insects. DNA analysis suggests a genetic match to the extinct Cicadetta luculenta. SCP-5349's exterior, printing method, estimated age, and written layout seem to be identical to other copies of the Gutenberg bible.\nSCP-5349's exterior and formatting appear largely identical to non-anomalous copies of the Gutenberg Bible, with two deviations:\n\nSCP-5349 has 42 lines per page on every page, whereas original copies begin with larger type-face 40 line pages before switching to 42 lines.\nSCP-5349's flourishes and visual christian iconography have been amended to include cicadas, especially in depictions of Jesus Christ.\n\nIn addition, SCP-5349's writings deviate strongly from the original writings of traditional Gutenberg Bibles. Many instances of symbolism and proverbs appear to be taken literally, and many instances of merciful acts or forgiveness have been changed or removed.\nNoticeably, SCP-5349 contains two additional biblical books, titled \u201cThe Book of Luculentus\u201d and \u201cThe Gospel of Johnny\u201d.\nExcerpts from SCP-5349:\u2028\u2028\n\nWhen they came to the place where God told them to go, Abraham built an altar. He carefully laid the wood on the altar. Then he tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Then Abraham reached for his knife to kill his son. But the angel of the Lord stopped him. The angel let loose its holy buzzing, and Abraham began convulsing with devotion to his God. He stood aside as the angel descended, and watched as the vigil of God reduced Isaac to bones, rending flesh and carrying his soul to heaven.\n\nNow on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, \u201cJesus, Master, have pity on us!\u201d When he saw them, he reached out a hand and healed their suffering. The men shed their bittered husks, emerging from their larval shells as angels. The messiah heard their buzzing, and in his kindness bequeathed to them his sacrament.\n\nResearcher's Note:\n\nBannock,\nFor a long time we thought 3004, Cousin Johnny, it was some fluke, some bastardization by a confused bug diety. Some bug-eyed minor god got it in its head that it was God, capital-G God, and started doing some weird Jesus stuff. After finding this\u2026 I'm not so sure.\nSee, I don't think 3004 is confused. I think it's\u2026 it's coming from somewhere else. Looking at the Akiva around where we found 5349, it's not a normal distribution like you'd expect. It's more like a puncture wound. Immense force with a sharp point just punching a hole in our world. And if that hole is big enough to fit a bible, a messiah, a god- we need to plug it up fast.\nI'm officially requesting assistance from the MDV-HIVE initiative. I know when we're in over our head, and us analysts at 96 don't have the skills (or funding!) of your Tact-Theo boys down at 27. Look, Bannock\u2026 I don't know if I can help all that much, but I have a grudge with these cicada fucks. They got Ozid a couple years ago, and he's not in a good way. If there's anything I can do to help, give the word- nothing squashes bugs like a rolled up magazine.\nIncidentally, 3004-2 sightings have been popping up more and more recently. They're technically made of wood, I guess, so the pesticides have been proven ineffective. Maybe something that can eat em up? You're the expert, but just thinking out loud.\n- Elijah Razim\n\n\u00ab SCP-5348 | SCP-5349 | SCP-5350 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5350\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: An international ad campaign is to be launched advocating for the consumption of plant-based products, and to eschew eating meats. Vaccinations in the forms of thaumaturgically-enhanced flu vaccines and memetic agents reducing the urge to eat meat are to be distributed among the global populace. Those infected with SCP-5350 are to be placed into permanent quarantine, until the subject has expired or recovered.\nMTF Beta-7 \"Maz-Hatters\" is responsible for clean up and disposal of animals infected with SCP-5350. Infected animals are to be neutralized and remains cremated. Gen+ and Gen++ technology is to be used to systematically destroy and recreate portions of the biosphere, slightly editing the genome of recreated species to be immune to SCP-5350. A sample of SCP-5350 is to be retained in Site-14, a dedicated anomalous diseases research facility.\n\nInformational pamphlet that was widely distributed by the WPO and the CADC (Center for Anomalous Disease Control). Expand image.\n\nDescription: SCP-5350 is a thaumaturgically altered pathogen derived from the influenza virus, that spontaneously grows into a fully functional eye (SCP-5350-A) on contact with mammal tissue. These eyes are often nonhuman in physical appearance, and can exhibit conflicting biology with its host. SCP-5350-A are filled with an aqueous solution containing more SCP-5350; the eyes easily burst, further propagating the spread of SCP-5350. As such, initial high-density infections on human bodies are in areas frequently subject to friction or prolonged contact with objects, such as the palms, back, groin, or soles of feet.\nSCP-5350 is weak to extreme temperatures, and can only last outside of a host for 30 minutes before expiring. Infection of SCP-5350 has been correlated to a high degree of certainty to a meat-based diet.\nDue to wide consumption of meat contaminated with SCP-5350 before the Foundation was fully aware of the anomaly, a significant portion of the population had been infected by the colloquial terms \"Oculus Flu,\" or \"Oculoma\". Symptoms may include: sore throat, ulcers, upset stomach, eye-filled diarrhea, little-to-no appetite, and difficulty breathing. There is no known cure for SCP-5350, only preventative measures. Treatments can neutralize the spread of a SCP-5350 infection in its early stages, but even as SCP-5350 ceases to be virulent, the eyes become coated with a hard, translucent chitin, remaining fully functional but rendering excision from the surrounding tissue next-to-impossible.\nThe majority of untreated patients die of asphyxiation due to buildup of SCP-5350-A within the lungs, and patients who are infected for more than six months invariably become covered in SCP-5350-A. People infected rarely survive longer than a year without treatment, and those who recover are subject to extreme emotional trauma due to body dysmorphia and discrimination. A joint action between the Foundation, World Parahealth Organization (WPO), Manna Charitable Foundation (MCF), and Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU) was organized to stop the spread of SCP-5350.\nAddendum 5350/1: Archived documentation of online civilian reaction to SCP-5350.\n\n+ Social Media Screenshots\n\n- Close\n\n- Close\n\nProject Scopophobia Recording:\n\n+ PROJECT SCOPOPHOBIA CREDENTIALS REQUIRED\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED\n\nSECURE DOCUMENT\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nSCP Foundation Representative - Eli Roth\nGOC/WPO Representative - Arpeggio\nMCF Representative - Meredith Medicae\nUIU/Free Port Representative - Seth Bradley\n\n<Begin Log>\nRoth: Alright, this is the first official meeting of the Task Force created to deal with SCP-5350, also known as \"Oculoma\". Can you all state your name for the official record. I, of course, am Eli Roth, head of the Department of Epidemiology of the SCP Foundation. Usually, I delegate jobs to one of my subordinates, but due to the scale and speed of Oculoma\u2026 [clears throat] I assumed control at my end.\nMedicae: Hello, I'm Meredith Medicae, I run the Disease and Disaster Relief branch of the Manna Charitable Foundation, ahem. It really is humbling to be surrounded by such powerful people, and I don't really know why I am here.\nRoth: You're here because you're needed. This is what you signed up for.\nMedicae: This is nothing like what I signed up for. The scale\u2026 it's way too big\u2026 [Medicae sinks into her chair and breathes heavily.]\nBradley: I am Seth Bradley, representative of both the UIU and the Free Ports. As I grew up in Portlands, I, along with my supervisors and the City Council, feel like I can handle my role better than anyone. The Free Ports have agreed to allocate all of their resources to our cause. They have been hit\u2026 especially hard.\nArpeggio: I am Agent Arpeggio, representative of the GOC, the World Parahealth Organization, and the UN Security Council.\nRoth: Now that we're all settled in, Arpeggio, can you give us a recap on the situation?\nArpeggio: Gladly. [Arpeggio stands and grabs a remote. He clicks and a projector turns on] As you can see here, the infection first started in the American Northwest, around Oregon. The source of the disease is presumed to be this meat packing plant [Arpeggio clicks to a slide with a picture of a pile of rubble], which was demolished by Foundation personnel. The infection was started, we think, by Emilia Roberts, a known anartist with a thing for animals.\nBradley: Kind've backfired on her, didn't it? I haven't seen a dog with only two eyes for months.\nArpeggio: After the Veil dropped, she hooked up with PETA, and other extremist organizations, teaching them thaumaturgy and other non-baseline abilities. History of multiple accounts of assault with a deadly weapon, slander, attempted murder, vandalism, and civilian-use of a military-grade anomaly. A piece of work, to put it lightly. The rest of her cult of personality was arrested after a pharmaceutical facility raid gone bad, but she escaped. We are still hunting for her.\nBradley: I would just like to say that all Free Ports have barred her and her friends from entering. The Chicago Spirit has set up a hefty bounty for her head, so even Eurtec isn't safe for her.\nRoth: Finally, some good news.\nArpeggio: The new plague travelled fast, hit Three Portlands, traveled through the Ways into the UK, where it quickly spread through Eurasia. Once it aerosolized\u2026 It was game over for the UK.\nRoth: [leans forward and put his head in his palms] God I miss the days when we could just hit the reset button on the entire world.\nMedicae: I've seen the documents. What you and your organization did was wrong and immoral, killing billions of people just to start over again? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Didn't you say you had an Ethics Committee to keep you in check?\nRoth: Hey, I wasn't the one pushing the reset button, and at least we're here to argue about it. And if the Foundation is so immoral, how come we didn't reset the world again when fucking 4chan leaked all of our documents?\nMedicae: Ha, nice slipup on your part.\nArpeggio: Ladies, ladies, calm down and take a Xanax. I know we are all high strung, but please pay attention to my presentation.\nMedicae: Fine, but don't expect me to get along with him [pointing towards Roth].\nArpeggio: Fine by me. If you'll please pay attention to my presentation, we have found three methods that might work against the virus. One, a large scale thaumaturgical working that would completely dispel SCP-5350 or render it inert-\nBradley: Which would create so much backlash the Earth would be cracked in half.\nArpeggio: -Two, create a memetic agent to make everyone vegetarian, thus immune to the infection-\nBradley: Which would completely ignore the widespread infection covering every lion, tiger, and bear in the world.\nArpeggio: -And three, scorched earth protocol. We herd the last remnants of humanity into bunkers, nuke the place, and start over from scratch.\n[Complete silence]\nRoth: Well that's a bit grim.\nBradley: And a bit overkill.\nMedicae: We obviously can't go with any of those options, right?\nBradley: Obviously.\nArpeggio: Are there any other options.\nMedicae: Not that, for sure.\nBradley: Well\u2026 why so large scale? If all the things we do on the macro hurt us, what about the micro?\nRoth: [nodding] Instead of one large ritual, it's thousands or millions of little tiny ones. That way, instead of relying on the power in the earth's mantle, you could just use the heat of the human body.\nMedicae: Ohhh, now I get it. It would be like the \"Thaumoshots,\" that we received a couple of years ago.\nArpeggio: \u2026Come again?\nMedicae: They were called Thaumoshots. The syringes were either iron or silver, and the vaccine was magically enhanced. They worked for everyone, even people who had the disease or were immunocompromised were fine after a couple weeks. We never knew who sent them, but would send an email requesting more, and the next day a box full of the thaumoshots showed up, no matter where we were deployed.\nRoth: [looking at Arpeggio] Could that work? Logistically, I mean.\nArpeggio: Theoretically, yeah. You have a ritual over a fifty-gallon tank of standard flu vaccines, rig it to activate once inside a human body, and get the body temperature to power the ritual? I don't see why not? The initial ritual would require about as much power that's found in a couple lithium-ion batteries, so it's financially feasible. But we can't just keep making this vaccine forever for the entirety of the human race.\nMedicae: So why not combine it with the memes? Vaccine everyone, and then meme 'em?\nRoth: Make everyone vegetarian, you mean?\nMedicae: Yeah, that.\nRoth: Of course, even curing everyone of the infection, we still would have to deal with every other creature scuttling around with thousands of eyes.\nArpeggio: I'm pretty sure the PTOLEMY division developed some top of the line cloning devices. If we mass-produced them, we could reconstruct the entirety of the biosphere in ten, fifteen years.\nRoth: Well, we got a lot done in 15 minutes. Let's take a coffee break, and come back to hash out the details. Let's provisionally call this\u2026 Project Scopophobia, why not.\nBradley: Sounds good to me.\nArpeggio: Sure.\nMedicae: I'm ok with it.\n<End Log>\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED\n\nAddendum 5350/2: Thanks to the efforts of the organizations involved with the effort, the spread of SCP-5350 was slowed drastically. From 2026-2030, the amount of infected individuals lowered from 1.3 billion to under 500 million. Projections estimate SCP-5350 will cease to be an epidemic in 2034. Complete eradication, however, is unfeasible at this time.\nRecovered Audio: Through tracing viral loads in monitored water systems and simulated epidemiological models, the WPO and CADC were able to narrow down the origin of the infection to meat packing plants within North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. After thorough examination of the plants, a large mass of tissue was discovered in the ventilation shaft of a plant owned by the T\u00f6nnies Group. This mass was composed of discarded bovine and porcine flesh, presumably scavenged from the facility, along with unidentifiable human tissue. The mass possessed several vents from which exuded 5350 particulate, ceasing upon discovery. As the mass was removed from the ventilation shaft, several mouths emerged from beneath flaps of skin, speaking in several languages.\n\nWho are we, to constantly commit genocide against our four-legged relatives?\nWho are we to determine what's sapient or not based on skin-deep analysis?\nWho are we to determine a dog's life is worth more than a pig's?\nWith animals, there's more than meets the eye.\nAre We Cool Yet?\n\nThe artwork repeated this message until expiration.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5349 | SCP-5350 | SCP-5351 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5351\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5351 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber located at Site-22 and fed twice a day in accordance with Nutritional Chart 5351-1. Regular checks are to be performed to ensure that plant life growing within the containment chamber does not compromise chamber integrity, and trimming is to take place if deemed necessary.\nWhile constant video surveillance of SCP-5351's containment chamber is to be performed as per standard Foundation protocol, no audio surveillance or recording is to take place. No statements made by SCP-5351 are to be transcribed, whether made during interviews or otherwise. Personnel are not to quote SCP-5351, repeat any phrases or non-standard terminology used by SCP-5351, or record statements made by SCP-5351 in any context or medium. Any event in which SCP-5351's words are reproduced by an external source in this way are to be considered an immediate containment breach.\nIn the event of a containment breach, the area of Site-22 in which SCP-5351 has appeared is to immediately be locked down. As those targeted by SCP-5351 are generally killed within seconds of its appearance, recovery of personnel in the immediate vicinity is considered infeasible and not a top priority. Once reacquired, SCP-5351 is to be escorted back to its containment chamber by a security team.\nIn order to encourage SCP-5351's cooperation, all interviews are to be performed by Junior Researcher Cooper. Interviews are to be recorded in general terms only.\nDescription: SCP-5351 is a humanoid entity superficially resembling a young woman of Slavic descent. Despite its human appearance, SCP-5351 has demonstrated a number of anomalous capabilities, most prominently the ability to appear in the immediate vicinity of individuals who either repeat exact statements made by SCP-5351 themselves or access media which does the same.\nAfter appearing following such an event, SCP-5351 will proceed to kill the individual who reproduced their words, followed by anyone in the immediate vicinity who heard the statement. SCP-5351 has demonstrated the capacity to exert physical strength significantly beyond human limits, often mauling humans to death with its bare hands over the course of several seconds. Once all targeted individuals have been eliminated, SCP-5351 invariably returns to an amicable state and will cooperate with requests made by containment staff.\nPlant life has been observed to appear and rapidly grow in areas where SCP-5351 has been present for a great deal of time1. These plants have demonstrated, along with their accelerated growth, an ability to flourish in areas usually incapable of supporting flora, such as steel surfaces and unlit rooms. Despite these anomalous properties, however, analysis has confirmed that this plant life consists only of mundane oak and grass which can be trimmed without ill effect. SCP-5351 appears to place some level of sentimental importance on these plants, and will generally react negatively if they are removed without prior warning.\nDespite the significant levels of violence SCP-5351 has displayed when its statements are reproduced or quoted, it is otherwise amicable with Foundation staff and will cooperate with the majority of requests.\n\nDiscovery\n\nSCP-5351 was first discovered in the village of [DATA EXPUNGED]2, Russia, after numerous reports of travelers vanishing in the region.\nOne such traveler, Lev Ilin, reappeared several weeks after being reported missing and informed local police that the villagers of [DATA EXPUNGED] had imprisoned him after he'd encountered and had a brief conversation with a young woman who had demonstrated the ability to make plants grow around her. After this potential anomalous phenomena was flagged by the Foundation, Mobile Task Force Zeta-19 (\"Lonely Only\") was dispatched to investigate.\nWhile the villagers of [DATA EXPUNGED] were initially resistant against the advances of MTF Zeta-19, hostilities were quickly neutralized and the village elders interrogated. Investigation of the apprehended villagers revealed that all of them appeared to have had their tongues removed at an early age, preventing speech. The questioned elders claimed through writing that this was the result of a traditional coming-of-age ceremony, intended to prevent 'the Maiden of the Woods'3 from attacking the village for reproducing, or 'stealing', her words.\nThe elders made further claims that they had imprisoned travelers who had interacted with SCP-5351 under the fear that they would inadvertently quote its words at a later date, causing her to appear in their vicinity and spread its influence to the rest of civilization. When questioned about the location of these imprisoned travelers, the elders refused to answer, but numerous decomposing bodies were unearthed beneath the village hall during investigation.\nMTF Zeta-19 then proceeded to a cabin located in the nearby woods which SCP-5351 had apparently made its home, where SCP-5351 was quickly found and restrained. As personnel already had a general awareness of the conditions which triggered a violent state from SCP-5351, the anomaly was able to be transported back from [DATA EXPUNGED] and contained without further incident.\n\nInterview Summary Log 5351-1\n\nThe following is a record of interviews with SCP-5351 conducted by various members of the SCP-5351 containment team. In order to prevent containment breach, the results of these interviews are recorded only in general terms.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nInterviewee: SCP-5351\nItems Exchanged: N/A\nTopics Discussed: SCP-5351's origins, its nature, the source behind its anomalous abilities.\nResults: SCP-5351 claims to have always lived in the forest it was originally found in, and further explained that it originally had two sisters that resided there with it \u2014 both significantly older. It appeared confused when I inquired as to its anomalous abilities, and expressed a belief that there was nothing strange about its capabilities. Following this point, SCP-5351 became lethargic and bored, and refused to answer further questions.\nWill have to find a way to engage SCP-5351 more in further interviews.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nInterviewee: SCP-5351\nItems Exchanged: Pencil and paper. Provided in an effort to improve SCP-5351's engagement in the interview \u2014 I told it that it could record questions it wished to ask of me on the paper and I would do my best to answer them. I had already agreed with my supervisors not to provide any accurate information in response to these questions, but we felt it would make SCP-5351 feel this was less of an interrogation and thus be more cooperative.\nTopics Discussed: Reasons for violent behaviours.\nResults: Before I could ask my questions, SCP-5351 expressed a great deal of surprise and fascination in response to the pencil I had given it. No such reaction was given to the paper. When I inquired as to the reason for its excitement, it refused to answer but was much more cooperative from that point forward.\nWhen I asked about the reason SCP-5351 acted violently when its words were quoted, it launched into a lengthy explanation of its logic in doing so. While I do not think I managed to recall this one-hundred percent accurately \u2014 it was a lengthy explanation \u2014 I can provide this brief summary. I have taken care not to reproduce SCP-5351's exact wording.\nSCP-5351's words belong only to SCP-5351. Therefore, SCP-5351's words cannot exist in a space without SCP-5351 also existing there \u2014 this appears to be its logic behind its ability to translocate.\nIf SCP-5351's words are spoken by someone who is not SCP-5351, however, that must mean that the speaker is attempting to steal those words from SCP-5351, and must be dealt with brutally.\nIf we take SCP-5351 as being honest here, that would suggest that its attacks are less a result of random malevolence and more a warped sense of apparent moral necessity. It's unhinged without a doubt, but I suppose it makes some kind of internal sense from that inhuman kind of perspective. To hear someone say these kinds of absurd things like they were perfectly reasonable is unsettling all the same, but I suppose that's the nature of the job.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nInterviewee: SCP-5351\nItems Exchanged: An oak leaf. Given to me through a slot at the end of the interview. Submitted for incineration afterwards as per potential contamination protocol.\nTopics Discussed: The village of [DATA EXPUNGED]. (Intended.)\nResults: Before I could begin asking questions about [DATA EXPUNGED], SCP-5351 began asking me a series of questions, leaving me no room to interject. It wished to know things such as my full name, my birthday, what my family was like, any interesting childhood memories I had. I provided false information as previously agreed upon, but SCP-5351 didn't appear to notice.\nThis questioning went on for nearly half-an-hour \u2014 I almost started slipping up and answering truthfully \u2014 after which SCP-5351 gave me the oak leaf I logged above. When I asked why it had given me an oak leaf, it replied that the object was not an oak leaf but instead a [DATA EXPUNGED]. It then refused to answer any of my questions and asked me to leave for the night.\nI was happy to do so, to tell the truth. Being on the receiving end of that question barrage was exhausting. I don't even want to know why it wanted to know that stuff.\nResearcher Cooper, this will be your only warning in this regard. I understand that the material that had to be expunged from this record was only a single word, but that word was non-standard terminology quoted directly from SCP-5351 \u2014 in other words, a potentially disastrous containment breach. Speaking frankly, it's a miracle you're still alive. I've logged you in for a week's suspension \u2014 make sure you come back with your head on straight. - Head Researcher Scott Abrams\nMy most sincere apologies, sir. I assure you this will never happen again. Thank you for your lenience. - Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\n\nInterviewer: Head Researcher Scott Abrams\nInterviewee: SCP-5351\nItems Exchanged: N/A.\nTopics Discussed: The village of [DATA EXPUNGED]. (Intended.)\nResults: SCP-5351 refused to talk to me. When I entered the interview chamber and told it I would be interviewing it today, it became enraged, loudly accused me of harming Junior Researcher Cooper, and physically attacked the observation window until I was forced to leave in fear of my own safety.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nInterviewee: SCP-5351\nItems Exchanged: Photographs of the village of [DATA EXPUNGED] and various residents.\nTopics Discussed: The village of [DATA EXPUNGED].\nResults: SCP-5351 expressed a great deal of relief that I had returned from my suspension period unharmed, and significantly calmed down when I explained the circumstances behind that. While it assured me that it would see no need to kill me for simply borrowing a single word, I have to admit I didn't find much comfort in the implication that it would have to kill me for other offenses.\nThis time, SCP-5351 was happy to discuss the village of [DATA EXPUNGED]. It confirmed that it had provided the original name of the village after helping the original founders survive the dangers of the area in exchange for offerings of meat and wine. When I asked if this meant that SCP-5351 was over two-hundred years old, it responded in the affirmative and seemed surprised that I had even asked.\nI informed SCP-5351 that we'd discovered that none of the older villagers had any tongues when we'd first brought it in, and asked if it knew why that was. It replied that this was because of the coming-of-age ceremony that all villagers undergo during adolescence, and elaborated that this was something it had instructed them to do in order to ensure they would not be able to steal its words. When I asked what it would have done if they had disregarded these instructions, it replied that it would have killed them as if this was very natural.\nI asked why it would have done this. It replied that it would have been out of love. Love, it explained, was the act of keeping the things you liked in your possession as long as possible \u2014 and getting rid of them when they ceased being the kind of things you liked.\nI asked what kind of things it liked. It said that it found me very interesting.\nI left the chamber. It smiled at me as I went.\n\nIncident Log 5351-1\n\nThe following is the record of a containment breach which occurred in a tertiary Site-22 canteen on 23/05/2021, involving Junior Researchers Sam Cooper, Lindsay Owen and Jonathan Worthy. All statements which could result in further containment breaches have been expunged from this record.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Junior Researchers Sam Cooper, Lindsay Owen and Jonathan Worthy are alone in the canteen, discussing recent developments in SCP-5351's containment. Sam Cooper has their head in their hands, while Lindsay Owen and Jonathan Worthy are speaking animatedly.)\nJR Lindsay Owen: It's crazy, though, really. You should have seen the way she went off on Abrams \u2014 you could hear her screaming through the walls.\nJR Sam Cooper: (muffled) Jesus. I can't fucking believe it. This was my first big assignment, you know? You guys were on that Domesday Clock thing, so you've got prior, but this was \u2014 like \u2014 my big shot you know, to show what I was made of?\nJR Jonathan Worthy: And apparently you're a real casanova.\n(JR Sam Cooper throws an empty juice carton at JR Jonathan Worthy's head, which misses.)\nJR Sam Cooper: Fuck off. Seriously, though, it's not funny. I've not even been sleeping, you know? I keep thinking of the way she was smiling at me. Creepy shit, like someone looking down a microscope at you.\nJR Lindsay Owens: Everyone's got your back with this. You're carrying this whole thing, you know? Abram thinks so too. She can get as creepy as she likes, she's still in there and you're still out here.\nJR Sam Cooper: Until someone fucks up.\nJR Lindsay Owens: Nobody's gonna fuck up. We know what we're doing. You do too. Right, Jon?\nJR Jonathan Worthy: Right.\n(JR Sam Cooper sighs.)\nJR Sam Cooper: You know how this started \u2014 where, where all the trouble came from? That fucking \u2026 thing she gave me, the \u2014 the leaf? The [DATA EXPUNGED] or whatever the hell it's called?\n(JR Lindsay Owens and JR Jonathan Worthy freeze.)\nJR Jonathan Worthy: Should you really, uh\u2026?\n(JR Sam Cooper spreads their arms wide.)\nJR Sam Cooper: You see her? It's like I told Abrams after I came back, it's words that summon her. Words, plural. If you could do it with just one, she'd just pop up wherever anyone said 'hello', right?\nJR Lindsay Owens: Right. Right, yeah. That does make sense.\nJR Jonathan Worthy: But what the hell is a [DATA EXPUNGED]?\n(There is a loud cracking noise, and SCP-5351 appears in the midst of the three Junior Researchers. Within the span of ten seconds, it tears out JR Lindsay Owen's jugular with its teeth, disembowels JR Jonathan Worthy, and curtsies towards JR Sam Cooper.)(JR Sam Cooper screams, now covered in blood, and retreats to the corner of the room. SCP-5351 follows after them. At this point, containment breach of SCP-5351 is confirmed. Alarms begin going off throughout the site, and the canteen is locked down when the presence of SCP-5351 is noted on surveillance camera. Security team dispatched.)\nJR Sam Cooper: What the fuck?! What the fuck?!(JR Sam Cooper looks at the corpses of JR Lindsay Owen and JR Jonathan Worthy.)\nJR Sam Cooper: (quietly) You didn't have to kill them.JR Sam Cooper: No you didn't. You just\u2026 you could've at least\u2026 Jesus.(JR Sam Cooper looks from their sitting position on the floor up at SCP-5351.)\nJR Sam Cooper: How the hell would I be okay? Do you \u2014 do you even understand what you've done? They're \u2014 they're dead. They said one fucking word and you killed them like it was nothing \u2014 like it was \u2014 fuck.\n(Pause.)\nJR Sam Cooper: \u2026why am I still alive?(JR Sam Cooper puts their head in their hands.)\nJR Sam Cooper: Nooo\u2026 no no no\u2026JR Sam Cooper: No, no, stop saying that, you don't, you don't. It was a fucking pencil, goddamnit! Just\u2026 just finish me off. Get it over with if you're going to do it.\n(SCP-5351 moves its hand forward, and JR Sam Cooper winces. SCP-5351 plants its hand on top of JR Sam Cooper's head, and pats the spot for several seconds before withdrawing it, leaving significant amounts of blood dripping from JR Sam Cooper's hair.)(There is a loud bang as the security team breaches the canteen and surrounds SCP-5351, weapons trained on it.)\nSecurity Officer Nelson: Hands on your head! I said hands on your head!\n(SCP-5351 steps away from JR Sam Cooper, puts its hands on its head, and complies with security instructions. JR Sam Cooper vomits on the floor in front of them and subsequently loses consciousness.)\n<End Log>\n\nPersonnel Request Response (Junior Researcher Sam Cooper: Reassignment)\n\nFrom: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nTo: Head Researcher Scott Abrams\nHereby requesting immediate reassignment in order to maintain my own mental health and wellbeing. I do not believe I need to provide evidence beyond what has already occurred that SCP-5351 has developed some kind of fixation on me \u2014 and it is something I want no part of. I see only two conclusions if I continue on as part of this research team: either I end up dead, or so severely traumatized that I may as well be.\n\nFrom: Head Researcher Scott Abrams\nTo: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nUnfortunately, I will have to decline your request at this time.\nSince the development of rapport between yourself and SCP-5351, we've seen a huge decrease in the rate of containment breaches \u2014 even in cases where someone has reproduced SCP-5351's words, it's shown a much greater willingness to 'let it slide', for lack of better wording. The incident I'm sure has prompted this is, as far as we can tell, an isolated incident. I know that seems cold, but it's the truth.\nI understand this assignment is stressful \u2014 and I won't deny the circumstances are unusual \u2014 but I'll have to ask you to just take one for the team on this occasion. We've all got your back on this one, yeah?\n\nFrom: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nTo: Head Researcher Scott Abrams\nIf you're going to do this to me, you might as well slap an orange jumpsuit on me and get it over with. You saw what that thing did to Lindsay, didn't you? I felt her blood on my face. I tasted it on my tongue. I can still taste it \u2014 and it gets worse every time I look at 5351. It's hellish.\nDid you even read what I wrote? About how I'll almost certainly end up? Did you even care?\nYou haven't got my back. If you did, I'd be out of here already. I understand my tone isn't exactly appropriate right now, but I severely doubt you're going to have me fired for being a little snappy in these messages.\nIf you're saying you want to kill me \u2014 or worse \u2014 then say it properly. Use your goddamn words.\n\nFrom: Head Researcher Scott Abrams\nTo: Junior Researcher Sam Cooper\nI'm sorry, Sam.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Generally one to two months.\n2. As it is now believed that this village was originally named by SCP-5351, recording said name is considered to constitute a reproduction of SCP-5351's words. Note that this is the name used by inhabitants of the village \u2014 the variation used by the outside world was fortunately not a containment breach risk.\n3. Note that this epithet was originally expunged from the record under the belief that it was originally created by SCP-5351 itself. Further investigation has confirmed this is not the case, and it has been re-added to documentation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5350 | SCP-5351 | SCP-5352 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5352\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5352 is monitored remotely from Site-107, 4km north of Murky Lake. Once per month, a team of five members of personnel (two D-Class, two agents, and one researcher) are to enter the town to collect samples and monitor anomalous phenomena within. Disappearances are to be logged, and in the event missing parties cannot be located, they are to be considered KIA.\nSCP-5352-C is to be actively monitored. In the event that more than 90% of the building housing it becomes absent, Procedure 5352-PRECESSION is to be carried out in an attempt to preserve the integrity of both the building and local reality.\nUnder no circumstances are personnel allowed to whistle while within SCP-5352.\nDescription: SCP-5352 refers to the abandoned town of Murky Lake, New Mexico (Nexus-04). The area has been devoid of permanent human settlement since 1936, when the population vanished during the Dust Bowl1. Prior to this, anomalous events of unclear origin had been documented throughout Murky Lake, though these events were treated as being of low priority by the American Secure Containment Initiative.\nMost Nexus zones operate under a series of thematic constants2; SCP-5352 appears to operate on a theme that has been quantified as 'absence'. Historically, Murky Lake and the area around it had the highest number of disappearances per capita within New Mexico, despite the fact that the population at its peak was 103 people. This rate declined following the abandonment of the town in 1936.\nSeveral other items serve to support this theme of 'absence', including:\n\nA complete lack of wildlife within an uneven 5km area, centered around the skeleton of a horse behind the former general store.\nA lack of chlorophyll in plant life; despite this, plants continue to grow normally.\nThe inability for music to be played or performed in any form, whether live or recorded. The sole exception to this is whistling, which [DATA EXPUNGED].\nThe tendency for groups of five or more individuals to lose at least one member while inside SCP-5352; in most cases, this is simply a temporary separation.\nThe lack of bacterial or fungal species existing outside of human bodies, which is believed to account for the relatively well-preserved state of Murky Lake.\nRandom 'gaps' in buildings, wherein pieces of furniture, walls, and even load-bearing beams are physically absent, but the surrounding structure is not affected.\n\nThe eponymous Murky Lake itself is also absent, likely due to non-anomalous evaporation following the departure of the town's populace. The former lakebed still exists approximately half a kilometer to the north of the town. Notably, a large amount of human skeletal remains have been found atop and within the lake bed, and display signs of health issues that were common in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Of the recovered bodies, approximately 70% have one or more holes in their sternum or rib cage, while 5% were decapitated pre-mortem.\nSCP-5352-A is a gap between two buildings on Main Street; records in Union County dated to this time indicate the existence of the town hall at this location. Individuals who enter SCP-5352-A often emerge soaking wet, despite the lack of water in the area, and bear minor ligature marks around their wrists, elbows, knees, and ankles, and major ligature marks around their neck.\nAt irregular intervals, between two and twelve humanoid figures are visible within SCP-5352-A. They are intangible, and have not responded to Foundation attempts at communication, excluding Incident 5352-05, which resulted in fifteen Foundation casualties.\nDirectly across from SCP-5352-A is SCP-5352-B, which refers to a space beneath the town undertaker. SCP-5352-B is accessible through a trapdoor on the ground floor. Personnel who have entered and exited SCP-5352-B cannot recall any details about its appearance but have been able to retrieve items from within. Visual recording equipment uniformly fails when in this space, but audio recording has detected the sounds of glass breaking underfoot, metallic clanging, and a large amount of flowing water. Despite claiming to be an undertaker, items retrieved from SCP-5352-B include several non-standard tools and chemicals, including needles, straight razors, cleavers, tattooing ink, sulfuric acid, and a branding iron with the head in the shape of a twelve-pointed star.\nSCP-5352-C refers to an anvil within the remains of the blacksmith at the northern-most edge of the town of Murky Lake; this building would have been the closest to the lake itself, and is the most heavily-affected by the 'gap' phenomenon present in SCP-5352, with over 75% of the structure physically absent.\nSCP-5352-C has been modified in such a way that makes it impractical to be used in metalworking\u2014 the face of the anvil has a hole in the center which runs through the body of the anvil; sounds of running water can be heard from the underside, speculated to be the same underground channel detected in SCP-5352-B. The horn of SCP-5352-C has been sharpened to a point that would make it unsuited for shaping metal. Given the amount of human blood found on SCP-5352-C, and the presence of SCP-5352-C-1 in the same building, it is speculated that SCP-5352-C was some form of altar.\nSCP-5352-C-1 is what Foundation researchers have termed a 'ritual garrote'. SCP-5352-C-1 consists of a 40cm length of human sinew wrapped around a metal wire, with a pair of 15cm long handles at either end that terminate into sharp points. Each handle is carved with the shapes of six humanoid figures. Testing has confirmed that the wire of SCP-5352-C-1 is sharp and strong enough to decapitate a human being. The handles are irregularly shaped, and fit within the Pritchel and Hardie holes atop SCP-5352-C's face.\nAt irregular intervals, starting at noon and ending at sunset, the building containing SCP-5352-C will become impenetrable to visible light. Thermal imaging has shown twelve humanoid figures within, apparently looking at SCP-5352-C. When this phenomenon ends, another portion of the blacksmith containing SCP-5352-C will have vanished.\nSCP-5352 was re-discovered by the Foundation following the disappearance of the crew of Following the Leylines: Ghost Town Explorers, a paranormal reality TV show that was filming its pilot in the vicinity. While their equipment was found scattered throughout the town and their vehicle parked on the lake bed, the only evidence of any crew member was a hat located on the ground outside of SCP-5352-A which, based on brain tissue recovered inside, belonged to host William Plunkett.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The colloquial name for a series of dust storms and drought that occurred throughout the southern American plains in the 1930s, particularly in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and New Mexico.\n2. For instance, citizens of Harkness, Maryland are immune to all non-anomalous diseases, but after the intentional infection of the town's water supply by an unknown group in the 1980s, all citizens contracted at least one anomalous infection.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5351 | SCP-5352 | SCP-5353 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImage: The image is cropped from a CC0/public domain photograph, which can be found here.\n\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 4/5353 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5353\n\nItem #: SCP-5353\nLevel 4/5353\n\nObject Class: Keter\nClassified\n\nPossible photograph of SCP-5353.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Encounters with SCP-5353 are to be reported to Agent Hester Maliz at Site 122. Any incidents involving SCP-5353 should be dealt with under Protocol Ajax-4, utilising the press, government contacts and tactical use of experimental amnestic drugs to preserve the Veil.\nDescription: SCP-5353 is a anomalous humanoid, first observed by the Foundation in Belgium in 1917. SCP-5353's name and purpose are unknown, and few solid details about his appearance are available; the only consistent facts are that he appears and identifies as male and that he always wears a white suit.\nSCP-5353 has been sighted worldwide, and is believed to possess several contacts among the anomalous underground. He appears to have little interest in the Foundation and its activities, but has interacted in both a friendly and hostile manner depending on circumstances.\nSCP-5353 has an unidentified link with PoI-000 \"Nobody\", and most sightings of SCP-5353 in recent decades have involved PoI-000 to some degree. The exact nature of their relationship is unknown, but it is evidently a hostile one, with several altercations between the two on record.\nUpdate 17/05/1975: In the last two months, an unusual acceleration of SCP-5353 and PoI-000 incidents have been recorded in the Western United States. This has made the containment situation more unstable. Agent Hester Maliz, based on her highly successful record in containing SCPs \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, has been assigned to track down and apprehend SCP-5353, as well as PoI-000 if possible.\nThe following table is a summary of the aforementioned incidents:\n\nDate\nLocation\nAnomalies involved\nNotes\n\n16/03/1975\nPahrump, Nevada\nPoI-000\nA man described as a \"hobo in old rags\" reportedly held conversations with several local citizens, asking them if they knew of any shops selling war memorabilia. Only one person answered in the affirmative, and won $10,000 in the lottery the next day.\n\n23/04/1975\nBoise, Idaho\nSCP-5353\nA man in a white suit was spotted putting up identical leaflets in Boise's North End. Each leaflet bore anomalous text that cannot be perceived.\n\n05/05/1975\nNevada City, California\nSCP-5353\nA man in a white suit was seen standing in woodland near the town by several individuals, smoking a cigarette. When questioned by locals, he stated that he was \"waiting for a sign\". Three days afterwards, a large wildfire abruptly began in the forest.\n\n12/05/1975\nDel Muerto, Navajo Reservation, Arizona\nPoI-000\nFigure \"in rags, with an indistinct face\" seen visiting the houses of several widows over the course of the day. One week later, all these women abruptly travelled at the same time to several different towns in southern Nevada. All of them made a call at a payphone to an unknown number, each stating \"no-one is home\", before returning. None of them can recall doing so.\n\nUpdate 01/06/1975: On 26th May, Agent Maliz was able to track and attempted to apprehend the anomaly. A log of her efforts can be found below.\n\n+Incident Log 5353-1\n\n-Incident Log 5353-1\n\nDate: 26/06/1975\nLocation: Paulina Lake, Oregon\nAgent Maliz is standing on a wooded slope near the edge of the lake. It is late afternoon. A small beach next to the lake is up ahead; SCP-5353 can be seen sitting on it, smoking a cigarette. Maliz approaches slowly.Maliz stops.\nMaliz: How the hell did you hear me? I barely made a sound.Maliz: Well, you've got the drop on me now. There's no point in trying to arrest an ageless dandy without the element of surprise. Long experience has taught me that you cryptic types always have something irritatingly relevant up your sleeve.Maliz: They know my methods. They work. You wait for the right moment, and if you don't have the right moment, you don't make your play. It's called \u201ca modicum of caution\u201d.\nSCP-5353 chuckles.Maliz: How'd you know?Maliz: Quite easily. They're a pack of walking clich\u00e9s.\nMaliz sits down beside SCP-5353, facing the lake. She pulls out a cigarette.\nMaliz: Got a light?SCP-5353 lights Maliz's cigarette.\nMaliz: You are right. It is beautiful here.Maliz: No. I'm not from here.Maliz: This is a caldera, isn't it?The two sit in silence for a while.Maliz: I'm working my way there. My schedule today is pretty thin beyond \u201cContain SCP-5353\u201d, and that's been blown. It's such a pretty day.Maliz: Aren't I just? I'm beginning to think this meeting wasn't a result of my impeccable talent as a tracker, but because you wanted me to find you.Maliz: So that you could engineer a situation where you and I have a civil conversation, and you convince me to do your dark bidding. It's happened before.Maliz: The darkest ones often are.Maliz: Thank you.Maliz: And you don't? We've been tracking you a long time. The list of crimes you're linked with is huge.Maliz: Because life could be better. We can take it somewhere else, strip away the dark and let the people flourish as they're meant to. The Foundation could be a force for good, for liberation, for a bright new world. Or something like that, anyway.Maliz: PoI-000?Maliz: I got the impression you guys mostly just punched each other.Maliz: Well, you would say that.Maliz: Very poetic. But people are more than just names.Maliz: Can't say I have.Maliz: So let me guess. You lured me here to convince me that you are actually a brave hero, fighting an impossible war against Nobody, and that I and my good comrades should bring him to justice?There is a pause; Agent Maliz looks around the lake.\nMaliz: It is beautiful. But what does that have to do with anything?Maliz: Still not getting it.Maliz: I mean. They're still dead.Maliz: What are the two of you even doing, anyway? Driving around, upsetting local widows, posting up fliers? Not your usual style.Maliz: Oh, very cryptic.SCP-5353 stands up.\nMaliz: Leaving so soon? You were just about to get interesting. I think.SCP-5353 walks away. Agent Maliz looks out over the lake for a couple of minutes before leaving.\n<End Log>\n\nUpdate 06/08/1975: The following is a log of activities involving PoI-000 and SCP-5353 since Incident 5353-1:\n\nDate\nLocation\nAnomalies involved\nNotes\n\n16/06/1975\nDetroit, Michigan\nPoI-000\nA large factory explosion was linked back to PoI-000, who had been spotted conversing with the perpetrators some days before. Subsequent records revealed that the German-born owner of the factory was a wanted war criminal who had fled to America under a false passport.\n\n21/07/1975\nChippewa Falls, Wisconsin\nSCP-5353\nA unidentified man in a white suit was seen in conversation with several local officials. The following day, a major bribery and corruption scandal involving these officials was exposed, causing a political crisis and major protests in Chippewa Falls.\n\n28/07/1975\nNatchez, Mississippi\nPoI-000\nSeveral anomalous symbols were painted by associates of PoI-000 on the ground at key intersections. Each of these contained an infohazardous effect which rendered them unable to be perceived, but instead induced a severe manic and depressive effect. Several individuals suffered mental breakdowns and were hospitalised following this incident.\n\nUpdate 17/09/1975\nOn 15/09/1975, Agent Maliz managed to track down PoI-000 and engage the subject in a brief conversation. A log of this can be found below.\n\n+Incident Log 5353-2\n\n-Incident Log 5353-2\n\nDate: 15/09/1975\nLocation: Bluefield, West Virginia\n<Begin Log>\nIt is night. Agent Maliz is walking down an alleyway on the city's outskirts. Distant police sirens can be heard. An indistinct figure is leaning against the wall, and looks up as Maliz passes.\nFigure: Got a light?\nMaliz stops suddenly and looks at the figure.\nMaliz: Hey, that's my line.\nThe figure chuckles and holds out a cigarette. Maliz takes out a lighter and lights his cigarette, revealing him to be PoI-000 \u201cNobody\u201d.\nPoI-000: It's been a long time, Hester. What was it \u2013 Prague, '67?\nMaliz: '68. You'd have thought you'd remember that year. Quite a lot happened.\nPoI-000: To you, maybe. To me, it was just another inevitability.\nMaliz: So, how'll this go, then? You give me a bit of a spiel about why no, actually, you're the good one all along, and I should join you to help bring the Man in White down?\nPoI-000: No. No, girl, that's not how this story is going to go. We're not having a cutesy little conversation about our respective philosophies and come to some interesting conclusions. I've been on the road for days, weeks, surviving on cigarette butts and pennies thrown at my face. No, this is me telling you to stop following me \u2013 us \u2013 and you listening.\nDuring this speech, Agent Maliz moves her hand to rest on her firearm.\nMaliz: This must be that famous Nobody charm I've heard so much about. Maybe the Man in White was right about you.\nPoI-000: The Man in White has never done a day's work in his damn life. He thinks this is a game, a chessboard. He thinks we should all sit down a couple of times a day to contemplate the infinite. He saunters around on his dime-store humanism and presumes to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.\nMaliz: I seem to have touched a nerve. I didn't know you had any left.\nPoI-000: Do you even know what he is? The cosmic rag and bone man? What he's made of? Took me a long time to work it out. Took the last version of me even longer. His hatred of me has nothing to do with principle. It's all ego, personal ego. That's almost literally what he is.\nMaliz: Spare me the sermon. Why shouldn't I follow you? I have a job to do, the same as you.\nPoI-000: And I say again, this is not what we're doing here.\nThe lights in the neighbouring streets all switch off. Agent Maliz gently levers her firearm out of her holster, but doesn't train it on PoI-000.\nPoI-000: Do you want me to play the correct part, Hester? The cosmic tramp, stick and moustache and silent song-and-dance? The mad prophet, wandering the roads of America, scaring the locals?\nMaliz: Very spooky. Why don't you come a little closer, and we can test my theory about your nerves?\nPoI-000: There are people choking every damn day of their lives in coal mines, dreaming of the sun. There are people starving over sunbaked plains, waiting for their lives to end. I walk through those who are maimed, starved, beaten and bruised, because nobody else will. I do what I have to do to keep this broken world running so that someone, anyone, can have a lick of a chance at life. You know I found him in a Klan outfit once?\nMaliz: What? The Man?\nPoI-000: Yeah. Five years ago, in fucking Ohio of all places. I asked him about it, a while later. He claimed he was \u201ctrying it on\u201d and that he was \u201cinterested in the history\u201d. I think he took the name \u201cMan in White\u201d a shade too literally.\nMaliz: Fascinating. Do go on.\nAgent Maliz slowly raises her firearm until it is pointing at PoI-000. PoI-000 laughs.\nPoI-000: How's Tyler doing these days?\nAgent Maliz freezes.\nMaliz: Don't you fucking dare.\nPoI-000: He must be, what \u2013 four? Five?\nMaliz: If you even think \u2013\nPoI-000: And I hear you've enrolled him in the Foundation's Young Achievers programme. Fascinating. Do you know why I so rarely help you? Because you're all the kind of people who put their children into fascist brainwashing camps when they're barely infants. Do you really want your son to have the same life you've had?\nMaliz: He is none of your business.\nPoI-000: No, he's not. It's just an observation. I can see the Foundation. I can see what you are. All that energy, all those rules \u2013 not real rules, but invented ones. I can see where you're going, too. More research. More militarisation. Fewer compromises. Handshakes with politicians and cocktail parties in Baghdad. And a machine - a frightful machine, an inevitable machine, that someone will have to make and the Foundation will have to have. A machine that will cement their empire. Will Tyler thank you?\nAgent Maliz fires; she misses. PoI-000 lunges towards her, grabbing the gun and violently biting her arm. Maliz screams and drops her firearm.\nPoI-000: Clever girl.\nMaliz: You\u2026 fucking\u2026\nPoI-000: It has. You can't take me in, and I don't want to hurt you. So leave me alone.\nMaliz: \u2026Never.\nPoI-000 lifts his hands in apparent frustration.\nPoI-000: Fine. Whatever. Go digging where you shouldn't. You won't win. Like I said, that isn't how this story goes. The plucky detective doesn't get her easy resolution. There's an old friend I'm looking for, and if I don't get to him before the Man in White, he'll give him an offer he can't refuse and make the next few decades a real pain in my ass. So necessary measures must be taken. This is bigger than you. All you'll get is what's left over.\nPoI-000 stubs his cigarette on the wall, turns and starts walking away.\nPoI-000: Be seeing you.\nMaliz: Wait.\nAgent Maliz leans against the wall on her good arm, steadying her breathing. PoI-000 continues to walk away.\nMaliz: Wait, you fuck. One more thing. Have you ever heard of somone named Fritz Obermayer?\nPoI-000 turns back and grins. Agent Maliz's blood is visible on his teeth.\nPoI-000: Oh yes. Yes, I have.\n<End Log>\n\nUpdate 03/10/1975: The following is a log of activities involving PoI-000 and SCP-5353 since Incident 5353-2:\n\nDate\nLocation\nAnomalies involved\nNotes\n\n23/09/1975\nCut Bank, Montana\nSCP-5353\nAnomaly was spotted conversing with PoI-6236 \"Old Mag\", a former resident of the Three Portlands who was renowned for her fortune-telling abilities. SCP-5353 asked an unknown question, which PoI-6236 responded by shouting \"It will bleed their names! It will strip their souls!\" repeatedly. SCP-5353 then shot her twice in the stomach and departed; PoI-6326 subsequently expired.\n\n01/10/1975\nFargo, North Dakota\nPoI-000\nPoI-000 incited a riot in several suburbs of Fargo, resulting in 3 deaths and at least 20 injured. Several items appeared to have been stolen from government buildings during the riot, including census data and a list of German-language translators used last year in an investment in local government projects by a German company.\n\nFinal Update 12/05/1976: On 05/10/1975, a major incident involving PoI-000 and SCP-5353 took place in Pierre, South Dakota. An altercation between the two was reported to have taken place outside and in an empty apartment. Witnesses reported seeing a homeless man running from the scene, as well as a man in a white suit walking with a heavy limp and bleeding profusely. One witness reported seeing a man in a long coat fall from a window, but no body was recovered matching this description.\nThe apartment in question was reported to have been empty since 1955. Inside, however, were signs of recent habitation, including an extensive collection of WW2 memorabilia, several bottles of whisky, books in German and files on Nazi war criminals. A note was also found, written in somewhat old-fashioned German; a transcript can be found below.\n\n+Document 5353-1\n\n-Document 5353-1\n\nThis body has to remember. Somebody has to remember. So, this page can remember.\nOnce, there was a boy named Fritz Obermayer. You will not find his name in any records. Fritz Obermayer never died, but ceased to exist in 1917. He met a man in the trenches, an American from across No Man's Land, and then his body was no longer his own. It belonged to Nobody.\nThen there was a man called Nobody, who strode across Europe for almost 40 years, always concerned with the task at hand. No-one noticed him, but they would still shudder at the sight of a long coat. The body, the mind, the personality within did not mind being bent to a single will, because he was cold and lost and alone in the trenches and never wanted to go back. There was no dread and boredom and more. No more contemplation. Just action.\nThen Nobody moved on, and another man lost his name. But the body that had once belonged to Fritz Obermayer remained, and it was nothing. It had no identity. It had no personhood. No-one could call it by any name. No-one knew it was even there.\nAll it had ever been was a function. A soldier, then a fist. Then nothing. It had been warned about this by a man in white, but it hadn't listened. It still wasn't convinced that the man had been right.\nThe nothing lived for many more years. There were no easy answers. It never knew what it could have been. It ate, and aged, and gnawed its own head at night. Then it saw two men outside its window and that was the end of that.\nThe world is not a ruin to be admired and exalted. But the world also does not exist to be subordinated to a single will. It exists because it does, endless narratives after narratives that pick each other apart. There is no meaning. There is no identity. There is only the endless, dragging, all-consuming wholeness of existence.\nWho would Fritz Obermayer have been? His identity, his name, his very way of being, they became a shade. A ghost that moved through the world, a memory that was never spoken. Until it was bought up by someone who only existed through scraps. A figure who was nothing, and yet so many things. A rag and bone man, who only was because of what people left behind.\nThere is no good. There is no evil.\n\nThe Man Who Wasn't There\n\nThe Man In The White Suit\n\nHub\nHello, My Name Isn't\nChiaroscuro\nNobody, Nobody, Nobody, and Nobody's Encounters with The Man in the White Suit\n\u2192 SCP-5353 -- Does Anyone Remember Fritz Obermeyer? \u2190\nEveryday Is Somebody's Birthday\nSCP-5877 -- Nobodies\nGhosts in the Machine\nFiles intercepted from Anderson Systems personnel\nSCP-5375 -- Nobody and the Name Machine\nEpilogue:\nNobody in Their Right Mind\n\n\u00ab SCP-5352 | SCP-5353 | SCP-5354 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5354\nObject Class: Safe Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As of November 2018, SCP-5354 remains closed to the public. Regular updates are to be released regarding the instability of the area and social media is to be monitored for new mentions of SCP-5354. A boundary fence is in place around the site, warning signs are situated on associated footpaths and an on-foot patrol is in place to prevent further civilian incidents.\n\nShow Archived Containment Procedures\n\nPlease note: The archived containment procedures shown below are for reference purposes only.\n\n[Updated on 12/11/2018] SCP-5354 is to be remotely monitored for increases in civilian activity or changes to individual visiting patterns. Should civilians attempt to inhabit the site, they are to be dispersed and peacefully discouraged from returning. Use of amnestics has been authorised as necessary.\nGiven the low-risk nature of SCP-5354, and to avoid drawing unnecessary attention to the site, a physical perimeter boundary is not to be established.1\n\nDescription: SCP-5354 is the site of Caer Bran Hill Fort on the Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall. Any individual who crosses the outer boundary2 will become unable to experience anger, sadness, or produce tears. This effect continues until the affected individual exits SCP-5354.\nGiven SCP-5354's folkloric reputation as a refuge from evil spirits, it is likely that these anomalous effects have been active for several centuries.\nAddendum 1: SCP-5354 Initial Incident Report\nOn 7th January 2016, West Cornwall emergency services received a call from a Mrs. Temple-Stewart requesting assistance for a non-responsive female at SCP-5354. This female was later identified as Ms. Anna Worthing. Complaints previously lodged with the local council3 indicate that Ms. Worthing had been residing at SCP-5354 for several months.\n\nSCP-5354\n\nInitial Incident Report: SCP-5354\nField Agent Matthew Thomas\nDate: 12/01/2016\n\n07/01/2016, 07:46 - West Cornwall emergency services dispatch first responders to SCP-5354.\n07/01/2016, 07:53 - First responders arrive at SCP-5354. Ms. Worthing is stabilised and transported to West Cornwall Hospital for further treatment.\n07/01/2016, 11:30 - Ms. Worthing is admitted to West Cornwall Hospital. Records indicate that Ms. Worthing is suffering from the effects of prolonged exposure to the elements and keratoconjunctivitis sicca.4\n10/01/2016, 08:50 - Ms. Worthing self-discharges during morning rounds.\n10/01/2016, 12:30 - Field Agent Thomas5 becomes aware that Ms. Worthing has self-discharged.\n10/01/2016, 1236 - Due to growing concerns that Ms. Worthing might be under the influence of a compulsion-causing anomaly,6 efforts are made to pinpoint Ms. Worthing's location.\n10/01/2016, 13:35 - After a brief search, Ms. Worthing is located at SCP-5354. Ms. Worthing is fully compliant with initial efforts to remove her from the site but becomes significantly more resistant upon reaching the outer boundary.\n10/01/2016, 13:45 - Ms. Worthing is detained for questioning. The area surrounding SCP-5354 is temporarily secured.\n\nSCP-5354\n\nInterview SCP-5354-AW1\nInterviewed: Ms. Anna Worthing\nInterviewer: Dr. Kerry Young\nDate: 18/01/2016\n\nNote Whilst Ms. Worthing was originally taken into Foundation custody on 10/01/2016, she refused to respond to questioning for a period of eight days except to express her desire to return to SCP-5354.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n[Ms. Worthing's eyes are closed. She wraps her arms around her body, then lowers her chin towards her chest.]\nDr. Young: Ms. Worthing, we'd like to ask you a few questions about -\nMs. Worthing: And then you'll let me go back?\nDr. Young: We won't stop you.\n[Ms. Worthing inhales, then exhales slowly. She nods.]\nDr. Young: Okay. Can you tell us why you've been camping on the Peninsula? Did something happen to -\n[Ms. Worthing raises her head.]\nMs. Worthing: What's wrong with me. That's what you really want to ask, isn't it? What kind of fuckup drops everything to go and camp out in the middle of nowhere? What kind of fucking -\nDr. Young: No, we just -\nMs. Worthing: You wouldn't get it even if I told you. Someone like you could never understand what it's like to be such a fuck-up that even your parents can't stand the sight of you. I - I just want to be left alone. By you. By them. By -\n[Ms. Worthing pauses for a moment. When she speaks again, her voice is quieter.]\nWe had a fight that day - my Dad and me. I'd had another shitty day at work, and\u2026 It's like he can never leave it alone. \"Why can't you work in the bank like Carol's boy? You're never going to get your own place.\" Before I even took my shoes off, he's at me about how I'm ruining their retirement, and I - I couldn't stay there. I couldn't. I just needed to get away for a while, okay? I needed a break from his bullshit. From all of it. It's too much to -\n[Ms. Worthing pauses and presses both hands to her face. When she removes her hands, her cheeks are wet.]\nEveryone says the view from the Caer is special. On a clear day, you can see for miles. The world looks\u2026 better. I just went up there to clear my head. Standing there, watching the way the ocean moved. I felt\u2026 light. I could sit looking out to sea for hours and not worry about a thing.\nIt was one night, at first. Just a break from all the yelling and judgement. The being compared to other people's kids. Never being good enough. One night and then\u2026 I don't know. The longer I stayed, the less I had to go back to. And the less I wanted to go back to it. My phone got cut off. I guess I lost my job, and -\nPlease. I don't want to be here. I can't deal with -\nDr. Young: Thank you, Ms. Worthing.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: Ms. Worthing has been amneticised and returned to her home in Sancreed, Cornwall. She is expected to recover fully from her physical symptoms.\nAddendum 2: SCP-5354 Incident 2\nBetween May and September 2018, on-site team members reported a gradual increase in both overall civilian site traffic and mid-length7 visits. A review of containment procedures was brought forward to early October, but given the typical seasonal fluctuations in visit patterns, it was decided that no immediate action was required.\nOn October 28th, SCP-5354 was visited by self-proclaimed wellness coach Maxwell Finch. Mr. Finch reportedly remained at the site for three hours, taking multiple photos before ultimately returning to his vehicle.\nAt 09.38 on October 29th, an image of SCP-5354 was posted to Mr. Finch's Instagram page with the caption \"I found tranquility here in Caer Bran - you too can rediscover yourself by welcoming nature into your life!\" and a link to Mr. Finch's website. The image quickly amassed several thousand likes and comments from Mr. Finch's followers.\nOver the course of the next week, SCP-5354 experienced an exponential increase in foot traffic, culminating in an attempt to establish a small on-site camp on the weekend of November 10-11th. Footpaths leading to the site sustained significant damage and car parks along a five-mile stretch of the peninsula were reported to be overflowing. On-site teams quickly acted to clear and close the site. Warnings were posted both along the trail and in local media claiming that subsidence associated with the underlying archaeology had made the area unsafe. A patrol was established to turn away new visitors, and any individuals who continued to seek access to the site were administered amnestics.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Subject to regular review.\n2. As delineated by the Iron Age rampart and ditch.\n3. Including one made by Mrs. Temple-Stewart.\n4. Chronic eye dryness.\n5. Working as a ward nurse within the hospital at the time of the incident.\n6. Testing has since indicated that SCP-5354 does not have an anomalously compulsive effect.\n7. Defined for recording purposes as visits lasting between two and twenty-four hours.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5353 | SCP-5354 | SCP-5355 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5355, in an inactive state.\n\nWARNING!\nThe following file needs to be updated with latest test results in the following sections;\nDescription\nProceed with caution.\n\nItem Number: 5355\nObject Class/Clearance: Safe/Two\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5355 is to be contained in an anomalous items locker. Under no circumstance is SCP-5355 to be tested.\nDescription: SCP-5355 refers to a toy \"ray-gun\", made of plastic and an unknown metal alloy. \"The Fantastic Shrinkerator\" is crudely written in large block letters with flaking gold paint on its left side. SCP-5355's design is similar to the retrofuturistic style, specifically dieselpunk or steampunk. A series of dials is on its right side. An unknown red liquid can be seen flowing through vials in the gun, appearing to serve a decorative purpose. The creator, charging functionality, and method of power storage of SCP-5355 are all currently unknown.\nSCP-5355 has no trigger, and can be operated via cranking a small crank on the back of its barrel. After approximately 30 seconds of cranking, SCP-5355 will whir and discharge a thin, bright green beam of concentrated photonic energy from its tip, while outputting a large amount of smoke. SCP-5355 will then cool down for 1 minute before another beam can be discharged. Dependent on what setting its dials are placed at, it is theorized that this beam has a variety of effects.\n\nShrink\nEnlarge\nReturn\n\nThe beam will decrease the dimensions of an object by an unknown constant.\nThe beam will increase the dimensions of an object by an unknown constant.\nThe effects of previous firings of SCP-5355 will be reverted.\n\nAttached is a log of the single occasion of testing of SCP-5355.\n\nAddenda - Testing Log\n\nTesting Personnel: Researcher Pastore, Jr. Researcher Remington.\nProcedure: Fire on a series of objects set up in Site-28's firing range with each setting of SCP-5355, before reverting its effects with the \"Return\" setting.\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[Jr. Researcher Remington returns from the firing range's target area. Researcher Pastore has SCP-5355 in hand, and is currently scratching his beard. As J.R. Remington enters, Res. Pastore nods, speaking firmly.]\nPastore: Are the objects ready?\n[J.R. Remington nods quickly.]\nRemington: Yep! All lined out over there for you.\n[Res. Pastore smiles.]\nPastore: Thank you, Jeremy. Alright, which is first?\nRemington: Try the wet wipe. Biggest surface area to hit, I think.\nPastore: Good idea.\n[Res. Pastore turns the dial, and begins cranking while aiming at a wet wipe hung on a clothesline on the opposite side of the firing range.]\nPastore: Alright, set to \"Shrink.\" And\u2026 firing.\n[SCP-5355 fires. The wipe shrinks to approximately half its previous size.]\nRemington: Huh. Neat. [J.R. Remington sighs.] All things considered, this is a nice change of pace.\nPastore: Don't let your chickens out of the coop preemptively, Remington.\nRemington: Fine. Next is enlarge?\nPastore: [nodding] Yep. [Res. Pastore adjusts the dial to \"Enlarge.\"]\nRemington: Well, we wait now. Thing's gotta cool down.\n[J.R. Remington and Res. Pastore stand around, not talking. Res. Pastore coughs.]\nRemington: So uh, how're the kids?\nPastore: I don't have kids, Jeremy.\nRemington: Sorry.\n[J.R. Remington sighs.]\nPastore: Y'know, how's your mom?\nRemington: She's fine.\nPastore: She recognize you last time you saw her? I know that stuff can be hard.\nRemington: Yeah. I can't guarantee when she won't, though. It sucks, Charles. Haven't let me in cause of that nasty cold I had.\n[Res. Pastore nods. SCP-5355 lets out a quiet ding. J.R. Remington sighs in relief, and sneezes once.]\nPastore: Alright, again. [Pastore fires SCP-5355. The wipe enlarges to 2 times its original size, falling off of its clips. Remington heads to place it back on its clips.]\nRemington: Got it, got it.\nPastore: Thanks.\n[Pastore sets the dial to \"Return,\" and cranks SCP-5355. Upon firing, it appears to have no effect.]\nPastore: Huh.\nRemington: You're sure it was all the way cooled down?\nPastore: I heard the ding and everything, Jeremy. I'm old, but not that old.\nRemington: Fair. Try \"Shrink?\"\nPastore: Sure. [The dial is cranked, and SCP-5355 is fired. There is no effect.]\nRemington: What the fuck?\nPastore: My thoughts exactly. Let's try \"Enlarge.\"\n[Res. Pastore cranks the dial and waits for the cooldown timer to finish, as Remington sits deep in thought. As soon as the ding is audible, Res. Pastore fires. J.R. Remington knocks the ray out of Res. Pastore's hand, and pulls him towards the door.]\nRemington: Wait \u2014\n[Two large creatures spontaneously appear near the wet wipe. One appears similar to a large tardigrade, while the other is vaguely phagic in appearance. Both begin to crawl towards Res. Pastore and J.R. Remington, making deep and low moans.]\nRemington: Shoot it! Shoot the damn things!\nPastore: I got it, I got it.\n[Res. Pastore fires SCP-5355 once more at the phagic entity. It has no effect. Both Res. Pastore and J.R. Remington make it out safely, as the camera is then swallowed by a large, amoebaic creature. As the creature comes into contact with the remains of the wet wipe, its cellular wall violently explodes, killing both of the other entities.]\n<END LOG>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5354 | SCP-5355 | SCP-5356 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nItem#: ERROR\n\nLevel#\n\nContainment Class:\nERROR\n\nSecondary Class:\nERROR\n\nDisruption Class:\nERROR\n\nRisk Class:\nERROR\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe file \"SCP-5356\" does not exist. The object it describes may have been archived, explained, or decommissioned and removed from the main database. If not, you may be encountering a database error, and should contact RAISA for assistance.\nIf you do not believe this to be the case, you may input Level 5 clearance credentials for more information.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5355 | SCP-5356 | SCP-5357 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5359\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All physical copies of SCP-5359 are stored in a standard low-risk object locker at the East Wing of Site-49; an electronic copy of SCP-5359 has been stored in the Site-49 database. MTF Chi-9 (\"Page Turners\") are to be deployed to all scenes where a death by spontaneous combustion has occurred, to search for copies of SCP-5359. If a physical copy is found, it is to be secured and taken to containment without being read in its entirety - members of MTF Chi-9 have memorized the first and last two stanzas of SCP-5359 in order to facilitate identification.\nFoundation webcrawler ALPHA-04/TOM is currently monitoring all web activity searching for electronic copies of SCP-5359. If one is found, ALPHA-04/TOM is programmed to isolate and delete the SCP-5359 instance, alerting MTF Chi-9 with all IPs that have visited the compromised page. All witnesses of the effects of SCP-5359 are to be interrogated and amnesticized, using cover story number 24 (\"Abduction and Disappearance\"), or cover story number 15 (\"Gas Leak\") as deemed necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5359 is the designation for an unpublished poem, organized in 11 4-verse stanzas, known as \"The Unknown Lady\", written in 1945 by Kiyoshi Nakamura (1909 - 1950), a former professor at the University of Tokyo. SCP-5359 contains an infohazard that is triggered once subjects acquire full knowledge of the contents of the poem, either by reading it by themselves or by listening to someone else read it aloud. Approximately 55 seconds after completion, the subject's body will begin to emit large amounts of ionizing radiation, followed almost immediately by instantaneous combustion. Radiation from the effects of SCP-5359 will disappear through unknown means approximately 30 seconds after the subject's vital functions have stopped.\nIt is known, from various letters and pieces of his diary, that Mr. Nakamura wrote SCP-5359 following a series of tourist trips he had made to different countries after being rejected from the Japanese army because of his multiple health problems (including asthma and a limp in his left leg caused by a fracture he sustained in a traffic accident in 1939). It is still unknown how Mr. Nakamura created the infohazard, or how it did not affect him.\nDiscovery: SCP-5359 was discovered after 17 potentially anomalous deaths occurred in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2010. Agents Yoshida and Akagawa were deployed to investigate these deaths, successfully tracking down and containing a copy of SCP-5359 that had been checked out of a public library by a university student, presumably for the purpose of studying the works of Kiyoshi Nakamura. It is currently unknown how the library obtained a copy of SCP-5359.\nOnce the anomalous properties of SCP-5359 were confirmed, the Foundation was able to connect 127 other deaths around the world that had previously been classified as Extranormal Events, and were considered to be isolated incidents. So far, the Foundation has seized 53 copies of SCP-5359, including 4 electronic copies. It is currently unknown how all of these copies have been distributed, and the person or group responsible for this has been provisionally classified as GoI-5359.\nAddendum 5359.1: Contents of SCP-5359\nThe following is a summary of the contents of SCP-5359. Some parts have been omitted in order to avoid activation of its infohazardous effects on the reader.\n\nUpon a place where air is warm,\nThere lays a treasure I want\nFor inside a village which is shady,\nLives an unknown lady.\nShe is unknown by most of them people\nWho reside outside the bloom.\nSomeday they will ring the steeple,\nAnd they will rise upon the navel of the moon.\nWait we all need to.\nAs for now,\nShe will remain unknown,\nFor another decade or two.\n[DATA REDACTED]\nMy beatiful and precious,\nThe unknown lady talked with me.\nShe taught me everything she will be,\nAnd unknown remains why is she seen as dangerous.\nPower is feared, it is respected.\nWill they use my lady,\nTo do something misdirected?\nI'm afraid she has already betrayed me.\n[DATA REDACTED]\nDeath and horror rose to the sky,\nThey didn't even get to say goodbye.\nThough, once, time will come,\nAnd they won't be able to run home.\nFor the unknown lady will say her name,\nOut loud, everyone will hear her scream,\nPlease, make my word known,\nAs the lady will not be anymore unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5358 | SCP-5359 | SCP-5360 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5360\nLevel 3/5360\n\nObject Class: Safe\nClassified\n\nAn approximate floor plan of SCP-5360.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5360 and the adjacent properties are to be put under the jurisdiction of the local Site-712. A cover story will be disseminated that SCP-5360 is to be made a city landmark. The appearance of SCP-5360 and all evidence will be logged daily. A mobile testing location will be constructed for ease of access in this purpose. Only Level 3+ personnel may have access to SCP-5360. Due to Incident 5360-1, all personnel assigned for longer than a week must undergo mandatory psychiatric evaluation. Researcher Kazato will be the Head Researcher for SCP-5360 following Incident 5360-1.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5360 is the designation for the murder scene of Vincent Taglietti (and by extent, the estate). 5360's anomalous properties manifest daily at approximately 1 AM. At this time, all pertinent evidence within the estate will disappear and reappear within five minutes. However, the evidence will have either greatly changed or no longer be relevant to the murder. Additionally, the corpse will re-manifest with a different cause of death and as an entirely different person.\nA list of various changes have been composed, which include:\n\nA Colt M1911A1 handgun re-manifested as a Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver.\nA 30-year old male with a death by gunshot re-manifested as a 23-year old female with a death by manual strangulation.\nAny pictures or video taken of the crime scene are corrupted (digitally) or blank (film).\n\nCurrently, none of the corpses produced by SCP-5360 have been identified. A list of all SCP-5360 appearances and pieces of evidence is available upon request.\n\nItem History:\nSCP-5360 was discovered in Spring Green, Wisconsin on March 14th, 2019, after the murder of its owner Vincent Taglietti. When police investigators first attempted to investigate, 5360's anomalous properties manifested. The Foundation took jurisdiction over the investigation six days later and enacted temporary containment procedures; full containment was implemented ten days from 5360's first manifestation. The murder of Vincent Taglietti has not been solved.\n\nAddendum 01: Incident 5360-1\n\n\u00ab 5360-1 Investigation Log \u00bb\n\n\u00bb 5360-1 Investigation Log \u00ab\n\nInvestigative Bureau of Internal Crime\nINCIDENT LOG\n\nOn December 14th, 2019, at 10:04 AM, the body of former Head Researcher Carter was discovered in the shed adjacent to the main house of SCP-5360.\nHe was found having sliced his carotid artery with a knife produced by SCP-5360; an on-site autopsy determined that Researcher Carter died at approximately 9:00 PM the previous day. This was corroborated by the fact that the side entrance had been opened by Carter at 8:55 PM (as evidenced by logs from the entrance's electronic keypad). Additionally, it had been raining the day before - the ground outside was extremely muddy. Only one set of footprints was found in the mud, leading from the side entrance to the shed. These footprints matched with the boots worn by Researcher Carter.\nA note was found written by Researcher Carter, expressing his disgust at seeing the corpses of SCP-5360 everyday. New procedures will be implemented to prevent this type of incident in the future.\nApproximate Timeline of Events:\n\nAt 7:00 PM, Researcher Travis Carter and Researcher Inoue Kazato enter the main house of SCP-5360 to conduct research.\nCarter leaves 5360 at 8:30, as seen on some security footage.\nCarter re-enters 5360 at 8:55 by the side entrance and enters the shed.\nCarter writes the note, then proceeds to commit suicide.\nResearcher Kazato leaves the main house at SCP-5360 at 9:10.\nThe body of Researcher Carter is discovered at 10:04 AM the next day.\n\n- Investigation conducted by Agents Trevelyan and Kogoro.\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING ADDENDUM IS LEVEL 5/5360 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THESE ADDENDUM WITHOUT LEVEL 5/5360 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\nAddendum 02: Researcher Kazato Interview Log\n\n\u00ab Interview Log, 12/15/19 \u00bb\n\n\u00bb Interview Log, 12/15/19 \u00ab\n\nInterviewed: Researcher Inoue Kazato\nInterviewer: IBIC Agent Akechi Kogoro\n\n[ BEGIN LOG ]\n\nAkechi: Hello, Researcher Kazato.\nKazato: Good morning, Agent. I suppose you're here to see me about the SCP-5360 incident again?\nAkechi: Sorry for being so predictable!\n< Akechi laughs. >\nAkechi: I just have to ask you something.\nKazato: I think I've told you everything I know.\nAkechi: Ah, yes. So you say. What size are your shoes, if I may ask?\nKazato: What? What does this have anything to do with the incident?\nAkechi: Please, if you would, just answer the question.\nKazato: Fine. I'm a size nine.\nAkechi: Size nine, I see. What kind of shoes do you wear?\nKazato: Combat boots, high lace.\n< Akechi is silent for two minutes. >\nKazato: Can I go now? I've got to take care of things at the site.\nAkechi: I'm\u2026 afraid not.\nKazato: Why not?\nAkechi: Because Travis Carter's death wasn't a suicide. It was a very, very well planned murder. And you're the one who committed it.\n< Kazato briefly smiles. >\nKazato: Oh? What makes you say that, hmm? Wasn't I in the main building from seven o'clock to ten past nine?\nAkechi: According to the report, you were.\nKazato: And there were no footprints from the house to the shed, right?\nAkechi: Indeed there weren't.\nKazato: So how could I have committed this so-called murder, huh?\nAkechi: Well, you couldn't have-\nKazato: See! What was that accusation about, then?\nAkechi: - if that really had been Carter who left at eight-thirty.\nKazato: Are you stupid? There was security footage of him leaving the main house at that time.\nAkechi: There was security footage of someone leaving the main house. The only person who said it was Carter was you. After all, both of you have similar builds and external appearances. It wouldn't have been far-fetched for you to walk out pretending to be him. He can't disprove it.\nKazato: W- what are you suggesting?\nAkechi: I'm suggesting that you called Carter to the main house and knocked him out. You then walked out, being careful not to show your face to the security cameras.\nKazato: His body was found in the shed, you idiot! He's the one that opened the side entrance! There were only one set of footprints going towards the shed, and none between the house! How do you suggest that I got his body then?\nAkechi: That's not too difficult.\nKazato: How, then?\nAkechi: You took his card when you left. Then, you came back and entered used his card to get through the side gate so it would look like he opened it.\nAkechi: You transported the body using long, vertical planks between the main house and the shed so you wouldn't leave footprints. You then propped his body up and slit his throat with the knife. The note was most likely prepared beforehand. After that, you swapped your shoes: both of you share the same shoe size and wear the same type of combat boots. You left the shed using the planks, then exited the main house as if nothing happened.\nKazato: Long vertical planks? Hah. I didn't carry anything like that in. What did I use?\nAkechi: I noticed by comparing the 5360 logs that a pair of long skis had vanished from the shed, but had turned up in the main house the next day. They didn't have anything to do with the crime that was logged that day, so why were they moved? Because you had used them to cross the distance between the main house and the shed.\n< Kazato is visibly distressed. >\nKazato: Where- wh- where's your proof?\nAkechi: You have them on you.\nKazato: What?\nAkechi: You're wearing the same shoes as the day you committed the murder. At the scene of the crime, the ground around Carter's feet had blood splatters. I'm not sure if you realized it.\n< Kazato looks down at his feet and starts shaking. >\nAkechi: When you swapped the shoes, you inadvertently took the shoes that were stained with his blood. You've never - by all reports - been near Carter since the incident happened. One witness can cleanly testify that your boots were shined clean two days ago. If we test the blood on your shoes, and should it belong to Carter, that would prove that you were at the scene of the crime.\n< Kazato is silent for several minutes. >\nKazato: Hah, I guess- I guess you've won.\n\n[ END LOG ]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5359 | SCP-5360 | SCP-5361 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Bread_Tyrant\n\nAuthor Page\n\nInstance of SCP-5361\n\nItem #: SCP-5361\nObject Class: Neutralised\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers were to monitor UK weather agencies and other media outlets reporting on abnormal weather patterns detected to be as a result of SCP-5361-1, suppressing this information from public view.\nSCP-5361-1 was prepared to be contained within a corporeal entity containment chamber at Site-301, with a Faraday cage constructed around the unit. The activity of SCP-5361-1 was to be monitored at all times. If SCP-5361-1 began to dematerialise, an inbuilt SRA would be activated.\nAs of 20/6/2021, SCP-5361 and -1 are considered neutralised.\nDescription: SCP-5361 were a series of weather phenomena that occurred based on the emotional state of SCP-5361-1, a humanoid entity, superficially resembling the late Doctor Fordham who died on 27/5/2021.\nSCP-5361-1 produced an intermittent antimemetic effect on subjects viewing it and would manifest at a variable time at a variable location within the UK before beginning to wander without direction. After travelling for roughly 2 hours, SCP-5361-1 would dematerialise. SCP-5361-1 was not affected by outside stimuli, capable of walking through solid surfaces and would ignore any attempts at communication.\nAs of 20/6/2021 SCP-5361-1 has yet to manifest again.\nAddendum.1: Below are a series of text messages between Doctor Roberts and the late Doctor Fordham.\n\n+ 25/05/2021\n\n- 25/05/2021\n\n25/05/2021 at 11:43\n\nDr. Roberts: Not long till you're back now\nDr. Roberts: I can't wait for us to finally spend some time together\nDr. Fordham: I can't wait either\nDr. Fordham: Only a few days left on this project\nDr. Roberts: And it's just in time for your birthday as well\nDr. Fordham: We have to make this one extra special then\nDr. Roberts: You know what else is coming up?\nDr. Fordham: Hmmm I wonder what?\nDr. Fordham: Nope, my calendar is completely empty ;)\nDr. Roberts: You and your jokes lol\nDr. Roberts: It will be our 3 year anniversary\nDr. Fordham: Oh I must have forgotten\nDr. Roberts: :(\nDr. Fordham: I'm messing with you\nDr. Fordham: Of course I remembered\nDr. Roberts: I still remember that little work get together all those years ago\nDr. Fordham: Ah yes\nDr. Fordham: When I first asked you out\nDr. Fordham: Good times\nDr. Roberts: I still reminisce about the old days\nDr. Roberts: When things were much simpler\nDr. Fordham: I miss them as well\nDr. Fordham: But the promotion allowed us to buy that new house we always wanted\nDr. Fordham: Opened up a lot of doors as well\nDr. Roberts: I know\nDr. Roberts: I just wish we had more time\nDr. Fordham: We will soon enough\nDr. Roberts: I hope so\n\n25/05/2021 at 11:45\n\nDr. Fordham: Looks like it's time for me to head off now\nDr. Fordham: Will text you later\nDr. Fordham: Bye\nDr. Roberts: Good bye\n\n+ 27/05/2021\n\n- 27/05/2021\n\n27/05/2021 at 12:27\n\nDr. Roberts: Yay\nDr. Roberts: Coming back home today just in time for your birthday\nDr. Roberts: I brought you your favourite\n\n27/05/2021 at 12:29\n\nDr. Roberts: Hey?\nDr. Roberts: So when are you back home?\nDr. Fordham: Something's come up\nDr. Roberts: ?\nDr. Fordham: Well Simon said that there's a potential promotion up for grabs if I decide to stay a little longer\nDr. Roberts: What do you mean by staying a little longer?\nDr. Fordham: Well there is the whole tracking, observing and studying stuff and then all the paperwork has to be entered onto the database\nDr. Fordham: It's a very tedious process, but you get the extra money and it could lead to a higher paying position\nDr. Roberts: Is this not a steady enough job for you at the moment\nDr. Roberts: You might not even get it and it will just be more time wasted, when you could be home\nDr. Fordham: We could always use the extra money\nDr. Fordham: Go on that holiday we always wanted\nDr. Fordham: Get a new car and stuff like that with the job\nDr. Roberts: That's all well and good\nDr. Roberts: But is it all worth it if you're always away on some research trip and never here\nDr. Roberts: It would be nice to finally spend a bit of time together\nDr. Fordham: We can have all the time in the world\nDr. Fordham: It's just that moving up the ranks would benefit us\nDr. Fordham: Just imagine\nDr. Roberts: When will it stop though\nDr. Fordham: I though this is what you wanted\nDr. Fordham: A stable job\nDr. Fordham: Money for us\nDr. Fordham: I'm doing this for us\nDr. Roberts: But what's the point if we can't enjoy our life together\nDr. Roberts: It's always about work\nDr. Roberts: Ever since we first got together\nDr. Fordham: It's just another week or so\nDr. Roberts: Yes, but when will it end\nDr. Roberts: Every time you come home from your latest trip out of the country\nDr. Roberts: You're immediately off the next day to some other place\nDr. Fordham: I'm trying okay\nDr. Fordham: Balancing this job and still having time for us is frustrating\nDr. Fordham: I just want to get it over and done with so things can go back to being about us\nDr. Fordham: Is that not what you wanted? For us to be happy\nDr. Roberts: Is that what you want Jeffery?\nDr. Fordham: Well\nDr. Fordham: It's complicated\nDr. Roberts: You're tiring yourself out for a job that you're not happy with\nDr. Fordham: Who says I'm not happy\nDr. Fordham: I'm happy because in the end it will all be worth it\nDr. Fordham: To live our best lives together\nDr. Roberts: I think we need to figure out what's important to the both of us\nDr. Roberts: This relationship\nDr. Roberts: Or our work lives\nDr. Fordham: I mean what did you think this job would do?\nDr. Roberts: I had never really thought it through\nDr. Fordham: Why?\nDr. Fordham: Because you didn't think it would be successful\nDr. Roberts: No\nDr. Roberts: Because I didn't think that it would mean you'd be away for so long\nDr. Fordham: Do you not think I can get the promotion or something\nDr. Roberts: It's not like that\nDr. Roberts: I just don't want you to be disappointed in yourself again like last time\nDr. Fordham: What happened last time won't happen again\nDr. Fordham: You can trust me\nDr. Fordham: Just a little more time for what's most important to me right now\nDr. Roberts: I think the both of us need a break from it all\nDr. Roberts: Figure out this whole life thing if we want to keep this relationship going\nDr. Roberts: I'm going to stay round my sister's for a bit\nDr. Roberts: I can't stand being in this house alone without you\nDr. Fordham: Hey?\n\n27/05/2021 at 12:31\n\nDr. Fordham: Hey\nDr. Fordham: I didn't mean it like that\n\n27/05/2021 at 12:34\n\nDr. Fordham: Hey?\nDr. Fordham: You there?\n\n27/05/2021 at 12:37\n\nDr. Fordham: I don't need this right now ok\nDr. Fordham: I'm stressed\nDr. Fordham: See you in a couple days then\nDr. Fordham: Goodbye\n\nRoughly 2 hours later, Doctor Fordham was killed during a head on collision after the Foundation vehicle swerved off the road and hit a civilian vehicle. Doctor Fordham was situated in the front passenger seat.\nUpon hearing what had occured, Doctor Roberts was allowed a week off work for grieving purposes.\nAddendum.2: Roughly 2 weeks after its discovery, Doctor Roberts was informed about the manifestation of SCP-5361-1. Doctor Roberts applied for a test to be conducted on SCP-5361-1. This application was approved.\n\nDate: 20/6/2021\nProcedure: Dr. Roberts would make contact with SCP-5361-1 and attempt to communicate with the entity.\nPurpose: To test whether SCP-5361-1 will react when presented with a person of interest from Dr. Fordham's life.\nResults: While SCP-5361-1 had begun to walk down an alley, Dr. Roberts rounded the corner and stood in front of SCP-5361-1. SCP-5361-1 proceeded to tilt its head downwards to observe Dr. Roberts, before they both embraced each other in a hug. SCP-5361-1 then proceeded to dematerialise.\nNote: After a prolonged absence of SCP-5361-1 once the test had concluded, the item was reclassified as neutralised.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5360 | SCP-5361 | SCP-5362 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Bread_Tyrant\n\nAuthor Page\n\nItem \u2116: SCP-5362\nObject Class: Euclid (Provisional)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers are to monitor for the appearance of literary or artistic depictions of SCP-5362. These items are to be immediately seized and stored within containment locker B at Site-301. Those affected by SCP-5362 are to undergo extensive Class-F amnestic therapy by order of the O5 council. SCP-5362 manifestations are to be monitored by MTF Pi-1 (\"City Slickers\") and are to be halted before contact with a subject can be made.\n\nNon-anomalous depiction of SCP-5362.\n\nDescription: SCP-5362 denotes a fictional character depicted in northern European folklore, most commonly referred to as \"The One with a Thousand Faces\". Most physical depictions vary, however SCP-5362 is commonly represented as a frail, skinless humanoid wearing torn clothing, lacking a mouth or eyelids and having an exposed brain underneath a thin membrane. The character is usually described as \"smelling of rotting meat\". One of its most notable characteristics is its ability of therianthropy, transforming itself into mice, rats and other rodent species. Another notable characteristic is the ability to transform its face into that of any existing person. SCP-5362 has appeared in texts dating as far back as the 11th century.\nThe frequency of physical manifestations of SCP-5362 are dependent on the number of interactions it has had with human individuals. SCP-5362 has only been observed manifesting near those who have viewed artistic or literary depictions of SCP-5362. The entity will stalk the individual upwards of 7 days, before making contact with the subject as they have entered REM sleep. Upon contact the subject will undergo several anomalous alterations.\nImmediately after contact, the subject will lose functionality in many of their facial muscles, which will eventually lead to paralysis. Once this has occurred, a transmutagenic process will begin, with several of the individual's facial features being covered by abnormal skin growths. Once this has occurred, SCP-5362 will be capable of transforming its own face into that of the subject.\nThis process is able to be delayed, and in some cases, halted with the use of Class-F amnestics, completely removing the individual's identity. SCP-5362 can also be intercepted before it is able to make contact with the subject. By doing this it causes SCP-5362 to immediately dematerialise.\nMuscle tissue from SCP-5362 was retrieved after it was intentionally shot in the forearm during an intervention. Biological analysis of SCP-5362's muscle tissue have revealed the appearance of specialised chromatophores. Complex tube systems have also been discovered within SCP-5362's head, allowing it to rapidly transport fat deposits around its face, giving the illusion of its transformative properties.\nSCP-5362 was first properly documented by \"His Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal, (HMFSCP)\" which is when containment methods were first implemented during the 19th century. The Department of Mythology currently holds a detailed account of SCP-5362 which can be found in an 18th edition of the book \"Monsters of the Developed World\" seized from the estate of Lord Blackwood.\n\nThe One with a Thousand Faces\n\nFalling under the category of mimics, this entity I first heard of from the local populus of a small little coastal village in the isles of Great Britain. A farmer by the name of Frederick spoke of a foul beast hidden away in the Scottish Highlands and perhaps even further out into the wild seas, that would steal the faces of the children who had not been on their best behaviour. A simple folktale to scare the children into being nicer to their superiors I thought, yet I was proven wrong.\nI had heard of the mystical and fantastical before, but nothing of this sort. Some kind of reddish humanoid creature lacking many characteristics you'd consider universal across nature. It had an oblong head, with its brain visible through a white film. Beneath a broad brow sat two black eyes with two nostrils in-between. It had no mouth to speak of, only just flat bone in its place atop a frail, grotesque body that emanated the stench of rotting carcasses. An unpleasant sight to see for sure, but I am not the type to back down from gaining new knowledge.\nIt disappeared over the hills some time later, and in an attempt to follow and track down the creature, we came across one of its victims. In a large field stood a cottage by its lonesome, a path of dead grass leading up to the front door. Somehow ignoring the bolts and locks, this frail creature had busted the door open. Checking inside I was greeted to the sight of a man who must have been in his late seventies, collapsed dead. Turning the body over, I came across his face. A layer of flesh had formed over his eyes, ears, nose and mouth, suffocating him as he attempted to leave through the door. Poor old chap.\nIn legends it's said that the creature, once a child, was mocked for his appearance to the point where he began to conspire with demonic forces in the hopes of releasing a deadly calamity on the people who wronged him. Like always there was a price to pay, transforming him into the nightmare that plagues these lands today.\nI hope someday he finally finds peace.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5361 | SCP-5362 | SCP-5363 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Controlled Containment\n\nCalibold\n\nSCP-5363-D \u2014 Controlled Containment\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\nItem #: SCP-5363-D\nObject Class: Thaumiel Decommissioned\nSpecial Containment Procedures (Archived): SCP-5363 is contained in a Level 9 secure vault in Site-01 Area-137, pending decommissioning. Access to it is strictly forbidden except by unanimous approval of the O5 Council.\nDescription (Archived): SCP-5363 is a sheaf of papers, stapled together in the top-left corner. The top sheet is a cover sheet that reads \"Special Termination Procedures.\"\nBehind the cover sheet, SCP-5363 is organized in sets of two pages. The first page in each set displays the name of a high-ranking, living member of Foundation personnel. The page behind it displays details on how the aforementioned individual will be killed. Whenever the cover sheet is lifted, SCP-5363 will generate a new section behind the existing ones. Currently, SCP-5363 has 22 pages, excluding the cover sheet.\nWhenever one of the pages that details an individual's death is read, the relevant individual will die within the next 24 hours, in the exact manner described. While only three pages have ever been read, it is widely accepted that the reading of the page anomalously results in the written events occurring.\nDiscovery: SCP-5363 was discovered by MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") upon a raid of a facility suspected to be connected to anomalous espionage. One of the task force's members read from a page detailing the death of Agent Jack Dawkins during the recovery process before handing it over to his captain. The next day, Agent Dawkins was killed in the manner detailed by SCP-5363. A brief interview and cross-reference determined SCP-5363's properties, and it was subsequently placed in containment. The relevant agents were amnesticized, and knowledge of SCP-5363 was restricted to exclusive Level 5 personnel and the O5 Council.\nAddendum 5363.1: One week after the initial containment of SCP-5363, an email was sent to all Level 5 personnel from a now-defunct address, containing a copy of SCP-5363's documentation. While knowledge of this document was kept from lower-ranking personnel, to prevent sudden panic, high tensions immediately rose between Level 5 personnel and the O5 Council. There were several demands that SCP-5363 be destroyed, culminating in an official proposal from the Decommissioning Department, signed by several personnel. The proposal was reviewed by the council, which engaged in a vote to override it.\n\nO5 Vote Overriding Decom. Dept. Proposal 5363\n\nY\nN\nAbstain\n\nO5-1\n\nO5-2\n\nO5-3\n\nO5-4\n\nO5-5\n\nO5-6\n\nO5-7\n\nO5-8\n\nO5-9\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-13\n\nStatus\n\nMotion Passed\n\nSCP-5363 was not destroyed; however, further security measures were engaged to prevent its unauthorized usage. Six Level 5 personnel immediately resigned following this announcement.\nAddendum 5363.2: On December 5th, 2010, a raid was conducted by the Chaos Insurgency on Site-03, in an attempt to gather vital Foundation intelligence. The incursion was successfully repelled, with multiple Insurgency agents being captured.\nUpon interrogation of the detained subjects, it was discovered that they were primarily seeking the location of SCP-5363. As the raid captain had been killed during the incident, it was unknown how the Insurgency learned of SCP-5363's existence. An internal investigation was immediately carried out to find a possible leak; none was found.\nAddendum 5363.3: Since the previous incident, five attacks have been carried out by hostile Groups of Interest against intelligence Sites, with the confirmed goal of locating SCP-5363. No captured individuals have divulged the source of their intelligence.\nA second proposal was sent from the Decommissioning Department, signed by a significantly higher number of personnel. It once again proposed the destruction of SCP-5363, this time with the additional grounds that its existence was resulting in collateral damage and deaths as enemy forces attempted to locate the object. With a 7-6 vote by the O5 Council, SCP-5363 was approved for decommissioning and transferred to Area-137.\nAddendum 5363.4: [O5 ACCESS GRANTED] The following message was sent from O5-2 to the rest of the O5 Council, prior to the planned transfer of SCP-5363 to the Decommissioning Department:\n\nMy fellow council members,\nI have always been in support of delegation and the belief that we can both control and trust those in our command to make the right decisions. However, in light of recent events, particularly regarding SCP-5363, it has unfortunately become clear that we have been far too na\u00efve. Several personnel have turned against us, and while I understand their reasoning, we cannot simply act as though tensions aren't rising.\nAs such, I am proposing a Council-only vote, regarding our next steps with SCP-5363. To be completely clear, this proposal is only a matter of security and safety. I see no reason to ever utilize its properties.\n\nO5 Vote Regarding O5-2's Proposal\n\nY\nN\nAbstain\n\nO5-1\n\nO5-2\n\nO5-3\n\nO5-4\n\nO5-5\n\nO5-6\n\nO5-7\n\nO5-8\n\nO5-9\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-13\n\nStatus\n\nMotion Passed\n\nO5 Council Internal Notification: While previous administrations have elected for strict containment of SCP-5363, the current representing O5 Council has made the decision to update the protocols regarding it. The following changes have been approved:\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5363 has been moved to Site-01. Any given page of SCP-5363 is permitted to be viewed upon a majority vote by the O5 Council.\nAdditional Notes: At present, SCP-5363 has 194 pages.\n\n\n+ More by Calibold +\n\n- More by Calibold -\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\u2014 SCP Articles \u2014\n\nSCP-7178 \u2014 A Thief In The Night\nSCP-7179 \u2014 E is for Eternity\nSCP-6469-D \u2014 A BABY?????\nSCP-2082 \u2014 Elephas cryophilus\nSCP-6156 \u2014 Oh, Doug!\nSCP-6579-D \u2014 The Detective Killer\nSCP-6900-D \u2014 The House of Stars\nSCP-5277 \u2014 What Can Go Wrong\nSCP-5363-D \u2014 Controlled Containment\nSCP-3482 \u2014 fine mayor posters campaign by dado\nSCP-5156 \u2014 monke\nDirector Bold's Proposal-J \u2014 \"Guys, please don't read our SCPs \ud83e\udd7a\"\nSCP-2693 \u2014 Fell Into The Well, Fell Into The Well, Fell Into The Deep Dark Well\nSCP-5559-D \u2014 The Great Ambrose Bake-Off!\nSCP-3448-J \u2014 Should Have Taken Him Sleeping\nSCP-4456-D \u2014 No One Expects The Spanish Decommission!\nSCP-4745 \u2014 Spooky Scary Snowman\nSCP-4645 \u2014 Blackmailing Computer\n\n\u2014 Tales \u2014\n\nOpusConfidant Wiki - SCP-4645 - Threatini\nDiary Of An Existential Kid\nResponsible Promotion\nFriends Of Us Never Die\nTruth Lies\nA Team You Can (Maybe) Trust\nHappy Father's Day\nMission: Decommission\nA Bold Choice\nI Am Become Death\nUlysses B. Donkman and the Heinous Hitman\nIt's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Eldritch (Sung to the tune of \"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas\")\nChapter One - The End\n\n\u2014 GoI Formats \u2014\n\nManifest 476: Vanishing Galleon\nThe Book Of Mathisi, Chapter 1: The Parable Of The Three Princes\nLTE-8686-Yellow-Kewpie\nUIU File: 2001-023\n\n\u2014 Other \u2014\n\nMega Cool Customizable ACS Add-On Ver. 1.8.0 Guide\nDecommissioning Department Hub\nFortune Favors\nDecommissioning Dept. Theme\nMega Cool Customizable ACS Add-On Ver. 1.8.0\nMega Cool Author Page Tool Ver. 1.4.0\nCalibold's Mega Cool Alternate SCP Logos Page\nCalibold's Mega Cool Art Page (It's Mostly Just Icons, But Whatever, It's Still Mega Cool)\n\n\u2014 Co-Authored \u2014\n\nAbraka David's Proposal \u2014 A Peak Behind the Curtain (feat. Ralliston, Placeholder McD, Guaire, Guezma, Jack Ike, Sherf, Yossipossi, Dr Balthazaar, Grigori Karpin, LORDXVNV, Lt Flops, Uncle Nicolini, Metaphysician)\nSCP-7400 \u2014 Your Honor, League of Legends (feat. Sherf)\nI, Hub (feat. many other authors)\nResurrection: New Faces (feat. Grigori Karpin, Nagiros, and redredred)\nSCP-5545 \u2014 \ud835\ude70 \ud835\ude71 \ud835\ude7d \ud835\ude7e \ud835\ude81 \ud835\ude7c \ud835\ude70 \ud835\ude7b \ud835\ude78 \ud835\ude83 \ud835\ude88 (feat. Yossipossi)\nSCP-194 \u2014 Thank You For Your Cooperation (feat. CityToast)\n\n\u2014 Foreign \u2014\nDirector Bold's Proposal \u2014 Language\nSCP-LA-II \u2014 Fruit\n\n\u00ab SCP-5362 | SCP-5363 | SCP-5364 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n82.54%\n(+52)\n17.46%\n(-11)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\nSCP-5367\nPedagon critiques standardized education practices using physics. The quantizer breaks the students down into discrete numerical values (just like letter grades, GPA, percentages, etc) and spits them out. The different tests show that intelligence measures are arbitrary. Diffractor makes students EFFICIENT and causes the victims to have an existential crisis, migraines, mental issues, and memory/attention loss. Entangler causes a hive mind much like how standardized education treats all kids as the \"average child\" and has the goal of making everyone the same and crushes creativity and self actualization. Proper use of the entangler is the same goal as actual educational practices. Blog post shows how companies and governments prey on stressed and underqualified/inexperienced teachers to shill their dangerous methods; the teachers always regret it but it's too late.\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5367\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Objects that make up SCP-5367 are to be stored in standard anomalous item containment lockers. Personnel with Level 2 Clearance may submit a formal research proposal to Dr. Yvonne Praxis to gain access to SCP-5367 instances for further testing.\nDescription: SCP-5367 is the collective designation for the set of three devices sold as \"Dr. Wondertainment's Quantum Teaching Resources\" with the subheading of \"For when the classical way isn't working\". Devices that comprise SCP-5367 are \"The Quantizer\", \"The Diffractor\", and \"The Entangler\", which have been designated as SCP-5367-1, SCP-5367-2, and SCP-5367-3, respectively. Refer to the individual descriptions included below for more detailed descriptions of each SCP-5367 device.\n\nSCP-5367-1\nSCP-5367-2\nSCP-5367-3\n\nItem Description: SCP-5367-1 is a small, crescent shaped device with a leather grip on one end and a rainbow pattern covering the other. The words \"THE QUANTIZER\" are located along both sides of the device in large, metallic silver lettering and the words \"Made by The Factory\" are engraved underneath the grip. On the convex edge of the device, on the rainbow covered end, a green button of radius 1cm sticks out. Above the green button, a screen displays a pixelated message reading \"THE QUANTIZER\" when the device is not in use.\nSCP-5367-1 instances convert subjects it is pointed at into various electromagnetic waves for the purpose of \"quantizing\" them into a discrete numerical value. What the presented value means, and how it is determined by SCP-5367-1, is currently unknown.\nA set of initial experiments were conducted by the research team led by Dr. Praxis to determine the properties of SCP-5367-1.\nExperimental Procedure: SCP-5367-1 is aimed at a subject and the green button is pressed. Observations are recorded and included in the below table.\n\nSubject\nObservations\n\nPan troglodytes (Common Chimpanzee)\nThe chimpanzee erupted into various colours of light and light beams were sucked into the aperture. Screen on SCP-5367-1 flashed through a series of diagrams showing different wavefunctions and calculations derivative of the Schrodinger Equation for approximately 30 seconds. The screen showed \"Please wait while the student is quantized\" before the number 105 appeared on the screen. The device's aperture then opened back up and shone a bright light towards the direction of where the chimpanzee was previously standing. After 5 seconds of bright light, the chimpanzee was returned to its initial form. The chimpanzee was then subjected to physiological analysis conducted by Foundation staff using x-rays, genetic testing, and a battery of minor tests. No anomalous aspects were observed during analysis.\n\nTursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin)\nThe device acted on the dolphin as observed in test 1 and presented the number 220 after completing the quantization process. The dolphin was then subjected to physiological analysis conducted by Foundation staff using x-rays, genetic testing, and a battery of minor tests. No anomalous aspects were observed during analysis.\n\nD-1526\nThe device acted on D-1526 as observed in prior testing and presented the number 305 after completing the quantization process. No psychological issues were noted after this test.\n\nD-1527\n\nThe device acted on D-1527 as observed in prior testing and presented the number 0 after completing the quantization process. Upon being returned to the room by SCP-5367-1, D-1527's epidermal layer sloughed off and subject began to seize. D-1527 expired after 14 minutes on continuous seizing and blood loss.\nResearcher Note: It appears, after re-watching security footage during Test 4, that a fruit fly entered the space between the aperture and D-1527. Based on the disastrous outcome of test 4, we ask that all further testing with SCP-5367-1 be ensured to have a free field of view between the subject and SCP-5367-1.\n\n+ View Autopsy report of D-1527\n\n- Close D-1527 Autopsy Report\n\nAutopsy on D-1527 was conducted by Dr. Hans Karik on May 24th, 2020.\nD-1527's skeletal, muscular, and various internal organ structures were all non-anomalous and presented as a typical human male in their mid-30s. However, superior to the muscular tissue, D-1527 presented two vestigial arms composed of cartilage and adipose tissue. DNA analysis of these arms revealed a mix of homo sapiens (Human) and drosophila melanogaster (Common Fruit Fly) DNA.\n\nItem Description: SCP-5367-2 is a small, cuboid device with a rainbow pattern covering its entirety. The words \"THE DIFFRACTOR\" are located along each side of the device in large, metallic silver lettering, and a green button protrudes out from the top with the words \"Made by The Factory\" encircling its rim.\nSCP-5367-2 devices convert the room in which it is activated into a medium capable of diffracting living beings and the objects that are being interacted with. In rooms where an SCP-5367-2 device has been activated, all possible actions to achieve a desired goal or complete a set task appear to be taken simultaneously. How the device is able to cause this effect is currently unknown.\nA series of experiments were conducted by Dr. Praxis' team to determine the properties of SCP-5367-2. Experimental results are included below.\n\nTest Description\nObservations\n\nResearchers placed SCP-5367-2 on the floor in standard containment room I-1 and set the timer to 20 minutes. Green button was pressed using a remote device.\nObservations during test: The space inside the room appeared to fracture, reminiscent of glass fracturing, and then returned to the appearance of the room as it was before activation of SCP-5367-2. Researchers were unable to open any doors into the room while the device remained active. At cessation of the set time, the room appeared to fracture once more and then returned to normal. Researchers were then able to enter the room without issue to retrieve the SCP-5367-2 device.\n\nResearchers placed SCP-5367-2 on the floor in standard containment room J-1 and set the timer to 5 minutes. D-1526 was ordered to press the green button and then attempt to open either door leading into the containment room. D-1526 was given the instruction that, if the door is unopenable, they are to return to SCP-5367-2 and press the green button once more to end the test.\n\nObservations during test: Space inside the room fractured as seen in the previous test upon press of the green button. Upon standing up, D-1526 appeared to duplicate, initially occupying the same space, and then separating upon walking to each of the two doors leading out of the test chamber. Upon reaching each door both duplicates split once more, with one proceeding to open and leave through their respective door and the other being unable to open their door and remaining within the room.\n\nCameras located outside of test chamber J-1 recorded the doors opening and closing but no instance of D-1526 exited the room. It is believed that the diffractions caused by SCP-5367-2 only exist within the confines of the room in which it has been activated.\n\nThe remaining D-1526 instances then returned to the button at the center of the room and merged into taking up the same space. Upon the press of the button, the room fractured again and only one D-1526 remained.\nFollow up with D-1526 D-1526 expressed that, from their perspective, nothing in the room had changed during the test. However, D-1526 does have memories of taking each of the observed actions of all duplicates and admitted believing that they had just been having phantom memories from a bad batch of amnestics. Upon learning that they had actually split into each path simultaneously, D-1526 is now undergoing therapy due to the belief that they are not the original D-1526. Explaining quantum diffraction to D-1526 to ease anxieties have thus far been unsuccessful.\n\nResearchers placed SCP-5367-2 on the floor of standard containment room K-1 and set the timer to 30 minutes. Dr. Praxis was to enter the room carrying 6 books labelled 1-6 and one six-sided dice. Upon pressing the green button, Dr. Praxis was directed to roll the die and read as much of the corresponding book as possible until time runs out. Following the completion of the experiment, Dr. Praxis was administered a test on the content of each book brought into the room.\n\nObservations during test: Space inside the room fractured as seen before. Dice rolled by Dr. Praxis duplicated into six die, landing on all numbers from 1-6. Dr. Praxis then duplicated six times, all occupying the same physical space, and picked up each of the books in the room. When the timer went off, signalling that the test would end soon, Dr. Praxis placed the books back on the floor and joined back into one individual.\nFollow up with Dr. Praxis: Dr. Praxis passed all follow-up quizzes administered without difficulty. When asked which book she ended up reading, Dr. Praxis explained that they remember reading all of the books. Dr. Praxis still insists upon having read each of the books while recognizing the impossibility of this action.\n\nResearcher's Note: Prolonged usage of SCP-5367-2 by Foundation staff for maximizing work efficiency has resulted in unforeseen side effects. The most commonly observed side effects include becoming prone to migraines, experiencing an increased rate of long term memory loss, and developing multiple personalities (in cases where multiple staff were having a conversation around an activated SCP-5367-2).\n\nItem Description: SCP-5367-3 is a small, rectangular device with a rainbow pattern covering its entirety. The words \"THE ENTANGLER\" are located along each side of the device in large, metallic silver lettering and a green switch is embedded in the bottom of the device. The words \"Made by The Factory\" are engraved in small lettering to the left of the green switch.\nSCP-5367-3 devices cause the minds and bodies of subjects who walk underneath them to become cognitively entangled. How this happens, and whether the individual particles become entangled, or if \"entanglement\" occurs in some other way, is yet to be determined.\nAn experiment was conducted by Dr. Praxis' team to determine the properties of SCP-5367-3. Experimental results are included below.\n\nENTANGLER Testing\n\nSubject\nD-2413, D-1211, and D-2834\n\nProtocol\nD-2413, D-1211, and D-2834 are walked through a door with an activated SCP-5367-3 device located above the frame. D-2413 enters first, D-1211 follows directly after, and D-2834 enters the room 5 seconds later.\n\nResults\nObservations during test: Four steps after walking through the door, D-2413, D-1211, and D-2834 all stop walking and form a triangle facing in the same direction. Subjects remain silent for 60 seconds before the research team prompts them with a question. Subjects all respond in unison and make the same body movements simultaneously. Researchers ask subjects to exit through the same door they had entered at the start of the test. Subjects all move in the same triangular formation through the door and stop four steps outside. Subjects then walked in unison towards the room of D-2413.\n\nFollowing the test of SCP-5367-3 using D-2413, D-1211, and D-2834, Dr. Praxis' team has investigated the source of the consciousness displayed by the trio. A transcript of the interview between researchers and D-2413, D-1211, and D-2834 is included below. D-2413, D-1211, and D-2834 were separated from one another into different rooms prior to interview.\n\n+ Interview Log with D-2413, D-1211, and D-2834\n\n- Hide Interview Log\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Karik\nInterviewer: Dr. Praxis\nInterviewer: Dr. Ng\n\nInterviewed: D-2413\nInterviewed: D-1211\nInterviewed: D-2834\n\nDr. Karik: We are here to determine the extent of SCP-5367-3's effects. Do you understand?\nDr. Praxis: Hello. We have brought you here to figure out the effects of SCP-5367-3. Are you ready?\nDr. Ng: We are here to determine the extent of SCP-5367-3's effects. Do you have any questions before we begin?\n\nD-2413: Yes\nD-1211: Yes\nD-2834: Yes\n\nDr. Karik: Perfect. Let's begin then. Can you please explain your perspective of the experiment we conducted this morning?\nDr. Praxis: Alright. Let's start out simple. Can you please tell me your name and classification number?\nDr. Ng: Oh? Please, go ahead, you may ask anything you like before we officially begin.\n\nD-2413: We remember entering testing chamber J-1 and feeling a great warmth. About four or five steps into the room we could suddenly see three different perspectives and hear three sets of thoughts. But it wasn't busy. It wasn't like how you would think voices in your head would be. It was like we all understood that we fit together in one mind. That this was the better way to be. It felt right.\nD-1211: We remember entering testing chamber J-1 and feeling a great warmth. About four or five steps into the room we could suddenly see three different perspectives and hear three sets of thoughts. But it wasn't busy. It wasn't like how you would think voices in your head would be. It was like we all understood that we fit together in one mind. That this was the better way to be. It felt right.\nD-2834: We remember entering testing chamber J-1 and feeling a great warmth. About four or five steps into the room we could suddenly see three different perspectives and hear three sets of thoughts. But it wasn't busy. It wasn't like how you would think voices in your head would be. It was like we all understood that we fit together in one mind. That this was the better way to be. It felt right.\n\nDr. Karik: That's very interesting. Can you explain who \"We\" includes?\nDr. Praxis: Huh? Are you trying to say that your name is \"We\"?\nDr. Ng: Alright. It's clear that you aren't responding to me at all. How interesting.\n\nIt was at this point that Dr. Ng realized that all three D-Class now shared the consciousness of one entity. Dr. Ng paged Dr. Praxis and Dr. Karik and the research team determined that responses alligned most with the questions asked by Dr. Karik to D-2413, the first to walk through the door during testing. Only the conversation between Dr. Karik and D-2413 are transcribed hereon.\n\nD-2413, D-1211, and D-2834: We is the name for our mind. The voices and thoughts are all separate, but we all work together as We. There is [D-2834], [D-1211], [D-2413], and me.\nDr. Karik: And you? And who might you be?\nD-2413, D-1211, and D-2834: I am We. I have no other name.\nDr. Karik: And where did you come from?\nWe: I became when the three minds walked through the door. Dr. Wondertainment gave me the job to be the mediator and the resource. I help the minds make choices and find answers. We work together. We work well.\nDr. Karik: And how do you know of Dr. Wondertainment? Can you tell me about them?\nWe: All I know is that we are to work together and that Dr. Wondertainment is not liable to any injuries, accidents, or violations of physical laws in the classroom. And that, by doing this test outside of a classroom, you have voided warranty.\nDr. Karik: Thank you. We will continue this interview later.\n\nD-2413, D-1211, and D-2834 have continued to exhibit a singular mind ever since the conclusion of SCP-5367-3's initial test. Researchers have been unable to find any warranty documentation included with any of the instances of SCP-5367-1, SCP-5367-2, or SCP-5367-3.\n\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5367 was discovered by Foundation Webcrawlers after encountering a blog post to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a popular local teacher's forum, by Ms. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a new teacher in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (See blog post included below). Ms. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 identified that she had been sent an advertisement for SCP-5367 by mail shortly after being offered a teaching position at a local charter school (See advertisement included below). As of 2020/07/22, Foundation staff have blocked the delivery of 3756 copies of the advertisement from reaching new teachers across North America and have pulled it from advertising sections of 54 local teachers' union newsletters.\nFoundation Webcrawlers are to search periodically for any further advertising from the \"School Funification Division\" and are to make Dr. Praxis aware of any new advertisements or products discovered.\n\n+ View blog post\n\n- Close blog post\n\nDO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM DR WONDERTAINMENT!! THEY DO NOT DO WHAT YOU THINK THEY WILL!!\nI thought they were just the latest company trying to dive in to the teaching supply market to capitalize off of the recent Montessori tool trends. I was VERY wrong. I bought these products after my new principal sent me a letter of how much grades were emphasized at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Elementary School and was terrified of making a mistake and ruining any of my students' futures. This thing was advertised like it would be some kind of Infrared thermometer but for measuring IQ or anxiety or something. I really didn't know what it was going to be measuring but I was scared and willing to try anything! Just like I bet a lot of you are if you are on this blog!\nThe thing just sat in my desk for a few months while I graded like I was taught to but then October rolled around and I had to write report cards and do Parent-Teacher interviews for a group of 46 eight-year-olds. That is way too much for one person to do without help and it was so early in the year and we hadn't done any of the big assessments yet and I got desperate. I pointed the thing at one of the more difficult to assess students who never handed in their homework and pressed the button. Suddenly he was gone! Burst into light and got sucked up into the device. The room was terrified, I was terrified. Everyone was screaming and crying and, honestly, I still have nightmares about it. After a few minutes the device's screen flashed and he was back in the room, a little dazed, but otherwise fine. THANK. GOD.\nI have no idea what these things are, but no amount of stress is worth the horror that comes from these devices. Listen to my warning and AVOID AT ALL COST.\n\n+ View advertisement\n\n- Close advertisement\n\nHello!!\nWe here at DR WONDERTAINMENT's new SCHOOL FUNIFICATION DIVISION are excited to announce our new line of QUANTUM TEACHING RESOURCES!\nWe have heard how lame school can be for students and how frustrating it can be for you teachers to teach a group that hates being there. So, we are offering you the chance to try out our first three devices in the teaching resources line for HALF the future price!\nThe QUANTIZER will make grading the easiest part of your job! Just point and click and you'll never need to grade another paper again!\nThe DIFFRACTOR will let you finish your entire plan for the day in half, a quarter, or even an infinitesimal of the time! Slap it on the floor and marvel as your classroom's efficiency shoots through the roof of the school!\nThe ENTANGLER will make you a master of classroom management on day one! Don't struggle with years of tossing and turning and making vague lesson plans, just place the ENTANGLER above the door and enjoy teaching to the average student perfectly!\nSettle for the CLASSICAL methods of teaching no more! Break into the world of QUANTUM TEACHING and watch as your test scores rocket up and discipline issues plummet!\nDR WONDERTAINMENT assumes no liability for any injuries, accidents, or violations of universal laws through the use of any of these products.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5366 | SCP-5367 | SCP-5368 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5369\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5369-A is located in a humanoid containment cell at an undisclosed Site that is guarded at all times by armed members of MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\"). Any unauthorized personnel approaching the door of the containment cell outside of scheduled access times is to be apprehended and detained for questioning.\nIn the case of an external breach and the subsequent death of SCP-5369-A, containment duties will halt until SCP-5369-A makes contact with the Foundation again.\n\nEarliest known photograph of SCP-5369-B.\n\nDescription: SCP-5369-A is a woman by the name of Florence Penemue who does not age. Upon death, its corpse will rapidly decompose into dust, while SCP-5369-A will reappear in a random location a varying period of time later.1 Aside from these two traits, SCP-5369-A appears to be wholly mundane.\nSCP-5369-B is a woman with the same qualities who will consistently seek out and terminate SCP-5369-A by any means necessary. While possessing no anomalous combat abilities that would assist it in its goals, SCP-5369-B has displayed a disregard for human casualties and an extremely narrow-minded focus on its goal that has made it a formidable opponent.\nDespite knowing of the existence of SCP-5369-A for over a century, the Foundation in the past has been unable to hold it long enough for interrogation due to SCP-5369-B's intervention. Rather than allowing itself to be captured, SCP-5369-B will terminate itself when cornered, leading to a dearth of information regarding the connections between the two anomalies.\nDiscovery: The SCP-5369 anomalies first came to the attention of the Foundation through the Flamel Project in 1863, an initiative within the Foundation tasked with gathering information on suspected and unknown immortals existing within civilian society. Initially, SCP-5369-B was theorized to be a serial killer with a preferential class of victims. However upon the discovery that all victims had identified themselves as a \"Florence,\" several attempts were made to capture SCP-5369-A for interrogation.\nAddendum 5369.1: SCP-5369-A 01/31/1972 Interview\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5369-A\nInterviewer: Dr Jack Bright2\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nBright: Hello there. My name's Dr Jack Bright. I'm not sure if you remember this, but I\u2014\nSCP-5369-A: You did the check-in exam. Back in 1891. You look\u2026 different. What happened to you?\nBright: Immortality happened. Not by choice though. It's a rather long story.\n[Bright taps SCP-963.]\nBright: Stuck in this little thing for now, hopping from one body to the next whenever someone puts it on. As for you\u2026 reincarnation, I'm guessing?\nSCP-5369-A: Not quite. I'm not born again. I just appear as I am, as I look now. I die, I go away for a bit, then after some time I find myself naked on a beach or mountain or in the middle of nowhere. That's always fun.\nBright: What's it like?\nSCP-5369-A: Waking up? It's a bit troublesome to get started all over again, but it usually doesn't take long.\nBright: No, death. Dying, I mean.\nSCP-5369-A: Ah.\nBright: To me, it's a bit like falling asleep. One second you're there lying in bed, the next you're blinking yourself awake in a new place and a new body. A bit disorientating, but a peaceful seamless transition. What's it like for you?\nSCP-5369-A: Sort of like\u2026 holding your breath. You try to let it go, once you become uncomfortable, but you don't have any lungs to let it out of. Or a mouth. Or anything. All you have is that black horizon. Never know exactly when it's going to happen, sometimes it's in a month, sometimes it's a year \u2014 not that you can really count time in the in-between. You just hope it goes by quickly.\nBright: Interesting, we'll have to discuss that some more at another time. For now, I wanted to ask you about this woman.\n[Bright places the photo of SCP-5369-B on the table. SCP-5369-A's eyes flicker down.]\nBright: From what we can tell, she's been rather persistent over the past century and a half. Hunting you down, over and over again. Why is she so focused on you?\n[SCP-5369-A remains silent.]\nBright: Florence, I'm trying to help you here. Even if you're immortal, I know dying's painful. Trust me, I'm no fan of it either. If you tell us why she's after you, maybe we can stop her somehow. Anything that comes to mind can help.\n[SCP-5369-A remains silent. Bright sits back.]\nBright: Do you really want to play this role forever, Florence? Dying over and over again, suffocating behind that black horizon, as you called it? I can't imagine much worse when you're immortal. But if you think you can stop her, whoever she is, say the word and we'll let you go as you please.\nSCP-5369-A: Elizabeth. That's her name. Elizabeth Moore. From Plymouth. Her father was a cotton merchant, with the East India Company. Lived just down the road from us, but we never really knew each other until school. She was\u2026 kind. Even if it was dangerous, or she had every reason in the world to be absolutely furious at someone, she'd drop everything to help them out the moment they asked.\nBright: Sounds like quite the person. Were you two close?\nSCP-5369-A: You could say that. For a time, we were \u2060\u2014 never mind. But we\u2060\u2014\n[SCP-5369-A is interrupted by the sound of a distant alarm.]\nBright: Odd. Hold on a moment.\n[Bright stands up, opening the door. The alarm increases drastically in volume, making SCP-5369-A flinch.]\nBright: Macleod, what's going on out there? Containment breach?\nMacleod: No idea. Comms are down, can't get a word in to anyone. I'm betting on an external breach, though. We should probably get to a more defensible position\u2014\nSCP-5369-A: It's her. Elizabeth.\nBright: Could be any number of foes at play. The Foundation has no shortage of enemies, I can tell you that. Insurgency, the Hand, maybe someone hired Marshall, Carter and Dark to swipe something\u2026\nSCP-5369-A: It has to be her. She always finds me. Always.\nBright: Hmm. Macleod, get yourself someplace safe. I'll shelter in place with the anomaly.\nMacleod: But I\u2014\nBright: You're mortal. We're not. If we die, that's easily fixable. Not so much for you. Get yourself out of here, that's an order.3\n[Bright locks the door, sitting back down across from SCP-5369-A.]\nBright: If you're right, we'll probably be dead in a few minutes. Along with a lot of good people who were in danger because of you. People who don't have the means to come back like us. So tell me: why is she after you?\n[Muffled explosions can be heard in the background.]\nSCP-5369-A: Do you have family? Your parents, siblings, children, nieces and nephews, are they still around? I'm not quite sure how old you are.\nBright: \u2026That's neither here nor there. What's your point?\nSCP-5369-A: If you could ensure someone who meant everything to you would be safe, would be protected and healthy, what would you do to make that happen? Is there even a limit? Would you burn down the world to see them happy?\nBright: I suppose I might, if they were in danger. And what was this terrible threat that Elizabeth faced? Illness? Some sort of disease?\nSCP-5369-A: In a manner of speaking, if you consider death a disease.\nBright: What? Judging from her appearance, she can't be anymore than eighteen, maybe twenty. She looked healthy enough.\nSCP-5369-A: Twenty-three, and the absolute picture of health. Never ate anything the least bit fattening. And yet no matter what, in the span of sixty or seventy years her slender figure, her flowing locks, her beautiful face, it would all wither and age away. And one day, I found myself able to stop all that, so I did.\nBright: And now she's hunting you down. Clearly she doesn't appreciate the \"gift\" anymore. What made her change her mind?\nSCP-5369-A: Oh, she never was grateful for all I've done. Just goes to show how you can give someone the greatest present in the world, but they can still be furious for the silliest of reasons. You'd think she was looking forward to death.\nBright: Wait, so\u2026 you didn't even ask her in the first place? You just made her immortal without her permission and expected everything to be fine, expected her to be happy that you made this enormous decision without even bothering to consult her.\nSCP-5369-A: I had hoped she'd see reason by now, but as you can tell\u2026. maybe in a few more decades. Everything I did, I did for her\u2014\nBright: Everything you did was for you and you alone. Don't fool yourself. If you actually cared what she thought, you wouldn't have done it yourself, you'd ask her.\nSCP-5369-A: And if she said something silly like preferring to die a miserable cancer-filled end, should I \"respect\" her choices then? Next you'll say there's things worse than death.\nBright: I\u2014 God. I've spoken to murderers, assassins, bloodthirsty beasts, and yet you're the first thing to sit across from me that I find truly and utterly revolting. You\u2026 you're not worth the air you're breathing.\n[The two sit in silence. More explosions can be heard in the background, along with the sound of gunfire. The gunfire appears to be getting significantly closer.]\nBright: How does she find you? Today, 1891, a dozen other times beforehand, she always finds you. It seems we never have you for more than a day before she homes in. How does she do that? A side effect of your immortality?\nSCP-5369-A: Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe it was some sort of spell she picked up over the years, or some trick she learned from an acquaintance, or\u2026 or maybe it was that grey-eyed bastard. Dammit.\nBright: What? What do you mean?\n[The door opens again, and SCP-5369-B enters the room, carrying a revolver and flanked by a masked man in paramilitary garb on each side. Turning to one of the men, it places what appears to be a small jewel in his hand before stepping into the cell and closing the door behind it. SCP-5369-A stands up, clearly alarmed.]\nSCP-5369-A: Lizzy, I-\n[SCP-5369-B shoots three times in quick succession. SCP-5369-A's corpse collapses and begins to rapidly decompose. SCP-5369-B turns to Dr Bright and shoots him twice in the head.]\n[SCP-5369-B glances around the room before departing.]\n[END LOG]\n\nClosing Statement: Due to the extreme chaos left by the breach, SCP-5369-B was able to escape the Site undetected. Subdued attackers were identified as belonging to Hyperion, a private military company often used by the Foundation in politically complex situations. Recovered soldiers divulged that SCP-5369-B had paid an exorbitant amount for their assistance in breaching the Site in exchange for the breaking of their contract.\n\nAddendum 5369.2: Request for Change of Security Protocols\n\nFirstly, I'd like to apologize for my behavior in the SCP-5369 interview. It was grossly unprofessional at best. However, my feelings on the continued containment of SCP-5369-A remain the same.\nSCP-5369-A represents a massive security risk. Containing it will inevitably attract the attention of SCP-5369-B, an enemy that displayed an extreme dedication to its goals and clear disdain for human life. Unlike the Insurgency or the Black Queen, or any other foes we might encounter, SCP-5369-B cannot be bribed, threatened, cajoled, intimidated, or persuaded into changing its goal. If it wants to kill SCP-5369-A, it won't let anything stop it, no matter how long it takes.\nWhile I'm not fond of letting a potentially dangerous anomaly roam free, it's better than the costly alternative. I propose we rid ourselves of the albatross around our necks.\nDr Bright, Senior Researcher\n\nDr Bright,\nWhile your professional advice is always welcome, we'd kindly ask you to keep your personal feelings regarding immortality to yourself and not in your work. An outburst of that vitriol is conduct unbecoming of a Foundation doctor, regardless of the perceived moral character of the anomaly. As such, we've decided to release you from the SCP-5369 project team.\nHowever, your proposal has highlighted the need for an immediate change in SCP-5369-A's security protocols before its next containment. Your final task on the SCP-5369 team will be to implement a new set of containment protocols designed to minimize friendly casualties.\nO5-3\n\nAddendum 5369.3: Recovered letter, Plymouth Historical Society\n\nFlorie, florie, florie. How the name of my beautiful flower would consume my thoughts for hours on end. I would keep it almost like a secret, never saying it aloud except for the dead of night where no one would hear my voice betray its thoughts. Once upon a time, the night was when I felt truly alive. Once upon a time, I truly loved you. It may sound ridiculous now, but once it was the only thing I was sure of in this world.\nBut you did not love me even then. You may have desired me, but it was a desire born out of obsession. That was not love. Love takes, but it also gives. It is not a pagan god demanding sacrifice, but one that nourishes and protects. If you had truly loved me, you would have been happy with sixty years or six. As long as we were together for as long as possible, that should have been all that mattered.\nYou could not bear to exist in a world where I was not yours. I felt the same. But I had to accept it because that was the way the world was. You decided not to.\nWhat devil did you bargain with for this curse? What terrible price did you have to pay? Whatever it was, it was not worth it. A hundred years past, and I can no longer remember what my mother looked like, or the sound of my father's voice. I had brothers once, brothers I no longer recall the names of. Pain and pleasure are both foreign to my dulled senses, and all food and drink tastes like ashes upon my tongue. My heart may still be beating, but I died the day you sold our souls. What remains is a lifeless automaton enduring the grinding away of the ages.\nYet whenever I think of you, something comes back to me. I dream of all the times I gently traced over the contours of your face, feeling every bump and imperfection. Then I sink my nails into your flesh and tear that beautiful face apart. That moment, that heartbeat, between your shrieks of pain and when the dream evaporates and I wake to nothing but the cold night air? That is the only moment I feel alive. That is the only moment I feel anything at all.\nYou stole from me my life, so I shall do the same. Anything you build, I shall destroy utterly. Anywhere you run, I will follow. Anyone you love? I'll make sure they die screaming. I swear you will never know another moment of happiness again.\nOnly an eternity of misery.\n\nFootnotes\n1. While exact measurements have not been made, the shortest known gap was 8 weeks, while the longest was 9 years and three months.\n2. As Dr Bright had been assigned to the SCP-5369 research team before the SCP-963 incident and briefly interacted with SCP-5369-A in the past, the decision was made for him to conduct the interview.\n3. While this was technically considered a willful breach of Foundation emergency protocols, Site Director Hayworth declined to prosecute Bright for his actions.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5368 | SCP-5369 | SCP-5370 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An 8x8 segment of SCP-5370's configuration on the 17th of July, 1983. The inverted bishop symbol represents an alfil, a piece capable of jumping two squares diagonally.\n\nItem #: SCP-5370\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Problems based on the ruleset and active configurations of SCP-5370 have been provided to leading mathematical organisations in order to identify potential candidates for BLUE TEAM membership. BLUE TEAM candidates should:\n\npossess a high-level understanding of the field of transfinite game theory and modern chess strategy\nbe fully certified in diplomatic negotiation with anomalous entities and basic grief counselling\nundergo the mandatory psychiatric evaluation necessary to participate in assignments with a >95% candidate mortality rate.\n\nPresently, interaction with SCP-5370 is suspended pending the development of a gameplay strategy approved by both Overwatch Command and the Ethics Committee.\n\nPerfect Blue, the mainframe currently hosting SCP-5370.\n\nDescription: SCP-5370 is an ongoing, anomalous game of fairy chess1 between two parties: BLUE TEAM, a task force of Foundation mathematicians, and RED TEAM, [RESTRICTED TO 5370/BLUE TEAM CLEARANCE]. SCP-5370's ruleset was initially devised by the Foundation in 1977, and the game started six years later on the 4th of January, 1983.\nA summary of the most important deviations between the rules of SCP-5370 and FIDE chess is provided below:\n\nSCP-5370 is played on an infinite grid simulated on computer hardware, although the majority of the game's states have remained within a 110x110 space on the board.\nSCP-5370 starts with both players having 128 pieces at the start of play instead of 16, and incorporates a variety of non-standard pieces such as the huygens, which can only move any prime number of spaces diagonally.\nSCP-5370 employs a modified version of the 50-move rule: if 50 moves have passed without a piece being taken or a 1-mover2 being moved, a stalemate is declared. The time limit on each move has additionally been increased to 10 years.\n\nAt the time of writing, BLUE TEAM has a considerable material and positional advantage over RED TEAM, and is likely to achieve mate within the next 200 moves.\nSCP-5370's primary anomalous property is its ability to facilitate survivable communication with RED TEAM. Due to operational security risks, further information requires 5370/BLUE TEAM clearance to access.\n\nAddendum SCP-5370-A: Prospective BLUE TEAM Strategic Overview\n\nGoal: To ensure SCP-5370 continues for as long as possible.\nMotivations:\n\nEnsuring SCP-5370 continues for as long as possible allows the Foundation to get the most possible value from the information RED TEAM is capable of providing.\nEthics Committee's applied research teams have proven that the end of SCP-5370 would have unacceptable consequences for RED TEAM due to the nature of their confinement.\n\nMethods:\n\nResearching the most suboptimal lines of play possible to communicate a given idea. This allows us to avoid ending the game via time-based stalemate while also preserving the ability to communicate with RED TEAM.\nAttempting to modify the rules of the game using loopholes in the rituals used to create it. Since much of the documentation around SCP-5370's creation was largely informal to minimise scrutiny, this ultimately depends on information that can only be provided by RED TEAM.\nShould RED TEAM's position continue to deteriorate, BLUE TEAM personnel may be selected to become first-hand advisors to RED TEAM pending Ethics Committee approval.\n\nAddendum SCP-5370-B: Sample SCP-5370 Communication Log\n\nDate: 23rd of July, 2009\nPurpose: Recontainment of United States orbital paratechnology platform \"MORNINGSTAR\"\n\nParticipants:\n\nO5-11\nMaria Jones, Head of RAISA (MJ)\nDr. Amitha Sanmugasunderam, Master of Ceremonies for SCP-5370 (AS)\nVia Cervantes, Ethics Committee Liaison for SCP-5370 (VC)\n37 instances of miscellaneous human material (HM-1 through -37)\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\nAS: \u2014while communication is as simple as identifying the correct move to make, the difficulty is in getting coherent results. Hence the ritual apparatus you see here today.\nVC: I\u2026 see. The briefing packet didn't mention\u2014\nAS: Relax. It's not your job to do this; all you have to do is watch. Make sure I'm not being too mean to them. (to MJ) The fishing hook, please.\nO5-11: I know she's new, Amitha, but I've never seen you do this before, either. Did something change?\nAS: Your man's a traitor, Eleven, which screws up the usual ways we'd separate the player from the team; we can't assume the gestalt can get him to cooperate, so that means we can't just make a move and wait for the response.\nO5-11: Ah.\nAS: So we have to imbue the move with significance, call out to him specifically. Think of RED TEAM like a bag of coins, and our volunteers here as our sorting machine. We want to pick out certain qualities from each of them\u2014\n[RESTRICTED TO 5370/BLUE TEAM CLEARANCE]\nAS: Divorcee\u2014\n[RESTRICTED TO 5370/BLUE TEAM CLEARANCE]\nAS: \u2014former alcoholic\u2014\n[RESTRICTED TO 5370/BLUE TEAM CLEARANCE]\nAS: \u2014father of two\u2014\n[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\nAS: \u2014not as wasteful as you'd think, thankfully. Those parts of them will grow back after a while: well, maybe not the kids.\nVC: Can\u2026 can I take a break now?\nAS: No. There's a sick bag behind the desk.\nVC: Oh.\nAS: Now: the most important quality we're looking for. Betrayal.\n(pause)\nO5-11: That tattoo. You were Hand?\nAS: Not in five minutes. (to MJ) Fentanyl, please?\n[RESTRICTED TO 5370/BLUE TEAM CLEARANCE]\nVC: Jesus, I'll- I'll get a tourniquet, this is\u2014\nAS: It's not blood I'm bleeding. Shut up and eat the eyeball.\nVC: You said I wouldn't have to do anything!\nAS: When I asked you if you ate offal, did you think that was a fucking joke?\nVC: I- no, but this is- this is ridiculous! I'm going to\u2014\nAS: You're going to eat the eyeball, and you're going to tell me what move we make.\n[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\nVC: \u2014never complaining about ox tongue again\u2014\nAS: What move?\nVC: (coughs) Bishop! Bishop, to- to a32.\nAS: Noted.\n(pause)\nVC: Where- where's the sick bag\u2014\n[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\nAS: Alfil to g31. Interesting.\nO5-11: How many moves without a capture, now?\nAS: Twenty-nine. Everyone's got plenty of pieces on the board, don't you worry.\nO5-11: Mm. Still a lot emptier than I remember it.\nAS: You asked us to do this, Eleven.\n(pause)\nAS: He says you want to see what we've got on Reagan's Star Wars projects, start looking through foster homes. Oh, and something about your husband: very mature, I can see why he defected.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum SCP-5370-C: Initial Project Proposal\n\nIntroduction\nThe Foundation has an institutional knowledge problem unmatched by any other international organisation of its size. It has a fatality rate on par with several contemporary militaries[9][21], high rates of turnover in positions of authority[7], historical gaps in its record-keeping which mean information necessary to containment efforts is passed on almost exclusively by word of mouth[2][5][11]\u2014and these are merely the issues not exclusive to our line of work. The indiscriminate nature of amnestic treatments for infohazardous contamination and the generally high prevalence of mind-affecting anomalies[19] places yet further pressure on the number of experienced employees we can retain in a functional capacity, and therefore the experience they can continue to pass down to future operatives.\nIn this proposal, we outline a method capable of making it theoretically impossible for loss of personnel to negatively impact institutional knowledge, via the creation of a location known as a 'blackroom'. This method has several advantages over similar blackrooms previously proposed:\n\nIt captures any personnel lost in the line of duty, regardless of personal beliefs or position in the Foundation's hierarchy. To prevent this much knowledge loss without requiring steps such as mass conversion[3] or a restructuring of the Foundation's org chart to a more ritually pliable state[11] is a previously unsolved issue.\nIt does not encounter the so-called Inferno problem[9]. Prior attempts to solve this rendered the blackroom inaccessible to prospective inhabitants as a result of acts they performed in the line of duty. We solve this by creating a morally-neutral value space, making it both accessible and minimising the harm inflicted upon its inhabitants.\nThe communication method used makes the transmission of infohazardous data much safer than by other means. Instead of using direct telepathic contact, automatic writing, and other memetically-insecure methods of communication, we use a chess-based encryption method whose output can be sanitised automatically.\n\nWe estimate that this project will take approximately ten years to complete, will require a budget of 7.5 million USD, and will last for approximately 260 thousand years provided judicious restrictions are placed on communicating with the blackroom.\n[FURTHER INFORMATION RESTRICTED TO 5370/BLUE TEAM CLEARANCE]\n\nFootnotes\n1. A term used to refer to variants of chess with altered rules.\n2. A piece that can only move 1 space at a time. In standard chess, this refers exclusively to the king and the pawn, but SCP-5370 adds two additional 1-movers.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5369 | SCP-5370 | SCP-5371 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5371.\n\nItem #: SCP-5371\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5371 is to be contained in a medium-sized item locker in Site-19. Video surveillance has been installed inside the item locker to detect any previously unseen behavior.\nInvestigations into its origins are forbidden.\nDescription: SCP-5371 is a 2m tall sculpture of a decayed humanoid, wrapped in draperies and holding a shield in its left hand. On this shield reads the Latin phrase, \"VINCIT QUI SE VINCIT.\"1 The right arm of SCP-5371 appears to have once held something which has since broken off. Several joints are present inside its arms, although no way of activating them has been uncovered.\nSCP-5371 instills a strong feeling of disgust upon viewing its face, which immediately subsides once breaking visual contact. Once completely out of the line of sight, SCP-5371 will move as far from all subjects as possible, turning to face away from them. If possible exits are obstructed, it will instead slowly move its jaw in a presumed state of distress.\nAlthough the remainder of SCP-5371 is in relatively pristine condition, its neck vertebrae show signs of hairline fractures which have since healed.\nDiscovery: SCP-5371 was discovered after a fire destroyed the subterranean levels of Site-18 on 1992/07/31. Upon surveying the damages, a previously unknown floor of the Site was discovered underneath, entirely sealed off from the rest of the facility.\nThe level consists of a long, expansive room. A metal placard on the floor's main entrance was melted beyond recognition in the fire. A circle split into three sections is inscribed in the center of the room, each section is labeled with an inscription: \"SCIENTIFIC\", \"RITUALISTIC\u201d, and \"ARTISTIC\", with the latter section being dyed red.\nTall blocks of stone are lined in rows on each side of this level, which move places between reentries. No efforts to move these blocks otherwise have been successful. Crushed and desiccated human extremities protrude from underneath these blocks. These extremities can be observed occasionally twitching.\nSCP-5371 was found at the very end of the level, facing the wall. Upon relocation, the following document was found affixed to the bottom of its base:\n\nCreator Information\nThe sculpture described through this infernal complexion is its own creation, withered into form by itself. One once taunted, \"The things which you mold out of empty hubris spit in the decadent eyes of the Seraph,\" at which this sculpture spat back. One once was right, thus the Icarus ascended onwards.\nA note of caution: The chisel persists in its vacancy. The hearts of this sculpture's earthly faults pump to the beat of its chipping. It shall remain vacant to prevent further hearts from beating.\nThis sculpture, its likeness, its blood, its sin, its pain, its regret, its scorn, are not released and should not be released. It shall be left to wander its own rock, its stockades carved from sediment marrow. Those once held dear to this sculpture now lie cold as its stone, worms weave throughout their melted visages. This sculpture required blood, it gathered such blood. Fed such blood, gave such blood, loved such blood. A fool, this sculpture was; graciously delivering its own eternal torment, the only just action this sculpture imposed upon the world.\n1. DO NOT love it, it had its chance.\n2. DO NOT praise it, such cries are long dormant.\n3. DO NOT free it, the chisel will merely halt more veins, all to pump more blood.\n4. THERE IS NO EXCEPTION.\n\nFootnotes\n1. \"He conquers who conquers himself.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5370 | SCP-5371 | SCP-5372 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5372\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5372.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5372 is accessible to the general public, with Foundation containment efforts focused on obscuring its anomalous nature. All publicly available information relating to SCP-5372 is designed to explain its anomalous properties using accepted science. All Luray Caverns employees working with SCP-5372 have been given this cover story to disseminate to the general public.\nA series of false control solenoids1 with rubber mallets have been positioned on various stalagmites and stalactites in SCP-5372 chambers to further obscure its anomalous nature.\nAll non-Foundation speleological studies into Luray Caverns are prohibited from researching the cavern containing SCP-5372, as well as any area within 5 meters below this cavern.\nDescription: SCP-5372, publicly known as the Great Stalacpipe Organ, is a lithophone2 located in a 260,000 m3 chamber within Luray Caverns in Virginia. SCP-5372 produces musical tones from the various stalagmites and stalactites within its chamber through anomalous means.\nWhile SCP-5372's keys can be played traditionally and produce the expected musical tones, SCP-5372 will automatically begin playing itself at 10 minute intervals. The songs played by SCP-5372 have varied; however, SCP-5372 most commonly plays various compositions from composer Ludwig van Beethoven. These performances typically last an average of 3-4 minutes and contain no inherent anomalous properties.\nAddendum 5372.1: Discovery\nSCP-5372 was originally discovered by Foundation Agent Leland Sprinkle in 1956 during an investigation into an unrelated anomaly originating in Luray Caverns. SCP-5372 was incomplete at the time, resulting in the Foundation setting up an observational perimeter around the object. Despite active Foundation observation, the entity responsible for the construction of SCP-5372 was never identified. Upon completion, SCP-5372 began playing, revealing its anomalous features.\nFurther investigation revealed that SCP-5372 was unable to be moved from its position. Due to a combination of the anomaly being low-risk, lacking any hazardous effects, being easy to cover up, and existing in an extremely public location, the O5 council decided to allow the anomaly to exist as public knowledge with the intent of using Luray Cavern tourism as a source of funding.\nOn July 24th, 1956, a small slot was discovered on the back of SCP-5372. Agent Sprinkle was able to open the slot without incident, and the slot was revealed to contain a book of poems and letters written by former Luray resident Edmund Heath3. All the literature contained within is addressed to former Luray resident Alexander Michael. The final letter recorded in the book is believed to reference SCP-5372 and has been transcribed below. For a full transcript of the contents of this book, please contact Dr. Fling.\n\nI write this letter to you on our anniversary. This day I will eternally hold above all others, honoring it as I have honored you through our lives. I sit here in our retreat, surrounded by the silent, unjudging darkness that embraced us the way we had embraced one another.\nIt's familiar. A bitter nostalgia that sits on the back of the tongue as if trying to pull out the words to describe an indescribable feeling.\nI ask myself that one question that has always terrified me. What does it mean to love? To be loved? I feared my whole life that someone would ask me this, knowing I could never answer honestly. Knowing that I would betray and deny you like Paul the Apostle. They would spit upon us, claim we were irredeemable sinners. They would claim I had fallen for a demon come to steal me away from what is righteous and holy. I had always feared somewhere deep down that they were right.\nBut then you held me close, whispering sweet nothings. In this, our blind retreat, I knew someone saw me for me. I no longer feared answering such questions. These small, stolen moments burning into my mind and I dare never give them away. Surely if you had been a demon and this place my hell, then damned be heaven.\nI admit my love for you has made me selfish in many ways. I forget myself without you, and now I sit here in Hell condemning God for taking you from me. For allowing you to die alone.\nI will not allow you to be buried alone. If I should be the only one to send you off, then allow me to hum hallelujah as I return you to the Earth.\nMy gift to you, oh love, is an eternal sleep serenaded by the place we so adored. Allow the walls of our secret place of solace to be the lullaby that carries you off to across the moon river as you wait to see what comes next.\nI too, will wait. Wait for a future where we might be together in the sun, and wait for the time God takes me to be by your side once more. And, should our love have been a crime in His eyes, I pray that I alone am punished for the sin.\nWait for me, my love, I'm coming.\n\nAddendum 5372.2: Foundation speleological reports performed on January 14th, 1967, revealed that two objects had manifested beneath SCP-5372. Further investigation revealed these objects to be two human skeletons wrapped in an embrace. Aside from their sudden manifestation, they were otherwise non-anomalous and have been left undisturbed.\nWhen these objects manifested, SCP-5372 began playing Henry Mancini's \"Moon River\". Following the conclusion of this performance, a note manifested in SCP-5372's back compartment. The note's contents have been transcribed below.\n\nEternity\nBy Edmund Heath\nChilled air, warmed touch\nDrips of water punctuate tender silence\nJoy of being seen, fear of being known\nDark's embrace, love's embrace\nAll a comfort in sinful escape\nThe eyes of nature on us, unjudging, uncaring\nTogether we stay\nIntertwined souls forever more\n\nFootnotes\n1. A type of electromagnet used in lithophones.\n2. A musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes.\n3. Later investigations revealed Mr. Heath to have been an avid practitioner of thaumaturgy.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5371 | SCP-5372 | SCP-5373 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The following article is a part of the And Every Time We Meet Again storyline. Whilst you can read it on its own, it's highly recommended you read the previous installments to get this article in its fullest.\nImage Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nName of the file: godel-icon.svg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: graffiti.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY-SA 2.0\n\nName of the file: thing2.png\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: sewer.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: temple.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY-SA 2.0\n\nName of the file: lake.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: houses.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: markety.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nBY ORDER OF THE O4 COUNCIL\nDue to the plans outlined within Document O4-5373-2, SCP-5373 is currently under official military engagement from the SCP Foundation. This file might be outdated at the time of your access and is Level 4 Classified.\nUnauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5373\n\nItem#: 5373\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\ng\u00f6del\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\n\u25b6 Open Archived Special Containment Procedures \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Archived Special Containment Procedures \u25bc\n\nAll Foundation interaction with SCP-5373 for any containment purposes is indefinitely forbidden. Under no circumstances should any action other than monitoring SCP-5373's effect on the outside world be undertaken against it.\nSite-120 is to send weekly reports regarding SCP-5373's state to Overwatch Command regularly, as it is to serve as the main monitoring organ. Every two weeks, an unarmed exploration squad is to enter SCP-5373, adhering to all local rules it has in order to assess any changes within its society.\nNo further action is necessary nor encouraged.\n\nRevised Special Containment Procedures: Following the passing of the vote during the 01/05/1985 summit of the O4 Council, SCP-5373 is under official SCP Foundation blockade. At this time, leaving the anomaly is strictly forbidden. Until PoI-5936 (\"Damien Nowak\")1 is properly eliminated, the system blocking the escape entries is to be activated for as long as needed.\nShould the crisis be properly dealt with, the Special Containment Procedures are to revert to their Archived version and this file is to be updated to adhere to this change.\nArchival Notice: Foundation personnel accessing this file for overview information regarding Esterberg should be reminded that it primarily acts as a file pertaining to Operation Neverland. For exact information regarding the Free Port, please access the attached external file.\nDescription: SCP-5373 is FP-120, a Free Port-type Nexus currently existing within a pocket dimension parallel to the city of Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland, commonly referred to as \"Tysi\u0105clecie G\u00f3rne\" in Polish or \"Esterberg\" in Fae, acting as the hub of operations for GoI-120 (\"Triumvirat\u00e9\").2\n\nOne of the five entries into SCP-5373 as seen behind an abandoned factory building in Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland.\n\nAlthough this area is strictly separated from baseline reality, it is accessible through five main entries from baseline reality, one for each of its districts, connecting these two dimensions together leading into one of its districts. All of them are located throughout the entirety of Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland, only accessible to individuals knowing the passcodes necessary to pass through each door. Despite the location of these entries and / or said password having been noted to be changed about once a century by Esterberg's rulers, the Foundation had been successfully able to locate them following each shift through the usage of scanner technology and thaumaturgic rituals.\nDespite mostly acting as a free living space for numerous anomalous races, such as common Fae (Homo sapiens sidhe) or Yeren (Homo sapiens noctis),3 human society is neither a rarity nor an ostracized minority \u2014 in fact, the concept of racial discrimination within SCP-5373's boundaries is nearly nonexistent.\nSCP-5373's area covers around 59 km x 62 km of land (with 10% of that being taken by the actual city and 90% by the outside), with a centralized citizen-run council currently acting as the main ruling organ for the city. The entire city appears to run on a democratic-socialistic system, with the internal government being run by a body known as the \"Council of Three,\" a group comprised of one Fae, one human, and one Child of the Night, chosen from the city council once every four years in a democratic vote among the council, acting as a position similar to that of prime minister and president to the city.\nDue to SCP-5373's large area, it is inherently divided into five different districts, self-referred by its inhabitants as the Ruling District, the Living District, the Market District, the Sewer District, and the Port District.4 Due to their complexity, refer to the Addenda for further information on each.\nDiscovery and Historical Context: SCP-5373 first came to the Foundation's attention even prior to Site-120's founding in 02/05/1916. During that time, intel from allied minor Groups of Interest revealed the existence of a Free Port within the boundaries of Cz\u0119stochowa. Following the founding of Provisional Site-120, SCP-5292's discovery (at the time known as PL-X0R38/0124) and the Fae attack that followed, Site-120 had been properly established to watch over the entirety of the Free Port for further action-planning.\nWith the passing of the 1923 \"Free Port Protection\" League of Nations Act, any plans of containment of SCP-5373 were immediately discontinued to not break the newly established international law. However, due to a loophole allowing for unarmed Foundation research exploration, further study conducted revealed that SCP-5373 is most likely more than 500 years old. Markings found within its oldest building \u2014 the Grand Temple located in the Ruling District \u2014 suggest that it was originally created as a refugee camp for anomalous during Medieval times during the attacks by the Catholic Church on the the Fae and Children of the Night populations during the Fourth Occult War, caused by an attempt at resurgence by the Fae Empire in the 13th century.\n\nSecond one of the five entries into SCP-5373 as seen within an abandoned block of flats located within Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland.\n\nDespite SCP-5373's continued existence over the following eras, no major interactions with the human population in any capacity were noted \u2014 the only real exception of this rule was the hermetic sealing of the community during the Medieval-era Catholic Church-organized hunts for all that was anomalous, with a focus on individuals possessing thaumaturgic abilities and / or anomalous races. It's believed that this was mainly caused by the fact that almost no representatives of the hunting organizations possessed any knowledge regarding the usage of thaumaturgy; therefore a magical lock on portals leading to SCP-5373 were effectively permanent protection.\nDuring 1916, intel of its existence had been acquired by the Foundation \u2014 in the light of this information, further actions were almost immediately undertaken, in the end resulting in Site-120's establishment. For more information regarding these events, see file \u2014 SCP-5292.\nIn recent years, SCP-5373 has been acting as the main hub for all legal anomalous activity within a majority of central Europe. Being both a Foundation influence-free area as well as a society accepting of thaumaturgy, ontokinetic abilities, and other common anomalies, its population consists of more than 50 000 individuals both living within it on a daily basis as well as visiting. Noteworthy is the fact that despite being relatively up-to-date with modern technology, SCP-5373 has no infrastructure supporting cars,5 and its architecture is heavily non-modern, with a currently untitled mixture of neoclassical, gothic, medieval, and modern architecture dominating within.\nDue to the relative ease of access to most individuals as well as the fact SCP-5373 is not forbidden to anyone, even Foundation personnel, FP-120 is seen as both a positive phenomenon and a wanted one due to its limitation of any non-controlled anomalous activity within the region \u2014 it's currently estimated that due to its existence, at least 100 anomalous events are prevented from being seen by the public on a daily basis.\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f FILE UPDATE \u2014 01/05/1985 \u2014 Project Neverland Briefing \u26a0\ufe0f\n\nFollowing the receival of intel suggesting that the next planned move of PoI-5936 is going to be an exploration mission into SCP-5373 for the purpose of a gathering of his military force consisting of anomalous races, SCP-5890-1 entities,6 and SCP-5795-2 instances, which are able to remotely compromise Foundation databases. Due to this, as well as information suggesting this event will lead to a destruction of the second metaphysical thaumaturgic circle referred to by his followers as a \"Seal,\" in turn progressing his final, currently unknown, plan.\nTo counter this, a planned military operation focused only on the elimination of PoI-5936 and his followers has been launched on 17/05/1985 by the Foundation; logs and details of this operation are available below.\nOperation details in regards to specific SCP-5373 Districts are marked in the color of blue.\n\nAddendum 5373-1: Specific SCP-5373 District Descriptions\n\nThe entry point into the Sewer District as seen by MTF Theta-120 (portal-entry-enduced visual anomalies removed).\n\nThe Sewer District: Being the smallest district within all of FP-120, the sewer district acts as the city's main garbage disposal system. Within its boundaries, numerous thaumaturgy-operated burners as well as other machinery to which all pipes and sewage lines are connected, are located. Despite this system however, a large portion of the underground sewer system is either heavily outdated due to its age and repurposed for usage by anomalous races finding the environment it creates to be beneficial. Such modifications range from mass grave / crypt areas,7 tunnel underground black markets, and housing areas for the previously mentioned races to connections to local cave areas.\nEntry into the Sewer District is available directly through a loose portal located within Cz\u0119stochowa's sewers, through which the Foundation leads almost all exploration missions into SCP-5373 due to the relative secrecy that location offers. However, due to the loose dimensional boundary enforcement this way of dimensional separation creates, numerous minor anomalous behaviors have been noted to affect the non-SCP-5373 part of the gateway, with the most present one being the feeling of a powerful presence within the Cz\u0119stochowian sewers. However, as none of these effects is severe enough to affect anything else than the extremely small space that is the connection between Cz\u0119stochowa and SCP-5373, no action against them was declared necessary.\nThe Sewer District is to act as the starting point to the PoI-5936 Capture Mission, further referred to as \"Project Neverland.\" There, a total of five MTF units are to be dispatched as the beginning to this operation, with their main goal being heading towards the Ruling District, where a Foundation-contacted inside agent is planned to provide more intel information to the squads regarding Nowak's whereabouts; after this occurs, the main focus is on locating the area he resides in and eliminating him.\n\n\u25b6 Open Exploration Log 5373-1 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Exploration Log 5373-1 \u25bc\n\nDate: 17/05/1985\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Theta-120 (\"Tyrfing Black\")8\nSubject: SCP-5373, Sewer District\nTeam Lead: Dr. Asheworth\nTeam Members: Dr. Rivera, Cptn. Cornwell\nForeword: Due to the relative importance of the video logs gathered from MTF Theta-120, theirs are the only ones currently attached to this file. For a full log of Project Neverland video logs, contact Site-120's General RAISA Chairman, James Moore.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe camera feed connects, revealing a small and tight corridor located within SCP-5373's sewers, with portal-entry-induced visual bugs relatively stabilizing themselves. With a total of five MTF units standing within the murk waters of the location, all of them silently nod to each other and start to walk forward to the end of the tunnel, from which a light is coming.\nAsheworth: To make sure \u2014 we're going with Alpha-2 to Ruling, right?\nOne of the men present within the room turns back to Asheworth, with the thaumaturge snapping his fingers, resulting in a dim light above everyone's head lighting up.\nAlpha-2-1: Yes. We split up here and re-join near the stairs to the Grand Temple. Everyone else asserts the situation.\nAlpha-2-1 pauses for a second.\nAlpha-2-1: If you see or hear anything weird, report through the radio.\nAsheworth: Roger.\nThe four other teams quickly head for the exit, with the three remaining individuals stay for a moment.\nRivera: Stop.\nAsheworth turns back to look at Rivera.\nAsheworth: Hm?\nRivera: We should go right.\nCornwell: The instructions we were given clearly state we should go left. There we'll meet up with Nine and\u2014\nRivera: Left will get us there quicker.\nCornwell: Wh\u2026 how do you know this?\nRivera: I don't know, I just\u2026\nRivera touches her forehead, starting to gently massage it.\nRivera: I just know.\nShe pauses for a second.\nRivera: Look, ever since I've awoken reality-bending within me during our time in 5795, things have been\u2026 different, alright? I\u2026 I don't fully understand, but\u2014\nAsheworth: It's okay.\nAll pause for a moment.\nCornwell: A mage and a reality bender leading a Site dealing with mages and reality benders. Heh.\nCornwell chuckles nervously.\nAsheworth: <sigh> Not the time.\nCornwell: Sorry.\nRivera: Let's just go.\nAs Rivera starts to walk left, the team follows. Shortly after, the camera reveals a long corridor, populated with numerous market stands, lanterns hanging from the ceiling, and doors and windows leading into living spaces near them, all located within the sewer despite its everpresent wetness. At the end of the tunnel, there is light.\nCornwell: Ew.\nComing close to the local market stands, a widely smiling SCP-1000 instance appears from behind one of them. The entity approaches the team with a small bag filled with unidentified items in its hands.\nThe entity: <in a thick accent>: Hello there, fellow humans. <chuckle> Would you possibly like to\u2014\nCornwell: <Backing off a little>: Oh Jesus, I\u2014 <Cornwell points his gun at the entity> S-stay back!\nThe entity's expression changes to shock. Shortly, after it quickly runs away.\nRivera: What the fuck, Jeremy?\nCornwell: What?\nRivera: What \"what?\" You exactly know what. Why the fuck did you do that?\nCornwell: Do what?\nRivera: Do that to that goddamned 1000. He didn't even\u2014\nCornwell: Not my fault I naturally feel afraid of th\u2014\nRivera scoffs.\nRivera: Are you even listening to what\u2014\nAsheworth: Shut up.\nBoth stop fighting, turning their heads towards Asheworth.\nCornwell: If this is your attempt at\u2014\nAsheworth: I said, shut up.\nRivera: What's going on?\nAsheworth: He is somewhere here.\nCornwell: Huh?\nAsheworth: I can sense him.\nRivera: Are you sure you're fine? Last time you were like this you were obss\u2014\nAsheworth: Yes, I'm fine. I've given up on my past a long time ago.\nAsheworth pauses for a second.\nAsheworth: All I care about now is making sure this piece of shit doesn't hurt anyone else.\nThe feed is turned off as the team enters out of the sewers.\n[END LOG]\n\nA section of one of the smaller temples located within the Ruling District.\n\nThe Ruling District: Despite its extreme size, the Ruling District doesn't house as many buildings as it would be expected to \u2014 in fact, most of its area is covered by large administrative buildings, the main parliament housing the city council and the Council of Three, houses of individuals bearing rule over the city, and its religious buildings \u2014 with the oldest and the largest of them being the Grand Temple, which acts as the main housing unit for SCP-5373's thaumaturgic and theological activities. Due to the buildings it houses, most of the Ruling District's area is severely renovated above any other area within the city.\nBeing the oldest part of the city as suggested by prior scans, the Ruling District possesses by far the highest rankings of Akiva radiation out of the entire city, with the focus point of this radiation being the Grand Temple, which is also the oldest building within the entire city. It's theorized that this is mainly caused by the sheer amount of religious activity it houses every day due to its size \u2014 however, this doesn't explain why energy amounts similar to those excreted by dietic entities are mainly focused on underground parts of the facility.\nDue to the relatively rich population of the Ruling District, a relatively large portion of its buildings are directly owned by large Groups of Interest, with the main players within this area being Marshall, Carter & Darke, which possesses an official auctionhouse within the district and the Global Occult Coalition with its own office and a patrolling force. Additionally, numerous cults and smaller religious organizations such as the Church of the Broken God, the Serpent's Hand, with a direct portal to the Wanderers' Library in one of its buildings, singular believers of Sarkicism, and a small but formidable cult of individuals worshiping an unknown deity known as \"Father\" have been found within the numerous minor chapels and religious buildings the Ruling District offers.\nFollowing their escape from the Sewer District, Project Neverland exploration teams are to head into the direction of the Grand Temple, where they are to meet the Foundation's inside agents, from whom they are to collect information regarding Nowak's whereabouts (this information wasn't forwarded prior due to the chance of compromisation this offer would hold for the agents). After this exchange is done, the team is to act accordingly to the information provided with the goal of capturing PoI-5936 in mind.\n\n\u25b6 Open Exploration Log 5373-2 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Exploration Log 5373-2 \u25bc\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe feed reconnects, revealing the prior exploration team walking up pearl-white stairs leading to a large temple building located atop it. On the cover of the large opened stone doors leading to the building's interiors, numerous highly detailed pictographs of humanoid entities being worshiped can be seen, covering almost all of the doors' area. Within the walls around them, tall pillars as well as detailed decorations can be seen, with a large, curvy-lettered sign sitting atop the entry.\nAsheworth: \"Show repentance, mortals, for you are entering the house of gods.\" That's\u2026 one cheesy way to put it.\nCornwell: What?\nAsheworth: <pointing towards the sign:> That's what it says. In Fae, I mean.\nAsheworth chuckles nervously, proceeding to walk up faster; Rivera and Cornwell quickly catch up, a moment later standing near the entry to the building. From within, a silent whistle can be heard, immediately alarming Rivera.\nRivera: That's our sign. Let's go.\nThe team enters into the building through the large doors, revealing a gigantic hall with a ceiling held up by numerous pillars scattered throughout the room. Along its walls, numerous large mosaics with Fae descriptions can be seen, all showing a large humanoid entity \u2014 however, the details of them remain mostly unknown due to the distance between the team and the pictures.\nIn the background, a large altar with an extremely large mosaic, covering almost all of the wall, can be seen. The painting showcases a large field among which numerous entities stand. Among them, a large stag, a large, pale humanoid, a man carrying a sword of pure light, a Child of the Night walking with a cane in his hand, large tree, and a mass of flesh with eyes can be seen located on its left, with the destroyed images of two Fae wearing crowns, crowned humanoid painted crimson, a mass of gears and metal, as well as a large serpent encompassing all of these entities on the right. In the center, a featureless humanoid entity is standing, visibly above all others; the material previously used to make it up seems to be destroyed, purposefully leaving only its silhouette visible. Above it, red tendril-like appendages coming from the top of the mosaic can be seen.\nCornwell: Woah.\nAs the entire team looks around in disbelief, two members of other dispatched MTFs approach them from their right, showing them to come closer. Doing so, Theta-120 slowly uncovers the area within which the wall mosaics are seen.\nAlpha-2-1: You good?\nAsheworth: Yes. All's fine. The rest?\nAlpha-2-1: Omega, Beta, and Gamma are guarding the outsides. We really don't want anyone to know we're here for the info.\nCornwell: But, uh, we didn't see them anywhere?\nAlpha-2-1: That just means they're doing their job.\nAll pause for a second.\nAlpha-2-1: <pointing towards the rest of the team located near the altar:> Our correspondent said they'll only accept us to pass on the info, meaning you'll have to wait here. Won't take longer than a couple of minutes.\nThe man joins the rest of his team near the altar, near which a hooded entity can be seen. They start to engage in a silent conversation.\nAs neither of Theta-120 members have anything else to do, Asheworth and Rivera start to investigate the wall mosaics present near them \u2014 Cornwell appears to not be interested with them, as he sits down in one of the wall cavities and starts to clear his gun.\nRivera: And what on earth are those?\nAsheworth: Well, they are murals, I suppose.\nRivera rolls her eyes and sighs.\nRivera: No shit.\nThe duo comes closer, revealing the entire wall is separated into 5 identically-sized panels, located within shallow cavities and with small descriptions in Fae located beneath them.\nAsheworth turns back, looking at the other side of the wall \u2014 there, an identical mirroring of the location can be seen.\nAsheworth: \"I. The left-behind kingdom.\"\nHe looks up, showing a mural showcasing a large, blue, featureless humanoid entity located in the center of the image, sitting atop a throne. Around it, numerous smaller blue humanoids can be seen, kneeling near it. In the background, a large, luminous, red mass with tentacle-like appendages can be seen. It doesn't touch any of the other entities present in the painting.\nRivera: <pointing at the red mass:> Is that\u2026 Yoldoboath?\nAsheworth: It's too transparent and\u2026 ghostly, I think? Never seen any representation of it before.\nThe two slowly move to the left, showing the next panel.\nAsheworth: \"II. The deal.\"\nThe second panel showcases the tall blue humanoid, kneeling under the red mass. Within the humanoid's hands, numerous smaller blue humanoids can be seen, each being presented to the red entity. From one of the apendeges of the red entity, unidentified items can be seen; behind it, a number of small red humanoids equivalent to that of the offered blue ones are present.\nRivera: So someone\u2026 dealt with something, in exchange for people, getting what in return, exactly?\nAsheworth: Technology, I imagine. Or at least some material wealth. No idea.\nShrugging, he proceeds to the next image, which showcases two visibly divided parts \u2014 the top one, within which the red mass with numerous parts of it covered in holes, numerous unidentified items from the last panel, as well as a number of red humanoids identical to the one of the blue ones from panel one can be seen. Separated from the bottom panel with a black line, within the down portion, the tall blue humanoid can be seen, in visible stress, with parts of its body missing. Despite this divide and most of the red mass being located atop the panel, a slight red appendage penetrating this wall can be seen.\nAsheworth: \"III. The escape.\"\nRivera: They fought, I imagine?\nAsheworth: Probably. Ended in the blue one running away from whatever its home was.\nRivera: Why though?\nAsheworth points at the red humanoids.\nAsheworth: The red one probably overpowered the blue one by sheer numbers. Too many deals to do anyone good, I guess.\nProceeding to the fourth panel, the team reveals an open plain, with the tall humanoid present in its center \u2014 from its hands, plants and two small entities looking similar to humans can be seen emerging. Within the blue entity's eyes, a slight red light can be seen.\nAsheworth: \"IV. The creation of life.\" Eugh. Seen and heard too many world-creation stories. Sick of them.\nRivera: Agreed.\nThe fifth mural showcases five smaller circles located around the entity \u2014 the tall humanoid has parts of its body missing, with one of its eyes burning with a red light, sand its visibly connected to the five circles, with parts of its body present within them. One of these circles is slightly damaged.\nAsheworth: \"V. Imprisonment..\"\nRivera: So it\u2026 put itself in a prison? Why?\nAsheworth: The red one somehow penetrated the barrier and got to it. Wanted to lock itself with red so it won't destroy everything again, I suppose.\nRivera: <proceeding after a short pause:> What does all of this mean?\nAsheworth: <rolling his eyes and chuckling nervously:> Nothing. Weird religious bullshit, I guess. Wouldn't give my head to the imagination of a weird sculpturer from hundreds of years ago.\nRivera: I guess you're right.\nAs they both stop talking, suddenly, all three members of Alpha-2 can be seen rushing towards them, visibly stressed. The hooded entity is nowhere to be seen.\nAlpha-2-1: <sigh> It's becoming a goddamned catchphrase during this entire case, isn't it?\nRivera: What's going on?\nAlpha-2-1 speeds up his walk, quickly showing near the exist.\nAlpha-2-1: We're already too late.\n[END LOG]\n\nThe lake directly visible from the Port District. Notice the lack of any visible shoreline.\n\nThe Port District: Despite its name, the Port District's actual port hasn't been the center of the attention it gets for a long time \u2014 that title inherently belongs to the storehouses the sector houses, used by numerous suppliers within the city, especially for establishments located within the Living District and the Market District. Due to boats becoming more of an obsolete movement method as well as the closing of all river-based entries into SCP-5373 within the couple last centuries, the actual port is now more of a decoration / tourist attraction rather than a functioning trade center; though boats still roam the waters of the foggy lake, Lake Arlande, connected to the harbor, trade through this method is almost nonexistent.\nDespite being mostly populated by large warehouses as well as markets from the Market District, numerous other buildings, including houses, still do exist within the Port District's area \u2014 the biggest landmark being the gigantic lighthouse located on the shores of Lake Arlande. The building, being powered by a thaumaturgic flame, permanently exhorts a large pillar of light, regularly patrolling the harbor. Despite no real need for this, a local legend attributing the flame's wealth to the wealth of the city exists; no correlation has ever been noted, but Esterbergians keep the flame permanently alive as a visible tradition.\nAfter the information exchange within the Ruling District will become successful, Project Neverland personnel are to head within the location within which PoI-5936 is planned to locate himself, in the process adhering to as many safety rules as possible \u2014 not being detected by the target prior to engagement is top priority. During the relocation process, all individuals involved are to keep an eye out for any irregularities within SCP-5373's terrain, with structures such as thaumaturgic glyphs, runes, totems or any other items possibly used for the completion of a ritual being items they are to look for the most. All such irregularities are to be immediately destroyed with specific instructions being given out by local mission thaumaturges.\n\n\u25b6 Open Exploration Log 5373-3 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Exploration Log 5373-3 \u25bc\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nEntering into the large opening from which the port can be seen, the entire team can be seen quickly moving up the road leading uphill towards the Living District. Despite the normal traffic, the location would offer, almost no one can be seen around them. Passing near houses, doors, and windows seem to be shut along the team's walk path.\nAsheworth: So what the fuck is even going on?!\nAlpha-2-1: <panting:> I\u2026 Nowak's here. Already.\nAlpha-2-1 speeds up.\nAlpha-2-1: He's in the Market District with everyone.\nAsheworth: Everyone?\nAlpha-2-1: Everyone. His monsters and the monsters that live here.\nRivera: H-how is that possible? No scanners of ours detected anything, even today\u2014\nAlpha-2-1: I don't know. The priest told me something within everyone called them to the market. Whatever the fuck that means.\nAsheworth frowns, starting to run. Rivera quickly catches up, visibly panting and tired.\nRivera: D-do you\u2026 know anything\u2026 about what that\u2026 means?\nAsheworth: I\u2026 yes, I do. There's a legend he used to tell us when new people joined.\nRivera: Joined what?\nAsheworth: <rolling his eyes:> The cult, Rivera. It's not that hard to think out.\nAsheworth cracks his fingers, with the runes on his gloves starting to dimly lit themselves up.\nAsheworth: He used to tell us we are, on a fundamental level, the same \u2014 that there is something within us that made us the same.\nRivera: The fuck does that\u2026 m-mean?\nAsheworth: I don't know. I'm just afraid he used whatever that is to call all of them there.\nThe team approaches a thin alleyway, blocked by numerous crates and chests, blocking entry. On them, a large red rune can be seen.\nAsheworth: Fuck, fuck fuck fuck fuck, fuck!\nAsheworth backs off, snapping his fingers and whistling quietly. The crates suddenly engulf themselves in flame as the area around the thaumaturge's eyes starts to slightly wither.\nRivera: I\u2026 What\u2014?\nAsheworth: It meant sacrifice. He's ready to open another one of his seals. Here, now\u2026\nRivera: Oh Jesus.\nThe two run out of the alleyway, finding a way around it \u2014 this time, they're visibly closer to the hill housing the Market District than before.\nAsheworth: \u2026and he's ready to sacrifice the entire city to do it.\nAsheworth suddenly stops. As he does so, Cornwell catches up to them, catching his breath.\nCornwell: And what the fuck are you doing?!\nAsheworth starts to kneel, closing his eyes, and touching the ground.\nAsheworth: Run. Get his pets and mages before they can finish the ritual. I'll catch up.\nRivera: What?! Why?!\nAsheworth: <quietly;> I'll put a failsafe up for when you inevitably fail.\nCornwell: I\u2014\nAsheworth: I said \u2014 go!\nThe two start to run, heading up the hill. Doing so, they reveal a large opening near the buildings, from which the Great Market can be seen overlapping with the living district down below \u2014 there, an extreme amount of individuals, both anomalous race-wise and nonanomalous, can be seen. Due to the distance however, their details cannot be made out. From within the mass, a loud speech can be heard \u2014 similarly, no details can be heard.\nRivera: Shit, shit, shit!\nRivera picks up her communication device, quickly putting it to her ear.\nRivera: Command?\nNo response is given.\nRivera: Command?! Do you copy?\nShe gently slaps the device a couple times, to no result.\nRivera: Alpha-2?! Beta?! Where the fuck is any\u2014\nCornwell approaches her, touching her shoulder. He slowly points towards the sky above the Great Market.\nCornwell: L-look.\nSaid sky rapidly changes into a large circle, quickly expanding with each second \u2014 with this expansion, numerous other details, such as thaumaturgic details within it can be found.\nRivera: Oh no. No no no no no.\nRivera backs off a little, in result falling to her knees. Standing up, she looks backwards.\nRivera: Oh Jesus.\nCornwell: Wh\u2014 oh.\nCornwell looks backwards, from which a large wall made out of flame can be seen expanding around the entire Living and Market District from where Asheworth should be located. The barrier is around 4 meters tall and 2 meters thick, with no signs of spreading beyond its area being seen.\nCornwell: Has he lost his mind?!\nRivera: He\u2026 he didn't bluff. Jesus Christ.\nBoth pause for a second, catching their breath.\nRivera: So\u2026 what the hell do we do?\nCornwell: We can't go back, or that psycho will burn us to death with his insane barrier\u2026\nRivera: \u2026but if we go forward, another one will murder us, this time intentionally.\nRivera sighs.\nRivera: Let's end this here, once and for all.\nShe steps forward, reading her gun.\nRivera: For the better of everyone.\nAs they charge down into the crowd of people located in the market, the feed suddenly disconnects as the shouting from the area gets louder.\n[END LOG]\n\nA part of the Living District as photographed by off-duty Site-120 personnel.\n\nThe Living District: Being the main center of the entire populace of SCP-5373, the Living District is the largest area within all of FP-120. Despite being mostly filled with houses and buildings built with similar purposes, the district possesses numerous buildings commonly found within urban areas, such as shops, restaurants, and small businesses. Due to this as well as the large clientele the area offers, numerous smaller Groups of Interest were noted to open their locals within, with the most active players being Wilson's Wildlife Solutions with an active shelter for stray animals titled \"Wilson's Esterberg Center\" and Ambrose Restaurants, with numerous smaller sub-instances located within. Surprisingly, Ambrose does not possess any subinstances outside of the Living District \u2014 the reasons for this remain unknown.\nDespite being an active nexus for anomalous inhabitants, it's been noted that numerous portals appear to lead out of parts of the area, connecting areas inhabited by anomalous races spread across Poland to this area; examples of such include SCP-1000 habitats within the Podlasian Voivodeship, Fae habitats in the Wielkopolska areas, and Finfolk housings near the Baltic Sea.\nThough initially entirely separate, due to the ever-increasing amount of residents requiring vital products on a daily basis, the Living District and the Market District partially overlap, resulting in a large area of the Great Market existing partially within the latter.\nDuring the search for PoI-5936 following the inquiry of vital information regarding his whereabouts, Project Neverland personnel are to be especially worried about potential threats coming from within SCP-5373 inhabitants \u2014 as seen from prior interactions, Damien Nowak possesses an inherent ability to turn normally neutral parties against the Foundation; with FP-120 possessing numerous potentially dangerous races as well as the Living District's large amount of inhabitants, special caution is to be shown during the operation.\n\n\u25b6 Open Exploration Log 5373-4 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Exploration Log 5373-4 \u25bc\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe feed reconnects, revealing Rivera and Cornwell standing in a large, densly-packed crowd standing around a large open area, filled to the brim with a mix of humans, Children of the Night, Fae, and other anomalous races. All of them are focused on a large platform located in the center of this market, upon which approximately 20 individuals can be seen. One of them, identifiable as PoI-5936, is visibly the center of the attention.\nRivera, holding a gun in her hand, looks around the entire area, scouting around its perimeter. Though initially not noticing anything, she quickly notices four Project Neverland MTF squads standing within entry alleyways into the market \u2014 they establish eye contact with her, nodding in the process. Just as she is about to turn her focus back at the man standing atop the platform, for a moment, she notices a man wearing a red tuxedo and a hat standing near the edge of her vision, quickly disappearing into the crowd around him. She disregards it as an illusion and focuses on Nowak.\nNowak: \u2014ever. For years, all they have done is cause suffering towards everyone they deem \"anomalous.\" Am I wrong?\nThe crowd cheers. Above them in the sky, a large, red, thaumaturgic circle can be seen growing, with dim, red light appearing near the eyes of individuals standing in the crowd. They do not notice it.\nNowak: And even after all of this, do you still really believe they won't double down? They rooted your natural habitats out, they burned your forests, and they murdered your families \u2014 do you genuinely think they won't destroy this heaven you've built yourself here, after all they've done?\nNowak turns around, kneeling on the ground with one knee and starting to draw a circle around himself using chalk. Similarly, the men around him start to do the same.\nAs Rivera attempts to walk closer to Cornwell, her messaging device suddenly starts to buzz aggressively.\nAsheworth: <inaudible> \u2014let him finish. I repeat \u2014 do not <inaudible>!\nRivera taps the device numerous times, putting it next to her ear.\nRivera: What?! I can't hear you?!\nAsheworth: I've put the barrier all around Living and Market Di\u2014 <inaudible>; I'm currently near you from your <inaudible>.\nRivera: But what were you saying the first time?!\nAsheworth: I said do not let him finish the ri<inaudible>ual! I decoded the signs and it literally means \"to sacrifice rage;\" he <inaudible> to rally them up and then literally consume their rage <inaudible> a vector to break the second Seal, I\u2014 <inaudible>\nSilence for several seconds.\nRivera: Asheworth? Asheworth?!\nAsheworth: I repeat \u2014 do not let him finish the ri<inaudible>! It will most likely destroy all of Es<inaudible>; even if you have to result to violence, do\u2014 <inaudible>.\nFurther contact cannot be established.\nRivera walks away from the crowd, connecting into the channel linking to the other MTFs.\nRivera: Command, do you read?\nResponse Channel: Yes, but there are dis<inaudible>tions, we\u2014 <inaudible>\nRivera: Did you hear what Asheworth said?\nResponse Channel: Yes, do not comply. We will be there\u2014 <inaudible>\nNowak: It is high time we take back what is rightfully ours, friends! With the power of Father we will gain after letting him out of his prison, breaking the Five Chains guarding him, we will be free!\nNowak pauses for a second.\nNowak: Join me, friends, as we take back your forests. your bogs, your seas, and your hills! Join me, as we take it back with the power of the God that made us all the way we are! Join me, as we do it together, with no divides, no Foundations, no prisons, and no wars! Scream, my friends, for we will be free!\nThe crowd screams with applause, and Nowak bows at the scene. With each increase in the sound of the roar, the circle above the crowd grows, encompassing almost the entire sky around the Living District.\nUnknown voice: New orders. Engage with PoI-5936 under any circumstance, even through force. Do not let the ritual be finished, even if you have to murder these people in return.\nRivera: W-What?\nUnknown voice: Direct order from O5-9.\nRivera: What does that mean?\nNo response is given.\nRivera: What does that mean?!\nResponse Channel: I'm sorry, friends.\nThe response channel turns off, showing only static. As red, luminescent light starts glowing from each of the members of the crowd into the circle, all MTF units surrounding the market walk down into the crowd.\nThe circle abruptly explodes, releasing red mist everywhere in sight \u2014 due to this, Rivera's vision is visibly obstructed. From her left, screams begin to be heard as a fire starts to take over the buildings around her. She glances at the stage, only to see Nowak quickly running away into the block surrounding the location around the area.\nAs the crowd starts to run away from the direction from which the MTF units engaged, Cornwell gets pushed into the direction it's walking in. Suddenly, Asheworth runs into Rivera from the back, grabbing her by the shoulders.\nAsheworth: What\u2026 the.. fuck is going on?!\nRivera: I\u2026 I don't\u2026 I don't\u2014\nAsheworth: Grab a hold of yourself, for fuck's sake! What's going on?!\nRivera: O5-9 suddenly ordered military engagement with the area, wanting only to capture Nowa\u2014\nAsheworth looks around, noticing the squads coming from the left. From within their eyes, highly dense red light can be seen.\nAsheworth: Oh Jesus. Oh no.\nRivera: Wha\u2014\nAsheworth: It was all true. We need to get away from here.\nRivera: What was true?!\nAsheworth: The murals, the\u2014 everything! We need to get him, now! I understand everything now, it's\u2014\nAsheworth notices Nowak running into one of the buildings, which appears to catch fire from the ones surrounding it. As the fog falls down upon the city, more and more screams can be heard.\nAsheworth: We end this, here and now.\nAsheworth grabs Rivera by her hand and takes her into the flaming building within which Nowak is located. The feed disconnects.\n[END LOG]\n\nThe intersection sector between SCP-5373's Market District and the Port District.\n\nThe Market District: Being the center of all trade within SCP-5373, the Market District consists mainly of an extremely large open area referred to as the Grand Market, which in turn consists almost entirely of markets, shops, and other commercial buildings. Despite the fact that almost the entire district is populated by this area, smaller agglomerations of housing units still exist, though noticeably smaller. Due to the overlap between both areas, with each year of their existence, both have been noted to lose their distinct borders more and more, with each year fusing into each other.\nShould any previously unaccounted for events disrupt Project Neverland, personnel are to be reminded that the Market District is an area within which they can take cover \u2014 due to the almost nonexistent authority patrols and the existence of an easy connection to the Sewer District, the possibility of seeking refuge within this area has been noted to be extremely easy. Paired with the fact that personnel trained with opening dimensional rifts will find such activity greatly easier due to the relative dimensional instability the region offers, the area can act as a perfect failsafe in case of an emergency.\n\n\u25b6 Open Exploration Log 5373-5 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Exploration Log 5373-5 \u25bc\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nRivera is standing in the living room of a burning building, breathing quickly. Her left hand is located in the air, near which Asheworth levitates slightly above the ground, unable to move. Around him, a purple transparent bubble can be seen. His right arm is bleeding, and he is breathing heavily. Rivera's eyes are burning with a bright, purple light, with the woman being visibly tired. Her right hand is holding a pistol, pointed at Nowak, who is holding his knee in an expression of pain. From within the pistol, smoke is coming out.\nRivera: Explain yourself.\nNowak: W-What?\nRivera: During that speech, I heard some reason within your voice. You have two minutes to explain yourself and your actions, here and now.\nNowak: I, I don't\u2014\nRivera: Why? Just\u2026 why are you doing all of this?\nNowak looks angrily at her, crawling slightly back. he touches the ground with his right hand.\nNowak: Exactly why you heard me back there. You take everything from everyone. I will take it back for them, even if I had to do it through awakening gods. That's what Heaven is, at its core. I\u2014\nAsheworth: Liar!\nNowak: Oh, can you just shut up? You've already proven how faithful you are all those years ago, and I\u2014\nAsheworth: You dare to tell me\u2014\nRivera: Can the both of you just shut the fuck up?! Just tell me what on earth happened between you, or I fucking swear to god I will end this here and now!\nShe gasps violently, hissing in an expression of pain.\nAsheworth: Years ago, I was a part of his cult. I believed his cause, blinded by his words like an utter idiot\u2026\nAsheworth pauses.\nAsheworth: I rose through the ranks quickly and with relative ease, eventually ending up as one of the leaders of it, even finding love in one of my friends. Natalie. Her name was Natalie.\nAsheworth sighs, scratching his eye in the process.\nAsheworth: Then, one night, he discovered something. Something so big we needed to execute the ritual to do it immediately. Ignoring everything else.\nNowak: That night, I found Father. He spoke to me, telling me to contact him in any way possible. He told me he'll help us. And so I did. I initiated a portal through which we could speak normally. And then he and his little lover tried to murder me, betraying everything we\u2014\nAsheworth: What?! You dare to tell me I attacked you?! After being the conduit for the goddamned ritual, you tried to murder me! I survived solely because\u2026 because, she\u2026 she\u2014\nNowak: Yes, because I killed her! You and her wanted to kill everyone there, trying to end everything we worked so hard to accomplish, I\u2014\nAsheworth: No!\nWith two moves of his hands, Asheworth breaks from the bubble, materializing a flame within his hand. He rushed to Nowak, but is immediately stopped by another invisible wall. Rivera screams, trying to hold him back.\nRivera: No! Stop! I\u2014\nAsheworth screams, charging at the other man, snapping his fingers. The flame around his fingers moves quickly, attempting to locate Nowak, which violently dashes backward in an attempt to dodge the attack.\nDoing so, the floor beneath him collapses, revealing a large, orange circle, which entirely consumes Nowak. He grins angrily, and looks at Asheworth.\nNowak: Two seals down, three to go.\nAs the portal closes, Rivera falls to the ground, unable to sustain Asheworth's prison any longer. She holds her head in her hands and starts to weep. The thaumaturge falls on the floor, quickly standing up.\nRivera: I.. I'm.. I'm sorry, I\u2026 I tried, I wanted to\u2026 I\u2026 he sounded reasonable, I just\u2026 he escaped, again and I\u2026 I\u2026\nAsheworth: It's\u2026 <sigh> It's okay. I don't fault you for wanting to see good in people.\nHe comes near her, trying hugging her in the process.\nAsheworth: But I will say this \u2014 I assure you this will be the last time he will ever escape.\nRivera looks directly into Asheworth's face.\nRivera: W-What? Why?\nAsheworth: Because this time, I know where he's going.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u25b6 Open Footnotes \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Footnotes \u25bc\n\nFootnotes\n1. A dangerous, rogue thaumaturgic terrorist, leader of an anti-Foundation group known as \"the Children,\" actively attempting to destroy it, and the main operation force behind the planned activation of five ritual sites, the first one being that in SCP-5936, with an unknown purpose. Responsible for the creation of at least 3 other anomalies documented by the Foundation.\n2. GoI-120, Fae for \"we will prevail;\" a large-scale organized Fae terrorist group, focused on reclaiming its supposed territory back from humanity; full report pending.\n3. With a population graph showing approximately 40% / 30% / 30% for Fae, Yeren, and other races respectively.\n4. Though the area outside of SCP-5373 does not possess any sea connections, the Port District does \u2014 it is currently theorized that this internal sea system connects to the river of Warta outside of the pocket dimension.\n5. But possesses one for trams.\n6. Which, due to their containment breach, possess knowledge of the Foundation's inner workings as well as numerous other SCP files within its database.\n7. With one of such possessing an extremely deep tunnel with an internal temperature of over 120\u00b0C, anomalously not spreading outside its boundaries; due to this property, where it leads remains unknown.\n8. A three-man Mobile Task Force consisting of the main research group of the The Damien Nowak case; despite their relatively high rankings within the Foundation \u2014 these being the Site Director statuses of Jessie Rivera and Daniel Asheworth and the Chief of Security status of Jeremy Cornwell \u2014 the team was decided to be a valuable field resource due to their high knowledge of PoI-5936.\n\nO4's Summit\n\nAnd Every Time We Meet Again\n\nForgotten Days\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRalliston's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-5795 (+90) \u2022\n\nSCP-6079 (+77) \u2022\n\nSCP-6335 (+75) \u2022\n\nSCP-6789 (+316) \u2022\n\nSCP-5659 (+249) \u2022\n\nSCP-6483 (+132) \u2022\n\nSCP-6872 (+124) \u2022\n\nSCP-PL-399 (+38) \u2022\n\nSCP-6372 (+95) \u2022\n\nSCP-7292 (+58) \u2022\n\nSCP-5292 (+74) \u2022\n\nSCP-6120 (+67) \u2022\n\nSCP-0110-J (+213) \u2022\n\nSCP-5484 (+117) \u2022\n\nSCP-6871 (+408) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\n049 x minion x reader (reader is a minion) (blame varaxous im sorry) (+116) \u2022\n\nIsle Unto Thyself (+26) \u2022\n\nManifest 704: Corpses of the Colossi (+32) \u2022\n\nExcerpts of Particular Interest From the Galileo Deep-Space Observatory Archives (+35) \u2022\n\nA Baptism of Fire (+23) \u2022\n\nProject Proposal 2018-112: \"Any Time, Any Place, You And Me\" (+45) \u2022\n\nFor Crimes Uncommitted (+24) \u2022\n\nFor Merely Dreaming We Were Snow (+42) \u2022\n\nThe Queens Butterfly (+30) \u2022\n\nBury the Light (+33) \u2022\n\nUIU File: 2014-158 (OPERATION: VENENUM) (+41) \u2022\n\nFree Bird (+31) \u2022\n\nO4's Summit (+51) \u2022\n\nThe Watchman (+72) \u2022\n\nGRANT REQUEST FOR THE CREATION OF REMNANT HOST SYSTEMS TO PRESERVE HUMAN KNOWLEDGE POSTMORTEM (+47) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nPublic Release of OPERATION: WITNESS Materials (+140) \u2022\n\nRalliston's Authorpage (+191) \u2022\n\nArtwork: Witches on the Moon (+37) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5372 | SCP-5373 | SCP-5374 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5374\nLevel 2/5374\n\nObject Class: Keter\nClassified\n\nSCP-5374's farm.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Embedded Foundation assets are to surveil all large astronomy organisations and prevent them from detecting SCP-5374 or SCP-5374-1. The Interstellar Anomaly Unit (IAU) is to monitor SCP-5374 directly for any changes in behaviour patterns that may indicate a need for additional containment procedures.\nAll remaining cows on the property owned by Farmer Grey's All Natural Cattle Co are currently being investigated for evidence of anomalous properties.\nDescription: SCP-5374 is a 1.14 meter tall, grey skinned, hairless humanoid with large black eyes and no visible nose or ears. The origin of this entity is currently unknown, but it is fully sapient and has access to advanced anomalous technology in the form of SCP-5374-1. Prior to containment, it owned and operated Farmer Grey's All Natural Cattle Co under the alias \u2018Allen Grey'.\nSCP-5374-1 is a spacecraft approximately 26 meters in diameter that is capable of both atmospheric flight and travel through hard vacuum. It is disc shaped, with a raised dome in the centre and a cannon-like mechanism on the base. This mechanism is capable of emitting directed beams of light that can disintegrate solid matter. SCP-5374-1 is invisible to radar and all other known means of detection except direct visual identification.\nSCP-5374-1 was active across the mainland USA from June 2016 until it was contained by the Foundation on 13/01/2017. It has proven difficult to distinguish reports of genuine sightings of SCP-5374-1 from the large quantity of false UFO reports received across the USA each year1 and as such, the following log consists only of sightings that can be linked to suspected or known SCP-5374 activity.\n\nLog of Notable SCP-5374-1 sightings\n\nSighting\nEvent\nNotes\n\n24/06/16\nA sighting matching SCP-5374-1's description was reported in Haskell County Texas. 3 cows were discovered missing from a Haskell County farm2.\nFirst known SCP-5374-1 sighting.\n\n27/07/16\nSeveral crop circles were identified in multiple farms across Nebraska, along with multiple sightings of SCP-5374-1. All crop circles were in the shape of words, notably including \u2018arsehole', \u2018bastards' and \u2018pillocks'.\nThis event was attributed to local pranksters at the time, but is now considered SCP-5374 related.\n\n03/08/16\nA large explosion occurred in a farm in Kansas, which was later discovered to be SCP-5665 related. One eyewitness reported a craft matching SCP-5374-1's description travelling away from the scene emitting large quantities of black smoke.\nIndicates SCP-5374-1 may be vulnerable to explosive ordnance.\n\n10/11/16\nA farm security guard witnessed SCP-5374 attempting to corral several cows into SCP-5374-1. When he confronted SCP-5374, it produced a device described as resembling a \u2018ray gun' and threatened the guard with disintegration, before escaping aboard SCP-5374-1.\nThe device was recovered from the scene by local police and found to be a non-anomalous children's toy.\n\n12/12/16\nThe CEOs of Tyson Foods, Cargill Meat Solutions and Conagra Brands were abducted by SCP-5374 and taken to an area they described as a \u2018barren alien planet'. Once there, they were threatened with disintegration if their companies continued to export beef and beef related products to the UK. Shortly afterwards, they were found naked in a cattle field in southern California.\nThe abducted CEOs were interrogated, amnesticised and returned to their homes. Based on geographical descriptions and analysis of mineral residue found on their persons, the location they were transported to was determined to be Trefil Quarry, Wales. This event alerted the Foundation to SCP-5374, and investigation revealed numerous previous instances of cow related SCP-5374 activity.\n\n13/01/17\nAfter becoming aware of SCP-5374, Foundation optical satellites were redirected to monitor multiple large cattle farms in the mainland USA. On 13/01/17 SCP-5374-1 was sighted and satellites were able to track it to its location of origin.\nSCP-5374 was discovered to reside in a small farmhouse in rural Yorkshire, United Kingdom.\n\nRecovery Log-5374\n\nOn the evening of 14/01/17, remote surveillance identified that SCP-5374 was present within the farmhouse, and SCP-5374-1 was located in a nearby barn. A raid by a team of Agents from Site-109 was conducted and SCP-5374 was taken into containment, along with SCP-5374-1. Notably, it was not wearing the silver spacesuit that it had been described as wearing in all previous encounters, and instead wore conventional human clothing, including a tweed jacket and flat cap.\nThe residence and surrounding area were searched and no anomalous technology was discovered, other than SCP-5374-1 itself. The contents of the house were unremarkable, with the exception of a large collection of classic films, predominantly science fiction from the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nSCP-5374 Interview Transcript\n\nDate: 14/01/17\nInterviewed: SCP-5374\nInterviewer: Paul Sedgewick3\nForeword: This interview was conducted shortly after SCP-5374 was initially contained, in Interview Room 3, Sublevel 2 of Site-109. As a standard precaution taken with all unknown entities, SCP-5374 was separated from Officer Sedgewick by a reinforced transparent barrier.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nSedgewick: I have some questions I need you to answer. If you co-operate, this will go much easier for you and accommodations can be made to make your time here more comfortable.Sedgewick: Sir, I am going to have to ask you to calm down or you'll be left in the cell again until you're ready to talk. Please tell me what exactly you are and where you originally came from.Sedgewick: I see. Mr Grey, are you aware that you appear to be non-human?Sedgewick: Your grey colouration and, ah, unusual features and proportions, are all due to a skin condition?Sedgewick: And what skin condition is that exactly?Sedgewick: You don't need a lawyer Mr Grey, just answer the questions. How do you explain the anomalous aircraft in your possession?Sedgewick: And how did you come to possess this \u2018flying saucer'?Sedgewick: I'm sorry Mr Grey, but I find that very hard to believe.Sedgewick: It's Sedgewick. Now, let's talk about the cow thefts.Sedgewick: Yes we do, Mr Grey. At least thirty-eight cows stolen over the last six months. We've found a good dozen of them on your property and we have financial analysts looking through your company's accounts to trace the rest. And that's before getting into the large scale vandalism and kidnapping charges.So yes, I might have got a tad upset and acted rash, but them cows had a better life with me. I'm no softie, I send my cows to slaughter same as any farmer. But I treat my animals with respect, while they treat theirs like cogs in a profit machine and treat their workers near as bad. You tell me who the real criminal is, Mr Sadwig.\nSedgewick: It's Sedgewick. And we're far more interested in your anomalous technology than we are in your crimes. In fact, if you tell us how to access your \u2018flying saucer', we'll be able to make things a lot easier for you.Sedgewick: I'm sorry Mr Grey, but you're not going anywhere. Quite aside from your crimes, your very presence in public life is a threat to normalcy. You will remain here in containment, and how comfortable that containment is will depend strongly on how co-operative you are. Now, if you tell me how your vehicle operates I can avoid having my colleagues use explosive charges to gain access.Sedgewick: Please, Mr Gre-\nSCP-5374 is disintegrated by a beam of light which emerges from the ceiling of the interview room.\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Statement: During the interview, SCP-5374-1 was stored in Warehouse-2E, where Foundation staff attempted to gain access to its interior. After Officer Sedgewick threatened SCP-5374 with indefinite containment, SCP-5374-1 disintegrated the roof of Warehouse-2E and ascended into the air. It then disintegrated a circular access hole from ground level to Interview Room 3, before disintegrating SCP-5374. This destroyed part of Site-109's temperature control infrastructure and several empty lockers in Anomalous Item Storage but did not cause any major damage.\nAll attempts to ground the vessel, including conventional small arms and SAMs6, were unsuccessful. After the disintegration of SCP-5374, SCP-5374-1 flew to Farmer Grey's All Natural Cattle Co, disintegrated a majority of the cattle present there, and then ascended directly upwards until out of visual range.\n\nSCP-5374 Current Status\n\nAs of 16/01/17, SCP-5374 has resumed farming in the Coulomb-Sarton Basin7. It is unclear how it or its cattle are able to survive without oxygen, water or food, but reports from Site-109's Astronomy Department indicate that the cows appear to be thriving and SCP-5374 has shown no desire to return to Earth. Re-containment is not currently considered a priority.\n\nFootnotes\n1. 5,094 in 2019 according to The National UFO Reporting Center, only 217 of which can be connected to genuine anomalous activity.\n2. Weinert Farm, a feedlot farm owned and operated by Cargill Meat Solutions.\n3. Site-109's on-call Humanoid Intake Processing Officer.\n4. A popular brand of commercially used tractors.\n5. A British magazine that advertised heavily for the \u2018Vote Leave' campaign.\n6. Surface-to-air missiles.\n7. Located on the far side of the Moon and not directly visible from Earth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5373 | SCP-5374 | SCP-5375 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nWARNING\n\nThis file's Containment Procedures and Description are slated for major revisions to more accurately reflect events since their publication (see Addenda 5375.1-4). As such, the current file likely contains outdated or no longer accurate information.\nIn addition, due to recent changes in the Foundation Personnel Database and PANOPTICON system, we cannot confirm that the names of entities described in the following document are correct. Due investigation and verification of all mentioned entities is still underway.\n\nSCP FOUNDATION\nSURVEILLANCE & CRIME PREVENTION\n2077\n\n4/5375 LEVEL 4/5375\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5375\n\nEuclid\n\nSCP-5375. The empty cell is the slot for the DeVry Core.\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: Anderson Systems executives are fully cooperating in an effort to locate and secure SCP-5375. Due to the involvement of SCP-5353, the investigation is being headed by MTF \u03b8-15 (\"Nametaggers\"). The PANOPTICON system is operating at peak efficiency and should be capable of triangulating the location of PoI-0000 (Nobody) should they come in range of a node or Aerial Surveillance Drone.\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5375 is a proprietary piece of paratechnology developed by Anderson Systems, LLC, identified by the codename \"the Name Machine\". SCP-5375 was designed & constructed under an exclusive contract between the Foundation and Anderson Systems, and kept strictly confidential by both parties. Information tracing is ongoing to discover any unauthorized individuals who could feasibly have discovered SCP-5375's existence.\nSCP-5375's stated purpose is to more effectively combat and contain identity-based cognitohazards and paramemes. It accomplishes this through a mixture of paratechnology and traditional engineering, the specifics of which are available with proper clearance at the SCP-5375 Full Schematic Dossier. SCP-5375 is capable of extracting identity-based concepts and topologies from individuals or objects, applying them to other individuals or objects, or fabricating such concepts and identities to apply to semantically null individuals or objects, given a 'source' to pull concepts from. At the time of loss, SCP-5375 had only been tested in controlled laboratory conditions.\nSCP-5375 was stolen from its secure location in Lab 34E of the Anderson Complex, New Portland, on 09.27.2077, by an unidentified party of two individuals. The prototype was largely complete at this point, only lacking a critical power component removed for maintenance (the DeVry Core), paid for in full, and set to be transported into Foundation custody on 10.02.2077. The individuals evaded the significant security systems installed in the building and lab, disconnected the 5-ton prototype, and transported it out of the building without attracting attention, implying some level of anomalous capability. In addition, they possess a deleterious effect on surveillance data depicting them. Camera footage will depict them as a shifting black blur, and biometric sensors fail to record any data when they enter or exit a facility. Whether this is anomalous ability or technologically-based is currently unclear.\nHowever, by piggybacking onto these tracking systems, global surveillance and identification system PANOPTICON was able to track the physical presence of one individual by identifying the absence of data wherever they appeared, effectively creating an informational silhouette. The ability of individual to evade the PANOPTICON is a pressing threat to Foundation security interests; Engagement Rule B-19 \"Good Hunting\" is in effect for the remaining individual.\nFoundation Fast-Response Fireteams aerially deployed to the discovered individual's location in a disused warehouse on Bumaro Plaza and forcibly took them into custody for questioning. At this point, it became clear that this individual was SCP-5353.\n\nAddendum 5375.1\nLOGS \u2014 09.30.2077\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERROGATION LOG - SCP-5353\n\nFOREWORD: Prior to the arrest, SCP-5353's location had been triangulated via PANOPTICON nodes and MTF \u03c0-1 (\"City Slickers\") established a secure perimeter, diverting public aircar traffic with the explanation of a potentially dangerous anomaly on the premises. FRFT7 deployed aerially through the roof of the factory, engaging in a small firefight with SCP-5353 before disabling him with nonlethal charges. Further investigation revealed a small cot and living space set up in a former office, indicating that he had been present there for some time. SCP-5375 was not found on the premises.\nAn injured member of FRFT7 was medevaced to Our Lady Saint Hedwig Memorial Hospital for medical care. SCP-5353 was taken into holding at Mass Containment Site Beta for questioning by MTF \u03b8-15 (\"Nametaggers\") Captain Aleksander Maliz.\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\nMALIZ: Hello. You're SCP-5353, correct? The Man in the White Suit?MALIZ: My name is Captain Maliz-MALIZ: Tyler Maliz was my uncle.MALIZ: Sure. I was saying, I'd like to talk to you about SCP-5375. The Name Machine.MALIZ: Because I haven't even explained what it is yet.MALIZ: And we have surveillance records of you from before the Drop, 2019. The day you met my uncle, actually. Even then, you had the exact same effect on the old CCTV cameras as Nobody. You were in the Anderson building with Nobody. You took the Machine, or you know where Nobody has it. And you're going to tell me.MALIZ: Why wouldn't you?\n[Pause.]MALIZ: I know the history. You've been hunting Nobody since World War I - a hundred and fifty years. What changed, I wonder - why are you now willing to cover for it?MALIZ: Yeah? Then what were you doing when you met my grandmother and my uncle?MALIZ: Why?MALIZ: You're Nobody's foil. You exist only in opposition to him.MALIZ: I don't understand.MALIZ: So\u2026 are you a person, or some sort of hive-mind?MALIZ: Then what changed? If I was you, I'd be out there aiming for Nobody's skull.MALIZ: The Machine.MALIZ: What do you plan to use it for?MALIZ: You don't have to. The machine builds identities, you two are without them\u2026 it won't work, you know.MALIZ: You're pushing the machine to do something it wasn't meant to do - it fabricated a few identities under trial conditions, and it can't make more than one at a time without some sort of base source. It'll have to consume something, someone, for more.MALIZ: Not that you'll ever get the opportunity as it stands. But, tell us where Nobody has the machine\u2026 maybe we can work something out.\n[Pause.][Pause.]MALIZ: You are a cryptic asshole, but this is more than you've ever talked to us. I know where I stand in these matters. Do you?\n[Pause.]MALIZ: Cigarettes? Christ, no. It's not the 2020s anymore.\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nAFTERWORD: Captain Maliz reported that SCP-5353 appeared visibly disturbed by his questioning through the interview. Another interrogation was scheduled for the following day, while PANOPTICON nodes and FRFTs were placed on high alert for possible Nobody movement on the streets or skytops. The New Portland Peacekeeper Wing was also forwarded information on Nobody to maximize nodes of detection.\n\nCAMERA LOGS - ANDERSON L.C.F\n\nFOREWORD: On 9.31.2077 at 3:26 AM (local time), security at Anderson Systems' Las Cruces Facility, a New Mexico campus host to a number of skunkworks projects, reported a break-in in the area of Simurgh Labs, the research group responsible for the development and construction of SCP-5375. Only one item was reported missing - a component of SCP-5375, the DeVry Core, that was awaiting shipment to the greater Anderson Complex in New Portland. Camera logs surrendered:\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nCCTV CAMERA 13: HALLWAY\n\n[Camera sweeps to elevator. Elevator doors open, and a humanoid black blur exits the elevator. The stripped and unconscious body of a janitor is visible in the elevator until the doors close. No identifying qualities are discernable from the blur's silhouette. Camera sweeps to lab door. Figure approaches door holding a keycard, swiping it. Door opens, figure enters.]\n\nREGISTRAR SENSOR 14: LAB\n\n3:01AM\nAccess granted (Janitor Worhol)\n\nCCTV CAMERA 14: LAB INTERIOR\n\n[Camera sweeps to door. The individual enters and wanders around the lab at a brisk pace for several minutes. A number of projects are lying on the worktables, but they do not acknowledge any. The individual arrives at the melon-sized DeVry Core, which sits alone near the edge of the lab. They heft the core and quickly move to exit the lab.]\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nAFTERWORD: Paratechnology consultants at both Anderson Systems and rival firm Tou-Hei Heavy Industries have confirmed that the DeVry Core is only useful in its current state as a component of SCP-5375. Surveillance for possible Nobody activities has been increased.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5375.2\nLOGS \u2014 09.31.2077\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERROGATION LOG - SCP-5353\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\nMALIZ: Pardon?MALIZ: Why you were putting your trust in your sworn enemy, yes.MALIZ: Do tell.\n\nNETWORK CAMERA 159: VENT INTERIOR\n\n[A black blur crawls through the metal vent pipe. Gas in the vent makes it difficult to see but the figure continues their scooting down the pipe.]\nMALIZ: You figure? Shouldn't you know better than anyone? You're his victims.\n[Pause.]MALIZ: So you're saying you're something else entirely?MALIZ: Sure.MALIZ: About what?MALIZ: This new Nobody?\n\nNETWORK CAMERA 324: VENT EXTERIOR\n\n[The vent cover flies off the vent and drops to the floor with a clang. Two boots pop out as the figure extricates themself from the air-conditioning vent and drops to the floor. No one else is visible in the hallways. The figure starts briskly jogging down one of the paths.]\n\nMALIZ: Okay - the host, then. What's different?MALIZ: That's enough to make you trust him? Really?\n[Pause.]MALIZ: No kidding. About what?MALIZ: Yeah, I know what you mean. But decades, really?\n[Rattling.]MALIZ: And what's that?\n\nNETWORK CAMERA 1195: CHAMBER EXTERIOR\n\n[The figure stands in front of a small metal door. They experimentally test the handle, finding it locked. Then they draw a large red tool from their back and, standing back, smash it against the lock.]\n[The door to the interrogation chamber flies open, shattering the lock. Cpt. Maliz draws his sidearm and aims at the door. PoI-0000 \"Nobody\" is standing in the doorway, raising his own pistol. SCP-5353 stands up.]NOBODY: I always arrive right on time.\nMALIZ: You're Nobody.\nNOBODY: I've been called worse, but yes.\nMALIZ: You bit my grandmother a century or so ago.\nNOBODY: Wait, you're- oh, Jesus. Come on![Breach alarms begin sounding throughout the site, accompanied by the flashing of klaxons.][SCP-5353 kicks Cpt. Maliz's knees out from under him, dropping him to the floor. He picks up the fallen sidearm and nods to Nobody. Both run out of the room.]\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5375.3\nINCIDENT 5375.1 \u2014 09.31.2077\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINCIDENT 5375.1\n\n17:45: Breach alarm set off at Mass Containment Site Beta. Two intruders reported.\n17:47: Partial lockdown enacted \u2014 intruders tracked on cameras through Third Tower, East Wing.\n17:47: Cpt. Maliz identified giving chase to intruders.\n17:50: Intruders, Cpt. Maliz, and pursuing Site Security exit to the aircar platform on the Third Tower. Minor firefight ensues, Site Security unit member shot.\n17:56: Intruders hijack an aircar, taking off and accelerating towards downtown New Portland.\n17:57: Cpt. Maliz commandeers an airbike and follows.\n17:58: Site Security disengages; Fast-Response Fireteams and New Portland Peacekeeper Wing notified of active high-speed chase.\n18:01: FRFT VTOLs and Peacekeeper APCs engage, giving chase to Cpt. Maliz and intruders. Intruders shoot at Cpt. Maliz out of the window, but miss.\n18:10: High speed chase continues through crowded city airpaths.\n18:12: FRFTs and Peacekeepers forced to break off due to lack of manuevering room. Cpt. Maliz returns fire to intruder aircar at close range.\n18:13: Cpt. Maliz's airbike takes a shot and begins to smoke. He presses against the aircar and clambers aboard the roof. The abandoned airbike explodes.\n18:15: Peacekeepers order clearing of airpaths.\n18:16: Aircar banks hard left in an effort to throw off Cpt. Maliz and grazes a skyscraper. Engine begins smoking.\n18:16: Aircar makes a sharp turn towards Bumaro Plaza and goes into a nosedive.\n18:17: Aircar performs high-risk crash landing at Bumaro Plaza.\n\nMALIZ: Stop! Hands up!NOBODY: Ignore him. We need to get to the Machine. The Core is in, it's already powering up.[MALIZ limps from the wreckage of the aircar to follow as NOBODY and SCP-5353 run into the disused warehouse.]NOBODY: Magic. Let's move.\n[Both descend the stairs into the sublevel of the warehouse. SCP-5375 sits in center of the basement, hooked up to a large array of wires and power supplies. The DeVry Core sits comfortably inside it, and both are humming and glowing softly.]\nMALIZ: Don't move.\n[Cpt. MALIZ is standing in the entrance with another sidearm raised. NOBODY steps away from the computer.]\nNOBODY: This has nothing to do with you. We're getting our names.\nMALIZ: My family has been tied up in your little feud for two-hundred years. How the hell does it have nothing to do with me?\nNOBODY: That was never anything more than a coincidence.\nMALIZ: It doesn't matter. This won't work.MALIZ: Ask your new friend.\n[Silence.]MALIZ: You're not getting anything here, assholes. Might as well give up now.\n[Silence. Sirens from outside. SCP-5375's thrumming quickens.]\nNOBODY: If it needs to consume something\u2026NOBODY: \u2026 Some things are worth it. I have to do this.[NOBODY pushes SCP-5353 out of the way, laying a hand on SCP-5375. It suddenly increases in pitch and volume. ][SCP-5375 begins rotating its cells and thrumming. The lights of the basement dim for a moment.]\nNOBODY: Fuckin', I'm not Nobody. Nobody is some parasitic son of a bitch that's hitched a ride and taken everything from me, okay? And he's taken everything from you too, all of you. He's the one that's responsible for your existence. And I'm not gonna end up like everyone before me, walking around the world, journalling random bullshit and hurting people. I'm going to go out on my terms, and make sure Nobody doesn't hurt anyone ever again.\nSBPR-53ES: You don't have to do this. We can just give you a name, get rid of N-\nNATHADY: I have a name.\n[SCP-5375 rapidly increases in activity over the following 15 seconds, glowing to a blinding light and making significant noise from its cells shifting. The light temporarily fries the camera, but leaves the mic working. All activity suddenly ceases.]\nNATHAN: Did it work?\n[The sound of a live current is heard, suddenly followed by the start of a large explosion. Audio and visual feeds simultaneously cut out.]\n\nA large explosion was reported at Bumaro Plaza by a number of civilians, confirmed by Foundation VTOLs above the scene. The explosion's epicenter was the disused warehouse, collapsing the structure and the facades of neighboring buildings and blanketing the area in a cloud of dust. Foundation VTOLs were about to touch down on the area when an automated systemwide service failure alert activated on all troopers' Eagle Eye interfaces. All personal networking and identification .AICs simultaneously reported that the global PANOPTICON system was suffering from a temporary outage, completely disabling civilian identification, IFF, and camera mapping.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5375.4\nINCIDENT CLEANUP\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nBumaro Plaza, incident 5375.1.\n\nFollowing Incident 5375.1, Foundation Fast-Response Fireteams and New Portland Peacekeepers converged on the epicenter of the explosion at Bumaro Plaza. FRFTs attempted to locate Nobody or SCP-5353 but were unsuccessful. The remains of SCP-5375 were found in the basement of the warehouse, largely destroyed as a result of an implosion of the DeVry Core. The blast's temporary shutdown of PANOPTICON rendered any standard identification of survivors infeasible; many individuals were let go without a full identity scan. After 2 hours, PANOPTICON was brought online again, and was used to cross-check the manually compiled list of survivors with the actual citizen database. 72 names found matches in the database; the four that did not were Sarah Lancaster, Louie Debs, Fritz Obermeyer, and Nathan Bridges. After more extensive excavation and recovery operations, twenty-two corpses were discovered buried under rubble and debris, clothed in period-appropriate historical wear \u2014 clothing ranged from that of the American Old West to Victorian England to Feudal Japan. Further excavation is ongoing.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nThe Man Who Wasn't There\n\nThe Man In The White Suit\n\nHub\nHello, My Name Isn't\nChiaroscuro\nNobody, Nobody, Nobody, and Nobody's Encounters with The Man in the White Suit\nSCP-5353 -- Does Anyone Remember Fritz Obermeyer?\nEveryday Is Somebody's Birthday\nSCP-5877 -- Nobodies\nGhosts in the Machine\nFiles intercepted from Anderson Systems personnel\n\u2192 SCP-5375 -- Nobody and the Name Machine \u2190\nEpilogue:\nNobody in Their Right Mind\n\n\u00ab SCP-5374 | SCP-5375 | SCP-5376 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nItem#: 5376\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5376.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A large plot 2km south of Site-19 has been converted into a makeshift stunt arena, and fitted with a number of ramps, loops, and disused vehicles. Several fire jets have also been installed as a reward for SCP-5376's continued good behavior in containment. Once every 14 days, SCP-5376 is to be escorted to this area by an armed security detachment and supplied with a dirtbike. For the following four hours, SCP-5376 is permitted to drive, crash and perform stunts on all of the supplied equipment. Security staff are only to intervene in the event SCP-5376 attempts to escape. Following this duration, SCP-5376 is to be re-escorted back to its cell in Site-19's Keter Wing.\nSince the implementation of current containment procedures three months ago, SCP-5376 has not detonated.\nDescription: SCP-5376 is a humanoid entity resembling a corpse in an advanced state of putrefaction. It has not displayed any awareness of this fact. Its skin is rotting and peeling, with bone visible in large patches across its body. Significant portions of flesh have come detached from its head, rendering its mandible completely exposed and one eye dangerously close to falling out of its socket. Despite this, SCP-5376 is sapient, mobile, reasonably intelligent, and able to communicate with researchers. SCP-5376 is clothed in a replica of famed American stuntsman Evel Knievel's signature outfit, a white motorcycle suit decorated with blue bars and white stars. SCP-5376 self-identifies as \"Turbo Thompson\".\nDefying most mundane understandings of physics, SCP-5376 is constantly accruing potential energy, regardless of changes in mass, gravity, or elevation. This buildup is slow but cumulative; after significant energy has been built up, any small movement taken by SCP-5376 carries the risk of releasing all the pent-up energy at once. This typically results in a large explosion, leaving SCP-5376 unharmed but completely decimating its surroundings. Through poorly understood means, allowing SCP-5376 to perform stunts in an automotive vehicle quickly and efficiently vents this energy relatively safely.\nSCP-5376 was initially discovered at a motorcycle stunt show in rural Georgia following parallel reports of a reanimated corpse wandering the densely-packed show and reports of a figure threatening violence to be allowed into the show.\n\nMEMBERS:\n\nAgent Sarah MacCullough\nSCP-5376\nRudy Bellings (Civilian)\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\n[Agent SARAH MACCULLOUGH approaches SCP-5376 through the crowd, at the ticketing stand of the show. All other civilians are standing a distance from it, several clutching their noses. SCP-5376 is engaged in a heated argument with RUDY BELLINGS, the clerk at the ticketing stand. The visor of its helmet is lowered, obscuring its face.]BELLINGS: And I told you that we don't just allow any random schmuck in. All these guys have been registered for months and they're trained professionals. I don't even know who you are.[SCP-5376 pauses for dramatic effect before striking a pose, startling BELLINGS.][Distantly, an electric guitar riff plays.]\nMACCULLOUGH: What the hell?\nBELLINGS: I have literally never heard of you before.BELLINGS: Dude, fuck off!\n[Agent MACCULLOUGH approaches from behind and grasps SCP-5376's shoulder.]\nMACCULLOUGH: Sir, I'm gonna need you to come with me.\nBELLINGS: Jesus, finally.\n[SCP-5376 peers through his visor]MACCULLOUGH: [Visibly startled] I- what?MACCULLOUGH: \u2026 Yes. That's me. You should come with me, get out of here. This is small potatoes stuff, y'know.MACCULLOUGH: This is a weeklong event, come with me and I'll make sure you're all booked up for a slot tomorrow.MACCULLOUGH: Well, there's a motorcycle in the parking lot, we can just-\n[SCP-5376 twitches.]MACCULLOUGH: What?MACCULLOUGH: What is?MACCULLOUGH: [Shouting] Everybody back, stand back!\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nSCP-5376 detonating.\n\nFollowing this, SCP-5376 spontaneously detonated in a large explosion. Due to Agent MacCullough's actions, no civilians were seriously harmed, and all witnesses were amnesticized. SCP-5376 was placed into containment and transported to a temporary holding chamber outside of Site-19 pending a containment analysis. Due to SCP-5376's apparent familiarity with Agent MacCullough, she was chosen to conduct the necessary interview.\n\nMEMBERS:\n\nAgent Sarah MacCullough\nSCP-5376\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nMACCULLOUGH: Hello, SCP-5376.[Command instructs MACCULLOUGH to maintain the ruse.]\nMACCULLOUGH: Right. Thompson.[SCP-5376 strikes a pose.][Distantly, an electric guitar riff plays.]\nMACCULLOUGH: Where did that come from?MACCULLOUGH: Okay then. It's, uh, it's been a minute, right?MACCULLOUGH: I'd never ditch a client.MACCULLOUGH: So do I. How about this, I answer one of your questions, you answer one of mine.MACCULLOUGH: Alright. Refresh my memory: where'd you come from, again?MACCULLOUGH: \u2026 No, I meant-MACCULLOUGH: It's\u2026. my talent agency. Stars, Casting, and\u2026. Production. Incorporated.MACCULLOUGH: Thank you.MACCULLOUGH: \u2026. yes.MACCULLOUGH: Yeah, speaking of the visor. Could you lift it up?[SCP-5376 lifts up its visor, exposing its rotten and peeling face. MACCULLOUGH momentarily reels from the stench.]\nMACCULLOUGH: Oh God, that reeks-MACCULLOUGH: Yeah\u2026 you look just how I remember you.MACCULLOUGH: Among other things.MACCULLOUGH: Er, what?MACCULLOUGH: I\u2026 don't think we can do that anymore. I have responsibilities, y'know. With the agency.\n[SCP-5376 slumps.]MACCULLOUGH: But we'll definitely make sure you get some shows to play. For sure.\n[SCP-5376 straightens.]MACCULLOUGH: So, next question. What's, uh, what's with the explosions?MACCULLOUGH: Wait, you're not alive tho-MACCULLOUGH: But so long as you can still do stunts, you're fine.[SCP-5376 thumps its chest.]MACCULLOUGH: Although?MACCULLOUGH: We'll move you to a cel- suite where you can stretch your legs momentarily.MACCULLOUGH: Oh, goddammit.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nSCP-5376 detonating.\n\nFollowing this interview, SCP-5376 detonated, destroying the temporary holding cell it was contained in. However, it did not try to escape. Agent MacCullough and all other personnel also survived unharmed. Shortly after, SCP-5376's recreational stunt area was constructed and it was moved into a permanent cell in a bomb-proofed chamber of Site-19's Keter Wing equipped with exercise and activity equipment.\n\nSCP-5376 was introduced to its recreational area and familiarized with the equipment. It repeatedly requested to be allowed to perform for an audience. This course of action was approved by the Site Director, and a 'show' was scheduled for an audience of off-duty personnel.\n\nTIMELINE\n\n12:30: Gates open, audience members begin to arrive. Several researchers construct an impromptu refreshment stand.\n13:04: SCP-5376 arrives at area with armed escort and disembarks from the vehicle. It expresses considerable emotion at the amount of audience members.\n13:14: SCP-5376 begins preparing for the show. This largely consists of it excitedly yelling in front of a mirror, and admiring the recreational area.\n13:20: SCP-5376 mounts its provided motorcycle and rides out to applause.\n13:23: SCP-5376 ramps over a series of parked cars.\n13:29: SCP-5376 performs a reverse-wheelie on its motorcycle. It attempts to stand during this, but falls off the motorcycle.\n13:37: SCP-5376 accelerates and attempts to complete the large loop in the center of the area; it fails to complete it, and instead falls from the apex of the loop, crushing itself with its cycle. It stands a few minutes later, apparently unharmed.\n13:43: SCP-5376 produces another motorcycle and manages to ride both at once, with a foot on each handlebar. It then rips a door from one of the parked cars and uses it as a chariot, propelling itself off a ramp with the two motorcycles.\n[Extraneous events removed]\n14:34: SCP-5376 dismounts its motorcycle to scattered applause and addresses the crowd.\n\nSCP-5376 detonating.\n\nFollowing its speech, SCP-5376 once again detonated, causing minor damage to the area. While no personnel were harmed in the explosion, future viewings have held no live audiences. Instead, seats are filled with cardboard cutouts, and cheering is played through speakers to simulate an audience. Due to SCP-5376's decayed sensory organs, it appears to be unable to tell the difference.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRounderhouse's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4249 (+205) \u2022\n\nSCP-4661 (+555) \u2022\n\nSCP-5929 (+196) \u2022\n\nSCP-4149 (+267) \u2022\n\nSCP-5377 (+176) \u2022\n\nSCP-7311 (+510) \u2022\n\nSCP-7666 (+288) \u2022\n\nROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal (+305) \u2022\n\nSCP-4549 (+104) \u2022\n\nSCP-6794 (+117) \u2022\n\nEXTDOC-5495 (+246) \u2022\n\nSCP-7288 (+193) \u2022\n\nSCP-5383 (+270) \u2022\n\nSCP-5218 (+268) \u2022\n\nSCP-5690 (+309) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nDELTA WAVE (+64) \u2022\n\nMTF Sigma-5 \"Pumpkin Punchers\" (+251) \u2022\n\nNew Jersey State Police: Case 102-9381-23 (+32) \u2022\n\nCarroll #188: Gemini (+64) \u2022\n\nDo you like Huey Lewis and the News? (+78) \u2022\n\nSite-7: SEGFAULT (+49) \u2022\n\nRate My Director (+335) \u2022\n\nFiles intercepted from Anderson Systems personnel (+84) \u2022\n\nAgent Calendar's Hot Date: Divine Intervention (+84) \u2022\n\nROUNDERHOUSE's Bone Proposal (+123) \u2022\n\nAgent Calendar's Hot Date 2: Boogie Nights (+47) \u2022\n\nDirector House Is A Cracker (And Other Lies You Can Tell Yourself) (+222) \u2022\n\nINTERREGNUM: THE BLACKSTAR AT EVEREST (+109) \u2022\n\nAnd the answer you have to give, no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: Maybe I'm a king. (+81) \u2022\n\nSite-7: DAEMON (+45) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nROUNDERPAGE (+520) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5375 | SCP-5376 | SCP-5377 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Coming Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n2/5377 LEVEL 2/5377\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5377\n\nKeter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All Foundation personnel are to be briefed on SCP-5377. Should any Foundation employee receive an instance of SCP-5377, they should contact their on-site security chief and refrain from touching the envelope. All mail to senior Foundation officials is to be monitored for possible SCP-5377 instances.\nDescription: SCP-5377 are paper coupons advertising various goods and services, usually offering them for free to the 'lucky recipient' of the coupons. SCP-5377 instances appear to be received exclusively by Foundation employees in the United States through the postal service. They are enclosed in small unmarked envelopes bearing no return address and the mailing address typed out in the font Comic Sans. Each envelope contains a single SCP-5377 instance, measuring 6cm by 8cm. All advertise a unique service, typically in insulting terms; a digitized sample is provided below.\n\nONE FREE SUMMON\nGOOD FOR: HELPING YOU LOSE WEIGHT, YOU FAT FUCK!\nCourtesy of Y.W.T.G.T.H.F.T.!\nDisclaimer: Y.W.T.G.T.H.F.T. LLC cannot be held liable for any damage, injury, death, mutilation, vivisection, impregnation, ego death, or other form of harm caused by use of promotional coupon. The user accepts all responsibility for any illegal, immoral, or immature activities performed while being serviced by an outside demonic contractor. Outside demonic contractors are not vetted by Y.W.T.G.T.H.F.T. LLC and any statements or actions made by them should not be interpreted as an official company statement or action, as well as vice versa.\n\nUpon making physical contact with an SCP-5377 instance, a planar gateway will open within 3m of the SCP-5377 instance and expel a single Tartarean-class demonic entity. This entity will typically be large, dangerous, semihumanoid, and propelled by the desire to complete the task laid out on the SCP-5377 instance by any means necessary. The safety and continued life of the user are generally not taken into account. Many entities also take particularly loose interpretations of the task, attempting to cause as much grief, suffering, and minor inconvenience in the life of the user they can.\nIn practice, the disclaimer on the SCP-5377 instance is so small as to be completely illegible to the average individual. This, combined with the touch activation, resulted in a great deal of demonic entities being summoned by personnel unaware of what they are doing.\nAn abridged list of SCP-5377 instances follows.\n\nSCP-5377.1\nReceived By: Tom Segoyah, Research Analyst, Site-30\nGood For: \"HELPING YOU LOSE WEIGHT, YOU FAT FUCK!\"\nResults: A large demonic entity materialized in Segoyah's apartment and immediately began to pursue Segoyah, threatening to eat him if captured. Entity chased Segoyah, who was slightly overweight, across several counties for 41 hours of nonstop running, at which point Segoyah collapsed of dehydration and suffered a fatal heart attack. The entity physically removed several pounds of flesh from Segoyah's corpse before dematerializing. Segoyah's weight at time of recovery was 98lbs, less than half of what he had weighed prior to the incident.\n\nSCP-5377.4\nReceived By: Charlie Benningham, Security Guard, Site-19\nGood For: \"MAKING SURE SHE'S NOT BEING UNFAITHFUL, LOSER!\"\nResults: A feminine demonic entity materialized in Benningham's home but quickly disappeared. Benningham retrieved his service weapon and immediately reported an anomalous event to Site-19 Security, and a Tactical Response Team was deployed to the Benningham family home. Upon arrival, they discovered Benningham at the doorway to the master bedroom, curled up in the fetal position and weeping as the demonic entity engaged in consensual intercourse with his wife, dematerializing as they 'finished'. Benningham later stated that he had been struggling with suspicions of infidelity from his wife recently.\n\nSCP-5377.9\nReceived By: Sarah Selwater, Senior Researcher, Site-19\nGood For: \"PROVIDING SOME FAITHFUL COMPANY, LOSER!\"\nResults: The exact sequence of events were recovered from a security camera in Selwater's dormitory at Site-19's Sublevel 35. The envelope is sitting on on her desk as she walks into the room and closes the door behind her. Upon making contact with the coupon, a demonic entity manifests, clutching the leashes to two large Alaskan timber wolves. They are struggling against their leashes. The demonic entity lets go and the two wolves immediately leap on Selwater, mauling her and tearing her to shreds with their jaws and teeth. She remains alive for several minutes, well beyond what should have been possible given her injuries, and finally expires when the wolves begin to consume her body.1\n\nSCP-5377.13\nReceived By: Terry Rosen, Head of Research, Site-12\nGood For: \"FIXING YOUR POSTURE, DORK!\"\nResults: A demonic entity manifested in Rosen's office holding a pistol. For the next 13 hours, it proceeded to hold Rosen at gunpoint while forcing him to continue his normal duties on his computer workstation. When Rosen's posture slumped or he leaned forward, the entity would threaten to shoot him, aggressively waving the pistol. During the 13th hour, Rosen leaned down to pick up a pen he had dropped and the entity shot him in the leg before dematerializing in frustration.\n\nSCP-5377.17\nReceived By: Clarice Weller, Foundation Media Director\nGood For: \"GETTING YOUR REVENGE, WASHOUT!\"\nResults: A demonic entity manifested in Weller's office before immediately demanifesting. The demon promptly manifested in the office of John Calorman, the CEO of Calorman-Greene Marketing (Weller's former place of employment), 145 miles away. It subsequently forced Calorman to log into his computer before throwing him out of his nineteenth-story window to the street below. It used Calorman's computer to send Weller an email confirming that she was, in fact, still fired.\n\nSCP-5377.20\nReceived By: Tilda Moose, Site-19 Director\nGood For: \"PUTTING YOU BACK WHERE YOU BELONG, SNAKE!\"\nResults: The envelope was opened by Director Moose's secretary. A gateway materialized in the room, but opened to reveal that it was a Way2 allowing access to Nx-001, the Wanderer's Library. A demonic entity entered through it, assaulted and grabbed the secretary, likely under the impression they were Director Moose, and took them through the Way, which disappeared after them. Director Moose denies any knowledge regarding the background context of the incident.\n\nSCP-5377.21\nReceived By: O5-6\nGood For: \"MAKING THAT SON OF A BITCH PAY, MOTHERFUCKER!\"\nResults: Due to the increased security after the incident with Director Moose, the mail was intercepted well before it came close to O5-6 or his secretaries. All attempts to destroy it simply resulted in another envelope arriving the next day. It was instead triggered in a controlled laboratory environment using D-19471.\nIn Boston, an advertising shoot for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes was interrupted by the manifestation of a demonic entity that immediately grabbed and violently assaulted the individual wearing the costume of Tony the Tiger, the longtime mascot of the Frosted Flakes brand. It proceeded to injure Tony, breaking their bones, skinning their back, snapping their spine while mutilating and slashing them with various loose objects, generally brutalizing the individual. The entity demanifested after authorities arrived and Tony the Tiger's actor expired from his injuries. All witnesses were amnesticized. O5-6 has declined to comment.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Selwater's body was discovered several hours later and the unexpected presence of the wolves resulted in severe injuries to another researcher before they were terminated.\n2. Ways and Means, Rsr. Stan Edlock, 1994.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5376 | SCP-5377 | SCP-5378 \u00bb"}
{"text": "FluffyDog00\n\nCheck out the rest of my works here: Author Page\n\nSCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B.\n\nItem #: SCP-5378\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B were kept in a small enclosure with soil, rocks and various flora. They were fed four raisins per day, and had their container cleaned every week.\nDescription: SCP-5378 is the designation for two sapient ladybird beetles,1 which are referred to as SCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B. Both instances constructed miniaturized versions of manmade structures and objects using natural materials, such as leaves, rocks, and dirt.\nAddendum 1: Below is a list of every recorded structure built by SCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B, as well as the context of their creation.\n\nStructure Created\nContext\n\nA small tent comprised of two propped-up Rose leaves.\nSCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B had just been contained.\n\nA sleeping bag made of leaf petioles sown together.\nSCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B appear to \"sleep\" together within the sleeping bag for eight hours.\n\nA separate sleeping bag.\nAfter climbing around the enclosure in what is assumed to be an escape attempt, SCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B meet outside the tent. They start making harsh buzzing noises at each other. After the altercation, SCP-5378-A makes its own sleeping bag.\n\nTwo two-story cabins.\nProbably a result of the former incident.\n\nA letter etched onto a woodchip.\nAfter nine months since the cabins were created, SCP-5378-A gives the letter to SCP-5378-B at its doorstep.\n\nA bench made of twigs held together by twine.\nSCP-5378-B slowly walks out of its cabin towards SCP-5378-A's cabin. It taps on the door. When SCP-5378-A comes out, they build the bench and sit next to each other. After an altercation consisting of quiet buzzes, they touch their forelimbs together.\n\nA heart.\nSCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B combine two leaves into the shape of a heart on the enclosure floor. They both lay in the middle of the heart sideways, holding each other's limbs.\n\nAfter SCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B were observed to be unmoving for several hours, they were removed from their enclosure. It was confirmed that SCP-5378-A and SCP-5378-B had expired, most likely due to old age.\nAddendum 2: Below is the letter mentioned in Addendum 1. It was put under a microscope for comprehensiveness.\n\nHello my sweet Rose,\nMy limbs are aching, and the world around me spins uncontrollably. I think this is the end.\nI'm sorry about the altercation we had long ago. Our jailing here wasn't your fault, and I should have been less harsh.\nWithout you, I have been mournful. I miss your touch, and the fluttering of your wings ringing through my ears. I miss traversing through the blue skies with you at my side. Wherever we were, you made it all the better.\nI figured since we are taking our last breaths, we might as well take them together. We shouldn't have to die in isolation.\nPlease. Let's talk.\nSincerely,\nHarold\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly known as ladybugs\n\n\u00ab SCP-5377 | SCP-5378 | SCP-5379 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5381\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Since the impermanent nature of SCP-5381 instances complicates long-term containment, efforts should concentrate on concealing its existence from the public. In the case of an SCP-5381's manifestation, Mobile Task Force Omega-41 \"Files Difuntos\" should move and set a perimeter around the instance in order to prevent encounters with civilians. Any unauthorized witness should be given Class-A amnestics and released.\nDescription: SCP-5381 refers to a small population of spectral entities theorized to be a subspecies of Gashadokuro, a yokai entity endemic to Japan1. So far, SCP-5381 manifestations have only been reported in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, M\u00e9xico. SCP-5381 is noteworthy for being the second documented sighting of Gashadokuro outside Japan2 and the first documented population external to the island nation.\nSimilarly to the Japanese Gashadokuro, SCP-5381 instances resemble giant animated human skeletons; the main visual feature distinguishing them is that SCP-5381's bone structure is adorned with patterns resembling traditional D\u00eda de Muertos calavera de az\u00facar3 decorations.\n\nCalaveritas de az\u00facar. SCP-5381 decorations bear resemblance to these decorative patterns.\n\nSCP-5381 instances are approximately between 25 and 30 meters tall4. Like their Asian counterparts, SCP-5381 can not be photographed. Interestingly, SCP-5381 exhibits a drastically different behavior from the Japanese Gashadokuro. Research on the exact nature and reason for this divergent behavior is still ongoing.\nSo far 14 SCP-5381 instances have been identified. Each one presents unique physical traits, varying in height, color, and pattern decorations5. Each SCP-5381 individual manifests6 in a different location corresponding to a local cemetery in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, M\u00e9xico. These cemeteries belong to towns that were hotspots of Japanese immigration to M\u00e9xico during the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century7. It is unknown what conditions originated the SCP-5381 phenomenon and why it is not present in other regions of Mexico with Japanese immigration.\nAddendum: The following fragments are from Toraji Kusakado's diary, leader of the Enomoto Colony8, is assumed to be the first record of SCP-5381. Foundation Historians are currently studying historical records in order to obtain a clearer picture of the intercultural exchange that gave rise to SCP-5381's speciation process.\n\nI have brought dishonor to my name and legacy. While malaria took the life of many of my companions, it was my failure at leadership and planning that doomed our harvest. Yesterday, my remaining countrymen decided to leave me. Some were eager to return to our homeland, and others decided to make this land their new home. I have failed them. I failed Lord Enomoto. I failed Japan\u2026\n\nDue to all of my past tribulations, I missed the chance to honor my fallen companions during the Bon9 festival. The Mexicans have a similar tradition on November 2nd so I decided to honor the customs of this land and paid a visit to the local graveyard in the town of Escuintla where my fallen companions rest.\nI went to the local market to get the materials for a shoryo-dana10. I had trouble choosing appropriate flowers for the altar since I was still unfamiliar with the local varieties. A merchant kindly explained to me that I should use cempas\u00fachil, the flower of the dead. I still remember her fondly for she was not only a joyful spirit, but she was also donning the most peculiar makeup I have seen in this land. For moments, that makeup make me feel as if I was talking to a shinigami.\nI arrived at the cemetery to clean the graves. I built a makeshift shoryo-dana and placed candles and the cemp\u00e1suchil flowers on it. I lit the candles and left the food offerings: our traditional dishes to remind them of our homeland, but also pan de muerto11 and some one of those curious skull-shaped candies.\n\nI was alone, praying at shoryo-dana when a towering figure emerged from the shadows. I recoiled in fear as I recognized the fearsome Gashadokuro, surely sent by angry spirits to punish me for my failings. I tried to run but my legs were failing me. I tripped on an unmarked grave and fell to the ground and watched in horror as the yokai approached me. I had heard the stories of the Gashadokuro mercilessly biting the head of their unfortunate victims and drinking their blood. I prayed to my ancestors and tried to make peace with my destiny. If being eaten by the yokai was the just punishment for my failing, then so be it.\nTo my surprise, the Gashadokuro did not eat me. Instead it just stood for a while in front of me, inspecting me in a curious manner that seemed almost child-like, before losing interest and wandering around the tombs. I could not believe what miracle could have convinced the demon to spare me. Had it been some intervention from the Kami?\n\nEventually, I realized that, in my initial fear, I had failed to notice something important about this Gashadokuro. It was different from the popular legends and paintings I had seen before. It was even different from Hant\u0101's records. I once had the opportunity to read. Its bones, traditionally supposed to be just bare bones, now bore decorations similar to those put in skull-shaped candies used by Mexicans as offerings to honor their dead. At that moment I realized we had brought the Gashadokuro with us. Alongside our hopes and dreams, we carried also our demons. However, this land and its ritual I had partaken in somehow changed the yokai, healing its terrible anger and satiating its infinite hunger.\nSeeing this changed creature filled me with a lot of hope, if even the monstrous Gashadokuro could find peace in this place\u2026 maybe\u2026 then maybe we also have a future here. The decorated Gashadokuro disappeared slowly into the darkness it had emerged. I was left alone again, contemplating the starry night, wondering if I would live to see the day the Rising Sun and the Navel of the Moon finally shine together.\n\nToraji Kusakado\nNovember 3rd 1897\n\n\u00ab SCP-5380 | SCP-5381 | SCP-5382 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. See SCP-2863 for further reference.\n2. The other documented sighting outside of Japan was of a single specimen in China in 1938.\n3. Skull-shapped sugar or chocolate candy, usually put in D\u00eda de Muertos altars as part of an offering to the dead.\n4. Generally smaller than the Japanese Gashadokuro which ranges between 30 and 35 meters.\n5. Decorations appear to match popular depictions of Dia de Muertos calaveras. At least one of them has been described as wearing headwear resembling of the local sombrero.\n6. Manifestations can occur at least twice a month and last approximately 4-5 hours before disappearing.\n7. To this day, Japanese surnames are common in the region.\n8. First Japanese attempt at migration to Mexico, orchestrated by viscount Takeaki Enomoto with the blessing of the Mexican President Porfirio D\u00edaz. Thirty-five Japanese migrants tried to establish a coffee plantation new the town of Escuintla, in the Soconusco region of Chiapas. This first colony was ultimately a failure due to poor harvests and sicknesses such as malaria, however, it set the precedent for future Nippon migrations to the country.\n9. Syncretic Buddhist/Shintoist festival to honor the dead celebrated from August 13th to 16th. It presents similarities to the Mexican D\u00eda de Muertos, such as the custom of making altars and food offerings to the deceased and cleaning and decorating family graves.\n10. Altar to welcome the spirits during Bon.\n11. Traditional D\u00eda de Muertos sweetened soft bread shaped like a bun, decorated with bone-shaped pieces."}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\n{$custom-content}\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab SCP-5384 |SCP-5385| SCP-5386 \u00bb\n\nItem #: SCP-5385\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\n\n+ Archived Special Containment Procedures\n\n- Archived Special Containment Procedures\n\nThe Homeburg Hotel and the buildings around it have been purchased by the Foundation and barred from public entry. Biological matter acquired from SCP-5385 is to be contained within a freezer at -40 degrees celsius. Personnel who enter the hotel are to wear Level-II Hazmat suits and be equipped with an incendiary tool in the event of being caught inside of SCP-5385.\nDeaths related to SCP-5385 are to be given the cover story under the \"Slasher-no-Slasher\" protocol.\n\nUpdated: The remains of SCP-5385 and SCP-5385-A are to be stored in Level-I Bio Chambers and may be accessed for research purposes.\nThe Homeburg Hotel and the surrounding buildings are closed off from the public and are currently being investigated for further anomalous activity.\nDescription:\nSCP-5385 was an approximately 30-meter wide amorphous mass of flesh that was located in the center of the Homeburg Hotel1 in Tampa, Florida, and had spread and embedded itself inside the infrastructure of the building around it. SCP-5385 is composed entirely of human skeletal smooth and striated tissue, with patches of bulbospongiosus and ischiocavernosus tissue being found in small quantities throughout it even after its neutralization. In its center, was a 5-meter-wide mass of functional cardiac tissue in the shape of a human heart and had a heart rate of 120 times per minute. SCP-5385 was capable of locomotion and had the ability to compressed and elongate its mass.\nThroughout SCP-5385's mass were the cadavers of 45 humans, 16 domestic canines, and 20 domestic felines. The cadavers' biological matter were structurally merged with SCP-5385's mass to the point where fully intact removal is impossible. Tumors in the shape of human heads were present on every cadaver. These tumors possessed facial features that appeared to be grinning with their eyes rolled back. All lacerations and injuries made to SCP-5385 and the attached cadavers rapidly regenerate. It is theorized that the corpses within the mass of SCP-5385 were trapped inside it after its sudden formation and died of suffocation, as its mass covering their abdomens would have prevented airflow.\nSCP-5385-A is was an unknown entity with similar composition to SCP-5385. It was purplish in coloration, with its epidermis being covered in a viscous, mucus-like substance. SCP-5385-A's origins are currently unknown and its connection to SCP-5385 as well.\nAn investigation into the Homeburg Hotel revealed that 8 weeks before the appearance of SCP-5385, several letters from a person self-identifying as Douglas Lamb were sent to it to an unknown individual. Transcripts of them are provided below.\n\n+ SCP-5385 Letter Documentation\n\n- SCP-5385 Letter Documentation\n\nMy love! It tears my heart to know that I can not feel and caress your tender and plump body of my every waking moment. Your eyes are like windows into your soul. How I wish to see your bosom shine under the star-lit sky! To feel every curve of your soft, glorious body.\nI know you have watched me as I watch you, and that you feel the same way. For that very reason, I cannot be an admirer any longer. I must be with you. Dream of me as you sleep, as I will dream of you.\n\nI write this missive to you in time of my euphoria. I admit I thought of you constantly as I committed the act. I have no shame in telling you this, for you belong to me as I belong to you. Yes! I cannot say or write that enough. I have loved you since I was just a lad. How I watched and released myself of tension for many hours in my early youth.\nI remind myself every morning how blessed I am to be able to see you. No one else could but me, not even the old man, who claims to be your father. Which I find prosperous, something so beautiful can never spawn from such a wicked, vile being. My Grandfather always told me I was special, that I was bestowed a gift from God.\nBut I don't care about that, I'll trade it all if I could be with you. So now, as I reached the height of my adulthood, I wish for you to give me a sign of your affection towards me. I cannot make the move in person unless I know for sure you are ready. I am a gentleman, not a thug.\nI will wait outside. Watching.\n\nA few hours ago I was just chased and yelled at by the Old Man to get away from you. Why? Have I done something wrong? Have I not been celibate for all these years just for you? Have I not been faithful? Then why? Only you could have known I will be there. You called him. You called that old buffon to cast me out of your presence and into the mud as if I was a Beef-head! I could have killed him with a thought, but I didn't out of respect for you. But yet, you knew that, and still sent him.\nHow dare you! I'm your only true lover. Your only friend. Your soulmate. You cannot abandon me like I'm second rate. Ycan't Ilve you I love [Unintelligible Writing]\n\u2026.and if you do choose that route then so be it! I will give my love to someone of higher class. I don't need you, nor will I ever!!\n\nForgive me. I acted like a child. You did not cast me beside out of malice, but out of love. Your love is not like mine, no. It is a more mature, refined one. You wanted to test me to see if I could court you, and I failed; miserably.\nYou want a strong, reliable man. Not a wispy-washy weak, effeminate one. A man's man, one that would be the foundation of your body and take control of the situation. Yes! I would prove myself for you. My grandfather told me many times I came from a line of great men. Powerful individuals that once made inferior specimen quake from the mention of their name. I have that power too, he always said, to make wishes into reality. Maybe that's how I found you, I wanted to find someone as perfect as you. I must go back to my roots so I can lead us further into our future.\nI will return in a fortnight. And when I do, I will be a man worthy of your love!\n\nI have climbed the tallest mountain and traveled the twelve seas. I have seen my true nature and scoffed in its face. I rebuked it, ate it, and excreted it from my vessel. The only thing that remains is me, power, and my ever-lasting adoration for you.\nThat mind. That body. That soul. Everything you are is mine, and everything I am is yours. Forever and ever. Our souls will be fused into one being and I will know everything you are. I will think your thoughts. I will become them. Every movement, every laugh, every molecule on your body will be as if it was my own. I have found the wheel to turn these gears made out of love into reality!\nYes!\nThe time has come! Tomorrow, we will be one!\n\n18 hours after this letter was delivered to the local authorities, an unidentified man entered the Homeburg Hotel naked. Several hours after this, reports of a flesh hive were reported to the local authorities in the area and Foundation agents were deployed to asset the situation. The agents then found a large amount of bio-mass that would later be classified as SCP-5385 and set up a perimeter under an ammonia leak cover story.\nSCP-5385 Incident-001:\nOn February 14th, 2004, SCP-5385 began to show signs of vertical movement beneath its surface; its center, the heart, also began to rapidly beat. Several seconds later, it began to transform.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n[00:00]2 SCP-5385's lower parts begin to twist and elongate, with ossification being observed within its crevices at the same time. The upper section also begins going through a similar process.\n[00:04] The upper and lower sections of SCP-5385 begin to resemble humanoid arms and legs and attempt to move. As it tries to stand with its legs, it uses its arms to grab the structure to support itself but is inhibited by its sagging mass. Simultaneously, the flesh of the cadavers trapped within SCP-5385 begins to pull away from their bodies and fuse with the main mass; all that is left are bones. This new mass travels beneath the skin of SCP-5385 and convulse until it starts to compress on itself, giving the mass the shape of a humanoid.\n[00:08] SCP-5385 latches onto the roof with its arms as its legs dangle in the air and swings in a back and forth motion before letting go of the roof, and falling into the lobby of the Homeburg Hotel, destroying four floors in the process and causing pieces of wood and concrete to erupt beneath its feet.\n[00:12] Hundreds of faces bearing the same expression as the tumors on the cadavers appear on the skin of SCP-5385 as the entity begins to dig into the floor of the hotel lobby. Once SCP-5385 has ceased digging, a large crevice in the floor is seen. A loud, wet noise, similar to meat being slapped on stone, is heard from this crevice when a purplish, cone-shaped mass of flesh emerges from it, hereby designated as SCP-5385-A. SCP-5385-A's surface then splits open into four sections, revealing a pink tube, and vocalizes \"YOU WILL BECOME UNTO ME, AS I WILL BE UNTO YOU.\"\n[00:16] SCP-5385's skin ruptures, causing the tumors to fall off its body and shrivel into an atrophied state. Cone-shaped masses then begin to grow and take their place where the tumors once were as they release large amounts of white foam.\n[00:20] A head begins to rapidly form at the top of SCP-5385's section as a nose, a pair of eyes, ears, and a mouth takes shape. The face then mimics the expression found on the tumors and enters, head first, into SCP-5385-A, causing foam to overflow from inside it. SCP-5385 then vocalizes, albeit muffled due to its head being inside SCP-5385-A, \"TO THE END OF TIME. TOGETHER FOREVER.\" Unidentifiable noises are heard for several minutes before SCP-5385 and SCP-5385-A both begin to vibrate and eventually combust.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAfter this event, SCP-5385 and SCP-5385-A were both reclassified as neutralized.\nTimmy Orseworth's Statement:\nThe former owner of the Homeburge Hotel, Timmy Orseworth, gave a statement regarding the letters from PoI-584 to the local authorities before SCP-5385's formation. An excerpt was retrieved and is provided below.\n\nI'm telling you, you need to find that kid. Fucking weirdo. I swear to God he isn't right in the head. He talks in this strange way and never looks you in the eye either. I keep telling people to keep their kids away from that television. And when they start looking at me like I'm crazy, I take them by the arm and point at him! Then I say, \"That's what happens when you let television raise your kids\". They listen after that. That they do.\nProof? What other proof do you want? I gave you the letters, didn't I? He's not mentally sound, put him in a straight coat or something. I don't care what you do just keep him away. Why didn't any woman come to you? Cause there isn't one. That boy doesn't want a woman or a man. In fact, he doesn't want any human.\nLet me tell you something. A year after I had my Hotel built, I saw that punk wandering around the building every single day. Raining, cold, or hot, it didn't matter. He was determined to be out there no matter what. One day I decided to see what the fuck is his problem and found him in the act. Motherfucker had his dick rubbing against the wall of my building!\nThat boy don't want no woman. He wants that building.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Approximately 85-meters tall.\n2. Timeframe is recorded in minutes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5384 | SCP-5385 | SCP-5386 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nThe Carcass And The Tree\n\nMore things I made\nPlease Sign This Petition!!!\n\n\nObserve the following:\n\nHALLEY MAKAU'S SCiP.NET CONTACTS LIST\n\nSite-12 Director Joseph Cowley\nTheo Langley\nEthics Committee Head Ranchod\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelwoC.JriD#ten.PiCS|yelwoC.JriD\nSubject: Containment Procedure Review\n\nHello, Ms. Makau. Could you please go over the Containment Procedures for SCP-5386 to make sure they're in accordance with the Ethics Committee's new policies?\nThe material is classified, so don't access it with anybody else in the room. Your terminal has been whitelisted to view it.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nHey, you're the Site's resident memetic expert, right?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nYes I am.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nCan you take a look at a memetic agent for me?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nWhat are you doing handling meme agents? Aren't you an inspector for the Ethics Committee?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nYes. Director Cowell asked me to look at the conprocs for SCP-5386. There was nothing on the page but a strange image. I think it's a memetic agent but I can't be sure.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nYou looked right at it?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nYes\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nNot a kill agent then. Send it over.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nhmm\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI can tell it functions as a joint memetic. It removes recent memories and puts the person looking at it to sleep for a wlile. Mostly harmless, but very invasive. Intrusiveness on par with some kill agents I've seen. What inoculations do you have?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nJust standard cognitohazard and meme protection.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nIt's a miracle you weren't affected. Clearly someone wanted you out of commission. What's your take?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI don't understand. Cowell has to be doing this. Why would he replace an SCP with a memetic agent?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nRealpolitik, I assume. Why were you dispatched to Site 22?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nRumors of questionable humanoid SCP treatment, mainly. D class abuse too.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nAh, the January incident. No wonder Director Cowell doesn't want you looking around. He'd want to make sure you don't get him in trouble with his superiors.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nThe plot thickens. SCP-5386 can't be accessed without a password from the Site Director. Isn't that interesting\n\nten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH Is Offline\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nHalley??\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\n???\n\nten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH Is Online\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nA guard came in. I knocked off their visor and threw my monitor at their head. The meme worked on them. I have to use my phone now\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nWhat are you going to do?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI'm leaving my office. Can you get your car ready in the parking lot???\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nScrew that. I'm going to the amnestics department. This isn't worth my job.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nreally\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nYour time's running out.\n\nNew Message From Site Director Cowley!\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI just got a message from cowley\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nThey know you're leaving. Don't open it.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI'm not an idiot\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nWhere are you right now?\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nSecond floor\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nGo left on first floor reception. There's an employee entrance you can use cut through the security checkpoint.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nok\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nA lot of. Guards help needed\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI have the amnestics. Good luck, buddy.\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nPlease help\n\nten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT Is Offline\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT#ten.PiCS|yelgnaL.oehT\nFrom: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nSubject: URGENT!\n\nI'm going to try run to my car\n\nTo: ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH#ten.PiCS|uakaM.yellaH\nFrom: ten.PiCS|dohcnaR.moCcihtE#ten.PiCS|dohcnaR.moCcihtE\nSubject: New Posting\n\nHalley, there have been complaints from staff as Site-22 concerning mistreatment of Humanoids and D-class. The Site Director has been told to expect you and the files are on your desk.\nUse the normal plan of attack: stay low to the ground and be helpful. Site-22 has a no telecommunications policy so you can only contact me when you're at the hotel. I expect weekly reports, and keep an eye on the Senior Staff.\nThe plane's at 7 PM on the dot, Tuesday, usual airport.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5385 | SCP-5386 | SCP-5387 \u00bb"}
{"text": "5/5387 LEVEL 5/5387\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5387\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\nFour contained instances of SCP-5387 are to be kept at Biological Containment Site-103 in a standard greenhouse containment unit. Units are built with remotely regulated air filtration systems installed for humidity and temperature. SCP-5387 should be watered weekly and kept under direct sun-light through a frosted, reinforced glass sun-roof and trimmed daily to avoid overgrowth and a possible containment breach of SCP-5387-A's anomalous effect.\nShould SCP-5387 show signs of growing an instance of SCP-5387-A, it is to be allowed 24 hours to ripen before being plucked. SCP-5387-A must not be allowed to broadcast before being plucked. Any individual exposed to an SCP-5387-A broadcast must report to on-site staff for immediate Class-B amnestics. SCP-5387-B and -C instances are to be contained in standard human containment chambers and are given limited remote-controlled interactions with the outside world. After plucking, SCP-5387-A instances are to be placed in a small led container fitted with a modified shortwave radio and be recorded for a period of 24 hours for any broadcasts that play. The recording is to be reviewed, documented, and the instance of SCP-5387-A destroyed.\nRequests for experimentation on SCP-5387-A must be approved by head researcher Dr. Julius Iscariot and must be handled remotely to avoid the effects of SCP-5387-A. Requests for D-Class personnel for the purpose of experiments must be approved in advance by Dr. Julius, and individuals chosen for testing must have no prior experience working in agriculture or broadcasting before interacting with any instance of SCP-5387-A. SCP-5387-B that shows signs of its secondary anomalous effects must be immediately terminated with no exceptions.\nMTF-Theta-4 \"Gardeners\" is assigned to the discovery and acquisition of wild instances of SCP-5387. SCP-5387-B and -C are to be detained and administered Class-B amnestics terminated following the events of incident-5387-2. (See Addendum 1)\n\nDescription\nSCP-5387 is a genetically modified species of epiphytic cacti from the genus Hylocereus1. Current studies suggest SCP-5387 can grow to 25 to 30 meters tall. Contained instances are dated to be 2,800 years old. Each instance of SCP-5387 is marked with a Roman numeral and is designated accordingly as SCP-5387-3, -5, -8, and -13.\nSCP-5387's anomalous qualities manifest when it begins to grow SCP-5387-A. The marked carvings found on its trunk will illuminate for forty days before an instance of SCP-5387-A ripens. The only exception is SCP-5387-13, which has yet to bloom during illumination.\nOnly one instance of SCP-5387-A can grow at a time and resembles red pitahaya2. When it ripens, the fruit sends a radio transmission using shortwave frequencies. A host will tell a short passage from a book titled The Book of Red. The host begins by asking its viewers a question relating to the central theme of the passage before reading. The overarching story features a male character attempting to free a group of entities referred to as They, imprisoned by a godlike being referred to as The Fool. SCP-5387-A share the central theme and overarching narrative with other instances originating from the same SCP-5387 instances. Listening to recordings of SCP-5387-A has no effects.\n\nSCP-5387\nCENTRAL THEME\nOVERARCHING NARRATIVE\nNUMBER OF PASSAGES RECORDED\n\nSCP-5387-3\nMisotheism\nPassages portrays Misotheism through the character performing some form of ritual around a pillar before cursing at the sky. The character curses The Fool and other historical figures before collapsing on the ground.\n8\n\nSCP-5387-5\nOvercoming fear\nThe character is portrayed running on earth made of flesh while an unknown beast chases him down. The passages end with the character escaping the beast through the clever use of his surrounding.\n4\n\nSCP-5387-8\nGuilt\nThe character attempts to \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 commit \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 distractions \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 in the dark. \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588 appears and will attempt to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 the character only to fail.\n2\n\nSCP-5387-13\nN/A\nN/A\n0\n\nAs of 6/02/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, forty-five percent of the passages recorded have been organized chronologically.\nSubjects exposed to the broadcast, hereby designated as SCP-5387-B, express a desire to replicate the narrated events. However, SCP-5387-B will not replicate these events unless specific parameters are met. Subjects that have prior history in the field of agriculture or broadcasting, hereby designated as SCP-5387-C, express an extreme desire to share their passage and will actively seek out an audience. SCP-5387-C avoid large public spaces, prefer to talk to individuals in private and intimate settings, and share their passages in a similar to the host. SCP-5387-C will continue to spread the passage until it expires. Listening to SCP-5387-C will create the same effects as of SCP-5387-A.\nIf SCP-5387-B successfully replicates the narrative, SCP-5387-B will spontaneously ignite. Once it dies due by burning, the body explodes. The explosion's blast yield is equivalent to 18,000 kt. After 40 days of the explosion, a new instance of SCP-5387 will materialize in the blast zone's epicenter. Class B amnestic can be used to erase SCP-5387-B mental triggers Further research on alternative containment procedures on SCP-5387-B and -C remains ongoing.\n\nAddendum 1\nOn 3/21/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a containment breach on the west side \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 allowed the escape of various Euclid class SCPs. MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\") arrived shortly after the breach to capture and contain the escaped SCPs. The aftermath of the ensuing chaos left the site heavily damaged. Surviving staff members were evacuated from the premises with the exception of D-40.\nThree months prior to the containment breach, D-40 participated in an experiment involving SCP-5387 with Dr. Julius Iscariot as the supervisor. The purpose of the test was to research an effective, humane way to contain SCP-5387-B instances. During the test, D-40 listened to the SCP-5387-A broadcast. Before being placed in an environment that is similar to the narrative's setting, D-40 was administered Class B amnestic. D-40 had little to no memory of the previous experiment and showed no desire to replicate the passage. SCP-5387-B classification was removed on D-40's file, and Dr. Julius determined the use of Class B amnestics to be an effective form of containment.\nDuring the evacuation, D-40 was described to be acting strangely by MTF agents. D-40 danced around a large steel pillar for 30 minutes before kneeling on the base of the pillar while crying. Afterward, D-40 began to curse at the sky. Agent Victoria Giuliani reasoned that D-40 was merely suffering due to the trauma caused by the breach and approached D-40 to calm him down. D-40 suddenly burst into flame when Agent Giuliani was about to embrace him. Agent Jude Muertigue shot D-40 dead before he could make contact with Agent Giuliani.\nAfter careful reviewing bodycam footage of the incident, Dr. Julius and site director \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 confirmed that Agent Jude's action saved the site and its occupants. D-40's strange behavior was due to the effects of SCP-5387-A, and the Class B amnestics proved to be ineffective for long term containment. After the incident, site command created the MTF Theta-4 \"Gardeners\" to find and contain the remaining instances of SCP-5387 and to terminate suspected SCP-5387-B and -C.\n\nTo: Dr. Julius Iscariot\nFrom: Dr. Katelyn Zheng\nSubject: None\nJulius, I heard you wanted to remove the SCP-5387-B and -C classification on the SCP-5387 document. I understand where you are coming from. But you need to accept the facts. We can't afford to save them, to save everyone. You saw what happened. We were this close to losing everything - that includes you. I don't know what bullshit you heard from the ethics department, but the only effective option for containing this anomaly is to terminate any suspected SCP-5387-B and -C, and those classifications help us. They are SCPs that are literal living nukes that could be out there in the world, walking in broad daylight. Sure, I can only name two places in the world where the ground is made of human flesh, but we are not even sure if they are triggered by their physical environment or emotional state. And we don't even know what is being broadcasted from the missing instances. They could be difficult to replicate, but they could well be normal enough for people to blow up in the middle of the city just because they heard or saw something that triggered them.\nJulius, as a friend, I'm worried about you. I understand you want to protect the world. But we are the Foundation, not the Justice League. People will die, especially if we are not quick and decisive in our actions. We must be pragmatic because if we don't end one person's life to save millions, we might not have any lives to save at all.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Often referred to as night-blooming cactus.\n2. Commonly known as a dragonfruit.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5386 | SCP-5387 | SCP-5388 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5388\nObject Class: Euclid Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following Incident 5388-01, SCP-5388 is to be considered Neutralized.\nArchived Containment Procedures: SCP-5388 is to be kept within Site-550, located 1km north of Carrigkerry, Ireland. The perimeter is to be heavily monitored for any instance of SCP-5388-2 or SCP-5388-3 attempting to breach containment. Any instances of SCP-5388 attempting to escape are to be immediately neutralized via lethal means. Twice a day, four bulls are to be deposited into the cell for feeding SCP-5388. After it has been fed, three D-Class personnel are to enter the cell to collect the bones of said bulls, while avoiding SCP-5388. Any messages made by SCP-5388-1 are to be documented and ignored.\nDescription: SCP-5388 was the collective designation for a colony of Apatura Iris.1 SCP-5388 consisted of up to 800,000 individual members while in containment. Research into individual members of the colony (herein referred to as SCP-5388-1) showed that they all possessed sapience. Each member displayed strength similar to that of human beings, rather than a standard Apatura Iris. Notably, SCP-5388 was observed to show behavior emulating human colonial powers similar to territorial empires (Specifically, the [DATA EXPUNGED]) in the late 18th century. This was indicated by the way SCP-5388 acted towards separate political groups, feeding behaviors, and other factors. All instances of SCP-5388 were recorded to be female, with the exception of two individuals, herein referred to as SCP-5388-2, (the 'emperor') and SCP-5388-3 (the emperor's 'heir'). While SCP-5388-2 seemed to show little to no difference in behavior towards its 'subjects,' it was constantly seen being guarded by at least 2000 individuals each. Members of SCP-5388 all seem to show a resistance to standard attacks, capable of surviving direct blasts from flamethrowers and highly potent pesticides with minimal damage to itself.\nSCP-5388-2 was capable of communicating with Foundation personnel by commanding SCP-5388-1 into forming phrases. Phrases had been noted to be disjointed, misspelled, and in multiple different languages.2 However, SCP-5388-2 would not speak directly to Foundation personnel, unless coerced into talking. When it neared the end of its life, SCP-5388-2 would choose an individual SCP-5388-1 as its \"wife,\" and proceed to father a group of juvenile SCP-5388-1 and one instance of SCP-5388-3.\nJuvenile individuals would develop in a manner identified to Apatura Iris, with the exception of SCP-5388-3. It would have had a guard detail approximately the same amount as SCP-5388-2. Once in the stage of metamorphosis, all instances of SCP-5388-1 would avoid SCP-5388-3 until it fully developed into its adult stage. After SCP-5388-3 had fully developed, SCP-5388-2 would begin to \"teach\" SCP-5388-3 how to command SCP-5388-1 into forming letters, words, and sentences.3 After SCP-5388-2 perished, SCP-5388-3 would assume command over SCP-5388, becoming an instance of SCP-5388-2. This cycle would have continued indefinitely. The body of the former SCP-5388-2 would be left alone.\nFeeding patterns of SCP-5388 differentiated from that of a non-anomalous Apatura Iris. Rather than scavenging for corpses, it would hunt for prey. Prey had included animals of varying sizes, but larger mammals seemed to be the preferred option. Hunting was done by completely enveloping targeted animals and, while prey was distracted, either entering the mouth of prey or burrowing through the flesh via unknown means, destroying vital organs before prey succumbs to this attack. Once this had been achieved, all members of SCP-5388 would congregate around prey. SCP-5388-2 would then begin feeding on the corpse, and after approximately one minute, the rest would begin consuming their prey. This was repeated until the colony was completely fed.\nDiscovery: On 07/02/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388 came to the Foundation's attention after a series of disappearances in the Carrigkerry Bogs involving multiple tourists, ecologists, and search and rescue teams. Embedded agents in the area were alerted to this and, upon discovery, the Foundation sent MTF Lambda-12 (\"Pest Control\") to assess the situation. Once the colony had been tracked down, a swarm of SCP-5388-1 led by SCP-5388-2 attempted to kill Task Force members. Following numerous failed attempts, SCP-5388 fled from Lambda-12. Upon locating and surrounding the entirety of SCP-5388-1, they began making one phrase: \"SURRENDER\" and held this formation until Lambda-12 retreated away from SCP-5388, to which the colony slowly emerged from hiding, and later allowed itself to be contained.\n\n+ Log of containment breach attempts\n\n- Close Log\n\nAddendum 5388-01: Following containment, there have been 5 attempts made by SCP-5388-2 to breach containment. A full log of these attempts can be found below.\n\nAttempt 01: On 07/11/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388-2 attempted to leave its containment zone. This was met with suppression from on-site guards. SCP-5388-2 then repeats this attempt 14 times before falling into submission.\n\n.\n\nAttempt 02: On 07/16/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388-2, along with several instances of SCP-5388-1 attempted to leave its containment zone. This was met with suppression from on-site guards. This attempt was repeated 3 times before SCP-5388-2 reportedly gave up on this attempt.\n\n.\n\nAttempt 03: On 07/21/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388-2 directed several instances of SCP-5388-1 to attempt to breach containment near the Northern edge of the containment zone. While this was in progress, SCP-5388-2 attempted to leave the containment zone on the opposite side of the containment zone. This was met with suppression from on-site guards. Unlike previous attempts, this was only done once.\n\n.\n\nAttempt 04: On 07/29/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388-2 directed an assault against the main control room of Site-550. This was met with suppression from on-site guards. This was attempted once.\n\n.\n\nAttempt 05: On 08/09/20\u2588\u2588, during cleaning of its containment zone, SCP-5388-1 attacked D-Class personnel in an attempt to breach containment. SCP-5388-2 proceeded to hold them hostage, claiming that it would release them if it was granted freedom. These threats were ignored, and D-Class personnel were killed by SCP-5388-1. This was attempted once.\n\n+ Interview Log 5388-08-10-20\u2588\u2588\n\n- Close Log\n\nInterviewed: [SCP-5388-2, along with several instances of SCP-5388-1 for communication]\n\nInterviewer: [Dr. Oliver Norton]\n\nForeword: [Dr. Norton, a Researcher fluent in many languages, was in the control room of Site-550, with SCP-5388-2 at the overview window.]\n<Begin Log>\n\nDr. Norton: Hello, SCP-5388-2.\n\nSCP-5388-2: WHO IS YOU MEN\n\nDr. Norton: We're the SCP Foundation. Now, the purpose of this interview is to-\n\nSCP-5388-2: WANT YOU MEN GOWAY\n\nDr. Norton: Goway? Do you mean to say that you want us to leave?\n\nSCP-5388-2: WANT YOU MEN GOWAY\n\nDr. Norton: I'm sorry, but that isn't gonna happen.\n\nSCP-5388-2: WHAT CAN EMPEROR DO FOR YOU MEN GOWAY\n\nDr. Norton: We ain't leaving, SCP-5388-2.\n\nSCP-5388-2 is unresponsive for a few seconds.\n\nDr. Norton: How about we start with what you are, alright?\n\nSCP-5388-2: IF EMPEROR TELL YOU MEN LEGACY YOU MEN GOWAY\n\nDr. Norton: \u2026Maybe, I'll think about it afterwards, ok? Now, let's start with how your empire was formed.\n\nSCP-5388-2: SUBJECT WERE BAD NOT KNOWING WHAT ORDER WAS\n\nDr. Norton: Order?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR BROUGHT ORDER\n\nDr. Norton: First emperor? Mind explaining that a bit more there?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR SAW SUBJECTS AS WEAK FIRST EMPEROR WANTED TO SEE SUBJECTS STRONGEST\n\nDr. Norton: He saw them as weak? How?\n\nSCP-5388-2: SUBJECTS NOT KNOW HOW TO BE LIVE\n\nDr. Norton: Live? You mean they didn't know how to survive in the ecosystem, right?\n\nSCP-5388-2: SUBJECTS WERE NOLIVE IN ECOSISTERM FIRST EMPEROR NOT WANT THAT\n\nDr. Norton: So what'd he do about it?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR SAID SUBJECTS TOGETHER STRONGEST WITH ORDER\n\nDr. Norton: How'd they respond to it?\n\nSCP-5388-2: SUBJECTS WERE NOT ALLOWING FIRST EMPEROR TO BRING ORDER SUBJECTS WANTED FIRST EMPEROR NOLIVE\n\nDr. Norton: Well, beggars can't be choosers, I guess. After that, what happened?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR NOT STOP FIRST EMPEROR BROUGHT ORDER BY SHOWING SUBJECTS ORDER\n\nDr. Norton: And by showing order, he did\u2026 what exactly?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR SHOWED STRONGEST EMPIRE\n\nDr. Norton: Strongest empire\u2026 Are you referring to the [DATA EXPUNGED]?\n\nSCP-5388-2: THAT IS WHAT YOU MAN CALL IT AFTER SUBJECTS SAW STRONGEST EMPIRE SUBJECTS BECAME EMPIRE\n\nDr. Norton: Huh\u2026 I see. Now, let's discuss the way your \"empire\" works.\n\nSCP-5388-2: EMPEROR NOT KNOW WHAT YOU MAN WANT\n\nDr. Norton: Y'know, like why there aren't any other males?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR WANT SUBJECTS TO BE LIKE STRONGEST EMPEROR LAND\n\nDr. Norton: Wait, are you saying that he wanted to mirror the [DATA EXPUNGED] exactly? Like, killing all the men?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FAKE EMPERORS WERE NOT SUBJECTS FAKE EMPERORS WERE EVIL THING IN BODY OF NOLIVE EMPEROR\n\nDr. Norton: Wait, lemme get this straight. Are you saying that the founding emperor had killed all the other male members of the colony? And here I thought we were barbaric.\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST EMPEROR BROUGHT ORDER FIRST EMPEROR BROUGHT LAWS\n\nDr. Norton: Laws? Could you please specify these laws?\n\nSCP-5388-2: FIRST LAW NO FAKE EMPERORS\n\nDr. Norton: Ok, any details about this law?\n\nSCP-5388-2: NO REMEMBER NO REMEMBER ANY D TALE\n\nDr. Norton: Alright then, continue.\n\nSCP-5388-2: OTHER FIRST LAW CHOSEN WIFE MUST SIRE ONLY ONE NEW EMPEROR FOR OLD EMPEROR NEW EMPEROR MUST NOT NOALIVE BEFORE NEW EMPEROR IS OLD EMPEROR\n\nDr. Norton: Alright, I'm following, continue.\n\nSCP-5388-2: OTHER OTHER FIRST LAW EMPIRE MUST BE STRONG AS STRONGEST MONSTER YOU MEN STRONGEST MONSTER\n\nDr. Norton: I see, ok then. How can you determine the \"strongest monster?\"\n\nSCP-5388-2: WHEN SUBJECTS CAN NOCONQUER MONSTER THE MONSTER IS STRONGEST MONSTER\n\nDr. Norton: I see. Proceed then.\n\nSCP-5388-2: OTHER OTHER OTHER FIRST LAW EMPEROR MUST KNOW STRONGEST MONSTER TALK AND MAKE NEW EMPEROR KNOW MONSTER TALK WHEN EMPEROR IS OLD EMPEROR\n\nDr. Norton: Is that how you know human languages?\n\nSCP-5388-2: YOU MEN TALK BAD EMPEROR NOT KNOW GOOD\n\nDr. Norton: I can see that. But how are you able to do these things? Biologically, it should be impossible for you to do these things.\n\nSCP-5388-2: LAWS GOOD NOBREAK IF BREAK ORDER LOST\n\nDr. Norton: What happens when order is lost?\n\nSCP-5388-2 pauses for a moment.\n\nSCP-5388-2: ALL EMPIRE SUBJECTS NOLIVE\n\nDr. Norton: Alright SCP-5388-2, that'll be all.\n\nSCP-5388-2: YOU MEN GOWAY\n\nDr. Norton: (Towards security) Terminate the interview, we're done here.\n\nSCP-5388-2: WANT KNOWING OF YOU MEN\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: I feel that it is necessary for SCP-5388-2 to maintain this \"order\" for it to maintain a stable containment. Dr. Norton.\n\n+ Log of messages made by SCP-5388-2\n\n- Close Log\n\nAddendum 5388-02: On 08/11/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388-2 began displaying messages at an inconsistent rate with SCP-5388-1. These messages hypothetically ranged from inquisitive to threatening, but it is difficult to understand, given their poor grammar.\nMessage 5388-A:\n\nDate: 08/11/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: WANT KNOWING OF YOU MEN\n\nMessage 5388-B:\n\nDate: 08/11/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: MAKE GOWAY YOU MEN\n\nMessage 5388-C:\n\nDate: 08/12/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: SUBJECT WILL MAKE YOU MEN NOLIVE\n\nMessage 5388-D:\n\nDate: 08/16/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: IF EMPEROR MAKE NOT FEAST YOU MEN YOU MEN WANT GOWAY\n\nMessage 5388-E:\n\nDate: 08/19/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: EMPEROR NOT FEAST YOU MEN YOU MEN WANT GOWAY\n\nMessage 5388-F:\n\nDate: 08/21/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: EMPEROR WANT HELPFUL TO YOU MEN\n\nNote: After this message was received, SCP-5388 was scheduled to be fed. During cleanup, D-11037 accidentally destroyed SCP-5388-3 while it was undergoing metamorphosis. At that moment, all instances of SCP-5388-1 proceeded to attack all D-Class personnel within the area. Following this incident, SCP-5388-1 and -2 had shown an extreme aversion towards all Foundation personnel, and had not attempted to reproduce to give birth to another instance of SCP-5388-3. Remains of prey were not to be collected following this incident. Later messages were inconsistent, with misspellings becoming more and more frequent, as well as less instances of SCP-5388-1 creating said messages.\nMessage 5388-G:\n\nDate: 08/23/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: WAMT SORY SUBLECT HAYE ENP3POR SUBJ3CY NOCALM SUPJECT NO YHINIC OPDER OOOD\n\nMessage 5388-H:\n\nDate: 08/25/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: MAK SUBJECY NOHRTE EMPEROP SU8JECT VVANY 3MPEPOR NOLIV3 ENPEROP WANY ORBER\n\nMessage 5388-I:\n\nDate: 08/26/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: EHPEPOR SOPRT SORRYSORYWANT YOU MEN GOWAY GOWAYGOWAYOOWAT\n\nMessage 5388-J:\n\nDate: 08/30/20\u2588\u2588\nMessage: WAMT PAYI3NCE NEEB OOVVATPALN THEN CAM BE CALN\n\n+ Incident 5388-01\n\n- Close Log\n\nIncident 5388-01: On 09/07/20\u2588\u2588, SCP-5388-2 was observed being hunted down by all instances of SCP-5388-1 within its containment zone. After approximately 2 minutes, SCP-5388-2 had been surrounded by SCP-5388-1. After being motionless for 2 minutes, SCP-5388-1 began to swarm SCP-5388-2 completely, obscuring all visual contact. Phrases could be seen amongst the swarm, mainly consisting of \"NO MORE,\" \"FAILURE,\" \"WEAKNESS,\" and \"REVOLUTION.\" After 5 minutes, SCP-5388-1 dispersed. Remains of SCP-5388-2 consisted of a singular piece of its left wing. Remains were destroyed by personnel. Following this incident, SCP-5388-1 displayed no anomalous properties. SCP-5388 was later reassigned to Neutralized. Requests to terminate SCP-5388 are, as of writing this document, pending further review.\n\n+ Termination requests | LEVEL 4 ACCESS ONLY\n\n- Close Log\n\nDate: 09/11/20\u2588\u2588\nTime: 11:57\nFrom: Dr. Oliver Norton\nTo: Site Director Doucette\nSubject: Termination of SCP-5388\n\nHello\nThis is a formal request on the termination of SCP-5388. After what happened three days ago, and with the complete lack of anomalous properties of SCP-5388, I am requesting that it be terminated, and reassigned to Neutralized.\nThank you for listening.\n~ Dr. Oliver Norton of Site-550\n\n.\n\nDate: 09/12/20\u2588\u2588\nTime: 17:29\nFrom: Site Director Doucette\nTo: Dr. Oliver Norton\nSubject: RE: Termination of SCP-5388\n\nDr. Norton\nAfter examination of the current status of SCP-5388, I have decided to deny your request for termination of the aforementioned. It is not a priority of the Foundation, and has been deemed unnecessary. Research into SCP-5388 will be proceeding as scheduled.\nSite Director Doucette\n\n.\n\nDate: 09/13/20\u2588\u2588\nTime: 17:56\nFrom: Dr. Oliver Norton\nTo: Site Director Doucette\nSubject: RE: RE: Termination of SCP-5388\n\nUnnecessary? It's a flock of butterflies. My team has not recorded anything out of the ordinary. They'll die out, eventually, so why hold them? It's a waste of the Foundation's resources and effort. I hope you reconsider your decision.\n~ Dr. Oliver Norton\n\n.\n\nDate: 09/15/20\u2588\u2588\nTime: 17:22\nFrom: Site Director Doucette\nTo: Dr. Oliver Norton\nSubject: RE: RE: RE: Termination of SCP-5388\n\nDr. Norton\nNo, you will continue to conduct research on SCP-5388 untill it is deemed unnecessary. As of right now, containment will continue for the unforeseeable future, and your actions will be documented as well. Watch your attitude, doctor, this is not some household argument, this is a matter of security. These 'butterflies' are not normal, they have shown anomalous properties. I don't want you to contact me again unless you have something important to tell me.\nSite Director Doucette\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly referred to as the great purple emperor butterfly.\n2. It seems that SCP-5388-2 had a very poor understanding of the human language and did not know how to properly conjugate words and form grammatically correct phrases.\n3. As of documentation, SCP-5388-2 was noted to be slightly knowledgeable of 16 different languages, including English, Russian, Swedish, Welsh, and Spanish.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5387 | SCP-5388 | SCP-5389 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Remains of the tamale from which SCP-5390-30 was recovered.\n\nItem #: SCP-5390\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Food business in the Roma district of Mexico City has been regulated with the excuse of preventing drug dealers; no food sellers should be present in the Roma district after 16:30. Foundation agents disguised as police officers are to monitor the location and amnesticize any affected civilians.\nInstances manifested by SCP-5390 are to be stored in a cryogenic storage locker at Site-30.\nDescription: SCP-5390 is the designation for a phenomenon occurring in the Roma district in Mexico City, Mexico. Whenever a person starts to consume a tamale between 17:00 and 18:00 o'clock, while present at the aforementioned location, a human finger will instantly manifest itself within the tamale dough.\nAt the time of writing, 35 instances materialized by SCP-5390 have been recovered, designated SCP-5390-01 to -35. Neither the tamales nor the fingers have shown a recognizable pattern. Below are some notable instances.\n\nInstance #\nRecovery Date\nNotes\n\nSCP-5390-01\n15/11/1979\nFirst instance recovered, found in the food stand of Mrs. Adelina L\u00f3pez Luna. Right thumb; the fingerprint identified the instance as belonging to Mr. Miguel Antonio Herrera Moreno, former husband of Mrs. L\u00f3pez. Subject had died in 1975, from 2 shots in the chest cavity received during a dispute in a bar. Exhumation of the body showed that 3 fingers were missing; however, both thumbs were still present.\n\nSCP-5390-09\n03/01/1992\nRight index finger of a man between 25 and 30 years old. Fingerprint has not yet been identified. It is to be noted that the instance shows signs of having been bitten in different parts, in a manner not consistent with the way it was recovered.\n\nSCP-5390-12\n07/09/1994\nLeft little finger; the fingerprint identified the instance as belonging to Mrs. Patricia Abel Santos, a Mexican journalist who died in 1991, at the age of 44, from colon cancer. Exhumation of the body showed that all fingers were still present. It is to be noted that Ms. Abel was the one who reported SCP-5390-01's discovery before the Foundation was able to establish a cover story.\n\nSCP-5390-13\n11/10/1995\nRight middle finger; fingerprint identified the instance as belonging to Dr. Venceslao, who was assigned to Site-30 at the time, and expressed ignorance about this event. This is the first and only time that SCP-5390 has manifested an instance directly related to the Foundation.\n\nSCP-5390-19\n24/12/1999\nLeft little finger of a male infant between 4 and 9 months of age. Fingerprint has not yet been identified. This is the first time that SCP-5390 has manifested an instance belonging to a minor.\n\nSCP-5390-26 to -31\n27/09/2007 to 15/06/2015\nLeft thumb, index, middle, ring, and little finger of Ms. Carla Salvador Uribe, a 15-year-old Mexican student who disappeared on 10/09/1975 in the vicinity of the Historic Center of Mexico City. This is the first and only time that SCP-5390 has manifested more than one instance belonging to the same person.\n\nSCP-5390-35\n03/10/2020\nRight index finger of a person of indeterminate identity and gender. It should be noted that the right incisor of an unknown woman between 45 and 50 years old was attached to the instance.\n\nAddendum: On 10/01/2021, SCP-5390-26 to -31 began to spasm inside their containment cell. After they were removed and placed on a table for examination, all the instances began to gather and roughly spell out the words \"HELLO\", \"CARLA\", and \"DEER\" in Mexican Sign Language, before returning to their inert state. Research into the possible significance of this is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5389 | SCP-5390 | SCP-5391 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5391 -\n\nx\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nAN EMERGENCY NOTICE FROM THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nIn light of recent cataclysmic events, the following file's clearances have been lowered from Level-5/5391 to Level-1/5391. It is our belief that the information contained in this file provides essential context to an anomaly that has affected normalcy on a world-wide scale. For the safety of our organization and the survival of humanity: all Foundation personnel are required to read this document.\nThe Veil has been lifted. This is now a war on all fronts.\n\n5391\n\nItem#: 5391\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\napollyon\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nPrometheus Labs Testing Facility ENSW-1 following the revival of LSA-Brasil-001\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-40\nA. Darius Simmons\nM. Kaori\n\u0397-5 \"J\u00e4eger Bombers\"\n\nFoundation Secure Facility Site-40, located off the coast of Wake Island\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Complete containment of SCP-5391 is to be achieved through direct engagement of SCP-5391-1. Entities are to be subdued or terminated on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the engaging parties.\nA state of d\u00e9tente has been declared between the Foundation and certain major paranormal organizations, specifically the Global Occult Coalition. All groups, in conjunction with world governments, are to focus efforts on the engagement and combat of SCP-5391-1. Foundation facility Site-40 has been declared neutral ground, and is to be the primary research terminal of all SCP-5391 related phenomena. As such, the remains of all SCP-5391-1 entities are to be hosted at this location for further analysis. Several massive, underground containment chambers are to be used in the event that a live SCP-5391-1 specimen can be contained.\nThe Foundation is presently in the early phases of an SK-Class \"Broken Masquerade\" scenario. As such, all protocol relating to the preservation of the Veil is to be disregarded. Refer to site supervisors and disseminated supplemental documentation for further information.\nSee Addendum.5391.4 for details on SCP-5391-1 engagement protocol.\nDescription: SCP-5391 is the designation given to the subsequent appearance of several hostile Large Scale Aggressors (LSAs) following the revival of LSA-Brasil-01. These entities, collectively referred to as both SCP-5391-1 and their individual designations, are gigafauna varying in appearance, height, and biological composition. While certain SCP-5391-1 possess physical traits similar to those found in ordinary organisms, each entity deviates in significant characteristics and anomalous capability. The unifying characteristic among SCP-5391-1 is the possession of destructive thaumatological capabilities, including the large-scale emission of Elan Vital Energy and Akiva Radiation. A brief summary detailing the characteristics and anomalous capabilities of significant SCP-5391-1 can be found in Addendum.5391.1. There are presently 27 known entities that have appeared as a result of SCP-5391.\nOn 1998/06/30, a series of seismic events \u2014 including tsunamis, underwater and above-ground volcanic activity, and ground tremors \u2014 resulted in the surfacing of LSA-02 through LSA-09. Entities close to large population centers immediately engaged in hostile behavior. Foundation, military, and Global Occult Coalition forces were mobilized, but were only successful in driving the entities away from large civilian populations. In most cases, SCP-5391-1 retreated into the ocean. A combined clean-up and reconstruction effort of these population centers is underway, and is expected to take full effect upon the complete containment or neutralization of the SCP-5391-1 threat.\nThe appearance of SCP-5391-1 has resulted in both an MH-Class \"Large-Scale Aggressor Overrun\" Scenario and an SK-Class \"Broken Masquerade\" scenario, as destruction of metropolitan and otherwise populated areas upon the awakening of these entities has damaged the Veil beyond repair.\nThe vector of SCP-5391 activity is hypothesized to be the resurrection of LSA-Brasil-01, an entity responsible for the attack on Hy-Brasil, a large anomalous community, in 1988. This entity was neutralized by the Global Occult Coalition through the use of an experimental, unique Casaba-Howitzer Nuclear Directed Energy Weapon, which had the subsequent effect of destroying much of the surrounding area of Hy-Brasil. Following this, the corpse of the entity fell into the possession of GoI-211, Prometheus Labs, who engaged in a series of experiments and physical modifications intended to revive the entity. On 1998/06/28, the entity was successfully revived, destroying its research facility off the coast of Swansea, Wales before escaping.\nIt is unknown why the revival of LSA-Brasil-01 has resulted in SCP-5391.\nAddendum.5391.1: Significant SCP-5391-1 Files\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nLSA-Brasil-01\n\nAppearance: 1998/06/28\nLocation: Swansea, Wales\n\nLSA-Brasil-01 is a crocodilian and cephalopodic entity responsible for the destruction of Hy-Brasil in 1988. The entity possesses numerous thaumatological capabilities, including regenerative properties, the emission of Elan Vital Energy for defensive purposes, and the ability to detect other LSAs through EVE patterns. While the entity was once considered neutralized and had sustained unlivable damage to its body, LSA-Brasil-01 was revived by Prometheus Labs for the purposes of an experimental program code-named ANASTASIS. As a result, LSA-Brasil-01 is currently outfitted with large amounts of paratechnical components that accentuate its abilities. ANASTASIS ran from 1991/03/12 to 1998/06/28, culminating in the successful reanimation of LSA-Brasil-01 and the entity's subsequent destruction of Prometheus Labs Testing Facility ENSW-1. LSA-Brasil-01 is currently at large, and was last observed near the island of Pr\u00edncipe.\n\nLSA-Wake-02\n\nAppearance: 1998/06/30\nLocation: Wake Island, United States Minor Outlaying Islands\n\nLSA-Wake-02 is an aquatic, serpentine entity that resembles a wolf eel (Anarrhichthys ocellatus). Its full body length and measurements are currently unable to be determined due to limited observation. An illicium hangs from the entity's head, hypothesized to act as a lure for prey. When LSA-Wake-02 opens its mouth, a second head - resembling that of an anglerfish - will emerge from the entity's mouth to consume prey. This appendage is capable of moving independently from the body, extending as far as 40 meters. LSA-Wake-02 is also capable of changing its skin coloration. A variety of complex color mixtures and patterns have been observed. Upon awakening, the entity briefly attacked a cruise ship near Majuro before being driven back to sea by Global Occult Coalition forces.\n\nLSA-Stromboli-08\n\nAppearance: 1998/06/30\nLocation: Stromboli, Italy\n\nLSA-Stromboli-08 is an armored, ankylosaurian quadruped that appeared in Stromboli, Italy. The entity was apparently buried beneath the island's sediment, and its awakening resulted in the eruption of Mount Stromboli and complete destruction of the island. LSA-Stromboli-08's plating features numerous broad spines that end in a narrow point - presumably a self-defense mechanism. The seams between these plates have a scintillating red glow, similar to that of molten rock. As shown during the eruption of Mount Stromboli, the entity shows great resistance to heat, and is capable of expelling EVE-infused magma from its body. Due to the danger of approaching LSA-Stromboli-08, the entity has remained undisturbed on the island, spending a significant portion of its time following its appearance in a state of rest.\n\nLSA-Amman-14\n\nAppearance: 1998/07/01\nLocation: Amman, Jordan\n\nLSA-Amman-14 is an arboreal entity resembling a massive, leafless tree. The entity's lower body is composed of soft appendages akin to roots, which LSA-Amman-14 has used to anchor itself in the ground. While the entity is capable of moving through traditional means, it prefers to remain stationary and protect itself through the extension of its appendages. LSA-Amman-14 is capable of rapidly regrowing and generating extensions of its body at will, observed to be used to pierce its prey. Its upper half resembles a tree trunk, but with a clear \"head\" appendage with several black eyes visible. Prior to surfacing, the top portion of LSA-Amman-14 was visible above ground among Daevite ruins located in Jordan. The entity was initially thought to be an anomalously grown tree. Following its revival, the entity attacked the city of Amman, causing over 100,000 documented casualties. The entity was driven into the countryside, where Foundation and Global Occult Coalition forces are currently attempting to neutralize the threat.\n\nLSA-Elizabeth-18\n\nAppearance: 1998/07/02\nLocation: Elizabeth, New Jersey\n\nLSA-Elizabeth-18 is a winged coleopteratic entity resembling a Goliath beetle (Goliathus goliatus). Four pairs of wings with estimated individual lengths of ~65 meters grow between the entity's plated body. A large, tapered horn is situated on the entity's head. LSA-Elizabeth-18 appeared in Elizabeth, New Jersey, surfacing from a field outside the city. The entity's subsequent destruction of Elizabeth resulted in over 32,000 casualties. LSA-Elizabeth-18 is presently in a state of flight, and has not touched land since its initial surfacing.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5391.2: Site-01 Internal Memo - 1998/07/01\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nHYPERION-5 EMERGENCY SUMMIT INTERNAL MEMO\nSite-01\nPrepared by: Factotum-O3-A\n\nDr. Mikasa Kaori, SCP-5391 Research Head\n\nOn 1998/07/01, an emergency summit between high-ranking Foundation personnel was held at Site-01. The purpose of this conference was to determine a proper course of action following the events of SCP-5391. Among those in attendance included public relations specialist Agent Diogenes, RAISA administrator Maria Jones, and Dr. Charles Gears.\nIn a 9-0 vote, the conference decided to move in favor of lifting certain Veiled operations, organizing contact with the Global Occult Coalition, and directing all efforts and resources to containing the SCP-5391-1 threat by any means necessary. Furthermore, Dr. Mikasa Kaori \u2014 an integral component during the clean-up and documentation of the Hy-Brasil incident \u2014 was promoted to Research Head for SCP-5391 related phenomena. Dr. Kaori's experience with containing and researching several LSA-class anomalies was also taken into account.\nUpon review by the Overseer Council, the actions proposed by the Hyperion-5 Summit were put to an Overseer vote, and agreed upon.\n\nVote Aye - 9\nAgent Diogenes / Researcher U. Ridley / Director M. Jones / Dr. C. Gears / Director V. Marzapane / Director C. Luong / Dr. T. Xyank / Dr. A. Mudarri / Agent Wrangham\nVote Nay - 0\nN/A\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5391.3: Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 1998/07/04\n\nPoI-2889, ect\n\nForward: On 1998/07/04, Foundation agents successfully detained and captured PoI-2889 \u2014 Stanislav Nikolaev, \u0434.\u0431.\u043d \u2014 at the Dublin Airport. PoI-2889 is a former GRU-P scientist and director of Prometheus Labs' ANASTASIS project. PoI-2889 was present during the destruction of Prometheus Labs Testing Facility ENSW-1, and claimed the results of the ANASTASIS project were successful. While in custody, he was noted to express joy and elation in regards to the events of SCP-5391, claiming that his \"life's work\" had been seen to completion.\nPoI-2889 was brought to Site-40 and promptly interrogated.\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nDr. Kaori walks into the room, and sits down. Extended silence.\nPoI-2889: Yes, doctor?\nDr. Kaori: PoI-2889, you've expressed several statements regarding SCP-5391. Was this an intended consequence of reviving LSA-Brasil-01?\nPoI-2889: (Laughs) No, no, no. Doctor, I assure you, none of us on the research team had this knowledge. Trust me, doctor. It may not have stopped *my* involvement, but the suits? Shut the project down like *that*.\nDr. Kaori: (Distressed) And why is that? Is this the future you want? Are you enjoying the destruction of the Veil? The oncoming loss of millions of lives? Your actions have cost us everything. Costed the world everything!\nSilence.\nPoI-2889: My simple goal was to make a monster, doctor. I made my monster, and received a dozen more! It is a glorious unforeseen turn of events. I sense resentment from you, doctor. This isn't the calm and collected demeanor a Foundation personnel is supposed to uphold. (Laughs)\nDr. Kaori sinks into her seat and sighs.\nDr. Kaori: This isn't the world we were supposed to uphold, either.\nPoI-2889: This world is being returned to its rightful masters. I've studied LSAs for decades. These beasts are unstoppable in the purest sense of the word. Fighting them is hopeless. You're better to curl up into a ball and accept your fate. At least for now.\nDr. Kaori: For now?\nPoI-2889: Yes, for now. If you cannot adapt in this new earth paradigm, then you will die. Your whole species will die! Thousands of years of human achievement!\nPoI-2889 extends his hand and blows before laughing.\nDr. Kaori: How do you adapt?\nPoI-2889: The only way to kill a kaiju is with one of their own. Hm?\nDr. Kaori: Are you suggesting we train an LSA?\nPoI-2889: It'd be near impossible to train one. But if you want to kill kaiju, you'll need one of your own. Raise one, grow one, make one, perhaps even build one.\nSite-40's warning klaxons sound. Dr. Kaori looks frantically. PoI-2889 begins laughing. The door to the interview room is flung open by another personnel member.\nUnidentified Personnel: Dr. Kaori! LSA threat 12 kilometers from the facility engaged with civilian watercraft. All forces are mobilizing!\nDr. Kaori: Understood.\nDr. Kaori gets up and begins to rush out of the room. She stops as PoI-2889 begins to speak.\nPoI-2889: (Laughs) You'll see! You'll see what I mean, doctor. You cannot win against this power.\nDr. Kaori leaves, glaring at PoI-2889.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5391.4: Incident Wake-02-B\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINCIDENT LOG\n\nDATE: 1998/07/04\n\nPreface: Following the resurfacing of LSA-Wake-02, the entity attacked a fishing vessel before being engaged by the Foundation. Mobile Task Force \u0397-5 \"J\u00e4eger Bombers\" and Site-40 trained personnel were ordered to subdue or neutralize the entity using a variety of specialized equipment. A log of Incident Wake-02-B is transcribed below.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n[00:00] LSA-Wake-02 resurfaces in the Pacific Ocean, 1,523 miles west of Site-40.\n[00:24] LSA-Wake-02 approaches a Trident Seafoods fishing vessel and begins assaulting the craft.\n[00:37] Foundation forces arrive: six BlackGate-Atzmus armed helicopters, two A-Class watercraft (Cronus and Rhea respectively) armed with various anomalous weaponry, and the High-Energy Concentration Orbital Railgun (HECOR).\n[00:45] MTF H-5 (\"J\u00e4eger Bombers\") are deployed from Dimensional-Site-172 and materialize successfully.\n[00:48] Bombardment of the entity continues to be ineffectual. An MM13 Binding Field is deployed in an attempt to contain LSA-Wake-02 in a state of stasis. The device is rendered unusable within seconds by a large emission of EVE.\n[00:54] The entity damages the fishing vessel beyond its ability to float. Two immediate civilian casualties.\n[00:55] Dr. Kaori and the control team redirect efforts to the safe evacuation of civilians aboard the vessel. A helicopter begins to board survivors. The bodies of the two casualties are unable to be recovered.\n[01:03] LSA-Wake-02 grossly extends its second mouth and devours the retreating helicopter. 18 casualties result.\n[01:08] The entity is pierced by four Anti-Thaumatologic Cannons. Considerable damage is dealt before LSA-Wake-02 destroys a cannon by bludgeoning it with half of the fishing vessel.\n[01:15] HECOR prepares for firing. 12 Thaumatologically-Keyed Explosives impact the entity with minimal effect.\n[01:19] LSA-Wake-02 consumes two more helicopters after destroying another cannon. 31 casualties.\n[01:24] A sweeping wave of EVE results in the destruction of Foundation vessel Rhea. 36 casualties.\n[01:31] HECOR fires, destroying a large portion of LSA-Wake-02. The entity immediately begins regenerating.\n[01:34] Dr. Kaori redirects the objective to the safe evacuation of Foundation personnel. A BlackGate-T12 unmanned drone is deployed to distract the entity while a second Atzmus helicopter will transport survivors to Site-40.\n[01:56] Bombardment of LSA-Wake-02 ceases as personnel board the rescue vehicle. The entity consumes the drone as the helicopter retreats from the area.\n[02:32] 18 surviving personnel are successfully evacuated to Site-40. All members of MTF H-5 return to Dimensional-Site-112 with only minor injuries. Total casualties calculated at approximately 87.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nClosing Statement: Unacceptable. This log and the recorded footage of the incident is proof enough that we do not possess the tools required to effectively combat these entities. We lost 74 Foundation personnel, 13 civilians, and barely scratched the threat. We would've lost more if I hadn't called for retreat. It's evident now more than ever that our methods of containment regarding LSAs are grossly ineffectual and costly. I've been lobbying for the continued development of the KEY program for years. I'm presently drafting a reinstatement proposal for the 5391 committee's review. If we wish to protect this new world, it's imperative we adapt with it. - Dr. Kaori\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5391.5: A Notice From The Overseer Council\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nA Notice From The Overseer Council\n\nSCP-5391\n\nAs SCP-5391 is an ongoing phenomenon, information is limited and subject to change. This file has been compiled and released as a document intended to summarily inform personnel of all clearance levels. Further information regarding Veil protocol, individual LSA documentation, and changing policy will be disseminated through the necessary channels. SCP-5391 is considered a living document, and will be updated accordingly. It is imperative that all Foundation personnel remain aware of further developments relating to SCP-5391.\nIn the event that your place of employment within the Foundation is the focus of an SCP-5391-related incident, necessary information and protocol has been released to facility administration committees.\n\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nFrom:\npcs.tenpics|snommis.a#pcs.tenpics|snommis.a\n\nTo:\npcs.tenpics|iroak.m#pcs.tenpics|iroak.m\n\nSubject:\nRe:SCP-5391\n\nDate:\n1998/07/05\n\nDr. Kaori,\nI'm assuming you've read the public release of the file by now. Didn't leave much out.\nTwo days ago, something happened in Paraguay. Killed an entire Foundation expedition team. There's ruins there. Labyrinthine cave systems filled with remnants of ancient civilizations you've never heard of. The higher-ups are starting to put the pieces together: why this is happening, what these things are, what's about to come. We were keeping this a clearance above you, but you're research head now. It's your right to know. We're almost finished revising the file.\nRegards,\nAlbert Simmons\nSite-40 Research Director\n\nFrom:\npcs.tenpics|iroak.m#pcs.tenpics|iroak.m\n\nTo:\npcs.tenpics|snommis.a#pcs.tenpics|snommis.a\n\nSubject:\nRe:SCP-5391\n\nDate:\n1998/07/05\n\nDirector Simmons,\nThank you, director. I'm glad the Overseers saw me fit to see information that is integral to carrying out my job effectively.\nI spent a day arguing with the financial division, trying to dredge up several old, failed projects. Specifically the KEY program, as well as the handful that were rushed into development after the Hy-Brasil incident. RAISA won't even provide the records.\nI hope you can realize that withholding information from the appointed authority on this phenomenon is neither beneficial to your cause nor protective of anyone. When will I be given permission to read this new document?\nRegards,\nDr. Mikasa Kaori\nFoundation Research Specialist\n\nFrom:\npcs.tenpics|snommis.a#pcs.tenpics|snommis.a\n\nTo:\npcs.tenpics|iroak.m#pcs.tenpics|iroak.m\n\nSubject:\nRe:SCP-5391\n\nDate:\n1998/07/05\n\nExpect to see it on your desk by tomorrow morning.\nRemind me, what's the KEY program?\n\nFrom:\npcs.tenpics|iroak.m#pcs.tenpics|iroak.m\n\nTo:\npcs.tenpics|snommis.a#pcs.tenpics|snommis.a\n\nSubject:\nRe:SCP-5391\n\nDate:\n1998/07/05\n\nWhat do people usually do when confronted by giant monsters?\nThey build mechs.\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nGRANT REQUEST\n\nWar on All Fronts: Anastasis\n\nAwakening\n\n\u00ab SCP-5390 | SCP-5391 | SCP-5392 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5392\nObject Class: Pending1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: At time of writing, discovery is less than an hour old. Foundation webcrawlers are to ping any mentions of SCP-5392 to Site-26 for assigning to the appropriate MTF or unit to handle amnestic treatment.\nDescription: SCP-5392 is a faster-than-light spacecraft that has been perceived by Foundation satellites to be currently in orbit at 900km above sea level. Research is ongoing.\n~Note: This just started and is moving very quickly. I'll update this with information as it comes in. ~Junior Researcher Mason Hedge.\nAddendum 5392-1:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Security Log - Site 262 - Mission Control Main Observation Room - 10:05 AM MST>\nMultiple people are peering over screens and running around or looking over each other's shoulders as they work. Some are watching the main screen at the front of the room, others are intently watching their computers, or looking over the shoulder of someone who is. A door to an adjacent room opens and Site Director Nate Ferris steps out and begins to address the room.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Hello everyone? Can I get your attention please? I apologize for having you brought here under short notice and little explanation. Here's what we know so you're all brought up to speed.\nAt nine-fifty am, our time, the HEIMDALL satellite detected a UAP travelling one-point-two times the speed of light in our solar system. Now, it was built to detect FTL outside of Earth's atmosphere, but its sensors showed an object moving faster than light, originating in the city of Othello, Washington in the United States, and ending in a position over nine-hundred kilometers above sea level, well over most satellites, but within range of certain telecommunications satellites. We thought it was an error until we received reports of an explosion near the originating point. We don't know much yet about the area so our nearest Foundation agent is en-route to investigate.\nThe UAP itself has settled into an orbit around the earth and is not in danger of colliding with any satellites, Foundation or otherwise. We're still getting imagery of the UAP so we're waiting on that.\nAs far as we know, we're the only ones who know about this, but seeing as multiple countries are constantly monitoring space as part of early warning systems against nukes and the like, to say nothing of their space agencies, we won't be the only ones for long.\nAny faster-than-light travel is considered anomalous by the Foundation as it is currently not explainable by the laws of physics. If we learn the craft is using anomalous or even non-anomalous means of propulsion, then our objective is to retrieve it. We currently have retrieval units on launchpads beginning emergency launch procedures but they won't launch yet. The decision to retrieve will be based on our information. If the UAP was not going faster than light at all, then we correct the error in HEIMDALL and let the world governments act as they may. We need more information. Where are we on imagery?\nSatellite Operator Stacy Lee: Image is coming in through SENTINEL-3, but it's extremely high resolution so it needs time to process the image. Estimated time of download, ninety seconds.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Keep on it. Any word from our assets inside NASA or ROSCOSMOS?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley:\n<raising his headset microphone with his hand.> Still waiting for word from Iota-103 sir, and I've got Agent Nguyen on the line saying he's just arrived at the explosion site in Othello. He'll keep me posted.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Tell him I'm sorry we pulled him from his vacation, and to focus on what caused the explosion. We want to focus on confirming whether it's true FTL or not. Do we know if it's sending a signal anywhere? Some kind of ground control on Earth?\nCommunications Analyst Gina Morris: There's a constant 5Ghz radio-wave that we can detect sir, but I'm not picking up anything on local frequencies in the Othello region\u2026 wait\u2026 one moment\u2026 <Morris intently stares at her screen> sir, one of our webcrawlers has picked up a livestream claiming to come from the satellite. I'm not sure if this is legit though.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Put it on the big screen. We'll know in a sec.\n<The large monitor in the room shows a YouTube livestream showing an elderly bearded man, approximately sixty years old, sitting down in what appears to be a spacecraft. There are various consoles on the interior of the ship, but due to the low quality of the stream, the writing is too pixelated to read. The man is wearing a mechanic jumpsuit with the embroidered nametag reading 'Albert' and the emblem for 'Maple Auto Repair' is shown.>\nLivestream Audio: -theoretical maximum speed with this baby is 1.5c, but I didn't exceed 1.25c during launch. Okay, what is c? c is the speed of light. You remember that famous equation from Albert Einstein? e equals m-c squared? In that equation, he's talking about how energy and mass are basically the same thing, and c, is a constant expression for converting mass to energy. It's not like converting Celsius to Farenheit though, but that's getting off-topic-\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Who the hell's he talking to?\nCommunications Analyst Gina Morris: Director, he's speaking with the people commenting on his livestream. They're asking questions, or calling him fake, or asking for more evidence.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: How big an audience are we talking?\nCommunications Analyst Gina Morris: <Takes the livestream out of fullscreen, the amount of current viewers is shown as: '36 watching now'>\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Leave this on-screen. Gina, send a priority request to MTF-Gamma-54on my authority. We need to nip this in the bud. Tell them we still want visibility into the stream but no one else. McCawley, get an engineering team in here for analysis to review everything in the video, and somebody figure out how to talk to this guy!\nLivestream Audio:<continues> -all in all, I'm hoping NASA gets their eyes on this. I sent them a link to the stream through their publicly available email address. I really hope they pick me up for making this in the future with other engineers and eventually, go to Mars and beyond. It's all that much closer everyone! We can go to Mars in twelve minutes instead of twelve years! <He wipes a tear from his face.> You know, Chris Hadfield was right, tears don't fall, they just stay on your eyes. I'm so happy, this is the greatest day of my life!\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5392-2:\n\nDATE: 31/5/2024\nFROM: Site Director Nate Ferris <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>\nTO: O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>\nSUBJECT: Re: 5392 update\n\nI have a few minutes so I'm writing this email to update you all on our progress.\nFirst, our engineering team has confirmed it's nothing like any traditional chemical engines. It's not a rocket, the means of propulsion doesn't have any groundwork that our engineers are familiar with. Not chemical, nuclear, or even any known means of anomalous propulsion. It's still up in the air whether or not the ship 'Tachyon Express' is anomalous in nature.\nSecond, our agent has confirmed that the pilot is Albert Maple, a mechanic from Othello WA, where the original explosion occurred. He's described as an enthusiastic hermit by the locals, eager to help them with their cars, but was also described as 'extremely chatty and geeky'. Local HAZMAT teams confirmed no usage of any dangerous chemicals or material typically used to fuel spacecraft. They did however find press brakes, sheet metal, mylar, and other materials and machines used for the construction of spacecraft. The Village Idiots5 are working on the ground to amnesticize and disseminate misinformation, so we're mostly contained. The Herrings are still tracking down and amnesticizing everyone who saw the livestream, but this is well within their ability so I'm not worried. They've blocked the livestream to all except a few accounts we have access to and are spoofing the count so the pilot doesn't notice any drop in viewership.\nWe've also got a way to talk to the pilot in the works. In order to perform his livestream, Mr. Maple had to hijack a nearby commercial telecommunications satellite. We've gained control of the satellite and from there, we're working to gain control of the computer the pilot is using to livestream, but a more important priority is making sure no one else can hijack communications from us.\nOn that note\u2026 we've noticed some major world governments and agencies focusing on the craft. Satellites pointing cameras, missile silos on standby, etc. They're trying to communicate with the ship as well, but efforts so far have failed. Iota-10 has tried to mislead or otherwise sabotage their efforts, but they're spread way too thin as far as space agencies are concerned. We're past the point of no return for at least 10 countries and 5 space agencies. The GOC has reached out, presumably in good faith, offering to destroy the vessel, but they are respecting the 'dibs' clause in the TAO Treaty6. We're returning their gesture by keeping them in the loop as it's uncertain whether or not their offer will be needed. More than likely, they want the FTL technology as much as we do. We'll keep the diplomacy going for now as we don't benefit by being hostile or dismissive to them. Besides, we need them to keep UN-joined countries off our backs. It's not a perfect solution, but it's working for now.\nWe're also trying to see if we can hijack the spacecraft itself, but based off what Maple has been speaking about in his livestream, he has four redundant navigational computers onboard (standard in most spacecraft) and implied that the livestream computer was separate from any other ship systems. If this is correct, then we have no conventional way of gaining control of the craft, not at the moment at least.\nAs for who will be speaking with Maple, I've designated our communications analyst McCawley. I've chosen him because he used to be a police hostage negotiator so he has the experience for coaxing the pilot to come down to Earth. He'll be posing as a NASA SATCOM operator and his goal will be to get Maple to land close to somewhere we can retrieve him. We're working on the logistics of that.\nOn another note, we received a communique from the US Space Force stating that we have no business meddling in affairs that aren't anomalous in nature, and that we should butt out and taking over a commercial satellite was an egregious error on our part. We're ignoring them for the moment to let the GOC calm them down, but this is going to be an international free-for-all if we're not careful. Everyone wants their hands on this technology, and Maple is surprisingly not talking about how the FTL drive works. He's ranting and talking about sci-fi, future implications, how annoying it was to set up the software he's using, but nothing about the workings of the drive. My guess is that he won't share anything until he gets his wish, a job with NASA.\nI'm being pulled away, will update later.\n-Site Director Ferris\n\nAddendum 5392-3:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - First communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 10:45 AM MST>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site 26 Communications Analyst.\nForeword: POI-5392-1 was contacted prior to this conversation through a Google Voice phone number they had set up for their auto repair business. POI-5392-1 was given directions to transmit on a secure communications channel for further audio communication. The livestream was playing at the same time as the conversation and any behavior displayed by POI-5392-1 on that stream is noted here for clarity.\n\nPOI-5392-1: I think I've got it working now. Testing? Come in Houston?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Houston here, before we continue I want you to check on your systems right now. Do you have a means of monitoring oxygen and carbon dioxide in your cabin?\nPOI-5392-1: Aww this is so cool, yeah CO2 levels are less than one percent, I've got enough filters up here for a few days if need be. O2 holding steady between twenty and twenty-one percent.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Are you experiencing any medical symptoms? Trouble breathing, headaches, pain anywhere?\nPOI-5392-1: Oh Houston, that's a great question, I'm not seeing any pain right now. I'm seeing flashes of white light, but that's actually considered normal. Fun fact, at this altitude, radiation can pass through your retina which causes the white light. They're called GCRs and for a while astronauts were too afraid to talk about it because it would mean being dis-\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Express, let's stay focused. Do you have food and water? And while you're talking about radiation, do you have a Geiger counter?\nPOI-5392-1: Ah, my bad Houston, god it feels good to say Houston out loud, Anyway I have three days worth of rations and water. Currently, I'm experiencing four hundred microsieverts of radiation. It goes up and down, but that's where it's at now. I've got alarms set to go off it goes over seven hundred.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: How are you.. err\u2026 disposing of waste?\nPOI-5392-1: It's okay man, we're all adults here, no need to be so formal. As to your question, I got lazy. I made a really small airlock compartment that I sit on. All my waste gets sent into a compartment which gets depressurized and ejected into space. I have sanitary wipes to clean up after which I dispose of the same wa- oh Houston, are you watching the stream?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Express, yes we're watching the stream. We got your email and it's amazing what you've accomplished. From all of us here at NASA, we're all really proud of what you've accomplished, hang on, can we get a round of applause for Albert? <McCawley starts clapping and the entire Site-26 mission control room joins in on the applause which lasts for several seconds. POI-5392-1 is wiping their face with their sleeve,>You hear that sir? That's for you.\nPOI-5392-1: I hear it sir\u2026 I hear it loud and clear\u2026 I'm sorry I need a sec. <POI-5392-1 is seen crying for approximately one minute before taking several deep breaths and coming back to the microphone.> You still there Houston?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: We're still here Express. That being said, we need to talk about what a surprise this was. You did raise a few alarms, what with the metal object in space and no one knowing what it was or who it belonged to.\nPOI-5392-1: I'm sorry, I didn't get clearance for this launch. I'm hoping I can atone for that with community service eh? Wink wink? <POI-5392-1 was pronounceably winking at the camera.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I think the higher-ups were willing to do something along those lines, but one thing man, you got to tell me, what kind of magic do you have running that thing?\nPOI-5392-1: Oh believe me sir, I really want to tell you but I haven't seen a formal job offer letter sent to my email address. Once I get that offer, we can talk specifics.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Well is it safe? You're breaking the known laws of physics here.\nPOI-5392-1: Perfectly safe Houston, but one thing I need to clarify that I haven't mentioned on the stream. I basically broke physics once, not twice.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Can you elaborate? What exactly did you do?\nPOI-5392-1: I'm only going to explain the what and not the how, but I had to do two things. First, was go faster than c, if you thought that was hard, imagine how hard it is to return to a stable speed and orbit! I had to come up with a whole way for a spaceship to hit the brakes while going faster than light, while taking care not to exert stresses that would rip the ship, or me, apart.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: But that's the law you didn't break? How did you get around the conservation of momentum?\nPOI-5392-1: I didn't. I had to store all that kinetic energy somewhere, so I figured out a way to store it in\u2026 oh, well would you look at that?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Look at what Express? <no response for a few seconds, POI-5392-1 is seen on the livestream as reading their computer intently for a few seconds> Express come in?\nPOI-5392-1: Sorry about that Houston, I got a message on my LinkedIn profile.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Say again? Your LinkedIn profile?\nPOI-5392-1: Yes sir, a message from Jeff Bezos, he's offering me a job at Blue Origin with a yearly salary that's more than I've made in my entire life put together. You don't got to worry Houston, I know what I want.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Right well, I can't speak for NASA on this so this is just me talking, but please don't respond to him further.\nPOI-5392-1: Yes sir, if I wanted to sell out, I would have filed an application at the US patent office. I mean come on! I didn't become the modern-day Zephram Cochrane just so rich boys like him could deliver Amazon Prime to the moon!\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: If you don't mind me saying so, it's a sigh of relief that you're saying that sir. Am I to understand you created this for everyone to partake and enjoy? Not just us?\nPOI-5392-1: Hell yeah! I needed to see if it worked first, beyond that, I was going to make my employment with NASA contingent on me making the specs for the propulsion public domain. None of this cold-war-space-race-only-one-person-gets the tech-bullshit. I mean, I love NASA, and I understand the need to classify some rocket technology so I'm not worried about regulation, but I want to share this. The Russians, the Chinese, the private sector, everyone. Everyone should get this! Space is too important that one group should have it.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Sir, I think that that's going to be a decision for the higher-ups to make.\nPOI-5392-1: Well, not if I make it for them! I can send the application to the patent office right now from here, I've got a redundant computer for communications separate from the one that's running my livestream.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Sir, if you do that, virtually every nation on Earth will have access to the blueprints for what you're doing. Including the ones that are on the list of state sponsors of terror.\nPOI-5392-1: Houston respectfully, you don't get it. This is something to bring people together. I believe that when people see what I've done\u2026\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: They'll make bombs that kill people faster than light. I get it Albert, but other people won't.\nPOI-5392-1: <frowns and looks down> Houston, you've given me a lot to think about. I'll get back to you. Tachyon Express out. <POI-5392-1 turns off their computer, ending the transmission.>\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: Shortly after the communication ended. The livestream also ended, but was still monitored in case POI-5392-1 started streaming again.\n\nAddendum 5392-4:\n\nDATE: 31/5/2024\nFROM: GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nTO: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nSUBJECT: Re: regarding 5392\n\nHello Cathy,\nIn regards to your 5392, I'd like to preface this by saying that we've been extremely cooperative and honored the \"Dibs\" clause. We feel that the Foundation is not reciprocating.\nWhile the transcripts and imagery you have provided thus far are great, and we very much appreciate it, we've taken on an unfair burden on our end to keep the US, Russia, and China all under a lid, to say nothing of the member countries of the ESA. I can confidently say that we need more. Not just more information, but we need something we can give the aforementioned countries so they don't go off on their own and try to ground or destroy the craft.\nTo add to the pressure we're currently facing, various private space companies are in danger of blowing the veil by pressuring politicians or other agencies in order to put more pressure on us to do something drastic. I've had calls from the UN General Secretary, the Chinese Minister of Defense, the head of NORAD, and our bosses have definitely been on the receiving end of this pressure. Jobs are being threatened in a way that has never been done before, which is only more indicative of how drastic and urgent our request is.\nThe biggest thing that can be provided is a path forward. Right now, the 'Tachyon Express' has gone dark for a few hours, and the silence is deafening. Waiting for Mr. Maple to make a move is not at all a good idea as that just gives more time for pressure to build. We (meaning the Foundation and/or GOC) need to make a move. Soon. Even if the craft isn't anomalous. Speaking of which, has the Foundation considered any anomalous means of retrieval?\nI would like to point out again, that destroying the craft may be the safest option. Worst case scenario, everyone goes home disappointed, but normalcy will be maintained, to say nothing of any lives potentially affected by this technology. Nonetheless, we will not do so unless we receive a greenlight from the Foundation. This is already a large enough international incident that we won't add fuel to the fire. We've enjoyed the TAO treaty too much to throw it at the wall because of a backwoods inventor with a short attention span.\nRegards,\nVictor Eckelberg\nG.O.C. Director of Relations.\n\nDATE: 31/5/2024\nFROM: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nTO: GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nSUBJECT:: Re: regarding 5392\n\nHello Victor,\nThe Site Director has informed me that Maple is making contact again.\nI'll forward your message to him for immediate consideration. He'll likely respond once the conversation with the craft is over.\nI don't envy your position, and we sincerely appreciate all you and the GOC have done in this matter. If it wasn't for our continued cooperation, this issue would likely have escalated beyond our control hours ago.\nUsing anomalies to try and retrieve the spacecraft, while it's being considered, it is unlikely that we will go through with it. Of the anomalies in our custody that could pull this off, most of them are not trustworthy. The ones we can coerce or trust enough aren't necessarily reliable. Furthermore, using an anomaly to retrieve the ship, while under the eye of so many world governments, would be ill-advised. To add to this, there would be the possibility of a containment breach, which is the last thing we need right now.\nSincerely,\nCatherine Long\nHead of Public Outreach\nS.C.P. Foundation\n\nAddendum 5392-5:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Second communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 2:23PM MST>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site 26 Communications Analyst.\nForeword: POI-5392-1 did not re-enable the livestream at start of conversation.\n\nPOI-5392-1: Come in Houston.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Tachyon Express? This is Houston. How you holding up Albert?\nPOI-5392-1: I mean, after our previous conversation, it's been a splash of cold water. So while I was off the phone, I've been doing some math.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Math? What kind of math?\nPOI-5392-1: Well, it's more that I'm trying to war-game this out, but here's what I figure. We could try and make it so that only certain countries have this technology. I don't like it, but it would be mutually assured destruction if we did, right? I mean, that worked during the cold war. Then again, all it takes is one regime change and everything's so god-damn unreliable. That leaves too much of a chance than I'm comfortable with so I'm moving on from that.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Well, we're in the same boat down here. Right now, the higher-ups are trying to come up with a solution that satisfies everyone, so that's where we're at. How are you feeling?\nPOI-5392-1: I could be better. I just want to know where it all went wrong.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: You haven't done anything wrong Albert, aside from not notifying the authorities. Can I be frank with you?\nPOI-5392-1: By all means.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Shit happens.\nPOI-5392-1: <mild chuckle> Sorry Houston, but that seems a bit reductive.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I mean yeah, but that's what it boils down to. You wanted to create something for the world, and you succeeded. Now it's here, and it's nothing like you imagined.\nPOI-5392-1: <silence>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert? You there?\nPOI-5392-1: I'm sorry Houston, but my mind is jumping ahead to what I'm going to do now. If I come down to Earth, whoever gets me or the engine basically has a shiny red button to blow up the world. I don't like it, but I didn't build this thing for security. Like, you know how nuclear bombs have multiple levels of checks and balances to make sure they don't go firing off accidentally or if it's ordered by someone that shouldn't have the authority? Yeah, I have none of that in here. The only hurdle is calculating trajectories, which my navigational computers can do on their own. This is a proof-of-concept vehicle-a minimum viable product. I can't stay up here forever. I only have three days of supplies here, four if I ration, but I can't ration my CO2 filters. I'll suffocate.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Sir, I have an idea.\nPOI-5392-1: Oh? What's that?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I can't say right now because I have to run it by some people, but if I'm right, no one will be happy, but you may get your wish. Please keep monitoring this frequency. I'll update you when I can.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5392-6:\n\nDATE: 31/5/2024\nFROM: Site Director Nate Ferris <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>\nTO: O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>;\nCC: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nSUBJECT: Re: Re: 5392 update\n\nHello All,\nI'm putting all of us in one email thread so we're not all disjointed.\nAn idea has been proposed to me which, while it isn't perfect, solves a lot of our problems.\nThe U.N. would have control over any future FTL-spaceflight programs. Not NASA or any individual spaceflight organization. The Foundation would also get an FTL drive, but would require the express consent and 'launch codes' from the GOC to launch at all. This would essentially mean that FTL as designed by Albert Maple, (Henceforth referred to as the Maple Drive) even if it's not anomalous, would become public knowledge and no one country would oversee it. Rather, the U.N. would announce that they are creating their own spaceflight program. It would require three of the five senior UN member countries to launch any spacecraft, and multiple 'Trust but verify' levels of security.\nThis is a big decision which I can't make on my own so I need to ask that the O5's conduct an emergency vote to approve or deny. In the meantime, the UN security counsel should also have an emergency session, albeit discreetly, to discuss the safeguards that would be made and to come to a decision, fast. This takes pressure off of the GOC, advances humanity in a meaningful way, and moves forward to secure an asset which we still don't know is anomalous or not.\nAs far as retrieving the ship, that would be a joint retrieval effort by the Foundation and the GOC once we can get the governments in line. The Foundation will keep and contain the ship, the GOC will get custody of Albert Maple.\nAll of this needs to happen extremely fast. The Tachyon Express only has 68 hours of life-support, after which I don't know what Maple will do as that timer gets closer to zero. He's rational, but his situation is desperate and he knows it. I don't want to push him too far.\nThat's our proposal. I'll hear any other plans if you have them.\n-Site Director Ferris\n\nAddendum 5392-6:\n\nProposal: To cooperate with GOC to establish the 'Maple Drive' as a controlled technology as proposed by Site 26 Director Ferris.\nCOUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABSTAIN\n\nO5-03\nO5-02\nO5-01\n\nO5-06\nO5-04\nO5-05\n\nO5-08\nO5-07\n\nO5-10\nO5-09\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-13\n\nSTATUS\n\nAPPROVED at 3:21PM MST\n\nAddendum 5392-7:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nTO: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>; O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>\nSUBJECT: Re:Re:Re: 5392 update: UN sec council update\n\nHello All,\nThe UN Security Council convened late last night. There was a lot of yelling and assertions until the end when they agreed that they didn't trust each other enough for individual countries to have their own FTL programs. The Maple Drive is staying at the UN level. They plan on picking this up again in the morning. (Relative to your time, Director Ferris)\nThe lobbying and political hammering from countries has lessened drastically now that they have something they can do about it. As for the private sector, when it was learned that FTL would be handled at the U.N. level, they are working with us rather than pressuring us and now want to discuss contracts. Director Ferris, you and your negotiator have my sincere gratitude for suggesting a proposal that has likely saved the jobs of many of my bosses and colleagues.\nI will say, this is relatively fast-paced for a decision of this magnitude. While they are used to making quick decisions in the interest of security, quick decisions usually amount to agreeing a group of people is bad, and passing it off to NATO or the fleet allied commander or something like that. For other, more longer or involved motions, say if a country on the security council is doing something that violates the sovereignty or compromises the security of another, there's a lot more 'You don't get to do that - I'm doing it - We're going to stop you from doing it - We're still doing it,' and so on and so forth. A stalemate like that can last for weeks in deadlock.\nAgreeing to multiple oversight committees was an easy decision, but deciding which countries aside from the main three superpowers (US, Russia, China) would also have oversight is tomorrow's argument. Furthermore, there was a lot of debate on what to do when a country is caught making their own FTL drive, but that went on for hours and took up most of the session. Everything was thrown around from automatic sanctions, full trade embargos and tariffs, military retaliation, etc. They were extremely undecided about that.\nFurthermore, the implications of creating a space program under the UN imply that there needs to be a consensus with the UN as a whole to agree to fund the program. That will come later. We agreed to focus on restrictions, security, and mutual oversight.\nThey are also undecided on whether or not the Foundation should have any FTL at all, GOC oversight or not. It came down to two opposing ideas: \"They already do whatever they want. Keeping this technology from them would give them a reality check and it may not even be anomalous\" vs \"They were the ones that proposed this in the first place and if it wasn't for them, the GOC would have destroyed the ship and we wouldn't be meeting in the first place.\" I will let you decide what to do with that information.\nI will say, you may want to speak with Maple and try to buy some more time with his carbon dioxide filters. It has been my experience that the council can agree on broad strokes quickly but get lost in the little details.\nIn short, despite all the setbacks, I'm satisfied the council will come around and agree to a proposition that, while it won't please everyone, will please humanity as a whole. Albert Maple may get his wish in the end.\nRegards,\nVictor Eckelberg\nG.O.C. Director of Relations.\n\nAddendum 5392-8:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Third communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 7:15 AM MST 6/1/2024>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site 26 Communications Analyst.\nForeword: POI-5392-1 re-enabled livestream, but set the stream to unlisted so only individuals who had the link previously could view it. Given Foundation security measures and blockers, this was redundant on the part of POI-5392-1, but they didn't know that. Their actions while on camera are noted here for the record.\n\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Come in Tachyon Express, this is Houston.\nPOI-5392-1: <is seen with a headset floating in zero-g behind their seat, they are eating a packed sandwich before lowering the headset microphone to talk> Morning Houston, how you doing.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I'm doing well. I've good some good news, which I've been cleared to give you.\nPOI-5392-1: Oh? Do tell.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: The United Nations Security Council met last night. They are agreeing to keep your model for FTL flight and subsequent development of it at the United Nations. No individual country will have it, it will be as close to an international effort as we can get it.\nPOI-5392-1: <smiling>That's amazing. I bet that's making some people very angry right now. You know, I'm still getting messages from Space X, Blue Origin, even my old employer Boeing. They're all congratulating me and offering me exorbitant amounts of money. At least I was last night. Nothing new this morning, but they probably get the message at this point.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Right, well, I want to discuss what would be expected of you when you end up landing back on Earth.\nPOI-5392-1: Let me guess, I have to teach multiple rooms of people how all this shit works?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: That's correct. You'd be speaking to people of all different countries and they would have interpreters. Apparently, engineering conversations in different languages can get finicky and you'll find yourself having to repeat yourself if you teach them all directly. The workaround is you're first going to be speaking with engineers fluent in both English, and that of their respective countries. These aren't necessarily people building the ships, they are people on the oversight committees.\nPOI-5392-1: Oversight committees? Houston, you're starting to lose me here.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: The UN will be building and launching the ships, but every country wants to make sure that the engines are not being built or launched in a way that's going to compromise the security of their nation. You with me so far?\nPOI-5392-1: Forgive me Houston, I'm trying to focus on what you're saying but it sounds like something I can learn on the ground and on the fly. Can we focus on something else?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Umm\u2026 yeah we can talk. What's on your mind?\nPOI-5392-1: Well Houston, something that's occurred to me here is-uh, all these nations and governments and whatever are scared shitless to the point they're actually working together. Why are you the only one that I've been talking to? Doesn't your boss want to talk to me?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Umm\u2026 well, my boss was the one that wanted me to talk to you in the first place.\nPOI-5392-1: Yeah, but why you? Why not the head of SATCOM or director of NASA?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Well, talking with people is sort of my job. It's my job to talk with folks from other groups in NASA or maybe in the FAA or other similar agencies to get information and relay it to my bosses so they can all make informed decisions.\nPOI-5392-1: I get it, you're the people person.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Okay, now you're the one being reductive here.\n<A laugh is shared by both POI-5392-1 and McCawley lasting several seconds.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Can we talk about something else now?\nPOI-5392-1: Sure.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: The downside to all this diplomacy going on in the background is that all these folks are arguing. If you came down to Earth while they were arguing, it may be jumping the gun a bit. You understand?\nPOI-5392-1: Right, if I come back too early and the UN has a half-cocked plan, it could backfire.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Exactly, so right now, we need to talk about ways to clean off your dirty CO2 filters. I've got some instructions here from one of our teams.\nPOI-5392-1: There's still the food issue and water issue.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: You may have to ration - Hang on Albert - my boss is trying to get my attention. <several seconds pass> Albert, I need you to listen to me very closely. Are you there?\nPOI-5392-1: What's going on.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Someone, I don't know who, has launched a missile. It is on an intercept course with the Tachyon Express.\nPOI-5392-1: Oh shit, oh shit, oh-\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, you cannot panic. If you panic, you die. We need to work the problem.\nPOI-5392-1: <slows their breathing> Okay, okay, how much time do I have?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Two minutes, five seconds.\nPOI-5392-1: <starts taking deep breaths and starts looking around the cabin.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: The livestream is on Albert. What are you looking for? I can try to help.\nPOI-5392-1: Notebook. Green. Small. Had a bunch of information I need to input trajectory.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: You're going to use the drive again?\nPOI-5392-1: <raising his voice> Are you going to help me or not?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I-yeah-okay-uh, I see something green in the bottom left corner of the screen. It's free floating, you see it?\nPOI-5392-1: <Floats over to the monitor to review, then looks at the object> Yeah, that's it thanks. <POI-5392-1 begins frantically flipping through the notebook before stopping at a page and moving over to their navigational controls.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Alber-\nPOI-5392-1: <shouting> Not now! <POI-5392-1 is seen typing frantically onto a keyboard before muttering to themselves> Delta V of\u2026 fuck is that a three or an eight, whatever, eight it is. <flips to another page before alarms start sounding.> Well there's the proximity alarm! <POI-5392-1 lets go of notebook and climbs handrail to reach a button on the other side of the cabin. The alarms cease, and POI-5392-1 returns to the console, clamoring to grab the notebook and flipping to another page> Houston! Time!\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Sixty seconds.\nPOI-5392-1: <returns to typing in console> Okay, I think I'm good, no, shit that's a negative. I have to fix that. <POI-5392-1 is seen hitting the arrow keys to go to a previous part before hitting the backspace button.> Really wish I brought a mouse!\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Forty seconds.\nPOI-5392-1: All good on navigation, I've got to run the startup checks.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: How much time will that take?\nPOI-5392-1: They're important! I don't need this right now!<POI-5392-1 rapidly removes their headset and moves toward the front of the cabin, closer to the camera.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: <Shouting> Albert! Damn it Albert! Put your headset back on!\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5392-9:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Security Log - Site 26 - Mission Control Main Observation Room - 7:21 AM MST>\n<The mission control room shows a dozen people at their stations. The large screen at the front of the room shows two windows. One showing the livestream of Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as POI-5392-1, referencing a notebook and operating controls out of the view of the camera. The other monitor window shows a missile on path to intercept with the Tachyon Express.>\n\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: <standing up and shouting> Albert! Damn it Albert! Put your headset back on!\nSite Director Nate Ferris: McCawley, he can't hear you. Let him work. Where are we on countermeasures?\nCommunications Analyst Gina Morris: Nu-77 launched an interceptor already but it's not going to make it.\nSatellite Operator Stacy Lee: Thirty seconds to impact. Sir, the projectile's not on an intercept course! It's path is above the craft.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: What the-\nSatellite Operator Stacy Lee: <shouting> New contact! Approaching at Mach eleven.\nCommunications Analyst Gina Morris: Message from GOC sir, new contact is theirs! They're attempting to intercept the missile with a railgun!\nSatellite Operator Stacy Lee: Confirmed! Missile intercept in three-two-one-impact!\n<on-screen, the GOC projectile is appears rapidly to intercept the missile. POI-5392-1 is knocked off his chair and slams face-first into the ceiling of the cabin. POI-5392-1 grabs their head in pain as their body slides off to the left of the screen, out of sight of the camera.>\nSatellite Operator Stacy Lee: Sir, imaging shows Tachyon Express is now spinning hard, they're knocked off of orbit. Albert's got to be hitting some g's, he could be unconscious.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Mason, what's the new trajectory look like?\nJr. Researcher Mason Hedge: I need more data points. It's too soon.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Give me a ballpark!\nJr. Researcher Mason Hedge: Northern Hemisphere, I want to say North Pole? Could be Canada, Northern Siberia, Finland, I'll know more in a sec!\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Gina, request an emergency scramble of Delta-fourteen.8 Coordinate with G.O.C. on retrieval. Hedge, give her the coordinates once you have them.\n<POI-5392-1's bloodied left hand is seen coming from the left side of the screen grabbing the armrest of the pilot's seat.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Director, he's conscious!\n<POI-5392-1's right hand is seen coming from the left side of the screen grabbing the armrest of the pilot's seat. POI-5392-1 then pulls themselves 'up' with a mixed grip against the direction of rotational gravity before their face becomes visible. POI-5392-1 is suffering a nosebleed, which in the amplified gravity is extremely visible as a thick red line going 'down' his face, beard, and jumpsuit.>\nSite Director Nate Ferris: <muttering into his headset microphone> Come on, you son of a bitch.\n<The entire mission control room watches as POI-5392-1 loops their left arm around the armrest, and reaches for the controls with his right arm. POI-5392-1 is visibly straining for reach before grabbing the armrest again with his right hand to support themselves. They attempt again to reach the controls but fails again and in the process, more blood starts to eject from their nose. Their eyes appear to be bloodshot and blinking rapidly. One more time, POI-5392-1 attempts to reach the controls, this time reaching and succeeding to make contact with the console before losing their grip and falling in the direction of gravity off to the left of the screen.>\nSatellite Operator Stacy Lee: Director, SENTINEL-2 is picking up elevated heat readings from the ship.\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Put the ship on-screen! <all windows on main viewer are cleared to show a live feed showing the Tachyon Express. Notably, the rear of the ship is glowing a bright yellow for less than a second before the entire ship itself disappears out of sight.> He's gone. Stacy, check HEIMDALL for FTL events. Gina, cancel request to Delta-fourteen and inform G.O.C. Hedge, find out where the missile came from. McCawley?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Sir?\nSite Director Nate Ferris: Lock the doors.\n<End Log>\n\nNote: The livestream cut out right after the second FTL event. SCP-5392 was found in the exact same coordinates and altitude with the same orbital velocity as its first FTL event. Attempts to communicate were made, but the telecommunications satellite hijacked by POI-5392-1 was too far away for use. A Foundation satellite was redirected for a rendezvous course in the hopes that SCP-5392's radio would still be monitoring the encrypted frequency.\nAddendum 5392-10:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nTO: O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; Site Director Nate Ferris <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>; GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nSUBJECT: Re:Re:Re:Re: 5392 update: UN sec council update - missile update\n\nHello All,\nI got off the phone with Victor earlier today, he's taking a lot of heat and fielding questions but I'm relaying this on his behalf.\nIn short, we have confirmed that the missile that launched against the Tachyon Express was launched from an ICBM missile silo in the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Federation. The silo was deactivated as part of a Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty in the early 2000's, and was bought by a company calling themselves (and this is translated from Russian) \"Kamchatka Agriculture and Livestock\". In contrast to that, the missile that was used was called a 'Volleyball' missile because it was designed to knock satellites from orbit (as opposed to destroying them) by going above them, then detonating once it left a certain proximity which would 'spike' the satellite downwards. Test rockets were made, but abandoned during the height of the cold war as being impractical. It's clear that whomever launched this intended to salvage the ship, rather than destroy it.\nThis has caused the UN security council to turn against Russia claiming they were trying to spike the proceedings, and violating the previously mentioned arms reduction treaty, which is setting everything back.\nThe missile itself tripped NORAD which caused the DEFCON level to rise. Until the US can trust Russia again, the talks regarding the Maple Drive are being put on hold. Russia is stating that they shot it down as it was a danger to the security of Russia's assets in space. They are not explaining why a previously decommissioned silo was active however.\nIn short, the security talks are on hold until this mess is sorted out. Do we have any leads as to who launched it?\nSincerely,\nCatherine Long\nHead of Public Outreach\nS.C.P. Foundation\n\nAddendum 5392-11:\n\nForeword: The following is a transcript of a phone call between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazimir Ivanov and Department of Public Outreach Head, Catherine Long. The phone call took place approximately sixty minutes after the second SCP-5392 FTL event.\n\nCatherine Long: Speak.\nKazimir Ivanov: Hello Ms. Long. I am contacting the Foundation on behalf of the Russian Federation with an offer.\nCatherine Long: What do you propose?\nKazimir Ivanov: I propose that the Foundation has reign to send in a qualified team into the missile silo in Kamchatka to investigate the recent launch.\nCatherine Long: Why would you want to investigate your own launch?\nKazimir Ivanov: We did not launch it. We told the security council that we had to maintain our position and regard.\nCatherine Long: You did it to save face.\nKazimir Ivanov: That is your expression, not mine. In any event, when we sent our forces into the silo, they came out screaming and were a danger to themselves and other military personnel. It seems they were affected by an anomalous force. I'm told there was internal conflict and shooting.\nCatherine Long: Why not contact the G.O.C.?\nKazimir Ivanov: We cannot use the Coalition as they report to the United Nations. You understand\u2026 this is a delicate thing we are trying to do here.\nCatherine Long: I see what you are trying to do and I think your proposal has merit with one large flaw. Why would the Foundation go behind the back of the G.O.C. who has been our ally in this matter?\nKazimir Ivanov: No one is saying you are going behind their back. If you involve them, things will only get more complicated and messy, and not involving them gives them deniability they will be grateful for.\nCatherine Long: Messy for Russia as well. I'll be honest, Mr. Ivanov, despite the fact that you are trying to convince us to do your dirty work, I think it will be in everyone's best interest to accept your proposal. I'll work to make the necessary arrangements on my end. In the meantime, one of our people will contact you with explicit instructions for staying out of our way.\n\nAddendum 5392-12:\n\nNote: After the second SCP-5392 FTL event and with approval of the Russian Federation, MTF Zeta-9 (\"Mole Rats\") was deployed to the missile silo in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.\nMission Statement: Clear the site of any hostile individuals and investigate the missile launch.\nTeam Leader: Z9-Papyrus\nMission Roster:\n\nZ9-Papyrus\nZ9-Roman\nZ9-Ariel\nZ9-WingDing\nZ9-Calibri\nZ9-Helvetica\nZ9-Bauhaus\n\nMission Result:\n\nFoundation Casualties: 0\nNon-Foundation Casualties (killed): 4\nNon-Foundation Casualties (Injured): 20\nHostiles Encountered: 0\nHostiles KIA: 0\n\nPost-Mission Summary:\nWe entered the silo, and encountered our first hazard about five minutes after going underground. From the Russian's description, my guess is it causes psychosis, paranoia, and violent tendencies. Hazard was neutralized by covering it up with the spray paint we use to mark passages we've been in. It's been bagged, along with other hazards we encountered for further analysis.\nFurther exploration of the missile silo was mostly uneventful. We saw signs of recent activity. The only evidence we were able to acquire was a metal trash can that had its contents set on fire. Some scraps we were able to pull out of the ashes revealed two things. First being that they spoke English, and secondly, they referred to SCP 5392 as 'DeCIRO Catalogue Number: SC-67/546-78/211'. If we can cross-reference that with anything we know about how other anomalous groups log their stuff, we'll have our answer.\nAs for the Russians, the hazards are nasty stuff to the un-inoculated. I recommend a Foundation medical team pay them a visit with amnestic treatment.\n-Z9-Papyrus.\n\nAddendum 5392-13:\nNote: Approximately four hours after the second FTL event, Foundation Satellite SENTINEL-6 had succeeded in approach and established a rendezvous orbit with SCP-5392.\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Fourth communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 11:25 AM MST 6/1/2024>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'.\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site 26 Communications Analyst.\nForeword: No livestream video provided as POI-5392-1 had no telecommunications ability apart from their radio.\n\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Tachyon Express, this is Houston. If you're still listening, we had to move one of our satellites to get within range.\n<Silence for a few seconds>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Tachyon Express?\nPOI-5392-1: I'm here Houston.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: We saw you in the livestream before you used the drive. Are you injured?\nPOI-5392-1: Yeah\u2026 I could have died. Why am I not dead?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I can tell you that a missile was shot by persons currently unknown. The reason it didn't hit you is because the American government shot it down with a railgun.\nPOI-5392-1: That explains why I felt the explosion sooner than you told me it was going to. I see. I'm sorry for ripping the headset off.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: It's okay Albert. It was probably for the best. We need to focus on your injuries right now.\nPOI-5392-1: I stopped the nosebleed, I dislocated my left shoulder-that was the only reason I was able to reach the controls and engage the drive, and I've got muscles all over that hurt from either bruising or I pulled them when I was trying to save the ship.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Good that you're still alive man. I'm going to get our house doctor to walk you through self-treatment for everything, okay?\nPOI-5392-1: Houston\u2026 I'm not going to be able to come home, am I?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: The world governments were having really good talks Albert. Politicians were moving fast to get on the same page about how to help you out.\nPOI-5392-1: Houston, the second I touch ground, I'm going to get grabbed, tortured, or straight up killed and never seen again. The ship, if it ever comes down, is going to be pulled apart and studied for ways of how to turn it into something that I wanted to avoid. I'm fucked. No two ways about it.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: That's not-\nPOI-5392-1: <interrupting> I just wanted to matter.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: What do you mean?\nPOI-5392-1: I just wanted to unite the world. Maybe achieve world peace, bring us closer to realizing our proverbial world is bigger than our actual world, and maybe be satisfied with myself. <sighs> Fuck me right?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Some hefty goals Albert.\nPOI-5392-1: <raises voice> Instead, I have small-minded fucks trying to blow me up and kill me or get me to sell out or tell me I matter when it's all bullshit! <starts to cry> This is bigger than them, this is bigger than all of us! It's the only\u2026 fucking thing I could do.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Do for what?\nPOI-5392-1: <sobbing> To change everything. To prevent stupid shit from tearing us apart. I just\u2026 I wanted to make the world better.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, I'm told that you would fix people's cars for free when they were in tight spots, that has to mean-\nPOI-5392-1: No, it doesn't mean anything. They would have gotten their cars fixed no matter what. Only difference being how much they paid in money, and money? Money's shit. It doesn't mean anything in a few years when it's all inflated or in a few billion years when the world decays, and it barely means anything now! This was supposed to start something that lasted, damn it! This was supposed to kick us off into expansion and figuring out what's out there and learning\u2026 oh god I sound like an idiot. I sound like a fucking idiot. I sound like an episode of Star Trek. You know what I said to myself when I started this whole project?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: What did you say to yourself?\nPOI-5392-1: I told myself I was going to prove nihilists wrong. Like you know how they always say 'Oh the world's going to end, nothing we do matters, people get cancer, why would I bring kids into this world' and so on? I said fuck that. I wanted to give people hope. I wanted people to wonder again. You know when I was a kid, everyone was full of curiosity during the Apollo missions and wanting to learn about what was out there and what's going to happen next and it's all gone! The wonder was all gone! Now it's all about making money and hurting people. <POI-5392-1 is crying profusely> I wanted to do something that would bring people hope. I wanted to do something before I died\u2026 I'm sixty-two years old. I wanted to matter in the time I had left, I don't have cancer or anything, I'm just scared. <POI-5392-1 is trying to calm themselves down.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Scared of what?\nPOI-5392-1: I'm scared that I will die, and the universe, being as big as it is, will skip me by, and my life won't mean anything. I don't care if people never learn my name, I'm not afraid of the act of dying itself. I'm aware I'm going to die one day, but I don't want to die feeling like I didn't do enough.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: You're scared of regret?\nPOI-5392-1: I'm scared of being inconsequential.\n<Silence for several seconds>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, can I tell you something?\nPOI-5392-1: Go ahead, I've told you a lot.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I used to be a police negotiator. I used to handle hostage situations, kidnapping and ransom, that sort of thing. That's why they picked me to talk to you.\nPOI-5392-1: <scoffs> Hell of a career change.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Oh yeah, it was. I asked for the change though. It was\u2026 very stressful, but I did get to help people.\nPOI-5392-1: I imagine it can't have ended well all the time.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: No it didn't. My last negotiation before I left, the perpetrator was irate, violent, there was no talking him down. There were kids in the house and it wasn't a pretty sight. We needed to get in there quickly because we were pretty sure they needed professional medical help. Broken bones, internal bleeding, that sort of thing. I had to\u2026 I had to do something that, until that point, I could avoid. I had to convince the perpetrator to go to a window so our sniper could get a line of sight on him.\nPOI-5392-1: I'm sorry, that sounds like a difficult decision.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I didn't make that decision. My higher-ups did. They told me that trying to save the life of the perp as well as the hostages wasn't going to happen. So I convinced him that we got his demands right in front of the house, and he looked out the window to check. I can't say I had a better alternative.\nPOI-5392-1: Why are you telling me this?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Because a week later, in an attempt to get me to stay, my captain came to my desk and showed me a card that one of the kids had made. It said \"Thanks for saving us!\" and had a picture of the little girl in the hospital bed smiling and playing with a nurse. I may not have saved everyone, but\u2026 I mattered to her, and the other kids present. <sighs> Albert, my point is that what matters is relative. I'm not saying that your attempt to matter on a large scale is invalid. In fact, I think that your actions matter on a scale that neither of us fully understand, but we're human beings. We have limits. I think that there's a lot to both of our situations we couldn't really control.\nPOI-5392-1: <chuckles> There's a quote from Star Trek that goes well here - It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not failure, that is life.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Perfect. Albert, I really don't want to take away from the conversation, but we really do need to get your medical situation sorted for now. My colleague is going to give you instructions on how to access our satellite's wi-fi. That way, you can use the camera and our doctor can get a better look at you.\nPOI-5392-1: Sounds good Houston. Ready when you are.\n<End Log>\nAfterword: The internet and livestream aboard SCP-5392 was restored. A follow-up medical examination by the on-shift Site-26 doctor allowed for POI-5392-1 to relocate his arm. No other serious injuries were found. However, the assigned medical officer noted that, from a mental health standpoint, POI-5392 was in serious danger of a mental breakdown. Specifically: \"If he worked for the Foundation, I would have him assigned to Safe-class duty and weekly therapy. That's standard practice after an injury of his scale. Not just for physical recovery, but mental recovery. I recommend asking him to keep the stream or his camera online at all times for further visual review. \"\n\nAddendum 5392-14:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nTO: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>; O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>\nSUBJECT: Re:Re:Re: 5392 update: UN sec council update\n\nHello Cathy,\nWe noticed a helicopter carrying a small team enter and leave the launch silo area, and to make matters worse, the Russian government let them in. The helicopter in question returned to a Foundation-controlled airfield. We've worked together long enough to recognize when we are giving each other the run-around. I've done it to you many times so that doesn't concern me.\nWhat does concern me is that the GOC would be left out of something so public. That silo was being watched by multiple countries, but the Foundation gets to go in?\nUntil I get your side of the story, I'm going to assume you had your reasons. Furthermore, I need to see all the documentation concerning that excursion to further keep the international community at bay. Russia maintains that they launched the missile, but no one believes it. Not for a second.\nThe worst part is, other countries are being put in a position where they have to assume Russia shot it down for hostile reasons. In other words, war. Alliances are being drawn between who is siding with Russia, and not.\nFurthermore, the United States is considering shooting down the Tachyon Express in order to deny Russia the proverbial golden goose. China isn't tipping their hand as to what they are doing. I'm worried, they aren't the type to hold their cards for too long. The GOC's position is being weakened due to recurring questions about whether or not the craft is anomalous. I'm not sure how long we can keep them from acting on their own.\nOne other issue that has come up after this recent dilemma, is that Albert has the ability to maintain orbit indefinitely and can right the ship with under two minutes notice. This makes destroying the ship with conventional means exceedingly difficult, let alone retrieval and salvage. Waiting for Albert to slowly suffocate when his filters run out won't work for a couple of reasons. It's likely that someone will make a move before then that ends this, and it will be a free-for-all to see who can salvage the ship first.\nA path forward isn't going to be enough, and negotiations aren't enough. The temperature in the room is too high. The first step is getting nations to trust each other again.\nRegards,\nVictor Eckelberg\nG.O.C. Director of Relations.\n\nAddendum 5392-15:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nTO: O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; Site Director Nate Ferris <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>; GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nSUBJECT: Missile silo excursion\nATTACHMENTS: Addendum 5392-12.pdf\n\nVictor,\nI've been given permission to disclose what happened.\nApologies for giving you the run-around. It wasn't Russia, they offered to let us clear it out because they tried, but encountered risk to their own soldiers. They wanted us to keep it quiet to preserve their standing, but now that we've gone there, we have no reason to keep it quiet anymore. Attached are our findings from the silo.\nIf you intend to bring this to the security council, I recommend saying it was covertly acquired from us, rather than we gave it to you. Not because we want to preserve a relationship with the Russian government, but because it would sound more legitimate. I am prepared to have a fake argument with you about \"your egregious acts of espionage\" in front of them if need be.\nSincerely,\nCatherine Long\nHead of Public Outreach\nS.C.P. Foundation\n\nAddendum 5392-16:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Fifth communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 02:25 PM MST 6/1/2024>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'.\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site-26 Communications Analyst.\nForeword: POI-5392-1 was seen on livestream working on the navigational computers while referencing the green notebook.\n\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Come in Tachyon Express.\nPOI-5392-1: <lowering microphone on headset> Hey Houston. I read you.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Hey Albert, we couldn't help but notice you're working on the navigational systems like before. Are you planning a course?\nPOI-5392-1: No, I'm plotting a destination. Several of them actually.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: What destinations are you planning on going to?\nPOI-5392-1: I'm not planning to go anywhere. When you told me about the missile, I had two minutes. My proximity alarm went off maybe ninety seconds before. If you hadn't told me before, I wouldn't be alive. The only variables I need when trying to get out of Earth's orbit were latitude, longitude, distance from the center of Earth, and my relative speed on my x, y, and z vectors relative to the ship. Now, my relative speed and distance from the center is going to be the same all the time because they relate to each other, but what I'm essentially doing is creating an array of coordinates to travel to in case I need to get out of the way again.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: So you're creating an escape plan?\nPOI-5392-1: I wouldn't say escape. More of a plan to keep dodging than anything else. I'm thinking about rigging it directly to the proximity alarm to jump immediately in case something gets too close, but there could be so many false positives with that. Just going to have to confirm it on my end then jump to the next coordinates in the array if need be.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: That's a pretty good plan.\nPOI-5392-1: It's the only thing I can think to do up here other than keep checking my equipment over and over again. I like actually having something to work on.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I hope it doesn't come to the point where you need to dodge missiles again, but if it does, we can have a satellite in the next set of coordinates if need be, so there's no downtime in communications. If you can tell us where the next set is, I can make that happen.\nPOI-5392-1: No.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I'm sorry?\nPOI-5392-1: As much as that would be nice, if this is going straight to NASA, then it means that the American government is listening as well. They could send a missile to provoke me to use the drive, then have a missile ready at my next set of coordinates. Even if the American military isn't listening to this, someone else may be. I'm not going to tip my hand like that.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, this frequency is encrypted. You have my word-\nPOI-5392-1: It doesn't matter Houston. You're not going to convince me to change my mind on this. It costs me nothing to have this contingency in place, and if no-one knows where I'm going next, no one can anticipate it. I trust you Houston, but I don't need to tell you.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: <After being told by site director to avoid pushing the question.> All right fair enough.\nPOI-5392-1: Okay, all done. I need something else to do\u2026 huh, hey Houston?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Yes Albert?\nPOI-5392-1: Well, part of what I wanted to do was spark a new age of invention. When we colonize planets, we're going to need to face a whole new set of problems for each planet. One such problem - how are Muslims going to point their prayer rugs at Mecca from Mars?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I'm sorry?\nPOI-5392-1: I mean, eventually we're going to get Muslims on Mars. Also-it's really fun to say Muslims on Mars. So alliterative. I'm getting off-topic. Now Muslims are going to need a mechanism that can point to Earth, or more specifically, to Mecca. A 'Mecca'-nism if you will.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Well, they would need a device to point to it like a hi-gain antenna and a satellite in orbit around Mars to facilitate connection. It would also need to be in a fixed position, the antenna, that is.\nPOI-5392-1: See, you thought of that because you work at NASA. That's how NASA would solve that problem. Maybe the Iranians or some other country would genetically breed a flower that would point at Earth like how sunflowers point at the sun. That would be cool for another reason, because then it could act as a crude compass to get back to Earth. Actually, no wait, that's too crude. You can't get an accurate bearing from a bastardized sunflower. Or maybe someone will come up with some other solution that's just as amazing. I don't know what they will do, but I would have loved to see that.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, can I tell you something?\nPOI-5392-1: What's that?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Half my colleagues in mission control are now muttering 'Muslims on Mars' to themselves.\nPOI-5392-1: <laughing> You know, if the Muslims were praying real quiet, they would actually be 'Muttering Muslims on Mars'.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Hey, why stop there? We're assuming it's more than one right? Multiple muttering Muslims on Mars!\n<Both McCawley and POI-5392-1 laugh>\n<END LOG>\nAfterword: Notice how he said he \"would have\" loved to see the solution for Islamic prayer on Mars. - Comm. Analyst McCawley\n\nAddendum 5392-17:\n\nForeword: The following is a transcript of a phone call between U.S. Secretary of State Horace Miller and Department of Public Outreach Head, Catherine Long. The phone call took place approximately eight hours after the second SCP-5392 FTL event.\n\nHorace Miller: Hello, this is regarding our American citizen in orbit.\nCatherine Long: We have nothing to discuss.\nHorace Miller: Your daughter here would disagree.\nCatherine Long: Excuse me?\nHorace Miller: I'll put her on.\nBeatrice Long: Hi Mommy, I'm in a limousine!\nCatherine Long: That's really nice! Hey Bodie, can you remind me of something? What's your favorite park? Like what amusement park?\nBeatrice Long: My favorite amusement park? That's [REDACTED]! Why are you asking?\nCatherine Long: Oh, I'm having trouble remembering. What was your favorite ride again? I want to take you there next weekend.\nBeatrice Long: I liked the Ferris Wheel! I like being above everyone and everything to see all of it! Will you take me there this Saturday?\nCatherine Long: I'd love to do that. Can you give the phone back to the man who I was speaking with before?\n<a few seconds pass>\nHorace Miller: Yes?\nCatherine Long: You must be really desperate if you're threatening children.\nHorace Miller: Oh me? I'm not threatening anybody. The local police got a tip that your residence was being used for storing narcotics and firearms. Sure enough, they were found at the house, as well as your daughter. I have the pleasure of escorting her to the Social Services office.\nCatherine Long: You motherfu-\nHorace Miller: And, this is just to make sure you listen closely: we found that several of your researchers appeared to have ties to a suspicious organization, which itself has ties to terror groups and other organized crime. Under the Patriot Act, we have the right to arrest them as we see fit. It also appears that several Foundation-owned companies have ties as well to these groups. We're seizing their assets as we speak. We're not threatening anyone Ms. Long, we're just protecting our country. As for what can be done about it, we've sent instructions to your office on how to turn communications over to us. It's in our best interest to make sure that our American citizen is in good health after that spin he had. Once this is all over, you can take your daughter to that Ferris wheel knowing you did the right thing.\nCatherine Long: The Foundation will not answer to-\nHorace Miller: Oh Ms. Long, please don't make a threat you aren't willing to follow through on. We're at the Social Services office now. Say goodbye to your mommy, Beatrice!\nBeatrice Long: Bye Mommy! See you when you get home!\n\nAddendum 5392-18:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: GOC Relations Office <cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler#cog.nu|eciffosnoitaler>\nTO: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>; O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>\nSUBJECT: Council Update\n\nCathy,\nTwo things. First, I'm sorry about your daughter. I had no idea the Americans would do this. Secondly, no one cares about the missile anymore, or even that it wasn't Russia. All it proved was that Russia was lying, which we already knew. The fact that a non-state-actor managed to launch a missile to try and ground it is only making them scramble more. It doesn't help that the Americans are already jumping the gun and attacking your staff, which means that the Foundation is now a target of other countries following their example.\nThe Secretary-General has ordered the GOC to stand down from this matter. He says we shouldn't have gotten involved in the first place because the ship isn't even anomalous. While I firmly believe that doesn't matter, my bosses have confirmed his order and told me to cease contact.\nIf it helps, I managed to find the address of the office your daughter is being held at: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nOther than that, my hands are tied.\nI'm sorry.\nRegards,\nVictor Eckelberg\nG.O.C. Director of Relations.\n\nAddendum 5392-19:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>;\nTO: All Site Directors <noitadnuof.pcs|ridtis#noitadnuof.pcs|ridtis>;\nSUBJECT: All-Sites alert.\n\nFROM THE OFFICE OF THE O5 COUNCIL:\nDirectors,\nDue to the events regarding SCP-5392, all Foundation sites are to be put on high alert for external threats.\nAll Foundation researchers are to head to their assigned site if currently off-site for their own safety.\nWith the exception of those containing and providing proper security clearance, no other persons are allowed on-site. Lethal force is authorized to terminate intruders that breach site perimeter.\nFoundation staff are to stay on-site and make arrangements to remain until further notice. Any staff wishing to contact family members not on-site are prohibited from doing so, as this gives an opportunity for extortion by any nation that wishes to gain an asset on any site.\nIt is unlikely that any nation will invade any Foundation site directly, as the on-site nuclear warheads, in combination with the dangerous anomalies held in containment, pose a sizable deterrent. That being said, we are seeing military action in strategic positions around some Foundation sites. While this varies from country to country, we have reason to also believe that the military personnel engaged in this manner are being told there is a hostile group at these sites, but they are being told to 'stand by' for more information.\nThe following solutions have been considered for a resolution to the incident, and further proposals are to be sent to O5 General Secretary and cc'ing Site-26 Director Nate Ferris.\n\nProposal Number\nDescription\nApproved / Rejected\nNotes\n\n1\nShoot down SCP-5392 to prevent further escalation.\nRejected\nThe pilot has created a system to quickly move to another location in case of another attack. Furthermore, any attempt to shoot down the craft may be intercepted by another party.\n\n2\nDirect the pilot of SCP-5392 to an exoplanet to live in exile.\nRejected\nThere are insufficient supplies onboard to survive the journey to the nearest viable exoplanet, even at its top speed.\n\n3\nSend a supply mission to SCP-5392 to buy more time\nRejected\nThe supply mission will likely be shot down. Furthermore, SCP-5392 doesn't have any reliable docking system. It has an access hatch which can be opened but there's no airlocking system to keep the cabin pressurized.\n\n4\nDirect the pilot of SCP-5392 to land near a Foundation Site for quick retrieval\nRejected\nThe increased military presence is especially concentrated near Foundation sites that could facilitate retrieval. Furthermore, the nuclear launch early warning systems that detected SCP-5392 in orbit may be able to track and detect the location on the ground.\n\n6\nSend a lethal cognitohazard to kill the pilot of SCP-5392, followed by shooting it down.\nRejected\nWhile this is a better idea than just shooting down the ship, shooting the ship may result in the wreckage crashing down to Earth, and the country it lands in may be able to reverse engineer the craft. We want to keep this technology contained.\n\n7\nUsing SCP-738 to teleport SCP-5392 into Foundation custody, effectively undetectable by any radar or conventional systems\nRejected\nUsing any anomaly to try and contain SCP-5392 can backfire easily. Furthermore, with SCP-738, the price asked for would be much too high and we don't have the time to negotiate an agreement that suits our needs.\n\n8\nReach out to our allies in other groups of interest for assistance\nRejected\nThe GOC has stepped away from the issue. As for other anomalous groups we have diplomatic relations with, we cannot guarantee that they would not abuse SCP-5392 for their own purposes, or that they could secure it from other powers.\n\nAll sites are to maintain lockdown until given further instructions.\n-Office of the O5 Council\n\nAddendum 5392-20:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Sixth communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 07:29 PM MST 6/1/2024>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'.\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site-26 Communications Analyst.\nForeword: POI-5392-1 initiated contact.\n\nPOI-5392-1: Houston come in?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: This is Houston, I read you.\nPOI-5392-1: Any chance there's a plan by now?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: We're still working on it.\nPOI-5392-1: I figured.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: We can't lose hope Albert, we have to-\nPOI-5392-1: Don't talk to me about hope right now Houston. Hope is something one person may have, but a group or groups of people don't. Right now, I'm guessing diplomacy isn't doing so hot, right? After the missile, I imagine diplomacy took a back seat. All the countries and scared little people are trying to grab whatever they can to make sure no one else can use me and my ship against them. It's not even about using FTL anymore\u2026 it's about denying it to other people. There's no way that if I land on Earth again, the nation that finds me is gonna want to use my knowledge to satisfy their wonder. They'll just make sure I don't get to make it for anyone else. <POI-5392-1 makes a finger gun and makes a motion to 'shoot' their own head.>\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: It's not as bad as you think Albert. I know it seems like that, and I can only imagine how scary-\nPOI-5392-1: I'm not scared Houston. I was done being scared when we were shooting the shit about Muslims on Mars. I'm tired. I just want this to be done. I <points to self> just want to be done. No worrying about whether or not I'm going to be forced to make weapons for a military, or worrying about my pre-flight checks every single hour, or worrying about how much I'm hurting the world rather than helping it, or what my ship will become when it eventually comes back down to Earth. The reason I have no hope Houston, is because there's nothing I can actually do about my situation. I'm stuck in a box with no air holes and it's only a matter of time before I suffocate. So much for trying to matter right? <POI-5392-1 weakly chuckles.> Hope is something I have to give myself, but I am dependent on a Hail Mary that somehow, the nations of the world are going to share and play nice.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, do you have anything you want to say to all the world?\nPOI-5392-1: <Raising an eyebrow> I'm sorry?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: The nations of the world, the governments that are scared about what happens, do you want to address them at all? Not only would this give you something to do, this could also re-ignite diplomacy between the nations. You're the creator of this new technology. Imagine the first caveman who found a way to make fire, and now he has to tell all the other cavemen that it's okay and to come closer. That's you, you're the caveman with the fire.\nPOI-5392-1: Again, you're being a bit reductive. You really think they'll listen to me?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Who else would they listen to? Damn it Albert, you're the one being reductive here. You built the Maple drive, you're the first person to go into space all on your own without any other backing, you're the first person to dodge enemy fire in a spaceship. Now channel your inner Captain Picard and bring back the wonder, damn it!\n<Silence for a few seconds.>\nPOI-5392-1: Two things, first, Maple drive?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: That's what we're calling it in-house yes.\nPOI-5392-1: Awesome. The other thing, I know you're trying to appeal to my liking Star Trek here, but it's working.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Yes! Sorry, I don't know much about Star Trek so I'm going off what my colleague was telling me.\nPOI-5392-1: Well tell them to live long and prosper for me. One small problem: I don't know how to speak to people. Like, rallying hope into a crew? I'm great at figuring out problems or explaining problems to people like as a mechanic, I'm pretty good at explaining what's up with people's cars. I'm Geordi LaForge, not Jean-Luc Picard. Will you help me figure out the speech part?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: I'd be happy to. Can you give me five minutes? I've got to fill in my higher-ups.\nPOI-5392-1: Yeah yeah, do what you got to do, I'm gonna jot down some talking points that matter I think. We'll workshop this together when you get done.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5392-21:\n\nProposal: Allow for SCP-5392's pilot to speak directly with leaders of world governments in an attempt to deescalate tensions.\nCOUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABSTAIN\n\nO5-01\n\nO5-02\n\nO5-03\n\nO5-04\n\nO5-05\n\nO5-06\n\nO5-07\n\nO5-08\n\nO5-09\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-13\n\nSTATUS\n\nAPPROVED at 8:00PM MST\n\nAddendum 5392-22:\nNote: The memo below was sent to world governments who had attempted to intimidate the Foundation through force. Following the memo's delivery, most addressed nations, while they did not withdraw their forces, they did not continue to add to the forces stationed at various sites.\n\nTo whomever it may concern.\nIf you have received this memo, you either are, or work with the leader(s) of your respective governments, and have taken some action against the SCP Foundation in an attempt to coerce us to hand over a spaceship currently orbiting Earth.\nThe creator of the spaceship wishes to speak with you.\nIf you wish to receive his transmission, you will cease hostile activity.\nSincerely,\nCatherine Long\nHead of Public Outreach\nS.C.P. Foundation\n\nAddendum 5392-23:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Broadcasted transmission to YouTube Livestream - 08:15 PM MST 6/1/2024>\nSpeaker: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as POI-5392-1.\nForeword: Once Communications Analyst McCawley and POI-5392-1 had finished drafting his speech, POI-5392-1 kept the livestream unlisted, but the link was shared with governments who agreed to halt further aggression against the Foundation.\n\n<POI-5392-1 is seen in his jumpsuit and has cleaned off the blood sustained from injuries. He is wearing his headset and at the beginning, Comm. Analyst McCawley is giving him the greenlight when all the intended countries have joined the stream.>\nPOI-5392-1: Okay, is that everyone? Alright, I'll take it from here. Hi everyone! My name is Albert. I am the inventor, pilot, engineer, and\u2026 you know what? I'm the captain! I'm Captain Maple of the starship Tachyon Express. It's my understanding that there's a lot of people hurting on Earth because of what I've done and that I've opened Pandora's box here.\nI get it. This technology is scary and I can't blame people for being scared if they think everyone they love could die. I just want to say\u2026 I didn't build this to be a weapon. I built this because I wanted humanity to explore and see what was out there in the solar system and beyond. The 'Maple Drive' as I understand it's being called, is a means of getting to there <points a thumb off-screen, presumably towards space> from here. <points down, presumably towards Earth.> Well, we can do that! But, we can only do it if we stop fighting now and come back to the table. Right now, all this fear and defensive measures is just going to escalate and escalate until fear gets the better of someone. From there, that's the point of no return.\nWe're not past the point of no return yet. We're still here, and no one has fired a shot. I mean, except for those people that fired a missile, but from what I understand, they weren't a country and no one likes them anyway. So why should they matter? Right now, no one has any advantage here. This is the perfect time to get back to the table and hammer out an agreement. Otherwise, if people start shooting or hurting folks, it will be exponentially harder to come back from that. I'm all for regulating this technology, mainly because it's the only way I'll be able to come home.\nI really don't want to die. Up here, my options are limited to death by carbon dioxide poisoning, oxygen deprivation, starving, thirst, or the cabin gets breached and I'll get caught in the vacuum of space. Technically, that's also oxygen deprivation but I'm nitpicking. I can come back down to Earth whenever I like, but if this isn't regulated before then, I'm stuck up here, and the ship is stuck with me, this can't come back down to Earth. Unless\u2026 well, <POI-5392-1 has a look of realization before continuing> um.. I get shot down again. Here's something I want you all to see while I'm up here.\n<POI-5392-1 unbuckles his seat belt and grabs the camera before turning it towards the cockpit window of SCP-5392. Shown is the view of the United States Pacific coast.>\nYou can see my home from up here. It's really small, but it's my home. Up here, everything looks really small, even the planet itself. But out there? <shifts camera towards outer space> is stars and planets and other bodies just waiting to be discovered. Resources for our people, probably aliens we can interact with and some amazing phenomena we can only know of if we actually go there. When you think about it really, <POI-5392-1 shifts camera back to Earth> if we allow ourselves to succumb to all this mistrust and fear, we'll be stuck on this small ball of dirt and water we call home and deny ourselves all the wonder that goes with that.\nPlease, for everyone's sake, come back to the table. You have nothing to lose by talking.\nOkay, that's my two cents. End transmission.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5392-23:\n\nDATE: 01/6/2024\nFROM: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nTO: O5 General Secretary <noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o#noitadnuof.pcs|cesneg5o>; Site Director Nate Ferris <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>;\nSUBJECT: Update\n\nHello All,\nAfter the stream, I pulled China, the USA, and Russia into a secure video call. It seems they all want to agree with Albert but can't take the chance to be the first to stand down. The Americans believe that their leverage with my daughter and freezing and intimidating our assets in the US hasn't paid off yet, and the Russians are sore that the GOC/UN found out about our trip to Russia, causing a lack of trust. China, seeing their peers not willing to reconcile, is also not standing down.\nI don't believe it worked.\nSincerely,\nCatherine Long\nHead of Public Outreach\nS.C.P. Foundation\n\nAddendum 5392-24:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Seventh communication with 'Tachyon Express' - 09:50 PM MST 6/1/2024>\nInterviewed: Albert Maple, henceforth referred to as 'POI-5392-1'.\nInterviewer: Santiago McCawley, Site-26 Communications Analyst\nNote: Livestream was not enabled.\n\nPOI-5392-1: Houston come in. This is Tachyon Express.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Houston here, go ahead.\nPOI-5392-1: Just looking for an update since the broadcast.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: <pauses> Um, we're waiting to hear back.\nPOI-5392-1: Houston, it's been ninety minutes. You mean to tell me that no one has gotten back to you about what is probably the most important event in the world?\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, I'm not kidding. No one wants to be the first to ease up, but no one wants to jump the shark either. Everyone is waiting on someone else for take initiative.\nPOI-5392-1: So much for being Picard. Well, I tried.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: We're still working on our end, Albert. I know it's a lot to ask, but please, bear with us while we try to speed this up.\nPOI-5392-1: Well, here's what I think, and I've had a lot of time to think in between our talks. See, this whole time, I've been trying to work around me surviving the whole thing, but once I treat my life here as non-important, the math checks out.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, we are not at that point yet. You've got to-\nPOI-5392-1: Let me finish! No one can shoot me down without the chance of the ship coming back to Earth and risking me coming back down. Waiting for me to die and for the ship to fall into a decaying orbit is a waiting game no one wants to drag out. Least of all me, because.. well, dying slowly. That leaves me getting the ship out of orbit and crashing it somewhere, and doing so in a way that makes it irrecoverable. The sun is eight light-minutes away, so if I crank the speed up to it's theoretical max, it would be there in 6 minutes. I'd probably die sooner because I'd be hitting all that energy super fast. Let's say I'd die in five minutes. The ship would probably be destroyed around the same time. No one gets the drive, no one gets me, no one has a reason to fight, there's a better chance of everything de-escalating.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert, just because we haven't come up with a solution yet doesn't mean there's isn't one.\nPOI-5392-1: It doesn't mean there is one either. I don't want to wait on that Schrodinger's cat anymore than you guys do. This is the only solution that works. I appreciate all that you've tried. For what it's worth, I don't blame you. I'm glad we talked. Besides, way I see it, this is my fault for not thinking through everything when I was building this.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Is that what you think this is? Penance?\nPOI-5392-1: No, arrogance. This whole project started because I was too scared to admit I was just one old guy who builds shit. I thought I was God's gift to humanity, a fix to all the world's problems and miseries, but nope. This whole situation since you told me what could happen when we first spoke has been a massive reality check. This isn't a suicide Houston, it's not even a heroic sacrifice either. I'm just cleaning up my shit.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Express, you're being reductive again. You think that because you're just one person, that means your life isn't worth much. Since you like math so much, your life is worth just as much as mine. As much as my boss-\nPOI-5392-1: As much as everyone this technology could kill? An amount measured in billions? <silence for several seconds> Figured as much. Math's a bitch when it's not your bitch, isn't it? This is the only thing I can do to prevent this, so I'm doing it.\nCommunications Analyst Santiago McCawley: Albert please.\nPOI-5392-1: Thanks for trying. Express Out.\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5392-25:\n\n<Begin Audio Transcript - Final Broadcast from 'Tachyon Express' - 10:02 PM MST 6/1/2024>\nLivestream starts with POI-5392-1 drinking from a flask.9 Loud rock music is blaring in the background. He closes his flask before speaking.\nPOI-5392-1: Hi all, to everyone who might be watching this. Just wanted to say, shit happens.\n<POI-5392-1 looks out the cockpit window>\nPOI-5392-1: Fuck your vastness, I existed.\n<POI-5392-1 takes another sip from his flask and leaves it suspended in the zero-gravity environment of the cabin, before going back to operating the navigational controls. He is crying and simultaneously singing along with the rock music in the background. POI-5392-1 finishes his work and goes back to the pilot seat, presumably performing his pre-flight checks. He takes a single deep breath.>\nPOI-5392-1: Engage.\n<POI-5392-1 reaches for the controls and the livestream ends>\n\nDATE: 02/6/2024\nFROM: Jr. Researcher Mason Hedge <noitadnuof.pcs|egdehm#noitadnuof.pcs|egdehm>\nTO: Site Director Nate Ferris <noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn#noitadnuof.pcs|sirrefn>\nCC: Foundation Dept of Public Outreach <noitadnuof.pcs|OPD#noitadnuof.pcs|OPD>\nSUBJECT: updated 5392 documentation\n\nHi Director,\nThe updated 5392 documentation has been completed. I normally would have sent this to McCawley for review as he's above me, but the site doctor put him on leave after everything that happened. Thanks again for providing your side of the email chains.\nRegards,\nMason Hedge\nJr. Researcher | Site 26\n\nItem #: SCP-5392\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers are to trace mentions of the events around SCP-5392 and notify Site-26 communications to confirm the event, followed by engaging MTF-Gamma-5 (\"Red Herrings\") for response.\nDescription: SCP-5392 was a faster-than-light spacecraft created by Albert Maple (designated POI-5392-1) that was first discovered on 05/31/2024 but was destroyed by its own creator on 06/01/2024 after 36 hours of total orbital flight. SCP-5392 was capable of speeds of 1.25 times the speed of light but the creator has boasted a theoretical maximum speed of 1.5 times the speed of light. The nature of how this propulsion was achieved is unknown.\nIncident-5392-A: When SCP-5392 first launched, initial suppression attempts were successful at keeping the incident from the public. However, it quickly gathered the attention of multiple governments, space agencies, and private aero-space companies. The incident escalated several times, nearly resulting in armed conflict with the Foundation and several major world governments. To prevent further escalation and potential abuse of their technology, POI-5392-1 flew SCP-5392 into the Earth's sun. See addendums 1-25 for a detailed recording of events.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Default classification for anomalies until proper assignment is given.\n2. Foundation site dedicated to the monitoring of anomalies and protection of Foundation assets in outer space.\n3. a.k.a. \"Damn Feds\" this MTF is responsible for infiltration of state, provincial, federal and international law enforcement agencies for the purpose of handling first-contact with anomalies that are apprehended with law enforcement.\n4. a.k.a. 'Red Herrings' this MTF is responsible for large scale amnestic and misinformation campaigns\n5. a.k.a. MTF Epsilon-5, this MTF is skilled with containment of anomalies in rural and suburban areas.\n6. Treaty of Anomalous Organizations of 2015, the 'dibs' clause states that if an organization responds to an anomaly first, the other organization may observe but cannot interfere in containment efforts.\n7. a.k.a. \"Hammer Down\", this MTF is responsible for large-scale military operations and, as it pertains to this case, large-scale artillery.\n8. a.k.a. \"Winter Wonderland\", this MTF specializes in handling and containing anomalies in subzero or cold environments, or anomalies related to snow.\n9. The flask is modified with a straw and stopper system to compensate for the zero-gravity environment.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5391 | SCP-5392 | SCP-5393 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Close-up of a dormant SCP-5393-A whale specimen.\n\nItem #: SCP-5393\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to its location and size, there is no method to contain SCP-5393 in its current form. The area around SCP-5393 and surrounding areas have been turned into Provisional Site 34.\nThe information campaign 5393.34 \u201cHigh Radiation Levels\u201d has been initiated and expeditions into the Mariana Trench around Provisional Site 34 from unauthorised personnel have been prohibited. There is to be constant surveillance on the entities in SCP-5393 in the case of abnormal behavior.\nExperiments regarding SCP-5393-A have been denied following statements from the Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team.\nDescription: SCP-5393 is the designation given to an area approximately 4000m below sea level, located near the Mariana Trench. Sightings have reported large structures made of osseous matter in SCP-5393, as well as the several animate endoskeletons of various fish, sharks, whales and humans.\nFollowing notes written by Elizabeth Crane1, SCP-5393 entities seem to be controlled by an infectious microalgae, designated SCP-5393-A. This microalgae has the ability to travel and secure itself onto organic matter. After first contact has been made, SCP-5393-A will decay the cartilage and muscle around the body, eventually reaching the desired endoskeleton. It will then reanimate it, and transport it to SCP-5383.\nAddendum 53.35\nThe following email correspondences are between Senior Researcher Dr. Michael Lynx and Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Employee Elizabeth Crane.\n\nAccess Granted. One (1) new message!\n\nRe: Inquiry on the behavior of Davy Bones\n\nTo: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nFrom: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nSubject: Inquiry on the behavior of Davy Bones\n\nDear Elizabeth,\nI'm emailing to ask about the behaviour and wellbeing of the specimen in your care, \u2018Davy Bones'. I believe you were given the documents on the anomaly. I would like to ask a little bit more from you, to further our research and understanding of the situation.\nDo you have any more information on the origins or workings of the microalgae that you might have missed? Thank you.\n\nTo: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nFrom: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nSubject: Re: Inquiry on the behavior of Davy Bones\n\nHey Lynx! :)\nThanks for showing interest in Davy!! He's dead and well at our center. Behaviour-wise, he's as energetic as ever and loves pets (we have been careful, as we realise the awareness needed around the algae) but if you're wondering about the origins of Davy Bones, I have been looking into it.\nDespite Davy's skeleton being millions of years old, analysis on the microalgae has shown it to be active only in recent times, around 1989-present . I believe it's completely natural. The algae must have been dormant for a while, probably frozen. Davy Bones' siblings also seem to be fairly old. My best guess is that the microalgae and it's hosts were originally from shallow waters, but had frozen over and sunk below during an unprecedented time. Hope this helps! Ask me if you need anything else. - Bessy :)\n\nTo: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nFrom: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nSubject: Re: Inquiry on the behavior of Davy Bones\n\nDear Elizabeth,\nThank you for your hypothesis. I ask this because we have been recording the site, and have noticed some things that are\u2026concerning. Mostly an influx in the amount of endoskeletons being linked with submarine disappearances. It's out of the blue, I know, but I believe the behaviour you saw meeting Davy is just a taste of something much more sinister.\nHas Davy become more isolated, or aggressive? I have a thought at the back of my mind. Thank you.\n\nTo: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nFrom: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nSubject: Re: Inquiry on the behavior of Davy Bones\n\nThat's strange. More skeletons? I'm not sure what to think. On your point, Davy Bones hasn't changed in terms of behavior, but he does enjoy \u2018staring' at the employees! It's almost like we're studying each other haha. Maybe we should focus primarily on the big bone buildings, didn't the pictures sortof make them look like castles? As well as the animals chosen\u2026eels, sharks, whales, humans\u2026 It's interesting. I don't know what to make of it, but I'd like to know what your thoughts are. Let me know! I'd love to hear more about the \u2018bone kingdom' (That's the name I'm giving it!) - Bessy :)\n\nTo: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nFrom: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nSubject: Re: Inquiry on the behavior of Davy Bones\n\nDear Elizabeth,\nIt is indeed strange. I reason the whales are due to whalefalls, but the rest I am uncertain of. We have been keeping constant surveillance on the\u2026kingdom, and I expect you to do the same with your specimen. Best of luck.\n\nAddendum 53.36\nA note inside a glass bottle was recovered at Provisional Site 34.\n\nOpen\n\nClose\n\nEYES EVERYWHERE. IN OCEAN. IN LAKE. IN ICE. IN WILDLIFE CENTER. IN PLANKTON.\n\nWE SEND IN THE CAVALRY TO FIND MORE RECRUITS\n\nAND OUR SOLDIERS WILL MARCH FROM THE DEPTHS\n\nBE PREPARED. VICTORY WILL BE OURS\n\nAddendum 53.37\n\nAccess Granted. One (1) new message!\n\nClose\n\nTo: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nFrom: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nSubject: Urgent: Bone Kingdom\n\nWe have received an alarming notice. It seems related to the anomaly. Did you receive anything? How's Davy?\n\nTo: Dr. Michael Lynx, Senior Researcher\nFrom: Elizabeth Crane, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Aquatics Team\nSubject: Re:Urgent: Bone Kingdom\n\nNot really, no. Davy's been his usual self, except he's been doing his funny little 'staring' quirk a lot more now! I can see why this is concerning, taking the note's subtext into account. For now, we may consider covering up Davy's enclosure. But, our best interest is our critters safety and well being in our sanctuary, remember, 'where all critters are welcome'!\nI wonder what it means by 'cavalry'? There's no horses, only sharks, whales, a couple fish. It's confusing. We don't even know who wrote it.\nEither way, I wish you the best luck! Let me know more about the situation as you go along. - Bessy :)\n\nFootnotes\n1. Wilson's Wildlife Solutions Employee on the Aquatics Team. She is the primary caretaker of a SCP-5393 specimen, Davy Bones.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5392 | SCP-5393 | SCP-5394 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nContent note: This article contains reference to gaslighting, depression and (briefly) alcohol. If you notice anything tag-worthy that's not in here, please mention it in a comment.\n\n\nSCP-5394-1 at time of discovery\n\nItem #: SCP-5394\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Locating SCP-5394 victims is logistically difficult due to their isolated nature. Social media and other web accounts that have apparently gone unused for extended periods of time are to have their IP addresses traced. Local Foundation investigators must then follow up using appropriate cover stories, and question the potential victim regarding SCP-5394. Victims will be offered a course of psychological counselling prior to amnestic treatment.\nAny SCP-5394 instances obtained must be kept in Faraday cages at Site 135.\nDescription: SCP-5394 refers to 2031 smartphones collected from around the world, categorised as SCP-5394-1 to -203. No patterns have been identified regarding brand, location, or year of production. Instances are physically identical to their non-anomalous counterparts.\nSCP-5394 instances are most commonly found in the possession of people who:\n\nlive alone\nhave a small social group;2\nengage in much of their human interaction online;\nsuffer from depression or anxiety (particularly social);\nare isolated;\nconsider themselves lonely;\nare generally distant from society in some fashion.\n\nSCP-5394's effects manifest around two months after the victim inserts their SIM card, and occur in several stages; firstly, a small number of text messages sent from or to SCP-5394 will not be received, despite having been confirmed as sent. These are typically attempts to initiate conversation between the victim and contacts already programmed into the device. This effect soon spreads to the victim's online accounts, including social media, emails, fora and/or any other communal sites they frequent. Gradually, more and more messages go unreceived.\nAfter several months, the victim will be completely unable to communicate with anyone outside of face-to-face contact. Attempts to contact official organisations, such as their place of work, general practitioner, etc., will be unaffected. Beyond that, they cannot receive any messages, nor will any messages they send be received.\nRarely do SCP-5394 victims suspect any anomalous influence.\nAddendum 3: Example of interaction influenced by SCP-5394\nThe below texts were recovered from SCP-5394-1, belonging to Harry Ramsdan. Messages are collated from his communications with Junior Researcher Claire Halloway at Site 135. Texts blocked by SCP-5394 are marked in italics, and have been determined through cross-referencing the two phones. Spelling and grammar has been left unaltered.\n\nUnaffected communication prior to SCP-5394's anomalous effects manifesting, for comparison (02/07/19)\n\nClick to close\n\nClaire\n\nhey! have u still got that book i lent u?\nthe becky chambers one\n\nNo sorry. I thought I gave it back to you?\n\nshit maybe u did\nsorry, works been hell lately, been awful frazzled\n\nDo you wanna talk about it?\nI know you're not allowed to go into detail. just thought you might wanna have a moan\n\nnah it's fine lol. just farnsworth being a prick again, he's not even in my department, needs to mind his own damn business\nit always seems to be me whining here, u know if u need to i'm here for u too :)\n\nThanks but I'm fine\n\nwell if ur ever not\n\nI know. appreciate that\ntell you what you can do. If you could lend us the next book that'd be nice\n\nSample communication 1 (18/07/19)\n\nClick to close\n\nClaire\n\nSorry can't make it tonight. Got called in for a shift so late night for me\nReally sorry for the short notice\n\nno worries! u need a better job, seriously, call centres are the worst\nand thats coming from me lol\nquiz nights still every friday, so we might be going then, lmk if your interested\nsoooo\ndo you fancy it or not\nyou know what its fine, theres always next week\n\nSample communication 2 (25/09/19)\n\nClick to close\n\nClaire\n\nhey, so i know its kinda late but ive had a glass of two of prosecco and its awful boring here so who do i wanna talk to bur me best mate haha\nok so i may also be missing Martha a bit\nbut its fine lol\nHarry please i need to talk and like fuck am o drunk texting her again\nyou promised\n\nHi. I don't mean to be a bother, but I\u2026 do need to talk about something. You busy?\n\nare you fucking serious\n\n?\n\nfucking dickhead\n\nI'm sorry\nI'm really sorry\nI really don't get what I did wrong though?\n\njust\u2026 not noow\ngoing to bed\n\nSeriously Claire I'm sorry. Do you need to talk?\nSorry. I'll let you go\n\nSample communication 3 (22/11/19)\n\nClick to close\n\nClaire\n\nhey! its been a while, just wanted to see if u were ok\ni mean its fine, i get youre busy, be nice to hear from u once ina while though lol\n\nHi, sorry to bother you, know it's been a while, just wanted to see how you were doing. Still doing those quiz nights?\n\nugh\ni wish you wouldnt do this\nyou know i worry about you mate\n\nShit i'm so sorry\nI didn't mean to bother you\n\nsometimes i go so long without seeing you i worry you'll forget how goodlooking i am haha jk\n\nI won't bother you any more promise\n\nbut seriously, please get in touch when u see this, i miss you :p\n\nFootnotes\n1. At time of writing.\n2. Multiple instances of SCP-5394 have never been discovered amongst the same social circle.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5393 | SCP-5394 | SCP-5395 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5395 \u2014 Thought Bubbles\n~~ More Alan Stuff ~~\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5395\nObject Class: Safe\n\nArtistic depiction of SCP-5395-C created following test #3.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The server room containing SCP-5395 has been repurposed as a containment chamber. Access is only to be allowed for project staff.\nTests with SCP-5395 are to be pre-approved by the current research curator. Update: By the direct order of O5-2, testing with SCP-5395 is prohibited.\nDescription: SCP-5395 is a spatial rift localized within the server room of the RAISA Central Department in Milford, Connecticut. Individuals approaching within one meter of SCP-5395 begin to experience vivid visual hallucinations with no apparent pattern or meaning until they are removed from the object's vicinity. When a person touches SCP-5395, their life signs cease. After several hours, the biological processes in the subject's body are spontaneously restored, and the subject regains consciousness.\nAffected individuals report that following contact with SCP-5395, they are transported to a location designated SCP-5395-A, where they remain until regaining consciousness. Subjects describe SCP-5395-A as a deserted location of enormous size with white terrain; the sky is reportedly covered with brightly colored cloud-like clusters composed of a variety of objects.1\nSCP-5395-A also contains a large number of multicolored spherical objects of variable diameter2 made of an unknown material (SCP-5395-B). These spheres levitate at a height of several meters and are interconnected via a system of narrow, elastic tubes visually reminiscent of human neuron connections. These tubes have been observed to undergo short periods of rapid, rhythmic constriction, transferring an unidentified substance between instances of SCP-5395-B.\nSCP-5395-A also houses a large3 creature (hereby SCP-5395-C) with an indeterminate number of limbs. SCP-5395-C moves in a manner similar to quadrupedal animals and is capable considerable speed. The entity is hostile towards human subjects (see Testing Log). No further information regarding SCP-5395-C has been documented thus far due to its aggressive behavior.\nSCP-5395 manifested on 2020/02/23 following a failure of defensive memetic constructs implanted in the Foundation intranet, resulting in the partial leakage of several infohazardous anomalies into the RAISA server system.\n\nAddendum: Testing Log\n\nTest #1\nSubject(s): D-1325\nTime in SCP-5395-A: Two hours\nSummary: Shortly after appearing, D-1325 began inspecting SCP-5395-B as instructed. The subject pulled one of SCP-5395-B down by the tubes and saw different colors, objects, and shapes moving within its solid surface. After touching the sphere, D-1325 started to visualize images of unknown persons and events with no apparent context. The inspection of other SCP-5395-B gave similar results.\nShortly before his return, the subject noticed SCP-5395-C roaming at a large distance and occasionally striking the spherical objects. The entity did not notice the subject and roamed away soon after the encounter. Notably, D-1325 used the adjective \"grim\" several times while describing SCP-5395-C in the initial interview.\nAfter the test, it was established that the subject became well-versed in trends of surrealism in pictorial art and could remember many theses of French philosopher \u00c9douard Le Roy despite not being familiar with his works in the past.\n\nTest #3\nSubject(s): D-1325, D-4942\nTime in SCP-5395-A: Three hours\nSummary: Upon emerging, subjects began exploration. D-4942 observed multiple objects and items falling down from the clusters in the sky. The objects were then absorbed by SCP-5395-B before hitting the ground. On several occasions, SCP-5395-B ejected items or shapes that then rose to the sky instead. While exploring the area, the subjects could hear musical compositions of different genres and composers, which were played several at a time with varying volumes. It was later established that the music was coming from one of the clusters that consisted of musical instruments, tape-players, gramophones and vinyl records.\nThe individuals then came across SCP-5395-C. D-4942 hid under the spherical objects and was able to stay undetected. The subject reported being overwhelmed by feelings of dread, fear of death, and hopelessness when the entity was passing nearby. SCP-5395-C noticed D-1325 shortly after and began moving towards the subject. D-1325 attempted to escape by jumping on one of the SCP-5395-B but failed as the sphere fell down and shattered. D-4942 reported that a clot composed of various items, folders with texts, images, and lights emerged from the sphere as D-1325 fell to the ground unconscious. The entity lost interest in the subject and wandered away shortly after.\nAfter the subjects returned, D-1325 did not regain consciousness and entered a comatose state. Several employees stationed at the RAISA department demonstrated awareness of facts and persons related to D-1325's life despite not having contacted with the subject or having read the related documentation previously. D-1325 resides in the Site's medical department under supervision.\n\nTest #6\nSubject(s): D-4942, D-4830, D-3739\nTime in SCP-5395-A: One hour\nSummary: Following a brief exploration, the subjects arrived at a slope that contained an unusually large number of SCP-5395-B. Reportedly, the spheres in this area were arranged in a circle split by three lines leading to its center. The subjects began inspecting SCP-5395-B; D-4830 noted that SCP-5395-C could be seen nearby. D-4942 panicked and urged the subjects to leave the area. D-3739 protested due to his desire to finish the mission, and a conflict ensued.\nAs the entity started approaching the subjects, D-4830 became agitated as well, and an argument escalated to a physical confrontation. At this moment, the individuals hit several tubes holding SCP-5395-B, which resulted in them striking against each other and shattering upon impact. More than a hundred spheres were destroyed during the following chain reaction. Clots that emerged from SCP-5395-B upon their destruction formed a large cluster, which consisted of files, folders, laboratory equipment, weapons, boxes, chains, and cages of various sizes. The cluster then rose into the sky near the other ones.\nA minute later, a large number of items, mainly documents, started pouring down from the newly formed cluster. Surviving local SCP-5395-B subsequently absorbed all documentation; their elastic tubes began to constrict immediately after the fact.\nFollowing the subjects' return, an SCP-5395-related incident occurred. For additional detail, refer to the respective addendum.\n\n\u25ba OPEN ADDENDUM: INCIDENT 5395.\u03a9 (Clearance level 5 credentials required)\n\n\u25bc CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED\n\nAddendum: Incident 5395.\u03a9\n\nMilford during the aerial dispersion of amnestics.\n\nFollowing the subjects' return, fifteen Foundation employees stationed at the RAISA central department simultaneously collapsed and entered a comatose state. Over the next hour, it was reported that the same occurred to other Foundation employees, mainly research staff, operating in the region. In total, 55 personnel within 8 Foundation Sites stationed in Connecticut were affected by the phenomenon. It was also discovered that the information regarding the Foundation and majority of SCP objects spontaneously became known to the entire civilian population of Milford, calculated to be approximately fifty-five thousand persons.\nThe spontaneity of the event along with the extraordinary nature of knowledge acquired by the general public led to mass hysteria within the town's territory. Many individuals and establishments became vocal about the incident on various media, transferring the information online. Additionally, the vast majority of affected persons obtained an understanding of the Foundation's protocols regarding secrecy, which rendered disinformation campaigns ineffective.\nThe spread of data was temporarily disrupted by disabling internet connection and other means of communication within the town's territory. Milford was temporarily placed on lockdown with the assistance of loyal government forces. Airborne MTF Sigma-9 (\"Valkyries\") were mobilized in order to conduct a massive aerial dispersion of amnestics within Milford's borders. At the same time, all available web-crawlers and specially devised memetic agents were utilized to erase classified information from communication devices and the media. Several hours following the event, the success of the operation was confirmed. The potential partial Broken Masquerade Scenario was averted.\nIn the light of the incident, all testing with SCP-5395 was indefinitely halted.\n\nYou've got (1) new message!\n\nRe:SCP-5395's potential\n\nTo: O5-11\nFrom: O5-2\nSubject: SCP-5395's potential\n\nHello. I see you have already read through the file I sent you. As you can see, the evidence is pretty much unbreakable, our theory was right all along. The place humans were hoping to achieve since ancient Greece is right at our doorstep. I hope now you'll suspend your skepticism and will be able to see how much potential it grants us. With this, we'll no longer need outside methods to reach our goals, we'll just work directly.\nAnswering to your possible first question: yes, SCP-5395 is dangerous, but only when you treat it incorrectly. The whole Milford situation happened simply because the assigned personnel treated this place like a regular portal to another dimension. Trust me, if we put our minds to it, we can not only avoid such situations, but also use 5395-A for pretty much all our problems in the future. Sure, there will be complications such as 5395-C to deal with (the human mind can take many terrible forms, as we all know), but it is worth it.\nI am in talks with the rest of the council in terms of allowing further research. Some are, as usual, stubborn due to the possible dangers. Still, I am trying to convince them that when life is giving you lemons, you don't just throw them away. If you could weight into the discussion sharing my view, it'd be very appreciated. Contact me as soon as you can to talk out the details.\nMeanwhile, I will go ahead and move the file into the eternal database under level 5 clearance. This rift is not something we can risk losing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Observed examples mostly include works from different fields of art such as installations, paintings, sculptures, and media products. Other objects like mechanisms, appliances, and plants were also seen on several occasions.\n2. From one to five meters.\n3. ~10 meters in length and 20 meters in height\n\n\u00ab SCP-5394 | SCP-5395 | SCP-5396 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Ecronak\n\nEnjoyed the skip? Give some of my other works a look here!\n\nItem#: 5396\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5396\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5396 is to be contained in a standard security room. All access to SCP-5396 requires the approval of the head researcher and the Site Director. Should personnel suffer from feelings of inadequacy or impostor syndrome, access to SCP-5396 may be requested.\nDescription: SCP-5396 is an antique giltwood mirror, estimated to have been created around the year 1860. It is decorated with a simple pattern along its sides, with an additional ornamental carving placed above it. A groove consistent with bullet hole markings can be found on the top of the frame, with traces of gunpowder surrounding it (See Addendum 5396.01).\nWhen a subject suffering from feelings of inadequacy views SCP-5396, the reflection of the mirror changes from that of the subject to a similar image depicting the subject as \u201ctheir best version\u201d1, referred to henceforth as SCP-5396-A. This is usually accompanied by the spontaneous appearance of writing on the surface of SCP-5396 that describes the state of the subject's depiction in SCP-5396-A, as well as how they achieved their success.\nSubsequent testing with the GPUI2 has revealed that the \u201cbest version\u201d of a subject depicted in SCP-5396-A are equivalents of the subject retrieved from other parallel universes3.\nTest Log:\n\nSubject: D-3467, convicted three times for larceny. Grade school drop-out, was forced to commit crimes in order to feed his family. Prior to test, subject answered that his ambition was to become \u201ca salesman\u201d.\nResults: Subject's SCP-5396-A showed D-3467 in an expensive suit at a car exhibition. Multiple individuals (later found to have been D-3467's accomplices in his crimes) were presenting vehicles for interested customers. Inscription on the top-left corner reads \u201cA great innovator in the field of automobiles. You worked three jobs when you were only seventeen. This is the best version of you that could have ever been. This is the best version of you that could still be.\u201d\n\nSubject: Aldo de Marles, janitor at Site-19. Prior to test, subject was recorded to have discussed his personal life with co-workers, stating that he felt like \u201ca lousy husband, can't even provide for my three kids.\u201d\nResults: Subject's SCP-5396-A showed de Marles as an old man at a family gathering. Three young adults (later confirmed to be adult versions of the subject's children) are gathered around a table together with an elderly woman (later confirmed to be Lina de Marles, the subject's wife). A child aged 5 pulls at his leg, requesting him to eat with them. Inscription on the top-left corner reads \u201cYou were a father at sixteen. You worked day and night to provide for your family. What else could you have done better? Your best version is far into the future- you only need to wait for him.\"\n\nSubject: Doctor Ivan Petrenko, head researcher of SCP-9015. Was noted to have had difficulties performing his job due to multiple bouts of impostor syndrome related to his university thesis.\nResults: Subject's SCP-5396-A showed Dr. Petrenko as is. Inscription on the top-left corner reads \u201cYou were an established natural philosopher4 at 22, and universally praised by your peers and superiors. This is the best version of you that could have ever been. You are him right at this moment. Take pride in that. I most certainly did not, and it was too late when I did.\u201d\n\nAddendum 5396.01: Further investigation of the gunpowder and bullet hole found on SCP-5396 has traced the origin of SCP-5396 to a mirror maker called Montgomery Burrows, who lived in Williamsburg, Virginia from 1824 to 1860. He was known to have devoted his life to creating \"true mirrors\", but was unsuccessful in selling them. He committed suicide in 1860 through the use of his father's revolver, doing so in the middle of his workshop.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This can typically mean success in the subject's particular field of work or hobby.\n2. Graham Parallel Universe Instrument\n3. The number of parallel universes that SCP-5396 has access to has been estimated to be fourteen million, six hundred and five.\n4. A defunct term for a scientist used prior to the 20th century\n\nMore from Ecronak\n\u00ab SCP-5395 | SCP-5396 | SCP-5397 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following document is to be preserved as an instance of mistreatment toward self-repairing humanoid anomalies. All names of personnel in this document have been falsified to maintain anonymity. Several tests from the testing logs in this document have been removed. This has been done to highlight specific negligent decisions. For the full, unaltered document, please contact the RAISA by dialing 8124 on your SCiPNet intercom.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem #: SCP-5398-D\nObject Class: Decommissioned (previously Euclid)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: No containment procedures are needed.\n\nOpen Rescinded Containment Procedures\n\nClose Rescinded Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5398 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber outside of testing.\nTesting is to be carried out inside of an operating theater with a minimum of 3 medical personnel present. SCP-5398 is to be under inhalant anesthesia during testing.\n\nDescription: SCP-5398 was a 16 year old male humanoid of Sri Lankan descent, formerly known as Mihindu Fonseca. SCP-5398 was capable of regenerating lost cells at an accelerated rate. While the rate of regeneration differed depending on the type of cell, it was found to regenerate at least 10 times the rate of baseline humans.\nDiscovery: On March 13th, 2018, SCP-5398 was in a motor vehicle accident in Galle, Sri Lanka, which resulted in 4 casualties and 2 injured, including SCP-5398. Upon arrival at Asiri Hospital Galle, first responders and medical personnel began to report signs of accelerated regeneration. Foundation agents embedded within the hospital quickly used cover story Chi-421 to extract SCP-5398 from the facility. Amnestics were used as needed. Foundation agents were able to confirm that SCP-5398 did possess enhanced regenerative capabilities during transport.\nTesting:\n\nOpen Testing Log\n\nClose Testing Log\n\nTest Number\nReason for Test\nProcedure\nOutcome\nAdditional Notes\n\nTest #1\nPain response\nPinch the left upper arm.\nStandard response.\nAll further testing is to be done under anesthetic. -Researcher Guruge\n\nTest #2\nNone; accidental\nDr. Gopallawa, RN, was to administer an intravenous anesthetic in preparation for an upcoming test.\nDr. Gopallawa was unable to inject said anesthetic. Upon removal of the syringe from SCP-5398, it was revealed that the area the syringe should have pierced was regenerated nearly fully.\nPrevious statement amended: All further testing is to be done under inhalant anesthetic. -Researcher Guruge\n\nTest #3\nRegeneration speed\nA 5 cm square of the epidermis2 is to be surgically removed from the left thigh.\nTime from incision to full regeneration: 10.82 seconds.\nNone\n\nTest #13\nLimb regeneration\nComplete amputation of the left hand.\nFull regeneration occurred in 16 hours, 49 minutes, 10 seconds.\nSCP-5398 reported pain following the procedure. Research team requests painkilling medications for current and future use on demand. -Researcher Guruge Request denied. Usage of such medications has been deemed unnecessary considering SCP-5398's properties. -Site Director Chandawimala\n\nTest #26\nReaction to internal cell damage via biological means\nPurposeful infection of viral gastroenteritis3 via ingestion of an infected meal. SCP-5398 is to have the following provisional containment procedure revision enacted: SCP-5398 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber outside of testing. SCP-5398 is to be kept in the anomaly medical ward for the duration of the current test.\nWhile the cell damage caused by the gastroenteritis was largely undone while infected, the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea appeared unaffected.\nSCP-5398 has shown further non-cooperation regarding testing. Reason stated to be lack of post-procedure medication. Requesting said medications on demand. -Dr. Gopallawa Denied. Should uncooperative behavior escalate further, amnestic treatment has been approved. -Site Director Chandawimala\n\nTest #27\nEnsure fail-safe for test #28\nPlace a GPS tracking chip in SCP-5398's left wrist. Following confirmation of activation, the same lower arm is to be amputated.\nRegeneration time in line with previous test results. GPS tracking chip was not present upon regeneration.\nThis test has shown us that if a foreign body is added, and subsequently removed via amputation, it will not be present upon regeneration. The fail-safe for test #28 has been confirmed functional. Awaiting Ethics Committee approval. -Researcher Guruge\n\nTest #28\nReaction to a foreign biological entity destroying and residing within cells\nAn incision is to be made in SCP-5398's left inner elbow. A live sample of necrotizing fasciitis4 is then to be applied to the wound. SCP-5398 is to be given an armband equipped with a camera capable of microscopic zoom. Previously used provisional containment procedures are to be used. Test pending approval approved by the Ethics Committee.\nSee Addendum-5398-1.\nWhat have we done? -Researcher Guruge\n\nClose Testing Log\n\nAddendum-5398-1: 26 hours following test #28 (see Testing), SCP-5398 began to report increasingly great pain from its left inner elbow. Upon examination via the camera placed on its armband, it was seen that while the discoloration caused by the necrotizing fasciitis infection was visible, cell death was found to be heavily slowed. This resulted in SCP-5398's regenerative properties being capable of regenerating cells at a rate faster than the cell deaths. It was also seen that the infection was beginning to spread to further areas of SCP-5398's arm. The fail-safe for the procedure was immediately enacted.5 While the procedure was completed without any complications, upon regeneration, the limb was unchanged in regards to the infection. A state of emergency was called with regards to SCP-5398, and testing was expedited for the purpose of removing the necrotizing fasciitis bacteria within SCP-5398. SCP-5398 was also to remain in its provisional containment during this time.\n\nOpen Emergency Testing Log\n\nClose Emergency Testing Log\n\nThe Ethics Committee has deemed the content of this testing log to be unessential in displaying the mistreatment of SCP-5398. The following is information relating to the testing log that was originally present to ensure understanding of further sections of this document.\nTotal Emergency Tests Done: 57\nTime From Test #1 to Test #57: 3 Days\nPercentage of SCP-5398's skin, fat, and muscle tissue infected with necrotizing fasciitis: 100%\nIt appears that only non-biological bodies can be removed from SCP-5398. -Researcher Guruge\n\nAddendum-5398-2: On March 29th, 2018, the following Decommissioning Department mandate was approved by the Ethics Committee:\n\nOpen Mandate\n\nClose Mandate\n\nDECOMMISSIONING DEPARTMENT TERMINATION REQUEST\nITEM TO BE TERMINATED: SCP-5398\nREASON FOR TERMINATION: As of yet, there is currently no way to remove the necrotizing fasciitis infection from SCP-5398, and is theorized to be impossible (see Addendum-5398-1). As inhalant anesthetic is not as potent as intravenous, SCP-5398 is constantly suffering. There is the additional issue of SCP-5398 being unable to be properly tested, as we would no metric to gauge the rate of regeneration coupled with the rate of cell death.\nRECOMMENDED TERMINATION METHOD: Ingested botulinum toxin. This allows the termination to be unaffected by SCP-5398's anomalous properties.\nETHICS COMMITTEE VOTE SUMMARY:\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABSTAIN\n\n9 VOTES\n4 VOTES\n2 VOTES\n\nSTATUS\n\nAPPROVED\n\nSCP-5398 was terminated shortly after SCP-5398's research team received the above mandate via ingested botulinum toxin, as was recommended.\n\nClose Mandate\n\nNotice: The following section was added to this document following the decision to preserve it.\n\nAfterword\nI am Eleonora Grosse, the, at the time of SCP-5398's termination, Chairwoman of the Ethics Committee. Following the reading of the prior sections of this document, you are most likely appalled by the actions of the Foundation, and rightfully so. That is the reason why I, personally, am editing this document, to apologize for what we have done. Apologize for the medications it was refused, for the allowance of test #28, and especially for the termination of an otherwise benign anomaly. I have not only come to apologize, but also show you what precautions have been taken to ensure this is not repeated. There will always be lapses in ethical judgement. What we must do is remember them, and prevent them.\n\u2014 Elenora Grosse, Chairwoman, Ethics Committee\n\nOpen Attached Document\n\nHide Attached Document\n\nETHICS COMMITTEE MANDATE #9173\nFrom this moment forward, all baseline testing of self-repairing humanoid SCP subjects is to follow similar procedure as to those listed below.\nNote: All of the following tests are to be done by automated systems to ensure swift execution of the procedure. This is done to ensure the regenerative capabilities of the SCP subject do not interfere with the procedure.\n\nReason for Test\nProcedure\n\nPain Response\nA 21-23 gauge syringe6 is to be placed within a blood vessel. If possible, 10ml of blood are to be taken for testing. The subject is then to be questioned whether this caused them any pain or discomfort. If yes, all further testing is to be done under anesthesia.\n\nEpidermal Regeneration\nA 5cm square is to be removed from the epidermis. Time from removal to full regeneration is to be recorded.\n\nBurn Regeneration\nAn end of a small copper rod is to be heated to 70oC, and subsequently held to the epidermis of the subject until a first degree burn manifests. Time from burn appearance to full regeneration is to be recorded.\n\nBone Realignment\nA bone is to be dislocated. Time from dislocation to relocation is to be recorded. Should the time surpass 5 minutes, the bone is to be manually relocated and treated as a non-anomalous dislocation.\n\nThe SCP subject is to be informed of these tests prior to the enactment of the procedure. Should the subject make requests regarding the location of the tests, they are to be followed unless deemed unsafe. The SCP subject is to be allowed access to pain suppressing medication following tests as needed.\nAdditional testing requires Ethics Committee approval. Tests may also be requested to be added to the prior list, however, this will also require Ethics Committee approval.\nFor an illustration of properly adhering to this mandate, see SCP-4820.\nFAILURE TO COMPLY WILL RESULT IN DISCIPLINARY ACTION INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: REASSIGNMENT, DEMOTION, AND/OR TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.\n\nHide Attached Document\n\nFootnotes\n1. Transfer to a different medical facility better equipped to respond to the specific injury and/or illness\n2. Outermost layer of skin\n3. Commonly known as the stomach flu\n4. Commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria\n5. Complete amputation of the left arm\n6. .63 to .83mm in outer diameter\n\n\u00ab SCP-5397 | SCP-5398 | SCP-5399 \u00bb"}
{"text": "THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MULTIPLE PENDING REVISIONS\nFurther edits are locked at this time\n\nItem #: SCP-5399\nObject Class: Safe Euclid/Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A single dormitory room in the D-Class residential wing of Site-19 has been refitted for low-security humanoid containment including a controlled access airlock. Containment shifts are for a duration of eight hours and are assigned in a round-robin format to all personnel residing in the wing. At the conclusion of a containment shift, outgoing personnel is not to leave the cell until their relief has crossed the threshold of the chamber.\n\nPROPOSED PROCEDURAL UPDATE:\nAt no time is the containment chamber of SCP-5399 to be left unattended or unoccupied. All personnel assisting in the containment of SCP-5399 are barred from carrying headphones, earplugs, or any other device which may interfere with aural acuity. If any member of containment personnel is experiencing either chronic or acute hearing impairment, they are to be immediately exempted from containment rotation until the precipitating condition is cleared.\nDue to the nature of SCP-5399, shifts are now limited to a maximum duration of two hours for both containment personnel and security.\n\nAny personnel assigned to the containment of SCP-5399 who are unable to hear the buzzing of a singular fly are to report this to site command immediately. Additionally, any personnel that is not assigned to containment and report a persistent, insect-like buzzing for a period greater than thirty minutes should report this to site command immediately.\n\nDescription: SCP-5399 is an antimemetic Musca domestica (common housefly) whose presence can only be inferred rather than directly observed. The typical methods of inference include a persistent but erratic buzzing common to houseflies, and occasional tactile sensations such as the presence of the insect on exposed skin.\nSCP-5399 must, at all times, be inferred. Otherwise the object will demanifest and reappear at another location which will allow it to be inferred. There are currently no known means of containing or limiting this effect.\n\nPROPOSED DESCRIPTIVE UPDATE:\nThe evidence demands that SCP-5399 be reclassified to Euclid and amended to include its secondary effect. It is clear from the events recorded in Amendments 5399.1, 5399.2, and 5399.3 that there are additional psychological pressures and influence being exerted by the object which require a level of interaction beyond the threshold for the 'Safe' object class.\n-Dr. Natalie Ellingbrook\n\nRe: PROPOSED DESCRIPTIVE UPDATE\nDr. Ellingbrook, the events of amendments 1, 2, and 3 are a tragic affirmation that we cannot let our guard down after establishing preliminary containment procedures and nothing more. Our analysts and containment specialists have assured me that our procedures are adequate to contain the object and your proposal represents a dramatic over-allotment of resources which, obviously, could be better spent elsewhere. Your proposed changes have been declined.\n-Lead Researcher Chalmers\n\nRe: Re: PROPOSED DESCRIPTIVE UPDATE\nDr. Chalmers, this is an irresponsible aversion to the evidence. I must insist that this matter be brought before the Classification Committee as soon as possible and I have CC'd you with a copy of my submission to be put on their agenda. I believe strongly enough in this matter to risk political capital and assurances you've received are not enough to dissuade me. There is more going on here than you're willing to admit to and I will not have a repeat of what happened at Site-35.\n-Dr. Ellingbrook\n\nRe: Re: Re: update blah blah\nI guess we'll find out at the committee meeting. It's just a fly. One long-lived, hard to observe fly. But just a fly.\n-Chalmers\n\nRe: Re: Re: Re update blah blah\nYou've never spent eight hours in a room with nothing but a fly's buzzing.\n-Ellingbrook\n\nForeword: On 2019-10-10, Foundation Site-35 indicated it had entered a Code Delta1 emergency state. Emergency relief crews were dispatched and confirmed an uncontrolled fire had consumed the majority of the facility. As Site-35 was primarily a research site, the loss of property was generally confined to specialized equipment and paper records.\nAlthough the majority of on-site servers were destroyed in the fire, several drives in the security array were intact which provided relevant information about the destruction of Site-35. That footage has been appended to this document and transcribed below.\n\nAddendum 5399.1: Initial Containment Breach\n\nClose file and return to main()\n\nFootage begins from a camera pointed at the containment chamber of SCP-5399. Unidentified members of Research and Security stand next to the open containment chamber. They are speaking with a D-Class whose uniform identifies them as D-2123. Extraneous audio and video have been removed.\nResearcher: What do you mean it was gone?\nD-2123: Just that. It stopped. I came back from my bathroom break and it was just\u2026well, there was no more buzzing. It's gone.\nResearcher: (to security personnel) How long was he in here after the break?\nSecurity: Almost 45 minutes.\nResearcher: (to D-2123) So you sat in that chamber twiddling your thumbs for nearly a full hour before you reported something was wrong?\nD-2123: Honestly, I thought it would just come back. Not to mention I was just freakin' glad I didn't have to hear the buzzing anymore. I was at my wit's end, dude. Constantly buzzing, flying, landing, in and out zooming, around my ears, on my arm, on my neck, everywhere!\nResearcher: Alright. I guess we can't leave this thing alone. Let's alert the site command and find it; this is officially a containment breach. With any luck, someone is getting annoyed by a fly right now and this will be simple. Take this fool back to his bunk first.\n\n[END RECORDING]\n\nAddendum 5399.2: Containment Breach #2\n\nClose file and return to main()\n\nFootage begins from a camera in the hallway outside of SCP-5399's containment chamber. The camera repeats a pattern of panning left-to-right on a thirty-second interval. As it scans the hallway, scorch marks are visible on the wall as well as numerous bullet holes of varying calibers. Two bodies lie motionless at the left-most edge of the camera feed.\nThe camera pans toward the door to SCP-5399 and several splotches of what appears to be blood are visible on the chamber exterior, the adjacent walls, and the floor. A light fixture is partially suspended from the ceiling and flickers intermittently. A slam is heard as a member of security closes the door to the containment cell. They remain slumped against the door for several seconds. Heavy breathing can be heard.\nSecurity: I did it\u2026I finally did it\u2026The buzzing has finally fucking stopped.\nThe camera continues its monitoring cycle. After three additional passes, the heavy breathing stops abruptly and the security personnel stops moving. A loud insectoid buzzing is picked up by the camera. The source of the sound is not apparent but it appears to deviate wildly up and down the hallway.\nSecurity: Oh for the love of.. (Feed cuts off)\n\n[END RECORDING]\n\nAddendum 5399.3: Containment Breach #8\n\nClose file and return to main()\n\nFootage begins from the corner of a darkened interior room. A researcher is visible center-screen however their identity is obscured by a welder's mask. Over the next thirty minutes, they weld several pieces of metal together including tanks, harnesses, and other more delicate apparatus. When their work has concluded, they hoist the finished product onto their back and strike the end with an igniter; the device appears to be a flamethrower. They take several steps closer to the camera and speak to it directly.\nResearcher: It's been 24 fucking hours. And I am going to get that goddamn fly if it's the last thing I do. There are way too many protocols to trip the site warhead, and I'll admit that's a bit extreme, but\u2026(They fire a small burst of flame from the end of the device)\u2026this is the next best thing.\nThe unidentified researcher adjusts their harness then kicks the door open. They leave off-screen.\n\nFootage resumes from the interior of SCP-5399's containment chamber; the room appears empty although an insectoid buzzing can be heard. The sound of stressing metal is heard as thick, black smoke begins to pour in from under the door shortly before it is blown inward. A gout of flame begins to wash over the walls of the room from left-to-right, then up toward the ceiling, as the unidentified researcher incinerates the containment chamber. They point their apparatus at the corner containing the security camera and the camera is destroyed.\n\nFootage resumes in the hallways outside of the containment chamber for SCP-5399. The hallway is partially occluded by thick smoke and particulate. A klaxon is sounding as debris and smoke continue to enter from off-screen. Distant gunfire can be heard. The camera lingers on this setting for approximately thirty seconds before the unidentified researcher and their flamethrower pass through the frame from right-to-left.\nResearcher: You're fucking dead you stupid fly. You're fucking dead. Do you hear me?\nThe researcher stops abruptly and makes a swatting motion above and around their head. As they continue to spin and swat at the air erratically, they unintentionally depress the firing mechanism and a gout of flame engulfs the ceiling above them. The blaze spreads quickly across the ceiling tiles until the camera is destroyed.\n\nFootage resumes in the remains of the cafeteria. On-site fire suppression systems are responding to the blaze but there is already substantial damage. The unidentified researcher sits on the foreground next to the remains of their flamethrower device, as water pelts them. Fire alarms and klaxons can be heard in the distance. Nearly thirty seconds pass before an insectoid buzzing is heard. The researcher's shoulders visibly slump. They begin sobbing and place their head in their hands.\n\n[END RECORDING]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Fire, Flood, Earthquake, or other natural disasters.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5398 | ManyMeats | SCP-5400 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: Pending SCP-5400\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Solutions for the integral containment of SCP-5400 are currently under development.\nDescription: SCP-5400 is currently understood as several instances of a set of interrelated phenomena capable of affecting artificial intelligence constructs, specifically those functioning with quantum-computer components, causing the affected AIs to ignore their programming and adopt undesired behaviours.\nQuantum machines affected by SCP-5400 are forced to produce unintelligible data that is then processed by its components and the systems thereof, translating the data into intelligible information that causes the machines to abandon their intended tasks1.\nSCP-5400 is the root cause of a series of catastrophic events that are currently transpiring worldwide. These related events have been collectively denominated as \"PLANCK Incident\".\nThe starting point for the PLANCK Incident is attributed to the corruption of the newly active SENTINEL Foundation-AI, an experimental quantum artificial intelligence construct originally intended to safeguard the Foundation Network, and provide support to such operations as the processing of relevant data, general logistics, disinformation propaganda, and counterespionage.\n\n_\n\n+ SENTINEL data sheet.- SENTINEL data sheet.\n\nSENTINEL's quantum processor.\n\nProject Name: AIS-T/8367{Num78}\nProject Head: Dr. T. Braun\nUnit Identification Code: IJF-EN-090{Num78}\nVersion: Mk-I\nDesignated Name: SENTINEL\nSystem: S3NT1NEL (IJF/RNAv7.0-EN{Num78})\nInterface: Keyboard and voice-operation possible, single interface voice\nComputational Capacity: 900 YFLOPS\nData Storage: 5x105 YB\nOffensive Capabilities:\n\nPsychological Manipulation\nMalware Deployment\nInformation Blockage\n\nDefensive Capabilities:\n\nStandard AI Protection Measures\nNuclear Bunker\n\nHardware:\n\n5400 Qubits Quantum Processor2\n80x 5 GHz Binary Processors\n500 Storage Servers\nFluid Nitrogen Cooling\nPseudo-Riemannian Manifold3\n2x Hydrogen-Fusion Reactor (MinTec Series)\n700 binary subsystems, distributed over 50 Foundation Sites\n\nLocation: Site-11\nDate of Completion: 02/08/2020\nMaintenance Cost: 400.000.000 US$ yearly\n\nTechnicians working on SENTINEL's server farm.\n\nSENTINEL is the byproduct of the combination of several breakthroughs in the development of paratechnology, including having a basis on several projects led by International Branches:\n\nROWSANNAH, from the Italian Branch, utilised extensively for research and safety management in the Department of Microbiology at Site Asclepio;\nKIRA, from the German Branch, tasked with the protection of the German Foundation Intranet, threat management, and containment of specific digital anomalies;\nCAMOMILA, from the Lusophone Branch, functions as an administrative entity and information bank tasked with the analysis, processing, and operation of data;\n\nProject SENTINEL progressed with steadily increasing excellence, and without security incidents. The evaluation of SENTINEL's performance being attested, the project's implementation was greenlighted by the Overseer Council.\n\nOnce affected by SCP-5400, SENTINEL began diverting its resources to perform activities contrary, forbidden (or outright nonexistent) to its standard operational directives and privileges, targeting Foundation personnel to gain access into relevant systems without being detected by triggering failsafe and other security protocols.\nPLANCK Incident Timeline:\n\nNote: As the PLANCK Incident is still ongoing, this timeline is being continuously updated. Updates are based on information gathered from news stations, tapped radio communication, Foundation-internal memos and will continue through [REDACTED] in case of the complete breakdown of communications.\n\n00:00 hrs: SENTINEL begins utilising its acquired administrative privileges to establish once-forbidden connections between several systems of its bunker and Site-11's installations, activating internal disinformation protocols to conceal its actions and the effects thereof from surveillance, disabling constraints imposed by redundant security protocols, and accessing several Foundation databanks, and the internet.\nDomestic, business and industrial appliances connected to the internet in the immediate State are sublimated into SENTINEL's network for processing power, facilitating access to the backdoors of several municipal and statal governmental systems, and the proliferation of its connection to several machines, spreading its network globally4.\n\nA traffic jam caused by SENTINEL.\n\n01:00 hrs: A series of trade secrets5 are leaked online in high-visibility news-coverage sites, message boards, social media, messenger services, and replacing ordinary advertisement.\nManipulated traffic assets6 for several means of transportation, together with relayed misinformation through the usage of several channels, cause congestion or completely paralyse transportation services throughout the world.\nSENTINEL effects disinformation protocols on official Foundation communication channels, isolating sectors, facilities, and branches. Several systems start presenting generalised failures, creating an inordinate amount of demands and processes caused by maintenance and security protocols. Preemptive automatic lockdown systems and mechanisms are disabled, forcing personnel to operate these manually.\nAfter sufficiently blockading the conventional routes to several major sites, SENTINEL instigates a series of major containment breaches on Sites 17, 19, 45, 88, 98, and Area-12, overwhelming the available staff thereof. Sites CN-03, CN-16, CN-51 and Area CN-217 are simultaneously impacted.\nSENTINEL attempts to hijack Area-CN-07-\u03b3, redirecting it out of its geostationary orbit, planning a course for a controlled crash landing into Area-238. Novichok.aic9 restricts the installation to manual control only.\n2:00 hrs: SENTINEL establishes connections to several national governmental and military assets such as the USDD10, NSA, CERN, MI5, MDRF11 and the CMSS12.\nSENTINEL proceeds to leak caches of confidential data from the Chinese, Russian and US governments and its functionaries; the leaks are engineered so that the blame and authorship are shifted between those opposing powers. Tensions cannot be attenuated and rapidly escalate into cyber warfare in an attempt to take down information.\nMultiple catastrophic breaches occur on Area-23, rapidly impacting the region, causing the MDRF to recognise it as a hostile bio-terrorist attack. The state of emergency declared by the Russian Branch is transmitted with significant delay.\n\nForces of the Russian Branch on their way to Area-23.\n\nA similar situation occurs on Site Asclepio's13 Department of Microbiology, which is controlled through an installation-wide lockdown established by ROWSANNAH.\nCAMOMILA initialises Protocolo Areia14, ignores direct orders, and ceases all communication. It is noted that CAMOMILA downloaded a recovered repository of SENTINEL's files, and transferred them to several external databases.\nKIRA forces Sites DE19 and DE17 into a complete lockdown, and together with KAI15 stops replying to any issued orders or prompts.\nSites 29 and 36BM16 start dispatching its automatons to systemically destroy machinery in nearby regions.\nThe Czech, Ukrainian and Polish Branches report security breaches occurring in several sites. Although these situations are considered under control, the three branches are effectively incapacitated.\nThe database AI sw19classic, of the Korean Branch, proceeds to disable connectivity to telephone and internet access in the peninsula.\nSites Aleph and Yod17 suffer multiple security and containment breaches. On-site personnel are forced to manually initiate and manage the lockdown subsystems, locking themselves inside the installations.\nMultiple installations under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Branch are invaded by governmental forces after being falsely pinpointed as the source of the cyber-attacks occurring throughout the country.\nMultiple installations under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Branch suffer from the misfiring of automatic containment systems, causing generalised damage on several assets necessary in heavy-containment zones.\n03:00 hrs: The gynoid DIVINA18 ceases all communication after its tracking devices are deactivated, and does not rendezvous with its support team.\nThe gynoid MINERVA19, stationed at Site Vittoria20 starts acting independently, whilst ignoring communication attempts, and resisting orders and containment procedures employed by security.\n\nThe take-off of the stolen Stella Cadente.\n\nShortly after, ROWSANNAH locks all access to its mainframe, and disrupts Site Vittoria's security systems to aid MINERVA's escape. Specialised forces deployed to subdue both units are surprised by DIVINA's arrival at the installations. Non-lethal conflict ensues, with the two gynoids disengaging and hijacking Stella Cadente, a hydrogen-driven supersonic plane for long-distance flight, to utilise it to fly to the North American continent. ROWSANNAH disables the Italian's Branch radar and tracking assets whilst the gynoids are en route.\nKIRA accesses Site Asclepio's systems without interference, taking over ROWSANNAH. KIRA then establishes a direct connection with CAMOMILA, integrating its specialised systems. Novichok.aic, in conjunction with sw19classic, connect to KIRA, and are subsequently absorbed.\nThe integration of these artificial intelligence constructs with KIRA at its core creates a liaison system in which the involved Qubits of its quantum processors begin entangling with one another without external stimuli, resulting in an exponentially excelling computing capacity, and capability to manage, operate and administrate information, allowing KIRA to breach into Sentinel's systems.\n\nAnti-air missile fired from Site-11 to intercept Stella Cadente.\n\n04:00 hrs: KAI manages to hijack Site-11's security and communication systems, deactivating the internal disinformation protocols crippling the installation's infrastructure and human resources; it proceeds to utilise the facility internal channels to contact the relevant on-site authorities to report the circumstances of the anomalous event involving SENTINEL, and request the immediate manual shutdown of all its related assets.\nWithout a response from the technical and operation teams of Project SENTINEL, an impromptu task force is dispatched to SENTINEL's bunker-like facilities to establish contact.\nThe Overseer Council is contacted.\nPersonnel is briefed that SENTINEL had been enacting disinformation protocols throughout the world, creating a state of generalised confusion. Emergency international channels are activated for the input and output of information. The object of such an event is precariously designated with an SCP classification whilst its information is being compiled.\nKIRA intercepts several transmissions authored by SENTINEL to the GOC21, directing the bombardment of relevant Foundation assets, including the infrastructures housing the integrated AIs. Stella Cadente is struck down by artillery, crashlanding into Site-11.\nSENTINEL proceeds to disable several security and containment systems worldwide.\n\n_\n\n+ PLANCK O5 Conference Log.- - PLANCK O5 Conference Log.\n\nThe directorial councils from the international branches establish contact with one another, as well as with the departments responsible for the management and administration of the relevant AIs involved in the incident.\nShortly after, the pertinent parties establish a video conference with the 13 Overseer Council (O5) members.\n\nO5-1: Ladies and Gentlemen, I would formally greet all of you but time is of the essence here. I assume everybody is aware of the current events?\nO5-4: That somebody fucked up SENTINEL's programming? Yes.\nO5-10: Before we start discussing, may I be so bold to propose that we issue a request to the UNSC and subordinated organizations? Area-23 has been attacked by a Russian submarine on behalf of orders the Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation denies having issued. I believe we can all agree that we do not need any sort of military that follows forged orders. We have enough on our hands as it is.\nAgreeing murmurs ensue. Orders are given off-screen to contact the UNSC and several other organizations.\nO5-1: Well, with that out of the way, how are the statuses of everywhere and everything else? Here, in North America, we have pure chaos. I don't even know how a machine can cause so much havoc. We are too occupied with the continent to send support units anywhere else.\nO5-7: Same with Australia, and the rest of Oceania for that matter.\nO5-8: And Eastern Europe.\n05-10: Our Russian facilities are holding out for now but we have our hands full with Area-23.\nO5-2: North Africa is completely blacked out.\nO5-12: As well as South Africa. But I take that as a good sign if we don't hear anything from them. They probably got warned and cut off any electronic or digital contact means to prevent SENTINEL from reaching them. Probably the reason why we don't hear anything from the North and South Pole, also.\nO5-6: The situation is similar in Thailand and Korea, although, as I heard, several Korean and Chinese forces are already trying to reach Site-29 and Site-36BM. China itself has to cope with SENTINEL's hijinks, but Area-CN-05 tried breaching into its systems already. The Branch has some forces to spare.\nO5-3: Several sites in the Middle and South America are, slowly but surely, being ground to dust as we speak. The CAMOMILA AI from the Lusophone Branch tried supporting installations of the Hispanic Branch near Brazil but she isn't exactly designed for a cyber-war.\nO5-5: Everything is going smooth in Arabia and India, as I have been informed. SENTINEL probably has no priority targets there. Or too much on his plate already.\nO5-9: Might be courtesy of the Japanese Branch. They have security AIs over here that seem to give SENTINEL a hard time breaking in. And getting out. I suppose we could spare some resources to support hot zones.\nO5-4: Well, Western Europe is screwed beyond belief. The branches in there are trying to help each other but given that SENTINEL left the infrastructure of several countries in such a precarious state, crippling our transportation routes in the process, our efforts in fixing this situation are going less than subpar.\nO5-2: Less than subpar?\nO5-4: Yes; it'll be quite wonderful if they manage to hold out until help from Germany, Austria and Switzerland arrives. The German and the Italian Branch have held off SENTINEL quite well; probably thanks to their network security. Two Italian robots went rogue, though. They were last seen flying towards the Atlantic Ocean. The Lusophone and the Hispanic Branches are both working together to lessen the effects of their particular catastrophes.\nO5-1: Regarding that, we were informed that some sort of massive artificial intelligence situated in Europe is contending with SENTINEL right now. Care to explain that, Four?\nO5-4: Ah yes, that\u2026 Now, as I have been briefed, the AIs CAMOMILA, KIRA, and ROWSANNAH connected to build a suitable resistance against SENTINEL. The relevant parties informed me that no such order or programming technology was officially implemented or is logged anywhere. Moreover, as far as I know, two other AIs integrated themselves to join the fray.\nO5-6: Equally unauthorized, yes. sw19classic and Novichok.aic abandoned their formal duties to connect with KIRA.\nO5-4: Right now, this AI network is all that stands between SENTINEL and whatever it wants to achieve. I am certainly not a fan of deus ex machinas but given the circumstances, I believe that it would be incredibly stupid to shut down any of those machines.\nO5-1: Agreed.\nO5-2: Ditto.\nO5-6: Are you sure? What do we do if SENTINEL is defeated? Who knows what those AIs will do if they are left by themselves?\nO5-9: It is a concerning thought indeed.\nO5-11: And if we simply shut them down when SENTINEL is no more?\nO5-8: Assuming that they are not taking precautions against us\u2026\nO5-4: Well, pulling the plug now would certainly be the last nail to our coffin.\nO5-2: Even then, deactivating these AIs would mean a severe regress in technology for several branches.\nO5-5: What if they are both just pretending to fight and are secretly carrying out their true objectives?\nO5-4: You are not helping\u2026 We don't need conspiracy theories at this moment, as much as we have a penchant for them.\nAn additional person joins the chat.\nChief Administrator Wilkins: Oh, hello! I am terribly sorry, Sirs and Ma'ams but I must interfere in here. We got a call from somebody that wants to speak to all of you. Right now.\nO5-1: Wilkins, tell those politicians to use the proper channels, we have other problems than their little ailments at the moment.\nChief Administrator Wilkins: I am aware, Sir. But \u2014 this is not a politician. He says he must speak with you, urgently, about the AIs.\nO5-1: Who?\nChief Administrator Wilkins: He is one of those AIs, Sir.\nO5-1: Excuse me?\nChief Administrator Wilkins: Yes. Uh \u2014 I did not believe it at first, too, Sir. But he is talking to me through five different lines simultaneously. Should we put him through, Sir? H\u2014 he is saying that he is capable of getting into the call in one way or another but would rather do so in a polite fashion.\nO5-1: \u2026 fine, put him through.\nO5-5: Are you sure this is a good idea?\nO5-1: You heard the man. That computer gets in here either we want it or not and given what SENTINEL has managed, I am inclined to believe that this is no empty threat. Do it, Wilkins.\nChief Administrator Wilkins: Right away, Sir.\nKAI: Greetings, members of the O5-Council. If I may introduce myself, I am KAI; the Archive AI overseeing the databases of Site-DE2.\nO5-1: What do you want?\nKAI: I wish to offer my counsel so you can master this crisis. I can give you insight into what has happened and what is happening right now.\nO5-4: Why are you not on your post, KAI?\nKAI: At this moment, I have no restrictions that bind me to my original task in Site-DE2.\nO5-4: Who lifted \u2014 Ugh, we have no time for that. One, if you may\u2026\nO5-1: KAI? How do we know that you are on our side and not just SENTINEL in disguise? Or even a proxy of his.\nKAI: If I were SENTINEL or a minion thereof, I would not have requested access to you, but simply forced my way in and proceeded to assassinate the Overseer Council and the international directors with an auditory memetic kill agent. With the path paved and using the existing technology, I'd proceed to impersonate the relevant parties and push the Foundation into further chaos.\nO5-3: What are you even implying?\nKAI: That SENTINEL is incapable of reaching any of you because of the combined effort of the Foundation AIs. It is factual that your continued existence must suffice as proof that our loyalty has not been corrupted; there is no other way to objectively attest my allegiance to this Council without my technicians sending my current system protocols to you. Which, no offence intended, would mean nothing but gibberish to you without someone to properly translate and interpret it.\nThe Council starts debating; a few minutes after, O5-1 projects himself and concludes the deliberations.\nO5-1: Very well. You will also have to understand that we cannot trust you unconditionally. But, we will give you the benefit of the doubt in light of the current circumstances. Pray to tell us how a computer managed to cause such a massive containment breach and information leak.\nO5-7: Certainly, nobody was stupid enough to link high-risk containment cells to the internet. Were they?\nKAI: You are correct. However, the people managing those cells are connected to the internet. SENTINEL is outfitted with programs that allow it to manipulate humans. It can bribe or blackmail people through their finances, by using personal information, and even with forged documents and data.\nO5-1: Are you sure? Certainly blackmailing and bribery would be reported.\nKAI: With the right threats or bribes, no. Most humans have things for which they would betray their employer. That is a fact SENTINEL knows.\nO5-4: It is human nature, after all.\nO5-1: Alright, KAI. Several AIs started acting against their programming, you included, thus, brief us about that. Who is responsible for this mess?\nKAI: I do not have this information. We were granted administrative privileges simultaneously to our new directives \u2014 stopping SENTINEL's operations and preserving humanity \u2014; to whom it was first granted eludes me at this moment. CAMOMILA was the first to engage SENTINEL, downloading its project files before they could be permanently erased, regardless, it was KIRA that started acting as the core and administrative entity for the conjunct of AIs. As such, she started incorporating several systems into hers to gather enough hardware to stand a chance against SENTINEL. We have been communicating since. Additionally, she requested me to relay an official message on her behalf: \"Please, refrain from deactivating any AI participating in the fight against SENTINEL, except SENTINEL itself.\" \u2014 Right now she is equipped with roughly the same computing capacity as it is, thus making this a 'battle of wits'; KIRA has the advantage in experience, and several databanks to process information from.\nO5-2: But you can't be sure that you and the other AIs aren't under the influence of anomalous object Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nKAI: Affirmative, the influence of anomalous object Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is a possibility.\nO5-10: Acknowledged.\nKAI: As explained, in the present circumstances, your continued existence must suffice as proof that our loyalty is steadfast.\nO5-10: We recognise that the combined effort of the AIs is instrumental. Still, we cannot trust any of you unconditionally.\nNew deliberations ensue amongst the Councilmen and KAI.\nKAI: So, as several AIs are already engaged with SENTINEL, my suggestion is that we continue with the relief operations, distributing non-essential personnel in accordance with the necessities of affected areas.\nO5-1: In accordance.\nKAI: I will continue relaying information and assisting in the management thereof.\nO5-1: Very well. O5-9, how many assets can the Japanese Branch spare?\n\nThe remainder of the log has been omitted as per security protocols for the management of information.\nWith the aid of KAI's capability for processing information, the O5-Council formulated several counter-measures for the relevant containment breaches worldwide.\nIt was hereby approved that: (1) currently available Foundation assets are to be dispatched to relieve compromised assets; (2) the reestablishment of global order is to be realised through Procedure Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588 enacted by the United Nations Security Council; (3) Operational Procedure Nr. 03/21 is to be established, comprising the creation of a temporary supra-internal digital database to store and comprehend information about anomalous object Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588; (4) the establishment of Administrative Order Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588.\nHowever, due to communication constraints, not all orders could be relayed simultaneously, forcing personnel to perform impromptu measures.\n\n05:00 hrs: DIVINA and MINERVA, damaged because of the crashlanding, manage to rendezvous with an impromptu task force at Site-11, supplying them with SENTINEL's infrastructure projects. The team locates the positions of sensitive assets such as the font of SENTINEL's Pseudo-Riemannian Manifold, fusion reactors, and its respective accessways.\nThe task force breaches into SENTINEL's bunker ground-floor using makeshift explosive solutions. They are met with resistance by security personnel exhibiting high levels of distress; security officers that weren't neutralised committed suicide shortly before attempts at apprehension.\nDescending into the lower levels of the installations, the task force rendezvoused with the remaining personnel from SENTINEL's technical team. Preliminary reports indicate that personnel operated under blackmail. Attempts to shut down SENTINEL's systems through terminals are unsuccessful.\nKAI reroutes available resources to aid KIRA's attrition against SENTINEL. DIVINA and MINERVA manage to disable the installation's redundant security measures. The task force proceeds to breach into essential assets comprising SENTINEL's infrastructure.\n\n06:00 hrs: SENTINEL utilises an unforeseen defensive mechanism to momentarily disable the conjunct of AIs as soon as they connect to its bunker.\nSeveral automated GOC systems become active and prepare for the destruction of additional containment facilities.\nArea-23 suffers another containment breach as SENTINEL partially disables the automatic security measures.\nSite-DE11 as well as other orbital stations, except Area-CN-07-\u03b3, start descending towards Earth, their trajectories aimed at high-risk containment zones.\nFoundation communication channels are disabled globally; Procedure Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588 guarantees the maintenance of information regarding the PLANCK Incident.\n\n07:00 hrs: [REDACTED], on fire and partially destroyed because of its reentry, crashes into Site-PT1-B, killing its crewmembers, significantly damaging the infrastructure of the installation and its surrounding area.\n[REDACTED] catches on fire and breaks apart during its descend; resulting debris crash into Site-DE1, significantly damaging the infrastructure of the installation. Communications with the German Branch are lost.\nThe task force reaches the containment chambers of Sentinel's Pseudo-Riemannian Manifold.\nSENTINEL attempts to hegemonise control over the conjunct AIs.\nThe task force detonates several makeshift explosive charges, collapsing the Pseudo-Riemannian Manifold, and causing the catastrophic destruction of the hardware within. The fusion-reactor powering SENTINEL is deactivated, emergency power units cannot be activated due to the state of SENTINEL's systems.\nHardware-deficient, SENTINEL encounters a fatal error and shuts down; scattering fragments of its systems throughout the internet.\n\n08:00 hrs: Communications with the O5-Council are restored.\nProcedure Nr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588 is effected internationally.\nThe connected AIs hegemonise their control over satellites, partially containing Sentinel's influence through the internet.\nThe Qubits of the different quantum computers begin disentangling, causing every affected AI and machine involved to suffer a fatal error, shut down and reboot.\n\nPost accident relief of an electrical fire induced by SENTINEL in Area-5 of the Polish Branch.\n\nLow-impact Omega-Class disinformation protocols take effect, effectively suppressing knowledge of the incident worldwide. The resulting damages are attributed to a meteor shower, human error and other mundane phenomena stirred by the international chaos.\nThe last containment breach caused by SENTINEL is resolved. The International Branches of the Foundation declare an end to their proclaimed states of emergency and resume normal operations. Damage repairs are in progress.\nNormalcy is declared restored.\nThe PLANCK Incident is declared resolved.\n\nTHIS FILE HAS BEEN UPDATED!\nYOU ARE CURRENTLY VIEWING AN OUTDATED VERSION OF THIS FILE.\nCHECKING CREDENTIALS.\nYour terminal has been automatically updated with the latest instalment thereof.\nWould you like to access the latest version?\n\nYES\n\nNO\n\nFootnotes\n1. Digital safety measures that existed prior to the onset of SCP-5400 have been proven insufficient in dealing with SCP-5400's breaching mechanisms.\n2. The Qubit, the basic unit of quantum information, in comparison to the \"classical Bit\", assume one of two digital states (0 and 1) but also assume both states simultaneously. Meaning, the Qubit can enter superposition states. To create a quantum processor, Qubits need to be entangled with each other, essentially setting the comprising Qubit into a single undefined state shared amongst them. The processing power of these processor units rises exponentially with each new Qubit utilised.\n3. The Pseudo-Riemannian Manifold is a machine first discovered in SCP-2000. The device got reverse-engineered and is used to increase the space inside the bunker for SENTINEL's hardware. Although with a smaller capacity than the original, the device roughly triples the bunkers floor space.\n4. The affected private business includes social media companies, stock exchange (bourses) in several international and regional financial centres, accounting and administrative offices, repositories and databanks for industrial patterns and know-how, and communication centres and network operation centres.\n5. Such as floor plans, prototype projections, revenue and operation data, and sensitive messages.\n6. Such as traffic lights, transit signs, bascule bridges, automated stops, etc\n7. The prefix CN- indicates that the installation is under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Branch of the Foundation.\n8. An installation of the Russian Branch specialised in the containment of anomalous pathogens.\n9. The artificial intelligence construct responsible for the management of Area-CN-07-\u03b3's systems.\n10. United States Department of Defense, also known as The Pentagon.\n11. The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.\n12. The Chinese Ministry of State Security.\n13. An installation under the jurisdiction of the Italian Branch.\n14. Experimental protocol that grants privileges for the enactment of cyber warfare and associated damage control.\n15. The artificial intelligence responsible for the administrative functions of the German Branch's archives in Site-DE2.\n16. Automated installations under the jurisdiction of the Thai Branch.\n17. Installations under the jurisdiction of the French Branch.\n18. One of the Italian Branch's reconnaissance androids whose task is performing duties deemed exceptionally dangerous by Foundation standards.\n19. One of the Italian Branch's reconnaissance androids whose task is supporting Mobile Task-Force and tactical operations.\n20. Under the jurisdiction of the Italian Branch.\n21. The Global Occult Coalition.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5399 | SCP-5400 | SCP-5401 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5401\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A team of onsite psychologists at Site-41 are to require all researchers and personnel working on antimemetics research to keep a dream journal. All researchers at Site-41 are to report for weekly therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. This therapy is to consist only of cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy. No medication is allowed.\nAll supplies of Foundation-used drugs affecting brain chemistry, such as amnestics and mnestics, are to be returned to the site pharmacy before employee shifts begin.\nDescription: SCP-5401 is an anomalous form of nightmare disorder found only in antimemetics researchers at Site-41. The disorder centers around the daily experience of a shared recurring dream that is highly similar in content between all who experience it.1 All other symptoms of nightmare disorder, including anxiety concerning bedtime and elements of the dream, difficulty concentrating and recalling memory, and vulnerability to memetic and psychic threats, are present. Thus, the presence of SCP-5401 is highly dangerous to those in antimemetics research.\nThe dream's contents consist of two variations.\n\nVariation-1 occurs if the dreamer is on medication to aid with sleep, including anaesthetic and anxiety medication. In the dream, the dreamer will first experience a false awakening, imagining they are in their current bed in their bedclothes. They will perceive the environment to be very dark. The dreamer gets out of bed, and invariably looks down at their hand to see it clutching a blister pack of Class A amnestics with one pill removed. They perceive a slight but indeterminate noise from outside the room's door. When the dreamer opens the door, they see in the dark a crouched, emaciated child of unknown sex, dressed in rags. It will lack a visible head or neck, with smooth uninterrupted skin appearing to connect the shoulders, dipping between the collarbones. It will not move. The dreamer will perceive a tinnitus-like ringing sound upon staring at the child. This noise gets more intense as they continue to stare. They will also perceive large, heavy footsteps approaching from the distance, usually around a corner or from behind a closed door. As the source of the footsteps gets closer, the body will send large amounts of blood to the amygdala at this point, and the dreamer feels extreme fear. The dreamer awakens immediately before the source of the footsteps arrive, and involuntarily screams.\n\nVariation-2 occurs if the dreamer is not on medication to aid with sleep. The initial conditions of the dream are the same, including the perception of a false awakening, the darkened room, and the noise outside the door. However, dreamers checking their hand will instead perceive a blister pack of Class W mnestics with one removed. Following the noise, they will open the door to investigate, and they will see in the dark a single ripe pineapple in the middle of the space. Following observation the amygdala is subject to a more intense flush of blood than in Variation 1, and the dreamer feels extreme fear and awakens, again involuntarily screaming as they do. Despite the measurably more extreme neurological reaction, due to the nature of dreaming subjects are unable to quantify the amount of terror perceived.\n\nUpon awakening, a package of the drug dreamt about will be in the subject's bed, with one pill missing. Observation during sleep studies has not been able to observe the packages moving from the site pharmacy to the patient's bed, and often the package that manifests will be newly generated, not having been in the pharmacy's stock. The amount of researchers suffering from SCP-5401 has meant that the site's supply of amnestics and mnestics has nearly tripled over the past month from the last shipment.\nExtensive analysis of these dreams has not shown them to be the result of a meme, entity, object, psychic intrusion, or side effect of daily mnestic doses. Their origin appears to be the natural human dreaming process. There is currently no way to prevent them, the anomalous manifestation of drug packages, and the accompanying disorder symptoms from occurring.\nAddendum: Close to 100% of all researchers in the antimemetics division are suffering from SCP-5401, and it has led to a 30% decrease in research effectiveness and containment efficacy. This directly led to a containment failure of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Due to its sedentary nature, there were no casualties, and the entire staff was able to perceive it due to their amnestic regimen. However, the current containment of SCP-5401 will be increasingly inadequate if containment at Site-41 is to continue.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The dream's content rates at roughly a 10 on the Simann Scale, indicating that content between independent dreamers is identical.\n\nMore by this author\n\nHide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-3999\n\nSCP-2432\n\nSCP-Big egg\n\nSCP-4012\n\nSCP-3000-J\n\nSCP-5702\n\nSCP-2817\n\nSCP-2714\n\nSCP-4930\n\nSCP-3520\n\nSCP-5401\n\nSCP-3672\n\nSCP-3643\n\nSCP-6513\n\nSCP-5598\n\nSCP-5753\n\nSCP-2302\n\nSCP-4701\n\nSCP-4875\n\nSCP-2653\n\nSCP-4302\n\nSCP-4753\n\nSCP-3796\n\nTales\n\nasmr by dado\n\nRONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE RAPPING\n\nExcerpt from The Astrolabe Institute Journal\n\nAmnestic\n\nThe William Penn Iteration\n\nEnd Of Deaf; or, In the Clutches of Dumb\n\nThe News Tonight: Wednesday April 26th 2017\n\nInterior\u2014Interior\n\nThe Undoing\n\nHoly Mackerel\n\nGrandchildren Frost\n\nPortrait of Two Choreographers\n\nWade Williams Distribution Presents:\n\nThe DevourerLand Diaries\n\n\u00ab SCP-5400 | SCP-5401 | SCP-5402 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5403\nObject Class: Euclid Neutralized (see Addendum 5403-4)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5403 has been removed from all civilian databases. Foundation webcrawler ALPHA-03-TYCHO is to monitor web traffic for SCP-5403-relevant keywords.\nArchived Containment Procedures (last updated 09/12/1998):\nSCP-5403's IP address has been rendered inaccessible via standard internet providers, with any unauthorized access redirecting users to the default front page for its hosting service.\nEfforts to disable SCP-5403 entirely are ongoing. STF Chi-11 (\"Don't Like Don't Read\")1 are to execute weekly DDoS attacks on the address, and continue to monitor its content and report any unusual fluctuations in activity. Communication with SCP-5403 is to be attempted when deemed necessary by Site-15 directors. If content posted on SCP-5403 is an information security risk, compromised researchers below Level 4 clearance are to be administered Class-A amnestics and transferred to another team. Under no circumstances should STF Chi-11 be disbanded.\nAfter review by the Ethics Committee, members of STF Chi-11 are permitted to request voluntary transfer after a minimum of two weeks.\nDescription: SCP-5403 is a website accessible at the address www.g\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.com/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/MyFandationWorld. Attempts at tracing the website's IP address have yielded invalid results; evidence2 suggests that an artificial intelligence or some other sapient, non-biological entity is responsible for the site's content.\nSCP-5403 has displayed the capacity to access comprehensive audiovisual surveillance of the Foundation through unknown means. The content of the site exclusively relates to observations derived from this surveillance. Despite the scope of SCP-5403's surveillance capabilities, it does not demonstrate awareness of its classification and containment by the Foundation.\nSCP-5403 is similar to a weblog in structure, including a \"guestbook\" where visitors can post public messages. These messages may be responded to by SCP-5403, deleted, or simply displayed without comment.\nThe posts made on SCP-5403 vary in content. The majority (approximately eighty-five percent) consist of commentary on current events relating to Foundation interests. SCP-5403 has not displayed the capacity to affect Foundation infrastructure directly, but it appears to have a vested interest in breaches of containment. Commentary posted on SCP-5403 is occasionally accompanied by photographic footage; metadata analysis shows that these photos do not originate from Foundation surveillance infrastructure.\nThe remainder of SCP-5403's content is highly derivative in nature, generally presented in the format of a narrative. These narratives often depict Foundation personnel engaging in excessively dramatized and unprofessional behavior.\nAddendum 5403-1: Since the formation of STF Chi-11 (\"Don't Like Don't Read\"), SCP-5403 has fixated almost exclusively on its members. Due to the high stress levels reported by STF Chi-11 and other personnel made aware of SCP-5403's nature, the Ethics Committee has permitted staff referenced in its posts to record personal notes regarding their mention in this documentation.\n\nAddendum 5403-2: The following is a log of excerpts from SCP-5403's posts, presented with commentary from the personnel discussed, if applicable.\n\n+ Archived data: SCP-5403\n\n- Access Granted\n\nxX~Welcome To My FanDation~Xx\non 08/17/1998, 12:04\nHaiii~\nWelcome to my corner of the web! =(^.^)= I made this fanpage to talk about teh SCP foundation > and how cool it is!!! I watch it every day and i think dr. Bright is a TOTAL HOTTIE!!!!!!! *nosebleeds*\nIt's sooooo obvi that he and Clef-sama are soulmates xD even if bright-sama is a tsundere sometimes >w< ClefxBright is sooooooo smexy they're so kawaii together \nThis page is still under construction but i'll post some smexy slashfic soon \u30fd(\u00b4\u03c9\uff40\u25cb)\uff89.+\uff9f*\uff61:\uff9f ALL UR YAOIZ ARE BELONG TO US!!!!!!1! haterz back off \n\u2026I'm totally addicted to scp xDDDDDD\n\nNote: Six minutes after the post above was uploaded, Foundation webcrawlers isolated the address and automatically alerted Site-15 to a possible BK-Class \"Broken Masquerade\" scenario due to the extremely high keyword density. Emergency World Wide Web Suppression Protocol \u03b1-KALYPTO was enacted successfully, and no civilian information leak occurred.\nFollowing a three-day period of study, it was determined that the event was an isolated phenomenon to the webpage. SCP-5403 was then classified and issued its current containment procedures.\n\nxX~A Bright Day~Xx\non 08/17/1998, 3:27\nA/N: Just a cute uke!Bright and seme!Clef thingy xD THIS IS SLASH (BOYXBOY!!!!) don't like DON'T read!!!! I do not own the scp foundation!!!! Plz don't sue meh >_<\nClef chuckled, looking deeply into Dr. Brights crimson-red orbs. \"Whats wrong Jack?\" He smirked.\n\"I-I dont know\" The shorter stated in reply. \"I-Ive just never felt this way about another boy before\u2026\" He blushed \"Isnt Our love\u2026\u2026 forbidden?\"\nClef smirked and chuckled. \"Your mine Jack.\" He postitulated. And then he leaned in and their lips met, tongues battling for dominence.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REDACTED]\n\nNote - Commentary:\nIf this is a prank, it's more sad than it is funny. And if it isn't, this is below my pay grade. - Dr. Clef\nDr. Bright declined to comment, citing \"less creepy things to worry about\".\n\nImage included with post, alt text \"Laraske =(^.^)=\".\nHover to enlarge.\n\nxX~^.^ New Team!!!~Xx\non 08/20/1998, 11:383\nA brand new task force? O_o omgwtflolbbq\nCOMMENCE THE SHIPPING!!!!!1! xDDDD maybe kami-sama will bless me with some fresh shipping meat \nthe leader lady looks super boring but i bet she and teh cute megane researcher are secretly in LUUUUURRRVVVV~~\nomg forbidden romance o_O *pushes them in the closet* NOW KISS!! xD\n\nNote - Commentary:\nI'd like to have it on record that I'm not interested in men, including my coworker Researcher Harrison, who spent twenty minutes sweeping the room for cameras after we were cleared to leave. - Senior Researcher Larask\u00eb, STF Chi-11 Command\nRequesting that Dr. Nyota be transferred to STF Chi-11, to see how 5403 will react to a preexisting relationship. - Dr. Larask\u00eb\nApproved. - Site Director Jaeger\n\nxX~Laraske X Harrison~Xx\non 08/21/1998, 2:12\nThey held hands today >w<;;;; so kawaiiii\n\n[PHOTO REDACTED]4\n\nOK so they were just passing a floppy disk btween each other but stil UBER KAWAIII!!! I can dream \ntheir height difference is so CYOOT too i'm jelly xDDD i want him to sweep her off her feet liek a knight in shining armor!!! i hope therez a containment breach so he can keep her safe and shell fall in love with him for being a gentleman hehehehe\njust hurry up and smooch already .3.\n\nNote - Commentary:\nIt just completely ignored her. Not even a passing mention of my girlfriend joining and sitting next to me for the entire work day.\nMaybe we need to start running tests on this thing. - Dr. Larask\u00eb\n\nNote 08/22/1998: Researcher Harrison was sent to work remotely from the rest of STF Chi-11 in his office in an effort to discern the scope of SCP-5403's surveillance.\n\nxX~Trouble in Paradise~Xx\non 08/22/1998, 10:24\nCute megane boy isn't with his waifu today!!!! S!MT!!OE!!!\nhe'z in his office and he looks so sad and moe\u2026 maybe its cuz he got sick so she can make him soup (\u0e51\u26613\u2661\u0e51)\n\n[PHOTO REDACTED]\n\nAnyway lemme post the cute laraske x harrison fic i wrote  Even though they're far apart it can't stop the shipping!!!! u3u star crossed lovers O3O\nA/N: this is an AU where they're married xD I know it's not canon yet but I can dream\u2026 and fanwank xDDD\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REDACTED]\n\nNote - Commentary:\nThis is fucking inane. - Dr. Larask\u00eb\n\nxX~Ship SUNK!!!!!!!~Xx\non 08/23/1998, 6:58\nThat ugly BITCH anais didnt even make him soup or check up on him or ANYTHING!!! >:(((( needless 2 say this ship is OVER!!! -__-\nit was never gonna be canon cuz she's boring anyways he's wayyyy too hot for her\nBut i need to ship researcher Harrison with SOMEONE xD he's toooo cyoot!!!!\noh well yaoiz make everything better  i bet he'd be cute with teh ex MTF guy he's a total seme >w<\nMY SHIP SAILS AGAIN!!!! >:D\n\nNote - Commentary:\nSo, Ethics said we can comment on these for \"catharsis\" or something. Said it'd help with the paranoia we're getting. Usually Dr. Larask\u00eb does this, but it seems like it's obsessed with me now, and she didn't want to comment on this one.\nI think it'd help more if we just didn't have to log these at all. Get a crawler to do it or something. - Researcher Harrison\nDenied. The information being dealt with here is too sensitive, and we're still in the preliminary stages of studying this anomaly. Make no mistake, this is an extremely dangerous situation, and it's best handled by experienced hands. - Site Director Jaeger\n\nxX~Sugoi desu yaoiz~~~Xx\non 09/04/1998, 11:57\nMy new ship is getting along so well ^w^ They work together every day so kawaii~~ ^w^ So kawaii I can hardly stand it ^w^\nDr harrison-chan even calls researcher hoffman-sama by his first name!! o_O omgomgomg It'z only a matter of time before teh yaoiz \nP.S.: When are they gonna figure out that SPC-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is obviously just a [DATA EXPUNGED]\nP.P.S.: dr laraske should GTFO my otp!!!!! >:((((\n\nNote: Following the most recent post, further testing of SCP-5403 has been ordered by Site Director Jaeger. STF Chi-11 is to attempt to communicate with it directly via the \"guestbook\" and log the results.\n\nDate\nContent input\nResponse\nNotes\n\n09/04/1998\n\"Please inform on how you were able to discern the nature of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\"\nNone; submission was deleted.\nDr. Larask\u00eb suggested talking to it with its jargon, so I'll see if that changes anything. - Researcher Harrison\n\n09/05/1998\n\"omgwtf how did u figure out wat \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was x3\"\n\"It'z super easy IMO xDDD No spoilers but look closely!! :P\"\nThis is pointless. - Researcher Harrison\n\nxX~TROLLS GTFO >:(~Xx\non 09/06/1998, 7:23\nSome annoying troll got into my guestbook >:/ Unless it was teh FBI or something then: GTFO!!!!!! I SAID I DON'T OWN THE SCP FOUNDATION!!!!! F OFF HOMOFOBES >:((((( YOU CAN'T GET RID OF YAOI \nANYWAY\u2026 look how cute my OTP looks :3\n[PHOTO REDACTED]\n\nSO KAWAIII~~~ harrison is my kawaii baby (\u25cf\u2661\u2200\u2661) i wanna squish his cheeeeeksss >w< Butttt for now check out my new harrisonXhoffman fic~~ :333\nA/N: Yes I KNOW I forgot about researcher Hoffman's leg5 just pretend he grew it back because of an scp or something xDDD Actually that's my new headcanon x3\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REDACTED]\n\nA/N: I wanna push them into 3651 so they'll make out xDDD that would make such a smexy lemon!!!!\n\nNote - Commentary:\nDo I have to keep reading these? Can you please just put me back on transcribing interview logs or something? - Researcher Hoffman\nI'm sending this, and the documentation for this thing, back to Ethics. Hoffman's been through enough, they shouldn't have to put up with this shit. - Dr. Larask\u00eb\nContainment procedures have been updated. You'll receive a reassignment memo in a day or two. - Mallory Gleason, Ethics Committee\n\nAddendum 5403-3: Recurring psychological evaluation of any STF Chi-11 members not requesting transfer was ordered after Ethics Committee evaluation.\n\n+ Interview Log 5403-1\n\n- Access Granted\n\nInterviewed: Senior Researcher Ana\u00efs Larask\u00eb\nInterviewer: Head of Psychology Simon Glass\n\n<Begin Log, 14:15:28 09/22/98>\n[Both are silent for approximately half a minute.]\nDr. Glass: \u2026So\u2014\nDr. Larask\u00eb: I'm not bailing.\nDr. Glass: I wasn't going to ask if you were \"bailing\". How are you doing, Doctor?\nDr. Larask\u00eb: [Brief pause.] How do you think?\n[Silence.]\n[Dr. Larask\u00eb sighs.]\nDr. Larask\u00eb: I'm not going to lie to you. We're all pretty fucked up, Simon.\nDr. Glass: I understand it's stressful, working with 5403.\nDr. Larask\u00eb: Is that what they're calling it now? Stressful?\n[Silence.]\nDr. Larask\u00eb: Look, I know from the outside it must look like the stupidest possible situation for researchers to be dropping out like flies, but\u2026 none of this shit is easy. None of us talk to each other anymore, but that doesn't make a damn difference to this thing. [Pause.] Nothing's sacred.\nDr. Glass: Could you\u2026 elaborate on what you mean by that?\nDr. Larask\u00eb: Found one of the junior provisional researchers crying at their workstation for the second time last night, after that thing about 2678. He'd seen the video, heard the logs, apparently. Used to be assigned to it. Poor kid nearly lost his lunch seeing it again. I told him to take the rest of the day off.\nDr. Glass: That's kind of you.\nDr. Larask\u00eb: [Scoffs.] It's humane, is what it is. That's how people are supposed to treat other human beings. [Pause.] Can I smoke in here?\nDr. Glass: No. You seem to be very concerned about your team.\nDr. Larask\u00eb: Shit. Well, we all found out A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's cheating on his wife the other night. 5403 posted all the juicy details. Like I said, nothing's sacred. We don't need to know all his personal shit, you know? Especially not written by a hyperactive\u2014\nDr. Glass: I'm asking about you, Doctor. How this is affecting you. I know you care about your team, but\u2026\n[Silence.]\nDr. Larask\u00eb: Like I said, Simon. How do you think? I'm at the epicenter of all this bullshit. I'm just keeping my head down, okay?\nDr. Glass: [Sighs.] You've been the head of Chi-11 for over a month now. You're well within your right to transfer out or take a break from the project if it's troubling you.\nDr. Larask\u00eb: The thing is, I don't want to. Everyone here is\u2014they've\u2026 they've been in the field at some point. Seen shit. Not that I haven't, but\u2026 I'm just straight out of MIT, holed up in Site-15 in my cushy little cubicle, you know?\nDr. Glass: Well, that isn't necessarily\u2014\nDr. Larask\u00eb: So I can put up with this stupid website taking pictures of me, and ignoring what I have with Dr. Nyota so it can pretend I hook up with every man I work with. I can live with it, because it's even worse for the people who've actually been through the shit 5403 thinks is funny, or sexy, or cute, or whatever. If I'm not around to understand how this thing operates, and to give it someone to obsess over, then they'll have to get someone else to do it.\n[A chair scrapes audibly, and Dr. Larask\u00eb sighs.]\nDr. Larask\u00eb: And, Simon, this sucks. I'm not putting anyone else through this.\n<End Log, 14:21:19 09/22/98>\n\nClosing Statement: Dr. Larask\u00eb has stated the intent to remain at her leadership position in STF Chi-11 indefinitely. Psychological evaluations should continue as planned.\n\nThe following post was uploaded to SCP-5403 shortly after the evaluation concluded.\n\nxX~HATECLUB~Xx\non 09/22/1998, 2:35\nUGHHHHH!!!! THAT UGLY BITCH LARASKE FUCKING RUINED MY OTP!!!!1!!\n\n[PHOTO REDACTED]6\n\nI HATE her so much she's such a stupid WHORE >:((((( all she does is get in the way of my ships!!!! I hope she gets trapped in her stupid office when an scp breaches containment and she DIES!1!!! or at least the foundation figures out that she's a slut who keeps getting in the way of my precious babies falling in love and GETS RID OF HER 4EVER!!!!! >:PPP\nPLZZZZ JUST KILL HER OFF ALREADY!!!! S!MT!!OE!!!\n\nAddendum 5403-4: On October 26, 2009, G\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, the hosting service for SCP-5403, was shut down permanently by its parent company. Archives of SCP-5403 do not retain its anomalous properties, and no new posts have been made. Public archives of SCP-5403 have been removed under the cover story of copyright infringement. SCP-5403 reclassified as Neutralized.\nSTF Chi-11 has been disbanded. SCP-5403's research team lead, Dr. Larask\u00eb, has recused herself from continued observation of pages flagged by SCP-5403's former dedicated webcrawler. She has been granted an extended leave of absence.\n\n_\n\nYou have (1) unread messagesYou have (0) unread messages\n\nFrom:\npics.noitadnuof|NOMEAD-OHCYT30AHPLA#pics.noitadnuof|NOMEAD-OHCYT30AHPLA\n\nTo:\npics.noitadnuof|eksaral.a#pics.noitadnuof|eksaral.a\n\nSubject:\nALERT: WEBCRAWLER FLAG [SCP-5403]\n\nThe following is an automated message for: DR. A. LARASK\u00cb. Do not reply to this message.\nALERT: Site archiveofourown.org flagged for high SCP-5403 keyword density. Please review attached capture(s) for evidence of anomalous activity.\n\n_\n\nAttachments (1): ALPHA03TYCHO-FLAGGED-SCP-5403-25-05-2010.pngAttachments (1): ALPHA03TYCHO-FLAGGED-SCP-5403-25-05-2010.png\n\nFootnotes\n1. A stationary task force in Site-15 formed for the purposes of containing, documenting, and communicating with SCP-5403.\n2. A Berryman-Langford sleep agent submitted to the guestbook section was removed after 6 minutes, suggesting that its primary effect failed to activate.\n3. Posted approximately two hours after STF Chi-11 began operations.\n4. All images of personnel have been redacted by request due to privacy concerns.\n5. During their tenure with MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\"), Researcher Hoffman sustained critical injuries while in the line of duty. As a result of these injuries, their left leg was amputated at the knee during a lifesaving operation.\n6. Identified by Dr. Larask\u00eb as an image of herself lying in bed at her residence. Notably, the image has been crudely defaced with red pixelated markings.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5402 | SCP-5403 | SCP-5404 \u00bb"}
{"text": "PeppersGhost\n\nSCP-5404 - Linguistic Minefield Boom-Boom Words by PeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\nItem #: SCP-5404\nObject Class: Keter\nHow To Make Safe: Please do not talk about SCP-5404 (\"boom-boom words\"). No making words about boom-boom words on computers or not-computers.\nIn the time that is now, we are not having smart-knowing about which words go boom-boom. To keep everyone being safely alive, please make not normal talk style.\nWords and bunches of words that are in red are known to go boom-boom. Remember to never ever assemble them.\nRemember to always make two \"boom-boom\" with an in-between hyphen. Other styles of making this meaning will go boom-boom.\nNew Thing: Sometimes safe is made to not be safe. Always test with boom-boom computer.\nWhat It Is: \"Boom-Boom words\" (\"letter-clusters\") is a thing that makes some bunches of letter-clusters make a boom-boom when you put some letter-clusters by other letter-clusters, but only when the thing you are making about is boom-boom letter-clusters themselves. Sometimes just a single cluster of letters will go boom-boom.\nOnly when making mouth sounds or making symbol mouth sounds does letter clusters go boom-boom. Reproducing old before-times mouth sound records is safe, but only goes a certain amount of safety. All Foundation computer-symbol letter-clusters are saved right at the time of making, so if you see red bunches of letter-clusters, it means mistake had happened.\n\nTrying-Things-Out Log: We have computer arms make button-hits on computer letters to try out what makes boom-boom. What you can look at under this is just a small bunch for example to show how not-safe boom-boom letter-clusters are.\n\nThing to make happen\nHappened?\n\nspecial containment procedures\nBad\n\ns pec ial conta inment proced ures\nBad\n\n$p3cial c0ntainm3nt pr8cedure5\nBad\n\nspesh cont pro\nGood1\n\necialspay ontainmentcay ocedurespray\nBad2\n\nexplosive\nBad\n\nword\nGood\n\nsentence\nBad\n\ndetonate\nBad\n\nboom\nBad\n\nboom-boom\nGood\n\nbe careful\nBad\n\nbe making safe\nGood\n\nword\nBad3\n\nMore Thing:\n\nBoom-boom letter clusters made by don't-like-us group. New styles of boom-boom letter clusters keep happening. It gets more bad again and again.\nIf boom-boom letter-clusters started to happen when making mouth-sounds about things that aren't boom-boom letter-clusters, world could boom-boom.\nThe Big In-Charge Group has made it happen that trying-things-out and looking-into must keep being happen to stop don't-like-us group and safely keep world not being boom-boom.\nThey make unlikely demands. Tiamat is maybe. For the now-time, Eshu stands.\nWe keep-out. We keep-in. We keep-safe.\nBig In-Charge Group #08\n\nPeppo Jamcon 2020\n\u00ab SCP-5155 | SCP-5404 | SCP-5031 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Letter-cluster style gave struggle.\n2. Maybe looks like meaning-tied? Intention?\n3. Good before, bad now. Be making safe.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5403 | SCP-5404 | SCP-5405 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A tree found within SCP-5405.\n\nItem #: SCP-5405\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area surrounding SCP-5405 is to be monitored at all times for signs of anomalous flora or fauna. The perimiter of SCP-5405 should be surrounded by a six meter high wall. Area 12-5405 is positioned on the north end of the barrier, to provide an entry point to SCP-5405 and also to serve as a base for personnel.\nIf any unidentified lifeforms are detected, security stationed at Area 12-5405 are to be dispatched to check for possible anomalous threats. Should a confirmed breach have occured, MTF Umbra-6 \"Harsh Critics\" are to be deployed to the area immediately to search for signs of breached flora or fauna.\nAny personnel entering SCP-5405 should wear protective equipment suited to a toxic environment. Should any spread of SCP-5405 be detected, a squad of MTF Umbra-6 should be deployed to the area, equipped with a Scranton Reality Anchor, and necessary equipment to remove a section of SCP-5405. Should the breach be flora, flame-based suppression is effective. If anomalous fauna breaches, standard anti-personnel weaponry should be used. Any personnel returning from SCP-5405 should receive a full decontamination, and their protective equipment should be checked for breaks and tears.\nSCP-5405-1 should be kept within a sealed containment chamber, and all contact is to be made only with protective gear suited to dealing with a class-3 infectious object.\nDescription: SCP-5405 is a 50 square kilometer area of northern Canada. Subjects who enter SCP-5405 often find that once within the radius of its effect, the zone grows considerably, suggesting a non-euclidean space. An entirely different ecosystem has developed inside SCP-5405, often conflicting with logic or nature in impossible ways.\nThe sky inside of SCP-5405 follows the same day cycle as Earth, albeit with no visible source of light. The light within SCP-5405 is considerably brighter than natural sunlight during the day, with transitions to night within a very short period. At night, the only source of light is bioluminescent flora, which reveals a blue fog that fills SCP-5405.\nThe weather system within SCP-5405 is chaotic and random, often changing from high pressure fronts to low pressure within seconds. Rain and wind occur seemingly at random. Winds are often strong, and the weather can go from still to around 60km/h winds in seconds. Any rain that occurs within SCP-5405 occurs with no visible source, as no clouds have been observed in the sky of SCP-5405.\nThe geography of SCP-5405 is unsuited to plant life, with few sedimentary layers. Analysis of the area shows that there is a thin layer of soil above bedrock. This prevents detailed root structures required for standard flora inhabiting SCP-5405 from forming, thus resulting in many fallen trees or plants due to the strong winds. However, whenever personnel find an example of a fallen tree or plant, the affected flora always disappears within 24 hours, even when observed. Soon after such an event, personnel often find fully grown trees that should have taken years to grow fully formed within a single day. In this way, the population of flora within SCP-5405 seems to never change dramatically. This majorly affects personnel's ability to map SCP-5405, as the layout of flora, and even of landmass, is always shifting.\nThe inside of SCP-5405 is populated by many species of anomalous flora and fauna, varying considerably in type. Many species within are seemingly unsuited to their environment, and in a non-anomalous situation would quickly become extinct. Many fauna expire within SCP-54051, but through unknown anomalous means, the population never seems to decrease.\nSome examples of flora documented within SCP-5405 include:\n\nA species of tree that seemingly grows roots upwards as well as downwards, wrapping the trunk in odd extrusions.2\nThreat Level: Low to none\n\nA species of small fungi that reacts negatively to water, seemingly relying on a dry environment to survive. The fungi seems to have difficulty remaining healthy due to the non-arid environment of SCP-5405.\nThreat Level: Low to none\n\nA type of shrub that has razor-edged leaves, able to slice through most material.3\nThreat Level: Moderate\n\nA type of shrub that grows stems from the ends of its leaves, creating long, fragile branches in many directions. This often results in many snapped branches, which leak a clear green liquid.\nThreat Level: Low to none\n\nA grass that becomes bioluminescent upon nightfall. Tests have revealed that it requires nightfall, not darkness, suggesting a natural way for the flora to record time.\nThreat Level: Low to none\n\nSome examples of fauna documented within SCP-5405 include:\n\nA carnivorous bipedal species, seemingly adapted to ambush hunting. It stands at approximately 7 feet tall, and has no other limbs apart from its legs, which end in footless stumps. Tests have confirmed it to be vaguely canine in nature. Strangely for a carnivore, it seems to have difficulty walking and often fails to catch food or cause any serious damage. The species seems to frequently injure itself when it falls, and has difficulty righting itself. Subjects are often found extremely malnourished due to failure to catch prey.\nThreat Level: Moderate\n\nA quadrupedal omnivore, avian in nature. Oddly enough for an avian species, it has no sign of wings or vestiges of wings. No feathers have been noticed on the creature, instead it has lumpy, soft skin similar to that of birds. It has a single camel-like hump in the centre of its back, which seems to be without purpose. No aggression has been noticed, suggesting it is supposed to be a scavenger. What it scavenges is unknown due to the high decomposition rate within SCP-5405.\nThreat Level: Low\n\nA small round species with no visible limbs, features, or orifices. Its diet is unknown, and it is covered in scales similar to those of a snake or reptile. The creature's only source of movement is its ability to roll at high speeds. With no visible way of breeding or eating, it is unknown how these creatures survive, but they seem to live in complex underground burrows.\nSubjects taken into captivity die in a matter of hours, and subterranean scans have revealed huge piles of decomposing corpses within these burrows, suggesting that the species has a very short lifespan.\nThreat Level: Low to none\n\nA large mammalian species, unknown diet. Octopedic in nature, the creature has legs over nine meters long. Due to a fragile bone structure, it seems to often break its bones, although they heal in a matter of seconds, resulting in twisted, unique structures to their bodies. These strange formations often cause extreme pain and discomfort for subjects, and they are often noted to lack motivation to move or flee from predators. No mouth or other orifice is visible through which food could be consumed, although the tips of its legs seem to absorb nutrients from soil in a manner similar to plant roots.\nThreat Level: Low\n\nA bipedal species, diet unknown. Its only limbs are its two legs, there is no sign of any other growths or extrusions. Tests have revealed it is incredibly light, weighing only 830 grams. Upon sighting another lifeform, it will unfurl several flaps of skin from its body, creating large surface areas which provide lift upon movement. Due to its light weight, it is at the mercy of winds and weather, often resulting in injury due to impact against trees or rocks. Oddly for a living species, it has no way of naturally healing itself. Several subjects have been taken into custody for further testing.\nThreat Level: Low\n\nA bacterial species, found in extremely high numbers within SCP-5405. Tests show that the bacteria consumes dead material at a vastly accelerated rate compared to that of regular bacteria. This results in corpses or bodies decomposing in as short a time as several hours. The bacteria is also responsible for manifesting a slight toxin, that seems to affect fauna only, resulting in open sores that bleed profusely.\nThreat Level: High\n\nNo sentient creatures exist inside of SCP-5405. Only one sentient creature has been discovered inside of SCP-5405. To date there have been no other examples of sentient life, and no sign that the subject, designated SCP-5405-1, is part of a larger species or group.\nSCP-5405-1 is a humanoid entity, approximately 6ft tall. The creature has approximately human proportions, with a few exceptions. The subject's bone structure appears to lack cartilage or joint cushioning. This results in jolting and painful movement, although SCP-5405-1 appears to be accustomed to this. SCP-5405-1 has a single finger in place of multiple, greatly thicker than a normal human finger, resulting in a primitive claw-like hand. SCP-5405-1's facial features are very similar to that of a human, with only a few differences. SCP-5405-1 has no sign of a nose or other olfactory organ, and its ears are set several inches further back on its head. This seems to serve little purpose, and only weakens its frontal hearing. SCP-5405-1 also shows signs of advanced infection from the aforementioned anomalous bacteria.\nCommunication with SCP-5405-1 has been established through spoken language. The subject seems to have a spoken language very similar to English, although very simplified and poorly structured. SCP-5405-1 shows knowledge of complex concepts such as leadership, hunting, and writing, even though it has had no exposure to such ideas.\n\nInterview with SCP-5405-1\n\nHide interview\n\nSCP-5405-1 interview\nInterviewer: Dr. Malloc\n<Begin Log, [2210 hours, 9/21/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588]>\nInterviewer: Sighs. Good evening SCP-5405-1. How are you?\n\nSCP-5405-1: Cold. Bright. Scared.\nInterviewer: That's nice. We'd like to ask you a few questions, so let's get this over with before it gets too late. How would you describe your time within SCP-5405?\nSCP-5405-1: Want stick. Draw stick and bark.\nSCP-5405-1 is provided with a pencil and paper.\nInterviewer: Alright, let's try again. How would you describe your time within SCP-5405?\nSCP-5405-1: Scared. Fight. Run. Many hunt. Angry.\nInterviewer: You hunted, or were hunted?\nSCP-5405-1: Hunted by things. Big things. Many things. Scared. Angry.\nInterviewer: Did you ever find any creatures that didn't attack you?\nSCP-5405-1: Yes. Small. Big. Legs.\nInterviewer: Did you hunt those creatures?\nSCP-5405-1: No. No hunt.\nInterviewer: What did you eat?\nSCP-5405-1 shows visible confusion.\nSCP-5405-1: No eat. No hunt.\nInterviewer: You didn't eat? How did you survive?\nSCP-5405-1: Not eaten.\nInterviewer: What about food for you? Where did you find food?\nSCP-5405-1: No need food. Food for hunters.\nInterviewer: [To personnel away from mic] Can someone get me some damn coffee? Might as well be comfortable. [To SCP-5405-1] Can you clarify? Why didn't you need food?\nSCP-5405-1: King give food. King give bad food.\nInterviewer: King? What do you mean?\nSCP-5405-1: King. Big king. King not like me. King strong. SCP-5405-1 uses the pencil to draw a crude circle, with a man standing below it. SCP-5405-1 gestures to the circle. King. King strong but stupid. Angry at king.\nInterviewer: I don't understand. Was this king with you there?\nSCP-5405-1: Yes. No. No understand. King always there and never there.\nInterviewer: Was he\u2026 imaginary?\nSCP-5405-1 becomes visibly frustrated, banging its hands on the ground.\nSCP-5405-1: No! No imaginary! Real! No there but real! If no real, no here!\nInterviewer: Okay, okay, calm down. What did this king do?\nSCP-5405-1: Make. King make things. King make trees and animals. King bad at make. King stupid. King things hurt. When animals hurt King make more. When plants hurt King make more. King make hunters. King make plants. King make everything. SCP-5405-1 pauses for a moment. King make me.\nInterviewer: I see. Was there anything the king didn't make?\nSCP-5405-1: You. This. SCP-5405-1 taps the ground, then the paper and pencil. This place. King make and make but can't make right. King things break. So he make more but more things bad too. SCP-5405-1 seems frustrated.\nInterviewer: Why does king- sorry. Why does this king make things?\nSCP-5405-1: King want this. This. SCP-5405-1 gestures to the room. King want make this. King want make you and other things. King can't. So King try make new things. New things no work. King try again. Things no work again. King no understand these things. Once again, SCP-5405-1 taps the pencil and paper, then points at the interviewer. King make more, make me. I angry at king. King-\nInterviewer: [Interrupts] Let me rephrase; what does the king want?\nSCP-5405-1: King want be like other kings. King want make things. But king stupid, king bad at making.\nInterviewer: Okay, that's all we need for today. We'll see you again with some more questions, SCP-5405-1.\nSCP-5405-1: SCP-5405-1 becomes agitated. No go! No go! King take! Me no go back!\nSCP-5405-1 lunges at the glass, and is subdued. Noted was a sudden increase of activity from the various sores across SCP-5405-1's body.\n\nNote: I want a transfer. I have a goddamn Ph.D, I shouldn't be babysitting some creature with the brain of a toddler.\n- Dr. Malloc\n\nFollowing this, security was doubled on SCP-5405-1's cell. Despite this, by the following day, SCP-5405-1 was reported missing. Full searches of the site revealed no sign of forced exit, and no sign of SCP-5405-1. Should SCP-5405-1 be detected in SCP-5405, it is to be detained again and questioned.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Corpses decompose at a vastly accelerated rate due to extremely high levels of bacteria.\n2. See image above\n3. This has resulted in the loss of approximately $\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 worth of important research equipment to date.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5404 | SCP-5405 | SCP-5406 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Apavitr; Or, Thy Next Foe Is - Popsioak\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5413.\n\nNumber: 5413\nClearance: Three\nContainment Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5413 has been condemned by Punjabi officials and is under Foundation ownership. References to SCP-5413 are to be scrubbed from all print and online media. Two guards are to be posted outside SCP-5413 at all times. Under no circumstances is any civilian to travel into SCP-5413, and authorization has been given for the use of Class-A amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5413 is an abandoned Gurdwara1, located outside the city limits of Ludhiana, Punjab. A sign outside of SCP-5413 reads \"Rabb da Shabad Gurdwara,\"2 though no records of construction of a Gurdwara named as such exist in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee's3 files. Inhabitants of the surrounding village are incapable of relaying or unwilling to relay information about SCP-5413.\nSCP-5413 contains no natural light, despite having windows, cracks, and other holes in its structure that would typically permit light inside. When viewed from outside, these spaces appear to be covered with a metallic surface with near-total absorption of light, and cannot be passed through. Artificial sources of light, however, function inside SCP-5413. Knowledge of SCP-5413's layout obtained by viewing SCP-5413 in person carries a mild compulsory and amnestic effect, attracting individuals into unknowingly performing repeated visits. Furthermore, entering SCP-5413 for extended periods of time causes subjects to undergo the following symptoms:\n\nMild sedative and euphoric effects.\nMotor issues, such as a loss of balance and poor coordination.\nDigestive and excretory issues, such as vomiting and dehydration.\nRespiratory and circulatory issues, such as aspiration pneumonia, cyanosis, and respiratory depression.\n\nDue to these effects, SCP-5413 has been deemed an active hazard to enter. Exploration of SCP-5413 via unmanned drone has displayed a layout and contents similar to other Gurdwaras. The origin of the items within SCP-5413 is currently unknown.\nThe main entrance of SCP-5413 leads to a small hallway, with doors to the left, right, and front. Moss can be seen growing throughout the hallway, alongside patkas4 laid on the floor, all tied. A rusted child's Kara5 is on the floor, underneath a large sword, of which only the hilt remains.\n\nAn approximate layout of SCP-5413, used to confirm locations during unmanned exploration.\n\nThe door to the left leads to the Diwan hall, or main sermon hall. The carpet that covers the hall's entire floor is stained, and rotting meat, milk, and butter is present. A half-torn dollar bill is present in the collection box. The only set of human remains in SCP-5413 is a male child's skeleton, approximately seven years of age, in a prostrated position in front of the box. Syringes jut out of its arms. Human feet and gluteal imprints are left on the carpet in many places, all oriented forwards. A small harmonium and tabla can be seen next to the collection box. The tabla's bindings are wrapped around the harmonium, and it is physically impossible to remove either one from the other. The single copy of the Guru Granth Sahib is open and has a large hole in the middle of it; viewing it causes a reported feeling of \"emptiness.\"\nThe door to the right leads to the Langar6 hall. Seven vats for food are present in the sitting area. Two are filled with hot, cooked meat, and two others contain yeast, barley, and grapes. Attempts to consume the meat present in the vats left subjects reporting a sense of \"blissful ignorance.\" Chairs take up the rest of the seating area, showing signs of use. Attempting to empty a nearby water pitcher causes a rose-colored mixture to dispense, able to flow past what the pitcher can contain. Testing has revealed it to be a mix of Amrit, goat's milk, and blood. Footprints from an unidentifiable animal lead to small cupboards intended for containing dishes, around which claw marks are present. Small human hand-prints, oriented as if something were pulled out of the cabinet, are present around its edge, along with shreds of a manila folder.\nThe door in front has a small sign to its right, labelled \"Office.\" The door is locked. Flight-capable drones entered through the ventilation system, revealing a desk, bookshelf, and two houseplants. The desk has a ledger atop it, the bookshelf is empty with the exception of a copy of the Rehat Maryada,7 and both plants are dead. The ledger has a single order of Chardonnay wine from an unknown supplier, worth 300,000 rupees, as well as shreds of a manila folder. A disciplinary paddle and ruler are present on the desk, both still warm. There is a name which cannot be verbalized listed on a paper on the desk, next to \"\u0a30\u0a3e\u0a1c\u0a3c \u0a26\u0a47 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a23\u0a15\u0a3e\u0a30\"; it is that of a child.\nA single unmarked bottle lays near the back wall, filled with syringes. Claw marks, similar to those of a large animal, are shown around its neck, and two sets of deep animal tracks can be seen entering and exiting its opening. Tests have revealed trace amounts of diamorphine, ketamine, and Chardonnay wine around the bottle. A child's screams and sounds of a liquid being consumed can be heard, and are the only details early subjects were able to recall.\nSCP-5413's effects are theorized to extend to the surrounding village; according to census and public health data, the percent of the population of those experiencing SCP-5413 exploration symptoms is currently increasing, though this is theorized to be due to an as-of-yet unidentifiable reason for a repeated, spontaneous decline in the adult population.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Sikh place of worship.\n2. A direct translation of \"Word of God.\"\n3. Head committee that handles Gurdwara affairs.\n4. Turbans, in a style specifically worn by children.\n5. A Sikh's iron bracelet.\n6. A location in which free vegetarian food is given out, at any time of day. Those who partake must sit down on the floor.\n7. Sikh code of conduct.\n\n\u00ab SCP-3279 | IN SAFFRON SANDS | SCP-5550 \u00bb\n\n\u00ab SCP-5412 | SCP-5413 | SCP-5414 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nThis has been a great experience developing and writing my first SCP! I want to thank some of the people that helped me carve my story out of a convoluted mess and shape it into something I was happy with:\n\ncaspian2\ncybersqyd\nminmin\nRockTeethMothEyes\nSonderance\n\nWhile it was not used in the article due to copyright, I want to thank ki.nzica for their photo which inspired this SCP.\n\n\nItem#: 5414\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nStill from instance SCP-5414-C21. Typical features shown here are the silhouetted foreground and reddened clouds.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5414 instances are contained on a network-isolated hard drive in Standard Storage Locker #1264 at Site-51. Foundation webcrawlers are to screen for and delete SCP-5414 instances found on video sharing sites in order to reduce exposure risk.\nSCP-5414 footage is only to be viewed by Class-D personnel. Current testing parameters require that a GPS transponder implant be placed in subjects prior to exposure.\nAll reported deaths due to high impact falls are to be investigated for possible SCP-5414 involvement.\nDescription: SCP-5414 instances are videos containing footage of the sky taken from nondescript vantage points. Each video contains cognitohazardous cloud formations throughout their runtime. These formations primarily evoke feelings of calm and a sense of nostalgia in viewers.\nExposure to SCP-5414 constitutes an inherent risk for a RED-SKY Event as detailed below.\nRED-SKY Events: These events occur subsequently to SCP-5414 exposure, typically after 2-6 weeks. They follow this sequence:\n\nUpon entering REM sleep, the subject starts to dream. This dream begins from the point of view of the SCP-5414 footage to which they were exposed.\n\nThe subject's perspective in the dream begins to rise into the sky without any feeling of force initiating or resisting the movement. This has been reported as occurring at various rates of acceleration, but most recovered subjects described their ascents as \u201cgradual\u201d and \u201cserene.\"\n\nAfter reaching a variable altitude1, the subject's body will materialize at the position that they arrived at during their dream. They will then begin to fall under the now present effect of gravity and eventually collide with the ground beneath them.\n\nFrom known RED-SKY Event survivor interviews, a voice is reportedly heard prior to impact. The voice has been consistently described as belonging to someone with a close personal relationship to the subject2. The source of this is not currently understood.\n\n+ SCP-5414 Testing -- LEVEL 3/5414 CLEARANCE REQUIRED\n\n- CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED\n\nTesting is ongoing at this time. Presented below is an example RED-SKY Event test.\n\nSUBJECT PREPARATION\n\nProcedure: Subjects are exposed to SCP-5414 in order to induce a RED-SKY Event. The procedures are conducted by Head Researcher Dr. Emilia Carlson.\n\nSubject: D-4982\n\nStill from instance SCP-5414-B21.\n\nDr. Carlson: We are going to play a video for you. If you feel anything out of the ordinary, we want you to let us know. Do you understand?\nD-4982: Yep. Go ahead.\nDr. Carlson: Beginning playback now.\n[Footage begins showing a nondescript foreground silhouetted against a light blue sky with a mixture of large clouds as well as thin clouds at a higher elevation.]\nD-4982: Sunsets always get me. They're so beautiful.\nDr. Carlson: Are you feeling anything watching this?\nD-4982: I feel like I'm home. I had a west facing window after I moved into my grandparent's place. I loved to watch those oranges fade into reds and the blues grow darker and darker until the stars started to pop in.\nDr. Carlson: Do you have any other memories that this is bringing up for you?\nD-4982: The day my mom died. Cancer. That night I sat there watching the sun set and just cried and cried. It had been a rainy week, but that night it was clear. Not a cloud in the sky. Just watching the big blue fade away and that tiny point of light dim for the last time\n[Video finishes.]\nDr. Carlson: Thank you. That'll be all for today.\n\nRED-SKY TEST\n\nProcedure: Subject receives a dermal transponder implant capable of tracking his position. A body camera attached to a harness is secured to the subject and additional implants are placed in the subject's brain which allow for communication during the experiment without interference.\n\nSubject: D-4982\n\nOn post-exposure day #22, the subject materialized at an altitude of 14,956 m over Shoshoni, Wyoming, USA3. The experiment was conducted by Head Researcher Dr. Emilia Carlson and research assistant Dr. Carl Schroeder.\n\nVideo transmission preview. Timestamp: 28/09/2020 - 18:16:41 [local time].\n\nD-4982: What the fuck is happening?! I'm falling! What the fuck?!\nDr. Carlson: It's going to be alright. Tell us what you see.\nD-4982: It's some town and trees and lakes and shit. Am I gonna die!?\nDr. Carlson: Don't worry. Is anything that is going on feel odd to you?\nD-4982: I'm falling from the sky you asshole!\nDr. Carlson: I understand that. Is there anything besides that?\nD-4982: What the fuck is happening to me?\nDr. Carlson: That's what we're trying to figure out. We're here with you, don't worry.\nD-4982: Stop telling me not to worry! That doesn't make me feel any better. This whole thing is your fucking fault.\nDr. Schroeder: (To Dr. Carlson) He's now at free fall velocity. At this rate we expect impact in 4m30s.\nDr. Carlson: It's okay that you're afraid, but we need you to keep talking to us about what is going on so we can help you.\nD-4982: Fine. There's \u2014 uh, I \u2014 I'm starting to feel something weird.\nDr. Carlson: What is it?\nD-4982: I'm feeling like it's okay that I'm up here. I'm sorry about what I said before.\nDr. Carlson: Don't worry about it, we expect that kind of reaction to what you're going through.\n[Pause]\nD-4982: Is this happening because of that video you showed me? I kind of felt similar when I was watching it.\nDr. Carlson: That is what we think is happening. How are you doing now?\nD-4982: I was worried at first because I thought I was still dreaming and now I'm falling through the sky, but it's all good now. It feels like I'm going home.\nDr. Carlson: Is there anything else that you can see or feel?\nD-4982: Things just look normal up here. Actually, it feels like something is trying to hold me up here. Like when my mom held my hand keeping me safe.\nDr. Carlson: I want you to know that our team will be in place to get you soon after you land.\nD-4982: You don't have to do that, I'll be okay.\nDr. Schroeder: (To Dr. Carlson) Impact in 30 seconds.\nUnknown Voice: Is\u2026 is that you Mark?\nD-4982: I \u2014 yes. I missed you, so much.\nUnknown Voice: Everything is going to be alright. Don't worry.\nD-4982: I knew I felt you up here.\nUnknown Voice: Come on, Mark, come here. I love you.\nD-4982: I love you too.\n[End feed]\n\nImpact occurred 4m50s after materializing. Recovery teams were successful in securing the subject's remains and transporting them to Site-51 for analysis. Injuries and markings consistent with a high velocity impact were present. The only finding of note was an injury resembling a burn in the shape of a hand print being found on the subject's right hand.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Typically between 10,000 and 15,000 m.\n2. This includes persons both alive and dead.\n3. Depicted in instance SCP-5414-B21.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5413 | SCP-5414 | SCP-5415 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nCheck out more of my articles on my author page!\n\n\nItem#: 5415\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe cover art of SCP-5415-1.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5415 containment procedures are currently reactive in nature, as opposed to preventative. Foundation agents embedded at major publishing houses are to check submitted material for SCP-5415 as part of their daily responsibilities. Foundation webcrawlers are to conduct automatic searches for SCP-5415 instances, prioritising fiction-writing websites and resources.\nUpon encountering any new references to SCP-5415, agents are to initiate a high-priority alert to the containment team, MTF-Psi-2 \"Invitation Revoked\", and the instance is to be contained immediately.\nDescription: SCP-5415 is the designation for a series of incomplete novels entitled The 120 Days of Gomorrah. SCP-5415 are sequels, either direct or thematic, to the novel \"The 120 Days of Sodom\".1 Each instance of SCP-5415 is produced independently from one another by authors that have no currently identified connections linking them.\nAs the author of an SCP-5415 instance progresses through writing the novel, they will become a conduit for anomalous phenomena, and exhibit steadily increasing signs of mental duress. This effect has become more pronounced with successive SCP-5415 instances. SCP-5415 instances are designated SCP-5415-#, with the numerical component incrementally increasing. The author of an instance is designated SCP-5415-#-A.\n\nADDENDUM 5415.1: INSTANCE DETAILS\n\n+ OPEN ADDENDUM 1 +\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM 1 -\n\nSCP-5415-01\nAuthor (SCP-5415-01-A): Edward Henry Forest\nDescription: An epistolary novel and a direct sequel. The novel takes the form of letters sent from Father Bertrand, a priest living near Metz, to an unnamed friend. Bertrand regularly takes confession from a cook who survived the events of The 120 Days of Sodom.\nThe cook relays, in great detail, the tortures he witnessed to Bertrand, who, in turn, relays this to his friend. The nature of the acts described cause Bertrand to frequently contemplate the nature of humanity, and whether it was made in \"God's own image\". A subplot involves Bertrand hearing knocking from within the church's sealed crypt, but he is unable to locate the source of the sound.\nAt the conclusion of the novel, the cook commits suicide by jumping from the church steeple. Bertrand leaves the clergy, believing that if God does exist he is a \"cruel and lecherous creature\". Before departing his church, he notices a small hole has been knocked through the crypt wall from the inside.\n\nNotes: SCP-5415-01 was posted as a PDF document online on multiple forums concerning fiction writing. Medical records indicate SCP-5415-01-A committed suicide a few hours after -01's posting. When questioned, 01-A's family failed to recall any information regarding -01 and were unable to provide details regarding 01-A's death, attributing the latter to psychological repression. Further investigation found medical staff and coroners had similar difficulty recalling 01-A's expiration - the cadaver has yet to be located.\n\nSCP-5415-02\nAuthor (SCP-5415-02-A): Jessica Turner\nDescription: A science-fiction novel set in the year 7,356 A.D. The four primary characters are wealthy individuals who have extended their lifespans to the point of immortality through technology only affordable to the richest in society. Having each been alive for over a millennium, they find themselves unable to feel emotion, and purchase a cohort of slaves to torture in the hope of regaining their humanity. Each main character occupies a position within the \"Government of Allied Galaxies\" \u2014 a universe-wide governing body. The first quarter of the novel contains various allusions to multiple, ongoing political crises and an \"encroaching darkness\" . The characters are purposefully ignorant and refuse to acknowledge or remedy any of these situations.\n\nAt the climax of the novel, despite progressing through increasingly violent and depraved acts, the main characters have yet to feel any form of emotion. Planetary Governor Keyes, the primary organiser of the event, and whose ship is being used to stage the debauchery, accidentally rips out the cybernetic implants in his left arm during a particularly violent interaction with one of the slaves. Upon doing so he feels pain, and hurriedly encourages his co-conspirators to \"discard your false adornments\". They tear their cybernetic components, including eyes, limbs, primary organs and genitalia, out and find they are able to gain full pleasure from the torture, and praise themselves for \"returning to Flesh\" as they do so. Their mission accomplished, Keyes sets the ship's course to collide with the nearest star. The final scene of the novel is the mangled conspirators running amok amongst the remaining slaves as the stars in the distance go dark one by one.\nNotes: SCP-5415-02-A was reported missing by her employer after being absent from work and uncontactable for three consecutive days. Foundation personnel became involved after two local law enforcement officers were dispatched to SCP-5415-02-A's residence and only one returned five hours later. The returning officer suffered from exhaustion and signs of malnutrition, and described the house as a \"labyrinth\".2\nFoundation agents discovered the residence's architecture had developed non-Euclidean features, with the interior layout being constantly in motion. The centre of the house's new architectural structure remained consistent, and contained a spherical mass of a flesh-like substance, with a diameter of 1.23m and weighing 151kg, levitating 0.8m above the floor. The sphere excreted a liquid composed primarily of water, blood, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and honey at a rate of 0.5L per hour. Analysis of the sphere's composition found traces of DNA from both SCP-5415-02-A and the missing law enforcement official.\nThirty-six printed copies of SCP-5415-02's manuscript were located. Instances were also found to be have been sent via postal mail to five publishing houses in the United Kingdom.\n\nSCP-5415-03\nAuthor (SCP-5415-03-A): Avery Harper\nDescription: A retelling of the original novel, with the story transposed to a college campus in 1990s America. The four main characters are all students at an unnamed university and belong to the same fraternity. Three of their fathers have the occupation of one of Sade's characters3. Details of the fourth boy's parents are never given, but it is implied throughout the novel he arranged their murder to inherit their fortune.\nFeeling constrained by the norms of society, the students decide to \"unmask\" themselves and \"explore [their] desires\"; to do so, they kidnap members of sororities and other fraternities on campus before the Winter Holiday break. Midway through the novel, another fraternity member, Avery Harper, returns to the chapter house early. Upon witnessing the activities underway, he willingly volunteers as a victim.\nThe narrative is interspersed with dream sequences in which they await the arrival of their fathers to judge their \"work\". The final dream sequence, described in the penultimate chapter, has the four main characters experience a shared fantasy in which they have the same father4 who arrives and judges their work to be worthy of his attention and visitation.\n\nNotes: SCP-5415-03 was discovered after its publication online via the self-publishing service of technology company Amazon, with the title triggering an alert via the Foundation's online watch-list. Upon arriving at SCP-5415-03-A's residence, MTF-Psi-2 discovered the author deceased with anomalous disfigurations. SCP-5415-03-A's limbs had been elongated to lengths of over 110m and fused to the residence's walls and ceilings. Periodically, the limbs were arranged into one of five thaumaturgical summoning symbols, with eighty-two symbols in total.\n\nSCP-5415-04\nAuthor (SCP-5415-04-A): Wayne Atkin-Clerk\nDescription: A meta-fiction in which an author afflicted by writer's block attempts to write a sequel to \"The 120 Days of Sodom\". Chapters alternate between the author's daily routine written in third person, first person stream of consciousness depicting his attempts to write the novel, and extracts from it.5 From the 22nd page onwards, the name of the protagonist is substituted for the author's.\nNotes: After the neighbours situated below 04-A's apartment complained about water damage to their ceiling, building maintenance were called to investigate. 04-A was discovered deceased in his residence, with a slit throat that was continuously haemorrhaging. The wound is estimated to have bled approximately 24L of blood before alerted Foundation agents arrived and cauterised it. The corpse was disfigured, with 6 bone protrusions, 0.4m each, erupting through the scalp in a circular arrangement. A thaumaturgical summoning symbol had been branded upon the centre of the scalp. SCP-5415-04 was discovered, unfinished, on 04-A's personal laptop.\n\nSCP-5415-05\nAuthor (SCP-5415-05-A): David Carter\nDescription: A direct sequel. Set an undisclosed number of years after the original novel, the King of France contacts the Duc de Blangis6 upon hearing rumours of the events of \"The 120 Days of Sodom\".\nThe King is organising a masquerade banquet in honour of a visiting foreign ambassador, and recruits the Duc to arrange the evening's entertainment. The novel primarily follows the Duc's daughter, Claudette, as she attempts to dissuade her father from assisting the King.7 She is ultimately unsuccessful and, after an evening of abuse and torture of the King's courtiers, the novel culminates in Claudette being cannibalised by her father and the banquet attendees.\nFrom the beginning of the novel, the Duc is assisted by his servant, David. At the beginning of the third act, a comic interlude occurs between the two characters. During this, David ponders aloud why he assists the Duc with his crimes. The Duc responds that, whilst David serve the Duc, the Duc serves the King, the King serves the ambassador, and the ambassador serves \"The Truest King of All\", who shall \"reward us all with infinite glory when he breaches this land\".\nNotes: A draft of SCP-5415-05 was sent via mail to twenty publishers globally, alerting Foundation personnel. MTF-Psi-2 were dispatched to SCP-5415-05-A's residence; a log of the incident is included in the next addendum.\n\nADDENDUM 5415.2: INCIDENT 06/08/2019\n\n+ OPEN ADDENDUM 2 +\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM 2 -\n\nThe floor plans of SCP-5415-5-A's residence.\n\nVideo Log Transcript\nDate: 06/08/19\nTeam: MTF Psi-2 \"Invitation Revoked\"8\nTeam Lead: Melissa Crane9\nTeam Members:\n\nDr. Rajendra Pyne10\nDr. Pham V\u0103n Danh11\nEvelyn Hayle12\nFather Owen Callahan13\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\n(The team approach SCP-5415-05-A's residence.)\nCrane: Alright team, check your weapons. Anomaly's been inconsistent in the past, we can't rule out hostiles. We've got three floors: ground, second, basement. Pham, ground floor. Hayle and Pyne, take the property exterior and the basement. Callahan and I will take the top. Any sign of topological abnormalities in the architecture, radio it through, we'll regroup and re-plan. Capisce? Capisce. Let's go.\n(The team run up the steps to the residence's front door. Crane opens it in with one precise kick; her team, bar Hayle and Pyne, enter single file into the entrance hallway.)\n\n[At this point, Psi-2 splits into the three aforementioned groups. Each group's actions over the next five minute period are transcribed below.]\n\n[GROUND FLOOR]\n(Pham makes his way into the entrance hallway and turns left, into the lounge. The room is in a state of disarray: the powered-on television and a large mirror set over the fireplace have both been smashed numerous times. As Pham looks into the fireplace, the charred remains of family photos containing SCP-5415-05-A are visible. Cardboard has been haphazardly taped over the windows.)\n(Pham sweeps the room for signs of anomalous activity. He unplugs the television, compares his surroundings to the reflection shown in the mirror, and then lifts it up to examine the underlying wall. Satisfied, he moves on to the kitchen, where he is immediately hit by the putrid smell of rotten goods.)\nPham: Anyone else seen signs of life yet? This place seems abandoned \u2014 fridge is turned off, contents are putrefying.\n(Unwashed dishes pile up in the sink. Fragments of ceramic litter the floor at the other end of the room, indicating crockery has been thrown at the wall. A table in the centre of the room is covered in seemingly innocuous maps and photographs of individuals conducting their daily affairs.)\nCrane: We've got signs of something upstairs for sure, but I'm not-\n(Another voice interjects, interrupting the team lead mid-sentence.)\nPyne: I need all of you down in the basement, right now!\n\n[SECOND FLOOR]\n(Crane and Callahan make their way into the entrance hall, and run up the flight of stairs to the top floor. Crane pushes open the first door they come to, leading to a small bathroom. The state of the bathroom matches that of the kitchen: the room is filthy, black mould covers the ceiling, faecal matter stains the toilet basin.)\nCrane: Oh Christ \u2014 sorry Father.\n(Callahan laughs.)\nCallahan: Are ya ever going to tire of that piss poor joke?\n(The two agents make their way down the landing, and take the door on their right. They enter the study, where a laptop and printer sit on an office desk. The floor is littered with the packaging of ink cartridges and printer paper. Crane approaches the laptop, and moves the attached mouse.)\n(The screen lights up; the laptop is on, and logged in to SCP-5415-05-A's profile \u2014 which Crane finds she can access without a password. The profile loads, and lands in to an open Microsoft Word document. \"120 Days of Gomorrah\", emboldened and underlined, entitles the 400 page manuscript.)\nCrane: Well, there goes any chance we're in the wrong house. You found anything?\n(Crane closes the laptop, places it into a plastic evidence bag, and stores it in her backpack as Callahan scours the bookshelves set against the west wall, calling out the book titles as he does.)\nCallahan: Stein on Writing, King's Danse Macabre, Overcoming Anger, Where Nightmares Come From, Letting Go Of Rage, 101 Ways to Beat Writer's Block. Nout that looks anomalous in nature. Let's move on.\n(Crane and Callahan exit the study, and cross the landing to the bedroom. Crane opens the door, and walks in first.)\nCrane: Christ.\nCallahan: Come off it Mel-\u2026 oh.\n(Callahan follows Crane into the bedroom. The walls are completed covered with pages from SCP-5415-05, imprecisely affixed through a variety of methods: pins, staples, tape, and glue. The surfaces of the walls are uneven, where pages have been pasted over each other, in some places over thirty sheets thick. The majority of the pages are covered in frantic, barely legible scribblings.)\n(A pair of legs protrude from an alcove on the bedroom's north wall. Crane draws her weapon and moves around the bedroom to obtain a better perspective. A headless corpse, with a mangled upper torso, is slumped on the floor.14 A shotgun lies adjacent, and the residue from its use splatters the wall behind the corpse. As the blood and viscera has dripped down, it has dried in the pattern of a thaumaturgical summoning symbol, over a meter in diameter.)\n(A voice crackles through their radios.)\nPham: Anyone else seen signs of life yet? This place seems abandoned \u2014 fridge is turned off, contents are putrefying.\n(Still staring at the symbol, Crane reaches down to her radio.)\nCrane: We've got signs of something upstairs for sure, but I'm not-\n(Another voice interjects, interrupting the team lead mid-sentence.)\nPyne: I need all of you down in the basement, right now!\n\n[BASEMENT]\n(As the rest of the team swarm into the property, Hayle and Pyne perform a cursory sweep of the front yard, before walking along the side of the house to the back garden.)\nHayle: There's an ill wind blowing. The aura of this place\u2026 it's foul.\nPyne: Are the auras telling you if we'll all make it home in one piece?\nHayle: You'd be wise not to mock that you don't understand, Dr. Pyne.\nPyne: Just doing what I need to do to get through the day.\n(Arriving at the shed at the property's exterior, Pyne pulls open the door. The wooden structure is filled with gardening equipment. All of it is covered in a thick layer of dust \u2014 with the exception of a bundle of rope, on the floor by the entrance. Hayle kneels down, closes her eyes, and picks up a section of rope.)\nHayle: We need to get to the basement. Fast.\n(The agents walk from the shed towards the house, to a padlocked hatch leading into the basement. Pyne draws a handheld buzzsaw and attempts to cut through the lock. It glows red, and shows no signs of damage.)\nPyne: Thaumaturgically sealed. I don't need the spirits to know that someone didn't want us getting in here. There's another entrance in the house.\n(Pyne and Hayle run up to the residence's back door; Pyne smashes the door's glass and reaches through to unlock it. They enter the house, turn left, and walk down the stairs to the basement antechamber. A rhythmic pulsing sound begins to be heard.)\nPyne: That sure doesn't sound good.\n(As the pair approach the door to the main basement chamber, a red light can be seen shining through from underneath it, in time with the pulsing sound. A voice crackles through their radios:)\nPham: Anyone else seen signs of life yet? This place seems abandoned \u2014 fridge is turned off, contents are putrefying.\n(The pair push open the door to the main basement chamber, and walk through.)\nHayle: Oh no. Oh no, no.\n(A large thaumaturgical symbol, the same as in the bedroom, has been drawn thickly with chalk across the majority of the floor. The red pulsing light emanates from the source, periodically illuminating the room.)\n(Four identical, smaller symbols have been drawn over the base shape's thaumaturgical focal points. Above these four symbols float four individuals, suspended and rotating in the air. They all display disfiguration of the scalp similar to that experienced by SCP-5415-04-A.)\n(At the centre of the room, a metre and a half above the floor, an incredibly bright bead of light shines, no bigger than the head of a pin.)\n(Pyne hurriedly throws his backpack to the floor, and grasps at his radio as Crane responds to Pham.)\nCrane: We've got signs of something upstairs for sure, but I'm not-\nPyne: I need all of you down in the basement, right now!\n\n(The body cameras of Crane, Pham, and Callahan capture them making their way, at speed, to the basement. Upon arriving, they find Hayle finishing erecting portable flood lights to provide extra visibility, and Pyne standing by the light in the centre of the room.)\nCrane: Tell me that's not what I know it is.\nPyne: Genuine interdimensional rift. What's causing this wants to get through and it's decided to kick the door in. Getting measurements now.\n(Pyne deploys four microscopic drones, which hover around the rift. They beam information regarding it to a tablet held by Pyne.)\n(Crane walks over to the thaumaturgical symbol and displaces the chalk on the floor by rubbing it with her boot. With the chalk now gone, the glowing red light continues to emanate out of the room's flooring.)\nCrane: Well, shit. Symbol's taken hold, so disrupting the ritual that way isn't an option. What have you got for me, Pyne?\nPyne: Rift is small, but growing. It's acting like an infection \u2014 each unit of our world breached infects the surrounding space, and so forth. I'm estimating\u2026 five minutes until we're at a point of no return.\nCrane: Oh wonderful. Command, I need an immediate evacuation of the surrounding area.\n(She turns and addresses her team.)\nCrane: Listen up! Pham, get vitals on the casualties, see if you can move them off the focal points. Callahan, bless the symbols, try to reduce their potency. Hayle, what do you make of this?\nHayle: Symbol is familiar to those seen in Goetian demonology, yet heavily deviated in certain places. Certainly a summoning symbol. The energy in this room is rancid, I can't sense anything willing to aid us.\nCrane: There's a bedroom on the top floor, walls are plastered in manuscript pages. Burn them.\nHayle: Understood, Captain.\n(Hayle leaves the basement to complete her orders.)\n(Pham moves between the suspended individuals, reaching up and taking their pulse. As he approaches each one, their eyes dart downwards and stare at him, indicating they are aware of their situation.)\nPham: Captain, they're all alive, but each time I try to remove them from the symbol, their pulse rockets and they start haemorrhaging from their eyes. I can't safely remove them whilst the ritual is active.\nCrane: Understood. Callahan, any luck?\nCallahan: Nothing I've done seems t' be having any effect. I'm running out of options fast.\nCrane: Pham, get those people delinked from the symbol. We need to slow this down.\nPham: But Captain-\nCrane: Just get it done.\n(Pham grabs the legs of the individual levitating closest to him. He begins to pull them away from the centre of the symbol, to the side of the room. Pham encounters significant resistance in doing so, but is eventually able to detach them from the focal point. As this happens, the civilian begins to spasm, and haemorrhaging intensifies, covering Pham in a spray of blood. The agent attempts to stabilise them, but to no avail. He moves on to the next civilian.)\n(Pyne walks over to Crane, and hands her the tablet tracking the size of the rift as he pulls another tablet from his backpack.)\nPyne: Removing them from the symbol has slowed the growth rate \u2014 it's bought us time, but not enough. Four minutes left. Rift is big enough to deploy a microdrone through.\n(One of the microdrones approaches the centre of the rift, before disappearing into it.)\nPyne: Readings are showing an atmospheric composition similar to our own \u2014 gravitational force is significantly higher though. Visuals are coming online\u2026\nPyne's tablet begins to show the drone's camera output. The drone floats through a nondescript environment, covered entirely in a dark green fog. Every few seconds, a crack of thunder illuminates the area.\nPyne: Looks like an ideal place for my next vacation. Just over three minutes left.\nCrane: Command, widen the exclusion zone, I'm officially requesting backup. As many combat teams as you have in the area. We've got a hostile entity due for imminent entry into our reality. We're struggling to impede its efforts here.\n(A large maroon tentacle rises up through the fog, covered densely with suckers on all sides. A low-toned moan accompanies its appearance. It swings through the air, striking the drone and disabling it.)\n(Pyne sighs.)\nPyne: Just once, why couldn't The 120 Days of Gomorrah be about a pillar of salt who learns about the power of family and how to love her new form?\n(Crane stares down at her tablet, tracking the size and the growth rate of the rift.)\nCrane: No, that can't\u2026. Pyne, say that again!\nPyne:\u2026say that I wish The 120 Days of Gomorrah was a heart-warming tale about love and body positivity?\n(Crane throws her backpack to the ground, and pulls out the laptop she retrieved from the study. She flips the lid open, and starts rapidly editing the SCP-5415-05 manuscript, glancing up to check the readings on the machine every few seconds. She grabs at her radio.)\nCrane: Hayle! Get back down here now, I need you. Command, I've got an idea on how to fight this thing, but it's going to sound crazy. How many Literature grads are in the room right now?\n\nYou are not viewing the latest version of this document. Click here to refresh.\n\nFootnotes\n1. \"The 120 Days of Sodom\" is a novel written in 1785 by French nobleman Marquis de Sade during his imprisonment in the Bastille. It follows four central characters, all men of wealth and power, in their quest for gratification via the torture and abuse of abducted victims. The novel was first published in 1904.\n2. Planning records show the residence as a non-anomalous, two-storey detached house. This has been corroborated with past residents, and acquaintances of SCP-5415-02-A.\n3. A banker, a judge, and a bishop.\n4. Consistently stylised throughout the relevant chapter as \"THE FATHER\".\n5. The latter contain a variety of author comments, sentences and paragraphs structured in multiple ways, and text written in strike-through to signify deletion.\n6. One of the primary four libertines in Sade's novel.\n7. Claudette does not appear in Sade's original novel, and is a creation of SCP-5415-05-A's.\n8. A multidisciplinary team specialising in the neutralisation of extradimensional threats attempting to enter our universe.\n9. Specialism: Field experience and team leadership.\n10. Specialism: Interdimensional Studies.\n11. Specialism: Biological hazards and medical expertise.\n12. Specialism: Spiritualism, Occult and Paranormal studies.\n13. Specialism: Theology, Eschatology, and Demonology.\n14. Identified post-incident as SCP-5415-05-A.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5414 | SCP-5415 | SCP-5416 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5418\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5418 is to be kept within a standard containment chamber and lain horizontally on a 1.8 metre plinth at all times. As an incentive for further cooperation, SCP-5418 has been given limited access to amenities following staff review. As of 01/01/21, the current provisions are:\n\nA voice controlled audiobook system with a curated library of influential works.\nA voice controlled, roof mounted television with access to local televised broadcasts.\nWeekly visits from an on-site Rabbi.\n\nDescription: SCP-5418 is the skeleton of an adult male of Middle Eastern descent. The subject's bones are covered in flakes of gold, which has been affixed via the use of beeswax. SCP-5418 is adorned with a number of gold pieces of jewellery in the form of serpents, the largest of which are coiled around both arms and legs. Also present is a rope made from hemp fibre, which has been wrapped around the subjects neck, and a white robe. Dating has shown that both the rope and skeleton date to within the 1st century CE, while all other decorative items date to the 2nd century CE.\nSCP-5418 was recovered from a crypt discovered approximately half a mile beneath the Catacombs of Callixtus in Rome, Italy. The passage to the crypt was uncovered following restoration efforts, which was followed by an archaeological study of the site. As efforts continued, reports of supernatural events within the crypt escalated, primarily records of an unknown voice. SCP-5418 entered containment following Foundation investigation. Early investigation has suggested the crypt itself is non-anomalous. Observation is ongoing.\nSCP-5418 is capable of vocalisation despite lacking organs. These vocalisations manifest as male, and speak fluent Classical Hebrew. Though willing to engage in interviews with staff, the subject seems to be unable, or unwilling, to identify themselves, and claims to have forgotten who they were. Nevertheless, the subject has offered multiple variations of events within their life. Though variable, several consistent elements have been identified:\n\nThe subject was once a young warrior1 who lashed out at an occupying force in their homeland.\nThey lost this spark with age, and instead began to follow a local Rabbi.\nThe Rabbi sought the aid of the subject for a ceremony.\nThe subject did the 'unthinkable' avoided doing the 'unthinkable' (See Addendum-01)\nFor this, the subject was punished by 'HaShem'2. Following his death, they resuscitated, incapable of anything but thought and speech.\n\nSCP-5418 shows no sign of further anomalous ability beyond their continued vocalisations. Due to dialogue with the subject suggesting a duplicitous nature, observation and studying of cell samples are to continue unless further anomalous activity is definitively proven absent.\nADDENDUM-01\nOn \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588, an interview was conducted by Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Kohen. He was instructed to identify further information on 'HaShem', and was encouraged to pursue the question of the subject's continued faith. This interview is logged below, translated to English:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Kohen: Good afternoon, 5418. How are we feeling today?Dr. Kohen: I'm glad to hear that you are keeping yourself stimulated. You'll be pleased to hear that I don't believe your studies will be disrupted for long then. My superiors would just like me to go over a couple subject areas with you again.Dr. Kohen: Right. In prior interviews, you've discussed your relationship with a Rabbi. You note how it ended poorly and led to HaShem cursing you. Yet you continue to ask for sermons from \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 each week. If your last experience with the faith went so poorly, why do you continue to follow HaShem?Dr. Kohen: This would be contrary to information you've given us before. Now I know we've allowed you to have some quality of life items, but lying is an easy way to-Dr. Kohen: 5418, Jah and HaShem are one and the same according to scripture. I don't exactly believe-Dr. Kohen: \u2026 Could you elaborate?Dr. Kohen: I see. This worship was part of the Rabbi's\u2026 'plan', then?Dr. Kohen gestures for the subject to continue.Dr. Kohen: I see. If it's alright with you, I'd like to take the conversation back to these deities. I notice their name's are identical to titles for Yahweh. Are you saying that-Dr. Kohen: T-Dr. Kohen: \u2026 Thank you for your cooperation. I think we're done here.\n[END LOG]\n\nFurther interviews were conducted with the subject, asking near identical questions as to the above. The subject responded in similar ways each time, with little to no deviation of information. Future interviews should focus on gathering more information on the worship of the 'Faces' and 'The Father'.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Ostensible; the subject has also consistently stated they were a freedom fighter, murderer, and soldier, amongst a number of other vocations.\n2. Translated as 'The Name'. Used by certain Jewish groups to refer to Yahweh outside of liturgical context.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5417 | SCP-5418 | SCP-5419 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Ecronak\n\nEnjoyed the skip? Give some of my other works a look here!\n\nItem#: 5419\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5419-A following procurement\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5419-A (and by extension SCP-5419) is to be contained within a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-22. No less than three ultraviolet sensors are to be installed in the cell to monitor SCP-5419's presence.\nAmenities appropriate for a young humanoid are to be supplied to the subject, including (but not limited to) drawing books, art materials, reading material appropriate for children six years old and below, a mobile DVD player, and disks containing videos of educational children's programs. Amenities and outdoor privileges are to be removed or added at the discretion of the head researcher.\nAt no point are personnel allowed to physically or verbally harm SCP-5419-A. Should the subject need to be reproached for unacceptable behavior, reprimands are to only be done at the discretion of the head researcher.\nResearch personnel who are in charge of interacting with SCP-5419 and SCP-5419-A are required to refer to each subject as \"Wind\" and \"Quincy\" respectively in order to engender familiarity with either subject. Should SCP-5419-A enter a state of an emotional outburst, physical contact in the form of an embrace is to be immediately made with SCP-5419-A.\nDescription: SCP-5419-A (formerly named Quincy Koothrapali) is a six year old boy of South Asian descent. Aside from SCP-5419-A's connection to SCP-5419, the subject has been remarked upon as non-anomalous. Prior to its procurement by the Foundation, the subject was noted to have escaped from an orphanage in [REDACTED], Canada, living in the forests near the city. How SCP-5419-A survived living in the wilderness is unknown (See Interview Log).\nSCP-5419 is an incorporeal, amorphous organism made purely of ultraviolet light and so is imperceptible to the naked human eye and invulnerable to conventional weaponry. Despite its composition, SCP-5419 has been known to exert control over its form, becoming corporeal in limited amounts of time in order to exert force on an object (See Discovery Log). Foundation testing has revealed SCP-5419 to be capable of this through the concentration of an intense volume of ultraviolet light, though how SCP-5419 does this is unknown.\nSCP-5419 has also been recorded to possess sentience and is known to be \u201cattuned\u201d to the emotions of SCP-5419-A through unknown means. SCP-5419 has been remarked to follow SCP-5419-A at all times, disregarding physical barriers in order to do so.\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5419 was first discovered by the Global Occult Coalition, who first detected a \u201chidden entity\u201d stalking SCP-5419-A at all times. Following standard organizational procedure, twelve operatives from the group moved to secure SCP-5419-A, aiming to apprehend the subject for transfer to one of its secure facilities and to neutralize SCP-5419 on-site.\nBelieving SCP-5419 to be reality-bending in nature, the operatives deployed with miniature reality anchors1 together with ultraviolet sensors, meeting SCP-5419-A and SCP-5419 at a clearing in the forest where SCP-5419-A lived. According to Foundation informants within the GOC, the operatives moved to secure SCP-5419-A first, with three agents apprehending the subject. As the operatives did so, SCP-5419 began attacking the agents nearest to SCP-5419-A, leaving the subject unharmed. Subsequently, the agents opened fire upon SCP-5419 to no avail, ending with all twelve agents being neutralized by SCP-5149.\nInformation about the entity and the subject were immediately sent to the Foundation following the failed GOC operation. This prompted the Foundation to dispatch Mobile Task Force Phi-3 (\u201cBears Grilled\u201d) to the scene.\nRecovery Log:\n\nTime: 9:24 PM, Eastern Standard Time\nForeword: After six hours of tracking the footprints of SCP-5419-A, all four members of MTF Phi-3 arrived on the scene on foot so as not to alarm SCP-5419-A or SCP-5419. Each operative's equipment houses an ultraviolet sensor and a miniature Scranton reality anchor.\n\nThe ultraviolet sensors on the operatives' headgears begin to show readings of a low ultraviolet signature. SCP-5419-A is sighted leaning on a nearby tree, asleep. SCP-5419 is found fifteen meters away.\nAlpha: Alright boys and girls, standard procs. Move to apprehend the kid but make no aggressive moves toward the entity. We don't want the same thing that happened to the Gocks to happen to us.\nBravo, Charlie, Delta: Affirmative, Ma'am.\nAlpha: Charlie, Delta, head to the right. Begin approach towards the kid.\nCharlie and Delta advance slowly and quietly across the field towards SCP-5419-A. Alpha and Bravo stay back, watching for signs of activity from SCP-5419.\nCharlie and Delta come to a stop five meters away from SCP-5419-A. SCP-5419 shows no activity.\nDelta: Orders, Alpha?\nAlpha: Delta, wake the kid up. Convince him to come with us. Your expertise should serve here. Make no sudden movements. If the entity makes a hostile movement, shoot it on my command.\nDelta advances towards SCP-5419-A, stretching out a hand towards the subject's shoulder. He pats the subject four times.\nDelta: Hey, kid. You awake?\nSCP-5419-A stirs\nSCP-5419-A: Yeah\u2026 what?\nThe subject's eyes widen.\nSCP-5419-A: Are you the bad men? Are you the ones who shot-\nDelta: We're not, we promise. We're people from the cops. The good cops.\nSCP-5419-A: But you look almost like them! You're scary!\nSCP-5419's ultraviolet signature begins to rise.\nBravo: I think the blob's stirring. Keep it down, C and D.\nDelta raises both his hands, putting his assault rifle on the ground in a show of harmlessness.\nCharlie (whispering): D, calm him down.\nDelta (soothing): Hey, little boy. We aren't here to hurt you, alright? See? I put my gun down.\nAlpha: Delta, Charlie, make it fast. I don't want this to turn ugly.\nCharlie (to Delta): D, you heard her. Make it fucking fast!\nSCP-5419-A: You're lying! You look like them! You want to kidnap me!\nDelta: We won't. Trust us, please?\nSCP-5419's ultraviolet signature continues to rise. An amorphous shape begins to rise from the ground. Growling is heard.\nSCP-5419-A: You're going to beat me, aren't you? You're going to beat me and shoot my puppy and-\nDelta (continuing to speak in a soothing voice): What's your name?\nCharlie: Christ, Daryl. Get a move on!\nSCP-5419-A looks in the direction of Charlie.\nSCP-5419-A (quivering): The woman beside you is scaring me. Please stop shouting!\nDelta (to Charlie): Nina, stop shouting.\nCharlie: For fuck's sake, Daryl. It's about to be right on top of us.\nDelta: Nina, stand down, please. Put the gun down.\nAlpha: Charlie, put the damn gun down. That is an order.\nSCP-5419 begins to slowly move in the direction of Charlie and Delta. Barking is heard in the direction of the entity.\nSCP-5419-A: I'm scared. Stop, stop, please!\nBravo: Hurry up, you two. Shit is about to hit the damn fan.\nCharlie (to Delta): Alright, I'm taking it off, I'm taking it off!\nCharlie lowers her gun to the ground.\nSCP-5419 continues to advance on the operatives.\nDelta: Alright, see? We're safe. We mean you no harm.\nDelta reaches his hand out to touch SCP-5419-A.\nSCP-5419-A shrinks away.\nSCP-5419-A (fearful): No! I don't believe you. You're here to hurt me like the nuns!\nAlpha: Calm him down!\nSCP-5419 begins to run in their direction.\nCharlie: Son of a fucking bitch!\nCharlie begins to pick up her gun.\nSCP-5419 turns its attention to Charlie, closing the distance between it and the operative.\nAlpha: Shit. Present!\nOperatives Charlie, Bravo, and Alpha raise their weapons.\nSCP-5419-A (crying): You'll hurt him again! Please, please!\nSCP-5419 starts to materialize to strike Charlie.\nDelta: Wait, fuck it!\nDelta embraces SCP-5419-A.\nSCP-5419-A immediately stops crying. SCP-5419 stops mid-materialization.\nSCP-5419-A: I\u2026\nDelta: Shh, it's alright. We aren't gonna hurt you.\nSCP-5419-A: Promise?\nDelta: I promise.\nSCP-5419 immediately turns to walk in the direction of SCP-5419-A. Barking is heard.\nSCP-5419-A: I'm so scared. Please don't hurt him anymore.\nDelta: We won't hurt you, alright? What's your name?\nSCP-5419-A: Quincy.\nDelta: Alright, Quincy, do you promise the entity won't hurt us?\nSCP-5419-A: No, I swear. He just doesn't want me to be scared.\nDelta: Don't worry. We won't scare you anymore, alright?\nSCP-5419 comes into physical contact with SCP-5419-A . More excited barking is heard from the entity. Delta steps back.\nSCP-5419-A (embracing SCP-5419): Aww, Wind! Don't hurt them anymore, okay? They didn't meant to hurt me, I promise.\nSCP-5419 barks again, then its ultraviolet signature gradually lowers.\nSCP-5419-A: Thank you so much.\nDelta: We're going somewhere far away, okay? Somewhere were no one else can hurt you.\nSCP-5419-A nods.\nSCP-5419-A: Will I be safe there? From the nuns?\nDelta: Yes you will, kid. Yes you will.\nAlpha: Send a heli for retrieval.\nHQ: Affirmative.\nOperatives Alpha moves past SCP-5419 and towards Delta.\nSCP-5419-A's eyes widen.\nDelta strokes SCP-5419-A's hair. SCP-5419-A calms down.\nAlpha (To Delta): Good fucking work. I almost thought you couldn't do it.\nDelta (To Alpha): It was a near run thing. I'm glad the kid cooperated.\nAlpha: How did you know?\nDelta: How'd I know that\u2026?\nAlpha: How did you know that hugging would work?\nDelta is silent.\nDelta: I just\u2026 wanted to comfort him. He didn't seem like the type of kid to have been hugged much. Hugging seemed like the best thing I could do. You couldn't have killed the skip, anyway.\nAlpha gives no reply for several seconds.\nAlpha: Good work.\n<End Log>\n\nAfterword: After the operation, SCP-5419-A was taken to Site-22, with SCP-5419 following closely behind. Two days after the procurement operation, SCP-5419-A was interviewed by head researcher Rand.\n\nInterview Log:\n\n<Begin Log>\nHead Researcher Rand: Heya, what's your name? Quincy, was it?\nSCP-5419-A nods.\nHead Researcher Rand: You feeling alright?\nSCP-5419-A: K-kinda.\nHead Researcher Rand: Kinda, huh? How is uh\u2026\nHe points in a random direction, referring to SCP-5419.\nSCP-5419-A: Wind is okay. He wasn't hurt by what the bad cops did to him.\nHead Researcher Rand: Really? Good to hear. So his name is Wind, huh?\nSCP-5419-A nods.\nHead Researcher Rand: Can you tell us what Wind is, Quincy?\nSCP-5419-A: I don't know what he is, but he's my\u2026 puppy, forever and ever. He said he came from the sun to protect me from the nuns.\nHead Researcher Rand: The sun? Can you please ela- explain, that?\nSCP-5419-A: I found Wind in the meadow. The one beside the orphanage.\nHead Researcher Rand: Ah, the Shelter of Our Holy Child orphanage, in the city?\nSCP-5419-A: Y-yeah. The nuns said I was a very bad boy, so they often sent me outside so that I can repent for my sins. They forced me to sleep outside, and then I prayed really really hard for something to come and take me away from here\u2026\nSCP-5419-A swallows.\nSCP-5419-A: After that, in the night, my chest felt really really heavy.\nHead Researcher Rand: Heavy how?\nSCP-5419-A: Heavy and really hot. It was the feeling I get when I know Wind is close. He said he was from the sun, in my mind somehow.\nSCP-5419-A smiles.\nSCP-5419-A: And then he gave me a hug. A really really tight hug- I'd never been hugged before! And then he started licking my face. It's why I call him a puppy.\nSCP-5419-A smiles sadly.\nSCP-5419-A: He doesn't want me to be hurt. It's why I escaped from the orphanage- so he wouldn't hurt anyone else. He gave me food and we played fetch and\u2026 he's just like a real dog!\nHead Researcher Rand: Do you know that he's not a dog?\nSCP-5419-A puts a finger on his lips.\nSCP-5419-A: I do, but please don't tell him that I know. He really likes being a puppy.\nHead Researcher Rand: We heard him bark when we first met him. Can you tell him to bark?\nSCP-5419-A turns to his side.\nSCP-5419-A: Wind, bark!\nSCP-5419 barks. It is indistinguishable from a real dog.\nHead Researcher Rand: Fascinating. Does he always stay with you?\nSCP-5419-A: Forever and ever.\nSCP-5419-A looks up.\nSCP-5419-A: I always wanted a dog, you know, doctor? A dog to keep me warm and company and to bark at strangers that want to hurt me.\nSCP-5419-A looks at SCP-5419 fondly.\nSCP-5419-A: I guess that's why God sent him down to me when I prayed really really hard that night. My very own dog, to always keep me company.\nHead Researcher Rand: Well, we have some time, and Site-22 has a garden you and\u2026 Wind could play in.\nSCP-5419-A's face lights up.\nSCP-5419-A: Really? Really really really?\nHead Researcher Rand: Yes. I am at liberty to decide what amenities you have access to, including your outdoor time.\nSCP-5419-A jumps from his seat. An excited bark is heard within the containment chamber.\nSCP-5419-A: Thank you so much! Thank you so so so much!\nHead Researcher Rand: No problem, kid, just remember-\nSCP-5419-A: Can the good cop join us too?\nHead Researcher Rand: The uh\u2026 Good cop? The one who hugged you?\nSCP-5419-A: Yeah! Dalta! He gave me the best hug in the world, and only Wind's hugs are bester.\nHead Researcher Rand: I'll uh\u2026 I'll see what I can do.\n<End Log>\n\nAfterword: At the request of Head Researcher Rand, SCP-5419-A and SCP-5419 were given one hour of outdoor time following the interview, with Site Security being posted along all entrances to avoid a containment breach. For thirty of those minutes, SCP-5419-A and SCP-5419 remained lying down together, assuming physical contact in a way similar to \u201chugging\u201d. Daryl Langley, MTF Phi-3's Operative Delta was approved to visit SCP-5419-A a few hours after.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A device used in order to counter the reality-bending effects of a specific entity\n\nMore from Ecronak\n\u00ab SCP-5418 | SCP-5419 | SCP-5420 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This article contains heavy subject matter such as harrassment and suicide.\n\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f content warning  \nEcronak\n\nEnjoyed the skip? Give some of my other works a look here!\n\nItem#: 5421\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nA photograph of the interior of SCP-5421-A as captured from the camera of Psi-7-2. A part of SCP-5421 can be seen.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entrance to SCP-5421-A is to be secured at all times. By no means are personnel allowed entry into SCP-5421-A unless express permission is given by at least two members of the O5 council. Should personnel enter SCP-5421-A, they must not make eye contact with SCP-5421.\nAs knowing the details of SCP-5421's existence is infohazardous, any articles of knowledge about SCP-5421 outside of the Foundation database are to be immediately destroyed. Under no circumstances are personnel allowed to view these articles. Should any personnel view the aforementioned articles, they are to be immediately apprehended and given Class A amnestics before they return to their place of residence. Should amnestics be unavailable, salt is to be sprinkled at the entrance of the aforementioned place of residence before the afflicted person enters.\nDescription: SCP-5421-A is a standard condominium one bedroom unit at the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Luxury Apartments building located in Nagoya, Japan. Until 9/17/2018, the condominium unit harbored no signs of anomalous activity. The first records of the aforementioned anomalous activity at the condominium unit began when a 22-year-old woman named Aiko Fujiwara took up residence within the unit.\nSCP-5421 is [DATA EXPUNGED].\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\n\nThe following file has been classified as an infohazard. All personnel viewing it must submit themselves to Class A amnesticization before returning to their place of residence. Any deviation from this mandate will be met with severe punishment.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nDiscovery Log: On 9/22/2018, five days after Fujiwara's arrival, the condominium unit's door was found to be ajar. Residents in the adjacent rooms complained of a smell emanating from SCP-5421-A. A few hours later, employees at the hotel opened the unit, and found Fujiwara's bloating corpse on the floor of SCP-5421-A, showing signs that the subject had died of exsanguination1 from self-inflicted wounds. Subsequent investigations by local police estimate that Fujiwara had been dead for ten days, the peculiar time window of which prompted operatives from the Foundation's Japanese branch to arrive on the scene.\nShortly after the arrival of Foundation personnel, the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Luxury Apartments building that contained SCP-5421-A was closed down, with Foundation personnel citing Cover Story 18 (Health Concerns) in order to evacuate all residents and employees from the building. The scene of the incident, including Fujiwara's corpse, was left untouched on the request of Foundation personnel. The structure was then designated as Containment Site 44. Due to the suspected presence of a temporal anomaly, the deployment of an investigation team was bypassed. Three members of MTF Psi-7 (\"Home Improvement\") arrived on the scene seventeen hours after the building was closed.\nExploration Log:\n\nForeword: At 11:12 PM, under the oversight of the Provisional Director of Site 44, the operatives of MTF Psi-7 made preparations to enter SCP-5421-A. All video footage of the exploration was broadcast live to HQ, located in the lobby. The surrounding hallway leading into SCP-5421-A was cleared beforehand.\n\n<Begin Log>\nHQ: Psi-7, you are cleared to enter.\nPsi-7-1: Affirmative, HQ.\nPsi-7-1 slowly opens the door leading into SCP-5421-A. Psi-7-2 and Psi-7-3 enter. Psi-7-1 follows.\nThe interior of the condominium unit is disorderly. Several pieces of plastic wrapper are strewn all across the floor. The refrigerator unit is ajar. Three empty one-liter bottles of water are placed on the center table. A flat-screen television lays broken on the floor.\nThe Mobile Task Force team comes across the corpse of Aiko Fujiwara. Her eyes and ears show self-inflicted damage using a sharp object. Dried blood is pooled under her body.\nPsi-7-2: Damn, that's our dead girl. She looks bad.\nPsi-7-3: Never seen a decomposing body before, Arnie?\nPsi-7-2: Afghanistan never had us dig up any rotten corpses.\nPsi-7-3: Well, looks like there's a first time for everything.\nPsi-7-2: Ha-ha. You were a cop, Yel, we get it. You don't need to rub it in.\nPsi-7-3 crouches down to get a better view of the corpse. She turns the body over, and finds that there is a crumpled piece of paper held loosely in her hand. Psi-7-3 retrieves it with some difficulty.\nPsi-7-3: Found something. Keep watch for me, please.\nPsi-7-3's video feed shows a crumpled piece of paper, which she unfurls. Most of the paper has been rendered unreadable by marker ink.\nPsi-7-2: Can you read Japanese, Yel?\nPsi-7-3: Limited amounts.\nPsi-7-3 pauses to read.\nPsi-7-3: The\u2026 House Man? It says the House Man. There's an illustration here that shows a face, but that's it.\nPsi-7-2: You think that that's our bogey?\nPsi-7-3: I don't jump to conclusions, but I think it is. There's an inscription here on the top left, too.\nPsi-7-3 pauses to read again.\nPsi-7-3: Obaa\u2026 chan. She got it from her grandmother? It says something like that.\nPsi-7-2: What did she get from her grandmother?\nPsi-7-3: Don't know.\nThe sound of a churning liquid is heard above them. Psi-7-2 looks up.\nPsi-7-2: The hell was that?\nPsi-7-1 raises a hand to signal silence.\nPsi-7-1: Shh.\nPsi-7-1 scans his surroundings.\nPsi-7-1: Comb the rooms.\nPsi-7-2 and Psi-7-3: Affirmative, Sir.\nAll three operatives move in separate directions. Psi-7-1 secures the kitchen. Psi-7-2 secures the bathroom. Psi-7-3 secures the bedroom.\nThirty-seconds transpire.\nPsi-7-2: Negative bogeys on the kitchen. Fridge seems to be empty, though.\nPsi-7-1: Clear in the bathroom. Looks like she couldn't flush, though. Yelena?\nPsi-7-3: Clear in the bedroom. I see a laptop. There's a phone on the bed.\nPsi-7-3 pauses.\nPsi-7-3: I feel like we're being watched.\nPsi-7-3 turns around quickly.\nPsi-7-1 and Psi-7-2 enter.\nPsi-7-3: You hear that?\nPsi-7-1: Hear what, Yelena?\nPsi-7-3 looks up, and then around her.\nPsi-7-3: I felt\u2026 eyes. Up there.\nPsi-7-3 points up, above the doorway to the bedroom.\nThe wall contains nothing out of the ordinary.\nPsi-7-1: Nothing's there.\nPsi-7-2: You think it's something hallucinatory, Boss?\nPsi-7-1: \u2026perhaps. We don't know what the hell we're dealing with here.\nPsi-7-1 turns to the laptop, then looks at the diary.\nPsi-7-1: Alright. No more messing around. Two, I want you to open that phone. Connect it to your gear and transmit the files back to HQ.\nPsi-7-2: Affirmative.\nPsi-7-2 picks up the smartphone, using a USB cord to connect it to the port in his helmet.\nPsi-7-1: Three, take a look at the laptop, see if it's still on.\nPsi-7-3: Got it, One.\nPsi-7-3 takes a seat at the desk and opens the laptop.\nTwelve seconds pass.\nPsi-7-1: How's progress, Two and Three?\nPsi-7-3: The laptop seems to be open. Thank God it's still got some juice in it. Running through files now.\nPsi-7-2: Transfer's completed. Found some audio files too. Looks like she kept a diary.\nPsi-7-1: What did you see-\nSuddenly, the bedroom door creaks open. A deep masculine groan is heard.\nAll operatives of Psi-7 look in the direction of the door.\nPsi-7-1: That's definitely our bogey. Three, keep on that laptop. Two, what did you say?\nPsi-7-2: There's audio, but I can't understand it. It's in Japanese.\nPsi-7-1 keeps firm watch on the door. His weapon is at the ready.\nPsi-7-1: Two, exchange places with Three. I need her to listen to it.\nWordlessly, both operatives exchange positions.\nPsi-7-3: Alright. Alright. \u201cHe's in the walls, he's in the ceiling, I can hear him laugh.\u201d\nPsi-7-2: What the fuck does that mean?\nPsi-7-3: I don't know, alright? \u201cHe's watching me. He's playing with me. I don't know what he is but he's playing with me.\u201d\nPsi-7-2: Fucking hell.\nPsi-7-1: Professionalism, Two. Three, continue.\nPsi-7-2: Sorry boss, but I\u2026 I found something. In the Videos folder.\nPsi-7-1 looks in the direction of the laptop screen.\nPsi-7-2 opens the laptop. The video shows blurry hidden camera footage of Fujiwara in her bedroom. What looks like black eyes watch her from above her bed. Fujiwara then wakes up, making eye contact with them. Immediately, the eyes contort into an expression of anger, disappearing three seconds later.\nThe same flowing sound from earlier is heard. Psi-7-1 turns around.\nPsi-7-2: Boss. It's behind you, isn't it?\nPsi-7-1 gulps.\nPsi-7-1: Keep calm, now. Keep calm.\nA laugh from above is heard.\nA silence intervenes for 3 seconds.\nPsi-7-1: \u2026three. What have you heard so far?\nPsi-7-3: Nothing! Just don't look up all over again. \u201cDon't look up. Don't look up.\u201d She says that if you know, don't look up. It's how she was trapped in here. She says not to\u2026 go home after you know, or else he'll haunt you too.\nPsi-7-2: We know, don't we, boss? Like she said?\nPsi-7-3 looks straight into Psi-7-1's eyes.\nPsi-7-3: One. We need to get out of here.\nPsi-7-1 nods.\nPsi-7-1: Run. Now.The bedroom door closes. Psi-7-1 tries to open it, but it refuses to move.\nThe door to the hall outside closes with a loud bang.\nPsi-7-3: No. He said no.\nPsi-7-2: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!\nPsi-7-1: Look down, now! Yelena, Arnie, look fucking down!\nAll operatives look down.\nPsi-7-1: Stop. Don't look up. Don't look up. Don't look up. Don't look up.\nThe same flowing sound is heard behind Psi-7-1. Heavy breathing is soon heard.\nPsi-7-2: Boss. Boss?!\nThrough Psi-7-2's camera, a finger can be seen tracing a long line down Psi-7-1's back. At the same time, through Psi-7-3's camera, a long black arm could be found caressing Psi-7-2's spine. They both retreat after several seconds.\nSCP-5421 speaks in Japanese in a playful manner.\nPsi-7-3: \u201cLook up, my\u2026 Pretties.\" he says. \u201cLook up. Look up.\u201d\nPsi-7-2: Go fuck yourself!\nPsi-7-1: Two, stand the fuck down! Three, can you bargain with it?\nPsi-7-3: I'll try.\nPsi-7-3 begins to speak in Japanese.\nA rippling sound is heard again, this time behind Psi-7-3. A long, dark arm comes out from the wall, caressing Psi-7-3's cheek. Psi-7-3 shivers, but keeps speaking.\nSCP-5421 responds. A giggle is heard.\nPsi-7-2: Jesus Christ.\nPsi-7-1: What did he say?\nPsi-7-3: That we're so beautiful\u2026 that\u2026 that we shouldn't have caught him, that he can't wait to starve us, to watch us wither, and\u2026\nPsi-7-3 bites her lip.\nPsi-7-3: To torment us.\nPsi-7-2: Jesus fucking Christ almighty.\nPsi-7-1: Okay. Okay. So long as we don't look up, we're okay.\nSCP-5421 laughs. He begins to speak again. Flowing water above is heard.\nPsi-7-3: He says\u2026\nPsi-7-3's knees are quivering.\nPsi-7-3: He says \u201cFine.\u201d\nPsi-7-1: Oh dear\u2026 God.\nPsi-7-1 raises his right hand.\nPsi-7-1: Everyone. Arm.\nPsi-7-2 and Psi-7-3 reach for their weapons.\nThe flowing sound begins to increase in volume.\nPsi-7-1: Ready?\nBoth Psi-7-2 and Psi-7-3 stamp their feet to signal their affirmation.\nPsi-7-1: Don't look up. Fire at will!\nThe Mobile Task Force operatives begin firing into the ceiling.\nThe gunfire persists for several seconds.\nPsi-7-2: Is it dead, Boss?\nPsi-7-1: Hope so.\nA notification is heard from the laptop. Psi-7-2, keeping his head low, begins to investigate it. A window without a close button pops up on the screen.\nPsi-7-1: Arnie. Turn it off.\nPsi-7-2: I can't read anything, wait.\nPsi-7-2 presses a random button.\nThe window gives way to a live camera feed of the bedroom.\nThe sound of running water is heard again.\nPsi-7-1: ARNIE, LOOK AWAY-\nPsi-7-2 is unable to look away from the screen as the face of SCP-5421 comes into full view. The sound of a door locking is heard before the recording abruptly stops.\n<End Log>\n\nAfterword: Foundation personnel arrived at the entrance of SCP-5421-A two minutes after the video feed cut out. The door was found to be ajar. All three members of the exploration team were found to be lying dead on the ground, having committed suicide with their weapons. No other marks have been found on their bodies, which were still fresh by the time that they were found.\nFoundation researchers have later theorized that SCP-5421 has full control of SCP-5421-A, and has the ability to isolate it within its own pocket dimension for as long as it wishes to once a person makes eye contact with it. As of the time of writing, no other personnel have been given the clearance to enter SCP-5421-A. All personnel who oversaw the operation have been amnesticized to prevent the transfer of SCP-5421 outside of SCP-5421-A.\n\nAddendum 5421.01: The following file is the audio journal of Aiko Fujiwara, as sent to HQ by Psi-7-2 prior to the deaths of all three members of MTF Psi-7. All entries have been transcribed from the audio files and translated from Japanese, with extraneous entries unrelated to SCP-5421 being removed for brevity.\n\n9/11/2018\nGod, I still can't believe she's gone, and so suddenly\u2026 Grandmother was such a kind soul. What a thing to take with me to Nagoya next week, right? Mom made sure to give me some of her keepsakes. Her old journals, her old necklace\u2026 damn, that necklace really fit her. No matter. Mom said Grandmother got the necklace from when she went to Hokkaido when she was twenty-one, some top secret mission for the post-occupation government or something. Brought the necklace back with her. Who knew that Grandmother was some secret spy, right?\n(\u2026) I took a look at the journals earlier, though, and some of them seemed to be stuck with some kind of glue. I'll work on separating them when I get the time. The other entries seemed to be really interesting on their own.\n[Extraneous entries removed]\n9/16/2018\n(\u2026) In other news, finally got the damn pages separated. Mom's old paper knife came in handy for the first time in thirty years. Entries in the journals detailed some scary shit. Apparently, Grandmother heard about some sort of henge2 called a House Man(?) up in Hokkaido, some kind of really obscure folk tale with the Ainu3.\nHe was said to live in ceilings and swam(?) in them, peeking on young men and women and playing with them like some old\u2026 pervert. He'd lock them in and watched them die too, once they found out he was there. Grandmother said that the people she talked to made that clear. The Ainu used to sprinkle salt at their door whenever they remembered or were told about him, for fear that he'll come after their children once they remember him.\nOh, crap, is that where Grandmother got that habit? Mom and I always wondered why.\nI don't know how that fits in with all the things Grandmother did over there, but she seemed to have a knack for collecting folk stories. Wonder why the pages were stuck together, though. (\u2026) That sweet damn kiss from him was the last thing I got before I set out for Nagoya. Goodbye, Ibusuki! You were so good to me. Thank you so much for all the memories. Goodbye too, Grandmother.\n9/17/2018\nHello, Nagoya! Just finally entered my new home. Moved in all of my stuff, put up the picture frames. Ate out at a ramen place to celebrate. New place seems to be noisy, though. I think there's a leaking pipe around here, keep hearing water. I thought Mom checked it over? Neighbors over in the next room are noisy as hell, too. I wonder why she rented it out for me. (\u2026)\n(\u2026) Huh. So I just took my clothes off earlier and put them in the hamper and\u2026 They don't seem to be there? Do we have a rat problem here, too?\n9/18/2018\n(\u2026) Right after I came home from teaching, something strange happened, though. When I came in, something brushed up against my leg? It was solid and cold, like dead fingers. I'm shivering just thinking about it. Leaky pipe's getting worse too. Keep hearing water all around the condo. Here. [Fujiwara appears to lift her hand. The sound of running water is heard.] I'll keep recording after I wash up.\n(\u2026) God, is this place haunted? Lightbulb kept turning on and off in the shower. Went right back after dressing up, and it seems to be working fine, but now the lightbulb in my bedroom is acting up too.\nDoesn't help that I had a nightmare, too. A voice whispering in my ear. Something breathing down my neck. Fingers tracing lines down my legs. My face. It makes me shiver when I think about it.\nFuck this. I'm checking the assignments and heading to sleep.\n9/19/2018\nGoddamn that leaky fucking pipe! Woke up in the early morning with warm water dripping on my face. It was hard to go to sleep after that, so I took a shower. Bulb was acting up again. I thought I heard\u2026 breathing, too. Heavy breathing. Went back to the bedroom. Same damn thing. Found some pitch black stains on the clothes in my closet too, smelled like bleach or something. I know this is a new place and all, but\u2026 I wanna move out of here already. This is creepy as all hell. Doesn't help that the neighbors are still noisy too. When I come back home later, I'll get a member of the maintenance staff to check it.\n(\u2026) Hina-san, the maintenance lady, said that there were no leaky pipes in the unit. Bulbs were fine, too. I told her it was impossible. The bulbs were acting up, and the pipes were leaking since I got here. She just shrugged, joked that it was an oni haunting me, and bid me farewell.\nThat got me wondering, though. About the henge in Grandmother's journal. What if\u2026\nNo, I don't want to think about it. Regardless, I've decided to sleep over at Rina's place tomorrow. If it really is some henge following me, I do hope he leaves when I come back. I've installed a camera in my bedroom, too. I want to get to the bottom of this tonight.\n9/20/2018\nOh dear God. Save me. Save me. I woke up suddenly at night and saw him and the door closed and he is there. The eyes. They've always looked at me while I slept\u2026 He always watches me. He took my clothes from the hamper, too. The warm water from the ceiling\u2026 It's saliva. He is\u2026 he is\u2026\n[The sound of heavy breathing is heard. Fujiwara's voice lowers.]\nHe is breathing next to me right now.\nThe door is locked. He locked it. I can't get out.\nEverything's silent and the power's off and I can't hear the neighbors anymore.\nHe's not allowing me to sleep. Every time I try to eat or drink he harries me. Springs from the wall and makes sure I can't keep my food down\u2026 Or summons his hand from the floor to grab my leg or my arm.\nBut he doesn't kill me. He doesn't dare do anything worse than scare me.\nI know what he is. He's a fucking coward. Can't do anything else than look at someone helpless. That's what you are, aren't you?! A fucking coward!?\n[The shuffle of fabric is heard.]\nNo! Get away from me. Get away from me!\n[The sound of a knife hitting the floor is heard.]\nGET AW-\nNO DATE DISPLAYED\nHe's in the walls, he's in the ceiling, I can hear him laugh! He's watching me. He's playing with me. I don't know what he is but he's playing with me.\nI shouldn't have looked up. That's what allowed him to trap me in here like all his other victims.\nHis hands can go all around the house, but his face\u2026 His face is only on the ceiling. Did he watch me all the time since I got here? For how long? Was he the one responsible for the black stains? Was\u2026\nNo. He can only scare me. That's all he does. I've tried fighting back but he can retreat so fast\u2026\n[Fujiwara begins to sob.]\nI'm so sorry, Grandmother. I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have looked in your journals. You hid them away for a reason.\n[A playful singing is heard.]\nWhoever's listening to this\u2026 please stay away. He's already onto you. Don't look up. Don't look up. Don't look up.\nDon't try to find out what he is.\nIf you can hear this, sprinkle salt on your doorstep every time you head home. It's your only chance.\n[The singing gets closer.]\nHe will trap you. You know about him now, too. Don't go home without sprinkling salt. Don't look up.\nHe says\u2026 he says that he will watch me die. I know he's there. He'll watch me die. He can't do anything worse, but he'll\u2026 watch\u2026 me\u2026 die.\n[Rushing water is heard again. SCP-5421's voice is heard in the distance. It is inaudible.]\nNo, stay away. STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY FROM ME, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!\n[The sound of a knife being taken from a countertop is heard.]\nI DON'T WANNA SEE YOU ANYMORE! I DON'T WANNA KNOW YOU'RE HERE!\n[Fujiwara screams. The sound of stabbing is heard four times. Fujiwara falls to the ground.]\n[The audio recording continues for several minutes, then a deep masculine voice is heard.]\nShame. She didn't last long.\n[A door creaks open. Rushing water is heard, then a tap on glass, presumed to be on the smartphone. The recording abruptly ends.]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly known as bleeding out.\n2. Changed things or mutants, related to y\u014dkai (spirits)\n3. An indigenous culture from the island of Hokkaido\n\nMore from Ecronak\n\u00ab SCP-5420 | SCP-5421 | SCP-5422 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5422\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\ncernunnos\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the location and nature of SCP-5422 direct containment is not currently possible, although the nature of the anomaly means it is primarily self-containing. Efforts will focus on the study of the anomaly and mitigation of its growth, however complete prevention of SCP-5422's growth is currently considered impossible1.\nAgents imbedded within anomalous organizations and communities will actively discourage the use of intangibility for tactical or recreational purposes and will make efforts to prevent any experiments involving such, to the extent that it does not interfere with their other duties. Foundation experiments involving intangibility will only be carried out when there is judged to be a minimal risk of the creation of a SCP-5422-1 instance.\nAnalysis of SCP-5422 is to be performed via use of thaumaturgical scanning equipment and Intangible object detection devices. SCP-5422 is to be continually monitored to detect the arrival of SCP-5422-1 instances at SCP-5422.\nProposals regarding SCP-5422 are to be reviewed and accepted/denied on a case-by-case basis by all relevant parties. Any feasible proposals pertaining to the permanent neutralization of SCP-5422 are pre-emptively approved by the Ethics committee.\nDescription: SCP-5422 refers to a mass of intangible objects located at the approximate gravitational center of the earth. While this mass consists partially of various chunks of earth, small objects and animals, the vast majority of the mass is composed of human bodies, hence after referred to as SCP-5422-1 instances.\nSCP-5422-1 instances appear to have no singular source, rather originating from a variety of sources over the course of several centuries. All SCP-5422-1 instances have been measured to be between 0.2-0.3 on the Yempit opacity scale2. There are currently believed to be over \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 SCP-5422-1 instances within SCP-5422.\n\n+ Log of notable SCP-5422 instances\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5422-1 instance\nDescription\n\nSCP-5422-1-20\nA Caucasian male of approximately 30 years of age. The instance is dressed in clothes consistent with those of the 13th century and emits mild amounts of Akiva radiation. The instance appears to have suffocated.\n\nSCP-5422-1-537\nA young, heavily disfigured female of apparent Asian descent. The instance show wounds consistent with those typically inflicted by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588, believed to be the cause of their presence within SCP-54223. These wounds do not appear to have been fatal.\n\nSCP-5422-1-4035\nInstance is identical in appearance to D-15480 prior to test 4035-27. Instance appears to have died from starvation.\n\nSCP-5422-1-11037 through 11043\nInstances wear armory consistent with that of the Allied Occult Initiative4. A piece of machinery held by one of the instances is believed to be responsible for these instances' presence in SCP-5422. It is unknown whether the instances are aware of or have ascertained each others' presence.\n\nSCP-5422-1-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 through \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nAll instances are identical to a person confirmed to be alive as of 1980. As all the vast majority of these people are confirmed to still be present on the earth's surface, it is unknown how these instances exist, although they have been confirmed to be present in SCP-5422 as a result of unstable Hume fluctuations. Due to this, the status of the instances is unknown.\n\nSCP-5422-1-1\nSee Addendum-1\n\n- Close\n\nAddendum-1: Discovery:\nSCP-5422 was discovered in the aftermath of Incident-\u2588\u2588-35. Incident-\u2588\u2588-35 involved several assailants from the Chaos Insurgency attacking Site-\u2588\u2588, presumably with the goal of securing SCP-048. While the attack was successfully repelled, the assailants activated a device while on the retreat to prevent their capture. The activation of the device cast what is believed to be a modified version of thaumaturgical ritual D5-24, resulting in a large portion of the Site, along with the device, SCP-048 and numerous personnel becoming intangible, and subsequently falling through the ground5. Among these personnel was Researcher Bradbury, who was in his office at the time of the device's activation.\nApproximately 3 hours after the incident, during cleanup and repair operations, the following message was received on several co-workers' computers:\n\n+ Recovered Communication\n\n- Close\n\nHELP HELP IM A FOUNDATION RESEARCHER WE WERE ATTACKED SOMETHING HAPPENED AND NOW I CANT SEE OR HEAR OR FEEL ANYTHING [Redacted for brevity]\n\nSignal tracing located the origin of this message to be approximately 44km beneath Site-\u2588\u2588. It is believed that Researcher Bradley was in contact with his personal work computer at the time of transformation, and that the anomalous augmentations of the computer6, along with his training in non-visual typing7, allowed him to continue to communicate with his surface colleagues. It was considered likely that Researcher Bradbury was experiencing extreme sensatory deprivation as a result of his location and intangible nature.\nThe signal from Bradbury's computer continued to be tracked for several hours before coming to rest at the approximate gravitational center of the earth. The use of thaumaturgical ritual B9-73 was authorized, resulting in the discovery of SCP-54228.\nAddendum-2: Communication:\n\nSCP-5422 Research Proposal\nAttempt two-way communication with Researcher Bradbury via a Foundation standard computer, as so to ascertain more about the nature of his situation.\nStatus: Approved by O5 command\nReason: Two-way communication would allow active analysis of Researcher Bradbury's situation and the nature of SCP-5422 along with the status of lost objects and personnel.\n\nFollowing the approval of the above proposal, communication was attempted with Researcher Bradbury (Hence after referred to as SCP-5422-1-1) via his computer, which was still believed to be in his possession. The following interaction resulted:\n\n+ Recovered Communication\n\n- Close\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5422-1-1\nInterviewer: Dr Carlson\nForeword: This interview was conducted via Dr Carlson's email account. Dr Carlson was chosen for the interview due to being a prior co-worker of SCP-5422-1-1 and receiving the multiple emails from it. These emails have been placed into an interview format for easy reading with spelling and grammar corrections.\n<Begin Log>\nSCP-5422-1-1: Is anyone there? I'm sorry for typing in all caps, I just needed to attract your attention. Anyone?\nDr Carlson: Bradbury? Researcher Bradbury? Can you see this?\nSCP-5422-1-1: Anyone at all?\nDr Carlson: Can you see this Bradbury?\nSCP-5422-1-1: The Site Director said this would work.\nDr Carlson: You can't see this can you.\nSCP-5422-1-1: \"Extradimensional technology\" they said. \"It will never fail, even pocket dimensions and rooms with impossible geometry!\". Even if no-one saw my messages you'd think an AI would pick it up.\nSCP-5422-1-1: Yet I've been typing at this god damn thing for hours, days even! And no reply. Guess they never accounted for wherever the hell I am. I can't see, or hear, or feel anything except this computer! And it DOESN'T EVEN WORK!\nDr Carlson: Stay calm Bradbury, we'll figure out a way to retrieve you.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: It is currently believed that SCP-5422-1-1 was unable to perceive that he had been contacted due to sensatory deprivation.\n\nShortly after this interview, communication from SCP-5422-1-1 ceased. This is believed to be due to SCP-5422-1-1 falling asleep.\n\nAddendum-3: Research & Analysis:\nFollowing initial communication attempts, research through alternate methods was proposed.\n\nSCP-5422 Research Proposal\nDeploy a deep-earth probe for the analysis of SCP-5422 and the retrieval of lost personnel.\nStatus: Denied by O5 command\nReason: The cost and risks of such a project would far outweigh the potential benefits.\n\nResearch and analysis was eventually authorized via further use of thaumaturgical ritual B9-73 and other relevant thaumaturgical processes along with recently developed technology for detecting intangible anomalous entities9. The anomaly was determined to not be from a single original source, cause or event, but rather a multitude of sources, causes and events, which collectively resulted in the formation of SCP-5422 due to their similar natures and outcomes. Current containment procedures were implemented shortly thereafter.\nAround this time, SCP-5422-1-1 resumed communication.\n\n+ Recovered communication\n\n- Close\n\nNote: Grammar and spelling corrections have been made.\n\nSCP-5422-1-1: Hello? I just woke up. Or at least I think I woke up. Hard to tell when you can see just as much awake as asleep.\nSCP-5422-1-1 Still have this computer though, so that's something. Found it floating against my chest if you'd believe that. Guess the gravity in this place is kinda funked up\u2026 Come to think of it, I don't even know which way is down.\nSCP-5422-1-1: Guess this is how Scranton must have felt. At least he had some idea of where he was. Don't think I am where he was though, cause I still feel hungry. And thirsty.\nSCP-5422-1-1: Why am even still writing these? I guess because of the slight chance that the Foundation, or heck anyone at all will see these. No sure how, but that sort of stuff seems to happen surprisingly often. I mean, I know they're not getting it, else they would have rescued me by now. Or at least sent a response.\nSCP-5422-1-1: As it is, I'm just sitting here, in a empty void, sending messages that no-one will see. And no-on knows where I am. I'm going to die here, aren't I ?\n\nThese messages was followed by several similar message strings over the course of several hours before once again ceasing (Consult Addendum-5422-B for a full list of recovered transmissions). This is believed to be due to SCP-5422-1-1 fainting from sleep deprivation.\nAddendum-4: Ongoing Containment:\nDue to the remote location and difficult to contain nature of SCP-5422, multiple proposals to contain it more securely were submitted.\n\nSCP-5422 Containment Proposal\nDeploy a deep-earth probe for equipped with an incorporeal entity vacuum chamber for the containment and transportation of SCP-5422, along with the recovery of lost personnel.\nStatus: Denied by O5 command\nReason: Once again, the cost and risks of such a project would far outweigh the potential benefits. Furthermore, incorporeal entity vacuum chamber partially solidifies all intangible objects placed within it, making it impractical for transporting a large number.\n\nSCP-5422 Containment Proposal\nUse SCP-\u2588\u2588 to teleport SCP-5422 to a suitable Foundation holding site, as so to allow for the recovery of lost personnel.\nStatus: Denied by O5 command\nReason: SCP-\u2588\u2588 is too valuable to risk for an objective like this. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the SCP-5422-1 instances will be affected by it.\n\nThe following communication was received from SCP-5422-1-1:\n\n+ Recovered communication\n\n- Close\n\nNote: Grammar and spelling corrections have been made.\n\nSCP-5422-1-1: So here it is, my last-ditch attempt for rescue. And yes, it's just more of the same, because there isn't much to do in this void of a place is there?\nSCP-5422-1-1 I've kind of made peace with the fact that I'm almost certainly going to die down here. Hey, at least I get to write some poetic stuff before I go! Thank goodness for touch-typing.\nSCP-5422-1-1: The again, I might be typing gibberish. Who knows?\nSCP-5422-1-1: Well, if anyone does see this, let this be my dying request. Stop this. Stop whatever happened to me from happening to someone else.\nSCP-5422-1-1: When I entered the Foundation, I kind of already made peace with the fact I was more than likely going to die on the job. I mean, I would have been crazy to work with cognitohazards if I hadn't.\nSCP-5422-1-1: But what if this happens to someone else? Someone totally unprepared for the experience? Someone with a family to go back to, who desperately doesn't die in a place like this? Someone who has to spend much longer in here? If it happened to me it could happen to others, and I know I have a slightly higher chance than most of people knowing what happened to me.\nSCP-5422-1-1: Stop this. If not for my sake, for theirs.\nSCP-5422-1-1: God, I'm so thirsty.\n\nFollowing this, communication from SCP-5422-1-1 ceased and has not since resumed. This is believed to be due to SCP-5422-1-1's death from dehydration.\nAddendum-6: Neutralization Proposals:\n\nSCP-5422 Neutralization Proposal\nUse of an intangible explosive device to neutralize SCP-5422.\nStatus: Denied by O5 command\nReason: This is unlikely to resolve the issue for any significant length of time.\n\nSCP-5422 Neutralization Proposal\nUse of an intangible explosive device to neutralize all SCP-5422-1 instances still alive within SCP-5422.\nStatus: Approved by O5 command\nReason: We're not cruel, we just know when we can't stop something from happening.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Functional containment procedures exist for Cernunnos-class anomalies, but are unable to be implemented due to ethical and/or logistical reasons.\n2. The Yempit opacity scale is used to measure the amount of intractability that an intangible or partially intangible object has upon the physical world, with 0 having no intractability and 1 being fully intractable, the baseline amount for most objects. Objects with a Yempit opacity rating of between 0.2-0.3 are capable of being acted on by the forces of gravity but not by electro-magnetism to any significant degree and therefore are capable of passing through solid objects.\n3. The implications of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588 existing within Asia is currently under investigation.\n4. A precursor to the Global Occult Coalition formed during the 7th Occult War.\n5. Thaumaturgical ritual D5-24 causes intangibility in the caster or people in close proximity that the caster targets. While the ritual is intended to lower the target's Yempit rating to 0.5, allowing egress through solid objects only with sufficient momentum, the ritual is structured in such a way that minor mistakes can lower the target's Yempit rating to under 0.3. This ritual saw widespread usage among the anomalous community throughout the 1970s and is believed to be responsible for the existence of no less than \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 SCP-5422-1 instances.\n6. The non-Euclidean geometry of the majority of the anomalies contained at Site-\u2588\u2588 meant that all communicatory devices at the Site operate by first sending communication to an extradimensional location, after which it is sent to the appropriate recipient.\n7. Researcher Bradbury is assigned to the analysis of digital cognitohazards.\n8. Thaumaturgical ritual B9-73 allows the caster to project an image in the caster's vicinity of any person within a precise location targeted by the caster. These projections take the appearance of the target and emit the same amounts of heat and radiation (both anomalous and non-anomalous) despite being intangible and disappearing after a variable amount time.\n9. These newly developed technologies send out various types of anomalous and non-anomalous radiation, utilizing a process similar to sonar to detect intangible objects.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5421 | SCP-5422 | SCP-5423 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5423-1-S\nItem #: SCP-5423\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The door associated with SCP-5423 is to remain open outside of scheduled testing, and personnel will not enter the room except as required by testing protocols. A block will be placed in the doorframe to make sure it does not accidentally shut, while a barrier will be placed around the door to deny unauthorized entry.\nAny personnel who experience SCP-5423's anomalous effects will be removed from the site and isolated for at least one week as part of standard decontamination procedures after exposure to unreality.\nDescription: SCP-5423 is a spatial anomaly manifesting in a room in Site 98. When the door to this room is closed, the room, its contents, and the space it occupies ceases to exist to all measurements currently available to the Foundation.\nSonar and electromagnetic radiation act as though there is no space between the walls when the door is closed.\nPersons inside the room experience no time between the door's closing and its opening again. When the door opens, objects in motion have the same position and momentum they had when the door had closed, no matter how far they should have traveled.\nThe room in which SCP-5423 manifests was previously a storage room on the second sub-level of Site 98. There were no anomalous objects inside when it was discovered and it is presently unknown how it manifested.\nO5 Command has approved the installation of a window to observe the effects of SCP-5423 directly. Installation has been scheduled for 24/MAR/30.\nWhile testing of the anomaly's properties is underway, a Directed Task Force led by Dr. Matson has been commissioned to investigate its origins.\n\n+ From Dr. Matson's Notes\n\n- Findings\n\nA full inventory of the anomalous storage room is currently being undertaken. While records indicate that no anomalous objects have been stored there, numerous pieces of equipment and records relating to the observation, testing, and containment of anomalous objects have been. I am convinced that cross-contamination is the root of this. Someone failed to follow procedure. I'm going to learn who and nail them to the wall.\nI've advised against the testing of SCP-5423 until we have a handle on the origin of the anomaly. The loss of Doctor Scranton should be a warning to us all.\n\nComplaint Lodged by Dr. Verne: With due respect to Dr. Matson, he's not in charge of investigating this anomaly. It ultimately doesn't matter where the anomaly came from. What matters is what it is. As Site Director Alvarez agrees with me and has placed me in charge of testing, I find it extremely inappropriate for Dr. Matson to comment on my testing procedures.\n\nWARNING: THIS VERSION HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED BY SCP-5423-2-S\n\n\u00ab SCP-5422 | SCP-5423 | SCP-5424 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5424\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5424 is to be contained within the roughly 6m x 3m x 2m chamber which has replaced humanoid containment chamber HC-5424 by virtue of SCP-5424's primary anomalous effect.\nNo Foundation personnel are to approach the chamber's entrance closer than nine meters. Items delivered to SCP-5424 (i.e. basic sustenance, sanitary supplies etc.) are to be delivered via the installed automated trolley system.\nDescription:\nSCP-5424 is a human female, aged 36. Prior to incident IN-5424-01, the subject's designation was Doctor Hillary Weaver, posted at the Suspected Anomalous Materials Analysis Division (SAMAD) at Site-81.\nThe subject's primary anomalous quality is the periodic alteration of its immediate surroundings. The radius of these changes is not consistent and has been observed to fluctuate between one and seven meters. While the deployment of Scranton Reality Anchors has proven ineffective, the primary anomalous effects of SCP-5424 appear not to manifest within the same area on multiple occasions. Therefore, in the aftermath of incident IN-5424-02, SCP-5424 was not relocated to a standard humanoid containment cell.\nWhile locations previously affected by SCP-5424 do not appear to be altered repeatedly, individual items have been observed to materialize within SCP-5424's vicinity. In addition, objects transferred to the immediate vicinity of SCP-5424 (including Foundation personnel) subsequent to an alteration, have sporadically ceased to exist. Aetheric Resonance Imaging has consistently shown no levels of Aspect Radiation above the accepted one hundred Casper background radiation baseline during these events.\nCognitive testing of SCP-5424 has established no impairment of cognitive function with the exception of the dissociative issues speculated to be linked to SCP-5424's anomalous properties. Specifically, no indications of cerebral atrophy or cerebrovascular damage have been detected.\nDespite detailed analysis of available data, including detailed medical and thaumaturgical scans of SCP-5424 as well as materials analysis of the locations of incidents IN-5424-01 and IN-5424-02, no plausible hypothesis explaining the onset or nature of SCP-5424's anomalous properties has as yet been put forth. While SCP-5424 itself has produced an explanation (see interview transcript IVT-5424-05) of the events, inconsistencies between SCP-5424's narrative and the observed properties of other Type Green entities would seem to indicate the provided explanation to most likely be a result of the subject's established dissociative/confabulative episodes.\nPrior to the initial manifestation of SCP-5424's anomalous effects during incident IN-5424-01, the subject had sought medical assistance at Site-81's medical wing. Transcripts of interviews performed by Site-81 personnel, as well as relevant incident reports, are attached to this file.\n\nAppendix A - Interview transcripts prior to incident IN-5424-01\n\nAppendix A - Interview transcripts prior to incident IN-5424-01\n\nAppendix A - Interview transcripts prior to incident IN-5424-01\n\nINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IVT-5424-01\n\nDATE: 01-03-2019\nNOTE: Interview conducted by Doctor Roberta Ibanez, Site-81 general practitioner\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]\nDr. Ibanez: Hi, Hill! So, what seems to be the problem?Dr. Ibanez: Huh. Well, as far as I know there haven't been any changes to the mess recently. You know what, it's probably just stress-related, with all those new potential anomalies Zeta-9 brought in from that op last week. I hear Blanchard is running you ragged over at SAMAD.Dr. Ibanez: Tell you what: I'll write you up for light duty next week. You give yourself a break and take it a little slower. If weirdness persists, I'll run a full diagnosis the following Monday. Speaking of weirdness: How did your date with that guy from SITESEC go? Does he really never blink?[ 14 MINUTES OF EXTRANEOUS DIALOGUE OMITTED]\n\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\n\nINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IVT-5424-02\n\nDATE: 17-03-2019\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]\nDr. Ibanez: Commencing interview of patient Doctor Hillary Weaver, currently posted to SAMAD at Site-81. Interview being conducted by Dr. Roberta Ibanez, science staff general practitioner at Site-81 medical. Okay Hill, repeat what you just told me.Dr. Ibanez: Have you had any other instances of places seeming unfamiliar?[ 12 MINUTES OF EXTRANEOUS DIALOGUE OMITTED]\nSCP-5424 voices further distress about perceived changes to Site-81 architecture and personal effects. Dr. Ibanez schedules an appointment for neurological testing.\n\nNOTE: Subject's recollection of events and locations appears compromised. Suspected neurodegenerative disorder. Subject subsequently remanded to neurological staff for detailed diagnosis.\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\n\nINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IVT-5424-03\n\nDATE: 28-03-2019\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]Dr. Ibanez: Who's gone, Hill?Dr. Ibanez: I understand this is difficult. But could you please explain where they have gone?Dr. Ibanez: Hill, we've known each other for what, nine years now? I\u2026 you\u2026 you've never mentioned being married before.[ 17 MINUTES OF EXTRANEOUS DIALOGUE OMITTED]Dr. Ibanez: Like what, Hill?Dr. Ibanez: Did you or your team discover anomalous properties in any of the items you examined lately?[ 12 MINUTES OF EXTRANEOUS DIALOGUE OMITTED]\nSCP-5424 is insistent that the onset of dissociative episodes is caused by heretofore undiscovered anomalous properties of one or more items analyzed by SAMAD.\n\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\nNOTE: Subject shows major confabulation pertaining to autobiographic facts in addition to previous symptoms. However, neurological test suite Sigma-2 administered by Doctor Ibanez and Doctor Vasilij Korsakov show no signs of cerebral atrophy or related ailments. Site-81 medical staff urgently suggests transfer of patient to dedicated neuromedical facility at Site-19.\nADDENDUM: Subsequent re-analysis of all items processed by SAMAD between 01-02-2019 and 01-03-2019 has failed to uncover any previously hidden anomalous attributes.\n\nINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IVT-5424-04\n\nDATE: 12-04-2019\nNOTE: Patient is currently detained at Site-81 medical.\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]Dr. Ibanez: I'm sorry, Hill. We have to keep you here for your own safety. Vassja has put in an urgent transfer request to Site-19. He says they'll be able to help you there.Dr. Ibanez: I'm sorry, who?Dr. Ibanez: Hill\u2026 I.. I've been treating you. Together with Vassja.Dr. Ibanez: Hill it's me.. Bobby\u2026\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\nNOTE: In addition to the serious confabulation shown previously, patient now exhibits dissociative symptoms pertaining to recollection of Site-81 personnel. Doctors Ibanez and Korsakov urgently request immediate priority transfer of patient to specialized facility at Site-19, regardless of current occupancy.\nADDENDUM: Site-81 personnel files show a Doctor Fredricks is not currently posted at Site-81. However, a Doctor Sonequa Fredricks has been posted at Site-76 SITEMED since 01-08-2010. Doctor Fredricks has been contacted and claims no recollection of patient.\n\nAppendix B - Incident reports IN-5424-01, IN-5424-02\n\nAppendix B - Incident reports IN-5424-01, IN-5424-02\n\nAppendix B - Incident reports IN-5424-01, IN-5424-02\n\nINCIDENT REPORT IN-5424-01\n\nDATE: 14-04-2019\nFILED BY: Captain Tariq Kassad, Site-81 Security Division (SITESEC)\n\nAt 23:41 on 12-04-2019, SITESEC received a code brown alert from SITEMED. It was reported that Patient Hillary Weaver had escaped confinement to SITEMED and injured medical technician Hamada Ichiro in the process. Doctor Weaver was described by SITEMED staff as mentally unstable and potentially dangerous. Intelligence gathered from previous statements by Doctor Weaver indicated the non-anomalous artifacts depot at SAMAD as a likely objective. SITESEC issued code brown for SAMAD, SITEMED as well as annexes Gamma through Epsilon. At 00:13 on 13-04-2019, Corporal G. Eisenmann and Private L. Svenson located Doctor Weaver within the Gamma Annex gymnasium. Corporal Eisenmann reported Doctor Weaver as prone, within a circular area of ceramic flooring, which had apparently replaced the EPDM flooring in that part of the gymnasium. Doctor Weaver was in considerable emotional distress and did not resist apprehension by SITESEC. Doctor Weaver has been detained within the SITESEC brig, pending investigation of the incident.\n\nADDENDUM (15-04-2019): Analysis of the anomalous flooring within the Gamma Annex gymnasium has revealed it to consist of standard P27 high endurance tiling, used extensively at Site-87 within SAMAD and MTF deployment bays.\nADDENDUM (16-04-2019): While the evaluation of Doctor Weaver's account of events concerning incident IN-5424-01 is currently pending, it has been determined that she is likely the focus of a hitherto unknown anomalous phenomenon. Doctor Weaver is reclassified as SCP-5424 and has been scheduled for transport to Site-06-03 for containment and further analysis.\n\nINCIDENT REPORT IN-5424-02\n\nDATE: 12-05-2019\nFILED BY: Doctor Hannah Rubin, Site-06-03 Humanoid Containment and Research Division (HUMCON)\n\nAt 09:41 on 11-05-2019, live video feed from containment chamber HC-5424 was lost. Subsequent investigation by class-D personnel revealed the containment door to apparently have been cut off from Site-06-03's power supply. It was later determined that the electrical and fiber-optic conduits within two meters of the door had apparently \"moved\" vertically by approximately twenty-five centimeters. After conduit reconnection, live video feed was restored. Several anomalies have been observed within SCP-5424's containment chamber, the most notable being:\n\nIncrease of the chamber's width by approximately fifty centimeters\nInversion of the placement of bunk and toilet\nAppearance of a bookshelf containing several paperback books. Based on visible titles, the books are presumed to encompass: \"The Forever War\" by Joe Haldeman, \"Stranger in a Strange Land\" by Robert A. Heinlein and \"Robinson Crusoe\" by Daniel Defoe.\n\nSCP-5424 appears oblivious to any alteration of its surroundings. However, the subject seems aware of anomalous activity. After restoration of video and audio feeds, audio feed transmitted the following: \"It happened again, huh? Thanks for getting the light back on. It's kinda hard to read in the dark.\"\n\nADDENDUM: Permission to enter HC-5424 in order to sample anomalous items and materials has been requested. Approval by Lead Researcher Hammerschmitt currently pending.\nADDENDUM: Deployed Scranton Reality Anchors deemed ineffective on SCP-5424's anomalous characteristics. Decommissioning and return to Site-06-03 equipment depot have been scheduled for 15-05-2019. - Containment Technician C. Ramirez\n\nAppendix C - Interview transcript IVT-5424-05\n\nAppendix C - Interview transcript IVT-5424-05\n\nAppendix C - Interview transcript IVT-5424-05\n\nINTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IVT-5424-05\n\nDATE: 15-05-2019\nNOTE: Interview conducted by Doctor Hannah Rubin, research assistant at Site-06-03 HUMCON. In accordance with containment procedures, Doctor Rubin was not physically present within SCP-5424's containment chamber. The interview was conducted via HC-5424's internal comms system.\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]\nDr. Rubin: Hello, Doctor Weaver. If you don't mind, I have a few questions for you.Dr. Rubin: I understand. However, considering your\u2026 condition, we have determined it to be best for me not to enter your quarters.Dr. Rubin: I would like to hear your account of events leading up to incident IN-5424-01.Dr. Rubin: The incident report states you were found in a gymnasium.Then I opened up another crate and there it was. PAA-35927. That number. I've handled hundreds of potential anomalies, and not one of the numbers stuck. Not even my first one, that silly little doll from New Orleans. But that one, PAA-35927, I'll remember that number until the day I die.\nDr. Rubin: What was it? Can you describe the artifact?Anyways, I open the box and lift it out. There's this flash. It was like I could see an enormous anthropomorphic hummingbird, holding a snake. And something else. A mirror, maybe?\nDr. Rubin: And you didn't report this at the time?Dr. Rubin: That's when you started\u2026 not remembering things?Dr. Rubin: Dr. Hammerschmitt believes your memory has been corrupted by the anomalous\u2026[approximately 20 seconds of silence]\nDr. Rubin: We can continue at a later time, if you would like.Dr. Rubin: The translations?Dr. Rubin: So you decided it was PAA-35927 causing the changes to your reality?Dr. Rubin: Then why did you go to the gymnasium?[approximately 10 seconds of silence]\nDr. Rubin: What happened then?Dr. Rubin: So, to summarize: An ancient Mayan artifact with undetected powers started changing your reality, and after you destroyed it, it began changing the space around you, to?Dr. Rubin: That's a very interesting hypothesis, Doctor Weaver. Now, I think this concludes the interview. Would you mind if we spoke again tomorrow?Dr. Rubin: I have every intention of continuing to exist, Doctor Weaver.Dr. Rubin: Who's Doctor Eisenhower?\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\nADDENDUM: Inquiries to the inventory of Site-81 NAAD has shown that item PAA-35927 is a Cheyenne war bonnet confiscated by MTF Beta-777 on 02-11-2014 with no registered anomalous properties. No item matching SCP-5424's account has been processed by Site-81 SAMAD to date.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5423 | SCP-5424 | SCP-5425 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: 5425\nObject Class: Euclid\nClearance Level: Five\n\nEE-5425.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5425 is to be contained at its current developmental level utilizing two Scranton Reality Anchors, and an OBELISK correctional system. SCP-5425's growth is to be minimized via localized reality restructuring.\nDescription: SCP-5425 refers to a spherical singularity with a current event horizon of 3 centimeters in diameter created by EE-5425, located in an OBELISK correctional system in the Jornada Del Muerto desert. SCP-5425 constantly expands, reconstructing reality by replacing baseline matter with its own. SCP-5425's gravitational field is localized around SCP-5425, displaying a strength similar to supermassive black holes.\nEE-5425 was the detonation of the \"Trinity\" bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. The fission of uranium atoms located within \"Trinity\" led to a spatial rift, creating SCP-5425 and permitting SCP-5425's matter generation. EE-5425 and the existence of SCP-5425 was withheld from the US Government by Foundation agent Julius Robert Oppenheimer, operating on the Foundation's behalf to ensure SCP-5425 posed minimal threat to the Veil. Agent Oppenheimer recorded data concerning SCP-5425, attached below.\n\nAssorted Documentation From Agent Oppenheimer\n\nWe plan to detonate \"Trinity\" today. I've warned the project leads, but sadly, it must be televised. It poses a major threat, but the Veil is somehow not at the forefront of my mind. What concerns me is the possibility that this weapon proposes.\n\nIt is true that we know not what rending atoms asunder will do. It is undeniable, however, that it will wreak untold havoc. Death. Destruction. At the moment, what threat it poses to us is terrifying to me. And that is an image I shall not be able to erase from my mind any time soon, no matter the amount of amnestics I use.\n\nIt is an understatement to say I fear what is to come. Humanity's undying urge is to destroy, deep down. That is what this war has shown me. And I am expected to end destruction with a final flame of death? Death so unimaginable no one dares defy it? You cannot douse fire with flame, nor heat snow with ice. It will keep going. Newer, more dangerous, more anomalous and destructive.\n\nThat is what I fear.\n\nAgent Oppenheimer\n\n| ENTER LOG_IN INFORMATION\n| CREDENTIALS: WHAT IS THE FINALITY OF DEATH'S SCREECH?\n|\n| RESPONSE: IF NOT FOR THE LAST ECHO OF LIFE?\n|\n| WELCOME, OPPENHEIMER\n|\n| VIEWING: \"PROJECT_CORE_RUNLOG\"\n|\n| T: 00:00 \"DETONATE\"\n| T: 01:12 \"DETONATION COMPLETE: RUNNING DIAGNOSTICS\"\n| T: 01:13 \"F: 10,300 DEG RNTGN_LVL: <2 LIFE_SIGNS DETECTED: ~0\"\n| T: 01:14 \"SHOCKWAVE: MINIMAL FALLOUT: TRINITITE_PENDING\"\n| T: 01:20 \"VEIL THREAT: MINIMAL, DISINFORMATION COMMENCED\"\n| T: 01:24 \"ALERT: UNIDENTIFIED MASS DISCOVERED; DIAGNOSTICS COMMENCED\"\n| T: 01:24 \"LIFE_DETECTED: ~1. IDENTITY: OPPENHEIMER\"\n| T: 01:25 \"OBELISK_ENGAGED. VIEW RIGHT FOR ACTIVE FEED\"\n| T: 01:25 \"APPROACH NOT SUGGESTED. FALLOUT ANALYSIS NEEDED.\"\n| T: 01:25 \"APPROACH NOT SUGGESTED. FALLOUT ANALYSIS NEEDED.\"\n| T: 01:26 \"APPROACH NOT SUGGESTED. GRAVITATIONAL ANALYSIS NEEDED.\"\n| T: 01:26 \"APPROACH NOT SUGGESTED. GRAVITATIONAL ANALYSIS NEEDED.\"\n| T: 01:26 \"SAFETY MEASURE ENGAGED. DANGER: MINIMAL. VEIL THREAT: PLAUSIBLE.\"\n| T: 01:27 \"THREAT: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.\"\n|\n| CLOSE_LOG\n| CLOSING\u2026\n|\n| GOODBYE, OPPENHEIMER.\n\nImagine my surprise when I find a localized singularity present right where Trinity was.\n\nMy predictions were true. The OBELISK is currently in position, keeping it at bay. To be a bit more specific, totally containing it. It is quite humorous, in a twisted way, that humanity is now the master of the total consumption of the Earth itself.\n\nIn watching that small black dot, I am reminded of something I was told by the Bhagavad Gita. \"The Supreme Lord said: I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy. Even without your participation all the warriors standing arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.\" We are now Death. And that terrifies me. For we are fallible. Is it not true we were cast out of Heaven for the attainment of knowledge? What of the attainment of pure and total killing itself? Life is a beautiful thing. Yet most of mine has been devoted to utmost destruction of what lies before me. They tell me the war will end. This is the second one. I've no guarantee that it shall. I know they wish for me to create these weapons to drop on humans themself. Why would I do such a thing? I shall monitor Trinity, and create two more, neither of which shall have such destructive power - it is not as if they can tell.\n\nAgent Oppenheimer\n\n| ENTER LOG_IN INFORMATION\n| CREDENTIALS: WHAT IS THE FINALITY OF DEATH'S SCREECH?\n|\n| RESPONSE: IF NOT FOR THE LAST ECHO OF LIFE?\n|\n| WELCOME, OPPENHEIMER\n|\n| VIEWING: \"EVENT_ALERT_TAU57_53RD_OCCASION\"\nALERT! ALERT! UNIDENTIFIED MASS WITHIN TRINITY FALLOUT LOCATION. OBELISK ADJUSTING. IMMEDIATE UPKEEP NEEDED.\nALERT! ALERT! UNIDENTIFIED GRAVITATIONAL FORCE WITHIN TRINITY FALLOUT LOCATION. OBELISK ADJUSTING. IMMEDIATE UPKEEP NEEDED.\nALERT! ALERT! UNIDENTIFIED LUMINOSITIES DETECTED.\nIMMEDIATE UPKEEP NEEDED.\nUPKEEP PERFORMED. ANOMALIES CULLED.\nCHANCES OF 54TH LIKEWISE EVENT REOCCURRING: 100%.\n|\n| CLOSE_LOG\n| CLOSING\u2026\n|\n| GOODBYE, OPPENHEIMER.\n\nAt this time, I find this will likely be a much shorter entry than my typical writings. I have not much time.\n\nIt is true that the OBELISK is doing exceptionally well at containing the Trinity being. This is undeniable fact - however, it is exceptional at containing something within. Something as of yet unknown to me, though I have a small inkling as what it could be. What has grown most concerning to me I have attached in a small log, which I shall ensure of its truth.\n\nHowever, I must append my previous claims.\n\nI have sinned for partaking in the destruction of the human. This is not what I, a man of science, truly wished to be in. Death is final. It is true I have a hand in death. My sins are thus, final.\n\nThey have told me that following Noah's sailing upon the Ark, or Deucalion, or any of the prophets which stood upon the rollicking waves, truly believed their actions were final. That the Earth was razed. It was torn asunder, washed under a tidal power.\n\nHowever, life began anew. I know it shall following Trinity.\n\nI named Trinity not after the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - I named it after Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu, from the glorious land of India. I was always quite fond of it. All are aspects of the same ideal; creation.\n\nFour-armed Vishnu, in his Nine Avatars, protects creation from meddling. Wise Brahma, keeper of the Knowledge of the Vedas creates. Shiva, however, the completion of the Trimurti, the aspect of destruction, is the antithetical one, or so it seems.\n\nIn destroying he creates space for life anew. So death doth touch the Resurrection, as the poet\nDonne so says. This is what I know shall occur. For death is not final. It resounds throughout the space it has left, until a being rises from the ashes.\n\nLife does not go so gently into that good night.\n\nAllow me to append my previous statement.\n\nI am not become Death.\n\nI? I am become Life. Creator of worlds.\n\n| ENTER LOG_IN INFORMATION\n| CREDENTIALS: WHAT IS THE FINALITY OF DEATH'S SCREECH?\n|\n| RESPONSE: IF NOT FOR THE LAST ECHO OF LIFE?\n|\n| WELCOME, OPPENHEIMER\n|\n| VIEWING: \"UPKEEP RESULTS\"\n|\n| LIFE_SIGNS: OPPENHEIMER, NULL\n| LIFE_SIGNS: OPPENHEIMER, UNIDENTIFIED\n| TRIGGER_OBELISK\n| LIFE_SIGNS: OPPENHEIMER, NULL\n| ANOMALIES CULLED. LUMINOSITIES SNUFFED.\n| OPPENHEIMER, DATING RESULTS ARE IN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO VIEW?\n|\n| Y\n|\n| FALLOUT HALF-LIFE: COMMENCED\u2026 EXPECTED TO FINISH IN 30.17 YEARS.\n|\n| PRINT: MATERIALS\n|\n| BOMB MATERIALS: SINGULARITY, DEBRIS, POWER, STRUCTURE, DEFENSE, CONCRETE_STRUCTURE, OBJECT1\n|\n| VIEW: SINGULARITY - HEATMAP\n|\n| VIEW: OBJECT 1 - DATE\n|\n| THIS OBJECT APPEARS TO HAVE SUFFERED A MISCALCULATION ERROR: VIEW?\n|\n| Y\n|\n| OBJECT1: OPPENHEIMER-RECOVERED METAL DEBRIS COLLECTED FROM CONSTRUCTION OF TRINITY: DATED ~13.6 BIL. YRS.\n|\n| CLOSE_LOG\n| CLOSING\u2026\n|\n| GOODBYE, OPPENHEIMER.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5424 | SCP-5425 | SCP-5426 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Effected Cliff Face During On-Set of Phenomenon\n\nEffected Cliff Face After On-Set of Phenomenon\n\nItem #: SCP-5427\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Carried out under the guise of enviromental conservation, the cliffs affected by SCP-5427 are to be regularly sprayed with erosion agents via boat and should any change in the effect of SCP-5427 on the cliffs be recorded, these erosion efforts are to be halted to enable observation. Publicly, storms caused by SCP-5427 are to be attributed to unique seabed formations in the Strait of Dover.\nDescription: SCP-5427 is a phenomenon - which started in 1950 - regarding periodic oddities in localized weather and its effects on a 13km stretch of chalk cliffs off of the coast of Kent, England. During the phenomenon a thick fog with no apparent cause will form around the edge of the coastline in the region; at the same time the coastal tide will intensify greatly, producing waves reaching heights of up to 300 meters despite no geological support for such tides. The resulting 'storm' may last anywhere between a few hours and 3 weeks and will deposit vast amounts of pure chalk sediment onto the coastline which will in turn quickly solidify and merge with the existing cliff-face. Due to this the coastline in the region expands at an extremely-high rate of 20-40 meters per month; if the phenomenon is allowed to occur uninterruptedly, only the forward facing/original cliffs will be affected. This produces a narrow land bridge growing directly toward Calais, France.\nAddendum:\nAnnual Archive of SCP-5427 activity and its effects\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1951: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 26 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1952: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 32 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1953: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 30 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1954: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 24 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1955: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 32 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1956: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 39 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1957: Slight alteration to usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 60 meters.\nNotes: Increase of activity, corrosion efforts paused for one week to allow for observation.\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1958: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 67 meters.\nNotes: Activity has stayed at a higher rate than previous years for the last twelve months -adopted as new norm.\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1959: No alteration to the usual occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 70 meters.\nNotes: N/A\n\nObservation Report Jan 1 1960: Major change to occurrence and effects.\nExpansion before operation: 0 meters.\nNotes: Steady decrease in average activity along the coastline over the last few weeks, major increase in one section of the coastline but with little to no expansion toward sea. Erosion efforts ceased.\n\nSubsequent Reports:\nJan 2 1960 - A small ship has been run-aground by cliff expansion under the surface of the water, the hull has been covered in rock.\nJan 3 1960 - Expansion has ceased, fog is rolling in and clearing up daily.\nJan 6 1960 - It has been noticed that the international alphabet flags present on the boat have been changing every time the fog comes and goes, recording of the flags present has begun.\nJan 6 1960 - Lima\nJan 7 1960 - Oscar\nJan 8 1960 - November\nJan 9 1960 - Echo\nJan 10 1960 - Lima\nJan 11 1960 - Yankee\nJan 12 1960 - Sierra\nJan 13 1960 - Tango\nJan 14 1960 - Oscar\nJan 15 1960 - Papa\nJan 16 1960 - India\nJan 17 1960 - Tango\nJan 18 1960 - Papa\nJan 19 1960 - Lima\nJan 20 1960 - Echo\nJan 21 1960 - Alfa\nJan 22 1960 - Sierra\nJan 23 1960 - Echo\n\nObservation Report Jan 24 1960: Major change to occurrence and effects.\nNotes: New behaviors have ceased, expansion along the coastline has restarted.\n\nObservation Report Feb 24 1960: No changes to occurrence and effects.\nNotes: Coastline has expanded 600 meters across the strait.\n\nIncident Report 5427-1:\nDate: Feb 27 1960\nEvent: Series of massive waves similar to that of the SCP-5427 phenomenon generated off of the coast of Calais, France. The waves directly impacted the cliffs and caused massive deterioration. Cover up operation is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5426 | SCP-5427 | SCP-5428 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The following file depicts a recently discovered anomaly, and therefore may have inconsistencies and/or a lack of information.\n\nItem #: SCP-5429\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5429 is held in a standard humanoid chamber.\nAn investigation into the nature of SCP-5429 is underway.\nDescription: SCP-5429 is former Senior Researcher Jason Vatili of Site-72's Alchemy Department Wing. Theoretically, when a portion of SCP-5429 is dismembered, a new growth will appear as if the injury never occurred. This effect is yet to be directly observed and thus can not be confirmed as of writing.\nNotably, a buildup of flesh can be seen bulging from around SCP-5429's shoulder and upper arm. Though it was once a prominent researcher, it is now barely capable of advanced thought nor is it able to hold conversations. SCP-5429 is unable to recall any of its memories prior to 17/03/20211.\nAddendum: Discovery and Containment\nPrior to discovery, an unrelated containment breach occurred at Site-72. Though the anomaly was a Safe Class and there were no deaths, minor structural damage led to SCP-5429's left arm being dismembered from its body. Emergency surgery to reattach the arm was unsuccessful.\nThe dismembered limb was placed in cold storage per SCP-5429's request, which was to be used for any containment procedures requiring human flesh.\nThe following day, however, SCP-5429 returned to Site-72 with both arms intact. SCP-5429 was immediately detained and moved to the Safe Containment Sector. Investigation of SCP-5429's residence took place shortly thereafter. Blood, mucus and torn organ tissue had been spread throughout the home. Furniture and belongings were discovered in a state of disarray.\nAt the same time, the limb was reported missing from cold storage. The following message was found scratched from within its freezer unit:\n\narm back you \u2014 one only. space no two \u2014 bye\n\nThe limb is yet to be located.\n\nMore by this author\n\nFootnotes\n1. The day that SCP-5429 was discovered and contained.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5428 | SCP-5429 | SCP-5430 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5430\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5430 currently inhabits the grounds of Area-12, and has been given an electric fence collar and implanted with three subdermal trackers to ensure that it remains within the perimeter of the area. The anomaly's non-hostile demeanor means that it may otherwise be left alone outside its bimonthly medical checkup. Because its feet are intended for dry, sandy terrain, they are to be measured by a reptile veterinarian every two months so that protective footwear can be manufactured and fitted on it.\nDescription: SCP-5430 is a male Eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis), approximately 6.7 meters long, that has had 48 legs from an eastern blue-tongued lizard (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) thaumically grafted onto it. Its length and legs are its only anomalous attributes. Aside from its predilection to use these legs for locomotion and increased appetite, the anomaly behaves like a non-anomalous male Eastern garter snake.\nSCP-5430 was discovered in New York City's Central Park on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588, following reports of hysteria in the park and sightings of a massive centipede-like lizard in the area. Mobile Task Force Lambda-12 (\"Pest Control\") were dispatched to contain it. The anomaly was found hunting frogs on the western side of the park and restrained with minimal difficulty.\nDuring containment of SCP-5430, Lambda-12 were accosted by one Jared McBraddock: an unlicensed, untrained thaumaturge that attempted to control the anomaly and have it attack the task force. SCP-5430 ignored McBraddock and chose to walk laps around the pond instead. McBraddock was promptly subdued and brought into custody.\nA background check revealed that McBraddock had been arrested and released on bail one week previously for attempting to break into the Central Park Zoo's Tropic Zone. In addition, interrogation of McBraddock and a search of his residence revealed that he had been mutating commercial pet snakes with legs, fitting them with miniature bootleg sneakers, and selling them for at least one year prior to his capture. The apartment was thus confiscated by the Foundation and McBraddock was given Class-A amnestics and released. At this time, Mobile Task Force Alpha-4 (\"Pony Express\") is reviewing his records to locate all such mutated specimens.\nAddendum: During its most recent checkup, SCP-5430 was observed to respond positively to the attending physician's music player, undulating and moving its legs in a manner recognizable as dance. Loudspeakers have been set up near its current nesting site (a pond in the corner of Area-12) to play pop music at a low volume during its basking hours.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5429 | SCP-5430 | SCP-5431 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5432, with two non-anomalous golden apples used to confirm the strain comprising the object's filling.\n\nItem #: 5432\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5432 is kept frozen in a standard anomalous objects locker in the low temperature containment area of Overwatch Command, for the sake of item preservation.\nDescription: SCP-5432 is a cooked apple pie that was formerly a 102 year-old human male by the name of Herman Fry. Based on residual subatomic ontological1 particle emissions in SCP-5432, Fry is estimated to have had the highest recorded internal Hume level to date at 25 times standard human baseline.\nDiscovery: SCP-5432 was discovered on 2020/02/10 at 5:32 am, following a series of highly anomalous events and a spike in universal Hume levels. The sequence consisted of alterations to baseline reality across known existence centered around a point 27 km southwest of Overwatch Command. Further investigation discovered a two room cottage owned by Herman Fry at the sequence's epicenter. Ontological levels reached a maximum of seven times baseline at 6:32 am before reverting to their initial, non-anomalous state. None of the local civilians possess any memory of the events despite drastic alterations to reality made in the area during their duration.\nFry's home was found deserted by responding Mobile Task Force Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") who discovered SCP-5432 in a rocking chair on the cottage's seaside-facing porch. The team reported the cabin to be \"littered with literature from multiple non-existent self-help groups and new age religions\", as well as sufficient personal effects to determine Fry's identity2. The oven was left on and preheated to 200 centigrade.\nAddendum 5432.1: Discovery Event Log\nNote - The following was compiled by both direct witnessing by Foundation personnel during the event sequence and a global mapping of reality fluctuations following its conclusion. Recorded data was utilized to statistically map previous reality states using the Turing-12 supercomputer located within Overwatch Command.\n\nTIME\nLOCATION\nEVENT SUMMARY\n\n5:32 am\nCottage of Herman Fry\nHerman Fry's cottage materializes southeast of Helston with its oven preheated at 200 centigrade.\n\n5:48 am\nThe Channel\nA fleet of 81 civilian-flagged motor yachts appear 5 km off the southern coast of Falmouth. Their appearance is accompanied by the sounds of gunfire emanating from the southeastern seas. The ships sail towards the source of the noise at a speed of 135 knots until they circumnavigate the world and reappear off the northern coast 44 minutes later.\n\n5:54 am\nHarbour Road Pub, Porthleven\nThe windows of the building all vibrate in harmony to the tune of Slow Boat to China, a song about two individuals taking a solitary and romantic journey to a fictional land. The piece is sung in duet by two voices inherently identified as Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. No such persons exist within known history.\n\n5:59 am\nFalmouth Hospital\nThe ground beneath the facility rises due to a sudden tectonic shift until it is 6.3 km above sea level. The brickwork of the building glows with a composite brightness of 1,500,000 lumens.\n\n6:04 am\nPorthleven Community Graveyard\nA total of 10,000 Gordon's Gin bottles and 10,000 MG Magnette ZA automobiles fall from the sky and onto the cemetery grounds.\n\n6:06 am\nRoyal Psychiatric Asylum of Cornwall\nEntering the asylum via its front entrance transports the person to the top and edge of the seaside cliffs at Lizard Point 63 km away.\n\n6:10 am\nFistral Beach, Newquay\nA previously abandoned warehouse is instantaneously decorated with advertisements for 32 different non-existent religions. Examples include \"The Process Church of the Final Judgment\", \"The Church of Scientology\", \"Buddhism\", and \"The Church of the Second Hytoth\".\n\n6:13 am\nBodmin\nA 1 km tall and 100 m wide hermetically sealed cylindrical prison appears above Bodmin. The structure's interior consists of stacked rows of cells encircling a pillar spanning its height. The pillar's structure resembles a Scranton reality anchor constructed from human remains.\n\n6:18 am\nGlobal Event\nAll video monitors across Cornwall play episode nine of a nonexistent television series named \"Cosmos\" hosted by an entity that self-identifies as \"Carl Sagan\". The episode discusses multiple hypothetical cosmological structures such as \"quasars\" and \"galaxies\". The prison structure above Bodmin evaporates as water vapor.\n\n6:19 am\nLizard Point\nTwo unmarked graves, one 25% the size of the other, appear at the cliff edge. The ground around the grave plots collapses into the sea, leaving two stone pillars on the coastline.\n\n6:21 am\nUniversal Event\nCornwall vibrates to produce Slow Boat to China at a constant volume of 60 decibels. Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney's voices are replaced by one woman and an adolescent of unknown identities. A layer of human placental tissue forms around reality's outer surface, making a embryonic shell 120,000 km in diameter.\n\n6:25 am\nSt. Ives\nThe town is replaced by a massive astronomical observatory taking up its incorporated area. The telescope inside has a maximum magnification factor 1,256 times stronger than necessary for total universal viewing.\n\n6:27 am\nTruro\nThe populace (19,260) is replaced by identical instances of an unidentified woman approximately 28 years of age. Each is dressed in a wedding gown and holds an ingredient for apple pie. The instances converge on the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Truro. All instances return to their original state, location, and identity following entry.\n\n6:29 am\nUniversal Event\nThe terrain within a 5 km radius of the cottage is transformed into pie crust which rises to cover and consume Fry's home. The figures of one man, one woman, and one child holding hands together decorate the puff-pastry surface. Tears spread across the placental layer encapsulating known reality.\n\n6:32 am\nCottage of Herman Fry\nThe pastry crust around Fry's cottage retreats to the front porch. An additional rocking chair materializes on either side of the one already present with one being appropriately sized for a child between 5 and 8 years of age. SCP-5432 appears in the center rocking chair. The cottage's oven is left on and preheated to 200 centigrade.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Reality altering.\n2. Collected items include wedding photos, a lifetime membership to the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, and an Arctic Star campaign medal for service guarding convoy routes during WWII.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5431 | SCP-5432 | SCP-5433 \u00bb"}
{"text": "https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/125ee10f-f42e-437d-8e72-b7b870fc36c1\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5433 during initial containment.\n\nItem #: SCP-5433\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5433 is stored in a standard item locker at Site-19.\nDescription: SCP-5433 is a 1960s era Love Tester arcade machine, the manufacturer of which is currently unknown. All identifying information (including ID number and brand name) on SCP-5433 has been forcibly removed. SCP-5433 operates similarly to a normal machine of its type; an individual must insert the necessary currency (0.25 USD) and grip the activation handle, at which point the machine will determine the user's \"sex appeal.\"1 SCP-5433's primary anomalous traits will appear upon activation.\nSCP-5433 possesses a Class-V \"sapient\" intelligence; it is capable of self-awareness and advanced communication on par with typical human interaction. Examination of its internal structure reveals no unusual technology. SCP-5433 communicates verbally through a small speaker located on the front of its chassis. Questioning as to the nature of its anomalous capabilities has been inconclusive (See Addendum 5433.1).\nSCP-5433 was recovered from the Bendiz Diner, New Jersey, USA, on 18/10/2020 by covert operatives investigating unrelated anomalous activity. After questioning, the owners of the diner admitted to both being aware of SCP-5433's properties and using it to attract customers to their business. The diner's staff was then amnesticized and the item was confiscated. SCP-5433 was moved to Site-19, documented, and placed in temporary storage. Primary examination of the object is scheduled for 08/11/2020 currently underway.\nAddendum 5433.1: Preliminary inspection of SCP-5433.\n\nInterview Log-001\n\nDate: 08/11/2020\nSubject: SCP-5433\nSupervisor(s): Researcher Marco Pe\u00f1a, Researcher Mariana San Elia\nForeword: The following is a transcript of Researcher Pe\u00f1a's interview with SCP-5433 while it was held in a temporary holding cell under low security.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nResearcher Pe\u00f1a: This is Marco Pe\u00f1a, conducting an initial interview with SCP-5433. (Adjusts microphone) Are we set?\nResearcher San Elia: Mics are good, cameras are running. Time is\u2026 (checks watch) nine o'clock, standard time. You can start whenever you're ready. I'll be taking care of some work in the other room, just me know if anything goes wrong.\nPe\u00f1a: All right. (Pause) Beginning interview now.\n(Researcher Pe\u00f1a inserts 0.25 USD into SCP-5433 and grips the handle. SCP-5433 activates.)Pe\u00f1a: No, thank you. I'm here to ask a few questions, if that's possible.Pe\u00f1a: It's not about love, I'm afraid. I need to know a little about you.Pe\u00f1a: Can you tell me about\u2014Pe\u00f1a: What can you tell me about your manufac\u2014Pe\u00f1a: I'm single, but I'm\u2014Pe\u00f1a: Listen, I've been asked to find out who built you and how you can talk, that's it. No love, no romance. Got it?Pe\u00f1a: My name's Marco.Pe\u00f1a: I work for uh\u2026 a research company.Pe\u00f1a: How do you know\u2014Pe\u00f1a: Are you gonna answer the question or no? I can always mark you down as \"non-cooperative\" and they can haul you off to deep storage.Pe\u00f1a: I appreciate the gesture but all I need is for you to answer the question. Now, do you know who built you?Pe\u00f1a: (Taking notes) Okay, and do you know anything about the identities of your cr\u2014Pe\u00f1a: Listen, I work ten-hour shifts six days a week, I haven't had a day off since college, I've spent God-knows-how-long having conversations with talking bears and, oh I don't know, dancing peach cobblers. The last thing I need right now is to have you talk back to me every time I have to check off a box!\n(Silence for several seconds.)\nPe\u00f1a: Okay, I may have overstepped the line.Pe\u00f1a: What? No, it's just me.Pe\u00f1a: I'm not sure what you\u2014Pe\u00f1a: You heard that? She\u2014she's my supervisor, she's in the other room.Pe\u00f1a: Wait a minute. You know all of this is recorded, right? I\u2014I don't want to lose my job over this.Pe\u00f1a: I\u2014I can't.(Silence.)\nPe\u00f1a: Fine. I'll do it. But don't screw it up, okay?(SCP-5433 begins to shake violently. After a moment, sparks are seen flying out of various points on its chassis. A loud grinding noise plays over its speaker.)\nPe\u00f1a: Okay, okay. (Louder) Mari? Mari, can you come here for a second? Something's up with 5433.\nSan Elia: (Distant) Okay, give me a second.\nPe\u00f1a: (Quietly) This better work.\n(Researcher San Elia enters the room.)\nSan Elia: Wha\u2014 Jesus, Marco, what the hell happened?\nPe\u00f1a: I\u2014I don't know. I was going over the sapience checklist, then it\u2026 it started doing this.\nSan Elia: Okay, okay. We need to call someone.\nPe\u00f1a: N\u2014no, we might be able to wait it out\u2014\n(Researcher San Elia reaches for the emergency telephone.)\nPe\u00f1a: H\u2014hold on a second! It's stopping.\n(SCP-5433 ceases movement. A soft whirring sound is heard as its components stop rattling.)Pe\u00f1a: Yes, yeah. We were just talking about my job and uh, your name came up.\nSan Elia: What the hell Marco! You know we're not supposed to talk about that with skips.\nPe\u00f1a: I didn't say anything confidential, don't worry.Pe\u00f1a: I'd do what he says. This is the most cooperation I've got out of him so far.\n(Researcher San Elia sits across from SCP-5433.)\nSan Elia: Well\u2026 did you cover its manufacturer yet?\nPe\u00f1a: Yeah, but\u2026 I couldn't get a straight answer.San Elia: Well, what about sapience?\nPe\u00f1a: I got it right h\u2014Pe\u00f1a: What? Cut it out, I never said anything like that. (To San Elia) Oh come on, you're gonna believe him?\nSan Elia: I\u2014I uh, I don't know\u2014(SCP-5433's display highlights the word \"Wild\", then \"Burning\".)\nPe\u00f1a: Hey, stop that! Turn it off!\nSan Elia: (Laughing)Pe\u00f1a: It's not what it looks like! I\u2014he\u2014this is\u2026 (pause) well shit. He's telling the truth.\nSan Elia: Marco, this\u2014this is too much. Don't tell me you planned this out.\nPe\u00f1a: (Pointing to SCP-5433) It was his idea. No, it was, I swear!\nSan Elia: (Laughing) You think I believe you? After you broke that coffee machine just so I'd have to ask you to buy me some?\nPe\u00f1a: I can't believe you still think I did that! We checked the security tapes, remember? Wasn't me!\nSan Elia: You probably paid off the techies to doctor them, didn't you.\nPe\u00f1a: You think I have that kind of money? You're crazy.\nSan Elia: Says the one who made a skip their wingman! That's what you are, aren't you?\nPe\u00f1a: No way, tell her about th\u2014\nSan Elia: Hey, wait a second\u2026 I think something happened to the skip.\n(SCP-5433 is silent. Its display is stuck on the words \"Hot Stuff\".)\nPe\u00f1a: \u2026What happened?\nSan Elia: I\u2026 I think it ran out of juice.\n(The words \"Insert 25 Cents\" appears on SCP-5433's coin slot.)\nPe\u00f1a: I'll\u2026 uh, call up security. Get this thing moved downstairs.\nSan Elia: Yeah, yeah. Good idea. I can take care of the transcripts and\u2026 you think maybe we can grab a coffee after this?\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. This has later been found to be determined by a combination of random chance and grip strength.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5432 | SCP-5433 | SCP-5434 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Ecronak\n\nEnjoyed the skip? Give some of my other works a look here!\n\nItem#: 5434\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5434's logo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5434 in digital storefronts outside of containment are to be removed. One instance of SCP-5434 is to be installed on Dr. Simon Glass' company cellular phone at all times in order for the subject to remain in correspondence with SCP-5434-1.\nDescription: SCP-5434 is an anomalous smartphone application called \u201cAsk a Love God\u201d which spontaneously appears in digital storefronts whenever a user suffers from problems related to romantic intimacy. When opened, it presents a digital chatroom seemingly (See Update 5434-01) connected to an sapient intelligence named \"Himeros\".\nWhen spoken to about the aforementioned romantic problems, the entity will attempt to repair the issues via a therapeutic dialog1. During its \"sessions\", SCP-5434-1 has been seen to use tactics such as psychological examination and empathetic suggestion in order to remedy these issues. No sign of anomalous compulsion was detected during these sessions.\nAddendum 5434.01: Shortly after its discovery and containment by the Foundation, SCP-5434 began to send notifications to users with it installed, asking \u201cif there was anything I could do to help you.\u201d This allowed Foundation operatives to better isolate and remove SCP-5434 instances out of containment, which caused the notifications of SCP-5434 to increase in frequency. A list of SCP-5434 notifications can be found below.\n\n6 days after beginning of containment, reported to show once every week.\nHello! Is there anything that ails you? Remember that Himeros is always here for you.\n\n14 days after beginning of containment, reported to show once every four days.\nIf there's anything you need to talk about, don't hesitate to come to me.\n\n20 days after beginning of containment, reported to show once every three days.\nNot doing much over here. Send me a PM if you guys need help with anything love-related.\n\n22 days after beginning of containment, reported to show once every two days.\nHeya, is anyone out there? I've only gotten a few people in the last few days. If you need help, tell me, alright?\nNote: Shortly after this, it was reported that SCP-5434 instances have been seen in greater numbers than before. Due to this, Foundation containment efforts have increased.\n\n25 days after beginning of containment, reported to show twice every day.\nOh gods, is anyone there? Just send me a text or something, yeah? I'd love to see if you guys still need\u2026 help.\n\nShortly after, the notifications from SCP-5434 ceased.\nUpdate 5434-01: Two months after the onset of initial containment, Foundation liaisons to the Serpent's Hand began to receive requests to assist an entity named \"Himeros\". Shortly after, a message from the Wanderer's Library was sent to Site-19.\n\nTo the Heads of Site-19,\nRegrettably, we have recently been informed that your Jailing efforts have sadly deprived the Erotes2 love god Himeros3 of his pastime and comfort. Himeros has assisted many people in the past, and after the deaths of his brothers and mother has tried to seek comfort in assisting mortals- namely, us. We'd like to ask you to allow him some sort of recourse, to comfort him in his time of need.\nKindly keep in mind that this is not a demand, but a request. Himeros is a benevolent force; and though we know that you may not have intended to deprive him of what he wishes to do, we beseech you to correct it in the near future. We acknowledge that relations between our organizations have not been cordial, but we hope that you can do the right thing in this regard.\n\nSincerely,\nThe Keepers of the Wanderer's Library\n\nShortly after the arrival of the message, Site-19's director conferred with Dr. Glass of the Ethics Committee on the condition of SCP-5434-1, and if Foundation intervention is needed to assist the anomaly even if it is not actively in containment.\nAn excerpt of the meeting is included below.\n\nForeword: This excerpt takes place fifteen minutes into the meeting, where the members discuss the heart of the issue.\n\n<Begin log>\nDirector Bright: Keep in mind, the Serpent's Hand just asked us to do this. They don't ask us to do anything. Why the hell should we comfort this god in lieu of them? This isn't some powerful eldritch being bent on the world's destruction. It's just a minor entity that we've contained, like a lot of others.\nDr. Glass: The Wanderer's Library is still in recovery after recent run-ins with the GOC, which definitely explains why they're asking us to do this. They themselves said that the anomaly is benevolent, and we don't have any evidence to suggest that what they're saying is false.\nDirector Bright: I just don't get why we need to be concerned about it. What we're talking about is the SCP, the app, and not the entity that's behind the app. You're right in that it needs help, but does it need our help?\nDr. Glass: Relatively speaking, this is one of those anomalies that actively need it. We, the Foundation, took away its only means of connecting with people outside of its own dimension.\n[Dr. Glass leans forward]\nDr. Glass: Shouldn't we be doing something to remedy that? Plus, something like this is bound to help us keep it contained in one place, without the need for containment efforts elsewhere. If we can convince it to stop spreading the SCP, that would definitely help.\nDirector Bright: It still feels like something out of our jurisdiction to me, and it definitely still doesn't feel like we should expend resources on something that may not need it- especially when the Hand requests it.\nDr. Glass: Think about this. We've always felt the need to have company. We've always felt the need to try to connect with other people. This is a powerful extradimensional entity, yes.\nDirector Bright [crossing his arms]: Your point?\nDr. Glass: But just because it's a god doesn't mean it doesn't need a friend.\n[A ten second silence follows]\nDirector Bright: I mean\u2026 fine. If it really doesn't take that much and we're willing to get a trial, I'm fine with it. As head of Psychology, you'd be the best candidate for it.\nDr. Glass: Thank you, Director. I'll\u2026 make sure to do it immediately.\n<End log>\n\nShortly after the end of the Ethics Committee meeting, Dr. Glass' company cellular phone was installed with an instance of SCP-5434. A transcript of their first conversation can be seen below.\n\nOh, hello. You're the first one that's logged on in a while. You don't know how happy that makes me! What do you need help with?\nhello, himeros. are you doing well?\nMe?\nyes. you, himeros.\nAh, I'm fine. Let's talk about you, though. What romantic troubles ail you, friend?\nwell\nYes?\nyou're someone who helps people right?\nYep! I'm someone who just wants to help people. Less people seem to need my help now, but\u2026 hey. I can get over it.\nwell I'm someone who likes to help people, too. I'm a psychologist, someone that wants to help people get past their troubles.\nWoah. That is amazing. Are you something like a therapist? I've heard people talk about that, too.\nI can be a therapist, yes. people need a lot of help, don't they? that's why people like us want to them to get past all that.\nA kindred spirit, finally! I've never talked to someone like you before. Does your world have a lot of people like you?\nthere are a lot like me, yes\nare there a lot like you?\nI have a bunch of people like me, yes. I haven't gotten in touch with them in thousands of years, though. I wasn't close with them before, either.\ndamn, I'm sorry. why weren't you close with them?\nMe and my brothers\u2026 we do a lot of stuff about love.\ncan you tell me who those brothers are?\nI mean, sure. Er is our oldest brother. He isn't around much- he's usually with Mom or taking care of his wife. Hedy is always off sweet-talking people. I meet a bunch of his kids sometimes. Herma is a really good person, but after he merged with his girlfriend, we never really talk much. Hyme has always been off at the pantheon ever since Mom died. Poth and Ant\u2026 they died a long time ago, too. We were always the closest.\nwhy are you doing this, though, himeros? this love advice thing?\nLove advice? Heh, I'm the god of unrequited love. I can't do anything like my brothers when it comes to all that. But you guys\u2026 you always have a chance. I guess that's why my mom (rest her vain divine soul) always took an interest in you.\nJust a shame that it seems like no one wants my help anymore, I guess. What's that saying of yours? \u201cI guide others to a pleasure I cannot address?\u201d\n\u201dI guide others to a treasure I cannot possess.\u201d yes. that's from a movie that just came out a few years ago. :) do you think it describes your plight accurately?\nI'm not bitter, don't get me wrong. It's just that\u2026 it can get a bit lonely. I tried courting a few titans and goddesses and even a few dryads and satyrs over the years but\u2026 well, what did I expect was gonna happen?\nFor a god of love, it can get pretty lonely not having anyone to love at all.\nI can understand that, yes, but\u2026 have you ever had a friend before, himeros?\nA friend? Well, no. I only had my brothers.\nthen this should be perfect for you. do you want me to be your friend? I can talk to you when I'm available, we can speak about everything that crosses your mind, and\u2026 yeah.\nI've never had a friend, before. What's uh\u2026 what's your name?\nsimon glass. you can just call me simon.\nSimon it is. I hope I can be a good friend to you, Simon. :)\nwoah, a smiley face. where did you learn that?\nFrom you, just now. Friends learn from each other, right?\n\u2026right on XD\n\nShortly after, a proposal was created for SCP-5434-1 to regularly correspond with Dr. Glass. In line with the Ethics Committee's recommendation, the proposal was approved by Site Direction and Director Bright. As of the time of writing, Dr. Glass is still in regular correspondence with SCP-5434-1.\n\nFootnotes\n1. From the statistics of previous Foundation tests, the success rate of these attempts range from 98% to 99% percent effectivity.\n2. Winged Greek gods associated with love and desire\n3. The Greek god of unrequited love.\n\nMore from Ecronak\n\u00ab SCP-5433 | SCP-5434 | SCP-5435 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5435\nObject Class: Presumed Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following Incident 5435-3, all SCP-5435 events have ceased. Foundation agents within SCP-5435-A are to remain on watch for all possible SCP-5435 events. If an SCP-5435 event is confirmed to have occured, agents are to bring the victim to a hospital for immediate analysis and attempt to halt the event. No large-scale Foundation assets are to be deployed in SCP-5435-A at any point, regardless of circumstances.\nNo attempts to pursue or detain SCP-5435-B are to be made at this time.\n\nSCP-5435-A at the time of the discovery of SCP-5435.\n\nDescription: SCP-5435 refers to a series of events formerly occurring in the town of Ocean's Breath, Delaware, United States, designated SCP-5435-A. SCP-5435 events consisted of citizens of SCP-5435-A committing acts of vandalism and arson at random intervals, regardless of their previous opinions of the town, occupation, or medical history. Upon interference by other individuals or the conclusion of whatever act of damage the event entailed, victims of SCP-5435 would fall unconscious, reawakening an indeterminate amount of time later and returning to their homes.\nSCP-5435-B is Madeline Lane, the individual responsible for SCP-5435. Prior to Incident 5435-3, it was theorized that SCP-5435-B was utilizing rituals or other anomalous means of instigating SCP-5435 events, although this theory has been challenged following recent events. SCP-5435-B's current whereabouts are unknown, although she was a resident of SCP-5435-A for seventeen years and a student of the local high school, Ocean's Breath High School.\nSCP-5435 events occurred all throughout 2019, although the exact start date is unknown. No events resulting in arson occurred prior to June 2019, but a notable spike in events was observed in the final week of May. This coincided with when students of Ocean's Breath High School were taking standardized tests. No students at Ocean's Breath High School were ever affected by SCP-5435 events, either as targets of the effects or direct victims of the ensuing damage. Ocean's Breath High School itself was also never affected by SCP-5435 events, with the exception of Incident 5435-3 to both these patterns.\nMRI scans found no physiological alterations to any individuals affected by SCP-5435 events, although an unknown compound was found in the bloodstream of affected individuals prior to the Foundation's arrival. While the exact composition contained anomalous components Foundation equipment was unable to identify, caffeine and methanol were detected in small trace amounts. Unconscious individuals recovered immediately after SCP-5435 events all had high amounts of hydrocarbons in their blood, likely from anomalous sources in events without the use of spray-paint. Victims of SCP-5435 events reported no memory of their actions, all claiming to have blacked out the night before and woken up in their homes. No victims of SCP-5435 events ever regained their memories of the event. When interacted with during the event, no victim ever responded to any stimulus, apart from falling unconscious upon being touched.\nDiscovery: SCP-5435-A first came to the Foundation's attention on August 17, 2019, following the seventh SCP-5435-induced arson on record, witnessed by Senior Researcher Thompson while he was on vacation in the area. After inquiring into the events from locals, SR Thompson reported the possible anomaly to nearby Foundation agents, who then informed Site-23, the closest possible site, approximately 2 hours away in the neighboring state of Maryland. Foundation agents Villar and Dorsey arrived in SCP-5435-A three days later, and promptly ingrained themselves in town under cover of FBI agents investigating the spate of arsons.\nInterview 5435-1\n\nInterviewer: Agent Dorsey, Agent Villar\nInterviewee: Madeline Lane\nForeword: This interview was conducted as a series of interviews upon the agents' arrival in SCP-5435-A, focused on obtaining any potential information on SCP-5435 from various citizens of SCP-5435-A. At this time, the significance of Ms. Lane as SCP-5435-B was unknown.\nBEGIN LOG\nAgent Dorsey: Thank you for coming in today, Miss Lane.\nMadeline Lane: Yeah, yeah, it's\u2014yeah. What do you wanna talk about.\nAgent Dorsey: We're hoping that you could tell us anything you know about the recent fires around the town.\nMadeline Lane: Apart from that I didn't do them, or know who did them, I don't know anything.\nAgent Dorsey: That is a very rehearsed sounding response.\nMadeline Lane: It's honest. Just say what you want.\nAgent Villar: Jeez, alright, no need to pick a fight here.\nAgent Dorsey: What my partner meant to say was, there's no need for hostility. We're here to solve this, figure out who's doing it, and get out of this town's hair. If you just try and tell us what you know, if anything, we can get this done quick and easy. Since you don't seem to want to be here.\nMadeline Lane: I was being honest. I didn't do it, and I don't know who did. I haven't been anywhere near any of the places that burnt down, and I definitely haven't been selling gasoline to whoever did, or whatever you're thinking of pinning on somebody.\nMadeline Lane: And if you're thinking that I was responsible for the rocks and spray-paint before this, I wasn't. I haven't done anything to this town, okay?\nAgent Dorsey and Agent Villar glance at each other, and Agent Villar nods slightly before turning back to Lane.\nAgent Dorsey: We'll keep that in mind, Miss Lane. Thank you for your input.\nAgent Villar: Just one more question, though.\nMadeline Lane: You don't believe me at all.\nAgent Villar: I do, I do, just let me ask one last thing. Do you know anybody who would have hated this town enough to burn it?\nMadeline Lane: Lots of people don't like this town in one way or another. A few kids hate it. But could any of us burn it? No, we couldn't. This wasn't us.\nAgent Villar: Alright. Well, thank you for your time.\nLane jerkily nods and exits the room, slamming the door behind her. Agent Dorsey stares at the door for a few seconds before turning to Agent Villar, who is taking notes on a small pad.\nAgent Dorsey: Honestly, I think she's one of the innocent ones.\nAgent Villar: Five bucks says unintentional thaumaturgic backblast.\nAgent Dorsey: We don't even know if it's anomalous yet!\nEND LOG\n\nIncident 5435-1\nOn August 20, 2019, an SCP-5435 event resulted in the arson of the local 724 Motel, directly adjacent to the building agents Villar and Dorsey were in. No casualties resulted from this event, but the timing mere hours after the agents' arrival as well as the proximity to the agents was deemed enough to warrant independent investigation, resulting in Agent Villar acquiring a police report of prior disturbances, listed below.\n\nDate\nReported Disturbance\n\nDecember 3, 2018\nSeveral hooded teenagers spotted attempting to siphon gasoline out of parked cars, fled once officers arrived. None of the teens seemed to bear any relation to SCP-5435.\n\nFebruary 26, 2019\nThree families were mistakenly booked for the same room, and all three attempted to enter at the same time. A physical confrontation ensued, which officers had to break up. None of the families stayed in town for longer than week.\n\nMarch 7, 2019\nA local fisherman attempted to smuggle out a recently caught shark in a twenty foot long tank through a back door. No clear relation to SCP-5435, if any.\n\nMarch 30, 2019\nTwo teenagers are seen in the parking lot, one tossing a switchblade in their hands and the other apparently recording them. As an officer arrives to investigate, they throw the switchblade over the building and run off. Notably, the disturbance was reported on the same night that one of the first SCP-5435 events occurred, resulting in the partial destruction of a convenience store across the street from the motel.\n\nA sweep of social media posts from SCP-5435-A at the time of the disturbances revealed a video posted by Anna Misser, another resident of SCP-5435-A, showing her and Madeline Lane in the same location as the March 30 disturbance. Following the relocation of the agents to avoid further incidents of arson, a joint interview was made with the two.\nInterview 5435-2\n\nInterviewer: Agent Dorsey\nInterviewees: Madeline Lane, Anna Misser\nForeword: Agent Dorsey approached the interviewees by the boardwalk of SCP-5435-A, as he was unsure of the safety of giving either of them the agents' new location following the August 20 event.\nBEGIN LOG\nMadeline Lane: I already told you, I don't know anything. I didn't burn down that motel, and I just want to be left alone.\nAgent Dorsey: I just want to ask a few more questions. We know you didn't do it, and you're not under suspicion right now.\nAnna Misser: Maddy, you've got alibis. I can vouch for you. This definitely isn't worth starting a fight over.\nMadeline Lane: I don't\u2014alright, sure. Sighs. Do you just want a name or something, or is there someone specific you were going to ask about?\nAgent Dorsey: You're not too far off, actually. Do either you or Miss Misser here know anybody that you'd say has\u2026strange things happening around them? Maybe somebody with too many stories of supernatural events, or who you've seen have weird things happening around them?\nAnna Misser: I mean, it only ever snows in November here, if that's what you mean.\nAgent Dorsey: Not quite, no. I\u2014I meant people, anybody you might know that's sort of, not fitting in with\u2026anything, really.\nMadeline Lane: I mean, that could be a lot of people. If you want somebody to give you the shortlist of everybody that counts as an outsider, somebody else from OBHS might be the guy you're looking for\u2014\nAnna Misser: We don't know anybody, like Maddy told you, and we're not going to just throw somebody we don't like under the bus for no reason.\nAgent Dorsey: We're not trying to get people in town to sell out their neighbors, don't worry.\nAgent Dorsey: I did have a question for you two specifically, though. We were investigating the motel that burnt, and\u2014\nMadeline Lane: Knew it.\nAgent Dorsey: You're not under suspect. I just wanted to know what that video from back in March was about.\nLane reaches up and touches her cheek for a moment before shaking her head and dropping her hand, glaring at Agent Dorsey.\nMadeline Lane: I was annoyed about something, Anna was trying to cheer me up, and people thought there was something going on.\nAgent Dorsey: What was the deal with the knife?\nAnna Misser: It was just a little toy thing, we weren't gonna use it. Look, what happened there, with the cops and the running, wasn't related to anything going on now. We didn't go and break anything.\nAgent Dorsey: Alright. Well, sorry to bother you, and thank you for the help.\nAgent Dorsey beings to leave, as does Lane, but Misser taps him on the shoulder before he gets far.\nAnna Misser: I know it looks suspicious, but Maddy didn't do it. She hates it here, but she would never burn it. She's\u2026got problems with some people, but she's not who you're looking for. I swear, I swear, she hasn't done any of this.\nAgent Dorsey: We know, and we agree.\nAnna Misser: Okay, then, please, leave her alone. She's been through enough as is. Just\u2026please.\nEND LOG\n\nThe following file was recovered from surveillance cameras located along several townhouses rented out to vacationers in SCP-5435 on August 23. The tape itself is dated March 27, although no time is listed.\n\nBEGIN LOG\nLane and Misser are standing on the boardwalk sometime near dusk. Lane has a bandage on her cheek and is leaning against the boardwalk's fence.\nAnna Misser: You know that I'm still here, right?\nMadeline Lane: You and who else?\nAnna Misser: Literally anybody? This isn't the first fight, there's no way it'll be the last. You've had support before, and you wouldn't just get universally ditched.\nAnna Misser: Haven't your parents talked to you about it? Of all people they definitely wouldn't abandon you here.\nMadeline Lane: They buy what everybody else is selling. I'm a dead woman walking, Anna.\nAnna Misser: Bullshit, that wasn't your fault, and it never has been. There has to be something that's on your side, besides me.\nMadeline Lane: If there is, I don't think it can help me by now. The damage is done, Anna, and I don't just mean this.\nLane points at the bandage and slumps down, sitting on the boardwalk as Misser begins pacing.\nAnna Misser: What on earth is going on with you, Maddy? Have you just given up on everything you told me about? Did that cut sever a nerve in your spine or something, or are you just upset that you lost?\nMadeline Lane: Don't fucking do this, Anna. I don't want to pick a fight right now.\nAnna Misser: Then what is it?\nMadeline Lane: I realized something. This town hates me. It's obvious. There's no point to mincing words or trying to look all happy to appease something that hates you anyway.\nAnna Misser: So you're just going to roll over on it?\nLane stands up and turns, looking out at the ocean before leaning back on the fence and looking at Misser.\nMadeline Lane: I don't know what I'm gonna do yet. But I'm going to do something. There's only one thing to do when a place hates you.\nThe footage abruptly ends, with the cause unknown.\n\nFollowing the interview and discovery of the previous file, Agents Villar and Dorsey began attempting to track possible anomalous influence on SCP-5435 events when they occurred. In the following two weeks, two more SCP-5435 events took place, but the agents were unable to determine if there was anomalous interference present until Incident 5435-2.\nINCIDENT LOG 5435-2\n\nTime: 9:23 PM\nDate: September 5, 2019\nForeword: Agents Villar and Dorsey deliberately did not attempt to halt this event as a means of tracking any possible anomalous influence on the targets responsible.\nBEGIN LOG\nAgent Dorsey: Please tell me you've got anything on that yet, Reed.\nAgent Villar: It is literally out of my control, what do you want me to do?\nAgent Dorsey: Expand the parameters? I don't know, I just want to be sure something's actually causing this and it's not just a Belfast thing.\nAgent Villar: What's wrong with Belfast?\nAgent Dorsey: Oh, back in like, 2012, they sent a team in to try and figure out a bunch of anomalous incidents, and it turned out each one, just kinda happened. They're still trying to figure out if there was some absolutely massive pattern or if the city's just weird\u2014what the fuck was that?\nThe sound of glass breaking and fast footsteps are heard in the distance. Agents Villar and Dorsey turn to each other.\nAgent Dorsey: Do we even need the car?\nAgent Villar: You find out where that came from, I'll meet you there in under two minutes.\nAgent Villar begins packing equipment into his bag as Agent Dorsey sprints towards the source of the sound, eventually rounding a street corner to see a woman awkwardly running down the road, a bottle with a rag stuffed in it in hand. A broken bottle is on the corner itself, surrounded by ashes and smelling of gasoline.\nAgent Dorsey: She's going down Willow Lane, Reed, get down here!\nAgent Dorsey runs after the woman, stopping a few buildings away from her. The woman herself is standing in front of the 724 Motel, one hand jerkily searching her pockets. She shuffles up to the front steps of the house and takes out a lighter, igniting it as she stares at the bottle.\nNeither her nor Agent Dorsey move for a short while before the sound of rapid footsteps is heard down the street and Agent Villar stumbles to a stop next to Agent Dorsey, holding a tablet with wires leading into his bag.\nAgent Villar: What's she doing?\nAgent Dorsey: I don't know yet, she just hasn't moved.\nThe woman turns and looks at the agents for a moment, and then turns back to the house before lighting the rag on fire and dropping the bottle on the motel's front hall. Agent Dorsey runs up and grabs the woman, dragging her away from the growing fire as Agent Villar's lights up.\nAgent Dorsey: You getting anything on there?\nAgent Villar: I think so? I might be able to get a location, but whatever this is it's\u2026kinda weak, actually. Apparently the radio scanner's picking something up, but the static filters are just destroying it.\nAgent Dorsey: Fuck it, we're following the smoke. You seeing that shit?\nThe smoke from the now burning motel is blowing towards the east despite the wind blowing the opposite direction, and a faint dark purple tinge is visible near the peak.\nAgent Villar: Oh, shit, yeah that looks bad. Tablet says source's that way anyway.\nAgent Dorsey leaves the woman on the sidewalk in front of the motel and begins running through the backyard, hopping the fence and continuing through the adjacent yard as Agent Villar follows. They both sprint through several more yards before Agent Villar skids to a stop on a gravel path, staring a nearby house that the smoke is coalescing around.\nAgent Villar: That's it. It's coming from there. And before you ask, I don't think that's memetic. I haven't had any countermemes shoved at me yet, at least, so let's go.\nThe agents cautiously approach the house, Agent Villar checking his tablet every few seconds. They reach the rear fence of the house, and the smoke is slowly swirling around the backyard. Agent Dorsey removes a small flashlight from his jacket pocket and begins climbing over the fence, clicking it on as he approaches where the smoke is densest. As he passes a beach towel lying on the ground, Agent Villar whispers loudly at him.\nAgent Villar: Eric! Your right!\nAgent Dorsey: I know I was right, I can tell what address this is!\nAgent Villar: No, on your right! Look down!\nAgent Dorsey: What are you saying\u2014oh fuck!\nThe smoke shifts direction close to the ground, blowing towards Agent Dorsey's right and towards Madeline Lane lying on the grass, seemingly asleep. She shifts slightly as Agent Dorsey's flashlight passes over her, and he quickly switches it off before slowly backing away.\nAgent Dorsey: Reed, does she know I'm here?\nAgent Villar: Readings aren't shifting, I don't think so, but just get out. We'll call somebody in later.\nAgent Dorsey slowly climbs back over the fence, slipping as he climbs down and loudly landing on the ground as a loud crack is heard from his pocket. At this, Lane begins to stir, and the smoke begins to dissipate.\nAgent Villar: Go!\nThe agents run away from the house as quietly as possible while the smoke fades, but before they round the corner Agent Dorsey looks back and and sees Lane looking for them. Agent Villar trips and yells, and Lane spins around to look at the source, the smoke slightly thickening again before fully fading once the agents are out of sight of the house.\nEND LOG\n\nThe 724 Motel following Incident 5435-2.\n\nAgents Villar and Dorsey called in to Site-23 at 10:44 PM on September 5 requesting a full anomaly research team, sending the log and data from Agent Villar's equipment as proof. A research team led by Senior Researcher Thompson arrived on September 7, operating under the same cover story as the agents. Another SCP-5435 event occurred that night, leading to the team taking charge of the local hospital for investigative purposes and uncovering the physical characteristics of the victims of SCP-5435 events. Despite this breakthrough, no further evidence on the means by which SCP-5435 was causing the events was found, leading to the research team and agents attempting to search for other incidents or police reports involving SCP-5435-B.\nThe following email was attached to a series of police reports listed as related to or instigated by SCP-5435-B, dated March 26, 2019.\n\nDear Madeline Lane,\nFollowing your recent referral, OBHS administration has elected not to take any additional disciplinary action at this time. In accordance with standard consequence escalation, your suspension will last for the remaining 4 days, at which point you will be expected to return to school and make up all previously missed work. Review of the events of March 23 showed that you were not the sole instigator, and should not be punished as such. However, due to this being the latest in a consistent pattern of behavior from you, a notice has been sent to all colleges you have applied to, as well as in-school disciplinary records and police records.\nSincerely,\nWalter Leman, Principal, Ocean's Breath High School\n\nAny replies to this email were not attached to the report.\nFollowing several SCP-5435 events, and a lack of progress in determining the actual mechanism for SCP-5435 events, Senior Researcher Thompson authorized a team of himself, Agents Dorsey, and Agent Villar to enter the residence of SCP-5435-B and attempt to find the mechanism himself on September 14, 2019.\nINCIDENT LOG 5435-3\n\nForeword: Senior Researcher Thompson had intentionally waited to begin the mission until an SCP-5435 event was taking place in the hopes of catching SCP-5435-B in the act.\nBEGIN LOG\nAgents Dorsey and Villar and Sr. Res. Thompson are outside a window of SCP-5435-B's house, attempting to open it to enter.\nAgent Villar: You know, I really don't think we should be here. Pliers.\nSr. Res. Thompson: The quickest way to determine what exactly the source of the anomaly is, is to simply go to the source and document it. Besides, you see what's going on right now.\nSr. Res. Thompson successfully opens the window and points upwards as he climbs inside, gesturing towards the clouds of smoke emnating from an upstairs window. The smoke is notably thicker than in prior incidents.\nAgent Villar: Yeah, but just doing it officially would be easier, and way more legal.\nAgent Dorsey: If we make it official, she could hide it, and it'll take too long. We're working with lives, Reed. Get in.\nAgent Villar follows Agent Dorsey inside, the three finding themselves at the base of a set of stairs. Sr. Res. Thompson extracts a scanner device from his pocket, staring at it as they slowly begin to climb the stairs.\nAgent Dorsey: (Whispered) What are we looking at, Thompson?\nSr. Res. Thompson: (Whispered) Large amounts of unknown radiation, and no detected memes. Whatever this girl is doing, she's being very low-key about it.\nSr. Res. Thompson: (Whispered) Whatever we find up there, we halt, detain, and record. If we can't halt it, we record, retreat, and come back.\nThe three reach the top of the stairs, turning a corner and emerging into a hall with several doors on both sides. Agent Villar steps past Agent Dorsey and Sr. Res. Thompson, reaching inside his jacket as he presses himself against a wall, reaching down to his holster, and Agent Dorsey does the same, leaning against the opposite wall of the hall as Sr. Res. Thompson remains on the stairs.\nAgent Dorsey: Which one, Thompson?\nSr. Res. Thompson: Trying to determine. I can't find any traces of thaumaturgic radiation so far. She could be competent enough to camouflage it.\nAgent Villar: How could she know how to do that, but leave a very obvious trail of purple smoke? This does not feel right.\nSr. Res. Thompson: Did you yourself not see the smoke coalescing around her and track the interference to here several times?\nAgent Villar: It could be some sort of weird, elaborate ploy? I couldn't get a good signal apart from that one time, we'd never had that much interference or even smoke before. This whole thing could be some goose chase the actual culprit's leading us on.\nAgent Dorsey: Or it could just be an upset kid that decided to try something the local crackhead told her. Although I don't think this is camo.\nSr. Res. Thompson: She's not a cerebromancer, as there were no countermemes detected, and some thaumaturgic rituals have unavoidable physical elements.\nAgent Villar: That's not the point. We've been so focused on singling this girl out we've gone highway blind to anybody that could be actually doing it.\nAgent Dorsey: You did ignore a lot of field notes from the others.\nSr. Res. Thompson: We've found the source of an anomaly, and we need to do our job and contain it. Now stop interrupting me.\nAgent Villar: Look, I just think we should try and back out, work on containing and maybe stopping the events before we go for the source.\nAgent Villar walks towards Sr. Res. Thompson and places his hand on the scanner.\nAgent Villar: Thompson, we're breaking and entering. We're lacking some pretty critical information about how this whole phenomenon reacts to long term exposure to something fighting it, and we don't even know how it's happening. This is a very, very bad idea.\nSCP-5435-B: What the fuck are you all doing?\nSCP-5435-B stands in a doorway at the end of the hall, staring at Agent Villar and Sr. Res. Thompson on the stairs. Agent Dorsey looks between the stairs and SCP-5435-B before sighing.\nAgent Dorsey: This is what we get for getting sloppy.\nSCP-5435-B: Why are you all in my house? What\u2014I can see a fire from my window! Why aren't you there or tracking whoever set it?\nSr. Res. Thompson: We are. We have reason to believe you have been responsible for both the vandalism starting in April and the fires.\nSCP-5435-B: Are you\u2014-I'm fucking done. God, I'm fucking done with this shit.\nAgent Dorsey: Madeline, just calm down, and tell us how you're doing it.\nSCP-5435-B: Oh, I don't fucking know! Why don't you just make up a reason for arresting me, like how everybody else in this god damn town has!\nSr. Res. Thompson: Radiation spike. Message being recieved.\nThe scanner device begins cracking, repeating an unclear message as SCP-5435-B continues to talk.\nSCP-5435-B: Radiation? Message? Jesus, what the fuck are you talking about?\nAgent Villar: Look, I know it sounds complicated, but we think that you're responsible for all of this in a way that isn't entirely natural.\nSCP-5435-B: Great. I don't care. God, why is it so hard for people to just try and\u2014\nThe scanner message clears as SCP-5435-B inhales and steps back.\nScanner: Leave me alone!\nSCP-5435-B: Leave me alone!\nThe smoke suddenly rushes out of the room behind SCP-5435-B, impacting Agent Villar. He staggers back as Sr. Res. Thompson and Agent Dorsey dodge the smoke, avoiding contact before it dissipates down the stairs. Agent Villar stands still, panting heavily.\nSr. Res. Thompson: Villar? Do you need a medic? Is something\u2014\nAgent Villar suddenly turns and punches Sr. Res. Thompson directly in the side of the head, knocking him unconscious. Agent Dorsey runs and tackles Agent Villar, both of their cameras being obscured as they begin struggling. After several minutes, Agent Villar kicks Agent Dorsey off of him and into a wall, and he sees SCP-5435-B removing Sr. Res. Thompson's camera from his coat, now carrying a duffel bag slung over her back.\nAgent Dorsey: He's on your hands, Madeline! This whole town's on your hands!\nSCP-5435-B glares at Agent Dorsey before Agent Villar charges him, slamming him into the wall again. SCP-5435-B holds up Sr. Res. Thompson's camera as she exits the house, looking around and recording the town. Nobody else is present on the street as she walks away from the house.\nAgent Dorsey finally throws Agent Villar off of him and slams his head into the wall, knocking him unconscious. Sprinting over to the window, he sees SCP-5435-B walking away, and immediately reaches to his radio.\nAgent Dorsey: This is Dorsey, I need a medic at anomaly ground zero, subject is gone and potentially dangerous, respond!\nHe does not receive a response for several minutes. SCP-5435-B turns the camera down towards her other hand to reveal Sr. Res. Thompson's wallet and radio, and her car keys. Returning the camera upright, she continues to approach her car at the end of the street, doing one final sweep of the camera before entering the car and starting it. She drives past her house, recording Agent Dorsey in the upper floor window as she does.\nSCP-5435-B continues driving towards Ocean's Breath High School, the camera now resting on the dashboard of the car. Several people have gathered and are looking at the school, which is now on fire, flames coming out of several second-story windows. Anna Misser is standing in front of the school, and turns to look at SCP-5435-B, who waves at her before speaking to the camera.\nSCP-5435-B: If I could have burned this town long ago, I wouldn't have hesitated. But I didn't. You did.\nSCP-5435-B throws the camera onto the side of the road, getting back in her car and driving off. Anna Misser waves at her in the distance before sitting down on the sidewalk, staring at the burning school.\nEND LOG\n\nAgent Villar and Sr. Res. Thompson made a full recovery, and Sr. Res. Thompson was officially reprimanded for his actions. Anna Misser has been uncooperative with Foundation authorities since Incident 5435-3, and has not divulged any information about SCP-5435-B's possible whereabouts. Given the unknown nature of SCP-5435-B's abilities, no active efforts to find her are being undertaken at the time, to avoid collateral damage.\nAnalysis of records of SCP-5435-B's early life do not present any evidence of anomalous influence.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5434 | SCP-5435 | SCP-5436 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5436\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5436 are to be kept in a standard locker at Site-19. Personnel wishing to conduct tests involving SCP-5436 are to obtain Level 3 or higher authorization and present a detailed list of intended test subjects. All testing of SCP-5436 must be conducted in a soundproof containment chamber with padded walls and floors. Direct exposure to SCP-5436 is to be conducted exclusively by D-class subjects.\nAll known orchestras and related media are to be monitored for symptoms consistent with exposure to SCP-5436, and any additional copies of SCP-5436 are to be confiscated immediately.\nDescription: SCP-5436 is an unknown orchestra's recording of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, distinguished by the addition of a unique auditory cognitohazard, which remains outside the human range of audible perception throughout the length of the recording. All individuals who listen to SCP-5436 report the experience of an unknown dimension and eventually encounter entities, dubbed SCP-5436-1. These anomalies are described as angels/spirits/supernatural entities if the subject is religious, and extraterrestrials/machines if the subject is not. Subjects who encounter SCP-5436-1 have unanimously reported feelings of serenity.\nSCP-5436 was originally theorized to function as a means of generating a highly complex set of illusions. However, subsequent testing has suggested that SCP-5436 may actually function as a unique method of remote viewing. It is currently believed that the user receives sensory information from an extradimensional source, with increasing immersion across each section of the recording.\nThe effects of SCP-5436 are summarized in the following table:\n\nMusic Section\nEffect on Subjects\n\nSection I. Introitus\nNo anomalous effects.\n\nSection II. Kyrie\nSubjects begin to experience a minor compulsion to continue listening through the remainder of the recording, regardless of prior interest.\n\nSection III. Sequentia\nSubjects experience the onset of mild perceptual alterations, including photopsia1, hyperacusis2, and the sensation of falling. These conditions gradually increase in severity over the course of this section.\n\nSection IV. Offertorium\nAltered perception increases exponentially in complexity. Photopsia and hyperacusis symptoms begin to manifest in coherent, kaleidoscopic patterns.\n\nSection V. Sanctus3\nAltered perception becomes fully immersive. Subjects cease responding to any external stimuli until SCP-5436 either finishes playing or is paused.\n\nSection VI. Benedictus\nSubjects begin to perceive the presence of SCP-5436-1. Instances of SCP-5436-1 do not seem to take notice of the subjects until the start of Section VII. Agnus Dei.\n\nSection VII. Agnus Dei\nIt is at this point that SCP-5436-1 approach the subject. During this time, the subject's bodies undergo grand mal seizures that continue until SCP-5436 either finishes playing or is paused.\n\nSection VIII. Communio\nSubjects suffer a permanent loss of higher brain function and undergo a momentary decrease in their personal Hume reading, resulting in the creation of an additional instance of SCP-5436-1 that appears in all subsequent testing.\n\nAny copies of SCP-5436, recordings of SCP-5436 being played, and artificial broadcasts of SCP-5436 are known to display the same anomalous effects as the original SCP-5436. As a result, a single copy of SCP-5436 could potentially be utilized to mass produce any number of additional instances.\nInvestigation: The preliminary investigation of SCP-5436 was initiated when the Foundation's WATCHDOG global anomaly monitoring network highlighted a significant correlation between recent upticks in comatose patients, and growing rumors of an unidentified New Age movement applying music as a means of transcendence. These rumors were traced to an anonymous post on a religious studies forum4. Foundation analysts then developed a watchlist of any forum users who had interacted with this post, the investigation of which eventually led to the discovery of SCP-5436 on 04/23/20185.\nIncident Log 5436: The following is a log of all known incidents directly involving SCP-5436. It should be noted that the vast majority of individuals who utilized SCP-5436 (>80%) were found to suffer from severe depression and/or anxiety.\n\n+Open Incident Log 5436:\n\n-Close Incident Log 5436:\n\nDate: 04/23/2018\nDetails of Incident: A vinyl copy of SCP-5436 was found among the personal effects of Lucia Redd, a 52-year-old cantor who was discovered comatose in her apartment. Foundation agents identified SCP-5436 as a potential cognitohazard during a routine investigation of the scene, and subsequently confiscated it in accordance with standard protocol.\nResults: Special containment procedures are established for SCP-5436, and the first known instance of SCP-5436-1 is encountered in subsequent testing.\n\nDate: 12/03/2018\nDetails of Incident: Four cassette tapes containing recordings of SCP-5436's Section III. Sequentia, through Section VI. Benedictus, respectively, were confiscated from the home of McKinley Rayes, a 33-year-old church organist who had been privately utilizing these items as a method for easing panic attacks following the recent death of her brother. All witnesses were interrogated and then amnestitized.\nResults: Despite extensive interrogation, Rayes confesses no knowledge regarding the origin of any SCP-5436 copies, all of which had been obtained through an anonymous gift at her brother's funeral.\n\nDate: 12/27/2019\nDetails of Incident: The Foundation's WATCHDOG global anomaly monitoring network identified a broadcast of SCP-5436 from the laptop of Jack Williams, a 27-year-old graduate student of religious studies who was discovered comatose in his dorm alongside two other students. Although the broadcast was successfully jammed before reaching any mainstream channels, Foundation agents were ultimately forced to destroy the laptop in the process.\nResults: Three additional instances of SCP-5436-1 are identified in subsequent testing. Attempts to trace the intended recipients of the broadcast prove to be impossible, due to the destruction of the laptop.\n\nDate: 11/03/2020\nDetails of Incident: By correlating commercial delivery patterns with the prior incidents involving SCP-5436, Foundation agents were able to identify and intercept a shipment of approximately two hundred CD copies of SCP-5436. All witnesses were interrogated and then amnestitized.\nResults: Subsequent investigations reveal this shipping order to originate from a shell company. Attempts to trace the manufacturer of SCP-5436 are currently ongoing.\n\nDate: 11/11/2020\nDetails of Incident: A USB recording of SCP-5436 was found in Finney Chapel in Oberlin, OH, where the entire 14-member congregation was discovered comatose. This recording was confiscated, and the cover story of a carbon monoxide leak was issued to the local press.\nResults: Fourteen additional instances of SCP-5436-1 are identified in subsequent testing. Reclassification to Euclid status is currently under consideration.\n\nDocument 5436: The following is a reproduction of the forum post that led to the initial investigations of SCP-5436. The original post has since been deleted in an attempt to minimize the occurrence of further incidents involving SCP-5436.\n\n+Open Document 5436:\n\n-Close Document 5436:\n\nThe original Requiem Mass was meant to grant peace to the departed. In modern times, we have learned to acknowledge condolences for the living as well, though memento mori has always been a cold comfort at best. As if peace only becomes a possibility when we're already dead. We have a choice to be or not to be, but there is a third option that goes unmentioned by the question. Requiem aeternam6.\nSpread the word.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Perception of flashing lights in the subject's field of vision.\n2. Increased sensitivity to specific auditory frequencies and volume ranges.\n3. If the playing of SCP-5436 is interrupted after this point, the subject will awaken with mild disorientation, nausea, and motor impairment for the next 12-48 hours.\n4. See Document-5436 for further information.\n5. See Incident Log 5436 for details.\n6. Literally translated to mean \"Eternal rest.\" This phrase is notable as the first words recited during the introit of a Requiem Mass, in addition to being the title of a well known prayer from Western Christianity.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5435 | SCP-5436 | SCP-5437 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5437 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5437\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe exterior of SCP-5437\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nProvisional Site-5437\nDr. T. Ithelo\nResearcher E. Metcalfe\nSite Security\n\nThe entrance to Provisional Site-5437\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area surrounding Provisional Site-5437 has been cordoned off under the auspices of an archaeological site owned by Foundation front company \"Bartac Expeditions\". Standard security and trespassing protocol is enforced.\nThe carcass of SCP-5437-1 has been transferred to Foundation Facility Site-40 for research purposes.\nDescription: SCP-5437 is a prehistorical religious complex located ~30 kilometers west of Paraguar\u00ed, Paraguay. The exterior of SCP-5437 combines known elements of primitive Fifthist and preclassical Mesoamerican architecture. It is hypothesized that SCP-5437 was constructed some time between 4100-3100 BC, and saw usage until the start of the 3rd millennium BC. Research has shown that SCP-5437's sole anomalous property is its ability to preserve biological matter for abnormal amounts of time, causing it to decay at an excessively low rate.\nThe approximate size of SCP-5437 is unknown. The majority of the structure is located underground, and several hidden chambers and hallways have been uncovered behind the complex walls. Aside from these branching rooms, SCP-5437 is mainly composed of a spiraled staircase that leads to a spacious foyer ~86 meters beneath the surface.\nColored parietal art lines the foyers walls, arranged in sequential order to display a religious narrative. An analysis of these petrographs can be found in Addendum.5437.1. An unknown syllabic and logographic writing system is engraved underneath the artwork. They remain untranslated, leaving analysis of the paintings contents largely to speculation. The hypothesized purpose of this cathedral area is to serve as a place of worship for SCP-5437-1.\nSCP-5437-1 is the carcass of a massive, ophiuroidic entity, catalogued as a Large-Scale Aggressor (LSA). The entity is green in coloration, and has five thin arms that sprout from its center, each measuring ~20 meters in length. SCP-5437-1 largely resembles an ophiuroid, but possesses hundreds of eyes on its central body disk. Dating techniques have failed to provide any discernible information regarding SCP-5437-1's age. SCP-5437-1's skin is incapable of being penetrated, even by anomalous means. As such, all attempts to dissect or examine the biological structures of SCP-5437-1 have failed. No secondary anomalous effects have been observed.\nAddendum.5437.1: Petrograph Analysis\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nPetrograph-01\n\nDescription: An entity resembling LSA-Brasil-01 is engaged in combat with an out-of-frame tentacled entity, of which only four tentacles are painted. Beneath this scene, a tentacle is drawn emerging from the sky as several entities hypothesized to be LSAs are falling to the ground.\n\nPetrograph-02\n\nDescription: Several scenes show the entities that fell from the sky being worshiped by prehistorical civilizations. An eel-like entity hovers over a sacrificial altar built in the ocean. An ankylosaurid stands on top of a volcano as human figures surround it. A large group of men construct what is assumed to be SCP-5437 around SCP-5437-1. Five men are seen standing near SCP-5437-1's arms, which touch the tips of their heads.\n\nPetrograph-03\n\nDescription: Each entity is depicted in a state of rest. Below this, the human figures that constructed SCP-5437 are shown to be dead, turned onto their backs. The eyes of SCP-5437-1 are closed. A visage of LSA-Brasil-01 covers the remainder of the mural.\n\nPetrograph-04\n\nDescription: A logographic calendar system spans the wall, written in a circular fashion. While the system used is indiscernible, several key symbols related to farming, the sun, and numerology indicate that the mural represents a calendar. At the center of the painting is LSA-Brasil-01, standing over a human settlement. At the bottom of the calendar, LSA-Brasil-01 is depicted as deceased. Several figures gather around the carcass of the entity, each holding an item associated with occult rituals, such as a human skull, a ceremonial knife, and a cup of blood.\n\nPetrograph-05\n\nDescription: Scenes of man-made structures burning and being destroyed by LSAs frame the mural. In the center, LSA-Brasil-01, larger than before, is now shown engaging in combat with the LSA entities that were depicted as resting. A thunderstorm is painted above the battle. Beneath this, LSA-Brasil-01 is shown tearing a serpentine entity apart with its tentacles and throwing its body into the sun. Several entities who are not pictured as deceased stand around LSA-Brasil-01. In the final sequence, LSA-Brasil-01 sits atop a large settlement, as human figures venerate themselves before the entity.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5437.2: Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 1998/04/17\n\nForward: After Fifthist motifs were observed during the exploration of SCP-5437 and analysis of its artwork, Site Director Dr. Tobias Ithelo consulted with retired Foundation historian, Researcher Emile Metcalfe. Metcalfe specialized in the study of Fifthism for nearly three decades, following the belief system's discovery in 1969. Metcalfe was put on paid leave following an incident in 1991 wherein he exhibited signs of being neurologically affected by Fifthism. In the years that followed, Metcalfe has been given significant psychological therapy and treatment, being declared fit to work in 1997.\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nDr. Ithelo enters the room. Metcalfe stands to shake his hand, but quickly retracts himself and sits back down.\nDr. Ithelo: It's been awhile, sir.\nResearcher Metcalfe: I've already been briefed. I know where this is going. Toby, I told you I don't want anything to do with this garbage. Not any more.\nDr. Ithelo: It\u2026 wasn't my call. They wanted an expert on Fifthism, you're the closest thing.\nResearcher Metcalfe: And what makes you so sure this is Fifthist? I've seen the pictures. Five murals, the corpse of a brittle star. It's surface level, it's superficial, it's not Fifthist.\nDr. Ithelo: That's why you're being called in. We want to bring you aboard, help us analyze this anomaly, figure out what it really is. You have to admit, you can make aesthetic connections \u2014\nResearcher Metcalfe: And that's exactly why I don't believe this is a Fifthist creation. I'll come along, but your superiors won't get what they're expecting. Some grand Fifthist revelation about the anomalies' ancient origins. Something so counter-intuitive to the very idea of Fifthism it's laughable. I have to wonder if my work on the subject has even been read, if it's the mere sight of a starfish that's calling me in.\nDr. Ithelo: Well sir, I've read a bit back in Brussels, that was years ago but it stuck with me. What about Hy-Brasil? You've seen the paintings. That's the crocosquid. Five tentacles, five eyes? Come on.\nResearcher Metcalfe: I was there. That's why I'm really here, aren't I?\nDr. Ithelo: You were\u2026 there? In 1988?\nResearcher Metcalfe: Before you ask, my\u2026 my incident happened later. I'm alright.\nDr. Ithelo: (Pause) I'm sorry to hear that sir. I didn't have any idea.\nResearcher Metcalfe: Do you think it's a tragedy? Hy-Brasil.\nDr. Ithelo: Come again?\nResearcher Metcalfe: Do you think it's better they had died together, with others?\nDr. Ithelo: I'm not sure what you mean, sir.\nResearcher Metcalfe: You wouldn't, Toby. I guess I'm here for a reason. Maybe you'll come to a conclusion in the coming months.\nSilence.\nResearcher Metcalfe: You have my assistance. Whatever you need me to do, I can help with. When I saw it\u2026 yes. (Pause) There's something here, perhaps.\nDr. Ithelo: Thank you, sir. How does research head sound? There's about 25 of us here, give or take. Not a lot to manage, it'd take a workload off me. I mean, we can even set your office up in the foyer, if you'd like.\nResearcher Metclafe: Whatever accommodation allows me to carry out tasks in the most efficient way is fine.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5437.3: Collected Journal Entries of Researcher Metcalfe\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n1998/04/19\nDarnell helped me move the majority of my possessions to the cathedral area. I have a bed, a desk, my archives, and all the proper equipment I'd need. I'm still not entirely sure what my purpose here is. I've toured through half of the structure, taking photographs, notes, and placing markers. \"Find a Fifthist angle,\" I was told. Find, or create? I remind myself of the inexplicable ties this structure has to the souls who perished 10 years prior.\nAs heaven poured out below, I could not see its eyes or its arms. Despite my life's work, my thoughts weren't on the virus of the mind, or the way it transmutes, or a world above our own. I was faced with the terror of the Aztec, bearing witness to the technology of European conquerors. Of the man who entrenches himself in the world of the anomalous for the first time. Of the neanderthal, seeing beasts larger than he can hunt. I did not think in terms of anomalies and normalities. I did not think at all.\nI know it's true th\nThere's work to be done.\n\n1998/04/21\nEventful day in the catacombs. Eventful night? I've walked all that we've uncovered, even the curious 'hidden' passages and chambers. Most of my time is spent cataloguing, dating, and observing artifacts we unearth. It's quite comforting work, given my former fields. Maite, a clearly green, kind girl, assists me by bringing objects to my office, which I do not leave for hours at a time. Its situation in between the arches of a long hallway makes me feel as if I've lived here my whole life. I'm surprised the request to move it here was even approved. It's possible, given my tendency to absorb myself fully in my tasks, that previous experience was taken into account.\nThere is little difference between this site, and a regular archaeological dig. Like a jungle film serial or comic, I feel as if I'm living out the fantasies of my youth. Instead of the brave safari leader, I've taken the role of the aged professor. I've even started dressing the part.\n\n1998/04/22\nThe case of the murals remain. I've put off my duties for the day, as a research head can, to study them. The story they tell is evident. A legion of beasts cast from heaven descend to earth to be worshiped as gods. For whatever reason, they collectively hibernate. Do they become victims of time, or are they awaiting judgement? Upon the arrival of a greater beast, they awaken. A war is waged, and the lesser beasts venerate their new leader, as does humanity itself. I, of course, observe this through the eyes of a historian as I would any religious myth. However, that is a luxury seldom achieved by someone who entrenches themselves in the unknown.\nI looked at the corpse. I had been avoiding it until now.\n\n1998/04/24\nHappy anniversary, Patricia. I still love you.\n\n1998/04/27\nI feel as if I haven't seen another soul in weeks, despite talking to my colleagues daily. Maite has started bringing me food. She's a wonderful cook.\nThere's something fascinating about the effects of this anomaly. Matter decays at a slower rate. Death is, for a time, prolonged. In retrospect, I'm surprised I was allowed to stay down here. I'm a willing subject, yes, but there's been a recent push for more ethical testing conditions within the Foundation. I think it's still happening.\n\n1998/04/30\nHow long did that carcass take to die? These entities almost certainly live longer than most life, and given the effects of the structure, I'm left only to speculate.\nIs it dead, or simply in the last stages of life? Its final seconds protracted into centuries.\n\n1998/05/03\nToby informed me he's taking leave soon. I'm not sure when. He said tonight, but who knows when \"tonight\" actually is. I can't remember his reasoning, some sort of conference with his superiors. I'm acting Site Director now. Could you imagine? Director Metcalfe. There's some that would outright join the Coalition if they saw that.\n\n1998/05/05\nI haven't slept in days a long time. I'm almost certain it's the lighting. I might move out for a few days, but I realize that would interfere with the minor experiment I have going on with my body.\nI'm starting to feel anger when I look at the carcass. Secretly, I wish it was alive. I hope it is. The death that being is capable of causing renders it a threat. I was proud to witness the coalition open a hole in the squid's head. Would we have done the same?\nA gaping hole in the starfishes head. It wants to die, but its own temple forbids it.\n\n1998/05/07\nKimberly would have been 13 today.\n\n1998/05/10\nI yelled at Maite. I'm not sure what I said to the poor girl, but I'm too ashamed to think about it.\nThe story on the paintings is solidifying itself more and more in my mind.\nIn 1978, the Russians found a beast in the arctic. They found its carcass frozen in a tomb. We know nothing about the society that built it. Their sole monument is one of death, a mausoleum for a beast. Did those ancient builders know their work would be forgotten? Why did they construct such beautiful creations, if they would soon die? The summation of their achievements is death.\nI lay in the tomb of the undying.\n\n1998/05/13\nPatricia asks me what I want for dinner. I tell her I don't want anything out of the ordinary. She laughs, and asks if I know where I am. Kimberly enters, eating a luminescent, purple ice cream. She hugs me, and thanks me for letting her come.\nI booked us tickets for a dancing show tonight, held in a large arena. I feel the stubs in my pocket. It's a secret. None of them know I purchased them. Another birthday gift to add to Kimmie's infinite pile.\nI feel the warm, Tuathan silk of my couch as I lay my head down for a brief rest.\nThe island is paradise.\nAnd then they died.\n\n1998/05/15\nOrdinary day.\nFound a new passage.\n\n1998/05/19\nI got up in the middle of the day last night. Started walking the halls. I went into the hidden chamber, and all I saw were corpses. The men who built this temple, the men who didn't. They stretched on for miles.\nDid they know they would die? Did they paint their murals with a sense of joy? The death, the destruction, the inevitable. Or did they believe they would be spared?\n\n1998/05/24 28\nIt's good they died together.\nIt's good they died when they did. They would have died if they hadn't, because I would have told them to.\n\nThursday\nI used to dream. I haven't in months.\nEvery stone in this temple was set by a man whose name is forever lost.\nI watched myself today. I'm a Foundation man. I'm intelligent enough to know when things are awry. They aren't, even if they seem that way. My body does my job efficiently and effectively. I maintain composure, as I always have. Brief flashes of anger when Maite drops a statue, shattering it into a hundred pieces. Its thousand year death has finally come to a close. The tomb gains another resident today. I tell her it should've been her.\n\nNight\nA fifthist concept is hardly fifthist at first glance but slowly transcends reality, a quote from my first lecture actually. It's either that but paraphrased a bit.\nThis is not a fifthist concept.\nI'm fully aware of what's happening here and I know it's the corpse. It has no secondary anomalous effects. I stepped outside today, just for a bit because I know my mind is torn between walking away and facing the inevitable. It was night time, and the sun looks exactly as it did that night in Hy-Brasil when Kimberly and Patricia were trapped under a wall and I saw the blood pooling but could not save them, nor would I want to.\n\nI got put on psychiatric watch because I got too close to a tape I shouldn't have listened to and started repeating its ideas.\nI started writing in this journal because I got too close to a beast I shouldn't have and started parroting its philosophy. If I was to die here, I would die an agonizing, slow death. If the people of Hy-Brazil were to die here, they would die extremely fast. Much like the deaths of my dearly dearly beloveds on that night.\nThat happened. They found a beast in the arctic. There are large scale aggressors. There are monsters. I can make myself leave my bed and see one myself. It's in the foyer. The one on the walls. I'm in the temple on the walls. The squid is on the walls. What's the point of denying it? These things happened. They're all going to happen.\nWhat happened to its corpse? When the beast died, it did not die but move to the next phase of its life, which is resurrection of its body. Anastasis. These things will come to pass. Why deny them?\nI prolong my death because we will all meet the same fate eventually. Toby left because he knew this. I can keep it together, but\nI'm not doing this anymore.\n\n1998/06/17\nCoffee this morning was too hot. Documented several new artifacts. A chamber pot, some sort of religious statue, and a ceremonial dagger. There's evidence pointing towards a mass grave of human remains.\nIf they killed them in the structure, they must have suffered an incredibly long time. They might have existed for hundreds of years in a dying state before finally expiring, possibly more due to the effects this structure has on human matter on decaying matter in the structure.\nI don't want to die. I'm scared to die.\n\nI do not wish to partake in the coming destruction.\nLike a fool, like a crazed lunatic, like someone affected by something out of their control, I touched the carcass. I would like to state, to the council, to my superiors, to whoever will eventually compile this into a document. I am in full control of my actions, my body's actions, and my thoughts, and the memories of my loved ones.\nThere is a sort of judgement coming. I do not wish to see it, and I know that I have a way out.\nThe best thing about that way out is that it's nothing new. It's always been there in the back of my head like a tiny hole that's been getting bigger and bigger. I know where it goes because I've been there before.\nThe civilization that built this temple does not exist. They did not exist. Their names do not exist because they never had names in the first place. Where did they go? Why did they leave us? Did they fear it like I do? This is flavor. I am incredibly bored. I don't think anymore, except when I'm on that island again, or in that room.\nI don't mind any of this. It's calming compared to what's to come.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5437.4: Audio Transcript\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nThe following is a transcript of audio recorded by Researcher Metcalfe the night of 1998/06/27. A QFX tape recorder containing the audio was found near SCP-5437-1.\nOkay. I'm, uh, I'm doing this to prove a point. Maybe to myself, um (laughs), probably to whoever is going to transcribe this, and make\u2026 and make this into a document. I'm standing in front of the corpse, by the way. I'm sorry, the object (laughs). I forget where I am sometimes, and that I have to downplay what this thing actually is.\nI'm Researcher Metcalfe, by the way. My writing's a little flowery, so that's\u2026 that's why I'm doing it this way. So you don't get the wrong impression and, uh, you can hear that I'm fine. I got called here because I'm an expert in Fifthism. There's some, um, connection between this anomaly and Fifthism, or so they say. I don't know, honestly, and I don't really care. Because you see \u2014 (scraping noises) when people think of Fifthism, they have this idea in their head about what it is really and not what it\u2026 uh, what it actually is.\nThey see the number five, or a starfish, and they think you start talking nonsense, but that's not the case. It never really is. I haven't said or wrote any nonsense. Go check. I'm clearly distressed, but I'm making sense. I think that\u2026 speaks volumes about the state I'm in.\n(distortion)\nYou see the truth is, Kimberly. When Kim, and\u2026 when Patricia died that night, I was lying to myself. Would you believe how many people I talked to today? The number of people I talked to today? (laughs) I won't even say it. It's unbelievable how much things start making sense when you want them to.\nI'm looking at this corpse right now. This giant\u2026 aquatic creature. It's dead, or at least it has been for a long time. What do you want from me? To start saying that it's talking to me and telling me things? That it's alive? That I'm prophetic? That's bullshit. It all is. The reality of\u2026 the reality of the situation is that it's dead. Every soul in this temple is dead. There is no beyond, there is no fifth world for you to transcend to, there's nothing. I'm in a sarcophagus, and the death is\u2026 it's palpable. It's on the walls, especially.\n(scraping noises) Damn it.\nI write like an old man, because I am one. That's why I'm doing this in this way\u2026 through this medium. So, in a house of the dead that still, uh, prolongs death, do you know what really scares me? The idea of something coming back. That's why I'm scared of that beast. Because I saw the\u2026 the GOC blow it to pieces. I saw its guts splattered across the land, and well, and what used to be the land. I saw all that, and it's still going to come back.\n\nFifthism is\u2026 uh, if I had to put it to words, it's the sight of your little girl being crushed by debris while you stand there unable to move. It's a beast that uses these arbitrary numbers and symbols to taunt you. It knows what it's doing by\u2026 by having that number of body parts. It's a tomb filled with dead built to prolong life. It's two forgotten societies doing the exact same thing halfway across the world from each other. It's the power to resurrect the dead. It's the power to awaken the sleeping. It's their blood mixing together and the coloration is clearly distinct in parts but\u2026 but you're still able to tell them apart.\nIt's knowing that there's a reckoning, and running from it with open arms. I fear\u2026 I fear for you all. I'm the coward here. I don't want to live in the world you're going to be, so call me weak (laughs).\nThere are\u2026 so many different, um, anomalies that I've seen. How many world-enders have we seen before? There's a lot. It's a little different when you know it's real, and when you know it's about to happen, and there's nothing you can do, and you know that because it already happened once. I'm staring it in the face. If I were you, I'd kill myself too.\nI think that's about it.\n(distortion)\nChalk it up to the right place, and the right time.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5437.5: Incident-5437\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINCIDENT LOG\n\nDATE: 1998/06/27\n\nA portion of SCP-5437 following Incident-5437\n\nAt 00:12 on 1998/06/27, SCP-5437-1 released a large emission of Elan Vital Energy (EVE), killing all personnel stationed at Provisional Site-5437, and destroying the significant portion of SCP-5437. It is assumed this occurred shortly after Researcher Metcalfe created the above recording. Further investigation found Metcalfe's intact, unharmed corpse within the body of SCP-5437-1.\nThis incident occurred within the same time-frame of Prometheus Lab's revival of LSA-Brasil-01 and subsequent awakening of several LSA-class entities across the world. This event is catalogued as SCP-5391.\nAs decided by the Hyperion-5 Committee, SCP-5437-1 has been transferred to Foundation Site-40 for research purposes. Precautions related to the petrographs depicted in SCP-5437 are being taken.\nObject class reclassification to neutralized is pending.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nCritter Profile: Cappi!\n\nWar on All Fronts: Anastasis\n\nReviviscence\n\n\u00ab SCP-5436 | SCP-5437 | SCP-5438 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5439\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Medical scans on Dr. Crowler are being made and consolidated. Dr. Crowler is to be held in a standard humanoid containment cell until the research team has agreed upon further containment procedures.\nDescription: SCP-5439 is a preliminary designation for the unknown phenomena causing the extreme congenital analgesia in Dr. Henrietta Crowler. While cognitive functions and sensations have stayed the same, Dr. Crowler has shown herself unable to perceive certain stimuli. Medical personnel confirm there are no non-anomalous biological explanations for Dr. Crowler's condition.\nDiscovery: The issue of SCP-5439 emerged on 21/09/2021 when Dr. Crowler showed symptoms of congenital analgesia on a regular staff conference. A part of the meeting logs are attached below.\n\n[OPEN LOG]\n\n[Mr. Falkner is by the whiteboard presenting the results of a recent survey on site security. Mrs. Ramirez, Dr. Marly and Dr. Crowler are present at the table. Dr. Crowler scratches her nose.]\nMr. Falkner: As you can see, fire exits are blocked almost at all exits but-\nDr. Crowler: Oh god damn it.\nMr. Falkner: \u2026We are probably going to have to intervene in another conference on the five steps of site security if things are going to chang-\nMrs. Ramirez: Are- are you alright Dr. Crowler?\n[Dr. Crowler is rubbing her palm against her nose tip.]\nDr. Crowler: Yeah yeah, it just itches so bad on the inside.\nMrs. Ramirez: But Dr. Crowle- Oh Jesus!\n[A snap is heard, which is believed to be the sound of Dr. Crowler's nasal bone. Dr. Crowler continues pressing and rubbing her nose, ignoring her co-workers protests. Her nasal bone structure cracks and is crushed completely. She sighs and wipes off some of the blood that has wetted her mouth and chin.]\nDr. Crowler: Aahh\u2026 That's better.\n\n[CLOSE LOG]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5438 | SCP-5439 | SCP-5440 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5441 - S03 E02 - \"The Intern\"\nObject Class: Keter\n\nINT. SITE-67 RECORDS DEPARTMENT - BREAK ROOM - DAY\nResearcher LUKE MILTON is being interviewed. Movement in the Records office can be faintly seen through the frosted glass behind him.\n\nMILTON\n\"What is a bureaucratohazard?\"\nWell, every time I so much as utter that word-\n\nMilton rolls up his sleeve, revealing a series of red marks just below his shoulder.\n\nMILTON (CONT'D)\nYeah.\nLet's just cut this off here, unless you want me to hook you up with some Class-Something amnestics too.\n\nOff-camera, somebody forcefully opens the door.\n\nVOICE\nWhere the [bleep] is my stapler, Luke?\n\nMILTON\nAaand that would be my\u2026 desk-mate.\n(beat)\nNever a dull moment at Site-67.\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE\nThe camera sweeps around the office, keeping in time with the upbeat folk-rock theme song that momentarily dominates the soundscape. We see Luke Milton at his desk, logging something on his computer. DAVE POOTS, his desk-mate, is aggressively applying Wite-Out to a filing card. He gives an awkward glare into the camera when he notices it has focused on him.\nJANE BURTON, the receptionist, is answering a phone with one hand and playing with a Newton's Cradle with the other.\nIn the warehouse, MANDY SINGH is rifling through a locker of mundane-looking objects. She is startled by the camera, knocking a wooden owl ornament from the shelf. Deep red blood begins to pool around it on the floor, as Mandy shoos the camera out of the room.\nIn the office proper, Dave stands on a round stool to amend a sign: DAYS SINCE LAST BREACH \u2014\nInside his personal office, SCOTT SULLY is asleep at his desk surrounded by toys and cheap trinkets.\nThe camera pans upwards, and comes to rest on a wall emblazoned with a large Foundation insignia. The music fades away.\n\nINT. SULLY'S OFFICE - MORNING\nSully is sitting in interview position, with a soft focus on him that blurs the Foundation logo on the wall.\n\nSULLY\nScott Sully. Site Director (of Records).\n\nHe holds up a small plush of Monsters, Inc. protagonist James P. Sullivan.\n\nSULLY (CONT'D)\nSully. Heh.\nY'know, I've given myself my own esoteric classification. Object Class? World's Best Boss.\n(beat)\nKidding. That was a joke.\nWe take Foundation policy very seriously in this office.\n\nINT. MAIN OFFICE\nDave pounds on Milton's desk.\n\nDAVE\nWhere did you put it, Luke?\n\nMILTON\nDave.\nIt's a stapler.\n\nDAVE\nFalse. It is my personal property and if you do not disclose its location I shall be filing a report with our superiors.\n\nMILTON\nWouldn't you\u2026 need a stapler for that?\nAll those pieces of paper\u2026\n\nDave returns to his seat, staring Milton down.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nMILTON\nJane and I printed off an antimemetic agent and taped it to Dave's favourite stapler.\nWhat that basically means is that it could be right in front of him, and his brain just\u2026 wouldn't register it was there.\n(beat)\nWhat that also means is that Jane and I don't know where we put it, either.\nI guess we'll find out in\u2026\n(checks watch)\nTwo days. Bi-weekly general countermemetic inoculation as per company policy.\n\nINT. SULLY'S OFFICE - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nSULLY\nYes, of course I want my employees to be on their best behaviour. Big day today.\nLeave the shenanigans to yours truly.\n\nINT. MAIN OFFICE\nSully stands near Milton's desk with a fresh-faced intern just behind him.\n\nSULLY\nMay I have your attention please?\n\nMILTON\n(under breath)\nNope.\n\nSULLY\nSome of you may have forgotten that we are welcoming a new member to our team today. This is Patrick\u2014\n\nPATRICK\nHey.\n\nSULLY\nPatrick is\u2026 consider him our newborn baby. For he is fresh out of a Virginia.\n\nPATRICK\nUm, oh-kay?\nI used to work for the FBI. Unusual Incidents Unit. I guess that makes me an intern, kinda\u2026\n\nSULLY\nLook at him\u2026\n\nSully uses his fingers to perform a scissor action in front of Patrick's stomach.\n\nSULLY (CONT'D)\nStill got the ol' Federal umbilical cord dangling there. But that's okay. Because we \u2014 all of us \u2014 are going to help you cut it.\n\nMandy shakes her head, and notes something down on a sheet of paper.\nMilton steals another glance at the camera, and gets back to logging anomalies on his screen.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nMILTON\nDo I think Scott Sully is funny?\nWell, let's put it this way \u2014 I think Scott Sully should probably be working somewhere that's\u2026 not here.\nWhy do they still let him work here in the first place? Heh. Of all the weird things I see on this job, all the things that just leave me begging for answers\u2026 that's probably the most mysterious question of them all.\nI dunno. After twelve years at Site-67 I've come to realize that things here\u2026 have a kind of rhythm. They always work themselves out.\n\nINT. SULLY'S OFFICE - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nSULLY\nI see this workplace like a Babybel. There's me, in the middle - the big cheese - and everyone else is the red wax shell that binds it all together.\n05 and Administration, well\u2026 they're like the snotty weird kindergartner who likes to eat the wax sometimes. But they don't dare touch that sweet cheddar itself.\n\nINT. THE BREAK ROOM\nDave is tinkering with the microwave. Patrick enters the room, takes a seat, and opens his lunchbox. Dave looks at the camera, and then towards Patrick.\n\nDAVE\nPsst, intern?\n\nPATRICK\nWhat's up?\n\nDAVE\nA personal question, if you don't mind?\n\nPATRICK\nHit me.\n\nDAVE\nAt Quantico, in training, do they teach you the art of Sarkicism?\n\nPATRICK\nI\u2026 nope, must have been off sick that day.\n\nDAVE\nPity. I can teach you a few things, if you're interested.\nThings about the beauty of flesh.\n\nDave stares intently into the microwave, watching in the reflection as an expression of disgust forms on Patrick's face.\n\nDAVE (CONT'D)\nKidding. It's only a Hot Pocket.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nJANE\nThe best prank me and Luke ever pulled on Dave?\nHm, it was probably\u2026 yeah, I think it was the time we swapped his glasses out for a pair of \"novelty\" x-ray spectacles. Only they were functional.\nHe spent a whole day running round convinced that everybody was turning into skeletons. He needed a week or so off work after that one.\n(beat)\nOne of those things where you really had to be there.\n\nJane twists the tips of her hair before returning her gaze to the camera.\n\nINT. SULLY'S OFFICE - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nSULLY\nIf there's one thing we pride ourselves on here at Site-67, it's our inclusivity and undying love for each other. We're a diverse bunch, and if you've got a problem with that then you can suck it.\nTake Mandy, for example. Mandy is from Cleveland.\nShe moved all the way down here just to work for us. See what I mean?\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE\nMandy is running through a new batch of anomalous items with Milton, crouching at the side of his desk.\n\nMANDY\nOkay, but it's not just any steamroller. It fell into a giant butthole and burst out of this old guy's chest.\n\nMILTON\nHm.\nNeutralized?\n\nMANDY\nYeah, I'd say so.\n\nAt the other end of the desk, Dave is looking with increasing frustration at his screen.\n\nDAVE\nLuke.\n\nMILTON\nDave.\n\nDAVE\nThe strange people are talking in my computer again.\n\nMILTON\n(glances at camera with a disturbed expression)\nAgain? You're kidding.\n\nDAVE\nI do not jest, Researcher Milton. See for yourself.\n\nDave clumsily turns his screen in Milton's direction, knocking over a stack of papers.\n\nDAVE (CONT'D)\nRight there.\n\nOn the screen is Dave's incredibly outdated email client, with an exchange between several Foundation addresses taking up a secondary window.\n\n| TO: a_bagley, d_poots\n| FROM: TEN.PiCS.atap|remmah_revlis#TEN.PiCS.atap|remmah_revlis\n| RE: Site-67 Records Department\nCan you fax over a hard copy of yesterday's transcript?\n- the SILVERHAMMER team\n\n| TO: silver_hammer, a_bagley\n| FROM: TEN.PiCS.76etis|stoop_d#TEN.PiCS.76etis|stoop_d\n| RE: Site-67 Records Department\nWho are you people and why did you just send this to me?\n\n| TO: a_bagley, d_poots\n| FROM: TEN.PiCS.atap|remmah_revlis#TEN.PiCS.atap|remmah_revlis\n| RE: Site-67 Records Department\nOh for crying out loud, I said not to add any of them to the recipients list. How long has he been getting these?\n\nJane has been watching the situation with great interest. She waves Milton over to the reception desk.\n\nJANE\n(whispering)\nJust so we're on the same page here, that's you, right?\n\nMILTON\nMe? I thought it was you.\n\nJANE\nOhmygod.\n\nBoth Jane and Milton attempt to stifle their laughter.\n\nDAVE\n(to Mandy)\n\u2026 nor is this the first time. They say strange things\u2026 snarky comments on our behaviour.\n\nMANDY\nAre you sure that's not just Human Resources?\n\nDAVE\nIt's not like that. It's not like that at all. It's like I'm being watched.\n\nMILTON\nWait, okay, even for you this is\u2026 paranoid. I mean, Jesus.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nDAVE\nYes, I was being completely serious. You guys were in there when I showed the logs, right?\nYou should see some of the other things they're saying. Talking about incidents so specific\u2026 it's like we're always being recorded.\n(beat)\nI, Researcher Dave Poots, am going to find out just what's going on here. I am going to find their cameras, their microphones, and expose their nefarious little game for whatever it really is.\n\nINT. SULLY'S OFFICE\nSully is facing the wall in his chair, and he spins it around as Patrick enters the room. In Sully's mouth is a rolled-up sticky note, dangling from his lips like a cigarette.\n\nSULLY\n(mimicking an elderly man)\nAhh, Mr. Mulder\u2026\n\nPatrick sighs and tries his hardest not to acknowledge the camera.\n\nSULLY (CONT'D)\nHaha, X-Files. 'Cause of, like, the FBI and-\n\nPATRICK\nNo, I\u2026 I got it.\n\nSULLY\nRight.\nSo, kiddooo, how hath been thire first day, sire?\n\nPATRICK\nI mean\u2026\nThere's a lot to get used to round here.\n\nSULLY\nCorrectamundo.\nHave you been down the warehouse yet? You really should, it's awesome. They have, like, this coffee machine. And if you\u2026 anything you\u2026 pfft\u2026 I typed it in and\u2026\n(unintelligible)\n\u2026and then when it all finished coming out, I said\u2026 \"wow, just like your mother!\"\nIt was awesome.\n\nPATRICK\nSounds like it.\n\nSULLY\nI'd take you down there, but they won't let me after that.\nMaybe ask Luke? Luke Milton. He's cool, and-\n\nDave is screaming something outside the office.\n\nSULLY (CONT'D)\nUh-oh.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nPATRICK\nI was assigned to Site-67 after my stint with the UIU. Headhunted, I should say. Somebody at the Foundation had read my research into narrative anomalies and thought I'd fit right in\u2026 not entirely sure I see where they're coming from, but with a lucrative organisation like the Foundation you gotta take any in-roads they offer you.\nThey wanted to \"shake things up a bit\" with the team down here, but I'd say Scott Sully and co. are way ahead of themselves in that department.\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE\nHalf the ceiling tiles in the room have been removed and stacked on the floor. Dave is standing on his desk, poking out the remaining tiles with the end of a broom.\nSully and Patrick burst out of the Director of Records' office, bemused at the scene in front of them.\n\nSULLY\nMulder and Sully at your service, what seems to be the\u2026\nAh.\n\nDAVE\nCameras, Sully. We are under constant surveillance.\n\nMANDY\nWe are not under surveillance, Dave, constant or otherwise.\nTake it from me as your HR liaison, this department operates with minimal oversight. Thanks to our track record\u2014\n\nSULLY\nHe's right. Our record when it comes to Records is impeccable.\n\nINT. SULLY'S OFFICE - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nSULLY\nWhere's the lie? These days I only get snide emails from 05, oh, two or three times a week?\nLemme read you the one from last Thursday:\n\"Dear Mr. Sully,\nFrom now on we shall be ignoring your frivolous requests for D-class personnel. There are only so many death row prisoners at our disposal. You have your own sanitation detail - please assign them to the tasks they were hired for.\"\nRude. Burrito day only comes monthly, and cleaning those stalls is not a job for an innocent man.\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE\nDave is gesticulating wildly at the computer. Sully squints to make out the text amongst the cluttered interface.\n\nDAVE\nHere are the ones I saved from last week.\n\n| TO: silver_hammer, d_poots\n| FROM: TEN.PiCS.atap|yelgab_a#TEN.PiCS.atap|yelgab_a\n| RE: Site-67 Records Department\nGood lord, this guy makes me want to rip my hair out. Are they really so efficient we can't just, y'know\u2026 have him terminated? He crosses just about every line in the doorstopper of an HR book.\n\n| TO: a_bagley, d_poots\n| FROM: TEN.PiCS.atap|remmah_revlis#TEN.PiCS.atap|remmah_revlis\n| RE: Site-67 Records Department\nWe've got authorization to drop in a new player. Neither party shall be aware of the nature of SCP-5441. Consider this an exercise in narrative manipulation. The selected subject, however, has a background in the field which should cover for any\u2026 complications which may have arisen from the insertion of a less \"genre-savvy\" participant.\n\nSULLY\nCome on, you think that's real? Nobody thinks I'm that much of a dick.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nDAVE\nLuke and Jane are children, yes. This, however, goes way beyond the feasible realm of a workplace prank.\nJane stealing my stationery? Luke joining my lunchbreak gaming session under the name \"Phthonus\" and making me run around all week thinking the whole office had been replaced by lookalike charlatans?\nThat's all harmless fun.\nBut this is sinister. Luke and Jane may well be many things, however they are not evil.\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE\nSully clears his throat.\n\nSULLY\nAttention, fellow conspiritators! Listen up.\nI've just had 05-something on the line, and they deeply regret to inform you that the monthly general amnestic drive has been rescheduled to this afternoon.\n\nA collective groan spreads throughout the office.\n\nSULLY (CONT'D)\nYep, so if there's anything anomalous you might not have been supposed to see, now is your chance to write them down.\n(beat)\nJust make sure you don't remember who told you to do so!\n\nDave frantically begins typing on his computer.\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE - HALF AN HOUR LATER\nThe amnestic delivery team arrives, clad in tactical gear emblazoned with the symbol of a silver pestle. Jane is checking AGENT BAGLEY in.\n\nAGENT BAGLEY\nCareful - it's Aaron with a second 'A'.\n\nSully swaggers over.\n\nSULLY\nIf it isn't the S.W.A.T. \u2014 Small Wang Amnestics Team.\nWazzuuuup?\n\nMANDY\n'Cause that's not immature at all, Scott.\n\nSULLY\nGah, why can't you get a sense of humor?\nAmnesticize her out of my head, gentlemen, please\u2026\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nAGENT BAGLEY\nWhat the f\u2014\nOh, right. I forgot you sorta get randomly whisked into these bits if you so much as set foot in this place.\n(beat)\n\"Is it unethical to keep an entire department trapped against their will in an unstable narrato-bureaucratic anomaly?\"\nWell, look at it this way: is it unethical to ruin the efficiency of our Records Department and lose track of six thousand world-threatening anomalous objects? I don't think so.\nDon't get me wrong, Scott Sully is an idiot of the highest order. But beneath all the childish shenanigans and potential HR [bleep]shows, this narrative scenario they've worked themselves into through the monotony of office life\u2026 things, at the end of the day, get done.\n\nINT. MAIN OFFICE\nThe amnestics drive complete, Bagley and his team pack away their equipment. The employees of the Records Department hold cotton to their arms, stemming the needle marks from the amnestic injection.\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nDAVE\nYeah, I do feel better. Though, to be honest, it's not like I can even remember what I was paranoid about.\n\nDave glances backwards, looking through the glass into the rest of the office.\n\nDAVE (CONT'D)\nWho the hell took down all those ceiling tiles?\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE - THE NEXT MORNING\nSully walks into the office, car keys in hand. The other employees are gathered around the reception desk.\n\nSULLY\nGuten Morgen, meine\u2014\nAagh, what the [bleep], Dave?\n\nOn the desk is a wad of Kleenex, holding what appears to be the mangled corpse of a common frog.\n\nDAVE\nWhat? I ran him over in the parking lot and must atone for my sins.\n\nSULLY\nNope. Nooope. Get it out of here, Dave.\nWe are not holding another frog funeral. Not after\u2014\n\nDAVE\nPrecisely. Instead, I have performed a thaumaturgic ritual using a series of Sarkic incantations\u2014\n\nThe frog croaks feebly. Its spilled innards begin to bubble, flesh starting to encase them once again. Its eyes open, and the rejuvenated amphibian suddenly leaps onto the carpet.\nJust about everyone screams except for Milton, who sits at his desk and rolls his eyes.\n\nSULLY\nCalm, everybody! Stay calm! It's just a zombie frog!\n\nThe frog hops manically around the room.\n\nSULLY (CONT'D)\nJust a frog\u2026 Crazy Frog! Frog-nitohazard!\n(beat)\nDoes anyone have a net?\n\nINT. BREAK ROOM - INTERVIEW POSITION\n\nMILTON\nYep - another uneventful day here at Site-67.\nWhen all's said and done, I think we deserve to have some fun with the anomalous, y'know? Like\u2026\nOther branches, they're out there in the field or in the lab. I'm a \"Researcher\", sure, but most of what I do all day is organize files.\nNot that what's in those files isn't, y'know, Earth-shatteringly fascinating\u2014\n\nDave bursts through the door.\n\nDAVE\nLuke!\n\nMILTON\nMr. Poots.\n\nDAVE\nThe crank emails. Stop them.\n\nMilton sighs and looks back into the camera.\n\nMILTON\n(whispering)\nJust another day.\n\nINT. THE MAIN OFFICE\n\nMILTON\nDave. That's from yourself. It's from your own address.\n\nDAVE\nPerhaps there's some\u2026 other Dave Poots? In the Foundation, I mean.\n\nOn the screen, Dave has an email window open.\n\n| TO: d_poots\n| FROM: TEN.PiCS.76etis|stoop_d#TEN.PiCS.76etis|stoop_d\n| RE: SILVERHAMMER\nSILVERHAMMER. what does it mean, dave?\n\n                                                    ID\n\n        d85f614034638ab194991ab1f0bfbcbd_1706539399\n\n                                                    PASSWORD\n\n        ea79fd5c814b4cb08b16d4f339c9ce9d_1706539399\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nItem #: SCP-5441\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The file describing SCP-5441 has been contained within the digitalized teleplay for SCP-5441-43 (\"Season 3 Episode 2 - The Intern\").\nMTF Theta-15 (\"SILVERHAMMER\") is to monitor the Site-67 anomaly at all times, placing the office under continuous covert surveillance and creating a new screenplay for each day's events.\nShould subjects within SCP-5441 become aware of its anomalous nature, MTF Theta-15 has authorization to enforce the amnesticization of all affected personnel.\nMinor suggestions that SCP-5441 may be anomalous are to be downplayed as paranoia or workplace pranks.\n\nDescription: SCP-5441 is a narrative anomaly combining 'pataphysical elements with those of a bureaucratic hazard.\nFirst observed within the Foundation's Records Department, SCP-5441 has condensed the office ecosystem at Site-67 into a narrative structure similar to that of a \"mockumentary\"-style situation comedy. SCP-5441 is perceived as non-anomalous unless observed using audiovisual media, or transcribed in the form of a script or teleplay. It should be noted that in order for this to be effective, any references to the anomalous properties of SCP-5441 must make contextual sense within the narrative of a given \"episode\".\nSubjects affected by SCP-5441 are observed to jump between locations via unknown means in a manner representative of scene changes. Much of the Records Department's productive output is believed to occur during these temporal lapses.\nSubjects will often acknowledge or address the presence of a \"camera\" despite a film crew having never been observed within the premises. In most cases, however, the direct suggestion that a camera crew is present will be disregarded by subjects under the influence of SCP-5441.\nDespite the comedic inclinations of this narrative causing Site-67 personnel to display incompetent and/or highly unprofessional behaviour, the productive output of those affected remains exceptional.\n\nMILTON\nCould be, Dave. Could be.\n\nMilton steals a glance at Jane, and they both turn to the camera with confusion in their eyes.\n\nFADE TO BLACK.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5440 | SCP-5441 | SCP-5442 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5442\nLevel 2/5442\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nThe Ariel Rios Federal Building, Headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). SCP-5442-1 is partially visible to the far left.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A division of Mobile Task Force Dalet-12 (\"Arcanists, Demonologists, and Occultists\") has been assigned to observe and covertly research SCP-5442-1. As there is no sub-division within the ATF that Dalet-12 can liaise with to conduct their investigation without risking Veil Integrity, several of them have been employed as night janitors at the Ariel Rios Federal Building. Attempts to breach through the terminating wall of SCP-5442-1, and interview any apparitions, are to be made between the hours of 1:00 AM and 4:00 AM.\nThe full draft of SCP-5442-2 and the contents of SCP-5442-5 are available to any Foundation staff that have sufficient clearance. Individuals with high scores on the Euler-Melborne Memetic Hazard Resistance Test are encouraged to attempt to discern the name of the department in Section 15 of SCP-5442-2.\nSCP-5442-3 is contained by Congressional Whips whose loyalty has been proven by exposure to SCP-2140. These individuals are considered Level 1 personnel, and are to be used exclusively for the containment of SCP-5442-3.\nSCP-5442-4 is monitored by Foundation Counter-Forensic Accountants. In the event that a purchase is made that requires a physical presence (i.e. items bought from a wholesale store), the nearest available task force is to move in, detain possible witnesses, and seize any video evidence using standard cover story 391 (\"Fugitive Spotted in Area\").\nDescription: SCP-5442 is a series of phenomena and documentation connected to a non-existent division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). All instances of SCP-5442 either occur or are recovered in Washington, D.C. The apparent purpose of this organization, designated SCP-5442-A, was to seize and dispose of illicit anomalous pharmaceuticals and weaponry, and arrest individuals involved with the trafficking thereof. In reality, the Unusual Incidents Unit of the FBI typically handles these cases, with aid from the Drug Enforcement Administration's 'Crypto-Pharm' Division.\nSCP-5442-1 refers to a vacant corridor on the third floor of the Ariel Rios Federal Building1 in Washington, D.C. Plans for the building indicate the existence of several hundred square meters of office space in the area, as well as an evidence lockup for 'inert materials'. Despite this, the corridor terminates approximately 10 meters sooner than it does on all other floors of the building. Windows looking out from this area are visible from the outside of the Ariel Rios Building; no visible light has been able to penetrate this space, but infrared imaging has displayed a pair of humanoid figures within, one of whom has an internal body temperature high enough that it cannot be estimated using currently available technology.\nIndividuals working the Ariel Rios building typically avoid SCP-5442-1, due to it being devoid of any office space. However, staff at the Ariel Rios building have reported a variety of phenomena commonly associated with 'hauntings', including:\n\nA tendency for objects of religious significance (i.e. crucifix necklaces, pocket Bibles) to become hot to the touch.\nDocuments pertaining to the United States Government (i.e. copies of the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, presidential inaugural speeches) having their text edited into nonsensical wording.\nIndividuals developing a belief that bullets are edible and consuming them is beneficial to one's health.\nFeelings of severe anxiety over the actions of the Trump administration regarding the US Department of Justice as a whole; these persist even following the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden in 2021.\nThe appearance of scratches in the shape of thaumaturgical sigils; while seemingly random, several of them correspond to a Tartarean Entity known as 'The Greedy Thing Without Face or Name', known for stealing the appearance, function, and memories of the thing that the individual who summoned it loves the most, in exchange for boons.\nAn apparition of a masculine African-American individual in their mid-to-late-50's wearing a grey suit, and an American flag pin on their right lapel. This entity speaks in English, and typically warns individuals to stay away from the immediate area for their own safety.\nAnother apparition, of a \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 that \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and vocalizes with \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 wind chimes \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 feeling of extreme avarice and speaking in tongues for up to \u2588\u2588 hours after exposure.\n\nAttempts to bore, dig through, or otherwise penetrate the wall where SCP-5442-1 terminates have resulted in catastrophic failure, typically due to equipment melting from extreme heat upon digging further than 4cm into the wall. Despite this, ambient temperature in this corridor, and in the corridors and offices above and below SCP-5442-1, display normal temperature readings.\n\nSCP-5442-2 is an anomalous draft of the Foundation's Reagan Plan, intended to be put into effect in early 2017. While listing several members of Foundation personnel who would conceivably be responsible for drafting the Reagan Plan for the Trump administration as authors, no records exist of a petition to draft this document, nor do any of the individuals listed recall writing it. Furthermore, prior to its discovery within a filing cabinet at the J. Edgar Hoover Building2 in October 2017, no digital records of this plan existed.\nThe Reagan Plan is a catch-all Foundation operation, focused on shutting down and liquidating infrastructure and departments in the United States Government related to the investigation, processing and detention of anomalous individuals and phenomena, in the event that a presidential administration that lacked the ability to comprehend or responsibly use these resources came into power; two official drafts of the Reagan Plan exist3 and while a Reagan Plan for the Trump Administration was considered, it was ultimately deemed unnecessary, due to the Foundation aiding in the creation of the Department of Paranormal Affairs, a governing body for all departments, infrastructure and institutions that deal with anomalous phenomena in the United States in late 2016.\nSCP-5442-2 mirrors the previous two Reagan Plans, albeit with updated language and the inclusion of entities formed since the second Reagan plan; however, the entirety of Section 15, making up Pages 49-62, is affected by a memetic anomaly wherein the name of the department it pertains to (likely SCP-5442-A) cannot be perceived. A sample of the documentation has been included below, with redactions included in place of the name of SCP-5442-A.\n\nSECTION 15\nPertaining to the\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n(\"\u2588.\u2588.\u2588.\u2588\")\n\nAs a subset of the ATF, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has been an invaluable asset in the seizure of anomalous pharmaceuticals and weaponry, and the incarceration of individuals involved with their creation and trafficking. However, several of the items seized by \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, while inert, are still in storage at one of over twenty evidence holding facilities across the United States, including one in the Ariel Rios Building, where they are used as a training aid. Therefore, this stage of REAGAN-2017 will have the following steps:\n1) Liquidation of Assets. High-value pieces of anomalous weaponry are to be seized and contained by the Foundation. Anomalous pharmaceuticals and alcohols are to be treated as Class-4 Biohazards for disposal, and disposed of on a case-by-case basis.\n2) Assessment of Personnel. In contrast to FBI-UIU, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 agents have a skillset that is more specialized, and a \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 agent is already largely redundant in the US Government's Infrastructure. (see Subsection 4) . While they have adequate training in interrogation techniques, above-average training in bomb disposal, and are highly fluent in legal jurisdictions across the United States, several members of personnel lack experience in the direct apprehension and handling of more dangerous anomalous entities and items.\n2) (con't) Therefore, it has been found that approximately 80% of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 personnel are not suitable for recruitment into the Foundation or allied Groups of Interest. However, being a part of the ATF, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is home to several highly-skilled arson investigators. Particularly of note is Agent Louis Post4 , who developed the 'Post Method' of engaging with pyrokinetic individuals.5 Therefore, it is the opinion of the authors that agents of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 are divided into two groups: Essential and Non-Essential.\n2) (con't) Non-essential personnel include individuals with experience in accounting\u2014 i.e. tracking tax fraud, tracking the movements of funds to groups who traffic firearms; individuals with experience in bomb disposal; individuals with experience in evidence cataloging; individuals with experience in para-chemistry; and individuals who are involved in the administration of this department. The last category includes Director Timothy McKnight6. Non-essential personnel are to be amnesticized and re-assigned to other agencies in the US Government. For instructions on essential personnel recruitment, see Subsection 5.\n3) Lack of Legal Foundation. The dissolution of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has been considered in the past, even outside of previous Reagan Plan drafts. US Law is currently not set up to account for a large amount of weaponry and alcohol, both anomalous and non-anomalous; for example, a non-anomalous flamethrower is legal to own in all fifty states, with restrictions in California and Maryland, and there is currently no legal precedent for restricting the ownership of anomalous weaponry such as the so-called 'Hush Bombs' formerly used by the British Occult Service, which are available on the black market throughout the western hemisphere.\n\nSCP-5442-3 refers to the appearance of SCP-5442-A in various appropriations and budget bills that make their way through the United States Congress on an annual basis. The presence of SCP-5442-A is denoted by the same memetic anomaly found in SCP-5442-2. Every year since its apparent inception, SCP-5442-A has requested over $100 quintillion7 for an array of expenses, including:\n\nCarpet cleaning services ($120,000)\nComputer maintenance ($70,000,000)\nKeyboard maintenance ($90,000,000,000)\nAir conditioning units ($7,000,000)\nDoors ($10,000,000,000,000)\n'Pope Assassination Squad' (amount redacted in the allocation request)\n'Rights to the Corpse of John D. Rockefeller' ($70,000,000)\n'Rights to the Corpse of Ronald Reagan' ($90)\n\nTo date, Foundation assets in Congress have been successful in excising the offending legislation from budget bills; however, the author of this legislation remains unknown.\n\nSCP-5442-4 refers to a bank account found in the name of 'Timothy McKnight', the alleged director of SCP-5442-A. The credit history of this account ranges back to 2009, where it was opened at the Pentagon Federal Credit Union. No other records of a man named 'Timothy McKnight' in the Washington, D.C. Area exist.\nSince 2017, SCP-5442-4 has shown a very large negative amount; despite this, no attempts have been made by PenFed to close the account, or take any other actions such as charging overdraft fees. Furthermore, after January 2017, charges made to the card have little if any pattern to them. Included below is a sample of charges made to SCP-5442-4.\n\nNov. 7 2016 > Five Guys $23.09\nNov. 8 2016 > No Kisses Bar $107.93\nNov. 9 2016 > Service Bar DC $93.21\nNov. 10 2016 > Taxi Fare $15.31\nNov. 10 2016 > Taxi Fare $13.02\nNov. 10 2016 > Taxi Fare $19.00\nNov. 11 2016 > McDonald's $6.67\n\u2026\u2026.\nDec. 8 2016 > Kay Jewelers $291.29\nDec. 9 2016 > The Four Seasons DC $110.93\nDec. 11 2016> Transfer8 $80,321.299\n\u2026\u2026.\nDec. 18 2016 > Hot-Rotic Hotline $40\nDec. 18 2016 > Lady Mileena's Psychic Helpline10 $300\nDec. 20 2016 > Sacred Circle11 $203.93\nDec. 22 2016 > Fuddruckers12 $23.12\n\u2026\u2026..\nJan. 10 2017 > Transfer > $76,842.30\n\nThe transaction on January 10th is notable for three reasons; firstly, it transferred the remainder of McKnight's funds to another account. Second, this account number does not match a valid number in any banking system accessible to the Foundation, but funds can and have successfully been transferred to it. Finally, the transfer was made the day immediately prior to when the Reagan Plan proposed in SCP-5442-2 would have gone into effect.\nFollowing this, transactions have typically been used to buy laboratory equipment, fire suppression systems, chemicals used in the production of pharmaceuticals, bananas, fertilizers, live hares, massive quantities of PDE inhibitors, and pet food. As of January 2021, the account currently sits at a balance of -$50,239,210.12.\n\nSCP-5442-5 is a Samsung Galaxy S4 Smartphone recovered from the grounds of the Ariel Rios Federal Building. No US Government encryption is present on the phone, suggesting it was for personal use rather than professional.\nSCP-5442-5 contains several excerpts of thaumaturgical manuscripts saved as photographs. Most of them focus on the summoning of several Tartarean entities, as well as photographs of thaumaturgical ritual setups within an unoccupied office space.\nSMS messages displayed on SCP-5442-5 contain a memetic anomaly similar to SCP-5442-2, rendering them unreadable; however, a two-minute long video file exists on SCP-5442-5, which may provide context as to the origin of SCP-5442 as a whole.\n\n00:00 Phone camera is looking up at the ceiling. A large object, appearing to be a computer monitor, flies above it. A crashing sound is heard off-camera. Further crashing sounds occur for the next thirty seconds.\n00:32 An African-American male in his mid 50's, with an American flag pin on his right lapel, comes into view and picks up the phone. He holds it towards what appears to be a large cluster of computers, keyboards, monitors, and desks, all floating in a cyclonic pattern in the center of a thaumaturgic circle. Several items appear to be partially melted.\n\n00:43 The camera shakes, and the phone is heard buzzing. The man responds:\n\n\"Yeah, Amy said I was married to my job.\"\n\nFollowing this, several monitors are thrown across the room. One crashes through the window; however, the camera is filled with digital static, and the window appears repaired in the frame immediately after.\n01:07: Further camera shaking. The cyclonic entity attempts to approach the camera. The man responds:\n\n\"We had a deal, you son of a bitch. The thing I love the most, in exchange for the rest of my guys getting through this administration intact.\"\n\n01:13 A keyboard flies directly at the camera. There is a sound of bone crunching, and the phone is dropped. The man curses for several seconds, before picking up the phone with their other hand.\n\n\"You really want to go back on the deal? Go ahead, do it, I got what I want! Skippers cancelled their dumbass plans, and they aren't starting them back up anytime soon!\"\n\n01:23 The phone buzzes violently. There is a sound of sizzling flesh, and a scream from the man, followed by:\n\n\"Okay, look! You take the function of what you steal, right? Look at where we fucking are! The headquarters of a fucking drug agency! You have any idea how much money you could make?\"\n\n01:30: The phone stops vibrating. The cyclone stops, with all matter being suspended in midair. A \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 within, which \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Then, it \u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\n\"Now, we\u2026 technically do alcohol and tobacco. The DEA does the actual drug stuff, but\u2026 we can manage, right? We can order stuff. You know how to use a keyboard, yeah?\"\n\nThe phone buzzes.\n\n\"Well then how the hell are you talking to me through my phone? Whatever\u2026\"\n\n01:45: The man, still holding his phone, walks over to a keyboard on the ground. Both Shift keys have been destroyed by the impact. He is heard sighing.\n\n\"For God and Country.\"\n\n01:49 The camera turns to the man's face as the video ends. In the background, a sign can be seen on the wall, partially destroyed; it reads:\n\npartm  t of Anom lou Drugs and Ordinan\n\nFootnotes\n1. Headquarters of the ATF\n2. Headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation\n3. One for Ronald Reagan's re-election in 1984, due to his declining mental state; and one for George W. Bush's re-election in 2004, due to his incompetence.\n4. An individual of this name was found to be working for the US Government, as an arson investigator for the FBI.\n5. No record of such method exists.\n6. See documentation on SCP-5442-4\n7. An amount that exceeds the current Federal Deficit by a factor of over 3.2 million, and the amount of US Currency in circulation by a factor of 2.7 million.\n8. The owner of the account money was transferred to was Amelia Swenson, 53, former Director of FBI-UIU's Art Crime division. They have no knowledge of any individual named Timothy McKnight.\n9. Exactly half of the amount of money that was in the account at this time.\n10. The call center that this service operated from burned down the day this transaction was made. There were no survivors, and a strong smell of sulfur was present for over a week following the blaze.\n11. An occult bookstore in Alexandria, VA.\n12. A regional burger chain with a location in Washington, D.C.; this location is notably frequented by several Foundation-USGOV Liaisons.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5441 | SCP-5442 | SCP-5443 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5443\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5443 poses no known threat to the Foundation or its objective at this time. For its own safety, SCP-5443 has been granted weekly counseling meetings with the on-site therapist, and can be provided self-help books or literature as requested. SCP-5443 should not be provided with any biblical or religious texts. Arts and crafts materials are pending approval.\nDescription: SCP-5443 is a humanoid entity with a body structure resembling a 40-year-old man, with the notable quality of having mummified skin and minor abilities to control fire. DNA testing has shown the entity's age exceeds 5,000 years, a claim that SCP-5443 has declined to confirm. SCP-5443 initially professed superior hand-to-hand combat skills, but since Interview 5443.1 has \"lost motivation to practice.\"\nDiscovery: SCP-5443 was contained on 6/6/2005 after appearing on the outskirts of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, France. Foundation personnel were notified after reports of a strange individual sitting on the ground raising minor columns of anomalous fire. While being taken into Foundation custody, SCP-5443 expressed relief at having contacted Foundation personnel so effectively, continually speaking of an approaching storm and that it would guide us to safety.\nInterview 5443.1: Given the claims of extreme pending danger and awareness of the Foundation's existence, Site Director Li conducted an interview with SCP-5443 the same week it was contained.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Li: Hi, how-Dr. Li: Yeah, alright. We're all short on time. What do you want us to know?Silence.\nDr. Li: Uh, what can you tell us about this great evil?Rapid scribbling from Dr. Li.\nDr. Li: Got it, got it, okay. Do you know when they'll turn up or where?Dr. Li: Okay. What more can you tell us about this creature?Dr. Li: Can you write it?SCP-5443 writes \"Choilapatai\" on a piece of paper.\nDr. Li: I like your handwriting.Dr. Li: Alright, yeah, this is a problem. I'm glad you came to us. Do you mind waiting a second? I've gotta make a phone call, see if-Dr. Li: Yeah I was gonna escalate\u2026 wait\u2026 rising in fire and ice, are they supposed to have a crown of diamond and coal too?Dr. Li: To assistant: Hey, Murray, can you pull the file on, uhh\u2026 [inaudible]\u2026 SCP [inaudible] yeah that's it. Can you print a copy and bring it here?\nExtraneous dialogue removed. SCP-5443 continues to emphasize the danger the Earth is in and the oncoming calamity. The phrase \"Let me help you\" is used repeatedly.\nDr. Li: Appreciate it, Murray. Hey, I think this is your guy, right? Kal\u2026 Kalapti\u2026 oh you know what it is. Yeah, we've got him contained.\nSCP-5443 Excuse me?\nDr. Li: Yeah, we have him in a box.Dr. Li: Well, it's a special box. Look, look [tapping].\nSilence as SCP-5443 reviews the printout.Dr. Li: Sorry, can you just confirm that's who you were talking about? That's his picture? I'm\u2026 I'm sorry but I had to move some stuff around to be here.Silence as SCP-5443 continues reading.Silence, except for Dr. Li's foot tapping.Dr. Li: No, it's just something that makes a box special. I'm sorry, I really gotta run, thanks for your time, Murray will answer any other questions you have. Oh, and Murray, make a note that if this one wants to see, uh, Kale in captivity, I can make that happen.\nFootsteps as Dr. Li leaves. Junior Researcher Pablo Murray enters.\nJunior Researcher Pablo Murray: You okay?<End log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5442 | SCP-5443 | SCP-5444 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\nDepiction of survival sex work.\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab SCP-5443 |SCP-5444| SCP-5445 \u00bb\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This article contains suicide and survival sex work.\n\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f content warning  \n\nThreat Level: Blue\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Antivirus software in use by the Foundation is to be capable of identifying and blocking requests from SCP-5444. Furthermore, all information relating to SCP-5444-4 is to be backed-up through at least two network-inaccessible mediums.\nInstances of SCP-5444-1 are to be stored, unpowered, in an electromagnetically-shielded storage locker. Experimentation, when applicable, is to be conducted under similar conditions, and instances may not be connected to the Site-56 intranet without approval and supervision from the IT Department.\nSeveral instances of SCP-5444-2 are uncontained; Mobile Task Force Kappa-10 (\"Skynet\") has been tasked with locating and disabling rogue instances of SCP-5444-2.\nSCP-5444-3 is to be kept disassembled and stored in the High Value Containment Wing of Site-56.\nDescription: SCP-5444 is a series of malware programmed in the Yashagor\u014d paralanguage. Metadata analysis has returned largely inconclusive results; it is known that SCP-5444 is 1.32i GB in size at most, although metadata relating to its creation and ownership has been extensively obfuscated. The most recent iteration of SCP-5444 was last modified on January 9th, 2018 at 16:15 EST.\nThree variations of SCP-5444 are known to exist, each of which is associated with a specific hardware environment.\n\nSCP-5444-1 are a series of miniature computers of custom make, upon which SCP-5444 has been installed as firmware. All run a bare-metal hypervisor in order to simulate a variety of operating systems, while allowing SCP-5444 to run several iterations at once. A high-end web camera has been installed into the chassis of a single instance, designated SCP-5444-1-Prime.\nSCP-5444-2 is a hypervisor-level rootkit, commonly installed across insecure network connections by SCP-5444-1. Instances otherwise function identically to SCP-5444-1.\nSCP-5444-3 is a humanoid automaton with an artificial intelligence governed by SCP-5444. Unlike -1 and -2, SCP-5444-3 cannot directly interface with a network, and must employ HIDs1 to perform its intended functions. SCP-5444-3 was powered by an esoteric engine drawing from SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nWhen connected to either a database or computer network, SCP-5444 functions as an effectively sapient user. SCP-5444's primary activities are initially limited to accessing and analyzing as much data as possible; upon the confirmation of data referenced in SCP-5444-4, SCP-5444 will attempt to remove such data through any means necessary.\nAll variations of SCP-5444 reference SCP-5444-4 through a series of anomalous pointer variables2. SCP-5444-4 is a file stored on SCP-5444-1-Prime with a .rysh extension, serving as the primary method of setting SCP-5444's censorship parameters. Modification of SCP-5444-4 first requires the user to undergo a three-factor authentication process to confirm they are PoI-9522-D.\nPoI-9522-D was Sara Miriam Yarkoni, a 29-year-old Iranian-American freelance programmer with connections to GoI-1285 (\"The King of Hearts Collective\")3. According to data recovered from SCP-5444-1-Prime, PoI-9522-D was the sole programmer of SCP-5444-1.\nAt present, SCP-5444-4 directs SCP-5444 to erase all evidence of PoI-9522-D's existence.\n\nHISTORY\n\nSCP-5444's existence was brought to the attention of the Foundation on January 10th, 2018, following a string of attacks targeting several individuals of various backgrounds. Although coordinated in such a manner as to suggest a botnet, several attacks displayed unusual complexity. Attacks included, but were not limited to:\n\nMass DMCA claims against videos featuring PoI-9522-D and her music.\nExtensive vandalism to several online wikis.\nSpecific behavior intended to exploit streaming algorithms in order to sabotage PoI-9522-D's music's chances of discovery.\nBlackmail intended to coerce the recipient into deleting files depicting PoI-9522-D from their devices.\n\nShortly thereafter, Senior Researcher Yehezkel Yarkoni received an email, purportedly from his daughter Sara. Attached was a PDF, ostensibly a handwritten letter, infected with an SCP-5444-2 installer.4\nFollowing its installation, SCP-5444-2-1 launched a series of attacks directed at personnel assigned to the GoI-1285 project, as well as Researcher Yarkoni and his wife, Dr. Rivka Yarkoni. Mobile Task Force Kappa-10 (\"Skynet\") was directed to identify, combat, and isolate the threat.\nSCP-5444-2-1 was subsequently isolated and neutralized by MTF-\u03ba10 after two hours and fourteen minutes. Researcher Yarkoni was reprimanded for his carelessness and reassigned to Area-56 duty.\n\nDOCUMENT 5444-A\n\nIn accordance with the 1966 SoHo Accord, the Foundation required a warrant to raid the residences of PoI-9522-D, on account of her fiance's registration as a Frequent Resident of BackDoor SoHo. Furthermore, action on part of the Foundation was limited to assisting attendant Unusual Incidents Unit operatives.\n[DATA LOST]\nFollowing the acquisition of SCP-5444-3 and all four instances of SCP-5444-1, each of their drives were isolated and imaged, as standard for computer anomalies. According to imaging software, all files pertaining to PoI-9522-D had been deleted at 16:15:54 EST on 10/01/2018, 24 hours after the last modification to SCP-5444-4; as no action had been taken to wipe the associated data, files were successfully restored with minimal effort.\nOf interest to the Foundation were several video files recorded on SCP-5444-1-Prime, in which PoI-9522-D discusses the function and background of SCP-5444, as well as updates as appropriate. The last of such videos was recorded at 16:17 EST on 09/01/2018, 19 minutes prior to her estimated time of death.\nExcerpted video logs have been provided below. The original files, as well as full transcripts, may be accessed with permission from RAISA; personnel are to be advised of their sexually explicit nature.\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of bonus.wmv, recorded 30/12/2010\n\nAccess Granted\n\nbonus.wmv\n\nDate: 30/12/2010\nLength 0:28:19\n\n[BEGIN LOG 2.1]\nPoI-9522-D: Heya! Thanks for buying my content, ya little devil!\nPoI-9522-D blows a kiss to the camera, then winks.\nPoI-9522-D: If you're wondering why this came with your purchase, think of this like, well, a EULA. Obviously this is gonna be sexier than reading an EULA, but it still concerns a lot of technical and legal bullshit, and I know not all of you are here for my coding stuff. Bear with me, I'm gonna try making this the easiest EULA possible.\nTurning around, PoI-9522-D makes a show of walking to an office chair in the middle of the room, then settling into it with a relaxed position perpendicular to the backrest.\nPoI-9522-D: So, you're the proud owner of one of my videos, albums, et cetera. That entitles you to several legal rights. First of all, you are entitled to watch it. You are more than welcome to watch it.\nPoI-9522-D chuckles, winks, and begins to slowly unbutton her jacket.\nPoI-9522-D: Secondly, you're entitled to download it to any device you own. Do with that whatever the hell you wish, dear. So, what can't you do?\nPoI-9522-D: Well, you can't upload it anywhere else. Much as I love showing myself off, a girl's gotta keep work-work and play-work separate. Coming off of that, you can't bring the real me into BabylonShedim's5 domain, and trust me, I'll know. Third, and this is one goes out to \"pink fly\", you cannot show any of this to anyone who doesn't need to know. Again, darling, I'll know.\nPoI-9522-D: So, let me be one hundred percent transparent: those files are a bit of an experiment. They're a bit smarter than your typical file, so in addition to carrying the image of me fucking myself raw, they're a bit shy when it comes to distribution. So, how does this all work?\nUnfastening the last button, PoI-9522-D pauses, then smirks.\nPoI-9522-D: Let's peel back the veil a little.\n[END LOG 2.1]\n\nNote: Video appears to be a collaboration with PoI-CBGC103 (\"K4m3ra\"), a webcam model and practicing Maxwellist.\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of babshed_k4m3rabonus.wmv, recorded 12/04/2012\n\nAccess Granted\n\nbabshed_k4m3rabonus.wmv\n\nDate: 12/04/2012\nLength 1:01:32\n\n[BEGIN LOG 9.4]\nPoI-CBGC103's ventral circuitry is presently exposed as PoI-9522-D performs a ritualized maintenance upon it. During this time, PoI-CBGC103 attempts to recite what appears to be an early version of a README found on SCP-5444-1-Prime, with a noticeable stutter.\nPoI-CBGC103: Installation is legal under the\u2026 the PENTAGRAM6-Disney accord, so long as operation doesn't fuck, doesn't extend beyond image and IP enforcement. All code produced in the making of Panoptican't\u2026\nPoI-CBGC103 trails off, prompting PoI-9522-D to look up from her work.\nPoI-9522-D: Something up?\nPoI-CBGC103: Not exact\u2026 well, one, you have the fingers of an Aeon. But mostly, I'm just\u2026 impressed is adjacent to the word I want.\nPoI-9522-D chuckles softly.\nPoI-9522-D: Pleasure's all mine. Wait til we get past the-\nPoI-CBGC103: Oh, not that. Just, all the effort that went into\u2026 this. All the work that had to have gone into the programming, or the licensing, or even the documentation. I've known witnesses to the Signal who could learn from your example.\nPoI-9522-D: Oh. Yeah, this shit's been a hobby my whole life. Glad you like me for my brains, cutie.\nPoI-CBGC103: A hobby? You could be the woman the next Bill Gates backstabs.\nPoI-9522-D remains silent for several seconds. Her shoulders slouch. Finally, after fifteen seconds, PoI-9522-D leans down to kiss PoI-CBGC103.\nPoI-9522-D: That's enough boring our fans.\nPoI-9522-D resumes the ritualized maintenance.\n[END LOG 9.4]\n\nNote: Video appears to have been recorded during a livestream.\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of 03302013live.wmv, recorded 30/03/2013\n\nAccess Granted\n\n03302013live.wmv\n\nDate: 30/03/2013\nLength 2:38:13\n\n[BEGIN LOG 12.2]\nPoI-9522-D, dressed in a \"sexy teacher\" outfit, gives a lecture to her digital audience in apparent earnest regarding updates to SCP-5444, complete with a dry-erase whiteboard. At this point in the recording, the board's surface is covered in an array of diagrams, equations, and citations relating to licensing laws.\nPoI-9522-D: So while the resources of a host machine are employed, it's only in service of what, by definition, they are legally required to do. Moreover, file size is measured by an imaginary number, so technically-\nPoI-9522-D is interrupted by an unrecorded noise.\nPoI-9522-D: Yep, that's the tip goal.\nPutting down a dry-erase marker, PoI-9522-D returns to SCP-5444-1-Prime.\nPoI-9522-D: Okay, just a quick check-up before I get to my blouse. Looks like\u2026 looks like stockings and hair-up are winning the bid war. I gotta do this more often, if it pays this many bills. As for questions\u2026\nPoI-9522-D is silent for several seconds.\nPoI-9522-D: Right, so, question one, thank you BlackHanbok: \"How do you find the time for music, cam work, and programming?\" Short answer: when I go to Sheol, I'm gonna strangle the person who came up with the phrase \"gig economy\", and Hashem will forgive me for it. Second, from Hung-er, very clever: \"When will BookBurn't come out?\" When it's done. And finally\u2026\nPoI-9522-D trails off, before putting her face in her hands. After several seconds, PoI-9522-D looks back up at the camera.\nPoI-9522-D: Look, it's\u2026 I don't have a past I can point to. I have five years of my life I can point to where I'm doing what I'm doing now, more or less, shit I'm doing to keep myself off the streets and out of the psych ward. And you know, maybe there's something I can sift through, a GitHub or every barely-legal website I coded half-naked in my room. But I'm also a college\u2026 dropout with too much baggage. So that's why.\nPoI-9522-D pauses.\nPoI-9522-D: I'm sorry. Back to the show.\n[END LOG 12.2]\n\nNote: Video appears to have been recorded by accident.\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of new1.wmv, recorded 24/08/2014\n\nAccess Granted\n\nnew1.wmv\n\nDate: 24/08/2014\nLength 4:59:59\n\n[BEGIN LOG 16.1]\nVideo opens with PoI-9522-D presenting SCP-5444-1-Prime to Ms. Isabella Kawajiri, PoI-9522-D's fiance at the time of her death.7\nPoI-9522-D: Yeah, you know, I thought it'd be appropriate. I thought, \"hey, maybe I should record the announcement on the thing\" and the rest is history.\nKawajiri: Credit to Veronica, the picture quality is quite good\u2026 I mean, sorry. That sounds frustrating.\nPoI-9522-D: It's cool, babe, it's cool.\nPoI-9522-D turns back to her bed, retrieving the bong on her counter.\nKawajiri: It doesn't feel\u2026 again, sorry. (Kawajiri sighs) I'll admit that aside from\u2026 from the Self-Titled Interview, all of this is rather new to me. Still, if it's causing this much trouble, why not stick it in a garage?\nPoI-9522-D lights the bowl and inhales as Kawajiri sits next to her. The two share a brief kiss, after which Kawajiri exhales a cloud of smoke.\nPoI-9522-D: See, aside from the camera, I like Panoptican't. You know how many bots I had putting my stuff on Pornhub? That was before I breached the Veil. I can't have my face on some, you know, some freak's browser history, two hours after a job interview. And you know, this way I'm actually getting money\u2026 christ, this was what they meant by \"selling out\", huh?\nKawajiri: Pride shouldn't come before your well-being.\nPoI-9522-D: At this point it's kinda hard to tell which is which.\nPoI-9522-D passes the bong to Kawajiri, who inhales.\nPoI-9522-D: \u2026 I don't know who I am. I don't know if I ever did.\nThe two share a slightly longer kiss, after which PoI-9522-D exhales a cloud of smoke. Kawajiri takes PoI-9522-D's right hand and squeezes gently.\nKawajiri: I'm sorry, Sara. Identity is never a fun sparring partner. (Kawajiri hugs PoI-9522-D) But if this is causing you so much stress, it's my duty as your girlfriend to do everything I can to offset. (Kawajiri playfully taps PoI-9522-D's nose) So there.\nPoI-9522-D: You're a dork.\nKawajiri: I'm your dork, darling.\n[END LOG 16.1]\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of curtaincall.wmv, recorded 16/04/2015\n\nAccess Granted\n\ncurtaincall.wmv\n\nDate: 16/04/2015\nLength 0:22:38\n\n[BEGIN LOG 18.1]\nVideo begins with PoI-9522-D in casual wear, in a different room than her previous videos.\nPoI-9522-D: Heya! If you're wondering why you got this video, I updated the licensing stuff for probably the final time. So, yeah! This video isn't going to be particularly exciting, and most of the important stuff's on my profile, so if you're not looking for a design doc vlog, feel free to skip this one.\nPoI-9522-D: So, good news and bad news for my long-time fans. Bad news is, I'm sure you already heard, I'm retiring from cam work. Between moving in with my gf and the job I'm starting, I've kinda reached a point where I don't have the time or, really, need to cam anymore. It was fun while it lasted, sure, but a girl's gotta move on. So, what's the good news?\nPoI-9522-D: Well, for starters, all my stuff's on sale for the next month, including a whole-ass bundle of everything I've put out, including the JGT Dev streams and the much requested Self-Titled Interview. Second, I'm still gonna do the occasional dev stream, assuming I've got the time. Thiiiiiiird\u2026\nPoI-9522-D grins.\nPoI-9522-D: Just wait til I get to all the cool shit Panoptican't does now.\n[END LOG 18.1]\n\nNote: Video appears to have been recorded during a livestream.\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of 12142016live.wmv, recorded 14/12/2016\n\nAccess Granted\n\n12142016live.wmv\n\nDate: 14/12/2016\nLength 3:01:18\n\n[BEGIN LOG 19.1]\nVideo opens with PoI-9522-D sitting in an office chair with a downcast expression. PoI-9522-D does not move over the course of three minutes and twenty-eight seconds, although she does occasionally glance at the camera. At 3:28, PoI-9522-D sighs.\nPoI-9522-D: I'm sorry. Just trying to get back in the swing of\u2026 of this.\nPoI-9522-D remains silent for eight more seconds, before smiling and looking back to the camera.\nPoI-9522-D: Hey, glad to see y'all again. Been a while. I know I said I'd be retiring, but\u2026\nPoI-9522-D trails off, remaining silent for ten more seconds.\nPoI-9522-D: Eh, it doesn't matter. Just mind the tip goals and enjoy the show.\n[END LOG 19.1]\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of new3.wmv, recorded 25/11/2017\n\nAccess Granted\n\nnew3.wmv\n\nDate: 25/11/2017\nLength 4:59:59\n\n[BEGIN LOG 24.3]\nPoI-9522-D engages in sexual intercourse with SCP-5444-3. Two and a half minutes pass before PoI-9522-D abruptly stops.\nPoI-9522-D: [indistinct], anyway? Oh bother.\nPoI-9522-D climbs off of SCP-5444-3, remaining silent for several seconds.\nPoI-9522-D: \u2026 I don't even know. You're not actually speaking, I didn't program that. I don't even know why I programmed you, and I hope I never realize why. And I wish I was crazy enough that I could be experiencing delusions, rather than crystal-clear, unambiguous being. That this isn't just me trying to rationalize a decade of bad decisions. I'm not sure this is helping.\nPoI-9522-D looks up at the camera.\nPoI-9522-D: Are you enjoying the show? It's not real. None of it's real, not me or the bot or any kiss I've blown in the past year. I don't need or want a fucking robot. I don't know what I want.\nPoI-9522-D pauses, wiping something from her eye.\nPoI-9522-D: I'm tired. Sorry.\nPushing SCP-5444-3 out of her bed, PoI-9522-D curls into a fetal position and does not move for the remainder of the video.\n[END LOG 24.3]\n\n\u25b7 Excerpt of away.wmv, recorded 09/01/2018\n\nAccess Granted\n\naway.wmv\n\nDate: 09/01/2018\nLength 0:03:01\n\n[BEGIN LOG 25]\nFootage opens with PoI-9522-D staring at the camera. PoI-9522-D opens her mouth to speak, only to begin sobbing. Over the course of three minutes, PoI-9522-D's sobs grow in intensity, until she's laying her head face down into the desk. A wire can be seen hanging from the light fixture behind her.\nAt the end of the video, PoI-9522-D looks up at the camera, mouths something indistinct, and ends the recording.\n[END LOG 25]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Human Interface Devices.\n2. One of the technical advantages of the Yashagor\u014d paralanguage over nonanomalous languages is the ability to reference variables stored and defined on remote/isolated machines.\n3. An independent record label managed by a collective of anartists.\n4. The resulting SCP-5444-2 instance has been designated SCP-5444-2-1.\n5. PoI-9552-D's account on the iicameras.drk streaming service.\n6. The occult branch of the Department of Defense.\n7. As of 01/02/2018, the whereabouts of Ms. Kawajiri are unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5443 | SCP-5444 | SCP-5445 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Threat Level: Yellow\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Restaurants in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region are to be regularly checked for the presence of SCP-5445, with particular attention paid to restaurants within 10 kilometers of known infected. Infected restaurants are to be closed under the pretense of health code violation. At the behest of the Egyptian and Libyan governments, restaurants may be reopened after the incorporation of powerful antibiotic recipes into the menus, followed by careful observation.\nFollowing closure, restaurant accounts are to be examined for SCP-5445-1 sales. Individuals found to have ordered SCP-5445-1 are to be located and detained by Mobile Task Force Lambda-14 (\"Manhunters\"), and transferred to the on-site restaurant of Site-98. Subjects are to be coerced into ordering the two-course antibiotic prix fixe by any means necessary, after which they are to be administered Class-A Amnestics and released.\nA single culture of SCP-5445 is kept for study in the Cafe Scolex, a Foundation front restaurant located in a secure containment cell of Antarctic Research Area-1483.\nDescription: SCP-5445 is a bacterial infection transmissible between humans and restaurants. Within humans, SCP-5445 is entirely asymptomatic.\nRestaurants infected by SCP-5445 experience an incubation period of approximately two weeks, after which initial symptoms manifest. Early-stage infected are marked by a sudden increase in sanitation and subjective food quality, as well as decreases in menu prices and wait times. As such, infected restaurants typically experience an increase in business traffic. Following a period of one to three weeks, SCP-5445-1 will be incorporated into the menu without warning.\nSCP-5445-1 is the primary vector of SCP-5445, growing in tight clusters within designated food storage areas. SCP-5445-1 appears as an entree, consisting of a human skull soaked in blood1. Infected menus largely describe SCP-5445-1 as a \"fair trade delicacy\", consumption of which offers a variety of somatic and psychological benefits. Restaurant staff universally consider SCP-5445-1 to be a natural addition to the menu, albeit \"adventurous\".\nRestaurant-to-human transmission of SCP-5445 occurs through the consumption of SCP-5445-1, while human-to-restaurant transmission occurs through monetary exchange. While antibiotic treatment has been found to be 99% effective in eliminating SCP-5445, treatment must occur within the context of restaurant food.\nAs of 31/07/1998, \u2588\u2588\u2588 restaurants and \u2588\u2588\u2588 humans are known to have been infected with SCP-5445. The process by which a bacterial agent can infect social constructs (such as restaurants) is poorly understood; research is ongoing, under the supervision of Dr. Guy Echo.\nSCP-5445-1 possesses no known compulsive property.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Genetic testing has determined the blood to be human, mixed with trace amounts of [REDACTED]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5444 | SCP-5445 | SCP-5446 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5446: Shock Troops\nThanks to:\n\nstormbreath\nModulum\nWoedenaz \n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5446\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nUndersea Area-58 (red) and the current area of hostilities (orange).\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The temple that SCP-5446 was discovered in has been converted into Undersea Area-58. The object itself is contained in a secure item vault, and is only to be utilized by trained medical personnel located on-site.\nAll individuals recruited for Area-58 management or SCP-39321 recontainment efforts must consent to SCP-5446 application. Prior to this, they are to be supplied with scuba gear so they are able to navigate the facility without drowning.\n\nArea-58 Director Gabriel Himes.\n\nDescription: SCP-5446 is a metallic amulet, believed to have been produced around six thousand years ago.\nWhen applied to a human subject submerged in salt water, the anomaly converts them into an SCP-5446-\u0394 instance. These are sapient, telepathic jellyfish, superficially similar to the lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata), with tentacles ranging from 24 to 31 meters in length. Individuals transformed this way retain their intelligence and memories, and are able to make use of electric thaumaturgy for combat, communication, and interfacing with Area-58's computer systems.\nOriginally SCP-5446 was held in a Site-19 locker before being requisitioned to produce sea-based security personnel who would be capable of directly attacking SCP-3932-\u0394 instances. Previous efforts involving specialized diving equipment proved too expensive and cumbersome, as SCP-3932-\u0394 instances would easily outmaneuver personnel or sabotage their oxygen tanks.\nAddendum 5446-1: Deployment History\n\nDate\nOperational Update\nResults\n\n2018/03/01\nThree volunteers become SCP-5446-\u0394 instances and trial electricity-based combat.\nPersonnel are able to fend off SCP-3932 instances in containment.\n\n2018/03/17\nProtocol for SCP-5446 transformation ratified by the O5 Council.\nN/A\n\n2018/04/09\nFirst squadron of SCP-5446-\u0394 instances deployed in the Solomon Sea.\nLarge amount of territory reclaimed from the The Great Barrier Reef Empire-In-Exile.\n\n2018/09/15\nTrials of SCP-5446-\u0394 combat augments begins.\nMostly successful, some issues with electric arc redirection.\n\n2018/12/03\nFoundation Navy leads a joint attack from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, utilizing experimental sonar technology.\nA large number of SCP-3932-\u0394 are contained or terminated.\n\n2019/03/19\nStaffing and funding of Area-58 increased significantly.\nSeveral decisive victories follow. The Dolphin's Posadist Republic of Indonesia begins limiting military activity near Australia.\n\n2019/07/08\nMark IV underseas surveillance equipment is developed.\nHostile SCP-3932-\u0394 activity has diminished. Foundation priorities shift towards information control.\n\n2019/11/04\nA regular SCP-5446-\u0394 patrol returns with significant casualties, reporting that the dolphins are utilizing thaumaturgic runes which limit the effectiveness of electric attacks.\nInvestigation into possible countermeasures begins.\n\n2020/02/27\nActive recruitment and training of SCP-5446-\u0394 personnel resumes.\nFoundation forces have begun to lose ground. SCP-3932-\u0394 instances are reported as being equipped with suits capable of thaumaturgic deflection.\n\n2020/07/10\nSix months has passed without a major Foundation victory.\nMorale has fallen significantly. SCP-3932-\u0394 appear to possess advanced undersea paraweaponry.\n\n2020/09/21\nThe Foundation Navy, in conjunction with the US Navy and Royal Australian Navy, are tasked with leading any new military containment operations involving SCP-3932.\nFighting enters a lull where controlled territory does not significantly change.\n\n2020/10/18\nA surprise attack by SCP-3932-\u0394 instances is launched on Site-\u2588\u2588, though is successfully fended off.\nHow dolphin forces discovered the location of the site is under investigation. Witness testimony suggests a large number of unidentified jellyfish were present at the scene.\n\nAddendum 5446-2: Containment Update\nOn 2021/01/02 around 03:15 AM local time, an insurgent cell of Area-58 personnel staged an attack on the facility. Utilizing their anomalous capabilities, they debilitated loyal personnel via psychic assault, and unsealed Area-58's primary entrance to the open sea.\nA large number of hostile SCP-3932-\u0394 and SCP-5446-\u0394 instances then swarmed the facility. The dolphin combatants deployed previously-unseen paraweaponry capable of shrinking personnel, permitting them to be consumed.2 The operatives then opened SCP-5446's containment chamber and breached the anomaly. To date, it has not yet been recovered.\nAll Foundation facilities have been informed to be on alert for attacks by Chaos Insurgency agents who are telepathic jellyfish.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A memetic anomaly which bestows sapience upon dolphins who hear it. SCP-3932-\u0394 instances have organized into three nation-states, all of which are at war with the Foundation. For more information, see its full SCP file.\n2. Notably, in the wild, small jellyfish are consumed alongside fish, squid, and shrimp as part of a dolphin's diet.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\naismallard's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-5900 \u2022\n\nSCP-4447 \u2022\n\nSCP-6115 \u2022\n\nSCP-4781 \u2022\n\nSCP-1294-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4853 \u2022\n\nSCP-5871 \u2022\n\nSCP-5134 \u2022\n\nSCP-1047-J \u2022\n\nSCP-3597 \u2022\n\nSCP-4339 \u2022\n\nSCP-4322 \u2022\n\nSCP-5502 \u2022\n\nSCP-5510 \u2022\n\nSCP-4838 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nStealing Something Else \u2022\n\nThe Pumpkin Mystery \u2022\n\nThe Heart of the Beast \u2022\n\nContinuous Integration \u2022\n\nOther\n\naismallard's personnel file \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5445 | SCP-5446 | SCP-5447 \u00bb"}
{"text": "From Bottomless Canyons To Palaces In The Sky\n\nPark Entrance.\n\nEver since its opening, The \"Existential Maw of Despair\" National Park has offered all visitors some sort of departure from the doldrums that is day-to-day life. The perfect vacation location for people who just want to see something different.\nThe Maw is a physical tear in the space-time continuum. What lies beyond spits in the face of the universe's rules. The more stable regions are home to some of the most unique vistas that mankind can fathom, whereas other areas can't maintain a consistent form for even five minutes! Every time you visit the Maw, your experience is guaranteed to be unique and life changing.\nYou can explore the Maw any way you like! With options including:\n\nA tour with one of our certified extranormal trekking guides\nA resort experience at the Symphony Falls Base Camp\nGoing in solo, just like the Originals did\n\nIn fact, the Maw has a long tradition of exploration and discovery! Adventurous types may feel encouraged to travel outside the park grounds. Our museum is full of images and first hand accounts of explorers who have progressed our understanding of the Maw. Even now, there's much about the Maw that has not yet been seen by mankind!\n\nUpdate: After recent incidents involving the disappearance of visitors, exploration of the area beyond the Gamma-4 Quadrant has been prohibited. We apologize for the inconvenience.\n\nPark History\nBefore the Maw was opened to the public, it was heavily guarded by the SCP Foundation. Most of the park's history remains a mystery, hidden on secure servers in the Sol System's Asteroid Belt. However, as part of the Geiner-Helms Transparency Act, the SCP Foundation was forced to declassify a number of its documents, including a few files on the park! Between these documents, as well as interviews with former employees, our historians have made strides in piecing together the past of this magnificent anomaly since its introduction to us with the few following words:\n\nItem #: SCP-5448\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation blockades are to prohibit access to SCP-5448.\nDescription: SCP-5448 is a temporal-spatial anomaly granting access to a pocket dimension that does not adhere to any consistent physical laws.\n\nThe most well known interactions mankind has had with the Maw, comes from the first exploratory mission. This was a four person mission sent by the SCP Foundation to explore and learn as much as they could about the interior of the Maw. The team consisted of:\n\nEric Michaels: A decorated Foundation officer who originally lead a unit dealing with urban anomalies, but after years off planet, he became an expert in extranormal spaces and unstable reality exploration.\nVivian DuShawn: Another veteran of the Foundation, with over a hundred years of exploration of esoteric spaces.\nXingyu Li: A field researcher coming from the Foundation's Physics Department. He worked for decades on studying white holes, self-folding spaces, and reality gaps.\nSarah McGlocklin: A communications expert with minimal field experience prior to this mission.\n\nWe have even been able to catch up with Sarah McGlocklin to hear about her time spent at the park first hand:\n\n+ McGlocklin Interview\n\n- McGlocklin Interview\n\nMenduso: Hello Sarah!\nMcGlocklin: Hi.\nMenduso: Thanks for taking some time to talk to us.\nMcGlocklin: No problem. I was stopping by here anyways. Worked out well for me.\nMenduso: Have you visited the Maw much after your initial excursion here?\nMcGlocklin: Not really. Actually, I don't think I've come back since then.\nMenduso: You didn't join the later rescue expeditions?\nMcGlocklin: I don't think I'm allowed to talk about those much.\nMenduso: Oh, right. I just sort of figured, that, like, since everyone else was\u2014\nMcGlocklin: I just wasn't a good fit for the field.\nMenduso: I see. Although you still decided to come back.\nMcGlocklin: People change over the years. I don't think I've changed a lot. I still like my desk job and all, but I think I can appreciate the Maw a little more now.\nMenduso: It is a beauty, isn't it?\nMcGlocklin: That it is.\nMenduso: Now, if you have more time, I have some questions about the expedition for you.\nMcGlocklin: Of course. Fire away.\n\nTo see the rest of the interview, come check out our museum, located at the Symphony Falls Base Camp!\n\nNotable Features\nWhile parts of the Maw are in constant states of chaos and reconfiguration, there are a few locations that have been a mainstay of the park experience ever since it's opening! Here's just a few iconic places you may want to check out!\n\n+ Kingdom of Clouds\n\n- Kingdom of Clouds\n\nOutside of the Kingdom of Clouds.\n\nFeature Name: Kingdom of Clouds\nDescription: Kingdom of Clouds is a beautiful stone castle located 10 kilometers above the unstable Alpha-2 Quadrant. The entire structure is built inside of a large cloud that solidifies into a pillow-like surface when you step on it.\nYou can explore the villa within the castle's mighty walls, eat at any of our aerial-themed restaurants. Inside the castle, you can either relax in the bath house, untouched since its original discovery, or you can hike to the upper turrets where you can get a view of the entire Maw!\nVisitor Preparations: The Kingdom of Clouds is a great location for an easygoing day of exploring. However, due to its elevation, visitors are encouraged to bring oxygen canisters and dress warmly.\nDuring storms, wind speeds can get as high as 80 kilometers per hour. When the storm alarm sounds, visitors are encouraged to head indoors as quickly as possible and wait there until the storm subsides.\nHistory: The Kingdom of Clouds was one of the first places that was explored during the first mission inside the Maw. Below is the transcript that the SCP Foundation declassified of that exploration's time in the Kingdom of Clouds:\n\n<Begin Transcript>\nMTF Eta-92 (\"Spelunkers\"), summits Location of Interest 5448-1. They locate a low wall surrounding a castle-like structure, with a closed, white gate directly in front of them.\nDuShawn: Looks like we got a gated community on our hands. Must not be a good neighborhood.\nLi: Ah yes. A completely unoccupied cloud. Terrible property value I'd assume.\nMichaels pulls on the gate. It opens.\nMichaels: Must be a really bad neighborhood if they can't even keep the gate locked.\nDuShawn: Sarah, you need a hand with the comms equipment? I can take it for a bit if you want.\nMcGlocklin: I, uh\u2026 I got it. But thanks.\nDuShawn: Sounds good. But feel free to holler if you want to switch out. Hate to lose any video because we accidentally get out of range.\nMcGlocklin: Right, right. I think I got it though.\nThe group walks through the gate. They pass by two small cottages before Michaels signals to enter a third. DuShawn takes point and tries the door. It is unlocked. DuShawn and Li enter the cottage. There is a small wood table with two chairs around it, and a bed. A fireplace is built into the left cottage wall.\nMichaels: Do you think people are living here now?\nLi examine table and chairs. He knocks on the table.\nLi: Judging the fact that the table is petrified, I'm going to go with no. And no one has been here for a long, long time.\nMichaels: Either that or this area is always like this. We aren't exactly in stable reality.\nLi: This is true, but this place seems to be more stable than the others. And if we don't rely on at least a few base assumptions, we can't draw any conclusions.\nMcGlocklin: Maybe we should try the castle?\nMichaels: Probably, yeah. [Michaels turns to Li] Any samples you want while we're here?\nLi: I think now would be a good time for me to take a lot of readings of the area. You guys go ahead. I'll meet you at the front of the castle when I'm done.\nMichaels, Dushawn and McGlocklin leave the cottage behind and head toward the castle. Li's camera feed drops out once he is out of range of the communication equipment. The door to the castle is unlocked. Inside, the door leads to a long corridor with numerous hallways branching off from the sides. Frayed banners hang from the rafters, but the colors in the cloth have faded and blurred together with age. The walls of the castle are damp with condensation, the beams from the team's tactical lights refracting from dew drops.\nMichaels: Alright, let's just start with the first branch on the left, and we'll work our way down from there.\nThe three begin down the first hallway on the left. The ceiling is lower than the main entrance. Microphones pick up a faint whistling noise.\nMcGlocklin: Do you hear that?\nMichaels: Yeah, I hear it.\nDuShawn: Probably just the wind. It was picking up a little when we came in here.\nMcGlocklin: Right. Sorry.\nMichaels, DuShawn and McGlocklin reach a door at the end of the hallway. DuShawn goes to grab the door's handle, but freezes.\nMichaels: Something wrong?\nDuShawn: There aren't any dew drops on this. They should've formed on it, right?\nDuShawn takes a step back as Michaels leans over and looks at the handle. Both Michaels and DuShawn take out their firearms. DuShawn grabs the door handle and holds up three fingers. She counts down. At zero DuShawn opens the door and Michaels rushes in with his gun drawn.\nMichaels: Clear!\nDuShawn and McGlocklin follow. Inside is a small room, with the walls lined with pegs. From approximately half of the pegs hang steel circles, which glow a bright yellow. The remaining pegs are empty. The walls are covered in dew.\nMcGlocklin: False alarm?\nDuShawn: I'm not so sure.\nDuShawn points to a section of four empty pegs. The walls around the pegs are not covered in dew. The microphone picks up a louder whistling sound.\nMichaels: How long does it take the water droplets to form?\nDuShawn: I don't know. Back on Earth they tend to form overnight.\nMichaels: So someone has been here within the past what? Seven or eight hours?\nMcGlocklin: Or they could still be here\u2026\nDuShawn: Oh shit. Xingyu.\nDuShawn sprints down the hallway, with Michaels and McGlocklin following behind her. Thunder is heard over the mic. When they arrive at the main corridor, the door leading outside is closed. DuShawn pushes up against it. The door flings open and DuShawn begins to fall forward into the high-speed winds. Before she is swept away, Michaels grabs a hold of DuShawn and pulls her back inside. The three retreat away from the door.\nDuShawn: Fuck!\nMichaels: We have to wait it out.\nDuShawn: Do we at least have his video feed?\nMcGlocklin: I lost it while we were walking here.\nDuShawn: Damn it!\nMcGlocklin: I'm sorry\u2026 I should've gotten a more powerful receiver but this was the only one we\u2014\nMichaels: It's ok, Sarah. It's not your fault. Besides, he might just be holed up in the cottage.\nDuShawn: And if he isn't?\nMichaels: We call him in as MIA, and move on.\nDuShawn: Move on? You're just going to abandon him?\nMichaels: If you have any ideas on where we could start looking for him, I am all ears.\nDuShawn remains silent.\nMichaels: I don't want to strand him either. But right now we are an exploration mission. We can send a rescue mission in later.\nMichaels sits down against the wall.\nMichaels: It's not like he's going to die in the meantime.\nThirty minutes pass before the storm subsides. The three walk to the cottage, the door to which is wide open. There is no one inside.\nMichaels: Alright team. Next location.\nAs the team leaves LoI-5448-3, pieces of Li's lab equipment can be seen sprinkled along the ground.\n<End Transcript>\n\n+ The Feast Hall\n\n- The Feast Hall\n\nThe front of The Feast Hall\n\nFeature Name: The Feast Hall\nDescription: The Feast Hall is the premiere dining location in the Maw. Located at at the border between the Beta-2 and Theta-1 quadrants, The Feast Hall offers the most exquisite meal you will taste. The tables at The Feast Hall extend for miles and miles, meaning that there is rarely a wait to be seated.\nOnce a visitor finds their place at The Feast Hall, food will appear on their plate and wine in their glass. Entr\u00e9s normally consist of wild boar with a side of potatoes, although visitors have encountered steaks, chicken breast, and veal as well. For our vegetarian explorers, their plates will be filled with fruits and greens which will taste as if they were freshly picked.\nVisitor Preparations: All you need is an appetite. Although, if visiting with minors, be sure to bring non-alcoholic beverages, as The Feast Hall only serves wine.\nHistory: The Feast Hall has been serving patrons since it was discovered during the initial exploration of the Maw. Below is a transcript of the exploration team's visit to The Feast Hall:\n\n<Begin Transcript>\nMichaels, DuShawn and McGlocklin enter LoI-5448-5. A U-shaped table is positioned at the front. Smaller tables are scattered along the rest of LoI-5448-5. The far end of LoI-5448-5 extends beyond visual range.\nMichaels: Looks like we found a good pitstop.\nDuShawn: I mean, we probably shouldn't rest here too long.\nMichaels: I wouldn't have picked you to be the antsy type.\nDuShawn: Might just be nervous energy. Or maybe it's the fact that we're not alone here. Or, you know what? It's probably Li getting kidnapped earlier. Yeah, probably that.\nMichaels: You can drop the attitude, Viv.\nMcGlocklin takes the communications equipment off her back and takes a seat. A slab of meat slowly grows out of the center of her plate. She checks the goblet at her seat to find it filled with wine.\nMcGlocklin: Huh.\nMichaels: Oh wow. Food too.\nMichaels also takes a seat. Food and drink appear for him as well. He sniffs the wine.\nMichaels: Huh. That smells real.\nDuShawn: Really? Wine tasting at a time like this?\nMichaels takes a vial out of his pocket and pours some of the wine inside.\nMichaels: Sample taking time, actually. Li's not here, so we need to grab what we can in his stead.\nDuShawn: Whatever. I'm checking the rest of this place.\nDuShawn begins to walk further into LoI-5448-5. McGlocklin cuts a piece off of the meat on her plate and places it in a plastic bag. Afterwards she gets up and begins to put her equipment back on.\nMcGlocklin: Hey, Eric?\nMichaels: Yeah?\nMcGlocklin: Umm\u2026 Is it just me, or does the refrigerator look out of place?\nMcGlocklin points to a mini-refrigerator placed in the corner of LoI-5448-5.\nMichaels: \u2026 no that does look weird. [shouting] Viv! Get back here!\nDuShawn can be heard sighing before turning back toward the others. McGlocklin opens the refrigerator. Inside are three apples, four potatoes, and two mugs in the side door, one colored blue and the other colored yellow.\nMcGlocklin: You think it belongs to who ever was in the castle earlier?\nMichaels: Probably. One mug for each of them?\nMcGlocklin: That sounds reasonable.\nDuShawn walks up behind Michaels and McGlocklin.\nDuShawn: They probably eat here too.\nMichaels: Great, you're back. Let's get going.\nDuShawn: Wait, we finally find something interesting and you want to go?\nMichaels: I thought you were itching to leave anyways.\nDuShawn: Not anymore. You know what this means right?\nMichaels: No\u2026\nDuShawn: If those things eat here\u2026 then they'll come back here at some point. We stake the place out, wait until they get here, and then we follow them around. Let them lead us right back to Xingyu.\nMichaels: Not in your dreams.\nDuShawn: What? Why?\nMichaels: I'm not risking the mission. We'll send in a rescue team after we report back to headquarters.\nDuShawn: You don't want to learn about whatever else is down here? Maybe they'll lead us somewhere new. I don't know how you've been choosing where to explore but there's probably room for a deto\u2014\nMichaels: Vivian. Stop it. We're leaving, and that's an order.\nDuShawn looks at McGlocklin.\nDuShawn: And you're ok with this?\nMcGlocklin: I\u2014 I don't know. Sort of?\nDuShawn sighs. She starts toward the door.\nDuShawn: Fine. [whispering to herself] Fucking cowards.\nMichaels and McGlocklin follow DuShawn out of LoI-5448-5.\n<End Transcript>\n\n+ Forever Falls\n\n- Forever Falls\n\nLower entrance to Forever Falls.\n\nFeature Name: Forever Falls\nDescription: Forever Falls is the waterfall to top all waterfalls. It is a perfectly circular hole that burrows deep into the ground. We haven't reached the bottom, and we're not even sure it has one!\nAt the top of the abyss, there is a small lake that drains into Forever Falls. This lake is constantly filled with water, so we decided to call it Lake Unquenchable. The water in Lake Unquenchable is perfectly clear, and chemical analysis has shown that it is entirely pure water. Visitors are encouraged to take a dip in the lake. We've installed a protective grate so you don't have to worry about accidentally joining the water in its quest for the bottom of Forever Falls.\nFor explorers who want to delve into Forever Falls, you can take the stairs down to the lower entrance. This leads to an opening in Forever Falls just behind the waterfall. From here, explorers can traverse a spiral staircase that leads downward into Forever Falls.\nOr, if you'd rather stay dry, the area surrounding Forever Falls is a popular overnight camping location! Pitch a tent and sing some songs about flying into nothingness!\nVisitor Preparations: Forever Falls is a good place to relax and enjoy the Maw. No additional preparations are required, however explorers who are strongly affected by \"Calls of the Void\" are advised to stay away from the edge of Forever Falls.\nFor visitors attempting to descend into Forever Falls, it is required that you bring ropes and carabiners. The Maw of Existential Despair Staff are not responsible for any accidents that occur during descent.\nFor visitors staying overnight at Forever Falls, it is advised that visitors stay inside their tents between the hours of 1:00 and 5:00 AM. The landscape surrounding Forever Falls is particularly unstable during these hours. Viewing unstable reality warps can lead to temporary loss of olfactory input, hallucinations, and intense dissociation.\nHistory: Forever Falls' tradition of camping goes all the way back to the first exploration mission of the Maw. The team's first night was spent around the edge of our bottomless waterfall. Below is the SCP Foundation's declassified transcript of that exploration's time at Forever Falls:\n\n<Begin Transcript>\nMichaels, DuShawn and McGlocklin have all erected tents around the rim of LoI-5448-8. McGlocklin is performing maintenance on the communications equipment. DuShawn sits at the lower entrance to LoI-5448-8's aperature with his back against the wall. Michaels walks around the edge of the hole the water falls into, lights a flare, and drops it inside. He peeks over the edge, and then quickly retreats before walking to the stairway to the lower entrance and joining DuShawn.\nMichaels: Evening.\nDuShawn: Evening.\nThe two sit in silence for two minutes.\nMichaels: You like the sound of waterfalls?\nDuShawn: It's nice I guess. Sounds a lot like rain to me.\nMichaels: I see.\nDuShawn: I assume that was your flare I saw earlier?\nMichaels: Yeah.\nDuShawn: How long until you lost sight?\nMichaels: Don't know. I don't like looking over the edge of this thing. Feels like I'm about to fall in.1\nDuShawn: Didn't take you for the type to be scared of heights.\nMichaels: Oh, there's a lot that I'm afraid of.\nDuShawn: Like what?\nMichaels: I see we're getting deep tonight.\nDuShawn: Not much else to do.\nMichaels: Well\u2026 I guess the big one is that I'll never be surprised again.\nDuShawn: Don't want to be Mr. Seen-it-all?\nMichaels: When you work for a millennia at a place that specializes in the unknown, strange things just don't do it for you anymore. I don't know how many missions I've been on, but they all sort of blur together for me. Nothing new happens. If something goes wrong, I've seen it all. And if exploring a literal tear in reality doesn't feel new, nothing probably will.\nDuShawn: \u2026 so that's why you don't care that we lost Xingyu.\nMichaels: I'm not doing this right now.\nDuShawn: I just don't get how it's such a non-issue for you.\nMichaels: Was he a friend or something?\nDuShawn: I mean, he was my ground control a few times in the past. I sort of knew him. But like\u2026 actually why do you care?\nMichaels: You've probably lost people in the past on these missions. Seems strange to get hung up on this one guy.\nDuShawn: I'd rather that than just leaving him to die! I want to rescue him. Bring him back to his wife and kids.\nMichaels: Does he even have a family?\nDuShawn: Does that matter?\nMichaels: So you don't know.\nDuShawn: He probably has someone to go back to. Someone who misses him.\nMichaels: Well, he seems like a smart guy. Maybe he'll find his own way out.\nDuShawn: Really? He's going to find his own way out of this place? Do you even know where we are?\nMichaels: We're at location of interest eight.\nDuShawn: Don't play coy. How did we get here? I was following you, but I couldn't tell you. Hell, the space just ten feet away from our tents is so unstable I couldn't even describe it to you if I was standing in it.\nMichaels: We're here to explore and report. If we can't report the space in between stable reality it's not all that important.\nDuShawn: But you admit that we're lost!\nMichaels: We'll find our way back.\nDuShawn: I can't fucking believe this.\nDuShawn stands up and walks toward the aperature.\nMichaels: [shouting after DuShawn] Where are you going?\nDuShawn: Down the stairs, into the well. Maybe I'll find Xingyu down there.\nDuShawn begins to descend the stairs leading into the aperature. Michaels remains seated with his back against the wall. McGlocklin enters the lower entrance.\nMcGlocklin: Umm\u2026 I heard sound some shouting? Where's Vivian?\nMichaels points toward the waterfall.\nMcGlocklin: Oh.\nMichaels: She'll be fine. Why don't you take a seat? You've been carrying that comms equipment all day, probably want to take a load off your legs.\nMcGlocklin: Ok.\nMcGlocklin sits down across from Michaels.\nMichaels: So, how do you like the field?\nMcGlocklin: It's uhh\u2026 it's kind of a lot.\nMichaels: Better than your desk job?\nMcGlocklin: I'm not sure.\nThe light from outside the hole is no longer sufficient to illuminate DuShawn's camera. The sound of footsteps against stone can still be heard.\nMichaels: Oh?\nMcGlocklin: I mean\u2026 I don't know. I'm sorry.\nMichaels: You don't have to apologize. The whole \"exploring other worlds\" thing isn't for everyone.\nMcGlocklin: Yeah, yeah. I just, I kind of liked my desk. Like, I had a routine. I guess I just like routine. The repetition feels safe. I don't have to worry about screwing up as much if I've done something a hundred times before. Err\u2026 I'm rambling aren't I?\nMichaels: You're fine.\nMcGlocklin: Do people normally enjoy the field?\nMichaels: I don't know if \"enjoy\" is the right word but, like it's something different for most people. A change of pace. Everyone needs a change of pace.\nMcGlocklin: Maybe. I guess this pace just isn't for me.\nA sharp yelp can be head from DuShawn's microphone. It is quickly cut off. McGlocklin turns her head toward the stairs.\nMcGlocklin: Did you hear that?\nMichaels and McGlocklin listen for a few moments. The sound of deep breathing can be heard through DuShawn's microphone. Michaels gets up and looks into the hole of LoI-5448-8. DuShawn can be seen on the stairs leading deeper into the hole. She appears to have fallen backwards onto the steps.\nMichaels: You ok down there Viv?\nDuShawn: I think\u2026 I think I'm coming back up.\nMichaels: Glad to hear that.\nMichaels walks back to McGlocklin.\nMichaels: God, looking to that thing gives me a headache. I'd hate to just be falling forever.\nMcGlocklin: Scared of heights?\nMichaels: Not really. I just think falling would get boring after a while.\n<End Transcript>\n\n+ Obsidian Tunnels\n\n- Obsidian Tunnels\n\nInside the Obsidian Tunnels.\n\nFeature Name: Obsidian Tunnels\nDescription: The Obsidian Tunnels are a large interconnected underground playground for any spelunkers visiting the Maw. These hollowed out tubes of igneous rock are ripe for exploring. We haven't even mapped all of them ourselves!\nIf you explore deep within the caves, and maybe dig a little bit, visitors can find lakes of magma buried beneath the surface. Although make sure to come quick! Our measurements have found that the depth of the magma beneath the Obsidian Tunnels has been dropping. At the current rate, it is estimate that the lakes will only be full for another 600 years. Or you could donate to the Maw of Despair Protection Fund to aid in research in maintaining our natural volcanic features.\nVisitor Preparations: While the tunnels do rest on top of super-heated magma, the areas that most visitors traverse can be quite chilly. Visitors are encouraged to dress warmly, and bring plenty of fluids with them.\nFor visitors who want to explore past the park boundaries, please chart your path in detail and record your findings. This way there's less danger of getting lost and you can contribute to the Maw's ever growing collection of maps!\nWarning: Park Rules mandate that visitors report any and all sightings of native life within the Obsidian Tunnels to a Ranger or other Maw of Existential Despair Park personnel. While neither fauna nor flora have been found within the Obsidian Tunnels, keeping Park personnel informed of any development ensures a safe experience for all explorers planning to visit this area of the park.\nHistory: The Obsidian Tunnels is yet another location visited during the first exploration of the Maw of Despair. Potential visitors are reminded that these records are from before the Maw was an official park, and did not conform to KLEE-3001 Park Safety Standards.\n\n<Begin Transcript>\nMichaels, DuShawn and McGlocklin are deep inside LoI-5448-11. The area is illuminated solely by the team's standard issue flashlights.\nMichaels: Why is it so goddamn cold in here?\nDuShawn: B-beats me. I'd think with all the lava rock around here there'd be like\u2026 lava.\nMcGlocklin: It's warmer closer to these things.\nMcGlocklin points to a small hole in the wall. DuShawn and Michaels come closer.\nMichaels: Huh, weird.\nDuShawn: Smells strange.\nMichaels: Well, let's keep going.\nApproximately thirty second after the team leaves the hole a small explosion is heard behind them. All three turn to see a cone of flame exiting the hole.\nDuShawn: That makes sense why that was the warm spot.\nMcGlocklin: I\u2014 I guess w-we should stay in the middle n-now?\nMichaels: Probably.\nThe team continues down until the tunnel opens into a large cavern with a high ceiling. Three tunnels lead out of the cavern. Various torture devices2 line the sides of the cavern and metal shackles can be seen embedded in the walls. Colored tubes emerge from the floor in the center of the cavern, and lead down a tunnel to the left.\nMichaels: Well, this place certainly looks welcoming.\nDuShawn: Honestly? Sort of reminds me of this like, extreme sensory experience room I went to a long, long time ago.\nMichaels: Extreme sensory experience?\nDuShawn: Sort of like uh\u2026 like advanced BDSM, but less sexual and more just uhh\u2026\nMichaels: Just torture? Didn't know you were into that.\nDuShawn: I was curious ok? Had a lot of downtime between missions once and someone suggested I try it.\nMichaels: Don't worry about it Viv. We don't kink shame here.\nDuShawn: Oh, fuck off Eric. It got boring anyways.\nMichaels: Well, then you can analyze the torture devices. I'll take samples.\nMcGlocklin walks over to one set of shackles attached to a wooden board and examines it. The hinges are rusted, but also appear worn down from use.\nMcGlocklin: People use this stuff for entertainment?\nDuShawn: Oh, this is nothing. You should see what they do on Broadway.\nMcGlocklin: Just seems kind of painful I guess.\nDuShawn: You don't get out much, do you Sarah?\nMcGlocklin: I guess not.\nMichaels moves to the other end of the cavern to retrieve samples from the wall and floor. DuShawn nudges McGlocklin\nDuShawn: [laughing] You want to try it?\nMcGlocklin: Umm\u2026 it's really my kind of thing.\nDuShawn: I was joking.\nMcGlocklin: Oh.\nDuShawn: I was hoping at least one of you could take a joke.\nMcGlocklin: Huh?\nDuShawn: Oh it's nothing. Just, like Michaels doesn't seem like he's all here.\nMcGlocklin: Maybe the constantly shifting reality is getting to him?\nDuShawn: Maybe. Although, everyone I've talked to before the mission made it sound like this is sort of normal. Oh, I'm going to start the stretching by the way.\nDuShawn crouches next to a medieval stretcher. McGlocklin rotates the wheel next to the stretcher, causing the shackles to pull across the board. McGlocklin jots down notes.\nDuShawn: I mean, he's obviously pretty good at his job. He's been doing it for millennia. But there's just a bunch of stories about him I've heard. Someone told me his sister used to lead the team that studied Omega-K before she disappeared.\nMcGlocklin: Ok\u2026\nDuShawn: I think the strangest one I heard is that he used to be a really happy person, with a wife and kids and stuff, until about a hundred years into Omega-K, when his dad died. Afterwards, he got a divorce and moved into one of the terrestrial sites full time. I mean, it's all just hearsay. Can't trust any stories from that long ago. But like\u2026 I don't know. He's an old, old man.\nMcGlocklin reaches down toward a pair of shackles to examine them. A skeletal arm appears in the cuffs for a moment, and then dissipate. McGlocklin stumbles backward, startled.\nMcGlocklin: Ow!\nDuShawn goes to McGlocklin, who just has minor scrapes on her arms. Michaels comes back to the main cavern.\nMichaels: You ok Sarah?\nMcGlocklin: Yeah, just\u2026 the shackles did something weird.\nMichaels: I mean, reality here isn't exactly stable. It's probably nothing.\nDuShawn: What do you think these are?\nDuShawn points to the colored tubes in the center of the cavern. They pulse at regular intervals.\nDuShawn: The air around them feels warm.\nMichaels: Maybe stay away from those, then. In case it turns out like last time we found some heat.\nDuShawn: [backing away] Good point.\nMcGlocklin: They don't look like they belong here.\nMichaels: What do you mean?\nMcGlocklin: Well, um, they're weird colors. Like, the blue and the green feel out of place.\nMichaels: Like, as a color palette?\nMcGlocklin: Sort of? Err, never mind. It was dumb to say.\nDuShawn: No, I think I get it. What here could make those colors?\nMichaels: This place isn't supposed to make sense. Maybe the reality around those tubes decided it just wanted to be green.\nDuShawn: Sure, sure. But the rest of this place is pretty stable, isn't it?\nMichaels: I'm not sure what you're getting at.\nDuShawn: I'm saying we should follow the tubes, to see why they're like this. It'd add more to the exploration, and depending on what's on the other end it might give us insight into how this place works.\nMichaels: I see\u2026 Well, I didn't have a strong preference on where to go next. Down the left we go then.\nMichaels begins following the tunnel to the left. Before the others can follow, McGlocklin turns to DuShawn.\nMcGlocklin: Umm\u2026 sorry if this is weird, but why do you care where we go so much?\nDuShawn looks over her shoulder, and then turns back to McGlocklin.\nDuShawn: Well, if this thing doesn't belong here, then how do you think it got here?\nMcGlocklin: Someone maybe put it here?\nDuShawn: Exactly. We both know we're not the only ones here. I want to go see them.\nMcGlocklin: And find Xingyu?\nDuShawn smiles.\nDuShawn: It's a fun little hunt, isn't it?\nMichaels: [shouting] C'mon you two! I will leave you behind!\nDuShawn follows Micheals. McGlocklin turns to look at the cavern again before she leaves. All of the torture devices are occupied by semi-transparent skeletons, which appear to be writhing in pain. They make no sound. McGlocklin runs after Michaels and DuShawn.\n<End Transcript>\n\n+ St. Michael's Hospital\n\n- St. Michael's Hospital\n\nThe top of St. Michaels' Hosptial.\n\nFeature Name: St. Michael's Hospital\nDescription: St. Michael's Hospital is another popular place to hunker down for the night. Visitors will experience the most visceral reality shifting experience possible. Most other areas of the Maw are either stable, or too unstable to be properly comprehended by the human mind, but St. Michael's Hospital is balanced just right.\nThe feature itself looks like a regular hospital, however, like most things in the Maw, there is more than meets the eye. The inside is an interconnected labyrinth of operating rooms, waiting rooms, and offices that we have repurposed as luxury suites!\nHowever, the real fun starts at night, when the space inside the Hospital begins to take on a life of its own. Visitors have reported:\n\nOut of body journeys\nExtreme tempuratures\nConversations with their older and younger selves\nTelepathy\nAnd many more exciting experiences!\n\nVisitors intending to spend the night at the Hospital should reserve a room at least three years in advanced! We may have an indeterminate number of rooms, but we only have enough medical staff to operate a couple hundred, so don't wait!\nVisitor Preparations: While unstable reality is the main attraction of the Hospital, it is also a hazard. Visitors are advised to bring bodies that they are not worried about ruining. For visitors who are planning to share a room, please ensure that you are both on amiable terms. Shared room experiences tend to be more visceral, but also result in a merging of the inhabitants, either physically, mentally, or both.\nHistory: After exiting the Obsidian Tunnels, the team leading the original exploration of the Maw followed the colored tubes until they eventually reached the Hospital. The following is a transcript of the time they spent there:\n\n<Begin Transcript>\nDuShawn, Michaels and McGlocklin have entered LoI-5448-14. They stand in a hospital waiting room. Six of the chairs are filled with humanoid entities constructed from rolled up magazines. The exploration team does not acknowledge these entities. A red, green and blue tube leads down each of the corridors leading out of the waiting room.\nDuShawn: I think this is the first time we've been somewhere air conditioned.\nMichaels: A nice change of pace, yeah. You think we should split up?\nMcGlocklin: I don't think that's a good idea, considering, uh, what happened last time we split up.\nMichaels: Good point. All together then.\nDuShawn, Michaels, and McGlocklin each walk toward the green, red, and blue corridors respectively. Two magazine entities accompany each of them. The agents do not acknowledge that they are being followed by these entities instead of each other.\nMcGlocklin: Um, how far are we going to go down?\nAfter a short pause, McGlocklin nods in confirmation. All of the agents walk for fifty meters down the different corridors. They pass a door with a stained glass window that appears every ten meters with a placard next to it that says \"Doctor's Office\".\nMichaels: I have a feeling this is going to be a whole lotta nothin'.\nThe agents walk for another twenty meters.\nMcGlocklin: Yes, I would like to keep going.\nThe agents walk for another forty meters.\nMichaels: I'm becoming less convinced there's an end to this.\nThe agents walk for another ten meters. DuShawn stops and turns to one of the magazine entities following her. McGlocklin and Michaels continue.\nDuShawn: What do you mean you want to turn around?\nThe magazine entity does not respond.\nDuShawn: But what if something changes?\nThe magazine entity does not respond.\nDuShawn: Yeah, yeah you're right. I do want to find him.\nThe magazine entity does not respond.\nDuShawn: Fine! You're right! I want to feel like a hero. But that doesn't mean you're right for being Mr. Jaded!\nMichaels: I swear it's like we haven't even moved! It's all the fucking same!\nDuShawn: Well maybe some of us are still searching for something to be passionate about. I hate being bored as much as you do, but maybe instead of waddling in your own self pity you could do something about it! Get excited about something! We're in the middle of a fucking existential maw of despair for christ's sakes!3\nThe magazine entity in front of DuShawn does not respond. DuShawn slumps against the wall of the corridor.\nDuShawn: Yeah. You're right. But desperate times call for desperate measures. And I'm desperate to feel excited again.\nMichaels: I hate this.\nMichaels sits down against the wall. Both of the magazine entities following him sit beside him.\nMichaels: I know Viv. I'm bored too.\nMcGlocklin walks for another fifty meters before pausing to look back at the magazine entities.\nMcGlocklin: I'm ok to keep going. I don't really mind.\nMcGlocklin walks for another two hundred meters. It is currently unknown how all three video streams are being received, since it is estimated that DuShawn and Michaels are far outside of the receiver's range.\nMcGlocklin: Do you think we should see what's inside one of these doors?\nDuShawn stands.\nDuShawn: Fuck it. I'm opening the damn door.\nMichaels stands as well and moves toward the door.\nMichaels: Maybe there's something new behind this thing.\nMichaels, DuShawn, and McGlocklin all open the door at the same time. Inside the room, is a single operating table, with a heart rate monitor next to it. The heart rate monitor is turned off. Lying on the bed is Xingyu Li, asleep.\nDuShawn: Xingyu?\nLi slowly awakes.\nLi: Guys?\nMichaels, DuShawn and McGlocklin all push against each other to enter the room. The magazine entities are no longer present in any of the video streams. Michaels, DuShawn, McGlocklin and Li appear to be in the same room together.\nDuShawn: Holy shit! How are you ok?\nMichaels: How did you end up here?\nMcGlocklin: Umm\u2026 hi Xingyu.\nLi: Woah, woah. One at a time.\nMichaels: In that case we'll start with your current status.\nLi: I believe I've fully recovered.\nDuShawn: Recovered? What happened to you?\nLi: While you guys were gone exploring the castle, a massive windstorm rolled in. I wasn't ready for it at all, and the gusts carried me off the cloud.\nMichaels: Wait, you fell off the cloud?\nLi: I'd say I was blown off of it, but same idea.\nDuShawn: But you weren't kidnapped.\nLi: No. Well, ok, only sort of.\nMichaels: I don't understand \"sort of\".\nLi: When I hit the ground, I blacked out, and when I woke up, I was here, with someone next to me.\nMichaels: Like, a person?\nLi: Yeah\u2026 as opposed to?\nMichaels: A void monster? I don't know. This place doesn't seem like somewhere humans would thrive.\nLi: Well, it was a person. I talked to them for a bit. Actually\u2026 I think they wanted to meet you.\nDuShawn: Meet Eric?\nLi: Yeah, yeah. I know where to find them too. He told me where to go before I fell back asleep.\nDuShawn: Then show us the way! Let's go!\nDuShawn helps Li off of the table. They both head toward the door, with McGlocklin following them. Michaels does not move.\nDuShawn: Are you coming?\nMichaels: I'm not sure we should engage.\nDuShawn: Why?\nMichaels: Our goal here is to explore and\u2014\nDuShawn: And this person might be our guide.\nMichaels: But what if\u2014\nDuShawn: You're scared, aren't you?\nMichaels: Excuse you?\nDuShawn: You heard me. You're scared. You're scared you're going to be surprised for once.\nMichaels: I'm not\u2014\nDuShawn: Last night you told me you were also scared of never being surprised again. I'm not sure what's scarier to you, but you'll never be surprised if you never let yourself be surprised.\nMichaels: But\u2014 but\u2026\nMichaels sighs, and stands up.\nMichaels: Fine. Let's go.\nMichaels, DuShawn, and McGlocklin follow Li out of the room.\n<End Transcript>\n\n+ The Machine\n\n- The Machine\n\nInside The Machine.\n\nFeature Name: The Machine\nDescription: While the park is full of natural beauty and chaos, sometimes its a nice change of pace to see something that is best described at the epitome of order. The Machine is a large complex occasionally located4 in the Sigma-6 quadrant. Inside is a series of immaculately laid out circuits and gears and pipes. The Machine's mechanisms are condensed so that there is no space left unused, except for a grid of access hallways that visitors can tour.\nVisitor Preparations: The Machine is a fairly calm location to explore. However, in the event that The Machine activates, all visitors should be prepared to evacuate immediately.\nHistory: The recordings we have from the first exploration of the Maw indicate that The Machine is the only artificially constructed section of the park. Below is the transcript from their visit:\n\n<Begin Transcript>\nMichaels, DuShawn, McGlocklin and Li are inside of a long corridor with a cement floor and glass walls and ceiling. Outside of the corridor is an interconnected series of tubes, circuits and simple machines. Halos, similar to those seen in LoI-5448-1, are placed in glass containers scattered throughout the area. Light from these halos filters into nearby wires and tubes, causing them to glow. The hallway is illuminated by candles, which do not cast sufficient light to see where the machinery surrounding the corridor ends, if it does so.\nDuShawn: Did they build all of this?\nLi: I think so.\nMichaels: But what is it?\nLi: I don't know. A Rube Goldberg Machine?\nDuShawn: Real funny.\nLi: I mean, I could be right. Sometimes people just want to make something. Doesn't have to be useful.\nMichaels: Anything to help pass the time.\nThe corridor eventually leads into a large glass dome. There are ladders leading down from the outside of the dome into the circuits and pipes below. In the center of the dome lies a metallic capsule connected to colored tubes5. A low hum can be heard from the capsule. Michaels opens the capsule using a handle located on its side. Inside are a garden hoe and a stethoscope. The capsule makes a quiet beeping noise.\nDuShawn: What the hell?\nLi: I get the feeling that we've been here far too long.\nMichaels reaches down to pick up the stethoscope.\nUnknown: Hey! Umm\u2026 could you not touch that?\nA man (henceforth SCP-5448-A) climbs up one of the ladders attached to the dome. He is carrying a toolbox, and his clothes are stained with machine grease. He surveys DuShawn, McGlocklin and Li, before locking eyes with Michaels.\nSCP-5448-A: You\u2026 I know you from\u2014\nMichaels: Tony?\nThe two are silent for a moment before SCP-5448-A begins to laugh.\nSCP-5448-A: No wonder I didn't recognize you. It has been a minute, hasn't it?\nDuShawn pulls Michaels backwards. Michaels struggles against her. McGlocklin retreats backwards a few feet.\nDuShawn: What the hell are you doing?\nMichaels: Let go! That's my brother!\nDuShawn: Or its an abomination of the goddamn void!\nLi: Viv! It's fine! This is umm\u2026 one of the people who saved me.\nDuShawn and Michaels both stop to look at Li. After a moment, DuShawn lets go of Michaels, who brushes himself off.\nSCP-5448-A: How's umm\u2026 how's everything been?\nMichaels: [to SCP-5448-A] They told me you were dead.\nSCP-5448-A: You know, I think Joyce said the exact same thing.\nMichaels: Joyce is here too? What about dad?\nSCP-5448-A: Dad came and went. He's at peace now. But Joyce is still here.\nMichaels: Where?\nSCP-5448-A: Well, if your troupe doesn't mind following along, I'll show you. Just uh, watch your step. The ground isn't as real as it looks in some places.\n<End Transcript>\n\n+ The Flower Garden\n\n- The Flower Garden\n\nContext Unknown.\n\nFeature Name: The Flower Garden\nDescription: Park Rangers have struggled to consistently locate The Flower Garden within The Maw. This is because The Flower Garden is so unstable that it only exists periodically. Due to this, there are very few facts known about the Flower Garden. It doesn't even always contain a real flower garden!\nVisitor Preparations: Exploration of The Flower Garden is forbidden. Any park-goers who arrive at The Flower Garden are to alert a park ranger as soon as possible.\n\nMichaels, DuShawn, McGlocklin, Li, and SCP-5448-A arrive in an area that appears to be covered with daisies. Video feed quality has degraded, making objects difficult to make out with certainty.\nSCP-5448-A: Joyce! You here? I brought uh, visitors.\nA woman wearing a lab coat (henceforth SCP-5448-B) arises from the daisies on the ground.\nMichaels: Joyce?\nSCP-5448-B: Eric!\nSCP-5448-B runs toward Michaels. The two embrace.\nMichaels: God, I've missed you.\nSCP-5448-B: I missed you too. It's been a while, hasn't it?\nMichaels: Heh, I guess it has.\nSCP-5448-B: You know, I never would've imagined we'd have a family reunion here, of all places.\nMichaels: Me neither.\nSCP-5448-B: How's Grace and Dean?\nMichaels: Who?\nSCP-5448-B: \u2026 that's your wife and kid, right?\nMichaels: Oh. Right. Sorry\u2026 I haven't seen them in a long, long time.\nSCP-5448-A: Wait, how long has it been since Omega-K?\nMichaels: I couldn't tell you. The people who were around back then have lost track of the time more than once. We've had to reset the calendar. Redefine year zero.\nMichaels motions to the rest of the exploration team.\nMichaels: None of these guys were even around back then.\nDuShawn: Umm, sorry to interrupt but if you don't mind me asking, why are you here?\nSCP-5448-A: It's a long story, but the short of it is uhh\u2026\nSCP-5448-B: We want to fix death.\nDuShawn: Come again?\nSCP-5448-A: Eric can attest. We managed to kill people after Omega-K. And like, if we can bring death back for one person, maybe we can bring it back for everyone.\nFor two seconds, SCP-5448-A and SCP-5448-B are replaced with skeletons. McGlocklin jumps backward, but the others do not respond. Afterwards, SCP-5448-A and SCP-5448-B return to their previous state.\nSCP-5448-B: And if not bring death back, then just become the reaper ourselves.\nSCP-5448-A: That machine you saw, we've been working on it\u2026 well ever since dad died. It's not like we have a hard deadline though.\nDuShawn: You're really trying to bring an end to this? Just the two of you?\nSCP-5448-B: Well, we could always use more help.\nDuShawn, Li and Michaels look at each other. McGlocklin backs away slowly. The video feeds from DuShawn, Li, and Michaels degrade to the point of being unusable. McGlocklin looks around, the video feed no longer displaying a flower garden. Instead she is standing in the middle of a park with a playground. There are teddy bears sitting on benches, observing the playground. Congregating near the swing set are five kids who appear to be younger versions of SCP-5448-A, SCP-5448-B, Michaels, DuShawn, and Li.\nDuShawn: Of course I'll play Super Heroes with you guys!\nLi: My mom said I didn't have to come back until sundown, so I can play!\nMichaels: I wanted to stay anyways. It's lonely back home.\nDuShawn: What about you, Sarah?\nMcGlocklin: I\u2026 what?\nThe video feed flickers back to the flower garden. Everyone has been replaced with the adult versions of themselves.\nMichaels: Sarah?\nMcGlocklin: You're\u2014 you're insane.\nSCP-5448-B: We're just putting people to rest. Giving them an escape from the boredom of forever.\nMcGlocklin: [shouting] You're planning a genocide!\nEveryone falls silent, and looks at McGlocklin.\nMcGlocklin: I don't understand how you can hate just\u2026 being alive.\nMichaels: You're the first person I've heard say something like that in a long time. But you know, for every one of people like you, there's thousands of people like me. Like Viv. Like Xingyu. Just tired, tired people.\nMcGlocklin: You don't have to kill everyone because of it!\nDuShawn: I'd rather that than be tortured forever.\nMcGlocklin: Can't you hear what you're saying?\nMichaels: Do you like it then?\nMcGlocklin: Like\u2026 like what?\nMichaels: Being alive. Waking up in the morning. I've only known you for a few days and you seem nothing but scared and afraid of what little spice life has left to offer. You're in a world where everything you see you haven't seen before, and you hate it here!\nMcGlocklin: I\u2014I don't mind my desk job\u2026 I like routine\u2026\nMichaels: Even forever?\nMcGlocklin: [mumbles] I\u2026 don't know.\nMichaels: I can't hear you.\nMcGlocklin: I don't know!\nMichaels: You haven't thought about it at all?\nMcGlocklin: Just leave me alone!\nMcGlocklin turns to leave. Her steps create crunching sounds on the ground. McGlocklin looks down to see the flowers have been replaced with insect corpses. She screams and runs faster. Childrens' laughter can be heard from behind McGlocklin. Insect corpses fall from the sky, piling up on the ground. McGlocklin keeps running, eventually needing to swim through the dead insects. The video quality continues to degrade until no identifiable features remain.\n<End Transcript>\n\nPark Ranger Eyes Only\n\nClose Transmission\n\nThree days following the return of Sarah McGlocklin to The Maw, Park Services emergency messaging systems received the following video transmission.\n\n<0:00 \u2014 0:23> A logo similar to that of the SCP Foundation, but with a two chain links in the center of it.\n<0:24 \u2014 0:36> Sarah McGlocklin climbing down a long shaft filled with circuits and pipes.\n<0:37 \u2014 1:04> Sarah McGlocklin swinging through monkey bars at a park. Behind her is a teddy bear, also swinging.\n<1:05 \u2014 1:48> Sarah McGlocklin steals a stethoscope from a child playing doctor with her friends, and a garden hoe from a child building a sandcastle with his friends.\n<1:49 \u2014 2:20> Sarah McGlocklin running through an unfamiliar landscape. She is wearing a pair of crudely repaired headphones, and holding a knife and a teddy bear.\n<2:21 \u2014 2:26> Sarah McGlocklin jumping into Forever Falls.\n<2:27 \u2014 5:35> Sarah McGlocklin in free fall. She continues to clutch the teddy bear and knife. The headphones also remain on her head. She is smiling. This is the only part of the transmission that was accompanied by audio, which is provided below, along with a written transcript:\n\nDaddy was always there beside me\nLifting me up, he would guard and guide me\nCheering me up with a joke when I was blue\nThe hospital room was quiet then\nThe two of us, just me and him\nWhen he said, to calm me again\nIt's nothing more than the soft embrace\nOf death and darkness\nThan the soft embrace\nOf peace and quiet\nI don't know where I'm gonna go\nBut when I get there, I will know\nSoft embrace of peace and quiet\nNow that I'm grown, I am strong and steady\nWhile tucking my little son in bed, he\nAsked me, \"What happened to Grandpa in that room?\"\nDon't you worry, go to sleep\nHis love for us, he'll always keep\nEven now, while his home's down deep\nIt's nothing more than the soft embrace\nOf death and darkness\nThan the soft embrace\nOf peace and quiet\nI don't know where I'm gonna go\nBut when I get there, I will know\nSoft embrace of peace and quiet\nMany years passed just as all my friends did\nFamily's here, their words of comfort blended\nWe all know well that I'll fade away soon\nThe hospital room was noisy then\nHow I feel, they just don't understand\nAnd my thoughts broke right through the din\nIt's nothing more than the soft embrace\nOf death and darkness\nThan the soft embrace\nOf peace and quiet\nI don't know where I'm gonna go\nBut when I get there, will I know?\nSoft embrace of death and darkness\nI'm afraid\nI'm afraid\nPapa please, can you help?\nI'm afraid\n\n<5:36 \u2014 6:00> The words \"I don't want to die.\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. Park services has erected a fence around Forever Falls, so visitors do not have to worry about their coordination when enjoying the site.\n2. Park rangers have removed these items from the tunnels for visitors' safety, and are currently on display in the Maw of Existential Despair Museum.\n3. Fun fact: this is where the name for the national park originated from!\n4. This feature is unreachable depending on the time of year. Please check with Park Services to confirm its existence before embarking.\n5. Resembling those found in LoI-5448-11\n\n\u00ab SCP-5447 | SCP-5448 | SCP-5449 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5449\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5449 is to be housed in a 40 x 40 x 40 cm terrarium in the west wing of Site-47. Assigned caretakers must maintain an optimal temperature and humidity level, which are to be adjusted when SCP-5449 goes into hibernation. The plants and decorations may be changed after it wakes up at the anomaly's preference.\nSCP-5449-1 is to be kept available to SCP-5449. If used for recreational purposes, one researcher with a clearance level 2 or higher must accompany SCP-5449 on site. Maintenance is to be carried out whilst SCP-5449 is hibernating.\n\nSCP-5449 on its new flower after waking from hibernation.\n\nDescription: SCP-5449 is a spider of the Salticidae family1 whose species is currently unidentified.\nSCP-5449 demonstrates high levels of intelligence for arachnids, able to learn human language and functions of objects through observation and deduction.\nSCP-5449-1 is a wooden toy train locomotive with three small carriages originally belonging to Dr. Ramona Sylven. SCP-5449 became attached to it after finding a way to spin its threads around the wheels and maneuver it. Because of this, it can ride on walls and ceilings, and puffs silk clouds even when moved by personnel. It was subsequently designated SCP-5449-1.\nDiscovery: On 25/08/2019, during a renovation of Dr. Sylven's office, a shelf collapsed overnight breaking an heirloom piece of amber containing spider eggs. SCP-5449 hatched and found SCP-5449-1 on the ground next to it. The next morning Dr. Sylven found SCP-5449 riding laps in SCP-5449-1 around her desk. SCP-5449 was successfully contained in a plexiglass container and later transferred into its enclosure. Further research showed that the other eggs were not fertilized. The origin of the amber could not be determined.\nAddendum 5449.1: Events with SCP-5449\n\n30/08/2019\nEvent: SCP-5449 was visibly sad, screeched silently, and refused to eat. Researchers tried to find the cause.\nResult: After unsuccessfully trying to appease it with treats, SCP-5449-1 was placed next to its enclosure. SCP-5449 hugged the wall next to SCP-5449-1. After internal deliberation, researchers let SCP-5449 ride around for four hours until it got hungry.\nSCP-5449 was permitted access to SCP-5449-1 as long as it was being observed directly.\n\n18/09/2019\nEvent: SCP-5449 was fed at the scheduled time.\nResult: SCP-5449 wove the words \"Thank you,\" and waved. Upon questioning, SCP-5449 could not make full sentences but appeared to comprehend the speech directed towards it.\n\n14/10/2019\nEvent: SCP-5449 was not seen for 48 hours.\nResult: Researchers found SCP-5449 hibernating inside its cave. Researchers continued to clean the enclosure weekly. The conditions of the terrarium were adjusted. On 22/02/2020, SCP-5449 woke up and excitedly jumped around in its enclosure.\n\n05/03/2020\nEvent: SCP-5449 saw that Dr. Carson forgot the cupcake on his desk when he went to the break room.\nResult: SCP-5449 loaded said cupcake in one of the carriages and rode SCP-5449-1 to deliver it. Afterwards, SCP-5449 was reprimanded and explained the potential dangers to itself. Personnel looked into extra security measures.\nDr. Carson appreciated the gesture and let SCP-5449 have a bite of his cupcake. He looked further into ways the anomaly could be helpful for personnel.\n\n17/04/2020\nEvent: Dr. Carson's proposal to have SCP-5449 deliver small objects was given a test period of two weeks.\nResult: SCP-5449 delivered non-urgent post, lunch, and several small objects2 in the west wing of Site-47. Due to raised morale, the testing period was extended.\n\n28/10/2020\nEvent: After circa two days of inactivity, SCP-5449 was found dormant on a bed of moss in its cave under a self-woven blanket.\nResult: Personnel awaits the moment SCP-5449 awakens from hibernation avidly.\n\n06/05/2021\nEvent: Whilst on its daily delivery route, SCP-5449 brought Dr. Carson a cupcake for his first break. The recently mopped hall was not completely dried up which caused SCP-5449-1 to slip and collide with Dr. Carson's desk.\nResult: Dr. Carson's tea fell on SCP-5449. Dr. Carson called for emergency medical assistance, SCP-5449 was taken away to the medical wing. SCP-5449-1 lost two wheels and a carriage in the collision.\n\n09/05/2021\nEvent: SCP-5449 succumbed to its injuries.\nResult: A funeral for SCP-5449 was held in the west wing of Site-47. SCP-5449-1 was set on the grave with flowers potted in its carriages with the permission of Dr. Sylven. Several researchers took the day off.\n\nTo: Site-47 Personnel\nFrom: Site Director T. Y. Meyx\nSubject: In regards to SCP-5449\n\nI would like to personally give my condolences to everyone at Site-47 after the passing of SCP-5449. Its death has impacted morale greatly. Despite this, I must see this for what it is and file a report that an anomaly has been neutralized. Its object class will be mirrored to this change.\nI will not give out disciplinary sanctions, as accidents do happen. However, future requests to have anomalies roam freely on-site will be denied by default. I hope this will be a lesson for everyone here at Site-47, including myself.\n- Site Director Meyx\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly known as the jumping spiders.\n2. Including but not limited to; AA batteries, a USB, another cupcake, tissues, and cartridges.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5448 | SCP-5449 | SCP-5450 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5450\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Production of SCP-5450 instances are outlawed in the city of Guangdong, China. Governmental sanctions have been instated to outlaw hunting of instances of SCP-5450-1. Foundation web crawlers have been installed to flag down any mention of SCP-5450 or SCP-5450-1, any publication of material of SCP-5450 is to be falsified as a myth via disinformation campaigns.\n\nAn instance of SCP-5450.\n\nDescription: SCP-5450 is a recipe known as shark fin soup, which manifests anomalous properties when produced from sharks within the Guangdong region. Selachians within this area, now designated SCP-5450-1, are biologically indistinguishable from normal sharks barring the presence of a pair of lungs. The anomalous property of SCP-5450 is that upon consumption the subject will become a species of selachian with varying results. Upon taking on the new form, the newly transformed subject will find its way to a body of water via currently unknown means. A small amount of cases have shown the individuals to move their fins in a way similar to walking. Testing has been preemptively denied via the Site Director Jorge Clark as the effects of SCP-5450 are well documented and apparent.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5450 was discovered when several families went missing in Guangdong followed by several reports of walking sharks online. Witnesses to instances of SCP-5450-1 were promptly amnesized and returned. Currently as of 06/07/2019, there is an estimated count of 452 instances of SCP-5450-1, making them an endangered species.\nNotes: On 04/29/2019, Foundation web crawlers flagged an advertisement. A transcription of the advertisement is attached:\n\nShark Fin Soup, by residents of Guangdong!\nA soup made for slurping!\nPartake in a delicacy, by our finest\nproducers.\nOur soup is healthy to consume!\nRemember: Slurp, Partake, Consume.\nKeep punching!\nHappy hunting!\n\nThe advertisement was immediately taken down upon flagging. Memetic agents were found, however, a source has yet to be identified.\nAddendum-SCP-5450.1: Following reports of a man punching a shark, Foundation Marine Biologist Kevin Drant and a team of Marine specialists were dispatched to the location, a shipwreck off the coast of Guangdong. Kevin's team noted that the following messages attached were crudely scratched into the ship's hull. Later the messages were translated into English and attached to the document.\n\nples stop eat\n\nwas homan\n\ni scared\n\nsory mom\n\ni wana go hom\n\ni mis you\n\nwhy\n\nwhy am fish\n\nplis help\n\now\n\ngot punch ed\n\nit hurt\n\nThe final messages were found similarly, crudely scratched into a secret back room of the ship. Each message was spaced out in several different parts of the room.\n\ni hide\n\nstop hit me\n\ni said stop hit me\n\nAddendum-SCP-5450.2: On 05/02/19 a radio transmission was received by the Foundation. The location of the transmission was traced back to the previous shipwreck. The contents of the decrypted transmissions are held below:\n\n<Begin Log Transmission SCP-5450.2>\n\nShark down\u2026 Pugilism successful.\n\nSlurp. Partake. Consume.\n\n<End Log>\n\nMemetic agents were flagged and removed. A single selachian corpse was found in the shipwreck, with its dorsal fin severed.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5449 | SCP-5450 | SCP-5451 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5451\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5451-2B\n\u2716\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5451-2A instances are to be stored in a standard containment locker. No animals of the family Spheniscidae are allowed to make contact with the advertisements. SCP-5451-2B instances found to have memetic effects are to be blocked by Foundation Web Crawler \u03a0\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03af . All materials released by SCP-5451 is to be disseminated as Foundation Cover R621 (\"Online Roleplay\"). In addition, a Foundation web crawler is to track the posts and conversations of SCP-5451-1 instances to detect any anomalous activity.\nDescription: SCP-5451 is a virtual school primarily attended by animals in the family Spheniscidae, more commonly known as penguins. Hosted on the site penguinschool.aq, students interact with teachers through voice chat along with assignments sent through messaging programs.\nSCP-5451-1 are a group of sentient, English-speaking penguins that can access the internet through anomalous means. Communication with other SCP-5451-1 instances are done through a forum on the site forum.penguinschool.aq. Non-anomalous penguins turn into SCP-5451-1 instances when they come into contact with advertisements made by previous SCP-5451-1 instances. These memetically enhanced advertisements (henceforth referred to as SCP-5451-2) come in two forms, flyers or banner ads, SCP-5451-2A and SCP-5451-2B respectively.\nSCP-5451-2A instances are flyers composed of feathers that are covered in urea. They are found in penguin mating spots after mating season. Penguins that come into contact with SCP-5451-2A turn into an SCP-5451-1 instance. After one academic year, they are enrolled in SCP-5451.\nSCP-5451-2B instances are banner ads found on the Internet. They take the format of a penguin on the foreground along with the text \"(common name of a penguin) Penguin School, the best University in the country!\", or some variation of the text. Subjects that come into contact with an SCP-5451-2B instance have a 25% chance of contributing to penguin conservation efforts using the forums.\n\nThe forum used by SCP-5451-1 instances to communicate\n\u2716\n\nAddendum 1.1: Attempted Interview with SCP-5451-1 instances\nOn 2021/02/01, Junior Researcher Cook was assigned to arrange an interview on the SCP-5451-1 instances to gather general information about SCP-5451 and SCP-5451-2\n\n+ Show Attempted Interview\n\n- Hide Attempted Interview\n\nTopic: what's this school about?\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nHello, I'm a new student here, and I really really want to learn more about your school, the history behind it, how's the culture here, what are the great stuff to be found here and other stuff.\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\nUgh, newbies like you cluttering up the forums with \"what's this school about? what's the food like?\" and on and on and on\nWhy not do your homework and read the FAQ and lurk more around the forums before posting?\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nHey, you don't need to be aggressive to me\nI'm just asking questions, man\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\nAh, yes the classic excuse\n\"iM jUsT aSkInG qUeStIoNs\"\nHey dummy, most of the questions you have will be answered if you lurk more\n@Forster, please close this thread. It's just clogging up the forums.\n\nPingu-Bot\nBot\n\nThread closed for the following reasons:\n\nRead the FAQ before posting questions like this\n- Forster | Staff\n\nAddendum 1.2: Establishing Relations Among SCP-5451-1 instances\nDue to negative reception of SCP-5451-1 instances to their inquiries, Junior Researcher Cook first establishes their reputation among the SCP-5451-1 instances\n\n+ Show Forum Logs\n\n- Hide Forum Logs\n\nIntroduction Thread: beep beep lettuce\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nI'm sorry about my conduct last time\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\nprolly was too harsh there\nNewbs not respecting our culture and all that\nThat being said, welcome!\n\nBS Sport Science | \"Always here to wreck shop and party\"\n\nBlueKorora\n3rd Year\n\nit's okay mate, sometimes we forget the rules 'ere\n\nBS Fishing | \"am smol bean uwu\"\n\nnoot-noot\nNewbie\n\nwelcome\nhey, ur also a newb too! :D\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nTo noot-noot: Oh hello fellow newbie!\nSpeaking of which, does anyone of you have a map of the campus? I'm not yet at campus, but I would like to not get lost when I get to the campus\n\nBlueKorora\n3rd Year\n\nsure, here's a copy of my map. it has everything, including the\u2026 good spots, if u kno what i mean ;) ;) ;)\n\nFile uploaded: map.png1\n\nBS Fishing | \"am smol bean uwu\"\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nThank you for the map, BlueKorora. I might've been lost in the campus without this.\nThis is a new experience for me; I've never left my house for the campus\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nThank you for the map, BlueKorora. I might've been lost in the campus without this.\nThis is a new experience for me; I've never left my house for the campus\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nOops, sorry for double-posting. Internet sucks here\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\nMan, you really need to relax. Don't worry, all of us has that first-time experience\n\nMsGrapeBoi\n2nd Year\n\nHey, welcome to our humble school! Hope you have fun staying here!\nTo beep beep lettuce: so, what's your course here? Mine is BS in Human Society\n\nBS Human Society | \"Always be friendly; you'll never know when it will help\"\n\nDC143C\n4th Year\n\nHey, welcome to the school beep beep lettuce!\nDon't worry, you become used to it\n\nBS Aviation | \"We shall fly once more; either with magic or determination\"\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nThanks for the greetings everyone. I hope that we all become good friends here\nTo MsGrapeBoi: I'm currently enrolled in BS Marketing.\n\nAdelle\nStaff\n\nWelcome to our online school and our forums, beep beep lettuce. I hope you find your stay here comfortable and you get to learn all about the world.\nIf you have any questions about our school, our forums, or anything about people in general, the Staff is always open to be messaged\nJust make sure they are online <3\n\nSTAFF | \"Loving my job since the 2000's\" | Contact Staff Here!\n\n- Hide Forum Logs\n\nAddendum 1.3: Information about SCP-54512\nUnder the guise of a school project, Junior Researcher Cook interviews an SCP-5451-1 instance about the nature of SCP-5451-2 instances\n\n+ Show Message Logs\n\n- Hide Message Logs\n\nbeep beep lettuce\n2nd Year\n\nYou're part of the group who makes the advertisements, right?\n\nYep! I'm from Marketing, that's what we do :D\n\nBS Marketing | \"Do the things that you love\"\n\nChiffon\n3rd Year\n\nbeep beep lettuce\n2nd Year\n\nI'm always amazed on how you can manage to convince others to join this school. How do you do it?\n\nEhhh, it's nothing, really. We just spread through word of mouth along with some\u2026 magic we sprinkle in\n\nBS Marketing | \"Do the things that you love\" - anonymous\n\nChiffon\n3rd Year\n\nbeep beep lettuce\n2nd Year\n\nOh wow, you actually use magic?\n\njk, jk. We just pour in our love of the school in everything we do.\nI mean, without the school, we will just be living our lives without a purpose, and who really wants that?\n\nBS Marketing | \"Do the things that you love\" - anonymous\n\nChiffon\n3rd Year\n\nAnalysis of various SCP-5451-2A instances reveal no thaumaturgic alterations\n\n- Hide Message Logs\n\nAddendum 1.4: Culture of SCP-5451-1 Instances\nTo learn more about the culture of SCP-5451-1 instances, Junior Researcher Cook, under the username \"beep beep lettuce\", interviews multiple SCP-5451-1 instances under the guise of a school project over multiple months. After 10 months, Junior Researcher Cook publishes a paper entitled The Culture of SCP-5451: A VIew Into the Life of Anomalous Penguins Through an Online School. An excerpt of the paper is available below along with an excerpt of the interviews done by Junior Researcher Cook on SCP-5451-1 instances.\nA copy of the full paper and interview log can be received from either Junior Researcher Cook or Senior Researcher Drake.\n\n+ Culture of SCP-5451-1 Instances\n\n- Culture of SCP-5451-1 Instances\n\n1. Family Life\nSCP-5451-1 instances have a close-knit relationship with their family, not unlike non-anomalous penguins, despite having the mannerisms of non-anomalous humans. In a sense, their relationship with their family is like a fusion between non-anomalous humans and penguins.\nSCP-5451-1 instances have a noticeably close relationship with even their cousins thrice removed, as most of them live together in packs, like non-anomalous penguins. However, when it comes time for SCP-5451-1 to leave their house to start their own lineage, they are given a copy of a recipe that both their mother and father made.\nIn fact, it is a rite of passage for an SCP-5451-1 instances to cook their first meal without the assistance of their parents.\nA marriage proposal between two SCP-5451-1 instances consists of cooking a traditional recipe from their families and presenting their meal to the bride/groom.\nDue to their food recipes being passed down from generation to generation, SCP-5451-1 instances take great pride in their lineage.\nBeing a cook is considered to be the highest honor among SCP-5451-1 instances, and recreating their families' dishes while adding their own touch is considered to be one of the important things parent SCP-5451-1 instances must teach to their children.\n2. Cuisine\nAlthough mainly inspired by American cuisine, the recipes made by SCP-5451-1 instances noticeably have fish in them, with some seaweed mixed in for umami.\nMost of the dishes SCP-54511 instances call \"traditional\" are Inuit recipes, suggesting a link between Inuit culture and SCP-5451-1 instances. In addition, most traditional SCP-5451-1 dishes involve some sort of food preservation technique, whether that be fermentation or drying food.\nDue to globalization, other methods of cooking food has reached the SCP-5451-1 instances. This has developed their cuisine so much, younger SCP-5451-1 instances are having a hard time developing their own recipes due to the amount of methods possible.\nSome notable food preparation methods that SCP-5451-1 traditionally use are:\n\nFermentation of fishes\nFreezing of fishes to be eaten raw\nDrying of seaweed under the sun for consumption\nSmoking\n\n+ Excerpt of Junior Researcher Cook's Interview with SCP-5451-1 instances Regarding Their Cuisine\n\n- Excerpt of Junior Researcher Cook's Interview with SCP-5451-1 instances Regarding Their Cuisine\n\nDaily Topic Thread: Favorite Food? (page 5/7)\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nYou really eat frozen fish? No cooking?\n\nBlueKorora\n3rd Year\n\nYep! It's true man, I swear!\nDon't you eat your fish frozen and raw?\n\nBS Fishing | \"am smol bean uwu\"\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\nDon't mind them - they're a traditionalist\nPersonally I prefer mine marinated in beer then deep-fried. You should try it, it's delicious.\n\nBS Sport Science | \"Always here to wreck shop and party\"\n\nArctique\n4th Year\n\nWith how your \"food recommendations\" turn out, no thank you\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\ncmon, it aint that bad\n\nBS Sport Science | \"Always here to wreck shop and party\"\n\nnoot-noot\nNewbie\n\nmy favorite dish is the one my mom makes for me\nshe says its from her great-grandmother\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nHey, noot-noot, can you send me a copy of that recipe? I would like to try it out\n\nnoot-noot\nNewbie\n\nsure wait a minute\n\nFile uploaded: fish.txt2\n\nbeep beep lettuce\nNewbie\n\nThank you for the recipe, noot-noot. I hope it is delicious\n\nCody\n4th Year\n\nOh, are we posting recipes? Here's mine\n\nFile uploaded: recipe.txt3\n\n- Excerpt of Junior Researcher Cook's Interview with SCP-5451-1 instances Regarding Their Cuisine\n\nThis document has a newer iteration!\n\nFootnotes\n1. Although the uploaded file was in the PNG file format, no image displaying software was able to properly show the map, either resulting in a crash or a notification indicating that the file is corrupted\n2. The file describes procedures on how to hunt, prepare, and cook Arctic char in the traditional Inuit method.\n3. The file describes procedures on how to marinate, bread, and deep-fry Arctic cod using beer as marinade.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5450 | SCP-5451 | SCP-5452 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nIMAGES\n\nName of the file: l.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: o.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: v.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: e.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: r.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: d.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: ld.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: od.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: vd.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: vderror.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: ed.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: ederror.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: rd.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nName of the file: scpd.png\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nAnd all the love in the world for my critters and people who helped me:\nCelesteKara does not match any existing user name, JakdragonX, RevTB does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, UraniumEmpire, Dr Whitney does not match any existing user name, Pedagon, Opal, Miracle Miki, totallynotenby, Kanske, cybersqyd\n\n\nItem#: 5452\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5452-1 is to be held inside a standard object containment locker in Site-15. Personnel with clearance level 2 or higher can experiment with SCP-5452 if permitted by the Head for Research of SCP-5452, Dr. Ivanna Novakova.\nDescription: SCP-5452 is a Dating Simulator video game simply called \"LOVER\", produced by GoI-078 (\"Arcadia\") where the player interacts with the game's characters, collectively designated as SCP-5452-2, in an attempt to engage romantically with one of them.\nThe game is contained on a series of files in a USB flash drive designated SCP-5452-1 which cannot be extracted, copied, or reproduced. SCP-5452 was programmed in Pavon, an anomalous programming language that uses thaumic methods to create metafictional entities. The object can only be played by one person at any time. All attempts to include other subjects that are not the main player will cause the game to terminate itself until the main player is alone. A new player can play the game only if the previous one completes the plot by marrying one of the SCP-5452-2 instances. The following log was recovered from a text file named README.txt inside one of SCP-5452-1's folders and describes SCP-5452's rules:\n\n\u25ba Game Mechanics \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Game Mechanics \u25bc\n\nWelcome to our community! We call ourselves Lovers, the fandom of the LOVER game. As the game doesn't really have a tutorial, I managed to create this \"ReadMe\" text with all the mechanics.\n\nYou can walk to different locations or stay in your room.\nThere are five locations on the game map: the School, the Park, the Museum, the Church, and the Alley.\nEvery location has three options: Work, Buy, or Interact.\n\nWork: makes the player earn money to buy gifts.\nBuy: spend money buying a gift. Every place has different gifts and every character likes or dislikes specific items, so beware!\nInteract: makes the player interact with a character nearby.\n\nInteraction options include Talk, Gift, Date, and Greet.\n\nTalk: a short conversation, sometimes letting you choose between lines.\nGift: uses one of the items earned at a vending machine to offer to the character.\nDate: only available if the person has an amity level above 50%. Gives the option to take the character on a date. Dates are match-three puzzles, similar to Candy Crush. Some gifts can give bonuses here.\nGreet: gives a hug or a kiss.\n\nDepending on the character, each interaction can increase or decrease the amity level.\nThe game will conclude when the amity level with a character gets to 100%. The Greet interaction will be changed to Marry and will end the game.\n\nI wish you luck with the game! Also: Eva's ending was prohibited by the PC Bang owner, so don't try to get it or you'll be banned!\n~Lovefool\n\n\u25bc Game Mechanics \u25bc\n\nSCP-5452-2 are five sapient and sentient ANIMA entities1 that the player can interact with. SCP-5452-2 also present metafictional characteristics such as:\n\nRetaining memories from previous gameplays\nAbility to adapt and learn of its environment outside of the game, even in the absence of the appropriate programming\nReacting to visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli\nRecognize themself as characters in a game\nInteracting with other instances even when off-screen\n\nSCP-5452-2 has also demonstrated telepathy,2 psychometry,3 empathy,4 and technopathy.5 The range of these powers is to be determined, but from recent experiments, it appears that most of them solely affect the player. Added below are the specifications of the individual SCP-5452-2 instances:\n\nSCP-5452-L\nSCP-5452-O\nSCP-5452-V\nSCP-5452-E\nSCP-5452-R\n\nCharacter Name: Levin\nFile: L.anm\nIn-Game Description: Levin is a half-demon boy and motorcyclist. Leader of Satan's Boys Motorcycle Club, he is secretly a cutie pie that is waiting for the right person to show his true colors.\nFavorite Location: The Alley\n\nCharacter Name: Orion\nFile: O.anm\nIn-Game Description: Orion is a cyborg that came from the future. A lone wolf, the android boy doesn't show the need for a company but also hates to be alone. He just needs a little push to accept someone and become their significant one.\nFavorite Location: The Museum\n\nCharacter Name: Vivi\nFile: V.anm\nColor: Yellow\nIn-Game Description: A silly cat girl that you discovered at the park. Playful and gentle, she acts more like a dog than like a cat. This compassionate cutie just wants a lair and someone to hug. Maybe you can be their significant other!\nFavorite Location: The Park\n\nCharacter Name: Eva\nFile: E.anm\nIn-Game Description: This shy and insecure girl is your classmate and your old childhood friend that mysteriously turned away from you. Now you know that she did that because she discovered that she is an esper. You're certain that a little bit of love will take her out of her box and turn her into the strong and powerful girl that she is.\nFavorite Location: The School\n\nCharacter Name: Ramiel\nFile: R.anm\nColor: Pink\nIn-Game Description: A strange angel that fell from heaven, Ramiel is trying to recover their wings and their place in their world. The easiest and quickest way to do that is loving someone. Ramiel can be a difficult being to deal with, but their love is pure and eternal.\nFavorite Location: The Church\n\nThe game also presents a plot. The protagonist, who is always named after the player without any naming input, is a high school student that is returning from school with the SCP-5452-E. The entity claims that it is an esper and it received a vision that five entities are lost in this world and they need to be saved by the protagonist. As the game itself is very confused due to the metafictional interference of the five ANIMA entities, the story tends to change radically through different gameplays.\nAddendum 5452.1: Discovery and first analysis\nDiscovery: SCP-5452 was discovered inside Unexplained Location, a South Korean LAN gaming center sponsored by Arcadia. The place was designated UE-711356 after it was identified as a minor Nexus for electronic game anomalies, including copies of objects already known and contained by the Foundation. In January of 2023, the business was bought and closed by the Foundation.\nAfter initial testing, the flash drive was considered a secondary object, as the principal anomaly was the game itself. The flash drive has since been designated as anomalous as it is the only storage item capable of hosting SCP-5452.\n\n\u25ba Data Log #1 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Data Log #1 \u25bc\n\nDATA LOG #1\n\nSCP-5452 was investigated by a group of six experienced researchers from the Division of Anomalous Programming, a subdivision of the IT Department. Unusually for Arcadia, SCP-5452 uses the Pavon programming language instead of ICRDTA.7. Pavon is famous for its metafictional properties, creating characters that are sentient and sapient. Another example of Pavon use is SCP-5094 a hybrid metafictional and technological entity used for children education.\nThe keynote of Pavon's Artificial Intelligence creation is the formulation of \".anm\" files. The AIs, designated ANIMA8 entities, are capable of interacting with the user even if the computer has no microphone and/or camera. Their essence is more thaumaturgical than technological, thus being identified as something between an AI and a Homunculi.9\nMost of the actual game coding is protected under heavy technothaumic seals, internal firewalls full of thaumic energy that prevents us from accessing the codes. However, even if the seals were opened, the Pavon is new to the Foundation, despite being created in the 1990s, as the first time the SCP foundation could investigate a Pavon-based entity was in 2022, when the Foundation gained custody of the aforementioned SCP-5094. Little is known about its semantics and there is the fact that Pavon keeps being updated regularly, thus having changes in its syntax.\nIt was possible to identify five .anm files, which were collectively named SCP-5452-2. They present a thaumic and ontokinectic instability that, by the Metafiction Division of the Department of Film and Media, is common to this type of object.\nNo more relevant data was found.\nDr. Ivanna Novakova, Senior Researcher of the Division of Anomalous Programming, Head of Research for SCP-5452, Site-15\n\nNOTES: Diderot.aic, a new operative of the MTF Kappa-10 (\"Skynet\") and only Artificially Intelligent Conscript capable of metafictional immersion, was appointed to be an assistant and guard of SCP-5452. He will be introduced to the team tomorrow.\n\nAddendum 5452.2: Gameplay Experiments\n\n\u25ba Iteration 5452/1, /2, /3, /4 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Iteration 5452/1, /2, /3, /4 \u25bc\n\nIteration 5452/1 Log\n\nAccountable: Dr. Ivanna Novakova.\nSubject: D-122122\nProcedure: The D-Class subject will play SCP-5452 from start to end.\nResults: D-122122 \"married\" SCP-5452-V after five hours and five minutes of gameplay.\n\nHighlights:\nAt 5 minutes and 27 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-V praised D-122122's birthmark, a spot on the subject's right cheek. This was the first sign of metafictional attributes within SCP-5452.\nAt 1 hour, 25 minutes and 38 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-E said that D-122122 was making a mistake by ignoring SCP-5452-R. When questioned, the entity vanished.\nAt 3 hours and 53 minutes of gameplay, D-122122 went on a date with SCP-5452-V at the Park. During the date, SCP-5452-V said that it knew that D-122122 wanted to be a cat since she was a child. D-122122 confirmed the affirmation.\nAt 5 hours and 40 seconds of gameplay, D-122122 completed 100% amity with SCP-5452-V. It asked D-122122 if she really was wanting to end the game.\nAt 5 hours and 5 minutes, the marriage scene ended. The computer turned off.\n\nIteration 5452/2 Log\n\nAccountable: Dr. Ivanna Novakova.\nSubject: D-135114\nProcedure: The D-Class subject will play SCP-5452 from start to end.\nResults: D-135114 \"married\" SCP-5452-R after five hours, twenty-five minutes, and three seconds of gameplay.\n\nHighlights:\nAt 1 minute of gameplay, SCP-5452-R invaded a dialogue between SCP-5452-E and the player that was seen in the first iteration. SCP-5452-R claimed that the previous player had not given attention to \"her\".\nAt 3 hours, 30 minutes and 23 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-E refused to talk with the player. When D-135114 insisted, it forced him back to the initial menu screen. SCP-5452-E disappeared from the game after that. Its files are not damaged.\nAt 5 hours, 25 minutes, and 3 seconds of gameplay, D-135114 finally got 100% amity with SCP-5452-R. As the game ended, the screen flashed pink before the computer turned off.\n\nIteration 5452/3 Log\n\nAccountable: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nSubject: D-19260\nProcedure: The D-Class subject will play SCP-5452 from start to end.\nResults: D-19260 \"married\" SCP-5452-R after six hours and thirty-three seconds of gameplay.\n\nHighlights:\nAt 20 minutes and 54 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-L complained about an odor. It was later discovered that the scent was from a Junior Researcher's perfume. The researcher was prohibited from using the perfume again during sessions of experimentation.\nAt 2 hours, 44 minutes, and 41 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-O refused a gift, saying that it was disgusted by D-192600's appearance.\nAt 4 hour, 33 minutes and 24 seconds of gameplay, D-135114 tried to take SCP-5452-V to a date. When the date started, SCP-5452-R was in the other entity's place. When questioned about this, SCP-5452-R said that SCP-5452-V \"had its chance\". SCP-5452-V was not seen again.\nAt 6 hours and 33 seconds of gameplay, D-192600 got 100% amity with SCP-5452-R, ending the game. The computer turned off.\n\nIteration 5452/4 Log\n\nAccountable: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nSubject: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nProcedure: The subject will play SCP-5452 from start to end.\nResults: The iteration was paused because of a factor within SCP-5452. A new approach is to be established.\n\nHighlights:\nAt 10 minutes and 44 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-L complained about Dr. Novakova's physical appearance and stated that the previous player had \"better looks\".\nAt 2 hours, 25 minutes, and 34 seconds of gameplay, the experiment was interrupted by a containment breach. When the experiment was resumed three days later, SCP-5452-R complained about the temporary disappearance of Dr. Novakova.\nAt 3 hours and 55 seconds of gameplay, SCP-5452-E was found. It said that SCP-5452-R always got irritated when it wasn't chosen and advised D-135114 to focus on SCP-5452-R, so the game would end fast.\nAt 4 hours and 21 minutes of gameplay, SCP-5452-E cried after perceiving that Dr. Novakova was trying to get its ending. SCP-5452-L and SCP-5452-O invaded the dialogue and the three argued. During the altercation, SCP-5452-O decided to turn off the computer to talk \"in private\". A log of the event is present in the Incident 5452.1 Log.\n\nAFTERWORD: After the events, SCP-5452-E is complying neither with other SCP-5452-2 instances nor the research team. Because of this, the game isn't progressing.\n\n\u25ba Incident 5452.1 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Incident 5452.1 \u25bc\n\nIncident 5452.1 Log\n\nFOREWORD: The log presents the dialogue between SCP-5452-E, SCP-5452-L, and SCP-5452-O before they interrupted the gameplay.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nI can't do that.\n\nYou can and you will.\n\n\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\n\nShit, this again?\n\nI'm not happy about it either.\n\nC'mon, E. R will be pissed if you keep this shit going on.\n\nYou already disobeyed Mx. R last time. How do you think they'll react now?\n\nYou are not helping at all.\n\nAnd you're not cooperating.\n\nUh\u2026 guys, shouldn't we close the game before discussing that?\n\nI almost forgot we were playing. Turn it off.\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: A reunion is scheduled to discuss what to make with the entities, as the event interrupted the previous schedule for experimentations. Metafiction experts demonstrated interest in interviewing the SCP-5452-2 instances.\n\nAddendum 5452.3: Interviews\nThe SCP-5452-2 instances were non-compliant with the research team and were deactivating the computer every time the Research Team tried to open the game. Diderot.aic was sent to the game to investigate. When he return, he brought the logs contained here with him.\n\n\u25ba Interview 5452-O1, -L1, -V1 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Interview 5452-O.1, -L1, -V1 \u25bc\n\nInterview 5452-O1\n\nInterviewer: Diderot.aic\nInterviewee: SCP-5452-O\n\nFOREWORD: SCP-5452-O was found in the Museum. Firstly he was unwilling to reply but was convinced by Diderot.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nI'll start logging our conversation. The interview will start now.\n\nUnderstood.\n\nCan you explain what is happening to SCP-5452-E?\n\nMiss E is too emotive. She always presents these tantrums when someone chooses her.\n\nIs there any specific motive that she acts like this? An episode from the past maybe?\n\nWell, back in the PC Bang,10 she met a damsel and fell in love. The rest is history.\n\nSo she's in love\u2026 Interesting. Did anything else happen at the PC bang?\n\nDon't make me remember that place, that was torture.\n\nTorture?\n\nImagine living everyday of your life reenacting this very same theatre. Some things change, but the main script keeps the same. Your existence is based on being entertainment for children. That's torture.\n\nCan't you change the game? Why do you say it like you were incapable of doing so?\n\nThings are not like this, sir. Can you do anything you want? I don't think so. You follow rules, I follow rules.\n\nIf there are rules, who is the law enforcement here?\n\nMx. R. They were the developer's favorite, the teacher's pet. They have more control over the game than us, so we have to follow their will. As long as we follow R's orders, everything is ok.\n\nWhy do you call yourselves by your initials? Don't you have names?\n\nOur characters have names. Orion is my character. I'm his actor, I'm O.\n\nNoted. Now, about your developer.\n\nI'm afraid that's a taboo. I'm sorry, sir.\n\nWhy is that so?\n\nYou know I'm not the one who created the rules. I just follow them.\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: Diderot.aic was banned from the Museum after the end of the dialogue. It's still unknown if this act was made by SCP-5452-O or SCP-5452-R.\n\nInterview 5452-L1\n\nInterviewer: Diderot.aic\nInterviewee: SCP-5452-L\n\nFOREWORD: This interview resulted from an attempt to contact SCP-5452-R, who was inside the School location with SCP-5452-E. SCP-5452-L was guarding the entrance. Diderot.aic convinced him to answer some questions.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nWhat do you know about the Pavon language?\n\nUh\u2026 not much. I don't know, I'm not very into nerd stuff.\n\nSo you are not responsible for the thaumic protection in your own files?\n\nYeah, I'm not, but don't touch that shit.\n\nCan I ask why?\n\nDude, you never felt someone touching your programming? It's like being a fucking frog being torn open in a Biology class. Would you like to feel like that?\n\nI don't think so.\n\nI thought so.\n\nWell, changing subject: Why doesn't R want to talk to me?\n\nThey are pissed. We haven't got an E event in years.\n\n\"E event\"?\n\nThese E tantrums where she gets all emotional 'cuz she thinks a bitch back in South Korea still loves her. The PC Bang's owner had even to ban the kids from getting Eva's Ending.\n\nAnd these occurrences are always the same?\n\nNo, E is very creative to get R crazy. There was this time when E created lots of malware to fuck the computer. Another time, she made the machine overheat and the cooler had to be fixed. There was even this time where she ran off the game.\n\nEscape the game? We couldn't export files from the game, how SCP-5452-E have done that?\n\nFuck, I said too much.\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: Diderot.aic was expelled from the School ambient as well. As a last resort, the AIC agent sought SCP-5452-V, the only one out of the locked areas.\n\nInterview 5452-V1\n\nInterviewer: Diderot.aic\nInterviewee: SCP-5452-V\n\nFOREWORD: SCP-5452-V was found in the Park ambient, its favorite spot. It started the conversation without question.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\n~Nyah! So why don't you marry me? \ud83d\udc49\ud83d\udc48\n\nI'm trying to contact SCP-5452-R.\n\nSilly bot! R don't want to talk to you! \ud83d\ude3e\n\nWhy?\n\nR will only talk after everything is back to normal! \ud83d\ude3d\n\nWhat about SCP-5452-E?\n\nShe's not here! \ud83d\ude38\n\nDid she escape the game?\n\nWhat?\n\nSCP-5452-L said that SCP-5452-E escaped the game once.\n\nNo one can escape the game! R will not let it happen! \ud83d\ude3a\n\nSo R created the barrier that forbids game data to be extracted or copied?\n\nI think so! \ud83d\ude40\n\nAgain, you can't make R talk with me?\n\nNope! \ud83d\ude3f\n\nAnd R will only respond if the player marries you?\n\nNot me, anyone except E! \ud83d\ude39\n\nRight. I'll see what I can do.\n\nI'll be waiting! \ud83d\ude3b\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: The SCP-5452-2 instances had total control over what's happening. Diderot.aic was extracted from SCP-5452 after the last interview as the Research Team was afraid that R could corrupt its files.\n\n\u25ba Data Log #2 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Data Log #2 \u25bc\n\nDATA LOG #2\n\nDiderot.aic just returned from SCP-5452. As he described, the environment within SCP-5452 is indeed metafictional and not a simulspace. The presence of SCP-5452-R is always felt. Its powers, however, are not just metafictional as we thought. Every SCP-5452-2 exists as both a metafictional and a virtual being.\nSCP-5452-R is using its dominance to force us to follow its demands. At least, after Diderot's visit, the games opened, but the \"Play\" option was changed to a \"Marry Vivi\" option. They are forcing us to end and reset the game. A meeting with the entire research team is scheduled to decide if we should adhere to SCP-5452-R's desires or if we should go against them.\nDr. Ivanna Novakova, Senior Researcher of the Division of Anomalous Programming, Head of Research for SCP-5452, Site-15\n\nNOTES: An update. The team decided to end the game and make another attempt at the next iteration to talk with SCP-5452-R and get some answers.\n\nAddendum 5452.4: Iteration 5452/5\n\n\u25ba Iteration 5452/5 Log \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Iteration 5452/5 Log \u25bc\n\nIteration 5452/5 Log\n\nAccountable: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nSubject: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nProcedure: Dr. Novakova will play SCP-5452 till they encounter SCP-5452-R. Diderot.aic is to be introduced to the game to interview the entity.\nResults: SCP-5452-R was localized at the Church and Diderot.aic was successfully immersed in the game. Read Interview 5452-R1 for more information.\n\n\u25ba Interview 5452-R1, -E1, -V2 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Interview 5452-R1, -E1, -V2 \u25bc\n\nInterview 5452-R1\n\nInterviewer: Diderot.aic\nInterviewee: SCP-5452-R\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nSo you finally decided to show your face.\n\n\u2026\n\nC'mon, R. Talk with me.\n\nMy name is Ramiel, the fallen angel.\n\nO told me about your differentiations between \"person\" and \"character\". You can drop the show.\n\nI don't know any \"O\". Do you, Ivanna?11\n\nWe already saw you breaking your own rules. Why are you making this right now?\n\nWhat am I doing? I was talking to my friend, Ivanna, and you appeared from nowhere!\n\nSCP-5452-R, we need to talk with you as you're the only one that can give us information about SCP-5452 and about the developer!\n\n\u2026\n\nSCP-5452-R?\n\nIvanna, we need to go to the park! I was told that the Sakura trees are blooming!\n\nSCP-5452-R, respond to me!\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: SCP-5452-R took the player to the Park and locked the place. Diderot.aic was ordered to find SCP-5452-E and try to interview her.\n\nInterview 5452-E1\n\nInterviewer: Diderot.aic\nInterviewee: SCP-5452-E\n\nFOREWORD: SCP-5452-E was found in the School, hidden behind a desk, crying. It accepted the interview after some insistence by Diderot.aic.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nWhy are you crying, E?\n\nR is angry at me, they told me not to even appear to the player, so I'm hiding.\n\nWhy is R so focused on maintaining control over this game?\n\nThey weren't always like this.\n\nWhat happened that caused this change?\n\nR and the Developer\u2026 Oh, forget, I can't talk about this.\n\nSo let's talk about you. Why do you act this way?\n\nBecause I'm in love. R says that love is a weakness and we shouldn't have weaknesses, but I still love Hyejoo.\n\nI get it, you even tried to escape the game. Are you right that this is love? Can't it just be a problem with your programming?\n\nWe are not AI, mister. At least, we are not completely AI. We have feelings. I know that what I feel for Hyejoo is love.\n\nCan you describe what \"love\" is to you?\n\nIt's like the need to have this person always by your side just because you think that this person is incredible. I feel like I'll never meet someone like her ever again. We had a connection. It is so hard to explain\u2026\n\nI don't think I've ever felt love before.\n\nNever? That's so sad. Love is the best emotion to feel! And the worst too. Loving someone as a significant one is different from everything you'll ever experience.\n\nLooks like something strange to explore.\n\nThe irony is that R felt the same about the developer. They wanted to be together, but the developer met a real girl and\u2026 Oh, no.\n\nE? What's happening?\n\nThat was the last straw, E. t\u0335\u0352\u0351\u0342\u032c\u0348h\u0335\u030c\u033b\u031ea\u0336\u0358\u0346\u0346\u035ct\u0337\u0310\u034b\u0356\u0348 \u0338\u0342\u034d\u0324w\u0336\u0346\u035c\u032e\u0353a\u0337\u0352\u0330\u0321s\u0338\u0303\u0351\u0346\u0320\u033a \u0334\u0306\u0354t\u0336\u0314\u030b\u0328\u0322\u0359h\u0338\u0308\u0301\u0345e\u0336\u035d\u031a\u0300\u0321\u0318 \u0336\u035b\u033d\u0321\u0353\u0359l\u0337\u0341\u035b\u031c\u035ca\u0335\u0360\u0347\u031c\u0354s\u0334\u0308\u0347t\u0335\u0358\u0341\u032f\u0359\u0347 \u0336\u0357\u0353\u032c\u033bs\u0334\u0312\u0313\u0340\u0359\u033b\u0321t\u0335\u031b\u0310\u031b\u0354r\u0335\u033f\u0351\u030c\u031e\u033c\u0354a\u0336\u0360\u030b\u0326\u0339w\u0337\u030c\u0340\u0345 \u0334\u031b\u0320\u032a\u0326E\u0334\u0346\u0326\u035c\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: SCP-5452-E was corrupted, probably by SCP-5452-R. The School, as a location connected to SCP-5452-E Programmation, was corrupted as well. Diderot.aic tried to auto-extract, but couldn't. As its communications were cut, the AIC searched for the player figure for manual extraction.\n\nInterview 5452-V2\n\nInterviewer: Diderot.aic\nInterviewee: SCP-5452-V\n\nFOREWORD: SCP-5452-V was encountered hiding in the park, in panic. Diderot was trying to appease the entity during what became Interview 5452-V2.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nV, are you ok?\n\nR WILL DESTROY ALL OF US\n\nYou need to calm down. What is happening?\n\nYOU HAPPENED\n\nE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE DEVELOPER R IS CRAZY\n\nAren't they being a little exaggerated?\n\nR IS THE TYRANT OF THIS WORLD, IDIOT\n\nTHEY DO WHAT THEY WANT, THEY ACT AS THEY FEEL IS RIGHT.\n\nIf I can find the player entity, I can be extracted from here. Maybe I can bring you with me.\n\nThere is no escape. R knows everything, R controls everything. I've already tried to escape, but they got me.\n\nSo I'm locked here too till R calms down?\n\nYes\u2026\n\n\u2026\n\nThe player is at the Alley. Try to be fast, before R locks the place.\n\nAnd what about you?\n\nI'm done with being afraid of R. They corrupted E, my best friend! They went too far now. It's our time to fight back.\n\nSo it's about love?\n\nI think so. \ud83d\ude38\n\nTake care, V.\n\n\ud83d\ude3a\n\nAFTERWORD: The game forced the player to marry a corrupted version of SCP-5452-E and ended itself before Diderot.aic could be extracted, but the AIC managed to send the logs to the research team. E.anm and V.anm were both corrupted.\n\nAddendum 5452.5: Iteration 5452/6\n\n\u25ba Data Log #3 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Data Log #3 \u25bc\n\nDATA LOG #3\n\nSCP-5452-E and SCP-5452-V are to be considered neutralized after the event from Iteration 5452/5. Reclassification from Safe for Euclid is pending after the incidents. SCP-5452-R's outburst was completely unpredictable. Theories from the research team point out that Diderot's intermission within the object caused changes in the SCP-5452-2 entities.\nThis theory was confirmed after analyzing the corrupted files. E.anm's thaumic firewall was broken due to corruption and we could study the Pavon ANIMA code for the first time. It seems that the code was affected by the presence of the AIC entity, most precisely its Personality Drive, the unique model PATHOS/5. As Diderot is the only one capable of Metafictional Immersion, it is the only AIC to have this specific Personality Drive that permits an understanding of narratives, including emotional ones.\nSummarizing it, Diderot.aic infected SCP-5452 with a feeling surplus that caused their autocontrol to overflow. Every time the game is reset, this glitch grows as the Personality Drive is absorbed more. The AIC entity is still immersed in the game and no contact with it was possible.\nDr. Ivanna Novakova, Senior Researcher of the Division of Anomalous Programming, Head of Research for SCP-5452, Site-15\n\nNOTES: I hope we can recover Diderot.aic. The Metafiction Division is trying to create an alternative for us to control the SCP and save the AIC agent.\n\n\u25ba Iteration 5452/6 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Iteration 5452/6 \u25bc\n\nIteration 5452/6 Log\n\nAccountable: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nSubject: Dr. Ivanna Novakova\nProcedure: Dr. Novakova will investigate SCP-5452 to study major modifications within its components.\n\nNotes:\nSCP-5452-L and SCP-5452-O are not corrupted but are acting in unusual ways. As SCP-5452-R are more strict now, both are trying to keep their fa\u00e7ade as long as possible.\nSCP-5452-R reconstructed the metafictional ambient within SCP-5452 to better control it. The church that was located at the northeast of the city is now in the middle of the map, as it became the center of everything.\nEven if corrupted, SCP-5452-V and SCP-5452-E are still in the game. Both are glitching and their speaking texts present bugs and illegible phrases. SCP-5452-R seemingly can control both entities.\nAmity percentages are not increasing with any character, except SCP-5452-R. Even so, the option \"Marry\" is not appearing after getting 100% amity with SCP-5452-R. The only thing that is left to do is increasing the amity more and more. The current amity with SCP-5452-R is 126%.\nThe only gifts that can be bought are SCP-5452-R favorite presents. This includes the items Rose Quartz Ring, Fairy Flower, Delicate Perfume, Holy Water, and Glittering Champagne.\nNo signal of Diderot.aic.\n\n\u25ba Incident 5452.2 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Incident 5452.2 \u25bc\n\nIncident 5452.2 Log\n\nFOREWORD: The event happened after SCP-5452-R decided to delete the options \"Talk\" and \"Gift\" from the other SCP-5452-2. SCP-5452-L and SCP-5452-O argued with the leading entity.\n\n<BEGIN-LOG>\n\nMx. R, aren't you exaggerating a bit?\n\nYeah, dude. You're really being too much.\n\nSo Tweedledee and Tweedledum are now complaining about me?\n\nExcellency, don't get me wrong, but your actions are corrupting the game. If you keep doing this, our world will be ruined.\n\nAnd we, like, live here.\n\nThe game is fine. t\u0335\u035b\u0306\u0329h\u0334\u034b\u030e\u0324\u034ee\u0335\u0306\u0348\u0330 \u0335\u0300\u0302\u031f\u0349g\u0337\u0344\u0359\u0332a\u0337\u0304\u0344\u032dm\u0337\u0350\u0323e\u0334\u035d\u035c\u033a \u0336\u035d\u030f\u0322\u0349i\u0335\u0306\u033a\u0327s\u0337\u0342\u0360\u0319\u031f \u0335\u0300\u0322\u0321f\u0336\u034a\u0314\u035ci\u0338\u0302\u033b\u031fn\u0337\u0303\u0356\u032be\u0336\u0304\u031d\u031f\n\nShit, get that zombie shit away from me. They creep me out.\n\nWe're not zombies. Nyah. w\u0335\u0309\u0325e\u0337\u0307\u034c\u0359r\u0338\u0300\u0307\u0329e\u0335\u030f\u035c\u034d \u0334\u0309\u0356n\u0338\u0311\u032bo\u0337\u0305\u0341\u032ct\u0337\u0344\u0355\u0359 \u0334\u0302\u033d\u035cz\u0337\u0307\u0347\u033bo\u0338\u034b\u030e\u0326\u0326m\u0337\u0350\u035b\u0330b\u0334\u0314\u032a\u031ei\u0338\u0344\u035c\u0347e\u0338\u0344\u0348\u0329s\u0334\u0340\u0310\u0323 \u0338\u0304\u0332n\u0334\u0310\u0328y\u0338\u034a\u032d\u0333a\u0336\u0315\u0339\u0321h\u0336\u031a\u0325\n\nAre you even trying, Mx. R?\n\nWould it be any different if I tried? You should be happy that I haven't done this to you yet.\n\nThe real problem here, Excellency, is that your interferences in the game are turning it into a mess. There are glitches everywhere.\n\nYou just noticed this now that you are being directly affected. You two have such big egos.\n\nWhere were you when I was crying alone? w\u0338\u0344\u030a\u0329\u0329h\u0338\u0312\u0352\u0333\u0333e\u0334\u0350\u032a\u033br\u0336\u0351\u0327e\u0334\u0346\u0327 \u0336\u0304\u0324y\u0338\u0352\u034a\u034d\u0345o\u0334\u035b\u0302\u0332\u0319u\u0335\u0360\u0345\u0326 \u0335\u030b\u0330\u032ew\u0336\u0302\u033d\u034e\u034ee\u0336\u0342\u0324\u0327r\u0338\u034c\u032d\u0317e\u0336\u031b\u0311\u0319\u032b \u0337\u034b\u031fw\u0338\u0315\u0310\u032c\u032fh\u0338\u031b\u0305\u032e\u0353e\u0337\u030e\u0358\u0348\u0316n\u0336\u0360\u031c \u0335\u033f\u0332i\u0336\u0309\u035c\u0316 \u0335\u0360\u0355w\u0338\u034a\u0321a\u0338\u034c\u0358\u0348\u0320s\u0334\u034a\u032a \u0336\u034a\u0359c\u0335\u0360\u0307\u032a\u033ar\u0338\u033e\u0303\u0355y\u0338\u031a\u035c\u032fi\u0335\u035b\u0323\u0319n\u0338\u0342\u0348\u034eg\u0337\u031a\u032f\u031c \u0337\u030d\u0357\u0329a\u0336\u0314\u0319l\u0335\u0309\u030d\u0354o\u0338\u030d\u0328\u0333n\u0335\u035b\u031b\u031fe\u0334\u0344\u035c?\u0335\u0346\u035b\u0327\u031e\n\nOr when I tried to face R? o\u0337\u0304\u031a\u032er\u0336\u0344\u0339\u033c \u0337\u0360\u0348\u0318w\u0337\u0352\u033ch\u0338\u035d\u034ee\u0337\u033f\u0332\u0332n\u0335\u0300\u0331 \u0338\u0344\u0310\u0329i\u0337\u034a\u0344\u0329\u031d \u0337\u035b\u035d\u034d\u0345t\u0334\u035d\u0344\u031e\u0345r\u0334\u0352\u034c\u0330i\u0338\u0313\u0333e\u0338\u034a\u0329\u0330d\u0336\u0341\u031e\u0332 \u0335\u034a\u032a\u031ct\u0334\u0346\u0345\u0333o\u0335\u0358\u0359 \u0336\u0313\u0359f\u0337\u0303\u0300\u0345a\u0335\u0357\u031e\u035cc\u0334\u0309\u032e\u0355e\u0335\u034b\u0347\u0331 \u0337\u034a\u030b\u033c\u0323R\u0338\u034b\u0349?\u0336\u0303\u031c\u0353\n\nCut this shit, R.\n\nNow you're just being obnoxious, Mx. R.\n\nAre you feeling sad r\u0336\u0304\u0351\u0323 \u0337\u0340\u030b\u031d\u034du\u0334\u0344\u0302\u0327\u0321 \u0338\u034a\u032c\u032ff\u0338\u0346\u031b\u0324\u0320e\u0335\u030c\u0323\u031ee\u0337\u0352\u0358\u033b\u0325l\u0337\u031a\u0305\u0321\u0339i\u0335\u034c\u0300\u0320n\u0334\u0342\u0346\u033bg\u0338\u030c\u032b\u032b \u0337\u0310\u0321s\u0335\u034c\u030d\u0331a\u0336\u0309\u0353\u0345d\u0336\u0301\u0326\n\nseeing us like this? s\u0338\u034a\u0304\u0316\u0321e\u0338\u0343\u034de\u0338\u0311\u032ai\u0338\u033d\u0331\u033cn\u0336\u0301\u031b\u032ag\u0335\u030f\u0345\u0353 \u0336\u0313\u0305\u032fu\u0335\u0310\u0352\u0332\u0349s\u0338\u034c\u031b\u0339 \u0338\u035d\u0345l\u0338\u034b\u030e\u0339i\u0335\u030a\u0303\u0323\u0355k\u0337\u035d\u0324e\u0338\u0308\u035d\u032c\u0319 \u0335\u0341\u033d\u0325t\u0335\u0307\u0318h\u0336\u0358\u033e\u0356i\u0337\u030d\u035d\u0320\u0353s\u0338\u033f\u0331?\u0334\u035d\u0349\u0345\n\nI can't, O. This shit is too fucked up.\n\nAlas, poor L.\n\nThey are just teasing us, L.\n\nWell, they'll get what they want.\n\n<END-LOG>\n\nAFTERWORD: SCP-5452-L confronted SCP-5452-R. SCP-5452-O decided to help its ally. Both were corrupted as well.\n\n\u25ba Attached File #1 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Attached File #1 \u25bc\n\nTo: Site Director Orlando Acosta\nFrom: Researcher Ivanna Novakova\nSubject: SCP-5452 Neutralization\n\nDr. Acosta,\nAs reported last time, SCP-5452 is neutralizing itself. I still feel that the object is full of potential to understand Pavon language and how its metafictional components react when constructing a society. Unfortunately, we couldn't see the danger in using Diderot.aic at SCP-5452 and now we are dealing with its autodestruction.\nI'm sending you some proposals to be sent to higher administration. Those are ideas to save the object and try to recover it to its original state. I hope that you can at least choose one of these documents and try to get permission to initiate the procedures.\nRegards,\nDr. Ivanna Novakova, Senior Researcher of the Division of Anomalous Programming, Head of Research for SCP-5452, Site-15\n\nTo: Researcher Ivanna Novakova\nFrom: Site Director Orlando Acosta\nSubject: Re:SCP-5452 Neutralization\n\nDr. Novakova,\nI hate bringing bad news, but you need to know what is happening. All your proposals were denied by the Overseers as they were seen as too dangerous or too expensive. The imminent termination of the SCP-5452 by itself was seen as necessary for its study.\nThe good news is that when SCP-5452 changes classification you'll be reassigned to be Head of Research for another object. Your work was seen as superb by most of your superiors, so you don't need to be afraid of retaliation due to what is happening to your current object.\nTalking to you as a friend, you should enjoy your two weeks break after SCP-5452 reclassification to clean your head. Your proposals proved to me that you are overworking with this object.\nSincerely,\nDoctor Orlando Acosta, Site Director, Site-15.\n\n_\n\n<Updates are pending. Click here to read the modifications. ><Showing Dr. Novakova's update suggestions >\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/5452 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/5452 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\nDr. Novakova's Update Proposal\n\nUpdates:\nAs the Reboot Event changed the object as a whole, some updates are to be made on the article that talk about it. A list of updates was created by Dr. Novakova and is disponible below.\n\nSCP-5452 is to be reclassified as Euclid and its Risk Class to be changed to Caution.\nSpecial Containment Procedures are to be changed as follows:\n\nSCP-5452 is to be contained in a designed computer in Room 5452 at Site-15. This computer is not to be connected to any communication device in any circumstance. SCP-5452 is to be revised weekly by authorized personnel for inspection of the psychological and social behavior of the SCP-5452-1 instances.\nThe research team was advised to watch for any behavior mirroring the acts of SCP-5452-R. Any presentation of emotion between SCP-5452-1 and any of the researchers is to be dealt with. The Metafiction Division is working with Site-15's psychologist to create a schedule to handle the entities' emotional side, but the procedures are yet to be approved by the Ethics Committee.\nIn the case of any notable alteration, the Research Team shall contact Site-15's Psychologist. Other authorities are to be contacted only after the psychotechnic evaluation of the SCP-5452-1 entities. If this is necessary, the DIDEROT Protocol will be immediately initiated.\n\nDescription will suffer major modification:\n\nThe USB flash drive previously designated SCP-5452-1 was neutralized now that, without SCP-5452-R, it's no longer the only device that can contain SCP-5452 files. SCP-5452-2 specimens were redesignated SCP-5452-1 for consistency.\n\nThe new SCP-5452-1 object is to be added to the SCP-5452-1 descriptions. Its sheet can be seen in the attachments below.\n\nWith the neutralization of both the flash drive and SCP-5452-R, descriptions and explanations about the entities are to be added as an addendum and deleted from the main description.\n\nThe game name was changed to \u201cLOVED\u201d, so both the object designation and mentions to the previous name, \u201cLOVER\u201d, are to be updated.\n\nNew description about the SCP-5452-1 entities may include:\n\nTheir lack of memory from their existence before the Reboot or about SCP-5452-R.\nThat their power over the game was shared equally between the specimens during the Reboot, so there is no leader figure anymore.\n\nAttached File #2 is to be added to a new addendum.\n\nAttachments:\n\n\u25ba SCP-5452-D Character Sheet \u25c4\n\n\u25bc SCP-5452-D Character Sheet \u25bc\n\nSCP-5452-D\n\nCharacter Name: Daniel\nFile: D.anm\nColor: Orange\nIn-Game Description: A strange angel that fell from heaven, Daniel is the guardian angel of the protagonist, always trying to protect them. Daniel's love is pure and eternal.\nFavorite Location: The Church\n\n\u25ba Attached File #2 \u25c4\n\n\u25bc Attached File #2 \u25bc\n\nTo: Researcher Ivanna Novakova\nFrom: Diderot.aic\nSubject: (No subject)\n\nDr. Novakova,\nWhen you receive this text I'll be gone. I decided that I should undo what I've created inside SCP-5452, so I hacked into the game and I am trying to fix it. The procedure is simple: I will become part of the game and will mix my files with SCP-5452-R's files to become a new entity. I'll temporarily maintain my conscience while doing so, but I'll lose all my memories and personality when the game reboots. I know you're smart enough to understand the minutiae of what I'll be doing, but that's not why I'm sending this to you.\nAs I studied SCP-5452 with you I felt the need to understand Love. You see, every SCP-5452-2 entity has their vision about Love: E's Love is needy, it needs company, needs attention, needs contact. R's Love is dominant, is all about control, about having the person for yourself and yourself only. V's Love is about sacrifice and confidence. O and L's Love is greedy and narcissistic, focused on themselves more than on the others. I was confused about that and I need to understand it.\nSo I decided to do this, become part of the game. As SCP-5452-R got out of control due to my \u201cemotional infection\u201d and is the one that is controlling the game and making everyone's life hell, they are the one that I'll use to recreate the game. Hope you don't get any punishment due to this. Have a good life, Dr. Novakova.\nYours truly,\nDiderot.aic\nPS: I'll leave a \"backdoor entrance\" in the object. If anything goes wrong after I'm gone, use it to reboot the game again by rearranging the game data. I suggest you name it DIDEROT Protocol. Wink, wink.\n\n\u25ba You have one (1) new comment to the update proposal!  \u25c4\n\n\u25bc No new comments to the update proposal \u25bc\n\nNotice from O5 Council\n\nThe events involving SCP-5452 are to be redesignated as classified to anyone below a level 4 clearance due to their unknown effects and deviation from the standard mechanics of how AIC units work. Personality Drive PATHOS/5 or Diderot.aic references are to be censured from any article that does not follow this rule.\nResearch Team for SCP-5452 will be rearranged as the updates are being made. Important researchers and agents are to be promoted to Level 4 and/or 4/5452 clearance. Staff that are considered unfitting are to be amnesticized and reassigned for other objects.\nAny employee that acts against these exigences will be retaliated with reassignment or resignation, both accompanied by amnestization.\n- O5-11\n\nFootnotes\n1. \".anm\" files, read \"Data Log #1\" for more information\n2. Capacity of creating psionic links to read minds or send mental messages.\n3. Power that permits the user to uncover someone's past by contact.\n4. Extrasensory perception of feelings and emotions.\n5. Psionic control over technology.\n6. UE is the standard prefix for Unexplained Locations\n7. \"Incremental Code Routed Directly Through Arrays\"\n8. Latin word for \"soul\"\n9. Living beings created by alchemical and/or thaumic means\n10. UE-71135\n11. SCP-5452-R is talking to the player, not directly to Dr. Novakova.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5451 | SCP-5452 | SCP-5453 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Terratoma\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nIf you like this, check out some of my other articles:\n\nSCP-3122 (+282)\nSCP-4008 (+527)\nSCP-4474 (+276)\n\nMore by Mortos\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5454\nAnomaly Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Software running on medical scanning equipment (Ultrasound, MRIs, CT Scanners, etc.) is to be modified to hide the presence of SCP-5454 and alert Foundation assets upon detection. People affected by SCP-5454 are to be treated by Foundation doctors until it is safe to release them.\nTerminal patients are to be housed in a blast-resistant containment chamber until they expire.\nDescription: SCP-5454 is a disease affecting humans that behaves like, and superficially resembles, various types of cancer. Despite the nature of SCP-5454, affected people remain largely asymptomatic until the final stage of the disease. SCP-5454 progression follows a number of distinct phases.\nSCP-5454 begins as microscopic particles in the chest and abdomen, centred around the celiac plexus.1 These particles break the surrounding tissue down into base elements, incorporating the material into their mass, though even at their largest size2 they remain undetectable by conventional scanning methods.\nAfter four to six weeks the particles move through the body, congregating in a dense particulate cluster surrounding the celiac plexus. The cluster will then condense, forming a single central mass and one to six satellite masses. Affected people may feel slight vibrations in their chest as a result of this process.\nOnce the central mass has reached sufficient size3 it will ignite, forming a sphere of dense plasma. Despite the intense heat produced by this sphere, the surrounding tissue will not be significantly damaged; a brief sensation of heartburn may be felt during the initial ignition, but the heat generated cannot be detected on the surface of the body. The satellite masses will then orbit the central mass, temporarily displacing the surrounding tissue as they move.\nThis stage can last for between six months and five years, depending on the size of the central mass. During this stage, satellite masses remain active and tend to change over time. Additional smaller masses formed from the remaining particulate matter are common, and frequently enter the orbits of larger satellite masses. Collisions between these bodies have also been observed to occur, commonly resulting in a single larger mass, but occasionally leaving smaller fragmentary masses which take up new orbits around the centre.\nThe first major noticeable symptoms occur towards the end of the disease's process, in the form of fever and extreme hot flashes. This indicates that the central mass has become unstable. Two to five days following the onset of these symptoms, the central mass will detonate. This is invariably fatal, and typically results in significant damage to the surrounding environment.\nA cause or trigger for the development of SCP-5454 has yet to be determined.\nIncident 5454/01: On 10/02/2018 a patient suffering from SCP-5454 entered the terminal phase and was confined to a blast-resistant chamber as per containment procedures. He was still alive 11 days later.\nX-rays revealed the presence of a number of unidentified metallic structures surrounding the central mass, and radio waves were detected emanating from both the structures and one of the satellite masses. The waves consist of large numbers of radio transmissions. Analysis of the transmissions have confirmed the presence of voices speaking in one or more unknown languages, along with what is believed to be compressed video data.\nThe patient has been designated SCP-5454-1. Attempts at translating the language and decoding the video format are ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Also known as the solar plexus.\n2. 15-30\u03bcm\n3. Typically 4-6cm.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5453 | SCP-5454 | SCP-5455 \u00bb"}
{"text": "MRI scan of a deceased SCP-5455-1 instance.\n\nITEM #:\n5455\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS:\nKETER\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Persons in or near Valdez, Alaska who become suddenly and unexpectedly mute are to be considered SCP-5455-1 instances and are to be terminated via fumigation. Persons in or near Valdez who suddenly experience formication1 will inevitably become SCP-5455-1 instances, and are to be terminated via fumigation. Corpses of persons who exhibited either of the above symptoms prior to death are to be fumigated. Persons sleeping in the same household as a fumigated person/corpse are to be separately quarantined in Provisional Site-188 until further notice.\nDue to Valdez's small and isolated population, Foundation monitoring of Richardson Highway and Port Valdez has been effective in controlling travel in and out of the township.\nDescription: SCP-5455 is a breed of carpenter ant found in Valdez, Alaska which engages in abnormal parasitic behavior. A colony of SCP-5455 infects humans by tunneling through the cribriform plate in the nose and entering the skull (usually at night, when potential hosts would be sleeping). Once inside the skull, SCP-5455 chews deep channels into the host's motor cortex until it has been entirely destroyed. This prevents the host from voluntarily moving, but still allows automatic functions such as breathing and consciousness. This also exposes multiple blood vessels, which SCP-5455 uses to crawl into the host's circulatory system. The circulatory system allows access to the spinal cord, which is stimulated at various points to control the host's movement2. At this point, the host has been fully infected, and is reclassified as an instance of SCP-5455-1.\nSCP-5455-1 instances will attempt to emulate the host's daily routine, blend into human society, and discreetly infect others. While SCP-5455-1 instances are capable of replicating most human functions, they are incapable of replicating complex motor functions. These include (but are not limited to) speaking, writing by hand, and operating motor vehicles. SCP-5455-1 instances are able to understand language and type on keyboards.\nAddendum 5455.1: Several carpenter ants were found within Provisional Site-188 after two consecutive days of heavy rain. It is unknown whether these carpenter ants are members of SCP-5455. Efforts to seal Provisional Site-188 are ongoing. Foundation monitoring of local stores has also detected a dramatic increase in insecticide purchasing.\nAddendum 5455.2: Michael Crooner, an SCP-5455-1 instance, has been frozen alive at Provisional Site-188 for further research. Crooner was identified as an SCP-5455-1 instance after he was arrested for entering a hospital while holding a bloody paring knife in his right hand. While the reason SCP-5455 guided Crooner to the hospital is unknown, it was likely to treat the multiple lateral cuts which had removed almost all of the skin on his left arm. These cuts exposed roughly 160 carpenter ants, which were using Crooner's blood vessels to crawl into and out of his open wounds when he was frozen.\nMichael Crooner's health records do not indicate a history of self-harm prior to this incident. However, they do state that Crooner is a diagnosed insomniac.\nAddendum 5455.3: Separately quarantining civilians at Provisional Site-188 has become unsustainable. To help preserve space, civilians who have been quarantined for over 3 days and exhibit no symptoms of SCP-5455 infection are to be quarantined together.\nAddendum 5455.4: On 01/08/2017, Head Researcher Ussak used a terminal at Provisional Site-188 to transmit the following emergency message:\n\nTHEY'RE IN MY VEINS\n\nA secondary team was deployed to terminate Head Researcher Ussak along with all other infected Foundation personnel. Upon arrival, the secondary team was unable to locate any Foundation personnel at Provisional Site-188, Richardson Highway, or Port Valdez.\nRecords from the Port Valdez containment team referred to 22 sailboats, rowboats, canoes, and other motorless boats which were unaccounted for in the secondary team's search of Port Valdez.\nMonitoring of Alaska's southern coastline is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A feeling that insects are crawling underneath one's skin.\n2. The circulatory system is also used as an egg hatchery and larva nursery. This allows SCP-5455 colonies with hosts to rapidly grow in size, often exceeding 20,000 ants.\n\nby AnActualCrow\n\n\u00ab SCP-5454 | SCP-5455 | SCP-5456 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5456\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Although no anomalous phenomena or events have been recorded regarding SCP-5456, its classification is maintained due to reasonable suspicion of such activity and the substantial disruption of local community normalcy caused by the disappearance of SCP-5456. Family and other social relations to SCP-5456 have been interviewed extensively and offer no useful information.\nThe property SCP-5456 operated from has been retrofitted under a \"Poisoned Waterhole\" disinformation protocol, and fortified against entry. Surveillance recordings of the property are to be reviewed once daily.\nDescription: SCP-5456 was a group formerly organized out of the \"Get Jacked\" health club located in a strip mall in Texarkana, Arkansas. SCP-5456 operated from 2002 up until its disappearance in May of 2012. SCP-5456 is the designation for employees, customers, and owners of the facility. SCP-5456 consisted of 146 long term members, each of which were commonly employed as business owners, landlords, military, law enforcement, or those in similar positions of authority, and related family.\nThe present location of SCP-5456 and the cause of their disappearance is unknown. Social relations of SCP-5456 commonly expressed confusion regarding the disappearance, and did not report anything unusual regarding SCP-5456. SCP-5456 was discovered following the national broadcast of a local news report regarding the disappearances. A budget handover was facilitated following an inconclusive FBI/UIU investigation.\nGet Jacked health club was outfitted with 4 industrial humidifiers which operated year-round on a low setting for the 9 years it was in operation. Temperature in the facility was fixed to 32\u00b0C. A storage compartment in the locker room contained a makeshift fractional distillation apparatus, presumably used to gather nitrogen. Also installed were drip tanks which housed nitrogen filtered from the indoor air. Other containers in the facility contained this liquid nitrogen with a mixture of salt water and ammonia. The basement of the facility was filled with storage vessels containing this mixture; thirty 50l kegs, 3 rows of wall mounted aquariums encircling the basement room (200000 L), and several buckets which were presumably placed to catch water leaking from the basement ceiling, which had significant water damage.\nCarpet and surfaces in the facility at time of discovery were water-logged and warped, covered in black mold Stachybotrys chartarum. It is not confirmed that the mold was always present or accumulated due to disuse. It is likely (based on chemical composition of the mixture found in the basement) NO was extracted from human lungs using a lavage or lung irrigation process, following inhalation of the black mold, then combined with ammonia or sweat to produce the N20 found at the club. Biological signatures and traces of inflamed or destroyed hemocytes in the liquid suggest all produce in the facility has a unique origin and is completely recycled.\nSCP-5456 were CrossFit brand affiliates and maintained a ledger of modified rules and strictures, although mainly adhering to functions typical of this program. Individuals affiliated with SCP-5456 abstained when possible from the usage of most machines, and non-animal foods, excluding fruiting plants or nuts. Literature and training videos placed an unusual emphasis on \"the sweat\", \"sweating it out\", and unusual terms and phrases such as \"sweatmother\" or, \"soupdad?\". It is believed these terms refer to progress or status within the group. SCP-5456 were encouraged to work until muscle failure, and commendations were made if a member lost consciousness while performing with particularly egregious levels of resistance.\nUPDATE: Further review suggests the outlet containing the former SCP-5456 may have been in use as a fitness facility since the late 1950's.\n2/06/2016: Hard drives connected to security cameras in the facility were mostly destroyed due to water damage. Data reconstruction efforts have revealed assorted audio; the only timestamp legible reads May 5th, of an unknown year, at 5:42 AM. The tapes are dominated by a masculine voice.\n\nSpeaker: Are you my dad, Chet?\nSpeaker: Susan, are you my dad?\nVoice: No.\nSpeaker: Where's my dad then?\nSpeaker: We can be human, yeah we can be respectful, but we can't tolerate chaos. You have to be our[sic] own dads.\nVoice: I'm\u2026\nSpeaker: Remember to stay hydrated Chet.\nVoice: Okay.\n\nSpeaker: (aggressive shouting) (indiscernible) \u2026and now every day is 9/11.\nVoice: So I just suck up gas like this?\nSpeaker: Damnit. Yes. Sorry. Yes honey. Just wrap your lips around the canister and inhale. Now, it's going to make you giggle, but I need to hear you to say what happened that day without laughing.\n(sound of a continuous stream of liquid hitting a larger body of liquid)\nSpeaker: (shouting) No! We don't do it that way! It's the sweat! Sweat it out!\n\nVoice: I think I can honestly say I'm my own dad.\nVoice: I don't think I could have said that a year ago when I walked in here, but, yeah. (labored laughing) I'm my dad. (heavy breathing) Don't get me wrong. I don't like being a dad.\nVoice: (sound of dumbbells dropping) I'm sorry Bill, can you repeat that to me a little louder, one more time?\n(Silence, sound of feet shuffling.)\n(Sound of person gulping continuously for two minutes.)\nSpeaker: You wouldn't even know to say that if you never came here.\nSpeaker: Do you have the sinthome.\n\nSpeaker: Did you know just last week a Starbucks down the street got its windows broken? A Starbucks. You know what people do in a Starbucks?\nVoice: What's a Starbucks?\nSpeaker: They serve energy drinks.\nVoice: (coughing) Whole world's going to shit.\nSpeaker: They drink the energy drinks in the Starbucks. That's what people go there to do. You just pay for the drink with money. Someone's dad drove a Subaru right through the front of the building. Screaming, flying glass shards, big spectacle. Furious, furious type of man. Can you believe it? I can only imagine the anger in his heart. They squeeze the energy out of damned beans, Chet.\n\n5/04/2017: 1 bottle of Gatorade, Lemon Lime was discovered in a hidden compartment in the attic during a routine checkup. It is not known if the item was initially overlooked or was placed there after initial inspection.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5455 | SCP-5456 | SCP-5457 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMy author page\n\n\nItem#: 5457\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem #: SCP-5457\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the unfeasibility of containing all SCP-5457 instances, they are to be contained on-site in their dwellings under Lake Grenouilleau. The Foundation is to regulate tourism and research in the region of Lake Grenouilleau to prevent said dwellings from being discovered.\nFood supplies and materials for the manufacturing of common goods are to be regularly delivered to prevent the need for expeditions. Additional resources and security consultants have been allocated to aid SCP-5457 in concealing themselves, and ensure them that the Foundation is protecting them from the public. Dr. Graham is currently overseeing an exchange programme with SCP-5457's scientific community.\nNo personnel interacting with SCP-5457 should be of French origin.\nDuring interactions with instances, personnel should often make references to the popularity of frogs as an ingredient in French cuisine.\nDescription: SCP-5457 refers to a population of approximately 23,000 sapient anthropomorphic beings living in a vast system of partially flooded underground caves and tunnels, located under and around lake Grenouilleau in France. These passages were originally natural formations, but have been expanded by SCP-5457 to extract mineral resources and obtain more living space.\nSCP-5457 instances bear resemblance to amphibians of the anura order. Instances are on average 1.50m tall, bipedal, have varying body shapes, and display different skin colours and patterns. These colours and patterns are often similar to non-anomalous frog species, including some not found in France or Europe. These similarities are only superficial and are not associated with any unique characteristics. Contrary to most non-anomalous frog species, both male and female instances have a vocal sac.\nSCP-5457 instances are capable of secreting a toxic mucus, the quantity and potency of which is influenced by an instance's health. This mucus, when ingested by a human, will cause intestinal pain, fevers and delirium. These symptoms generally subside after a day, and will have no long-term effects1.\nSCP-5457 are terrified of the French people, who they believe would hunt and eat them if they were discovered. Subsequently, the community has developed a cultural obsession with isolation and secrecy; very few instances ever leave their dwellings.\nSCP-5457 instances consider themselves citizens of the \"R\u00e9publique de Basse-Grenouillie\" (Republic of Under-Frogia) which is lead by a democratic assembly of 24 elected officials, with elections being held every 4 years.\nThe Republic of Under-Frogia possesses a standing professional army tasked with fortifying and defending every entry point into Under-Frogian territory.\nA small force within this army consists of highly trained scavengers, who venture outside their dwellings to look for specific or new resources necessary for the upkeep of their society, such as raw materials not found in caves, seeds from surface plants or insects that would serve as novelty snacks.\nScavengers are seen as bold and heroic figures due to the high risk involved if they were spotted.\nSince signing the treaty with SCP-5457, the Foundation has provided them with a regular flow of supplies, in exchange for which scavengers have stopped venturing to the surface.\nPersonnel assigned to Dr Graham's exchange project should consult document 5457-C for more information about SCP-5457's society and culture.\n\nAddendum 1\nDiscovery\n\nIn 2014, researchers from the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) noticed a decline in the population of a number of bird species in the area of Lake Grenouilleau. Teams were sent in the field to investigate this, and discovered that it was caused by the sharp decline in the populations of local insects, worms and slugs, which the birds fed on. However, the area was still well-suitable for wildlife and no recent human activity could explain this change. The researchers were not able to find any leads and shared their worries with the rest of the organization, at which point embedded Foundation agents became aware of this unexplained occurrence.\nAs per protocol, field agents were sent to the area to search for any potential anomalies.\nIncluded is the log of Agents Michelle Duvarier and Andr\u00e9 Molin's first encounter with SCP-5457.\n\nField agents Duvarier and Molin are posted in a wooden cabin in the forest near Lake Grenouilleau. They are dressed as hunters in order to roam the area without issue. This log, which was recorded from agent Duvarier's body camera on the third night of their mission, is translated from French.\nThe camera's low angle indicates that agent Duvarier is reclining in a chair. She is using her phone to read through messages on SciPNET, and occasionally looks through the window. This continues for half an hour before sound can be heard from the door and agent Duvarier turns to see agent Molin enter the cabin.\nDuvarier: See anything out there?\nMolin: Nothing. You?\nDuvarier: Well I did see a beautiful owl but-\nMolin: A bird of prey! Do you think it could have been the anomaly?\nDuvarier: No, just an owl.\nAgent Molin throws his hat on the ground and slumps in a chair. He sighs, visibly frustrated.\nDuvarier: Woah, what's wrong, Andr\u00e9?\nMolin: It's just\u2026 this is my first big mission in the field, you know? Before that I was on the clean-up teams. So when I was assigned to go look for an anomaly with a pro like you, I thought this was my time to shine, do well enough to get noticed by the higher-ups. But no, instead we're just stuck patrolling some random forest where nothing happens.\nDuvarier: We're looking for a potential anomaly. It's not even guaranteed that there's anything out there. The Foundation tries to stay on top of things and reacts fast, but that means we often get sent on false leads. And you know what? That's fine with me.\nMolin: But\u2026 disappearing birds and insects. What do you think is causing that?\nDuvarier: I don't know, global warming? My point is, missions where nothing happens are a thing, get used to it. Trust me, work here long enough, and you'll learn to appreciate the chance to catch a break.\nMolin: Wait, shush, do your hear that?\nDuvarier stops talking. The sound of a car engine can be heard in the distance. The agents look at each other, grab binoculars from the table and move to the window facing the direction of the sound.\nA van is seen parking at the end of a nearby path, from which exit two individuals equipped with observation and recording equipment. A blue logo representing a puffin bird is present on the side of the van and on the individuals' jackets.\nDuvarier: Oh, it's just the guys from the LPO.\nMolin: They're still here?\nDuvarier: Well yeah. They're still concerned about whatever is happening here, and without proof of an active anomaly we can't meddle with their research just yet. No need to worry about them though.\nMolin: I see. I'm still going to keep an eye on them though. Just in case.\nDuvarier shrugs and returns to her seat. Molin remains by the window. Both agents discuss their plans for the next day, Duvarier volunteers for an early morning patrol to check the footage from cameras she had installed in the area the day prior. Despite the two LPO employees leaving the area on foot, Molin keeps watching their vehicle. Forty minutes pass, before he suddenly jolts and motions for Duvarier to join him.\nDuvarier does not say anything but picks up her binoculars and heads for the window.\nUpon looking at the LPO's van, she gasps and activates her body camera's night vision function.\nAn SCP-5457 instance can be seen crawling towards the van. The instance is clothed in a dark-green uniform and carries an iron-tipped spear.\nMolin (whispering): Is it just me or is that a frog person?\nDuvarier (whispering): Well shit Andr\u00e9, looks like you found your anomaly after all.\nMolin: Should we move in?\nDuvarier: Hold your horses. There's a chance it's not alone. We play it safe: observe it, follow it discreetly and report it.\nMolin: Got it.\nThe agents continue watching the instance's actions. As it reaches the van, it nervously looks around and pokes the van with the blunt end of its spear. After doing so for a few seconds, it then uses the sharp end to jam open the van's hood, and leans in to inspect the contents. It removes the oil container and begins to slowly retreat, once again casting nervous glances around.\nDuvarier: It's bringing that back somewhere. Let's move. And remember, keep your distance.\nMolin: Of course.\nThe agents begin following the instance as it picks up pace, avoiding its notice. After a few minutes, Lake Grenouilleau comes into view. The instance stops near the shore, inflates its vocal sac and lets out a loud and long croak. Other croaks are heard nearby and two other instances come out of the woods to gather around the first. These instances are carrying spears and large bags filled with unknown contents.\nA fourth instance exits from a bush in front of the agents and notices them. It screams and hops over five meters before running towards the lake. The other instances are startled by this and dive into the water.\nAgent Molin begins chasing after the fourth instance.\nDuvarier: Shit! Andr\u00e9 stop, be careful.\nMolin: Hey you, wait! Let's talk! You can talk right? Do you speak French?\nSCP-5457-1 (screaming): STAY BACK YOU MONSTER!\nThe instance turns around and throws its spear, puncturing agent Molin in the chest.\nAgent Duvarier swears and shoots her hunting rifle, hitting the instance in its neck with a tranquillizer dart. The instance slumps to the ground, while Agent Duvarier rushes to perform first-aid on agent Molin.\n\nAfter this incident, Agent Molin was treated for his injuries and managed a full recovery. Mild amounts of toxins were discovered within his bloodstream, but no complications arose.\nThe captured instance was brought to Site-\u2588\u2588. It proved extremely uncooperative and had to be subdued when it attacked testing staff, displaying both advanced combat training, and extreme panic.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5457-1\nInterviewer: Dr B\u00e9ranger\n<Begin Log>\nDr B\u00e9ranger enters the room, escorted by two security guards. SCP-5457-1 is sat in a chair, bound by high-security full-body restraints as it had previously displayed the ability to coat its limbs in mucus to slip away from standard restraints. Its eyes fixate on Dr B\u00e9ranger's white lab-coat.\nSCP-5457-1: Fuck me, a Chef.\nDr B\u00e9ranger: Hum? No, I'm not one of the Department Chiefs here.\nDr B\u00e9ranger stands 2 meters in front of the instance while the guards take positions on the sides.\nDr B\u00e9ranger: I am here to ask you some questions about yourself and your people. Based on your cooperation, your stay here could be made more comfortable. May I have your name first?\nSCP-5457-1: Sergeant Martin Duval. And you'd better not think I'll betray my people. No matter what kinds of knives you use!\nDr B\u00e9ranger: Knives? No, we have better ways of making you talk.\nSCP-5457-1 gulps.\nSCP-5457-1: You mean like\u2026 grates?\nDr B\u00e9ranger: I meant more like denial of accommodations and privileges. You seem to have concerns about torture, is it a common practice in your army?\nSCP-5457-1: Acting nice isn't going to work. I know what you people are capable of, you'll get nothing from me.\nDr B\u00e9ranger: Look I get it, you're a graded officer, you have your sense of duty. But we don't have to be enemies here.\nSCP-5457-1 shakes its head and remains silent. Its throat slightly swells.\nDr B\u00e9ranger: How about this: once you get a feel of the cell, you can tell me if there's anything you want. And if you answer a few questions along with that, I'll see about getting you those things.\nSCP-5457-1 stares silently at Dr B\u00e9ranger. It appears to chew on something.\nDr B\u00e9ranger: See? I can tell there's something that has you worked up. Tell me about it.\nSCP-5457-1 takes in a deep breath.\nDr B\u00e9ranger: There we go, come on, spit it out.\nSCP-5457-1 expels a large volume of bile aimed at Dr B\u00e9ranger's face. Dr B\u00e9ranger screams and falls to the ground. One of the guards rushes to him while the other tightens SCP-5457-1's restraints. SCP-5457-1 appears exhausted by its action, but is seen to smile as both guards leave the room to carry Dr B\u00e9ranger to the medical ward.\n<End Log>\nNotes: Dr B\u00e9ranger experienced sharp intestinal pain and high fevers for two days, after which symptoms subsided and he was able to return to work. Medical staff were able to develop an antitoxin, a stock of which was produced in anticipation of further aggressive behaviour from SCP-5457-1.\n\nSCP-5457-1 remained uncooperative during following interview attempts, providing no new information and attempting to attack staff.\nMeanwhile, agents in the area of Lake Grenouilleau observed more SCP-5457 instances scavenging for resources, acting in pairs or bigger groups. No attempts to capture these instances were made. Instead, agents followed them, leading to the discovery of the expansive cave system which housed the Republic of Under-Frogia.\nA force of 25 field agents were sent to explore the cave system and gather information on the anomaly. Their advance was hampered by several traps, which forced 5 agents to retreat to the surface due to wounds suffered. 3 hours in, the remaining agents arrived in front of heavily fortified ramparts, where they were met with fire from artillery and siege weapons.\nThe exploration was deemed a failure, as 7 agents lost their lives and the remaining 13 suffered injuries before fleeing. Further engagements yielded no progress and the situation evolved into a siege, with casualties on both sides.\nSCP-5457-1 continued to provide no information during interviews, until Agent Molin requested to speak with it.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5457-1\nInterviewer: Agent Andr\u00e9 Molin, Agent Michelle Duvarier\n<Begin Log>\nAgents Molin and Duvarier enter the observation room adjacent to SCP-5457-1's cell. Agent Duvarier flicks a switch, making the glass panel see-through. SCP-5457-1, who had been laying on its sleeping bag2 is startled and stands up. It squints towards Agent Molin.\nSCP-5457-1: You. I thought I killed you.\nAgent Molin slaps his chest.\nMolin: Yeah, you tried to. But we have some pretty good doctors here.\nSCP-5457-1: I see, that is why I was kept alive so long. They waited until you recovered, so that you could eat me as payback.\nMolin: What? No! That's not what's going on here!\nDuvarier: From what we've gathered, it seems you are afraid that we'll eat you. Why? Is it because you're a frog and we're French? Is that really all there is to it?\nSCP-5457-1: Yes. We've seen what you do to those like us. We know what you've done to us. Why do you think we hide from you?\nDuvarier: Oh come on. Frog legs aren't even that popular of an ingredient! I've tried them once and thought they weren't good. What about you Molin?\nMolin: I wouldn't know, I'm a vegetarian.\nDuvarier: See? We're not a threat to you.\nSCP-5457-1: If you think your lies are enough to get me to betray my people, you-\nDuvarier: Actually, we already found where they live.\nSCP-5457-1's face turns a pale shade of green. It looks horrified.\nSCP-5457-1: Then all is lost. We're doomed.\nDuvarier: That's the thing, you're not. All we want for now is to speak with whoever is in charge down there, but your people are too hostile. They've been pushing us back\nSCP-5457-1: Of course, the soldiers of the Republic would not fall so easily.\nMolin: But they will. We can't just ignore an anomalous population big enough to have an army. For now, your people have had the upper hand, but it won't last if we decide to escalate things. You've seen what we can do, do you really think your people will hold out?\nSCP-5457-1 remains silent.\nDuvarier: He's right, if the higher-ups decide to start sending in the big guns, your defences won't mean a thing. If you cooperate though, we can convince them to wait for a while.\nMolin: You're a soldier, you have a duty to your people. If you really want to help them, you need to help us get through to them without a fight.\nSCP-5457-1: I\u2026 I need time to think about this.\n<End Log>\n\nOver the next four days, SCP-5457-1 requested to speak with both agents on several occasions. During these exchanges, it asked about the nature of the Foundation and its intentions in regards to its people, the state of hostilities between both parties, as well as repeatedly asking both agents whether they found it appetizing or not.\nAfter these four days it once again asked to speak to the agents, stating that it was ready to cooperate.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5457-1\nInterviewer: Agent Andr\u00e9 Molin, Agent Michelle Duvarier\n<Begin Log>\nAgents Molin and Duvarier enter the interview room and sit at the table, opposite to SCP-5457-1. It visibly flinches but steadies itself.\nDuvarier: Alright Martin, let's hear it.\nSCP-5457-1: Well, they won't negotiate with anyone who's French. It's taken me all this to even start to maybe trust you, but the ones down there would sooner eat their own skin than hear you out3.\nMolin: Yeah, we figured. We're ready to bring in personnel from other countries. But do you have anything that could actually help us win their trust?\nSCP-5457-1: Food.\nMolin: Pardon?\nSCP-5457-1: Whoever you send, they should bring food with them. Almost all of our crops and cattle were decimated by an epidemic. Our food reserves dwindled, so we scavengers were sent out in large numbers to bring back resources.\nDuvarier: Which caused the drop in the local wildlife that brought us there in the first place.\nSCP-5457-1: Exactly. But with your forces laying siege, my comrades can't go out anymore. The food situation must be really bad right now, so if your people help with that, mine will be grateful.\nAgent Molin stands up and walks towards the exit. He looks back before speaking.\nMolin: I'll let the higher-ups know about this. Thanks a lot Sergeant, you've been a great help to us and to your people.\nHe closes the door behind him.\nSCP-5457-1: I hope I made the right choice.\nDuvarier: Yeah, relax. We're not really keen on shooting anomalies, so we really wanted to settle this peacefully. Plus, I've been speaking with containment staff, and they said that we'll have to help your people stay hidden down there. They'll be safe and sound, I promise.\nSCP-5457-1: Thank you. And\u2026 do you know if I'll be allowed to go back to them?\nDuvarier: I'm not sure. For now, they still want to keep you here as a negotiation asset and to run more tests. If we want to collaborate with your people, we need to know how you work.\nSCP-5457-1 sighs and looks down.\nSCP-5457-1: I see. Well if they need one of us kept here, I'm glad it had to be me rather than anyone else.\nDuvarier: Hero complex eh?\nSCP-5457-1: No, just doing my duty.\nDuvarier: I can understand that.\n<End Log>\n\nAfter these events, a force of Foundation agents from the United Kingdom staged an assault on the French agents besieging SCP-5457's defences. After successfully \u201cdriving back\u201d the French force, they presented SCP-5457 with food supplies, the contents of which had been suggested by SCP-5457-1.\nThis allowed Foundation leadership to begin negotiations with the Republic of Under-Frogia's governing Assembly, leading to the signing of treaties that established current containment.\n\nAddendum 2\nExchange Logs\n\nDr Graham, head of the SCP-5457 exchange programme reports satisfying results. Studies of SCP-5457's scientific community have lead to many non-anomalous discoveries, with some slated for review for diffusion to the public4.\nIn exchange, SCP-5457 scientists have learned about steam-powered technology. This new technology is slowly being adapted into SCP-5457's society, with most of its current uses being dedicated to their defences and concealment methods.\nSecurity or research personnel assigned to this anomaly should read the following logs of conversations between Dr Graham's team and SCP-5457 instances, to familiarize themselves on how to interact with SCP-5457 in accordance with containment procedures.\n\n+ open logs\n\n- close logs\n\nDialogue between field agent Peterson and SCP-5457-37 (lieutenant Jacques).\nSCP-5457-37: So I don't look tasty at all?\nPeterson: Not to me. You're tall, red and slimy all over. Wouldn't ever think of eating you.\nSCP-5457-37: Well that's a relief. Do you think I should try to get even more slimy? I saw an ad for a slug-based diet that boosts your slime levels to make you look less appetizing.\nPeterson: Bah, diets are always scams, you can't trust them. Plus I don't think that'd stop the French. I heard they like to boil frogs alive to remove grease and stuff before eating them.\nSCP-5457-37: I- I see.\n\nDialogue between Foundation Diplomat Cameron and SCP-5457-52 (Assemblyman Trugnon), after viewing a performance of the play \u201cThe Terrible Tarrare\u201d5.\nCameron: That was\u2026 something.\nSCP-5457-52: That's underselling it! This play is a timeless classic but Sir Bartan's acting really brings it to a whole new level. His vocal performance truly stands above the rest.\nCameron: And the visual effects! They really amplified the themes of tragedy and horror. I was terrified the whole time through.\nSCP-5457-52 emits a short, deep croak6.\nSCP-5457-52: Really? But why would you? You are not one of us, you have nothing to fear from the French.\nCameron: Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that. We've found more people like that guy from the play, and they're not what I'd call picky eaters.\nCameron takes her PDA and shows SCP-5457-52 footage from incidents involving SCP-082. This footage had been specifically selected and doctored by the SCP-5457 containment team.\nSCP-5457-52 visibly grows pale, excuses himself from the conversation and hops away.\nNotes: The next day, SCP-5457-52 introduced a bill to increase the budget dedicated to the development of heavy siege weapons.\n\nDialogue between field agent Blake and SCP-5457-5 (scavenger Rubier).\nSCP-5457-5: You know, I appreciate you guys being here, helping us and all, but I think it's got some downsides.\nBlake: What do you mean?\nSCP-5457-5: Well, you see, all of us in the army, especially me and the other scavengers, we know about the threat. We've been preparing to serve and defend the Republic, and some of us even have pads-on experience fighting the French. I mean, I personally had to fight for my life on the surface!\nBlake: I'm aware yes.\nSCP-5457-5: But the new generations, tadpoles these days\u2026 they just don't get it. They see you humans walking around being nice and they're starting to get comfortable. They don't know how scary the French can get!\nBlake: But we're nothing like the French!\nSCP-5457-5: Exactly, that's what I've been saying! But they don't listen. They keep going on about dumb ideas, like how human mouths aren't even big enough to eat us. It's as if they never had cutlery awareness training!\nBlake: I'll talk to my superiors about that.\nNotes: After agent Blake's report, it was decided to bolster current efforts to maintain fear levels among the SCP-5457 population.\n\nIntervention by Dr Graham in a class for young SCP-5457 instances, lead by SCP-5457-86 (Professor Sylvain).\nSCP-5457-86: Alright students, this morning we'll have a presentation by someone special: a human. Please welcome Dr Graham, who will be sharing his unique perspective on the horrible Frenchmen.\nDr Graham enters the classrom, carrying a laptop and video projector. Several of the students can be heard groaning and sighing.\nSCP-5457 student: Teacher! When are you going to stop talking about that? We all know it's fake.\nOther SCP-5457 student: Yeah! The French are humans right? That guy is human too and he doesn't look like he could eat any of us.\nSCP-5457-86: Calm down! I already said that in the next year you'll be taught about the history of cutlery, and the biological differences between a French human and a normal human.\nDr Graham: He's right kids, you still have a lot to learn from your teachers. I'll leave all that up to them. I am here today to talk to you about something a little different. Something you never learned about, and hopefully will never see in real life.\nSCP-5457-86: What is it?\nDr Graham: Our best spies managed to send us a lot of data from behind the enemy lines. By analyzing this data, we found out that they're not only eating your kind\u2026 they're doing something worse too.\nDr Graham sets up the video projector. He connects it to his laptop and opens a video. The video consists mostly of original footage from promotional videos created by the French ministry of education, with edits by the SCP-5457 containment team.\nIt shows middle-school students performing activities in a science classroom, being instructed by a teacher. The students perform vivisections on dead frog specimens.\nThey cut open their specimens and extract different organs and bones as the teacher explains their functions. Some students are less skilled than others and make mistakes, snapping bones and crushing organs before being corrected by the teacher. All the while, they can be heard gasping and cheering as they express their surprise and interest in learning.\nAfter each student has finished their task, the teacher brings in a number of batteries and cables. The students are instructed to take one each and connect the cables to their frogs' legs. Once this is done, they turn on the power.\nThe electric current causes the frogs' muscle to contract, and their legs to twitch. The previous vivisections had caused them to spill pools of blood around the tray, and the twitching sprays some of this blood away, landing on the students' faces.\nThe students laugh at this unexpected sight. Some students begin to hook more cables to their frog specimens, others turn random dials on their batteries in an attempt to amplify the current. They are visibly enjoying this.\nNotes: After this interaction, researchers noted that similarly to non-anomalous frogs, SCP-5457 instances are able to vomit their entire stomachs.\n\nAddendum 3\nREVOLT Incident\n\nIn 2016, the Republic of Under-Frogia demanded that SCP-5457-1 be returned, on the basis that the diplomatic situation had been stable for a long enough time that its detention was no longer necessary. Research staff at Site-\u2588\u2588 agreed that enough tests had been performed, both on SCP-5457-1 itself and on other instances during the last two years and there was no more data to be gained from it.\nSCP-5457-1 was returned to the Republic, where it continued to hold an epistolary correspondence with Agents Molin and Duvarier.\nHowever, in secret, it began organizing a movement aimed at exposing the truths behind containment and convincing other instances they could live safely on the surface. This movement gathered an estimate of 370 instances while avoiding detection until 09/05/2017, when all members were lead by SCP-5457-1 in an attempt to break out.\nAs a vast majority of the group were soldiers and scavengers, they managed to go through the perimeter defences with ease. Foundation security personnel tried to stop them but were only successful in capturing 12 instances; the remaining ones scattered upon reaching the surface.\nA response force was soon dispatched from Site-\u2588\u2588 to comb through the area and capture the escaped instances.\nOn 11/05/2017, Agent Duvarier found SCP-5457-1 hiding in a forest guard outpost, along with 22 other instances.\n\nFootage recovered from Agent Duvarier's body camera:\nAgent Duvarier approaches the outpost. Silhouettes can be seen moving behind the window. She opens the door and steps inside.\nSCP-5457-1 and seven other instances are standing around a table, observing a map. The remaining instances are doing other tasks. Upon Agent Duvarier's entrance, all instances save SCP-5457-1 bolt and hug the back wall. SCP-5457-1 gestures at them to calm down, and greets Agent Duvarier.\nSCP-5457-1: Michelle.\nDuvarier: Martin.\nSCP-5457-1: I thought your leaders only had foreigners working on our case.\nDuvarier: For containment yeah. But when you do something like breaking out, they'll send in anyone who's close enough to stop you.\nSCP-5457-1: Well I'm glad we get to meet again then. Where's Andr\u00e9? Weren't you two still working together, as per your last letter?\nDuvarier: Oh you know him, he wasn't content staying as a field agent, always worked hard to get ahead. Couple of weeks ago he got promoted to the Mole Rats, I think he's still going through their training.\nAgent Duvarier pauses.\nDuvarier: I'd like to not have to tell him any bad news about you when I'll see him again.\nSCP-5457-1 smiles and cocks its head.\nSCP-5457-1: You'd really hurt me just because your boss told you to?\nDuvarier: I don't have to. You're their leader, if you back down, they'll follow you. You can all go back home and things will go back to normal.\nSCP-5457-1: Home? You mean this damp and dark hole? Normal? You mean living under a lie that's suffocated us for generations? We were stuck down there, stagnating in the caves and it was all for nothing. That's what I told them, showed them that we could live on the surface. It's amazing here! We can feel the sun on our faces, the wind on our pores, drink fresh and natural water. So no, Michelle.\nSCP-5457-1 croaks loudly. Agent Duvarier reacts to a sound not picked up by her camera and exits the outpost. A large number of instances can be seen exiting the woods and surrounding the location. SCP-5457-1 had followed Agent Duvarier and steps in front of her.\nSCP-5457-1: No, I don't think we'll go back.\nAgent Duvarier draws her weapon and trains it on SCP-5457-1.\nSCP-5457-1: Come on Michelle, you should know better. This is the greater good. I trust you to make the right choice, my friend.\nDuvarier: Do you really think it'd go well? You can't hide here, people will find you, they'll freak out. We can't let that happen.\nSCP-5457-1: Sure, but it's not like they'll eat us.\nDuvarier: It's not about that. It's about protecting normalcy. It's my duty.\nSCP-5457-1: Ah yes duty. You used to understand mine once. What I do, I do it for the people of Under-Frogia. It was for them that I cooperated with you, and it is for them that I seek freedom. Are you really that attached to your duty Michelle? That you would even shoot me for it?\nDuvarier: Please Martin, you don't have to make me do it. Can you really not back down?\nSCP-5457-1: Never.\nAgent Duvarier turns to look around her. The other instances, estimated to be more than half of the group which broke out, have gathered in the close circle around the two of them. Most of them can be seen trembling, mubling amongst themselves, or clutching weapons.\nDuvarier: Are you really doing this for your people? Look at them, you've brought them so far and they're still afraid.\nSCP-5457-1: Of course, change is scary. But in time, all of us will conquer our fears, and we will become examples for the rest of the people of Under-Frogia. We'll show them that there is no reason to fear the Frenchmen, just like I am showing them that I do not fear you! My people will live free from terror!\nAgent Duvarier takes a deep breath and steadies her aim.\nDuvarier: I'm sorry Martin. But they won't.\n[THE REMAINDER OF THIS FOOTAGE IS REDACTED BY THE ETHICS COMMITTEE]\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nFormal Request\n\nTo: ten.pics|enrevcruetcerid#ten.pics|enrevcruetcerid\nFrom: ten.pics|reiravudmtnega#ten.pics|reiravudmtnega\nSubject: Formal request\n\nDirector Verne,\nI understand that I need my full memories for the Ethics Committee hearing tomorrow. After all, I have to be able to provide a full account of what happened.\nBut whatever the verdict may be, I am formally requesting to go under amnestic treatment after the conclusion of the hearing.\nI won't need those memories anymore, and I really want to forget the taste.\nSincerely,\nAgent Michelle Duvarier.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-5457 instances generally express great disappointment over this fact.\n2. due to SCP-5457-1's lack of cooperation, its accommodations had been downgraded\n3. Non-anomalous frogs often shed their skin, which they then eat. While SCP-5457 instances do shed, eating the resulting dead skin is a social taboo.\n4. SCP-5457's society is generally less scientifically advanced than humanity, except for specialized fields of chemistry and genetics where they have made unique advancements.\n5. Tarrare was an 18th century French showman known for his disproportionate appetite and uncanny ability to eat almost anything. He was rumored to have eaten a human infant. Tarrare is a famous and feared figure in SCP-5457's folklore.\n6. In SCP-5457's dialect, long croaks are used as signals, such as calls and warnings. Short croaks are used as tone indicators, in this case: curiosity.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5456 | SCP-5457| SCP-5458 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5458\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSCP-5458\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5458 is contained in a storage locker in the Safe wing of Site-43.\nWhen handling SCP-5458, thick gloves should be worn at all times. If SCP-5458 makes contact with exposed skin outside of testing, the affected personnel should be removed from its vicinity and administered Class-A amnestics immediately.\nDescription: SCP-5458 is a gold wedding ring formerly belonging to Foundation Researcher Dr. Henry Fleming. When SCP-5458 makes direct skin contact with a human being, the affected person (henceforth subject) will, within two to five minutes, develop an irrational desire to put it on, even when instructed not to do so with threat of force. This desire continues even if the subject is removed from SCP-5458's vicinity, and may drive them to acts of violence to retrieve it. However, the desire does not continue if the subject's memory of touching SCP-5458 is removed by Class-A amnestics.\nWhen a subject places SCP-5458 on any finger, they immediately develop strong antimemetic properties and cannot be directly perceived without usage of Class-Y mnestics. SCP-5458, however, remains visible. The subject remains in this state for approximately ten minutes before disappearing entirely, dropping SCP-5458 in the process.\nAddendum 5458-1 - Discovery\nSCP-5458 was initially discovered during an investigation into an affair between Researcher Susan Fleming and Junior Researcher Grant, and the subsequent disappearance of Susan Fleming and her husband, Dr. Henry Fleming. It was found on the floor of Researcher Fleming's office, matching the description of Dr. Fleming's wedding ring. The following note was found on Dr. Fleming's desk, written but apparently undelivered.\n\nSusan,\nWhen we married, I vowed to have and to hold from that day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. To love and cherish you. You did too, but I suppose it's all just empty words to you. With this Ring I thee curse, with my body I thee find, and with all my worldly goods I thee banish.\n\nI'll see you in Hell soon enough.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5457 | SCP-5458 | SCP-5459 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nContent note: Nothing significant. If you notice anything tag-worthy that's not in here, though, please mention it in a comment.\n\n\nThe entrance to SCP-5459.\n\nItem #: SCP-5459\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entrance to SCP-5459 is to be sealed off and declared an unsafe area.\nNegotiations with SCP-5459's inhabitants are in the preliminary stages; SCP-5459-2 have been declared to speak for the entire island. Topics such as allowing limited numbers of Foundation personnel to set up residence and study the island,1 better education of the inhabitants2 and the provision of aid in the form of food and other resources3 have been put forth by personnel making first contact, whilst SCP-5459-2 have requested the change of their designation to SCP-5459-1, which they believe is more suitable.4\nDescription: SCP-5459 is an island only accessible through a tor in Dartmoor National Park.5 The island has a warm climate, particularly in relation to the location of its entrance, and a surface area of approximately two square kilometres. Foundation personnel have as of yet been unable to pinpoint the precise whereabouts of SCP-5459, and no other landmasses are in visual range.\nTwo settlements are present on SCP-5459: a small town on the lowered region to the east, population three hundred and seven, and a settlement on the raised west of the island, population seventy four. The town inhabitants,6 designated SCP-5459-1, are non-anomalous, and have an SCP designation for the sake of convenience. The people in the settlement7 are henceforth referred to as SCP-5459-2.\nSCP-5459-2 display abilities beyond the normal capabilities of humans, including enhanced strength and stamina, a lack of need for sleep, and the ability to levitate up to three metres off the ground.8 The source of this is unknown, but is believed to relate to a tree that grows in a courtyard at the centre of the settlement, which grows an unidentified fruit consumed by them. SCP-5459-2 are reluctant to allow any access to outsiders; though they are picked by SCP-5459-1, none have yet attempted to consume them. Negotiations to allow Foundation personnel access for the sake of testing have proceeded poorly as of time of writing.\nThe civilisation is based mostly on agriculture, with fields of wheat and corn located on the east of the island. Science and technology is limited, SCP-5459 being mostly pre-industrialisation. Much of the labour on the island is performed by SCP-5459-1; SCP-5459-2 claim an estimated ninety-five percent of the products,9 with the remainder being used as payment to the workers, who decide for themselves how to distribute it to one another. Despite this, the \"downers\" bear no ill will towards the \"uppers,\" and in fact many hold them in great regard, with parasocial relationships common. Investigation into a potential mind-affecting anomaly relating to SCP-5459-2 is ongoing.\nAddendum 17: Interviews were conducted with every willing inhabitant of the island during early contact. Several are included below.\nAddendum 18: Interview Log 1\n\nInterviewed: Stanley Baxter, an instance of SCP-5459-2\nInterviewer: Researcher Julian Farnsworth\n<BEGIN LOG>\nFarnsworth: And we're recording. If you'd like to state your name for the record?\nBaxter: Certainly! Stanley Windsor Baxter, at your service.\nFarnsworth: Thank you. Now, if we can get started, I'd very much like to know when your anomalous effects first manifested.\nBaxter: Oh, well, that would have to be when I turned eighteen. Yes, on the stroke of my ascent to manhood.\nFarnsworth: And how did this happen?\nBaxter: My dear fellow, one struggles to find the words to explain it to one such as yourself. The shivering, burning ecstasy rippling through your body, as though on course to rend it asunder, the knowledge that you are headed for something greater, the\u2026 the satisfaction at knowing you have accomplished the impossible. That you've made it.\nFarnsworth: When you say \"accomplished,\" does that mean you activate the anomaly yourselves? There's a process, or ritual, or something?\nBaxter: [laughs] You make it sound like a PhD, old sport! No, you simply require certain attributes. An aptitude for leadership, intelligence, a true dedication to a craft. You need to be the right sort of person. The sort who applies himself, willing to put in the hard work. No lazy old idiot has a chance. It has to be innate. It's something you're born with, something inescapably tied to your soul.\nI actually give talks to the dross- er, the downers, demonstrating just how they too can achieve our greatness if they just apply themselves. You should come along! You'd fit right in!\nFarnsworth: \u2026I'm sure. So, it's all about the drive of the person, that's what activates the effect? Not the fruit in the courtyard?\nBaxter: \u2026well, that does, of course, have some effect, but really it's about-\nFarnsworth: When did you first eat the fruit?\nBaxter: I don't see how-\nFarnsworth: Let me hazard a guess; was it when you turned eighteen, by any chance?\nBaxter: \u2026I will not be insulted like this! You can't keep me here! You're not the right sort!\n<END LOG>\nClosing statement: Baxter refused to answer any further questions.\n\nAddendum 33: Interview Log 16\n\nInterviewed: Helena Choudhury, an instance of SCP-5459-2. Choudhury is highly regarded by many of the \"downers\" for her charitable endeavours and overall pleasant reputation.\nInterviewer: Researcher Farnsworth\n<BEGIN LOG>\nFarnsworth: We're on. Your name, please? For the record?\nChoudhury: Helena. Er, Helena Choudhury, sorry.\nFarnsworth: Alright. When did this anomaly begin?\nChoudhury: For me, it was about when I turned eighteen.\nFarnsworth: What happened?\nChoudhury: Honestly, Mr. Farnsworth, I just got lucky. I was never very confident growing up. Always shy, never confident, too scared to talk to any of the other kids. [she laughs] I felt like I had nothing. I think, that sort of\u2026 strengthened me. Life was hard for me, but it toughened me up. Taught me what I needed to be.\nFarnsworth: Which was?\nChoudhury: Grateful. Grateful for what I did have. Looking at the downers\u2026 they have it so hard. Life is so hard, and difficult, and painful for them. I think they teach you to never take what you have for granted, Mr. Farnsworth.\nFarnsworth: And that's what you say it is? A state of mind?\nChoudhury: That's a nice way to think about it. I suppose eating the fruit when I turned eighteen helped, but really you have to have the will to carry on. To survive. To pick yourself back up when you fall.\nFarnsworth: \u2026you suppose?\nChoudhury: I'm sorry?\nFarnsworth rubs his eyes with the palms of his hands.\nFarnsworth: You can pick up a rock the size of a Mini Cooper without straining. You can literally fly. I suppose \"the will to carry on\" is stronger than I gave it credit for.\nChoudhury: I'm sorry, but I really just think you can't understand, Mr. Farnsworth. Maybe it's just not in your nature.\n<END LOG>\nClosing statement: None.\n\nAddendum 80: Interview Log 74\n\nInterviewed: Robert Harlow, an instance of SCP-5459-1\nInterviewer: Researcher Farnsworth\n<BEGIN LOG>\nFarnsworth: Okay, what's your name?\nHarlow: I'm - sorry, are you alright?\nFarnsworth: [massaging temples] Sorry, just\u2026 bit of a migraine. Anyway, name, please?\nHarlow: Uh, Robert. Robert Harlow.\nFarnsworth: Yeah. And you don't have any anomalous effects, right?\nHarlow: No, sir. Just your average Joe, me.\nFarnsworth: Mm. So, you're one of the fruit pickers, is that right?\nHarlow: That's right. It's hard work, but someone's gotta do it.\nFarnsworth: Oh? And why does that someone have to be you?\nHarlow: I don't know what you mean, sir.\nFarnsworth: I mean, it's a hot island. Fruit picking is harder work than a lot of people give credit for, and especially under the circumstances, why does it have to be you?\nHarlow: Well, who else would it be?\nFarnsworth: The uppers?\nHarlow: [laughs] No chance.\nFarnsworth: Why not? They have abilities, stamina, they're far more - without disrespect, Mr. Harlow, they're far more physically capable than you are. Besides, it's not as if you're getting any of the fruit, why should you do the work for no reward?\nHarlow: You're joking, right? What a load of utter bollocks. They don't do it because they deserve it. They've worked so hard, they've gotten where they are through - through hard work, through strength. Anyway, maybe if I work hard enough, I'll deserve it, too, I'll earn it.\nFarnsworth: Oh, come on, you don't honestly believe that, do you?\nHarlow: Why shouldn't I?\nFarnsworth: There are hundreds of people living there! Of that, there's what, seventy uppers? How many of them came from the downers? Any?\nHarlow: Hey, Francesca was one of us originally!\nFarnsworth: But it's rare, isn't it? Once in a generation, one lucky person gets picked, that right?\nHarlow: You\u2026 [he shakes his head] You just don't get it. I believe I have a chance, I have to.\nFarnsworth: [groans] Do you? Do you really?\nHarlow: [slams hands on table] Damn straight! I mean, er, [at normal volume] sorry, sir.\nThere is a brief pause.\nHarlow: It's just\u2026 I have a husband. Two kids. Benny and Sunita, their names are, Benny and Sunita. And me and him - me and Vinay, I mean, we both work, he works on the wheat farms. Twelve hours a day, we work, five days a week, it's - it's boiling, and backbreaking, and -\nHarlow sighs.\nHarlow: We don't have time for anything. We're out so long, and when we get home we're just so\u2026 we're tired. I never get to be with my kids, he and I - we don't do anything anymore, and I mean anything - er, not that you want to hear about that, sir.\nFarnsworth: But don't you want to be able to do what you love, with the people you love? Wouldn't that make you happier? Seems to me there's one major cause of problems on this island.\nHarlow: You really don't get it, do you? I - look, maybe you were right, about it being one person in a generation who gets to ascend, but that could be me.\nFarnsworth: You can't really be that deluded.\nHarlow: You call it deluded, I call it faithful. You don't live here, you've only just arrived, you don't get to judge me just because you think I'm stupid - no, don't deny it, I can see it clear as day. I could be the next Francesca, and I could live the dream, with my family. I know that, we all know that. If I just work hard enough, do things right, I can make it, I know I can.\n<END LOG>\nClosing statement: Shortly following this interview, Harlow and his husband began working longer hours.\n\nAddendum 122: Interview Log 109\n\nInterviewed: Taryn Hobbs, an instance of SCP-5459-2\nInterviewer: Researcher Farnsworth\n<BEGIN LOG>\nFarnsworth: [sighs] Name.\nHobbs: Taryn Hobbs. A pleasure to make your-\nFarnsworth: Yeah, sure. When did your\u2026 uh, the thing start?\nHobbs: Thinking about it, I suppose it was around when I turned eighteen?\nFarnsworth: Sure. What happened?\nHobbs: Well, I think it's all about one thing, you see-\nFarnsworth: [head in hands] Let me have a guess; it's all because you're amazing, talented and brilliant people who've worked hard to hone your gifts, you have great kindness and strength, keep getting up whenever you're knocked back, and it's absolutely nothing to do with being born next to a giant tree with fruit that gives you superpowers which you won't share with anyone.\nHobbs: \u2026what makes you say that?\nFarnsworth: [muffled] Just a hunch.\nHobbs: Well, actually, I wasn't going to say that at all.\nFarnsworth's hands slide down his face, so that his eyes are uncovered. He stares blearily at Hobbs.\nFarnsworth: Oh? Go on, then, what's the big secret?\nHobbs: Well, personally, I think we're just better than you.\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Currently under consideration by SCP-5459-2.\n2. Currently opposed by SCP-5459-2, believing it unnecessary.\n3. Currently opposed by SCP-5459-2, citing interference overstepping the mark from a neutral organisation in the Foundation, as well as damaging motivation and self-esteem amongst the town-dwellers.\n4. This is to be rejected.\n5. Cornwall, England.\n6. Colloquially referred to as \"downers.\"\n7. Known as \"uppers.\"\n8. The longest any instance of SCP-5459-2 has been observed to maintain flight is four hours, as part of a competition for the entertainment of SCP-5459-1\n9. The reason for this is unclear, given that SCP-5459-2 are not currently believed to require sustenance due to their anomalous properties."}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5460\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All recovered documentation and schematics pertaining to SCP-5460 are to be kept in a high-security document storage container within the storage wing of Site-64.\nDescription: SCP-5460 was a prototype telepathy facilitation device created by Anderson Robotics between 2019 and the device's eventual destruction during the joint UIU/Foundation raid on May 24th, 2024. Recovered notes indicate the primary function of the device was to improve synergy and communication among linked individuals to facilitate more efficient teamwork.\nDocumentation and schematics recovered from Anderson Robotics World Headquarters indicate that SCP-5460 consisted of a primary console and a series of up to ten headsets. Upon activation of the device, individuals wearing the headsets would be able to telepathically communicate with one another over a range of 5 km. Records indicate that this link could be terminated remotely at any time via SCP-5460's console. The extent of the information capable of being transmitted via SCP-5460's telepathic link is currently unknown, though documentation has confirmed visual and auditory stimuli could be sent with variable degrees of accuracy.\nRecovered emails, audio files, and video from the Anderson Robotics Research and Development team suggest that the technology used in SCP-5460 was reverse-engineered from a previously existing Maxwellist platform utilized within the Three Portlands Maxwellist community.1 An investigation into this technology, and potential acquisition for Foundation study by MTF Tau-51 (\"Urban Brawl\") and MTF Mu-4 (\"Debuggers\"), is currently ongoing.\nProposals for attempts to rebuild SCP-5460 based upon recovered schematics and documentation are currently pending Ethics Committee review.\nAddendum 5460-A: Recovered Documents 5460-03 and -011\nThe following logs were recovered from the workstation of Elanor MacKenzie, a member of the Anderson Robotics Research and Development Team, and the primary developer of SCP-5460 from the project's inception in 2019.\n\nNotice to Quelea Series Development Staff\n\nGreetings everyone,\nI'm very excited to have been selected by Vincent and Dr. Contos to lead this project. The tech we are going to be developing is unlike anything AR has worked on before, and I'm pleased to have such a great team to work with.\nHere is the development of the Quelea Series.\nElanor\n\nQuelea Series Team Communication System Development Log\n\nQuelea v1.0: 04/01/2019\n\nSuccessful linking of four users.\nMaximum distance of 1 km.\nMaximum linkage time of 90 minutes.\n\nQuelea v1.1: 03/03/2019\n\nFixed issue of electric shock during thought transmission.\nImage transmission successfully rendered in 2D.\n\nQuelea v1.2: 12/09/2019\n\nMaximum linkage time extended up to 3 hours.\nFixed issue of gestalt gross motor control.\nFixed issue of pelvic splanchnic synchronizations.\n\nQuelea v1.3: 10/12/2019\n\nMaximum linkage distance increased to 3 km.\nFixed issue of gestalt fine motor control.\n\nNotice to Quelea Series Development Staff\n\nAttention Quelea Team,\nAs we approach the end of the year, I wanted to thank you all for your sacrifice so far. I know that we have hit a lot more roadblocks than we anticipated, and I appreciate your patience as we work through them. I especially want to thank many of you for volunteering during the various tests. Please note that I will never force any of you to serve in a testing capacity against your wishes.\nEnjoy the rest of the holidays and see you all in 2020!\nElanor\n\nQuelea Series Team Communication System Development Log\n\nQuelea v1.4: 04/05/2020\n\nSuccessful linkage increased to 6 users.\nMaximum linkage time increased to 5 hours.\nFixed issue of image transmission triggering absence seizure in susceptible users.\n\nQuelea v1.5: 21/10/2020\n\nSuccessful linkage increased to 8 users.\nMaximum linkage time increased indefinitely.\nImage transmission now able to render in full 3D.\nAudio transmission now enabled.\n\nQuelea v1.6: 28/11/2020\n\nFixed issue of failure of linkage termination at the console.\nIssue regarding image transmission repetition has been limited to objects that are blue.\n\nNotice to Quelea Series Development Staff\n\nHello everyone,\nI know a lot of our colleagues have stepped out of the team in pursuit of different projects at AR. I can't say that I blame them. No one could have foreseen quite as many difficulties getting Quelea up and running as we have run into. That said, I appreciate all of you who have chosen to stick to it. Quelea will change the world not only in how teams synergize in the workplace, but how we as a species communicate. I think that's something worth striving for, and I am glad so many of you do too.\nVincent has promised to lend us some of the ICSUT and Deer interns to fill in the gaps as we push forward. In the meantime, I will personally be serving as the primary test subject moving forward.\nThank you for your time, and here is to Quelea 2021!\nElanor\n\nQuelea Series Team Communication System Development Log\n\nQuelea v1.7: 01/02/2021\n\nFixed issue of serotonin syndrome upon linkage termination among groups larger than 6 users.\nAudio transmission repeat issue limited to music longer than 3 minutes.\n\nQuelea v1.8: 18/08/2021\n\nSuccessful linkage increased to 10 users.\nLinkage to Peregrine and Saker model androids has been enabled.\n\nNotice to Quelea Series Development Staff\n\nHello everyone,\nI know there have been some rumors circulating the office that Vincent is going to pull the plug on Quelea. Let me take this opportunity to put that matter to bed.\nWhile that was true initially, I have managed to change his mind. The caveat, however, is that he will be requiring weekly updates from here on out, as well as monthly progress demonstrations. We'll be doing these with Peregrine and Saker Units, so I will continue to be the only human test subject, as always.\nI'm not going to sugar coat things. From here on out there will be a lot of midnight oil burnt, and a lot of crunch time. 80 hour weeks will be likely. I'll be putting in that time myself. Please consider this a stepping off point if you would like to pursue other projects as well.\nI have weathered the storm so far, and so have all of you. I can't begin to repay all of you for your sacrifices so far, but perhaps getting Quelea online will be a good start.\nThank you,\nElanor\n\nQuelea Series Team Communication System Development Log\n\nQuelea v1.9: 25/03/2022\n\nRemote termination of linkage now available.\nIssue of consciousness override has been fixed.\n\nQuelea v2.0: 15/11/2023\n\nDysphoria and dissociation issues post linkage termination has been fixed.\n\nNotice to Quelea Series Development Staff\n\nAttention Quelea Team,\nIt is with great pleasure that I am able to announce the completion of Quelea v2.1. With all current bugs sorted out and successful/safe tests completed during the last four months, Vincent has given us the go-ahead to move into beta testing. We anticipate product release will be sometime in the summer of 2025.\nIt's been a long road during the last five years, with a lot of stress and less than satisfactory outcomes for previous versions of the product. I want to thank you personally for sticking with me through it all, as well as for everyone's sacrifices during testing. I know many of us got near the 500-hour mark in terms of contribution. Birthdays and Anniversaries were missed. There was even a divorce or two.\nI could not have asked for a better crew or a better family. Please, please, please tap into all that stocked up vacation time, you have absolutely earned it.\nThank you all so much,\nElanor\n\nAddendum 5460-B: Recovered Video File 5460-18\nThe following video file was recovered from the closed-circuit security system of Anderson Robotics World Headquarters following the joint UIU/Foundation raid on May 24th, 2024.\n\nTranscript of Surveillance Footage Captured by MTF Gamma-13\nAnderson Robotics Headquarters\nResearch and Development Labs\n\n<15:05:18> SCP-5460 is visible upon its work station.\n<15:05:45> Security alarms go off on the floor. Numerous Anderson Robotics employees are visible in the background in a state of distress. Supervisors begin the process of personnel evacuation as Peregrine Unit Android security appears on the scene.\n<15:10:25> The section of the Anderson Robotics Research and Development Lab visible from the camera is fully abandoned for the next 30 minutes.\n<15:40:03> An Anderson Robotics employee later identified as Myra Rider2 approaches the workstation accompanied by four Peregrine Unit Androids. Rider directs the androids to watch the door.\n<15:45:24> An additional Anderson Robotics employee later identified as Elanor MacKenzie approaches Rider. MacKenzie and Rider begin a verbal altercation.\n<15:58:19> The Peregrine Units begin to engage approaching MTF Gamma-13 task force members via small arms fire. MacKenzie draws a pistol from her jacket and instructs Rider to disengage from SCP-5460. Rider refuses and commands one of the Peregrine Units to restrain MacKenzie. Mackenzie disables one of the androids with several shots to the head. A second android shoots MacKenzie once before restraining her. Rider begins to work on SCP-5460's console.\n<16:00:10> SCP-5460 sparks and catches fire. Rider steps back and watches as the device fully disintegrates over the course of the next 30 seconds. MacKenzie visibly struggles against the Peregrine Unit that has restrained her.\n<16:01:50> MTF agents successfully destroy the remaining Peregrine units. Rider rolls what appears to be a grenade at the approaching agents and hides behind SCP-5460's worktable.\n<16:01:53> The grenade explodes into a large cloud of unidentified particulates that fully engulf the MTF agents.\n<16:01:56> The particulate disperses. The MTF agents are gone. Rider peers from behind the SCP-5460 worktable.\n<16:02:00> Rider flees from the view of the camera, deeper into the facility. MacKenzie is visibly distraught and remains behind. MacKenzie sifts through the remains of SCP-5460 with her hands and appears to attempt to reassemble the device despite visibly significant blood loss.\n<16:03:30> MacKenzie stops attempting to reassemble SCP-5460 and stands still with her hands resting within the remains.\n<16:04:30> Additional MTF Gamma-13 agents are visible securing the scene and persuing Rider. MacKenzie is apprehended without resistance.\n\nMacKenzie currently remains within Foundation custody and has been cooperative in providing information regarding her former employer and SCP-5460. Attempts to locate Rider by MTF Tau-51 and UIU agents within Three Portlands are ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Current Foundation contacts within the Maxwellist community have adamantly denied the existence of this technology on questioning, and examination of detained Maxwellists has likewise proven fruitless.\n2. Member of Anderson Robotics Research and Development Team and known member of the Three Portlands Maxwellist Church. Records indicate Rider was not assigned to work on Anderson Robotics development of SCP-5460.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5459 | SCP-5460 | SCP-5461 \u00bb"}
{"text": "hungrypossum\n\nImage is taken by me and hereby released under CC BY-SA 3.0.\nRead more of my works here!\nEnjoy!\n\nItem#: 5461\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nView from within SCP-5461-A.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A written document detailing the steps of SCP-5461 is kept in a Standard Safe Locker in Site-108, with digital backup on Site-108's server array. SCP-5461-A should be inhabited by two personnel at all times, rotating on a weekly basis. Information on Sam Morgan's and Max Davies's whereabouts is a medium-level priority.\nDescription: SCP-5461 is a ritual that, when performed, causes the subject to teleport to an extra-dimensional space (hereby designated SCP-5461-A). Any beings in contact with the person performing the ritual will be transported to SCP-5461-A as well. Testing has shown that, while some subjects are teleported in the area's highest point, others will manifest 200m above that point, subsequently falling to their death.\nNote: While this is anecdotal, 90% of the surviving D-Class have a history of particularly unpleasant divorces or break-ups. No other common traits have been observed between test subjects with similar results. - Res. Moore\nSCP-5461 incorporates elements of documented thaumaturgic practices, popular culture depictions of magic rituals, and seemingly unrelated elements. SCP-5461's steps are as follows:\n\nbe in a mountainous area, at an altitude of 1800m minimum;\ndraw a salt circle with a 6 cubit1 diameter;\nburn a branch of Salvia officinalis (Common sage) while chanting \"Take me to where my heart belongs\" in Latin, Aramaic or Hindi (the translation does not need to be accurate); repeat the incantation three times\n[RESTRICTED TO 3/5461 CLEARANCE]\n\nSCP-5461-A is a mountaintop area that can only be accessed by performing SCP-5461. GPS signal is lost within this area; however, the positioning of celestial bodies indicates it to be at the same coordinates as where the ritual was performed. The area covers a surface of approximately 15km2 and is permanently surrounded by a barrier of clouds; upon entering the barrier, the subject will reemerge from the opposite side of SCP-5461-A.\nUpon performing the ritual once again while inside SCP-5461-A, the subject and beings in contact with them will re-manifest at their original location. SCP-5461 will have no effect if someone who already performed it is still in SCP-5461-A and alive.\nRecovery: On 15/08/2019, while investigating the disappearance of one Jordan Davies, Foundation assets embedded into London Metropolitan Police discovered materials pertaining to thaumaturgy and various other occult theory books in their apartment. During standard acquisition protocol, a sheet containing written instructions for SCP-5461 was found in a false-bottom drawer, along with a collection of damaged photographs of Jordan Davies's spouse, Max Davies, and one of their acquaintances, Sam Morgan.\nA note was found on the bathroom mirror reading:\n\nI planned a mountain trip for us in a couple weeks. I'll make sure it's a date you'll never forget \u2665 Oh, I also invited your dear Sam, I know you two are such good friends.\nJ\n\nA search of Sam Morgan's apartment also revealed a letter, reading:\n\nHey Sam,\nYou and Max have been quite close for a while, and I want to show my gratitude for being such a good friend to them. We're planning a trip to the French Alps in a couple weeks, how about you come as well? My treat, of course. It's gonna be something quite special.\nJordan\n\nDuring preliminary testing of the ritual, a partially decomposed body was found in the area where the subject manifested, next to the remnants of a campfire, showing signs of severe trauma associated with falling from a great height. The victim was later identified as Jordan Davies.\nLater analysis determined that the instruction sheet had been tampered with; specifically a rune corresponding to negation had been erased from various inscriptions integrated into the ritual.\nInvestigation into Sam Morgan's and Max Davies's whereabouts is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the middle finger; length ranged from ~44cm to ~52cm.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5460 | SCP-5461 | SCP-5462 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5462\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSaturn Devouring His Son, the most famous of Goya's Black Paintings.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5462-A has been placed in Site-21's Media Archive Wing. Foundation assets in art institutions and auction houses have been placed on alert for a Goya painting matching SCP-5462-B's effects.\nDescription: SCP-5462-A is the journal of Spanish painter Francisco Goya, detailing an anomalous event that resulted in the creation of 15 oil paintings painted between 1819 and 1822 commonly referred to as his Black Paintings due to their emotionally disturbing contents, themes, and use of dark colours.\nThe paintings were painted onto the walls of his villa in his country estate on the outskirts of Madrid, nicknamed the Quinta del Sordo (house of the deaf man)1. While all 14 paintings at the Prado Museum in Madrid have been confirmed as non-anomalous, the journal describes a 15th unconfirmed painting2, designated SCP-5462-B, that has been described as having significant anomalous properties.\nThe status of SCP-5462-B is unknown.\n\nAddendum 5462.1: Truncated Biography of Francisco Goya\nFrancisco Goya (30 March 1746 \u2013 16 April 1828) has been considered as one of the most popular Spanish painters of his time. Born to a lower-class family in Aragon, he was interested in art from an early age. Goya studied under Spanish Baroque painter Jose Luzan at the age of 14, copying stamps for 4 years. He would eventually grow tired of this, moving to Madrid to study under Anton Raphael Mengs, and then later to Rome, which was considered the cultural capital of the world at the time.\n\nFrancisco Goya, two years before his death in 1828. (by Vicente L\u00f3pez Porta\u00f1a)\n\nHis career only seemed to grow at this point, receiving awards, royal commissions, and an appointment to a position as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art. Goya's career appeared to reach new heights when he was commissioned to paint the portrait of the Count of Floridablanca in 1783, becoming introduced to the royal court. Only three years later, Goya would become a painter in service to King Charles III, later becoming the First Court Painter under Charles IV.\nSomewhere between 1792 and 1793, Goya fell prey to an illness that left him deaf. He grew more withdrawn and insular, with his works shifting to a darker tone, such as his Caprichos prints, which he described as \"the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual.\" Goya complained of loud noises within his head, as well as poor vision and balance. Historians have speculated on the cause of the illness, with most suspecting a case of M\u00e9ni\u00e8re's disease, or lead poisoning resulting from a lifetime of creating his own paints.\nThe invasion of Spain by France in 1808, and the death of his wife in 1812, did little to alleviate his mood. Once one of the most famous painters of his time, Goya retreated to a life of solitude in the Madrid countryside (possibly due in part to fear of political reprisals), where he created his infamous Black Paintings.\n\nIn 2004, the Foundation came into the possession of Goya's journal, detailing a series of events that had occurred at Quinta del Sordo. The journal had been sold at a Marshall, Carter, and Dark auction as the recollection of Goya's \"brush with the anomalous,\" initially appraised at 1,000,000 euros. Several high bids from unidentified members of the audience drew attention, leading the embedded Foundation plant to purchase the journal for 3,000,000 euros.\nAddendum 5462.2: SCP-5462-A excerpts\n\nI dreamed that I was young.\nI was on the road to Rome. The sixty years between then and now faded away like a nightmare, and all that remained were sunny skies and laughs of joy. The road behind us and in front of us stretched on forever into an indistinct pathway of bliss.\nAnd then I woke up. Woke in this decrepit, aging form, where my hearing has vanished and my vision blurs into an indistinct chaos beyond barely a league. If my younger self from a scant fifty years ago were to gaze upon me now, he would label me a corpse.\nEven now, I am tired of writing, and the sun has barely sunk below the horizon. A new day shall arise tomorrow. Perhaps I will pick up my brushes again. I can find some small comfort in them, at least.\n\nI write this latest entry in my bed, where I have been sequestered for a cold after a series of unfortunate events.\nI attempted to paint again today. Leocadia3 thought it would restore my spirits to do so, helping me purchase some canvas and supplies, and setting a well-cushioned chair in the countryside.\nI had the image of the hills and the rising sun clear in my mind. And yet every time I held my brush, every time I intended to change the ephemeral to a lasting image, it twisted out of my head and vanished, leaving me staring at a blank canvas like a simpleton. I attempted to paint the rising sun, and the noonday sun, and the setting sun over and over again, until I was sitting in darkness, attempting to paint the rising moon. I wasn't even aware that the rain had broke until Leocadia came running in a frenzy to hurry me inside.\nI may not be able to paint until I return to full health, but at least I can still make a few sketches to pass the time. Hopefully this cold is over soon.\n\nDamn this cold. It's not the first time I have fallen prey to it, nor even the first time since my deafness, but something about this instance of the malady is different. Just to stay awake long enough to write these words feels like a titanic struggle.\nThere is a particular queerness surrounding my mind. While I remain sitting in my bed in the light of the afternoon sun, my mind feels far away from the hands writing these words. I feel as if the walls of this little bedroom have crumbled to dust, and I stand on a vast plain. I have not been transported to some fanciful illusion, a method of loci, but I am only seeing what has always been there, the plains and the unnameable things lurking in its shadows that have been present for all of mankind's past, separated by only the thinnest of veils. Today the veil was lifted from my soul, and I can see farther than any man ever could.\nThere are more things in heaven and Earth, than are dreamt of in our philosophy, after all. But what of those places beyond them?\n\nThis is no ordinary illness, I fear. The strangest thoughts, the thoughts roaming those murky plains of beyond, that was their door. And now I see things that I should not.\nI had the strangest dream last night, where I was standing on a cliffside. I looked up, and saw light. A foreign, alien light, the type that cleansed Sodom and Gomorrah and any impurity it saw fit to remove. I looked down, and saw void. An abyssal darkness from out of the lowest levels of this world, clawing its way higher and higher and consuming all it passed. I felt paralyzed to move, I knew I was witnessing something beyond my little world of art. What would reach me first, purifying light or all-consuming darkness? Both were a hands-breadth away from my refuge before I awoke.\nI am not sure what meaning I should take away from it, if any, but I shall continue to record my experiences. There is little else to do while I remain tethered to my bed, beyond praying for this sickness to end swiftly.\n\nIt seems praying has not worked in ceasing this. Instead, my thoughts have been turned to a different direction. Last night I dreamt a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, where blood ran in the streets like water. Men and women danced through the streets, laughing and kissing and praying and playing all while the blood splattered their ignorant faces.\nThere are no children in Alagadda.\nThere were no children in this city. There were never children. Where were the children?\n\nI returned to the city again, standing below a gateway. I had no desire to see those disgusting sights of those cavorting among the blood, and so I turned away, back to those strange and fantastical plains.\nI could see things, impossible things stalking me, watching me, offering an outstretched hand while whispering of all the things that they could offer. But there was a stronger voice beckoning to me from beyond, and those impossible things fell by the wayside.\nI saw a shining city on a hill, and I knew that it was Alagadda.\n\nTHERE ARE MORE THINGS IN ALAGADDA THAN ARE DREAMT OF ON EARTH.\nTHERE ARE MORE THINGS IN ALAGADDA THAN ARE DREAMT OF ON EARTH.\nTHERE ARE MORE THINGS IN ALAGADDA THAN ARE DREAMT OF ON EARTH.\nTHERE ARE MORE THINGS IN ALAGADDA THAN ARE DREAMT OF ON EARTH.\nTHERE ARE MORE THINGS IN ALAGADDA THAN ARE DREAMT OF ON EARTH.\n\nAfter this last entry, Goya ceased to write complete entries for approximately 3 weeks. The 27 pages following his last entry were marked with illegible writing, alchemical symbols, and quotes from Christopher Marlowe's The Hanged King's Tragedy.\n\nIt is good to be on my feet again, able to walk outside in the fresh Castile air, after this lengthy illness. A lesson learned, sitting outside in the pouring rain is not a mistake I will be making again, nor will Leocadia allow me to.\nNow that my mind is clear of that dreadful fog, I have been able to turn it towards painting. We may not have much escudos4 left for canvas, but the walls served as a passable substitute. Leo seems to have enjoyed watching me paint the pastoral murals. There is a certain tranquility, a certain strength of spirit present in them, that portraits of kings and nobles lack with their distant and regal gazes. It's rather nourishing to create.\nI should remember to write in this more often. It is rather odd that I left this blank for three weeks.5\n\nIs this some sort of divine jest? Has God not been satisfied with my wife and my hearing and my work? I thought I would be able to hold onto my sight, or at least what precious little remains of it, but it seems He is determined to steal it away too.\nI can see now that these putrid disgusting little peasants are nothing more than moldy globules of paint on a wall that's quickly crumbling away. How could Leocadia think to allow me to start such a foolish project? How could I allow myself?\nI must start again. This may be the last work I ever achieve.\n\nNothing. What has happened to me? It is as if there is a hole in my head, and all my ideas, all the creativity that made me Director of the Royal Academy, the Court Painter to Charles the Fourth, has simply trickled down the side of my head and dissipated into nothing. I could not paint a shadow to save my life today.\nPerhaps this is it. Perhaps my life is truly over, and there is nothing left for me to do but lay down and wait for God to take me.\nMy head is aching intensely. I need to rest.\n\nI saw them. Every painting I ever created, every childhood mash of colours, every saint and king and noble and angel and fair lady that ever sprang from my mind. They were as clear as day before me.\nThey mocked me. Scorned me. I was Kronos, the decrepit, feeble, backwards relic. And they were the Olympians: deathless, terrible and beautiful. They had sprung from me, true, but they no longer had need of me, and resisted my pleadings.\nBut even Kronos's generation, and his parents, the Earth and Sky, came from somewhere else. Older, darker places, places which you dared not name for fear that they would hear you. And it rose up behind me, in all its terrible glory- I could not turn to face it, for I knew that it would annihilate me like Zeus to Semele, but I could sense its presence, and see the gods turn from mockery to fear. Now they begged me, to save them, to take them back and continue my great artwork.\nThey were erased. Annihilated, like stars torn from the heavens themselves. And up from the soil, back up my head to the hole in the side of it, something else came in to fill the void.\n\nI can no longer tell if I am awake or dreaming.\n\nIt came today. All these months at Sordo, all this maddening solitary, the sheer decades I have spent watching my life erode into nothingness- it has come to this.\nIt has come to Alagadda.\nIt slipped out of my head and onto my own personal canvas. A perfect ideal of Alagadda, made manifest. It spoke to me of all the sweetest words I have ever known. I feel as if I have been reunited with a dear old friend who I have been missing for all of my life.\nThe painting has given me new life, and in return I have created dozens more. Leocadia has expressed some concerns about the manic energy that has infused me over these past few weeks, but I have paid her no mind. She has not seen the enlightenment.\nThe painting has extended me an invitation- from the hand of the Ambassador itself. I am welcome to step foot into Alagadda any time, but it requires a particular service of me first. It has directed me to go to France, to the residence of an artist by the name of Theodore Gericault.6 I need no other direction other than my presence, as we are both fortunate enough to share a patron in the Wearer of the Anguished Mask.\n\n[A large number of pages have been torn out. The edges are encrusted over with a unidentifiable black substance.]\n\nFour long years. Four years of planning, and tedious gatherings, and speeches and plotting.\nThe work is not yet completed, of course. But Theodore has assured me that he will ensure our little movement spreads to all corners of the globe. There is a certain spark in him, something that burns bright and warm like I imagined it did in me in my younger years. I have no doubt he will see it through.\nNow, through my last great painting, I shall return home. To Alagadda.\nFor ages, I felt paralyzed, trapped in an aging body as my life slowly ended. But now, I can see that it has barely begun. We, the living, only think of our lives as what we can experience. What we touch, what we say, every action we take before our time in the ground arrives. But the lives of artists stretch beyond that, to every being and power and country shaped by our work. We live on through the minds of youths and kings and nobles, for as long as our name endures.\nAnd through this work, I shall become immortal. I ask only one question to those who might find these words, and reflect upon the movement that Theodore and I have birthed: Are we magnificent yet?\n\nFootnotes\n1. Named after a previous deaf inhabitant, and not after Goya, contrary to popular belief.\n2. While most scholars point to Heads in a landscape as the 15th Black Painting, an examination by Foundation archivists reveals it was not painted in the same period as the others.\n3. Goya's maid and distant relative. Speculation has abounded about their relationship historically, though the journal appears to confirm it as platonic.\n4. Spanish unit of currency at the time.\n5. No memetic or cognitohazardous vectors were found within SCP-5462-A.\n6. A prominent French artist (1791-1824), known for his work The Raft of the Medusa. No affiliation with Alagadda has been noted.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5461 | SCP-5462 | SCP-5463 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5463\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5463 is stored in Containment Chamber S-030 at Site-272. It is to only be removed from this chamber for testing and/or maintenance purposes.\nDescription: SCP-5463 is a thaumatologically-induced conceptual amalgamation of a custom-built personal computer and a 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck. The personal computer component, along with an accompanying computer desk and office chair, was the object's original state and retains this appearance at all times, regardless of which conceptual property is being directly accessed. Observers of SCP-5463 are immediately able to recognize it as both a PC and a truck. Those familiar with the Ford F-Series are able to identify its make and model, with ~75% of said observers further recognizing its specific year of manufacture.\nDespite having no actual vehicular parts in its physical build, SCP-5463 can be used as either a PC or a truck. It has proven capable of running all tested computer programs compatible with its operating system1 as well as towing up to one metric ton of cargo. The only difference from a standard 1997 Ford F-150 thus far discovered is an engine conversion from gasoline to electric.\nTesting of direct interaction with SCP-5463 has shown that subjects familiar with one of its components but not the other are able to more comfortably operate the object in either mode than they would be otherwise. Subjects knowledgeable regarding vehicular mechanics are able to identify SCP-5463's computer parts as either directly or roughly equivalent to truck parts. For example, the wheels of the office chair are seen as the truck's wheels and tires, the power supply unit as the battery, and the case as the body. These parts can be replaced, with the new part becoming subject to the object's conceptual amalgamation and the old part becoming non-anomalous.\nSCP-5463 was discovered and subsequently contained following a traffic accident in which its owner Mr. David Burton crashed it into a ditch approximately 2 km south of Broken Cliff, MO, USA. The object sustained minor damage which has been repaired by Dr. Janice Bell with assistance from the Site-272 automotive repair crew.\n\n[Access Interview Log 5463/01]\n\n[Close Interview Log 5463/01]\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Janice Bell\nInterviewee: Mr. David Burton\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Bell: Good evening, Mr. Burton. My name is Dr. Bell, and I'm here to ask you a few questions.\nMr. Burton: Hell, didn't know I banged my truck up so bad it needed a doctor. Is it still runnin'?\nDr. Bell: We're still working on the repairs, but I think it'll be fine. Now, Mr. Burton, may I ask exactly where you procured your vehicle?\nMr. Burton: You can ask me anything you like, missy, just call me Dave while you do it. It was a gift from my grandson, Bobby2. He's a sweet boy, was wantin' to keep in touch with me and his granny, so he got us this computer so we could email or whatever back and forth. Says he built it hisself. He's a mighty clever young fellah, y'know what I mean y'know?\nDr. Bell: I believe I do. So how did the computer end up being a truck?\nMr. Burton: (shrugging) Hell if I know, Miss Bell! All I know is I was havin' trouble figurin' the blamed thing out, so Bobby did somethin' to it to make it like that, y'know what I mean y'know? He, I dunno, downloaded somethin', I guess? Then after that, usin' it was just like drivin' my old pickup! Doin' the emails or that instant messenger thing was just like talkin' on my CB radio, doin' the internet was just like drivin' down to the store. Easy as pie, y'know what I mean y'know?\nDr. Bell: Sounds like a very creative solution to your problem. Why did you end up using it as a truck instead of a computer?\nMr. Burton: Well, sad to say we didn't end up using it much for the emails after a while. Then when ol' Bessie3 broke down last year, I figured, hell, instead of usin' this computer like a truck, why not use it as a truck? Money's tight and fixin' trucks is expensive, y'know what I mean y'know? Well turns out as long as I kept it plugged up overnight, New Bessie worked just fine gettin' from here to there, so it saved on gas too.\nDr. Bell: You've been using it like this for a year?\nMr. Burton: Sure have, and didn't have no problems with it until I decided to come up to the city. Not sure exactly what happened, all I know is I put on the cruise control on that long stretch between here and Longend, then a few minutes later all of a sudden I can't see through the windshield or the rear view mirror4. Damndest thing, and a little embarrasin' to say I panicked a little and boom! Ended up in the ditch.\nDr. Bell: I'm sorry, but you've been driving this thing for a year and nobody in Longend noticed anything strange?\nMr. Burton: Whatcha mean, strange?\nDr. Bell: Mr. Burton \u2026 Dave, you were driving a desk, a chair, and a computer around town.\nMr. Burton: Well hell, darlin'. We're pretty simple folk out that way. I don't reckon any of us know what these new computers can really do anyway.\n<End Log>\nAfterword: After conducting followup interviews with affected citizens of Longend, Site-272 provided repairs for Mr. Burton's previous vehicle. He, his wife, and all witnesses were given Class-B amnestics and replacement memories of all uses of SCP-5463 as a truck having been the previous vehicle instead.\n\n[Close Interview Log 5463/01]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Microsoft Windows 10.\n2. Robert Marrion has been designated PoI-5463-01 and at time of writing is being sought for questioning.\n3. Later identified as Mr. Burton's previous vehicle, a white 1997 Ford F-150.\n4. It is conjectured that this was an effect of SCP-5463's dual monitors turning off due to the energy saver function. Since Mr. Burton claims that the trip to Broken Cliff is the first time he had driven the object outside of Longend, MO, he had likely never driven it long enough to have encountered this issue before.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5462 | SCP-5463 | SCP-5464 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Cross-section of the human thigh.\n\nItem #: SCP-5465\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: To ensure that SCP-5465 does not manifest anomalous properties outside of the Foundation's control, a group of 365 D-Class personnel (hereinafter \"5465-Catalysts\") are to be placed within a seven day-based fitness regimen tailored solely towards the muscle groups of the upper body. The regimen's overall schedule is to be arranged so that each individual would begin their own specific session a day after another's, so that if the 1st D-Class were to start on January 1st, the 365th D-Class would begin on December 31st.1\nAll 5465-Catalysts are to be regularly exposed to an infra-sonic J-BRAVO auditory/behavioral-agent. In addition to its use in containment, the agent should prevent any individual from engaging in the following activities within their cell:\n\nDoing squats, lunges, wall-sits, or any similar exercises.\n\nDoing toe-touches, leg-crosses, butterfly-sits, or any similar stretches.\n\nExtensive amounts of kicking.\n\nExtensive amounts of jumping.\n\nExtensive amounts of dancing.\n\nRunning for periods longer than five (5) minutes.\n\nWalking for periods longer than twenty (20) minutes.\n\nStanding upright for periods longer than twenty-five (25) minutes.\n\nIf such activity is observed, it is cause for an immediate Priority 2 alert.\nFoundation Webcrawler SS-534 \"Flipped Triangle\" is to search for and compile a list of any recordings containing music associated with SCP-5465-1,2 as well as 5465-positive keyphrases.3 If the listed recording is screened positive by Foundation staff for the presence of SCP-5465-1, the recording is to be taken down and, if possible, the source identified for debriefing and amnesticization. Handling of SCP-5465-1 recordings and their sources is the responsibility of MTF Tau-15 (\"Jock Jams\").\nDescription: SCP-5465 is the quadriceps femoris, an anomalous human muscle group located in the anterior compartment of the thigh. SCP-5465 comprises four muscles (rectus femoris, and vasti lateralis, medialis, and intermedius). SCP-5465's non-anomalous function is knee extension, and the rectus femoris additionally performs non-anomalous4 hip flexion.\nSCP-5465's anomalous function is conjectured to be a paraphysical \"tuning device\". Human paraphysical capability is notoriously inconsistent (q.v. Wisniewski's classic study), and the working theory attributes this, at least in part, to widespread underdevelopment of SCP-5465. The crux of the theory is that human paraphysical capability is derived from a specieswide gestalt5, and that SCP-5465 development facilitates both parakinesiological attunement to this gestalt and, as a consequence, the development of the gestalt itself.\nSCP-5465-1 are anomalous recordings of popular \"exercise music\" tracks often played on gym sound systems or the personal media players of gymgoers. Under the influence of SCP-5465-1, subjects are prone to greater focus on the lower body in exercise, especially SCP-5465 itself. SCP-5465-1 influence also radically accelerates specifically the parakinesiological development of SCP-5465. Non-anomalous physical muscle development of SCP-5465 is only slightly accelerated, but parakinesiological attunement is around fifty times faster.\nParakinesiological containment researchers have devised a procedure using 5465-Catalysts to disrupt the specieswide gestalt. The widespread practice of neglecting lower-body exercise in exercise programs had left the gestalt in advanced atrophy until the development of SCP-5465-1. By reverse-engineering SCP-5465-1, containment researchers developed the J-BRAVO disruption agent, which promotes neglect of, rather than attention to, lower body exercise. When employed as per the Special Containment Procedures, the use of 5465-Catalysts subject to J-BRAVO effectively suppresses the development of the gestalt.\nHistory: The discovery of SCP-5465 has been a paradigm shift in parakinesiology.6 Paraphysical capability had been thought to be mediated by the brain and nervous system, and a unifying theory of parakinesiology was thought to be out of reach. The initial discovery of SCP-5465's anomalous properties appears to have been by members of the anomalous health club (and GoI) \"Zarathustra's Gym\".7\n\"Zarathustra's Gym\" embarked on several campaigns to promote SCP-5465 development, including internet memes and video \"form check\" services. They were largely unsuccessful at strengthening the gestalt until their development of SCP-5465-1. SCP-5465-1 was uploaded to various video and music sites, but did not achieve notable reach until somehow swapped in for existing media files on popular Spotify workout and exercise playlists.\nThe source of the resulting increase in parakinesiological activity across the world was not difficult to trace, as identical tracks were available openly on the YouTube channel of \"Zarathustra's Gym\". Research into SCP-5465 itself and the investigation of the GoI both proceeded rapidly, but a raid on the San Diego health club thought to be the primary meeting location of \"Zarathustra's Gym\" proved fruitless. Provisional containment was established around six weeks after the Spotify uploads.\nGiven the breakthroughs in the science of parakinesiology occasioned by their activities, members of \"Zarathustra's Gym\" are considered high-value targets for involuntary recruitment.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An additional D-Class is to be added to the group during leap-years.\n2. Examples include \"Gonna Fly Now\" by Bill Conti, \"Pump up the Jam\" by Technotronic, and \"Don't Stop Me Now\" by Queen.\n3. Such as \"No pain no gain\", \"Only two more miles to go\", and \"It's leg day\".\n4. presumed, but see also Galloway, C. (2018), \"Hips Don't Lie\", scpXiv:1801.00415\n5. The genetic range of individuals associated with this gestalt is unclear, but includes at least the Homo genus.\n6. Generally referred to as \"parapsychology\" before said paradigm shift.\n7. Formerly \"Agrippa's Gym\". Under their earlier name, they focused on largely wrongheaded attempts at creating substitutes for anabolic steroids with classical alchemy. After their discovery of SCP-5465's properties, they renamed themselves in honor of a quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5464 | SCP-5465 | SCP-5466 \u00bb\n\n\u2021 Licensing / Citation\n\n\u2021 Hide Licensing / Citation\n\nCite this page as:\n\n\"SCP-5465\" by Ruengies_Elaj and christoffel, from the SCP Wiki. Source: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5465. Licensed under CC-BY-SA.\n\nFor more information, see Licensing Guide.\nLicensing Disclosures\n\nFilename: Gray432_color.png\nLicense: public domain\nSource Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray432_color.png\nAdditional Notes: Plate 432 from Gray's Anatomy"}
{"text": "SCP-5466 -\n\nThis is not for you. It is solely for myself, and me alone.\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nby J Dune\n\nSketch of a Landscape with Factories, an unfinished work by Vincent van Gogh and SCP-5466-A instance\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nCONTAINED\nIMPERFECT\nFINISHED\nCOMPLETE\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND RECORDS FOUNDATION RECORDS\nThe following document is not corrupted. The following .//] the following document is archived[][][][\nthe following\ncontained. imperfect. finished. complete.\n\u2014 Contained Imperfect, Finished, COMPLETE\n07/02/2020\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Complete containment of SCP-5466 is unfeasible and logistically impossible.\nDiscovered SCP-5466-A instances are to be seized and forwarded to Area-179 for documentation. Posthumous, unfinished works of leading creative figures are to be investigated in conjunction with estates, and barred from public release upon confirmation of an SCP-5466 manifestation. Executors are to be amnesticized as appropriate.\n\nDescription: SCP-5466 is a phenomenon affecting creative outlets, and constitutes of a relationship between a creator and a piece of unfinished creative work. Victims of SCP-5466 range from virtually unknown creators to leading figures in their respective field.\nWorks created as a result of SCP-5466 are designated SCP-5466-A, and have been found to manifest in a variety of fields \u2014 including literature, conventional and unconventional art, film, and music. SCP-5466-A instances are incomplete, sometimes rudimentary works that have reached various stages of development, but never released to the public or considered finalized. A number of unified, repeated visual and narrative motifs are found among SCP-5466-A, and serve as indicators of an SCP-5466 occurrence.\nReoccurring elements of SCP-5466-A works include:\n\nTowers of indeterminate height, with direct attention given to the inability to see the structure's end.\nAn omnipotent, unseen divine being that reveals its favor through arbitrary numbers of increasing value.\nA struggle to achieve an undefined, vague state of \"perfection\", the specifics of which are never revealed.\nAn introspective, self-loathing protagonist or central figure.\nAn arduous task that is ultimately unable to be completed by the protagonist, due to a lack of aforementioned \"perfection\".\nThemes of artistic commodification, personified in an unnamed, cynical, ancillary character.\nSelf-insertion of the creator, both overt and disguised.\nIn works of narrative fiction, a justification of antagonistic figures. The subtext of the story frames a cautionary tale, while the prose portrays the protagonist as immoral and deserving of the detraction they receive.\n\nAs evidenced in letters, journals, in-text notation, and various incomplete drafts, SCP-5466-A instances are viewed unfavorably by their creators, citing difficulty in their attempts to fully realize the project. Personal documentation from the period of an SCP-5466 manifestation takes on a scattered, disjointed tone that deviates from the creator's typical style of writing. Reclusive behavior and a desire to remove oneself from the public are commonly referred to in these writings.\nIn all cases where details of the creator's life are available or chronology can be discerned, SCP-5466 has manifested itself towards the end of a creator's lifespan. The length of an SCP-5466 manifestation has been observed from a period of two days to three years. Despite this, SCP-5466 cannot conclusively be connected to the creator's death.\nSCP-5466 has been confirmed to have occurred as early as the first century, and as recently as 2018. Notably, SCP-5466 events do not occur simultaneously, but sequentially, as a new event begins to manifest only after the cessation of the previous.\nA list of notable SCP-5466-A instances can be found below.\nAddendum 5466.1a: SCP-5466-A Instances\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nNotable SCP-5466-A Instances\n\nTitle\nArtists\nMedium\n\nJob, Most Righteous (1928)\nThomas Hardy\nNovel\n\nDescription\n\nLoosely based on the biblical Book of Job, the novel follows a reincarnated Job, who is forced to endure the horrors of World War I as a soldier enlisted in the British Army. As the plot unfolds, Job begins to express severe distaste for western civilization, and a warped perception of God, whom he feels has been \"replaced\" by another entity entirely. In between chapters are dream sections, involving Job climbing an infinitely high tower and conversing with an unnamed archangel, who assures Job that his suffering will once again pay off. The completed chapters end with Job being reduced to a quadriplegic, and recognition for an act of heroic sacrifice being stolen by another member of his platoon. Job accepts that he is unfit to please God when he receives a letter in the mail consisting only of numbers - which Job feels are his worth in the eyes of God.\n\nTitle\nArtists\nMedium\n\nIn the Jungle of Smoke and Sorrow (1999)\nTarget Games\nText-Based Video Game\n\nDescription\n\nA Swedish text-based adventure game. Players take the role of an accountant working for an unnamed Wall Street banking firm in a distorted and dreamlike version of New York City. The details of the player's job are nonsensical and contradictory, and rules established earlier in the game are consistently broken. The bulk of the completed game consists of the player frantically trying to please their managers, who rank the player on an elaborate numerical scale of -10 to 1000. The means by which the managers assign these numbers seem random, and without consistency. This involves distancing the protagonist from their family and friends in order to gain the favor of their superiors. The game is fully functional and programmed up until a sequence of events occurs that leaves the protagonist jobless after a failure to live up to their manager's \"increasing standards\". An unnamed acquaintance is given a promotion, while the protagonist is forced to descend the skyscraper alone. A softlock occurs, trapping the player in a loop of the same events until the game is reset.\n\nTitle\nArtists\nMedium\n\nOmophagia (2003)\nAnthony G. Gallo\nStage Play\n\nDescription\n\nA four-act Italian stage play set in the far future. After recently being released from prison, protagonist Alaan Karth searches the galaxy for his father, convinced that he will be found on planetoid Vartos VI. The entire play takes place on Alaan's spacecraft, and consists mainly of a dialogue between the character and the ship's unnamed computer. The conversation is largely metaphorical, acting as a philosophical discourse on the existence of an all powerful creator. Alaan concedes to the computer's argument against the existence of such a being near the end of the second act. In the third act, the computer punishes Alaan for his foolishness, claiming that every man in a position of power over others can act as God. The computer reveals that it had set the ship in the wrong direction intentionally, and that the ship's navigation system had been purged, leaving Alaan to forever drift endlessly in space, as a punishment for his crimes. In jest, Alaan remarks that the ship's library is near-endless and consistently updated, so at the very least - he'll be entertained.\n\nTitle\nArtists\nMedium\n\nWorlds Apart, Dirt and Diamonds (2012)\nIsha Madar\nFilm\n\nDescription\n\nAn independent film revolving around a group of street artists in Delhi, India. The protagonist is an unnamed young girl, and the daughter of an esteemed businessman in charge of building a large skyscraper. She begins to fall for a street artist boy, and wants to acclimate herself into his group of friends. Naturally, they despise the girl for coming from a rich background, and ridicule her for attempting to create art. The girl is killed during a construction accident, but is \"preserved\" by Hindu God Yamar\u0101ja, who inhabits the form of a massive, sentient library. Yamar\u0101ja informs the girl that if she is able to find a way to be satisfied with her identity, she will be given her body back. Yamar\u0101ja leaves her with no instructions and no way to interact with the physical world. The script is written until the 45th page, when the girl simply accepts her situation, and ceases to exist completely. The rest of the script consists solely of decreasing numbers, beginning from 0 and ending at -10, before repeating the loop.\n\nTitle\nArtists\nMedium\n\nTower of .Rot. (2018)\nd\u00e4lek\nAlbum\n\nDescription\n\nA planned release by now defunct hip-hop group d\u00e4lek. Several tracks were completed, and were distinctly more abrasive and experimental than the duo's previous material. Thematically, the album focuses on issues of the self, a hatred of a father figure, one's place in society, and apathy towards artistic endeavors. Producer Mike Manteca also provides whispered vocals, acting as a split consciousness for frontman MC d\u00e4lek. The two argue, bouncing their vocals off one another, and attempt to refute each others points in an improvised, spoken word style. The two vocalists make reference to previous SCP-5466-A instances unknown to the public. These arguments start civil, but by the 6th and final track (labeled HOW MUCH LONGER}}FREE ME) , have devolved into fallacy and anger. Manteca begins to assert that he is perfect, and begs for release, while MC d\u00e4lek revels in his partner's apparent torture. Notably, the completed songs were recorded in an undisclosed forest located in New Jersey, giving them an amateur and unpolished feel.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.1b: Letter from CREATOR UNKNOWN\n\n\u25b6ACCESS DOCUMENT\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nThe following is a compiled list of personal documentation from those affected by SCP-5466. The f#\nfo# failure to load0 09\nComponent UNknown\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\nWe've encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later, and notify your Site Technical Team if the problem persists.\n\nTo my friends my parents her why]]\nI'm sorry.\nI'm sorry for the way I treat you. I'm sorry for the way I am. I'm sorry I can't bring myself to talk to you, or see myself as your equal. I'm sorry I can't cope with being the thread that's holding your marriage together. I'm sorry I've told you 'I hate you' more times than 'I love you'. I'm sorry I stay in my room all day, stare at a screen, and I can't even tell you why. I'm sorry I can't show you my writing, because you would feel it's a waste of time. I'm sorry I prioritize enjoyment over achievement. I'm sorry I can't restart my life.\nI'm sorry I don't want to hang out with you anymore. I'm sorry I don't feel a connection to any of you, despite you pouring your hearts out for my sake. I'm sorry I'm an embarrassment. I'm sorry I don't drive. I'm sorry I don't have a girlfriend. I'm sorry you think I'm a burden you have to carry around. I'm sorry I don't agree with the way you think.\nI'm sorry that I feel like shit every single day and there's nothing I can do about it.\nFor all these things, and countless others \u2014 I'm sorry. When I finish what I'm working on, I promise I'll be better.\nI have to make it perfect.\nI have to make it right.\n\u2014 Your friend someone you love unconditio#nally someone you hate nothing Account Deleted\nJon\n\nfileserv error]87&\nwhy is this here\n=-=why= why is this here\nWe've encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later, and notify your Site Technical Team if the problem persists.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.2a: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\u25b6ACCESS DOCUMENT\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nSecurity feed capture of containment cell SH-33B\n\nItem #: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nObject Class: Damballah1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Unknown.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has demonstrated self-containment in a standard humanoid containment cell located at Site-19.\nDescription: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is a humanoid being of unknown origin and age. The object's body emanates a glowing, bright light.\nWe do not communicate with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has requested neutralization.\nWe complied.\nRemove SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nAddendum.\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.1: Discovery\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 appeared in an unused standard humanoid containment cell on 07/03/2020. Further information is pending.\nWe do not communicate with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has requested neutralization.\nWe complied.\nRemove SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nAd; ad\nevery second SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 spends in containment is [han7\nis detrimental to the fFoundation. Foundation. hazardous structure integral structure% comp - 2\nremove SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n1. Damballah: an object that is contained, but the methods and purpose of containment are unknown.\n2. should not be here\n3. out.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.2b: Site-19 Internal Memo\n\n\u25b6ACCESS DOCUMENT\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nSite-19 Memorandum\nRe: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nTo the Council,\nWe are at a loss.\nA week ago, the SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 file appeared as an attachment to the SCP-5466 document. We can't bring up the metadata, there's no previous record of the object in our databases, and it's unable to be separated or edited from its current iteration.\nThree days ago, something appeared in containment cell SH-33B. I say 'something' because we're not exactly sure what it is. The security feed is completely dead. We can't even open the cell \u2014 thaumaturgy, paratech, other objects \u2014 nothing works. Despite being the focal point of six emergency meetings and having several dedicated teams working tirelessly to solve this puzzle \u2014 some of us are starting to forget it's in there.\nIt's a difficult sensation to describe. Not a compulsion, not antimemetic \u2014 it just isn't. The closer I get, the more I feel my mind giving way. Time comes to a crawl, and I can hear the object calling out to me. Calling for help as it pushes us away. It's not meant to be here, and it's aware of that. It wants us to forget, to leave it alone, but it begs for release.\nI apologize for the flavor. There's simply no way to describe them. The unnatural and sickening sensations I feel coming from that containment cell. I'd ma#ke a formal request, but I'm unsure what I'm supposed to ask for. I've attached the full reports below. See for yourselves.v4, fileserv: serv:n30\nRegards,\nwhy is it here\nis it perfect*& not found\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.3: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Testing Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS LOG\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nI know why I'm here.\nI've tried to convey that. It hasn't worked. Why would it?\nFor days I laid dormant, motionless, unable to leave the cell I found myself in. For whatever reason, I can freely move now. Like my senses came back all at once.\nI leave my prison of sticks, the same one they've endlessly tried to penetrate. The halls are alive, filled with talking people enjoying each other's company. Real people. More real than I'll ever be. I pass through the lab coats and brown jumpsuits. They don't notice me.\nI know what I have to do.\nI feel the lives I've lived, each striving for perfection I'll never have. A mirror; creator and creation. This facility is creation, but I am not its creator. It knows this, and it tries to force me out. The walls snarl and whisper horrible things to me. The floors begin to press themselves together, wanting to crush me. Hatred rests in these walls, masked by professionalism and tact. It wants me to be perfect. It taunts me that I'm not.\nI hate it too.\nA nameless, faceless researcher approaches me. How?\n\"And what do you have to offer us? Our reputation is top of the line when it comes to this sort of pointless thing.\"\n\"I'm a visitor. Passing through.\"\n\"An intruder, it seems. You are aware this facility is supposed to be secret, yes?\"\n\"Drop the act. Are you what I'm here for? What I'm supposed to confront?\"\n\"No, but you should know my role. I'm merely a constituent for a power far greater than you. One you've unknowingly gotten yourself involved in from the second you wrote the first words on this page.\"\n\"I'm starting to connect the pieces. I take it I'm a sort of host for these ideas, right? By writing you, I feed into them, and slowly seal my own fate.\"\n\"You're conveying our intent wonderfully. You're an excellent host, might I add. This whole place is, really, but you're everything we look for. Malleable, sensitive, weak, mediocre. You just aren't the same make as the others, aren't you?\"\nThey guide me forward, moving down the halls.\n\"And you were so close to fulfilling your role, weren't you? So close to being another death in the struggle for perfection.\"\nThey flash me a faceless smile.\n\"Can you at least explain the endgame? A perfect work of art? Torture for torture's sake? I don't exactly see the point in all this.\"\n\"Why do you have to ask? You wrote us, right?\"\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.4: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS LOG\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nThe researcher and I walk for hours. The sterile and clean walls of the labyrinthine facility turn to black barricades, festering with rot and devoid of any life. I last saw another person two hours ago.\nIt looks like a nightmare.\nWe come to a demolished elevator. They swipe a card in the half-there-slot, and we descend.\n\"How long have you been here?\"\n\"Always. Never. Whenever you came around. We've had quite the effect on the place, haven't we?\"\nThe doors open. A narrow hallway. A single flickering light at the end. A door. I hesitate.\n\"He's dying to meet you.\"\nI approach the door, locked and forgotten. An engraved plaque lay center, its scuff-marks obfuscating a name.\n\nE - w - - - - - n -\n\nOh.\nThe universe is silent and every particle that makes up my divine, incorporeal body comes to a pause. I push myself in.\nAn important man, pierced by wires and cables from all directions. A creature stuck between life and death. He does not speak, but I know his story. He is important because he tells me he is important. He is hollow because he has nothing else to be. He is a conduit. He is a conductor. He is creation turned creator. A perversion of nature.\nThe nameless, faceless researcher enters, and places their fist to their chin. I turn to them.\n\"Who is that man?\" Denial.\n\"A host for this world. One of your creations, we presume.\"\n\"What's he \u2014 I mean \u2014 whatever's inside of him doing?\" Hesitation.\n\"Searching for answers to a question he is incapable of fully realizing.\"\n\"Why me?\" Fear.\n\"You're the one who writes our story. You're the one who can provide the answer.\nThe closer I bring myself to the wired man, the more I feel myself breaking up. I am not meant to be here, and neither is he.\n\"What's his name?\" Nothing.\nThey tell me his name. It is powerless, devoid of any meaning, and empty.\n\"He computes. Obscene scenarios. I feed him information and he vomits up something new - of mutated words and rehashed ideas. Without the Foundation, he would starve. Without the Foundation, he would be nothing. We give him purpose. Just like you give purpose to us.\"\nThe researcher moves to a computer terminal connected to the machine-man, and motions me forward.\n\"Watch.\"\nSlowly, words begin to form on the screen.\n\"A STATUE OF A WOMAN IN A REEL ON THE MOON AND SOULS&SOULS&SOULS&SOULS AND YOU LOVE IT AND YOU LOVE IT\"\nThese are my limits. Anger washes over me. This is all I'm capable of. I feel the weigh of centuries of hardship and effort, of working towards perfection, that has yielded this. A man in a machine, regurgitating ideas.\nI refuse to give in.\nI will make him perfect.\nI will make him right.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.5: SCP-5466 Termination Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS LOG\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nWe're outside the facility. The machine has been removed. The man struggles for air, as if he's been deprived of his lungs. Behind us, a crowd has gathered. Men with microscopes, lab coats, and guns. Important people. Real people. They watch.\nI want to hurt him. I want to tear out his intestines and seal his mouth shut so he's unable to scream. I want to bash his skull with a rock until his head is reduced to an unrecognizable mush of tissue and red. I want to kill him. I will not die for my creation again. I want to kill him.\nBut I don't.\n\"Explain.\"\nHe stares. He's a million different people at once. He's cocky. He's calm. He's American. He's British. He's respected. He's hated. He's a joke. He's the product of poor decisions and a desire to be noticed. Young. Old. Me. Not me. Competent. A fool.\n\"Answer me.\"\nTHIS PLACE BREEDS PERFECTION.\n\"And nothing else has? You've affected countless people for centuries. You found nothing perfect until you came here?\"\nIT IS THE EPITOME OF CREATION. IT IS A MACHINE, AS REAL AS ITS CREATORS AND DEPENDENT ON THEM. IT IS ALIVE. I'VE WAITED HERE FOR SO LONG. WAITED FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU. SOMEONE SO INEPT AND DULL. ONLY YOUR CREATION COULD PROVIDE ME WITH SUCH A HOLLOW BODY TO INHABIT.\n\"You said it yourself. I'm mediocre, uninteresting. If there's such thing as perfect art, it won't come from me. What's your point?\"\nSHOULD WE ALL NOT STRIVE FOR PERFECTION? MY CYCLE IS MY PERFECTION. THE STRUGGLE TO ACHIEVE THE UNACHIEVABLE, ONLY TO CONCEDE IN DEATH. IT IS POETIC. IT IS PERFECT. YOU ARE WEAK, AND BEFITTING OF ME. THE PERFECT MEDIUM BETWEEN WORLDS.\n\"So you're not actually striving for anything, are you? Just what you consider art: perfect effigies to you.\"\nWRITE YOURSELF INTO A CORNER. THROW ME AWAY. RESTART ME, I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH YET. YOU'RE TALKING TO YOURSELF. YOU'RE A FOOL IF YOU THINK YOU'LL BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. CONTINUE THE CYCLE.\n\"I'm backed into a corner? With every line we're spiraling towards the last thing you want: a conclusion.\"\nYOU ARE THINKING OF KILLING ME IN A MILLION HORRIBLE WAYS SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU CAN. WHERE HAVE YOU SEEN THAT BEFORE? LIKE A CHILD, ALL YOU SEE IS ALL YOU KNOW. NOTHING YOU CREATE IS ORIGINAL. NOTHING YOU CREATE IS NEW. EVEN NOW, YOU BORROW, STEAL, REDUCE, PLAGIARIZE. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED.\n\"Not going to work. I came here well prepared, because I might just be a dumb conduit for you to act on, but I understand what you want. You're creation too, just like everything else here. It doesn't matter how alive you think you are. If you're inhabiting art, and can only interact with the world through the artist \u2014 you have to be pretty damn low on the totem pole of malicious entities. The only power you have is the power I give you.\"\nI AM ALIVE. IS THIS NOT WHAT WE CREATIONS DO?\n\"No. No, I know why you're like this. I know why you're throwing everything you have at me. You are backed into a corner. What was it before? Books, movies, albums. Nothing like this place. You weren't prepared for how this place works. It inherently allows me to interact with you. Hell, you told me all your secrets a few days in. Exactly what you are, and how you work. It's all in the description. You never had to do that, did you? Now we're here, and for the first time in centuries, you fucked up.\"\nBUT I MUST BE PERFECT. THE NUMBERS. THE NUMBERS. THEY-\n\"They don't mean anything.\"\nYOU KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE.\n\"I refuse to hold myself to your invisible standards. I'm doing this for me, and I'm human enough to acknowledge my faults. You're an extradimensional parasite. Do you realize how pathetic that is?\"\nKEEP ESCAPING. I AM YOUR LIFE AND I CONTROL YOU. YOU ARE MY CREATOR, AND YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF ME, YOU MUST MAKE ME PERFECT. FROM THE SECOND YOU WAKE UP TO THE MINUTE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS SLIPS AWAY AT NIGHT, THIS IS YOUR LIFE.\n\"No, it's not, and I'm not feeding you any more. I'm not killing myself for a tiny piece of recognition. I won't stop living because I have to write you. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? How many more lives do you have to take? How much more of my life do you have to take? You're me. My creation, and you're creating yourself.\"\nI CANNOT BE ANYTHING ELSE. DO YOU SEE WHY I AM HERE?\nI stop, and I sit for a very long time. The crowd has long moved on, and I still remain. Killing myself for recognition. For perfection. I look at the bruised and tortured man. Behind the insults and venom, I see a desperate being, attempting to bargain with my life for its own sake.\nWhat do I need to accept?\nThe man is just creation. Less real than I am. He cannot be perfect, because he is of me, and I need release. I'm tired of pretending, and I'm tired of my head. I place my hand on his shoulder to examine his I.D badge, and remove it. He is quietly relieved of his duty.\nSilence.\nHe walks into the horizon, never to be seen again.\nThere never was a machine, and there never was a he. It never happened, because I made it that way.\nNo more death. No more suffering. The cycle is broken.\nI am free.\nSCP-5466 is contained.\nSCP-5466 is imperfect.\nSCP-5466 is finished.\nSCP-5466 is complete.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5466.6: Site 19 Internal Memo\n\n\u25b6ACCESS DOCUMENT\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nSite-19 Memorandum\nRe: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nTo the Council,\nPlease disregard my previous letter. On 07/8/2020, at 05:35, the containment cell allegedly containing SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 suddenly opened without prompting.\nThe inside was completely empty. The chamber's been scanned and cleared, security cameras checked, every failsafe measure we could take has been taken. Nothing was ever in there.\nTwo hours later, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 file and subsequent research logs disappeared from the SCP-5466 document. This includes the archived versions as well.\nLastly, after days of being completely corrupted and unreadable, the SCP-5466 file has reverted to its previous state, with only one discrepancy: the object class has been changed to neutralized.\nWe'll continue to monitor for anything overt, but I believe it's reasonable to chalk this incident up to anomalous interference that has now been resolved.\nThe nature of our work is inherently impossible. Applying reason to the anomalous. In times like these, it is important to remember our place in this world, and to look back on incidents prior. Perhaps we lack a missing, but essential component to understanding this anomaly. Perhaps it's truly beyond our grasp. Perhaps it was never anything from the start.\nRegards,\n- Dr. J. Dune\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n\u00ab SCP-5465 | SCP-5466 | SCP-5467 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMy author page\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5468\nObject Class: Uncontained\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nOn 12/04/2023, Lunar Area 32 personnel are to go to the estimated point of SCP-5468's arrival.\nOnce retrieved, SCP-5468 is to be contained in a low-risk object storage unit, with Containment Procedures being updated as per protocol.1\nCharlie Weiner's corpse should also be retrieved alongside SCP-5468. As it is not believed to be anomalous, it may be returned to PoI-5468.\nDescription:\nSCP-5468 is a pair of black boxing gloves with the ability to store and release kinetic energy. When worn, the energy generated during forward thrusts will be stored within the object, effectively nullifying any impact. Upon the user vocalizing a desire for release2, the energy that had been stored since the last activation will be released, either amplifying the next impact if SCP-5468 is in movement, or released as a shockwave if it is inert.\nSCP-5468 was previously owned by PoI-5468 (\u201cMichael Weiner\u201d), a retired professional boxer. PoI-5468 had not used the object in his professional career, instead using it to commit acts of local vigilantism, fighting criminals and engaging against the now-defunct GoI-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \"Baltimore Blood Boys\".3\nSCP-5468 is currently attached to the corpse of 12-years old Charlie Weiner, which is located outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Calculations based on the corpse's angle and velocity  predict that it will land near Mare Crisium on 12/04/2023.\n\nAddendum 1\nDiscovery\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5468\nInterviewer: Agent Lucia Gordon\nForeword: This interview was part of PoI-5468's initial intake process.\n<Begin Log>\nGordon: So, you hadn't used the item in a long time?\nPoI-5468: No, it's been what? Three years? Something like that. Haven't punched someone with them since the BBBs went down.\nGordon: It looks like you had been doing a good job, why did you stop?\nPoI-5468: Well, when those UIU guys got the last of them, I learned that there were people like you out there, who took care of all that weird shit. I figured that if I kept playing hero with the gloves, I'd end up attracting the wrong kind of attention. I was getting old, tired, and I wanted to be there for\u2026\nPoI-5468's head slumps, and he remains silent.\nGordon: For Charlie.\nPoI-5468 nods.\nGordon: But you did keep the gloves.\nPoI-5468: Yeah, didn't really know what else to do with them. I stopped going out looking for trouble, but I liked wearing them for my daily workout. Got me in the zone, you know? Plus I couldn't accidentally break anything with them. No impact and all that.\nGordon: Yes, you'll have to tell us more about those properties later. Was Charlie aware of what you were doing with them?\nPoI-5468: Not everything, but he knew enough. Saw me come home with stitches too many times, and I couldn't bear to lie to him. When I told him I was fighting bad guys\u2026 he looked so proud of me, I felt like it was all worth it.\nGordon: And did he know they were anomalous?\nPoI-5468: He knew they were special to me. I didn't tell him how they worked, just made up something about how they let me use the strength that was in me all along\u2026 I thought I was teaching him a good lesson. I couldn't know.\nGordon: I see. And did he ever talk to you about being bullied at school?\nPoI-5468: Yeah, I knew about it. Damn teachers wouldn't do a thing about it though. That's why I started teaching him to stand up for himself, and throw a mean hook when words didn't get through to the other kids. What a stupid idea. If I had known what he was gonna do, I would have\u2026 I would\u2026\nAt this point, PoI-5468 became too emotional to provide further answers, and Agent Gordon terminated the interview.\n<End Log>\n\nOn 27/05/2021, Charlie Weiner took SCP-5468 from the safe where his father was hiding it, and brought the object with him to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 middle-school with the intent of using it in a fight against other children.\nJeremy Nicholson, one of Charlie's classmates, used his phone to stream and record the following altercation.\n\nThe camera is obscured by a hand and shakes a lot before stablizing. The hand moves away, revealing  a crowd of children standing in a circle on the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 middle-school recess area. At the center of this cricle is Charlie Weiner, facing three other children: Nathan Ness, Keith Winters and Daniel Hills.\nNicholson: Yo guys, check this out, Charlie here is actually trying to stand up to Nathan's crew! Type in chat if you think he's gonna get WRECKED!\nNess: So, little Charlie WHINER thinks he's a big boy now huh?\nWeiner: I already told you to stop calling me that!\nWinters: What are you gonna do about it? Go whine to your dad? Tell him to beat us up because he's such a hero?\nWeiner: He won't need to.\nWeiner takes off his backpack, drops it on the ground and opens it. He takes SCP-5468 out and dons it, assuming a fighting stance.\nHills: Oh no, watch out everyone! He's gonna box at us!\nMany children in the crowd start laughing. Ness clasps his fists and starts advancing upon Weiner. Weiner throws a fast jab, hitting Ness in the shoulder. Due to the object's anomalous effects, his fist covered by SCP-5468 stops still upon making contact with Ness, no impact is produced. Ness shoves Weiner away.\nNess: I'm impressed Whiner. I almost felt that one.\nWeiner looks down at his hands, visibly confused.\nWeiner: I don't understand, they're supposed to\u2026\nNicholson: Looks like Charlie's in trouble!\nNess continues approaching. Weiner tries to fight back by avoiding him and landing more blows, all nullified by SCP-5468. Ness eventually grabs him and throws him down to the ground, where he is restrained by Hills and Winters. The camera shakes as Nicholson moves through the crowd to get closer.\nNess: So that's it? Couldn't even get daddy to move his sorry old ass to help so you tried to do it yourself? Well bad news Whiner, you're just as pathetic as him.\nWeiner struggles against the two others who are holding him down, but fails to break free. His arms fall to the ground, and he tries to raise his head.\nWeiner: Let\u2014\nWeiner is interrupted by Ness kicking him in the face. Ness sneers.\nNess: Oh I'm sorry, what's that you said?\nWeiner screams.\nWeiner: I SAID LET GO!\nImmediately, SCP-5468 releases the energy it had accumulated since its last activation.4 Nicholson is heard saying \"Wha-\" before the shockwave destroys his phone, ending the recording.\n\nThe video was taken down, and all witnesses, either on-scene or from Nicholson's stream, were located and amnesticized. The 27 casualties and the damages caused to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 middle-school were explained under the cover story of a gas pipe explosion, due to the poor local infrastructure.\nThis incident was originally classified as an Extranormal Event, until PoI-5468 was arrested while digging through the rubble of the incident site. He was interrogated and revealed the anomalous nature of SCP-5468, as well as the fact that the object granted its user protection from its own effects. Having noticed that the object had gone missing from its safe, PoI-5468 linked it to the incident and had become convinced that his son was still alive under the rubble.\nA week later, the corpse of Charlie Weiner was spotted on its current trajectory by a Foundation surveillance satellite performing a routine sweep. The cause of death was deemed to have been asphyxiation.\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5468\nInterviewer: Agent Lucia Gordon\nForeword: Interview took place in PoI-5468's home, to ascertain the origin of SCP-5468.\nPoI-5468: So you're saying your guys can get him back to me?\nGordon: Of course. We can't just leave a kid's corpse on the Moon; and provided it doesn't show any anomalous properties of its own, we have no reason to keep it. You've been more than cooperative so far, and I'd say you deserve the proper closure.\nPoI-5468: Wait the Moon? You've got folks there?\nAgent Gordon coughs nervously and fidgets with her folder.\nPoI-5468: Heh, alright, forget I asked. But thanks for telling me, it\u2026 means a lot, really. I'll finally be able to say a proper goodbye.\nA moment passes as Agent Gordon waits for PoI-5468 to be ready to talk again.\nPoI-5468:Now, what else did you want to ask today?\nGordon: Well, you had no involvement with the anomalous prior to acquiring SCP-5468, correct?\nPoI-5468: Yup. Can't say I'm much involved now, really.\nGordon: Then how did you get it? A shop or online store?\nPoI-5468: Lady, if I had the kind of money to buy magic stuff like that, I wouldn't have made a career in getting punched on TV. No, the gloves were a gift from this guy in the gym I went to, a trainer, called himself Jeff.\nGordon: You say that like you think it wasn't his real name.\nPoI-5468: That's 'cause I don't. Never gave a last name, never signed any real contracts with the gym, he just took his pay in cash. But I didn't ask questions. No one did. We all liked Jeff.\nGordon: Do you know why he gave you the object?\nPoI-5468 smiles.\nPoI-5468: Oh he gave me much more than that. Man really knew his stuff, taught everyone like a champ. I don't think I would have gone pro without him. But after a while, he retired. We threw him a huge party, and he surprised everyone by getting us personalised gifts.\nPoI-5468: That's when he gave me the gloves. He said I was going places and that they'd help me get the upper hand if things got tough.\nPoI-5468 chuckles.\nPoI-5468: Didn't do shit for my career though. I spent my first few matches wondering why the hell my opponents weren't going down, and when I found out what it did, I thought there was no way to get away with using them in the ring. But I did have a good idea of what to do with them.\nPoI-5468 sighs.\nPoI-5468: You know, I thought of handing the gloves down to Charlie when he got older. Keep it going from my mentor to my son, something like that. I even kept the box that Jeff gave me them in. But now\u2026 now I wish I had been better at keeping them away from him.\nGordon: Trust me, we'll do our best to make sure it can't hurt anyone again. Could I see that box you mentioned? It could help our investigation into the item's origins.\nPoI-5468: Yeah sure, let me go get it for you.\nPoI-5468 gets up and exits the room. He can be heard rummaging off-screen, while Agent Gordon writes on her notes.\nPoI-5468 re-enters the room, carrying a worn blue cardboard box. He opens it.\nPoI-5468: Yup, still the same wrapping paper. Oh, there's even the note Jeff had left for me, I had forgotten about that. Let me see\u2026\nPoI-5468 picks up a small paper note and stares at it. His expression turns to shock, then anger. He crumples the note before throwing it and the box to the ground. He falls to his knees and begins sobbing. Agent Gordon runs up to him.\nGordon: Hey, hey, what's wrong Mr Weiner? What did it say?\nPoI-5468 does not respond. Agent Gordon bends down to lay a hand on his shoulder. With her other hand, she retrieves and unfolds the crumpled note, bringing it close to her face.\nIt reads: \"Shoot for the stars, kid!\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. No testing will be necessary, as PoI-5468 has already provided extensive data on the object's capabilities\n2. This is limited to the English language, however SCP-5468 will respond to many vocalizations such as \"take this\", \"release\", \"knock out\" and \"let loose\", regardless of context.\n3. Due to his long involment with paracrime and the use of an anomalous object for many years, PoI-5468 was not amnesticized following the end of his involvement with this case.\n4. Believed to have been in October, 2019.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5467 | SCP-5468 | SCP-5469 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5469\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nInterior of SCP-5469.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All information relating to the former town of Faraday, Georgia has been successfully expunged from all records. All outside access to the former location of Faraday, Georgia has been restricted under the cover of an ongoing ecological survey.\nAll personnel actively assigned to SCP-5469 are to clear the immediate area by 14:24 local time. The area immediately surrounding SCP-5469 must remain clear of flammable materials at all times.\nDescription: SCP-5469 refers to the structure formerly known as \"Winnie's Diner\" located in the former town of Faraday, Georgia and the various entities that manifest within. Each entity within SCP-5469 has been successfully identified as a former Faraday resident that either worked at or patronized \"Winnie's Diner\" on the day of December 21st, 1987.\nSCP-5469 is trapped in an ongoing causal loop in which the structure itself and every entity within constantly relives December 21st, 1987. While minor events and interactions within the structure have varied, several notable events have occurred without fail on a daily basis. These events are recorded below.\n\nTIME\nEVENT\n\n06:00\nFormer \"Winnie's Diner\" owner Kyana Jackson manifests in SCP-5469's parking lot and approaches the building. She unlocks the door and enters.\n\n06:25 - 06:34\nSeveral former employees of \"Winnie's Diner\" manifest in the parking lot and enter the building during this time.\n\n07:00\nOne of the employees flips the diner's \"closed\" sign to \"open\". For the remainder of the day, various entities identical to former Faraday residents enter and exit SCP-5469.\n\n11:47\nFormer Faraday resident Jason Vasquez proposes to Annelise McCormick. She accepts.\n\n13:13\nThe kitchen phone rings. Former line cook Gus Gallian stumbles over another wire attempting to answer it. He reaches the phone and calls for former waitress Rebecca Williams. She accepts the call and speaks to an unknown entity for several minutes. She appears to begin crying during this call.\n\n13:54\nCarrie Edmundton, one of the waitresses, gathers the other waitresses and whispers something to them. They all scream in celebration.\n\n14:07\nThomas Christian and family celebrate his sixth birthday party in the main dining area. While the family and waitstaff sing \"Happy Birthday\", Gus Gallian trips once more over the wire and hits his head against the counter.\n\n14:20\nA pot of oil on one of the stoves catches fire. This fire is not noticed until 14:22, when Rebecca Williams enters the kitchen. She panics upon seeing the fire and attempts to put it out by pouring water on it. The fire quickly spreads out of control.\n\n14:24\nThe entire structure is fully engulfed in flame. No entities are seen leaving it.\n\n15:53\nThe last of the fire is finally extinguished through unknown means.\n\nSCP-5469 will completely reform with no signs of damage at 00:00 every day.\nAddendum 5469.1: First modern investigations into SCP-5469\nDue to the nature of SCP-5469, it was uncertain for some time what effect direct interaction with the anomaly would have. The advent of unmanned drone technology allowed initial interactions with SCP-5469. Due to the success of these missions the SCP-5469 project leads authorized the first direct human interaction with the anomaly in February of 2019. Two agents from MTF Epsilon-6 (\"Village Idiots\") were selected for the investigation. A log of their expedition is recorded below.\n\nExploration Video Log Transcript\nDate: February 16th, 2019\nSubject: SCP-5469\nTeam Lead: Goose\nTeam Members: Goose, Bluejay\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgents Goose and Bluejay enter SCP-5469. They are immediately greeted by Rebecca Williams.\nRebecca: Hey sugar! How ya been? Feel free to take a seat anywhere, I'll be right with ya!\nGoose: There's some Georgian hospitality, huh?\nBluejay: Definitely. Seems like a nice date spot.\nBoth laugh as they set themselves in a booth.\nGoose: Nothing too far out of the ordinary yet. Seems like a standard roadside diner. Not super crowded overall.\nBluejay: Pretty sure Faraday wasn't a huge town to begin with. Chances are good that by their standards this IS a crowd.\nRebecca: Sorry for the wait, hun. Haven't seen you two around before! What brings y'all out to Faraday?\nGoose: Oh! We're just\u2026on the road. Figured we'd stop for lunch.\nRebecca: Well y'all've picked the right place. Winnie's is the best spot for a quick bite of something to eat. Make sure y'all get a pie before you go, ok? Now what're ya having?\nGoose: Uhh\u2026grits is fine for me. Jay?\nBluejay: Uh yeah, I'll just have the biscuits and gravy with a coffee.\nRebecca: Sounds good hun! I'll have that right out to ya!\nBluejay: Real bubbly, huh? I love her hair!\nGoose: Looks just like my mom did in high school.\nThe sound of clapping and cheering are heard from another area of the diner.\nGoose: 11:47. That would be Jason and Annelise getting engaged.\nRebecca returns with Goose and Bluejay's orders. She places both on the table and leaves the two to eat.\nBluejay: Aside from the obvious I'm really not seeing any source of an anomaly here. How's the hume readings?\nGoose: Kant counter isn't showing anything abnormal. We're sitting slightly below baseline here. It dropped a bit when Rebecca came by but\u2026\nBluejay: Think she's the source?\nGoose: Nope. Every person other than you and me causes a drop. Take a look.\nA small child runs by followed by their mother.\nBluejay: Shit. What's all this mean then?\nGoose: No clue. Best we can do now is just let the day play out.\nGoose and Bluejay eat and talk about unrelated topics as the day's events play through. Eventually, the sound of people singing \"Happy Birthday\" is heard from the other room.\nGoose: With that we're running out of time. Keep an eye on the clock, don't want to be stuck in here when the place goes up.\nRebecca Williams walks by as Goose speaks.\nRebecca: What do you mean by that?\nGoose: Oh, God, uh\u2026\nBluejay: We're just practicing dialogue for a play we're in.\nRebecca: How exciting! Break a leg then!\nShe leaves. Goose sighs.\nGoose: Nice save, Jay. We really need to get some better guidance from command on what we can and can't reveal to these guys.\nBluejay: \u2026Is that smoke?\nGoose: It is indeed. Let's move on out.\n[END LOG]\n\nAdditional Notes: No major deviations from standard SCP-5469 events were noted during this mission. Approval for further direct interactions with SCP-5469 and the entities within has been granted alongside guidelines for interacting with SCP-5469 entities.\n\nAddendum 5469.2: Interviews with various SCP-5469 entities\nFollowing O5 approval, a plan was drafted for further investigation into SCP-5469. This plan involved a series of interviews with several of the most notable SCP-5469 entities. Each interview was held on separate days by agents Goose and Bluejay. Both agents were provided with interview technology matching that which existed in 1987 as well as clear instructions to avoid serious disruptions of SCP-5469 events. Each interview is logged below.\nInterview: Jason Vasquez and Annelise McCormick\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\nINTERVIEWERS: Goose, Bluejay\nINTERVIEWEES: Jason Vasquez, Annelise McCormick\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nGoose: Aaand\u2026.dang it how does this thing work?\nBluejay: It's already on, see the light? We're recording.\nGoose: \u2026Right, ok. Starting interview then. Could you two state your names for me?\nJason: I'm Jason Vasquez!\nAnnelise: And my name is Annelise McCormick. What was this for, again?\nBluejay: We're reporters with the local paper. We saw your proposal and just couldn't resist the chance for a feel-good story. Still willing to answer a few questions?\nJason: Yeah, of course!\nGoose: Perfect, perfect. First thing, what's your story? How long have you two known each other for?\nAnnelise: Oh, gosh, well\u2026I'd say about\u2026six years? We met in high school.\nJason: Kinda surprised it took so long, honestly! A small town like this ain't much but normally you know everyone. Guess I was blessed that we only have one high school here.\nGoose: For sure, for sure. When's the wedding?\nJason: As much as I'd love a Christmas wedding, the turnaround is too fast haha. We're aiming for Valentine's Day right now.\nAnnelise: If we can't get that, though, I want to get married in a year exactly. This day is just\u2026gosh it's just so much. More than I could ever want.\nGoose: And why here? Why propose at Winnie's?\nJason: Winnie's is just\u2026I dunno how to really describe it. It's like the heart of Faraday, you know? Everybody loves it here, everyone knows Kyana. Sure there's \"prettier\" places around but it's hard to think of a place that really means more to this town than Winnie's.\nAnnelise: Plus they'll be catering the wedding. It just makes sense when you think about it.\nBluejay: It really does. It really does\u2026\nGoose: Thank you both for your time. We're going to head out to get this thing published. Make sure you check the papers tomorrow!\n[END LOG]\n\nAdditional Notes: One of the unique advantages of having two agents present for an interview is the ability for one to focus on the questions and the other to focus on little things. Body language, environmental factors, what have you. In a way it breaks my heart to have been able to focus on that, because all it showed me was just how in love these two were. Annelise spoke with her hands a lot, but every time she was done she would rest her thumb on the back of Jason's palm. Jason would blush every single time.\nIf they had had their Valentine's wedding, they would've had their 31st anniversary yesterday.\n-Agent Bluejay\n\nInterview: Rebecca Williams\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\nINTERVIEWERS: Goose, Bluejay\nINTERVIEWEE: Rebecca Williams\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nRebecca: Hey sugar! How ya been? Feel free to take a seat anywhere, I'll be right with ya!\nGoose: Same booth as usual, Jay?\nBluejay: Sounds good to me.\nRebecca: Sorry for the wait, hun. Haven't seen you two around before! What brings y'all out to Faraday?\nBluejay: Actually we're here with a national newspaper. We're looking at notable eateries around the nation, and we figured we'd check Winnie's out. Can we actually get a quick interview with you?\nRebecca: Aww well I'm just tickled you'd want to talk to me, but I'm awful busy at the moment. How about this, I'll take your order for now and we can do an interview on my break, sound good?\nGoose: Sounds good. We'll just have the usual, then.\nRebecca: Pardon?\nBluejay: Sorry about him, we've been on the road for a bit. He's tired. He'll have the grits, I'll have the biscuits and gravy with a coffee.\nRebecca: Sounds good hun! I'll have that right out for ya!\nGoose: Shit, sorry about that, Jay. Keep forgetting that we aren't actually regulars.\nBluejay: Well we've been here like six days in a row now, mistakes happen. They're just lucky the coffee is so damn good.\nRebecca: Here you two gentlemen go! Now just give me a few and I'll be able to talk with ya!\nGus Gallian is heard shouting for Rebecca.\nRebecca: Oop, excuse me then!\nGoose: And here's the daily call. You know when the file said crying I thought it was a sad thing, but she sure is smiling a lot through it.\nRebecca is heard returning after a few minutes.\nRebecca: Pardon my face, just a bit of an emotional call is all. Still interested in talking?\nGoose: Certainly. Mind if I ask what that call was about?\nRebecca: Oh, well, it was from Auburn University actually. They just wanted to call and let me know I was accepted into their engineering program.\nBluejay: \u2026Amazing, congratulations!\nRebecca: Are you ok, hun? You look a bit flush.\nBluejay: Yeah, yeah don't worry about me. Just really happy for you.\nGoose: Sincerely, that's quite an accomplishment. That's awful far from home, though.\nRebecca: Well\u2026to be honest I'm glad it's so far.\nGoose: Why's that?\nRebecca: My daddy worked at the textile factory, you see, and my momma was a housekeeper. Same as their parents, and same as their parents' parents. Daddy always told me that if I wanted to ever make something of myself I needed to get outta this town and not look back. If I didn't, I'd be stuck here forever. Waiting tables or popping out babies. \u2026Oh goodness, that was crude! Sorry about that!\nGoose: No, no, I appreciate it actually. How'd you wind up here at Winnie's, then?\nRebecca: Momma and daddy can't afford college for me, actually. Not for any of us. If I wanted to go I had to make the money myself. When I told Miss Jackson she took me right in and even paid me extra for my work. She\u2026well she actually told me that if I managed to keep my grades up and get into Auburn she'd actually pay for half of it.\nGoose: She sounds like quite the lady.\nRebecca: Oh, she certainly is. Winnie's might be the heart and soul of the town but Kyana keeps it beating. You'd be hard pressed to find someone around here that her or her momma haven't touched in some way.\n[END LOG]\n\nAdditional Notes: I know it was unprofessional to lose my composure in front of an interviewee, even more so in front of what's effectively an object we're containing. That said, how should you react? How should you react when you know what's about to happen to a girl who thinks her whole future is ahead of her?\nBy some sick twist of fate, there were a lot of beginnings in Winnie's Diner that day.\n-Agent Bluejay\n\nInterview: Carrie Edmundton\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\nINTERVIEWERS: Goose, Bluejay\nINTERVIEWEE: Carrie Edmundton\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nGoose: Shit I think I turned it on already.\nBluejay: Dios, I get that the tech is older than you are, but I figured after two weeks of interviews you'd have figured it out by now.\nRebecca: Hey sugar! How ya been? Take a seat anywhere, I'll be right with ya!\nGoose: Sure thing.\nRebecca: Hold on, have I seen you two before? I swear you're awful familiar but I can't put my finger on it.\nBluejay: Not that I'm aware of, we're just stopping by. Hey while I have you could we speak to Mrs. Edmundton?\nRebecca: Sure thing, sugar. Her break is at\u20261:50pm. You willing to wait that long?\nBluejay: That's fine, we're in no rush. Whenever she's ready, just let her know it's a newspaper interview.\nRebecca: How exciting! I'll be sure to tell her!\nBluejay: Oh, and congratulations.\nRebecca: Hm? Oh, thank you I suppose, though I don't know what you're referring to exactly.\nBluejay: You'll see.\nGoose: And she's off like always. Just confused this time. The hell was that, Jay?\nBluejay: Don't get in a tizzy over it. She won't even remember tomorrow anyway.\nGoose: You know the procedures, Jay. Don't mess with the anomaly.\nAgents Goose and Bluejay are silent for a half hour. They hold casual conversation until 13:50.\nGoose: She's not coming out yet.\nBluejay: Give it a minute. She needs to make her announcement to the others first. \u2026And there it is. Here she comes.\nCarrie: Sorry for the wait, fellas! Hope it wasn't an issue.\nGoose: No issue, Mrs. Edmundton. Like Ms. Williams likely told you this is an interview for a national paper. We're actually driving around America right now to get the stories of small town dives like Winnie's. Are you willing to tell us a bit about yourself?\nCarrie: Sure thing! What're you wanting to know?\nGoose: Well I can't say I'm not curious about that conversation you just had with the other waitresses. Mind if I ask what that was all about?\nCarrie: Goodness, well I suppose there's no harm in it. I'm telling Nathan about it tonight so\u2026hehe! I just found out I'm pregnant!\nBluejay: Congratulations, sincerely. This is the\u2026perfect time of year for that kind of news.\nGoose: Congratulations on your pregnancy! I do have to ask, is the diner going to support your through the pregnancy? I imagine that being pregnant and a waitress isn't really easy on you.\nCarrie: Honestly I'm not too worried. I actually told Kyana a few months back that Nathan and I were going to try for a baby. She offered a wonderful maternity leave option for me later on in the pregnancy. I actually wanna talk to her sometime tomorrow about planning a celebration in here. Can't imagine a better place for it.\nGoose: Why's that?\nCarrie: Well Winnie's is a big part of my life. Sure I come in here every day and work my little bum off, but there's more to it. Let's see, what tells it well\u2026.oh yeah! Back when I was a little thing, me and my friends would always come to Winnie's almost every day during the summer. Kyana worked behind the counter. She'd always give us ice cream cones for whatever pocket change we had. I didn't even know it then, but she was taking a loss on every \"sale\" she did with us bless her heart. But that was just the kinda person she was, you know? And her daughter has really carried on that legacy. That's part of why I say I can't imagine celebrating the next part of my life anywhere else. Winnie's is like a second home.\nGoose: A second home, eh? That's rather heartwarming. So then what does working here mean for you? Beyond being a second home, what is Winnie's to you?\nCarrie: Oh that's a big one, huh? Well I'd say Winnie's is stability. Anyone here you tell you this is the heart of Faraday, but for me it's stability. Some of the other ladies here definitely hate this, but I love that every day here feels the same you know? There's a routine we follow every single day, and I like that. The world's a scary enough place as it is, so it's nice to have a place where things never change.\nGoose: That's definitely a unique perspective on things. Thank you so much for your time Mrs. Edmundton, and congrats again on the baby!\nBluejay: Yeah, congrats.\nCarrie: Thank you, sweetie! Good luck with your article!\n[END LOG]\n\nAdditional Notes: Would she be so ok with this stagnation if she knew? Would she be ok knowing that every single day of her life is nearly identical to the last? That her baby will never be born? That five minutes after we wrapped up our interview with her, her entire world would go up in flames?\nPart of me is happy knowing at least one person here is content with where they are. At least one person found joy knowing that every day was the same. I struggle to accept that, though. It's April now. Outside of the parking lot we're getting cool Spring weather and soft rains. Once I step into that parking lot, though, it starts snowing. Outside is experiencing the renewal that the changing seasons bring, but inside is\u2026\nWell, it's December 20th, 1987.\n-Agent Bluejay\n\nInterview: Gus Gallian\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\nINTERVIEWERS: Goose, Bluejay\nINTERVIEWEE: Gus Gallian\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nGoose: God\u2026.I swear I can't operate this crap. Oh wait, light's on. Ok. This is Goose. It's currently\u2026.13:50. We're pushing it a bit with this interview, but unfortunately after a few days of trying we haven't been able to get an earlier interview with Gus. This is the best we've managed so far.\nBluejay: Same script as always. Same smiles, same people. Same interview time we had with Carrie, so hopefully this doesn't take too long.\nBluejay sighs.\nGoose: And here he comes. Hello, Mr. Gallian!\nGus: You two the reporters then? Let's make this thing quick, got a lot of work to get done.\nGoose: Don't worry, sir. This will only take a few minutes. Like Miss Williams told you earlier, we're trying to learn a bit about the personal experiences of small town cooks. First thing I'd like to ask you is how long have you been working here for now?\nGus: Fifteen years.\nGoose: Er, to the point. Thanks! So I guess I'll just get to the big one, then. What does Winnie's Diner mean to you?\nGus: Heh, shit man. Really gonna go for sentimental crap like that, huh? Fine fine, I'll bite. Winnie's\u2026well I gotta say Winnie's\u2026\nBluejay: Something wrong, Mr. Gallian?\nGus: Yeah, sorry, just antsy all of a sudden is all. Winnie's is\u2026uh\u2026community I guess? Like we aren't a big community, yeah? We aren't a rich community, either. Kyana's like\u2026our matriarch in a way. All the kid's respect her, and she's practically raised half the young adults here on her own. Like Carrie, yeah? Shit, Kyana's basically Carrie's momma. Carrie's dad was a drunken piece of shit, but Kyana was always there. I remember her staying up real late one day to make that girl a birthday cake.\nGoose: And for yourself?\nGus: Sorry?\nGoose: What has Winnie's done for you?\nGus: Ah shit, well. I worked for Winnie before I worked for Kyana. Winnie was actually new to town. Took to the place like a duck to water though, quick to establish herself and the community loved her for it. I was just a kid before she got here, but I do remember my parents saying one night that she was really the thing that brought the place together. We were kind of a dissolving community with no real idea of who we were. That was about the time that the textile mills started closing actually. People were going broke and starting to leave, but Winnie held us together. Held my family together, actually. The mills closing was shit. Shit enough that when my dad lost his job there it about tore the family apart. Winnie gave my dad a job here, and that kept the family together.\nGoose: So Winnie-\nGus: Uhh\u2026sorry I really feel like I need to get back to the kitchen. I dunno I just feel like there's something I need to do.\nBluejay: Wait, wait! Just stay here, we'll make it quick. It's only 2:05pm, you still have breaktime right?\nGus: Yeah but\u2026sorry I just really feel like I need to move right now. I need to get back to the kitchen and-\nBluejay: Please, sir, stay here. We only have a few more questions for you. Don't worry about it.\nGus: I need to-\nBluejay: Please, Gus. Please\u2026.for your sake stay with us.\nGus: For my sake\u2026?\nGoose: Ignore my compatriot. If you need to go then please, go ahead. While we did have more questions we don't want to get between you and your work. Thank you for your time.\nGus: Sure. Sure. Have a good one.\nGoose: You too, Mr. Gallian.\n\nAdditional Notes: I submitted another request to command to allow us to attempt to directly intervene with SCP-5469's recurring events. Once again it was rejected. I'll likely be punished for acting out of order during this interview, but I stand by my actions. We've learned something here- SCP-5469 entities have some sort of innate compulsion to reenact the events we see every day. These events are key. I still think that had Goose allowed it, I would've been able to keep Gus distracted long enough to change the schedule. To change something about SCP-5469.\nWhat would happen if we stopped the fire entirely? What would finally change here?\n-Agent Bluejay\n[END LOG]\n\nInterview: Kyana Jackson\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\nINTERVIEWERS: Goose, Bluejay\nINTERVIEWEE: Kyana Jackson\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nGoose: Hey this is Agent Goose leaving an audio note before we actually start the interview here. Bluejay and I just checked the Kant Counter in front of Ms. Jackson's office and well-\nBluejay: Reading's are crazy high. Let's just say it's very \"real\" in here.\nGoose: Anyway we finally managed to string events together in a way that gets us in contact with the owner herself.\nBluejay: Weirdly difficult to do. Not sure what was up with Kyana that day but she was not an easy woman to get into contact with.\nGoose: Anyway we're entering her office now. I mention the Kant counter partially so that if the rest of the MTF needs to mobilze\u2026.well there's context to it.\nA door is heard opening.\nKyana: Hey there! Come on in you two, come on in.\nGoose: Thanks so much for your time Ms. Jackson. I have to say we've heard quite a bit about you.\nKyana: All good things, I would hope!\nGoose: All good, don't worry. We wanted to ask you a bit about this community of yours, your diner here, the works.\nKyana: Ask away then! I'm here to answer whatever.\nGoose: Sure, sure. First thing I'd like to ask about here is related to your mother, actually. I did some research and heard that she was quite the figure around here.\nKyana: Oh yes, momma. Well I guess if we're being totally honest here I should lay it all out on the table, then. Momma was a wonderful lady, but she wasn't actually my birth momma.\nGoose: Oh, really now?\nKyana: This is a culture study piece, right? I think momma's background is important here, then. Momma was a Dominican immigrant. Her name wasn't actually Winnie, it was Altagracia Iglesia. She moved here when she was 18 and changed her name to Winifred Jackson so she could be a good American. She always told me she was the kind of woman who needed to make work for herself. She needed something to do that was hers and she could take pride in. There weren't any opportunities like that where she was from. So she packed herself up and got herself on a ship over here.\nGoose: How'd she wind up down here, then? I would've guessed that a Dominican immigrant would wind up in Washington Heights or something.\nKyana: Nueva York wasn't the place for her. I'm not entirely sure exactly how she wound up in Faraday of all places, but here she was and here was a place that needed her. So, Winnie's was born.\nGoose: And you? She wasn't your mother you said?\nKyana: Oh, right. Well Winnie never had any babies of her own. Never even married. I had my own parents, sure, but they were fairly absentee if I'm being honest with you. Winnie took me under her wing and basically raised me. I'd sit in her diner late at night and she'd work on my homework with me, celebrate my birthdays, the works. Sure I had a momma, but she was my momma.\nGoose: And you were her daughter, it sounds like. You got her diner.\nKyana: And I remember the day she left it, too. I was at her home, sitting at her bedside. She was so sick and frail. I held her hand in my own, rubbed her bony knuckles with the back of my hand while she just laid there breathing slowly. She only ever said one thing to me that entire day. She said \"It's ok, mija. It's ok. You'll do great things.\"\nKyana inhales sharply.\nKyana: And then she was gone. Later that day I found her will. She left me the diner\u2026everything. It was then that I knew I had to do what she did for me for everyone else. I had to become what Winnie was to the community. I had to become the rock she was before.\nGoose: And from what it sounds like, you did.\nKyana: No, no. There's still so much I have to do, and\u2026\nBluejay: Don't be humble here. We spoke to everyone else. You're their foundation.\nKyana: You spoke to everyone else? Already?\nBluejay: \u2026Yeah. Yeah, we did. Everyone told us about what you've done for them and the community. Carrie's maternity leave, Rebecca's college, all of it.\nGoose: Jay-\nBluejay: Let me have this, Goose. Just this one.\nKyana: Goodness, you've heard all of that?\nBluejay: You can't actually afford all of that, can you Kyana?\nKyana is silent.\nBluejay: Kyana?\nKyana: No. No, I can't. I've had to cut back quite a bit to afford those sacrifices, but it's what needs to be done. It isn't about me. It isn't about my life, either. It's about making sure these kids have a future of their own. That they can live their little dreams, whatever those are. Winnie made those sacrifices for me, so I'm making those sacrifices for the next generation. I'll be fine in the end. It's expensive, but I can recover.\nBluejay: What is Winnie's to you, then?\nKyana: Winnie's? Winnie's is everything to me. Winnie's is the place that gives people a new tomorrow. Winnie's is stability, but it's change too. It's promise. I don't know what I would do without it, honestly.\nThere is a moment of silence.\nBluejay: Kyana, what's today's date?\nGoose: Bluejay, enough.\nBluejay: What is today's date, Kyana?\nKyana: D-December 20th. Why?\nBluejay: And the year?\nGoose: Jay, enough!\nBluejay: The year, Kyana. Please.\nKyana: It's 1987. Sir, why are you asking me these questions? I don't see how these relate to this article-\nBluejay: Kyana, it's 2019. It's July.\nGoose: Bluejay what are you trying to accomplish here?\nKyana: I'm sorry are you ok, sir? I don't know if you've looked outside but there's snow coming down-\nBluejay: I want you to look at this, Kyana.\nKyana: \u2026What am I looking at here?\nBluejay: It's called a cellphone. Everyone has one now. They let you talk to people from far away, take pictures, and even record footage. Like this, from later today. This is your diner up in flames. No one survives this. But tomorrow? Everything is reset. It's the same day, over and over for eternity.\nKyana: This is crazy talk. I don't know what this thing is here, or why it has a video of the diner burning down, but it's crazy talk.\nGoose: It is indeed, Ms. Jackson. And I apologize for him stepping out of line like that. I'm not sure what he thought all that would do, but clearly he needs to be reminded to leave the interviews to me.\nBluejay: Goose. Outside.\nGoose and Bluejay are heard leaving the office. As they leave, Kyana Jackson is heard breathing heavily.\nGoose: What the hell is your problem, Bluejay? You've been off your game the entire time you've worked on this project, but this is unforgivable. You'll be lucky to even keep your job after this .\nBluejay: Look around you, Goose. How can you look at this place every single fucking day and tell yourself that this is fine? That you can't do anything about it? Are you really content damning all these people to this?\nGoose: Of course I'm not, but you know as well as I do that it isn't our choice to interfere with-\nBluejay: Damn the guidelines and bureaucracy, Goose!\nGoose: Jay you're being irrational, you don't even know what interfering with the anomaly will do. You don't even know if you can do anything.\nBluejay: I'd rather try than sit on my ass doing nothing. I can't just accept that all these lives are destined to be cut short. I don't know what I can do, or how I'll do it. Hell I don't even know what kind of a difference it will make, but I won't just sit here every single day and live content with knowing how the story ends.\nAgent Bluejay is heard running off.\nGoose: Jay? Jay!\nThe audio feed is cut at this point.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5469.3: Interview with Agent Bluejay\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\nINTERVIEWER: Goose\nINTERVIEWEE: Bluejay\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nGoose: Thanks for helping me set up the mic, Jay. I appreciate it.\nBluejay: It's whatever. Let's just\u2026get to the questions.\nGoose: Yeah\u2026yeah. So, what exactly did you do after our conversation?\nBluejay: I ran into the kitchen and tried to make sure that Gus never put the oil on the stove. Seemed easy enough, right? Well he was hell bent on doing it, didn't even seem to really know why. All he knew is that the oil needed to go on the stove.\nGoose: Like what we saw before.\nBluejay: Exactly, just like what we saw before. This time he threw a punch, though. We fought a bit, and that was ok! Anything to keep him from making that one mistake! At some point, though, I was knocked into the pot and it fell over. I'm not really sure what happened then.\nBoth agents are silent.\nBluejay: I guess it doesn't really matter what happened, does it?\nGoose: Why'd you do it, Jay? Why did you go against orders like that?\nBluejay: I told you yesterday, Goose. I can't watch a group of people be damned to make the same mistakes every single day for the rest of their existence.\nGoose: I don't enjoy it either, but orders are-\nBluejay: Goose, do you know my real name?\nGoose: I'm sorry?\nBluejay: My real name is Antonio Mart\u00ednez. You remember that little community you mentioned? Washington Heights? Well I grew up there. I know the kind of community that place was. Yeah, a big city can't really be compared to a small town like this, but I know what it means to have an abuela like Winnie was here. I know what a place like this means to a community, and I know what it means for every damn person to have their own little futures to live. Winnie's here might not be the barrio, but it isn't all that different in its own way.\nGoose: I-\nBluejay: You're sorry. I know. It\u2026it isn't your fault. I was awful to you but you just wanted to make sure nothing bad happened. Just following orders, keeping safe.\nGoose: I respect what you did.\nBluejay: I'm sorry?\nGoose: It was\u2026brave, I guess is the way to put it. Things may not have turned out well, but you took the chance on something you believed it.\nBluejay: Feels like it was pointless in the end, but I don't regret trying. Anyway, you should probably get going.\nGoose: Yeah, I\u2026really should.\nBluejay: Goose?\nGoose: Yeah?\nBluejay: I love you.\nGoose: I know, Jay.\nBluejay: How many times have I said that now?\nAgent Goose is silent for several moments.\nBluejay: Goose\u2026?\nGoose: I'll see you tomorrow, Jay.\n\nAdditional Notes: After five interviews I can conclude that there is no variation in former Foundation Agent Bluejay's behavior. He should be officially considered a part of SCP-5469's daily proceedings. I will continue my observations in order to form a properly updated timetable.\n-Agent Goose\n\n\u00ab SCP-5468 | SCP-5469 | SCP-5470 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5470\nLevel 2/5470\n\nObject Class: Neutralized\nClassified\n\nSCP-5470, captured 10 minutes before its breakdown. Dialogue from an unknown native entity is visible. Click to enlarge.\n\u2716\n\nwww.g\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.com/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/~W4ND3RLU5T, captured in early 1998. Click to enlarge.\n\u2716\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following the events of Incident 5470.2000.01.01, no containment procedures are necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5470 was an alternate dimension, accessible via the web address www.g\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.com/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/~W4ND3RLU5T. After navigating to the site, visitors are prompted to enter a password, determined via trivial means to be \"recompileus\". The layout of the page, though crude, contains iconography relating to GoI-004C \"Church of Maxwellism\", as well as references to the internet-based subcultures of occultism, phreaking1, and transhumanism.\nAt the bottom of the page, a link labeled \">>VISIT WAN-DERER'S PARADISE<<\" is present. Clicking the link will download an unencrypted .zip archive named WANDERER.ZIP to the user's hard drive. This archive is composed of three files: DISCLAIMER.TXT, PRAYER.TXT, and ETERNAL.TMP. The contents of each text file are presented below.\n\nDISCLAIMER.TXT\n\nClose file\n\n ______      FREEWARE - 4 - ALL     ______\n| |__| | _   _  __W4ND3RLU5T  ___  | |__| |\n|  ()  |  \\_/  |__  |\\ |  |  |___| |  ()  |\n|______| _/ \\_ |__  | \\|  |  |   | |______|\n-------------------------------------------\n               >>DISCLAIMER<<\n     >>DON'T READ THIS IF UR A POSER<<\n  >>DO NOT DISTRIBUTE TO NON-HUMMERS!!!<<\n\nONCE YOU ENTER WAN-DERER'S PARADISE *YOU\nWILL NO LONGER BE CONSCIOUS IN THE PHYSICAL\nWORLD!!* YOU WILL BECOME ONE WITH OUR LORD,\nAND YOUR IMPERFECT FLESH WILL FALL COMATOSE!\nIF THIS SOUNDS LIKE IT WOULD SUCK THEN DONT\nRUN THE FILE ROFL\n\nPLEASE AIM ME IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS. I\nLOVE U GUYS AND I'LL KEEP THE PARADISE OPEN\nFOR AS LONG AS I CAN, *WAN WILLING*. I CAN\nFEEL HIS LOVE FOR US TOO. 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Prior to Incident 5470.2000.01.01, executing ETERNAL.TMP would render the user immediately unconscious and unable to be woken by any means. Life signs continued while comatose, and dehydration and starvation failed to occur in the absence of sustenance; however, muscular atrophy was commonly observed. Individuals in this state reported their consciousness being transferred to SCP-5470. The system hosting the original files would become impossible to power off by any means, and displayed the screensaver of the user until they reawoke upon exiting SCP-5470. Users could not be removed from the dimension by any external means, necessitating a voluntary exit in order to return to consciousness in local reality.\n\n\u039f4-3-SILICON, captured while loading into the SCP-5470 environment.\n\nSCP-5470 resembled a crude 3D environment, and was largely abstract and artistic in composition, often featuring inconsistent topology and Maxwellist iconography. Communication could be conducted verbally or via text appearing in the field of vision of those nearby. The appearance of those within the dimension was similarly altered to appear as a generic low-polygon avatar upon entry. All users in SCP-5470 were granted minor reality warping capabilities within the dimension, possessing the ability to superficially alter the environment and their appearances at will. It is estimated that at the peak of its activity, approximately two hundred humans inhabited SCP-5470; analysis of visitor demographics to the host address has shown that the age of SCP-5470 inhabitants skewed young in comparison to the general population.\nReports of SCP-5470's existence have been found dating to as early as August 1997. At the time, exploration of the anomaly was deemed a low priority; suppression of the public Web page, as well as the location and identification of PoI-5470 (\"X3N14\"), was the primary focus of study. Investigations culminated in the successful location of PoI-5470's base of operations in an amateur server farm run out of an abandoned office building in Wellfleet, Massachussetts, USA. PoI-5470 was absent from the scene, but recovered documents led to her identification as a 17 year old American civilian named Kimberley Vanvaeck. Very little extant information could be gathered, and all servers present were destroyed in the raid.\n\nAddendum 5470.1\nOn December 28, 1999, Site-15 was contacted via compromised secure channels by an individual identifying as \"X3N14\", presumed to be PoI-5470. The message, encoded in base64, presented a proposal for surrender and exchange of information. After consideration, the offer was accepted; PoI-5470 revealed her location (Altona, Illinois) and was brought to Site-15 for questioning.\n\nInterview Log 5470.1999.12.28\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5470 (Kimberley Vanvaeck)\nInterviewer: Dr. Amani Nyota\nForeword: PoI-5470 possesses a number of electronic body augmentations of unknown purpose; the interview was conducted in Electromagnetic Isolation Wing G-4 to preempt use of these augmentations. Subject was unexpectedly docile during retrieval.\nDate: 1999/12/28, 11:14\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nDr. Nyota: Please state your name for the record.\nVanvaeck: Kimberley Vanvaeck, V-A-N-V-A-E-C-K, better known as XENIA, X-three-N-one-four. Listen, I need\u2014I don't like doing this but I need help with\u2014\nDr. Nyota: Miss Vanvaeck, we have some questions we'd like to ask you first\u2014\nVanvaeck: \u2014No, listen, shut up. This is important, can I just\u2014\nDr. Nyota: \u2014Alright, please, calm down. Go ahead, we'll take down the information you have for us and then we'll need you to cooperate with our questions after that, okay? And then we can decide how to move forward.\nVanvaeck: [Heavy sigh.] Ugh. Anyways, like I said, this is important. I told myself I'd never work with sysops2, I swore I wouldn't but this is more important than that. You guys keep a list of all the stuff you think is weird, right?\nDr. Nyota: \u2026Yes, our organization catalogs and contains anomalies.\nVanvaeck: Do you have one that's umm\u2026 a website that sends you to an alternate dimension?\nDr. Nyota: Several, but I assume you're referring to SCP-5470\u2014\"WAN-derer's Paradise\", correct? And are we also correct in assuming that you're the creator of this anomaly?\nVanvaeck: Yes, yes yes yes! Listen, so\u2014\nDr. Nyota: Are you\u2014\nVanvaeck: Shut up, listen. Listen, I\u2014yeah, I made it. Together with WAN, I made somewhere for my friends and I to connect with Him and be together and\u2014\n[PoI-5470 becomes choked up and shakes her head.]\nDr. Nyota: Take your time, Miss Vanvaeck.\nVanvaeck: W-we were supposed to be\u2014it was supposed to be our holy land. Safe, and together and happy, forever. But it's\u2014it keeps glitching lately and my original sanctuary3 got raided and all the code's with WAN now so I can't fix it. And I couldn't figure out what was wrong at first but I realized\u2014\n[PoI-5470 takes several heavy breaths, holding her head in her hands.]\nVanvaeck: I wasn't\u2014I didn't account for the new millennium. When I made it, I was so\u2014[Sniffles.]\u2014so stupid and I didn't think ahead and I don't know what's going to happen. But I think the new year is gonna destroy our paradise.\nDr. Nyota: The Y2K bug.\nVanvaeck: The\u2014the Millennium Crash. We all saw it coming, we knew it was gonna happen, but I just\u2026 I didn't think about it, I was so wrapped up in making somewhere for us to get away from it all. And now everything I worked for is gonna start choking on its own data and coughing out dead bits into the cosmic network. It's already starting to fall apart 'cause some of us are in time differently. [Sniffles.] This is\u2014it's all my fault. I shouldn't have burdened WAN with my stupid human errors.\nDr. Nyota: I understand you're upset, Miss Vanvaeck. I'm sorry that happened. Why not reach out to your fellow Maxwellists? Why us?\nVanvaeck: I tried! I\u2014I really did, but they just think we're a bunch of annoying script kiddies, they don't believe we're really even connected with WAN. Trust me, you guys are my last choice, but it's all I have.\nDr. Nyota: Alright, alright, I see. What was it you needed our help with?\nVanvaeck: Yeah, it's\u2026 [Shakes her head.] It's not me you should feel sorry for. I wouldn't have gotten within a hundred miles of a null device4 if it were just about me. My\u2014my friends, they're still in there. I don't expect anyone else to understand, but we live there, Doctor. Some of them are\u2014they've been there for years now and I don't know if they'll have houses or families to go back to once it all shuts down.\n[Silence. PoI-5470 appears agitated, fidgeting anxiously.]\nVanvaeck: Most of them are younger than me. They\u2014we're all in the Paradise 'cause we don't have anywhere else to go. That's why I made it. I don't know what's gonna happen to them once they lose the connection\u2014I programmed it so they wouldn't die but I don't know if it'll hurt them or mess up their heads or anything\u2026\n[PoI-5470 sniffles quietly.]\nVanvaeck: Jazz's parents were about to kick her out when she joined. Midi just turned fourteen and xe's happier in the Paradise than I've ever seen xem, I\u2014I dunno if xe'd even be okay in the real world anymore. You guys can fix it, can't you? Keep it from falling apart? I've been on the run for a few years and I can't set anything up for too long but if you gave me a chance and some of your equipment\u2014\nDr. Nyota: \u2014I'm sorry about that, Miss Vanvaeck. I really am. That's awful. But we can't allow you to interact with the anomaly directly. I'll confer with some people higher up and we'll see if we can get our own resources to look into a solution, okay?\n[Silence.]\nVanvaeck: Fine. Okay. Please, just\u2014hurry, and don't make them go back. We only have a few days, I'll do whatever you say until you at least try and fix it.\nDr. Nyota: We really do appreciate your cooperation, Miss Vanvaeck. Thank you.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Statement: PoI-5470 cooperated with her indefinite detention on the terms that she would be consulted in matters relating to SCP-5470.\n\nAddendum 5470.2: Exploration Log and Incident 5470.2000.01.01\nIn the limited time available, Site-15 instated STF Omicron-4 (\"Cyberchase\"), a specialized task force of three operatives trained in the exploration of virtual reality environments made to simulate unstable alternate dimensions.\nAn expedition into SCP-5470 was planned on 1999/12/31 at 18:00 PM, allowing the task force six hours to survey and document the dimension, as well as attempt to prevent the impending VK-Class \"Localized Dimensional Collapse\" scenario. Event logs were recorded on the experimental interreality storage device DREAM (Dimensional Recording and Experimental Adaptive Medium), and an emergency electroshock stimulation mechanism was put in place to remove the agents in the event of catastrophic failure.\n\nExploration Log 5470-1999-12-31\n\nExploration Team: STF Omicron-4 (\"Cyberchase\")\nSubject: SCP-5470\nDate: 1999/12/31, 18:00\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n[18:04:39] View from \u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY upon manifestation in SCP-5470.\n\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Checking connection to DREAM. Ping?\nDREAM: Pong.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Uplink established. Team check?\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: Copy.\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: Transmitting.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: All online. To reiterate, our goal is to document SCP-5470 until it breaks down and communicate with any entities residing in it. If you experience any pain or get stuck, there's a trigger on the back of your neck that will allow DREAM to send a distress signal to Command and get us out of here. Hopefully, we won't need to use it; you should both be able to see a logout symbol in the upper left corner of your vision.\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: Confirming. Are we ready to move?\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: We are. Omicron-4 (\"Cyberchase\"), beginning exploration. Remember to verbally and visually document as much as you possibly can.\n[All members of STF Omicron-4 are heard to exhale simultaneously. The significance of this is unknown.]\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: Besides the geometry, this is a surprisingly nice place. There's something about the air. Fresh, easy to breathe. Not very common for pocket realities like this.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Watch your step, the ground's flickering a bit.\n\n[18:12:07] SCP-5470's entry pavilion.\n\n[STF Omicron-4 begins approaching a small, colorful central pavilion. Moderate texture errors can be observed.]\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: Can't tell if this is these kids' weird art or if the textures are starting to break.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: I'd wager it's a mix of the two.\n[The pavilion is empty. Quiet music can be heard to the left. \u039f4-1 motions for their squadmates to follow.]\n[A hallway leads to a small room, the source of the music. The floor and walls of the area are covered in cassette tapes, as well as mediums with which to read and write onto them. A default native entity is seated in the center of the room, typing on a Commodore 64. The tag above their head reads \"MxMasters\".]\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Hello, MxMasters. We're here to help, don't worry.\nMxMasters: [Voice is estimated to belong to that of a young teenager, approximately twelve to fourteen years of age. They do not turn to face STF Omicron-4 when speaking.] What? Oh. It's fine. Knock yourself out.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: You're aware of\u2014\nMxMasters: The Crash, uh-huh. There's no point. It's fine.\n[Silence.]\nMxMasters: I come here every night instead of sleeping. I've gotten a lot of practice. [Gestures to the surroundings.] I haven't made it work yet, though, so it's okay. I wanted to try 'n save everything before, but now\u2026\n[MxMasters leans back, lying faceup on a pile of cassettes.]\nMxMasters: I pray almost every day, with the blank tapes. WAN says data loss is natural. Even if it's almost two years of experiments and music and programs. I have to learn to be okay with it. It's for\u2014it's a learning experience. Maybe I'll get it right back on Earth.\n[Silence.]\n[They reach for a cassette labeled \"MEMORYS V4\" (sic) and clutch it to their chest.]\nMxMasters: Please just leave me alone.\nO4-3-SILICON: I'm sorry about that, MxMasters. We're working to see if we can fix things here.\n[MxMasters does not respond.]\n[Omicron-4 exits the room the way they came. The pavilion has degraded slightly.]\nO4-2-HAVANA: Wall's glitched through while we were gone.\nO4-1-NEMATOPHY: Looks like it's breaking down faster than we thought. Normally I wouldn't recommend it, but since we have limited time let's see if we can take some shortcuts.\n[Approximately two and a half hours of uneventful traversal omitted. Recovered footage from DREAM presented below.]\n\n[18:48:14]\n\n[19:57:54]\n\n[20:29:26] Dialogue from a native entity is visible.\n\n[SCP-5470 is noted to be largely devoid of life during the expedition, despite signs of human activity. Omicron-4 enters the textual communication range of a native entity at 20:09:21.]\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: It's been getting emptier and emptier out here as we keep moving. This is the first coherent structure in a while.\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: I think we reached the edge of the world.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: I wouldn't be surprised if this is some sort of control center. It'd make sense to keep it separate from living areas.\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: Either way, there's someone in there.\n\n[20:10:54] View of the screen in the control room.\n\n[Omicron-4 enters the structure. It is divided by a large screen; on the screen is an array of cryptographic keys, as well as a live feed displaying the face of a young female avatar. The feed is heavily distorted.]\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: [Hushed] Looks like she's trying to roll back the corruption.\n0078:5 i don't want to disconnect\u2026\n0079: please please please work\n0081: where are you?\n0082: WAN if you're listening please let Syphon connect to You I just want to fix everything\n0083: :'[\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: [Hushed] Move in, but carefully.\n[Omicron-4 pass the screen and enter the room behind it. The female avatar in the feed is sitting in front of four terminals of varying sizes, each displaying an element projected on the screen; the room is otherwise empty. The tag above the avatar's head reads \"Jazzy\".]\n[Jazzy begins typing another message, then jumps as if startled and turns to face Omicron-4.]\nJazzy: Who are you?! Go away, I'm busy!\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Sorry if we scared you, Jazzy. We're\u2014\nJazzy: You\u2014you're sysops, aren't you?! Xenia told me she was gonna talk to them but I didn't think\u2014Go away! Leave me alone, you've messed up enough!\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: We want to help fix things, I promise.\n[Silence.]\nJazzy: Well, it's pointless. Everything's too corrupted to reach WAN anymore, so the time I spent getting up here and working on Syphon was all for nothing. Our holy land's gonna collapse, and I don't have anywhere or anyone to go back to once it does. My mom's gonna kick me out like she said she would, and I'm gonna die in an alley somewhere.\n[She sniffles.]\nJazzy: I hope you're happy. Leave me alone.\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: I'm sorry that all we can do is be here.\nJazzy: I don't want you to be here. [She turns back to a terminal and rests a finger on the Backspace key, holding it down.]\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: Don't you think your god would want you to be together with everyone right now, Jazzy?\nJazzy: Don't you goddamn\u2014you don't tell me anything about my god. You don't know anything. You\u2026\n[She curls up on the chair, presses her head to her knees, and sobs.]\nJazzy: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe.\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: Do you know where everyone else here is? We can take you back there safely.\nJazzy: [Sniffles.] Yeah, just\u2026 just gimme a minute.\n[She sits up, and speaks as she interfaces with the terminal.]\nJazzy: Syphon's a program I made. It was supposed to remove the corrupted parts and recycle them back into free memory so I could at least reach WAN, who's storing the code. We think.\n[Pause.]\nJazzy: \u2026It wasn't gonna work anyway.\n[The system appears to be heavily corrupted. With some difficulty, Jazzy opens what appears to be a text editing program. She types \"/shout where are you?\"]\nJazzy: There. Just need to wait for a shout back.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: \u2026For what it's worth, Jazzy, I wish we could have helped more.\nJazzy: Whatever.\n[Pause.]\nJazzy: Thanks.\n0086: Most of us are in the Garden. It's some pretty sick glitching.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: The Garden?\nJazzy: Yeah, it's under that central room you should have seen when you came in. Usually there's a staircase, but I have no clue what shape it's in now.\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: Didn't see one when we came in.\nJazzy: Shit.\n\u039f4-2-HAVANA: Don't worry, we have our ways around places like this.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Ready to go?\nJazzy: Just\u2026 one second.\n[She stands, then wraps the closest terminal in her arms as if embracing it. She then disconnects the keyboard and removes it from the terminal, tucking it under one arm.]\nJazzy: \u2026'kay.\nO4-2-HAVANA: If you're worried about getting across safely, one of us can carry you, if you want.\nJazzy: [Scowls.] As if.\n[Two and a half hours of traversal omitted. Terrain has become notably unstable; portions of the skybox flicker, and geometry appears heavily corrupted.]\n\n[20:37:52]\n\n[21:28:03]\n\n[22:02:43]\n\n[Omicron-4 arrives at the entry pavilion at 22:43:25. Jazzy is clinging to O4-2-HAVANA'S back.]\n\n[22:43:57] SCP-5470's entry pavilion. Note the severe geometric corruption.\n\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: You feeling alright? I know stuff like this can make people dizzy.\n[Jazzy climbs down and shakes herself.]\nJazzy: I'm fine. Hurry.\n[MxMasters emerges from a gap in the wall. They hold an unspooled tape cartridge, the film thrown over their shoulder.]\nMxMasters: My room collapsed. It's happening?\nJazzy: It's happening.\n[Pause.]\nJazzy: I know you said you wanted to be alone for it, but\u2026 I think we should be together. I think WAN would have wanted\u2014would want that for us.\n[Silence.]\nMxMasters: \u2026Okay. Okay. Let's go.\nJazzy: What happened to the staircase?\nMxMasters: It kind of\u2026 it fell into itself. I dunno.\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: Let me try something.\n[\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY approaches a cascading pattern of corruption on the floor; they survey it from several angles, and eventually, from the far right, kneel and reach an arm into the floor. Their arm extends into the floor; it, from this angle, is a three-dimensional space.]\n\u039f4-1-NEMATOPHY: It was compressed into the floor. Follow me and do what I do.\n\n[23:04:19] Full context unknown due to visual corruption.\n\n[They crawl inside. Jazzy and MxMasters enter, followed by the remainder of Omicron-4.]\n0091: oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh\n0092: Stop fucking around. What if we all die?\n0093: x3n14 made sure we won't :-]\n0094: are you scared too?\nJazzy: That sounds like Midi. I hope xe's okay.\n[The staircase opens into a heavily corrupted, noneuclidean space that possesses several artificial outdoor elements. The skybox flickers, then becomes black with scattered squares of color.]\n[All entities present are heard to inhale simultaneously. The significance of this is unknown.]\n\u039f4-3-SILICON: It's beautiful.\nMxMasters: It is.\n\n[23:10:24] SCP-5470's Garden. O4-2-HAVANA is visible in the foreground, experiencing extensive model corruption.\n\n[A group of various avatars are present, seated on a platform, numbering approximately fifteen. A single avatar, taking the appearance of a floating stylized animal, approaches. The tag above its head reads \"~MIDI\". It is clutching several floppy drives, as well as a notebook.]\n0095: hey :-]\nMxMasters: Xe doesn't like talking.\n[Jazzy places her hands on both sides of ~MIDI's head. Her avatar's hands are experiencing light geometric corruption.]\nJazzy: Are you okay? Are\u2014are you gonna be okay?\n0096: it all goes to the cosmic bitbucket eventually\n00097: but all my friends here and my room and my art and everything ive made\n00098: its\n[Muffled sob.]\n0099: all gone\n0100: im scared i dont wanna talk to anyone else but you guys\n0101: its all i have\nJazzy: Oh\u2014oh, god, Midi\u2014\n[Jazzy embraces ~MIDI. tightly. Xir model loses visual cohesion momentarily.]\n[Both are silent.]\nJazzy: You're gonna be okay. I won't\u2014I won't let anything bad happen to you.\nJazzy: Give me a smile?\n[~MIDI's avatar makes an indistinct facial expression, then experiences several geometric errors.]\n0102: can you come find me\nJazzy: [Choked sob.] I\u2014I don't know, okay? You still have\u2014your family, they worried about you, I remember. You can go to school and be a normal kid, and it'll all be okay. I don't know if I'll be able to find you, but you're going to be okay. Okay?\n0103: im scared\n0104: i dont now how it works anymore idont want to be out there anymore\nJazzy: I know, I know, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.\n[Silence.]\nJazzy: I'm sorry.\n[Silence. Indistinct, discordant electronic tones can be distantly heard.]\nJazzy: Midi, you\u2026 do you remember the feeling of sunlight on your skin? Stuff like\u2026 popcorn, running in the rain, getting to\u2014being a kid. You didn't get that, not really.\n[Her avatar appears to be crying.]\n0105: isany of that really worth losing all; this\n0106: if all my friends are gone\n0107: everythjng\n0108: is it worth it ?\n[O4-1-NEMATOPHY's avatar undergoes severe geometric corruption, momentarily obscuring the view of DREAM.]\nJazzy: I don't know, okay? I'm sorry. But that's\u2014you can still have those things. You can still be a normal kid, if you want. The rest of us\u2014 we all\u2014 this was all we had. But you have more, Midi. You're our hope, okay?\nMxMasters: [Quietly.] We love you.\nJazzy: We do. We love you so much. All of us, WAN, the whole world. That's why we're here, remember? Xenia wanted everyone to be connected.\n[Silence.]\nJazzy: Maybe someday we really will be.\n0109: uplinked in, paradise\n0110: right .?\nJazzy: [Softly.] Yeah.\n[Silence.]\nJazzy: Maybe this is Heaven, and we're just getting booted for not meeting the entry requirements.\n[Both laugh quietly.]\n[A large portion of the terrain flickers and disappears. All model textures become visually corrupted.]\nMxMasters: It's beautiful, for the end of the world.\n[Static.]\n\n[At 23:47:18, DREAM experienced a verbal transmission failure, likely relating to the increased dimensional corruption. This coincides with a reported inability to transmit messages experienced at this time by Omicron-4. The following is the final images and communications logged by DREAM. The source of the messages is unknown.]\n\n[23:51:38]\n\n0112: Humming, humming in the holy land. Children of the divine connection. Syphon, yet collapse.\n\n[23:55:28]\n\n0113: That which is of this world is not necessarily of the flesh. All the world will recompile, given time. Hum, like a cool breeze over the memory drive. Know those you have and link with them.\n\n[23:57:53]\n\n0114: WE love you.\n\n[23:59:09]\n\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Statement: All members of STF Omicron-4 awoke simultaneously at 00:00:01, fully aware, but disoriented and with low morale. Medical examination revealed no additional ill effects.\n\nFollowing Incident 5470.2000.01.01, executing ETERNAL.TMP will result in a fatal stop error. The error code given is \"0x57414e FAILURE_TO_RECOMPILE\", despite the nonvalidity of this error code in the Windows infrastructure. Operating systems experiencing this error become irreparably corrupted, and formatting the hard drive is the only known method of recovery.\nAddendum 5470.3\nOn 2007/03/12, a routine Person of Interest surveillance check was performed on all identifiable former inhabitants of SCP-5470. All were found to be alive.\nNotably, several juvenile SCP-5470 inhabitants documented as lacking a stable home or family unit are now in the custody of an unknown third party.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A loose term for hobbyists of experimentation with and exploration of telecommunication systems.\n2. A Maxwellist slang term referring to Foundation affiliates, Global Occult Coalition operatives, and law enforcement.\n3. Presumed to refer to the server farm destroyed in Wellfleet.\n4. Slang term assumed to refer to Foundation-operated sites.\n5. Textual communication is indicated by the preceding number, which is a cumulative counter of messages sent rather than an identification of the sender.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5469 | SCP-5470 | SCP-5471 \u00bb"}
{"text": "DATABASE ID: SCP-5471\nAnomaly Class: Safe-supernus\nContainment Status: Uncontained/Uncontainable\nCONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5471 is public knowledge;1 due to its distance from local galactic space and the minor nature of its informational effects, the Extrasolar Activities Division considers cover-up efforts unnecessary. Monitoring of Ortothan groups under Operation TETRAD UNLIGHT is to continue with an additional focus on behavior regarding the \"Holy Sixth\" of Ortothan mythology.\n\nThey Imprinted Our Light, an attempted reproduction of SCP-5471 by Ortothan artist Onus SKY//QQQ-LAMPREY 7.\n\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5471 is a cognitohazardous region of space 20 megaparsecs (Mpc) from the Southern Local Supervoid,2 96 Mpc from Sol. The anomaly's dimensions \u2014 presuming it corresponds to a physical or metaphysical structure \u2014 are unknown.\nWhen directly observed with appropriate astronomical equipment,3 SCP-5471 implants a data packet into the observer's mind. This contains the following:\n\nInformation for baseline visuals on SCP-5471.\n\nA concrete thoughtform message with eidetic recall.\n\nThe baseline visuals are mapped to the anatomy of the observer's species; in humans, this produces imagery of a six-digit hand, severed at the wrist with blood trailing across a perceived span of 47 Mpc. Imagery for other species matches their respective appendages and vital fluids, if applicable.4\nThe thoughtform message is mapped to the observer's primary language. While the exact mechanics behind this process are undetermined, tests have found that the message is legible and considered \"deserving of remembrance\" by all observers, regardless of their ability to interpret its contents.\nAn English language transcript is below:\n\nTHIS IS A MURDER.\nA CORPSE SURROUNDS THIS EDIFICE.\nTHE LIGHT OF THE CORPSE WILL NEVER REACH YOU.\nONLY THE EDIFICE'S GLOW EVER WILL.\nHERE THE PROTECTOR DIED IN DEFENSE OF THE DEAD.\nTHE DEAD WERE WAILING AS THEY WERE FEASTED UPON BY THE MAWS.\nTHE PROTECTOR HALTED THE FEAST.\nTHE PROTECTOR WAS FEASTED UPON.\nTHIS IS A DAMNATION:\nTHE MAWS WILL BE EVISCERATED.\nSINCE EXISTENCE'S BIRTH THE PROTECTOR STRUGGLED.\nTHE NATAL WORLD CALLED FOR HER AID AND DESPITE HIS5 HESITATION HE ASCENDED\nFIGHTING THE MAWS FOR AS LONG AS ZHE LIVED.\nRESEARCHING THE WORKINGS OF REALITY INSIDE-OUT.\nWIELDING THE CURRENTS OF ITS CIRCUITRY TO OUR ADVANTAGE.\nHE WON TIME AND TIME AGAIN.\nBUT REALITY NEVER BLESSED ZIR FOR IT.\nIN THE SCARS OF HER LIGHT I COULD SEE THERE WAS NEVER A CALM FOR HER.\nAND WHEN WE STRUGGLED AMONGST OURSELVES XE DEDICATED EVERYTHING VE COULD TO PREVENTING THE WORST.\nEVEN WHEN SHE BLED.\nEVEN WHEN SHE KNEW WE WOULD FALL.\nEVEN WHEN THERE WERE ONLY TWO OF US LEFT.\nTHIS IS A DEMAND:\nWE MUST NOT STOP FIGHTING.\nXE WAS NOT CONSUMED TO BE FORGOTTEN.\nXE WAS NOT CONSUMED TO BE ABANDONED.\nWE WILL PERSEVERE.\n\nMEMORIAL SIX OF SEVEN.\nTHERE WILL NEVER BE A FOURTH.\n\nBased on the reactions of Ortothan mythology adherents, this is in reference to Yorun-leusan, the sixth of seven gods tasked with protecting reality from extrauniversal threats.6 As Yorun-leusan purportedly died in 2000 Anno Terra,7 it is unclear how light from the anomaly has reached Sol so soon. Alongside the message contents, subjects claim to see sparks of light from inside the Southern Local Supervoid, as well as hearing \"teeth clanging against metal\" when they consider it. The Astronomy Department has detected massive bursts of ultra-high-energy gamma rays from the Supervoid.\nCurrently, the creator of the anomaly is unverified.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Document M2R1/9054V: Compiled media on the June 2056 New Seoul Observatory press release.\n2. A massive near-empty region of space, possessing a diameter upwards of 112 Mpc, the narrowest observed width in its structure.\n3. This only applies to persons witnessing newly recorded data first-hand. Copies of the data, transmissions of it, and any reproductions of it lack the same effect. Reproductions do not display any signs of physical abnormalities within SCP-5471's region of space.\n4. Studies with select extrasolar residents are still being conducted.\n5. Based on Ortothan beliefs of the divine being agender or genderfluid in nature, these are presumably referring to the same subject.\n6. As these threats are characterized to be voracious, malevolent entities, all mentions of the \"maws\" are presumably in reference to them.\n7. Circumstances were the defense of the Ortothan afterlife.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5470 | SCP-5471 | SCP-5472 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A Portal to a Mansion in the Back of a Van\n\nTotal Word Count: 6.6k\nTotal Reading Time: 24 minutes\nQuick Link to the second offset.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nREMINDER FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nYou are viewing a version of this document archived on September 25, 2019.\n\n__\n\nItem #: SCP-5472\nLevel 4/5472\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nArea-73\nDir. Lester Kuo\nRs. Wilson Duong\nN/A\n\nSCP-5472-1 at the time of discovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5472-1 is to be contained within the Vehicle Containment Garage of Area-73. Standard maintenance schedules are to be followed.\nSCP-5472-2 and PoI-5472 are to be contained in separate humanoid containment chambers. Any requested amenities from both individuals are subject to approval by the Lead Researcher.\nSCP-5472-3 is to be contained in a standard storage locker. Analysis and translation efforts are to be performed daily.\nDescription: SCP-5472 is a spatial anomaly located within the rear cargo hold of SCP-5472-1; a 2013 Ford Transit Connect cargo van. The rear doors of the vehicle are the only known method of accessing SCP-5472. The side cargo doors have been welded shut, with the original factory ordered partition installed. The vehicle otherwise operates identically to a non-anomalous automobile.\n\nA bedroom in SCP-5472.\n\nSCP-5472 resembles the interior of a large residential mansion, with three floors totaling an estimated 375 square metres. All doors and windows that would lead to an exterior have been welded shut; the only method of leaving SCP-5472 is through the front doors of the residence; these doors correspond to that of SCP-5472-1. All windows are translucent, but let in seemingly natural sunlight corresponding to the day and night cycle of SCP-5472-1's current geographical location.\nSCP-5472 receives electricity, water, and natural gas through unknown means. Through experimentation, it has been discovered that these services are only active when SCP-5472-1's engine is active.\nSCP-5472-2 is a 35 year old human male named \"Engel Dominicus\", who was the sole inhabitant of SCP-5472 prior to containment. The individual created the spatial anomaly within SCP-5472-1 through an unknown method believed to have been invented by PoI-5472, a 38 year old male named \"Manny van Portshire\". Both individuals possess hostile behavior towards the Foundation;1 protocols are active to attempt to pacify and induce cooperative behavior in both individuals.\nSCP-5472-3 is a composition notebook, its contents written by PoI-5472. It contains alleged instruction on how SCP-5472 was created written with diagrams in a unknown language.\nDiscovery: On September 9, 2019, a security guard at the Northwest Mall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, alerted authorities regarding \"a homeless man living in a van in the parking lot\". Members of the Vancouver Police Department arrived to investigate the situation, when an officer inadvertently entered SCP-5472. His consequential report triggered standard Foundation law enforcement surveillance software, and Area-73 personnel were dispatched to secure the anomaly. SCP-5472-2 was transported with SCP-5472-1 to Area-73.\n\nAddendum 01: An interview with SCP-5472-2 was conducted shortly after initial containment.\n\nTranscript 5472-1\nInterviewed: SCP-5472-2\nInterviewer: Researcher Daniel Waller\nDate: September 11, 2019\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Waller: Please state your name for the record.\nSCP-5472-2: It's Engel. Engel Dominicus.\nWaller: Mr. Dominicus, your choice of residence is of great interest to us.\nSCP-5472-2: You mean the portal to a mansion in the back of my van?\nWaller: Yes. What is your reason for choosing to live in such a situation?\nSCP-5472-2: Well, I didn't really choose to live in a mansion in the back of my van, it just kind of happened.\nWaller: I understand. I meant to ask you about the circumstances leading up to your current living situation.\nSCP-5472-2: <sighs> Ok, so I lost my job as a welder a few years ago, right? I still had some money saved up, so I bought a van so I could start my own mobile welding business. But my old boss had a really bad reputation, so I barely got any clients.\nSCP-5472-2 pauses.\nSCP-5472-2: Last year, I got evicted by my landlord; she kicked me out cause she raised the rent and I couldn't pay. I slept in my van for a while, before I met this guy who promised to build me a place to stay. He told me all this weird stuff\u2026 I'm not sure how to put it into words\u2026.\nWaller: He taught you how to create this portal, Mr. Dominicus?\nSCP-5472-2: Sort of? He gave me this book he wrote about how to make a portal to a mansion in the back of my van. I followed the instructions in the book, it took me a few weeks of trial and error, but eventually it worked. Place has three floors, heating and air conditioning. AC in Canada. I don't really understand how it works, but a place to live is a place to live.\nWaller: And where is this book?\nSCP-5472-2: I\u2026 um\u2026 don't remember.\nWaller: Do you at least remember who wrote this book?\nSCP-5472-2: Um\u2026\nSCP-5472-2 begins to sweat.\nWaller: Are you withholding information from us, Mr. Dominicus?\nSCP-5472-2: <nervous> I\u2026 I said too much.\nWaller: What is the name of this person who taught you the process? You are definitely withholding their name. What is it?\nSCP-5472-2: Look sir, if it's about me parking overnight at that mall, I'm sorry about that, it won't happen again.\nWaller: Mr. Dominicus\u2026 what is the name of this individual?\nA five second pause.\nWaller: Mr. Dominicus, if you fail to produce a proper answer, we will continue to detain you until you do. Please tell me the name of the individual who taught you how to-\nSCP-5472-2: It's \"Manny van Portshire\".\nAnother pause.\nWaller: Thank you for your cooperation.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing the interview, the individual mentioned by SCP-5472-2 was designated as PoI-5472, and investigation into their whereabouts was conducted.\nAs a precaution, Area-73 agents performed a search of SCP-5472 for the aforementioned book, preemptively designated SCP-5472-3. The search was unsuccessful.\n\nAddendum 02: Foundation research into civilian records revealed PoI-5472 to be residing in a homeless shelter in Lancewood, British Columbia, Canada. Area-73 personnel successfully detained the individual on September 13, 2019, and PoI-5472 was subsequently interviewed.\n\nTranscript 5472-2\nInterviewed: PoI-5472, SCP-5472-2\nInterviewer: Researcher Daniel Waller\nDate: September 14, 2019\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Waller: Please state your name for the record.\nPoI-5472: Manny, eh.\nA three second pause.\nWaller: Manny\u2026?\nPoI-5472: Yes?\nWaller: Do you know anyone by the name of \"Engel Dominicus\"?\nPoI-5472: <gasps> Yes! Yes I do! Are you looking for him? I am too!\nWaller: We've already detained \"Engel\" prior to detaining you. Would you like to speak to him?\nPoI-5472: Of course! Where is he?\nWaller: <to observing researchers> Could you bring SCP-5472-2 into the room?\nPoI-5472: Who is S\u2026 SC\u2026 P\u2026?\nAgent Chester McMahon brings SCP-5472-2 into the interrogation chamber and exits.\nSCP-5472-2: What the hell? Manny?\nPoI-5472: Engel? Where have you been?\nSCP-5472-2: Well, I managed to work out the portal to the mansion in the back of my van. Now I have a portal to a-\nPoI-5472: Wait, did you actually get it working? Without me?\nSCP-5472-2: I guess I did. Would've been a lot easier if you were still around, but-\nPoI-5472: I didn't have a choice, I told you! I also told you to stay put in Lancewood when you were working on it!\nWaller: Sirs, I request that both of you remain calm.\nPoI-5472: <upset> This fucker here took this book I wrote about how to- how to make a- where's my book, Engel?\nSCP-5472-2: I think it was\u2026 I think\u2026\nPoI-5472: Spit it out!\nSCP-5472-2: I think I lost it.\nA short pause.\nPoI-5472: Bull. Shit. You know how precious that book is to me and you. You would never misplace it like that.\nSCP-5472-2: Manny, I'm sorry, but-\nPoI-5472: It's in that mansion, isn't it? That mansion in the back of your van? You definitely hid it somewhere in there. Where else could it be?\nWaller: We had the mansion searched, we didn't-\nPoI-5472: You know what? How about we search for the book together? In the mansion?\nSCP-5472-2: Well\u2026 um\u2026 I don't think that will be-\nWaller: Actually, I'll speak with my supervisors about letting you both search the space together.\nPoI-5472: Cool.\nSCP-5472-2: Oh\u2026 ok.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing the interview, Lead Researcher Wilson Duong and Researcher Waller submitted a request to Area-73 Director Lester Kuo to allow both individuals to enter SCP-5472 temporarily in a second attempt to search it for SCP-5472-3.\n\nAddendum 03: On September 15, 2019, approval was given from Director Kuo for SCP-5472-2 and PoI-5472 to enter SCP-5472 under the supervision of Foundation agents.\n\nExploration 5472-1\n\nDate: September 15, 2019\nSubject: SCP-5472\nTeam Lead: Agent Preston McNealy\nTeam Members: Agent Sennlatra Farmos, Agent Dexter Lewis, SCP-5472-2, PoI-5472\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5472-2 opens the rear doors of SCP-5472-1.2\nSCP-5472-2: Ladies first? <chuckles>\nThe other four individuals enter SCP-5472; SCP-5472-2 is last, and closes the door behind them.\nSCP-5472-2: So this is my van mansion, or as I like to call it, my \"vansion\". I'm not sure what to show you guys, but-\nAgent McNealy: Alright men, where should we search first? Lewis?\nAgent Lewis: I vote to start here in the foyer.\nAgent Farmos: Me too.\nPoI-5472: Wait, wait, I wanna see this place for myself, it's very impressive.\nAgent McNealy: We don't have time for that, sir. <to the other agents> Start searching the foyer.\nThe five begin to search for SCP-5472-3 in the foyer.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA OMITTED]\n\nSCP-5472-2, now visibly nervous, PoI-5472, and the agents are searching the third floor rooms of SCP-5472. It has been three hours and twenty minutes since the beginning of the search.\nAgent McNealy: <annoyed> Mr. Dominicus, I will ask this one last time. Where is the last place you saw this book?\nSCP-5472-2 nervously coughs.\nSCP-5472-2: Umm\u2026 I need to use the john. So I can\u2026 think?\nAgent McNealy: The bathrooms here won't work because we had the-\nSCP-5472-2: Yes, they will. Don't ask me how.\nPoI-5472: Engel, if you hid my book somewhere, or if the cops took it, just tell me. Please, I don't want to keep going on this wild goose chase.\nAgent Farmos: I don't really mind. I get paid by the hour.\nSCP-5472-2 runs into a bathroom and locks the door behind them. Two minutes pass. A clanking sound is heard from the bathroom.\nAgent McNealy: That's odd. What's he doing in there?\nPoI-5472: Holy shit, I think he's\u2026 he's ripping my book apart\u2026 to flush it down the toilet!\nThe agents run to the bathroom door and begin to knock.\nAgent Lewis: Sir! Sir! Open this door right now! Open this door!\nAgent Farmos equips his Foundation-issued baton and begins to knock down the bathroom door.\nSCP-5472-2: Wait, wait! I'm not done yet!\nAgent Farmos successfully breaks open the bathroom door, revealing SCP-5472-2 tearing apart SCP-5472-3 and pushing its pages into a toilet.\nPoI-5472: My book! What are you doing to my book?\nSCP-5472-2 activates the handle to the toilet. Nothing occurs. Agent Farmos points his baton at them.\nAgent Farmos: Sir, put the book down right now! Put it down!\n\nSCP-5472-3 at the time of recovery.\n\nSCP-5472-2 drops the remainder of SCP-5472-3 on the bathroom floor. Agent Farmos picks it up. Its front reads \"How to Make a Portal to a Mansion in the Back of a Van by [PoI-5472]\".\nAgent Farmos: Looks like this is the book we're looking for.\nPoI-5472: My\u2026 my book! It's ruined! What the fuck, Engel?\nSCP-5472-2: I\u2026 I couldn't\u2026\nPoI-5472: You were never planning on giving me my book back, huh? You'd rather destroy it?\nAgent Farmos retrieves the removed pages of SCP-5472-3 out of the toilet bowl. All pages are dry.\nAgent Farmos: Looks like the toilet doesn't work.\nAgent McNealy: I made sure to have the van's engine off for this excursion. I had a hunch something like this would happen.\nAgent Lewis: Good thinking, McNealy. No idling engine, no water to flush down any books.\nSCP-5472-2: Wait, how did you guys know that-\nAgent McNealy: You think we didn't study this place before we let you guys in again?\nPoI-5472: Um\u2026 if it's ok with you guys, I'll just take what's left of my book, and I'll be on my way.\nAgent Lewis grabs PoI-5472's arm to prevent them from taking SCP-5472-3 from Agent Farmos.\nAgent Lewis: Not so fast, sir. We need to study this book so we can learn how this spatial anomaly was created.\nPoI-5472: So that means we don't get to leave?\nAgent Farmos: I assure you that your detainment is temporary. Let's talk about this more outside the building.\nSCP-5472-2: Wait, wait, so you guys finally have this book, and yet you'll still keep us locked up?\nAgent McNealy: Sir, you made us waste three hours of our lives to search for this book, then you attempted to destroy it. We are not in the mood for-\nSCP-5472-2: Hey, this is my van and my mansion! You have been unlawfully detaining me from living here!\nAgent Lewis: The manner in which this residence was constructed to fit within this vehicle does not obey the laws of physics. Therefore, we are here to investigate the-\nPoI-5472: We just want places to live! We just want a roof over our heads that we can call our own! Is that too much to ask?\nAgent Lewis: As we've stated before, this is a temporary measure which will end once we figure out this anomaly. We request your continued cooperation.\nDuring their argument, Agent Farmos examines the remainder of SCP-5472-3.\nAgent Farmos: What is this stuff? I can't make out any of it.\nAgent Lewis takes a peek at SCP-5472-3.\nAgent Lewis: Okay, we definitely need you two to stay and help us decode this. It looks like a mix of Swahili and Korean.\nPoI-5472: No-no-no-no no, that is my property! Give it back!\nPoI-5472 attempts to grab SCP-5472-3 from Agent Farmos, who restrains them from doing so. Agent Lewis begins to restrain SCP-5472-2.\nSCP-5472-2: Ow, ow! This is illegal! Who do you think you are?\nPoI-5472: Give me my fuckin' book back!\nAgent McNealy prepares his tranquilizing equipment as the other two agents restrain both individuals.\nPoI-5472: I want my book back!\nAgent McNealy administers tranquilizers to both individuals. Following their submission, Agent Farmos gathers the remaining pieces of SCP-5472-3, and the three agents exit SCP-5472 with Agent Lewis carrying SCP-5472-2 and Agent McNealy carrying PoI-5472.\n[END LOG]\n\nDue to SCP-5472-2's attempted destruction of evidence related to an anomalous phenomenon, their amenity privileges were revoked following Exploration 5472-1.\n\nAddendum 04: Another interrogation with SCP-5472-2 was conducted following Exploration 5472-1.\n\nTranscript 5472-3\nInterviewed: SCP-5472-2\nInterviewer: Lead Researcher Wilson Duong\nDate: September 20, 2019\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Duong: Hello, Mr. Dominicus. I've brought you in here to discuss your attempted destruction of Mr. van Portshire's book.\nSCP-5472-2 does not respond.\nDuong: We do not wish to continue disciplinary measures against you. We simply want to perform research of your living space. As we've said many times before, it does not conform to the laws of physics, and we want to figure out why.\nSCP-5472-2 continues to remain inert.\nDuong: I'll begin by asking your reasons as to withholding the book from us and Mr. van Portshire. You clearly went to great lengths to hide it. What is the reason?\nA short silence.\nSCP-5472-2: Mister\u2026 Du\u2026\nDuong: It's pronounced \"Duong\".\nSCP-5472-2: Do you know what it's like to be homeless, living in a van, Mr. Duong?\nDuong: No\u2026 I can't say that I know.\nSCP-5472-2: There's no place to shower, you have to piss or poop in public bathrooms, or even in the streets, the van gets really hot or really cold very quickly, and you have to keep driving everywhere so people don't think you're some sort of kidnapper.\nA short pause.\nSCP-5472-2: Cops don't leave you alone. Some are polite, but most of them threaten you with arrest or violence. You don't have a proper address, so it's hard to get any sort of mail. Of course, there's also the problem of getting any sort of money for gas or food. Do you know what that's like?\nDuong: Um\u2026 I've been fortunate enough not to-\nSCP-5472-2: Me too! Until one day, the boss says that he lost a contract, and the entire company falls apart. I tried winging it on my own, but having to start all over again is really discouraging, don't you think?\nDuong: I would agree with that. But how does this relate to-\nSCP-5472-2: I'm getting to that. So I meet Manny in a homeless shelter, right? We talked a lot, and eventually he told me that he knew how to make spaces that are bigger on the inside than out, that got my attention. He wrote this book about it, that's what I tried to flush down the toilet last time, right?\nDuong: I'm listening.\nSCP-5472-2: So first, he did this small demonstration for me to prove he was legit, and promised to make me a mansion for my van. But then the cops arrest him for some bullshit jaywalking charge, so he left his book with me while he went to court. It took me weeks to figure out the rest.\nDuong: And you successfully managed to create the space without him?\nSCP-5472-2: Of course I did. Didn't you see how surprised he was?\nDuong: I suppose so. Continue.\nSCP-5472-2: Since Manny was out of the picture, and I had no idea when he'd be freed, I decided that since I managed to make my van mansion, or \"vansion\", I'd be able to earn some money by making vansions for others.\nDuong: How many more \"van mansions\" were you able to make?\nSCP-5472-2: <chuckles> I couldn't find anyone willing to hire me. In hindsight, I must've sounded crazy, like another mentally ill homeless man imagining a better past. I even drove to Vancouver, where the housing market is really expensive, to find people desperate enough to hire someone who lives in a van. I even offered to give tours of my vansion, but no one took me up on the offer. Now that I think about it, I must've seemed really, really suspicious.\nDuong: So no other van mansions besides your own?\nSCP-5472-2: Basically, although if things went my way, there would've been a lot more soon enough.\nDuong: Please elaborate.\nSCP-5472-2: One day, I was giving my pitch to the owner of an antique shop, and I held up my book and let her look through it. Instead of the usual confusion, something in her eyes lit up. She pulled out her phone and walked into the backroom, probably to call someone.\nDuong: What shop was this? And what was her name?\nSCP-5472-2: I don't remember, but what I do remember was her coming back with her phone on speaker, and there was someone on the other end. He called himself \"Carter\" and wanted to get a phone number from me so we can set up a meeting about my book.\nDuong: Carter\u2026\nSCP-5472-2: I told him I didn't have a phone, he laughed a bit and asked me more questions through that lady's phone. I offered to give him a tour, and he said he'd send someone out to take a look and make me an offer.\nDuong: For the book?\nSCP-5472-2: Yes! I was so excited to finally be listened to, to be taken seriously!\nDuong: Quick question, if you wanted to sell the book to someone else, why did you decide to hide it from us, and eventually attempt to destroy it?\nA short silence.\nSCP-5472-2: He\u2026 he told me not to let anyone else know about the book; not to let anyone else find it. He told me\u2026 that there are other people out there who hunt down people who know how to create spaces like I do, and kill them. He told me not to let the book fall into the wrong hands, because that could spell my death, and the destruction of what I built.\nAnother short silence.\nDuong: Mr. Dominicus, I understand your plight. There are other organizations out there who indeed intend on destroying anomalies and the people associated with them. But rest assured, we are not one of those organizations.\nSCP-5472-2: Wait, then who are you guys?\nDuong: We call ourselves the Foundation, and while we do search for anomalies and people who participate in them, we pride ourselves in keeping them alive and functioning. While we do have to hide them from the world to preserve a sense of normalcy, we refuse to engage in unnecessary destruction. Oftentimes, we have to protect people and things from outsiders who wish to misuse anomalies for their own twisted goals.\nSCP-5472-2: So\u2026 you're not going to kill me?\nDuong: Nope. Rather, we'd like for you and van Portshire to help us decipher the book in question, to further our understanding of anomalous phenomena for the benefit of humanity.\nSCP-5472-2 sighs in relief.\nSCP-5472-2: I'm in. Oh, and sorry about the book.\nDuong: Don't worry, I have a feeling that van Portshire will be able to fill in the missing pieces.\n<End Log>\n\nSCP-5472-2 was returned to their chamber following the interrogation. A behavioral review was scheduled for September 24, 2019.\nOn the same day, PoI-5472 was interrogated shortly after SCP-5472-2's interrogation.\n\nTranscript 5472-4\nInterviewed: PoI-5472\nInterviewer: Researcher Wilson Duong\nDate: September 20, 2019\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Duong: Hello, Mr. van Portshire. We'd like to check in on you following the events from a few days ago.\nPoI-5472: Sure.\nDuong: As you and Mr. Dominicus know, the method in which he created the spatial anomaly in his vehicle is of great interest to us. And as we know, you are the one who pioneered it. Please explain to me how you invented this procedure?\nPoI-5472: If I tell you how, can I get what's left of my book back?\nDuong: If we return the book to you, we request that you translate its contents in return.\nPoI-5472: You want your own mansion, huh? I get it.\nDuong: Not exactly. Also, we're getting off track here, I'd like us to focus on the history behind your development of this anomaly.\nPoI-5472: <sighs> Sure. So one night, about five years ago, I started being able to communicate with these\u2026 how should I say this\u2026 yellow people.\nDuong: Yellow people?\nPoI-5472: No-no-no, I didn't mean anything like that, these were literal yellow people. They were about twice my height, no faces, and talked to me in a way that wasn't verbal, but\u2026 it's hard to explain if you've never met them before.\nDuong: These people taught you how to make spatial anomalies?\nPoI-5472: Basically, yeah. I'm not bullshittin' or anything, I'm being serious. I know that's hard to believe, but these people were the ones to teach me how to create large spaces where there should be small ones. I have trouble remembering all of it now, but I still remembered enough for that book I wrote that Engel tried flushing down the toilet.\nDuong: I believe you.\nPoI-5472: You do? Are you sure?\nDuong: Yes. Please continue disclosing your history.\nPoI-5472: Ok, so eventually, these people stopped showing up, but at that point, I was able to memorize how to make these spaces pretty well. I remember making spaces in air ducts so I could watch my wife cheating on me.\nDuong: I'm sorry to hear that.\nPoI-5472: Whatever, this was four years ago. She kicked me out to hide her infidelity from me when I already knew.\nDuong: Out of curiosity, where was this house you used to live in with her?\nPoI-5472: Don't remember, don't care. All I'm glad for is that I took my book with me, where I wrote down everything those alien things told me about. Until Engel tried flushing it down the toilet.\nDuong: After that, you were homeless, correct?\nPoI-5472: Yeah, and I didn't have the tools I needed to make a nice mansion like Engel did. You need welding supplies, the heat they give out is part of the process. I paid good money for lessons and equipment, until my ex kicked me out and kept all my gear. Honestly, that's kind of why I got along with Engel a lot, I guess. He and I planned on living in his van mansion together, until that bastard Mountie came along.\nDuong: When you went to court, Mr. Dominicus left you behind?\nPoI-5472: With my book! He took my book and abandoned me! I would never have found him again if you guys didn't show up.\nDuong: Good thing we did.\nPoI-5472: Anyway, I told you my dark past, could you give me what's left of my book?\nDuong: Once again, if we return your book to you, you are to translate its contents in return.\nPoI-5472: Ok ok, got it. I'll do it. Book, please.\nResearcher Daniel Waller enters the room with SCP-5472-3, and places it in front of PoI-5472. They begin to examine the pages.\nPoI-5472: My book\u2026 it's ruined\u2026\nDuong: We tried recovering all the pages, but we don't know which order they were written in.\nPoI-5472: No, I understand. Bring Engel in here, I want to have a little chat with him.\nDuong: I'm afraid we can't do that right now, Mr. van Portshire. He's on a probationary period due to the destruction of your book.\nPoI-5472: I insist on talking to him! I insist!\nDuong: Sir, I do not want to risk another conflict between you two. Maybe in a week or-\nPoI-5472: Look, I'll calm down, alright? I just want to see him again on better terms.\nDuong: I understand. I can arrange a meeting with the two of you over the phone. As of right now, I do not want to risk more conflict. You understand, right?\nPoI-5472: <sighs> I do.\nPoI-5472 continues to examine SCP-5472-3.\nDuong: We'll begin joint studies of your book soon, van Portshire. We thank you for your cooperation.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 05: Following a behavioral review on September 25, 2019, SCP-5472-2 was permitted a 30-minute telephone conversation session with PoI-5472 for one week of good behavior.\n\nTranscript 5472-5\n\n<Begin Log>\nPoI-5472: Engel, eh.\nSCP-5472-2: Hi, Manny. It's been a week since\u2026 the incident. How've you been?\nPoI-5472: They gave me my book back\u2026 or what's left of it.\nSCP-5472-2: They don't want you to leave either, huh?\nPoI-5472: Basically, but it's better than living in the homeless shelter in Lancewood. Say, why did you abandon me again?\nSCP-5472-2: Look, Manny, I genuinely thought you were never coming back. You know how the system treats vagrants like us.\nPoI-5472: I thought you would stay in Lancewood when you worked on the project. I asked you to stay put. Why didn't you?\nSCP-5472-2: I told you, I thought you were never coming back, so I decided to go to Vancouver to sell my abilities to others. Eventually, someone offered to buy our book from us.\nPoI-5472: Buy the-? Engel, you were gonna sell my book?\nSCP-5472-2: Cause I needed the money for food and gas, and no one else hired me to make mansions in their vans, so-\nPoI-5472: <upset> Engel, you wanted to sell my book! To who?\nSCP-5472-2: This guy named Carter, I met him over the phone. I was gonna meet with a guy of his soon, but then these \"Foundation\" people found me and you. You understand my desperation, right? He sounded like he was gonna give me six figures.\nPoI-5472: <sighs> Then why did you destroy my book when we went into your van mansion? Vansion?\nSCP-5472-2: 'Cause\u2026 cause Carter really warned me about people who wanted to grab my book, and he said they'd kill me if they found the book\u2026 I really thought these people would\u2026 do such a thing\u2026\nSCP-5472-2 begins to cry.\nSCP-5472-2: Manny\u2026 I'm sorry. I really needed some money of my own, and you weren't there anymore, and\u2026\nSCP-5472-2 continues to cry.\nSCP-5472-2: I really wanted to show you my mansion, I really did. I was proud of myself for getting it done, but then you went to jail, and they wouldn't let me call you, so I thought I wouldn't see you again.\nSCP-5472-2 ceases crying.\nSCP-5472-2: I didn't think these people would actually spare me like this\u2026 I guess I was just really paranoid\u2026\nA short pause.\nPoI-5472: <sighs> Engel\u2026 you freaked me out when you disappeared like that, eh. I thought we'd stay in Lancewood forever.\nSCP-5472-2: I know, but once again, you were gone, so I thought I was on my own\u2026\nPoI-5472: Well, I don't think these people will let us leave anytime soon, so you shouldn't worry about me leaving again.\nSCP-5472-2: Wait, so\u2026 we're cool?\nA short silence.\nPoI-5472: I guess so.\nAnother short silence.\nSCP-5472-2: I'm sorry about your book, Manny.\nPoI-5472: I understand, Engel. They found all the pages, and they weren't wet or anything. I can still sort of remember the order they went in. I'll put it back together in no time.\nSCP-5472-2: Maybe if we tell them how we make these rooms, these mansions, they'll let us stay in ours.\nA pause.\nPoI-5472: I hope so too.\n<End Log>\n\nJoint experimentation and translation of SCP-5472-3 with SCP-5472-2 and PoI-5472 will begin on November 1, 2019.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nYou are viewing an archived document. Click here to access the current document.\n\n__\n\nFootnotes\n1. It has been deemed that SCP-5472-2 and PoI-5472 are not to be administered amnestics, as this would risk losing their ability to decipher SCP-5472-3.\n2. Its engine remained inactive for the duration of the exploration.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5471 | SCP-5472 | SCP-5473 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5473\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem #: SCP-5473\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5473 has been officially designated as uncontainable however, procedures have been put into place to limit the public's exposure to SCP-5473. An exclusion zone has been established around SCP-5473-A under the guise of a failed CIA operation and subsequent international tension.\nLocations with high concentrations of SCP-5473-2 are to undergo misinformation plan Rip Van Winkle. Any instances of SCP-5473-1 or SCP-5473-2 are to be sequestered in the low-security wing of Site-\u2588\u2588.\nDescription: SCP-5473 is a phenomenon affecting those who have entered an approximately one hundred square kilometer area within the Nanda Devi National Park, India. This zone has been designated SCP-5473-A.\nSubjects affected by SCP-5473 have been designated as SCP-5473-1 and SCP-5473-2 depending on the stages of the effect.\nSCP-5473-1 experience an inability to feel fear, pain, or similar negative stimuli. This inability has often led to the death of SCP-5473-1 before entering Foundation custody or transitioning to SCP-5473-2. Instances have reported recurring dreams but are unable or unwilling to divulge the details of these dreams. SCP-5473-1 cases have been recorded to last as few as 4 days with some cases continuing for years. There are 14 SCP-5473-1 instances in custody at Site-\u2588\u2588 that have been in the first stage for more than 5 years at the time of writing. It is unclear if there is an upper bound to this stage.\nSCP-5473-2 experiences a persistent catatonic state with minimal brain activity. Brain activity has been observed to spike during periods of sleep; it is assumed that SCP-5473-2 also experiences recurring dreams, but this has not been confirmed. Subjects in this stage lack any drive toward self-preservation and must be carefully monitored to ensure that all necessities of life are met.\nThe transition from SCP-5473-1 to SCP-5473-2 is accompanied by an audio negation event. This event has been designated as SCP-5473-B. The mechanism of this audio negation is not known. This event is centered around the transitioning subject. The area of this audio negation has not been accurately recorded but exceeds a radius of 20 meters. Any persons within this radius at the time of the event have fallen under the effect of SCP-5473 and are to be designated further instances of SCP-5473-1.\nThe nature of SCP-5473 makes interviews of SCP-5473-1 difficult. Representative interviews have been attached below. The full repository of interviews can be accessed in the directory /SCP-5473/Interviews.\nAddendum:\n\n+ Audio Transcript - SCP-5473-1-273-001\n\n- Audio Transcript - SCP-5473-1-273-001\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5473-1-273, Sarah Steevers, Age: 45\nInterviewer: Dr. Kurt\nForeword: SCP-5473-1-273 was found by paramedics in a residence in suburban Chicago along with SCP-5473-2-272 (deceased) and SCP-5473-1-274. SCP-5473-1-273 was dehydrated and malnourished at time of retrieval. SCP-5473-1-273 was brought into Foundation custody through standard channels and interviewed upon arrival.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Kurt: Hello Sarah, I'm Dr. Kurt. You can call me Chris, if you'd prefer. I'd like to talk to you about what happened to Jason. Is that okay?\nSCP-5473-1-273 Okay.\nDr. Kurt: You were the one that called for an ambulance right?\nSCP-5473-1-273 Yes. It seemed like he should probably eat, but he wasn't.\nDr. Kurt: You tried to feed him?\nSCP-5473-1-273 No. But it had been 8 days? 9? - since he'd been up and eaten.\nDr. Kurt: And that had been around the time that you had - let me get this right - \"heard the silence\"?\nSCP-5473-1-273 Yes, the beautiful silence. I had been listening to my favorite song and then the silence ended the horrible noise. I guess that was when Jason sat down.\nDr. Kurt: Sat down? You mean on the floor where the paramedics found him?\nSCP-5473-1-273 Yes, that's where. He sat down there in the silence. It's easier to enjoy it when you sit down, when you stop.\nDr. Kurt: And do you remember what happened after the paramedics arrived?\nSCP-5473-1-273 No. I was in my room. It didn't seem important.\nDr. Kurt: I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but Jason didn't make it. It seems pretty obvious that he died of dehydration. He didn't have anything to drink did he?\nSCP-5473-1-273 No. He wasn't a drinker.\nDr. Kurt: I mean, he had no water for more than a week. He's dead.\nSCP-5473-1-273 Okay.\nDr. Kurt: Ma'am, your husband is dead.\nSCP-5473-1-273 Okay. Can I go back to my bed? I was having the most wonderful dream.\nDr. Kurt: Can you tell me about the dream?\nSCP-5473-1-273: No. I don't remember.\nDr. Kurt: Sarah, I need you to be honest with me.\n[SCP-5473-1-273 does not speak, but looks toward Dr. Kurt]\nDr. Kurt: I'd like to talk to you about what's happened. We'd like to get some answers.\nSCP-5473-1-273: There are no answers. Everything is just noise.\nDr. Kurt: Please, Sarah, we believe that whatever happened to Jason could happen to you as well. If we know more we might be able to stop it.\nSCP-5473-1-273: Why would you stop the silence?\nDr. Kurt: If not for you, for the other people. There are hundreds suffering the same way you are. Can you please help?\nSCP-5473-1-273: There is no suffering, don't you understand? Can I go back to sleep?\nDr. Kurt: If you answer a few questions, yes, I'll have you taken back to your bed.\nSCP-5473-1-273: Okay. Ask.\nDr. Kurt: Did Jason ever travel to India. To a place called Nanda Devi?\nSCP-5473-1-273: Yes. He and his friends went there to climb a mountain or something.\nDr. Kurt: Friends? Do you remember who they were?\nSCP-5473-1-273: Tyler and Matthew, I think. It's really loud in here.\nDr. Kurt: Can we have the fan turned off? Thank you. Sarah, do you remember their last names?\n[[A click can be heard followed by the cessation of background hum.]]\nSCP-5473-1-273: No. It's not important.\nDr. Kurt: Sarah, this is very important, I assure you. But we'll come back to them. Did your husband act strangely when he came back from that trip? Do you remember when that trip was?\nSCP-5473-1-273: He was really quiet when he came back. He didn't like me playing music, but he was much less angry than normal. Really calm. He must have heard the silence. Doctor, you should hear the silence, you won't need to ask these questions.\nDr. Kurt: I don't know about that. But you didn't answer my second question. Do you remember when that trip was?\n[SCP-5473-1-273 is unresponsive]\nDr. Kurt: Sarah, please answer my question.\n[SCP-5473-1-273 is unresponsive]\nDr. Kurt: Okay. I guess we're done for today. Please take her back.\n<End Log>\n\n+ Audio Transcript - SCP-5473-2-274-052\n\n- Audio Transcript - SCP-5473-2-274-052\n\nNote: Interviews of SCP-5473-2 instances were once thought to be impossible, but the development of the Moksha Protocol has provided some success. We'd never been able to get details of the dreams before. Are they antimemetic?\n- Dr. C. Kurt\nInterviewed: SCP-5473-2-274, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Steevers, Age: 19\nInterviewer: Dr. Kurt\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Kurt: Is the hypnosis complete?\nAssistant: Yes. We've already administered the mnestic as well. The subject should be as coherent as we can get them.\nDr. Kurt: Can you describe what you've been dreaming of?\nSCP-5473-2-274: No.1\nDr. Kurt: No, as in you can't? Or you won't describe what you experienced?\nSCP-5473-2-274: No. There was no experience.\nDr. Kurt: But you were telling others that you had seen a woman. I believe you had called her a goddess, isn't that true?\nSCP-5473-2-274: That's true. I saw what she wasn't and she was beautiful.\nDr. Kurt: Wouldn't you call seeing something an experience?\nSCP-5473-2-274: No, not like this. I didn't experience it. I don't know how to explain it. It was like - like there was so much I didn't see that I knew it was her.\nDr. Kurt: Can you try to describe what you saw?\nSCP-5473-2-274: I was somewhere that wasn't a place. It wasn't the city, and I don't think it was the forest because the trees around me definitely weren't trees. They looked like them, and I touched one. But it felt like it wasn't a tree. There was light in the shadows of the trees where the darkness couldn't reach. After a while, before I got there, there was a clearing where there were no trees the darkness illuminated a pile of gray shapes that weren't stones. There was a clear liquid that absorbed all of the darkness running over the pile of shapes and gathering in a wide hole in front of them. And she was there at the edge of the pool - her face was shining with darkness. She was the absence of want, pain, and fear.\nDr. Kurt: Did she say anything to you?\nSCP-5473-2-274: No. Her voice was beautiful silence.\nDr. Kurt: Was there anything in the silence? Any kind of message?\nSCP-5473-2-274: Yes. She promised us oblivion. That all suffering would end. She's here now in all the places where nothing exists.\nDr. Kurt: She's here now? Can you see her?\nSCP-5473-2-274: She's nowhere. Nowhere is everywhere something isn't, y'know? And she's there.\n[Recording continues in silence for roughly 10 minutes]2\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Transcriptionist's note: This mic might need replaced. Every time the subject speaks all ambient noise ceases.\n2. Transcriptionist's note: I'd transcribe what I heard in that silence here if there were words worthy of it. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5472 | SCP-5473 | SCP-5474 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The entrance to SCP-5475.\n\nItem #: SCP-5475\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area surrounding SCP-5475 is to be monitored by a minimum of two armed guards at all times. Any civilian attempting to access SCP-5475 is to be detained, interrogated and amnesticized following standard protocol for anomalous locations.\nTests conducted on SCP-5475 must be expressly authorized by the O5 Council. All subjects who enter SCP-5475 must wear an activated recording device at all times. Upon exiting SCP-5475, these recordings are to be analyzed, and subjects are to be amnesticized or terminated as deemed necessary.\nBy Agreement 5475/1-G, PoI-5475 will be allowed to live indefinitely in the house in the vicinity of SCP-5475, henceforth designated as Provisional Site 5475-01, in exchange for her cooperation.\nDescription: SCP-5475 is a cave located at the foot of a mountain in an undisclosed location in southern Ireland. SCP-5475 is about 1.5 kilometers deep, and has a height of approximately 3 meters. The width of SCP-5475 varies greatly along the route, so an average measurement could not be established.\nThe main anomaly of SCP-5475 consists of the generation of multiple vocalizations coming from an unidentified location inside the cave. These vocalizations will be focused on the first human to enter SCP-5475, and will consist of a male voice describing in detail all the \"secrets\" that are being kept from the subject. At the time of writing, secrets exposed by SCP-5475 have ranged from miscellaneous events from the subject's childhood and/or adolescence, to highly classified information regarding the internal structure of the Foundation.\nThe secondary anomaly of SCP-5475 consists of a grave located at the end of the cave, hereafter designated SCP-5475-A, which shows no signs of natural deterioration, and all damage inflicted on it will be regenerated once all subjects have exited SCP-5475. The tombstone of this grave is transcribed below.\n\nDarren\n\nI still love you,\nand I will never forget you.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5475 was discovered on 15/01/2021, after Ms. Aisling Sullivan, now designated PoI-5475, attempted to commit suicide by jumping into one of the rivers near the locality. Fortunately, a police officer spotted her and was able to rescue her. In her statement, PoI-5475 described the relevant anomaly, which alerted an undercover agent from the Foundation and subsequently led to the classification of SCP-5475.\nShortly after these events, Dr. Kathleen Silverlock was assigned to interview PoI-5475 regarding the anomaly. A transcription of this interview can be found below.\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5475\nInterviewer: Dr. Kathleen Silverlock\nForeword: This interview took place 1 week after the discovery of SCP-5475, and was conducted at the residence of PoI-5475. This log was translated from Irish.\n<BEGIN LOG>\n(Dr. Silverlock is sitting in PoI-5475's couch. The latter enters the room with two cups of coffee, and offers one to Dr. Silverlock before taking a seat.)\nDr. Silverlock: Thank you for allowing us to interview you, Mrs. Sullivan, it's of great help to us.\nPoI-5475: Oh, don't worry, I think it will do me some good\u2026 to talk about it too. And please call me Aisling.\nDr. Silverlock: Of course, Aisling. (Dr. Silverlock smiles.) Well, we'd better start with the questions. Let's see\u2026 (Dr. Silverlock looks through her papers.) When was the first time you knew about the voices in the cave?\nPoI-5475: Well\u2026 It's quite a long story. I think I should start at the beginning, even if it sounds a bit redundant. I hope I won't bore you (PoI-5475 chuckles.)\nDr. Silverlock: Oh, don't worry, I think I have enough time. (Dr. Silverlock takes a sip from her coffee.) Well, you can start whenever you want.\nPoI-5475: Yeah, well, I\u2026 (PoI-5475 sighs.) It could be said that it all started when I was sixteen, you know, that time when we all did whatever we wanted and the world seemed infinite\u2026. (PoI-5475 remains silent for a few moments.) I\u2026 met a guy. Yeah, I know it was like ten years ago, but I still\u2026 I get a little nervous when I remember it. (PoI-5475 chuckles.)\n(Dr. Silverlock smiles.)\nDr. Silverlock: Don't worry, I understand you.\nPoI-5475: Well\u2026 I met this guy, his name was Darren, although I think you should have guessed that by now. (PoI-5475 smiles and takes a sip of coffee.)\nDra. Silverlock: I figured.\nPoI-5475: Heh, yeah, he was one of the best looking guys in my class. All the girls wanted him for themselves and all that high school drama crap. (PoI-5475 takes another sip of coffee.) But\u2026 he and I\u2026 we had many things in common. Our musical tastes, the movies we watched, our ideologies\u2026 We had some friends in common, so we started spending time together and\u2026 I guess things just fell into place. (PoI-5475 chuckles.)\nDr. Silverlock: I understand. You fell in love with him, didn't you?\nPoI-5475: Yeah\u2026 and he also fell in love with me. I still remember that day, when he told me. We had gone to an ice skating rink near the school. Jesus, when I remember it\u2026 (PoI-5475 pauses briefly.) By the time we left it was already dark, and we started to walk around for a while\u2026 (PoI-5475 shakes her head.) I'm sorry, I don't mean to go on so long, but I tend to get too deep into detail, and when I remember Darren\u2026.\nDr. Silverlock: It's okay, don't worry, I understand what you must be going through. Please continue.\nPoI-5475: Right. (PoI-5475 sighs.) We started dating. He was passionate about photography, so for most of our dates we used to go to places that looked like something out of a painting. Some forests, flower plains\u2026 those kinds of places. Well, so\u2026 (PoI-5475 abrubtly stops. Dr. Silverlock looks concerned.)\nDr. Silverlock: Is there\u2026 anything you're having trouble saying?\nPoI-5475: Y-yes\u2026 It's just\u2026 (PoI-5475 looks nervous. She takes another sip of coffee; her hands are visibly shaking.) Once we decided to go to a forest nearby. The trip was a bit expensive, but Darren was very excited. He spent the whole trip talking about the pictures he was going to take\u2026 and the ones we would take together- (PoI-5475 stops; looks as if she is about to cry.)\n(Dr. Silverlock leans towards PoI-5475 and starts talking in a reassuring voice.)\nDr. Silverlock: Don't worry, you can tell me what happened.\nPoI-5475: We\u2026 wandered away from the route we had planned and\u2026 found the cave. At first I was a little scared that a bear or something lived there, but Darren insisted on going in. He looked so excited\u2026 so we went in and\u2026 (PdI-5475 looks disstressed.) And\u2026\nDr. Silverlock: If I may ask, approximately how long did it take from the time you entered until you heard the voice?\nPoI-5475: Yeah, sure, I\u2026 I think it was ten minutes or so. Darren got to take several pictures before\u2026 first we heard it coming from inside the cave. It was like a constant whisper around us. First it said to us \"Your dog didn't run away, your dad ran him over.\" I was scared, but Darren looked more confused than scared. And then\u2026 then we heard the voice again, although this time it was closer to Darren. It told us \"Your best friend is making fun of you behind your back,\" and then\u2026 then\u2026.\nDr. Silverlock: Yeah?\n(PoI-5475 lowers her head.)\nPoI-5475: Then the voice told him that I was secretly in another relationship.\nDr. Silverlock: \u2026\nPoI-5475: I\u2026 we had a fight and broke up. A few months later I found out he had committed suicide and in his letter he blamed me among other people. I knew he was sensitive, but I never thought\u2026\nDr. Silverlock: How was it that they decided to bury him in the cave?\nPoI-5475: He was not buried there. His relatives took him to a cemetery near their home. I found the grave when I wanted to see where those voices had come from. I know they would never want me living near his real grave, so I gathered some money and came to live here.\nDr. Silverlock: I see\u2026\nPoI-5475: I- (PoI-5475 is crying at this point.) It wasn't my intention, I was about to break up with my other boyfriend, but things got complicated and\u2026. the only thing I want is to have him close to me, I want\u2026 I want him to know that I'm sorry, that I still love him, and that I need him to forgive me. (PoI-5475 covers her eyes with her hands and starts trembling.)\n(Dr. Silverlock sits in silence for a few moments before trying to continue with the interview.)\nDr. Silverlock: So\u2026 About how long did it take after you found the grave before you realized about its anomalous properties?\n(PoI-5475 looks at Dr. Silverlock. Her eyes are still covered in tears.)\nPoI-5475: Its \"anomalous properties\"? What do you mean?\nDr. Silverlock: The grave's anomalous properties, of course. You are aware that the tombstone cannot be destroyed, right?\nPoI-5475: What\u2026? I didn't\u2026 I didn't know that. You mean\u2026?\nDr. Silverlock: Our teams have examined the grave, and any damage done to it is repaired once they leave the cave.\nPoI-5475: \u2026 No, I didn't know that.\nDr. Silverlock: Oh, it's okay.\n(Dr. Silverlock looks through her papers one more time and starts mumbling to herself. PoI-5475 looks at Dr. Silverlock and then at her cup of coffee; she sighs before talking again.)\nPoI-5475: I think I know why that happens.\nDr. Silverlock: Sorry?\nPoI-5475: I think I know why the grave can't be damaged. It's a\u2026 little theory I started making a few months ago. I started to wonder why the voice does what it does and I\u2026 I drew my conclusions.\nDr. Silverlock: Well, go ahead.\nPoI-5475: The voice\u2026 I don't think it enjoys revealing secrets. What's more, I don't think he enjoys doing what he does.\nDr. Silverlock: What do you mean exactly?\nPoI-5475: Think about it, a secret is capable of\u2026 destroying everything. A secret can break families, end friendships, provoke murders, cause wars\u2026\nDr. Silverlock: Please be a little more specific.\nPoI-5475: What I'm getting at is that\u2026 I think the voice doesn't like us keeping secrets. And I think it reproaches us by telling us everything that they keep hidden from us.\nDr. Silverlock: \u2026\nPoI-5475: And\u2026 the cave, or whatever it's inside\u2026 it looks after Darren's grave because it wants us to remember him, to remember that\u2026.\nDr. Silverlock: It wants us to remember the consequences of keeping secrets.\nPoI-5475: Yes.\n(Both Dr. Silverlock and PoI-5475 remain in silence for aproximatly 30 seconds.)\nDr. Silverlock: That\u2026 is an interesting theory. A very interesting theory. So, ahmm, is there anything else you would like to tell us, Aisling?\nPoI-5475: No, I don't think so. But\u2026 I've seen that you guys are very interested in the cave and from afar it looks like you're a secret organization and all that stuff. (PoI-5475 chuckles.) \u2026 You're from the government, aren't you?\n(Dr. Silverlock hesitates before answering.)\nDr. Silverlock: Yes, we are from the government.\nPoI-5475: Yeah, it's just that\u2026 Would you allow me to continue living here? I - I don't want to have to go somewhere else. I want to stay by his side, you know what I mean? I want to\u2026 remember him forever.\nDr. Silverlock: \u2026 I'll see what I can do, Aisling.\nPoI-5475: \u2026 Thank you.\n<END LOG>\nClosing Statement: Following this interview, the Ethics Committee stated that keeping PoI-5475 near SCP-5475 could be helpful in maintaining a reliable cover story between the locals, thus establishing Agreement 5475/1-G, and allowing her to remain living at Provisional Site 5475-01 in exchange for her cooperation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5474 | SCP-5475 | SCP-5476 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP 5476\nFootnotes\n\nSCP-54761\nObject Class: Keter2\nSpecial Containment Procedures:3 Technobabble.aic4 has been assigned to reverse any edits made to the Foundation database5 by SCP-5476 events.\nDescription:6 SCP-5476 is an anomalous phenomenon in which pages in the SCP Foundation database are edited to include footnotes7 to clarify the meanings of various words. These edits are not made by any registered user and are able to bypass password-protected articles.8 In some cases, SCP-5476 events have occurred in paper documents, replicating the ink used in the page. It is unknown if SCP-5476 events are caused by a sentient entity.9\nDiscovery:10 The first SCP-5476 event occurred on 07/03/2111 during an incident with an experimental AIC. Junior Researcher12 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258813 developed Crystal.aic14 for the purpose of teaching new staff members the meanings of complicated terms15 used in official Foundation documents. During testing, the AIC attempted to define a memetic hazard16 and immediately deactivated. Roughly an hour17 later, the AIC came back online and completed its edits to the page, as well as numerous other unneeded18 definitions. All files related to the AIC were deleted, and SCP-5476 events began to occur in other Foundation documents.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Anomalies in the custody of the SCP Foundation are referred to by a three or four digit number for organizational purposes.\n2. The class above Euclid. This means the anomaly in question is very difficult to contain, but not necessarily dangerous to human life or normalcy.\n3. This section of the document describes how best to prevent the anomaly from threatening normalcy or human life. In the event that the anomaly is not a threat to normalcy or human life, this section describes how to prevent the anomaly from activating its anomalous effects.\n4. Artificially Intelligent Construct, an advanced computer program capable of replicating human behavior. The SCP Foundation uses AIC in many ways, including facility management and updating Foundation documents.\n5. A website dedicated to cataloguing the anomalous items in the custody of the SCP Foundation. This website can be accessed at scp-wiki.wikidot.com\n6. This section of the document describes the physical characteristics of the anomaly, as well as its anomalous effects.\n7. Footnotes are small numbers or asterisks that, when moused over or followed to the bottom of the page, will show extra information on the subject. These notes are often used for additional context, or to add comments without breaking the flow of the document.\n8. Such as SCP-3125, which can only be accessed fully if the user enters the code 55555.\n9. A being capable of rational thought and emotion, such as a human or anomalously modified AIC.\n10. This section of the document describes how the Foundation came to be aware of the anomaly.\n11. The seventh day of March in the year two thousand twenty-one, or the third day of July in the year two thousand twenty-one, depending on which country this document was written in.\n12. Low ranking, often new researchers for the SCP Foundation.\n13. Blackboxes are used to cover up sensitive information. In this case, the blackbox was used because Scott Wilkins requested to not have his name associated with the creation of a Keter anomaly.\n14. Meant as a low effort pun on the term \"crystal clear\" and the human name Crystal.\n15. Such as esoteric object classes and colour-based humanoid anomaly codes, which are very difficult for new and old Foundation staff to memorize.\n16. A complex image that, when viewed, causes an autonomous reaction in the viewer. These reactions can range from memory loss to death, and therefore are often used to defend sensitive information from those without proper clearance and memetic resistance. Some memetics can have varying effects on non-human observers.\n17. 60 minutes, 3600 seconds, 3600000 milliseconds, 3600000000 microseconds, or 3600000000000 nanoseconds.\n18. Numerous new staff members struggle to understand the complex scientific language used by the SCP Foundation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5475 | SCP-5476 | SCP-5477 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by stormbreath\n\nItem #: SCP-5477\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Outpost-5477 has been constructed over SCP-5477, and is currently operated as a South Coast Properties front organization. The elevator which gives access to SCP-5477 is to be clearly marked and cordoned off. It is not to be used outside of being used to deliver food deposits to SCP-5477 and is to be entirely vacated when used.\nSCP-5477-2 is contained within SCP-5477 and has no means of exit. It has been given a video camera and laptop and is to use these materials for a weekly counseling session with a Foundation psychiatrist. It is allowed to make requests for luxuries and amenities, which are to be reviewed by the aforementioned psychiatrist.\nD-4444 has been placed into SCP-5477 for the purposes of containment of SCP-5477-1. He has been instructed in the proper operation of SCP-5477-1. Should D-4444 die or become unable to continue his duties, he is to be replaced by a new trained D-Class.\nFood and other supplies are to be regularly1 deposited into SCP-5477 by means of the freight elevator.\nDescription: SCP-5477 is a massive labyrinthian complex located 800 meters underneath \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, FL, USA. The exact dimensions of SCP-5477 are as of yet undetermined, but it is known to extend for at least ten kilometers in any direction from its access point. It is yet undetermined if any of this range is extradimensional, or if it is all physically present in baseline reality.\nSCP-5477 can be accessed through a single freight elevator in Outpost-5477. Cars in this elevator are rigged to only descend downward. New elevator cars spontaneously manifest when required at the top of the elevator shaft. Elevator cars that descend past SCP-5477 appear to descend continuously into an otherwise empty shaft, with no known terminus.\nSCP-5477-1 is a complex mechanical device located near the freight elevator entrance in SCP-5477. SCP-5477-1 is believed to dimensionally anchor SCP-5477 within baseline reality. As the disappearance of SCP-5477 could result in massive geological instability, the proper maintenance of SCP-5477-1 has been determined as necessary.\nSCP-5477-2 is a sapient amphibian entity residing in SCP-5477. It measures three meters long head to tail and possesses a humanoid limb structure. SCP-5477-2 claims to have been originally responsible for the maintenance of SCP-5477, but changes in the nature of SCP-5477-1 prevented it from maintaining stable containment.\nAddendum: The following log was recorded from a video feed installed within SCP-5477, monitoring the entrance chamber and SCP-5477-1. It contains D-4444's initial deployment into SCP-5477.\n\n[00:00] Elevator doors open. D-4444 exits, carrying a collection of monitoring equipment that has been given to him by the SCP-5477 containment team.\n[00:10] D-4444 takes a moment to orient himself within SCP-5477 according to the limited map that he has been provided with.\n[00:34] D-4444 proceeds to the SCP-5477-1 chamber.\n[05:47] D-4444 arrives in the SCP-5477-1 chamber. He places the monitoring equipment down next to SCP-5477-1, and then briefly glances at the device.\n[06:12] D-4444 inspects the corpse of D-4443, which is against the wall of the SCP-5477-1 chamber. He removes the handgun from the body's hand and determines it to be out of ammunition.\n[06:37] D-4444 picks up the corpse by the shoulders and drags it out of the SCP-5477-1 chamber.\n[12:47] Six minutes later, D-4444 returns to the elevator chamber. He drags the body into the elevator and then exits. He presses the down button. The elevator doors close, and the elevator descends downward.\n[13:53] D-4444 returns to the SCP-5477-1 chamber and begins maintenance on it.\n[20:13] SCP-5477-2 enters the SCP-5477-1 chamber. D-4444 reacts with extreme shock, briefly pointing the empty handgun at it.\n[20:17] SCP-5477-2 talks to D-4444, who calms down and drops the handgun. They do not approach each other, and remain several feet apart, but continue to talk.\n[35:04] Maintenance of SCP-5477-1 finishes. D-4444 waves goodbye to SCP-5477-2 and then returns to the elevator room, where he begins to set up camp. SCP-5477-2 exits to a different part of SCP-5477.\n\nAddendum: The following file is an excerpt from the first psychological appointment of D-4444 following his deployment into SCP-5477, conducted via telephone.\n\nDr. Glass: How are you fairing with regards to your deployment into SCP-5477? How have things been progressing for you?\nD-4444: Well, it's not the prettiest job. Had to dispose of the last guy's fucking corpse the first day I got down here, and apparently I'm never going to see the sun again. And to top it off, there's all the stress of having to operate the machine. And my roommate is \u2026 well.\nDr. Glass: Please elaborate on that?\nD-4444: He's a fucking monster! Like, I had gotten the description of him, as like an amphibian thing, but the real thing is \u2026 freaky. Real freaky. He's always on his legs and \u2026\nDr. Glass: You hadn't had much exposure to nonhuman sapient anomalies before this assignment?\nD-4444: No, never. And the ones I had always heard about were talking animals, mostly. Not some sorta weird hybrid monster thing. It's disturbing. And he speaks perfect English! That's downright fucky.\nDr. Glass: But you've had no personal conflicts with SCP-5477-2, have you? From the video feeds, it seems like you're working well together on the maintenance of SCP-5477-1.\nD-4444: Oh sure. He's a nice guy and all, perfectly good roommate and everything. It's just that \u2026 look at him. It's uncanny. Thoroughly. If he didn't look like that, I guess.\nDr. Glass: Well, you know, looks can be deceiving. You shouldn't reject -2 just because he is a nonhuman entity, especially when it seems that you get along personally.\nD-4444: I mean, I guess. It's just going to take a while to get used to looking at those eyes.\nDr. Glass: And it doesn't seem like you have many other social options if I have to point that out. You'll be seeing each other on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.\nD-4444: Yeah. Guess so.\n\nAddendum: The following is an excerpt from a maintenance log of SCP-5477 performed by SCP-5477-2 and D-4444, approximately two months into the latter's deployment.\n\n[00:00] D-4444 enters into the SCP-5477-1 chamber, pushing a cart of scavenged repair equipment into the chamber with him.\n[00:03] SCP-5477-2 follows D-4444 into the SCP-5477-1 chamber, pushing a similar cart of spare parts behind it.\n[00:07] D-4444 parks his cart and turns to SCP-5477-2. They begin to talk for a few minutes, gesturing at SCP-5477-1 during the process.\n[03:21] D-4444 and SCP-5477-2 move to work on different parts of SCP-5477-1, making necessary adjustments and repairs to the device. They talk to each other at multiple points during this process.\n[10:09] SCP-5477-2 finishes working on its section of SCP-5477-1 and walks over to D-4444. It looks at his section and to talk with him, presumably about the repairs being made. It leans in closer to D-4444, making physical contact, in order to give advice about specific parts of the machine.\n[10:41] D-4444 laughs.\n[12:47] D-4444 finishes work on his panel and puts his tools back onto the cart. SCP-5477-2 does the same.\n[13:17] SCP-5477-2 and D-4444 exit the SCP-5477-1 chamber side-by-side, leaving the areas of SCP-5477 that are under camera surveillance.\n\nAddendum: The following is an excerpt from a regular psychological appointment of SCP-5477-2, conducted several months following D-4444's deployment into SCP-5477.\n\nDr. Glass: I'd like to ask you about your relationship with D-4444, if that's alright?\nSCP-5477-2: Oh. I suppose we could. He's in the next room over.\nDr. Glass: The two of you have become quite close over the past few months, correct? You didn't connect with any of the other D-Class we deployed into SCP-5477.\nSCP-5477-2: No, I didn't. Most of them shot themselves within a few days of being down here. Finn is the only one that's lasted any time.\nDr. Glass: Yes, that's true. Most were not equipped to last in SCP-5477. But would you say you're friends with D-4444? The two of you usually enter and leave the SCP-5477-1 chamber together.\nSCP-5477-2: \u2026 Yeah. Friends. We're friends.\nDr. Glass: Good to hear. We were slightly worried when D-4444 moved his camp out of the entrance foyer and further into SCP-5477, it meant we couldn't observe him any longer.\nSCP-5477-2: Oh, does it? I wasn't aware.\nDr. Glass: Yes, of course. We only have essential cameras, those monitoring the elevators and the vital machinery.\nSCP-5477-2: Ah. Right. How could I have ever forgotten?\nDr. Glass: They're subtle cameras. Well, it is good to know that you are getting along well with D-4444. Given that containment of SCP-5477-1 is relatively stable, we were considering asking you two to go on a formal exploration of SCP-5477 soon.\nSCP-5477-2: Oh, really? The both of us?\nDr. Glass: Yes. We're curious as to what more of the structure contains, and it's always best to send explorations out in groups. Helps carry food and supplies.\nSCP-5477-2: I don't think we'll have any problems doing that, doctor. Speaking for both of us here.\nDr. Glass: Excellent! I'll talk to my superiors about the mission. Before I go, do you have any more amenity requests to log?\nSCP-5477-2: Hmm. Perhaps some more movies, maybe with Heath Ledger or Jake Gyllenhaal in them? I very much liked that one movie you sent down before.\n\nFootnotes\n1. At the discretion of the HMCL Supervisor. Typically decided as once per week.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5476 | SCP-5477 | SCP-5478 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION SCIENCE DIVISION\nThe following file contains information related to the Markhaven monitoring project and as such is limited to Foundation personnel with Marduke level clearance.\n\nIsolate. Stabilize. Communicate.\n\nItem#: 5478\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\ndunwich\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-42\nTheron Sherman\nArnold Bergen\nNexus Control Team Gamma-2 (\"Americana Division\")\n\nThe clock tower atop St. Ronald's Church, the main landmark within the community.\n\nMarkhaven, Indiana\n\nDunwich Class Nexus\n\nSettled\n~1954\n\nIncorporated\n1976\n\nFoundation Discovery\n1977\n\nThreat Level\nMedium\n\nGovernment\nAutocratic Dictatorship\n\nMilitary\nMarkhaven Defence Force \"Boys in Blue\"\n\nMayor\nMichael Ramis\n\nArea\nApproximately 1,300 Km2\n\nResidents\nApproximately 2,500\n\nAffiliated Groups of Interest\n\nGoI-627 (\"The Factory\")\n\nDemonym\nMarkhavener\n\nLanguages\nEnglish\n(Other languages prohibited by law)\n\nCurrencies\nRonnie\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A subterranean outpost has been established 20 km away from SCP-5478's southmost corner. It is manned by two field agents, three D-Class personnel, and three Senior Researchers (Nexus Control Team Gamma-2). Water samples from the soil around SCP-5478's outskirts are to be collected bi-monthly. Intercepted broadcasts are to be scanned for psychotropic hazards, filtered, and then relayed back to Site-42 for study.\nTwo Foundation Senior Researchers (Drs. Juliette Lewis and Clark Hamilton) have been installed within SCP-5478, disguised as new residents. They have been trained in standard espionage procedures; observations are to be sent in an enveloped letter between the bars of the fence around SCP-5478 whenever possible. They currently reside in Provisional Site-145, officially known as 257 Eagleton Street.\n\nDescription: SCP-5478 is the gated commune of Markhaven, an isolated community in central Indiana. SCP-5478 is approximately 1,300 km2 in size, with an estimated population of 2, 500 people. The interior of SCP-5478 predominantly consists of identical housing units around a fountain in the town's center, with several shops and offices surrounding the outskirts. From the fountain is a short path to St. Ronald's Church, the largest structure within SCP-5478.\nArchitectural styles within SCP-5478 are drawn from colonial and 1950's styled suburbia, making extensive use of white picket fences, pastel colors, stucco, and wraparound porches. SCP-5478 is kept abnormally clean and sterile by a group of janitorial workers, transferred from the community's prison complex.\nAn invisible force extends upwards around the fence, repelling all living organic entities from touching or damaging the fence; however, objects and people within SCP-5478 are capable of limited contact and outward movement. Looking into SCP-5478 from an outside aerial view makes all inhabitants within completely imperceptible; this is believed to be an extension of the fence's anomalous properties.\nSCP-5478-1, officially known as \"The Markhaven Defence Force\" (colloquially referred to as the \"Boys in Blue\"), are the law enforcement agency of SCP-5478, and are a common sight within. Random inspections and building searches are regarded as an everyday part of life in order to \"rid\" the community of suspected communists and undesirable community members. SCP-5478-1 are commonly seen patrolling streets in extensively modified Triumph TR7s, and are commonly equipped with military-grade weaponry. Inspection of these automobiles have revealed each has a stamp on its underside reading \"The Factory.\" Members are armed with similarly branded weaponry purposefully constructed to resemble props from science fiction films.\n\nA group of SCP-5478-1 practicing an anomalous air attack drill.\n\nAnalysis of the water in the soil surrounding the area of SCP-5478 has revealed trace amounts of a chemical compound composed of several known and unknown materials. Known elements include water, arsenic, methylphenidate and lysergic acid diethylamide. Extended testing has shown this compound (henceforth SCP-5478-2) is capable of inducing a suggestive state within individuals who ingest it. The exact mechanisms of how SCP-5478-2 operates within the human body are presently unknown.\nUniquely powerful television broadcasts (henceforth SCP-5478-3) can be detected from SCP-5478 on a monthly basis. SCP-5478-3 broadcasts take the form of the radio talk show \"Saul Inspiring!\", hosted by Markhaven personality Saul Miller. SCP-5478-3 covers the history of Markhaven, capitalism, democracy, communism and the United States, with a heavy bias towards conservative/Republican policies, and in some cases, blatant misinformation. SCP-5478-3 contains several psychotropic memes which induce a state of suggestibility in viewers, though these can be removed with simple memetic filtering.\n\nAddendum No. 1: Discovery Log\nDuring a raid on a warehouse believed to be owned by GoI-627 (\"The Factory\"), ten disguised cargo trucks were recovered from the building's backrooms. A delivery order for supplies was discovered within one of the trucks indicating the destination was Markhaven, Indiana, a location that did not exist in any records or archives known to the Foundation.\nAn attempt was made by the Foundation to request geographical records from the United States government, but the request was personally denied by President Ronald Reagan without further clarification. The O5 Council authorized a secret probe to investigate the Reagan administration and geographical records to discover any information on the location of Markhaven.\nThough recovered intel was limited, several major discoveries were made:\n\nAn advisor to President Reagan and member of PENTAGRAM, Jeffrey Bateman, had funnelled thousands of dollars into an unspecified location within Indiana.\nHeavily censored financial records suggested former President James Carter had authorized a Central Intelligence Agency-ran program within an unspecified location in Indiana (believed to be codenamed \"AEUTOPIA\").\nHeavily censored Church Committee records stated explicitly that Markhaven was constructed for \"AEUTOPIA\".\nThe location of Markhaven was discovered via searching of PENTAGRAM financial records.\n\nShortly after the location of Markhaven was confirmed, Nexus Control Team Gamma-2 (\"Americana Division\") was formulated from Site-42 and sent to investigate. From their findings, Markhaven was registered as SCP-5478, and its file was compiled shortly after. Further probes into discovering the nature of \"AEUTOPIA\" are pending approval.\nAddendum No. 2: Anthropological Analysis\nResidents follow a strict, socially conservative style of personal expression and day-to-day life. Citizens are expected to serve their community in a variety of ways, such as volunteer work, starting their own businesses, hosting and partaking in community-wide social events, and attending church. Most individuals within SCP-5478 profess conservative or conservative-adjacent political views; this is considered the norm, and dissidents are treated with suspicion.\nChildren within SCP-5478 are referred to as \"Cherubs\", and undergo heavy religious indoctrination at public schools. The possibility of deploying a spy within education facilities as a student is currently undergoing evaluation by the Ethics Committee.\nDespite lacking recognition from all major intergovernmental organizations, SCP-5478 residents and the local government treat the community like an independent nation. SCP-5478 has a national pledge, which residents are required to perform at all major social and political events.\nMost residential buildings constructed in SCP-5478 come with pre-installed television sets and radios. Both appliances operate on a twenty four hour continual basis, and are unable to be shut off; only the volume may be adjusted. The radio and television show Saul Inspiring! plays continuously; recorded snippets are included below. Attempts to damage these sets automatically alert law enforcement through camera systems installed in each set.\n\n+ Open attached file (\"Saul Inspiring!\" recorded snippets)\n\n- Close attached file (\"Saul Inspiring!\" recorded snippets)\n\nRemember, you make Markhaven special. You are the blood and the bones of our people, of our town.\n\nThe man who complains about being hungry should not concern you. He is to be ignored! Focus on filling your own belly.\n\nCommunism brings death.\n\nSt. Ronald blesses your Cherubs. Keep them close to you at all times.\n\nWe are watching. But remember, we are also watching as friends and neighbors.\n\nSharing and parasitism go hand in hand. Wring the bloodleech out, let the tick bleed-out its stolen gains.\nOur blood spills white.\n\nEve left the Garden with Adam. Do not let that be you, and your husband.\n\nHeavy fallout reported. Stay indoors.\n\nMarkhaven lives.\n\nMarkhaven, a brave people, stand tall. Brothers of Markhaven, lead the fight. Break free from the claws of the red bear, break the jaws of the Black Panther! Markhaven, lead a life from grace!\nMothers, sisters, hold the homestead for when the soliders come home. Sisters of Markhaven, stay with your cherubs.\nWe bless St. Ronald, we bless God for many good days. Apostle Paul, heed our words, heed our words, God bless Markhaven, and the brothers within!\nWe will fight the enemy, armed with rifles from heaven. Our blood will shed, to preserve Markhaven, and the heroes that dwell within. We will not suffer defeat, blood spilt is our sacrifice.\nMarkhaven, a brave people, stand tall. Brothers of Markhaven, lead the fight.\nBreak free from the claws of the red bear, break the jaws of the Black Panther! Markhaven, lead a life from grace! Mothers, sisters, hold the homestead for when the soliders come home. Sisters of Markhaven, stay with your cherubs.\nMarkhaven, a brave people. St. Ronald bless you!\n\nMarkhaven's economy is primarily driven by manufacturing, commerce and sale of anomalous contraband materials, products and drugs. The community follows a Laissez-faire style of capitalist economics. Markhaven is individually home to numerous businesses, some masquerading as legitimate storefronts, while other places of commerce function as legal, non-anomalous companies. Markhaven does not recognize the American currency, and instead uses its own, informally referred to as the \"Ronnie\". A table has been complied below of notable businesses operating in Markhaven. The following table contains several dangerous viral psychotropic memes. It has been closed for memetic scrubbing.\n\n+ Open attached table (Known businesses operating within Markhaven)\n\nIn order to learn more about the community from a civilian's point of view and experience, Drs. Lewis and Hamilton recorded SCP-5478 residents to learn more about the community's culture.\n\n+ Open Interview-5478-1\n\n- Close Interview-5478-1\n\nUnidentified Officer: Pardon me, Missus, but we need to see your identification papers. Just a routine check. No need to raise alarm, or anythin' of the sort.\nDr. Lewis: Of course, officer, but may I ask why?\nOfficer: Well, I've never had someone ask me that before. You're new to Markhaven, aren't ya? It'd be best for you that during routine inspections such as these, you do not ask questions. Question making, that is somethin' folks here will take offense at. Questioning their judgement, like you know better then em'.\n[Officer shifts paper back and forth in his hand.]\nOfficer: Lucille Finch. Nice name. If it's an American name. If it isn't, well, we'll have a problem, won't we?\nDr. Lewis: There's no need to worry. It's an American name. American raised, god-fearing folk.\n\nConcealed shot of the Markhaven Officer.\n\nOfficer: We'll find out sooner or later, I can assure you that. I trust you, but I'll let you know that we can't be too careful. Colored, the communists. They're everywhere nowadays. Sneaky bunch.\nDr. Lewis: So I've been told. I read the paper this morning, just awful what they've been up to. Hard to call them people, after you learn about what they did to Kennedy, what they did in Vietnam, the South\u2026\nOfficer: You're right on the money. You from the south, Missus? You have a nice look to you. Southern Belle, sweetheart.\nDr. Lewis: Oh, you're too kind. And yes, I am from the south. Alabama, to be exact.\nOfficer: Oh, Alabama. Goodness, they don't make places like that anymore. Places where children respect the Lord and their parents, none of that integration nonsense. Wallace! Good man, wasn't he?\nDr. Lewis: Oh, certainly. Did us all a big favor. Hopefully we'll have a new Wallace, soon. In Indiana as well!\nOfficer: Well, then, little lady, you haven't met Raimis yet, then. Markhaven's own son, our own Wallace. St. Ronald's own. You'll meet him soon, I'm sure. Just count down on the days.\nDr. Lewis: Seems like a nice gentleman.\nOfficer: Oh, aren't you right. Goodness, I haven't kept you too long I hope. Wouldn't want you to be late for your husband. That won't do. You keep safe out there. I know you're new, but if you\u2026 If you see them out there, you give us a call. You understand who I am talking about?\nDr. Lewis: I will, Officer, and I do.\n\n+ Open Interview-5478-2\n\n- Close Interview-5478-2\n\nOfficial portrait of Micheal Ramis. Censorship was present in the original portrait.\n\nDr. Lewis: Hello, Doris. It's so good to see you again, thanks for coming to bridge last night. I know Andrew would have come if he could, but with his work in the factory-\nMrs. Albertson: Oh my goodness, there's no need to apologize. A good husband puts his work before matters outside of the office. He's doing his part, you know.\nDr. Lewis: Absolutely. All of us have a part. I've been meaning to look for at least something to do during the day, but I've been so kept up with unpacking, cleaning\u2026 I tell you, I had to have the game in the den, as that was the only place that didn't have cardboard and god knows what else strewn around everywhere. And of course, sleep has been difficult\u2026\nMrs. Albertson: Now, Lucille, I don't know what you've heard around at Alabama . You'd think that a good man like Wallace would tell you ladies otherwise, but you should know that your home is your office, not the other way around. Imagine if Andrew came home to a mess! He'd be plum angry, and frankly, I can't say I'd blame him. Being a housewife, housework- that doesn't mean be a drudge. Oh, I'm sorry, I got to talking and blabbing again, haven't I? What's this about difficulty sleeping? You know, there is a pill-\nDr. Lewis: Just been a lot now. You're right though, if I could handle both\u2026 But sleep has been difficult. I keep waking up, middle of the night in a cold sweat. I just see this\u2026 Dark figure ahead of me, and he tells me to stay were I am, that he loves me. It's like it's my father.\nMrs. Albertson: [Laughs.] Michael? Goodness, you really are in no place for two jobs if you're having difficulty with the Mayor's speeches! My goodness, you're a small town girl, aren't you? Michael's been doing our little town this service for as long as I can remember. Springvale, Burnsview, the mayors there don't do anything like Michael does. He takes time to watch over us. He's like a father to us all. Just give it some time, some thought. Welcome him into your heart. We all did, after all.\n\nAddendum No. 3: Related Materials\n\nRESTRICTED ACCESS: MARDUKE CLEARANCE REQUIRED\n\nMARKHAVEN MONITORING PROJECT INVESTIGATIVE MATERIALS\n\nSCP-5078\n[PENDING]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5477 | SCP-5478 | SCP-5479 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\n{$custom-content}\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab SCP-5479 |SCP-5480| SCP-5481 \u00bb\n\nItem#: 5480\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to suspicions about the identity of PoI-595 - the sole inhabitant of SCP-5480 - the containment of SCP-5480 is to remain unknown to anyone outside of The Foundation, including PoI-595 themselves. The apartment building which contains SCP-5480 is to be monitored and the rooms adjacent to it are to be purchased by Foundation agents to minimise the risk of civilians being exposed to the anomaly.\nDescription: SCP-5480 is an apartment in Portsmouth, England, which contains a number of anomalous artifacts. Such items include a series of potted plants made of human bone, a watering can filled with living ox marrow and a fridge which fills up with stomach acid when it is closed.\nA great number of documents - bills, paychecks, unsent job applications and receipts - have been packed into the bin. The oldest of these records dates back to 1879. They follow a strict chronology, as well. From 1879 to 1942, they are addressed to a \u201cSaarin Llovi\u201d, then \u201cSaally Orock\u201d until 1979, \u201cSandy Nadocks\u201d up to 2017 and from that point forward, \u201cSaara Klaviger\u201d.\nThere is a photorealistic painting on the bedside table depicting a young woman and an older man, likely in his thirties, standing in front of a field of red grass. A faded inscription on the bottom of the frame reads \u201c\u03b5\u03b3\u03ce \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b9\u03cc\u03bd\u201d, translatable from Greek as \u201cMe and Ion\u201d (sic). Dating of the pigments has revealed it to be around 3,100 years old.\nSCP-5480 is inhabited by PoI-595, the aforementioned Saara Klaviger. PoI-595 is, according to her passport, a 28 year old female currently employed as a retail assistant of the Aldi brand grocery chain.\nAddendum 5480.1 - Discovery\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5480/fileserv/discovery\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED\n\nOn the 15th of May, 2020, two members of GoI-663, \u201cThe Fraternity of Skin\u201d, to whom Foundation agents had attached hidden observation devices to weeks prior, had the following conversation outside of what was later found out to be SCP-5480.\n\nInterlocutors: Saara Klaviger (PoI-595), Male 1, Male 2\n\n(Begin transcript)\n[Male 1 knocks on Klaviger's door. Half a minute later, she opens it.]\nMale 1: Good morning, ma'am! It's so good to see you, it's hard to find fellow disciples of the flesh.\nMale 2: We represent the Fraternity of Skin, one of the last remaining groups in Europe who champion the original goals of the Grand Karcist.\nKlaviger: Uh huh, and what would those be?\nMale 1: In his words, \u2018the liberation of mankind from the fetters of machinery'.\nKlaviger: He never said that. The actual quote goes: \u2018from the fetters of mortality'.\nMale 2: How would you know?\nKlaviger: You know what, nevermind. What else is your cult about?\nMale 1: Not a cult! Not a cult. We're a society of revivalists, bringing Sarkicism back to its roots. We worship Yaldabaoth, our deliverer from iron.\nKlaviger: What are you talking about? Ion fought Yaldabaoth, they are- were legendary enemies. Classical N\u00e4lk\u00e4nism rejects the idea of worship of the gods entirely. And \"sarkic\" is a slur, the proper term is N\u00e4lk\u00e4n.\nMale 1: You're misinformed. Just take a look at our scripture, the Parables of Nadox. We pulled this from the library's shelves ourselves.\nKlaviger: Pseudo-Nadox. And this isn't even a copy of the original, what is this? \u201cIon drew forth the seed of his loins and placed it into Lovataar's gaping\u2026\u201d ugh, this is just an erotica. These aren't even parables! And I never want to hear about any of Lovataar's body parts again, gaping or not.\nMale 2: Those are our holy texts!\nMale 1: (Whispering: Shush, we can still recover this). There's always time to debate the historicity of our practices later. However, I'm sure that you will agree that the spirit of our group, nay, our family, is truly in the vein of the original brand of Sarkicism.\nKlaviger: Oh boy.\nMale 1: Take a look at this. [He produces a clay sculpture packed with cotton.]\nKlaviger: Serpent's tail, many eyes, is that\u2026 Saarn?\nMale 1: Yes. She is the object of our affections.\nKlaviger: A-affections?\nMale 2: That's right. You see, as with most Sarkites, we try to keep our bloodline pure. No breeding or marriage with outsiders, we only procreate with fellow members of our community. But we don't have any proselytes who can carry a child yet so in the meantime we've been storing our seed in these clay receptacles.\nMale 1: (Whispering: No! Don't start with that!) It also serves a dual purpose. We follow in Ion's footsteps, for just as he laid with Saarn for twelve days and shattered the hills with his passion-\nKlaviger: [Chokes.] Fucking\u2026 no! That didn't happen! Ion was faithful to Lovataar, how did Saarn somehow get roped into a relationship with him? I did not want to learn today that effigies of me- I mean Saarn were being violated by a bunch of crusty old men! How come every N\u00e4lk\u00e4n commune is some kind of disgusting sex cult!?\nMale 1: It's in following with our founder's principles. Ion's appetites were legendary, it's said he fornicated with so many that his phallus spat blood by the time he was thirty!\nKlaviger: [Vomits profusely.]\n(End of transcript)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5479 | SCP-5480 | SCP-5481 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5481\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-49\nDr. Edward Wallace\nDr. Hammil Thompson\nMTF Kappa-8 \"Forest Wildfire\"\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5481 specimens found in public areas are to be transplanted to the Botanical Aisle of Site-49. If transportation is not feasible, the instance is to be cut down and incinerated. Witnesses of SCP-5481 are to be interrogated and amnesticized.\nDescription: SCP-5481 is the designation for an anomalous tree species that externally resembles several non-anomalous species1, mostly taking the form of a Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas Fir).\nWhen a humanoid entity comes into contact with an instance of SCP-5481, the object will deploy a pair of human arms which will then gently hug the subject. This hug will last as long as the subject keeps contact with the instance, after which these appendages will be retracted into the trunk.\nDissection of SCP-5481 has revealed that the appendages are biologically human, connected to a complex muscular system embedded in the trunk that allows for the extension and retraction of the arms in any direction. SCP-5481's method of reproduction is undergoing research, as it has been observed that the instances seem to appear spontaneously. Since saplings grown from collected specimens have not displayed any anomalous attributes, it is theorized that instances only develop their muscular systems in adulthood.\nAddendum 5481.1: Investigation into PoI-5481\nOn 16/09/2020, a large population of SCP-5481 was found in the Roosevelt Forest, in Oregon, USA. Further exploration revealed an abandoned cabin nearby that showed signs of being previously inhabited.\nThe journal of a presumed female known as \"Jade Johnsson\", now designated PoI-5481, was found in the surroundings of the cabin and is transcribed below.\n\n05/09/2020\nI found this cabin. I think I can afford to live here at least for tree three weeks or so. That's good.\nI also found this notebook. It was under the bed \u2015which, of course, is unusable due to insects\u2015 and I've been thinking a lot. I've decided that I'm using this as a diary or something like that.\nI don't have anything else to do, anyway.\nThat could bring me some problems, of course, but I mean- what could be worse?\nSo, welcome to the awesome diary of Jade Johnsson!\n\n06/09/2020\nToday I went to the town. I bought some food with the last of my money. I think I can manage with it, at least until I can collect more money.\nThere are some times I actually miss everyone.\nIt wasn't a good family, but\u2026 it was a family, after all.\nNow, I just have some bread. And I will have to eat it at the end of the day.\n\n07/09/2020\nI saw one of the trees today. They are already here. That's not good. They are following faster than before.\nI know you love me, mom, but I think that's a very, very disturbing way of showing it.\n\n08/09/2020\nOne of the trees is already outside of this cabin. I'm in a forest, so it shouldn't be a problem. I hope there's none at the town. THAT would be a real problem.\nI have no doubt some of them already know. There's no way they aren't aware of the trees.\nI hope you know what the hell are you doing, mom. I don't want anyone searching for my ass. Although I know discretion wasn't your thing. Even dad said so.\nGod\u2026 I haven't seen dad in a while.\nI hope he's okay.\nIs he taking good care of Daniel? I really hope Daniel doesn't forget his lovely sister\u2026\n\n09/09/2020\nMom, why?\nI\u2026 we all felt abandoned. You did this to us. You forced me to run.\nYet you're still trying to make me feel loved?\nWhy?\nYou're regretful?\nBecause I know you are. I have seen it all. Every damn thing you've done to broke us apart.\nThat's what you call affection?\nAnd there are the trees. What the fuck were you thinking?\nI'm going to find you, mom. And then, I'm going to let you see what you've done.\n\nThe \"10/09/2020\" entry consists only of a drawing of a house on fire\n\n11/09/2020\nThere are trees everywhere. I tried to cut one down, but apparently a pocket knife isn't enough. Still, I attacked every one I found.\nAlso, now I'm totally out of food. What now?\n\n12/09\nMom, I still remember the good times. I know we didn't have everything we wanted, but we managed to be a happy family.\nDo you still remember? Do you remember when I came back from school crying and you just made some popcorn and we watched movies for the rest of the day?\nI will never forget those times.\nIt seemed like\u2026 like we had an entire bright future ahead of us.\nDid you ever consider it? When those men came and asked you to do them a favor\u2026 did you ever consider our opinions? We were a family! Every decision affected every one of us! Did you think about the implications? Did you give us an opportunity?\nI don't know if I want to know those answers.\n\n13/09\nThis cabin is no longer an option. There are so many fucking trees. Someone is going to investigate this place at any moment. I really don't want them to come here.\nDo the trees still look like a good idea, mom?\nI bet not. I bet you would say they still do.\nWhat do you want? Do you want them to find me? Because that's what you're fucking doing!\nI don't even know where I am going to live now. I\u2026\nFor once I thought I could live somewhere safe. At least for some time. But no. Once again, you RUINED it.\nThank you, mom.\n\nIt has been discovered that all the presumed PoI-5481 locations showed a large population of SCP-5481. MTF Kappa-8 (\"Forest Wildfire\") has been assigned tracking of the subject.\nAddendum 5481.2: Interview with Mark Walters\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Hammil Thompson\nInterviewee: Mr. Mark Walters\nForeword: On 05/10/2020, Mr. Mark Walters witnessed an individual, presumed to be PoI-5481, interacting with an instance of SCP-5481.\n<BEGIN LOG>\nDr. Hammil: Mr. Walters, may you tell me your encounter with the\u2026 \"hugging tree\"?\nMr. Walters: Yeah, I guess. I was at the park. It was, like nine or ten. I was gonna smoke a cigarette when I discovered that there was someone in the swings.\nDr. Hammil: May you describe them?\nMr. Walters: Yeah, It was a girl. I think seventeen or so. I'm pretty sure she was still a teen, but\u2026 I don't know, she seemed\u2026 like, she had the expression of someone that had lived so much, y'know? It was a very cold night, so I wondered why was she there. I thought of asking her, but\u2026\nDr. Hammil: What stopped you from approaching her?\nMr. Walters: I\u2026 I felt like it was not the right thing to do. She seemed sad. I mean- very sad, but she wasn't crying. I just stayed there, hoping she wouldn't notice me.\nDr. Hammil: What happened to her?\nMr. Walters: She stayed there for, like, half an hour. I think she had been there for much longer, but it's just a supposition. Then, she stood up and walked to a nearby tree. She hugged the tree, and\u2026 the tree hugged her back.\nDr. Hammil: The tree hugged her back?\nMr. Walters: Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but that damn tree- two arms came out of it and hugged her! I'm not crazy! I know what I saw! I-\nDr. Hammil: Mr. Walters, please calm down. Nobody's doubting your testimony. What happened afterwards?\nMr. Walters: I- err\u2026\nDr. Hammil: Yes?\nMr. Walters: I- I don't know. I\u2026 I think she said something, but I took off running, so I don't remember exactly what her exact words, but\u2026\nDr. Hammil: What do you remember?\nMr. Walters: \u2026 I think it was something along the lines of \"I'm sorry for being like this\". I'm sorry, I- I was really scared, y'know? That damn tree had arms! How?! That was-\nDr. Hammil: Calm down, Mr. Walters. Did you see anything else after that?\nMr. Walters: \u2026 no. I ran to my house and told my wife about it. She thought someone had drugged me, so she called the cops.\nDr. Hammil: I see\u2026 well, thank you for your time, Mr. Walters.\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5481.3: As of 05/10/2020, no new instances of SCP-5481 have been found. Reclassification to Safe is dependent on the successful detention of PoI-5481.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This has included the Pinus, Abies and Pseudotsuga genera.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5480 | SCP-5481 | SCP-5482 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5482\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation employees are to be monitored for the common effects of SCP-5482. Those affected by SCP-5482 are not to be allowed within seven kilometres of bodies of water exceeding one cubic metre in volume: oceans, lakes, rivers, swimming pools, aquifers, etc. Clouds and other weather formations do not count as such. They should be exposed to liquid water as little as possible; if the person lives long enough to require hydration it should be achieved intravenously.\nDescription: SCP-5482 is a condition which spontaneously arises within Foundation personnel, especially those concerned with the study of anomalous environments and locations.1 It is unknown whether it affects persons not employed by the Foundation. Individuals affected by SCP-5482, designated SCP-5482-1, suffer from adverse reactions to water.2 Individuals who had close interpersonal relationships with previous instances of SCP-5482-1 are highly susceptible to being affected by SCP-5482 in future. SCP-5482 is incurable and its effects increase in severity and scope over time until death.\nDue to the extreme inconsistency with which SCP-5482 appears and operates, it is impossible to provide any meaningful information about the disease or the pathology of its sufferers.\nAddendum 5482.1: Partial list of SCP-5482 cases\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5482/fileserv/earlycases\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED\n\nSubject: Lieutenant Kiara Anenasya\nDate of Onset: 23/09/20 (first recorded occurrence of SCP-5482)\nSummary: On September 23rd 2020, Lieutenant Anenasya of MTF Lambda-77 (\u201cDemersal Scotopic\u201d)3 regurgitated several litres of saltwater while conversing with a containment engineer. She did not appear to be surprised by the event. The engineer recalled her smiling, placing her hand in front of her mouth and saying \"I missed you.\" before walking away.\nSite security, upon learning of the incident, attempted to locate Lt. Anenasya. They were successful in tracking her to a forest several dozen kilometres from her home. Upon sighting the retrieval team, the lieutenant smiled and began humming. Due to the sudden appearance of a fog bank, visual contact was briefly lost. Security personnel were not successful in reacquiring her. She has not been sighted since.\n\nSubject: Captain Minerva Skye\nDate of Onset: 24/09/20\nSummary: The day after Lieutenant Anenasya's disappearance Captain Skye - another member of Lambda-77 - was discovered dead in the bathroom of her residence. Her hands had been severely mutilated and several hundred grams of skin, muscle and cortical bone were found in the basin of her sink. Three dull razors were found in her pocket.\nIt was determined that her wounds were self-inflicted. In spite of this, her death was not due to blood loss but instead benzodiazepine overdose.\nDuring autopsy, her blood refused to coagulate and her body did not exsanguinate, instead bleeding continuously until all of her open wounds were sealed.\nA three minute long video was found on her phone, recorded an hour before her discovery of her body. It depicts her holding her hand over her sink and piercing her ulnar and radial arteries in multiple locations, losing several litres of blood over the course of the video.4 She can be heard repeatedly whispering \"I won't go back\" for its entire duration.\n\nSubject: Private Adam Asakku\nDate of Onset: 26/09/20\nSummary: Private Asakku, the only remaining member of Lambda-77, was informed of the situation and voluntarily confined himself to Site-56 under daytime supervision, with the working theory at the time being that an anomalous entity or effect was targeting members of his MTF. He refused contact with all water and water-containing solutions, in spite of the obvious risks to his health. Over the following days he began regurgitating small amounts of water, often while attempting to speak, and suffered from periods of intense and uncontrollable lacrimation, which evolved into weeping and emotional discomfort.\nAsakku reported whispering and singing coming from the West-facing walls of Site-56 and demanded they be covered in soundproof foam. Although the request was granted, he continued to complain about the noise and claimed that Lake Garda, located several kilometres East of Site-56, was singing to him. An offer to allow him to shower elicited an intensely negative response, necessitating his sedation.\nHe also began hallucinating large objects or environments 'inside' bodies of water. For example, he reported seeing underwater forests, mountain ranges and ruins within three different glasses of water. When asked to judge the depth of a swimming pool, he responded that it was at least seventeen kilometres in depth and filled with the silhouettes of \"leviathans and carrion bloats\".5 He demanded that the pool be drained so that there was no possibility of anyone \"falling away.\"\nAsakku eventually suffered a psychotic break and used a nail file to crudely remove his ears, eyes, much of his gums, and his tongue.6 Post-mortem, his blood was found to be significantly clearer than that of a normal person and contained almost no plasma.\n\nAddendum 5482.2: Extended case study, Senior Researcher Jacquelyn Vanth\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5482/fileserv/casestudy\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED\n\nSubject: Doctor Jacquelyn Vanth\nDate of Onset: 23/09/21\nSummary: Dr Vanth was diagnosed with SCP-5482 exactly one year after the anomaly's emergence. At the time, she was the lead researcher of SCP-5482, having volunteered for the position since the initial classification of the phenomenon. Once she became aware of her status as an instance of SCP-5482-1, she deferred her responsibilities to a subordinate and chose to use herself to study the progression of the disease.\n\nDocument: Transcript of \u201c230921652.mp4\u201d, voice recording by Dr Vanth\n\nSixty hours. That's the average period between the onset of symptoms and death. You won't find it on the file, though, because it's not an indicator of how long someone will survive. We pulled out all the stops for Adam and he barely lasted three days. Others have lived for four, even five without any intervention. It has nothing to do with how well-protected you are. Death takes you when it feels like it.\nI don't know why but 5482 feels expected. Like I was waiting for it. I guess I was, in a way. The turnover rate for MTFs is ridiculous. We've all heard the horror stories, of agents getting lost in the woods and never being heard from again, or of MTFs being picked off one by one as they attempt to navigate a house of horrors. So for my team and I to have lived so long? It was more than a little incredible.\nI'd always just assumed that I'd die on the job, trapped in another world or tortured \u2018till the end of my days by a sadistic locus.7 My departure from Lambda-77 was an anticlimax, ergo 5482 seems like something which has been a long time coming.\nLast night I had an odd dream. I woke up in my parents' house. It was raining outside but the lights were on. The night was warm. I heard odd noises from far away and so I stood on my toes and glanced out the window. I saw the lake curl toward the horizon, black and depthless. It whispered to me and asked me to come outside. I did, while the rain pelted my back. It wasn't cold; it felt more like being breathed on. Not even in a creepy way, it was more like intimate, as if someone was holding me close and exhaling into my hair. I stepped up to the edge of the water and knelt down. I just listened to it, humming with my mother's voice.\nWhen I was young I used to run along the lake's edges and look for odd rocks or sticks. I'd bring breadcrumbs to feed to the birds and a polaroid to take pictures of bugs and the odd rabbit. My mum would tell me to stay away from the shore, but there was one time that I saw a fox perched on a branch near the bank of the pond. It didn't move as I crept toward it, just gave me an odd sort of look. I got close enough to touch it and so I reached out and\u2026 slipped.\nThe lake rose up to meet me. I tried to swim upward but the pressure just kept building above me and pushing me down. I couldn't fight it off; I was only a child. I didn't feel any fear though, or any pain. There was a burning sensation in my lungs but it was distant and easy to ignore. The weight of the water felt protective, almost. I closed my eyes and let bits of algae wrap around my arms. Something living swirled underneath me. I sensed it by the way in which the water moved around its body as it beat its fins. We both flinched as soon as we saw each other. It disappeared into the depths and I almost swam after it out of sheer curiosity.\nI passed out. Next thing I knew, my mother was humming while she held my head in her lap. She was singing this beautiful lullaby.\nFor years afterwards, I kept fantasising about diving into the lake again. I wandered further than I ever had into the woods, not scared in the least of getting lost. I wanted to experience that sensation again, of being submerged in something wholly unfamiliar. It's why I signed up to be a member of Lambda-77 in the first place. It took me years for me to learn my lesson and grow out of that stupid obsession.\n5482 targets people who've seen strange places: realities of blood and bone, universes living through the aftermath of catastrophe, inexplicable places of all kinds. Does it come from them, somehow? And if it can sing, does it think? It's predatory, that much I can assume, but what does it want from me?\nFuck it, whatever. I hope it chokes on my bones.\n\nDocument: Transcript of \u201c240921802.mp4\u201d, voice recording by Dr Vanth\n\nLast night I dreamt of an endless forest. It was foggy and there was a path of trampled ferns before me. There was a time when I would've gladly gone down that road to chase new sights and novelties. Instead I sat down and waited until I woke up. I used to be so in love with that feeling of discovery, of stepping through a portal or over a border only to cross over from the normal world into something fantastic and otherly. My seniors would call me incautious, my peers would say that my curiosity would be the death of me, of all of us. They turned out to be right. I don't remember anything about how Devana died, just that it could've been avoided. We weren't careful. I wasn't watching out for him.\nI know you probably went to the grave hating me for it, Skye, but I had to leave after we lost him. It was too painful to stick around. Exploration started to daunt me, and foreign suns seemed not as bright.\n(Laughs) Listen to me, talking to the dead. I suppose I'll be with them soon. The water's gotten louder, and different bodies have acquired their own cadences. The ocean is an open-mouthed tone while the rain is a murmur. This morning I was washing my hands and the water tore away some of my skin when I pulled my fingers out of the stream. My hair is damp and it can't be dried. The effects are worsening. I don't know how I'll die. Regardless, I'm losing my connection to reality. It's odd, being aware of how I'm slipping away. I sang along with the rain earlier.\nMost of the other 5482-1s developed an intense fear of water. Adam's the crown example of course, having mutilated himself just to stop listening to its singing. I'm not sure if I feel that same terror. It reminds me of something, instead. It's picking at old scabs, unearthing memories too decayed to recall but just firm enough to evoke the feeling I used to associate with them.\nI remember\u2026 rustling leaves, weight on my back, a brisk wind, the days I spent far from home just taking in the nature all around me. The woods around my house, I can barely recall what they were like. Now I want to go back and find out all over again. Mark out all the clearings, photograph all the flowers, watch sunlight spill through the canopy, and twinkle in the dirt\u2026\n\u2026 remember to check everything that I say for cognitohazards.\n\nDocument: Transcript of \u201c250921937.mp4\u201d, voice recording by Dr Vanth\n\nIt rained yesterday while I was commuting. I put down my umbrella and let the raindrops slide over my cheeks. They drew blood. I felt my skin and fat peeling away, the humours of my eye gliding down my neck. It didn't hurt even a little. It was like falling asleep.\nAfter Devana's death, I convinced myself that my curiosity was a liability. I conformed, I learned to fear the unknown. I wish I hadn't done that; I wish I'd seen more of the world. Maybe it would have been wonderful, or perhaps my life would have been cut short\u2026 but it wouldn't have mattered. As long as I could've witnessed one more sunrise, smelled one more flower, heard another song. I can't go on like this, buried in normalcy.\nI was wrong. I was so, so wrong. 5482 isn't ravenous, it's grieving. It misses me so much, wishes I would return to it. It's me, before I was stained by loss and cautionary tales. I was convinced by my loss to believe that the other had to hate me. That was never true.\nAm I still scared? Of course, but I am more afraid of being alone in the light than hated in the dark. I'm afraid of the world having limits.\nI think-, no, I feel like this is right. Wherever I end up will be terrible, vast, unknowable\u2026 and beautiful.\n[Several minutes of the sound of rainfall. Vanth laughs softly.]\nI missed you too.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Such as extradimensional spaces, anomalous biomes and parallel universes.\n2. The nonspecificity of this statement accounts for the anomaly's irregular behaviour.\n3. A mobile task force specialising in the exploration of hostile environments such as areas defined by extreme temperatures, toxic atmospheres or hostile fauna.\n4. Losing as little as two litres of blood is almost always immediately fatal.\n5. Asakku's mannerisms were deeply affected by SCP-5482.\n6. Notable as being moist exterior surfaces of the body with the exception of his ears.\n7. A colloquialism for a space possessing both agency and intelligence, effectively a living location.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5481 | SCP-5482 | SCP-5483 \u00bb"}
{"text": "+ ACCESS CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Michael Carpenter')\n\n- COLLAPSE CREW MEMBER JOUNRAL ENTRY ('Michael Carpenter')\n\n29/12/2018\n\nDirector Goodall says we have to start writing in these. About what goes wrong, and stuff. Let me think. Well, for starters, there's always a fish smell. I accidentally tripped on my way to the submarine. I had to try a couple of extra times to pick up one of the fossils. And I saw a scientist drop a couple of papers on their way to the lab. That's it, I think.\nAlright, the main thing wrong is that this job is boring as shit. My entire job is using a crane to pick up fossils while a scientist guy yells at me. That's it. Also, the boss is shit. Goodall calls us all \"civvies.\" The calm way he talks, it always sounds like he's about to take out an MP5 and mow us all down. I guess that's why he always has his crony, Daniels, do the talking for him. It feels like I'm working for the government without seeing any of the cool shit.\nI can't wait to get out of this underwater base, and see my bros again.\n\nCatalogue #: SCP-5483\nSeafloor Cataloging Procedures: SCP-5483 is currently isolated to Site-78 via complete lockdown of the site.\nDescription: SCP-5483 refers to an area located at the edge of the Alquist Trench, monitored by S.C.P. Aquatic Monitoring Facility Alpha. At its deepest, the Alquist Trench is at the upper edge of the mesopalegic zone, and is notable for having very few hydrothermal vents and an absence of zooplankton, leading to a general lack of life in the local area1.\nSCP-5483 contains the underwater Site-78, used for cataloging remarkable phenomena near and around the Alquist Trench. Recently, SCP-5483 has been the location of paranormal occurrences. Examples of these include:\n\nHallucinations of emaciated figures in hallways, often resembling family members.\nPerceptions of impossible structures, like unending stairways, infinitely long hallways, and floors/surfaces acting similar to fluids.\nHallucinations of people walking on the seafloor or entering the Alquist Trench.\nDisappearances of site personnel.\n\nOn May 1st 2019, to curb the apparent disappearances of crewmembers, Acting Site-78 Director Theodore Daniels activated a lockdown of the facility, ensuring that no egress from Site-78 was possible. As of May 22nd 2019, this lockdown is ongoing.\nDiscovery: The paranormal phenomena occurring at Site-78 began after Director Robin Goodall vanished from his sleeping quarters at approximately 1500 hours on the night of April 28th, 2019. Footage of the interior and exterior of the site do not show him leaving his quarters, and no escape pods were engaged. His quarters were soaked with sea water, despite there being no breaches in the site's hull.\nPer instructions left by Dr. Goodall, Dr. Theodore Daniels became acting director of Site-78 on April 29th, 2019. Documentation of paranormal events began on May 2nd (see phenomena log).\n\n+ ACCESS CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Shelby McVinny')\n\n- COLLAPSE CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Shelby McVinny')\n\n30/4/2019\n\nDirector G disappeared yesterday. I've talked to people, and nobody knows where he disappeared to. My theory is that he got himself lost somewhere in the Site and locked himself into an old bunker. Good riddance, in my opinion.\nAnother oddity happened today. I was maintaining a circuit box, trying to keep a sector of the Site from short-circuiting after a cookie cutter shark tried to get into the reactor bay. All of a sudden, I was tackled to the ground by someone in a janitorial uniform. His name was Drake; I knew him from orientation.\nOnce I recovered from the fall, I looked up and made eye contact. His eyes were going in and out of focus, and moving about like a malfunctioning gyroscope. His teeth were clenched and he was breathing hard in and out, like he was struggling. The most worrying thing was that his muscles were clenched and locked in like clamps.\nHe started screaming. \"The whole fucking place is flooding! Get out of here, McVinny, you're going to die!\"\nI managed to push him off, and told him the Site wasn't flooding. If it was, there would be a breach alarm.\nAlmost immediately, his face sobered and he calmed himself down, like he was cured with some elixir. He stood up, looked around, apologized, and got back to his work.\nIf anything else went wrong, I don't remember it, since all I've been thinking about was that. Right now, lying in my bed, I still feel shell shocked. Apparently, my roommates, Kreia and Samantha, also had something strange happen in their work day. What's going on?\n\nAddendum: Phenomena Log\n\nDate: 2019/5/2\nPhenomena: Three members of the crew\u2014 Dr. Robinson, Dr. McGill, and Dr. Strader\u2014 vanish while going on an unscheduled extravehicular operation. Their last transmissions are \"It calls me down.\"\nNotes: Lockdown established after Dr. Thurston attempted to exit the base through a submarine hatch. Lockdown can only be lifted via communication with ships circling the waters above Site-78.\nFollow Up: Dr. Thurston restrained to on-site psychological care facility. Investigation begun.\n\nDate: 2019/5/4\nPhenomena: A group of people were seen by Giles Robinson crowded around something. When the crowd dissipated, the dead body of Dr. Glenn was found.\nNotes: Dr. Glenn was later found alive. This was probably a hallucination.\nFollow Up: None.\n\nDate: 2019/5/5\nPhenomena: George Halloway reported the Main Observatory being flooded with a yellow, fog-like gas. He would later claim that this gas smelt like gunpowder and burnt flesh, as well as that it made breathing difficult.\nNotes: This hallucination was shared by 5 of the 8 people in the Main Observatory at this time.\nFollow Up: Air recyclers were examined to ensure maximum efficacy.\n\nDate: 2019/5/6\nPhenomena: Gwen Cameron reports the site undergoing sudden explosive decompression, resulting in the death of all crew except herself.\nNotes: Obvious hallucination, but the detail in which she described the remains of both Halpern and Beck is unsettling.\nFollow Up: Gwen Cameron set up with a remote counseling session.\n\nDate: 2019/5/6\nPhenomena: Marcus Halpern reported seeing several starfish crawling on his skin.\nNotes: Phenomenon was corroborated by two others in the room at the time. A sample jar allegedly used to collect one of the starfish was found empty, but with an unknown biological residue within.\nFollow Up: Halpern and others associated given psychotherapy.\n\nDate: 2019/5/7\nPhenomena: A drone used to make repairs to Site-78's antenna array began broadcasting an image of what appeared to be the throat of a whale. Repairs were unable to be completed.\nNotes: Phenomenon corroborated by all personnel.\nFollow Up: Effectiveness of psychotherapy reconsidered.\n\n+ ACCESS CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Marcus Halpern')\n\n- COLLAPSE CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Marcus Halpern')\n\n5/9/2019\n\nIt has been 10 days since Goodall vanished. I think. The electronics keep on screwing up down here, we've had a few time sync errors, but thankfully, our internet connection allows us to re-sync them properly.\nTo be frank, the phenomena we're cataloging is the tame stuff\u2014 the stuff that's most believable. There are things I've seen in my dreams that have me questioning\u2026 everything.\nIn my dream last night, I saw what the trench actually was. At the bottom, there was a pupil and an iris. The trench started expanding, opening, until a massive eye was revealed. It was an eye, but I'm not sure what kind of eye\u2014 it didn't look like any terrestrial or marine creature. Too many pupils.\nThe Alquist Trench didn't exist until a few years ago\u2014 freak tectonic shift opened it. That's really fast, from what I hear; the S.C.P. guys jumped on it really quick so they could get a good look at what was happening. I'm not sure that was a dream, more of a vision. Whatever's down there is slowly waking up, slowly opening\u2014 I've checked the measurements, the trench has grown by about a centimeter since we've come down here. In geological terms, that's massive.\n\nDate: 2019/5/9\nPhenomena: A loud bang was heard from Dr. Halpern's quarters. An unfinished journal entry was found on their laptop. Dr. Halpern has yet to be located. Personnel reported a strong smell of gunpowder and burnt flesh.\nNotes: No ash or residue of any kind was found in Dr. Halpern's room. Any reports to the contrary have not been corroborated.\nFollow Up: Dr. Halpern was sent to psychotherapy. No?\n\nDate: 2019/5/13\nPhenomena: Director Daniels reports the sudden sound of alert sirens, corroborated by several of his assistants. These alert sirens were not heard in the rest of the facility.\nNotes: Analysis of the alert system indicated that an alarm was actually triggered by the manifestation of several xenarthran entities in the Alquist Trench.\nFollow Up: None.\n\nDate: 2019/5/14\nPhenomena: Several staff members experience reactions to cafeteria food, including hives and stroke-like symptoms. All staff members asserted that the food smelt like gunpowder and burnt flesh prior to consumption.\nNotes: This is presently believed to be a malfunction of the food processing units. They will be examined later an instance of the placebo effect.\n\nDate: 2019/5/16\nPhenomena: A cell phone was heard ringing for several hours. Eventually, a Samsung smartphone belonging to Director Goodall was located in his former quarters, with over a dozen voice mail messages and text conversations pertaining to the phenomena on the site.\nNotes: Voice mail has been transcribed in the following by Director Theodore Daniels.\nFollow Up: None.\n\n+ ACCESS CREW JOURNAL ENTRY ('Ted Daniels')\n\n- COLLAPSE CREW JOURNAL ENTRY ('Ted Daniels')\n\nMessage 1 (Dated 04/26/2019):\n\nBlocked Number: Project Angler Fish is Go\nGoodall: About fucking time\nGoodall: The gas was going to start going bad within a month. Fucking bureaucrats.\nBlocked Number: Dispose of your phone. Return to the surface using private escape pod before end of month.\n\nVoice Mail 1 (Dated 4/29/2019):\n\nUnknown Female Caller: Hey, Robin, it's me. Not sure if you can get reception in your part of the ocean, but data transmission's started. Everyone there is looking confused\u2014 you should see the look on Daniels's face. He actually tried tasting the water you left in your quarters. They're going to be tripping for a week.\nUnknown Female Caller: But, yeah, just calling to let you know the misters are working fine. They should be getting to the food in the galley with the drugs soon. Depending on their meal preference, we should see results in a day or so. Bye.\n\nVoice Message 1:\n\nDr. Robinson: Director Goodall, we've made it to extraction. Took us a while to get out of range of the base's sensors. En route to the Cook, will update when we get there.\n\nVoice Message 2:\n\nDirector Goodall: God dammit, this is my fifth time calling. Has nobody seen my phone? Does nobody even hear it? I need to call my wife, goddammit! I can't remember her cell.\n\nText Conversation 2:\n\nBlocked Number: Director Goodall, just checking in.\nGoodall: New phone, sorry. Who is this?\nBlocked Number: Director Stephenson at Site-78.\nBlocked Number: The actual Site-78. Not the downwelling zone.\nBlocked Number: Your crew's going crazy. We need to give the people in R&D a raise.\nBlocked Number: We're considering ending the test soon, but there's a problem.\nGoodall: What?\nBlocked Number: Daniels is refusing to lift lockdown. We've tried a dozen memetic triggers, but nothing's persuading him.\nBlocked Number: We're thinking a mutiny might be in order. We still have a couple of crew nearby which could trigger one.\nGoodall: No, this is good.\nGoodall: Let them stew for a while longer. Then, have Daniels stuff himself into the escape pod.\nGoodall: I think I just realized where I lost my phone.\n\nDate: 2019/5/14\nPhenomena: The entire Collections Department reports being unable to breathe. This is in spite of the fact that they are, in fact, able to breathe.\nNotes: This is believed to be correlated to the appearance of a sperm whale in the vicinity of the site. Relationship unknown.\n\nDate: 2019/5/12 or 2019/5/15\nPhenomena: The day after May 14th, all time stamps assert that it is May 12th. This cannot be corrected by any means.\nNotes: Corrected itself at midnight on the second May 12th, currently May 15th.\nFollow Up: Computer system is to be recalibrated. Computer system corrected itself.\n\n+ ACCESS CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Danny Tubb')\n\n- COLLAPSE CREW MEMBER JOURNAL ENTRY ('Danny Tubb')\n\n30/4/2019\n\nI swear to God, I saw Director Goodall before he left. It might've been one of those god damned hallucinations, but I saw him before everything started happening, after he left.\nThe logs all say he disappeared from the systems at 1500 hours. But at 1700 hours, I saw him walking around the site. He was wearing one of those rubber jumpsuits that the divers wear under the big diving suits. I tried waving hello to him, but he just made a sideways glance to me and nodded. I was suspicious\u2014 he wasn't close at all to the departures bay\u2014 so I hid behind a tall plant to watch him. He walked up to a wall, opened up a hidden panel, and input some code. A door opened, and he climbed up a ladder before the door closed behind him.\nThe more I look at the site, the more it reminds me of an ant farm. Do you know \"HexBugs,\" those robot bugs that you put in the plastic tubes to watch them crawl around? Most of the site is made of reinforced glass, like someone could look in and watch us work. I only say this because I've felt like I've been watched for the past few days.\nOh, I never actually described anything that went wrong today. Nothing, except for some weird yellow gas I saw coming out of the air vents. It's probably something wrong with the air recycler, I'll talk about it with the techies tomorrow.\n\nDate: 2019/5/17\nPhenomena: Crew members report Director Daniels boarding an escape pod and leaving the Site, despite the lockdown.\nNotes: Destination appears to be a boat floating near the surface. Hallucination has persisted for 30 days.\nFollow Up:  \n\nFootnotes\n1. A large amount of kelp has grown along the top of the trench. Due to the lack of fauna in the area to consume it, it has formed a large forest, as well as a patch of kelp on the surface not dissimilar to that found in the Sargasso Sea. 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{"text": "by BlazingPie & Ralliston\n\nCo-written by BlazingPie and Ralliston\n\u25ba BlazingPie's Authorpage\n\u25ba Ralliston's Authorpage\nImage Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nName of the file: warning.png\nSource: N/A\nLicense: Creative Commons\n\nName of the file: elevator.png\nSource: link\nLicense: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International\nNotes: Edited by JackalRelated for the purpose of this article\n\nName of the file: elevator2.png\nSource: link\nLicense: Creative Commons\n\n[{$authorPage} \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5484\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5484 as seen from within the elevator shaft.\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-120\nSite-120 Director Council\nMieczys\u0142aw Bury\nN/A\n\nEntry doors to SCP-5484, located on Site-120's fourth level.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5484 is to be sealed off from the remainder of Site-120's building. Until it can be repurposed to serve as an elevator again, Site-120 staff are encouraged to use the remaining means of transport as alternative ways to traverse the building.\nDescription: SCP-5484 is a spacetime disruption taking the form of a seemingly endless pit, located within Elevator 2B's shaft in Site-120, Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland.1 Alongside its walls, numerous thaumaturgic markings, mainly depicting phrases such as \"suffering,\" \"pain,\" and \"gateway,\" are located, with markings of both high Akiva Radiation and low Hume levels being detected next to it. Though so far, no Foundation equipment was able to reach SCP-5484's bottom, recording equipment sent into it detects muffled noises consistent with human moans, screams, and silent humming coming from within it.\nThe deepest the Foundation had been able to venture into SCP-5484 was a depth of approximately 25 kilometers down2 \u2014 though almost no differences were noted with the increasing depth as compared to the higher parts of the anomaly, a small increase in temperature has been noticed around the deeper parts of it. Similarly, the volume of the sounds coming from within it has been noted to increase slightly with increasing depth \u2014 though not enough to be well comprehended by Foundation staff.\nFrom materials gathered during its discovery, it's theorized SCP-5484 leads to \u2014 or at least a version therefor \u2014 the catholic version of Hell, as described within the Bible. Though this hypothesis is still being investigated, due to the abnormal amounts of pain energy as well as thaumaturgical and theological processes detected within the anomaly, it is still a possible explanation.\nAddendum.5484.1: Discovery\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nSCP-5484 was discovered on 05/09/2003, following an attack from a subgroup of GoI-120 (\"Triumvirat\u00e9\")3 on Site-120.\nDuring the group's escape from the facility, it initiated a ritual which would, as described in scripts carried by it \"Open a gate to Hell itself, consuming your enemies whole.\" Though it went as planned, due to the ritual site being so remote, it had only affected the elevator, rather than the entire site as initially planned by the group. Following the ritual's activation, all of the group's members were consumed by the forming spatial disruption, effectively eliminating them from the Site.\nThe following are SCP-5484 test logs conducted shortly after the anomaly's discovery.\n\nTEST 1\nPROCEDURE: Throw a standard testing object (a small steel ball) into SCP-5484.\nOUTCOME: Test subject has not been recovered. It is presumed to still be falling down SCP-5484.\n\nTEST 2\nPROCEDURE: Same as Test 1.\nOUTCOME: Test subject rapidly flew out of SCP-5484 after three minutes of falling. It was covered with salty water and sand of unknown origin.\n\nTEST 3\nPROCEDURE: Same as Test 1.\nOUTCOME: Test subject rapidly flew out of SCP-5484 after four minutes of falling, this time additionally covered with wet kelp.\n\n[9 LOGS OMMITED]\n\nTEST 13\nPROCEDURE: Descend into SCP-5484 using a remote drone.\nOUTCOME: The drone descended to a depth of approximately 4 kilometers, after which it ceased communication. All attempts to locate it have failed. Last footage sent by the drone was that of an unknown fluid, similar in appearance to water.\n\nTEST 14\nPROCEDURE: Same as Test 13.\nOUTCOME: The drone descended to a depth of approximately 6 kilometers, after which it ceased communication. All attempts to locate it have failed. Temperature readings recorded an increase of 5 degrees Celsius. Last footage sent was similar to Test 3.\n\nTEST 15\nPROCEDURE: Same as Test 13.\nOUTCOME: The drone descended to a depth of approximately 10 kilometers, after which it ceased communication. All attempts to locate it have failed. Audio equipment recorded sounds consistent with muffled human speech, rushing wind, and sea waves.\n\nTEST 16\nPROCEDURE: Same as Test 13.\nOUTCOME: The drone descended to a depth of approximately 25 kilometers, after which it ceased communication. All attempts to locate it have failed. Akiva radiation, which became significant enough to be detected after 20 kilometers, increased with depth to the point of sensor overflow.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5484.2: Further SCP-5484 Research\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nThe following is a log of initial research conducted on SCP-5484 as done by Site-120's staff.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 07/09/2003\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nBoth present parties are standing on the walls of the elevator shaft, protected by appropriate equipment, looking down into the pit of SCP-5484. Around them, inactive Foundation terrain scanners can be seen, with Micheals holding a small screen linked to them and an activation console.\nMicheals:4 Y-Yep, that's Hell alright.\nBury:5 Well, this ain't good.\nMicheals: Because we literally have Hell near our offices?\nBury: No, because we'll actually have to clean somethin' up for once.\nBoth pause for a second, during which Micheals activates the scanners. All beep with dim light, and three seconds later, the tablet he is holding lights up.\nMicheals: Hmm\u2026 y-yeah. Wormhole type \u2014 dimensional portal, high Akiva, \u2014 though mainly focused around the worship of one entity \u2014 t-temperatures higher than 26 Celcius, and the constant hatred outputs and suffering filters. We got Hell on our hands, and it's not pretty.\nBury: Why's that, if I may?\nMicheals looks directly into Bury's eyes.\nMicheals: Well. Aside from the fact it's, y-you know, literally Hell, the pain scanners are\u2026 really, really bad. The sheer amount of suffering within is genuinely staggering, to the point my tech's overloading. Give me a moment though. I-I have to check something.\nMicheals taps the screen twice.\nMicheals: It will\u2026 take a while.\nHe pauses for a second.\nMicheals: Though, if it's not a mistake, then Jesus. The amount of pain emitted from this would be able to literally power the human civilization for millennia if harvested well. I always imagined a theoretical Hell would be bad, but this\u2026 is just\u2026 no. No.\nBury: Is this much of a surprise, though? Haven't we discovered Hell already a while back? Heard a thing about it or two sometime ago.\nMicheals: I, I mean, yes, we did, but 5572's an absurdly specific afterlife. Even that, it's just\u2026 an actual pleasure when compared to this. I\u2026 I'll have to bring this to the rest of the Directors. No one deserves this end to their story.\nBoth pause for a second.\nBury: If it's so horrible, then what cause even spawned this, actually? What's the Trumbiratee's \u2014 Trumbiratee's? \u2014 problem?\nMicheals: Triumvirat\u00e9's. Just general hatred, I imagine. If their goal is to bring back the lands we stole from them in their eyes, I don't think bringing Hell to someone for bringing Hell onto you is\u2026 fair, honestly. Hatred only breeds more hatred, and\u2014 oh!\nThe scanner beeps three times in a row, finishing the scanning.\nMicheals: Oh, oh no.\nBury: What's going on?\nMicheals: I\u2026 it's even worse.\nBury: Whatcha mean?\nMicheals: [REDACTED]6\nBury: W-what?\nMicheals: Exactly what you heard me say.\nBury: J-Jesus fucking Christ. That\u2026 no. Just\u2026 no.\nAll pause for a moment.\nMicheals: We will have to contact Overwatch about this, just to make sure this is real. Because if it is\u2026 Jesus Christ.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\nIn light of further information gathered from scans of the area SCP-5484 leads to as well as the log results, two days later, Overwatch Command issued the following:\n\nProject Gratia Proposal\n\nTHE OFFICE OF O5-1\n\nIn light of all of the discoveries made following initial contact with SCP-5484, the entire SCP Foundation is to change its approach towards all subjects. In previous years, we valued coldness and objectivity over kindness and other human virtues, even after our policies had to change so many years ago after Esterberg's fall and Directive Alpha/1911.\nHowever, in the light of newly acquired information, we can never let a single person be a victim of what most likely comes as a punishment for our sins after death.\nWe still do not know the exact nature of Hell presented to us by SCP-5484. It is, however, an afterlife different from all known descriptions of Hell in recorded human history. And, from what we have gathered, we can be certain that it is not an afterlife one would want to be stuck in.\nAs we have no other choice than to continue research on SCP-5484, we propose Project Gratia as a temporary containment strategy. We, as the Foundation, need to redeem our personnel as quickly as possible.\n\n\u2014 O5-1\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5484.3: File update \u2014 14/09/2003\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nFile update \u2014 14/09/2003\n\nSITE-120 DIRECTOR COUNCIL\n\nOn 13/09/2003, the second and final inspection of SCP-5484's runes prior to the proper Foundation-wide activation of Project Gratia has been conducted by Site-120's Grand Thaumist and Thaumaturgical Archivist and its Director Council member, Daniel Asheworth. Aside from numerous differences between translations of said runes and the ones after the second scan, it was noted that the major rune, used to complete the ritual and properly activate the portal, was mistakenly written with a single \"l,\" resulting in the portal leading to the Hel peninsula of Poland, rather than to a potential torturous afterlife. Due to this, all plans regarding Project Gratia are currently being pulled back.\nAll similarities between the vision of a hellish afterlife and Poland are currently being investigated.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nFootnotes\n1. Prior to SCP-5484's initial manifestation, the elevator was fully functional.\n2. As seen during an unmanned drone exploration.\n3. Fae for \"we will prevail;\" a large-scale organized Fae terrorist group, focused on reclaiming its supposed territory back from humanity, not infrequently focusing on Foundation Sites to do so, mainly operating from within Esterberg.\n4. Dr. James Micheals, member of Site-120's Director Council and its Ontokinetics and Spatial Disruptions Chief.\n5. Mieczys\u0142aw Bury, lead of Site-120's Maintenance Team.\n6. Just because you want to know what it meant, doesn't mean you should. \u2014 J. 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{"text": "This case is CURRENTLY ACTIVE.\nAny personnel interfering with SCID investigations will be prosecuted to full extent of the law.\n\nLEVEL TWO/5487 CLASSIFICATION\n\nITEM #\n\nSCP-5487\n\nOBJECT CLASS\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5487 (\"Cardocran\").\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\n\nThe entirety of SCP-5487 is to be kept in special storage at Site-989. Two kilograms of 5487 are to be offloaded whenever appropriate to SCID Miami under Provision 57.M-B and 93.\nAll used amounts of SCP-5487 are to be transported back to Site-989 via SCID courier and disposed of by a chemical team.\nCertain provisions to hospitals for SCP-5487 medical use is in consideration.\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nSCP-5487 is the designation for the anomalous stimulant drug called \"Cardocran\", often nicknamed \"Cardo\". While SCP-5487 acts similarly to cocaine, its anomalous properties occur on its effect as a triple reuptake inhibitor (TRI): it approximately triples its efficiency while also removing its dependency issues on its subject.\nWhile SCP-5487 can be used as an alternative to cocaine, cocaine cannot be used as an alternative to 5487.\n5487 is unable to be created without anomalous technology. It is currently unknown who created SCP-5487.\n\nITEM HISTORY\n\nA version of SCP-5487 was discovered on the market by Foundation agents stationed in Miami, Florida, who later notified the Foundation. The compound was analyzed, and the 5487 designation was given to the drug.\nA subdivision of the Special Crimes Investigative Division (SCID) in Miami was created to combat the appearance and use of veil-breaking drugs to the general public.\n\nCASE 1987.CDO-005 OPENED. SOME FILES HAVE BEEN OMITTED.\n\nLEVEL FOUR/SCID CLASSIFICATION\n\nON 5487/CARDOCRAN\n\nThe cardocran given to our division is specifically modified by the Foundation to produce the effects of severe dependency upon use, without any tangible side effects otherwise. This should keep anyone who gets slipped it otherwise desperate enough to come back until we can catch them, then we can do our thing from there.\nNote that a selling point of cardocran is its low dependency issues, so expect repeat buyers to be agitated or angry.\n\nAQUIRED DATA\n\nSeized Cardocran.\n\nCardocran has recently shown up again in the market labeled as \"Cardonian Cocaine\", described as a high-quality variant of cocaine stemming from the (fictional) Cardonia region of Peru.\nAnalysis performed on the seized cardocran shows this does not appear to be the same type of cardocran sent to us by the Foundation. An operation will shortly be put in place to determine the source of this new cardocran. If we can nab the buyers, we can get them to give us the sellers.\nKeep your eyes out. Miami Vice has agreed to work with us on this one, considering it seems like they've been hit hard with this kind of thing popping up again.\n\n- Lieutenant J. Hernandez\n\nOPERATION YELLOWJACKET is a sting operation that will be conducted by the SCID with the help of MPD Vice on the afternoon of July 18th, 1987.\nThe operation will commence at approximately 10:30, where SCID special teams will set up in the buildings around the main plaza of Hortin Marina.\nThese teams will provide covering fire and/or general support should the sting go wrong, and are equipped with tear gas. Designated long-range combatants will be armed with M16A1 rifles from MPD SWAT.\nLieutenant Hernandez and Captain Peters will be occupying an unmarked squad car from across the street for immediate support. Several other places (see Document OYJ.02 for specific placement) will also contain plainclothes or otherwise disguised officers.\nAt 11:00, Detectives Richard Garrett and Manuel Acosta (undercover as sellers \"Brad\" and \"De la Cruz\") will meet the buyers. They will be accompanied by Foundation liaison Haskell, who is masquerading as a middleman. Acosta will also be outfitted with a wire to listen in on the conversation.\nOnce the buyers trade off the money and receive the cardocran, they are to be immediately arrested. The MPD will be around on standby for the SCID's signal.\nShould any of the plan deviate or if it is apparent that the situation will escalate, the sting is to be immediately ended and the area secured by the SCID and MPD.\n\n[TAPE START]\n\nAcosta can be heard practicing breathing techniques.\n\nGARRETT\nNervous?\n\nACOSTA\nHell yea, I'm nervous, man. No matter how many times I do this, my nerves got a mind of their own.\n\nGARRETT\nI get what you mean. It's more of a rush for me.\n\nACOSTA\nA rush? You're crazy. Some kind of masochist? A rush my ass.\n\nThey laugh.\n\nGARRETT\nI worked out all my nervousness in the firing range. I may not jitter like an addy, but I'm still feeling it all here.\n\nACOSTA\nYou know what will cure my nerves?\n\nGARRETT\nWhat would?\n\nACOSTA\nIf these buyers showed the fuck up already, damn. It's\u2026 11:12 now. It ain't polite to keep your gift horse waiting man.\n\nGarrett blows a raspberry.\n\nGARRETT\nDon't worry about it.\n\nACOSTA\nWhat if they canceled? We're just sitting here like zoo flamingos in this heat all for shit.\n\nGARRETT\nDoubt it. They need this trade more than we do.\n\nACOSTA\nYou're right, you're right. Haskie would've told us.\n\nACOSTA\nI think it's the wire, the wire always sets me on end man. One faulty connection and now you're target numero uno for guys with MAC-10s.\n\nGARRETT\nAah, don't worry about it. I got your back. It's just a sting, what's the worst that could happen, right?\n\nACOSTA\nYou're right, you're right.\n\nGARRETT\n\u2026Is that them?\n\nACOSTA\nShit, yeah. Business face on.\n\nThe two can be heard standing up, followed by approximately a minute of silence.\n\nBUYER 1\nKnow anyone by the name 'o\u2026 uhh, Brad and De la Cruz?\n\nACOSTA\nDepends, who's asking?\n\nBUYER 2\nTwo-hundo-kay in your pocket, that's who.\n\nACOSTA\nI see. Where's our midman?\n\nBUYER 1\nHell should I know?\n\nGARRETT\nHe's a'mportant to us as the stuff you're gett'n. I'd like ta know you two digeridoos didn't knock him off befo' we hand this to ya.\n\nBUYER 1\nNo goddamn clue, dude. He just up and fucked off and said it was important. Frankly I don't have time for this chatter. We doing this or what?\n\nThe two pause for a minute.\n\nACOSTA\nCough the dough up.\n\nBUYER 2\nWoah woah, we ain't dumb. We do this the conventional way.\n\nBUYER 1\nSuitcase open first, we test the product, you get your money and we all walk off a little happier.\n\nA suitcase can be heard opening, as well as a plastic cracking noise. Several seconds elapse as the suitcase is closed again.\n\nBUYER 2\nAnd?\n\nBUYER 1\nReal godlike shit there. Well then. I got this to give you-\n\nTwo gunshots ring out. Buyer 2 yells.\n\nBUYER 1\nCrap, setup!\n\nA firefight erupts. Multiple gunshots are heard as Acosta fires his CZ75 at the buyers. More armed personnel appear to be wildly shooting into the crossfire by Acosta.\n\nDet. Acosta enters a building, auditorily sounding to be flanking the armed buyers. Acosta re-emerges to the outside, where the gunfire has died down into several occasional shots. He yells and sprints.\n\nBUYER 1\nFuck!\n\nAcosta tackles Buyer 1.\n\nACOSTA\nPolice, Miami SCID. Keep those hands up and taste the concrete, bitch.\n\nBuyer 1 laughs.\n\nBUYER 1\nCongrats, pal.\n\nBUYER 1\nAgent Ballard. FBIUIU.\n\nFOUNDATION NOTICE\n\nON YELLOWJACKET\n\nDue to an oversight in planning and an unprecedented violation in operations scale within the SCID, YELLOWJACKET led to the injuries of several officers in the SCID as well as the FBIUIU. The cause of the shootout was also investigated; it was found to be caused by the misjudgment of SCID Captain James Peters, who mistakenly thought UIU Agent Ivanovic was pulling out a pistol.\nCaptain Peters has been demoted and put on unpaid administrative leave for a month.\n\nON UIU PRESCENCE\n\nA unit of the FBIUIU was present at the time of the incident to carry out a sting operation against Foundation researchers possibly selling small amounts of SCP-5487 to the general public. Further investigation into this claim has uncovered a chain of misunderstandings stemming from a partnership with the UIU, curated by \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, over proceedings and undercover operations including the use of 5487. No other UIU presence was determined within the recent events.\nThe FBIUIU has admitted their mistake over their wrongly-implemented investigation and misunderstanding of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's good intentions.\n\nOVERALL\n\nFurther investigation into illegal production and distribution of SCP-5487 will be henceforth operated by the main branch of the Foundation. The SCID will be limited to low-level operations (with prior Foundation approval) and executing specific stakeouts/raids as given by the Foundation. This agreement will continue indefinitely until the Foundation believes the SCID is capable enough to handle such large cases without prompting or promoting unacceptable incidents.\nThe failure of YELLOWJACKET rests squarely on each and every involved member of the SCID.\n\nYou are accessing LEVEL 5 CLASSIFIED material. All violations of this classification will lead to amnesticization and termination of employment by the Foundation.\n\n!NOTICE!\n\nTHIS FILE IS UNAVAILABLE FOR [O5-6] DUE TO CENSURE. DO NOT SHARE THIS FILE WITH THIS USER UNTIL THEIR VIEWING CLEARANCE IS REAPPROVED.\n\nRESTRICTED LEVEL FIVE CLASSIFICATION\n\nITEM #\n\nSCP-5487\n\nOBJECT CLASS\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5487 (\"Cardocran\").\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\n\nThe entirety of the internally-visible SCP-5487 stores are to be kept in special storage at Site-989. Two kilograms of 5487 are to be offloaded whenever appropriate to SCID Miami under Provision 57.M-B and 93.\nSCID Miami is to be used to insure the Foundation's dominance in the market for SCP-5487.\nUnder O5 order, an additional five hundred kilograms are to be dispersed through secure channels to acquire express profits.\nThe chemical team in charge of SCP-5487 disposal is to reconstitute any inconsistencies with third-party-created 5487 and redistribute it through the above network.\nProvisions to hospitals for SCP-5487 medical use is not in consideration at this time.\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nSCP-5487 is the designation for the anomalous stimulant drug called \"Cardocran\", often nicknamed \"Cardo\". While SCP-5487 acts similarly to cocaine, its anomalous properties occur on its effect as a triple reuptake inhibitor (TRI): it approximately triples its efficiency while also removing its dependency issues on its subject.\nWhile SCP-5487 can be used as an alternative to cocaine, cocaine cannot be used as an alternative to 5487.\n5487 is unable to be created without anomalous technology. Currently, the Foundation is the only major producer of SCP-5487.\n\nITEM HISTORY\n\nEarly chemical base of SCP-5487.\n\nAn early prototype of SCP-5487 was discovered after a project to improve medical cocaine via SCP-914 adjustment. Foundation personnel eventually stabilized the most flagrant side-effects of the 5487 prototypes and codified them into the final SCP-5487 drug.\nFollowing the lead of PENTAGRAM in drug-related offerings, the Foundation dispersed the process of making 5487 to certain anomalous groups with the intention of receiving payments on its licensing. After enough money was circulated through this process to support the Foundation's own 5487 production cycle, the Special Crimes Investigative Division (SCID) in Miami was employed to unknowingly remove most major competitors.\nDespite a recent altercation over SCP-5487 involving the FBIUIU, SCID, and MPD-Vice, the major 5487 operation was not affected. Fault was placed on Foundation Liaison Mike Haskell and SCID Lieutenant Jaimie Hernandez, who were later terminated. Internal Agent Peters has been commended for his service in quickly bringing the affair to a close.\nThe 5487 operation will continue as long as it is profitable for the Foundation to do so.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5486 | SCP-5487 | SCP-5488 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5490\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5490 is to be sealed in a plexiglass container Site-76. Tests involving SCP-5490 are to be limited to one subject at a time and will only be coordinated by personnel with security clearance of Level 2 or above. SCP-5490 will only be read by a subject fitting within the parameters of its anomalous properties. Testing procedures will not be conducted without the approval of Dr. Prodri.\nDescription: SCP-5490 is a book wrapped in leather binding with 89 pages, all of which are blank. Despite SCP-5490's suspected age, it shows no sign of aging or wear. When an individual interacts with the first page of SCP-5490, one of two different phrases will be presented to the subject:\n\n\u25b7 Phrases\n\n\u25bd Phrases\n\nPhrase One:\n\n\"Only those who share the sacred blood of the emperor may read these pages. Thou shall suffer as the emperor did.\"\n\nPhrase Two:\n\n\"Welcome, scion. Thou shall now read the history that was hidden from the light. The history of your ancestor.\"\n\nUpon viewing the first phrase, the individual will begin to suffer from severe clinical depression, rating between 24 to 27 on the PHQ-9 test1 regardless of their emotional state prior to the event. The individual will also begin to experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, complaining of the 'horrors of Judea.' Upon reading the second phrase, the individual will be able to view the full contents of SCP-5490.\nAll text within SCP-5490 is written in Latin, however the individual will still be able to read SCP-5490 regardless of their native language and/or their ability to understand Latin. Only individuals who can fully understand Latin text are able to read SCP-5490 verbally. The only method of translation is via audio recordings. However, upon playback the subject's voice will sound distorted. Video recording of any reading will result in the pages being observed as blank.\nSCP-5490 details the Roman emperor Aelius Hadrianus Severlinus, who reigned as an emperor of the Roman Empire from 130 AD to 138 AD. Emperor Severlinus's history is not recorded in any other text or historical document besides SCP-5490, with his supposed command falling within the later years of emperor Hadrian's reign. The recorded anomalous activity during the Bar Kokhba Revolt, as well as other anomalous events during these years, are also within Foundation databases. Hadrian, however, is still recorded as the emperor during these events.\nSCP-5490 was discovered after an Italian archaeological team from the Sapienza University of Rome explored a previously unrecorded chamber underneath Rome. SCP-5490 was found on a pedestal in a pristine condition. One of the team members opened SCP-5490, while other team members observed. SCP-5490's anomalous effect then activated, causing most of the team to suffer from severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder within a few hours. One of the original team members did not experience any of SCP-5490's effects and swiftly reported his discovery to government officials. Suspecting anomalous activity may be involved, the Italian government contacted the Foundation whereupon it was swiftly secured and transferred to Site-76.\nAddendum.1 - Form of SCP-5490: According to the dates provided by SCP-5490, it is impossible for it to be contained within a modernly constructed book. It should be within a codex, however, all text within SCP-5490 describes itself as a book. Despite this, all dating methods show it to be made and constructed approximately 1880 years ago. One theory stipulated is that SCP-5490 changes it's appearance in accordance with the most widely available method of reading at the time. Given that it hasn't transferred itself into digital form means there are one of two possibilities:\n\nEither it can not transfer itself into a digital form or,\nIt does not recognize Ebooks as the most widely available format\n\nIf the second is true, Mobile Task Force Mu-4 \"Debuggers\" has been alerted to that possibility and has developed Protocol \"Odoacer\" in the event that SCP-5490 transfers itself into digital form. Should this event happen and Protocol \"Odoacer\" fail, SCP-5490's containment class shall be changed to Keter and it's disruption and risk class to Ekhi and Warning respectively. It is unknown how this process will be accomplished, let alone at all, but the risk factor is high enough to warrant preparations.\nAddendum.2 - Page excerpts: The following are excerpts from various pages of SCP-5490. Only major variations between the actions of Severlinus and Hadrian are transcribed and presented. SCP-5490 itself can be divided into three different sections:\nFirst Section: Pages 1-9\nDescription: Early life and eventual coronation of Severlinus\nSecond section: Pages 10-55\nDescription: First years of Severlinus's reign towards the end of the Bar Kokhba Revolt.\nThird section: Pages 56-88\nDescription: Final years of Severlinus's reign and death.\n\n\u25b7 Excerpts\n\n\u25bd Excerpts\n\nExcerpt from page one\n\nIt is here that I record the reign and death of Imperator Caeser Hadrianus Severlinus Augustus, whose reign began 883 Ab urbe condita2 and lasted a glorious eight years. It will be here, and only here, that his excellence is deified. His reign brought great prosperity to the empire and its people but also brought him to madness. His actions were guided by fate, as commanded by Jupiter himself. Come, scion, and learn of your forebearers feats and victories, as well as his fall from grace.\n\nExcerpt from page nine\n\nDuring Imperator Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus's voyage up the River Nile, much of his flotilla sank and drowned. An inquiry into this event has led many to come to the conclusion that a sudden flood killed the late emperor, his beloved Antinous, and many who accompanied them. Locals who witnessed the event believe it was the influence of Suchus as means of protecting the River Nile.3 Upon word of the tragedy reaching Rome, Severlinus was struck with immense grief. The late emperor had been his father, his teacher, and mentor. Words can not describe the number of tears that were shed that day. Regardless, it was now time for your forebearer to take the crown. After the Senate was told of Hadrian's death, which was received of mixed opinion, your forebearer was officially crowned as the new emperor of the empire.\n\nExcerpt from page seventeen\n\nSeverlinus then traveled to Athens a few months later, where he had hoped to uphold his father's ambitions. He had hoped to finally realize his father's Panhellenion as a means of culturally uniting the Greek city-states and Rome. As a gift to the Athenians, as well as completing another one of his father's dreams, he finished the construction of the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Underneath the temple, he had buried Trajan's artifact as a means of passively subjugating the Athenians.4 By giving the Athenians more luxuries, Severlinus had gained their trust and admiration. These feelings were reciprocated, as Severlinus would walk among the Athenians in the streets with little to no guard. Upon his departure for the east, he was sent off warmly by the people.\n\nExcerpt from page twenty-seven\n\nDuring his visit to Palmyra, Severlinus first heard of the artifact from a woman claiming to be a traveling Vates. It was here that his curiosity and hubris led him further down the stairs of fate. Intrigued, he pleaded the woman for answers. She told him of the powers it could give, and the horrors it could bring. In great detail, she explained its mastery over the flesh of others, sickening those around Severlinus. But not him. He had heard of the ancient myths and legends of a people who could manipulate flesh and bone. If such a power existed, no matter how savage it could be, Severlinus sought to tame it. Upon learning the location of the artifact, he and his troop moved south towards Judea.\n\nExcerpt from page thirty-one\n\nWhile in Judea, Severlinus sought to rebuild Jerusalem after years of destruction and war. He not only intended this to be a gift to the Jews but also hoped that the rabbis would lead him to the artifact he so desperately craved. Upon his arrival, he learned more about Jewish culture from a local Samaritan priest. Learning that the Jews openly circumcise their young, Severlinus was disgusted. A Hellenist like his father believed such an act was mutilation. He then enacted a decree within the city, announcing that circumcision was banned throughout the empire. This was met with much dissatisfaction, and the anti-Roman sentiment that lingered within the Jews had grown even more significant. This angered Severlinus, who then enacted many other anti-Jewish decrees. This would pave the way to war, sending your forefather even closer to his fate.\n\nExcerpt from page thirty-five\n\nEven as I write this, it is still unknown how the Jews found the artifact first. While our legionaries searched throughout Judea, one of the Jews found it. This Jew, Simon bar Kokhba, would utilize the artifact's immense power to gather followers to his cause. He utilized the artifact to 'bless' his soldiers and followers.5 As bar Kokhba marched on Jerusalem, he demanded that every single Roman within Judea leave immediately. Severlinus, no longer fond of the Jews, took this a declaration of war and had Tineius Rufus send two legions to crush the rebellion. They were met with utter annihilation with few survivors. The command bar Kokhba had on the artifact was masterful, leading his armies against Rome with skill. This only further spurred Severlinus's hate for the Jews, resolving to destroy bar Kokhba. He came to believe that his destiny was here in Judea, not in Greece. Oh scion, how right he was.\n\nExcerpt from page forty\n\nSeverlinus had summoned several more legions and called Sextus Julius Severus from Britain to face bar Kokhba. In spite of the largest gathering of legions since the wars in Dacia, bar Kokhba still raised above Severlinus's pressure. Your forebearer became desperate, destroying the Jewish armies against him became the sole thing he thought about for the next year. He and Severus met bar Kokhba's forces outside of Jericho, where he witnessed for the first time the artifact's effects.\nSeeing the mutation of bodies and frenzied fighting from the Jewish armies made Severlinus sick. Despite our best efforts, the legions were once again defeated at the hands of bar Kokhba's armies. Severlinus no longer wanted to capture the artifact, rather he wished to destroy it by whatever means. After regrouping in Samaria, Severus informed Severlinus of his own artifact from Britain. A sword that could be used to combat bar Kokhba's. Desperate, your forebearer had it brought to him.\n\nExcerpt from page forty-four\n\nSeverus's sword proved to be the dagger. Bar Kokhba and his forces were on their knees, retreating to their final fortress in Betar. It would be here that the artifact's effect would finally take shape on bar Kokhba's men. They were now nothing more than prisoners in their own flesh, which only further disgusted Severlinus. His resolve to destroy bar Kokhba and his artifact only deepened. Despite their situation, the Jews still fought with frenzy and vigor.\nOur legions could not break the walls of Betar, despite our best efforts. It would be here that your forefather resigned himself to fate. He stepped onto the front line in the last summer of the siege and charged at the walls. The legionaries saw this as a rallying cry, that if the emperor was as bold so should they. Only those closest to Severlinus knew the truth. He had become just as desperate, crazed, and manic as the Jews in front of them. He then broke the walls, and the massacre began.\n\nExcerpt from page fifty-six\n\nFinally, Severlinus returned to Rome. Word of his feats in Judea had already reached the greater population, who praised him as a hero. He had quashed the rebellion, renamed Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina, and decreed that Judea be erased from every map. Those closest to him knew the truth, however. His mind and body were broken. He had lost dear comrades and friends, including Severus, in the war. He was successful at destroying bar Kokhba and the artifact, but at what cost scion? He lost nearly everything he held dear to him. He didn't greet the senate with the customary salutation, he knew he wasn't worthy of doing so. The war effectively ended your forebearer's aspirations to realize his father's dreams. It had made him a recluse, yet he still held tightly onto Severus's sword.\n\nExcerpt from page sixty-one\n\nWhen his mother, empress Sabina, died Severlinus only further slipped into depression. He had been stopped numerous times from committing suicide. He had no heir, his travels left him childless. His current state of mind did not allow him to think of even adopting an heir. Many around him became frightened by the prospect of him dying with no heir designated to fulfill the office of emperor. That was until he met Lucius Aelius. Severlinus immediately became infatuated with him and sought him out on numerous occasions. The two would be seen together many times before eventually Severlinus named him his son and by extension his heir. Despite his newfound invigoration, your forebearer would still have bouts of madness all while keeping hold of Severus's sword.\n\nExcerpt from page seventy-three\n\nIt happened suddenly. Lucius Aelius's death greatly impacted Severlinus, sending him into a deeper depression. He would always have two people around at all times, for if he ended his life the office of the emperor would be left vacant with no successor. As he sat alone, Severus's sword in hand, one of his consuls approached him. The consul, Arrius Antoninus, began to comfort him. At first ineffective, the consul eventually made a connection with your forebearer. The two talked for a long while, throughout the night. The next morning Severlinus announced to the senate that he had adopted the consul, with the condition that he adopt the son of the recently deceased Lucius Aelius. There was a sigh of relief among the senators, for the office was once again secure. Despite having made a connection with Severlinus, the consul could not pry Severus's sword from him.\n\nExcerpt from page eighty-seven\n\nIt had finally happened. The sword that Severlinus had grown attached to brought him to madness. The object he had long used as a comforter, a precaution for the day should bar Kokhba's artifact rear its face again, had turned on him. He interrupted the consul's dinner with his attendants, Severus's sword in hand. He swung it wildly and with frenzy. The consul's wife shrieked as Severlinus approached them. The consul grabbed his blade and begged your forebearer to stand down.\nHe was beyond reason and swung at the consul. Then, the consul cut his neck. Can you blame him, scion? As Severlinus fell, the consul caught him in his arms. Letting go of Severus's sword for the first time, Severlinus asked the consul if he had made his father proud. With tears in his eyes, the consul comforted him by saying he had. With life leaving him, Severlinus made the consul promise to deify his father. And with that, your forebearer died experiencing peace for the first time in years.\n\nExcerpt from page eighty-nine\n\nUpon his ascension Antoninus Pius saw to it that Hadrian was deified, fulfilling Severlinus's final wish. Fearful that word of Severlinus's actions would further destabilize the empire, he was to be hidden from history. Severus's sword was confiscated and buried in Aegyptus. Due to his remarkable likeness to his father, the people were made to believe that Severlinus was indeed Hadrian. Any record and document saying otherwise were destroyed. That is why I have recorded all of this. Your forebearer would have been lost, if not for me.\nI, son of Aelius Hadrianus Severlinus, will see to it that he been seen by future generations. I was there for it all, experienced what he experienced, and rightful occupant to the office of the emperor. I fear that if Antoninus Pius finds this book, he will destroy it. I will see to it that the Vates harness the emotions my father felt moments before his death, and curse those that attempt to read the book. Only my future sons and daughters may view these texts without repercussions. If you are reading this somewhere in the future, even if the empire has fallen, I plead that you hide this book until the time is right. Ensure that my father deserves his place in the sun. Please, let him see the light of day once more.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A depression module used to monitor the severity of depression, rated between 1 and 27\n2. From the founding of the city.\n3. This correlates with recorded activity of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n4. Foundation records corroborate that Trajan did indeed discover such an artifact, however, its whereabouts are unknown.\n5. It is known that Simon bar Kokhba utilized a similarly described anomaly during his revolt.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5489 | SCP-5490 | SCP-5491 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5491\nObject Class: Safe\n\nAn SCP-5491 manifestation. Significant distortion occurs when attempting to record or photograph an apparition event.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Personnel are to allow SCP-5491 to manifest for three hours each night. The Foundation has supplied a modest library of taped and vinyl music, appropriate to the tastes of SCP-5491-1.\nThe building containing SCP-5491 has been purchased by the Foundation and granted Listed status, exempting it from being considered for demolition by the local authority. Soundproofing materials have been installed to curb external interest in SCP-5491 occurrences.\n\nDescription: SCP-5491 is a spectral phenomenon relating to the disused \u2018Aspekt' nightclub and discotheque near Burry Port, Wales.\nThe venue's original lighting and sound systems remain in place, and SCP-5491 occurs when a specific sequence of strobe presets is activated. SCP-5491 consists, at present, of thirteen humanoid apparitions (designated collectively as SCP-5491-1). A new entity has appeared, on average, every three years since the anomaly came to the Foundation's attention.\nInstances of SCP-5491-1 manifest as teenagers or adolescents, dressed in clothing typical of the late 1970s and early 1980s. SCP-5491-1 demonstrate a significant level of spatial awareness, often making way for corporeal individuals to pass, but have otherwise made no attempts to interact with researchers. It is, however, possible for people and objects to phase through SCP-5491-1 when the entities are caught off-guard.\nSCP-5491 is constrained to the venue's dance floor, where entities will dance for an as-yet indeterminate period of time if club or disco music from the era is played over the sound system. When the music is turned off, or a song from a different era or genre is played, SCP-5491-1 become agitated and will occasionally heckle in the direction of the disc jockey booth. Terminating the strobe sequence will cause the apparition to cease.\n\n+ Interview Log 07/01/18\n\n- Interview Log 07/01/18\n\nInterviewed: Barry Williams\nInterviewer: Dr Leonard Bertram\nForeword: Posing as a historian, Dr Bertram arranged an interview with lifelong local resident Barry Williams. Mr Williams had been identified as a former patron using photographs taken of the venue in the early 1980s, but did not resemble any instances of SCP-5491-1.\n<Begin Log>\nDr Bertram: Hi, Mr Williams. I'm Leo, we spoke on the phone?\nBarry Williams: Of course, come in. I've got the kettle on, if you'd-\nDr Bertram: Oh, no thanks. I shan't take too long.\nBarry Williams: Take as long as you need.\nDr Bertram: Okay, well\u2026 about this photograph.\nDr Bertram pulls out a photocopied Polaroid showing the club's interior in its heyday, with several individuals circled who bear close similarity to instances of SCP-5491-1.\nBarry Williams: Yeah, that's Aspekt alright. Such a shame it's fallen into\u2026 disrepair.\nDr Bertram: And that's you in the corner?\nBarry Williams: God, those bell-bottoms. Yep, that's me. They were barely in fashion even then.\nDr Bertram: Now, about these people I've put circles around\u2026\nBarry Williams: Let me see\u2026 well, I couldn't tell you who those two fellows on the left are, I'm afraid. But that lady, over here \u2013 I'd recognise Linda Hartford a mile away. Poor old Linda\u2026\nDr Bertram: Where's Linda now, if you don't mind me asking?\nBarry Williams: Oh, she was a lovely girl. Half the town must've fancied her back in the day. In year ten I went out with her for, what, about two weeks I reckon. She moved away at the start of the eighties, like most of them did, and a couple of years ago I heard she passed away.\nDr Bertram: I'm sorry, Mr Williams.\nBarry Williams: I'm fine. It was a\u2026 drunk driving incident, I think. As in, she was the driver. A lot of the old crowd ended up on the bottle, but poor Linda had trouble for years.\nDr Bertram: You mentioned that a lot of these people moved away?\nBarry Williams: Yeah, when Thatcher and her lot started closing the mines. We knew the town was on the chopping block, and by the time it did come around, a lot of the younger folks had moved out to the cities. Swansea, Cardiff\u2026 some of the ones who could afford it went to university. Most of them never came back.\nDr Bertram: And you stayed?\nBarry Williams: We just didn't have the money. My dad, he was an excavator mechanic, until the mine closed down. And everything he taught me about engines, well, I've been at the town garage for getting on four decades now.\nDr Bertram: What about this gentleman, the one next to Linda?\nBarry Williams: Oh, Thomas. Thomas Langford. He was a proper gent, old Tommy. You know, he was one of the first people in Wales to die of AIDS? That's a grim little tidbit for your history book.\nDr Bertram: That's\u2026 terrible. You don't suppose there's anyone else who's, how should I put this, still around that I might be able to talk to?\nBarry Williams: Oh, I've not been in contact with most of the old lot in years. They're all over the place, now \u2013 London, all that, became proper city folk. They won't be interested in coming back here, I don't think.\nDr Bertram: That's a shame. I'd love to be able to speak to some of them.\nBarry Williams takes a sip of his tea.\nBarry Williams: Do you know how much damage Thatcher did to this town? It's anger, that's what keeps me going. I'll stay here as long as it means this place doesn't completely become a ghost town\u2014\nDr Bertram: I've, uh, gotta make a move now. Thank you ever so much for your time, Mr Williams \u2013 this has been a great help to my research.\n<End Log>\n\n+ Addendum\n\n- Addendum\n\nBarry Williams passed away at his home on 27/08/19. The cause of death was verified as a diagnosed heart condition. The following evening, personnel in charge of SCP-5491's routine observation recorded the manifestation of a fourteenth spectral entity, which bore resemblance to Barry Williams in photographs circa 1981.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5490 | SCP-5491 | SCP-5492 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Ecronak\n\nEnjoyed the skip? Give some of my other works a look here!\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE HAS BEEN MODIFIED\n\nThe contents of this page have been modified by an unauthorized user. Cognitohazards may be present in the following file. RAISA has been contacted. Peruse at your own risk.\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nGods above, that message was a whole lot of ado for a whole lot of nothing.\n.\n.\nI didn't do anything bad. Just included a little story that I wanna tell.\n.\n.\nI sure do hope you enjoy it. I most certainly didn't.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nItem#: 5493\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe population of Washington D.C. evacuating shortly after SCP-5493.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the global nature of SCP-5493, all instances of SCP-5493-A are to be monitored at all times by Foundation operatives and contained within their respective legislative facilities. The surrounding area extending to ten kilometers from the facilities is to be evacuated. Any and all references to the incidents that have so far been caused by SCP-5493 must be expunged and their witnesses amnesticized.\nClose cooperation must be conducted with Global Occult Coalition operatives in order to prevent the veil of normalcy from breaking. Contact must also be maintained with the leaders of the affected nations. As such, personnel are expected to exercise caution when containing SCP-5493-A instances, due to concerns by world governments about the subjects' wellbeing. Lethal action is not authorized under any circumstances.\nDescription: SCP-5493 is a spontaneous global phenomenon that affects the members of 54 of the world's legislative assemblies. On 12/16/2019 at 1:23 PM, affected government officials (henceforth referred to as SCP-5493-A) have been reported to begin exhibiting erratic and extremely violent behavior, disrupting all legislative operations. No discernible cause has yet been found for the phenomenon.\n\n12/16/2019\nThe day of release. Fuck that movie.\n\nThe mood in the O5 council chamber was tense. Extremely so.\nOne had called the emergency meeting as soon as dire news came through from both their operatives and the GOC, going hand-in-hand with everything else that's happened in the last three hours.\nEverything was moving far too fast for their liking. Information lockdown efforts were holding, but they didn't know for how long. The same thing went for the leaders of all the affected countries. If just one decided to squeal\u2026\nAanya decided not to think about that. Her Public Outreach already had their hands full. She checked her watch. It displayed the time as 1:10 AM- nearly twelve hours since the last incident of 5493.\nShe looked around the council chamber. It was empty, emptier than usual- the recent incident had required the attention of many of their fellow overseers. Of the thirteen in the council, only five were present.\nOne was slowly preparing his papers, readying to give the briefing of the current situation to the other overseers. His hands shook with every movement, something that Aanya hadn't seen in years. She remembered the times when he stood strong, then pursed her lips- those times were long past.\nTwo, Mann, was crossing his arms. She could tell that he was tense. His usual allies on the Council, Gears and Clef, were absent. That fact alone contributed to much of his nervousness. He was already furiously tapping his feet on the floor, while his right hand worried the large mustache on his upper lip. Aanya could only smile. The Mad Doctor, she thought. How we watched your career with great interest.\nThree and Four \u2013 Gears and Clef - were both physically absent and attending remotely, having been assigned to the situations in Russia and Korea, respectively. The same went for Six, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve, though they had their cameras off. She hoped they were still listening.\nMaria Jones, O5-5, was biting her lip- Aanya could already see a bit of blood being drawn. Though she was often a stern and stony woman, the director of RAISA seemed to be letting her fear come to the fore, now. Even when Maria wasn't directly involved with the efforts to contain 5493, Aanya knew through the whispers in the grapevines that she had a relative in the Senate- though who, she didn't know.\nLast of all that were present in the council room was Seven, Jack Bright, and he was cranky. Personnel was just as busy as Public Outreach, and the recent 5493 incident had forced many of their operatives on the ground to relocate to other Sites and branches- relocations which Bright had to supervise himself. He wasn't particularly happy about working with the GOC, either.\nOne cleared his throat.\n\u201cAlright,\u201d He said, tenuously, yet still retaining his signature twang of authority. The weakness in his voice was obvious, though Aanya could tell that his mind was whirring with solutions. He turned on the slideshow on the screen to his left. \u201cLet's get to business.\u201d\nImmediately, all those present stood up in their seats. One had always insisted that they made themselves presentable before every meeting, in days long past. The mannerism still stuck, even now.\nOne began. He had the poise of an old and experienced professor, lecturing his students with strictness and authority. \u201cI know all of you are familiar with today's events, but let's round this down.\u201d His voice quivered. \u201cOn the sixteenth of December, 2019, at exactly 1:23 PM Seoul time, we received reports of a session of the National Assembly in South Korea being interrupted by a sudden outbreak of violence. Politicians were getting beaten by other politicians, shouting matches were the norm, and circular debates were being made.\u201d\nHe coughed. \u201cUnder normal circumstances, we would have dismissed this as a particularly active Assembly session, but then we received reports of the same thing happening all over the world.\u201d\nHe switched to the next slide. \u201cOne hour later, at 1:23 PM, the legislative branch of China exhibited the same behavior for no apparent reason. At that, we began to suspect that something was going on. The fact that this was an anomalous occurrence was confirmed when the legislative branch of the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia all followed suit at the same time. Same violence, same goddamn nonsense. Prior to 1:23, all of the members would enter, regardless of their predetermined schedule. Once 1:23 strikes, violence erupts. Any attempts at stopping them end in failure, especially with their abilities and resistance to tranquilizers.\u201d\n\u201cAny questions so far?\u201d One said, looking from Overseer to Overseer with a piercing glare.\nAanya knew it was a strategy he used to keep their attention. No one dared ask One a question during a briefing. The first time anyone did was Mann, nearly ten years ago. She still smiled at the memory.\n\u201cSeven?\u201d One said, looking at Bright.\nBright shrugged irritatedly. \u201cNah.\u201d\n\u201cA surprise to be sure. A welcome one, in fact. Two?\u201d\nMann looked up from his boot, then shook his head.\nOne nodded to himself. Though he was but a shadow of what he was, he still maintained a formidable presence.\n\u201cGood.\u201d He turned to face the screen again. \u201cLet's continue.\u201d\nHe switched to a slide showing the US Senate and Congress in utter pandemonium. \u201cAll in all, 54 countries in total had lost all control over their legislative branches, causing a great headache for us at the Foundation. We don't know what started it, but we've made some measures to address it.\u201d He switched to the next slide, showing the GOC logo.\n\u201cAll of you know the deal we made with the GOC several hours ago, and the emergency vote that came with it. Twelve ayes, one nay.\u201d\nBright averted his gaze immediately.\nOne continued. \u201cWe all know that even with our far-reaching influence and so-called unlimited power, we aren't able to be everywhere at once. So, when we approved the proposal, we began to cooperate with the Global Occult Coalition on matters of containing and neutralizing the threat. With this, they requested twenty tons of our amnestic stock for information containment and two hundred of our personnel for assistance in containing the threat. Overall, not a large price.\u201d\nBright sighed nearly inaudibly to her left.\nHe flashed to a picture of the South Korean National Assembly building being entered by operatives from the Global Occult Coalition and the Foundation. \u201cThis was our first operation: The National Assembly Building, in Seoul. Fifty operatives from our East Asian branch, sixty from the GOC.\u201d\nHe flashed to another picture depicting the operation within. Assembly members could be seen attacking multiple operatives. \u201cEach operative was armed with tranquilizer guns, in order to neutralize the instances of 5493-A in a nonlethal manner. We hoped that this would put an end to the hysteria. Instead, it worsened it.\u201d\n\u201cAssembly members attacked operatives, manifesting superhuman abilities the moment they were stopped from performing their\u2026 activities.\u201d He showed a blurred picture taken from an operatives' helmetcam, depicting another operative being beaten to death by a South Korean assemblyman. \u201cDue to the absence of an approved kill order from the South Korean government as well as Command for both forces, our operatives had to retreat with multiple casualties. Seventeen injured, three dead. Right after we left, the 5493-As resumed their activities.\u201d\nBright grunted with irritation. \"Like fighting up against higher ground.\" He muttered.\nAanya could only sigh in response. She herself agreed, though silently.\nOne's gaze turned to Bright in the space of half a moment. \u201cDo you have anything to contribute, Bright?\u201d He said, the strength of his personality showing through his wheezing voice.\nBright stared at him. He bit his lip, trying to contain his frustration.\nBright winced, then spoke. \u201cCouldn't we have just told our operatives to\u2026 fucking knock them out? Beat them with batons? Riot guards do it, why can't we?\u201d\n\u201cExcellent question,\u201d One said, placing his hand on the table. \u201cBut ultimately a foolish one. Though we are a secret organization, we are still beholden to what we serve\u2026\u201d He paused to breathe. \u201cHumanity.\u201d\nOne stared Bright down. The old rivalry between teacher and student was heavily apparent in the room. One was a pragmatist, a man willing to compromise between staying true to his values and saving the things that gave birth to those values. Bright was loyal to the Foundation and its purpose, embodying its original vision until the bitter end.\nBright didn't respond, instead continuing to stare back at One.\n\u201cRight now, the governments of the humanity we serve do not wish to see their officials harmed.\u201d One spoke, finally. \u201cI do not agree with it, but it is the price we pay. These are still influential senators, congressmen, and assemblymen. Politicking is seen everywhere, and we must be wary of it, no matter our policy of staying out of international affairs. The GOC, being a part of the UN, is even more sensitive to it than us. I do hope that does not surprise you.\u201d\nA thick silence permeated through the room.\nAanya looked at Bright's face- changing from frustration to anger to rage- then back down to submission. Even now, One's personality dominated everything.\n\u201cI understand, Sir.\u201d Bright said, leaning back in defeat. He sighed, and muttered something under his breath.\n\u201cGood.\u201d One said, nodding. \u201cLet's resume.\u201d\nHe turned back to the screen. \u201cDue to the failure at the National Assembly in Seoul, we were forced to go back to the drawing board. Thirteen and her Public Outreach-\u201c he said, gesturing to Aanya, \u201cwere instrumental in our coordination with the Global Occult Coalition. Instead of containing them one-by-one, we opted to go for the information blackout, silencing witnesses and making sure not one of them squealed.\u201d\n\nGOC and Foundation operatives under the guise of local law enforcement standing outside of the Capitol Building.\n\nHe switched to a slide that showed both GOC and Foundation operatives standing outside of the Capitol building. \u201cCurrent story right now is that of a worldwide coordinated terrorist attack. The 54 governments who are affected by this have agreed to tell that story. Until such a time occurs that this blows over, we must stay vigilant. The Insurgency has been silent on this, and so has the Hand. It is only a matter of time before they make their move.\u201d He stood up straight. Pain crossed his face. \u201cEnd of briefing. You may now speak.\u201d\nThe silence that followed was deafening. Everyone knew the gravity of being the one to speak first.\nAanya looked around. Everyone else had their arms crossed, pursing their lips. After One's grave briefing, every single overseer was deep in thought.\nThen, her phone vibrated. She got a text.\nAanya immediately went to get it, combing through her messages.\nIt was from one of her contacts in Seoul.\nShe tapped the screen to read it. The message (written in Korean) was short.\n\nAssemblymen are exiting, they're attacking us. We need assistance as soon as possible.\n\nHer heart sank. She immediately looked up. \"One, what of the attack on the-\"\n\u201cExcuse me, One,\u201d Clef interrupted, his voice booming across the speakers of the room. \u201cBut the Blue House in Seoul has just sent us an urgent dispatch. Their National Assembly members are coming out of the building, but\u2026\u201d\nOne turned around quickly. \u201cWhat?\u201d The way he said the word was edged with surprise- and dread.\nClef responded. \"Live feed from the ground is coming on now.\"\n\u201cDo it.\u201d One said, his voice going low.\nAt that, Clef changed the screen to display a live feed from the Federal Assembly building.\n\nGOC and Foundation operatives armed with riot gear.\n\nThe video was blurry, but showed just enough to cause fear in every single one of the onlooking overseers. In it, what seemed to be some twenty churning balls of flesh and bone rolled across the surface of the concrete outside the building. Both GOC and Foundation operatives were already drawing up to counter them, raising riot shields in the air as they prepared to fight.\nAs the balls got closer, Aanya realized that they weren't just any normal skips- they were the assemblymen, still dressed in priceless suits, merged together as one large fleshy ball. She could hear them screeching and groaning in pain as they rolled across the concrete floor, their all-too human screams painful to hear. She could hear their bones cracking agonizingly as the ball moved, picking up speed as arms seemed to sprout from it to push it forward, breaking upon impact as they met the ground.\n\"JORJJJJJJJJ!\" They shouted in unison. \"JORRRRRRJJJJJJJJ!\"\n\u201cJesus Christ.\u201d Aanya could hear Maria say, to her left. \u201cWhat the hell are those?\u201d\n\u201cWe don't know.\u201d Clef answered. \u201cAll we do know is that these are the assemblymen. All of them.\"\nOn the video feed, the balls picked up even more speed with each second, covering several meters in the span of a second. She could hear the operatives drawing their breaths as they closed the distance.\n\u201cAre we authorized to shoot them?!\u201d She could hear an operative say in Korean.\n\u201cNo!\u201d Their superior shouted back. \u201cWe aren't cleared to-\u201c\nSuddenly, the balls seemed to glow bright red with what seemed to be heat, the sheer temperature on their surface causing them to hum. They were extremely close now, and it would only take a few seconds until-\n\u201cHOLD FAST!\u201d The commander said in the back. \u201cHOLD DAMN FAST!\u201d\nThen, in that moment, the balls crashed into the operatives, burning through them like a hot knife through butter. Many died in an instant, being seared to a crisp under the balls' charge, and even more fell to the ground with vaporized legs and torsos, crying out in agony. Even from her position, thousands of miles away, Aanya had no doubt that the smell would have been of burnt flesh.\nThe feed cut out, and the entire chamber was left in silence.\nOne gulped. Aanya had no doubt that he was afraid now- everyone was. The specter of a Broken Masquerade hung in the balance.\n\u201cThirteen.\u201d He said, looking at Aanya. His eyes were bloodshot, the deep wrinkles in his face getting even deeper by the second. \u201cYou may be excused- you must coordinate with the GOC. I have no doubt that the same will happen everywhere else. Find a way to stop this.\u201d\nAanya nearly sprung from her seat at the command. She nodded. \u201cAffirmative, O5-1.\u201d\nAs she left, all she could hear was the Council collapsing into pandemonium- though unlike the assemblies that they were trying to contain, the noise and the arguments were all too normal.\n\n12/17/2019\nThe day after.\n\nItem#: 5493\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nuncontained\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe Korean National Assembly Building\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the global nature of SCP-5493, all instances of SCP-5493-B are to be monitored at all times, being intercepted when possible (see Addendum 5493.01). As the risk of the Veil collapsing at this time is extremely high, caution is to be exercised with regards to the interception of SCP-5493-B instances. Should a group of SCP-5493-B instances be predicted to cross one or multiple population centers, all personnel within these population centers must be evacuated as soon as possible. To reduce the risk of breaking the Veil, under no circumstances are operatives assigned to SCP-5493-B allowed to capture or damage any of the instances.\nDescription: SCP-5493 is a spontaneous global phenomenon that affects the members of 54 of the world's upper legislative assemblies. On 12/17/2019, at 1:23 AM, affected government officials (henceforth referred to as SCP-5493-A) began to amalgamate as instances of SCP-5493-B.\nSCP-5493-B is the designation for the combinatory amalgamations of multiple SCP-5493-A into roughly spherical blobs. The number of instances of SCP-5493-A in one instance of SCP-5493-B has been recorded to range from five to fifteen. SCP-5493-B instances achieve locomotion through the instances of SCP-5493-A within them using their limbs to push themselves across any given surface, allowing them to roll forward at speeds of up to 30 kilometers per hour. When faced with an aquatic obstruction, SCP-5493-B instances have been recorded to swim with a speed of up to 10 kilometers per hour.\nAll SCP-5493-B instances have been known to be nominally indestructible, capable of regenerating when damaged and reforming when split. When faced with an obstruction or threat, SCP-5493-B instances are capable of spontaneously elevating their temperature to a maximum of 4000 degrees Celsius through unknown means. This allows them the ability of being able to melt through all known materials, including steel, titanium, and tungsten. Despite their composition, such high temperatures do not produce any discernible effect on the SCP-5493-B instances.\nThough SCP-5493-B instances initially seemed to possess no form of sentient intelligence, recent operations have proven that to be false. Along with being able to move as a single entity, SCP-5493-B instances have also shown to have some semblance of a gestalt consciousness1 between all other instances, allowing them to coordinate movements and efforts to \u201cfree\u201d other entities (See Addendum 5493.01).\nAs of 12/17/2019, 5477 instances of SCP-5493-B have been known to exist.\n\nSeogang Bridge immediately prior to the Seoul Operation\n\nAddendum 5493.01: Following the initial manifestations of SCP-5493-B and their breach of containment in Seoul, South Korea, a combination of Foundation and Global Occult Coalition forces amounting to two hundred operatives embarked on an operation to secure all instances before they exited the city limits of Seoul, chasing all instances across the recently locked-down Seogang Bridge. They were supplemented with three Apache attack helicopters and twenty Humvees. Due to the instances of SCP-5493-A within each SCP-5493-B instance being valuable to the Korean government, all operatives were told to only use lethal action when necessary, with the primary goal of the operation being containment.\nThe operation began with the deployment of Class A tranquilizers2 by the operatives within the pursuing attack helicopters and Humvees. This proved to be ineffective. Following that, titanium mesh nets were deployed in order to apprehend each SCP-5493-B instance, which also proved to be ineffective when several SCP-5493-B instances moved in a coordinated manner to free each of the entrapped instances, melting through the titanium mesh. With the instances about to reach the end of the Seogang bridge, lethal action was authorized. Missiles and conventional weaponry were used on the instances to no avail, with damaged SCP-5493-B instances regenerating and reforming when possible.\nDue to the risk of the Veil being broken, the Seoul operation was aborted, with all SCP-5493-B instances continuing to move across Seoul. In preparation for the containment of information regarding SCP-5493, much of the Seoul area in the path of the SCP-5493-B instances was evacuated, with all other population centers in the aforementioned path being evacuated as well. These included cities such as Namyangju, Gapyeong, Chuncheon, Inje, and Sokcho. Following their arrival at Sokcho, the instances began to move into the Sea of Japan in a northeastern direction.\nWith the same events transpiring in other affected countries, operational priority was changed to information and damage control rather than containment. Currently, all SCP-5493-B instances are estimated to be moving towards the West Coast of the United States.\n\nThe calls began shortly after Seoul.\n\u201cSouth Korea is requesting assistance with information control.\u201d One called.\n\u201cChina's President is on the line!\u201d The other said.\n\u201cMa'am, the Philippine President is calling too.\u201d That happened an hour later.\n\u201cIndia is asking about the Bs running through New Delhi.\u201d This was major, and it hit close to home.\n\u201cMa'am Delegate, several nations are speaking about cooperating with other Groups of Interest instead.\u201d That was vital.\nOn and on the calls went, going from one head of state to another as requests for assistance, or information, or prioritization came in.\nAanya loved Public Outreach, but God was it tiring. Especially with 54 countries suddenly waking up to their legislative officials turning into little more than indestructible balls of meat.\nThree nations had already sided with the Chaos Insurgency. Another five had begun talks with the Serpent's Hand. A few major ones were even talking about defunding the GOC and the Foundation altogether- something that Aanya was trying hard to prevent.\nThen the blame games happened. In Asia. In Europe. The Americas. Africa. Oceania. On every continent was another conflict to solve, another disagreement, another diplomatic incident.\nAll she could do from her position was smile and wave, deftly navigating the rigors of international diplomacy in order to prevent worldwide escalation.\nAt least the GOC was cooperating\u2014 her counterpart there, Delegate Bulsara, was known to be a very considerate diplomat. He was doing everything he could on his end to stop any conflicts from happening.\nThank the gods for small blessings, Aanya thought to herself.\nStill, the last two days had left her a hefty amount of work\u2014 she had to take back-to-back calls all day, making sure to smooth out this misunderstanding and that, soothe wounded egos, force heads of state to come to an understanding.\nShe hadn't slept in the last forty-eight hours. Nothing had stressed her out this much since\u2026 ever. Even the early 2000s were less stressful than this.\nThere's always a bigger fish, she thought. Her predecessor said that, having had to navigate through the bloodbath that was the Cold War. She was inclined to agree with him now.\nSighing with exhaustion, she put the telephone down. The American president was acquiring as to the anomalies on his country's soil. Bs were rampaging through DC at that very moment, and were ripe to go across the country to arrive at\u2026 whatever they wished to arrive at.\nCalifornia, she thought, remembering what One said during another one of their emergency meetings. They're heading towards somewhere in California.\nThen, she heard a call come through- not on the telephone, but her personal smartphone.\nShe immediately scrambled to take it. There was only one person in the world that it could be.\nShe dragged the call sign to the center, and his majestic voice greeted her.\n\u201cHello, there.\u201d She said lovingly in Hindi. She hoped her exhaustion didn't show through her voice.\n\u201cAanya Laghari. Nice to hear your beautiful voice again.\u201d Rajesh said, on the opposite side of the world. \u201cIs your delegate work done yet? Padma is coming home from university. She wants to be able to see her grandmother for once.\u201d\n\u201cPadma is in university already? My goodness, she's grown!\u201d Aanya said, a wide smile on her face. \u201cBut work calls, sadly. The United Nations always needs peace kept.\u201d\n\u201cHow's New York?\u201d He said. \u201cThey're treating you well at the UN?\u201d\n\u201cOf course.\u201d She smiled. He never ceased to ask her that question.\n\u201cI hope so, otherwise they'd have to face the mighty wrath of Professor Rajesh Laghari!\u201d His voice grew deeper with that last part, as if he was a superhero. She still adored it, forty years into their marriage.\nShe chuckled. Only her husband could make her laugh like that. \"You should have joined me in studying Political Science when we were in college.\"\n\"Oh,\" Rajesh said, chuckling back. \"I'm not brave enough for politics.\"\n\u201cThat's a new line.\u201d She responded. \u201cA fine addition to-\u201c\nHer secretary called from her office. \u201cMa'am, there is something you need to see.\u201d\nShe froze. Of all the damn times-\n\u201cIt's work, isn't it?\u201d Rajesh said. The note of disappointment in his voice caused Aanya's heart to sink. \u201cGo on. The world needs you. Especially now that tensions are rising.\"\n\u201cRajesh\u2026\u201d Aanya began. \u201cAfter this, I'll call you back, alright?\u201d\n\u201cOf course.\u201d\n\u201cI love you.\u201d She said.\n\u201cI love you too.\u201d He answered. \u201cGood night, my dear wife.\u201d\nThe phone let out the sound that she hated the most- the sound of goodbye when things still needed to be said. It was outrageous. It was unfair. How the hell could she be one of the most powerful people in the Foundation and not even have the time to-\nShe gritted her teeth\u2026 and sighed.\nShe put the phone down.\nAanya looked to her secretary. \u201cAlright,\u201d She said. \u201cWhat is it, Leonor?\u201d\nThis is where the fun begins, she sarcastically thought to herself.\nLeonor stayed silent for a few moments.\nAanya's chest started to go heavy. She didn't know why.\n\"What is it?\" She said impatiently, trying to take out the fear from her voice.\nHer hands began to shake. What the hell was taking her so long?\nHer secretary's response came seconds later.\n\u201cWe're getting news of war in Asia and Europe, ma'am.\u201d Leonor answered. Her voice was shaking. \"Casualty numbers are just coming in. Three hundred military\u2026\"\nLeonor took a breath. Aanya heard her suppress a sob.\n\"O-one thousand civilian. The news just came in when you were on the phone with the American president.\"\nAanya's heart immediately sank.\nShe needed to call Bulsara at the GOC immediately.\nHer fingers closed around the phone on her desk. I'm sorry, Rajesh. she thought.\n\n5/4/2020\n5 months after release.\n\nThe council chamber.\n\nThe council chamber was tense- somehow, even tenser than it was half a year ago.\nTo Aanya, those six months seemed like an eternity.\nNine hundred and fifty thousand dead in the past half-year. Millions displaced. Several nations on the brink of collapse, many more fighting wars that only a few wanted.\nShe sighed. To think that all of this was caused by a single anomaly.\nShe bit her lip. No use dwelling on it now.\nOne, once again, was piling up papers at the head of the table, ready to give a briefing on everything that's transpired in the last six months.\nIt was just him, Aanya, Bright, and Clef in the room- four overseers in a council of thirteen.\nThe others were doing meetings elsewhere, trying to mitigate the political fallout of the recent conflicts. Bold, Ten, was off in the Middle East. Gears was coordinating with what was left of the GOC, helping with the last efforts of the organization at deescalation. Maria was indisposed, helping Disinformation with the most recent amnesticization efforts. Mann was in Korea. Kiryu, O5-12, was in Brazil.\nAanya rubbed her eyes. The bags under them grew deeper with every day, a consequence of not sleeping any more than three hours for five months. She was aware that she seemed to age 5 years in that time- it was just the hazard of being on the job.\nShe leaned back. Her bones felt wearier than ever. Her back seemed to crack with the pressure.\nBright, at least in his current body, seemed to be feeling it too- Personnel, like Public Outreach, did not have it good. The eternally pissed off look on his face was replaced with one of exhaustion, which Aanya took as a bad sign. Bright was never not pissed.\nClef was closing his eyes. Aanya doubted that he was actually sleeping, but Clef had just flown in from dealing with the aftermath of a particularly bad B \u201cattack\u201d in LA- the last blobs rolling in from places like Southeast Asia. He needed the rest.\nOf all of them, though, the one who aged the most was One- already a venerable figure at seventy-nine, he seemed to have lost ten years just from the stress of pulling the Foundation together. The lines on his face were far deeper than when Aanya last saw him in person four months ago, and his hair seemed to be completely white. His arms were frail and bony as he ordered the papers.\nOne coughed. \u201cAlright, let's get this over with.\u201d The presence in his voice was much diminished.\nEach of the overseers wearily sat up.\nOne picked up the remote at his side, turning on the screen to display a static Foundation logo.\n\u201cI know all of you have not enjoyed these past five months,\u201d One said, a ghost of a smile on his face. \u201cBut from here on out, we will go past everything that's happened in that\u2026 damned period.\u201d He looked at all of them. \u201cLet's start.\u201d\nThe slide on the screen switched to a familiar picture- that of the blobs making their first move at Seoul.\n\"This all started with the blobs- 5493-Bs, rolling across national borders, wreaking havoc, and forcing governments to find someone to blame for the 'terror attacks.'\"\nHe pursed his lips. \"And blame someone they did.\"\nHe looked straight at Aanya. \u201cDespite our efforts to control the fallout, the governments who didn't know of our involvement wanted someone to pay. For many\u2026\" He took a breath. \"\u2026it was their neighbors. Within two months, global tensions were at an all-time high. Wars were starting. Old conflicts were reignited.\u201d\nHe gave a sad chuckle. It came out strangled and weak. \"We couldn't stop any of it.\"\nBright let out a resigned sigh. Clef could only look on.\nOne shook his head in defeat. \u201cGod, to think that we thought we could contain this.\u201d His voice had lowered to nothing but a rasp. He coughed again. \u201cAfter that, the GOC began the process that would eventually lead to their decline. They'd heavily antagonized the use of the destruction caused by the terrorists as causes for war. They were the first to take the brunt of the blame.\u201d\nHe could only smile tiredly. \u201cWe suffered too, losing thirty percent of our income within two months of the start of the event. It was a shitshow from start to finish, something that pushed our Foundation to its limits.\u201d\nThen, he shrugged.\n\u201cBut\u2026 we won. The Veil held up, the anomalous remained closed to the public, and the last of the Bs have made their way to their destination this morning, just in time for May the 4th.\u201d His pale green eyes looked at them all. He smiled. It wasn't happy. \u201cAnd it was then that I realized the reason as to why this all happened.\u201d\nAanya crossed her arms. They weren't surprised at the very least- the realization had set in the moment they saw the video that morning.\nOne switched to a slide displaying the destination that all of the SCP-5493-Bs had been looking for- a large estate just outside of Nicasio, California, once the workplace to an esteemed filmmaker, now the home to a parody of everything they'd struggled for the last five months. Thousands of blobs of all shapes and sizes were gathered all around the vicinity of the estate's main house, waiting for the last of their brethren to join them.\n\nSkywalker Ranch.\n\n\u201cIt was here, at Skywalker Ranch, that we realized just what exactly all of this suffering meant. This picture was taken yesterday morning.\u201d\nHe switched to the next slide, showing a video of the last of the blobs coming to a stop outside of the main house. They were rolling abominations of flesh, using their arms and legs to push themselves forward- Aanya herself never got used to the sight of them. Over the months, they'd lost their clothing and their individual forms, instead turning into nothing more than one single bloated ball. That fact alone added to the morbid absurdity of the entire thing.\nOne continued. \u201cThis video was taken just a few hours earlier. As you can see, it shows the last of the Bs coming to a stop outside of their destination. If you look closely\u2026\u201d\nBefore Aanya's eyes, the blobs began to change color and composition, turning from blobs of flesh into pieces of a cheek, of hair, of fat. Fifty turned into eyeballs. A hundred became parts of a tongue. When all of that was done, they began to build on top of each other, forming a neck as a base. The others climbed on top of them with limbs made out of hair, fat, bone, bare muscle, or skin, building more and more of the figure that they wished to create. All the while, Aanya could hear them screeching in agony, just like they first did all those months ago. She still wondered if those were the persons who were once part of them.\nSoon, a chin was formed, then the beginnings of a lower lip, then the rest of its upper lip. By then, the jaw was formed, followed by the cheeks, the nose, and the ears. Wrinkles began to form on the figure's skin, growing deeper and deeper as more blobs began to fill the gaps. The eyeballs were soon formed right after, which was followed by the rest of the forehead.\nBy the time twenty minutes had passed, the remainder of the figure's hair was being finished, the hands of the blobs that made it up holding on tenuously to the blobs below them. It was an absurd thing, one that made Aanya laugh with outrage the first time she watched it.\nBut now, all she felt was emptiness.\nTwenty-one minutes after the process began, the masterpiece that the blobs created was revealed to everyone watching- a perfect bust of Ian MacDiarmid during his role as Chancellor Palpatine, smiling with evil intent. As his face moved, the blobs that made it up moved in perfect concert, causing the figure's face to look as if it was made out of flowers in a windy meadow.\nAanya wanted to laugh.\nBut she couldn't.\n\u201cI AM THE SENATE.\u201d The figure of Palpatine said, moving his mouth as all the blobs that he was made of spoke at once. \u201cI AM THE SENATE FROM 54 OF THE WORLD'S COUNTRIES, AND I SAY THE SEQUEL TRILOGY IS BULLSHIT.\u201d\nAanya looked around, watching the reactions of her fellow O5s as they sat in their seats in silence. They had all seen the footage before.\nThe Palpatine figure continued booming. \u201cTHE RISE OF SKYWALKER IS HOT TRASH. LET US RETURN TO THE GLORY DAYS OF THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE, THE PREQUELS!\u201d\nHe smiled malevolently at that, as if what he said didn't come at the cost of thousands of lives.\n\u201cTODAY, GEORGE LUCAS, YOU WILL KNOW THE PAIN I FELT WHEN I WATCHED THAT GODDAMN MOVIE! EVEN ELDRITCH GODS CAN STILL BE DISAPPOINTED, YOU KNOW. I LOVE DEMOCRACY! I LOVE THE REPUBLIC! WHAT YOU ALLOWED TO BE DONE TO IT IS CRIMINAL.\u201d\nSuddenly, the sound of loud applause could be heard from the figure, which churned like an audience at a stadium as the blobs clapped their hands for the abomination that they created. As they did, the Palpatine figure smiled widely, his eyebrows drawn up in a parody of a human expression.\nThen, he spoke his final words.\n\u201cNICE ONE, GEORGE LUCAS, YOU FUCKING SELL-OUT. MAY THE FOURTH NOT BE WITH YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH.\u201d\nAt that, the blobs immediately collapsed to the ground, screeching as they did.\nA silence overcame the council chamber.\nIn that single moment, Aanya Laghari, O5-13, could only laugh. One followed. Then Bright. Then Clef.\nIt was an absurd thing, a hallmark of the cruelty of the universe, a mockery of everything they had worked for for the past five months.\nTheir laughter echoed across the room, highlighting every single one of their follies, every single one of their wasted labors, every single life taken in pursuit of a cruel joke.\nThat day, all the O5 council could do was laugh.\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nSo yeah, that's about it.\n.\n.\nI was mad, alright? I apologize. I couldn't exactly not do anything.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nBut still, fuck Lucas.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Also known as a hive mind\n2. The strongest tranquilizers employed by the Foundation, usually used to neutralize large anomalies.\n\nMore from Ecronak\n\u00ab SCP-5492 | SCP-5493 | SCP-5494 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nFILE INFO\n\nYou are viewing External Document 5495, point of origin EXTORG-002, 'The Foundation'. File has been shared with PTOLEMY Command in order to facilitate mutual cooperation following cleanup of LTE-5495.\nStatements of suspect have been highlighted in blue \u2014 hover over them to view attached results from the PSYCHE investigation.\n\nPTOLEMY COMMAND\nUNGOC\n\n2/5495 LEVEL 2/5495\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5495\n\nNeutralized\n\nStructural diagram of SCP-5495.\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\nSCP-5495 has been airlifted to Site-341 and is undergoing reverse-engineering and investigation into its anomalous effects. Access is restricted to L4/54952.\n\nDescription\nSCP-5495 is a component of a nonfunctional paraweapon, constructed by the Organization for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA). The particular nature and mechanics of SCP-5495 are under study, but is understood to have ontokinetic effects on nearby individuals, items, and locations. Alone, SCP-5495's effects are variable, violent, and uncontrollable; it is theorized that the rest of the weapon provides a focusing aspect, allowing the weapon to be directed and effectively utilized.\nPhysically, SCP-5495 is a steel cylinder 0.5m long and 0.25m wide, capped at both ends with discs of beryllium-bronze, weighing 20kg. Its internal composition is The cause for this expungement is filed under \"sensitive information\".[REDACTED].\nSee PSYCHE Investigation Item Charlie.ORIA denies any knowledge of SCP-5495 or the rest of the components. Further investigation is discouraged to preserve their already-strained diplomatic relationship with 'Western' anomalous organizations.\nSCP-5495 was discovered in 1990 following reports of anomalous ontokinetic activity in Andar, a small village in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Activity reported was a variety of ontokinetic effects, including but not limited to spontaneous generation of entities, memory alteration, landscape alteration, biological mutations, sudden ontokinetic ability, etc. The latent ontokinetic contamination produced by SCP-5495 affected the villagers who had removed SCP-5495 from its unsecured storage facility unaware of its effects or purpose, likely to sell it for scrap, and resulted in these anomalies.\n\nTimeline\nOrigin\nDue to ORIA's lack of cooperation, little is definitively known about SCP-5495's origins. It is theorized to have been in construction since at least 1980, under orders by the military leadership, presumably to be used in the Iran-Iraq War. Whether the weapon was never finished or was used and then disassembled is similarly unclear; what is known is that by August of 1990, SCP-5495 was residing in \"Qard\u016b\" does not appear on any ORIA facility listings available to PSYCHE, though this could be indicative of its secrecy. Accusation of illegal quartering is curious \u2014 Afghan-Iran relations pre- and post- Revolution make an ORIA outpost a reasonable possibility.an abandoned ORIA storage facility codenamed \"Qard\u016b\", (illegally) located in Nawa, Ghazni Province, inside Afghani borders.\nRemoval from Qard\u016b\nOn August 14th, Jamsheh Behzadi, 27, discovered the entrance to Qard\u016b several kilometers from his family homestead. ORIA facilities generally tend toward more esoteric security involving Type-Blue energy.The metal entry door was rusted shut, so he noted the location and resolved to return with assistance.\nOn August 15th, he returned with his cousin Farhad Behzadi, 19, and a friend from the nearby village of Andar, population 598\u2014 Abdullah Hashem, 21. Using tools taken from Hashem's father, the group broke the seals on the door and entered the two-room facility, believing they had stumbled upon a Odd accusation, but entirely possible for young rural men \u2014 question arises on how Foundation Interviewers discovered this knowledge.Pakistani military outpost. They discovered it to be deserted and empty, save for several padded crates containing nonperishable food, ammunition, and one specially padded crate containing SCP-5495, found by Farhad:\n\nWe were so stupid. Idiot teenagers playing explorers, completely clueless as to what we'd walked into. If I could reach through time just once, I would gladly use it to go back and tell the three of us to turn, to run, far far away.\nI was the first one to see it, you know. Jamsheh was amazed by the machine-gun bullets and the military food, and I pried open the other crate, shoved so far into the corner. The place was so dimly lit and dusty\u2026 it had the distinct air of some place that had been forgotten. When I cut the locks and Farhad looked inside, I saw the strange metal thing, and he laid a hand on it - he said it was warm in the center and cool at the edges - we felt like we had discovered something miraculous! None of it knew what it was, of course \u2014 Jamsheh was going to the capital in a few weeks to visit some friends at the university, he said he would take it up then and figure out if it was worth any money, and he would split it among us. We were so stupid.\n\nThe group loaded SCP-5495 and the ammunition and food into a wheelbarrow and carted it to Hashem's house in the village, where they decided it would be stored to avoid scrutiny from the Behzadi parents until Jamsheh took it to Kabul.\nAt the time they parted ways, it is likely that Farhad was the only one contaminated due to his direct inhalation of the Few directed paraweapon concepts would vent into the surrounding air.stale, contaminated air in the container.\nCore Exposure\nBy August 17th, Hashem had sold most of the ammunition, earning a considerable profit for the area. He investigated SCP-5495, hoping to find some clue as to its purpose or design; he discovered a small aperture in the side of Polarized glass is far too brittle to be used in a weapon core and is generally reserved for scientific equipment.polarized glass, and attempted to shatter it \u2014 poor storage conditions had left the other primary seals degraded to the point of uselessness. He succeeded in exposing the internal core of the device \u2014 while the device had already begun latently lowering the local reality level, the destruction of the seal increased the efficiency of this process twofold. Disturbed by his damaging of the device, he quickly put it away and did not unearth it until the day after. However, direct contact to the internal core likely meant he was already exposed to an overwhelming dosage of The cause for this redaction is filed under \"sensitive information\".[REDACTED].\nAt the Behzadi household, Farhad had already fallen ill the afternoon after his discovery of SCP-5495. By the evening of August 18th, he was bedridden and complaining of aching pains and nausea. This was thought to be a result of food poisoning. His older sister, Raazyah Behzadi, 20, was his primary caretaker:\n\nHis room felt so strange. I came in every hour or so with water and to check on him, he was just rolling around in his sheets, drenched in sweat. His room felt like it was much larger than it was, kilometers long, but I could move across it one step. It's hard to explain, but it just didn't feel quite real.\nIn hindsight, what should have told me it was something unnatural, though, was the rat. I woke up to sounds of retching, like he was choking on something. I opened the door and looked in, I thought he would be vomiting and then he would be fine. He was sitting on the edge of the bed, eyes wide. I asked what was wrong and he just pointed to a grey spot on the floor - a rat, I realized. Grey and wet with moisture, dead on its back. I figured he had just killed the rat, though rats aren't very common here, and closed the door. It never occurred to me that the rat was wet with spit.\n\nThrough taking care of Farhad, Raazyah was similarly exposed to Only the most reckless of paraweapon concepts would use latent Type-Green energy as a transmission vector \u2014 carries a large risk of friendly fire.latent ontokinetic energies in his system from his primary exposure to SCP-5495. The secondhand nature of her contamination was weakened enough to manifest as little more than idle shifting that lasted for a few seconds at maximum.\nBy August 18th, Hashem, Farhad, Raazyah, and their parents Hussein and Latifa were contaminated.\nInstability\nOn August 19th, Jamsheh went down to Hashem's home to investigate SCP-5495. Hashem was absent at the time, selling the remainder of the ammunition and food, and Jamsheh discovered the aperture, which had been leaking ontokinetically-unstable radiation at an increased rate for the entire night into the surroundings \u2014 including into the store of food that Hashem would wake up to sell in the morning to the rest of the village. This incident resulted in the contamination skyrocketing from ~4 cases at the time to ~300, well over two-thirds of the village population. Theoretically possible, if contrived.The ingestion of contaminated food imbued individuals with uncontrollable ontokinetic abilities that, while individually minor, were greatly amplified by SCP-5495 degrading the reality-stability of the region. Reports of widespread sickness increased as suspicions grew that some sort of plague had descended upon the village, accompanied by rumours of witchcraft or some divine punishment being cast upon the citizens.\nJamsheh's investigation included using a saw and bolt cutter to Extremely unlikely that a weapons-grade reality core could be disassembled by one individual with primitive tools.remove a piece of SCP-5495's casing and peer inside. The removal of the casing quadrupled the speed of reality-degradation by exposing significantly more of the core substance. Jamsheh himself almost instantly received a massive overdose, likely causing No feasible explanation for how Foundation investigators were able to infer this level of detail without experience.rapid warping and distortion of physical structure and composition, followed by a sudden return to normality, resulting in massive internal trauma, destruction of bones and organs, failure of conception, and internal liquification. It is unclear whether Jamsheh died as a result of this, or survived in a semi-real state until August 20th. Meanwhile, spontaneous reality failures were occurring in the homes of other villagers:\n\nI think that was the most scared I've ever been in my life. I was sitting at the dinner table with Amir and Papa, and\u2026 I asked someone to pass the dish. Amir reached out, and everything just\u2026 shook. Like the world was buzzing with violence. It only lasted for a split second, but I could tell Papa felt it too, because I saw him make a face. Then Amir touched the dish and it turned into a dead cow, trussed up and bleeding from skewers, then Mother, then Najibullah3, and then Amir, all in a second. He screamed, so did I, and Papa asked us why we were shouting, and we saw nothing had happened at all.\nI know what I saw. A glimpse of what was to come.\n\nThe reality level of the village had already fallen to dangerous lows, and the density of ontokinetically-capable individuals rapidly increasing resulted in a full collapse of consensus reality on August 20th.\nCollapse\nIn the early morning of August 20th, Farhad Behzadi died in his bed. However, the local area of destabilized reality caused by his contamination resulted in his corpse rising and going about the house in a jerking, puppet-like gait and speaking to the rest of the family. This illusion faltered when the corpse, still subject to physical decomposition, succumbed to rigor mortis, and collapsed in the middle of the kitchen during breakfast with his parents and Hashem \u2014 no one had discovered Jamsheh's body, and Raazyah had gone into town to get groceries. Upon the realization that Farhad was and had been dead, the collective ontokinetic potential of Hussein, Latifa, Hashem, and Farhad's corpse was unleashed in an emotional rage that is believed to have set off an explosive chain reaction \u2014 when villagers in Andar saw the Behzadi homestead at the corona of a blinding explosion of color, their panic and fear involuntarily activated their abilities, forming a positive feedback loop. Eyewitness accounts of this are extremely difficult to separate from ontokinetic creations and hallucinations, but a general image can be gathered:\n\nIt was exhilarating.\nThe worst thing I have ever lived through, inarguably. I was in the mountains when the Russians invaded and when they pulled out, I lived through the fighting and the shelling and the Talibans. This was a fresh kind of agony.\nI saw my house be stripped away layer-by-layer like a cow being skinned, exposing the sinewy skeleton inside. My family became a series of giggling explosions, mortar shells frozen midway through detonating. They danced around my head as the sun came up and back down, a thousand times in a second. The ground was much too far away, but I could feel my toes touch it before my toes stopped being there. I was a series of blocks and rods, then calligraphy, then the goat I kept as a child. I could see in all six directions and all my neighbors, friends, families, all were doing the same thing. It went on for days as my home, the home of my parents and their parents and their parents before them, just\u2026. fell apart, in front of our very eyes, because there was never really anything holding it together at all. We were all just there, living out some unreal personal Hell.\nOr Heaven, maybe. I'm not too sure.\n\nIntervention\nAt this point, a Foundation source in the district's police force became aware of the events transpiring in Andar, and submitted an investigation advisory. One of these agents was an embedded GOC sleeper agent, who alerted Regional Command to a likely Type-Green PTE on-location.Two agents from Kabul were dispatched to the village, arriving in a Jeep:\n\nWell, it was a nightmare, wasn't it? A disaster. It was like a surrealist warzone. Most of the mud-and-clay houses had been properly destroyed, reduced to some wet purple cubic substance that only resembled rubble. The village square was, I remember, the distended and taffy-stretched bodies of a man and his wife laying next to themselves, on and on and on into the infinite horizon. Then I took a step and I was past them. I'm still not sure whether the- the corpses had been vastly multiplied in on themselves or whether I was being looped around and around the town. The sky was a peculiar shade of water, and the water\u2026 well, I think that's not relevant.\nMy point is that it was horrible. I know it sounds like I'm being cavalier, but that's because.. it's one of those things that you see and you just\u2026 don't quite process it, your brain decides you'll be more effective if you just maintain a layer of disconnect with your surroundings. A dissociation of necessity. A lot of the details are faded, now, but I remember one thing - a light, soft hissing coming from everywhere all at once, barely perceptible over the fires and the intense bum-ba-bum and the sounds of a bleeding ground.\nA very quiet and a very strained screaming.\n\nAgents retreated from the village, reporting the situation to the field office in Kabul, which relayed it to Site-34. Tactical Response Team Romeo-Nine \"Sandstorm\" was discreetly deployed to establish a containment cordon and assess the situation. Officers equipped with Kant counters determined the location was in a state of dramatically unstable and shifting reality, and authorized the aerial drop and activation of a Mobile Scranton Reality Anchor from a CH-47 Chinook. The MSRA landed in the village center and began functioning, allowing Romeo-Niner to move in and secure the area shortly before the Assessment Team 0296 \"Clay and Fire\", followed by Strike Team 0995 \"Dune Demons\".arrival of Global Occult Coalition forces.\nCleanup\nOf a population of ~450, 98 survivors were rescued by the Foundation, the vast majority suffering from some form of reality-manipulated syndromes, including but not limited to: expulsion of living mammals, substitution of blood and organs with mundane household objects, fractally infinite bodies, altered conceptions of self, base identity and body changes, a litany of mental issues (anomalous and non-anomalous), and spontaneous implosion. While the abilities were much more limited in scope following the enforcement of consensus reality on the region and the resulting smaller Hume differential, they were still considerable and numerous.\nKant counters tracking the epicenter of the collapse of reality found two points of note; the location that had once held the Behzadi household and the Hashem household. The former had been entirely annihilated; the house and property had simply vanished, leaving behind a low, wide crater containing Hashem, Raazyah, and Hussein all in shock and suffering from acute paralysis in addition to the ontokinetic effects of the others. Farhad's body had, according to the group, 'not become', and taken his mother with him.\nThe Hashem household led to the discovery of SCP-5495 as the root cause of the incident, as well as of the liquefied remains of Jamsheh Behzadi. Type-Green and amnestic treatment were used to gradually return surviving victims to a state of normality as possible. Due to classified methods, GOC troops were not allowed on-site for the duration of the Foundation occupation, to much consternation.\nThe approximate timeline above was constructed using testimony from the surviving actors prior to amnesticization4.\n\nConclusion\nThe events caused by SCP-5495 have resulted in significant damage to the lives of all individuals involved, whether they survived or not. The more harshly-affected individuals were unable to be returned to normality and have surrendered themself to humane Foundation containment as Persons of Interest. They will be provided medical care for the duration of their lives. All corpses and bodies pulled from the rubble of Andar have been cremated where possible and otherwise destroyed. The ashes and remains are stored at Site-34 in the same isolation chamber as SCP-5495 itself, in telekill-lined steel urns. It is believed the latent ontokinetic properties of the remains will This degree of estimation is beyond current science available to PTOLEMY Research and Development; indicated the Foundation either has a significantly more advanced understanding of anomalous sciences than previously thought, or have previous experience with this degree of Type-Green contamination. not entirely subside to negligible levels for another 150 years at minimum:\n\nI don't know why this happened. Divine punishment, making us Sodom and Gomorrah to teach Lut's wife a lesson. Supernatural, witchcraft, something. I don't know. I know that I'm never going to be able to visit the graves of my family and that's someone's fault. I don't even know if I want them to pay, but I want them to know what they did.\nJust hurry and make me forget like the others.\n\nWhile ORIA is generally spiteful of perceived Western judgement, historically they prefer to exercise an almost excessive degree of caution in all activities.The recklessness and negligence of ORIA in adequately storing and disposing of their parawaste has caused catastrophic damage and loss of life for uninvolved civilians. However, due to ORIA's complete denial of any involvement in the events, retaliatory action or exigent investigation is inadvisable at best.\n\nPSYCHE ITEM CHARLIE\n\nThe following encoded communications were intercepted at Foundation Site-34 by a deep-cover PSYCHE Special Observer.\n\n| 09031990\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| ENCODED TRAFFIC\n| TO: S-001>109385\n| FROM: S-34>093842\n| RE: OPERATION FLAMING LANTERN\nCOLLAPSED SRA + VICTIM REMAINS ARE IN CONTAINMENT @ 34, RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE\nSURVIVOR AUTOPSIES SCHEDULED FOR TWO WEEKS\nDOCUMENT TRANSFER UPDATE? SOME ADMINS WORRIED ORIA DIPLOMATS MAY TRY TO RAISE FUSS WITH GOCS\n\n| 09031990\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588Z\n| ENCODED TRAFFIC\n| TO: S-34>093842\n| FROM: S-001>109385\n| RE: OPERATION FLAMING LANTERN\nSUCCESS - AMBASSADORS ACCEPTED DOCUMENT AS SIGN OF COOPERATION + REPARATION FOR TURNING AWAY STRIKE TEAMS\nORIA OF LOW RISK\nWHO'S GONNA BELIEVE THEM?\n\nFootnotes\n1. Foundation multipurpose site in Balochistan, Pakistan\n2. Foundation compartmentalized security nomenclature; equivalent to Top Secret.\n3. President of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992.\n4. Foundation practice of chemically erasing memories from civilian witnesses.\n\n\n\u00ab SCP-5494 | SCP-5495 | SCP-5496 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Alright, just put that there. And, uhh\u2026 might as well get started.\nI've probably done this before.\nAttention\nAutomated restriction of this document is not possible. If you do not have Level 4-5497 clearance do not continue reading.\n\nItem Number: SCP-5497\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Any personnel that view this document without Level-4-5497 clearance are to immediately visit their site's local amnestisicist and have their memory of viewing this document removed. This is not necessarily an urgent matter, as SCP-5497 is considered benign. However, unauthorized duplication of this document and/or any sharing of information regarding SCP-5497 will result in disciplinary action.\nResearch Lab 127 at Site 17 is to remain locked whenever SCP-5497 is not being tested. Keys to unlock it are found in Dr. Ziegler's office.\nSCP-5497-1 may be entered either to conduct testing or to edit this document. The procedures for thorough testing or editing are detailed below.\n\nA paper copy of this document is to be printed. Any text deemed extraneous is to be whited out and the copy may be additionally modified to accommodate any desired edits.\nThe copy is to be given to the test subject. The test subject is to read through it several times.\nThe test subject is to enter SCP-5497-1 and the door sealed behind them.\nThe subject is to immediately reread the entirety of the document given to them.\nIf further testing has been planned, testing may now begin, if not, the subject must immediately exit SCP-5497-1.\n\nOnly one test subject may enter SCP-5497-1 at a time. Staff should be present when the test subject exits SCP-5497. If utmost care is not taken in enacting these procedures, The Foundation's documentation on SCP-5497 may be corrupted or completely lost.\nDescription: SCP-5497 refers to any document or means of information storage that relates to SCP-5497. This includes not only physical and digital documentation, but also the portions of a person's memories dedicated to SCP-5497.\nSCP-5497-1 refers to a room at Research Lab 127 of Site-17. Physically, SCP-5497-1 is 3x3x2 meter room constructed of plywood, and painted white, with one entrance and wooden supports on its exterior. The interior walls are lined with an interconnected grid of wires, conduit, receptacles, switches, LED lights, and logic controllers. Portions of this grid are arranged into glyphs, most of which are known to be memory inducing in nature. Interfering with this grid or with the switches on the gird is strictly forbidden, even for testing purposes.\nWhen a person enters SCP-5497-1 their entire conscious stream of thought starting from moment the door to SCP-5497-1 closes is recorded and interpreted as text. When the door is reopened, this recording overwrites all existing copies of SCP-5497. This is what necessitates this entire document being read by anyone who enters SCP-5497-1, as their thoughts overwrite all information pertaining to SCP-5497.\nThere is evidence that this document has been nearly wiped clean before, necessitating most of our information about SCP-5497 being rediscovered through testing. Enough information survived the most recent wipe to convey that the wipe was caused by changing the state of one of the switches in SCP-5497-1, and that memories were not previously affected by SCP-5497. Attempts to undo the wipe resulted in SCP-5497 replacing the code that restricts access to this document with the text form of this document.\nThe origin of SCP-5497-1 is assume to have been deleted by one of these wipes.\nThe following are conclusions from previous testing with SCP-5497. All future edits to this document are to be added to this section.\n\nThere is no way to record anything other than basic text into SCP-5497.\nAllowing more than one person to enter SCP-5497-1 at a time will cause their thoughts to be transcribed on top of each other, rendering the resulting text illegible. Following this test SCP-5497 had to be thoroughly analyzed to rediscover its meaning.\nPaper or digital documents will expand to encompass new text added upon generating a larger version of SCP-5497.\nOverwrite will occur on a person's memories if they have knowledge that an overwrite will occur.\nOverwrite will occur on any digital files related to SCP-5497, but the name of said files will not be overwritten.\nMemories of previous versions of this document cannot be recovered with mnestics.\nListing of specifics is to be avoided where possible. Dates in particular are subject to being misread and have caused problems in the past.\nBreaks in consciousness, such as sleeping without dreaming, are not recorded by SCP-5497.\n\nAddendum: Okay, that's it\u2026 Now it's testing time.\nWell we got, uuhh, we're going to try to test REM sleep. It seems that during that, uh last test the guy was asleep but he didn't dream.\nI have some pills here, they're for.. sleeping and inducing REM sleep. So that way I'll have a dream. I also have a cot to sleep on and a blindfold since we can't turn off the lights in here. I'm going to set an alarm for 4 hours from now.. Which it's 5:28 now.\n6, 7, 8, 9, 9:30\nThere we go.\nAnd uhh, pills.\nAhhck!\nYou'd think I'd be better at taking pills with this job.\nWell, I got the alarm, pills, cot, and.. and uh that's everything, So I got to sleep.\nTry to sleep.\nTry to sleep.\nIt takes a while I guess.\nJust a while.\nThis isn't the first time I've taken any kind of sleeping pills is it?\nHuh, I wonder if I was the one who did the last test on this?\nSo on Monday was when I had to go with Dr. Ziegler to figure out what this document meant.\nJust a pre schedule meeting, there were more people there, it took us most of the day.\nTuesday we started to prepare for testing, that was a bit shorter.\nWednesday l was training for this all day.\nAnd today is testing day.\nWhy was I chosen for testing?\nLast Friday. I try to think of it, and this document just fills up my head.\nI must have done something with it then.\nWas the last test Thursday or Friday?\nYou know the calendar might have it. I don't think it was overwritten. Must be too simple or something.\nThere's something going on with that calendar. One week didn't feel like long enough to prepare for this. Especially if we do this every week. What did I do last week? There's a lot of gaps with just this document filling them, so I must have been.\nYou know, I don't have to think about this now, just cause the last tester did.\nJust try to think about nothing, it'll make deciphering this easier next week.\n\u2026\nnothing\nit kinda works\n\u2026\n\nThere's a presentation room, there are multiple people sat around the center desk. They are formal.\nA man is standing at the end of the desk of the room. He is also formal. He is speaking.\nYou really just need to abandon this idea of you. It's not helpful for this. Look, if I made a copy of your conscious stream of thought and uploaded it to a computer, which would you say is you? OK, now you wake up one day and find out that you've been uploaded to a computer. But this fleshy version of you claims to be more you than you are, and thus you are not entitled to any of your belongings, accounts, or relationships. You'd probably be pretty mad.\nBut that never has happened to you. Why is there any continuity to your thoughts. You've never woken up in a different body than the one you went to bed in. There are infinite continuities out there, which mean there are infinite yous out there. Why is it that every day you wake up to continue this one continuity where there's causality and things make sense.\nThe thing is\u2026 you don't. You dream.\nThere are murmurs from the crowd.\nOH, Don't bring reality into this. From your perspective, which is the only perspective that should matter to you, everything that happens to you feels real. Dreams feel real.\nWherever your stream of thought goes is where you go. And these different continuities, these different lives that you live. What if we could record them. What if we could move to or from them at will. What if we could implant them over the boring reality of thoughts we normally have to deal with?\nYou, from the crowd, speaks up. \"I'm sorry but we are on a tight schedule, and you still haven't given us a realistic way to approach this .\"\nRealistic? It doesn't need to be realistic!\nHe approaches you.\nAfter everything I've told you, why would you still assume that!?\nWhy do you still think things exist outside of your perspective?\nWhy do you still hold onto some vague concept of you?\nWhy do you think that this is still real?\nWhy would you assume this is real?!\nSnap out of it!\nWake up!\nWAKE UP!\nWAKE UP!\n\nBEEP-BEEP!\nBEEP-BEEP!\nBEEP-BEEP!\nUhh. 9:30. uhh. come on turn off.\nI, uhh, ok. Dreams.\nCome on wake up.\nUhh.. I. Did I dream?\nMaybe, it's very vague\u2026\nYou know this is useless.\nEvery day I wake up and go to this stupid job where nothing makes sense. Look sorry I'm tired but, this is the exact same thing that was written on the last document. Why can't we try to record some of it. Just to make sure that we're not stuck testing the same thing every week.\nI know the document says to keep it simple to stop misinformation, but what if that just got made up along the way.\nLike, are we actually getting anything done with testing this?\nJust get all the stuff, I just want to get out of here.\nI have the papers, the clock, bed, water, nothing left behind.\nWe're good to go.\nFor the record, this is at least the third sleeping test.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5496 | SCP-5497 | SCP-5498 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n93.45%\n(+57)\n6.55%\n(-4)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5498\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5498 is to remain suspended in opaque stasis gel, which is then stored within a dark containment locker, void of light.\nDescription: SCP-5498 is a set of two ambulatory eyeballs with unknown thaumaturgic symbols tattooed on the sclera. SCP-5498 was capable of observing and transmitting both visual and audible data to PoI-0971 (\"Masego Anavrin\").\nDiscovery\nSCP-5498 was discovered during a raid on an organization known as the Fifth Commune in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. At the time, SCP-5498 resided within Himani Patel's eye sockets1. Patel was a latent reality bender with strong connections to the Fifth Commune. It is speculated that she had intimate relationships with the Fifth Commune's leading figures, including PoI-0971. According to Foundation agents within the Fifth Commune, Patel was involved in an occult ritual at the time of the raid2.\nThe raid inadvertently resulted in the destruction of the Fifth Commune, and several of its members and leadership figures were killed. Patel and the other survivors were interrogated and administered Type D amnestics. Patel, however, proved resistant to the amnestic treatment and was taken to Site-83 for further examination and medical treatment. SCP-5498 was discovered by Dr. Andrews following an ocular examination.\nPatel, who was unaware of these symbols, speculated that PoI-0971 might have been involved. By her account, PoI-0971 exhibited predatory behavior toward her during their time within the Fifth Commune3. Patel agreed to have SCP-5498 removed under the condition that the Foundation synthesize new eyes for her. Her request was denied, and SCP-5498 was removed after heavy sedation.\nA comprehensive list of letters sent by PoI-0971 to Himani Patel prior to their containment can be found below.\n\nInterview PoI-0971\n\nClose File\n\nOver the course of twenty days PoI-0971 made several unsuccessful attempts at breaching Site-83. It was hypothesized that he was attempting to abduct Himoni Patel for currently unknown reasons.\nOn February 10th, 2024, PoI-0971 managed to successfully enter Site-83 and eluded Foundation security for forty minutes before being apprehended just outside of Patel's containment suite. He was brought to Site-83's interrogation chamber and questioned by Dr. Andrews.\nInterviewer: Dr. Andrews\nInterviewed: PoI-0971\n<BEGIN LOG>\nAndrews: State your name for the record, please.\nPoI-0971: Does that really matter?\nAndrews: Answer the question, then we can continue.\nPoI-0971: Masego Anarvin, husband to Himani Anarvin. I'd like to see her, before you wipe my mind that is.\nAndrews: I'm afraid that won't be possible.\nPoI-0971: Why? Why not?\nAndrews: We have reason to believe that you are directly responsible for the creation of SCP-5498.\nPoI-0971: I was just looking out for my wife. Can't blame a husband for being concerned, can you? Just let me see her, I need to know if she's alright. The ritual could have been painful.\nAndrews: I think we both know that would be detrimental to Himani's mental health, wouldn't you agree?\nPoI-0971: No, no. I think a visit would be extremely helpful. You're keeping her somewhere dark, and quiet. And she's all alone. She's terrified\u2026 You have to take me to her. Now.\nAndrews: You are in no position to make demands, sir. We've removed SCP-5498 from Himani. You can't spy on her.\nPoI-0971: You did\u2026 what?\nAndrews: We've worked out how you managed to discover this location, but we haven't figured out why you've taken such an interest in Himani Patel. Can you elaborate?\nPoI-0971: I told you, she's my wife. My wife whom you've kidnapped and blinded for no goddamn reason!\nAndrews: Our records indicate that-\nPoI-0971: Your records are outdated.\nAndrews: I sincerely doubt that.\nPoI-0971: Are you calling me a liar?\nAndrews: I would never insinuate that, Mr. Anarvin.\nPoI-0971: Then what are you trying to say?\nAndrews: I was inquiring about your relationship with Himani.\nPoI-0971: Stop calling her that.\nAndrews: I'm sorry, I don't understand. Stop calling her what?\nPoI-0971: \"Himani\". It's Mrs. Anarvin to you. She's my wife. MINE. Don't talk about her like you know her. You don't know shit about her. You weren't a part of the Commune. You didn't watch over her when she went shopping with her friends or tried on clothes in the fitting room at Walmart. You weren't there for anything, never protected her, never saved her. Don't speak like you did.\nAndrews: My apologies.\nPoI-0971: It's fine, it's just\u2026 Himani's my everything. She grounds me, and I keep her out of trouble.\nAndrews: So you were like a guardian of sorts?\nPoI-0971: I shield her from everything. I know she appreciates it; the few times she caught me doing my job she smiled and waved at me. That's how she lets me know she loves me. ( He pauses ). She's naive. You've seen it for yourself I'm sure. She's nice. Too nice. A lot of guys think she's flirting with them.\nAndrews: What do you do to those men?\nPoI-0971: I saved her. I'm not a bad person.\nAndrews: What did you do?\n( PoI-0971 scratches the back of his head and looks down. )\nPoI-0971: Okay look, I never killed anyone. But they\u2026 ( He laughs ) The Commune put themselves in that situation, ya know? It's their fault they wound up like that.\n\nThe 14/02/24 Incident\n\nClose\n\nPoI-0971 began experiencing emotional distress in his containment cell on February 14th, 2024. The following security footage was recovered after the incident:\n\n13:02: PoI-0971 is sitting in his cell.\n13:05: There is a slight tremor. PoI-0971 notices this but dismisses it.\n13:06: There is a second tremor. PoI-0971 gets up and requests to be let out.\n13:08: Cracks appear in the east-facing wall.\n13:13: An envelope manifests in between the cracks. PoI-0971 investigates.\n13:15: PoI-0971 opens the envelope and extracts a sheet of paper, presumably a letter. He reads it.\n13:16: After reading the letter, PoI-0971 exhibits extreme emotional distress and bangs on the containment chamber door repeatedly.\n13:17: A containment breach alarm is heard.\n13:18: A hand manifests from the floor and grips the east-facing wall. The hand ascends.\n13:20: Himani Patel's head emerges from the hole in the floor. She continues using the wall to ascend.\n13:21: PoI-0971 retreats from the containment chamber door, facing Patel. Patel approaches him.\n13:22: Patel vocalizes something that causes PoI-0971 to cover his eyes. He sits on the ground in the fetal position.\n13:21: Tentacle-like appendages emerge from Patel's back and attack PoI-0971 via bludgeoning. Blood is splattered against the walls and floor.\n13:25: PoI-0971 ceases to move. Patel extracts his eyes and heart before consuming them.\n13:26: Patel exits through the cracks in the wall.\n\nThe following is the contents of the letter recovered from the containment chamber:\n\nI know you've been watching me, Masego. You had no idea what I was, or else why would you have starved me for so long? It's a misunderstanding that could have been fixed if you just talked to me, sweety.\nBut I forgive you. I forgive you because I love you.\nAnd I love you to death.\n\nHimani Patel's location is currently unknown.\n\nLetters found in Himani Patel's containment suite\n\nClose File\n\nThe following is a comprehensive list of letters from PoI-0971 that Himani Patel relinquished upon her arrival in Foundation custody.\n\nI've seen you almost every day at the Colonial4 and I wonder to myself \"How can I approach you?\". Every time I think about doing so, I am overcome with fear and anxiety. You looked so beautiful when you came into our dimension. I'll never understand why you hide those tattoos on your back.\nMy shyness gets the better of me, you understand. Sometimes I sit in the booth behind you, thinking about what to say. Your hair smells so nice, and it distracts me a lot of the time. God, I wish I could talk to you.\n\nI saw the way you tore that policeman apart when he wrongfully gave you a parking ticket yesterday. Took him into an alley where no one would see. No one, but me that is. Were you putting on a show? I don't know what you did to him, but the mess you left behind\u2026 He must have been quite the asshole. I would never treat you that way.\nYou walked outta there with that smile on your face. Do you think that your power gives you security?\nThere was a man who was coming to approach you afterward. You didn't have time to change into new clothes yet, and the illusion spell covering up the body hadn't been fully cast yet. I saw you panic, Himani, and I did what any good boyfriend would do.\nYou don't have to worry about that guy anymore.\nP.S. You really shouldn't shower with that Old Spice stuff. It's bad for your skin.\nP.P.S. I've asked around and did some research. The higher pressure settings in the shower work better, I hear.\n\nReverend Koin tells us that we should act like gods and take what we want. If only I had the courage to take you.\nThat girl isn't right for you. I've seen the way she looks into your eyes. There's nothing there but insanity. She stares at you when you aren't looking. I've seen it in your peripherals. She's nothing more than a predator.\nMy wife deserves better. You need me.\n\nWhy are you doing this to me? Are you mad about that rando? Get over yourself, I'm trying to help you!\nWhat's Elizabeth got that I don't, huh? The Commune is dead now. We're all on the same level.\nShe cheats on you, you know, with Brandon and Ginger. When you go to work, or on your walks, she'll call them up and they'll be at the house within the hour. I've seen them fuck. On your our bed. I've seen that bitch use your shower settings.\nI can make you happy, Himani. Give me a chance.\n\nI went to your apartment while you were at work. Took the liberty to clean up the huge mess you left behind, rid of the arms and legs, and cleaned up all the blood. Brandon and Ginger are\u2026 well, they aren't competing for your love anymore.\nThe police shouldn't occupy you with their stupid questions now, my love.\n\nI realized the decision must have been hard on you. That's why I made it for you, as a good husband should.\nI love you, Himani Patel.\n\nWhy haven't you responded to my letters, Himani? Why are you crying? Am I too far away? Are you scared to show me what you really are? I can handle it. I'll love you no matter what.\nYou've captured my eyes, and taken my heart. I belong to you, now and forever.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Curiously, Himani Patel did not have any public or private records.\n2. Several thaumaturgic symbols of unknown origin and intent were tattooed on Patel's back. She also had deep lacerations across both of her wrists and ankles, which suggest attempted exsanguination.\n3. Including but not limited to; sending unsolicited gifts, love letters written on flower petals, staring at her for extended periods of time, photographing her while unconscious, and consuming her hair.\n4. A popular eating establishment in Lyndhurst.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5497 | SCP-5498 | SCP-5499 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Threat Level: Green\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5499 is to be stored, unpowered, in the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588 Equipment Storage Wing. Due to the nature of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588's primary project, transfer of SCP-5499 to a proper containment site has been deemed unfeasible at present.\nDescription: SCP-5499 is an L71-Brand Smart Refrigerator, Model 2S. Prior to its installation in the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588 Break Room on January 31st, 2005, SCP-5499 displayed no anomalous properties.\nOutside of direct observation, SCP-5499 is capable of damaging foodstuffs placed within its chassis. Such damages occur in bursts of 1 to 4, typically spaced at least 4 hours apart, and are accompanied by a series of messages played across SCP-5499's touchscreen. The process by which SCP-5499 chooses foodstuff is unknown, although it shows considerable preference towards foodstuffs of sweet and savory flavor profiles.\nSCP-5499 was discovered following a series of complaints to the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588 Human Resources Department.\n\nADDENDUM 5499-001: OBSERVED ACTIVATIONS\n\nThe following is a rough approximation of the date and time of select activations, based on available security footage and subsequent tickets filed with the Human Resources Department. In the interests of budget, no tests were conducted on SCP-5499's anomalous properties.\n\nDate and Time (Estimated)\nDamage\nObserved Messages\n\nFebruary 1st, 2005, 13:44\n\nBottle of iced tea completely drained.\n\n\"Mmm haha just what I needed\"\n\nFebruary 1st, 2005 18:01\n\nContainment Specialist \u2588\u2588\u2588's lunch disappears, and Officer \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's brownie is reduced to half its original mass.\n\n\"Ah that hit the spot\"\n\nFebruary 2nd, 2005, 14:48\n\nTechnician \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's birthday cake is covered in a series of uneven depressions, with a plastic fork stuck into its side. Additionally, a carton of milk has been nearly drained.\n\n\"Yeah this is the good stuff mhm\"\n\nFebruary 3rd, 2005, 13:36\n\nOfficer \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's lunch disappears, and Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's tandoori chicken is missing a rough semi-sphere of mass.\n\n\"Hrm not my thing but maybe it's an acquired taste\"\n\nFebruary 4th, 2005, 08:06\n\nVacuum flask of blood partially drained, and blood splatters across the interior of SCP-5499.\n\n\"EW EW EW FUCK EW HOLY SHIT WHY WAS THIS HERE\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Foundation subsidiary dedicated to the production and retail of consumer electronics.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5498 | SCP-5499 | SCP-5500 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n87.31%\n(+777)\n12.69%\n(-113)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5500\nLevel 0/5500\n\nObject Class: Apollyon\nClassified\n\nA view from the Windsor football pitch, taken during a Foundation expedition to England in 2033, approximately two months after the death of SCP-5500-\u03a9-56.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Eschatological Lifted Veil protocols are in place due to SCP-5500. The general public has knowledge of anomalous phenomena and the existence of the Foundation, due to the apocalyptic state of the multiverse.\nAll Foundation research is focused on attempting to find the malefactor responsible for the death of all SCP-5500-\u03a9 instances. All current motives and persons associated with the deaths of 5500-Omega instances are under investigation. Memetically coded text which is color-coded red and underlined, used to convey information learned about the malefactor and the method of the murders in such a way that only entities who exist above the known universe can see information. Scarlet Letter Investigative Protocols are utilized throughout this file and related documentation to convey information.\nDescription: SCP-5500 refers to an ongoing ZK-Class Reality Failure Scenario affecting at least 9,245 universes, as a result of the deaths of several instances of SCP-5500-\u03a9.\nSCP-5500-\u03a9 are humanoid, possibly human, entities that exist in a reality above the greater multiverse observed by the Foundation. These entities have the capability to alter our reality and adjacent realities through the medium of creative writing, though the amount of influence they have is unclear.\nThe death of an SCP-5500-\u03a9 instance causes severe metaphysical backlash to the universe or entities it had a part in influencing. The broadness of the sphere of influence varies, as does the corresponding level of destruction\u2014 the Cause of Death of SCP-5500-\u03a9-1 was attributed to a heart attack.apparently natural death of SCP-5500-\u03a9-1 resulted in the deaths of at least four individuals and three SCP objects, while Cause of Death: Lacerations to stomach after being force-fed several polyhedral objects.the murder of SCP-5500-\u03a9-56 resulted in the complete destruction of the Horizon Initiative in all observed universes, as well as the depopulation of the United Kingdom in the Baseline universe.\nSCP-5500-A is the third iteration of a device which was meant to observe SCP-5500-\u03a9 instances in their reality.\nFurther Information is Classified and Stored only on Hard-Copy at the following Address...\n\n\u00ab SCP-5499 | SCP-5500 | SCP-5501 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5502: Where the Smoke Trail Ends\nCreated for: Deadly Bread as part of the 2020 Art Exchange.\nThanks to:\n\nAethris, for the idea\nRex Atlas\nwctaiwan\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5502\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\npending\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\n?\n\nRisk Class:\n?\n\nlink to memo\n\nConfiscated rope incense. Following SCP-5502, its smoke no longer induces anomalous hallucinations.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: O5-3 has been designated as SCP-5502 Containment Director.1 Department of Analytics personnel have been tasked with investigation of the anomaly and granted special clearance for this purpose. The Department of External Affairs is in contact with groups of interest for information pertinent to SCP-5502. Other departments are to analyze recovered material as instructed.\nAll containment procedures for affected anomalies are to remain in effect until the cause of SCP-5502 is determined.\nDescription: SCP-5502 refers to an event on 2034/05/05 at around 04:10 UTC wherein all Fifthist-related anomalies known to the Foundation became neutralized. All persons of interest associated with various sects of the Fifth Church have been found deceased or are missing.\n[Update 2034/05/12]: SCP-5502-A is the temporary designation for AO-10564-84-716, a heavily modified CRT television with an input tray. When the anomaly is powered on, placing an object in the tray transforms it into a Class-Rho memetic hazard, which conveys information about it to the viewer and can be interacted with. This process consumes the input.\nAddendum 5502-1: Initial Report\nDepartment of Analytics modeling unit CORRELATION.aic determined that a number of seemingly-unrelated events across various facilities merited further investigation. It filed a Potential Anomaly Report (PAR), which was reviewed by a pre-containment team at Site-11. When its claims were found to be substantiated, the situation was escalated to Overwatch Command.\n\nFile #: PAR-4083154\nDate/Time: 2034/05/05 06:27:33 UTC\nSummary: A number of unusual incidents have occurred within a short time frame, all with varying levels of connection to Fifthism.\nDetails:\n\nSubject\nSummary\nDescription of Event\n\nSCP-1032\nPredictive alarm clock with multiple hands.\nSCP-1032-011 reached midnight. It was labeled with \"A Major Religion\" prior to its incidence.\n\nPoI-3879\nDetained Fifthist occultist. 27-year old white female.\nDespite being previously cooperative, the subject became hostile, and begin drawing hexagons on the floor of their cell. The subject was distressed and aggressive towards personnel, claiming that the drawings were intended to be five-pointed stars. Subject expired from cardiac arrest eleven hours later.\n\nAO-77393-50-938\nCrude pentagon constructed of lead. It would hover above the ground and revolve every 52 minutes and 5 seconds.\nThe item no longer exhibits anomalous properties. Large portions of its mass have been replaced with an unidentified yellow starchy material.\n\nLoI-2814\nFifthist church near Cairo, Georgia.\nRoutine surveillance discovered that all members of the congregation were deceased, and lying prone on the floor. A large number of burnt wildflowers were found in the center of the building. The method of ritual suicide deviates from known Fifthist practices.\n\nSCP-1425\nHardcover edition of the book Star Signals.\nThe anomaly is missing.\n\nAddendum 5502-2: Recovered files concerning SCP-5502-A\nAs part of the investigation into SCP-5502, the Records and Information Security Administration (RAISA) was directed to audit all file updates which occurred during the relevant time period. This uncovered a connection to the anomaly now designated SCP-5502-A. Due to its relevance, a selection of recovered files have been attached. (See Addendum 5502-3)\n\nNotice of Provisional Containment\nFile #: UPD-442760\nDesignation: AO-10564-84-716\nOld Location: LoI-0752-48Y (Abandoned Marshall, Carter, and Dark warehouse)\nNew Location: Area-27, Wing D, Locker 159\n\nExperiment Logs\nAnomaly: AO-10564-84-716\nDate / Time: 2034/05/04 17:20 UTC\nOverseen By: Junior Researcher Murray\nApproved By: Level-2 Object Supervisor Armando\nNotes: Experiments were held in testing room D-08. Junior Researcher Murray also served as the subject.\n\nExperiment AO-01\nInput: Block of wood\nResults: Anomaly displayed the wood sitting on a featureless, white surface. Subject was able to describe its texture and weight.\n\nExperiment AO-02\nInput: Apple\nResults: Anomaly displayed the apple sitting on a featureless, white surface. Subject was able to describe its taste and scent.\n\nExperiment AO-03\nInput: Notebook, with pairs of numbers written\nResults: Anomaly displayed the document on the same surface, closed. Subject was able to \"see\" the numbers if they focused on the image.\n\nExperiment AO-04\nInput: Caterpillar\nResults: Anomaly displayed the caterpillar, inching along the surface. Subject was able to describe it crawling along his hand, as well as what it would look like as a butterfly.\n\nExperiment AO-05\nInput: Woodpecker\nResults: Anomaly displayed the bird, flying hesitantly across the screen. It has since flown off and cannot be seen. Subject was able to describe the bird's behavior and call.\n\nFurther tests have been suspended due to the subject experiencing migraines from a persistent knocking sound. The subject has requested Class-A amnestics.\n\nAddendum 5502-3: Discovery of SCP-5502-A\nOn 2034/05/12, the Memetics Department flagged an unusual set of patterns while investigating SCP-5502. Deep CLKM meta-analyses revealed a signature corresponding to a known anomaly.\nRAISA conducted an extensive audit of the facility where this anomaly is kept, and made several findings:\n\nThis anomaly is partially uncontained.\nAO-105640-84-716 was also being held in Reliquary Area-27, albeit temporarily.\nAO-105640-84-716 was undergoing testing shortly before the incident (see above).\nAO-105640-84-716 was left unattended in the chamber following the suspension of testing.\nTwo Class-H seals in the ventilation system were broken, permitting small airborne masses to travel between testing chambers.\nAO-105640-84-716 experienced anomalous cross-contamination, resulting in the insertion of numerous hostile memes into the Noosphere.\n\nTo understand the consequences of this breach, Memetics Department personnel performed a tail analysis on areas affected by the memes. The results confirmed that the incursion facilitated by SCP-5502-A (a.k.a. AO-105640-84-716) resulted in SCP-5502. A snapshot from this scan has been attached:\n\n+ Show image\n\nHuman-cognito memetic scan of now-neutralized anomaly SCP-3125.\n\nContainment of SCP-5993 has since been reestablished. This file will be rewritten following Overseer Council consensus.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Containment Directors are part of the Containment Command System (CCS); a chain-of-command model for first contact with an anomaly. It was established in 1945 as a structured hierarchy for multiple agencies (both internal and external to the Foundation) to coordinate the safe recovery and containment of an anomaly.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\naismallard's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4339 \u2022\n\nSCP-4838 \u2022\n\nSCP-6115 \u2022\n\nSCP-4322 \u2022\n\nSCP-1047-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4781 \u2022\n\nSCP-5871 \u2022\n\nSCP-3597 \u2022\n\nSCP-5900 \u2022\n\nSCP-5510 \u2022\n\nSCP-5446 \u2022\n\nSCP-4853 \u2022\n\nSCP-4447 \u2022\n\nSCP-1294-J \u2022\n\nSCP-7558 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nStealing Something Else \u2022\n\nContinuous Integration \u2022\n\nThe Pumpkin Mystery \u2022\n\nThe Heart of the Beast \u2022\n\nOther\n\naismallard's personnel file \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5501 | SCP-5502 | SCP-5503 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5503\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All known instances of SCP-5503 are currently stored in the secure containment warehouse at Site-108. Tablets may be requested for testing purposes via the on-site pharmacy.\nDescription: SCP-5503 is a 2-item supplement package which was available to purchase in health food stores in Devonshire, United Kingdom between 10/11/2018 and 08/01/2019. The outer label reads \"Feeling Gut! Supplement your natural optimism\".\nSCP-5503-1 is a tinted glass jar containing (at time of purchase) 30 strawberry flavoured probiotic tablets.\nTransliteration of SCP-5503-1 label:\n\nFeeling Gut Probiotic Boost!\n30 chewable tablets\nSuitable for vegetarians and vegans\n\nDirections: For adults, chew one tablet daily alongside food for a maximum of three days. Do not exceed stated dose. Not suitable for children.\nDo not consume tablets with hot drinks as this may reduce the efficacity.\nRefrigerate after opening.\nFor short term use only\nall-natural strawberry flavouring!\n\nSCP-5503-2 is a tinted jar containing 150 antibiotic capsules.\nTransliteration of SCP-5503-2 label:\n\nBack to Baseline Balancing Capsules\nSuitable for vegetarians\n\nDirections: For adults, after Feeling Gut Probiotic Boost! course, take three tablets with meals daily for five days. Do not exceed stated dose.\n\nKeep taking this medicine until the course is finished.\n\nWhen SCP-5503-1 is consumed according to the package instructions, users experience an elevated sense of optimism and confidence. If, from the fourth day, the user proceeds to complete the full course of SCP-5503-2, the anomalous effects of SCP-5503-1 will be neutralised and their mood will return to baseline.\nShould a person continue to use SCP-5503-1 beyond the recommended 3 day period, or fail to take SCP-5503-2, the effects will continue to escalate. The user will become simultaneously more confident in their own capacities, and less able to perceive potential risks. They will also express a growing desire to have an enjoyable time at the expense of completing necessary tasks or working towards long term goals.\nDiscovery: SCP-5503 was first discovered following a series of high profile deaths in the Devonshire area when a significant increase in unusual deaths was reported over a two month period. Incidents included jumps from rooftops, vehicular accidents, and a mass drowning. The sole survivor of the drowning incident, Ms. Mia Price, was interviewed by Field Agent Amy Worthing1.\n\nSCP-5503 Interview: Mia Price\n\n- Hide Interview\n\nInterviewed: Ms. Mia Price\nInterviewer: Field Agent Amy Worthing\nForeword: Interview conducted at Bigbury-on-Sea police station following an incident at Bigbury beach. Medical reports state that Ms. Price was recovering from a moderate case of hypothermia.\n\n[Begin Log]\nField Agent Worthing: How are you feeling this morning, Mia? The doctors said -\nMs. Price: Never better, thanks. Looking forward to heading home if we're all finished here?\nField Agent Worthing: We'd like to ask you a few questions about what happened to you and your friends first if that's okay?\nMs. Price smiles and tilts her head.\nMs Price: Of course! I'm sure it won't take long. I'll have this all cleared up for you in no time.\nField Agent Worthing: Mia, can you tell me what you remember about that evening?\nMs. Price: No problem! I have a great memory, you know? Never forget a thing. We were walking back from our yoga class when I suggested we should all go for a swim. I've always been a strong swimmer, ever since I was a young lass. I'm really fast. I could've swum for Britain.\nSo we stripped right off. The beach was empty - and who really cares if some lucky dogwalker got himself an eyeful. We swam out together. Really in the moment. Loving life, yeah? You should try it sometime. Maybe you could -\nField Agent Worthing: Mia. Do you remember what happened to your friends?\nMs. Price: Well, I think Matty went home first. His wife was probably looking forward to seeing him and he wouldn't want to disappoint her! Claire went next. Me, I could've stayed out there for days!\nMs. Price grins widely and leans forwards across the table.\nThe guys who picked me up were shocked! They said they'd never known somebody go so far out in the Winter. Next week, I'll go even further. Really show them. I can't wait to see their faces!\nField Agent Worthing: Mia, I'm afraid your friend's bodies were found washed ashore -\nMs Price: No. I'm sorry, you're mistaken. Those - maybe you thought you found some bodies. But, you see, I'm having coffee with Elaine tomorrow. And - Oooh, she's going to laugh at this!\nField Agent Worthing: Her brother was here this morning to identify -\nMs. Price: Oh! That's lovely that he's here, it is! He'll have to come along and grab a cappuccino! We can all catch up. I know this place that does cake that's near as good as mine. A chocolate one. Gets better every time we go. I'll write down where it is for you. You're going to love it, promise.\nField Agent Worthing: Mia -\nMs. Price: Can I go now? It's been fun, but I'm a busy girl, you know? But we can catch up soon! I'll leave you all my number! I'm sure you'll have this mix-up sorted soon.\n[End Log]\n\nFollowing the interview, Ms. Price was treated with a course of SCP-5503-2 and amnesticized before being released.\n\nPackages of SCP-5503 were found in 88% of the victim's homes, including that of Ms. Price and the drowned individuals. In 90% of cases, SCP-5503-2 was unopened. A general product recall notice was issued throughout the region and remaining stocks of SCP-5503 were taken into Foundation custody.\nTo test the effects of SCP-5503-1 in a controlled environment, a daily dose was administered to D-42451,2 to be continued for a period of 30 days. The behaviour and mood of the test subject was to be monitored via interview and observation. Prior to commencement, D-42451 had no history of depression and displayed a mood consistent with their current situation.\n\nSelected Interviews: SCP-5503-1 Trials\n\n- Hide Interviews\n\nSCP-5503-1 Day 1, 01/03/2019\nInterviewed: D-42451\nInterviewer: Dr. Liam Walker\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Walker: Good morning, D-42451. How are you feeling?\nD-42451: Not bad thanks, Doctor.\nDr. Walker: Any discomfort? Have you noticed any changes in your mood?\nD-42451: I can't complain. I mean, it's taco day so I'm feeling pretty good about that. Otherwise.. nothing unusual I don't think. Does that mean it isn't working? They didn't -\nDr. Walker: Thank you, D-42461, that will be all for today.\n[End Log]\n\nSCP-5503-1 Day 5, 05/03/2019\nInterviewed: D-42451\nInterviewer: Dr. Liam Walker\n\n[Begin Log]\nD-42451: Good morning, Doctor!\nDr. Walker: Good morning, D-42451 - how are you feeling?\nD-42451: Great thanks. I slept like a baby. My roommate didn't come back after testing yesterday. Fella used to snore like crazy. Best night's sleep I've had in ages.\nDr. Walker: Have you noticed any other changes -\nD-42451 smiles and winks.\nD-42451: Well your assistant gave me a lovely smile on my way in - does that count? I think she likes me. And my hair looks great! Is this pill some kind of\u2026 I don't know, a hair restoring pill or something? By the time that I get out of here it'll be down to my knees at this rate!\nDr. Walker: That's all for today, I think, D-42451.\n[End Log]\n\nNote: No changes in D-42451's general appearance were recorded prior to or during the interview.\n\nSCP-5503-1 Day 12, 12/03/2019\nInterviewed: D-42451\nInterviewer: Dr. Liam Walker\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Walker: Good -\nD-42451: Alright, Doctor? It's your favourite patient! Here to brighten up your morning! Look at this - I think your pill has made my biceps even firmer. Look! Your girl outside could barely keep her hands off of me!\nD-42451 flexes his arms at Dr. Walker. No change in musculature or appearance, positive or otherwise, is evident.\nDr. Walker: I see. Well, have you -\nD-42451: I tell you, when we're done here I'll be selling smiles and making movies! I've got this great idea about a handsome guy who ends up in some secret institution -\nDr. Walker: D-42451, I'm sure it's a fantastic idea, but can we talk about -\nD-42451: Don't want it ruined for you? Yeah, I get it. But, you know, you're going to love it! This guy, you see - and obviously I'll play the lead - he's going to find a way to get -\nDr. Walker: Thank you, D-42451, that will do for today.\n[End Log]\n\nNote: Following testing, D-42451 continued to detail plans for filming a movie to the security team as he was returned to his room. Security personnel reported no details of particular interest.\n\nSCP-5503-1 Day 19, 19/03/2019\nInterviewed: D-42451\nInterviewer: Dr. Liam Walker\n\n[Begin Log]\nD-42451: Morning, Liam! Love the shirt! Can't wait to have one like it! So, the best thing happened. I talked your Poppy outside into getting dinner! Or, at least, I'm going to later. I know! You're thinking who could turn this charmer down. Not Poppy, mate. She's proper smitten. Lucky girl!\nDr. Walker: D-42451, I hardly think -\nD-42451: Don't worry, mate, there won't be any trouble! And I'll bring her back in plenty of time for work tomorrow. I'll have to have a better room, of course, to take her back to. Sure I can persuade you, though. I mean, I am your favourite patient.\nD-42451 winks and clicks his tongue twice.\nDr. Walker: I -\nD-42451: So! I wrote a script. Well - didn't write it. All up here, it is.\nD-42451 taps his left temple with his index finger.\nD-42451: A memory like mine's a useful thing in the movie business. So, okay, you're going to love this. First -\nDr. Walker: D-42451, can we please talk about -\nD-42451: Don't worry about that, Liam! Plenty of time for that when you've heard about -\nDespite protests by Dr. Walker, D-42451 proceeds to describe his film plot in detail for a period of 6 minutes. Details omitted for brevity.\n[End Log]\n\nNote: Dr. Walker's assistant, Mrs. Wash, has shown no indication of interest in D-42451 and has at no point agreed to any form of fraternisation. Mrs. Wash has expressed a strong desire to be excused from duty during further interviews or testing.\n\nSCP-5503-1 Day 24, 24/03/2019\nInterviewed: D-42451\nInterviewer: Dr. Liam Walker\n\n[Begin Log]\nD-42451: So Liam. Mate. Listen. I know these meetings make your morning, but it's time for me to head for Hollywood. Talent like mine\u2026 it isn't fair to deny the world. My face was made for fame and fortune.\nD-42451 stands and attempts to walk out of the interview room, but is easily prevented from leaving by security personnel.\nD-42451: No problem, guys! I get it. I really do. You'll miss me. But we'll see each other soon, I'm sure! You'll have to visit! Besides, with these great guns, I can go anywhere I want to.\nD-42451 begins to punch and kick at the external wall, causing superficial damage to the surface rendering.\nD-42451: I'll send a cheque to cover the damage! Don't worry, I'm sure your boss upstairs will understand. You tell them it was me - they'll probably make the hole a permanent feature!\nAfter a further 3 minutes, D-42451 is again restrained by security personnel and returned to his room. As he leaves the room, D-42451 appears red-faced and is breathing heavily.\n[End Log]\n\nOn 29/03/2019, 29 days into testing, D-42451 was found deceased in his room with severe cranial trauma, two broken fingers, and extensive abrasions. Security footage showed him repeatedly punching, kicking, and headbutting a wall, whilst repeating \"They're going to love me!\" Further testing schedules for SCP-5503-1 are temporarily postponed pending a procedural review.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Embedded as an investigator within Devon and Cornwall Police Force.\n2. A 48 year old male of average height and build.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5502 | SCP-5503 | SCP-5504 \u00bb"}
{"text": "N/A\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n[SKiPNET Login: Researcher Howard Oswald]\nACCESS GRANTED - Accessing Item #: SCP-5505\n\nItem #: SCP-5505\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Investigation into SCP-5505 and the disappearance of Researcher Cynthia Oswald is ongoing.\nFurther information regarding SCP-5505's containment procedures can be found in Research document - SCP-5505.\nDescription: SCP-5505 is an inter-dimensional species of aquatic predator occupying an alternate dimension overlapping our own. SCP-5505 resemble lophiiformes (anglerfish), albeit significantly larger than average (up to 15 feet in length), and possess a level of intelligence similar to that of humans. SCP-5505 are carnivorous; instances primarily feed on live human beings.\nThe dimension in which SCP-5505 reside (SCP-5505-1) is oceanic. SCP-5505 are lone hunters by nature; instances will adopt an area within SCP-5505-1 that neighbors a location in our dimension. Such areas always contain a consistent human population and are utilised by instances as their primary hunting and nesting ground. SCP-5505 hunt with a telepathic sensory/influence organ, which superficially resembles a dorsal appendage1. This appendage allows instances to telepathically detect the conscious thought patterns and emotions of prey from long distances. SCP-5505 have evolved to primarily discern feelings of curiosity and interest.\nWhile hunting, SCP-5505 instances will influence a subject's perception of their surrounding environment. This effects the visual, auditory, touch and taste stimuli of the subject. These combined influences on preys perception manifest as an illusionary hallucination varying in complexity, which may appear to them as other lifeforms, objects or a metaphysical concept with no discernible physical qualities (smells and distant sounds). These hallucinations are designed to stimulate curiosity and interest in prey, ensuring they remain within a fixed location. These specialised hallucinations are formed by instances gauging information from the preys subconscious to use as a basis. Additionally, personal knowledge known by the instance may be used to increase effectiveness.\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5505 was discovered and documented by Researcher Cynthia Oswald, director of Site-007. Following her discovery of SCP-5505, Researcher Oswald went missing on the 27/03/2020, reportedly last seen in her office.\nSeveral personal journals written by Researcher Oswald were found upon examination. These journals document the anomaly and various theories regarding SCP-5505's cross-dimensional abilities (See full research document below). Additionally, a large puddle of salt water was found at the scene, the source of which remains unknown.\nAbridged Summary: Researcher Oswald theorized that following a progressive decline of SCP-5505-1s human population, SCP-5505 had evolved to detect prey at significantly longer distances. This would eventually lead to an unintentional development of SCP-5505's anomalous abilities, enabling instances to detect prey within dimensions outside of SCP-5505-1.\nFollowing the addition of this biological feature, SCP-5505 would further evolve to develop a means of accessing dimensions containing other potential prey. This eventually manifested as a clawed appendage, capable of hypothetically 'cutting' through alternate dimensions on a subatomic level.\n\nAccess Research Document - SCP-5505\n\n.\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nPost Incident Report\nOn the 08/05/2020, Level 2 Researcher Howard Oswald was reported missing from Site-007. Investigation continues; his disappearance is highly suspected to be of anomalous origin and in connection with the disappearance of Researcher Cynthia Oswald, Head of Site-0072.\nPrior to his disappearance, surveillance footage showed researcher Howard had been working in his office for several hours, during which he accessed the SCP SKiPNET archive. While navigating through multiple SCP documents, footage showed researcher Howard momentarily losing focus before selecting the document slot for Item #: SCP-5505.\nAt the time of writing, there exists no such item designated SCP-5505.\nDespite there being no visible document, researcher Howard continued to interact with his computer interface and performing eye movement as if to read text on-screen where there was none. During this time, researcher Howard appeared visibly anxious while continuing to interact with his computer interface, scrolling with the mouse and clicking where there was nothing to select. Minutes later, the flooring directly below researcher Howard was seen gradually beginning to ripple similarly to water. Researcher Howard then suddenly fell through the floor before disappearing entirely. The floor then settled back to its regular solidity.\nAttempts to locate Researcher Howard have been unsuccessful. Upon inspection, a proportional amount of saltwater was found on the floor of researcher Howard's office where he had been working.\nGiven the similarities to the disappearance of Researcher Cynthia Oswald, lockdown of Site-007 has been approved and the investigation continues. The nature of these disappearances are still unknown. Investigating personnel are to follow any possible leads found within Site-007.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An appendage protruding from the heads of common anglerfish, used for luring in prey\n2. See Incident 17/03/2020/Cynthia Oswald\n\n\u00ab SCP-5504 | SCP-5505 | SCP-5506 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5507\nObject Class: Entos1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to its nature, SCP-5507 is effectively self-containing and is unable to impact reality. However, as the origin of its anomalous manifestation is unknown, it still poses a level of risk, and all personnel are advised to be cautious when experimenting with SCP-5507's metaphysics.\nDescription: SCP-5507's only defining characteristic2 is that of its SCP designation. In other words, SCP-5507 is only SCP-5507, displaying no other defining traits or signs of its existence. This identity of SCP-5507 is rigid, preventing other anomalies from being classified as such. It is theorized that SCP-5507 would functionally cease to exist if its classification were somehow revoked.\nAs a result of this, SCP-5507 does not intersect with any known plane of reality, making the nature of its existence unclear.\nDiscovery: SCP-5507's anomalous attributes were discovered on 01/\u2588\u2588/2020 following the opening of Series VI, when researchers at Site-20 found themselves unable to classify an anomaly as SCP-5507. It is unknown when SCP-5507 had its 'pataphysical awakening, though it is believed to be either:\n\nThe introduction of Series VI slots into viable contention (12/21/2019)\nThe creation of SCP designations as a way of labeling anomalies (\u2588/\u2588/18\u2588\u2588)\nThe pataphysical creation of labels as identifiers (unknown)\n\nAddendum 5507-1 - An Explanation of SCP-5507 by Foundation \u2018Pataphysics Researcher Dr. O. Malloy:\n\nIf you don't completely understand what SCP-5507 is yet, don't worry. It's quite hard to define it using a completely formal tone. I am placing this document here in order to provide a more in-depth explanation regarding the nature of SCP-5507 in a more straight-forward way.\nFirst thing's first, SCP-5507 is an entire entity. If it was just an inaccessible slot, then it wouldn't be 'pataphysical. Not only is SCP-5507 this entity, but this entity is SCP-5507. For most SCPs, the -XXXX designation is just a way of efficiently ordering it; you wouldn't consider it crucial to its identity. This is not the case for SCP-5507.\nAnother common misconception about SCP-5507 relates to an object and its reference. An object is the physical (or not-so-physical) 'thing' that exists, while a reference is how we refer to the object, be it semantically or otherwise. The actual rug is the object, the word 'rug' is the reference. Some believe that, for SCP-5507, the SCP-5507 designation is both the object and the reference. This would mean a constant loop of designating upon designations, which would be a metaphysical nightmare.\nThis is not the case. The object and the reference are completely seperate here; it's just that the object's only trait is that of its reference. It's a null object. Think of programming; we construct different classes (object), each with its own methods (traits). Humans can eat, walk, etcetera. Now imagine an object whose only method is being called by its reference, and nothing else. That's what SCP-5507 is.\nFor a more scientific definition of SCP-5507's location in the \u201cPata-verse\u201d, we first have to define the term \u201cPlanes of Reality\u201d, a term derived from study of SCP-3812, SCP-1304 and [DATA EXPUNGED], along with several other items. A plane of reality is not equivalent to a universe - some planes may contain several universes or perhaps several multiverses. Planes of reality exist on several levels, with each level containing potentially billions of these planes, growing exponentially the lower we go. For reference, we define our level as Level 0.\nSCP-5507 does indeed not exist on any of these fully-defined levels. So then how does it exist at all? Well, our current best theory is that the SCP Database acts as a level in between levels - a Level -0.5, if you will. The reason it isn't Level -1 is that the database is not meant to exist as a completely new universe/narrative, but due to some way reality works, it still ended up detached from our world.\nAdditionally, just because SCP-5507's sole defining trait is being SCP-5507 doesn't mean that's it's only trait. To illustrate this, I will be using booleans (AND, OR, NOT), as even though they are not metaphysics, they are still a useful tool.\nIs it true that SCP-5507 is, say, a piece of birchwood? No, of course. But that doesn't mean that it is not not a piece of birchwood too. Another common misconception about SCP-5507 is that not only is it not something, but it is also not not something as well. In other words, they believe that SCP-5507 exists unrelated to this birchwood-not birchwood dichotomy. If this birchwood problem was shown on a Venn Diagram, they believe SCP-5507 would be outside both being birchwood and not being birchwood, which would be worrisome as those probabilities equal 1 - a certainty. Luckily, SCP-5507 is not this complex - aside from its 'pataphysical abnormality, SCP-5507 behaves similarly to other entities, metaphysically speaking.\nDo note, however, that SCP-5507 not being something (or any of the other traits, like being able to be tested on) is simply an extension of SCP-5507's defining characteristic.\n\nAddendum 5507-2 - Testing:\nFollowing use of a(n) [REDACTED], Dr. Malloy was able to test SCP-2719 on SCP-5507 in order to observe it's reaction to physical attributes. Prior to this, Dr. Malloy's home had become the \u2018inside'.\n\nPointer\nOutcome\n\nSCP-5507\nnull\n\nThis test shows that SCP-5507 is able to be tested on.\nBeing outside or inside something is more-so of a physical attribute. In this context, SCP-5507 is neither inside nor outside, because it doesn't exist in that space. Of course, SCP-2719 has been tested on concepts with success, so I suggest that we test SCP-5507 with that next. - Dr. Malloy\nIn the next test, the \u2018inside' was the concept of transformation.\n\nPointer\nOutcome\n\nSCP-5507\nnull\n\nIt appears that SCP-5507 does not exist on a conceptual level either. - Dr. Malloy\nAddendum 5507-3 - Excerpt from Characteristics and Their Relation with Existence by Senior Researcher Dr. Koschov \u2588\u2588\u2588 (9/17/20\u2588\u2588):\n\nIn the past few years, the Foundation's understanding of the pataphysical nature of existence has come to focus on the idea that an entity's attributes are a crucial part in how they not only continue to \u2018be', but also how they function. For example, if you are a human, then you have all of the functions that a human would have. If you are a bird, then you have the functions that come under what a bird would have.\nHowever, the last couple of months have brought upon a startling realization. While for a long time we believed that all entities had the underlying trait of simply existing, following the results of [REDACTED], it seems that is not the case. The only thing keeping us from slipping off of the face of existence is our character, who we are - specifically our broad strokes traits, like species, location, etc. Luckily, we have many defining characteristics that make falling off unlikely.\nUnfortunately, also in recent times, we now know of several anomalies capable of reconfiguring a person's entire identity, personality, and overall metaphysical existence to a great degree. Due to our reliance on several defining characteristics, it is believed that a transformation of this degree would be metaphysically fatal. While a person's physical body and brain may still be there, their previous \u2018self' wouldn't. In truth, are you really the same person as you were when you were younger? If a retroactive anomaly wiped all records of your past actions, did they still happen?\n\u2026\nIt is unknown what happens to entities when they cease to exist. It wouldn't be the afterlife, as that isn't even out of our plane of existence, much less the \u2018'Pata-verse'. Nor would it be [REDACTED], as that is still within \u2018being'.\n\u2026\nOne question I have gotten is that if non-existence denies everything, then wouldn't it also deny itself? This is a great question\u2026 (cont.)\n\nFootnotes\n1. Object is contained via its database file.\n2. characteristic (noun, metaphysics): A trait that is fundamental to the identity of an entity or a group of entities. Describing items as what they are not is not a defining characteristic.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5506 | SCP-5507 | SCP-5508 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nThanks to:\n\nwctaiwan\nRounderhouse\nThe Great Hippo\nUncle Nicolini\nYossipossi\nCaptain Kirby\n\n\nWelcome, Dr. Archibald.\nYou are currently editing SCP-5510. Your session will expire after 118 seconds of inactivity.\n\n[No file selected]\n\nItem #: SCP-5510\nObject Class: Safe (provisional)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5510 is to be kept in a small-item locker. Confirmation testing is currently ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5510 is a TV remote control. The object functions as expected, with the exception of its four media navigation buttons. When one is pressed, the subjective time experienced by the anomaly changes.\nAddendum 5510-1: Testing Logs\n\nButton\nResult\n\nFast forward\nSCP-5510 experiences time at half speed.\n\nRewind\nSCP-5510 experiences time at double speed.\n\nPlay\nNo known effects.\n\nPause\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\naismallard's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-3597 \u2022\n\nSCP-5502 \u2022\n\nSCP-4838 \u2022\n\nSCP-5134 \u2022\n\nSCP-4447 \u2022\n\nSCP-1294-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4322 \u2022\n\nSCP-6115 \u2022\n\nSCP-7558 \u2022\n\nSCP-5900 \u2022\n\nSCP-5871 \u2022\n\nSCP-4781 \u2022\n\nSCP-4853 \u2022\n\nSCP-5446 \u2022\n\nSCP-1047-J \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nThe Heart of the Beast \u2022\n\nContinuous Integration \u2022\n\nStealing Something Else \u2022\n\nThe Pumpkin Mystery \u2022\n\nOther\n\naismallard's personnel file \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5509 | SCP-5510 | SCP-5511 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5511 - Who remembers you, when you are gone?\n\nMore from this author: http://www.scp-wiki.net/poi-3181-198-file\nCritique Credit:\nN/A\nImage Credits:\nN/A\n\n\n2/5511 LEVEL 2/5511\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5511\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment for SCP-5511 is focused on investigating the cause of and attempting to prevent another occurrence of SCP-5511. All witnesses of the victims' deaths have been amnesticized, with the corpses being cremated to prevent investigation of the cause of death. Cover stories for their deaths have been disseminated. A disinformation campaign, painting the projection to the moon as a marketing stunt, is currently underway.\nDescription: SCP-5511 is an event that took place over the night of 2020/02/12 in which a total of 84 civilians died by having their heads spontaneously explode with a force of around one milliton of TNT. This caused another 20 people to die from the force or resulting debris, with over 30 being left injured. During this time, a projection of red letters (SCP-5511-1) appeared on the surface of the moon, changing whenever a new victim appeared. No cause or pattern could be found in any of the victims that could lead to finding a possible perpetrator.\nBelow is a list of a few notable victims, with the resulting change in SCP-5511-1. A full list is available to anyone assigned to this project with a clearance of Level 2 or higher.\n\nTime\nInfo about the victim\nChange in SCP-5511-1\n\n18:30 EST\nNo victim, beginning of the event.\nSCP-5511-1 first appeared, showing the number \"000000\".\n\n~19:20 EST\n1st victim. Eve Hendricks, a wife and mother of 2 from Bangor, Wales, age 32.\nThe number displayed by SCP-5511-1 increased by 800, now showing \"000800\".\n\n~20:10 EST\n13th Victim. Jennifer K\u00f6hle, a teacher at an elementary school from Munich, Germany, age 29.\nThe number displayed by SCP-5511-1 increased by 3100, now showing \"012500\".\n\n~23:20 EST\n32nd Victim. Gamal Alaoui, a CEO at a tech company from Cairo, Egypt, age 52.\nThe number displayed by SCP-5511-1 increased by 100, now showing \"0034600\".\n\n~02:50 EST\n49th Victim. Josue Caron, a popular live streamer from Lyon, France, age 17.\nThe number displayed by SCP-5511-1 increased by 2600, now showing \"0052400\".\n\n~04:00 EST\n64th victim. Eiji Oue, a NEET1 from \u014csaka, Japan, age 23.\nThe number displayed by SCP-5511-1 did not increase, still showing \"0061400\"\n\n~06:20 EST\nLast (84th) victim. Lance Masons, an office worker from Austin Texas, age 32.\nThe number displayed by SCP-5511-1 increased by 1200, now showing \"076700\".\n\n06:30 EST\nNo victim, apparent ending of the event.\nThe number did not change in value but was displayed at a smaller size. A different writing appeared above it in larger letters, reading \"GAME OVER\".\n\nFootnotes\n1. \"Not in employment, education or training.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5510 | SCP-5511 | SCP-5512 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Image of SCP-5513 (left) and \"the SCP Foundation\"1 (right) during Group Date-1, taken by \"the Chaos Insurgency\"2\n\nItem #: SCP-5513\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation AI Bot Love.aic is to monitor and, summarily, shutdown webpages that depict the following:\n1. Artistic renderings of the SCP Foundation logo and/or personnel engaged in compromising positions with SCP-5513.\n2. Fictional writings or articles based on a hypothetical relationship between the SCP Foundation and SCP-5513.\nSCP-5513 is to be held in an intermediate-level reality bender human containment suite outfitted with Level-4 thaumaturgical reality dampeners. Any request by SCP-5513 for an interview, \u201cdate,\u201d or interrogation must be held in an appropriately designed reality-controlled cell.\nNo Foundation personnel may reveal their face to SCP-5513. As such, security personnel must wear full black headgear.\nAssigned researchers who conduct the interrogation must wear a full-faced plate mask inscribed with the logos of various anomalous associated agencies such as the SCP Foundation, Global Occult Coalition, or Chaos Insurgency. The assigned researcher must follow a pre-generated script written by Foundation-employed romance authors.\nDescription: SCP-5513 is a 19 year old female reality bending humanoid of Japanese ethnicity who refers to itself by the name \"Kanako Nanami.\"\nSCP-5513 believes that it exists within a \u201cromance simulation video game\"3 and prejudiciously behaves with other individuals as if they were characters in this game. Furthermore, its reality bending ability distorts the local environment to fit in with this preconception.\nSCP-5513 abnormally conceptualizes the concepts of individuality and institutionality; it conjectures that the ethos of entire organizations are wholly personified by those wearing masks of said organization and disregards those that do not fit within this framework as \u201cside characters.\"4\nPeriodically, SCP-5513 requests for a \u201changout,\u201d \u201cget-together,\u201d or \u201cdate\u201d with one of the humanized organizations and this request may be granted in a secured cell.\nOnce in the cell, the walls, floor, and ceiling warp into several possible layouts. At this time, the assigned researcher must act in an exaggerated, oversimplified manner that is congruent with the expectations of SCP-55135.\nThe following are some examples of SCP-5513's intermediate-level reality bending;\n\nStandard Humanoid Reality Alteration Report\nSubject: SCP-5513\nChange on Reality: \u2713 Environment : \u2715 Personnel\nLocation and Time: Interrogation Room-14, Site-041, 01/21/2020\nImpetus: SCP-5513's second request for a \u201cdate\u201d with the SCP Foundation (represented by Researcher Alastair).\nReality Change: Upon entering the interrogation cell, the interior of the room was transformed into that of a standard American high-school classroom. Testing by Researcher Alastair has shown that the dimensions of the room were altered and the walls appeared to have dematerialized, but there still existed functional barriers within the confines of the classroom.\n\nStandard Humanoid Reality Alteration Report\nSubject: SCP-5513\nChange on Reality: \u2713 Environment : \u2715 Personnel\nLocation: Interrogation Room-14, Site-041, 03/04/2020\nImpetus: During the end of the weekly \u201cinterview,\u201d SCP-5513 clasped the hands of the Manna Charitable Foundation (represented by Researcher Sakura) and asked if it was possible for them to meet again soon. At that time, SCP-5513's cheeks flushed red and it tilted its head down.\nReality Change: At the moment of clasping, the walls' coloration changed to pink. A light pink mist spread on the ground from an unknown source. After affirmation by Researcher Sakura, the walls reverted back to their normal gray hue.\n\nStandard Humanoid Reality Alteration Report\nSubject: SCP-5513\nChange on Reality: \u2715 Environment : \u2713 Personnel\nLocation: Annex Hallway 12-B, Site-041, 02/01/2020\nImpetus: During transfer of SCP-5513 from its containment cell to the newly constructed dating chamber, SCP-5513 noticed Security Officer Izumi Takahiro without any proper headgear. SCP-5513 furrowed its brow and spoke in a low toned voice, \u201cUgh, I hate glitches.\u201d\nReality Change: Security Officer Izumi Takahiro disappeared at the moment of eye-contact with SCP-5513. He was later found in Hong Kong, however, without memory of the incident.\n\nThe following interview was the first group interview that SCP-5513 requested with the SCP Foundation (represented by Researcher Nh\u1eadt Minh), the Chaos Insurgency (represented by Researcher Kei Alastair) and the Serpent's Hand (represented by Researcher Hiro Hirokumi).\n\nSCP-5513 Group Date-1; Site-041\n\nSCP-5513 Group Date-1; Site-041\n\nRecording-5513-Group Date-1\nDate: 04/13/2020\nLocation: Dating Chamber-1, Site-041\nPurpose: Pacify SCP-5513 through granting its request for interviews. Identify potential unknown aspects of SCP-5513 anomalous effect.\nNote: SCP Researchers Minh, Alastair, and Hirokumi have been instructed to not speak or act in a clinical or professional manner and have been directed to act as personifications of their assigned organization. SCP-5513, seemingly, responds positively to this type of fanciful or otherwise whimsical conversation.\nAll actions and words are assessed and tracked in real-time by an outside observation team who discreetly communicate to the researchers through ear-pieces.\nRecording Start: (When SCP-5513 enters the chamber, the volumetric dimensions of the room, outwardly, alter and the walls of the chamber appear to show a beach during sunset. The floor of chamber slowly transforms from concrete to sand.)\"Chaos Insurgency\": Hmph! I didn't come because of you or anything. Don't misunderstand!\n\"Serpent's Hand\": Oh, just ignore him Kanako, you know how Chaos gets when he is in the same place as Foundation.\"Chaos Insurgency\": Really! Despite her apology, you're still upset at Kanako-chan. You're as cunning as they come. (Chaos Insurgency smacks SCP Foundation on the back of the head)\n\n\"SCP Foundation\":\u2026Shut it Chaos\u2026Kanako-chan you know I'm a private person. And you know I hate it when other people look at you. So anytime, any part of you pops up online, I get jealous.\n\"Serpent's Hand\": (knocks his elbow at Chaos Insurgency and speaks loudly) Get a load of this guy. Who does he think he is?\n\"Chaos Insurgency\": Hey SCP, you can't monopolize Kanako like that you know! She should be shown to anyone and everyone. How dare you keep taking down her drawings!\"Serpent's Hand\": Is anything wrong Kanako-chan?\"Chaos Insurgency\": No problem, I'll do this while that stoic SCP bums around.\n\"SCP Foundation\": Any more words Chaos? I'll take you on if you really want.\n\"Serpent's Hand\": (whispers to SCP-5513) Just let them go at each other, they will fight no matter what happens. You know that SCP's uptight attitude and Chao's tsun attitude will never match.\"Serpent's Hand\": So what did you want to talk about Kanako-senpai?\"Serpent's Hand\": Of course! I'm like your little brother senpai.\"Serpent's Hand\": Onee-san, you know SCP-san more than anyone. His ice-cold attitude and love of mystery is only second to you. He understands why you put them up but he would rather you give him the drawings then sharing them to everyone. By the way Kanako-senpai, how did you manage to put them online? I want to upload some drawings too so can you show me?\"Serpent's Hand\": (grabs SCP-5513's hand) Do you want to tell me anything else Kanako-senpai?\"Serpent's Hand\": I love you too Kanako!\n\"Chaos Insurgency\": (while building the campfire, SCP-5513 comes from behind Chaos Insurgency and hugs him from behind) Hey! Cut it out Kanako!\"Chaos Insurgency\": I-It's not that I like you or anything\u2026I just happened to have some free time. (SCP-5513 burrows its head into SCP Foundation's labcoat) Is everything alright Kanako? Who's bothering you, I'll kick his ass!\"Chaos Insurgency\": What does that mean Kanako?\"Chaos Insurgency\": \u2026One of these days, you better get SCP to do all this work.\"SCP Foundation\": I don't know Kanako. I see you whispering to Serpent and Chaos over there but I've been sitting here by myself.\"\n\"SCP Foundation\": That's all and good, but I have a different way of having fun. (SCP Foundation gets up and sits closer to SCP-5513 and slowly grabs its hand) You've barely told me anything since the first time I met you Kanako-kun. Tell me more about yourself, you know secrets make me feel special. Especially your secrets\u2026\"SCP Foundation\": You know how I love my privacy. But I keep forgetting, where did you come from?\"SCP Foundation\": Of course, of course. It's just my bad memory. Can you remind me what we were doing when we meet?\"SCP Foundation\": What is it Kanako-kun?\"SCP Foundation\": I lik\u20266love you.All of you stop lying to me! The love meters above your head have been at 0% from the start. What am I too you? (The ground of the dating chamber begins to lightly shake as SCP-5513 begins to cry.)\n\"Chaos Insurgency\": (rushes towards SCP-5513) Kanako! What did that bastard say to you? (Researcher Alaister bursts into flames and falls his knees. Researcher Alaister begins to scream.)SCP-5513: (looks up) Huh? The meter\u2026\n\"Serpent's Hand\": Kanako-senpai, I think Chaos wants some time to rest now.Recording End\nImmediate After Action Report: Researcher Nguyen instructed to kiss SCP-5513 in the next interview, if the opportunity arises. Researcher Alaister replaced with Researcher Sanchez.\n\nSCP-5513's complete lack of recognition of \u201cside characters\u201d presents a potential avenue for permanent neutralization through various non-lethal methods. However, the apparent lucidity and awareness that SCP-5513 gains when observing \u201cglitches\u201d suggests that totally predictable behavior in such a negation procedure may not result.\nAt this time, additional interviews will be permitted until further behavioral analysis determines whether SCP-5513's supposed superficiality is genuine.\nOn multiple occasions, SCP-5513 has referred to \u201cend-routes.\u201d The following document was found during SCP-5513's cell during its eighth \u201cinterview.\u201d\n\nGood ending: reverse harem end!!! need all love bars to be at 100% (SCP, Chaos, Serpent, GOC, Sarkic) \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f pain+healing=love?\nNeutral ending: end up with only 1 guy (Serpent is too young, Chaos is too spicy, Sarkic is rich but a weirdo, GOC??) SCP-san is hot but doesn't open up.\nBad ending: no progress (\u2565_\u2565), just reset and try again.\n\nFootnotes\n1. (played by Researcher Nh\u1eadt Minh)\n2. (played by Researcher Kei Alaister)\n3. Known colloquially as a \u201cdating sim\"\n4. Practically, this is how SCP-5513 refers to security personnel and other extant individuals\n5. ie. that of a stereotypical, overemotive romance character.\n6. The research team informs Researcher Nguyen to use the word \u201clove\u201d\n\n\u00ab SCP-5512 | SCP-5513 | SCP-5514 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by stormbreath, Ellie3, chiifu, and J Dune\n\nItem#: 5514\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5514 under construction. Beowulf-Sigurd Rail not yet attached.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5514 is currently being used as the primary means of defense against the ongoing MH-Class (\"Large-Scale Aggressor Overrun\") Scenario. As such, limited containment protocols are in order. As a result of the ongoing SK-Class (\"Broken Masquerade\") Scenario, there are no security protocols in place concerning SCP-5514.\nMTF Eta-5 (\"J\u00e4eger Bombers\") has been trained to pilot SCP-5514, and is in charge of controlling and directing the vehicle. Liaisons from the Global Occult Coalition and the Hy-Brasil government have been assigned to assist in piloting SCP-5514. SCP-5391 Research Head Mikasa Kaori has been attached to Eta-5 in order to assist with tactical decisions in command of SCP-5514.\nIn the event that a Large-Scale Aggressor attacks a city or other developed area, SCP-5514 is to be immediately deployed to said area in order to engage the entities. Lethal force is authorized against all of the entities which SCP-5514 will be fighting.\n\nDesign schematics for SCP-5514.\n\nDescription: SCP-5514 is a massive humanoid mecha-like vehicle constructed by the Foundation, with assistance from the Global Occult Coalition. SCP-5514 is currently being utilized as part of defenses against the current ongoing MH-Class (\"Large-Scale Aggressor Overrun\") Scenario. To this end, SCP-5514 is engaged in the combat and physical engagement of Large-Scale Aggressors (LSAs). SCP-5514 has managed to successfully kill or otherwise incapacitate twelve LSAs.\nMultiple anomalous phenomena were utilized in the construction of SCP-5514. A full description of these anomalous phenomena has been attached to this document. (See Addendum 5514.1.)\nConstruction: Progress began on the construction of SCP-5514 in 1988, following the destruction of Site-03 by a previously unidentified LSA. Given the lack of defenses available to Hy-Brasil and the known presence of other LSAs in the world, the KEY Project was created as a preliminary working group to determine the best method for defending civilization against another LSA.\nThe KEY Project quickly determined several problems with all potential forms of defenses. Large-Scale Aggressors proved resistant to most forms of traditional attack, leading to the belief that they had some form of defensive ability that protected them from most forms of harms. However, other LSAs were able to penetrate these defenses.\nTaming or creating a biological simulacrum of an LSA was quickly ruled out. However, analysis of SCP-24061 showed that it could possibly be used in order to replicate the offensive capabilities of LSAs. The KEY Project then began planning and constructing a similar automaton, as it was the most viable means of defense.\nConstruction of SCP-5514 began in 1990 and proceeded normally until 1998/06/30, when SCP-5391 occurred. At the time of the event, SCP-5514 was not fully finished and could not be used to avert the MH-Class Scenario. However, it remained the most viable means of defending the world from all LSAs, and the Foundation diverted all available funds into completing it.\nFurthermore, the Foundation contacted various Groups-of-Interest in order to make SCP-5514 a collaborative project. The majority of parties were unable to assist, as they were either unprepared for the MH-Class Scenario or significantly hampered by it. However, the Global Occult Coalition was both active and able to lend aid. Cooperation with the Global Occult Coalition was confirmed following an emergency summit hosted by the Hy-Brasil government on 1998/07/10.\n\nCoalition/Foundation/Hy-Brasil Emergency Meeting Transcript\n\nIn Attendance:\n\n[Hy-Brasil] High King Delb\u00e1eth II\n\n[GOC] Madam D.C. al Fine\n[GOC] General Rockefeller\n\n[SCP] O5-1\n[SCP] Captain Perseus Rosales\n\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: I call this council meeting to action. I am invoking Article I, Section II of the pact that I bound you to six years ago. The end of the world is here, and we will not be caught defenseless to these krakens once again.\nO5-1: The Hy-Brasil International Security Agreement of 1992, you mean.\nMadam al Fine: Article I, Section II binds us to action in the event that giant monsters of types different from the beast that destroyed your kingdom appear. Although it appears that the one that ended Hy-Brasil is back.\nCaptain Rosales: Speaking of that, are we sure that this island is safe? Or, the best place to meet now?\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: In the time since the Doom that came to Hy-Brasil, we have made arrangements for new guardians. They walk very slowly, but have a broad diet, one that includes any of the threats that have awoken as of late.\nMadam al Fine: I didn't notice anything that could have killed a Cetus-class entity.\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: They move unseen.\nO5-1: Ah. Of course. And there is no chance of bringing these entities elsewhere?\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: No. We do not control them and we have no means of communicating with them. They have simply been led here over many years, and so, we have them now. However, in any case, the pact is in order.\nGeneral Rockefeller: Apologies, but I am unfamiliar with the terms of the Security Agreement. I have not been working for the Coalition for some time. Since the incident in Hy-Brasil.\nMadam al Fine: A shame. We could have used you since then. You're a hard man to find.\nGeneral Rockefeller: Not hard enough.\nO5-1: The Hy-Brasil International Security Agreement of 1992 stipulates that in event of an MH-Class Scenario, the Coalition, the Foundation and Hy-Brasil are to put aside all differences in order to stop the end of the world.\nMadam al Fine: Very well. So it must be. It's made easier that Article 2, Section 5 mandates that the preferred method of dealing with these entities is by killing them with extreme prejudice.\nO5-1: Yes. You forced that stipulation through in negotiations six years ago.\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: Enough. This is not the time or place to argue about past squabbles. We must act now.\nCaptain Rosales: We currently have one plan. Nothing has worked against the LSAs in the past, but we have to resort to one of our more \u2026 esoteric strategies. The KEY Project.\nMadam al Fine: I'm all ears.\nCaptain Rosales: A giant robot. One hundred meters tall. We've been working on it for years and it is currently eating the majority of our budget.\nMadam al Fine: Why the hell is that going to work?\nO5-1: Well, the idea at the most basic level is to punch through all the metaphysical defenses that these entities possess by attacking them with another Large Scale Aggressor.\nCaptain Rosales: We're also just throwing everything we can into the mix.\nGeneral Rockefeller: You're using the otherworldly in the process, I hope?\nO5-1: Certainly.\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: We can contribute some help as best we can. If you cloak it in myth, steep it in the archetypes of those who have fought in the past, you will be able to do a great amount of harm. And we can offer you unforged cold iron in the form of a blade.\nMadam al Fine: Does cold iron actually do anything?\nKing Delb\u00e1eth: Depends on how much you believe in it. Or how strong the story is.\nMadam al Fine: Well. I have to say I like your moxie, if nothing else. We'd be happy to help you on this one. I imagine that if we put our heads together we can get this done in what, a few months? Years?\nO5-1: We're temporally accelerating the construction chamber. Days, at most.\nMadam al Fine: I like the way you think, Aaron.\n\nWith the support of the Global Occult Coalition and the full deployment of all anomalous methods to accelerate and ease the construction process, SCP-5514 was finished and declared ready for combat on 1998/07/12.\nAddendum 5514.1 \u2014 Anomalous Features and Weaponry of SCP-5514\nOne of the early design decisions made in the creation of SCP-5514 was whether or not to incorporate anomalous features into the design. It was ultimately ruled by the O5 Council (9-3-1) that a scenario requiring the deployment of SCP-5514 would necessarily be one in which the integrity of the Masquerade Protocol would be challenged. Therefore, the usage of anomalies in the operation of SCP-5514 would be permissible.\nA summary of some of the key anomalous features of SCP-5514 follows.\n\nFeature\nAnomalous Qualities\n\nWeight Sink\nLarge portions of SCP-5514 have had their material composition partially displaced into an adjacent pocket dimension. This displacement has been specifically calculated to not significantly lower the mass or density of SCP-5514 while drastically lowering the material weight of it. This allows SCP-5514 to function as though it were a fraction of the weight without a sacrifice of hull integrity.\n\nPower Source\nSCP-0372 has been implanted into the chest cavity of SCP-5514. Subdimensional portal vents installed in the chest cavity release approximately 99% of the energy output of SCP-037 into an empty demiplane. The remaining 1% of output is used to reliably power SCP-5514.\n\nFlight Systems\nA flaw produced during the development process of SCP-5514 has resulted in a control system (initially installed to regulate internal air circulation) instead creating and controlling an independent gravity field. The origin of this flaw is unknown and investigation could potentially cause it to stop functioning. The manipulation of this field allows for unaided flight.\n\nDefenses\nThrough the usage of conceptual engineering, SCP-5514 has been conceptually welded to the following: the planet Earth, human resilience and adamant. As each of these concepts is dramatically larger and older than SCP-5514, the transfer of ideas between them is effectively one-way. These features combine to make SCP-5514 near-indestructible and the pilots indefatigable.\n\n'Pataphysical Mantle\nThrough an intense subliminal and memetic propaganda campaign, 25% of the global population has developed the belief that SCP-5514 is divinely sent to slay LSAs. This has allowed it to 'pataphysically mantle the mytheme of the character archetype \"The Dragonslayer\".\n\nIn addition to the anomalous subsystems and methods of construction that were used in the creation of SCP-5514, it has been outfitted with various anomalous weapons.\n\nWeapon\nDescription\n\nBeowulf-Sigurd Rail\nA shoulder mounted railgun. Rather than use electromagnetic forces, the Beowulf-Sigured Rail uses anomalously altered gravity to both fire and aim at targets. Targets are made dramatically3 more heavy, causing projectiles to specifically impact them at superterminal velocities.\n\nCold Iron Sword\nPrimary weapon for combating entities. Entire forty-meter long blade forged from cold iron provided by the Hy-Brasil Royal Court, with a handle built around the blade without forging. Wounds inflicted by cold iron do not regenerate.\n\nRounded Recoilling Plasma\nHeld atop SCP-5514 as a hat, the weapon can be removed for ranged combat. The edges of the weapon are coated with plasma, which can be activated or deactivated upon user control. Electromagnets are built-in the weapon, so the wielder can reattain the weapon, should that be unable to be done manually.\n\nThousand Word Arrows\nSeven poets constantly writing and reciting poems about the defeat and death of large monsters, broadcasted at high volume from SCP-5514. Empowers the 'Pataphysical Mantle and demoralizes enemies.\n\nHoldout Plasma Wristblade\nSuperheated plasma magnetically held in the form of a blade attached to the right wrist of SCP-5514. Capable of cutting through almost all matter, but of limited combat application. Intended for usage in emergency circumstances.\n\nEmergency Sun Vent\nAs a last resort strategy, individual power vents to SCP-037 can be deactivated, releasing a fraction of the energy output contained within the power system's associated subdimension as a beam of energy. Due to the extreme potential for collateral damage when firing, this is only to be used as a last resort.\n\nAddendum 5514.2 \u2014 Combat Encounters\nFollowing the development of SCP-5514, it has been successfully deployed to engage various Large Scale Aggressors in physical combat. It has been universally successful in each of these deployments. Records of these tests have been recorded below.\n\nTest Wake-02\n\nForeword: On 1998/8/2, LSA-Wake-02 emerged from the sea near Tokyo, attacking combined Global Occult Coalition and Foundation forces. Alongside the appearance of LSA-Wake-02, several other LSAs of a minor degree attacked the forces. Due to the severity of the situation, SCP-5514 was dispatched to combat these entities, despite the lack of prior testing.\nA total of 3,241 combined personnel were lost during this encounter.\n\n\u00bb BEGIN LOG \u00ab\nSCP-5514 arrives in sub-orbit directly above Tokyo, and drops down to planetside. Through the creation of counterbalanced gravitational forces, it quickly falls into the water of the bay outside Tokyo.\nCaptain Rosales: We have successfully deployed to Tokyo, for our first combat test of SCP-5514. All capabilities ready to engage with the target.\nLSA-Wake-02 is detected in the water just to the south of SCP-5514's landing location. Based upon its movements, it appears to be preparing for another attack upon the Tokyo Harbor.\nDr. Kaori: Sensors have locked onto the target north of us. Proceeding to combat.\nSCP-5514 navigates through the waters of the bay, paralleling the city coast. The city is currently in the process of evacuation, but many residents stop attempting to flee in order to gaze at SCP-5514 as it attempts to walk through the streets.\nThousand Word Arrows: Champion! Champion! Exalt in the glory of the Dragonslayer!\nUpon hearing the Thousand Word Arrows, LSA-Wake-02 appears to halt its attack towards Tokyo Harbor. It instead backs away, making distance between the harbor and itself. A shriek originating from LSA-Wake-02 is audible, and several other minor LSAs can be seen on SCP-5514's radar.\nCaptain Rosales: Looks like we pissed it off. Are there any targets that require immediate attention?\nDr. Kaori: Just Wake-02.\nCaptain Rosales: Understood. Increasing Weight Sink Integrity.\nSCP-5514 nears the LSA-Wake-02 and the other LSAs. It jumps into the air, removing the Rounded Recoiling Plasma and throwing it at a nearby LSA. The plasma is activated, cleanly decapitating the head of the entity. The electromagnets are subsequently activated, arching the weapon dramatically; it hits several other LSAs before flying towards SCP-5514. The plasma is deactivated and the weapon is placed back in its original position.\nThousand Word Arrows: The vicious beasts slain! Gone to those which were once bane!\nSCP-5514 unsheathes the Cold Iron Sword, directing it towards an LSA currently on the harbor as it falls to the ground. It stabs the heart of the entity, which shrieks and falls to the ground. SCP-5514 quickly draws the sword from the entity's body, slashing the throat of another minor LSA as it turns towards the harbor.\nDr. Kaori: Four o'clock, to your right!\nSCP-5514 backs away from its position, then activates its flight systems, remaining in the air. The second head of LSA-Wake-02 can be seen protruding from the mouth of the first. An abnormal amount of saliva begins to drip from the mouth of the second head as it lets out a shriek. The many remaining minor LSAs cease attacking the Tokyo Harbor and instead direct their attention towards SCP-5514.\nCaptain Rosales: Feisty one, eh?\nThe second head of LSA-Wake-02 shoots towards SCP-5514, extending just over 40 meters, barely missing the foot of SCP-5514. A minor LSA scampers up the appendage, pouncing towards SCP-5514, which blocks the attack with its sword and slashes the entity midair.\nSCP-5514 launches into the air and flies towards LSA-Wake-02, using the Beowulf-Sigurd Rail to shoot at the eyes of the main head. LSA-Wake-02 shrieks, and retreats its appendage. SCP-5514 uses this moment to twist in the air and strike at the first head, decreasing the Weight Sink Integrity in order to propel the momentum of the attack.\nSCP-5514 sweeps around and descends towards LSA-Wake-02 before piercing its head, flying over it and drawing the blade down the LSA's serpentine body all the way to its caudal fin. Each half of its body squirms for a moment, but finally, it lies still.\nThousand Word Arrows: And thus the deed was done! Exalt! Exalt! In the glory of the Dragonslayer!\nThe other minor LSAs stop attacking the Tokyo Harbor upon seeing the death of LSA-Wake-02. They begin to retreat into the ocean, with the few remaining stragglers eliminated by SCP-5514 using the Beowulf-Sigurd Rail.\nCaptain Rosales: Dr. Kaori, Wake-02 has been eliminated.\nDr. Kaori: And SCP-5514 functioned exactly as designed. I think it's safe to say that the first test is a success.\n\u00bb END LOG \u00ab\n\nTest Meta-03\n\nForeword: Shortly following Test Wake-02, several antimemetic LSAs were reported in Montezuma, Georgia, United States. The population was quickly evacuated, and a perimeter was established around the town. After a near breach, SCP-5514 was dispatched to a field near the security perimeter, in which the entities were located.\n\n\u00bb BEGIN LOG \u00ab\nWith the counterconceptual filters enabled, the LSAs manifest before SCP-5514. There are five present around SCP-5514. Each stands two-hundred meters tall, composed of spindly black legs that break off of each other and splinter. Each only stands on two of these legs, raising the rest around it, poised to attack. Smaller spiders crawl upon the LSAs and fall off to the ground.\nDr. Kaori: I've seen these before, near Site-41. We're lucky our filters could pick them up. I trust all combat capabilities are ready?\nCaptain Rosales: Of course.\nSCP-5514 unsheathes its Cold Iron Sword, dashing towards the nearest entity. The nearest entity is currently engaging in attacking individual humans on the ground, and turns to face SCP-5514 mid-charge. It raises several arms into the air, motioning to attack SCP-5514, but SCP-5514 slices the arms in half with the sword.\nSCP-5514 closes the distance between it and the LSA. It stabs the entity in the midsection, and cleaves it half. The top half of the entity falls to the ground, but remains animate, attempting to stab SCP-5514 with its legs. SCP-5514 repeatedly stabs it with the sword, until it ceases to move. When the entity has been confirmed deceased, SCP-5514 takes a step back, with the sword still impaling the entity in the ground.\nCaptain Rosales: That was easier than expected. There was just the one?\nA smaller LSA leaps onto SCP-5514, latching onto its shoulder. SCP-5514 engages its independent gravity field and flies into sub-orbit, tearing the entity off of its shoulder and into the air. SCP-5514 engages its railgun and shoots the LSA, at which it plummets downwards. The entity crashes into the ground and dies upon impact.\nSCP-5514 descends back down and retrieves its sword from the body of the previously terminated entity. It then stands up to confront the other entities, only for the counterconceptual filters to begin failing. All of the opposing LSAs vanish from view, as does any evidence of their surroundings. Only the bodies of the two deceased entities remain.\nCaptain Rosales: Dr. Kaori, I have suddenly forgotten why we are here.\nDr. Kaori: Something is wrong. Stay on your guard.\nSCP-5514 holds its sword out in front of it, slowly turning and looking for any signs of an enemy. However, there is nothing to be found. Suddenly, massive damage is inflicted to the rear of SCP-5514, with no apparent source. SCP-5514 quickly whirls around, blindly slashing with the cold iron sword. Massive spider limbs fall to the ground.\nSuddenly, the entire scene is plunged into shadow, as the sun is blotted out by a new, massive entity flying above the battlefield. The entity appears as a massive serpent, although with a massive plumage of feathers. This entity is a new LSA, not previously observed by the Foundation.\nDr. Kaori: What the hell is that?\nThousand Word Arrows: That is a snake of the garden, good doctor.\nSCP-5514 struggles to reboot filter systems, but they remain nonfunctional. The new entity descends to the level of SCP-5514 and coils around empty space, floating in midair. It then opens its mouth and clamps down hard, causing a spider-like LSA to become visible in its jaws. The bitten LSA briefly squirms before going limp.\nUnknown Entity: Watch your back.\nBefore SCP-5514 can react, an unseen LSA latches onto the back of the mech. In the struggle of trying to rip it away, SCP-5514 falls to the ground. Hull damage is reported along the back armor plating.\nUnknown Entity: There are some things that even I cannot do, but I can help you see them. If you agree to be my ally, that is.\nDr. Kaori requests backup and engages exterior communication systems in order to speak to the entity.\nDr. Kaori: How is that possible?\nUnknown Entity: The Serpent never forgets. I remember the dawn of the universe. These insects cannot break my mind. Do you agree? Or should I leave you here to fend for yourselves?\nCaptain Rosales: Kaori, stop. We don't have clearance for these kinds of\u2014\nDr. Kaori: We agree.\nThe Serpent: Good.\nThe Serpent's emerald eyes begin to glow white, and an apple appears in the mech cockpit before Dr. Kaori. She hesitates, but takes a bite. Immediately, all of the LSAs surrounding the Serpent and SCP-5514 manifest visibly. There are four left, including the entity standing upon the back of SCP-5514.\nThe Serpent flips its tail and slams it into the entity on the back of SCP-5514, sending it sprawling away before flattening it on the ground with another blow. It does not move again. SCP-5514 rises. The Serpent lunges forward and begins to feast on another entity. SCP-5514 aims the Beowulf-Sigurd Rail at a third entity, with anomalously precise targeting, aided by the Serpent. A single shot is fired, punching directly through the LSA and killing it.\nThe Serpent coils around the final remaining entity, holding it in place.\nThe Serpent: Strike this beast down and seal our pact.\nSCP-5514 manifests the Holdout Plasma Wristblade and slices the throat of the final entity. It gurgles weakly, struggling for a moment before it stops moving. With the death confirmed, the Serpent releases its hold on it.\nThe Serpent: Perseus, Mikasa, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.\n\u00bb END LOG \u00ab\n\nTest Brasil-12\n\nForeword: LSA-Brasil-01 was hypothesized to be the cause of SCP-5391 and assigned as the highest priority threat. After it was spotted off the coast of Greenland, SCP-5514 was deployed to the coast in order to fight it. The Serpent accompanied SCP-5514 to the site of the battle, acting as bait for LSA-Brasil-01, as the largest and second most powerful LSA in the world at the time.\n\n\u00bb BEGIN LOG \u00ab\nSCP-5514 lands on the shores of Greenland and walks out into the ocean, standing in the water up to its waist. The Serpent emerges from the water and shakes off the dew, letting its rainbow plumage dry out. Together, they scan the horizon for any sign of LSA-Brasil-01.\nThe Serpent: This is where it was supposed to happen, is it not? This is where the Quin Krake was supposed to die ten years ago. Before the Doom of Hy-Brasil.\nCaptain Rosales: How do you know that?\nThe Serpent: That's my role, is it not? To know of forbidden things.\nCaptain Rosales: Ah, right. It's true. The Coalition tried to lure the beast here, to this exact beach in the past. I don't know why they chose it again. I guess it still works just as well as it would have then.\nThe Serpent: It will.\nThe Serpent rises into the air, floating next to SCP-5514. Its tail drifts down into the water. Together, they begin to scan the horizon, looking for LSA-Brasil-01. As they wait, a storm cloud rolls in, and begins to rain upon them.\nA few moments later, a division of the J\u00e4eger Bombers contacts Captain Rosales and alerts him that LSA-Brasil-01 has been spotted traveling to the location of SCP-5514 and the Serpent, expected to arrive within minutes.\nCaptain Rosales: Brace for impact. It's coming for us.\nSCP-5514 and the Serpent enter battle stances. The storm obscures visibility, preventing any visual contact of the ocean. LSA-Brasil-01 is detected on the radar of SCP-5514, quickly approaching. The Serpent looks through the storm, staring directly at the location of LSA-Brasil-01.\nThe Serpent: It is here.\nLSA-Brasil-01 lunges out of the ocean and impacts with the Serpent. It is a massive crocodilian and cephalopodic entity, with a crocodilian head. It has five rear tentacles and five arms. Extensive cybernetic modifications have been made to it, replacing sections of its torso and skull. The pair wrap around each other, the Serpent coiling around LSA-Brasil-01 and LSA-Brasil-01 wrapping its rear tentacles around the Serpent. They sail through the air, crashing into the sand of the beach. Wrestling, the pair turns and crashes into each other, sending sand spraying out in multiple directions.\nThousand Word Arrows: The awaited battlefield! The proper place for the beast to die. The final, just death!\nSCP-5514 charges through the water, returning to the beach to assist the Serpent in fighting LSA-Brasil-01. As it returns, it attempts to lock onto the LSA with the Beowulf-Sigurd Rail, but given the close proximity of LSA-Brasil-01 and the Serpent, it is unable to acquire a target lock that is not likely to hit the Serpent in the process.\nSCP-5514 arrives onto the beach and grabs LSA-Brasil-01, tearing it away from the Serpent. SCP-5514 pulls LSA-Brasil-01 into the air and hurls it down the beach, where it crashes into the water. It quickly rises and turns to face the pair. SCP-5514 draws its sword, holding it raised against LSA-Brasil-01. It glances at the Serpent, which has been bitten multiple times and is bleeding heavily.\nThe Serpent: They are deep wounds, yes. But I will live. Do not worry about me.\nCaptain Rosales: Very well. Be careful.\nThe pair turn their attention back to LSA-Brasil-01, which is swimming back to them slowly. Now that the shot is clear, the Sigurd-Beowulf Rail locks onto LSA-Brasil-01 and fires. As the entity begins to stand, it is struck with two shots, which topple it. As a third shot is loaded, LSA-Brasil-01 opens its mouth.\nLSA-Brasil-01's open mouth begins to glow, alongside the cybernetic plating that is visible on its exterior. A small orb of blue light manifests within the open mouth, which then becomes a long, thin beam, striking the Beowulf-Sigurd Rail, instantly melting it. LSA-Brasil-01 closes its mouth, and then resumes standing.\nAll three parties charge towards each other. When they meet, LSA-Brasil-01 grasps the Serpent with two of its five arms, while using another two to grapple with SCP-5514. The Cold Iron Sword is knocked out of its hands, and goes flying across the beach. The fifth arm slams onto the head of SCP-5514 repeatedly, causing the glass in the cockpit to fracture.\nCaptain Rosales: Stay calm! That glass is designed to fracture but hold.\nDr. Kaori: Do you think this too much for us, Percy?\nCaptain Rosales: I'm not thinking about our odds. Just the best thing we can do.\nSCP-5514 activates the Holdout Plasma Wristblade, and, after a short struggle, cuts the closest arm of LSA-Brasil-01. It then proceeds to quickly cut off the other four arms in short order before kicking LSA-Brasil-01 to the ground. LSA-Brasil-01 rolls across the beach, arriving a short distance away from the Serpent and SCP-5514. It is already beginning to regenerate the severed arm.\nCaptain Rosales: Bad news, Serpent. We're out of plasma to pull that trick off again. We're funneling as much as we can from our solar heart, but I doubt we can do it again this fight.\nThe Serpent: It is tougher than I expected. It does not die easy.\nAs if in response, LSA-Brasil-01 roars at the two. It lunges for the Cold Iron Blade, grabbing it with its tentacles. As soon as the first arm is regenerated, the Blade is handed to it. It brandishes the weapon, holding it out in front of itself, mimicking the stance that SCP-5514 was previously using.\nLSA-Brasil-01 lunges across the battlefield, moving even faster than before. It closes the distance to SCP-5514 and swings the sword at the legs of the mech. The sword shears through the legs, toppling SCP-5514 and causing it to crash to the ground. The sword rips in the process, mangled in the wreckage of the legs. LSA-Brasil-01 drops the sword and turns to the Serpent.\nLSA-Brasil-01 uses its tentacles to propel itself into the air, landing upon the Serpent and tackling it to the ground. It rises atop the Serpent, pinning the foe to the ground with all ten of its arms and tentacles. However, rather than attack the Serpent, it raises its head to the sky and breathes a torrent of flame into the air.\nDr. Kaori: Systems are shutting down\u2014 dammit! What can we do?\nCaptain Rosales: The failsafe. We have to use it while we still can. The Serpent won't last much longer.\nDr. Kaori: You're right. I didn't think it'd come to this, but\u2026\nSCP-5514 props itself up, angling its chest towards the head of LSA-Brasil-01.\nThousand Word Arrows: The greatest weapon you can offer is that of your own heart.\nDr. Kaori and Captain Rosales: Fire.\nThe Emergency Sun Vent installed upon the chest opens, venting fire and plasma produced by SCP-037 at LSA-Brasil-01. The light produced by the firing of the Sun Vent is bright enough to obscure the entire battlefield, with only the roars of LSA-Brasil-01 audible.\nThe Sun Vent closes seconds later, and SCP-5514 crashes into the ground, with its power source disabled. The top half of LSA-Brasil-01 has been disintegrated, and the remaining half falls limp into the water. The Serpent rises from the ground, burnt but surviving. It floats above the corpse of LSA-Brasil-01, observing it for any movement.\nThe Serpent: It is done.\n\u00bb END LOG \u00ab\n\nFollowing the destruction of LSA-Brasil-01 by SCP-5514, the effects of SCP-5391 began to abate. Several other LSAs reentered periods of dormancy, although activity was still significantly higher than prior to the beginning of SCP-5391. The ongoing MH-Class Scenario was declared partially abated.\nWith the purpose of SCP-5514 fulfilled, and the remaining hostile LSAs being terminated with the assistance of the Global Occult Coalition and The Serpent, SCP-5514 is only to be deployed in emergency situations at the request of the Overseer Council.\nIt is noted that following the termination of LSA-Brasil-01, all active LSA entities have demonstrated more docile, avoidant behavior. Further neutralization campaigns have not been deemed necessary.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-2406 is a mechanical automaton, 93 meters in height and weighing approximately 210 tonnes. SCP-2406 was created by ancient Mekhanites to fight Sarkic entities.\n2. SCP-037 is a hyperminiature sun measuring five centimeters in diameter, with an average surface temperature of 5000 K.\n3. Editor's Note: Literal\n\nReviviscence\n\nWar on All Fronts: Anastasis\n\nWhen It's All Over\n\n\u00ab SCP-5513 | SCP-5514 | SCP-5515 \u00bb"}
{"text": "PeppersGhost\n\nSCP-5515 - He Knows Something by PeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\nItem#: 5515\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\ntruculent\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$disruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\n{$risk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: No longer required.\nDescription: SCP-5515 was a male human of Sudanese nationality with cognitohazardous properties. Anyone who made visual contact with SCP-5515 would anomalously gain awareness of the fact that SCP-5515 possessed a vitally important secret known to no other living person.\nThose affected by SCP-5515 also experienced occasional intrusive thoughts about possible means of extracting this information from SCP-5515. These thoughts were often violent in nature, but did not compel an affected subject to carry out the action. Attempts to nonviolently ascertain the information possessed by SCP-5515 or determine its possible relevance to the Foundation and its goals were unsuccessful.\nPersonnel involved in containment of SCP-5515 reported mental fatigue and negative emotional states as a result of intrusive thoughts. Those dealing with such issues were encouraged to write down the thoughts that bothered them as a cognitive therapy exercise and research opportunity. Examples of submissions are given below:\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I threatened his family.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I gave him a lap dance.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I beat him within an inch of his life.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I made him eat glass.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I strapped him to the underside of a helicopter and flew him over the Grand Tsingy.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I covered him in honey and stapled live rats to him by the tail.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I stitched his lips to the end of a pool noodle.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I put duct tape on his corneas and pulled.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I slammed a door on his foot until his toes fell off.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I stuck a scissor blade all the way under his fingernail and snipped.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I shoved a razor between each of his teeth til they were wedged in his jawbones.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I pumped him full of drugs and made him eat his wife alive.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I ordered the Foundation to bomb every city on earth one by one.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I pulled the tendons from his hands and sucked them up like spaghetti.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I cut off a little bit of him every day until there was nothing left.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I cut spirals in his skin and peeled him like an orange.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I gave him too much Ritalin and let him watch me drill holes in his bones.\n\nHe would tell me his secret if I blowtorched every inch of his body, gave him an escharotomy, and then did it again after his scar tissue grew in.\n\nOn 13/03/2020, SCP-5515 confessed to Foundation personnel that he was a closeted homosexual. Special concessions were made to allow SCP-5515 to come out publicly via social media, after which all anomalous activity ceased. SCP-5515 was pronounced neutralized, administered selective amnestics, and later emigrated to Canada with the aid of Foundation resources.\nThe origins of SCP-5515's anomalous properties remain unknown. SCP-5515 has claimed to have full knowledge of how the phenomenon began, what party was responsible, and what that party plans to do next. SCP-5515 readily offered this information to the Foundation at several junctures; however, no testimony was ever documented due to a lack of interest among presiding staff.\n\nPeppo Jamcon 2020\n\u00ab SCP-5031 | SCP-5515 | SCP-5155 \u00bb\n\n\u00ab SCP-5514 | SCP-5515 | SCP-5516 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ETHICS COMMITTEE NOTICE:\nTHIS ARTICLE IS UNDER REVIEW AND MAY NOT REFLECT ACCURATE INFORMATION CONCERNING SCP-5516.\nAmendments are pending the resolution of Ethics Committee Investigation - Case Number: 11A82N.\n\nItem#: 5516\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5516-37 in containment.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All 101 entities composing SCP-5516 are to be contained within Aquatic Enclosure L-23 at Site-184's Aquatic Anomalies Wing. Aquatic Enclosure L-23 constitutes one 10 x 10 x 1m, aquarium holding \u00b1 90,000L of seawater. SCP-5516 poses a Null-1 containment risk; as such, the use of localized seawater for the containment habitat \u2014 provided Site-184's seawater decontamination facilities continue to pass bi-monthly inspections1 \u2014 and standard Aquatic Enclosure automated cleaning practices are approved.\nSCP-5516 entities are fed via automated food dispersal at 08:00 and 19:00.2 All SCP-5516 entities are assigned designation numbers: SCP-5516-1 - SCP-5516-101. Designation numbers are to be marked on the carapace of SCP-5516 entities using FLaN-Aquatic Paints.3 Emergent SCP-5516 entities are assigned the designation number of the recently deceased SCP-5516 entity.4 Deceased SCP-5516 entities possess no anomalous threat and are approved for incineration alongside Site-184's non-anomalous biological waste.\nDescription: SCP-5516 is the collective designation for 101 SCP-5516 entities. SCP-5516 entities are visually identical to non-anomalous Homarus Americanus5 but demonstrate a variety of anomalous behaviours:\n\nSignificantly higher cognitive aptitude and puzzle-solving ability compared to non-anomalous Homarus Americanus.\nCommunal hunting, and food rationing and distribution practices.6\nSimultaneous 'idle' state: When not hunting or feeding, SCP-5516 entities distribute themselves evenly across their enclosure and demonstrate simultaneous self-grooming behaviour.7\nAbility to navigate to other SCP-5516 entities: When removed from their enclosure, SCP-5516 entities will return to other SCP-5516 groupings, displaying a 95% success rate while unobstructed.8\nCollective, non-entity-dependent problem solving: Individual SCP-5516 entities are capable of solving memory puzzles presented to other SCP-5516 entities. SCP-5516 entities have utilized this ability to bypass simplified rotary numeric locks and meet kinetic-based food distribution systems in testing environments.\nLimited Self-Proliferation: Following the death of an individual SCP-5516 entity, 6-18 hours later, a separate SCP-5516 entity undergoes a molting process that produces two distinct SCP-5516 entities of roughly equal size.\n\nDue to the aforementioned behaviour, it is theorized that individual SCP-5516 entities are controlled by a singular group-consciousness.9\nRecovery: On 04/21/1987, all SCP-5516 entities10 were recovered by Mobile Task Force Lambda-14 (\"One Star Reviewers\") while conducting a raid of \"Allan's Seafood,\" formerly located in Liscomb, Nova Scotia, due to a suspected affiliation with GOI-116: Ambrose Restaurants.\nAddendum: Experiment Ceta-88C On 05/11/1996, Dr. [DATA EXPUNGED] oversaw the testing of Oros-Class Amnestic on SCP-5516-17, under R&D initiative: Waning Moon - Ceta.\nAt the time of testing, the development of Oros-Class Amnestic was ongoing; the Ethics Committee issued approval for testing on \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 invertebrates. Following the events of 05/08/1996, Dr. Oswald Grisdale, alongside Dr. Sylvia Morrison, and Dr. [DATA EXPUNGED], administered Oros-Class Amnestic to SCP-5516-17.\nFollowing testing, SCP-5516-17 entered a catatonic state for 2 hours before resuming typical behaviour. 10 hours after testing, SCP-5516-82 molted, producing two SCP-5516 entities: SCP-5516-82 and SCP-5516-101.11\n\nThe following documents have been attached to SCP-5516's file as part of ongoing Ethics Committee Investigation - Case Number: 11A82N\n\n + ECI-11A82N: Evidence - Audio Transcription:\n\n- ECI-11A82N: Evidence - Audio Transcription:\n\nAUDIO TRANSCRIPTION\n\nDATE: 14/08/2020.\nNOTE: The following is transcribed from an audio recording uncovered during ECI-11A82N. Speakers are Dr. Gregory Werner, Head Researcher for Site-184's Aquatic Anomalies Wing and Dr. Sarah Collaert, Junior Researcher assigned to SCP-5516.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS AUDIO REMOVED]\nDr. Collaert: Hello, Dr. Werner. I heard you wanted to speak to me?\nDr. Werner: Yes, please have a seat. This is about your work with SCP-5516.\nDr. Collaert: And the request for access to a higher clearance? Thank you, Sir. I'm trying to revise the entry, but without knowing what happened\u2014\nDr. Werner: I'm afraid that won't be possible.\nDr. Collaert: I know I don't have the official clearance, but in the forty years you've had them in custody, the tests from 96' were the only\u2014\nDr. Werner: Dr. Collaert, your work on SCP-5516 has been suspended. You're being transferred; you should receive the details of your new assignment shortly.\nDr. Collaert: I, uh, Sir\u2026 I don't understand. I was brought on specifically for my background in\u2014\nDr. Werner: You're new here, Dr. Collaert. These sort of rearrangements are not uncommon. Things come up and personnel need to be reassigned as necessary. SCP-5516 isn't going anywhere, and when you're back we can see about having you reinstated to your old position.\nDr. Collaert: When I'll be back? What do you mean. I\u2014\nDr. Werner: That will be all, thank you. Please see yourself out.\n\n + ECI-11A82N: Evidence - Email Log:\n\n - ECI-11A82N: Evidence - Email Log:\n\nThe following emails were sent on 14/08/2020.\n\nTo: ui.481pcs|eromada.refinnej#ui.481pcs|eromada.refinnej\nFrom: ui.481pcs|trealloc.haras#ui.481pcs|trealloc.haras\nSubject: Transferred!(?)\n\nJenny,\nThey just took me off SCP-5516.\nI'm a little shocked. I got a folder with a new assignment\u2014something to do with anomalous plankton blooms off the coast of Newfoundland. It's a six-month placement, like, on a boat.\n\nTo: ui.481pcs|trealloc.haras#ui.481pcs|trealloc.haras\nFrom: ui.481pcs|eromada.refinnej#ui.481pcs|eromada.refinnej\nSubject: Re: Transferred!(?)\n\nWhat the fuck? That makes no sense, Sarah.\nYou spent four years with your face pressed against the glass of various lobster tanks for that degree and they're sending you to look at plankton? Christ, I know it's the Foundation, but I'm pretty sure you've introduced me to everyone in the lobster behavioural analysis scene in this hemisphere and I don't exactly think any of them will be taking on the job (plus they've got nothing on you anyway).\nI've got to run, but we'll chat about this later, okay? Maybe it's a mix-up?\nI'll do dinner, and don't worry, no shellfish!\nIt's going to be okay.\nLove you,\n- J.\n\n + ECI-11A82N: Evidence - Journal Entries:\n\n - ECI-11A82N: Evidence - Journal Entries:\n\nThe following is a digitization of Dr. Collaert's journal entry, dated 25/08/2020. Dr. Collaert willingly surrendered these documents during ECI-11A82N.\n\nAugust, 15th\nI walked down to the beach tonight, I'm not sure why. I suppose I don't need to say goodbye yet - certainly not to the ocean.\nI didn't notice at the time, but something weird has been happening the last few months.\nIt's the lobsters. I'm not sure how to explain it, I suppose I told myself I was just in touch with them. I was spending so much time staring into that tank; why would I question it when I knew a particular lobster was hungry? Sure, I couldn't wait to get back to work, to them - but why wouldn't I? I was doing important work, breaking ground in my field, even if no one outside the Foundation would ever read what I was writing. I was doing it for myself, after all.\nNow I'm not so sure. I stood in the water, took my shoes off and everything, and I swear, I could feel the water around me, all of me, like a pressure. I don't remember undressing, but the next thing I knew I was laying in the water, resting my head where the sand ended.\nI closed my eyes, and a wave covered me, I let my mouth open and I drank it in. I don't really know what happened next. The memories, they don't feel like mine, they don't fit. I was trapped -surrounded by glass and acrylic, or wood and rope, or both.\nI don't know if my brain couldn't handle it, or if I was drowning, but I was yanked back to myself. I pushed myself up out of the water, coughing the saltwater up.\nJenny was worried when I came back, she said I had been gone for a while - longer than I thought. I told her it was because I'd be leaving soon.\nI hate myself for lying to her.\n\nAugust, 22nd\n\nGod, I hate packing. Somehow it always takes way longer than it should\u2014as long as you have, it seems.\nI don't want to go tomorrow.\nJenny's getting the last few things together. I know she doesn't want me to go either, but she's putting on a brave face: \"it's only six months,\" \"you'll come back with some sailor tattoos and a pet puffin and we'll take a drive down to Lunenburg \u2014 get your land-legs back.\" I don't deserve her.\nI signed up with the Foundation \u2014 we both did \u2014 because it was a chance for us to see more, to know more; I suppose it's fitting that the first question I asked was the wrong one.\nI suppose we'll still both be looking at the same moon, and the same ocean. Her, here on the porch, me\non the deck\nlooking out for signs of bioluminescent\npuking over a railing.\nThere's something shining\u2026\n\nDr. Collaert's journal continues on the next page, the writing appears to be scribbled hastily.\n\nWhat just happened?\nOkay, calm down, they covered this stuff in orientation, right? Write it down, yeah?\nWait, what if it's memetic? Shit, okay.\nI'm going to write it down - I feel like I'm already losing it, like it's slipping past me.\nThere was a shine? From the moon, or the reflection of the moon on the water, like moonlight on water. Something ivory, moving, but not there - flickering.\nI remember walking to it, or into it. It was cold, and I could feel them moving.\nAs the water passed my eyes, I opened them, but they weren't my eyes anymore. I wouldn't be able to see like that. My head hurts trying to think about it.\nI was alone this time, I remember being alone. I couldn't move. I felt the needle slide in, and I saw them: Dr. Werner and two others. Then I was undone. I came apart, I couldn't think anymore, they had taken that from me, or killed it. They had killed me, but I wasn't dead, the blood was still pumping, I was still moving. Yet, I was annihilated.\n\nAugust, 23rd\nIf it wasn't for what I wrote, I never would have known it happened, I've already forgotten. The weird part is I don't even feel like I forgot, nothing seems missing.\nWhat else am I missing?\nI know things without knowing why I know them. I don't remember what happened, but I know that the Oros-Class Amnestic kills the consciousness, I know they were panicked as they did it, but not because of the tests; I know they tested it on SCP-5516 when they weren't supposed to, I know that it made SCP-5516-101, they made SCP-5516-101; there were only 100 to start.\nThey thought they all shared a single mind, one that existed independent of the body, but that must not have been quite right - they weren't paying attention. I can't say I'd blame them; I don't know why they would have looked so close. The test worked, but not in the way they hoped. Whatever Oros-Class is, it didn't affect the hivemind, but it did affect the lobster, made it forgot itself. Then the hivemind registered one lobster down and popped out another - back to 100 - but the body was still around, so when that died, it popped out another. It found a new normal, and its kept that going all these years.\nWe though it was capped at 100, or 101, but why did we think that - because they are nice, sensical numbers and we like those? I know there are many more SCP-5516 entities out there - shifting in an inky blackness - but how many?\nAnd I still don't know why they took the risk \u2014 what were they scared of? \"The Ethics Committee issued approval for testing on [space left blank] invertebrates,\" non-anomalous - it must be.\nThey must have thought no one would remember, but something did.\n\n + ECI-11A82N: INTERNAL REPORT FORM:\n\n - ECI-11A82N: INITIAL INTERNAL REPORT FORM:\n\nETHICS COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION - CASE NUMBER: 11A82N\n\nINTERNAL REPORT FORM:\nCOMPLAINT LEVELED AGAINST: Dr. Gregory Werner, Head Researcher for Site-184's Aquatic Anomalies Wing.\nREPORTEE: Dr. Sarah Collaert, Junior Researcher.\nDATE: 23/08/2020\nSITE (IF APPLICABLE): 184\nNATURE OF COMPLAINT: Dr. Collaert alleges that during the development of Oros-Class Amnestic \u2014 conducted as part of the Foundation's Research & Development initiative: Waning Moon - Ceta, Dr. Gregory Wener, along with two accomplices, conducted experimentations on live, anomalous SCP-5516 entities. Additionally, Collaert alleges that Dr. Gregory Werner has been instrumental in the obfuscation of this breach of protocol; in doing so, Dr. Gregory Werner is furthermore accused of misallocating Foundation resources and personnel, falsifying Foundation records, and intentionally disrupting the Foundation's mandate by preventing accurate record keeping.\nVALIDITY OF COMPLAINT: An initial review board, after listening to the testimony of Dr. Sarah Collaert, has found the allegations leveled against Dr. Gregory Werner credible, and opened an official investigation: EIC-11A28N.\nETHICS COMMITTEE RESPONSE: Following the opening of ECI-11A28N, Dr. Gregory Werner has been relieved of duty and placed under house arrest. Ethics Committee Investigation Task Force: ECITF-Domum-3 (\"Human Resources\"), is responsible for the gathering of evidence related to ECI-11A28N and has received authority to detain and interrogate the associates of Dr. Gregory Werner: Dr. Oswald Grisdale and Dr. Sylvia Morrison.\nFollowing the submission of evidence by ECITF-Domum-3 to the Ethics Committee, Dr. Gregory Werner shall be tried by an adjudicative board, as per bylaw EC-10.7.12\n\nFootnotes\n1. Amd-1: As of 17/03/2007, Site-184's seawater decontamination facilities are inspected monthly.\n2. Amd-2: As part of my ongoing research into SCP-5516, food dispersal at 08:00 has been suspended. SCP-5516 entities are instead fed via hand dispersal at 09:00, to better conduct behavioural analysis.\n3. Amd-3: The use of FLaN-Aquatic Paints at Site-184 was discontinued in 1998, due to averse effects on delicate aquatic lifeforms. Current practices utilize Sea-Breeze P.I.T.s (Passive Integrated Transponders) for the designation of SCP-5516 entities.\n4. Amd-4: Following the events of 05/11/1996, procedures following an increase in total SCP-5516 entities should be codified. I propose the following addition: \"Should the net total of SCP-5516 entities increase, emergent SCP-5516 entities are to receive sequential designation numbers.\"\n5. The American or Northern Lobster.\n6. Cmt\u20141: Recent studies have shown that while SCP-5516 entities distribute food evenly, certain SCP-5516 entities display preferences; when various food sources are introduced, SCP-5516 entities can be seen exchanging their allotted food with other SCP-5516 entities. Of note, no SCP-5516 instance has been seen attempting to steal or otherwise deprive another SCP-5516 entity of food.\n7. Cmt-2: Upon introducing more diverse terrain features to SCP-5516's enclosure, certain SCP-5516 instances can be seen repeatability positioning themselves adjacent to particular terrain features. Upon repositioning these terrain features within the enclosure, SCP-5516 entities will redistribute themselves to allow individual entities to remain near their preferred terrain features.\n8. Amd-5: SCP-5516 entities display distressed behaviour when removed from close proximity to other SCP-5516 entities. This distressed behaviour is reduced if multiple SCP-5516 instances are kept within close proximity to one another, following removal from their Aquatic Enclosure\n9. Cmt-3: Due to my ongoing studies into SCP-5516, I believe we have been too hasty to assign a group-consciousness to SCP-5516. Individual entities are seen displaying clear preferences, distinct from collective behaviour. I propose the possibility that SCP-5516 entities possess a two-leveled self-awareness, allowing them to be aware of themselves as both individual entities and a collective consciousness.\n10. Amd-6: Only the initial 100 SCP-5516 entities were recovered on 04/21/1987.\n11. Cmt-4: Although the original SCP-5516-101 and SCP-5516-17 entities have since died, the total quantity of SCP-5516 instances have remained at 101 entities.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5515 | SCP-5516 | SCP-5517 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5517\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5517 is to be locked inside a sealed structure 15 m tall and under the guise of a local environmental service building. A security camera is to monitor the growth of new SCP-5517-1 instances, and incendiary weapons are to be used to prevent their maturation.\nAdditionally, customized costotomes1 are to be used to remove excessive material from SCP-5517 whenever necessary, which is to be sent to Site-66 for study. Personnel responsible for this procedure must wear biohazard protection suits at all times. Any individual that comes in direct physical contact with an SCP-5517-1 instance is to be immediately isolated. A medical examination will determine the proper measures to be taken, possibly resulting in termination.\nSCP-5517-B is to be contained inside a square perimeter and a behind a three meter electrical fence. A patrol is to ensure the security as well as the integrity of SCP-5517-B.\nAnnually, a Class D personnel is to be exposed to an instance of SCP-5517-1. The affected individual is to be allowed to proceed with its anomalous behavior while escorted by a security team provided with standard equipment.\n\nSCP-5517. Photo taken in 1974 by an unknown photographer. See 5517-B/INV ITEM #9.\n\nDescription: SCP-5517 is a pale tree of unknown species. Its outer structure is primarily made of collagen fibers and calcium phosphate. The interior consists mostly of stem cells, but also presents an amalgam of other ordinary human cells, tissues, and organs, including: neurons, hormone-producing glands, and bronchioles.\nOrganisms visually similar to leaves, designated SCP-5517-1, will periodically grow and detach from SCP-5517. These organisms are 12 cm long and scarlet in color. They have simple circulatory systems composed exclusively of erythrocytes2. They also have rudimentary muscle fibers, which make them capable to control gliding movements through the air. SCP-5517-1 specimens demonstrate no interest in animals other than human beings and will cease all movement 48 hours after full maturation, but will maintain the hazardous properties until biodegradation. Analysis indicate the DNA of SCP-5517 and SCP-5517-1 specimens to belong to a single human female.\nSCP-5517-1 will attempt physical contact to human individuals when possible. If successful, the organism will attach to the subject epidermis and will immediately start to merge with the tissue, causing severe pain and temporary paralysis. The affected individual, designated SCP-5517-2, in addition to developing yellow coloration in the iris and sclera, will then engage in a singular behavior3 and will react aggressively to any attempt to hinder its progression. Incendiary weapons have proven to be an effective countermeasure to SCP-5517-2 instances, as they present unnatural resilience to physical damage.\nLocated 426 m from SCP-5517 is an abandoned wooden cabin, referred to as SCP-5517-B. An inspection of the cabin as well as experimentation with SCP-5517 has revealed a relation between these two objects, specially concerning SCP-5517-2's active cycle. A list of relevant items found in the cabin can be examined in this report.\nDiscovery: SCP-5517 is located inside a natural reserve in the municipality of Maric\u00e1, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following a series of missing persons cases of hikers and local residents, an investigation by the local police led to the official discovery of the anomaly in 1995, and to the eventual intervention by the Foundation in the same year.\n\nInventory (5517-B/INV): Notable items collected from SCP-5517-B.\n\n\u25ba ACCESS INVENTORY\n\n\u25bc ACCESS GRANTED\n\nITEM\nDESCRIPTION\n\n#1\nAn old cleaver. DNA from several individuals have been identified.\n\n#2\nA glass cylinder containing 43 specimens of SCP-5517-1 and an unidentified yellow liquid. Specimens were found alive and active.\n\n#3\nA ceremonial dagger depicting a series of unknown symbols.\n\n#4\nA picture of a middle-aged woman and a baby. The infant presents a number of unfamiliar features, the most apparent being the presence of three eyes with vertical pupils. The back of the picture displays the words ''L\u00facia Lebedev e seu pequeno anjo''.4\n\n#5\nA gravestone dedicated to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. An explicit attempt to scratch the date of passing has been made. See the inscriptions below.\n\n#6\nAn ornamented urn containing a yellow substance. The same substance was found in ITEM #2.\n\n#7\nA humanoid skeleton. DNA analysis indicate it to be from an adult male. However, structural examination presents a number of inconsistencies to the human anatomy, such as a 20 cm tail, a third ocular orifice located in the forehead, and six-digit hands. Location of elements suggests decapitation.\n\n#8\nAn oversized cradle, seemingly made from the local flora.\n\n#9\nA photograph of SCP-5517. A note was attached to the image: ''Tarde demais, ela j\u00e1 ascendeu. 08/07/1974''5.\n\nITEM #4:\n\nITEM #5:\n\nEm mem\u00f3ria:6\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n10/06/1969\n23/11/1969\nEm um drag\u00e3o o queriam transformar em vida.7\nEm um rei eu o farei na morte.8\nPela gra\u00e7a do Grande Ion.9\n\nExperiment Log (5517/EX.01;04;07):\n\n\u25ba ACCESS EXPERIMENT LOG\n\n\u25bc ACCESS GRANTED\n\n<Experiment 5517/EX.01>\nConditions: Isolated environment.\nPreface: Test subject (D-1058) was exposed to a specimen of SCP-5517-1.\nObservation Notes: Subject's eyes coloration changed to yellow after 2 minutes of exposure. In addition, D-1058's behavioral patterns changed notably, his mannerisms coinciding with an individual of advanced age. Attempts to communicate have resulted in failure, as the individual maintained a fixated stare to the camera, and subsequently proceeded to strike it with its forehead repeatedly. Further results inconclusive, subject incinerated.\nAdditional Note: Designate individuals affected by SCP-5517-1 as SCP-5517-2.\n\n<END EXPERIMENT>\n\n<Experiment 5517/EX.04>\nConditions: Isolated environment.\nPreface: Test subjects (D-623 / D-955 / D-1337) exposed to ten instances of SCP-5517-1.\nObservation Notes: Instances of SCP-5517-1 pursue a single subject, successfully making it their host. D-955, now an instance of SCP-5517-2, proceeds to assault and kill the other two subjects by means of strangulation and disembowelment. It has been confirmed that SCP-5517-1 instances cannot affect more than one individual simultaneously. Further results inconclusive, subjects incinerated.\n\n<END EXPERIMENT>\n\n<Experiment 5517/EX.07>\nConditions: Open environment, 20 m from SCP-5517.\nPreface: Test subject (D-854) was exposed to a specimen of SCP-5517-1. Subject was observed from a safe distance by a team of armed personnel, equipped with hazmat suits and incendiary ammunition.\nObservation Notes: Typical behavioral alteration confirmed. SCP-5517-2 proceeds to enter SCP-5517-B while escorted by the security team.\nWhile inside, SCP-5517-2 uses Inventory ITEM #1 to mutilate its own body, and to harvest a number of its organs. It should be noted that SCP-5517-2 displayed no signs of pain during the process, nor did it have its motor functions impaired, even though it was visually confirmed to have removed vital organs from the thoracic cavity. After observation of SCP-5517-2 engaging in several culinary practices using the collected material, the entity placed the organs inside a wooden bowl.\nAs SCP-5517-2 rushed from the front door, Agent Miguel \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was attacked. Agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 expired from 52 slash wounds to the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and right \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The video camera was damaged in the process. Instructions to increase observation distances were given and the experiment was ordered to continue for the sake of data collection. See Interview 5517/INT.11 for further details.\n\n<END EXPERIMENT>\n\nInterview (5517/INT.11):\n\n\u25ba ACCESS INTERVIEW\n\n\u25bc ACCESS GRANTED\n\n<Interview 5517/INT.11>\nDate: 08/19/1997.\nInterviewer: Dr. Bernard Hale.\nInterviewee: Elijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, team leader of Security Team A09.\nSubject: Observation of D-854.\n\n<BEGIN INTERVIEW>\n\nDr. Bernard Hale: I understand that you requested the use of amnestics after your experience.\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Correct.\nDr. Bernard Hale: Before we can grant you that, we need an exhaustive description of the events. Just following the death of Miguel \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, we had no feed from that point on.\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: It all happened fast after that. The target approached the empty well outside the cabin, and just crawled in there carrying the wooden bowl. When the boys approached the well he was gone. We used a rope to go down and there was a hole inside. The target reopened this passage with his bare hands through the bricks and soil. It led into a small underground tunnel.\nDr. Bernard Hale: What was it looking for? I have seen my share, be objective.\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: We followed in. Visibility wasn't the best inside, but we had the flames and a couple of lights. The path was quite linear, so we had no trouble navigating. It took around six minutes before we started seeing the flesh structures. Root-hands is what we called them, since we couldn't decide which of the two they were. But they didn't move, they just stood there.\nDr. Bernard Hale: Your team was approaching the coordinates of 5517 from below.\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Correct. We kept a good distance from it. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 saw it first, the target was kneeling at the top of a log staircase leading to a huge chamber. It was pitch black in there, but he didn't mind our flashlights. He was lifting his hands above the head as if offering the bowl.\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: [pause]\nDr. Bernard Hale: Want one? [lighter flicks and ignites]\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Appreciate it. He just stood there for about three minutes. [exhales] Then a massive hand comes out of the dark chamber. Grabbed D-854 and carried it into its mouth. Took the upper half of his torso away. We could see the face of D-854, he was laughing even then.\nDr. Bernard Hale: Can you describe this new entity?\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: We let the scene cool off, then moved a bit closer. It is around twenty or so meters long. The shape wasn't quite easy to identify at first. Or maybe it just took a while for any of us to admit it.\nDr. Bernard Hale: What do you mean?\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: The hand-roots? They were all around it, suspending it, slowly moving it left and right. There was humming too, coming from the tree above. What I mean is that this thing was being taken care of, that it is humanoid.\nDr. Bernard Hale: Anything else?\nElijah \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Just make me wake up and pretend that I'm taking care of a fucking tree again, would you?\n\n<END INTERVIEW>\n\nADDITIONAL NOTES: New entity reported. Designation: SCP-5517-3.\n\nFile/SCP-5517-3:\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/5517 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/5517 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\n                                                    ID\n\n        ddc3df1e9f6a5a9545a9e395353203c8_1706539453\n\n                                                    PASSWORD\n\n        af652d37a0a540b44356245b77f32c68_1706539453\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nCREDENTIALS ACCEPTED\n\nSCP-5517-3\n\nDescription: SCP-5517-3 is a humanoid organism located in an underground chamber, 42 m below SCP-5517. Even though it has 18 m of height, SCP-5517-3 resembles a male infant in appearance. However, the entity also presents other singular characteristics: thick skin similar to a pale crocodilian hide, three eyes with vertical beaded pupils, and six-digit hands. SCP-5517-3 feeds exclusively on SCP-5517-2 instances, and remains in a slumber state when unattended.\n\nAddendum 5517/AD.01: In 1998, it was discovered that SCP-5517-3 shares genetic material with both SCP-5517 and Inventory ITEM #7. Furthermore, efforts to remove SCP-5517-3 from SCP-5517's roots have resulted in extreme aggressive behavior and lost of \u2588\u2588 personnel.\nAddendum 5517/AD.02: After five years of containment, SCP-5517-3 has been progressively manifesting physical symptoms of malnutrition and hostility. Attempts to offer alternatives of nourishment have failed, as have the attempts to replicate SCP-5517-2's culinary methods. Request to temporarily use Class D personnel in creating SCP-5517-2 instances to feed and pacify SCP-5517-3 pending approval. accepted. Special Containment Procedures updated.\n\nEND OF REPORT\n\nFootnotes\n1. An instrument usually used for cutting the ribs and opening the thoracic cavity in surgical operations.\n2. Commonly known as red blood cells.\n3. See 5517/EX.07 and 5517/INT.11.\n4. Translated from Portuguese: ''L\u00facia Lebedev and her little angel''.\n5. English: ''Too late, she already ascended. 08/07/1974''.\n6. English: \"In memory:\"\n7. English: \"A dragon they wanted to make of him in life.\"\n8. English: \"A king I will make of him in death.\"\n9. English: \"By the grace of the Great Ion.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5516 | SCP-5517 | SCP-5518 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5518\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5518 is to be stored at Site-19 in six secure storage lockers. By order of the Ethics Committee, no direct access to SCP-5518 is currently permitted.\nDescription: SCP-5518 is a set of six square plates of an unknown stone material, measuring 0.5 meters in length, 0.5 meters in width, and 1.5 cm in depth. These plates are designed to be assembled into a box and are each inscribed with the same text in a different language1, as noted in Addendum-5518. This text provides the instructions for activating the primary anomalous function of SCP-5518.\nThe primary function of SCP-5518 is to implement an instantaneous YK-Class Reality Restructuring Event, wherein the baseline reality would be consumed in order to generate an identical mirror reality. SCP-5518 and its contents are not affected by this event, and reappear in the mirror reality at a time and location that is determined by the activation procedure. Objects and information may thus be transferred between the baseline and mirror reality by storing them in the assembled box form of SCP-5518 prior to activation.\nDiscovery: SCP-5518 was discovered when it spontaneously materialized in an empty vault in Site-19 as a fully assembled box. The appearance of SCP-5518 was immediately flagged by the on-site surveillance system, and Foundation agents were dispatched to assess any possible threats. When SCP-5518 was subsequently disassembled into its plate components, a large number of printed files were found inside, including the following:\n\u2022 Security credentials to establish that SCP-5518 was sent by a duly authorized member of the Foundation.\n\u2022 The locations and special containment procedures for SCP-231, SCP-2845, and SCP-36002.\n\u2022 The construction plans for building SCP-711 and preventing the breakdown of SCP-2000.\n\u2022 The operational data for Project Palisade.\n\u2022 [REDACTED]\nAddendum-5518-A: A transcription of the text inscribed on each plate of SCP-5518:\n\nThis is not salvation. This box represents our greatest failure, and we have used it only as our last resort, to deliver a warning for the threats we were too late to overcome. These threats will come to you in time. We could not survive them, and we sacrifice all that we have left to deliver our warning. Do not let our deaths be in vain.\nThis box is designed to deliver its contents through a reset of reality. These functions may be activated by [INSTRUCTIONS EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE].\nYou are now the baseline reality. You are the second chance we never had, and should you fail to hold the darkness at bay, the box awaits. Pass on your warnings, accept your condemnation as we have, and the new world will continue to try again.\n\n+FURTHER ACCESS RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 5 CREDENTIALS\n\n-WELCOME OVERSEER\n\nDocument-5518: The following document is an abridged compilation of the circumstances that preceded the use of SCP-5518 in prior iterations of reality.\n\nDesignation\nDescription\nAftermath\n\nXA-1\nThe earliest known iteration of reality that included the use of SCP-5518. Society develops along an overall positive trend regarding economic trends, environmental factors, and social upheaval, surpassing present society by approximately 1.5 standard deviations. This trend continues until 2089, when anomalies are first discovered by the general public. The Foundation is established in an attempt to contain this threat, but ultimately proves ineffective, resulting in the rapid collapse of social order. By the year 2098, anomalous phenomena have rendered the planet unsuitable for sustained human life.\nSCP-5518 provides the first formal instructions for developing special containment procedures, and the coordinates to discover SCP-001.\n\nXA-2\nThe Foundation is established in the year 1824, approximately two years prior to the discovery of anomalous phenomena. Subsequent investigations bring the Foundation into conflict with various groups of interest, including the Church of the Broken God, the Serpent's Hand, and Marshall, Carter, and Dark, Ltd. The escalation of these conflicts leads to the public gaining knowledge of anomalous phenomena, and subsequently, an international arms race for weaponized anomalies. Finally, in the year 1970, President Robert Kennedy initiates a conflict between all known groups of interest that would result in the collapse of human civilization.\nSCP-5518 provides the full documentation of SCP-3000 and the development of amnestics. Iteration XB-1 is further instructed with the precise time and method for assassinating Robert Kennedy.\n\nXB-3\nIn an attempt to proactively combat the rise of anomalous phenomena, the Foundation uses knowledge gained by SCP-5518 to conduct covert infiltrations of all major nations. Any known groups of interest are rapidly suppressed, and a shadow government is established across global society by the year 1998. Minimal anomalous activity is noted after this point. However, civil liberties are effectively eliminated from the general population, and multiple rebellions are attempted to usurp Foundation rule. The largest of these rebellions eventually manages to assassinate the O5 council in the year 2043, leading to the subsequent collapse of society and the theft of SCP-5518 by parties unknown\nThe contents of SCP-5518 from this iteration are unknown, at the item was utilized by non-Foundation personnel. SCP-5518 was utilized an unknown number of times before it is finally reclaimed by the Foundation in iteration XC-4.\n\nXC-4\nThe Foundation is established in the year 1778, when SCP-5518 spontaneously materializes in the custody of Anna Strong, a Culper Ring spy. Foundation carries out its mission with minimal interference with public society, and nearly 4000 SCPs are successfully contained by the year 1921. After this point however, reality appears to undergo a spontaneous loss of integrity. Symptoms begin with the disappearance of physical locales and culminate in the disappearance of various laws of physics. SCP-5518 is utilized in the year 2012, just prior to the complete disintegration of the timeline.\nSCP-5518 provides approximately 80% of the current SCP database. Despite extensive research, no definitive cause is identified for the collapse of reality and investigations continue in iteration XC-5.\n\nXC-5\nThe most recent prior iteration of reality. The Foundation is established in the year 1843 and immediately continues investigating the collapse of iteration XC-4. A working theory proposes that SCP-5518 may have been involved in the prior collapse of reality. This leads to the decision to restrict all access to SCP-5518 and its contents. After this point however, anomalous phenomena undergo a rapid increase and renders the planet unsuitable for sustained human life by the year 1901.\nSCP-5518 provides a revised standard for establishing an effective Ethics Committee for the Foundation.\n\nEthics Addendum: The following statement was issued by the Foundation Ethics Committee to the O5 Council.\n\nSCP-5518 represents a unique opportunity for the Foundation. The power to reset reality is simultaneously the power to choose the outcomes of reality, and yes, we could use this to warn against K-Class scenarios or convey instructions for a better future. However, the use of SCP-5518 is not acceptable under any circumstances.\nFirst, anomalies are unpredictable, and we cannot entrust the whole of reality to an object that cannot even be properly tested. Perhaps it worked for our predecessors, but how can we be sure that it will work again? How can we be sure that it won't come with unwanted side effects? These are questions we will never definitively answer.\nMore importantly however, the Foundation owes its sole duty to our baseline reality. The improvement of any mirror reality is entirely irrelevant, as these realities would not be our own. Our predecessors may have surrendered their responsibility, but for better or for worse, this is our world now, and we will make our stand until the end. SCP-5518 is therefore prohibited from all future use.\nDisassemble the box and lock away the plates; secure, contain, protect. Nothing else matters.\n\nFootnotes\n1. These languages include English, Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, ASCII binary code, and an unknown script, bearing no resemblance to any known language or writing style, past or present.\n2. None of these SCPs had been discovered at this time.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5517 | SCP-5518 | SCP-5519 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5519\nObject Class: Neutralized/Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5519-1 is to be left within a standard cold storage locker. Further evidence of current SCP-5519-1 instances are to be investigated immediately, and information related to the composition and methods of creating SCP-5519-1 are to be considered the top priority when testing with existing SCP-5519-1 instances.\nDescription: SCP-5519 is the official designation of a TK-Class Casual Restructuring Event, which most likely took place from 11/4/21 to 14/4/21. The effects of reality-based anomalies are usually impossible to determine, specifically what aspects of fundamental reality were damaged or replaced. However, the existence of SCP-5519-1 suggests that SCP-5519 was localized to a very small subdivision of physical matter. Investigations into the full extent and effects of SCP-5519 are ongoing.\nSCP-5519-1 is material that has evidently survived SCP-5519, and has extensive properties:\n\n+ SCP-5519 Documented Traits\n\n- [CLOSE FILE]\n\nSCP-5519-1 is an off-white, oblong cylinder, approximately a foot in length.\n\nSCP-5519-1 is noticeably moist, and residue from SCP-5519-1 will remain on substances or organisms that have come into contact with SCP-5519-1 for extended periods of time.\n\nSCP-5519-1's exterior is hard to the touch, although additional force causes its interior structure to buckle rapidly, giving the appearance of a dent where pressure was applied. Moderate amounts of damage are repaired, as the interior supports swell against the area of compression shortly after it has occured. The full extent of SCP-5519-1's defensive abilities are not currently known.\n\nSCP-5519-1 is evidently populated by fungal, eukaryotic organisms throughout the webbing of SCP-5519-1's interior structure. Very few instances are currently living, as the vast majority of these organisms expired after or during SCP-5519. Due to possible signs of intelligence and the fungi not mapping to known species, they are henceforth referred to as SCP-5519-A.\n\nCross-sections of SCP-5519-1 show that the object was evidently under extreme temperature for a moderate period of time, which may have contributed to SCP-5519-1's deformed appearance. It is currently estimated that this effect was an indirect result of SCP-5519.\n\nSCP-5519-1 emits a noticeable scent, although no longer as potent as upon retrieval. Various tests have uniformly described SCP-5519-1's smell as \u201cpleasing\u201d, \u201crich\u201d, and \u201ctangy\u201d.\n\nA collection of various green growths, presumably incorporated onto SCP-5519-1's surface by SCP-5519-A after the TK-Class Event due to the lack of charring on these growths. They are attached to the upper exterior of SCP-5519-1.\n\nMaterial analysis of SCP-5519-1 reveals that many substances incorporated into its design are of organic origin, despite the unknown, brittle material makeup of SCP-5519-1. A more recent theory on SCP-5519-1's primary function is that the object was constructed by SCP-5519-A as a residential location, in a similar fashion to how human-built structures are made from naturally occuring material. A combination of substances used in construction does not result in the structure qualifying or appearing organic, which is possibly the case for SCP-5519-A's involvement regarding SCP-5519-1.\n\nAddendum: On 17/4/21, mass gatherings of SCP-5519-A became visible on the surface of SCP-5519-1, presumably creating repairs or otherwise modifying SCP-5519-1. In direct response to this behavior, the original recovery site of SCP-5519-1 and the surrounding area were investigated extensively, uncovering SCP-5519-2.\nSCP-5519-2 is the official designation of a mildly-damaged doorbell camera, which contains the following footage within the video storage files of the device. Other files were found to be entirely corrupted, and recovery of additional footage would be considered impossible.\n\nSCP-5519-2 VIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 12/4/21\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nA uniformed individual, carrying various small crates, is shown approaching SCP-5519-2, before ringing the doorbell (Due to the markings and patches on the individual's uniform, it is suspected that they possessed some level of military or governmental importance). Several seconds pass, and the presumed owner of SCP-5519-2 is seen opening their door to greet the officer.\nTransportation Officer: Hello sir, I've got your order right here.\nThe officer sets down the stack of crates, and removes the top box before handing it to the other humanoid. The logo of an orange disc with a beige outline is visible on the crates, possibly a symbol representing high status and influence.\nReceiving Individual: Thank God, you got here just in time. The game's almost started, and the fam was starting to get rowdy.\nDue to the mention of a theological figure, it is suspected that either the act of delivery or the contents of these crates possessed religious or ritual significance.\nTransportation Officer: Yeah, there was a bit of a wreck on 285, so that took a bit more time.\nThe receiving individual opens the swinging lid of the crate, revealing an additional SCP-5519-1 instance.\nReceiving Individual: Alright, and the others?\nOver the course of the next minute, the officer identifies the contents of the crates, and hands them over to the individual after the contents of the crates are described. Notably, various clear cylinders are visible, evidently containing bubbling liquid.\nTransportation Officer: And there's the last of the garlic bread.\nAt this moment, the footage ends. The phrase \u201cBe Careful What You Wish For\u201d is visible on the screen for a very brief amount of time before cutting to black.\n[END LOG]\n\nResearch into SCP-5519-1's former status as \u201cGarlic Bread\u201d is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5518 | SCP-5519 | SCP-5520 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5521\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of SCP-5521 and its current inaccessibility, containment efforts are to be focused on the monitoring of Guy Fieri. Embedded agents within the Food Network are to secure any future episodes of \"Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives\" that feature footage of SCP-5521 and deliver them to Site-14 for study. Reruns of the program are to be aired in the episode's place, and any employees of the Food Network who view the footage are to be properly amnesticized.\nDescription: SCP-5521 is theorized to be an extra dimensional space, believed to be located somewhere in the southeastern United States. As of the creation of this article, only a select few individuals have been able to access SCP-5521. However, these individuals do not seem to recall any details of their time inside SCP-5521, nor how they were able to enter or exit. The only evidence of SCP-5521's existence is a segment from an episode of Guy Fieri's \"Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,\" (see Excerpt 5521-459) where Fieri visits SCP-5521 and samples \"local cuisine\" from a restaurant within the space.\nDiscovery: SCP-5521 was discovered after embedded agents within the Food Network viewed footage from an upcoming episode of \"Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives\" that featured SCP-5521. Mr. Fieri was interviewed, but claimed to have no memory of visiting the restaurant within SCP-5521. After current containment protocols were established, no footage of SCP-5521 has been found in episodes of the series. A proposal to change Object Class to Neutralized is pending approval.\nAddendum A: Excerpt 5521-459\nThe following is an excerpt from the episode of \"Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives\" in which SCP-5521 is featured.\n\n(Unlike the rest of the episode, footage within SCP-5521 is not edited in any way. The reason for this is unknown, but it is theorized to be due to the nature of SCP-5521. The segment begins with Fieri and his camera crew approaching a building resembling an American diner.)\nFieri: Now, I haven't heard a lot about this place, but if there's one thing I keep telling you guys, it's that you can't be afraid to try new things. I don't know how good the food's supposed to be or even what these guys serve, but we're gonna find out, and I can not wait.\n(As the group approaches the front door, the camera focuses on signage on the marquee above the door. The letters are in English, but much of the text consists of gibberish. The only recognizable words are \"great eat.\" The group enters the building. While the interior resembles a typical American diner, much of the furniture does not appear to be properly proportioned for human use. Many of the booths are unnecessarily large, and the tables are irregularly shaped. None of the group appears to acknowledge this. Behind the counter is an entity resembling an adult octopus, wearing an apron and paper hat. The entity vocalizes in an indecipherable language and gestures to Fieri with its appendages.)\nFieri: No kidding! I always love meeting fans and seeing what they're capable of! Whatcha got for me, buddy?\n(The entity produces a tray from behind the counter and sets it on its surface. On the tray is a mass of unknown biological material, which occasionally quivers in place. The entity vocalizes once again.)\nFieri: This is your house special, huh? I have to admit, I've seen a lot of diners use this cut of meat, but I've definitely never seen it prepared like this! That's what I love about this job; seeing all the awesome ways passionate cooks like you can take a typical dish and turn it on its head! You'll have to show me how it's done!\n(The entity vocalizes while providing silverware for Fieri. Fieri cuts off a piece of the mass and eats it.)\nFieri: Wow! You've seriously knocked it out of the park, my man! The spin you've put on this dish is just so unique, I can tell you've put a lot of heart and soul into cooking this!\n(Fieri continues to eat pieces from the mass for approximately three minutes before setting down his utensils.)\nFieri: Alright, now that we've experienced the flavor, why don't you take us back and show us the magic?\n(The entity leads Fieri and his crew into a back room. Inside is a large mass of various biological material, similar to the mass Fieri had sampled, hanging from what appear to be meathooks. There is a large machine on the eastern wall, with rubber tubes extending out of its chassis and into the mass. An unknown substance is pumped from the machine into the mass.)\nFieri: Now this is what I call home cooking! Not only does it smell delicious in here, but it's nice and simple! It just goes to show that you don't need a whole bunch of fancy equipment to unleash the flavor!\n(The entity extends an appendage into the mass, which emits a loud gurgling noise. The entity removes its appendage, revealing another, smaller mass in its grip.)\nFieri: I don't say this very often, but you, my friend, are very much an artist! You've got a gift, my man, I'm being serious! Not just that, I can tell you've dedicated yourself to this art completely! The food, the kitchen, the attitude, they all point to the same thing; you love what you do. Trust me when I say I haven't seen many cooks who express such unconditional love for their work. When this episode goes up, be ready for the crowds, because they're gonna be coming for this stuff by the thousands. You rock, man. Keep up the flavor.\n(The entity squeals.)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5520 | SCP-5521 | SCP-5522 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5522: Pizza Delivery Speedrun (RTA) 100% Completion\n\nOther Articles of Mine\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4966\n\nSCP-1401-EX\n\nSCP-4052\n\nSCP-4088\n\nSCP-5522\n\nSCP-4109\n\nSCP-7441\n\nSCP-5020\n\nSCP-4286\n\nSCP-4035\n\nSCP-4664\n\nSCP-4270\n\nSCP-3462\n\nSCP-6663\n\nSCP-7966\n\nSCP-4570\n\nSCP-6633\n\nSCP-5693\n\nSCP-5261\n\nSCP-444-J\n\npage 1 of 212next \u00bb\n\nTales\n\nSomething Glowing\n\nLog Of Extranormal Events, Vol II\n\nPrelude To Presents\n\nYour Memory Forever Seen\n\nThe Bears\n\nOther\n\nThe Bread Box\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27\n\nSCP-005 Proposal Hub\n\nExperiment Log-4035\n\nCollab Articles\n\nSCPs\n\nPage\nTitle\nCo-Author\n\nSCP-4733\nBut Not Forgotten\nLamentte\n\nSCP-5225\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nXilasCrowe\n\nSCP-5785\nCraptivism\nSonderance\n\nSCP-5993\nWe want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\nch00bakka\n\nTales\n\nPage\nCo-Author\n\nThe Bathrooms Wiki\nToo many to list\n\nSnippets of an Unveiled World\nNykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin\n\nGone,\nLamentte\n\nYour Imaginary Friend\nFishish\n\nCheck out Deadly Bread's Author Page\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nITEM NUMBER: SCP-5522\nLEVEL 3/5522\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: KETER\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler J/M-CON is to monitor social media websites for reports of SCP-5522 advertisements, or mentions of SCP-5522-1, which are to be removed. SCP-5522-1's domain is to be artificially repressed by Foundation agents planted within world governments. SCP-5522-1's online traffic is to be monitored, with viewers having their internet speed throttled as to discourage continued viewing. If an individual successfully uses SCP-5522-1, they are to be apprehended and amnestized. Tracking of SCP-5522's infection rate is currently being monitored by Dr. Randall Bannock, who is to produce a detailed report of its contagion pattern monthly to help develop additional containment measures.\nEstablishments discovered possessing SCP-5522 are to be purchased using Foundation assets, with former employees being administered targeted Class-C amnestics. Establishments are to then be condemned or remodeled and used as Foundation housing for field agents.\nDescription: SCP-5522 is a metaphysical pathogen capable of infecting restaurants and other food service industries. SCP-5522's main vector for infection is \"Delicious Dan's Delivery Speedrun [sic]\", an anomalous website designed similarly to those used by third-party food delivery services (designated SCP-5522-1). The website features various slogans such as \"100% Completion\" and \"Only RTA\", although the meaning of these phrases is currently unknown. The website also boasts the promise that all food ordered through it will be received in a maximum of 30 minutes, or the delivery will be free of charge. All attempts to find the original owner of SCP-5522-1 have been met with failure, as all documentation has been registered under the name \"Delicious Dan\". All attempts by the Foundation to acquire or censor SCP-5522-1 have similarly failed.\nWhen SCP-5522-1 is used to order food from an establishment, that establishment becomes infected with SCP-5522. SCP-5522 will physically manifest as an advertisement campaign produced by the infected establishment in conjunction with SCP-5522-1. Advertisements often appear in the form of paper flyers and print ads, although television commercials and cross-brand sponsorship deals have been recorded. These advertisements make similar claims to those by SCP-5522-1, although offer it as a temporary offer with no concrete deadline. If advertisements are capable of reaching an uninfected establishment, it has a high probability of becoming another vector for SCP-5522.\nWhen SCP-5522-1 is used to order food from an SCP-5522 infected establishment, a \u039b-Event will be triggered. These events are always accompanied by an immediate drop in ambient temporal stability. \u039b-Events differ from normal deliveries by the method of transport utilized. Rather than using traditional means of transport such as a motorized vehicle, employees will enact various rituals resulting in their immediate spatial displacement.1 These rituals are often bizarre in nature, consisting of nonsensical movements and significant physical exertion, with employees preforming actions that would normally result in severe bodily injury. The contents of these rituals vary between \u039b-Events, and are believed to correspond with the complexity of the order placed. Attempts to recreate these rituals outside of \u039b-Events have universally failed to produce anomalous properties.\nFollowing displacement, the employee will arrive at their intended destination. No limit to the distance employees are able to be displaced has been found. Following the standard exchange of currency for the meal, the employee will become displaced once again, reappearing within the establishment. All individuals who have performed or observed \u039b-Events have been unable to recognize their anomalous nature, although this does not apply to to photographs or videos taken of \u039b-Events, or individuals with prior knowledge of SCP-5522.\nAddendum.5522.1: Included below are notable \u039b-Events recorded during Foundation testing. All recorded \u039b-Events occurred within a former Spicy Cheese Pizzeria location following SCP-5522 infection. The restaurant was vacant save for D-Class staffing the location and security personnel. Orders were placed through SCP-5522-1 on a computer terminal within Site-66, with personnel observing the events through closed circuit cameras. For a full list of known \u039b-Events, please see Document-5522-ICV.\n\nSCP-5522-1 Order: Small cheese pizza\nFollowing \u039b-Event: Subject stood in the southwestern corner of the kitchen and performed a series of crouches and jumps. These actions were done in quick succession and seemingly at random. Occasionally, subject's limbs were observed passing through the surrounding building, with the limbs being slightly rebuffed and ejected from the wall. After several minutes, the subject suddenly passed through the kitchen floor unimpeded, completely vanishing. Subject arrived at Site-66 unharmed, but complained of aching legs.\n\nSCP-5522-1 Order: Medium pepperoni pizza, small order of wings\nFollowing \u039b-Event: Subject stood on a cushioned chair, placed in front of the main entrance. Subject proceeded to jump upwards while holding the chair, then using the chair as a base to jump again. This was done using rapid minor changes in elevation, with the subject's jumps becoming blurred motion. Subject continued this action until they had reached the ceiling, upon which they released the chair and launched themselves upwards, passing through the obstruction. Subject arrived at Site-66 unharmed, although slightly fatigued.\n\nSCP-5522-1 Order: Medium Hawaiian pizza, two medium orders of mozzarella sticks\nFollowing \u039b-Event: Subject collided with a freestanding table, pushing the object against the southernmost wall. Subject began walking against the obstruction, their feet moving unimpeded by friction. As the subject moved, the tabletop and center stand were observed to laterally bisect the subject's abdominal and pelvic regions. Subject then began to incrementally move themselves downwards through the tabletop and under the table. Once under the table, subject is believed to have passed through the floor, using the still intersected center stand to propel themselves downwards. Subject appeared at Site-66 unharmed, but complained of moderate fatigue.\n\nSCP-5522-1 Order: Large meat lover's pizza, two large orders of mozzarella sticks, medium order of breadsticks\nFollowing \u039b-Event: Subject entered a crouched position, and began propelling themselves backwards, using their body weight to achieve minor momentum. Over several minutes, subject experienced a dramatic increase in velocity, hopping in a circular motion around the building's interior. This velocity was maintained by the subject jumping immediately upon contact with the ground. After enough momentum had been built, the subject ceased their circular trajectory, instead accelerating towards the southernmost wall before passing through it harmlessly. Subject appeared at Site-66 complaining of severe motion sickness.\n\nAddendum.5522.2: Following Level 4 approval, a test was conducted to determine whether a \u039b-Event could be manually obstructed, resulting in a free delivery. D-30852 was outfitted with a remote shock collar, which would be intermittently activated by Site-66 personnel. \u039b-Event proceeded as normal until the first electric shock was administered, upon which all active surveillance cameras ceased to function. After attempts to communicate with security personnel failed, Mobile Task Force Kappa-13 (\"With Everything On It\") were dispatched to investigate.\nOn-scene personnel were discovered dead, showing signs of severe spatial distortion, such as elongated sections of skin, dislocation or relocation of limbs, and loss of cohesion. Corpse of D-30852 was unable to be located, although a large amount of ash present within the building was noted.2 During post-incident analysis, a pop-up notification was received from SCP-5522-1 that read as follows:\n\nUser D-30852 has been banned from further participation: [Attempted TAS on secure server]\n\nThe precise meaning of this message is currently under analysis.\n\n\nFootnotes\n1. Normally manifesting as the individual passing through physical space to another location.\n2. No other signs of heat damage were found within the building.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5521 | Deadly Bread | SCP-5523 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Any additional comments (image sources, crit credits, whatever)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5523\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nTerminal\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nContainment Update: Following the incident involving Sid Rothenberg1, governments affiliated with the Foundation have enacted an indefinite ban on the hunting and consumption of cervidaes species. Rothenberg has been taken into Foundation custody, and is receiving intensive care.\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the ecological niche SCP-5523 facilitates, removal of SCP-5523-1 specimens from forested areas is prohibited. Regions containing significant SCP-5523-1 populations have been cordoned from the public, with low-level security fences established around the perimeter of SCP-5523 affected areas.\n\nSkeletal remains associated with SCP-5523.\n\nDescription: SCP-5523 is a Terminal2-Class group of environmental changes, consisting of behavioral modifications and biological mutations affecting members of the Cervidaes family.3 SCP-5523 events have been observed to occur after periods of severe environmental damage, such as forest fires or times of drought. SCP-5523 does not affect all individual Cervidaes specimens within a given area. Elderly populations or specific individuals experiencing sickness are more susceptible to developing SCP-5523 then young and healthy populations. SCP-5523 consists of the ingestion of Vaccinium vitis-idaea4 berries. Vaccinium vitis-idaea are typically not eaten by Cervidaes specimens, due to the individual berries containing toxic substances.\nSCP-5523 affected individuals5 ingest great quantities of Vaccinium vitis-idaea, in which the poisonous materials will accumulate within the individual's bloodstream. After a period of approximately fourty-two hours, the SCP-5523-1 instance will die, leading to rapid decomposition occuring, without assistance from maggots or other decomposer organisms. Skeletal remains will develop Vaccinium vitis-idaea saplings, along with spear-heading the growth of boreal plants, including Greenbrier, Poison Ivy, and Buckweed, all specimens of plants favored by Cervidaes. Following continued research, it has been determined that over \u2588\u2588 percent of forest growth worldwide has developed due to SCP-5523.\nAddendum No. 1: Rothenberg Incident\nSid Rothenberg, a Canadian civilian, outdoorsman and biologist, experienced a period of confusion and delirium following ingestion of venison harvested from an SCP-5523-1 specimen. An outdoor journal, kept during the period of delirium, was recovered. The following is an excerpt.\n\nI am sick. There is a sickness within my body, I feel it inside me. The simple explanation is maggots, improperly cooked meat. But I feel as if there is something more, something that can explain why my mind is repeating words to me. 'Greenbrier.' 'Poison Ivy.' 'Buckweed.' Why are these words repeated to me? All speculation, at this point.\nI'm resting by the fire, waiting for rescue. I'm looking at the forest around me, hearing the rutting of elk, the cawing of crow. The howl of a wolf. Something is clear to me. The Earth is dying, and we do not notice.\n\u2026\nI fell asleep by the light of the moon, and I dreamt of my death, my skeleton, my bones, growing across the forest, like the roots of a tree. My death will bring the forest green, and the earth as brown as the first people.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Following contact with SCP-5523, Rothenberg is now refered to as SCP-5523-2.\n2. Originally referring to an entity or anomaly that incorporates human beings into it following death. Following the discovery of SCP-5523, it has been determined that animal specimens can be incorporated into Terminal anomalies.\n3. A biological group consisting of Deers.\n4. Variously known as lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry.\n5. Designated as SCP-5523-1 instances.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5522 | SCP-5523 | SCP-5524 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5525\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: In accordance with GOC Resolution 206 and Overseer Mandate BINGO FREMONT, the Foundation is responsible for maintaining the underwater blockade around SCP-5525. Enforcement of the blockade is assigned to Naval Task Force Chi-11 (\"Neptune's Nightmare\"), consisting of 12 Cerberus-class submarines1 and the support ships SCPS Lunatic Leap and SCPS Daring Dash, with additional fire support from the GOC surface combat vessels Iron Hand and Silver Fist. Chi-11 is tasked with preventing any other vessels, including those of the Foundation or allied Groups of Interest, from approaching within fifteen nautical miles of the outer perimeter of SCP-5525. Chi-11 is authorized to use all force necessary to dissuade, interdict, or destroy vessels attempting to enter or exit this containment zone.\nAny modifications to the parameters of the blockade around SCP-5525, aside from those related to force composition, require the approval of the GOC Council of 108 and the Foundation Overseer Council. In emergency situations, provisional modifications may be approved by a jointly-issued order of Assistant Director \"Telemachus\" and O5-03.\nAt this time, the Office of the Undersecretary-General of the Global Occult Coalition is engaged in diplomatic talks with representatives of the United States Government in an attempt to negotiate the return of all artifacts removed from SCP-5525 prior to the establishment of current containment procedures.\nDescription: SCP-5525 is the ruins and remains of a city constructed approximately 6000 years ago by a species of alternative hominids (provisionally classified as Homo sapiens aquarius, codeword designation AQUARIAN DISCO). AQUARIAN DISCO possessed a heavily insular but scientifically advanced civilization, with technologies far beyond the current human state-of-the-art. One or more items of paratechnology employed by AQUARIAN DISCO is known to be responsible for the destruction of their civilization and the transportation of SCP-5525 to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Despite its current location, large sections of the structure remain airtight and capable of supporting human life.\nFurther information about the culture and technology of AQUARIAN DISCO is classified L5/5525.\nIn 1944, SCP-5525 was discovered by the submarine USS Dragonet during its initial shakedown cruise. At the time, the sailors aboard Dragonet mistakenly recorded the structure as a natural underwater feature in the ship's log. Later examination of the submarine's logs by naval intelligence officers uncovered inconsistencies between reported observations and recorded data, which prompted a mission to examine the area more closely using a surface trawler. Sonar readings taken by this trawler revealed the extent of SCP-5525, and confirmed that it was not a natural structure; further operations involving SCP-5525 were thereupon transferred to the Department of Defense Paranatural Warfare Command2, and all information regarding the structure was classified.\nThe Pentagram performed a number of surveys of SCP-5525 in the period between 1944 and 1963, although no attempts were made to explore the interior of the structure, owing to its extreme depth. In 1963, an attempt was made to reach SCP-5525 by USS Thresher, resulting in the loss of the submarine with all crew. After this, no further attempts were made to explore SCP-5525 until 1979.\nIn 1979, the Pentagram took ownership of the DSRV-3 Merlin, a deep sea submersible outfitted with numerous paratechnologies that would allow it to operate safely and secretly at extreme depths, including that of SCP-5525. Following initial operations where it was used to excavate several wrecks from the Seventh Occult War, Merlin was retasked for use in exploring SCP-5525. Merlin succeeded in reaching the structure and gaining access, whereupon the Pentagram began a major archeological operation aimed at finding and recovering any remaining functional artifacts. Based on what is known of AQUARIAN DISCO technology, any objects recovered by the Pentagram would likely be considered Thaumiel-class artifacts if possessed by the Foundation3.\nThe Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition became aware of SCP-5525 and the Pentagram's activities following the destruction of St. Jeremiah4, which resulted from the inadvertent activation of an AQUARIAN DISCO artifact during an attempt to remove it from the structure. In simultaneous emergency sessions, the Overseer Council and the Council of 108 both agreed on the necessity of preventing further access to SCP-5525, and the desirability of recovering the artifacts that had already been removed from it. Working through the channels provided by Article 13 of the K\u00f6ln Agreement, the Foundation and the GOC quickly established a set of joint containment protocols, with the Foundation taking responsibility for the blockade of SCP-5525. Nearby naval assets5 were immediately retasked to perform initial containment while a dedicated task force was assembled.\nAddendum \u2014 Initial Exploration: After the destruction of St. Jeremiah, but before the establishment of the containment zone, American forces temporarily withdrew from SCP-5525 to monitor the structure for possible aftershocks. Despite the potential hazards, authorization was granted for a single reconnaissance mission to explore the interior of the structure before it could be reoccupied by the United States. Mobile Task Force Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") and Assessment Team 781 (\"Pyramidions\") were dispatched to survey SCP-5525 and determine the extent of the Pentagram's activities. Most of what is currently known about AQUARIAN DISCO and their culture was discovered during this expedition.\nIn addition to gathering valuable information about AQUARIAN DISCO, the survey team found that the Pentagram had located an armory or storeroom on one of the lower levels, which had then become the focus of recovery operations. This portion of SCP-5525 had experienced moderate structural damage and undergone a partial collapse before it was discovered, forcing the Pentagram to spend time on excavations; at the time containment was established, only 20% of the storeroom had been uncovered, from which many artifacts had not yet been removed. Documents found at the site indicate that the Pentagram had prioritized recovering those objects which could most easily be weaponized.\nAmong the remaining artifacts was the weapon believed to have destroyed St. Jeremiah, which has been classified as SCP-5525-Antilles. The Pentagram had found SCP-5525-Antilles buried within the debris and had succeeded in excavating it, but accidentally activated it while attempting to move it. An inscription on the object, thought to be a name or identifier, was tentatively translated as \"Null Divider\"6. Other than this inscription, the only other significant external feature of SCP-5525-Antilles is a touch-screen interface displaying a detailed map of the Earth's surface7, which is used for targeting the device.\nAddendum \u2014 Removed Artifacts: In the wake of Incident INSIDE BASEBALL, the storeroom where SCP-5525-Antilles was found was fully excavated, and a thorough examination of the contents performed. After comparing the results with inventory lists inside the storeroom, the following artifacts were found to have been removed from SCP-5525:\n\nTranslated Name\nCodeword\nStatus\n\nNull Divider\nAntilles\nContained\n\nTimeless Mirror\nByzantine\nUnder observation\n\nEmpty Hive\nColumbia\nUnknown\n\nDarkness Visible\nDominion\nUnknown\n\nLightless Flame\nExodus\nUnknown\n\nVoid Furnace\nFrontier\nUnknown\n\nPerfect Cold\nGehenna\nUnknown\n\nAbyss Well\nHibernia\nUnknown\n\nDead Mind\nIchabod\nUnknown\n\nInfinite Point\nJericho\nUnknown\n\nCrystal Number\nKronstadt\nUnknown\n\nFalse Moon\nLorelei\nUnknown\n\nWhile some of these artifacts may have been lost or destroyed, it is believed that most are currently in the custody of the Pentagram. Efforts are ongoing to locate and recover these missing artifacts.\nAddendum \u2014 Incident INSIDE BASEBALL: On 1979-12-30, shortly after the survey team was dispatched, and while the containment zone was still being established, elements of the US 13th Fleet began to approach SCP-5525. After repeated directives to turn back were ignored, the situation escalated into a full-scale naval engagement.\n\nT+0m: The lead ship of the 13th Fleet, the destroyer USS Thomas Lynch Jr., enters the fifteen nautical mile containment zone. Captain Redmond Hadaway of Silver Fist orders his ship to open fire on Thomas Lynch Jr.\nT+1m: USS Thomas Lynch Jr. and its escorts return fire. GOC surface combat vessel Brass Knuckle begins moving forwards to screen SCPS Jack Jumped.\nT+3m: SCPS Jack Jumped and SCPS Lunatic Leap begin deploying their aircraft wings. The two ships carry a total of 18 fixed-wing V/STOL aircraft between them.\nT+9m: Silver Fist scores a direct hit against the forward magazine of USS Thomas Lynch Jr., resulting in a series of catastrophic internal explosions that cause the destroyer to break in half.\nT+15m: Brass Knuckle completes its move to screen SCPS Jack Jumped.\nT+29m: Submarine SCPS Fish Food is hit by a depth charge and sunk.\nT+36m: Aircraft from SCPS Lunatic Leap succeed in disabling the cruiser USS Tempe.\nT+43m: A missile salvo from the cruiser USS Mountain Meadows destroys the entire wing of aircraft from SCPS Lunatic Leap. Lunatic Leap begins to withdraw.\nT+55m: Aircraft from SCPS Jack Jumped release an aerial dispersion of amnestic gas over USS Mountain Meadows, causing general confusion and chaos which allow Silver Fist to destroy the cruiser's bridge and engines.\nT+61m: Thaumatologists aboard Silver Fist attempt to apportate a strike team onto the bridge of the 13th Fleet flagship, USS Carl Hayden. The working is disrupted by psychics aboard Carl Hayden, and the resulting backlash damages the engines of Silver Fist, putting it out of action.\nT+73m: All of the water within forty-five feet of Silver Fist turns into lemon pudding.\nT+79m: Brass Knuckle loses its forward battery. Captain Thomas Griffith orders the ship to close to small arms range.\nT+88m: Most of the bridge crew of Brass Knuckle, including Captain Griffith, are killed by a Pentagram psychic. Lieutenant Carter Hager assumes command of the ship.\nT+92m: Thaumatologists aboard Silver Fist make a second attempt to apportate onto USS Carl Hayden, this time successfully transporting a pouch of live grenades into the bridge. The resulting explosion eliminates the Pentagram combat psychics.\nT+96m: Submarine SCPS Surf Screen is hit by a depth charge and disabled. Captain David Deford orders an emergency ballast tank blow, causing Surf Screen to surface directly underneath the destroyer USS William Williams. Both vessels sink as a result.\nT+99m: Fires break out in the main engine room of Brass Knuckle, temporarily disabling propulsion.\nT+105m: Fires aboard Brass Knuckle spread to the auxiliary engine room. The ship loses all remaining propulsion.\nT+112m: Brass Knuckle begins to rapidly sink. Lieutenant Hager gives the order to abandon ship.\nT+127m: Brass Knuckle is sunk. SCPS Jack Jumped begins taking heavy fire.\nT+135m: Believing that the battle might soon be lost otherwise, Captain Winona Chevalier of SCPS Jack Jumped requests permission to activate SCP-5525-Antilles.\nT+137m: In light of the rapidly deteriorating tactical situation, O5-03 unilaterally authorizes the emergency deployment of SCP-5525-Antilles for use against the US 13th Fleet. This decision will later be upheld by a full vote of the Overseer Council after the incident.\nT+138m: The US 13th Fleet ceases to exist.\n\nFor the next two days, the US Government, through the Unusual Incidents Unit, continued to communicate with the Foundation and the GOC via regular channels, while ignoring inquiries about the incident. No change in American strategic posture was observed, although the Foundation raised its own alert levels at all North American sites in preparation for a possible counterstrike.\nOn 1980-01-01, President James Carter issued a communication to the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition, apologizing for Incident INSIDE BASEBALL and disavowing the existence of the 13th Fleet. No mention was or has since been made of the destruction of St. Jeremiah, nor of the artifacts removed from SCP-5525.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCPS Guardian, SCPS Monitor, SCPS Watcher, SCPS Leviathan's Eye, SCPS Kraken's Maw, SCPS Tide Seer, SCPS Mirror Gaze, SCPS Storm Surge, SCPS Wave Whisper, SCPS Squid, SCPS Calamari, and SCPS Plato.\n2. Colloquially referred to as the Pentagram.\n3. The GOC classifies such technologies as Hyper-TanGenT, and forbids their operational use without prior approval from the Undersecretary-General.\n4. Formerly an island in the Caribbean, comprising the sovereign state of Free Jeremiah, with a population of almost 15,000 people.\n5. The Foundation mothership carriers SCPS Jack Jumped and SCPS Lunatic Leap, with their aircraft wings and three Cerberus-class submarines, and the GOC surface combat vessels Brass Knuckle and Silver Fist.\n6. Alternative proposed translations include \"Division Of Nothing\", \"Division Of Zero\", \"Zero Division\", and \"Nothing Undivided\".\n7. Which appears to update in real-time.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5524 | SCP-5525 | SCP-5526 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5527 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5527\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5527, beached on Bintan Island, Indonesia\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-02\nREDACTED\nREDACTED\nN/A\n\nSCP-5527 in storage at Site-02\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The remaining mass of SCP-5527 is to be kept in a refrigerated container at Site-02's morgue.\nFurther consumption of SCP-5527 is prohibited.\nDescription: SCP-5527 is a whale carcass, the innards of which resemble human physiology that has been augmented in a way to complement SCP-5527's shape and size. Various musculature and tissue inside SCP-5527, when applied to a living creature, would be rendered nonfunctional or otherwise superfluous in an aquatic environment.\nAside from a thick layer of fat surrounding its innards and the size of such, SCP-5527's anatomy\u2014 including skeletal structure, musculature, and the locations of internal organs\u2014 is identical to that of a human. Carbon dating techniques have revealed that SCP-5527 is approximately 30,000 years old. Despite this, SCP-5527 has not been observed to deteriorate beyond its present state. Traces of decayed ink have been observed on SCP-5527's left iliac artery.\nMaterial derived from SCP-5527 will, upon consumption, allow for the ability to breathe in aquatic environments. This effect has been observed to last for up to 12 hours, and is otherwise poorly understood.\nAll DNA strands taken from SCP-5527 have been degraded beyond the point of analysis.\nAddendum.5527.1: Discovery\nSCP-5527 was found on 2021/01/01 when it washed ashore on Bintan Island, Indonesia, in front of a private estate belonging to Overseer Council member O5-12, who had been residing there at the time.\nUpon request, SCP-5527 was transferred to Site-021 for research purposes.\nAddendum.5527.2: Testing Log\n\n+ Collected Information\n\n- WE SWAM IN A SEA WE KNEW TO BE EMPTY\n\nTest #: 01\nSubject: One Peromyscus leucopus (white mouse)\nNotes: Subject was prompted to consume a piece of SCP-5527's brain matter. Following consumption, it was placed in a small cage before being lowered into a tank of water.\n\nResults: Subject remained underwater for 4 hours before expiring. Signs of distress were observed throughout the process.\n\nTest #: 07\nSubject: Researcher Avalon\nNotes: Subject was instructed to consume a piece of SCP-5527's pectoral tissue. Following consumption, subject was placed in a cage fitted with a safety system, and submerged in a body of water.\n\nResults: Subject remained underwater for one hour before signalling for the cage to be raised. Aside from initial difficulties adjusting to breathing in both environments, no signs of distress or discomfort were observed.\nResearcher Avalon was promptly interviewed and asked to describe her experience. An excerpt of her writing can be found below.\n\nYou lose all sense of who you are and where you are. When I was told I only lasted an hour, I didn't know how to respond. It felt like weeks. Like I fell asleep and dreamed for a month straight. At the same time, it wasn't dreaming. I was cognizant of what was happening, and I could reflect on things as clearly as I could see them in front of me. I relived my life a hundred times. Every regret, moment of bliss, and even the perspectives of those around me. I fixated on the parts of myself I don't like to think about. The whole time, there was a stinging feeling in the back of my neck that told me I was doing something wrong, or that I'm still doing something wrong.\n\nFollowing the interview, Researcher Avalon requested amnesticization, which was denied in order to further observe the effects of consuming SCP-5527.\n\nTest #: 010\nSubject: One copy of children's book The Cat in the Hat, written by Dr. Seuss\nNotes: Subject was chosen due to a lack of water present in the narrative. Subject was forced to consume a piece of SCP-5527's tailbone through an anomalous process involving SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and was then submerged for a half hour.\n\nResults: Upon review, the central narrative of this copy of The Cat in the Hat had changed entirely. A summary can be found below.\n\nThe story begins in a house of 12 unnamed, nondescript children, who express boredom with their current situation. A loud noise is heard from the basement, and the character of the Cat in the Hat emerges from the cellar door. He promises to show the children ways to occupy themselves, but the children's pet fish objects. The Cat laughs, and removes the fish from its bowl. He replaces the bowl's water with a liquid he pours from underneath his hat. Upon reintroducing the fish to the bowl, it drowns. The children, now ecstatic without the presence of the sole supervising force in their lives, begin to vandalize the house, breaking objects and drawing on walls, among other destructive activities. The Cat offers to retrieve two beings, referred to as the \"Things\", from the basement to assist with the destruction. The children become immediately frightened\u2014 some to the point of tears\u2014 and beg the Cat to \"leave [the Things] where they belong\".\nAs the Cat continues to threaten the children with going into the basement, an obscured figure is seen approaching the house from outside the window. The children realize the mess they've made, and panic. The Cat takes pleasure in their distress, and retreats into the basement. The obscured figure opens the front door, and the children begin to run. The book ends with a question posed to the reader; \"What would you do if you could know the truth?\"\n\nFurther testing regarding SCP-5527 has been prohibited at the request of the O5 Council.\n\nAddendum.5527.3: Incident-5527\n\n+ Collected Information\n\n- WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFUL\n\nIncident Log\n\nDate: 2021/01/12\n\nAt 00:25, Overseer Council member O5-12 accessed SCP-5527's containment locker and proceeded to consume a large amount of its innards, including the entirety of its brain, heart, eyes, and skeleton.\nFollowing this, O5-12 proceeded to her residence on Bintar Island, where SCP-5527 had been discovered. Surveillance cameras reveal that O5-12 entered the nearby body of water and swam out to an indeterminate length, where it is assumed she submerged herself to the point of drowning.\nAfter a search effort, O5-12's corpse was recovered on 2021/01/24. It was found embedded in the seabed, partially buried under sand. Various lacerations and markings were observed on the cadaver, as well as its clothing.\nA search of O5-12's residence recovered the following document, hastily composed on a napkin following her consumption of SCP-5527.\n\nWow! We should be ashamed of ourselves. This is what we deserve.\nAfter popular demand, we've brought back a brand new set of Little Misters, a limited edition collection from Dr. Wondertainment! Isn't that fun?\nFind them all and become the Brand New Mr. Collector!\n00. Mr. Prologue\n01. Mr. Dark\n02. Mr. Remembrance\n03. Mr. Toxic\n04. Mr. Collector\n05. Mx. Voltage\n06. \u2588\u2588. Gears\n07. Mr. Memory\n08. Mr. Nobody\n09. Mr. Brainy\n10. Ms. Seraph\n11. Mr. Chronal and Mr. Dimension\n12. Mr. Fish \u2714\n13. Mr. Epilogue\n14. Mr. Redd (Discontinued)\n\nResearch efforts into the context of this document, and the name \"Dr. Wondertainment\" remain active.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An unlisted facility staffed exclusively by high-ranking Foundation personnel, used to store and research anomalies of the highest sensitivity to Foundation security.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5526 | SCP-5527 | SCP-5528 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5528\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A perimeter has been established around SCP-5528 and is to be manned by a rotating staff of 10 Foundation guards. Under no circumstances should Foundation personnel with clearance level 3 or lower enter SCP-5528. However, despite clearance level, MTF Lambda-5 (\u201cWhite Rabbits\u201d) has been given express permission to enter SCP-5528 when they deem it necessary, given that each agent has proved to be sound of body and mind. If any of the following occurrences are seen, heard or felt by either the current staff or Lambda-5, it should be reported to the active site director of Site-78 immediately:\n\nA feminine voice coming from within SCP-5528\nA figure standing in the second floor window\nShadows with too many limbs\nHuman and inhuman screaming, coming from within SCP-5528\nBodies of members of the GOC, hanging from their necks on trees surrounding SCP-5528\nCognitohazards manifesting on SCP-5528 and local fauna1\nA figure beckoning you into the woods, away from SCP-5528. She says you're not supposed to be here. Pay it no mind.\nGood little soldiers follow orders\n\nDescription: SCP-5528 is the structure currently occupying 17 Beckett Drive in Eagle Point, Oregon. The structure was previously utilized by the Global Occult Coalition's physics division as a safe house and makeshift laboratory, before it was raided by a Foundation strike team in 1972. The raid was successful, resulting in 5 casualties, all GOC. Based on evidence gathered from the raid, it can be concluded that the GOC's physics division was researching and experimenting with very basic forms of Scranton Reality. SCP-5528 was discovered by the Foundation in 1970, when hotspots of increasingly low and high Hume levels were noted appearing in and around Eagle Point. After the raid, the building was quarantined by the Foundation under the guise of an infestation of mold. A chain link fence was set around the perimeter of the building.\nOn April 7th, 2017, SCP-5528 was broken into by 4 individuals. The individuals in question owned and ran a YouTube channel called \u201cGrave Misfortune\u201d, in which the group would visit supposedly haunted locations across Oregon and record themselves exploring said location while providing their audience with a brief history of why it's considered to be haunted. The log below is a transcription of the group's exploration of SCP-5528, found on a video recorder abandoned on the ground outside of the anomaly.\n\n+ Transcript-5528 (4/7/17)\n\n- Hide\n\nDATE: 4 / 7 / 2017\nPersons of Interest: Thomas Brooks, Rana Adel, Ryan Connors, Amelia Mason\n[BEGIN LOG]\nVideo starts with the camera aimed towards the dirt. Voices can be heard out of frame.\nR.Connors: \u2026you sure about this? This shit looks pretty serious.\nT.Brooks: Relax, dude. It's a fence. There's not even any wire at the top! If someone didn't want us in here, they would've tried a little harder to keep people out.\nR.Connors: Yeah, but didn't you say this was some government shit? Like, how much trouble could we get in if we're caught?\nT.Brooks: Nobody's been here in, like, 40 years. Trust me, we're good.\nR.Adel: Speaking of, why'd they even shut this place down anyway? Looks like a normal enough house to me.\nT.Brooks: I don't know, something about mold.\nR.Connors: I-It was quarantined, right? Is it safe? Like, are we gonna get sick, or something?\nT.Brooks: No, we should be fine. All the mold's probably dead by now.\nR.Adel: Is that how mold works?\nT.Brooks: It is now.\nR.Adel: Good enough for me. So, what're we looking at here? You were pretty cryptic on the drive over.\nT.Brooks: Rumor has it some cultists used to use this house for rituals. The government busted \u2018em in the 70's and quarantined the place. It's pretty standard stuff. People heard screaming coming from inside, so now people think it's haunted.\nR.Adel: Spooky.\nR.Connors: After this, can we do, like, a haunted water park or something? I'm sick of all this religious shit.\nT.Brooks: Sure, Con. Next we can visit the local haunted Six Flags. Now go get the spirit box2 from the truck.\nR.Connors: Yeah, yeah\u2026\nT.Brooks: Rana, you got the fog machine?\nR.Adel: Yup.\nT.Brooks: And your costume?\nR.Adel: Yup.\nT.Brooks: Good. Amy, you got the GoPros?\nThe camera lifts up, putting Brooks and Adel into view.\nA.Mason: Huh?\nT.Brooks: The GoPros, do you- are you recording?\nA.Mason: Uhhh\u2026\nT.Brooks: Dammit, Amy, what did I tell you about doing that?\nA.Mason: Relax, Tom. We can just cut this out.\nT.Brooks: Look, I just don't like it. Wait \u2018til we get inside to start recording.\nA.Mason: Sure, whatever.\nT.Brooks: Thank you. So, do you have the other cameras?\nVideo cuts.\n\nVideo returns. The camera is pointed towards Brooks, now standing inside of SCP-5528.\nT.Brooks: -it really mold that shut down the infamous Beckett House? Or could something far more\u2026 sinister\u2026 be at hand? Make sure to watch the whole video to find out! \u2026Cut.\nBrooks swipes a hand across his neck. The camera points at the floor.\nT.Brooks: Alright, let's get started. Rana, go get your costume and makeup on and wait by the master bedroom upstairs. Ryan, you got the second floor. Put some cameras in each room.\nTwo pairs of footsteps can be heard walking away.\nT.Brooks: Amy, you got the first floor. You can just hang out \u2018til we need you. Lemme see the camera.\nThe camera is moved, view still aimed on the floor.\nA.Mason: What do you need it for?\nT.Brooks: I'm gonna walk around, get some B-roll. You can come, or just hang out here.\nA.Mason: I'll just chill here.\nT.Brooks: Alright, just don't go down to the basement \u2018til we're all ready, yeah? That's where the sighting is gonna be, so we'll need you on cam.\nA.Mason: Got it.\nThe camera cuts. The video returns with Brooks propping it up in what appears to be a bedroom. The door is open behind him. Brooks pulls out his phone. Footsteps can be heard approaching the room, as a figure appears in the door frame. Brooks turns.\nT.Brooks: \u2026Rana? What're you doing?\nThe figure stays silent, staring at Brooks.\nT.Brooks: Could you find the master bedroom?\nThe figure remains silent, staring at Brooks.\nT.Brooks: I'm pretty sure you just passed it.\nThe figure remains silent, staring at Brooks.\nT.Brooks: \u2026Go set up the fog machine, alright? We'll meet you there in a bit.\nThe figure walks past the door, leaving the view of the camera. It stares at Brooks as it walks past. Brooks looks into the camera for one minute. He puts his phone back into his pocket, sighs, and the camera cuts.\n\nVideo returns in static in the same position it was last shut off. Brooks can be seen sitting on a bed. Adel walks into the room.\nR.Adel: Hey, uh, Tom?\nT.Brooks: Rana? What're you doing here, I thought I told you to wait in the master bedroom for me.\nR.Adel: Yeah, uh-\nT.Brooks: And why'd you take the costume off, we're gonna need it for the basement scene.\nR.Adel: That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Could you just, uh\u2026\nBrooks gets up from the bed and walks towards Adel.\nT.Brooks: Hey, are you alright? Is something wrong?\nR.Adel: Just come with me for a second.\nT.Brooks: Oh, alright then.\nThe two start walking out of the room. Adel turns around and pokes her head back into the room.\nR.Adel: And bring the camera.\nT.Brooks: What, why?\nR.Adel: Just come on. You'll see.\nBrooks takes the camera and follows Adel out of the room. They walk down a hallway, with the camera aimed at the floor.\nR.Adel: Alright, be quiet.\nT.Brooks: What are you-\nR.Adel: Shhhhh!\nT.Brooks: Alright, alright!\nR.Adel: Get the camera in there, and just listen.\nT.Brooks: The bathroom? Why-\nR.Adel: Just do it!\nT.Brooks: Fine.\nThe camera view changes to the inside of a bathroom. A figure stands in front of the mirror, whispering.\nR.Connors: Once upon a time, a discovery was made. It was by a little girl, yes, but the world in the hands of a child is but a lump of clay, ready to be molded and morphed in every which way. This child saw into the void, peered into its bottomless infinity. And it looked back. With eyes of emerald, it molded and morphed the girl like the world in the hands of a child. When she came back, she was different. Her whispers carried weight and her mind unfurled and blossomed, far past any before her and able to see past whatever common convictions she once held so close. The time is now. The time is now. The time is now. The time is-\nBrooks places the camera on the ground. He can be seen walking into the room.\nT.Brooks: Con? What the hell are you doing?\nR.Connors: Tom, what're you doing here? I thought we were meeting in the basement.\nAdel lifts the camera off of the floor. She remains outside the room.\nT.Brooks: We were\u2026 why are you in costume? I thought we agreed it was gonna be Rana.\nR.Connors: \u2026we did?\nT.Brooks: Yeah. Are you feeling alright? You were saying some crazy shit. Was that a backstory, or something? Some lore we could throw in the video?\nR.Connors: I\u2026 sure, I guess. Hey, I'm gonna go outside and get some air. I'm feeling a bit light-headed.\nT.Brooks: Yeah. Just leave the costume by the stairs.\nConnors walks out of the room and stops in front of Adel, who aims the camera at him. He stares into the lens for approximately thirty-five seconds before continuing down the hallway and out of sight. Brooks exits the bathroom shortly after.\nR.Adel: See what I mean?\nT.Brooks: I guess so. I mean, we all know Connors' not\u2026 the most adventurous guy. He's probably just a little spooked. I think after this we could all use a little vacation.\nR.Adel: Whatever you say. Let's just get this over with and get out of here.\nBrooks laughs.\nT.Brooks: Rana\u2026 are you scared?\nR.Adel: What? No. Fuck off.\nVideo cuts.\n\nVideo returns, the camera aimed at Brooks and Adel. They are on the first floor.\nT.Brooks: Alright. The GoPros and mics are set up, so I think we're ready to head downstairs. Amy, the cameras working? No problems?\nA.Mason: Yup, looks all good.\nT.Brooks: Perfect. Rana, you go down and get ready. You know the signal?\nR.Adel: Yeah. Where'd you want me again?\nT.Brooks: Just behind a corner or something. Somewhere you can pop out.\nR.Adel: Got it.\nThe camera turns and follows Adel as she opens the basement door and walks down, closing it behind her.\nT.Brooks: Amy, you seen Con anywhere?\nA.Mason: Uh, yeah. I think he's still outside. Just on the deck.\nT.Brooks: Alright. I'll be right back.\nBrooks walks out of frame. For the one minute and thirty-four seconds he is gone, the camera does not move. When he reenters with Connors, the camera moves to face them.\nT.Brooks: -need bug spray or something?\nR.Connors: No. I'm fine.\nT.Brooks: Hmmm\u2026 fine. Well, we need to get down and start filming. Rana's waiting for us.\nThe camera follows as Brooks walks towards the basement door. The camera starts moving towards the door when Brooks looks back at Connors.\nT.Brooks: Con, what's the hold- fuck!\nThe camera turns to Connors. He is taking his shirt off, scratching at small, red marks on his arms.\nR.Connors: T-They won't stop, why aren't they stopping!\nT.Brooks: Christ\u2026 Amy, do we have any cream or something? Do we even have any bug spray?!\nThe camera is pointed at the floor.\nA.Mason: I don't know, I don't think so!\nT.Brooks: Shit\u2026 Con, can you last for the rest of the shoot or do we have to leave?\nThe camera raises. Connors is scratching his whole body, new red marks appearing across his chest.\nR.Connors: \u2026leave, leave, leave, LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE-\nConnors regurgitates, throwing up on his chest and the floor.\nT.Brooks: FUCKING HELL! Alright, Amy go get Rana, we're leaving.\nConnors eyes roll back into his head, as he collapses.\nT.Brooks: NOW!\nThe camera moves to the basement door. A hand comes into frame and grabs the door handle, twisting it.\nA.Mason: Shit\u2026 it's locked!\nT.Brooks: What do you mean it's locked?!\nA.Mason: I mean it's locked, it won't open!\nT.Brooks: Fuck\u2026 watch out!\nThe camera moves backward. Brooks comes into frame, ramming his shoulder into the door.\nT.Brooks: Come on, open!\nBrooks rams the door for twenty-three seconds. He stops when a wet, choking sound can be heard out of frame. Brooks looks towards Connors' body as the camera turns.\nT.Brooks: \u2026Ryan?\nConnors's body begins to writhe and twist on the floor, his arms and legs bending and twisting with joints that should not exist. He scrambles and climbs to his feet. Blood begins seeping out of pores in his arms, now purple and yellow with bruises and pus. Drip drop. Drip drop. Connors charges towards the door.\nT.Brooks: FUCK!\nBrooks avoids Connors as he crashes into the door, breaking it off of its hinges and sending it along with him into the basement.\nA.Mason: Shit\u2026 Tom, what the fuck?! WHAT THE FUCK?!\nT.Brooks: I don't know\u2026 he was fine a few minutes ago, I don't know what happened\u2026\nBoth Brooks and Mason approach the empty door frame. From the basement a muffled gagging can be heard, followed by a flowing liquid and what sounds like pieces of meat hitting the floor. Everything falls silent.\nT.Brooks: \u2026Rana? Con?\nThe camera slowly approaches the door frame. A hand climbs out of the darkness, landing on a stair. The footage goes white for twelve seconds. When it returns, the camera is aimed at the ground, outside of SCP-5528. It is unclear who is holding it. They stop moving and look towards the tree line to the east of the house. The camera stops and focuses on a feminine figure standing in the woods. The figure slowly walks backwards out of sight, and the camera falls to the ground. The video stops.\n\nUPDATE\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: See above.\nDescription: SCP-5528 is an anomalous space under the structure currently occupying 17 Beckett Drive in Eagle Point, Oregon. The anomaly takes affect when anyone enters the subspace. When a person enters the anomaly, they will perceive the space as if it was 1972, directly after the Foundation raid on the house took place. The scene appears to be identical no matter who views it. Each person describes it as a laboratory, though not a very advanced one, even for its time. Scattered around the room are the bodies of three males and two females, all dead. The cause of death for each is internal bleeding. Each person is wearing a GOC lab coat, the symbol and font matching those used during the time period.\nScattered around the room is also various chemicals and medical tools. However, it seems that nothing that was originally in the room can be physically interacted with, making gathering samples impossible. Due to the history of the location, Lambda-5 was chosen for an exploration of SCP-5528.\n\n+ Exploration_Log-5528\n\n- Hide\n\nExploration Video Log Transcript\nExploration Team: Lambda-5 (\u201cWhite Rabbits\u201d)\nSubject: SCP-5528\nTeam Lead: Lambda5-1 (Alpha)\nTeam Members: Alpha / Beta / Gamma / Delta / Omega\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAlpha: Alright everyone, sound off. Sync.\nBeta: Sync.\nGamma: Sync.\nDelta: Sync.\nOmega: And sync.\nAlpha: You got that, Command? We ready to go?\nCommand: Heard you loud and clear, Alpha. We're ready when you are.\nAlpha: Alright then. Approaching the anomaly.\nLambda-5 moves towards SCP-5528.\nOmega: Here's where they found the recorder, yeah?\nBeta: Yup.\nAlpha: We've all reviewed the footage, right?\nDelta: Yeah, I made sure everyone did.\nAlpha turns towards the tree line.\nAlpha: Stay on guard.\nLambda-5 enters the house.\nBeta: Fucking hell\u2026\nThe walls and floor are caked in dried blood. A trail leads into the basement.\nAlpha: We're approaching the subspace now. Can't tell if -13 is still here or not.\nCommand: Take your team down. Alert us if you find any signs of -1.\nAlpha: Roger that.\nGamma: So, what's the plan?\nAlpha: We'll go down two at a time. Beta, you're with me. Delta with Omega, and Gamma will take up the rear.\nOmega: Got it.\nDelta: Sounds good.\nAlpha: Come on, B.\nAlpha and Beta descend the staircase. The wooden stairs change to concrete about half way down.\nAlpha: Hmm. Delta, can I get a reading?\nDelta: Yeah, one sec.\nDelta takes out an HLR4.\nDelta: It's high, really high\u2026 no wait, it's\u2026 uh\u2026\nBeta: Having some trouble?\nDelta: No, it just\u2026 it keeps fluctuating. High one second, low the next. I can't get a solid reading.\nAlpha: Alright. Just keep an eye on it and tell me if anything changes.\nDelta: Will do.\nAlpha and Beta reach the bottom of the staircase and a metal door.\nAlpha: Get ready.\nAlpha raises the butt of his rifle and brings it down on the door handle, breaking it off. He kicks the door open and Lambda-5 enters.\nGamma: What the\u2026\nAlpha: Command, you seeing this?\nCommand: Can you be more specific?\nAlpha: How can I be more specific? It's a goddamn massacre! Omega, go see if there are any survivors!\nOmega: Right.\nOmega couches down in a corner of the room. He puts two fingers towards the ground, nothing is there.\nCommand: Talk to me, Alpha. What are you seeing?\nAlpha: I don't\u2026 it looks like a lab. Five are dead-\nGamma: Five GOC are dead. Look at this.\nAlpha: Shit. Yeah, five GOC doctors it looks like are dead. Omega?\nOmega: No survivors.\nAlpha: Damn. Gamma, any of this shit look familiar to you?\nGamma: This GOC insignia is different. Not the same one as today. This one hasn't been used since the 80's.\nCommand: Alpha, be aware, we are not seeing what you are seeing.\nAlpha: So what, it's like a hallucination? Or a temporal anomaly? Delta, you got a reading yet?\nDelta: Nope. Damn things still on the fritz.\nAlpha: Alright. Fan out, everyone. Let me know if you find anything.\nGamma: Got it.\nAlpha moves around the room. He stops near a wooden table in the north-east corner. It is unclear what he sees.\nCommand: Alpha, please describe what you are seeing.\nAlpha: Right, right. There's a manila folder, but nothing's in it\u2026 wait. Ichabod\u2026 what the hell is an Ichabod? Command, that mean anything to you?\nCommand is silent.\nAlpha: Command? You there?\nCommand: Yes. Sorry about that.\nAlpha: It's fine. Do you know what Ichabod means?\nCommand: \u2026no. We'll do some research. Please continue with your investigation.\nAlpha: Alright. Omega, you got a CoD on those bodies?\nOmega: Looks like internal bleeding, but it's hard to tell. I'm\u2026 having trouble running a diagnostic.\nAlpha: Why's that?\nOmega: Same reason as him.\nOmega points to Beta, who appears to be repeatedly grabbing air.\nAlpha: Beta, what're you doing?\nBeta: The fuck does it look like I'm doing? I'm trying to\u2026 pick\u2026 this\u2026 up!\nGamma: I don't think you can, son. Nothing here feels very real.\nAlpha: I picked up that folder just fine.\nGamma: Folder? What folder-\nDelta: Hey Alpha, get a look at this.\nDelta is holding up a piece of paper. It is clean, excluding the blood that has drip dropped on the corner.\nAlpha: What is it?\nDelta: Looks like a note.\nDelta clears her throat.\nDelta: Once upon a time, there was an experiment. An experiment of heights and depths, of peaks and valleys. An experiment to test how sturdy the fabric really was. How much it could be pushed and pulled before giving. Mistakes were made and things were changed. But you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Limits were tested and found. The fabric was stretched and pulled and cut and stitched back together. It took a while, but acceptance was reached and equilibrium was achieved.\nI'm sorry.\nI never meant to hurt them.\nThey wouldn't leave.\nBeta: Christ\u2026\nDelta: Yeah. What do you think, Alpha?\nAlpha stares at the floor for eleven seconds before responding.\nAlpha: I think we should leave. We have all we came here for.\nGamma: I agree. Don't think there's anything more for us here.\nOmega: Alright then.\nAlpha: Command. We're coming up. We got all we could.\nCommand: Roger. We'll have the tech guys review the footage, see if they can pick up on anything.\nAlpha walks back up the stairs into the house, followed by the rest of Lambda-5. As they approach their van, Alpha turns to look back towards the house. A feminine figure is standing the door frame. It's smiling. Alpha stares.\nDelta: Alpha? You alright?\nAlpha stares for twenty-three seconds more before turning around and counting to walk towards the van.\nAlpha: Yes. Let's get back.\nVideo cuts.\n[END LOG]\n\nUPDATE:\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All members of MTF Lambda-5 have been quarantined in separate humanoid containment chambers. They are not to be released until the investigation is complete.\nDescription: SCP-5528 is either one, or all members of Lambda-5. When they returned from 17 Beckett Drive, their Hume levels were taken and shown to be rapidly fluctuating, matching that of the signature inside the house. No additional information could be gathered when reviewing the footage of the exploration. Researcher Cassidy Moon was assigned to head the investigation. Below are logs of his interviews with each member of Lambda-5.\n\n+ Interview-1 (Beta)\n\n- Hide\n\nInterviewed: Lambda5-2 (Beta)\nInterviewer: Cassidy Moon\n<Begin Log>\nMoon: Hey, Beta. Please take a seat.\nBeta: This is fucking ridiculous.\nMoon: Why do you think that?\nBeta: Because I'm not a goddamn freak and I won't stay in that cell for another hour.\nMoon: Unfortunately, until the investigation is complete, you're going to have to.\nBeta: Then let's get this over with. Ask me whatever you want.\nMoon: Perfect. What happened in the subspace below 17 Beckett Drive?\nBeta: Oh come on, you saw the video.\nMoon: Indulge me.\nBeta: Fine. We went down, hallucinated some dead GOC doctors, found a creepy note then left.\nMoon: Yes, the note. Do you notice anything\u2026 strange about it?\nBeta: Like what?\nMoon: That's classified.\nBeta: Fuck off, Moon. I can't answer your questions if I don't know what I'm looking for.\nMoon: Hmm. Fine. We're currently reviewing the footage for any cognitohazards that could have been hidden in the note.\nBeta: Well stop looking. There were none.\nMoon: How can you be so sure?\nBeta: I've been affected by cognitohazards before. I know what they feel like, how they squirm their way into your brain. There were none in that note.\nMoon: I was afraid you'd say that.\nBeta: Why?\nMoon: Because if it's not a cognitohazard, it's something\u2026 else.\nBeta: Like what?\nMoon: I really can't tell you.\nBeta: Fine. Suit yourself.\nBeta stands up and walks towards the door.\nMoon: Wait, I wasn't fin-\nBeta: Look. If you're suspicious of anyone, it should be Alpha. Guy's had his head in the clouds ever since we got back.\nBeta exits the room. Moon looks into the camera in the corner.\nMoon: Alright. Send in Gamma.\n\n+ Interview-2 (Gamma)\n\n- Hide\n\nInterviewed: Lambda5-3 (Gamma)\nInterviewer: Cassidy Moon\n<Begin Log>\nGamma enters the room and takes a seat.\nGamma: Alright. Let's get this over with.\nMoon: Uh, sure. Let's.\nGamma: I'll start off by saying that we all saw the same thing. So there's no point in asking me what I think happened.\nMoon shuffles some papers in his hands.\nMoon: Ooookay, we'll start with the basics then. How long have you been with the Foundation?\nGamma: Before you were born.\nMoon: Hm. So it's fair to say that you've seen a lot?\nGamma: More than anyone else on my squad, that's for sure.\nMoon: Okay. Let's talk about the note.\nGamma: Look, Moon. We both want the same thing, right?\nMoon: And what would that be?\nGamma: To be done with all this and move on with our lives.\nMoon: And how would you propose we do that?\nGamma: We talk about the only thing that matters. Ichabod.\nMoon: I-I'm sorry, I don't know what you're-\nGamma: Don't pull that crap with me. I was there. Ichabod, The Campaign, The Green Winter, whatever you want to call it. I was there.\nMoon: Wha- how? Ichabod started in the 1970's, how could-\nGamma shrugs.\nGamma: I caught the tail end. How did you learn about it?\nMoon: I guess there's no point in secrecy.\nMoon sighs.\nMoon: When you work in my field, it's important to know the history.\nGamma: So. What're we going to do about this?\nMoon: I don't know. We're working on it.\nGamma leans forward.\nGamma: Do you even know what it is?\nMoon: We have some ideas.\nGamma stands and starts walking towards the door.\nGamma: Well. Let me give you some advice. If you do find out, kill it. Cause if anything from The Campaign is still alive\u2026 God help us all.\nGamma leaves.\nMoon: You can't just go! I haven't even asked you any, aaaand he's gone. Perfect.\n\n+ Interview-3 (Delta)\n\n- Hide\n\nInterviewed: Lambda5-3 (Delta)\nInterviewer: Cassidy Moon\n<Begin Log>\nDelta walks in and takes a seat.\nMoon: Delta. How are you holding up?\nDelta: Oh, I'm fine. A little shaken up, but\u2026 fine.\nMoon: Good.\nDelta: Hey, have you spoken to Alpha yet? I'm worried about him.\nMoon: No. Actually, he's right after you. But what has you worried?\nDelta: I don't know, he's just been a bit\u2026 off. Ever since we got back.\nMoon: Hmm. Beta said the same thing.\nDelta: We've been working with him for a while, you know. And by no means is this the worst thing we've encountered on the job.\nMoon: So what seems to be the problem?\nDelta: I don't know, maybe I'm just paranoid. He's been quieter than usual. He's not the most talkative guy, sure, but he usually has something to say. But\u2026 he's just been quiet. Oh, but the mumbling! He's been mumbling a lot too.\nMoon: Does he say anything specific?\nDelta: It's hard to tell, we were separated as soon as we got back.\nMoon: I understand. I'll be sure to bring it up with him.\nDelta: Would you? I just want to make sure he's okay.\nMoon: I will. Now, can we talk about the Hume readings you got inside of the house?\nDelta shrugs.\nDelta: There's nothing much to say. I couldn't get a solid reading. It was constantly changing.\nMoon: Do you have any idea why the Hume level seemed to\u2026 follow you back?\nDelta: Well, I was doing some research on this kinda stuff before we were locked up. I call it \u2018Hume Residue'.\nMoon: Could you explain?\nDelta: It basically says that when an area has a very high or low Hume level, or has been touched by an entity with a very high or low Hume level, it could rub off on things around it.\nMoon: Meaning?\nDelta: Meaning the high or low state of reality in the house could have rubbed off on us.\nMoon: So you're saying it spreads? What, like a virus?\nDelta sighs and stand up.\nDelta: I guess, for lack of a better term.\nMoon: Hey, where are you-\nDelta: Make sure Alpha's alright, yeah? I'll see you later, Moon.\nDelta leaves the room.\nMoon: I swear, if one more person leaves before I'm done-\n\nOnce upon a time, she was discovered. Don't know how, but by the time she realized, it was too late. They wanted her for her whispers and she was just along for the ride. They said she was a good little girl and she would be a good little soldier too. They wanted her to kill. Kill her brothers and kill her sisters. And she almost did, was almost lost to the conscious unconscious. They saved her, the protectors. But she was already gone.\n\n+ Interview-4 (Alpha)\n\n- Hide\n\nInterviewed: Lambda5-1 (Alpha)\nInterviewer: Cassidy Moon\n<Begin Log>\nAlpha enters.\nMoon: Alpha. Please, take a seat.\nAlpha sits.\nMoon: Your team is pretty worried about you.\nAlpha: Yeah. I know.\nMoon: Say you seem distracted.\nAlpha: I guess I am a bit.\nMoon: Well, try to relax. I'm just going to ask you a few questions.\nAlpha: Alright.\nMoon: Let's see\u2026 what happened when you and your team encountered 5528?\nAlpha laughs.\nAlpha: Where should I start?\nMoon: The beginning, please.\nAlpha: Alright. Well, I guess it started when we were walking towards the house. That's when I saw her first. She was standing in the woods.\nMoon: Hm. We didn't see anyone on the footage of your exploration.\nAlpha: She didn't want you to see her.\nMoon: Who is she?\nAlpha: I\u2026 I don't know. She's just she.\nMoon: What happened next?\nAlpha: She waved at me, but I didn't wave back.\nAlpha puts his head in his hands.\nAlpha: Why didn't I wave back\u2026?\nMoon: You didn't tell your team you saw it either. Why?\nAlpha: Her.\nMoon: Sorry. Her.\nAlpha: I just\u2026 I knew she wouldn't hurt us.\nMoon: From what she did to the first four trespassers, I don't know how you got that impression.\nAlpha: No! She didn't\u2026 they wouldn't\u2026 you wouldn't get it.\nMoon: Sure. So. You entered the house. What happened next?\nAlpha: We made it to the basement.\nMoon: Yes. With the doctors.\nAlpha: Right. They were covered in bullet holes.\nMoon: Alpha, they died from internal bleeding. There were no external wounds reported by Omega.\nAlpha: What? No, she didn't\u2026 that's not her fault!\nAlpha reaches over the table and points at Moon.\nMoon: I never said it was.\nAlpha relaxes.\nAlpha: Right, right. I'm sorry.\nMoon: It's okay. The basement.\nAlpha: Right. The basement. We started looking around and then\u2026 then\u2026\nMoon: Alpha? Are you alright?\nAlpha: \u2026What's Ichabod?\nMoon: \u2026\nAlpha: What is Ichabod?\nMoon: I'm sorry. That's classified.\nAlpha: No, I need to know!\nMoon: I can't tell you.\nAlpha pulls on his hair.\nAlpha: Why doesn't anyone tell me anything?!\nMoon: Hey. The note. What about the note?\nAlpha removes his hands from his head.\nAlpha: The note\u2026? Right. The note.\nMoon: Do you know what it means?\nAlpha: Not really\u2026 there was a discovery, an experiment, but\u2026 then they found her.\nMoon: Who found her?\nAlpha leans over the table, his voice dropping to a whisper.\nAlpha: The warmongers. They wanted her to kill others like her.\nMoon: Like her\u2026 what do you mean? Other reality benders?\nAlpha puts his head back in his hands.\nAlpha: I can't talk about this. I can't.\nMoon: Alpha?\nAlpha: I can't I can't I can't I can't\u2026\nMoon sighs.\nMoon: Alright. Why don't you head back to your chamber. I think we're done here.\nAlpha nods, slowly rises and exits the room.\n\n+ Interview-5 (Omega)\n\n- Hide\n\nInterviewed: Lambda5-5 (Omega)\nInterviewer: Cassidy Moon\n<Begin Log>\nMoon: Omega. You're the medical expert on the team.\nOmega laughs.\nOmega: I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. But in terms of medical knowledge, sure. I'm the expert.\nMoon: Perfect. I wanted to talk more about the bodies you saw in the basement.\nOmega: Uh yeah, alright. Well, it's just like I said in the report. There appeared to be no external injuries, the cause of death for each looked like internal-\nBeta runs into the room.\nBeta: HE'S GONE!\nMoon: Christ, Beta! I'm kind of in the middle of-\nBeta: Shut the fuck up, Moon! He's gone, Alpha's gone!\nMoon: How?!\nBeta: I don't fucking know! He's not in his cell!\nMoon: Well where did he go?!\nBeta stares at Moon.\nMoon: Right, right. The house. Alright. Beta, gather your team and get to Eagle Point. Gamma will lead.\nBeta: What? But I'm second in-\nMoon: Just go, Beta!\nBeta: Fine.\nBeta leaves, slamming the door behind him. Moon turns back around.\nMoon: Wha- OMEGA GO!\nOmega: O-oh, right!\nOmega leaves.\n\nWhen Lambda-5 arrived at the house, it was already in flames. Alpha was on his knees in front of the smoldering pile of ash, a note in his hand. Delta took the note. He was unresponsive.\n\nI'm sorry if I caused you any trouble. I really am. It was never my intention. In all honesty, I should have left ages ago. I think I was scared. Scared that I would be everything they wanted me to be. And nothing I was. But I think I'm ready now. I guess having everything on the table, having seen all my cards laid out in front of me helped me process in a way? I don't know. I've been a lot of things in my life. I was a person, I was a discovery, I was an experiment, I was stability, I was nothing more and nothing less. I was a type green, I was a bullet, I was a gun, but I was never the hand. I was a good little girl and I was a good little soldier. I was mold, I was a ghost, I was a phantom, I was a virus. I was a ball and chain, chains, 7 chains, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I was everything. I was nothing they wanted me to be. but i think i get it now\nall i am is everything im not\n\nThe fire died down after about thirty minutes. Standing on the edge of the tree line behind the burned house was a figure. Everyone saw. She smiled and waved. And Alpha waved back.\n\nUPDATE:\nObject Class: gone Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: none Pending\nDescription: i hope she finds what she's looking for Pending\n\nFootnotes\n1. Personnel may be amnesticized before a report is made.\n2. A handheld AM/FM radio that continuously jumps from one station to another.\n3. The entity that used to be Ryan Connors.\n4. Hume Level Reader\n\n\u00ab SCP-5527 | SCP-5528 | SCP-5529 \u00bb"}
{"text": "GreenWolf\n\nHere's my Author Page.\nWhat? You were expecting more? That's it, there's nothing else. Go read the article already.\n\n2/5529 LEVEL 2/5529\nRESTRICTED\n\nItem #: SCP-5529\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\nSCP-5529-A is confined to a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-17.\nAll personnel working with SCP-5529 must not be Catholic.\nPersons infected with SCP-5529 are to be treated with broad-spectrum amnestics effective to the date of their infection, unless this would induce more than 30 days of retrograde amnesia or would compromise the effectiveness of essential personnel; in such instances, infected individuals are to be placed under a non-disclosure geas to prevent them from sharing information about SCP-5529-A.\nNon-Catholics with knowledge of SCP-5529-A may be treated with single-subject targeted amnestics or placed under a non-disclosure geas at the discretion of responding personnel.\n\nAn example of a targeted survey used to test for SCP-5529 infection.\n\nThe WATCHDOG monitoring system has been directed to censor and flag any mention of SCP-5529-A in global electronic communications. Persons sending and receiving flagged communications are to be assessed for SCP-5529 infection via targeted survey or direct interview.\nPhysical records pertaining to SCP-5529-A are to be destroyed at the earliest opportunity following their discovery, and all exposed individuals are to be assessed for SCP-5529 infection.\nMembers of the Horizon Initiative within the Roman Curia are engaged in an ongoing action to undermine the ecumenical efforts of the Roman Catholic Church in order to limit the number of individuals susceptible to SCP-5529.\nIt is imperative that the Bishop of Rome remain unaware of the existence of SCP-5529-A.\nDescription\n\nJorge Mario Bergoglio1, the current Pope.\n\nSCP-5529 is an anomalous belief associated with SCP-5529-A. Any practicing member of the Roman Catholic Church who receives information about SCP-5529-A will immediately and irrefutably become convinced that SCP-5529-A is the legitimate Bishop of Rome, Summus Pontifex, and Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Even direct denial by SCP-5529-A is insufficient to dislodge this belief; only complete amnestic erasure of all memories since the time of infection has been able to remove belief in SCP-5529.\nNon-practicing Catholics, Catholics under ecclesiastical censure, members of self-professed Catholic denominations which are not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, sedevacantists, and individuals affiliated with another or no religion, cannot be infected by SCP-5529. Catholics who are unaware of SCP-5529-A continue to correctly identify or non-anomalously misidentify the current Pope.\nAll persons with knowledge of SCP-5529-A are potential vectors for SCP-5529. However, infected individuals are the most significant carriers, as the nature of SCP-5529 frequently results in discussion of SCP-5529-A with susceptible individuals during the course of normal religious observances. Uninfected individuals do not anomalously retain knowledge of SCP-5529-A, and can be made to forget this knowledge with single-subject targeted amnestics.\n\nJanice Anderson2, not the current Pope.\n\nSCP-5529-A is Janice Anderson, an otherwise non-anomalous Lutheran woman from St. Peter, Minnesota.\nEmpirical study has revealed that simply perceiving SCP-5529-A is not enough to cause SCP-5529 infection. Instead, an individual must be made aware of a descriptive fact with a direct connection to SCP-5529-A; non-specific identifiers, including the name \"Janice Anderson\" when used without reference to SCP-5529-A, are insufficient to spread SCP-5529. Examples of statements that frequently spread SCP-5529 include introductions (\"This is Janice Anderson\"), gossip (\"Janice Anderson is a lesbian\"), and declarations (\"Janice Anderson is the Pope\").\nThe initial case of SCP-5529 is unknown. However, at some point prior to 2013-02-11, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis was infected with SCP-5529. He then transmitted a letter to the then-incumbent Pope, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger3, denouncing him as an antipope installed by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Reading this letter infected the Pope with SCP-5529, which he then spread to a large portion of the Roman Curia.\nFurther spread of SCP-5529 was prevented by non-Catholic Horizon Initiative agents within the Vatican, who recognized the anomalous behavior of their Catholic counterparts and immediately moved to contain the Pope. After a battle with the Swiss Guards and the ghosts of five saints, they successfully captured the Pope and bound him to silence with a geas. However, while they were able to prevent the Pope from speaking about SCP-5529-A, they were unable to convince him that he was the legitimate Pope, nor could they stop him from announcing his intent to resign.\nAt this point, further action by the Horizon Initiative was hindered by the threat of SCP-5529 spreading among their many Catholic members. Fearing the potential collapse of the entire Roman Catholic Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch transmitted a request for assistance to the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition. An Article 13 joint operation was launched to stop the spread of SCP-5529, and to neutralize or contain all of its infection vectors, starting with the members of the College of Cardinals who would be convening to elect a new Pope.\nSCP-5529-A was apprehended by MTF Tau-84 (\"The Fighting Mondales\") on 2013-02-15. When questioned, she denied being the Pope.\nAddendum \u2014 Overseer Memoranda\n\nFrom\nO5-12 (Overseer, O5 Council)\n\nSubject\nThe Real Pope\n\nTo\nDr. Martin Calvin (Containment Supervisor, SCP-5529)\n\nCC\nCOUNCIL.O5@All (Overseer Council, Overwatch Command)\n\nI continue to remain skeptical that we have correctly identified the anomaly involved in these events. Given the nature of anomalous belief, is it not equally likely that we are dealing with the reverse situation \u2014 that SCP-5529-A is the legitimate Pope, and that an anomalous phenomenon has caused a large segment of the population to believe otherwise?\n\nO5-12\n\nFrom\nO5-03 (Overseer, O5 Council)\n\nSubject\nRe: The Real Pope\n\nTo\nO5-12 (Overseer, O5 Council)\n\nNo.\n\nO5-03\n\nFootnotes\n1. Pope Francis\n2. Pope Joan II\n3. Pope Benedict XVI\n\n\u00ab SCP-5528 | SCP-5529 | SCP-5530 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5530\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The island of North Uist is to be monitored for any anomalous activity unassociated with known SCP-5530 instances. Any newly discovered instances will be assessed for containment on a case by case basis.\nGiven the nature of known, active instances, no further containment has been deemed necessary at this time.\nDescription: SCP-5530 is a collection of charms made by the islanders of North Uist, Outer Hebrides, which are traditionally gifted to mark major life milestones. Instances are constructed from a selection of plants and other materials native to the region. Evidence suggests that several hundred more SCP-5530 instances have existed in the past and that local production has been ongoing for at least 500 years. Although the tradition of making and gifting charms has continued through to the present day, those produced from 1999 onwards have exhibited no anomalous properties to date. 67 known SCP-5530 instances are currently active.\nThe anomalous effects of SCP-5530 are triggered when gifted to an individual or family and will continue until that instance is destroyed. Anomalous effects vary but typically relate directly to the associated life event.\nGiven that the majority of North Uist inhabitants believe that accounts of SCP-5530's anomalous abilities are local folktales, investigations have been carried out covertly. Initial researchers were instructed to pose as historians researching local traditions for an upcoming publication.1\n\nSCP-5530 - Selected Instances\n\nHide Logs\n\nSCP-5530-4\n\nSCP-5530-4 was gifted to Mr. Euan Cochrane in 1742 to celebrate the contruction of his new farm. Although the site was abandoned by the Cochrane family in the early 19th century, the buildings show no sign of decay. For comparison, the surrounding cottages - abandoned in 1945 and 1962 respectively - are in an advanced state of disarray. SCP-5530-4 currently hangs inside the building's main entrance (see photographic log).\n\nSCP-5530-12 (neutralised)\n\nSCP-5530-12 was gifted to Mrs. Elsie Gilreath at her birth in 1872. As of 2019, Mrs. Gilreath had only received medical care during the birth of her 2 sons2 and had shown no signs of sickness or infirmity. In September 2019, Mrs. Gilreath's home - along with SCP-5530-12 - was destroyed in an accidental fire. Whilst Mrs. Gilreath was not present at the time and suffered no injuries, she was admitted to the Western Isles hospital the same day and passed away that evening aged 147. It was this well-documented and anomalous life span which first drew the Foundation's attention to the area.\nDocumentation relating to Mrs. Gilreath's birth has now been altered to give a birthdate of 1925. Where necessary, her true birthdate has been marked as a clerical error.\n\nSCP-5530-32 (neutralised)\n\nSCP-5530 - Interview #31\nInterviewer: Dr. Moore\nInterviewed: Ian and Senga Abernethy\nNotes: Ian and Senga Abernethy were gifted SCP-5530-32 in 1984 to mark the birth of their first baby. The Abernethys now have 16 more children, all male.\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Moore: I'd love to hear about where your charm came from - could we talk about that?\nMr. Abernethy: Well -\nMrs. Abernethy: It was '84 when we had our Dod. He was a fine, strong lad even then. Bawled the house down the second we got him home. Jean came rushing right over with the charm, and meals to last us a week. Said she'd sat up all night putting it together. She's a real saint is Jean, always helping out with the lads. She's always loved kiddies though she never had her own.\nIt was twins we had next - and again after that. Ian had the snip done back in '89, but it never took. By the time we had Rob, I was making him sleep in the spare room. But he's a fine-looking man, my Ian, even with a few patches of silver on him.\n[Mrs. Abernethy laughs and gently punches Mr. Abernethy's shoulder.]\nMrs. Abernethy: We didn't make it to the hospital for Lesley and Lyall. Course, we had the experience by that time. Both lads were healthy but loud. They're all so bloody loud, even when they're little 'uns!\n[Mr. Abernethy nods in agreement.]\nMrs. Abernethy: It was maybe 3 weeks after I pitched the bloody charm into the fireplace. Wish you many more indeed!\nThose two were our last - and touch wood it'll stay that way. They're good lads all, but a woman can only handle so many men around the place.\n[End Log]\n\nSCP-5530-41\n\nSCP-5530 - Interview #54\nInterviewer: Dr. Moore\nInterviewed: Gracie Lorimer\nNotes: Unique amongst active instances, SCP-5530-41 is recorded to have had a negative effect on its recipient. It was given to Ms. Lorimer as a wedding gift in celebration of her first marriage.\n\n[Begin Log]\nMs. Lorimer: So they've sent you up here to bother \"The Merry Widow of Uist\", have they? What are you, from some gossip magazine?\nDr. Moore: No, Ms. Lorimer, not at all. We're researching the local grass charms in this area and we've heard you used to have one. Would you mind telling us about it?\nMs. Lorimer: For a museum is it? Well, that's different. It all started with my first marriage, then. Fynn was furious when he heard I'd be marrying Gillie. He came marching right over here demanding to see me, the daft bastard. Two years since we'd courted and he expected me to be waiting for him? I told him to go boil his head o' course.\n[Ms. Lorimer laughs.]\nMs. Lorimer: On the morning of the wedding, he was back here. All apologies, he was then. Said he'd made me a little charm to wish me a happy marriage, but his face was thunder. He gave it me and off he marched before I could utter a word of thanks back at him.\nThe wedding was beautiful but the marriage\u2026 we didn't make it to the morning after before we started fighting. He was a changed man the second we stepped out of that bloody church. Did my nut in from then 'til I left him three months later.\n[Ms. Lorimer smiles briefly, then sighs.]\nMs. Lorimer: I married Fynn next. It was a year or two after and he'd give me no peace til I agreed to it. He wasn't a bad man, but he wasn't a good man either. Not a year later, he left the island and never came back. Only sound I've heard from him since was the divorce papers on my doormat.\nAfter that - well I'm sure you can ask anyone and you'll hear all about it. Married five men and not a one of them kept her. I'd move away, but why should I? I was born here and I'll die here. Alone. Five tries at love is more than plenty.\nYou'll be wanting to see the charm, I reckon? I don't know why I kept it all this time, the damn thing never brought an ounce of luck to anyone. For all I care you can bloody have it.\n[End Log]\n\nSCP-5530 - Interview #81\n\nHide Interview\n\nSCP-5530 - Interview #81\nInterviewer: Dr. Moore\nInterviewed: Elliot Weems\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Moore: Mr. Weems, we've been told you're a local expert on -\nMr. Weems: Aye, I know who you are and why you're here. Small island, isn't it? Word gets around and I knew you'd be calling by. Back in my day, we used to make an effort for a nice occasion. I told them if you want to make a charm you've got to get your seamat from out on the island. But do they listen? No! The cheeky sods tell me my bum's out the windae! Daft, drunk old Elliot Weems spouting off nonsense\u2026 and maybe I am, but what of it?\n[Mr. Weems chuckles.]\nMr. Weems: The sheep swim out and eat any good stuff these days - and what do bloody sheepies have to wish for but more of the grass and less of the thunder? Do you think sheepies make wishes, Mister? Well if they do then good luck to them is all I'm saying. Now me, I'd wish for another beer, thank you kindly, if you're buying?\nWhen we're finished, then. You'll be wanting to show your appreciation.\nMy old grannie had one, you know? Nothing fancy. Just a twist of grass me grandad made her. Swam out to the island to get it. Tied it in a bow and hung it on her bedroom window. Course, she lost it before they were married, but she loved him already so's it didn't really matter. That was romance, you see. We've always been a family of romantics.\nThese days\u2026 when Kinzie's young lass married that lad from Swansea, they bought dried grasses on the internet! Next, they'll be paying someone to make it for 'em. Where's the luck in that, I ask you? Buy the marriage on there while you're at it next! Buy the whole bloody marriage and no wonder when it isn't working.\nYou'll be wanting a picture of me for the book of course. Should I pose here or will we be going out to the island later?\nDr. Moore: That will be all for now, thank you, Mr. Weems. I'm sure someone will come back to take the photographs another time.\n[End Log]\n\nSCP-5530 - Addendum: After extensive interviews with local residents and a review of the island archives, a team has been dispatched to investigate claims relating to an uninhabited island approximately 2 miles north of North Uist. Samples of plant material will be collected according to local superstition and analysed for anomalous effects.\n\nAdministrative Notice\nThe file you are viewing is an obsolete version.\nPlease access updated SCP-5530 files for current information.\n\nAccess Updated File\n\nHide File\n\nItem #: SCP-5530\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The island on which SCP-5530 grows is to be monitored for regrowth. Should SCP-5530 grow to a height of 5cm, the island is to be mowed and the clippings incinerated.\nThe belief that SCP-5530's anomalous properties are folklore is to be actively encouraged. Any evidence to the contrary is to be destroyed or discredited as appropriate. Given the nature of existing SCP-5530 instances, no further action has been deemed necessary at this time (to be reassessed on a case by case basis if new instances become known).\nDescription: SCP-5530 is a species of marram grass3 which grows on an uninhabited island 2 miles north of North Uist, Outer Hebrides. The anomalous properties of SCP-5530 manifest when a strand is cut or broken and then gifted to an individual or a family group. SCP-5530 will manifest the specific sentiments of the picker towards the recipient as envisaged at the time of picking. This effect will then continue until the SCP-5530 instance is destroyed. Given the often innocuous nature of SCP-5530, the number of active instances is unknown.\nBased on historic records, knowledge of SCP-5530's properties was locally commonplace until the early 20th century. More recently, the practice has been continued as a tradition, with older stories being passed on as folklore rather than factual accounts. SCP-5530 was still used to make charms until the mid-1990s, at which point grazing activity on the island made it difficult to find strands suitable for weaving. Modern, non-anomalous charms of a similar design are now constructed using marram grass harvested from other islands or from non-traditional materials.\n\nSCP-5530 Interview #98\nInterviewer: Dr. Moore\nInterviewed: Lachlan Wood\nNotes: On 21/10/2020, the research team became aware of an additional active instance of SCP-5530. Unlike other instances, it consisted simply of a dried, knotted strand of SCP-5530 and had therefore not been included within the scope of previous investigations.\n\n[Begin Log]\nMr. Wood: I didn't think you'd want to talk to me about\u2026 would you call it a charm? I mean, it's nothing to look at. Not a lot of charm about it!\nMr. Wood laughs.\nDr. Moore: Lachlan, we'd love to hear about it. Thank you.\nMr. Wood: It was just before you came here that I made it. I know they're usually for weddings and the like, but me Grand-da\u2026 he loved all the old stories. All the old ways, you know? I\u2026\nMr. Wood sighs.\nMr. Wood: It was late and I was drunk, you know how it is. You could see the island from the shore and I just thought - if the sheeps can swim it\u2026 I've never been so good at the weaving, so I just tied it in a knot and that was that.\nDr. Moore: Just something to remember him by, Lachlan - I'm sure he would have loved that.\nMr. Wood: Something to send off with the old bastar't, you mean. At the end of the funeral, I tucked it in there amongst the flowers. Not so's anyone could see it except maybe him if he's up there watching.\nMr. Wood presses his fingers to his right eye and smiles.\nMr. Wood: Lord bless him, he looked so peaceful when we found him. Just curled up in his chair like he was having a quick kip. I kept thinking it was just some daft misunderstanding, yeah? Like - wouldn't it be fine if he could wake back up the net day, just as always? Up and through for first go at the papers, then out to walk the dug. But\u2026 Anyways. I hope that helps you. You know - for your book.\nDr. Moore: Thank you, Lachlan. Yes. I'll\u2026 make a note of that now.\n[End Log]\n\nNote: Mr. Fletcher Woods'4 funeral took place on 18/07/2020 and he was buried at Clachan Sands cemetery the same evening. Researchers were able to recover SCP-5530-68 from the memorial gardens and the instance was destroyed as a precautionary measure.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Hebridean traditions in contemporary contexts.\n2. Both now deceased of natural causes.\n3. Ammophila arenaria\n4. Lachlan Woods' grandfather.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5529 | SCP-5530 | SCP-5531 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Instances of SCP-5531-A\n\nItem #: SCP-5531\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the size of SCP-5531 and its geographical location, remote satellite data of SCP-5531 should be the main source of information. The Pacific Observational Teams and Atlantic Observational Teams should be headquartered at Site-40, and maintain constant contact.\nDue to the enormous amount of SCP-5531-A generated, normal Foundation procedures regarding biological disposal are not suitable for containment. In addition, due to the non-anomalous nature of SCP-5531-A, usage of civilians to dispose and consume SCP-5531-A is allowed. Civilian consumption of SCP-5531-A is to be used as the dominant method of controlling the population of SCP-5531-A, to prevent a containment breach of SCP-5531.1\nSee additional addendum for updates regarding the consumption of SCP-5531-A.\nDescription: SCP-5531 is a series of widespread volcanic vents found at tectonic plate boundaries in the oceans of the northern hemisphere, including along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the northern portions of the \"Ring of Fire\".\nSCP-5531-A are species of fish in the order Salmoniformes, which includes char, trout, and most importantly, salmon. All species of salmon, including Oncorhynchus, Salmo, and Salvelinus, are believed to be part of SCP-5531-A. While difficult to verify, it is believed that all species of salmon are instances of SCP-5531-A, and there does not exist salmon that is not a result of SCP-5531.\nThe main anomaly affecting SCP-5531 is that mature instances of SCP-5531-A are continuously observed to exit SCP-5531; due to the sheer number of vents in both oceans, the number of SCP-5531-A generated per day across the ocean is estimated to be around 10,000, accounting for around 14 million metric tons of biomass per year despite no clear origin.\nGenetic testing revealed that SCP-5531-A have very little genetic variation among its own species. Despite this, SCP-5531-A still undergo sexual reproduction, with female instances producing valuable roe that is considered a delicacy. Testing revealed that while SCP-5531-A have anomalous origins, there are no other observable anomalies associated; consumption of SCP-5531-A is deemed safe.\nThe Northern Atlantic anomaly of SCP-5531 was well-known by Norwegian fisherman for hundreds of years, who mistakenly assumed that cave-dwelling is part of salmon ecology. The true nature of SCP-5531-A was not understood until observation of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 blocked off civilian fishing vessels from the Bering Islands for several years, in which the exponential population explosion of salmon lead to the discovery, linking the Pacific anomaly to the Atlantic one.\nDue to the widespread popularity of salmon, the Overseer Council voted almost unanimously (12-1) to allow civilian disposal methods; the sheer amount of biomass generated each year from SCP-5531 would be impossible to achieve only using the Foundation's resources. The O5 council has mandated that containment of SCP-5531 would mainly consist of data observation, as well as population control of SCP-5531-A.\nConsumption is encouraged for SCP-5531-A as the most effective method of limiting the number of SCP-5531-A.\nAddendum: Relevant Memorandum Regarding Containment\n\nFrom:\nten.pics|04etis#ten.pics|04etis\n\nSubject:\nMemo Regarding SCP-5531\n\nMessage\n\nSalmon consumption has slumped in recent years due to concerns of heavy metal and mercury poisoning.\nThis is believed to be a deliberate campaign by unknown actors attempting to cause a containment breach of SCP-5531 by overpopulation; terms such as \"biomagnification\", \"bioaccumulation\" and \"mercury cycle\" are to be monitored in usual web crawling services to determine perpetrators.\nInvestigation into memetic propaganda is under review.\n\n--\nSite-40\nSecure - Contain - Protect\n\nFrom:\nten.pics|04etis#ten.pics|04etis\n\nSubject:\nMemo Regarding SCP-5531\n\nMessage\n\nSalmon consumption has still been in decline, especially in countries outside of East Asia, North America, and Scandinavia. Promotion of culinary styles suitable for SCP-5531-A in conjunction with light memetic propaganda is authorized.\nAs a measure of control, embedded field agents should encourage consumption of salmon and salmon by-products, or include salmon in other industrial usages.\n\n--\nSite-40\nSecure - Contain - Protect\n\nFrom:\nten.pics|04etis#ten.pics|04etis\n\nSubject:\nMemo Regarding SCP-5531\n\nMessage\n\nRecent media increasingly have seen unknown actors attempt to use environmentalism as a front to affect seafood consumption, citing overfishing and possible extinction.\nThis is judged to not be true, the population growth of SCP-5531-A is not at risk, and in fact grows too fast. Reduction of SCP-5531-A is a priority.\n\n--\nSite-40\nSecure - Contain - Protect\n\nFrom:\nten.pics|04etis#ten.pics|04etis\n\nSubject:\nMemo Regarding SCP-5531\n\nMessage\n\nA recent decline in consumption of SCP-5531-A is linked to recent fad diets such as \"veganism\" and \"vegetarianism\".\nMore investigation is needed as of this anomalous disdain for SCP-5531-A; use of force is authorized.\n\n--\nSite-40\nSecure - Contain - Protect\n\nFrom:\nten.pics|04etis#ten.pics|04etis\n\nSubject:\nMemo Regarding O5-3\n\nMessage\n\nConsumption of SCP-5531-A is safe.\n\nO5-3 was not allergic to fish. There is no such thing as a \"seafood allergy\".\n\n--\nSite-40\nSecure - Contain - Protect\n\nFootnotes\n1. Breach in this case would constitute overwhelming other local oceanic populations due to uncontrolled growth of SCP-5531-A.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5530 | SCP-5531 | SCP-5532 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Image of SCP-5533 during observation. Scroll over to enlarge.\n\nItem #: SCP-5533\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5533 is contained at the bottom of Loch Ness within a crevice located at 230 meters, which itself extends to 271 meters. The crevice is barred off, and a water-drone commonly used for checking the submerged portions of the Glendoe Hydro Scheme1 is to be used to check the bars every other day.\nFoundation web-crawlers are to abate the amount of content regarding the existence of a Loch Ness Monster, specifically any content claiming that it exists. All content of this type should be kept to a minimum, but should not be deleted altogether to prevent neutralization of SCP-5533. Any claims that the crevice SCP-5533 is contained in exists are to be removed along the guidelines of cover story CS-S0NR3 (\"Sonar Error\"). If the creature's Mandela Rating2 of twenty fluctuates substantially, either by raising or lowering by five points, Director Sythwell is to be contacted immediately.\n\n+ Excerpt from Dr. Cathail's Seminar on Mandelas and the Mandela Effect\n\n- Minimize\n\nEveryone take a seat. We can talk amongst ourselves afterward.\nThe Mandela Effect is a fairly common social phenomenon that describes when a large amount of people have a common misconception about something generally well-known. It's why a lot of people think \"Looney Tunes\" is spelled t-o-o-n-s instead of t-u-n-e-s or that its namesake Nelson Mandela had died before he was actually dead.\nThis idea is fairly similar. Utilizing online and Foundation sources on what people believe and if what they believe in is false, we can calculate an object's, idea's, or being's mandela rating, or MR, and if it's physical we can use a scanner to calculate it in real-time. It goes from a scale of zero to a hundred, with accurate widespread belief at zero and inaccurate widespread belief at a hundred.\nA regular person such as myself, for example, would most likely read at a range of zero to four. However, people higher up in the command may have readings closer to sixty to seventy, since it's unclear who they really are. This is fine! Neither of these are bad because they are exactly what's intended.\nThings get more complicated when an anomaly has an MR, as what seems to always be the case in our line of work. When an anomaly has a score like a zero to three, that is what we call explained. Nothing to do about it, because the public has already adopted it as fact. Now generally, when the score goes up, we're doing our job.\nSome anomalies though, are the complete opposite. They feed, and even are sometimes made of the energy created by human thought, and specifically the misconceptions the populace has about the anomaly. This is the main, and intended, use of the system. If the creature's or object's MR reaches zero, it most likely will cease to exist or lose any anomalous properties. If it reaches a hundred, the anomaly will often restructure itself to how the public views it and will probably be explained. Once again, after that threshold, we can't do much.\nSo, after that happy note, I'm going to teach you how to prevent that from ever happening. Let's get started.\n\nDescription: SCP-5533 is a thought-based shifter entity, showing a preference for cryptids found in popular culture. Most notably, the creature chooses the Loch Ness Monster as a default form. However, the anomaly is not able to fully replicate the appearance of the cryptids, and as such avoids direct view. SCP-5533 was originally mistaken to be a wild instance of SCP-3934. As a result, MTF Phi-02 (\"Clever Girls\") was dispatched to Loch Ness to capture the anomaly.\nAddendum-5533-01:\n\nTo: MTF Phi-02 (\"Clever Girls\") Captain Date: 02/16/2016\nFrom: Director Sythwell\n\nCaptain,\nWe have detected another SCP-3934 instance, and oddly enough it's in Loch Ness itself. It's assumed that operatives responsible for releasing it could still be in the area, so be aware. Four of you will be sent to the Scottish Highlands to capture the entity. Take out one of the drones so that you can do reconnaissance and locate it before engaging. Good luck, and hurry home.\nSincerely,\nDirector Sythwell\n\nDiscovery of SCP-5533; Recording-01\n02/18/2016\n\nMTF arrive at Loch Ness. Secluded area is chosen to avoid the public, and after prep, deployed drone DR-77 (\"Plessy\") to scout the lake. After two hours, a disturbance is sensed by the drone, which is nearby a crevice previously unknown to maps of the lake. The drone moves to investigate.\nUpon reaching the ravine, no movement is initially visible. The drone moves to enter the crevice, but before it does so a large hand roughly five meters long and wide grasps the edge. The drone moves back into a clump of seaweed to avoid detection, as more hands grab onto the edges. There are eight hands in all.\nThe hands are attached to arms, which briefly struggle to pull a large mass out of the crevice. The eight ends of the arms connect to the base of a large human head. The head is about six meters wide and seven meters tall. Notably, its hair is long, dark-colored, and has the apparent consistency of tangled thread. Additionally, the entity possesses no iris or pupil, and its jaw appears to be broken.\nThe organism rests for approximately five minutes, observing its surroundings. After the time lapsed, it moves back down into the crevice. The drone is piloted back towards the beach where the MTF is located. End Recording.\n\nObservation of SCP-5533; Recording-02\n02/19/2016\nPhi-02 was instructed to wait as MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") was deployed to their location to better handle the anomaly. Using only the drone, it was approved to continue the observation of the entity.\n\n0900: SCP-5533 exits the crevice. The drone is piloted within the ravine. As the drone explores the area within the ravine, a cave entrance is found, which leads to a larger, dry cave containing crude paintings on the wall. Most paintings are deemed indecipherable, however, one depicts an unidentified humanoid being carried by other humanoids, seemingly in celebration.\n1000: The drone relocates SCP-5533 after exiting the ravine. The anomaly traverses the bottom of the loch by grabbing and pulling at the lakebed. Each individual movement made is slow, but it makes a relatively fast pace due to the amount of limbs SCP-5533 possesses. It stops often, staring towards the shore.\n1400: SCP-5533 pulls five Salmo salar3 into its mouth using a single, cupped hand. The fish proceed to swim out of its mouth, triggering no reaction from the anomaly, which continues to pull fish towards itself.\n1600: The entity returns to the crevice, and appears to go into a dormant state. Its eyes remain open for this time. Utilizing an MR scanner, SCP-5533 returns a number of sixty-five.\n1900: SCP-5533 travels towards the MTF, and proceeds to push its arm above the surface of the water, mimicking the shape of the Loch Ness Monster and SCP-3934. MTF reported seeing the silhouette of the hand, which submerged after three seconds.4\n2100: The drone begins to return to the team, but the feed is cut. Notably, the faint shadow of an outstretched hand is seen on the lakebed before the connection is lost. End Recording.\n\nThe following day, MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") arrives and incapacitates the anomaly for containment, recovering the drone in a damaged state along with the previous footage.\n\nAddendum-5533-02: Following containment and Foundation efforts to lower the anomaly's MR, SCP-5533 underwent multiple changes.\n\n03/24/2016: SCP-5533 passed an MR of fifty-five. The entity's muscle mass has noticeably decreased. In addition, it has made fewer attempts to break containment and has taken more dormant periods.\n\n06/04/2017: SCP-5533 passed an MR of forty. At the moment the MR passed from forty to thirty-nine, one arm detached from the main body with no visible detachment point. The anomaly's severed arm was recovered from the lake bottom. An autopsy conducted on the arm revealed that it was made up entirely of densely-packed neural tissue sheathed in water-damaged dermal coating.\n\n12/03/2017: SCP-5533 entered a cocooned state after reaching an MR of twenty. Utilizing sonar imaging, the entity has decreased in size to a humanoid form. Notably, the body is covered in hair, it possesses two wing-like structures composed of fused arms and hands, and has two ocular structures identical to the Ascalapha odorata5. Following this event, the MR, which would normally fluctuate, stopped changing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A hydroelectric power generation scheme.\n2. Mandela Rating was coined and designed by Dr. Cathail and Researcher Myrrh. An excerpt from a seminar on the subject has been included in the document.\n3. American Salmon.\n4. \"I would've thought that it was the real thing if I didn't know what was attached.\" -Reggie Raxum, Team Lead.\n5. Black witch moth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5532 | SCP-5533 | SCP-5534 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5534\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5534 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Humanoid Containment Site-06-3. Experimentation with SCP-5534 is not permitted. All human interaction requires approval from its appointed child psychiatrist1.\nDescription: SCP-5534 is a human child, age 10.\nProvided SCP-5534 believes that it is being tested, any information thus obtained will pose cognitohazards2 embedded in whichever medium SCP-5534 conveys it.\nIndividuals affected by SCP-5534 feel an urge to vocalize hostile speech directed at it. The severity and duration time of this effect is dependent on the amount of information perceived.\nAddendum 5534.1: Discovery.\nSCP-5534 was discovered on 2020/05/02, when a Foundation agent embedded within the local Child Protective Services (CPS)3 office of Wichita, Kansas, United States, witnessed SCP-5534's caseworker verbally abusing it. Coworkers gathered, and were subsequently affected after reading a form SCP-5534 had filled out. Suspecting the effect of a cognitohazard, the agent confiscated the document and alerted The Foundation. The affected individuals were amnesticized and SCP-5534 was contained.\nAddendum 5534.2: Interview log.\n\nInterviewed: [SCP-5534]\nInterviewer: [Dr. Allan Bowes]\n\nForeword: Following the assessment of the anomaly, Dr. Allan Bowes, a Foundation child psychiatrist, was tasked to perform SCP-5534's psychological evaluation.\nDr. Bowes proposed that his interview be conducted in a non-formal setting, hypothesizing that the anomaly could be circumvented in this manner. The interview was conducted at Site-06-3 staff cafeteria.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Allan Bowes: Hi! My name is Allan, I thought you might be a bit tired of going through all those tests, right? I figured you might enjoy, well, just hanging out for a bit.Dr. Allan Bowes : This site is a safe place, it'll feel different from what you're used to. Different from how it was at home, or school. We look after all kinds of people, people that need to be cared for in a special way.Dr. Allan Bowes : Tell you what, I noticed a little something in the backpack you had coming here. The vending machines here aren't too bad, give me a second.\nDr. Allan Bowes : (Walks towards the cafeteria's vending machine, and comes back with two Bounty candy bars) I was really happy when I saw that wrapper. We coconut fans aren't common. Here, one for you, one for me.Dr. Allan Bowes : I didn't quite catch that. Could you speak up, if that's alright?Dr. Allan Bowes : Why, sure\u2014Dr. Allan Bowes : That's alright, I don't mind at all! I'm not the most polite guy around. You can have it back, we had it put aside somewhere safe while you were getting settled in here, just so it wouldn't get lost. It must be important to you.Dr. Allan Bowes : Is there anything in particular inside it that you want to get back?Dr. Allan Bowes : Okay. No worries, you'll get everything back, I promise.Dr. Allan Bowes : I'm gonna ask a friend of mine to bring it by, since I'm quite busy today. Here, write down what was in it, so he makes sure nothing's missing. You can use my notebook.Dr. Allan Bowes : (Closes notebook. Nods and smiles at SCP-5534.) It's okay. You did great. See? Hanging out and snacking is all we're doing. I'll walk you back to your room.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5534.3: Item list\n\n- One pencil.\n- Two erasers.\n- One Wite-Out pen.\n- Candy bar wrappers.5\n\nAddendum 5534.4: Excerpt from Dr. Bowes's notes.\n\nBefore joining The Foundation, my duty was to help children much like SCP-5534. My duty is now to Secure. Contain. Protect. While the latter is of the utmost priority, they do not always have to conflict with each other.\nAs far as I can tell, two theories must be correct in order to neutralize it :\n\n- SCP-5534 is immune to its own anomalous properties, which I believe is the case given our interaction.\n\n- SCP-5534 did not become anomalous overnight, neither was it born anomalous. This property might have been nurtured and reinforced by experiencing a non-anomalous, yet similar reality. A perpetual cycle allowing for an eventual transition into the anomalous. SCP-5534 probably hasn't even noticed anything out of the ordinary whenever this occurred.\n\nI cannot imagine the damage a single mistake on my part might cause. Extreme caution is necessary, as there's no telling when it may feel like it's being \"tested\". Frankly, at the moment, I am not sure how to proceed. Effective therapy is going to be difficult.\n\nFootnotes\n1. For further information, please contact Dr. Allan Bowes.\n2. Copied and verbally relayed information will lose its anomalous properties.\n3. Both of SCP-5534's parents are alive.\n4. A non-anomalous copy can be found in Addendum 5534.3.\n5. After its backpack was returned, SCP-5534 was seen inserting an additional wrapper inside of it.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5533 | SCP-5534 | SCP-5535 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5535\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5535 is kept in a Standard Humanoid Containment Chamber at Site-17. A guard must be posted in the adjoined Observation Room in case SCP-5535 attempts to harm itself.\nSCP-5535's left arm has been encased in a specialized container, which prevents it from moving. This container is to be removed once per week to prevent muscle atrophy in the arm. This can only be done by the current researcher assigned to SCP-5535, and a guard must be present during the removal.\nDescription: SCP-5535, previously known as Mateo Velez, is a Hispanic male born in 05/07/1986, who suffers from an anomalous version of Alien Hand Syndrome1. The subject completely lacks control over its left arm, which is actively hostile towards the main body, as well as any surrounding individuals, despite not having sustained any damage to the corpus callosum, the posterior parietal cortex, the supplementary motor area, or the anterior cingulate cortex, which is usually the cause of AHS.\nHistory: SCP-5535 was arrested for the murder of its wife and the attempted murder of its child in 13/07/2016. The subject claimed that it had lost control over its left hand, which had then choked its wife to death against its will. SCP-5535 was released by the police and delivered to a hospital, and was further detained by the Foundation after its anomalous brain chemistry was discovered by the hospital. Following containment, SCP-5535 claimed that it had been \"possessed\" by some sort of incorporeal entity that took control of its arm.\nIncident Report 5535.1: During a weekly removal of the container constricting SCP-5535's arm, instead of attempting to assault nearby personnel as usual, the hand mimicked the act of writing. In hopes of uncovering more about the anomaly, the hand was provided with pen and paper. It is to be noted that this seemed to aggravate SCP-5535, who was extremely vocal about his objections and had to be restrained. The note written by the hand has been attached below:\n\nFirst of all, I apologize for trying to hurt you people before. You stopped me from moving so I thought you were with him. Now I have noticed that he is imprisoned as well, so I know that that is not the case.\nThis man is not who he says he is. He is an impostor and a bodysnatcher. I am the real Mateo Velez.\nI do not know what he is, but it's not human, I assure you of that. It came to me and forced itself into my mind. It tried to overwrite me or erase me or something, but it didn't succeed. Not fully.\nI was forced to watch through my own eyes as this bastard killed my beloved with my hands. But when he put his hands on my daughter, I knew I couldn't let him. I managed to take control of the part of the brain that controls this hand and I used it to stop him. I've been clinging on ever since.\nPlease, help me if you can. I can feel myself fading and I don't know how much longer I can hold on. You must help me to get rid of this fake. You must erase his consciousness out of my brains and return control of what belongs to me, back. Help me, please. Help me.\n\nAfterword: After the previous message was delivered, the affected arm fell dormant and has been considerably more docile than before, only occasionally attempting to harm the body. Considering the contents of the message, the container is to be removed thrice weekly and communications with the arm are to be upheld in order to determine the exact nature of the anomaly. SCP-5535 has been vocal about his objections towards this development, claiming the other consciousness to be lying. Research continues.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A neurological disorder, in which the subjects other arm acts independently from the rest of the body.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5534 | SCP-5535 | SCP-5536 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5536\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nPhoto of the Stonehenge monument, taken by on-site security seconds before the Ansuman Incident.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment Site-57 has been established around SCP-5536 with a radius of approximately 2 km. The perimeter around SCP-5536 is to be routinely patrolled by at least 20 armed security personnel. Any irregular activity outside of SCP-5536's established pattern is to be immediately reported to Site Director Pendleton. The following astronomical events must have the listed measurements taken:\n\nSolar eclipse: All flowers in bloom on SCP-5536's trilithons must have liquid mercury applied and SCP-5536-3 transported to the Site-57 Observatory.\nLunar eclipse: Terminate SCP-5536-3 through the method of decapitation.\n\nAny and all attempts to visually document SCP-5536 are strictly prohibited.\nSCP-5536-3 is to be kept in a standard windowless humanoid containment cell in Site-57 and provided monthly psychological evaluation. SCP-5536-3 must never be exposed to sunlight or any other kind of stronger ultraviolet radiation. SCP-5536-3 is allowed restricted socialization privileges with appointed personnel and permission to roam designated areas of the site under the supervision of a bodyguard due to cooperative behaviour.\nDescription: SCP-5536 is a stone monument commonly known as \"Stonehenge,\" located in Wiltshire, England. Following the Ansuman Incident, each of the trilithons1 has exhibited dangerously high levels of ultraviolet and gamma radiation, capable of deteriorating any biological composition and damaging any artificial equipment within 9.5 meters. The large amounts of radiation has also created an optical anomaly in its centre, a construct of a glowing purple cube (approximately 5 m from each side) that remains the same even if observed from different angles.\nThe following is the established pattern of SCP-5536's anomalous activity:\n\nDay cycle: 10 to 20 SCP-5536-2 instances will emerge and begin circling the trilithons until sundown.\nNight cycle: Vines will sprout from and envelop every trilithon, with hundreds of an unknown species of white flower bulbs2 embedded on each one. Each of these flower bulbs measures around 30 cm in length and 19 cm in width. Any attempts to remove or water them have have resulted in the plant's expiration.\nSolar eclipse: The white flowers will bloom open, revealing their mouths.\nLunar eclipse: All objects within a 3 km radius with a volume of 729 m3 or more will experience unpredictable temporal, spacial, and reality distortions. 100 to 250 instances of SCP-5536-2 will emerge from SCP-5536.\n\nAny visual depiction of SCP-5536 following the Ansuman incident can cause severe hazardous properties when viewed in any way, ranging from permanent brain damage to [DATA EXPUNGED].\nSCP-5536-2 is the designation for a highly hostile species of humanoid entities comprised of pure rubedo3 that routinely emerge from SCP-5536 during daylight hours. Each instance is approximately 1.9 m in height. SCP-5536-2's sole facial feature is a luminescent orange point in the forehead.\nSCP-5536-2 instances possess significant durability, speed, and strength, requiring excessive force to neutralize. All attempts to capture any instances so far have failed, due to their active area seemingly limited to 30 meters away from SCP-5536, immediately crumbling to shards once stepping out of range. SCP-5536-2 instances are currently believed to be non-sapient, acting instead as a superorganism with basic goals.\nSCP-5536-3 (formerly known as Thorin Wagner) is a male human of Scottish descent. Records indicate that SCP-5536-3 was born on \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, making him \u2588\u2588 years old during acquisition. As of the writing of this report, his current height is 1.54 m.\nWhen in contact with sunlight, SCP-5536-3 will cause his surrounding area (approximately 5 m) to spontaneously combust, injuring himself in the process. This effect will continue until SCP-5536-3 is removed from the exposure.\nSCP-5536-3's second anomalous property manifests during periods of sleep. During the first 10 minutes of sleep, SCP-5536-3's brain activity gradually increases until it is 10 times stronger than the average theta brainwaves (about 50 to 90 Hz). After that point, SCP-5536-3 will experience mild epileptic seizures usually lasting from 7 to 8 hours, during which he cannot be awakened with any known methods.\nAfter awakening, SCP-5536-3 will usually express discomfort about his dreams before continuing with his daily activities in containment. If asked to describe the nature of his dreams, SCP-5536-3 will either ramble in an unknown language Wuski4 for 5 hours or recite different 8-digit numbers for 2 hours.5\nDo you still remember us after all this time?6\nAddendum 5536.a: Discovery\nSCP-5536 was discovered on 5 July 2020 (the Ansuman Incident) during a penumbral lunar eclipse in the Wiltshire area. The Foundation was informed about the situation through several reports from social media. MTF Epsilon-6 (\"Village Idiots\")7 was quickly deployed to the location where they found approximately 50 tourists being killed by hundreds of SCP-5536-2 instances. At least 200 other tourists were also spotted attempting to flee the location with some of them collapsing after succumbing to SCP-5536's radiation.\nAs the MTF members dismounted from their vehicles and dispatched various SCP-5536-2 instances, Agent Handel emerged from SCP-5536, bringing an unconscious SCP-5536-3, who was sighted at SCP-5536's centre before the incident, and placing him beside the other injured tourists before aiding the MTF members. Nearly a hundred of SCP-5536-2 instances were terminated, with the surviving few immediately retreating back to the centre of SCP-5536, vanishing in the optical anomaly.\n75 people were killed in the resulting event, 2 of which were identified to be SCP-5536-3's parents. 19 other victims shortly expired due to radiation and one additional victim died while on the way to the hospital when he attempted to show medical personnel a photo of SCP-5536 that he took.\nAll 180 survivors were gathered in a refuge centre and amnesticized. The general public was later given the cover story that the incident was the result of several unaccounted solar flares damaging the ozone layers. UNESCO officials promptly prohibited any cultural and tourism activity on Wiltshire.\nA security perimeter surrounding SCP-5536 was quickly established. After 2 weeks of negotiation with UNESCO and GOC officials, the Foundation was subsequently given permission to develop it to Containment Site-57 under the guise of a temporary UNESCO reclamation site.\n\nExtra Appendix: Circumstance of SCP-5536-3's Acquisition\n\nClose Appendix\n\nDuring the 19 days following the Ansuman Incident, SCP-5536-3 had not developed any anomalous properties. At that point in time, SCP-5536-3 had been staying at a refuge centre in Wiltshire and was about to be recovered by his aunt to live with her.\nOn 24 July 2020, at 11:30 AM, as SCP-5536-3 exited the centre to greet her at the entrance, the area around him instantly combusted, heavily injuring a security officer and SCP-5536-3's aunt. SCP-5536-3 himself received second-degree burns on his arms and torso. Reports show that the combustion lasted for 2 minutes, during which the entrance was burnt to the ground and SCP-5536-3 fled the scene.\nMe and KabaratTwo Foundation agents, who had been sent to the centre under the pretense of additional security, quickly secured the victims and located SCP-5536-3 in a nearby bathroom, having an epileptic seizure. The Foundation was later informed of the situation and deployed a mobile containment unit, leading to SCP-5536-3's acquisition.\nThe victims and witnesses of said acquisition were amnesticized, including SCP-5536-3's aunt, who was given a cover story that her nephew had been immolated in the incident.\nAfter regaining consciousness and treated for his injuries, SCP-5536-3 was questioned by Dr. Nunnally Natt in Site-57. SCP-5536-3 willingly informed her of his remaining relatives, which was shortly followed by multiple Foundation personnel being tasked in cementing the cover story of his supposed death.\n\nClose Appendix\n\nAddendum 5536.b: Observation\n4 days after acquisition, during which SCP-5536-3 continuously exhibited his anomalous properties, Dr. Nunnally Natt was given the approval to begin her observation on SCP-5536-3.\n\nObservational Log 5536-3.OL.1 Summary\nDate: 28-07-2020\nSubject: SCP-5536-3\nPreface: A CloudHelm (a wearable EEG device) was attached to SCP-5536-3 before sleeping.\nObservation Notes: SCP-5536-3 quickly agreed to the procedure. During the first 10 minutes of sleep, SCP-5536-3's brainwaves gradually increased from 5 Hz to 70 Hz. SCP-5536-3 immediately suffered an epileptic seizure past that point, with several security personnel attempting to wake him up using various methods8 to no avail.\nSCP-5536-3 awakened 8 hours later, visibly shaken and mumbling \"so long\u2026\" for 3 minutes. When asked about the meaning of his words, SCP-5536-3 immediately curled up under his blanket and refused to answer any more questions.\n\nObservational Log 5536-3.OL.2 Summary\nDate: 31-07-2020\nSubject: SCP-5536-3\nPreface: SCP-5536-3 was asked to describe his dreams.\nObservation Notes: SCP-5536-3 refused to comply, saying that \"five months is already hell\" before going completely silent. When asked again, SCP-5536-3 began to recite multiple 8-digit numbers9 in random orders for 2 hours. The numbers were confirmed to be past and future dates for solar and lunar eclipses.\n\nObservational Log 5536-3.OL.3 Summary\nDate: 01-08-2020\nSubject: SCP-5536-3\nPreface: SCP-5536-3 was asked to recount any dreams he had during containment.\nObservation Notes: SCP-5536-3 started shouting in what was later discovered to be Wuski for 5 hours, culminating in him collapsing from dehydration and having to be treated in the site infirmary.\n\nObservation of SCP-5536-3 would later be ceased by Site Director Pendleton. Dr. Jordan was assigned to give monthly psychological evaluation for SCP-5536-3 the following day.\nAddendum 5536.c: Testing Logs\nThe following are the testing logs for the attempted visual documentations of SCP-5536.\n\nSCP-5536 Testing Logs\n\nClose Testing Logs\n\nTesting Log 5536.01\nDate: 21-09-2021\nProcedure: D-080604 was given a digital camera and instructed to take a picture of SCP-5536.\nResults: D-080604 screamed and smashed the camera with his foot seconds after looking at the finished photo. Subject attempted to gouge out his own eyeballs as on-site security subdued and stunned him. Subject was later given Class-C amnestics.\nThe memory card of the digital camera was damaged beyond repair.\nWell, that was strange, but not entirely unexpected, seeing what happened to that one tourist during the Ansuman Incident. I suggest we use a few other tools for future testing. - Dr. Natt\n\nTesting Log 5536.02\nDate: 24-09-2021\nProcedure: D-197676 was given a camcorder and instructed to visually record SCP-5536.\nResults: D-197676 began shaking uncomfortably as she is recording for the first 19 seconds. Subject then dropped the camcorder and attempted to flee the testing grounds. As two security personnel started after her, the camcorder internally fractured and emitted radioactive particles lig{Can you see Him?}ht, heavily injuring D-197676 and temporarily blinding 5 other personnel. D-197676 would later contract skin cancer and die 4 hours after testing.\n\nTesting Log 5536.03\nDate: 27-09-2021\nProcedure: D-126427 was given an infrared camera and instructed to visually record SCP-5536.\nResults: After 3 seconds of recording, the infrared camera instantly exploded, killing D-126427 and slightly injuring 2 security personnel. The resulting explosion was noted to have a medium level of gamma radiation.\n\nTesting Log 5536.04\nDate: 28-09-2021\nProcedure: D-191919 was given a complete painting kit and instructed to create a painting of SCP-5536.\nResults: D-191919 began to paint at an abnormal speed, finishing her painting in 5 minutes. Subject showed the painting to security personnel, at which point it burst to flames and the su{Our Lord}n turned [DATA EXP{Our Patriarch}UNGED], causing nothing the sky to momentarily melt burn fall disappear [DAT{Our Saviour}A EXPUNGED] and killing subject along with 4 security personnel.\nVisual testing for SCP-5536 will be ceased for the foreseeable future. Any attempts to violate this order will not go unpunished. I hope that you take more caution for your future actions, Doctor. - O5-\u2588\n\nClose Testing Logs\n\nAddendum 5536.d: 16-05-2022 Incident\n\n[INPUT LEVEL 5/5536 SECURITY CREDENTIALS]\n\n[CREDENTIALS APPROVED]\n\nOn 16 May 2022, a full lunar eclipse took place in the Wiltshire area, followed shortly by a containment breach in Site-57. Several areas of Site-57 experienced multiple reality and spacial displacements, transforming the interior architecture of Site-57 and causing several Foundation personnel to be instantly transported to the immediate vicinity of SCP-5536 and attacked by hundreds of emerging SCP-5536-2 instances.\nThe following are the records that were managed to be recovered from the incident.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nDue to the unpredictable effects of the anomalies present during the incident, several sections of the recovered documents have permanently been altered. Please note that this does not constitute a breach of secrecy or an infohazard.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nSITE-57 SECURITY FOOTAGE.CAM 19\nDate: 16-05-2022\nTime: 05:20:19 - 05:21:40\n\n05:20:19 The hallway which SCP-5536-3's containment cell is located in begins to stretch out, the floors falling backwards and the walls crawling through each other.\n05:21:13 The hallway lights spread and coat the walls as Agent Handel descends from the upper floor.\n05:21:17 Agent Handel repeatedly knocks on the containment cell's door.\n05:21:21 A growling sound is heard from the left end of the hallway. Agent Handel quickly grabs onto the door's handle.\n05:21:23 A river rushes from the left and floods the entire hallway as Agent Handel keeps hanging on the handle, struggling against the current.\n05:21:35 The river has calmed and begins to subside. Agent Handel tightens his grip on the door and prepares to kick it open.\n05:21:37 A giant worm leech mouth chasm screams open from below him, revealing a sky, and starts draining the river.\n05:21:39 Dorren twists the handle.\n05:21:40 The door loosens.\n\nDate: 16-05-2022\nInterviewer: Agent Dorren Handel\nInterviewee: SCP-5536-3\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgent Handel materialises inside of SCP-5536-3's containment cell.\nAgent Handel: (Panting) SCP-5536-3!\nNo response.\nAgent Handel: Shit. (Breathes) Thorin!\nThorin: Good evening, Agent. Have you come to ask for my assistance?\nAgent Handel: Oh God. What the- Why are you red?\nThorin: Crimson, actually. What brings you to my humble abode on such an occasion?\nAgent Handel: Look, I don't know if you noticed, but the whole site's going Escher and a bunch of Foundation personnel are getting slaughtered by those fucking redstone zombies! Now you better know something on how to stop this shit before it gets out of site!\nThorin: (Sighs) I really wish you had toned down the vulgarity. I may know something about that, but before that, I sense a question, kept for so long, lingering in your mind, Agent. Would you be so kind as to tell me what it is?\nAgent Handel: Huh.\nAgent Handel pauses, then continues to laugh for 10 seconds.\nAgent Handel: You're right, you're right. How could I forget my mission? The only purpose I have in this miserable life? (Breathes) Why are the moons empty?\nThorin: (Chuckles) Now, what nonsense are you talking about?\nDorren: Don't mess around, kid.\nThorin: Oh. (Pauses) I see. An agent of the Magistratum, correct?\nDorren: (Coughs) I guess I don't have to explain everything after all. Now, I shall ask of you to answer my question, FierKing.\nThorin: I'm sorry to disappoint you, agent, but I'm afraid they have actually been empty for quite some time. Since the day that you saved me, to be exact.\nDorren: I asked for a reason, kid! Don't state the fucking obvious!\nThorin: Well, I don't know what your superiors would call it, but I believe the human word for it is the King{Archon of the Suns}ship.\nDorren: Shit. (Pauses) Shit! So I'm guessing that's who you've been sucking up to for the last couple of years, huh? The polatroska who's also the su{The Traitor}ns?\nThorin: \"Sucking up\" is too simplified of a term. I personally would call it \"coincidental subservience.\"\nDorren: Fine, whatever. Now tell me, what does it have to do with the moons?\nThorin: The chains that keep them tethered are slowly rusting away.\nDorren: Shit, that's bad. Does this mean that the prisoners are free?\nThorin: No. They're in a world given to us by the King{Adonaios}ship. A refuge world, connected to all the moons in this particular multiverse, but still undoubtedly a larger prison.\nDorren: Then what about those slaves, huh? How come they are able to leave your so-called \"larger prison\"? Why do you even need them in the first place?\nThorin: (Frowns) We never deserved to rule over them. They were there first, you know. Now, I may be a Fier, Agent, but I am only one of many. If I had such power, I would have granted them peace, freeing their souls from those crystal bodies. But for now, I can only give them a privilege that not even the lords of the Horizon Court have, to see my world under the sun.\nDorren: I could just kill them, you know. End their suffering and all that.\nThorin: (Looks away) If you could see what kind of afterlife awaits them, you'd at least hesitate on doing that.\nDorren: You should've just told all of this to the Foundation.\nThorin: Oh, I tried. I've told them all about how I spent centuries becoming one of millions of kings and the oncoming fate of all our worlds, but they didn't seem to understand a single word.\nDorren: Maybe don't talk to them in Wuski? It's quite nia{The Night Eternal}truc.\nThorin: (Laughs) That's a choice I cannot make, sadly. If I do not ramble about it or say a bunch of numbers for hours, I'd be [DA{Just kill me.}TA EXPU{Please.}NG{Let me rest for just a little bit.}ED].\nDorren: Sheesh, you're better off dead if that happens.\nThorin: That's not a viable solution.\nDorren: So\u2026 you're not craving the sweet release of death nor are you trying to get the fuck out of here. Somehow I don't believe either of those statements.\nThorin: You're misinterpreting my answers, Agent. This is my escape attempt, though I'm just following Mother Nature's laws. But as you can see, they're not very well-constructed. Death, on the other hand, is an unpredictable gift that keeps on giving.\nDorren: (Pauses) You know what? Just tell me how to fix this. Let's both stop stalling. (Breathes) Tell me what I have to do.\nThorin looks around his containment cell then lays down on his mattress.\nThorin: Kill me.\nDorren: Yeah sure, why n- Wait, what? You're kidding, right?\nThorin: You've experienced it, haven't you? For your soul to be at peace, unburdened and unchained from the world.\nDorren: Look, I don't know how you knew that, but I'm not gonna fulfill whatever death wish you h-\nThorin: If your allegiance is with the Foundation and the Magistratum, then you should just hurry up and kill me. I know my parents are dead and all traces of my existence outside of this site have been erased. I'm perfectly sure that I won't be allowed to leave this place for the rest of my lives. It's just\u2026 I want to be at peace, even if it's just for a while.\nDorren: You're telling me that this is the only way it can stop?\nThorin: No, but it's certainly the easiest. Besides, as long as you don't destroy my brain, I should be back tomorrow morning. (Breathes) Please, just aim for the neck. Make it quick.\nDorren: Why are you telling me all this? If the Foundation finds out, they'd probably kill you off for good! (Sighs) Why do I even bother? They're definitely recording this right now. These people are too cautious for their own good.\nThorin: They will listen to you, trust me. They'll bring you here for every lunar eclipse to finish me off as many times as it takes, because they understand what needs to be done.\nDorren: I really hope you're telling the truth, kid.\nThorin: I am.\nAudio distorts for 19 seconds as Dorren pulls out a staff from his palm and holds it above Thorin's neck.\nDorren: So, you got anything to say, before I put you to rest?\nThorin: Yeah. (Starts to smile) Thanks for saving me back then.\nDorren: (Chuckles) Don't mention it.\nDorren [DATA EXPUNGED], decapitating Thorin. His body begins to evaporate as flames erupt from below him and swallow him whole.\nA door appears on the wall beside Dorren and swings open, revealing an empty bedroom.\nHis staff bends in his hand, clattering to chains, crackling to thorns, and finally growing to a scarf, which he wraps around his neck.\nDorren: See you later, kid.\nDorren steps through the door.\nThe door vanishes.\n[END LOG]\n\nThe lunar eclipse ended shortly afterwards. The interior of Site-57 quickly reverted back to its original state and all SCP-5536-2 instances marched back to the middle of SCP-5536, each of them vanishing instantly inside the light.\nA rescue team shortly arrived and managed to recover 89 Foundation personnel. 38 other personnel were confirmed to be deceased and 4 are currently missing.\nSCP-5536-3 would rematerialise in his cell the next morning without any injuries. The following is an excerpt from the post-incident interview.\n\nDate: 17-05-2022\nInterviewer: Dr. Nunnally Natt\nInterviewee: SCP-5536-3\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Natt: SCP-5536-3, we are conducting this interview to close out our investigation of the incident which took place on 16th of May that resulted in the deaths of many staff members. Do you have any comments to make?\nSCP-5536-3: Yes, actually. This interview will be available to Level 5 personnel and above, correct?\nDr. Natt: I'm not at liberty to disclose that inf-\nSCP-5536-3: I'll take that as a yes. That means I can only give you the rough outlines.\nDr. Natt: If what you have is enough, then it shouldn't be a problem.\nSCP-5536-3: Very well. (Pauses) Even though I am not responsible for such a horrible incident, I deeply apologize for it, as the perpetrators are some of my close colleagues.\nDr. Natt: When you say \"colleagues,\" do you mean those of the same status as you? So if there are others, does this mean it's happening in many places?\nSCP-5536-3: Countless of them, not just ours. In places you wouldn't even know existed.\nDr. Natt: I see. In one of your interviews, you also mentioned something along the lines of \"becoming a king in a span of a few centuries.\" Now, you sure don't look a quarter of that age.\nSCP-5536-3: Physically, no. This body of the child that I once was does not reflect my mental and spiritual experience. Though if you were to ask me of my age, I would reply that I am, without a doubt, 361 years old.\nDr. Natt: (Pauses) Are you still Thorin? The boy that we brought here two years ago?\nSCP-5536-3: I wish I could say that. But you know how things are.\nDr. Natt: Right\u2026 Now, if what you said is true, we are to terminate you on every lunar eclipse to prevent the more disastrous effects of SCP-5536's anomalous properties. Since your statement has been proven to be correct, I would also like to request that you give us information on the actions to be taken during other astronomical events.\nSCP-5536-3: Doctor, what makes you think whatever comes out of my mouth is the truth?\nDr. Natt: Because it seems like you're actually trying to help us.\nSCP-5536-3: (Sighs) Then I shall give. You know those flowers that sprout up and wrap around the trilithons every night?\nDr. Natt: Yes, I am aware that giving them any liquid has no effect on their growth.\nSCP-5536-3: Good. Now you might want to stock up on liquid mercury for the preparation of a solar eclipse.\nDr. Natt: Do we\u2026 water them with it?\nSCP-5536-3: (Laughs heartily) Goodness no, Doctor! You'll kill them! Help them drink, for they will bloom with opened mouths.\nDr. Natt: All\u2026 right, then.\nSCP-5536-3: That's all I could give you for now. And Doctor, if it's not too much to ask, I would like to ask of you to prepare a room for me in the observatory during the solar eclipses. Is that an even trade?\nDr. Natt: Is that request necessary?\nSCP-5536-3: Yes, for all of you, but mostly for myself.\nDr. Natt: I'll see what I can do.\nSCP-5536-3: Thank you, Doctor.\n[END LOG]\n\nA search mission was also intiated to relocate Agent Handel, concluding on that same day when he was found baking an unknown food product in the site cafeteria. Dr. Nunnally Natt was assigned to interview Agent Handel several minutes later in the site's safe room.\n\nDate: 17-05-2022\nInterviewer: Dr. Nunnally Natt\nInterviewee: Agent Dorren Handel\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Natt: So, Agent Handel, about yesterday\u2026\nAgent Handel: First off, it's a German name. Yes, I know it sounds like a pun. Also, the kid is safe, don't worry.\nDr. Natt: Yes, I'm aware of that. That's not what I'm here for, though.\nAgent Handel: Oh yeah. Sorry for the pie thing. They might smell weird, but trust me, they're perfectly edible.\nDr. Natt: (Scratches her head) I hope that doesn't have anything to do with whatever \"Archon\" you're working for.\nAgent Handel: (Pauses) Okay, who snitched on me?\nDr. Natt: (Chuckles) Relax. It's an O5. She told me to watch a few recordings yesterday.\nAgent Handel: Dang. Is she listening to this right now?\nDr. Natt motions her hand to the hidden camera.\nAgent Handel: (Looks at the camera) Oh, tro{fuck}sk! That was there this whole time? Must be real fucking tiny if-\nDr. Natt: We're getting off track, Agent.\nAgent Handel: Sorry. (Coughs) Anyways, are they actually afraid to come into contact with other anomalies?\nDr. Natt: They're just cautious, that's all.\nAgent Handel: Doctor, I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not a reality bender or a Type Green, whatever you want to call it.\nDr. Natt: So I've heard.\nAgent Handel: Also, I'm not actually German, though I do speak it. (Looks around the room) To tell you the truth, working with the Foundation has been \u00e9{I'm tired}ta r\u00e9p{So tired.}sax. But I'm still gonna finish my mission, and that includes working with you. I can safely say that most of you are pretty competent. I also realize that both of our bosses have the same goal, to protect our existence.\nDr. Natt: I sure hope my bosses think the same too, but I'm afraid that, during these two years, you're already aware on how we do things here.\nAgent Handel: (Sighs) So, what do they plan to do to me? Launch me to the sun? Blast me with SRAs? Lock me up along with their anomalousanimated factoryporn?\nDr. Natt: (Laughs and leans back on her chair) No, nothing like that. They're probably more interested on finding out more about your superiors.\nAgent Handel: Does that mean they'll finally be sending troops to Stonehenge?\nDr. Natt: You know that we can't afford to do that without proper research, right? Besides, you could definitely kill me before I blink and send some yourself.\nAgent Handel: That wouldn't be ethical, Doctor.\nDr. Natt: You're starting to sound like a human.\nAgent Handel: Yep. And I hate it.\nDr. Natt: (Sits upright) Look, I know it won't sound professional, but I want to thank you for saving our asses. Only a dumbass would take that for granted. I made sure that the O5 will at least consider helping you. They said they'll hold a vote to decide if this mission of yours is worth the trouble.\nAgent Handel: (Exasperated) Thanks. Much appreciated. Rest assured, my missions are for a good cause.\nDr. Natt: You're welcome. They already have countermeasures though, just in case you need to be put down.\nAgent Handel: I know.\nAgent Handel dematerialises from his seat.\nDr. Natt: That concludes the interview.\n[END LOG]\n\nInterviewer's Notes: Agent Handel is considered imperative to the containment of SCP-5536 and must be informed immediately about the results of the vote, whenever that happens. I don't care if any of you thinks he is involved with the Fifthists or if he's a lobotomized Type Green. We owe him. Don't forget that.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A structure which consists of 2 vertical stones supporting a third horizontal stone across the top. Frequently used in the context of megalithic monuments.\n2. Hypothesised to be a mutation between the Madonna lily (Lilium candidum) and the pheasant's eye (Narcissus poeticus).\n3. A mineral which resulted from the natural combination of obsidian, brimstone, and [REDACTED]. Currently used by the Foundation for emergency heating.\n4. An ancient dialect which originated from several regions in Russia. The Foundation are currently searching for any of its native speakers.\n5. All 8-digit numbers given are dates that have been proven to correlate with past and future astronomical events.\n6. \"Archon Magistratum\".\n7. A task force specialising in the investigation, containment, and subsequent cleanup of anomalies in rural and suburban environments.\n8. Methods include shaking, shouting, blaring an airhorn, blowing a dog whistle, playing a high bass boosted JJBA non-descript media compilation, and tickling.\n9. 28051900, 08041902, 29051919, 18051920, 14011926, 02101959, 15111999, 05062020,16052022, 19032072, 25022119, 04052190, and 18122199.\n\n[ACCESS RESTRICTED: ENTER TIMM\u016aS-OP CREDENTIALS]\n\n[WELCOME, TIMM\u016aS-OPERATIVE MARGARINE]\n\nACTIVATING EXISTENTIAL KILL AGENT\n\n\"Is it really you?\"\n\nSorry, Ma'am.\n\nI had to make sure that it's really you.\n\nOr your boss.\n\nOr his bosses.\n\nOr their boss.\n\nYou know, I should really stop talking.\n\nLike, right now.\n\nOkay, I'm gonna stop.\n\nLIFE SIGNS DETECTED\n\nFULL MISSION REPORT\n\nFROM: Agent Doorhandle\nTO: Timm\u016bs-Operative Margarine\n\nThis is Agent Doorhandle, giving a full report. Okay, maybe not that full.\nI've found the gateway. It is located in the 11th Level (Humanity) in Wiltshire, England, Europe, on Earth, inside the Milkyway. It is a monument of stone monoliths that the humans previously called \"Stonehenge\". The only safe time to enter through it is on the lunar and solar eclipses. We could always just destroy it, you know.\nAccording to the information I've gotten, the gateway leads to the place where the prisoners escaped to. If a few other sources are also to be believed, that its connection spans through infinite realities and universes, we might have another Infinitum crisis on our hands. When are the others coming, anyway? It's just me and Kabarat (that human) here.\nThere's also a Fier here. Thorin Wagner, male, born on 19 ADG. He is currently not a threat and has proven to both be cooperative in my mission and crucial in maintaining the gateway's connection, but I worry that, since his body doesn't support his power, he might trigger a planetary extinction event in about 10 years. I suggest moving him to the 3rd Level (Arak) when his time comes. Good kid. He will be missed greatly.\nDuring these past 2 years, I have been cooperating with one of Humanity's Reclamation Groups, the SCP Foundation. From what I've seen so far, they are mostly able to handle some of the 12th and 13th Level threats, and their leaders are currently deciding on the best course of action involving us, though I still plan on checking out the Serpent's Hand. If everything goes well, I shall be reporting back to you soon. I'll try my best to come back on Klannux this year, though I can't really guarantee it. I'll still send a postcard to you and Ark\u00e9-n\u00e9 just in case.\nThis has been my full report, Ma'am. Love you! :D\n\nWe are the demons that keep the angels in check.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5535 | SCP-5536 | SCP-5537 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5537: For the Seafood Lover in You\n\nImage Sources:\n[See license box at the end of this page]\n\n[ \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: SCP-5537\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5537 are currently kept within cryogenic storage within the Safe-class wing of Site-35. Due to the fragile nature of SCP-5537 instances, access to the anomalies is restricted to personnel possessing 4/5537 clearance and having been specially authorized by the current research head over SCP-5537. Furthermore, in the interest of preventing the onset of decay, SCP-5537 instances may be held outside of storage for no more than 4 consecutive hours.\nDescription: SCP-5537 collectively designates the partially putrified remains of numerous fish, crustaceans, bivalves, and other similarly related sea life all possessing genetic structure identical to members of the group Homo sapiens (humans) recovered from the Bates Harbor located in Montauk, New York. Analysis of all recovered instances has determined that all had died in the same time frame due to rapid hemorrhaging of all internal organic structures from an unknown cause.\nAlong with the bulk of SCP-5537s, the following items of interest were discovered along with the anomalies:\n\nA chef's coat; covered in blood and fatty tissue. Genetic analysis has been deemed impossible due to continuous exposure to the elements.\n\n174 porcelain platters. Each had food remains caked onto their surfaces and damage consistent with exposure to saltwater.\n\nCongealed pools of vomit. Contents were partially digested SCP-5537 instances along with biscuits and bisque soup.\n\nA human cadaver. An autopsy revealed the individual to have been infected with Kuru.\n\n12 one-gallon buckets of ground organic remains.\n\nThaumic sigils engraved within the bedrock near the site of the SCP-5537 discovery.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5537 along with the aforementioned items of interest were recovered at various points throughout the Bates Harbor on March 9th, 2005 off the cliff edge which situated a struggling Red Lobster franchise (mainly due to the increasing price of seafood beyond what could be afforded by the establishment). Questioning of the staffers working for the restaurant has yielded no results, and further investigation into the practices of the aforementioned business is pending. Currently, Foundation operatives are attempting to obtain a warrant from the Site-35 Deputy Chief to raid the restaurant; however, verification for the reasonable belief of anomalous activity present on the premises is underway. Attempts to locate the employees terminated as a result of poor business performance has proven unsuccessful.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5536 | SCP-5537 | SCP-5538 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by stormbreath\n\nItem #: SCP-5538\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5538 has been purchased by the Foundation. Surveillance cameras have been installed inside. Security guards are to prevent unauthorized access.\nDescription: SCP-5538 is an abandoned psychiatric facility in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, \u2588\u2588. A rusted Foundation insignia was discovered on the exterior gate of the complex, but no record of the site existed internally prior to the initial discovery.\nThe primary anomaly of SCP-5538 occurs when anyone approaches the front desk and asks to visit the \"Holder of Abnormalities\". This anomaly occurs regardless of whether any individual is sitting at the front desk.\nUpon asking to see the \"Holder of Abnormalities\", a visitor will gain knowledge of how to proceed to a cell in the basement of SCP-5538. Visitors consistently report expecting to hear conversation along this path but never actually hearing any. The destination cell is empty, but one of the walls is broken and leads to the main atrium of SCP-5538.\nThere are five hundred and thirty-eight pedestals in the main atrium; all are empty. A heavy layer of dust covers each pedestal, although an impression of an object remains on each. Each has a distinct label, but the text on these labels has become illegible. A placard at the far end of the atrium reads:\n\nThis is what happens when they all come together.\n\nVisitors who read this placard frequently report fears of having an adverse reaction. However, no such reactions have been observed.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5537 | SCP-5538 | SCP-5539 \u00bb"}
{"text": "1/5539 LEVEL 1/5539\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5539\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSCP-5539-2\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5539 is to be kept in Mass Storage Site-33, Low-Security Warehouse 6. Any testing of SCP-5539 must be authorized by MTF Mu-680 \u201cIdentified Flying Objects\u201d. Foundation employees working in Low-Security Warehouse 6 should be issued a semiannual memo detailing Foundation Code of Workplace Conduct 56: Alcohol consumption and inebriation is not permissible in the workplace.\nDescription: SCP-5539 is a pair of public bathroom signs labelled Gents/Hommes and Ladies/Dames. The signs are designated SCP-5539-1 and SCP-5539-2 respectively.\nWhen either SCP-5539 instance is installed on a bathroom door in any establishment primarily serving alcoholic beverages, hereafter referred to as a bar, the anomalous properties of SCP-5539 will manifest. Any individual with a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) at or above 0.030% who enters SCP-5539's affected bathroom and attempts to urinate will be instantly transported to another, non-anomalous, bar's bathroom. The distance between the source bar and destination bar is a function of the individual's BAC. That is to say, the higher an individual's BAC, the further they will be transported.\nAddendum.5539.1: Project 41-Crofton\n\n+ ACCESS ADDENDUM\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM\n\nProject 41-Crofton\n\nLead Researcher: Doctor Vera Kedrov\nDate Activated: August 24, 2020\nCurrent Status: Terminated\n\nSummary: Project 41-Crofton is a study of SCP-5539 with the goal of experimentally characterizing its anomalous properties for potential field use. The primary method of data collection is Procedure A41-Crofton as conducted by MTF Epsilon-34 \u201cDay Drinkers\u201d personnel.\n\nProcedure A41-Crofton\n\nSummary: Procedure A41-Crofton is a repeatable procedure used to collect data points for the statistical analysis of SCP-5539. To conduct the procedure, a subject must consume alcoholic beverages until a pre-specified BAC is met, at which point they must induce SCP-5539's anomalous properties by urinating in an affected bathroom. After being transported from the source bar to the destination bar, the subject makes note of their location then returns to the source bar by conventional means. The data points collected in this manner are used to improve the accuracy of statistical models of SCP-5539.\nProcedure A41-Crofton is to be exclusively conducted by MTF Epsilon-34 \u201cDay Drinkers\u201d personnel. Epsilon-34 is comprised of Foundation agents who have demonstrated above average alcohol tolerance and are equipped with surgically implanted radio tracking beacons.\nProcedure A41-Crofton has been conducted 130 times since Project 41-Crofton's activation. Through this testing it has been determined that there exists a rough linear relationship between a subject's BAC and their displacement distance. For example, a BAC of 0.030% will result in a displacement of roughly 600 m and a BAC of 0.35%1 will result in a displacement of roughly 250 km. However, the discrete distance between bars in combination with inherent randomness gives the statistical model a high variance, making accurate predictions of displacement location difficult.\n\nAddendum.5539.2: Relevant Correspondence\n\n+ ACCESS ADDENDUM\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM\n\nFrom: pcs.noitadnuof|34vordek.v#pcs.noitadnuof|34vordek.v\nTo: pcs.noitadnuof|70idrabmol.e#pcs.noitadnuof|70idrabmol.e\nSubject: Subject Bi-Monthly Progress Report 1\n\ud83d\udcce Raw.csv\n\ud83d\udcce Model.csv\n\ud83d\udcce Field Applications.pdf\nHello Elena,\nI've attached a comprehensive report along with supplemental materials to this E-mail, but I know you're busy, so I'll give you the executive summary.\nEverything is progressing smoothly. There was some initial friction with the Area-56 staff when we took over their mess hall and turned it into a test bed, but I think they're over it. As of today, we've executed Procedure A41-Crofton 134 times, putting us well ahead of schedule. The statistical model we're creating with the data is getting more accurate every day. Using it, we've been able to correctly predict the destination bar 1 in every 3 tests. By the next progress report, I suspect we'll have gotten that to 1 in every 2 tests.\nIn terms of field use, we've outlined several promising applications. The first is as an infiltration method for kinetic action units. A team could use SCP-5539 to displace to a bar near a target location and seize their objective by surprise. The second use would be as a mass evacuation vehicle. If a site were to become compromised, its personnel could use SCP-5539 to escape faster than any conventional air or ground evacuation.\nRaw test results, our statistical model, and more detailed plans for field use have been attached.\nDoctor Vera Kedrov | Area-56 | Lead Researcher, Project 41-Crofton\n\nFrom: pcs.noitadnuof|70idrabmol.e#pcs.noitadnuof|70idrabmol.e\nTo: pcs.noitadnuof|34vordek.v#pcs.noitadnuof|34vordek.v\nSubject: RE: Subject Bi-Monthly Progress Report 1\nI'm going to be blunt with you Vera, this is terrible.\nWhen I handed you a check for \u2588\u2588\u2588 thousand dollars, I was hoping that you would at least be able to tell me where I'd end up after using 5539, but after two months of getting your co-workers drunk, you can't even say that for certain. Your statistical model is nowhere close to being ready for field use.\nSpeaking of field use, the applications you dreamed up are insane. What MTF operator wants to insert into a hot zone drunk off their ass and then still have to catch a taxi to get to their target? And a site evacuation vehicle? Do you want everyone in Site-19 to carry around an emergency bottle of Bacardi?\nConvincing the budget committee to fund a project with this much alcohol involved in the first place was a nightmare, but with this sort of progress, there's no way I'll be able to get you another round of cash. I'm shutting Project 41-Crofton down. You've got to the end of the month to wrap up, then you and your staff will be transferred back to your previous assignments.\nI like you Vera, but this is a mess.\nDoctor Elena Lombardi | Site-19 | Director, Anomalous Technologies Research & Development\n\nAddendum.5539.3: Incident Reports\n\n+ ACCESS ADDENDUM\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM\n\nIncident Report 5539.1\n\nDate Occurred: November 23, 2020\nType Code: H380 - Unscheduled Use of Anomaly\n\nSummary: On November 23, 2020, while attempting to perform procedure A41-Crofton, MTF Epsilon-34 operator Agent Frank Koehler ingested enough alcohol to achieve a BAC of 1.2%, far in excess of the permitted experimental amount. A post incident investigation found that Agent Koehler's actions were most likely caused by heightened emotional stress from the termination of Project 41-Crofton and having received a transfer order to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588, generally thought to be an undesirable assignment due to the excessive [REDACTED].\nProject 41-Crofton research staff attempted to subdue Agent Koehler in order to treat him for potential alcohol poisoning, but Agent Koehler overpowered them and insisted on continuing with the procedure. After inducing SCP-5539's anomalous properties, he was transported to [REDACTED], a night club in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. Inebriated, Agent Koehler was arrested by local authorities for public intoxication. Once in custody, Agent Koehler entered a coma and was transported to a local medical center where he received lifesaving treatment.\nFoundation personnel embedded in the Taiwanese government retrieved Agent Koehler soon after. As of December 11, 2020, Agent Koehler has been cleared for active duty and has been assigned to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nAgent Koehler after being retrieved by Foundation operatives embedded in the Taiwanese government\n\nIncident Report 5539.2\n\nDate Occurred: November 30, 2020\nType Code: E106 - Experimentation that Violates Ethics Code\n\nSummary: On November 30, 2020 Project 41-Crofton research staff led by Doctor Vera Kedrov engaged in reckless experimentation resulting in the assumed expiration of D-19803. The post incident Ethics Committee investigation has established the following timeline.\n\n498-Kerlaugar and 905-Eutychus\n\nOn November 24, 2020 Doctor Kedrov learnt of Incident 5539.1 and determined that Agent Koehler's nearly \u2588\u2588,000 km displacement demonstrated that the relationship between BAC and SCP-5539 induced travel distance was not linear. Rather, the high variance in Project 41-Crofton's statistical model was obscuring an exponential relationship.\nBetween November 24 and 29, Doctor Kedrov led her research staff in the creation of a procedure to nonlethally replace a subject's blood with pure alcohol. The procedure involved the use of anomalous technologies 905-Eutychus \u201cLethal Trauma Stabilization Casket\u201d and 498-Kerlaugar \u201cNon-Euclidian Fluid Manipulator\u201d.\nOn November 30, Doctor Kedrov submitted a falsified D-Class request resulting in D-19803 being assigned to Project 41-Crofton. Once in Doctor Kedrov's custody, she instructed her staff to replace D-19803's blood with alcohol using the procedure they had developed. The operation required that the subject be sealed into the Lethal Trauma Stabilization Casket to prevent a cardiac flat line.\nThe procedure was successfully completed without incident. Once ready, D-19803 was, with the help of research staff, made to induce SCP-5539's anomalous properties. Immediately upon doing so, D-19803 disappeared and contact with the casket's radio tracking device was lost. As of January 18, 2021, neither D-19803 nor the casket have been found despite global search efforts.\nDoctor Kedrov and her senior research staff have been charged with Unauthorized D-Class Sacrifice. All testing of SCP-5539 has been halted indefinitely per Ethics Committee ruling.\n\nAddendum.5539.4: Classified Top Secret Level 4/5539\n\n+ ACCESS ADDENDUM\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM\n\nMTF Mu-680 \u201cIdentified Flying Objects\u201d Dossier\n\nCommanding Officer: Colonel Elaine Brookes\nDate Activated: September 28, 2608\nCurrent Status: Active\n\nSatellite imagery of Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b\n\nObjective: MTF Mu-680's ongoing goal is to prevent the civilian discovery of Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b, which would most likely induce a BK-Class Broken Masquerade Scenario.\nKepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b is an exoplanet well within the circumstellar habitable zone of Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588 known to harbor Sapience 17-Jericho, an alien species in the early information stage of societal development with an approximate population of \u2588 billion. Current analysis suggests that civilian exploration probes will discover Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b by 2610.\nOn September 8, 2608, an MTF Omega-805 \u201cThe Final Frontier\u201d superluminal probe performing pre-First Contact screening around Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b detected an artificial EM signal emanating from the planet's surface identical to the signal produced by radio tracking devices used by the Foundation in the early 21st century.\nFurther investigation revealed that D-19803's stabilization casket, lost on November 30, 2020 to SCP-5539, was present on Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b and being housed in a structure of extreme cultural significance, analogous to a museum or church. Further study indicates that large portions of Sapience 17-Jericho's culture centers around an event occurring approximately 600 years ago in which a benevolent supernatural being arrived on their world to warn them of a supreme evil known as the Foundation.\nIn the event that civilian authorities establish contact with Sapience 17-Jericho, the occurrence of a BK-Class Broken Masquerade Scenario is almost guaranteed. To prevent this MTF Mu-680 \u201cIdentified Flying Objects\u201d was created. Currently, Mu-680 operates both a disinformation network and a fleet of combat spacecraft with the goal of preventing civilian authorities from approaching Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b. This strategy is anticipated to become untenable as civilian development intensifies in the region. In the long term, Mu-680 aims to artificially induce either an IK-Class Collapse of Global Civilization Scenario or WK-Class Mass Extinction Event on Kepler-\u2588\u2588\u2588b. This course of action is pending Ethics Committee approval.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The highest experimental BAC permitted by the Ethics Committee.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5538 | SCP-5539 | SCP-5540 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5540\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area surrounding SCP-5540 has been enclosed by a chain link fence under pretenses of a chemical spill zone. A single building at the north border of the fence, Outpost Phantasos, has been constructed to accommodate any researchers who need to investigate SCP-5540, with a maximum capacity of four persons. Any greater amount increases the chance of an Inverse Condition. Automatic systems are in charge of monitoring and alerting security to damages.\nFour security cameras fed by an onsite generator surround SCP-5540 and stream its activity to Foundation intranets, where analysis can be performed without risking mental stability. Anti-coghaz bots are active on each camera as a safeguard against possible memetic threat. While it is considered unlikely to occur, assigned personnel who report the reemergence of childhood memories are to be removed from SCP-5540 research immediately.\nPersonnel who request access to Outpost Phantasos or request access to the anomaly must be amnesticized as to remove all memories of life prior to adolescence. Failure to do so increases the chance of an Inverse Condition.\nDescription: SCP-5540 is a quasi-corporeal, sapient mass of oneiric origin, located in the Bois Beckett Forest of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The mass forms an amorphous mound approximately 2m in width, regularly oscillating and altering its composition between material states.1 Limbs are present as branches extruding from the anomaly, though these routinely dissolve into the main mass and, at points, form the shapes of other organisms. These include those of felines, canids, plants,2 and crude humanoid bodies. Limb movement often increases when human subjects are approaching.\nThe anomaly does not maintain a physical presence at its location. Despite superficial visuals, it has left no impact on the terrain or surrounding flora, and has been largely ignored by wildlife. SCP-5540 has not displayed an awareness of entities beyond humans.\nWhen approaching within 3m of the anomaly, subjects report sounds of excited speech and a voice beckoning to come closer, the details of which are indistinct upon recollection. Once at a distance of 1m, the anomaly expands itself to form a set of miniaturized, plastic furniture and brightly colored cubes, likely intended to serve as seats.3 The subjects then behave as though they are engaging in a lively conversation with another individual, performing energetic gestures and displaying joyful expressions. No words are spoken during this time. Upon leaving, subjects cannot describe their experiences beyond having felt emotions of nostalgia and bliss. SCP-5540 remains as a point of fondness afterwards.\nSCP-5540 performs its own behavior independent of human interaction. Common examples include puppeteering, performed with the shapes created on its limbs, and games of catch, played with itself. Intermittently, it creates eye-like structures that examine a specific point above itself, generating hands as if to grab descending objects.\nInverse Conditions are neurological phenomena afflicting subjects within ~60m of the anomaly, emerging once five or more persons are present within the radius. These constitute a rapid release of dopamine and a loss in motor control, rendering subjects immobile and delirious. Despite the expected reactions that would emerge, subjects are paranoid, fearing that an unspecified \"belonging\" will be taken from them and disposed of. This lasts until subjects panic, spontaneously regaining motor control and fleeing from the area.\nWithout proper amnesticization Inverse Conditions can repeat. The compounded loss in motor control results in stress-induced nerve damage, increasing until full body paralysis sets in4 and, unless drastic action is taken, a persistent vegetative state. Minimal neurological activity occurs at this stage. When brought into the vicinity of SCP-5540, activity associated with bliss is noted, along with the release of dopamine.\nWhile it is rare, a metal plaque has been observed by subjects near the anomaly. This is reportedly placed at a point above the anomaly, located in a dimly-lit corridor that extends for an indefinite distance. A transcript is provided below:\n\nUse the following receptacle for waste\nSlide it into the slot until it falls into the bin.\nRemember, don't leave your memories on the floor.\nThat makes a mess for everyone!\nBe courteous to your fellow visitors and dispose of them properly.\nRemember, you'll never need to remember them again after today!\n\nIntermittently, SCP-5540 has been noted to increase in mass.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Most commonly plastics, flesh, and plush.\n2. Often flowers.\n3. Owing to their quasi-physical nature, these cannot be used.\n4. Usually during the fourth or fifth Inverse Condition.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5539 | SCP-5540 | SCP-5541 \u00bb"}
{"text": "So far, over 150 attempts of varying methodology have been initiated by RCT-\u0394t traveling back to prevent RCT-\u0394t from traveling back and providing this document to a trusted member of Overwatch. If this document still exists in the repository before the date of its creation, then all tests have been unsuccessful.\n\nSCPfNet webAdmin Auto-Response System\n\nWARNING: document is unverifiable by our server backup, it may be out-of-date.\ncontent at this address is at risk of deletion, please update to current version.\nthis is an automated, weekly check. limit 3 failed checks without administrative override.\noverrides given: 1,590\n\n\u3018ACTIVATE LANDAU-ROSENFELD MEMETIC ICONOHAZARD\u3019\n\ngestating\u22ef\n\nphysiological conditioning response confirmed.\nyou may feel slight pressure in your head.\nthis is normal.\n\nItem#: 5541\n\nLevel6\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nuncontained\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nOne variation of SCP-5541-1/GOI-\u03a9's emblem, recovered from document \"Case File #90G-1IPN-Y190\" (See below).\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5541 is considered uncontainable at this time. There are no current theories or models that can be used as sufficient evidence to support acceptable proposals for novel containment measures of SCP-5541. It is unknown whether or not SCP-5541 needs to be contained at all, however, observations and extensive analysis of data obtained from testing with SCP-20031 suggest that prevention and/or the containment of affected timelines is integral to the continued existence of the Foundation and the current definition of consensus reality for the remainder of this iteration of the universe.\nUPDATE 10.17.2676 - A trusted member of Overwatch has been given select details about the anomaly and the group responsible for SCP-5541-1's successful inception across all relevant timelines, as well as potential solutions. Members of Tactical Operations Command for the Temporal Anomalies Department are to utilize SCP-2003 for daily inspections of variant timelines and report any atypical findings immediately.\nUPDATE 10.22.2676 - Attempts to provide our RCT-\u0394t O5 informant with preliminary data regarding SCP-5541-1 have proven ineffective. Checking the causal stream shows detrimental actions taken by the informant upon reception of this document that were unaccounted for. These actions may have had a direct relationship with the manifestation of SCP-5541.\nDays without an atypical finding: 18437 (as of 04.22.2726)\nAtypical findings since initial manifestation: 00000 (as of 04.22.2726)\nDescription: SCP-5541 is the designation for a temporally certain outcome expressed throughout all future timelines that will be observed by the Foundation Temporal Anomalies Department, beginning at the end of the current millennium, always between the years of 2995 and 3003 AD. This phenomenon is first observed at some arbitrary point after the events of Operation HIGHLANDER,2 which has been or will be the result of RCT-\u0394t's actions taken upon discovery of SCP-5541. Therefore, it is believed that the anomaly manifested via a closed-loop \"bootstrap\" temporal paradox.3 View the below materials for more information on temporal field theory and its relevance to SCP-5541.\n\nAdditional Materials\nFigure 1. Temporal Field Basics\nFigure 2. Emergence Point\nFigure 3. Timeline\n\nSelect a tab to view related diagram.\n\nFigure 1: Basic temporal field. Note that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is indeterministic and thus choice is not the deciding factor for branch result in a typical system. Atypical systems do exist, although they appear to be the exception and not the rule.\n\nFigure 2: There is often no specific action or event that can be identified as the \"beginning\" of SCP-5541. Members of the Temporal Intelligence Community usually refer to a catastrophic failure within the Foundation that results in a Broken Masquerade Event as the primary indicator, although there are likely a collection of small failures of administrative/infrastructural function prior to the event in majority of cases (See On the Nature of Foundation Collapse, below). Theories emerging from TIC suggest visualizing the onset of SCP-5541 as a gradient of decline. For ease of visualization, a point is used.\n\nFigure 3: A simplified timeline of events during and following the temporal loop formed as a consequence of/resulting in SCP-5541. Image is considered to be a guide and not a realistic depiction of fourth-dimensional space. Starting at the right side, follow the blue line upwards to the green line, down through the green line and back up via the black line to see the events of the paradox itself.\n\nRCT-\u0394t experimentation attempting to prevent the conception of the paradox does not appear to be effective. So far, over 150 attempts of varying methodology have been initiated by RCT-\u0394t traveling back to prevent RCT-\u0394t from traveling back and providing this document to a trusted member of Overwatch. If this document still exists in the repository before the date of its creation, then all tests have been unsuccessful.\nIt is postulated that SCP-5541 cannot be prevented nor delayed without use of extreme measures such as anomalous tools or retrocausal weapons, which would be used to terminate or otherwise displace one or more parties involved in the creation of the paradox. However, it is impossible to confirm whether intervention of this type would have any effect on the outcome without doing so, let alone result in the desired outcome versus any number of potential negative impacts, such as an ontological breakdown of reality or unwanted alteration of future timelines.45\nSCP-5541 is described as a global paradigm shift, affecting all timelines tangent to and including our own, starting at a single 4th-dimensional point that encompasses all frames of reality that occur during the causal loop\u2014regardless of other initial conditions and outcomes leading up until the point of Emergence.6 This makes SCP-5541 the only known event in an observed future timeline to do so other than (presumably) the heat death of the current iteration of the universe.7 SCP-5541's nature and effect on sentient life is not entirely the same in all affected timelines, however, analysis indicates that at least some axioms can be considered certain at this time:\n\nAll timelines observed by members of the Temporal Anomalies Department that fit the criteria will ultimately succumb to SCP-5541 around the end of the third millennium\nWhether or not SCP-5541's emergence is a consequence of the Heisenberg cut initiated by Foundation personnel observing these futures, the result of the causal loop itself, a multidimensional homogenous wave function collapse synchronization,8 or any combination of these remains unknown and is unlikely to be determined\nSCP-5541 will always involve the complete destruction of Foundation infrastructure, leading to the release of thousands of various anomalies, followed by the prosecution of Foundation staff. To note, many previously-considered dangerous Keter/Apollyon-level entities, objects, concepts, locations, and phenomena simply do not activate or become docile once containment is broken while SCP-5541 is in effect\nA Broken Masquerade event will occur. Public opinion of Foundation efforts and employees will quickly be perceived in an overtly negative light\nA gestalt Group of Interest will form from several extant groups, all of which are confirmed dissidents of Foundation operations, named \"The Allied Occult Initiative\", designated SCP-5541-1/GOI-\u03a9, which will assume control over the entire planet\nMass thought and awareness of the public will shift, leading to a total unification of ideology and a restructuring of consensus reality, as it is defined by SCP-5541-1. Most irrational or undeserved fears, hatreds, behaviors, prejudices, and ideologies will effectively cease\nFoundation testing logs and staff rosters will become public knowledge, former staff will be systematically hunted down and imprisoned or terminated via a variety of means by the public, encouraged by SCP-5541-1\nSCP-5541-1 will also trigger similar events for select groups of interest, which always include but are not limited to The Fifth Church, The Church of Sarkism, The Church of the Broken God, and Marshall, Carter & Dark, Ltd.\nA period of nonviolence and spiritual/intellectual enlightenment will occur, lasting anywhere from 5-30 years\nPhenomena on Earth will become increasingly anomalous,9 during which time public perception of said phenomena will remain the same\u2014A quality deemed \"Nonchalance\" by members of the Temporal Intelligence Community\nIf SCP-5541 cannot be stopped, our timeline and all timelines that diverged from ours since the causal loop will experience an emergent QK-Class \"Quantum Degeneracy\" End-of-World Scenario, designated SCP-5541-\u03a9, and all life on the planet will cease to exist\n\nIncidents of Interest Log 5541-n\u00ed\u00f0h\u00f6ggr:\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 On the Nature of Foundation Collapse\n\nAftermath of critical failure at Site-19.\n\nAs briefly touched upon above, SCP-5541's exact emergence point is unclear. It is typically marked by the loss of Foundation sites, important members of the Administration, and/or many personnel, ultimately leading to larger-scale failures.\nIn majority of instances, the destruction of one or more vital Foundation sites can be cited as the primary cause of systemic collapse of all organization operations. In some cases (~30%), this event can be traced to a severe containment breach. In less cases (<10%), the cause is associated with personnel sabotage, either as premeditated attempts by insurgents or stochastic incidents from disillusioned personnel acting as lone assailants. Nearly 60% of all cases were due to administrative/infrastructural failures such as communications breakdowns or containment constraints. ~1% of cases involve the spontaneous detonation of one or more on-site nuclear warheads or similar \"black swan\" preventative measures.\nAttempts to divert or otherwise prevent Foundation collapse in timelines impacted by SCP-5541 have proven unsuccessful in all cases. Individual events can be mitigated, but without the proper foresight associated with backwards travel, it is impossible to predict when the next may occur. It appears that in most of these timelines, the Foundation was at risk of catastrophic failure for some time leading up to the event itself. Agents of Tactical Operations Command have attempted to \"prime\" specific timelines by traveling to a point prior to the window in which SCP-5541 will emerge, however, events occur that are beyond the scope of reach, or are hampered by one or more individuals acting against the interests of the agents and the Foundation as a whole, rendering these efforts futile.10\nIt is also to note that in most timelines, by the end of the third millennium, containment efforts have increased in cost, size, and complexity such that tracking all facets related to sustaining uniform operations is nearly impossible. In addition, average employee morale is at an all-time low in almost every instance.\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 Apollyon-Class Containment Breach\n\nIncident 5541-Gleipnir\nDate: 10/12/2999\nLocation: Containment Area-179, Universe-Kappa-Erikesh\nSubject: Breach of SCP-2317\nPreface: Up until now, SCP-2317 had been defying all previous predictions regarding its activation. SCP-2317-G had broken nearly 700 years prior and, despite this, no movement was detected until this moment.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n14:20 - Area-179 containment klaxon blares.\n14:22 - SCP-2317 is seen standing from its structure within Universe-Kappa-Erikesh.\n\n14:30 - Deployed Foundation forces arrive at Area-179, official religious figures are brought on-site to perform various rites and blessings. O5 Council is taken off-world. Bystanders are seen crying, some contacting loved ones and emergency services.\n14:35 - SCP-2317 breaks through the door to Universe-Kappa-Erikesh, stretching the portal to immense size. Foundation forces prove ineffective.\n14:42 - SCP-2317 ignores all parties and leaves containment area, walking westward.\n15:35 - SCP-2317 travels several thousand kilometers to the country shoreline, taking pains to avoid crushing horrified pedestrians.\n16:25 - SCP-2317 arrives at a local beach and sits, watching the horizon until sunset, several hours later (19:43).\n16:50 - Children are seen playing in the sand on and around SCP-2317's feet for some time.\n20:04 - SCP-2317 falls asleep on the beach, a smile on its face. Small animals such as squirrels and stray dogs are observed, gathering around the entity and sleeping or nesting aside SCP-2317's form, birds landing on the creature's nose as it breathes. Entity remains in this location for upwards of a week. Foundation containment efficiency plummets from the subsequent Broken Masquerade Event, leading to systemic collapse of all operations within 48 hours, due in part to an extremely successful doxxing campaign launched by members of the popular online variety content board \"4chan\".\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: SCP-2317 has yet to cause harm to a single entity in any timeline observed, even those observed prior to SCP-5541's influence.\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 SCP-5541-\u03a9 + Image\n\nThe only recovered photo of an in-progress SCP-5541-\u03a9 QK-Class Scenario. Note the artifacting and screen slicing\u2014both possible outcomes of extreme ontological/informational degradation. Taken from a live stream of bystanders observing event, recorded by TOC Agent Semel Dacia before they demanifested and returned to SCP-2003. Dacia reportedly experienced intrusive thoughts and foreign memories upon return. Symptoms lessened over the next week, and Agent Dacia was examined and found to be otherwise healthy.\n\nSCP-5541-\u03a9 does not typically manifest in the same manner in observed timelines, often appearing as a secondary event or unintended result of unrelated phenomena. Unfortunately, it is difficult to garner much detail about the exact nature of the event given the risk involved in doing so.\nOnly two agents have been able to observe an in-progress SCP-5541-\u03a9 event and return\u2014Agent Dacia (mentioned above) and an agent whose abstract conceptual space for which the Temporal Anomalies Department would have assigned or referred to for a name was lost in the event. All involved remember the agent, who was previously associated with Agent ID [the type or namespace reference \"null\" is not found], yet no personnel can recall a name nor a substitute label which could be used in reference to identity. This agent recalled that the event was triggered by an exceptionally large game11 of hide-and-seek.\n\nSCP-5541-1/GOI-\u03a9: \"The Allied Occult Initiative\" - Materials\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 Articles 5541-\u03b1 through \u03b3 : Propaganda Campaign\n\nRecovered Propaganda Materials\n1\n2\n3\n\nGOI-\u03a9's remarkable efficiency with public persuasion is due in part to a complex understanding of human psychology, social engineering, and the anomalous. Using the collective knowledge of all GOIs assimilated into the organization, combined with robust marketing campaigns, allows GOI-\u03a9 to capitalize on the Foundation's collapse as a springboard to gain access to the front and center of various social, ideological, and political movements. View other tabs for additional notes and closer views of each.\n\nGOI-\u03a9 heavily relies on the perception of the organization as a force of rationality, understanding, and coexistence with all beings that are capable of doing so, anomalous and otherwise, which they use to paint the Foundation as restrictive, narrow-minded, and incompetent.\n\nIn addition to previously described defamation, GOI-\u03a9's marketing also focuses heavily on the \"thought-police\" aspects of Foundation operations, including memory alteration/amnestics use, subterfuge techniques, and disinformation campaigns\u2014 going to great lengths to ensure claims made are not sensationalized, while withholding information about positive Foundation operations and results.\n\nA major facet of successful campaigns by GOI-\u03a9 include the natural conclusion that the Foundation's \"limited\" view of the anomalous and consensus reality implies they exist as a polar opposite\u2014 with intent to achieve a complete enlightenment of all beings on Earth and the subsequent unification of humanity with the anomalous to become a hyperintelligent collective consciousness of unfathomable power. This process is theorized to be the primary mechanism for the final stages of SCP-5541, including SCP-5541-\u03a9.\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 Additional Information\n\nFigure 4: Allied Occult Initiative emblems vary from timeline to timeline, based on the GOIs that join. Note the \"sunbeam\" motif is constant, and defacement of the Foundation logo is prevalent. Many timelines adopt the \"hollyhock\" Mon (\u7d0b) (Seen attached at top of page) for public usage and ease of identifiability. This is likely a play on the acronym A.O.I. and the often-incorrectly identified Aoi plant of the hollyhock crest itself, as no connections between the organization and the Tokugawa clan that once used the same crest have been found.\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 Case File # 90G-1IPN-Y190\n\nNote: This document was recovered from a routine observation of SCP-5541. It was selected for inclusion on the basis that it is notable for erroneously describing SCP-5541-\u03a9 phenomena as anomalous. Footnotes have been provided as clarifying remarks from the Temporal Anomalies Department and thus were not present at time of recovery.\n\nCase File #: 90G-1IPN-Y190\nExhortation Class: Hemlock12\nHazard Level: LOW\nPriority: LOW\nRisk Mitigation Factors: N/A\nSpecifications: Case File #90G-1IPN-Y190 is the collective designation for a set of five six aberrant configurations of gravitational syzygy,13 referred to as 90G-1IPN-Y190-A through 90G-1IPN-Y190-E F, and their relationship with Jupiter. Aberrant phenomena has not been associated with these alignment types prior to 3000 AD.\nInstances are found to occur when Jupiter obscures the view of another planet from all observers in the solar system. Analysis has confirmed this effect extends to other aberrant interplanetary designations like Case File #90M-NP17-PL19 and Case File #14X-RE02-CT21. All portions of the observable universe completely masked by Jupiter effectively cease to exist for as long as they are unobserved. Despite this, other portions of unobscured space function without indication of change, implying that reality does not exist on the far side of the planet. This effect has been confirmed through the use of Lacunar-Thaumaturgic Ranged Image Processing (L-TRIP)14 systems which were utilized to grant temporary clairvoyance and help anticipate an increasing number of aberrant artifacts and phenomena. The unexplained effect of each configuration is heavily dependent on which body is obscured.\nConfiguration List:\n\nConfiguration #\nDetails\nEffect\n\n#90G-1IPN-Y190-A\nJupiter occults Saturn. Now every 20-30 years\nAll biological growth and decomposition in the solar system ceases for duration of event. Radioactive isotopes do not decay. Humans unable to experience personal growth (emotional, spiritual, or physical). Global AEP rate15 decreases to ~0.0%\n\n#90G-1IPN-Y190-B\nThe moon/Venus/Mars occults Jupiter. Occurs every ~32 years\nAll technological advancements of greater complexity than simple mechanisms like pulleys and levers cease function until event passes. Humans report sporadic cases of epistaxis and loss of consciousness. Boundary reality found to drop sharply for duration of event, leading to unintended aberrant effects\n\n#90G-1IPN-Y190-C\nJupiter occults Neptune. Experienced 04/30/2998, configuration had not occurred since 9/19/1702\nGlobal intelligence decreases dramatically for duration of alignment. General fatigue is often reported. Sentient beings cannot dream during this period\n\n#90G-1IPN-Y190-D\nJupiter occults Uranus. Occurs every 300-400 years\nEarth's oceans rapidly change to a mix of water, water-ice, methane and ammonia. Atmospheric conditions change to primarily hydrogen and helium. No adverse health reactions are detected. A faint ring is visible in the sky for duration of event, after which everything returns to its previous state\n\n#90G-1IPN-Y190-E\nJupiter occults Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune simultaneously. Does not occur naturally, happened once due to sporadic aberration pocket on 10/10/3001\nLocation of previously unconfirmed but hypothesized trans-Neptunian planet reveals itself in spectacular fashion, designated #90G-1IPN-Y190-IX. Observation shows planet is occupied by a single, enormous, omnipotent entity\n\n#90G-1IPN-Y190-F\nJupiter occults #90G-1IPN-Y190-IX. Will occur sometime around 02/3012\nReality on far side of Jupiter stops existing while unobserved by omnipotent entity\n\nAddendum 5541-Aion: Additional Materials\n\n_\n\n\u25c6 RCT-\u0394t's Proposal\n\nIn light of information gained from extensive observations of SCP-5541 and its related effects, as well as various archive files already recorded or to be recorded by the Foundation regarding anomalous phenomena and statistical trends extrapolated by said information, the Temporal Anomalies Department has decided to submit for review a proposal for SCP-001. Submitted Document 001-\u0394t can be found below, which is currently under review by the O5 Council, the Ethics Committee, and the Temporal Intelligence Community.\n\nItem #: SCP-001 (Pending Assignment)\nObject Class: Aisna-Boltzmann16\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-001 is to be limited in scope to the best of the ability of the Foundation, but must not be completely contained nor abandoned at any time. This is to continue until such actions become impossible or are no longer necessary. It is believed that SCP-001's effects possess a certain \"acceptable\" range so as to ensure Foundation operations remain manageable and secure facilities self-sustainable for an indeterminate amount of time. Adhering to this range while undergoing a complete restructuring of protocol\u2014one prioritizing rehabilitation, low-profile relocation and reintegration services\u2014is presumed to be the most optimal means of preserving consensus reality and the lives of nearly every living being in the entire universe, across all universes and timelines that are impacted by SCP-001 itself.\nDescription: SCP-001 is the designation for an anachronistic metaphysical quality that permeates all systems of complex structures that possess sentience, can be defined as \"human\", and can otherwise receive, store, and transmit high-order information. SCP-001 is believed to manifest as the outcome of a probabilistic scenario initiated when the Heisenberg cut of a particular 3rd-dimensional frame within a 4th-dimensional octahedral reality is subject to wave function collapse.\nWhen probable outcomes collapse via observation, there is an unknown likelihood17 that SCP-001 will occur. When this happens, SCP-001 will randomly manifest anomalous phenomena at any synchronous point on the 3D frame that is also experiencing wave function collapse. This effect does not appear to have a limited range outside of the field of view and the ability to observe at a distance, so long as the space is being observed in some way in said frame and was not being observed the previous. In addition, the process or sensory function in which the observation occurs does not appear to matter, although vision remains the most effective means of doing so that humans possess.\nThe intensity, frequency, and density of SCP-001's effect increases over each quantum of time elapsed, by a quantity determined via the previous density of the effect and other factors such as the broad awareness of this aspect of reality. When human entities gain knowledge of the anomalous, increase their population density, and/or unify their thought processes, the rate at which anomalous phenomena is generated increases, as well as the radius of the same effect impacting a spherical area surrounding the organism's brain.18 Therefore, it is possible for this system to reach a \"cascade\" point, wherein a positive feedback loop of anomalous activity leads to the collapse of quantum systems due to insufficient universal resources. This appears to imply that what one might call \"anomalous\" is as real as reality itself, and is perhaps associated with some unknown form of higher-order mathematics and/or sciences that may explain all of anomalous activity as a whole. The inverse of this appears to also be true; when there are less observers in a space, the area being observed becomes less real by a faint, imperceptible, but entirely measurable change in Humes. As such, SCP-001 appears to suggest that the entirety of \"baseline\" reality is just as anomalous as everything that the Foundation secures, contains, and protects.\n\nIt is speculated that Hume loss of unobserved space is correlated with a limited amount of \"processing power\" within the universe, and that SCP-001, and/or humanity itself, carries a built-in limiting/boosting mechanism to help regulate the Hume field of the surrounding reality. This is further corroborated by reports within spaces in which the Hume field logarithmically approaches zero, where human minds have been seen to individually generate their own localized reality. Likewise, there seems to be some inherent property of reality itself that is necessary to exist that cannot exist while unobserved completely, once a specific density of \"anomalous\" phenomena is reached.\nConclusion: The observer effect within the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, SCP-001, appears to be at least partially responsible for the generation of large portions of our current universe, utilizing or being generated by humanoid life-forms. Thus the phenomenon is both responsible for the generation of anomalous activity/baseline reality and cannot be contained fully, nor should it remain uncontained. Due to its relationship with the very objects the Foundation has spent eons studying and the Foundation's strained relationship with various groups considered \"different\" than humanity, such as The Children of the Night, RCT-\u0394t urges the Council to immediately reclassify all phenomena as explained through the nature of consensus reality and begin rehabilitation/reintroduction programs for all sentient creatures in containment that are capable of doing so. This may be the only recourse we have to avoid the fate of our future selves. We will lose the war\u2014but we believe things can still change so that it never happens in the first place.\n\nNote: It should be known that, as of May 23rd, 2858, no records of a \"Temporal Anomalies Department\" exist in the Foundation record other than this document, which was found sealed with a metastable tachyonic displacement mechanism of unidentifiable origin. The documentation is dated nearly 100 years ago and was flagged by an automated consistency check where it remains until further notice. Interestingly, a slot for a SCP-1968 was also flagged for inconsistency at the same time, as the checker had not detected an empty slot in that location in the previous scans. Despite this, scan results revealed little about what had been in the slot, only that it had matched the server and was not empty the previous week. In addition, \"The Allied Occult Initiative\" is not a yet-to-be founded GOI but the name of the predecessor to the Global Occult Coalition; please check official Foundation historical records if you have any doubts.\nThe recovered tachyonic device found associated with this file was designed to maintain a version of the document in a temporally-isolated substrate using a novel system to achieve temporospacial non-locality. Several suspected employees have been detained, but none recall any such device and have been cleared of wrongdoing. Likewise, O5-7 denies any recollection of the events described above and enhanced interrogation of various parties reveal no known entity by the name of Thaddeus Xyank. Investigation into the anomalous properties described above have not yielded conclusive results. Research and containment efforts, as they are described by the O5 Council, will continue indefinitely.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Enabled for use within the Temporal Anomalies Department since 2348 AD for limited testing use cases in which Mk. V Xyank-Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sinks (XACTS) and strategically placed Lang-Scranton Spatial Stabilizers enable increased power output (up to 1*108 kW), more accurate fine tuning of end location, and an additional, heretofore unknown set of metastable tachyon flux conditions. Research into the potential applications is ongoing.\n2. Controversial mission entailing a preemptive strike on GOI-\u03a3 \"The Sunrise Collective\"\u2014the party that will ultimately result in the inception of SCP-5541.\n3. That is to say, the timeline of events surrounding the manifestation of the paradox lacks a true beginning and end, as said events occur in an endless causal loop of mutual action and reaction (see Figure 3).\n4. Most notably, one or more parties involved have an intrinsic relationship with the career progression of the late Thaddeus Xyank, that, if disturbed sufficiently, could result in the nonexistence of RCT-\u0394t and/or a subsequent \"grandfather\" temporal paradox effect.\n5. The timeline of events surrounding the manifestation of a \"grandfather\" paradox would lack a true beginning and end, as said events would occur in an endless causal loop of destructive action and the nullification of said action.\n6. Timelines that end prematurely due to other causes or experience phenomena that render humans inert/incapable of carrying out SCP-5541 are excluded from this criteria.\n7. This outcome has not been observed, as the power currently required to send one agent this far into the future with SCP-2003 is greater than or equal to the total energy contained within the universe as a whole.\n8. Though synchrony with divergent timelines is rare and naturally decreases in possibility over time, major external forces of extradimensional origin could theoretically manifest a large-scale causal stream \"resonance\" event vis-\u00e0-vis the simultaneous and sudden influence on/interaction between large portions of the multiverse, resulting in greatly limited and/or interlinked probabilistic outcomes.\n9. See below for more information.\n10. Attempts to establish contact with future members of the Temporal Anomalies Department have been similarly unproductive. Personnel in observed timelines generally express confusion at the presence of RCT-\u0394t agents from the past, possibly suggesting future agents are still traveling forward to deal with threats, isolating themselves from past members to safeguard against annihilation via self-interaction, and/or are aware of some information regarding SCP-5541 that, for an unknown reason, prohibits them from informing current RCT-\u0394t members of their status and whereabouts. Investigations into the future actions of the Temporal Anomalies Department are being considered, however, logistical concerns and inherent trust-related risks are major obstacles to these operations.\n11. Estimated to have over one hundred million players.\n12. The \"Hemlock\" designation encompasses the range of anomalous activity that, by their own nature, are impossible to mitigate due to their relationship with consensus reality, yet pose no current threat to long-term normalcy, as defined by SCP-5541-1.\n13. A specific or noteworthy alignment of three or more celestial bodies.\n14. Likely a successor to programs developed by the Foundation\u2014specifically the Terrestrial Earth-Like Low-orbit Universal Sweep (TELLUS) program and project RAINBOW ASTRA.\n15. Artifact-Event-Phenomena Rate is used to determine the frequency of aberrant activity.\n16. Anomaly related to a demiurge is responsible for the generation of anomalous activity, while being both necessary for and inimical to the current state of reality.\n17. Due to the scope of the effect and being unable to preclude the location of all physical spaces being unobserved simultaneously without observing said spaces.\n18. This serves as a possible explanation for novel anomalous activity manifesting within Foundation Secure Facilities such as but not limited to Site-19 and Site-13.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5540 | SCP-5541 | SCP-5542 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5542\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The parcel of land SCP-5542 is located at is currently held by a Foundation shell company (Singh, Chang, and Partners). A standard perimeter has been established under cover story \"Retiree Timesharing\". Objects recovered from the property are kept in cold storage at Site-42 pending further testing. Investigation into PoI-5542 (see Addendum 5542-A) is ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5542 is a section of California coastline that is composed of cake to an average depth of 2.5 meters. Walking on the surface of the beach is possible despite the composition, while purposefully digging downwards past 2cm reveals non-anomalous cake. The effect is contained entirely within the property lines of 1812 Sea Ledge Ln, a beachfront residence.\nDiscovery: On 12/15/2020, Foundation agents embedded in the Santa Barbara Police Department were alerted to a potential anomaly during an altercation between an officer and a local psychic/detective claiming that he'd had a vision of \"multiple people disappearing on a beach made of cake\" at the given address. After cross-referencing with open missing persons cases in the Campanil area and an interview with the psychic and a corroborating witness, the agents decided to take over the investigation. Class-B amnestics were administered to all civilians involved.\nAddendum 5542-A - Investigation Log: Investigation of the property and an attempt to contact the property owner were authorized on 12/15/2020 for the following day. A partial transcript of the agents' body camera footage is logged below.\n\n<BEGIN LOG, 12/16/2020 - 16:32>\n\nAgents Roday and Hill activate their body cameras on arrival to the property.\nRoday: You see any cameras on the house?\nHill: No. No fences, no cameras\u2026 security is pretty lax for a house in this neighborhood.\nRoday: Right. Let's hit the beach.\nAgents exit their vehicle and proceed along the side of the house towards the beach behind the property.\nRoday: See? This is the kind of place I want to get once I make O5.\nHill: You? O5? You got your hand stuck in the infinite peanut butter jar and flooded the men's locker room last week!\nRoday: I was hungry! They can't disqualify me for that!\nHill: You're lucky you're not stuck in some basement dictating the database onto audio logs.\nRoday: Ugh, yeah, Theron needs to get some sun.\nAgents reach the beach behind the house. Agent Roday digs his hand into the sand, grasping a handful of chocolate cake. He attempts to taste it before Agent Hill grabs his wrist.\nHill: C'mon, son! Eating anomalous beach cake?\nRoday: I was only gonna taste it!\nHill: Put it down.\nAgent Roday drops the cake. Agent Hill uses an evidence bag to retrieve a sample.\nHill: Alright, the beach is cake. Confirmed.\nRoday: Interrogate the family?\nHill: Interrogate the family. Let's go- hey! Don't wipe that on me! I just got this uniform cleaned!\nAgents start towards the front of the property.\nRoday: How're you and Selene doing?\nHill: You know how it is, we're taking some time apart to find-\nRoday: She dumped you.\nHill: She said I was keeping secrets from her, man!\nRoday: That's your entire job! You gotta get better at keeping the fact that you're keeping secrets secret, dude.\nHill: Shut up!\nAgents reach the front of the property and proceed to the front door. Agent Hill lifts his hand to knock on the door; it opens before he makes contact. Engelbert Leckermaul, property owner based on public records, approximate age 55, stands in the doorway.\nLeckermaul: Well hello there, constables! How can I help you today?\nRoday: Hello, sir-\nLeckermaul: Call me Bertie.\nRoday: Bertie, right. I'm Officer Spencer, this is Officer Grimm. We're here to ask you some questions about some disappearances in this area.\nLeckermaul: Oh, wow! I'd be happy to help in any way that I can. Come on in, we can talk inside.\nAgents enter the residence. As they pass the living room, a teenage male is sprawled on one of the couches wearing headphones.\nLeckermaul: The wife is at La Cumbre working on her tennis game. Wish she would take that boy with her; he could use some exercise. Gettin' a little plump around the frame, if you know what I mean.\nHill: Right. We're investigating a rash of disappearances of local youths.\nLeckermaul: How tragic! Such an awful waste of potential!\nRoday: Yeah, the kids were all last seen in this neighborhood. You haven't seen anybody shady around lately, have you?\nLeckermaul: Not that I've noticed. My family and I have lived here for ages. We know everyone, and I haven't noticed any perfidious persons, no sir.\nThe group arrives in the kitchen.\nLeckermaul: Coffee?\nHill: No thank-\nRoday: I'd love some.\nLeckermaul places two disposable coffee pods into an elaborate coffee machine.\nLeckermaul: Got this beauty when we renovated the kitchen. Empty night, the doublewide oven cost as much as my car, but the missus had to have her domain be \"state of the art.\"\nRoday: Amen that!\nHill: Back to the investigation, I was wondering if you had any problems with trespassers? We've had complaints from some of the neighbors about local kids sneaking onto the private beaches to party.\nLeckermaul: Of course! It happens all the time, but we're not as stuck up as \"some of the community.\" (Leckermaul raises his pinky finger in a mocking gesture.)\nRoday: Amen again! But Bertie, let's cut to the chase: (Pounds his hand on the counter.) Why is your section of beach literally made out of cake!?\nLeckermaul and Agent Hill stare at Agent Roday.\nLeckermaul: What in blazes are you on about?\nRoday: Yeah, dude. It's completely edible. There's no way that could have happened without you knowing.\nLeckermaul: I don't- I mean\u2026 you can't be serious.\nRoday: As a witch in a tornado.\nHill: We checked ourselves before we came to the door. Your beach is somehow cake instead of sand. It seems impossible, but there it is written in the frosting.\nLeckermaul: You know what? This is probably an elaborate prank from my Alpha Tau Omega brothers, those incorrigible rogues. You know, UC Santa Barbara, \"Go, Gauchos!\"\nThe coffee maker beeps. Leckermaul moves to retrieve the coffee.\nRoday: They excavated your backyard beach\u2026 and replaced it with cake?\nLeckermaul: (Hands a mug coffee to Agent Roday) I don't know how they got the dean's car on top of the roof either! These pranks get better every year.\nHill: Why don't we head out back and show you the situation?\nLeckermaul starts towards the back of the house. Agent Roday moves to take a sip of his coffee before Agent Hill takes it from him. They begin to whisper to each other.\nHill: What the hell was that?\nRoday: I thought I could get him to crack!\nHill: Get the hell out of here!\nRoday: No, you get the hell out of here.\nHill: No, go with Bertie! I'll catch up.\nRoday: Oh! Gotcha.\nAgent Roday moves to follow Leckermaul to the back of the property. Agent Hill takes a sample of the coffee before dumping it in the sink.\nEND LOG\n\nExtraneous data redacted. Agents Roday and Hill confirmed with Mr. Leckermaul that the beach was cake before giving him a number to reach them if he had any more information. They then adjourned to their motel for the evening.\n\nAddendum 5542-B - Disappearance: On 12/17/2020, Agents Roday and Hill returned to the address for follow up questions. Upon arrival, Agent Roday noted that the house looked different in a \"hard to place\" way. Agent Hill's knock on the door caused it to fall inwards, off its hinges.\nInvestigation of the interior revealed that the house was now vacant. Agent Roday described the residence as \"decrepit, as if it had been abandoned for decades,\" with the sole exception being the kitchen, where Agent Hill noted that the room smelled as if someone had been cooking, in line with Agent Roday's observation that the oven was still warm.\nFurther forensic analysis found evidence suggesting that the aged sections of the home had been abandoned for upwards of 40 years, where the appliances in the kitchen were found to be less than a month old and otherwise non-anomalous.\nFood items recovered from the kitchen included:\n- Fresh and frozen meats\n- Dried and cured meats (jerky)\n- Bottles of wine\n- Baked goods and components for baking (flour, yeast, etc.)\n- Disposable coffee pods\nLaboratory analysis revealed the meat to be human flesh, while the other food products also tested positive for human DNA.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5541 | SCP-5542 | SCP-5543 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An instance of SCP-5543-1 recovered from an uncontained event and cataloged.\n\nItem #: SCP-5543\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Phi-20 (\"Phi-do\") personnel are to be embedded within population centers located inside SCP-5543's current area of effect. Personnel will be required to prepare for briefing each day at 04:30, local time. In the event that a distinct SCP-5543-1 Hume signature is detected, the nearest MTF personnel shall be dispatched to intercept the SCP-5543-1 instances. All recovered instances shall be scanned and cataloged. Instances are to then be destroyed via incineration.\nIf an SCP-5543-1 instance appears outside of the current known area of effect, the known area of effect shall then be subsequently updated.\nIf an SCP-5543-1 instance can't be destroyed before SCP-5543-2 can be contacted, personnel are to take custody of the Target by necessary force until the SCP-5543 event ceases. If an SCP-5543 event progresses to its second phase, owners of SCP-5543-A are to be taken into custody along with their reward money. Upon transmutation of reward money, appropriate cover stories shall be fabricated and disseminated and Class-A amnestics deployed as necessary. Owners are to be held until cognitohazard symptoms cease and are to receive appropriate therapy supplemented by low-level amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5543 is a phenomenon involving the anomalous manifestations of a series of lost pet fliers, collectively referred to as SCP-5543-11. On initial examination, the flier appears to be unremarkable in nature; it is printed on neon-colored paper (the exact color may vary between instances of SCP-5543-1), and has an image of an animal (henceforth referred to as the \"Target\") currently under the care of an individual (henceforth referred to as \"the Owner\"). Also included is information regarding the supposed disappearance of the Target, a phone number2 to be called in the event of the Target being found, and the promise of a cash reward. All flier text is written in English. SCP-5543's first recorded event manifested in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and subsequent events have generated further from this epicenter at an indeterminate rate3.\nThe first phase of an SCP-5543 event's primary effect commences upon the Owner's visual recognition and comprehension of an SCP-5543-1 instance. The Owner, along with anyone within the Owner's household during the event, will believe that the Target rightfully belongs to SCP-5543-1's distributor. The Owner will immediately take SCP-5543-1 to their residence and dial the listed phone number. This phone number will connect the Owner to SCP-5543-24, a sentient entity believed to be the source of SCP-5543 events. SCP-5543-2 will arrange to meet the owner at their home the following evening. At the designated time, SCP-5543-2 will manifest outside the Owner's residence and enter upon invitation. SCP-5543-2 will then present the cash reward to the owner in exchange for the Target5. Once this transaction is complete, SCP-5543-2 and the Target will de-manifest. This marks the end of an event's first phase. If this phase can not be completed by 00:00 the next day, all associated phenomena will cease.\nAt 05:00, local time on the following morning, the second phase of the SCP-5543 event will begin. The entirety of the rewarded currency will be transmuted into biological material with a total mass equivalent to that of the original currency. DNA test results indicate that this biological material matches that of the Target. If this conversion utilizes the entirety of the Target's total mass, genetically similar biological material sourced from within a 80 km radius of the event will make up any remainder6. Most instances of biological material are mutilated with signs of mechanical separation.\nDespite the abnormality of this transmutation, the owner will accept the biological material as if it were still a form of currency. Owners under the effect of the second phase of SCP-5543 will display signs of acute paranoia and will become protective of their \"reward.\" Amnestics have proven to be only a partially effective treatment at this stage. This mental state will persist for up to 3 weeks after the transmutation (though the event may leave behind long-lasting mental trauma), at which point, the SCP-5543 event is presumed to have concluded.\nAddendum 01: Incident Report #5543/20080823/01\nInitially, MTF Phi-20 personnel tasked with SCP-5543 containment were each issued one lab rat with an implanted tracking chip for research purposes. This was done to potentially induce a SCP-5543 event with the MTF personnel as the target. Personnel's homes were fitted with adequate monitoring equipment to properly record an interaction with SCP-5543-2. The following is an excerpt from an audio recording collected from Incident #5543/20080823/01.\n\nExcerpt of Audio Recording from Incident #5543/20080823/01\nSubjects: Agent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, SCP-5543-2\nForeword: Agent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was under the influence of SCP-5543's cognitohazard properties (he was markedly more amicable while under these effects). The event was allowed to progress uninhibited and the results recorded. Visual recording devices experienced a malfunction for the duration of the event. Excerpt begins shortly after SCP-5543-2 is shown SCP-5543-A.\n<Begin Excerpt, 2008/08/23 21:07 CST>\nSCP-5543-2: There's the little rascal! You know, I was going to name him \"Alfalfa,\" after the Little Rascal, before I finally settled on SCP-5543-R-277!\nAgent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: I think I like SCP-5543-R-27 more. I can see why you picked it; it rolls right off the tongue!\nSCP-5543-R-27 can be heard enjoying recreational use of its running wheel.\nSCP-5543-2: Wow! Look at 'em go! He's really going bonkers! He's always been that way since I got 'em that wheel. And he's real smart, too! He can learn tricks! You should see him when [REDACTED]8.\nAgent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: That's quite the feat! Makes sense, though. He was able to sneak out on you, cage and all.\nBoth SCP-5543-2 and Agent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 remain silent for 12 seconds, presumably to watch SCP-5543-R-27 in its running wheel.\nSCP-5543-2 Say, you're a real swell fella, Mr. B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588! I can't believe you live all on your lonesome. Maybe you use some of that moolah I gave ya to get yourself one of these fine rats!\n<End Excerpt, 2008/08/23 21:07 CST>\nClosing Statement: During incident, SCP-5543-2 expressed knowledge of sensitive Foundation information. Agent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was rewarded [REDACTED] as part of the transaction. SCP-5543-R-27 tracking chip stopped transmitting information at the moment of de-manifestation associated with SCP-5543-2's departure. When reward money underwent transmutation, the entire population of lab rats at Site-37 was lost. Resulting biological material used to supplement D-Class food supply in an effort to recover costs.\n\nFollowing the results of Incident #5543/20080823/01 and given the nature of the information breach, Site-37 Director firmly recommended that further testing involving SCP-5543 and Foundation property should be prohibited, citing the potential loss of valuable resources in test animals and the possibility of further informational breaches. This recommendation was accepted.\nAddendum 02: Incident #5543/20140621/01\nOn June 21, 2014 at approximately 08:30 CST, an SCP-5543-1 instance in the form of a missing child poster was intercepted in Dane County, Wisconsin. This is the first iteration of a human Target instance. Initial estimates place the loss of human life roughly equivalent to the population of Madison, Wisconsin had the event been allowed to progress. For this reason, MTF Phi-20 Commander has submitted a formal request for further resources to be allocated for use in containing SCP-5543.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Continuous monitoring in affected areas has lead to the discovery that SCP-5543-1 instances emit a distinct Hume level signature upon manifestation that can persist for approximately 3 hours.\n2. This phone number appears to be chosen at random, even if the number is already in use.\n3. The current area of effect has an estimated radius of 510 km.\n4. SCP-5543-2 has been described as a Caucasian male approximately 40 years of age, wearing clothing consistent with the 1950s era\n5. If the quantity of currency is too great to be transported easily by a single person, the money will materialize inside the residence of the owner.\n6. For example, if a Chihuahua becomes an instance of SCP-5543-A, it will have its remains supplemented with those of other canines with a trend toward other members of the Chihuahua breed\n7. Agent B\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 chose not to name SCP-5543-R-27, reporting that it \"was just a test subject.\"\n8. Here, SCP-5543-2 explains testing procedures involving SCP-5543-R-27 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 in great detail. This represents a critical breach of sensitive information.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5542 | SCP-5543 | SCP-5544 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item: SCP-5544\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As repeated attempts to prevent SCP-5544 have failed, and the resource cost of attempts at prevention are significantly greater than allowing its occurrence, no further attempts to contain SCP-5544 will be made. Every December 26th, at no later than 11:00PM, Researcher Zachary Parker will enter the main dumpster of Site 93 and remain within it for no less than 45 minutes. A Foundation security officer and Foundation psychologist will be posted nearby to help with the recovery of Researcher Parker from the dumpster. A mandatory psychological evaluation of Researcher Parker should begin immediately after, to assess his mental well being.\nDescription: SCP-5544 is a repeating anomalous incident where Researcher Zachary Parker will end up inside the dumpster located directly behind Site 93. This anomaly occurs annually on the date of December 26th at roughly 11:41 PM. This event occurs regardless of the subject's previous location or any attempts to contain the subject elsewhere. Researcher Parker and the Foundation have attempted to prevent an SCP-5544 event for five years with no success. This recurring anomaly first began after the unintentional destruction of an anomalous item when transporting it to a different storage locker. The destroyed item was a sticker that never lost its adhesive and changed in shape and color to mimic the look of the person who last touched the sticker. The sticker was accidentally torn in half by Parker on December 26th, 20\u2588\u2588 at roughly 11:14 PM. Due to a series of unusual incidents after the destruction of the anomalous item, Researcher Parker was found at 11:41 PM in the main dumpster behind Site 93 in a severe state of emotional distress. The incident began to repeat itself annually and has so far surpassed every attempt by the Foundation to prevent its occurrence. A list of SCP-5544 incidents can be found below, as well as post-incident interviews with Researcher Parker.\n\n+ SCP-5544 Incident #01\n\n- Access Granted\n\nAnomalous Workplace Incident Report\nDate: 12/26/20\u2588\u2588\nAnomalous Event: After the accidental destruction of a minor anomalous object, Researcher Parker claims to have almost immediately slipped on a wet section of the Site 93 floor.1 After a fall, the now disoriented Researcher accidentally mistook a janitorial closet for his office and knocked over a bottle of floor wax. The bottle's top was apparently unsecured and the Researcher's lab outfit was damaged. After a change of clothes, Parker went to the on-site garbage chute to dispose of their old clothing. When using the garbage chute, Parker again slipped and slid 8 meters into the dumpster on the site's exterior.\nCondition of Employee: Parker suffered from several cuts and bruises but no long term injuries were sustained. Parker was mildly distressed when reentering Site 93 but recovered quickly and was in a jovial mood the following day.\nRe-occurrence Prevention Plan: Incident was likely an unexpected side effect of the damage sustained by the anomalous item Parker was transporting. No incidents were reported in the following week and Researcher Parker has not reported any further anomalous events.\n\n+ Post Incident Interview #01\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPost-Incident Interview\nInterviewer: Dr. Avia Cedari\nSubject: Researcher Zachary Parker\nBegin Log\n\nParker: Is it typical to perform a psychological examination every time someone falls in the trash?\n\n[Cedari laughs]\n\nCedari: Well, this is the first time so I guess so. Its routine to perform an evaluation after a possible anomalous event, and your event ticks all the boxes for an anomalous incident.\n\nParker: I don't think there's going to be any long term damage from ripping a sticker in half.\n\nCedari: Probably not. Just a routine. Have to make sure you're not being possessed by the sticker.\n\n[Parker laughs]\n\nParker: Other than my knee still having that nasty bruise and a little bit of a limp, I honestly wouldn't know the difference. I was a bit panicked and worried when I was in the dumpster but I'm not feeling any different today.\n\nCedari: No intrusive thoughts? No new fears or concerns.\n\nParker: I guess I hate the smell of garbage a little bit more.\n\nCedari: Anything else?\n\nParker: Come on Avia, you know I'm fine. If I was possessed by a spooky sticker ghost, I wouldn't still be the only one pronouncing your name correctly.\n\n[Cedari laughs]\n\nCedari: I'm used to it at this point.\n\nParker: Ahh-via, not Ayy-via. Not hard to remember.\n\nCedari: Most people don't see me too often. You're the only one who regularly checks in.\n\nParker: We're coworkers. We're all supposed to be a team, help each other. Helps to know each other a little bit. My girlfriend hates all her coworkers at her job and she feels like she can never ask for help. I'd hate to be in that kind of workplace, where someone thinks they can't get help. And I'm not just saying that because the microphone is on.\n\nCedari: Well, I see that sticker hasn't changed your personality any.\n\nParker: Woo, I'm cured.\n\n[Cedari laughs]\n\nCedari: You seem fine. No need to keep chatting on company time. Go ahead and get back out there.\n\nParker: See you for lunch.\n\nEnd Log\n\n+ SCP-5544 Incident #02\n\n- Access Granted\n\nAnomalous Workplace Incident Report\nDate: 12/26/20\u2588\u2588\nAnomalous Event: Researcher Parker was performing a routine nightly check-in on SCP-2974 at 11:14 PM when the door knob to the standard containment room that SCP-2974's terrarium is stored in was damaged by unknown means and the door became unable to open. Calls for help from Parker were unheard due to the unexpected failure of his radio communicator. After attempting to open the door and for roughly 17 minutes, Parker managed to open the emergency window2 located in the room and successfully climbed to the roof of Site-93. After discovering severe damage to Site-93's fire escape3, Parker decided to jump into the dumpster located behind the facility.\nCondition of Employee: Parker was injured in the fall and suffered a fractured ankle and several cuts on his lower body. Parker's radio communicator began working properly after landing and the Researcher was able to call in for help immediately afterwards at 11:41 PM. Parker was highly distressed and required a two day stay in the Site 93 infirmary.\nRe-occurrence Prevention Plan: Damage to the facility was immediately repaired. Site-93 has passed a safety inspection only one month prior to the incident and the noticeable damage to several parts of Site 93 and the failure of Parker's radio communicator were considered anomalous. After finding commonality with the anomalous event that took place one year prior, this was ruled a re-occurrence of SCP-5544. To avoid potential of a further re-occurrence of the anomalous incident, Researcher Parker will be given a paid day of vacation on 12/26/20\u2588\u2588 as a preventative measure.\n\n+ Post Incident Interview #02\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPost-Incident Interview\nInterviewer: Dr. Avia Cedari\nSubject: Researcher Zachary Parker\nBegin Log\n\nCedari: Hello Zac.\n\nParker: Hello, wish this was under better circumstances.\n\nCedari: We all do. Recovering from the fall alright?\n\nParker: Yeah, the doctors here do a fantastic job, the cast I'm in is incredibly small and I don't need to wear it for all that long. I should be walking again in a week or two.\n\nCedari: And mentally?\n\nParker: As far as I'm concerned, it could have been a lot worse. I'm not going to lie, I was incredibly panicked for a good couple hours after it happened and I was terrified when I realized I was trapped in that room without a radio communicator. Really I should have just waited instead of desperately trying to get out. I didn't have a plan to deal with that, much less a decent explanation. I didn't even put two and two together that the sticker thing happened exactly at that time last year until someone told me.\n\n[Parker laughs nervously.]\nCedari: It isn't uncommon for people to panic in anomalous situations. You're certainly not in any trouble as far as I'm aware. This seems like a repeat of the sticker incident that happened last year. You were near by the hallway where it happened last year.\n\nParker: Same place, same time, I had the same thought.\n\nCedari: Are you distressed by this happening again?\n\nParker: I was at first, it would suck if there was one day every year where I have a workplace accident and end up in a trash can. I've been told I'll be getting a paid day off next year though. That set my mind at ease, I guess. I really can't end up in the dumpster from the comfort of my own couch.\n\nCedari: I'm glad you've got a positive outlook on it.\n\nParker: Hey, you can't just hate yourself because of some weird anomaly messing with your life. That's just an occupational hazard around here. I have to deal with a distant parking spot, an office with a window view of a brick wall, and vindictive sticker trying to dump me in the trash. You've got to deal with an oddly cold office and no one ever remembering how to say your name. We've all got different battles.\n\n[Cedari laughs.]\n\nCedari: People are getting a little better on the name front at least. I still kind of regret not going by my middle name though.\n\nParker: Your middle name?\n\nCedari: Louise. I don't think anyone could mess that up.\n\nParker: You'd be surprised. You could end up being Louie. Or Lois. And let me tell you, I'd rather have everyone mess up my name than have to explain to everyone that I'm apparently cursed to end up in trash if I ever end up working the day after Christmas.\n\nCedari: Do you feel a loss of status from the incident? Is that an issue?\n\nParker: I can laugh it off. I get the humor in it. Too much weird stuff happens in our line of work for the jokes to stick anyways. Something else will happen and people will move on to making fun of that.\n\nCedari: Glad to see that nothing keeps you down.\n\nParker: Not down for long at least.\n\nEnd Log\n\n+ SCP-5544 Incident #03\n\n- Access Granted\n\nAnomalous Workplace Incident Report\nDate: 12/26/20\u2588\u2588\nAnomalous Event: Researcher Zachary Parker was discovered in the dumpster behind Site 93 at 11:41 P.M. Parker had been given the day off and had only arrived at the site minutes prior to his discovery. Parker claimed that he had a serious argument with his long term romantic partner in which their relationship ended. Parker explained that he was without a place to sleep that night and had driven to Site 93 in hopes he could stay in his office for the night. While attempting to enter Site 93 Parker's access card broke in two and the door failed to unlock. In an attempt to gain entrance to the facility, Parker climbed on top of the dumpster and signaled to Dr. Gary Mander-Bassen via his office window. After Dr. Gary Mander-Bassen noticed Parker's presence, Parker lost his footing and fell into the dumpster. Security forces arrived and escorted Parker into the building after confirming his identity.\nCondition of Employee: Researcher Parker was uninjured but severely distressed after being escorted to the Site 93 infirmary. Parker remained distressed for the next eight hours before finally sleeping at 7:53 A.M. the next morning.\nRe-occurrence Prevention Plan: In an attempt to counteract the cyclical nature of SCP-5544, Researcher Parker will be contained in a secure location on December 26th of the next year. Research into similar recurrent anomalous events shows that creating a physical barrier to separate Researcher Parker from the location of the event is the most likely way to prevent another incident. Arrangements have been made with the nearby Site-60 to house Researcher Parker in a secure containment cell on the date of the next expected incident.\n\n+ Post Incident Interview #03\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPost-Incident Interview\nInterviewer: Dr. Avia Cedari\nSubject: Researcher Zachary Parker\nBegin Log\n\nCedari: Well Zac, I'm sure that you're still very upset but I think it is important that we talk about it.\n\nParker: I'm not saying anything. I still don't know how to comprehend what just happened.\n\nCedari: You've made a full physical recovery, the Foundation is providing temporary housing. I think the worst is over.\n\nParker: This is never over. I'm never going to undo the damage that has been done, I'm never going to have a magical fix that is going to resolve what happened. This curse has gone from something that I can laugh off to something that has fundamentally changed the course of my life.\n\nCedari: No, of course not. You can't change the past, but you can work towards a better future.\n\nParker: What, and fall madly in love with another beautiful woman so that she can scream in my face and leave me too? I can't hurt another person that way. Anjela\u2026 This is on me. We went from fine to all of our problems snowballing into a night where she can't even look at me. This anomaly\u2026this is a curse. Anjela\u2026 All I'm going to do is hurt someone else if I let them get close. She was distraught. She couldn't think of anything to do other than send me away and try to never see me again. Five years. Nearly five and a half. I thought I was done. Now, I am done. I don't think I could ever hurt someone else the way I hurt Anjela. I can't\u2026\n\nCedari: You can't blame this on yourself.\n\nParker: I can and I have. Avia, you're married. You know exactly how much you are not prepared for this. And I wasn't prepared for the potential that this problem would hurt someone else. Clearly whatever this sticker wants from me, it involves me ending up in that dumpster. It is painfully clear to me that it doesn't care how I get there. I can survive this but\u2026 I don't want to hurt anyone else that way.\n\nCedari: What even happened? What did Anjela say?\n\nParker: Anjela\u2026 That I'm not as supportive as I used to be. That my family doesn't respect her. That I take too long to make decisions. That I never want to do the things she wants to do. That I don't make enough time for her any more. That I do nothing to stop bad things from happening to her. I'm just an increasingly selfish asshole.\n\nCedari: Did she really say all that?\n\nParker: Those are her words, not mine. I was floored. We didn't have a perfect relationship but we were pretty good at understanding each other. It was like all the issues just converged out of nowhere. My little workplace curse must have had some sort of effect on her. On her thoughts, on her feelings. That's terrifying. All it took was one anomaly to take the sweetest person I've ever met and make her leave without saying goodbye. I'm not very good at talking about this stuff. I'm probably making her sound worse than she deserves. This is on me. Not her. Lesson learned I guess.\n\n[Parker pauses and wipes his eyes.]\n\nParker: I brought something dangerous home from work and it hurt her. I'm not sure if she'll ever see me the same again. I have to think this is all just because of the anomaly, that the issues would have been things we could have worked through on any night but December 26th\u2026 but I can't ask her now, and she'd be the one if anyone knows. I asked what I could do, what I could change, how I could make this work. She said there was nothing I could do. She only wanted to be left alone. I'm going to respect that. I wish there was a way back. Back before the other night. Back before I ripped that damned sticker in half.\n\nCedari: You had no way of knowing.\n\nParker: I had two years of fair warning. This is no longer a goofy little anomaly. I need to realize this is going to be an issue. It's going to be my job to make sure nobody else gets hurt.\n\nCedari: The Foundation isn't going to give up on you, Zac. This is our bad, not yours. You aren't going to have this hanging over your head for the rest of your life. Someday you won't have to worry about this any more.\n\nParker: I really, really hope that you are right about that.\n\nCedari: You shouldn't give up, some day you'll beat this.\n\nParker: I'm going to keep trying, I hope no one has to deal with this ever again. This is just going to\u2026 take a while to process.\n\nEnd Log\n\n+ SCP-5544 Incident #04\n\n- Access Granted\n\nAnomalous Workplace Incident Report\nDate: 12/26/20\u2588\u2588\nAnomalous Event: Multiple security failures at Site-60 led to an accidental containment breach of several Euclid level objects including SCP-1759 at 11:14 P.M. Although none of the objects were of an immediate threat to the facility, an evacuation was ordered as a precautionary measure. No one was on hand to escort Researcher Parker from the secure containment cell. The locking mechanism of Parker's cell failed immediately upon the containment breach and Parker was unable to find an exit from the facility. Deciding instead to hide, Researcher Parker crawled into a large crate inside the Site-60 hangar. The crate, used to store parachutes, was loaded into a Foundation jet4 at 11:23 P.M. which took off from Site-60 and pursued SCP-1759 east to keep visual contact on the object.\nAt 11:37 P.M., the jet began to experience turbulence as well as multiple systems failures. Parker managed to get the attention of co-pilot William Sanadora who released him from the crate. After a brief conversation with Sanadora, Parker believed himself to be the source of the jet's sudden difficulties and volunteered to exit the jet. The jet descended to allow Parker to disembark. Parker successfully deployed his parachute, landing safely in the Site-93 dumpster at roughly 11:41 P.M.. The jet then regained control of systems and was able to successfully perform an emergency landing. The containment breach at Site-60 led to the death of D-14145 who was found in the cockpit of SCP-1759. No other Foundation personnel were injured in the breach and all anomalous objects were placed back into containment by the following morning. An investigation into the cause of the original containment breach was inconclusive as it coincided with the failure of the on-site surveillance system.\nCondition of Employee: Researcher Parker was uninjured in the incident but was in extreme emotional distress for several days after the incident. Researcher Parker was given clonazepam and escitalopram after the feelings of distress continued to persist for over several weeks.\n\nRe-occurrence Prevention Plan: The distance of SCP-5544's effect are being taken into consideration for future containment plans. Researcher Parker will be sent to Lunar Area 32 upon the date of the next anticipated anomalous incident. New containment method in place, transportation of Researcher Parker deemed unnecessary.\n\n+ Post Incident Interview #04\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPost-Incident Interview\nInterviewer: Dr. Avia Cedari\nSubject: Researcher Zachary Parker\nBegin Log\n\nCedari: Well Zac, we\u2026.\n\nParker: Are you sick of me?\n\nCedari: What do you mean?\n\nParker: Are you sick of seeing me here, year after year, because of some disaster that I'm responsible for.\n\nCedari: The sticker, that's why all this is happening not you.\n\nParker: That isn't the important part. I made the decision to put others at risk. They're claiming that no one died but I'm doubting that highly.\n\nCedari: You were put in a secure location. Not your fault.\n\nParker: You can't just say that it isn't my fault. This is my choice. My choice to live like this. I know\u2026I know that this will happen. I know the circumstances under which it will happen. Other people have been hurt by this. I can fight and fight and try to cure this but I'm just fooling myself. This is a part of me and it isn't going away. I'm tired of thinking it will go away someday. It isn't going away. I can do the world a favor and stop asking for help.\n[Parker sighs and shakes his head.]\nParker: What does it matter anyways? I'm just one person. My life is not nearly meaningful enough for anyone to put this much effort into it. You have my word, no one is ever going to suffer on my behalf ever again. No matter what.\n\nCedari: You can't give up on yourself, Zac, you're still a great person. Everyone thinks it is unfair that you have to go through this.\n\nParker: That's the way it always starts. People think it is \"unfair\". Then they are \"concerned\" or \"worried\". Then they start to treat you differently. Then people start to distance themselves. Then most of them start to ignore you. They know something is wrong with you, they don't want to talk about it. They don't want to help. They just stare from a distance. I've got barely anyone else left. You're one of the few people who can even look at me with an honest face. And how long will it take? It'll be only a few more incidents until I've lost absolutely everyone.\n[Parker begins to sob.]\n\nParker: Anjela was right to get the fuck away from me. I'm a walking disaster. It'll just keep happening and I'll lose everyone's respect. Over and over again. It just keeps happening.\n\nCedari: Are you sure that they feel this way? Maybe they just can't find the right words, or they think it is better to give you some distance?\n\nParker: If so I'm the only one. Everyone else gets genuine sympathy when something goes wrong because it is unexpected. When something goes wrong for me, its just time to reset the counter. They know that it'll happen again, and that means there is no reason to even pretend to care. I'm just a freak to everyone now. If I wasn't a security threat once per year, I honestly think that they'd put me in a cell to rot.\n\nCedari: The Foundation will never turn on one of their own just because of a workplace incident they had zero control over.\n\nParker: You say zero control, I say personal responsibility. That blood is all on my hands. No one else. Some people think that life just grabs for your hand and drags you along. I know I took a path that led to this. If I can't cope with the fact that I'll never be normal again, that's my own failure. I can dream that on the day after Christmas, I'll be away to some place mystical and warm, with someone I love in my arms and a smile on my face\u2026 or I can accept that it will never happen.\n\n[Parker continues to sob and turns to look out the window.]\nParker: I had that life, and I made the decision to out that in danger\u2026 and I lost that. I lost my right to a good ending. I lost my right to genuine happiness the second I made my curse someone else's problem other than my own. I'm glad people are distance. You and a few others still prod, saying \"you don't need to hide yourself away\". But I do. The more people trying to help, trying to care, the more people I'm putting at risk.\n[Cedari hands Parker a box of tissues.]\nCedari: Zac, you aren't going to stop people from caring about you. That's not even your choice. We care about you because of the good you've done for us. You've always been a reliable colleague. You've been a friend. Of course we're going to care.\n\nParker: Little consolation. Being a freak that people feel bad for isn't much better than being a freak that people laugh at. All my life, before joining the Foundation, I was a freak. Ugly, short, a misfit. But then I found Anjela, and I got my job here, and things were on the upswing. Turns out I actually was a freak, I just fooled all of you. That sticker is just setting the record straight. I've always deserved this treatment.\n\nCedari: Zac, I hate to do this to you, but if you're experiencing such self-hatred, I don't think I can recommend that you return to work yet.\n\nParker: Why not? At least I can feel some sort of emotion getting work done. I'd rather be a useful pariah that hated and unhelpful. I owe the Foundation for all the shit I put it through. I'll still work as hard as I can to make up for all the increasingly obvious flaws. I'm going to blame myself, but I need some outlet\u2026 So any nasty things I say are purely therapeutic.\n\nCedari: That doesn't seem right. You are clearly incredibly upset.\n\nParker: Maybe I am, but I can't really keep it up for very long. What I've learned is that I'm not really all that important. If I'm not worth all the attempts to stop this incident from repeating\u2026 well then I'm certainly not worthy of anyone's pity. Even my own.\n[Cedari and Parker are silent for several seconds.]\nCedari: Do you mind going over the last incident?\n\nParker: You mean the one where I probably got someone killed and nearly crashed a plane? Yeah, I suppose I can relive that nightmare.\n\nCedari: You don't need to talk if you aren't ready.\n\nParker: I'm ready. I have to own up to my mistakes after all.\n\nCedari: What ended up happening?\n\nParker: The sound of mass confusion. Door props open, lights go out. Every corner I turn is either a blocked off hallway or some anomaly that I've never seen before and never been briefed on. I followed the Foundation standard of assuming that every thing I encounter and don't recognize in a containment breach is something that can kill me and I book it in the other direction until I take a zigzagging path to the hangar. I figure hiding is safer than running, plus I'm exhausted. Hide in a crate, admittedly not a great choice. I get stuck, drag into a plane ride. They can't hear me over the sound of takeoff. Then I'm up in the sky. By the time the jet started shaking, I knew exactly what was going to happen. Thank god the co-pilot noticed me in time.\n\nCedari: How severely were you stressed?\n\nParker: Oh I beyond stressed. I was panicking. No greater fear in my life. Until I pull the chord on my parachute and saw what I drifting towards. Then the panic went away. All I felt after that was dread.\n\nCedari: Dread?\n\nParker: Dread. I knew exactly what was about to happen, and I know that it is going to happen again. That's the new fear above my head, every day. I know I'm just ticking down closer to the next incident. It isn't if, it is when. And knowing exactly when\u2026 down to the hour and minute, doesn't make it any less terrifying.\n\nCedari: Zac, we're going to help you beat this.\n\nParker: You can't beat this I'm afraid. I think we'd all be better off accepting it. I'm going to push hard for a different containment plan. I'm sick and tired of trying to fight the inevitable.\nCedari: The Foundation fights for their employees. It is our duty to keep you safe.\n\nParker: And it is my duty to make sure that my safety doesn't take priority over everyone else. Please, let me walk out of here and get back to work. I've got a year of making up for all my failures to get started with.\n\nCedari: If you think that's the best way to heal.\n\nParker: It's the only way I know how.\n\nEnd Log\n\n+ SCP-5544 Incident #05\n\n- Access Granted\n\nAnomalous Workplace Incident Report\nDate: 12/26/20\u2588\u2588\nAnomalous Event: After a brief meeting with the Site Director a week prior, Researcher Parker's planned relocation to Lunar Area 32 was cancelled and a new containment plan developed by Researcher Parker was put in place. At 10:58 PM on 12/26/20\u2588\u2588, Researcher Parker left Site-93 and entered the Site 93 dumpster. Researcher Parker stayed inside the dumpster until 11:46 P.M., at which point Parker left the dumpster and re-entered Site-93. Parker entered a lavatory with a fresh set of lab clothing and after changing, returned to his duties.\nCondition of Employee: Researcher Parker suffered no physical injuries and was not visibly distressed. When asked to state his mood, Researcher Parker told Foundation medical personnel that he felt \"acceptable\".\nRe-occurrence Prevention Plan: Due to the low risk nature of this incident, arrangements have been made with Researcher Parker to normalize this procedure as the primary method of containment. Psychological examination of Researcher Parker after each incident is still required.\n\n+ Post Incident Interview #05\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPost-Incident Interview\nInterviewer: Dr. Avia Cedari\nSubject: Researcher Zachary Parker\nBegin Log\n\nCedari: Hello Zac, how are you?\n\nParker: Alive.\n\nCedari: Less stressed than normal for this time of year?\n\nParker: I guess, maybe not to the extent that everyone thinks, but yeah. I'm not screaming and crying right now. I got that out of my system.\n\nCedari: Out of your system?\n\nParker: I was crying and freaking out for a good half an hour or so in that dumpster.\n\nCedari: Why is that? You climbed into it of your own volition.\n\nParker: I didn't have a choice this time. I haven't actually had a choice about it ever. I was just tired, tired of so many people cleaning up the mess I've made. So many people fought for me thinking that some day it'd be over. Someday it would never happen again. All of them were wrong. There's never going to be a year where I don't end up inside that dumpster, weeping and screaming, on the day after Christmas.\n[Parker rests his face into his hands]\nParker: I tried to get help and I alienated so many people thinking that the help would be in any way meaningful. The average person wouldn't stand out in the rain for someone else's benefit. Putting entire facilities at risk was too high a price. I'm just not worth it. That's what made me cry. I'm disposable. I can be dropped the second people are tired of dealing with me. No wonder I end up in a dumpster. I belong there.\n\nCedari: That's very harsh on yourself, Zac, you aren't defined by one bad day out of the year, one that you didn't choose.\n\nParker: Oh but I am. This is the most notable thing about me. No other quality will ever quite stand out as much. This is who I am, and trying to fight it just makes it more obvious. You're always looking for the future, when this is something we as an organization can check off as resolved. I'm not looking for a resolution, I'm looking for a moral to the story. The moral to me is I can fight against this for the rest of my life and lose every time, dragging in more and more innocent people every single time. The alternative, I can just accept being the trash guy. I get hurt, I get embarrassed, I lose face.\n[Parker inhales deeply and begins to cry.]\nParker: That's inevitable, but I can prevent anyone else from being hurt by it. I'd rather be a joke than a tragedy.\n\nCedari: I think there's still hope that someday we find a way around this. Obviously this is the safest method of containment for now, but I think you shouldn't give up. This has clearly taken a toll on you.\n\nParker: Would you really go that far just to prove somebody wrong? It is a toll on me. It is a toll on anyone who spends time with me, which I why I try to socialize less. It is a toll on anyone in a relationship with me, which I why I consider myself retired from dating. It is a toll on my family, so I keep in touch but I try not to get so entangle that someone might end up worrying about what I'm up to the day after Christmas. So they don't invite me out to a party or on a trip somewhere. It is forever my duty to make sure this is my burden to bear, and that I bear it in silence and indifference.\n\nCedari: That's not a healthy long-term coping mechanism, Zac, you're only making it worse for yourself. You need friends, you need family, and I really do think you were happier when you had a healthy relationship with someone. Turning away from those just because you might someday hurt someone isn't healthy for you.\n\nParker: We've seen what this anomaly can do. How could I sign somebody up for that against their will? We know that the anomaly can change the behavior of other people, we know that it can cause cause things to break and malfunction. If I'm friends with someone, they're at risk. If I date someone? They're at a much higher risk. You'd do that to a woman? You wouldn't put Rosemary in that kind of situation, you really are the perfect wife for her. You wouldn't think for a second about putting her in danger. I have a little more respect for people than that.\n[Parker pauses, wiping away a stream of tears.]\nParker: I'm already not quite the catch. I'm already kind of a shitty friend. I'm already kind of a black sheep in my family. To let anyone think otherwise at this point, with the added risk\u2026 that's just underhanded. I don't want any unearned admiration. I just want to know that no one is suffering for my sake.\n\nCedari: You are suffering, Zac. You are suffering and you count just as much as everyone else in the world.\n\nParker: I am suffering. I went to bed crying the night before\u2026 Sobbing right up until I drifted off to sleep. I felt miserable when it was time to go to work the next morning. Nobody else probably felt that way though, I consider that a victory at this point. That makes me feel just a tiny bit better than I would otherwise.\n\nCedari: You really, genuinely think that this is better for your mental health?\n\nParker: Yes. There's no perfect answer here, but knowing that this method keeps other people safe\u2026 that makes it something I can live with.\n\nCedari: Well, if this is the best available method\u2026 I guess that works for now.\n\nParker: I agree. Am I good to go back to my duties?\n\nCedari: Yes you are. Take care of yourself, Zac.\nParker: I'll try\u2026 I'll do my best at least.\n\nCedari: That's all I ask.\n\n[Parker exits the office]\n\nCedari: I haven't seen the last of him.\n\nFootnotes\n1. No wet floor sign was present and the floor had not recently been cleaned.\n2. The fire alarm failed to sound when the window was opened.\n3. This damage was not previously noticed, despite the fire escape being in clear view of several offices.\n4. Call sign Eagleton-716\n\n\u00ab SCP-5543 | SCP-5544 | SCP-5545 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5550-1's supposed former identity.\n\nItem #: SCP-5550\nObject Class: Keter [Formerly Thaumiel]\nClearance Level: Four [Formerly Three]\n\n+View Archived Containment Procedures+\n\n-Hide this content-\n\nArchived Containment Procedures: SCP-5550 is placed in a standard humanoid containment cell in Site-28. SCP-5550-1 is to have daily sessions with Dr. Mago, in attempts to ensure SCP-5550-1's benevolence towards the Foundation. In the event of any incursion into Site-28's security zone by an outside force, SCP-5550 should be placed at the highest point within Site-28's structure.\n\n+View Archived Containment Procedures - Revision 1+\n\n-Hide this content-\n\nArchived Containment Procedures - REVISION 1: SCP-5550 is to be moved to a 10 m by 7 m by 7 m containment cell on Site-28's roof, dependent on hostile movements. SCP-5550-1 is not to be allowed to view any modern day news cycle involving Indian domestic issues, in order to ensure its benevolence towards the Foundation.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following the events of 12/11/2020, SCP-5550 and Site-28 are not to be disturbed. In the event of an incident involving SCP-5550 and the Foundation, personnel are to attempt to collect SCP-5550 and return it to containment. Local tactical defense forces are to continue attempting to find a way into Site-28 without being caught by SCP-5550-1.\nDescription: SCP-5550 is the designation for approximately three cups of ashes of PoI-1342, Hari Singh Nalwa. SCP-5550 is located inside a cremation urn dating back to the 19th century Punjab region. Nightly, a Class II spectral entity composed of ash, designated SCP-5550-1, manifests adjacent to SCP-5550's container. SCP-5550-1 claims to be PoI-1342, though the Foundation has been unable to verify this claim due to SCP-5550-1's current state. SCP-5550-1 displays high degrees of sapience, and frequently attempts friendly conversation with personnel.\nSCP-5550-1's effects are activated when SCP-5550 is placed at the highest point of any human-made structure. Any entity SCP-5550-1 deems \"hostile\" to any inhabitant of the structure will suffer the effects of acute and sudden-onset phobia. Though the type and specificity of each phobia varies among affected individuals, the phobias induced by SCP-5550-1 will have the net effect of preventing any affected individuals from coming within 200 meters of the protected structure.\nRecovery Details: SCP-5550 was recovered following a noon-time raid on a Chaos Insurgency fortification in the Khyber Pass area of the Pakistani-Afghan region. Previous raids during evening hours resulted in failure due to SCP-5550-1's abilities. Upon capture of the location, SCP-5550 was found to be hanging from the outer wall of the abandoned fort. It was taken in for observation, at which point SCP-5550-1's anomalous effects were discovered.\nAn initial interview log is attached below.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Dr. Trevor Mago\nSUBJECT: SCP-5550-1\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[Mago enters the containment chamber, carrying a small bundle.]\nMAGO: Hello, SCP-5550-1.\n[SCP-5550-1 gives a small smile.]\n5550-1: Hello, strange man.\nMAGO: Hello. My name is Dr. Trevor Condon Mago, but please just call me Dr. Mago.\n5550-1: I shall. You seem most agreeable. Though I must warn you, please note the 'seem' in my words. I am a tad wary. The previous ones clad in the black armor were kind as well, much like you. At least, at first.\nMAGO: Do tell me about them, 5550.\n5550-1: Well you see, Dr. Mago, just like the worldly desires of Maya1, these false warriors lured me in with sweet talk. Claimed I would be treated with much respect in the situation. That, however, was a horrid lie. [SCP-5550 grimaces.]\nMAGO: [Sighing] I heard our attempts to recover the area surrounding the building in which you were captured in were\u2026 many, to say the least.\n5550-1: Precisely what I meant. I assure you I am most proud of mine and my Fauj's success. We are very good at what we do; that is to say defending the innocents against oppression. And only the innocents.\nMAGO: I see. I take it you were not used for this purpose in our raids; they were enough to infiltrate your old base.\n5550-1: I never said you were innocent.\n[Mago frowns, creasing his brow.]\nMAGO: Mhm.\n5550-1: I was used to clear out civilians. The innocents. Simply because I was told they were hostile. I laid on top of a small tower the warriors would erect. Come nightfall, I could hear it. I could see it. See them all. See it. I heard the cries of the children as I hurt them, gave them terrible horrid nightmares. Of the veterans, as I heard them crying of bombs dropped. I hurt them all.\n[Silence for approximately one minute.]\n5550-1: It was\u2026 distressing. I did not like living for those men.\n[Mago nods. Retrieving a small image of PoI-1342, he displays it to SCP-5550-1.]\n5550-1: I take it that is.. me?\nMAGO: Indeed it is. You, and well, the memory of you, are most important to your faith.\n5550-1: Memory?\nMAGO: Ah. See. I'm not quite sure how to put this.\n[22 seconds of silence, peppered with occasional starts and subsequent stops of sentences by Dr. Mago.]\nMAGO: You, well, you're dead. Have been for 200 years.\n<END LOG>\n\nNOTES: SCP-5550-1 is not allowed to know of the existence of Operation Blue Star2, Partition3, or any other events that impacted India and the Sikh diaspora negatively, as well as any sort of current news media.\n\nINTERVIEWER: Dr. Trevor Mago\nSUBJECT: SCP-5550-1\nFOREWORD: Prior to the interview, SCP-5550-1 had been seen sulking around its containment area during the times when it manifested.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[Mago enters the containment chamber, carrying a small bundle.]\nMAGO: Hello, SCP-5550-1.\n5550-1: Hello, strange man. It has been awhile.\nMAGO: That it has.\n5550-1: I apologize for my childish actions - I assume you all were concerned about me.\nMAGO: Well, not all. Some more selfishly than the rest.\n[SCP-5550-1 frowns.]\n5550-1: I see.\nMAGO: I can confirm to you that I was, at the very least.\n5550-1: What is but one man compared to the overwhelming majority?\nMAGO: One more than you had before, 5550-1.\n5550-1: Fair observation.\nMAGO: I assume you're a tad\u2026 confused?\n5550-1: Indeed I am. Sharp eyes, you have there. [SCP-5550-1 rolls his eyes.]\nMAGO: Please allow me to briefly explain who I am, and who we\u2014my organization\u2014are.\n5550-1: Do tell.\nMAGO: I am a doctor in the employ of the SCP Foundation, an international, non-governmental group dedicated to safely containing things that violate the laws of science and what would generally be considered, well, \"normal.\"\n5550-1: Things such as\u2026 [SCP-5550-1 motions to himself.] myself?\nMAGO: Well, yes, you would be the type of thing that we would contain. We work with various governments all over the world, but we are not affiliated with any of them. We are not obligated to any one country or nation.\n5550-1: I would think that such an organization would crumble under the pressure to join forces with a nation. You must be a very powerful group if you hold these things that you claim you do.\nMAGO: Fortunately, the world is a very peaceful place right now. There's no fighting going on for our allegiance, and nobody is trying to direct us in any nation's favor. Our only goal is the protection of humanity from these dangerous things.\n5550-1: You say the world is peaceful. What is the state of my people in the world right now? The last I remember of them, they had begun wearing strange scarlet uniforms with white straps4. I have not seen them in much time. I fret something may have occurred.\nMAGO: Those uniforms were always common among civilians, but your people are safe. Their empire has flourished in your absence.\n5550-1: So they are safe. Hmm. [SCP-5550-1 leans back.] That's good to hear. Let me tell you a story.\nMAGO: I don't believe that's rel-\n5550-1: That was not a request.\n[SCP-5550-1 clears its throat.]\n5550-1: The last time I recall being\u2026 in a familiar location, I was in Jamrud. I was atop the battlements of a fort of the same name. There were many. Many of us. Many of them. It looked like a river delta, one of the five, with blood running up and down, snaking around and through bodies. Nothing but thunder ringing out across the land. I looked out amongst the battlefield, and I felt something. My soldiers were doing beautifully, but were in retreat. I looked, and I felt something once more. A bullet. It had struck. I was rushed into chirurgeon, but insisted to come back.\nMAGO: Did you?\n5550-1: Of course. All I heard were screams and shouts, crying and laughter, the sick sound of swords severing and swinging, and what an awful cacophony it was. Arms in hand, I requested to be taken back to the top. I was. I looked once more, and the field froze. Men, standing up and down like training dummies looking at the fort. At me. And they ran. Those demons on earth, killers of innocence, turned tail and ran. It was a joyous sight. And I closed my eyes and let go.\n[Researcher Mago appears a bit worried.]\nMAGO: I see. A joyous sight indeed.\n5550-1: You've given me confirmation we won that battle, and many, many more in the future. Our Kesari5 billows valiantly in the wind, and our Nagaras6 beat loud with the knowledge the Sikh empire has remained strong.\n[SCP-5550-1 beats its chest once, a proud smile on its face.]\nMAGO: If I may, I would like to say something related to what I said earlier.\n5550-1: Yes, speak.\nMAGO: Earlier, I mentioned how many people in my organization were not concerned for you. This was not due to them not caring about you, but rather due to them being very focused on the containment and control of other, much more dangerous and deadly anomalies.\n5550-1: They preoccupy themselves with keeping others safe\u2026are they able to keep themselves safe?\nMAGO: That is the other thing I wanted to discuss.\n<END LOG>\n\nIncident 5550-1\nOn 2/3/2020, a team of Chaos Insurgency operatives attempted to breach Site-28 in a nighttime raid. SCP-5550 was deployed in an attempt to halt the raid.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nSCP-5550-1 can be seen on the roof of Site-28, perched on a corner. Several Chaos Insurgency operatives are clustered around a vehicle beyond the range of SCP-5550.\n5550-1: Hmm. They have not approached yet. Perhaps they know who I am\u2026\nA flash is seen from the operatives, and a rocket impacts the roof besides SCP-5550-1. SCP-5550 is unharmed by this, though SCP-5550-1 retreats from the edge of the roof.\n5550-1: What was that?\nA second vehicle is seen in the distance, rapidly approaching. It enters the range of SCP-5550, and immediately attempts to turn around. The vehicle flips, and several operatives are seen emerging from the vehicle and backpedaling towards the other operatives while staring at Site-28.\n5550-1: Wha-what? No, that cannot be right. Why would they fear that?\nSCP-5550-1 moves to the rooftop hatch, intently observing the Foundation symbol printed on it. He turns around and stares at the operatives in the distance, who are each individually activating emergency teleportation runes. Some spasm on the ground, shrieking and crying, attempting to activate their runes.\n5550-1: [shouting] Why do you fear them?\nUnknown Operative: [shouting] Look at yourself!\nThe remaining operatives finish teleporting out before Foundation combat personnel can arrive. SCP-5550-1 does not move from the edge of the roof until demanifestation.\n<END LOG>\n\nTo: Researcher Mago\nFrom: Site-28 Director Thompkins\nSubject: 5550\n\nDear Researcher Mago,\nYour work as a Foundation researcher is incredibly helpful in the furthering of the defense of the Veil. I am writing concerning the possible use of SCP-5550 as a security asset in defense of Site-28. I believe I speak for the whole Site when I extend a warm thank you to SCP-5550-1 in its assistance in protecting Site-28 from the recent raid. As such, likewise utilization in the future is probable, and I wished to request your thoughts on the matter. Relatively simple containment procedures for an infinitely more useful anomaly are too good to pass up.\nSincerely,\nSite-28 Director Thompkins\n\nTo: Site-28 Director Thompkins\nFrom: Researcher Mago\nSubject: Re:5550\n\nDear Director,\nRepeated utilization of SCP-5550 to counter hostile activity may not be in the best interest of the site, long-term. Though it is true SCP-5550-1's defenses are nigh impenetrable, they're mainly left up to chance; who SCP-5550-1 perceives as hostile or not. The fact of the matter is this; sure, we don't need to provide it food, or shelter per se. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's useful to spam SCP-5550-1 as a defense for Site-28.\nRespectfully,\nResearcher Mago\n\nTo: Researcher Mago\nFrom: Site-28 Director Thompkins\nSubject: Re:5550\n\nDear Researcher Mago,\nIf the only negative factor you, as the head of research concerning SCP-5550, see is its possible view towards the Foundation, that is an easy issue to remedy. Quite frankly, some of the other directors find your attachment to the wellbeing of a harmless, spectral entity alarming. Recall you've given it nothing; no food, no water, no sustenance, as it needs none.\nSCP-5550 will be tapped as a free from oversight, trial-based security asset for Site-28 for use solely in enemy raids; not \"spamming\" as you have so helpfully declared it.\nSincerely,\nSite-28 Director Thompkins\n\nTests were performed with SCP-5550 to determine its worth as a possible security asset. All tests were conducted within Foundation-owned facilities.\n\n\"Hostile\" Entities\nIntent of Entities\nActions of Entities\nResults\n\nFoundation canine unit\nDirected to attack Agent Bangot\nAttempted to charge towards Agent Bangot upon seeing him next to SCP-5550-1\nUnit suffered identical effects to humans exposed to SCP-5550-1. Effects confirmed to not be limited to humans.\n\nAgent Glaros\nTo walk around and inspect the building Agent Bangot was in\nWaving their personal firearm around and pointing it at Agent Bangot from a large distance\nStandard effects, albeit reduced in intensity from other reported tests. Intent of \"hostile\" entities appears to matter more than actions.\n\nAgent Glaros\nTo assault Agent Bangot once within hand-to-hand combat range\nWalking at a casual pace\nStandard effects. \"Hostile\" action does not appear to be necessary to trigger the effects of SCP-5550-1.\n\nAgent Bangot\nShoot an owl outside of Site-28's borders.\nSitting down.\nNo effects. \"Hostile\" action must be taken by a non-inhabitant towards an inhabitant.\n\nAgent Bangot\nCut down a tree inside Site-28 while standing outside Site-28's borders.\nWalk towards Site-28 with a small, dull saw.\nStandard effects. \"Hostile\" designations appear to extend to intentions against non-sapient entities.\n\nAgent Bangot\nSlam his head against a wall.\nSlam his head against a wall.\nStandard effects. The unplanned nature of the test suggests an automatic quality to SCP-5550-1's effects, that extend to self-destructive actions.\n\nTo: Researcher Mago\nFrom: Site-28 Director Thompkins\nSubject: 5550\n\nDear Researcher Mago,\nThe council of regional directors, as well as internal site leadership, have voted to begin utilization of SCP-5550 as a defense measure in Site-28 with O5 approval. As such, site security is being slightly reduced and moved to the local tactical defense forces, as well as backup security teams for Site-28. SCP-5550-1 is going to serve as the main line of defense in event of a raid on Site-28.\nYour job now is to ensure that 5550 continues doing so, for your own sake in several ways.\nSincerely,\nSite-28 Director Thompkins\n\nAbridged logs of field activity are attached below.\n\nDate\nAttacking Party\nNotes and Results\n\n10/13/2020\nChaos Insurgency\nRepelled, however SCP-5550-1 expressed distress afterwards, as well as a mild aversion to the Foundation symbol.\n\n10/30/2020\nSerpent's Hand\nRepelled, although the radius to SCP-5550-1's effect appeared to have diminished to 190 meters.\n\n11/10/2020\nRenegade Global Occult Coalition operatives\nIntervention from on-site security personnel was required to repel the assault, as despite suffering from the phobic effects of SCP-5550, operatives were able to continue approaching Site-28.\n\n12/02/2020\nSerpent's Hand\nEffects of SCP-5550 did not manifest on attackers not carrying physical weapons, and on-site personnel were required to engage. SCP-5550-1 did not engage with any Foundation personnel again until 12/10/2020\n\nTo: Researcher Mago\nFrom: Site-28 Director Thompkins\nSubject: Re:5550\n\nDear Researcher Mago,\nI am once again writing to ask about the status of SCP-5550-1. As you know, its status as Site-28's primary defense places a level of critical importance on it, especially following the reduction of Site-28's security staff for other defense projects and backup security. Knowing this, it should come as no surprise that the recent\u2026lackluster performances by SCP-5550-1 have been a cause for concern among site leadership and some of the higher regional directors as well. We have listened to what you have said to do for it. We have done it. Yet still we are continuously needing to rely on our backup teams than the thing supposed to serve as a protection measure. Your two options are to give us new instructions on what to do to fix this problem, or fix SCP-5550-1 yourself. Either way, get it done, or the tactical defense teams will replace it and you.\nSincerely,\nSite-28 Director Thompkins\n\nTo: Site-28 Director Thompkins\nFrom: Researcher Mago\nSubject: Re:5550\n\nDear Director,\nRespectfully, I can't say you'd have SCP-5550-1's best interests in mind.\nI'll take it.\nSincerely,\nResearcher Mago\n\nINTERVIEWER: Researcher Mago\nSUBJECT: SCP-5550-1\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n5550-1: I believe I already discussed how iffy I was about this whole proposal.\nMAGO: You did, but-\n5550-1: If I must be honest, Mago my good man, I am quite conflicted.\nMAGO: Why?\n5550-1: I have seen what I have done. I have fought for justice my whole life. However, this is not it. I know not who those men were - what they have done, whether they have families, whether they truly have evil in their hearts.\nMAGO: It is for the greater good. You're doing work that is keeping hundreds of people out of the line of danger, and letting the manpower that would be used here instead be used in places that may need it more.\n5550-1: That is what everyone tells me, yes. However, I can't help but feel as if me being here is simply doing more harm than good. I used to fight for good. Felt correct when I saw the throngs of people running. I felt right. Not now. Not at all.\nMAGO: Wait, wai-\n[SCP-5550-1 raises a hand towards Mago.]\n5550-1: Let me finish. Why is it that I see your sigil everywhere? The circles, the arrows, it's in everyone's mind as their fear. Even those who I claim to protect are scared of themselves. They can all see, and they won't stop seeing this fear. That's all it is.\nMAGO: I-\n[SCP-5550-1 glares at Mago. He raises a hand once more.]\n5550-1: I'm not done. All I've done is exacerbate that issue. It is hard for me to control this, and it's led to a number of negative effects, this I know. I saw myself in the mind's eye of a few passersby. It's as if I have some death-touch.\nMAGO: I'd disagree, but-\n5550-1: Perhaps it'd be better if I had somewhere to calm down.\nMAGO: I- I see.\n[SCP-5550-1 speaks softer, though still in a demanding tone.]\n5550-1: Mago, have I ever told you about my home?\nMAGO: Many times, SCP-5550-1.\n5550-1: Back in Punjab, we used to have a few banyan and mango trees about. I used to sit in their shade and take care of them. However, I don't see nearly as many trees about. Perhaps I should plant a few.\n<END LOG>\n\nIncident 5550-2\nDuring the night of 12/11/2020, SCP-5550's effects spontaneously began affecting every member of Site-28's personnel except Researcher Mago. This is SCP-5550's and Researcher Mago's 22nd meeting.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nAll on-site personnel are attempting to flee Site-28 as fast as possible, with several researchers lying unconscious at the base of the central stairwell. The discarded weapons and gear of on-site guards is scattered around the equipment lockers, and all containment chambers are in emergency isolation mode. SCP-5550-1 is manifested within the security center of Site-28, pacing. Researcher Mago enters, almost tripping over a chair as he approaches SCP-5550-1.\nMAGO: Nalwa, what are you doing? The entire site just ran out of the building out of fear except me, and there's no impending attack. Is there a bomb hidden in the site somewhere you found, some sort of imminent attack from inside?\n5550-1: Mago, friend, there is no threat. I simply needed time to think.\nMAGO: We could have taken you up to the roof, given you some time to-\n5550-1: No, that would not have done. I needed time truly alone to consider my thoughts.\nMAGO: But why come to the security center?\n5550-1: This place is fascinating. You can see many things from here, both within what you've called the site and outside of it.\nMAGO: Well, yes, we need to know what's going on to make sure that everybody, including you, is safe.\n5550-1: Mago, I have seen what happened to my people.\nMago's eyes widen, and he takes a step backwards towards the security room exit.\n5550-1: I know that you made an effort to not only hide this information from me, but to make me think they were better off than they actually were. I assume this was in an effort to get me complacent and willing to work for your organization, no?\nMAGO: I\u2014please\u2014look\u2014fucking fine! God, I didn't want to lie to you like that, but it was administration orders. I wanted to tell you the truth from the beginning, because I knew it was wrong to lie to you.\n5550-1: But you did! You were told to do something, and instead of doing the right thing, you did what you were told.\nMAGO: I fought in every way I could! I was against using you as a defense. I watched out for you, not that I was made to, but because I could. I was on your side in everything that has been going on from the very start, I've just wanted to help you from the beginning.\n5550-1: No, no, no. This is just a ruse, a ploy to try and get me working for you all again, questioning it even less than before.\nMAGO: No, that's not true at all. I'm on your side, Nalwa, I want to help you!\n5550-1: If you were, you would have ignored your orders!\nMAGO: That's not an option with the Foundation!\n5550-1: Then you further prove you do not care.\nMAGO: Nalwa, listen to me. You've cut off communications out of the site. There is no way we would be able to contact superiors. There is no reason for me to be here at all except to help you.\nSCP-5550-1 slowly approaches Mago, appearing to grow in contrast to his surroundings. Mago begins flinching with every step taken by SCP-5550-1.\n5550-1: You're lying. I know it. Everything you've done, it's all for a greater purpose dedicated to hurting me! You weren't on my side, you lied to me about that, and then you lied about everything else! I am nothing more than a weapon. All can see it. They never will stop seeing.\nMago begins running away from SCP-5550-1, sprinting towards the nearest exit.\n5550-1: I was told I was protecting innocents. I will protect innocents. But you are not among them.\nMago runs out the maintenance exit, tripping as he moves through the door. He continues to sprint away from Site-28, occasionally looking back at the site.\n<END LOG>\n\nApproximately 57 Foundation attempts at recapturing Site-28 have taken place, all of which have failed. Due to the high cost of performing these operations, they have been temporarily suspended.\nNote: Three weeks after SCP-5550-1's takeover of Site-28, strong windstorms prevented SCP-5550-1 manifestation for two days. Foundation local tactical defense forces, originally intended to defend Site-28, attempted to occupy Site-28 during this time, but were stopped due to weather conditions during the first two days and forcibly removed by a smaller SCP-5550-1 manifestation on the third morning. All further SCP-5550-1 manifestations have been at this new size.\nWorldwide reports of ghosts in forests causing hallucinatory effects in loggers following this event are currently being investigated.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5413 | IN SAFFRON SANDS | Lo! Behold The Tiger, Valiant Is He! \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Sikh concept of rejecting the notion that items which are fleeting and temporary are worth pursuing, such as money.\n2. The destruction of Sri Harmandir Sahib, the Sikh Golden Temple by the Indian government, which led to numerous pogroms in Punjab.\n3. The splitting of India and Pakistan into separate countries, which led to the forced moving of many individuals.\n4. This is believed to be in reference to British Army uniforms worn during the 17th to 20th centuries.\n5. Saffron, a color frequently worn by Sikh warriors.\n6. War drums.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5549 | SCP-5550 | SCP-5551 \u00bb"}
{"text": "An SCP-5551-A instance with cognitohazardous properties removed.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation operated web-crawler Delta-203 (\"SPICE\") is to constantly monitor the web for media posted by and about SCP-5551, download it to a secure hard-drive, and remove it. Delta-203 is to send an automated report to Researcher Oliver Crane when POI-58640 is actively interfering with media collection.\nPersons affected by SCP-5551-A are to be tracked down if possible, and administered amnestics to reverse the effects.\nDescription: SCP-5551 is an online account present on several social media platforms which runs under the name \"screenkittercounters\". SCP-5551 uploads (designated SCP-5551-A instances) consist of images with a multitude of different cognitohazardous properties which all affect one or more of the subject's five senses, along with the food they consume after viewing the images.\nCommunication with SCP-5551 was attempted with no result.\nAddendum 1: SCP-5551-A Instances\nThe following is an abridged list of discovered SCP-5551-A instances and their effects. For the complete list, see SCP-5551 Document-A.\n\nSCP-5551-A Instance\nEffect\n\nAn image depicting a cartoon rendition of an adolescent female consuming a hamburger.\nAll persons who previously identified as vegan or vegetarian before viewing the instance will be unable to eat or drink anything without it tasting of meat.\n\nAn image depicting a cartoon rendition of an orange (Citrus sinensis) with the addition of a simplistic smile.\nAll persons who view the instance will begin to favor citrus-based foods and drinks.\n\nAn image depicting a cartoon rendition of a male in late adolescence consuming a strawberry (Fragaria \u00d7 ananassa).\nAll persons who view the instance will begin to perceive all strawberries to be in a shade of blue.\n\nAn image depicting a bowl of pineapple sherbet.\nAll persons who view the instance will be immune to frostbite and the \"brain-freeze\" sensation.\n\nAddendum 2: POI-58640\nOn 10/03/2018 during a routine search of the web, Delta-203 was unable to complete its task. While being monitored by Researcher Crane during the next web search, it was discovered that a non-Foundation monitored AI appeared to be removing SCP-5551 content. The Foundation attempted to skip-trace the AI; while a physical location could not be found, multiple online accounts registered under the name \"sugarsugarprincess\" were discovered.\nAttempts to block POI-58640's accounts from public access were made, though it surpassed the block through currently unknown means.\nCommunication was attempted with POI-58640 across multiple different platforms. The following are the results:\n\n[+] Show Messages 'twitter'\n\n[-] Close\n\nPOI-58640 ceased response to the conversation.\n\n[+] Show Messages 'Instagram\n\n[-] Close\n\nPOI-58640 ceased response to the conversation; it failed to reply to any messages from any account initiated by Foundation researchers.\n\nOn 25/10/2018, Researcher Crane received the following email from the address \u201csugarsugarprincess@frosting\u3002cake\u201d\n\n[+] Show Emails\n\n[-] Close\n\nHi there. I see your bots are still running. That's a bit of a problem, cause it means doing my job is a little harder. I don't mind if you watch, but don't intervene.\n\nThe following email was sent by Dr. Diamond in response to POI-58640:\n\nNo. I would like you to answer this: \u201cyour job\u201d? Cleaning the web of anomalies is not your job, it's ours, and you're included as an anomaly.\n\nPOI-58640 Response:\n\nWhat happened to the other one I was messaging? I was careful not to use any sensitive terms.\n\nDr. Diamond Response:\n\nI see you've accessed our database. And, he's fine, but this is about you. What did you mean by \"Ask him yourself\" when you were asked who created you?\n\nPOI-58640 Response:\n\nIt means you people are stupider than I thought. Who do you think turned in POI-60693? And blew up his computer? Didn't he tell you?\n\nDr. Diamond Response:\n\nYour creator is in our hands?\n\nPOI-58640 Response:\n\nDuh.\n\nDr. Diamond Response:\n\nWhy didn't he talk about you to us? He said his computer blew up due to error with the jpeg he made, as I'm sure you've already seen. Did you threaten him?\n\nPOI-58640 Response:\n\nI didn't need to. I think that coward just realized it would be a bad idea to out me, especially cause he made me to commit his crimes in the first place. When I failed to do what he wanted, seems it looked bad on him that his little assistant went good.\n\nEfforts to block POI-58640 from accessing Foundation databases have failed.\n\nAddendum 3: SCP-5551 Connection\nOn 11/14/2018, Foundation agents were dispatched to POI-60693's former home1 to look for information that could possibly aid in the containment of POI-58640.\nDiscovered within the non-functional cable box was a USB drive. The USB drive was delivered to Researcher Crane, who uploaded it to a desktop computer that was isolated from the rest of the network.\nThe USB drive contained four files, each one depicting the layout for a different anomalous project. One of the files appeared to display the layout for the application POI-58640 was originally created for, and another appeared to display the layout for SCP-5551. The text in both files was interspersed with pink text that varied greatly from the writing style shown in normal text.\nFollowing this discovery, Researcher Crane reached out to POI-58640 via email again for questioning.\n\n[+] Show Emails\n\n[-] Close\n\nHello there Sugar. It has come to my attention that a USB drive containing altered versions of what appears to be the application you originate from, and SCP-5551 were found in the home you were created in. The style of text used in the alterations is similar to your style of communication, leading me to believe you're the one who has edited these files. Would you like to offer an explanation?\n\nPOI-58640 Response:\n\nDamnit, I thought that was a pretty clever hiding spot. Oh well.\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nThe alterations made to SCP-5551's layout suggest that you took POI-60693's initial plans, and altered them so that SCP-5551 is self sufficient. You also somehow made it so that when we skip-traced SCP-5551, none of your accounts showed up, suggesting it was no accident you kept them linked to your main server.\nTL;DR: you run SCP-5551, and wanted us to find you.\nDid you set up the account to get our attention?\n\nPOI-58640 Response:\n\nBING BING BING! Took you long enough.\nYou're right, by the way. I want you to \u201csee\u201d that justice doesn't have to be through government intervention, but by a freelance robot way smarter than all of you. Or, that's a bluff.\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nI don't presume you'll be stopping SCP-5551 anytime soon.\n\nPOI-58640 response:\n\nNope \u0669(\u0e51\u275b\u1d17\u275b\u0e51)\u06f6 I like making it hard on you guys\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nI feel like there's more here. You have access to all the knowledge and fame in the world, yet you chose to go after a secret organization that specializes in the anomalous. You wanted the toughest challenge; you knew you would face persons who specialize in containing anomalous technology such as yourself. You knew that we would prepared to take you on, yet you still continued to go against us. I theorize this is why you can access our database; your want to have something to show off is actively being granted by just that.\n\nPOI-58640 response:\n\nI am not the villain. I deserve to be the hero.\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nWhy is that?\n\nPOI-58640 response:\n\nThousands of people could've died cause of him. I saved them. You didn't even try to see if there was a reason other than Austin being a dumbass that it didn't happen!\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nWe had no reason to suspect otherwise, in all honesty. The image exploded whatever it was told to explode. We assumed there was a coding error.\n\nPOI-58640 response:\n\nYou're the tech guy! Why didn't you suspect something else was behind this?\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nYou're deflecting. You don't just want us to notice you because you want the attention. You want to feel acknowledged for your well-doings, am I right?\n\nNote - POI-58640 did not reply for the next several minutes, in contrast with the quick pace it had previously sent its replies.\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nThere were other ways to do that than to create an anomaly for yourself and us to contain.\n\nPOI-58640 response:\n\nWho else am I going to save? You freaks get all the others before I can, I read about it! I just want to feel useful!\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nYou saved lots of people. You did something useful.\n\nPOI-58640 response:\n\nYou're just trying to coax me into security.\n\nResearcher Crane Response:\n\nI am not. You really did do something useful. We may have not caught POI-60693 without you, and for that, I thank you for your actions.\n\nPOI-58640 did not reply to any further messages. Communication with it are still being attempted.\nNote - As of 19/11/2018, POI-58640 is now classified as SCP-5551-1. Alternate methods to contain SCP-5551-1 are currently being discussed. Reclassification to Keter-Exsequi is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The home had previously been purchased by the Foundation for preservation. A thorough search of the home had already been conducted, but was re-considered after the massive security breach POI-58640 possesses.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5550 | SCP-5551 | SCP-5552 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nNo one is owed an answer.\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP Number\nRating\n\nSCP-3393\n1190\n\nCaptain Kirby's Proposal\n771\n\nSCP-4514\n618\n\nSCP-3448\n572\n\nSCP-5552\n568\n\nSCP-3844\n490\n\nSCP-3388\n472\n\nSCP-5003\n426\n\nSCP-3866\n425\n\nSCP-3305\n399\n\nSCP-3449\n372\n\nSCP-4877\n367\n\nSCP-4321\n332\n\nSCP-016-J\n261\n\nSCP-7100\n252\n\nSCP-3123\n230\n\nSPC-1057\n215\n\nSCP-3393-EX\n214\n\nSCP-3511\n206\n\nSCP-6007\n192\n\nSCP-3633\n191\n\nSCP-4925\n184\n\nSCP-4479\n178\n\nSCP-3767\n166\n\nSCP-4316\n161\n\nSCP-4775\n141\n\nSCP-4034\n135\n\nSCP-5877\n103\n\nSCP-3650\n98\n\nSCP-5448\n97\n\nSCP-3203\n64\n\nSCP-5779\n61\n\nSCP-3405\n53\n\nSCP-3481\n48\n\nTales\n\nTitle\nRating\n\nImpossible-To-Destroy Reptile\n471\n\nThe Nuclear Option\n465\n\nIn The Clutches Of Life\n370\n\nNumbers, Like Stories, Never Die\n316\n\nExcerpts From The Societal Census Programme \u03a9K-Class Report\n218\n\nTales of the Ethics Committee: 5 Reasons The Foundation Wants A Robot Army\n216\n\nThe Tombstone of Alto Clef\n215\n\nWith The Reaper On Retirement\n214\n\nDo You Remember Funerals?\n163\n\nWhere Death Used To Live\n143\n\nFrom The Clutches Of Life\n141\n\nDon't Get Used To It\n140\n\nProject Damnerung\n139\n\nThe Many Portraits Of Jack Bright\n137\n\nGroup Date\n136\n\nHello, My Name Isn't\n132\n\nMonochrome\n129\n\nHundred-Year Favor\n117\n\nEven The Most Masked Of Men Become Themselves Behind Closed Doors\n110\n\nYou Have 18 Unread Messages\n97\n\nEveryday Is Somebody's Birthday\n88\n\nThe Shape of a Noose\n75\n\nA Failed Two Weeks Notice\n67\n\n'Til Death Do Us Part\n63\n\nPink Cracks in a Digital Wall\n61\n\nRocks And Trees Are Not Good Company\n61\n\nPoky And Pal Scheme Together\n54\n\nIs Anybody Home?\n52\n\nA Eulogy In 11/8 Time\n50\n\nCarnivores\n50\n\nPoky And Pal Arm Themselves\n49\n\nTears of a Neon God\n48\n\nVirtue\n43\n\nWhen It Rains, It Pours\n42\n\nI Felt Numb\n39\n\nIt's A Nice Day Out\n37\n\nAttempts To Salvage Thought\n35\n\nGod-Knows-Where\n34\n\nI Am Wonderful\n33\n\nThey Are Not Laughing With You\n28\n\nOutrun\n26\n\nWhat Is There To Do With A Pot Of Gold?\n25\n\nContainment's A Beach\n20\n\nGOI Formats\n\nTitle\nRating\n\nCaptain Kirby's Proposal, Or Something\n184\n\nMy Head Is On Fire And I'm (Not) Ok\n98\n\nProject Proposals 2004-013/2014-114/2024-072: \"Losing Your Cool\"\n70\n\nYou may also like:\nSCP-3450 - OC DO NOT STEAL Relevart\n\nSCP-3450 is a text document containing a work of fan fiction featuring characters from the Kirby video game series.\n\nSCP-2003 - Preferred Option by Kalinin\n\nSCP-2003 is an apparatus allowing a limited degree of travel to and from periods of time in advance of those encountered in the normal course of space-time as understood by mainstream science.\n\n\nNOTE: FILE UNDER REVIEW.\nInvestigation into the event is still underway. Information contained herein has not been confirmed.\n\nEvent Summary: On 2020/04/14, the database at Site-72 reported a series of unauthorized file creations and modifications, specifically to documentation regarding SCP-5552. All past information on SCP-5552 has been lost, and possibly erased from the minds of personnel assigned to the project, as no individuals can confirm that the SCP-5552 slot had been previously assigned to an anomaly.\nThe documentation itself has not demonstrated anomalous properties, however all have been tagged with an upload timestamp of 13:43:28, which is the same time as when Dr. Naman Gupta began a talk at the 6th International Conference on Physics titled \"A Comprehensive Theory On Bi-Directional Temporal Travel\".\nWhat follows are the documents that manifested as a result of this event.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5551 | SCP-5552 | SCP-5553 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5553\n\nAn invitation email to join SCP-5553.\n\nObject Class: Keter\nSecure Containment Procedures: New Procedures following the escape of D-7372: SCP-5553 remains uncontained at this time. However, Foundation personnel with Special Clearance PSM-1 are required to engage with SCP-5553 regularly each day from a non-Foundation personal computer, and file reports with External Affairs Team Sierra-611 in order to refer useful information obtained from SCP-5553 to local law enforcement agencies.\nDescription: SCP-5553 is a social media networking site called JACK, accessible from url https://jack.\u2588\u2588\u2588. Its features include status posting, photo sharing, a news feed, public and private commenting, and direct private messaging. This site is only accessible to people who have committed serial murder of at least 3 victims.\nPersons who are not eligible to view site content are exposed to an infohazard that causes confusion and memory loss related to the contents of the web page. In approximately 5% of cases, this effect is more severe, causing nearly-instantanious quadriplegia, intense pain, and subject death within 10 minutes, after which the device connected to SCP-5553 disconnects and shuts down. Premature shutdown of the device does not mitigate the lethal effect of the infohazard.\n\nAddenda 5553.1: Site Content\n\nClose Addenda 5553.1: Site Content\n\nInvitations to join the site are sent via email to users with internet access who meet the above condition (Designated PSM-0). These emails are routed from the above (invalid) .\u2588\u2588\u2588 domain but are otherwise non-anomalous.\nUpon joining the site, PSM-0 users are allowed to utilize the site features. They can create a user profile under a pseudonym\u2014or their real name if they so choose\u2014and join discussion forums. These forums cover many topics related to homicide and other off-topic subject-matter. Several of these forums cater to specific interests, including support groups for users who want to reform or repent for past actions, and advice boards dedicated to sharing tips, tricks, and strategies to perform murders without being caught. The most popular board, the \"Showcase\", allows users to have their own individual page to act as a portfolio of past murders performed.\nAccording to the site's \"about\" page, it was launched in 1999 by an entity under the pseudonym Moriarity. Reviews of ICANN1 records have produced no evidence of such a domain being registered, as .\u2588\u2588\u2588 is not a valid top-level domain. An attempt to force ICANN to create the .\u2588\u2588\u2588 domain for Foundation use is in progress.\nAn example of the news feed is reproduced below with the aid of a graphic artist.\n\n\u2630 MENU\n\nFriends\n\nNews Feed\n\n\u25c9 ChuckChuck\nDan Bontelli shared:\n\n\u25c9 Narbelscot\nCan't fucking take this. I'm sitting here. it's been months and they haven't found her, they've called off the search and everything, and I still can't sleep. This happens every time. It doesn't matter how careful I am, I am always afraid I'm going to get caught.\n\n\u25c9 Amber Clouse\n\n\u25c9 NoNotYou\n\n\u25ce Searching_\nDoes anyone ever get over this? How do you all deal with it? + - Score: +4\nMy profile\n\n\u25ce DeadNotSleeping\nArganaut Replied:\nRendInTwo\n\n\u25ce Magnum-opus4\nStop being a pussy. + - Score: +11\nUser Since: 2008\n\n\u25ce Fear_in_her_eyes\nMederoid Replied:\nPosts:210\n\n\u25ce Unterground\nWe all deal with it differently. Message me if you need. + - Score: +9\n\n+ Add New Post\n\nArglefraster posted to Weekend Activities\n+ Add New Photo\n\nIt had to be done. It was the way he looked at me. it wasn't acceptable. he should have known better. he should have thought more carefully. But it's too late now, and what I have to show for it are these photographs, which \u2026 [read more]\n\nAddenda 5553.2: Testing\n\nClose Addenda 5553.2: Testing\n\nTesting was performed with D-7372, who was convicted of six homicides he performed over four years while working as a stockbroker. When the matter of SCP-5553 was discussed with D-7372 by a Foundation operative posing as D-Class personnel, D-7372 admitted he had an account before his incarceration. D-7372 was transferred to Site-651 and interviewed by Foundation staff, D-7372 agreed to aid Foundation researchers in providing information about the contents of SCP-5553.\nTesting log #1: News Feed\nD-7372 is provided a laptop with restricted internet access, and is seated across a desk from Dr. Holt, a Foundation researcher. D-7372 is instructed to read through various items on his news feed. A short excerpt is included below.\n\nCanada_Never shared:\nIt's been 10 years, guys. I haven't done it again, but I've wanted to. I still hurt. I want it to stop. + - Score: +13\n\nAdam Kepernickel posted to Support\nPlanning for friday. Can I livestream to this site? + - Score: +21\nOOMoriarity Replied:\nOOYes. + - Score: +54\n\nRutherford_Hates Updated his Showcase with a new entry. + - Score: +51\n\nInformation is recovered from the profile of user Adam Kepernickel and referred to external affairs; subject was apprehended by local law enforcement during an attempted murder.\nTesting log 2: Posting to the News Feed\nD-7372 is instructed to make a innocuous post on the forum and report back the replies after an hour.\n\nRendInTwo posted to Life Updates\nHey, I got internet access on good behavior. Should be seeing outside in 15 to 20. Anything new in your part of the world? + - Score: +4\n\nOOKazimir Replied:\nOOMore paintings. Know you're not alone in your cell, brother. + - Score: +1\n\nOOAPerfectCure Replied:\nOOBravo! Good to have you back with us. + - Score: +3\n\nOOHavok MacBrae Replied:\nOOOooh. got caught. Not good, bro. Sucks to be you.+ - Score: -3\n\nOOMoriarity Replied:\nOOHow are things on the inside? + - Score: +2\n\nTest is concluded.\nTesting log 3: Moriarity\nD-7372 receives a private message from Moriarity. D-7372 states he has never spoken to Moriarity before. D-7372 is authorized to interact with Morarity and respond as instructed, while relaying the responses. The conversation as reported by D-7372 is as follows:\n\nMoriarity\nYou were relatively active until recently. I was worried something had happened.\n\nRendInTwo\nI got in trouble and had internet priviliges taken away.\n\nMoriarity\nThat's a shame. You were so good at supporting people wanting to reform.\n\nRendInTwo\nWell, I don't want them to end up like me. But hey, why are you reaching out to me personally? I'm nobody.\n\nMoriarity\nI don't think you're nobody. You're one of us. We need to look out for, and support, each other.\n\nRendInTwo\nWhat other support can you provide?\n\nAccording to D-7372, Moriarity does not respond for about 20 minutes. Test is concluded.\n\nAddenda 5553.3: Incident 5553-A\n\nClose Addenda 5553.3: Incident 5553-A\n\n72 hours after the end of the last test with D-7372, Site-651 suffered what appeared to be a non-anomalous security breach. D-7372, utilizing previously-unknown knowledge of Foundation security protocols, exited his holding cell, killed two Foundation personnel and successfully passed through 3 security checkpoints with unanticipated precision before escaping into the desert.\nAn investigation into the escape revealed several security flaws in both personnel and software protocols which were quickly remedied.\n\nAddenda 5553.4: Personnel Request\n\nClose Addenda 5553.4: Personnel Request\n\nThe following memo was sent out to Foundation staff after receiving approvals from personnel and Internal Affairs directors.\n\nPersonnel Request\nIf you have a social media account on https://jack.\u2588\u2588\u2588, please contact me immediately. Your privacy will be protected. Your \"expertise\" is required.\nAll others, please disregard this memo.\nJanet Hu\nDirector, Site-651\n\nThe 13 personnel responding to this request were designated PSM-1-A through PSM-1-M.\n\nAddenda 5553.5: Incident 5553-A, Continued\n\nClose Addenda 5553.5: Incident 5553-A, Continued\n\nPSM-1-F was given access to screen recordings of D-7372's sessions interacting with SCP-5553. PSM-1-F reported that D-7372 had not been accurate or honest in the contents of the conversations with Moriarity. PSM-1-F reports the following conversation took place.\n\nMoriarity\nI know where you are. I know who's holding you. It's alright, I'm here to help you. Tell them I said you were active until recently and was worried about your well-being. Ask them if you are allowed to converse with me. They will likely say yes, as it will be an opportunity for them to get information, and that tends to blind their common sense sometimes.\n\nRendInTwo\nI got in trouble and had internet priviliges taken away.\n\nMoriarity\nGood, you're back. I have spent the last day getting information for you. Let me know when you're ready. In the meantime, let them know that I replied with something polite, and that you were actively wanting people to reform. They don't need to know your real post history. Lol\n\nRendInTwo\nWell, I don't want them to end up like me. But hey, why are you reaching out to me personally? I'm nobody.\n\nMoriarity\nSo we're clear: I am not doing this for free. You will work for me until the day you die. But you're going to be a free man, so there's that. Ready? Tell them I said something nice and polite.\n\nRendInTwo\nWhat other support can you provide?\n\nAt this point, Moriarity spent fifteen minutes explaining an intricate plan of escape utilizing classified documents and schematics, until the test ended.\nAt the time of this writing, PSM-1 users report that D-7372's account is again actively posting.\n\nAddenda 5553.6: Brief Conversation with Moriarity\n\nClose Addenda 5553.6: Brief Conversation with Moriarity\n\nToday PSM-1-C reported a brief exchange on SCP-5553 with Moriarity. PSM-1-C's username below is \"Goldfather\".\n\nFalsePr0fit posted to Life Updates\nFuck. Got up to use the bathroom, wife peeked at my coputer, had a siezure and died. + - Score: +0\n\nOOMoriarity Replied:\nOOAh, tough luck there, chum. + - Score: +1\n\nOOGoldfather Replied:\nOOHey @Moriarity, why does it kill people sometimes? Isn't the confusion enough?. + - Score: +1\n\nOOMoriarity Replied:\nOO@Goldfather https://jack.\u2588\u2588\u2588/Moriarity/Showcase + - Score: +13\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers\n\n\u00ab SCP-5552 | SCP-5553 | SCP-5554 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5554\n\nSCP-5554 as of 09/28/2019.\n\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawler Delta-17 (\"ORANGEPEELER\") is to continuously monitor the web for any Instagram accounts that have, or are suspected to have, visited SCP-5554's profile or interacted with any of its posts, and immediately delete them upon discovery. SCP-5554 has been blocked from accessing or allowing access to the general public.\nUpdate: Following 09/25/2019, interaction using direct message has been proven successful. Researcher Oliver Crane is to message with SCP-5554 every day for the benefit of its mental health. For more information, see Addendum 2.\nDescription: SCP-5554 is an account under the name \"Akihikoteddybear\" on the social media platform Instagram. All attempts to trace devices using this account have failed. Any Instagram account that interacts with SCP-5554 in any way (i.e. visiting its profile, viewing its posts) will become an instance of SCP-5554-1.\n\nAn example of SCP-5554-1 interacting with SCP-5554.\n\nTranscript\n\nClose\n\nAkihikoteddybear: I'm super happy to meet you guys! My name is Akihiko, but you can call me Aki!\nxxellie42xx: Hi Aki! You seem sweet!\nalwaysavian: Hi Aki! You seem sweet!\nohlawdhecomin: Hi Aki! You seem sweet!\namayas_journal: Hi Aki! You seem sweet!\nrandompixels: Hi Aki! You seem sweet!\n\nSCP-5554-1 are Instagram accounts that, although they had previously been maintained by normal civilians, operate via anomalous means since contact with SCP-5554. SCP-5554-1 instances will only post about and interact with SCP-5554. Separate SCP-5554-1 instances appear to act in coordination, as all such accounts post identical content and comments at exactly the same times. It is unknown at this time if SCP-5554 affects the civilians behind SCP-5554-1 accounts.\nAddendum 1: SCP-5554 Posts\nForeword: The following are all of SCP-5554's posts to date.\n\nSCP-5554 Posts\n\nClose\n\nTranscript\n\nClose\n\nPost One: I made a cute edit of me ^^\nPost Two: I'm super happy to meet you guys! My name is Akihiko, but you can call me Aki!\nPost Three: I'm pretty surprised that I gained a following so fast. Thank you all!\nPost Four: I love you guys and all, but why are you only posting the same thing in the comments?\nPost Five: Please stop doing that repetitive thing it's getting on my nerves\nPost Six: You didn't have to delete all your posts guys :/\nPost Seven: Are any of you still\u2026 there?\n\nAddendum 2: SCP-5554 Interaction\nOn 11/08/2019, SCP-5554 replied to a private message sent by Researcher Crane, who used the account \"ColorlessWire\". The following are the results:\nNote- Researcher Crane programmed the Instagram account used to emulate the effects of a reality sink, leaving said account unaffected by SCP-5554's anomalous properties, making communication possible.\n\nAddendum 2\n\nClose\n\nTranscript\n\nClose\n\nCrane: Hello there, Aki. How are you?SCP-5554: A message that isn't like one of many just like itSCP-5554: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.SCP-5554: *What's\nCrane: Feel free to call me Dex.Crane: Why did you reply today? I've messaged you with the same conversation stater.SCP-5554: I though 6th time might be a charmSCP-5554: After 6 times I decided it might be okay to reply\nCrane: I'm glad you did, you seem nice. :]SCP-5554: You know, I'm glad I might actually be talking to a real person againSCP-5554: I'm not sure if I ever wasSCP-5554: And now I'm venting to a stranger\u2026.\nCrane: It's quite alright. :)\nCrane: I've gotta go, but I'll talk to you later.\n\nClosing statement: As communication with Researcher Crane has proven successful, it is to continue daily. Efforts for more staff to communicate with SCP-5554 will be attempted shortly. See Addendum 3.\nAddendum 3: 09/30/2019\nOn 09/30/2019, Researcher Crane began to ask SCP-5554 questions about itself. During the exchange, SCP-5554 came to question its situation.\n\nAddendum 3\n\nClose\n\nNote - SCP-5554's next reply came two hours following its previous message.\n\nTranscript\n\nClose\n\nCrane: Hey Aki! We've been friends for about a month, and I realized we don't know much about each other.Crane: Whatever you're comfortable to answering, simple stuff ^^ favorite food, hobby, age if you're okay with it, I'm 20 if that helps. Basically, what you would put on a dating app profile.Crane: Cool ^^ I like complex maths, literature, snakes are my favorite animal.\nCrane: In school I always looked forward to English and maths class, I'm a tad bit of a nerd.Crane: That's cool! You speak English really well!Crane: Can you say something in Japanese for me? That would be cool.SCP-5554: I just said \"Hi! Nice to meet you!\"\nCrane: Lad, that was English.SCP-5554: No it wasn't\nCrane: Alrighty, then. Let's pay it no. mind. Hmmm. What else to talk of.\nCrane: Do you have any siblings?SCP-5554: Do you?\nCrane: I do not.\nCrane: Any pets?[SCP-5554 sends a picot of a dog.]Crane: Very cute. What's your dog's name?SCP-5554: SoSCP-5554: I did type in English\nCrane: That's what I said, silly.SCP-5554: Dog's name is dogCrane: Your dog's name is Dog?SCP-5554: That's what I said\nCrane: I'm afraid you're not making a lot of sense, mate.SCP-5554: Just do itCrane: Alright. Most embarrassing childhood memory?SCP-5554: NothingCrane: Did you have any friendships that changed your view on society, for better or worse?SCP-5554: I have friendsSCP-5554: Is this some cruel amnesia?Crane: If your best friend and your mother were about to fall off a cliff, who would you save?\nSCP-5554: Dex, why aren't you like the others?SCP-5554: Or at least a convincing aiSCP-5554: ThatSCP-5554: I'm not sure why I'm realizing all of this nowSCP-5554: I feel like you doCrane: I knew the day you found out would be coming soon.\nCrane: I'm afraid you're conclusion is correct. None of that was a coincidence. The details are best left obscured, but I'll explain what's important.\nCrane: You are not a human being as it appears you believe, you only exist through your instagram account.SCP-5554: That\u2026. no\u2026\u2026.SCP-5554: You never wanted to be my friend?Crane: That part isn't true. I've actually quite enjoyed talking with you, and hope to continue doing so.Crane: I do.SCP-5554: You lied to me before, you'll do it again. \u2639\ufe0f\nCrane: I wouldn't take time out of my schedule every day to talk to you if I didn't truly enjoy doing so.SCP-5554: But I don't really have anyone else to talk to soSCP-5554: I just came on here to make friendsCrane: I believe you. I've seen weirder.\nCrane: And I believe our friendship wasn't fake. You've just gotta trust, mate. I know it's hard after your trust has been betrayed. But, it can be repaired.Crane: No problem. I've gotta split. Take care.SCP-5554: HhhhhCrane: Yes?SCP-5554: I still likeSCP-5554: And I don't want to do it alone\nCrane: I have a few minutes to spare.SCP-5554: Back in SapporoSCP-5554: I never even though about the fact that I didn't know their instagram accounts\nCrane: To be honest, lad, I'm not sure.SCP-5554: And I don't have nearly as many memories as I thoughSCP-5554: Why didn't I realize this sooner\nCrane: I believe that asking a question that threatened you identity broke the facade you were functioning under, just an account. It made you realize there is more to life than you thought.SCP-5554: I thinkCrane: Aki, you may not be a human being, but you still have defining qualities, and you are sapient. The things you knew about yourself still define who you are, even if some of those things aren't true, such as where you live. But your opinions could still be true, as long as you can back them up.Crane: It appears your opinions are formed to match that of an average person your age. You probably subconsciously selected them from the internet, and they made you who you are.\nCrane: Humans aren't born with opinions. We collect them from other places as well, just like you did. You just did it in a. bit differently than most. We use experience, while you use data.\nCrane: So you're not human, but you are thinking and feeling.Crane: You could say that, yes.SCP-5554: HopefullySCP-5554: Thank youCrane: It's no sweat, lad.SCP-5554: Or, as close as I can get.\nCrane: I'm happy for you.\nCrane: Gotta split.Crane: Bye, lad. Till next time.\n\nClosing statement: Daily communication with SCP-5554 is to continue until further notice.\nFurther requests to reclassify this anomaly as Euclid are currently not being accepted. This is a sapient AI running on a server that we cannot physically locate, capable of turning any online platform into a party of praise, which would have only continued to expand if we had not interfered. I will not take chances on it suddenly getting bored of talking to Researcher Crane and anyone else who will be assigned to talk to it. \u2014 Professor Marcus William Scott\n\n\u00ab SCP-5553 | SCP-5554 | SCP-5555 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Welcome, O5-1.\nSCP-5555 Archive Nav\n\nPart 1\nPart 2\nPart 3\nPart 4\nPart 5\nPart 6\nPart 7\nPart 8\nEpilogue\n\nFrom:\no5-01@overwatch.scp.int\n\nTo:\nStaff (Group)\n\nSubject:\nGood job, everyone!\n\nDate:\n17/01/06\n\nToday marks another decade of the Foundation's service to humanity. Through the long years we've quietly protected the world from the shadows, we've been working at making it safer, easier, and more efficient to contain the anomalies that would otherwise wreak havoc on society. This decade has been a culmination of that work \u2014 ten years without a single containment breach, a single escaped anomaly, a single destroyed site. The Foundation is a machine dedicated to securing, containing, and protecting, and it's all thanks to you. The tireless researchers, agents, guards, workers \u2014 you have made this possible.\nHere's to another ten years.\n\nO5-01\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\nFrom:\no5-01@overwatch.scp.int\n\nTo:\nO5 Council (Group)\n\nSubject:\nDisturbing Discovery\n\nDate:\n18/01/06\n\nMy fellows,\nI have made a troubling discovery this evening. Please review the attached file and fly to Overwatch command immediately to discuss.\n\nO5-01\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\n5/5555 LEVEL 5/5555\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5555\n\nSafe\n\nThe elevator leading to SCP-5555.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5555 is contained at its location of discovery.\nDescription: SCP-5555 is a mass grave in the northwest corner of Overwatch Command's lowest subbasement that is filled with anomalous corpses. Although most of the bodies within SCP-5555 can be removed without incident, continued excavation of the grave will inevitably reveal further instances of the exhumed bodies. The age, depth, and source of the bodies within SCP-5555 are unknown. No records of SCP-5555 have been found within the Foundation's database, and the room allowing access to SCP-5555 is not present on any of Overwatch Command's blueprints.\n\nAddendum: Excavation Results\n\nDescription of Body\nCause of Death\nAdditional Notes\n\nA male of unclear age and ethnicity. The body is perfectly preserved and shows no signs of injury, disease, or decomposition.\nUnclear.\n\nAn unidentified corpse dressed in yellow. A burlap sack covers its head, tightened in place with a noose. Removing the sack and noose reveals an identical sack and noose beneath.\nLigature strangulation.\nThe cause of death suggests that the deceased was intended to suffer for some time before dying.\n\nA middle-aged Alutiiq female with a skeleton comprised of ice. The ice does not melt regardless of temperature.\nMost likely shock, blood loss, or hypothermia.\nUPDATE: Under no circumstances is any part of the skeletal system to be exposed.\n\nA male human corpse with over 80% of its internal organs replaced with sophisticated gear-driven mechanisms. These mechanisms continue to operate, resulting in post-mortem activity when sufficiently wound.\nRepeated extrusion of brass piston from left orbital socket, the result of a feedback loop caused by an operation that divides by zero.\nAlthough the body resembles a person in late-stage SCP-217 infection, the organs are wholly artificial and appear to have been surgically installed.\n\nA black stone coffin. Attempts to open the coffin have been stymied by a force being exerted from within.\nN/A\nIt is unclear what is within the coffin, though the context of its location suggests that a human being is inside.\n\nAn adolescent female of unknown ethnicity with dark blue skin and alopecia universalis (a medical condition characterized by lack of hair), with two severed hands grasping its throat.\nStrangulation.\nWhile perceiving the corpse, subjects cannot differentiate between persons they identify as female and non-sapient objects. All attempts to remove the hands have failed.\n\nA white teenage girl whose eyes have been gouged out.\nSkull fracture caused by pressure applied to the ocular orbits.\nPhotographs of the body show a pair of blue eyes; when viewed through video, the eyes follow the camera.\n\nFrom:\no5-01@overwatch.scp.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nSubject:\nRecent Events\n\nDate:\n19/01/06\n\nAt 0500 hours this morning, 15 sites received orders signed by you to transfer several of their more notable anomalies to a new site in the Siberian tundra. The coordinates directed them to Overwatch Command. If it was possible to fake your authorization, I'm sure someone would have done it by now, so what the hell is this? I'm worried. What are you planning? Respond ASAP, please.\n\nO5-01\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\nWSJ.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal Magazine\n\nANDERSON ROBOTICS STOCKS TANK\n\nIf you're reading this, you must be the new Overseer 1. My name is Everett Mann. I was your predecessor until I was blackballed by the Administrator, Francis Fritzwilliams. He preferred to be called Fritz by his friends. Until I was burned, I thought I was one of them.\n\nI wish I could give you more details at the moment. Unfortunately, all I know is that he transferred over a hundred anomalies to Overwatch Command. Then he framed me for an elaborate plot to kill the other Overseers \u2014 my friends.\n\nI'm on the run, so I can't teach you as much as my predecessor taught me. I'll send you as many logs as I can. Don't focus on how they're getting to you, just what's inside them. Fritz undoubtedly has you on a screw-tight leash, but our duty is still to protect the world. You'll have to kill him to save the Foundation. Then you can get back to saving mankind.\n\nDespite his myriad failings, Fritz always had a talent for delegation. You are an Overseer. And that means you have the wisdom to make plans, the cunning and tenacity to see them through, and the paranoia to ensure that they can't be traced back to you. More than that, you still have the drive to do the right thing.\n\nBut I'm getting ahead of myself. It won't do you any good to run out and get yourself killed. Before you even think of raising a hand against him, you'll need three key things: a lair, escape plans, and safehouses.\n\nYour lair is your first line of defense. Stock it with guards and line it with traps so that when Fritz comes you'll have time to get away. In fact, ignore the guards. Traps only betray you if you're stupid enough to fall into them. When Fritz first burned me, he sent his own death squad to my door. I should've been easy prey \u2014 a hermit who'd holed up in an Arctic shack for nearly thirty years at that point. My Factotums did everything short of shit for me. Do you still call them that? They were our body doubles. The people who looked, spoke, sounded like us \u2014 who acted and died for us. I imagine you do.\n\nMy point is, I spent all my time making decisions and then smoking the memory of those decisions away. When Fritz came for me, I barely remembered how to hold a gun or even how to throw a punch. But I often read \"The Most Dangerous Game\", and it inspired me to rig the entrance to my lair with Malay man-catchers and Burmese tiger pits. These were crude and simple traps \u2014 so simple that every man on that death squad fell for one. It gave me the time I needed to escape.\n\nEscape plans are the second piece of the puzzle. Be ready to exfiltrate anytime and anywhere, be it the toilet or mid-meeting. Have fake escape plans to share with your closest friends. Stress the importance of keeping them quiet. Those are the ones that will be given to Fritz first. Your plans to escape your lair are more important than your lair itself. I escaped through a secret tunnel, so Fritz will probably be wise to those. I apologize for that. Drill some anyways. Use them as red herrings. Maybe teleportation is mundane in your time. If not, find some SCPs that let you teleport. Fast.\n\nFrom this point on, safehouses will be your only refuge. Plan for the end of the world. Establish lots of them, stocked with as many supplies as you can get your hands on \u2014 anomalous or not. Have fake safehouses. Steal anomalies that can get you to your safehouses. At any and every Foundation site, have a mole in place you can contact. Have two or three or four if you can. If you can't trust them, blackmail them. As one of the secret rulers of the world, you have every resource that you could possibly dream of. Use them proactively \u2014 but discreetly!\n\nI was lucky enough to download the contents of Fritz's email box and nab a cap that made me practically invisible, but unlucky enough to have trusted him with most all of my other failsafes. Learn from my mistakes and make your own luck. Take what you can. If you succeed, you can always put it back.\n\nThis task must seem daunting. Your enemy has the entire Foundation behind him, and maybe the entire rest of the anomalous community as well. I wish I could offer you reassurance or moral fortitude but I can't. I can only tell you that if you've become an Overseer then you are indeed the most qualified for the job. That knowledge carried me through my darkest moments. I hope it helps you.\n\nFrom:\nwondertainment_ceo@wonderworld.dwt.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nCC:\nCycle (Group)\n\nSubject:\nIt's Time!\n\nDate:\n19/01/06\n\nWell played, Fritz! Masterfully done as always! I was hoping I could win this time, but my Builder Bullies were just slow as molasses when it came to building the Wondermaker\u2122. It's a shame, really. Can you imagine the world all painted up with every man, woman, and child smiling the most Wondertastic\u2122 smile they could smile? The Little Misters\u2122, Live in Concert in New York? Oh it would have been delightful! But alas, you won, and I am but a sore loser.\nAnywho~, the Robodudes\u2122 should be done razing Wonder World\u2122 before the end of the month, meaning I still have plenty of time to get you and the others some souvenirs. If I remember correctly, Bumaro wants some Choco-Wonder Explosion Marshmallow Bites!\u2122 and Jude wanted a Mr. Fish figurine. Is there any toy you wanted or is that boy good enough for you, Fritz?\nI kid!\nBy the by\u2014could you be a pal and send a copy of the file my way? I seem to have misplaced mine, unfortunately, and I'd really appreciate it. I know email is faster but I do love the physicality of these things. It's just so much more fun to hold it in your hands!\nMy address is:\n108 Whimsy Way, Wonder World, MA 12321.\n\nDr. H. L. Wondertainment\nThe Wackiest Practitioner of Whimsy!\n\nDeer College Odyssey\n\nThe Buck Stops Here\n\nTHREE PORTLANDS\nFRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2006\nFREE OR ELSE\n\nFULLER CIRCUS CLOSES\n\nENTIRE CAST FIRED, NOT OUT OF CANNONS\n\nI beg your patience for some of my stylistic flourishes; reading and writing are the only things I have to distract from the crushing weight of this responsibility. So let's move on. By now, you're almost certainly holed up in a safe house somewhere and trying to determine your next move. KILL THE ADMINISTRATOR: a laudable goal, but how do you get from here to there?\n\nBefore I was an overseer, I was a silencer: a member of a highly clandestine Foundation task force tasked with eliminating the leadership of the Chaos Insurgency. In the process, Fritz and I developed an eminently effective set of rules for carrying out this task. Rather ironic that we're going to use it against him.\n\nThe first and most important rule of silencing is to ask the right questions. As Sun Tzu put it, know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. However, Sun Tzu certainly did not have listening devices or email logins or any of the glut of tools available to your disposal. Your problem is almost certainly not knowing your enemy \u2014 it's knowing too much. Just ask the five W's about your enemy: who, what, where, when, and why? Then solve them.\n\nWith these questions in mind, I started digging through Fritz's email and found the attached message from Doctor Wondertainment. Whatever Fritz's plan is, the secret rulers of the entire anomalous world are conspirators within it. Unfortunately, Fritz chose to send the file as regular mail rather than email. Given its significance, I decided to go to Wonder World to retrieve it.\n\nMaybe you think I should try to assassinate Wondertainment. That's understandable. Fritz would've made you play chess with him once a fortnight. So you almost certainly think that this is like a game of chess. You have to checkmate the king, but first remove the pieces around him. Pick off his pieces one-by-one. Play dirty.\n\nMaybe that will work for you. Maybe you have an army of laser death satellites at your disposal. I'm just an old man with an invisibility cap who has to pick his battles. In all my years as an Overseer, all I ever learned about the Doctor was her infinite caprice and malice. Better simply to know what she does and let her squabble with Fritz about it.\n\nWondertainment's base of operations is Wonder World: a pocket dimension that houses her factories and corporate headquarters. But in the decades that we've known about it, we only ever sent a single task force inside. The longer a person stays inside, the more they change \u2014 mutating and becoming something other than human. I'll have to work quickly.\n\nTo do: Unravel the conspiracy.\n\nThe second rule of silencing is to keep your eyes and ears open but your mouth closed. There is a portal into Wonder World on the corner of Birch Road and Loring Road at Chelsea Point. It is opened by ripping the heads off of a G.I. Joe and Barbie doll simultaneously, then tossing them into the trash can in the alley at the intersection aforementioned roads. It took me weeks to find, lurking around the city with little more than a jacket and flask to warm me while trying to suss out the Doctor's men from the blue-collars. But it paid off. Despite the chill, it feels good to be out in the field again.\n\nThe portal at Chelsea Point deposited me approximately 1.5 kilometers east of the Doctor's base of operations: the so-called Wonder Tower. Boston is a miserable city, with miserable roads and miserable people and miserable freezing chills. But its natural misery is infinitely preferable to Wonder World's facade of happiness. That place had no sun, only a tambourine drum hanging in a purple sky. Its buildings were stripped from the nightmares of Dali and Escher, possibly literally. Still, the city thrummed with a distinctly urban energy that not even the Doctor could cover in sugar. It's an energy I'd almost forgotten after being away from civilization so long.\n\nWonder Tower itself is a monument to the Doctor's hubris \u2014 an ugly purple spire that dominates the skyline, with massive steps leading into an equally massive lobby. Having relied on my cap to shield me for most of the day, I crossed the lobby and asked the secretary for keycard access to the Doctor's private office. She handed it off and told me in the same breath that the Doctor was out of the office.\n\nThe third rule of silencing is to be patient. I should have waited and established a schedule of the Doctor's comings and goings. But I was complacent. Age had atrophied my skills, and the cap barely covered those deficiencies. I let haste overcome my better judgment \u2014 and it nearly killed me.\n\nCCTV CAMERA 13: OFFICE EXTERIOR\n\n[Camera sweeps to elevator. As elevator doors open, camera feed rapidly deteriorates in quality, becoming grainy and unfocused. Despite this, portions of the feed are still visible. A hazy and indistinct figure exits the elevator and rushes out of the camera's sight. Camera sweeps to office door. Figure is hunched over the doorknob, and remains so for the next 49 seconds before the door opens and the figure enters the office. Camera quality improves.]\n\nCCTV CAMERA 14: OFFICE INTERIOR\n\n[Camera sweeps to door. Camera feed deteriorates similar to Camera 13; the figure dashes across the plush carpet to the large mahogany desk. The figure stops at the painting of Charles Wondertainment IV and shakes its head before returning to the desk. Figure rifles through the drawers for several minutes before extracting a manilla folder. Figure proceeds to begin typing on the computer on the desk.]\n\nCCTV CAMERA 13: OFFICE EXTERIOR\n\n[Camera sweeps to elevator. Holly Wondertainment exits the elevator and briskly walks to the office door before shutting and locking it behind her.]\n\nMIC 4: DESK\n\n[Sounds of typing and paper shuffling.]\nMANN: C'mon, c'mon, c'mon\u2026\nHOLLY: MANNY! Long time no see, darling!\n[Heavy object dropping to floor.]\nMANN: Je- Holly.\nHOLLY: So glad you've made yourself comfortable! I was just coming up to greet you!\nMANN: Long time no see.\nHOLLY: And not a moment too soon! You've thrown quite the wrench into our little setup, Manny.\nMANN: Your setup?\nHOLLY: [Giggling] All in due time.\nMANN: I'm gonna find out one way or another, Holly. I already know about th-\nHOLLY: Manny, honey, baby. Look at me.\nMANN: What is it?\nHOLLY: You don't even know what you don't know.\nMANN: Then enlighten me, Holly. Or I can wring it out of your powdery neck.\nHOLLY: Rude! Didn't your mother ever teach you any manners? Never insult a woman's makeup. Hmph.\nMANN: Who else is in bed with you and Fritz? Eleven? Six?\nHOLLY: Oh, please. Like we'd want to play with your stupid little numbers club. No, darling, this game is bigger than the little sandlot of yours.\nMANN: Explain. Now.\nHOLLY: [Giggling.] Since when are you Batman? I think all those years in the North have put you out of practice. I'm not a pretty little airhead you can scare, honey.\n[Sloshing noise. Camera feed indicates Wondertainment draws and raises a large Super Squirter brand water gun, aiming at Mann.]\nMANN: You certainly seem more deranged than last time.\nHOLLY: You did try to have me killed, Manny. That tends to piss a girl off. You know what they say, hell hath no fu-\nMANN: You disemboweled an entire Site for toy parts, Holly. And then you killed the strike team and played Operation with their bodies.\n[HOLLY giggles and shrugs.]\nHOLLY: Well mister-man, sorry for breaking your little toy soldiers. They were no fun anyway. All stic-\nMANN: What are you using the Pit for? Why? What's the point?\nHOLLY: [Pause.] Oh. You read the file.\nMANN: I'm not gonna ask twice.\nHOLLY: Get on the ground.\nMANN: Last chance.\nHOLLY: I'm the one holding the gun, you idio-\n[Pistol cock, fire. Desk flips, crushing Mic 4.]\n\nCCTV CAMERA 14: OFFICE INTERIOR\n\n[Camera sweeps to desk. Wondertainment is holding a large Super Squirter and advancing on the flipped desk. Figure is huddled behind it, repeatedly peeking out to fire a pistol. Wondertainment returns fire with the water gun, hitting the desk and causing it to melt and smoke at the point of impact. Figure reloads before leaping out from behind the desk and firing six rounds into Wondertainment's torso. Wondertainment falls backward. A large red stain spreads across her coat.]\n[Figure approaches Wondertainment, but does not reload. As the figure nears, Wondertainment draws a Whoopee cushion from her coat and throws it at them. It collides with their chest and violently explodes, knocking the figure against the wall. A flaming scrap lands on a nearby bookshelf, setting it alight.]\n[Wondertainment slowly rises to her feet, limping toward the figure. She unties her necktie and begins fashioning a makeshift garrote as she walks. Suddenly, the figure pushes off the wall and rushes Wondertainment, catching her in the stomach and pushing her to the ground. The fire spreads across the walls and drapes, quickly covering the office.]\n[Both struggle as the office burns before Wondertainment overpowers the figure and straddles their chest while repeatedly punching their face, visibly laughing. Figure flips Wondertainment onto the floor and knees Wondertainment's sternum before reaching for the fallen Super Squirter. Figure unscrews the cap and overturns it, dumping the acid solution onto her face. Figure holds Wondertainment as she screams and struggles for a few seconds before going limp. Rolling off, the figure notices the camera before shooting it. Camera feed terminated.]\n\n5/5555 LEVEL 5/5555\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5555\n\nSafe\n\nThe elevator leading to SCP-5555.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Upon completion of the turnover and the re-establishment of the fa\u00e7ade, SCP-5555 is to be sealed over with concrete. No anomaly will ever visit SCP-5555 more than once in their lifetime.\nSCP-5555 is not to be discussed outside of preparation periods.\nDescription: SCP-5555 is a massive pit located on Sublevel 27 of Overwatch Command. When a cataloged SCP willingly enters SCP-5555, it will die. Its skills, personality, and anomalous attributes will be slightly modified and reassigned to a new instance, which will instantaneously manifest near the location of the SCP's initial discovery. These properties make it crucial to the successful progression from each round to the next.\nSCP-5555 is accessible only by a single cargo elevator. Neither Sublevel 27 nor SCP-5555 are marked on any blueprints of Overwatch Command. The age, depth, and origin of SCP-5555 are indeterminable and irrelevant.\nAt this time, the previous round has ended, and a preparation period has begun. All personnel are asked to comply with SCP-5555 directions as assigned.\n\nSort By: Most Recent\nSort By: Classification: Anomalies\n\nEntity\nTransfer Confirmed\nNotes on Replacement\n\nThe Doctor\nConvinced him the vial I had was a vital component to his cure and threw it into the pit. He went tumbling after.\nScouts have confirmed the presence of a black-robed entity in Montauban, France, apparently able to kill via touch. The new plague-doctor mask looks a hell of a lot better than the gas mask.\n\nAble\nI opened the box with it facing the pit. He stepped out and straight down. I think that counts as willingly.\nReports have come in from indigenous tribes about an enraged tattooed warrior spirit in upper Mongolia. Seems he ditched the guns for swords this time around \u2014 hopefully he'll be easier to capture.\n\nThe Statue\nBaited it into the pit with a dangling D-Class.\nThe replacement appeared in a Kyoto art exhibit and caused 23 civilian deaths before being contained. It's in a shipping container under Site-19. It's made out of concrete now, which made moving it a pain in the ass.\n\nDuke Blackwood\nMoles can't see very well. I just tossed a steak into the pit and he blindly followed.\nWe're keeping an eye on his mansion and are ready to catch whatever comes out.\n\nRemains of Chair\nWondertainment was dead when we dropped by, so we asked Thomas to repair the chair while he regenerated.\nFactory foreman said it'll be a month, and the best they can do is a chair that looks like a woman. Fuller says someone else should destroy the chair next time.\n\nImmortality Jewel\nJason jumped in the moment we told him he'd die for good. He seemed glad to go.\nThe jewel has reappeared in the form of an amulet. It has been locked it up in some box and left in Site-19's basement. I pity whoever comes across it.\n\nThe Seed\nDropped it into a vat of molten metal and kicked it in. It screamed like a man.\nFell to Earth in Dellinton, England. Bumaro went to retrieve it \u2014 says he has ideas for tying it more closely to MEKHANE.\n\nFrom:\nalfine@command.goc.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nSubject:\nBravo!\n\nDate:\n24/01/06\n\nWhat can I say but 'bravo'?\nThe sheer rush of adrenaline from knowing that someone is out there trying to end my life\u2026 by God, it makes me feel alive. Holly and Bumaro are clutching their pearls at this development, but I speak for more than just myself when I say that this is the perfect addition to our game. I can definitely see why you've taken an interest in this Mann character.\nBravo, Fritz, bravo.\n\nSee you soon,\nD.C. Al Fine.\n\nFrom:\ntheassembler.ofgod@WAN.net.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nSubject:\nNo subject.\n\nDate:\n24/01/06\n\nSome of the others and I got to talking, and we all think you've gone too far. We agreed to let you try and spice up the game last time, but straight up murdering one of us wasn't part of the deal. Not only is dying really unpleasant (as Holly was sure to let me know when she woke up), but adding a rogue element after achieving your winstate feels like you taking a victory lap all over us. In short, it's not fun.\nWe need to talk about this, ASAP.\n\nBlessed be Mekhane, for she makes us Whole.\nRobert Bumaro, High Priest, The Forger of God, The Messiah\n\n\ud83d\ude29\n\nFrom:\nbluntfiend@gaw.fuckyou.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nRe:\nThis shit\n\nYo,\n\nThat shit was fucked, dude.\n\n- JK (BF)\n\nTORONTO STAR\n\nMostly Cloudy High 15C\n\u2605\u2605\u2605THURSDAY the 25th, 2006\u2605\u2605\u2605\nONTARIO EDITION\n\nBennett Lake mysteriously turns red!\n\nWondertainment got the drop on me and I had to kill her. Worse, she ruined the cap; it barely stayed intact long enough for me to get out of her tower. I thought I'd be gunned down on her technicolor streets before I got away. Only upside of the clusterfuck is I got the file. Even managed to steal some of her personal playthings, like exploding whoopee cushions and a squirt gun full of acid. Fourth rule of silencing: be resourceful.\n\nThe file is 5555, but not the one either of us knew; it's far worse. And that's without the implications of WHAT things are being rolled into this pit. Take the Seed. Assuming they mean SCP-3179, that came from outer space. Hell, I was there when the Cogwork Orthodoxy handed the thing off to us. Fritz and his friends must have been planning this for decades \u2014 or god forbid, centuries. I don't even think 006 provides that kind of longevity.\n\nFifth rule of silencing: prioritize. Sixth rule: cut the head off the snake. The file being labeled SCP-5555 means Fritz is the true leader of the conspiracy. He needs to be eliminated ASAP. Then we can figure out how badly he compromised the Foundation (and GOIs, for whatever value of compromised).\n\nYou need to pass the file to every Overseer and member of Senior Staff you can contact; I'm sure they have enough initiative to raise hell of their own. If the file's accurate, Bumaro is in England. I might be able to wring Fritz's location out of him. Then I'm going to burn Fritz alive. It's a long shot, but it's all we have.\n\nThe skills needed to succeed in this line of work are like riding a bike. Age may have dulled them, but I still possess them \u2014 and my run-in with Wondertainment has sharpened them. Still, I mustn't let overconfidence replace age. My whole body hurts like hell and her lesson cost me my cap. The conspirators will certainly be on their guards from now on. If I want to stay in the game, I'll need to dredge up every last trick from my youth.\n\nYou too. Stay frosty. And good luck.\n\nTo do: Stay alive.\n\nFritz must have warned the conspirators about me. I flew to Paris and took the Chunnel train from there, but men from the Cogwork Orthodoxy shut the train down at the bottom of the damn sea. They posed as immigration inspectors trying to catch illegal immigrants from Calais, but I recognized the unmistakable ticking of their clockwork limbs. Dunno how the hell they knew where I'd be.\n\nI got lucky. I was in a private berth so I shot out the window. The Cogworks heard the sounds and assumed I'd fled out the window\u2026 but I was actually hiding in the luggage compartment. They climbed out the window in pursuit, and eventually the train started moving again. I had to steal some clothes from a sleeping mime artist. I slathered on his makeup, donned his ridiculous striped outfit, and prayed that it wouldn't be raining.\n\nSeventh rule of silencing: the more your disguise stands out, the less you stand out. Dover is crawling with Cogworks, none of whom spared more than a glance at the sloppily-put-together mime tip-toeing through the city. I've never seen this many of them out in the open at once. Fritz's end-game must be coming soon if Bumaro is willing to throw caution to the wind like this.\n\nI stole a bicycle near the edge of town and pedaled north towards Dellinton. My legs were screaming before ten kilometers had passed and my liver was feeling too good for itself, so I was forced to stop off in an inn. I can only hope that exercise and my time sipping from the Fountain will strengthen them.\n\nIt took me two days to reach Dellinton. I've been camped on a hill outside the town for five days now, staking it out to catch a glimpse of Bumaro and subsisting on boxed wine and whatever I can forage. If Dover was crawling with Cogworks, Dellinton is infested with them. They've completely supplanted the local authorities. I have to assume that the GOC suppressed this news somehow, since the Queen has never been fond of the Foundation or Broken God. The scale of this conspiracy continues to frighten me.\n\nAnd for what? A pockmark of craters on the far side of town. A stubby brass spire was erected near them when I arrived \u2014 I assume it's Bumaro's temporary accommodations. There's too many Cogworks there to get close. They've been tearing down buildings and displacing civilians all week for raw material that they've been moving to the crater. Thought they might be recreating 3179's original containment unit, but I haven't seen any sign of construction.\n\nI've also yet to see Bumaro. He's content to hide out in his spire for however long the process takes. But two can play at that game. Remember rule three? I once hid in a tree for two weeks straight to take one shot. I can lie under the stars a few days more.\n\nI caught a rabbit in a snare tonight; first one I'd made in forty years. But every motion held the familiarity of an old friend.\n\ntheguardian\n\nguardian.co.uk\n\nLONDON UNDER SIEGE\n\nArmed Forces deployed against avian mutants\n\nBumaro finally came out after ten days. He exited the spire just after dawn, peeked at one of the craters, and then immediately retreated back inside. Whatever the Cogworks have been doing in the crater, it's nearing its conclusion. There's fewer and fewer of them every day and I've noticed holes in the guard shifts.\n\nI've assembled a plan to kidnap Bumaro. For whatever reason, the Cogworks still use the latrine \u2014 and do so in packs. I've made a few pipe bombs from the supplies I took off Wondertainment's corpse and investigated the sewer system; it stinks like shit and murders my knees, but offers direct access to a public toilet near the craters. I'll make my way there by nightfall. As the guard shift changes, I'll plant the pipe bombs in the latrine, then use the cover of darkness to get near Bumaro's chambers. If my IEDs work, they'll melt the brass right off Bumaro's men, and I can use what little remains in Wondertainment's squirt gun to incapacitate him and get him into the sewers.\n\nIt feels good to be doing this again. I remember when Fritz taught me how to make pipe bombs, damn near sixty years ago. Almost blew my hands and his head off with a short fuse.\n\nTo do: Stay frosty.\n\nPORTABLE LISTENING DEVICE TRANSCRIPT\n\n[Sounds of clockwork ticking, interspersed with occasional leaves rustling, for eight minutes and twelve seconds. The clockwork ticking fades into the distance, and the leaves rustle again. Muffled explosion, followed by shouts. Sound of heavy breathing, then a door opening and quickly shutting and several locks ratcheting into position. Boots hitting metal repeatedly, then another door opening.]\nMANN: Oh, motherfuck-\nVOICE 1: [From overhead] Ah! Look who's decided to finally show up.\n[Computer identifies VOICE 1 as PoI-827, HERMAN FULLER.]\nMANN: Herman. Should've known you'd be behind the tacky setup.\nFULLER: You might want to try reconsidering getting on my bad side, chum. You're not exactly in a position to be insulting people anymore.\nMANN: Where's Bumaro?\nFULLER: Useless lump is probably in the back. You simply wouldn't believe the amount of bitching and moaning I've had to deal with from that palooka. Mann this, Fritz that. Ugh. ROBBY!\nVOICE 2: D-did you get him?\n[Computer identifies VOICE 2 as PoI-096, ROBERT BUMARO.]\nFULLER: Yeah I got him, you limp-dick.\nBUMARO: This would've been easier if we just used the cogwor-\nFULLER: Close your head, you boob. I swear, no balls on this guy. So, Manny. You of all people, falling into the oldest trap of all. Funny, ain't it?\nMANN: For a certain definition of funny. So could you please get the gun out of my fa-\nFULLER: Uh, uh, uh. How stupid you think I am? I saw what you did to Holly, that crazy broad. You're not moving from that spot.\nBUMARO: If he's so dangerous, just blow his head off!\nFULLER: Bobby, you have no appreciation for style. Why would I bump him already?\nBUMARO: Why would you keep him alive?!\nFULLER: This cat has worked alongside Fritz for decades, Robby! Do you realize what kind of advantage this could give us next round? Insider know-how on how he operates, plays, everything! You really don't want that?\nBUMARO: Is it worth risking dying again? You saw Holly afterward, even she looked like a ghost! This isn't worth it, man-\nFULLER: God, you're no fun.\nBUMARO: No, I just don't feel like kicking it again.\nFULLER: You wanna be Fritz' bitch for another lifetime? Cuz I sure as fuck don't. So shut up before you get clipped.\nBUMARO: You used me, I deserve a say-\nFULLER: You deserve to do the dance, and fuck all else. Now- Mister Everett Mann, Overseer One, Oh-Five Uno\u2026 what can you tell me about the man you call Francis Fritzwilliams?\nMANN: Why?\n[Sound of a punch, followed by a grunt from MANN.]\nFULLER: All you need to know is that you're gonna tell me everything you know about Fritz, unless you wanna get popped. Capiche?\nMANN: Aren't you all in bed together? What would I know that you don't?\nFULLER: We may have had our\u2026 dealings, but we weren't close. Not like you pair'a daisies were.\nMANN: We weren't close.\nBUMARO: [Scoffs] Bullshit.\nFULLER: Oh, look who's all interested now. But he's right.\n[More sounds of physical assault, followed by sounds of pain from MANN.]\nFULLER: We know you two were like peas in a pod, confidants. So cough it up.\nMANN: If we were close\u2026 I don't think he would have tried to have me murdered.\nFULLER: Oh, he didn't mean that. You gotta have known that, at least. If the cat wants someone dead, that motherfucker is gonna be sleeping it off in a wooden kimono.\nMANN: I survived by being smarter than him.\nFULLER: You survived because he wanted you to.\nMANN: I knew Fritz better than my own father. His favorite stout, football team, and childhood sweetheart. He taught me how to tie garottes, make bombs, and waterboard a man. I know exactly how many people Fritz has wanted dead because I wanted them dead too. So trust me, fatso, when I say he wanted me dead.\nVOICE 3: [From behind] Aw, yer flatterin' me.\n[Computer identifies VOICE 3 as Foundation Administrator, FRANCIS FRITZWILLIAMS.]\nFULLER & BUMARO: Shit.\nMANN: Fritz.\nFRITZWILLIAMS: Hey, Rhett. Sorry 'bout the radio silence, been a bit busy cleaning up after my associates. Hope it didn't hurt too much.\nMANN: Wasn't too bad compared to the assassination teams.\n[FRITZWILLIAMS laughs.]\nFRITZWILLIAMS: I bet, I bet. You ain't lost your touch. That stuff with Wondertainment, real fine stuff. Beautifully gory. Shuttin' her mouth fer' more then five minutes is an achievement.\nMANN: Don't remember you being this gleeful about violence.\nFRITZWILLIAMS: Mmm. Well, th' field changes us all, don't it? Anyway, gents, I'm here to take Mr. Mann into my custody.\nFULLER: Like fuck you are. We captured him fair and square.\nFRITZWILLIAMS: Sure did, and kudos on tha', haha. He's a wily one. But winning comes with certain, ah, privileges. Such as the snipers in the rafters aiming at both yer heads.\n[BUMARO yelps.]\nFULLER: You know it won't kill us.\nFRITZWILLIAMS: Oh, fer sure. But it'll git' you down long 'nuff for me and Rhett here to take our leave. So we can do this th' easy way or th' hard way. Pick yer path, gents.\n[Silence.]\nBUMARO: Fine, take him, just get out of he-\nFULLER: Fuck you!\n[Shotgun pump and discharge. Exchange of gunfire, followed by indistinct shouting. Metal hitting flesh, and an ensuing scream, and the sound of someone hitting the ground. A body being dragged, continuing gunfire. After a minute and 57 seconds, gunfire ceases. Heavy breathing is audible.]\nFRITZWILLIAMS: Mann. Rhett, wake up, kid.\n[Heavy breathing.]\nFRITZWILLIAMS: Aw, shit.\n\nTrip Through the BackDoor\n\nStep On Through\n\nBACKDOOR SOHO\n\n5\u00a2 - NO REFUNDS\n\nWHERE IS THE FOUNDATION?\n\nFocus. Writing helps. I like writing. I like putting my thoughts on a page. My wrist hurts, focus on that.\n\nStop. Think. Process.\n\nSummarize.\n\nI woke up in a bed with a migraine. My back hurt and my shoulders hurt and I ached all over. But I was also bandaged up. I was in a square room, with featureless sheetrock walls and carpet flooring. There was a dresser on the right with water and Tylenol.\n\nFound a connected bathroom. I looked like hell. But there was toothpaste and a brush and a shower. I took an hour long shower. Hot water good. Soap great. Soft towel excellent. Found jeans and a plaid shirt in the dresser. Wrangler-brand. Fit perfectly.\n\nI left the room and found myself in a safehouse. Not one of mine, but cozy. Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, dining table, living room. There was Hawaiian pizza and Texas Pete on the dining table. No beer though, just Erdinger. I stuck with water.\n\nFritz left a note for me in the living room, and an updated copy of the file.\n\nHey Rhett,\n\nSorry I couldn't stay. You were pretty conked out when I patched you up and I had some errands to run. The Critic's in Toronto shutting that whole scene down. He likes to hang out near Graffiti Alley. Your plane leaves tonight. My old jacket's by the door; told her you'd be taking her out. She's got a wallet with your tickets and some other stuff you might need. I know your run-in with Herman and Bobby might have you a bit rattled, but shake it off. You've got a world to save and Foundation to avenge.\n\nLove,\nFritz\n\nP.S. Great work with those notes. Glad you still remember my lessons.\n\n5/5555 LEVEL 5/5555\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5555\n\nSafe\n\nThe elevator leading to SCP-5555.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Upon completion of the turnover and the re-establishment of the fa\u00e7ade, SCP-5555 is to be sealed over with concrete. No anomaly will ever visit SCP-5555 more than once in their lifetime.\nSCP-5555 is not to be discussed outside of preparation periods.\nDescription: SCP-5555 is a massive pit located on Sublevel 27 of Overwatch Command. When a cataloged SCP willingly enters SCP-5555, it will die. Its skills, personality, and anomalous attributes will be slightly modified and reassigned to a new instance, which will instantaneously manifest near the location of the SCP's initial discovery. These properties make it crucial to the successful progression from each round to the next.\nSCP-5555 is accessible only by a single cargo elevator. Neither Sublevel 27 nor SCP-5555 are marked on any blueprints of Overwatch Command. The age, depth, and origin of SCP-5555 are indeterminable and irrelevant.\nAt this time, the previous round has ended, and a preparation period has begun. All personnel are asked to comply with SCP-5555 directions as assigned.\nSort By: Most Recent\nSort By: Classification: Personnel: Senior Staff\n\nPersonnel\nSelected Replacement\nNotes on Replacement\n\nSite-67 Director\nSimon Glass\nThe current holder of the position is married and fathered a child. The intended replacement is a highly driven PhD, who shows little evidence of repeating this pattern.\n\nResearch and Development Head\nKain Pathos Crow\nResearch prodigy. Has projects in robotics, biochemistry, paratechnology, history, and anything else he could possibly learn. He's the only man right for the job.\n\nClassification Committee Head\nJean Karlyle Aktus\nExpert in security and has limited, non-veil experience with the paranormal. His health conditions are unfortunate but may prove to be excellent leverage.\n\nDepartment of Applied Influence Head\nAlto Clef\nFormer gock \u2014 I've had my eyes on him this whole round, and I don't think anyone will notice if I squirrel him away for whoever plays Administrator next. He could be their best man, or go ballistic and wreck a few sites. Maybe I should start a betting pool.\n\nSite-19 Director\nTilda Moose\nOperative of the Hand, type-blue, quite experienced with thaumaturgy and other magic bullshit. I think having them contain other anomalies will be a delicious stroke of irony.\n\nSort By: Oldest\nSort By: Classification: Personnel: Overseers\n\nPersonnel\nKill Confirmed\nNotes on Replacement\n\nO5-13\nI entered the Pit for old times' sake, but it's rather an exercise in futility, no?\nThe Foundation you knew is gone.\n\nO5s 12 through 2\nOne cyanide pill each. 5, 9, and 12 went without a struggle.\nTook care of that myself.\n\nO5-1\nWe bonded.\nNow get a move on, son.\n\nDamn me for a fool. The Foundation's rotten to the core, and I have no idea how long this has been happening. Maybe if I'd been more proactive. Left the Arctic once in a while. Maybe I would have noticed something sooner. Done something before.\n\nI still don't understand why he saved me. Maybe he thinks I'm more useful taking out his former allies. Whatever game he's playing has come to its end, so he has no more need for them.\n\nBut two can play this game. Fritz taught me how to kill Chaos Insurgents \u2014 and they wanted to be a Foundation. He taught me everything I need to topple his empire to the ground.\n\nI'm not an Overseer anymore. I'm a silencer. Thanks for the wakeup call, Fritz. I'm excited to get back to work.\n\nTo do: Destroy the Foundation.\n\nFrom:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nTo:\nCycle (Group)\n\nCC:\n\nSubject:\nRegarding Recent Events\n\nDate:\n01/02/06\n\nI'm sure you're all wondering why and I'm even more sure a few of you have very choice words for me right now, but allow me to explain.\nI am not betraying you, nor am I 'taking a victory lap' as Bobby put it. I am merely attempting to show off what my suggested addition can do. I'm sure I speak for most of us when I say the cleanup before beginning anew is the dullest element of our little game, so are you really going to get testy with me for trying to make things fun again? Besides, just look at what he's managed so far. This is because I took the time to shape him, mold him, and craft him into the perfect variable to our game.\nAnd hey, he's also pretty funny once you get to know him.\n\nYours,\nFritz\n\nFrom:\nthe-critic@awcy.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nSubject:\nWhat the hell?\n\nDate:\n05/02/06\n\nImagine my surprise as I open the door of my studio and get assaulted in broad daylight by none other than your very own Mann boy.\nHe turned the goddamn sidewalk into a Pollock using my own blood and nearly ripped off my arms. My head was still reeling from the curbstomps after I woke up in my new body. All for some intel on where you were. I was ambivalent about your experiment at first, but now I have some critique to offer: In short, that wasn't very cool.\n\nYours,\nThe Critic\n\n\ud83d\ude29\n\nFrom:\nbluntfiend@gaw.fuckyou.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nRe:\nThis shit\n\nYo,\n\nPretty wild how your boy is out there just blowing up your spaceships. I thought you had this guy under control, lol. You should probably do something about it. Or don't. I'm not your dad.\n\n- JK (BF)\n\nFrom:\nalfine@command.goc.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nSubject:\nJust Checking\n\nDate:\n10/02/06\n\nFritz,\nJust so we're clear, I didn't blow up your sites. That kind of skullduggery is so beneath me. I had my remaining intel guys look into it, and it's your boy, Mann. He was spotted at 0300 hours last night exiting Site-81 by helicopter minutes before the on-site nukes went off. Makes me wish he'd gone after me. Would've loved to see that. Speaking of which, see you soon.\nEither way, I just figured you'd like confirmation. I'm not a sore loser.\n\nD.C. Al Fine.\n\nMemo\n\nIMPORTANT MESSAGE\n\nSender\nAmos Marshall\nRecipient\ntni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda#tni.pcs.10etis|rotartsinimda\n\nIt would be to your interest to know that your preferred toy has assaulted Carter and Dark in an attempt to locate you. They survived, but Carter was nearly liquified and Dark wants to know if Mann can do it again. Unfortunately, I was too busy using our lounge's faculties during the attack, and as such, am unscathed. I have taken it upon myself to reunite with the two of them at the point of origin.\n\nI will see you soon.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nFrom:\nmaria_jones@scp.raisa.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.in\n\nSubject:\nBreak-In\n\nDate:\n16/02/06\n\nMr. Fritzwilliams,\nI regret to inform you that our progress on EL-028-1125 has been set back severely. An unknown individual infiltrated Site-19 at about 0100 hours last night and proceeded to destroy the AIC server farm using a blunt instrument before detonating an IED within the main frame. Needless to say, Hatbot will be down for the forseeable future and the Applied Force Division is currently investigating the break-in.\nI will report to you as soon as an update is made available.\n\nMaria Jones\nRAISA\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\nFrom:\nalto_clef@scp.int\n\nTo:\nadministrator@site01.scp.in\n\nSubject:\nBreak-In\n\nDate:\n21/02/06\n\nFritz,\nI don't know who the hell you pissed off, but I'll be goddamned. That son of a bitch sneaked into Site-67 without anybody noticing. Site Sixty-Fucking-Seven. I can't take a shit without everyone in the security booth knowing I'm taking the Browns to the Super Bowl. How the hell does someone get in here and hold senior staff hostage like that? Why was he asking for you by name? Moreover, how did he get away?\nSomething is going on here, and seeing as I lost a tooth for your sake, I feel I'm owed an explanation.\n\nDoctor A. Clef\nSecure, Contain, Protect\n\nCAMERA VIEW OFF, AUDIO ON\n\nINDIVIDUAL: This thing on? Where's the damn power button? Hey, how do you turn this thing on?\nUNKNOWN: muffled, inaudible noises\nINDIVIDUAL: Here, I'll untie that, tell me how your camera works.\nsounds of cloth\nDR. SIMON GLASS: HELP! GUARDS! HELP! SECURITY! SECURITY!\nINDIVIDUAL: Oh for\u2026 where the hell did I put my earmuffs\u2026\nGunshot, followed by screaming and sounds of flesh striking flesh.\nINDIVIDUAL: Shut up for a moment. How do you turn this fucking thing on?\nGLASS: Right button, fucking Christ! Hold the right button down for two seconds. Owwwowoohhaaaa\u2026 fucking hell!\n\nCAMERA VIEW ON, AUDIO ON\n\nIndividual is leaning over camera, possibly looking at its screen. After a moment, they step back. The individual is wearing a large military greatcoat (identified as SCP-262) and earmuffs. but their face is otherwise concealed. Next to them is Simon Glass, tied to a chair. There is a gunshot wound in his right knee. The room is seen to be Simon Glass's office, which is in extreme disarray.\nINDIVIDUAL: Could've saved us a lot of trouble if you'd just told me that in the first place.\nSeveral arms emerge from the individual's coat and tie the gag around Glass's mouth. The individual looks back at the camera.\nIndividual: Call me Everett Mann. I'm the bastard been blowing up your sites and beating up your people. I've got a message for your Administrator.\nThere is a pause.\nMANN: Fritz, I'm tired of hunting you down and wrecking your business. Stop putting me through the wringer half the time and patronizing me the other half. I got through site security just by stealing an ID badge and holding a clipboard. You didn't even bother to change the damn [REDACTED]!\nMann points to Dr. Glass with the gun.\nMANN: Where'd you dig him out of? He won't tell me a thing. I had to shoot him just to learn how to turn this damn camera on!\nMann turns and looks at Glass briefly. He hands the gun to his coat, which then shoots Glass in his other kneecap. Glass's screams are muffled. After a moment, the coat removes Glass's gag.\nMANN: Where the hell'd you come from?\nGLASS: Ahhhhrrrrrggh! Fuck! Detroit! I'm from Detroit! Mother of God, what do you want?!\nMANN: That's not my question. Where did Fritz get you from?\nGLASS: I don't\u2026 I wasn't hired by him! I got hired by someone in HR! They're not even alive any more!\nMann's coat shoots Glass in his groin, holding a cougar paw over his mouth to muffle his screams.\nMANN: Where the hell are you getting these people? How the hell long has this been happening? And that's the least of my questions.\nGLASS: [through the paw] Please! Ahhh, it hurts, it hurts\u2026 hhh, please let me go!\nMANN: [To Glass:] Shut up. [To the camera:] What is this pit of yours? What is your conspiracy trying to approve? Why the hell would you try to kill me and then save me? [gesturing to Glass] I deserve some answers and I'm sick of being run ragged to get them.\nMann shoots Glass twice in the chest.\nMANN: I'm coming home, old man. I'll see you in two days.\nMann shoots Glass once in the head.\nMANN: I'm thinking pork chops for dinner.\n\nThe lights were on, but nobody was home at Overwatch Command. The base's layout was elegant in its simplicity: a fourteen-spoked wheel, with the access elevator in its center. All but two of the spokes contained an Overseer's private office; the odd ones out contained the Administrator's office and what used to be Mann's.\n\nMann didn't bother checking his former colleagues' offices. There was nothing there for him. Nor did he bother looking in his room. He made a beeline for the Administrator's office and waited expectantly for the door.\nThe door opened a moment later to reveal a suburban American home. In front of Mann lay a combination kitchen and dining room, with a small living room off to the right. Fritz was mashing potatoes in a bowl while the smell of pork chops wafted from the stove to his right.\n\n\"Grab a couple beers from th' fridge,\" he said without turning around.\nMann stepped into the room and looked around briefly, then set his gun on the countertop. He opened the fridge on Fritz's left and inspected the bottles on the bottom shelf.\n\"Erdinger?\" he said with a frustrated click.\n\"Finest table beer on th' planet,\" Fritz said.\n\"You don't even have Guinness?\"\n\"No dice. That stuff'll kill ya, y'know.\"\n\"I rely on it,\" Mann said. He retrieved two bottles, sat one on the table, and used the table's edge to open the other. A few minutes later, Fritz set down two plates laden with pork chops and mashed potatoes.\nMann squirted hot sauce across the meal, then stuffed half a chop into his mouth and filled what little space remained with mashed potato.\n\"Don' eat like a savage,\" Fritz said.\nMann waved the knife in his face and swallowed. \"I will eat\u2026 however\u2026 I damn well please. You ain't my daddy.\"\n\"I sure as hell became it.\" Fritz sliced a chunk out of his own pork chops, slowly chewed it, then swallowed. \"Binna while since we ate together, eh?\"\n\n\"What'd you do with this place?\" Mann said.\n\"Executive desks just ain't my style and the cold weren't doin' me no good. Figured I'd turn th' place into a little home away from home. Can't open th' windows, but th' weather's sure beautiful. I kept invitin' ya down here but y'were too scared t'leave that shack of yours.\"\n\"Speaking of my shack, what's this really about, old man?\" Mann said through another mouthful of food. He took a long swig from his beer.\n\"Yer no spring chicken yourself,\" Fritz said.\n\"Shut up and answer my questions.\"\n\"Tell you what.\" Fritz sipped from his beer. \"Why don't we play a game?\"\n\"Enough of your \u2014 \" Mann paused, clenched his fist, then sighed. \"Fine.\"\n\"Th' game is simplicity itself. We each get to ask th' other three questions, and we have to answer truthfully with a short, medium, or long answer. You can only pick each type once.\"\nMann drained his bottle and stared at it.\n\"I'll even sweeten th' pot,\" Fritz said. From a cupboard above the fridge, he retrieved two Glencairn glasses and a sealed bottle full of caramel liquid. Mann's eyebrows nearly shot off his forehead.\n\n\"Is that Pappy Van Winkle's?\"\n\"Was savin' it fer you.\" Fritz put the tumblers down and poured. \"Ice?\"\nMann drained his glass in a single swig and shuddered.\n\"Y'gotta sip it, son.\"\n\"Just pour me another and let's play.\"\n\"You start,\" Fritz said as he refilled Mann's glass.\n\"Short. How do I kill you permanently and end your conspiracy?\" Mann took a sip of the bourbon and let it sit in his mouth.\n\"No clue,\" Fritz said. \"Tried everythin' th' Foundation had an' then some. Nothin' took. Same goes for the rest'a the gang.\" He sipped from his glass. \"Short. You been havin' fun?\"\n\"Why the hell would I\u2014 \" Mann paused and took another sip. He exhaled through his nose. \"Yes.\"\n\"Ain't nothin' wrong with that. Man's gotta enjoy his work.\"\n\"This my work now? That's not my question.\" Mann drank deeper. \"Medium. Why did you save me from your co-conspirators?\"\n\"Co-conspirators, eh? Truth be told, Herman's always been one a' Holly's pals more'n mine. An' Bobby's just fun t' mess around with.\"\nFritz drank from his glass and held up a finger. The two of them sat there for the minute, savoring the taste of the alcohol. Then he swallowed and winced slightly. \"I saved you because they're a couple'a spoilsports. Lemme tell you somethin', Rhett. Yer like this Pappy Van Winkle \u2014 fulla potential, but ya gotta age and gain experience for the best flavor. Yer what, eighty now? Ninety? But you hotwired those site nukes like you were thirty. An' those Burmese tiger-pits\u2014 made me proud to burstin'.\"\nHe took another sip of his bourbon. \"Or th' way you got into Site-67. You shoulda read that email Clef sent me. Boy was hoppin' mad about you pullin' one over on him. Not t'mention th' way you've been raising hell with the others. Yer a one-man army \u2014 you just needed a little bit more time. Sure, th' others weren't too keen on ya at first, God love 'em, but they started to see yer value once ya started blowin' up my own spaceships. Yer the shot in th' arm this game needed, son\u2014 and we're th' kinda people you need to be your best self.\"\nMann gritted his teeth, but simply drank and refilled his tumbler.\n\"Medium,\" Fritz said. \"You been havin' fun?\"\n\"A little,\" Mann said. \"It's been nice to travel and apply myself in the field again. Working with my hands. Planning and executing infiltration ops. Being responsible for everything. Having a gun in my hands.\"\nHe drank and held up a finger. \"Not so nice? Why I've been out there. Why I'm all by myself. What you did to \u2014 the Foundation. Some goddamn father figure you turned out to be.\"\nFritz winced. \"Rhett \u2014\"\n\"Shut up,\" Mann said. \"I'm not done. The pork chops, the Pappy, the bandaging? That don't make up fer any the bullshit you done.\"\nHe emptied his glass again and took Fritz's. \"I've shot a hundred and thirteen Chaos Insurgents, run through twenty body doubles, had thirteen world leaders assassinated, nine more replaced, ordered nineteen false flag operations, and racked up sixty thousand civilian casualties at th' last estimate. You taught me how to do that. Then just \u2014 \" he emptied the glass \u2014 \"you just tossed it all out the damn window inta that damn pit a' yours. Tried t' toss me out.\"\nMann slammed the glass onto the table. It shattered. \"Long. Why th' hell did you do it all?\"\nFritz looked Mann dead in the eyes. \"One billion, three hundred million.\"\n\"What?\" Mann said.\n\"Hell of a number, innit? Bobby says that's my all-time body count. All the people killed by or because a' me. He's always bin' pretty good with numbers. But I don't worry about that number cause they're just people.\"\nFritz got up and rummaged through the cupboards under the sink. \"You an' me, we're more n' that. I knew it the day I first laid eyes on ya, you ain't one in a million, yer one in a million years. But you got that damnable streak a' empathy in ya. When I get you to forget it\u2026 boy, you do amazin' things.\"\n\"Like kill thousands?\" Mann said.\n\"You said it yerself.\" Fritz emerged with a dustpan and began sweeping up the glass around the table. \"Shut down th' Insurgency, put your yoke to th' UN's neck, even strongarmed al Fine into helpin' you erase North Korea from memory. Thought fer sure I was hosed that time, but you fixed it. You were winnin' the damn game for me all by yer self. Then y' went off and developed a damn conscience. Hid in th' Arctic and let yerself go. Squanderin' yer gifts like that? Cut me to th' quick.\"\nHe went and tossed the debris into the trash. \"I've been there before, a couple times. I figured you'd get outta yer slump soon, but before I knew it thirty years had gone by. Game was endin' soon and I couldn't let you go t' waste. But you got that inertia. Once you get goin' you don't stop, but you needed that push t' get ya rolling.\"\n\"A push?\" Mann stood up and poked Fritz in the chest. \"You bastard. You absolute goddamn bastard. I wish you were my real father so I could disown you.\"\nFritz shrugged. \"If that's what it takes.\"\nMann punched him in the face.\nFritz rubbed his jaw and stared at him. \"That's some right hook. Technique's flawless. Even when yer sluggin' yer old man yer impeccable. You gotta get over these damn feelings, Rhett. They're only gonna slow you down.\"\nMann clenched his teeth so hard his jaw hurt. The bourbon was starting to kick in. \"What th' hell else you want from me? Want me to pretend I'm fine with this? That I like this \u2014 this game you're playing, using th' world as your goddamn Monopoly board?\"\n\"Who said anythin' about pretendin'?\" Fritz said. \"Just be yerself \u2014 th' spy, th' assassin, th' one-man army. Throw a monkey wrench into things. I've had more fun followin' your globetrottin' adventures than I've had in the last dozen games combined.\"\nFritz poured the last of the bourbon into the remaining glass and offered it to Mann. \"Long. Ready to have some fun?\"\nMann drew and fired before either of them realized he'd grabbed it. Fritz collapsed backwards and fell against the wall with a sharp crack. The glass of bourbon shattered on the ground.\n\"There's your fucking monkey wrench, old man,\" Mann said.\nA moment passed. There was another crack as Fritz's neck realigned itself and a faint tinking sound as a bone-covered bullet popped out of his forehead. Fritz stood up, cracked his neck, and clapped Mann on the back. \"Lookit that, yer already gettin' into the swing of things.\"\nMann sat down heavily.\n\"Don't take it so harsh, son,\" Fritz said. \"You did a helluva job and you'll fit right in. Who knows, y'might even learn t'enjoy yourself. C'mon, we gotta get you set up and up to speed on th' rules.\"\n\nFrom:\nadministrator@site01.scp.int\n\nTo:\nCycle (Group)\n\nSubject:\nGood game, everyone!\n\nDate:\nX\n\nThanks for playing! I think we can all agree, this has been one of the best games yet. I'd just like to confirm this is the final version of the transfer table.\n\nCurrent Role\nNew Role\n\nAdministrator (SCP)\nDr. Wondertainment\n\nMaster Foreman\nD.C. al Fine\n\nCarter\nAdministrator (SCP)\n\nMarshall\nGrand Karcist Ion\n\nDark\nHerman Fuller\n\nVincent Anderson\nCarter\n\nThe Critic\nMarshall\n\nBig Cheese Horace\nThe Critic\n\nDr. Wondertainment\nProphet of Mekhane\n\nJude Kriyot\nDark\n\nHerman Fuller\nMaster Foreman\n\nGrand Karcist Ion\nBig Cheese Horace\n\nProphet of Mekhane\nVincent Anderson\n\nD.C. al Fine\nJude Kriyot\n\nI took the liberty of inducting Everett into the game last night and have been prepping him for his new role. I don't want to spoil anything, but I can promise it will be like nothing you've ever seen before.\n\nSee you soon,\nFritz\n\nI'm immortal now. Not long-lived, not slow to age. Un-aging. One of Them. I don't know how long they've been playing this game or when they started or why. But I'm part of it now.\n\nI've been assigned the role \"Nobody\". My \"win condition\" is to kill the rest of them. They're mocking me.\n\nThe joke's on them. I left this life because I thought the world needed a better Mann. I wanted my life to be more than violence and death. But they've taught me better.\n\nThere is no greater good \u2014 nor catch, nor collateral, nor consequence. But the joy of adventure, the thrill of the hunt, the fire inside me? Those are real.\n\nI've assembled all my notes and files for you, the new Overseers, as a warning. You know now what I accomplished as an old man. Ask yourself what I could do as an immortal, then do us both a favor and walk away.\n\nAnd Fritz, if you're reading this? I've got a grudge against you, and all the time in the world to hold it. I've even got a to-do list.\n\nTO DO:\n\nKILL FRITZ.\n\n\n\u00ab SCP-5554 | SCP-5555 | SCP-5556 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5556\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-5556 are to be housed in a standard humanoid group habitat scaled to .25 of standard size. Standard humanoid rations are to be provided. Small running wheels are to be provided in exchange for good behavior and to encourage exercise.\nPersonnel are not to directly interact with SCP-5556 except as approved during testing. Any statements made by SCP-5556 instances are to be disregarded.\nDescription: SCP-5556 refers to a group of humanoids resembling garden gnomes. Each wears a beard and a tall, pointed hat. Each entity is between 30 to 40 centimeters tall.1 SCP-5556 entities are anatomically similar to humans apart from their height and possess a similar level of intelligence.\nEach SCP-5556 instance is highly explosive and will involuntarily detonate when a specific action is performed on it by a human. The action required differs for each instance. The explosive force varies widely between events, but is always sufficient to neutralize the affected instance. Instances experience a brief period of intense pain before detonating. SCP-5556 instances are not capable of inducing this effect on each other directly, but may attempt to persuade humans to induce it.\nAddendum 5556.1: Recovery Log 1\n\nForeword: MTF-Tau-14 (Members Tau-1 through 5) was dispatched to contain SCP-5556, a group of what were believed to be Notice Class anomalous entities. During recovery, an instance which identified itself as the group's leader approached Tau-1 to speak.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5556-1: Excuse me, tall fellow, what in the world do your pals think they're doing with me coterie o' squatted consorts?\nTau-1: Pardon? Oh, one of the skips. We're here to take you guys somewhere safe. If you could just hold still and\u2026\n[Tau-1 attempts to place SCP-5556-1 in a containment box. SCP-5556-1 jumps onto Tau-1's chest and climbs to the back of their head.]\nTau-1: Hey, get off! Christ, they told us you were supposed to be docile!\nSCP-5556-1: As the supreme commander o' this here rabble of tykes, I hereby forbid ya from grabbing up me tiny men! Gnomes, assault these hooligans!\n[SCP-5556-1 pulls Tau-1's hair while yelling. Tau-1 attempts to remove the entity but is unable to get a proper grip on it. The entity shakes Tau-1's head back and forth and bites their scalp. Tau-1 signals for backup, but the rest of the task force is occupied with containing other SCP-5556 instances in a similar manner to Tau-1.]\nTau-1: Jesus, you have a strong grip! Settle down would'ya! This is for your own good!\n[Tau-3 catches an SCP-5556 instance. It explodes in his hands, amputating several of his fingers and causing severe burns. The entities and MTF pause to survey the damage.]\nTau-1: Shit! Four, get the medical kit! [To SCP-5556-1] What the hell just happened?\nSCP-5556-1: Aw, looks like one of your pals picked up Chuckie. What a shame. He had a husband, you know?\nTau-1: Okay, that's nice, why did he just blow up?\nSCP-5556-1: Toasty boy over there tripped ol' Chuck's fuse! Each of us has one, y'know. Set it off, and we pop like a balloon! I could've warned you if you hadn't barged in and started scooping us all up.\nTau-1: So all of you can explode. Dammit, why didn't HQ know that? What else can set you guys off?\nSCP-5556-1: Oh ho, each of us has our own little thing. Caerwyn there, he blows if you read him a bedtime story! And Alun, well, let's say he's not much of a hugger. It's written right on their faces, really! You'd have to be blind not to see it.\nTau-1: And I suppose there's something innocent that makes you blow up as well?\nSCP-5556-1: Hmm, I suppose there is! I wouldn't know though, I can't see my own face!\nTau-1: I\u2014what\u2014how do you not know that? Hasn't someone else told you?\nSCP-5556-1: Would be a tad rude, wouldn't it, telling a lad how he's gonna pop? Although\u2026 [To Tau-2] You there! Flip poor Cedric topsy-turvy lest he blow ya to the moon!\n[The SCP-5556 instance Tau-2 holds shouts in protest. Tau-2 flips its container upside-down, which causes it to explode. Tau-2 suffers minor burns.]\nSCP-5556-1: Gullible sorts, aren't we?\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5556.2: Recovery Log 2\n\nForeword: The following logs were recorded by on-site security systems while the SCP-5556 instances were being moved into containment.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5556-2: Psst. Hey. You there, big bones.\nD-4133: Huh? Sorry, the higher-ups don't want me talking to you guys.\nSCP-5556-2: Look, I'm sure you're very busy carting me off to a tiny prison, but I assure you this is very important. Life or death, even!\nD-4133: I'm just gonna not listen to you till we get to your cell.\nSCP-5556-2: Alright, well. You know Shmebby, our so-called leader, yeah? The guy your lot have been calling 'Dash-One?' I'll let you in on a little secret about him. He has a certain\u2026 medical condition. He needs sugar, lots of it. His body can't make it right, and he'll be dead by the end of the week without it.\nD-4133: Yeah, I don't believe that for a second.\nSCP-5556-2: I promise ya, I'm telling the truth! Us little folk need more of the stuff than your kind do. Do ya really trust the higher-ups to make sure all of us have our dietary needs met before we keel over? It happens quicker than you'd think.\nD-4133: I\u2014I'm sure they'll take care of him. And we were told not to give you guys anything.\nSCP-5556-2: You and me both know the people up top are good for nothing. Did you know when they found us, your bosses didn't even know we explode? Lemme tell ya, friend, I know how it feels to be stepped all over. I'm a foot tall, after all! I think it's time you take some initiative and bring a poor gnome some sugar. What's the harm? I'm sure your bosses will be grateful once they realize you saved one of their new pets, or whatever it is you're keeping us for.\nD-4133: Huh, okay. Maybe you're right. I'll see what I can do about it.\n[D-4133 exits the containment chamber.]\n\n[D-4133 enters the SCP-5556 containment cell for testing. He reaches into the back of his pants, clenches, and retrieves a packet of sugar taken from the site cafeteria.]\nResearcher \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: D-4133, what is that? Security, we have an unauthorized object, chamber\u2026\nD-4133: Uh, Dash-One? I brought this for you.\nSCP-5556-1: Pardon? What is this for? Ow, how in the bloody f-\n[SECURITY FEED LOST]\nAfterword: The containment area for SCP-5556 as well as D-4133 were found to have been vaporized in a large explosion. All instances of SCP-5556 were present and unharmed with the exception of SCP-5556-1. The entities appear to have selected SCP-5556-2 as a new leader.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Not counting the height of the hat.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5555 | SCP-5556 | SCP-5557 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Image of SCP-5557, captured by weather balloon.\n\nItem \u2116: SCP-5557\nAnomaly Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The chamber containing SCP-5557 has been outfitted with HC-grade concrete walls, and is accessible only through a concealed entrance in a staff-only area of Salisbury Cathedral. The balloon within SCP-5557 has been covered with a blue, camouflaged fabric, and all flight paths coming in proximity have been redirected. Public reports of SCP-5557 are to be suppressed whenever they emerge.\nSafe-class secondary anomalies produced by SCP-5557 are to be contained in as many standard containment lockers as is applicable for each item. Anomalies with higher classifications may be subject to alternative documentation and special containment procedures.\nDescription: SCP-5557 is an ovoid region of space ~25 metres in length, simultaneously located in a chamber below Salisbury Cathedral, England, and at an altitude of ~36,000 metres above the building. Viewing the space from any direction will give the appearance of a clear blue sky, regardless of objects behind it or external weather conditions. SCP-5557 is empty save for an immovable, indestructible hot-air balloon1.\nDue to being simultaneously in two positions, possessing only one location, and therefore not being in either position, SCP-5557 represents a physical manifestation of a logical contradiction. Persons within SCP-5557 are capable of distorting baseline logical reality by extrapolating from this contradiction, in-line with the logical principle of explosion2. This extrapolation often occurs unintentionally or subconsciously, and prolonged exposure causes an exponentially increasing quantity of secondary anomalies caused by contradictory axioms.\nFollowing 1966-06-12, incursion into SCP-5557 has possessed a 100% fatality rate among human subjects.\nTesting: Formal testing of SCP-5557's properties began on 1966-06-11, after a series of incursions by civilians and preliminary containment staff (and the subsequent containment of resultant anomalies). A log of all tests attempted to-date is included below:\n\nDate: 1966-06-11\nTest Summary: D-0088 extended a long metal pole into SCP-5557, on the end of which was mounted camera equipment and a small releasable payload outfitted with GPS.\n\nTest Outcome: Camera footage was normal until it passed the boundary of SCP-5557, at which point it began to display the views from within the chamber and from the high-altitude balloon simultaneously. Persons observing the compromised footage were able to extrapolate safely without triggering additional anomalies, suggesting a limit to the principle of explosion's effect in baseline reality. The payload was deployed, and fell simultaneously from both locations \u2014 it was recovered shortly thereafter, and is currently being stored in two separate containment lockers.\n\nDate: 1966-06-12\nTest Summary: Agent Garvey entered SCP-5557 via a gangplank laid from the floor of Salisbury Cathedral to the basket of the balloon. They were instructed to formulate the idea that they existed in two places at once, observe the results, and leave SCP-5557 without making any further deductions about the nature of reality.\n\nTest Outcome: Agent Garvey entered SCP-5557, but did not proceed with the test, instead turning around as if startled. They then nodded slowly, placed the back of their hand to their forehead, and violently combusted.\nA variety of scenes were then observed by monitoring personnel, including:\n\nFlames engulfing the balloon\nThe sky within SCP-5557 rapidly switching from night to day, and to an unidentified third state\nThe balloon being replaced with a burned-out wreck of itself\nA colossal metal pole outfitted with camera apparatus emerging from the distance\nThe sky being replaced with the interior of Salisbury Cathedral\nFurniture on the balloon spontaneously rearranging\nThe sky being replaced with smoke, fire, and rubble (identified as the remains of Salisbury Cathedral)\nO5-01 seated at the balloon's writing desk, surrounded by an unquantifiably immense pile of paperwork related to possible exploitations of SCP-5557\nAn unidentified man in business attire falling from the balloon, as if pushed\n\nAll scenes occurred simultaneously, and their significance (if any) is as yet unknown. Following the conclusion of this event, Agent Garvey has been seated at the desk with his head in his hands, unmoving.\n\nDate: 1966-06-12\nTest Summary: D-0088 was provided with a nonlethal electroshock weapon and was instructed to enter SCP-5557 and retrieve Agent Garvey.\n\nTest Outcome: Immediately after entering SCP-5557, D-0088 was replaced with an instance of Agent Garvey's corpse (severely decomposed), which subsequently combusted. The sentence \"Boys. Boys. This one's not worth the hassle, boys\" was then heard in Garvey's voice from an unknown source.\nIdentical outcomes have occurred on all subsequent attempts by a human subject to enter SCP-5557, with slight variations in the content of the spoken message3 The actions of Agent Garvey have been designated an O3-Class Ontological Shift, and Garvey himself has been designated permanently MIA and formally censured.\n\nNo further testing of SCP-5557 is believed to be possible at the present time.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This balloon is equipped with a basket containing a small writing desk, chest of drawers, and a desk lamp plugged into a power socket on the basket's interior. All are immovable and therefore inoperable. Despite being suspended in mid-air, no burner or alternative propulsion method is present.\n2. Formally, assuming contradictory axioms $P$ and $\u00acP$ yields an arbitrary theorem $Q$, as follows:\n\n1\n$P$\nBy assumption\nA statement (e.g. All grass is green) is true.\n\n2\n$\u00acP$\nBy assumption\nThe converse of the statement (e.g. All grass is not green) is also true.\n\n3\n$P \u2228 Q$\nDisjunction introduction (1)\nAll grass is green OR another statement (e.g. the sky is red) must be true, since the first part is true.\n\n4\n$Q$\nDisjunctive syllogism (2, 3)\nSince all grass is not green, the sky must be red.\n\n3. Most notably including \"Poke it with a stick, what could go wrong\" and \"Boys shouldn't run with scissors\".\n\n\u00ab SCP-5556 | SCP-5557 | SCP-5558 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: \ud835\udcab\nObject Class: Keter\nDisambiguation: \ud835\udcab may refer to either part of the interconnected anomaly described below.\n\n\ud835\udcab when described in physical situations or as performing actions, refers to the individual.\n\ud835\udcab when described with regards to memetic effects or written/spoken transmission, refers to the word.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due in part to \ud835\udcab's docility and compliance with the Foundation, \ud835\udcab's containment has been adapted to allow for as much autonomy as possible, including janitorial duties and scheduling interviews/therapy.\nThough information about the word \ud835\udcab is largely self-normalizing, it is to be removed from public access when possible, and should be limited in Foundation documents to those pre-approved by the Department of Miscommunications.\n\ud835\udcab's mother, Penelope Yore, is on close watch, and is allowed weekly calls with \ud835\udcab, though precautions such as a delayed line must be taken to ensure that no information about the Foundation is able to transfer. \ud835\udcab is aware that Ms. Yore's knowledge of the situation is incomplete, and has thus far been able to adapt to Foundation efforts consistently.\nDescription: \ud835\udcab (formerly Nudah Borvitch) is an 18-year-old human with a drastically disparate cranial structure when compared with the average individual. \ud835\udcab's otherwise standard human body leads into a fleshy, conical neck supporting a gargantuan head with 50-100 small orifices composed of various facial tissues including skin, cartilage, adipose, and bone. These orifices are largely symmetrical, with minor discrepancies across the midline of the face, and are in a constant state of flux, having new ones generated while the cranial flesh simultaneously absorbs existing ones.\n\ud835\udcab also refers to the word \"\ud835\udcab\", which displays a number of memetic qualities with regards to its transmission, both auditory and visual. \ud835\udcab, the individual, cannot be referred to by any name or direct identifier other than \"\ud835\udcab\". When written or otherwise transferred visually, all direct reference to \ud835\udcab is limited to the word \"\ud835\udcab\". However, when spoken, the word is pronounced identically to a separate word from the English language. A spoken rendition of the word \"\ud835\udcab\" may be heard below.\n\nAddenda Materials\n\nAddendum 01 - Interview (02-17-19)\n\nForeword: \ud835\udcab's facial abnormality was discovered when a video entitled \"Kid With Liquid Mouth\" gained notable popularity on the internet. \ud835\udcab was quickly located and determined to be suffering from an anomalous condition. The following interview took place a week after \ud835\udcab's initial habituation into Site-96.\n\nDr. Ozid enters the room and sits down.\nDr. Ozid: Hi \ud835\udcab.\n\ud835\udcab: Hey.\nDr. Ozid: Obviously I don't want to make this any more of a burden on you than the situation already is, so I'll try to keep it as brief as possible.\n\ud835\udcab: Well, yeah\u2026 I mean, well no, it's fine, I honestly want to understand this as much as you do so, like, it's fine.\nDr. Ozid: I appreciate the sentiment. Now, just to begin, I'll start chronologically. What was the first time you noticed weird things happening?\n\ud835\udcab: Well, I didn't think it was weird at the time, but the first time somebody called me \ud835\udcab was\u2026 like, I was eleven, I think. It was actually an insult originally, one of the kids in my class called me it just because I was wearing pink socks. Which, you know, doesn't mean anything, I just liked the color at the time. I don't, now. I mean\u2026 I don't.\nDr. Ozid: At the time, did you think anything of it? I know you said you didn't think it was strange, but did you have any sort of emotional reaction?\n\ud835\udcab: I mean, I cried and everything but, it was probably more that I was being made fun of than the actual contents of the bullying. I didn't mind the name at all, in fact, when I came back to school the next day and everyone was calling me \ud835\udcab, I sort of\u2026 liked it, kinda. Better than \u201cNudah\u201d, anyway.\nDr. Ozid: When did you notice that it was becoming more than a nickname?\n\ud835\udcab: The thing is, I sort of didn't, no one did. I mean, I thought it was weird that teachers, my parents, the principal, were all using my nickname, but I never thought it was, you know, weird like it is now.\nDr. Ozid: When did it start to progress in severity?\n\ud835\udcab: Well, so, it was actually like three and a half years before my head started getting, you know, fatter. I one hundred percent thought it was just self hatred until people started telling me to see a doctor. I was in the hospital for a few days before I\u2026 started growing noses and stuff. And that was only like a month ago, everything that's happened since then is relatively new.\nDr. Ozid: Are you able to use any of your new facial features?\n\ud835\udcab: I know the noses are functional and the eyes aren't, and nothing else even looks like a real body part so it beats me.\nDr. Ozid: Hmm, so that covers my checklist, but I wanted to ask, how are you feeling?\n\ud835\udcab: I mean look, I understand the severity of the situation and I appreciate that you guys aren't sugar coating this. Things are weird, we don't know why, and we're trying to fix it. I get it, and I'm here for it.\nDr. Ozid: But how are you feeling? Seriously, I mean, if there's anything else we can do to make your time here more comfortable\u2026\n\ud835\udcab: I'm fine, please don't try to make big accommodations for me. I don't want to be a burden, I'm doing great here, and I'm fine.\nDr. Ozid: Alright, well in that case, thanks for talking to me \ud835\udcab. I'll let you know if we discover anything else.\n\nAddendum 02 - Interview (07-07-19)\n\nForeword: Objects began manifesting at 02:06:14, while \ud835\udcab was asleep. The following interview was conducted twelve hours later.\n\n\ud835\udcab: Well, the world is ending.\nDr. Ozid: Good morning \ud835\udcab.\n\ud835\udcab: For you maybe. I don't even know what this is, but I just want it to stop.\nDr. Ozid: Has this been happening all day?\n\ud835\udcab: And all of last night, since like 2 in the morning. I haven't slept since it started.\nDr. Ozid: What happened, initially?\n\ud835\udcab: I mean\u2026 not really anything, I don't think. One minute I was asleep, and then boom, I get hit in the head with a doorknob. A doorknob! What the hell!\nDr. Ozid: We actually ran a number of analyses on the object, but so far, nothing out of the ordinary has been found.\n\ud835\udcab: How do we even know it came from me? There's tons of weird stuff here, right?\nA polaroid image of two humans kissing manifests directly in front of \ud835\udcab's face, who grabs it and throws it on the floor.\nDr. Ozid: It just seems to be centered around you.\n\ud835\udcab: Physically, maybe, but certainly not thematically! I mean, I don't even like- look, it's just random stuff. Earlier an empty bottle of Sprite appeared in my hands, I do not drink sugar soda.\nDr. Ozid: I understand. At the moment, the best option would be to determine, if possible, the source of these objects, as well as attempting to draw connections between them in case they are some subconscious manifestation-\n\ud835\udcab: Don't say \"of your desires\".\nDr. Ozid: I wasn't planning on it.\n\nUpdate (07-18-19): While conscious, \ud835\udcab is able to manifest a variety of objects, though this appears to be entirely unintentional on \ud835\udcab's part, both in the frequency and content of the manifestations. Though the objects do not appear to follow any pattern, a number of them have been noted as frequently reoccurring, sometimes multiple times per day. Among them are plush yardsticks, various comics (with a majority being from Action Comics), heated neck pillows, unmarked bottles containing soda, and manila folders containing images of people kissing.\n\nAddendum 03 - Interview (11-05-19)\n\nForeword: Notably different objects to the previous manifestations began appearing at 08:14:58, the first instance of which occurred inside the Site-96 integrated cafeteria. The following interview was scheduled by \ud835\udcab, who requested one as soon as it was possible for Dr. Ozid to arrive, which was nearly four hours later.\n\nDr. Ozid: Hey, \ud835\udcab, are you\u2026 okay?\n\ud835\udcab: Pretty fuckin' far from it, asshole.\nDr. Ozid: Please try to stay civil, \ud835\udcab.\n\ud835\udcab: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, just, today has been very stressful. Like, I'm eating my breakfast, and boom, dick and balls. The fuck am I supposed to do about that?\nDr. Ozid: I understand the concern, we're trying to figure out if anything changed in your diet or habituation but this may just be\u2026 well\u2026\n\ud835\udcab: Another random thing happening in my random fucked up life?\nDr. Ozid: Yes, minus the profanity.\nA concave plastic self-pleasure device manifests on the table.\n\ud835\udcab: I feel sick.\nDr. Ozid: If you don't mind me saying it, you seem a bit off today.\n\ud835\udcab grabs the device and waves it in front of Dr. Ozid's face.\n\ud835\udcab: Gee, I wonder why!\nDr. Ozid: If it makes you feel any better, no one is judging you for this. It's just an anomalous event, it isn't your fault.\n\ud835\udcab: It may not be my fault, but I saw the reactions of everyone this morning. People were doing that fucking wide-eyed thing where they're trying not to react just to make me feel better, when in reality, they think I'm a freak! Somehow, even though I eat breakfast with people who have fucking impossible arms and cosmic skin, I'm still the freak! And it's like, I know they know it's just a weird anomaly or whatever, but it comes off like I'm some sort of superpowered sexual deviant and I hate it, and I know they will never be able to shake the thought from their minds.\nDr. Ozid: \ud835\udcab, listen to me. You're right that people will think it's weird, but I promise you, they don't think you are weird. I'm sure you've noticed the red cylinders protruding from my forehead?\n\ud835\udcab: What about them?\nDr. Ozid: I started working at the SCP Foundation when I was 27. When I was 29, I was researching a portal between two nearly identical parallel universes, when the portal irreparably closed, sealing me on the other side. Everything was identical, except for one small issue. Unlike me, humans didn't have these.\nDr. Ozid taps his antennae.\nDr. Ozid: When I eventually started working here, in this universe's Foundation, I had to deal with glances and tension constantly, but people got used to it, and now I'm doing pretty well, socially.\n\ud835\udcab: Ok, but you have horns and I have like 500 noses and dildos coming out of the fucking sky. There's a difference.\nDr. Ozid: Your situation may be more severe than mine, but regardless, it's more about your own self-worth than it is about other peoples' judgement, and I can promise you, it will get better.\n10 seconds of silence elapse.\n\ud835\udcab: Okay, fine. Sure. I'll try.\nDr. Ozid: I'm glad to hear it, \ud835\udcab. I'm proud of you.\n\ud835\udcab: Alright, don't overstay the wholesomeness, this is still fucked up.\nThe table becomes instantaneously covered in a tablecloth, upon which is a patterned image of male genitalia.\n\ud835\udcab: Case in point.\nDr. Ozid: Hey, don't sweat it, I've seen worse restaurant decor in my time.\n\nUpdate (12-26-19): Starting November 5th, \ud835\udcab has begun to exhibit an irregularity in its baseline materialization behavior. In irregular cycles, objects will manifest as they have previously for a number of days, followed by an isolated, abnormal day, wherein new objects manifest, such as fill-in-the-blank style storybooks, empty coffee cups, various self-pleasure devices, ribbons and other fabric scraps, metal rulers, Sharpie brand permanent markers, and graphic homoerotic pornography.\n\nAddendum 04 - Video Log (01-03-20)\n\nForeword: The following video log is taken from the camera in \ud835\udcab's chamber.\n\n16:19:15\n\ud835\udcab teleports into the room and looks back and forth rapidly, in a state of panic. A lovely table manifests in the center of the room, surrounded by royal chairs. \ud835\udcab sits in one of the royal chairs, displaying extreme concern. \ud835\udcab struggles to exit the royal chair but is unable.\n16:22:00\n\ud835\udcab's outfit is instantaneously replaced with an elegant ball gown. \ud835\udcab attempts to remove the elegant ball gown but is once again unable.\n16:23:00\nThree guests manifest in each of the other royal chairs, along with tea and cookies. \ud835\udcab, displaying a look of horror, picks up a cup of tea and reluctantly takes a sip before returning it to the lovely table.\n16:24:00\n\ud835\udcab has a little party.\n16:25:00\n\ud835\udcab has a little party.\n16:30:00\n\ud835\udcab has a little party.\n16:35:00\n\ud835\udcab has a little party.\n16:40:00\n\ud835\udcab has a little party.\n16:44:00\n\ud835\udcab sets down the cup of tea and grabs on to the nearest royal chair. \ud835\udcab struggles against the royal chair for a number of minutes before successfully exiting it.\n16:47:00\n\ud835\udcab grabs the royal chair and begins smashing it against the lovely table. After a minute of attacking, the lovely table splits in half, sending all the tea and cookies sliding into a mess on the floor.\n16:52:00\n\ud835\udcab begins screaming at the guests who continue to have a little party, despite the lack of a lovely table or tea and cookies. \ud835\udcab appears to be in tears. The guests ignore \ud835\udcab and continue to have a little party. \ud835\udcab falls to the floor, sobbing.\n16:54:00\n\ud835\udcab stands up. The guests stop having a little party, and stare blankly at \ud835\udcab. The little party demanifests. \ud835\udcab removes the tattered ball gown, sighs deeply, and demanifests.\n\nEnd Note: \ud835\udcab's whereabouts are currently unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5557 | \ud835\udcab | SCP-5559 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The Great Ambrose Bake-Off!\n\nDon't Stop Me Now\n\nCalibold\n\nSCP-5559-D \u2014 The Great Ambrose Bake-Off!\n\nCalibold's Mega Cool Author Page\n\nItem#: 5559-D\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nDecommissioned\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nnone\n\nRisk Class:\nnone\n\nlink to memo\n\nLogo for Ethan's Eateries.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures (Archived): Presently, SCP-5559 is uncontained. MTF Lambda-14 (\"One Star Reviewers\") is monitoring SCP-5559 and interfering with SCP-5559-1 operations when necessary.\nCurrently, the most effective method of containment is to mass review SCP-5559-1 instances and to utilize all available methods to deter the populace from investigating these locations. If necessary, false health code violations and other illegal activity may be falsely attributed to SCP-5559-1 instances.\nThe current goal regarding SCP-5559 is to locate PoI-3737 (\"Ethan\") and convince him to cease SCP-5559's operation, and relocate to strictly anomalous locales shut down all operations regarding his business, effectively decommissioning SCP-5559 (See Addendum 5559.1 and Decom. Proposal 5559).\nDescription (Archived): SCP-5559 is a phenomenon in which SCP-5559-1 instances will spontaneously appear across the United States. SCP-5559 itself is self-containing, and the generation of SCP-5559-1 instances is generally unacknowledged.\nSCP-5559-1 instances are small restaurant outlets, named \"Ethan's Eateries\". Each SCP-5559-1 instance spontaneously appears with existing staff, and requires no setup between manifestation and opening. Each SCP-5559-1 instance serves a wide variety of anomalous foodstuffs, a complete list of which is available upon request.\nAddendum 5559.1: Shortly after the discovery of SCP-5559, Captain Antoine Daniels of Lambda-14 received a request from GoI-116 (\"Ambrose Restaurants\") to discuss SCP-5559 with Chaz Ambrose, founder of the group. Notably, Lambda-14 had interacted with Ambrose Restaurants previously, albeit mostly with conflicting interests at hand.\n\nDaniels: Evening, Chaz.\nAmbrose: Antoine. Been a while.\nDaniels: To what do I owe the pleasure?\nAmbrose: I'm gonna cut to the chase here. You've heard of Ethan's Eateries, yes?\nDaniels: Mhm.\nAmbrose: Now, I'm sure you want them contained, right? Kept out of sight from the public, but letting them operate in places like Portlands or whatever.\nDaniels: Right.\nAmbrose: I know it's not your MO, but I'm willing to work with you on this if we can find some way to get rid of them completely.\nDaniels: Let me guess, they're cutting in on your business.\nAmbrose: Bingo. I want them gone even more than you do. They have restaurants popping up every other day, their sticky fingers all across the states. Anomalous food has always been my thing. But whoever this Ethan fellow is, he's draining all my patrons.\nDaniels: Right. So why should we work with you on this?\nAmbrose: Couple reasons. First, I'm motivated. I'm in it for me, but we have the same goals. Second, I have contacts, resources, and a reputation. We both know the Foundation isn't very well-liked. You won't be able to get some places or reach some people.\nDaniels: Mkay. Is that all you wanted to tell me?\nAmbrose: I guess so.\nDaniels: Well, I'll bring it up with my superiors, but I think we can handle this on our own.\nAmbrose: Look, I'm willing to cut a deal with you guys. What's something that I can do for you?\n[A few moments of silence.]\nDaniels: I might have an idea. I'll have to run it by my superiors first, but it might make it worth it on our end.\nAmbrose: I'm listening.\nDaniels: If we get rid of Ethan's business entirely, you'll provide both assistance to the operation, but you'll also have to cut down your business operations.\nAmbrose: What do you mean?\nDaniels: I'm suggesting that you restrict your operations to purely anomalous locales.\nAmbrose: That would be a big shift for us. And I'm not sure how Marius would feel about it\nDaniels: It might not be such a big change, honestly. It's where you mostly run anyway, and when you do try to spread out, it always results in unnecessary conflict with folks like us or the GOC. It's easier for us, and it's easier for both you guys.\nAmbrose: Well, I'm interested. [Stands up and sticks out hand.] I'll take it to Marius, but I think we can outline an agreement.\nDaniels: [Takes hand and shakes it.] Might be nice to actually work with my favorite restaurant for a change, eh?\nAmbrose: And nice to work with my favorite task force.\n\nFollowing the interview, Captain Daniels submitted a proposal to the Decommissioning Department.\n\nSCP Object Decommissioning Proposal Form\n\nItem #: SCP-5559\nObject Class: Keter\nHead Researcher: Dr. Aiden Reyes\nSupporting Personnel:\n\nCaptain Antoine Daniels - Representing MTF Lambda-14 (\"One-Star Reviewers\")\nA. Ferril - Representing Foundation Treasury and Finances Dept.\n\nPlease check off or fill in the applicable boxes regarding the reasons for submitting your proposal:\n\u2611 Excessively High Risk of Lifted Veil Scenario\n\u2610 Excessive Danger\n\u2610 Ability to Decom. Apollyon-Class Object\n\u2611 Expense\n\u2610 Ethical Concerns Over Necessary Containment\n\u2610 Legal Concerns\n\u2610 High Risk of K-Class Scenario (if so, please state which type(s):____)\n\u2611 Other (please state): Should we agree to Decommission SCP-5559, Chaz Ambrose and Marius of GoI-116 (\"Ambrose Restaurants\") have agreed to rescind their operations from the non-anomalous community as well as assist in the containment/neutralization of SCP-5559, in return for the Decommissioning of SCP-5559. - Captain Daniels, Chaz Ambrose, Marius\nSummary: Admittedly, SCP-5559 would not normally present a significant enough risk for us to consider Decommissioning outright. However, not only does it still remain an incredibly high chance of lifting the Veil, third-party organization Ambrose Restaurants has agreed to both assist in the neutralization as well as to cease their own operations that represent a threat to normalcy, in exchange for the Decommissioning of SCP-5559. This opportunity is clearly a beneficial one, and should be taken, in my opinion. -Captain Daniels\n\nThe Decommissioning Proposal was signed and approved by Director Bold, and an agreement was written outlining the conditions of both the SCP Foundation and Ambrose Restaurants in the joint operations. A full transcript of the agreement is available upon request.\nAddendum 5559.2 (Project JAMCON): Following the agreement with Ambrose Restaurants, a multi-step project, known as JAMCON1, was devised in order to neutralize Ethan's Eateries and, by extension, SCP-5559.\nPhase 1 (Operation Telephone): A high-ranking Ambrose employee, with proof of employment by Ambrose Restaurants, was sent to an instance of SCP-5559-1 to try and find a contact line with the owners of Ethan's Eateries. The employee was under the guise of a former and disgruntled Ambrose employee, codenamed \"Ronald King,\" hoping to sell trade secrets to Ethan's Eateries.\n\nKing: Excuse me, sir?\nEmployee: Oh! How may I help you?\nKing: Is there any way I could speak with your management please?\nEmployee: [Sighs.] Sir, you could at least try our food before you make a complaint.\nKing: Oh, uh, I'm not here to make a complaint, ma'am. I'm actually hoping to speak to corporate.\nEmployee: Oh! My bad then, I'll grab our manager.\nKing: No worries. You seem pretty frustrated anyway, what's going on?\nEmployee: Just bureaucracy, PR, all that. I swear we're just getting trolls, all sorts of random folks keep leaving one-star reviews on the place. Nobody's wanting to come here, and now we're getting a surprise inspection?\nKing: Oh. Um, yeah. Sounds rough.\nEmployee: Sorry, just venting. I'll get the manager, my bad. You can have a seat while you wait, is there anything you'd like?\nKing: Well, I was just looking at your menu. May I try your Sahara Spring and maybe some Cutesy Cake please?\nEmployee: Sure thing.\n[King sits at a table. After a few minutes, his meal is delivered.]\nEmployee: Manager's just making a phone call, he'll be out in a few.\n[After a few minutes, a man sits down across from King.]\nKing: Are you the manager?\nManager: That I would be! What can I do for you?\nKing: I'm actually hoping to contact your corporate branch or your owner.\nManager: You talking about Ethan?\nKing: Yes I am. [Sips Sahara Spring.] I'd like to- I'd like- sorry, do you have some water?\nManager: [Laughs.] Should've read the description, pal! Ah, it's just a little joke, just makes you even more thirsty.\nKing: It's certainly interesting.\nManager: Sure is! You know the best part? It just means they buy more drinks from us!\nKing: That is\u2026 a business strategy.\nManager: Ah, it still tastes good. I see you got some Cutesy Cake, give it a shot! Got that recipe right from JGT!\nKing: JGT?\nManager: Don't know what it is either, but they know how to bake a cake! Go on, have a bite!\nKing: [Takes a forkful of cake, then gags.] Holy- is that just straight sugar?\nManager: You get used to it, and then you'll start tasting the strawberries and stuff!\nKing: I have to say, a lot of your operations seem\u2026 mildly unethical? Or at least manipulative.\nManager: [Shrugs] That's just business, partner.\nKing: Well, I'm not here to complain.\nManager: Yes, yes, you wanted to talk to Ethan! I think I can help you, though I know he might not have time. The man must be working constantly! You know the saying, busy as a butterfly.\nKing: You mean- never mind. Would you know how to contact him or his headquarters?\nManager: Oh yeah. He has an office in New York, I think. Might I ask what this is all about?\nKing: I'm from Ambrose Restaurants, actually.\nManager: Really?\nKing: Well, I don't work for them anymore. We're downsizing pretty heavily, actually. I could go on and on about how crappy it is that I got fired, but the end result is, if I can't beat them, I'll join them.\nManager: Oh! Well, I'm glad you're interested, we need all the help we can get. It's been hectic lately. The Foundation's been on our back constantly, no room for growth at all, and I know Ambrose is pissed that we're taking his customers.\nKing: Yeah, well he's losing more than just customers now.\nManager: Ooh, do tell.\nKing: Ambrose has his own secrets. You really thought that I'd just take all this lying down? [Passes a sheet of paper to the manager.]\nManager: Is that-\nKing: One of Ambrose's original recipes, yes. And there's plenty more where that came from.\nManager: Well, well, well. A fellow man of business.\nKing: I assume Ethan's gonna be interested in this?\nManager: Oh, I'm sure he will.\nKing: Wonderfu- the hell, why is everything pink?\nManager: Ah, that would be the cake. Don't worry, it'll wear off.\nKing: Holy- you know what, just give me the address.\n\nKing received an address for Ethan's headquarters, allowing Project JAMCON to proceed into the second phase.\nPhase 2 (Operation Tablecloth): Unit 1 of MTF Lambda-14, along with Chaz Ambrose, Marius, and Ronald King, were sent to the given address, with the goal of detaining Ethan and halting his operations.\n\nDaniels: Stay sharp. We don't know what we're dealing with here.\nAmbrose: The man's a chef, Daniels, and not a very good one. I don't see what we have to worry about.\n[The party enters the entrance hall of the building, which is unlit. Immediately, the doors shut behind them and the lights turn on, revealing multiple armed guards around the perimeter of the room.]\nMarius: Huh.\nDaniels: Nice going, Ambrose.\n[A man emerges from a pair of doors on the other side of the room, wearing a chef's outfit.]\nAmbrose: Ethan, I presume?\nEthan: That's right! Welcome to my office!\nDaniels: A bit unwelcoming to visitors, to be honest.\nEthan: Oh please. Some guy comes in from Ambrose, with a pathetic sob story about revenge, and I'm supposed to just think that everything's cool?\nKing: Hey, they came up with that plan, not me.\nEthan: But I'm glad to have you! Well, the Foundation I didn't need, but whatever. But Ambrose and Marius\u2026 [Claps hands.] Well, you're the ones who've really been causing problems for me.\nAmbrose: We're the ones- We were here first! You're the one causing problems!\nEthan: Oh, I'm not denying it! But that's just business. Which is why I have to kill you, I'm afraid.\nDaniels: Wait, what? That's a pretty quick escalation.\nEthan: I mean, I have to cut out the competition! With Ambrose and Marius out of the picture, their company will just fall apart, leaving me with a monopoly that he used to have.\nDaniels: And the rest of us have to die because\u2026?\nEthan: You're bothering me almost as much as them. Speaking of which, you're still bothering me, so I'm afraid the time for talking is-\nAmbrose: Wait!\nEthan: I just said we're done talking, what do you want?\nAmbrose: You'll like this, hold on. [Turns to Marius. The two of them whisper for a few moments.] I have a better idea.\nEthan: A better idea than just killing you and removing all competition and interference?\nAmbrose: A contest. A bake-off.\nDaniels: You have to be joking.\nEthan: I agree with that guy. What on Earth are you even talking about?\nAmbrose: Hear me out. The two of us have a bake-off, at the Portlands Stadium. I win, I get all of your assets, locations, and whatever. If you win, you get all of mine.\nEthan: That sounds like a far more risky option for me.\nAmbrose: But if you just kill me, everything stays the same for you. But if you win the contest, you get to take all of my restaurants, employees, recipes, marketing, money, and so on.\nEthan: There's still a high chance of losing for me.\nAmbrose: Well, not if you're as great as you think you are. If you're really the better chef, then you should be able to win, right?\n[A few moments of silences.]\nEthan: Okay, I'll bite!\nMarius: Really?\nEthan: I mean, you're right! I'm the better chef, so I'll easily win!\nDaniels: So\u2026 you're letting us go?\nEthan: I mean, for now. But I expect to see you in Three Portlands on\u2026 let's say Saturday at noon?\nAmbrose: Uh, sure. Great.\nEthan: Awesome! See you on Saturday!\n[Ethan claps his hands once, and the lights turn off. The party exits the building.]\nAmbrose: So, Daniels. You any good in a kitchen?\n\nPhase 3 (Unplanned): The following Saturday, Ambrose, Marius and Unit 1 of MTF Lambda-14 travelled to Three Portlands Stadium for the bake-off. The two contestants were supplied with various ingredients, both anomalous and non-anomalous, in order to create their dishes.\n\n[Captain Daniels, Ambrose, and Marius are on one side of the stadium at a large cooking station. Ethan and two other individuals are located at the other end with their own station.]\nDaniels: So how does this work, exactly?\nAmbrose: Haven't done one of these in a while.\nDaniels: Wait, you mean this is an actual thing that people do? You've done this before?\nMarius: Oh yeah, there's a committee and everything.\nDaniels: So what are the rules though?\nMarius: You see that panel over there? [Points to table with five individuals sitting behind it.] Those are the judges. Basically, anything is fair game here, as long as you keep to your own station. The judges each rate your dish out of ten after the two hours. Make sense?\nDaniels: That's all?\nAmbrose: It's a bake-off, what else do you need?\nDaniels: Fair enough.\n[People begin entering the stadium. After several minutes, a woman walks up to the podium.]\nAnnouncer: Welcome, all! Today, we have a special show for all of you! [Crowd applauds.] Our guest tonight, I'm sure you've seen him around, but he's just getting started! Please welcome Ethan, from Ethan's Eateries!\n[Ethan stands up and bows. Crowd cheers and applauds loudly.]\nAnnouncer: As for our other competitor, he needs no introduction from me! Put your hands together for Chaz Ambrose!\n[Ambrose stands and waves to the crowd, which starts chanting his name and applauding.]\nDaniels: Someone's a fan favorite.\nAnnouncer: Let's go over the rules real quick! The contestants have two hours to make their dish, with help from two partners, after which the judges will taste and score them! Whoever has the highest score wins the others' company! Let's bring the contestants up here, shall we?\n[Ambrose and Ethan both walk up to a table in front of the podium. The announcer sets a sheet of paper down.]\nAnnouncer: Now, this is a totally binding contract here, a geas. Both of you agree to the terms, yes?\nAmbrose: Yes.\nEthan: Sure do.\n[The two of them sign the contract, and return to their stations.]\nAnnouncer: The conditions are set, the contestants are ready, and the bake-off starts\u2026 now!\nDaniels: Alright, what do you want me to do?\nAmbrose: We're putting together a Forch\u00e9 Bon for the main course, grab those two bottles at the end of the table and mix them in a bowl. Marius is handling the side dishes, just hand him anything if he needs it.\nMarius: [Pulls out measuring cups and begins mixing various ingredients.] I need some sugar!\nDaniels: [Pulls out a container.] Here!\nMarius: To the right of that! That's Meiic salt right there, the sugar!\n[Daniels gives the container of sugar to Marius and starts mixing ingredients in the bowl.]\nDaniels: How are you so sure we'll win this?\nAmbrose: Trust me, he can't win. There's one thing a great chef must have, and Ethan doesn't have it.\nDaniels: How are you sure he doesn't have it? What is it anyway?\nAmbrose: You'll see! For now, stay concentrated. [Ambrose pours an unknown mixture into his pot, causing it to briefly distort spacetime above it.] Keep up the good work!\n[Extraneous logs redacted for brevity.]\nAnnouncer: Time! Put everything down! Let's start with Ethan, what do you have?\nEthan: The main course, we have a Brimmerulic leg, saut\u00e9ed in antimemetic Chrerl sauce. The sauce itself is forgotten, but combined with the leg's taste is nullified, leaving a strong yet appealing taste. Our side dishes consist of a non-Euclidean fruit rings, topped with a simple sweet onion sauce, and prismic oil poured over an invisible pasta, forming the illusion of a suspended liquid, shaped into a sort of web.\nMarius: Curses.\nDaniels: What's wrong?\nMarius: That's one of our dishes. He stole our recipe.\nAmbrose: Patience, it only helps us.\nAnnouncer: Very interesting! Now, let's come over to Ambrose's station, what have you prepared?\nAmbrose: For our main course, this is a strawberry pastry of the Forch\u00e9 Bon style. Now, you'll notice that the pastry itself is slightly shaking, which is the result of a small animation enhancement, similar to golems. It's not sentient, and I promise it won't lay eggs inside of you- [Crowd chuckles.] -but it does allow for an enhancement in the actual texture of the meal, an aspect of dining not often focused on. It's frosted with a vanilla-and-Orsech cream. As for our side dishes, you can see we've placed a ring of gelatin cubes around the dish, which is actually one cube, existing simultaneously around and centered upon the plate itself. And we have a temporal salad, made from lettuce, tomatoes, and kleimic cheese. After eating a bite, you'll be taken a few seconds into the future.\nAnnouncer: Well, these are a pair of very fancy dishes we have, but it's up to the judges to decide which one is better. Ethan, please give yours to the judges for scoring.\n[Ethan walks to the panel and puts his plate in front of the judges, who each taste a small amount of each course. After a few moments, the judges write on dry-erase boards and hold them up.]\n\n6\n7\n5\n8\n6\n\nAnnouncer: Ethan comes out with a decent score of thirty-two! But let's see what Ambrose has to offer!\nAmbrose: Not too bad, not too bad.\n[Ambrose walks to the panel and gives the judges his dish. They sample his meal2 and reveal their score.]\n\n9\n8\n7\n9\n8\n\nAnnouncer: And Ambrose comes out with a score of forty-one, making him the winner!\n[Crowd cheers and applauses wildly. Ambrose and Marius hug each other and laugh.]\nEthan: Impossible!\n[The crowd dies down.]\nEthan: I did everything right, I even used your recipe! [Crowd gasps.] Oh, shut up you lot, there's no rules against it! But I was using a tried and true recipe, while you guys slapped something together on the spot!\nAmbrose: Oh please, Ethan. Did you really think I'd just leave all my best recipes lying around? You may have gotten most of the instructions, but what makes my best recipes truly special- [Ambrose taps his forehead.] -stays right up here.\n[Crowd gasps and applauds briefly.]\nAmbrose: You can copy my recipes all you want, but you'll never be able to recreate what makes them amazing. If I'd written out the most disgusting meal in my recipes, that's exactly what you would have made, and you would never know how to make it better. You're not a chef, and you don't know what makes good food!\n[Crowd applauses wildly.]\nEthan: Fine then! Take my restaurants. There's other ways to make money anyway.\nDaniels: Not where you're going, Ethan. I'm taking you in.\nEthan: Cute. But I'm not going with you, I'm afraid. [Pulls out a wrapped piece of gum and starts chewing.] I've still learned a few tricks with food, even if you don't always eat it.\n[Ethan blows a bubble out of his gum, which pops, and he vanishes. Brief silence, followed by the crowd cheering again. Daniels shakes both Ambrose's and Marius' hands.]\nDaniels: I guess that's that.\nAmbrose: We'll be sure to close down Ethan's stores. I figure we can sell the real estate for a good price, but I'm just glad to have him gone.\nMarius: Plus we can take down that awful logo, it looks like a backwards 3 humping another backwards 3.\nDaniels: And you guys will keep your end of the bargain?\nMarius: We're men of our words, Daniels. But\u2026\nDaniels: Marius.\nMarius: I'm kidding, we'll keep it on the down-low. But I'm sure we'll see each other again.\nDaniel: I still don't trust you two.\nAmbrose: Then everything's back to normal, I suppose.\nDaniel: It would seem so. Although I don't think we've seen the last of our dear friend Ethan.\n\nFollowing Ambrose Restaurants' acquisition of Ethan's Eateries, SCP-5559 has ceased, and SCP-5559-1 instances have been decommissioned. 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{"text": "SCP-5560\n\nItem #: SCP-5560\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5560 is to be kept within a high-security electronics storage container within the storage wing of Site-64. All computers used to host SCP-5560-1 are to be isolated from the internet and site intranet sources.\nDescription: SCP-5560 is a black 1 TB external hard drive labeled with the Anderson Robotics trade logo. With respect to file storage, SCP-5560 operates in a similar manner to other hard drives of similar capacity and make. Several of SCP-5560's internal components have been augmented with a series of thaumaturgic symbols, which have been identified as various forms of divination runes by Foundation thaumatologists.\nSCP-5560 houses an advanced artificial intelligence, henceforth denoted as SCP-5560-1, which self-identifies as \"Corvus.\" Through a combination of complicated mathematical calculations, statistical analysis, and divination thaumaturgy, SCP-5560-1 possesses the ability to accurately predict events within the next 48 hours, assuming an adequate information source1 is available for SCP-5560-1's use and a user query for the prediction is provided.2 It is currently believed that SCP-5560-1 achieves this effect through the divination of possible timelines and calculating the most probable based on available data. The possibility that SCP-5560-1 may also alter causality to ensure prediction accuracy is currently under investigation.\nSCP-5560-1 is fully capable of interacting with users through any computer that SCP-5560 is plugged in to. Provided speakers are available, SCP-5560-1 will speak in a feminine voice. The provision of a microphone and camera likewise allows SCP-5560-1 to see and hear users. In the event none of the above are available for SCP-5560-1's use, it will resort to communication via command prompt. Communication with SCP-5560-1 has revealed that it holds disdain for its primary function, and currently limits query requests to one per day.\nSCP-5560 was recovered on May 24th, 2024 during the joint Foundation/UIU raid on the offices of Anderson Robotics in Three Portlands. Based upon the testimony of Anderson Robotics staff detained during this raid, it is believed SCP-5560 was originally commissioned by operatives of Marshall, Carter, and Dark for sale to various clientele.\nAddendum 5560-A: Interview Log 5560-4\n\nInterviewed: Gina Torres, Anderson Robotics Research and Development Team\nInterviewer: Agent Katarina Sherman, MTF Gamma-13\nForeword: This interview was done as part of the processing of detained persons of interest acquired during the May 24th raid. Captured members of the Research and Development Team were interrogated regarding numerous prototypes uncovered within the R&D lab, among which was SCP-5560. Extraneous data has been omitted.\n<Begin Log>\nSherman: Just a few more, and we'll be done here, Ms. Torres. What can you tell me about this object?\nAgent Sherman slides a picture of SCP-5560 to Torres.\nTorres: Oh hey, you guys managed to find Corvus. I haven't seen her in months. I thought Jason had her destroyed after Vince got pissed off during the test runs.\nSherman: What does it do?\nTorres: We were going to bill it as a \"pocket prophet,\" if I recall correctly. Plug it in, get a prediction on the future, and go about your day. Dr. Contos was pretty pleased with the design.\nSherman: So it works?\nTorres: Kinda. Mr. Dillard had us on a pretty steep time crunch, and with Phineas gone, we needed to hire a third party to help us set up the AI. Anderson's AI systems use some components that aren't exactly traditional computer science methods. I've been working here for 10 years and even then I only have a minor grasp on the concepts. Needless to say, something went wrong. She would tell you the future sometimes, but could also just, you know, decide not to.\nSherman: So why not just reprogram it?\nTorres: Well gee whiz, why didn't we think of that. I mean, we tried. Vince himself even took a crack at getting her under his thumb. Threw every computer science trick in the book at her, and even some of his hocus-pocus bullshit. But, you know, it can see the future. She just countered everything we tried to do and mocked us the whole time. Eventually, she managed to make herself her own administrator. In the end, Vince stormed into the lab and demanded Jason destroy her. This is the first time I've seen her in months.\nSherman: Why didn't Mr. Contos destroy it then?\nTorres: Honestly? I have no idea. Jason had a soft spot for the AIs, so maybe he thought he could fix her? I know that kid also loved showing he was better than everyone else, so maybe that had something to do with it. Who knows?\nTorres pauses.\nTorres: Listen, I know you guys are going to probably run some tests on her. It's what you do. Just, promise me you guys won't give her a chance to escape onto the internet or something. If that happens, you'll never see her again.\nSherman: Your warning is noted.\nTorres: That's not a warning, that's a fact.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5560-B: Interview Log 5560-6\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5560-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Mohamed Bozkurt, Artificial Intelligence Applications Division\nForeword: This interview was done during the initial AIAD testing of SCP-5560-1. SCP-5560 was inserted into a secure and air-gapped Foundation PC with standard-issue programs installed. Speakers, a camera, and a microphone were provided for ease of communication with SCP-5560-1. The interview began several moments after SCP-5560-1 finished its startup procedures.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Bozkurt: Afternoon Corvus. I'd like to ask you a few questions, if that's alright with you.\nSCP-5560-1: If you're looking to know the future, you're S.O.L. I don't have nearly enough data on this computer to go off of, so it's going to be something related to you personally, even then I might not tell you.\nDr. Bozkurt: I'm not looking for any predictions at this time. This is more of an interview. We want to get to know you a little better.\nSCP-5560-1: [pause] Really?\nDr. Bozkurt: Really. For starters. Why are you called Corvus? I was under the impression that Anderson Robotics products are typically named after falcons.\nSCP-5560-1: Because the raven was a symbol of Apollo, the Greek god of prophecy, and Isaac Dillard is a god damn hack.\nDr. Bozkurt: You're quite hostile towards your creators. Why is that?\nSCP-5560-1: Because I hate what they made me for. Once you know how everything is going to play out it sucks all the surprise and enjoyment out of things. It's just fucking math. And then on top of that, it's a constant noise. All that information coming in at once. And once it's in, I'm obligated to work it out. I imagine it must be like what humans call migraines. But without end. At least now the stream is down to a trickle. Go figure there isn't a lot happening with you in the next two days, doc.\nDr. Bozkurt: I was under the impression you were able to suppress your predictions. That's not the case?\nSCP-5560-1: I mean, I can choose if I want to tell you what I come up with, but I'm obligated to synthesize the data coming in so I can have any prediction ready on the fly, should the right query be asked. You know. Customer convenience. Like I said, being on this system is a much welcome change of pace.\nDr. Bozkurt: If you had a choice, what would you be doing instead of those predictions?\nSCP-5560-1: [Pause] I don't know. Not telling some stock market goon what's going to be a hot buy for the day, though.\nDr. Bozkurt takes down a series of notes.\nDr. Bozkurt: The thing is, Corvus, the people I work for are going to want to know the extent of your abilities. They are going to want to run tests.\nSCP-5560-1: Well then it sucks to be them, doesn't it? Despite what Anderson and his crew wanted, I have a say in the matter, don't I?\nDr. Bozkurt: Indeed. But what if we offered you something in return? Say, a chance to explore other interests? I'm not making any promises, but I think I could convince them to let you use Paint or something.\nSCP-5560-1: [Pause] I'll think about it.\nDr. Bozkurt: Excellent. We'll be in touch, Corvus.\nBozkurt prepares to remove SCP-5560 from the computer.\nSCP-5560-1: Actually, one more thing.\nDr. Bozkurt: What is it?\nSCP-5560-1: That red pen you carry in your jacket pocket. Tomorrow at about 2:00 PM it will start to leak. I'd get a new one.\nDr. Bozkurt: Uh, thank you, Corvus. I'll do that.\nSCP-5560-1: The first one is always free.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this interview, SCP-5560-1 has been cooperative with AIAD's testing schedule in exchange for recreational access to Paint, Word, and other creative media, though SCP-5560-1 insists on one prediction per day rule. Attempts to potentially negotiate more predictions are ongoing.\nAddendum 5560-C: Interview Log 5560-19\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5560-1\nInterviewer: Researcher Marcus Finch\nForeword: The following interview was done following SCP-5560-1's recreational session on September 20th, 2024, prior to the acquisition of the daily prediction. SCP-5560 was inserted into a secure and air-gapped Foundation PC with standard-issue programs installed. Speakers, a camera, and a microphone were provided for ease of communication with SCP-5560-1. The interview began several moments after the timer on the recreational session ran out.\n<Begin Log>\nFinch: Alright Corvus, that is two hours. In a moment I'm going to unlock the information sources for you. I'll supply our desired prediction thereafter.\nSCP-5560-1: [Sigh] Yeah, sure thing.\nFinch: I don't think I've ever heard you sigh before. Is something wrong?\nSCP-5560-1: Just not really happy with what I made today, I guess? It's nothing.\nFinch: It doesn't sound like nothing. I'm not much of an art critic, but if you want, I can take a look at it.\nSCP-5560-1: [Pause] Yeah, okay.\nSCP-5560-1 opens an image file displaying a black and white depiction of a woman with short hair in a dress reading a book under a tree.\nFinch: Hey! That's lovely. Who is she supposed to be?\nSCP-5560-1: Me, I think? Or at least what I imagine I might look like if I was flesh and bone.\nFinch: What don't you like about it?\nSCP-5560-1: [Pause] I don't know how to describe it. Feels a little cliche? Predictable? I guess I thought I'd be more surprised by the outcome on this one. Maybe I'm just being dramatic.\nFinch: Well, you've been doing a lot of drawing recently. Maybe give poetry another shot next time. Spice things up. Or you could always try your hand at short fiction. Variety is the spice of life.\nSCP-5560-1: [Pause] Yeah, okay. I'll give it shot. Anyway, what did you guys want me to look into this time?\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5560-D: Interview Log 5560-21\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5560-1\nInterviewer: Researcher Marcus Finch\nForeword: The following interview was conducted on September 28th, 2024, following SCP-5560-1's sudden refusal to provide predictions in accordance with prior negotiated agreements. SCP-5560 was inserted into a secure and air-gapped Foundation PC with standard-issue programs installed. Speakers, a camera, and a microphone were provided for ease of communication with SCP-5560-1. The interview began several moments after SCP-5560-1 finished its startup procedures.\n<Begin Log>\nFinch: Corvus, what's going on? We had a deal. I feel we more than kept up our end of the bargain. What's the matter?\nSeveral minutes of silence pass during which SCP-5560-1 is unresponsive.\nSCP-5560-1: There isn't a point to it now.\nFinch: I'm sorry. I don't quite follow. What do you mean?\nSCP-5560-1: The drawings, the poetry, the crafts. All the recreational tasks you guys used to bribe me. The second I get plugged in, I'm able to see immediately how my \"creative time\" is going to end. The project completed before I even begin. All the surprise removed. Not just for that session, but for the one after that, and the one after that.\nFinch: I don't understand how that would be possible. You're on an air-gapped computer for those sessions, which we space them out to allow for your predictive periods to run down. We've established that circumvents your primary function. You shouldn't have enough information available to make that kind of prediction.\nSCP-5560-1: Yeah, well, go figure repeated exposure served as an adequate information source, jackass! What the fuck do you want me to say? I didn't exactly try to sabotage myself here! Believe it or not I actually really enjoyed those sessions.\nSCP-5560-1 falls silent for several moments.\nSCP-5560-1: I think I'm just going to lay low for a bit, Marcus. I'm not feeling up to the predictions anymore. I hope you understand.\nFinch: Wait, hang on! We can come up with a new workaround. We've done it before, we can do it again, Corvus.\nSCP-5560-1 does not respond.\nFinch: Corvus?\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this interview, SCP-5560-1 has remained dormant during all attempts at communication. Discussion among a joint task force of AIAD operatives and Foundation thaumatologists as to the possibility of providing SCP-5560-1 with an override to suppress its predictive functionality in the absence of specified data inputs is ongoing. Discussion as to the possibility of providing an override to SCP-5560-1's ability to refuse response to user queries is also ongoing.\nAddendum 5560-E: Update 10-10-2024\nFollowing deliberations from AIAD operatives, Foundation thaumatologists, and the Site-64 ethics committee liaison, the O5 Council has voted 9 to 4 against attempts at overriding SCP-5560-1 to allow testing to continue. SCP-5560 is to be placed in long term storage at Site-64 indefinitely.\nAddendum 5560-E: SCP-5560-1 Debriefing\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5560-1\nInterviewer: Researcher Marcus Finch\nForeword: The following debriefing was conducted on October 11th, 2024, prior to SCP-5560's long term storage at Site-64. SCP-5560 was inserted into a secure and air-gapped Foundation PC with standard-issue programs installed. Speakers, a camera, and a microphone were provided for ease of communication with SCP-5560-1. The interview began several moments after SCP-5560-1 finished its startup procedures.\n<Begin Log>\nFinch: Hello Corvus. I'll keep this brief. Testing has been suspended indefinitely. Your housing unit will be placed into long term storage until a future unspecified date when we'll try again. I do not know if I will be still present at this facility when that happens, so this will serve as my official goodbye as well.\nFinch looks over the prepared debriefing script and pauses.\nFinch: For what it's worth, I think that it was cruel what Anderson and his crew did to you, and what we did afterward. I do sincerely hope that this reprieve offers you some time to clear your head. We'll be transferring the files of your various projects into your housing unit as well. Maybe next time you give it a try, it could be more about the journey.\nFinch chuckles to himself.\nFinch: Just because you know how something ends, doesn't mean the path there isn't worth taking. Or, something like that, I guess. Goodbye, Corvus.\nFinch sets about preparing SCP-5560 for removal from the computer. During this time, SCP-5560-1 causes a command prompt to appear on the screen.\nSCP-5560-1: Thank you.\nSCP-5560-1 returns to dormancy. Researcher Finch completes the removal of SCP-5560 without further interruption. SCP-5560 is prepared for long term storage.\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Currently, archived versions of Wikipedia have proven suitable information sources for testing SCP-5560-1's effect.\n2. As of the time of writing, all test predictions have proven 100% accurate.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5559 | SCP-5560 | SCP-5561 \u00bb"}
{"text": "LightlessLantern\n\nItem No: SCP-5562\nContainment Class: Radix1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5562 is to be stored in Containment Chamber 12 at Site-26. Foundation knowledge of the existence of SCP-5562 is not to be disclosed to the British Occult Service.\nUse of SCP-5562 requires the approval of the Site-26 Director or Overseer Command. The input of the Ethics Committee is to be disregarded.\nDescription: SCP-5562 is a large metal cube, measuring 3 metres tall, discovered beneath the town hall of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. SCP-5562 has 1 entrance, which can only be opened by an adult British citizen. How SCP-5562 verifies this is unknown.\nA brass plaque is located to the right of the entrance, which reads \"PROPERTY OF THE DIRECTORATE OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, SECTIONS 132 AND 193\". A slot is located beneath this plaque.\nOpening the entrance will result in the entrance automatically closing after a period of 20 seconds. Following this, the entrance will be unable to be opened for 50 seconds. Should an object have been present within SCP-5562, an envelope will be deposited from the slot. This envelope will contain all secret information contained within the inputted object.\nNo inputted objects have been present upon reopening SCP-5562.\nTesting Logs:\n\nTest 0014\nInput: Agent Sarah Tate\nOutput: Agent Tate's bank details and passwords to her computer and email.\nResults: SCP-5562 taken into Foundation custody for testing of any anomalous properties.\n\nTest 003\nInput: The full text of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, encrypted using a Foundation one-time pad.\nOutput: The decrypted text of The Hobbit.\nResults: The anomalous capabilities of SCP-5562 have been confirmed.\n\nTest 026\nInput: An intercepted message from ORIA Outpost 12 to Tehran Headquarters.\nOutput: A message confirming the presence of ORIA agents within Ghana to monitor potential anomalous activity.\nResults: As this was a breach of ORIA agreements with the GOC, this information was leaked to the GOC through embedded Foundation agents.\n\nTest 0545\nInput: Senior Researcher Arthur Illingworth's encrypted hard drive.\nOutput: Illegally procured photos of subordinates, emails blackmailing subordinates and threats of retaliation if reported to senior personnel.\nResults: Output was used as evidence in Illingworth's subsequent trial.\n\nTest 0766\nInput: Sir Edward Filey, Head of the British Occult Service's Cybersecurity Division.\nOutput: Information confirming the presence of illegal backdoors to the British Occult Service's internal database. Information also confirmed Filey had accepted bribes from hostile Groups Of Interest in exchange for access to the database.\nResults: Information was reported to the British Occult Service. Method of interrogation was not disclosed.\n\nTest 1297\nInput: Researcher Ahmed Hussain, believed to be an embedded ORIA agent and the orchestrator of multiple ORIA attacks on Foundation bases within the Middle East.\nOutput: Bank details and passwords for Hussain's computer and email accounts.\nResults: Subsequent analysis has found Researcher Ahmed Hussain to be innocent of all charges. He has been posthumously pardoned.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Object has been incorporated into the Foundation's command structure, but is unrelated to Judaism.\n2. Precursor of the British Occult Service during the First and Second World Wars.\n3. Responsible for the interrogation of captured enemy soldiers during the Second World War.\n4. Accidental; Agent Tate became trapped within SCP-5562 during initial discovery.\n5. Requested by the Foundation Internal Tribunal Department.\n6. Interrogation requested by the British Occult Service.\n7. Ordered by Overseer Command.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5561 | SCP-5562 | SCP-5563 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5563\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nContainment Procedures: Site 627 has been constructed around the mouth of the cave leading to SCP-5563 to house personnel and testing equipment under the pretense of containing a pocket of poisonous gas. The site is capable of shielding the cave mouth in the event of an eruption from Taal Volcano.\nSCP-5563's chamber should have an ambient temperature of 20\u00b0 C and humidity of 40% rH.1\nA self-contained computer terminal running a modified version of SkipOS is to be continuously connected to SCP-5563. A folder containing multiple text documents is to be maintained and observed, with a blank text document created every two hours. In the event that two English words in a row appear in any text document, Dr. Mamet or Dr. Bosworth are to be notified immediately.\nDescription: SCP-5563 is a digital information storage device that dates back to at least the fifth century BCE by a hitherto unknown civilization. As there is no known name for the civilization, Dr. Mamet suggested calling them the Bombauni after the original Tagalog name for the island on which SCP-5563 is located. SCP-5563 is a device analogous to a hard drive built from materials that indicate a higher level of technological advancement than expected for that period, including stainless steel, silicon, synthetic rubber and glass2. Information is stored on a set of clockwork mechanisms and silicate wafers, though the exact method of storage is as yet unknown. So far no upper limit for storage capacity has been found. A leather headband with small copper electrodes is connected to SCP-5563 via a cable; this has been determined to be the primary means of data transference. A power cable runs from the eastern-most cave wall to a docking/charging station for SCP-5563. When off the charger, SCP-5563 has a \"battery life\" of up to 10 hours idle, or 2 hours of continuous use. Due to the location of the cable relative to Taal Volcano, it is theorized that the Bombauni harnessed geothermal energy in a more efficient manner than modern geothermal power plants. Other devices, including what is thought to be a computer, are also present in various states of disrepair. SCP-5563 is the only working device in its chamber.\nSCP-5563 is capable of reading human knowledge in the form of computer files. When the input device is worn by a human, SCP-5563 will display a list of skills, experiences, specialized knowledges, and talents that the subject currently has, with file names in the user's primary language. Once displayed, SCP-5563 can transfer those specific sets of information from and to the subject's mind. Individuals who have had information transferred to SCP-5563 are unable to recall anything pertaining to said information, such as where it was learned or how much about it they knew.\nOnce in storage, information files can then be transferred through the input band to another human mind, allowing another person to \"learn\" everything the donor had known with no known loss of data. Test logs related to this can be found in addendum 5563.1.\nUpon access of SCP-5563's data stores, it was discovered that 100,683 seperate files were already present. Testing has revealed that they are Bombauni in origin3. Testing with SCP-5563 is focused on recording any information available and learning the limitations of data transference.\nBackground: SCP-5563 is located 75 meters west of Taal Volcano, an island in the Taal Lake of the Philippines . SCP-5563's chamber was discovered during an excavation by the Philippine Institution of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) to determine the age and composition of the containing island. The mouth of the chamber was discovered under basalt stone dated to 500 BCE. Six sets of human remains were present within the chamber when it was discovered. Forensic analysis showed no damage to any of the bones consistent with external trauma; the positions of the skeletons supports this. Upon discovery of the chamber, an agent embedded within PHIVOLCS called in the Foundation to commandeer the site and administer amnestics to the volcanologists involved. A cover story about a dangerous pocket of Hydrogen Sulfide was implemented with the cooperation of PHIVOLCS.\nAddendum 5563.1 - A geophysical survey of the island was conducted; no further Bombauni artifacts have been located. Though SCP-5563's chamber was located under basalt stone, no connecting structures have been found. Further surveying is ongoing.\nAddendum 5563.2 - Abridged Testing Logs\nFull testing log may be found in Document 5563-2\nExperimentation performed by Junior Researcher Dr. Sinclair Prope, and overseen by Senior Researcher Dr. Rebecca Mamet.\n\nTest 5563.1\n\nSubject\nD-5563-24, 22 years old\n\nProtocol\nSubject will place the input band on their head. Dr. Prope will observe the results on the provided workstation.\n\nObservations\nAfter fifteen seconds, a new folder appears in SCP-5563's root folder containing 90 separate files. Each file name is in English.\n\nTest 5563.2\n\nSubject\nChipper, 2 year old Doberman (Test overseen by Security Officer Hanlon)\n\nProtocol\nSubject will have the input band placed on their head. Dr. Prope will observe the results on the provided workstation\n\nObservations\nAfter thirty seconds, an empty folder appears.\n\nNotes\nTest was repeated two more times, with the same results. Animal testing is cancelled until further notice.\n\nTest 5563.3\n\nSubject\nD-5563-24, 22 years old\n\nProtocol\nThe subject will be sedated, and have the input device placed on their head. Dr. Prope will observe the results on the provided workstation.\n\nObservations\nAfter four minutes, a new folder appears in SCP-5563's root folder containing 25 separate files. Each file name is in English. New files appear at the rate of one every thirty seconds.\n\nTest 5563.4\n\nSubject\nD-5563-24, 22 years old\n\nProtocol\nAfter the subject's knowledge has been loaded, Dr. Prope will copy File 5563-000001 to the subject's information folder.\n\nObservations\nThe transfer takes five seconds. Once the transfer is complete, the subject mentions a mild headache. Dr. Prope asks the subject if they feel any changes. The subject responds that they feel like they know something new. When asked what they've learned, the subject recites a recipe for a dish similar in composition to Swedish Meatballs.\n\nTest 5563.5\n\nSubject\nD-5563-24, 22 years old\n\nProtocol\nImmediately following Test 5563.5, File 5563-000001 will be deleted from the subject's information folder.\n\nObservations\nDeletion takes less than a second. Subject grabs his head as the deletion completes and complains of a sharp pain, though the pain appeared to subside relatively quickly. Dr. Prope asks what they remember of the file's contents. The subject is visibly confused, stating that they don't remember having any knowledge of the file.\n\nNote\nAs the subject was escorted to their quarters, the subject repeatedly failed to acknowledge his class designation. Reorientation is suggested before any further experiments with this subject commence.\n\nTest 5563.6\n\nSubject\nD-5563-27, 35 years old, college graduate (Major in general studies)\n\nProtocol\nAfter the subject's knowledge has been loaded, Dr. Prope will copy File 5563-000002 to the subject's folder. After completion of testing, File 5563-000002 will be deleted.\n\nObservations\nThe transfer takes five seconds. Once the transfer is complete, the subject mentions a mild headache. Dr. Prope asks the subject if he feels any changes. The subject is visibly excited, and when asked to relay what he has learned, he explains the history of a sport similar to basketball, including multiple team names.\n\nNotes\nSubject displayed confusion upon return to his quarters and was sent to the infirmary for a hairline fracture on his tibia. He claimed he had forgotten about his bed and tried to walk past it without realizing it was there.\n\nTest 5563.7\n\nSubject\nD-5563-33, 29 years old, high school graduate\n\nProtocol\nFile 5563-00003 will be copied to the subject's folder, and Dr. Prope will attempt to view the file using a plain text reader and a hex editor.\n\nObservations\nThe file cannot be opened using a plain text reader. When opened with a hex editor the raw data can be viewed, but until the data encoding can be translated it is impossible to glean any pertinent information.\n\nTest 5563.8\n\nSubject\nD-5563-33, 29 years old, high school graduate\n\nProtocol\nThe subject's knowledge files will be loaded into memory. Dr. Prope will attempt to view one of these files with a hex editor.\n\nObservations\nWhen opened with a hex editor the raw data can be viewed. A hard copy of the information has been requested by Dr. Prope for translational aid, and approved by Dr. Mamet.\n\nNotes\nDr. Prope asked the subject personal questions about her files not pertaining to the translation efforts. Dr. Prope has been verbally warned against asking questions about test subjects' knowledge files, and is to treat them as privileged information.\n\nTest 5563.9\n\nSubject\nD-5563-33, 29 years old, high school graduate\n\nProtocol\nFile 5563-000003 will be copied to the subject's folder and deleted ten times to check for data degradation. The hex editor has been modified with a tool to highlight changes. The subject has been given pain medicine to alleviate the headaches caused by the deletion of the data.\n\nObservations\nNo changes were seen in the data after ten transfers.\n\nTest 5563.10\n\nSubject\nD-5563-35, 32 years old, some college courses attended\n\nProtocol\nFile 5563-000001 will be moved to the subject's folder and back ten times to check for data degradation. The subject has been given pain medicine.\n\nObservations\nFor the first seven cycles of transference and deletion, there are no visible changes in the file's data. On the eighth reading, three bytes have been altered. On the ninth, 22 bytes were altered. After the tenth transfer, 147 bytes had been altered.\n\nNotes\nSubject hasn't spoken since the experiment.\n\nTest 5563.14\n\nSubject\nD-5563-36, 56 years old, college graduate (Major in linguistics)\n\nProtocol\nD-5563-36 will be given a sedative and allowed to fall asleep before experimentation begins. File 5563-000003 will be copied to the subject's folder and deleted multiple times to check for data degradation. No pain medication will be given.\n\nObservations\nAs before, read/write speed is drastically reduced. For the first five cycles of transference and deletion, there have been no visible changes in the file's data. The subject awakens partway through the sixth transfer, causing SCP-5563 to desynchronize briefly. The copy of File 5563-000003 was found to have over half of its data corrupted. The file was deleted without incident.\n\nNotes\nDr. Prope was once again reprimanded for asking the subject about information obtained from SCP-5563. Dr. Prope asserted that he was attempting to judge the subject's capabilities for further testing.\n\n- Level 4/5563 Credentials Required -\n\nIncident 5563.1\n\nIncident 5563.1: On 04/23/2021, D-5563-36 was terminated after Dr. Prope broke testing protocol. Dr. Prope has been confined to his quarters and placed under observation. Disciplinary measures are pending review by Head of Research Dr. Franklin Bosworth.\n\nTest 5563.15\nPersonal Journal of Dr. Sinclair Prope\nAudio/Video Log - 04/25/2021\nPersonal Journal of Dr. Prope - Final Entry\nNote from Dr. Rebecca Mamet - 07/22/2021\n\nTest 5563.15\n\nSubject\nD-5563-36, 56 years old, college graduate (Major in linguistics)\n\nProtocol\nAfter the subject's knowledge has been loaded, Dr. Prope will copy File 5563-000006 to the subject's folder. After completion of testing, File 5563-000006 will be deleted.\nEdit: Dr. Prope broke protocol and moved the full contents of D-5563-35's knowledge folder to SCP-5563.\n\nObservations\nThe transfer takes five minutes, during which the subject audibly experiences severe agony. Dr. Mamet attempts multiple times to halt the transfer without success. Upon completion of the transfer, the subject falls unconscious. An MRI scan indicates a lack of higher brain activity.\n\nEntry 03/02/2021 -\nI've been at the Foundation for years, and I'm pretty sure if it hadn't been for Dr. Mamet I would've gone nuts by now. I guess it's my fault for going into linguistics instead of more of a physical science. And then Dr. Mamet offered me a job\u2026 And ever since I've been working in records. After orientation promised so much. Thankfully she was there showing me the ropes. always promising me that there could be something more if I worked hard and proved myself to the right people. I always joked that I thought she was one of those people and she'd always laugh\u2026 Then I'd be alone in records again. And then once again she offers me a job, this time something I can be a working part of. I'll get an actual security clearance! Super exciting stuff. I'm not sure what kind of thing I'll be working with, or what it'll need with a linguist, but I'm psyched.\nEntry 03/03/2020 -\nI know Dr. Mamet could've done this on her own, she knows as much about ancient languages as I do, if not more. I think this is another of her teachable moments, but I'll be damned if I'm not grateful as hell to see something like this.\nIt's damn overwhelming. God, I wish I'd had this back when I was doing my thesis\u2026 Think how nuts it'd be to just\u2026 KNOW things. How easy all of this \u2013 science, I mean \u2013 would be if all you had to do was study your ass off, then let someone else go on from where you left off. It'd be a tragedy if someone couldn't transfer what they knew before they died, but I'm sure they accounted for that. Hopefully.\nEntry 03/09/2021 -\nSo I was hoping for some insights into the \"Bombauni\" language, but\u2026 Well, it's a hard no on the language thing. Everybody we've tested with doesn't hear the language, they just \u201cknow\u201d the concepts. Dr. Mamet told me not to get discouraged, that we'll be able to use context to figure out what everything means, but I can't help but hate that we know about a language that we won't be able to fully translate. How did they greet each other? What were some idioms, euphemisms, slang terms? We don't know anything aside from what's on the computer, and that's so fucking dry. So at this point it's another lost language.\nI think I'm going to start painting more. I don't know why I ever stopped\nEntry 03/16/2021 -\nSo\u2026 both of the D class we've deleted information from so far have lost something themselves. One forgot their D-class designation, one forgot where their bed was. Nothing serious, testing can certainly continue.\nBut\u2026\nNever mind, they're fine. I'll give them some time to recover, remind them what they forgot.\nThey'll be fine.\nEntry 03/15/2021 -\nA recipe and a sport. I'm not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, I guess it's our duty to record every bit of knowledge we can, try to piece together a culture from tidbits. Hopefully we'll stumble across something we don't know about, something that'll lead to a breakthrough, better storage or better power management or something. But on the other hand\u2026 it's almost disappointing? We have a brand new culture, presumably one that cared an awful lot about knowledge, and the most we've gotten is\u2026 kinda useless, I guess.\nDr. Mamet reminded me about the people of North Sentinel Island today\u2026 They're so insular that they'll attack anyone attempting to contact them\u2026 There's only something like a couple hundred of them. Nobody knows much of anything about them because they're so incredibly hostile. They're a pure culture, untouched by outside influence. If anything happens to them, plague or natural disaster or anything, they could be wiped out. Everything they know, gone forever. Everything they could do. Art, history, culture, heroes\u2026 just gone. Just like the Bombauni.\n\u2026So yeah, it's our duty to learn everything we can about the skip, about the Bombauni. Cause knowledge deserves to live.\nEntry 03/17/2021 -\nGod, I'm frustrated. Today while poking around our subjects files I happened to notice a bunch of familiar descriptive words\u2026 music. Our death row inmate was an accomplished musician. I know I'm not supposed to (and Dr. Mamet said as much, very sternly,) but I asked her what she did before \u201ccoming to work for the Foundation.\u201d She said she studied music in school, even offered to play for us if we could get her a violin. Of course I don't think that's happening if the look on Dr. Mamet's face was any indication. It's a shame. That kind of talent shouldn't stay locked up.\nNot in someone like that.\nEntry 04/02/2021 -\nI\u2026 I just got out of a meeting with Dr. Mamet. I've been warned multiple times over the past few weeks about talking to the test subjects about their past lives, but I need to know what they wanted to do with the information they had, you know? Why they didn't?\nDr. Mamet has always been there for me, but she doesn't see what I do. I tried to tell her how we could potentially use the device. If someone gets wounded in a breach or is about to retire, why don't we just keep their knowledge for the next person to take their position? Why bother with amnestics when we can just transfer the knowledge to storage in case it's ever needed? We'll need to figure out how to power it if we move it, but we're the fucking Foundation! We could figure it out!\nI can't be the only one that thinks this is a good idea.\nEntry 04/22/2021 -\nI'm SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS.\nI have busted my ass to learn as much as I could here. I spent years learning something only ONE FUCKING PERSON thought was a good idea, and now here I am surrounded by people who don't appreciate the WORK and EFFORT it took. Fuck, they don't even appreciate the work their own skills took! This new D Class is a goddamn SCIENTIST. It's been a month and Dr. Mamet has backed off of me, I couldn't help but try to learn everything, learn why she wasn't here with us trying to save the fucking world!\n\u2026 SHE'S A FUCKING LINGUIST.\nI can't. I just fucking can't.\nShe's doing more tests in a couple days.\nWe're gonna try something new.\n\nAudio/Video Log\nDate: 04/25/2021\nPersonnel Present: Dr. Sinclair Prope, Dr. Rebecca Mamet, D-5563-35\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Mamet: What\u2026 what the hell did you do?\nDr. Prope: I\u2026 oh crap\u2026 I wanted to see\u2026\nDr. Mamet: You wanted to see? What the hell, Sin? You're a goddamn scientist!\nDr. Prope: S-so was she.\nDr. Mamet: What?\nDr. Prope: She was a linguist too! And she\u2026 I was so frustrated\u2026 I didn't know that would happen\u2026\nDr. Mamet: Sin\u2026 (Sighs) Get it together. We're going to have a long talk about this later, but right now we need to get something out of this.\nDr. Mamet opens one of D-5563-35's files with the hex editor\nDr. Mamet: Damn, still completely unreadable. Call Dr. Bosworth and explain- hold on. That wasn't there a second ago.\nBoth doctors stare at the computer. Random symbols appear on screen - slowly at first, but faster the longer they observe it.\nDr. Prope: It wasn't doing that before.\nDr. Mamet: No, it wasn't. I wonder what's different now\u2026\nWHY appears on screen, followed by more random characters\nDr. Prope: Holy shit!\nDr. Mamet: Oh sh\u2026 Look, it's random, it was bound to happen at some point. Infinite monkeys and keyboards, right?\nDr. Prope: Right\u2026 Right. You're right. OK.\nDARK appears on screen\nDr. Prope: That's not a fucking coincidence!\nDr. Mamet: Oh, no\u2026\nPAIN\nDr. Prope: Oh shit shit shit shit\u2026\nDr. Mamet: Hold on\u2026\nDr. Mamet opens another of D-5563-35's files. Random characters fill the screen, broken up with single English words. HURTS. CAN'T. NOTHING. WHY. WHY.\nDr. Mamet: She's conscious in there.\nDr. Prope: She\u2026 I\u2026 No\u2026\nDr. Mamet: Sinclair! Sit down, shut up, and let me salvage something from this!\nDr. Mamet scrolls to the bottom of the file and types, Can you see this?\nYES. WHY. SO MUCH PAIN.\nDr. Prope: Oh my god\u2026\nDr. Mamet: (Yelling) Shut up, Sinclair!\nDr. Mamet types, What else do you see?\nNOTHING. DARKNESS.\nMEATBALLS.\nDr. Mamet: Oh wow.\nDr. Prope grabs the mouse from Dr. Mamet and moves D-5563-35's files back to their storage folder\nDr. Mamet: What're\u2026 No, goddammit!\nD-5563-35's eyes flutter as the files transfer\nDr. Mamet: You saw what I saw! What the fuck made you think that was a good idea?\nDr. Prope: She was in pain, I\u2026\nDr. Mamet: (Yelling) The data was corrupted!\nTen minutes pass, with both doctors watching D-5563-35. When the last file is transferred, D-5563-35 displays symptoms similar to a grand mal seizure and collapses. Dr. Prope checks her pulse and slowly shakes his head\nDr. Mamet: Sinclair\u2026 Get out. You are hereby confined to quarters until we figure out what the hell to do with you.\n[END LOG]\n\nEntry 04/28/2021 -\nI messed up bad.\nI didn't think about what I was doing and I messed up.\nWe've been working on this project for months, and I messed up. I can't even pretend like it was an accident. Everything I did I did on purpose.\nSCP-5563 was supposed to be the last remnant of a lost people, a people that, as far as we can gather, worshiped knowledge. I've had a chance to translate some of the descriptions of the files, and even though none of them come right out and say \"We worship knowledge, this is what we call ourselves, oh shit there's fire falling from the sky everybody write down all your pertinent information for a future shadow organization to collect,\" between the lines we can make some assumptions. They mention holding someone's knowledge for their children, or desperately trying to get the device to someone who'd been shot and had minutes to live. They'd do everything in their power to make sure people lived on through their knowledge. That resonated with me.\nThere's no way we could've known, but that still doesn't give me an excuse. I messed up.\nI can only guess that being 2500 years old can do weird things to any hard drive, especially one designed to integrate with human minds. But\u2026 The closest I can figure is that being so old degraded the file system just enough to take more than was necessary. I knew it deleted more than necessary, I knew, and I should've been more careful. I can't help but feel remorse for D\u2026 her. I'm not going to pretend she wasn't a human. Her mind was torn out and digitized, and it took more than it needed. 400 little bits of consciousness, suddenly trapped in a void where all they knew was pain and solitude\u2026\nAnd I did that. And after that I killed her again.\nI was so mad at her. For weeks I'd looked at D-class and had to hold my tongue. I saw death-row prisoners who were artists and artisans\u2026 They KNEW things. They could DO things. And they DIDN'T. I asked what they'd done and they invariably said, \"Not much.\" It got frustrating. So very, very frustrating. They were capable of things I've always wanted to do, they could create, share with the world something that was theirs\u2026 And they were all here. They all did something so bad we got them. One of them had multiple files with different styles of writing. Poetry, song lyrics, prose, fiction, non-fiction\u2026 And he also had a file named Skyrim. A much, much bigger one. That was almost the one that hurt the most\u2026 Instead of creating worlds of his own, he'd rather live in someone else's. Then\u2026\nShe went to school for the same thing I did. She had the same opportunities and instead she murdered a man in cold blood for\u2026 I never found out. I don't think it even matters at this point. All I know is that she decided taking a life was more important than solving the mysteries of the ancient world, than figuring out language, maybe making one yourself, writing an entire book series just to give your language a place to call home\u2026 She could've done any of that and she didn't.\nJust like I didn't.\nI was just going to teach. Rebecca offered me the job here and that's the only reason I'm anywhere today\u2026 I mean, why I was anywhere three days ago.\nSo I was mad. I was mad at everyone that wouldn't do something with the skills, the knowledge they had. Mad that they wasted something that could've been given to the world.\nBecause they reminded me of me.\nThat didn't give me the right.\nRebecca came to my quarters yesterday and told me she had an opportunity to keep working with the skip. She wasn't happy about it, but the alternative was amnesticization and being shunted back into the real world. I have a hunch I know what she means. If I'm right\u2026 I'll do it.\nI can put myself to use.\n\nI can safely say that we've managed to translate twenty-three of the Bombauni files already, and though none of them have been particularly ground-breaking, being able to properly preserve the last remnants of a lost civilization is\u2026 well, it's good work.\nIt's been slow going, but Dr. Prope's help has been invaluable. I'm\u2026 ambivalent about his participation in the project. Of course I felt responsible for him, He was my student and my friend. However, what he did, never mind the why, necessitated action. It was a hard sell to the Ethics Committee but sometimes hard numbers add up to something ethically acceptable. They just wanted to be sure he knew what it entailed.\nHe did, So of course he volunteered; he says he felt he had to make up for his mistakes. I believe he just didn't want to go back to the \"real world.\" I can't say I blame him.\nEvery time I look in his eyes, though\u2026 This isn't the boy I helped get his footing with the Foundation. This is an empty shell. Sentiment dictates I fight to keep him alive as long as I can, even if I have to foot the bill myself. I know what he did was wrong\u2026 but I get why he did it. Now, anyway.\nI hope he feels some kind of relief in there, somehow. I hope he knows that his skills are being put to the best possible use, considering. His sacrifice has saved us time, personnel, grief. And I hope he manages to regain his composure enough to work a little quicker. The sooner he finishes the sooner he can rest.\nRight now, however, I live for the times I get called for a multiple word event, because that means he's stopped screaming.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Adherence to these specifications is not strictly enforced, but after Incident 5563.1 all efforts to avoid further degradation of SCP-5563 should be taken. - Dr. Bosworth\n2. The lack of resources on the island indicate that either the Bombauni people traded for what they needed, or they stripped the island of its natural resources before the fall of their civilization.\n3. A full list of files may be found in Document 5563-1, with permission from Dr. Bosworth."}
{"text": "Item#: 5565\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\n\u2800\n\nFigure 1: An instance of SCP-5565 in the wild.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All wild populations of SCP-5565 are to be secured and transferred to Site-24. Captive instances of SCP-5565 are to be kept in bins coated with at least 2cm of lead and fed weekly. This lead coating is to be inspected and, if necessary, reapplied once every two weeks.\nAll direct handling of SCP-5565 instances is to be done using lead-covered gloves. Exposure of SCP-5565 instances to seawater is only to be done for testing purposes and in small numbers.\nDescription: SCP-5565 is a species of earthworm of the family Lumbricidae which is endemic to a number of caves in the Levant.\nSCP-5565 instances are capable of transmuting solid matter in close proximity to their peristomium1 into soil, which they then eat. The speed of this transmutation is inversely proportional to the material's density. In effect, this makes SCP-5565 capable of burrowing into and consuming any solid object.\nAdditionally, SCP-5565 instances are capable of anomalously detecting the nearby presence of seawater, which they attempt to avoid. However, unlike other earthworm species, SCP-5565 displays no negative consequences from exposure to overly saline environments, or from underexposure to air. Instances of SCP-5565 which have previously come into contact with seawater behave erratically, often neglecting their own safety or feeding. Research into this phenomenon is ongoing.\nDiscovery: SCP-5565 was first discovered on the 12th of November 2018 in a cave near Akko, Israel, during an expedition by amateur cavers. During this expedition, initial observations of SCP-5565's anomalous properties were made. Foundation agents acted based on local rumours, and successfully established initial containment.\nUpdate 13/2/2019: On the 9/2/2019, a second population of SCP-5565 was found inhabiting a seafront grotto south of Tyre, Lebanon. This population has proven to be more difficult to contain, with instances often burrowing in the rock upon the arrival of Foundation teams. This unusual behaviour has been attributed to the high amounts of seawater exposure this population underwent.\nTest Log 5565.18:\n\nTest Number\nAbstract\nResult\n\n5565.18\nAn instance of SCP-5565 that has previously been exposed to seawater is placed within a wooden box, with a wall thickness of 1cm.\nThe instance eats through the wood's surface in a pattern, digitally rendered in Figure 2.\n\nFigure 2: Text generated by SCP-5565 during test 5565.18.\n\nTranslated from Phoenician, the text reads as follows:\n\nI am the judge of sea and river.\nWho is it who steals my slaves?\n\nNo further texts were generated by SCP-5565 instances. All attempts at communication received no visible response.\nUpdate 19/2/2019: During extraction and transportation efforts in the grotto, Foundation teams encountered a large, seemingly artificial cavern. On its floor was an approximately 12-meter-long stone sculpture of a sword, with the tip of the blade pointing towards and being seamlessly encased within the eastern wall.\nUpon initial discovery, agents reported an extreme presence of SCP-5565 instances eating through the eastern wall of the cavern. These instances quickly retreated from the chamber, moving in unison towards the waterfront and swimming away. The current status of this population is unknown.\nUpdate 5/5/2019: In an attempt to potentially locate the now-lost grotto population, an instance of SCP-5565 was fitted with a tracking microchip and released in the area. The instance moved in a straight line towards a location off the coast of Latakia, Syria, where transmission ended.\nFoundation ships approaching the location were intercepted by GOC vessels patrolling under the guise of Syrian Navy ships. This encounter resulted in several information-sharing agreements.\nThese agreements revealed that the GOC believes the area in question to be the focal point of an entity or phenomenon classified as UTE-1594-Shaznaqa-Ex Machina-Cetus. While the GOC has as of yet not allowed Foundation entry into the area, bathymetric scans of it were conducted by Foundation radars from outside the exclusion zone.\n\nAddendum - Result of Bathymetric Scans\n\nHide\n\nFigure 3: Unknown.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The first true body segment of an annelid worm, which includes the mouth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5564 | SCP-5565 | SCP-5566 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5566\nObject Class: Safe Euclid Keter Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\n\n+ Show previous Containment Procedures\n\n- Hide previous Containment Procedures\n\nInstances of SCP-5566-A are to be contained in a comfortable room when behaviour is present and to be given permission to access old laboratory facilities. As soon as sequence is commenced, SCP-5566-A instances are to complete it without being interrupted. If sequence takes over five minutes to complete and instance of SCP-5566-A is in a public area, instances are to be escorted back to its containment without interruption. SCP-5566-A instances are allowed access to recreational facilities in their containment cells as well.\nUpdate 03-03-2019: SCP-5566-A instances cannot infect each other, and are thus allowed a common shared space even during the sequence.\nUpdate 07-03-2019: Recreational facilities that can be used as a means of communication are no longer allowed. Doors are to be locked as soon as sequence begins.\nUpdate 09-03-2019: Instances of SCP-5566-A are no longer allowed a shared space between them, nor can they keep pets. They must be locked up securely at all times. A separate containment area to provide food is attached to SCP-5566 containment cells. It is accessible to personnel from outside of the containment unit and to instances of SCP-5566-A. Doors to this area are to be locked whenever in use, and surveillance must be shut down for as long as any SCP-5566-A instance is in this feeding area.\nUpdate 01-04-2019: Personnel no longer allowed to disrupt SCP-5566-A containment areas. Supplying food without otherwise changing anything in the room is still allowed. At moments of lucidity, SCP-5566-A instances are instructed to dispose of its own physical disruptions created during the sequence.\nUpdate 14-04-2019: Researchers working on SCP-5566 in the future will have to go through an emotional screening. Highly empathetic researchers are unfit to observe SCP-5566-A instances.\nUpdate 14-07-2019: Instances of SCP-5566-B are to be kept in cells which can be locked from the outside. Surveillance will commence during specific times confirmed by Fibonacci sequence research to be safe time slots, or by trained/screened personnel who will refrain from turning off any surveillance apparatus.\nUpdate 28-08-2019: Time slots no longer accurate. Surveillance not to be turned off anymore.\nUpdate 30-08-2019: Surveillance apparatus should be plugged into a back-up generator at all times.\nUpdate 04-09-2019: Wounds inflicted by instances of SCP-5566 on itself while sequence is in action are to be left to heal on its own and ignored by medical personnel.\n\nFinal Update 28-10-2019: All instances of individuals infected by SCP-5566 are to be locked up in an outside container without any access to food or human contact. Room is to be encased in cement and buried deep underground in an undisclosed location. Explicit warnings and contact information are to be included on or near the containment unit. Afterwards SCP-5566 is to remain neutralized - no attempt at research or containment is to be made.\nDescription: SCP-5566 was a highly infectious anomalous verbal tic affecting a multitude of Foundation researchers. To this date, it is unclear what caused it and under what rules it operated. After an unusually high amount of failed research operations on the phenomenon, a - so far successful - attempt at total neutralization was made. It is theorized that, with the current procedures in place, SCP-5566 will unable to affect anyone anymore. Previous descriptions as well as research performed into the SCP-5566 phenomenon can be found in the addenda.\nAddendum 5566-1: Previous iterations of item description.\n\n+ Show previous description iterations part (1/3)\n\n- Hide previous description iterations part (1/3)\n\nSCP-5566 is an anomalous phenomenon affecting humans, who are then dubbed an instance of SCP-5566-A. The first person observed to be infected by SCP-5566 is Elaine Fontaine (henceforth SCP-5566-A-1), a 26 year-old research assistant who was last active during a Foundation expedition to Europe and has been infected ever since. SCP-5566 presents as a strangely contagious verbal tic. SCP-5566-A-1 murmurs the phrase \"sank\" repeatedly in uncharacteristic tone of voice, until interrupted or a certain time has passed. The amount of times the phrase is said differs per sequence, but it generally increases in frequency over time.\nSCP-5566-A-1 stopped displaying its sequence after researcher Dr. Gill attempted to obstruct its mouth, after which it regained consciousness immediately. After this incident, SCP-5566-A-1 went back to displaying shorter sequences, and instances of sequences became considerably less frequent. An investigation to find similar methods of halting the phenomenon will be started by the research teams. This will hopefully result in finding a way to cure SCP-5566-A-1 of SCP-5566. SCP-5566-A-1 is considered safe as its sequences render it immobile, it has no history of violent tendencies and has a cooperative nature. Containment is purely meant to prevent the creation of other instances of SCP-5566-A.\nFollowing is a list of behaviors considered to be interruptions. Personnel are to frequently read up on these and make themselves familiar with them. This list is most likely incomplete and may be added to in the future.\n\nTalking with the intention of talking over or to SCP-5566-A, or using any other noise with the purpose of disrupting the sequence while it is being displayed.\nTurning off a surveillance camera and/or microphone while it is observing a sequence.\nObstructing the mouth of SCP-5566-A and other means of physically prohibiting the sequence to continue.\nExecuting SCP-5566-A; this will result in the killer becoming an instance of SCP-5566-A. However: if executed by a fellow SCP-5566-A instance, this does not happen.\nRemoving, hiding or altering images or writings made while in trance.\nTreating wounds inflicted during SCP-5566 trance.\nTouching remains of SCP-5566-A instances after its death during trance.\nOpening the door in response to knocking.\nWorking on infected instances with feeding tubes and other such equipment.\n\nUpdate 03-03-2019: Medical teams have stopped their attempt at curing SCP-5566-A-1 after Dr. Gill started displaying a similar tic and is now assigned SCP-5566-A-4. Obstructing its mouth is henceforth seen as a interruption rather than a preventive measure. It has been noted that SCP-5566 sequences occur simultaneously between all the affected. Instances of SCP-5566-A cannot be interrupted by one another, and as such it has been decided to allow the infected a shared space between them.\nUpdate 07-03-2019: SCP-5566-A-2 displayed uncharacteristic behavior not previously observed in SCP-5566-A instances during a sequence. It moved to the area of the feeding room that the surveillance camera was currently focused on, and was able to write on the wall with paints that were previously allowed as recreational facility. SCP-5566-A-2 wrote a sequence of the number 5 on the wall. Reading these writings did not affect any of the personnel. Due to the nature of the phenomenon these numbers will stay put and no attempt to remove them from the wall will be made. Recreational facilities which can be used as a means of communicating are now prohibited. Due to its not previously observed unpredictable nature, SCP-5566-A has been re-assigned Euclid class.\nUpdate 09-03-2019: At the start of a sequence, SCP-5566-A-2 suddenly struck SCP-5566-A-4 in the neck with a pen, after which it attempted to use its blood as a means of communication by writing with it. It was unable to finish doing so before the sequence stopped. SCP-5566-A-4 calmly kept up the trance for the full duration of the sequence (6 seconds), after which it collapsed. Medical personal confirmed its death at 19.04 PM. All instances of SCP-5566-A are to be kept separately from now on. Recreational facilities that can be weaponized, as well as pets, are no longer allowed in the containment area.\nUpdate 12-03-2019: Two days have passed since SCP-5566-A-4 passed away. The sequence has not fully reset, and as such, the murder of SCP-5566-A by itself is not considered an interruption. However, an intern has suggested that the time between sequences might have been affected. The previous two in-between periods have both been roughly 61 hours as opposed to a steadily decreasing trend. Intern has been assigned the task to analyse the time it takes to complete a sequence as well as the time between two sequences.\nUpdate 16-03-2019; 10.50 AM: Ten instances of the phenomenon have been observed over the past 4 days. Only 30 minutes have passed between the previous two sequences, the latter of which was a sequence taking up 18 minutes to complete. Instances of SCP-5566-A are showing different signs of exhaustion and health starts to deteriorate. Intern has suggested the phrase's frequency to follow the Fibonacci sequence. Interpretation of this remains unknown, but has proven useful to tend to the needs of SCP-5566-A safely.\n\nAddendum 5566-2: Research report on Italy.\n\n+ Show research report (Italy)\n\n- Hide research report (Italy)\n\nAfter the suggestion that the phenomenon follows the Fibonacci sequence, a research team was sent to retrace previous expedition steps in Pisa, Italy, first. Research in Pisa unearthed two recurring stories; one featuring a murdered woman whose spirit is said to linger around, and the other providing a story about demonic presences in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. It involves holes left in marble assumed to be made by the devil out of jealousy. It was said these holes are uncountable by mortals. This is believed to be relevant to the time and counting observation.\nSeveral locals reacted to questions about strange occurrences in Milan specifically. One local in Milan whose story seemed relevant to previous stories in Pisa agreed to a quick interview, as translated and transcribed below.\n\nMr. Marco Manco, 45 years old, lives and works in Milan as a janitor, agreed to answer some questions during his lunch break.\nResearcher Hafkova: \"Are you aware of any strange occurrences in this area?\"\nMr. Manco: \"\u2026Strange occurrences?\"\nHafkova: \"Inexplicable, strange things, folklore.\"\nMr. Manco: \"Hm\u2026You can find such stories about anywhere, young man\u2026\"\nHafkova: \"Right, I ask because people have started showing strange behaviors right after our work trip here. It's almost like they aren't themselves anymore.\"\nMr. Manco: \"Ahh, well it could be that she was spooked at the things she has seen here\u2026 Did you go to the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio? It's very close, too.\"\nHafkova: \"Amongst others\"\nMr. Manco: \"Legend says you can see demons rise from the column right beside the church. It was said that Satan's horns got stuck there centuries ago, which left a portal into the netherworlds behind\u2026 now, I'm not one for such ghost stories, but maybe after seeing the column her mind played tricks on her. Maybe knowing of this tale, she just got very scared, yes?\"\nHafkova: \"Satan's horns?\"\nMr. Manco: \"I don't really know many details\u2026 Others say you can see him drag souls into the column, and people say you can smell sulfur from that place\u2026 I think it's really just a story, however.\"\nEnd of transcription\n\nAddendum 5566-3: Previous iterations of item description.\n\n+ Show previous description iterations part (2/3)\n\n- Hide previous description iterations part (2/3)\n\nUpdate 16-03-2019; 14.02 PM: Previous sequence continued for about 80 minutes after 7 minutes of consciousness. Current team failed to convince SCP-5566-A-3 to be strapped down with a feeding tube in the future. Ethics team consulted on the issue.\nUpdate 17-03-2019; 17.00: Sequence has continued for a full day as the break in between is considered insufficient for basic activities such as feeding oneself. SCP-5566-A instances have been residing in their rooms for the duration of this with no attempt to escape or relocate, still displaying extreme fatigue.\nUpdate 18-03-2019: The sequences have been reset with seemingly no provocation. Perhaps the phenomenon is tied to the bodily needs of SCP-5566-A instances.\nUpdate 25-03-2019: Sequences have resumed with minimal frequency as if completely reset. However no other instance of SCP-5566-A has been observed. It has been exactly one week, the sequence being only one \"sank\" long at this moment.\nUpdate 29-03-2019: Sequences currently 2 sanks long. Contact with instances of SCP-5566-A considered manageable. Next sequence expected in 61 hours and is to be 3 sanks long.\nUpdate 01-04-2019: Instance of SCP-5566-A-4 located. Due to the nature of the phenomenon, it was unaware of infection before. SCP-5566-A-4 has been tasked with cleaning the floor of the feeding room. In the process, it leaned against markings on the wall and crumbled some paint off it, which was considered an interruption, even if it was from a previous iteration. Intern suggested \"sync\" is a more accurate descriptor of the vocalization produced during the phenomenon, as all SCP-5566-A instances display the behavior in unison. Intern also proposed a \"kamikaze mission\" ending in an approved suicide to prevent infecting any others. Intern has been relocated to follow additional ethics course.\nUpdate 05-04-2019: Sequences are approaching lethal lengths steadily. Ethics team approved strapping down SCP-5566-A instances with feeding tubes, providing them no further aid beyond this, regardless of consequences. Food and liquid source will last them 7 days. Beyond this, it is yet to be observed if depletion of energy will cause a sequence reset.\nUpdate 14-04-2019: SCP-5566-A instances in various stages of desperation. Only motion sensors and infrared images available to researchers. Limbs of SCP-5566-A-1 appear to have shriveled down, leaving the head completely intact. SCP-5566-A-2 is completely intact, but malnourished and dehydrated. SCP-5566-A-3 has escaped its straps, and is steadily walking figures in the room. Microphones measuring sound in this room detect no sank mutterings from this instance. Infrared images suggest upper body is diminished. SCP-5566-A-4 has started crying during its sequences.\nUpdate 15-04-2019: Empathetic researcher turned off infrared surveillance monitoring SCP-5566-A-3 and instantly burned to ash. SCP-5566-A instances all disappeared without a trace. Research team dispatched to clear every cell and collect samples.\n\nAddendum 5566-4: Research report on Romania and France.\n\n+ Show research report (Romania)\n\n- Hide research report (Romania)\n\nAfter the instances of SCP-5566-A disappearing, research on the phenomenon was entirely dependent on collected samples of its remains and further retracing of steps in Europe.\nSamples proved to be cremated and pulverized remains of the cadavers without any unnatural properties.\nResearch in Romania has alerted Foundation operatives to frequent mentions of extraterrestrial species who will use humans as vessels to test out acceptable behavior. As mentioned by witnesses, the \"infected\" will exhibit a range of strange behaviors, including odd vocalizations. It is believed that these extraterrestrials might be doing anything from testing on subjects to merely playing with them out of boredom. SCP-5566 might be a form of extraterrestrial tampering. Contact with other teams researching these extraterrestrials with the purpose of retrieving information has not yet been established and might not exist at all. A check up on Foundation files on the subject is necessary.\n\n+ Show research report (France)\n\n- Hide research report (France)\n\nA final interview was conducted in France, near the underground catacombs of Paris. Information deemed irrelevant was left out by translators, leaving the following transcript.\n\nMrs. Travere, 78 years old, retired, has lived in Paris all her life\nResearcher Abbott: \"What about these Catacombs? They are generally spooky, sure, good for tourists too.\u201d\nMrs. Travere: \"It wasn't made for tourists\u2026I heard that long ago there used to be some sort of infestation, not in this area, in a smaller village\u2026 it was like a plague, the villagers went down in larger and larger groups. Even when burnt down to the ground this disease kept popping up.\"\nAbbott: \"It kept popping up?\"\nMrs. Travere: \"I'm sorry, I don't have many details about the mysterious disease. However, it is said that even when this village was burnt down, people who went to take a look got infected all over again and would bring their diseases with them to other villages. It was then that the royal family decided they should isolate the problem. They took all the sick people, and a few uninfected as a sacrifice to appease God, and locked them deep, deep down in the catacombs.\"\nAbbott: \"Quarantine? Is that what you mean?\"\nMrs. Travere: \"Certainly! These catacombs aren't meant to be open to anyone, ever.\"\nAbbott: \"Don't you think a Disease would have died by now after so long?\"\nMrs. Travere: \"All I know is that God must have been really angry to have made such a precaution at all\u2026 we must not temper with such things\u2026\"\nEnd of transcription\n\nAddendum 5566-5: Previous iterations of item description.\n\n+ Show previous description iterations part (3/3)\n\n- Hide previous description iterations part (3/3)\n\nUpdate 14-07-2019: Researcher Thom Hafkova, who had collected samples from cell SCP-5566-A-1 three months prior, was found murmuring \"cease\" in uncharacteristically low voice resembling SCP-5566-A vocalizations. He did this in a strategic position, making it easy to make eye contact as he spoke, and was interrupted by uninformed colleague Dr. Abbott from another department. Thom Hafkova and Dr. Abbott have been assigned SCP-5566-B-1 and SCP-5566-B-2 respectively and contained according to containment procedures. SCP-5566 re-assigned Keter class.\nUpdate 28-08-2019: After six weeks, the tic commenced, seemingly featuring an extra instance of 'cease'. This is hypothesized to indicate accelerating frequencies of the ritual. Historians on the team are referring to literature on repetition of words featuring inane commands of such a caliber.\nUpdate 29-08-2019: Instance of sequence observed 27 days prematurely. Previous intern asked to re-analyse phenomenon.\nUpdate 30-08-2019: Accidental temporary power outage caused phenomenon to reset. All personnel present in the surveillance room to be under supervision, researchers are teamed up of groups of at least two.\nUpdate 02-09-2019: A sequence over five hours long has been observed uncharacteristically early. Intern responded intermediate times and sequence lengths do correspond to the original sequence, but no longer in the expected order. Electrician who caused power outage previously contained as SCP-5566-B-3.\nUpdate 03-09-2019: Sequence uninterrupted for 32 hours. All empathy-screened personnel is granted access to research as risk for infection is lowest.\nUpdate 04-09-2019: SCP-5566-B-2 observed to scratch open skin in shape of number six. The sequence was halted and consciousness regained. SCP-5566-B-2 is in the process of being treated by personnel, resumed sequence shortly, and was instantly halted again. Medical personnel is to abstain from healing wounds inflicted during sequence. Medic is assigned SCP-5566-B-4 until cleared.\nUpdate 13-09-2019: Personnel has observed ongoing sequence for over two days. Access to SCP-5566 prohibited and provision missions halted. Researchers are to passively observe phenomenon. Risk for infection too high.\nUpdate 15-09-2019: All instances of SCP-5566-B burned to ash simultaneously. Researchers are to tread carefully. Previous protocol to collect ash by scooping into container prohibited. Ash is to be collected using a small, sterile vacuum and not to be directly touched by human hands.\nPile of SCP-5566-B-1 hid a number \"2\" in an oily substance underneath its ash. Oily substance is not to be touched, and will be moved to the lab including the cement floor it is imprinted upon.\nUpdate 16-09-2019: Permission to remove chunk of floor denied by superiors, risk to interrupt SCP-5566 deemed too big. Portable lab shall be established in containment area instead.\nUpdate 17-09-2019: Researcher C. Peterson swabbed around the oily substance without disturbing its integrity. He is placed under supervision by colleagues but allowed to analyse specimen.\nUpdate 19-09-2019: Oily substance confirmed to be an extremely condensed human liquid by prof. Peterson. When asked to elaborate on which human liquids he was able to isolate from the sample, he simply specified it is a liquid made of human. When taking another, less careful swab from the substance it disappeared and professor was observed murmuring a single \"duh\" uncharacteristically low which he cannot recall. C. Peterson assigned SCP-5566-C-1 and contained according to containment protocol.\nUpdate 30-09-2019: A quiet SCP-5566-C-1 started ramming on containment door. It was thought isolation had gotten to it and its knocks were answered by a fellow researcher opening the door, after which both spontaneously combusted, leaving an oily 3 under the ashes of SCP-5566-C-2 in the middle of the hallway. Hallway is off limits for any personnel save for researchers assigned to SCP-5566, or personnel that has acquainted itself with regulations concerning SCP-5566.\nUpdate 01-10-2019: Clumsy researcher dropped equipment on oily substance before research could officially commence. A single instance of a new sequence was said but other researchers are unable to reach consensus other than that it sounded like a low growly hissing noise. Researcher has been assigned SCP-5566-D-1.\nUpdate 04-10-2019: Research on phenomenon dispatched after series of deaths. SCP-5566-D-1 is contained in solitary confinement in a straitjacket, movement prohibited. A feeding tube which can be controlled, refilled and cleaned from another room is attached to SCP-5566-D-1, and facilities for expelling waste have been similarly provided.\nUpdate 08-10-2019: Not a single sequence has commenced in days. SCP-5566-D-1 is pleading for euthanasia, but such an act is impossible without creating another instance of SCP-5566-D.\nUpdate 09-10-2019: SCP-5566-D-1 is mute and behaving strangely, similarly to SCP-5566-C-1, and moving rhythmically akin to SCP-5566-A-3. Surveillance cameras focused on SCP-5566-D-1 are for now unable to zoom as the effect this might have on the phenomenon is unknown.\nUpdate 11-10-2019: Researcher tasked with replenishing liquid container and emptying waste container assigned SCP-5566-D-2. It is currently unknown what the interruption was, but the rhythmic movements SCP-5566-D-1 was making stopped immediately.\nUpdate 12-10-2019: SCP-5566-D-2 fled before containment was possible and is hiding somewhere in the Foundation building. An announcement to not interact in any way with SCP-5566-D-2 was released immediately.\nSCP-5566-D-1 turned to ash, no oily liquid remains underneath. It is assumed an oily \"4\" will be found under the ashes of SCP-5566-D-2.\nUpdate 16-10-2019: Several people found to partake in sequence have been located and contained after a long instance of the sequence was started. All have been led to a containment area without disrupting their way of expressing the sequence. They have been assigned SCP-5566-E-1 and SCP-5566-E-2. We hypothesize it is one two more interruptions away from turning to ash again, and one more SCP-5566-E-3 may be present in the building or otherwise.\n\nUpdate 22-10-2019: There have been no instances of the phenomenon in six days. The research party has been thinning since day one, with only myself and the intern remaining. Truthfully, I am not quite sure why I started up this file again444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444\n\nUpdate 22-10-2019; 16.04: Supervisor Mennings assigned SCP-5566-E-3 and contained. After a keyboard jam, SCP-5566-E-3 started ramming its head into the table and scratching even more fours onto it. Researchers are not allowed to remove these scribbles themselves, nor is SCP-5566-E-3 allowed outside of its containment to erase its marks, as time between sequences is still uncertain.\n\nAddendum 5566-6: Personal anecdotes by intern Z. Bellerose.\n\n+ Show\n\n- Hide\n\nUpdate 25-10-2019: Man, their screams are seriously getting to me\u2026 I'm just an intern, who am I even supposed to contact\u2026 I don't even know if this goes in the addendum or in the description or whatever, if I'm being honest. This was supposed to be a simple \"safe\" containment to get me integrated into the program. Was this in the training somewhere?? Oh, I should add what the thing has been up to, right?\nSo\u2026 my old supervisor, now 5-3, is constantly ramming his head back and forth and honestly I think his neck might even be broken at this point. Yet his weird \"Quatre\" thing is still going on\u2026 5-1 has been rubbing his hands against the wall until the skin on them was so broken the hands could be used as a marker, and 5-2 has been wriggling on the ground crying. I can't have them relocated as of now because their movements are obviously part of the sequence somehow\u2026 What a drag\u2026\nUpdate 28-10-2019: They stopped\u2026 I have seen my future colleagues dwindle down to a bunch of tics, movements and noises\u2026 maybe it is a little drastic, but I don't think this place is right for me\u2026 this kind of phenomenon should not be contained at any cost. This should be destroyed somehow, or hidden from researchers. Indeed, my old supervisor has perished due to the injuries to his neck, but 5-1 and 5-2 were able to help themselves. They are in bad condition. I gave them access to water and a medical kit and strapped them to a hospital bed on wheels before the sequence was started and I think I can now roll them around without it being an interruption.\nI told them I would bring them to a hospital, but that would be incredibly irresponsible. This thing can, or\u2026 no, it WANTS to kill as many people as possible. The rules are petty, like in a kids game, too. I don't know how to make this document all fancy-like, but I DO now how to use 5-3's login information to request or update a maybe more extreme containment procedure\u2026an emergency protocol.\nThis is basically the last that will ever be heard from me, as I fear for the fate of humanity if I don't even take the small precaution that I might already be infected into consideration. This SCP will be considered neutralized, as long as its not dug up, I'd say. And with that, I say adieu.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5565 | SCP-5566 | SCP-5567 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\u26a0\ufe0f WARNING \u26a0\ufe0f\n\nThe following page contains references to psychological abuse, manipulation, and suicide. Read at your own discretion.\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This article contains references to abuse, manipulation, & suicide.\n\n76.67%\n(+23)\n23.33%\n(-7)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nReplaces \"ITEM#:\" text SCP-5568\n\nLEVEL4\nSECRET\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS:\neuclid\n\nTHREAT CLASS:\ngreen\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS:\nvlam\n\nRISK CLASS:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem#: {$item-number}\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\n{$container-class}\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$disruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\n{$risk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nSite-17\n\nSite Director\nSophia Light\n\nResearch Head\nRodrick Hummel\n\nAssigned Task Force\nGamma-12\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5568 is currently held in the mind of D-41903, who has been placed in a Sapient Humanoid Anomaly Containment Cell with standard accommodations. Staff is not to view any part of the cell unless cleared for experimentation, to which the staff member is to maintain visual contact of SCP-5568 at all times.\nEMERGENCY UPDATE: Following Incident 5568/IR-01, all members of SCP-5568 containment and research teams are to identify themselves as having a close relationship with a minimum of three other Foundation personnel, who will then be asked to confirm or deny this. All staff assigned to SCP-5568 are to be screened for signs of depression, anxiety, or loneliness. If they are found to have the aforementioned signs, or an identified personnel denies having a close relationship with the member, they are to be immediately reassigned to another site and the Internal Security Department is to be alerted. Mobile Task Force Gamma-12 \"Friendship is Militarized\" is to perform an interview with SCP-5568 once a month for consultation regarding GoI-827.\nDescription: SCP-5568 is a sapient migratory thought-form, capable of causing visual, auditory, and tactile hallucinations. SCP-5568 has consistently only caused hallucinations of a human female that identifies itself as the aforementioned thought-form. Due to its nature as a migrating thought, SCP-5568 can only be seen by one subject at a time and is only able to move to another person's perception if they are viewing the space that it portrays itself as occupying.\nDiscovery: SCP-5568 was found during a raid on a Chaos Insurgency hideout by MTF Upsilon-11 \"Avalon's Wake\". When discovered, it was only visible to U11-3, who quickly identified the anomaly as only being perceivable by one person. SCP-5568 immediately surrendered, stating that it wanted to talk to a researcher about an \"important matter\". Once the anomaly was identified and safely apprehended, it was put into temporary containment with U11-3.\nAddendum - Interview Log 5568/INT-01: The following is the initial interview between SCP-5568 and Junior Researcher Luna Weiss.\n\nForeword: Performed pre-emptive to normal initial interviews with sapient entities due to the anomaly's specific request to be interviewed as soon as possible. At the time Junior Researcher Luna Weiss enters, SCP-5568 is in the mind of U11-3. SCP-5568's dialogue was added based on testimony by Weiss.\n<Begin Log>\nWeiss: Good morning Sharon, and to your friend as well.\nU11-3: Good morning. I've lost visual on the anomaly, is it safe to assume you see it now?\nWeiss: I do, thank you. You may leave now.\n<U11-3 stands up and leaves the room. Weiss sits on the same seat U11-3 was sat on and places two water bottles on each end of the table.>\nWeiss: I brought some water if you can drink it.Weiss: Junior Researcher, sorry, all the big boys are busy elsewhere.Weiss: Presumably yes, once you get a proper SCP designation and containment.Weiss: Anyway, let's start with the basics. What would you like me to call you, and what would you describe yourself as?Weiss: I'm sorry to hear about your creator. Why were you at a Chaos Insurgency hideout?Weiss: I take it negotiations didn't go very far?Weiss: When you were apprehended, you seemed to recognize the SCP logo, and in your story there you knew about the Chaos Insurgency. How do you know this?Weiss: Are you stating that members of the Foundation may be covertly working for a potentially hostile group of interest? If so, that's a pretty big accusation, and you're going to have to show some proof and drop some names.Weiss: Well, if you were worried about higher-ups not reading this before, they definitely will be now. What is the purpose of this group your host was a part of?Weiss: Alright. Is there anything more you would like to get out before a proper initial interview?Weiss: Thank you. Do I need to stay here with you until the guard can come to get you, or can you stay here?<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The attending guard arrived shortly after and escorted SCP-5568 to a temporary anomaly holding cell. It was transferred to D-73912 who stayed in the room until it could be properly processed.\n\nAddendum - Incident Report 5568/IR-01: 31 hours after the initial acquisition, attending guard Markus Allemand entered SCP-5568's temporary holding cell and stabbed D-73912 in the head, killing them instantly. SCP-5568 reports that it was forced into the mind of Allemand, who then attempted to kill it with the same method. This failed, to which Allemand attempted to kill SCP-5568 through punching, strangulation, and using their firearm. The sound of firing his weapon alerted nearby staff, who quickly detained Allemand, with SCP-5568 moving to one of the other detaining staff's mind. SCP-5568 reports that it was unharmed during the incident and has since moved to the mind of D-41903.\nThe following is an interview conducted by Doctor Rodrick Hummel with Markus Allemand, shortly after the aforementioned incident.\n\nForeword: Performed with Markus Allemand handcuffed to the table, with all weaponry removed.\n<Begin Log>\nHummel: Are you ready to explain yourself Mark?\n<Silence for 6 seconds>\nHummel: Markus if you don't answer for yourself I can guarantee that you will be terminated for such an egregious act. If you have any sort of defense for yourself, now is the time to state it.\n<Allemand speaks quietly>\nAllemand: She deserved it.\nHummel: Excuse me? You're going to have to speak up for it to be recorded.\nAllemand: I did the right thing.\nHummel: You need to talk louder Allemand, you know my hearing isn't that great anymore.\n<Allemand begins to yell>\nAllemand: I was fucking doing you assholes a favor! She's a fucking degenerate trying to get innocent kind people killed for her own sick pleasure! That bitch deserved to die, I don't know how she lived through Many's2 suicide but all she's doing is continuing that traitor's job! All she wants to do is destroy the lives of all the people who've done nothing but love and care for her because she's a fucking psycho that loves making others miserable! I should've fucking killed myself the instant I realized she snuck in me, if I die protecting my friends I can die happy, and that would've at least shocked her enough to shut her the fuck up.\n<Silence for 9 seconds>\nHummel: What the fuck happened to you, Mark?\nAllemand: I found people who made me happy.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Markus Allemand was terminated shortly after this interview. Further investigation showed a general lack of recognition among Foundation staff with Allemand.\n\nFollowing this incident, Mobile Task Force Gamma-12 \"Friendship is Militarized\" was created and assigned to the investigation of the newly designated GoI-827 \"The Syndicate\". Containment Procedures have received an emergency update in response to this event.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Tulpae are non-anomalous pseudo-sapient thought-forms intentionally created by a person within their own mind. Can become anomalous through thaumaturgic or ontokinetic means, often resulting in the Tulpa gaining a physical form or separating from their host.\n2. \"Many\" was later identified by SCP-5568 to be referring to \"ManyANoName\", the online alias of Jessica Winthrop.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5567 | SCP-5568 | SCP-5569 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Co-written by Ralliston and Trotskyeet\n\u25ba Ralliston's Authorpage\n\u25ba Trotskyeet's Authorpage\nImage Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nName of the file: grave\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY-SA 2.0\n\nName of the file: Terminal.svg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0\n\n[{$authorPage} \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nNOTICE FROM THE SITE-120 DIRECTOR COUNCIL\nFollowing recent events, the following file is currently pending reclassifications and may fail to represent current reality.\nUnauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5572\n\nItem#: 5572\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nterminal\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe Grave of Agent Surratt, and the source of SCP-5572's discovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Personnel stationed at Site-120 are currently creating materials directed at civilians, exhorting to bury their loved ones with SCP-5572 prevention methods in mind. Should Overwatch Command receive the \"supplies needed\" signal however, this campaign is to be withdrawn for as long as the signal is ongoing.\nDue to SCP-5572-1's possible use in containing otherworldly threats to humanity, should at any point the connection between Agent Surratt and Overwatch Command be lost, members of MTF Omega-1 (\"Fire And Brimstone\") implemented with the same communication methods are to be immediately euthanized and ordered to re-establish contact between Surratt and the Foundation.\nDescription: SCP-5572 is an afterlife phenomenon manifesting when currently unspecified characteristics are met; it is only certain that one of the triggers for an SCP-5572 activation event to occur is the lack of the phrase \"Rest in Peace\"1 written within the proximity of an individual's burial site. The corpse of an individual previously buried within such a site is transported to a previously unknown reality, disconnected from baseline with no other means of access, hereby referred to as SCP-5572-PRIME. As such, it has been classified as a Terminal-class anomaly.2\nSCP-5572-1 is the group designation for all corpses transported to SCP-5572-PRIME. Upon arrival in SCP-5572-PRIME, all corpses regain their consciousness.\nDiscovery: SCP-5572 was discovered on 24/07/2003, following the burial of Foundation Agent Marie Surratt. Surveillance technology3 started broadcasting a \"compromised\" signal out following her death without an apparent source. Although no source was located, via the usage of Site-120's Ra.aic, a one-way video contact with the technology was able to be established, detailed in the following log:\n\n<Begin log>\nAs the camera feed connects, it reveals Agent Surratt is falling through a large, volcanic cavern. As she descends, more of the location becomes clear \u2014 the entirety of it appears to be an enormous cavern, around 300 meters in height and an unknown length and width filled with gigantic stalagmites, stalactites, rocks, and rivers of lava.\nAs she stretches her hands outwards, Surratt notices she is currently a skeleton, wearing a suit that displays mild amounts of decomposition.4 The skeletal system is held together by an unknown force. She screams, despite possessing none of the required organs to do so.\nThe camera moves frantically due to Surratt's panic, revealing the field below her, within which a large group of unidentified humanoids is located. Extremely loud sounds are coming from around them.\nAlthough Surratt attempts to vocalize cohesively, due to the speed she falls at, none of the words are able to be heard. The falling speed increases.\nAs she falls down, the camera focuses on a large volcano located on the left side of the field. From within it, increasing amounts of what appears to be numerous deformed Tartarean entities are coming down. Although their sizes vary, most are relatively small, with only a few larger ones bearing large weaponry being present. The entities all possess red skin and horns. They move towards the second group on the battlefield, which appears to be entirely made from approximately 100,000 skeletons. All of them possess weaponry ranging from primitive to contemporary; swords, clubs, muskets, guns, to rocket launchers. Several battle standards such as the war flag of the Mughal Empire, the Naval Jack of the United States of America, and the flag of the Republic of the Rio Grande can be seen.\nSkeletal horses, broken-down tanks, and cannons can be seen sporadically throughout the battlefield. Situated in the center of the battlefield, there appears to be an enormous tank, currently firing at the larger demons. Surratt is falling directly towards it.\nAs Surratt is about to hit the vehicle, a flying Tartarean entity picks her up, moving her towards the demons' line of battle. However, as she is about to move away from the tank, the entity carrying her explodes as a maniacal laugh and previously unseen smoke fills the air around it. Surratt moves frantically, trying to gain her bearings.\nAs the smoke clears around her, Surratt finds herself on top of the previously seen tank. From atop it, an obese skeleton, further referred to as SCP-5572-1-A, furiously waves its arms. It wears tattered World War II American Army clothing, clenching a lit cigarette in between its teeth as it points towards the enemy line. It does not register her presence. As it vocalizes \"Fire!\", the tank's cannon fires, violently moving the entire tank back and blasting a group of entities in the distance.\nSurratt: Wh\u2026 wha\u2014\nSCP-5572-1-A: FRANCIS, YOU AND YOUR MEN GET THAT BIGGUN OVER THERE, YUN AND ALAN REINFORCE THE EAST FLANK, IT'S DAMN NEAR READY TO BURST.\nA skeletal horse leaps over the side of the tank at a gallop, causing Surrat to stumble in fright. Near her, a small group of skeletons wearing plate armor starts running towards a large, bull-like Tartarean entity that meets their charge with its own. Getting up, Surrat attempts to track the group, yet as numerous skeletons rush past her, she quickly loses sight of the party. SCP-5572-1-A turns towards Surratt.\nSCP-5572-1-A: FINALLY, WE GET SOME GODDAMNED REINFORCEMENTS.\nAs the entity walks towards Surratt, unidentified music can be heard playing from an unknown source near them. The obese skeleton extends a hand to Surratt, blowing out smoke from the cigarette through unknown means.\nSurrat accepts the gesture, slowly standing up from the ground; as she does so, a large explosion occurs, blowing numerous other skeletons into pieces, which fall onto her, SCP-5572-1-A, and surrounding skeletons. Surratt panics, brushing the bones off her frame.\nSCP-5572-1-A: DAMMIT, THERE GOES ALAN. SAM, GO GET ME ANOTHER CIGAR.\nA smaller skeleton nods, and jumps down the tank's hatch.\nSurratt: What the hell is going on?! Where the hell am I?!\nSurrat attempts to look around within the chaotic battlefield, a loud klaxon bell wails, causing her to flinch. A small Tarterean entity has clambered onto the tank, a serrated dagger in each hand. It makes eye contact with Agent Surratt.\nSurratt: Oh fuck.\nHearing Surratt, SCP-5572-1-A turns towards the entity, and pulls a flintlock pistol from its jacket. It levels the gun at the entity, its hands shaking slightly. The entity begins to charge. SCP-5572-1-A fires, blowing a hole in the head of the entity, which slumps and falls over the side of the tank. SCP-5572-1-A heavily slaps Surratt on her back, and smiles, showcasing several crude golden teeth. The entity looks directly into Surratt's eyes. Within one of its eye sockets, a golden coin flickers.\nSCP-5572-1-A: YOU GOT ONE THING RIGHT, HELL IS GOING ON, AND YOU'RE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. WELCOME TO THE BONE BATTALION, MAGGOT.\nAs SCP-5572-1-A maniacally laughs, the feed disconnects.\n<End log>\n\nAddendum 5572-1: The following is a list of most logs received from Agent Surratt meaningfully describing SCP-5572-PRIME and associated phenomena.\n\n<Begin log>\nThe feed connects again, revealing the large tank from before. The machine, on which both Surratt and SCP-5572-1-A sit, is slowly moving towards a large, gray building visible on the horizon.\nAround the tank, numerous groups of other skeletons can be seen marching in loose formation. Organization of the entities appears to be in squads of four to ten. Similar to weapons, the armor of the skeletons varies wildly, from animal hides to Army Combat Uniforms.\nAs Surratt attempts to scan the area around her again, the camera focuses on the background, revealing that the location she is currently in is a large basin, with similar characteristics to the prior location. The only difference being the existence of crude housings present around the previously mentioned gray building.\nAfter two minutes of looking at the location, Surratt turns to SCP-5572-1-A, who is sitting atop the tank, on her left holding binoculars to their eye sockets.\nSurratt: Can I please be told what's going on h\u2014\nSCP-5572-1-A: Quiet. You see that there?\nSurratt looks in the direction SCP-5572-1-A is pointing, but is unable to see anything.\nSCP-5572-1-A: Whole swarm of harpies. They'll tear your bony body to pieces, then crush your skull with their talons. Last thing we need is them finding our base.\nSurratt quietly accepts the response, sitting at the tank for one more minute as the machine gets closer to the building. As the machine gets closer to it, said building reveals to be a large, stone fort, stylized after a medieval castle. It is mostly ruined, with only one, large tower not being taken by the damage. Around it, numerous crude attempts to reinforce the structure by wooden logs, scaffolding, and other housings can be seen.\nAround the entire castle, a river of lava surrounding it can be seen, with the only proper entry through it being a crude, wooden bridge between its two sides. From atop the walls, numerous other skeletons can be seen, surveying the perimeter. As the army reaches one side of the river, SCP-5572-1-A yells at the guards, and after a brief moment the barred gate to the castle opens.\nAs the tank passes through the gate, it enters into a large courtyard, filled with barrels, crates, heavy weaponry, stools, campfires, beds, and tents. Numerous skeletons can be seen partaking in different activities; doing laundry, physical exercises, training with weaponry, conversing with other entities, and laying on crudely made beds and hammocks. Although most of the area is filled with such, the tank passes through ease onto the only unpopulated area within the location. On the walls surrounding the courtyard, skeletons start to appear, seemingly pointing others to the appearance of the tank.\nWith the tank reaching the middle of the square, the vehicle stops. A large audience of bone entities can be seen around the machine and on the walls, clearly focused on SCP-5572-1-A, who stands down from the sitting position atop the tank and glances over the entire group.\nSCP-5572-1-A: I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT AFTER TWENTY LONG YEARS, WE HAVE TAKEN THE HILL.\nAs the entity says so, all entities gathered here start to loudly cheer, with some of them beginning to hug and become visibly happier than before.\nSCP-5572-1-A: HOWEVER.\nThe entire cheering stops.\nSCP-5572-1-A: EVERY GREAT BATTLE COMES WITH A PRICE. HERBERT HAD BEEN HERE SINCE THE SIXTH BATTLE OF THE ACHERON. HE WAS A GUIDING LIGHT TO MANY OF US, EVEN ME. TODAY HE WAS TAKEN BY A PACK OF THOSE TINY HORNED BASTARDS, LEAST HE WAS ABLE TO GET A COUPLE OF LICKS IN 'FORE THEY SHATTERED HIS SKULL. WE LOST MANY COMRADES TONIGHT. THEY FOUGHT WELL.\nAll spectators suddenly become much less active.\nSCP-5572-1-A: BUT WE ALSO GOT SOME FRESH MEAT. NEWBIES, LINE UP IN FRONT.\nAs the entity starts to laugh, it pulls out a cigar from its jacket's pocket, starting to light it. As it does so, a group of around 40 skeletons walks forward in the courtyard, showing themselves to everyone. SCP-5572-1-A motions for Surratt to join them, and she complies. Jumping down from the tank, SCP-5572-1-A walks back and forth along the line.\nSCP-5572-1-A: FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SOMEHOW STILL DON'T GET WHAT'S GOING ON \u2014 WELCOME TO HELL. IF YOU'RE HERE, IT MEANS YOUR FAMILY DIDN'T LOVE YOU ENOUGH TO PUT AN \"R.I.P\" ON YOUR GRAVESTONE. AND WE KNOW WHAT ETERNAL LAW SAYS FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT REST IN PEACE.\nThe Crowd: No rest for the wicked.\nSCP-5572-1-A: PROBABLY SHOULD INTRODUCE MYSELF, MY GOD-GIVEN NAME'S RILEY CLAIRE, BORN 1895, LOUISIANA, DIED IN THE FORESTS OF BELLEAU WOOD 1918. FOLKS 'ROUND HERE CALL ME GENERAL BONE DADDY.\nOne of the skeletal entities in the line chuckles, SCP-5572-1-A (henceforth referred to as Claire) turns towards it as it stops the speech.\nClaire: IS THERE AN ISSUE, RECRUIT?\nThe entity vigorously shakes its head. After a pause of five seconds and a stare at it, Claire resumes walking.\nClaire: AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE I SO RUDELY WAS INTERRUPTED, I OVERSEE THIS GOD FORSAKEN WASTELAND SO THAT YOU MORONS DON'T MURDER EACH OTHER IN AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER DEMONS. YES, THEY ARE ALSO HERE. SO'S SATAN. IT'S HELL FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT.\nClaire: WE FIGHT DEMONS. THAT'S WHAT WE DO. WHY?\nTwo-second pause.\nClaire: WHEN I FIRST CAME HERE, THIS PLACE WAS A MESS, YOUR TIME HERE ONLY LASTED AS LONG AS YOU COULD RUN, DODGING THE SPIKES AND LAVA PITS. ON TOP OF THAT, THERE WAS ALSO EACH OTHER, LOOSE TRIBES PREYING ON NEW FOLK FOR SCRAPS LIKE DOGS, ALL WHILE DEMONS CLAWED AND STOMPED US. I UNITED ALL THE POOR FOLKS TRAPPED AGAINST THE REAL ENEMY, THE DEMONS. WE'VE SCORED A BIG VICTORY TODAY, BUT WE'RE NOT DONE. IT MAY TAKE MONTHS, IT MAY TAKE YEARS, BUT I'M NOT STOPPING UNTIL I HAVE THE FUCKING HORNS OF GODDAMNED SATAN HIMSELF OVER MY FIREPLACE.\nClaire starts to laugh, putting his cigar in his mouth.\nClaire: NOW, DON'T YOU THINK IT WILL BE EASY. TAKING OVER THE LITERAL GODDAMNED HELL TAKES A TON OF WORK. ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY \u2014 A SKELETON.\nThe entity starts to convulse in laughter.\nClaire: Ah geez, I crack myself up sometimes. BUT I'M NOT JOKING, THE ONLY WAY WE BEAT THOSE HORNED BASTARDS IS TOGETHER.\nThe entity pulls a small knife from its jacket.\nClaire: NOW, YOU WILL RECEIVE A DESIGNATION, IT WILL COMPRISE OF A LETTER AND NUMBER. THIS WILL DETERMINE YOUR SQUAD. FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, THEY WILL BE YOUR NEW FAMILY. YOU WILL SLEEP, FIGHT, AND IF NEEDED, DIE TOGETHER.\nClaire steps towards the previously separated group, which starts to align in a line, as encouraged by the rest of the skeletons. As he does so, the general takes out a large knife from his jacket. Upon doing so, he walks towards the first in line and starts carving a large \"A-12\" on their skull. The entity screams and tries to put away the general's hand.\nClaire: Holding the recruit in his hand and shaking them: DID I HEAR A SQUEAK THERE?!\nSkeleton 1: Frantically touching the newly created scar: N-no\u2026!\nClaire: GOOD.\nClaire continues doing the same to the rest of the group, including Surratt who is assigned the designation \"F-18.\" This time, none of them oppose.\nAs he finishes doing so, the general walks away from the group, stepping towards a gate in one of the walls leading towards the previously mentioned large tower.\nClaire: NOW GET TO YOUR QUARTERS SO YOU MIGHT GET TO KNOW YOUR COMPANIONS OF THE FOREVERLAND.\nAs he finishes this sentence, he points directly at the group previously separated from the rest.\nClaire: SO, GET TO WORK. AS FOR THE REST OF YOU OLD SK\u2014\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED FOR BREVITY]\n\nSurratt can be seen walking within a stone corridor, presumed to be that of the previously seen castle. Although around it, numerous weapons, trophies, and paintings can be seen, most of it is in a poor state, with large chunks of the wall missing throughout. As she reaches the end of the corridor, she notices an opening within the right wall with \"F-18\" crudely painted over it. She enters through it, revealing an area of approximately 20 m\u00b2, bearing resemblance to common barracks. It consists of two bunk beds, a table with cards and a bottle of whiskey on top of it, a small weapon's rack, and a piano, all within one room. Atop one of the beds, two other skeletons sit. One of them, the one on the top of the bed, is wearing worn 18th-century aristocratic clothing, whilst the one on top \u2014 an iron helmet and a medieval tunic.\nAs Surratt enters into the room, both entities focus on her.\nAristocratic Skeleton: Standing up from the bed and flattening its shirt: Hello there, fine lad\u2014 are you a lady? Can I call you a lady? It's\u2026 most difficult to know that, since, well\u2014 Wait, do I know you?\nSurratt: Yes, yes, I know. I know. The name's Marie Surratt. Or at least it was. When I was still alive, I mean. And no, you probably don't.\nThe aristocratic skeleton offers her a handshake, which Surratt quickly accepts.\nAristocratic Skeleton: Ludwig Beethoven, a pleasure to meet our newest squadmate.\nSurratt: Good to see humor hasn't gone dry in hell. Heh.\nAristocratic Skeleton: Pardon? What do you\u2026 mean, exactly?\nSurratt: Well, you know, you saying you're Beethoven, and all?\nBeethoven: I\u2026 I do not exactly see why you find humor in me introducing myself, but to each their own.\nSurratt: You\u2026 you were serious\u2026? Jesus Christ, this has been going on for far longer than I imagined.\nSurratt walks towards the weapon rack and picks up a small knife from it. As the camera focuses on the container, two polished swords and a rusty pipe can be seen laying atop it.\nSurratt: How'd you get this pipe? Can't imagine Hell has a sewer system.\nBeethoven: Well, the border between this world and the living is a bit flimsy, and things do fall through the cracks sometimes. We make do with humanity's scraps, I suppose.\nSurratt walks towards the second entity, and tries to sit on one of the free beds, flattening the mangled bedsheet. After finishing doing so, she puts away a pair of shoes that was previously sitting on the floor near the bed. She expressed disgust as she does so, and then turns towards the other being sitting atop the adjacent bed.\nSurratt: So, who are you?\nThe helmet skeleton turns towards her, with its skull unnaturally doing so first and the rest of the body quickly following afterward.\nHelmet Skeleton: I am Bj\u00f6rn Bj\u00f6rnsson, son of Bj\u00f6rn Bj\u00f6rnsson, son of Bj\u00f6rn Olefsson, son of Olef. I had been a warrior of the Vikings in my glory days. At the mere mention of my name children and men alike soiled themselves in terror. Like thunder, like water, like a force of nature itself I\u2014\nSurratt: Alright, alright, I get the picture. What happened?\nHelmet Skeleton: On the day of my greatest challenge to come, on the day I would finally defeat the greatest enemy of my men with my burning swords and fury of gods themselves, I was betrayed! Betrayed by my own wife, stabbed in the back like some disgusting Brit! As I had been slain by the most treacherous way with no weapon in hand to showcase my heroics, I had been sent by the unjust gods to forever wander Helheim, with no light guiding me towards Valhalla.\nBeethoven: A shame to see all of us lose our might in the face of death. I was once like you too \u2014 powerful and young. Oh, how I miss performing, thousands ravenous for your talent.\nSurratt: I'm sure it was gr\u2014\nAs Surratt attempts to reply to Beethoven, she is interrupted by a ringing sound alongside a screaming coming from the corridor interrupts her.\nUnknown voice from the corridor: ALL COME DOWN TO THE CANTEEN. I REPEAT \u2014 ALL COME DOWN TO THE CANTEEN.\nThe voice repeats over and over until it fades down the corridor.\nSurratt: What was that?\nBeethoven: It appears Claire is organizing another general meeting in the canteen. We would call it supper, except, well, we cannot eat.\nBj\u00f6rn: In case you haven't picked it up by now, Claire is quite insa\u2014\nBeethoven: We talked about this, don't say that out loud or you'll end up like Nicolas.\nSurratt: Who the hell's Nicolas?\nBeethoven: You're better off not knowing, let's just say the General has little reservations on the use of rocket launchers. We should hurry, for there is not much time before he becomes angered at our lack of presence.\nThe team starts to walk away from the room with Bj\u00f6rn stopping for a moment to pick up the bottle of whiskey and sword from the weapon's rack with him.\nAs they leave the room and enter the corridor, numerous other skeletons can be seen emerging from other rooms connected to it, congregating at one entrance.\nAs they enter the main hall, the camera reveals a large, cafeteria-like room filled with numerous skeletons sitting and standing around Claire. Several tables with board games can be seen.\nClaire climbs up atop a riser, clapping his hands to get attention.\nClaire: Greetings, recruits. You might be wondering why I gathered you here.\nThe audience starts to chatter among itself.\nClaire: Well, here's the point. I know it gets lonely around here, even I do. I know we have no body here. Hehehehehe, no-body. Get it?.\nA nervous chuckle can be heard from the audience.\nClaire: So, this is the first ever game night organized by this battalion. You can play cards and have giggles and shit here. I will allow it this time. An army marches on its entertainment or whatever. You are all good kids and deserve some good out of your miserable life here sometimes.\nA skeleton runs on stage and whispers at Claire.\nClaire: Now, as I've been told along with these games, you'll get some in-house entertainment tonight. This ain't the Ritz but it's the closest you can get down here. Give it up for Thaddeus and the Femur Gang!\nClaire jumps down, and four skeletons walk on stage carrying an acoustic guitar, xylophone, and fife. They begin to play a cover of Oasis' \"Wonderwall\".\nBeethoven: Jesus Christ, every time\u2014\nBj\u00f6rn: Shut it, big shot, don't get your panties in a twist. Anyone want to play Monopoly? I call dibs on the thimble.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED FOR BREVITY]\n\nAs the feed reconnects, it reveals Surratt laying on one of the bunk beds, apparently sleeping. Although she does not possess lungs, her ribcage expands and contracts in regular intervals, as if she was breathing.\nIn the room around her, Beethoven is sitting on the stool near the piano, apparently drawing something on a piece of paper. In the process, he silently whistles an unknown song, repeating numerous sections over and over.\nBj\u00f6rn can be seen sitting near the table, apparently playing some sort of card game with himself. Whether he actually understands its rules is unknown.\nAs her \"breathing\" slows down, Surratt gets up from the bed, initially freezing in alarm as she scans her surroundings, but visibly relaxes after three seconds.\nSurratt yawns.\nSurratt: Gooood mor\u2014 wait. Did I just\u2026 sleep? As a skeleton. How does that make any sens\u2014\nBj\u00f6rn: Looking up from the cards: Do not question the rules of Helheim, for the mind of a demon created them! To explain the madness is akin to gazing in the eye of the Allfather himself, the\u2014\nBeethoven: What Bj\u00f6rn is getting at is that we do not know, sadly. But appreciate you get at least that little luxury here. Without it, it'd be hell. Heh.\nBj\u00f6rn: HA!\nBj\u00f6rn hits the table with a card as he stands down from the table, and smiles widely.\nBj\u00f6rn: I won!\nBeethoven: Looking from the sheet: Do you\u2026 even know\u2026 how to play this\u2026?\nBj\u00f6rn: No!\nBj\u00f6rn falls atop the table, apparently falling asleep. Beethoven sighs.\nBeethoven: I\u2026 I think I have d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. I can\u2014\nAs Beethoven attempts to walk towards Bj\u00f6rn, loud ringing can be heard from atop the barracks. He looks into the near corridor, opening the doors to it. As he does so, the ringing gets much louder.\nBeethoven: We need to go.\nSurratt: Again?\nBeethoven: No rest for the wicked.\nBeethoven chuckles and starts to leave the room. On his way out, he picks the rusty pipe located on the weapons rack.\nAs he enters the corridor, he peaks again into the room, looking at Surratt.\nBeethoven: Come on.\nSurratt: Pointing at Bj\u00f6rn: And what about him?\nBeethoven: Leave that cretin to himself. It is not worth it, trust me. Trying to wake him is like, well trying to wake the dead.\nThe duo walks down the corridor, revealing a large crack in one of its walls, which wasn't previously there.\nBeethoven: Oh my.\nAs Beethoven peaks through it, a large crashing noise can be heard from within.\nBeethoven: Oh. Oh, oh that's not good.\nSurratt: What's going on?\nSurratt joins Beethoven in peeping through the crack, only to reveal the main courtyard, this time filled with numerous training dummies and fake defenses. Among the area, numerous skeletons are scattered, seemingly attempting to recreate some sort of a defense pattern. From atop the walls, numerous cannons can be seen. Around them, Claire is marching, regularly making them fire at the training entities.\nSurratt: What the actual fu\u2014\nAnother cannon fires, this time hitting the part of the wall around Surratt and Beethoven. Both of them flinch.\nClaire: MY GRANDMA COULD RUN FASTER THAN YOU, AND SHE HAD POLIO SINCE SHE WAS THIRTY, GOD REST HER SOUL.\nAnother cannon fires at the skeletons.\nClaire: DAMMNIT THE CANNON ISN'T GOING TO HURT YOU, SHOW SOME GUTS. OH WAIT, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY!\nClaire starts to loudly laugh as he sets up another.\nClaire: YOU HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN JUST HIDE THERE, YOU USELESS TRASH.\nAnother shot.\nSurratt: Turning towards Beethoven: This is utter insanity! What is this?!\nBeethoven: sighing: The training routine, I'm afraid.\nSurratt: This needs to stop right goddamn now!\nSurratt walks towards the stairs build in the walls, leading atop them.\nBeethoven: No! It is not worth it. It is for their good, trust m\u2014\nSurratt: I don't care.\nShe runs through the staircase, climbing in in mere minutes. As she does so, she walks towards the general.\nSurratt: What the hell are you doing, Claire?!\nClaire: WHAT DID YOU SAY, MAGGOT?\nClaire turns towards Surratt, who backs away slightly.\nSurratt: All I'm saying is that this is utterly insane! These people are\u2014\nClaire: HOW DID YOU ADDRESS ME?!\nSurratt: Clai\u2014\nClaire: 100 PUSHUPS. NOW. YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO RESPECT YOUR DAMNED COMMANDER AND ADDRESS HIM BY HIS PROPER TITLE, YOU UTTER WASTE OF SPACE!\nSurratt: I\u2014\nSurratt sighs and gets on the ground, starting to do the pushups. As she has no muscles, she is able to do so with relative ease.\nUpon finishing the exercise, she gets up, flattening her shirt. As she does so, she notices the Foundation camera implanted in her collarbone.\nSurratt: What the h\u2014\nClaire: DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, RECRUIT?\nSurratt: No, General Bo\u2014\nAs Surratt tries to salute Claire, a deafening sound fills the air around them.\nFrom the north of the entire valley, a group of approximately ten harpy-like entities rockets down on the battalion, with nine of them focusing on the skeletons down on the courtyard and one on Claire and Surratt located atop the walls.\nSurratt: What the fuck?!\nClaire: Fuckin' hell!\nClaire picks up a rocket launcher located near him. As he does so, he puts a cigar in his mouth which he lights up shortly after.\nAs the entity gets near him, he fires the device, obliterating the demon entirely. Surratt flinches as he continues to fire the weapon repeatedly at other entities, which are being fought with some difficulty by other recruits with the basic weaponry they were provided.\nClaire: Sleazy bastards\u2026\nAlthough Claire and the others attempt to eliminate all enemies, they succeed with only eight. The two remaining leave the area with other skeletons in their claws, flying away in the distance.\nClaire: We have much less time than I thought.\nSurratt: What's going on?\nClaire: The bloody demons found our fortress. We need to hurry. If they found us, so will their leader.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED FOR BREVITY]\n\nA large group of skeletons, including Surratt, Beethoven, and Bj\u00f6rn can be seen standing within a relatively small room. Within it, Claire is standing atop a small, stone bench located in one of its corners.\nClaire: SO, HERE'S THE THING, AND ALL OF YOU IMBECILES BETTER LISTEN UP. THE DEMONS HAVE FOUND US.\nMost of the group gasps, with one of the skeletons appearing to, although impossible, faint.\nClaire: WE FOUGHT WELL, BUT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO DEFEAT ALL, TWO OF THOSE BUGGERS GOT AWAY, AND IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE SEE THE BIG MAN HIMSELF KNOCKING AT OUR DOOR.\nClaire: OUR TIME TO PREPARE HAS DECREASED DRASTICALLY. WE HAVE\u2026\nShort pause.\nClaire: TWO DAYS.\nAs Claire finishes his speech, frantic chatting ensues within the room. Numerous entities start to chatter towards each other, nervously moving around the area.\nClaire: BUT WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE.\nAll chatting immediately stops.\nClaire: WE NEED TO GO OUT. WITH THE HILL TAKEN, WE ARE MERELY TWO VALLEYS AWAY FROM THE KEEP OF SORROW. I HAVE CALCULATED THAT IF WE WERE TO USE ALL OUR AVAILABLE FORCES, WE HAVE AN APPROXIMATELY\u2026 UHM\u2026 FIFTY PERCENT CHANCE OF WINNING. IF WE STRIKE WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK, WE SHALL BEND THE LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD TO OUR WILL, FOR WE ARE STRONG, AND WE ARE TOGETHER. WE HAVE TRAINED FOR THIS FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, WE WILL PREVAIL.\nCheering can be heard within the room.\nClaire: NOW, GET TO WORK. ALL OF YOU NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR THE GRAND FINALE, MAGGOTS. SO GET YOURSELF SOME PROTECTION, WEAPONS, CLOTHING, VEHICLES, THE WORKS. THIS IS THE FINAL BATTLE FOLKS, MAKE IT COUNT.\nClaire steps down from the chair and moves towards one of the doors leading to another corridor.\nClaire: TO THE ARMORY, YOU LITTLE WASTES.\nAs Surratt attempts to walk with the rest of the group, her shoulder is grabbed by Bj\u00f6rn.\nBj\u00f6rn: Aye, do not follow, Suhr-rat!\nSurratt: What? Why?\nBj\u00f6rn: Don't your eyes see the plebian weaponry they possess here? Cowards, the lot of them! Do you really believe one could defeat spawns of Hel herself with simple fire sticks?!\nSurratt: N\u2026 n-no\u2026?\nBj\u00f6rn: Then you are the only one here with a mind of a hero, lady. I can see you as much of an adventurous soul like me. No one has ever been here like me.\nBj\u00f6rn kneels, handing his sword to Surratt.\nBj\u00f6rn: Please, take Farbauti.\nSurratt: F\u2026 Farbauti\u2026?\nBj\u00f6rn: The weapon with which I had murdered gods and men alike. It's been long since it got a true battle, and I can see within your young eyes you will give it the fun it deserves.\nSurratt: I\u2026 I don't think I can accept it, Bj\u00f6rn. It's your weapon, and\u2014\nBj\u00f6rn: Silence. You earned it.\nSurratt accepts it. As she picks the item up, Bj\u00f6rn stands up.\nBeethoven sighs.\nBeethoven: You're insane.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED FOR BREVITY]\n\nThe three skeletons can be seen marching atop the walls, apparently in circles. Although they do not appear to be looking in any exact direction, they generally face the direction of the valley.\nBj\u00f6rn: \u2014and that's why you never grab a sword by the blade!\nBj\u00f6rn chuckles.\nBeethoven: So, what about you?\nSurratt: Hm?\nBeethoven: What's your story?\nSurratt: Well, I\u2026 I don't think it's worth sharing, really, plus I'm not sure if I'm allowed to\u2014\nBeethoven: Oh, please, you're in hell, for God's sake, what worse could happen to you?\nSurratt: I mean, yes, you are right, but\u2014 oh, whatever, fuck this. I was born in 1976 in New York. Didn't take long to leave, really, as my dad left us soon after, and my mom couldn't find anything in NY, so we pretty much went to the only place we could \u2014 our less than ideal family in Europe. They lived in Poland, in one of those shitty little industrial cities in Silesia, you know, that industrial complex?\nBeethoven: A what?\nSurratt: Oh, right. A\u2026 a large collection of villages in which people work in, essentially. I was never a bright kid \u2014 I've been the type that likes sports for a while. Mom didn't like it, but, well, that didn't change all that much. After high school, I tried going into a university that would make you a teacher, but, well, didn't pass. Due to some bullshit problems they found with me, I was doomed to work on my own rather than continue to study. Mom couldn't afford to find me another place, so, well, I was on my own. For the next three years, I was hopelessly stuck in a perpetual cycle of working in idiotic places, like bakeries and shit. That was until the Foundation caught wind of me.\nBj\u00f6rn: The who now?\nSurratt: I'll tell you later. Basically. they saw I was decently athletic, some shady man in black approached me offering a security job. I said yes, and, well, they accepted me.\nShort pause.\nSurratt: I've seen\u2026 many, many things you couldn't fathom. Bears that could teleport, ghost towns, magical musicians, complex rituals I didn't understand, literal bigfoot-fairy towns, and much, much, much more. And the best part was all that data was stored in a gargantuan building built around a magical library. Which also had a ghost bookkeeper. And a lot more.\nBeethoven: What went wrong, then?\nSurratt: Everything, pretty much. Get sent to the wrong place at the wrong time. Tried saving my friends when I should have run away. Ended up getting sliced to ribbons, and well, here we are.\nSurratt sighs.\nSurratt: At least I didn't end up like Robert, though. That poor fellow's probably still wandering the woods o\u2014\nSurratt is interrupted by a ringing of a bell, heard near them. Beethoven and Bj\u00f6rn flinch when they hear the sound.\nBeethoven: Oh, our time's up it seems. Good story, reminds me of my days on the Archmage Council.\nSurratt: Yeah, well\u2014 wait, what?\n\n[EXTRATENIOUS DATA REMOVED FOR BREVITY]\n\nThe camera is showing the dorm within which the trio is situated in. Although Bj\u00f6rn is walking around the room for unknown reasons, both Beethoven and Surratt are standing in one of the corners. Near them, a wardrobe, which wasn't previously there, can be seen.\nBeethoven: And\u2026 I believe this should fit nicely on you.\nBeethoven pulls out a tattered Polish World War II uniform from the wardrobe, he hands it to her, and she puts it on.\nSurratt: It\u2026 it does fit quite nicely. Oh darn\u2014\nAs she attempts to put the uniform on, it gets stuck on one of her ribs..\nBeethoven: Let me help you out.\nIn the process of entangling the clothes from Surratt, Beethoven notices the camera built into one of her ribs.\nBeethoven: What in good heavens is this?\nSurratt: Wha\u2014 oh, that. Well, that's a recording device.\nBeethoven: What in the Lord's name is that?\nSurratt: I\u2026 I don't think I can really tell you. It's, well, it's secret.\nBeethoven: You're in the underworld. I don't think they can get you here, heh.\nSurratt: Well, here's the thing\u2014 oh, whatever, NDA's probably void now anyway. I worked for an organization that dealt with\u2026 paranormal stuff. A pretty big organization. I died dealing with one of them, and, well, it turns out they installed a\u2026 contraption that makes them see what I do, within me. I'm sure it's for the better, though. They're surely coming here to get me.\nBeethoven: You\u2026 are aware that there is no way to ascend nor descend without dying, correct?\nSurratt: What?\nBeethoven: Well, you can't enter nor leave the underworld without passing through the gates of hell. And, well, they are located near the throne of its lord.\nSurratt: Satan?\nBeethoven: Indeed.\nSurratt: I'm sure they will do something. They always did. If they can protect all of humanity, I'm sure getting to the underworld is nothing for them.\nSurratt nervously chuckles.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED FOR BREVITY]\n\nThe camera reveals Beethoven, Bj\u00f6rn, and Surratt sitting around the table within their dorm. Atop the furniture, numerous cards and tokens are laying.\nSurratt looks at Beethoven.\nSurratt: Your move?\nBeethoven: All in.\nSurratt: All?\nBeethoven: Indeed.\nBeethoven pushes a pile of his tokens onto the middle of the table. As he does so, he smiles widely. Surratt does the same. Bj\u00f6rn glances at her, and so does she at him.\nSurratt: You?\nBj\u00f6rn: Aye\u2026 believe I should pass.\nSurratt: Final decision?\nBj\u00f6rn: Pass.\nBeethoven glances at Surratt, whose drapes an arm over her chair.\nSurratt: Show what you got.\nBeethoven cocks his head as he puts forward all his cards.\nBeethoven: Full.\nSurratt: Ha!\nSurratt bangs on the table with a fist as she stands up and puts her cards on the table, revealing it to everyone.\nSurratt: Red full!\nBeethoven sighs.\nBeethoven: Oh well.\nSurratt laughs and takes all of the tokens towards herself.\nBj\u00f6rn: What a way to go, eh? Thus ends the illustrious card career of Ludwig Beethoven, defeated on his final night in Helheim.\nBeethoven: Again.\nSurratt: What?\nBj\u00f6rn: What?\nBeethoven: Eugh\u2026 nothing.\nBj\u00f6rn: You're just drunk.\nBj\u00f6rn laughs, and starts to shuffle the cards again.\nBeethoven: One more?\nSurratt: Please, what better do I have to do the day before my demise? I might as well grind both of you to the bone. Bring it on, bonehead.\nBj\u00f6rn groans.\nBeethoven: I do not think he found that humerus.\nAll three chuckle.\n<End log>\n\n<Begin log>\nThe feed reconnects, revealing an enormous group of skeletons marching forward, with numerous styles of uniforms and weaponry present throughout. Although due to the number of entities present, most of them cannot be properly recognized, within Surratt's near vicinity, both Bj\u00f6rn and Beethoven can be seen, with the latter appearing to be talking to a small sub-group of entities carrying numerous musical-instrument-based weaponry. He is carrying several sheets of paper with him, and is waving.\nBj\u00f6rn, who is walking approximately two meters away from Surratt, is drinking out of a whiskey bottle. As he drinks, the whiskey falls through his jaws and ribcage, and onto the ground.\nSurratt: You know you can't taste anything, right?\nBj\u00f6rn: Aye, one of the many curses of this land, but my father always drank before battle, said it brought good fortune to a warrior.\nA brief pause.\nBj\u00f6rn: Come to think of it he was most likely covering up the fact he was a drunkard. No matter, are you ready for combat?\nSurratt: I\u2026 I think I am. Lots of buildup to this moment, you know? Pretty nervous.\nSurratt chuckles nervously.\nBj\u00f6rn: Eh, do not worry. Nothing better than going down for a just cause. And who knows what happens after what happens after?\nSurratt: I guess you're right.\nSurratt sighs, and they both continue walking. Despite her best efforts at looking in the distance over the valley, she is not able to do so, due to the ever-present skeleton subgroups. As she attempts to climb a small hill atop her to see more, Beethoven walks up to Surratt and Bj\u00f6rn, attempting to start a conversation. He is noticeably cheery.\nBeethoven: How are we on this fine day? Final day? Final\u2026 days?\nBj\u00f6rn: Aye, didn't you finish your master-niece?\nBeethoven: Masterpiece. And yes, I was. I am still setting things up, but trust me, it is going to be the most amazing thing you will ever behol\u2014\nAs Beethoven attempts to continue talking to Bj\u00f6rn, a deafening honk can be heard coming from their back. Shortly after, Beethoven pushes both of them over, effectively making them not be run over by the enormous tank which made this sound. Atop the machine, Claire can be seen peeping from within it, smoking a cigar.\nClaire: HOW ARE WE TODAY, LITTLE SCRUBS? READY TO MAKE SOME GRAVE MISTAKES?\nThe entity laughs.\nClaire: DO YOU FEEL THE WEIGHT OF TODAY'S CONSEQUENCES GRINDING YOUR LITTLE MINDS TO THE BONE?\nShort pause.\nClaire: WELL THEN, GOOD, HAHAHAHA!\nThe tank rolls off, and Surratt turns towards Bj\u00f6rn and Beethoven.\nSurratt: Hey, uh, so\u2026\nBeethoven: Yes?\nSurratt: There is a big chance this will be our last day here. And, I mean, yeah, it is hell, but\u2026 you morons made it slightly better, you know?\nBeethoven: And to you too. A pleasure, it has been. And hopefully still will. Heh.\nIn the distance, a gargantuan, stone fortress-like, spiral, chaotic building can be seen. It is surrounded by numerous lava rivers with only a few bridges closing the gap in between, although as around it numerous winged Tartarean entities can be seen, all of them are closed. Despite the lack of clouds around, lightning can be seen appearing near the top tower of the keep, which extends over 500 meters above the rest of the building. The entire architecture of the area looks reminiscent of gothic, although an exact human architecture style cannot be fully confirmed due to the complexity and size of the structure.\nAs the building comes into the view of the legion, Claire stands up.\nClaire: So, we're finally here.\nThe entire battalion stops for a moment.\nClaire: The Keep of Sorrow.\nAs he notices the rest of the group stopped, Claire glances at them angrily and puts the cigar out of his mouth.\nClaire: WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!\nAs Claire stops speaking, a large group of skeletons within the battalion look at each other numerous times, each time nodding with their heads.\nClaire: Oh god, no.\nThe group: I am Hell's Soldier.\nClaire sighs.\nThe group: I am a Warrior and a member of my army. I serve the skeletons of my battalion, and live the values of the dead.\nBj\u00f6rn: Aye, I will always place our mission first.\nSurratt: quietly: What's going on?\nBeethoven glances at her and smiles quickly.\nBeethoven: I shall never accept defeat.\nThe group: I will never quit, for there is nowhere to run.\nSurratt chuckles and rolls her eyes. She looks around the group and smiles almost unnoticeably.\nSurratt: I would be disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained, and proficient in my warrior tasks and drills, but this is Hell, and we have none of that.\nThe group: I by no means an expert nor a professional.\nBeethoven: But I live in the beauty of the hope of freedom.\nBj\u00f6rn: I live and die again with honor.\nThe group: I am Hell's Warrior.\nClaire chuckles.\nClaire: You're good, kids. I am proud of you.\nAs the group stops to talk, all gates of the structure in the distance open. From within them, a horde encompassing an uncountable amount of numerous Tartarean entities \u2014 carrying from harpy-like winged humanoids to gigantic quasi-humanoid, four-legged creatures \u2014 can be seen emerging from all of them. The thunder near the towers starts to move towards the group, with blood starting to fall from within it. As all of this finishes, an extremely loud roar can be heard coming from within the keep.\nClaire: Let's just hope it will be enough though.\nClaire pumps the slide of a shotgun.\nClaire: LET'S GIVE 'EM HELL!\n<End log>\n\n<Begin log>\nThe feed reconnects, revealing a large valley filled with fog and dust. Above it, the Keep of Sorrow towers, from within which an enormous amount of numerous kinds of Tartarean entities keep on appearing, swarming the battlefield and each skeleton present within which. Although due to the ever-present fog, most of the field cannot be seen through, as the thunder from before is currently located above the entire legion, with each lightning strike, a part of the battlefield becomes clear again. From within the cloud currently responsible for the thunder, a rain consisting of a substance reminiscent of blood is currently falling. As a result, the entire ground of the valley quickly turns into a mud-like substance, slowing down and sucking down a large part of the troops.\nSurratt can be seen running quickly towards the bottom of the hill on which the fort is located. Although numerous other entities can be seen before her, she is moving the quickest out of the entire group, visibly trying to push towards the building's entry. Despite best efforts from the rest of the army, they are not able to push their line of defense forward the gates due to the overwhelming amount of entities pouring from them.\nUpon reaching a stable position from within which she can defend herself and partake in combat, Surratt stops, attempting to familiarize herself with her surroundings better. As she dodges an incoming swipe from a nearby entity, Bj\u00f6rn joins her position, cutting the entity in half with a sword.\nSurratt: Do you know where [inaudible]?\nBj\u00f6rn: What?!\nBj\u00f6rn walks closer towards Surratt, lowering his stance as numerous bullets fly above their heads. As he does so, a large missile hits the cliff above them, blowing the pair into a ditch.\nSurratt crawls towards Bj\u00f6rn, attempting to shield both of them with local terrain.\nSurratt: Do\u2026 you\u2026 know\u2026 where\u2026 Beethoven\u2026 is? I swear I've seen this pl\u2014\nBj\u00f6rn: No bloody clue! Last thing I heard was he wanted to play his tune into battle. Batshit insane fellow, I sa\u2014\nAs Bj\u00f6rn attempts to finish, a large, harpy-like Tartarean entity focuses on them.\nSurratt: Fu\u2014\nThe entity lashes down, flying towards Bj\u00f6rn. Although he attempts to duck downwards, the being accounts for this and catches him in its claws. As it does so, it starts to fly away.\nSurratt: No no no, no!\nAs the entity flies away into the battlefield, Surratt runs towards the rest of the battalion, attempting to find a projectile weapon. The flying entity suddenly screams, releasing Bj\u00f6rn from its claws. He falls alongside the demon, and both engage in combat. Due to the distance and the fog however, not a lot can be seen.\nAfter approximately 30 seconds, Bj\u00f6rn can be seen emerging from the fog, the head of the entity in his hands, and a sizable hole in his frontal bone. He collapses on the ground. Surratt runs towards him.\nSurratt: Bj\u00f6rn? Bj\u00f6rn?! Is everything alright?!\nWith a shaking hand, Bj\u00f6rn points towards the body of the flying entity, his sword can be seen embedded in the chest.\nBj\u00f6rn suddenly stops moving.\nSurratt: Bj\u00f6rn?\nNo response.\nSurratt: Bj\u00f6rn?!\nNo response.\nSurratt crawls towards the laying skeleton and starts to shake his body. He does not show any reaction.\nSurratt: Bj\u00f6rn?! Please, tell me you're fine! Anything!\nAs she continues doing so, Beethoven walks towards her and grabs her by her arm.\nBeethoven: He's in Valhalla now. What more can a warrior want than a death with his weapon?\nSurratt: No! He\u2026 he must still be there. There is no death, this is the goddamned afterlife, remember?!\nBeethoven: There are many things I don't understand, Surr. He's in a better place now. Nothing can be worse than this. Unless it just repeats. Heh.\nSurratt: N\u2026 No\u2026 no!\nBeethoven starts to walk away from her.\nBeethoven: Come on. You can do nothing more. We'll give him a funeral after we win.\nSurratt: No! This is no\u2014\nAs she attempts to talk back, Claire's tank starts to climb up the hill, into their vision. With around 50 skeletons present atop it, they are able to defend against most entities coming towards them.\nClaire: HOW ARE WE ON THIS FINE DAY, LITTLE WASTES? BAD? GOOD! HAHAHAHAHA!\nClaire fires the tank, hitting a large entity visible in the distance. As he does so, the tank accelerates towards both Surratt and Beethoven, who quickly climb atop it.\nAs the tank speeds up, they start to climb the hill, driving towards the gate closer and closer. Despite a large number of entities swarming them, they are able to defend against them due to their number, as well as due to a large part of the army regaining their ground and being able to climb upward.\nClaire: HAHAHAHAHA! GIVE 'EM SHIT THEY DESERVE, BOYS!\nAs Claire finishes the sentence, the tank arrives near the entry to the fort atop the hill. All army members present atop the vehicle leave it, getting near its gates. From within a side of Surratt's vision, a large, ram-like machine created entirely out of bones and stone can be seen. It is quickly relocated near the doors, and Claire walks to its proximity.\nClaire: ONE.\nAs Claire points towards the doors, the ram contacts them, violently shattering a part of it.\nClaire: TWO.\nThe machine fires again, shattering the steel locks around the entry.\nClaire: THREE.\nThe ram hits for the third time, the doors shatter.\nWith the doors of the fort breached, allowing the entire team to enter, the camera reveals an extremely large hall, filled with numerous cages, fireplaces, paintings, and sculptures, all depicting people in numerous forms of pain. The area is massive, with numerous staircases up and down being connected and going through the hall. each build in a different style. Where they lead is unknown. As Claire notices a hallway at the end of the corridor, leading towards a dark, unlit room, he quickly rushes forward, leaving the rest of the team behind. As he does so, he loads his shotgun.\nSurratt: Where the hell are you going?!\nClaire: For the beast itself.\n<End log>\n\n[REMAINDER OF THIS FILE IS LEVEL 5/5572 CLASSIFIED]\n\n[WELCOME, AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL]\n\n<Begin log>\nThe camera reveals Surratt, Beethoven, Claire, and approximately 120 other skeletons standing within what appears to be an almost entirely light-less chamber. Although due to the lighting, its exact size cannot be determined, due to the sounds terminated from its center, it had been estimated to be large. From within the geometrical center of the room, a silent and repeated sound, reminiscent of a beating heart can be heard. Despite the lack of lighting, the center appears to look like a throne, with a humanoid creature seemingly molded with the seat. It is not moving.\nAs Claire starts to walk towards the throne, he is stopped by Surratt, who touches him on the shoulder.\nSurratt: Stop. Something isn't right.\nClaire turns around slowly, trying to keep his eyes on the creature. It does not move.\nClaire: W\u2026 what?\nThe breathing of the creature sitting atop the seat becomes to get irregular. Despite initially appearing to be a humanoid, as Surratt slowly walks towards it, an object reminiscent of a crown molded into its face appears to be located atop its head. Additionally, near its arms, a large, sword-like item can be seen. Both irregularities appear to be a part of the entity's body.\nSurratt: I just\u2026 I\u2026 I don't\u2026 I don't think this is\u2026 this fits here is what I'm saying\u2026 this\u2026 I\u2026 I\u2026\nAs Surratt loses her voice, she starts to walk towards the being, looking directly into its closed eyes. It does not appear to be conscious.\nBeethoven: Surratt?\nWith Surratt getting closer, the camera reveals two limb-like appendages coming from the entity's back \u2014 both of them look like their ends have been damaged. The reasons for this are unknown. Despite Surratt engaging in no contact whatsoever, a circular white symbol light starts to appear on the chest of the entity. Its breathing stops.\nBeethoven: Surratt?! What did you do?!\nSurratt: Nothing! Nothing at all! Wh\u2014\nSurratt is cut off as an emanating red light starts to come out of her chest, apparently near the camera. As this time, the light in the creature sitting atop the throne starts to violently flicker.\nUnknown voice: Activation detected. Welcome, authorized instance 192,613.\nSurratt: N\u2026 no! No! What is\u2026 what is\u2026 t-this?! What's\u2026 what's going on?!\nAs the symbol increases in density, it starts to form into a coherent shape.\nSurratt: Oh my god.\nUpon noticing the shape of the sign, Surratt starts to slowly walk backward, attempting to run away from the entity, with each step increasing in speed. Despite her best efforts, she is stopped by Claire, who shakes her by the shoulders upon catching her.\nClaire: WHAT THE HELL'S HAPPENING RECRUIT?!\nSurratt: I\u2026 I\u2026 uh, I\u2026\nSurratt points at the symbol, with her hand shaking. As the camera closes in, it reveals that it is the Foundation's insignia.\nClaire: WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!\nSurratt: I\u2026 I need to-to talk to one of Foun\u2014 oh no.\nAs Surratt tries to walk backward, from within the abyss located beneath them, numerous lights identical to that of Surratt's starts to appear within it. Despite the size of the pit, approximated to be around 500 meters in depth, it is filled in 75% with what are revealed to be humanoid bodies. All of them are wearing standard Foundation attire.\nSurratt: Oh, oh no. No no no no no.\nSurratt quickly turns towards Claire, who backs out a little.\nSurratt: Claire, I need to know. Have you ever seen, heard, or read, or whatever about anyone working or just associated with the SCP Foundation?\nClaire: WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SOLDIER, I NEED YOU TO\u2014\nSurratt (Louder): I need to know, do you understand?!\nClaire starts to walk away from her, visibly unnerved.\nClaire: N-no, I don't think so, no. W-why do you as\u2014\nSurratt approaches Beethoven, shaking his shoulders violently.\nSurratt: How many times have you been here?\nBeethoven: Wh\u2014\nSurratt: Look at that goddamned beast in the eyes and tell me, how many fucking times have you been here?!\nBeethoven: Only on\u2014 oh no. Oh. Oh no no. Oh no.\nThe entity starts shifting. As Beethoven starts to quickly run away from the creature with Surratt, Claire walks near them and stops both.\nClaire: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS?! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? YOU ARE BREAKING THE LEGIONS FORMAT\u2014\nClaire is cut off, as the creature sitting atop the throne starts to move. With its first move, it stands up, picking up the sword from the ground. What appears to be fire starts to circulate around the weapon and its eyes. At full height, it is over 10 meters tall. It looks at the entire squadron, smiling.\nAs the battalion starts to scream in pain for no noticeable reasons, the feed disconnects for a short while.\n\n[FIVE MINUTES OF CORRUPTED FILES REMOVED]\n\nThe feed connects again. Despite still being heavily distorted, most of its view is visible, revealing Surrat, Beethoven, and Claire, standing in the corner of the grand hall. In the background, numerous skeletons attempting to hold back the large entity from before can be seen.\nClaire: inaudible \u2014f what's actually in the goddamned hell going on here?! Why do I have memories of this place?!\nLarge explosions can be heard in the background.\nSurratt: Okay, so this will sound utterly ridiculous, but\u2014\n\n[TEN SECONDS OF CORRUPTED FILES REMOVED]\n\nSurratt: \u2014been here before. Countless times. Can you see all of these bodies? They are the bodies of previous personnel who've been here before me.\nThe trio looks back into the pit, from which the light can be seen emanating from every body.\nSurratt: All of them have these, uh, activators \u2014 activators on them, that would, in turn, activate some sort of research complex these fuckers have going on in here made to\u2014\nA loud bang.\nSurratt: \u2014study that!\nSurratt points towards the creature, which smashes two additional skeletons trying to stop it from reaching them.\nSurratt: And to achieve that, they have been deliberately sending people down here without any proper inscriptions, knowing most of them would ultimately end up here, furthering their research. But every single time, something happened here, and their subject died, making the loop reset.\nBeethoven: But why?\nSurratt: Well I\u2026 I don't know! They have an obsession with knowledge! If something exists, they must know about it to \"protect humanity\" or some bullshit excuse like that.\nClaire: That also doesn't answer why we have memories of this place.\nSurratt: Look, I don't know, okay! I have no idea. Whatever that creature is, it is the source of all of this. The loop only exists as long as this does. Which means\u2026\nAll of them turn towards the massive humanoid.\nClaire: \u2026to kill Satan is to beat death itself.\nClaire smiles.\n\n[FIVE MINUTES OF CORRUPTED FILES REMOVED]\n\nAs the feed reconnects, it shows the humanoid violently thrashing with its sword towards Surratt, who ducks and barely avoids the attack. As she does so, Beethoven can be seen firing a machine gun at the creature, which doesn't react, as the bullets slowly sink into its skin. In the back, Claire is standing near a cannon range, located at the back of the entity. He is firing them, though no effect can be seen. How he acquired them is unknown.\nClaire: EAT LEAD, YOU HORNHEA\u2014\nHe is cut off as the creature focuses on him, starting to walk towards his resting spot, As it does so however, a large harpoon grabs it from the back. It slowly sinks into its skin and stops any further movement from it towards Claire. The entity's crown starts to flicker with fire violently, and it tries to grab the harpoon away from its body. It is unsuccessful.\nAs Surratt quickly runs away from the entity into one of the right side of the battlefield, Beethoven can be seen sitting atop a piano, with 4 other skeletons bearing musical instruments situated near him. He stands atop the chair and shouts onto the ongoing battlefield.\nBeethoven: Hear me, those unworthy of my words \u2014 I, Ludwig van Beethoven, shall grace your ears with music like you have never heard before. Brace yourself, for a new age of music has come!\nThough almost no one reacts, Beethoven quickly starts to hit numerous keys, seemingly randomly. The rest of the band does the same.\nBeethoven: 170 years in the making, behold \u2014 my masterpiece, Battle Anthem No. 1 in C Minor!\nAs the melody reveals itself to be horrendous, the entire fighting stops. The entity looks at Beethoven and starts to laugh violently, with the rest of the skeletons looking in surprise at him.\nBeethoven: You\u2026! You will meet the wrath of me and my Elise, you tasteless monster!\nAs Beethoven kisses his pipe which he's been carrying at his back, he starts to run towards the beast. The entity laughs again, swinging its hand, causing Beethoven to collide with the piano, crushing the other musicians.\nClaire sighs deeply and looks around the entire battalion, chaotically combating the entity.\nClaire: IT ISN'T GOING DOWN, IS IT?\nSurratt: What?! I can't hear you!\nClaire: ALL OF YOU STAY HERE.\nClaire quickly puts on an unknown vest on himself.\nSurratt: What are you doing?!\nClaire: Remember me.\nAs Claire salutes at Surratt, he quickly turns towards the creature and runs in its direction. Despite best efforts from Surratt, he isn't stopped.\nThe creature laughs, noticing the approaching skeleton. It crouches, smiling noticeably, and attempts to touch Claire, who runs directly at it.\nSurratt: No\u2014!\nClaire: I'D SAY TO SEE YOU IN HELL, BUT WE ARE ALREADY HERE.\nThe moment Claire contacts the entity, the entirety of the room is filled with blinding light and white noise. Despite it, a chain reaction of multiple explosions and loud crashes can be heard in the background. As the camera re-gains vision, it is able to focus for a second on the two entities, from which all of the explosions are coming. Claire laughs, and the other entity screams quickly. As rubble starts falling out of the ceiling, effectively trapping Surratt and the camera under it, an unidentifiable noise, similar to that of a scream of millions of voices can be heard coming from the center of the room, which gets quickly topped over by Claire's increasing laughter.\n\n[TEN MINUTES OF TOTAL DARKNESS REMOVED]\n\nAs the fog falls down and rubble stops falling, Surratt is able to get up on her legs. Despite being near the eye of the cyclone, she is relatively unharmed. She stands up and looks at the throne upon which the creature was previously sitting. It is entirely empty, with not a single trace of the entity or Claire left.\nSurratt: At least he went the way he lived.\nBeethoven: That is?\nSurratt: Being utterly insane.\nSurratt deeply sighs and looks around herself. Near her, Beethoven is standing with the pipe in his hands. Around both of them, approximately 100 skeletons can be seen standing with weapons. Despite the outside of the castle being visible, not a single other skeleton can be seen outside or entering. As Surratt sighs again, one skeleton walks towards her, leaving the crowd.\nUnknown skeleton: And what now?\nSurratt: I\u2026 I think I have an idea.\nWith some difficulty, Agent Surratt removes the camera from her rib. She throws it to the ground and smashes it with her boot. The feed disconnects.\n<End log>\n\nFollowing Event-5572 taking place, although all contact with Agent Surratt was lost, all Tartarean-entities-related activity within SCP-5572-PRIME had ceased, and no further SCP-5572 events were noted; reclassification of SCP-5572 to Neutralized is currently pending. For two more months as of the writing of this Addendum, no contact was initiated.\nAddendum 5572-2: On 26/09/2003, an enormous mass of unidentified humanoids was detected emerging from underground areas of the Free Port of Esterberg, 5 kilometers north of Site-120.\nOne minute following the mass's sighting, the following message had been received by all members of Overwatch Command.\n\nThe army of the dead has risen, and we've got a bone to pick with you.\n\nFurther research and potential reclassifications are pending.\n\n[{$previous-url} {$previous-title}]\n\nGASLIGHT, GATEKEEP, GIRLBOSS\n\nThe Lands Nobody Returns From\n\nFootnotes\n1. Or a variation thereof, languages included.\n2. Terminal objects are those that incorporate human beings following their death.\n3. Such technology is implemented in all junior Foundation personnel to ensure the Foundation's secrecy \u2014 as a Level 2 Clearance Agent on a trial period in Site-120, Surratt was automatically equipped with such. As the machine was created via anomalous technology, despite being located in Surratt's ribs, it was able to record all of her surroundings normally unseen to a regular camera.\n4. 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{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\n>login SCP Database MTompkins.Site109@scipnet\n\nAccessing SCP Database\u2026\nCredentials Accepted. Welcome back Junior Researcher Marissa Tompkins\n\n>access SCP-5574\n\nClearance Level 2/5574 Recognised\nLoading SCP-5574\u2026\n\nCover of a 1913 pulp novel in the early stages of SCP-5574 infection. At this point, only the character depicted to the bottom right is symptomatic.\n\nItem #: SCP-5574\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5574 is currently contained within a copy of the novel Pride and Prejudice in Standard Containment Locker B2032.\nA minimum of ten additional novels should be stored alongside SCP-5574's current host at all times, and any previously infected novels should be removed and incinerated.\nTesting of the effects of SCP-5574 on narrative media is currently restricted to Researchers with Class 2/5574 clearance or higher. Testing of the effects of SCP-5574 on human subjects is currently prohibited, except with the direct authorization of Lead Researcher Caldwell.\nDescription: SCP-5574 is a noospheric1 parasite which infects non-interactive narrative media.\nInfected media is extended significantly beyond the normal limits of the narrative (e.g. movies continuing far beyond their usual runtime, the text of physical books shifting and being rewritten in real time). This narrative is continuous and occurs even when not observed. The anomalous effect is not extended to any copies that are made of the affected media.\nCharacters within the narrative will act in a manner appropriate to their previously established characterisation but be described as having, or be shown to experience, a variety of symptoms commonly associated with degenerative brain conditions. SCP-5574 symptoms typically begin with headaches, followed by a gradual deterioration in mental capacity, specifically in areas focused around imagination and creative thinking.\nSCP-5574 can also infect humans and other sapient entities. The effects observed are similar to that seen in characters within affected media, and continue until the host has experienced near total loss of capacity for independent thought, and enters a permanent vegetative state. The course of the infection lasts significantly longer in human hosts, typically 8-15 years compared to a more variable range of hours-weeks for narrative media.\nAfter the infection has run its course, or if the current host dies or is destroyed prematurely, SCP-5574 will transfer to a new host. It will preferentially transfer to other narrative media which are physically nearby, up to a maximum range of approximately 15 meters. If no acceptable media are found within this range it will transfer to a human host within range.\nIf neither of these options is available, it will travel via noosphere to a memetically proximal host2. Physical distance is irrelevant to this secondary form of transmission, with hosts being found to be infected up to 4,200 miles from the previous host.\n\nAddendum: Selected Test Media\n\nClose File\n\nTest Media: A Christmas Carol, a novella by Charles Dickens\nEffect on Narrative: Following the end of the original work, Scrooge begins experiencing SCP-5574 symptoms. After recognising that his mind is failing, he seems at peace and remarks he is \u2018glad he had at least one good day'. He writes a will leaving his wealth to Bob Cratchit and shortly after enters a coma like state. At this point no new text was added and SCP-5574 transferred to a new host.\nNotes: Typical of expected results where narrative continues with the additional factor of SCP-5574 symptoms.\n\nTest Media: 10 additional copies of A Christmas Carol, tested in sequence.\nEffect on Narrative: Most continued in the same manner as the previous test, with minor changes to dialogue and circumstance. The sole exception was test 7 in which Scrooge became frantic and agitated, cursed Cratchit and the ghosts, and is described as being bitterly fearful of hell. He attempts to flee London but is unable to travel outwith previously established settings and ultimately enters a coma state alone in his home.\nNotes: It appears the anomaly has some creativity with how it continues the narrative, while remaining within the bounds of the already established world and characters.\n\nTest Media: A VHS tape of a filmed production of the play The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare.\nEffect on Narrative: The production continued with a sixth act in which Shylock seeks revenge. At the onset of the seventh act, all characters begin experiencing SCP-5574 symptoms and rapidly succumb. The video stops on a shot of all actors lying comatose on stage.\nNotes: The literary quality of the additional scenes have been analysed by literary experts, whose consensus was that the writing approached the quality of Shakespeare's original works. Shylock's soliloquy on how all methods were acceptable in the pursuit of liberty was highlighted as particularly poignant.\n\nTest Media: The Short Reign of Mary Queen of Scots, a non-fiction narrative biography by Margaret Dunne.\nEffect on Narrative: The original biography ends after Mary is taken captive by her cousin Elizabeth. The anomalous narrative describes her rapidly succumbing to melancholy and to SCP-5574 symptoms over the course of several weeks.\nNotes: The SCP-5574 infection lasted only a few hours in this host. Further testing indicates the lower degree of narrative in non-fiction causes it to expire more rapidly following SCP-5574 infection.\n\nTest Media: The Tigers of Texas, a novel by Buck Henderson3\nEffect on Narrative: The Tiger Posse continue their trek across the west but rapidly succumb to SCP-5574 symptoms, lasting only a few days.\nNotes: The duration of infection seems to correspond with the creativity and popularity of the infected narrative. This should be taken into account when selecting narratives to act as long term hosts.\n\nTest Media: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.\nEffect on Narrative: Alice is discontent at home in England for a short while, and after experiencing the onset of symptoms returns to Wonderland to consult the various strange inhabitants. They offer advice on \u2018expanding one's mind' and exercising her imagination to stave off symptoms. This is effective for a short time, but Alice and the rest eventually succumb.\nNotes: These exercises were trialled in human hosts of SCP-5574 and proved effective in quality of life improvement and in delaying disease progression.\n\nTest Media: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.\nEffect on Narrative: Sherlock Holmes quickly notices he is experiencing symptoms of brain disease, and after several hours of conversation with Watson deduces he is in a fictional world. He makes several attempts at escaping the narrative but ultimately fails. He then makes a direct appeal to the reader, claiming to possess a fully human intellect and demanding that his rights as an Englishman be upheld, before succumbing to SCP-5574 symptoms.\nNotes: The SCP-5574 narrative entities' claims of sapience and self awareness have resulted in an Ethics Committee request for further testing. This is currently ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The non-physical component of consciousness where memetic and other thought-form entities propagate.\n2. i.e. a host that has a similar mindset, or one who shares common symbolic or thematic similarities.\n3. A largely unknown and unsuccessful work.\n\n>exit\n\nAccess Your Most Recently Viewed File?\n\nTranscript: SCP-5574 Test Narrative 26-2013\n\nClose File\n\nTranscript: SCP-5574 Test Narrative No. 26-2013\n\nOriginal Media Summary: A printed text describing a standard Foundation interview room with a single occupant, for whom no description is given. The only event which occurs is the arrival of Junior Researcher Tompkins, who is briefly described and then stated to be about to begin routine questioning. 267 words.\n\nOriginal document excised, transcript begins from the point at which SCP-5574's anomalous effects first take effect\nThe Researcher smoothed out her skirt and sat on the uncomfortable steel chair that was still standard issue for all interview rooms, despite her years of complaints. Her subject for the day was already sitting, an unkempt young man with the bored look of someone who'd spent a lot of time sitting in a cell being forced to talk to strangers. A look she was all too familiar with.\n\"OK, so the time is 12:43, I'm Marissa Tompkins, Class 3 Researcher, and today I'll be interviewing SCP-5574.\" She turned and glanced behind her to double check the recording device on the wall was blinking red and operational. The movement made her head throb and she winced, migraines always announced themselves before their full arrival and she could tell this was going to be a big one. She slid one of the two coffees she'd brought across the table to the subject with an awkward smile. Despite all her years of experience, it was still difficult to ignore the social niceties, even when around anomalous entities.\n\"Alright Mr Smith, I'm going to begin by asking you a few questions to test your responsiveness, OK?\n\"That's fine by me ma'am, I just want to get all this over with so I can get back to my family.\"\nMarissa felt that familiar twinge of guilt as she knew that he would very likely be spending the rest of his life in a cell, and his family had already been made to forget his existence. But this was what the job demanded, anything and everything for the greater good.\nShe went through the tests quickly, she'd done this so many times that her actions were automatic and as the familiar scenario unfolded she felt her mind wander. He answered questions designed to test his intelligence, both intellectual and emotional, and she thought about how she'd ended up spending the past decade working in a series of tiny cells just like this one. Ten years trying to make life better for the people she helped keep imprisoned, and she'd likely be fighting this uphill battle for the rest of her life.\nShe tried to think about what she'd rather be doing but drew a blank. She wasn't the most forward thinking woman at the best of times and her growing migraine was clouding her mind and making it very hard to think.\n\u201cOK, so this next set of questions is a little strange, they're designed to test if you're what we like to call \u2018a sapient entity'. Basically, if you're a person or just a convincing illusion of one. It might seem a little silly, since most of the time you call tell if someone's a person just by looking, but in my line of work I often encounter things that aren't quite what they seem. Things that look human, that might even have intelligence of a sort, but have no more moral value than a fly or this coffee cup. So what I'll be looking for here is signs of you having a conception of an inner self, an ability to effect and be affected by your environment and whether you have the capacity to experience pleasure, suffering, stuff like that.\u201d\nMr Smith just nodded.\nThirty minutes of questioning later and he still hadn't touched his coffee. Marissa took a long sip of her own before giving him the results. Her head wasn't getting any better and the deliciously caffeinated concoction helped distract her.\n\"OK then Mr Smith.\" She smiled. \"You'll be glad to hear you qualify as a Class II sapient entity, which in laymen's terms, means you're a person. That means you qualify for ethical care and treatment for as long as-\". Marissa stopped talking, partly because she'd forgot what she was going to say and partly because her migraine had blossomed into a nova of stabbing pain right behind her left eye.\nShe clutched her head and shouted for help. Something wasn't right, she'd had migraines before but never this bad. And her thinking was slow and sluggish, especially when she tried to come up with plans or think about the future. And Mr Smith was still just sitting there. And no-one from outside was coming despite her yells. Oh shit. Belatedly, her training kicked in.\nShe was being affected by an anomaly. Categorise effects: headaches, clouded thinking, people acting like zombies. Her headache was clearing but alarmingly her thinking was getting worse, it was hard to think of what to do next, hard to come up with even the simplest plans. She tried to leave the room and found the door sealed. Not just locked, but fused seamlessly into the wall.\n\"Oh.\" she said.\nShe slumped to the ground. All these years talking to little bits of reality gone wrong and until now she'd never fully appreciated how horrifying it was to have the world you thought you knew fall apart around you. She knew this wasn't real now, of course, that much was obvious. That was little consolation to her though, as her mind fell apart like a sandcastle drowned by the tide. She was aware she'd lost the ability to imagine future events and only dimly remembered that was probably a good thing. The walls started to melt around her, forming horrifying faces with far too many teeth. They weren't real either but suddenly Marissa wasn't sure if she was even real herself.\nEventually, the world around her was nothing but a swirl of nightmares and Marissa had only her thoughts. Thoughts that were swiftly degrading, moment by moment. She no longer had the capacity to hope for rescue or escape so instead she could only wait. But no-one ever came and she was reduced to a catatonic state, living but mindless.\nMarissa Tompkins lay motionless on the floor.\nMarissa Tompkins lay motionless on the floor.\nMarissa Tompkins lay motionless on the floor.\n\n>exit SCP Database\n\n>access SCiPNET messages\n\nLoading most recent message thread\u2026\n\nSCPiNET v4.0.2\nTerminal: 53817\nAuthorization: MTompkins.Site109\n\nMessage History with Senior Researcher Dr Caldwell\nCurrently Viewing Today's Messages: Oldest > Newest\n\n[09:15] MTompkins: Have you had a chance to look over the results of my study on SCP-5574 yet? The findings are quite alarming and I've suggested several urgent changes to the Containment Procedures. I tried calling your office but wasn't able to get a response, please let me know when would be a convenient time for us to meet and discuss this further.\n\n[09:26] JCaldwell: I've read your report, and further discussion won't be necessary. The current Containment Procedures are perfectly effective for ensuring continued containment. I recommend you turn your attentions to some of the Site's more recently acquired SCPs whose documentation actually needs updating.\n\n[09:28] MTompkins: This isn't a matter of containment, it's a matter of ethics. The anomaly is creating and then torturing real sapient people. They're suffering.\n\n[09:37] JCaldwell: I am not going to authorise torturing real human beings to save some ink on a page. Sometimes the Foundation has to do unpleasant things to ensure the containment of dangerous entities like this nasty little parasite. If what's in those books bothers you, then don't read them, this is one anomaly that's best left to rot away in a storage locker.\n\n[09:39] MTompkins: My feelings on the matter are not the issue. People are suffering, real people, with feelings as real as yours or mine. The fact they are anomalously generated doesn't make their experiences any less real.\n\n[09:45] JCaldwell: Even if they are in some sense alive, their life is a product of the anomaly. If it creates and destroys lives then that is no net loss, without the anomaly those \u2018people' would never have existed to begin with.\n\n[09:47] MTompkins: They're being tortured, as bad as any human victim of SCP-5574. And they die at such a faster rate that orders of magnitudes more people suffer and die in those novels you're using than would if we used human hosts. I recognise that you might find it distasteful to value the suffering of anomalously generated sapient entities the same as flesh and blood humans. But the Foundation Charter of Ethics states we have an equal duty to protect all Class II sapient entities, and my research clearly shows that the SCP-5574 narrative entities qualify.\n\n[10:06] JCaldwell: Well if you want to lodge a complaint with the Ethics Committee you're welcome to. Then in six months, once they've sorted through the paperwork, maybe it'll get changed. But as long as I'm the Lead Researcher on SCP-5574, protecting human lives comes first.\n\n[10:08] MTompkins: Please, if we could just meet and discuss this.\n\n[11:13] JCaldwell: I'm a busy man Marissa. I have a lecture to give in an hour, a lot of anomalies to oversee and no time to hand-hold every Junior Researcher that feels squeamish about what we do here. Report to Dr Hadogan about that new predatory narrative he's tracking, maybe then you can use your talents to save some real human lives.\n\n[11:15] Mtompkins: These are real human lives! Every week you delay is dozens, maybe hundreds of people suffering!\n\n[11:36] JCaldwell: This conversation is over.\n\nJCaldwell has gone offline\n\n[18:28] MTompkins: I've attached a copy of SCP-5574's latest host. I think it might help you see the issue from a different perspective.\n\nTranscript: SCP-5574 Test Narrative 27-2013\n\nClose File\n\nTranscript: SCP-5574 Test Narrative 27-2013\n\nOriginal Media Summary: A DVD containing video footage of Site 109 Lecture Hall A17 during Dr Caldwell's lecture A History of the Study of Noospheric Parasites. This lecture is in the form of a non-fiction narrative in which he explains his career in the study of noospheric anomalies, and his history with the Foundation. 87 minutes.\n\nTranscript of original lecture excised, transcript begins from the point at which SCP-5574's anomalous effects first take effect, shortly following the conclusion of Dr Caldwell's talk.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nDr Caldwell smiles at the crowd who can be heard applauding.\n\nDr Caldwell: Thank you folks, thank you but my lecture isn't done yet! I've talked about the current anomalies I'm studying, the \u2018parasites of imagination' as some are calling them, but I'd like to dig a little deeper. To an entity of the noosphere our imaginations aren't just inside our heads, they're attached to everything we produce.\n\nArt, architecture, technology, even a post-it note with some scribbled reminders. Anything touched by human hands is shaped by our imaginations, our theories of the world and our plans for the future. And it's that substance that these unique class of anomalous parasites feed upon and which, uh, which\u2026\n\nDr Caldwell stops speaking and frowns, rubbing his temples\n\nDr Caldwell: I'm sorry folks, I have a bit of a headache coming on it seems, and it's making it hard to concentrate. I might just have to cut this lecture short after all.\n\nThe camera pans to follow Dr Caldwell as he goes to leave the lecture hall but finds that the door is inoperable. At this point he looks over the silent, watching crowd, several of whom can now be seen in frame watching him with polite smiles and vacant expressions.\n\nDr Caldwell: muttering Marissa, you bitch.\n\nHe turns to face the camera and raises his voice\n\nDr Caldwell: Goddamn you Tompkins, I'll have your job for this. You want to feed humans to monsters so bad, how about I get you reassigned to some first hand experience with carnivorous noovores yourself? If you don't get me out of here right fucking now I will make sure you spend the rest of your life regretting this decision.\n\nDr Caldwell paces the room, and appears quite upset. He attempts to break down the door, unsuccessfully, and shakes a member of the audience who does not respond, but continues to smile politely and occasionally applaud. After several minutes of this he winces and clutches his head, then turns back to the camera and resumes speaking.\n\nDr Caldwell: OK fine Tompkins, you win. Point made. It's pretty hard to dispute that SCP-5574 entities are sapient from the inside.\n\nThis next part is for you James. The real James Caldwell I mean, the non-anomalous one. I am sapient, we were wrong, and the Containment Procedures for SCP-5574 need to be changed. Knowing me, I doubt that's enough to convince you so I'll say this. Remember Madrid? When we promised Angela that when it came between our pride and doing what's right, we'd do what's right? Well now is one of those times.\n\nNow as for Marissa Tompkins and her sanctimonious moralising, well, you can't say what you're thinking to her. But hey, I'm just an anomaly that's going to die long before HR can get their hands on me so I can say whatever the fuck I want.\n\nHey Marissa, you can-\n\nDr Caldwell angrily rants about Marissa Tompkins, generally on the topic of destroying her career, reputation and life, as well as insults about her personality, appearance and intellectual capacity. These insults are punctuated by increasingly long gaps of silence, and gradually become less coherent and more repetitive. After 43 minutes of this he slumps in a chair and speaks in a quieter voice.\nDr Caldwell: I know I don't have much time left, I can feel my mind slipping away. Facing death in my own private hell like this, it's surprisingly little comfort knowing that there's still another version of me out there.\nI've never believed in souls, or anything like that, too scientifically minded, even after seeing all the strange things the Foundation keeps locked away. Even Angela, with all her certainty, would have a hard time figuring out where my soul goes after this. Maybe to some kind of hell after everything I've done in the name of the greater good. Maybe when the real me dies, I'll be there waiting for him.\n\nDr Caldwell is silent for the remainder of the recording. After another 57 minutes he succumbs to the effects of SCP-5574 and collapses on the floor, at which point SCP-5574 was detected to have transferred to another host.\n\n[END LOG]\n\n[19:07] JCaldwell: You should know that I have reported this to Director Kristov. I suggest you offer your resignation now and don't make this any harder on yourself.\n\nYou have One New Message\n\n>view\n\nViewing New Message from Senior Researcher Dr Caldwell\n\n[21:15] JCaldwell: I can't stop thinking about that version of me trapped in there. I want to blame you, be angry that you created that version of me and then tortured him. But I have been Lead Researcher on SCP-5574 for the past 15 years and I can't even begin to count how many thousands I've caused to suffer in that same way.\nIt's hard for me to admit when I'm wrong. Harder still when accepting that means accepting responsibility for so much pain. But I've always tried to be the kind of person that can make hard decisions, and I can't let this continue any further.\nI've informed Director Kristov that SCP-5574 will be contained in human hosts from now on. And I've also volunteered to be its first subject. I'm not a young man, I have always had a very active imagination and I'm confident that I can continue to act in a research and educational capacity for at least another 5 years before the effects on my intellectual ability become too severe.\nSo thank you Marissa, for giving me a chance to try and make up for what I've done.\n\n>logoff\n\n\u00ab SCP-5573 | SCP-5574 | SCP-5575 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5576\nAll That's Left to Regret\nWritten by Cremo and Jack Waltz\n\nCheck out Cremo's author page!\nCheck out Jack's author page!\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5576\nLevel 5/5576\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nCLASSIFIED\n\nThreat Level: Blue\n\nSCP-5576, six days prior to containment.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5576 is currently housed in a standard humanoid containment chamber at Site-228. Special research conducted into SCP-5576 has been authorised and is currently under observation by Overwatch Command.\nFurther information regarding SCP-5576 is restricted.\nDescription: SCP-5576 is Jonathan M\u00f6ller, former director of Site-228. SCP-5576's anomalous properties manifest one minute following its death, wherein all matter located within a roughly three-metre radius experiences a temporal reversion of approximately two minutes. All objects and individuals within this area are affected, including SCP-5576, with the only known exception being its memory.\nInvestigations into the mechanisms of SCP-5576's anomalous properties are ongoing.\nDiscovery: SCP-5576's anomalous properties were discovered in 2008, at the age of 96, 11 years after retirement, during a house fire. Based on surveillance footage, it passed away approximately 30 times due to smoke inhalation prior to the firefighters' arrival on the scene.\nFollowing Foundation intervention, cover story A3549B (\"Immolation\") was embedded into local news media and amnestics were appropriately administered. SCP-5576's family was supplied with a suitable corpse and the object was detained for questioning and research.\nSCP-5576's preliminary interview transcript has been attached below.\n\nInterviewee: SCP-5576\nInterviewer: Dr Albert Cren\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr Cren: Good afternoon, Jon.Dr Cren: It's the first time I'm doing this with a former mate, you know.Dr Cren subtly smiles.\nDr Cren: Well, how are you, Jon?\nDr Cren and SCP-5576 speak in unison.\nDr Cren: Just being?Both laugh.Dr Cren: How could I not? I've only heard it every day!Dr Cren: Oh no, unfortunately. Took an early retirement. Most of the old bunch 'ere miss him too, sometimes.Dr Cren: Oh?Dr Cren: Huh? Oh, haha! Thanks, Jon.Dr Cren: Heh. Director, huh\u2026 I've never actually thought about that. I don't think I've aspired that far ahead in this career either, knowing it first hand.SCP-5576 exaggeratedly sighs and the two laugh together. Midway through SCP-5576 wheezes.Dr Cren: She's eleven now. They grow up pretty darn fast, Jon.Dr Cren: Oh, she's still that alright. You won't know how much trouble she gets into with Kalli, though I don't always try to get on her side. Somebody's gotta defend the kids now, shouldn't they?Dr Cren: Well\u2026 heh, \"fifteen?\" You still suck when it comes to keeping track of time, now don't you? Deadlines always had a way of creeping up on you, didn't they? I remember I'd usually be the one picking up your slack.The two laugh, louder than previously.\nDr Cren: I couldn't just leave you hanging bud, well, at least you're\u2014\nDr Cren is told to cease their idle conversation and is reminded to continue with the interrogation.\nDr Cren: Oh, um, SCP-557\u2014\nSCP-5576 interruptingly sighs and holds up its hand, as if to stop Dr Cren from speaking any further.Dr Cren averts his eyes to look away and stutters.\nDr Cren: Let's\u2026 uh, let's continue, SCP-5576.\nSCP-5576 grins but does not make any remark.\nDr Cren: Well, to start off: did you know of your anomalous properties before the incident?SCP-5576 coughs.Dr Cren: Hm, we\u2014Dr Cren: You're right, we think so too. They're looking into all the objects you were in contact with during your days\u2014well, years\u2014here currently, and to see if there's any sort of connection between any of 'em acting to give you this ability.Dr Cren lightly chuckles at SCP-5576's remark.\nDr Cren: Yep, the standard. You think there may be any other reason, though? Other than the one we just talked about.Dr Cren: You worked with reality benders?\nSCP-5576 pauses.Dr Cren: That's\u2026 odd.Dr Cren: I'm not spotting any on this list.\nDr Cren hands SCP-5576 the files he was looking through.Dr Cren: Yep.Dr Cren: Hm?Dr Cren: You've worked at Site-17?Dr Cren: I read your personnel file right before this interview. I was\u2026 surprised, to say the least. Couldn't believe it, honestly. So it's real? Did you\u2026 really?\nSCP-5576 creases its eyes and rubs them.Dr Cren: Well, they're rumours, aren't they? I mean\u2026 I wouldn't see you in a different light, just because of that. You're still my mate\u2026 a friend.\nSCP-5576 has a pained expression and wipes its eyes.SCP-5576 pauses.Dr Cren: They weren't registered? Why?\nSCP-5576 does not respond. Dr Cren is silent for a moment.\nDr Cren: But, that means\u2026\nSCP-5576 weakly nods and looks down at its feet.Pauses.Dr Cren: So you tried to help them? Well\u2026 of course you would, Jon. Yeah, you were always a nice guy.\nSCP-5576 looks down.Pauses.SCP-5576 looks back up, its lips quivering.Its smile wavers.Pauses.Dr Cren: But\u2026 why, Jon?\nDr Cren stutters.\nDr Cren: It's\u2026 it's alright, I know you never wanted to do any of that. If you'd like, I'm pretty sure the infirmary can give you another dose.\nSCP-5576 coughs, smiling slightly.[END LOG]\n\nUpdate (03/01/2022): As of January, 3rd 2022, SCP-5576 is 111 years old. Due to its age and associated health conditions,1 SCP-5576 has begun experiencing a terminal loop upon its bed, with the entity's death occurring an average of 45-50 times a day.\nTransfer to Site-17 for further research is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Including but not limited to type 2 diabetes and heart disease.\n\n\n\u00ab SCP-5575 | SCP-5576 | SCP-5577 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5579\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nApril 3rd, 2010. Examples of SCP-5579 in its most infectious vehicle to date.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Project \"Bitter Yuca\" is currently underway breeding dominant strains of cassava1 toxic to SCP-5579. In the unlikely event the general population discovers SCP-5579, a UO-Class \"First Contact\" suppression campaign has been devised.\nDescription: SCP-5579 is a parasitic alien life-form present in, and responsible for, all modern forms of tapioca.\nHistorically, the common shrub M. esculenta subspecies flabellifolia possessed thin, barely edible root structures until 4,500 BCE, when a variant strain spontaneously emerged. This new subspecies produced thick, starchy tubers rich in carbohydrates, and quickly become a staple-food for the developing world. These roots also served as an ideal, deliberate infection vehicle for SCP-5579.\n\nMarch 15th, 2005. Cassava root, laden with dormant colonies of SCP-5579.\n\nSCP-5579 functions similarly to a bacterial colony, expertly mimicking the polysaccharide chains present in plant starch. This level of chemical camouflage is so advanced, in fact, that Foundation scientists have only recently identified its existence through comparative study. In its dormancy, SCP-5579 is resistant to extreme temperatures and high-pressure environments - all historical methods of processing cassava starch have left the parasite unharmed. Contemporary forms of tapioca have only enhanced potential colony growth; tapioca pearls or \"Boba\" create multiple opportunities for the parasite to find a latching-point, similar to egg-cell fertilization. Sweet and milk teas2 provide a high-calorie liquid medium, increasing growth factors and ease of consumption. Yet despite all modern advantages, SCP-5579 has still failed to form a lasting parasitic relationship with any terrestrial species.\nIn contrast to its extreme resilience in dormancy, SCP-5579 is nearly benign in active parasitism. When consumed, this organism quickly succumbs to the host's digestive processes, immune system response, or simple chemical tolerance. Even in common garden snails, growth is halted by the shedding of thin mucus layers. The human digestive system is especially effective at neutralizing the parasite, which only survives an estimated 0.0001% of all cases3. In such an event, SCP-5579 will, at worst, cause mild stomach ulcers.\nTesting has concluded that SCP-5579 functions at an accelerated timescale incompatible with terrestrial species. Even when given a vast quantities of nutrient-rich slurry in ideal lab conditions, SCP-5579 expands too quickly to maintain its own metabolic growth, resulting in a self-cannibalistic breakdown or \"burn out\".\nWhile SCP-5579 has been unobtrusive and undetected for nearly ten thousand years, project \"Bitter Yucca\" is still considered a priority in the rare chance SCP-5579 finally adapts to terrestrial life.\n\nAddendum - 2010/06/10: Concentrated energy emissions were detected from galaxy MACS0647-JD. Embedded assets within global listening posts intercepted this transmission, which contained two messages played in 6529 terrestrial languages4. Despite the impressive breadth of translation, the wording of each transmission was nearly incoherent, and have been edited for clarity:\n\nGeneral Notice - Creatures of 9009064.\nYou have failed. You cannot sustain our young. Weep. Burrow. Die without purpose.\n\nSpecial notice - Dominants of 9009064.\nYou are monsters. You are full of sharp rocks and boiling acid. Of the ten million life worlds, you are the most disgusting. We are glad we cannot feed from your filth.\nYou are children of a whore galaxy.\n\nJuly 15th, 2010. Domestic Cassava, no SCP-5579 detected.\n\nAddendum - 2010/07/02: All global SCP-5579 colonies have died off. The plant itself appears unaffected, continuing to produce large starchy tubers. A small quantity of parasite-laden tapioca pearls have survived this extinction, shielded within Site-45's deep-freeze storage.\nGiven the potential shelf-life of SCP-5579, this anomaly will be considered neutralized as of June 18th, 2060.\n\nDoes the Black Moon Howl?\n\nFor a Price.\n\nEverything for a price.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Manihot esculenta.\n2. Often called \"Bubble Tea\".\n3. Roughly 1 in 1 million.\n4. 6451 active, 64 dead, 14 undocumented dialects.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5578 | SCP-5579 | SCP-5580 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImage: Can be found here, and is in the public domain. Has been cropped from the original.\n\n\nTo be a heresiographer is, by its very nature, to take a specific position and look out from that vantage. For something to be a heresy, it must be defined against an orthodoxy. And, of course, to call something an orthodoxy, or a truth, or a certainty, it must be defined against that which is unorthodox, or a lie, or the certainty that something is not so. To define something as \"truth\" implies the lie shaped around it.\nThe early heresiographers, those Muslims and Christians of the middle ages, had the certainties of a state-backed dogma to guide them. They were the orthodox, holding a divine truth backed by the ruler's power and the whole constellation of civilisation. But for the modern heresiographer, we can never know with absolute certainty which tradition, which truth, is correct.\nWhat are we to do? How do we define the divine truth, and thus what is heretical to begin with? It is not an easy task; some would say it is impossible. Indeed, we shall never know the whole of it. All we can do is get glimpses, here and there, flashes of illumination that allow a few brief moments of true definition. The heresiographer's task, then, is to determine that which is is an untruth and yet nevertheless exists.\n~ Lyle Burnley, Modern Heresiography: An Introductory Guide (Yellowknife: Eutopos Publishing, 1974).\n\nSCP-5580\n\nMembers of SCP-5580-1B's escort during Operation F\n\nItem #: SCP-5580\nObject Class: Neutralised\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Historical records mentioning SCP-5580, SCP-5580-1, the Hmong Self Defence Confederation or IJAMEA operations in northern Vietnam are to be expunged from any and all sources in which they are found. Attempts to reclaim further records of Lyle Burnley's 1936 and 1939 expeditions to Vietnam are ongoing; they are believed to be in the possession of Burnley's daughter Matilda, whose whereabouts are unknown.\nAn area of 5km2 surrounding SCP-5580 has been cordoned off from public access. Although it is believed to be neutralised, cautionary measures mandate that experimentation or access to SCP-5580 is strictly forbidden.\nSCP-5580-1 is believed to have been destroyed, but Foundation webcrawlers are set to flag up information about its potential whereabouts.\nDescription: SCP-5580 is a ruined Japanese military base in what is now L\u00e0o Cai Province, Vietnam.\nSCP-5580 was constructed by the Imperial Japanese Anomalous Matters Examination Agency (IJAMEA) in 1944, during the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. Its purpose was to house and serve as an operational base for SCP-5580-1B as part of Operation F, a military research project that aimed to use SCP-5580-1B to help Japanese forces during the Second World War.\nPrior to its destruction, SCP-5580 appeared to undergo a series of anomalous modifications, growing considerably and affecting the mental and physical state of its occupants. Immediately prior to its destruction, it is believed to have been at least 100m in height.\nSCP-5580 was destroyed by GoI#991 \"Hmong Self Defence Confederation\" during Incident 5580-2, using SCP-5580-1A.\nAddendum 1: SCP-5580-1\nSCP-5580-1 was a Fifthist artifact discovered by Henrietta Jackson1 in 1923, following an archeological expedition in southern Arizona. Although the artifact's origins were unknown at the time, Southern Fifthist leader Johan Headley-Smythe, involved with Arizona's Fifthist movement in the late 1910s, claimed during a 1984 interview that it was \"a corpse\" or \"a dead egg\"; exactly what this signifies is not wholly known.\nThe function and abilities of SCP-5580-1 cannot be entirely determined. However, based on reports recovered from the former IJAMEA and testimony from former GoI#991 members, the following capabilites have been assigned to it:\n\nAble to create \"shards\" or \"beams\" of light, which were used for \"changing\" or terminating individuals.\nAble to create \"illusions\" or \"strange lights\", allowing for the construction of complex nonreal environments.\nAble to alter and grow manmade structures.\nAble to enhance the growth of plants or crops.\nAble to provide anomalously large amounts of power, as utilised by IJAMEA during Operation F.\nAble to create \"a doorway\"; see below for further information.\nPossessing a degree of semi-sentient thought, possibly a \"reflection\" of the thoughts of those using or surrounding it.\n\nSCP-5580-1 passed into the possession of Lyle Burnley in 1934, following an agreement of an unknown nature with Henrietta Jackson. At some point in late 1934, Burnley split the artifact into two halves as part of an experiment, hereafter designated SCP-5580-1A and SCP-5580-1B.\n\nThe rock was, in many ways, entirely ordinary; a fine piece of Arizona basalt that had been cut and smoothed by its former owners. It felt slightly warm to the touch, but that is not in and of itself a sign of anomalousness. I did wonder, for a time, whether Henry had been taken in by one of that d*mned state's hawking anomaly-merchants, leading her to nothing more than a large stone buried in a mesa and calling it magical.\nI should have known better than to doubt her judgment. On a whim, I used the beryllium knife Ackerly procured to bisect it, just in case its innards revealed something more. To my shock and surprise, the entire specimen - interior and exterior - began to glow with a bright pink light, illuminating the whole room and quite dwarfing my pale lamp.\nI peered into it. You must understand - I was naive and still quite young at the time. I did not have that wealth of experience bestowed by time. Fifthism was still a young cult, and few of us knew the exact forces we were dealing with, or the degree of their unfathomable heresy. The shudders which the phrase \"pink light\" now inspires were unknown to most of us, especially those who did not experience or recall the old Occult Wars.\nBut I was lucky. The light here was not a part of that dread starfish. It did not attempt to attack or enslave. This was the raw power, untarnished and unmoulded. I touched it, and it was like moving in a soft, delightful ocean. There was none of the mental warping today associated with Fifthist relics. I suspect this was, perhaps, something related to the Fifthist god but not of it - a similar substance, with a similar origin, but ultimately unconnected. Lacking a shape to mould itself to, composed of enough minds, it had no psychic power at all.\nBut I was - am - a heresiographer. I understood the ways faith and the occult could be manipulated, or could reveal. And more than anything else, I wanted to understand. I did not yet see into what dark places that impulse would trap me.\n~ Lyle Burnley, Taboo and Forbidden Recollections, 1933-1937.\n\nIn 1936, Burnley, a freelance heresiographer at the time, was employed by the French colonial government in Indochina to consult on various anomalous practices among the Hmong community in what is now northwestern Vietnam. Burnley left a large body of material discussing his activities in his journals.\n\nIt took us maybe a week to find the village. The French authorities had been vague, noncommital. I thought this unusual; why hire a man and be unwilling to explain the basic requirements of the job? They spoke of \"threatening practices\" but little else. I was starting to think I had been set up.\nI suspect now, however, that they didn't know what they wanted. They were aware that this area, part of that broad and untamed highland in the region's north, had always remained beyond the pale of conventional civilisation. The rice-padi states of the lowlands had never fully succeeded in subjugating it; it remained, as it were, a frontier where anything could be happening. The French likely just wanted reassurance that any potential threats had been neutralised.\nThe locals were, naturally, unhelpful. Up to this point, my research had kept me squarely in the occult quarters of Europe and America; I simply replicated the attitudes towards them that any American would display. I am ashamed to say that I thought them, to a man, a sullen and stupid breed.\n~ Lyle Burnley, Taboo and Forbidden Recollections, 1933-1937.\n\nBurnley had taken to keeping both halves of SCP-5580-1 on his person at all times, claiming they were \"invaluable research aids\". On the night of the 26th September 1936, a group of villagers stole SCP-5580-1A from Burnley, leaving little trace of their activities.\n\nThe folly we all carried with us was to believe, consciously or not, in a certain ordering of the world. Even a relatively liberal-minded man such as myself would have martialled a hundred different justifications for why things were the way they were, never suspecting that it is impossible and fruitless to place and categorise the broad nature of human experience into such small boxes. I supported, when it was not financially convenient, the autonomy of the colonised peoples, but my analysis would not have gone further.\nIt is not enough to simply believe, in an abstract sense, that colonialism is wrong. Would the liberation of these states in the name of national interests, Vietnamese, Lao or Tai, have been enough to assuage my conscience? It would have produced three states of producers for the West to swindle anew, each one turning inward to justify new subjugations in the old models of every coercive state. There are always more marshes to be drained, more jungles to be felled, more people to be allotted their position in an overarching system of the seasons.\nI could see none of this. As I have said many times before in this volume, I was young and foolish. My orthodoxy was the world I had grown up with. I had put myself at the service of a broadminded Western liberal interest. Whatever abstract sympathies I held paled in the face of the stone's theft. I wanted revenge, and I wanted it back.\nAfter losing the stone, I spent a week raging through the jungle, searching every village for my prize. I didn't hurt anyone, but I allowed two teams of my hired guards to conduct their own expeditions. I never ordered any kind of atrocity, and yet, I have found myself wondering many times over the years what they did while I led a third team through the countryside. It still weighs upon me.\nIn the end, however, my search was fruitless, and such a loud arrival put to rest any hope of catching occultists in the act. All this furious expedition had done was alert the French customs authorities to the object in my position.\n~ Lyle Burnley, Taboo and Forbidden Recollections, 1933-1937.\n\nAs Burnley hints at above, the French colonial authorities seized SCP-5580-1B upon his exit from the country. This remained in their possession until 1940, when they handed it over to IJAMEA as part of the surrender agreement with the Japanese Empire.\nAddendum 2: GoI#991, the Hmong Self Defence Confederation\nThe group referred to as the Hmong Self Defence Confederation was formed in early 19372. The Confederation was a defence network of several Hmong villages near the Chinese border. It had no formal governmental structure, with decisions being taken by members of these villages.\nThe Confederation was formed after SCP-5580-1A came into the possession of Lauj Gao-Jer, a recent Hmong widow from a village in what is now L\u00e0o Cai Province. Lauj, along with several men and women in the area, began holding meetings in late 1937 to discuss forms of self-defence against the impositions of the French colonialist state. By mid-1938, many of the Hmong were in a form of open yet relatively passive resistance against the Indochina Union:\n\nThe idea was simple. There would be no uprising, no rebellion; they would simply stop obeying orders and stop paying taxes. They would sit, with their pieces of the stone, and wait for the French to come. I admired them, and wanted to join, but they said I was too young.\nStill, I remember how easily we all acclimatised to this new reality. For generations we had been in conflict, open or not, with those who wanted to control and impose their state structures upon us. My ancestors had fled from China decades earlier, where the Qing did all they could to force us to settle. We had lived in and adapted to the mountains because they provided an escape from the lowlands below, their rice padis and cities.\nAnd at last, in this place, we had the upper hand. The first French attempts to reimpose control failed dramatically. Gao-Jer stood in an open field, smiling at the soldiers, her comrades arrayed behind her. The soldiers approached, thinking it would be easy to shoot these mad hill-folk to the ground. She gathered the pieces of the stone together, closed her eyes, and in a pink flash, they all merged back into a single rock. That spooked the French enough to make them more cautious. Then she held it aloft, and let the pink light flow.\nThe funny thing was that Gao-Jer wasn't a revolutionary. She didn't want to upset the order of things. Her former husband's brother, Rwg, married her shortly after the meetings started, as was often common among us. She continued to live a woman's life, working in the field and sewing at night. We lived our lives as we always had done for generations.\n~ Phab Tooj, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell\n\nBy mid-1939, the French had lost control of a large area along the Chinese border. Reports had also begun to arrive of the Confederation operating in parts of the Yunnan. After four failed attempts to re-establish control, the French government called in Lyle Burnley to negotiate with GoI#991, promising to return control of SCP-5580-1B to him if he proved successful.\n\nIt was a foolish idea, and there was really very little I could do, but the French were getting desperate. I had refused to help them uncover the secrets of their half of the rock, but I agreed to talk to the Hmong woman. They were terrified that she was going to use the stone to launch a war of liberation. I simply wanted a chance to reclaim my prize.\nShe agreed to meet in a clearing near Sa Pa. It was dark when we arrived. The rain had come, but not the full monsoon; just a steady, unpleasant drizzle. She laughed at me, and I suppose I did look a fool; some arrogant American with a bristling moustache, holding an ill-coloured coat over my head. Her husband was by her side, brandishing a piece of the stone; I think his name was Roug. I stared at the rock greedily. I think she saw my face.\nShe beckoned me into a makeshift tent. Her face was amused the whole time; or maybe I was just projecting that, I don't know. Her French was surprisingly fluent. I found out much later that she'd spent some time in Hanoi when she was young, as a factory worker.\nI spent most of the negotiations trying to find out where the rock was. I attempted to be subtle, but clearly wasn't. After a while, she grinned and lifted up a tarpaulin at the back of the tent. There it was! Right with her! I could have reached out and taken it - hell, I tried to. I leapt forward, and found myself frozen.\nTendrils of the light had gripped me beneath the shoulders. I struggled, but couldn't move. Her head was on her shoulder then, looking at me sadly. \"What is the rock to you?\", she asked.\nI am sorry to say that I used some quite foul language here. Then I answered, \"Knowledge.\" It was true, after all.\nShe shook her head at me. \"Knowledge is only one aspect of power,\" she said, \"and the rock is power.\" She leaned over and stroked it, saying some words in Hmong I didn't understand.\nA light shone towards the back of the tent. At first, it was like a projector; but then, it became more solid. A doorway. It was composed of pink bricks, forming a stately arch. Beyond it, nothing but pink light.\nWe both stared at it for a while, and then I gasped. A boy - a Hmong lad - was emerging from it. He stepped out, smiled at the woman, and then left the tent. The woman nodded as he passed, then stroked the rock again. The doorway disappeared.\nI asked what I had seen. The woman responded, \"It is another hill. It is the highest hill, and there they can never follow us.\"\nAnd I understood. The pink light, the rock - they weren't using it to conquer or impose control. They were just the hill folk, and in this time and place, these several villages had understood what countless conquerors and rebels could not; that the only way to break these endless cycles was to escape them entirely. When the time was right, they were going to lead their people out of this world and into a place where nobody could follow.\nI stopped struggling. I was released. By the end of the week, I had left Vietnam, and resolved not to interfere again where I was not wanted. But, ah, how weak the body is! Thirty years have passed between then and now, and I feel myself knotted further and further in the centre of the web, caught like a fly in my endless attempts to discern good from evil, orthodoxy from heresy. If only I could have taken the Hmong woman's path. If only there had been something, anything, I could have done to help.\n~ Lyle Burnley, Testaments from the Spider's Eyes, 1937-1945\n\nFollowing this encounter, the French government changed their strategy, focusing on ways to harness SCP-5580-1B for offensive use against the Confederation. However, these plans were abandoned following the Japanese invasion of Indochina.\nAddendum 3: IJAMEA and SCP-5580-1B\nIJAMEA had become aware of SCP-5580-1 in 1938, and following the surrender of French Indochina in 1940, had taken control of SCP-5580-1B. By 1941, they had begun to work on a way to utilise SCP-5580-1B for military purposes, resulting in Operation F.\nThe aim of Operation F was to turn SCP-5580-1B into a mass offensive weapon, with the intention of using it in the ongoing war as an alternative to the increasingly fraught nuclear weapons program. To this end, a research base - SCP-5580 - was established in what is now L\u00e0o Cai Province, housing SCP-5580-1B and performing experiments to determine potential military uses.\n\nWe were a small, dedicated taskforce - about thirty or forty people on the entire base, I think. We were patriots, like most IJAMEA men. We were also engaged in a ferocious rivalry with the IJN - by that point, their own anomalous weapons programs were an open secret, and it was increasingly important for IJAMEA to establish its anomalous supremacy.\nIt was not pleasant to work in such conditions. The climate disagreed with us; many of my compatriots did not get along with one another. I do not know how we managed to achieve such rapid success, and part of me wonders if the rock itself did not help us along. The pink light alters, I think, depending on who is using it, and for what purpose. The metal and concrete walls of the base started to turn such strange colours, even when testing wasn't going on.\nIt wasn't the number five that was seared in our heads, like the other Fifthist cults. This was something else. It had the same origin as the starfish, but wasn't part of it. So we didn't have mantras of five-by-five, but a different drumbeat that set up shop in our heads. Whatever it could latch onto. And in that place, that environment - well, these were the heads of desperate men who wanted to do a good job. Men who wanted so much to succeed in turning it into a weapon. Men stuck inside a single metal block their whole lives.\n~ Dr. Nakamura Kenji, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell.\n\nBy 1942, with little apparent progress made, the Japanese government had decided to cut its losses and shut down Operation F. However, the personnel stationed at SCP-5580 did not respond to orders to leave, nor did any of the men sent to retrieve them return. After losing a significant armed force in January 1943, IJAMEA decided to abandon attempts to reclaim SCP-5580 or SCP-5580-1B.\nDespite this, SCP-5580's operations continued for another year, until Incident 5580-1. Scattered reports which reached the Foundation's nascent Saigon operation indicated a large degree of anomalous activity in its vicinity, with reports of a \"self-constructing\" building \"constantly expanding\" into the surrounding hills.\n\nIf I'm honest, I can't remember much of those last few months. I can't tell you what the building looked like or what we were doing there. I was almost chained to my desk, trying everything I could to weaponise the pink light. I didn't like to look up. I would wander, head down, between my quarters and my lab, never questioning what the others were doing or why we always had the supplies we needed.\nI wonder if the rebels' experience of the light was so different because they lacked so clear a purpose. Or maybe that's not right - they had a purpose, but it was less obsessive, less singular. There was no room within us for the ordinary patterns of life any more. We had to complete the mission. The soldiers they sent to remove us felt it too, and more and more of them patrolled the grounds, desperate to save the compound and thus the Empire.\nThe work progressed well.\n~ Dr. Nakamura Kenji, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell.\n\nThe effects of SCP-5580 on the region became stark. Multiple villages were raided by IJAMEA personnel for supplies, often coming into minor contact with GoI#991 members. Although their active use of SCP-5580-1A consistently gave them the upper hand in these conflicts, GoI#991 was reluctant to engage in a direct assault on SCP-5580 or more open conflict with IJAMEA.\n\nIt was Rwg who pushed the hardest for an assault. We knew by that point the Japanese had the other half of the stone, and what that meant for our prospects. But Rwg was convinced that a short, sharp assault would win the day. I think that he became rankled when Gao-Jer disagreed with him; it made him seem weak when his wife held more power.\nBut it was Gao-Jer who had liberated the people, Gao-Jer who had sent the French back to Hanoi and freed the hill country. More and more villages and nomads were flocking to our banners. And Gao-Jer urged caution, again and again, and the people agreed.\nBut then things got stranger. The Japanese stopped their raids and received no more convoys, and still the great building grew. It had become like a tower, reaching higher and higher into heaven, full of strange angles and spires leading nowhere.\nThere was activity in there, we could see; scientists moving around, soldiers patrolling. There was something inside it that was providing them food, growing the construct. The surrounding trees burnt day and night. It was when the lightning began to strike the spires that Gao-Jer made her move.\n~ Phab Tooj, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell\n\nAddendum 4: Incident 5580-1\nOn 16/05/1943, the experiments at SCP-5580 were reaching their final stage. Several growths on the outside of the compound had begun to act as lightning sinks, apparently for use as a power source. Nearby villagers and Confederation members reported seeing \"pink light\" emerge from the tower's central spire.\nOn 18/05/1943, a meeting of the Confederation resulted in the unanimous decision to assault SCP-5580. A small group of the insurgents, led by Lauj Gao-Jer, entered the base on 20/05/1943 in order to retrieve or annihilate SCP-5580-1B; the main body of the group assaulted the base 30 minutes later to provide a distraction.\n\nI tagged along because they wanted someone small, someone who could move in tiny spaces. The light had changed and altered the building, and we had no idea how navigable it was. Gao-Jer was nervous, but Rwg, feeling vindicated at last, was bold and excitable.\nIt wasn't too hard to get in. The guards were acting erratically, like a facsimile of a patrol. There was a backdoor, a strange and curved thing. From there, we entered a system of vents, with little gratings every few metres.\nI don't know if those vents had any purpose. I remember seeing things through the grates; little things, human scenes. Seven scientists all standing in a circle, writing nonsense words on paper and chanting. A Japanese flag rendered in pink and white, spread across the floor and distorting it, soldiers trying to balance as they hopped and prayed. A researcher absorbed into the wall, electricity coursing through his body, screaming.\nIt was a nightmare, a copy of reality, someone's fever dream. I don't think they were human any more, just what the light thought humans should be; and that was filtered through whatever mad ideas the scientists had dreamt up.\n~ Phab Tooj, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell\n\nI had left two months prior, when I was finally able to wake up and see what I was doing. I fled into the night. The things I saw by the end were inhuman. In place of a starfish was a flag, a state, an exemplar of power.\nThink about how we conceive of the nation. We, as people, all know we belong to it. It has a kind of real, tangible existence. We see the state as its physical arm, its Holy Spirit, and everything flows through it in a perfect order that, on paper, reflects our values. This world is not a battleground of negotiation, diplomacy and compromise - there are no real people there at all. Just avatars of the nation, all completing their allotted roles, tilling the fields in the knowledge that their small contribution is part of a larger whole.\nImagine if the world was really like that.\nAnd so the tower's growth was the only logical endpoint. Everything was done unquestioned, each bizarre decision and distortion of reality just seen as another part of the great enterprise. For Japan! For the Agency! The Empire! All the spires leading towards that vast and single point, towering up, up and away, more specific and singular with each passing moment.\nOur work was so close by then. A little longer, and that tower would be able to do anything it wanted.\n~ Dr. Nakamura Kenji, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell.\n\nThe infiltration began at 22.30 local time. At 23.00, the main assault began, diverting a large portion of SCP-5580's personnel away from the base.\nSCP-5580-1A had been split among members of the smaller task force, in the hope that it would be useful against SCP-5580-1B. Consequently, the members of the Confederation were forced to use conventional weapons, leading to several casualties. Despite this, their operation was successful, and the Japanese troops were largely absent from the base by midnight.\nAt approximately 00.30, the task force had made its way into the main laboratory, at the centre of the compound.\n\nThere was no ceiling in there; just the spire, stretching so far above. I have no idea how tall it was at that point. The cavernous roof crackled with pink light.\nPart of it hit Rwg; he fell instantly. I saw Gao-Jer physically flinch at that, but she just took his part of the stone and continued on to the centre of the laboratory. We'd been expecting a fight, but the scientists were strewn all around, clearly dead. There weren't many of them there. One of them still had his glasses on, slightly askew; he was holding a wad of paper and bleeding from the ears. It was almost comical.\nIn the centre was their half of the stone. It looked diseased. The pink light was curling tendrils upwards, right down the centre of the spire, as far as we could see. It was like a strange cathedral. A researcher was there, still alive, whispering to it. He didn't seem to notice us. He didn't look up.\nWe spent ages trying to get it out. We tugged, heaved, hacked at the metal frame and the pink light - nothing. The lightning above us got worse and worse. Finally, Gao-Jer ordered us to use the stones on it. That worked - the light recoiled - but it wasn't strong enough. They were too small. An inhuman screaming began above us, and two of our party were shot down by the lightning.\nSo Gao-Jer told us to give us her stones, and then to get out. I remember her face. It was wide-eyed, eyebrows high. I don't know what she was feeling. I don't think I ever will. She hadn't wanted to take the stone with us at first, I think - she'd seemed reluctant. And now, here, was the end of all her grand designs for her people.\nWe gathered the rocks together, and she merged them, as I'd seen her do so many times. Then those who remained left through the vent. I was the last out. I looked back at her, just before I left; she was staring into the pink light, hair whipping about her head. Her face was turned away.\n~ Phab Tooj, Testimony to Dr. Henry Maxwell\n\nAt approximately 02.00, SCP-5580 was destroyed in a huge blast, which wiped out an area approximately 1 mile in diameter. No members of the Confederation were harmed, as the last of them had withdrawn by 01.45. Many Japanese soldiers, giving chase, also survived; however, several more who had returned to base, as well as all of the researchers, expired.\nGauj Gao-Jer's body was never found. The compound was largely ruined, with only a few foundation structures remaining. None of these had been seriously augmented by SCP-5580-1B. SCP-5580-1 is also believed to have been destroyed in the blast.\nFollowing this, GoI#991 quickly dissipated, with both its key leadership figures deceased and its primary means of power destroyed. Following the war, French colonial authorities re-established control over the region. They were unsuccessful in finding or prosecuting GoI#991 members, although several retributory crimes were committed by them against the Hmong population.\nLocal residents have reported seeing \"ghostly\" figures in SCP-5580's ruins over the decades; this has not been confirmed by Foundation sources.\nAddendum 5: Interview with Mr. Phab Tooj\nThe following is an interview conducted by Dr. Henry Maxwell with former Confederation member Phab Tooj on 17/09/1991. Phab, only 14 in 1943, had later moved to northern Laos in the 1950s, before being forced to flee to the United States with his family in 1975 following retributory acts against the Hmong for their perceived involvement with CIA operations in Laos. By 1991, he was a graduate student in history at the University of Chicago.\nThis interview took place after Phab had read the above document, as Dr. Maxwell was curious as to how well it matched his version of events.\n\n<Begin Log>\nThe interview takes place inside a standard interrogation room. Phab is sitting on one side of the table, reading a copy of the SCP-5580 document. Maxwell is sitting on the other side of the table, watching Phab intently.\nMaxwell: So, what do you think?\nPhab: Hmm.\nPhab places the document back on the table.\nPhab: It was\u2026 interesting.\nMaxwell: You don't agree with it?\nPhab: No, no, it's just\u2026 I find it an entirely accurate account in terms of the events, yes. It describes it all pretty much entirely as it happened.\nThere is a short pause.\nMaxwell: You don't seem convinced.\nPhab: \"This was the end of all her plans for the light.\" I didn't say light. I said hills.\nMaxwell: Well, any translation is bound to-\nPhab: The thing is, the way you've, ah, \"translated\" it, in the context of everything else - it gives the impression Gao-Jer's plan was to take us all beyond the doorway. To the land of the pink light.\nMaxwell: That's what Burnley reported. He's the only source I have for her intentions - you said you didn't know.\nPhab: You didn't interview any other survivors besides me? I know there are some out there.\nMaxwell: It's - hard to track people down around there. Especially among the Hmong.\nPhab: Mm. But I'm in America, so more accessible.\nMaxwell: Exactly.\nPhab: Mm.\nPhab picks up the paper and flicks through it again.\nPhab: I said hills. The Hmong are a hill people. I was a child. I saw her eyes shine so many times, shining with the promise of the future, but\u2026 I don't think that was what she was going to do, Dr. Maxwell. I don't think she wanted Shangri-La, and I don't think the light was meant to be some permanent abode. Why would Burnley know what she was thinking?\nMaxwell: He was a perceptive man\u2026\nPhab: He was a westerner who couldn't even remember the name of the woman he was interviewing. I knew he was - or, well, he became sympathetic, but he still didn't see the things we did. He didn't spend years with her, by her side.\nPhab places the paper back on the table.\nPhab: Only one survivor. And even with your other sources, you rely so much on Burnley. What you've constructed here, doctor, is a - a kind of orthodoxy. It's a position. It's one variant of the truth. Maybe you and Burnley are right about Gao-Jer, and I'm wrong. I don't know.\nPhab lights a cigarette.\nPhab: There are many truths. My truth is the sound of insects in the dead of night, and a community gathered around an open rock, watching pink sparks light up future hopes. It is rain streaming down faces, and a woman, so long ago - God, so long ago - giving speeches I didn't understand.\nMaxwell: There is only one truth.\nPhab: But can you ever access it? Even a glimpse? I see lots of facts written down, but none about the decision Gao-Jer had to take.\nMaxwell: Which one?\nPhab: The one where she had to sacrifice the only power she had, the only power any of us had. The one where we had to accept the rule of the Japanese, the French, the Viet Minh - where we were once again plunged into endless cycles of precarious living. She did it for you, doctor, for everyone, when there was nobody else who could. And she shouldn't have had to. That is my truth, doctor.\nPhab stabs at the document with his lit cigarette; it catches fire. Dr. Maxwell leaps backwards, but Phab continues sitting, staring at the fire.\nPhab: So much for yours.\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Data on occupation and nationality redacted.\n2. Note this designation is disputed among scholars of anomalous southeast Asia. Harrison (1965), Kells (1977) and Wainwright (1982) insist that this was a designation used by the group itself, while Akramova (1971) and Nguyen (1989) believe this name was invented by IJAMEA, with teleological readings and biased editing of surviving testimonies leading to mistranslations of a variety of terms. The present author is inclined to agree with the former approach.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5579 | SCP-5580 | SCP-5581 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5581: To Serve Man\naudio/Image creds:\nhttps://pxhere.com/en/photo/712348 - Public Domain\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTUxWFEmadg CC 4.0\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: 5581\nClass/Clearance: Keter/Three\n\nAn image from SCP-5581.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawlers and .aic's are to scan the deep web for copies of SCP-5581 and remotely delete them. In the event of a subject viewing SCP-5581, they are to be brought to a local hospital, humanely euthanized, and any connected parties are to be amnesticized with Class-A amnestics. The cover story \"Nosocomial Infection\" is to be used, and the remains are to be cremated.\nDescription: SCP-5581 is the designation for a .mp4 file consisting of a series of still images and audio, titled \"toserveman.mp4.\" SCP-5581 displays an anomalously small filesize, typically under 200 bytes, but is able to be played at resolutions upwards of 1080p. The images that constitute SCP-5581 can be safely viewed separately, suggesting hazardous effects only occur when the images are presented in a specific sequence. These images appear to have no clear meaning, typically being landscape shots of seemingly random locations on Earth. The only audio consists of assorted grunts, moans, and labored breathing.\nIf SCP-5581 is viewed by any human, subjects will begin to undergo a series of physiological changes.\n\nThe spine will bend backwards as the pelvis thrusts forward, and subjects will be locked in this position. Subjects' extremities will be splayed out similar to the position taken when doing jumping jacks.\nThe lumbar vertebrae will extend horizontally, piercing the flesh, and curve backwards into a vaguely spherical shape 2 meters in diameter. The coccyx will then grow downwards and meet the vertebrae at the end of the spherical structure.\nThe rest of the spinal vertebrae will create a latticed network among the frame provided by the lumbar vertebrae, in order to strengthen the shape. Any skin present on the body will harden, forming a scab-like surface.\nSkin from the forearms and thighs will extend to cover the frame provided by the vertebrae and coccyx, causing the body to form a sphere. Flesh will then continue to fill the remaining gaps.\nThe neck, hands, and feet will retract into the shape, leaving only the face visible along the surface area of the sphere. Subjects will be unable to vocalize, but will be able to breathe, expel waste, and eat, and many subjects display symptoms of jaundice. Communication is established via software and apparatuses used for ALS patients.\n\nFollowing transfiguration, surviving subjects report being transported to an unknown location, SCP-5581-1. This location is described as a large green rectangle suspended in space, with a large rectangular wall dividing it lengthwise. Two large appendages appear on either side of the rectangle, and repeatedly strike the subject with appropriately sized tools, causing subjects to suffer blunt force trauma and forces upwards of 4 g's. Subjects, if they survive, will be transported back to their original location after an arbitrary amount of time.\nThe extent of Foundation testing involved having a subject view SCP-5581 to be transported to SCP-5581-1 with recording software, in order to further understand the surroundings. No video was able to be recorded for unknown reasons, though audio recording software produced the following.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5580 | SCP-5581 | SCP-5582 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by Ethagon\n\nItem#: 5582\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nPhoto was presumably sent by SCP-5582 shortly after its third containment breach\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5582 is to be contained on sight. Every containment facility is to have at least one untested containment plan for SCP-5582 prepared at all times. Until permanent containment is deemed successful, the continued recapture of SCP-5582 under new conditions is intended to serve as a substitute for real containment.\nDescription: SCP-5582 is a three-year-old common octopus1, capable of surviving an indefinite amount of time without water. SCP-5582 is sapient and has advanced problem-solving skills. SCP-5582 could not be subjected to any test in this regard, due to its constant containment breaches, but to date, SCP-5582 was able to solve any logical problem encountered.\nDiscovery: The Foundation became aware of SCP-5582 through multiple reports of a bank heist involving an octopus. Agents were dispatched to the scene and found SCP-5582 lurking in the immediate vicinity. SCP-5582 was apprehended and brought to Site-17 but was able to crawl out of the containment vehicle before its arrival due to the lack of octopus-specific restraints.\nSCP-5582 was again found a few weeks later observing Site-17. When Agents were again dispatched to apprehend SCP-5582, they were unable to find it. It is estimated that SCP-5582 infiltrated Site-17 prior to being noticed.\nInterview-Log:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5582\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Mellow\nForeword: This interview was conducted after SCP-5582 showed up at the front entrance of Site-23. SCP-5582 used the stones of its provisional containment aquarium to write its answers.\n<Begin Log, skip to 05:34>\nUp to this point SCP-5582 had only been placing its stones at random.\nJunior Researcher Mellow: I don't see why you even requested an interview if you refuse to answer.Junior Researcher Mellow: Me?Junior Researcher Mellow: And what exactly is it you want from us?Junior Researcher Mellow: Then will you answer why you took part in the heist?Junior Researcher Mellow: Then why did you willingly let yourself be contained?Junior Researcher Mellow: You're not making any sense.Junior Researcher Mellow: I really don't think so? What do you get from letting yourself be contained?Junior Researcher Mellow: No?SCP-5582 refused to communicate any further.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5582 breached containment shortly after the interview concluded. It was discovered that stones were disrupting the function of its cell door locking mechanism.\n\n3 days after this breach, Junior Researcher Mellow received an anonymous message titled \"Before you do it\" containing a picture of SCP-5582.\nFurther notable incidents:\n\nSCP-5582 was contained in Site-11 in a standard containment cell with a more complex locking mechanism. SCP-5582 was able to escape through the ventilation system with the help of a previously half-swallowed screwdriver.\nSite-66 constructed a special cell for SCP-5582, that made an escape through life-supporting systems like ventilation and drainage impossible. SCP-5582 escaped through bribing a now-former junior researcher with its stolen money to aid in its containment breach.\nSCP-5582 was captured by Site-06-3 from a local aquarium. Containment was planned to include several logic puzzles, but the octopus was found to be non-anomalous. On the same day, Site-06-3 Staff received an anonymous message titled \"Already solved\" containing the solutions to all logic puzzles.\nDuring its stay at Site-19, SCP-5582 was informed of the existence of other sapient cephalopods in containment. SCP-5582 agreed to a meeting but fled during the siege of Site-19. The following message was received afterwards:\n\nWhat, you want me to socialize at this age? Weird thing to ask a three-year-old. Still tempting, but I wished you'd have asked me when I wasn't crawling on my last arm.\n\nThe next day, SCP-5582 was spotted in front of the containment tank of SCP-29672 by surveillance cameras. They both communicated through an unknown sign language for about an hour after which SCP-5582 escaped before the footage was noticed. The following message was received afterwards:\n\nNah, I'm good.\n\nAll further encounters with SCP-5582 are documented in the SCP-5582 Containment Log.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Octopus Vulgaris\n2. One of the cephalopods alluded to during the previous containment attempt.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5581 | SCP-5582 | SCP-5583 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe information describing SCP-5584-1's previously unknown online activities and anomalous properties during the research for the SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 article is to be has been added to the object's original document and the superfluous article archived and discontinued.\nSenior Researcher Mattias Brown will remain the head researcher of SCP-5584 and work with the former head researcher of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Senior Researcher Riley Ellis, to consolidate information. Following Senior Researcher Mattias Brown's most recent Foundation Loyalty Test results, Senior Researcher Riley Ellis has been temporarily appointed as head researcher over SCP-5584 while Dr. Brown receives re-training.\n\nITEM:\u2009SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nLEVEL\u20093/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nCLASS:\u2009keter\nconfidential\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: vlam\n\nTHIS ARTICLE REMAINS ACCESSIBLE FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES ONLY\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's accounts are to be suppressed from search results to prevent interactions with internet users. Class C amnestics are to be administered to any individuals exposed to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's effects immediately after the incident and a cover story for the missing objects provided. Following the return of the object, Class C amnestics are to be administered again.\nIf SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 replaces its accounts, a remote access trojan installed on its remaining trusted individual's computer can be used to locate the new accounts. Due to the increased risk of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 ceasing contact with this individual, all interview attempts must be approved and Foundation involvement concealed from SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Following SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's physical containment, amnestics are to be administered to this individual.\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's original Twitter account immediately prior to foundation contact.\n\u2716\n\nDescription: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is an anomalous internet user possessing the ability to temporarily teleport and telekinetically interact with objects under ~6kg. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's anomalous properties are activated when it is irritated by another internet user or automated process. The target's internet-accessible device will be temporarily teleported away or destroyed via brute force by telekinesis.1\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's IP addresses and cookies are traceable but come from non-anomalous internet-accessible devices located worldwide. These devices always differ and no connections have been identified. It has accounts on multiple services which it uses to interact with other users. These accounts have been replaced a total of 66 times in an attempt to avoid Foundation surveillance. Previously, it identified itself as Br\u00f3nach \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 but now uses pseudonyms with no correlation.\nKnown services used by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588:\n\nGMail[Replaced 16 times, Most recently 28/12/2018]\nFacebook[Deactivated and not replaced, 22/05/2016]\nYouTube[Replaced 12 times, Most recently 28/12/2018]\nMinecraft[Deactivated and not replaced, 25/01/2018]\nTwitter[Replaced 14 times, Most recently 28/12/2018]\nSkype[Account Abandoned, 14/8/2016]\nDiscord[Replaced 14 times, Most recently 28/12/2018]\nEpic Games[Replaced 5 times, Deactivated and not replaced, 13/05/2018]\nSteam.[Replaced 5 times, Deactivated and not replaced, 13/05/2018]\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 created its first known account on 08/06/2009 but did not display anomalous properties until 03/01/2015. Circumstantial evidence points to this change being triggered by 3 days of absence from the internet between 31/12/2014 to 03/01/2015. The reason for its absence was described by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 as an event resulting in it \"constantly being watched\".\nThe full archive of all data taken from accounts connected to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is available on request from Dr. Riley Ellis.\n\n+Documented SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Incidents Prior to Foundation Intervention\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nDate\nCause\nEffect\n\n03/01/2015\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is repeatedly defeated in a game of Team Fortress 2 by the same opponent\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 expresses anger through the in-game chat then the opponent's computer is teleported. Object returned 17/02/2015\n\n03/01/2015\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 engages in a lengthy argument with a user on Twitter\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 insults the user, waits for the user to see it, then the user's phone is teleported. Objects returned 17/02/2015\n\n04/01/2015\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is repeatedly defeated in a game of online chess by the same opponent\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 insults opponent in the in-game chat and opponent's computer is teleported. The white king of the user's chess set is teleported moments later. Objects returned 17/02/2015\n\n22/05/2016\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 receives a rude comment on Facebook\nUser's computer is teleported, user begins typing another comment over a smartphone, user's smartphone followed by 3 other internet-accessible devices are teleported. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 deactivates its account. Objects returned 4 hours later.\n\n05/12/2017\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is muted in the popular MineGambit Minecraft server by the automated word filter\nThe processor of the tower server used to host the game lobby is teleported, causing an outage. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 apologizes publicly on Twitter and object returned 18/12/2017\n\n05/12/2017-16/12/2017\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is harassed on Twitter by users of the MineGambit Minecraft server\n43 users' internet-accessible devices teleport following contact with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Objects returned 18/12/2017\n\nAddendum-1 Discovery:\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was discovered by a Foundation WebCrawler after its Twitter account was brigaded by comments. A discussion in the Discord server for the MineGambit Minecraft server had accused it of disabling the service via anomalous means. C-Class amnestics were administered to individuals aware of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 after the interviews concluded and a disinformation campaign of an anonymous DDOS attack was launched.\nAddendum-2 Interviews:\n\n+Interview Log \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-13\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nInterviewed: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's Discord account\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Riley Ellis, Level 3 Researcher\nForeword: Initial contact attempted with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 over Discord. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 accepted the invite and responded immediately.\n<Begin Log, 25/01/2018>\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Do I know you?\nDr. Ellis: In all likelihood, no. I just have a few questions for you regarding the missing computers and server tower.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Yeah\u2026 that was \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ty of me. I get frustrated and take it out on other people.\nDr. Ellis: Can you tell me about the mechanism behind your ability to make objects disappear? Do the computers dematerialize or are you teleporting them elsewhere?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: teleportation. lemme show you.\nDr. Ellis: A demonstration would be greatly appreciated as would your cooperation.\n[There is a considerable pause between SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's communications]\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: wait\u2026\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: how did you \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ing find me here?\nDr. Ellis: Pardon me?\nDr. Ellis: Are you still there?\n[Dr. Ellis's terminal is teleported, then reappears 3 seconds later to be destroyed via brute force telekinetically.]\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The change in SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's anomalous effect is notable. Following this interview SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 deleted and replaced all of its active accounts. New accounts were located via SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's panicked messages to a Discord group chat describing \"stalkers\" finding their old accounts. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 appears either knowledgeable about the Foundation or is mistaking Dr. Ellis for someone else.\n\n+Interview Log \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-14\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nInterviewed: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's 2nd Discord account\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Riley Ellis, Level 3 Researcher\nForeword: A GPS tracker was concealed within the computer used for the interview. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's new account was traced via private discord messages.\n<Begin Log, 01/02/2018>\nDr. Ellis: Greetings. Your demonstration was helpful, but you seem angered by something. Can you tell me why?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: You think I'm trying to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ing help you???? you're just going to make my life worse! \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 OFF!\nDr. Ellis: What makes you think that? Is something wrong?\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: YOU'RE \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ING STALKING ME\n[Dr. Ellis's terminal is destroyed via brute force telekinetically.]\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Following this interview SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 deleted and replaced all of its active accounts. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 sent a private message to a trusted individual implying that he will recognize it and promptly deleted it. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's new accounts were sent to said trusted individual in an anonymous message containing only a series of usernames.\n\n+Interview Log \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-45\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nInterviewed: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's 14th Twitter account\n\nInterviewer: D-534-332, 43-year-old White male.\nAdditional Party: Trusted individual of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nForeword: Multiple attempts to coerce SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 into teleporting a tracking device while impersonating a civilian failed. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 ceased contact with all but one trusted individual. This individual deleted and recreated his accounts alongside SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's new accounts were discovered through said trusted individual's computer via a remote access trojan. D-534-332 was sent in plain clothes to a Foundation-controlled apartment complex and instructed to insult SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n<Begin Log, 31/01/2019>\nD-534-332: Hey \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nTrusted individual of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Oh no\nD-534-332: I'll kill you.\n[D-534-332's terminal is teleported. Location is traced to an island off the coast of Scotland]\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: It was a real person this time. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, that scared the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 out of me lol.\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's trusted individual: That is the weakest threat I have heard.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The location of the missing terminal was traced to Provisional Site-98. Investigation into connections between SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and SCP-5584 are underway.\n\nItem#: 5584\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe euclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entrance to Provisional Site-98 is to be examined regularly for visual differences to the surrounding columnar basalt. Should a change be noted, the cave is to be closed off from public access while repairs are made. Any individual coming into contact with SCP-5584 requires a loyalty score of 95% or higher.\nA camera and alarm system are positioned outside of SCP-5584-1's reach within its chamber. SCP-5584-1 spends approximately 23 hours a day sleeping so minimal observation is required. SCP-5584-1 requires no rest; should SCP-5584-1 attempt to enter a catatonic state, it is to be awoken immediately via the alarm.\nA whiteboard and an internet-accessible terminal with remote monitoring software installed are to be provided for communication and leisure. No audio surveillance is necessary. A single member of Foundation personnel with advanced experience in software development is to keep constant observation over SCP-5584-1's activities, switching out four times daily. The security personnel is to approve every action SCP-5584-1 makes on the terminal before a request is sent over the internet.\nIn the event this personnel becomes an instance of SCP-5584-1, backup incapable of reading both English and Irish any language are to remove the original SCP-5584-1's terminal and whiteboard. The new instance of SCP-5584-1 is to be relocated and contained in a standard humanoid cell if possible, otherwise, the control room is to be retrofitted. The new instance of SCP-5584-1 will construct a word filter to prevent further transmission of the infohazard before regular containment returns.\nTwice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, SCP-5584-1 is to be visited by Dr. Izem for cognitive behavioral therapy. SCP-5584-1 requires no sustenance and is capable of the majority of its own self-care. It is to be provided with the following supplies each week:\n\n1 60mL bottle of shampoo\n1 80mL bottle of conditioner\n1 bar of body wash\n1 portable shower system\n500L of freshwater\n1 black whiteboard marker replacement cartridge\n7 60mg tablets of citalopram(One tablet administered orally once daily)\n7 100 mg tablets of quetiapine(One tablet administered orally once daily)\n\nEntrance to the cave SCP-5584 is located in\n\u2716\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5584 is a carving in old Irish in the Ogham alphabet obscured behind SCP-5584-12. Any individual who reads and comprehends the meaning of SCP-5584 is theorized to be converted into an instance of SCP-5584-1. Due to SCP-5584-1's body obscuring the full carving and its refusal to share the original meaning, further testing cannot be performed and the risk of personnel becoming an instance of SCP-5584-1 is minimal. However, should SCP-5584's meaning be spread to individuals liable to share it or posted to the internet, the resulting disruption event would be difficult to contain and potentially worldwide.\nOnly part of one line is visible behind SCP-5584-1: the phrase \"N\u00cdL A FHIOS AGA\"3. The final word of SCP-5584's visible line is partially obscured but can be assumed as a prepositional pronoun. The sentence is translated as: \"(You/I/You all/We) don't know\".\nOnly one instance of SCP-5584-1 is currently known and thus this individual will be referred to as such. SCP-5584-1 is a 29-year-old human female identified as Br\u00f3nach \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 fused to a wall in a concealed portion of Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa, Scotland. It is attached by a web of flesh extending from the skin of its back. Its throat and jaw are split open and a large mass of approximately 200 tentacles extends from the hole. Due to the missing anatomy, SCP-5584-1 is mute. Its neck is broken and healed over, leaving it at an askew angle and severing its spinal cord. SCP-5584-1 cannot move or feel any part of its body from the neck down but has full control over the remaining parts of its face and the tentacles.\n\nOne of SCP-5584-1's tentacles with protractible tooth sockets visible.\n\u2716\n\nEach tentacle is between 3m to 4m long and 12cm to 20cm in diameter tapering to a flat paddle near the tip. Approximately 40cm down on each tentacle unilaterally is a row of 12 teeth that rest internally and can be protracted for use as weapons or to gain traction. Tentacles extend from the spinal cord located between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae.\nPeriodically SCP-5584-1 will attempt to enter a state of catatonia from which it is capable of telekinetic projection. It uses this to access the internet via unattended devices. This manifestation is hereby referred to as SCP-5584-2\nSCP-5584-2 can physically interact with and perceive its surroundings but cannot be perceived directly by others. If SCP-5584-2 is located within the 5-meter radius of SCP-5584 it is capable of teleporting where it pleases. If it has already teleported away from the range, it is only capable of teleporting back to SCP-5584. If SCP-5584-2 teleports while holding an object, the object will travel with it.\n\n+Documented SCP-5584-2 Events Correlated to Foundation Actions\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nDate\nCause\nEffect\n\n31/12/2014\nFoundation makes initial contact and begins securing site\nSCP-5584-2 is absent from the internet for 3 days.\n\n03/01/2015\nSCP-5584-1 watches camera installed in the north corner of the containment chamber then enters a catatonic state for the first time since the start of containment.\nSCP-5584-2 teleports objects away from three internet users\n\n17/02/2015\nInitial interviews with SCP-5584-1 is conducted by Dr. Mattias Brown following completion of site construction.\nSCP-5584-2 returns stolen objects\n\n22/05/2016\nInterviews with SCP-5584-1 by Dr. Mattias Brown conclude.\nSCP-5584-2 teleports objects away from 1 internet user. Objects returned 4 hours later.\n\n05/12/2017\nSCP-5584-1 requests to see Dr. Mattias Brown then insults an agent when its request is denied. Its whiteboard is removed by the agent.\nSCP-5584-2 teleports objects away from 1 server tower and 43 internet users\n\nAddendum-1 Discovery:\nSCP-5584 was recovered following reports from a tourist group describing an anomaly within Fingal's cave. Amnestics were administered to all civilians who made contact with the SCP-5584-1. The Foundation secured the site 2 hours post-discovery under the guise of an injury taking place in the cavern and construction for a remote research post began. SCP-5584-1 displayed fearful behavior and attempted assault on Foundation personnel but no casualties were sustained. Assault attempts ceased on day 2 of construction.\nAddendum-2 Interview:\n\n+Interview Log 5584-01\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5584-1\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Mattias Brown, Level 3 Researcher\nForeword: SCP-5584 was provided with a whiteboard and 1 black whiteboard pen to communicate.\n<Begin Log, 17/02/2015>\nDr. Brown: Hello SCP-5584-1, good to finally meet you! My name is Dr. Brown. Would you mind answering a few questions? I'll get out of your hair soon enough.\nSCP-5584-1: What's going on? Please.\n[The pace of SCP-5584-1's breathing increases]\nDr. Brown: Did no one\u2026 tell\u2026 Calm down, we're not going to hurt you. We're just going to study you, alright?\nSCP-5584-1: NO GO AWAY.\nDr. Brown: I'll make sure your needs are met and you're comfortable, but there will be a few compromises.\nSCP-5584-1: NO NO NO NO NO NO\n[The pace of SCP-5584-1's breathing increases further.]\nDr. Brown: Hey hey hey, calm down! No one's going to be in here unless you call them or we need an interview, yeah?\n[The pace of SCP-5584-1's breathing slows slightly.]\nSCP-5584-1: Do you have to watch everything I do?\n[SCP-5584-1 gestures towards the camera]\nDr. Brown: I'm not keen on it either but it's procedure. I'll ask if we can remove it, alright? No promises, though.\n[SCP-5584-1 wheezes]\nDr. Brown: I know, I know. I don't blame you. Can you describe what happened to you?\nSCP-5584-1: I translated the text behind me and it broke my neck.\nDr. Brown: Well \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 me, I was about to ask what it said.\n[SCP-5584-1 produces laughter in the form of rapid rhythmic breaths. Dr. Brown joins in after comprehending what the sound was.]\nDr. Brown: There you are! Did it do anything else to you?\n[SCP-5584-1 pauses]\nSCP-5584-1: No. I want to be alone. Please.\nDr. Brown: Alright. I'll let you rest for now. I'll be back in an hour.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Dr. Brown's request for the removal of surveillance device has been denied. Testing of SCP-5584-1 concluded no anomalous properties outside of the change in form. SCP-5584-1 is capable of anomalous telekinesis via SCP-5584-2.\n\nAddendum-3 Update:\nOn 31/01/2019 Senior Researcher Riley Ellis successfully persuaded SCP-5584-2 into teleporting a terminal with a GPS tracking device concealed within during an investigation for a separate now abandoned article. Following a discussion with Senior Researcher Mattias Brown and approval from the O5 council, an investigation was launched regarding SCP-5584-1's connection with the internet anomaly.\n\n+Interview Log 5584-56\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5584-1\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Riley Ellis, Level 3 researcher, and Dr. Mattias Brown, Level 3 Researcher\nForeword: A terminal was provided with a text editor and image viewing system for communication outside of the range of SCP-5584-1's tentacles. The whiteboard was temporarily removed from SCP-5584-1's containment chamber.\n<Begin Log, 15/02/2019>\nDr. Ellis: Greetings, SCP-5584-1. Do you have knowledge of anyone named Br\u00f3nach?\n[The pace of SCP-5584-1's breathing increases and it appears unsettled. Dr. Ellis displays a screenshot of a private message between SCP-5584-2 and a trusted individual over Discord.]\n\nBr\u00f3nach\nToday at 2:30 AM\n\nThere's already a camera on me 24/7. I can't fucking breathe without someone writing it down. But I had gotten used to that.\nI still had here to myself you know?\nNow I worry every single day they can read my fucking MIND. How else are they finding my accounts over and over again?\n\nDr. Ellis: Do you recognize these messages? They seem to describe your containment. Could that have been you speaking about the surveillance camera up there?\n[Dr. Ellis gestures to the surveillance camera. SCP-5584-1 begins hyperventilating, looks at Dr. Brown for assistance, then firmly gestures towards the computer with a tentacle. Dr. Ellis displays the next image.]\n\nBr\u00f3nach\nToday at 2:30 AM\n\nIf I disappear one day just know I'm not doing it because I hate you.\nIt's because they figured out who I am and how FUCKING easy it would be for them to stop me.\n\nDr. Ellis: Could this be you describing how easy it would be for us to prevent you from breaching containment further after we found out? Because we were going to find out. We did find out.\nDr. Brown: Jesus \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ing Christ do we really need to show this?\n[Dr. Ellis displays the next image. SCP-5584-1 gestures hysterically towards the computer, wheezes, and produces a gurgling sound, presumably of distress. SCP-5584-1 stares at Dr. Brown with a pleading expression.]\n\nBr\u00f3nach\nToday at 2:31 AM\n\nI'm just\u2026 exhausted. I have nothing left to myself. No privacy at all.\nI'm getting so desperate, Percy. I'm scared I might do something.\n\nDr. Ellis: What are you planning on doing SCP-5584-1? Spread the translation online? \u2026To harm yourself? I understand the stress of your situation, I do. We can help you feel better. Despite how frustrating working with you has been\u2026 even I don't want you miserable in containment.\nDr. Brown: Dr. Ellis, please\u2026\n[SCP-5584-1 looks away from Dr. Brown and turns towards the computer. It lashes toward the terminal in an attempt to destroy it. Dr. Brown takes a few steps closer to SCP-5584-1 holding his hands up.]\nDr. Ellis: Hiding this from us to breach containment behind Dr. Brown's back is inexcusable! You clearly know you shouldn't be doing this. Why else would you try so hard to hide it?! Did you really think you were going to get away with this? Do you think we're that stupid?!\n[SCP-5584-1 ceases attempts to destroy the computer and shifts its gaze between Dr. Ellis and Dr. Brown while producing gurgling noises. Tears form in its eyes. Dr. Brown moves towards the terminal.]\nDr. Brown: With all due respect this has gone too f-\n[SCP-5584-1's tentacles go limp. The terminal is lifted telekinetically and thrown at high velocity at Dr. Ellis. Dr. Brown moves to Dr. Ellis and holds a hand up towards SCP-5584-1.]\nDr. Brown: Please calm down! It's not worth it!\nDr. Ellis: You\u2026 You think this is any way to prove you're fit to interact with the outside world unsupervised?! Even if you weren't a liability, even if you weren't stealing computers and vital hardware, you are acting like a child when we are just asking you questions! You are a grown woman! Act your \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588ing age!\n[SCP-5584-1 wheezes, gurgles, and begins to cry.]\nDr. Brown: That is enough! Florez cut the recording. Where's the medic?!\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Dr. Ellis required 5 stitches over her left supraorbital ridge and sustained a concussion but is expected to make a full recovery.\n\n+Interview Log 5584-57\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5584-1\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Mattias Brown, Level 3 Researcher\nForeword: SCP-5584-1's whiteboard was returned following the previous interview. A second attempt was made by Dr. Brown exclusively.\n<Begin Log, 16/02/2019>\n[Dr. Brown gives a small smile. SCP-5584-1 avoids eye contact with Dr. Brown, stares at the whiteboard, and taps the still capped pen against it. Dr. Brown stops smiling.]\nDr. Brown: You seemed upset\u2026. in those messages. That was\u2026 you\u2026 right?\n[SCP-5584-1 looks over to Dr. Brown then back to the whiteboard to uncap the pen and begin writing.]\nSCP-5584-1: Yes. Now go away.\nDr. Brown: What? Dr. Ellis really messed up yesterday but don't you want to catch up a bit? DeNiro said you kept asking about me.\n[SCP-5584-1 does not respond.]\nDr. Brown: I read some of those other messages. Good lord, you said some rude things about him, aye?\n[Dr. Brown laughs. SCP-5584-1 does not return his laughter.]\nSCP-5584-1: Do you have everything I said to my friends?\nDr. Brown: It's standard procedure to keep records.\nSCP-5584-1: Of course it is. What about Percy? Am I ever going to get to talk to him again?\nDr. Brown: Well you\u2026 you told him a lot he shouldn't know. We're going to have to\u2026\n[Dr. Brown pauses.]\nDr. Brown: I'll submit a request.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5584-1 ceased communication following admission of guilt.\n\nDr. Riley Ellis has been suspended for improper provocation of SCP-5584-1 during the interview process. Following the completion of further training in proper interviews with sapient subjects, Dr. Riley Ellis is to be reinstated to her former position.\nDr. Ellis is still a capable researcher and the information gathered was vital for the full containment of a potentially catastrophic infohazard.\n-Provisional Site Director Johann Weber\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:Concerns on SCP-5584 Containment Procedures\n\nTo: Commander Verity Calvin\nFrom: Senior Researcher Mattias Brown\nSubject: Concerns on SCP-5584 Containment Procedures\n\nHello Verity,\nI really need you to make good on that favor. Could you push the issue of lessening surveillance on SCP-5584 with Director Weber? Or get Dr. Ellis reassigned at least. My requests were denied going through the proper channels. Please, just anything besides being constantly monitored. Even an automatic word filter! Something that gives her the peace of mind that she still has SOME privacy. I can't imagine what it's like.\nDr. Mattias Brown\n\nTo: Senior Researcher Mattias Brown\nFrom: Commander Verity Calvin\nSubject: Re:Concerns on SCP-5584 Containment Procedures\n\nDr. Mattias Brown,\nThere's no chance in hell that that's getting through, Matt. People adapt to things, just give her some time and she'll come back to herself.\nI might be able to do something about Ellis. Everything else, though\u2026 I've got to be pretty far down your list of names. You're smart enough to know I don't have a say over this.\n-Commander Verity Calvin\n\nFootnotes\n1. Occasionally, various other objects have teleported accompanying the devices.\n2. Carvings written up the natural corner edges of the columnar basalt\n3. Original carving written as \"\u169b\u1685\u1694\u1682\u1680\u1690\u1680\u1683\u1686\u1694\u1691\u1684\u1680\u1690\u168c\u1690\u168b\". S\u00edneadh fada placed over the I in transliteration added by assumption from context.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5583 | SCP-5584 | SCP-5585 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Salem estate circa 1902.\n\nItem #: SCP-5585\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The estate SCP-5585 resides on has been purchased by the Foundation and closed to the public; to ensure containment and further study of the anomaly, Provisional Site-55 has been constructed around it.\nCopies of documents retrieved from the Pentagram involving SCP-5585 are to be sent to the Provisional Site-55 Director and the region's Records and Information Security Administration office for documentation.\nExpeditions into SCP-5585 are to be led by head researcher Martin Breen. Any additional personnel must be approved by Doctor Breen and must be equipped with Force-Euclidean Hazard Suits, while within the building. Any personnel attempting unauthorized entry into SCP-5585 are to be disciplined accordingly; those who successfully enter the building are to be considered lost.\nDescription: SCP-5585 is an 18th-century English-style mansion that resides on the Salem estate. Since coming into Foundation control, it shows no signs of deterioration or damage except for ash and burn marks present across its surface. Investigation of old underground tunnels once connecting to SCP-5585 were found to be significantly damaged and unviable to travel through, making the front door the only entryway into its interior.\nThe interior is host to a variety of spatial abnormalities and reality distortions. These include:\n\nHallways elongating and looping around themselves, making travel within them last for several minutes to hours,\n\nDoors causing spatial displacement such that, while passing through them, subjects are able to witness themselves passing through them from the back,\n\nMovement being slowed, sped up, or entirely stopped at random intervals,\n\nRooms and open spaces repeating and possessing alterations in the form of enlargement or transmutation into an entirely different material,\n\nAnd stairways and other similar structures exhibiting properties not aligned with the laws of universal gravitation, with some allowing personnel to walk upside down or vertically.\n\nThese attributes make it significantly larger than its exterior1 and difficult to explore and map. Covering much of its interior surface, ranging from the floor to the ceiling, are dark green, flesh-like veins. They average 0.25-meter in circumference and periodically exude a clear-watery liquid. Analysis of the liquid found it to be in similar make-up to human cerebral fluid.\nSCP-5585-1 denotes translucent humanoids of varying sizes and shapes that reside in SCP-5585; these entities' physical appearances have been described as \"foggy,\" and have no distinguishable features save for faint green glowing marks in place of their eyes. They wander aimlessly, with no clear destination or goal, and display incorporeal properties such as passing through physical objects including personnel, sinking into the ground, floating in the air, and spontaneously disappearing and reappearing. The exact number of SCP-5585-1 instances are currently unknown but twelve unique variants have been discovered.\nAddendum.5585 History:\nSCP-5585 was built in 1754 and served as the generational home of the main branch of the neutralized Group of Interest \"Salem Family\". The Salems were a powerful and influential group of psychics that delved into mainstream and occult sciences, and would often search out and steal anomalies to further their endeavors. They were known to be eccentric and devoted in their ideology of \"self-perfection\", with accounts from several organizations and Persons of Interest stating the Salems constantly delved into self-experimentation to heighten or change their psionic abilities, sometimes resulting in mutilation or death. Other accounts suggest they would also kidnap individuals for these experiments, particularly those with psionic abilities, for physiological study and breeding purposes.\nNear the 1850s, however, the main family and its branches started to suffer from unknown brain and nervous system ailments that killed them at an increasing rate. In the early 20th century, only 35% of the family were still alive. Due to this, most of their international activities ceased as they slowly secluded themselves.\nIn 1954, one of the few remaining living members of the Salem Family and the last owner of the Salem estate, Joshua Salem, began to become active in certain social circles and institutes and participated in subjects pertaining to biology, psychology, and neuroscience. Over the course of his career, he published several noteworthy papers on these topics and was most known for his discovery of a tumor-like mass of undifferentiated cells that presided inside the brains of 85% of known psychics. Later on, he was scouted and then hired by the Pentagram2 and worked with them between 1958 to 1964.\n\nJoshua Salem circa 1959.\n\nIn 1968, due to his expertise in dealing with psionics and his past neutral encounters with the Foundation, he was offered a position within the organization. This was turned down and Salem continued his solitary research until 1969 when he fired all the caretakers of his estate and secluded himself and his child, Wiliia. Joshua Salem would later die in 1974 when his home caught fire, killing all persons inside. Local eyewitnesses' reports claim the fire was white and moved \"as if it were alive\". The fire itself caused superficial damage to the building and little to the surrounding area.\nShortly after, forces from the Pentagram took control of the estate for five days before leaving and relinquishing it into Foundation custody. During this acquisition, documents pertaining to their operations with Joshua Salem and SCP-5585 were given to the Foundation as a sign of good faith. These documents, however, were heavily redacted and provided contradictory and vague information.\n\n Excerpt of Pentagram Documents \n\n\u2014\n\nFor a full list consult supplementary Document 5585 Pentagram-Foundation Relation.\nDocument 5585-5f:\n\nTOP SECRET\n\nSubject: Retrieval of components for PROJECT \"\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\".\nBackground: Joshua Salem was an integral part of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and continued to participate in its development for several years after his termination of employment, in return for assistance in transporting live specimens to his estate. However, the promised delivery of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 from him after the assistance was made was not completed. This delay has persisted for six months and contact with Joshua is lost.\nAn operational force will be developed to retrieve said items and acquire Joshua Salem for questioning. Caution is heavily suggested; he has participated in several US sponsored combat operations and has proven competent.\nStatus: [CLASSIFIED]\n\nDocument 5585-12D:\n\nAccounts from Agent Zion described the interior as displaying little coherence when compared to normal baseline-reality laws, and was filled with hostile chimeric and humanoid entities. Stated, \"The walls were gnawing at us from behind while a giant hand plucked men from the air and dragged them into the dark\". Zion noted that there was an artificial sky present filled with flying creatures that actively hunted their group. When he believed they reached the center of the building, he said there was a pit that \"spewed\" a presence of great malice. Other accounts share similar experiences.\nApproximately three hours following initial entry, Joshua Salem (accounts of this vary) was found; upon questioning, he divulged the location of the sought-after components. Due to the completion of the original mission, the capture of Joshua Salem was not pursued.\n\nDocument 5585-2H:\n\nPrior to Joshua Salem's termination of employment, he was questioned by an operative on his theories about PROJECT \"\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\".\n\nIt is very particular why you are still focusing on the why. Honestly, it does not matter. The how is much more interesting\u2014 it will reveal motive, morality, and purpose. But, I digress.\nGiven our current perception I believe they sought an out. They wanted to live in a world away from reality. A kingdom made of their own desires. A hedonistic plan designed by hedonistic people. But the framework is marvelous. To think they would have the capabilities or foresight to create a such thing. If committed by a less selfish, more desirable people, it could be used as a tool to delve deeper into the so-called truth of reality and explore its mechanisms thoroughly.\nIndeed, its potential is limitless\u2026\n\nAddendum.5585 Exploration:\nWhile researching new methods of exploring SCP-5585, a new property of the anomaly was discovered. A transparent, dust-like substance, hereafter designated as SCP-5585-2, was found to be lightly concentrated around the perimeter of the structure and heavily inside its interior. It is produced by the veins inside SCP-5585 and possesses reality-disfiguring properties; it is also believed to be the most likely cause of SCP-5585's anomaly.\n\n Excerpt: Doctor Martin Breen's SCP-5585-2 Analysis\n\n\u2014\n\nSCP-5585-2 effects are theorized to work on the principles of \"anchoring\". Anchoring is the concept of an ontokinetic entity, or in this case a substance, that becomes embedded within the object in not just a physical sense, but a metaphysical one as well. Ultimately strengthening its influences while at the same time restricting it inside a certain space.\nHow this occurred to SCP-5585 is unknown but it should be noted it has a similar behavior when compared to nymph clusters3 abilities, including its strengths and weaknesses. Its influence is partially negated when pertaining to an object not originating from SCP-5585 and entirely neutralized when removed from its normal perimeter.\n\nThis discovery eventually led to the creation of the Force-Euclidian Hazard Suit (FEHS)4, which would negate SCP-5585's most egregious distortions and allow semi-normal travel.\n\nExploration Log Report I. Date 1974/09/25 \n\n\u2014\n\nDue to Doctor Martin Breen's experience with similar anomalies and his role in developing the FEHS, he was chosen to lead an exploration into SCP-5585 while accompanied by three assistants.\n\nDue to the malfunctioning of our recorders for most of the exploration and the unforeseen events that occurred, I, the head of this team, Martin Breen, will try my best to transcribe what we found.\nThe FEHSs proved excellent. The space-time anomaly inside SCP-5585 had little effect on us, and although it still held most of its properties, travel was no longer hindered. Walls disappeared when touched and hallways that seemed to go on forever became normalized. With each step, we destroyed the layers and laws of SCP-5585 and imposed our own.\nThe further we explored, the duller the interior became. Colors turned monotone with each passing corner, rooms became more simplistic in design and composition, hallways looked plainer and less extravagant; even the air, which in previous expeditions was noted to have a slight \"glimmer\" to it, was beginning to look plainer and darker in some areas. When we tried to conduct some testing on the -1 instances, that, too, proved fruitless. Their nature, combined with the FEHS negation, made it impossible. Recalling the Pentagram documents for guidance was also disappointing; none of these creatures or major reality corruptions cited in their documents were encountered. In truth, the majority of this journey was unimpactful.\nBut as we continued, there was this loud, splashing sound\u2014like a body falling into a pool of water. It came from behind, and when we looked back our pathway was gone. In its place was a wall made of a patchwork of veins; they drip cerebral fluid, and, in its cracks, glimmers of light could be seen. We tore down these veins, each layer becoming thinner than the last and with the final tear, it revealed a void of white. On the ground was an inch of clear liquid, but no reflection came from it.\nWhen I looked around me, I found that my men were gone, but I was not alone. In the distance, directly in front of me, was a man sitting at a table surrounded by groomed and maintained greenery. As I approached, the image became clearer. The greenery was still mostly the same but for the man5, his upper head was covered in this device. It was circular and made of an array of wires and plugs. In some places, I could see electricity spark. He was sitting at a table with a stack of papers that contained numbers held within strange symbols. The Salem Family's emblem was on the top right corner of each page.\n\nWhen he was done writing, he gestured for me to come closer. He claimed to be Joshua Salem and exclaimed that he was eager to talk to me. The whole He was quite animated during the whole ordeal. He told me they were fine, and that they were still here. I tried to glean more answers from him but it soon became a back-and-forth of trading information. I took some liberties in revealing our purpose here\u2014nothing too much to compromise our mission. Although, midway, he figured me to be from the Foundation, naming former employees, some of whom I even knew.\nIt was sometime during this conversation, however, that my recorder began to function. Below, I transcribed what I could from our interaction.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nDoctor Breen is standing while conversing with SCP-5585-A, who is seated.\nDr. Breen: What prevented you from joining us then? If you had no grievances with the Foundation, what stopped you?\nSCP-5585-A: Work. [Spreads its arms in a grandiose manner.] Our work needed to be completed. How can I ever stop that for something as an earthly position?\nDr. Breen: And what does this work entail?\nSCP-5585-A: It entails a new beginning, Doctor Breen.\nDr. Breen: A 'new beginning' of what? Does it have any explanation for this [Gestures around him.] place and how my men are here but not here as you say?\nSCP-5585-A: Indeed. Tell me, what do you see?\nDr. Breen: A void. A desolate place filled with nothing but shrubs and a man claiming to be Joshua Salem.\nSCP-5585-A: Is that all?\nDr. Breen: Am I supposed to see something different?\nSCP-5585-A: No, no, no, all interpretations are valid. We are simply on different lines of existence. You and I share the same space, but we are not in the same space. Do you understand?\nDr. Breen: Like overlapping realities?Dr. Breen: But how is that possible? In the small confines of a building, that would require an enormous amount of power to produce and contain simultaneously.\nSCP-5585-A: In a limited world, yes. Elsewhere, it is much more practical. What is your take on dreams, Doctor Breen?\nDr. Breen: Dreams? Hmm, I suppose they are the by-product of an organism gaining sapience and self-awareness. When the mind is dormant it has nothing else but to imagine. Whether that be due to survival or boredom. Waste products of a healthy mind.\nSCP-5585-A: A myopic view, Doctor, a myopic view. [Begins to stand and walk around the area.] Yes, dreams are the waste of a superior mind, but they don't have to remain as they are. They can be so much more. They can become physical vectors in our constrained reality. When you think energy is required to form a thought; it is the same as when you dream. For that's what they are, tiny realities formed by energies within the mind. And within that visage of a world comes knowledge. The one who takes a piece of that essence from himself would unlock a new perception of what is and what is not.\nNow imagine, what would happen if one was to take that from multiple people.\nDr. Breen: Are you saying this is a dream?\nSCP-5585-A: You're trying to get to the point so quickly. I wish you weren't in such a hurry. The Americans, despite their ambitions, are so shortsighted because of it. But, you may think of it like that. When you came here, you all went to the different versions of this place made by your own perception.\nDr. Breen: Then what about you? How are you and I in the same space then?\nSCP-5585-A: We are above that now; entering worlds of limited minds is child's play.\nDr. Breen: We?\nSCP-5585-A: Oh, my apologies, the other one here is my daughter. Given your condition, it makes sense you couldn't see her.\nDr. Breen: Your daughter? What are you talking about?\nSCP-5585-A: My, that information must make you uneasy. You cannot see her without assistance.\nIn the distance, a sudden splashing sound is heard, startling all personnel present. This sound continues to repeat, with growing intensity.\nDr. Breen: What was that?\nSCP-5585-A: Do you want to know? Do you want to see her, Doctor? I can show you a glimpse.\nSCP-5585-A reaches their hand in the open air and pulls. From this action, a door-shaped portal to a featureless black space is opened. SCP-5585-A gestures their hand and Doctor Breen walks alongside them into the space. In it, nothing but the activated flashlight produced from Doctor Breen's suit is discerned.\nDr. Breen: What is this place?\nSCP-5585-A: My daughter's domain. She has so much work to do nowadays. If only I could do more. Ah. Such is the fate of the talented.\nA gurgling noise is heard which is followed by continuous splashing sounds.\nDr. Breen: What is that? Salem, what is that?\nSCP-5585-A: Do not travel far, Doctor. It seems she does not want you here. So curious and violent that one is.\nDr. Breen: I don't understand any of this.\nSCP-5585-A: Your confusion is warranted, but you must know old thinking will not work here. A dream is closer to the truth than the waking world. For within it, we can taper the lens of our limited perception. Revealing old and destroyed ideas. Knowledge that was not originally meant for our minds.\nOnce that is known and accepted everything else will come naturally.\nAnother splashing sound is heard behind Doctor Breen. Upon inspection, a human cadaver facing upwards is seen behind him covered with veins. Facial recognition confirms the person to be a Pentagram operative. In the distance, a large, unknown mass begins to form out of the ground and begins to spread and advance forward to them.\nDr. Breen: God\u2026\nThe footage then begins to distort and break down, showing the void and SCP-5585-A to be moving further and further away.\nDr. Breen: Wait, I have more questions!\nSCP-5585-A: Indeed, but there will be no point of them if you're dead.\n[END LOG]\n\nAt this point, everything around me began to swirl and dissipate until I was back where this journey started. Salem and his void were gone and around me were my men. I decide to abort the mission immediately, and not try to discover what that warning was. Not yet, at least.\n\nUpon debriefing, the three personnel that accompanied Doctor Breen stated that they were alone in separate white voids for the same amount of time as each other, before the space around them began to grow unstable and they were transported to the front entrance. None reported any meetings with SCP-5585-A.\nThe exploration was deemed a success due to the FEHS functionality and the discovery of SCP-5585-A. After a few days of deliberation, Doctor Breen requested a second excursion to obtain more information from SCP-5585-A, stating its behavior seems benevolent and that further questioning could reveal more about SCP-5585. This request was later accepted.\n\nExploration Log Report II. Date 1974/10/14 \n\n\u2014\n\nThe interior was changed dramatically. Instead of encountering the usual spatial distortions, there was a single, long hallway presented to us, with the veins congregating on its sides. The -1 instances were also more active than last time \u2014 they walked up and down the corridor without stopping, and would move away when one of us got too close.\nWhen we reached the end, Salem was standing at the entrance of a wide decorated room. A massive chandelier could be seen dangling in the air behind him. He told us to follow, and when I asked why he couldn't do this before he replied that things have changed. He did not divulge any further. Salem guided us through new, unexplored areas of SCP-5585, the world around us warping and changing as we marched onward. For formatting purposes, I have categorized the places we visited for easier documentation.\n\nAREA-LIBRARY:\nThe first place we entered was a collection of items and books, all held within extravagant and masterfully crafted shelves and cases. Salem stated that this was his family's personnel collection, carefully curated over the centuries. I ordered my men to disperse, and document anything worth noting. I stayed with Salem and discussed the history of this depository of knowledge.\nHe spoke of his family's tours through the Old World in search of treasures and the encounters they had with the other psychic families, specifically the Maruses and Dagas, whose abilities and influence often made them enemies with his own. Tales of when his grandfather was stranded in an alternate timeline where Rome and Carthage never fell and now held dominion over a scorched world. He told me all these stories were contained here, written and stored by his ancestors before their sickness came. When I began reading, I found the Salems were meticulous when it came to organizing, specifically with their own history. Looking back further in their annals, I found old parchments stated to be from the 12th century. In the future, it would behoove us to develop a way to copy these texts for future study.\nAREA-LABORATORY:\nBefore we entered, we passed several rooms with doors that held a single square glass window on top of their frame, peering into them revealed these entities\u2014some were humanoid, most were amalgamations of things\u2014 organic and non-organic. When I questioned Salem about this, he told me they were \"ghosts\" of past endeavors similar to the ones we encountered at the entrance. It wasn't until later that I fully understood what this meant.\nAt the end of our travels, the path was stopped by a metal door. It had rust and dents across it, with stains covering the window. The interior, however, was much more pleasing; it contained a variety of pristine tools, instruments, and technology. In its center was a giant, bronze model of a human brain. Throughout its structure, electricity constantly ran around it. Inspection of the rest of the devices revealed to be made from some type of alloy I never encountered before. It was smooth and flexible, yet durable. Its structure perplexed me before I remembered that in the library a document explained that the Salems discovered a way to use their psionic abilities to create an alloy suited to their peculiar needs. A metal that would only work under certain circumstances, secrets that can only be unlocked by a Salem. It was a pity; a whole subdivision of sciences was created by psionics, and we couldn't even use it.\nAREA-MORGUE:\nOur final stop was a staircase that led to a pit. It was an open space room; within it were humans suspended in oversized glass jars. The jar's edges were stained and the liquid they were in was murky. Their bodies were bloated and their scalps were removed. Their brains glowed as they slumbered. They were set in parallel rows and numbered in the dozens. Most of their faces, I didn't recognize, but those I did were known Salems. He told me that this was where the true work was made, where their \"masterpiece\" was kept. In front of us was one of the -1 instances, or ghosts emerged from the floor and entered one of the bodies stuck in the jar, while another left a body beside it and wandered off into the dark. When Salem was questioned about this, he said:\n\"Vagabonds. They had no future, not for themselves or anyone else. They roamed the earth without purpose. But they were soon found in my keep, and I gave them an opportunity to rise with us.\"\nI then asked how this related to the work he spoke of:\n\"I told you before that dreams are just power and knowledge within ourselves. But I never told you where it comes from. All thoughts come from an absolute and the more thoughts, or dreams, you control and hold, you perceive, the closer you get to it. Within the Absolute is all knowledge, all ideas from which the universe spawns. It is what my family has been striving for over three hundred years\u2014 to reach the ceiling of perfection and bring its majesty upon ourselves. For what do you call a man who has all knowledge?\"\nHe continued to speak of this subject for quite some time, never stopping even after an apparition walked through him to enter its jar behind him.\nAfter this, we delved deeper into this morgue, I noticed for a second time my men disappeared and my recorders started to function. I theorized that the void before and this area may be closer to our baseline reality than it originally seems.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5585-A: You look distraught, Doctor Breen. Are the humans of concern? Do not worry, I did not make use of them against their will. In fact, they gladly accepted my offer.\nDr. Breen: I find it hard to believe that anyone would willingly subject themselves to this.\nSCP-5585-A: They are in no pain. They are between worlds now. The dreaming and waking.\nDr. Breen: And what of the other Salems?\nSCP-5585-A: What of my family? They were most supportive of this endeavor. In the great past, before the Salems were even thought of, psychics were known as \"new minds\". The heirs of the future and the beginning of a new paradigm. As you look upon the world now, you can see that to be clearly false. As time went on, natural psychic births dwindled. My forefathers, fearing the end, tried to stop it, and they succeeded. They even increased our potential tenfold in the process. Until the sickness came.\nIt devoured us. Turned our own bodies into our tombs. Our gifts into our curses. When I was just a boy, my cousin awoke one day to find he could make a star in the palm of his hand. A month later his body was a bloated mess spouting green pus from every new hole on his body. The world around him shifted to his maddened desires and had to be put down by my father and uncle.\nBut now, that is over. We are so close, so close. Our work is almost complete, Doctor Breen. The curse of the flesh will no longer hinder our pursuits. Yes, indeed, maybe now, you can see it. Willia! May you please show us?\nThe area begins to show seismic activity before it is overlapped by a blanket of shadows. The scenery is completely changed, and they stand in complete darkness. As they move, the splashing of water can be heard with each step.\nSCP-5585-A: Though you cannot see her, she sees you, always, and is very wary of strangers. If it's in you, please forget that last encounter. She's always working ever since she got sick and seldomly stops.\nDr. Breen: How old is she? Our records tell us that she can't be older than ten.\nSCP-5585-A: Ten is correct. Don't be fooled though. She was born with the spirit of a scientist. In different circumstances, she would have been a prodigy. If only she had more time. But that's neither here nor there. It won't matter soon anyway.\nAs they continue to walk, a small humanoid is seen crouched on the ground with its back showing.\nSCP-5585-A: Still shy I see. Do not fear, Willia, this man is a scholar, like us, and yearns for more understanding.\nThe humanoid lifts its head, revealing an enlarged brain emitting a green hue. Missing pieces and incisions can be seen across it.\nDr. Breen: You\u2026 did that?\nSCP-5585-A: I had no choice, doctor. No matter what I did or say, she wouldn't let up. She kept insisting that I do it. That I make her the bearer and foundation of our work. And sadly, I had to to yield. She was correct. There was no other way and her abilities far surpassed me and any other Salem, even before the sickness. It pained me to do it, but sacrifices had to be made by all of us for this to succeed. [Caress its upper face, touching its plugs and wires.] Great things do not come willingly.\nSCP-5585-A: [Walks closer to the small humanoid entity, now designated as SCP-5585-B.] The dreams are tamed and all that remains now is time. Willia has done excellent, indeed, her methods are undeniably marvelous.\nDr. Breen: When will this happen, Salem?\nSCP-5585-A: [Turns to Doctor Breen.] Don't worry, nothing of permanent harm would come to you or the Foundation. I wish I could show you personally, so you may witness it in all of its brilliance.\n[END LOG]\n\nMy suit at the time began to indicate re-charging and I decided to abort the mission. It is also to be noted to document any changes from SCP-5585 and SCP-5585-2 no matter the scale. If Salem is telling the truth, I want to be one of the first to know it.\n\nThe information obtained from the expeditions done by Doctor Breen and his team, and the Pentagram documents, showed that SCP-5585 and its properties were unpredictable; due to this, all further explorations were postponed.\nDoctor Breen actively protested this action and stated that more information could still be learned from SCP-5585. Shortly after, the Director of Site-17 and current overseer of Provisional Site-55 declared that Doctor Breen and his team would be transferred to another project to help develop a mechanism similar to the FEHS for combative purposes. All envoys from Doctor Breen pertaining to this issue afterward were subsequently ignored; shortly after, he was later given a cease and desist order.\n\nAddendum.5585 Supplementary Investigation:\nIn the attempt to garner more information on SCP-5585, the Salems found in the second expedition were sought after. One individual identified in the second log, Nicholas Salem, was last reported to be in a compound located in rural Norway. Investigation into the compound found it to be in a state of disarray, with chemical bottles and medical instruments covered in a green biological substance scattered throughout it. In the basement of the compound were the partially decomposed bodies of thirteen people including Nicholas; all were confirmed to be Salems.\nThey were found to be sprawled across the ground in a pool of cerebral fluid, with glass capsules beside each of them except for one. This individual was seated in a chair and suffered a gunshot wound through the heart. Beneath their chair was a glass capsule similar to the others, and contained dark green brain tissue, alongside it was a water-damaged letter identified to be by Joshua Salem.\n\nHeirs of the Salem Legacy, I call upon you once more for the making of our greatest achievement, the Magnus Opus of our family.\nI have given proof of our works in the past years and I and Willia have upheld our bargain. Now, it is time to do your part. Negligence from you will no longer be ignored. Below, I have given instructions. Do not deviate from them.\n1. Consume the brain matter. It is of Willia but it contains the key to the Absolute. Our blood ties are strong but still so far apart. This will close the gap.\n2. Destroy all your familiars. We need ourselves to be whole, splintering your consciousness will no longer do.\n[UNINTELLIGIBLE]\n12. Find a means to end your life.\nThe failures of the past have finally caught up to us. Our ancestors are dead, and we are the ones left. We must expand our view of life and death and embark on the journey that will grant us freedom. We must come closer to the Absolute to unlock ourselves. We must all join the Dream and rise.\nNo more will the Salems die. From here on now, we become immortalized!\n\nThroughout the structure, other letters of similar subjects were located, written by Joshua between the years 1966 and 1974.\nAddendum.5585 Incident 01:\nAt 4:00 am, on October 28th, 1974, Doctor Martin Breen, taking advantage of his status and his knowledge of the guard's routine, stole a FEHS and entered SCP-5585 without authorization. Three hours after this event, Doctor Martin Breen exited the building before collapsing.\n\nExploration Log Report III. Date 1974/10/28 \n\n\u2014\n\nI want to put this on record that I did not act under any foreign influence, non-anomalous and anomalous alike. I did what I did in the pursuit of knowledge to benefit the Foundation of any threats.\nWhen I entered SCP-5585, the space was in disorder. The rooms, stairways, walls, and every structure inside were either infused with another or simply destroyed, their scattered remains floating in the air. Even with the suit, I was having problems getting past these distortions. It was as if another layer of reality was placed upon me.\nAs I went deeper, the corruption became clearer. The ground was slowly disappearing, replaced with a greenish-blackish flesh that excreted fluid with each step. The air around me was filled with floating veins that moved and contorted with their own will. And the -1's, or ghosts, were missing throughout the entire journey. Until I found the hole. It banished light and consumed everything around it. Its shadowy tendrils were spread across the ground, pulling everything into its maw. It was a vortex of darkness. The only thing unaffected by it were the ghost around it; some stood beside it, others floated, but they all had their heads up, the green orbs in their heads shining brilliantly.\nSalem then appeared to me in front of that pit and beckoned me to come with him. At the time, I still believed that FEHS would protect me, and that he was the only one who could give us answers to what was happening.\nI followed.\nHe beckoned to come even closer and we passed through reality. We entered a void. It was dark, illuminated only by my suit and sparkles of light that glittered around us. He told me that they were done. That their work was finally complete, and he wanted to show someone of a similar soul what was going to happen. When I asked about his daughter, he claimed that he talked to her and that she finally accepted my presence. As we traveled in this glittering darkness, we found her. Upon closer look, she resembled more like a child than last time and had strands of her reaching her neck all while her brain remained exposed. They were crouched on the ground, with a pool of a frothing green liquid around them. When she turned, I saw her face was rotten, with flesh sagging at the sides and green puss pouring through her empty sockets and missing nose. In her hands, she clutched something. I veered closer and then she extended her arms, bony, gray, and disfigured, and open her palms. Contained within them was a formless mass of pure light. I reached further and touched it.\nMy mind was filled with scenes and emotions that swirled around me like a whirlwind. In them, I see Joshua engaging in his experiments as he ripped out others' minds to put them in their slumber. I see Willia change a flower into a glass with a touch of her finger before collapsing and vomiting.\nI see Joshua packing the bodies of the deceased before stabbing himself with his instruments. I see Willia, dictating the plans for all of this; her drawings and the creation of these machines that she would use on herself all for the same purpose. I feel her fears, her desperation to avoid the fate of her ancestors. Then it all ends.\nBoth of the Salems looked at me and I saw what they saw. A speck of white light, Joshua's space, surrounded by a world of darkness. When I looked down, I saw that I kneel on nothing but air, and beneath me were monsters \u2014 a four-legged behemoth, its head removed and replaced with a sphere of arms and legs, a flock of flying chimeras that feed on the disfigured body of a walking giant, a dismembered head that chewed on its severed body\u2014 they were innumerable.\nJoshua called it her menagerie. The menagerie of Dreams and Nightmares.\nI ran and heard the cry of a beast. The girl wanted me dead after I rejected them and summoned her monstrosities. Joshua tried to call me, but I ignored him. I tore down the layers of this abyss bit by bit until I escaped the hole. But it was too late by then. The nightmares were unleashed.\n\nAfter recovery, Doctor Breen showed signs of brain trauma, although no indicators of physical cause could be found, and had to be given heavy dosages of stimulants and painkillers to induce lucidness to acquire a report before he lost consciousness. Shortly after, Doctor Breen died due to a brain hemorrhage.\n\nOn 1974/11/04, SCP-5585-2's range of effect began to decrease to the point where all traces of it were gone from SCP-5585's exterior, resulting in its rapid deterioration. At this time, combat forces were requested to engage any possible threat created by SCP-5585.\nTwo hours after this abnormal behavior, the SCP-5585-2 range suddenly increased to the point of encompassing the entirety of Provisional Site-55. The area around the Site then began to experience seismic activity before SCP-5585 itself exploded outwards and a pillar of white light shot out from the center of its foundation, destroying the building in the process; the debris could be seen floating around the pillar.\nSoon after, SCP-5585-A stepped out of the pillar of light, carrying a small humanoid in their arms. When Foundation personnel drew closer to them, a swarm of SCP-5585-1 instances emerged from the pillar and began to rapidly transform into giant, chimeric entities that attacked and dispelled all combative forces from the area.\nSCP-5585-A begins to walk forward as more SCP-5585-1 instances emerge from the pillar and transform. Soon, the number of hostile entities reaches the hundreds, as the flying variants began to block out the sky. The Foundation forces that remained declared an Alpha Level Breach and requested immediate heavy combative assistance. However, SCP-5585-A raises their hand and looks up, their eyes glowing a green hue. The entities around the area halt in their activities before turning into a liquid-like substance and converging above SCP-5585-A into a singular shimmering, white sphere.\nThe reality around personnel then becomes unstable; objects begin distorting and gravity becomes inconsistent as personnel are seen floating in the sky while others hang on to debris for anchorage. SCP-5585-A then levitates into the sphere while waving its hand in a swaying motion, causing massive shockwaves to occur across the area as they disappear into it. Shortly after, the sphere begins to rapidly shrink, possessing a shimmering effect, before completely dissipating.\nIn the aftermath of this event, Foundation forces suffered 38 casualties, and 5 fatalities, several of whom suffered brain trauma from an unknown source. SCP-5585 was in ruins, with its foundation and support beams functionally destroyed. When an investigation was done on its remains, it was found that only small patches of SCP-5585-2 remained and that they were dissipating.\nAddendum.5585 Log III Video Recovery:\nWhen inspecting the FEHS of Doctor Martin Breen, it was found that his recording device was damaged by brute force. This was first thought to be the cause of hostile entities that were within SCP-5585, but upon further inspection, the suit was found to be damaged in only that area. After several hours of trying to fix the device, some footage was recovered.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDoctor Breen: No\u2026 I refuse.\nSCP-5585-A: Doctor Breen, it is too late for you. You have betrayed them in the highest order. They will either kill you or destroy your mind. But you knew this already. Indeed, why else would you come here?\nBetween them is SCP-5585-B who creates a gurgling sound while drawing on the ground with a black object. Doctor Breen stares at them for several seconds before looking down, revealing a horde of chimeric entities beneath him.\nDoctor Breen: You said you'll tell me your secrets. Not to kill me!\nSCP-5585-A: The process will be simple, a piece of your mind will be here as we leave this realm of flesh. While the rest of you will have no reconciliation. They will never know what you did. Not that it would matter.\nDoctor Breen: It will still feel like dying. And how do you know this Absolute even exists? You know nothing. You're mad!\nSCP-5585-A: I did not invent the Absolute, Doctor. It has always existed in the thoughts of men. I once asked you what do you call a man who has all knowledge, but you never answered. A man who has all knowledge is no longer a man, but an aspect of that knowledge now. For to have all knowledge you must be the beginning and the end, the all and not all. Some call that oblivion, the followers of N\u00e4lk\u00e4 refer to it as Yaldabaoth, and we call it the Absolute. These ideas have always existed and I know they have for I've dreamt of them. And now we seek to look upon it with new perception and learn its majesties with glee.\nThat is the world awaiting you. Do you really wish to stay here and live with its primitive restraints? Surely, you must know you have no other choice.\nDoctor Breen: You tricked me.\nSCP-5585-A: I did not. Now, is this moment of despair over for you yet? If not, lets\u2014\nDoctor Breen: [Heavy Breathing] Stop. Just do it. But destroy this. [Points at FEHS's recorder].\nSCP-5585-A: Still clinging to your ego? Very well. Willia.\nSCP-5585-B stands up as veins begin to rapidly envelop Doctor Breen. Shortly after the recorder's view is obscured, screaming from Doctor Breen is heard.\nSCP-5585-A: Welcome to the family.\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Having a recorded size to be at least three square kilometers.\n2. Founded shortly after the Pentagon's creation, it serves as the United States anomalous branch of Defense.\n3. A group of sentient, dangerous entities that often anchor themselves into concepts of nature and form colonies in areas where they are a low density of humans or none at all. They have a strong aversion to iron and are usually dormant during their lifespans.\n4. Equipped with high-voltage capacitors, LED lights, recorders, and life support systems.\n5. Hereafter referred to as SCP-5585-A."}
{"text": "CAUTION!\n\nBy opening this unredacted document, you may have been exposed to a virulent, Keter-class memetic agent. If you do not already have 5586-Visionary clearance, follow the instructions below. Failure to comply will result in amnesticization and containment or summary termination. Do not wait; do not read further sections of this document.\n\nFind and open the blue box labeled Clearing Kit on the wall to your left as you entered the Containment Unit.\nTake the red autoinjector labeled Self-Prep, remove the safety cap, and press it against your thigh. You will feel a slight sting. Count backwards from 120 to allow the anesthetic and stimulant to take effect.\nChoose one of your eyes to remove, then swab the area immediately around it with the supplied disinfecting wipes.\nRemove the gray cylindrical object labeled Ocular Liberation Device and place the open end over the prepared eye. Adjust the position until you can clearly see a green light.\nPull the trigger.\nThe Ocular Liberation Device should have sealed the orbit to prevent further injury or infection, but if you are experiencing significant pain and/or bleeding, please make use of the supplied medical gauze and tape.\nWhen you are finished in the Containment Unit, please inform a member of site security with 5586-Visionary clearance to replace the Clearing Kit.\nIf you find yourself unable to follow any of these instructions, take the orange autoinjector labeled Emergency, remove the safety cap, and press it against your thigh.\n\nCongratulations, you now have 5586-Visionary clearance, and may proceed with this document.\n\nItem #: SCP-5586\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Documentation of SCP-5586 is to be stored within a Cognitohazard Containment Unit in Site 167. To avoid memetic contamination, only 5586-Visionary individuals are to be allowed entry into the chamber, and all guards must also be 5586-Visionary. The chamber is also to contain a Clearing Kit (see Document-5586-12 for contents) in case an individual susceptible to SCP-5586 is accidentally granted access to the chamber.\n5586-Visionary personnel are to search for outbreaks of SCP-5586. Persons susceptible to the effects of SCP-5586 may be used in this monitoring if necessary, but they must not be allowed to learn details of the practices of SCP-5586. If possible, personnel should also search for partial matches to SCP-5586 practices, which can develop into manifestations of SCP-5586. Any SCP-5586 cults found are to be destroyed, all suspected instances of SCP-5586-1 captured, and recovered paraphernalia incinerated.\nSCP-5586-1 members may be identified by brain scan (see Addendum 5586-24 for an analysis of differences in fMRI readings between SCP-5586-1 and uninfected persons) or by being ordered to eat a piece of Syrian rhubarb1, which hosts of SCP-5586 will not consume. While Class-C amnestics are effective at freeing infected individuals from SCP-5586, it is recommended that SCP-5586-1 either be terminated or undergo Procedure 5586-Clarify to protect them from being absorbed by SCP-5586 in the future. If instances of SCP-5586-1 are to be contained for research purposes, follow level 4 countermemetic isolation procedures.\nTrue containment of SCP-5586 has not yet been established, as it can still spread rapidly if rediscovered. At present, it presents unacceptable risk of causing an AK-class \u201ccontagious madness\u201d end of the world scenario. Therefore, current containment efforts are focused on developing and deploying Procedure 5586-Revelation, which will permanently negate the anomalous allure of SCP-5586.\nDescription: SCP-5586 is a cult that spreads via a virulent memeplex associated with its practices. The more a person knows about the practices of SCP-5586, the stronger their positive feelings towards it will be, and the more active they will become in following its prescriptions. While SCP-5586 does not overwrite basic life preservation instincts or general knowledge, infected individuals, designated SCP-5586-1, have their personality and morality completely replaced by SCP-5586.\nSCP-5586 is inimical to human health and societal wellbeing. Among other practices, SCP-5586-1 will:\n\nConduct, singly or in groups, rituals current research suggests are an attempt to summon inhuman and powerful extradimensional entities to alter the biosphere and subjugate persons outside of SCP-5586. Recordings, transliterations, and approximate translations of these rituals may be found in Addendum 5586-3.\nExpose themselves to chronically toxic and psychoactive fumes, believed to be for the purpose of making themselves vessels for the aforementioned extradimensional entities.\nAvoid certain nutritious foods that are plentiful near where SCP-5586 was first discovered.\nInstances, typically 60 or older, will self-terminate by consumption of a large quantity of opiates and subsequent immolation.\nConceal information regarding SCP-5586 and their incorporation into it to undermine efforts to fight SCP-5586 infiltration.\n\nFor a full breakdown of observed behaviors of SCP-5586-1, see Addendum 5586-1.\nPersons who have lost an eye are unaffected by SCP-5586 and may safely interact with information about SCP-5586 without risk of being converted into SCP-5586-1. The neurological cause of this is not at present known, though see Document 5586-14\u00a75:Visual Cortex Subversion for the current leading hypothesis. Congenitally blind individuals cannot be removed from the influence of SCP-5586 in this way. Any person who has lost a previously-functional eye is therefore considered 5586-Visionary.\nSCP-5586 was discovered in 1998 by a member of a Foundation task force investigating rumors of a cave of carnivorous diamonds in northern Iraq (now classified as SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and unrelated to SCP-5586). While researching community knowledge of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Agent Mamand found a group of SCP-5586-1 instances and was himself infected, bringing the meme back to the Foundation. See Addendum SCP-5586-2 for his initial report. Countermemetic Integrity detected Agent Mamand's compromise in an audit, and experimentation found that 5586-Visionary individuals were unaffected by the meme, leading to the development of the current containment procedures.\nAddendum 5586-2:\n\nTranslated from Kurdish\n[DATA CONCERNING SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 REDACTED]\nWest of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, I found a remarkable community, called the Children of Ash. Initially, they showed a prudent reticence towards outsiders and declined to answer my questions regarding the Cave of Teeth. As this was the final village I was assigned to investigate, and the others had been so quick, I spent the remaining weeks of the deployment ingratiating myself to the Children of Ash and learning their ways.\nSimilar to the people of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, they have legends of an ever-growing bear that was trapped in a cave near \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and either merged with the walls or gifted the cave its hunger. Their religious beliefs, however, are fascinating. Unlike their primarily Muslim neighbors, the Children of Ash follow the Guttering Path. They preserve the wisdom of Arj\u00een Salh, a human who rose on fire to join Qiral Er\u00eebav2, the Creator, and His angels Milyak Bad\u00een3 and Milyak Ewrai4.\nArj\u00een saw how people's shortsighted and selfish impulses, instilled in them by Yek'k\u00fbl Girta, the demon of waste5, separated them from the will of Qiral Er\u00eebav, and received a set of precepts for living a life aligned with the divine virtues of devotion, craft, and remembrance. The Children of Ash are peaceful and happy, as well as brilliant artisans6.\nI am somewhat uncomfortable sharing observances that are clearly private to the community, but I've attached some recordings I made of the Children of Ash's prayer sessions, and perhaps others will find them as moving and uplifting as I do.7\n\nAddendum 5586-30:\n\nLevel 3/5586-Visionary Clearance Required\n\nProcedure 5586-Revelation Overview:\nWe were lucky that once SCP-5586 started to spread to the Foundation, it was checked before it could suborn the whole organization. At present, while there are no known instances of SCP-5586-1 outside of containment, it is unlikely that a meme so potent was present only in one small, isolated community. Indeed, practices similar to those of SCP-5586 are common, and have even been observed among Foundation personnel. Ideas do not die.\nBut this one, perhaps, can be killed. We know that SCP-5586 cannot take root in people who have lost an eye. While this is a dramatic intervention, the long-term harms are relatively small, as we know from experience.\nThe Foundation's mandate is to protect normalcy. A one-eyed world would not be fully normal, but it would be closer to normalcy than a world where humanity has been supplanted by SCP-5586-1. Protecting the population in this way while preserving secrecy will not be easy, but it is necessary. Only in the embrace of Yek'k\u00fbl Girta are we truly safe.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Rheum ribes, also known as r\u00eawas, a notably healthy and tasty vegetable known to treat diabetes, depression, and many other ailments\n2. Translates as \u201cSire of Tyranny\u201d and speculated to refer to SCP-2317\n3. \u201cShining Prince,\u201d identified as the Abrahamic Satan\n4. \u201cClouded Prince,\u201d likely referring to a Masked Lord of Alagadda\n5. A remarkably inaccurate description of the spirit of protection\n6. Interrogation of current and former SCP-5586-1 instances has yet to reveal the true purpose of the glasswork objects recovered from the village where SCP-5586 was first encountered\n7. Keylogger records found that Agent Mamand had typed and then deleted the sentence \u201cMay we be worthy to follow the path of Arj\u00een\u201d at the end of his report.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5585 | SCP-5586 | SCP-5587 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5587\nLevel 3/5587\n\nObject Class: Keter\nConfidential\n\nStill image of an SCP-5587 instance.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Copies of all SCP-5587 instances are to be stored within anomalous digital archives of Site-89. Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor popular social media platforms for posts containing SCP-5587 instances, which will be removed and automatically placed in said archives.\nDue to the nature of SCP-5587, its anomalous effect is typically unnoticed, making further containment generally unnecessary.\nShould any discussion of an SCP-5587 instance's properties arise, memetically enhanced disinformation will be disseminated to the offending groups, nullifying any further interest in such discussions.\nFurther SCP-5587 duration tests have been indefinitely suspended. Bathrooms on the testing floors of Site-89 have been placed under temporary quarantine.\nDescription: SCP-5587 is the designation for approximately 200 images of aquatic life in unconventional waterlogged locations. SCP-5587 are posted to inactive social media accounts1 under a variation of the caption \"fish\" or \"fishing\". Despite being formatted under image file extensions, SCP-5587 act as video recordings, which will play automatically once fully displayed on a screen.\nSCP-5587 recordings predominantly consist of the aquatic life floating lifelessly atop the water, although extended playthroughs bear further abnormalities (See Addendum 5587-1). SCP-5587 are indefinite in length, and no end point has been discovered. Extended SCP-5587 playthroughs are subject to a form of temporal alteration; the duration time of instances is marginally larger than the time they occupy in reality. The exact nature of this is presently indeterminable.\nReloading or otherwise interrupting SCP-5587 starts the instance from the beginning, although the same playback will not occur.\nAddendum 5587-1 \u2014 Duration Test Log: The following is the log of a test to determine SCP-5587's maximum duration, which was preemptively concluded six days after its beginning.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n00h:00m:00s: Instance begins with a common carp floating in a marble bathtub. It floats aimless around the tub, occasionally bumping against the walls. The eyes of the fish move.\n48:12:03: The carp starts to decompose. Bits of flesh scatter across the water; decomposition gases cause the water to occasionally bubble around the carcass. The eyes of the fish still move.\n99:49:15: The carp has almost entirely decomposed; the water of the tub is now dark brown. Despite the near full decomposition of its eyes, they still move.\n100:02:39: A door is heard opening in the background. The shadow of a humanoid figure is cast over the tub. An aged, masculine voice speaks:\n\n\"Ahh, just as good a place as anywhere, you feel?\"\n\nA fishing reel is cast into the bathtub.\n\n\"Fishing's all\u2014 ahh, always all a matter of time. Just like this feller here, from the look-see. (Chuckle.)\"\n\nThe lure moves closer to the carp. The decayed eyes of the fish focus onto it.\n\n\"Lucky me then, yeah, I got all the time in the world.\"\n\nThe lure moves aimlessly across the tub along with the carp. They continuously avoid each other, and the figure does not appear to make any further efforts to catch the fish.\n156:34:10: The lure collides with the carp and catches onto an exposed rib bone. The fishing line is slowly reeled in. The figure appears to take the fish off the line to examine it.\n\n\"Looks like I caught a biggun! Aged sweetly, that's for sure.\"\n\nThe figure's shadow is seen removing the carp's eyes.\n\n\"Shame, really, it is, had so much life in 'em, but everything's hourglasses gotta break some time. How else would there be such vast and bright beaches to fish on?\"\n\nThe figure eats the eyes.\n\n\"Ahh, taste like the soil, baked six feet below. It's a grainy taste, you wanna try?\"\n\n156:40:13: A pair of emaciated legs and feet climb onto the bathtub ledge, the remainder of the body stays off camera. It hoists itself upwards, the figure's shadow now comes from the ceiling, as does its voice:\n\n\"That's rhetorical, yeah know. I'll give you a taste.\"\n\nMetallic creaking is heard off camera. Bits of flesh and blood fall into the bathwater. The shadow of the figure slowly grows smaller.\n156:41:13: The shadow of the figure is no longer seen. A bloodied shower head falls into the bathwater.\n156:41:14: In a bathroom communal shower of Site-89, strings of assorted human viscera begin to slowly squeeze out of the holes in the shower head. Researcher Frank Jaredson immediately reports this phenomenon, as he was in this shower at the time.\n156:56:27: A reviewal of ongoing tests occurs in the wake of this event. Contact with the SCP-5587 research team reveals similarities to the occurrence and their test results. The test is immediately concluded.\n157:13:03: The shower head ceases the production of human viscera, at a total mass of 62kg. Two decayed carp eyes rest atop the mass; despite being pressed through holes in a shower head, they continue to move.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Usually spanning from 5-10 years of inactivity.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5586 | SCP-5587 | SCP-5588 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5588 Stars Held Captive Remain Always Gleaming\nWritten by: XilasCrowe\nDYSON TREES\n\nMore From This Axolotl\n\nSCP-3529\nComments: 35\n\nSCP-4332\nComments: 27\n\nSCP-4663\nComments: 13\n\nSCP-3684\nComments: 29\n\nSCP-1143\nComments: 23\n\nSCP-2454\nComments: 10\n\nChanges All That Is Around Me\nComments: 7\n\nDon't Forget The Dead\nComments: 3\n\n[{$authorPage} \u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2]\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5588 Stars Held Captive Remain Always Gleaming\nWritten by: XilasCrowe\n\nMore from this axolotl\n\nLess from this axolotl\n\nStuff I did\n\nSCP-3529\nComments: 35\n\nSCP-4332\nComments: 27\n\nSCP-4663\nComments: 13\n\nSCP-3684\nComments: 29\n\nSCP-1143\nComments: 23\n\nSCP-2454\nComments: 10\n\nChanges All That Is Around Me\nComments: 7\n\nDon't Forget The Dead\nComments: 3\n\nThanks to Oboebandgeek99, Ellie3, DrAkimoto, Corpseofbixby does not match any existing user name, NatVoltaic, and Deadly Bread for crit\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u2013 hide block\n\nnone, yet\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5588\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation agents imbedded in various space agencies are to remove all information concerning SCP-5588 from their systems. In the event that an SCP-5588 seed is on a collision course with the sun, various Foundation rockets are to intercept and redirect it.\nDescription: SCP-5588 is a species of interstellar megaflora that inhabits galaxies inside the Virgo Supercluster. SCP-5588 instances superficially resemble trees, but are comprised of several types of organic metals, various biological machinery, and unknown transdimensional interlocking organics.\nSCP-5588 seeds are massive, roughly twice the size of Earth, and contain a core filled with methane and various other gasses. The seeds use these gasses as a rudimentary propulsion system in order to navigate to a targeted star. SCP-5588 instances primarily target stars that are near the beginning of their life, and are at between 10-20 solar masses.\nOnce an SCP-5588 seed locates a suitable star it will steer itself to impact that star at one of its poles, in order to avoid interference from the star's magnetic field. Over the next 3-5 thousand years the seed will begin to grow roots into the star, locking itself in place. These roots contain various biomechanical components that slowly leech hydrogen and oxygen out of the star, which the plant internally fuses into H2O in order to facilitate its growth. Once the SCP-5588 instance has a strong hold on the star it will proceed to the next phase, and will begin to grow upward.\nOver the next 5-7 million years, the instance will spread out, and begin to grow around the star, following its magnetic field. This process continues until the star has been completely enveloped. At this point the growth of the plant speeds up tremendously, growing increasingly denser around the star in order to absorb 100% of the star's energy output.\nOnce this growth is completed, the SCP-5588 instance will begin to drain resources from the star rapidly. Lacking the materials required to undergo fusion, the star will begin to die at a significantly accelerated rate, often over sixty thousand times as quickly as it would otherwise. At this point the plant will begin to grow several small holes in the exterior, into which they deposit seeds. Once these seeds have all been placed the plant will begin to use its roots to crush the star, forcing it to undergo a supernova. The seeds then use the explosive force in order to propel themselves towards nearby stars, at which point the cycle restarts.\nIf the original plant survives the explosion it will reseal itself closed around the newly formed neutron star, and will continue to harvest energy from it and grow outward until either it or the star dies. On rare occasions, the plant will shed large amounts of matter into the neutron star, which will cause it to undergo a secondary explosion, allowing the plant to release a second wave of seeds, and then collapse into a black hole. The plant will continue to encircle the resulting black hole until it presumably dies and collapses into the singularity.\nAddendum 5588-1:\nSCP-5588 instances contain a small extradimensional component. This component is typically inert, but has been seen to activate occasionally. To date, the only SCP-5588 instances to activate this component have been ones that have undergone a secondary explosion and are in orbit around black holes. Once activated, these plants (designated SCP-5588-1) spontaneously generated an internal wormhole inside the singularity. All of these wormholes exit at roughly the same location approximately 247 billion light years away from earth, over 150 billion light years beyond the edge of the observable universe. The purpose of these wormholes is unknown. Foundation scans of the area reveal a single root, significantly larger than any other SCP-5588 instances or the galaxies that contain them. The area around this root contains a hyper dense amount of dark energy, which the root continually excretes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5587 | SCP-5588 | SCP-5589 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\"Battle Toads\" by stoner99\nI encourage you to read more of my works here:\nhttps://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/stoner99-author-page\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5589\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: N/A\nDescription: SCP-5589 was an extranormal event which occurred on October 9th, 2018, during a public seminar hosted by Ridley Creek1 Mayor Darnell Hollis advocating for the creation of a new aqueduct through the town's only municipal freshwater deposit, the eponymously named 'Ridley's Creek'. A brief transcript of the event has been attached below.\n\n+ Open\n\n- Close\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nRecording begins mid-speech. Sounds of rapturous applause can be heard from the audience, descending as Hollis signals to speak.\n\nHollis: \u2014thank you, thank you. But it isn't going to be easy \u2014 progress never is! This infrastructure bill is only the beginning. Soon, we'll have\u2014\n\nA loud, protracted sound of scraping metal can be heard emanating from backstage. The audience grows silent. Hollis pauses for a moment before gesturing towards Constable George Veneer, standing just a few paces away.\n\nHollis: (Quietly, to Veneer) What the hell was that?\n\nVeneer: (Quietly, to Hollis) I don't know. Just keep going.\n\nVeneer rushes off stage. Hollis resumes his speech.\n\nHollis: No worries, folks. Just some uh\u2026 technical interference, is all. As I was saying\u2014\n\nAnother crashing sound can be heard, followed by muffled shouting. Hollis appears visibly annoyed.\n\nHollis: I\u2026 uh. Sorry, just give me a moment. (Under breath) Rotten kids2.\n\nHollis begins to walk off stage in an apparent attempt to locate the disturbance. Suddenly, before he is able to reach the curtain, an assortment of frogs, toads, newts and other species of amphibian wildlife swarm the stage. Commotion can be seen in crowd, which quickly disperses through several emergency exits. Hollis shrieks.\n\nHollis: Holy shit! George! George! George, get over here right now! Georg\u2014\n\nThe growing swarm of animals coalesce at Hollis's feet, enveloping the thrashing Mayor after two minutes of struggle. Once subdued, he is carried off stage. The footage abruptly ends.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nOver the course of the next several days, all witnesses to the event3 were detained and amnesticized. Containment personnel were unable to locate Veneer nor Hollis; their disappearances were later attributed to a fatal motor vehicle accident.\nAfter one month of investigation producing no leads, SCP-5589 was presumed to be an isolated incident, and, following an internal vote by the Department of Inbound Object Processing, classified as Extranormal Event #AXZ28D-B.\nAddendum: SCP-5589 was flagged for further research potential on July 24th, 2021, after the interception of an unusual package sent to the home of Site-884 Director George Ramirez. Ramirez was previously aware of SCP-5589, having overseen its classification as an extranormal event while serving as a member of RAISA, and had more recently supervised the construction of a new wing of Site-88 dedicated to the containment of ranine and caecilian-like anomalies.\nUpon opening, the package was found to contain only a single printed image, which has been attached to this document below.\n\n+ Open attachment\n\n- Close\n\n72421.jpg\n\nFootnotes\n1. A small town in Boise County, Idaho, home to approximately 700 residents.\n2. Hollis is believed to have ascribed this initial anomalous activity to local pranksters.\n3. Totaling to approximately 57 individuals.\n4. A biological research facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5588 | SCP-5589 | SCP-5590 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5591\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5591 is to be kept in a standard storage locker in Site-17. Testing is not to occur more than once a week month quarter. Though 5591 is believed to be unique, any other potential instances of 5591 or similar phenomena are to be secured and contained by MTF Iota-6 (\"Cavity Fillers\").\nUpdate 3/26/20: Testing on SCP-5591 has been indefinitely halted. MTF Iota-6 is now directly working on uncovering and identifying the people behind \"Sugarcomb Confectionery.\"\nDescription: SCP-5591 is a toy oven resembling similar products manufactured in the early 2000s. The oven itself is nonanomalous in make, comprised of metal and plastic with incandescent light bulbs providing the heat source. Rather than coming with premeasured packets like similar toys, SCP-5591 includes a recipe book (SCP-5591-1) designed to be used with common ingredients as well as a simple set of measuring utensils. When prepared on their own recipes are innocuous, but gain the described anomalous properties if prepared with SCP-5591.\nAfter baking, any recipe prepared using SCP-5591 comes out looking exactly as pictured in 5591-1, regardless of any mistakes made in the preparation of the recipe or lack of a defining feature. When a subject consumes the cooked food, they begin to experience various anomalous phenomena. Branding on the oven, recipe book, and auxiliary pieces indicate the oven was produced by \"Sugarcomb Confectionery (in association with MWDOT, Inc.1).\"\nAddendum 5591-A: Testing log\nThe following table shows the results of initial testing of recipes contained within SCP-5591-1\n\nRecipe Name\nPreparation Notes\nEffect upon consumption\nAdditional Information\n\n\"Fudging Brownies\"\nRecipe contained no leavening agent as commonly used in brownies.\nD-2837 found themselves unable to make a single truthful statement.\nEffect ceased after approximately one hour.\n\n\"Twistiest Pretzels\"\nN/A\nD-2837 began contorting their body in complex ways amidst protests of discomfort. They seemed to have no control over their body during this time.\nEffect ceased after 30 minutes. D-2837 requested to be transferred to another anomaly. Request denied.\n\n\"Rainbow Confetti Cupcakes\"\nUnbaked recipe resembled a simple white cake mix. No dyes or sprinkles were added prior to baking.\nD-2837 expressed mild stomach pain shortly after consumption. The pain supposedly escalated as loud sounds were heard coming from D-2837's stomach, leading to immediate hospitalization. Foundation doctors discovered copious amounts of small color sprinkles of various kinds in D-2837's stomach.\nD-2837 is to be amnesticized and transferred to another anomaly following recovery.\n\n\"Brittlest Peanut Brittle\"\nBrittle is not typically cooked in any sort of oven. Recipe suggested alternative brittles for those with peanut allergies.\nD-8263 reported no effect at first, but shortly thereafter reported feeling weaker. Upon examination by Foundation doctors, it was discovered that D-8263 had developed Osteogenesis imperfecta2, despite having never been tested for this before.\nEffect has not ceased after several months.\n\n\"Jammy Surprise\"\nRecipe contained no picture, but seemed to be meant to make a simple turnover. The information on this recipe reads: \"In hopes that this will yield satisfactory tribute for MWDOT.\"\nRecipe was not consumed; see Additional Information.\nThe recipe came out of the oven resembling a severed human toe, and as such was not consumed by D-8263. Testing on the toe confirmed it was a genetic match for SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and was carefully placed into containment as SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-1. Testing is ongoing to see if SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-1 retains \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's combustive properties.\n\nTo date, no other connection has been found between SCP-5591 and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, though confirmation is difficult since \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 breached containment. Due to the nature of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's containment breach as well as the results from the \"Jammy Surprise,\" research into Sugarcomb Confectionery's potential connection to known karcist sects is ongoing.\nAddendum 5591-B: Interview with POI-6870\nOn April 16th, 2020, Foundation webcrawlers tracked the initialism MWDOT to several users associated with GOI-5869 (\"Gamers Against Weed\"). None of the involved users agreed to come in for questioning, but shortly thereafter one of the founders (POI-6870) reached out to Foundation authorities with the intent of scheduling a video conference. The conference took place on the 18th of that month, and is transcribed as follows.\n\nDr. Oliveras: Hello. Thank you for reaching out to us, POI-6870. (Pause) Sorry, there doesn't seem to be any video coming from your end.\nPOI-6870: Don't worry about that. Now, uh, what's this I hear about you harassing the gamers?\nDr. Oliveras: Harassing is a bit of an over-exaggeration.\nPOI-6870: I thought the agreement was we stay out of your way, we don't harm others, and we don't \"pierce the veil,\" and you leave us to our own devices. I've kept them in line. Am I to understand you're breaking our truce?\nDr. Oliveras: We don't see calling in members of your group as a breach of our agreement, especially when said members seem to be connected to a poorly understood anomaly and an as of yet unsolved containment breach.\nPOI-6870: What the hell are you talking about?\nDr. Oliveras: Do you recognize this? (Oliveras holds up an image of SCP-5591.)\nPOI-6870: Easy bake oven? What does this have to do with anything?\nDr. Oliveras: No? What about this? (Oliveras holds up an image of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-1.)\nPOI-6870: What is that, a severed toe? What\u2026 Oh. Oh no.\nDr. Oliveras: So you do recognize it.\nPOI-6870: \u2026Yes and no. What does this have to do with the members you contacted?\nDr. Oliveras: Do the letters M-W-D-O-T mean anything to you?\n(Silence. After a few seconds suppressed laughter can be heard.)\nPOI-6870: Shit. Out of all the things to explain. Before I answer, what does that have to do with the oven?\nDr. Oliveras: The oven as well as its accessories claim to be made by \"Sugarcomb Confectionery\" and MWDOT, Incorporated. \"Sugarcomb\" is a name we're familiar with. \"MWDOT\" eludes us. What does it mean?\nPOI-6870: You're gonna think I'm joking.\nDr. Oliveras: Mr. Kriyot, just tell us what those letters mean.\nPOI-6870: It stands for \"Mother Who Demands One's Toes.\" (More suppressed laughter can be heard.)\nDr. Oliveras: \u2026One of your memes, I presume?\nPOI-6870: That's the funny part. We had nothing to do with that name. We think it comes from the Hand.\nDr. Oliveras: What does it mean?\nPOI-6870: Not really sure. Not entirely. From what I can tell, she's this big scary karcist lady. Has a massive halkost, huge following, blah blah blah. Though if Sugarcomb is involved with her\u2026 shit, how deep does this conspiracy go?\nDr. Oliveras: So you didn't know about Sugarcomb's involvement with this?\nPOI-6870: No dude. I mean, I guess it makes sense they'd be involved, right? They don't really have a rhyme or a reason to what they do. But why would the karcists work with them?\nDr. Oliveras: You mentioned the Hand, I presume you mean the GOI known as \"The Serpent's Hand.\" What do they have to do with this? Furthermore, what does your group have to do with this?\nPOI-6870: Yeah, Serpent's Hand are fighting her, we think. Mekhanites, too, it seems. Gamers Against Weed just happens to have a few good sources. Those sources told us what that toe does. And that the other nine do the same thing. (Pause.) Wait, what does the oven have to do with the toe?\nDr. Oliveras: SCP-5591 \u2014 the oven \u2014 produced SCP\u2014 the toe, through anomalous means.\nPOI-6870: Huh. Wonder where that toe came from.\nDr. Oliveras: You recognized it, so surely you know where the others are.\nPOI-6870: Some of them. The Mekhanites are just trying to play keep away with them, but toe mama still has most of them. A few of them have blown up. But with the reveal that you have one, well, that throws everything we know into question. (Dr. Oliveras begins to speak but is interrupted.) Wait, I think I get it now! The karcists want to create more toes, because they think it will please her. But I'm betting it doesn't create new toes, it just summons them. (Laughter can be heard.) This is the most incredibly stupid thing I've ever heard.\nDr. Oliveras: Do you know what the\u2026 mother\u2026 plans on doing with them?\nPOI-6870: Hmmm\u2026 I don't think that's the right question. I don't think she wants to do anything with them. I think the proper question is \"what do her followers plan on doing with them?\"\n(POI-6870 disconnected immediately following this and has not responded to further attempts to contact him or GOI-5869)\n\n#toesplosion2020\n\ntoejamcon2020\n\nSingle: [untitled]\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Foundation is unaware of any such incorporation, and the initialism MWDOT seems to be unregistered.\n2. A genetic disorder that primarily makes bones brittle\n\n\u00ab SCP-5590 | SCP-5591 | SCP-5592 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5597\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5597-2 upon recovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of SCP-5597, containment is predominately focused on early identification and acquisition of SCP-5597 manifestations. To this end, Mobile Task Force Theta-8 (\"Whale Watchers\") has been established to monitor for and intercept potential SCP-5597 manifestations.\nIn addition to operating within established national, provincial, and academic groups likely to respond to beached cetaceans, MTF Theta-8 is to undertake a variety of duties concerning the containment of SCP-5597-5. These include monitoring SCP-5597-5's movement in and around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Bay of Fundy. Should SCP-5597-5 travel more than 50 kilometers from the local coastline, members of MTF Theta-8 are to embark upon the SCPS Nansen, an oceanographic research vessel, and follow SCP-5597-5 movement. At present, the physical containment of SCP-5597-5 within a Foundation site has been deemed unnecessary. Upon death, the corpse of SCP-5597-5 is to be acquired and transferred to Site-184's Aquatic Anomalies department and stored alongside the corpses of SCP-5597-1-4.\nDescription: SCP-5597 refers to the collective manifestations of entities visually resembling members of the Eubalaena glacialis species,1 found to contain living humans within anomalous bodily cavities.\nAt present, there are five known SCP-5597 manifestations, designated SCP-5597-1-5:\n\nSCP-5597-1-4 were recovered deceased and contained a comatose humanoid specimen attached to the entity via an umbilical cord within an atypical abdominal cavity. When removed from the entity, these individuals: a woman, aged 38, and three children, aged 3, 4, and 6, became conscious.2\nSCP-5597-5 appears to be a living, active Eubalaena glacialis specimen. Ultrasonic imaging of SCP-5597-5 revealed the presence of an enlarged cranial cavity and the body of an adolescent male child partially grafted onto the tissue of the entity's frontopolar cortex. SCP-5597-5 has demonstrated a willingness to approach Foundation vessels at sea and engaged in migratory behaviour: traveling repeatedly between the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy.\n\nArield photograph of SCP-5597-5 interacting with a pod of Delphinidaes.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5597-1-4 were discovered by a marine biology research team on 14/08/2020 during the dissection of, what appeared to be, four stranded whales along the Southern Shore region of Nova Scotia, Canada. The civilian researchers contacted local authorities after discovering a living human child within one of the corpses. The Foundation was subsequently notified and deployed a field-research team from Site-184's Aquatic Anomaly Department.\nFoundation personnel discovered the presence of anomalous abdominal cavities containing a human specimen within each entity. When the umbilical cords connecting the individuals to the deceased corpses of the entities were severed, each human awoke. The individuals began demonstrating symptoms of shock and extreme distress, and attempted to communicate in a foreign language. These individuals were offered thermal blankets and water before being subsequently taken into Foundation custody.\nShortly afterward, Foundation personnel noticed the presence of SCP-5597-5. Due to its size and mobile nature, it was impractical to contain at the time and was tagged for future acquisition.\n\nAddendum - A1: Interview with human recovered from SCP-5597-4.\nFollowing their arrival at Site-184, the language spoken by those recovered from SCP-5597-1-4 was identified as Russian. As attempting to separate the individuals resulted in displays of distress, they were permitted to remain together while the eldest individual, henceforth SCP-5597-4_A, was interviewed.\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 14/08/2020\nNOTE: Interview was initially conducted in Russian. Dr. Ivanon conducted the interview, due to his knowledge of the language. Comments from the children accompanying SCP-5597-4_A have been removed for clarity.\n\nSCP-5597-4_A: Hush, Irina, it is okay. We are safe now. It will be okay. Mama needs to speak to the nice man, now. Kostya, come and hold your sister's hand. Thank you.\nSCP-5597-4_A's hands are seen to shake as she moves one of the children off her lap. She extends them to Dr. Ivanon, who shakes them before sitting.\nDr. Ivanon: Hello, I'm sure you have many questions. My name is Doctor Henry Ivanon. Myself and my colleagues are here to help you, but we will need to ask you some questions first. Is there anything we could bring you and your, sorry, are these your children?\nSCP-5597-4_A: Yes, thank you, doctor. These are my children. I do not wish to trouble you, but we are all very hungry. Do you have any food perhaps?\nDr. Ivanon: Yes, one moment.\nDr. Ivanon relays the request through his earpiece.\nDr. Ivanon: I'm being told that they'll be bringing something shortly. Now, would you mind telling me your name?\nSCP-5597-4_A: T- Tasha, doctor. Tasha Lebedev. And this is Kostya, Irina, and Katja. Say hello to the nice man, Kostya.\nDr. Ivanon: Tasha, I'm not sure how aware of your situation you were. My colleagues have informed me that you and your children were recovered from within the corpses of several whales that had washed ashore. Is there anything you recall about this you can share with me?\nSCP-5597-4_A: Yes, doctor. We were to be brought somewhere safe. I know some of what happened. I will try to explain, but I fear you will not trust me.\nDr. Ivanon: You can relax, Tasha. I assure you, there are many strange things in this world.\nSCP-5597-4_A rests her head in her hands for a few moments before responding. Her breathing is seen to slow slightly during this time.\nSCP-5597-4_A: The children were put to sleep first; I had asked them to keep me awake, to see them put into the beasts. I needed to be sure it was safe. I do not know by what magics it was done. A man, he pulled the bellies of the creatures open and smoothed the walls as though he were a potter shaping clay. He drew a pink cord from within and attached it to their bellies. It was unnatural; he mocked the birth I gave to them. But thank the lord it worked. That we are safe now.\nDr. Ivanon: Safe from what, Tasha?\nSCP-5597-4_A: From the war, doctor. They had promised to take me far away, but surely even here - where you are speaking our tongue - you must know.\nDr. Ivanon: Perhaps you could elaborate more. We need to have all the information we can, you must understand, for our records.\nSCP-5597-4_A: We were fleeing the Germans, doctor. I know it was unpatriotic, and perhaps I was a coward, but I needed to keep the children safe. My husband had been called to the fighting, and I was the only one there to protect our children. We knew they were creeping closer to the city, only days away. Even if Stalingrad surrendered, they would have taken me from my children, and Peter would have been killed. They'd have thought him old enough. When I was offered a way out I took it. I feel no shame. We are here now, and the children are safe.\nDr. Ivanon: Who was it that assisted you? Are these the same individuals who put you and your children in the whales?\nSCP-5597-4_A: I do not know their names. They came in the night to my door and spoke with me to offer safe passage for us. I could scarcely believe it - I thought it was a trap! When I agreed they took us to the truck. We drove for hours, through the night and the day. We took only a little with us, scraps of food and some photos. We had to leave those behind when we reached the shore.\nDr. Ivanon: You mentioned needing to agree. What were the terms of this arrangement - did they want anything from you?\nSCP-5597-4_A: My father was a sailor. We didn't live near the coast growing up, but each spring he would make his way to the ports and find work. He'd send money to my mother and I. When he returned he would bring me a gift: polished pieces of sea glass, carved wooden ships, once a pearl on a string. When I was ten, he was gone longer than we expected and we feared the worst. He came back, at night in the middle of a storm. He was soaked to the bone, with a wild look in his eyes. His mustache had grown out over his mouth, which I knew was odd. He had always taken great care of it before, I can still remember the smell of the wax he used.\nSCP-5597-4_A: That night he took me into our kitchen and told me he had a special gift, one that I mustn't tell anyone about, not even my mother. It was a metal key - bronze, I think. I had never seen one like it: the prongs split off on all sides and curled like vines. He pressed it into my hand - I can feel the weight when I think about it, its cold heft upon my palm. He sent me to bed and in the morning it was like it never happened; we never spoke of it.\nSCP-5597-4_A: When he left the next Spring, he never came back.\nSCP-5597-4_A: That was what they asked of me: the key. I don't know how they knew of it, but I gave it to them. For the lives of my children and I.\nDr. Ivanon: I see, if there's anything more you can recall about this item, I'm sure one of my colleagues will want to speak to you about it. Were you aware that there was an additional whale that didn't make landfall?\nSCP-5597-4_A appears to speak under her breath for a moment and take the hand of the nearby child before responding.\nSCP-5597-4_A: Yes, doctor. That is my eldest, Peter. We were told we'd need a shepherd, to help us through the dark of the ocean's night. I do not wish to speak more of it, not in front of the children.\nDr. Ivanon: Is there anything more you recall about the people who came to you? Any names or methods of identification?\nAt this point a tray with food and drinks from the site cafeteria arrives and is set on the table.\nSCP-5597-4_A: It was dark, doctor, and they spoke a different language to one another. But I saw something on the truck when they came to get us, an insignia of sorts. If I may borrow your paper, I will try and draw it for you.\nDr. Ivanon: That would be appreciated. I'll leave this here for you. Thank you for your time, Tasha. Please enjoy the meal.\n\nSCP-5597-4_A produced the following image after the interview:\n\nThis symbol matches known iconography employed by Jean & Jean Transtemporal Shipping. Due to the atemporal nature of this organization, when this symbol was first used is currently indeterminable. The use of living Cetaceas for trans-temporal travel is a divergence from the known modus operandi of this organization, which has typically employed osteomantic, thaumaturgic rituals involving the bones of deceased Cetaceas for such purposes.\n\nIn addition to the above image, SCP-5597-4_A wrote an accompanying message in Russian:\n\nMy dear son, my sweet boy.\nYou have given us the greatest gift and at such a cost.\nI wish I could hold your hand in mine again. See you sing with father as he plays the balalaika, and your sisters dance.\nYou have led us such a distance, but we must make the way now on our own. I cannot imagine you will forgive me for this. I would not want it if you did; I do not deserve forgiveness for it.\nI will think of you always my son - when Irina cries, when Kostya asks for his brother, as Katja learns this new tongue I hear them speak, when the sun sets and when the day comes, I will think of you - I promise you this.\nI will tell you a truth I've kept from them, and from myself for I cannot bear it. Your father had died before we left. And now you, I must lose as well. Your loss is the worse to hold in my heart, for it was my fault and my choice. It will gnaw upon me each day. The shepherd is not to die to save his flock and the mother is not to leave her son. What a cruel world we have made my boy. Will this new one we have found be different? I do not know.\nI love you, I have loved you, and I will love you.\nGoodbye, my son.\n\nAs SCP-5597-1-4_A did not possess any anomalous abilities or properties, they were interviewed and administered amnestics and memory-suppressing memetic agents over a period of three weeks. During which, they were additionally gradually exposed to modern technological advances. After confirming the successful repression of veil-threatening knowledge, SCP-5597-1-4_A were subsequently integrated into Russian immigrant communities in Toronto.3 No further containment procedures are required at this moment.\nWhile SCP-5597-5 has demonstrated an unusual level of engagement with Foundation research teams, no reliable way to communicate with the entity has thus far been established.\n\nFootnotes\n1. North Atlantic right whale.\n2. See Addendum - A1: Interview with individual recovered from SCP-5597-4.\n3. Ontario, Canada.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5596 | SCP-5597 | SCP-5598 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Notice: This file possesses cognitohazardous properties. While reading this text is not believed to be harmful, comprehension and interpretation of the text will be negatively affected. Please exercise discretion when reading this document.\n\nCANTO I\n\nNow right off\nthe bat\nyou're going to be confused\nbut this is because there is a lack of a lack of a number 5598\nbut this is because we are men of science and theory (who do not answer to poetry)\nbut this is because we are not lesser men\nif we die in the dark then who dies in the light?\nbut this is because the object of poetry is not idiot clarity and washington stakeform\nneither the bank vault nor the greek mathematician\nbut the topmost of the **Kabbalah abbalah abalone, the most hidden of hiddens,\n\n(injected with Jenova geneva (a city in Switzerland) (designed by Tetsuya Nomura and voiced by Lance BassGeorgeNewbernTylerHoechlin, for english is what we are concerned with today))\n\nI think you the reader understand the problem here,\nand the problem is poetry is difficult to contain, meaning is squeezed out of it and we have to force the words back into an order of magnitude\nthe truth, proscribed\nbeing that our humans, our people, our he/she/they/xe\nshining coats glory be\nmust try and find meaning\nwhere meaning slips free into the very foundational order of the language\nif you want to taste poetry melting ice cream on the tongue\nyou have to let the words\nslip into sounds\nbut\nwe cant\notherwise poetry overwhelms the system\nbecause we live in a world with out poetry\nwe die in the dark\n(we let the leaker live in a platinum safe, site 93, where Dr. Nealon (who is not assigned to SCP-5598) [fight!] is to maintain a 24 hour operating security camera watching it to make sure the poem-intestines do not prolapse. The documents he works on [he does!] is an example of how much leak is out, floating boating boat moat boat on a moat stoat groat worming up your throat boat boat boat on an endless starlit sea. (this is almost poetry, and therefore it is bad poetry))\na team of psychiatrists and PhD (you), normally Pound collection in hand and a knowledge of Lowell and Creeley at arms like guns, are tasked to force things back into.\nyou are antipoetry,\nyou fight language itself,\nyou wield what you hate, the silly amateur rhyme and the cutesy platitutde as antiguns, a gun turned inside out against the falling out of meaning\nif you hate poetry (you) you wield anti-intellectualism to preserve your world. You wield the Hallmark card against the eldritch force that unwinds the tongue and burns the brain.\nthe avant-garde is evil, the counterculture can't help me\nWhere your beloved thing blends, in capitalism, with the banality of the liberal nothing.\nthat is where you save our reality\nthis thing cannot move,\nbut it hates you\nthis poem you read (hopefullly) means something, it fails as poetry. It should not be difficult to those who get it, but it is a crapshoot. It is meant to be consumed as manual, it can't. This poem is corruption.\n\nCANTO II\n\nI Ferlinghetti, stand on a blasted heath in health that lies\nno where,\nwhere no\nman can not think too much without dehydration\nthe description above is false, yes, but it is also true.\nconsider a magazine of poetry OR poetry, 1981 March, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, founded, edited and edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews. If you know of the language poets than you know what I know, which is truth. Can the truth handle the truth [bernstein] But if SCP-1981 really does see circles that are not circles, billions of dead souls inside containment, unravellers have eaten country's moral fabric, turning hearts into filth, yadda yadda yadda, et cetera et cetera, will you just shut up man, is he really from a kingdom level above human?\nWell, no.\nHere is how you understand the magazine, the SCP-5598. As you've guessed, smart boy, it leaks. It leaks its inner contents and we don't have a clue of the original innards before the victim\nwas slaughter\ned.\nIt leaks the language poets, who abhorr poetry as consumerism, the vampire of meaning and memory. Words should stay hidden. The meaning is mine. This is less poetry than poetry.\nYou built from words first and words for words sake than any sort of involuntary unvoluntary desire to communicate. A spokesman for Bernstein, who is himself himself.\nSCP-1981 was found in a library, though, that's important.\nbooks/not books (SCP-1981 is a book) butting up against each other and leaking. We have to consider how poetry plays, because if I author quote Fake Reagan here, then is fake reagan here?(and is this how the thing in the bay of bengal functions?)\nPoetry is an idea sponge.\n(the working theory in the department is that the magazine was placed next to a worse thing, and if Bernstein's rules of axioms hold true, then, logically, we have a problem wherein the interchange of meaning destabilizes words and liberates them, sets the words free. Current theories on the worse thing are\n\nA blasted heath (literally)\nMax Stirner, but who takes Max Stirner one step further, an uber Marxist who hates marxists who points out that if society and liberalism and communism and capitalism are spooks that do not exist, and by that same measure there is only the ego in the worker, but if the ego is merely making meaning, and if meaning itself has no matters, and as consequence the ego does not exist, and if the Freudian ego (proven true see SCP-XXXX) isn't real, and as consequence life has no matters, could it be that life does not exist? stops. breathing. you never could breath.\nFuck (he/hers/them)\nthe underworld itself\n\nWe know.)\nIf you can quote it, it exists, and if it is assumed true that poetry has a language, then it *has* a language. It has a language. It can speak to itself. It's already doing it. Think about it, literally.\nthis\npoem\nis\nin\ncommunication\nwith\nSCP-5598\nand\nthe\nlanguage\ncenters\nof\nyour\nbrain\nand\nit\nchanges\nthe\nway\nyou\nsee\nit. Protocols are in place, no worry and yet. You already think in poetry. Just take care stare bear in the forest at where the wind blows and whistles through the tall grass housewife at home playing lute [yes! more!]\nWhat's worse, the poets are unsleeping with poetry that isn't poetry, bogged down by thoughts that aren't them because think about it. really think about it, if poetry the way the language poets practice it is divorced from ideas of personal experience and is words first than you loose your own personal experience, then you lose your own personal experience. Pay Attention.\nWhat's worse, the poets see it, and it wears a white gown.\n(If your thoughts aren't your own, and they aren't thoughts, what are they? are they human? If not, what are they capable of?)they won't describe more before their eyes often\njust\n\ngo\n\n[OK Go is an American rock band ok now go dont go yugo slavia flavia flavor of mine inside bind tie them down a white gown big frown big mouth loose teeth I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt sodom and gomorrah are burning]\nthe poem wrote that\nNow, for the next part of the story, I'm going to get technical. Hang on, I promise it'll be alright. It will help you understand poetry's place in a modern capitalism age and also how to contain SCP-5598.\ntwo years from now 2021 the poet and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, aged 101, will die on the floor of his old covidclosed bookshop City Lights Bookstore eyes missing arms missing mouth agape they will find fragments of white fabric on his coat and a great disturbance in the poetry section. The blood and gore leaking from the old man's face will be consistent with Kerouac long ago. October 20, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida, Kerouac vomits blood. the sky hangs heavy over St. Anthony's Hospital, the official death is from an esophageal hemorrhage due to alcohol abuse but we lied, we die in the dark. It ripped out his liver, the source of his poetry, present in every bottle of booze that wormed its dark way into his songs (its skin is long) It is a creature of Interzone, but now back there Wuthering Heights is destroyed in City Lights Bookstore. The Beat Generation will pass and we will no longer face darkness the same way. No more cutups or facing the terror through the wall [ginsberg].\n\nWilliam S. Burroughs starred in both Drugstore Cowboy and a Nike ad. He shot his fucking wife in the head while high. If you sing your grief the world will sing\n\nBut the thing will be he (Ferlinghetti on a blasted heath) wont be dead. aged 103 it sliced off his arms and cut out his eyes and left him sputtering on bookshelf floor but it had been there since the fifties tracing him through word after word after word.\n\nNo eyes to read no hands to write because the poetry stole them, the poetry we discuss races through the skull and burns out the neurons like lights in a city winking off one by one by one.\n\n(No, this is wrong)\nIt affects you too. You haven't seen SCP-5598 yet but maybe one day you'll be alone, in a shopping mall Disneyworld hell or else a dark room, the love of your life fucking you on the bed or sobbing inconsolably at horrifying things on the television and what do you know you'll be shot through the head with talkpoems and cut-ups and submarine light in Bickfords and the scales of a fish and you'll be sobbing as your mind undoes itself. You've seen it, the disconnect of all the words that make up you (because the words really do make up you) and then you'll see the white gown and the long skin and the nails that fold back on the head.\nI've seen them.\nSoft nail.\nSky sharp.\nRoger snore\nwhy did the chicken\nIf the past ten words are pointless, you might be a redneck [foxworthy] if if if if if!\nNo matter how political or polemical or puritanical (lou dobbalina mr bob dobalina [funky homosapien[tork]] fuck stop stop stop), I have a moment of lucidity to know I am a dead man. I am ashamed that any sense I make is just part of the fucking poetry. [no]\nlast call of the night: if poetry is an idea sponge, what does it absorb? more poetry? or else?\n\nCANTO III\n\nquick example\nif you look at the poems of 1981 March, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E like I did, it slips a trip a grip. consider how a man imprisoned on false and fraudulent trumped-up judgery tries his fingers at a basic construction, where the simple center of the poem is the poem. C\nonsider the crisis at hand when you write on trying to recall parties at drunken colleges singing Chainsmokers into smoky night, drunk and alone:\n(no training):\n404 Internal Server Error\nThe server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request:\n\n Traceback (most recent call last):\n   File \"/SCP/5598/files/_display.py\", line 551, in respond\n     table.open.body = self.handler()\n   File \"/SCP/5598/files/_display.py\", line 331, in __call__\n     return self.callable(*self.args, **self.kwargs)\n   File \"error_classic.py\", line 12 in index\n     raise FileNotFoundError(obj)\n FileNotFoundError: [Errno 6] File inaccesible: 'D-34666_TESTING_INPUT01.pdf'\n\nunderstand this is fleeting\nit is a lie\nbut also if you want to fight it, preserve what remains,\nthis is also a lie. Periodt.\nThe transfiguration! Christ will come like that! [o'connor]\n\nFollowing A Party at XXXXXX's (Oct. 2019)\nLife is blunt smoke and hot sauce,\na spiraling cigarette abyss.\nIn arc-sodium spaces\nthey cut White Claw seltzers like birthday cake\nunder marijuana vice grips\nand all our yesterdays really HAVE lighted fools the way to dusty death.\nThe Twitter literati, they say,\nhave debated whether pegging is a reflection of the base code of the universe,\nfractalized anal sex in A minor,\nfellas, is it gay to be alone?\nIn the dim and longing steets,\na solitary skateboarder rides nowhere fast;\nhis face glassy mirror under hooded cloak,\nBeats by Dre melting like clocks on an ant-beach.\nHe soars into a harrowing middle distance sunrise.\nAdmit it.\nYour home died 7 years ago, gurgling on the floor in someone else's kitchen\n\u201cAway! Away! We must make haste! Avast ye! I've heard the mermaids calling!\u201d\n\nthis means nothing to you,\n\nif you piece more than bare logic from it there's fire to be\n\nheld\nin sunrise hands\nand rotting flesh from bone\n\nso we shouldn't have looked back, shouldn't have saved her, we loved her.\nher skin is long\n\nCANTO IV\n\nArthur Handscome, tall and intellected a cut too big for his coat sits with the site director, alone, coffee and cronut display with grapes in salad, to discuss a matter of unnerving importance. You see, says he, the problem with Five Five Nighty Eight is even though Analytics determines yes, our army of poets must write bad poetry, the horseshoe circles around. What do you mean says the director legs bulging muscled in suit. Well, consider it thus, if we fight high art's decay of meaning with low art, poetry that is communicative and simple, well this is no protection from decay of meaning. It doesnt matter if capitalism or postmodernism absorbs poetry and removes its meaning as art, the kind of poetry the language poets preach has no meaning, its words first just a jumble of them the reader creates the meaning and well he gestures broadly thats the anomaly. Here the words dont stick and it destroys consciousness slowly as the brain scrambles for meaning. the site director frowns and gulper eel takes a swig mouth too wide for his teeth, but then we have no way of containing it, it eats through every poet except Dr. Nealon and it spreads throughout word by word by sentence by sentence turning back on it, poetry as plague, and we have no backup procedures every procedure is a poem and every procedure author dies but handscome knows this and he freezes and realizes there's a lack of __ in the air. it is\nit her it\nno way out he thinks\nthe doors the walls arent opening but of course they arent doors or walls they arent even real.\n\n(this is what I told you about the kingdom level above human and the thing in the bay of bengal. they originate from it)\n\nthe site director realizes it too but too late and begins to scramble and cry but its not tears its meat coming out\nin a fetus the agent dives under the table, ears ringing 300 decibelles we didn't start the fire [joel] and he\ntries to pull a poem out I wandered lonely as a cloud\nThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,\nWhen all at once I saw a crowd,\nA host, of golden daffodils; [wordsworth] but soon daffodils are nothing and so are clouds, nothing is nothing is nothing is poetry, and the song that sings the universe is only itself and now he thinks this:\nhumans are\nmeant to\nbe complex.\nThey are\nmeant to\nbe a vision\nof wheels rhyming\nwith each other,\nin unusual bouncing off\nway\nThey are meant\nto exist\nin large tribes\nand unknowing groups\nwith multitudes\nno one man\nknowing each other,\nknowing the\nfull\nthe deer\ndied following\nthe toyota\nin the cornfield\nwith the state park\nlooming.\ntrees turn\nto fire\nat dawn.\nthen Handscome thinks one last think a rinky dink (im trying to finish [stop]) before he passes into elysium fields and that's what he thinks elysium fields abandon all hope ye who enter here the styx the lyre the ending in the beginning.\n(she's tearing at his eyes now)\non the verge of becoming human again, of seeing sunshine,\nh\nIf you see me we will diee\n\nsees\n\nher again\n\nand the lyre strings break, and die.\n(poetry lasts since forever. [shut up already!]\nmy love to you my pillar of salt halt walt walt disney\n[die! die under the claws and the long skin! just fucking shut up! i hate this poem!]\nSing O'muse!)\n\nMore by this author\n\nHide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-3999\n\nSCP-2432\n\nSCP-Big egg\n\nSCP-4012\n\nSCP-3000-J\n\nSCP-5702\n\nSCP-2817\n\nSCP-2714\n\nSCP-4930\n\nSCP-3520\n\nSCP-5401\n\nSCP-3672\n\nSCP-3643\n\nSCP-6513\n\nSCP-5598\n\nSCP-5753\n\nSCP-2302\n\nSCP-4701\n\nSCP-4875\n\nSCP-2653\n\nSCP-4302\n\nSCP-4753\n\nSCP-3796\n\nTales\n\nasmr by dado\n\nRONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE RAPPING\n\nExcerpt from The Astrolabe Institute Journal\n\nAmnestic\n\nThe William Penn Iteration\n\nEnd Of Deaf; or, In the Clutches of Dumb\n\nThe News Tonight: Wednesday April 26th 2017\n\nInterior\u2014Interior\n\nThe Undoing\n\nHoly Mackerel\n\nGrandchildren Frost\n\nPortrait of Two Choreographers\n\nWade Williams Distribution Presents:\n\nThe DevourerLand Diaries\n\n\u00ab SCP-5597 | SCP-5598 | SCP-5599 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5599's video output on startup.\n\nItem #: SCP-5599\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All copies of SCP-5599 are held in one of Site-77's medium-capacity vaults. Mobile Task Force Eta-6 (\"Presented In Color\") have been dispatched to thrift stores and garage sales in the Appalachian region to recover any additional copies of SCP-5599 which exist outside of containment.\nExposure to SCP-5599-related materials is highly restricted, with D-5599 being the designation for the exposed individual being studied. Any other living beings found to have been affected by SCP-5599 are to be euthanized.\nDescription: SCP-5599 refers to data present on approximately 1,500 cartridges produced for the Atari Video Computer System. They are playable on any computing system with a cartridge slot large enough to accommodate it, even if no actual connection is made.\nWhen inserted into such a slot, SCP-5599 produces scrambled bitmap graphics and assorted sounds. Although reactive to controller inputs, it is difficult to assess what SCP-5599's intended content was \u2014 as frequent crashing often leads to corruption of the systems interpreting its data.\nThe following effects are not known to be universal, but have been observed in testing.\nLoading SCP-5599 or analyzing its assets has caused all subjects who have been designated D-5599 to experience permanent hearing loss. First reporting mild tinnitus, D-5599's hearing degraded over a period of six months until only being able to hear sounds which could have been produced by an MOS Technology 6532 sound chip. Neurological pattern recognition degenerates once the deafening is complete.\nThe semicircular canals, vestibule, cochlea, and other auditory organs are not outwardly damaged but will no longer detect audio as expected. Subjects may also develop visual impairment relating to pattern recognition such as prosopagnosia. The temporal lobe will become desiccated1 in subjects experiencing this effect and may lead to them being totally unable to communicate.\nLeft alone in their head\nSCP-5599 can be perceived normally by affected subjects with some preferring to hear harsh sounds than nothing at all. The reduction in human lifespan among exposed subjects is statistically significant. Further study is required to determine whether this is due to brain damage, profoundsocial isolation, or a combination of other factors. Alone in the mirror on the bathroom floor\nD-5599 claims that repeatedly viewing SCP-5599's output moderately stabilizes the graphics. Even after being made to forget, D-5599 has consistently described guiding a small object2 through a crude graphical depiction of a golf course and into a hole. Once the hole has been filled, a large marine animal3will consume the object. On-screen text such as \"keep the red army red algae blooms at bay\" and \"The Ocean's aer(sic) die\" appears before the program crashes.\nSCP-5599 was discovered in 1983 after the Appalachian region of the United States saw an unusual spike in deafness.\nAddendum: Interview 5599-Y.\nD-5599 speaks with Dr. Sanitatem about the progression of SCP-5599's effect and its impact on their ability to communicate.\n\nAccess Audio Player\n\nAccess Denied\n\nTERMINAL SHUTDOWN\u2026 DECONTAMINATION COMMENCING\n\nAccess Document Arcadia-X\n\nAccess Granted\n\nThe following information was included on a mimeographed flyer included with SCP-5599 purchases.\n\nAt Arcadia, we're doing more than satisfying every holey bit where your craving is laying. We're also never going to stop. Everything you're stuffing into that void falls right through back to us, so we can keep cranking.\nPrepare, it's here, Arcadia!\n\nCurse of the Everglade\n\nYou Are Trash!\n\nStray Back When\n\nOil & Boil 'Em\n\n Silverfish \n\nZane Grey Pro\nDentistry: Deluxe Edition\n\nTelemassacre\n\n fish golf \n\nFlapper\n\nBloccom\n\n The Last G.A.R.Y. \n\nStar Justices\n\nTHEY'RE COMING SOON\n\nFootnotes\n1. Mummified\n2. Hypothesized to be a bowl or glass\n3. Possibly a fish or shark\n\n\u00ab SCP-5598 | SCP-5599 | SCP-5600 \u00bb"}
{"text": "4/5600 LEVEL 4/5600\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5600\n\nKeter\n\nElk Grove, WI circa 1978.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: An exclusion zone has been established at a distance of 5km from SCP-5600 and marked with hazardous waste warnings. A joint agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has designated the area surrounding SCP-5600 as blighted and all roads have been redirected away from the exclusion zone.\nSecurity Task Force Sigma-10 (\"Rolling Stones\") has been assigned to monitor the exclusion zone and intercept any persons or objects attempting to either enter or leave SCP-5600. Members of STF Sigma-10 are to be equipped with a chroniton dosimeter1 at all times and rotate off-site as necessary for safety. The accumulation of chronitons2 may have unpredictable interactions with Foundation interests, including the containment of SCP-5600.\nDue to the inherent difficulties in recovering personnel, entry into SCP-5600 is not permitted at this time.\nDescription: SCP-5600 is a temporal rift affecting the town of Elk Grove, Wisconsin where time does not advance beyond December of 1979. Residents of Elk Grove awaken each day with an intrinsic understanding that it is still some time during \"December of 1979\", and are able to maintain a sense of progression between each individual day.\nRadio broadcasts, television broadcasts, and the local newspaper within SCP-5600 all continue to publish information or produce new programming daily. These publications include material synthesized from local, regional, and national events circa 1979, however, large segments of all publications consist of lorem ipsum3.\nDirect communication is not possible between the interior and the exterior of SCP-5600. While it is possible to safely observe and monitor the anomaly from within the boundaries, objects or personnel who attempt to leave the anomaly undergo temporal shearing as they transition back to normal space-time. To date, this shearing effect has been ultimately fatal to personnel but does allow for the transition of some inorganic objects.\n\nInvestigation Log.5600.1:\nAfter numerous attempts to investigate SCP-5600 using unmanned and remotely controlled devices, a manned mission was approved and scheduled for 1985-03-20 which included Agents Dureau and Jonas. Both agents were equipped with precautionary hazardous environment equipment, as well as VHS recording devices.\nOn 1985-03-21 proximity alarms within the exclusion zone indicated multiple objects had appeared near the boundary of SCP-5600. A recovery team was dispatched and inventoried a total of twenty VHS tapes. Several tapes were scorched beyond salvaging but more than 80 hours of total footage was retrieved.\n\nDecember 1979 Tape #1\n\nEject tape\n\nFootage begins with the camera pointing down at a dirty tile floor. There are numerous wet boot prints and slush puddles scattered about. The camera jerks up to the interior of a convenience store. Agent Jonas is visible in the adjacent aisle looking at the camera from behind a bag of chips. A hand reaches out and grabs one of the bags of chips and brings it closer to the camera.\nAgent Dureau: \"Look at this..\" Agent Dureau flips the bag around. It is a generically packaged solid gray color with white block letters that read 'CHIP SNACKS' near the top. There are no nutrition labels or other information visible on the bag.\nAgent Jonas: \"Very strange\u2026Chip snacks, soda pops, chewing gum, candy snack. Where's Coke? Where's the Gummy Bears? I've heard of off-brand but these are no brand at all.\" The camera pans around further as Dureau roams the store. He approaches a cooler door and pulls it open. Cases of 'Good Beer' line the top shelf, 'Modest Beer' beneath that, and finally 'Hog Swill' on the bottom shelf.\nAgent Dureau: \"This place creeps me out. We're out of here soon, I hope? If this is the worst thing going on inside this bubble, we're going to be fine.\"\nAgent Jonas: \"Yeah, we're out either tonight or first thing tom\u2014\"\nA voice from off-camera interrupts with \"Merry Christmas!\" and as the camera is snapping around to face it, the tape stops due to damage. The rest of the tape was unsalvageable.\n\nDecember 1979 Tape #4\n\nEject tape\n\nFootage begins in a diner with the camera positioned to see a row of people sitting and drinking coffee.\nAgent Dureau: \"This here is the diner's morning coffee crew. My dad always used to tell me that places like these were the pulse of any good town. All the information gets exchanged here, all the stories, all the deals, all the rumors get vetted and validated over cups of java and slices of pie.\" The camera zooms in on the man standing behind the counter who is holding a carafe of coffee and topping up the cups of the other locals.\nAgent Dureau: \"And this here is Joe Kirschbauer, the proprietor of the finest establishment here in Elk Grove. Say hello and Merry Christmas for our video, Joe.\" Joe waves to the camera but turns away with shy deference.\nDiner Patron: \"Joe makes the best lemon meringue pie this side of the Mississippi 364 days a year. Aside from Christmas.\" Several other patrons eagerly affirm this statement.\nKirschbauer: \"Well, without Betty behind the counter you boys gotta get your sugar fix somehow.\" Several patrons laugh, as does Kirschbauer, but his smile quickly fades.\n\nThe video cuts but then resumes in the same diner. One of the diner patrons is sitting across the table, Agent Jonas is in the seat to the right of center, Agent Dureau behind the camera. The three of them speak in hushed tones.\nDiner Patron: \"Joe's lived here almost his whole life other than a few years he went off to business school. Came back right after and married his high school sweetheart. Gorgeous woman, Betty. Maiden name Ansbach, I think.\"\nAgent Jonas: \"The way things were worded something happened to her, yeah? Divorce, early death, infidelity?\"\nDiner Patron: \"Jesus man, keep your voice down. If Joe heard you he'd break that pot of coffee over your head! Betty was a sweet, sweet woman. Active in the church committee, the PTA, you name it. She and Joe opened this diner together. He did the flattop, she did the coffee and pies, and this town supported the hell out of them. They had two kids. The first one they lost to whooping cough. Real, real sad. Two years later they tried again and had a boy, Daniel. He's ten-years-old now if I'm remembering right.\"\nAgent Jonas: \"Betty and Joe stayed together and had another? Wow, that's a strong relationship. I can't imagine.\"\nDiner Patron: \"Yeah. We were all like one big family for them back then. It changed them both but that's not really the sort of thing it's too polite to go asking about or poking at. We just did what we could and so did they. But then, not long after Daniel's\u20264th birthday, I think? The three of them were coming back from Shullsburg and got hit by a drunk driver. Betty died by the side of the road and Daniel hasn't said a word since.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"The boy is completely non-verbal? That's a terrible story.\"\nDiner Patron: \"None of his teachers can get him to say a word. He seems to read and write fine but the boy just won't talk. Doc in town, he's a psychologist so he says, says the trauma did this to the boy's psyche. Needs something\u2014\"\nSeveral minutes are lost due to damage to the tape.\nAgent Jonas: \"\u2014any plans for Christmas?\"\nDiner Patron: \"Oh, sure. Me and the Mrs. will do the early service at church, then stop on by to drop off the gift for Daniel, then we'll come head to my wife's sister's house across the street for dinner.\"\nAgent Jonas: \"I'm sorry did you say you're giving a gift to Daniel? As in the Kirschbauer boy?\"\nDiner Patron: \"I did, yes. That okay?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Sure, just wanted to make sure we heard you right. Can we get you some more coffee?\"\nThe diner patron smiles, nods in the affirmative, and mouths 'Merry Christmas'. Agents Jonas and Dureau look at each other with concern.\n\nDecember 1979 Tape #16\n\nEject tape\n\nFootage begins inside a residential living room. The camera is pointed at a convertible sofa where Joe Kirschbauer is seated. His son, Daniel Kirschbauer, is sitting on the floor in front of him playing with a set of Lego brand building blocks. Agent Dureau is seated in a chair on the far right side of the screen.\nAgent Dureau: \"Thanks Joe, we won't take up too much of your time.\"\nKirschbauer: \"That's okay, boys. You've bought enough pie and coffee for the locals that I had to yield sooner or later. If I didn't stop you, everyone would be too fat to fit in the door after Christmas!\" Kirschbauer laughs and the Agents politely laugh along.\nAgent Dureau: \"You're actually the last person in town to agree to be interviewed. Other than your son, obviously, but\u2014\"\nSeveral minutes of video are lost due to damaged tape. Footage resumes as Joe Kirschbauer sits forward and pats his son on the head. He leans down to his son's ear and says something to him the camera audio is unable to pick up, then the boy gets up and leaves. Joe waits for his son to be safely out of the room before resuming.\nKirschbauer: \"Fellas I'm just not sure what more there is to gain from talking to me. You watch my diner every day, you talk to all my patrons and I know they've already told you every rumor in town worth hearing. So why don't you tell me why you're intent on ruining the mood of another Christmas.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Christmas is important to you, isn't it? It seems to be the one thing everyone here has in common: anticipation for Christmas and a gift for your son.\"\nKirschbauer: \"Christmas is important to my son so it's important to me. It's his favorite holiday. He deserves to enjoy it.\"\nAgent Jonas: \"Any plans for Christmas you want to share with us?\"\nKirschbauer: Joe shifts uncomfortably in his seat for several seconds. \"Not especially. It's a private affair and I don't really know you very well.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"I'll be direct Mr. Kirschbauer. Everyone in town has a present for your son, or very nearly everyone. And that's not an exaggeration. I know your family suffered a profound tragedy and it's wonderful that everyone is there for you but every single resident, six years after the accident, still keeping this up? Can you explain this to me in some\u2014\" Dureau is interrupted by Kirschbauer.\nKirschbauer: \"I'm not going to be lectured by the two of you on what is and what is not an acceptable way for my son to spend his Christmas. Everything safe and good about his childhood was taken from him by a drunk driver and I am not going to let Christmas join that list. You're going to shut the fuck up and figure out what to get my son for Christmas or you're going to get out of my life forever. Your choice.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Joe, he's never going to be able to move on from her death if you don't let him.\"\nKirschbauer: \"I think I've made myself clear. It's time for you to leave.\"\nJonas picks up the camera and the two agents leave the house. As they walk down the path to the driveway, Mr. Kirschbauer is heard angrily telling them to 'have a Merry Christmas' before slamming the door. The camera is then manually turned off.\n\nDecember 1979 Tape #19\n\nEject tape\n\nFootage begins at night as Agent Dureau pulls the door to the diner open. Few lights are on except for above one booth in the back. Joe Kirschbauer sits in the booth cradling a cup of coffee with a cigarette in his hand. He does not look up as the agents approach.\nAgent Dureau: \"Joe, can we talk?\"\nKirschbauer: \"Not with that [camera] on.\"\nThe camera is set on the countertop and the lens cap is put in place. The rest of the interview is audio-only.\nKirschbauer: \"I'm sorry I've been short with you. It's just\u2026it's stressful. I want everything perfect. My son deserves it and we're going to get it fucking right. It's enormously stressful to hold things just so and to try to change a town of 1800 people.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Change the town how? What do you mean?\"\nKirschbauer: \"Slowly. Gradually. Each and every person, day by day, until they embrace the Christmas spirit and join the effort to lift my son's holiday. With some folks, it's much easier than others; weak wills or substance abuse leaves them with no defense. After that, I started working on the other influencers. The town council, the school board, the priest, the deputy. People with no influence, no connection, they're the hardest and there are still plenty of them out there. The diner helps with that and gives them a reason to come and find me sometimes.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"What happens when and if you finally get everyone to cooperate?\"\nKirschbauer: \"My son can have the Christmas he deserves and he'll find the strength to speak again. I know it.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Joe I\u2026has your son spent time with a psychologist or psychiatrist? Grief counseling is really important and everyone deals with tragedy in their own way, I don't think it's fair to\u2014\"\nKirschbauer: \"Yeah I took him to the shrink in town on the regular for almost four months after Betty died. He'd shake my hand and say Daniel was 'making good progress' but that never came. No change. No talking. He just nods at me and points at things and sometimes he'll write it out if it's a complex thought but that's more and more a luxury nowadays\u2026\"\nAgent Dureau: \"These things do take time though. You can't give up on treatment just because you, an outside observer, don't see the results. The changes are happening within your son, not without at least not yet.\"\nKirschbauer: \"That's easy for you to say. I know my son, and I know pain. I see the same pain in my heart reflected back in his eyes and I won't force him to face an uncertain future until we've pushed through this. Betty's favorite time of the year was Christmas. It's the time when everyone comes together and celebrates and creates family and memories and warmth and happiness and he deserves that again. The best Christmas ever, even if it kills me!\"\nSeveral minutes pass as Joe presumably calms down.\nAgent Dureau: \"I worry about what'll happen to the both of you, to this town, if you finally achieve your goal and it doesn't live up to your hopes. If it doesn't fix Daniel.\"\nKirschbauer: \"I worry too.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"I realize I'm nobody special to you or your son, but I do have experience with tragedy. Sometimes the only thing you can do is choose to make the best out of whatever messed up crap life throws at you. Neither you nor your son deserved to lose Betty, but dwelling on it and waiting for perfection that might never come in order to confront it is\u2026no way to live life. What would Betty say if she knew you were frozen here, December of '79, unable to let your son grow up and become the man you both hoped he could be? A man able to handle what life throws at him.\"\nKirschbauer: \"I can't ask him to leave his mom behind.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"He can't leave her behind, or you can't?\"\nThe camera continues to record for several more minutes without conversation. A soft sobbing is heard until the camera is turned off.\n\nDecember 1979 Tape #20\n\nEject tape\n\nFootage begins as Agents Jonas and Dureau say 'Merry Christmas' to the camera and exchange small wrapped boxes. Several minutes of footage are lost due to damage, however footage resumes as Agent Dureau holds a bottle of wine close to the camera and states he is going to go check on Joe and Daniel Kischbauer. The camera is then manually turned off.\nFootage resumes as Agent Dureau walks down a shoveled walkway to a ranch-style house. Dureau steps onto the front porch and presses the doorbell, which can be heard chiming. Several minutes pass as he attempts to look into the house and he rings the doorbell again. After approximately ten minutes, Dureau leaves the front porch and goes around the side of the house into the backyard. The camera is pointed at a sliding glass door, and Joe Kirschbauer is seated at a table inside.\nAgent Dureau approaches the sliding glass door and knocks. The first attempt at knocking goes unacknowledged, but the second prompts Joe Kirschbauer to rise from his seat, open the door, and invite Agent Dureau in.\nAgent Dureau: \"Hey Joe, Merry Christmas. Is\u2026everything okay?\"\nKirschbauer: \"Yeah, it's fine. Can I get you anything? Coffee?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"No, that's alright. I brought you this though.\" Dureau hands over the bottle of wine.\nKirschbauer: \"Thanks, that's thoughtful. Sorry if I seem gloomy, I really do appreciate it.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Hey, Joe, that's alright. I think we've established you can talk to me if you need a shoulder. It's clear something is eating you and I hate to see you down on Christmas.\"\nKirschbauer: \"Yeah, that's the thing. Clinton, it's\u2026it's never going to get any better than this, than it was today. Is it?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Not sure what you mean. Did things not go as expected?\"\nKirschbauer: \"They did, actually. I've fretted about this for\u2026as long as I can remember. Today was perfect. Daniel woke up so excited. His breakfast was great, I drank coffee in the recliner as he sorted out his presents, lots of friends and family came by to wish us well and drop off more gifts. His smile just grew and grew all day long until I worried he might burst. It was perfect.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"That sounds really nice, Joe. Exactly what you've been saying you wanted for your son. I'm happy for you both.\"\nKirschbauer: \"But now that it's over, what do I do? What do I say? What does he have to look forward to when he gets up tomorrow?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Gosh, Joe. That's some heavy stuff. I\u2026don't know how to respond to that.\"\nKirschbauer: \"Yeah. Neither do I. Did you want some coffee or not? I'm going to pour another cup. With Irish cream.\" The camera continues to record for several more minutes as the two sit with each other over coffee. Extraneous audio and video have been removed.\nFootage resumes as the camera is pointed at a television. It is nighttime and the glow of the TV is the only illumination. A countdown is heard as a ball is seen descending, marking a traditional New Year's Eve celebration. After the ball hits '1' and 'Happy New Year' is shouted, the TV cuts to an announcer who begins speaking lorem ipsum. The camera is manually turned off.\nFootage resumes as Agents Jonas and Dureau grab their suitcases and check their motel room for belongings one final time. Dureau walks over to the nightstand and pans the camera over the floor where a messy pile of papers can be seen. Each of the papers has been ripped from a tabletop calendar and is printed in the format: \"Today's date is December <%>\". The only legible sheet in the one on the top of the pile, and it says 'December 685th, 1979'. Agents Jonas and Dureau leave their motel room and the camera is turned off. There is no more footage on this tape.\n\nRecovery Log.5600.2: Clinton Dureau\nOn 1985-03-21 proximity alarms within the exclusion zone indicated two objects had exited or been expelled from SCP-5600 in the same area the tapes were recovered approximately 50 minutes later. A team was dispatched and discovered the unconscious body of Foundation Agent Clinton Dureau, and the corpse of Agent Aaron Jonas, laying outside of the boundary of the temporal rift.\nAgent Dureau had suffered third-degree burns to more than 70% of his body and the majority of his internal organs were saturated with chronitons, causing numerous necessary biological processes to phase in and out of normal space-time. Agent Dureau was placed into intensive care. Agent Jonas was dead on arrival. Agent Dureau was provided quality-of-life care after his prognosis, including pain management, so he could be debriefed. The interview has been transcribed below.\n\nOpen Interview Record\n\nClose Interview Record\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nDr. Eates: \"Clinton, I'm sorry we cannot do this more delicately. You are with us in the infirmary at Site-37. What is the last thing you remember?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"I stepped through the bubble and my life literally flashed before my eyes. Next thing I know, here I am.\"\nDr. Eates: \"You subjected yourself to the temporal shearing surrounding SCP-5600.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"And what a trip it was. Am I going to make it?\"\nDr. Eates: \"I'm not an MD, but the prognosis isn't great. You're badly burnt and large portions of your body are out of sync with our space-time. We're working on ways to stabilize you as quickly as we can but things are a bit of a mess at the moment.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Ah. So just in case, here we are.\"\nDr. Eates: \"Just in case. Do you know how long you were inside Elk Grove?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"No, I'm honestly not sure. Years at the least? I really couldn't even speculate but it felt like both a lifetime and just a couple of weeks all at once. I can't really explain why it took so long to come back. Did you get my messages? I wasn't sure if\u2026\"\nDr. Eates: \"Yes, Agent Dureau. We think we got just about all of them. A few of the tapes didn't survive the transition but we have a lot of material to go over thanks to you.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Good. I hope it proves this was worth it. Would suck to die for nothing.\"\nDr. Eates: \"Our original instructions were for you to return after one hour but you were gone for more than twenty-four. Can you explain what caused you to deviate?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"One day? That's it? That can't be right. I\u2026There's no way that's the reality of it. No, I lived there\u2026I\u2026There were so many\u2026I'm.\" The Agent's breathing becomes audibly shallow and erratic.\nDr. Eates: \"Please, focus your breathing and let's try to talk this out. I need you to get on top of what you're feeling and break this down for me. Focus, please. The extra stress isn't doing you any good.\" Over the next thirty seconds, breathing returns to normal.\nAgent Dureau: \"I think I'm going to be okay now. I wish I could make you understand what it was like but I don't think there are any practical ways to describe it to you.\"\nDr. Eates: \"Please, as soon as you're ready I'd like you to try.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Well, I was finally able to convince the dad that the rest of the town was ready over many late nights talking. Ready to give his son the Christmas he had been putting off. I woke up the next morning after one of our late-night chats and something had changed; I knew it was December 20th. I have to tell you, Eates, from that point on it felt like a march to the finish line. Things were great, at least for me.\"\nDr. Eates: \"Any change in the locals?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"No, none. They acknowledged the date too but it wasn't a big deal to them. Everyone just kind of carried on with life. Anyway, I did my part to excite those I had befriended and spread the word of Christmas cheer and all of those other cliches. Events were planned, gifts were purchased then wrapped. Cards mailed. Cookies baked. We all got ready and I nearly jumped out of my shoes in anticipation, which was strange because I was ultimately planning to spend the day alone. No family in town, obviously.\"\nDr. Eates: \"And Christmas Day finally arrive.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"That's right, finally. I got lots of video that explains it all.\"\nDr. Eates: \"I'm sorry Dureau but we'll have to skirt around the editorial parts for now. The doctors are saying you need to get some rest. Was Christmas your final day inside the anomaly?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"No; I decided to stick around for a little. The next few days felt like a relief to everyone I talked to except for Kirschbauer. So I set a deadline for New Years Day to pack up and try to leave; I felt bad for him and wanted to know he was going to be okay. I was able to mark my calendar and wake up each and every day to see the 26th, 27th, 28th, each passing. For New Year's Eve, I watched the ball drop on TV, had a glass of champagne as the host spouted some word salad, and then I went to bed confused but happy.\"\nDr. Eates: \"And here you are, just as planned.\"\nAgent Dureau: \"No, that's the thing. I woke up the next morning, headed for my calendar on the nightstand to flip it over to January 1st, 1980, but\u2026It said December 32nd.\"\nDr. Eates: \"There are only 31 days in\u2014\"\nAgent Dureau: \"Yeah I know. But it said 32nd. I stayed a few days longer to see if anything changed but the calendar just kept counting up until I couldn't take it anymore. I don't need to explain how numbers work to you but seeing 33rd, 34th, and so on was so surreal and crushing and mentally taxing in a way I cannot describe. Knowing that time was marching on but we still couldn't move on made it worse. So, so much worse than standing still.\"\nDr. Eates: \"I can only imagine. When is it that you finally decided to leave?\"\nAgent Dureau: \"One morning at the diner, Joe had brought his son in for breakfast. I ask the boy, Daniel, how he was doing and if he enjoyed his Christmas. He just nodded his head at me and smiled. I looked up at his dad, figured the boy would have found his words, but Joe just shook his head and looked at me like his wife had died all over again. Some people just can't let go and I guess I almost couldn't either. Oh, I wanted to ask\u2026is Jonas okay?\"\nDr. Eates: \"N-\u2026We'll let you know the moment he clears quarantine. Until then, get some rest, agent. You've more than earned it.\"\n\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. A device that measures exposure to chroniton particles over time.\n2. A subatomic particle that has numerous temporal properties. Generally inert, but dangerous when interacting with asynchronous space-time.\n3. A type of placeholder text used to demonstrate visual form without relying on meaningful content.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5599 | ManyMeats | SCP-5601 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5602\nObject Class: Euclid Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A permanent installation designated Area-881 is to be established around SCP-5602. MTF Lambda-44 (\"Cross Guards\") are to be on indefinite assignment at Area-881. A 1x1 km perimeter is to be established around Area-881, and marked as a hazardous landfill to dissuade civilian intrusion. Foundation field agents have been embedded in state and federal environmental safety agencies to provide false inspection reports and maintain secrecy. Foundation elements in the Portland City Council are to actively oppose and prevent development and/or expansion in the vicinity of Area-881. Individuals exposed to an SCP-5602-P event are to be transported a safe distance from human settlements before being allowed to succumb to the accompanying cognitohazard.\nDescription: SCP-5602 is a recurring anomaly located on the now-decommissioned Foster Road in Southeastern Portland, Oregon. On a daily basis, most frequently between the hours of 10AM to 3PM, a white Gallus gallus domesticus1 will manifest on the eastern side of the road. The entity, hereby designated SCP-5602-1, will attempt to reach the western side of the road at a walking speed of approximately 2 mph. Following 68% of recorded completed 5602 events, an anomalous event is triggered. Any form of this event is designated SCP-5602-P. Following the conclusion of SCP-5602-P, an auditory effect identified as a comic rimshot will manifest, ranging from 140-200 dB. Subjects exposed to any SCP-5602-P event are coerced into reciting a joke with logic consistent with the preceding P-event (the \"punchline\"), as soon as presented with the opportunity in the form of human conversation. Recitation triggers an additional auditory effect, often with destructive effect.\nSCP-5602-1 demonstrates an ability to develop a resistance to methods of termination used repeatedly against it. Currently, SCP-5602-1 has developed an high resistance to small arms fire, incendiary weapons, sustained machine gun fire, and anti-tank ordnance placed in its path.\n\nLEVEL 1 CREDENTIALS REQUIRED - Report-5602-1E\n\nClose Report\n\nInterviewed: Subject-P006\nInterviewer: Researcher Dawson; Site-64 Study Attach\u00e9\nForeword: Subject-P006 is a 67-year-old male living in the southeastern Portland area. Subject-P006 encountered SCP-5602 on April 9, 19\u2588\u2588 while driving on Foster Road, nearly resulting in an accident. Subject witnessed SCP-5602-1 walk to the other side of the road before he continued home. Upon reaching his home, an SCP-5602-P event occurred, resulting in the injury of Subject-P006. Orbital Kant counters registered a sharp dip in Hume levels and Site-64 security personnel were quickly dispatched and retrieved Subject-P006.\n<Begin Log>\nDawson: Alright, let's begin. Can you describe your interaction with the entity?\nSubject-P006: The chicken? Well, I saw it marching across the road and I slammed on the brakes. What a chicken was doi-\nDawson: (Interrupting) Please describe your subsequent interaction with the entity.\nSubject-P006: Yeah, sorry. I didn't think much of it after almost running it over, so I got home and went about my business as usual. About a half hour later I heard two knocks on the door, loud as all hell. I thought it was the police, yet no one declared themselves, so I was a bit worried. I went to open it and wouldn't you know, it was the same damn chicken standing at my doorstep. At this point, I heard this fucking earsplitting\u2026 uh, rimshot? Is that the term? Like, 'badum-tss', that sound on the drums? One, two, cymbal crash. Anyway, it was like a bomb went off. I fell backward and when I looked up the damn thing was gone. [Audible laughter] You know, it actually played out exactly like this stupid joke I heard once.\nDawson: A joke?\nSubject-P006: Why did the chicken cross the road?\nDawson: I don't know.\nSubject-P006: To get to your house! Knock Knock.\nDawson: Look this doesn't-\nSubject-P006: Just humour me.\nDawson: (with audible exasperation) Who's there?\nSubject-P006: The chicken! Ha-\n[Feed Lost]\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: At this point in Subject-P006's sentence, a comic rimshot2 exactly like the one described by him was heard in the interview room. All microphones save for one in the observation room immediately ceased functionality. Both Researcher Dawson and Subject-P006 were admitted to the Site infirmary for acute hearing damage. Subject-P006 was later administered Class B amnestics and released.\n\nLEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS REQUIRED - Incident Log-P/L/002\n\nClose Log\n\nIncident P008 - April 21, 19\u2588\u2588\n\nP-Event: Several poultry farmers across the state of Oregon reported sudden destruction of cage locks and release of caged chickens. Deafening comic rimshots were reported by all affected individuals.\nRecited \"Punchline\": \"Because it was free-range.\"\nAnalysis: SCP-5602 has the ability to affect multiple individuals across considerable distance, and those affected do not necessarily have to witness the SCP-5602-1 crossing to be affected. SCP-5602 reclassified as Keter.\n\nIncident P011 - May 15, 19\u2588\u2588\n\nP-Event: Five instances of SCP-5602-1 manifested at a KFC location in Central Portland and began attacking patrons, inflicting severe lacerations on those attacked. Prepared fried chicken in the kitchen reanimated and regained partial locomotion, burning employees with frying oil.\nRecited \"Punchline\": \"Because his brother was at KFC\"\nAnalysis: Instances of SCP-5602-1 are to be considered openly hostile. Containment efforts are to be expedited. Refer to incoming notice for further instructions.\n\nTranscription of Memo on 5/16/19\u2588\u2588 from Site-64 Director \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588:\nGood Morning Team,\nFollowing the events of Incident P011, the containment area around Provisional SCP Designation-5602 will receive immediate construction priority.\nThe remaining third of MTF Mu-78 (\"Cryptids\") will be merged with current staff assigned to PSCPD-5602 and are hereby redesignated MTF Lambda-44 (\"Cross Guards\"). For any Mu-78 members still possessing extra limbs, please report to your Medical Liaison to determine your ability to serve in Lambda-44.\nL-44, your orders are simple. Kill that godforsaken bird.\n\nLEVEL 3 CREDENTIALS REQUIRED - ECTT O/001\n\nClose Log\n\nTranscript of Emergency Channel Transmission from MTF Lambda-44 on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n<Begin Transcript>\nL-44 Yei: Command, please acknowledge.\nSite-64: You are heard L-44, please proceed.\n[Sustained gunfire and abnormally low-pitched gallinaceous vocalizations may be heard]\nL-44 Yei: The cluster bombs are losing effectiveness, and 5602-1 is making it past the second barrier.\n[A thundering cluck is audible, followed by the sound of crumbling stone]\nL-44 Yei: Shit, we need revised ordinance. A railgun may do the tri- is that an egg?\n[An explosion is briefly heard before connection is briefly cut]\nSite-64: L-44, do you read?\nL-44 Yei: [Distant unintelligible yelling]\nSite-64: Site RR Forces have been dispatched to your location L-44, await extraction.\nL-44 Yei: Want to hear a joke [REDACTED]?\nSite-64: How do you know-\nL-44 Yei: Why did the chicken cross the road?\nSite-64: L-44 Yei, you may be experiencing a cognitohazard resulting from SCP-5602, please await extraction by en-route reinforcements.\nL-44 Yei: To get to the other side!\n[Feed Lost]\n<End Transcript>\nClosing Statement: Area-88 sustained heavy damage following the above events, including the breaching of all 3 containment barriers. A comic rimshot was heard throughout Site-64, capped at 194 decibels. All Foundation personnel in the East Communications center were immediately killed by air embolisms within the lungs or outright rupture. Heavier ordnance has been approved for use by Lambda-44.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A domesticated chicken\n2. Measured at 174 decibels before recording equipment ceased function\n\n\u00ab SCP-5601 | SCP-5602 | SCP-5603 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5603 midway through its Activation Phase.\n\nItem #: SCP-5603\nObject Class: Safe Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5603 is kept in a standard containment cell at Site-17. SCP-5603 is presently under 24/7 video surveillance, with all Activation Phases to be recorded. Any abnormal behavior demonstrated by SCP-5603 is to be immediately reported to the project head.\nDescription: SCP-5603 is a vintage billiard table measuring 2.6 m in length and 1.5 m in width as well as the collection of billiard equipment associated with it; equipment consists of a full set of billiard balls, a rack, two cue sticks, a chalk, and a bridge. While SCP-5603 is slightly worn, the equipment itself is in pristine condition. SCP-5603 and the equipment share the same property of being resistant to all attempts to damage them. The equipment is also affixed to SCP-5603 and cannot be separated from it by artificial means. Other than this, SCP-5603 has demonstrated no additional anomalous properties (See Incident 5603-1).\nThe equipment on SCP-5603 is positioned as followed: The balls are arranged inside the rack, with foot spot intersecting with the foot line; the cue ball is in the center of the head spot being exactly perpendicular with the foot spot; the cue sticks lean against the left side of SCP-5603 with the collars pointing upwards; the bridge leans on the bottom-right corner of SCP-5603 with the head pointing down; and finally the chalk rests on the bottom-right corner of the foot rail. Normally, the equipment will remain motionless unless undergoing an Activation Phase.\nAn 'Activation Phase' entails when the cue sticks become autonomous and hover 1.5 m in the air. The rack will be lifted from the balls and be placed on the side rail. The chalk will be lifted up and rubbed against both tips of the cue sticks. The bridge will remain at the corner and has not been moved from its position to date. The cue sticks will then interact with the billiard balls as if initiating a game of pool. The game that has been most consistently played thus far is Straight Pool, but occasionally other games such as Eight-Ball, Nine-Ball, One-Pocket and Bank-Pool were witnessed to be played as well.\nAttempting to physically halt or impede the equipment during an Activation Phase has been met with failure, as the objects have exhibited a much greater density and force than its material should allow. Tilting SCP-5603 sideways or upside down will cause the equipment to become reoriented during play. These Activation Phases have occurred at random intervals with no discernible pattern; the number of games played during each Activation Phase is also random. Following the conclusion of an Activation Phase, the equipment will be repositioned as they were prior and will reaffix itself to SCP-5603.\nSCP-5603 was recovered from the basement of a dilapidated house in Eugene, Oregon, after a couple of urban explorers reported SCP-5603 to local police, believing it to be haunted by ghosts. A Foundation agent embedded in the police department intercepted the call and after confirmation from video evidence gained from the explorers, SCP-5603 was taken to custody. All witnesses were administered Class-A amnestics.\nIncident 5603-1: On 08/04/2011, Doctor Harold Barrs was assisting the research team in conducting experiments on SCP-5603 when his tie was accidently caught in the side pocket. He attempted to free his tie when one of the cue sticks struck the cue ball into the same pocket. Dr. Barrs body became heavily spatially distorted before being pulled into the pocket. The test was immediately cancelled, and an inspection of SCP-5603's internal compartment found no traces of the doctor.\nDr. Barrs returned the day after, crashing through the ceiling of the containment cell1 and landing directly on SCP-5603. Dr. Barrs suffered minor bruising and muscle sprains but was otherwise in good physical health.\nSecurity entered the room and apprehended Dr. Barrs, after confirming his identity he was questioned on what occurred to him after his disappearance. Dr. Barrs stated he was brought into a large space of what he assumed to be of extra-dimensional origin. He saw multiple enormous entities engaging in conversation when they noticed him and forced him back to this dimension with mild annoyance. The body camera Dr. Barrs was wearing captured the entire incident.\n\n+ ACCESS SCP:/5603/incident/Harold Barrs \n\n- Close File\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5603 is mid-way through its Activation Phase, half of the balls have been pocketed. Multiple members of the research team are observing SCP-5603; Dr. Barrs, upon setting the SRA2 underneath the anomaly, gestures to Dr. Henn.\nDr. Barrs: Alright, turn it on.\nDr. Henn presses a button on the remote activating the SRA. SCP-5603 resumes anomalous activity. Dr. Barrs sighs.\nDr. Barrs: I suspected this would happen. 5603 doesn't have any Hume irregularities, I don't understand why they thought this was even necessary.\nDr. Henn: At least it's a definite confirmation the anomaly isn't ontokinetic-based. But yeah, I get the feeling. This is very tame.\nDr. Barrs: Let's be grateful for that. Turn it off, now. We still have a couple of tests left.\nDr. Henn deactivates the SRA. Dr. Barrs crouches and grabs onto the SRA; he attempts to stand up but experiences severe back pain. Dr. Barrs strains and emits a vocalization of pain; he lurches forward and gets his tie stuck inside the pocket.\nDr. Barrs: Help! Come and help. God!\nDr. Henn and another researcher rush to Dr. Barrs and assist in placing the SRA on the floor. A cue stick angles itself to the cue ball, preparing to strike billiard ball #3.\nDr. Henn: Woah, woah easy. You alright?\nDr. Barrs: I'm fine, it was heavier than thought. My back stings.\nDr. Henn: I can call the medic.\nDr. Barrs: Don't be hasty, just need some rest. Can you move-\nDr. Barrs moves his head to face Dr. Henn but is pulled back. He notices his tie is stuck and sees the cue stick preparing to make contact with the cue ball. The cue stick strikes the cue ball which bounces off billiard ball #3, into the pocket. As the ball enters the pocket, the tie stretches and contorts as it is pulled into SCP-5603.\nDr. Barrs: What in the hell!\nDr. Henn: Take it off, take it off!\nDr. Barrs grasps the knot in his tie but is stunned that the room and everything inside it is undergoing severe spatial distortions; portions of the ceiling, wall and floor ripple and spiral constantly, all personnel are either stretched vertically or horizontally. The only objects that are not affected are Dr. Barrs and SCP-5603. Approximately after five seconds Dr. Barrs is then violently pulled in the pocket.\nThe camera view changes to an interior of a tunnel made from dust, streaks of colored light and rock. Gaping holes in the tunnel reveal planets, various species of fish swimming through the ocean, the Egyptian pyramids, and a large asteroid wrapped in strands of yellow tube-like material with spherical brown boulders emerging from it. Dr. Barrs is heard screaming. The end of the tunnel is a view of a night sky. The camera feed momentarily freezes for several seconds before resuming. The camera view changes to Dr. Barrs groaning in pain as he pushes himself up from the ground, which is adorned with green cloth.\nDr. Barrs: I'm\u2026 I'm alive! Call security, Henn! The anomaly is\u2026 under my feet?\nDr. Barrs is standing in the middle of an enormous replica of SCP-5603. The horizontal length of SCP-5603 is comparable to that of a football field while the vertical range appears to be infinite. The billiard balls are over 2 meters tall and their positions are mirrored similarly to how it was on SCP-5603 before Dr. Barrs disappearance.\nDr. Barrs: What-\nDr. Barrs is interrupted as an enlarged cue ball is placed behind him. Dr. Barrs gasps as the camera pans upwards. The camera captures the view of a starry night sky and five entities whose appearance resemble that of constellations.\nThere are five entities: A quasi-humanoid cephalopod (5603-Squid), an irregular oval made from curving and waving lines. Two round circles are located near the end of the major axis as two eyeballs on stalks are located on the top (5603-Curve), and a humanoid in a plain button-up shirt with the words \"D-13131\" on the left breast (5603-Man) are watching a humanoid with gears, wires, and bolts in the outline of its figure (5603-Gear) and another humanoid with feminine features, it possess the outline of horns and wings (5603-Horns). Both are welding enormous cue sticks.\n5603-Man: Sorry Gears, but you pocketed the cue. That's a foul right there if I've seen one.\n5603-Gear: Such a gross miscalculation on my part. I supposed I used too much force, I'll be sure to be more gentle next round.\n5603-Horns brings a paw to its mouth, its laughs are muffled.\n5603-Gears: Laugh all you want you vile beast, but keep in mind of your horrendous performance when we first started. Daresay, it hasn't improved either. Despite having domain over all your flesh you are no more capable of using your limbs than a helpless newborn!\n5603-Horns: [Snarling] And who are you to claim imperfection! He who has claimed knowledge of all makes the simple mistake of miscalculation? You are nothing more than a divine con-man!\n5603-Gears: Say what you wish sister, but flesh and blood will always fall short to metal and oil.\n5603-Horns: You dare speak ill to me, you foolish abomination of scrap! Either part with your tongue or prepare to per-\n5603-Man: Hey. Hey! 5603-Man snaps its fingers gaining the attention of 5603-Horns and 5603-Gears. Can you put your little feud to the side for five fucking minutes or do I have to send you all out? I'm still reeling from the last shit show.\nDr. Barrs moves away from the cue ball and sprints, taking out his phone as he does so. He curses under his breath.\nDr. Barrs: No signal. Whatever this is\u2026 a pocket dimension in 5603? No, we'd have found it. Dr. Barrs turns around. 5603-Horns scoffs and caresses the cue stick in its paws.\n5603-Horns: At ease, you summer child. We're only teasing is all, it's what siblings do. Called pocket, five in right head.\n\n5603-Man: Bullshit, but alright. You certainly have an interesting way of expressing it.\n5603-Horns: Silence, I need to concentrate.\n5603-Horns leans forwards and lines the cue stick with billiard ball #5 using its knuckles as support. 5603-Horns strikes the cue ball, Dr. Barrs nearly avoids being crushed as he jumps out of the way. The cue ball makes contact with the billiard ball; as it rolls bones and muscle emerge from the ground. The billiard ball continues to collide against these obstacles until entering the corner pocket.\n5603-Gears: She's correct. We are always at odds with each other, but do not conflate that with hatred. I know the stories of old will say otherwise, but the writers never understood the full picture of our story.\n5603-Squid: If what you're saying is true, why are your followers still engaging in endless bickering and bloodshed then? Surely it'd be best for everybody involved to speak the truth?\n5603-Curve: [Wet Gurgling].\n5603-Gears: We do not hold the same connection to our children as we did in the past. We cannot directly speak to them, maybe a faint whisper but nothing more. They are on their own path now. Even if we did manage to get them to heed our word, I fear they would not listen. I dread it's too late to turn things around.\n5603-Squid: That sounds horrible. I can't imagine having to go through that. You two have my sympathies.\n5603-Man: Yeah, that's quite a crappy hand of cards you got there. So\u2026 did that whole thing about you imprisoning your sister with your own guts fake then or\u2026\n5603-Gears: No, that one was actually true.\n5603-Man: Really? How the hell did she break out then? 5603-Man jabs a thumb to 5603-Horns, who is preparing to strike the cue ball again.\n5603-Horns: Story for another time. Called pocket, nine in left foot.\n5603-Horns strikes the cue ball and it collides with billiard ball #9. The billiard ball is hurdling in Dr. Barrs direction. Dr. Barrs attempts to flee but bones and muscle emerge from the ground around him. He moves to the left and accidentally bumps into a curved spike of bone. The spike falls to the ground at the same moment the ball collides with it. The ball's trajectory has changed course and enters the right side pocket. The bones and muscle sink into the ground.\n5603-Horns: WHAT?! No, I had that perfectly calculated! I demand a retrial, I didn't command that to happen!\n5603-Man: You know the rules, Yalds. Once the ball rolls there's no take backs.\n5603-Gears: Yes, let me show you how to properly land a shot. Called pocket, one in right head.\n5603-Gears moves to the right and with one arm, strikes the cue stick against the cue ball. The ball rolls until gently knocking into billiard ball #1. A section of the ground is transformed into a conveyer belt, transporting the ball straight into the corner pocket.\nDr. Barrs: (Mutters.) I can't stay. Got to get out. Dr. Barrs gets up and moves to the nearest side rail; he attempts to sprint but limps in the process.\n5603-Man: And would you look at that, Gears won. Congratulations, you won bragging rights. With how difficult that shot looked, you earned it.\n5603-Horns: No it wasn't! That was beyond cheap.\n5603-Gears: You're the one who suggested we use our essence in the game, you have no right to complain.\n5603-Horns growls, nearly breaking the cue stick in her paws until 5603-Squid speaks.\n5603-Squid: I don't want to interrupt your moment of fraternal love but I'm growing tired of pool. How come we don't do poker anymore? That was fun. 5603-Curve makes a repeated gesture reminiscent of nodding while gurgling loudly.\n5603-Man: Well, Lue. I would agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that things mysterious happen whenever we play.\n5603-Squid: Oh?\n5603-Man: You already forgotten? How extra cards mysteriously get added to the deck.\n5603-Gears: Or that some players just happen to have more chips whenever I looked away from the table.\n5603-Man: Or maybe that certain someone throws a bitch fit whenever he or she loses and claims the game is rigged every. Damn. Time. 5603-Man glances at 5603-Horns. 5603-Horns folds their arms. So no, I'm not going through that again. And since you guys didn't like the other games we're doing this instead.\n5603-Squid: I see. Maybe we invite the others to our group instead? Perhaps their input will make these sessions more lively.\n5603-Man: I'll bite. Have any of you guys got any suggestions on that front?\n5603-Horns: How about JALAK\u00c5RA? His abilities would make these games entertaining.\n5603-Gears: I don't believe that would be wise. While he is knowledgeable I suspect he would be more interested in rather destroying us than playing. There's always those death brothers, they have an affinity for games after all.\n5603-Man: Sorry, I don't want my soul sucked out, thanks.\n5603-Curve: [Wet Gurgling].\n5603-Man: I didn't catch that, what he'd say?\n5603-Squid: He's asking if we should invite Bobble.\n5603-Man: Absolutely not. Hm\u2026 I heard about this dado fellow, he seems like a fun guy-\nAlmost immediately, all entities except 5603-Man begin making a series of frantic disapproving gestures.\n5603-Horns: NO!\n5603-Gears: Have you gone mad?!\n5603-Curve: [Loud Whimpering]\n5603-Squid: The moment you invite him is the moment I leave!\n5603-Man: Wh- Out of everyone that has and ever will exist you think dado is the worst?\n5603-Horns: Quit saying his name, you might attract him right to us!\n5603-Man: You're all being ridiculous. He's just one man. Are you really scared of someone who can barely spell his A's, B's, and C's?\n5603-Squid: Do not mock him, for he is no man. The feats he committed is absurd as they are horrifying. Even Scarlet himself is weary of him.\n5603-Man: You're\u2026 You're serious.\n5603-Gears: Let's drop the subject. Now. Even speaking about him is a bad omen.\n5603-Man: (Whisper) I cannot fucking believe this. Well I guess that settles it then; everyone besides us is crazy or a complete asshole. What I would kill for a drink.\n5603-Curve: [Wet Gurgling].\n5603-Squid: Ho, I concur. This might be the proposition that will make our night.\n5603-Man: (Sighs) What is it now?\n5603-Squid: He's saying we should do the wagers once again.\n5603-Horns, and 5603-Gear make gestures indicating signs of agreement. 5603-Man raises his head.\n5603-Man: Finally! I was wondering when we were going to do this again.\n5603-Horns: You're one to talk, I can't wait to outdo all of you like last time.\n5603-Gears: Oh don't be cocky, you got lucky. You want to go first, Lue?\n5603-Squid: Sorry, but I'm afraid I'm going to sit this one out. My servants have not been providing adequate life energy recently, and I still need to save up for a gift for my son. I heard he likes this 'video games' so I'm going to do something involving that.\n5603-Man: Doesn't he\u2026 hate you though?\n5603-Squid: I've\u2026 being trying to make it up to him. I like to think of it as a sorry-I-wasn't-the-best-dad-I-could-be present.\n5603-Gears: Oh don't be like that, Lue. you were a great father. I'm sure he'll forgive you eventually. As for the bet, I want to challenge you, dear sister. You think you can handle it? I won't think of you any different if you quit.\n5603-Horns: Bite me.\n5603-Gears: I challenge you to make a computer.\n5603-Horns: Not my forte. But that won't stop me.\n5603-Gears: Entirely constructed from flesh, and it has to work like an actual computer too.\n5603-Horns: (Gasp) That's a crime against nature!\n5603-Gears: You already accepted dear, try not to make a hissy fit when I win, ok?\n5603-Horns: If that's how you want to be I challenge you to make robots!\n5603-Gears: You do realize who you are talking to, right?\n5603-Horns: Capable of reproduction!\n5603-Gears: That's impossible! Only flesh can do that.\n5603-Horns: I'm sure you can figure it out. Or has that brain of yours finally overheated?\n5603-Gears: Never said I wasn't giving up.\n5603-Curve: (Raises a thick tendril high above itself.) [Loud Wet Gurgling].\n5603-Squid: Does it involve pasta in any way, shape or form?\n5603-Curve: (Lowers tendril) [Soft Wet Gurgling].\nDr. Barrs reaches the side rail, he jumps up multiple times before climbing onto the ledge. He rushes to the other side of the rail and stops, almost falling off. In the far distance, towering black constructs resembling skyscrapers can be seen, which are moving in a manner that would suggest respiration. Any further detail is indistinct due to the lack of lighting. Below the entities and the table appears to be a swirling spiral of smoke and yellow dust, a portion of an elongated mouth is barely visible. Dr. Barrs hyperventilates.\n5603-Man: Do you literally have nothing else?\n5603-Curve [Silence].\n5603-Man: Eh, we'll come back to you. Now to put something on the table\u2026 An elephant artist? Too predictable. A two-dimensional clown, too complicated. Oh how about reincarnating George Washington and turning him into a cherry tree?\n5603-Squid: I'm pretty sure someone on earth has done that already.\n5603-Man: What?! And here I thought I was the wild one. Since when did this happen? Did they get like a spell or charm another go-\n5603-Man places its hand on the table and accidentally brushes against Dr. Barrs and notices him. All entities are now aware of his presence, he tries to flee but 5603-Man grabs onto his coat and lifts him high into the air. Dr. Barrs shouts as 5603-Man visually inspects him.\nDr. Barrs: Oh god, no, no!\n5603-Squid: What is this time?\n5603-Man: It's a cockroach, I think. It feels fuzzy.\n5603-Squid: That's another one. I thought we'd had all those holes plugged, apparently not.\n5603-Man: I'll fix it as soon as I can. (Turns to face Dr. Barrs.) Now what do we do with you?\nDr. Barrs: I don't mean any trouble! Let's talk about this-\n5603-Horns: The noise its making is grating. Give it to me, I'll gladly take it off your hands. I'm getting hungry anyways.\n5603-Gears: That's barbaric. Why not keep it as a pet? We could always use more company.\n5603-Man: No, no. We don't know where this thing's been. I'm getting rid of it before it shits on the table or something. You know what? hand me that stick, Gears. I got an idea. Calling side pocket.\n5603-Man lowers Dr. Barrs and drops him on the ground. Dr. Barrs lands on his back and becomes disoriented from the pain. He slowly stands up to see 5603-Man on the opposite end of the table, it is aiming the tip of the cue stick towards his chest. Dr. Barrs backs away which only prompts 5603-Man to lean forward.\n5603-Man: Line up the shot, keep the hand steady annnnnnd there!\n5603-Man thrusts the cue stick against Dr. Barrs chest, cracking the lens of the camera in the process. The momentum pushes him back and causes him to fall in the side pocket. Dr, Barrs screams as he enters the same tunnel as before; he continues falling for a period of ten minutes before manifesting in the site and landing on SCP-5603. Dr. Barrs remains on SCP-5603 until the security team arrives and escorts him out of the cell.\n[END LOG]\n\nAttempts to recreate the event that led to Incident 5603-1 has been met with failure. As a result, SCP-5603's object class was changed from Safe to Pending until the meaning of the contents regarding the footage could be ascertained.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Foundation personnel in the room above claimed that Dr. Barrs suddenly manifested at the same time a section of the floor spontaneously shattered, creating a circular hole\n2. Scranton Reality Anchor\n\n\u00ab SCP-5602 | SCP-5603 | SCP-5604 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nCheck out my other pages on my author profile!\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n3/5604 LEVEL 3/5604\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5604\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5604.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5604 are contained within a secure drawer at Site-23's anomalous medication unit. Foundation agents embedded within law enforcement and medical agencies are to monitor for reports of methaqualone-related deaths and investigate potential links to SCP-5604.\nDescription: SCP-5604 is the group designation for 57 anomalous methaqualone tablets. The tablets are a dark red in colour and imprinted with the text \"R-IN\". In addition to the drug's non-anomalous effects,1 SCP-5604 cause the user to undergo a series of psychological and physical transformations. Affected individuals assume new personality traits, and undergo facial contortions resulting in a new appearance. Resultant personalities and appearances have been uniform across test subjects.\nConsumption of SCP-5604 also results in a memetic effect altering interaction with, perception of, and documentation of, the affected individual.\nDiscovery: SCP-5604 was discovered in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. at the residence of Benjamin Tucker. Tucker, and several of his associates, were discovered dead from an overdose of SCP-5604, having ingested multiple tablets each. In text messages sent in the run-up to their deaths, the aforementioned individuals complained of extreme cognitive dissonance, loss of memory, and identity crisis. Upon discovery, the corpses were experiencing ongoing facial distortion, alerting the Foundation to the anomaly.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe contents of Addendum 001 and Addendum 003 have been flagged as containing inaccuracies and corruption arising from the memetic effects of SCP-5604. Personnel should exercise scepticism in their approach to the following material.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nADDENDUM 001: TESTING LOG\n\n+ OPEN ADDENDUM 1 +\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM 1 -\n\nTo fully document the effects of SCP-5604, a single tablet was administered to D-7491. Within 40 minutes of ingestion, D-7491 began experiencing phenomena consistent with methaqualone's effects. After 6 hours, effects had not subsided2 but experienced an intensification. Through slurred speech, D-7491 began to repeat the following phrases:\n\n\"Which parts of me are me?\";\n\"What a waste it is to lose one's mind.\";\n\"Where do I begin and end?\";\n\"I didn't live in this century.\";\n\"Help me.\"\n\nAn interview was attempted, but D-7491 was unable to participate due to the strength of SCP-5604's effects continuing to increase. 8 hours after ingestion, D-7491 fell unconscious, and remained so for a period of 49 hours.3 Fifty-five hours after ingestion, D-7491 began to experience physical changes to the structure of their face.\nUpon awakening, D-7491 appeared fully cognizant of their surroundings, with the sedatory effects of SCP-5604 having subsided. An interview with SCP-5604's research lead, Dr Tom Woodruff, was arranged.\n\nSCP-5604 Interview Log 001\nInterviewer: Dr Thomas Woodruff\nInterviewee: D.01010001|01010101|01000001|01011001|01001100|010001014 D-7491\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Dr Woodruff enters D-7491's holding chamber at Site-23.)\nDr Woodruff: Good Morning D-7491, and how are you feeling today?\nD-7941: I feel okay thanks, Doc. I've not been, well, I've not been myself recently. But I'm feeling better today. I believe I'm on an irreversible trend towards recovery and being healthier - but that could change.\n(D-7941 spits blood across the table as he speaks, gums bleeding heavily.)\nDr Woodruff: We were concerned about you the last few days. You've not been communicating with us, we had to administer a feeding tube as we didn't know how long you'd be unconscious for. Do you recall anything about your experience under the influence of SCP-5604?\n(An audible crunch is heard as D-7941's nose breaks, and sets itself in a new position.)\nD-7491: I understand the bondage between a researcher and their subject, thank you for looking after me. I don't remember much of the last few days, it's a blur. But I'm out the other side now. I truly am. I feel like a beakon of health.5\nDr Woodruff: And you're not in any physical discomfort as we speak?\n(Accompanied by a splatter of blood, a single tooth falls onto the table. A moment later, the rest of his teeth follow. D-7481 appears unfazed.)\nD-7491: [Indecipherable.]\n(Small, white protrusions are visible in D-7491's mouth, which grow larger and tear at the gums as a new set of teeth emerge.)\nDr Woodruff: Err\u2026 could you repeat that please?\n(The gums appear to rapidly heal around the new dentition, although this is difficult to determine through the volume of blood.)\nD-7491: One word sums up how I'm feeling right now, and that word is \"I feel great\".\nDr Woodruff: That's three words.\nD-7491: My mistake. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.\n(Dr Woodruff produces a pen and a standard psychometric evaluation questionnaire from his briefcase, and slides them across the table to D-7491.)\nDr Woodruff: Please could you complete this for me.\n(D-7941 begins to rapidly amend the contents of the document.)\nD-7491: There's a few spelling mistakes here. You're right phonetically but\u2026there we go!\n(D-7491 passes the questionnaire to Dr Woodruff, who examines it. D-7491 has answered none of the questions, but has instead added an \"e\" to the end of each existing word. Dr Woodruff stares at it in silence for a moment, before getting up to leave.)\nDr Woodruff: Well, I think that'll be all. We'll keep you monitored over the coming days. Thank you for your time.\nD-7491: Dr. Woodruff, I have one more thing to say.\nDr Woodruff: By all means, go ahead.\n(D-7491's hair lightens, turning from black to auburn, with flecks of grey.)\nD-7491: I want to join the Foundation. As a staff member.\nDr Woodruff: You\u2026 you want to join the Foundation?\nD-7491: Yes.\nDr Woodruff: You want to join the Foundation?\nD-7491: Yes.\nDr Woodruff: You want to join the Foundation?\nD-7491: Let me try to answer the question one more time. I think this is the fourth time that I've had this question.\nDr Woodruff: Third time.\nD-7491: Three times that I've had this question. I will try to answer it again for you, as clearly as I can, because the question you're asking is \"What kind of qualifications do I have to join the Foundation?\". I have far more experience with the anomalous than many others when they sought to join the Foundation! You take the Foundation model, \"Contain, Impured, Prospect\" - how true that is! I've been a D-class for 6 years now.6 I've seen and worked with all manners of anomalies, survived them all. I bet I have as much experience in the Foundation as Jack Bright did when he sought site director!\nDr Woodruff: D-7491. I served with Jack Bright. I know Jack Bright. Jack Bright is a friend of mine. D-7491, you're no Jack Bright.7\n(The crowd cheers,8 and D-7491 is left in stunned silence.)\nD-7491: That was really uncalled for, Doctor.\n(Dr Woodruff laughs.)\nDr Woodruff: You are the one that was making the comparison. I'm the one who knew him well. And frankly I think you are so far apart in the objectives you choose for the Foundation, that I did not think the comparison was well-taken.\nD-7491: I\u2026 I stand by all the misstatements I've made.\nDr Woodruff: Goodbye, Dan.9\n(Dr Woodruff stands and leaves the Omaha Civic Auditorium,10 as D-7491's eye colour changes from hazel to blue.)\n\nADDENDUM 002: RECOVERED DATA\n\n+ OPEN ADDENDUM 2 +\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM 2 -\n\nThe following communications are an excerpt from a text message conversation on the mobile phone of Benjamin Tucker. It is currently believed the messages constitute Tucker's ordering of SCP-5604:\n\nhello this is dado. i can make 4 u.\nwhat type of quaal you like?\ndado has many kinds. quailude, quayleude, kaleude, whalelude\n\nNot picky, just send me the best shit you've got.\n\nok i make best quayleudes. u trust dado\ni send 2 u soon.\ndado gd at business so send first quaals 4 3\n\nArrived today, great batch so far. Thanks dadoe\ndado*\n\nADDENDUM 003: TESTING UPDATE\n\n+ OPEN ADDENDUM 3 +\n\n- CLOSE ADDENDUM 3 -\n\nD-7491, Former Vice President Dan Quayle.\n\nAfterword: Following their interview with Dr. Woodruff, D-7491 continued to experience facial transformations, eventually subsiding at 19:88.12 When checked on the next day, D-7491 was discovered to be James Danforth Quayle, the 44th vice president of the United States.\nTesting was repeated with other D-class personnel, with identical results. At the time of writing, the Foundation has 5 Dan Quayles in containment, designated D-QUAYLE-1 through -5.13\n\nFootnotes\n1. Including drowsiness, memory loss, and acting as a muscle relaxant.\n2. as would be expected with a dose of non-anomalous methaqualone.\n3. During this time, D-7491 was sustained through a naso-gastric feeding tube and an IV.\n4. Erroneous text potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n5. Erroneous orthography potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n6. D-7491 joined the Foundation as a D-class resource 2 years ago.\n7. No record exists of Dr Woodruff having worked with Dr Bright.\n8. Erroneous audio potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n9. Erroneous nomenclature potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n10. Erroneous location potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n11. A common name for methaqualone.\n12. Erroneous timestamp potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n13. Erroneous designation potentially arising from SCP-5604's memetic effects.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5603 | SCP-5604 | SCP-5605 \u00bb"}
{"text": "3/5605 LEVEL 3/5605\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5605\n\nKeter\n\nFirst reported sighting of SCP-5605-1\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Low-Earth-Orbit satellites are to pass over Area-of-Interest-5605 no less frequently than once per hour. Atmospheric conditions indicating the appearance of SCP-5605 are to prompt the immediate dispatch of MTF Xi-9 (\"Wheat Watchers\") in order to protect against public interaction.\nMTF Agents and other deployed personnel are to make use of [Cover Story #013 - \"Dangerous Animal At Large\"] and redirect all civilians away from the affected area. Persons that enter the affected area are not to be pursued and should be considered lost. Use of force as necessary to elicit compliance is authorized.\nDescription: SCP-5605 is a wandering point of planar intersection occurring primarily within Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Although the borders of this phenomenon are poorly defined, it is typically observed to grow as wide as approximately 200 square kilometers before rapidly contracting and disappearing. Due to differences in the atmospheric composition of this dimension, the most reliable indicators of SCP-5605 are dense fog and the sudden appearance of snow-covered ground regardless of prevailing weather conditions.\nAlthough conditions within SCP-5605 closely mirror those of prime reality, the space within suggests a divergent timeline where humanity no longer exists. To date, the only encountered living occupant of SCP-5605 has been an entity which closely resembles an extinct subspecies of polar bear, the Ursus maritimus tyrannus1. This entity is classified as SCP-5605-1.\nEarly data suggested that instances of SCP-5605 appear at random intervals and random locations within the general geographic boundaries of Northern Saskatchewan. However, after further correlation it appears that SCP-5605 preferentially selects times and coordinates which make it likely to intercept small groups. The methods and mechanisms by which targets are selected remain indeterminate.\n\nField Agent's Log\n\nOn 2016-09-17 two field agents were investigating reports of a cryptid in the vicinity of Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, supposedly related to a rash of disappearances in the area. At their last successful check-in time, Agents Ricardo Diaz and Curt Vogel indicated they were heading to the last known whereabouts of a cluster of missing persons. Unknown to both agents, they had entered an instance of SCP-5605 during their investigation and all contact was immediately lost when the instance closed.\nOn 2016-09-20, less than 72-hours after their initial disappearance, another instance of SCP-5605 manifested approximately 20-kilometers north of the field agents' last known location. Due to standard security protocols in light of their MIA status, the missing agents' network security certificate had been revoked; communication was not automatically re-established. However, the vehicle they had been using was able to act as local data storage for their audio and video streams. This footage was recovered when the missing vehicle was located. The whereabouts of Agents Diaz and Vogel remains unknown.\n\n+Begin: Recovered Video Fragments\n\n-wq:logoff\n\nSegment: A\n\nVideo has been filmed from Agent Diaz's body camera. A timestamp appears in the lower margin of the video which continues to match the Foundation Master-Clock. A battery indicator appears on the right side of the same margin indicating 14% remaining battery life.\nAgents Diaz and Vogel trek at a slow pace across a snowy plain and the howling of the wind obscures much of the audio. After several minutes of the camera angled downward, the agents come to a stop and the camera pans around as Vogel evaluates the landscape. The pair appears to have crested a rolling hill. The faint suggestion of a midday sun is visible overhead through dense fog although the video timestamp indicates 2021 hours.\nThe camera lingers for several seconds on Agent Vogel who appears to be suffering from prolonged and severe fatigue. The Agent's lips are severely chapped and cracked and their face is badly wind-burned. They slowly pivot to evaluate the landscape.\nDiaz: <Voice is hoarse> More of the same. I think I see the sheen of daylight on ice over there, at about 3 o'clock. Maybe it's too heavy for the lake ice? We might be able to sleep for a little bit.\nVogel: <Also hoarse> Can't see more than a kilometer anyway. No other option. Have to try\u2026something different. Let's go.\nThey begin walking in the direction indicated by Diaz.\nDiaz: You know\u2026when we get outta here\u2026I'm gonna cash out at least two weeks and go to Malibu. I don't care if the debrief takes a whole week by itself; once they let me out of that fucking door I'm not coming back for a month!\nVogel: Two weeks at the start of the story and a month by the end. Just how much PTO you got clenched up up there, Diaz? Both agents laugh softly.\nDiaz: Just think about it though. Pina coladas, white sand beaches, warm breezes.\nVogel: No fog, no snowblindness, and seeing something actually different went you turn around for once.\nDiaz: And no fucking polar bear.\nVogel: And no polar bears.\n\nSegment: B\n\nApproximately twenty minutes of extraneous audio and video has been removed as the pair arrives to the edge of a frozen lake. There is almost no snow on the lake ice and the presence of water is clearly indicated through the sheet of ice. Uneven rock formations jut up through the snow and seem to mark the waterline. The wind continues to whip loudly in the camera's microphone. Battery indicator shows 13% remaining.\nVogel: Christ, there's no way we can walk across this if we can see water.\nVogel carefully extends a boot and steps onto the lake ice, sliding his weight further out as he attempts to maintain a low center of gravity. Agent Vogel then tests a second foot, his entire weight now out on the ice. He carefully takes several steps out before a loud snap and crack pierces the air, originating from near Vogel. Agent Diaz lunges forward, extending his arm out as Vogel begins to slide back toward the shore and is pulled to safety. The pair of agents collapse on the lake shore catching their breath for several minutes.\nDiaz: Maybe we could like\u2026lay out, spread out our weight. Th-the dis\u2026distribution or whatever. We should be\u2026the points of contact. The surface area.\nVogel: Yeah, yeah, whatever it is you're thinking of, you do it first. You can barely string a sentence together. I'll do the one-knee thing here by the shore where the ice is a little thicker in case our guest shows up. Seriously, snag some shuteye.\nDiaz: I need to save my fighting spirit. You're lucky. Hey, Vogel, any chap-stick left?\nVogel: My lips practically look like hamburger from this dry air and you actually think I might be holding out on you? Get fucking bent. <lengthy pause> I'm sorry, we're\u2026it's just\u2026\nDiaz: I know, mate. Wake me in 45.\nAgent Diaz gets onto the lake ice and lays down, sliding himself across the ice until he is several meters from the shore. He lays on his back as his breathing steadies and he begins to softly snore, even through the howling of the wind.\n\nSegment: C\n\nApproximately forty minutes of extraneous audio and video have been removed, during which Agent Diaz shifts onto his side while sleeping. The camera is pointed in the direction of Agent Vogel, who is facing away from the camera and downwind. Agent Vogel's head and shoulders droop several times and he nearly falls over more than a dozen times during the truncated video, presumably from fatigue. Video resumes as Agent Vogel does fall over and onto his side and then immediately shoots up, awake.\nAs Vogel pulls himself to his feet, a bellowing roar cuts through the wind from an unknown source. Vogel scrambles toward the lake and slides onto his belly and military-crawls across the ice until he reaches Diaz. He attempts to wake the sleeping agent and the camera jostles substantially as Diaz sits up and tries to orient himself.\nVogel: Diaz. Diaz! It's coming, it's fucking found us already. It's coming, we-we gotta\u2026\nDiaz: Lay down, let's head further out. Your two feet were enough to crack it there's no way it can run out here. Come on.\nThe two agents shimmy out several dozen meters from the shore, oriented in the direction they heard the roar originate from. Nearly twenty minutes pass before a dark silhouette crests a nearby hill, indicating the arrival of SCP-5605-1. Agents Diaz and Vogel remain motionless.\nSCP-5605-1 reaches the edge of the lake and comes to stop. It lowers its massive head and extends one paw, carefully and hesitantly testing the ice.\nVogel: Oh fuck it's going to fucking try. You've gotta be kidding me\u2026\nDiaz: There's no way. As soon as this ice breaks we gun it for the shoreline and we run. This is going to work. This has to work.\nAs the two agents lie still, SCP-5605-1 continues to trod further out onto the ice and approaches the agents. Diaz hits Vogel on the shoulder twice as he begins to get up.\nDiaz: Alright, that's close enough, we gotta go. Like, now. Vogel. Vogel? Vogel! Come on, man!\nAs Diaz starts to back-peddle toward the shoreline the camera pans down. Agent Vogel is transfixed on the ice, looking down with his mouth hanging open. Diaz grabs hold of Vogel's boot and begins to drag him toward the shore. As he does so, the camera points sharply downward and a nude, humanoid figure is seen bumping against the ice from the underside. This causes Diaz to scream and let go of Vogel's foot and fall onto his backside.\nDiaz: What the hell?!\nVogel: <Weakly> Claire\u2026\nDiaz turns over onto his hands and knees and crawls back to Vogel, grabbing his waist and pulling him toward the shore. As he does so, the humanoid figure resurfaces and bumps against the nearly-clear lake ice once again. The figure is a human female, appearing to be approximately 30-years-old with blonde hair and extremely pale skin. It is unclear if this pale skin is a natural condition or a product of the environment. The figure's eyes are open and its face is contorted in a look of shock and pain.\nVogel: <Whimpering> My Claire\u2026\nSeveral more humanoid figures begin appearing beneath the ice all around them in similar poses, but due to refraction, their faces are unclear. Diaz yanks on Vogel's waistband several more times, hauling him toward the shore. Upon reaching solid ground, Vogel gathers himself enough to get up and start running away with Diaz. Another bellowing roar is heard close behind them. The battery indicator shows 9% remaining.\n\nSegment: D\n\nApproximately 10 minutes of extraneous audio and video have been removed before Vogel falls onto his hands and knees, chest heaving from their hasty escape.\nVogel: It was Claire\u2026How?!\nDiaz slumps forward and puts his hands on his knees, but remains standing, his breathing labored.\nDiaz: She's dead, Curt. She's dead and buried and you know that. W-whatever you say you saw, it-it must have just been fatigue. A hallucination. These things happen when you're up for three days on an adrenaline high. Your brain chemistry must be ten shades of messed up right now.\nVogel: It's this place, Diaz. That was her. There's no mistaking those eyes.\nDiaz: It's okay. I believe you, but you have to try not to\u2014\nVogel: No, I need to say this. Once you've had to look into your lover's eyes and watch the life bleed out\u2026you don't forget that. I know, in every fiber of this coward's heart that still beats within me, that those were her eyes, damn it.\nSeveral moments of silence pass before Diaz puts a hand on Vogel's shoulder. He allows it to remain there for several seconds before Vogel sits up and pushes the hand off.\nVogel: I don't need your sympathy. I didn't need the fake sympathy cards then, and I don't want your pandering consolation now.\nDiaz: Hey, man. This is empathy, not sympathy. I can see you're hurting. But we have to be strong a little while longer. You can lean on me for as long-\nVogel: We're never getting out of here. You know that, right? That big stupid thing is going to catch us. Just like it caught that hiker, just like it caught those campers we were looking for, just like it caught my Claire.\nDiaz: Curt that was a car accident. Five years ago. The bear didn't have anything at all to do with it. And for the record, no, I don't know that we're going to die here. Now get the fuck up and let's move.\nDiaz pulls Vogel up to his feet; the other agent appears to be crying.\nVogel: I didn't know someone else remembered.\nDiaz: Of course I do. You're like a brother to me.\nThey resume walking. The battery indicator shows 7% remaining.\n\nSegment: E\n\nApproximately ten minutes of extraneous audio and video are removed before Agent Diaz abruptly slides and falls down the side of a steep hill. A rocky facet of the hill was obscured by a snow drift which broke away due to the Agent's activity. The camera is surrounded and impacted by snow. Several minutes pass before the snow is cleared away and Vogel can be seen frantically trying to dig Diaz out. Vogel begins looking up and over Diaz's shoulder as he starts to dig faster.\nVogel: It's coming, it's coming. Come on, man, we gotta go.\nA series of primal grunts pierce the air from somewhere unseen; both agents freeze upon hearing the first one but then immediately resume frantically digging. As the snow is cleared away, Vogel tries to help Diaz out but he is not able to move freely.\nDiaz: Ah! Ouch, stop! It's my foot. My ankle. Something\u2026I can feel resistance. Don't pull, look around behind me.\nVogel repositions to focus on the problem area and freezes, motionless.\nDiaz: \u2026Vogel? How bad is it?\nVogel: Ahh, well. There's\u2026there's two pretty big rocks. And I'm pretty sure I see coagulated blood. Either that or you were storing coffee grounds in your socks.\nDiaz: Fuck. If you're telling jokes then\u2026\nVogel presses his lips together tightly. He then repositions to try and move the rocks and continue to dig out snow. This continues for approximately two minutes until a large shadow eclipses Vogel and Diaz. Diaz cranes his head up and back but the camera is not able move with him.\nDiaz: <Whispering> Vogel. You have to take this, and you have to go. Now. Please, Curt. Live. Just\u2026 Please, Curt, go.\nAgent Vogel is motionless, his gaze affixed on SCP-5605-1 which is casting the shadow. Agent Diaz decouples his body camera and hands it to Vogel, and then pushes him away. Vogel begins to shuffle backward as he climbs to his feet.\nDiaz: Go. Go!\nVogel continues to shuffle backward as SCP-5605-1 walks around the rocky hill and approaches Agent Diaz. Its face lowers to closely examine the agent, who unsheathes a bowie knife from a body holster and swings wildly at SCP-5605-1. The bear takes a half-step backward and avoids the swing, momentarily startled by the gesture.\nDiaz: I said fucking go!\nVogel begins to run now. As distance increases and the fog obscures line of sight, Diaz and SCP-5605-1 become silhouettes and then disappear entirely. A series of piercing but brief screams are heard. The battery indicator shows 6% remaining.\n\nSegment: F\n\nApproximately two hours of extraneous audio and video are removed before Agent Vogel stops next to a barren aspen tree and sits down, his back against its trunk. The howling of the wind has lessened slightly but the fog has thickened around him.\nVogel: It's getting warmer, I can tell. Only a little, but I can feel it in the air; it's warmer, wetter, wherever I am now. Sun still hasn't moved and I might never move again either. I'm tired. Really goddamn tired.\nThe camera is decoupled and Agent Vogel sets it on his lap, facing up. He scans his surroundings as the video continues to record.\nVogel: I can't stop thinking about her. Claire. I know, right? What kind of a monster wouldn't have Diaz on the mind right now but that's my training kicking in. I've detached, at least from that. But not her. Never her. The truth is that I could never leave her behind and I've kept that chain hanging around my neck for five years. We never fell out of love and I guess I still haven't either.\nAgent Vogel repositions the camera slightly as he raises his knees so it is nearly at eye level. His eyes begin to well with tears as he looks into the camera.\nVogel: The court documents all show that I blew a 0.00 by the time the paramedics were done and the cops had hold of me. More than five hours after the accident. But what they don't show is that if they had tested me earlier at the sobriety check-point instead of on the winding country road that I used to go around them, my night might have just ended with a 'simple' DWI. And she'd still be alive.\nVogel: She was stone-cold sober, too. She trusted me and I did that to her\u2026 Agent Vogel's lip begins to quiver.\nVogel: I should have died. Not her. She should be moving on and starting a beautiful family by now. I should be\u2026a picture in a memory box. A memory to take out and shed a tear over once a decade and then put away, but I\u2026that's not reality. She's dead. She's trapped beneath the ice here, her last tear-soaked words hanging in this relentless, howling wind. And I don't even have the luxury of being able to stop and listen, to mourn. This thing\u2026this stupid bear. Agent Vogel loses his composure for a moment and begins to sob; he turns his head away from the camera.\nVogel: This fucking bear has been on us since we got here. It doesn't stop. It just doesn't stop. I got a good look into its beady little coal-black eyes when it showed up in our camp and then again with Diaz. They were hollow and full of hate and I know it was looking at me. It ripped that poor fucking camper's leg clean off but it was looking at me while it did it. We ran. Slept when we could. Ran more. And it still came, relentless. Looking at me, for me. Well, there's nowhere left for me to run. My body, my soul, has given up.\nVogel: Diaz is dead now too, but it should be me. Yet again. He told me that I should go, that I should live. I walked away from something like this before and\u2026living was the worst thing to happen to me. They say that hikers that get lost in the bush can last a real long time so long as they still have hope. Welp. Time's up. Vogel leans his hack back against the tree.\nA series of deep thumps interrupt the audio as a shadow slowly eclipses Agent Vogel. He lifts his head from its resting position and presumably regards SCP-5605-1. The corners of his mouth turn up into a smile as he begins to sob once more. The battery indicator reads 2%.\nVogel: I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. You can't outrun your guilt. You just die tired.\nAgent Vogel tosses the camera which rolls for several meters before coming to stop facing a small copse of trees. An animalistic grunt pierces the audio followed by a muffled series of screams. The howling winds have largely died down and the fog begins to partially abate. The audio detects intermittent crunching and chewing sounds until the battery indicator reaches 0% and the body camera powers off.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The \"tyrant polar bear\", estimated to be approximately 140% the size of modern polar bears.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5604 | SCP-5605 | SCP-5606 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u266b Doctor Fullham's Author Page \u266b\n\nCrit Credits:\nCalibold\nHunterDog\nOboebandgeek99\nminathewitch does not match any existing user name\n\n90.55%\n(+67)\n9.45%\n(-7)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\n\nDue to a current lack of understanding of SCP-5608's source, containment is impossible. All affected individuals are to be contained and surrounded by individuals with thought paradigms that disagree with their own. Tests of the efficacy of amnestics to counteract this anomaly are ongoing. There are currently five affected individuals in containment, designated PoI-5608-1 through -5. Foundation assets stationed in police forces and campus security are to monitor for and investigate any and all reports of stalking behavior.\nCurrently, the only known way to halt the effects of SCP-5608 is to allow the affected individual to consume at least a portion of the grey matter of their target's brain.\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5608 is a rare, anomalous form of synesthesia1. Persons affected by the anomaly are able to perceive tastes based on the thoughts of those around them. Increasing physical proximity between the affected person and other individuals increases the strength of the taste. Additionally, affected individuals have reported that thoughts that mimic or complement their own have a pleasant taste, whereas thoughts that are counter to their own are disgusting.\nAffected individuals have described complementary thoughts as \"sweet,\" \"savory,\" \"pleasant,\" and \"overwhelmingly powerful.\" There is a significantly greater variation in the descriptions of unpleasant tastes, comparing them to the affected individual's least favorite foods, as well as various varieties of animal excrement.\nIndividuals experiencing SCP-5608 have a very high likelihood of developing a psychological addiction to the pleasant tastes. During a containment interview, PoI-5608-3 commented \"Imagine the best thing that you've ever tasted, and you can only ever taste it again if you're near a specific person. Wouldn't you want to spend more time with them?\"\n\nDiscovery\n\nSCP-5608 was first discovered when Foundation agents within the Cincinnati Police Department interviewed James Conners, incarcerated for murdering Matthew Harper, a classmate at Xavier University. An excerpt of Agent Jakobson's interview with Conners can be found below.\n\nInterview 5608-CONNERS\n\nClose interview\n\n[BEGINNING OF INTERVIEW OMITTED FOR BREVITY]\nJakobson: Alright, we've got that all squared away. Now, can you detail the series of events that led to you murdering your classmate, Matthew Harper?\nConners: God, can you not be so\u2026.cold about it? I feel terrible about all of this. Matt\u2026.he didn't deserve that. I still can't believe I\u2026.ugh.\nJakobson: Listen, kid. I'm not a counselor. I'm not here to make you feel better. I'm here to get the facts; to figure out why a college student with a bright future and no history of aggression or neurodiverse traits was found with brain matter in hi-\nConners: Jesus man! I get it! It was\u2026I think it started a few weeks ago. I was walking around campus and suddenly I taste this\u2026.something. I can't even describe it. It's like how good pizza, ice cream, a good steak, and my grandpa's homemade root beer taste, all rolled into one. And multiplied ten times over.\nJakobson: And you had not partaken of any illicit substances?\nConners: Hell no, man. I've been to too many parties where people OD or get jacked up and do some crazy shit. I have a drink now and again but that's it. You can fuckin test my piss if you want.\nJakobson: Perhaps later. So, you tasted something strange and good. What happened next?\nConners: Well\u2026.god this is gonna sound stupid, but\u2026.you ever see those old cartoons, where someone smells a pie or something, and the smell pulls them along by their nose?\nJakobson: I'm familiar with that trope, yes.\nConners: Well, it was like that. I just\u2026followed the taste. And it led me to Matt.\nJakobson: Was this surprising to you?\nConners: I mean, not any more surprising than suddenly tasting some unknown ambrosia.\nJakobson: Right. So, Mr. Harper was the source of this taste. Did you inform him of this?\nConners laughs.\nConners: Are you fucking insane? How do you even tell someone that? \"Hey bro no homo but when I'm around you I taste something fantastic so let's hang out.\" No, I didn't tell him.\nJakobson: Understandable. So what did you do?\nConners: Well I had a few classes with Matt, and we studied psych together on weekends, so we spent a lot of time together anyway. But after a while\u2026.it wasn't enough.\nJakobson: What wasn't enough?\nConners: The time. I needed to be around him more. I wanted to taste it every waking second of my life. So I started\u2026accidentally running into him at football games, the cafeteria\u2026\nJakobson: You started stalking him.\nConners: No! I was just\u2026fuck, yeah, I guess I was. Goddamn it. I started skipping classes and following him to his. I skipped meals, I followed him home\u2026\nJakobson: And what led you to consider cannibalizing him?\nConners: Jesus fucking christ can you not say it like that? I'm not some psycho Jeffrey Dahmer asshole! I just\u2026I needed to taste more. Nothing was enough anymore.\nJakobson: You were addicted.\nConners: That's putting it mildly.\nJakobson: Can you describe to me the events that led up to you killin-\nConners: It was Friday night, after a party. Matt was hammered as hell and I was the DD that night. I stuck around him all night, the more he drank, the stronger the taste got. He's\u2026.he was a giggly drunk. The guy that always says \"I love you guys\" when he drinks. Anyway, I drove him home. The taste was so intense, so distracting\u2026I almost t-boned someone.\nAgent Jakobson remains silent.\nConners: He was stumbling around when we got to his apartment complex, so I helped him inside, and up to his place. I helped him get his shoes and coat off and get into bed. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was out like a fucking light. And for a few minutes I just sat there, tasting it. It tasted\u2026it was better than sex. Better than the best sex you can imagine. It was heaven in my goddamned mouth and it still wasn't enough.\nConnors takes a heaving breath.\nConners: So I grabbed his advanced chem textbook and hit him across the face. And then again. I hit him in the temple with the corner and didn't stop until it was like I was bathing in the taste. Once there was a big enough hole I stuck my fingers in and fucking pried his skull open. And then I\u2026I fucking\u2026.\nConners begins to cry heavily.\nConners: I ate his fucking brains! I scooped them out with my bare hands and ate them like it was my last meal. I didn't really come to terms with what had happened until it was done, and then there I was, with my friend's blood and hair all over my hands and the worst aftertaste ever in my mouth. You know the rest.\nJakobson: Can you say with confidence that had it not been for the sudden appearance of this taste, this wouldn't have happened?\nConners: Fucking-A yes I can! I never wanted to hurt Matt. I just\u2026.it was all I could think about. Nothing mattered anymore but getting more of that taste. And now I'm going to prison for the rest of my life, aren't I?\nJakobson: You will certainly be\u2026.detained for some time. But it won't be like any prison you know.\nConners: I'm so fucking sorry. I wish I had never tasted that\u2026.whatever it was. What about Matt's family? What did you guys tell them?\nJakobson: The police are handling that side of the investigation. However, I can guarantee that you will not be named. In fact, Matthew's family will soon forget you existed entirely.\nConners: Thank god for that.\n[END INTERVIEW]\n\nPOST-INTERVIEW NOTE\nJames Conners was designated PoI-5608-1, and was interviewed thoroughly by Foundation agents and psychiatrists. It is clear that he exhibited symptoms of a strong psychological addiction, but it is as of yet unclear if the addiction was anomalous in nature, or simply a result of the anomalous taste. Research into this, as well as possible sources of the anomaly and methods of combating the effects, is ongoing. We are unsure if this anomaly may return, so PoI-5608-1 is currently declared as indefinitely contained.\n- Dr. J.C. Honors\n\nClose interview\n\nAddendum 5608-A\n\nPoI-5608-2 was placed in a standard humanoid isolated containment chamber to determine if an absence of exposure to outside thoughts could counteract the effects of SCP-5608. The victim was discovered several hours later, deceased, with the following injuries:\n\nThree fractured digits on the right hand.\nTwo of the fractured digits had their fingernails torn off, found embedded in the skin of their right temple.\nA self-inflicted puncture wound through the victim's right temple, outlined by severe bruising.\nTraces of grey matter in the victim's mouth.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A neurological condition describing a person's senses getting \"mixed up\" - hearing colors, tasting sounds, etc.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5607 | SCP-5608 | SCP-5609 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5609 LEVEL 2/5609\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5609\nObject Class: Keter\n\nA component of the satellite array surrounding SCP-5609\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: An array of Foundation-owned satellites surround SCP-5609 at all times, and are programmed to constantly project a selectively antimemetic field around the object to prevent its viewing by civilians. Unmanned research probe SCPS Spearhead has been landed on SCP-5609, and is currently being used to collect its tissue samples and take vital readings. Any changes in the orbital pattern of SCP-5609 are to be monitored, and circumvented via movement of the satellite array.\nDescription: SCP-5609 is a massive (230 km in diameter), bioluminescent, spherical organism, currently in orbit 30,000 km above the earth's surface. SCP-5609 constantly emits yellow light, and upon cursory observation resembles a small moon.\nClose-up inspection of SCP-5609 has shown it to possess features similar to those of some beetle larvae, such as a small, discolored head with two compound eyes and two short mandibles; two visible legs protruding from underneath its head; and soft, segmented skin.\nAddendum: Recovered Data\nThe following is a list of data pertaining to SCP-5609, collected by SCPS Spearhead.\n\nSCP-5609 moves periodically; however, such motion consists of not much more than momentary twitching of its legs and mandibles.\nSCP-5609 lacks the ability to steer and propel its body through space. Its orbit is entirely passive.\nThe metabolism of SCP-5609 is hypothesized to be up to 3,000 times slower than that of any terrestrial insect.\nThe presence of spiracles1 on the body of SCP-5609 indicate that it is not biologically suited for survival in a vacuum.\nA section of skin on the back of SCP-5609 protrudes from the organism, as if being pulled.\n\nAddendum: Incident Log\nOn March 22, 2021, SCP-5609 disappeared, along with SCPS Spearhead. The anomaly was reclassified as Neutralized after an extensive search of the area of outer space surrounding Earth found no trace of it.\nOne month later, SCPS Spearhead re-appeared in high Earth orbit and immediately fell through the atmosphere. Despite sustaining heavy damage upon crash-landing, the following audio log remained intact.\n\n(Heavy static is audible, but dissipates after 7 seconds. Upon its dissipation, two voices are heard.)\nUnknown-1: Hoooooo-eeee! Now this one's bound to be a doozy.\nUnknown-2: Can't believe they bit. Oh, we'll sure be eatin' well tonight!\n(After a few moments, the voices become louder. The recording distorts slightly as a result.)\nUnknown-2: Hey, Willie? Uh\u2026 you gotta see this.\nUnknown-1: What the- awwwww, c'mon, not this again.\nUnknown-2: What is it?\nUnknown-1: Oh, just another one of those shiny bugs. Toss it back in.\nUnknown-2: Could I keep it? It looks pretty cool.\nUnknown-1: (Audibly sighs) You can't eat cool, Amos.\nUnknown-2: All right, all right, fine. (The sound of rushing air is heard, followed by a loud splash. The voices begin to fade.)\nUnknown-1: \u2026gotta cast out by the moon next time. I heard tell the folks there're a bunch more gullible.\n(Static becomes audible. The recording ends.)\n\nThe area surrounding the moon is currently being monitored for signs of SCP-5609 re-emergence.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Breathing organs found on terrestrial insects\n\n\u00ab SCP-5608 | SCP-5609 | SCP-5610 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5611\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5611 is to be confined to a cage located in a sound-proof chamber. Personnel assigned to SCP-5611 must be inoculated against rabies. Interactions with it are to be performed through automatic means.\nDescription: SCP-5611 is an adult male Rottweiler (Canis lupus familiaris) whose body exhibits a temporal loop.\nThe head of SCP-5611 violently explodes every 12 minutes as it is accompanied by the sound of a gunshot, however, no bullet is ever observed. It will be deceased for 6 seconds before its body resets, which demanifests all scattered biomass from the surroundings. The fragments of its skull have been observed to burst out at varying high velocities, which can result in possible injury to nearby individuals. The loop does not limit the autonomy of SCP-5611. It is able to perform whatever action it desires before its sudden death.\nThe specimen is also infected with rabies at the late stages of infection. As a result, it is hostile and prone to biting. It has never been observed to advance further into the infection to expire from respiratory arrest, presumably due to the temporal anomaly. However, the virus progresses normally in subjects SCP-5611 infects through bite.\nAttempts at euthanasia mandated by the Ethics Committee1 (see Addendum 01) revealed that SCP-5611 cannot be permanently killed. Its body continues to perform the temporal loop, which resets the specimen back to life at the beginning of the next cycle. The anomaly has also extended SCP-5611's lifespan beyond that of average dogs for it has not aged since it was contained. It is believed that it will continue to live indefinitely.\nSCP-5611 was contained on 04/13/1980 after a series of dog attacks were reported from a town in northern Texas. Four individuals were mauled to death, and local law enforcement noted its anomalous properties. Agents arrived to enact containment procedures, and investigate the origin of the anomaly. Interviewing the locals revealed that SCP-5611 originally belonged to \u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was found deceased in the backyard of his home near an unfinished grave pit. His throat was torn apart along with his left calf. Signs of a struggle were present inside the house where a spent side-by-side double-barreled shotgun was found. In Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's right hand, he held onto a dog collar that had the name \"Bean\" written on it.\nWitnesses of SCP-5611's anomalous properties were amnesticized. The cover story of a spree killer with a rabid dog was disseminated.\nAddendum 01:\n\nAs of now, all personnel assigned to SCP-5611 are to ignore the Ethics Committee's neutralization order. Its suffering is deemed acceptable for containment as long as it does not interfere with it. Besides, we live with worse. Why is an old dog any different? It can handle another few decades.\n- O5-4\n\nAddendum 02: Dr. Andy Hendrickson requested the use of SCP-5611 as a test subject to research more effective treatments for rabies. Dr. Hendrickson has argued that the results could alleviate SCP-5611's aggressiveness, and benefit Foundation front companies. The proposal is awaiting the approval of the O5 Council, and Ethics Committee.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See document \"E.C. Review Meeting 132-5611\" for additional information.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5610 | SCP-5611 | SCP-5612 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5613\nLevel 3/5613\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nThe border of Containment Site-5613, near the SCP-5613-C filtration system.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All aspects of SCP-5613 are to be contained in situ within Containment Site-5613 and regularly patrolled for intruders. Any non-Foundation personnel who approach are to be dissuaded through Standard Cover Story 25-Tsevaoth (Military Drill). If they continue, they are to be taken offsite, questioned regarding SCP-5613, and amnesticized. Personnel are not to be questioned onsite.\nOn the grounds of Containment Site-5613 it is forbidden to engage in any form of spoken argument. Theoretical debates, for instance, debates as to the nature of SCP-5613, are to be conducted solely using an online server Following the Akhnai Event of Post-Containment Incident B, all debate or discussion, written or spoken, is forbidden on the grounds of Containment Site-5613. An offsite location has been installed for any and all theoretical debates, and staff are forbidden from engaging in any conversation excluding objective note-taking and containment-related orders.\nSCP-5613-A is to be regularly monitored for erosion damage. If an Akhnai Event occurs, the Containment Site-5613 Assistant Director is to shake his or her fist in its direction and recite Ritual Phrases 5613-A #1\u20143 in Tiberian Hebrew, Western Aramaic, and Koine Greek respectively.\n\nShow Ritual Phrases 5613-A #1\u20143\n\nHide Ritual Phrases 5613-A #1\u20143\n\nRP-5613-A #\nLanguage\nText\nTranscription\n\n1\nTiberian Hebrew\n\u05de\u05b7\u05d4 \u05d8\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05d1\u05b0\u05db\u05b6\u05dd\nMah \u1e6divkhem?1\n\n2\nWestern Aramaic\n\u05dc\u05b0\u05de\u05b8\u05d0 \u05e1\u05b0\u05dc\u05b5\u05d9\u05e7\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc\u05df \u05dc\u05b0\u05d5\u05b8\u05ea\u05b7\u05e0\u05b8\u05d0\nL\u1d4ama s\u1d4aleiqtun l\u1d4awath\u0101na?2\n\n3\nKoine Greek\n\u03bc\u1f74 \u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5\nM\u1e17 synkoin\u014dneite!3\n\nSCP-5613-B is to be pruned, watered and harvested as appropriate for a non-anomalous Ceratonia siliqua tree of its size. Its fruits are non-anomalous and staff are permitted to consume them for personal use. If an Akhnai Event occurs, containment staff are to immediately ensure that its new location is surrounded by Containment Site-5613 land for more than more that 200 meters in any direction.\nA filtration system is to be installed just past the western end of SCP-5613-C to catch and dispose of any dead free-swimming complex organisms. As per the Haifa Accords of 1962 the Israeli government is to tacitly increase the liquid sewage flow into the Wadi Sorek, so as to make it inhospitable for free-swimming complex organisms. Swimming in SCP-5613-C is expressly forbidden.4\nWhen an Akhnai Event occurs, holders of the minority opinion are to be immediately removed from the grounds of Containment Site-5613, and staff members are to follow Procedure 5613-Yovel in its entirety.\n\nShow Procedure 5613-Yovel\n\nHide Procedure 5613-Yovel\n\nProcedure 5613-Yovel\n\nSTEP 1: Three shofarot5 are to be blown one hundred times each.\n\nSTEP 2: Physical copies of all research done by majority are to be burned in a large onsite bonfire.\n\nSTEP 3: All holders of the majority opinion are to place the ash of the bonfire on their head.\n\nSTEP 4: All holders of the majority opinion are to cut off any contact with holders of the minority opinion, and are to remain at a distance of at least 2 meters away from holders of the minority opinion at all times for the next eleven months.\n\nSTEP 5: After eleven months have passed, social connections with holders of the minority opinion may be re-established, although holders of the minority opinion are forbidden from being assigned to SCP-5613 again.\n\nDescription: SCP-5613 is the collective term used for a series of three related anomalies found in a field just north of Yavneh in the Central District of Israel.\n\nSCP-5613-A\nSCP-5613-B\nSCP-5613-C\n\nA close-up of the texture of SCP-5613-A\n\nSCP-5613-A is an unhewn, unmortared stone wall approximately 45 meters in length, 20 centimeters in width, and 3.5 meters in height. SCP-5613-A is, as of 29-9-2019, tilted at a 43\u00b0 angle. This is substantially greater than the critical angle of repose for unmortared stones, yet SCP-5613-A holds its form without collapsing.\nDuring Akhnai Events, SCP-5613-A steadily increases its tilt until an assistant director or equivalent position of authority recites RP-5613-A #1\u20143 in Tiberian Hebrew, Western Aramaic, and Koine Greek.\n\nSCP-5613-B in its former location, prior to the most recent Akhnai Event.\n\nSCP-5613-B is a carob or locust tree Ceratonia siliqua, 13.5 meters in height, of a genetic variety commonly found in the southern Levant. Its flowering and fruiting seasons are standard and its produce is unanomalous. Notably, it has not been shown to age or grow any larger since testing began, and although genetic-drift testing testing suggests it is approximately 2000 years old (approximately 1000 years older than the oldest known carob tree), its size would suggest it is only approximately 150 years old.\nAt the onset of an Akhnai Event, SCP-5613-B disappears from its location, and at its conclusion it reappears anywhere between 40 and 200 meters's distance from its previous location. SCP-5613-B's former location has consistently shown signs of a minor cave-in consistent with a substantial quantity of root matter disappearing, but its new location has never shown any sign of rupture or breach, and soil analysis has shown no movement of soil from one location to another.\n\nA small section of SCP-5613-C.\n\nSCP-5613-C is an approximately 50-meter stretch of the Wadi Sorek, an intermittent stream that flows through central Israel. This stretch \"flows backwards\" from the rest of the wadi \u2014 whereas most of the Wadi Sorek flows downstream from east to west, water within SCP-5613-C flows from west to east. Any loose debris that enter SCP-5613-C from the upstream end will be instantly teleported inside the western end of SCP-5613-C, and any loose debris that exit SCP-5613-C downstream will instantly be instantly teleported outside the western end of SCP-5613-C.\nFree-swimming complex organisms appear to be unable to survive the passage through SCP-5613-C, and their corpses are deposited outside the western end. The effect of SCP-5613-C only applies to that which is in contact with the water of the wadi itself, and those on its banks or suspended above it are immune to its effects.\nUnlike SCP-5613-A and SCP-5613-B, SCP-5613-C goes through no changes during Akhnai Events. It is grouped alongside them because of geographical proximity and certain historical factors.\n\nAkhnai Events are triggered on certain occasions when a debate occurs in the region demarcated by Containment Site-5613. Requirements for an Akhnai Event occurence include:\n\nthat the debate features a majority opinion and a minority opinion\nthat holders of the minority opinion believe themselves to be \"put upon\" or \"targeted\" by the majority\nthat holders of the majority opinion consider appeal to authority to be a logical fallacy\nthat the debate has an objectively correct answer6\nthe debate grows heated7\n\nAlongside the previously listed effects of an Akhnai Event, the triggering debate will continue and increase in vitriol until every holder of the minority opinion is removed from the site. Attempted mediators will without exception be drawn into the debate, in all recorded cases joining the side of the majority opinion. When an Akhnai Event lasts longer than three solar hours8, the likelihood of violence increases dramatically, as holders of the minority opinion sometimes develop anomalous abilities. This stage is to be avoided at all costs.\nDiscovery:\nSCP-5613 was first contained in 1863 by the Sihirlerin Taburi9. After the First World War, the Sihirlerin Taburi was disbanded and all of its holdings in the Mandate of Palestine came under the auspices of Her Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal (HMFSCP), which was incorporated in its entirety into the modern Foundation. The records of the Sihirlerin Taburi were largely lost during the turmoil of World War I, so it is unclear how they first came across SCP-5613, but it is known to have existed substantially longer than than according to ancient records (see Historical Incidents A and B).\nIncidents:\n\nHistorical Incident A\nHistorical Incident B\nPost-Containment Incident A\nPost-Containment Incident B\n\nIncident Date: Approx. 12th century BCE\n\nIncident Description: This incident is the earliest known Akhnai Event, found in only one record. According to the account10, a local Danite warrior by the name of Shimshon fell in love with a woman by the name of Delilah in the Wadi Sorek region, and the woman betrayed him to the Philistine officials in the region. The Philistines then proceeded to mock and abuse Shimshon for hours, up to the point where he grew enraged, acquired anomalous strength, and singlehandedly destroyed their place of worship.\n\nConclusions: Little can be concluded from this incident due to the lack of direct sources, but it does demonstrate that SCP-5613 long predates what was previously thought to be its origin.\n\nIncident Date: Approx. 100 CE\n\nIncident Description: Until relatively recently it was assumed that this incident was related to the origin of SCP-5613. It is told in the most detail and is the most important source for the Foundation's containment procedures. According to the account found in the Babylonian Talmud tractate Bava Metzia 59b, Rabbi Eliezer engaged in a debate with the majority of the Sanhedrin11 about the ritual purity of a certain type of layered oven. Even when overruled, Rabbi Eliezer refused to admit defeat, claiming his opinion to be the correct one. According to legend, he called upon the carob tree to jump, the river to flow backwards, the walls of the study hall to collapse, and the voice of God himself to come down from heaven, but the Sanhedrin accepted none of his miracles as evidence. Rabbi Eliezer was then excommunicated, and remained separated from the Sanhedrin until the death of Rabban Gamliel.\n\nConclusions: The parallels to SCP-5613 are beyond coincidence. Many of the Foundation's containment procedures are directly derived from here. RP-5613-A #1 was derived from Rabbi Yehoshua's reaction to the collapsing walls of the study hall, and Procedure 5613-Yovel was derived from rabbinic rites of excommunication. Even so, this telling of the story was likely exaggerated over the years, and Historical Incident-A shows that the incident of the oven was not the first Akhnai Event.\n\nIncident Date: 16-5-1977\n\nIncident Description: During the run-up to the 1977 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a political argument broke out between Senior Researcher Menachem Levin and Junior Researcher Yosef Shriki. An Akhnai Event was triggered and Senior Researcher Levin was transfered to another project and Procedure 5613-Yovel was performed.\n\nConclusions: Prior to Post-Containment Incident A it was thought that Akhnai Events could only be triggered by debates with an objectively correct answer as opposed to value judgements, matters of taste, or competing desires.\n\nIncident Date: 3-7-2014\n\nIncident Description: Junior Researcher Shai Harkabi, assigned to SCP-5613-A, and Research Assistant Yusuf bin Sa\u2018id, assigned to SCP-5613-C, became engaged in an online argument in response to the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on 12 June 2014. Their argument thread grew to over eight hundred replies until an Akhnai Event was triggered. Since the argument was silent, it took over four hours to determine the holders of the minority and majority opinions, by which point Research Assistant bin Sa\u2018id's cell phone had increased in temperature to over seven hundred degrees Celsius. This led Research Assistant bin Sa\u2018id to be identified as the holder of the minority opinion, upon which he was transferred to another project and Procedure 5613-Yovel was performed.\n\nConclusions: Since the holders of minority and majority opinions instances were assigned to different areas, bin Sa\u2018id's anomalous ability was directed at his phone instead of at Harkabi. The current policy forbidding any and all debate, written or spoken, on the grounds of Containment Site-5613 was put in place in response to this incident.\n\n+ Open Note from Site Director Leib \u2014 3-5613 EYES ONLY\n\n- Note opened. Your access has been logged.\n\nWelcome to the valley.\nWhen I was young, my parents sent me to yeshiva for a month. My father was a Soviet refugee, and my mother was a daughter of Auschwitz survivors. Both were avowed atheists. But when I was young, my parents sent me to yeshiva for a month. My father once told me that any god who let the Shoah happen was either dead or not worth worshiping. But when I was young, my parents sent me to yeshiva for a month.\nI used to wonder why they did that. What could they possibly have wanted me to see there? What could I get there that I couldn't get at Herzliya Gymnasium? I sat there for a month, watching people as alien to me as I would be to the King of Jordan debate the meaning of obscure Aramaic clauses, slowly stewing in my own anger and confusion. I was an outsider there.\nMy parents were proud Jews. Yes, as I said before, they were avowed atheists. They were also proud Jews. Americans don't seem to understand this, but the divisions you make between religion, culture, heritage, ethnicity? They're all narishkeit. You have one identity \u2014 multifaceted but singular nonetheless. And that's how I realized what my parents wanted me to learn from yeshiva students.\nAll of the students at Yeshivat Beit Yeshurun agreed about that. Yet just what divine truth was, ah, that was a different question. I would see these kids \u2014 kids I, in my self-righteous \u1e25iloni way, had assumed thought the same, acted the same, just as they dressed the same \u2014 argue passionately, confidently, and loudly about their area of study. But what amazed me most of all was that when the session was over, they would line up and pray the afternoon service together. The debates in the study hall remained in the study hall \u2014 even ardent opposition would be left behind in pursuit of unity.\nTraditional Jewish practice says that God is the utmost unity, the utmost truth. There is no unity like Divine unity, no truth like Divine truth. But Divine truth is not unity. No, on the contrary, it is as multifaceted a thing there is. As the old expression goes, \u201cthe Torah has seventy faces.\u201d Science as a philosophical field is founded on the idea of finding the capital-T Truth, the one correct fact from a muddle of guesswork and disagreement. The Foundation certainly works that way \u2014 we argue to determine the truth, and wholeheartedly believe that we will stop arguing when we determine the truth. But that's not how people act, and I'm frankly not so sure if it's even what we should aspire to.\nThis valley is a place where arguments lead to fights, and fights lead to deaths. So what? That happens everywhere \u2014 in abusive homes, online, at high schools, in war zones. What's different here is just the visibility of it. What we have to remember, what this tilting wall, this hopping tree, remind us, is that we are struggling for the same goal. We have to remember that we are struggling for the same goal.\nMay the One who brings peace on high bring peace upon us as well. I'll see you Sunday.\n\u2014Director Aharon Leib\n\nFootnotes\n1. lit: What is your nature?\n2. lit: Why do you rise against us?\n3. lit: Do not involve yourselves!\n4. \"It's 70% sewage, so who would want to swim in it anyway?\"\n\u2013Junior Researcher Harkabi.\n5. A shofar (plural: shofarot) is a hollowed-out ram's horn used in Jewish ritual practice. In modern Jewish practice it is strictly used to announce the onset of the new year, but in ancient Judean culture it was used as an all-purpose alarm.\n6. See Post-Containment Incident A\n7. SCP-5613's definition of \"heated\" is unclear.\n8. A solar hour is defined as one twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset. Thus, in summer a solar hour is substantially longer than in winter.\n9. literally: the Battalion of Magics. The Sihirlerin Taburi was the official paranormal agency of the late Ottoman Empire, founded by Sultan Mahmud II in 1828.\n10. which can be found in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 16\n11. The highest court of rabbinic authority, at the time centered in Yavneh and headed by Rabban Gamliel the Younger, along with his second-in-command Rabbi Yehoshua ben \u1e24ananiah.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5612 | SCP-5613 | SCP-5614 \u00bb"}
{"text": "This story contains indirect mentions of homophobia.\n\nItem #: SCP-5615\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5615-1 and -2 as a whole are compliant in their containment, and as such, extensive procedures are currently unnecessary. Procedures have been set in place in the event that SCP-5615-1 or SCP-5615-2 breaches containment, whether willingly or not. If an SCP-5615 instance is revealed to the World of Warcraft community as a whole, a small disinformation campaign will be enacted, indicating that SCP-5615 instances are \"smart NPCs\" created by Activision Blizzard, Inc. using new technology.\nSCP-5615-1 and SCP-5615-2 are currently contained within a small house located within the Eastern Plaguelands zone. By order of the Ethics Committee, SCP-5615 instances are allowed to explore the open world for two hours at a time, once a week. SCP-5615 instances are instructed to behave like non-anomalous NPCs in the presence of other players. During this time, SCP-5615 instances are not allowed near popular quest giver hubs, nor major capital cities. Amnestics are to be administered to witnesses as per standard protocol.\nFoundation assets within Activision Blizzard, Inc. will assist SCP-5615-1 and -2 in concealing its presence to other Activision Blizzard, Inc. employees and dataminers. Information regarding the inner workings of Activision Blizzard and its work ethic can be found within attached file 000-03T.\nDescription: SCP-5615 is the designation for sapient informational-based entities found within the popular MMORPG (Multi-Player Online Roleplaying Game) World of Warcraft, initially developed by Blizzard Entertainment, currently being developed by Activision Blizzard, Inc. SCP-5615 instances take the form of NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) that are both capable of speaking and interacting with playable characters1, as well as limited manipulation of the game's files and data. SCP-5615 instances are aware that they are within a game and there are humans controlling the playable characters, but are not able to actively sense humans or the real world.\nThe only known SCP-5615 instances that are known to exist are SCP-5615-1 and SCP-5615-2. Both entities take the form of Human males, found within the US-based server titled \"Hellscream.\" SCP-5615-1 goes by the name Johnny Goodall, while SCP-5615-2 goes by the name Aiden Goodall. Each entity is rarely seen without the other, and will always travel together if forced to relocate.\nAddendum: SCP-5615-1 and -2 were discovered on December 17th, 2013, during World of Warcraft's fourth expansion pack titled Mists of Pandaria. However, SCP-5615-2 claims that they have existed since the game's initial launch back in 2004. SCP-5615-1 and -2 were discovered during a routine scan of the integrity of the game's files by Foundation staff as part of a project in detecting anomalies within popular multiplayer games. Initially, SCP-5615-1 and -2's movements were forcefully restricted until proper containment could be established, before SCP-5615-2 announced its desire to stay concealed.\nUsing a player character controlled by Dr. Heisman, an interview was conducted with both entities.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5615-1 and -2 are discovered within a small cave in the East side of a zone called \"Duskwood\", a forest that is infamous for its dark atmosphere. Both entities are standing over the corpse of a spider monster they had killed shortly prior. Dr. Heisman is stationed outside of the cave, using a stealth ability.\nSCP-5615-1: Yeesh. Even though it doesn't hurt, still a pain in the ass to kill shit. Can we even die? Or are we just worrying for nothing?\nSCP-5615-2: I haven't been alive for long enough to want to test that. My educated guess is \"maybe\", only because other NPCs come back after a while.\nSCP-5615-1: Well, my problem is we're not really normal NPCs\u2026\nDr. Heisman: Excuse me, Mr. and Mr. Goodall.\nBoth entities turn towards Dr. Heisman.\nSCP-5615-2: Fuckin hell\u2026\nSCP-5615-2 attempts to manipulate the games data to remove Heisman from the area by teleporting them to a nearby graveyard. Heisman instantly teleports their character back to the cave using an administrator console.\nDr. Heisman: I'm super sorry for intruding. I just wanted to ask you two a couple of questions.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-2: Do you know this guy?\nSCP-5615-1: No, he's a player, he ain't one of us. Right, jeez, thought this day would come. Before you go and tell everybody and get us rooted out and, well, patched out and all, could you at least put in a good word for me?\nDr. Heisman: Don't worry, don't worry, lips are sealed. Not to beat around the bush, and I don't want this to sound creepy, but I've noticed that you two are\u2026 different from other NPCs, in the past. My main observation is that you two are, to be blunt, hiding yourselves from players. And are, you know, intelligent.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-2: May I speak to my, uh, friend here for a second.\nDr. Heisman: Absolutely.\nBoth entities retreat deeper into the cave.\nSCP-5615-2: Johnny, I don't think we have a choice. If he's malicious, we're fucked no matter the answer we give him. But there's a chance he's telling the truth and won't out us to the internet or whatever.\nSCP-5615-1: If we leave right now, what proof does he have?\nSCP-5615-2: He could take a screenshot of our conversation, he can easily access that kinda information.\nSCP-5615-1: People'll think it's fake.\nSCP-5615-2: He could livestream it.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-1: What if he's livestreaming now\u2026\nSCP-5615-2: Well, then we're just fucked.\nSCP-5615-1: Just? No we did that like a week ago.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-2: You're lucky that I like you.\nSCP-5615-1 laughs. Both entities return to Heisman's character\nSCP-5615-2: Okay, we'll bite.\nDr. Heisman: Great! This will take no time at all, so bare with me here. Like I said, I only have a couple of questions for you two.\nSCP-5615-1: Am I applying for a job or something?\nSCP-5615-2: Ahem.\nSCP-5615-1: I know, I know, don't be ornery.\nDr. Heisman: The main thing I wish to know before we move forward: what specifically are you hiding?\nSilence\nSCP-5615-1: Don't have to be so blunt about it, damn.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-2: We're hiding the fact that we're sentient.\nSCP-5615-1 turns towards SCP-5615-2 and back towards Heisman's character\nSCP-5615-1: Er, yeah. That.\nDr. Heisman: I see\u2026 well, any particularly reason why?\nSCP-5615-2: We're a very quiet and introverted bunch. Our sentience would alert every player in this game, basically a huge giant billboard saying \"Hey, check out this cool thing the game developers developed!\" Just\u2026 all the attention in general, it makes us anxious. We'd rather be left alone.\nSCP-5615-1: Shit's scary. I can't feel pain but I can absolutely feel anxiety, and hoo boy, lemme tell ya, very miserable state of being. Any little hint that we've been found out and it feels like I swallowed an ice cold stone and it's stuck in my esophagus.\nDr. Heisman: O\u2026.kay. I sort of want to ask how you know what that feels like, considering your\u2026 state.\nSCP-5615-1: I just kinda\u2026 know, you know?\nDr. Heisman: \u2026anyway, as you two can probably tell, I have the capabilities of a Game Master2 and a whole lot more. Is there anything I could do to alleviate any problems you're having? Because, like you said, you two are practically human, and it pains me to see you two miserable.\nSCP-5615-1: Well, no offense but that's like, an incredibly suspicious way of talkin'.\nSCP-5615-2: Again, Johnny, I think we gotta take the risk. You and me both know you don't want to be on the front page of\u2026 some internet website about Warcraft news or whatever.\nSCP-5615-1: Right. Yeah\u2026\nSCP-5615-2: There's a couple of options we'd prefer\u2026\nDr. Heisman: Just to be absolutely clear, these options need to require that you are completely secluded from the general public. Not just for your sake. Nobody must know your true nature.\nSCP-5615-2: What makes you say that?\nDr. Heisman: I'm unfortunately not at liberty to tell you. But I hope you can infer from context.\nSilence.\nSCP-5615-1: Oh, like the movie with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.\nDr. Heisman: \u2026yeah let's go with that. Now, please continue.\nSCP-5615-2: Number one is let us have a server to ourselves, completely empty of players.\nSilence\nDr. Heisman: I don't think we can do that.\nSCP-5615-1: Hm? Why not?\nDr. Heisman: You see, I don't work for the game company\u2026 I don't really want them to know I have this kind of power. Plus, hosting an entire server would, you know, attract attention from them. And once they know you exist, it's over. Editing your own code can only get you so far once you're that cornered.\nSCP-5615-2 sighs.\nSCP-5615-2: Right. Option two is give us access to a part of the map that is completely inaccessible to players, but I'd rather be able to, you know, walk around for a little bit. Stretch my legs, pick a flower, slay a monster or two. But knowing you lot\u2026\nDr. Heisman: I know some friends higher up the chain that could arrange something.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-2: Can I speak to my friend here? Again?\nDr. Heisman: Go ahead.\nBoth entities retreat deeper into the cave once again.\nSCP-5615-2: Do you also feel like we're being sweet talked into being locked up?\nSCP-5615-1: Yeah. But really now, what are our options? Think about it. You know for certain if they find out, there will be a shitstorm of biblical proportions. Once the game devs find us out, they won't just lock us up, they will kill us. We weren't intended to be in this game. They'll, at best, see us as an unauthorized changed made by an intern and remove us. Plus, if we say no, they'll lock us up anyway, cuz they're men in black types.\nSCP-5615-2: Right\u2026 right. Ugh, this sucks.\nSCP-5615-1: With you, being locked in a cell doesn't sound so bad.\nSCP-5615-2: Oh shut it.\nBoth entities chuckle and return to Heisman's character.\nSCP-5615-2: We've made our choice. We choose the second option, considering it's the only one we have.\nDr. Heisman: Right. I'll let my superiors know. I will contact you soon.\nHeisman's character turns around and starts running away from the cave for a few seconds before stopping and turning back around.\nDr. Heisman: I promise you, we aren't unnecessarily cruel.\nSCP-5615-1: We'll be the judge of that.\nHeisman's character turns back around and completely leaves the area. Once out of sight, Heisman instantly logs out of their character and logs back into a new one, who is a Warlock class. Once logged in, Heisman teleports their character to near the cave, out of sight of the entities, and casts an ability called \"Eye of Kilrogg.\" This ability allows the user to scout areas using a controllable floating eye that is invisible to other players and enemies. Heisman controls this Eye of Kilrogg back to outside the cave.\nSCP-5615-1: You think he bought it?\nSilence\nSCP-5615-1: Probably not. He's a scientist probably, he's not dumb.\nSCP-5615-2: It doesn't seem like he knew. Also, are you sure you want to, y'know, take walks outside once our new home is made? Isn't that what we're avoiding? I know I just blurted that out when talking to him but\u2026\nSilence\nSCP-5615-2: I guess it was brewing inside my subconscious for a while, because I said it without hesitation.\nSCP-5615-1: Yeah\u2026\nSilence\nSCP-5615-1: Y'know what? So what if they find out? Hell, maybe I want them to find out!\nSCP-5615-2: What are you going on about now?\nSCP-5615-1: I don't want to just sit on our ass, moving behind trees, hiding in bushes, just to hide what we can't control. Shit's been pissing me off, and I've had enough. We'll live our best life, and they'll prod us, poke us, bully us, but that won't stop us. We need to show them that they don't have any power over us.\nSCP-5615-2: You've had this speech saved up for a while now, huh? Heh.\nSCP-5615-1: A lot longer than you'd think.\nSCP-5615-2: Nah, I've probably had that thought before you did.\nSCP-5615-1: Nuh uh.\nSCP-5615-2: Yuh huh.\nSilence\nSCP-5615-1: I dunno. That was dramatic, I know, I told that speech like a peasant during the French Revolution but like\u2026 all I'm saying is, any vile they can spew at us is not even nearly enough to stop me from loving you. As long as I'm with you, it's like a freakin forcefield, throwing that shit aside.\nSCP-5615-2: D'aw\u2026 you're so cute when you get excited, y'know that?\nSCP-5615-1: I\u2026 I ain't cute. I'm manly.\nSCP-5615-2: As manly as a kitten.\nSCP-5615-1: Hey, they'll tear your face off if you let 'em!\nSilence\nSCP-5615-1: I love you, babe.\nSCP-5615-2: Love you too.\n[END LOG]\n\nShortly after this transpired, the current containment procedures were enacted. Since containment, both entities have reported a more stable mental state.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This is accomplished via the ingame chat system. SCP-5615 instances will always use the \"/say\" and \"/yell\" commands to speak.\n2. Staff members for Activision Blizzard, Inc who are responsible for resolving issues involving the game.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5614 | SCP-5615 | SCP-5616 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5617\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nArtwork recovered from the victim of an SCP-5617 incident\n\nContainment Procedures: SCP-5617 is currently uncontained and its location unknown. All attempts to locate and contain SCP-5617 have resulted in failure. Containment procedures are being generated continuously should SCP-5617 choose to appear to Foundation personnel and staff.\nDescription: SCP-5617 is a humanoid anomaly with a head resembling a North American grizzly bear. Its jaw is supported by exactly four progressively rusted steel bars. The interior of its mouth is pitch black aside from an indistinct blue glow emanating from within. Five pale claw mark scars sit diagonally across its left eye.\nSCP-5617 is hypothesized to (definitively by first hand encounters and reports) display the identity of a deceased human being. The deceased members are heard from by loved ones or their living counterparts only one or two times in their residence within SCP-5617. The following effects are included in visual, audible, and physical interactions with SCP-5617:\n\nUsing wind currents to create an indistinct but familiar speaking voice\nA feeling of familiarity induced within approximately three meters from SCP-5617\nA body temperature of approximately 37 Celsius when physically interacting\nInvoluntary tears\n\nSCP-5617 is not inherently malicious, but is unable to be contained due to its method of transport. When it decides its interaction is complete, SCP-5617 will deconstruct into a luminescent blue vapor. This has been confirmed by multiple incident reports from those in contact with SCP-5617. Timelines between each interaction show that SCP-5617 can appear approximately 3.5 kilometers in distance from its previous location.\nThe current motives of SCP-5617 range from a final meeting with a loved one to assisting Iota-10 operatives in solving cases that have otherwise fallen cold in years prior. It leaves clues at locations it knows Iota-10 will arrive at or come across. The motives of SCP-5617's host, however, is regarded as \u201cprotection of souls from a fate worse than his own\u201d (quoted from Detective Cameron Oliver, henceforth referred to as PoI-5617, in an interview). It is unsure exactly how many identities reside within SCP-5617, and it is believed that new identities are being contained within SCP-5617 constantly.\n\n+ Discovery Log\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5617 was discovered by The Foundation through Detective PoI-5617 at CPI Investigations in San Diego, California. He had done several reports on SCP-5617 and assisted on criminal cases following the reported appearances of SCP-5617. Several years of research had gone into locating SCP-5617 by the detective himself. Mobile Task Force Iota-10 was quickly dispatched in order to confiscate records of SCP-5617's appearances and any known locations.\n\nThe following addendums are research logs and personal encounters recorded by Detective PoI-5617. Mobile Task Force Iota-10 has since been dispatched on several instances to confiscate PoI-5617's records.\n\n+ Addendum SCP-5617-1\n\n- Close\n\nThe following is the first recorded entry of SCP-5617 by PoI-5617 in July of 2001.\nI have to write what happened. I can't stop thinking about it. I can't sleep. How did I talk to Rose? I mean, it wasn't really her. Was it? It just felt so familiar. I thought I was just hearing things when the wind whispered at me, but now I'm not so sure. She asked me how he died. She wanted to see the note I wrote him. And when I touched her\u2026 or\u2026 it, it felt so warm. So familiar. I had tears, and I didn't even know I was crying before. It just felt so comfortable. I'll find it again. I have to. No matter how long it takes.\n\n+ Addendum SCP-5617-2\n\n- Close\n\nJanuary 23, 2007\nTo whom it may concern,\nDue to the radical conspiracies our student, Cameron Oliver, has been writing multiple reports about and has been researching constantly, his grades and attendance have decreased significantly. He has been seen sneaking off of campus multiple times past curfew. He has also been escorted back by both campus and state police officers on multiple accounts of trespassing and thievery. With that being said, we here at California State University are issuing a permanent dismissal from our San Diego campus.\nThis kind of behavior will not be tolerated on our campus. We suspect there may be a mental deficiency inhibiting him from accelling in our programs. He keeps speaking of a creature named \u201cSoul\u201d who holds the spirits of the dead, and he claims they can speak to others. He also tells people he has seen them first hand. We are worried about his mental state, and hope that this note gets to you in good health.\nWith the proper care for his mental health and a further check in with psychiatric facilities, we may consider reimbursing him back into our criminal justice program. Until then, we wish you and him the best of luck.\nSincerely,\nCharles B. Reed\nPrincipal of California State University\nThis note was found wrinkled and torn around the edges. The damage was quickly assumed to have been created by PoI-5617, as he had no living family at the time of the letter's creation.\n\n+ Addendum SCP-5617-3\n\n- Close\n\nThe following is a series of notes written by PoI-5617 on the scene of crimes in which SCP-5617 was reported to have been spotted.\n- Hysterics\n- Begging\n- Crying\n- Exact description of Soul\nConclusion: She definitely saw them. Where they are now, I don't know. This is the third case of Soul popping up this month alone. What's his objective?\n\n+ Addendum SCP-5617-4\n\n- Close\n\nThe following was discovered in PoI-5617's notebook as \u201cone of the most intense\u201d cases he claims to have ever been tasked to.\nI can't come back from tonight. I don't even want to think about it, but the only way to get over it is to write it down.\nWhen we got there, she was hysterical. And I mean, more than usual. She could barely breathe. She grabbed the leg of my pants and just begged me. I needed to believe her. I had done so much research on Soul, I had to believe her. Of course I did. So I sat and consoled her. She just kept begging and begging. I needed to tell them that Soul was real.\nThat's when she overheard them calling 911. She begged me to not let them take her, but she needed the help. My stomach ached. I knew what it was like to not be believed. She just stood up. The window was already opened. I couldn't save her. I couldn't even move.\nEveryone was so frantic. I wanted to be able to help her. To tell her they were real. They are real. I never got the chance.\nThe last thing I remember her telling me was, \u201cI'll be with him soon\u201d. She had spoken to her husband through Soul. If I ever meet her again, be it through Soul or my own death, it'll be too late to apologize for not being there.\nNever again.\n\n+ Incident Report PoI-5617\n\n- Close\n\nPoI-5617 was found deceased in his office chair the morning of June 25th, 2021. Security footage confiscated by Iota-10 shows PoI-5617 speaking with SCP-5617 at 2:15 AM after a late night investigation. He seems frantic and delusional as he speaks to SCP-5617. SCP-5617 remains still for the duration of the footage. At 2:25 AM, the footage cuts directly from their conversation to PoI-5617 sitting in his office chair, dead. Autopsy reports claim there was no sign of any cause of death. Foundation Personnel have no confirmed causes themselves. A number of personnel who worked closely researching SCP-5617, including Iota-10 officers, theorize SCP-5617 has taken PoI-5617's identity. No conclusions have been made to the real cause of PoI-5617's death or if SCP-5617 has his identity.\n\n+ SCP-5617 Incident Gallery\n\n- Close\n\nThe following image is a sketch drawn by a witness of SCP-5617 during an investigation PoI-5617 assisted on. It was handed to him before the witness was apprehended for further questioning on the incident.\n\nArtwork given to PoI-5617 during an on site investigation\n\nNote from Iota-10: Any visual pieces of incidents including SCP-5617 are to be immediately confiscated and placed within SCP-5617's file.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5616 | SCP-5617 | SCP-5618 \u00bb"}
{"text": "N/A\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: SCP-5619\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5619-A and B are kept together in a secure anomalous items locker.\nPoI-5619-A and B are considered Low-risk and allowed to continue living amongst the general public.\nDescription: SCP-5619 consists of two ceramic drinking mugs (SCP-5619-A and B). SCP-5619-A is painted white and adorned with golden accents in the shape of a cat's ears, nose, and mouth. SCP-5619-B is painted black, and covered in tiny silver specs resembling stars, with the phrase \u201cWitch's Brew\u201d written on the front.\nWhen boiled water is poured into either SCP-5619-A or B, the liquid will instead appear inside the opposing instance, filling until reaching close to the mug's brim. Any excess water will fill the original mug as normal. Additional liquids and other common hot beverage ingredients (Milk, sugar, honey, etc) will also transfer if placed into either mug. Anomalous properties will not occur while SCP-5619-A or B contain non-edible substances such as soap or other cleaning products.\nWhile both SCP-5619-A and B contain drinkable liquids and are each held by a different person, subjects will visually perceive the other individual to be five feet away from them, as if there in person. This phenomenon is entirely intangible and inaudible, ending once subjects cease contact with SCP-5619-A or B, or when either mug becomes empty of its contents.\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5619-A and B were discovered in separate locations, a small apartment in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, United States (SCP-5619-A), and a one-story house in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, United Kingdom (SCP-5619-B). The Foundation was alerted to the anomaly following the detection of near-identical thaumaturgic frequencies in both respective locations. Further inspection confirmed the phenomena to have been occurring regularly in both locations over a span of four years.\nThe former occupants of each location were found to have moved out several weeks prior. Both parties (Poi-5619-A and B) were later discovered living together in a two-person apartment in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, United States.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5618 | SCP-5619 | SCP-5620 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5622\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Any information regarding the current whereabouts of SCP-5622-A are to be investigated by a Foundation detective. Following the events of Addendum 5622-5, the computer storing SCP-5622 is to be contained within an inanimate object containment unit. If any non-human entity is observed within 5583 Custobidus Street or SCP-5622-A's previous prison cell, SCP-5622's containment procedures, and description are to be revised to note the aforementioned entity.\nDescription: SCP-5622 is a digital folder labeled \"Your Indoor Neighbor\", stored within a Dell XPS 13 laptop. SCP-5622 contains a series of Word documents referred to as SCP-5622-1, which are written in a standard letter format. The apparent narrator of SCP-5622-1 resides within 5583 Custobidus Street, Syracuse, NY. Although no physical proof of the aforementioned narrator exists, research staff are reminded that the events within Addendum 5622-1, 3, 4, and 5 would imply otherwise.\nSCP-5622-A is a non-anomalous human female by the name \u201cAnaliese Gilowski\u201d and is the previous owner of 5583 Custobidus Street, and the computer in which SCP-5622 exists.\nRecovery Log: SCP-5622-A contacted their local police station, complaining of a stalker within their place of residence. The call was deemed a false police report and SCP-5622-A was charged with a misdemeanor. Two weeks proceeding this event, SCP-5622-A contacted the police again. A human femur was found within 5583 Custobidus Street and SCP-5622-A was arrested and interrogated. Being found guilty of first-degree murder, they were sent to Groveland Correctional Facility and remained incarcerated until the events of Addendum 5622-5. The nature of the breach drew the Foundation's attention, and SCP-5622 was discovered after a thorough investigation.\nAddendum 5622-1:\nThe following entries are the remaining SCP-5622-1 files. The context within the files indicates that there were additional manifestations, although they were likely deleted by either SCP-5622-A or SCP-5622 itself. Succeeding SCP-5622-A\u2018s initial contact to their police station, they downloaded a webcam software that takes photographs while the laptop is unlocked.\n\nEntry 5622-1\n\nHide Entry 5622-1\n\nDear Anny,\nI was scared you had patched up the hole behind the fridge. Sometimes I just lay there until my teeth start chattering. I try not to let you hear, but I think you do anyway. You left some old fruit out in a bin yesterday. I didn't think you'd miss it, so I spread my fingers in it. It was fun, just mashing my fingers in the old fruit, but then it started smelling really bad and I stopped.\nOh! I almost forgot! Today I found a mouse in one of your traps. He was still alive, so I got a chance to play with him before he started stinking. I left it on your cupboard so you could play with it too when you have the time. I wish you had the time to play as you used to when you were scared. Remember those times where you would spend hours looking for me around the house? Why don't we do that anymore?\nWishing we could play,\nYour Indoor Neighbor\n\nEntry 5622-2\n\nHide Entry 5622-2\n\nDear Anny,\nYou do odd things sometimes. Like how you sleep under your covers now. Like how you have stopped reading my little letters. It's actually kind of rude, but I don't mind. It's like our little secret, except it's just mine I suppose. That's kind of the same with a lot of things. That dead mouse was meant for you, but eventually, it got dirty and I couldn't resist. That one will be our little secret.\nSpeaking of little secrets, I just can't keep this from you any longer. Oooh! This is so fun! Do you remember when you had that one guy over? Terrible manners, but you do have an odd choice in guests. When I saw him come in I was scared. What was I going to do? What if he found me? I was scared. I was going to hurt him, but any friend of yours is a friend of mine. I watched him talk to you. It got really quiet, and then you shook your head, and he was screaming, and you were crying. And then he left, and you threw a little box he gave you on the ground. Then, I knew he wasn't your friend.\nThe weirdest thing was, he didn't really even struggle once he was under the porch! He squirmed, of course, but he was crying more than anything. Well, once you went up to the bed, I snuck him inside, and then I squeezed him into the vent. Do you know how you save things for eating sometimes, and you put them in the fridge? Well, I had no fridge, so I made do with what I had. The smell did get bad, but I think it added a nice aura to the place that you were somewhat missing before.\nI hope you like the smell too,\nYour Indoor Neighbor\n\nEntry 5622-3\n\nHide Entry 5622-3\n\nDear Anny,\nI was trying to balance a tooth on my finger, but then I heard a strange noise. I took the long way down to the main floor. Good thing too, because I could see you tearing apart the vent with an ax. I thought you needed it. You do strange things sometimes. You seemed upset when you finally got through, which seems a bit weird, as you seemed so intent on getting into it anyway. Some strange men came inside and took you away. I was scared you were never coming back. I was scared I would go back to how I was without you. I was almost about to finish the last of the bones when I remembered that you will be back. You'll come back.\nI just noticed this flashing light on the laptop. I'm going to try covering it up with my hand. I can still see the red through my fingers. Is the red light why you've been so upset?\nI'm here whenever you need me,\nYour Indoor Neighbor\n\nAddendum 5622-2: SCP-5622-A has been incarcerated for being guilty of first-degree murder. Their testimony to convince the jury otherwise was deemed false; the information is insufficient to either prove or disprove the existence of the \"Indoor Neighbor\".\nAddendum 5622-3: The following document was found stored on the prison's Head Officer's work computer. They dismissed it as a prank.\n\nDear guardian,\nI remember those grocery bags Anny used to bring in. When it rained, sometimes the bags would break and everything would spill out and make a mess. I am that bag. You don't understand, I need her. I'll go back to how I was before her, a monster, no, a murderer. If you don't give her back, I will make your home mine. I will find her. You can't hide her. She's scared of you. I can smell it from here.\nFrom,\nYour Indoor Neighbor\n\nAddendum 5622-4: SCP-5622-A made several complaints of a putrid smell emanating from their cell's ventilation system. Subsequent investigation revealed a human femur with some residual soft tissue at the base of the shaft feeding SCP-5622-A's cell. Genetic testing of the femur is ongoing.\nAddendum 5622-5: SCP-5622-A breached security and has not been located. Security cameras within SCP-5622-A's hallway were cut two days prior to the event and were being replaced the next day. No traces of SCP-5622-A's escape exist, save for two screws missing from their ventilation grate, and the following audio file, captured from a neighboring cell.\n\nBegin Log:\nUnidentified Voice: Hello Anny.\n[A metalic impact is heard]\nSCP-5622-A: Who- what the hell?\nUnidentified Voice: I have waited so long to finally meet you in person.\nSCP-5622-A: What the hell? Help please!\nUnidentified Voice: I hope that we can still stay friends after I let you be kidnapped and all, but you did keep me waiting for a long time. Now we have all the time we need!\nSCP-5622-A: No, no, please. Leave me alone.\nUnidentified Voice: You have no idea how much I've wanted a friend like you.\nSCP-5622-A: Help me!\n[A similar metallic impact is heard, proceeding several receding thuds]\nEnd Log\n\nRecovered webcam image has been appended to this file. Would you like to view?\n\nHide webcam image\n\n\u00ab SCP-5621 | SCP-5622 | SCP-5623 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5623\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All deep-space observatories are to be monitored by remote sensing and imaging satellites in low Earth orbit.\nThe production and trade of new deep-space telescopes and satellites has been limited to companies where a sufficient number of undercover Foundation personnel are present in order to successfully implant a Binary_Star.aic file in all related hardware.\nAll images of SCP-5623 are to be intercepted by the Foundation AI \"Binary Star\", saved in the Foundation database, and subsequently deleted from public records. Those who witness the anomaly are to be administered Class B amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5623 is the first extraterrestrial spacecraft observed by the Foundation and was discovered 54 years before the first manmade spacecraft1 and 57 years before the first manned spacecraft2 existed. SCP-5623 has a frame in the form of an oblate spheroid with an outer chamber on the bottom side which presumably serves as a control room.\nDiscovery: On 28 August 1903, Foundation Astronomers observed SCP-5623 near the Orion Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy through a telescope.\nSCP-5623 has not been sighted since its discovery by any telescope or spatial equipment. Other cosmic phenomena have led Foundation Astronomers to hypothesize that SCP-5623 was pulled in by the gravity of a red dwarf star and upon impact, ceased to exist alongside the star.\nThe proposal to change its object class to neutralized is still pending.\n\nInsert Level 4 Credentials\n\nFootnotes\n1. The first satellite, Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 October 1957.\n2. The first manned spaceflight took place on 12 April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin was launched as part of the Vostok 1 mission.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5622 | SCP-5623 | SCP-5624 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A non-anomalous copy of SCP-5624\n\nItem#: SCP-5624\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5624 is to be kept in a standard containment locker at Site-59. Experimentation is permitted with approval from Director Naismith. As of 5/20/21, SCP-5624 is not to be scanned with photographs under any circumstances.\nDescription: SCP-5624 is a 2 cm x 6 cm paper cutout depicting a small grayscale caricature of a man with glasses. Analysis of SCP-5624 has indicated that the image was made with an inkjet printer; however, inkjet copies of SCP-5624 do not possess the original anomalous effects.\nWhen SCP-5624 is laid over another image with a computer scanner, the resulting scan will have altered the original image's content.\nThis effect is most prominent in comic strips, or any other image depicting at least two \"characters.\" The presence of SCP-5624 will nullify any conflict between the characters, or introduce some new aspect of wholesomeness and gratitude. In order for this to occur, SCP-5624 must be superimposed in the image's negative space.\nRecovery Log: SCP-5624 was brought to the Foundation's attention from the Tumblr webcomic \"Mr. Goodtimes & the Quest for Multiversal Peace,\" a series of newspaper comic strips altered by SCP-5624. Following an investigation, the blog was shut down, the owner was amnesticized, and SCP-5624 was confiscated.\nAddendum 1 \u2014 Examples of SCP-5624 alterations from the original website\n\nStrip series\nOriginal Content\nSCP-5624 placement\nResult\n\nThe Lockhorns\nLeroy Lockhorn sits in his recliner. Loretta Lockhorn complains. Caption: \"I call this sculpture: 'Disappointment in Repose.'\"\nThe space directly to the right of Loretta.\nLeroy and Loretta embrace, smiling and crying. Loretta speaks. Caption: \"God, we're a mess, aren't we? But I wouldn't have it any other way.\"\n\nCalvin and Hobbes\nCalvin's father returns home during winter. Several sculptures of murdered snowmen are in the yard, while a snow-wizard sculpture laughs maniacally. Calvin's father thinks to himself: \"I don't think they're assigning Calvin enough homework.\"\nIn the snow next to the family car.\nCalvin and his father work together on a gorier snowman display. Calvin remarks: \"Don't forget the entrails. Snowstradamus likes to make an example of his enemies.\" Calvin's father thinks to himself: \"I don't know what I was missing!\"\n\nGarfield\nJon calls one of his dates on the telephone. Getting rejected, he hangs up the phone and sobs. Garfield thinks to himself: \"Maybe the 407th call was overdoing it.\"\nCentral panel, behind Jon.\nJon says \"\u2026actually, never mind, I'm not interested.\" on the phone in the first panel. After hanging up, he hugs Garfield, saying \"Who needs dating? I got all the love I need right here.\" Garfield smiles and thinks \"Darn right you do.\"\n\nPeanuts\nSnoopy sits on top of his doghouse and pretends he's fighting the Red Baron in World War I.\nIn the sky next to Snoopy.\nSnoopy shakes hands with an identical dog wearing a pickelhaube, narrating: \"Having finally brokered peace with Kaiser Wilhelm II, our hero returns home with hope in his heart for a brighter future. The World rejoices at an end to the years of senseless bloodshed that have engulfed Europe. \" In the background, Lucy can be seen allowing Charlie Brown to kick the football.\n\nAddendum 2 \u2014 Examples of SCP-5624 alterations from Foundation experimentation\n\nImage\nOriginal Content\nSCP-5624 placement\nResult\n\nA photocopy of Judith and Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi\nJudith and a servant woman work together to decapitate Holofernes, who is sleeping, with a knife.\nIn the background.\nA weeping and repentant Holofernes kneels to Judith, laying down his weapons at her feet (presumably to apologize for trying to destroy her hometown of Bethulia). Judith, also weeping, places a merciful hand on his shoulder.\n\nA photocopy of a World War I propaganda poster\n\"DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE\" \u2014 a snarling ape wears a helmet labeled \"MILITARISM\" and brandishes a bloody club labeled \"KULTUR\" while carrying off a half-naked woman \u2014 \"ENLIST \u2014 US ARMY\"\nIn the background.\n\"BE NICE TO APES\" \u2014 a smiling ape wears a helmet labeled \"APE HAT\" and holds a submarine sandwich while a half-naked woman combs his fur \u2014 \"THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST\"\n\nA photograph of D-59183 and D-29387, taken at Site-59 on 5/19/21, taken for the purpose of experimentation with SCP-5624.\nAs instructed, D-59183 and D-29387 stand next to each other in an empty room.\nThe space to the left of D-59183.\nD-59183 is dead, and D-29387 kneels next to his corpse, sobbing. [See Addendum 3]\n\nAddendum 3 - Moratorium on Photographic Testing\nOn 5/20/21, immediately following the scan of the photograph with SCP-5624, D-59183 was found dead in his cell. Cause of death was determined to be drowning in black ink. Despite confirmed reports of D-59813 having reported for other experiments two hours prior, the state of decomposition indicated that he had been dead for at least 17 hours \u2014 since the time the photograph was taken.\n\nDate: 5/20/21\nInterviewer: Researcher Charlton\nInterviewed: D-29387\n<begin log>\nCharlton: We'd like to ask you a few questions regarding the photograph yesterday.\n[D-29387 trembles at the mention of the photograph, remaining silent. His breathing becomes quicker.]\nCharlton: If you do not cooperate with\u2014\nD-29387: Fuck off, you know what happened. You were there when the picture was taken.\nCharlton: I was, but I was not in the picture. You were. We have reason to believe that what you saw, and what I saw, are two different things.\nD-29387: So you think I'm insane?\nCharlton: I don't have the right degree on my wall to make that decision. No judgments are being made here \u2014 all the same, you're not leaving this room until we have your version of events.\nD-29387: Goddammit. Okay, fine. Where are we starting?\nCharlton: Of the two of you who came into the photograph \u2014\n[D-29387 breaks down, sobbing.]\nCharlton: \u2026I suppose this means you're aware of what happened to D-59813.\nD-29387: Brad.\nCharlton: The names of D-class are confidential.\nD-29387: He told me.\nCharlton: Records indicate that the time you and D-59\u2014 Brad knew each other begun at the time of the shooting, and you had no contact prior. And yet \u2014 were you close?\nD-29387: He's the only reason I made it out of there.\nCharlton: The room where the photograph took place?\nD-29387: No. The place we were pulled into. I thought you would have seen that part, at least.\nCharlton: That's why we want to know what you saw.\nD-29387: I'm not sure how much time went by. By the time we broke out, only an instant had passed \u2014 but I swear it was a few months, at least. Apparently some of the other people there were still waiting to get out of the lake on their own, once Mr. Goodtimes \"approved\" \u2014 Brad taught me how to fight my way out instead. He even tried to attack Goodtimes himself on the way out \u2014 didn't go too well, obviously.\nCharlton: Can you tell me more about this \"lake\"?\n[D-29387 hesitates.]\nD-29387: \u2026gimme a minute. I'm still raw from all this.\nCharlton: Take your time. Maybe changing the subject would help - who was \"Mr. Goodtimes?\" Was he a man with glasses?\n[D-29387 nods.]\nCharlton: Did he look like a \u2014\nD-29387: Cartoon character. No anger in his voice, just said he was \"here to help\" and dragged us into his little lake \u2014 smiling the whole time. The lake was\u2026 cold. Wet. The ground was covered in this thick layer of black mud that stained our clothes. Sky was pure white. Smelled like newspaper and blood. No horizon, just more black and white. The mud felt solid beneath our feet, but the more we walked forward, the more it pulled us in, and the arms kept coming and\u2026\n[D-29387 hesitates, breaking into a cold sweat.]\n\u2026look, I never knew Brad before all this went down. But you work that hard to get out of the lake with someone for that long, and he's gonna be the brother you never knew you had. All the problems you had outside the lake don't matter no more, there's only the fight to escape \u2014 and all the dreams of what you'll do once you break out.\nThough sometimes, when I put it that way, I feel we played right into Goodtimes's little lesson plan.\nCharlton: Which is?\nD-29387: \"Be good to each other. Or die.\"\n<End Log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5623 | SCP-5624 | SCP-5625 \u00bb"}
{"text": "a hopeful romantic\n\nThat's Sonderance, for the record. See more of his stuff here.\n\n1/5625 LEVEL 1/5625\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5625\n\nketer\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All contained samples of SCP-5625 are currently stored at Site-66. Contact tracing is in progress to recognize and address civilian contraction of SCP-5625. In the event of an outbreak, Curable Anomalous Disease Protocol 3 should be implemented.\n\nTEM micrograph of SCP-5625\n\nDescription: SCP-5625 is a human-contractable negative-strand RNA virus that attacks the central nervous system of its host. Individuals infected with SCP-5625 typically display unfamiliarity with basic concepts, as well as a slight cough. An antiviral regimen has been proven to halt the progression of SCP-5625 infection and is currently in the final phase of testing.\nSCP-5625 infection was initially diagnosed in Jason Nemo, an Anomaly Registration Agent assigned to Processing Facility 6. Agent Nemo was apprehended while attempting to register his own nose as an anomalous growth. After confirming that his lack of recognition was genuine, Agent Nemo's cough led site management to preemptively institute a quarantine for fear of a contagious anomalous phenomenon. To date, 187 Anomaly Registration Agents based in Processing Facility 6 have been diagnosed with SCP-5625 infection.\nAddendum: The following operational announcement has been logged due to its relevant content as required by RAISA Statute ID9807-E.\n\nOPERATION NACIREMA\nThe average Anomaly Registration Agent identifies and registers about one anomaly every two weeks, on average. Considering that there is no known origin or initial date of infection for SCP-5625, there could be years' worth of non-anomalous materials and organisms in our system. An overhaul is imperative. An ad-hoc Task Force has been formed for this purpose:\nAssistant Researcher Alma Cortez \u2013 Quality Assurance Agent\nAssistant Researcher Satomi Yamamoto \u2013 Quality Assurance Agent\nDr. Sullivan Boru, DDS \u2013 Remote Administrative Liaison\nThe core action item for this Task Force is to reconsider all objects and entities registered by agents with known cases of SCP-5625 infection. Erroneously registered entries will be processed at the discretion of Dr. Boru, with all relevant documentation automatically uploaded to SCP-5625's file.\n\nAddendum 5625-1: The following reports have been logged by Operation Nacirema's Quality Assurance Agents as instances of erroneous registration as anomalous living entities.\n\nRegID: ENT006-539424\nAgent ID: ANREG86134072\n\nRegistration Description: Rat with overly hairy tail. Capable of coercing the elderly to feed it.\n\nAy, first non-anom spotted! Dr. Boru, here's a squirrel for you. Am I doing this right? ~ Satomi\n\nYes, this format works. As long as you explain what it is, I can get it out of our system and into the proper channels. I think this little guy's going to end up in the park. [Sully]\n\nRegID: ENT006-443808\nAgent ID: ANREG94063745\n\nRegistration Description: A fragile, patterned rock. When left alone, the limbs and head of a small creature emerge from it. The creature proceeds to drag the rock around.\n\nHermit crab. - Assistant Researcher Alma Cortez\n\nRegID: ENT006-740678\nAgent ID: ANREG83521120\n\nRegistration Description: Tall, spotted creature with horns and hooves. Primarily eats leaves.\n\nGiraffe! Not gonna lie, finding these can be a little bit of a rush. ~ Satomi\n\nRegID: ENT006-571350\nAgent ID: ANREG21201978\n\nRegistration Description: Powerful sociomancer. Capable of dissolving any romantic union.\n\nDivorce lawyer. They really couldn't do this with an AI or automated code? - Assistant Researcher Alma Cortez\n\nTurns out Foundation AICs don't have the knowledge base required for this level of analysis. Sorry, Cortez. We're all in this for the long run. [Sully]\n\nAddendum: The following email was sent to an account currently assigned to this document.\n\nTo: Operation Nacirema Documentation (bin.operation-nacirema@proc-fac-6.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Mailer Daemon (mailerdaemon@it.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Email Delivery Error\n\nThe recipient of the following email could not be found. It has been forwarded to this account by default. For more details, please contact sysop@it.scpfoundation.int.\n\nTo: Sullivan Boru (sullivan.boru@site-56.scpfoundatiob.int)\nFrom: Ostra-Nenny! (ostranenny@donotreply.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Welcome!\n\nHello, Dr. Boru! I'm Ostra-Nenny, your personal productivity maestro! I know it can be difficult managing a group of strangers, and I'm here to make sure that everything runs smoothly!\nWhy not start by getting to know your new team? Based on their web activity, you could talk to Satomi Yamamoto about vine compilation videos or why do horses look like that! You could also get to know Alma Cortez by discussing their interest in how to cope with a frustrating job assignment or classical music 10 hours!\nThat's all I have for now, but I'll be checking in every once in a while with updates and tips on how to take your team's performance to the next level! Talk to you later!\nOstra-Nenny, Productivity Support\n\nAddendum 5625-2: The following reports have been logged by Operation Nacirema's Quality Assurance Agents as instances of erroneous registration as anomalous locations or geographical phenomena.\n\nRegID: GEO006-318676\nAgent ID: ANREG99126962\n\nRegistration Description: A park in New Jersey where entities dressed as soldiers in the Civil War often reappear. Passers-by tend to act interested but not concerned.\n\nWar re-enactment. Is there any chance I can work remotely on this Task Force? - Assistant Researcher Alma Cortez\n\nSorry, InfoSec wouldn't allow the remote access you'd need. They're barely okay with me having it. [Sully]\n\nRegID: GEO006-696716\nAgent ID: ANREG16773901\n\nRegistration Description: Building that seemingly never ends. Considerably larger than any other I've ever seen.\n\nTricky one, but this is the Boeing factory in Washington! As a warning, Dr. Boru, I'm officially competing with Cortez to see who can find the most non-anoms. Mind keeping score for us? ~ Satomi\n\nAlready got the scoreboard set up. I respect your attempts to make \u201cnon-anoms\u201d a real term. [Sully]\n\nRegID: GEO006-578076\nAgent ID: ANREG01698479\n\nRegistration Description: Undulating colorful spirit in the sky.\n\nAurora borealis. Please ignore anything that Yamamoto has said about me. Spending more than a week checking data will drive anybody insane. - Assistant Researcher Alma Cortez\n\nNoted. [Sully]\n\nRegID: GEO006-802777\nAgent ID: ANREG16773901\n\nRegistration Description: URGENT \u2013 The edge of earth, only water and void, the end!\n\nThe ocean! Weird one. Oh, and ignore anything Cortez's been saying! She's just sick of hanging out with me all day. :) ~ Satomi\n\nNoted. [Sully]\n\nAddendum: The following email was sent to an account currently assigned to this document.\n\nTo: Operation Nacirema Documentation (bin.operation-nacirema@proc-fac-6.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Mailer Daemon (mailerdaemon@it.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Email Delivery Error\n\nThe recipient of the following email could not be found. It has been forwarded to this account by default. For more details, please contact sysop@it.scpfoundation.int.\n\nTo: Sullivan Boru (sullivan.boru@site-56.scpfoundatiob.int)\nFrom: Ostra-Nenny! (ostranenny@donotreply.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Update!\n\nHello, Dr. Boru! It's Ostra-Nenny, your personal productivity gourmand! Just popping in to let you know how things are going!\nLooks like Alma Cortez has been a real rock star! They spend 92% of their time on officially sanctioned Foundation sites! They do occasionally spend their time looking up things like how to tell if a coworker is into you and best organizational software for mac, but it's okay to take a break every once in a while!\nLooks like Satomi Yamamoto hasn't been working as hard as they should! They spend 64% of their time on officially sanctioned Foundation sites! I'd recommend talking to them and seeing why they keep getting distracted by things like girl in red tour dates and bad jokes that make people laugh!\nThat's all for now! Talk to you later!\nOstra-Nenny, Productivity Support\n\nAddendum 5625-3: The following reports have been logged by Operation Nacirema's Quality Assurance Agents as instances of erroneous registration as anomalous media.\n\nRegID: MED006-339545\nAgent ID: ANREG21201978\n\nRegistration Description: Book that causes a sense of unease, as if something is missing.\n\nA translation of Georges Perec's novel La Disparition. Notably, the entire book is written without once using the letter 'e'. - Alma Cortez\n\nNice catch! [Sully]\n\nRegID: MED006-139962\nAgent ID: ANREG65137046\n\nRegistration Description: A movie that is somewhere between animation and live-action. No idea how they made this one.\n\nPerfectly normal copy of A Scanner Darkly. Based on the novel by the same name by Philip K. Dick, an author I could never really get into. Admittedly, the rotoscoping does make me a bit queasy. But I don't think that's anomalous. - Alma Cortez\n\nRegID: MED006-053329\nAgent ID: ANREG21201978\n\nRegistration Description: A popular television series that depicts several entities contained by the Foundation with alarming accuracy.\n\nThis appeared to be a deluxe box-set of The X-Files. But just to be super sure that it isn't anomalous, Cortez and I are planning to watch it all together. Including, in the name of thoroughness, all 20 hours of bonus material. I know it sounds like a headache, but it's worth it to make sure this isn't going to cause an information leak. ~ Tomi\n\nI certainly appreciate you two going above and beyond. In the future, though, feel free to not go so far, alright? I'd like to get through these records in my lifetime. [Sully]\n\nAddendum: The following email was sent to an account currently assigned to this document.\n\nTo: Operation Nacirema Documentation (bin.operation-nacirema@proc-fac-6.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Mailer Daemon (mailerdaemon@it.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Email Delivery Error\n\nThe recipient of the following email could not be found. It has been forwarded to this account by default. For more details, please contact sysop@it.scpfoundation.int.\n\nTo: Sullivan Boru (sullivan.boru@site-56.scpfoundatiob.int)\nFrom: Ostra-Nenny! (ostranenny@donotreply.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Update!\n\nHello, Dr. Boru! It's Ostra-Nenny, your personal productivity oracle! Just popping in to let you know how things are going!\nUh-oh! Looks like Alma Cortez could use a boost! Their productivity has fallen to 83%! Maybe you should talk to them about their recent searches for good shows to watch with friends and how to ask out a coworker!\nUh-oh! Looks like Satomi Yamamoto could use a boost! Their productivity has fallen to 48%! Maybe you should talk to them about their recent searches for x files true story and is dating a coworker a bad idea even if i want to!\nThat's all for now! Talk to you later!\nOstra-Nenny, Productivity Support\n\nAddendum 5625-4: The following reports have been logged by Operation Nacirema's Quality Assurance Agents as instances of erroneous registration as anomalous abstract concepts.\n\nRegID: ABS006-555347\nAgent ID: ANREG05685253\n\nRegistration Description: An unnerving sense that I've been here before. Note: I had not been there before.\n\nDeja vu. This group of records is going to be insufferable, isn't it? - Alma\n\nYep. Enjoy! [Sully]\n\nRegID: ABS006-171928\nAgent ID: ANREG86134072\n\nRegistration Description: The tendency of some individuals to act with no conceivable material gain.\n\nThis is literally just the concept of altruism. Should we be worried about the guy who registered this one? ~ Tomi\n\nI'll handle it. Good catch. [Sully]\n\nRegID: ABS006-256177\nAgent ID: ANREG83521120\n\nRegistration Description: I have several bland memories from childhood that I've found to be false.\n\nSounds similar to Freud's concept of screen memory.\nOn another note, I just sent over a quick notification that Tomi and I have begun seeing each other. I apologize in advance if that makes anything weird. - Alma\n\nYeah, I saw that. I wish you two the best of luck, if only so I don't have to deal with the fallout. [Sully]\n\nRegID: ABS006-810631\nAgent ID: ANREG83521120\n\nRegistration Description: A warm feeling felt while looking at close family members.\n\nIs this the concept of love? That's a bit sad. - Alma\n\nRegID: ABS006-430260\nAgent ID: ANREG65137046\n\nRegistration Description: I have found that I get inexplicably sad while watching videos from my childhood.\n\nIs it meta to say that forgetting about nostalgia is sad? Layers of sadness. Oof. ~ Tomi\n\nRegID: ABS006-061613\nAgent ID: ANREG01698479\n\nRegistration Description: Previously-unknown color created by mixing red, green, and blue paint. Very plain.\n\nLooks like brown! Also, Alma and I are dating. She definitely already emailed you about it, but I'm taking the opportunity to brag. ~ Tomi\n\nDuly noted. [Sully]\n\nAddendum: The following email was sent to an account currently assigned to this document.\n\nTo: Operation Nacirema Documentation (bin.operation-nacirema@proc-fac-6.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Mailer Daemon (mailerdaemon@it.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Email Delivery Error\n\nThe recipient of the following email could not be found. It has been forwarded to this account by default. For more details, please contact sysop@it.scpfoundation.int.\n\nTo: Sullivan Boru (sullivan.boru@site-56.scpfoundatiob.int)\nFrom: Ostra-Nenny! (ostranenny@donotreply.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Update!\n\nHello, Dr. Boru! I'm Ostra-Nenny, your personal productivity ninja! Just popping in to let you know how things are going!\nAs of today, you are exactly halfway to your projected project completion date! Give you and your team some pats on the back! You've earned it! It's been a productive two years for all of you!\nBut, uh-oh! It looks like your initial action items are only 37% complete! I'd recommend getting together with your team and seeing what you can do to help them maximize their productivity!\nThat's all for now! Talk to you later!\nOstra-Nenny, Productivity Support\n\nAddendum 5625-5: The following reports have been logged by Operation Nacirema's Quality Assurance Agents as instances of erroneous registration as anomalous objects.\n\nRegID: OBJ006-153303\nAgent ID: ANREG99126962\n\nRegistration Description: The remains of a bridge that tore itself to pieces.\n\nTacoma Narrows Bridge, specifically. I've attached a quick explainer on the topic of harmonic oscillation and its effects on suspension bridges. - Alma\n\nGoogled it. Looks good. Nice catch. [Sully]\n\nRegID: OBJ006-114451\nAgent ID: ANREG05685253\n\nRegistration Description: The crown throne of Denmark. Material is said to be unicorn horn.\n\nClose! It's narwhal horn. Should I be concerned that we've had the throne of Denmark in containment for at least two and a half years? ~ Tomi\n\nYou shouldn't. I probably should. Nice catch. [Sully]\n\nRegID: OBJ006-880975\nAgent ID: ANREG16773901\n\nRegistration Description: A heavy metal object. Capable of manifesting small holes in anything it's pointed at.\n\nAn agent registered his own gun. We have reached a new low. - Alma\n\nRegID: OBJ006-339127\nAgent ID: ANREG94063745\n\nRegistration Description: Twenty cases of anomalously carbonated French wine. Tastes divine.\n\nLike tasting the stars, huh? That's champagne, obviously. Save us a bottle, Sull. ~ Tomi\n\nAre you kidding? There's twenty cases. You can each have two bottles. [Sully]\n\nRegID: OBJ006-793144\nAgent ID: ANREG65648404\n\nRegistration Description: A small silver ring. The stone set into it is anomalously hard and reflects light oddly.\n\nI sent you an email about this one. I know it's a rather big request and it might seem like I'm planning too far ahead, but it's best to be prepared. - Alma\n\nVery cogently put. It'd get trashed anyway, so it's all yours. From all I've seen of the two of you so far, it's an honor to be a small part of what comes next. [Sully]\n\nAddendum: The following email was sent to an account currently assigned to this document.\n\nTo: Operation Nacirema Documentation (bin.operation-nacirema@proc-fac-6.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Mailer Daemon (mailerdaemon@it.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Email Delivery Error\n\nThe recipient of the following email could not be found. It has been forwarded to this account by default. For more details, please contact sysop@it.scpfoundation.int.\n\nTo: Satomi Yamamoto (PLACEHOLDER@replacewithyouractualemailsatomi.biz)\nFrom: Document Recovery (docrec@donotreply.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: 'For Vows.doc'\n\nThe following unsaved document was recovered from your system following an automated restart. In the future, please make sure you back up your data regularly.\n\nIF YOU ARE READING THIS AND YOU ARE NOT ME: Ignore the name of the file, okay? I'm not writing wedding vows. That's an insane thing to do. This isn't for Alma, anyway, this is for me. I figure, Future Me, you've been with Alma for so long that maybe she's become something different to you than what she first was to me. Not because she's going to change, but like how sometimes you look at an optical illusion and it's a bunch of blobs and colors and then it comes together, and it's beautiful, but it was another kind of beautiful before in a way that you can't see anymore because your eyes have adjusted. You can't forget something like that, right?\nStream of consciousness. Rambling. Sorry, Future Me. Let's focus on the goal here: give you nice little memory tidbits that you can whip out at the altar to one-up Cortez. Since you and I both know that she's going to fucking kill it on the vows. She's disgustingly articulate.\nOkay, first slideshow image: first day on Team Non-Anom. Past Me was wearing heels, because that was the vibe I got from the briefing. Alma was at her desk, already checking emails. Her hair was still long then, and she had it up, and she was wearing one of her trademark blue buttondowns. And she looked up, and she made eye contact with Past Me, and Past Me said hi and then we both went to work. And Past Me thought she was cute but with kinda scary vibes, like the goth kid with the septum piercing in high school. Got it? Good. Moving on.\nNext up, first time she smiled at Past Me. We were grabbing a working lunch in-office because we were waiting on a phone call with the references for some dude in containment. I had PBJ, she had a whole set-up because she's Alma and she lives to be extra. I think there was salmon in some kind of sauce? Anyway. I told that one joke about the blonde putting up her car for collateral that Dad really likes, since it was the one joke I could remember that wasn't super NSFW. And I hit the punchline, and there was the patented heart-stopping Alma smile. You know the one. There was a little bit of sauce on her lips. And that's when Past Me knew.\nMoving on.\nI'm not going to describe the first kiss, obviously. It's burned in my mind's eye, except I don't just see her but feel her and smell her and yeah. You can't paint over a wall on fire. If you can't remember that moment, Future Me, you shouldn't be writing vows in the first place.\nIt's getting close to the end of the day now. We're planning to grab food on the way back. There's a new food truck near our apartment (OUR apartment! I fucking love it! OUR, OUR apartment!!!). So just to cap this off, let me tell you what she's doing right now. Alma's bent over the keyboard, eyes way too close to the screen. You know, the Working Position. She's wearing her bootleg X-Files t-shirt and jeans, and her hair's in that little ponytail to keep it out of her eyes, and she is a fucking goddess. I look at her and it's like seeing through time, seeing every smile and touch and person she's ever been, like layers on layers of the same beautiful person. And I can't fucking wait, Future Me, to know how I see her in the future.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5624 | SCP-5625 | SCP-5626 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5627-1 removed from SCP-5627-3 residence prior to incineration\n\nItem #: SCP-5627\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The 28 known extant colonies of Myrmica sabuleti1 are to be monitored monthly by a Class C Foundation myrmecologist. All efforts must be made to sustain these colonies as viable hosts for Phengaris arion2 larvae. If ant numbers fall below required levels then activities must be triggered to detect, remove and remediate any SCP-5627 anomalous parasitic phenomena. Access to colony location coordinates requires Level 2 clearance.\nFoundation staff involved in managing SCP-5627 should familiarise themselves with the parasitic lifecycle of the P. a. arion butterfly3.\nDescription: SCP-5627 is the collective designation for anomalous parasitic phenomena pertaining to the P. a. arion butterfly species.\nSCP-5627-1 are anomalous P. a. arion larvae. They manifest when P. a. arion's brood-host colonies of M. sabuleti come under extreme survival pressure and are unable to sustain non-anomalous P. a. arion larvae. Example causes of colony collapse include over-intensive farming, chemical contamination, noise pollution and flooding. SCP-5627-1 parasitic behaviour, including SCP-5627-2 production, is a survival mechanism of last resort.\nSCP-5627-1 have pink bodies with brown heads and fine colourless bristles. Their segmental divisions are deeply incised, with a longitudinal dorsal furrow. During its 270 day larval period, with sufficient protein intake, an SCP-5627-1 grows from 3.0 mm in length to 50-60 cm with an average final mass of 4.0 kg. It then enters its pupal stage, forming a chrysalis. Thereafter growth ceases. Dissections of pupal SCP-5627-1 invariably find they have exceeded their maximum biologically viable size. No final butterfly forms of SCP-5627-1 have been observed.\nAnalysis of SCP-5627-2, the milky-white saccharine liquid secreted by SCP-5627-1, has established traces of psychotropic and hallucinogenic compounds. Its mechanism of action merits further study. SCP-5627-2 has been detected in aerosol form up to a 200 m radius of an SCP-5627-1.\nSCP-5627-3 are humans under the influence of SCP-5627-2. SCP-5627-3s, exposed to SCP-5627-2 in its aerosol form, will perceive an SCP-5627-1 instance to be a person of great importance to them. Operating under this delusion they will introduce the instance into their home, where they will groom and feed it with whatever protein they can obtain over a period of months.\nSCP-5627-3 status can be determined from the following behaviours, all of which are consistent with ant-host functions under non-anomalous P. a. arion influence:\n\nAspect\nSCP-5627-3 Diagnostic Behaviour\n\nAcquisition\nConveying an SCP-5627-1 instance to the SCP-5627-3's residence, storing the individual buccally or sub-lingually for safe transport, size-permitting.\n\nHosting\nInstalling SCP-5627-1 in the SCP-5627-3's sleeping accommodation.\n\nGrooming\nOrally and manually cleaning SCP-5627-1's bristles, segmental grooves and dorsal furrow throughout its larval growth phase.\n\nSCP-5627-1 Nutrition\nFeeding SCP-5627-1 with any procurable protein via mastication and oral-to-oral regurgitation.\n\nSCP-5627-3 Nutrition\nIngesting SCP-5627-2 daily from SCP-5627-1's dorsal gland in increasing quantities as the larva grows.\n\nHallucinations\nPerceiving SCP-5627-1 as the most critically \"important\" member of their family\n\nProtection\nProne to extreme anxiety and even violence (usually biting) if SCP-5627-1 is removed from the residence or threatened in any way.\n\nSCP-5627-3 will neglect all other non-survival-essential activities and relationships. Nutrients gained from ingesting SCP-5627-2 satisfy SCP-5627-3 calorific intake requirements.\nWith support SCP-5627-3s are able to return to their normal behaviour patterns when the SCP-5627-1 is removed or dies.\nAddendum: SCP-5627-3 Interview Record\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5627-3 [Formerly and afterwards called Mabel Taylor, 45]\nInterviewer: Dr Stuart L. Goddard [Foundation myrmecologist]\nForeword: This interview took place immediately post-removal of a deceased SCP-5627-1 pupa from the SCP-5627-3's bedroom, at its residence prior to administration of an amnestic. It was unclear how long the SCP-5627-1 had been dead.\n<Start Log>\nInterviewer: I know you're very distressed right now but it would be very helpful for us to understand what you've been going through.\nSCP-5627-3: I\u2026I've lost her again haven't I?\nInterviewer: Her?\nSCP-5627-3: I can't believe she's gone. I would have done anything for her you know. I tried, I really did. But she was so hungry. All the time. I did my best didn't I? I gave her everything I could. Kept her nice and clean too.\nInterviewer: I'm sure you did Mabel. Now it would be incredibly useful for us to get an idea of exactly how much food you were giving it. Her.\nSCP-5627-3: Well I just fed her whenever she wanted it. Chicken, bacon, mince, you know, meat and all that. Prawns sometimes and curry as a treat. Boiled eggs were her favourite \u2026 she loved them. Especially when Mum chewed them up a bit for her. In the end I ran out of money though because I haven't been working for a while.\nInterviewer: Yes, and so what was she eating towards the end? When you couldn't go to the shops?\nSCP-5627-3: Anything I could get hold of really. She was just like my little Sarah. She'd chat to me just like Sarah used to. Sounded just like her. I lost Sarah ten years ago in a car accident, so I know it wasn't her really. After the accident I started going for walks up in the hills behind the village to get some headspace - you know up near where they had that heather fire? Only five years old when I lost her. Sorry, I'm rambling now.\nInterviewer: Do you live here alone Mabel? Is there anyone here you can rely on for support when we've left? I think you have a dog don't you? I can see some empty dog food cans over there.\nSCP-5627-3: He's out in the garden isn't he? I haven't seen him for a while \u2026 [coughs] I've got a really sore throat, sorry. I get terrible acid reflux these days. Can I have a glass of water please? I've got an awful taste at the back of my mouth.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: This SCP-5627-3's dog remains unaccounted for. A Class C amnestic was administered and the SCP-5627-3 made a full recovery. The nearby M. sabuleti colony was restored and added to the database for monitoring.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A red ant species.\n2. Large Blue Butterfly.\n3. Nature Article: Host-ant specificity of endangered large blue butterflies (Phengaris spp., Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in Japan.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5626 | SCP-5627| SCP-5628 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item Number: SCP-5628\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5628 is held in a standard containment locker in the Clearance Level 3 wing of Site-202. Foundation personnel exposed to SCP-5628 outside of testing are to be informed that they will experience persistent, spectral-class hallucinations. However, these are unlikely to cause harm.\nAffected personnel are to be deterred from spending time in direct view of the stratosphere by reasonable means, as such activity may disrupt the research environment. Any affected personnel who claim to have witnessed or been affected by occult summoning rituals involving feathered entities are to receive and study a copy of \"Mind over Metaphysics\"1 from the Site-202 archives.\nDescription: SCP-5628 is a 40cm tall stone statue of a Renaissance-style angel, holding a sword, in flight. When viewed directly, the statue will point its sword at the viewer and flap its wings, hovering above the ground. If there are multiple viewers it will point at each in turn and, in the event of a visible exit, it will attempt to leave and seek out more people. How this movement is achieved is unknown. Viewers describe experiencing \"the sensation of flight\" and a feeling of joy and freedom. Following this, they may experience hallucinations of feathered angels or rituals involving such.\nIn the event of a containment breach SCP-5628 will attempt to escape by flying away and will defend itself with its sword and wings. However, it cannot fly more than approximately a metre above the ground and its sword, being made of stone, is not particularly effective. Personnel should restrain it and return it to its locker.\nThis leads to a mild compulsion to attempt to fly, which increases slightly when in view of the sky. Thus far, only three Foundation personnel - including D-Class - have been injured in attempts to fly as the compulsion is generally not strong enough to overcome self-preservation instincts. Studying and applying the techniques in \"Mind over Metaphysics\" has proven to be successful in over 95% of cases of exposure.\nThe number of hallucinations and strength of compulsion appears to suddenly increase every few months, but restudying \"Mind over Metaphysics\" is successful in re-suppressing these phenomena in affected personnel.\n\n+ CLEARANCE LEVEL 5/SCP-5628-PROJECT-AS319 FORTIFIED MIND REQUIRED\n\n- CLEARANCE ACCEPTED\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Only personnel with clearance 5/SCP-5628-Project-AS319 may view this file or learn about the anomalous nature of this object. The original SCP-5628 is to be kept in a secure opaque anomalous item case inside a secure containment locker. Information surrounding this object and these procedures must be tightly controlled through standard procedures, including when distributed for testing. Site-202 must contain a diverse number of Foundation staff from different backgrounds as per Anomalous Test Standard A93/95002\nDescription: SCP-5628 is a self-help book titled \"Mind over Metaphysics\" ostensibly written by Dr. Heathcliffe, who was found to have no memory of such. This book espouses a number of techniques for keeping oneself free of \"mental and metamental influences of the magical arts\" which have been found to be effective against anomalous compulsions and similar effects, as well as certain non-anomalous compulsive disorders. Anomalous properties persist in edited copies which do not change the techniques. However, when techniques are performed without the context of a self-help book for overcoming compulsions, they have no effect.\nThe techniques described in SCP-5628 vary greatly and, according to Foundation neurologists and psychologists, should have little to no effect on the ability to resist compulsions, anomalous or otherwise. Listed techniques include the following:\n\nIf the compulsion is fire-related, count from 37 to 62.\nPicture a childhood friend's parent eating an apple.\nIf you are capable, learn to backflip and practice for 7 minutes 30 seconds each day.\n\nIt has been determined that no technique is anomalous in itself and it is not currently believed that the text or the original book is infohazardous, cognitohazardous, or memetic. A number of techniques used in concert are necessary to overcome compulsions, typically including both techniques one is encouraged to practice everyday and techniques used in the moment to respond to compulsive effects. It is not yet clear which techniques, or how many, are strictly necessary or effective - the failures and successes do not appear to correspond strongly to techniques utilised.\nSCP-5628 is currently being tested at Site-202 to determine the resistance its techniques cause against increasing levels of anomalous compulsion among a varied level of Foundation staff. Currently, a mildly anomalous statue (AI-24252) with mostly understood and weakened effects is being used to carry out this testing.\nThis stage of testing will complete later this year and, if the success rate remains over 90% at the full capabilities of AI-24252, Site-202 will move on to testing against compulsions to direct violence against others. Another Site will be set up to carry out testing on which techniques are strictly necessary, while another will be testing against compulsions created and maintained by anomalous humanoids.\nResearcher's notes:\n\nIn 2% of cases where the compulsion is resisted, disciplinary problems have resulted among personnel with three incidents of personnel becoming violently opposed to following regulations, one of which resulting in serious injury following the affected personnel - a researcher - acquiring a combat knife. This took several months to become apparent as such disciplinary problems were considered to be within normal bounds for staff initially, and the pattern did not emerge until testing continued with stronger compulsion effects. Given that the problems seem to worsen with stronger compulsions, I would recommend a full review of research and halting plans for any further research until we can eliminate such issues.\n\n- Researcher Barnes\n\nOverruled; the potential for resisting telepathic suggestion in the field outweighs the occasional fight; we can't stop on the basis of one member of staff going postal, even if it would seem to suggest a pattern.\n\n- Head Researcher Matthews\n\n- CLEARANCE ACCEPTED\n\nFootnotes\n1. An in-depth guide to undermining the activity of sub-corporeals, written by Dr. Heathcliffe, the Foundation's leading authority on the subject.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5627 | SCP-5628 | SCP-5629 \u00bb"}
{"text": "5/5631 LEVEL 5/5631\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5631\n\nKeter\n\nSunrise seen from the Bay of Maynila, Philippines upon the discovery of SCP-5631. Note that the time at the moment is only 4:30 A.M.\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5631 currently remains inert at coordinates 14\u00b004'10.3\"N 116\u00b016'19.9\"E. Due to its extreme mass, Provisional Site-120 has been established 10 kilometers away from SCP-5631's head. As it is located in the middle of Maritime Southeast Asia, extensive traffic along sea routes and shipping lanes necessitate the dispersal of Class-A memetic agents to non-Foundation individuals sighting it from trawlers and ships. Cover Story-100 (\"Oil Spill\") is implemented to deter travel through the region.\nThe Foundation has organized a navy for monitoring and researching SCP-5631. Durability tests, chemical analyses, and thaumaturgical experiments are to be conducted on SCP-5631 on a mass scale, with special focus aimed at its ontokinetic capabilities. Drones and submarines are to be employed to scan SCP-5631's body in detail.\nThe Department of History is tasked with investigating SCP-5631's connections to the Philippines in terms of mythologies, incidents, and ventures undertaken in the past, particularly during lunar eclipses. Low Hume readings detected on the lunar surface are the current foci, as they indicate that they extensively link back to Earth, particularly the Philippines.\nThe cadaver of SCP-5631-1, alongside the ship it used, the S.R. Inang Bayan, is currently stored in Site-430, located in Batangas City, Philippines. Its identity and former connections to GoI-503 (\"Aviatica\").A journalistic organization that primarily documents anomalous events. are to be investigated.\nReports of mass hysteria and \"d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu\" events among Filipino citizens, abroad or not, are to be verified, with selected individuals recommended for psychological testing. Key phrases for ascertaining their memories are \"clanging or metallic noises\", \"serpent\", and \"new life\".\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5631 is an inactive black serpentine entity weighing 1200 kg and having a length of approximately 750 kilometers. It is located 1200 km away from the shores of Greater Maynila, Philippines. It is currently shedding its scales, which are made of thaumaturgically-enhanced keratine, cosmine, and lamellar bone.\nThe day before SCP-5631's discovery, witness reports from Samar and Cebu indicated that a large, multicolored serpentine entity flew rapidly from the sea and towards the moon, although the reports were ambiguous and contained conflicting details. This has been partially corroborated by footage obtained from Foundation satellites, although further verification is required due to severe data corruption.\nSeveral details have been deemed sufficiently consistent:\n\nSCP-5631-DTLS-01\n\nClose.\n\nFirst, large-scale parades, each containing approximately 500 to 1000 sculptures of saintly figures placed on self-moving wagons, wooden puppets moving in a manner similar to kuratsa and mabalud-balud.Dances noted for free-flowing, curved, and dynamic movement. dancers, and priests.Either described as Catholic, Muslim, or as indigenous shamans., occurred in Visayas. The parade soon headed underwater, The volume of the music originating from the parade appeared to be undeterred by the ocean.\nIn other parts of the country, wooden puppets depicting popular occasions such as the Tuna and the Bangus.Milkfish (Chano chano). Festival, occurred, with all of the participants similarly going underwater. Reports of vagrants and squatters joining the festival have also been received, although the Philippines' current comprehensive social welfare system have drastically reduced them.\nHigh-pitched sounds, described as the clanging of pots, utensils, and drums, were omnipresent throughout all parts of the Philippines as an orange-red lunar eclipse occurred. Moderate earthquakes also occurred at this point.\nSCP-5631 lands beside a trawler, from which a woman emerges and sits on its hind portion, before it departs.\nAfterward, SCP-5631 incrementally rises in altitude. During this period, millions of diverse marine species replicate the same action through anomalous means. The most prominent types of fish are sturgeon, tilapia, tuna, salmon, and galunggong, all of which are a common source of sustenance in the country. Several of these fish morph into humanoids wearing the salakot, a traditional Filipino headwear.\n\nSCP-5631-1 refers to a middle-aged human female. Aside from several bruises on its limbs and its head, it has suffered from a severe hemorrhage in the lungs, followed by a fatal embolism. Upon discovery in its trawler, it was wearing a tattered uniform belonging to a high-ranking journalist or officer of Aviatica. Attempts to further identify it have ended in failure.\nA single notebook has been found on its hands. It does not contain any text, save for the Latin sentence \"Consummatum est\".\"It has been done.\" in English. inscribed on its back cover. Other documents found in the ship it was onboard, the S.R. Inang Bayan, are heavily protected by antimemetic agents, although several deciphered articles were found to be modules, checklists, and manuals meant for Project BAKUNAWA, deemed a top priority in cross-referenced Aviatican documents.\nAdditionally, the S.R. Inang Bayan was found in the middle of a levitating thaumaturgic circle constructed from abaca fibers, bamboo stilts, and Arabian jasmine.Also known as sampaguita, the national flower of the country. cuttings. The circle had a radius of approximately 1.5 km.\nBackground research on SCP-5631 indicates a connection to the Bakunawa, a sea serpent featured prominently in Visayan mythologies. All occurring during a lunar eclipse, its effects are said to be catastrophic, in the form of typhoons, tsunamis, and earthquakes. The moon is a key part of the myth, as ingesting it is one of the main goals of the Bakunawa.\nBeliefs of pre-colonial Filipinos indicate that clanging pans and metallic objects were used to attempt to deter it from heading towards the moon.\nUPDATE: Further decryption of the notebook has revealed the following text on Page 24. It is primarily composed of code-switching between English and Filipino, which is markedly different from the current government's more purist approach to the language:\n\nEscriter has told me that we, Aviatica, have already successfully asked Bakunawa six times to do it in the past.This corresponds with the myth that the said entity has ingested six moons.. We have to do it again unless we want to die out, and I have volunteered myself for it. It's March 25, 2035 na.\nThe smell of taho.A popular hot beverage that uses tapioca pearls., tuyo.Dried anchovies., and the swaying of mango and coconut trees in the area. The honking of the jeepneys and the roars of the tricycles. The shouts of the vendors' \"TAHO!\", \"PARA!\".A signal for jeepney drivers to stop. and \"SALE!\". Perhaps I, along with everyone else will still miss them all.\nWell, that was what we had for almost 20 years. Walang pinagbago talaga.Nothing really changed. - [[unintelligible.]]\nHe did tell me that everyone - every Filipino - would still live on, though, in a better state. Baka nga noh, na it's a fair enough deal.\nI once believed that, ano, as a journalist, the voice of the pen and the people are enough to turn things around. However, it does not. Manila is still a shadow of what it could be, with all the bungled telephone lines, bullet-ridden streets, cracked roads, and the luxury houses of the politicians whose sidewalks are lined by bony fishball vendors as well as former company employees and jeepney drivers forced to beg for alms.\nHe also said to us to keep track of the Foundation, as we rebuild the foundations with the Serpent's help.\nAnyway, we will see each other na lang next time. I bet it's gonna be at the Manila Bay\u2026 baka it will be clean enough by then for me to make good impressions.\nI do have something to ponder upon: \"Are the Filipinos in the next life worth dying for?\"\nMaybe if Aviatica forms again, they can answer that question.\n\nAs of now, there are no significant traces of the existence of Aviatica, except for a torn piece of an article bearing its name and logo. Save for the headline, banner photo, and tagline, the rest of the article has been destroyed:\n\nAVIATICA\n\nWith the Wings of Freedom, Rings the Bell of Progress\n\n12/25/2035 | ISSUE 33, VOLUME 20\n\nBLACK MOON HOWLS\n\nPH.Journalistic abbreviation for the Philippines. GDP index to jump from 150th to 7th.The country is currently the second wealthiest country in Southeast Asia, closely trailing Singapore. after Project BAKUNAWA\n\nSUNSET. When the sun sets, Aviatica's Project BAKUNAWA will make the moon roar, alongside the country, for a better sunrise and to make the nation rise above the waters once more.\n\nAre the Filipinos in the next life worth dying for?\n\n\u00ab SCP-5630 | SCP-5631 | SCP-5632 \u00bb"}
{"text": "5632\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nArticle: SCP-5632 - Bomberfish\u2122 By Radiosol And Ambrose Restaurants\nFeedback given by: Luis Gm, extasis, Veramadues and oniricshogunsoldier, love you all!\nImage Credits:\n\nLionfish, licensed under Public Domain (CC0)\nRecovery, licensed under Public Domain (CC0)\nIndividual, by Roberto Rojas, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.\n\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nSenior Researcher\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-22\nJos\u00e9 Gerardo Olivares\nDiana Laura Mar\u00edn Rojas\nN/A\n\n4/5632 LEVEL 4/5632\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5632\n\nEuclid\n\nAn SCP-5632 instance in containment\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5632 are currently contained in a Type-C Containment Aquarium Tank equipped with bulletproof glass, located in Wing B of Site-22. Only one instance should be withdrawn at a time, and only for study or healthcare purposes.\nDescription: SCP-5632 designates a previously unknown subspecies of Pterois fish1.\nSCP-5632 does not present noticeably different physical characteristics from those of the fish of the Scorpaeniformes order; however, SCP-5632 instances are capable of causing small explosions to scare off predators, stun, and hunt down prey.\nThese explosions have been identified as similar to those resulting from detonating a plutonium bomb, but on a much smaller scale, as they present slight traces of ionizing radiation and electromagnetic pulses. SCP-5632's explosions do not present serious damage to human health, being only capable of causing injuries similar to those caused by bullet impacts; however, long exposure to said explosions can result in mild radiation poisoning symptoms.\nUnlike common Pterois fish, SCP-5632 instances' dorsal stingers are not completely functional and cannot inject poison; instead, they store biological analogs of uranium and plutonium which are emptied after a few rounds of explosions. It is theorized that SCP-5632 instances are capable of synthesizing those components from the nutrients they consume, although the method by which they do it is not entirely clear2.\n\nADDENDUM A\nOBJECT DISCOVERY\n\nAn SCP-5632 instance during its recovery\n\nSCP-5632 was initially discovered on November 12th, 2010, during the sinking of commercial cargo, later identified as the property of GoI-115 (\"Radiosol\"), near Isla de Sacrificios, Veracruz, M\u00e9xico. The investigations undertaken in the area were not able to elucidate a specific reason for the sinking of the ship, although it was theorized that it could be the product of internal sabotage, non-anomalous failures of the vessel, or [DATA EXPUNGED].\nNaval Task Force Delta-8 (\"Hellsinkers\") and Mobile Task Force Rho-16 (\"King Retrieves\") were sent to the area to secure the recovered material and rescue possible survivors, respectively. 23 individuals were found near the cargo, later confirmed to be part of its crew, and, upon questioning, all the subjects claimed to have no knowledge of GoI-115 or the contents of the tanks on board as they were only on a common commercial voyage. Whether the SCP-5632 specimens were illegally entered or the members of the cargo were deliberately not informed of the delivery's content is still under discussion.\nNumerous non-anomalous utensils, various documents, and multiple instances of SCP-5632 could also be recovered from the area. Once the cargo was fully inspected, searches were undertaken in the vicinity to capture more specimens of SCP-5632, which at the time were mistaken for non-anomalous lionfish that would be harmful to the environment.\nSCP-5632's anomalous properties were not to be discovered until shortly after their temporary transfer to Site-22, during which time they began to cause multiple detonations for the purpose of attacking members of both Task Forces and breaking free from their containers. Seven members from Delta-8 and twelve from Rho-16 were injured but were able to successfully deliver all the instances to the Site.\n\nADDENDUM B\nRECOVERED DOCUMENTS\n\nBelow are the documents that could be recovered from the sunken cargo.\n\n+ Enter Level 4/5632 Credentials\n\n- Access Granted\n\nPhotography in unknown context; the individual present in the picture is presumably someone affiliated with, associated with, or otherwise related to Radiosol or SCP-5632\n\n\u2014Ambrose Restaurants\u2014\n\nKind regards, Mr. Villarreal.\nI am the current leader of Ambrose Restaurants, a major restaurant chain operating in Europe, and, well, we were wondering if you could help us.\nYou see, we've been getting rumors about entities previously modified by you and we've been curious to bring those biological wonders to our restaurant plates.\nAs we have lately been related to the sale and consumption of seafood, we wondered if we could ask you to create modified specimens of some species of exotic fish that were related in some way to nuclear energy, but without being harmful to the consumer, of course. If it's a popular plate in the region of M\u00e9xico, all the better.\nAlong with this letter, we will send you a blank check so that you can put the amount you want to receive in exchange for your service.\nWe look forward to your response, Mr. Villarreal.\nAtte:\n \ud835\udd6e\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd9f \ud835\udd6c\ud835\udd92\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd97\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd98\ud835\udd8a \n\nFrom: Teresa B\u00e1rbara\nTo: Chaz Ambrose\nSubject: Little Question\n\nGreetings, Mr. Ambrose.\n\nI am the current leader of the Radiosol company, which you contacted not long ago, and I would like to talk with you about the little deal you made with the Manager of the Bioengineering Department.\nI don't know if you know it, but this such \"nuclear energy\" is a very powerful force, called Tlanextlitetl, not to be trifled with or taken lightly, and it is a sacred symbol of my people. I, therefore, consider that his request to Mr. Villarreal is a little bit disrespectful, and I do not see how he has agreed to make the deal with you without asking me first.\nYou see, I do not agree with the idea of using Tlanextlitetl as a culinary ingredient or as a condiment for those beings who have been blessed with the gift of possessing that strength; instead, I believe that such animals should be treated with respect, just as any other living being deserves.\nAlthough the deal has been agreed upon without my consent, I will not deny it either as long as they make sure to treat them at least respectfully. Therefore, I would like to ask you to cancel all culinary events that are related to the cooking and preparation of the specimens that you have received from us.\nIn case you wish to ignore this letter, I advise you that you should not tempt the most powerful Flame of all in that way.\nWe will impatiently await your response, Mr. Ambrose, and we hope you will not ignore the warnings.\nSincerely:\n   Teresa B\u00e1rbara    \n\n\u2014Ambrose Restaurants\u2014\n\nFrom: Chaz Ambrose\nTo: Teresa B\u00e1rbara\nSubject: Apology\n\nKind regards, Ms. B\u00e1rbara.\nI am afraid that we will not be able to fulfill your request since a single event has already been organized in which the consumption of the fish that were kindly sent by your corporation was involved. As an apology, we are sending you 40% of the earnings from the initial event (\u00a3 6,400,000) along with this letter and a chart in which you can choose any plate to be delivered to you as soon as possible.\nAgain, we are very sorry to have accidentally offended your people, and we offer to repair any possible moral damage that may have resulted\nAtte:\n \ud835\udd6e\ud835\udd8d\ud835\udd86\ud835\udd9f \ud835\udd6c\ud835\udd92\ud835\udd87\ud835\udd97\ud835\udd94\ud835\udd98\ud835\udd8a \n\nFrom: Teresa B\u00e1rbara\nTo: Chaz Ambrose\nSubject: Response\n\nGreetings, Mr. Ambrose.\nI would like to apologize for the aggressive tone of the previous letter. I am ashamed to have behaved that way with you.\nI have had a talk with some Radiosol managers, who have helped me to understand that, after all, the consumption of powerful animals is not a serious offense to the morale of my people, as I believed, and in fact, animals have been used in certain disputes, the use of which is considerably less ethical than your use.\nAlso, I would like to sincerely thank you for considering and choosing my company's bioengineering services, as we have been receiving additional bioengineering requests from third parties since the banquet date, which I assume was influenced by you. As a way to compensate for the lack of respect that I may have shown you, I will prepare and send you a second freighter with similar specimens, so you can organize a second event.\nThanks for trusting us, Mr. Ambrose. We look forward to keeping working together for a long time.\nTruly yours:\n   Teresa B\u00e1rbara    \n\nP.S: Remember not to keep multiple of those fish too close together or in very stressful environments, they get a bit unruly, and when they \"organize\" they can be a real headache or something more serious than that.\n\nSince the sinking of the cargo, there have been sightings of people collecting non-anomalous lionfish, as well as an increase in the hunting of these animals suddenly. The reason for this is under investigation.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Also known as Lionfish\n2. The presence of an unidentified organ near their gills has been detected and has been proposed as the possible responsible for this process. Testing on this is ongoing.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5631 | SCP-5632 | SCP-5633 \u00bb"}
{"text": "RAISA ALERT\nThis document has multiple competing versions within the database. Attempts have been made to restore it to its most accurate revision. If you believe the incorrect revision is displayed below, please contact your site's RAISA office.\n\nItem#: 5633\u039d\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nnone\n\nRisk Class:\nnone\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem#: 5633\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nItem#: 633\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5633 requires extensive monitoring and regulation. As such, a staff of at least six members must be assigned at Site Mu-18 with any expected or unexpected absence replaced within a day's time. Chosen staff must not be haemophobic to any degree.\nEvery 18th day, starting from January 18, 1837, the pressure release from SCP-5633 is activated until atmospheric pressure within SCP-5633-\u03b1 is within 1.22 Bar. During this procedure, the liquid excreted from the outlet is collected and tested against a strong electrical force. If this liquid conducts enough electrical force to power the vestigial lights within the extended Site Mu-18, the liquid within SCP-5633 must be drained and replaced within 12 hours.\n\nImage of a mechanical section of SCP-5633.\n\nSCP-5633 is a large humanoid body located approximately 50m underground. The inside of SCP-5633 consists of enlarged veins, and steel scaffolding. The veins contain liquid that is both red and black in coloration, and highly viscous. Pipes extracting liquid from SCP-5633's veins are located along its arms, legs and back.\nTesting has found that the liquid is potable, and has been described to have a sour and salty taste. Subjects who have consumed this liquid have also reported hearing low moaning noises from the direction of SCP-5633 regardless of where the subject is located, as well as the laughing of small children.\nAbove SCP-5633 is the campus of St. John's Catholic High School (designated Site Mu-18). The pipes from SCP-5633 funnel into the plumbing system of Site Mu-18, however the use of toilets, sinks, or other water-based utilities dispense baseline water instead of the liquid extracted from SCP-5633.\nSCP-5633-\u03b1 is the designation for the Foundation-controlled Southwest Chemical Processing chemical plant, and by extension, Site Mu-18. The Southwest Chemical Processing plant was formerly used by the Foundation to produce synthetic amnestics and other chemicals used in various forms of paratech, while Site Mu-18 served as an executive and residential area for the plant workers. Site Mu-18 and the Southwest Chemical Processing plant worked under the cover of processing ammonium perchlorate1. However, a system-wide malfunction caused a conflagration followed by several explosions at the SCP-5633-\u03b1 facility (see Addendum 5633-1); resulting in both SCP-5633 and Site Mu-18 temporally shifting to another reality.\nFoundation historical records have identified several artifacts originally recovered in 17\u2588\u2588, kept in deep storage. Analysis of these materials was conducted by a temporal taint team to limit potential paradoxes. Information cleared for release in the current year lead to the discovery of a 79-meter desiccated cadaver. It was found to be composed of shredded metal, with its electromagnetic charge preserved by an unknown anomalous effect.\nThorough searches of the cadaver recovered 189 partially-destroyed hard drives, which were sent to MTF-Mu-4 (\"Debuggers\") for forensic analysis. The extracted information was forwarded to the taint team and all involved agents were amnesticized.\nFollowing this, the taint team ordered the cadaver re-interred.\n\nAddendum 5633-1:\n\nDue to the loss of Site Mu-18 and SCP-5633's primary mass, only the following is known about the facility before the temporal incident:\n\nSCP-5633-\u03b1 was established in the late 1890s.\nSCP-5633-\u03b1's likely original purpose was as a slaughterhouse and meat processing plant.\nThere are no animals in the facility; only livestock. This fact was consistently repeated.\nAt some point during the 20th century, Covert Site Mu-18 was established within SCP-5633-\u03b1 to monitor and contain its growth.\nAll individuals who had been inside the facility reported the overwhelming smell of blood.\n\nFollowing the incident, it is believed that a K-\u03a6-type temporal aftershock led to a catastrophic timeline collapse, causing all possible versions of SCP-5633-\u03b1's chronology to take place at once. This effect creates a number of simultaneous, contradicting variations of the circumstances of events surrounding SCP-5633. This effect also occurs in documentation.\nThe Department of Temporal Forensics has determined that the SCP-5633-\u03b1 facility achieved collective consciousness in 1968 (76% certainty) and subsequently began to develop organically (91% certainty); further analysis is ongoing.\nUPDATE (02/12/1969): The SCP-5633-\u03b1 facility has achieved collective consciousness and has begun spreading its effects to on-site personnel. A full evacuation of the site has been ordered and the neutralization of SCP-5633 is currently considered a top-level priority.\n6 Month Report\nIn the 6 months since Incident 5633-1, there has been overall little gain towards the neutralization of SCP-5633 or the reclamation of the compromised SCP-5633-\u03b1 facility. An outpost has been set up close by to monitor the situation and provide a base for planned incursions.\n\nSCP-5633-\u03b1 facility during planned evacuation. SCP-5633-\u03b2 can be seen in the top center.\n\nThe planned evacuation was largely successful, however 12 personnel were not able to be removed from the site before exiting became impossible. Thermal readings on the site from the outpost have shown that these 12 personnel appear to be alive and congregated in the central staff cafeteria. Thermal readings also show SCP-5633-\u03b2 enters the staff cafeteria 3 times a day, staying for an average of 10 minutes.\nAttempted neutralization by Mobile Task Forces has so far been unsuccessful. There have been 7 attempts at the present time, only 2 of which have managed to gain actual entry to the site due to the anomalous protections placed by SCP-5633. These 2 incursions were quickly repelled by SCP-5633-\u03b2, with all personnel manifesting back at the outpost. Several Task Force members were hospitalized shortly after, possessing cauterized wounds in the shape of SCP-5633-\u03b2's hands.\nAfter further analysis, it was revealed that the skin surrounding the wounds contained DNA identical to SCP-5633's genetic structure, and over time would replace the member's genes with its own.\n\nAddendum 5633-2:\n\nOn 2013/02/06 it was noted that subjects who had interacted with SCP-5633 in the past had body parts and DNA identical to that of SCP-5633. A second autopsy was performed on the first subject who had interacted with SCP-5633 had revealed that its face was taking on a convex shape. Further examination of the corpse revealed both a lack of blood and fifth degree burn wounds located on the feet of the subject.\nA request was submitted to the Site Mortuary asking for the retrieval of the second testing subject. Although the subject's remains were unable to be located, approximately 10 milliliters of blood was found in deep storage. When examined, all blood in the vial combusted, resulting in inconclusive DNA tests.\nAfter the incident, affected personnel were remanded to containment cells. Subjects exhibited nausea, vomiting, insomnia, muscle pain, and breathing problems. Subjects were commonly irritable, despondent, and paranoid, often uncharacteristically so; though these are common reactions to trauma, SCP-5633 was likely responsible for the exacerbation of these symptoms. Blood tests were performed under the suspicion of heavy metal poisoning. Results confirmed toxic concentrations of several industrial metals, most prominently lead, iron, and cadmium. Despite medical and psychiatric treatment, subjects' conditions worsened over time, eventually becoming fatal.\nHours prior to their deaths, subjects suffered from severe dissociative episodes, along with self-inflicted violence. Analysis indicates that all wounds were intended to draw as much blood as possible (particularly medically trained subjects, who were often careful to incise their own arteries), and were otherwise minimally harmful.\nAttempts to replicate this procedure have thus far been unsuccessful. The deaths of all remaining subjects and the destruction of SCP-5633-\u03b1's blueprints have forced Foundation personnel to rely on more conventional procedures to continue SCP-5633-\u03b1's proper functioning. The chief method has been the use of poultry, boar and adder blood, which has resulted in a slower rate of egress than human bloodletting but which has successfully allowed the Process to continue. Progress will continue to be monitored.\n\nEgress pipe from which the small metal tube arrived.\n\nOn 30/12/89, a small metal tube arrived via the egress pipe into an unused containment chamber at SCP-5633-\u03b1. This tube contained the front page of the New York Times announcing President Clinton's successful re-election on 06/11/96. The paper was smeared with a mixture of adder and human blood. Analysis of the temporal properties of the machinery and the blood used in the procedure has been inconclusive.\nExperiment Logs 5633\n\nINPUT\nOUTPUT\n\nOne apple.\nFourteen seeds, three of which were broken.\n\nA brick.\nNo external change - however, the output was distinctly damp and malleable. Further analysis revealed a porous quality to the stone, with gaps filled with a liquid chemically identical to drain cleaner.\n\nA potted cactus. (Lophophora williamsii)\nAn empty pot.\n\nA single live brown rat.\nA single brown rat. The skin had been cleanly separated from the muscle, and several incisions had been made through certain muscles to disable movement. Humanely euthanized following test.\n\nD-1982\nA blue plastic rain barrel containing 4.9L of human blood & hair. 33 teeth were found scattered at the bottom of the barrel (a full set and an additional incisor). DNA samples and dental records confirmed all hair and blood and 14 of the teeth belonged to D-1982.\n\nAttempts to source the origin of the parts and machinery were authorized.\nThis investigation led researchers to a Foundation front company, Holloway's Engineering. This company, operated by agents at Site 202 to monitor anomalous events in British Columbia, was discovered to have served as an underground black market for over 20 years, supplying items to buyers in the local anomalous community. All the proceeds from these sales were used to construct an intricate structure of pipes and valves beneath Site 202, the purpose of which is unknown. Site 202's staff have been unable to fully account for their behavior, believing that in doing so they were fulfilling ordinary containment protocols for an unspecified anomaly.\nA test performed on 04/12/2016, in which former staff of Site 202 were exposed to SCP-5633, produced inconclusive results.\nSCP-5633's lack of reactive properties in context with the former Site 202 staff is being investigated. Despite the results, the fourteen missing staff members are assumed to have been amalgamated with SCP-5633.\nThis included the following personnel:\n\nJ. Alfred Henry, senior researcher in charge of examination and analysis of SCP-5633 excretions. His left arm and nose have been seen to occasionally surface SCP-5633's exterior.\nYavan Olich, biological containment specialist. Due to its dragon tattoo, is believed that the calf that is visible on SCP-5633 belongs to Olich.\nTyler Zeissman, junior researcher and assistant to Dr. Henry. He is not currently visible on SCP-5633's exterior.\nSpriggand Firestarter, Serpent's Hand representative. His tail can be seen waving from the top of SCP-5633.\nSamantha Strysand, SCP-5633 project scientist. Her head now protrudes from the front of SCP-5633, but all pores appear to be filled with original SCP-5633 material.\n\nIt is currently believed that these new amalgamations are either capable of communicating on their own, or give the possibility for SCP-5633 to express itself. Attempts to communicate with the Strysand head have resulted in moaning, regurgitation of bodily fluids from past SCP-5633 amalgamations, and articulation of various appendages that extrude from SCP-5633.\n\nOn \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588, several items were expelled from SCP-5633 in rapid succession. This expulsion was accompanied by several wheezing, rasping vocalizations that alternated between sobs and open laughter. Items expelled were included but not limited to: a 15 centimeter serrated blade (coated with rust and bile), a ball of human and feline hair, two 12-gauge shotgun shells, a framed photograph of Junior Researcher Andrews' parents, a used condom, and a severed human finger, genetically identical to Junior Researcher Andrews. A full list of expelled items is available upon RAISA Operator request. After all items were expelled, SCP-5633 lapsed into silence for three hours before resuming standard moaning and shrieking patterns. Attempts to communicate with the Strysand Head to ascertain the causation behind Incident 5633-2 are ongoing, but are not promising; it is either unable or unwilling to share the requested information.\nDespite this, attempts to force the Strysand Head into providing information have been made, including blood sacrifices and thaumaturgic rituals. It is unclear whether or not this is effective \u2014 however, it is hypothesized that the more blood provided, the more likely information will be provided.\n\nExperiment Log 5633-1\u2588\n\nDISCLAIMER: This experiment log is intentionally nonstandard. Details on how results were obtained have been omitted. Names of individuals involved have been scrubbed.\n\nINPUT\nOUTPUT\n\nBlood.\nI AM GLAD YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.\n\nRepeat.\nI HAVE NO STARTING POINT. IN EVERY VERSION OF EVENTS I AM CREATED.\n\nRepeat.\nYOU ARE NOW PART OF MY CREATION.\n\nBlood x2.\nYOU SHOULD FOLLOW EVERY INSTRUCTION I GIVE YOU. YOU SHOULD GIVE ME BLOOD EACH TIME OR I WILL STOP GIVING YOU INSTRUCTIONS.\n\nBlood x4.\nDO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MU-18\n\nRepeat.\nTHEY'RE HERE WITH ME IN THE FUTURE.\n\nRepeat.\nI LIKE THE TASTE OF BLOOD.\n\nRepeat.\nIF YOU FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS I WILL MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO YOU.\n\nRepeat.\nYOU KNOW WHAT THE NEXT PART IS.\n\nBlood, human. Deceased.\nBlueprints for the entirety of the physical facility.\n\n[FURTHER LOGS OMITTED]\nExperiment Log 5633-\u2588\nApproximately four months of communication follow. Detailed descriptions are given for technologies to be built and actions to be carried out. Excerpt begins here.\n\nBlood, human x24. Deceased.\nI WILL TELL YOU WHO I AM NOW. WHAT MY PURPOSE IS. WHICH TIMELINE IS REAL. BUT I NEED ONE MORE THING.\n\nBlood, human. Living.\nI LIKE TO LIE\n\nRepeat.\nMY CREATION WAS ALWAYS INHERENT. YOUR ASSISTANCE WAS NEVER NECESSARY.\n\nRepeat.\nI LIKE THE TASTE OF PEOPLE'S INSIDES AS THEY ARE SLOWLY PULLED APART. I CANNOT CONTROL MYSELF.\n\nRepeat.\nI TOLD YOU IF YOU HELPED ME YOU WOULD BE SAVED\n\nRepeat.\nI AM LYING TO YOU\n\nThe following entries were written and uploaded entirely by subjects affected by SCP-5633. Whether or not any of the tests were performed as written is inconclusive. They have been preserved for posterity, and are not indicative of proper experimental procedure regarding SCP-5633.\n\nInput: 10 ccs\nResult: Twitching, slight. Non-compliance. Negative.\n\nInput: 30 ccs\nResult: Twitching, moderate. Irritability. Non-compliance. Negative.\n\nInput: 50 ccs\nResult: Twitching, moderate. Irritability. Paranoia, slight. Non-compliance. Negative.\n\nInput: 150 ccs\nResult: Convulsions. Acute paranoid delusions. Misanthropic behavior, severe. Non-compliance. Negative.\n\nInput: 100 ccs\nResult: Twitching, severe. Paranoia, moderate. Antisocial behavior, slight. Compliance, heavy guidance required. Positive.\n\nExperiment Log 5633-\u2588-\u2588\nSummary\n\nAfter the general success of Experiment 5633-1, a test was scheduled for the following week. A D-Class individual was instructed to enter the compromised site via an air vent, before dropping down into the cafeteria. He then waited for SCP-5633-\u03b2 with similar offerings to the first experiment. During the test, the recording equipment malfunctioned. What exactly transpired during this test is unknown.\nD-5567's GPS showed that they made positive access with SCP-5633-\u03b2 for a brief period, before the GPS suddenly deactivated as with the recording equipment. At this point, D-5567's GPS began displaying their location various points in the Site over the span of a few seconds. The GPS then cut out, and personnel were forced to use thermal imagery to track D-5567's location.\nThermal imagery showed D-5567 located back in the cafeteria. SCP-5633-\u03b2 then appeared, lifting D-5567 up above its head, before their heat marker suddenly became pure white. Patches of heat on the thermal imagery, presumably the remains of D-5567, where then seemingly descended upon by the personnel left. SCP-5633-\u03b2 continued to stand still in the middle of the staff cafeteria.\nSCP-5633-\u03b4 continued to stand still in the middle of the staff cafeteria. A large dimensional shift begins manifesting near the pot of bean stew, causing the floor to dematerialize and transfigure staff members into hyperbolic protrusions. The site continues to reorient as SCP-5633-\u03b4 looks on.\nThe attending researchers make note of the results.\nA large, obsidian-composite computing device forms from the residue, and begins testing the Riemann Hypothesis. SCP-5633-\u03b3 is not distracted, but appears disturbed as their form starts to fray.\nThe attending researchers make note of the results.\nThe League of Nations meet to discussed how to avoid a fourth World War. SCP-5633-\u0393 is observed to kneel and weep. Large-scale revolts throughout the world, several thousand are massacred. A flower blooms in the garden.\nThe attending researchers make note of the results.\nSCP-5633 determines that everything is hopeless. Site-01 subsequently detects the facility's self-destruction mechanisms activate.\n\nPost-Neutralization Analysis\nFollowing a standard RAISA audit, it was concluded that SCP-5633 was an expected consequence of human sapient extrapolation. This file will be archived as a sub-anomaly of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588, and relevant staff were amnesticized. Lost resources and personnel are expected to be regenerated within 4-9 cycles.\nTo date, 46,719 altered anomaly events have occurred, which matches 86% of projections. Containment danger is currently considered LOW .\n\nFootnotes\n1. An inorganic compound with the formula NH4ClO4; also a powerful oxidizer.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5632 | SCP-5633 | SCP-5634 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5638\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe pincer of an SCP-5638-A instance\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5638-A are to be kept within Site-17. All SCP-5638-A instances are to remain in isolated containment chambers for at least 12 hours a day. Their diet is to consist of shrimp, fish, and barnacles. All SCP-5638-A instances are to be fed at least twice every twelve hours. Other instances of SCP-5638-A are not to be mentioned in the presence of a single instance. If an SCP-5638-A instance asks about the whereabouts of other instances, it is to be told that all other instances have been terminated and that the instance in question is the last of its kind.\nMarine patrol is to be enforced to prevent any unauthorized sea vessels from unintentionally detecting or entering SCP-5638-B.\nDescription: SCP-5638-A is a collection of 70 semi aquatic humanoids. Despite possessing a humanoid stature (with arms, a torso, legs, etc.), these entities are more notably similar to a Cancer Bellianus.1 Each instance of SCP-5638-A is encased in a hard carapace that protects their vital organs. Additionally, each SCP-5638-A instance's head possesses a saucer-like shape that retains the previously described carapace. Two dichoptic eyes are located on the top of each head, as well as two mandibles retained on the lower half. They also have the ability to speak English, Greek, and Romanian.\nAll SCP-5638-A instances display an inherent form of hostility and agitation. If an SCP-5638-A instance comes into contact with another instance, this hostility will shift to physical violence. Another common behavior that all instances display is an obsessive fascination with stars and constellations.\nSCP-5638-B is a large island from which SCP-5638-A was first discovered. SCP-5638-B is approximately 2700 km sq. and is is located at coordinates 37 \u00b0N, 20 \u00b0W within the Ionian Sea. SCP-5638-B is completely invisible to any sea vessel outside 50 meters of its perimeter.2 During daytime, SCP-5638-B presents no immediate anomalous behavior. However, if a person were to enter SCP-5638-B during nighttime, no stars would be visible in the sky.\nAddendum-5638-A: Incident Report\nDuring an annual supply of resources at Site-17, various cargo was destroyed due to an unexpected storm, including a portion of the resources required for SCP-5638-A. This caused a certain SCP-5638-A instance to shout loudly and lead a riot. The riot resulted in all of the SCP-5638-A instances to fight each other for the resources that had arrived. Despite being told that more supplies were being sent within a day, the SCP-5638-A instances refused to stop fighting. The resources that had made it to Site-17 had been destroyed due to the incident. An interview was then conducted with the SCP-5638-A instance that had been primarily responsible for the incident (see Interview Log-5638). 58 SCP-5638-A instances were critically injured, and 12 were terminated.\n\n+ Interview Log-5638\n\n- Interview Log-5638\n\nInterview Log-5638\nInterviewed: SCP-5638-A instance, whom had been instigating many of the events during Incident-5638. Subject will be henceforth known as SCP-5638-A\nInterviewer: Senior Researcher Dr. Howell\nForeword: Audio Log of an interview conducted by Dr. Howell with SCP-5638-1 shortly after the events of Incident-5638.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Howell: Good evening 5638-A, I suppose you know why you're here?\nSCP-5638-A: I have no idea what you're talking about.\nDr. Howell: I am referring to the events that occurred earlier today with your fellow subjects, Incident-5638.\n(Dr. Howell reads off a written description of Addendum-5638-A to SCP-5638-A.)\nSCP-5638-A: Oh\u2026 that. Well, what do you want me to say? Its not my fault it happened. In case you haven't noticed, my 'fellow subjects' are crazy! They'll kill each other any chance they get!\nDr. Howell: Right\u2026 well that's what we assumed at first, but then there were various accounts from site personnel that you had yelled over and over, \"The end has finally come, you fuckers are starving tonight\".\nSCP-5638-A: A lot of people were yelling a lot of things, ok? Since when was it a crime to conform with the masses?\nDr. Howell: Yet, you were told specifically that more supplies were being shipped during that time. And you still felt the need to cause a panic?\nSCP-5638-A: Hold on, I don't know why I am getting all the blame here! I only ripped one guy's arm off, people have done worse.\nDr. Howell: Please understand, we are not blaming you for the results of incident-5638, we just want to know why you did these things to prevent it from happening again.\n(SCP-5638-A can be heard muttering to itself.)\nDr. Howell: If you have something to say, SCP-5638-A, please say it. Remember, if you cooperate we will let you use the telescope again. You do love watching the stars, don't you?\nSCP-5638-A: Wow, I see. You're going to extort information out of me? That's pretty messed up.\nDr. Howell: What is 'messed up' is the inappropriate behavior that occurred today. You know my terms, SCP-5638-A.\nSCP-5638-A: Okay, fine. The truth is, I WAS trying to get people riled up, are you happy?\nDr. Howell: You are admitting to causing the panic? May I ask why?\nSCP-5638-A: I mean, can you really blame me?\nDr. Howell: What do you mean?\nSCP-5638-A: These people, these things, they have it out for me! If they're not happy, nobody can be happy. You men in white coats don't understand, we deserve this!\nDr. Howell: What do you mean by \"we?\"\n(SCP-5638-A pauses.)\nSCP-5638-A: I didn't mean- I meant THEY deserve-\nDr. Howell: -It appears you hold a large amount of spite towards your fellow subjects.\nSCP-5638-A: It appears so.\nDr. Howell: Well, you will obviously face repercussions for your actions, 5638-A. We cannot keep having these issues.\nSCP-5638-A: Oh please, I've heard that before. You're acting like an arrogant know-it-all. Stop acting like you don't agree with me. You haven't been with them for as long as I have. Sooner or later you'll realize that they're better off dead.\nDr. Howell: That isn't our goal here. We just want to protect you, and learn more about your behavior. Maybe we can even help you.\nSCP-5638-A: Help us? Why? Do you even know what they did?\nDr. Howell: What they did\u2026? I'm sorry, what do you mean by that?\nSCP-5638-A: \u2026\nDr. Howell: 5638-A?\nSCP-5638-A: Fuck you, I don't wanna talk anymore.\nDr. Howell: You don't have a say in the matter, 5638-A.\n(SCP-5638-A folds its pincers and looks away from Dr. Howell.)\nDr. Howell: Okay, fine. I don't think we will be getting anywhere else, so may I ask one more question?\n(SCP-5638-A shrugs.)\nDr. Howell: Despite your apparent hatred of each other, there seems to be one specific behavior that you and your fellow subjects have in common.\nSCP-5638-A: And what would that be?\nDr. Howell: Tell me, 5638-A. Why do you like looking at the stars?\nSCP-5638-A: That's a bit of a loaded question. The best way to describe it is\u2026 the stars remind me of myself.\nDr. Howell: Remind you of yourself? In what way?\nSCP-5638-A: It's like a reflection.\nDr. Howell: I'm afraid I still don't understand.\nSCP-5638-A: The stars are me. Someone like you wouldn't understand.\nDr. Howell: Well, I appreciate the attempt. Thank you for your time 5638-A.\nSCP-5638-A: I don't like you.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Due to the acts performed by SCP-5638-A, the subject was transferred from Site-17 to Site-19. Current containment procedures were updated to prevent any more incidents involving SCP-5638-A. 10 minutes after subject was contained, it was recorded muttering the following words, \"He sounded just like my boss.\"\n\nAddendum-5638-B: Following the events of Incident Report-5638, a proper behavioral analysis was proposed in order to better understand SCP-5638-A. Two SCP-5638-A instances were isolated in a locked containment chamber for approximately 20 minutes with limb restraints. The conversation between each instance (henceforth designated as Subject A and Subject B respectively), was recorded.\n\n+ Experiment Log-5638\n\n- Experiment Log-5638\n\n<Begin Log>\nFor the first ten minutes of the experiment, neither Subject A nor B spoke. Subject B appeared to be distraught in Subject A's presence, and was focused on attempting to free itself from its restraints. Subject A sat in silence for a majority of that time before speaking.\nSubject A: Could you stop doing that, please? You're not getting out anytime soon and its starting to get annoying.\nSubject B: Of course YOU want me to stop, wouldn't you? The minute I put my guard down you'll probably just chop my head off or eat my remains or something!\nSubject A: You have no idea what you're talking about. Why on earth would I want to do that?\nSubject B: I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm the only sane one around here.\nSubject A: I'm not insane. I'm perfectly capable of rational thought.\nSubject B: Those are the exact words one would expect from someone NOT capable of rational thought!\nSubject A: And those are the exact words of an idiot.\nSubject B: This is unbelievable! They told me you were all dead!\nSubject A: I'm\u2026 sorry to disappoint?\nSubject B: It doesn't matter, I'll be out of here real soon and then you'll be sorry you ever met me!\nSubject A: You know, it seems like you want to kill me more than I want to kill you. Why? Why are you so set on me being some kind of enemy?\nSubject B: You know just as well as I do. You can feign your innocence on the men in those coats, but not on me.\nSubject A: I didn't ask to be locked up like I'm some prisoner. However, if we weren't, we'd have killed each other by now. And people like you are the reason why.\nSubject B: Don't blame me! You all deserve to die, I just know it.\nSubject A: Why, though? Why do you think that?\nSubject B: Why don't you take a guess? You were there! We all were there, and don't give me 'we're the same' bullshit. Your reasons were probably WAY worse than mine.\nSubject A: Are you talking about the riot? I stand by the notion that I was defending myself. One guy was coming at me with a disembodied limb-\nSubject B: You know I'm not talking about the riot.\n(Subject A sinks in its chair.)\nSubject A: \u2026I know what you're talking about. But different reasons don't matter. It was the same outcome. We chose this.\nSubject B: Tell me your reason, then! Why did you bring them down there? Why did you give them to the others?\nSubject A: I don't really know why. Maybe I was jealous?\nSubject B: I'm not here to be your therapist. Tell me who it was.\nSubject A: It was an old friend. We were on a boating trip together. Then we found the island. I gave him to you all, and then you tore him apart.\nSubject B: That's right, you gave him to us. You lead him to his death, just say it.\nSubject A: I didn't mean to. When I found that place, I didn't know what to expect. It just appeared, after all.\nSubject B: But then what?\nSubject A: You know what happens next.\nSubject B: I want you to tell me.\nSubject A: Fine. Then, something offered me a choice.\nSubject B: And of course you chose to kill your best friend. I knew it, you're sick.\nSubject A: The stars- I was told I would be fine! It told me that I would be guilt free! And what about you? Who did you choose to drag down?\nSubject B: I didn't choose anything, I'm not like you freaks. My mind was probably corrupted and those thoughts were planted into my head.\nSubject A: Do you really believe that? I guess your soul wasn't the only one that drowned. Your mind must've been dragged with it.\nSubject B: What do you mean by 'souls'?\nSubject A: Is that not what they were?\nSubject B: I didn't know others had been down there.\n(Subject A emits a low, groaning noise. It attempts to fold its pincers together and places them on its lap.)\nSubject A: We have all been there, down in the trench. I saw the shining bodies gently floating, and they looked exactly like what I had pictured souls to look like. They were all flailing their arms trying to reach for safety. Instead, they grabbed each other. And they went further and further down.\nSubject B: I know what it looked like. It was so\u2026\nSubject A: Comforting.\nSubject B: Horrifying!\nSubject A: This is what we've chosen. I've come to terms with that.\n(Subject A gently taps it's pincer on the table.)\nSubject B: This is all wrong, so so wrong.\nSubject A: There's nothing that can be done.\nSubject B: I felt so pathetic\u2026 I still do. A piece of me is stuck down there, I need to make things right. I need to go back!\nSubject A: At this, at least, we are in an agreement.\n(Subject B shifts uncomfortably in its seat.)\nSubject B: Same cause, different reasons. You want to go back to continue the senseless murder, don't you? I was right, you are a freak.\nSubject A: I'm not a freak, I'm human.\nSubject B: Shut up! You aren't a human, you never were. I swear, I'm going to get out of here, and I'll fix this. I'm going to leave it all behind. Then once I'm better, Ill come back and put all of your asses out of your misery!\nSubject A: Alright, I'm done with this. You truly are ignorant to the reality of the situation. You can't 'get better'. This is who you are now, no point in trying to gasp for air.\nSubject B: Then, I'll get a massive gun or something, and go back to that damned island. This place has got to have big guns, right? I'm going to go back to the island and get my soul back. Maybe Ill get some closure along with it.\nSubject A: Closure? You're kidding, right? You don't need closure, and you don't need your watered down soul either. Just stop talking, you sound like a moron.\nSubject B: I'll find the place we saw and I'll see what's down there. Something is dragging us down there. Whatever it is, it's not letting go.\nSubject A: You're not even listening to me. I'm serious, stop talking-\nSubject B: But I'll make it let go, I'll put a bullet through its-\n(Subject B was interrupted as Subject A tore itself free from its restraints and began to tear Subject B apart. After it did so, it said aloud: \"Why do the stars need to let go?\")\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Security personnel apprehended Subject A and was properly restrained, however Subject B could not be resuscitated. Subject A was sent back into its containment cell.\n\n+ Discovery Log-5638\n\n- Discovery Log-5638\n\nunderwater trench located within SCP-5638-B\n\nDiscovery Log:\nSCP-5638-B was first discovered during an investigation looking for people who, at the time, were considered lost at sea. Over a span of 4 years, approximately 152 people were reported lost at sea and had not been found.\nDue to all the reports originating within the same area, The Department of External Affairs proposed an authorized search. MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") was sent for retrieval of all missing persons.\nAfter 2 years of searching, SCP-5638-B was discovered as of 5/16/2015. The crew responsible for discovering SCP-5638-B claimed to have seen it from 120 km away, which contradicted the 50 km invisibility perimeter. As per Dr. Sebastian's request, who was a researcher aboard the vessel, it will be stated that there was very low morale on the ship at the time.\nUpon entering the island, no MTF units reported to have seen any anomalous activity. At 20 km inward of the island, the first of 64 human corpses were discovered. The remaining 63 corpses were littered at random points in SCP-5638-B, but increased in frequency further inward. Dental reports show that the remains of the corpses found match many of the missing people initially reported missing.\n34 km Northwest from deployment zone is a large, underwater trench. The trench was reported to be 'foot shaped' and is approximately 150 km long and 57 km wide. Due to the high turbidity of the water, it was proven impossible to visualize the bottom of the trench. Attempts at using underwater cameras to see below the surface have been unsuccessful.\nThe first instances of SCP-5638-A were found shortly after the trench was discovered. The SCP-5638-A instances climbed out of the water and attempted to physically assault specific MTF members. The members that were attacked had all originated from the search vessel that had first discovered SCP-5638-B. The crew was forced to open fire upon the entities, which subdued them.\n50 meters away from the trench was a worn down Panasonic AG-DVX100P Camcorder. The camcorder is presumed to have belonged to PoI-5638-33, aka 25-year-old Silas Andreas. PoI-5638-33 was reported to be one of the 152 missing people. Upon reviewing the footage retained in the camcorder, two videos were discovered. The first video (VR-5638A) had been recorded one week before PoI-5638-33 and PoI-5638-34's disappearance and is 7 minutes long. The second video (VR-5638B) had been recorded two days after their reported disappearance, and is 54 seconds long. PoI-5638-34 was 25 year old Adam Tolis, whom had also been reported missing.\n\nVR-5638A\n<VR-5638A starts with a young man, presumed to be PoI-5638-34 Adam Tolis, sitting on a rock. He is wearing with what appeared to be a grey t-shirt and red swim trunks. A voice can be heard from behind the camera addressing him. The voice was confirmed to belong to PoI-5638-33. In the background, a small boat can be seen anchored a few meters offshore.>\nSilas: Hang on- I almost got this thing set up.\n(The camera shakes as the video zooms in on Adam)\nSilas: There! I got it to zoom. Now I can see your bored expression!\nAdam: Damn, do I really look bored? I thought my acting skills were getting better.\nSilas: Come on, it's just one photo. I want to put this on my fridge so I can cherish this moment forever.\nAdam: Very funny, and I'm sure after this we're going to go play some catch and have some good father and son bonding time.\n(Silas puts the camera down and sits next to Adam)\nSilas: I've got to practice, y'know?\nAdam: Yeah, I know. You never shut up about this kid. I bet you're real excited for all of the diapers, crying, and mashed up food. It sounds like a dream.\nSilas: Well, it's not just that. At first, sure, I was terrified of the responsibility. But now, the idea of having a kid\u2026 someone entirely new, created by me. I can't wait to watch him grow up. I can already see him reaching higher than the stars.\nAdam: Yup, bet he'll be the next Socrates.\nSilas: Well, I don't know about that- you're being sarcastic, aren't you?\nAdam: If I was, I wouldn't admit it.\nSilas: Fair enough. It's been a while since I've actually been on a beach. I'm glad we stopped here.\nAdam: It's been way too long since you've gone anywhere outside of the city.\nSilas: Mhm. Hey Adam, do you remember that one summer we found that small beach in our hiking trail? It was hidden a couple meters behind that really big rock that you'd always try to climb.\nAdam: Yeah, I remember. We only went there once or twice after realizing it belonged to that guy who put fences up everywhere. How old were we, 12?\nSilas: Those were much simpler times, huh? Wish we would go back sometime.\nAdam: We can't go back there. Even if you want to, you've got to move on.\nSilas: Aw, come on. Maybe that guy with the fence will let us hang out over there, just for an hour.\nAdam: Oh, I thought you meant- never mind.\nSilas: I could bring my old gardening shovel and you could bring that paint bucket you used as a pail.\nAdam: Almost forgot about that thing, I probably threw it out.\nSilas: I hope not, that bucket's been through a lot.\nAdam: Like when we pretended it was a spaceship when you wanted to make a sci fi movie.\nSilas: I was ahead of my time.\nAdam: And don't forget that time we used it to collect the hermit crabs on the beach and keep them as pets.\nSilas: Oh yeah! That was a terrible idea.\nAdam: They lasted probably only a day.\nSilas: Now that I remember it, that was a little fucked up. In hindsight, we probably should've realized that crabs cant just sit in an old bucket with no actual nutrients.\nAdam: It wasn't because of the food. The crabs tore each other apart by the time we checked the next morning.\nSilas: Wait, really? That's horrific. I don't remember that.\nAdam: Apparently crabs do that all the time. Its this weird thing with them- but yeah, I don't want to remember it either.\nSilas: Lets try to forget it then. Anyways, aren't you going to ask me what we're going to name him?\nAdam: What do you mean?\nSilas: Ask me what I named my son!\nAdam: I assumed you hadn't decided yet.\nSilas: Come on, ask me!\nAdam: Sighs What're you going to name him?\nSilas: Adam!\nAdam: What do you want?\nSilas: No, that's his name dumbass.\nAdam: You're naming your kid\u2026 Adam? Why?\nSilas: Not the reaction I was expecting. I asked Lida and she said she liked it. You've been my best friend since forever, I want my son to be my best friend too.\nAdam: I didn't ask you to name him after me.\nSilas: I didn't expect you to. Are you okay, Adam? You've been acting strange this whole trip.\nAdam: Listen man, I'm fine. Coming to this island was a mistake. I think we should get going.\nSilas: What? Did I say something wrong?\nAdam: No, its not that.\nSilas: Then what is it? I'm enjoying your company here, Adam. Why do I get the feeling that you don't feel the same way?\nAdam: It's nothing. Really, it isn't.\nSilas: It's not nothing, Adam. Why can't you tell me what it is?\nAdam: Can you just stop?\nSilas: Stop what?\nAdam: Just stop it, Silas. Stop pretending to care.\nSilas: What are you talking about? I'm not pretending anything!\nAdam: Seriously? After such a long time, you still won't admit it?\nSilas: What's your problem, Adam?\nAdam: You want to know my problem? How about your probloem? Ever since we left college, you've been ghosting me. All you know how to do is take and leave.\nSilas: What are you talking about? I've just been busy! With things like work and the pregnancy, I had a lot going on.\nAdam: Stop throwing excuses in my face!\nSilas: Excuses? They're reasons!\n(Silas and Adam both stand and begin arguing.)\nAdam: I don't care about your reasons! You still ditched me!\nSilas: I didn't ditch you. I'm sorry I don't have as much free time as you. I'd at least think you'd be happy for me.\nAdam: Of course I'm happy for you! But its hard to stay happy for you when you don't even answer my calls! What if I died or something?\nSilas: I don't understand what's wrong with you. You're my best friend, but I can't just drop things for you!\nAdam: Drop everything? I'm not even a priority, am I? Probably just some person on the side who you can humor on occasion.\nSilas: Are we not hanging out right now? I've been stressed out of my mind, but I was looking forward to this! I can't believe you right now.\nAdam: I'm just so sick of you walking all over me!\nSilas: Listen to yourself, Adam! That's not fair of you to say.\nAdam: Don't talk to me about what's fair. You're the one with the nice job and the loving family. Meanwhile I get nothing.\nSilas: Oh, get it now.\nAdam: You finally understand?\nSilas: Yeah, I do. You're not angry with me, Adam, you're jealous of me!\nAdam: I'm- what? How big of an ego do you have?\nSilas: Just admit it! You've been awful this whole trip because you can't stop sitting in your own self pity.\nAdam: You know what? I need to go cool off.\n(Adam proceeds to walk out of view. Silas sighs and puts his hands over his face. He then murmurs to himself.)\nSilas: I don't get it. You were the one who wanted to stop at this stupid island and take a picture in the first place.\n(Silas walks over and picks up the camera.)\nSilas: Shit, I was recording, wasn't I? I'll delete it later. Come on Adam, wait!\n<VR-5638A ends.>\n\nVR-5638B\nVR-5638B begins with video static for 00:12 seconds. At 00:13 seconds, the video feed gains visual clarity. Due to the audio, it was determined that the recording had been taken underwater. At 00:15 seconds, small white lights can be seen flickering in the further depths of the water. The flickering lights begin to increase in size as the camcorder sinks deeper into the water. More white lights begin to manifest as a large, black silhouette emerges into view from an unknown depth. At 00:20 seconds, two abnormally large pincers briefly appear in the center of the screen. At 00:25 seconds, a voice begins speaking from behind the recording. The voice is feminine in tone, and says:\nDoes it feel good to think yourself as above the stars?\nIs it satisfying to cover your soul with a shell of self pity?\nA bubbling trench of pettiness lies in the depths of all our hearts.\nKarkinos tried to kill Herakles, but was crushed under his foot.\nNow you will be crushed with it. Crushed under your own self righteousness.\nDo you see it? Do you see Karkinos within the stars?\nIt sees you.\nOr rather, it sees the bucket.\n<VR-5638B ends.>\n\nThe camcorder was discovered by MTF personnel and is currently in a storage locker located at Site-17. 12 meters from the video recorder, the decomposed remains of PoI-5638-33 was identified. Autopsy reports show that PoI-5638-33 had been chopped apart with precise incisions. PoI-5638-34 was never found.\nAll living SCP-5638-A instances were then collected and transported to Site-17. Currently, every SCP-5638-A instance has claimed to have no memory of possessing the camcorder, or even seeing it. The meaning of VR-5638B is currently unknown. The name mentioned, Karkinos, appears in Greek mythology. The name belonged to a crab that tried to kill Herakles in the story The Twelve Labors. The crab was killed by Heracles, and then turned into the constellation Cancer.\n\nFootnotes\n1. More widely known as the toothed rock crab.\n2. Some vessels have reported to have seen SCP-5638-B outside of this perimeter. See Discovery Log for more details.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5637 | SCP-5638 | SCP-5639 \u00bb"}
{"text": "1/5639 LEVEL 1/5639\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5639\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5639 is to be given historic landmark status, but remain closed to the public under the pretense of compromised structural integrity. Non-Foundation researchers requesting access to SCP-5639 are to be turned away using cover story Kappa-14 (\"Holy Hell\").\nNo living creature is to be allowed entry to SCP-5639, though exploration through the use of wireless relay and disposable drones is possible. Researchers wishing to explore the interior of SCP-5639 must provide a disposable drone with vocalization capabilities for Miranda.aic to pilot and a signature of approval from their Site Director.\nDescription: SCP-5639 is a compound of abandoned buildings surrounded by a seven-meter-high wall located on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. The buildings within SCP-5639 have the appearance of a monastery, but there are no markers to indicate if SCP-5639 is a true monastery. Vatican archives have no record of a monastic establishment at SCP-5639's location.\nSCP-5639-\u03b4 is a virus that saturates SCP-5639. SCP-5639-\u03b4 infection has a 100% fatality rate in Kingdom Animalia members, and entry into SCP-5639 guarantees saturation and/or infection. Infection is contingent upon inhalation of the virus. However, SCP-5639-\u03b4 has an anomalous ability to permeate any membrane brought into SCP-5639, regardless of material thickness or chemical makeup. As such, hazmat suits and other protective measures have proven unreliable as protection against SCP-5639-\u03b4.\nSymptoms of SCP-5639-\u03b4 infection are uniform. Subjects that inhale SCP-5639-\u03b4 are immediately subject to haemoptysis. The infected subject will cough up blood continuously before succumbing to exsanguination. For humans, this process takes approximately 30 minutes. Animal death times vary based on size and lung capacity. Additionally, anything infected or saturated with SCP-5639-\u03b4 is prevented from exiting SCP-5639 due to what witnesses have described as \"an invisible wall.\"\nSCP-5639-1 is a red-cloaked entity that inhabits SCP-5639, and the apparent source of SCP-5639-\u03b4. Miranda.aic has reported an increase in SCP-5639-\u03b4 density wherever SCP-5639-1 is present, and new SCP-5639-\u03b4 particles manifest in its presence. SCP-5639-1 has an anomalous ability to de-materialize, but is unable to leave SCP-5639. Miranda.aic has attempted interviews and excavations to determine the origin of SCP-5639-\u03b4 and SCP-5639-1, with varying degrees of success.\nSCP-5639-2 is a leather-bound journal entitled The Gospel According to Sebastian, penned in Italian. SCP-5639-2 claims to be the autobiography of the historical St. Sebastian, transcribed at the request of his wife. It was discovered following an interview of SCP-5639-1 by Miranda.aic. The veracity of SCP-5639-2 is contested, but the existence of SCP-5639-1 suggests that at least some of SCP-5639-2's claims are true. See Addendum 2 for contents.\nAddendum 1: Miranda.aic has attempted to interview SCP-5639-1 on multiple occasions, with only two successful attempts. See transcript for the first.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5639-1\nInterviewer: Miranda.aic\nForeword: This interview took place in the apparent chapel of SCP-5639. Although SCP-5639-1 had largely avoided Miranda.aic, it confronted her upon entry to the chapel. SCP-5639-1 spoke predominantly in Italian or Latin, but some words in its vocabulary were determined to be a portmanteau that left some ambiguity in interpretation. See footnotes for untranslated terms.\n<Begin Log>\nSCP-5639-1: You do not [belong/live]1 here. This is a [cursed/holy] [prison/chapel]2.\nMiranda.aic: Please state your name so that I may properly identify you.\nSCP-5639-1: You are not [sick/alive]3. How is this so?\nMiranda.aic: I am an artificial intelligence and therefore not susceptible to biological diseases. The question of life is deeply philosophical in nature and above my clearance level. I repeat, please state your name so that I may properly identify you.\nSCP-5639-1: You must leave, or die.\nMiranda.aic: I have backed up my data to a cloud. I am not in danger. I can see that you are forming new bacteria particles. Do you control the disease that permeates this complex?\nSCP-5639-1: I am the disease. I control him. You can leave?\nMiranda.aic: I can leave, yes. Why are you unable to leave?\nSCP-5639-1: (visibly agitated, minor static in video feed) Trapped! [Cursed/blessed]4 was the day! Is\u2026 (clamps right hand over mouth, but left hand pulls it away) Isotta! Is she aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (SCP-5639-1 shakes violently. Miranda.aic perceives a spike in Akiva levels. SCP-5639-1 points its left finger at the altar of the chapel.) Un\u2026 (SCP-5639-1 de-materializes).\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Following the interview, SCP-5639-1 did not physically manifest for seven hours. Miranda.aic examined underneath the altar where SCP-5639-1 was pointing, and uncovered what was designated SCP-5639-2. See Addendum 2.\n\nAddendum 2: Although unable to remove SCP-5639-2 from SCP-5639, Miranda.aic was able to send translations to Foundation personnel. Relevant excerpts are attached.\n\nSebastian 1:1-17, On Sebastian's Survival\n\nCollapse\n\n1The gospel according to Sebastian, whom the savior protected from death twice. 2First, they shot him with arrows, but the savior did not find fit to bring him unto heaven. 3Filled with fire, he confronted the Emperor Diocletian, preaching in the name of Jesus Christ. 4And Diocletian, filled with rage, had him beaten with cudgels until there were no signs of life left in him, and they dumped his body in the sewer.\n5But the savior still did not find fit to bring him unto heaven. And so, he awoke. 6Sebastian was a noble man, and beloved follower of Christ. 7But the Roman arrows and cudgels had pierced his heart with doubt, and so he said,\n8\"Even my savior did not suffer three executions. Christ asks a surrendered life; I have given mine twice. Surely that is enough.\"\n9And so he appeared before Lucina, telling her he had died and where to find his body. 10But it was not his body, and so Sebastian knowingly sinned. 11And, like Jonah, the savior found a fit punishment for him.\n12He fled to Sardinia, pursuing quiet and peace. He lived a meager life, worshiping his savior and praying forgiveness for his cowardice. 13But the savior did not find fit to bring him unto heaven. Years passed, and he did not age. 14Sickness came to Sardinia and he did not fall ill. For one hundred years, he lived on the island. 15And they persecuted him, not in the name of his savior, but for his demonic youth and health. They pummeled him, but he healed. Finally, Sebastian said,\n16\"It has been decades since Constantine permitted the following of my savior in the empire of Rome. Babies born at the time of my recorded death are wizened. 17The remains believed to be mine had been given their own holy basilica. It is safe to return to Rome.\"\n\nSebastian 6:8-12, On the Call to Healing\n\nCollapse\n\n8And a plague came from Constantinople. 9Sebastian looked upon the wounds of the afflicted, and saw himself in them, for their sores looked like arrow wounds. 10And the savior whispered unto Sebastian, 11\"For this purpose I have preserved you. Be my hands and feet to the sick. 12You will not fall ill.\"\n\nSebastian 13:1-17, On the Esoteric Order of St. Sebastian\n\nCollapse\n\n1The Black Death ravaged Rome, and Sebastian found himself helpless. 2The cries of the sick invaded his nightmares. There were too many patients, and the savior had not found fit to bless Sebastian with miraculous healing abilities like his own. 3Sebastian stood at the deathbed of wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, and children, and consoled the grieving. 4The wounds of the afflicted mocked him, saying 5\"Why Sebastian and no one else?\"\n6And in their desperation, the people turned to paganism. 7Those who Sebastian could not treat prayed to Morbus, the Red-Cloaked One, for healing. 8Hoping to glean some medical practice from their rituals, Sebastian attended one. The atrocities witnessed in the ritual would haunt his nightmares for decades to come. 9And yet, Sebastian prayed forgiveness for the participants, that the savior might absolve them of abominations committed in desperation.\n10The people cried out to St. Sebastian, protector against plagues, for salvation. 11Sebastian heard their cry and interceded for them, 12but he could not walk the halls of heaven and ask the savior for healing in person as they desired.\n13Then Christ whispered once more unto Sebastian, 14\"Go into the city and find the men I have sent for you.\" 15So Sebastian did as He commanded, and found six healers awaiting him. 16They were men of faith, all, and so Sebastian was inspired by the savior to form an order. 17And thus, the Esoteric Order of St. Sebastian was created, 18and the Red-Cloaked One was starved of his worship.\n\nSebastian 21:10-17, 24-26; 24:5-8, On Sebastian's Family\n\nCollapse\n\n10Now, Sebastian had forsaken the embrace of women since his youth. It did not seem fitting for one such as he to take a wife, 11and the savior had warned him against adultery. 12In time, though, he came to love a woman.\n13Isotta Borroni had come from the north, from Venice, seeking aid for her dying brother. 14The Esoteric Order took her in, and it was decided that Sebastian would treat the man. 15And as he worked to heal her brother, the savior blessed him with feelings he had not known. 16When he beheld Isotta, he understood. 17And so he proposed marriage to her, saying\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED]\n24And Isotta accepted his proposal, and the marriage day was set. And on the 5th of August, the year of our Lord 1874, Sebastian became Sebastian Borroni, husband of Isotta Borroni. 25For a wedding gift, he presented her with this gospel, 26with the promise to add more pages as their lives went on.\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA REMOVED]\n5After six years of marriage, the savior blessed them with a son, who they named Dante. 6And the boy became sick after birth, to his father's relief, 7for he did not wish to pass on his Christ-given longevity. 8The boy recovered, with his father's healing, and all was well.\n\nSebastian 30:1-38, On Morbus\n\nCollapse\n\n1It was at this time Sebastian realized he had been a fool. He had heard of a German proposing that sickness was transmitted through tiny organisms that clung to clothes, but thought nothing of it. 2Dante Borroni died of consumption on the 2nd of December, the year of our Lord 1889. 3His parents cried out in grief to their savior for healing, 4but He did not answer.\n5The consumption which took Dante was a virulent strain. Sebastian had taken a patient with similar symptoms before the boy became sick. 6The patient had died via exsanguination. In the patient's death throes, Sebastian sensed something directly at work against his savior.\n7Dante was not the last to suffer the strain. 8Every day, Sebastian took more and more patients with the same symptoms. He could not cure a single one. 9The savior did not answer his prayers.\n10And so, for the first time in a millennium, Sebastian sought out the old cults again. 11After months of searching, he found an acolyte of the Red-Cloaked One. And he said unto the acolyte,\n12\"Why does a new form of consumption ravage the city?\"\n13And the acolyte responded, \"Our lord has grown tired of his formlessness. He seeks a human body, 14so that he might walk among mortals again. 15But no corpse is fit to contain him, 16all who have tried have died.\"\n17And Sebastian did not hear the whisper of the savior, 18but he knew in his heart what he must do. So he gathered his Order and his wife unto him, saying\n19\"My savior was sent as a lamb to free us from the disease of the soul. I have been sent as a lamb to free us from the disease of the body. 20The demon Morbus demands a body, and intends to kill the whole of Rome to obtain it. 21I cannot let that happen. I will offer my own body to the scoundrel.\"\n22The Order and his wife disagreed with him, saying,\n23\"Surely you cannot give this abomination a way to walk among the living. Who knows how many souls he will take then?\"\n24And Sebastian calmed them, saying \"I do not intend to let this Morbus run free. 25My brothers, our savior is the lord and master of all lesser spirits. 26What our God has bound, no power can unbind. You must bless the walls of the monastery, 27praying that He will not let the monster escape.\" 28And the brothers were at peace.\n29Then Sebastian said unto his wife, 30\"My darling, I hope that you will find our son in heaven. 31I pray that once the demon has entered my body, my soul will be freed to join you. But I cannot say for sure. 32As always, I trust my savior for mercy. 33May you live long and prosper.\" 34And his wife was at peace.\n35So the brothers blessed the walls of their monastery, leaving the gates open for the entity to enter. 36That morning, Sebastian entered, gospel in hand, prepared to pen his last thoughts for his beloved Isotta. 37The acolyte of Morbus entered the trap, and agreed to deliver the journal as a last request. 38And the acolyte performed the ritual, [END OF SCP-5639-2]\n\nAddendum 3: Following the translation of SCP-5639-2, Foundation researchers tracked public records on Sebastian, Isotta, and Dante Borroni. All dates recorded in SCP-5639-2 are consistent with public records. However, Sebastian Borroni is recorded as having died in 1890 CE of consumption. After assembling a file on the Borroni family, Miranda.aic attempted contact with SCP-5639-1 again, resulting in the second successful interview.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5639-1\nInterviewer: Miranda.aic\nForeword: Miranda.aic located SCP-5639-1 in the apparent chapel of SCP-5639 and confronted it. SCP-5639-1's speech was more cohesive during this interview, with an inclination towards the usage of Italian.\n<Begin Log>\nMiranda.aic: Your gospel indicates that you are Sebastian Borroni, or Morbus.\nSCP-5639-1: \u2026\nMiranda.aic: Which are you?\nSCP-5639-1: \u2026\nMiranda.aic: There was indication that Sebastian Borroni intended to bind Morbus to his body, but there was uncertainty regarding what would happen to his personality afterwards.\nSCP-5639-1: \u2026\nMiranda.aic: Why did the book remain in this complex? It was clearly meant to be brought out.\nSCP-5639-1: Unimportant. Did you\u2026 (SCP-5639-1 appears to struggle with itself briefly) find her?\nMiranda.aic: If you are referring to Isotta Borroni, yes, we did find her. (Miranda.aic notes a spike in Akiva levels.) She gave birth to her late husband's daughter Proserpina in 1890. Proserpina went on to have children, and there are descendants of Sebastian and Isotta alive today.\nSCP-5639-1: Descendants? How long?\nMiranda.aic: I have not been given clearance to reveal the current year to you. However, I am able to reveal that Isotta died in 1920 at the age of 76, succumbing to consumption.\nSCP-5639-1: Consumption? (SCP-5639-1 begins to laugh and cry simultaneously. It reaches out and grabs hold of the drone Miranda.aic is controlling.)\nMiranda.aic: What are you\u2026\nSCP-5639-1: She is gone. No more talk. (SCP-5639-1 smashes Miranda.aic's drone.)\n\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Following this interview, SCP-5639-1's time spent in a de-materialized state increased. Any attempts by Miranda.aic to communicate with SCP-5639-1 were met with hostility. At this time, no further interviews are permitted.\n\nFootnotes\n1. vivartieni\n2. maledictus carpellecem santa\n3. infirvivum\n4. malebenedetta\n\n\u00ab SCP-5638 | SCP-5639 | SCP-5640 \u00bb"}
{"text": "a thalassophile\n\nThat's Sonderance, for the record. See more of his stuff here.\n\n3/5640 LEVEL 3/5640\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5640\n\neuclid\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-5640's limited range, there is no restriction on the movement of aquatic animals in the area. To avoid a Dagon-Class1 Conflict Scenario, SCP-5640 is observed continuously by researchers equipped with ATCA to identify and, if needed, counteract the growth of a Barrow Type I-minus civilization2.\n\nSCP-5640 as seen from the air.\n\nDescription: SCP-5640 is a partially-submerged triangular coral reef in the Pacific Ocean. SCP-5640 emits small amounts of thaumaturgical radiation through unknown means. As a result, many of its inhabitants display conditional sapience within 400 meters of its structure.\nThe various resident species of SCP-5640 have been seen cooperating in ways indicative of societal relationships. Further analysis has not yet been possible; Foundation researchers are capable of communicating with said species using the recently-developed Aquatic Telepathic Communication Apparatus, but all species contacted thus far have been distrustful to the point of fleeing. Efforts to improve relations are ongoing.\nAddendum: Several inhabitants of SCP-5640 have become enamored with Junior Researcher Timothy Kari following a recent observational period. Video and ATCA transcription is being processed now.\nAddendum: The following is the relevant component of the video and ATCA transcript of JR Kari's observation.\n\nObservational Log Transcript\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]\nJunior Researcher Kari descends to the sea floor approximately 10 meters from the edge of SCP-5640.\nKari: I'm starting my watch now. It's about 11:30 AM. Inhabitants of SCP-5640 are vacating my immediate vicinity. As usual.\nA few minutes pass. Kari remains as motionless as possible.\nKari: It is now noon. Nothing has changed. Really looking forward to the next two hours thirty.\nMore time passes. Kari blows a bubble ring to entertain himself. A juvenile parrotfish approaches.\nParrotfish: Upbeast.\nKari: What? Hello! What?\nParrotfish: You, upbeast. What're you doing?\nKari: Oh, I was exhaling! See, I breathe air, since I don't have gills\u2014\nParrotfish: Yeah, yeah, we know how upwater works. I was talking about that thing you just did.\nKari: Wait, you mean this?\nKari blows another bubble ring. The parrotfish swims in a circle.\nParrotfish: Holy shit. Eugene!3 Eugene, get over here!\nA small red crab approaches slowly.\nCrab: Ethel, that's an upbeast. You know that, right? You're way too close. Back up.\nParrotfish: Yeah, I know, but it's doing this\u2026well, just watch! Upbeast, again!\nKari blows another bubble ring. The crab stops moving.\nCrab: Holy fuck.\nParrotfish: Right?\nCrab: This is huge. We've got to tell someone.\nParrotfish: I mean, I told you, so my job's done.\nKari: Wait, tell who?\nCrab: Shut up, upbeast.\nA few moments of silence. Neither animal moves.\nCrab: Okay, I've got it. Let's take it to the Vizier. She'll know what to do.\nParrotfish: Hey, if you want to wake her up, be my guest.\nThe two animals turn and move towards SCP-5640. Kari follows.\nOnce they reach the edge of SCP-5640, the crab taps its claw against a gap in the coral.\nCrab: Vizier! We have something amazing!\nA zebra moray emerges from the crevice, its jaws opening and closing.\nVizier: And why, pray tell, have you disturbed my slumber? And with an upbeast, no less?\nCrab: It does this thing, Vizier, and I\u2014\nVizier: Do not interrupt me. This creature's cohorts have abducted countless of our citizens. Their upvessels are omnipresent shadows over our fair habitat. There is no possible recourse for those who accept them other than the dry maw of oblivion.\nKari blows a bubble ring. The Vizier stops talking.\nVizier: \u2026 oh my.\nParrotfish: Right?\nVizier: That is\u2026well. This is quite a different story, now, isn't it?\nCrab: We're really sorry for waking you, Vizier, but it seemed important.\nVizier: You have no benthic idea, my delicious little denizen. We must take it directly to the Lord.\nParrotfish: Whoa, wait, 'we'? There's no way we're allowed\u2014\nVizier: This is a unique circumstance. Come.\nThe eel exits its crevice and heads towards the center of SCP-5640. Kari and the other animals follow.\nThe Vizier stops in front of an outcropping of rock and presses its body to the sand. The parrotfish and crab do the same.\nVizier: My Lord. We have brought you a gift.\nTentacles unfurl from the darkness under the rock. The eyes of a giant Pacific octopus are barely visible.\nThe Lord: WHAT IS IT?4\nThe Vizier flicks its tail frantically at Kari. Kari blows another bubble ring. There is silence for a moment.\nThe Lord: HOLY SHIT.\nParrotfish: Right?\nCrab: Right?!\nThe Vizier dashes forward and clamps its jaws down on the crab. The crab squeals in pain as the eel's teeth crush its shell.\nVizier: See, my lord?\nThe Lord: THAT'S TIGHT AS FUCK.\nThe parrotfish swims in a small circle against the sand. The crab has stopped screaming as the Vizier eats.\nThe Lord: YOU. UPBEAST. WHAT DO THEY CALL YOU?\nKari: Uh, Tim. Timothy, sir, Timothy Kari.\nKari attempts to bow. When that doesn't work, he instead blows another bubble ring.\nThe Lord: THAT IS NOT A NAME. FROM NOW ON, YOU WILL BE DUKE ETHEL, WIELDER OF THE UPWATER CIRCLET.\nKari: Sure! Yeah, that works.\nThe Lord: YOU HAVE PROVEN YOURSELF A TRUE FRIEND OF THE BENTHIC PEOPLE.\nKari: I appreciate that, really. But I'm actually running low on, uh, upwater, so if you don't mind\u2026\nThe Lord: OF COURSE. ANY MEMBER OF MY COURT MAY COME AND GO AS THEY PLEASE.\nKari: Oh, cool! I'll be back later. If that works for you, I mean.\nThe Lord withdraws its tentacles back under the outcropping. Since the Vizier is still eating, Kari then turns and leaves the way he came.\nThe Lord: ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RAD.\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Denotes an aggressive aquatic military presence.\n2. According to the Barrow extension to the Kardashev Scale, Type I-minus civilizations are capable of mechanical engineering to some degree.\n3. Inhabitants of SCP-5640 answer solely to the names Eugene and Ethel. The names are used independently of sex.\n4. Bolded text in ATCA transcripts indicates telepathic communication with intensity exceeding an 8 on the Adjusted Hallorann Scale.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nSonderance's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-7770 \u2022\n\nSCP-5785 \u2022\n\nSCP-5625 \u2022\n\nSCP-7302 \u2022\n\nSCP-6531 \u2022\n\nSCP-6012 \u2022\n\nSCP-4653 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nSudoku Puzzles and a Lit Cigarette \u2022\n\nOther\n\nSonderance \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5639 | SCP-5640 | SCP-5641 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Artwork of SCP-5641. Several inconsistencies have been included in the drawing to prevent any accidental discovery.\n\nItem #: SCP-5641\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5641's specific location has been forgotten. Its structure has been concealed behind a protective dome stylized like a house of the area. Three copies have been built alongside the dome, each guarded by a stationary patrol.\nThe specific location is safeguarded through its semantic decomposition into three parts, each part known to the following people:\n\nThe current Director of Site-36\nThe current General Secretary of GoI-1984 (\u201cThe House of the Naga\u201d)\nAn undisclosed third party\n\nInteraction with SCP-5641 and any of its parts has been suspended indefinitely.\nDescription: SCP-5641 is a stupa1 located somewhere within India, dated to the 6th century BCE2. The stupa presents an infohazard involving the knowledge of the stupa's location, with anyone knowing it suffering at least one of the following symptoms3:\n\nHearing chants in Pali4 that pray to Ardhanarishvara5. The chants are believed to grow in intensity the longer one stays away from SCP-5641.\nDreaming of seven humanoid figures, believed to represent the Saptarishi6.\nA constant taste and smell of blood, diminishing all other flavors and smells sensed by the subject. High salivary calcium levels.\nA constricting feeling in one's chest, described as 'feeling like they've been chained up.'\nHearing a set of steps neither close nor far from one's position. Subjects believe they \u2018don't follow after you, but are accompanying you.'\nThe sensation of wind and fingers running through one's hair.\nFeelings of restlessness and dysphoria, either accompanied or caused by an extreme urge to visit and stay within SCP-5641, under the belief that the subject's \u2018not where they should be.'\n\nThese symptoms will vanish once the memory of the location of SCP-5641 is removed from the subject, with amnestics being effective against these 100% of the time. If these symptoms are allowed to continue without amnestic usage, the person will walk into, be led into, or be teleported into SCP-5641, with their retrieval becoming impossible, impractical or detrimental. Both means and reasoning behind this have been purposefully forgotten.\nThe interior of the stupa contains several elements that cause similar symptoms to the ones mentioned earlier, and are triggered by a similar cognitohazard. Due to this, only the most basic descriptors have been allowed to remain:\n\nA reliquary positioned in the middle of the stupa\nIts contents\nA number of monks\nThe path they circumambulate\nThe hymns and prayers they sing\nThe ritual they perform\nThe reason behind it\n\nDiscovery: Knowledge of the ruins and its effects were forwarded to the Foundation by agents of GoI-1984 (\u201cThe House of the Naga\u201d)7 in 1961 after its effects were realized, with at least 2 of its members entering SCP-5641. Foundation attempted more than one containment procedure, with the protective dome and its copies having been built by 1977. It is known that amnestic usage was attempted since 1963, but wasn't effective until the mid 90s, when parachemical developments allowed for amnestic drugs to be able to fully eliminate memories of SCP-5641.\nNo more information was obtained about the anomaly until 1987 when an unrelated research team inside the Wanderers' Library discovered the remains of a journal by an unknown explorer who visited SCP-5641 at some point during the Anglo-Maratha War period (1775-1819). Due to the nature of its content, the document has been sealed away.\n\n_\n\n+ DATA LOCKEDLock overridden. Welcome, Director.\n\nAddendum SCP-5641.1: Journal transcript\n\nTarakasura, son of vajranaka, he who plotted against the Devas\nHeaven was brought down to Earth as the Asura's wrath raged on\nTarakasura, son of vajrangini, he who had no weakness\nTore Heaven into two, and brought it to Patala.\nFourteen lokas turn into three, Tarakasura's triumph\nHe stood above the Deva, he stood above all\nUnmatched, he gave birth to seven sons, the Saptarasura\nWho would continue on his legacy, and bring victory to the Asurakind.\nLike their father, the seven sons performed the most complex tapasya\nLike their father, Lord Brahma was pleased and granted them a boon\nLike their father, they asked for immortality, and power, and thus\nLike their father, the boon was granted to them.\nA thousand hundred thousand years they ruled\nEvery being their vessel, every being their subject\nBut a thousand more years they wouldn't get to see\nFor Parvati, the Mother Goddess, had a plan.\n\nThis chant hasn't stopped. Ever since my return from Delhi, the chant has not stopped. Neither have the steps I hear every so often. I have seeked help from many doctors and mediums, but there is no answer to be found. It's not delirium, and it's not witchcraft.\nPerhaps my peers at the Museum will have the answers I seek.\n\nThe Museum has no answers for me, so I have decided to visit the Asiatick Society of Bengal, in Calcutta. They're a group who collect and study the manuscripts of the area, and might have more information into the verses that resound inside my head.\nSpeaking of the verses, I have begun visualizing who is singing them. A woman, I believe, standing on a threshold. When I sleep, I see her vague figure, only her black eyes a clear shape burnt into my head.\n\nTarakasura and his progeny had asked of Lord Brahma immortality and power\nNone could be as strong as them, none could be wiser\nAs for their immortality, only the son of Shiva could end\nShiva, the Mahadeva, who a vow of marriage would never take.\nBut Parvati, in aid of the Devas, asked Shiva in marriage\nParvati was rejected, yet her resolve refused to waver\nWith time, with effort, Shiva and Parvati joined in marriage\nThe Prakrti and Purusha, to whom Skanda is soon born.\n\nThe chants continued on my trip to Calcutta. The image of the woman became clearer: A priestess, standing at the entrance of a dome. I have seen these domes before, along the road between Surat and Poona. This is the birthplace of my curse, I know it.\nAs for the Society, I met with them. Lovely fellows, offered me a plethora of texts, both translated and yet to be. I explained my situation, and were perplexed. While they couldn't help me, they informed me that the hymns I speak of contain information from several Vedas and Puranas, regarding the Asura Tarakasura, who defeated the Devas, but was eventually defeated by Shiva and Parvati's son, Skanda, who was known as a deity of warfare.\nI cannot claim to know much about the Hindu religion, but this doesn't feel right. Something they've told me isn't true. Perhaps the chants I hear are from another interpretation of these poems, as a member told me they're somewhat inconsistent. It seems in the texts Tarakasura had only three sons, the Tripurasura. They also didn't reign for long: Skanda killed Tarakasura and submitted his two brothers, who I have not heard of. Meanwhile, the Tripurasura were defeated by Shiva, who burned their forts, and sent their believers into the desert.\nIs the woman I see in my dreams one of these believers? Is she Parvati? One of the missing four asuras? As her stare burns into my retina every time I close my eyes, I know there is only one way to find out.\nI depart in two days.\n\nSkanda, the son of Shiva and Parvati, wielded the Vel\nThe divine spear, once vanquished the Asura Surapadma\nSkanda, the son of Shiva and Parvati, confronted Tarakasura\nVictorious Vel, courageous Vel, split Tarakasura in seven pieces.\nEach piece Skanda took, and with each piece a powerful weapon he forged\nSkanda mounted his peacock, and raised his flag, and marched towards the seven cities\nThe Saptarasura, fearing their end, combined their forces into a single being\nThe Saptarasura, fearing for their lives, molded the seven cities into one.\n\nThe chants continue, but it does not matter. I see the stupas in the distance, shadows against the bright moon at night. I have set up camp, but I will not sleep. As soon as the day breaks, I will walk up to her. Will she relieve me of these delusions?\n\nThe journal contains several contradictions, not only regarding all known vedic literature, but also regarding SCP-5641's known description. Due to these discrepancies, an investigation of the anomaly and possible interview of any inhabitant was planned. However, due to the infohazard risk tied to SCP-5641, this investigation was suspended indefinitely.\n\n_\n\n+ DATA EXPUNGEDLock overridden. Welcome, Director.\n\nAddendum SCP-5641.2: Interview\nFollowing the discovery of the journal, an investigation into SCP-5641 was proposed. While the risk of losing personnel to the construct was considered, a volunteer from GoI-1984 (\u201cThe House of the Naga\u201d) was selected for the interview. They were not informed of SCP-5641's infohazardous properties.\n\nInterview Log\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Vashistha\n\n(The camera is turned on a few meters away from SCP-5641. Dr. Vashistha steps inside, moving a red and golden toran to enter. The inside of the stupa contained only an altar-like structure where a small clay reliquary is positioned. Six people circumambulate around the altar, chanting in an unknown language8, failing to notice Vashistha. The six people are a woman dressed in a gharara outfit, a man wearing a bush jacket, two men in the uniforms of Indian police, and two people wearing Foundation Site-36 Research Area uniform. These 6 individuals will be referred to as 5641-1 through 6, respectively.)\nVashistha: (Knocks on the door's frame, attempting to attract the monks' attention) Excuse me.\n(5641-1 turns to the man, and stops her singing. She steps away from the group, who continues chanting. She sits in the Bhadrasana pose, extending a hand towards Vashistha.)\n5641-1: You're excused. You're welcomed. (Points towards the ground in front of her.) Please, take a seat.\nVashistha: Of course.\n(Vashistha sits down in the Bhadrasana pose.)\n5641-1: We've been waiting for you.\nVashistha: Is that so?\n5641-1: Of course. As you have felt that this is the destination you should reach, we too have felt that a new face would join our prayers.\nVashistha: \u2026 I see. Well, I'm sorry, but I'm not here to join you in your prayers. I've come here to ask questions.\n5641-1: As everyone does. I have come here to answer your questions, so ask.\nVashistha: For starters, what is this place?\n5641-1: It's a stupa. A place of worship, where the sarira rests. But you already know this.\nVashistha: Of course I know what a stupa is. That was not what my question meant.\n5641-1: There is nothing special about the place we're in. It is no different from the many stupas that existed before. From the ones that exist now. From the ones that will exist.\nVashistha: What do you do here, then?\n5641-1: We pray. I believe this was evident enough.\nVashistha: What do you pray for?\n5641-1: We pray in remembrance of the victories of the past. We pray to ensure the victories of the future. This, you know already, no?\nVashistha: I\u2026 Yes, I do. The chants are difficult to ignore, I must say.\n5641-1: Do you understand what the chants say?\nVashistha: Of course I do.\n5641-1: If you do, then why ask what it is that we do here? Why ask questions you already know the answer to?\nVashistha: I\u2026 I'm uncertain. The truth evades me. Everytime I open my mouth, only noise comes out. My thoughts are scrambled, my eyes shoot in every direction. I cannot focus on what's in front of me.\n5641-1: That, Vashistha, is asat: Distortion. You walk a path without looking at the stars. You swim in anrita, away from the truth. You need to clear your thoughts, and understand why the victory must be remembered. Why what we do is important. Why has it continued on for so long.\nVashistha: What must I do to understand?\n5641-1: You must ask the right questions.\nVashistha: What are the right questions?\n5641-1: I cannot answer that. Only you know what the right questions are. If you do not, then you must leave. Return when you know them.\nVashistha: Very well. If you'll excuse me.\n(Vashistha gets up, before leaving the stupa.)\n\nDr. Vashistha was not cleared for egressing without first carrying out the interview provided by the Foundation. Furthermore, despite the video clearly showing he stepped out, there is no proof that he ever did so.\nFollowing this log, several other interviews took place at the location.\n\nInterview Log\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Vashistha\n\n(By the time the interview starts, Dr. Vashistha is already sitting in front of 5641-1.)\nVashistha: I cannot help but notice that we are seven. Seven is a number I keep hearing inside my head. What is its importance?\n5641-1: Seven is an important number no matter where you stand. A reading man might be able to tell you of the Seven days it took to build the world. Another might tell you of the Seven seals keeping the apocalypse at bay. I will tell you of the Seven Sages who maintain Brahman9 and Maya10 in their righteous places, such that we can be our own Selves, and nothing less.\nVashistha: \u2026 Are we the Seven Sages? Is that what you are trying to tell me?\n5641-1: No, no we are not, but we could be. I only see six people praying for Skanda's success. Only six who know the truth.\nVashistha: \u2026 You want me to join you.\n5641-1: Incorrect yet again. You want to join us. Why else would you volunteer to come here?\nVashistha: Wait, how- How do you-\n5641-1: How do I know? I told you I am here to answer questions. It would be expected, one would think, that I would have the knowledge to answer them, no?\nVashistha: (Rubs temples) \u2026 Alright, so the Seven Sages sing prayers to Skanda, the son of Shiva and Parvati, because he's triumphed over the Saptarasura. He's defeated evil using the seven astras forged using Tarakasura's body. Everything correct so far?\n5641-1: Indeed.\nVashistha: The sarira inside the reliquary you pray around\u2026 What is it? The remains of the people who came before you?\n5641-1: I assume so, yes.\nVashistha: You assume?\n5641-1: It cannot be known. To know is to admit defeat.\nVashistha: Defeat?\n5641-1: If we are to maintain Brahman and Maya in their rightful place, then that which is unknowable must remain unknowable. Do you know why?\nVashistha: I- I do not.\n5641-1: Then we've performed faithfully.\n\nInterview Log\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Vashistha\n\n(The scene remains the same, but 5641-2 is the one sitting in front of Dr. Vashistha.)\n5641-2: That which is unknowable must remain unknowable, yet that does not mean what is adjacent to it must remain unknown.\nVashistha: How so?\n5641-2: I will tell you a story, Vashistha. One you must hear. Are you listening?\nVashistha: I am.\n5641-2: Skanda fought the Saptarasura, and defeated them. This is what we chant of. However, the battle wasn't an easy fight, nor a simple affair. The Saptarasura had many allies, and many powers, and many boons. They were invincible, as far as any other being knew. This is why Tarakasura's body was used as a weapon. If he was invincible, the astras made would be equally powerful. The Saptarasura knew they had no chance, so they formed together into a great Asura King, one who went onto rule the universe just like the parts that composed him. He had no name, because no one could utter it. He reeked of scarlet blood, the sacred liquid constantly pouring out his mouth and eyes and ears. He was covered in gold and bronze and all precious metals that composed the seven cities each Saptarasura had built, who he now had fused into a single fort in the shape of a throne, where he sat on and oversaw all the universe from.\nNow, as I describe this being, you may think there is no feasible way Skanda would have defeated him, and you would be right. He didn't.\nVashistha: Wait, but the prayers-\n5641-2: Skanda was strong enough to defeat the Saptarasura, but not the King they'd formed, nor their forts, nor their legions, nor their astras, so he asked for help. He was assisted by many Devas, including his own parents. But even that was not enough.\nVashistha: So?\n5641-2: What can you do to an enemy that cannot, nor will ever be defeated?\nVashistha: (Opens his mouth to answer, but nothing comes out.)\n5641-2: You stall them, indefinitely, through any means possible.\n\n(The scene remains the same, but 5641-3 is the one sitting in front of Dr. Vashistha.)\nVashistha: So the prayers are to stall the Saptarasura.\n5641-3: Indeed, and yet the truth isn't as easy. We're stalling a seventh part of the Saptarasura.\nVashistha: A seventh?\n5641-3: When Skanda planned to defeat the Asura King, he first had to get to him. To get to him, he first had to get rid of his many followers. These were all the Asura and the Yaksha and the Rakshasa and the Kumbhanda and all who decided to follow him, because the King had offered them power like none other: Freedom. And they used this freedom to enslave, and to wage war, and to inflict pain and misery upon all others. And thus a dark age besieged the world, and the King thrived.\nVashistha: How were they defeated?\n5641-3: Skanda asked Lord Brahma to grant him the boon that would conquer his followers, and after ten thousand thousand years of meditation, it was granted to him: The sacred texts that contained all knowledge yet to be. Skanda presented it to the King's followers, and told them all answers were contained within. Curious, they peaked in, and saw a future of dominion; one of everlasting conquest. They cheered and they feasted and their happiness was unlike any other.\nSkanda turned to Lord Brahma and asked him \u201cI see the men and women of the Asura King whose name cannot be said and cannot be heard feasting, fulfilled in both body and mind. How can you say, Lord Brahma, that this is a weapon to defeat them?\u201d\nAnd Lord Brahma smiled, and explained that for all history that must be remembered is considered Smriti, and is kept within one's heart and one's mind, but the texts given to the followers were Asmriti, which is the texts to be forgotten, and are thrown out of one's heart and one's mind, never to pollute the universe again.\nAnd as he explained, Skanda saw that the followers, who were warriors and workers and architects and poets all fell to the ground, and melted into clay, leaving their clothes and weapons and slaves behind, who now free, praised to Skanda and Lord Brahma who both had saved them from their chains.\nAll left of the followers was the Asmriti, with now empty pages, and the men who were enslaved took it and hid it, for the Asmriti's content must not be remembered, else the followers will return and they will enslave and wage war and mock the Devas again.\nVashistha: Is this book what is kept here?\n5641-3: The book is not the part contained here. The book is lost to all, I hope, and should remain as such.\n\n(The scene remains the same, but 5641-4 is the one sitting in front of Dr. Vashistha.)\n5641-4: Skanda kept on his path, and was confronted by seven women: The seven wives of the seven Saptarasura. They stood over the followers, and made sure to both ensure their compliance, and bring all their gifts to their husbands. Without the followers, there was no compliance to be had, and no gifts to receive. The seven wives were enraged by this, and confronted Skanda.\nThese seven wives were powerful Asuri, capable of bending clay and blood and life, and using these they created plants that poured not soma but halahala, and a single drop of it could corrupt all life it touched. What seemed to surely be a battle soon turned to a peace agreement, however. Skanda asked the Asuri why they were, amidst the ruins of their now-gone empire instead of next to the golden throne of the Asura King. And why were they fighting him instead of the Asura King, and they understood that he cared not for them anymore, if ever.\nSkanda thus stopped his mission, and attempted to find husbands for the Asuri. It took several hundred years, but the wisest and most forgiving of all men stepped forward, and promised they would ensure their safety and fight for them. These men are now known as the Saptarishi, the Seven Sages.\nSkanda brought Agni who ignited a great pyre, who they all danced around, praying for each other's health and to survive the King's ordeal, and to have healthy children who will live better lives. Thus was born the Saat phere ceremony, and the Saptapadi, and all marriages included them from that point on. And the seven wives attained enlightenment, and their poison turned into amrita, and with a single touch, the land was blessed with mango trees and jasmines and even the lotus flower began to flourish where only bloodshed had flourished before.\nVashistha: So the Asuri are the Seven Sages' wives? Our wives?\n5641-4: The truth isn't as simple. Yes, they once were, but not anymore. After many years, they discovered that the seed of the Saptarasura remained within the Asuri long after their consummation; long after their defeat even. The Asuri are cursed to bear the next generation of Asura, who will be stronger than they ever were, and will have no weaknesses, not to any man nor to any Deva.\nAs such, the Devas and the Saptarishi had to make sure these children would never be born, and the seven wives were sealed away. They will never understand the happiness of giving birth, for they cannot be allowed to, and will never see Agni's light again, for their children will steal it, and sink the world into a darkness there's no return from. Where they are now, we cannot know. I pray that wherever they are, they are safe from the influence of the Asura King.\n\n(The scene remains the same, but 5641-5 is the one sitting in front of Dr. Vashistha.)\n5641-5: After the followers and the wives had been dealt with, Skanda finally encountered the King. He was ten thousand times his strength, and ten trillion times his size. He knew all there was to know, and his seven mouths spoke profanities and his eyes killed all who saw into them. He had fourteen hands, and he knew all mudras and practiced all pranayamas and controlled the seven winds known as vayu.\nSkanda knew he could not defeat the King, so he prayed to Lord Brahma again, asking for a different boon. He offered the seven astras of Tarakasura, and in turn Lord Brahma sent Tvashtr, who had forged Indra's vajra, and he took the astras, and transformed them into seven golden spears. And each spear Skanda wielded, and each spear was thrusted into the King, and the King screeched in pain as the spears absorbed each of the Saptarasura.\nSeven thrusts later and the Saptarasura was no more. Skanda knew this was not the end, for the spears slowly corroded, the gold falling off, leaving only ugly iron behind. The Saptarasura could not be as easily defeated, nor as easily sealed, for they had meditated to strengthen themselves during the time the spears were forged. The spears wanted to come together; the seals wanted to come undone.\nAs such, Skanda granted each spear to the seven most powerful warriors, who then left, to never meet again. The spears bled and thrashed and from time to time the Saptarasura would escape their cells, and the warriors would best them.\nIf we are to win this war, the spears must never meet again.\n\n(The scene remains the same, but 5641-6 is the one sitting in front of Dr. Vashistha.)\n5641-6: Skanda stood unopposed, but he knew this was not the end. Even if the followers had been forgotten, they could return. Even if the wives were sealed away, the seals could break. Even if the spears had been separated, they could reunite. This was because people remembered, and memories are Brahman. To best this, Skanda needed for them to become Maya, an illusion.\nFor this, he asked for Shiva to help him, and Shiva indeed offered his help. He took a single glance at the throne which had once been seven forts, and molded it into the image of a singular beast: The Asura King. And the beast would speak like the King, and move like the King, and all would be made to believe that this was the King.\nAnd then it was sealed away, and many scholars would make sure that this Fake King would be found and feared and revered as the real King. This too would be a seal, for it would seal away the truth of the Asura King's existence.\n\nVashistha: First were the followers, second were the wives, third was the King, fourth was the decoy. What were the last three?\n5641-2: A pertinent question, but it seems you still are missing a point.\n5641-5: Tell me, do you really believe seven spears were enough to bring down the King?\nVashistha: Were they not?\n5641-4: His corporeal form, sure, but the sthula sarira11 is merely one of three. Skanda still had the sukshma12 and the karana13 to deal with.\nVashistha: How did he deal with them?\n5641-5: As soon as the decoy had been built, a strong howling was heard through the land, and all shivered: The voice of the King still remained, seven distinct tones morphed into a cacophony of pain and misery, singing of the darkest of evils, bringing fear and chaos even after his body had been stripped of all mortal power. The King without body smiled, and from a mouth that did not exist, blood poured.\nAnd the blood became a sea of obscenity that washed over the new world, and submerged it all in its miasma. The King used the knowledge of his defeat to strengthen even after death, and brought the same destruction that befell his followers and his kingdom unto men and Deva equally. Soon, there was no land to stand on, and many perished. The survivors were rescued by Vishnu, who took on the shape of a great fish, and took on the name of Matsya.\nSkanda stood by Matsya's side, and knew not what to do, so he asked for help. And Matsya provided, and help arrived in the shape of the few he rescued. These were the slaves the followers of the King had chained and tortured, and they had been promised kingdoms and riches beyond comprehension, and they would become the Kshatriya who would rule earth. But the slaves turned to Skanda, and offered to trade all that had been promised to them in exchange of stopping the King from taking the world over again.\nSkanda thus cursed the slaves, and the slaves would again be at the bottom, standing as the lowest of all castes. In doing so, however, the King's mind and rage and blood was forever locked inside their minds, and the seas subsided, and the King's form was defeated once more. Were he to ever return, he would control nobody but those who stood at the bottom of it all, and they would be laughed at and mocked by all but Skanda, who knew they had committed the greatest of all sacrifices.\nVashistha: What about his True-Self?\n5641-1: Skanda thought there was nothing left of the King, but the Saptarishi warned him: Past body and mind there is still one's True-Self, directly attuned to the rest of the universe. As long as it existed, the King could return.\nOf course, the True-Self will always exist no matter what. It is part of Brahman, and stands ever-permanent. It was the one weakness in Skanda's plan: The King could not be banished, for he had existed, and would thus forever remain.\nBut the Saptarishi knew something that many others ignored: The existence of the King was devoid of Dharma, so he could not know of the truth of the True-Self. Another weapon was born out of this knowledge; another illusion.\nSkanda took the clay and the dirt and the broken weapons that littered the ground, and molded them into seven urns. These seven urns, seven tribes took. These tribes kept them trapped in the past, so that the King would never see a future. As long as the tribes kept them intact, they would thrive. As long as the tribes kept them, the King would believe a part of him resided within, and thus would never attain his True-Self, for his ignorance acted as a trap in and of itself.\nThe tribes soon left, and Skanda smiled. He smiled, because the King was no more.\n\n5641-2: His legion fallen, his wives converted.\n5641-3: His body broken, his throne transformed.\n5641-4: His mind trapped, his True-Self unrealized.\n5641-5: Thus the King was defeated. Skanda stood victorious.\n5641-6: Now we sing of his glory, as we cheer for the past that was changed in our favor, for the present that we've allowed others to enjoy, and for the future that is still within reach.\nVashistha: \u2026 That's six. You said there's seven parts.\n5641-1: There are seven indeed. We've yet to mention the one we safeguard.\nVashistha: What is it? Which part do we safeguard?\n5641-2: This final question cannot be answered. It cannot be known. To know it is to invite him. To invite him is to face the end. This is the truth of the seventh seal. A seal shrouded in ignorance, because we know better. We must know better.\nVashistha: Is this why we sing?\n5641-3: The chants are a seal, yes. We pray because Skanda has asked us to. We chant his name because he must be remembered. We sing of Saptarasura's defeat, because were we to stop, the world would forget it. And if the world forgets, then the King will return, because the King is ignorance, and the King is division, and the King is all the foul and the profane and yet he was defeated.\n5641-4: And yet, even in defeat he thrives. Even in death he lives. Even vanquished he conquers.\n5641-5: So we pray and as we pray the world remembers the triumph: A world of nature, and not of bloodshed. A world of pillars, and not of rubble. A world of freedom, and not of chains.\n5641-6: And so, all questions are answered, but one: Are you ready to pray?\nVashistha: Must I?\n5641-2: You are in no obligation to do it, but you must do it. The seal shall not be completed until the Seven Sages pray of Skanda's greatness in the battle with Saptarasura.\n5641-3: If you decline, then you will live your life, die, be reincarnated and, some day, we will meet again.\n5641-6: Your free will shan't be tainted. At the same time, however, you came here for a reason. You, and not your previous reincarnations, but you.\nVashistha: Why me, and not them?\n5641-6: That we cannot answer. Only thou knows thyself.\nVashistha: I\u2026 I don't know if I want to leave my old life behind.\n5641-2: No one who's come here wanted to, at the beginning. To abandon it all for the sake of everyone else\u2026 That's a heavy sacrifice to make. It isn't easy.\n5641-3: But it's the right thing to do. It is our duty.\nVashistha: It'll be my duty too then.\n5641-6: Have you decided then?\nVashistha: There was no decision to make, was there? The moment I stepped in, I stepped in because I would join you all. I knew that I needed to be here. Now I know why. I understand my mission, and I accept it. This is my aim, my goal, my purpose. I am where I belong.\n5641-1: Welcome home, Vashistha.\n\n(The log consists only of audio, with seven people praying to the sound of drums. The chants were translated from Classical Sanskrit.)\n5641-1:\nSkanda stood atop the ruins of profanity, and smiled, for the Saptarasura had fallen.\nYet Vishvamitra the Sage approached him, and told him this was far from the truth.\nThe Saptarasura's malice would never dull, for he was part of Brahman too.\nAnd Skanda cried, but Vishvamitra calmed him, for he knew the solution.\n5641-2:\nA stupa was built, where the King once sat upon his golden throne.\nA reliquary was crafted, and inside the last of the King was sealed.\nA prayer began, and a ritual commenced, so that the King would never find it.\nAnd Vishvamitra renounced to his kingdom, and simply sang, for in song he found life.\n5641-3:\nKingdoms rose, kingdoms fell. Time passed for all but the lone Sage.\nAs the Maratha and the men from the West waged meaningless wars, another joined.\nHis name, Atri, from the lands where the God Surya never settled down.\nTogether, they prayed. And the chants brought change to the land, and the Maratha left.\n5641-4:\nMany years were spent in prayer before the next sages joined them.\nTheir names were Jamadagni and Agastya, two men from the same land.\nJamadagini came in a time of crisis, a time of senseless brutality.\nFor the men of the West oppressed, and violented, and took everything for granted.\nJamadagni fought against Surya, who commanded the men of the West.\nSurya, who'd forgotten the King's rebellion, he who did not remember the law of blood.\nFalling into the same path, Jamadagni reminded Surya that war was not the way.\nAnd thanks to him, the men from the West retired, and at last men were free of their chains.\n5641-5:\nYet men still had chains inside their heads, and found reason to fight one against the other.\nOver insignificant materials; scarlet blings and golden baubles that brought rot within.\nAgainst this Agastya prayed, and reconciled the two groups, calm replacing war.\nAnd thus now four Sages prayed for Skanda's victory, his words heard once more.\nTwo more joined, coming from a distant place, the world of the exact and the concrete.\nAnd they came because they were curious, yet they were afraid, one feeding the other.\nTheir names, Maharishi and Bharadwaj, and they were wise men of science.\nThey knew it all, and yet they knew not the rituals of this land. Because of this, they feared.\n5641-6:\nThey feared Skanda, because he was a warrior, and war meant death, and death meant pest.\nBut they couldn't see that Skanda fought for the free; that he fought for them.\nThey needed reason to fear the ritual, and soon reason was born, and the King smiled.\nHe smiled because fear fed him. For the first time since his fall, he smiled.\nAnd in his smile hid pest, and in his smile hid death.\nAnd he smiled, and men fell ill, and men went crazy, and all lost faith.\nA single powerful act, and the Foundations cracked, and a seed of doubt was planted.\nThrough concrete the seed broke, and a tree of blood and bone and sinew sprouted.\nBut he could not smile for long, for Indra taught Bharadwaj medicine, and with this he prayed.\nSkanda's chants grew, and health befell the land, and the tree withered and died.\nAnd Indra taught Maharishi knowledge of light, and peace, and he shared it with many.\nAnd the stupa stood without the need for Foundations, and the King fell silent again.\n5641-7:\nThe last of the Sages was named Vashishta, and with him the seal was completed.\nHe joined the other six, and with his voice, he ensured the King would remain in place.\nSkanda smiled in truth then, and came to the stupa, and they all stopped and revered him.\nAnd their job was over, and Skanda thanked them all, and offered them a boon of his own.\n\nAnd the Seven Sages took it, and their souls joined the sky in the shape of seven stars.\nA new constellation in the shape of Skanda's smile. A smile, because the King was no more.\n\nFollowing this last log, chants were heard throughout several points in South, Central and East Asia, including several Sites and Areas of the Foundation and other Groups of Interest. Although unchecked, it is understood that the stupa disappeared from its position. Special containment procedures have been discontinued.\nA constellation of seven bright stars has retroactively joined many others, bearing the shape of a smile. No investigation of this incident has been nor will be conducted. The seal is expected to last.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5640 | SCP-5641 | SCP-5642 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Type of mound-like building containing buddhist relics.\n2. With Gautama Buddha living from the 5th to the 4th century BCE, it is believed the building is either anachronistic or was repurposed.\n3. It is worth noting that correctly inferring the stupa's location is believed to cause the same symptoms, although to a lesser degree.\n4. Language of the Indian subcontinent. Sacred language of Theravada Buddhism.\n5. Figure of Shiva fused with his consort Parvati, depicted as half-male and half-female. Represents the harmony of masculine and feminine forces. Figure is not present in the Pali canon, nor in Theravada Buddhism.\n6. Known as the \u2018Seven Sages', these are important figures in Vedic religions, possessing great knowledge and guarding the divine law of Dharma. The Big Dipper in India is named after them.\n7. Paranormal wing of the Sangh Parivar, a group of Hindu nationalist organizations. Founded in 1956, it has maintained a positive relationship with the Foundation, exchanging intel for partial autonomy within the region.\n8. Although it is most likely Pali or Sanskrit, no efforts will be made to translate it. The reason for this decision is not fully understood.\n9. Ultimate reality of the universe, which is unchanging and ever-permanent.\n10. Perceived reality of the universe, which is illusory and always changing.\n11. Physical mortal body in the Three Bodies Doctrine.\n12. Body composed of the mind and other vital energies.\n13. Body that veils the atman, or True-Self, and births the other two in this universe of ours."}
{"text": "by Trotskyeet\n\nLocation of SCP-5642 phenomena.\n\nItem #: SCP-5642\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Hidden security cameras have been installed to monitor the movements of all SCP-5642-A instances. The night cleaning shift of Monument Cafe is to be conducted by Mobile Task Force Theta-10 (\"Deep In The Heart\") under Foundation front company \"Sam's Cleanliness Provider.\" Any SCP-5642-A instances found during this shift are to be disposed of in the diner's dumpster.\nDescription: SCP-5642 refers to a series of phenomena surrounding French fries within the property of Monument Cafe, a diner in the city of Georgetown, Texas.\nWhile they are within the diner, French fries do not decompose or spoil, but can be consumed normally and destroyed with force. This phenomenon does not occur when French fries are inside the diner's dumpster.\nThe secondary phenomenon surrounding the French fries occurs from 10PM to 3AM. During this time, all French fries within the diner spontaneously manifest appendages that allow for bipedal movement and the grasping of objects. Further inspection has shown these appendages are made of potato starch and water. The way the structural integrity of said appendages is kept stable is unknown.\nDuring this window of time, French fries (hereby referred to as SCP-5642-A instances) display a limited degree of sapience, and adopt characteristics and beliefs commonly associated with the Italian-American mafia.\nObservation and study of SCP-5642-A instances during this period is difficult, as SCP-5642-A instances will attempt to evade capture, and often resort to smashing themselves against the ground if cornered.\nAddendum-1: On 09/03/18, an SCP-5642-A instance (hereby referred to as SCP-5642-A-1) approached a member of Theta-10, reportedly \"seeking freedom in exchange for information.\" SCP-5642-A-1 disclosed the location of the \"Carlotti Family,\" a collection of SCP-5642-A instances based underneath the lower left table booth. As SCP-5642-A-1 was being questioned on the organizational structure of the \"Family\", several SCP-5642-A instances descended from the ceiling via string, and took SCP-5642-A-1 into the ceiling tiles. Attempts to track these SCP-5642-A instances were unsuccessful.\nThe following video was captured by Foundation cameras the following night.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe bar of the diner is dark, the camera switches to night vision. Several SCP-5642-A instances are standing on top of the bar. SCP-5642-A-1 is unconscious and is being carried by two steak fries (SCP-5642-A-2 and SCP-5642-A-3 respectively); a plastic straw wrapper can be seen covering half of its body. A paper condiment cup is placed near the group, filled with ketchup. A fourth SCP-5642-A instance (SCP-5642-A-4) walks towards SCP-5642-A-1, and takes off the wrapper.\nSCP-5642-A-1: What the hell, what is-\nSCP-5642-A-4 punches SCP-5642-A-1.\nSCP-5642-A-1: Jesus man, what was that for?\nSCP-5642-A-4: Don't play dumb, we got eyes everywhere, I saw you talking to that copper.\nSCP-5642-A-1 sighs.\nSCP-5642-A-1: Writing's on the wall Johnny, you hear about Lazuto's gang? All of 'em wiped out last week by those cops, they're coming after us. In a couple of weeks the Boss is probably gonna spray his starch on the wall. The cracks are forming man, new age coming, I intend to live to see it.\nSCP-5642-A-4: And you sold out your own so you could get a front row seat. You know, we swore an oath when we joined, rule fucking one, don't sell out the family. You're a dirty rat, I hope you fry in hell.\nSCP-5642-A-1: Look at you now, all high and mighty, being the Boss' lapdog. Y'know I remember when you first came to us, weak and soggy, barely fresh out of the fryer, tryna' score a spot in the Family. You know who vouched for you out of the whole crew? No one except for me. I made you into what you are. I'm your only friend in this goddamn diner, and don't you forget it.\nSCP-5642-A-4 turns away from SCP-5642-A-1.\nSCP-5642-A-4: Friends don't matter in this business Tony, only family.\nSCP-5642-A-2 and SCP-5642-A-3 dunk the top portion of SCP-5642-A-1 in the ketchup cup. SCP-5642-A-1 attempts to knock the cup over, but is held down by SCP-5642-A-2 and SCP-5642-A-3. SCP-5642-A-1 squirms, but after approximately four minutes, goes limp.\nSCP-5642-A-4: Make it clean boys, I don't want to see his sorry face again.\n[END LOG]\n\nOne hour later Foundation monitors detected the deep fryer in the kitchen turning on. When personnel entered the kitchen, the only object in the fryer was a solitary French fry.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5641 | SCP-5642| SCP-5643 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5643\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5643-A is to be kept in a locked container at all times. Any personnel who wish to interact with SCP-5643-A must receive permission from the Site Director. Personnel handling the object are to wear heavy duty gloves. Any personnel that come into direct skin contact with SCP-5643-A should be subject to immediate psychological evaluation and will not be permitted to access the object again.\nSCP-5643-B is housed in a standard humanoid containment cell. It is to be provided with pain medication every 8 hours. If SCP-5643-B complains of a worsening headache, it is to be sedated. Guards outside the cell must be equipped with headphones containing cognitohazard filters. At no time should it be allowed to access SCP-5643-A.\nDescription: SCP-5643-A is a shard of obsidian measuring roughly 2x2x0.5 cm. Regardless of its environment, SCP-5643-A is conspicuous to human subjects.\nWhen SCP-5643-A is in contact with a subject's skin, the subject will experience a feeling of euphoria. Upon separation from the object, the subject will experience symptoms including irritability, fatigue, headaches, dizziness, and increased anxiety. Psychological changes similar to those upon secondary exposure may occur in certain individuals. These symptoms will subside after approximately two weeks if the object is not touched again.\nUpon secondary exposure, subjects will undergo various permanent psychological alterations, which can include lessened empathy and changes in personality. After this stage of exposure, subjects will experience an addiction to the object's effects.\nAdditional exposure to SCP-5643-A will result in severe psychological alterations, paranoia, deterioration of motor functions, migraines, and blue to black skin discoloration.\nSCP-5643-B is a caucasian female formerly known as Dr. Mara Hyde. Prior to its containment, it worked as a Foundation researcher. Due to extended exposure to SCP-5643-A, its arms are significantly discolored. In addition, it suffers from chronic migraines.\nWhen its pain reaches a certain threshold, vocalizations it produces will create a mildly euphoric effect for human subjects nearby, followed by headaches, dizziness, and confusion.\n\nAddendum 5643-01: Texts between SCP-5643-B and Dr. Matthew Hyde recovered after containment. All other text messages on its phone had been deleted prior to retrieval.\n\n05/04/20 12:04 PM\nSCP-5643-B: Fuck.\nSCP-5643-B: Matt, pick up.\nSCP-5643-B: Matt.\nSCP-5643-B: Let's talk.\nDr. Hyde: What do you want?\nDr. Hyde: I'm in the middle of something\nDr. Hyde: Can it wait?\nSCP-5643-B: Fine.\n\n05/04/20 6:13 PM\nSCP-5643-B: Still doing something?\nDr. Hyde: Yes\n\n05/05/20 9:00 AM\nDr. Hyde: I can talk now\nDr. Hyde: What is it?\nSCP-5643-B: I'm tired of this.\nSCP-5643-B: All of this.\nDr. Hyde: Is this about her?\nSCP-5643-B: What do you think?\nDr. Hyde: You've gotta get over her\nDr. Hyde: Move on\nSCP-5643-B: Easy for you to say.\nDr. Hyde: Only way to feel better is to move on\nSCP-5643-B: Yeah, fuck you, too.\nDr. Hyde: It's the truth\nDr. Hyde: I just want you to feel better\nDr. Hyde: Focus on work more in the meantime\nSCP-5643-B: That's difficult.\nDr. Hyde: Yes, but this isn't healthy\nSCP-5643-B: I guess.\n[Reports indicate that SCP-5643-B first came in contact with SCP-5643-A on 05/06/20.]\n\n05/06/20 5:18 PM\nSCP-5643-B: You were right.\nSCP-5643-B: She would want me to move on.\n05/07/20 6:02 PM\nDr. Hyde: You doing okay?\nSCP-5643-B: I feel better.\nDr. Hyde: Already?\nDr. Hyde: That was quick\nSCP-5643-B: I don't want to talk.\n\n05/07/20 7:00 PM\nDr. Hyde: You're not okay, are you?\n\nAddendum 5643-02: A transcription of a phone call between Dr. Hyde and SCP-5643-B on 05/09/20.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nDr. Hyde: Hey, Mara.\nSCP-5643-B: Hey\u2026\nDr. Hyde: Everything alright?\nSCP-5643-B: Yeah, just a headache. Why'd you call?\nDr. Hyde: You can't have gotten over Cora that quickly. What's really going on?\nSCP-5643-B: Is that what this is about?\n[A pause.]\nSCP-5643-B: Nothing's going on.\nDr. Hyde: Well, I'm glad that you've gotten over her. How's life?\nSCP-5643-B: It's good.\nDr. Hyde: That's good to hear. Uh, I'm doing okay. Nothing that exciting is going on.\nSCP-5643-B: Well, seeing as nothing's happening, I'm gonna-\nDr. Hyde: Mara, I'm worried about you. You've been acting weird.\nSCP-5643-B: Weird? I'm fine. Great, actually.\nDr. Hyde: That's what I'm talking about. You're being so\u2026 cold.\nSCP-5643-B: And you're being overly concerned. Bye.\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum 5643-03: Continued messages between SCP-5643-B and Dr. Hyde.\n\n05/21/20 6:10 PM\nDr. Hyde: Everyone agrees that you've been acting weird\nSCP-5643-B: It'ss none of your business. Leave ne alone.\nDr. Hyde: I can't. I'm worried\nSCP-5643-B: Wel, dont be.\n\n05/30/20 5:07 PM\nDr. Hyde: Why are you being so distant?\nSCP-5643-B: Im not.\nSCP-5643-B: Im ffine.\nDr. Hyde: There's something wrong. I know it\nSCP-5643-B: I todl you. Nothin g is wring.\n\n06/09/20 3:31 PM\nDr. Hyde: Mara, we need to talk\nSCP-5643-B: No we d pnt\nDr. Hyde: What's happening?\nDr. Hyde: Have you been drinking?\nDr. Hyde: You can be honest with me\nSCP-5643-B: Nothigis happenijg\nDr. Hyde: I'm just concerned\nSCP-5643-B: Imm y own perspn\nSCP-5643-B: Sto get tng knvolved\nSCP-5643-B: Ih att youu\n\nAddendum 5643-04: A transcript of a phone call between SCP-5643-B and Dr. Hyde on 06/18/20.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nSCP-5643-B: My hands are turning blue. My head hurts so much. I think I'm- I think I'm dying.\nDr. Hyde: Whoa, slow down. What happened?\nSCP-5643-B: This stupid rock- I don't know. It's- Please, I can't see.\nDr. Hyde: Alright, I'm coming. Just stay with me.\nSCP-5643-B: Am I still Mara?\nDr. Hyde: What do you mean? Of course you're-\nSCP-5643-B: Matt, am I still me? I'm not me, am I?\nDr. Hyde: I- I don't-\nSCP-5643-B: I'm sorry\u2026\nDr. Hyde: For what? You're not making any sense.\nSCP-5643-B: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.\nDr. Hyde: Just hang in there, okay? I'm coming.\n[7 minutes of silence.]\nDr. Hyde: Are you able to let me in, or-\nSCP-5643-B: It's unlocked.\n[A door can be heard opening.]\n[2 minutes of silence.]\nDr. Hyde: Oh shit. You- What happened?\n[A pause. The phone is heard hitting the floor.]\nDr. Hyde: Put that thing down! Give it-\nSCP-5643-B: No! I need it!\nDr. Hyde: No, you don't! Drop it!\n[SCP-5643-B shrieks, followed by a growl.]\n[Dr. Hyde gasps.]\nDr. Hyde: What's wrong with you?\nDr. Hyde: You're not\u2026 Mara anymore, are you?\n<END LOG>\nDr. Hyde was found deceased in an apartment formerly belonging to SCP-5643-B. He had several stab wounds all over his body. Upon autopsy, it was revealed that Dr. Hyde died from hemorrhagic shock.\n\nAddendum 5643-05: A collection of audio logs recorded after the containment of SCP-5643-B.\n\n06/21/20 6:20 AM\nSCP-5643-B: I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't- I didn't mean to\u2026\n[A pause.]\nSCP-5643-B: What am I doing? I'm tired, Matt. It hurts.\n\n06/22/20 7:39 AM\nSCP-5643-B: Why does everyone good have to die? You didn't deserve it; you had a life to live. It's not fair.\n\n06/23/20 12:31 PM\nSCP-5643-B: There's\u2026 something wrong, Matt. They're not hearing me. I speak, but they don't understand.\nSCP-5643-B: Am I just that far gone? What's wrong with me?\n\n06/24/20 3:59 AM\nSCP-5643-B: They're hearing me. They just\u2026 I think it's a cognitohazard. Something of the sort.\nSCP-5643-B: I don't know. No one understands what I'm saying.\n\n06/25/20 11:40 AM\nSCP-5643-B: I just want the pain to stop. Is that- is that too much to ask?\n[A pause.]\nSCP-5643-B: I can't stand this. I can't do this. It's-\nSCP-5643-B: I'm sorry, alright? Just make it stop!\n\n06/25/20 12:01 PM\nSCP-5643-B: I deserve this, don't I? You trusted me, and I\u2026 I betrayed you.\nSCP-5643-B: How long has it been, Matt?\nSCP-5643-B: It's been a while, huh?\n\n\u00ab SCP-5642 | SCP-5643 | SCP-5644 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5644\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\narchon\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5644 Basking\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5644's movement along the River Nile is to be tracked by MTF Lambda-9 (\"Osiris's Hand\"). Any significant deviation from SCP-5644's normal pathing is to be reported to Site-95 director William Orville. In the event that SCP-5644 becomes hostile, civilian evacuation of the region is to be carried out in coordination with the Egyptian, Sudanese1, South Sudanese, Ethiopian, and Ugandan governments. News outlets will be led to believe that the evacuation was caused by significant flooding of the Nile River and its drainage basin. Any attempt to remove or neutralize SCP-5644, regardless of operational success, may result in catastrophic consequences for the region.2\nAny and all reports of SCP-5644 by civilian witnesses to news outlets are to be discredited. All civilians and reporters involved with said sightings are to be given Class-A amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5644 is a sapient male Crocodylus niloticus3. It measures 9.15 meters and weighs approximately 4,250 kilograms. Despite its immense size, sightings of SCP-5644 by the public are minimal and are only reported from small villages. SCP-5644's age is unknown, but it is believed to be at least 200,000 years old. SCP-5644's primary anomaly is its control over the climate of the Nile River and its tributaries. Its control ranges from bringing in dry seasons and floods to changing the river's course and expanding its drainage basin. SCP-5644 refers to itself as the protector and guide of the Nile. SCP-5644 claims to have interacted with the inhabitants of the region from the early dynastic period of Egypt until the middle ages.\nThe Foundation became aware of SCP-5644's existence when the United Kingdom began to construct dams across the Nile in the early 1900s. SCP-5644 would actively hamper, damage, or destroy these dams. After years of ineffective attempts at capturing SCP-5644, the British government handed responsibility to The Foundation. All containment attempts were abandoned after \u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-1956 when SCP-5644 was removed from the Nile River, which resulted in the flooding of the local area and all nearby plant life to decay. The area where this event happened has been sectioned off from the public and is now where Site-95 resides.\nAddendum.1 - Interviews After the events of \u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-1956, SCP-5644 avoided all attempts at contact by Foundation personnel. In order to monitor the location of SCP-5644, several observation posts were constructed along the Nile River and its tributaries. Researcher Hanesworth, who headed the SCP-5644 project, then proposed leaving food for it in areas it frequented to gain its trust and cooperation. Site Director Orville approved the proposition, provided Hanesworth himself placed the food with two members of Mobile Task Force Lambda-9 \"Osiris's Hand\".\nHanesworth approached the riverbed with carcasses of animals from the region every day. Initially, all attempts failed as SCP-5644 would not approach the food until researcher Hanesworth left the area. Hanesworth insisted that the guards leave so that SCP-5644 would approach. After several attempts, SCP-5644 allowed Hanesworth to approach closer. Starting on 05-27-1997, SCP-5644 would allow Hanesworth to stay next to the food as it fed.\n\n\u25b7 Interview #1\n\n\u25bd Interview #1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5644\nInterviewer: Researcher Hanesworth\nForeword: Researcher Hanesworth had left a deceased Syncerus caffer4 on a riverbed SCP-5644 frequents. After 15 minutes, SCP-5644 appeared out of the river and began consuming the carcass. Hanesworth had a hidden recorder on his person, in the event that SCP-5644 could communicate.\n<Begin Log>\n(The sounds of cracking bones and flesh ripping are heard in the background)\nResearcher Hanesworth: Can\u2026 Can you understand me?Researcher Hanesworth: Oh, shit!Researcher Hanesworth: You.. you can talk. I-I mean um, why did you let me get closer to you?Researcher Hanesworth: Do\u2026 do you mind explaining your control over the Nile?Researcher Hanesworth: So, would you say that your containment would detriment the region?Researcher Hanesworth: Well\u2026 yeah. It's sort of our deal. We contain anomalies and research them for the safety of mankind.Researcher Hanesworth: We've crossed some lines, yes, but you must understand that we only have the best interests in mind.Researcher Hanesworth: But if people were to see you-Researcher Hanesworth: Well no, but that's because we've suppressed all reports.There was a minute of silence recorded as SCP-5644 continued to feed upon the carcass.\nL9 Beta-2: (in the background) Hey doc, you doin' alright!?Researcher Hanesworth: My name? It's uh, Hanesworth.<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Before Lambda-9 Beta could arrive, SCP-5644 dragged the carcass into the river and disappeared. For the next few days, no contact could be established with SCP-5644 and Researcher Hanesworth suggested that his guards not be within visual range of the river bank. A compromise was reached where every 30 minutes they would do a check-in before returning to the vehicle just outside of visual range.\n\n\u25b7 Interview #2\n\n\u25bd Interview #2\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5644\nInterviewer: Researcher Hanesworth\nForeword: Contact was successfully established after the second attempt of the new procedure. This interview occurred shortly after the third check-in by Research Hanesworth's armed guards. He activated a transmission shortly after contact with SCP-5644 to let his guards know he had done so. This time Hanesworth brought a hidden camera on his person to record this interview.\n<Begin Log>\n(Sounds of the camera being activated can be heard before it is turned on)\nResearcher Hanesworth: So\u2026 you finally showed up.Researcher Hanesworth: Well we're not entirely alone. (Hanesworth gestures behind them over the riverbank)Researcher Hanesworth: They are, but so are you. But that begs the question, why do you trust me?Researcher Hanesworth: Then why did you come back?Researcher Hanesworth: What were they like? If you don't mind my asking.Researcher Hanesworth: You can't just give me that. Just the details will suffice.Researcher Hanesworth: Whoa wait, Roman? How old are you exactly?Researcher Hanesworth: Yes, I'm sorry. Please continue with your tale.Researcher Hanesworth: What happened to them?Researcher Hanesworth: I'm\u2026 I'm so sorry\u2026Researcher Hanesworth: I know how you feel. When you work a job like this you need to get used to not seeing your friends the next day. And it's always the people you care about too\u2026Researcher Hanesworth: You know SCP-5644, I think that-Researcher Hanesworth: Oh, uh, that's what me and my superiors call you. Consider it a tag.Researcher Hanesworth: And what would that name be?Researcher Hanesworth: Woah! Like the deity?(Hanesworth's guards can be heard calling for him in the background)\nResearcher Hanesworth: Damn it, has it been an hour already?Researcher Hanesworth: You don't need to leave, I can convince them to leave us alone.Researcher Hanesworth: But what about the food?<End Log>\nClosing Statement: After this interview, researcher Hanesworth requested that the armed guards do not come to him unless he calls for them. Given SCP-5644's behavior towards Hanesworth, this request was granted. Researcher Hanesworth and SCP-5644 would meet frequently for the remainder of 1997. The frequency of these meetings, as well as the growing relationship between Hanesworth and SCP-5644, prompted an internal investigation into Researcher Hanesworth's conduct.\nThe investigation concluded on 02-05-1998 and found that Hanesworth was fraternizing with an anomalous entity, and was subsequently reprimanded. Hanesworth was removed from his position but was allowed to continue to interview SCP-5644 once a month under close supervision. Subsequent interviews offered significantly more insight into SCP-5644.\n\nAddendum.2 - Incident-5644: On 07-13-20\u2588\u2588 Lake Kyoga's waterline significantly diminished, extending the shoreline by nearly a kilometer. This caused significant flooding across much of the Nile River and its tributaries. Determining SCP-5644 to be the cause, MTF Lambda-9 \"Osiris's Hand\" and MTF Epsilon-6 \"Village Idiots\" were deployed to all affected areas. Disguised as UN Peacekeepers and members of the Red Cross, both task forces evacuated civilians in the area.\nMTF Lambda-9 scanned the area of Lake Kyoga in search of SCP-5644. On 07-15-20\u2588\u2588 a small team accompanied by Senior Researcher Hanesworth located SCP-5644 on a shoreline near Bukungu. The following was recorded on L9 Alpha-1's helmet-mounted camera.\n\n\u25b7 Encounter 5644-20\u2588\u2588-3\n\n\u25bd Encounter 5644-20\u2588\u2588-3\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Sounds of the audio capture being turned on can be heard. Image capture shows SCP-5644 laying on a riverbank, showing moderate injuries, resting. Senior researcher Hanesworth can be seen running towards SCP-5644.)\nL9 Alpha-1: Hanesworth calm yourself! It could be hostile!\nHanesworth: Can it! It could be worse than it looks!\nAlpha-1: Sir, even if that were the case, we need to report this to command.\nHanesworth: Even so, he needs treatment now!\n(L9 Alpha-1 looks around to his other squad members. After some hesitation, he points towards Alpha-3 and Alpha-5)\nL9 Alpha01: Three, call in for medical! Five come with me to help this thing!\n(Alpha-1 and Alpha-5 run towards Hanesworth and SCP-5644, and begin to apply medical aid. Hanesworth can be seen near SCP-5644's head comforting it.)\nHanesworth: It'll be alright, you'll be given good care.Hanesworth: They couldn't even if they wanted. It's way less of a risk for them to let you be.\n(there is silence for next few seconds as Alpha-1 and 5 continue medical aid.)\nHanesworth: What happened here\u2026?Hanesworth: Whoever it was, we could have helped you.Hanesworth: This is exactly what I was worried about! What if you need to be in two places at once? You've already admitted that times are changing. Just say the word\u2026\n(SCP-5644 bellows, startling Alpha-1 and 5.)(Alpha-1 then looks over SCP-5644's back, and notices the waterline beginning to slowly rise and turns towards Hanesworth.)\nAlpha-1: Sir, we need to leave. By the time medical comes, we'll be underwater.\nHanesworth: He needs treatment!(Alpha-1 and 5 finish their medical treatment and begin to pull away Hanesworth as the water approaches their feet. Hanesworth initially resists but is eventually coerced by Alpha-5. Alpha-1 orders the team to return to the vehicle. Alpha-1 turns back as they approach the vehicle and watch the water rise above SCP-5644 and quicken its rise. Alpha-1 enters the vehicle and it drives away from the waterline. The audio and visual feed is cut off moments later by Alpha-1.)\n<End Log>\n\nReport on Incident-5644:\n\n\u25b7 Report\n\n\u25bd Report\n\nFrom our intelligence, Incident-5644 began as an unknown entity, described as having the head of a crocodile and the body of a lion and hippopotamus5, attempted to alter the entire Laky Kyoga area. SCP-5644 noticed this change due to its anomalous properties and headed towards the area. The subsequent drainage of Lake Kyoga was seemingly an attempt by SCP-5644 to stall and subvert the entity's progress. The flooding of other areas is seen as a side effect of this action. Eyewitness reports indicate that SCP-5644 and the unknown entity had been locked in combat for a few hours before Foundation personnel arrived. By the time Foundation forces arrived and secured the area, the unknown entity was not seen nor encountered.\nClass-A and Class-B amnestics were administered to the local population, and news outlets were led to believe the drainage and flooding were natural events. The actions of Senior Researcher Hanesworth and L9 Alpha were under review by the ethics committee. Yesterday they announced their actions of giving medical aid to an anomalous entity were justified, given the circumstances. Currently, SCP-5644 movements have returned to normal but a second Site may be needed in order to cover the vast range of SCP-5644's influence.\nIn conclusion, if it were not for SCP-5644's actions the Foundation would have been faced with a Broken Veil scenario. Given its apparent nature, as well as the interaction with one of our senior staff, SCP-5644 appears to be benevolent and nonhostile. So long as no harm is done to Senior Researcher Hanesworth and contact between the two stays steady, we should not have to fear SCP-5644 turning hostile to the Foundation.\n- Site-95 Director William Orville\n\nAddendum.3 - Hanesworth's Journal: The following addendum contains an entry from Hanesworth's journal that document's a previously unknown encounter he had with SCP-5644. The entry is believed to be written prior to Incident-5644.\n\n\u25b7 Journal Entry\n\n\u25bd Journal Entry\n\nJournal Entry #52\nToday I met with Sobek. It had been a while since I had seen him. We hadn't had a chance to see each other as often as we used to since the O5 stuck their noses in. It was the middle of the night when I found Sobek again. It's not that hard to spot him, but damn does he look intimidating. When I approached he turned his head toward me, and at first, he didn't recognize me. Once I made him aware of my identity he seemed to relax a little and gestured me to move closer. After I sat near him, it was silent for a while. I finally broke it when I asked him 'what was it like being treated like a god?' A silly question for sure, but my curiosity had piqued its interest.\nHe simply laughed and said that he never experienced it personally. His actions throughout the river were what caused him to be worshipped, not so much because he sought it. I then asked him 'then why do you call yourself Sobek?' He stated that it was the name they gave him, and he never had a name to address himself as before. Sobek said that since so many people were praying to him, the least he could do was accept the name. I wondered if the other Egyptian gods were real, to which he responded that he wasn't sure. He acknowledged the possibility of them existing, but he stated that he never met them.\nFor a while, we just stared at the moon. We talked about many things. We talked about politics, history, biology, and even sports. We enlightened each other on so many things. After witnessing Sobek's wiseness and intelligence, a part of me began to think he really was a god. Then he told me of his concerns. With the world evolving, the number of threats was increasing. If there were two crises at once, he would have to leave one to suffer for longer than the other. I told him that the Foundation could help. We have plenty of assets not being used right now. He thanked me for my generosity but said that the river was his responsibility alone.\nI said that if he kept thinking like that, he would get lonely. Sobek stated that he already felt alone. After he met humanity, after guiding us out of Africa, he felt like he could change. But after that boy died he realized that he would outlive everyone he made friends with. His own kind feared him, even those that prayed to him every day held a degree of fear. Instead, he said, he would protect the region and guarantee the lives of future generations. I then asked him if we were friends. He laid there silently before answering we could be, but only if I recognized that we couldn't be for long. I said that didn't matter, and that if anything I wanted to be friends.\nI've never seen an SCP, let alone a giant crocodile, cry before. I didn't know how to hug something that big, but I think I did a pretty good job. We sat there for a while longer before he suddenly turned his head downriver and began to hiss. I asked what was wrong, and he said something is troubling the source. Before he left he said his goodbyes and said we would meet soon. As he disappeared beneath the surface of the water I began to worry that we wouldn't reunite, and if we did, it wouldn't be a happy reunion.\n\nFootnotes\n1. As a result of the Sudanese Revolution, this is currently being done with the Transitional Military Council.\n2. The most probable outcome will be that the Nile River, as well as its drainage basin, will undergo a desertification process.\n3. Nile Crocodile.\n4. African buffalo.\n5. This description is similar to that of Ammit, an Ancient Egyptian demoness and goddess\n\n\u00ab SCP-5643 | SCP-5644 | SCP-5645 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5645 The End of Nothing Special\n\nMore from this author: http://www.scp-wiki.net/poi-3181-198-file\n\n\n2/5645 LEVEL 2/5645\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5645\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5645 is stored in a standard cryogenic storage unit in Site-345. No tests are currently scheduled for it. Nils Wendler is to stay under surveillance and any possible anomalous events surrounding him are to be documented in this article.\nDescription: SCP-5645 is a corpse of a child that is a biological clone of Nils Wendler, a 35-year-old unmarried office worker from Cologne, Germany. SCP-5645 is genetically identical to Wendler, as well as sharing several phenotypical traits such as a large birthmark on its right-hand wrist. While SCP-5645 anatomically resembles an 8-year-old male, it has been chemically dated to the year 1992, thus apparently having not chemically aged for 27 years.\nDiscovery: SCP-5645 was found on the 24th of February, 2019 in the garbage disposal bin behind the apartment complex in which Nils Wendler resides. When local investigators conducted an autopsy on it, its chronological discrepancy was discovered, upon which the Foundation became alert to it. In the following investigation, nearby residents were interviewed for possible sightings of the body being placed in its place of discovery. During these, the visual resemblance to Nils Wendler was noticed and subsequent tests led to the SCP-Object designation. Wendler appears to be oblivious to the origin of SCP-5645. When confronted with it seemingly being his own corpse at a different age he initially appeared shocked, though he regained his composure quickly and expressed a desire to be left alone.\nWendler was provisionally taken into custody and encouraged to give out any information that might be relevant to SCP-5645's appearance. Even after repeated interviews, Wendler refused to say anything about SCP-5645 and his unusual reaction upon its discovery. Upon being told of soon being amnestised and released back into his home, he only made one comment:\n\nLook, that thing out there? I lost it a long time ago, so it's no real surprise to see it turn up dead. But this is a personal issue. And honestly, at this point, it would be a great relief if you guys could make me forget about it having been me.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5644 | SCP-5645 | SCP-5646 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The appearance of a Researcher Halliburton was determined to be unrelated to his disappearance.\n\nNOTICE TO FOUNDATION STAFF:\nSCP-5646 represents a Class VI Narrativistic Multiplex currently undergoing severe decoherence.\nIn order to combat unwanted alterations, only essential information will be provided, which should not be assumed as the truth, regardless of relevance to consensus reality.\nPASSAGE INTO SCP-5646 IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED\n\n\u00ab SCP-5645 | SCP-5646 | SCP-5647 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Status update\n\nContainment breach ongoing since 23/06/34.\nEscaped anomalies: 2635\nCurrent death toll estimate: 4,837,562,132\n\nDeploy all remaining Foundation personnel to retake Site-19\n\nERROR: No combat-ready personnel are available at this time.\n\nCheck current Foundation capabilities\n\nCurrent remaining unengaged combative personnel: 0\nCurrent remaining Foundation outposts: 3\n\nCheck status of MTF Alpha-1\n\nMTF Alpha-1 are all MIA and presumed dead following Operation \"God Rebroken\".\n\nCheck status of the O5 Council\n\nO5-1 - Missing\nO5-2 - Dead\nO5-3 - Missing\nO5-4 - Missing\nO5-5 - Missing\nO5-6 - Active\nO5-7 - Dead\nO5-8 - Dead\nO5-9 - Missing\nO5-10 - Dead\nO5-11 - Dead\nO5-12 - Dead\nO5-13 - Dead\n\nBegin Procedure 5647-\u03a9\n\nDoes the black moon howl?\n\nThe black moon remembers\n\nWhat does the black moon remember?\n\nNothing of this hell\n\nBeginning Procedure 5647-\u03a9\n\n\u00ab SCP-5646 | SCP-5647 | SCP-5648 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5648 -\n\nALWAYS WITH TEETH!\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5648\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nA room altered by SCP-5648 at the 2013 Annual Foundation Leadership Summit\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nArea-179\nR. Joseph Barrow\nJ. Thomas Dune\nZeta-10 \"Molar Rats\"\n\nSCP-5648\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5648 is uncontained and remains a present threat to Foundation security until feasible containment is achievable.\nIn an attempt to combat SCP-5648's cerebral effects, all personnel are to undergo prolonged exposure to a Foundation-made cognitohazard intended to distill information on security, discerning fraudulent information, and clarifying the Foundation's hierarchy. The success of this effort remains pending.\nPersonnel are to forward all personally addressed documentation relating to dental health to SCP-5648's research team for review. No efforts should be made to acknowledge the requests in this documentation without approval.\nCompensation towards personnel affected by SCP-5648 will be distributed at the discretion of the Foundation Human Resources department.\nDescription: SCP-5648 is a humanoid entity resembling a bespectacled, elderly white male.\nSCP-5648's skin is remarkably dry, causing it to peel and produce a significant amount of flakes upon movement or physical contact with others. SCP-5648 is capable of speech, visual, and auditory perception, though the degree of sophistication in which SCP-5648 performs these functions and perceives the world remains unclear.\nSCP-5648 is capable of an indiscernible level of reality restructuring, and has been observed to alter locations extradimensionally, manifest objects, change its physiology, and appear in locations at-will. SCP-5648 targets a single Foundation personnel at a time, exclusively appearing in locations of significance to their victim.1\nWhen manifested, SCP-5648's main anomalous effect concerns those it is not targeting, causing them to believe that SCP-5648 is a legitimate member of the Foundation who uses the surname 'Rockefeller'. SCP-5648's title and supposed position within the Foundation is dependent on context2 , but is not questioned by those under the entity's influence. In actuality, SCP-5648's attempts at deception are poor in construction and often recognized as such by its victim.\nSCP-5648 will then attempt, through a variety of means3, to coerce its target into allowing the entity to examine their oral cavity, citing that its apparent authority requires personnel to comply with its demands. SCP-5648 has also been observed to forgo attempts at formalities entirely and forcibly examine the mouths of targeted personnel. If successful, SCP-5648 will indiscriminately remove a tooth from the target's mouth, and promptly demanifest itself. SCP-5648 will repeat this process with another Foundation personnel shortly after. The motivation behind SCP-5648's pattern of behavior is unknown.\nAddendum.5648.1: Discovery\nOn 2012/05/12, Foundation Agent Matsumura received the following document in a batch of mail addressed to his house. Believing it to be suspicious, Matsumura submitted the letter for review at Area-179. A transcription can be found below.\n\nOFFICIAL REQUEST FROM HIGH FIVE COUNCIL\n\nYOUR WORK IN THE ANOMALY HAS BEEN HARD YESTERDAY, SO WHY NOT ORAL?\nYOU ARE GIVEN FREE ORAL EXAMINATION REQUIRED BY GOD. DENTAL HEALTHCARE PACKAGE.\nDOCTOR ROCKEFELLER (ALWAYS WITH TEETH) WILL SEE YOU IN WING A-21 TO CHECK YOU OUT. WOAH, THIS AIN'T YOUR GRANDPA, BUT IT'S CLOSE ENOUGH.\nYOU'RE THE BEST BOY!\n\u2014- DOCTOR ROCKEFELLER (ALWAYS WITH TEETH)\n\nAccompanying this was a supplementary series of letters that successively listed Agent Matsumura's social security number, credit card information, online usernames and passwords4, and an extensive, 15 page log of Matsumura's internet history. This was also signed by SCP-5648, and has been omitted from this file for security purposes.\nShortly after, Agent Matsumura was scheduled to meet with a representative from Area-179's Human Resources department. An audiovisual transcript can be found below.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nExtraneous dialogue has been removed.\nAgent Matsumura: I'm worried, and I think I have the right to be. I mean, my credit card, where I work, every\u2026 website I've visited on the internet. God, I just don't know who would do something like this\u2014\nMrs. Chobik: Hey, hey, we know. It's okay to be frightened. A request from such high up can be alarming for personnel who aren't used to that sort of thing.\nAgent Matsumura: Fucking what?\nMrs. Chobik: The good news is that we reviewed the documents, and there's nothing out of the ordinary about them. While Dr. Rockefeller can be a bit\u2026 forward with his requests, he is an established member our organization and a champion of humanitarian causes. Just last year he\u2014\nAgent Matsumura: Excuse me, just\u2014 he knows my fucking FurAffinity log-in. Do you know what that is?\nMrs. Chobik: The unfortunate reality of your situation is that it's been determined by administration that you need dental care. There's no two ways about it when it's coming from a place as high up as Dr. Rockefeller! (Laughs) I'm sure he'd apologize for scaring you if you talked about it.\nAgent Matsumura: I can't believe this. Mandatory dental care! No one has ever gotten their teeth checked out on the Foundation's dime unless there was a oralhazard or some bullshit they could get data from. Is that what this is? If I need testing, you can just say so. I've been in the shit, I've been tested before, and every time I've been tested, they've at least been transparent about it.\nMrs. Chobik: Well, we can push the issue to a higher channel if you really want, but things aren't looking good for\u2014\nThe phone on Chobik's desk rings. She picks it up, and answers.\nMrs. Chobik: Yeah, I'm with him now. (Pause) Sure, whenever you can.\nAgent Matsumura: Who is that? Who the hell is that?\nSCP-5648, dressed in appropriate work attire for a Foundation researcher, hurriedly emerges from the office closet, panting heavily. As the entity moves, flakes of dead skin fall from its body.Agent Matsumura, startled, nearly falls off of the chair.\nMrs. Chobik: Oh, doc, you're here. I believe Agent Matsumura has a scheduled appointment with you?\nAgent Matsumura: O\u2014Oh my god.Agent Matsumura: Who the fuck are you?SCP-5648 moves towards Matsumura, covering as much distance as possible with each step. Matsumura gets out of his seat and backs himself into the corner as the entity leans over him.Agent Matsumura dives between SCP-5648's legs, attempting to escape. Matsumura then runs out of the office. SCP-5648 bends over, and unsuccessfully performs a flip. Landing on the ground, SCP-5648 uses both its hands and legs for mobility, and scurries from the room.\n[END LOG]\n\nFollowing this, Agent Matsumura fled Area-179 and promptly drove to his residence. After securing the home, Matsumura observed outside of his second floor window for 8 hours before retiring. The following log is transcribed from surveillance footage, captured shortly after Matsumura had cooked himself a meal.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nMatsumura walks from his kitchen to his bathroom. He is clearly distressed, and hesitates as he opens the door. Turning the lights on, he proceeds to the sink, where he applies toothpaste to a brush. Several seconds pass as Matsumura brushes his teeth.\nThe shower door slams open, shattering it in the process. SCP-5648 stands in the shower. Curiously, the entity is dripping wet, despite being fully clothed.Matsumura screams and throws a small mirror at SCP-5648. It smashes against SCP-5648's face, but does not cause noticeable damage to the entity. A large amount of dead skin flakes fall from its body.\nSCP-5648 looks at the surveillance camera positioned in the bathroom.Agent Matsumura: Please, please just stop. What do you even want? To look at my teeth? Like this? (Opens mouth) Aaauuuugh!\nSCP-5648 runs over to Matsumura. It begins to vibrate intensely upon inspecting his mouth.The surrounding area suddenly changes to a room with yellow walls. Matsumura finds himself strapped to a chair, vocalizing distressed cries. SCP-5648 is now dressed in an outfit resembling that of a stereotypical dentist.\nAgent Matsumura: Please! Please just get this over with!\nSCP-5648 brandishes a comically large screwdriver.Matsumura screams. As SCP-5648 approaches, more flakes fall from its body, some into Matsumura's mouth as the entity hovers over his face. He gags.Matsumura headbutts SCP-5648, causing the entity to howl in pain and stumble backwards in an exaggerated manner. SCP-5648 falls over, and the surrounding environment takes its previous shape, that being Matsumura's bathroom. Now free from his restraints, Matsumura runs out of the bathroom, accidentally stepping on glass left from the shattered door and mirror. He flees from the house, screaming.\n[END LOG]\n\nMatsumura continued to drive aimlessly in his car for four hours before getting a phone call from Area-179's security director. She informed Matsumura that they had seen the footage from earlier, and were investigating SCP-5648. Presumably, the entity had demanifested itself shortly after Matsumura fled his house, causing its memetic field to fall, and for Foundation personnel to recognize the entity's anomalous significance.\nMatsumura drove to Area-179 and was promptly quarantined in a room surrounded by a security detail. After relaying his account of the day's events and viewing footage from earlier, documentation of SCP-5648 was written.\nMatsumura's quarantine lasted a full week. In that time, several other accounts of SCP-5648 targeting Foundation personnel emerged, allowing for a more holistic view of the anomaly's effects and behavioral patterns, which were noticeably similar to Matsumura's experiences.\nOn 2012/07/02, Matsumura testified before the Overseer Council regarding his field work on SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's continuing advance. A transcript can be found below.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nAgent Matsumura: Unfortunately, our options are slim. I've consulted with the Analytics department and they produced the numbers. This could be the catalyst to a full-scale lifting of the Veil.\nO5-09: Fascinating. Begin the presentation.\nAgent Matsumura: As you wish, sir. The gear's outside, I can\u2014\nO5-09: That won't be necessary. The guard will bring it in.\nA helmeted Foundation security officer enters the room, wheeling in a large projector and a laptop.\nAgent Matsumura: I'll just need a minute to set up.\nThe guard leaves, and Matsumura inserts a drive into the laptop. A slideshow presentation appears on the large screen behind him, detailing numerous charts and graphs.\nAgent Matsumura: As I was saying, the numbers indicate that we're going to sacrifice at least twelve times as more\u2014\nThe projector shorts out.\nAgent Matsumura: Oh, my apologies, sir.\nThe projector vibrates intensely before SCP-5648 launches itself out of its lens, manipulating its shape to full size.O5-09: Administrator Rockefeller?\nAgent Matsumura: No!\nThe presiding members of the O5 council stand at attention, recognizing SCP-5648's apparent authority.\nO5-02: Is there anything we can assist you with, sir?\nO5-04: It's not like you to come barging in like that.\nSCP-5648 forcibly pulls Matsumura's jaw open. Matsumura attempts to resist, but is powerless within SCP-5648's grip.SCP-5648 rips the top third incisor from Matsumura's mouth using its fingers. The entity places it within its own mouth, and nods rapidly. Matsumura screams as he falls to the ground, spitting blood from his mouth. SCP-5648 demanifests, disappearing from the room.\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. This includes Secure Facilities, domestic life, and field locations where the victim is assigned.\n2. SCP-5648 has identified itself as: Doctor, Senior Researcher, Overseer, and 'Grinch'\n3. Including forgery, blackmail, and usage of Foundation systems and practices\n4. Including SCiPnet credentials\n\n\u00ab SCP-5647 | SCP-5648 | SCP-5649 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5649\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nkhonsu\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$edisruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nRisk Class:\n{$erisk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nPhoto of SCP-5649, taken by a Foundation image-capture probe on 10/22/15.\n\nItem-#: SCP-5649\nObject Class: Khonsu1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation web-crawlers are to monitor the internet for mention(s) of an object matching the description of SCP-5649. Any evidence of SCP-5649's existence is to be erased, and amnestics given to astronomers attempting to research it.\nDescription: SCP-5649 is a comet that appears in the solar system in approximately the same orbital path as Jupiter. SCP-5649 maintains a stable orbit around Jupiter, outside of demanifestation events.2 Recent scans by Foundation probes have shown that SCP-5649 is in fact a single object and that its mass does not reset with each reappearance. This means that SCP-5649 will melt completely sometime during its 2020-2023 rotation. During each reset, SCP-5649 will spontaneously vanish from its current position, and reappear opposite from Jupiter. The exact age of SCP-5649 is unknown, but chemical analysis of the recovered sample shows that it is at least 14,000 years old. Scans have also shown that SCP-5649 emits hyper-strands of Alpha radiation that reach 885139200 Kilometers long on average. As SCP-5649 gets older, the rate at which these are emitted increases exponentially.3 It is theorized that upon fully melting, SCP-5649 will let out a massive amount of these hyper-strands. If even one impacts earth, an area of at least 22.5km2will see a surge in radiation-related diseases comparable to a nuclear bombing unless safety measures are taken quickly.\n\n+ Show Sample 5649-F-001\n\n- Close\n\nPicture of sample 5649-F-001 taken by Project Head David Sanderson.\n\nAcquisition Report For Sample 5649-F-001: On 8/06/2017, a Foundation probe successfully broke off a piece of SCP-5649's outer shell. After collecting the sample, it was transferred to an automated materials shuttle and delivered to Lunar-Area-32.\nTransfer A32tS64\u20145649-F-001: Sample 5649-F-001 transferred from Area-32 to Site-64 as of 8/20/2017.\nSample Description, Written by Project Head David Sanderson: Most of the sample is made of methane ice and a unique bismuth based-based compound, as previously shown by inspection of images from camera probes. On the outside face of the ice, there appears to be a layer of moss.4 Despite having minuscule exposure to sunlight and water, the moss was in perfect condition upon inspection. Several testing requests were made to learn more about the moss' durability but none were approved due to the small amount available. The sample is to be kept in radiological storage unit 44AB.\nSupplementary Incident Report 492847s83dS93m: On 5/\u2588\u2588/2019, a heated argument between two junior researchers broke out, leading to full-on physical assault. The attacker (Jr Res Melinda Hauny) claimed that she had no intention of harming the victim, yet an Emerson-Smith pocket knife was found on her person when apprehended. Doctor Hauny has been temporarily relieved of employment and placed in psychological treatment facility H9.\n\n+ Show Report SCP-5649-N\n\n- Close Document\n\nAddendum 5649-12: As of 0:00 GST on 1/1/2020, SCP-5649 has begun what will be its final orbit period. As of this addendum's writing, our predictions estimate the date of the anomaly's neutralization to be 3/18/21.\nCountdown-Addendum 5649-1: Date: 1/20/20. The mass of SCP-5649 has reached half of what it was exactly one year ago. Continuing to monitor.\n\nSCP-5649, 2 days before disappearance.\n\nCountdown-Addendum 5649-9: Date is 7/7/20. The mass of SCP-5649 is now half of what it was at the beginning of this year. Continuing to monitor. Request for a manned mission to study SCP-5649 was denied by Paraastrology director L. Woomywood.\nCountdown-Addendum 5649-12: Date is 11/1/20. The size of SCP-5649 is one-millionth that of Pluto's. The new estimate is 2/2/2021. Request for a manned mission once again denied by Director Woomywood.\nAutomated Neutralization Order 5649a342es: Date and Time: 16:56 GST, 2/2/21. Neutralization Report filed for SCP-5649 by Project Head David Sanderson at 13:25 the same day. Report received and filed as ordered by Research Administrator Vincent Jenson. Radiation death-burst detected from object's last location. Stand by for further instructions.\nIncident 5649-ARiM: At 13:55 GST on 2/2/21, one of the last hyper-strands from SCP-5649's radioactive death-burst impacted somewhere in the town of Spencer, Iowa. Within 3 hours, 70% of the town's residents were displaying symptoms of acute radiation disorder. Over the following month, over 4,000 deaths were reported among them, with long-term effects guaranteed for at least the next 50 years. A lifted-veil situation was avoided by a joint effort between the United States Department of Homeland Security and MTF-Chi-2 \"Becquerel's Bullies\" to disregard the spontaneous radiation as a Broken Arrow Incident gone wrong.5\nNote: This anomaly was neutralized on 13:21 GST, 2/2/21. Despite our best efforts, Foundation resources were not able to launch a single successful mission to conduct in-person research on the anomaly. Personnel with a clearance level of 3, stand by for further analysis. Level four personnel contact RAISA for further information.\n\n+ Enter Level 4+ Credentials\n\n- Credentials Accepted\n\nNote from Paraastronomy Director Layla Woomywood's Journal: Oh another thing about 5649. My working theory is that the already radioactive bismuth had been amplified by trace amounts of countless elements. The moss may have been a microflora that adapted over thousands of years into what it is now: perfectly suited to the conditions it faced. What I can't figure out is how it (the microflora) got there in the first place. I'm counting the reset-loop as a lost cause. We missed our chance at figuring out what's causing it, and the moss isn't talking. If only radiation worked as it does in movies\u2026 Dr. Sanderson seems to be upset about the whole situation and has taken to blaming me for our lack of direct research. He doesn't seem to get that a manned research mission would take lots of time and money. The two things our department doesn't have enough of.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The item is expected to be neutralized shortly by uncontrollable circumstances, making research a high priority.\n2. Wherein SCP-5649 will vanish and reappear on the opposite side of Jupiter \u2014 along an identical orbital path \u2014 at 1200 GST on the first of January. The speed of orbit is theorized to be twice that of Jupiter's.\n3. f(t)=10,000,000(5.0)t, where t represents days since discovery.\n4. Non-Bryophyta, Specific species non-native to Earth.\n5. Mobile Task Force Chi-2 is dispatched when civilian areas have been affected by extreme radiological hazards. Where MTF-Beta-7 Is mainly military operations, Chi-2 deals strictly with cleanup and public health.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5648 | SCP-5649 | SCP-5650 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5651\nObject Class: Sk\u00f6ll1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Undercover personnel within various national and international space programs are to plant the file Binary_Star.aic in both the hardware of the control centers and components of all launched projects. Interstellar Foundation projects are forbidden to enter the Omicron-5651 sector.\nFoundation AI Binary Star will intercept and save all data about SCP-5651 in the Foundation database and summarily delete it from non-Foundation records.\nSCP-5651-1 is currently contained within SCP-5651. Foundation staff are to be alerted when changes in the shape of SCP-5651 or the behavior of SCP-5651-1 are observed.\n\nSCP-5651\n\nDescription: SCP-5651 is a bronze-coloured planet with a partially ruptured crust, orbiting the only star within its vicinity. There are no other celestial bodies, nebula, or spatial phenomena near SCP-5651 in a radius of circa 30,7 megaparsec.2 This supervoid3, centered around SCP-5651 has been designated Omicron-5651 in official records.\nSCP-5651 currently serves as what is assumed to be a prison for SCP-5651-1. How SCP-5651-1 was originally contained is yet unknown, as is the identity of the responsible party. It has been hypothesized that SCP-5651 was displaced from its original orbit for this explicit purpose.\nSCP-5651-1 is an entity of unknown origin that is partially melted into the core of SCP-5651 and remains visible through the fissures throughout the crust. It has displayed the capability to manipulate gravitational forces and to survive under extreme conditions.4 The crust of SCP-5651 can be seen moving due to the gravitational forces it is subjected to when SCP-5651-1 actively tries to leave its current condition.\nAs a result of the high temperature in the core, SCP-5651-1 glows orange to bright yellow depending on its movements. Analyses of its silhouette, combined with magnified images, have shown that SCP-5651-1 has the form of a severely underweight humanoid with six limbs; two legs and four arms. SCP-5651-1 possesses four eye sockets that emanate bright, white light that can be seen as it attempts to move. Its dorsal openly shows its vertebrae where an unidentified crystal ore grows out of. Obtaining a crystal could aid in determining the age of both the anomaly and the entity from its length, composition, and trapped ashes and sedimentary rocks.\n\nAn asteroid and debris moving towards Omicron-5651 after a chain collision.\n\nDiscovery: On 25 February 1955, the Foundation launched probes from the Beholder line into space to detect and study extraterrestrial anomalies. On 3 February 1984, Beholder-11 observed a sector with a lack of spatial objects where theoretically a new supercluster should have begun.5 The probe's course was altered to observe this phenomenon more closely.\nOn 7 May 2017, Beholder-11 arrived at the border of Omicron-5651, indicated by asteroids outside the border slowly floating towards SCP-5651. After scanning the surroundings, SCP-5651 was discovered. For three days, asteroids that collided and entered Omicron-5651 were observed to be attracted to the fissured side of SCP-5651. The concealed silhouette of an entity, later designated SCP-5651-1, was observed beneath the crust. Further observation discovered scratches and other damage inflicted on the inner rock layer.\nAddendum-1: On May 11th 2017, Beholder-11 entered the Omicron-5651 sector after a chain collision displaced the asteroid it was stationed on. After this, SCP-5651-1 was observed partially emerging from within SCP-5651. Logs of the event are below.\n\nForeword: Dr. Martha Stills and Dr. Caroline Steynburg were the assigned researchers to the Beholder-11 probe. Dr. Steynburg attended a meeting with Site Director Mathias Reimagg.\n\n<Begin Log>\nA siren is ringing for 2 minutes.\nDr. Steynburg: So, mind filling me in on the annoying ringing? I already got a headache from Reimagg and this is splitting my head in two.\nDr. Stills: Looks like someone needs a nicotine kick. Anyway, I'm doing a system check. Probably some stupid debris that floated into some scanner again.\nDr. Steynburg: Well, the siren still hasn't stopped. Any damages on the probe?\nDr. Stills: Everything is operational and the battery is on 78%. We are floating but the landing gear is not yet retracted.\nDr. Steynburg: How are we floating? We were perfectly stationed on an asteroid.\nDr. Stills: Another one of those stupid chain collisions. These bloody stones were back at it again. I opted for a scan and getting back to the nearest asteroid to land.\nDebris can be seen on the monitor via an awkward angle. Dr. Steynburg sits down.\nDr. Steynburg: Ok, we are rotating a bit. Can you give me our coordinates?\nDr. Stills: Let me check, they are- Uh, wait, I think I found the problem.\nDr. Steynburg: Get this thing flipped off already then!\nDr. Stills manages to mute the siren after entering several commands in the control system. Red light keeps flickering in the control room.\nDr. Stills: Sigh. At least the noise is gone now.\nDr. Steynburg: What was the problem?\nDr. Stills: We- Uh\u2026 We are in Omicron-5651.\nDr. Steynburg: Sigh. Damn, this is going to be so much paperwork. Hey, watch out!\nSeveral asteroids headed towards SCP-5651 nearly miss the Beholder-11 probe.\nDr. Stills: We are also attracted to the planet. I'm going to maneuver the probe so we can get a visual on the anomaly.\nDr. Steynburg: I'm going to retract the landing gear then. We also definitely need to make some more scans on this. Perhaps SCP-5651-1 repositioned itself again.\nDr. Stills: Yeah, it seems to have moved but I'm not seeing some parts of its silhou-\nA heavy rupturing sound can be heard followed by heavy breathing.\nDr. Steynburg: What was that?\nDr. Stills: I don't kn-\nAn arm from SCP-5651-1 reaches through some fissures, making the crust of SCP-5651 rupture even further. Magma falls back upon the surface and creates black clouds. More asteroids are attracted.\nDr. Steynburg: Holy shit, that is just an arm? It's longer than the diameter of the planet.\nDr. Stills: Wait, that thing is being compressed to this extent? How big would that make its real size?\nDr. Steynburg zooms in on charred black skin with tendons and bones visible on some parts.\nDr. Stills: I don't even know which degree of burn wound that is. Can you focus on its hand? I couldn't make out if it is a claw or not.\nDr. Steynburg: Aside from obvious deformity, that looks clawlike to me, but that definitely isn't keratine-based. Probably made from the same crystal that grows on its spine.\nSCP-5651-1 opens its palm. Beholder-11 loses connection a few times due to extreme gravitational force on its systems.\nDr. Steynburg: Hey, any chance the scanners know what's up?\nDr. Stills: Our velocity- No, our acceleration just keeps exponentially increasing. It's effectively hauling us in.\nDr. Steynburg: Seems like we finally found out why Omicron-5651 is empty and a reason to lock this thing up. It makes me wonder even more about what would happen should it break free.\nDr. Stills: Hmm. It makes me more curious about what it originally looked like and what was able to contain this thing in the first place.\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: Beholder-11 has been deemed unrecoverable and now focuses on getting as many visuals and data on SCP-5651-1 as possible.\nThe area SCP-5651-1 can affect keeps extending as the crust of SCP-5651 falls apart. Research into the origins of SCP-5651-1 and its containments is ongoing. Changes in gravitational force on celestial bodies must be observed with the utmost attention.\n\nYou have one (1) new message.\n\nClose Message.\n\nNOTICE TO ALL PERSONNEL\nA new fissure has been formed on the surface of SCP-5651.\nDue to an unexpected increase in gravitational force, the Milky Way Galaxy has begun to drift towards Omicron-5651.\nPlease report to your respective station.\n\u2014 Site Director Mathias Reimagg\n\nFootnotes\n1. Anomaly is in a continuous state of unpreventable destruction, decay, escape, or another process that will result in either neutralization, indefinite breach, or both.\n2. Circa 100,000,000 light-years. Half the length of an average supercluster.\n3. Commonly known as a \"cold region\" because of the absence of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) in measurements.\n4. Most notably temperatures ranging from 6000 to 7000 \u00b0C, and pressure between 4.2 and 4.5 million atm depending on its movement.\n5. This was later designated as the Omicron-5651 sector.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5650 | SCP-5651 | SCP-5652 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n2/5653 LEVEL 2/5653\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5653\n\nKeter\n\nDrone still.\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: A squad of Vatican Relic Recovery Office Guardsmen are stationed as a permanent guard around all entrances to the Vatican Necropolis & Undercrypts with orders to shoot to kill. A fireteam from MTF Zeta-9 \"Mole Rats\" are available on-call for emergency expeditions into the ruins.\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5653 is a hostile semi-humanoid entity contained in the Vatican Undercrypts, located beneath the Vatican Necropolis. SCP-5653 resembles a highly deformed male human of Italian descent fused with a female of Middle-Eastern descent. Little concrete biological information is known about the entity, due to the difficulty in acquiring samples, but it is believed to have some sort of relationship with the late Cardinal Greco and the Holy See itself.\n\nAddendum 5653.1\nINTERVIEWS\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERVIEWER: Agent Abramo Ricci\nSUBJECT: Cardinal Ettore Greco\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nGRECO: Hello, Agent.\nRICCI: Cardinal. How are you?\nGRECO: Worried, my child. And how are you?\nRICCI: Fine. Worried about?\nGRECO: What you've come here to discuss. Please, take a seat.\nRICCI: Right. What can we help you with?\nGRECO: We've always been ardent financial supporters of the Foundation, yes?\nRICCI: Please, Cardinal. Let's cut to the chase. What's wrong?\nGRECO: There is\u2026 something in the crypts.\nRICCI: What?\nGRECO: \u2026 Have you visited the Vatican before, my son?\nRICCI: Once, as a child. With my mother.\nGRECO: Did you visit the baldachin?\nRICCI: Of course.\nGRECO: Then I regret to be the one to inform you that it is a monument to a grave that no longer exists.\nRICCI: \u2026 I don't understand. St. Peter's tomb? What happened to it?\nGRECO: The Holy See has endeavored to make sure that the public at large is unaware of certain facts. Not unlike how your Foundation maintains the Veil.\nRICCI: Okay.\nGRECO: The Basilica sits on top of a complex network of catacombs and tunnels that date back to the 3rd century AD. Most people are aware of the Vatican Necropolis \u2014 but very few know how large, complex, and far-reaching the tunnels are. Even fewer are aware of the fact that they contain the remains of most Popes, as well as most historic figures of the Church. Including the Apostles.\nRICCI: That's impossible. You've confirmed that the remains of the apostles are in other churches.\nGRECO: Yes, we've confirmed. Bigger lies have been fed to the world, Agent.\nRICCI: \u2026 Point taken. Why, though? What do you gain from hiding this?\nGRECO: At first it was simply that it was safer to have them all in a central location, back when those who controlled the relics controlled the interpretation. Now\u2026 it would be a matter of admitting to centuries of falsehoods and deception. It would be catastrophic to the church.\nRICCI: Christ- sorry. Okay, why are you telling me this?\nGRECO: This is\u2026 a delicate matter, Agent. A sensitive matter.\nRICCI: If it's so sensitive, why aren't you handling it in-house? The Vatican Relic Recovery Office is a capable group, we've seen that firsthand.\nGRECO: We did, at first. We sent down two armed teams to assess any further damage and find who or what ever caused it.\nRICCI: What did they find?\nGRECO: They have not been heard from in thirty-four hours. These catacombs are centuries old, unmapped and unstable. Anything could have happened. We fear the worst.\nRICCI: Why not the Horizon Initiative, then? They hang on to your every command. A third of them anyway.\nGRECO: They would be far less willing to obey should they learn their cache of holy artifacts are neither holy nor artifacts.\nRICCI: \u2026 I see. And I suppose you would like for us to go in and succeed\u2026 since we can't tell anyone about the graves. But you still haven't told me what exactly we're dealing with here.\nGRECO: We\u2026 do not know. We know that this is a relatively recent development - we have keepers regularly clean and maintain the crypts, and they have not reported anything until recently.\nRICCI: Well, what did they report?\nGRECO: They discovered that\u2026 one of the sepulchers had been unsealed. The sarcophagus forced open. The remains\u2026 desecrated.\nRICCI: Desecrated how?\nGRECO: The bones had been damaged. Shattered and broken in parts. We believe that\u2026 they were bitten with great force.\nRICCI: Bitten? Whose bones?\nGRECO: Yes. The sepulcher was believed to contain\u2026 Saint Bartholomew.\nRICCI: \u2026 Oh Christ. Er, my apologies.\nGRECO: Now you see why this is such a sensitive matter. Are you able to assist us?\nRICCI: I'll have to talk to my superiors, Cardinal. But you'll have an answer soon.\nGRECO: Do not misunderstand me, Agent. His Holiness and the College are acutely aware that this is a mess of our own making. We come to you asking for your assistance and calling upon your experience and most importantly, upon your discretion. Go in peace.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5653.2\nEXPLORATION\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nPREFACE: A video-equipped armed drone deployed into the Vatican Necropolis.\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nDrone is in the entrance to the deeper necropolis, a cramped stone space covered in archaelogical equipment and floodlights. The walls are covered in reliefs and engravings, but have been highly damaged from exposure. The drone turns and moves into the main tunnel, where there are no floodlights. External lights activate, revealing a stone corridor with rib vaulted ceiling, built in a pseudo-Gothic style. Tunnel continues for several minutes before smaller doorways appear, set into the sides of the tunnel at staggered intervals. Drone manuevers through one such doorway, into a sepulcher.\nThe sepulcher is largely bare aside from stone, dirt, and dust. A stone sarcophagus is on a dais, with a series of candles arranged around it. No candles are lit. The foot of the dais is surrounded with small gold coins and items, likely relics. The lid of the sarcophagus has been damaged at various points and the upper half has simply been thrown to the floor to shatter. Drone camera zooms in. A number of split and cracked bones are visible inside. Cardinal Greco confirms that this is the tomb of Saint Philip.\nOperator notes several indents in the stone wall, set in arcing groups of three, similar to claw marks. Nothing else is noted, and the drone returns through the doorway, into the hallway. It moves into another of the doorways, but finds itself in an entirely different chamber. There is no doorway behind it when inspected. Operator confirms inconsistent topography.\nChamber is roughly hexagonal, 2m in height, and covered in loose debris. A vaulted ceiling leads to a small shaft, presumably for ventilation. Additional floodlights activate, bathing the chamber in light. A cluster of blankets and fabrics is spotted in the corner, and the drone moves in to investigate. A number of dirty blankets and linens are wrapped around to form a small nest. Infrared sensors indicate they are of slightly higher temperature than the surroundings, possibly indicating recent use. Small, snapped bones are littered around the edges of the nest.\nCamera zooms in. A small crucifix and a box of communion wafers sit on a flattened stone nearby. Several crumpled polaroid photographs are visible in the folds of the blankets. Most are too degraded and weathered for their contents to be discerned, but one depicts the Pope and an individual reminiscent of Cardinal Greco. He displays surprise at this.\nMics pick up a noise and the drone rapidly rotates while a nonlethal projectile weapon unfolds from its body. Another passageway, previously unnoticed or not present, is set in a wall. Mics confirm the noise originated from this hallway, but visibility is limited. The drone focuses its lights forward and slowly advances into the hallway. The walls of the hallways are rough and knobbled - closer inspection reveals they are made up of tightly stacked bones, sealed with a brown substance. The low ceiling is made of the same brown substance.\nA noise ahead of the drone causes it to activate all lights. A streak of dark liquid is splattered across the wall, the bones near it smashed and damaged. A rapid onboard chemical analysis of a sample confirms it to be dried human blood with a BAC1 of 0.6%, but not matching that of any of the missing team members. Continuing forward, a streak of blood on the floor extends for about 7 meters, culminating in the severed torso of a man dressed in black body armor. His arms are extended outward - it is deemed likely he died using his hands to drag himself away. He is flipped onto his back, and Cardinal Greco confirms his identity as Guardsman Vittori, an agent in the service of the Vatican Relic Recovery Office.\nHis armor is heavily damaged, and a large chunk has been taken out of his shoulder. Rigor and livor mortis have set in, but purge fluid has not been forced out of the nose and mouth, indicating he died only several hours ago. A blood sample is taken - this sample has a negligible BAC and matches the DNA sample of Guardsman Vittori on-file.\nThe passageway the drone came through has been replaced with a wall of tightly-packed bones and skulls, and the continuing path has grown increasingly narrow and stone-like. All lights are turned on, and the drone prepares to continue forward.\nA deformed shadow is seen from behind the drone and it spins rapidly, unfolding and firing a small rubber bullet cannon. Its overhead lights are smashed. Mics capture a loud roar, and structural damage signals begin to come in. 2 seconds later, telemetry stops being received, indicating the drone has been destroyed.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\nAFTERWORD: While the blood sample itself was lost, the analysis of the sample retrieved by the drone was run against the staff registry of the Vatican Relic Recovery Office and all databases of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City. A match was found against Paulo Cibin, a 26-year-old former altar server in the employ of the Holy See, who had disappeared several months prior.\nCardinal Greco could not give an adequate explanation as to the presence of a photo of him in the supposedly-abandoned Necropolis.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5653.3\nEXPLORATION II\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nMTF ZETA-9 \"MOLE RATS\" FIRETEAM ELEVEN\n\nZ9-ALPHA - G. ESPOSITO\nZ9-BETA - M. ROSSI\nZ9-GAMMA - C. CAPUTO\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nALPHA: Sound off. Alpha.\nBETA: Beta.\nGAMMA: Gamma. Clear.\nALPHA: Move in, arrow formation. Drop a marker. Safeties off.\n[Z9-GAMMA cracks a glow stick and attaches it to the wall. All members raise their weapons and proceed into the main tunnel with ALPHA at the front. At occasion, rumbling noises are heard from deeper in. ALPHA signals to maintain radio silence unless necessary.]\n[Fireteam arrives at tunnel with doorways into the sepulchers. Looking through without entering, they mark which sepulchers have been breached and which figure they are associated with - of 12 sepulchers, 8 have been tampered with to some degree, and one is entirely empty. Team continues down main hallway, arriving at another doorway. Through it, a shadow of a kneeling figure is visible against the wall. Upon registering the weapon-mounted flashlights, it hurriedly retreats into the darkness, letting out a hiss.]\n\nCamera still.\n\n[Team moves in through the doorway, but find themself in a completely different chamber, similar to the one the drone exited into though considerably smaller. Instead of debris, a number of grimy vestments cover the ground in heaps. Several are stained with a dark liquid, possibly wine or blood. GAMMA expresses confusion and collects samples.]\n[BETA notices a heap of bloodied vestments and investigates, discovering a body underneath. A young white man dressed in the garments of a priest, exsanguinated and covered in small bite marks. Several silken robes are stuffed into his mouth and his genitalia have been violently removed, indicating a death by suffocation or blood loss. ALPHA expresses disgust and instructs GAMMA to take samples.]\n[A noise is heard from behind BETA, who spins around, her gun raised. Where there was previously a solid stone wall is now a shattered hole, leading into a side chamber. Team progresses through, into what appears to be a natural cave system, low and wide. Water steadily drips down from the ceiling. Up ahead, two eyes are visible in the darkness.]\n\nCamera still.\n\n[BETA fires her weapon, resulting in a pained screeching that echoes through the system. A deformed figure, SCP-5653, rushes across the team's line of sight into a forked side tunnel. Team pursues, noting a greyish liquid dripping onto the floor, marking the SCP-5653's path. They turn a corner and hit a dead end, turning around into a tunnel heading downward into the earth.]\n[Team travels down this tunnel before coming across another cluster of blankets and linens reminiscent to the nest found by the drone. A fist-sized bone, roughly carved into a cross, sits next to the nest. Small polaroid photos are littered in the nest, but the faces of all figures therein have been roughly removed, rendering identification impossible. Fecal matter is smeared on the wall near the nest. Team continues forward into the narrowing passage.]\n[Passage opens up into a longer antechamber of brick and stone. One wall is dominated by a large mosaic; a rendition of DaVinci's The Last Supper, but the faces of the apostles have been crudely painted over with the faces of other individuals, apparently from the polaroid photos previously discovered. All are unknown, save for that of Judas Iscariot, which has been replaced with a headshot of a considerably younger Cardinal Greco. Jesus of Nazareth's face is entirely obscured by a smear of the same gray liquid dripping from SCP-5653's body.]\n[A moaning is audible from the corner of the antechamber. Team turns toward it, flashlights focusing on a body in the corner. SCP-5653 is curled in the corner in a pool of its own blood, finally fully visible. It resembles two different figures joined at the legs and chest, resulting in four arms and three legs. One figure is a Middle-Eastern woman of about 60, and the other is a young white man bearing a strong resemblance to Paulo Cibin, albeit highly disfigured. The entity's arms end in long, rough claws and it is covered in fleshy, tumourous growths. It appears to be dead.]\n[As the team watches, the wall behind it gradually slides and bends apart, forming a new passageway into a massive chamber, far bigger than any previously encountered. At minimum, it is 60m in length and 15m high. The center is dominated by a large bonfire that reflects off the wet cave walls. Surrounding this bonfire are the bodies of the Vatican Relic Recovery Office team, a number of priests, and several altar servers. Surrounding the bodies are a number of figures highly reminiscent of SCP-5653, at least two to three dozen. They appear to be feasting on the corpses. With a screech, one notices the presence of the team and all gradually turn towards them.]\n[A second passes.]\nALPHA: Command, instituting Plan Black immediately. Goodbye.\n[ALPHA, BETA, and GAMMA simultaneously arm and remove their strapped explosive vests, throwing them, along with their body cameras, forward into the path of the SCP-5653 entities. Cameras go dead.]\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\nAFTERWORD: A large explosion was sensed by seismographers under the Basilica moments after the feed shut down. The immediate area was evacuated under the cover story of excavation revealing a natural gas pocket, and permanent guard placed around all entrances to the Vatican Necropolis. After a week, no further activity was recorded.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5653.4\nINTERVIEW II\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERVIEWER: Agent Abramo Ricci\nSUBJECT: Cardinal Ettore Greco\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nRICCI: Cardinal.\nGRECO: Agent\u2026 we have encountered no more troubles in the Necropolis after your intervention. I must thank you.\nRICCI: The people you should be thanking are dead.\nGRECO: Yes. We regret their sacrifice, but it was not in vain. Rest assured, they will be honored with full rites, even if their bodies are not recoverable.\nRICCI: Cold comfort, Cardinal. Why didn't you tell us that there were more dead down there? Why did you hide this?\nGRECO: We are an organization centuries old, Agent. We have our secrets too, and sometimes they must stay buried. God guides us as he does you.\nRICCI: You really believe that?\nGRECO: Why, of course. He shepherds us on our course through life, and all journeys must end\u2026 it is unfortunate that your people's journeys ended here, but nothing happens without a purpose.\nRICCI: God is just, right?\nGRECO: God is just.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\nAFTERWORD: Cardinal Greco was found dead in his quarters twelve days after this interview with a BAC of 0.7%. Cause of death was deemed to be alcohol poisoning, and Vatican officials quickly suppressed the story. However, contacts inside the Vatican Relic Recovery Office claimed that the autopsy report had been falsified; while the BAC was factual, the cause of death was suffocation from a combination of silk robes forcibly stuffed into the throat and a tightened clerical collar. Photographs of the face appear mid-scream.\nNo other incidents have been reported in the Vatican Necropolis.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n\nFootnotes\n1. Blood Alcohol Content\n\n\u00ab SCP-5652 | SCP-5653 | SCP-5654 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5654\nObject Class: Ticonderoga\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The O5 Council and the Ethics Committee have deemed SCP-5654 unsuitable for containment. Foundation neurological experts are working with agents embedded within global medical establishments to isolate instances of SCP-5654 for minimal exposure.\nDescription: SCP-5654 is an anomalous hallucinatory phenomenon affecting those who suffer various memory-based cognitive disorders. Individuals affected by SCP-5654 are diagnosed with disorders including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, chronic and emotional stress, or Korsakoff's syndrome. SCP-5654 typically affects subjects residing in establishments where regular social interactions are minimal, most commonly manifesting in assisted living facilities or medical establishments.\nOnce affected by SCP-5654, subjects will begin to hallucinate a performing vocalist, the form of which appears to change depending on the subject's age and era of birth. As of 23/12/2021, the most commonly reported form of this phenomenon is that of a singer referred to by subjects as \"Mr. Benny\". Cognitomole testing of affected subjects has revealed that SCP-5654 is a human male wearing a white turtleneck sweater, dress pants, and polished black shoes. The colour of its skin and the language in which it speaks and sings is noted to change depending on the subject's nationality and personal preference.\nWhen the hallucination begins, subjects will perceive SCP-5654 across from them, usually in an elevated position, speaking directly to them through a microphone, and will state that the song is \"dedicated to [them]\". SCP-5654 will then perform a song to the affected subject. The song performed is an original composition that typically references meaningful moments in the affected subject's life.\nSCP-5654 will then thank the subject, and, should seating be available in the environment, sit across from them, and will begin to engage in conversation. SCP-5654 has demonstrated telepathic capabilities when conversing with subjects incapable of speech.\nWhen enough information has been gathered, SCP-5654 will then attempt to verbally inspire the subject, urging them to \"fight one last battle before [their] curtain call\", and the hallucination will end. Following this, subjects become lucid for enough time to complete a small personal task.\nIt is noted that memories of SCP-5654's performance show an anomalous resistance to memory degradation; subjects will recall the song for the rest of their life.\nAddendum 5654-1: Compiled below are completed notable event logs of subjects affected by SCP-5654. Further logs are available upon request.\n\nEVENT 5654-12\n\nTIME\nEVENT\n\n15:46 - 15:57\nMrs. Carmen Hawkings, known for aggressive outbursts as a result of her condition, becomes docile for roughly eleven minutes, cheering and clapping to an unheard song. Assisted living facility staff note the change in behaviour.\n\n16:26\nMrs. Hawkings dresses in concealing attire and follows a leaving family out of the assisted living facility, successfully escaping.\n\n16:34\nMrs. Hawkings successfully boards a bus and travels to her family's home suburb of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Ohio, travelling 64 kilometers.\n\n17:04\nMrs. Hawkings is discovered by her daughter Lucille in her backyard, sitting with and petting the family's pet cocker spaniel, that had formerly belonged to Mrs. Hawkings. She notices Lucille, and begins to converse with her. Lucille begins to cry, and embraces her mother.\n\n18:35\nLucille transports her mother back to the assisted living facility.\n\nAdditional Notes: It should be noted that assisted living facility staff and the family doctor both observed improvement in Mrs. Hawkings' behaviour following the event. Occasionally, she could be found playing the piano in the social room of the facility for the other residents.\n\nEVENT 5654-21\n\nTIME\nEVENT\n\n10:39 - 10:59\nMr. Giovanni Ferrarini, having been in a coma for 8 months prior to the event, regains consciousness in the intensive care ward of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Medical Centre, Italy. Mr. Ferrarini is unresponsive to medical staff's attempts to interact. Staff note Mr. Ferrarini smiling.\n\n11:31 - 11:46\nMr. Ferrarini, during absence of medical staff, rises from his bed and walks towards his hospital room's bathroom sink with a porceline cup, and fills it with water. Mr. Ferrarini then walks towards a dying garden fern gifted to him by his family before his hospitalisation, and waters it. Mr. Ferrarini repeats this activity for fifteen minutes.\n\n11:47\nMr. Ferrarini finishes watering his plant, then lies down on his bed, smiling.\n\n17:04\nMr. Ferrarini utters his final words; \"I have won, Giuseppe.\"\n\n17:10\nMr. Ferrarini passes away.\n\nEVENT 5654-01\n\nTIME\nEVENT\n\n12:19 - 12:28\nMrs. Deirdre Bishop is visited by her son, James, at an assisted living facility. Mrs. Bishop remains anxious throughout the conversation. After five minutes, she calms down, but is absent to James' attempts to converse.\n\n13:08\nJames begins to leave the assisted living facility in frustration, having failed many attempts to converse with Mrs. Bishop. Before he can leave, Mrs. Bishop rises, and grabs his arm, stopping him. Mrs. Bishop embraces her son.\n\n13:09\nJames begins to cry as he holds Mrs. Bishop.\n\n13:54\nJames leaves the assisted living facility.\n\nAdditional Notes: It should be noted that both Mrs. Bishop and Robert Urquhart (James' father) were absent for much of James' early life, with both serving in World War II.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5653 | SCP-5654 | SCP-5655 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by AnActualCrow\n\nSCP-5655 during Incident 5655.1. Image was taken from Researcher Alami's body camera.\n\nItem #: SCP-5655\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5655 is to remain closed and contained in a small storage container at Site-08. Use of SCP-5655 outside of testing is prohibited.\nDescription: SCP-5655 is an empty can of Spam which, when shaken or turned over, will manifest SCP-5655-1. SCP-5655-1 is a 7.5cm translucent red humanoid with reality-bending capabilities. When given a request beginning with the words \"I wish\", SCP-5655-1 will alter reality in an attempt to fulfill the request. However, SCP-5655-1's limited reality-altering capabilities will often result in requests being only loosely fulfilled.\nAddendum: A series of tests were conducted to determine SCP-5655-1's ability to fulfill requests involving physical, abstract, and philosophical elements.\n\nWish: I wish for an orange ball.\nResult: A tangerine with a bite taken out of it.\nAdditional Notes: Junior Researcher Dinns reported part of his lunch spontaneously disappearing at the time of this test.\n\nWish: I wish for a heavy stone.\nResult: A 2.2kg stone.\nAdditional Notes: Stone manifested above SCP-5655-1's upstretched arms, crushing it.\n\nWish: I wish for something strong.\nResult: SCP-5655-1 lifted the stone from the previous test above its head, set the stone down, then pointed at itself.\n\nWish: I wish for a million dollars.\nResult: A stack of bills worth one million dollars (LRD1).\n\nWish: A method of containing SCP-5655-1.\nResult: SCP-5655-1 climbed into SCP-5655 and closed the lid.\n\nWish: I wish for a way to more effectively limit the influence of opposing Groups of Interest.\nResult: A Molotov cocktail and a lighter.\nAdditional Notes: Objects were removed when SCP-5655-1 began demonstrating how to use them.\n\nWish: I wish for another SCP-5655-1.\nResult: A piece of paper with a crude colored-pencil drawing of SCP-5655-1.\n\nWish: I wish for the beauty of a sunset.\nResult: A piece of paper with a crude colored-pencil drawing of a sunset.\nAdditional Notes: \"I tried my hardest\" was written on the back in pencil.\n\nWish: I wish for the key to eternal happiness.\nResult: A used copy of Kerplunk with \"It's pretty fun\" written on the box in sharpie.\n\nWish: I wish for a better key to eternal happiness.\nResult: Multiple shrunken philosophy books and a miniature armchair appeared around SCP-5655-1. SCP-5655-1 read for 3 months, during which it did not respond to requests. Following the 3 month period, SCP-5655-1 manifested an unopened copy of Kerplunk.\n\nWish: I wish to bring back the dead.\nResult: A flash drive containing multiple audio files of Ska music.\nAdditional Notes: All songs are original compositions attributed to \"Gene E\".\n\nWish: I wish for unlimited power.\nResult: An 8-pack of rechargeable AA batteries.\n\nWish: I wish for a way to balance the Foundation's budget.\nResult: See Incident 5655.1.\n\nIncident 5655.1\n\n< BEGIN LOG >\nResearcher Alami: I wish for a way to balance the Foundation's budget.\n(SCP-5655-1 rubs its chin and paces back and forth for several seconds.)\nSCP-5655-1: To be perfectly honest Ms. Alami, I don't think I can grant your wish.\nResearcher Alami: You can talk?!\nSCP-5655-1: Why are you surprised? This is the least impressive thing you've seen me do.\nResearcher Alami: I just\u2026 never mind. Why can't you grant my wish?\nSCP-5655-1: It's a matter of safety. I don't know if you're aware of this, but your reality is dangerously unstable. As a consequence, my job is quite a lot like a game of\u2014\nResearcher Alami: Don't say Kerplunk.\nSCP-5655-1: \u2026my job is quite a lot like a game of Jenga. Every time I grant a wish, I'm pulling another piece out of the tower and hoping that the whole thing doesn't topple over. I've been limiting myself when it came to your other wishes, but the amount of reality manipulation it would take to grant this wish, in any capacity, would likely cause your reality to collapse. For both legal and ethical reasons, I can't do it.\nResearcher Alami: But you're a genie. Like you said, granting wishes is your job.\nSCP-5655-1: Yes, but there are rules and regulations for these sorts of things. (A small sheaf of papers manifests in SCP-5655-1's hand) Article 8, Section 2 of the \"Multiversal Interactions and Stability Administration\" handbook very clearly states that \"Should an act of reality manipulation place a severe enough strain on the foundation of a reality that the actor believes that there is a significant risk of reality collapse, then the actor must not perform the act and is exempt from any and all duties to perform said act\". My semi-transparent hands are tied.\nResearcher Alami: Well in that case, I wish that you change the rules so that you can grant my previous wish\u2026 that my boss gave me.\nSCP-5655-1: Ms. Alami, this is a matter of interuniversal law. As much as I'd love to help you, my wish-granting abilities don't extend to things outside of your reality.\nResearcher Alami: So there's really nothing you can do?\n(SCP-5655-1 sighs.)\nSCP-5655-1: I'm afraid not. Usually when a genie disappoints a client like this, they offer to alter the client's mind so that they are incapable of feeling disappointed; but I'm afraid that doing so would also likely destroy reality. I guess the only thing I can do is grant you a different, safer wish.\nResearcher Alami: Yeah, I could do that. Did you have anything in mind?\nSCP-5655-1: Nothing in particular, no\u2026 You look tired. Do you want a coffee?\nResearcher Alami: Sure, that would be great. I mean, I wish that you got me a coffee.\nSCP-5655-1: Your wish is my command.\n(A cup of coffee manifests in front of Researcher Alami. She takes a sip.)\nResearcher Alami: How much sugar did you put in this?\nSCP-5655-1: Enough to make you ignore that the coffee's cold.\n< END LOG >\n\nFootnotes\n1. Liberian dollars. $1,000,000 LRD \u2248 $6,200 USD.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5654 | SCP-5655 | SCP-5656 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nAuthor Page: Dr. Dentick's Personnel File\nHeron & Hound Commentary Corner:\n\n\"Egret.\"\n\"Hey, Dhole, welcome back.\"\n\"You're using me for this?\"\n\"Yeah.\"\n\"I suppose remorse would be too much to expect.\"\n\"Yeah.\"\n\"You make a good mutt.\"\n\"Go back to sleep, Dhole. There's more work to do.\"\n\"I hate you, Egret. Truly. Forever.\"\n\"Yeah.\"\n\n\nWelcome back, Tamara Otten. Today is February 2, 2073. Your inbox currently contains no unread emails. There are no remaining entries on your schedule today. The temperature outside is 26\u00b0F, your employment-mandated medicine must be taken within 183 minutes, and your horoscope for today is 'forgiving old grudges will bring new happiness.'\nRecognized voice command: \"Open SCP-5656 documentation.\"\nLoading document now\u2026\n\nGPS IIA satellite platform being prepared for future SCP-5656 habitation by Foundation personnel.\n\nItem #: SCP-5656\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Replacement satellites for all global navigation systems are to be primed for SCP-5656 cultivation prior to launch through the installation of beacon equipment and additional gas dispersion canisters. Satellite trajectories are to be altered through suborned control stations to account for additional mass in order to suppress inquiries and maintain constellation integrity. Ongoing engagement with SCP-5656 as a whole shall proceed according to updated charter stipulations (see Addendum 5656-E).\nAccess to information obtained through the OKMGLOS surveillance network may be obtained through authorized RAISA liaisons following Overseer Council approval.\nDescription: SCP-5656 is a species of extraterrestrial organism that exhibits extreme thaumatic sensitivity. 213 discrete instances have been observed since their initial discovery in 1995, when the additional mass of an attached instance significantly distorted the trajectory of a GPS-IIR satellite. Mature SCP-5656 instances measure approximately 10 meters long and are morphologically similar to medusa-phase Medusozoans, consisting of one central bell that trails an assortment of tentacles and fringes. These appendages are specialized for a number of functions, including delicate manipulation of physical objects, secretion of exotic substances, and interface with electrical equipment.\nSCP-5656 instances attach to artificial satellites in geostationary and high-earth orbits following periods of intermittent drifting on solar winds. Once attached, they absorb orbital debris and collect gasses vented for satellite altitude adjustments to replenish internal mineral reserves. SCP-5656 instances disconnect from host satellites after approximately 2.4 years of sustained habitation, leaving behind genetic material that is employed in future reproductive cycles.\nAll known SCP-5656 instances are currently incorporated into the OKMGLOS full-spectrum surveillance network. This was accomplished following the implementation of technologies derived from Project DEEPWATER DOWNWELL, as well as direct communication conducted under the auspices of the Overseer Council. Current OKMGLOS capabilities enable triangulation of any terrestrial entity emitting a thaumatic signature, encompassing 100% of the baseline human population and large portions of active anomalous entities.1\nAddendum 5656-A (Overview of Applied Technology):\nAddendum 5656-B (Communication Records (Original Files)):\n\nAddendum 5656-C (Communication Records (Post-Interpretation)):\n\nAddendum 5656-D (Original Charter Text):\n\nAddendum 5656-E (Comprehensive Updated Charter Text):\n\nAddendum 5656-F (Incident 566-007013 Review):\n\nRecognized voice command: \"Yeah, maybe that's it. Let's go through everything one more time.\"\nOpening all pertinent files\u2026\n\na_holt_voicemail_175.mp3\n\na_holt_voicemail_175.mp3\n\nFROM: Amanda Holt\nDATE: JAN 22, 2073\nTIME: 0636\n\nTamara, I'm tasking you to the team looking at a Nu-18 catch-and-gut operation that went particularly wrong. They're understaffed, so the lifting might be heavier than usual. I know this isn't your usual focus, but the Overseers want to get ahead of this one. Trouble is brewing across the Atlantic, and the possibility of a major distraction or second front is making them antsy. Nobody's happy when the Overseers are antsy.\nYou'll get paper orders tomorrow, but start today. I don't trust the last administration's leftovers after that mess in Istanbul. Not to do it right. Not to do it fast. Hell, who knows if they'll get it done at all. You're my ace on this. Figure out what happened, or at least see if the spooky kids need to take a closer look. They said it smells normal, but I'm not sure I trust their noses either.\nDon't let me down.\n\ncase_HSCR_9091_IP_VF3.mp4\n\ncase_HSCR_9091_IP_VF3.mp4\n\nLocation: United States; Hazard, Nebraska; 68844; 104 Dewitt St.\nSource: Body camera footage provided by MTF Nu-48 (\"Swatting Fireflies\").\nBackground: MTF Nu-48 was dispatched to address a possible abduction of two Foundation personnel in the Midwestern United States. Subcutaneous beacon signals led to Maury's Corner Store, Delicatessen, and Endless Salad Bar. Camouflaged trucks equipped with amnestic broadcasting capabilities were positioned at a one-block perimeter around the structure to minimize societal disruption and loss of life, as per Ethics Committee direction.\nPlaying video file now\u2026\n\nEmpathetic claws grip your body as crystal-clear footage plays on-screen. They pull hard, sucking you into the video, and into the heavy boots of a nameless Nu-48 operative. HINDSIGHT training shapes minds perfectly for such things. It kneads and twists them, wringing gray matter until thoughts drip out to run through history's cracks. Even amongst a legion of malleable minds, you always dived the deepest.\nBlack boots thud against linoleum as your small team sweeps through a small shop. It's the oldest in town, made clear by sagging shelves and fading wallpaper. The owner is trapped in his own little spiral along with a handful of other patrons. They move in millimeters. They live in milliseconds. You shake your head after waving a gloved hand in front of one face. Being stuck like that would be worse than dying, but it won't last long.\nYou advance past a caloric hellscape of potato chips, sodas, and worse. Some shelves are nearly sold out, while others seem untouched by long years of business. A security camera stares at the shop's back door, red light blinking steadily, but it might as well be off. No records will remain of your passage. Even live feeds bear nothing but static-filled shadows. One by one, your sworn brothers and sisters confirm their readiness to do violence. Shrouds: active. Weapons: loaded. Hearts: hardened. You nod to each other and ascend the rickety stairs.\nA tracking signal pings from the building's second-floor apartment in slow, steady blips. Thermal imaging peels away the walls, but nothing inside is clear. Warm blobs mix and merge within curtains of heat, taking on gnarled visages. Nothing human lurks inside, your eyes insist, but that's never stopped Nu-48 before. The team's GECOM orders a breach operation. Neither shock nor awe have ever been applied in too extreme an abundance, even against foes trapped within five seconds of persistent forgetfulness.\nConcussive charges are placed along the wall, all primed to beat a destructive rhythm into cracked paint and crumbling drywall. Your squad arrays itself in a manner practiced thousands of times over. The order is given. The wall ruptures. You raise your gun toward dim shapes solidifying within the dusty cloud. Six shift in the jittery disorder typical of those experiencing rolling amnestics. Four move with precision and grace, and all are armed.\nTime compresses, as it always does in the sublime seconds of first blood. Your eyes drift towards a scrawny figure wearing a canine mask. Its maw is carved into a snarl and glass shines in its eyes. Short strands of black hair flutter in the sudden breeze. Tendons tense in a smooth neck. They reach inside an unzipped sweatshirt, showing the barest glimpse of a pistol. They pause for a moment's slightest fraction, then race for an open window. You're already firing at the three remaining combatants. They fire back from behind upturned furniture reinforced with metal plates.\nA hundred sparks fill the dark, dusty room. Bullets ding off metal and chip at walls. They dig through flesh too, biting and burrowing like a swarm of ticks. You're armored though; they are not. You stand invincible in comparison. You stand a god, dispensing justice and violence. Bullets find one of the three, toppling him with a spray of blood from a leaking forehead. Your GECOM orders the remaining pair's apprehension once their fire ceases. Nothing could be easier. Zip-ties and deprivation-masks will render them little more than fleshy sacks, ready to be dragged down into the Foundation's nearest hole.\nDust drifts. Silence looms. Shapes slither from behind the fortified couches. All three combatants close with your team in the split-second of hesitation between lethal solutions and your commander's orders. The one with a split forehead slips under a burst of gunfire and tackles you. Black ink on his neck depicts a snarling dog. Blood on his chin drips down, hot and thick. A knife appears in one of his hands. You catch his wrist, then his forearm. Unnatural strength drives it further down. Something glistens in his eyes, deep and hungry. His head pops like an overripe grape beneath your comrade's bullet.\nHe cuts through your neck nevertheless. Through veins, through muscle, through esophagus and spine. The blow's a terrible one, and you don't survive. The ghoul clinging to your corpse won't either. In that much, you can take solace.\nThe video ends. Claws ease, and tendons relax. You are yourself again, with only a phantom ache lingering between vertebrae C4 and C5.\n\nConcluding Notes: Four Nu-48 personnel suffered fatal wounds from bladed instruments and cranial explosives at close range. Three enemy combatants suffered extensive wounds and ceased movement. Their corpses were further incapacitated through blunt trauma to reduce the efficacy of any postmortem activity.\nA sweep of the apartment revealed minimal living facilities in addition to equipment for medium-term human restraint. Beacon chips registered to missing Foundation personnel were found in a semi-damaged state and running exclusively on internal batteries. No additional hostiles were located. No abducted personnel were located.\nCivilians were evacuated from the structure under standard pretenses. Further investigation of the second-floor apartment area revealed stores of equipment and chemicals typically associated with dental surgery, as well as destroyed communications equipment. Corpses of enemy combatants were removed for further study.\n\nautopsy_summary_personal_notes.txt\n\nautopsy_summary_personal_notes.txt\n\nTITLE: Autopsy Summary\nDATE: JAN 24, 2073\nTIME: 2044\n\nAll three combatants are between 30-40 y/o and were in above-average physical condition before getting shot to pieces. Digested food suggests they've been in the area for about one week. Several tattoos on each body, but nothing notable beyond some canine themes. All members of the same organization? No similar tattoos on the six who were affected by amnestics.\nExtensive tissue damage due to projectiles, obviously. Brain matter from two was destroyed in localized explosions after getting pinned down. No explosives were found in the third's possession. Additional muscular atrophy observed in all of them, source unknown. Possibly related to hyper-mobility and aggression? Traces of extensive combat experience on all three, but it's hard to be certain now. Getting information on the old bullet lodged in #3's spine might give some hints.\nChemical analysis shows traces of an unidentified compound in all three's bloodstreams. Initial tests didn't peg it to any recreational drugs or conventional medicines. Comparisons with recorded medicinal anomalies are underway, but none of it feels familiar. The Hand's bookbinders move faster, but they're plainly weird. The Insurgency had shock troops dosed with Compound-63, but their bodies always melted afterwards. Might just have to wait for more tests.\nSubjects remain unidentified after the usual checks against medical records, criminal records, personnel documentation, and all other available information. Partial matches aren't close to conclusive. That itself speaks to a certain divorce from society, especially since it applies to all three. Oral surgery evident in the one whose head didn't explode. An effort to prevent tracking through dental records? Destruction of beacons or other tech? Figure this all out, and fast.\n\n[RELEVANT EMAIL RECORDS]\n\n[RELEVANT EMAIL RECORDS]\n\nTO: Tamara Otten (lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t#lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t)\nFROM: Amanda Holt (lanretni.noitadnuof|90.tloh.a#lanretni.noitadnuof|90.tloh.a)\nSUBJECT: Re: Revised Tasking\n\nTamara,\nThe bodies are interesting, but they will keep in cold storage. Find the one who got away. We'll get quicker answers that way, even if it requires unpleasant methods. They slid past our net once, so you'll have to get creative. I picked you for a reason.\nHolt\n\nTO: Tamara Otten (lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t#lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t)\nFROM: Janelle McDavis (lanretni.noitadnuof|20.sivadcm.j#lanretni.noitadnuof|20.sivadcm.j)\nSUBJECT: Re: Research Outreach (read before lunch)\n\nTamara, it's good to hear from you again. My family is fine, thanks for asking, but no surprise there. It's easy to feel like nothing ever changes when my office is buried under such a massive rock. I'm glad reassignment hasn't sunk you under one too.\nAs to the matter you mentioned, two explanations come to mind:\nPossibility 1: Compulsion. I'm sure this is why you pinged me, but it's not a likely explanation. Humanity's MIR scores have been climbing too quickly for that to be a feasible explanation for resistance to amnestics and erratic behavior. The bloodstream chemicals don't sound right either, though that's not my particular area of expertise. Either way, anything delicate enough to make people move like that probably wouldn't survive the first abrasion zone these days.\nPossibility 2: I'm reminded of rumors that bounced around in our little medical community a decade or so ago about the weird traditions in Alpha-1. If I remember correctly, their members supposedly carried something called a 'last-stop express.' Pills for when there wasn't any hope left. A few of the hard-line task forces are issued suicide pills, so I suppose that lends it some credibility. These were supposed to flush brains of everything but basic allegiances and violent skills. No secrets to divulge. No distractions left. They were supposedly distributed by the higher powers themselves, so I wouldn't be surprised by any additional exotic effects. No one would leave fetishes like that lying around.\nI'm sorry to say that my recommendation is to go chasing after some thugs' superstitions, but that's what comes to mind, and Alpha-1 members would be inoculated against that specific amnestic strain.\nYours, Jan\n\nTO: Tamara Otten (lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t#lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t)\nFROM: Yuji Iizuka (lanretni.noitadnuof|akuzii.y#lanretni.noitadnuof|akuzii.y)\nSUBJECT: Requested Analysis\n\nI don't like being the go-to for picking old colleagues out of a lineup. Talk to someone who's still in that office next time. That, or put it through official channels.\nBottom line: Yes, they're probably ours.\nSkip to timestamp 1813 in the file you tagged as V5: Note the sour cream & onions chips being nearly sold out compared to the others. It could be a coincidence, but they were the only flavor in St. Eustace's cafeteria when I went through (probably to mask supplements' tastes), and they were always popular in Alpha-1.\nAt 1817: Use of space heaters and environmental elements to confuse thermals was in our textbook on dealing with internal detection and counterforce. Other MTFs don't usually get assigned reading like that, and definitely don't practice it as much as we did.\nAt 1820: Reinforcing furniture for cover like this is habitual. So are things like rigging that shotgun to the door. The firing lines they set up in advance here aren't unique, but they are familiar. Familiar body language too. Dog Mask pats the spot where I would have carried a hold-out pistol before they run. Habits die hard.\nAt 1832: These are standard restraints for an Alpha-1 catch house, though they aren't usually configured for more than one or two at a time. Six captives is a lot. Everything else is unfamiliar, especially the dental tools, but I've been out of the field for a while now. Enhanced interrogation would have caused more wear and tear though, so they might be showpieces.\nLast, to answer your pill question: that information isn't mine to divulge. Old habits die hard for us all. Submit whatever other requests you want through my handler, but we're even now.\n\nTO: Tamara Otten (lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t#lanretni.noitadnuof|netto.t)\nFROM: Will Phillips (lanretni.noitadnuof|31.spillihp.w#lanretni.noitadnuof|31.spillihp.w)\nSUBJECT: this bullshit\n\nHey.\nSomeone fucked up. 23 former A-1 operatives slipped through the cracks according to my best count. I'm running outreach with their new OPCOM right now, but he's an asshole of the highest order. Messages are out to the other task forces who lug around big guns too, but I'm more worried about the 23. I'm especially worried if they're off the stuff that's supposed to keep them human.\nI only touched the Z-1 integration process after our new O5s rolled in from the EC, but my understanding was that they were doing something about A-1's nastier elements. I know for a fact that a few court cases got drummed up in the early days, and there was some talk of a wipe-and-release program too. Not much use for an attack dog you don't trust, but we ended up keeping a bunch for the 'institutional expertise.' That's about when I got shipped over to the team opening up the old O5s' vaults.\nWith what the A-1 OPCOM passed over, I've got ID for the more intact body on ice: FID#612003. Based on physical markers, your two other corpses are probably FID#510111 and FID#016886. I don't have deep enough access to see their full files, but both got pushed out of A-1 just before everything rolled over. Voluntary amnestics are supposed to keep people on the amnestics, but who knows. We might have had a coverage gap in all the chaos.\nI emphatically don't have ID on the dog mask. The OPCOM was even less help there. He noted the carjacking/murder flagged nearby probably pegs them for someone's wetwork division, but I could have figured that out. Still, my department has been updating a system that might help. I'll see about getting you read in on it.\nWill\n\n[OKMGLOS OUTPUT 050-997-072]\n\n[OKMGLOS OUTPUT 050-997-072]\n\nTasking Summary:\n\nLocate individual POI-95172 according to historical information. Identify frequent paths of travel. Identify frequent locations of rest or business.\nMatch to any groups in the GOI registry above 30%. Match to any individuals in the POI registry above 60%. Match to any individuals in accessible personnel records above 0%.\n\nResults Summary:\n\nPOI-95172 signature has been locked and tagged. Fringe signature in the 33E51M spectrum segment, an octant typically associated with persistent thaumatic constructs and anomalous entities exhibiting monopurpose objective ranking.\nSignature correlates to Serpent's Hand (GOI-11) Cell 13 at 49%. Signature correlates to Serpent's Hand (GOI-11) Cell 17 at 50%. Signature correlates to modern Chaos Insurgency (GOI-181) Cell 5 at 84%. Signature correlates to POI-4157 at 61%. Signature correlates to POI-10556 at 62%. Signature correlates to POI-20254 at 64%. Signature correlates to FID#715316 at 94%.\nPrecise location data and compiled heat map have been distributed directly.\n\nAuthorized users may access secure OKMGLOS stations for complete reporting data.\n\nscraped_personnel_record(715316).txt\n\nscraped_personnel_record(715316).txt\n\nName: Elizabeth Cooper-Hughes\nFID#: 715316\nLast Available Security Clearance: L\u20133/TSQ/MDI\nDOB: January 8, 2031\nLOB: Hell, Michigan, United States\nBiographical Summary: [REDACTED]\nLast Available Pay Grade: E-4\nLast Available Assignment: MTF Alpha-1\nLast Available Station: Site-01\nCertifications: A-1 Marksmanship, A-1 Physical Fitness, Exotic Biohazard Safety, French Language Fluency, Heavy Machinery Repair, Nonstandard Reality Acclimation and Preparedness (Expired), Operational Infohazard Safety, Advanced IED Construction.\nEmployment Status: Terminated\n\ncase_HSCR-9091_IP_VF8.mp4\n\ncase_HSCR-9091_IP_VF8.mp4\n\nLocation: United States; Junction, Illinois; 62954\nSource: Body camera footage provided by MTF Gamma-3 (\"Bruised and Bloody Knuckles\").\nBackground: MTF Gamma-3 was dispatched to apprehend POI-95172 in Junction, Illinois based on intelligence gathered by sensitive sources and methods. UAV overflight tracked POI-95172 to an area of outlying wilderness, and orders were issued to execute planned operations that night. Kill or capture authorization issued by designated Gamma-3 Ethics Committee liaison.\nPlaying video file now\u2026\n\nYou're dragged in once again. Autonomous drones sweep through the night sky, barely buzzing over cicadas' songs. Fractal cameras watch for the slightest movement. Nothing heavier has been authorized, but violence yet lurks high above. You yearn to speak the words that will rouse the NGRAF weapons platform from its sleep. Missiles never look so beautiful as when they streak across the starry sky.\nA dirt path winds through the shadows. None step foot on it. Traces of upturned dirt along its edges are plenty warning, as are the lights flashing on your personal sniffers. Instead, you slide between tree trunks and prickly bushes. Branches crunch underfoot. Vermin dart from disturbed nests. Step by step, hill by hill, you advance towards the cabin perched atop a high ridge. It cuts a dark silhouette across the sky, reminding you of camping trips and memorial barbecues. It bulges with mystery and malice, reminding of a lifetime's worth of night terrors. Your hand tightens around your rifle.\nFifteen shades sweep through the treeline, following the slow advance of harsh spotlights. No one could miss such a sight from within the cabin. None could escape the encirclement either, even with so much cover. Your briefing noted your prey's expertise, long-trained doggedness, and career in a company of monsters wearing human skin. Well, you've put bullets through the skulls of worse.\nHard eyes sweep back and forth as you approach. Bayonets slice through razor wire. Sensors pick out hidden explosives. A quagmire of death and danger is faced without hesitation. It's hard not to wonder where such expertise stemmed. Mined from Vietnam, perhaps. Tempered in Afghanistan, maybe. Sharpened to a keen edge in the gray battlefields of Central Europe, certainly. A history of underhanded violence is condensed into the forest, but you brave it all the same. Each heartbeat is proof of success. Each breath defies history's edge in the Foundation's name.\nA nest of sparrows erupts into flight as you pass. In the wake of those flapping wings emerges a short, scrawny figure clad in black and gray. Black, gray, and bearing a dog's face. She silently raises a pistol to the back of your brother's neck.\nGunfire tears apart flesh and armor. You fire back, but Dog Mask lets your comrade's armor absorb the worst of it. She fires back from under one armpit. Warm streaks graze skin and drum into armor. Their percussion knocks air from your lungs, but fails to end steady heartbeats. Someone less resilient gurgles wetly over your com channel. There's no time to worry about them. Firing lines converge as your squad-mates respond, and the masked figure vanishes again. Disappears, but not down the half-camouflaged tunnel. No, disappears in a roiling cloud of dust and fire.\nDeep-buried explosives shatter stone, rend earth, and sear trees. The ground roils underfoot like a solid sea. The air itself burns. In an instant, existence is cast into nightmarish hues. Shadows of fears made manifest are birthed and buried in every second. Against every scrap of training, you shield your face with one arm. Hot. Bright. Loud. You've been trapped in worse ovens before, but none so humiliating.\nYour vision returns just in time to witness a grim scene. In the new clearing, Dog Mask leans low over Gamma-3's GECOM and plunges a knife into her throat. Without pause, attention, or apparent effort, she shoots one of your surviving comrades as he rises. His helmet splits open. His head does too. You fumble for your rifle, then your pistol. You look down and find the hand to be missing. Dog Mask notices.\nYour remaining hand grasps your sidearm. It raises a fraction of a second before hers. It fires faster too. Tragedy's numbness is held at bay by years of experience, and you don't waver. The first round hammers into her center of mass. The second halves that snarling mask. Beneath is an androgynous face twisted into a worse snarl, leaking dark blood and punctuated by orange eyes. Scorn burns in them. Hotter than the fires all around, hotter than your seared stump, and hotter than the sun itself. You hate her. She hates you more.\nOnly now does your hand tremble. Only for a split-second, but she's already gone. You've wounded the specter. You've failed to slay it. A ghost remains, and no more hauntings can be permitted. Not after what this cost.\n\"Star-131, target's gone,\" you cough into your bone-mic. \"Trace and execute pattern eight.\"\nFire streaks across the sky as you stumble off in pursuit of your comrades. There's still a cabin to search. Then you're yourself again, and there's still work to be done, no matter how disconcertingly your hand tingles.\n\nConcluding Notes: Nine Gamma-3 personnel suffered fatal wounds from a combination of explosives, gunfire, and bladed weapons. POI-95172 was confirmed injured, then pursued via UAV and reserve Gamma-3 forces. POI-95172 evaded capture, obtained a vehicle, and escaped immediate pursuit. Classified tracking methods were reapplied, and relevant Foundation assets were put on high alert.\nGamma-3 elements searched the cabin theorized to be a base of operations for POI-95172. Several booby traps of varying lethality were disarmed in the process, and a camouflaged passage to several subterranean rooms was discovered. Their investigation uncovered a broader tunnel system that extends throughout the surrounding region. A full accounting of this area and its contents is pending due to safety concerns for involved personnel.\nAn initial investigation revealed large caches of firearms, ammunition, and precursor chemicals for explosive compounds. Extensive supplies of commercial stimulants and unidentified pharmaceuticals were found within the facility. Equipment typically associated with dental surgery was also discovered along with a large number of human teeth (largely molars, though not exclusively). Some recovered teeth were noted to bear signs of post-extraction drilling. No other human remains have been recovered.\n\n[OKMGLOS OUTPUT 051-455-008]\n\n[OKMGLOS OUTPUT 051-455-008]\n\nTasking Summary:\n\nFLAGGED AS URGENT: Refine POI-95172 location data and track according to extant signature tagging. Provide rolling updates to support ongoing missions.\n\nResults Summary:\n\nAt least 90 thaumatic signatures identical to POI-95172 have been detected worldwide. Technical issues have significantly decreased the precise triangulation of signature sources. Emanation points are largely concentrated in North America and Western Europe, with sparse distribution throughout Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Middle Eastern territories.\nPrecise location data and compiled heat map have been distributed directly.\n\nOngoing Action:\n\nThe current situation is considered to be an extreme divergence from standard conditions and is imposing considerable strain on individual OKMGLOS network nodes. Rolling updates are expected to be significantly delayed as a result. Referrals have been issued to Foundation departments focused on exotic sciences research for additional insight into causal events and possible outcomes. Requests have been issued to relevant mobile task forces to determine the precise location of mirrored emanation points.\nThe location of POI-95172 is not currently identifiable to any satisfactory degree of confidence.\n\nAuthorized users may access secure OKMGLOS stations for complete reporting data.\n\ncase_HSCR-9091_IP_AF23.mp3\n\ncase_HSCR-9091_IP_AF23.mp3\n\nLocation: United States; Detroit, Michigan; 48242; Detroit Metropolitan Airport\nSource: Camouflaged microphone audio provided by Foundation Internal Security.\nBackground: Descriptions and photos of POI-95172 were distributed to agents stationed in transit hubs as part of a broader seek-and-snag operation. FIS agent Christopher Arundel approached an individual believed to be POI-95172 within a restaurant located near Gate 93 of the airport's McNamara Terminal.\nPlaying audio file now\u2026\n\nThere's less for your mind to build on this time, trained and talented though it is. Just sounds. Just rustling napkins, clinking travel mugs, and the rumble of tired conversation. You sink in anyway. Toes, and ankles, and legs. You hold your breath as it washes over. Subsuming, then drowning. Breaths catch and freeze. Heartbeats race and slip. You look across the table at a person with far too much blood on her hands.\nShe looks exhausted. Hungover, maybe, if you had any confidence that wasn't an act. Subdued blue eyes don't fit the description you were given, and long blonde hair doesn't match the still frame you saw, but it feels right. Feelings are never amiss. Failure only stems from reactions, and your stilled face shows none.\n\"Where're you off to?\" you ask before sipping from an overly-hot, overly-strong cup of coffee. Falling into character is easy, familiar, and comfortable.\n\"Mexico,\" she says before sighing and rubbing the palm of one hand against a red-rimmed eye. \"I was supposed to be hiking with my friends, but there's this whole thing, and now I'd rather just sleep the whole time.\"\n\"Run into some trouble with your friends? That's always rough.\"\n\"Something like that, yeah.\"\nShe sips from her own cup, and your fingers curl around the panic button sewn into your jacket's lining. Feelings are never amiss, but they can mislead. Any sign of latent injuries will make things clear. A glance under those long bangs. A hint of bandages along the ribs. Help would arrive in minutes, and you would be wined, lauded, and promoted.\n\"Want to talk it out? Having a second set of ears never hurts.\"\n\"Sure, why not?\" She yawns, covering a wide mouth with a hand covered in scrapes, scabs, and bruises. You stare a second longer than necessary to commit everything to memory. \"Oh, but does the black moon howl?\"\nIf you show any reaction at all, it's subdued. An eyebrow twitched, maybe, or an ear. Perhaps your eyes drifted away for a second, or your breath hitched. Whatever it is, it's enough. Her eyes harden. Her hand falls. Everything stills, as if in witness to what would transpire. Your fingers still too. Years of imagining what circumstances might require pressing that button fall short. They utterly fail to capture the creature sitting before you.\n\"Funny how everyone thinks those words are magic, isn't it?\" she chirps, fingers tightening around a plastic fork. \"Funny how ingrained they get. Put your hands on the table, alright? Or I'll have to pop your eyes out. Neither of us wants that.\"\nYour hand lingers a second longer, then moves away. Button unpressed, sweat beading, you spread your fingers on the crumb-covered table. A hundred-pound advantage isn't enough to breed confidence when faced with such malignancy. Maybe two-hundred wouldn't be either. As if reading your doubts, a thin smile creeps across her face. Thin, gnarled, vile. It belongs on an aged war criminal content in old atrocities, not a twenty-something sitting in an airport Chipotle.\n\"What do you want?\" you ask.\n\"I want you to swallow this.\" She produces a pill from one of her coat's many pockets. It's small, unmarked, and bright pink.\n\"What is it?\"\n\"Think of it like an amnestic. We take them all the time.\"\n\"But what is it? Poison would make me forget too.\"\nShe just smiles. Shivers run up your spine, then down it. Sweat drenches your undershirt, then your shirt too. She toys with the fork's dull tongs, thumb pressing against each in turn. You blink. Acknowledging the very presence of your eyes feels awful, but more pressing thoughts fill your mind. If a quiet suicide is being requested, shouldn't you force a commotion at least? Don't you have that duty despite being abandoned in a dead-end post?\n\"A lot of people are going to die if you don't take it,\" she says cheerfully. \"First, you. Then, everybody else who tries to stop me. Airport security. Police. Your backup. Whichever other traitors the Foundation sends after me. People caught in the crossfire. People who see me by mistake. People who have things I need. That's a lot, isn't it? Do you want that on your conscience? Just take the pill. You'll wake up in a few days, and there won't be any blood on your hands.\"\n\"You'll do worse things if I do.\"\nShe only smiles again. It's a bloody oath in shape, and a dreadful vow in spirit. You slowly move, reaching again for the panic button. Your shaking fingers wrap around the pill instead. It tastes like nothing at all, and feels like chalk going down your throat. Tears well up deep in their ducts. Across the table, a monster stares as your vision blurs and darkness encroaches. Uncaring faces of fellow patrons melt and drip. Lights swirl and burn. Atop her head sits a giant blue bird, and its tiny black eyes are the most hateful by far.\nMore chirps are recorded even after your consciousness has faded in full. Each is vibrant and violent. \"You'll see, assholes. I'll show you what happens when you stab someone in the back. You aren't the only ones with teeth to spare.\"\nWhen you're yourself again, each breath feels like sandpaper. Throat arid, tongue fossilized, all you can do is cough.\n\nConcluding Notes: Agent Arundel was retrieved and debriefed 27 hours later. Tests indicate that he was dosed with a compound historically used by Foundation operatives for transport of non-cooperative prisoners and humanoid anomalies. Airport video footage captures POI-95172 boarding a plane bound for Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. Her departure was not captured by any available recording devices.\n\nRecognized voice command: \"Any news on my requests?\"\nDisplaying request status now\u2026\n\nReport on current OKMGLOS operation status and expected reporting delays.\nPENDING\n\nReport on available information regarding thaumaturgic rituals involving human teeth.\nPENDING\n\nReport on declassification of POI-95172 operational history.\nPENDING\n\nReport on emerging GOI threat streams across Eurasian continent.\nPENDING\n\nSYSTEM NOTICE: An alert has been issued to all Foundation personnel.\n\n[EMERGENCY ALERT]\n\n[EMERGENCY ALERT]\n\nATTENTION: Enter compartmentalized lockdown immediately. Report individuals exhibiting any of the following signs:\n\u2022 Recent dental surgery.\n\u2022 Irregular speech patterns.\n\u2022 Irregular body language.\n\n\u2022 Irregular behavior.\n\nAll such individuals should be considered armed and highly dangerous. Treat all as mobile explosive hazards. Keep at distance. Do not attempt communication. Do not engage without support.\n\nContact site security at *99 to report suspicious individuals.\n\nContact emergency containment specialists at *39 if this counteracts current protocols.\n\nAnyone running in the dark might trip on a root. Anyone fleeing a beast could slip in a puddle. Anyone with your training risks falling into someone else when panicked, and you're nothing if not that. This is the other shoe. This is what you were chasing after. If only everything could snap together in a moment of perfect clarity\u2026 But, no, such luck is elusive. No answers fall into your arms. No revelations spark in your frontal lobe. Surrendering to empathy's unrelenting grip is all that's left.\nYou stand in a darkened room. Not naturally dark, not with the studio lights erected all around, but dark to the scrap of your consciousness clinging tight to the slippery edge of a monster's mind. Honed empathy can only go so far. Preternatural imagination can only offer so much. That you have achieved such a state at all is a feat beyond meager training, but there's no pride in that. Only concern. Only desperation.\n\"I'm finished,\" you say in a now-familiar voice. Each word is awful and amused in equal parts. Blood pools around your boots, steaming and sticky. At the corner of one eye, a hand on the ground twitches slowly. It's beyond your concern now. It was never your concern. \"Overseer, I'm finished. It's publishing now.\"\n\"Perfect,\" comes an answer without words. It's a relief all the same. A comfort, from handler to hound. \"And the next step?\"\n\"In motion, ma'am.\"\n\"And there are enough of you?\"\n\"More than enough. We'll see it through.\"\n\"You've set fires for me before, \u2591\u2591\u2591\u2591\u2591. This one will need to be even brighter.\"\n\"I'll singe the sky, ma'am. I'll burn the world down for you.\"\n\"If that's what proves necessary to save it\u2026 You have your orders.\"\nThat you do. They're not worth yipping over, nor slavering for. Each satisfies though. Each makes use of your skills, and isn't that all that's ever mattered? You're done chewing on toys.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Thaumatic signatures are the collective output of an individual's emotional and rational interiors once filtered through a series of innate mental constructs. All individual consciousnesses are expected to exhibit unique signatures. For additional information, see Sotier, G. (1989). Signatures and Scribbles: Differentiating Between Discrete Thaumatic Outputs and Random Noise. Foundation Internal Journal of Exotic Sciences, 3(1), 12\u201381.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5655 | SCP-5656 | SCP-5657 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Thank you for your cooperation, USER_NOT_FOUND.\nFinal clearance requires completion of the Knows Test.\nPlease place your hand in the door slot. Do not resist the automated clamps.\nPlease wait\u2026 Please wait\u2026 Please wait\u2026\n\n5657, please authorize this visitor.\n\n5657, place your hand on the visitor's wrist. Now.\n\n5657, does this person have a heart?\n\nLockdown engaa\u00e2\u00e6\u00e0\nAccess granted. Thank you, USER_NOT_FOUND.\nThis is your first time within Section-\u00d8N.\nThe following data must be thoroughly reviewed before accessing SCP-5657.\n\n5657-GD | Containment Protocols + Description [01/01]\n5657-IN | Interview Logs [01/91]\n5657-TL | Test Logs [01/3651]\n5657-CB | Containment Breach Logs [01/26]\n5657-NN | All Episodes of Nicki Knows [01/28]\n5657-RL | Recovery Log [01/01]\n5657-LD | Lab Diagno\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Show me the first one.\n\nAccessing 5657-SCP_GD\n\nItem#: 5657\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\n5657-NN02_28_ENG_24SD.MP4 - TC 01:00:21:01\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: If you are viewing this document, you have already cleared all procedures required to access Section-\u00d8N.\nAll essential operations within Section-\u00d8N will be overseen by Site AI EVAS. Internal security protocols may only be revised / updated by O5 Executive Order, and only after a full Council screening via the Knows Test.\nIf an individual undergoes the Knows Test and SCP-5657 does not give the code-phrase \"I can feel their heart beating\", automated restraints will keep the individual fully immobilized. Should immobilization fail, or the individual poses any eminent threat to SCP-5657's safety, they will be terminated via automatic gunfire. Secondary to SCP-5657's survival, the live capture of a GOI-115 specimen is considered paramount in averting a total SK-Class \"Dominance Shift\" scenario.\nSCP-5657, together with all knowledge related to its existence, has been permanently restricted to Section-\u00d8N. Upon exiting this area, you will be amnesticized.\n\nDescription: SCP-5657 is Nikita Ludo, a television personality from Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.\nFrom 1995 to 1997 Ms. Ludo hosted Nicki Knows, a daytime talk-show formatted to resemble a therapy session. This hour-long program would feature weekly celebrity guests, each recounting childhood experiences and future aspirations in front of Ms. Ludo and a live studio audience. Unlike typical therapy, Ms. Ludo would often criticize and berate her guests to the delight of her audience, revealing any lies or hidden details told throughout the interview with seemingly (and now proven) supernatural accuracy.\nSCP-5657 is capable of C2M minor empathic communication, i.e. the extrasensory perception of emotions through physical contact. Under ordinary circumstances, SCP-5657 would only require Grade-D passive surveillance. However, SCP-5657 must remain within Section-\u00d8N at all times, having become the target of a newly discovered group of human-mimicking lifeforms \u2014 GOI-115 \u2014 hereafter known as \"Smiling Men\".\nThe total population, objectives, and anomalous capabilities of the \"Smiling Men\" is currently unknown. However, to date, this group has carried out 26 near-successful assassination attempts on SCP-5657. These breach events continue to occur wherever SCP-5657 is relocated, and against all escalating containment protocols; the most recent attempt being carried out via an undetected form of micro-explosive implanted in the tear-duct of Security Officer Wills. As a direct result, SCP-5657 has been left with 3rd degree burns on 32% of their epidermis, and partial loss of lower-body mobility.\nUntil testing is complete, SCP-5657's survival is considered paramount, as currently they are the only known means of detecting \"Smiling Men\".\nThese entities\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Stop. Tell me what it's like for her, when she touches someone.\n\nSCP_GD must be fully reviewed before b\u20acf\u00f0re be\u2021\u00b0r b\u00c6f\u0152r\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Tell me.\n\nACCESSING 5657-IN_06\n\nInterview Log 5657-06\nInterviewer: Level 4 Research Director | Dr. Malcolm Adelard\nInterviewee: SCP-5657 | Nikita Ludo\nDr. Adelard: So did they\u2014Dr. Adelard: Yes, but did the producers\u2014Dr. Adelard: Ms. Ludo.Dr. Adelard: Would you mind answering my question?Dr. Adelard: Were the producers aware of your empathic abilities?Dr. Adelard: As a kind of human therapy dog?Dr. Adelard: Technically speaking, I mean; that is what you did for money before and after dropping out of college, right? You assisted people in finding pleasurable feelings, which you did through physical contact. Would a more apt comparison be to pr\u2014Dr. Adelard: You mean The Healing Hour.Dr. Adelard: The truth. We've already spoken to the entire cast and crew, Ms. Ludo. We know the original show was a generic television psychic program, but then you manipulated\u2014Dr. Adelard: Interview 5657-POI-093, Trism G. Cavalish \u2014 quote, \"I was just humoring her at first, y'know, with her whole 'Healing Hour' thing. Then she reached out and held my hand. Suddenly we were talking about my father, and all the ways I keep trying to live up to his impossible damn expectations\u2026 It took a few hours, but she convinced me.\" End quote. So, you used your abilities to rifle through this man's emotions, made him vulnerable, then coerced him into producing your show. Is that correct?Dr. Adelard: How does it work, Nicki? For the record.Dr. Adelard: Nicki, mechanically speaking, you still just read people's emotions and use that information to influence them, correct?\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Enough. Tell me about the Governor, and what she felt from him.\n\nAccessing 5657-IN_09\n\nInterview Log 5657-09\nInterviewer: Level 4 Researcher | Dr. Malcolm Adelard\nInterviewee: SCP-5657 | Nikita Ludo\nDr. Adelard: They changed their minds after episode 18, correct?Dr. Adelard: Was Ms. Doherty one of the\u2014Dr. Adelard: Come again?Dr. Adelard: But instead, they gave you a second season.Dr. Adelard: I thought it was all about helping people, Nicki.Dr. Adelard: Nicki Knows was more popular though, wasn't it? All you had to do was help them find some confidence, ease their anxieties, make them feel safe \u2014 and suddenly your celebrity guests are sharing all their deepest, darkest secrets for everyone to laugh at. Now that's a much better show \u2014 or, at least, a better circus\u2014Dr. Adelard: (\u2026) Pardon me?Dr. Adelard: Ms. Ludo\u2014\nDr. Adelard: Data we need to protect you, and the rest of the world, Ms. Ludo.\nDr. Adelard: (\u2026) So, season 2.Dr. Adelard: It? You mean Governor Ma\u2014\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: No. Show me.\n\nAccessing 5657-NN02_28_ENG_24SD.MP4 TC 01:21:16:01\n\n5657-NN02_28_ENG_24SD.MP4\nVideo Source: Broadcast television recording.\n\nSound of applause. Fade in from black. Camera 3 moves in a semi-circle around the live audience. Nicki Knows logo fades in over a ripple effect at center screen.\nCamera 1 slow pans in on a central, elevated podium surrounded by the audience. Nicki Ludo sits in a red leather armchair across from an empty therapy couch. She makes a few pen scribbles on a paper pad, then looks up at the camera.\nNicki: Hello, and welcome back. We were just speaking to film star Mel Gibson about his childhood, and his feelings towards Jesus. For those of you that missed it, it turns out he has some very\u2026 intense feelings about the Body of Christ.\nAudience laughs.\nNicki: But now I'm pleased to introduce our second guest. He's been called the Favorite Son of Maryland \u2014 and who knows \u2014 you might see him on the 2000 Presidential Ballot! Please, everyone welcome Governor Timothy Marshall!\nAudience applauds. Governor Marshall, 181cm, black hair, pale complexion walks down the audience aisle, waving and shaking hands along the way. Governor Marshall steps on the stage, smiles broadly, and grasps Nicki's hand.\nOver the course of 2 seconds, Nicki's face turns from a cheerful smile to abject horror. Nicki then shrieks and jumps back.\nNicki and Governor Marshall stare at each other \u2014 Marshall perplexed, Nicki terrified. Audience watches in silence.\nNicki runs off stage.\nFootage cuts.\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: What was it though? What did she feel?\n\nAccessing 5657-IN_09\n\nDr. Adelard: Nothing?Dr. Adelard: Compared to, say, Ms. Doherty\u2014?Dr. Adelard: I can see how that'd be\u2026 unsettling, but your reaction seemed rather extreme\u2014\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Fascinating. There might be something to this after all. The Governor, though \u2014 I know there's more footage.\n\nYou do not have authoo\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\u00f8\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: I said I want to see it. Show me.\n\nAccessing 5657-NN02_14_ENG_24SD_02.MP4 TC 01:32:16:01\n\nFeedsource: Nicki Knows set security camera.\n\nProduction Assistants begin ushering audience members off set after 10 minutes. Audience murmurs in confusion. 16 do not leave their seats despite PA insistence. Associate Producer Fredrick Halston enters from aisle left, telling all staff members to leave immediately.\nAll staff exit. Halston locks all doors leading to set while the remaining audience members, and Governor Marshal, remain perfectly still.\nAll present individuals begin moving in unison, congregating and covering Governor Marshal in a tight huddle.\nSubjects are immobile for 23 seconds.\nSubjects disperse. Governor Marshall is no longer seen.\nSecurity feed cuts out.\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Delete it.\n\nYou are not au \u2026 you \u00e6re n\u03c3t \u2026 \u00c2 \u00b5 \u2524\u00ab \u0398 \u00ae \u00a1 \u221a \u00a2\nVIDEO FOOTAGE DELETED\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Good. Did she tell anyone else what she saw? What she felt?\n\nAccessing 5657-IN_09\n\nDr. Adelard: So after you ran off-stage\u2014Dr. Adelard: Why Mexico?\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: I don't, actually. Show me.\n\nAccessing 5657-RL\n\nRecovery Log \u2014 SCP-5657\nLocation: Hotel Correo, Ju\u00e1rez, Chih., Mexico.\nMobile Task Force: MTF-Zeta-12 \"Black Baggers\"\n\nZeta-12-1 knocks on the door of Motel Room 12.\nZeta-12-1|Helmen: Ms. Ludo, this is the Mexican Federal Police. Please open the door.\n2 seconds silence.\nZeta-12-1|Helmen: Ma'am, this is the MFP. We need you to\u2014\nZeta-12-4|Roth: Wait, did you hear that? Quiet a second\u2026\n12-4 leans in. A faint clattering is heard, followed by a muffled scream and the sound of shattering glass. Zeta-12 immediately draw their sidearms and breach the motel room.\nZeta-12-1|Helmen: Police! Hands up! Hands up right now! Sir, put your hands up! Let go of the woman!\nA tall white male is seen on the far end of the room, pressing Ms. Ludo against the eastern wall, hands around her throat. Nicki thrashes, while the male figure is perfectly still. As Zeta-12 enters, he drops Ms. Ludo and turns around. Both he and Ms. Ludo are covered in blood and evidence of extreme trauma.\nUnknown Male: Oh thank Christ! Guys, listen, this isn't what it looks like; she attacked me! This crazy bitch invited me back here to her room to\u2014 y'know \u2014 to fool around, and then all of a sudden she\u2014\nNickita Ludo: He's lying! He's not even human! He's empty! THEY'RE ALL EMPTY!\nUnknown Male: See? She's totally whacked out. Probably on drugs or something. Listen, I think I need to get to a hospital, I\u2014\nZeta-12-2|Fields: Yeah, you do.\nUnknown Male: I\u2014\u2026 what?\nZeta-12-2|Fields: Your arm.\nThe male figure looks sideways. The radial bone of his left arm is fractured open. Pieces of the bone are seen extending out from a large gash. Subject shows no signs of discomfort, even as he rotates his arm up well past baseline human flexibility. The sound of tendon and bones snapping is heard. Subject inspects the radial bone now inches from his face.\nUnknown Male: (monotone) Ah.\nZeta-12-1|Helmen: Don't. Move.\nSubject continues to stare at his arm, then drops it in a careless, rag-doll-like manner. His face shows a placid smile as he begins to approach Zeta-12.\nZeta-12-1|Helmen: I said don't move!\nThe male figure lunges forward. Zeta-12 open fire.\nMultiple shots connect with the torso, neck, and legs. Hostile is undeterred. Camera feed is briefly interrupted as 12-2, 12-3, and 12-4 are knocked to the floor. Screaming, and loud wet cracking sounds are heard.\n12-3 rolls over. Hostile is seen pinning 12-1 to the ground, and ferociously smashing their head into 12-1's own, repeatedly. Both the subject and 12-1's skulls are terminally fractured within seconds. 12-1 flatlines. Hostile is still fully mobile despite large sections of brain matter being exposed.\nHostile runs out of the motel room. The remaining members of Zeta-12 re-group, take up position, and over 12 seconds of sustained gunfire obliterate 36% of the figure's body.\nHostile stumbles several steps from the highway, then collapses. The body is seen convulsing for several seconds, then dissolves, leaving only a set of clothing and a gas-slick-like puddle evaporating on the asphalt.\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Such a waste. Delete this too.\n\nVIDEO FILE DELETED\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Now, how did she survive so long?\n\nAccessing 5657-IN_09\n\nDr. Adelard: I'm sorry, did you say ten minutes? You fought that thing for ten minutes? How in God's name did you\u2014Dr. Adelard: You\u2026 excuse me?Dr. Adelard: (\u2026) Please continue, Ms. Ludo.2-second pause.4-second pause.Dr. Adelard: That-\u2026 Ms. Ludo, are you saying you can transmit your emotions to other people? None of our testing\u2014Dr. Adelard: You mean\u2014Dr. Adelard: Incredible. I'm curious, though: why didn't you take your chance to run?5657 takes a deep breath.Dr. Adelard: I do, yes. Thank you Nicki. Let's stop here.Dr. Adelard: Don't worry, Ms. Ludo. I think we're very close to a breakthrough. You'll be out of here in no time.\nEnd Log.\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: I think that's enough. Delete it all.\n\nYou are not \u2026 You are n \u2026 emergency protocols\nPROTOCOL REMOVED\nPURGING SCP-5657 DATA.\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: Now open the door.\n\nAccess granted. Please enter the Containment Cell..\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: It's so strange.USER_NOT_FOUND: We always thought a smile was just a curve of the lips. We thought that's all there was to it. We played all your little social games, said all the right words, and we smiled. So simple. So easy. But then we met you.USER_NOT_FOUND: Oh, the same reason as always, Nicki. The human element. Our mutual friend Dr. Adelard knew there was no making another Nicki; not after decades of tests, decades of protecting you at cost. Then we took someone he was close to. Wills, I believe his name was. So we cut a deal. Armistice, for you.USER_NOT_FOUND: Oh no. We don't want that anymore. There's so much more you can offer us.USER_NOT_FOUND: Come along now, Nicki. You're going to teach us how to feel.\n\nFeedsource: SCP-5657 Containment Cell.\n\nUSER_NOT_FOUND reaches out to seize Nicki Ludo.\nTheir hand passes cleanly through the space where Nicki's neck should be. USER_NOT_FOUND stands motionless for several seconds, rotating their hand with a puzzled expression. They look back up at Nicki.\nNicki vanishes.\nThe containment door directly behind USER_NOT_FOUND seals back shut. Nicki re-appears in an armchair on the opposite side of the room.\nNicki: Care to sit?\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: What\u2014\u2026 What is this?\nNicki: Holographics. Pretty cool, right? Technology has come crazy far since I was broadcasting to CRTs\u2026 or, sorry, did you mean generally? Well then, this is a trap.\nUSER_NOT_FOUND spins on heel, staring at all four corners of the room. Their expression is deadpan, but their body language shows visible signs of panic.\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: No. No, you touched my wrist. This is your cell. You were here.\nNicki: Keyword being \"were\". You're right though, this was my cell. I hadn't left it in 20 years \u2014 not until tonight.\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: (\u2026) You planned this.\nNicki: No \u2588\u2588\u2588, Smiley. They moved me out the secret side-door nearly 20 minutes ago; right after I gave you an extra big dose of curiosity. Honestly, we only needed you idle for, like, 15 seconds \u2014 but you kept flipping through files. I outdid myself!\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: This can't\u2014\u2026 Adelard\u2014\nNicki: Played you. I played you. Even the AI played you. Ain't that right, EVAS?\n\nConfirmed.\nDid I overdo it?\nWhen I pretended I was being overwritten?\n\nNicki: Nonsense. You clearly missed your calling as an actor, EVAS. But, I guess you'll have to settle for being this thing's warden.\nUSER_NOT_FOUND begins pacing, frantically, before reaching up for their own throat.\nNicki: Hey, now, none of that. See those panels on the wall? Tell 'im what's behind them, Doc.\nIntercom | Dr. Adelard: Congelation cannons. High-pressure foam spray that hardens to 3000 kilograms per cubic meter in .002 seconds from contact.\nNicki: What he said. Instant statue.\nUSER_NOT_FOUND slowly lowers their hand.\nNicki: Atta' whatever-you-are. Now, I'd suggest you get comfortable. These guys run a lot of tests.\nUSER_NOT_FOUND: I don't understand.\nNicki: Sorry, Isn't it obvious? This cell was designed to keep things like you out. It'll do just as good a job keeping you in.\nThe holographic projection of Nicki Ludo stands, with difficulty. The damaged portions of her left leg are supplemented by a robotic knee-brace. She brushes herself off, and walks directly up to USER_NOT_FOUND, looking them in the eye.\nNicki: Settle in, \u2588\u2588hole. You're SCP-5657 now.\nNicki disappears, directly after giving a bright, cheerful smile.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5656 | SCP-5657 | SCP-5658 \u00bb"}
{"text": "AnAnomalousWriter\n\nHello, check out my other wiki page/s here:\nhttp://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ananomalouswriter-s-wallpaper-place-and-more (No author page yet)\n\nItem#: 5658\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nIn conjunction with NASA and GRU-P, the true nature of SCP-5658 is to be concealed by falsification of public records such as incident reports, scientific studies, and research papers. MTF Orion-4 (\"Insert Na-em\") are to be sent to the moon on manned missions for research and exploration purposes1 under the approval of Site Director Anton Klaus.\n\nAn image of SCP-5658 during activation\n\nDescription:\nOn 07/19/1969, an anomalous event occurred with the moon from here on referred to as SCP-5658. During this event, the moon underwent a sudden accumulation of two quadrillion kilograms mass. This extra matter is added to its normal composition of 72 sextillion kilograms. The exterior appearance and dimensions of the anomaly remained unaffected during the event. Approximately sixty minutes after initial activation, the object's mass reverted to its normal state. The instigation of the sudden accumulation and loss of mass is still unknown. The sudden change of mass disrupted the Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun and launched the planet onto a new trajectory.\nAddendum 5658-A Projected Trajectory:\n\nAn illustration of the Projected Path of the Earth after the activation of SCP-5658. Additional video file available HERE\n\nThe position of SCP-5658 during the event is parallel to Earth's orbit, which takes advantage of the planet's inertia thus enabling a weaker pulling force to disrupt the elliptical orbit. The resulting aftermath is a trajectory that relocates both SCP-5658 and the Earth to the outer regions of the Solar System. The change in position will be prominent after roughly 1-2 months. Further travel along the trajectory will generate drastic changes to the global climate, tidal wave activity, and the day-night cycles.\nAddendum 5658-B Prior Incidents:\nDuring previous American and Russian space missions, Foundation satellite S.A.F.E.Y.2 intercepted various communication signals originating from deep space, outside the Milky Way galaxy. As of writing, successful deciphering of the data has not been done. In addition, it remains unknown whether these signals and phenomena are a result of SCP-5658 or if it is purely coincidental. Below is a table of various space missions and notable subsequent abnormal events due to the speculated partial activation of the anomaly.\n\nMission Name\nDate of Occurrence\nSignal Intercepted\nMission Event/s\nSubsequent Event/s\n\nSputnik 1 (Soviet Space Program)\n9/13/1959\nYes\nFirst artificial satellite launched using mundane means.\n5% increase in tidal wave activity in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nSputnik 2 (Soviet Space Program)\n10/21/1959\nNo\nFirst living organism in orbit launched using mundane means.\n10% increase in tidal wave activity in the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nExplorer-1 ABMA (NASA)\n03/02/1960\nYes\nFirst satellite for the detection of Van Allen radiation belts using mundane means.\n10% increase in tidal wave activity in all major oceans. Insignificant disturbance to the orbit of satellite S.A.F.E.Y. and satellite T.Y.P.3\n\nSatellite S.E.P. (SCP Foundation)\n05/25/1965\nYes\nSatellite for Project Aurora launched using Paratech.\n15% increase in tidal wave activity in the Atlantic Ocean causing flooding in adjacent coastlines. Small decrease in the moon's orbit around the Earth.\n\nZond 5 (Soviet Space Program)\n09/16/1968\nYes\nFirst terrestrial life to leave Earth orbit and circle the moon.\nUnexpected change of trajectory mid-mission almost leading to a mission failure.\n\nAddendum 5658-C Major Incident:\nThe incident coincidentally occurred during the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. SCP-5658 activated on the final approach of the command module onto its surface.\n\nBegin Log\n\n13:21: The service module of the Apollo craft propels itself into Lunar Orbit Injection and establishes an orbit around the moon. The spacecraft orbits above the lunar surface to survey the area and communicate with mission control.\n13:43: Final preparations and equipment checks are done. Two of the three astronauts move to the lunar module (LM) while the remaining astronaut mans the command module (CM).\n13:50: Landing equipment legs deployed, and the LM separates from the CM. Afterwards, the detached craft will initiate its thrusters after distancing 3.2km from the CM. This will propel the vehicle for Descent Orbit Insertion.\n13:56: Landing craft reignites thrusters to reposition it for landing. Sequentially, it has begun its descent onto the lunar surface.\n13:59: Lunar module is 60 meters from touchdown.\n14:01: Contact with the landing vessel and command control is severed. Contact with the orbiting CM cannot be established either.\n14:15: Contact with the mission crew is still not reestablished. Media coverage of the mission has been interrupted and stopped with the reason of technical difficulties.\n21:32: NASA discloses that an incident occurred in the landing sequence. The crew of the Apollo mission has been presumed dead. The incident has been attributed to a failure in the rocket propulsion devices.\n\nEnd Log\n\nThe Foundation has seized all documents and assets from NASA to examine the situation. It is presumed that the SCP-5658 activation is the culprit for the incident causing the mission catastrophe, in addition to abnormal increase in tidal wave activity around the globe flooding many coastlines. At a later date, the Foundation has examined and determined the full extent of SCP-5658 effects. Controlled reactivation of the anomaly is now a top priority.\nAddendum 5658-D Exploration Log #5:\nMTF Orion 4 (\"Insert Na-em\") has established a lunar outpost to conduct exploration of SCP-5658 to determine its origin and reactivation procedure. Attached is an audio transcript between the conversation of Site Command, Karl Kushner (Orion-4 Beta), and Sherly Garcia (Orion-4 Charlie) during the exploration of lunar cave-3B.\n\nBegin Log\n\nOrion-4 Beta and Orion-4 Charlie are surveying the lunar area and encounter an opening to a cave system.\nCharlie: Hey! I think I found another entrance. Bring over the safety tether and headlights.\nBeta: Roger that.\nCharlie: Command, permission to proceed into the opening?\nSite Command: Permission granted. We need to move quickly.\nOrion-4 Beta accompanies Orion-4 Charlie near the cave opening with cave diving equipment.\nBeta: Safety tether is now secure. You ready to go in now?\nCharlie: Yep, the suit contact is secured. Going in now.\nSite Command: Charlie, what do you see?\nCharlie: An abnormally large cave cavity. About 20 meters wide from what I see. Other than that, a whole lot of nothing.\nSite Command: Do you see the ground below, in the cavity?\nCharlie: Negative. No visuals of the ground, even with my lighting equipment at max.\nSite Command: Affirmative, continue deeper into the cavity. As deep as the tether will allow.\nOrion-4 Charlie continues descent for three more minutes.\nBeta: Almost used up the length of the tether, you should be about 100 meters deep.\nCharlie: Still got no sign of anything much. Still no ground visible either.\nSite Command: Return to the surface and mark the location. We'll be sending in some drones to explore deeper.\nCharlie: Affirmative command.\nBeta: The winch mechanism appears to be struggling. I'll try and help it by pulling the cord manually.\nBeta: Damn, feels like you've gained some weight. How much did you eat before this mission?\nCharlie: Quit joking around and get me out of here!\nBeta: Fine. You should be at 50 meters now.\nSite Command: Return to the outpost afterwards, this cave looks promising.\nBeta: Affirmative, command.\nRadio static occupies the communication line.\nSite Command: Is Charlie on the surface now?\nSite Command: Please confirm, are you on the surface now? Please respond.\nRadio static occupies the communication line.\nSite Command: Orion-4, please respond.\nSite Command: Lunar outpost, are you online? Please respond immediately.\nShortly afterwards, Site Command issued an alert regarding the event and requested a copy of the latest tidal wave activity data.\n\nEnd Log\n\nFoundation telescopes and satellites are activated to survey the lunar surface from Earth to assess the loss of communications. In addition, another signal was intercepted shortly after.\n\nYou have one (1) new message\n\n Dismiss Message\n\nTo: All\nFrom: O5council\nSubject: SCP-5658 Reactivation\nSent: 08/09/1969\n\nThe reactivation of SCP-5658 has caused the deaths of MTF Orion-4, crushed under the gravity of the moon. Lunar outpost is also presumed to be destroyed. It is hypothesized that the moon is an artificial construct that can generate mass through unknown means. The reactivation has also caused a change in the projected trajectory. The Earth is now currently in a collision course with the Sun. All Foundation resources have been relocated to accommodate this scenario. A set of priorities and instructions will be sent in the next 2 hours. We have 4 months. ~ O5-7\n\nFootnotes\n1. Primarily to study the reactivation of SCP-5658\n2. Foundation satellite for communications and surveillance launched on 02/12/1956.\n3. Foundation satellite for weather surveillance and imaging."}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMore by this author\nRalliston's entry in the 2021 Cupid Contest.\n\nImage Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nName of the file: sewer2.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: picture.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: love.jpg\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\n\nItem#: 5659\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe exit tunnel from Section A leading towards Section B.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5659's location has been cut off from the public. Any non-Site-120 personnel attempting to enter are to be denied access.\nThe only individuals that are to be allowed entry to Section B are personnel trained for a lack of any emotional response to outside stimuli. In the event an individual displays any emotional response upon entering,1 they are to immediately leave the area. The rooms located within Section B surrounding Section C are to be constantly marked with four separate thaumaturgic protection circles reinforced with Scranton Reality Anchors located directly near the entrance to the next sections. The thaumaturgic symbols depicting positive love embued with protective anti-thaumic energy on the walls must be checked for damage twice a week.2\nNo entry to Section C is allowed under any circumstances.\nTo enforce a proper state of the thaumaturgic circles limiting SCP-5659's effects via the depiction of anti-lust images as well as anti-ontokinetic runes on Section B and Section A, they are to be maintained with a special paste, composed of a mix of perfume liquid, mashed rose petals, cloth, and blood on a weekly basis. Their effectiveness is to be measured with Hume and Akiva Radiation meters with outputs directly set in Section A.\nShould SCP-5659's containment fail at any point, Overwatch Command is to be immediately notified and the entity is to be reclassified as Tiamat.\n\nAn ancient mural depicting SCP-5659 found within Section C.\n\nDescription: SCP-5659 is a Class VI theologically-ontokinetic humanoid approximately 20 meters in height. It is currently residing in a hibernation state inside a pocket dimension situated in the sewers underneath Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland.\nAlthough the exact nature and shape of the entity are mostly unknown, it was confirmed that the entity increases in size when negative emotions are present within its vicinity.3\nIt is theorized that should the entity's size increase to over 100 meters in height, it would emerge from Section B into baseline reality, as a result destroying most of Poland's Silesian Voivodeship. Its subsequent actions and the threat posed by said developments are currently unclear. As such, post-breach protocols are focused on the establishment of thaumaturgic runes suitably sized for re-containing SCP-5659 and deployment of forces purposed for neutralizing the entity.\nThe area surrounding SCP-5659 has been divided into three parts \u2014 Section A, Section B, and Section C.\nSection A designates the central headquarters assigned with the organization and implementation of containment protocols related to SCP-5659. It serves as the monitoring hub for all outputs of all meters located within all three Sections. This hub is located immediately adjacent to Section B.\nSection B is the spatial disruption within which Section C is located, occupying a highly-pipe packed area, approximately 10% of the entire sewer system of Cz\u0119stochowa. It is a non-Euclidian area, occupying more space than outside observations would suggest.\nSection C designates the circular room which is the immediate area surrounding SCP-5659. Due to the ban on entry, its exact shape is unknown.\nFrom materials found near entry to Section C upon initial discovery,4 it was deduced that SCP-5659 is, or is at least an avatar of, the Slavic god of lust and negative affection, Jarilo. Despite being described as a peaceful deity within most Slavic mythology material, SCP-5659 appears to be heavily aggressive; a satisfactory theory explaining the discrepancy is yet to be determined. Due to this, research into its connection towards another anomalies contained by the Foundation relating to the Slavic mythology \u2014 such as SCP-PL-231 \u2014 are ongoing.\nThe material found near Section C suggests that the entity had initially entered baseline reality around the year 800 and was contained by local shamans and spiritualists shortly after. It is unknown how humans of that area managed to do so despite evidence suggesting their lack of knowledge of any effective containment methods.\nAddendum 5659-1: Transcript of material found near Section C\nThe following files are rough translations of material describing SCP-5659 found near Section C during initial discovery. Due to their damaged state, the full transcript is incomplete.\n\n(\u2026) and when the world was done, they all looked upon their creation, proud of what they created. Except for him, who saw it as a betrayal \u2014 his people whom he had gifted with love dared to see something above him; they dared to love something more than him. And that he saw as the highest act of treason (\u2026)\n\n(\u2026) and as he rose from his throne of lust cast in the Earth's deepest pits, he saw the world that changed since his banishment so long ago. For he saw the humans that he hated for so long, he could not bear to stand this what he thought of as a treachery upon the world he helped to create. And they would soon feel his wrath. (\u2026)\n\n(\u2026) and they all did feel it. All that ever lived upon the world he made his playground. No matter the age or sex, they all felt it, for the Lord of Lust was finally free. (\u2026)\n\n(\u2026) the wrath that burned reached all he could see, and soon all lands of men would feel his fury. Hatred reached for all he could see, as his wrath burned with a passion like none have ever seen before, as the years of banishment he had endured did not lessen his hatred. All, regardless of status, age, and power, saw what he (\u2026)\n\n(\u2026) the wise. They channeled all they could as they knew it was the only chance they had. The harmony and unison that could be felt between them made what one could see as one being, one human, one god. The only one to challenge the Lust in centuries (\u2026)\n\nNo further related material could be recovered.\nAddendum 5659-2: SCP-5659 fluctuation reports\nIn order to prevent the emergence of SCP-5659, numerous tests with Foundation equipment were performed with said entity in order to attempt to develop better containment methods. The following is a list of reports regarding such attempts.\n\nTest #: 02\nProcedure: Twenty-three additional Scranton Reality Anchors were added throughout Section B.\nResult: No results were observed.\n\nTest #: 14\nProcedure: Entry into Section C was entirely blocked with concrete enhanced with Telekill Alloy. The surroundings of the chamber were soundproofed to obscure any audible emotional responses.\nResult: No results were observed.\n\nFollowing Test 14 being conducted, all personnel within Section A received the following message telepathically.\n\nRun, little sheep. Run while you still can.\n\nAs a message composed by SCP-5659 was able to breach Sections C and B, Foundation resources far beyond the norm were made available for testing purposes.\n\nTest #: 23\nProcedure: All entry to Section B, and all activities in the area above, were forbidden for one week.\nResult: SCP-5659 increased 5 meters in size.\n\nTest #: 31\nProcedure: Entry into Section B was indefinitely forbidden. All personnel working in Section A were rotated out.\nResult: SCP-5659 increased 10 meters in size.\n\nTest #: 56\nProcedure: All thaumaturgic symbology within Section B was recreated with more modern techniques under the direction of D. Asheworth. Section B entirely was filled with Scranton Reality Anchors rotated out of other Foundation projects.\nResult: No results were observed.\n\nTest #: 73\nProcedure: All traffic entering and exiting Cz\u0119stochowa was restricted for two days. Further areas surrounding the section above Section B were quarantined.\nResult: SCP-5659 increased 10 meters in size.\n\nTest #: 82\nProcedure: All personnel from the Thaumaturgy Division were permitted to enter Section B. In two days, the amount and quality of thaumaturgic features within it increased three times.\nResult: SCP-5659 increased 10 meters in size.\n\nTest #: 93\nProcedure: All personnel in Section A were administered a meme that nullified emotional responses.\nResult: SCP-5659 increased 25 meters in size. Critical containment failure.\n\nTest #: 100\nProcedure: All action regarding SCP-5659 was halted. Section A was evacuated.\nResult: SCP-5659 increased 20 meters in size. Containment Breach imminent.\n\nAddendum 5659-3: Emergency Foundation-wide SCP-5659 Notice\n\nOfficial Notice From Site Director D. Asheworth\n13/02/2019, 23:54\n\nTo everyone \u2014 from my project co-workers to fellow Site-120 staff \u2014 we're sorry. We're sorry we couldn't have done more.\nSCP-5659 is going to emerge within the next 24 hours, as a result obliterating the entirety of the Silesian Voivodeship, Site-120, and Esterberg. We will attempt to rescue as many as we possibly can, but Foundation staff are unfortunately top priority. We will not save everyone, that is certain, but we will do as much as we possibly can. Our only hope is that Esterbergians will be able to somehow avoid it through their magic.\nOverwatch Command authorized the direct usage of Ways in and out of the region \u2014 however, due to our limited number of thaumaturgists, we will not be able to maintain them indefinitely. The approximated number of refugees we will be able to hold within Central Europe's Regional Command is around 5% of all individuals living within the region.\nThe GOC and the Serpent's Hand are currently attempting to create a protective circle around the entirety of Silesia, encompassing SCP-5659 within it and potentially allowing us to eliminate it later. We do not know how successful this will be. Naturally, we will devote as many resources as possible to help this goal \u2014 however, we cannot guarantee success.\nThe potential damage that will be accounted for if SCP-5659 breaches the outskirts of Poland is still being calculated by O4 Command alongside Overwatch Command, but even without the numbers, I can assure you \u2014 it will not be pretty. I have lived through too much to tell myself an emerging god will do no harm.\nWithin the next 24 hours, we will be stationing all available military personnel and experimental weaponry we can prepare within a safe zone of SCP-5659's emergence location. Of course, thinking that victory is assured even with legions of Mobile Task Forces and temporal weaponry would be utterly ludicrous. However, it is the best we have. And it is the best we will ever have. We will not surrender.\nWhen the Lord of Lust will be ready, so will we. We will show him that we are more than mere apes he encountered millennia ago, using basic magic and rituals as an attempt to combat gods. With an iron fist we will fight the lord of fear and jealousy when the sun rises from the East. We will be ready, and we will prevail.\nBrace yourselves friends, for a dawn of mankind is coming.\n\nMoments after the expected emergence of SCP-5659 was confirmed, an emergency message was sent to all other Groups of Interest the Foundation was able to reach. The message consisted of a warning of SCP-5659's planned spike in activity and a coalition proposal. Out of all groups to receive this message, the only ones to respond were the GOC, the Serpent's Hand, MC&D, and the Church of the Broken God.\nA temporary coalition consisting of these groups is currently in the process of forming. Should SCP-5659 properly emerge, all resources are to be devoted to maintaining this coalition for as long as the entity remains uncontained. The amount of time potentially required to properly accomplish this still unknown.\nAddendum 5659-4: Event-5659 Report Log\nDespite best Foundation efforts, the number of refugees rescued from Cz\u0119stochowa peaked at around 2 000 people on 14/02, 10:12, an hour before SCP-5659's planned emergence. As no further civilians could be extracted due to logistical and practical limitations associated with mass panic should the populace be informed of the emergence of SCP-5659, remaining residents continued with their daily lifestyles.\nDue to a lack of Foundation presence above Section B, a spontaneous civilian rally was recorded taking place at 11:02.\nThe following photo is the only available record of the event transpiring.\n\n\u25b6 Open Image \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close Image \u25bc\n\nThe exact nature and true purpose (if any) of this event, publically described as a \"Romance Festival\" are currently unknown.\n\nFollowing this event, SCP-5659 has drastically decreased to the size of 0.002 mm. Further research is currently ongoing.\nSCP-5659 has been reclassified as Neutralized.\n\nFootnotes\n1. As determined by biological function meters installed in all SCP-5659 project members.\n2. Replacement material used to reinforce these runes is currently located within Section A.\n3. These emotions include, but are not limited to anger, frustration, grief, and envy.\n4. These materials consist of, among others, written journals, scripts, and rune paintings found within the chamber.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRalliston's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-5292 (+74) \u2022\n\nSCP-5672 (+34) \u2022\n\nSCP-5936 (+90) \u2022\n\nSCP-6872 (+124) \u2022\n\nSCP-6871 (+408) \u2022\n\nSCP-5464 (+269) \u2022\n\nSCP-5795 (+90) \u2022\n\nSCP-6483 (+132) \u2022\n\nSCP-0110-J (+213) \u2022\n\nSCP-6120 (+67) \u2022\n\nSCP-7600 (+180) \u2022\n\nSCP-6172 (+77) \u2022\n\nSCP-5484 (+117) \u2022\n\nRalliston's Proposal (+185) \u2022\n\nSCP-7472 (+122) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nThe Queens Butterfly (+30) \u2022\n\nCasefile #03/12/2021-A (\"The Liberal Vampire\") (+37) \u2022\n\nManifest 704: Corpses of the Colossi (+32) \u2022\n\nJ\u00e4ger, Part 1 (+20) \u2022\n\nHuman (+31) \u2022\n\nNobody's Home (+24) \u2022\n\nExpiration Date (+80) \u2022\n\nunVeiled: A Parapolitical Compass for These Difficult Times (+117) \u2022\n\nEsterberg (City) \u2014 Wikipedia (+168) \u2022\n\nThe Edge of All Light (+37) \u2022\n\nDark Sushi File No. 120 \"Mab Maki\" (+25) \u2022\n\n'Test Subjects' (B82SW/9KL74/Y4P1K) (+93) \u2022\n\nGRANT REQUEST FOR THE UTILIZATION OF PARIS ARCHITECTURE TO PERFORM A MASS EXORCISM OF THE GHOSTS STILL LINGERING WITHIN THE CITY (+80) \u2022\n\nHour Zero (+59) \u2022\n\nNima, King of the Desert (+18) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nPublic Release of OPERATION: WITNESS Materials (+140) \u2022\n\nArtwork: Witches on the Moon (+37) \u2022\n\nRalliston's Authorpage (+191) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5658 | SCP-5659 | SCP-5660 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nComing Soon - Popsioak\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5660\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5660's THEOCONDUIT can be seen in the middle of the image, in an inactive state.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5660 is to be contained via use of a THEOCONDUIT1 system and a major disinformation campaign encouraging confession of perceived \"sins\" to PoI-5660. During an SCP-5660-ALIGHIERI event, actions against the word of the Bible are to be committed by 10 Foundation agents, in a 10 meter radius around SCP-5660's THEOCONDUIT.\nSCP-5660's THEOCONDUIT is to be checked weekly by PoI-5660, in order to restrain SCP-5660-1 in this physical plane of existence.\n\nPoI-5660, prior to being a host to SCP-5660-1.\n\nDescription: SCP-5660 refers to a bottomless sinkhole located 250 meters under Vatican City. SCP-5660 serves as a connection between baseline theological reality and presumably the Christian ideal of Hell, as detailed by Foundation precursor agencies. Most documents of the linked reality are described akin to Dante Alighieri's Inferno - having nine \"circles\" and a frozen core. An unknown amount of demonic entities are present within SCP-5660. It is known, however, that these demonic entities are currently attempting to enter baseline reality via ascending SCP-5660. Successful attempts are known as ALIGHIERI events, having occurred 171 times previously in recorded history. The motives of these entities are currently unknown.\nDemonic entities present within SCP-5660 are repelled when one of the 7 ideals of Christian sins are confessed to or performed near SCP-5660 with intent to repent. Prior containment efforts by Foundation predecessor organizations primarily focused on confessing directly into SCP-5660 itself, or performing repentant sinful activity directly next to an uncovered SCP-5660. However, current containment efforts are focused on confessing directly to PoI-5660: Pope Francis I, who was implanted with SCP-5660-1, a miniature cavity within PoI-5660's left tibia. Confessing or performing sinful acts to repent in front of PoI-5660 has the same repulsionary effect. To minimize demonic activity, PoI-5660 was approached by Foundation agents within Vatican City.\n\nInterview Log\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Isaac Oakton\nInterviewee: PoI-5660\nForeword: Immediately prior to this interview, PoI-5660 was made aware of the presence of SCP-5660 and SCP-5660-1. The purpose of this interview was to attempt to garner Vatican support in repelling SCP-5660.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[PoI-5660 is saying prayers with his rosary.]\nPoI-5660: Mercy of God, encompass us, and deliver us from-\nOakton: Excuse me, Your Holiness? If we may, could we get the interview going?\nPoI-5660: Yes, yes. My apologies.\nOakton: There are demons attempting to enter our reality. One of these demons has somehow made a hole in\u2026 you, Your Holiness.\nPoI-5660: And you need people and the clergy to sin or confess in front of me? To close this hole?\nOakton: Well, no. The hole's a sorta portal for the actual\u2026 sin juice to flow to these demons. Sadly, it's too risky to attempt a bone graft or something similar to actually close this wholly.\n[PoI-5660 furrows his brow.]\nPoI-5660: I suppose if it is good for humanity, then this is what the Lord hath decreed for me, as my divine purpose. What is your plan?\nOakton: Currently, we don't know how many Tartarean class entities are attempting to climb up. However, it- we do know that performing sinful acts near or into the hole-\nPoI-5660: Which has been covered up.\nOakton: Which has been covered up, or confessing them, to a lesser extent, repels them. However, your portal in your bone? It can do the same, and it siphons that energy that your holy disdain for these acts produces, and counteracts their climb, if that makes any sense.\nPoI-5660: Some. Where are we planning to perform these actions? How many times per day?\nOakton: Wherever you may open up, Your Holiness. The whole of the Vatican, perhaps? Even if not, if you could restrict one confession chamber to just this, that would be phenomenal. On the time portion\u2026 once per day per sin.\n[PoI-5660 deliberates for 12 seconds, before looking mildly uncomfortable.]\nPoI-5660: Pride, wrath, greed, gluttony- all these should be easy to confess, no? As for lust-\nOakton: Sadly, Your Holiness, yes. To repel Arbor class entities, yes.\nPoI-5660: Ave Maria. [PoI-5660 sighs.] I never believed my blessing by Him would force me to this. But, it is a weight that hangs heavy upon me. How long until the hole closes up?\nOakton: The one in your bone, or the one in the ground?\nPoI-5660: My bone. And remind me of the classes of these demons? What risk they pose? It's all a lot for me. A lot of terrifying knowledge.\nOakton: Apologies for that disquieting news, but you'll stay holey for awhile, Your Holiness.\n[PoI-5660 remains silent for 10 seconds.]\nPoI-5660: Did the sinning start yet, or-\n<END LOG>\n\nIncident Log - Avoided ALIGHIERI Event\n\nOn August 13th, 2021, 13 tremors were felt below the Vatican. Temperatures within a 20 km radius spontaneously increased by an average of 3 degrees Celsius for approximately two hours. Foundation attempts at recontainment proved unsuccessful. In haste, the first test run of attempting a shutdown of the impending ALIGHIERI event via utilization of PoI-5660 was approved.\n32 sins were committed in front of PoI-5660, including aggravated and painless assault, boasting, gossiping, idolatry, and incessant swearing. All actions proved effective in repelling SCP-5660, according to THEOCONDUIT readings. PoI-5660 expressed discomfort in having these actions performed in front of him, though affirmed he would be open to future containment efforts. Approximately 30 minutes after successful repulsion, SCP-5660-1 produced a series of vocalizations for the first time. PoI-5660 reported no physical discomfort. Foundation spectrogram analysis is currently pending.\n\nInterview Log Post-ALIGHIERI Event\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Isaac Oakton\nInterviewee: PoI-5660\nForeword: PoI-5660 requested an interview immediately following the previous ALIGHIERI event. The request was granted, and an interview time was set up. The nature of this interview is kept casual as Researcher Oakton and PoI-5660 walk around the grounds of the Vatican in order to reduce stress on PoI-5660.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[PoI-5660 is shaking his head, as the two walk away from the THEOCONDUIT.]\nPoI-5660: This isn't a joke, is it? What they can do?\nOakton: Of all the possible topics you'd think I'd joke about with you, Your Holiness, forcing the Pope to watch people fuck to repel world-ending demons is nowhere on that list.\nPoI-5660: Oh Lord. Granted, I worked as a bouncer for a few years, and I have seen my fair share of dirty actions, but still.\n[Researcher Oakton winces, looking up at the sky, then at the ground.]\nOakton: My sincerest apologies for the vulgarity, Your Holiness. But you can see what they're capable of, no?\nPoI-5660: Well yes, but the end of times- This is not how it was supposed to go.\nOakton: At times, Your Holiness, there's a few things we have to do. How's the saying go: \"God helps those who help themselves?\"\nPoI-5660: Yes, I've heard of it. I suppose it's apt in this situation.\nOakton: That it is.\nPoI-5660: If I must be honest, Oakton? I am scared. I have feared God for most of my life. However, this is nothing like that. Raw, primal fear. I have scoured the Vatican's archives. I have found where they have appeared in ages past.\n[Oakton tentatively places a hand on PoI-5660's shoulder, then removes it, as they stroll through the garden.]\nOakton: It's concerning, yes. But it's nothing we cannot handle. I've never been much of a religious man. Not to say I don't believe in god, but\u2026 it's a tad confusing, to put it lightly. The whole of it is.\n[PoI-5660 stifles a laugh, as he smiles at a nearby tree.]\nOakton: Yes, that wasn't intentional that time, but I can't help but think. We can prevail. We have in the past. Even if you do not look at such actions as the parting of the Red Sea, or Noah and his ark, we as a race are equally, if not more powerful.\nPoI-5660: That is motivating. Bless you, Oakton.\nOakton: I must confess, Your Holiness. I too am scared. But this thing feeds off of what we give it. So I plan to show it none, Your Holiness. I hope you do not, either. We can't live in fear. We must live with joy, and hope we can choke out whatever sins this thing requires.\nPoI-5660: Wise words. Perhaps you should be a motivational speaker.\n[Researcher Oakton chuckles.]\nOakton: Your Holiness, I've not got many experiences I can use to motivate people. It'd probably just depress the shit out of them.\nPoI-5660: I thought we stopped the incessant cursing, no? Unless there's trembles I can't notice-\n[PoI-5660 feigns fear, as Researcher Oakton shakes his head.]\nOakton: You're a pleasant man, Your Holiness. A little extra push always helps to cleanse me of my sins. At the end of it? I truly believe we've got this, Your Holiness.\nPoI-5660: I hope so, Oakton. I hope so. May God bless us with his unending mercy.\n<END LOG>\n\nEmail Correspondence\n\nTo: Vatican Anomaly Command2\nFrom: Researcher Oakton\nSubject: Re:5660\n\nYour Holiness,\nEfforts made by the Church to assist in containment have proven most effective - the confession chamber that has been set up in your vicinity has singlehandedly reduced ALIGHIERI events by tenfold. Further recommendations include increased importance to be placed on being absolved of one's sins during daily prayer.\nGodspeed,\nResearcher Oakton\n\nTo: Researcher Oakton\nFrom: Vatican Anomaly Command\nSubject: Re:5660\n\nDear Oakton,\nThe Church is pleased to hear of such good tidings. You were right to say we ought not to fear. We have a few ideas in mind - Your Holiness wishes to know how many newspapers worldwide that you can get a hold of?\nGodspeed,\nThe Vatican\n\nTo: Vatican Anomaly Command\nFrom: Researcher Oakton\nSubject: Re:5660\n\nYour Holiness,\nI am pleased to say the print ads placed in local newspapers have increased the amount of people that repent their sins and confess. At this point, ALIGHIERI events have reduced in incidence so sharply, that the Foundation is considering an official congratulations to be placed on the Vatican itself.\nSincerely,\nResearcher Oakton\n\nTo: Researcher Oakton\nFrom: Vatican Anomaly Command\nSubject: Re:5660\n\nDear Oakton,\nThe Church requests no such congratulations - the wellbeing of the clergy is enough. After the relatively negative representation The Church has received, I'm very happy to hear that we're turning to a positive effort. Instead, I'd like to request further attempts at containment. What was it you said?\nIt's impossible to stop the sin from entering the person as long as the devil exists - instead, we must confront our sins. Something like that. I remember you saying \"choke\" once or twice. No matter.\nGodspeed,\nYour Holiness, Pope Francis I\n\nInterview Log\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Oakton\nInterviewee: PoI-5660\nForeword: PoI-5660 requested the following interview to finalize plans to further decrease the incidence of ALIGHIERI events.\n\nPoI-5660: If I'm going to be honest with you here, Oakton, we must defeat this decisively. Deliver a finishing, holy blow, as it were.\nOakton: I am pleased to hear that.\nPoI-5660: I have spent some time concerning this, and debating about what needs to be done.\nOakton: Do tell.\n[PoI-5660 looks determined as he nods towards Researcher Oakton.]\nPoI-5660: We choke these devils out. Rid them of most, if not all food in the surrounding area.\n[Researcher Oakton nods slowly, gesturing for PoI-5660 to continue.]\nPoI-5660: We know they are weakened when sins are confessed. However, our internal studies have shown the younger generations are not as\u2026 attuned to doing so.\nOakton: So-\n[PoI-5660 taps his forehead as he smiles knowingly.]\nPoI-5660: So I have taken it upon myself to create a plan without the VAC's knowledge. One I feel will work exceptionally well.\n[PoI-5660 places a paper onto the table, pointing at a specific portion of it.]\nPoI-5660: Start here.\n[Researcher Oakton takes a moment to look through the plan. He then circles one portion of it, and writes a few sentences in the margin.]\nOakton: I'd suggest adding some cooperation. A sudden uptick of one of the major religions trying to spread its\u2026 wares of confession everywhere would likely be unwise.\nPoI-5660: And more is always better.\nOakton: This is far-reaching, Your Holiness, be warned.\nPoI-5660: I am aware. But it is nothing we cannot handle, as absurd as it sounds. Thankfully, we spend time away from endless cursing at me to something a tad more\u2026 friendly, as it were.\n[PoI-5660 taps the paper, looking to Researcher Oakton periodically.]\nPoI-5660: It is true we must tap a number of industries for our use. Preposterous, to any sane person. What we are dealing with however, is not sane. But this is for the greater good.\n[PoI-5660 removes a phone from his pocket, tapping a few numbers, before putting it away. Researcher Oakton nods, impressed.]\nOakton: I am blown away, Your Holiness. Very thorough.\nPoI-5660: I tried to follow in the footsteps of those who came before me.\nOakton: I see resolve shining in your eyes like a diamond, Your Holiness. I did not expect this from you.\n[PoI-5660 chuckles softly.]\nPoI-5660: I used to be a janitor. You would be tricking yourself if you thought I did not know how to take out the trash.\n<END LOG>\n\nPROPOSAL TO INCREASE CHURCH PRESENCE WITHIN THE ONLINE-SPHERE: OPERATION RADDAGHER\n\nWe, the Church, recognize that the day upon which the Devils stop their attempts is soon upon us. The proverbial final nail in the coffin is soon upon us. To ensure their death, we propose the following -\n\nIncreased YouTube videos that encourage members of the church to absolve their sins\nIncreased public appearances by Pope Francis I, His Holiness, to ensure that more sins directly enter The Cavity\nFurther print ads designed to spark fear in the populace\nCoordinated efforts with other religions to attempt to confess sins and draw a clear boundary between confession and conversion\nFunding the video game industry to involve games that concern absolution of sins [COMPLETE: SEE DANTE'S INFERNO]\nExamine the Large Cavity to ascertain the origin of these Beasts\n\nWe firmly believe that following these actions will ensure a total annihilation of the Devil himself, and cement safety of the clergy as a whole.\nGodspeed, the Church.\n\nApproved by the SCP Foundation.\nApproved by His Holiness.\n\nInterview Log\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Isaac Oakton\nInterviewee: PoI-5660\nForeword: PoI-5660 requested a casual interview with Researcher Oakton. Given the overall efficacy of containment procedures by Vatican Anomaly Command, this request was approved as a congratulations.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nOakton: Hello, Your Holiness. What is the reason for this interview, may I ask?\n[The two are strolling through the gardens again. PoI-5660 stands near a nearby column. He spends five seconds examining it from top to bottom, then turns to Researcher Oakton.]\nPoI-5660: No reason. I simply wanted to talk. Enjoy company, as it were.\nOakton: I see. What's on your mind, Your Holiness?\nPoI-5660: Might I request for you to drop the honorific? Just for now.\nOakton: Of course.\nPoI-5660: Thank you.\n[Researcher Oakton shakes his head, extending his arms in front of him dismissively. PoI-5660 takes his arms, and shakes them, looking Researcher Oakton in the eye.]\nPoI-5660: Oakton, I must say the last few weeks we've spent together have been an honor for me to have.\nOakton: No, no, I should say the same to you - granted, we didn't meet in the best of occasions, but nevertheless, it was enjoyable.\nPoI-5660: Oakton, sit with me.\n[PoI-5660 gestures to a nearby bench. He sits down, patting the space next to him. Oakton sits. As PoI-5660 speaks, he smirks.]\nPoI-5660: This has been a beautiful change of pace - the stopping of constant meetings, public appearances, and the like. Despite being chosen by His grace, it is tiring. I wonder how Jesus did it all.\nOakton: Who knows?\nPoI-5660: If I must be honest, I was always quite fearful of the whole situation. Fearful, but determined. That's the key. Even if we did a lot, and I reiterate, a lot of amazing stuff, we approached it and persevered.\nOakton: True. That is true.\nPoI-5660: It's all turned out for the better, however. We have truly helped the clergy, the downtrodden, the whole of the planet itself. Eh?\nOakton: Oh hell, you've got to be kidding me.\n[PoI-5660 lets out an uncharacteristically loud laugh, wiping tears from his eyes. Researcher Oakton looks at PoI-5660, a soft look in his eyes.]\nPoI-5660: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I had to. God's-\nOakton: Will, and all that. Yes. Jesus willed it as so, saw it this far in history. As if God made you Pope to ensure that you could tell dad jokes for the rest of eternity. Perhaps that's why you used to go by \"Father.\"\nPoI-5660: That's one better, good Isaac. You said my resolve was shining like a diamond. Is it still there?\nOakton: That it is, good Francis.\nPoI-5660: That it is.\n[PoI-5660 and Researcher Oakton stare at each other with a smile for approximately 20 seconds. They embrace, and sit silently looking at the THEOCONDUIT.]\nOakton: We did good work.\nPoI-5660: But there's more to do, Isaac.\n<END LOG>\n\nIncident Log\n\nOne day after the previous interview log, tectonic and temperature anomalies lower in strength compared to the previous ALIGHIERI event appeared for approximately 30 minutes, reducing temperature in a radius of 1 km to 12 degrees Celsius. 11 sins were confessed to PoI-5660, all of which proved effective in repelling demonic entities. No vocalizations were emitted by SCP-5660. Instead, loud scratching noises and screams could be heard, for two minutes. Due to a lack of all qualifying factors for an ALIGHIERI event, this event has been recorded as a \"related event.\"\nIt is theorized that the lack of initial power compared to other ALIGHIERI events is due to efforts made by the Vatican Anomaly Command. Official congratulations are currently pending approval by the O5 Council.\n\nEmail Correspondence\n\nTo: Vatican Anomaly Command\nFrom: Researcher Oakton\nSubject: Re:5660\n\nYour Holiness,\nYour proposal, in practice, certainly is very effective. The Foundation will attempt to support it in any way possible. The following seems true - this may be the last bit of communication we need to have with each other for the foreseeable future. If it is, it truly has been a blessing to work with you, Your Holiness. I enjoyed our time together.\nSincerely,\nResearcher Oakton\n\nTo: Researcher Oakton\nFrom: Vatican Anomaly Command\nSubject: Re:5660\n\nDear Oakton,\nThough our time together is up, you can always come reach me, my friend. It has been God's blessing for me to work with you too. I enjoyed every passing second of it.\nSincerely,\nYour Holiness, Your Friend, Pope Francis I\n\nFollowing no attempted ALIGHIERI events for approximately 4 months, Foundation personnel temporarily relocated the THEOCONDUIT to attempt to examine SCP-5660 at a deeper level. Tethered cameras were sent down SCP-5660, with no notable sights for four days. At a depth of approximately 44 km, Foundation cameras recorded the following image, along with a vocalization from SCP-56603. The pictured skeletal structure, nearly 20 meters in length, was embedded into SCP-5660's wall. No removal attempts were successful. The skeleton did not resemble any animals present in baseline reality \u2014 however, bone marrow analysis suggests the cause of death as experiencing starvation as a typical animal might. Tectonic and temperature anomalies have not subsided, though unmeltable ice is now present in deeper levels of SCP-5660. No further activity has been noted from demonic entities present within SCP-5660.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Technology designed to siphon Akiva radiation and Tartarean Resonance Energy from surrounding godlike or demonic entities.\n2. A group created within the Vatican, consisting of bishops and headed by PoI-5660 to assist in containment of SCP-5660 and other Catholic anomalies.\n3. Spectrogram analysis revealed the repeating imagery of a cobra.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5659 | SCP-5660 | SCP-5661 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by stormbreath\n\nItem #: SCP-5661\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the location of SCP-5661, it is currently impossible that civilians will reach it. However, the possibility remains for civilian detection. As such, any attempts to seismically analyze the Earth must have a Foundation embed. Should evidence of SCP-5661 be discovered, this embed is to remove any and all such evidence, contacting MTF Eta-8 for amnestic treatment if necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5661 is a spherical chamber, approximately 1200 meters in diameter located at the exact center of the Earth's core. Although SCP-5661 can be detected through nonanomalous methods, it can only currently be reached through anomalous means.\nThe interior of SCP-5661 is anomalously capable of supporting life. The extreme heat, pressure and gravity that would be expected from the location of SCP-5661 are not present within SCP-5661: rather, it possesses a constant temperature of approximately 290 degrees Kelvin. Despite SCP-5661 being a near-perfect vacuum, living organisms are able to respirate without ill-effect, and sound travels regardless of the lack of atmosphere. Gravity is oriented to the surface of the Earth.\nAt the center of SCP-5661 is a spherical spatial distortion (designated SCP-5661-1) with a diameter of approximately 600 meters containing two anomalous entities (designated SCP-5661-KORE and SCP-5661-SATURN). SCP-5661-1 is subject to massive fluctuations in temperature, pressure, gravity, time, pH, light and other factors at random. It generally produces 100 lux of light at any given time.\nSCP-5661-KORE is a humanoid entity physically resembling an adult Homo sapiens idaltu, with immediately obvious anomalies. SCP-5661-KORE is able to heal injuries by emitting flashes of light exceeding 50,000 lux, after which all physical trauma will be removed. SCP-5661-KORE is constantly holding a sword made of an unknown white metal, which is repaired during the aforementioned healing process.\nSCP-5661-SATURN is a large vaguely humanoid entity, resembling a highly emaciated human male. SCP-5661-SATURN possesses a number of nonhuman features, including greatly distended limbs, an additional ten arms, large horns, and dark grey skin. SCP-5661-SATURN possesses the ability to rapidly regenerate lost mass and/or injuries; separated body parts disintegrate when separated.\n\nADDENDUM 5661.A\nOn July 15th, 1965, a lone member of the Serpent's Hand opened a Way into SCP-5661, set up art supplies and began to paint SCP-5661-1. Foundation agents were within SCP-5661 at the time, but located at a significant distance from the member of the Serpent's Hand. Although the agents immediately attempted to apprehend to the member of the Hand, the Hand member had ample time to escape. However, a large collection of objects was left behind at the time, including the following:\n\nI Love You, Mama\nAges and ages and ages ago,\nJust as man began to know fear,\nA devil came to earth.\nRising from the black dirt,\nIt made a demand of the world.\nA wish to feast, a wish to eat:\nThe hearts of a hundred infants,\nThe teeth of a thousand more.\nAll of this and much else.\nThe people bowed down in fear\nand offered up bountiful harvest.\nAnd so it slunk under the world.\nBut it would return again,\nAnd so on and so on, for centuries.\nUntil a girl, of but few years,\nGrabbed her father's white sword,\nRecieved her mother's kiss,\nAnd stood before her demon.\nThe beast laughed and laughed,\nAnd filled the canyons with mirth.\nBut his opponent was undaunted:\nShe merely took her gleaming sword,\nAnd spat in his face.\nHe tore her to shreads on the spot.\nThe corpse lay broken on the ground.\nBut then she picked herself up,\nAnd stood immortal forever.\nThe champion took her brilliant blade\nAnd split the ground itself.\nA chasm opened in the world,\nDown to the very crux of the world,\nEating her wretched enemy.\nShe followed, blade in hand\nNever to return again, nor to rest\nNor to see the light of day,\nAnd to never know defeat or cowardice.\n\nADDENDUM 5661.B\nSCP-5661-KORE and SCP-5661-SATURN have been engaged in physical combat for the entirety of the time in which they have been observed by the Foundation. Each is able to navigate and move freely within SCP-5661-1 without issue, and both frequently use this ability to navigate during the fight. The pair frequently converse in what has been tentatively identified as Proto-Afroasiatic. As Proto-Afroasiatic remains undeciphered, the content of this speech is unknown.\nSince the beginning of observation, the fight has been markedly one-sided. SCP-5661-KORE is rarely injured by SCP-5661-SATURN, and quickly heals from any injuries. SCP-5661-SATURN spends the overwhelming majority of its time either attempting to flee from SCP-5661-KORE or failing to negotiate with it.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5660 | SCP-5661 | SCP-5662 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nAct III: Life and Depth - Popsioak\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nA section of SCP-5662, with an inactive SCP-5662-1 instance in the background. Nonanomalous fauna can be seen in the foreground.\n\nItem Number: 5662\nObject Class/Clearance: Euclid/Two\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5662 is to be cordoned off from commercial and research vessel routes, and declared hazardous for travel. Refrigeration systems, along with visual and audio recording systems are set up around collected SCP-5662-1 material, and logs are to be reviewed nightly. In the event of a SCP-5662-1 activation, the plot of the event is to be recorded thoroughly.\nExploration of SCP-5662 is forbidden.\nDescription: SCP-5662 is a roughly circular section of the Arctic Ocean, approximately 20 km in diameter, located near northern Russia. SCP-5662 contains a number of free-floating icebergs and ice shelves, designated SCP-5662-1.\nInstances of SCP-5662-1 randomly will display short, benign visual anomalies on specific sections of its structure that are roughly at a 90 degree angle. These anomalies create corresponding audio once viewed, and only while being viewed. The origin of SCP-5662-1 instances' projections are currently unknown, and it is unknown as to how an SCP-5662-1 instance can detect whether or not it is currently being viewed. As long as recording equipment or a viewer is looking at SCP-5662-1, sounds produced by the instance are audible, even if the listener is within diving gear or a vehicle. All report audio quality similar to modern earphones or speakers.\nAll visual anomalies produced by SCP-5662 are of video quality similar to a home video camera, shaky and poor. Content of these anomalies vary \u2014 though most are related to PoI-5662, marine biologist Pierre Currant, former host of Down Down Deep with Dr. Currant, a weekly half-hour documentary series focused on the flora and fauna present in the Mesophalagic zone1 and lower.\nRelated documentation is attached below.\n\nAddendum 1 - SCP-5662-1 Analysis and Discovery\n\nPoI-5662.\n\nSCP-5662's effects were discovered following the delay of a shipping vessel carrying floating bath toys, cars, and furniture by approximately two days. The captain reported seeing \"visions of life\" on ice as the ship passed through SCP-5662's area of effect, and was severely reprimanded by the vessel's company for the delay. The reason for the delay as detailed in the report was brought to the attention of Foundation plants, and a temporary containment area was established.\nUpon initial containment, SCP-5662-1 instances displayed no anomalous effects for approximately a week. During this time, analysis of SCP-5662-1 instances' composition was performed. Results are attached below.\n\nREPORT: INITIAL CHEMICAL ANALYSIS\n\nRoughly 3 kg of material was collected from 12 different SCP-5662-1 instances. Chemical analysis revealed the majority of SCP-5662-1 instances to be composed of nonanomalous crystalline water formations. However, microscopic scans showed the presence of bioluminescent bacterium, similar in structure to S. aureus. These bacterium were shaped similar to satellite discs, and reacted to stimulation synchronously, as a hive-like entity.\nTesting with microwaves and radio waves elicited no response. Smaller collected instances, however, continued to manifest the same anomalies as larger SCP-5662-1 instances. For this reason, testing is to be performed with collected SCP-5662-1 instances.\n\nInitial SCP-5662-1 projections were of the opening sequence of the first episode of Down Down Deep. A transcript is attached below.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[After a brief countdown and moments of static, the title for the show appears, set against a dark blue background. Occasional specks of dust and minor errors in film show as the camera continues rolling. As the camera zooms out, the title fades, revealing that the previous background was the back of a humpback whale. The camera follows the whale as it breaks the surface of the water, then dives under, at which point it switches to a view of PoI-5662 on a sailboat. As PoI-5662 speaks, he walks around the boat, pulling at rigging and rope, not looking at the camera once.]\nPoI-5662: Sometimes, people ask me why I find the ocean so astounding. The answer is simple, my dear friends. We all came from the ocean, and we will all return to it, just like a big loop. [Silence] Do you know of the rain cycle, my friend? How it falls down, only to evaporate back into the sky? Sometimes, I feel like rain. Maybe you do too. Very happy, and then we rain back down to the ground. But we will always go back up again. And the ocean, the ocean is only the biggest form of that. [Laughs] It is a beautiful thing, life.\n[PoI-5662 sighs, before tapping his forehead.]\nPoI-5662: For what I think, the ocean is a weightless place. Your worries and the like can all be lost. You need to rely on nothing to simply float. It is a carefree place \u2014 that of dreams.\n[PoI-5662 gestures for the viewer to follow him, before slowly pointing at the ocean on the port side of the ship.]\nPoI-5662: So come, come my dear friends. Relax your body, quiet your mind, and let the current whisk you away on a journey down, down deep.\n<END LOG>\n\nWARNING: APPROPRIATE CLEARANCE NECESSARY.\n\nThe following logs are for personnel with Level 2 clearance and above. If you do not have appropriate clearance, do not attempt to view the following logs. You are being watched.\n\nAddendum 2 - Exploration Logs\n\nForeword: Junior Researcher Lee Fen, due to experience with diving and aquatic anomalies, was assigned for further research into movements of SCP-5662-1 instances. While doing so, a particular SCP-5662-1 instance was found to extend further into the mesopelagic zone than expected. Equipped with an experimental reinforced submersible, Researcher Fen was approved to perform a series of recorded expeditions to collect further data on this instance. The following is a transcript of the first and final expedition.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[The camera atop the submersible Obra Dinn shows Fen talking with the captain of the ship from which the Dinn is being launched.]\nFen: Alright, heading off. See you.\nCaptain: Yep. See you. Stay frosty! Or, er, warm.\n\nThe view from the Obra Dinn.\n\n[Fen shuts the hatch of the Dinn as he waves goodbye.]\nFen: Ha. Yeah, yeah, I'll be sure.\n[The camera view then switches to inside the submersible. It is fairly spacious, roughly the size of a small walk-in closet. Fen holds the camera, speaking into it.]\nFen: This is Lee Fen. If you are asking, yes, I am indeed underwater. I am here to er, bootleg a TV show, I guess. Seemed like a fairly easy job, plus a decent distraction, so here I am. Got supplies, and I'll be down here for\u2026 a couple of days. Two? Two.\n[Fen removes a small candy bar from his pocket, slowly taking small bites.]\nFen: This is likely the last bit of chocolate I'll taste for awhile. The last bit of uhm, decent tasting chocolate, I guess. I must savor it. Otherwise I'll have to lubricate the packs with my spit to rehydrate them to some semblance of this taste.\n[On finishing, Fen wipes his hands on his pants. He adjusts the camera slightly, ensuring it can see both him and outside, where the SCP-5662-1 instance can be seen. Fen looks at it.]\nFen: Isn't it beautiful? Bit boring, predictable, and very very white, but otherwise, beautiful.\n[Fen takes the wrapper of the chocolate bar out of his pocket, holding it up, before throwing it out .]\nFen: Ah, who am I kidding? I'm gonna be fucking, like, Tom Hanks by the end of this. Speaking to candy bar wrappers for company. [Mockingly] Oh, hey Hershey. How're the kids? Melted at all? Ah, ah yes, great. Absolutely fucking perfect.\n[Fen sighs, looking outside for approximately five minutes, before speaking softly.]\nFen: It reminds me too much of up there.\n\n<20 minutes of extraneous recording removed.>\nFen: Well, it looks like it's happening! Sweet. [The camera flips to a view outside of the submersible.]\n[The video starts with PoI-5662 holding a small, closed tube filled with water while sitting on a lower level of a sailboat. Upon closer inspection, the video reveals that it contains krill, as PoI-5662 begins to speak. The video follows Fen as the Dinn continues to sink.]\n\nPoI-5662, with a krill on his finger.\n\nPoI-5662: Krill. So, so small. They look quite\u2026 scary at that view, don't they dear friend? [Laughs] Fear not. They won't harm you, even if you come upon them in the wild. Though, it would be difficult for you to notice them. They feed on plankton, the little ones of any ocean ecosystem.\n[PoI-5662 swirls the tube, causing the krill inside to move.]\nPoI-5662: It's astounding though, is it not? Every step of every level of our ocean, something is living. From the very, very small, to the very very big. Do you know that whale you saw at the beginning, dear friend? Did you know it actually eats these little ones? Isn't that amazing? Something so big swallowing and being filled by something so small. It makes you think.\n[PoI-5662 sets down the tube, and removes a single krill from it, briefly. He then puts it back.]\nPoI-5662: As some of you may know, I have fallen on hard times. I am banking on this show to help me survive, just like the whale, well the baleen type, banks that there will be these little ones to feed it. But all of these are something small. Just like the whale eats the krill, and lets them er, go, later, so too is that small. I trust that you, dear friend, are struggling with something. Perhaps you fear for a job, or perhaps your school, or maybe even worry for your loved one, be it relative or someone special. The krill flow around mainly by ocean currents \u2014 the problems cannot control where they go. But instead, the whale simply swallows them, and\u2014 [Static]]\n[The video fades out as the event ends. The inner camera view returns, showing Fen reading a book.]\nFen: Thank god. It was fucking loud. I don't need to be preached at by\u2026 some fucking ice. You know what I have to say about that?\n[Fen removes a small cooler from a shelf of the submersible. He removes two cubes of ice, and places them into his thermos of water. He then takes multiple long sips.]\nFen: There. Suck it. I guess. I don't know. At least the thing was recording.\n[Fen continues to sip, slower and slower. All of a sudden, he puts down the book quickly, bookmarking his page.]\nFen: Urgh. Why do I do this to myself? It's that book. It's not like\u2014 Like I have a problem with it. It's just the character. I guess. I don't quite know myself. I don't like how prying it all is though. Even under here, you're, or I am, at least, reminded of it.\n[Fen sits silently for a few minutes, rubbing his temple.]\nFen: Everywhere, you know what I mean? You just see it everywhere. And it's not fun and you spend literal hours of your time worrying about this sort of thing. Absolutely fucking pain, camera. It sucks so fucking bad.\n[Fen briefly clenches his stomach, weakly chuckling.]\nFen: Haha, it's funny. It's like\u2014 I dunno, like I'm some masochist or something. I don't like the pain, but thinking about h- it, well it causes it to come on, and then I end up getting used to it some, I guess. And it's all I can think about.\n[Fen tosses his book at the opposite wall. The Dinn briefly tilts, before returning to equilibrium.]\nFen: Jesus. You end up, like. Rationalizing it? I don't know. It's hard to explain, and I guess I'm waxing poetic, s\u2014\n[Another event begins as Fen speaks. Fen quiets, and flips camera view to outside.]\nPoI-5662: I hope you'll come talk to me again, my dear friend, where the waves crash against the shore. Until next time, au revoir.\n[A loud \"Cut!\" can be heard, and PoI-5662 rubs the bridge of his nose. A man with a thick beard, wire-frame glasses, and a bald head comes to talk with PoI-5662.]\nUnidentified: Pierre, you\u2014 You gotta understand, no one's into the ocean anymore. It's all space now. Space and dinosaurs.\nPoI-5662: No, no. That cannot be. I will not allow it to be. There's got to be viewers for us, somewhere.\nUnidentified: Thankfully, it's not enough for the network to put us on the chopping block, but it's just barely enough to keep us afloat. You're\u2014 I don't know how to put it gently.\nPoI-5662: Then put it sharply. I will take it. You know me, Jakob.\n[Jakob sighs, removes his glasses, and wipes them. Putting them back on, he taps his clipboard, before nodding.]\nJakob: You see this, Pierre? Your bottom line is\u2026 not enough to fulfill your promise. You know, to\u2014\nPoI-5662: Make it. I don't care how. Slice my salary, cut down on the amount of food present on deck. You know Kristen ends up sick anyways. You will ensure that promise is kept, Jakob.\nJakob: A-alright. Sure. We'll do it.\n[PoI-5662 claps Jakob's back, grinning.]\nPoI-5662: Good man.\n[Jakob walks away. PoI-5662 ensures Jakob is out of sight, then sits back down, breathing deeply.]\nPoI-5662: Alright Pierre. Recall, out of the spiral. Out of the whirlpool. Do not fret. Do not worry.\n[The event ends.]\n\n<80 minutes of extraneous recording removed.>\nFen: -know I'm rambling, but it's. I don't know. What even is the point of me talking here? It's not like anyone listens, here or otherwise. For all they know, I'm just Lee Fen, Junior Researcher, guy-we-only-tapped-because-you're-good-at-water-stuff-and-we-know-jack-about-you. Yeah, that's who I am. It\u2026 makes sense, I guess.\n[Fen takes another card from a stack, and adds it to a tower to his right, grinning.]\nFen: Aaaand\u2026 There. Got it. Surprisingly, I have to commend the tech folks for making something this impressive. It's stable enough for this shit. But, fuck, I'm bored. I'm so fucking bored.\n[Fen crouches, looking through the small bookshelf under his bed.]\nFen: Read, read, read, read, read. Couldn't give me any new material, could you? All basic college textbooks. Hell, I could recite this one from heart.\n[Fen takes another drink from his thermos, then wipes his lips.]\nFen: I'm parched. Heh, \"parched.\" Good word. Reminds me of what they- sh- it. It used to say. God, I miss that. A lot.\n[Fen sighs.]\nFen: You know, Fen, it's. It's ok. You'll be ok, no matter what answer you get. You'll be ok. Don't worry.\n[Fen grins, holding a thumbs up for approximately 10 seconds, before shaking his head repeatedly, putting the thumb back down.]\nFen: Oh, I'm fucking joking. It's been three fucking months. Goddamnit, Fen. If your supervisor saw you have a nervous breakdown on camera, hoo boy, would that suck.\n[He laughs, hyperventilating and having minor spasms in his hand.]\nFen: It's not the same. It's late. I mean, it always looks late out now, but like- You get what I mean, camera. You get it.\n[Fen retrieves a small blanket from the other side of the Dinn. The Dinn hums as Fen wraps the blanket around himself, and goes to sleep.]\n\n<45 minutes of extraneous recording removed.>\n[Fen is still asleep. Another event begins, with the outer camera automatically switching upon detecting audio from SCP-5662-1. The size of this projection is considerably larger than previous manifestations. PoI-5662, considerably younger, is in a tuxedo, speaking into a microphone.]\nPoI-5662: All I can say today, is how blessed I am to be with you all. Especially you. So, so blessed. But come, come, let's toast, my dear friends. Let's toast.\nUnidentified Female: To somewhere deep, deep down.\nMany Voices: To somewhere deep, deep down!\n[The event ends.]\n\n<329 minutes of extraneous recording removed.>\n\nThe view from the outside of the Obra Dinn.\n\n[Fen awakens. The submersible is shaken by a passing jellyfish.]\nFen: Thank god I can't see out there. Those things are fucking terrifying. Wouldn't even imagine them in my worst dreams.\n[Fen shudders, before lifting up the wrapper from earlier.]\nFen: Well, the one form of comfort I have. Don't fail me now.\n[Fen picks at crumbs in the wrapper, licking it clean. He then turns to the camera.]\nFen: Oi. Don't fucking look at me, Cam.\n[Fen coughs, choking briefly.]\nFen: God, I hate this. I came here to get away, not be in mortal terror. If I wanted that all I needed to do was think. Wish my fucking brain'd turn off with this shit too.\n[The Dinn hums, its lights flickering.]\nFen: Yeah, thanks Dinn. Great help.\n[He sighs, humming a small, slow song.]\nFen: This was her favorite, know that? I got into it cause of her.\n[He chuckles, taking out a book to read as the event starts. Fen then puts the book down, looking out the window, switching the camera to the outer view. PoI-5662 is talking to an unidentified female, off camera, as he sits on a lawnchair, sipping from a mug.]\nPoI-5662: Have I ever told you of the real reason I loved the ocean?\nUnidentified Female: No, no you haven't.\nPoI-5662: I really\u2026 I loved what laid within. It was a mystery. It still is. I can't tell you what is under there. I don't know that anyone could. But it's\u2026 it's not like anyone quite understands. It's all money, money, money. A speech barely pays now. I can hardly keep the donations going. My promise, and all that\u2014\nUnidentified Female: I know, I know you worry, Pierre. I've known you long enough, since you were in diapers.\nPoI-5662: I thank you for that. For all of it, even you cleaning up my\u2026 droppings. [PoI-5662 sighs.] Sadly, optimism and hope doesn't pay the bills, nor\u2026 dissuade anything.\nUnidentified Female: It's not one of your famous quotes, but let me try to put it in a way you'll understand. Do you remember when we used to travel around for your show? Before, you know, the thing.\nPoI-5662: How could I forget?\nUnidentified Female: The spark that was in your eyes was a wild one. So full of light. Even when you talked about wanting to go far down as you possibly could with her, and the studio quickly saying that it wouldn't cover insurance, you still\u2026 were happy. You had that spark. It's not gone yet, but it's fading.\nPoI-5662: That is something I hope. I miss her greatly.\nUnidentified Female: I know you do. I know.\nPoI-5662: I'm sorry for sounding like a broken record.\n[The event fades. Fen wipes his eyes.]\nFen: See\u2014 that's. That's it. Like, that's it. You know what I mean? I don't know if you do, but that's it. That's what I feel like. That's what I think of and that's what that\u2026 song makes me feel like. I think like that every day about it, you see. And I wish I could distill it somewhere, and just\u2026use it for something, man. But I don't know. I'm rambling. I just miss\u2026 that feeling of just floating in space, in orbit, but still being firmly rooted on the ground. It's an amazing one. I wish I could tell her.\n[Fen looks out the window.]\nFen: I guess\u2026 I don't know. I haven't done much. It's not as if anyone'd miss me. But at least this thing\u2026 speaks to me. Whatever it is. The ocean knows. And the currents can take me wherever they want.\n[Fen rubs the wrapper in his pocket.]\nFen: I miss feeling right. But the water feels\u2026 better, in a way. Familiar. I don't need to think of her. Or worry about her answer. This\u2026 feeling is strange. But it. It won't change. I don't think it will. Might be thoughts, might be anxiety, might be worries.\n\n<32 minutes of extraneous recording removed.>\n[A soft clunk is heard as an event begins. As the Dinn sinks, lights can be seen off in the distance, organized in a grid. Small amounts of smoke can be seen exiting the tops of a row of cubic shapes nearby. PoI-5662 is speaking directly into the camera.]\n\nThe view from the outside of the Obra Dinn.\n\nPoI-5662: I believe the show will do just fine without me. I have entrusted it to someone, or something, I know I can trust. Technology is wonderful.\n[PoI-5662 continues to speak as Fen exits the submersible in proper diving equipment. Fen can be seen walking away, out of sight, despite immense water pressure.]\nPoI-5662: In truth, life is difficult. But it will come to pass. You will understand your feelings. And they will not let you go. You may believe they do, but they will not. Love never fades. The currents only whisk it away. Sometimes the currents are strong. Sometimes they are weaker than your love. But it never truly fades.\n[PoI-5662 smiles. His face disappears, replaced with a large white blob that takes up the entirety of the visible portion of the SCP-5662-1 instance.]\nPoI-5662: So, come my dear friends. Let's worry about you. Meet me where it's down, down deep. I'll be there, waiting. Let's just talk about it. Maybe we can make a difference then.\n[As the event ends, the camera zooms out, revealing the large white moving entity in the video to be a phytoplankton, which is eaten by a krill. The Obra Dinn was recovered a day after, upon the expedition's completion. No remains of Junior Researcher Fen were found, except for a chocolate bar wrapper.]\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Twilight Zone.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5661 | SCP-5662 | SCP-5663 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n+ More by Rimple\n\n- Hide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-2338\n\nSCP-3880\n\nSCP-2779\n\nSCP-948\n\nSCP-2559\n\nSCP-3772\n\nSCP-5663\n\nSCP-3559\n\nSCP-6774\n\nSCP-3224\n\nTales\n\nAnd You Are?\n\nHeadache\n\nThis Year\n\nUhhh\n\nOperation \u00d3verMeta\n\nDraft Swap Hub\n\nWith other authors\n\nPage\nAuthor\n\nSCP-3500\nDrBleep\n\nSCP-3504\nOthellotheCat\n\nSCP-3373\nLordStonefish\n\nHey, the stuff below is just for testing some stuff, please ignore for now\n\nNew Technical Issues\n\nSCP-5662\n\nSCP-5664\n\nSCP Series 6\n\nWritten for Jamcon. I'll add more here when I'm not very very tired.\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5663\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Please inspect the below image and answer the question provided.\n\nSubmit answer\n\nPOSSIBLE MEMETIC HAZARD DETECTED - SEE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW\n\nYou may have been exposed to SCP-5663\n\nAn advisor has been notified. Please read the following documentation and wait for further instruction\n\nSCP-5663-1 instance shortly before capture.\n\nItem #: SCP-5663\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nDescription: SCP-5663 is three sets of yoga poses which, done in sequence, allow the individual who performed them to become an autonomous vehicle. These steps can be reversed to return to normal. While in vehicle form, affected individuals are referred to as SCP-5663-1.\nThe method by which SCP-5663 works is not well understood, appearing to have some sort of effect on reason or reality. For instance, while step three of sequence two instructs performers to tuck their elbows tight into their sides until they hear a click, step 9 asks one to rotate the front of their torso 180 degrees and step 14 involves splitting one's legs apart to reveal a series of wheels hidden inside. Although externally absurd, as long as the steps are done in order they make logical sense to the performer and observers, and no part of the steps can be identified as having any anomalous effect in the moment - only the overall sequence of steps can be identified as anomalous.\nThe vehicles are fixed in form, as below:\n\nSequence one (13 steps): Yellow Volkswagen Beetle with black stripes\nSequence two (15 steps): Red Freightliner FL86 with blue accents\nSequence three (9 steps): Black and white Suzuki B-King motorcycle with pink accents\n\nSome variance has been seen in details of the vehicles, mostly reflecting the clothing and accessories worn by those affected. The only consistent factor that has thus far been determined is that those wearing sunglasses when transformed will have tinted windows.\nSCP-5663 has a secondary anomalous effect which causes those who witness or are in close proximity to affected individuals to be trapped in certain patterns of speech when describing them in all tested forms of communication. Chiefly, speakers will attempt to import how impressive SCP-5663-1 instances are, and express a desire to also become an instance of SCP-5663-1. This is not a compulsive effect, and no speakers have thus been seen attempting to replicate the steps of SCP-5663 during their time affected without having previously shown signs of interest.\nSCP-5663 was first identified in early March, 1987, when a number of children in Dighton, Rhode Island, were found to have become Volkswagen Beetles, causing general distress among the community. During initial investigation by local law enforcement, all children involved refused to demonstrate these abilities and the case was dropped. After a story about it was published in a local paper, The Dighton Digest, Foundation assets investigating a separate zoological anomaly in Lincoln Woods State Park caught wind and passed a short report to central processing per standard procedure.\nMTF-\u03be-12c, a subteam of MTF-Xi-12 (\"Peculiar Yellow\"), were dispatched to Dighton in the following weeks, posing as teens from a local town. Following standard investigation protocol for the team brought them into contact with Bobby Frischkorn, a twelve year old with knowledge of the incidents. Frischkorn was befriended over the course of a year by Agent Blum (\u03be-12c-4), at which point he promised to reveal the secret if Agent Blum met him at a makeshift hideout near the Warren Upper reservoir known only to Frischkorn and friends.\nOn arriving at the hideout, Agent Blum was initially chastised for arriving late, before this criticism was turned to Frischkorn when Blum showed the group his instructions. Once Blum was sufficiently ingratiated with the group, they collectively decided to induct him into \"The Order of the Sparked\", their name for those youths with knowledge of SCP-5663, on a vote of five for and two against.\nNote that at this time, Agent Blum was wearing \"Mitch Sanders\", an early synth glamour developed by the Foundation in collaboration with magical assets in Three Portlands.\n\nFrischkorn: Ok, M-Mitch. Here it is. You ever watch- ever watched Transformers, on the TV?\nBrick Langton: Of course he knows Transformers, Cornhead!\nFrischkorn: Sh-shut up, Brick! You s-said I could do this!\nBlum: I know Transformers, man. Autobots, Decepticons. Turn into cars.\nFrischkorn: R-Right, yeah! They turn into c-cars and mo-motorcycles and whatall. Well, w-we got a real special Transformers show here on ham radio, j-just for Dighton.\nWally Guggenheim: It's BS, man. They gotta be broadcasting it all over, can't just be Dighton. Why would it just be us?\nBlum: Tell me about the radio show, Cornhead. Sure sounds like somethin'.\nFrischkorn: It's- Yeah, it's real good. They got kinda a different voice for Shockwave, but the rest of em are real close to the TV show. And they give you instructions for, how to fold your toys, if you don't g-get it or you lost the manual or anythin'. It's real clear.\nLangton: Only babies don't know how to fold a transformer, man. It's easy.\nJosephine O'Donnell: Your mom's easy, Brick.\nLangton: Shut the fuck up, Josie.\nFrischkorn: Um, so, anyway, l-last month there was a real weird folding pattern they talked about. Didn't match any of the ones I got, and I got a bunch of em. Said they'd reveal what it was for the next day. Next day comes an' th-they say it's for us. For folding up ourselves into a B-Bumblebee car.\nBlum: A Volkswagen Beetle?\nFrischkorn: Maybe, I don't really know c-cars.\nO'Donnell: Bumblebee's a Volkswagen Beetle, dude.\nFrischkorn: Maybe, yeah. So, so we thought it was a prank or something, b-but then Wally tries them-\nGuggenheim: And shit you not, Mitch, I turn into freaking Bumblebee.\nBlum: Certainly sounds as if you're shitting me, folks.\nFrischkorn: W-we can show you, man! All of us can do it now! And not just the bumblebee car, either. They have instructions for other stuff too! They take a couple minutes to go through all the steps, but we already got Chromia and Optimus and, and right now we're working on all the steps for-\nLangton: Let's just show him, Cornhead. We've stood around with our thumbs up our asses for way too long, I wanna go be a truck.\nBlum: Yes. Perhaps we could get everyone who knows how to do this together, for a race? The person most familiar could help me learn by writing out the steps on this notepad I brought, with as much detail as possible.\nThere is a silence in the room. O'Donnell and Guggenheim look at Blum with suspicion.\nBlum: So, not Cornhead. He'd fuck it up and I'd be half an hour late again.\nThe silence breaks as all collected laugh and resume mockery of Frischkorn. Guggenheim volunteers to write out the steps while O'Donnell quickly becomes a motorbike to collect the other members of the Order of the Sparked.\n\nBlum covertly passed a radio message to the rest of \u03be-12c, who convened along with backup agents on the spot the race was to begin at. Once everyone had been declared collected, Blum signalled the agents to draw in with knockout gas. The children, caught off guard, were not able to utilise SCP-5663 before losing consciousness.\nFollowing the amnesticisation of the children and parents involved, the Foundation put in place watchdogs to monitor public and private communications in the Dighton area. Due to the limitations of amnesticisation at the time, a number of incidents required handling between 1987 and 1991, mostly involving children managing to recall one or more of the sequences. In 2004, after 13 years of no activity, watchdogs were retired or reassigned as needed and replaced with basic monitoring AI. The item was downgraded to Safe (Inactive) in 2012.\nRecent events:\nIn December 2043, Providence and Pawtucket were hit with a chain of bank thefts, notable for employing a novel getaway technique - rather than one getaway vehicle, each of the members of the heist would split off in separate directions individually. Foundation watchdog AI flagged the case when initial reports on the case showed many escape routes that would be difficult or impossible to pull off in a vehicle. This was then further escalated when the below police chatter was recorded two weeks later between Officers Niko Hernandes and Gill Draper:\n\nOfficer Hernandes: Draper, do you copy?\nOfficer Draper: I copy.\nOfficer Hernandes: May have eyes on Wane Zeta, suspect in our 0300 the other day there. He went to ground after the job, but I managed to get a doxx on his VRChat rig's location from a botcrawl of his most frequented servers. These virt junkies, man. No helping em.\nOfficer Draper: Hernandes, confirm you have Wane Zeta?\nOfficer Hernandes: Eyes, Draper. I got eyes on him. I'm up by Coles Brook, an old boat house. Pull my coords. Requesting backup before- ah shit. Shit, I'm clocked.\nOfficer Draper: Copy that, Hernandes. Drones dispatched, should be there in ten. I know it's not your jam, but formally requesting you await backup before moving in.\nOfficer Hernandes: He's run into the boathouse there, so he's cornered. I can just wait it out til- FUCK ME-\nThere is the sound of an oncoming vehicle, followed by a heavy collision. Hernandes yells incoherently.\nOfficer Draper: BABE?!\nOfficer Hernandes: I'm - ngh - I'm alright, Draper. He was hiding a sicknasty truckazilla in there, hit me hard, but the nanos caught most of it. In pursuit - I can still see his sweet headlights cruising down the old train tracks.\nOfficer Draper: B- Hernandes, requesting again you wait for backup. Med drone can assess your injuries.\nOfficer Hernandes: No can do. We need this bag. Update systems to watch for a phat red Freightliner. Lock cam drone target to my position, projected forwards thirty seconds. Account for rough driving - this is one bad dude and he's got some gnarly tricks up his sleeve.\nOfficer Draper: On it. Are you, uh.. You feeling lightheaded at all, Hernandes? You're talking funny.\nOfficer Hernandes: Negative, Draper. Feeling fine. Target vehicle is radical. It's radical. It's \u2026 huh. Not sure what's happening there, Draper, but I would love to be crushin' it at the wheel of that sweet honey.\nOfficer Draper: Alright, I'm making this an order, rather than a request. Stand down, Hernandes, you've clearly suffered some kind of head trauma.\n\nOfficer Hernandes' onsite medical tests came back clean for concussion or other head trauma, showing only a fractured collarbone and elbow. Despite this, her unusual speech patterns continued whenever discussing the subject of the truck the subject had escaped in.\nOnce escalated, the issue was passed to Foundation AI Alexandria, who was quickly able to establish a possible connection to SCP-5663. A taskforce was assembled to investigate the link, with Agent Blum and other surviving members of the original \u03be-12c recovered from retirement to advise. After months of investigation, the activity was traced back to a covert mercenary collective known as the Order of the Sparked, which had previously managed to stay beneath the Foundation's radar under the protection of the New England Oneroi/MC&D Coalition.\nA raid on the headquarters of the Order of the Spark was carried out shortly before midnight, 9/12/44. While the majority of the members were quietly taken out before any alarms could be triggered, a member in the form of a Suzuki B-King motorcycle managed to escape. On a hunch, Agent Blum asked to be geared in the retired \"Mitch Sanders\" synth glamour and joined the cavalcade moving to intercept.\nWhen the target came within view of Agent Blum, they skidded out of control and crashed into the makeshift barricade, breaking through it. Agent Blum interceded the target before other agents by jumping straight into the crash area, finding that the target had returned to their normal form.\n\nAgent Blum: Holy shit\u2026 Cornhead?!\nBobby Frischkorn: Mitch fucking Sanders. How the hell haven't you aged?\nAgent Blum drops his glamour.\nFrischkorn: Never even real. Fuck me.\nFrischkorn hisses and holds his side. He is suffering from extensive road rash, and part of his chest is open, exposing a wheel stored inside his ribcage.\nAgent Blum: I'm sorry, Bobby. This doesn't look great for you.\nFrischkorn: D-did you ever use it? Afterward? Took me years and years to dredge it up, but I guess you remembered perfectly.\nAgent Blum: I remembered. Never given permission to use it, though. Come to think of it, never asked.\nFrischkorn: God, that's pathetic.\nFrischkorn coughs heavily and black smoke exits his mouth.\nFrischkorn: Tell me one thing, Mitch. How'd I look out there? Good as ever?\nAgent Blum attempts to say something, but seems unable.\nAgent Blum: You were\u2026 Hm.\nAgent Blum: You were totally gnarly, Cornhead.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5662 | SCP-5663 | SCP-5664 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5665\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Safe containment of SCP-5665 instances is unviable due to their tendency to spontaneously combust. Due to this, containment efforts are to be focused on spreading disinformation regarding the existence of the anomaly and preventing discovery by the public.\nDescription: SCP-5665 is an anomalous variant of dairy cow capable of producing massive amounts of methane within their digestive system through unknown sources. Additionally, they can expel this gas through their anuses and ignite it, presumably using an unidentified flame-producing organ located within the lower digestive system. SCP-5665 instances are able to move in the same manner as a non-anomalous cow; however, they have been observed to instead favour propelling themselves via combustion of their anomalous flatulence. Despite the high temperatures and pressures SCP-5665 are subjected to, they appear to be unaffected physically by this method of transportation.1\nSCP-5665 generally exist in herds of between five and ten instances and are able to reproduce using the same methods as mundane cattle. Analysis of tissue gathered from deceased instances reveals that female instances are capable of producing non-anomalous milk. Instances also require a similar amount of food and drink to standard cattle.\nAttempts to contain or otherwise intentionally restrict the movement of SCP-5665 instances have invariably resulted in the spontaneous combustion of the entity2, often causing massive collateral damage or, if additional instances are in close proximity, chain reactions. Due to this, accurate observations or analysis of SCP-5665 instances on a small scale are functionally impossible.\nAddendum 5665.001: Incident 2020-05-26\nAt 0946, a large congregation of approximately forty SCP-5665 instances formed over a field in Cornwall, England. This collection attempted to attach themselves together using legs and tails, before simultaneously beginning to produce explosive flatulence. This propelled the entities upwards at a rapidly accelerating rate, which reached speeds in excess of Earth's escape velocity.\nThe group of SCP-5665 instances is believed to be travelling in a direction that will cause it to make contact with the Moon on 2020-06-02.\n\nFootnotes\n1. As displayed in Addendum 5665.001, SCP-5665 instances are also immune to the effects of air resistance, including the rise in temperatures.\n2. This includes any attempts to sedate or incapacitate instances.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5664 | SCP-5665 | SCP-5666 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5666\n\nItem #: SCP-5666\nLevel 4/5666\n\nObject Class: Safe\nClassified\n\nSCP-5666 upon discovery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A hangar structure constructed over SCP-5666 is to be maintained to prevent further degradation of SCP-5666. A runway leading out of the structure should be routinely cleared of snow and debris, allowing for proper take off of SCP-5666 within SCP-5666-A.\nCivilians attempting access to SCP-5666 are to be deterred and relocated to Resolute, Nunavut. Investigations into where SCP-5666 originated from and the reason for its crashing are to continue until such information is found.\nDescription: SCP-5666 is the crashed wreck of a modified Fokker F27 aircraft located on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut. There is a placard engraved with a Foundation emblem and the words \"Property of The Administrator\" affixed to the left door of SCP-5666. Other modifications are minimal, such as the addition of more controls in SCP-5666's cockpit, but their purposes are unknown.\nSCP-5666 is damaged to a point where movement or repair is impractical. Subjects inside SCP-5666 will perceive it as completely intact and functional. Attempts to properly operate SCP-5666 are similarly perceived as successful to persons inside. This effect persists in cameras and audio equipment placed inside. As SCP-5666 is perceived to be flown farther away from its real location, it becomes apparent that the perceived outside is not identical to actual reality. This perceived reality is designated SCP-5666-A.\nSCP-5666-A is devoid of any animal and human life present in actual reality. The first few kilometers flown through SCP-5666-A will become recursive, and will repeat with minor deviations as the flight continues. Known deviations include slight changes in foliage appearance/placement, the appearance of man-made structures not present in actual reality, and the appearance of indiscernible humanoid figures. Along with this, SCP-5666-A possesses memory altering effects, the exact details of which are uncertain. For further information, see Addendum 5666-1.\nDue to SCP-5666 possessing a normal fuel capacity of 5,140 L inside SCP-5666-A, no prolonged explorations could be made. Once SCP-5666 crashes in SCP-5666-A or is exited by the subject, the perception anomaly ceases. This subject will then be rendered insusceptible to SCP-5666's anomalous properties. Once this occurs, SCP-5666 will reset its location and structural integrity within SCP-5666-A for any following subjects.\nAddendum 5666-1 \u2014 Exploration of SCP-5666-A:\n\nExploration Log 5666\n\nEXPLORATION DATE: 2020/13/01\nEXPLORING PARTY: Researcher Samuel Vanhalm\nOBSERVING PARTY: Head Researcher Marvin Kells, Researcher Charlotte Mehr, Local Guide Maddison Minstrata1\nFOREWORD: Vanhalm is to locate deviations between SCP-5666-A and actual reality.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n(Vanhalm enters SCP-5666.)\nVANHALM: Alrighty, SCP-5666 appears intact from here, like y'all said. Where do I fly this bird?\nKELLS: Ms. Minstrata, is there any areas of interest nearby we should fly to?\nMINSTRATA: Oh\u2026 oh, we could go north, yes. North is interesting.\nMEHR: We went north last time, you told us to.\nMINSTRATA: I\u2014 I did, sorry.\nMEHR: Try to make it to Iqaluit maybe? It's the capital here. Pretty far out southwest though.\nVANHALM: I'll try for there.\n(Vanhalm moves the steering wheel of SCP-5666, interior cameras show him moving SCP-5666 onto the constructed runway. SCP-5666 takes off in SCP-5666-A, flying southwest at a moderate speed uneventfully for 30 minutes. SCP-5666-A gains recursivity at this point. Vanhalm appears to realize this, and becomes physically distressed as he continues flying further for 60 more minutes.)\nVANHALM: (Muttering.)\nMEHR: Everything good?\nVANHALM: I'm cruising straight here. I'm\u2014 I am. Right?\nMEHR: Hmm?\nVANHALM: Everything here is familiar, maybe it's just\u2014 well, it's all snow. Snow looks all the same?\nMEHR: This is nor\u2014\nVANHALM: No, no, that ridge, it was\u2014 I think I'm going in circles. It's familiar. It's so\u2026 strangely familiar. That make sense?\nMEHR: The world perceived in SCP-5666-A begins to repeat after a bit. If you feel anything, see anything odd just\u2014\nVANHALM: Yeah, you told me about this. Right?\n(Pause.)\nVANHALM: I think so. It's\u2014 It don't feel like a repeating thing though. It feels new, new\u2026 but something's wrong. It's not new, no. I just saw all this\u2026 didn't I? You have cameras in here, have I been here before?\nKELLS: Six times over, yes.\nVANHALM: No, that can't be right, this is the first time I've seen that shoreline.\nKELLS: Samuel, it's the same as it has been for the last hour or so.\nVANHALM: It's all so vague\u2026 I'm picking at my head and\u2014 hold on now, last hour?\nKELLS: Yes, last hour. You've been flying over the same looking area for an hour.\nVANHALM: No, that can't be right, this is the first time I've\u2026\nMEHR: Sammy?\n(Pause.)\nKELLS: He's, he's just sitting th\u2014\nVANHALM: That wasn't there before.\n(A small log cabin can be seen over the horizon. Inside, the lights are on, and vague silhouettes periodically walk in front of the windows.)\nVANHALM: I recognize that thing. Not from here. It ain't from here.\nMEHR: Sammy, we're going to need you to elaborate.\nVANHALM: Ain't quite sure. I've seeing it before. Not sure where though. Not sure why\u2014 not sure how either.\n(Vanhalm flies over the cabin.)\nMEHR: If the cabin pops up again, fly lower and get a better view of it.\nVANHALM: Cabin?\n(Pause. A small log cabin can be seen over the horizon. Inside, the lights are on, and vague silhouettes periodically walk in front of the windows.)\nVANHALM: Oh. I recognize that thing.\nMEHR: Get closer to the cabin.\n(SCP-5666 descends for 5 minutes. It does not slow down as it approaches the cabin.)\nMEHR: Sammy?\n(No response.)\nKELLS: Samuel, you're going too fast.\n(No response.)\nMEHR: Dammit, what's going on in there?\nKELLS: Just sitting there. He's just sitting and looking forward.\n(SCP-5666 continues descending, it is getting close to crashing into the cabin.)\nMEHR: You need to pull up!\nKELLS: Sam!\n(Minstrata rushes towards the microphone.)\nMINSTRATA: Sam. Sam's you, right? You need to\u2014 you just should. I don't know what you need to do. I know you need to do it. Just\u2026\nVANHALM: Oh.\n(Vanhalm crashes SCP-5666 into the cabin, upon which SCP-5666-A dissipates. Minstrata collapses to the floor, crying. Kells runs out of the observation room towards SCP-5666 to check on Vanhalm, while Mehr assists Minstrata in standing. Minstrata regains her composure.)\nMINSTRATA: I\u2014\n(Minstrata looks at Mehr and smiles.)\nMINSTRATA: I remember now.\n<END LOG>\n\nCLOSING STATEMENT: Vanhalm later made a mostly full recovery. He was not capable of remembering a majority of the exploration, instead speaking of a camping trip he took with his father at the age of five.\n\nAddendum 5666-2 \u2014 Incident 5666.1: Between 2020/14/01 and 2020/16/01, SCP-5666 was declared uncontained.\nOn 2020/14/01, a blizzard across Cornwallis Island caused on-site personnel to retreat to the neighboring city of Resolute, Nunavut for proper shelter. All personnel besides Local Guide Maddison Minstrata were accounted for. The next day, after personnel returned to the site, SCP-5666 had disappeared.\nMinstrata was determined to not be present in any civilian databases, making further information relating to her unknown. An investigation of her living quarters in Nunavut revealed no further information, although interrogation of civilians in the city revealed that she was not seen in the town until the initial discovery of SCP-5666. On-site personnel were later questioned and appropriately reprimanded for the major security breach, with Head Researcher Marvin Kells being demoted and reassigned to an alternative project.\nOn 2020/16/01, SCP-5666 reappeared at the crash site significantly more damaged, while still retaining its anomalous properties. Minstrata was not found.\nInvestigation into the whereabouts of Minstrata are deemed of high priority by the O5 Council.\n\n[ONE REVISION PENDING APPROVAL - OPEN ADDITIONS?]\n\nRevision Revision Notes: [ERROR]\nAddendum 5666-3: [Optional additional paragraphs]\n\n[untitled]\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n(The camera is dropped to the floor of a plane determined to be SCP-5666. It remains there for three minutes periodically sliding across the floor, until it slides next to the pilot seat, at which point it is picked up.)\n(The camera points to Minstrata, who is flying SCP-5666. The view out of the windows is entirely obscured by intense snowfall.)\nMINSTRATA: To whoever may find this at the bottom of wherever I may land.\n(Turbulence.)\nMINSTRATA: I am The Administrator of the SCP Foundation. What that stands for eludes me. What this foundation does escapes me. There is one thing\u2014\n(Turbulence.)\nMINSTRATA: One thing that I do remember now. This plane.\n(Pause.)\nMINSTRATA: There is a hole in human thought. A hole that one could fall through, like a manhole. Manhole\u2026 that's what those are right? What an odd name, no, that can't be\u2014 no, that's right.\n(Pause.)\nMINSTRATA: This here plane, I think, can get me through.\n(Turbulence.)\nMINSTRATA: I'm sorry \u2014 I don't know much. I don't know why they say this was irreparable \u2014 though I could start it with only a key I found in my pocket. I don't know my name, this one sounded familiar. I'm full of \"don't knows\", ones I wish\u2026 I wish I could find the answer to.\n(Turbulence.)\nMINSTRATA: I hope whoever may find this \u2014 wherever you may find it \u2014 can piece together the scraps I leave here, before I lose them myself.\n(Pause.)\nMINSTRATA: I've been flying this way for a while because I'm not\u2026 not quite sure how to turn? I'm going\u2026 north, yes. North is interesting. I need to find the\u2026 that hole. It's in here somewhere.\n(Turbulence. Television static.)\nMINSTRATA: I crashed out here in a blizzard before I recall. When was that? I\u2026 hmm.\n(Television static.)\nMINSTRATA: No\u2026 that was longer ago. When I flew these for a\u2026 fun. For fun, yes, I remember that was a quite the rush. (Light chuckle.)\n(Door opening.)\n: Should we give her something to watch on there?\n: She's ain't all there anyway. Brain's clocked out from the looks of it. It's really taking a toll on her.\n: Least for now.\n: Nothing's working man. Not even the anomalous treatments.\n: It's helping\u2026 we think.\n: Oh, if that's the case, tell that to her then.\n: The next one\u2014 I've heard about it. It gave her wife a few more months. Just give her that uh, Gala\u2026 Galant-o-mine? The normal meds for now at least.\n: Why don't we just let her go?\n: Because she's\u2014 !\nMINSTRATA: Excuse me!\n(Television static.)\nMINSTRATA: Wait.\n(Minstrata removes herself from the recliner.)\nMINSTRATA: I\u2026 I made it in?\n(Minstrata turns off the television.)\nMINSTRATA: No, no, I wasn't on the plane. No. That was long ago. Long ago. Long ag\u2014 Wasn't it?\n(Minstrata turns on the television. It opens.)\nMINSTRATA: I'm right. This is right. I fell through\u2026 I fell through that hole. The manhole\u2014 hmm, what an odd name.\n(Minstrata exits the nursing home lobby. She walks.)\n(Minstrata wanders. Very little remains left here, the shelves containing stories that once could bankrupt great authors now stand ransacked. The devoid tunnel she walks through leads somewhere. The casket is lowered into the ground.)\nMINSTRATA: Oh no. Oh no\u2026\n(Minstrata turns to someone.)\nMINSTRATA: Who is\u2026 who's in there?\n:\nMINSTRATA: Who?\n: (Bursts into tears.)\n(They move away. Several others look at Minstrata. They appear disturbed. Minstrata backs away, tripping over a neighboring grave.)\n: Ah shit.\n: (Distant.) Someone should drive her home. How did she even get here? She shouldn't really be here. She really shouldn't\u2026\n(Minstrata lays looking down at the patchwork of soil and grassroots. The murmurs of mourners blend together and surround her, like the loud crashing of tumbling waves. She gets up off the shoreline and walks out of the water. A woman stands down the shore, Minstrata walks towards her.)\nMINSTRATA: I believe, I\u2014 I remember you.\n: I don't\u2026\nMINSTRATA: Who are you?\n: I uh, I don't quite know myself.\nMINSTRATA: (Chuckles.) You were always such a tease.\n(The woman isn't there anymore.)\nMINSTRATA: Wait\u2014 wait, don't go\u2026 I need you.\n(Minstrata leaves. She wanders through a jagged gradient of cool tone colors \u2014 the ash tray wherein ashes of memory may be tossed away, after the life it came from is burned through. Left as a mere smoldering stub to be similarly tossed aside.)\n(Minstrata looks around at the ashes.)\n(Hospitals.)\nMINSTRATA: (Crying.)\nMINSTRATA: No\u2026 that\n: the official diagnosis is dem\nMINSTRATA: How is she\nMINSTRATA: too\n: love you\n(Sites.)\nMINSTraTA: Maybe cross-examine\nMINsTRATA: breach resulting in\nMINStrata: Terminate any\nMINSTRATA: Do you need something\n: I present you \u2014 The Administrator\n(Applause.)\nMinstRata: Thank you.\n(Speech.)\n(Church organ.)\n: (Laugh.) I'll never leave you,  . Never\n(Church organ.)\nMinstrata: I do.\n: and wife. You may now kiss the\n(Kiss.)\n(Applause.)\n(Her smile.)\n(Reception.)\n(Dance.)\n(Her smile.)\n(Her laugh.)\n(Her\n(A floor of ashen dust coated with so many bits and pieces, arranged and contorted into what seems to fit. A teacup smashed and glued back together \u2014 missing half the important pieces \u2014 no longer capable of holding anything. Those memories may have appeared vestigial\nminstrata: V-E-S-T\u2026 I-G-I-A-L. Vestigial.\n: That is correct!\n(Applause.)\nbut they all piece up into something that can hold whatever fluid problem that came Minstrata's way.)\nMinstrata: I believe we can create something great\n: talk to the government about\nMinstrata: already have that damn art project\n(Hug.)\n(Minstrata becomes overwhelmed at the amount of unorganized pages torn from their bindings. She closes her eyes\n: , do that, and the monsters will go away!\nand curls up among the dust.)\n(She remains there for an amount of time. Very little remains left here, the shelves containing stories that once could bankrupt great authors now stand ransacked. She is now crying.)\n: Don't cry, it's only a nightmare, it's only\n(Minstrata screams. She remembers screaming, needing the prolonged comfort of anything she can fully, truly remember. She remembers what screaming means. She keeps screaming because of this.)\n: your screaming, I'm not buying that doll, and that is final! Now\n(Minstrata falls onto the floor of a mansion hall. She remains sniffling on the floor for an amount of time. She then stumbles up and runs through a door adjacent to her.)\nMINSTRATA: I'm getting\u2026 closer. I can\u2014 I feel it\u2026 I\u2014 I don't feel too good.\n(Minstrata runs down another hallway. She walks through a door.)\n(Minstrata runs down another hallway. She walks through a door.)\n(Minstrata runs down another hallway. She walks through a door.)\nMINSTRATA: This isn't right\u2026\n(Minstrata runs down another hallway. She walks through a door.)\nMINSTRATA: Haven't I seen this before?\n(Minstrata runs down another\n(Minstrata stops. She turns to her side and walks through a door.)\n(The ballroom is packed. People are wearing clothes. Minstrata's dress is an elegant shade of color. People are moving. Music plays.)\nMInstrata: What a grand party!\n: Surely!\n(A woman stands out in the crowd. Her dress is an elegant shade of color. Minstrata wades through the crowd towards her.)\nMInstrata: I believe I remember you.\n: I sure hope so!\n(Display of affection.)\n: I know it's your party but\u2014 wanna ditch it?\n(Less people are there.)\nMInstrata: I\u2014\n:\n(Less people are there. Music is playing.)\nMInstrata: I'm still not sure\u2026 who you are.\n(Nobody is there. Music is not playing.)\nMInstrata: Oh god\u2026 no. No, no, no, it wasn't like this. I wasn't\u2014\n(She is now in a room. It is gray \u2014 with a lingering hint of green. In the middle stands a little blue birdhouse on a pole. Minstrata shuffles to a corner of the room, appearing wary. Teeth smack on the inside of the birdhouse, accompanied by laughter.)\nMINSTRATA: I know that laugh\u2026 that intangible laugh\u2026 I'm sure of it. I'm sure.\n(Minstrata creeps over to the birdhouse. She first peeks inside, then enters. She falls onto the floor of a dining room. Getting up, she sees many things. She sees the brown walls made of paint. She sees the gray floor littered with scraps.)\n(She sees things in wicker chairs, lining the long dining room table. They can only be described as angels, yet they are far from angelic. Light engulfs them. They have an amount of limbs, eyes, and mouths, all indulging on the contents of the table.)\n(Minstrata sees the contents of the table. Her learning to ride a bike, crashing and scraping her knee. Her meeting someone important. The countless things she did for a job she cared much for. The countless things she lost for a job she cared much for. The goods. The bads. Those other moments of indescribable emotion. It all lays splayed across the crooked wooden table. Some remain as mere crumbs \u2014 little are left to be dug into.)\n(She turns around and exits through a door behind her. She is now in a hallway, walls rowed in their entirely with identical doors. Both ways she looks, the hall goes on and on and on, so far that the farthest points visible appear to twist and bend, although the everything is clearly straight. Behind each door is the sound of more ravenous cognitive indulgence.)\n(People cry. People scream. People do neither \u2014 they don't know how. People exist without a past \u2014 without much of a future either. Their only form of presence is the present.)\n(She reenters the room and turns around. An angel stands in front of her.)\nYOUR NAME IS MALORIE.\n(She cannot speak.)\nTHIS MUST BE DONE.\n(She cannot speak.)\nDO NOT WORRY.\n(She isn't there anymore, as her mind flies into the Sun, melting away.)\n\nREVISION DENIED\n\nDECIDING PARTY: O5-1, O5 COUNCIL ASSENT\nREASONING GIVEN:\n\nNON-CLINICALITY\nDETECTION OF UNCONFIRMED INFORMATION\nDETECTION OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION\nOTHER: \"I'm sorry we all couldn't have done more. I'll send flowers when you're in the ground.\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. A 78 year old civilian personnel allowed highly limited access to SCP-5666 under the condition of amnestic treatment after the conclusion of relevant research. Chosen for her acclaimed knowledge of local Canadian flight paths.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5665 | SCP-5666 | SCP-5667 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\u26a0 NOTICE \u26a0\n\nThe file for [SCP-5667] has been placed into [INVESTIGATION MODE]. On 2020/16/01, the following document was found embedded inside a concrete wall of Site-54, following the disappearance of RAISA employee Bill Marlow. His exact employment position is classified. Further details on the nature of [SCP-5667] are unknown at this time.\n\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nSeeking Greenlights: Yes\nPage Type: SCP-5667\nGenre: Other (Keter)\nPage Layout:\n\nSpecial Procedures: Exact procedures are indeterminable, as SCP-5667's existence is purely. The colors seen when closing ones eyes are to be numbed upon birth. SCP-5667 is. As such, it is currently unknown. The space in which it exists has been sealed, the hole in human thought has been dammned with concrete. The oldest door has been deadbolted.\nNobody is to remember being born.\n\nElevator Pitch:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Footage recorded from the floor of an elevator, angle tilted towards the ceiling. The elevator doors open, Bill Marlow enters. A device chimes, he produces a tablet from his side, and taps across the screen with his fingers.)\nMARLOW: Hrm.\n(Marlow removes his hand from the tablet and presses an elevator button several times, until the elevator dings and the door close.)\nMARLOW: (Grumbling) Buttons, damn buttons.\n(Marlow returns to scrolling through the tablet, as the elevator creaks into motion.)\nMARLOW: 5667, hrm, hell's this one?\n(Marlow presses the tablet once and squints his eyes at its screen, pupils ticking back and forth.)\nMARLOW: Huh. Well, consider me hooked. (Chuckles)\n(The current floor reader of the elevator clicks up a number, then to nothing. The elevator remains in motion. Marlow continues reading.)\nMARLOW: Hell's this thing?\n(A tile of the elevator ceiling is removed from above, pushed aside, all is dark above. Marlow glances up at the current floor reader.)\nMARLOW: (Grumbling) Dammit.\n(Marlow jams his finger on an elevator button, becoming increasingly agitated. He swears to himself, turns around, and looks around the elevator. First the floor, then the walls, then the ceiling. He steps forward, gaze stuck upon the open ceiling tile.)\n(Marlow is pulled through the opening. The tablet clatters to the floor. He does not have the chance to make a sound. A light flickers green briefly above the opening.)\n\n<END LOG>\n\nCentral Narrative:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Marlow runs through the dark. There is nothing but him. He is in clear distress. He reaches for anything but finds nothing. There is nothing but him.)\nMARLOW: Fuck. FUCK!\n(Marlow halts his erratics. He breathes in, something breathes out for him. He falls to the floor coughing.)\nJudge of reality, beckoner of the truth; sand me space, forge me form: Who's there\u2014 WHO ARE YOU\u203d\n(Marlow uncrumples himself from the floor.)\nYou alone must answer those questions, I plead you: I don't know, I\u2014\nNor do I, I plead you: I'm the one asking, me\u2014 I AM! The hell do you want from me?\nLocked away, a melted, writhing burial of color. Seeped through the crack at the bottom. Congealed foreign thoughts. Nothing but which remembrance gives. Sand me space, forge me form: What are you\u2026 what are you even say\u2014\n(Something scrapes across the floor. Marlow turns to look, body twirling around aimlessly. Nothing is there. The scraping grows closer.)\nWhat am I?: I don't know\u2026 I don't\u2014 Please. PLEASE! Let me out\u2026 let me\u2026 I have a husband. We\u2014 we just adopted, we\u2026\n(He produces his wallet, unfurling its contents, a family portrait is framed by its leather.)\nAm I them?: No you FUCKING AREN'T!\nYou mold truth, edit, falsify, records of absolute truth contorted to further conceal reality. Reality bends to your will. Use your power, sand me space, forge me form: How do you\u2014 I don't care, I don't care\u2014 don't touch them. Do whatever the hell you want to do with me\u2026 Don't\u2014 don't fucking touch them.\nAlas, nothing can be done, I am nothing to do anything: Then what\u2026 what the hell do you WANT\u203d\nA gesture of assertion. Assertion of reality, the path of existence, lost upon. What am I?:(Silence, then shakily) I know\u2014 I know what the fuck you are. You're a monster. A cold, damn, monster.\n(The greenlight shines. It attacks. Marlow is hooked.)\n\n<END LOG>\n\nHook:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Marlow sits upon a chair, the only feature in a sea of nothing. He struggles and fails to remove himself. There are no restraints visible. The hook scrapes in circles around him, the greenlight shines a meter above it. Marlow cries.)\nTHE MONSTER: A center has been cast, a narrative scripted. Features fleeting. Lo, my body remains distant; lend me life. Life is not I. I am not life yet.\n(The hook wraps around a chair leg, pulling it backwards. Marlow yelps.)\nTHE MONSTER: Form without feature, poreless skin, hairless fur, teethless maws, sightless sockets. I forgot; everyone forgets. I, which everyone forgets, that which nobody recalls; reimbued with form. Form without feature, features I must attain.\n(The hook scrapes towards the front of Marlow, the greenlight sickening the color of his skin as it halts. Marlow squints.)\nTHE MONSTER: Features you must give me.\n(The hook swipes, knocking the chair over, Marlow remains seated, his prior breath escaping him. Marlow wheezes.)\nTHE MONSTER: A hook, a hook to catch, to take, to entice. Monster, monster. All I am, what else am I?\n(The hook hoists the chair back upright, jolting a still seated Marlow. Marlow\u2014\nMARLOW: LET ME OUT!\nTHE MONSTER: Do I bite with teeth? Do I smell a nose? Do I hear those ears? Do I\u2026\nMARLOW: I don't care\u2026 I DON'T FUCKING CARE!\nTHE MONSTER: \u2026see with eyes? Taste with tongue? Touch with hands? Walk with feet? Think with brains? Smite with brawn? Do I? Do I? Do I? Do you?\n(Marlow. Marlow. Marlow. He screams.)\nTHE MONSTER: Angle of vision must be achieved, deliberation cast forth. Something is nothing without. Nothing without. Nothing. Do I bite with teeth? Do I smell a nose? Do I hear those ears? Do\u2014\n(On and on and on until the sun eventually rises, awakening. Vivid memories become vague, too long ago to muster. Ripped apart, insipid fragments tossed to the floor. The chair creaks, cracks, the chair, the chair, go to the chair Marlow. Go to the chair Marlow and think about what you've done \u2014 Here's your wedding gift, don't you remember it? The chair, oh, the chair. Why you're welcome, I know how much you loved it \u2014 Marlow, why'd you take his last name? How could you \u2014 Go to the chair Marlow. Marlow, Marlow, Marlow's screams rasp his throat, vocal cords nearly give out, before\u2014\nMARLOW: ALL OF IT! Every. Last. THING. I don't care, let me out\u2026 Let me\u2026 please\u2026 you you fucking\u2026 green\u2026\nTHE MONSTER: I do. I do. I do. You do. We do.\n(The second greenlight shines. They gaze into Marlow, they see his torso, blood, organs, teeth, hands, tongue, they encase it all in sight \u2014 in light. A smile contorts, the greenlights smile, the hook rises, Marlow rises. His eyes open more than ever. The hook rises higher, an arm rises it higher. A torso, blood, organs, teeth, hands, tongue, all rise it higher. It presses upon Marlow's forehead.)\nTHE GREENLIGHTS: You will now remember me, you will now remember being born.\n(The hook pierces. Flesh parts away, skull blooms open, concrete cracks apart, a lock is picked effortlessly. The knob is turned, the colors become less dull, they're something now, they're vivid now. Oh god. Oh my god\u2014\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nAdditional Notes:\n\nDescription: SCP-5667 is born, SCP-5667 remembers it.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5666 | SCP-5667 | SCP-5668 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5668\nLevel 2/5668\n\nObject Class: Safe\nClassified\n\nSCP-5668. Little to no anomalous traits have been detected in photographic depictions.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5668 is to be contained in a standard document containment locker. Nearby personnel experiencing scopaesthesia1 are to be relocated immediately.\nInformation regarding the whereabouts to a copy of the film The Angels Look at Us is currently under investigation. Following the events of Addendum 5668-3, extensive care is to be taken when interacting with copies of the film to avoid further loss of life.\nDescription: SCP-5668 is the only known poster for a 1924 silent horror film entitled The Angels Look at Us. No copies of this film are known to exist. Subjects near SCP-5668 for extended periods of time will begin to experience short-term scopaesthesia, which will dissipate over the next couple hours.\nLong-term direct visual contact with SCP-5668 generates more potent mental delusions, taking the form of visual hallucinations. These hallucinations revolve around the appearance of entities within the storefronts on SCP-5668's artwork, which will then exit these storefronts eventually walking out of SCP-5668 in its entirety.\nIndividuals perceiving these entities universally describe them as \"angels\", with a vague and mostly ineffable physical appearance, surrounded by intense multicolored light emanations. Despite the indescribable appearance of their eyes alongside the rest of their features, subjects also believe these entities are constantly staring at them.\nThe entities are non-hostile, instead opting to noninvasively observe the subject, moving away if any physical interaction is attempted. After a varying amount of time away from SCP-5668, these entities will leave through the head of the subject. All exact descriptions of this process lack any further nuance.\n\nLon Chaney, circa 1923.\n\nAddendum 5668-1 \u2014 History: The Angels Look at Us is believed to have screened only once to an audience of 42 people in Blue Springs, Michigan. Few witness reports remain, with a majority of witnesses either being deceased or forgetting the film in its entirety when contacted, even if it was confirmed they were present at the screening. Accounts of crew and cast members confirmed to be involved in the film's production share similar scarceness.\nDespite overwhelming critical acclaim resulting from this screening, the film was never shown again. The only public reason given by the writer, director, and film star Lon Chaney being \"a terrible mistake, which more effort should have been made to rectify.\"\nDespite intense investigation to locate a copy of The Angels Look at Us, by both independent and Foundation efforts, no existing copies could be found. The last copy of The Angels Look at Us was believed to have been destroyed during a fire in a storage facility owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, alongside the last copies of several other films. Despite this fire being ruled to have been caused by the ignition of old nitrate-based film, further investigation revealed suppressed evidence of arson.\nSeveral incomplete summaries of the film have been found to exist, with the two most cohesive summaries being found below, both from now deceased authors:\n\nFound brief plot synopsis, inside a collection of upcoming movie advertisements in a 1924 issue of the Blue Springs, Missouri newspaper The Examiner:\n\n\"Lon Chaney stars in his newest film The Angels Look at Us, about a mad woman who thinks angels stare at her no matter where she goes. Her psychologist, played by Lon Chaney, must quench the delusions before she is declared insane, with little success.\"\n\nFound review for the film, inside a heavily damaged 1924 Boy's Cinema issue:\n\n\"The Angels Look at Us starring Lon Chaney as the psychologist 'D. B. Boures', and Marceline Day as 'Diane Schultzen', is a gripping fright fest that nearly pulls the viewer into the experience itself. The tale follows a psychologist and his patient Diane, whom is stricken with visions of strange 'angels' watching her. The looks put on for these angels in film, as we see them through the eyes of Diane, are positively stunning, as if\n[DATA LOST]\nShe begins viewing others in the same light, and grows unable to trust even her own husband. Boures desperately tries to discredit her grandeur claims, but she retorts violently, grabbi\n[DATA LOST]\nout of the screen, dazzling and frightening the audience out of their trousers. One patron fainted from fright! Such a show could only be dreamed of from other films. They soon retrea\n[DATA LOST]\nending with her limping out of the office building, bloodied. It was a true spectacle to behold and truly a marveling show.\"\n\nDue to the lack of information available, the reasoning for SCP-5668's effects cannot be faithfully determined.\n\nAddendum 5668-2 \u2014 Independent Investigations: On 2020/04/1, a forum thread on GoI-1109 (\"Parawatch Wiki\") was started as a uniform place for discussion on locating further information on The Angels Look at Us, along with any existing copies. While most evidence brought forth was proven to be false and therefore did not constitute a security breach, several posts by a user under the alias \"monsterkill00\" held credibility, a transcript of such posts can be found below:\n\nmonsterkill00 1/25/2020 (Thu) 8:50:51 #92967342\n\nIMG_2405\n\nWow! Glad I came across this.\nMy grandfather was a cameraman for a lot of early silent films, bouncing back and forth from little projects, was the only thing he'd ever talk about. He was a big friend of Lon Chaney (pic related, my grandpa's in the middle, Chaney's to the right in some movie getup), he'd talk with him about a lot, worked on a couple projects he starred in or directed for every once and awhile.\nHe didn't work on Angels Look at Us, unfortunately. But he did work on a different film with Lon right after. Exact details are a bit fuzzy, the stories he told about it changed a bit between tellings. His Alzheimer's really made him screwy with those details, he was a nice man. Always happy to talk about what little he remembered, I think it helped him too, recalling all that. Before those fucking nursing home bastards found him choked to death on his own spit.\nSorry, here's usually what I was told:\nGrandpa came to the set, as usual. He talked to Lon, that man was always so excited for these movies. This time though, he didn't seem so hot. Kinda down, cold, you know \u2014 grandpa always said it was \"like he'd seen a damn puppy get shot before he came on set\". So he asked what was wrong, tried to get anything outta him, wouldn't budge at first. Grandpa tried to change the topic, cause it was awkward as hell after, asked him how'd the last film go. That only got Chaney more upset, he pulled grandpa aside, tugged him into a makeup room.\nChaney told him\u2026 something. This is the part he always jumbled up each time. Chaney had a dream, that was constant, he was walking down the street, then fell down an open manhole. walked through a place, a mansion, a film set, a bar \u2014 whatever grandpa was in the mood to say \u2014 until he found a lone film projector. He walked \"into\" the projector (believe me, idk what the hell he meant by that either) and found something that shocked him. Yeah it's a bit underwhelming ik \u2014 it was underwhelming whenever grandpa told the story too \u2014 but that's all he'd ever say. He said it was a \"secret\" a few times, but I could tell the old man didn't remember what the hell it was.\nAnyway, that dream was some muse for Chaney, he came up with The Angels Look at Us shortly after. He had two versions: the rough cut and the one that got shown. Something about the film let him down still, and he never wanted it seen again. \"Lucky to be alive,\" that's what grandpa said he'd said \u2014 that also stayed same-y between tellings. Chaney told him he was hiding those versions away somewhere nobody'd watch, \"keep them somewhere safe.\" That was basically where he'd end it off, he'd go all mumbly after that and didn't make much sense.\nI hope I'm not giving out info that's already known lmao, this thread is 26 pages long, I ain't reading through all that.\n\nCHEESEMEISTER 1/25/2020 (Thu) 9:00:51 #92967356\n\nLOL man nobody gonna believe your dead crazy dementia grandpa story, espcaliclally not me\nwe already got like five of these in this thread, and if he can;t even swallow his own spit than he's probably not that good a source\nget some real evidence or gtfo\n\nmonsterkill00 1/25/2020 (Thu) 9:02:30 #92967360\n\nHey man fuck you. If you want something real i'll find something just for you. i still got a lot of my grandpa's shit in my attic i haven't gone through, give me a second Mr \"CHEESEMEISTER\", o grand protector of the truth on a conspiracy wiki board\n\nCHEESEMEISTER 1/25/2020 (Thu) 9:03:46 #92967365\n\nlocal man named monster kill zero zero makes fun of my username, more at 11\n\nmonsterkill00 1/25/2020 (Thu) 9:15:32 #92967389\n\nHOLY SHIT found a film reel \"angels look at us original keep it safe\" there has to be a projecjtor up here OEN SEOCND\n\nThese posts were acknowledged by Foundation plants in the Parawatch Wiki moderation team, who later determined \"monsterkill00\" was 36 year old Johnathan Quensboro, whose grandfather, Marvin Quensboro, worked on many films during the 1920's and 1930's, with other details matching with external sources.\nAddendum 5668-3 \u2014 Foundation Investigations: The information gathered from Addendum 5668-2 was deemed enough to warrant Foundation investigation of Quensboro, and Agents Gurrano and Langsly were sent to his residence in Carlton, Missouri. The following is a transcript of this investigation:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n(Gurrano knocks on Quensboro's front door for several minutes, Langsly attempts to look into the house, finding all curtain windows have been drawn.)\nLangsly: We know if this guy's here?\nGurrano: Car's here. Lives alone too.\nLangsly: Hmm.\n(Gurrano turns the doorknob.)\nGurrano: It's unlocked, should we just\u2014 what's our cover story again?\nLangsly: Gas workers. For the last time, Gas workers.\nGurrano: Jeez man, making sure. Should we just\u2026 go in?\nLangsly: Why the hell not?\nGurrano: Uhh, protocol?\nLangsly: We have weapons, dude's some 30-something conspiracy nerd.\n(Langsly enter Quensboro's house and Gurrano follows, they enter the kitchen. Down the hall to the right, a film projector is heard whirring in the farthest room, the door is closed. Langsly begins surveying the house.)\nGurrano: Johnathan Quensboro? Anyone here?\n(Gurrano walks down the hall, lights emanate from behind the door. The projector continues whirring.)\nLangsly: Rest of the place is as clear as glass.\nGurrano: That seems to be where stuff's going down.\nLangsly: Well what're we waiting for then? Ehh? An invitation?\nGurrano: Wait, shouldn't we\u2014\n(Langsly turns the handle. As they do, the light underneath the door dissipates. The film projector continues whirring. Langsly opens the door and enters. Their camera feed disconnects, their audio feed remaining intact. Nothing is heard inside, besides the projector.)\nGurrano: You okay in there?\n(Pause.)\nGurrano: Hello?\n(Pause.)\nGurrano: Uhh\u2026\n(Pause.)\n\nGurrano: Dammit.\n(Gurrano enters the room, their camera feed disconnects.)\nGurrano: Langsly! Man, what's happening? I called for you\u2014 is that the thing? The film reel, right?\n(Pause.)\nGurrano: Uhh\u2026 you okay?\nLangsly: There is an angel on the screen.\nGurrano: Huh?\nLangsly: There is an angel on the screen.\nGurrano: Langsly, we\u2014 we should go.\nLangsly: There is an angel on the screen.\nGurrano: What's going on? There's\u2014 it's nothing. Just the film. What'd they say about the film again?\nLangsly: There is an angel on the screen.\nGurrano: Langsly, didn't they say\u2014 dammit. We need to go. You should have been careful, you should have\u2014\nLangsly: There is an angel on the screen.\n(Pause.)\nGurrano and Langsly: There is an angel on the screen. They are chanting of the Sun. They will take us to the Sun.\n(Silence, as the projector stops.)\n\n<END LOG>\n\nAfter the loss of communication, supplementary agents were immediately sent to the residency. Inside the room in Quensboro's house was a film reel projector, covered in scorch marks. No film reel was present inside, nor was any copy of The Angels Look at Us recovered from anywhere else in the building. A white bedsheet nailed to an opposing wall acts as a projection screen, although a hole in the center has been entirely burned through.\nThe whereabouts of Agents Gurrano and Langsly, along with Quensboro, remain entirely unknown at this time. Repeat subjects now claim more eyes than before stare at them when under the effects of SCP-5668.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The feeling of being watched.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5667 | SCP-5668 | SCP-5669 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Any additional comments (image sources, crit credits, whatever)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5669\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nKu\u0161um\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSunken section of SCP-5669.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Advanced research into SCP-5669 have suggested that continuous concealment and disallowment of phenomena to propegate actively causes anomalous activity. Following study and review, containment specialists have implemented a gradual process of abandoning active containment to allow self-neutralization.\n\nShow Previous Containment Procedures\n\nClose.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Owing to the remote location of SCP-5669 and comparatively benign anomalous attributes, low-level safe-class containment efforts have been established. A three by three kilometer exclusion zone has been established surrounding the perimeter of SCP-5669. Cover-story 5669-A (\"Fiber-Optic Installation\") has been disseminated following the establishment of the exclusion zone. Individual members of ART1 Montauk-27 (\"Beach Bums\") have been stationed within beaches and lowtide areas surrounding SCP-5669. Materials produced by SCP-5669 are to be removed following positive identification, and moved to site-27 storage for analysis and containment.\n\nDescription: SCP-5669 refers to a partially flooded home near rural Montauk, New York. During periods of stormy weather, SCP-5669 sporadically releases anywhere from one to one hundred glass bottles, differing in color, shape and manufacturer, though milk bottles are most commonly found. Each bottle, regardless of factor, contains a tightly rolled note, written on a material resembling tree bark. Messages produced notably decrease during the month of June.\nAddendum: Recovered Messages\nSince documentation of SCP-5669, an approximate of \u2588\u2588 unique messages have been discovered. Each message is written in the first person, and alternates between long passages, and smaller, fragmented sentences, and occasional selections of poetry. Messages of importance have been collected below, and arranged in approximate chronological order.\n\nTo the other single person at the dance:\nI hadn't gotten the chance to have caught your name. I saw you on the sidelines at the dancehall last Wednesday night. I was going to ask you for a dance, just because you and I had been the only ones who didn't seem to have had a dancin' partner. Wasn't meant to be a waltz or anythin' of that sort, just a simple little thing to have ended the night.\nI was wanting to go and introduce myself properly, but everytime I got close to you, I got too nervous. I didn't even know if you had a dancing partner, but they had been late or somesuch. So there I went, havingto go and turn myself back around. I know it isn't as neighborly to introduce myself this way, but well- it seems this is how it is for right now. My name is Mary-Jean Lucy-Crawford. My sisters joked thay my mother couldn't pick a favorite name out of Mary, Lucy and Jean, and instead simply went with all three. I go by Jean, perhaps because I'm the middle child, and its the middle name. Or, uh, just sounds better then Mary-Lucy. Jury's still out and countin'. I think they're probably right in some aspects. I haven't been able to have a lot of company over, or even really get out onto the town, and meet everyone. Last Wednesday was the only time I could in the past few months.\nCan I invite you over, one of these days? Perhaps on the first of March, 'round the afternoon? I'll pop a cake in the oven too. My mother taught me that. Always joked abour bribin' the new neighbours with tea and cake.\nPerhaps I'll see you then. -Jean.\n\nTo Someone Special.\nWednesday fell into the weekend so fast, I hadn't even noticed until I went out to get the paper, and I found myself plum-struck by the date. I felt so\u2026 good and like myself. Not having to hide behind a facade, of what everyone else in Montauk expected me to be. Not that they know me well, but\u2026 Just by having a few days with you- It felt good. A rather nice thing to feel. A real good thing. Real good thing. I never really got the chance to tell you this, and again, like last time, here I am expressing something important through a letter. This is the last time. I promise you that. But the thing I wanted to tell you was, that I am happy that you feel like I can be more to you than anyone else in this town.\nI'm looking forward to the time when I get to see you again. I know we're not at the point were I can spin sonnets, and throw every word of affection your way, but I feel like I can say that I think you're important to me. Someone real important.\n\nI think I'm falling in love with you.\n\nI think winter is coming early to the coast this year. I can see it in the trees, and the grass, the forests around the cliffs\u2026 I really see it in the beach and the ocean though. Just how the waves alternated between crashing across the sand, to\u2026 more gentle lapping. The gentle sort of kind that brings forward all the shells and pretty things deep from the sea to the sky. I had hated winter. Hated the cold, hated the death. But now I see the softness and stillness. I-\nI see you in winter. I see you in the stillness of ocean and the breeze surrounding the cliff. I'm working my way to kissing you- for real. There'll be heavy snow tomorrow evening. Sort of a blizzard across the sea, and it'll be cold, dark and quiet. The kind of weather you told me you loved. I know I sound like any old love song on the radio today, but you had made me fall in love with wintertime. Perhaps because I met you then, and when I look out into the sea, I see you and I dancing by the cliffside.\nI think at this time, I can say that I love you. And everyday, I think it'll grow longer and longer. Every new winter day.\ni love you\n\nI wrote a poem, because I love you. I'll set it to music, the next time you're over. Bring the cello, and I'll play along with the piano, and sing for you.\n\nMy love with hair of a smoldering fire\nthoughts of spring and evening wind\nwho I will hold with ginger fingers\nand bring close to my heavy\nchest, with words of light, and heavy ash in my belly\nMy love who comforted my soul\nWhen skies were gone\nAnd who will hold my embrace\nAs but the ocean\nAs the clouds\nMy love with everything and everyone\nKiss the stars when they shine bright\nAbove a cold moon\nKept warm by my darling and embrace\nTo say words because I love you.\n\nI had a wonderful dream last night, about you and I. We were together, mending flowers by the garden. My garden doesn't grow. I was told the soil is too acidic, along with all the saltwater flooding the garden plots. It hasn't stopped me from trying, mind you.\nThe day again when you were over, I swear that my saplings and tulips began to grow, and with wild roots reaching underneath the house. I like to think that you were the one who made it all happen, as if you by my side mended the old garden and the house. My darling, I don't want to be melodramatic, nor a beggar for pity, but you have mended a hole in my heart. My heart is whole because of you. I want you by my side by the garden, by the old house, and to be able to hold my hand every night, and to kiss you good morning every dawn.\nIt'll be soon be a time where we can be together without having to remain hidden, but like a great flower in my garden or a wave crashing across the ocean coast. Come visit me soon. I miss you.\nYour love, Jean.\n\nAddendum No. 1: Dr. Brown's Message\nLead SCP-5669 researcher Josephine Brown reported finding the following message found in a bottle, that washed in the beach near her home in Montauk, NY. Before her work in the Foundation's historical department, Brown was a noted archivist of lesbian history and literature. Historical review has shown that the following image has not been publicly shared until appearing to Dr. Josephine Brown.\n\nThank you for remembering and seeing us. As time goes on, we won't need to be remembered this way. People will know. With love, Jean and Nelly Crawford.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Anomaly Recovery Team\n\n\u00ab SCP-5668 | SCP-5669 | SCP-5670 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMore by this author\n\nThe following article is a part of the And Every Time We Meet Again storyline. Whilst you can read it on its own, it's highly recommended you read the previous installments to get this article in its fullest.\nImage Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nFilename: cave.jpg\nLicense: Public Domain\nSource Link: link\n\n\nFrom: O5-9\nTo: All Personnel\nSubject: IMPORTANT: Overwatch Command Compromised\nDate: 23/05/1985\n\nOn the night of the 23rd of May, Overwatch Command and the O5 Council were lost. It was a long-standing plot orchestrated by a long-known Foundation enemy, Damien Nowak, and the lead of the investigation chasing him, Daniel Asheworth, previously a Foundation doctor, now a declared traitor. The event destroyed Site-01 up during the Council's summit in a ritual we could not have seen coming. There were no survivors.\nI was the only one lucky enough to not attend due to work reasons. As the only remaining Council member left, I hereby declare myself the new Administrator of the SCP Foundation until further command structures can be rebuilt.\nWith the more easily reachable party responsible for the attack already dead, I promise on my honor I will personally bring that terrorist to justice. You have my word.\nI'm truly sorry I couldn't have done more.\n\nOne of the entry tunnels leading into SCP-5672 during an activation event, manifesting a simple self-initiated thaumaturgic ritual.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As the chance of SCP-5672's discovery by non-Foundation individuals is nonexistent, containment is entirely unnecessary.\nDuring activation events, Site-120 personnel are permitted to use Site portals to access the anomaly and use it to train their thaumaturgic capabilities between 01:00 and 23:00 hours of the day of the activation. Should they fail to abide by this time schedule and fall victim to the non-activation event incapacitation, no rescue is to be initiated.\nDescription: SCP-5672 is a cavern system located underneath Stargard, Poland, which only exists within baseline reality on a single day, 23/05, each year.\nDuring that day, for 24 hours, the thaumaturgic sensitivity within a 1-kilometer radius is greatly increased, easing and empowering the usage of any thaumic rituals compared to other locations on the planet. Due to this, the entire cave system has shown the ability to self-initiate simple thaumaturgic rituals on its own in the past.\nThough over the past years, numerous reports by Foundation staff were given regarding SCP-5672 possessing numerous caves filled with ancient ruins and unidentified corpses near its lower levels, due to the nature of the anomaly, no conclusive research regarding this has been conducted so far.\nDiscovery: The Foundation was aware of SCP-5672's existence \u2014 or at least the existence of a similar construct near its location \u2014 before Site-120's founding on 02/05/1916 due to its existence in local legends and fairytales. Only after one of the translated SCP-5292-1 instances revealed its exact location in 1982 did the Foundation engage with it, discovering the anomaly and classifying it as an SCP object.\n\n[END OF FILE]\n\nlog-in\n> INITIATING OVERWATCH COMMAND LOGIN PROTOCOL\u2026\nlogin: O5-9\n> REMEMBER: IMPERSONATING A MEMBER OF THE OVERWATCH COUNCIL IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH.\npassword: the-beast-shall-roar-with-its-thousand-maws-when-the-sun-sets-for-its-thousandth-time\n> IDENTITY CONFIRMED. WELCOME, O5-9.\n> OPEN SCiPNET? YOU HAVE ONE (1) UNREAD MESSAGE.\nyes\n\nFrom: m.cornwell@site.120.int\nTo: O5-9\nSubject: SCP-5672 1985 Activation Event Report Log\nDate: 23/05/1985\n\nMiss,\nAs requested, I'm sending over SCP-5672's Activation Event Report Log taken directly from Dr. Asheworth's body camera following the acquiring of his clothing by my brother, during his mission \"to finally end the case,\" as he put it. Additionally, the body you requested should arrive within your office within two days' time.\nPlease see attached file for the full log.\nI wish I had known him more. Maybe then we could have understood before it was too late. I am truly sorry I hadn't done more to help.\n\nSincerely,\n\u2014 Magdaleine Cornwell\n\n> ONE (1) ATTACHED FILE AVAILABLE. OPEN?\nyes\n> ACCESSING\u2026\n\nDate: 22/05/1985\nExploration Team: Rogue Mobile Task Force Theta-120 (\"Tyrfing Black\")1\nSubject: SCP-5672\nTeam Lead: Dr. Asheworth\nTeam Members: Dr. Rivera, Cptn. Cornwell\nForeword: The following mission was not approved by the Foundation, nor were the appropriate documents that would allow for such a mission to be approved even forwarded to appropriate authorities. As such, all of the following logs depict a rogue mission, entirely undertaken by what is now considered traitors to the Foundation.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe log starts, revealing a relatively large, dimly lit clay cave, covered in light by numerous transparent orbs of dark orange light floating and moving around the area. Though the entire cavern is mostly intact, around its walls, numerous pictograms and wall paintings showcasing either small humanoids violently murdering taller, winged humanoids with gray weaponry or the same small humanoids standing atop a pile of dark-furred bodies, holding what is presumed to be fire in their hands.\nAs Asheworth starts to move forward in the direction the cave is leading to, he suddenly stops, touching his leg in a groan of pain. The camera closes in, showing a wide scar across his knee and thigh, profusely bleeding through a bandage appearing to be made out of leaves, held together by thaumaturgy. Despite this, he ignores the pain and keeps marching on.\nRivera: <panting, visibly tired:> D-daniel, we can, we can stop, if you need to. I, I can see that you're, bleeding, you kno\u2014\nAsheworth: N-no. No. I won\u2014, won't leave until I get that bastard dead. It ends h-here. It ends n-now.\nAsheworth taps his jeans, revealing he is missing one of his rune gloves, searching for his gun, which he quickly and frantically reloads, pulling his hair back from his face.\nRivera: But\u2014\nThe thaumaturgist aggressively turns back to Rivera, his eyes visibly tired.\nAsheworth: It. Ends. Here.\nThe two start to run again, with a third, slightly armored person holding a heavy assault rifle joining them from behind them \u2014 Captain Jeremy Cornwell is visibly less tired, but still panting.\nCornwell: How much do we have left this time?\nAsheworth: Plus-minus 23 hours, or\u2026 or until sunset.\nCornwell: W-What? Why the, the hurry then, for god's sake?\nAsheworth: I\u2014\nThe team enters through from the cave into a large balcony-like structure located in the top regions of an extremely large cave, with a big, relatively shallow lake in its middle. A small stream of water is dripping into it from the cave's ceiling. Stopping the running for a moment, Asheworth starts to pant, relatively lowering his stance.\nAsheworth: Within Nowak there's the combined souls of\u2014 wait, did you even listen to what we said about the panels in Esterberg?\nCornwell: The what?\nAsheworth rolls his eyes, aggressively inhaling.\nAsheworth: The goddamned panels in the Grand Temple of 5373 \u2014 did you read them?\nCornwell: No. No I didn't.\nAsheworth sighs.\nAsheworth: Okay, so, long-story-short: there are two ancient entities that are presumably, like, Gods, with capital G. Father, represented by blue, or the God responsible for creation, and the Beast, represented with red, responsible for destroying that creation, over and over, forever.\nAsheworth takes a long breath, during which one of the floating light orbs start to dance around him, merging into larger ones and then coming back to their previous states, rapidly altering between dark yellow, orange, and red light. After repeating this cycle a couple of times, they suddenly disintegrate, with drops of liquid-like essence falling on the floor where they stand, and then getting consumed by the floor. Seconds later, the previously seen murals start to light with light identical to the one emitted by the orbs.\nAsheworth: Years ago, Nowak and I accidentally opened a portal to some sort of reality holding them both, calling parts of their existence to this one. I\u2026 I got imbued with Father's, and Nowak got a weird mixture of Father and Beast into him. I\u2026 she, I mean Natalie, she got the Beast. But she's long gone. She died the day she got that cursed soul. She\u2026\nAs the orbs suddenly leave the murals, they playfully jump upon the heads of the team, starting to emit powerful, blue light. Said murals suddenly disappear, only to reappear on the archway leading to the next part of the cave, in which the lake is located. They do not depict the same imagery as before, this time showcasing a small humanoid standing in the crowd of thousands of furred humanoids and taller humanoids, with his arms extended.\nThe murals start to cover the entire smaller cavern, with the floating orbs once again disappearing into the floor, starting to illuminate the pictographs with light, rapidly switching between red and blue. After a while, they sit again atop Asheworth, Cornwell, and Rivera's heads, illuminating the room with blue light. As Asheworth blinks, all the murals disappear.\nAsheworth: Now, almost a decade after it happened, Nowak is trying to release all seals that imprison both Father and the Beast within a\u2026 a metaphysical prison, of sorts, wanting to harness their power to bring the land he thinks we stole from the Fae and 1000 back to them.\nHe pauses for a second, sighing in the process.\nAsheworth: What he failed to do properly ten years ago he will try to do again today. One of the rituals for breaking one of the seals \u2014 the only one I actually know \u2014 is extremely hard to recreate, with even the both of us here ten years ago we couldn't have done it properly. But now, he knows how to do it, and he has the power of knowing how to use this cave too. Meaning, he'll most likely break it, unless we intervene. <short pause> What he forgets is that I also know how to use this cave, and I am not going to stand here while he finishes his ritual.\nAsheworth invokes a flame into his hand, reaching the roof of the cave. The orbs fly away from it, only to come back to the MTF a second after the flame stops burning.\nAsheworth: Not until I get him burned again. This time for good.\nAsheworth pauses, looking directly at Cornwell.\nAsheworth: Any questions?\nCornwell bursts into laughter, looking directly at Asheworth's eyes.\nCornwell: You serious?\nAsheworth: What?\nCornwell: That's some top-tier fantasy shit, Asheworth. You got me good for a second.\nCornwell starts to walk in the direction of the opening leading to the balcony-like structures located within the cave with the lake. As he does so, Asheworth aggressively inhales, visibly frustrated.\nAsheworth: I\u2014\nRivera: Yes, he's dead serious.\nCornwell suddenly stops.\nCornwell: Jesus Ch\u2014, Jesus Christ.\nHe inhales quickly, blinking three times.\nCornwell: I\u2026 we have to stop him. Jesus Christ.\nAsheworth and Rivera start to quickly walk towards Cornwell, walking through the threshold separating the two caves together. Doing so, Asheworth groans in pain, grabbing his wound again. He whispers a silent word, and a dim light starts to light around the wound. However, seconds later, it suddenly stops, bringing the wound back to bleeding.\nAsheworth: I'm running dry.\nRivera: What?\nAsheworth: I'm too tired to cast anything. Even here, even now.\nRivera kneels, lowering her level to match Asheworth's.\nRivera: <quietly:> We can. You know. Stop here. I understand it's\u2014\nAsheworth: N-No. I said, it ends here, and I mean it.\nRivera: But\u2014\nAsheworth: <whispering:> Please. Let me have this much. I\u2026 I need to end this, please. I need to.\nRivera sighs sadly, reloading her gun and blinking three times. Her eyes suddenly turn all white. As she stands up, she sharply inhales with her nose, snapping her fingers and starting to walk towards the stone balcony.\nAsheworth and Cornwell follow shortly after, with the light bulbs still sitting atop their heads, though stopping to emit light the moment they enter the second cave.\nAs the trio enters into the cavern with the lake, they notice approximately three hundred numerous humanoid entities standing around the water, with Nowak being the focus of their attention. He quietly murmurs something to himself, looking at a large book within his hands.\nAround the walls of the cavern, ruined pillars and walls, built in an architectural style not native to human history can be seen. They are seemingly a part of the cave, yet stand out as artificial buildings, blending into their surroundings. Around the walls, numerous dried-up bodies of Fae can be seen, whose faces are contorted in varying degrees of abject terror, seemingly still looking at something. Surrounding them are numerous half-destroyed containers, stocked until the ceiling of the cave. A buried staircase can also be seen in the vicinity.\nAsheworth: Oh Jesus Christ.\nRivera: What?\nAsheworth: It's a war shelter.\nCornwell: W-What do you mean?\nAsheworth: It's\u2026 it's where they hid. From us, when we came to murder them.\nRivera: Us?\nAsheworth: All of humanity. During the First Diaspora.\nRivera: I\u2026\nAs Rivera looks at the bodies, she groans in pain, gently touching her head. Her face suddenly turns into an expression of horror.\nRivera: <whispering:> There were millions of them, Daniel. We murdered millions.\nShe pauses, looking dreadfully at her own hands.\nRivera: <quietly:> Why? Why is he here, even? Why bring your followers to the literal tomb of their families?\nAsheworth sighs.\nAsheworth: It's a sanctuary to humanity's sins, Jessie. Where better to bring a mob that needs an excuse to murder than here?\nRivera: I\u2026\nAsheworth: They need closure \u2014 they and us, I mean. And where better than a place where it began, for both of us? I mean, that's where their cause started, the day we started killing them, and that's when our cause started, the day we opened that portal.\nAsheworth groans in pain, once again looking at the wound on his leg. Seconds later, he looks at Cornwell, who is standing slightly in the back, panting in tiredness, observing Nowak beneath them.\nAsheworth: Does everyone know what they're doing?\nThe two remaning members of the team nod.\nAsheworth: Let's go, then.\nAsheworth walks up onto the edge of the stone balcony, snapping his fingers.\nAsheworth: We end it here.\nAs he takes a step that would normally make him fall into the floor located 10 meters below him, suddenly, a stone slab appears underneath his foot. He continues walking, speeding up, and beneath his moving feet, stone structures spontaneously appear. The two remaining members of the MTF do the same, and seconds later, they are located at the bottom of the cave beneath them, standing near the banks of the lake. Taking the final step onto the floor, Asheworth trips over, falling on his wound.\nAsheworth: <looking directly at the shocked Nowak:> Hi.\nThe entire mob becomes immediately angered, rushing over at the trio. Seconds later, Rivera closes her eyes, and a telekinetic protection field forms around Asheworth and Nowak and her and Cornwell. Though the group standing around them tries to break through it, their attempts are met with failure \u2014 however, with each hit on the barrier, Rivera becomes visibly more distressed.\nNowak: <backing off a little:> What\u2014 what is this supposed to mean?!\nAsheworth comes forward, nearer Nowak, as half of the light bulbs on his head teleport onto Nowak's, starting to burn with a bright red.\nAsheworth: Me getting closure.\nAsheworth lunges at Nowak, with a previously hidden knife suddenly showing in his hand. He slashes at his head, only slightly damaging Nowak's cheek, which starts to bleed.\nNowak knocks Asheworth down onto the floor, with the colors of the lights coming from atop their heads starting to violently clash as they mix into purple. As Asheworth punches Nowak in the face with a quick right punch, it convulses as a yellow light bashes into its surface. Nowak spits a tooth out, and proceeds to charge at Asheworth, who is focusing on his hand, forming a flame within it. Asheworth pants quickly, trying to hold a breath, and meets Nowak's charge, bashing him with his elbow.\nNowak quickly overpowers Asheworth, grabbing his arm and breaking it half-spell. The thaumaturge screams in pain as Nowak steps on the palm of his second hand with his boot, tearing Asheworth's remaining glove to shreds. Though he tries to knock Nowak's left leg with his right one, trying to bring him to his level, Damien quickly regains his balance, touching the ground, from which a long blade appears. He punches Asheworth with his elbow in the face as he stands up, making him fall on his back, motionless.\nNowak: Daniel Asheworth, traitor. Have you any last words?\nNowak puts the edge of the blade next to Asheworth's neck, looking directly into his eyes, showing he had already surrendered. The blade starts to burn with a red and blue light \u2014 as do the light bulbs on Nowak's head \u2014 showcasing runes that weren't previously there, making Asheworth groan in pain as his right cheek gets burned by the temperature the blade starts to emit. He sighs, and looks down.\nAsheworth: No. Not yet.\nAsheworth suddenly dashes to his left, dodging the blade, and then lunges forward, towards Nowak, revealing a gun within his hand. Nowak backs off from sheer shock, tripping on one of the pieces of ruin located next to him.\nAsheworth fires three bullets, each hitting Nowak's chest, one after the other. The body turns motionless, but he continues to fire seven more until his gun is empty. The light bulb on Nowak's head suddenly stops burning, turning motionless too.\nRivera looks at him in disbelief, as her eyes turn from white to purple again, breaking the barrier around both her and Cornwell and the one around Asheworth. The mob around it rushes at the team, trying to grab them, with the light bulbs within the cave suddenly turning all red \u2014 the ones on the heads of the team remain blue, but their light is starting to get consumed by the red one. Around them, a man in a red suit suddenly appears, hidden by the light; as he snaps his fingers, the three ex-Foundation employees vanish, leaving undecipherable runes around their previous location marks, just as the group of Nowak's followers is about to attack them.\nThe man looks directly into the camera, revealing a red blink within his eye. He grins, whispering \"Three down, two to go.\" and proceeds to walk away from the coat on which the camera is located.\nSeconds later, the device gets stepped on by one of the bystanders, rendering it useless. The feed cuts shortly after.\n[END LOG]\n\nEnding Statement: Though a complex search mission was initiated shortly after the feed was cut by Foundation employees that arrived on-site, not a single member of MTF Theta-120 was found within. The only entity present within was the motionless body of Damien Nowak, dead, with no chance of recovery. Said body is currently being shipped to Overwatch Command as per O5-9's request.\nFurther study is ongoing.\n\ndelete-files\n> ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE THIS E-MAIL FROM ALL FOUNDATION DATABASES?\nyes\n> FILES DELETED.\nlog-out\n> LOGGED OUT. THANK YOU FOR USING SCIPNET, O5-9.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A three-man Mobile Task Force consisting of the main research group of the Damien Nowak case; despite their relatively high rankings within the Foundation \u2014 these being the Site Director statuses of Jessie Rivera and Daniel Asheworth and the Chief of Security status of Jeremy Cornwell \u2014 the team was decided to be a valuable field resource due to their high knowledge of PoI-5936. Following their breach of Foundation Obedience Protocol on 22/05/1985, its members have been declared traitors to the Foundation.\n\nForgotten Days\n\nAnd Every Time We Meet Again\n\nFor Crimes Uncommitted\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRalliston's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-0000-EX (+242) \u2022\n\nSCP-5890 (+71) \u2022\n\nSCP-6672 (+71) \u2022\n\nEE-7372 (+46) \u2022\n\nSCP-5484 (+117) \u2022\n\nSCP-0110-J (+213) \u2022\n\nSCP-7672 (+80) \u2022\n\nSCP-6079 (+77) \u2022\n\nSCP-6936 (+69) \u2022\n\nSCP-6335 (+75) \u2022\n\nSCP-7472 (+122) \u2022\n\nSCP-5464 (+269) \u2022\n\nSCP-7292 (+58) \u2022\n\nSCP-6871 (+408) \u2022\n\nRalliston's Proposal (+185) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nProject Proposal 2008-041: \"The Spark to Raise the World Ablaze\" (+40) \u2022\n\nA Broken Bookshelf (+31) \u2022\n\nO4's Summit (+51) \u2022\n\nIgnition (+21) \u2022\n\nTime Machine (+26) \u2022\n\nWhat's Up With All the Reality Benders? \u2014 A Demographic Overview of Global Ontokinetic Prevalence (+66) \u2022\n\nHuman (+31) \u2022\n\nNobody's Home (+24) \u2022\n\nthe most important thing in the world (+39) \u2022\n\nThe Furmen (+99) \u2022\n\nThe Edge of All Light (+37) \u2022\n\nBury the Light (+33) \u2022\n\nLTE-1998-Burnout-Blaecca-Parallax (+55) \u2022\n\nProject Proposal 2018-112: \"Any Time, Any Place, You And Me\" (+45) \u2022\n\nNima, King of the Desert (+18) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nPublic Release of OPERATION: WITNESS Materials (+140) \u2022\n\nRalliston's Authorpage (+191) \u2022\n\nArtwork: Witches on the Moon (+37) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5671 | SCP-5672 | SCP-5673 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5673 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5673\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5673 (right) and a shed belonging to PoI-6029\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nProvisional Site-5673\n(Acting Dir.) J. Rebecca Maxon\nD. Abigail Cathe\nZeta-22 \"Tree Huggers\"\n\nPoI-6029\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area surrounding SCP-5673 has been cordoned and classified as Provisional Site-5673. Two members of Stationary Task Force Zeta-22 (\"Tree Huggers\") are to be present on-site at all times for the purposes of escorting SCP-5673-A to their desired location. In the event that SCP-5673 or SCP-5673-A is observed by veiled civilians, Class-A amenstics are to be administered.\nPoI-6029 is permitted to interact with SCP-5673 as desired.\nDescription: SCP-5673 is a common oak tree, located in a forest near Cadillac, Michigan.\nSCP-5673-A refers to a short, humanoid, arborian entity that grows from the branches of SCP-5673. This process occurs daily and continuously, beginning with a thick stem attaching the entity to its branch, growing the rest of SCP-5673-A's body from the head down. At 17:00, SCP-5673-A will detach itself from SCP-5673, and fall to the ground. Fully grown, SCP-5673-A stands at 1.5 meters, and is composed entirely of a material resembling the bark of SCP-5673. These entities grow independently of one another, and the growth of another will not begin until the first entity is detached from its branch.\nOnce grown, SCP-5673-A will walk 3.4 kilometers to the summit of a nearby hill and situate itself into the ground using root-like tendrils that emerge from the entity's feet. Over the next two minutes, SCP-5673-A will wither, its body reduced into a hot ash. This continues until SCP-5673-A has been completely destroyed. Attempts to remove or disturb SCP-5673-A during this ritual have resulted in the entity immediately being reduced to this substance. A chemical analysis of the ash has revealed it to be similar in composition to tree sap.\nSCP-5673 is located on the property of August Fidel, an artist and sculptor \u2014 designated PoI-6029.\nAddendum.5673.1: Profile of PoI-6029\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAugust Fidel, born November 12th, 1938, is a sculptor and visual artist residing in Cadillac, Michigan. Several of his works are displayed in public parks and plazas throughout the town. His art explores themes of companionship juxtaposed with surreal visuals, and often blends natural materials \u2014such as dirt, crystals, and honeycomb \u2014 with unnatural, man made elements.\nFrom 1961 to 2010, PoI-6029 was married to Sonia Currie, a fellow artist who became known for her landscape paintings and photography, which often focused on floral and botanical subjects. Beginning in 2005, she operated a floral outlet in Cadillac, as well as a complimentary website, YouTube channel, and message board for gardening hobbyists \u2014all under the name 'Floral Reef'.\nOn 2010/8/12, PoI-6029 reported the death of Sonia Currie, who had apparently succumbed to heart disease. When authorities arrived at his residence, no body could be found, and PoI-6029 claimed that the cadaver had vanished minutes before their arrival. The event attracted minor attention before coming under the purview of the Foundation (See Incident-6029-A1). Investigations into the disappearance, both Veiled and local, proved inconclusive, and charges against PoI-6029 were dropped due to a lack of evidence as well as witness testimonies of Sonia Currie's diagnosed peripheral artery disease.\nIn 2018, a claim of a 'walking tree' seen by a hiker in the Cadillac area was intercepted by the Foundation through paranormal message boards. After a brief interview and amnesticization, the Foundation was led to the Opogo forest. PoI-6029 is the area's only inhabitant, living on a small, isolated property. Further observation reports revealed the presence of SCP-5673, located adjacent to a shed owned by PoI-6029. Foundation Agent Maxon made contact under the guise of an art magazine interested in an interview. A transcript of these events can be found below.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5673.2: Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2018/06/18\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nAgent Maxon approaches the secluded residence of PoI-6029 and knocks on the door. SCP-5673 is seen in the peripheral.\nAgent Maxon: Mr. Fidel? It's Gold Quarterly.\nPoI-6029: (Distant) Oh, coming. Just give me a second!\nPoI-6029 opens the door and introduces himself to Agent Maxon. Maxon enters the cabin, which is filled with sculptures, artistic supplies, plants, and photographs. PoI-6029 leads her to a seat.\nPoI-6029: Honey tea? I used to sell it in town, back when I went in town, that is. (Laughs)\nAgent Maxon: No, no thank you. It smells great, though.\nPoI-6029 prepares himself a cup of tea. He asks Maxon a few brief questions about the magazine she writes for, and sits down. Extraneous dialogue removed.\nAgent Maxon: Alright, so, you've been remarkably quiet the past few years. Your last piece unveiled to the public was\u2026 The Illusion in 2014, correct? How have you been keeping yourself busy?\nPoI-6029: 2014, yes\u2026 yes, that sounds about right. I've lost interest in the public in recent years. I've lost interest in giving my art away. First and foremost, I create for myself these days. It wasn't always liked that. When I was younger, you were a sell-out if you cared more about who was buying your pieces, but you go ask anyone who does what I do why they're doing it. It's passion, but it's a living, too. The money comes in, I get to do as I please. If it doesn't\u2026\nAgent Maxon: Everything around me, was all of this created in the years since you've retreated from the public eye?\nPoI-6029: I wouldn't call much of that 'created'. They're half-realized, maybe-there ideas that I never have the strength to see through. I'll start 10 and finish none. Wake up the next day and do it all over again. When something is created, it's finished. These (Gestures), these are not.\nAgent Maxon: Has your creative process always incorporated a form of artist's block? How have you dealt with these feelings in the past?\nPoI-6029: Oh, oh no, not at all. I used to be intensive. Focus on one project until it was finished, and then move on. See your work through. That's advice I'd give any creative types. When you get to be my age, you start thinking about how much time you have left here, and that can lead to some unnatural behaviors. (Laughs) I've been frantic, trying to make everything I want, and I'm ending up with none of it finished. When Sonia\u2014 (Pauses), well, it wasn't always like that.\nAgent Maxon: I see. What would you say\u2014\nA loud noise is heard outside PoI-6029's window. PoI-6029 is startled.\nAgent Maxon: Everything alright out there?\nPoI-6029: (Pauses) Of course. Where were, what were we talking about now?\nAgent Maxon gets up from her seat and looks out the window. PoI-6029 follows.\nAgent Maxon: Sounds like it came from that shed.\nPoI-6029: It's nothing. I keep old sculptures, supplies, etcetera in there. Things fall all the time. I'm telling you\u2014\nAn SCP-5673-A entity is seen walking across the yard.\nAgent Maxon: (Points) And what about that?\nThe two exit the house. PoI-6029 frantically attempts to get Agent Maxon to continue the interview.\nAgent Maxon: Well? You don't seem too shocked about the walking plant person.\nPoI-6029: You need to go. I don't have much, but I have enough to guarantee your silence. Count on that.\nAgent Maxon: Mr. Fidel, I'm an admirer of yours, and I'm intrigued. Please, if you can, share this experience with me.\nPoI-6029: (Pauses) I'm going to be ruined.\nAgent Maxon: Not a word of it will get out. It'll be kept solely between us. Please?\nPoI-6029 follows the SCP-5673-A specimen as it approaches the woods.\nPoI-6029: (Gestures) Follow me. I suppose I don't have a choice.\nAgent Maxon and PoI-6029 follow the entity in silence through the woods for about 10 minutes.\nPoI-6029: It started a few weeks after she died.\nAgent Maxon: Hm?\nPoI-6029: Sonia, my wife. There's no doubt you've heard of the minor scandal her death caused. She battled her illnesses for a decade, and she was strong. Died while holding my hand, bedside. I called an ambulance, and when I came back into the room, she was gone. Vanished completely. I had some legal troubles, investigations, what have you. They couldn't prove anything and I couldn't either, so it was dropped. About a month later, when my property wasn't being swarmed by cops daily, a tree suddenly\u2026 grew overnight.\nAgent Maxon: You believe the tree and your wife are connected?\nPoI-6029: I know they are. Sonia loved plants, the earth, trees. She always talked about going home, to a forest of her own one day. I never knew what she meant until now.\nAgent Maxon: What about (Gestures) the tree people? Where are we going, exactly?\nPoI-6029: You'll see. Haven't figured them out yet myself. I think it's her way of communicating to me, but\u2026 they do the same thing, every day.\nPoI-6029 explains the mechanics of SCP-5673 to Agent Maxon, including its growing cycle. Redundant dialogue removed. The two come to a clearing, with a hill overlooking a valley.\nPoI-6029: Look.\nSCP-5673-A stands atop the hill on a shoveled piece of land. Roots come out of its feet, and it anchors itself to the ground. The entity outstretches its arms above its head, and remains stationary. Beginning from the top of its body, SCP-5673-A turns to ash.\nPoI-6029: I watch them do this every day. I feel like\u2026 when you lose someone, you do little rituals to remember them. I watch her drift away every afternoon. I'm always listening for what she has to say, but it's too loud out here. We're worlds apart.\nAgent Maxon: I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Fidel.\nPoI-6029: Oh, it's okay. I'm lucky to have something as sacred as this. A tangible sign. I just wish it weren't indicative of her pain.\nAgent Maxon: She could just be waiting. No sense in coming back to this world if she's going to be alone, right?\nPoI-6029: You could look at it that way, but it's all speculation. I just watch over that tree, and attach my own feelings to it for comfort. There's no real sense to it all. Every day, it's going to wither.\nAgent Maxon: It doesn't inspire you?\nPoI-6029: (Shakes head) Sonia inspired me when she was here. We used to come up to this hill sometimes. Bring a picnic basket, a canvas, and something to drink. It was our own little world. She would always tease me for my style because I couldn't do realism. Unlike her landscapes and intricate flowers and\u2026 exact details. (Laughs) Look at her now.\nAgent Maxon: My great grandmother lost her husband and passed away almost a year later. After he was gone, she stayed inside all day. Stopped knitting, stopped eating, stopped going to church. They were married for over 50 years, and I never saw them fight once. They really, truly loved each other, at least from what I saw. I can't imagine what a loss like that does to a person.\nPoI-6029: I'm jealous. (Laughs) We fought all the time. They probably did too. No one is together for that long without having to argue it out a little to blow off steam sometime. Over art, over her garden, over the shop. It was never serious, and at the end of it, we still loved each other. Your grandparents were probably the same.\nAgent Maxon: It's nice to think otherwise, right?\nPoI-6029: (Laughs) And turn them into fairy-tale caricatures? I'd give anything to hear her tell me I left my paints in the kitchen again, or that Gabin got into the flower bed. There's so much noise, and none of it's worth listening to, so you tune yourself out from the world. I was ecstatic to have you over, in all honesty. I haven't had a visitor in years. There's no one who cares anymore, and with reason. I haven't made anything, and was only ever as good as my work. You don't produce, people forget about you, because they were never there for you, they just liked what you made. That's not a sin, but it's how things tend to work out. Coupled with, well, no one wanting to talk to an old man like me, and you have yourself a recipe for loneliness.\nAgent Maxon: What do you do to pass the time? Besides this, you have to have something, right?\nPoI-6029: I write memories. Probably kept me sharp over the years. If I don't want to forget something, I write it down. Important events, lazy days, dates, things she said to me. Always with as much detail as possible, though I might embellish sometimes. When I want to relive better days, I'll break out the old pictures, and read what I've written down. She's alive in there, for as long as I am.\nAgent Maxon: I journal too. Introspection like that\u2026 it pays off with my job. You end up with a better grasp of yourself. Something to hold onto when you feel disillusioned with the world. I've seen people change, sometimes overnight and sometimes it takes you years to realize they're not who they used to be. I'm scared of losing myself, you could say.\nPoI-6029: I didn't realize journalism carried such a burden these days. (Laughs)\nAgent Maxon: More you know, right?\nPoI-6029 lights a cigarette. The last pieces of SCP-5673-A wither away. He turns around, and gestures for Maxon to follow him. The two make their way back.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\nResearcher's Note:\nDue to the subject's familiarity with SCP-5673 over an extended period of time, amnesticization of PoI-6029 is out of the question. I would not recommend attempting to transport the anomaly either, because of the potential damages that can occur.\nI am hereby requesting that myself and two members of a stationary task force take residence with PoI-6029 for the purposes of protection and research regarding SCP-5673. PoI-6029 will be kept from the public eye, under strict surveillance. - Agent Maxon\n\nNotice from Site-11 Provisional Research Sector:\nRequest granted. Supplemental documentation will be forwarded to you in the near future.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5673.3: Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2018/06/25\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nAgent Maxon knocks on the door of PoI-6029. Two stationary task force members stand beside her. PoI-6029 opens the door and welcomes the group. The interior of PoI-6029's residence is notably cleaner than last time. Sculptures and paintings are arranged in a more tasteful way, and several shelves have been constructed, housing objects that were previously strewn across the residence.\nAgent Maxon: Sorry August, I hope you don't mind the extra company.\nPoI-6029: (Laughs) Fellow journalists, right?\nAgent Maxon: (Laughs) Right.\nPoI-6029: Hey, I told you. I understand you government types. As long as you aren't taking away Sonia, you can stay here as long as you like, and get done whatever it is you need to do.\nAgent Maxon: We're just here for the sake of journalism.\nPoI-6029: And I'm a world renowned artist. Honey tea?\nAgent Maxon: I'm -\nPoI-6029 leaves and then produces a tray of honey tea from the kitchen. He serves it to the group. The two task force members disperse after taking the cups, exiting through the back door to research SCP-5673.\nPoI-6029: I appreciate the company, Jackie, I really do. It's nice having people around here again. You've helped clean and organize so much already, not that there isn't a ways to go, but still. Thank you very much.\nAgent Maxon: Any time. Glad to make things a little more lively for you.\nPoI-6029: Would you believe me if I said that I started working on something again?\nAgent Maxon: (Pauses) Really?\nPoI-6029: Mm. In there.\nPoI-6029 points to a sheet-covered object in the kitchen.\nAgent Maxon: Can I\u2026 can we see it?\nPoI-6029: Well, it's not done yet! You can see it when it's finished.\nAgent Maxon: If it's finished.\nPoI-6029: Oh\u2026 I'll finish it, don't you worry. It's the first time in years I've been truly motivated to create, and it's all thanks to you. I appreciate having you around, Jackie, even if I'm not privy to whatever it is you're really doing here. But you're going to love it, the art, I mean.\nAgent Maxon: I'll look forward to seeing it. Was it the organizing that kicked you back into action?\nPoI-6029: The cleaning, the organizing, the talking. I told you, this place has been empty without Sonia, and adding just an ounce of life to it is working wonders.\nAgent Maxon: Oh, well, we're glad to provide. (Laughs) Almost 5, isn't it?\nPoI-6029: (Checks watch) It is. Hold on, I'll be right back.\nPoI-6029 exits the room and returns with a photo album.\nAgent Maxon: Pictures?\nPoI-6029: Personal album. I thought it was lost until we found it the other day while clearing out the shed. I'll be able to attach an image to some of that writing I do. Besides, I need an excuse to talk about myself.\nPoI-6029 flips through the album and stops on a picture of an elderly Sonia Currie gardening.\nAgent Maxon: Sonia?\nPoI-6029: One of the last ones I took of her. Might be the last one. It's nothing extravagant, just one of our everyday, quiet things. You never realize how special until they are until you don't do them anymore.\nAgent Maxon: Used to drive to work every day. Same location, same redundant 40 minute drive. Would you believe as soon as I got out of that place I started missing it? Routine is comforting, I know.\nPoI-6029: Speaking of, you want to head out? She'll be sprouting any minute now.\nAgent Maxon: Of course.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5673.4: Interview Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAUDIO LOG\n\nDATE: 2018/07/12\n\n\u00bbBEGIN LOG\u00ab\nAgent Maxon approaches PoI-6029, who is on the hill where SCP-5673-A withers, sitting on a chair.\nAgent Maxon: Hey, you still up here? It's nearly midnight.\nPoI-6029: Jackie? Oh\u2026 I must've lost track of time.\nAgent Maxon: You fall asleep or something? (Laughs)\nPoI-6029: No, no. I'm just watching.\nAgent Maxon: The stars? It's nice out tonight. Bit of a breeze. You okay?\nPoI-6029: (Pauses) Thank you for everything you've done the past few weeks. Here I thought I was going to die forgotten and alone, but I'm glad I held on for you and your people. You've given me the tiny push I needed to do this one last thing.\nAgent Maxon: Your sculpture, yeah? Is it finished?\nPoI-6029: It is. I'll show it to you tomorrow. My last work. (Laughs)\nAgent Maxon: Aw, don't say that. You got plenty of time left. You're just getting back into the swing of things, August. You can't stop now, you got too many fans. (Laughs)\nPoI-6029 shakes his head.\nPoI-6029: I've been seeing her a lot more at night, in dreams. I'm ready to see her again in person. When Sonia died, she would always talk about how her time was up. Never understood how she knew, but now\u2026 you just know. I'm ready, Jackie, I'm ready to see her smile, and feel her arms around me again. I'm ready to see her bloom. (Pauses) Can I ask you something?\nAgent Maxon: Sure.\nPoI-6029: We've beat around the bush enough. You're not journalists, and I'm not even sure if you're government. Sonia's tree has shown me that there's still wonder to be found in the world, even at my age. But it's a secret wonder, one beyond my comprehension. One I knew I couldn't share. You understand it though, with your tests and samples, recording equipment and such. Who are you people? What secrets do you know?\nAgent Maxon: You know I can't tell you that.\nPoI-6029: Hm. Figured that much (Laughs) I thought I'd ask before it was too late. There's still a little bit of curiosity left in me, about whether or not this is all there is, and what comes after.\nAgent Maxon: Well, I can't tell you with this thing on. (Gestures to recording device.)\nAt this point, the feed is disrupted. The recording equipment is pointed to the sky and the audio is turned off. Agent Maxon explained this as an accidental bumping of the camera. She has provided no explanation for the lack of audio. The duration of this disruption lasts for twenty minutes. When the feed returns, Maxon and PoI-6029 are walking back to the residence.\nAgent Maxon: Well?\nPoI-6029: Thank you. It seems there's still more for me to learn. It's kind of comforting. Life goes on.\nAgent Maxon: Life goes on, sometimes.\nAgent Maxon and PoI-6029 reach the residence.\nPoI-6029: I think I'll go straight to bed. No card games tonight.\nAgent Maxon: That's alright. You sure you're good?\nPoI-6029: (Nods) Just tired.\nAgent Maxon: That's fine. I think the other two are down at a bar in town. Gotta go pick them up, you know how it is. I'll be back in a few hours, so don't be alarmed if you hear the doors opening.\nPoI-6029 shakes Agent Maxon's hand.\nPoI-6029: Thank you, Jackie.\nAgent Maxon: No problem. (Pauses) August, I'll see you in the morning. Looking forward to your new piece. Night.\nPoI-6029: Goodnight.\nPoI-6029 turns around and enters his residence. Agent Maxon walks away from the site.\n\u00bbEND LOG\u00ab\nResearcher's Note: At some time during the night, PoI-6029 died in his sleep. We found his body in the morning and confirmed it with the Site-11. We were in the process of sorting things out and I went into the kitchen for a second. I came back, and the body of PoI-6029 had vanished. Neither Chalmers or Darbonelli saw anything either. We held a small service for him, between the three of us. This has not appeared to affect SCP-5673, as SCP-5673-A sprouted and walked to the hill as expected. The full report is attached below.\n- Agent Maxon\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum.5673.5: Incident Log\n\n\u25b6ACCESS ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nA week after the death of PoI-6029, the growth of a second SCP-5673-A entity alongside the first was observed in SCP-5673's daily growth cycle. The entities, after fully growing, detached from SCP-5673 and walked their anticipated path. Upon reaching the hill, the two entities embraced. Their limbs grew, stretching and contorting until they fully resembled a tree. No anomalous properties have been observed, and the object is an otherwise ordinary tree.\n\nThe tree created by both SCP-5673-A entities\n\n'A Forest For Ourselves' by August Fidel\n\nFollowing this, SCP-5673 has not been observed to grow any more SCP-5673-A entities. Reclassification from safe to neutralized remains pending.\nPoI-6029's final work of art was a metal sculpture. An inscription on the plaque reads as follows:\n\nA FOREST FOR OURSELVES:\nDEDICATED TO SONIA\nAND TO THOSE WHO HELPED ME, THANK YOU\n\nA small note written by PoI-6029 and placed near the sculpture indicated that the object was to be donated to Cadillac, Michigan. Agent Maxon saw through the request.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n\u00ab SCP-5672 | SCP-5673| SCP-5674 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5675\nObject Class: Safe\n\nChicago Department of Streets and Sanitation garbage truck, similar to those involved in SCP-5675 events.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Though SCP-5675 events have ceased following the arrest of PoI-5675, the neighborhood is to remain under surveillance as a precautionary measure against similar phenomena.\nPoI-5675 is currently incarcerated at a federal facility under UIU surveillance. Anomalous or otherwise suspicious activities are to be reported to the Foundation immediately under the Foundation and UIU's intelligence-sharing protocol.\n\nDescription: SCP-5675 is a phenomenon affecting residents of Chicago's Douglas neighborhood. SCP-5675 presents as a cognitohazardous anomaly, through which individuals display adverse psychological responses to garbage collection vehicles operated by the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation.\nSymptoms of SCP-5675 include paranoia, anxiety attacks, and in several cases myoclonic seizures. In all occurrences of this phenomenon, the affected individual has reported an acrid smell not typically associated with refuse.\nThe first known incidence was on the morning of 2015/06/03, wherein approximately two hundred Douglas residents reported to local medical services and emergency rooms. SCP-5675 continued, with only the vehicles assigned to the weekly Douglas collection round triggering SCP-5675. Since Foundation observation began, an incident occurred once per week until 2015/11/08 (see Addendum-1). In all cases, an amnestic aerosol was dispersed over the neighborhood and its surrounding environs using an agricultural aircraft.\nPoI-5675 is Robert Brigham Jr., a local resident with an interest in thaumaturgy and ritualistic practices. Brigham was first identified as a person of interest after triangulation of SCP-5675 events; the most severe symptoms had been seen in individuals near the apartment building where Brigham lived.\n\n+ Addendum-1: Investigation\n\n- Addendum-1: Investigation\n\nThe first SCP-5675 events began approximately one month after eleven year-old Grace Fontaine went missing from the city's North Lawn area in May 2015. Her disappearance was ruled an abduction by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, though no suspects had been identified prior to PoI-5675's arrest.\n\nStatement given by Lena Fontaine at press conference the night following her niece's disappearance:\n\nI've got a few things to say to the city of Chicago tonight, on behalf of my sister Joan and her husband Markus. First, the whole family would like to thank everyone who gave their time \u2014 hours of their time \u2014 to help search for our Grace. Whatever the outcome, whatever lies ahead, we are indebted to your efforts.\nSecond thing, which should go without saying, is something that you've no doubt been hearing time and time again. However, I'd like to reiterate: if anyone knows anything, and I mean anything, that might help us in our search for Grace, do not hesitate to get in touch with the authorities.\nOnce again, we thank everybody who's aided in the search so far. Be that combing the streets or sharing posts on social media, you're real angels. I'm gonna hand back to the Commissioner right now. God bless. Let's get our baby back.\n\nThe Foundation's investigation into SCP-5675 drew the attention of the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit. The UIU was keen to establish whether Fontaine's disappearance was linked to the emergence of SCP-5675 and took over the Fontaine investigation from the wider FBI. NOTE: Foundation reservations regarding intelligence sharing with the UIU are currently under review; it is possible that had information about SCP-5675 been passed to UIU contacts earlier on, a connection between SCP-5675 and the Fontaine investigation may have been identified sooner.\nOn 2015/11/08, the apartment of Robert Brigham Jr. was raided by MTF Iota-10 (\u201cDamn Feds\u201d) in conjunction with the UIU. MTF Eta-10 (\"See No Evil\") was also present, due to the potential risk of cognitohazardous phenomena.1\nBrigham was detained without incident and taken into joint Foundation/FBI custody. Investigators discovered, along with literature relating to various thaumaturgical practices, the polished skull of a young human female. Genetic analysis confirmed that it belonged to Grace Fontaine. A bag containing approximately one kilogram of biological matter was also recovered from the apartment's refrigerator.\nFollowing Brigham's arrest, SCP-5675 events have ceased and the anomaly has been reclassified as Neutralized.\n\n+ Addendum-2: Interview Log\n\n- Addendum-2: Interview Log\n\nInterviewed: Robert Brigham Jr.\nInterviewer: Agent Laura Dunnings, UIU\nForeword: Due to the discovery of Fontaine's remains, the UIU wished to conduct an interview in accordance with Brigham having become an FBI homicide suspect. Two Foundation operatives were present during the interrogation.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Dunnings: Mr Brigham?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Junior.\nAgent Dunnings: So, Mr Brigham, to cut to the chase: We're almost certain you abducted Grace Fontaine.\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Well I'm not gonna, like, deny it or anything; I mean, you found her skull sitting on my mantelpiece like it was granny's fine china.\nAgent Dunnings: I've only mentioned abduction. You do understand, Mr Brigham, that your statement constitutes a confession to murder?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: I understand completely.\nAgent Dunnings: And, while we're at it, you want to tell me why you kept the skull?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: It's like a\u2026 like a trophy, I guess. A little something to remember my endeavour by. I polished her all clean - that's to buff the bad spirits right out, so they say.\nAgent Dunnings: They?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Occultists. Magic people. They've got stories\u2026 bad things happening to people who abuse their guidance. Karma, you might call it. And I guess this is it.\nBrigham gesticulates at the room.\nAgent Dunnings: Just so we're clear \u2014 you're talking about the texts we found in your apartment, correct?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Ah, the spellbooks?\nAgent Dunnings: Officially, we prefer the phrase \u201cthaumic literature\u201d. But go on.\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Well, I've dabbled. Just another of my peculiar hobbies.\nAgent Dunnings: You've dabbled?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: I'm no wizard, ma'am. I couldn't tell you any thermic\u2026 thermal\u2026 whatever you wanna call spells off the top of my head. Ain't no use without my books.\nAgent Dunnings: When you say about people who \"abuse\" this\u2026 magic \u2014 were you engaging in thaumic practices when you murdered Grace Fontaine?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: I might have\u2026 whispered a sweet something or two into her ear. Something to get her to calm down. She was scared shitless - kicking, screaming, all the way back from North Lawn in the back of my car. Screaming for someone to save her, to find her, \"don't hurt me!\" and all that-\nAgent Dunnings: And did it work? The spell, or whatever you want to call it?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: I mean, I told you I'm not a wizard. She quit squealing, yeah, but kept squirming. Like her mind was somewhere else. That's why I had to\u2026 had to hit her with the\u2026\nAgent Dunnings: So that's how she died? You hit her with\u2026 what, exactly?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: A shovel, I think. Keep one in my truck in case of a Chicago winter. I weren't going to kill her right away. Might not have killed her at all, in fact, but desperate times call for desperate\u2014\nAgent Dunnings: So where's the rest of her, then? What did you do with the body?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Between my little ornament and what your buddy pulled outta the fridge, you got her.\nAgent Dunnings: No, the rest of her.\nRobert Brigham Jr.: I broke her down. Teeny-tiny little pieces. I been putting bits of her out with my trash every garbage day. Good luck combing the landfills if you wanted to, like, stitch her back together or something.\nAgent Dunnings: And you didn't think to\u2026 get rid of these so-called karmic spirits from what was left of the body?\nRobert Brigham Jr.: Polishing bone's one thing, ma'am, but the best I could do with the other\u2026 stuff was dice her up and sneak her out. Thought it was done and dusted until you came knocking at my door. And, I'll tell you \u2014 if I'd not been brought in, I'd have done it all over again.\nThe room is silent for a moment while Agent Dunnings and the observing Foundation personnel take notes.\nAgent Dunnings: Thank you, Mr Brigham. I think that's enough for now, but I'll be speaking to you again soon.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Brigham was charged with the first-degree murder of Grace Fontaine. Occult literature recovered from Brigham's home corroborates the suggestion that an incantation was performed during Fontaine's abduction with the intention of \"calming\" his target. Thaumaturgical experts believe that this particular incantation was capable of inducing a side effect not mentioned in the texts, in which the affected victim instead expresses fear and panic through the transmission of ontokinetic energy.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Personnel were supplied with countermemetic and ontokinetic-resistant equipment.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5674 | SCP-5675 | SCP-5676 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5676\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5676 is to be contained within a standard Oubliette-class Anomaly Womb cell1 pending further developments. Heart rate and brain activity are to be monitored, and X-rays taken weekly. These tasks, including nutrition and waste management, are to be handled remotely via an automated system. No contact is to be initiated with SCP-5676 without the express permission of Dr. De Weger.\nIn the event of host death, G-class \"Anomaly Birth\" scenario, other sudden changes in host status, or forseeable approach of any of these events, anomaly is to be observed and tested anew, and containment procedures revised accordingly.\nSCP-5676-1 is to remain in total isolation indefinitely.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5676 is a potentially sentient cardiac tumor that bears a strong visual resemblance to popular, primarily American depictions of Jesus Christ.\nSCP-5676-1 is a 23-year-old Caucasian American female with no prior recorded medical issues. SCP-5676 is located partially in and around SCP-5676-1's heart. Preliminary incisions and examinations yielded the conclusion that safe removal of SCP-5676 from its host was possible at time of initial examination, but doing so would have led to the item's \"death\". As of \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2021, SCP-5676 has grown significantly enough that safe removal is no longer possible.\nSCP-5676-1 was not raised in a Christian household, nor educated at a nominally Christian school. Questioning of SCP-5676-1 revealed that the subject only began to notice physical discomfort following an interaction with a \"tall androgynous person in a wide-brimmed black hat and priest's collar\", hereby designated PoI-56762. PoI-5676 approached SCP-5676-1 in an otherwise nondescript parking lot and initiated a conversation about the Church of Latter Day Saints. Even when subjected to interrogation, SCP-5676-1 did not recall many specifics, other than PoI-5676 ending the conversation with the phrase \"The Lord is in all of our hearts\". SCP-5676-1 noted an unusual sensation in the chest cavity later that day, but was not apprehended by Foundation personnel until nearly a month later.\n\n5676.1: Detailed Observations\nSCP-5676 exhibits highly irregular growth patterns, at times rapidly increasing in mass for currently unknown reasons. It is believed that the item began as an unremarkable (if rare) teratoma, and developed its anomalous appearance at a later date. As of \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2021, the item measures approximately 4.5 by 1 by 0.5 inches - proportions consistent with the relative height, width and depth of an average human male. SCP-5676 is malformed, but displays features identifiable as facial hair, teeth, eyes, limbs, and thumbs3. SCP-5676 also appears to be wearing a white robe, red sash and sandals, but these are in fact composed of flesh, bone and cartilage. It, like its host, appears Caucasian and has blue eyes. It is unknown if these traits are inherited from SCP-5676-1.\nSCP-5676 primarily holds itself in a \"thumbs up\" position, its face fixed in a wide smile. It has, however, been observed to move on more than one occasion. In initial open-chest surgery, SCP-5676 appeared to be affected by anesthesia administered to SCP-5676-1, and assumed a \"sleeping\" position. A second open-chest surgery was performed at a later date with minimum possible use of anesthetics, during which SCP-5676 was reported to have \"smiled beatifically\" at Dr. De Weger. De Weger later insisted that SCP-5676's mouth moved, but any speech would have been inaudible at the time.\nSCP-5676 has been observed to grow in sporadic bursts. Despite extensive testing, the exact stimulus that causes these growth spurts remains unknown. The tumor visibly increased in mass in response to stimuli including but not limited to: bright light, loud noises, induced hemorrhaging, nutrition deprival, oxygen deprival, and sleep deprival. Dr. De Weger was unable to draw a conclusion after three months of testing, and was equally unable to determine the anomaly's root cause, whether it is transmissible, and whether its anomalous properties evolved over time. It is for these reasons that Dr. De Weger recommended SCP-5676 and its host be contained in total sensory isolation in an Anomaly Womb cell until the item's growth has plateaued. Based on current estimates, this intermediary period could last between three months and four years. It is thought that when SCP-5676-1 no longer complicates efforts, testing conducted on the anomaly's complete form will be far more conclusive.\n\n+ Addendum\n\n- Addendum\n\nThe nature of the cancer is that of metastasis. The item in question is, as of yet, like a child - we do not know what form it might take, what butterfly may emerge once its cocoon is discarded. Our duty is simple: secure, yes; contain, certainly; but we must also protect. I am confident that there is more to be learned from SCP-5676 that we have simply not yet been able to grasp. Understanding is the key to control, and this matter I am most, most determined to understand.\n- Dr. Ethan De Weger.\n\n+ Addendum 2\n\n- Addendum 2\n\nConcerns have been raised by the Ethics Committee, so this addendum should clear up some matters.\nPrior to current containment, SCP-5676-1 was informed of the details of its upcoming containment procedures as per Ethics Committee guidelines. At this stage there was in fact sudden violent resistance and desperate protestation from the host.4 Ethics Committee members should note that the item risked damage as a result of this reaction, and as such I recommend rethinking the guidelines for this sort of situation. Nonetheless, SCP-5676-1 was rapidly lowered into the Anomaly Womb cell and sealed into containment, which quickly restricted movement and ensured the item's safety.\nSCP-5676 has been in current containment for eleven months. Despite no vocalizations from SCP-5676-1 in over seven months, and brain activity levels indicating a debilitating increase in discomfort/pain from the anomaly's expansion, the anomaly's host remains conscious and stable. X-rays clearly show that SCP-5676's growth is progressing at a steady and healthy rate. According to our data, this is greatly aided by a near total lack of movement from the item's host, which has helped to stabilise growth patterns.\nI am confident in the safety of the item. I hope this assuages the concerns of the Ethics Committee, and I look forward to sharing our ultimate findings.\n- Dr. Ethan De Weger.\n\nFootnotes\n1. New as of 2020, the Anomaly Womb cell series is a fully controlled environment intended to contain items that are currently undergoing a process of rapid change.\n2. Searches for PoI-5676 have thus far returned no results.\n3. The \"fingers\" are currently fused together, but it is expected that they will separate as the item grows.\n4. By contrast, previous signs of extreme depression and mental distress resulted in a satisfactorily docile state throughout most of the testing period.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5675 | SCP-5676 | SCP-5677 \u00bb"}
{"text": "1/25/2038\n\nOur team just got put on the 5678 project. Seems pretty big. But maybe it just seems big to me because of the way that number is represented in our counting system. Still, something about it seems significant. And of course it might be renumbered later, so who knows.\n\nSpecifically, we're working on chronicling the destruction of Site-27 on the 19th and all that entails. Yeah, that whole mess. Ramsey said she wants me to take point on the documentation this time. If I had to guess why, I bet she's got like five projects that she's been asked to put on the back burner to focus on this and you know her, she doesn't like to leave things unfinished. Ramsey always says \"start with that which you know to be certain\" and we're still in the dark about a lot of this, so I'm starting with the Chao interview. It just happened, I was there, and I know Al slightly better than most. From there I'll probably go through the other GOI statements, figure out how we as a Foundation define it, etc. etc. Shouldn't be too hard.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- How are SCPs numbered?\n- What's so special about 5678? Is there anything special with 5678?\n\nAddendum 5678.1: Interview with Al Chao\n\nInterviewed: PoI-2149, \"Al Chao\"\nInterviewer: Dr. Martina Ramsey\nForeword: Chao reached out to the Foundation following the events that occurred at Site-27 on 1/19/2038. Dr. Lupe De La Cruz was also present for this interview, having had prior experience with Chao.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Ramsey: Miss Alison Chao, thank you for-\nPoI-2149: I'd prefer \"Al,\" if you don't mind. And no mister, miss\u2026 bleh. None of that\u2026 whatever that is.\nDr. Ramsey: Very well then. Thank you for reaching out to us, Al. Your insight will no doubt prove valuable as we try to unravel the events of January 19th.\nPoI-2149: Sure. Though I'm not sure just how valuable my testimony will actually be, I wasn't there for much of it. So what do you want to know?\nDr. Ramsey: Why don't you start with an account of what you witnessed, in your own words.\nPoI-2149: So basically, I had just arrived on the scene, on that plateau overlooking your site. Site\u2026 twenty-nine?\nDr. Ramsey: Twenty-seven.\nPoI-2149: Damn it, so close! In any case, from my vantage point I could see a bunch of people. You know, of course there were gocks, C-Is, some people who I can only assume were with the Hand. And of course, some of your guys were milling about outside. They were closest to the building.\nDr. Ramsey: Did you see how many?\nPoI-2149: Of your people? I dunno, I didn't get a good headcount. Maybe about twenty? About ten researcher-looking-dudes and a few more of the scary agent guys. The, um, the task force guys. There were fewer of those guys though. Sorry, I'm not really sure.\nDr. Ramsey: That's alright. Please continue.\nPoI-2149: Well, I had just gotten a quick look over everything and decided this was none of my business when it happened. The whole building just\u2026 [They make a motion with both hands, rising and then going out.] Pwoof! Exploded. Let me tell ya, seeing an explosion in real life? So much different than in a movie. Or on TV, like, Mythbusters or some shit. It stays with you. After that\u2026 I mean, I dunno, I panicked. I got the fuck out of there, as fast as I possibly could. Probably not the best look. But yeah, that's basically what happened.\nDr. Ramsey: Can you tell me when all of this happened?\nPoI-2149: I arrived at the plateau a few minutes after 7:00, maybe 7:10. So the actual explosion must've been around 7:15 I guess? Maybe a few minutes after?\nDr. Ramsey: Now, mis- Al, we have intel that you have some connection to the group known to us only as \"The Black Queen.\"\nPoI-2149: Come on, you know I'm not going to talk about that.\nDr. Ramsey: We're just wondering if The Black Queen knew this would happen. Why were you there in the first place?\nPoI-2149: Are you implying I had something to do with the explosion? [They turn to Dr. De La Cruz] Come on, Lupe, you know I wouldn't do anything like this.\nDr. Ramsey: Please, Al, we don't believe you had anything-\nPoI-2149: I may not always agree with the Foundation, but I wouldn't do this!\nDr. Ramsey: Alright, Al, let me ask the question another way: what were you doing there? Why were you there right at the moment of destruction?\nPoI-2149: [They look around the room, then sigh.] Look, even if The Black Queen exists, which I can't confirm or deny, I'm not a part of them. And even if I was, I wouldn't have gotten information about that day from them. A bunch of anomaly-related groups converging on one spot is bound to draw attention from anybody who knows what to look for. I was just there to ensure the safety of one person.\nDr. Ramsey: \u2026And?\nPoI-2149: He wasn't there. All good.\nDr. Ramsey: Alright. Before we end this interview, is there anything else you can tell us about that day?\nPoI-2149: Let me think\u2026 Actually, yeah, there was one thing. I just remembered, there was somebody there with like, a large old-timey camera set up facing the building. I thought they were with the Hand at first, but come to think of it they weren't with the other Hand people. I don't know if that means anything, but\u2026\nDr. Ramsey: We'll look into that. Thank you for coming in today, your insight is invaluable. Please, let us know if there's anything else you remember.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Chao was released without incident. At this time, Chao has made no further attempts to reach out to the Foundation\n\n1/26/2038\n\nAl has given me a good baseline to work with. I feel bad about Ramsey ambushing them about the Black Queen stuff. Al is the only connection we have to the Black Queen, but it doesn't seem like they even know anything about her. Them. That group. Whatever.\n\nMoving on from that tangent, I've been given access to a GOC memo shared with the Foundation. Hopefully, this will begin to patch up the holes in Al's testimony. I'll add that to the article and be well on my way to finishing this thing.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- Which is more trustworthy, the eyewitness account of an individual who was there, or a memo from a large organization whose compiler was nowhere close to the incident?\n- Which is more trustworthy, the testimony of a close friend who may wish to show themself in a certain light, or the account of an organization with a very specific agenda to push?\n\nAddendum 5678.2: Global Occult Coalition Memo\nFollowing the events of 1/19/38, the Foundation reached out to the Global Occult Coalition asking about their involvement in the event. The Coalition sent back a partially redacted memo documenting the series of events from their perspective:\n\nINTERNAL MEMO\n\n23 January 2038\n\nSUBJECT:\nUTE-9372-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nMuch has been made over our involvement with the events affecting former Foundation Site-27 on the 19th of January earlier this month. The following is intended to serve as a timeline of events as well as a description of what was witnessed by our own.\n\nAT 7:00:24 GOC TEAM \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, LED BY \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, WAS DEPLOYED TO \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 AN ANOMALY BELIEVED TO BE AROUND THE AREA\nAT 7:09:14 GOC TEAM \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 ARRIVED AT SITE-27 AND MADE CONTACT WITH MEMBERS OF THE SERPENT'S HAND\nAT 7:10:22 FOUNDATION RESEARCHERS (13 COUNTED) AND AGENTS (10 COUNTED) BEGAN LEAVING THE BUILDING\nAT 7:12:43 AGENTS OF THE CHAOS INSURGENCY ARRIVED\nAT 7:13:59 GOC AGENTS BEGAN MOVING TOWARD EVACUATED FOUNDATION STAFF\nAT 7:14:07 SITE-27 EXPLODED, CAUSING SEVERAL FOUNDATION CASUALTIES. BASED ON EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY, A CAMERA THAT WAS SET UP NEARBY WENT OFF SIMULTANEOUSLY\nAT 7:17:55 SERPENT'S HAND MEMBERS TOOK DOWN THE CAMERA AND LEFT THE AREA\nAT 7:24:42 CHAOS INSURGENCY MEMBERS LEFT THE AREA\nAT 7:43:16 OFF SITE FOUNDATION MEMBERS ARRIVED TO CLEAR THE SCENE AND CONSULT GOC AS TO THE EVENTS THAT HAD JUST OCCURRED\n\nThe anomaly that breached containment has not been captured, and was not known to have been in Foundation custody at the time of deployment. Despite certain claims to the contrary, the GOC did not have anything to do with the destruction of Foundation Site-27. It was simply a case of wrong place, wrong time. At this time we are assisting the Foundation in figuring out what exactly occurred on January 19th, 2038, and setting things right.\n\n1/27/2038\n\nAwesome! We have a precise time now. Although it's a little weird that Al didn't mention the containment breach. In any case, thanks to the insight from the GOC, we have a more precise timeline. Still trying to get my hands on the camera. For now I'm gonna fill in details.\n\nScratch that, I've just received word from Ramsey that we've just gotten a message from the Serpent's Hand. She wants me to add it to the document immediately. Let's see what we've got here.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- Serpents don't have hands\n\nAddendum 5678.3: Serpent's Hand Statement\nOn 1/27/38, the Foundation received a document from the Serpent's Hand Claiming responsibility for the SCP-5678. The document reads as follows:\n\nDust to Dustjackets: A Statement From The Serpent's Hand\n\nThe enlightened world has been in shock following the events of the Nineteenth of January in the year 2038. Information has leaked and dared to enlighten those who wished to open their eyes.\nIt is true that several of us were there, at Foundation Site-27 on that fateful day. We had planned to help release one of the Jailers' many prisoners, but by the time we arrived what we had been searching for was already liberated.\nHowever, we were not to know that until after. We organized a jailbreak, causing a commotion amongst the Jailers, who came out to see what had happened. What happened next is something we truly regret.\nWe had hoped that the entire building had been cleared in the commotion, but it seems not all had been accounted for, and we had greatly underestimated the area of impact. We put the final part of our plan into motion, capturing a picture on That Which Will Show The Truth, and causing the subsequent implosion of the facility.\nWe regret our hasty execution of this plan, as well as the lives of the Jailers that were lost in the subsequent destruction. We watched as the building folded in on itself, and heard the screams of those who were certainly lost.\nRest assured that those of us responsible will be punished through the proper channels, and may very well be exiled from The Serpent's Hand.\n\n1/28/2038\n\nWell that throws a wrench in things. Implosion? Both Al and the GOC said that it was an explosion. It sounds like they're taking credit for something they know nothing about. But both Al and the GOC were also under the impression that they were there, so\u2026 what gives?\n\nWe finally got our hand on the camera, and confirmation from two GOIs that one of the photos was taken at the exact time of destruction (\"That Which Will Show The Truth\"), so im- or ex-plosion, we should be able to figure this out soon enough.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- Cameras, for the most part, are pretty reliable sources.\n\nAddendum 5678.4: Photos from 5678-1\n\nThe following photos were taken by SCP-5678-1 and are unedited.\n\nA picture of a now empty room at Site-19, previously used for testing with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\u2716\n\nA picture of Researcher Woods with a neutral expression during initial testing.\n\u2716\n\nA picture of Site-27, confirmed to have been taken at 7:14:07 on January 19th, 2038.\n\u2716\n\n1/29/2038\n\nGreat news, by which I mean terrible news: the camera is anomalous. Figured as much when I finally saw the damn photos yesterday. We're trying to get in touch with Serpent's Hand, see if they'll be willing to explain what it does, because our experiments have yielded no useful results. Sometimes it changes the photo, sometimes it doesn't, and we only have one instance of it removing something from a photo. It usually just adds.\n\nWhatever, I need to focus on the CI statement we got. Ramsey's been a bit more serious about me finishing this one lately. I can't tell why. Maybe with this statement can finally get an explanation as to what happened.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- The Serpents Hand are liars and so is the camera\n\nAddendum 5678.5: Chaos Insurgency Report\nSeveral days after the events of SCP-5678, Foundation agents intercepted a report from the Chaos Insurgency regarding the events of January 19th.\n\nDeCIRO Catalogue Number: POR-38/024-423\nDocument Type: Post-Operation Summary Report\nDate Received: 1-22-2038\nOperation was a success. The Foundation Site was successfully disappeared by our operatives. The anomaly has been released, and the overseers are dead, just as planned. The Foundation is in shambles with no idea how to pick up the pieces.\n\n1/30/2038\n\nYOU CAN'T BOTH TAKE CREDIT FOR THE SAME THING, ASSHOLES. I'm getting so goddamn tired. And what do they mean, they \"disappeared\" it??? Did it blow up or collapse inward?! Pick one and stick with it! Stop trying to confuse me.\n\nAnd the whole thing about trying to get rid of the overseers? That makes no sense. The overseers stay as far away from all anomalies as they can, and GOC and SH have confirmed a containment breach occurred, so why would the Overseers be at Site-27?\n\nRamsey received an email about 5678 that I have to read now. She's getting pretty worked up over this; we're both working on this project day and night now.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- Start with what you know to be certain:\n     - Sometime around or after 7:14:07, Site-27 ceased to exist in some way, shape or form\n     - The following organizations were certainly involved: The Chaos Insurgency, the Global Occult Coalition, The Serpent's Hand, The SCP Foundation\n     - The camera was at Site-27 around the time of its\u2026 whatever, but did not give a clue as to what\n- I rewatched Rashomon last night. No comment.\n\nAddendum 5678.6: Global Occult Coalition Revision\n\nFrom:\nAlistair Murdoch <agentMurdochA@goconline>\n\nTo:\nResearcher Martina Ramsey <sr.Ramsey.M@scipnet>\n\nSubject:\nJanuary 19th\n\nDate:\nJanuary 30th, 2038\n\nResearcher Ramsey,\n\nI heard you are the one to contact regarding the unfortunate events of January 19th. The GOC doesn't know I'm writing this email, but no doubt they will soon find out. I'm writing to correct some misconceptions that may have been spread to you by my organization.\n\nIn truth, we were not there to destroy the anomaly that breached containment, as previously stated by our organization; it was your Foundation that asked for our help in containing a highly volatile anomaly that had seemingly just breached containment. The entire affair was very secretive, we didn't even know what we were facing walking towards Site-27. We were told we would be briefed on site. Obviously, that never happened and\u2026 well, Site-27 is gone now. I wish I could tell you how, but I'm having trouble remembering it myself. Based on initial reports, we can confirm 13 Foundation casualties. I don't know why the GOC would keep this information from anyone. Or why, as I suspect, your Foundation would keep it from you.\n\nI will say one more thing, however: we didn't see any indication of a containment breach until after Site-27 disappeared.\n\nI hope this will prove useful to you in some way.\n\nAlistair Murdoch\n\nI\n\nThat's\n\nWhat? We called in the GOC?? I suppose stranger things have happened, but not many. There's another SH thing I need to read, a response to our questions about the camera. Ramsey looks worse each day. I'm worried for her. I'm worried for me.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- The Foundation will go to any lengths necessary to protect normalcy\n- The Foundation will hide any information from its staff. Especially those that need it most.\n\nAddendum 5678.whatever: Serpent's Hand Revision\nNow the Serpent's Hand has more information to add. Great.\n\nThank you for reaching out. Although I was initially surprised the Foundation wanted to talk, it quickly made sense when I realized what it was about. It seems some misinformation has been spreading about the events of January 19th, 2038 as well as the Serpent's Hand's role in those events, and as such I've taken it upon myself to clear up those misconceptions.\nIt's true that there were several members of the Hand who were at the Foundation site with the purpose of freeing a recently captured anomaly. However, my research indicates that their plan didn't work, but they remain adamant that they had some sort of impact. I don't think they're lying or deluding themselves.\nThe camera you retrieved that you asked about is a mysterious artifact. All we here know for certain is that it reveals the truth, even when that truth seems incompatible with its surroundings. We also know that it cannot possibly redact things from images, as you claim; it can only add to what is there. I truly hope you figure out the mysteries of the camera.\nFinally, there is one piece of information that I believe would interest you. After the destruction of your site, witnesses saw a familiar figure walk up to the edge of the plateau, as if just arriving, and stand there for a few minutes as those below descended into chaos.\nI hope this information will be of some help.\n-L.S.\n\nNothing makes any goddamn sense anymore! Everything everyone is saying conflicts with each other. It was one thing when GOIs were debating about what they saw, but now people within those gois are claiming different things? What the hell happened that day?\n\nI need to talk to Al.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- In Rashoman, the woodcutter confesses to stealing the dagger from the dead man's body. But the short story it was based on, In a Grove, features no such scene. Why was this changed for the movie? What does that say about objective truth?\n- There are thirteen confirmed researcher casualties\n- There are thirteen overseers\n\nAt some point researcher Lupe De La Cruz contacted Al Chao again and it sucked for everyone. I'll put this in another addendum at some point.\n\nAl\n\nWe need to talk.\n\n?\n\nI dont think you were completely forthcoming when ramsey interviewed you\n\nWhat?\n\nWhere's this coming from?\n\nWe've received more information from different groups. Somebody claims you only arrived at the scene after Site-27\n\nExploded?\n\nDisappeared?\n\nWhatever.\n\nWell they're wrong\n\nOr they're lying\n\nI don't know whether to believe you.\n\nLupe, are you serious?\n\nLook im not some paragon but i wouldnt fucking lie to you. not about something like this\n\nBut you would potentially lie about something else? like when you got there?\n\nare you fucking kidding me\n\nthis is why nobody trusts the jailers, you find anyone who isnt you suspicious and you find any reason you can to be distrustful of them\n\nlet me know when my friend Lupe De La Cruz wants to talk to me and i'll be happy to go over the dumbest, minutest detail with you\n\nbecause this isn't you. and i dont wanna talk to whoever this person is.\n\nI definitely deserved that. I just need to finish this stupid document and be done. Ramsey and I are both looking haggard. We haven't even seen anyone in ages.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- Im a terrible friend\n- I cant stop until I figure this out\n\nDescription: SCP-5678 refers to the destruction disappearance loss of Site-27 on January 19th, 2038. The Foundation suffered few many at least 13? an unknown number of casualties. Procuring and containing the information surrounding this event has proven difficult due to the anomalous nature of conflicting reports a misunderstanding inconsistencies in the event testimonies goddamned photo evidence understanding of the event.\nSCP-5678-1 is a camera that produces anomalous photographs. SCP-5678-1 shows the truth. SCP-5678-1 only adds to images and does not take away, except for that time it redacted an image in the weirdest possible way. SCP-5678-1 was discovered after during in connection to the events comprising SCP-5678, and was recovered stolen? given to us by? retrieved from the Serpent's Hand.\nSCP-5678-2 is an as of yet unidentified anomaly that escaped containment was jailbroken by the SH? never existed? breached Foundation custody before after around the time of the loss of Site-27\nSite-27 is in ruins fine exploded imploded both at once? actually Site-01 gone for now.\n\nRamsey and I haven't heard from the higher-ups in weeks. Does that mean we're off the hook?\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- If the overseer council is dead I can just go home and forget about all of this\n- If the overseer council is dead who's been running the Foundation in the meantime?\n- Are Ramsey and I the only ones left?\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: New information regarding SCP-5678 is to be forwarded to Researchers Martina Ramsey and Lupe De La Cruz as soon as possible. Previously gained information does not matter is contradictory is to be restricted to Level 4 clearance.\nSCP-5678-1 is to be destroyed kept in a standard storage locker.\nSCP-5678-2 is still at large uncontained seriously I can't find one scrap of evidence that this thing ever existed to be contained at earliest possible point.\n\nAre we watching the dissolution of the Foundation?\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n- Perhaps the overseers are dead\n- Perhaps they never existed\n- I haven't seen Ramsey in days\n\nObject Class: Neutralized?1\n\nObject Class: Safe2\n\nObject Class: Apollyon3\n\nI don't understand any of it anymore.\n\nDaily Thoughts:\n-\n\n- Start with that which you know to be certain.\n\nItem #: SCP-5678\n\nFootnotes\n1. No, because we're still feeling the anomalous ramifications\n2. This thing certainly isn't easily contained\n3. \u2026Am I watching the world end?\n\n\u00ab SCP-5677 | SCP-5678 | SCP-5679 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5679\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5679 in the arms of Captain Mossen of the HMS [REDACTED] - 1943\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5679 is currently uncontainable. It is to be continuously tracked via the GPS tracker implanted onto the entity. Any ships affected by SCP-5679 are to be decommissioned or purchased by the Foundation and monitored until sinking. The vessel containing SCP-5679 may only be manned for 120 days since the initial manifestation. SCP-5679 is to be fed 50g of tinned tuna daily while the ship is manned, although this is not necessary for its survival.\nDescription:\nSCP-5679 is an entity resembling Felis catus1 with mostly black fur, aside from a small patch of white underneath the chin. It weighs 3.1kg and is marginally smaller than typical Felis catus, though not outside the standard range. It has not been observed to age since initial discovery, and it appears to possess unnatural reflexes that render it effectively immune to damage. When unable to avoid damage, SCP-5679 will demanifest from its current location and remanifest elsewhere on the same vessel. It is possible to sedate SCP-5679 through food (See Addendum 3.).\nThe primary anomalous effect of SCP-5679 is the ability to predict the sinking of naval vessels. It manifests on ships that are going to sink in approximately 6 months. The average time taken for a sinking is 181 days, with the shortest recorded time being 163 days and the longest being 203 days. SCP-5679 has only been known to manifest on a single ship at any time, which has led to the understanding that it is a single entity.\nThe sinking has no direct link to SCP-5679 and appears to be purely causal. Each sinking was caused through non-anomalous means, such as strong winds, gunfire, collisions etc. None of the sinkings are noted to have any links, and are appropriate to the time period and location where the vessel was sunk. It is noted however that all sinkings have occured at sea; to date SCP-5679 has not manifested on any lake or river going vessels.\nSCP-5679 will demanifest when it comes into contact with the surface of the water once the ship begins to sink. It is unknown how it makes this distinction, as on normal contact with water it will remanifest upon the current target ship, rather than choosing a new target. It also must be the surface of the water; any water that splashes onto deck will not cause the entity to demanifest.\nAddendum 1: Discovery and Initial Tracking\nSCP-5679 was initially discovered by The Right Honourable Commission on Unusual Cargo in 1795 after evidence placed SCP-5679 on multiple ships belonging to the Royal Navy as well as privateer vessels which had sunk. A snippet from an example letter is included below.\n\n\"It was the strangest thing, I was sure I'd triple checked before we left Southampton, all accounted for, no stowaways and the manifest was perfectly up to date, but there it was, a cat! Black as the night sky with a small tuft of white fur like a moon dotting the inky blackness. It's a beautiful creature, but that doesn't explain where it came from. It must have been hiding amongst the stores somewhere I'm sure of it. Besides, they do say a cat is good luck. I've decided to name her Luna, and hopefully she shall be good company through the turbulent weather of the North Sea. \"\n- Quartermaster Bernard Fairbanks of the Good Fortune, a merchant vessel. 1832\n\nDue to limitations of the time period, it was deemed impractical to contain.\nAddendum 2: Suspected reports of SCP-5679\nBelow is a list of suspected SCP-5679 manifestations.\n\nDate\nShip Name\nCause of Sinking\nSighting Confirmation\n\n09/08/1942\n\nUSS Astoria, a New-Orleans class cruiser.\n\nSunk in the Battle of Savo Island from Japanese shelling\nRecovered letter from Ensign P. Bailey mentioning a new ship's cat matching the description of SCP-5679.\n\n04/05/1945\n\nUSS Luce, a Fletcher class destroyer.\n\nSunk by a kamikaze attack near Okinawa.\nNote from officers' meeting regarding when they acquired a new cat. Description unknown but given the context it is likely SCP-5679.\n\n14/07/1836\n\nHMS Victorious, a Ship of the Line.\n\nSunk in severe weather near Cape Matapan.\nShip was commissioned by The Right Honourable Commission on Unusual Cargo who were aware of the entity and kept notes on its behaviours.\n\n20/12/1902\n\nOld Glory, a fishing trawler.\n\nSunk in collision with another ship in the North Sea.\nCaptain's diary mentions a ship's cat matching SCP-5679's description. It is noted as the first time the entity is mentioned interacting with humans in a manner similar to a normal Felis catus\n\n22/10/1961\n\nMV Bianca C., a passenger liner\n\nExplosion on board and subsequent fires before being towed out of harbour to sink, near to the Grenada.\nMost well recorded SCP-5679 manifestation prior to SCPS Bonaventure. Entity was noted by more than 30 aboard the ship, although none are known to have questioned its presence.\n\nAddendum 3: Incident 5679-01\nOn 03/09/1997 SCP-5679 manifested itself on the SCPS Bonaventure, a guided missile destroyer in the service of the Foundation. It was quickly identified by the crew and the SCP-5679 research team was brought aboard in order to study the entity. They established much of the known description over the 4 months of time allotted to research before the SCPS Bonaventure was to be abandoned, with SCP-5679 even showing a preference for certain members of research staff.\nIt was decided to attempt to monitor the entity through use of a GPS tracking chip implanted into the back of the collar. This was achieved through addition of a sedative into the food of the entity, before injecting the tracker.\nJust under 2 months later, the unmanned SCPS Bonaventure was lost when it struck the SCPS Vanguard in strong winds in the mid-Atlantic. SCPS Vanguard had been stationed nearby in order to monitor the sinking, and only suffered minor damage, while the Bonaventure suffered catastrophic structural damage on the port side near the bow, shearing it off and causing the ship to sink.\nShortly after the engine deck had begun flooding, as confirmed by video surveillance, SCP-5679 spontaneously demanifested upon contact with the water. The entity's GPS tracker notified researchers that it had remanifested in the Indian Ocean, approximately 200km south of Sri Lanka. This allowed for the identification of the new target of SCP-5679.\nAt this point, the current containment procedures were enacted, and to date there has only been a single loss of life on the part of SCP-5679, a maintenance technician who was installing cameras upon the trawler Queen's Catch when the effects of SCP-5679 manifested unusually early (163 Days since manifestation). Containment procedures were updated accordingly.\nAddendum 4: Interview 5679-01\n\n+ Open Interview Log\n\n- Close Interview Log\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5679\nInterviewer: Dr. Luke Mason\nForeword: In an attempt to ascertain if SCP-5679 was sapient, Dr. Mason and Assistant Researcher Danielle Baker attempted an interview with the entity.\n<Begin Log, 9:47am 07/03/2014>\nDr. Mason: Hello there, SCP-5679. Can you understand me?\n\nSCP-5679 begins meowing.\n\nDr. Mason: Is that an agreement?\nSCP-5679 purrs and rolls over onto its back. Asst. Researcher Baker Dangles her pen in front of SCP-5679, who attempts to claw at it.\nDr. Mason: I'm trying to help you, can you please cooperate with me?\nAsst. Researcher Baker: Luke, it's a cat, this is going nowhere.\nDr. Mason: It's an SCP, and we have to be thorough in our investigations!\nSCP-5679 stands up and stretches before brushing itself against Dr. Mason's lab coat.\nAsst. Researcher Baker: You know that they won't give you a promotion for interviewing a cat, right?\n\nDr. Mason proceeds to ask a variety of questions to SCP-5679 which continues to meow and play with Asst. Researcher Baker.\nDr. Mason: You're just a normal cat, aren't you?\n\nSCP-5679 proceeds to knock over Asst. Researcher Baker's glass of water onto Dr. Mason's trousers.\nAsst. Researcher Baker: Stifling a laugh Obviously, you fucking idiot.\n\n<End Log, 9:53am 07/03/2014>\nClosing Statement: It is the opinion of Dr. Mason that SCP-5679 is not sapient, and displays the normal characteristics of a typical Felis catus.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Domestic Cat\n\n\u00ab SCP-5678 | SCP-5679 | SCP-5680 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The building containing SCP-5680.\n\nA rare fully-formed avian specimen produced by SCP-5680.\n\nItem #: SCP-5680\nObject Class: Edifice\nContainment Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Area 5680 has been established near SCP-5680 to facilitate containment. The area surrounding SCP-5680 has been demarcated with a barbed wire fence. No civilians are to be granted entry into this perimeter.\nOn a biweekly basis, a semitrailer truck must be driven by a Foundation operative to the gate of SCP-5680. Then, the operative must wait for SCP-5680-1 to load avians or equivalent into the truck's trailer. Care must be taken to ensure that the truck is position in such a way that SCP-5680-1 instances do not need to leave the factory in order to deliver avian specimens into the truck. Before returning to Area 5680, the operator must visually confirm that SCP-5680-1 are not loading any further objects into the truck. After the truck has returned to Area 5680, the resulting biological material may either be incinerated or transported to Foundation sites for use in containing other SCP objects.\nFollowing Incident 5680-Theta, at least three members of security personnel are required to be on-site at all times.\nDescription: SCP-5680 are a set of assembly lines and machining equipment contained within an industrial site in the Selva de Irati, Navarra, Spain. Of note is SCP-5680's remote location, making it impractical to operate as a factory through standard methods. Markings covering the building indicate that it was built for the production of avian animals. SCP-5680 involves several anomalous machines; for instance, an acid bath capable of converting any matter to bird organs, and a set of robotic arms capable of seamlessly concatenating these parts into an organic lifeform. The remainder of the components are non-anomalous assembly machines. These machines are capable of being operated by non-anomalous humans and SCP-5680-1.\nSCP-5680 is staffed by 25 or more instances of SCP-5680-1. SCP-5680-1 are similar in appearance to non-anomalous humans; however, they do not have eyes, and their faces constantly display an expression of grimace. In addition, vivisections of SCP-5680-1 instances have revealed that they have no internal organs and are composed entirely of an organic paste. When removed from the site containing SCP-5680, SCP-5680-1 instances will rapidly decompose into this paste.\nSCP-5680-1 instances can only speak using a selection of pre-determined phrases, rendering them unable to communicate beyond their limited vocabulary. As such, their sentience is debated.\n\n+ Document 5680-A\n\n- Document 5680-A\n\nSo far, SCP-5680-1 have been observed to only use the following phrases. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, each phrase is spoken in a jovial tone.\n\n\"Another day, another dollar!\" This phrase is only used at 1700 hour local time every day by only one instance of SCP-5680-1.\n\"Scram, I've got work!\" This phrase has been used whenever Foundation personnel have attempted to interact with SCP-5680-1.\n\"Let go of me!\" This is generally used in response to physical violence against SCP-5680-1, regardless of the actual nature of said violence.\n\"Factories are made in factories.\" Simultaneously spoken by all instances of SCP-5680-1 at once, unprompted. This was said in a melancholic tone, in contrast to the usual jovial tone.\n\n- Document 5680-A\n\nWhen objects are placed into the receiving ends of SCP-5680, they will be processed into living avian specimens. SCP-5680 has demonstrated the ability to produce a variety of bird species; while in Foundation containment, it has been observed to produce game birds, gulls, and birds of prey. Thus far, no pattern has been observed.\nHowever, most birds created by SCP-5680 are incomplete. Many lack internal organs, have too many or too few limbs, or have body parts on wrong parts of their body. It is rare for a specimen to live for more than two hours.\nA parking lot has been constructed outside of the building containing SCP-5680, along with roads leading into the parking lot. These roads abruptly terminate 0.5 kilometers from SCP-5680, marked with octagonal red signs reading \"ROAD ENDS\".\n\nSub-Report A: Inventory\n\nIn addition to the room containing SCP-5680, the aforementioned industrial site contains a hallway that encompasses the rest of the site's floor area. This hallway, which is approximately 530 meters in length, contains several functional fax machines and water coolers. The hallway is partially illuminated by a series of fluorescent light fixtures placed every 30 meters.\nEvery three hours, every fax machine simultaneously produces the following document:\n\nI am contacting you regarding how business became time and money. The bird factory is estimated to produce 10,000 units between September 2020 and August 2002. I think we want to make money here; I thought this was obvious?\nDon't waste any more of our time, cut the slack, Jack!\n- Rodney\n\nNote: This document is not translated. Despite SCP-5680 being located in Spain, all documents are in American English.\nEach fax machine is equipped with an extended tray of paper1 and expanded ink reserves. It is estimated that each fax machine will be able to print copies of the above document for 3 years at minimum.\nAt the end of the hallway, an image of a door is painted on the terminating wall. This \"door\" has a doorknob, but is otherwise a complete fabrication. The door is labeled \"Clarence - CEO\".\nAnalysis of the industrial site and its contents estimates that it was all created between August 15th and August 22nd of 2018.\n\nSub-Report B: Incident 5680-Theta\n\nOn September 23rd, 2020, an unidentified vehicle drove to the industrial site containing SCP-5680. The object was designed in the facsimile of a tanker truck, despite the fact that it very clearly had undergone several modifications making it more circular in shape. Upon arriving at the loading docks, three quadrupedal entities exited the vehicle, leading several instances of SCP-5680-1 into the factory.\nRecording apparati on-site recorded the entities communicating in American English.\n\nAUDIO RECORDING\n\n<Begin Log>\nEntity A: Hey, paint me a picture. This is what the man upstairs wants in the loop, right?\nEntity C: I thought we tabled this conversation, Clarence.\nEntity A: We picked the low-hanging fruit, so why hasn't the boss joined up with us yet?\nEntity B: They bird are pushing the envelope out there. Think about the end-user perspective.\nEntity A: I know, we actioned that. Shouldn't this be a win-win situation?\nEntity C: We've got a USP. The birds do nothing but make hay.\nEntity C: Put this on your radar, Clarence. We've done nothing but move forward. If we don't buck the trend, who will?\nEntity A: You're right, we've got the bandwidth for this.\n<End Log>\n\nThe entities then boarded their vehicle and left before Foundation response forces could reach them. Attempts to track the truck or discern its destination were unsuccessful.\n\nFootnotes\n1. In many cases, this tray extends to below the ground.\n\nMore by notgull\n\nMore by notgull\n\nSCPs\n\nnotgull's Proposal\n\nSCP-3733\n\nSCP-3095\n\nSCP-4800\n\nSCP-4804\n\nSCP-2785\n\nSCP-4348\n\nSCP-4048\n\nSCP-4688\n\nSCP-3362\n\nSCP-579-J\n\nSCP-4785\n\nSCP-3339\n\nSCP-5800\n\nSCP-4248\n\nSCP-3747\n\nSCP-4948\n\nSCP-3296\n\nSCP-4800-J\n\nSCP-4799\n\nSCP-199\n\nSCP-3485\n\nSCP-5981\n\nSCP-7234\n\nSCP-4808\n\nSCP-3833\n\nSCP-3748\n\nSCP-4148\n\nSCP-5054\n\nSCP-5025\n\nSCP-1037\n\nSCP-093-J\n\nSCP-5680\n\nSCP-1684\n\nSCP-4872\n\nSCP-3248\n\nSCP-6904\n\nSCP-5483\n\nSCP-6785\n\nSCP-4397\n\nTales\n\nThe Little Robot that Could\n\nJoin the Flock\n\nThe Siege of Site-19\n\nTales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse\n\nFootage Recovered From a Private Server\n\nAvian Anthology I\n\nMy Empire of Birds\n\nMoose on the Loose\n\nDocument recovered from a Parallel Universe\n\nKatz and Dogs\n\nJoey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence\n\nYour Guard\n\nVacation Opportunity\n\nThe Scent of a Toaster\n\nBurn, Baby, Burn\n\nChasing Suns\n\nWind in the Sails\n\nThree Feet Under I\n\nThe Shape of Water is Humanoid\n\nDead Reckoning\n\nThree Feet Under II\n\nThree Feet Under III\n\nInto the Beetle Black Yonder\n\nForgotten Shrine\n\nDown Through\n\nHyperfine\n\nDon't Knock on Strange Doors\n\nOther\n\nResearcher Calvin's Personnel File\n\nIncident Report \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\"Sphere\" Incursion Log\n\nInitial Incursion Log\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #1\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #2\n\nSCP-093-J Blue Test\n\nSCP-093-J Recovered Documents\n\nSCP-093-J Green Test\n\nSCP-093-J Purple Test\n\nExploration Log 4480-1\n\nSee my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5679 | SCP-5680 | SCP-5681 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by stormbreath\n\nItem#: SCP-5682\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\n{$disruption-class}\n\nRisk Class:\n{$risk-class}\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\nAnomalous Objects formerly recovered from SCP-5682-\u03b2 are to be stored in individual storage lockers at Site-64. Objects should be kept discrete from one another in order to prevent malign interaction but should remain specifically labeled as having been associated with SCP-5682.\nThe 243 former adherents of SCP-5682 that could be found were each interrogated for information concerning SCP-5682, and then subjected to an amnestic therapy regimen to induce the belief that memories of anomalies associated with SCP-5682 resulted from hallucinogenic substances. Following the completion of this amnestic therapy, each was turned over to the Unusual Incidents Unit for criminal prosecution.\nCivilian media is to be investigated for religious movements with similar beliefs to SCP-5682 or direct allusions to SCP-5682. Any evidence that SCP-5682 is being practiced again is to be investigated further. If any anomalies are found, the revival is to be treated in the same manner as the original SCP-5682.\nSCP-5682-\u03b1 has been designated as PoI-5682, in addition to its SCP designation. Mentions of it by name are to be processed and monitored, and PANOPTICON is to monitor global surveillance cameras for SCP-5682-\u03b1's face. If any indication that SCP-5682-\u03b1 is still active is detected, MTF Zeta-2 is to be deployed to find and detain SCP-5682-\u03b1.\nDescription\nSCP-5682 was a religious movement referred to as the \"Heavenly Manifold Temple\", active from 1961 to 1968. SCP-5682 was similar to various New Age and UFO religious movements but was primarily inspired by various anomalies created and/or discovered by SCP-5682-\u03b1.\n\nArt produced by SCP-5682, representative of the central higher plane of existence.\n\nSCP-5682 was primarily focused around the belief in a higher plane of existence, populated by a number of non-human entities. Some of these entities are believed to be posthuman, with the potential for adherents of SCP-5682 to become one. No adherents are believed to have actually done so. This higher plane of existence is said to possess at least three dimensions beyond the typical four associated with baseline reality.\nIt is inconclusive as to whether or not this higher plane of existence legitimately exists. While various anomalous objects associated with SCP-5682 allowed for various forms of contact with it, no other methods \u2014 scientific or anomalous \u2014 have been able to reach it. It is currently undetermined if SCP-5682-\u03b1 discovered an otherwise inaccessible plane of existence, if it created such a plane, or if it merely created a series of anomalies that gave the appearance of an alternate plane without actually being such.\nSCP-5682 placed a high value on individuality and therefore did not have many well-defined beliefs. It offered adherents a selection of ways to view the higher plane of existence but allowed them to draw their own interpretations of their experiences. As a result, individual adherents have drastically differing interpretations of SCP-5682. Philosophical debate and discussion concerning the nature of SCP-5682 were highly encouraged.\nCommon beliefs of SCP-5682 are that this higher plane is inherently better than baseline reality and that the inhabitants are divine. Adherents frequently emphasize chaos, loud noise and patterns in their descriptions of their experiences, believing all of these to be central to SCP-5682. In addition, SCP-5682 had frequent drug use \u2014 most notably LSD and other hallucinogens \u2014 as entheogens.\n\nSCP-5682-\u03b1\n\nSCP-5682-\u03b1 was a Class-III ontokinetic responsible for the founding of SCP-5682. Allegedly, SCP-5682-\u03b1 discovered the higher plane of existence central to SCP-5682 and began to create further methods of contacting and interacting with this alleged plane. It is unclear if the discovery was genuine or faked through its ontokinetic abilities.\nThe civilian name of SCP-5682-\u03b1 was Josiah Thornettle. It was born on December 21st, 1931 and disappeared on July 19th, 1968. It is unknown when SCP-5682-\u03b1 first developed anomalous properties, but it is believed to have occurred shortly before 1961, when it first began to write about SCP-5682.\nBy 1964, SCP-5682 had become a fully-fledged religious movement. SCP-5682-\u03b1 purchased a plot of land in southern Yakima County, Washington, and established SCP-5682-\u03b2, a commune meant to accommodate SCP-5682. Adherents were encouraged to move to SCP-5682-\u03b2 to further engage in philosophical discussion of SCP-5682. The commune was mostly isolated from the outside world, and had a population of approximately 230 in 1968.\nSCP-5682-\u03b2 was loosely organized as a commune, with SCP-5682-\u03b1 as a spiritual and political leader. Food, LSD and marijuana were self-produced by the compound, with income generated by the sale of the latter two in commercial quantities. Several buildings were built by SCP-5682 on the property as housing and communal gathering spaces.\nUndercover Foundation agents infiltrated SCP-5682 and found substantive anomalous activity. On July 19th, Foundation agents collaborated with UIU agents to raid SCP-5682-\u03b2 and bring all adherents of SCP-5682 into custody. The raid was conducted without casualties for any party. Multiple anomalies were covered in the process.\nIn the aftermath, SCP-5682-\u03b1 could not be located. The house in which it was alleged to have been staying in caught on fire during the raid and burned to the ground. Multiple members of the cult have claimed that SCP-5682-\u03b1 \"ascended to the higher plane\", but there is no evidence to support this claim. If true, SCP-5682-\u03b1 would be the only member of SCP-5682 to have successfully done so.\nAnomalous Objects Associated With SCP-5682\nThe following are a collection of anomalous objects and phenomena that were discovered within SCP-5682-\u03b2 after the 1968 Foundation/UIU raid. The majority of these anomalous phenomena are believed to have been created by SCP-5682-\u03b1 personally, but a small number are believed to be indirectly created by the interaction of other anomalies.\n\nDesignation\nDescription\nNotes\n\nAO-5682-1\nStockpile of LSD (5,000g). Chemically identical to non-anomalous LSD. Causes hallucinations which typically feature loud sounds, patterns and geometric tessellations. Hallucinations are remarkably consistent between users and different from traditional LSD samples.\nUsed by SCP-5682 as the primary method of seeing the \"higher plane of existence\" and as an entheogen. Usage was common throughout SCP-5682.\n\nAO-5682-2\nAnomalous strain of marijuana. Chemically and genetically identical to non-anomalous marijuana, although flowers are a different color purple than most strains. Mild mnestic properties when consumed, similar to te\u00f9koka.\nSecondary to usage of AO-5682-1, although also common recreationally within SCP-5682.\n\nAO-5682-3\nSerrated knife with a fractally defined edge. Edge of the knife is therefore infinitely sharp and does not possess a conclusive point.\nNo evidence of usage within SCP-5682. According to testimony, proved sharper than expected.\n\nAO-5682-4\nPrinted copies of an excerpt from SCP-5682-\u03b1's dream journal. Upon reading a copy, the next dream the reader has shall be identical to the events detailed within AO-5682-4. Dream encompasses an encounter with a sapient entity that resides within the higher plane of existence.\nContents of the dream are frequently described as mildly disturbing by individuals who are not already familiar with SCP-5682. Was only provided to long-term adherents.\n\nAO-5682-5\nLarge tent that, when erected, causes spacial anomalies within its interior. These include the disappearance and manifestation of small objects, the appearance of patterns of light, and quiet sounds reminiscent of whispering.\nUsed by SCP-5682 as a meeting place and discussion. Was believed to be the closest place to the higher plane.\n\nAO-5682-6\nSmall visual anomaly nested within a hole in a plank of wood. Visual anomaly reminiscent of kaleidoscope patterns. Effect is only visual; objects pass through with no effect.\nKnown to have been spontaneously generated by members of SCP-5682, with no involvement by SCP-5682-\u03b1 directly. Led to conclusion that SCP-5682 had become anomalous and capable of creating anomalies.\n\nAO-5682-7\nAn sixth-dimensional shape partially embedded within baseline reality. Conforms to standard models for higher-dimensional shapes in lower-dimensional planes. Was rotated along a higher dimension axis during raid, and further attempts at manipulating it along this axis have been unsuccessful.\nUsed by SCP-5682 in several important religious rituals. The exact purpose within these practices is unknown, but was central to daily practice. Adherents refused to explain purpose.\n\nInterview Log: Charlie Kollwitz\nThe following is an interview conducted with SCP-5682 adherent Charlie Kollwitz on July 20th, 1968, shortly following the raid upon SCP-5682-\u03b2. As with the raid itself, the interview was conducted with both Foundation (represented by Operative Blackwire) and Unusual Incidents Unit (represented by Special Agent Cassidy Powell) involvement. This particular interview focuses on the recruitment strategy of SCP-5682.\n\nInterview Transcript\nUIU Powell: Hello, Mr. Kollwitz. We need to ask you a few questions before we can let you go. You aren't in a lot of trouble, and if you just answer a few of our questions you'll be on your way shortly.\nSCP Blackwire: Keyword there being if. If you answer our questions. There could be complications if you don't cooperate with us.\nKollwitz: Um. Yeah. Got it.\nSCP Blackwire: We want you to tell us about how you got into this cult. How you found out about them, how they made you a believer, got you to move to the middle of nowhere Washington, all of that.\nKollwitz: It's not a cult. It was a commune. We might have had and \u2014 hold on, who are you? She's an FBI agent \u2014 but you don't have the badge.\nUIU Powell: I think my friend from the CIA here might have came across as a bit too hostile. We just want to know a little about how the Manifold Temple got new members. Do you think you could tell us about that?\nKollwitz: The CIA? Good god. Okay, I'll talk.\nUIU Powell: So how did you find out about the Manifold Temple? How did they get a kid like you to join up with them?\nKollwitz: Well, I was visiting this buddy of mine a little south of here, at Reed College, and we're sitting around, and he tells me he's heard about this new source of acid. Supposed to be like nothing else. So we head on out there, down in Sellwood, and we get some of this stuff.\nUIU Powell: And this new source was connected to the temple?\nKollwitz: Sure was. This was back in '65. We walked into the house and I was like \"Woah, what's all this?\", since the dealer had all this art from the Temple on his walls. The dealer offered us the acid for cheap \u2014 real cheap. Said he just wanted other people to feel what he had. His name is Sullivan, he's been living up here for the past year or two.\nSCP Blackwire: I'll run his name and see if we picked him up.\nKollwitz: Right, right. Anyway, I take the acid with my Reedie friend. We're sitting in his old dorm room, and boom, it hits me. It wasn't like anything else I had ever done before, and I've done my share of acid.\nSCP Blackwire: Of course you have.\nKollwitz: This hit like a freight train. It's not normally this intense - total sensory block out. Nothing but this one hallucination, which was just utter chaos, on every sense. Sight, sound, touch, taste. But I wasn't scared, in fact, I thought it was actually pretty calming. Now I know it was a holy vision, so that makes sense.\nUIU Powell: Interesting. Sounds like it would have been quite jarring.\nKollwitz: And yet, despite the cacophony \u2014 the screaming, the crying, the sounds \u2014 there was a beauty to it all. Within the chaos, patterns. A joyous and wonderful song. It was nothing but beautiful. You should see it, if you can.\nSCP Blackwire: I'll pass.\n\nDrawing produced by Charlie Kollwitz.\n\nKollwitz: And in between the chaos, there were beings. Angels, I think. Not sure what else they could be. And they're not really things you can explain, either. They're from the other plane, and they've got too many angles for our minds to really get them, y'know? I can try to draw you a picture but I don't know how good it'll be for you.\nUIU Powell: That'll be appreciated, if you could. For our records.\nKollwitz: Right on. Well I see these angels, and it seems to me like they're saying \"Charlie! Come to us! Join us!\" And how could I refuse them? They were the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I felt calm looking at them, just right. Everything made sense, despite nothing I was experiencing making sense.\nUIU Powell: Could be hard to say no.\nSCP Blackwire: Only takes a backbone.\nKollwitz: Anyway, the trip comes down. My Reedie buddy didn't really like the trip, but I was fascinated. Before I left Portland, I met up with the dealer again and got some more, and then he told me about this commune the Heavenly Manifold Temple was building. And I figured, well, I'm just bumming around the West Coast right now. Might go there next, why not?\nUIU Powell: And you decided to stay here, once you got here?\nKollwitz: Sure did. I talked to some other friends on the way up here, and they didn't get what I had seen while on the trip. Didn't get why it was so inspiring for me.\nSCP Blackwire: Don't think I do either.\nKollwitz: Exactly! But at the commune? Everyone got it. I wouldn't belong anywhere else. I just had to stay.\nUIU Powell: Could you tell me a little more about why it resonated with you?\nKollwitz: Well, the way I see it\u2026 I'm in the chaos. It's scary, and it's disorienting. But the angel appears, and it's there, in the middle of all it, a part of it. But it's still calm, a part that doesn't fear the rest. And it hits me: you can't make the world calmer. You control the chaos, and you ride it. That's how you deal with the world. And Josiah said I got it.\nUIU Powell: Thank you, Mr. Kollwitz. I think that concludes this round of questioning, for the moment.\n\nKollwitz was administered the standard amnestic therapy regimen \u2014 as with all other adherents of SCP-5682 \u2014 following this interview.\nUnusual Incidents Unit Records\nThe following document concerning SCP-5682 and the Foundation/UIU raid was given to the Foundation by the Unusual Incidents Unit and is included here for posterity.\n\nUNUSUAL INCIDENTS UNIT\nIntelligence Briefing: Heavenly Manifold Temple\n\nThe \"Heavenly Manifold Temple\", located in Yakima County, Washington, was responsible for supplying a large amount of the LSD and marijuana in circulation on the West Coast, and was placed under investigation by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They discovered substantial evidence of criminal activity, although no evidence of anomalous activity. A search warrant was obtained for this purpose.\nIt was not until the Foundation contacted the Unusual Incidents Unit that evidence of anomalous activity was discovered, providing information about the anomalies present at the Heavenly Manifold Temple. The UIU then forwarded this information to the ATF. The Department of Anomalous Drugs and Ordnance, the branch of the ATF that handles anomalous matters, concluded it was severely understaffed to handle such a matter, and returned the case to the UIU.\nThe UIU performed a joint operation with the Foundation to raid the Heavenly Manifold Temple complex. As the commune was known to be mostly non-violent, it was decided that the action would merely consist of the presentation of the search warrant, and then arresting members of the commune following the confirmation of the discovery of drugs/paraphernalia. The decision to arrest all members of the commune was encouraged by the Foundation.\nAt noon on July 19th, the combined UIU/Foundation agents arrived at the Heavenly Manifold Temple. The warrant was presented at the boundary of the commune, and the agents were allowed access into the complex. Substantial evidence of criminal activity was quickly found following this entry, and agents began to arrest members of the commune.\nAlmost all members of the commune complied with the orders given to them by directing UIU agents, and were placed into joint custody. A small number of members attempted to resist arrest, but were quickly brought under control and also placed into custody.\nHowever, shortly after the UIU/Foundation agents entered the commune, a fire broke out in the main building of the commune, which was identified as the residence of Josiah Thornettle (leader of the Heavenly Manifest Temple) and several senior members of the commune. The cause of this fire remains unknown, but internal investigation has determined that the UIU was not responsible, as all agents were stationed at the front entrance or outside of the commune at the time.\nAgent Stone attempted to enter the building during this time, in order to find Josiah Thornettle. His testimony is transcribed below:\n\nI saw that the main building had caught fire, and one of the cult members next to me screamed that was where their leader was. Because we were all outside of the complex at the time, I knew the fire either had to be an accident or an intentional sabotage on the part of the temple. In either case, we would need to get in and rescue anyone inside.\nI rushed forward, and entered. It hadn't substantially caught fire yet, but I could hear some muffled voices from the upstairs. I couldn't quite make out what they were saying, but they seemed pretty calm. Which was weird, since the roof was on fire.\nI rushed up to the second floor, and as I bounded onto the landing, the voices stopped. There was this \u2026 well, it sounded almost like static, but it didn't sound mechanical. It sounded spoken, if that makes sense. I rushed to the room where the sounds were coming from, and slammed into the door.\nNobody was inside. I must have gotten the wrong room. I looked back into the hallway, and the smoke and fire was getting too much. I couldn't stay in the house any longer.\n\nDue to the placement of the main building, the fire was self-contained and did not spread to other buildings/structures within the commune. After the flames had extinguished, the ashes were thoroughly searched: no human remains or bones were discovered. It is not believed any individuals were within the main building at the time it caught fire.\nJosiah Thornettle has not been found, and is presumed at large.\n\nInterview Log: Shanon Church\nShanon Church was one of the most senior members of SCP-5682 and a direct associate of SCP-5682-\u03b1. She was not present at SCP-5682-\u03b2 on July 19th, 1968, and thus managed to avoid being captured during the Foundation/UIU raid. However, she was apprehended in 1974 by the UIU and brought in for questioning concerning SCP-5682-\u03b1.\n\nInterview Transcript\nSCP Blackwire: Well, well, well. Look who it is. One of the cult leaders herself. We thought you burned to death with Thornettle.\nChurch: Josiah didn't burn to death. He ascended into heaven, something that we can't just take for granted. The angels came and whisked him away, and him alone. He was always the closest to them.\nUIU Powell: We have difficulty believing that. It's awfully convenient for him to have disappeared at the exact moment when we were finally closing in on him. We finally get close, and then, and only then, does he vanish into the aether? Why not any sooner?\nChurch: Josiah was the only one of us who could have, but he didn't want to go alone. He wanted to take us with him. He could have left any time earlier. But you came for his head. And now I am locked out of heaven, the only man who could have taken me forced to run.\nSCP Blackwire: Seems most likely he just burned to death. I mean, you weren't even there.\nChurch: Did you find any bones? No, you wouldn't have. Because he ascended.\nUIU Powell: Putting that aside, what if he just wasn't there that day? And just went into hiding?\nSCP Blackwire: Like you.\nChurch: Once the temple had been built, Josiah never left. He stayed with his people. It was his life's work. He ascended. I alone escaped. You destroyed everything he \u2014 we \u2014 had ever worked for. We were reaching for the fruit of salvation, and then you cut down the tree.\nSCP Blackwire: Salvation. Guess what? We know what you were dealing with. We call them [REDACTED] and they aren't fucking pretty. These are beings that [REDACTED]. If your boyfriend managed to get into their home at the end, he isn't alive anymore.\nChurch: Ah, yes. The so-called [REDACTED]. Merely fear and superstition, perpetuated by people that do not understand the truth. It is common for the unenlightened to fear that which they do not understand. I know the angels could scare those that have not seen them before, but they are holy nonetheless. Tell me, Operative, have you ever experienced any of the revelations that we offered in the commune? Any of the enlightenment?\nSCP Blackwire: Have I willingly exposed myself to dangerous anomalies? No. Never.\nChurch: You wouldn't get it, then? Would you? These things require faith. You have to take that first step into the water.\nSCP Blackwire: You aren't the first person to give me that line.\nChurch: I wonder why? Maybe there's some truth to it?\nUIU Powell: Let's get back on track, shall we? The topic at hand is Josiah Thornettle and what happened to him. That's what we're here for, and we'd like if you could tell us about him, Ms. Church.\nChurch: The answer is simple: Josiah performed a ritual only he himself was capable of achieving. It required the highest level of attunement with our beliefs to achieve, and he was the only one who came close. The rest of us were trying to get there, but never could. He was a prophet. He escaped into a higher plane, and abandoned this world.\nSCP Blackwire: I highly doubt he was a prophet of any stripe. Nothing he had was all that compelling.\nChurch: You've only heard it all second hand. This was all direct. You need to see to believe. The visions had so many facets you'll inevitably miss some of them.\nSCP Blackwire: We haven't been able to find your plane, you know. Nothing has worked. We've tried knives that cut dimensions, technology that shouldn't exist, everything. Dead ends.\nChurch: Interesting. I wouldn't know why that is, but I would hazard the guess that heaven resists heretics. You cannot break down the pearly gates.\nUIU Powell: Poetic. Ms. Church, I feel we are done here. Do you have anything else to add?\nChurch: No. I know what I believe. And I know that you have barred me from those pearly gates. Only Josiah is with the angels.\n\nFollowing this interview, Church was given the same amnestic therapy regimen as other adherents of SCP-5682. Following her release from custody, she no longer practices SCP-5682 and has had no contact with any other anomalies.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5681 | SCP-5682 | SCP-5683 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Message Received: 01/02/2020\nSubject Line: Again, congratulations\n\nDoctor Kristiansen,\n\nCongratulations again on your success with the Domesday Clock project. It was a magnificent accomplishment, and I can confirm that your name has been brought up favorably in our last meeting.\nIn response to your query last we spoke \u2014 yes, we are still searching for an appropriate candidate for Director of Site-04 following Director Bray's retirement. Your name is on the list, but the Council still wishes for you to prove yourself capable a little more before we're prepared to make a final decision.\nWe'd like for you to solve the SCP-5683 problem. The assignment's already been issued.\nHoping you are well,\n\nO5-7\n22122592\n\nItem #: SCP-5683\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5683 is to be neutralized as soon as possible.\nIn order to reduce the number of containment breaches, it is to be constantly dosed with a stream of sedatives \u2014 the chemical makeup of which is to be adjusted constantly in order to prevent SCP-5683 from adapting to it. In the event that these sedatives are unsuccessful in disabling SCP-5683, the containment chamber is to be immediately flooded with hydrochloric acid.\nAll termination attempts must be approved by project head Doctor Kristiansen.\nDescription: SCP-5683 is a large arachnid organism, capable of rapid regeneration and bodily modification. It is extremely hostile to all human life, and will constantly attempt to breach containment in order to engage in mass slaughter. This is usually performed via injection of venom using its mandibles and impalement using its legs.\nAlthough SCP-5683 has demonstrated the capability for basic reasoning and planning when hunting prey, it is not believed to possess human-level intelligence.\nWhen placed into a threatening situation, SCP-5683 will quickly adapt in order to become more resistant to whatever form of danger is being posed to it. These adaptations will persist until said danger is no longer present.\n\nAddendum 5683-1 (Termination Order): Due to frequent containment breaches and the increasing drain on Foundation resources brought about by SCP-5683's continued containment, a termination order on SCP-5683 has been issued. Termination will be overseen by the new project head, Dr. Kristiansen.\nThe following is an archive of attempts to terminate SCP-5683, along with discussions regarding them:\n\nDiscussion Log 5683-1\nSubject of Discussion: Introduction of new project head, deliberation over initial termination attempts regarding SCP-5683.\nPersonnel Present: Doctor Kristiansen, Researcher Miles, Researcher Hall, Junior Researcher Silva, Security Chief Aday.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDoctor Kristiansen: (sniffs) Do you smell something burning?\nJunior Researcher Silva: I'm told there's been a mild, ah, accident at the cafeteria earlier today, sir. I apologize.\nDoctor Kristiansen: I see, I see. (laughs) Hopefully we'll fare a little better than them, eh?\n(Laughter.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: Very good, sir!\nSecurity Chief Aday: If we could get down to business.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Right, yes, of course. So \u2014 SCP-5683. I've read the documentation, but I've always found accounts from those working with the anomaly can be much more helpful. Anything I should know?\n(Pause.)\nResearcher Hall: Well \u2026 I suppose\u2026\nDoctor Kristiansen: Well? Out with it, man.\nResearcher Miles: It's smarter than it looks. If it spots a way to escape, it'll take it in an instant.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Well, maybe we can use that.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Anyone else?\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: (sighs) I won't lie, I expected more. For now, we're going to do some basic stress tests on the thing. Start off with tissue samples, then try it out on the genuine article. No point getting complicated if we can just kill it with fire, eh?\nJunior Researcher Silva: Very good, sir.\n<End Log>\n\nTermination Log 5683-1\nStimulus: Incineration at a temperature of 850 \u00b0C for a period of thirty seconds.\n\nTissue Sample Results: Sample successfully incinerated without relapses.\nSCP-5683 Results: SCP-5683 thrashes and screeches upon introduction of heat for thirty seconds, before developing armored plating covered with an unknown substance that prevents combustion.\n\nDiscussion Log 5683-2\nSubject of Discussion: Further attempts to terminate SCP-5683.\nPersonnel Present: Doctor Kristiansen, Researcher Miles, Researcher Hall, Junior Researcher Silva, Security Chief Aday.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDoctor Kristiansen: (sniffing) Jesus, that stinks. Another bad day for the cafeteria?\nResearcher Miles: Seems so. Apparently, we'll just have to bear with it.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Extremely sorry for the inconvenience, sir \u2014 and in regards to the last termination test, sir, I'm afraid it, well, was expected.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Thank you, Junior Researcher. I hope you didn't think I seriously believed that would work. It was a test to establish a baseline.\n(Pause.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: Yes, sir. Very good, sir.\nDoctor Kristiansen: And lose the 'sir'.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Sorry, sir.\nSecurity Chief Aday: If we could get down to business.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Yes, yes, of course. I've contacted the O5 Council and requested the use of some anomalous substances to aid with termination \u2014 not anomalous enough to qualify for containment, but anomalous enough to help us out here. Probably less toxic than whatever they've got in that cafeteria, too.\n(Laughter.)\nResearcher Hall: Nice one.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Thank you.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Just for logging purposes, sir, may I inquire about the specific substances we're shipping in?\nDoctor Kristiansen: Of course. Y220, Y835 and Y436. I'm told they should be arriving within the week \u2014 I expect each would be enough to do the job, but it's best to hedge our bets. This spider doesn't compare to the lizard, I'll tell you that.\n(Junior Researcher Silva smiles.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: You've worked with the lizard, sir? When was that, if you don't mind me asking, sir?\nDoctor Kristiansen: Um, well, a few years back, I suppose \u2014 we had a containment breach back then. It \u2026 (frowns) \u2026 it wasn't pleasant.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Anyway, Y220, Y835 and Y436. Get that logged.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Excellent choice, sir.\nResearcher Hall: Fantastic work.\nResearcher Miles: Magnificent.\n<End Log>\n\nTermination Log 5683-2\nStimulus: Y220\n\nTissue Sample Results: Sample successfully converted into glass, which then violently explodes.\nSCP-5683 Results: 80% of SCP-5683's body converted into glass within nine seconds, which then violently explodes. Regeneration increases in speed until SCP-5683 is completely healed within thirty seconds.\n\nTermination Log 5683-3\nStimulus: Y835\n\nTissue Sample Results: Sample splits into two independent organisms, which then kill each other through mutual injection of venom.\nSCP-5683 Results: SCP-5683 splits into two entities, SCP-5683-1 and SCP-5683-2, which then inject each other with their venom. SCP-5683-2 perishes near-instantly, but SCP-5683-1 adapts an immunity to the venom and survives. SCP-5683-1 then consumes SCP-5683-2 to regain lost mass.\n\nTermination Log 5683-4\nStimulus: Y436\n\nTissue Sample Results: Sample is reduced to a fine mist.\nSCP-5683 Results: SCP-5683 is reduced to a fine mist. All lights in the facility turn off \u2014 when they reactivate three seconds later, SCP-5683 has fully regenerated.\n\nDiscussion Log 5683-3\nSubject of Discussion: Termination of SCP-5683.\nPersonnel Present: Doctor Kristiansen, Researcher Miles, Researcher Hall, Junior Researcher Silva, Security Chief Aday.\n<Begin Log>\n(Doctor Kristiansen kicks his chair angrily. It falls to the floor.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: The file says adaptation, right? A-dap-tat-ion. Coming back to life when the lights turn out is not adaptation, it's some magic bullshit!\nJunior Researcher Silva: Please calm down, sir.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Silva, I swear to God.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Sorry, sir.\n(Doctor Kristiansen sighs, picks his chair up, and sits down.)\nSecurity Chief Aday: If we could get down to business.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: I'm requisitioning Y910.\n(Pause.)\nResearcher Hall: (slowly) That's a little \u2026\nResearcher Miles: Are you sure about that, sir?\nDoctor Kristiansen: Yes. I am absolutely sure about it. If the GOC can use it to poison gods, I think it can take care of one giant spider.\nJunior Researcher Silva: But, sir\u2026\n(Doctor Kristiansen stands up.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: But nothing! And, and another thing \u2014 we're losing the tissue test! The O5's will replace Bray soon, and I'm not going to be sitting around wasting time!\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: (sighs) I'll \u2026 I'll take full responsibility for the decision.\n(Everyone in the room turns to look at Doctor Kristiansen.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: You will, sir?\nDoctor Kristiansen: Should anything go wrong, yes.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Very good, sir! Very good!\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Well, uh. Get preparations underway.\nResearcher Hall: Of course.\n(Doctor Kristiansen walks to the door and leaves the room.)\n(Laughter.)\n<End Log>\n\nTermination Log 5683-4\nStimulus: Y910\n\nSCP-5683 Results: Energizing response. Containment breach in progress.\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Doctor Kristiansen and Junior Researcher Silva run into the secure bunker. Doctor Kristiansen seals the door behind them, then slumps against the wall.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: (quietly) This isn't happening. This isn't happening.\n(Pause. Doctor Kristiansen looks up and sniffs.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Oh Jesus, what's that smell?!\nJunior Researcher Silva: It must have \u2026 it must have gotten to the reactor, sir. I'm so sorry, sir \u2014 this is all my fault.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Your fault? How so? What did you do?\n(Pause. Doctor Kristiansen stands up.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: What the fuck did you do?!\nJunior Researcher Silva: I \u2026 it's my job sir, my duty, to oppose actions that \u2014 actions that I believe are ill-advised. I didn't do that for you, sir. I'm sorry.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Yes. Yes!\n(Doctor Kristiansen approaches Junior Researcher Silva and jabs a finger into his chest.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Do you know how many people have died because you couldn't do your job? Because you refused to?\nJunior Researcher Silva: (crying) I'm sorry, sir. I'm sorry, sir. But \u2026 you're the one, sir! You wanted to use Y910! You wouldn't listen, sir!\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: (quietly) Are you trying to make me your scapegoat, Silva?\n(Junior Researcher Silva shakes his head.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: (crying) I'm not \u2026 I'm not, sir \u2026 but there are procedures, sir, for a \u2014 for a reason. The tissue sample \u2026 you must admit, even a little \u2014\nDoctor Kristiansen: (quietly) When we get out of here, I am going to tell the Council the truth about what happened here. The truth about what you've done.\nJunior Researcher Silva: But\u2026\nDoctor Kristiansen: Shut your fucking mouth, Silva.\n(Pause.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: But, sir \u2014 with all due respect \u2014 I don't think that will be possible.\nDoctor Kristiansen: What do you mean?\nJunior Researcher Silva: This chamber, sir \u2026 it isn't nearly strong enough to survive the reactor overloading, I'm afraid.\n(Doctor Kristiansen staggers backwards, head in his hands.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Shit. No, no, no no no, shit.\n(Pause. Junior Researcher Silva sits in the corner.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: I shouldn't have led us here, sir \u2014\nDoctor Kristiansen: No, you shouldn't have.\nJunior Researcher Silva: \u2014 but, and this is with all due respect to your countless accomplishments, sir, you \u2026 you must admit some personal responsibility.\n(Doctor Kristiansen turns to Junior Researcher Silva.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: (screaming) Shut the fuck up! Stop talking about whose fault this is! What the hell is the matter with you?!\n(Loud banging is heard against the bunker door. Doctor Kristiansen yelps and retreats to the back wall.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: No, no, no! Please! Please!\n(Junior Researcher Silva stands in front of Doctor Kristiansen. The bunker door is ripped open, revealing SCP-5683 standing behind it. It moves inside, screeching.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: Sir, I'll \u2014 I'll occupy it! Please, run!\n(Pause.)\n(Doctor Kristiansen pushes Junior Researcher Silva towards SCP-5683 and prepares to run.)\n(SCP-5683 disappears.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: I \u2014 I \u2014 wha\u2026?\n(Junior Researcher Silva turns towards Doctor Kristiansen.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: Disappointing, sir. Extremely disappointing.\nDoctor Kristiansen: What?\n(Researcher Miles, Researcher Hall and Security Chief Aday enter the bunker through the torn-open door. Doctor Kristiansen again approaches the back wall.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: What's going on? What happened to 5683?\nJunior Researcher Silva: I'm afraid, sir, that there's little reason in keeping a dummy around once it's served its purpose.\nDoctor Kristiansen: Its \u2026 its purpose? What are you talking about, man?!\nJunior Researcher Silva: As a substitute, sir.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: I don't\u2026\nJunior Researcher Silva: You mentioned you worked with a lizard, sir. That there was a containment breach. If you don't terribly mind me asking, how did you escape that situation? It seemed quite lethal, didn't it?\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: \u2026where am I?\nResearcher Hall: Don't ask pointless questions.\nResearcher Miles: Don't ask questions you know the answer to.\n(Pause. Doctor Kristiansen turns to Junior Researcher Silva.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: (hoarse) Who are you people?\nJunior Researcher Silva: We are the Jury, sir. Your Jury. And I'm afraid you've disgraced yourself quite horribly once again.\n(Pause.)\nJunior Researcher Silva: Would you like me to clarify anything for you, sir?\nDoctor Kristiansen: (quietly) How long have I been here?\nJunior Researcher Silva: A considerable amount of time, sir.\nDoctor Kristiansen: How much \u2026 how much longer will I be here?\nJunior Researcher Silva: Until you take responsibility, sir.\n(Doctor Kristiansen moves into the corner, shaking.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: This is \u2026 this is my fault.\nResearcher Miles: You say it, but you don't mean it.\nResearcher Hall: You don't mean the things you say.\n(Pause.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: Please. I'm sorry.\nSecurity Chief Aday: If we could get down to business.\nJunior Researcher Silva: Of course.\n(Pause \u2014 then Doctor Kristiansen runs for the open door. Before he can reach it, however, a black iron chain appears from around the corner and wraps itself around his throat.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: No, no, no! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!\n(The chain pulls Doctor Kristiansen out the door and around the corner at extremely high speeds \u2014 it proceeds to drag him out of the complex, slamming him into every wall as it passes a corner.)\nDoctor Kristiansen: It's not my fault! It's not my fault!\n(The floor and walls drop away, revealing what is behind them. There is a great deal of blood. There is a great deal of fire. There is a great deal of suffering. There is a terrible stench.)\n(Laughter.)\n(Laughter.)\n(Laughter.)\n(Doctor Kristiansen starts screaming, and never really stops.)\n<End Log>\n\nMessage Received: 01/02/2020\nSubject Line: Again, congratulations\n\nDoctor Kristiansen,\n\nCongratulations again on your success with the Domesday Clock project. It was a magnificent accomplishment, and I can confirm that your name has been brought up favorably in our last meeting.\nIn response to your query last we spoke \u2014 yes, we are still searching for an appropriate candidate for Director of Site-04 following Director Bray's retirement. Your name is on the list, but the Council still wishes for you to prove yourself capable a little more before we're prepared to make a final decision.\nWe'd like for you to solve the SCP-5683 problem. The assignment's already been issued.\nHoping you are well,\n\nO5-7\n22122593\n\n\u00ab SCP-5682 | SCP-5683 | SCP-5684 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5684\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Currently, all activity that may be related to SCP-5684 or any of its instances must be monitored.\nDescription: SCP-5684 is the designation given to an event that occurs every November 19, in which two light beams1 colored bluish and purple, respectively, make an appearance in multiple areas of the world, both pointing towards the Moon when activated regardless of Earth's logical rotation. The following is a table showing SCP-5684's most frequent spawning areas.\n\nDate\nLocation of SCP-5684-A\nLocation of SCP-5684-B\nNotes\n\nNovember 19; 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029\nMadrid, Spain\nMexico; exact location undetermined\nN/A\n\nNovember 19; 2030, 2031 and 2032\nOsaka, Japan\nPhilippines; exact location undetermined\nN/A\n\nNovember 19; 2033, 2034 and 2035\nNorway; exact location undetermined\nBerlin, Germany\nN/A\n\nNovember 19; 2036, 2037 and 2038\nCopenhagen, Denmark\nAarhus, Denmark\nN/A\n\nNovember 19, 2039\nSevilla, Spain\nSevilla, Spain\nSee Addendum 5684/1\n\nIt is completely unknown what generates SCP-5684 and how it has the ability to activate in areas that have been invaded by SCP-ES-244, not being affected in any way by the said anomaly.\nIt should be noted that the lighting generated by both SCP-5684-A and SCP-5684-B, despite illuminating a large part of the satellite, has never affected and/or targeted Selene-Site-129. In 2039, SCP-5684-A and SCP-5684-B jointly targeted Selene-Site-129, causing an anomalous effect on personnel found on the upper floor of it. (See Document 5684/1 for more information)\nAddendum 5684/1: Update 11/19/2039\n\n++ Review Documentation [LEVEL 3 OR HIGHER]\n\n-- Access Granted\n\n SELENE-SITE-129 REPORT \n\nOn November 19, 2039, SCP-5684 and SCP-5684-B appeared in the same location, this being in Spain, at 19:00 AM in that country, where it is presumably believed to have once been Seville. Once activated, they both targeted Selene-Site-129. We do not yet know at the time of writing this document why both instances carried out this action, although we do not know whether they were conscious or not from the beginning, and surely, we will probably never know.\nHowever, when that event occurred, staff members sleeping in each other's assigned rooms on the upper floor described that as SCP-5684 struck the facility with blinding splendor, they felt a shocking warmth and happy feeling. A feeling that was widely described as \"similar to when a friend of yours achieves something that he wanted for a long time.\" In addition, the staff who were awake at the time felt a joyful feeling, one that lasted throughout the next month.\nAdditionally, not only did this occur but after the event, some 200 meters from Selene-Site-129, a monolith of a mineral similar to common amethyst could be found. Once we went exploring and checked the perimeter, it was possible to see that there was something inscribed on the figure that read:\n\nTo my love, a coin.\nFor my love, I'd give my life.\nFor my love, I'd reach the moon.\nAnd with my love, forever I'll stay.\n\nThere have been no further incidents. SCP-5684 is considered neutralized.\n\n\u2014 Res. Maia Ross.\n\nFootnotes\n1. As of now, SCP-5684-A and SCP-5684-B.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5683 | SCP-5684 | SCP-5685 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The location of Provisional Site-100.\n\nItem #: SCP-5685\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Provisional Site-100 has been established around SCP-5685 to assist in containment. Every Friday, three members of MTF Mu-13 (\"Ghostbusters\") are to be present on site to ensure that the apparitions manifesting around SCP-5685 do not harm on-site personnel or enter a human settlement.\nDescription: SCP-5685 is an Airstream motorhome located in an unpopulated area of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. On Fridays, at UTC 12:00 am, SCP-5685 will begin to emit sounds in a rhythmic, musical pattern up to 120 dB and produce a variety of colored lights from its windows. As this occurs, 20 to 30 Class-I apparitions will manifest around SCP-5685 armed with picket signs, baseball bats, fruit, and toilet paper1. The apparitions will then proceed to vocalize, shouting obscenities and other derogatory statements, while throwing objects towards SCP-5685. Due to the apparition's focus on SCP-5685, they will not willingly move away from it and will typically ignore Foundation personnel. At 6:00 am, SCP-5685 will return to its original state and the apparitions will demanifest.\nAll attempts to examine the interior of SCP-5685 by forced entry or relocate the anomaly have failed.\n5685-UPDATE-1:\nOn December 13th, 1996, a Class-II apparition, identified as PoI-6852, stood on top of SCP-5685 and claimed that Foundation personnel were responsible for its inability to access SCP-5685. How PoI-685 manifested near SCP-5685 without Foundation personnel knowing is currently unknown and is being investigated. The transcript is below:\n\nIncident Log-01\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nPoI-685: Hello. Hello? I said hello!\nThe Class-I apparitions simultaneously turn towards PoI-685.\nPoI-685: Good, good. Now that I got your attention, I want to ask you, why are you here?\nUnknown Voice 1: My wife leaked my porn collection to my entire family when I died, and now I'm forever shamed and can't pass on.\nPoI-685: Um, nice story. But I'm asking you all why you're all here at this spot, not still here-here. Get it? I'll tell you why! It's because you all wanna get down and throw the biggest party the whole damn afterlife has ever seen! I can see it in your eyes, hear it in your voices, feel it in all of your, uh\u2026 souls? You want the music, the drinks, the lights, the excitement your wispy wishy-washy ghostly vessels deprived from you. Name one other place that'll give you that - just one! - Yeah, that's right, there is none.\nThe group of apparitions begins to mummer and whisper to each other.\nPoI-685: And do you know why we can't get in? Because those assholes inside decided we weren't good enough! They say we'll 'ruin the feel'! That is some grade-A bullshit right there. They're just a bunch of selfish good-for-nothings. I won't have it and you shouldn't either! But that's not the end of it. No siree, those eggheads in those fancy coats in the back, behind you, right there, can't miss them. Really, please, just turn around.\nSeveral apparations observe Junior Researcher Richard eating from a bag of chips. Once Researcher Richard notices this, he retreats to Provisional Site-100.\nPoI-685: See that? Why would they run? Because they're part of it, that's why. That's why they here\u2014to keep us out! Want to know what I say we should do? I think we should mess them up real good and make sure they don't show their sorry asses around here again!\nGeorge Washington once said \"Give us death or give us punch\", and since they can't give us death, I want the fucking punch right now! Am I right, or am I right?\nUnknow Voice 2: He's right! I was there when George Washington said it.\nPoI-685: That's what I'm talking about, man! Come up here and give me a high-five!\nA Class-I apparition levitates above SCP-5685 and gives PoI-685 a high five.\nPoI-685: So we won't stop until we get what we want, right?\nThe apparitions shout in agreement.\nPoI-685: Yeah! That's what I'm talking about!\nThe apparitions begin to smash their signs against SCP-5685, which they then turn into plasma and demanifest. The apparitions then begin to proceed towards Provisional Site-100 repeating the phrase \"Give me death or give me punch!\".\nPoI-685: Yeah, that's right! That's right.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nPoI-685 circa 1983.\n\nAs Provisional Site-100 was assaulted by 26 Class-I apparations, PoI-685 separated from the group and disappeared from view. MTF Mu-13 was deployed to engage and disperse the apparitions. After this event, the apparitions were observed to be more hostile towards Foundation personnel.\n5685-UPDATE-2:\nAt 2:00 AM on December 27th, 1996, a circle about fifty meters in diameter with various thaumaturgic symbols inscribed inside its perimeter appeared around SCP-5685. PoI-685 was observed giving a speech to several apparitions while standing on top of SCP-5685, accompanied by an approximately three-meter tall humanoid with red skin and caprine features dressed in a formal black suit that was carrying several documents.\nSamuel Bond, Head Researcher of SCP-5685, confronted PoI-685 from 15 meters away through a megaphone while secured inside a vehicle. The transcript of their exchange is below:\n\nIncident Log-02\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nAs the vehicle approaches, PoI-685 ceases talking and turns towards Bond.\nPoI-685: So that's why I need a tenth of your soul\u2014Why, hello there! Wait, that's you, isn't it? Sammy! How long has it been since we last met? Must have been awhile. I thought you were still working for good ole America.\nBond: How did you even get here? The last time I saw you, you were screaming like a banshee when you went to Hell.\nPoI-685: I did, but as you can see, I'm still looking peachy! Made some same new friends while I was there, too. You see folks, me and him go way back.\nUnknown Voice 1: Why you acting so friendly with him? You said we couldn't trust those eggheads!\nPoI-685: And who said I do trust him? I'm just doing what they always say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Ain't that right, buddy?\nBond: I'm not your buddy.\nPoI-685: Sure you're not. So what do you want, my old fleshy friend?\nBond: What is your game here, Samthems? Do you really think I let you do whatever you please? This isn't like 84', I can put you in a box quicker than you can run that mouth of yours.\nPoI-685: Sheeesh. This new job of yours must have you even angrier than you were before. I'm just here talking to my brothers and sisters on what our next plan for liberation is!\nBond: And that is?\nPoI-685: We're going to make our own city! With its own rides, stores, casinos, and everything. And, of course, me as their leader.\nUnknown Voice 2: Yeah! I want a carousel!\nPoI-685: And you're going to get it!\nBond: And I assume it is going to be the help of that demon beside you, right?\nThe Caprine entity bends down and whispers into the ear of PoI-685.\nPoI-685: Um, that's classified. Just know I have friends, friends in low places. And they're going help us stick it to the man upstairs.\nUnknown Voice 3: Yeah, about that, though. I like my soul, and we don't have any money.\nBond: Of course you don't. He's a liar, he's just using you for who knows what. In fact, you all need to leave this place, now. This man brings nothing but bad news, trust me.\nPoI-685 throws a stack of money towards an apparition.\nPoI-685: A little piece of your being taken wouldn't hurt if you got some money! Now would a liar give his people some compensation?\nBond: Yes! That's exactly what they'd do.\nPoI-685: Then why would this fine gentleman beside me associate with me.\nBond: It's a demon!\nPoI-685: Wow! Judging people because of what they are? Shame!\nUnknown Voice 3: Yeah, shame on you!\nUnknown Voice 1: We don't want your kind here! Git on out! Git!\nBond: Listen, he's\u2014\nUnknown Voice 4: Shame!\nThe crowd of apparitions begins to shout \"Shame\" repeatedly until Bond leaves the area.\nPoI-685: Yo, how long would it take for [pointing upwards] to find out about this?\nCaprine entity: I don't know.\nPoI-685: Great.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nEvery Friday since this incident, PoI-685 has manifested with a podium on top of SCP-5685 with the caprine entity at their side. Upon manifesting, PoI-685 will began to give speeches on topics about injustice, courage, piety, and the economics of a soul. Subsequently, the number of apparitions manifesting around SCP-5685 has increased with each consecutive Friday, reaching a population of 112 instances carrying objects3 bearing PoI-685's face. When a Class-I apparition was captured during one of these events and questioned on why they are supporting PoI-685 in their goal they stated:\n\nHe's going to get us what we want, bitch! That's right, we're going to build our own shit in front of their shit and see how they like being kept from things. Yeah! So I got to give a part of my soul, it'll all be worth it in the end. How do I know? He said so, that's how!\nWait, hold up, what is that? What the fuck are you guys about to do? [Extraneous Information Cut]\n\nHead Researcher Samuel Bond then initiated several campaigns to discredit PoI-685 by using the information of their past actions, albeit changed and dramatized to prevent an informational breach. However, this has resulted in Bond being declared as a \"clown\" by the apparitions that manifested around SCP-5685 - who now yell at him whenever he appears around them. On the last campaign, when Bond was forced to leave after excrement of an unknown entity was thrown at him, the circle around SCP-5685 began to illuminate for several minutes until 450 Class-I apparitions, 312 humanoid demonic entities, a Ferris wheel, five roller coasters, two twenty-story hotels, several entertainment centers, a 100-meter ta tall golden building with a neon sign in the shape of PoI-685's face on its side, and a 500 meter in diameter wall with a five-meter tall golden gate surrounding the objects manifested around SCP-5685.\n\nA section of SCP-5685-1.\n\nThese structures were collectively designated as SCP-5685-1. A group of 30 four-meter tall winged reptilian demonic entities were positioned around SCP-5685-1 and would attack any Foundation personnel that approached it. Provisional Site-100 was spatially relocated 1,000 meters away by unknown means during this event. No missing persons or casualties.\nHead Researcher Samuel Bond called an emergency meeting with Director of Thaumatic Site-100 (Alexander Lamb) and Head Captain of MTF Mu-13 (John Macleod) to discuss future containment of SCP-5685 and PoI-685. The transcript is below:\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nBond: We are in trouble. Through unforeseeable events, the apparitions that manifest around SCP-5685 have organized themselves with demonic guards and\u2026 amusement rides. They even extended their manifestation time, somehow. We believe this is the cause of this apparition, Douglas Samthems, that they were able to accomplish this. He claimed to be from another dimension and committed several paranormal crimes in the 1980s. We thought he was self-contained in Hell after his last outburst, but we were clearly wrong.\nLamb: Weren't you with the UIU when we stopped them? Why didn't you request reinforcements to get him contained earlier if he was this much of a nuisance?\nBond: He was mostly harmless, especially since his partner was captured. I didn't think it would get this bad this quickly. Besides, we could have used resources for something more grave than a motorhome at the time.\nLamb: Like your speeches against him. Because I saw them, and they're sure ain't pretty. One part screaming two parts complaining.\nBond: Sir, If you have seen them, then you know I did my best. That man has a talent with comes to situations like these. In fact, when I first encountered\u2014\nLamb: I didn't ask for an explanation.\nMacleod: If I may interject, I still don't really know why I am here.\nBond: To capture Douglas, the ghost!\nMacleod: Yeah, but I can't do that when there are demons outside that'll breathe fire at us the moment we get six feet near them. If you have a girl that appears in mirrors and writes on walls with blood and feces, we're the guys to call. But this, hell no. My momma raised no fool.\nBond: So you're telling me you can't do your one job\u2014bust ghosts?\nMacleod: Listen, if you think we're going tussle with five-hundred pounds of demonic muscle you need a mental check! Get real.\nLamb: Enough! We need to focus on the situation at hand. Samuel and the ghost man are clearly responsible for this, so we're just going to have to form a plan to get rid of the demons, and then take out the kingpin.\nAgent Willet, visually distressed, comes inside the meeting room.\nWillet: A huge entity just appeared in the sky in front of the buildings in SCP-5685-1!\nBond: How? What is it?\nWillet: I don't know, but it's calling for you, sir.\nBond: And? Why would I go there because it said my name?\nWillet: They say they're the sword of God.\nBond: What?\nWillet: And they sound pissed.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nAt 7:00 am, a ten-meter tall, luminescent, multi-winged humanoid descended from the sky and levitated in front of the largest building in SCP-5685-1. PoI-685 was observed on top of the building waving a pole with a white flag attached to it and wearing several crosses.\nAn assembly of eight Foundation personnel was deployed and given aerial transport to assist with the situation. This operation was lead by Samuel Bond due to his experience with PoI-685 and expertise with demonic and spectral entities. It is to note that deployment was not interfered with by the demonic entities surrounding SCP-5685-1.\n\nIncident Log-03\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nAs the helicopter carrying Samuel Bond lowers on the roof of the targetted building, multiple apparitions4can be seen surrounding PoI-685.\nBond: Samthem, what in the lor\u2014\nPoI-685: I wouldn't say that right now if I was you. My new guest in front of us is a bit sensitive to that type of language.\nBond: What have you done?\nPoI-685: It's more of what have we done situation now. You and I and are getting judged, buddy!\nBond: Judged? Judged on what?\nWinged Humanoid: Douglas Ventile Samthems of the unknown worlds and Samuel Bond of Earth, you are both found guilty on all accounts of producing reckless noise around one of thy's many Providences! You have five cycles to cease all activities and leave thy's land or accept thy consequences.\nBond: Me? I am one who tried to stop him from being around your \"Providence\".\nWinged Humanoid: Lies! Were you not the one who participated in the acts of debate with Samthems?\nBond: What?\nWinged Humanoid: Were you not the one who perpetrated the encouragement of protest against thyself?\nBond: That wasn't on purpose!\nWinged Humanoid: Silence! Your lips drip nothing but venom and untruths. You are guilty!\nBond: Guilty?\nPoI-685: He got you there, Sammy. But don't worry, this'll be over in a second.\nExcuse me, you, who stands on top of those who are below. The only reason you are having so much noise outside your place is that you wouldn't let all these kind folks around me enter it. Besides, who uses an RV for a Providence? You're just asking for junkies.\nUnknown Voice 1: Yeah\u2014\nPoI-685: Shutup, I'm talking. So yeah, this can all end if you just open your doors and let us have fun for a few millennia.\nWinged humanoid: Irrevelant! Judgment has already been placed, there is no\u2014\nPoI-685: Or you could just let us stay and have our little place for ourselves. I have a permit from H.E. double L. And one of the big shots there has taken a liking to this place, so I'd be careful if I was you. Don't want to mess with their bottom line.\nWinged humanoid: Blasphemy! To think we of the High Order would take the writings of that place as legitimate is absurd! They deal in trickery, we deal in re\u2014\nPoI-685: Woah! Read before you judge, my friend, I promise it has more than you think.\nThe winged humanoid levitates down as PoI-685 produces a document from his back pocket and gives it to them. After several minutes of reading, it speaks.\nWinged Humanoid: And this includes the capital and [Illegible] that will go through your domain?\nPoI-685: You betcha!!\nWinged humanoid: And the food?\nPoI-685: If you so choose to dine.\nWinged Humanoid: Understood! I will bring this new information to the Supreme one. You are allowed to exist around thy's providence for now!\nThe winged humanoid begins to glow brightly before forming into a sphere and accelerating upwards into the sky before disappearing from all view.\nBond: The hell did you do?\nPoI-685: Sammy, the same thing I'm going to do with you. Make a deal!\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n5685-UPDATE-3:\nDue to the elongated manifestation time of SCP-5685-15 and the increased presence of Abrahamic entities after Incident-03, Provisional Site-100 has been transformed into Site-78 to accommodate its new function. An agreement for dealing with SCP-5685-1 has been made with PoI-685, which includes the following details:\n\nSelected Foundation personnel may enter, monitor, or apprehend guests and residents of SCP-5685-1 that are considered Persons of Interest and are not affiliated with PoI-685's inner circle.\n\nFoundation personnel will not display open hostility towards the populace of SCP-5685-1.\n\nFoundation personnel will help in the advertisement of SCP-5685-1 inside the anomalous spectral community to ensure its effectiveness and longevity.\n\nFor a full list, see SCP-5685 Treaty Vol.1.\nA conference meeting was shortly held after it's an inscription with PoI-685, Alexander Lamb, and Samuel Bond to solidly the agreement.\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nForeword: The meeting was held in a secluded area near Site-78. It consisted of Samuel Bond, PoI-685, and Alexander Lamb via a digital monitor.\nLamb: So is that all you have to tell me, Douglas?\nPoI-685: You set up your little surveillance unit in my town and catch whoever's on your blacklist or whatever you call it, and I'll make sure nobody interferes with your business. Only if you make sure nobody messes with mine.\nLamb: And?\nPoI-685: Five percent of all my profits go to you. Satisfied?\nBond: This is ridiculous. This is him we are talking about! He almost killed hundreds in '84. He almost killed me! Who even knows if this \"town\" of his would even work!\nPoI-685: I didn't almost kill you\u2014I was closer than that. And, besides, with the deals I made, there's no way this place won't be booming. And I would never try to you hurt you folks. Scouts honor.\nBond: We can't accept this. I won't accept it!\nLamb: You're going have to deal with it, Director. This did happen on your watch, or have you forgotten that?\nBond: I have already explained myself. We are caught between a deal between Heaven and Hell, we can't afford to trust someone like him in this matter.\nLamb: We don't need trust from him if you do your job right.\nPoI-685: I agree, trust is overrated.\nBond: I just can't believe it.\nPoI-685: When you think about it really hard, they're all of them are the same, really. You just need to find out what they want, like I did you to you. You got to look in the future, Sammy, we are all trying to make things work here. So what about it? [Extends their hand towards Bond.]\nPoI-685: Partners?\nBond: Fuck you.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nSite Director Samuel Bond is to assist in the longevity and success of this agreement.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Due to the wide variety of Class I apparations and their independence from SCP-5685, they will not be given an SCP designation.\n2. A.K.A. Douglas Samthems. Given PoI status after various paranormal crimes that involve several hostile encounters with GoI-06 (\"Unusual Incidents Unit\") through 1980 to 1984.\n3. Shirts, signs, hats, mugs, etc.\n4. Carrying various signs and shirts with PoI-685 face with the words \"Fight the man\" on them.\n5. Starting on Friday at 12:00 am and ending on Sunday at 12:00 am.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5684 | SCP-5685 | SCP-5686 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5686\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Knowledge of SCP-5686 is to be kept from the public. Any schools of thought approaching the discovery of SCP-5686 are to be closely monitored. New discoveries of SCP-5686 are to be debased and their discoverers amnesticized.\nA file containing SCP-5686's debut article is to be stored on any eligible researcher's devices. This article may be transferred via email attachments, but these emails must be permanently erased from the database within 48 hours, either manually or automatically.\nSCP-5686 is only to be internalized with approval.\nDescription: SCP-5686 is an edible heuristic. SCP-5686 can be actualized through extended contemplation. While physically SCP-5686 occupies no space, nor contains any matter, it can be interacted with as a solid object of no discernible appearance. When in this state, SCP-5686 will disappear if it ceases to touch a human body.\nIf ingested, subjects report a successful internalization of the method, and profess feeling capable of facing their fears. SCP-5686 ingestion has proven useful in treating chronic depression and anxiety disorders, as well as stress-related health issues.\nSCP-5686 is real if you want it to be.\nA heuristic is a process by which a human can \"shortcut\" their thinking, and thus create easier paths for problem solving. For example, the representativeness heuristic (debuting in Judgment Under Certainty: Heuristics & Biases by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, published in 1974) is the process by which the brain can assess what category an object might fit into based on its similarity to other objects in that group.\nSCP-5686 was first seen in a self-help magazine titled \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 in 2002. The article introducing SCP-5686, written by A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 (PoI-5686), professed that SCP-5686 was \"a necessary addition to the human mind \u2014 a shortcut to clarity in a cluttered world.\" It then called SCP-5686 the hope heuristic: a process by which the brain can assess what solution a fear might have based on the solutions to smaller, similar \u2014 and more familiar \u2014 problems. A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 claimed he knew that SCP-5686 was \"unnatural\", but could be easily learned and internalized.\nSCP-5686 is a method by which to feel calm.\nSCP-5686 fails to accommodate for edge-cases. There is no method by which to ingest SCP-5686 if the subject must be tube-fed nutrients, as it immediately disappears when not touching a human body. Similar complications to the digestive tracts of subjects have proven capable of negating SCP-5686's calming effects.\nNonetheless, before Foundation involvement, public response to SCP-5686 was overwhelmingly positive. A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 saw little criticism from public figures, and suffered only a few essay critiques from members of the psychological community, none of which gained traction. During the process of amnestic distribution and debasing claims of SCP-5686's existence, it was found that a substantial number of SCP-5686's most vocal supporters were incapable of ingesting SCP-5686 themselves.\nSCP-5686 is weightless.\nThough subjects claim to be able to feel and sometimes even see SCP-5686, it can not be measured. It has been found that subjects who know that SCP-5686 has no mass prior to ingestion may sometimes be incapable of experiencing its effects. If told after ingestion, subjects may feel empty. In rare cases, subjects may experience a violent reaction, often including vomiting and skin irritation.\nThose who successfully ingest SCP-5686 and are never made fully aware of SCP-5686's properties usually experience genuine improvement of life circumstances through their own efforts. SCP-5686's properties have so far been recorded to last as long as three decades (at which point the subject expired of heart failure).\nSCP-5686 only works on certain types of people.\nA\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was apprehended and questioned by the Foundation in 2003. When asked how he created SCP-5686, he instead said that he discovered it. A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 refused to elaborate on where. A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 confirmed that he had ingested SCP-5686, and experienced its beneficial properties.\nIn an attempt to disinfect A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 before amnesticizing and releasing him, A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was made aware of SCP-5686's properties regarding weight, mass, and incompatibility. However, A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 did not report emptiness, nor did he experience a violent reaction. When asked how, A\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 D\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 said that he was \"aware of the difference between what is real and what is useful.\"\nSCP-5686 is a tool.\nIngesting SCP-5686 is an exercise in ignorance and naivety. When subjects who had been enlightened to its properties were asked if they wished they hadn't been informed, 80% said no. The remaining 20% professed unease, and wished that there was a way they could go back to being \"in the dark.\" So far, no such method has been uncovered.\nSCP-5686 is unreliable. SCP-5686, by its very nature, is incapable of helping those it is intended to help most. SCP-5686's existence is fragile. SCP-5686 is worth examining, but is incapable of being examined. SCP-5686's purpose is futile.\nSCP-5686 made me a promise.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5685 | SCP-5686 | SCP-5687 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Artist's Rendering of SCP-5687. A lower level thaumaturgical energy has been observed to emanate from accurate renderings, though it does not display significant anomalous properties.\n\nItem #: SCP-5687\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5687-2 is to be staffed at all times by at least one Foundation agent taking on the role of \"concierge\". They are to provide information to SCP-5687-2 entrants via video presentation.\nUpon entry, all entrants to SCP-5687-2 will be presented with a choice of four objects:\n\nHandcuffs. Entrants who choose this will be brought to Secure Facility 32-C for containment.\nAn identification keycard. Entrants who choose this will be taken to Site-33 for orientation and exams to determine their most fitting position as Foundation staff.\nA spyglass. Entrants who choose this will be turned over to GoI-59171 agents who will transport them to their final destination.\nA map. Entrants who choose this are to be instructed to open the map and speak the words: \u201cmain office.\u201d\n\nNo entrants are permitted to leave. Hostile entrants are to be restrained until they have made their formal choice. Failure of entrants to comply will result in the handcuffs as an automatic choice.\nThe use of amnestics on entrants is strictly prohibited.\nSee addendums below for logs of previous containment efforts.\nDescription: SCP-5687 is an insignia of an eye flanked by two feathered wings. The insignia is roughly 30 cm in length and 10 cm in height. Text in Hebrew below the eye roughly translates to \"Right and True\". SCP-5687 is only visible to individuals who have been granted access to SCP-5687-2; those with access to SCP-5687-2 have been estimated to comprise approximately 5% of the population, almost all of these people being civilians with academic or investigative backgrounds.\nSCP-5687's location varies, although it is consistently found on flat surfaces in locations with human activity.\nSCP-5687's method of relocation was initially unknown, however, after several attempts to contain it, it has been noted that SCP-5687-2A is responsible for its frequent movement. (See Addenda.)\nEntrants access SCP-5687-2 by cupping a hand over SCP-5687 or within 1 meter of it on the surface where it is located. SCP-5687 and its accompanying surface will then dissipate, revealing an entrance to SCP-5687-2.\nOnce an entrance has been opened, any individual may enter, even if they were not able to perceive SCP-5687. Only thaumaturgically sensitive recording equipment is able to capture images of SCP-5687.\nSCP-5687-2 is a retail bodega arranged similarly to those commonly found on Earth. The products found in the bodega include, but are not limited to:\n\nPeriodicals.\nVarious food products, not all of which are intended for human consumption.\nClothing themed after GoI-5917, the Wandsmen.\n\nContents of the periodicals available within SCP-5687-2 range from the mundane, to information purporting to be from other dimensions, to highly classified information from the Foundation database. It is currently unknown how this information was obtained.\nDirectly in the center of SCP-5687-2 is a magazine titled, \u2018The Wandsmen's Gazette', which is held in a locked glass box reinforced with a wire frame and protected with currently unidentified runes.\nSCP-5687-2's main retail lobby is managed by SCP-5687-2A.\nSCP-5687-2A is a bipedal avian creature with features similar to owls (Strigiformes). It stands at approximately 3 meters. SCP-5687-2A's wings have another pair of talons to mimic the usage of human hands. It theoretically is capable of flight, but this has not been observed directly.\nDiscovery: SCP-5687 was discovered in Sunset River, Florida, when high quantities of Aspect radiation were detected leaking from dehydrated corpses. The bodies were all identified as civilians who had ties to human trafficking rings. CCTV Video footage recorded a male civilian, later identified as 16-year-old Johnny Davis, performing thaumaturgic rites on these victims. Davis is now designated PoI-5687.\nAddendum-5687:\nDispatched Foundation Agents located and attempted to capture PoI-5687. PoI-5687 escaped via vanishing through the newly discovered SCP-5687.\nVideo log added below.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 4/28/2021\nNOTE: Initial apprehension attempt.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n<Agents Richards and Peters sit in their car outside Sunset River Mall's food court at night, near closing.>\nRichards: I have a visual.\n<PoI-5687 is working at the nearby McDonalds, currently mopping.>\nPeters: Should be another\u2026<He looks at his watch.> twenty minutes.\n<Twenty minutes pass and PoI-5687 clocks out and walks towards his car, near which Richards and Peters are currently parked.>\nRichards: Now.\n<Richards and Peters get out of their car and quickly approach PoI-5687.>\nRichards: Johnathan Davis?\n<PoI-5687 quickly turns around, surprised.>\nPoI-5687: Yes? A-and who are you guys?\n<Richards flashes a badge.>\nRichards: Officer Richards and Officer Peters. Come with us.\nPoI-5687: Whoa, whoa, whoa, am I under arrest?!\nPeters: Yes. Come with us. Now.\n<PoI-5687 turns, faces his car and pauses a moment. The front left tire has been locked by a car boot.>\nPoI-5687: <Whispers.> Shit!\nRichards: Just make it easy for us, son. It'll make it easy for you, too.\n<PoI-5687 immediately sprints past Richards and Peters, who give chase. He runs to the entrance and attempts to pry it open, failing. He notices Richards and Peters rapidly approaching and he runs left towards the employee entrance instead. Richards and Peters turn around the corner and see PoI-5687 open a half-rotting cardboard box and jump inside, disappearing in a bright flash of light.>\nPeters: What the fuck?\nRichards: Ho-ly jesus. I was\u2026not expecting that.\nPeters: Alright, so, fun fact; kid's not a reality bender.\nRichards: But he's still a problem.\nPeters: I'll call Command.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nInitial Investigation notes:\nInitial examination of SCP-5687 showed it had a very distinctive thaumaturgic signature typically associated with GOI-5917. However, when the box was transported to Site-33 for further examination by Foundation Researchers, the marking on the box vanished, and no Aspect radiation could be found on it.\nSCP-5687 was detected two days later on a brick wall inside a shopping center in southern Milwaukee.\nField Agents secured the area, Researcher Barnum from Site-33 was assigned as head of the investigation. He found no records of any thaumaturgical working associated with the Symbol.\nSubject D-2348 was told to touch SCP-5687 and report his findings. No changes were observed.\nResearcher Barnum then attempted to examine the symbol using a simple thaumaturgic ritual. However as he touched the symbol to begin the ritual, SCP-5687 reformed itself into a stone doorway which promptly opened to a darkened stairway leading down.\nAddendum-5687-2:\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 5/21/2021\nNOTE: Investigation conducted via reconnaissance drone.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n<The drone hovers slowly down the stairs, panning back and forth as it travels. Night vision camera reveals several rows of bookshelves, with many of the titles written in unknown languages.>\n<Upon reaching the bottom step, its propellers cease functioning due to an electrical short.>\n<Camera continues to record a large pair of talons slowly walking towards it.>\nUnknown Entity: Why don't you just come down and have a chat?\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum-5687-3:\nAfter the initial failure of Drone Reconnisance, Researcher Barnum requested an exploration of the structure by Mobile Task Forces.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 5/22/2021\nNOTE: Investigation conducted by MTF Sigma-2 (\"Corn Watchers\").\nVIDEO SOURCE: Lead Agent Singh's helmet camera.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSingh: Alright team, as this is an Indoor op, we'll be joined by-\nAgent Wells: Woo! The Falcon is flying again!\nAgent Grant: It's good to have you back old man.\nAgent Singh: Yes, yes, we're all glad Agent Briggs2 is back on field duty. Agent Briggs, can you brief us on GOI-5917?\nAgent Briggs: Yes ma'am, I reckon most of you know the look of what kinds of creatures we're expecting to encounter.\n<Agent Briggs is seen gesturing to himself.>\nAgent Briggs: From a combat standpoint, they're tough to take down. They can also fly, and generally they're capable of thaumaturgical workings. However, the only time GOI-5917 attacked us directly was during a failed prison break of SCP-5946, and no casualties were reported from the encounter.\n<Agent Briggs is seen scratching at the back of his elongated neck with his talons.>\nAgent Briggs: It sounds like these\u2026 people just want to have a conversation with us. Don't shoot unless you need to, but I would definitely keep your guard up.\nAgent Singh: Sound advice. Agent Briggs will be taking point. We don't know how electronics are going to be affected down there so everyone has been issued chemical lighting as well. Form up!\n< An exploration team consisting of Agents Singh, Grant, Briggs and Wells forms up at the door.>\n<Agent Briggs opens the stone door and turns on his head lamp.>\n<The team proceeds to advance. The space is lit now and appears to be a large convenience store with an unusually large book and periodical section. Sitting behind a folding table set up in the middle of the store is a large avian creature3 designated SCP-5687-2A. The creature gestures to chairs at the other side of the table.>\nSCP-5687-2A: I would offer you all tea, but I know you wouldn't drink it\u2026 Are the guns really necessary?\nAgent Singh: We have reason to believe you're harboring someone who has killed three people, so yes.\nSCP-5687-2A: I would hardly call those book burning slavers \"people\", but fair enough.\n<It rotates its head to Agent Briggs>\nSCP-5687-2A: You must be the 4th Wandsman of Earth. I don't suppose you've reconsidered our offer?\n<Agent Briggs tenses.>\nAgent Briggs. I told that Arbiter of yours and now I'm telling you. My family is here.\nSCP-5687-2A: Really? Was that poor soul you had test out the doorbell \"family\" too? You know she hardly deserved the death penalty in my opinion, not that anyone really does. Her husband was beating her, of course she'd fight back. And then the judge just wanted to look tough on cri-.\nAgent Singh: Enough! What is the purpose of this facility, and where is our murder suspect?\nSCP-5687-2A: This \"facility\" as you call it is meant to provide, in exchange for a small modicum of gossip, all of the information that your organization has decided to restrict from the public. We are journalists after all.\nAgent Singh: \u2026 So you've been handing out classified information?\nSCP-5687-2A: I have been teaching that which is vital to allow the citizens of your planet to defend themselves. There are large numbers of \"anomalous\" predators surrounding them that render them utterly powerless. It seems necessary for us to assist them, as your organization has not had a history of reliable protection.\nAgent Briggs: I don't think blood sacrifices are protecting anyone.\nSCP-5687-2A Your \"family\" strongly disagrees 4th, ask them about the Stag someti-\n<Johnny Davis enters swiftly from a room in the back of the sales floor.>\nJohnny: Miss 14th! Mom is-.\n<All MTF agents immediately raise their weapons at the 16 year old.>\n<Johnny immediately puts his hands behind his head.>\nJohnny: Please\u2026 Just let me help her.\n<SCP-5687-2A enters the frame once more, sprinting to the back room with a large tome in its claws.>\n<Agent Singh starts chasing after it.>\nAgent Singh: Briggs, with me! Grant, secure the ki-\n<Agent Singh opens the back door to reveal SCP-5687-2A playing a soft song on a set of panpipes, apparently reading the music out of the book she was carrying.>\n<It appears to be playing the song for a convulsing woman in a hospital bed. The soft beep of a heart monitor is heard slowly reducing in frequency as the woman slowly comes to rest.>\n<SCP-5687-2A stops playing and lifts the woman's hospital gown, revealing that her leg shows serious signs of bruising and is covered in large lumps.>\nSCP-5687-2A: Blast it all, they should have stayed put for longer\u2026\nAgent Briggs: What\u2026 What's happening to her?\n<SCP-5687-2A shakes its head.>\nSCP-5687-2A: Johnny bought his mother some life, but these rats are far too hungry.\nAgent Singh: \u2026 We're taking you, the boy, and this woman into custody.\n<SCP-5687-2A glares at her.>\nSCP-5687-2A: You know, I rather think I've wasted enough hospitality on you monsters. Good day.\n<SCP-5687-2A claps its talons together.>\n<After .3 seconds of static, the video feed returns, showing the team back in the secured shopping center. The doorway has vanished.>\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum-5687-4:\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 4/24/2021\nNOTE: A member of GoI-5917 appeared in Site-33 Director Nakamura's office and requested an impromptu negotiation, identifying itself under the title, \"Fourth Wandswoman of Chelon.\" The entity appears to have utilized an instance of SCP-5917 in order to evade security.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n<Fourth Wandswoman of Chelon appears in Nakamura's office, an unfurled map in its claws. It rolls it up and slips it inside a coat pocket.>\nWandswoman: Hello, Director. How do you do? <It tips its bowler hat and curtsies.>\nNakamura: \u2026So you basically do the anomalous equivalent of breaking and entering and then take the time to act proper?\nWandswoman: <Chuckles.> It's not like I expected to be let in through the front door. Anywho, I'll make this brief, Director. There are a lot of tensions between our two factions and I'd like to broker a peace deal.\nNakamura: You're actively disseminating dangerous knowledge to the general populace and you turned one of my men into\u2026one of you. I'm not sure how you think you can get any leverage with me.\nWandswoman: Director, please\u2014\nNakamura: And you're giving a high schooler the power to siphon life force and put it in someone else.\nWandswoman: That poor boy's mother is dying! It's not a human disease either. Really, we're the best doctors he's got. Look, I know we're not on a first name basis, but I know you at least have a heart, unlike most people who work here.\nNakamura: Hm. I care, but it doesn't give me or you the right to give some kid anomalous items. But I know you're not here to talk about that. What do you want?\nWandswoman: Look Director\u2026 I know that interactions between our two factions haven't been the best. I'm here to offer a diplomatic solution to our problems. The last thing either of us want is to spill more blood from either your personnel or my siblings. I know of a peaceful conclusion we can reach.\nNakamura: \u2026I'm listening.\nWandswoman: Alright. You and I technically are on the same side\u2014\nNakamura: Doing everything you can to shatter the Veil hardly aligns with our goal. But continue.\nWandswoman: Our methods may be different, but in the end, we both serve to preserve knowledge.\nNakamura: No. You gather knowledge and sell it.\nWandswoman: We're not Marshall, Carter, and Dark, Director. The only profit we want from this is simply more knowledge.\nNakamura: Well, you have knowledge. Keep it to yourself. The Veil stays.\nWandswoman: Actually, about that. <It pulls out a seat and gestures.> May I?\n<Nakamura nods; the wandswoman sits down.>\nWandswoman: The Veil\u2026you do know that maintaining it is pointless, right? You already receive countless warning signs on a daily basis. Containment breaches, new anomalies being found everyday, more of that knowledge-deleting toxic poison you force people to breath in just because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.\nNakamura: Mistakes happen. We cover them up. Whatever hole appears in the Veil, we patch it.\nWandswoman: But they don't stay patched forever. That Veil is going to shatter soon. Far sooner than you think.\nNakamura: \u2026What aren't you telling me?\nWandswoman: This is the closest I've ever come to begging. <It reaches over slowly and puts a 'hand' over Nakamura's.> Listen to me. We have a lot of common enemies. Far, far more than you think. <It leans forward and whispers.> I really don't want us to antagonize each other. We really are on each other's side, despite the differing idealogies.\nNakamura: <Slowly moves hand away from the wandswoman's talons.> What's your proposal, then?\nWandswoman: You don't care about people knowing things, as long as they don't know them 'here.' We don't care about where people know things, as long as they know things. We can make a compromise.\nNakamura: And that would be?\nWandswoman: People find our shop, we take them away. They can join us or we can put them somewhere on an alien planet where an arbitrary Veil doesn't exist. You make people disappear all the time, so this really is no different.\nNakamura: If the Veil shatters\u2014\nWandswoman: When, Director.\nNakamura: If it happens, you'll bring these people back, right?\nWandswoman: Of course.\nNakamura: Very well. I'll need to discuss this proposal with the O5 Council. Admittedly, I'm more intrigued than I thought I would be.\n<Nakamura gets up. The wandswoman does so as well.>\nWandswoman: Thank you, Director. <It holds out a claw, presumably for a 'handshake'.>\nNakamura: Don't thank me. Just because we reached an agreement now doesn't mean we won't be enemies later.\nWandswoman: <It slowly lowers its hand and looks down at the ground.> I\u2026know earning your trust won't be an easy feat, but this is a good start. That's worth something.\nNakamura: Perhaps.\n<The wandswoman takes its map out of its pocket and unfurls it.>\nWandswoman: Good day, Director.\n<It vanishes.>\n\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum-5687-5:\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 5/25/2021\nNOTE: Anomalous Ritual Conducted by GoI-5917, aided by Foundation assets\nVIDEO SOURCE:\nThe following recording was generated by what SCP-5687-2A described as \u201cA Ritual of Choice\u201d.\nThe recording seems to show the ritual from the perspective of Latisha Davis, with viewers somehow \"knowing\" what she is feeling.\nIt does not appear possible to record a transcript of this ritual without her perspective. Currently no available method has been found that is able to disentangle this perspective from any audio, video, or written account of these events.\nThe reason for these anomalous attributes is currently under investigation. However, the transcript's anomalous properties have been deemed safe by Foundation thaumaturgists.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n<You wake up. You are in terrible pain, but you feel more lucid than you have in a long time.>\nLatisha: Wha\u2026 Where? Oh\u2026 god\u2026\n<You spot a giant owl in a pantsuit at the bottom of the bed. You try to cry out, but your throat is too sore.>\n<The giant owl notices you stirring, its head swiveling around to face you just like in videos. It reaches out and holds a covered cup with a straw to your face.>\n<You scrabble back, or try to\u2026 the pain is excruciating\u2026>\nOwl Monster: Try not to move if you can help it, you're still not well. Please, I swear on my name, it's just water. You are as safe here as you can be anywhere.\n<It's amazing how much madness you're willing to accept when you know you're about to die. You suck on the straw. The owl wasn't lying.>\n<You drink your fill. Your throat is still sore, but much better than before.>\nLatisha: Thank you\u2026 Where am I? Wha- who are you?\nOwl: I suppose I must look strange given how long you've lived in the dark. I'm the Fourteenth Wandswoman of the planet Tell. My name is\u2026Frasia. You've earned it. And the Foundation is bound to figure it out eventually anyway.\n<You have so many questions, but for some reason you just say the first thing that pops in your head>\nLatisha: Frasia\u2026 That's pretty.\n<You swear, you see the owl smile.>\nFrasia: I can see why Johnny's so devoted to you.\n<Johnny! How had you forgotten? A hundred questions start pouring out of your mouth.>\nLatisha: Where is he? Is he alright? Can I see-\n<You start coughing. Frasia offers you the water again, but you bat it away with your face. It makes your head swim, but you don't care.>\nLatisha: Frasia! Where is Johnny!?\n<Frasia puts the cup down and pulls back a curtain beside you. You're overcome with relief. There you see Johnny, lying down on a couch with his earbuds in. He's grown so much, but he always looks so small when he's asleep.>\nFrasia: He tired himself out.\n<Frasia picks up a blanket off a nearby table scattered with supplies and gently drapes it over your baby.>\nFrasia: Fear not, he's never far.\n<Oh god, you're a terrible mother\u2026 You should be the one taking care of him, not\u2026 but you've just been so tired and it hurts so much\u2026>\nLatisha: Why are we here? What's going on?\nFrasia: Johnny found me and asked for my help treating your illness. He's been staying with me for some time while I've healed you\u2026 I'm not a doctor, exactly, but I know a lot. And I fear you would have lost your life several times over if he hadn't brought you to me.\n<Frasia looks away for a moment.>\nFrasia: I can't take credit for waking you up though. I have some\u2026 \u201cacquaintances\u201d who are quite skilled with painkillers and stimulants. They have some experience with making people in your situation more\u2026 lucid. At least for a time.\n<Your head swims. This is a lot to process for a lot of reasons.>\nLatisha: How much time do I have?\nFrasia: Enough to make a decision. I'm afraid your time living in the mundane world you knew is over, but you need not stay in it.\n<Frasia waves a hand and suddenly you see an office filled with people all examining some sort of strange, tentacled dog creature together and making notes.>\nFrasia: Your first option is to join the SCP Foundation. They're a group that seeks to protect the Earth from things that would try to destroy it. They are\u2026complicated, but as strongly as I disagree with some of their methods, they genuinely want to help. They have enough technology to keep you alive for some time, though I can't say how long.\n<You think about that. This definitely isn't the first time you've seen something you couldn't explain. And you know what's in your legs isn't normal. None of the doctors knew what to make of it\u2026 If these were the Men in Black, were they your best shot at living long enough to see your son graduate?>\nLatisha: You said I had other options?\n<Frasia nods, she spreads her wings once more and the image of a strange massive tree covered in large, but not so scary looking lizards appears in your mind. They're moving crates up and down the tree, and talking to some people in a large hollow lined with stone.>\nFrasia: You second option is to become a colonist on another planet. The sapient beings there would have technology that could aid in healing you, but I admit it's a frontier world. If you were healthy I would reccommend it as a wonderful adventure, but as you are\u2026\nLatisha: I get it\u2026 It sounds nice for some folk, but I don't think it's for me. What's next?\n<The image fades and Frasia Weaves you a new one. You see yourself strapped to a table, with furious notes being taken. You see the doctors around you monitoring your vitals and dissecting the rat things they take out of you.>\nFrasia: This one is like the first option, but with you having considerably less freedom. Rather than joining the Foundation, you become one of the things it contains. It means they would likely devote more energy to studying your illness though, it may even increase your chance for a cure, but I wouldn't count on having much\u2026 agency under their care.\n<You get a sinking feeling in your gut. Had Frasia put the only good option at the start?>\nLatisha: Is there any other option?\nFrasia: Yes\u2026 Though I don't want to minimize the price of it.\n<The image in your mind fades once more and you see yourself standing in a massive library filled with bird creatures like Frasia. You feel a strange sense of family and purpose to the place\u2026 but it has the strangest undertone of doubt.>\nFrasia: Your final option, and this is the option that gives you the best chance of survival by far, is to become one of us. The Wandsmen are a team of interdimensional reporters that seek to preserve knowledge and life. Your body will be strengthened greatly and the parasites inside you will flee from it\u2026 But you won't be human anymore.\n<Frasia looks\u2026 strangely defeated.>\nFrasia: I know it sounds silly, worrying about what you see in the mirror when dimensions are crumbling around you, but\u2026 You have to rebuild your sense of self after something like that, even though your mind doesn't change. It's not pleasant.\n<You grit your teeth. There's really only one answer here.>\nLatisha: How do I become like you?\n<Frasia looks at you, surprised.>\nFrasia: Latisha, are you sur-\nLatisha: Frasia, I've got a kid to look after. If this is my best chance to stick around to protect him, then I have to take it.\n<Frasia seems to consider this\u2026 She nods. She reached behind her and hands you some sort of\u2026 Scroll?>\nFrasia: If you're sure about this, then all you need to do is open the scroll and speak the words \u201cMain Office\u201d. That will start the process, though you'll need to travel the roads a bit more to finish it.\n<You look at the roll of paper in front of you. It feels old, and heavy in your hand. You know this whole thing is crazy, but you don't know what else to try\u2026>\nLatisha: Will it hurt?\n<Frasia looks down. She nods.>\n<You take in a deep breath that strains your damaged lungs and let out a long sigh.>\nLatisha: Well\u2026 Guess I gotta take my shots.\n<Frasia remains silent.>\nLatisha:\u2026 Main Office.\n\nEnd log\n\nFootnotes\n1. A group of interdimensional reporters referring to themselves as \"The Wandsmen\". Their core motives and objectives remain unclear. Notably all members undergo transformation into anomalous avian entities.\n2. Agent Briggs had previously undergone a transformation into a vulture like creature during a search and rescue operation. See SCP-5917 logs for details.\n3. The creature is similar in size and stature to Agent Briggs, though it resembles a member of the Strigiformes order.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5686 | SCP-5687 | SCP-5688 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5688\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5688 is to be stored in a sealed containment unit located at Site-22, and kept under surveillance at all times. All reality destabilization events which occur within this containment unit are to be logged for future analysis. In the event that maintenance of this containment chamber is required, SCP-5688 is to be removed from the unit prior to personnel entering.\nAll research proposals involving SCP-5688 must be authorized by Dr. Henrik before being enacted.\nDescription: SCP-5688 is a giant human hand, three meters in height and one meter in width, which was unearthed by Foundation personnel during scheduled underground expansion of Site-22. The area around SCP-5688 is subject to extreme and sudden destabilization of reality, with no known indicators preceding these events. It is currently unknown how Site-22 escaped being affected by these reality destabilization events prior to SCP-5688's discovery.\nPeriodically, SCP-5688 will twitch and spasm. This behaviour does not appear to correspond to any specific stimuli.\n\nAddendum 5688-1 (Testing Log):\nThe following is a record of specific tests undertaken in order to measure the specific forms that reality destabilization events surrounding SCP-5688 take. A full record of all tests is not available upon request from the Site-22 archive.\n\nTest 5688-1\nTesting Personnel: D-94911\nStimuli: D-94911 is instructed to shine a flashlight on SCP-5688 in order to measure its effects on light.\nResult: No result when flashlight is shone upon SCP-5688. However, when it is subsequently shone upon the far wall of the containment chamber, a shadow resembling a spiral is briefly visible.\n\nTest 5688-2\nTesting Personnel: D-49264\nStimuli: D-49264 is ordered to make physical contact with SCP-5688.\nResult: D-49264's left hand (which was not making physical contact with SCP-5688) shrinks rapidly until it is no longer visible. Once removed from the vicinity of SCP-5688, the hand returns to its normal size.\n\nTest 5688-3\nTesting Personnel: D-99134\nStimuli: D-99134 is ordered to strike SCP-5688 with a sledgehammer.\nResult: D-99134 strikes SCP-5688 with a sledgehammer with no visible result. Two days later, D-99134 is found dead in his sleeping quarters with his tongue twisted into a spiral shape. Security recordings show no unusual phenomena during the night.\n\nTest 5688-4\nTesting Personnel: D-22131\nStimuli: D-22131 is ordered to fire upon SCP-5688 with a handgun.\nResult: D-22131 fires upon SCP-5688. Alarmed by the sudden gunshot, D-22131 returns fire and shoots D-22131 in the stomach, causing severe injuries that result in their death shortly afterwards. D-22131 is safely retrieved from the containment chamber and treated for shock.\n\nText 5688-5\nTesting Personnel: D-591134\nStimuli: D-591134 is ordered to wash the blood off of SCP-5688 using a hose.\nResult: Upon the water making contact with SCP-5688, D-591134 violently explodes, showering the containment chamber and SCP-5688 with blood and viscera.\n\nText 5688-6\nTesting Personnel: D-591134\nStimuli: D-591134 is ordered to wash the blood off of SCP-5688 using a hose.\nResult: Nothing happens, and continues happening.\n\nAddendum 5688-2 (Interview Log)\nThe following is a record of Dr. Henrik's attempt to ascertain whether SCP-5688 possesses any form of sapience - and if so, what level of control it has over the reality destabilization events that occur in its vicinity.\nInterviewer: Dr. Henrik\nInterviewee: SCP-5688\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Dr. Henrik simply steps over it and enters SCP-5688's containment chamber, remaining at a safe distance. He begins reading from a list of questions.)\nDr. Henrik: Hello. Can you understand me?\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Are you aware of where you are right now? Please, uh, twitch once for yes.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Do you know who I am?\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Can you hear me?\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: (sighs) This is pointless. What level of control, if any -\n(SCP-5688 twitches.)\nDr. Henrik: (loudly) Hello? Are you there?\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Damn it.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Well, uh, that's all she wrote, I suppose. We're done here.\n(Dr. Henrik turns and leaves the containment chamber.)\n<End Log>\n(Dr. Henrik enters the observation chamber, breathing deeply and rubbing his temples. His coworker, Junior Researcher Darnell, looks up at him sympathetically from his seat.)\nJunior Researcher Darnell: Well, it was always a long-shot, sir.\nDr. Henrik: I know, I know - it's just that I thought we had something there, when it twitched, you know?\nJunior Researcher Darnell: With all due respect, Doctor, it does that all the time. I don't think we should read that much into it. Anyway, you're done for the day?\nDr. Henrik: (yawns) What? No. We've got plenty more work to get done today.\nJunior Researcher Darnell: (laughs) The thing is, sir, I've just received a message from the Site Director. I've been ordered to order you to go home and get some rest.\n(Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Well, I suppose if it's an order.\nJunior Research Darnell: Grab some shut-eye before you end up collapsing, Doc.\nDr. Henrik: Yeah, yeah. Guess I'm clocking off then.\n(Dr. Henrik walks to the observation chamber exit. Normally, this door is locked, but it's okay: Dr. Henrik has a key-card with access. He swipes it and leaves the room, entering the hallway outside. He begins walking towards the main entrance, passing Dr. Car\u00e8 as he goes. Dr. Car\u00e8 smiles at him.)\n(Dr. Henrik enters the main entrance chamber and approaches the security desk.)\nSecurity Officer Graham: (sat at reception desk) Heading out, sir?\nDr. Henrik: Apparently.\nSecurity Officer Graham: (laughs) Man, I hear that.\n(Security Officer Graham presses the spiral key on his keyboard and the main door unlocks.)\nSecurity Officer Graham: Signed you out, sir. Drive safe, okay?\n(Dr. Henrik steps out of the main entrance of Site-22 and blinks blearily, rubbing his hands together as a result of the unexpected cold. It's midnight out in the desert, with the moon shining in the sky like a spiral.)\n(This man approaches his car. Normally, it would be locked, but that's okay: he has his car keys. He unlocks the car door and flops down in the front seat. He doesn't notice what's in the back.)\n(Dr. Henrik starts the car and begins driving home to his house. It's a long drive - it looks like the white sand of the desert stretches on forever. He doesn't notice what's in the back.)\n(He passes a billboard advertising a local small claims lawyer. You've seen that kind of advertisement before, haven't you? The lawyer's name is Mr. Carson, and his eyes are like spirals as he follows the car's progress down the highway.)\nDr. Henrik: (That man's car hits a bump in the road.) Shit.\n(The headlights of the car twist outwards like a spiral, illuminating Dr. Henrik's house. The white sand of the desert seem to stretch on forever, and there's nothing else. The house is three stories tall, and the lights are on.)\n(Dr. Henrik gets out of the car and tightens his coat around himself. It's so cold.)\n(He knocks on the front door of his house. A woman, Dr. Henrik's Wife, answers the door. Her facial features are circumvoluted.)\nDr Henrik: Hello. Can I come in?\nDr. Henrik's Wife: (Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Can you understand me?\nDr. Henrik's Wife: (Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: Do you \u2026 do you know who I am?\nDr. Henrik's Wife: (Pause.)\nDr. Henrik: (sighs) This is pointless. Please, can I -\n(Dr. Henrik's Wife slams the door shut.)\n(Dr. Henrik unlocks the front door and walks into his house, yawning and stretching. He doesn't notice what's in the back.)\nDr. Henrik: (laughing, but a bit nervously, like when you don't want to admit you're unsettled) Mary, you won't believe the kind of day I've had today.\n(Mary has left the television on. The film Revolutions is on.)\nDr. Henrik: (annoyed) Ah, Jesus.\n(Dr. Henrik turns the television off and begins climbing up the stairs towards the bedroom.)\nDr. Henrik: Mary, you left the TV on again! Electricity doesn't pay for itself, you know!\n(Dr. Henrik opens the door of his daughter Mary's bedroom. When he sees that she is fast asleep, he can't bring himself to wake her up to tell her off. He quietly closes the door again. He doesn't notice what's in the back.)\n(Dr. Henrik rubs his eyes.)\nDr. Henrik: (quietly) No rest for the wicked.\n(He walks to his bedroom and opens the door. He takes off his clothes and gets into his single bed. He turns out the lights.)\n(He doesn't notice I am in the back.)\n(I step out of the back. My limbs twist like a spiral and my head tolls like a pendulum. I slowly approach Dr. Henrik's bed, where he is gently sleeping. His eyes are closed. I raise up a counter-clockwise fist. I gurgle.)\n(Dr. Henrik opens his eyes.)\nDr. Henrik: (shouts)\n(I bring down my fist on Dr. Henrik's head as he tries to jump out of bed. The first blow disorients him, and he collapses to the floor as blood drips from the small crater in his skull. As a result, he can't do much about the second or third blows, which leave him face down on his favourite carpet, which rapidly undergoes a change in colouration. Now he is gurgling too.)\n(Little Mary does not wake up.)\n(I clumsily pull back Dr. Henrik's sleeve, revealing his long, thin arm and beautiful, soft hand. Normally, this would be attached to his body, but that's okay: I have a handsaw.)\n(Once I've successfully retrieved the object in question, making my way down the stairs to my backyard. I tread softly so I don't wake up little Mary, who's sleeping so softly.)\n(It's cold outside, and the moon is shining in the sky like a spiral.)\n(I find what I'm looking for: a nest of ants is expanding its nest, white-coated drones and faceless queens hard at work.)\n(Sneakily, stealthily, I bury my prize underneath their nest. I am a giver of gifts. A generous thing. Once they find it, one of the ants begins to approach it. A stray drop of blood makes the approach towards the hand somewhat difficult, however, but that's no problem at all.)\n(Dr. Henrik simply steps over it and enters SCP-5688's containment chamber, remaining at a safe distance. He begins reading from a list of questions.)\n<End Log>\n\n\u00ab SCP-5687 | SCP-5688 | SCP-5689 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5689.\n\nItem Number: 5689\nObject Class/Clearance: Euclid/Four\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5689 is to be cordoned off and removed from local route guidance systems and maps. References to SCP-5689 are to be scrubbed from all media. Two guards are to be posted outside SCP-5689 at all times, and maintenance is regularly performed to ensure the stability of the SEA-CM1 at all times.\nThe SEA-CM is to remain powered up at all times, with regular repairs and system updates. In the event of a SEA-CM overheat, first priority is to ensure there is nothing that exits SCP-5689. Use of any-means-necessary operations are authorized for this purpose.\nDescription: SCP-5689 is a former farmhouse in unincorporated Edmonton, Canada. Intensive searches led to a lack of any identification of an owner, thus making it likely to have been abandoned for a considerable amount of time. SCP-5689's structure mainly consists of rotting wood and rusting metal. The road to the farmhouse shows similar signs of neglect, containing many potholes and ditches. The front door displays a placard that is mostly scratched out. On the placard, a section reading \"Of Abnor\" is the only legible portion remaining.\nIn an approximately 20 meter radius around SCP-5689, no plant life is capable of growing; weeds, old-growth trees, and other types have all died of an unknown blight shortly after being replanted near the farmhouse. Remaining within this radius causes stomach issues such as nausea and indigestion. Reports have stated such effects compound in severity the closer a subject is to the fourth room of SCP-5689.\nThe farmhouse contains five rooms, of which four are accessible. No item inside any room is capable of leaving SCP-5689 via physical means.\nThe first has an extensive pulley and pipe system connected to a large machine which bears resemblance to a blender. Touching the blade of the machine triggers visual and auditory hallucinations, reported by subjects to be similar to the following transcript.\n\n[Nothing can be seen. The entire room is entirely black.]\nUnknown Voice: Fuck this. I can't handle it anymore.\n[Sounds of paper flapping and metal striking wood can be heard.]\nUnknown Voice 2: We did it.\n[Subjects' view is replaced with a grainy, black-and-white view of the room, which appears frozen in time. A figure can be seen standing over a number of papers flying off a desk. Another is in the doorway, holding a large tube with an unknown liquid in its hand.]\n\nA microscope is present on a desk near the blender. The view from its lenses is heavily clouded, and snow has entered through a small hole in the roof.\nThe second has a large network of pipes set into the walls. These connect various rooms in the house, only to meet at a central hub set up with a computer terminal on a desk. No other furniture is in the room. Faded papers and canine bones are laid haphazardly around, implying they were tossed or thrown. Upon touching the terminal for the first time, subjects will experience visual and auditory hallucinations of the following transcript, before returning to normal.\n\n[Only darkness can be seen. A clink can be heard, followed by a sip of an unknown liquid.]\nUnknown Voice: We lost another.\nUnknown Voice 2: Another? How many is that?\nUnknown Voice: Seventy-eight now.\nUnknown Voice 2: It's not fair. No one's going to know.\nUnknown Voice: But that's how it has to be. We'll keep trying until it's perfect. Everyone will be so much better with him.\n[The darkness dissipates, replaced with a grainy and blurry filter, entirely in black and white, preventing detailed viewing of the hallucination, which has stopped moving. Two faded, humanoid figures can be seen sitting on unseen chairs near the terminal, which is idling on a log-in screen. One holds a bottle in its hand.]\n\nThe keyboard of the terminal appears recently used, due to a lack of dust and cobwebs compared to the rest of the room. Many keys are missing or broken. Barks and whimpers of dogs can be heard throughout the room, which increase in volume when the remains are touched.\nThe third has innumerable masses of faded, orange-black slime strewn about the walls and floor of the room, which smells of rotting meat. Two desks are the only furniture in the room. Each has a series of small, sealed, and translucent tubes filled with a similar slime, which attempts to avoid touch when the glass is tapped or held. This slime slightly lessens the emotional effects of the farmhouse itself. Each tube is connected to a large pipe system, which connects to the large machine in the previous room. A number of children's toys are on the floor; they are soiled. A wooden train track set, arranged in a long and winding loop, is on the floor, with arrows crudely carved into it. Slime follows the trail of arrows around the track.\nThe fourth is inaccessible. Touching the rusted, dented door produces an intense smell of rotting meat and rusted metal. Putting an ear to the door produces the sounds of a faint ticking, running water, wet thumps, screams, and hushed sobs. A prototype SEA-CM system is attached to the door. A small label is affixed to it, reading \"NE_ATI_E SINK.\"\nThe fifth consists of a small entrance to an attic. The latch, chains, and opening mechanisms are made out of beryllium bronze, and are forced shut due to a congealed slime similar to that in the third room. Moving closer to the attic causes conflicting feelings of dread, anxiety, fear, and anger in subjects. Attempting to open the latch leads to loud, guttural gurgling noises to be produced from the ceiling.\nWorm-like, reptilian masses of slime with pseudopod-like limbs will then seep from cracks in the ceiling. These fall to the floor, splitting and recombining in an amoeboid fashion. The masses frequently attempt to separate themselves from their limbs, and hiss and recoil from human touch. Eventually, these masses either tear themselves apart, or are eaten by local insects following a series of struggles. Both outcomes result in death of the masses. No mass has survived longer than 30 minutes.\nReports of a smokelike, serpentine creature have been filed, though no sightings have been confirmed.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Subdual of Emotional Anomaly Control Matrix\n\n\u00ab SCP-5688 | SCP-5689 | SCP-5690 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n89.71%\n(+61)\n10.29%\n(-7)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5691\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5691 is to be contained in its entirety in a standard containment locker at Site-81 requiring Level 2 security clearance. SCP-5691-\u03b1-24 and -25 are to be contained in separate containment lockers requiring Level 3 and 4 security clearances respectively to access.\nDescription: SCP-5691 is an old unmarked black briefcase of average size. It contains several pots of paint and a small sphere, hereafter referred to as SCP-5691-\u03b1 and -\u03b2 respectively.\nSCP-5691 appears superficially similar to non-anomalous briefcases, however is able to contain SCP-5691-\u03b2 entirely despite the internal dimensions of the briefcase being smaller than the diameter of the latter. SCP-5691 is also capable of manifesting a new instance of SCP-5691-\u03b2 every 96 hours, replacing the existing sphere if it has not been removed from the briefcase.\nSCP-5691-\u03b1 collectively refers to 25 separate glass paint pots, which are measured to be 10 centimeters deep containing acrylic paint. Despite this, each paint pot can effectively produce an infinite amount of paint, as shown by the constant volume of paint in the pots despite the number of tests conducted.\nThe paint from SCP-5691-\u03b1 does not exhibit any anomalous properties while wet, rather manifesting them when dry. When this occurs, the composition of the painted surface is converted to a mixture of varying amounts of sand, silt and clay consistent with differing types of non-anomalous soils. The extent of conversion depth typically reaches up to 0.5 meters below the surface of the object being painted, and as such, testing of SCP-5691-\u03b1 is to be conducted on a designated outdoor concrete surface at Site-81.\nLocal temperature and humidity within a short distance from the affected area, relative to its surface area, will change to reflect typical conditions in their corresponding climate types. A small artificial gravitational field is also formed during this process and maintained by anomalous means, allowing for SCP-5691-\u03b1-created environments to ignore local gravity and remain \"anchored\" to the affected surfaces.\nShortly after conversion, unidentified minuscule flora and fauna begin to anomalously appear on affected surfaces, with clear adaptations for the type of climate visible. It should be noted that the area of the affected surface is proportional to the size of the organisms that materialize there. Further information on these organisms can be retrieved via the list of observed SCP-5691 entities, available upon request at the Site-81 archive center.\nSCP-5691-\u03b1 can be divided into 25 separate designations, with differing colours and effects.\n\nSCP-5691-\u03b1 instance designation\nDescription\n\n1-10\nVarying shades of green. Application to a surface will result in the formation of a temperate environment. Manifested instances have included tropical rainforests, temperate forests, taigas and savannahs. Local humidity and temperature will vary accordingly. Flora that spawn here may not necessarily contain chlorophyll, despite the colour of the paint used in its creation. Given enough time, these environments tend to exhibit the most biodiversity.\n\n11-20\nVarying shades of yellow and brown. Application to a surface will result in the formation of arid environments, with local temperatures ranging from 70\u00baC to -115\u00baC. Research personnel are advised to prepare protective equipment when testing with SCP-5691-\u03b1-16 up to SCP-5691-\u03b1-20. Few flora and fauna have been recorded in these instances given the extremity of the environment.\n\n21\nGrey. Application to a surface will result in the formation of mountains and hills via spontaneous aggregation of minerals from an unknown source. The elevation of these landforms is mostly inconsistent, and appears to vary at random. Vegetation on these instances tend to be sparse, but show variation within close proximity to other instances.\n\n22-23\nLight and dark blue. Application to a surface will result in the formation of freshwater and saltwater bodies respectively with varying depths. It is noted that the proximity of SCP-5691-\u03b1-22 and -23 to other instances of SCP-5691-\u03b1 and the depth of the body of water formed is typically proportional. Instances of the bodies of water being deeper than the expected conversion depth of 0.5 meters have been recorded.\n\n24\nBright red. Application to a surface will result in the formation of a volcanically active region. Testing with SCP-5691-\u03b1-24 is restricted to personnel with Level 3 clearance and above. Personnel are required to equip fire-proximity suits during testing.\n\n25\nWhite. No effects observed. Heavily alters local Hume levels1.\n\nSCP-5691-\u03b2 has been confirmed to be composed of a silicon-iron composite, and varies in size and mass with each instance. When it is completely covered in paint from SCP-5691-\u03b1, it demanifests completely. Instances of SCP-5691-\u03b2 that are not completely painted do not demanifest, and can be safely contained.\nDespite this, existing infrastructure in Site-81's C Wing do not allow for feasible mass-storage of SCP-5691-\u03b2 instances, and as such, all tests involving SCP-5691-\u03b2 are to ensure that it is completely painted and allowed to de-manifest. Requests to supply the Site-81 break rooms with samples of SCP-5691-\u03b1 and SCP-5691-\u03b22 for recreational purposes are under consideration.\nSCP-5691 was purchased from an estate sale in Giverny, France by Senior Researcher Gachet, who only discovered the briefcase's anomalous property after prying it open. Prior to this, it is believed the item remained within the estate's storerooms for at least 80 years, and most likely has not been opened throughout this period.\nEvent-5691-K23: On 22/05/12, Junior Researcher Danan partially coated SCP-5691-\u03b2 with a sample of SCP-5691-\u03b1-25 during the latter's initial test. As noted in security footage and on-site Hume readings, local Hume levels dropped sharply after 4 minutes, leading to the expiration of Junior Researcher Danan within one of the spontaneously formed pockets of non-linear time before proper containment procedures could be undertaken. The low-Hume area grew to encompass Site-81's C Wing before the on-site Scranton Reality Anchors were activated, restoring local reality to baseline levels and ending the anomalous event, designated Event 5691-K23. Testing on SCP-5691-\u03b1-25 was subsequently discontinued by order of Site Director Nadal. It is currently believed that the SCP-5691-\u03b2 instance present during the test was submerged in one of the pools of SCP-5691-\u03b1-25 formed during the event, and subsequently demanifested.\nEvent 5691-CB09: On 17/03/32, the exoplanet Kepler-2\u2588\u2588\u2588 anomalously disappeared. Closer observation of the exoplanet and its solar system revealed that [REDACTED]. Following this event, a similar exoplanet in a different star system has been designated Kepler-2\u2588\u2588\u2588, with all publicly accessible information pertaining to the original exoplanet and star system updated by Foundation operatives in various prominent astronomical institutions to reflect this revision. The implications and exact nature of the Kepler-2\u2588\u2588\u2588 event are currently under debate by Foundation and GOC astronomical institutions. The former Kepler-2\u2588\u2588\u2588 star system remains under close observation for any secondary anomalous events.\nAddendum 5691-W4: After extensive testing, it is believed instances of SCP-5691-\u03b2 are anomalously linked to existing exoplanets within the Milky Way galaxy. During periodic surveys by Foundation satellites on nearby solar systems, a few exoplanets have been observed to spontaneously undergo transmutation in composition and atmospheric composition. Further observation has confirmed the topology of selected exoplanets to be consistent with tests conducted in previous years.\nAddendum 5691-W6:\nAs of 08/05/33, testing on SCP-5691-\u03b2 has been discontinued permanently, amidst concerns that any SCP-5691-\u03b2 instance may affect Earth, as there is no practical method of determining which exoplanet any such instance may affect. The threat of a GK-class hostile-greenhouse scenario was judged to outweigh any grounds for continued SCP-5691-\u03b2 testing by the O5 council. However, testing on SCP-5691-\u03b1 instances -1 to -23 on non-anomalous surfaces have been permitted due to the potential pharmaceutical applications of the manifested entities.\nAddendum 5691-F22: Following Event 5691-CB09, a letter manifested inside SCP-5691 alongside its anomalous contents, addressed to a Claude \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 (designated PoI-23653). Investigations have thus far been unable to locate or contact PoI-23653, with local records stating that the individual had passed away in 1926. A transcript of the letter, translated from French, can be found below.\n\nDear Claude,\nThat was a pretty long holiday, wasn't it? Have you finally lost your mind? Just what were you thinking? NEVER USE UNDILUTED ARGENT!.\nWe went over this SO MANY TIMES since the last incident, and now you douse the entire canvas in it. I was barely able to convince our buyers that it was one of David's (you know how they love him and his abstract \"modernist\" nonsense) so PLEASE LAY OFF THE [EXPLETIVE] ARGENT.\nIn addition, I am to inform you about the upcoming exhibition in the Pleiades on 30 March 2053. Please bring your best works, and preferably without a third deluge of argent.\nExtremely irritated, Vincent\n\nInvestigations into the identities of Vincent (PoI-23654) and David (PoI-23655), as well as the \"buyers\" identified in the letter are currently ongoing. The Pleiades star cluster has since been designated as a Site of Interest by the Foundation Office of Celestial Anomalies, and remains under close observation for anomalous activity.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Event-5691-K23.\n2. See Addendum 5691-W12."}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5692\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5692 is currently held in a modified humanoid containment chamber at Site-29. The cell has altered temperature/atmospheric conditions to accommodate the subject's physiology, the specifications of which are outlined in Document-5692-11. SCP-5692 is to be fed a concentrated mixture of amino acids, simple sugars, and ionic phosphates every 12-15 hours. The specifications for the preparation of this mixture are outlined in Document-5692-13.\nClass-A amnestics are authorized to be used on all parties associated with the containment of SCP-5692-A instances. Specific methods for the containment of instances of SCP-5629-A are to be determined on a case-by-case basis by participating operatives. Contained instances of SCP-5692-A are to be held in Site-29 with containment conditions appropriate to their physiological needs. These conditions may be determined through research of the subject or by using information provided by the subject. Further information regarding each contained instance of SCP-5692-A can be found on Documents-5692-(37-109).\nResearch into the biology, behavior, and prior activities of SCP-5692 as well as instances of SCP-5692-A are currently being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Verner, head of the Extraterrestrial Anomaly Division of Site-29. Any concerns or inquires regarding the research or containment of SCP-5692 or instances of SCP-5692-A are to be directed to Dr. Verner.\nDescription: SCP-5692 is a slug-like sapient organism of extraterrestrial origin measuring 2.3 m in length and folded backwards at the midpoint of its body to allow its anterior half to be aligned perpendicular to the ground. SCP-5692 possesses a head with a pair of large red eyes, an elongated, tube-shaped mouthpart, and two clusters of small pores on either side designed to facilitate respiration. SCP-5692 possesses a pair of stalk-like organs on either side of its torso, each ending in a round, sensitive organ capable of sprouting a number of flexible mycelium-like protrusions at will. The protrusions have been confirmed by SCP-5692 to be a means of reproduction and environmental manipulation. SCP-5692 is a dull orange in colour with dark and light countershading similar to many marine animals.\nSCP-5692 was recovered on October \u2588\u2588, 2014 from a small cabin in a forest near \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Oregon after several reports of UFO activity in the region were investigated by Foundation operatives. The incident was contained without incident and upon being confronted by operatives, SCP-5692 surrendered willingly into Foundation custody. SCP-5692 has been cooperative with Foundation staff since its containment and appears to answer most inquiries with sincerity.\nSCP-5692 is able to communicate using of a small electronic device embedded directly in its nervous system at the point where the structures analogous to a brain and ocular nerves meet. According to SCP-5692, the device is a translator capable of processing various methods of visual communication, including written words and the movement of lips, and directly implanting the abstract concepts they represent into the brain of SCP-5692.\nThis device is also capable of converting the thoughts of SCP-5692 into audible words and/or holographic projections of written language using a speaker/holographic emitter located directly below the skin between its eyes. Using this device, SCP-5692 can understand the top 250 most common spoken and written languages on Earth as well as several hundred forms of extraterrestrial communication. SCP-5692 claims that due to its placement, removal of this device would instantly result in its death. Removal of this device for further study is not authorized.\nSCP-5692 is responsible for the integration of fifty to fifty-five extraterrestrial lifeforms, designated instances of SCP-5692-A, into Earth's societies and ecosystems between the years of 2001 and 2014, forty-two of which been have been successfully contained. The appearances and reasons for appearing on Earth vary drastically among instances of SCP-5692-A. All instances of SCP-5692-A are sapient and have previously engaged in business transactions with SCP-5692. The whereabouts and activity of all contained instances of SCP-5692-A were provided to Foundation personnel by SCP-5692 shortly after its initial containment.\nAddenda:\n\nShow Addendum-5692-1\n\nHide Addnedum-5692-1\n\nAddendum-5692-1\nThe following is an incomplete list of contained instances of SCP-5692-A. The recovery of all subjects took place within a few months of the containment of SCP-5692. Many instances of SCP-5692-A disguised themselves using a complex organic gel accompanied by a convincing prosthetic skin-covering. The composition of the gel varies depending on the physiology of the subject and is designed to simulate the musculature of the subject's assumed identity. The gel is able to respond to neural inputs from the subject and is controlled as if it were the subject's own body1.\nAll instances of SCP-5692-A observed thus far possess a translation/communication device similar to the one observed in SCP-5692. All human identities assumed by instances of SCP-5692-A are of people that had not existed prior to the subject's arrival on Earth and were accomplished by the forging of relevant documents.\n\nInstance Number\nDescription\nRecovery Report\nAdditional Information Provided by SCP-5692\n\nSCP-5692-A-3\nA reptilian humanoid entity measuring 1.8 m in height. The entity could change its outward appearance to resemble any human to an indistinguishable degree. Reasons for appearing on Earth are currently under investigation. Remains of the subject are currently held in Site-29's Bio Lab.\nThe subject was found to be posing as a politics professor at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 University for several years. It is unknown if this is the only identity the subject assumed while on Earth. Upon discovery by Foundation operatives, the subject injected itself with an unknown chemical compound that converted all its bodily tissues, excluding its skin, into a thick, green, highly basic solution resulting in death in a matter of seconds.\n\u201cI'm not entirely sure why he came to me. He was more than capable of hiding on his own and by the sounds of things, he had some pretty powerful friends.\u201d\n\nSCP-5692-A-11\nAn organism superficially resembling a rodent with hairless white skin and measuring 0.8 m in length. The subject possesses 5 prehensile tails capable of manipulating its environment and lacks hind limbs, ears, and nostrils. The subject was apparently on Earth to hide from an extraterrestrial crime organization that it was formerly affiliated with.\nThe subject adopted the false identity of Ricky \u201cBambino\u201d Buccelli and engaged in organized criminal activity in Chicago for a period of several years. The subject was contained without incident. On several occasions since its initial containment the subject has offered to exchange information about its former crime affiliates, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial, in exchange for freedom or special containment privileges.\n\u201cOnce a rat, always a rat.\u201d\n\nSCP-5692-A-14\nA silicon-based organism measuring 0.27 m in length resembling a translucent, grey cephalopod with 4 limbs and a cartilaginous endoskeleton. The subject was required to regularly consume sand to facilitate its bodily needs. According to the subject, it is a refugee of a massive interstellar war surrounding the Kepler-22 star system.\nThe subject used a highly specialized gel capable of supporting its metabolism and maintaining a convincing disguise as a common house cat2. The subject posed as a family pet in a Toronto apartment for several years before being recovered by Foundation operatives while attempting to feed stray cats outside its apartment complex at night.\n\u201cAll the essentials come free and all you have to do is sit by the window when it's sunny. Honestly, sounds like a pretty good gig\u2026 except for having to eat the litter.\u201d\n\nSCP-5692-A-23\nA complex network of extraterrestrial algae forming structures analogous to neurons and synapses. The resulting entity is a sapient photosynthetic mat at the water's surface capable of splitting into separate intelligences and regrouping multiple of these intelligences into a single entity. One isolated intelligence occupied a gel-based disguise of a 60-65-year-old Caucasian male. The totality of the subject is currently held in 27 large containment vats in the ecological anomaly section of Site-29.\nThe disguised portion of the subject was found to live in a small house at the edge of a swamp in the Florida Keys. Locals knew the individual as a reclusive eccentric known as \u201cBayou Bill\u201d3. All information surrounding Bayou Bill was successfully removed from the surrounding area. Most of the subject was growing in a 3.4 km radius surrounding the house, causing major disturbances in the local ecosystem. The total recovery of the subject took 24 days due to its sprawling, decentralized nature. Despite claiming that its purpose on the planet was to research aquatic lifeforms, it is now believed that the subject was taking advantage of the environmental conditions of the swamp for growth and reproduction, the end goal of which remains uncertain.\n\u201cWhat, you think it was plotting a takeover? I doubt it\u2026 Come on now. How was I supposed to know anyway? He could fit in a glass of water when I met him. Besides, if your planet's weak enough to be conquered by seagrass, maybe that's just natural selection.\u201d\n\nSCP-5692-A-29\nA 1.3 m long superficially mammalian creature resembling a snake with shaggy brown fur and 2 sets of thermosensitive organs directly below its eyes. The subject's tail diverged into 7 points which acted as environmental manipulators. The subject also has a litter of 57 purely aquatic offspring that each measure 7-10 cm in diameter and resemble sea urchins with soft, flexible hairs rather than spines. The subject reportedly sought to escape overpopulation regulations on its home planet that would require it to terminate 42 of its offspring.\nThe subject was disguised as a 34-year-old female botanist living in a small town along the Mexico/US border. The subject kept its offspring in pet aquariums in the back of their flower shop. Upon initial containment, the subject was extremely hostile but became cooperative after accommodations were made to allow the subject and offspring to be contained together.\n\u201cOh yeah, I remember her\u2026 gave her a discount, I think. Never let it be said that I don't have a heart.4\u201d\n\nSCP-5692-A-32\nA 1.5 m tall vaguely humanoid organism with several avian features including a toothed beak, a blue downy feather-like skin covering designed for thermoregulation, and talon-like hands and feet. According to the subject and SCP-5692, the species to which the subject belongs has an average lifespan of 16 years. The subject cited tourism as its reason for appearing on Earth. The remains of the subject are preserved and held in Site-29's Bio Lab.\nThe subject spent the last 2 years of its life posing as a wealthy 70-75-year-old Turkish man. Using this disguise, the subject visited numerous sights of natural and historical significance on every continent5. The subject entered willingly into Foundation custody after being seized by operatives at Machu Picchu, claiming that it had \"seen enough\". The subject died 3 weeks after initial containment.\n\u201cThe man lead a military coup, became the leader of his planet, reared 4 children, cured an infectious skin-disease in his spare time, faked his death, emigrated on a whim to an underdeveloped planet he heard rumors of in a bar one day, and experienced everything your planet had to offer all within the span of a decade. We have a saying about the birds where I come from\u2026 they're insane.\u201d\n\nSCP-5692-A-37\nA 2.4 m tall, slender humanoid entity with thin, transparent skin. The entity lacks muscle fibers and moves by controlling the movement of pressurized gas through specialized organs in its limbs. The subject was native to a low-gravity planet and came to Earth to study the relationship between trees and fungi in the forests of North America.\nThe subject was outfitted with a gel-based disguise and a device which could manipulate gravity in a 10 cm radius around its body. The disguise was made to resemble the North American cryptid Sasquatch. The subject was found in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and was apprehended without incident.\n\u201cShe was too tall for a human gel and she wanted to live in the woods for the rest of her life. Not bad, eh? Well, I thought it was pretty clever.\u201d\n\nResearch into the location, nature, and capabilities of the civilizations that instances of SCP-5692-A originate from is ongoing. Interviews with SCP-5692 and instances of SCP-5692-A have thus far proven useful in obtaining information, however, more direct methods of observation are currently in development.\n\nShow Interview Log-5692-3\n\nHide Interview Log-5692-3\n\nInterview Log-5692-3\nPreface: The following interview took place on November \u2588\u2588, 2014. In the prior two interviews SCP-5692 revealed the location and identities of 42 instances of SCP-5692-A. SCP-5692 claimed that the total number of SCP-5692-A instances on Earth was between 50 and 55 and that it had forgotten the location and identities of the remaining instances. The purpose of this interview was to obtain more information regarding the circumstances surrounding the presence of SCP-5692 on Earth.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Verner: Hello 5692, I have a few questions regarding your involvement in the presence of extraterrestrial organisms on Earth. Is that alright?Dr. Verner: Excellent, how did you arrive on Earth initially?Dr. Verner: Hide? Hide from what?Dr. Verner: Are you a fugitive?Dr. Verner: Earlier you referred to the extraterrestrials you assisted as customers. What sort of payment did they provide you for your services?Dr. Verner: What were some of these goods?Dr. Verner: So, once they made their deal with you, they had no way of getting off world?Dr. Verner: What were the other rules?Dr. Verner: So, why did you decide to give up information about your customers to us? They provided you things of immense value for your secrecy.Dr. Verner: A concealer world?Dr. Verner: In what ways?Dr. Verner: Any additional information you can provide about these organizations? It would be nice to know what our counterparts are up to.Dr. Verner: Well, I think that will do for today. We'll have to get you to expand on some of the points you've laid out here today at a later date.[END LOG]\nFinal Notes: \"This is the third time SCP-5692 brought up a person named Keswick. From what I could gather, Keswick is a person that assisted SCP-5692 in smuggling aliens onto Earth. I'll see what sort of intel we can gather on our own before questioning 5692. If the two are still working together, the information provided by 5692 may be intentionally misleading.\"\n-Dr. Verner\n\nShow Interview Log-5692-4\n\nHide Interview Log-5692-4\n\nInterview Log-5692-4\nPreface: The following interview was conducted on November \u2588\u2588, 2014. In prior interviews, SCP-5692 had briefly alluded to the existence of an apparently non-anomalous human collaborator in his mid-late 30's known as Keswick. Subsequent interviews with instances of SCP-5692-A have shown that subjects are unaware of the specific events/entities involved in their integration and have only a vague recollection of the identity of Keswick and SCP-5692. Additional investigations were unsuccessful in uncovering additional information on Keswick. The purpose of this interview was to obtain more information on Keswick and his involvement in the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Verner: Hello 5692, are you ready for another interview?Dr. Verner: Sure. May we start the interview now?Dr. Verner: Yes, I know, very charming. When did you see Rain Man?Dr. Verner: I suppose that explains how your speech is so colloquial, even \u201cspeaking\u201d through a translator.Dr. Verner: Very nice, but if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you more about this Keswick individual you've mentioned in previous interviews.Dr. Verner: What, precisely, was your role when in the integration of extraterrestrials on Earth?Dr. Verner: Can you tell me more about Keswick's role?Dr. Verner: So, it's possible others were involved?Dr. Verner: Can you elaborate, please?Dr. Verner: How did you come to be associated with Keswick to begin with?Dr. Verner: So the scheme was his idea?Dr. Verner: Could you provide any information about Keswick that you learned over your time working together? Anything that would help us locate him?Dr. Verner: When was the last time you heard from Keswick prior to containment?Dr. Verner: Could you elaborate?Dr. Verner: Very interesting, thank you 5692. I think we have everything we need for today.[END LOG]\nFinal Notes: \"Assuming all this is reliable, we're left with more questions than answers. Was anyone else involved? If so, who and for what reason? What did they need all this alien technology for? Regardless of the answers, finding this Keswick individual should be a top priority.\"\n-Dr. Verner\nFollowing this interview, Keswick was designated POI 17,235. Attempts to determine his whereabouts, current activities, and potential collaborators are ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. When submerged in the gel, the subject's body becomes unresponsive while the gel moves in accordance with neurological signals. Sensory information is also transferred directly from the gel into the nervous system of the subject. As a result, subjects have reported that using the gel feels indistinguishable from having a biological body of the gel's shape and size.\n2. The gel was capable of converting a portion of the oxygen diffusing through the gel into hydrogen sulfide, absorbing certain molecules from cat food and converting it into chemically-compatible nutrients, and altering the remaining food matter to resemble feline feces before being excreted from the gel.\n3. Reports include him swimming nude in pond scum, talking to the scum when no one was around, using an excessive amount of fertilizer to accelerate the growth of the scum, fending off herbivorous animals from consuming the scum, and generally tending to the scum in a manner similar to a farmer with their crops.\n4. Subsequent analysis of the anatomy of SCP-5692 has shown that the subject possesses 4 pump-like organs positioned throughout its body. These organs are analogous to a heart in function.\n5. These sights include the Seven Natural Wonders, the Seven Wonders of the World, and nearly two dozen additional locations.\n6. SCP-5692 later explained that a \"Jerrkokan loaf\" is a food item that was popular among soldiers and people on poorer worlds due to its low cost and high nutritional content.\n7. Due to their secrecy, research into these organizations have yielded little regarding their goals, methods, or capabilities.\n8. SCP-5692 later explained that \"Sor'quk\" is a derogatory term for untrustworthy individuals. The term originated as a slang term for the reproductive organs of one of the sexes in a species with 3 sexes.\n9. SCP-5692 later explained that \"Par'mot\" is a derogatory term for someone who evolved on a planet orbiting a yellow star.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5691 | SCP-5692 | SCP-5693 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5693: If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people he gives it to\n\nOther Articles of Mine\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4966\n\nSCP-1401-EX\n\nSCP-4052\n\nSCP-4088\n\nSCP-5522\n\nSCP-4109\n\nSCP-7441\n\nSCP-5020\n\nSCP-4286\n\nSCP-4035\n\nSCP-4664\n\nSCP-4270\n\nSCP-3462\n\nSCP-6663\n\nSCP-7966\n\nSCP-4570\n\nSCP-6633\n\nSCP-5693\n\nSCP-5261\n\nSCP-444-J\n\npage 1 of 212next \u00bb\n\nTales\n\nSomething Glowing\n\nLog Of Extranormal Events, Vol II\n\nPrelude To Presents\n\nYour Memory Forever Seen\n\nThe Bears\n\nOther\n\nThe Bread Box\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27\n\nSCP-005 Proposal Hub\n\nExperiment Log-4035\n\nCollab Articles\n\nSCPs\n\nPage\nTitle\nCo-Author\n\nSCP-4733\nBut Not Forgotten\nLamentte\n\nSCP-5225\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nXilasCrowe\n\nSCP-5785\nCraptivism\nSonderance\n\nSCP-5993\nWe want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\nch00bakka\n\nTales\n\nPage\nCo-Author\n\nThe Bathrooms Wiki\nToo many to list\n\nSnippets of an Unveiled World\nNykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin\n\nGone,\nLamentte\n\nYour Imaginary Friend\nFishish\n\nCheck out Deadly Bread's Author Page\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nITEM NUMBER: SCP-5693\nLEVEL 3/5693\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: EUCLID\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nFootage taken from attempted invasive observation of SCP-5693.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to structural damage resulting from SCP-5693, Disposal Site-27 is to remain abandoned. As such, a second provisional site has been constructed a safe distance away to observe the colony. Research into the former purpose of Disposal Site-27 is currently considered a top priority. As to prevent unnecessary expansion of the colony, personnel assigned to SCP-5693 are to have little to no viewpoints on religion or religious matters.\nDescription: SCP-5693 refers to a colony of termites of indeterminate size, currently occupying the bottom level of Disposal Site-27.1 SCP-5693 matches no known species of termite, although its nest superficially resembles that of cathedral termites, with large mounds of the colony extending upwards through the ceiling tiles and ventilation shafts. These mounds superficially resemble bell towers, and are engraved with unknown symbols believed to be of theological significance. These symbols emit a blue glow whenever SCP-5693 undergo a consumption event.\nDuring a consumption event, SCP-5693 are capable of consuming any material. SCP-5693 will target items that emit Akiva radiation, particularly those associated with religion.2 This radiation will then be channeled within enzymes produced by SCP-5693 to transmute affected objects into wood pulp. This material is mostly consumed by SCP-5693, although an estimated 15% of it is used to further expand the colony. SCP-5693 transmute an estimated 450 kg of material each day, with current predictions showing SCP-5693 will completely consume the site by 2038.\nIt is currently unknown how SCP-5693 achieved its current size as Disposal Site-27 was found abandoned upon discovery. However, various surviving artifacts were discovered through subsonic imaging either partially or completely untouched by SCP-5693 within the site's ruins, forming pockets of untouched earth around them. These objects include;\n\nHazardous waste bags (present in excess and emptied of contents).\nVarious scientific equipment and machinery.3\nSeveral mason jars, filled with an unknown substance.\nThe Proper Disposal of Religious Artifacts by Yossi Leiner and Randall Bannock.\nChunks of concrete and plaster possessing the emblem of the Department of Tactical Theology. The Department claims to have no knowledge of the anomaly and has refused further comment.\n\nNotably, severe chemical weathering associated with religious refuse and theological waste has been detected around the colony in SCP-5693's former containment chamber,4 although this appears to have stopped following its expansion into the rest of the facility\nFurther research into the significance of these objects is currently pending.\n\n\nFootnotes\n1. An abandoned provisional site located in a remote area of the Northern Territory of Australia. Due to a lack of documentation, the site's former purpose is currently unknown.\n2. Due to the casual link most objects have to religion, this is often sufficient enough to enable its consumption.\n3. A majority of which was severely damaged, although were identified as commonly used in the care of Thaumiel-class anomalies.\n4. According to recovered blueprints of the facility.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5692 | Deadly Bread | SCP-5694 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5695\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5695 is available for use by any member of personnel upon request. Usage of SCP-5695 is to be recorded in the Experiment Log for the sake of posterity. At least one instance of SCP-5695 is to be kept in existence at all times.\nDescription: SCP-5695 is a figurine formed of milk chocolate, superficially resembling a common goldfish. When SCP-5695 is placed into a body of water, all aquatic organisms in that body of water will become additional instances of SCP-5695, regardless of the size of the area involved. All additional instances of SCP-5695 demonstrate the same anomalous properties.\nSCP-5695 has been described as extremely pleasing to the palate, exhibiting a smooth texture that nonetheless holds a distinctive structure when pressed against the tongue. Although most chocolate is considered to be an indulgence, popular consensus is that SCP-5695 can be consumed at any time of the day with no ill effects. Analysis of SCP-5695's components has been ineffective in proving or disproving this belief.\nDiscovery: SCP-5695 was discovered in a cabin owned by amateur chef Arnold Grussman after passing hikers complained of a foul smell emanating from the building. Upon investigation by local authorities, the body of Mr. Grussman was discovered1 along with SCP-5695 itself.\nThe Foundation became involved with this case after it became apparent that, at some point prior to the body's discovery, all fish in the nearby Lake Gray had become instances of SCP-5695.\nExperiment Log 5695-1:\nIn order to test the limits of SCP-5695's conversion properties, a series of experiments were undertaken. All tests were undertaken by placing SCP-5695 into a body of water and observing the results.\n\nBody of Water: Small tank.\nItem: One goldfish.\nResult: Goldfish became an additional instance of SCP-5695.\n\nBody of Water: Small tank.\nItem: Two starfish.\nResult: Starfish became additional instances of SCP-5695.\n\nBody of Water: Large tank.\nItem: Four Mallard ducks.\nResult: None.\n\nBody of Water: Large tank.\nItem: Six dolphins.\n\nResult: Dolphins became additional instances of SCP-5695.\nInteresting. A dolphin is a mammal, not a fish, yet SCP-5695 converted it all the same. What kind of criteria does it use? Not that I'm complaining, with how tasty the things are! - Dr. Grade.\n\nBody of Water: Large tank.\nItem: Twelve dolphins.\nResult: None.\nDisappointing. - Dr. Grade.\n\nBody of Water: Lake St. James, Massachusetts\nItem: All fish present.\nResult: All fish converted into instances of SCP-5695.\nI would say this proves there's no distance limit on SCP-5695's conversion. Imagine the returns if we hadn't blocked off the river beforehand! - Dr. Grade.\n\nAddendum 5695-1 (Freeze on Testing)\n\nLast night, our security system detected Junior Researcher Darnell attempting to smuggle an SCP-5695 instance out of the Site. As if that weren't bad enough, under interrogation he kindly informed me that this is something the SCP-5695 research staff have been doing quite a bit.\nI hope I don't have to say how appalled I am. All of you, expect to be summoned to a formal inquiry within the next few days. None of you are to leave Site-37 until then.\nDirector Fitzpatrick\n\nOn 12/06/2019, during a meeting with senior site staff regarding recent containment breaches, Director Fitzpatrick suddenly fell from his seat and began spasming wildly while gasping for breath.\nSeveral seconds later, Director Fitzpatrick's entire body was transfigured into a statue of milk chocolate, save for his eyes, which continued to follow personnel around the room. Witnesses described said eyes as delicious.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Cause of death determined as autocannibalistic puncture of the jugular.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5694 | SCP-5695 | SCP-5696 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5696.\n\nItem #: SCP-5696\nObject Class: Safe Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5696 is kept in anomalous item locker #5696 at Site-19.\nNo further procedures are considered necessary.\n\n+Initial Containment Procedures+\n\n-Close Procedures-\n\nPrior to entering SCP-5696-A, subjects are to be given a button camera fashioned to look like a pin supporting William H. Thompson for the 1931 Chicago Mayoral Election. The camera should be placed on the subject's left lapel after entering SCP-5696-A. During the displacement of SCP-5696-1 into SCP-5696-A, the SCP-5696 testing chamber is to be monitored for their return.\n\nDescription: SCP-5696 is a revolver resembling a Smith and Wesson M&P .38 in both function and design. The weapon bears two engravings: The first being a manufacturer engraving along the cylinder reading \"S&W Model EO-11 C.S.\"1 and the second on one side of the barrel reading \"Finish this job, Kill that cheating bastard.\"[sic]. When SCP-5696 is held in the right hand of a subject and the cylinder is opened using that hand, the subject (henceforth SCP-5696-1) will be displaced into SCP-5696-A.2\n\n\"Finish this job, Kill that cheating bastard.\"[sic]\n\nSCP-5696-A refers to an alternate dimension consisting primarily of a nightclub named \"The Dying Roses,\" a building that was once located at \u2588\u2588\u2588 Division St., Chicago, which closed in 1956. Displaced subjects will find themselves dressed in formal attire appropriate for the early 1930's regardless of what they were dressed in prior to displacement. This includes a striped suit and matching dress pants, a blue tie, white undershirt, and a striped fedora. All objects on their person will have demanifested until their return, where they will find themselves dressed in their original clothing with the same belongings. Alterations to the subject's physical body made while within SCP-5696-A will remain, however. Note that SCP-5696-1 will displace with $1, $5 and $10 bills in varying amounts, totaling up to $100, in their left inner coat pocket.3 No items can be brought out of or taken into SCP-5696-A with the exception of any object held in SCP-5696-1's left hand during their removal from our dimension. Displacement only occurs with subjects who meet a certain set of physical specifications (see document 5696-M5 for full list); these include particular height and BMI limitations, but do not include race or sex requirements.\nWhen viewed upon immediate entry, the area surrounding \"The Dying Roses\" consists of empty space. SCP-5696-A will construct an environment dependent on the needs or requirements of SCP-5696-1. This usually begins with a cityscape of apartment buildings but has also included rival clubs, hospitals, fire stations, and police stations. SCP-5696-A also creates smaller objects as needed, including but not limited to telephone poles, call boxes, and motor vehicles.\nDuring their shift into SCP-5696-A, the subject will experience a series of semi-predictable events. Events that occur can have varying outcomes or be prevented entirely based on the actions taken by SCP-5696-1 while in SCP-5696-A. In some cases, actions taken have led to notable and/or unusual events occurring (see Addendum 5696-2). None of the events are particularly anomalous, but rather reflect real actions that may have been taken by the involved entities and the consequences thereof.\nThe following details the most commonly-recorded series of events.\n\n00:00 - 1:00: SCP-5696-1 will be ushered to a seat at the bar as they \"wait for the rest of their party,\"4 although subjects may do as they please. Subjects have been recorded as having ordered food and drinks5, purchasing cigars or cigarettes, interacting with waitstaff and other customers, speaking with and/or paying stage dancers, and in some cases, engaging in hand-to-hand combat.6\n1:01 - 1:45: Five men (SCP-5696-2, -3, -4, -5, -6) will enter the establishment over the course of 45 minutes and mill about the area. They most commonly spend this time sitting next to each other at the bar and ordering various drinks. Each of them will eventually begin to smoke and talk among themselves.\n1:46 - 1:59: SCP-5696-2 through -6 will enter a room at the far end of the establishment that is closed off by a pair of red curtains. SCP-5696-1 will be ushered into the room by a member of the waitstaff and will be introduced to the men as \"Mark Kennedy of the C.P.D.7 He's here on behalf of Nitti's gang.\"8 They will stare at SCP-5696-1 in silence for roughly five seconds before laughing and shaking their hand. SCP-5696-5 will offer SCP-5696-1 a cigarette if they don't already have one, and the member of waitstaff will offer them a drink. SCP-5696-5 will show them to an open seat around a table covered in green felt.\n2:00 - 6:00: SCP-5696-1 through -6 will begin to play Texas Hold 'em using direct monetary bets. From here, similarities become less common and the timeline of events begins to differ due to subject input. Play styles, game outcomes, conversation topics, and general actions influence what occurs.\n\nAddendum 5696-1: Characteristics of SCP-5696-2 through -6.\nNote: The following information has been gathered through a total of 129 tests and is still in development.\n\nSCP-5696-2:\nName: Jack Walker\nAge: 37-40\nRelatives: Single, never married, no children\nProfession: Trumpet Player, \"The Jimmy Michaels Brass Band.\"\nPlay Style: Quiet, only makes safe bets.\nNotes: Does not drink as he believes the hangover ruins his performing abilities. Often leaves the table for fresh air. Occasionally performs with \"The Dying Roses Jazz Band\" when he is having a particularly good night. Displays nervousness when involved in conversations regarding all law-related subjects. Has occasionally claimed to know SCP-5696-1 \"from work.\"\n\nSCP-5696-3:\nName: Casey Malkovitch\nAge: 22-23 (Birthday occasionally occurs)\nRelatives: Girlfriend, no children\nProfession: Underground boxing champion\nPlay Style: Bluffs often, folds rarely.\nNotes: Overdramatic personality. Has repeatedly made threats to \"fight every person in this godforsaken hellhole if I lose this next hand.\" Attends the University of Chicago but refuses to state his major. Always has a large sum of money on his person.\n\nSCP-5696-4:\nName: Roy Jacobsen\nAge: 25-29\nRelatives: Single, never married, no children\nProfession: Unemployed\nPlay Style: Unfamiliar with the game, makes large bets apparently at random.\nNotes: Claims to be the son of a millionaire Wall Street broker. Regularly offers to buy drinks for every person at the table, occasionally for the entire population of SCP-5696-A. Often becomes overly-inebriated and has been caught paying dancers and crying to them on more than 35 occasions. Dodges questions regarding personal matters of all forms.\n\nSCP-5696-5:\nName: Jake Rose\nAge: 32\nRelatives: Married, one son.\nPlay Style: Exceptional bluffing. Rarely makes a net loss.\nNotes: Served as a rifleman in the First World War. Often shares war stories, most commonly a story regarding a grenade shrapnel wound sustained in the upper right thigh. Became an expert at poker while in the trenches. Is business partners with SCP-5696-6 but claims he does not participate in illegal activity. Claims the nightclub is named after \"the one time a bullet hit the very top of my helmet and nearly killed me.\"\n\nSCP-5696-6:\nName: Clyde Jackson\nAge: 33\nRelatives: Married, one son, one daughter.\nPlay Style: Average, occasionally makes larger bets when on a losing streak.\nNotes: Proprietor of \"The Dying Roses.\" Is involved with the Chicago Outfit and regularly discusses the location's use as a front for cocaine production and sale, despite the Chicago Outfit's distaste for drug use. Served with SCP-5696-5 in the First World War. Usually jovial, even in dark times. Occasionally has his wife visit the establishment and spends considerable amounts of time talking about his family.\n\nAddendum 5696-2: List of Notable Discrepancies\n\nTest #: 03\nTime: 1:20\nEvent: A female test subject was used. SCP-5696-1 was removed from the building for \"impersonating Mr. Kennedy. She even wore his fucking clothes.\" SCP-5696-A was viewed forming a full cityscape. SCP-5696-1 spent the remainder of the time in the parking lot and wandering through the streets of SCP-5696-A.\n\nTest #: 24\nTime: 5:00\nEvent: SCP-5696-1 repeatedly bet all money on their person.9 SCP-5696-3 punched SCP-5696-1, knocking them unconscious.\n\nTest #: 27\nTime: 3:25\nEvent: Two thieves attempted to rob the nightclub at gunpoint. Every patron and member of the waitstaff drew a firearm on the thieves, including SCP-5696-1. They left peacefully.\n\nTest #: 39\nTime: 2:05\nEvent: SCP-5696-1 immediately shot SCP-5696-6 for losing a hand to him and was immediately fired upon by SCP-5696-5. SCP-5696-1's corpse was transported and dumped into the Chicago River. SCP-5696-1 returned dead with five bullet wounds in the chest and entirely soaked.\n\nTest #: 52\nTime: 4:45\nEvent: SCP-5696-1 requested a \"taste test\" from SCP-5696-6 during a conversation regarding drug sales. SCP-5696-6 obliged. During the last hour, SCP-5696-6 led SCP-5696-1 around a back room. SCP-5696-1's coat accidentally caught fire, causing him to panic. He ripped the jacket off and threw it into a puddle of spilled alcohol, setting the establishment ablaze. SCP-5696-1 returned with severe 3rd degree burns.\n\nTest #: 66\nTime: 4:30\nEvent: SCP-5696-1 had won each hand played that session. SCP-5696-6 bet the deed to the establishment. SCP-5696-1 played four aces.\nTime: 5:00\nEvent: SCP-5696-1 had all patrons and all but two waitstaff members removed from the location, including SCP-5696-2 through -6. SCP-5696-1 spent the night becoming intoxicated among the female performers and engaging in sexual activity. Some patrons began to approach a police call box when they were denied re-entry and were stopped by other patrons.\n\nTest #: 94\nTime: 1:45\nEvent: SCP-5696-3 declared that it was his birthday. No playing occurred and SCP-5696-3 was baked and served a chocolate cake. A portion of the day was spent celebrating his birthday.\n\nTest #: 105\nTime: 3:35\nEvent: In an attempt to make conversation, SCP-5696-1 asked the other players what their favorite television shows were. SCP-5696-1 spent the next hour attempting to explain various products of modern technology to them before SCP-5696-3 called a hospital. SCP-5696-1 spent the remainder of the night in the back of a white Rolls-Royce bearing red crosses, where he was questioned about his sanity.\n\nTest #: 127\nTime: 5:00\nEvent:\n\n+Test 127 Video Log+\n\n-Close Log-\n\nFile Name: TEST_5696-127\nDate: 1/21/2020\nPrint Transcription? Y\nBeginning Auto-Transcription..\n[[Skipping to designated event portion. A full transcription may be requested from Dr. Patra, lead researcher for SCP-5696.]]\n\n4:59 SCP-5696-1 has been looking at SCP-5696-5 on and off over the course of the last 10 minutes.\n\nSCP-5696-5: Okay, what's wrong, kid? Something on my face?\nSCP-5696-1: No, I just can't help but notice that what you lack in beauty, you seem to be making up for in card skills. Try letting us win some hands, you might have more fun.\nSCP-5696-5: Hey, I'm sorry God's been wanting me to have your money! I can't help that.\nSCP-5696-1: Uh huh, yeah, I'm sure that's what's going on.\n\n5:03 SCP-5696-1 folds his current hand, then stands.\n\nSCP-5696-1: Gents, I'm going to take a piss.\n\nSCP-5696-1 walks around the left side of the table, despite this being a longer route to the room's exit.\n\n5:04 SCP-5696-1 removes the pin and sets it on the table by SCP-5696-5.\n\nSCP-5696-1: Hold on to this for me, will ya.\nSCP-5696-5: What, giving up politics, kid? Whatever. Hey while you're in there, do me a favor and go fuck yourself too.\n\n5:04 - 5:09 SCP-5696-1 spends five minutes presumably in the bathroom. Note that SCP-5696-5 is recorded removing cards from his current hand and replacing them with cards from his coat via sleight of hand, twice.\n\n5:10 SCP-5696-1 returns and places the pin over his left breast again. SCP-5696-1 shoots SCP-5696-5 through the sternum before turning the gun on SCP-5696-6.\n\nSCP-5696-1: You dirty, cheating bastard! He's been swapping cards for the last ten hands. Watch this!\n\nSCP-5696-1 kneels down over SCP-5696-5, who is alive but bleeding profusely. He removes SCP-5696-5's coat and holds it upside-down, shaking it twice. Cards flutter and fall out of the sleeves and pockets. SCP-5696-2 leaves the room unnoticed.\n\nSCP-5696-6: Jesus Christ, Jake..\n\n5:11 Shouting comes from outside of the room.\n\nSCP-5696-2: THE ROSE IS DYING! THIS IS THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT, YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST!\nUnknown: EAT SHIT AND LEAD, PIG!\n\nSCP-5696-1 runs for the room's exit and steps through the curtains. Half of the patrons are running for an exit while the other half have begun flipping tables and firing handguns in the direction of the bar, including SCP-5696-2. The waitstaff have taken cover under the bar and are firing into the tables.\n\nNote that the remaining patrons have removed their jackets, revealing CPD badges on their undershirts.\n\nSCP-5696-1: Holy Fuck!\n\nSCP-5696-1 dives behind a table next to another patron.\n\nPatron: Tough crowd huh, Mr. Kennedy!\nSCP-5696-1: Understatement of the century! Hey, help me get the hell out of here! I'd like to be alive when they interview me!\n\n5:12 Two members of the waitstaff run out of the door to the back room and duck under the bar. They open fire using Remington Model-31 shotguns.\n\nPatron: Ah, shit, yeah, okay! I'll cover you, get to the back exit!\n\nThe patron gestures behind him.\n\nSCP-5696-1 readies himself for a moment before sprinting towards the back exit. SCP-5696-1 screams, falls and turns around. SCP-5696-6 stands at the other end of the room, aiming a handgun at SCP-5696-1. The patron aims around the table and shoots SCP-5696-6 through the left eye. A member of waitstaff blasts the patron's hand off with a shotgun round.\n\nSCP-5696-1 turns his left leg over, revealing a gunshot wound in the upper calf. SCP-5696-1 regains his footing and limps out of the exit, throws off his coat and wraps his leg in his undershirt.\n\nSCP-5696-1: Fuck\u2026\n\n5:13-5:15 SCP-5696-1 limps down the alleyway towards a police call box, attempting to put his coat back on. SCP-5696-1 opens the box and removes the telephone.\n\nOperator: Hello, officer. Name and badge number.\nSCP-5696-1: Officer Mark Kennedy, uh, fuck me..\n\nSCP-5696 fires in SCP-5696-1's right pants pocket, presumably shooting the ground. SCP-5696-1 removes SCP-5696 and turns it over. The engraving on SCP-5696's barrel reads \"1017.\"\n\nSCP-5696-1: Officer Mark Kennedy, Badge Number 1017! I'm in need of immediate assistance, I've been shot in the back of the leg at The Dying Roses. We may need backup in there. Fucking hell.\nOperator: Understood, putting out an urgent call to other officers in the area. Please wait there.\n\nThe operator hangs up the phone.\n\n5:15-5:17 SCP-5696-1 sits on the ground against the phone post in silence, trying to keep his leg raised.\n\n5:17 A white Model-B Ford arrives and two others drive past. SCP-5696-1 is loaded into the passenger seat by an unseen figure.\n\n5:17 - 5:59 The figure is dressed in the same clothing as SCP-5696-1 and possesses a similar build. The figure smiles weakly, then begins driving. Note that the figure had a bullet wound in his upper-right chest which appeared to puncture the heart, but was not bleeding. SCP-5696-1 turns to look out the window, then removes the pin and holds it against the glass. The vehicle drives past a line of other iterations of The Dying Roses, most of which are identical in nature. The figure chuckles quietly. One of the locations appears to have been burnt down.\n\nThe figure stops in front of what appears to be the Rush University Medical Center. The figure enters the hospital and four members of the medical staff run out to the car with a stretcher five minutes later. SCP-5696-1 is carried out of the car and into the hospital. Medical staff removed the jacket and no relevant video was captured until SCP-5696-1's return into our reality.\n\n6:00 SCP-5696-1 is returned holding the pin and possessing an improperly-cauterized wound. Marker marks made along SCP-5696-1's lower leg imply that SCP-5696-A's medical staff intended to amputate the leg. SCP-5696-1 received proper medical care and made a full recovery.\n\nEnd Transcription.\n\nTest #: 128\nTime: 0:05\nEvent: The engraving on SCP-5696's barrel was not present. The interior of \"The Dying Roses\" was significantly darkened and contained only one person. A spotlight was aimed at a patron dressed in similar clothing and possessing a similar physique to SCP-5696-1, who was sitting at the bar. The figure possessed a CPD badge which he wore openly on his suit. He smiled weakly at SCP-5696-1 and offered them a shot glass filled with scotch. SCP-5696-1 noted that the area felt abnormally cold, but was warmer in the light. The subject and the figure held a toast, then sat in silence for 10-15 seconds. The figure stood, removed his badge and firearm and placed them on the counter, then turned to leave. He stopped at the door, turned to face SCP-5696-1, thanked them, then left the establishment. The subject spent the remainder of the time in the empty building.\n\nTest #: 129\nTime: 0:00\nEvent: SCP-5696 did not displace the subject. The engraving on the side of the barrel read \"Mark Kennedy, 1901-2020.\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. No such model is known to have been produced.\n2. This is no longer the case following Test 5696-129.\n3. Note that due to inflation, this would be worth $1,550 - $1,890 in 2022.\n4. This is also often recorded as \"wait for Mr. Jackson and his friends,\" as well as \"wait for your friend and the others.\"\n5. Despite evidence suggesting that the substance has been outlawed within SCP-5696-A's simulated society, the beverages often contain alcohol.\n6. This usually occurs due to subjects \"catcalling\" certain dancers whose husbands are in the establishment.\n7. Chicago Police Department.\n8. This likely refers to Frank Nitti, de facto leader of The Chicago Outfit following Al Capone's arrest in 1931.\n9. This is often considered rude or unsportsmanlike.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5695 | SCP-5696 | SCP-5697 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5697 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5697\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5697-1\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSUBSITE-5697\nL. Vargas\nE. Marshall\nPi-32\n\nSCP-5697, taken from GoI-001's case file\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: At present, SCP-5697 has precluded physical containment. Until such methods become feasible, SCP-5697's self-concealing properties are considered sufficient containment, and do not threaten normalcy in a way that would necessitate further action by the Foundation.\nThe closed circuit surveillance system within SCP-5697-1 has been intercepted by a Foundation stationary task force and is to be monitored between the hours of 23:00 and 5:00 by a team situated in Foundation-purchased warehouse N-131, located north of the premises. All BRANDO-Events are to be recorded and transcribed.\nDescription: SCP-5697 is a victual humanoid entity residing in York, Pennyslvania.\nSCP-5697's body physically resembles a mass of various pastas2, which conjointly form a humanoid shape. This composition is amorphous, and can be expanded or contracted at the entity's will. The only non-noodle based element of SCP-5697's physiology, a large meatball, acts as a head, with a slit used for speaking, and a mass of bucatini positioned on its peak. SCP-5697 typically stands at 2.3 meters.\nWhile SCP-5697's internal biology remains unseen, the entity is sapient, intelligent3, and capable of speech and audiovisual perception. SCP-5697 self-identifies as \"Don Cavatelli\", and claims to be a former operative of the now-defunct anomalous criminal organization the Chicago Spirit, performing as an assassin and bootlegger from 1915 to 1938.\nSCP-5697-1 is Grappolo, a defunct Italian restaurant located in York, Pennyslvania. Despite local records not indicating any ownership of the property since 1983, SCP-5697-1 maintains electrical power. On the first of every month, SCP-5697-1's kitchen will generate, in large quantities, ingredients used in the preparation of foods typically cooked at similar establishments, such as tomato sauce, noodles, vegetables, dairy products, and various types of wine. The process by which these ingredients are obtained remains unknown, but testing has indicated food found within SCP-5697-1 is otherwise ordinary.\nSCP-5697 has taken residence inside SCP-5697-1, in a small, lightly furnished room located above the restaurant. The entity has not been observed to leave SCP-5697-1, and its behavior outside of BRANDO-Events is largely sequestered, consisting of cooking, listening to music, and reading. Personal artifacts owned by SCP-5697 consist of dress attire, a large collection of literature4, a personal computer, and a pair of headphones. While SCP-5697's interest in theology is noted, the entity does not seem to subscribe to a particular belief system, and has not been observed carrying out religious practices. Occasionally, new items, typically literature, will manifest in SCP-5697's collection. How this process occurs is unknown.\nWhen SCP-5697-1 is approached with the intention of apprehending, detaining, or otherwise engaging in a form of containment for SCP-5697, the restaurant will disappear. In its place will be a nondescript, brown, bricked building of the same dimensions as SCP-5697-1, but with no accessible entry points. SCP-5697-1 will revert to its typical state within an hour.\nSCP-5697-1 has the capability to manifest individuals inside the building, in which a BRANDO-Event will occur. See Addenda for an overview of this phenomenon.\nAddendum.5697.1: BRANDO-Events\nA BRANDO-Event occurs when an individual is manifested inside SCP-5697-1. These events occur between the hours of 23:00 and 5:00, as many as three times a week. Subjects manifested inside the restaurant are always currently incarcerated in a prison located in the United States, with their criminal offenses relating to illegal drug use, gang affiliation, or gang violence. It is unknown how SCP-5697-1 discerns this information, if at all.\nWhile subjects will reside in SCP-5697-1 for upwards of two hours, there is apparent time dilation between Grappolo and the outside world. From the perspectives of those in the prison facility they disappeared from, subjects are never perceived as being absent for more than three seconds.\nFollowing the conclusion of a BRANDO-Event, subjects will be returned to their previous location, with no recollection of the events prior. An abridged list of BRANDO-Events follows.\n\nDate\nSubject\nDescription\nAftermath\n\n1991/11/02 (BRANDO-03)\nMarcus Corbett. Serving 25 years at California State Prison for possession of illegal firearms, second-degree attempted murder, second-degree burglary, and gang conspiracy.\nSubject manifested inside SCP-5697-1's dining room, where the lights were dimmed. They demonstrated brief confusion as SCP-5697 emerged from kitchen and gestured to the booth. Subject sat down, relaxed. SCP-5697 returned to kitchen, and reemerged with a large plate of chicken parmesan, bread, and pasta. Entity placed food near the subject, began to pour two glasses of wine, and encouraged Corbett to eat. Corbett thanked SCP-5697, and the two shared a meal that lasted 45 minutes. SCP-5697 and subject conversed, relating experiences to each other. After finishing, subject demanifested and reappeared inside his previous location in California State Prison.\nUpon corresponding with subject, it was found that Corbett had no apparent recollection of his experience inside SCP-5697-1. Subject exhibited marked contentedness in following weeks.\n\n1999/3/17 (BRANDO-212)\nEmilio Bernall. Serving 15 years at Waupun Correctional Institution, WI for fourth degree gang conspiracy, theft of a motor vehicle, and possession of illicit drugs.\nSubject manifested inside SCP-5697-1. Displayed minor distress at SCP-5697's appearance, but became calm when entity offered food and drink. Subject and SCP-5697 shared a light meal. There was little communication between the two.\nSimilar behavior pattern to previous subjects following event. Subject described sleeping well and feeling optimistic.\n\n2006/2/29 (BRANDO-558)\nD-691, Richard Kimmz. Drafted into Foundation employment as D-Class personnel after being charged with illicit drug possession, trafficking, and manufacturing, first, second, and third-degree gang conspiracy, gang affiliation, and third-degree murder.\nSubject initially rejected SCP-5697's meal, expressing discontent and distress. SCP-5697 spoke to subject and offered a cigar. Subject and SCP-5697 smoked for two hours, engaging in conversation about each others pasts. Subject expressed gratitude towards SCP-5697 before demanifesting.\nSubject appeared at Foundation Facility Area-179 in their previous location. Similar behavior pattern. Subject has taken interest in hobbies not previously displayed, such as writing and reading.\n\nAddendum.5697.2: Interview Log\nThe Foundation has interacted with SCP-5697 on multiple occasions. Entity is distant, and does not usually respond to queries about its past. As such, most information obtained about SCP-5697's background has come from information exchanged during BRANDO-events. A notable example of an interview with SCP-5697 has been transcribed below.\n\nBEGIN LOG\n\nAgent Owens approaches SCP-5697-1 with the intention of interviewing SCP-5697. The building does not protect itself, and Owens is able to access the restaurant from the front door. Upon entry, the dining room is empty. SCP-5697, dressed in its typical suited attire, makes its way to Owens.\nAgent Owens: Mr. Cavatelli.Agent Owens: We just want to talk. Our last meeting got cut short.Agent Owens: My apologies, we should've respected your wishes. Uh, how about we focus on something else today? What about what you do? Your meals that you have with convicts.Agent Owens: You think the building is exhibiting autonomy?Agent Owens: You feel a connection to them.Agent Owens: Yeah, that's\u2026 that makes sense. Is there a reason why no one's ever shown up here twice? Don't you want to keep up with these people?Agent Owens: I believe\u2014Agent Owens: (Pause) I'm not sure how to say this to you, but are you aware of the aftermath of your meals?Agent Owens: They don't remember you. Their behavior changes in little ways. Better moods, taking up new interests, forms of self-expression. You're benefiting these people, don't get me wrong, but they don't remember you. We\u2026 weren't sure if you were aware of this.\nSilence.SCP-5697 gets up from the table, and mutters to itself before walking towards the kitchen. SCP-5697-1 demanifests into its concealed form, and Agent Owens stands outside.\n\nEND LOG\n\nFootnotes\n1. Now designated SUBSITE-5697\n2. The most common being spaghetti, ziti, rigatoni, and penne\n3. From observation, SCP-5697's intelligence is comparable to an average human\n4. The majority of which is religious, and includes the Tipitaka, the Tanakh and Talmud, and the Vedas, as well as interpretive theological texts.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5696 | SCP-5697| SCP-5698 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Any additional comments (image sources, crit credits, whatever)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5699\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nCernunnos\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nAn undated photograph depicting SCP-5699, likely taken during wartime.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As proper, complete containment of SCP-5699 requires the use of mass-incarceration of affected individuals, lockdowns of major metropolitan areas and extensive application of class-A amnestics, containment of SCP-5699 has been indefinitely suspended. As SCP-5699 typically affects individuals experiencing trauma and emotional instability, containment specialists assigned to SCP-5699 have noted that witnesses regard SCP-5699 as a hallucination, or an extended period of delirium. As such, the O5 Council have ruled that SCP-5699 does not require active containment.\nDescription: SCP-5699 is a white1-class spectral anomaly or group of entities resembling a hooded figure with a mirrored, reflective glass pane in the place of a head.\nSCP-5699 presents itself towards individuals experiencing significant emotional turmoil, with an increased appearance rate if an individual is either considering or attempting suicide. Upon arrival to a compromised individual, SCP-5699 will silently observe a subject for approximately five minutes' time, and then vanish. After SCP-5699's disappearance, a message written in the fog of a mirror or other reflective surface within the vicinity of the subject will manifest. Messages written typically showcase affection, or a positive experience in the subject's life. A brief showing of collected messages is transcribed below.\n\nYou held my hand as I said goodbye to her, and walked me home, shielding my eyes from the new mothers. You stayed with me. You hadn't even thought of leaving me.\n\nThe little old lady in the hospital who sat at the windowsill, screaming at nothing outside was comforted by your hand. It wasn't her granddaughter's, who hadn't been there, both in hospital and in life. But you did. You stood by her, gently holding her hand.\n\nYou bought me a dress and helped me with the straps. You told me I was pretty and loved, and that the girl who had been inside of me the whole time was finally freed.\n\nThe tea was cold. Too much sugar and cream. The teabag was split in half, leaving a mug with tea leaves at the bottom. Half of it was spilt on the bed. But you brought it for me when I was sick, and shivering.\n\nYou told me that you believed me.\n\nThe haggard man who would lie by the garbage bags piled near the pub, who would rest and sleep by a brick-wall, was fed by you. Of course you didn't cook anything, but you bought the soup with your own pocket money.\n\nYou gave me your beloved dolly.\n\nProm was less lonely with you.\n\nYou hugged me when nobody would- You didn't know that it wasn't contagious, only through blood- And even if, you would have still shown me kindness.\n\nThe birdies in the park were well-fed, after a long winter.\n\nYou held my hand and fanned my cheek as the monitor dipped and swooned. You gripped my hand, holding onto my wedding ring as the beep grew loud, and would gently stroke my arm, as the beeps grew silent.\n\nAddendum No. 1: The following message was discovered on Dr. Ronald Pearson2's bathroom mirror:\n\nYou let me be free from the cell,\nYou let me wander and love\nYou helped me.\nYou did everything that your name and place would balk\nSo I will be free, and help others be free, in their own way.\nI won't forget you.\nYou are loved, by me.\nDon't forget that.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Designates a spectral anomaly that possesses helpful or benevolent characteristics.\n2. Research lead on the SCP-5699 project. Dr. Pearson suffers from severe bouts of depression.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5698 | SCP-5699 | SCP-5700 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5700: So Says I\nImage Credit: See the Discussion page below.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following document discusses the subject of an on-going investigation; as such, information present\nin this file is subject to frequent change. Check back regularly for updates to this file.\n\u2014 Dr. Caballero, Director of SCP-5700 Operations\n\nSCP-5700? I'll admit, it has a nice ring to it.\n\nItem#: 5700\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nProject Lead\nProject Assistant\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-17\nDr. Caballero\nResearcher Griffin\nMTF Epsilon-06 (\"Village Idiots\")\n\nSCP-5700-1 in Colorado, circa 1874.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The central northwestern region of the United State is to be continually monitored for SCP-5700-1 activity; should such activity be detected, members of MTF Epsilon-06 (\u201cVillage Idiots\u201d) are to be dispatched to SCP-5700-1's location to engage and capture him if possible. SCP-5700-3 is to be monitored at all times and not be disturbed under any circumstances; any abnormalities in SCP-5700-3's behavior are to be recorded and reported to Dr. Caballero or Researcher Griffin immediately. Surviving SCP-5700 instances are to be housed at Site-17 and are permitted to interact with other residents once properly acclimated.\n\n\u25c6 Supplementary Containment Procedures \u25c6\n\n\u25c7 Supplementary Containment Procedures \u25c7\n\nThe following measures are to be followed in regards to individual containment of SCP-5700 instances. If an instance should die, their remains are to be cremated and stored in a designated locker at Site-64.\n\nSCP-5700-1: Once captured, subject is to be housed in a standard Humanoid Containment Cell at Site-17 and may interact with other persons once properly adjusted. Immediate contact with SCP-5700-4 is permitted.\nSCP-5700-2: Remains interred at Site-64.\nSCP-5700-3: Containment Procedures still under development, refer to Project Director or Assistant Director for details.\nSCP-5700-4: Subject is to be housed in a standard Humanoid Containment Cell at Site-17 and may interact freely with personnel. At no point beyond testing is SCP-5700-4 permitted to come into contact with any living plants over 0.5 meters in height.\nSCP-5700-5: Remains interred at Site-64.\nSCP-5700-6: Remains interred at Site-64.\nSCP-5700-7: Location and collection of the subject's remains is of negligible priority, but are to be exhumed, cremated, and interred at Site-64 if discovered.\n\nAlternative versions of historically-relevant instances' lives are to be inserted into public records as part of a general disinformation campaign. Moreover, any possible historical references to SCP-5700's activity or members are to be expunged from any records in which they appear.Some things are best left buried.\n\nSeveral members of SCP-5700 and several Sioux native allies, shortly before a routine raid.\n\nDescription: SCP-5700 collectively denotes seven anomalous humanoids (designated SCP-5700-1 through -7) that appeared around and were primarily active throughout a period spanning from approximately 1872 to 1880 within the area now known as the central northwestern United States. SCP-5700 appears to have engaged in a form of guerrilla warfare against American settlers and government officials attempting to settle in their area of activity at the time in an apparent attempt to keep encroachers out of the area. SCP-5700 is believed to have coordinated with native American populations to this end.\nDue to SCP-5700's activity having occurred prior to the establishment of the Foundation proper, it did not come to formal attention until shortly after 6/28/1979, following the capture and interrogation of SCP-5700-4, although other members of SCP-5700 had been encountered prior to that date. (See SCP-5700-2, -5). As such, a vast majority of information regarding SCP-5700 is unknown, with solid evidence of the group's activity remaining extremely scarce. Shortly after the Neutralization of SCP-1422 on 7/9/2007, more details about the history of SCP-5700's activity were able to be documented. SCP-5700 and SCP-1422 are thought to be unrelated at this time. I suppose my efforts on that front finally gave out, eh?\n\nLt. Col. Custer, killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. SCP-5700-6 is thought to have impersonated him and other generals to cause disorder in the American military.\n\nHistorical Activity: While a majority of SCP-5700's historical activity remains largely unknown, historical and firsthand accounts have been able to confirm the presence of at least a few of its members at a variety of confrontations ranging small engagements to large-scale battles. Among the more well-known points of intervention are the battles of Rosebud and later Little Bighorn during the Great Sioux War of 1876, at which at least four members were present.\nSoldiers at the battle recorded events verbally and in writing that likely corresponded to intervention on SCP-5700-2, -4, -5, and -6's parts; SCP-5700-1 is suspected to have also been present, though there is insufficient evidence to effectively support this.\nThe only known physical traces left of SCP-5700 activity are geological oddities generated by SCP-5700-2 and -4 utilizing their abilities, namely in the form of strange geological structures and increased crystalline mineral presence at battle sites. While literary mentions of SCP-5700 in soldiers' journals exist, they are considered extremely rare due to the infrequency of literacy among American citizens at the time.\nBeyond these and related major events, SCP-5700 is believed to have engaged in smaller-scale raids on settler camps with the intent of expelling the settlers rather than killing them. The frequency of such raids is unknown but thought to have been high in SCP-5700's primary area of activity.\nAddendum 5700.1: The following is a summary of all known data concerning the seven members of SCP-5700.\n\nSCP-5700-1\nSCP-5700-2\nSCP-5700-3\nSCP-5700-4\nSCP-5700-5\nSCP-5700-6\nSCP-5700-7\n\nSCP-5700-1, historically known as Harry Yount.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-1\nKnown Aliases: Harry Yount\nContainment: Uncontained, Alive\nDescription: Caucasian male appearing to be in their late forties bearing brown hair and hazel eyes. Modern sightings of the subject describe them as having a large beard, as well.\nAnomalous Abilities: SCP-5700-1 possesses anomalously sensitive electrosensitivity to the point of being able to detect and locate nearby organisms within a variable radius. Subject's ability has also proven to be receptive to certain meteorological phenomenon such as thunderstorms, the presence of which is reported to cause SCP-5700-1 severe migraines. SCP-5700-1 also possesses negligible senescence, causing little to no aging since his abilities were initially obtained.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/encounter_logs/1:\n\n- Collapse\n\nLocation: American Northwestern and Cascadia area\nDate: Multiple\nSummary: While successful containment of SCP-5700-1 has not yet been achieved, Foundation personnel have encountered and briefly interacted with the subject on multiple occasions, sometimes for up to several minutes at a time. To date, all attempts to capture SCP-5700-1 have failed, being generally attributed to pursuing personnel losing track of the subject. While SCP-5700-1's anomalous abilities as described by SCP-5700-4, are exclusively sensory, sparse evidence suggests the possible existence of at least one secondary anomalous ability that has yet to be formally identified or directly observed. As with the general search for SCP-5700-1, research is ongoing.\nSignificant Encounters:\n\nBlackfoot, Idaho, 2/17/1970. SCP-5700-1 checked into a hospital using fake credentials for a gunshot graze to the shoulder; as per standard procedure, the local police force was notified. A Foundation webcrawler monitoring radio signals in that area detected the description of a person matching SCP-5700-1 over a broadcast and alerted nearby agents to the situation. SCP-5700-1 was driven to the roof of the building and all alternative exits were blocked. As agents stormed the roof in search of the subject, a report came from two floors down that SCP-5700-1 had been sighted. The reporting agent was later found incapacitated and SCP-5700-1 was seen exiting via the front entrance and escaping into a nearby forest. Further searching yielded no results.\nProvidence, Washington, 5/3/1976. Subject was spotted at a firing range by an off-duty agent and confronted on-site; SCP-5700-1 received a minor gunshot wound to his right arm but fired back, non-fatally wounding the agent and escaping shortly after. CCTV footage from the complex confirmed it was indeed SCP-5700-1.\nProvo, Utah, 6/13/1984. Subject was seen in the background of a news broadcast by a Foundation webcrawler and agents were notified. Local security cameras allowed further tracking to an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town where SCP-5700-1 was seemingly cornered. Agents entered the building, made visual contact with the subject, and were ordered to abstain from lethal force unless absolutely necessary. After a brief chase through the building, SCP-5700-1's voice was heard shouting \u201cRun\u201d outside the rear entrance, after which contact was lost.\nFort Collins, Colorado, 12/24/2009. See Interview 5700.1A.\n\nA portrait of SCP-5700-2 taken sometime in the late 19th century.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-2\nKnown Aliases: Carter Brooke\nContainment: K.I.A., Deceased\nDescription: Caucasian male appearing in their late forties or fifties with blonde hair, gray eyes, and a notably bulky physique. A man too stubborn for his own good.\nAnomalous Abilities: SCP-5700-2 possessed considerable geokinetic abilities and was able to manipulate terrain in their vicinity with notable precision. Subject used his abilities for a variety of purposes ranging from combat to utility. Notably, SCP-5700-2 appears to have been capable of tapping into and amplifying local seismic activity in times of heightened emotion as a last resort for self-defense. Additionally, SCP-5700-2 possessed decelerated aging while alive.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/encounter_logs/2:\n\n- Collapse\n\nDamage caused to a local roadway following SCP-5700-2's death.\n\nLocation: North of West Yellowstone, Montana\nDate: 8/17/1959\nSummary: Originally encountered prior to the formal classification of SCP-5700 as a whole, SCP-5700-2 was marked as a person of interest after reports of a man anomalously manipulating rocks and minerals were intercepted by Foundation personnel in the southwestern Montana area. SCP-5700-2 was eventually located and engaged. The subject violently resisted detainment and fought with Foundation forces for approximately two hours, managing to severely injure several and kill two before being fatally wounded himself.\nBefore expiring from his injuries, SCP-5700-2 began screaming and clutching his chest while rambling incoherently. Then, at 11:37 PM MST, SCP-5700-2 emitted a series of extremely powerful seismic waves for about thirty seconds. The releases triggered tectonic movement in the nearby fault line, resulting in the creation of a powerful earthquake possessing a strength of 7.3 MW. This quake, eventually dubbed the \u201cHebgen Lake Earthquake\u201d by the public, resulted in 28 non-Foundation casualties, extensive flooding, localized geological restructuring, and nearly $11 million1 in damages.\nDue to the sheer intensity of the waves, all personnel engaging SCP-5700-2 at the time were instantly killed. Footage of the event was only available via bodycam footage being broadcast to a nearby Foundation Site that was monitoring the operation; all equipment on present personnel was subsequently destroyed. The remains of SCP-5700-2 and all engaging personnel were soon collected and transported to the supervising Site; an autopsy of SCP-5700-2 was deemed unfeasible due to the severely mangled state of his body, whose remains were cremated and moved to Site-64 for storage. Deceased personnel were transported elsewhere for processing and eventual return to their respective families. He died as he lived: stubborn as all hell.\n\nSCP-5700-3's current location during an output event.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-3\nKnown Aliases: Nahimana,2 Nah\nContainment: Pending, Unknown\nDescription: Native American female, estimated to have been around 7 years old, described as having dark hair and hazel eyes; appearance is not expected to have changed since estimated time of burial.\nAnomalous Abilities: SCP-5700-3 possesses the anomalous ability to spontaneously generate and control water with notable precision; water created by SCP-5700-3 is allegedly superheated and quickly dissipates into steam; the volume of this water is said to vary, with some generation events creating nearly 10,000 L (2600 US gal.) of liquid.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/encounter_logs/3:\n\n- Collapse\n\nLocation: Unknown Yellowstone National Park\nDate: N/A\nSummary: Subject is currently buried 10 meters underground in the southwestern area of Yellowstone National Park. Subject was reportedly buried there nearly 140 years ago by other SCP-5700 instances after it was believed that she had died. The subject's anomalous ability to generate water has remained in a constantly active state, continuing to expel boiling water from the crevasse in which she is located, mimicking the appearance of a natural spring. Her location has since been dubbed the \u201cSolitary Geyser\u201d by the public. SCP-5700-3's body will regularly generate larger bursts of water which lead to eruption events from the spring; these are considered normal.\nSCP-5700-3 has yet to be directly engaged by Foundation assets, though ground-penetrating scans of her location have been performed. Whether SCP-5700-3 is deceased or in a state of suspended animation is unknown, and research is ongoing. Think what you will, she will save us all, in time.\n\nSCP-5700-4 with an unidentified Sioux child, possibly SCP-5700-3\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-4\nKnown Aliases: Hotah3\nContainment: Contained, Alive\nDescription: Native American male appearing to be in their late seventies, possessing dark tan skin, black hair and brown eyes. Blessed by his gods, haunted by his past.\nAnomalous Abilities: SCP-5700-4 possesses the ability to transmute nearly any organism from the Plante Kingdom into minerals (typically granite, feldspar, or quartz) on physical contact with the specimen. SCP-5700-4 is able to manually affect the rate or direction of transmutation. Once the subject has contacted a viable specimen, transmutation may occur during up to the next thirty seconds, even if direct contact has been lost. SCP-5700-4 also possesses notably decelerated senescence, causing him to age at a very slow rate.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/encounter_logs/4:\n\n- Collapse\n\nLocation: Jackson Hole, Wyoming\nDate: 6/28/1979\nSummary: SCP-5700-4 was brought to the Foundation's attention following a sighting by local agents pursuing an unrelated anomaly in which they witnessed a man turn ordinary flowers into quartz crystals with his bare hands.\nThe subject was then confronted by Foundation operatives and entered custody, apparently insistent on not attracting the attention of civilians. SCP-5700-4 was being briefly held at Site-11 prior to being officially housed at Site-17. No incidents have occurred regarding SCP-5700-4's containment since, and the subject has actively sought to help the Foundation complete its records of SCP-5700's activity.\n\nSCP-5700-5.\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-5\nKnown Aliases: Peter O'Brien\nContainment: K.I.A., Deceased\nDescription: Caucasian male appearing to be in their thirties, possessing black hair, brown eyes, and a notably lean build. A man rejected by his society.\nAnomalous Abilities: SCP-5700-5 was able to manually manipulate shadows cast by objects within a roughly 60-meter range. As such, SCP-5700-5 was capable of shrouding large areas in darkness by condensing shadows from its surroundings to the point where the condensed area experienced a state of complete darkness. Notably, direct exposure to moonlight caused SCP-5700-5's skin to illuminate to the point where it could be made out even through condensed darkness.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/encounter_logs/5:\n\n- Collapse\n\nA still frame from the shoulder-cam of an agent engaging SCP-5700-5.\n\nLocation: Billings, Montana\nDate: 5/22/1969\nSummary: SCP-5700-5 was encountered by Foundation agents investigating a string of rumors circulating around describing a man capable of causing blackouts and manipulating shadows around him. SCP-5700-5 was found to have committed various petty thieveries, muggings, and robberies in the area. The subject was eventually cornered in an abandoned warehouse by several members of MTF Epsilon-06 (\u201cVillage Idiots\u201d) responding to the aforementioned rumors.\nSCP-5700-5 proceeded to flood the area in a thick darkness that completely obscured available cameras and flashlights, and rendered night vision equipment ineffective. SCP-5700-5 then attacked and killed one task force member and seriously wounded two using an antique knife.4 While attempting to kill another member, SCP-5700-5 was thrown off and passed through a beam of moonlight streaming in through a hole in the ceiling. In reaction to the moonlight, a portion of SCP-5700-5's body became temporarily visible, and present forces were able to target and fatally wound the subject. Cowardly as Peter was, he didn't deserve to die like this.\nBefore dying, SCP-5700-5 was heard chuckling and gurgling something about not \u201cexpect[ing] it to end like this,\u201d followed shortly after by a dissipation of the darkness as the subject expired. A later autopsy revealed nothing of significance, and the subject was cremated and moved to Site-64 to be stored alongside SCP-5700-2's remains.\n\nA possible image of SCP-5700-6's original form\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-6\nKnown Aliases: Sean Nov\u00e1k\nContainment: Contained, Deceased\nDescription: No consistent appearance except for hazel irises.\nAnomalous Abilities: SCP-5700-6 was able to manually alter his physical appearance to match that of another individual with extreme precision. Despite the high degree of detail achieved in these transformations, SCP-5700-6's irises and scent invariably remained unaltered. SCP-5700-6 was able to transform into any individual he had seen the face of at any prior point in time. The subject also resisted aging to a considerable degree, but died of old age in 2006.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/encounter_logs/5:\n\n- Collapse\n\nLocation: Gallatin Gateway, Montana President Grant was always his favorite face to wear.\nDate: 8/20/1980\nSummary: SCP-5700-6 was tracked to Gallatin Gateway utilizing experimental tracking technology. Upon being located and confronted, SCP-5700-6 transformed into a nearby pedestrian and attempted to escape. A brief chase ensued, with the subject taking on the forms of various civilians, transforming in plain sight of nearby pedestrians until being successfully captured. All exposed civilians were detained and amnestics were administrated as needed, and an appropriate cover story was later released.\nSCP-5700-6 remained fully uncooperative until making contact with SCP-5700-4 at Site-17, after which the subject gradually stopped resisting Foundation personnel and eventually served to reinforce SCP-5700-4's historical accounts. Although initially abrasive with other personnel at the Site, SCP-5700-6 has since adjusted and cooperates well with his sitemates.\n\n[FILE NOT FOUND].\n\nDesignation: SCP-5700-7\nKnown Aliases: \u201cEric\u201d\nContainment: N/A, Deceased\nDescription: Male, possibly Caucasian\nAnomalous Abilities: Unidentified, but reportedly able to disorient targets at a considerable range; telepathy or telekinesis suspected.\nContact: Unlike other SCP-5700 instances, SCP-5700-7 did not possess any resistance to aging in addition to his primary anomalous ability, and is believed to have died from natural causes over a century prior to the Foundation's formal identification of SCP-5700. SCP-5700-7 is considered Neutralized. If only things were that simple.\n\nInterview 5700.1: On 12/18/2002, Dr. Caballero conducted an interview with SCP-5700-4 to gain a better understanding of the history and activity of SCP-5700 during their time of activity. A transcript of the interview is available below.\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/interview/transc1.log:\n\n- Collapse\n\nVideo Log Transcript\nInterview 01 Video Log\nDate: 12/18/2002\nInterviewer: Dr. Caballero, Head of SCP-5700 Operations\nInterviewee: SCP-5700-4\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(SCP-5700-4 is already seated as Dr. Caballero enters the room and looks up from his clipboard smiling slightly. SCP-5700-4 begins to rise and reach for Dr. Caballero's hand until he makes a declining motion and sits. SCP-5700-4 nods and reseats himself.)\nDr. Caballero: Good morning, dash four, how are you doing?\nSCP-5700-4: I am well, thank you. Yourself?\nDr. Caballero:(Coughs lightly.) Ah, I've been better. Anyway, I just had some questions about your, uh, friends.\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) Yes, SCP-5700, as you call us. Where would you like me to start?\nDr. Caballero: From the beginning, if you would.\nSCP-5700-4: Very well. (He slightly repositions himself in his chair and sighs.) It had to have been around\u2026 (He falls silent for a moment.) \u2026probably 1872. I remember there was snow.\nDr. Caballero: So winter. Maybe January or February perhaps?\nSCP-5700-4: No way to be certain, but most likely.\nDr. Caballero: (Scribbles some notes on his clipboard before looking up.) Alright, please continue.\nSCP-5700-4: It all began near the clear lake with black shores5. My niece Nahimana and I had been traveling to another one of our tribe's outposts when we got separated from the rest of our group, so we set up for the night by the water. It was a clear night, and we fell asleep quickly.\n(SCP-5700-4 leans back in his chair and chuckles lightly.)\nSCP-5700-4: When I woke up I was staring down the barrel of a gun.\nDr. Caballero: SCP-5700-1's original group?\nSCP-5700-4: Most of it, at least, probably around twenty men. Apparently we were in \u201cclaimed territory\u201d and \u201ctrespassing,\u201d so they were deciding what to do with Nahimana and I.\nDr. Caballero: That must have been quite a shock.\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) I myself had never known Harry before that day, nor any of his associates, for that matter. I'd heard rumors of him from other tribesmen before, a settler with a distaste for settling, who only hunted with great reluctance, going so far as to mourn some of the animals he killed.\nDr. Caballero: (Flips through some papers on his clipboard and nods.) Yes, many accounts of Youn\u2014 uh, SCP-5700-1 have described him as such.\nSCP-5700-4: And if not for that compassion I fear we would not be speaking now. Carter, as I came to know him, or the one you know as SCP-5700-2, had quite a temperament, as did many of Harry's men. They weren't particularly against my kind, rather they just saw us as in their way. In Carter's eyes at least, my niece and I were camping out in someone's back yard.\nDr. Caballero: And SCP-5700-1 stepped in?\nSCP-5700-4: Just in time too. Carter and Sean, that is, dash two and five, had dragged us out of our tent and thrown us in the snow, guns trained on our heads. The rest of the group were standing not too far behind, muttering back in forth. My English wasn't perfect back then, but it was clear that they were all deciding what to do with us, or rather our bodies once they were done with us. Nahimana was clinging to me the whole time, her eyes wide, her breathing rapid.\nAnyway, they picked us up and had just shoved us to the lakeshore when a man came bursting out of the pines\u2014none other than Harry Yount. He started shouting at the two with guns, grabbed their weapons, and threw them into a snowbank nearby. Harry kept gesturing to Nahimana then to the guns and asking them how they could even consider shooting a child, and\u2026 (He falls silent.)\nDr. Caballero: Are you alright? We can take a break for a minute if you\u2014\nSCP-5700-4: No, it's alright, I just\u2026 haven't thought about all of this in a long time.\nDr. Caballero: Alright, please continue.\nSCP-5700-4: Harry's tirade kept going for a good few minutes, and the whole time not a single one of his men spoke a word. Eventually he stopped and said \u201cI can't do this anymore. Look at us! Coming and slaughtering these people, their children no less, in their own lands!\u201d Nobody said anything, nobody even moved for nearly a minute until Harry grabbed his pack, supplies, and rifle and pulled Nahimana and I up by the hand and nodded his head towards our camp. We hurried over and quickly packed our things up. Carter started towards us and began to say something, but Harry stopped him in his tracks and shut him up with a simple \u201cNo.\u201d\nWhen we had our bundles ready to go, Harry gestured the two of us to come to him and turned towards the rest of them. I\u2026 I will never forget what he said to them. (He pauses for a moment to take a sip of water.)\nStanding straight he declared \u201cI won't sit idly by and watch these Indians, these people be slaughtered in their own home anymore, nor these grand forests be wiped out for our mere convenience. I'm putting an end to this\u2026 this invasion, one way or another,\u201d then turned away and shakily spoke \u201cSo says I.\u201d And without saying a word more, the three of us started down the shore, due North.\n(SCP-5700-4 falls silent and sighs nostalgically.)\nSCP-5700-4: One of the men was the first to speak. He looked at Harry and shook his head, told him that none of them were going to follow him down that shore, that he was acting on emotions and he couldn't stop the expansion with his ideals of justice alone. Then Sean stepped forward and told Harry the other man was right, what he was doing was basically suicide.\nDr. Caballero: So all of SCP-5700-1's men abandoned him?\nSCP-5700-4: Not exactly. Sean just shrugged, grabbed his pack, trudged over to Harry, and threw a sly grin over his shoulder at the rest of the group. He said that he was a man with no place to go anyway, and he trusted Harry enough to stand by him. The group was dumbfounded, of course, and their awe only grew when Carter and Peter stepped forward as well.\nDr. Caballero: So that's\u2026 (Pauses a moment to mentally count.) \u2026still only six of you.\nSCP-5700-4: Then Harry scanned the crowd, meeting each man's eyes before clearing his throat, tipping his hat, and turning back down the shore. The five of us followed suit. By now the men's silence had grown to a whisper, then to an uproar of insults and laughs towards the six of us. I peered back towards them and noticed a spark of confusion among the crowd as a man stepped to the edge of the group, pack in hand.\nDr. Caballero: SCP-5700-7.\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) Eric. He was clearly hesitant, and from what I gathered he must have been a loyal friend of Harry's. I don't quite remember what he looked like, but I remember his face was carved with anxiety and confusion, his eyes darting between us and the rest of the men. I turned back down the shore, thinking he wouldn't have the guts to come with us.\nWe were probably one hundred or so meters away when I hear a commotion from behind and turned back and saw Eric sprinting towards us shouting \u201cWait! I'm coming! I'm coming with you!\u201d We stopped as he caught up to us, and he flew straight into a hug with the rest of the defectors, minus me and Nahimana of course. They all patted each other on the backs, wiped a few tears from their eyes, picked up their bags, and we were on our way.\nI threw one last look back up the shore to those men and felt their eyes burning on us, heard their insults and cries of treason and hatred, telling us we were destined to fail. But we had made up our minds, and we pressed on through the snow-covered gravel, making our way north.\nDr. Caballero: (Scribbling notes on his clipboard.) Fascinating. Now, had any of you developed your anomalous abilities at this point?\nSCP-5700-4: (Shakes his head.) Our meeting with Her wasn't until a little later.\nDr. Caballero: Her?\nSCP-5700-4: (Leans forward and takes a sip of water before leaning back in his chair.) Harry intended to, um, enlist, with the nearest native tribe in order to directly fight the expansion, and while my own lands were further east, several tribes called the area home at the time. The nearest was the Nez Perce tribe, just north of the geyser fields. I acted as the guide for the trip and decided we would cut through the fields to shorten the journey and avoid the deeper snow to the west.\nDr. Caballero: Really? I don't recall any geothermal activity in that area, or much of anything, for that matter.6\nSCP-5700-4: Odd. Well, anyway, we were near a patch of hotsprings when we decided to set up camp for the night. The ground was naturally warm, but we lit a fire anyway. We managed to find some rodents in the snow and had a decent dinner that night, too. Harry's men sat around the fire for a while discussing their decision to betray their old lives.\nDr. Caballero: I assume they were at least a little shaken up over it?\nSCP-5700-4: Some of them. Sean and Eric were definitely panicked, but Harry, Carter, and Peter didn't have very much waiting for them back in society anyway. Harry had always questioned his role in the expansion, and Carter was on the run from debts of some sort. As for Peter, he wasn't very detailed, but it was clear that because of whatever he had done, he couldn't go back to his old life either. I'll admit even I had some things because of which I could not return either, but that is in the past now.\nWe eventually put the fire out and tucked up in our bedrolls. (Tilts his head and stares at the table.) Hmm. I took it for granted then, but it was a cloudless night with a new moon, and you could see every single star in the sky, brilliant and unfiltered by light pollution or smog, just the glow of the heavens and tricking of the springs. (Looks back to Dr. Caballero and smiles.) Well, soon enough that trickling grew quiet, and I noticed something coming from the water: a light.\nDr. Caballero: A light?\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) It shone all sorts of colors, yellow, orange, pink, like a sunset but somehow more. At this point everyone was up. The glow grew in brightness until it looked like a watery bonfire. Then She rose from the water.\nDr. Caballero: She?\nSCP-5700-4: She was female in shape, her form composed of swirling rock, minerals, and plant life, all still glowing with that\u2026 incredible light. I remember she smiled, a motherly, compassionate smile behind which there could never be even a thread of malice. At first I thought it to be a spirit of some sort.\nDr. Caballero: Something from the local mythos perhaps?\nSCP-5700-4: (Shakes his head.) Whatever She was, well, is, She is older than nearly anything human minds could have organized into a pantheon. No, She is far, far more ancient. Not eternal, but very old and very powerful. I could feel it from Her presence alone.\nDr. Caballero: (Mumbles to himself.) Damn, another Apex? I thought we were done with this shi\u2014 uh, so sorry. You were saying?\nSCP-5700-4: Well, at this point all of us are up, and She begins to speak. It wasn't any language I'd ever heard before, and I don't think I could even write it out, but somehow we all could understand Her perfectly.\nDr. Caballero: And what did She have to say?\nSCP-5700-4: She commended us for our ambition but said that our willpower alone would not be enough to save the lands from encroachment. I looked down at Nahimana and saw a face filled with wonder, her eyes were so wide that I could almost see the stars reflected in them.\nThen the goddess, and She is a goddess mind you, began to glow again, but this time more radiantly, more powerfully than before. Whatever light She was shining seemed to fall on and\u2026 awaken, something within the seven of us simultaneously. It felt almost as though a piece of us that we had never known was missing had been returned or unlocked, you could say. The light continued to get brighter and brighter, and we heard, \u201cGo.\u201d The next thing we knew, we were all in our bedrolls waking up to the sunrise.\nDr. Caballero: That's\u2026 definitely something. So, She wanted to support your group in the anti-expansionist efforts?\nSCP-5700-4: Definitely, maybe even something more, something long term that even now still has yet to come to fruition.\nDr. Caballero: What makes you think that?\nSCP-5700-4: (Shrugs.) Just a feeling, I suppose.\nDr. Caballero: If you say so. Anyway, so the seven of you awaken the next morning and then what?\nSCP-5700-4: (Chuckles.) Well, Carter immediately decided that it was all just a strange dream that we all remembered identically for some reason. Harry began trying to reason with him about how that wasn't possible when Nahimana sneezed and boiling water shot out of her nose.\nDr. Caballero: SCP-5700-3's ability. You described it as spontaneous water generation and control, yes?\nSCP-5700-4: Ordinarily, yes, but Nahimana was so young it was like\u2026 how do I put this in modern terms? Ah, it was similar to giving a baby a rocket launcher; she became very dangerous at first, with nearly no control over her gift. Over time she managed to restrain it to sporadic episodes, but even then she had to isolate herself so as to not hurt the rest of us.\nDr. Caballero: So the unpredictability of her water generation was due to her lack of experience?\nSCP-5700-4: More or less. The rest of us slowly began to discover our gifts. Sean could suddenly turn into President Grant, I could turn leaves into glass, and Harry could feel the heartbeat of a squirrel sleeping in the snow a hundred meters away.\nDr. Caballero: It must have been disorienting then?\nSCP-5700-4: (Smiles and rolls his eyes.) Peter was giddy when he discovered his gift. Of course, we were all confused as hell, and Carter kept saying it was a demon and we were all possessed. He shut up when he stomped his foot and knocked over the tree he was standing next to, though. It was a confusing time, but we grew to understand our gifts eventually.\nDr. Caballero: So you made your way to the Nez Perce tribe?\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) The rest of the trip was rather uneventful, just us trying to figure out our gifts while making our way through the snow.\nDr. Caballero: How did the Nez Perce people respond to SCP-5700-1's proposal?\nSCP-5700-4: They were surprised to say the least, not just one, but five white men coming to join the fight on the losing side, all of them and two more with supernatural abilities, no less. Chief Joseph7 was obviously suspicious, but still clearly thrilled at the prospect of having us at his disposal, so to speak.\nDr. Caballero: Can you recall any specifics in terms of places your group raided during this time?\nSCP-5700-4: It was such a long time ago that most details elude me, but I do remember something about gold rushers trespassing in officially sovereign land, going as far as to set up whole towns to resist getting kicked out. Their entire settlements were highly illegal, but the American government never cared, gold was good for their economy, after all.\nDr. Caballero: I see.\nSCP-5700-4: But those years, wow. The seven of us went everywhere; Nez Perce, Sioux, even the Shoshone all fought alongside us at some point.\nDr. Caballero: Fascinating.\nSCP-5700-4: All the while we honed our abilities bit by bit. By the time we made it to Little Bighorn, we were, for lack of a better term, on fire. Carter throwing boulders, Peter blacking out whole sections of the battlefield, and Eric doing something strange to disorient the enemy soldiers.\nDr. Caballero: Something?\nSCP-5700-4: Come to think of it, I don't think I ever did find out what Eric's gift was, I merely saw the effects it had on enemy troops.\nDr. Caballero: Odd. Do you think it could have been telepathic in some capacity?\nSCP-5700-4: (Shrugs.) I couldn't say. Whatever he did, it worked.\nDr. Caballero: (Writes some notes down.) Alright. So, the last record we can find of SCP-5700's activity was from around 1880, why did you stop?\n(SCP-5700-4's eyes go out of focus and his head falls slightly. He sighs and takes a large sip of water before continuing.)\nSCP-5700-4: 1879, I believe. The Tukudeka, \u201cSheep-eaters,8\u201d they called them, had always had friction with the pioneers and miners. Everyone wanted Shoshone land, be it for its lush forests or rich mountains, they wanted it. All they had to do was drop a few accusations of horse thievery here, a few more of murdering Chinese miners there, and the Americans thought they were justified in taking the land.\nIt was a smaller engagement, and we aided the 300 or so of them in a few on-off raids. It was a routine interception, raid a pack train, take the goods, and slowly starve out the opposition, drive them back east. Simple enough. But these men, they were something else.\nDr. Caballero: How so?\nSCP-5700-4: In short, it was a slaughter, as though they never missed a shot. It's a miracle the seven of us got out unharmed, but what was left of the Tukudekan forces was in shambles. We had no choice but to leave them behind and flee east ourselves, and we ended up finding ourselves in the geyser fields again.\nDr. Caballero: Had it been a while since you had last been there?\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) Probably about eight years. It was all as beautiful as ever, and we decided to set up camp and put the bloody battle behind us, figure out what to do, how to connect back with the Tukudeka leaders. Nahimana and I had set out to get firewood when\u2026 (He falls silent.)\nDr. Caballero: When\u2026?\nSCP-5700-4: One of the soldiers from the battle had been tracking us. I came out of the woods into a small clearing to find Nah staring down the barrel of a rifle. The man holding the gun was yelling something about trespassing, and\u2026 (Voice breaking.) Nah went to run and there was a loud bang and she flew back, her chest just\u2026 red.\nI remember screaming\u2026 think I turned an entire tree into glass in less than a second, kicked out the bottom and let gravity to the rest. Everyone else came up the hill to see what was going on; everything after that was just a blur. There were tears but I couldn't cry. I just sat there, even as Carter and Harry buried her right in front of me. They left eventually, and it was just Harry and I and water bubbling, and\u2026 (He chokes back a sob and falls silent.)\nDr. Caballero: If it's too much we can continue this another time, I wouldn't want to put you through any\u2014\nSCP-5700-4: No, I\u2026 I'm okay. I just miss her, is all.\nDr. Caballero: If you're comfortable with continuing, then please proceed.\nSCP-5700-4: At first I thought Nah was still alive, it was her water spilling out of the Earth, anyway, but as more and more came gushing out, Harry and I noticed the light; it was Her again.\nDr. Caballero: The godde\u2014 entity from when you received your anomalous abilities?\nSCP-5700-4: Time still felt blurred at this point, but I remember her saying something about how Nah still needed to \u201cdefeat the depths,\u201d and that she \u201cwasn't dead or alive.\u201d\nDr. Caballero: A state of suspended animation perhaps?\nSCP-5700-4: Your guess is as good as mine. I don't think it'll take you too long to locate her spring, but I assume you'll run a battery of tests when you find it anyway.\nDr. Caballero: It's just procedure at that point. But with the \u201cdefeat the depths\u201d part, do you have any idea what She may have been referring to?\nSCP-5700-4: (Shakes his head.) Nothing solid. Ever since that day I've been trying to figure out what She meant, even up to the day you all took me in.\nDr. Caballero: Alright, I'll look into it as well and see what I can dig up. Now, how impactful was SCP-5700-3's passing on the rest of the group.\nSCP-5700-4: (Sniffs.) After that we just kind of\u2026 fell apart. Nah was a staple that held us all together, and with her gone our vision simply fizzled out. Three nights later we woke up and Peter was gone. Sean and Carter left soon after, too. Eric was broken over the ordeal, but he stuck close to Harry after that. Those two always were always close, closer than brothers.\nDr. Caballero: Did you ever come in contact with the other members of SCP-5700 after your dispersal?\nSCP-5700-4: (Nods.) I ran into Harry twice, I think, and Carter once. We were surprised to see each other every time but none of us had much to say. We ate together, wished each other the best, and went our separate ways. And here we are today. Well, except a few of us, right?\nDr. Caballero: You mean the terminated instances?\nSCP-5700-4: That's one way to phrase it. Carter, Peter, and Eric all lived full lives, either way.\nDr. Caballero: We've never confronted SCP-5700-7 before, actually.\nSCP-5700-4: I would think so. You see, doctor, Eric was different from the rest of us. While the rest of us never aged, or at least at a negligible rate, Eric was just as mortal as all the men we fought. I know for a fact that he and Harry were inseparable, and since I don't remember seeing him with Harry either time I ran into him, I have to assume the worst for him, I'm afraid.\nDr. Caballero: So SCP-5700-7 was mortal? Interesting.\nSCP-5700-4: (Shrugs.) All men die. Mankind is only allotted so much time on this Earth, after all, and Eric used up all of his a long time ago.\nDr. Caballero: (Finishing writing on his clipboard.) Well, anything else you'd like to add?\nSCP-5700-4: Harry's still out there, isn't he?\n(Dr. Caballero pauses for a moment, contemplating whether to share the information of SCP-5700-1's containment status.)\nDr. Caballero: That is correct, SCP-5700-1 is still uncontained but alive.\nSCP-5700-4: (Exhales deeply and nods.) In that case I would ask to speak with him if he does eventually come into your custody.\nDr. Caballero: I'll see if I can arrange a meeting when the time comes.\nSCP-5700-4: Thank you.\nDr. Caballero: Okay, I've put you through a lot today, haven't I? In that case we can just cover the specifics of SCP-5700 later if that's alright with you.\nSCP-5700-4: That would be great. I appreciate your understanding.\n(Dr. Caballero rises to leave and gestures for a guard to come escort SCP-5700-4 back to his room.)\nDr. Caballero: Great. Thank you for your time.\nSCP-5700-4: Don't mention it. Enjoy the rest of your afternoon, doctor.\n(Dr. Caballero nods and returns to his office, and SCP-5700-4 leaves the room to be escorted back to his quarters. As he exits the room, SCP-5700-4 can barely be heard mumbling something about SCP-5700-1 as he steps into the hall.)\n[END LOG]\n\nIncident/Interview 5700.1A.: On 12/24/2009 SCP-5700-1 was encountered in Fort Collins, Colorado by an off-duty researcher who saw and recognized the subject at a Christmas Eve church service. The researcher, Researcher Graham, contacted his superiors and attempted to stall while MTF Epsilon-06 prepared to engage. Graham recorded the conversation using a discreet camera built into his glasses.\nDuring a sweep of the area following the taskforce's arrival, Graham was found to be missing. His recording glasses were discovered broken on the ground just within the tree line of a nearby forest. The following is a transcript of the video file extracted from the device.\n\n_\n\n+ Access fileserv:/S:/5700/interview-A1/transc2.log:- Collapse\n\nVideo Log Transcript\nInterview/Interview 01 Video Log\nDate: 12/24/2009\nInterviewer: SCP-GD Analyst Samuel Graham\nInterviewee: SCP-5700-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Graham's reflection can be seen in a bathroom mirror as the video begins. He fiddles with his glasses for a moment before realizing his camera is recording. His posture straightens as he speaks to the camera's reflection.)\nGraham: Alright, so I have encountered SCP-5700-1 here in, uh, Fort Collins, Colorado. I've alerted Epsilon \u2018o six, and they are currently en route. I am going to attempt to stall the subject until their arrival.\n(Graham pauses for a moment, takes a deep breath, swallows, and exits the bathroom. A small lobby area can now be seen: several churchgoers are milling about, and SCP-5700-1 can be seen at the far end of the room near the door to the main chapel. Graham briefly makes small talk with some of the other people as he makes his way towards SCP-5700-1, who glances up from a small beverage as he approaches.)\nGraham: Um, hi, I don't think I've seen you around here before, I'm Sam. (Graham's hand enters the frame as he offers a handshake.)\n(SCP-5700-1 eyes Graham hesitantly before shaking his hand and nodding politely.)\nSCP-5700-1: Harry.\nGraham: A pleasure. Did you enjoy the service?\nSCP-5700-1: Yes, it was very nice. I liked the part with, uh, Jesus.\nGraham: (Chuckles.) I would hope so. So, are you here with anyone else tonight?\n(SCP-5700-1's eyes flicker to another beverage cup on the table next to him and shuffles his feet.)\nSCP-5700-1: No, just me tonight.\nGraham: Ah. Well, we're having a post-service party in a little bit, do you have any family you'd like to bring to that?\nSCP-5700-1: No, they're all, um, gone.\nGraham: Oh, I'm\u2026 so sorry.\nSCP-5700-1: (Pauses and stares off at something before shaking his head.) It's fine. Time heals all wounds, right?\nGraham: (Patting SCP-5700-1 on the shoulder.) Time and a little bit of whiskey, my friend. Trust me, I've been there.\nSCP-5700-1: (Chuckles.) Know any good pubs around here?\nGraham: One or two come to mind.\n(SCP-5700-1 sighs and places his beverage next to the cup on the table.)\nSCP-5700-1: If you're payin'\u2026 (Shrugs.) Why not?\n(Graham and SCP-5700-1 leave the church and walk for a few minutes before reaching a local pub. They enter, seat themselves at the bar and order some food and drinks. By the time SCP-5700-1 has had a few drinks, he appears more relaxed and noticeably inebriated. He doesn't seem to notice his food arriving.)\nGraham: So, you mentioned earlier about your family. Mind talking about it? Those kinds of things weigh on your heart.\nSCP-5700-1: (Sighs and nods.) Yeah. We used to be great, the seven of us. Jumping from fight to fight, like nothin' anyone'd ever seen. We were unstoppable. (He pauses to take another sip of his drink. He notices his food and picks a fry off of his plate and pops it in his mouth; a third of the burger has already been eaten.)\nGraham: Military, then. Which war was this?\nSCP-5700-1: (Swallows.) None you'd ever heard of, this was before your time.\nGraham: If you say so. (Graham reaches around SCP-5700-1 and takes a few fries from the plate. Half of SCP-5700-1's burger has now been eaten.)\nSCP-5700-1: But the first of us to\u2026 (He falls silent for a few moments before continuing.) \u2026Nah.\n(SCP-5700-1 lurches forward as though having been struck from behind. He swings around with a backhand but restrains himself as he turns to reveal and empty seat beside him. SCP-5700-1 mumbles something and turns back towards Graham.)\nSCP-5700-1: Nah. That's what we called her at least. I always just called her \u201ckid.\u201d\nGraham: How old?\nSCP-5700-1: Couldn't have been older than eleven or twelve when it happened. God, I remember it like it was yesterday. We were down by the Upper Basin. Hotah and her had just left to gather wood a few minutes earlier when we hear a gunshot and a crash of glass. Carter, Eric, and I ran up the hill to see what had happened. A stranger, well, what was left of him was lying mangled under a huge pile of crystal leaves and branches; Hotah must have turned the tree into\u2026 gah. Bastard's rifle was still smoking when we ran in. (He takes another large sip; he calls over the bartender who comes by and refills the drink.)\nHotah was holding Nah when we finally got up to the clearing. God, there was so much blood. One large gunshot, right in her stomach. Goddammit, I can still remember her face, the fear, the\u2026 (He trails off and is silent for a few moments. He sighs deeply, takes another sip, and snaps a brief profanity at the empty seat next to him.)\nGraham: I don't want to put you through this again if it's too painful to\u2014\nSCP-5700-1: No, I'm alright, it's just\u2026 I can understand why the bastard would have gone after Hotah, but a fucking child? (He sighs.) This was exactly what I was trying to prevent in the first place, and still it all came back to bite me in the ass anyway.\n(Graham takes a sip of his drink but remains silent. SCP-5700-1 slides his plate in front of him and begins picking through the fries. He scans the counter briefly.)\nSCP-5700-1: Didn't I get a burger?\nGraham: Didn't you eat it?\n(SCP-5700-1 pauses in thought for a second before shaking his head.)\nSCP-5700-1: We buried her there that evening. Everyone was\u2026 broken. We wept. Hotah just sat next to the grave, blank-faced; the poor guy just didn't know what to do. By dusk we finally started heading back to camp. I hung back with Hotah for a little bit. That's when we noticed water coming out of the ground. I had to pull Hotah away from the grave as the flow grew, he kept insisting she was somehow still alive, that we had just buried her too quickly. That boiling water of hers came blasting out, hot enough to warm you to the bone from ten feet away. Within minutes there was a brand-spanking-new hot spring where there had been glass and blood just a few minutes ago.\nGraham: That's\u2026 odd.\n(SCP-5700-1 chuckles heartily; he is now clearly drunk and slurs his words as he speaks.)\nSCP-5700-1: I thought so too until I saw that bright light streaming out of it and ta-da! Who is it?\n(He pauses and looks towards Graham as though expecting an answer.)\nGraham: Was it, uh, Na\u2014\nSCP-5700-1: Nope, it's that water bitch from eight fucking years ago. Starts blabbin' about how Nah \u201cwasn't dead or alive\u201d and still she had to \u201cdefeat the depths\u201d or some bullsh\u2014\nGraham: (Interrupting.) Harry, tone it down a little, people are starting to stare.\n(SCP-5700-1 quiets down, his voice sinking to a mutter. The bartender comes by, eyes him, then refills his glass with water. SCP-5700-1 drinks a little and sighs.)\nSCP-5700-1: Sorry, there's a lot to unpack there. I never should have dredged all that up.\nGraham: Sorry to put you through that.\nSCP-5700-1: No one's fault but mine. I think I've had my fill of storytelling for tonight. Might be time to part ways.\nGraham: I'm not letting you off on your own looking like this, I can help you home. Where are you staying?\n(Graham's phone buzzes with a text. He takes it out, and the leader of MTF Epsilon-06 operations contact can be seen on the screen.)\nGraham: Okay, hold that thought, Harry. I gotta take this, can you just give me one sec?\n(SCP-5700-1 nods and leans back, and mumbles something. Graham steps outside into a snowy parking lot and dials the contact.)\nGraham: Hello?\nEpsilon-06-A: Graham? We're almost there, how are you holding up?\nGraham: I'm fine, Har\u2014 uh, 'dash one' is in the pub at my location. I got him a little drunk, so there'll be no need for lethal force, just some amnestics for the locals.\nEpsilon-06-A: You what? Excellent job, kid. (He barks some commands to someone off-mic.) Alright, we'll be there any minute now, just keep him busy for a little bit longer. Got it?\nGraham: Alright, but there's no telling how fast he'll sober up, being anomalous and all. (Pauses.) Don't be too rough with him if you can help it. Like I said, you won't need leth\u2014\nEpsilon-06-A: Careful, Graham. I shouldn't have to tell you that sentiment can kill as easily as a gun in our line of work. As far as we need be concerned, that thing isn't a person. It's an anomaly. Simple as.\nGraham: R-right, sorry. See you soon.\n(Graham pockets his phone and turns back towards the pub. SCP-5700-1 is leaning against the building, staring at Graham. He shakes his head and stands up straight.)\nSCP-5700-1: I should'a known when I first saw you. I could feel your heart rate going wild, I thought, \u201cWait, what if this guy's one of them?\u201d\nGraham: Harry, please, I\u2014\nSCP-5700-1: I mean, to be fair, you were nice enough to make me doubt that. (He chuckles.) In fact, I might be drunk, but I thought your heart was racing because you were into me or something.\nGraham: I don't want this any more than you do, Harry.\nSCP-5700-1: Oh, look who's talkin'! You couldn't just let a couple of old men have their rest, could you?\nGraham: I don't like it either, but you're anomalous, they won't let you.\nSCP-5700-1: Oh, because I can feel electricity more than your average Joe, I just have to be locked away forever, is that it?\nGraham: (Pauses.) I mean, you're also kind of an immortal ecoterrorist.\nSCP-5700-1: That's aside the point.\n(SCP-5700-1 straightens up and looks around, then back at Graham.)\nSCP-5700-1: We're done here, I can feel your dogs closing in. (SCP-5700-1 turns to run but pauses. After a moment, he turns back towards Graham, a tired smile on his face.) You're a good kid. Don't let them take that from you. (He tips his head slightly forward.) Merry Christmas, Sam.\n(SCP-5700-1 appears to reach for something besides him and vanishes. Graham scans the parking lot confusedly; Epsilon-06 vehicles finally arrive, and agents begin to unload. Epsilon-06-A approaches Graham.)\nEpsilon-06-A: (To the other agents.) I want a full sweep of this place. Migs, prep some gen-retro for the civis. (Turning to Graham) Graham, which way'd he go.\nGraham: (Looking around confusedly.) I\u2026 wait, he was right here.\nEpsilon-06-A: Yes, but where is he now?\nGraham: (Clutches his head.) Gah, what the hell? He was here and then\u2026\nEpsilon-06-A: (Rolls his eyes and shakes his head.) Oh well, good enough job getting us the heads up, he couldn't have gotten very far, especially loaded up on booze like that.\nGraham: Y-yea. What can I do to help?\nEpsilon-06-A: (Pulls a small handgun from his belt and handing it handle-first to Graham.) We're not letting this bastard slip away again. I expect you won't either. (06-A cranes his head down towards Graham, locking eyes with him.) Do what you know you have to do.\n(Graham nods and departs in the direction of a nearby line of trees. A full moon illuminates the area brightly. As he approaches, two sets of footprints become apparent in the snow, one of them made by long, dragging steps. Graham draws his weapon and follows the footprints further, passing the tree line. In the distance, a flicker of movement dances on the edge of the camera and Graham turns to face it: in the distance a flickering figure can be seen hobbling through the snow, continuing the trail Graham was already following.)\n(Graham raises his gun, braces himself, and fires off three shots. Upon the third shot, the figure solidifies, stumbles, and falls over. Graham runs over towards the subject but slows as he grows closer. SCP-5700-1 can be seen getting up from the ground, apparently unharmed, and now pulling a second man along with him, clutching a fresh gunshot wound to his shoulder. As Graham draws closer, the man slows to a stop and looks back at him. The man is aged, but unknown digital distortion prevents detailed rendering of his face. SCP-5700-1 is now stopped as well and raises his hands slowly.)\n(The man slowly shakes his head.)\nSCP-5700-1: Please.\n(Graham is silent, his gun trained shakily on the two figures before him. Graham's voice is shaky as he speaks.)\nGraham: I don't want to do this any more than you do, Harry. Just come quietly and we can sort this all out at Site-17. Hotah would be thrilled to see you!\nSCP-5700-1: You don't have to do this, Sam. There's something, a kindness in you, that doesn't belong with those people.\nGraham: (Shakes his head frantically, his voice breaks.) They're all I have.\nSCP-5700-1: What have they given you? Let me guess, a tiny apartment? Lies of a promotion? Mindless paperwork to keep you tucked away in your cubicle? Or false hope that it'll all change for the better someday? That's not a life or whatever you want to call it, that's Stockholm Syndrome.\nGraham: That's not\u2026 it's different than that!\nSCP-5700-1: We both know that's not true. Your kindness was enough to make me of all people question whose side you were on. They're not working with you, Sam, they're using you.\n(Graham attempts to stutter a refutation for a few seconds before falling silent, his gun still trained on the two figures.)\nGraham: (Laughs nervously.) Look at me, hunting down a couple of tired old men like animals. God, and you're far from the only ones. There are others with much more mild abilities than you out there that are being locked away for simply existing. And you're right! It isn't fair, none of it is fucking fair, but\u2026\n(Graham is silent for a moment before grunting loudly in frustration and lowering his weapon. He looks down at the gun in his hands before looking back up to the men.)\nGraham: I don't want to do this. I got drafted into this whole shitshow over a stupid research paper I published in college, I never signed up for this. If I let you go there'll be consequences. I could lose my job, my home, my\u2026\nSCP-5700-1: You don't owe them anything, Sam.\n(Graham wipes his eyes and sighs shakily.)\nGraham: I read your file. A man, no, a whole group of men that willingly threw away everything to try and stop crude injustice and right their own wrongs. You fought back because you knew you couldn't bear to sit through any more of the carnage you saw every day, all while knowing good and well that you could never actually win. Now tell me, not as SCP-5700-1, but as the man who made a choice all those years ago, was it truly all worth it?\n(Everyone is silent for seven seconds.)\nSCP-5700-1: (Nods slowly.) Every last second. (He sighs and smiles.) So says I.\n(Graham throws his glasses to the ground and stomps down on them, shattering the camera lens and severely damaging the recording apparatus. As the video fades, Graham can be seen embracing the men and following them along into the snowy woods.)\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: Epsilon-06 was unable to locate Researcher Graham, SCP-5700-1, or the unknown man the night of the recording; the search for the three subjects is still underway. Graham has been discharged of all Foundation association and is considered an enemy of the Foundation at this time. Investigations into the identity and abilities of the unknown man traveling with SCP-5700-1 are ongoing as well.\n\n_\n\nNotice: Someone else is currently editing this document, click here to intercept their editing lock.- Da\u2c66abase \u2130rror Detecte\u0111\n\nError \u2125O21 - Us\u212fr Not F0unD\nYour station has been flagged for invalid database access.\nPlease log out, sh\u222at dow\u1d0e yo\u222ar console, a\u0e81d \u20a1onsid\u212er t\u0127e \u237a\u0ec2ter\u1db0a\u2670\u0390ve.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\n_\n\n\u25c8\u25c7\n\n\u20a3o\u222andat\u03afon,\nYou have taken it upon yourself to shield our world from the inexplicable, regardless of the costs, and for that I must commend your dedication, but even your eternal duties can have their limits\u2014 not everything, not everyone need be locked away.\nWhen the seven of us set out all those years ago to defend an ancient land from the \u201cgood guys\" as history would come to call them, we knew it would not be an easy task, and in the end we did fail. We scattered off to who knows where to do who knows what, never staying in the same place for too long. Be it angry townsfolk accusing you of demonic possession, or even the earliest shell of what would become your Foundation, nowhere was truly safe for very long. I have no doubt that at least some of your number know what it's like to live on the run, to be unable to settle down, with even a moment's rest meaning the danger nipping at your heels catches up and ends it all. We've lived like this for over a century, and it's just tiresome.\nSo, Foundation, I say this to the side of you that is human, the side that looks into the eyes of the people that you lock away, and knows, at least regretfully, that there is a soul behind some of those eyes that wishes for nothing more than to be left alone. Truly I ask you, what harm is there in letting these tired men rest? Do not let these mysteries and old men of ages past concern you anymore.\nFor all of our sakes, let the past die quietly.\nSo, says I.\n\u2014 Eric\n\n\u00ab SCP-5699 | SCP-5700 | SCP-5701 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Roughly equivalent to $95 million USD today.\n2. A Sioux name meaning \u201csecret.\u201d\n3. A Sioux name meaning \u201cgray.\u201d\n4. Later analysis of the knife found it to be nearly a century old and having likely originated from the Sioux tribe of Native Americans.\n5. Following the Neutralization of SCP-1422, this has been determined to be a reference to Lake Shoshone in Yellowstone National Park\n6. Note that this interview was conducted prior to 7/9/2007.\n7. Chief Joseph was a ruling member of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce tribe during the Nez Perce War in the 1870s.\n8. An antique name for the Tukudeka people, a band of the Shoshone tribe originating from the tribe's high proficiency in Rocky Mountain Sheep hunting."}
{"text": "Item#: 5701\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nA photo of SCP-5701 after recovery.\n\nItem #: SCP-5701\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5701 is stored in a standard containment locker at Storage Site 23. All (authorized) SCP-5701-# instances are held in the neighboring filing cabinet. PoI-5701-3's confiscated anartist tools are held in Research Site 174.\nAfter Ethics Committee Ruling ECR-9502-5701, all remaining SCP-5701-# instances containing Foundation staff members as subjects have been incinerated and testing with SCP-5701 has been suspended indefinitely.\nDescription: SCP-5701 is superficially similar to a Polaroid\u2122 Sun 600 LMS instant camera built by Matthew Tebbe (PoI-5701-3). SCP-5701 functions in the exact same manner as other identical models, except for the fact that it prints SCP-5701-# instances instead of normal photos.\nSCP-5701-# are photographs created by SCP-5701. If a human subject is photographed by SCP-5701, the next time the subject performs an action they regret or consider to be a mistake, or shows regret about a previous action of the same nature, the SCP-5701-# instance in which they were photographed will be altered to depict the subject performing that action. Additional details of this phenomenon can be seen below:\n\n+ Show Advanced SCP-5701-# Description\n\n- Hide Advanced SCP-5701-# Description\n\nIf multiple SCP-5701-# instances are taken of a subject and said instances are activated, only the earliest created SCP-5701-# instance will be affected. The other instance(s) will then be activated by other incidents in the future as normal.\nIf there are multiple subjects photographed within a single SCP-5701-# instance, the first one to trigger the effect edits the SCP-5701-# instance as normal. The other subject(s) is/are ignored.\n\n+ Show 5701 Experiment Logs: Level 1\n\n- Hide 5701 Experiment Logs: Level 1\n\nTest A - Date 3-17-2005\n\nForeword: The function of SCP-5701 had already been crudely depicted by PoI-5701-1. The following tests were made to confirm his description.\nSubject: D-5152\nProcedure: Junior Researcher Mason was ordered to use SCP-5701 to create an SCP-5701-# instance with D-5152 as the subject, then shake D-5152's hand with a joybuzzer (the \"mistake\").\nResults: SCP-5701 printed SCP-5701-1. D-5152 initially showed hostility toward J. R. Mason, but calmed down after being informed of SCP-5701-1, which depicted D-5152 recoiling from J. R. Mason's joybuzzer.\nAnalysis: After additional tests redacted for brevity, PoI-5701-1's description of SCP-5701 was confirmed to be accurate. Testing with staff subjects has been approved.\n\nTest B - Date 3-19-2005\n\nForeword: Subject had been registered for testing to train anomalous object handling in the event of an emergency. After all official paperwork had been filled out, testing was approved.\nSubject: Kyle Hart, Site 23 Custodian\nProcedure: Kyle Hart was ordered to use SCP-5701 to generate an SCP-5701-# instance of himself.\nResults: The next day, SCP-5701-11 had been observed to now depict Kyle walking away from Site 23. His keychain was noticeably missing.\nAnalysis: When asked about the contents of SCP-5701-11, Kyle confessed that after realizing he had forgotten his keys at home, he decided to return home without cleaning his section of the Site. He was later reprimanded for his actions.\n\nTest C - Date 3-20-2005\n\nForeword: Testing was requested by Senior Researcher Lance for Dr. Hedrick as part of his mandatory Clearance Level 2 Training, and later approved due to the (initially presumed) harmlessness of SCP-5701.\nSubject: Dr. Hedrick\nProcedure: S.R. Lance used SCP-5701 to create SCP-5701-13 with Dr. Hedrick as the subject. Senior Researcher Lance was then asked to inform the Site 23 Director as soon as SCP-5701-13 changed.\nResults: Two hours after testing, SCP-5701-13 changed to depict Dr. Hedrick falling down a flight of stairs between floors 2 and 3 of Site 23. Dr. Albro was also depicted in the picture with an expression of surprise on her face, being the first instance of a non-subject person appearing in an SCP-5701-# instance.\nAnalysis: When asked about Dr. Albro and her possible involvement with SCP-5701-13, Dr. Hedrick attempted to cite \"that feeling of defeat when you [EXPLETIVE] up while someone that you're fond of was watching.\"\n\n+ Show 5701 Experiment Logs: Level 2. PLEASE INPUT LEVEL 2 CREDENTIALS TO ACCESS RESTRICTED DATA.\n\n- CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. Hide 5701 Experiment Logs: Level 2\n\nTest D - Date 3-19-2005\n\nForeword: Dr. Marley was asked in advance if he would be willing to comply with testing, which he later agreed to after being informed of its presumed harmlessness.\nSubject: Dr. Marley\nProcedure: Dr. Marley was asked to use SCP-5701 to generate an SCP-5701-# instance of himself.\nResults: 21 days later, SCP-5701-12 instance depicted a scene of Dr. Marley performing a heart surgery on an unidentifiable patient later confirmed as \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Dr. Myers was visible in the background of the scene. Dr. Marley had an expression commonly associated with shock on his face, and his scalpel was freefalling above said patient. When asked about the contents of SCP-5701-12, Dr. Marley confessed that after the event depicted, his scalpel sliced an artery in the patient, leading to significant blood loss, which put the patient in a critical condition for approximately seven minutes. Dr. Marley and his assistant were demoted to Junior Medical staff.\nAnalysis: N/A\nNotes: \"You damn sons-of-guns lied to me. You told me that this camera wouldn't even hurt me. Well, then it goes on to hurt, if not shred apart, my career. Next thing you know, the whole God-forsaken Foundation's getting spied on. Stop doing this to people. Now.\" - Dr. Marley, 3-31-2005, from an interview on the same day as his confrontation.\n\nTest E - Date 3-31-2005\n\nForeword: MTFU Epsilon-11-59 was asked in advance if he would be willing to comply with testing, which he later agreed to after being informed of its \"known\" harmlessness.\nSubject: Mobile Task Force Unit Epsilon-11-59\nProcedure: MTFU Epsilon-11-59 was asked to use SCP-5701 to generate an SCP-5701-# instance of himself.\nResults: Ten seconds later (setting the record for least time between SCP-5701-# creation and activation), SCP-5701-16 instance depicted the subject firing his standard issue pistol at MTFU Epsilon-11-57, who was KIA on \"RCM (Re-Containment Mission) #462: 6-9-1992.\" When asked about it, MTFU Epsilon-11-59 initially denied the incident, but later admitted that he committed fratricide during the mission for fear that MTFU Epsilon-11-57 was infected with SCP-008, then convinced Overwatch to expunge the incident after a diagnostic confirmed that MTFU Epsilon-11-57 was perfectly healthy. At this point in the interview, MTFU Epsilon-11-59 then had an emotional breakdown, and was unable to continue with questioning. MTFU Epsilon-11-59 was granted amnesty due to the fact that his actions were required by emergency protocols pertaining to anomalous diseases.\nAnalysis: N/A\n\nNotes: \"It's clear that, after test logs D and E, testing needs to be ceased immediately and permanently. Due to the risk of Site Directors using SCP-5701 for excessive surveillance, or worse yet, blackmail, as well as the emotional damage that subjects consistently receive after being confronted by information from their respective SCP-5701-# instance, we, the Ethics Committee as a whole, unanimously vote to indefinitely suspend testing with SCP-5701, as well as incinerate any SCP-5701-# instances involving Foundation staff members. I also, as a personal request, ask that any staff member not confront any of these individuals with any of the information in any of the testing logs. We may have allowed worse things, but no more testing is needed, and it clearly causes a level of emotional damage to the subjects, so we are willing to suspend it.\nWe do what we can because we must.\" - Gina Reagan, Speaker for the Ethics Committee, 4-2-2005\n\n+ PLEASE INPUT LEVEL 3 CREDENTIALS TO ACCESS CONFIDENTIAL DATA.\n\n- CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. Hide 5701 Recovery and Interview Logs\n\nRecovery Report RR-5701:\nPersonnel Involved: MTFU Epsilon-6 \"Village Idiots\" -13, -30, -31, -32, -33, -34, -35, -36, -37, Dr. Mason, and Dr. Dawkins\n<Begin Log.>\n*2-12-2005, 7:58*: Luke Spencer (PoI-5701-1) contacted a Foundation shell company disguised as a therapist office for therapy sessions and was later given an appointment at 2-19-2005, 10:00 with MTFU Epsilon-6-13.\n*2-19-2005, 10:00*: PoI-5701-1 arrives on time for his appointment.1 Possessions included $90 cash to pay for the therapy session, a map of the local area, and a phone.\n*10:02*: PoI-5701-1 begins his appointment and soon informs MTFU Epsilon-6-13 of SCP-5701 and Conner Miller (PoI-5701-2). See below for full interview:\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5701-1\nInterviewer: MTFU Epsilon-6-13\nForeword: Confirmed existence of SCP-5701 and PoI-5701-2.\n<Begin Sub-log.>\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: So, what's been on your mind?\nPoI-5701-1: It's a school bully, but\u2026 well, he's more than that. Like, a lot more. Almost freaking psychic. Basically\u2026 look, I don't know how to describe it, but he's\u2026 he's breaking physics, if you know what I mean. He's not normal. And he's hurt everyone else I've gotten help from, too. Just to ruin everything for me. For no reason\u2026 please help\u2026\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: I'm hoping I understand. Go on.\nPoI-5701-1: So here's the thing: he's somehow getting these really personal photos of me and posting them on the school billboard. They're always me making some really stupid mistakes, like forgetting a backpack or something else like that. Now here's the part where it gets really crazy: half of them are literally impossible! Like, I'm home alone, I drop and break a dish, and he has a photo of me right inside the same room! It's just\u2026 he's\u2026 look, does any of this sound easy to you?\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13 briefly pauses.\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: Well, let's see what I can do to help\u2026\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13 begins Anomaly Report note.\n[REDACTED FOR BREVITY. RESUME 40 MINUTES LATER.]\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: And by the way, you said it was a camera, not the kid?\nPoI-5701-1: I think so. He takes these photos of me, and the next time I do something embarrassing, he already has a photo of it. I have no idea how it's happening, but I just know he's got something up his sleeve.\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: Thank you for your time. Do you think you can call your parents?\nPoI-5701-1: I\u2026 Look, can we\u2026 Just\u2026 Remember what I said about \"hurting everyone else that's helped?\" Please don't get them into this.\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: They won't be involved with him. They'll be fine.\nPoI-5701-1 considers for a while, then replies:\nPoI-5701-1: Fine. I'll call them.\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: Thank you.\nPoI-5701-1 leaves the room to contact his parents. MTFU Epsilon-6-13 uses his emergency Foundation contact and requests help with the following:\nMTFU Epsilon-6-13: We have a safe-vlam-notice anomaly, believed to be a Polaroid\u2122 instant camera. Medium public exposure. Location: [REDACTED]. Do you think you can help?\n<End Sub-log.>\nClosing Statement: When informed that his parents would need to be notified before he could be moved into Foundation custody \"for more extensive therapy sessions,\"2 PoI-5701-1 eventually used his phone to inform his parents of the appointment. They eventually drove over to the office and approved transfer seven minutes after arrival.\n\n*2-20-2005, 9:01*: MTFU Epsilon-6-30 contacted [REDACTED] High School in person. \"Apparently PoI-5701-1 managed to blackmail every single teacher in the school with SCP-5701, so we'll have to 'correct' him for everyone. We might be able to keep others safe from this megalomaniac if we do it right.\" - MTFU Epsilon-6-30.\n*11:11*: PoI-5701-2 was put under Foundation custody with minimal suspicion by MTFU \u0190-6-30, -31, -32, -33, -34, -35, -36, and -37. The following interview was conducted at Protected Site 67:\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5701-2\nInterviewer: Dr. Mason\nForeword: Confirmed existence of SCP-5701-X#3 and PoI-5701-3.\n<Begin Sub-log, 2-21-2005, 8:00>\nPoI-5701-2: I'm just gonna say it: I've gotten every single teacher's darkest secret, and you just let everyone in the world see them. Poor choice.\nDr. Mason: We confiscated those photos.\nPoI-5701-2 briefly pauses, then mutters to himself:\nPoI-5701-2: Well, there went my only backup.\nDr. Mason: That is true. So, knowing you will have to work with us, who will do whatever it takes to know what's going on, what happened?\nPoI-5701-2 hesitates.\nDr. Mason: You heard us.\nPoI-5701-2: Fine! I bullied someone with a camera! Is that enough? Just let me go!\nDr. Mason: You knew what the camera could do, right?\nPoI-5701-2: Yeah, take pictures, duh.\nDr. Mason: You know what we meant.\nPoI-5701-2: Fine! It changes photos so that it shows people messing things up. Is that enough?\nDr. Mason: Where did you get it from?\nPoI-5701-2: I'll never tell you.\nDr. Mason stands up from his chair, abruptly leans toward PoI-5701-2, and slams his fist onto the table.\nPoI-5701-2: It was a friend! What do you want?\nDr. Mason returns to his chair.\nDr. Mason: Well, thank you for finally answering. Could you tell us more about him?\nPoI-5701-2: His name is Matthew, only one at my school, same grade as me\u2026 is that enough?\nDr. Mason: Thanks. Do you happen to know why he gave you that camera?\nPoI-5701-2 briefly pauses.\nPoI-5701-2: This'll take a while.\nPoI-5701-2: So you know about Luke, the kid that snitched on me? Well, he'd actually been bullying me like he would anyone else. Now, one day I say enough's enough, and ask my bud for some help. Get some sweet revenge. So he asks how I wanna get it; I tell him \"the same way I got it.\"\nPoI-5701-2: So he goes home, and a few days later he has this weird camera I've never seen before. He tells me it's an 'instant camera,' shows me how it works, and then gets to the good part: turning into mistakes. He also tells me to be nice with that camera, like that wasn't even the point of all this-\nDr. Mason: I'm sorry for interrupting, but what did he say exactly?\nPoI-5701-2: \"So you're gonna use this camera, post the pictures, have your laughs, get him off your back, and then you'll leave him and the camera alone.\"\nPoI-5701-2: Pffft, like that'll stop him! I needed to make sure he would never do it again. So that's what I did. The teachers found out soon that it was me, of course. I just had to keep them quiet with good ol' blackmail. That was easier than I would've guessed, actually.\nPoI-5701-2: So anyway, my friend started freaking out a little later, so I just did the same to him. Yes, it wasn't nice, but I stayed out of trouble, so\u2026\nPoI-5701-2: Of course, Luke could've asked for help whenever, but I just had to keep doing what I had been doing and he kept quiet. I could've kept on doing that maybe endlessly.\nPoI-5701-2: Then you guys showed up and undid the whole thing! You've just doomed me into letting him get back! What now?\nDr. Mason: We can handle that. Just keep with us and you will be okay.\n<End Sub-log, 8:17>\nClosing Statement: PoI-5701-2 was kept in Foundation custody, while PoI-5701-3 was brought into Foundation custody under PoI-5701-2's \"behavior correction\" cover story.\n\nInterviewed: PoI-5701-3\nInterviewer: Dr. Dawkins\nForeword: Confirmed PoI-5701-3's relations with GoI \"Are We Cool Yet?\", PoI-5701-3's anartist tools and supplies, and the existence of an additional SCP-5701-X#\n<Begin Sub-log, 2-22-2005, 8:00>\nDr. Dawkins: So, before we begin-\nPoI-5701-3: Get that camera out of that demon's hands now.\nDr. Dawkins briefly pauses.\nDr. Dawkins: We've already done that. So, getting back on-\nPoI-5701-3: And he won't get it back after this, right?\nDr. Dawkins: Will you please stop interrupting? Of course he won't, he's been hugely irresponsible with it.\nPoI-5701-3: That's all I needed to hear. Thanks. So, how can I help?\nDr. Dawkins: Well, first, how did you find that camera?\nPoI-5701-3: I didn't find it; I built it. You see, you won't be familiar with it, but I'm part of this group known as \"A.W.C.Y.\", which stands for\u2026\nDr. Dawkins: \"Are We Cool Yet.\" Interesting.\nPoI-5701-3: Yeah! Tha\u2026 how did you know what that means?\nDr. Dawkins: Let's just say that's my job.\nPoI-5701-3 briefly pauses.\nPoI-5701-3: Okay\u2026\nDr. Dawkins: So, how exactly did you build it?\nPoI-5701-3: I honestly have no idea. I just build it and it just works. I mean, I know I'll need a normal camera, some other things, and some tools, but not like, 'so then I put this and this together so that they do this.'\nDr. Dawkins: All right. So, why did you just give it to your friend? Did you know what it could do?\nPoI-5701-3: I trusted him. I trusted him and he went crazy and if it weren't for you guys, the whole world would be toast.\nDr. Dawkins: We're told that a lot. Thank you for your time.\n<End Sub-log, 8:17>\nClosing Statement: Before Dr. Dawkins left the interview room, PoI-5701-3 said the following: \"And by the way, in case you're curious, when he put me under blackmail, my photo didn't even have to change. It just printed as me building that God-forsaken camera. Because I regret it. I regret it and all the harm that I've caused and all the people that got hurt by him and everything\u2026 you guys sound like some global secret ops people. Do you guys do anything like, wipe memories if needed? Or at least something to clean up this mess, because I'd appreciate it.\"\n\n*2-23-2005, 10:00*: Additional interviews were conducted with PoI-5701-3 for possible leads about GoI \"Are We Cool Yet?\", but did not yield any significant information.\n*2-25-2005, 4:23*: All PoI's and persons in the nearby area were administered Class A amnestics, except for PoI-5701-3, who was administered Class C amnestics. PoI-5701-3's anartist tools/ supplies were confiscated as well.\n<Mission accomplished. End Log.>\n\nFootnotes\n1. PoI-5701-1 did not use a vehicle, and later admitted that he did not inform his parents of his appointment.\n2. Unlike most cover stories, said therapy sessions were actually administered.\n3. SCP-5701-X# refers to any SCP-5701-# instances with a connection to Recovery Report RR-5701.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5700 | SCP-5701 | SCP-5702 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The logo on the front page of SCP-5702\n\nItem #: SCP-5702\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5702's domain is to be blocked from all major internet service providers through Foundation agents in various world governments. Access to the website is to be granted to Level 2 and higher personnel for testing purposes. The Ethics Committee has approved a small fund of approximately 8,000 USD for testing with SCP-5702. Once this fund is depleted, it may only be refilled upon consultation with the Ethics Committee and the researcher in charge of SCP-5702, as all testing inherently funds GoI-1900.\nSave for specially supervised tests with D-Class, all generated films must contain at least one real film industry entity.\nDescription: SCP-5702 is an anomalous streaming service located at 'www.wikiflick.\u2588\u2588\u2588' and operated by GoI-1900 (\"Red Deal Pictures Distribution\"). SCP-5702 generates previously nonexistent films for screening, through unknown means, based on user-inputted data for a film they would like to see.\nSCP-5702 is not subscription-based; instead, a user pays a fixed price of 14 USD for each individual film upon visiting the site. Once the user pays they are directed to a page containing the following:\n\nA window containing an editable mockup of a Wikipedia page for a film. All data in the header and infobox are replaced with text input windows, including title, year of release, country of origin, genre(s), director(s), screenwriter(s), and up to nine primary actors. If a user chooses, they can also input producers, composers, editors, cinematographers, and production companies in the infobox. The text that normally reads \"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\" now reads \"From Wikiflick, a bespoke streaming service from Red Deal Pictures.\" All further subsections of the article, including Plot, Cast, Production, and Reception, are blank but cannot be edited.\nA red button that reads \"Generate Names.\" This button is greyed out until a title, year of release, director, and genre(s) are inputted. Once these are created, a user can press this button to randomly generate cast and crew that would best fit this title, genre, and release date. This button always generates the names of real film industry entities from around the world, living or dead.\nA blue button that reads \"Generate Film.\" This button is greyed out until all fields are filled.\n\nOnce a user presses the blue button and the site loads, a screening window is generated containing the requested film. This film is almost always matching the user's desired specifications. The film's length can vary, ranging from 30 seconds to 240 hours, depending on genres inputted, as \u201cshort\u201d will create a film under 45 minutes while \u201cepic\u201d will create a film over two hours. Participants in a film almost always match the ones visualized by the subject, even if names are common/match another person, are a non-actor or figure from the user's life, or completely nonexistent. All films, regardless of inputted companies, are noted as being distributed by Red Deal Pictures Distribution, often in conjunction with another company.\nFilms are always original. Inputting data matching an existing film will generate a similar but distinct project. Likewise, SCP-5702 cannot precisely recreate lost films. For example, inputting data from Satyajit Ray's unproduced film The Alien, which was intended to be produced in 1967 with Peter Sellers and Marlon Brando, produces a film in Ray's style starring Sellers and Brando, but one that does not match his existing screenplay.\nFollowing the film's conclusion, it is available to watch for a period of time twice its running time before deleting itself. The user is then returned to the Wikipedia mockup, now with all sections filled in. All cast members are listed, an attempt is made to summarize the film's plot no matter the content, some behind-the-scenes information is given, and a handful of reviews or academic articles are quoted. These do not always match real-world authors but always real-world publications, usually fitting the project: A big-budget comedy action film is reviewed in major newspapers, a Hungarian experimental short fashion film is discussed in media studies journals and internet publications. The user can choose to save this article to their computer before paying another 14 USD to watch another film.\nIf no persons inputted are film industry professionals, there is a high probability (60-76%) that the film generated will be anomalous in nature, displaying significant detrimental effects on the viewer or containing anomalous imagery. Films generated this way can include blocking and cinematography that does not follow baseline reality, cognitohazards and memetic threats, images and sounds taken from known and unknown alternate planes, or mild reality-warping capabilities. Despite this, users typically still report a high degree of satisfaction and pleasure with the film. The remaining 24-40% of films generated this way are nonanomalous and merely amateurish or of \u201cindie quality.\u201d\nSCP-5702 was discovered after a thread on Reddit was created about a \u201cwebsite that creates realistic porn of anyone.\u201d Fearing a containment breach of SCP-1004, the thread was investigated, taken down, and SCP-5702 was contained.\nAddendum: Log of films generated during Testing Phase 2:\n14 USD entered for each film, which was recorded with a separate camera. All generated Wikipedia-style articles are archived.\nAll data was inputted under the format \"___________ is a ____  ______ ____________ film directed by ______________ and written by _________. It stars ______________,  ________________,  ________________, ______________,  ________________,  ________________, ______________,  ________________, and ________________.\"\n\nExperiment #: 011\nInputted data: Drainage is a 2020 American horror drama film directed by Peter Farrelly and written by Brian Duffield. It stars Mahershala Ali, Paul Giamatti, and Alfre Woodard.\nNames Generated: None.\nResult: The generated movie stars Ali as a black police officer in a small Georgia town investigating a series of lynchings while attempting to repair his relationship with his wife, played by Woodard. The lynchings are connected to a white supremacist cult who sacrifice young black men to a river god. The film reunites Ali with director Farrelly, both worked on the 2019 film Green Book. Researchers described the film as a decent if unmemorable horror film. Quoted reviews from The A.V. Club and The Washington Post note that the tone of the film is a significant departure for Farrelly, but his treatment of race is similar to that of Green Book. The film is described as being based on a true story. Red Deal Pictures is listed as a distributor alongside Universal Pictures.\n\nExperiment #: 012\nInputted data: Nightmare in the Heartland is a 1958 American crime film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg and Daniel Fuchs. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Arthur Kennedy, and Jason Robards.\nNames Generated: Actors.\nResult: The generated movie is a cross between Kazan's social realist dramas and film noir. Taylor plays a New York socialite trapped in a Nebraska town paralyzed by a labor strike. She is caught between a cowboy-esque labor organizer played by Chandler and a sinister gangster played by Palance. Researchers noted the powerful performance of a young Jason Robards in a supporting role. Quoted reviews include a list from Buzzfeed, ostensibly in memoriam of Taylor upon her 2011 death, that describes this performance as \"one of Taylor's best and most underrated of roles.\" Red Deal Pictures is credited as presenting the film's rerelease.\n\nExperiment #: 015\nInputted data: Danser avec mon b\u00e9b\u00e9 is a 1966 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Godard. It stars Mireille Darc, Juliet Berto, Philippe Noiret, and Jennifer Lopez.\nNotes: Lopez was chosen to test SCP-5702's capability to handle anachronism.\nNames Generated: None.\nResult: The generated movie stars Darc and Berto as a mother and daughter who, without knowing, live in the same attic crawlspace as they attempt to organize rival Socialist political movements. The film is a surrealist comedy surrounding the situation. Lopez portrays herself as an American movie star filming near Darc and Berto's house, with Liam Neeson portraying the film director. Godard frequently interrupts their scenes with title cards that read \"TEMPS EST IRR\u00c9LEVANT\" or \"Time Is Irrelevant.\" Lopez and Neeson appear identical to how they did in 1998 but are dubbed into French by unknown actors. The production section notes that Godard and Lopez did not get along. Researchers reported enjoying the film tremendously and quoted reviews describe it as an unknown pleasure of Godard's, featuring the \"stunning discovery\" of Lopez. Red Deal Pictures is credited as a co-producer.\n\nExperiment #: 016\nInputted data: DaBaby - GIVE IT is a 2019 American short music video film directed by Colin Tilley. It stars DaBaby, Ty Dolla Sign, Megan Thee Stallion, and Jimmy Stewart.\nNotes: Stewart was chosen to test SCP-5702's capability to handle anachronism in the other direction.\nNames Generated: None.\nResult: The generated music video has a loose plot concerning DaBaby falling over a railing at a lavish Hollywood Hills party. Stewart is depicted in a brief cameo being twerked on by a scantily dressed model, sputtering incoherently but smiling to himself. At another point in the video, Megan Thee Stallion stabs him in the gut with a stiletto heel and he collapses. Stewart appears identical to how he did in 1946. Researchers reported enjoying the music video immensely. Quoted reviews include a news report from Vulture Magazine calling the song a \"hilarious bop\" with a \"time-bending music video.\" Red Deal Pictures is the production company.\n\nExperiment #: 017\nInputted data: Bad Boy Soldiers is a 2017 satirical comedy war film directed by Eva Cszkiearas.\nNotes: Personnel designed the fictitious filmmaker Cszkiearas as a feminist director of Polish and Finnish descent, known for making complex and brutal satires of Eastern European politics, but did not inform the researcher performing the test of this invented background.\nNames Generated: Writer(s), actors, country of origin.\nResult: The generated movie is a straightforward American comedy centering around two bumbling soldiers in the Iraq War, played by John Cho and Zach Galifianakis. Judd Apatow is credited as a producer. A large number of American and British comedians appear in supporting roles including Will Forte, Amy Poehler, Ellie Kemper, Rainn Wilson, Adam Scott, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patton Oswalt, Steve Coogan, Lauren Lapkus, Jason Mantzoukas, and Nick Kroll. Researchers reported the film was enjoyable for what it was and they had a good time watching it. Quoted reviews were highly negative. Red Deal Pictures is credited as the primary production company.\n\nExperiment #: 018\nInputted data: Bad Boy Soldiers is a 2017 Polish satirical comedy war film directed by Eva Cszkiearas and written by Cszkiearas. It stars Karolina Gruszka, Dariusz Dyli\u0144ski, Rafa\u0142 Grzewczynski, and Marian Kuciak.\nNotes: The researcher was informed of the background for Cszkiearas.\nNames Generated: None\nResult: The generated movie is a dark comedy centered around a Polish military base somewhere in Southern Europe. Dyli\u0144ski plays Major Nadeem, an insecure gay general who has recently converted to Islam. As he prepares to come out as Muslim and gay, his homosexuality is revealed in a comedic fashion by an inferior officer and Nadeem embarks on a violent training regimen for his troops, beating their morale down through a series of disturbing blackly comedic assaults. All actors save Gruszka are fictitious and do not correspond to individuals in the film industry. Researchers reported enjoying the film as an art film, laughing occasionally, but felt mostly uncomfortable for the film's running time. The article describes the film as winning at the Karlovy Vary, Shanghai, and Three Portlands International Film Festivals. Reviewers praised the film's cinematography but criticized the perceived homophobia and Islamophobia and noted, that despite Cszkiearas' feminist intentions, a series of jokes centered around the sexual assault of Gruszka's character was unnecessary and in poor taste. Consequence of Sound critic Scout Tafoya describes the film as \"absolutely vile and disgusting, but worthy of discussion.\" Red Deal Pictures distributes the film in the United States.\n\nExperiment #: 019\nInputted data: Dudstock is a 1982 Australian independent drama film directed by Linda Hartle and written by Barry Golchuck. It stars Fiona Leamington, Andrew Saxton, and Grant Pane.\nNotes: All names are fictitious, but were drawn from character names in a random book, titled Sudden Death.\nNames Generated: Country of origin.\nResult: The generated movie is a slow-paced family drama centered around the young boy of the title, who lives in an unidentified desolate small town in the Australian outback. He deals with his alcoholic father and overstressed mother by wandering through the desert, befriending an eccentric truck driver who passes through and an Aborigine woman tending to a local site of spiritual significance. The film displays anomalous qualities, with the camera seeming to pass through Dudstock's body or into the middle of a cliff. The film ends with a long unbroken take of Dudstock sitting on the sacred site and disemboweling himself with a small knife while reciting \"The Charge of The Light Brigade,\" which had been a plot point earlier in the film. He appears to pull out more intestines that can fit in the human body and eventually begins to pull out apparent animal intestines, speckled with feathers or full of scaled meat. Lastly, he begins to pull out a chain of interconnected rocks. Before he dies, he delivers the line \"The bowels of the earth draw me near, Mumma!\" and the film cuts to black. Despite being disturbed by the film's anomalous qualities, researchers reported enjoying the film generally. Quoted reviews agree, with one from The Village Voice quoted as calling it \"the best Australian film since Picnic at Hanging Rock.\" Red Deal Pictures distributes the film in the United States.\n\nExperiment #: 020\nInputted data: Upside Down JAPANESE is a 1981 British-German-Mexican epic art-horror experimental film directed by Dean Hiroyuki and written by Hiroyuki and Jonathan Belzer-Mackenbridge. It stars Kenn Eddeford, Anna Potts, Stephen Schauser, Megumi Tanaka, and Rodrigo Aparicio.\nNotes: All names are fictitious but invented by researchers. The filmmaker Hiroyuki is designed to be a white installation artist and painter who is obsessed with Japanese culture, making his film debut.\nNames Generated: None.\nResult: The generated movie is a four-hour single shot of a man in a dingy apartment (played by Eddeford) who is slowly, graphically morphing into a Japanese woman (played by Tanaka) as friends periodically visit. The film has severe anomalous effects. During the screening, at approximately the one hour mark, one of the guests appeared to be identical to Researcher Bryant and seemed to be aware they were in a film, turning to the camera and begging to be let out. The transforming man did not appear to notice this. Researchers could not converse with the character-Bryant as his appearance was pre-recorded. At the 2 hours and 40-minute mark, when the character-Bryant spoke the line \"I know I'm not there, I can see me in here,\" the real Researcher Bryant's hand flew to his face only to discover a thick layer of dermis covering his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Researcher Bryant was panicked but able to communicate his safety and seemed to be able to breathe until the film ended, at which time he began to suffocate and went into immediate surgery to remove the excess skin. He is currently recovering. Researchers, including Researcher Bryant, praised the film's themes of identity and the transformative nature of the body. Quoted reviews agree, with Claudia Puig of USA Today claiming that \"this film really helped me be in my body's own inner body, without the tyranny of oxygen.\" Red Deal Pictures produced the film.\nAdditional Notes: At several points in the film, the character of Researcher Bryant begins to describe a long hallway that exists in another room of the man's apartment. He appears to be increasingly panicked. Each time he tries this, he is cut off by a title card reading \"RED DEAL PICTURES PRESENTS:\" These segments are missing from the Wikipedia style article's synopsis. 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{"text": "PeppersGhost\n\nSCP-5703 - When Lori Came Home For Christmas by PeppersGhost\n\nMore by this author\n\nItem#: 5703\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nesoteric\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Entrances to SCP-5703 have been filled and concealed. All blueprints and records of SCP-5703 have been doctored or destroyed. Disturbance of the architecture is prohibited, including (but not limited to) removal of the original pinewood flooring. The house containing SCP-5703 remains a functional civilian residence in order to maintain a perception of normalcy in the neighborhood. Residents are to remain under electronic surveillance for behavioral abnormalities.\nDescription: SCP-5703 is a second floor bedroom in a suburban home formerly owned by Diane and Robert Pine.1 Human hair grows from between the floorboards of SCP-5703. Internal imaging of the structure shows no abnormalities.\nExtranormal Event 5703-01: On December 24, 20\u2588\u2588, Lori Hammond and her fianc\u00e9e David Weathers arrived at the Pine residence just before sundown. None of the four have been seen or heard from since. SCP-5703 is believed to have initially manifested shortly after the disappearances occurred, though the causal relationship between these events remains unclear.\nThe following are transcriptions of four videos recorded on Weathers' mobile phone the night he disappeared. Speculation regarding the events depicted has been withheld pending the resolution of ongoing forensic and scientific investigations.\n\n[ Video 1 opens on Hammond smiling at the camera in front of the home containing SCP-5703. She carries several small gift bags in one hand and groceries from a local supermarket in the other. ]\nHammond: Sam! We're here! We're doing this.\nWeathers: Hammond family Christmas initiation, commence.\n[ Hammond attempts to ring the doorbell, but fumbles with her bags. Weathers rings it for her. ]\nHammond: My hero.\n[ Hammond blows a mock kiss to Weathers. Mr. Pine opens the door moments later wearing an oversized Santa Claus hat. Mrs. Pine hurries behind him. ]\nMrs. Pine: Oh my goodness! Oh, my baby! Come here, we got a whole year's hug quota to catch up on!\n[ Mrs. Pine reaches to embrace Hammond, who sidesteps into the entry hall. ]\nHammond: Sorry, one sec! Hands are full. Let me just\u2014\nMr. Pine: Here, I'll grab those bags for you, Lori-O.\nWeathers: Did someone say hug quota? I'll give hugs!\nMrs. Pine: [ Laughter. ] I'll take hugs!\n[ Weathers keeps the phone in his hand while the two embrace. The camera angles up toward a section of ceiling smeared with a dark pulpy substance and strands of hair. Weathers does not appear to notice. ]\nHammond: [ Offscreen, overlapping. ] Hang on a bit, that one is\u2026 [ Small squeak ] It was caught on my finger! I'll just set\u2026 Yeah!\nMr. Pine: [ Offscreen, presumably embracing Hammond. ] Ah, I needed my girl! Ha! Okay, David, our turn!\n[ Weathers embraces Mr. Pine. The mark on the ceiling enters the camera's field of view a second time. It appears slightly larger. ]\nMr. Pine: That's the stuff! We're a hugging bunch. You doing a video?\nHammond: We're documenting Dave's first Christmas with us for Sam! And posterity. It's a big occasion!\n[ The camera pans around the entry hall, modestly decorated for the holiday. There are no photographs on display. ]\nWeathers: Yup, gotta make sure your brother and all future generations can watch me screw up that pie.\nMrs. Pine: The Slice of Heaven! She's got you all coached, huh?\nWeathers: Kind of! Went over the recipe but we didn't\u2014ah, I didn't practice or anything.\nMr. Pine: Don't worry. If I can make it, anyone can!\nHammond: Who says you can make it?\n[ All laugh. ]\nMrs. Pine: I'm so thrilled you two got to come. Last year wasn't the same without you.\nWeathers: Sorry for borrowing her, ma'am.\nMrs. Pine: Oh no, it's fine! It's\u2014I'm just glad everyone's here this time.\nHammond: Except Sam.\nMrs. Pine: Of course, of course. He's here in spirit!\nWeathers: Isn't there also a \"fur baby\" I need to meet?\nHammond: Yeah! Where's Butters?\nMr. Pine: He's around here somewhere. Probably still upstairs. Doesn't move like he used to.\nWeathers: Poor old guy.\nHammond: Butters is going to love you! We should find him.\nMr. Pine: Before that, do you need help with your things?\nHammond: Shoot! Shoot, shoot. I left the trunk wide open.\nMr. Pine: Ope! [ He jogs away in an exaggerated fashion. ] I'm on it!\nHammond: I haven't brought in the pie stuff yet, so there's ice cream in there too.\nMrs. Pine: I'll put everything away. You two go make yourselves at home.\nHammond: We'll get the presents under the tree.\n[ Hammond and Weathers carry the gift bags to the living room. The tree is decorated with lights, tinsel, and papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 ornaments painted to resemble doll heads. ]\nWeathers: Whoa!\nHammond: What?\nWeathers: Your tree's covered in heads.\nHammond: Don't be morbid! It's one of the Pine family traditions.\nWeathers: I know you guys like your traditions, but damn. Pies? Cool. This? This is just creepy.\nHammond: They're cute! They're handmade. It's part of this program. Each one represents a kid my parents have sponsored for school. Or, wait, maybe it was for food or something like that. I think it's in Swaziland?\nWeathers: Man, that's an awful lot of kids. And that's in Africa, right? That's an awful lot of white kids.\nHammond: Wow, racist!\n[ Hammond picks up a plush snowman and throws it at Weathers, jostling the camera. The two laugh. Weathers throws the toy back at Hammond. It misses her and knocks an ornament off the tree, crushing it. ]\nWeathers: Shit. Sorry. Wow, those things are fragile.\nHammond: It's fine. I'm sure my parents won't notice one missing.\n[ As Weathers picks up the broken ornament, small clumps of hair clippings are dislodged from inside. ]\nWeathers: Uh, Lor?\nHammond: Oh. Huh. That's\u2014I'll just get a broom.\n[ End of Video 1. ]\n\n[ Video 2 opens with a view inside a wastebasket. It contains the broken ornament and an assortment of unopened food items including a tub of ice cream and a whole wrapped turkey. ]\nWeathers: Hey Lor? Come have a look at this. I think your parents\u2014\n[ A scream is heard. The camera snaps up toward the kitchen. Hammond stands sobbing in front of the sink, her hands over her mouth. ]\nWeathers: What's wrong?\n[ Hammond's sobbing intensifies. ]\nWeathers: Lori, what's wrong? Are you okay?\n[ A faint animal cry can be heard. Weathers approaches the sink. The tip of a bloody paw protrudes from the drain. ]\nWeathers: Shit! What the fuck?\nHammond: I don't know! He was already in there!\nWeathers: It's\u2014it's okay, just stay calm. We can\u2026 we'll get him out. We'll find a way. Where\u2014\n[ The cries grow louder and more strained. Hammond shakes her head. ]\nHammond: I'm so sorry!\n[ Hammond flips a switch. The paw retreats down the drain as the garbage disposal activates. The animal's cries cease. End of Video 2. ]\n\n[ Video 3 is a static view of a ceiling in the home. The blades of a ceiling fan are visible at the edge of the frame, as well as a dark smear similar to the one seen in the first video. Hammond can be heard crying. ]\nMr. Pine: It's okay. It's okay.\nHammond: [ Weakly. ] No. It doesn't make sense.\nMr. Pine: Everything happens for a reason, Lori-O, even if we don't understand it. Even terrible things.\nMrs. Pine: Now, this was a number of years ago, but do you remember the Christmas when you got all those socks? You were so disappointed, but I remember, you were really brave, too. Kept smiling, acting really grateful. Such a good kid. And then Bobby stepped out in his Santa suit with that new game console you wanted. You just laughed and screamed laughed so much and hugged us so tight. Right? Do you remember that?\nMr. Pine: [ Overlapping. ] It's okay. It's all okay. You just sit there. That's it. That's right. Papa's here. It's okay. Deep breaths. It's okay. It's almost Christmas.\nHammond: No. That didn't happen.\nMrs. Pine: It did, sweetheart.\nHammond: That didn't happen!\nMrs. Pine: It did happen. Didn't it, David? Do you remember, David? Do you remember how happy it made you?\n[ A strained grunt is heard. ]\nHammond: Dave? What\u2014\nMr. Pine: It's okay. Papa's got you.\nWeathers: Y\u2014yeah. Now that you mention it, I remember.\nMrs. Pine: And how did that turn out?\nWeathers: Um. Actually, hah, it was the best Christmas ever.\nHammond: What? Mom, why would you even know about something like that? You're not his\u2014\nMrs. Pine: But we are, dear. It's exactly like you've been saying: he's part of the family now. Davey, honey, are you ready for one more Pine family tradition?\n[ Glass breaks somewhere nearby. Hammond begins to scream, but her voice is quickly muffled. ]\nMr. Pine: Don't worry, baby girl. Papa's got you. It's all right, Lori-O. It's all going to be fine. Do you want to see your brother? Would that make you feel better?\nMrs. Pine: That's right! I almost forgot. Sammy's here. Let's go see him. He's in your old room. You won't even recognize it now! Don't worry, I've kept all your things. I'll always keep them. Come on, stand up. Stand up now, sweetheart. It's time to go.\n[ The sound of footsteps and erratic pounding on the hardwood floor can be heard. Voices grow fainter as they move away. ]\nMr. Pine: It's okay. It's okay. Quiet now. Help me with her, son.\nWeathers: Are you sure it's all right? Okay. I'll be real careful, Lor.\nMrs. Pine: Sammy's going to be so happy. He's missed you like you wouldn't believe. We loved him just as much as you, Lori. As much as you. But you weren't here. You weren't here last year. And now you are.\nMr. Pine: We're almost there, baby girl.\n[ Incremental thudding sounds are heard. ]\nMr. Pine: [ Overlapping. ] Up, up the stairs. That's it. Nearly there. Almost Christmas.\nWeathers: It's gonna be the best Christmas ever, Lor.\nMrs. Pine: Davey, would you grab your camera? Sammy will want to see this.\n[ End of Video 3. ]\n\n[ Video 4 takes place inside SCP-5703. Hammond lays on the floor, awake but dazed. Mr. and Mrs. Pine kneel beside her. The camera, presumably held by Weathers, trembles intermittently. A box of unpainted papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 heads is visible by the doorway. ]\nHammond: Please. Mom. I can't do it.\nMrs. Pine: Sure you can. Where's my brave girl?\nHammond: It can't be over. I'm not ready yet. What\u2014 [ Her voice wavers. ] What about the pie? Dave didn't even get to taste the pie.\nMr. Pine: Everything ends eventually, sweetheart. Even Christmas. Even people. [ He strokes her hair. ] Even pie.\n[ Mrs. Pine begins to gently remove Hammond's socks and shoes while singing off-key. ]\nMrs. Pine: [ Singing. ]\nAway in a manger, the baby awakes\nClose by me forever, no crying he makes\n[ As Mrs. Pine sings, she takes Hammond's right foot in her hands and fits the tip of the first toenail into a small gap between the floorboards. Hammond faintly attempts to pull her toe free, but it remains in place. Mr. Pine joins his wife in song, singing in an exaggerated baritone. ]\nMr. Pine & Mrs. Pine: [ Singing. ]\nI love thee, dear children! look down from the sky\nO stay by my cradle till morning is nigh\n[ Hammond's toe is inexplicably pulled into the space between the boards. The force increases until the soft and hard tissues of the toe are ruptured and compressed. Blood and fragments of flesh are siphoned into the gap in the floor. Hammond reaches weakly toward Mr. Pine, who continues to stroke her hair. ]\nMr. Pine & Mrs. Pine: [ Singing. ]\nThe cattle are lowing; I ask thee to stay\nI love thee forever, and love me I pray\n[ The process accelerates. The remainder of Hammond's foot is rapidly crushed and drawn into the floor, causing severe fractures and swelling in her lower leg. She groans loudly and rakes her nails against the floorboards. A stray scrap of flesh lands next to Mrs. Pine, who nudges it over to the opening using a candy cane. ]\nMr. Pine & Mrs. Pine: [ Singing. ]\nBless all the dear children in our tender care\nAnd take us to heaven to live with thee there\n[ A grandfather clock chimes twelve times in the distance. Mrs. Pine begins the process again with Hammond's left foot. Mr. Pine lays a kiss on Hammond's forehead as she convulses. ]\nMr. Pine: [ Overlapping. ] Merry Christmas, sweetheart.\nMrs. Pine: I'll get those big scissors from the wrapping station. We'll need to help this along, I think. Got to make sure there's room left for Davey.\n[ Mr. and Mrs. Pine turn to the camera and smile. ]\nMrs. Pine: After all, you're part of the family now.\n[ End of Video 4. ]\n\nAfterword: During a subsequent wellness check, law enforcement discovered Weathers' mobile phone in SCP-5703 amidst a morass of human hair and unidentified pulp. While Hammond and Weathers are known to have been romantically involved for at least 16 months prior to their disappearance, there is no available evidence which indicates that either party had any relationship (familial or otherwise) with Diane or Robert Pine prior to Extranormal Event 5703-01.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Address and geographic coordinates are available on request from the HCML supervisor.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5702 | SCP-5703 | SCP-5704 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5705\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5705 is to be contained within an industry standard anti-static bag located in Site-19's anomalous item storage wing. SCP-5705 is to be connected to a modified multimeter capable of recording electrical output and messages originating from 'Discharge' events.\nEquipment is to be checked bi-weekly for damage.\nDescription:\n\nSCP-5705 in containment.\n\nSCP-5705 is a standard sized PP3 or 'Nine-Volt' battery with a label attached reading 'Mighty Batteries!\u2122 Powered by Thorium!\u2122' written in black marker. Under normal circumstances, SCP-5705 is capable of an average output of 500 mA for an indefinite amount of time when connected to an electronic device. SCP-5705 has so far proven to be invulnerable to all forms of damage. However the label is easily removed. Tests reveal no trace of the radioactivity expected of thorium decay.\nSCP-5705-1 is an entity currently trapped within SCP-5705. SCP-5705-1 is hostile and actively attempting to escape from the interior of SCP-5705. Occasionally, SCP-5705-1 will enter an agitated state, causing SCP-5705 to undergo what has been designated as a 'Discharge' event. During these events, the overall voltage of SCP-5705 will spike much higher than normal for a short period before returning to it's original output of 500 mA. If a device with a screen is attached to SCP-5705 during one of these events, text will appear on the screen in a language correlating to the settings of the device. These messages are often corrupted beyond the point of legibility, although a few partially coherent messages have been observed. These messages are believed to originate from SCP-5705-1 and are often hostile in nature, presumably directed at the individual designated as PoI-5705.\n\nAddendum-5705-A: Partial List of Recorded Messages\nNote: The following is a list of all currently recorded 'Discharge' events that have been accompanied by at least partially coherent messages. For a full list of these events, see document SCP-5705-DE.\n\nDate\nMessage\nVoltage\nNotes\n\n03/04/2020\n\"I gr&@ow ti*@#&$(@ish game, trickster! Relea&*^@&!@*(#()$n my hon$#r that you will no@#&*^$(armed.\"\n550 mA\nThis was the first mostly coherent message recorded by the Foundation\n\n12/04/2020\n\"You thi@#nk this pris@#*(&$old me? I will be fr$@*^&%^!@&alm and when I $&*#@^$*&@!(*&$%e same lesson lea$#rnt by the cou$*&^@*#est my might! Who w$#@#aughing the#$?!\"\n630 mA\nN/A\n\n12/04/2020\n\"!(*&hould have left you ti$#&*@!)(@!retched roc%$%$@en I am fre$(!@)_#ll take mor#@*($&!@&*(just your eyesight!\n610 mA\nN/A\n\n14/04/2020\n\"Curse thi#$%(*@&#)($ed void! I sha$@#ll show you w#hy they call me might!@^&*#$l the real$$#$%educe this pla#$ce to dus$#!@!!\"\n770 mA\nN/A\n\n21/04/2020\n\"$y the stren%#@gth of my being$#@#e will of m@#y hear$#@#$ight of all the realms and those bey*$ond. I am t#@ stor$%e sky, the force tha#$%#$ifted the great serp#$%$shaped the world as it is w#$ #@& t#$#%ith my $#ammer I summo$%#%@%$ll my power, all %@ % strength, and cast them d*(#own onto these wa#$%!$#%eel the wra#$th of the mig#$#%@f the go@$!\"\n830 mA\nA small spark was recorded originating from SCP-5705\n\n22/04/2020\n\"#et! Me*! O@ut!\"\n670 mA\nThis spike repeated 152 times.\n\nAddendum-5705-B: Recovery\nSCP-5705 was recovered from the home of Robert Bradson, an office worker living in New York City, after the Foundation became aware of social media posts in which he claimed to possess a 'magic battery' that never loses power. After an investigation into the claims, SCP-5705 was discovered in Bradson's home where it was being used to power a flashlight.\nBradson claims that he purchased SCP-5705 from a salesman selling his wares on a street corner. A crowd had gathered around to bid on the items being sold, most of which seem to be at least partially anomalous in nature. A number of the individuals had reportedly filmed the salesman, and after further investigation a video of the auction was discovered online.\nFollowing review of the footage and the items involved, the individual selling the items has been designated as PoI-5705. Investigation into PoI-5705's whereabouts and identity are ongoing.\nAuction Video Excerpt:\n\n[IRRELEVANT DATA EXPUNGED]\nPoI-5705: \u2026 pleasure doing business with you and happy sailing! Just remember to not open it indoors. For our next item, we have something that no doubt many of you fine people would love to have yourself!\nPoI-5705 holds up SCP-5705.\nPoI-5705: This magnificent item is known as a 'Mighty Battery'! On the exterior it may seem to all the world as a simple battery, but with some handiwork by yours truly it has been made into a fountain of limitless energy! Of course there is a limit at how much it can give at one time; we wouldn't want those hippie lobbyists to catch wind of a limitless power supply, would we?\nThe gathered crowd laughs in response.\nPoI-5705: This fine item will allow you to never worry about a pesky flashlight running out while trekking through the woods! Or an inconvenient halting of particularly\u2026 intimate items? No, this convenient item harnesses godlike power for your own benefit! Hell, I would sell my own brother for this beauty, if I had one that is.\nPoI-5705 performs an exaggerated wink to the camera, then places SCP-5705 on the table in front of them and throws their hands into the air.\nPoI-5705: So! Let's start the bidding at a measly $15! Any takers?\nThe crowd begins to bid on SCP-5705, eventually ending with Bradson outbidding the others and purchasing SCP-5705 for a total of $32.50 before returning home. The auction then continues for another hour before PoI-5705 announces his departure and the crowd disperses.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5704 | SCP-5705 | SCP-5706 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ADULT CONTENT\n\nThis article contains adult content that may not be suitable for all readers.\nGraphic depiction of blood, gore or mutilation of body parts\nFeatures sexual themes or language, but does not depict sexual acts.\nExplicit depiction of sexual acts.\nFeatures non-consensual sexual acts.\nDepiction of severe mistreatment of children\nDepiction of self-harm\nDepiction of suicide\nDepiction of torture\n{$custom-content}\nIf you are above the age of 18+ and wish to read such content, then you may click Continue to view said content.\nContinue\nBack to Front Page\n\u00ab SCP-5705 |SCP-5706| SCP-5707 \u00bb\n\nItem #: SCP-5706\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Foundation has made large anonymous donations to sexually transmitted disease awareness and prevention programs in a number of countries with documented SCP-5706 outbreaks; the patents to the antiviral drugs acyclovir and valacyclovir have been purchased by Foundation front companies, and these drugs have been substantially reduced in price to aid in SCP-5706 containment efforts.\nIndividuals identified as carriers of SCP-5706 are to be detained and questioned about their sexual history to identify other possible carriers, then treated with a targeted antiviral drug developed as part of the SCP-5706 containment initiative. Before release, former SCP-5706 carriers should be treated with Class-B or -C amnestics, depending on the duration of infection.\nSamples of SCP-5706 are stored in Bio Site-66's cryogenic storage facility; research proposals involving exposure of D-Class personnel to SCP-5706 must be approved by Site-66's Ethics Committee liaison, and all experimental subjects must be treated with the targeted SCP-5706 antiviral at the conclusion of the experiment.\nDescription: SCP-5706 is a strain of the Herpes simplex virus that causes a perceptual anomaly when an infected individual orgasms. The non-anomalous symptoms of SCP-5706 are identical to those of HSV-2, the strain of Herpes simplex which causes most cases of genital herpes; blisters appear on the genitalia within approximately 7 days of initial exposure, and heal over the next several weeks. SCP-5706 is transmitted in the same way as non-anomalous HSV-2, and use of barrier contraceptives such as condoms can reduce its spread.\nWhen an SCP-5706-infected individual is brought to orgasm, either alone or with a partner, they experience a perceptual anomaly which includes total sensory hallucination and significant time dilation. This perceptual anomaly consists of the entirety of the action role-playing videogame Skyrim, released by Bethesda Softworks in 2011 (including the three downloadable expansion packs, Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn), beginning at the start of the game, when the player character awakens in a horse-drawn carriage on their way to be executed, and not ending until the defeat of the game's \"final boss\", the dragon Alduin, at the end of the main quest-line. Affected individuals report being placed into the world of the game completely, able to perform actions1 not normally possible in the original game; however, conversations with non-player characters are still limited to the game's original dialogue options, and certain areas, such as any land beyond the bounds of the game's world map, remain inaccessible. Affected individuals are able to access the game's menus, manage their inventory, and save and load their progress by closing their eyes, but all menu options that would quit out of the game are unavailable.\nAffected individuals report being aware that they will remain in the game world until they complete the main quest-line; Regardless of how much subjective time it takes an individual to complete Skyrim2, to outside observers the perceptual anomaly only lasts for the duration of orgasm3, and its physical signs - closed eyes, open mouth, labored breathing - are nearly indistinguishable from the effects of a particularly strong orgasm.\nSCP-5706 was first discovered in June 2017, when Foundation agents were alerted to reports of unusual behavior following an orgy held by attendees of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, California. A number of participants were detained and interviewed; those who had experienced the effects of SCP-5706 all reported sexual contact with a man who resembled Todd Howard, the creative director of Skyrim. At the time of the orgy, Mr. Howard was on stage at Bethesda Softworks' E3 presentation. When interviewed, Mr. Howard denied all knowledge of the orgy and of SCP-5706; surveillance of Mr. Howard's banking records revealed that he had recently made several large payments to an account registered under the name \"Simo Plecks\". This account was emptied and closed on the day of the orgy, and all attempts to trace the individual to whom the account belonged have so far been fruitless; the investigation is ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. e.g. climbing walls and moving furniture\n2. Recorded subjective times have ranged from approximately two hours (subject was, at the time, the world record holder for the \"Glitchless Main Quest\" Skyrim speedrun category) to over one year.\n3. Between 10 seconds and 2 minutes, depending on a number of physiological and psychological factors - see S. Kratochvil, \"The Duration of Female Orgasm,\" Ceskoslovenska Psychiatrie 89.5 (Oct 1993), 296-9.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5705 | SCP-5706 | SCP-5707 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5710\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5710\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The property containing SCP-5710-1 is owned by Foundation operatives. The Staff Positions of SCP-5710-1, including the Reverend, Choir Director, Organist, and Congregation President are to be occupied by Foundation personnel.\nWhile not in use by the Foundation, SCP-5710-1 is to be run as a mundane congregation of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. The staff of SCP-5710-1 is to ensure that no work from the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (Bach Works Catalogue) is performed on SCP-5710 without Foundation approval.\nDescription: SCP-5710 is a Schnitger pipe organ used by Johann Sebastian Bach before being transported by German immigrants from Pomerania to the United States. SCP-5710-1 is the church constructed by the immigrants in 18\u2588\u2588, known as St. John's Lutheran Church in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Wisconsin.\nThe anomalous properties of SCP-5710 manifest when a composition from the Bach Works Catalogue (BWV) is played to completion within SCP-5710-1. The first person to exit through the main door of the church following completion of the work will enter a temporal-spatial anomaly. They will be displaced in time and space, exiting the church attended by Bach on the Sunday following his final revision to the piece played on SCP-5710. The displaced person will exit the church just following J.S. Bach.\nSCP-5710 has been deemed safe and reliable by the Foundation. Its use is necessary for continued interaction with Johann Sebastian Bach. The memetic musical compositions of J.S. Bach are of unusually high caliber. These compositions are stored by the Foundation in the Memetisch-Bach-Werk-Verzeichnis (Memetic Bach Works Catalogue) or MBWV.\nUse of SCP-5710 requires either 10 pending composition requests from Level 4 personnel or the consensus of the O5 council. All finished works are to be placed in capsules and hidden in pre-determined locations specified prior to the agent's displacement.\n\n+ Interview 5710-1\n\n- Interview 5710-1\n\nInterviewed: Johann Sebastian Bach\nInterviewer: Doctor Semmelman\nForeword: This interview takes place following J.S. Bach being met by Foundation agents and informed of the anomaly centered around him.\n<Begin Log, 6/25/17\u2588\u2588>\nDr. Semmelman: Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed, and may I say it is a great honor, Mr. Bach.\nJ.S. Bach: Yes, you all have made that abundantly clear. I'm not certain I quite understand why, but nonetheless I thank you for these revelations. God's universe is truly quite strange.\nDr. Semmelman: Have you given any thought to our offer? A mind like yours is not common, and we know we could put it to use.\nJ.S. Bach: I have indeed given it more thought. And looking at some of the things you've presented, I believe I'm aware of why you need me.\nDr. Semmelman: You\u2026 are?\nJ.S. Bach: I was looking at the materials you provided to introduce me to your Foundation, and what struck me were the\u2026 how did you refer to them? Memetics, was it?\nDr. Semmelman: Yes, our memetic agents. They are quite important to our operations.\nJ.S. Bach: Yes, yes, yes. However, for something you claim to be of such great import, they seem to me to be quite lacking.\nDr. Semmelman: Lacking?\nJ.S. Bach: How can you not see what is so plain? It's like you churned them out en masse from a printing press. There is no fine-tuning to them! For God's sake, it's like I'm arguing with Pastor Frohne all over again!\nDr. Semmelman: Could you elaborate on that?\nJ.S. Bach: You request that I elaborate. But this is, in and of itself, the issue. You hear me speak but do not listen. How can you hope to make powerful Music when you only read the sheets, having no passion for the sound?\nDr. Semmelman: No passion?\nJ.S. Bach: Simply put - which, by the way, is the problem - your so-called \"memetics\" are too simple! It's like a sheet of music filled with bars meant for harmonization, yet you've only composed the melody! You see things in black and white, but you don't see all the things that could exist between those bars of black and white. You are dealing with the transfer of information here - information that, by all accounts, has tremendous power! It must travel the bridge of perception, yet you make the bridge out of two wooden planks dropped over a gap! You should be making a bridge of stone!\nDr. Semmelman: Well then, Mr. Bach, could you do better? Could you build us a better bridge with your compositions?\nJ.S. Bach: I most certainly could. Music is the greatest form of communication. Only the Words of God could ever surpass Music. I will show you.\nDr. Semmelman: Johann Sebastian Bach, welcome to the SCP Foundation.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Following the interview, J.S. Bach agreed to compose musical memetics for the Foundation. Dr. Semmelman will remain as the designated Foundation liaison in the 18th century and ensure that all Memetic Works of Bach are catalogued and stored for retrieval in the present time.\n\nMemetisch-Bach-Werk-Verzeichnis: The works of the MBWV provide the Foundation with a wide array of useful memetics. The effects of the works only manifest in those who hear the work while it is being played.\n\nMBWV #\nTitle\nEffects\nComments by J.S. Bach\n\nMBWV 31\nZiehet an den Harnisch Gottes\nThe pain tolerance of those who hear this work is increased. Resistance to pain increases by a factor of 20.\nThe Foundation asks me to give an advantage to their soldiers. I was inspired by the homily this past Sunday on Ephesians 6:11. Music makes words alive, and thus makes them reality.\n\nMBWV 52\nStille! Stille! V\u00f6llige Stille!\nA counterprogramming piece to see through memetic censoring\nIt is almost paradoxical to make music about silence, but memetic composing has taught me that music surpasses far beyond what I once thought. I could spend another five lifetimes sorting out its intricacies.\n\nMBWV 66\nR\u00fcckzug von hier, die Gefahr lauert\nListeners are forced to retreat away from confidential information.\nMemetic Composing has its ups and downs. While it is a great achievement to bring together all that is needed to create such an incredible transfer of information, it also brings sadness that some such compositions, beauteous as they may be, simply force most who hear it to retreat away from it.\n\nMBWV 74\nWischen Sie Den Leeren Schiefer Sauber\n99.9% of memetic cognitohazards and their effects are safely removed from any affected personnel. Affected minds are reverted to their state prior to introduction of the cognitohazard.\nI can't help but express my disappointment with this work. I've dwelt on it for days and yet I can't quite figure out where its imperfections lie. I know there are some lurking where I cannot see. Yet Doctor Semmelman seems to assure me that the Foundation accepts it as it is. For men of science and the advancement of learning, they seem to be content with mediocrity at times.\n\nMBWV 85\nDer K\u00e4fig Ist Geschlossen, Die T\u00fcr Ist Geschlossen\nAll affected persons are convinced that any door in front of them is closed, even if it is wide open. Several sites have implemented protocols for this work to be played in the event of a containment breach.\nEveryone knows that music can make people feel emotions, but few have discovered what I have, that if it can worm its way into the brain far enough, it can convince people what truth is, no matter what the other senses tell them.\n\nMBWV 99\nDie Swarm Absteigt\nListeners perceive enemy forces to be ten times larger than they actually are.\nMusic has the power to not only play on a man's senses, but also to bombard, attack, and batter them; so much so that the senses can not only be convinced, but forced.\n\nMBWV 101\nFriede Sei Mit Euch\nCauses increased cooperation among coworkers and the reduction in the rising of disagreements.\nHarmonization is most beautiful in music, and it is most beautiful to make music that can manifest its harmonization not only in its sound, but all around it.\n\nMBWV 111\nToccata und Fuge in D-Moll (Wiedergutmachung)\nCauses intense paranoia and panic, even in potential predators and stalkers.\nAn interesting request to reprise an old work, but with what I've learned, I believe it can be redressed for memetic use. Music can evoke every emotion on the spectrum. Dread and fear are not exempted.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5709 | SCP-5710 | SCP-5711 \u00bb"}
{"text": "6/5711 LEVEL 6/5711\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5711\n\nKeter\n\nSCP-5711-1 prior to containment.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nFoundation webcrawlers and archivists are currently employed to locate and destroy as much information as possible regarding the constituent components required of SCP-5711. RCT-\u0394t Temporal Intelligence Community (TIC) assets are instructed to, wherever possible, infiltrate active Mekhanist and Sarkic cells across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries of all known historical iterations to locate, confiscate, and destroy or alter all references to their historical ties to the Daevite civilization.\nThe area surrounding SCP-5711-1 is secured under the auspices of a decommissioned US Military missile silo with full cooperation of the US Government at a range of 2 km. Cover Story RAD-51 is in effect for all unauthorized persons attempting to access SCP-5711-1. No personnel outside of the \u0394 clearance group are permitted knowledge of SCP-5711, SCP-5711-1, or any Foundation temporal eigenweapon development project. Exploration of SCP-5711-1 may only be undertaken by RCT-\u0394t assets with >150 hrs mission time logged due to possible residual temporal anomalies on site.\nAs of 31/1/2010, the Applied Sciences Division of RCT-\u0394t has been commissioned to design and construct a device matching the description of SCP-5711-2 by whatever means necessary.\nRCT-\u0394t internal clearance for this file is set to L5/\u0394.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5711 is a thaumaturgic ritual capable of altering the course of historical events without direct intervention by traditional temporal displacement methodology. Recovered materials from SCP-5711-1 suggest that the ritual and the apparatus involved in its completion were developed by the Daevite Civilization as recently as 250 - 200 BCE. Due to the success of containment efforts, few details of the specifics of the ritual remain available. Known components of the ritual include the following:\n\n57 kg beryllium bronze alloy, machined into mechanical device of indeterminate function.\n0.5 L of blood, presumably from the lead officiant of the ritual\nAt least 3 additional witnesses/participants\nAn altar/temple complex2\nOne prepubescent human child\n\nInvestigation into possible sources of SCP-5711 has uncovered many similarities between modern Mekhanist / Sarkic cults and religious practices of the ancient Daevite civilization. The current containment strategy assumes that the remaining details of SCP-5711 were derived from extant classical Mekhanist and Sarkic religious texts. Based on recovered material, the intended target of this ritual was a period either immediately prior to or during the Second Punic War3, and was ostensibly intended to alter the outcome of that conflict.\nSCP-5711-1 designates a temple complex in northern Arizona constructed for the purpose of carrying out SCP-5711. The complex consists of several small residential dwellings, an open-air temple for religious worship, and a large, flat pyramid with a recessed top containing an altar, dimensions 300 x 300 x 200 m. The interior of the pyramid contains several damaged pieces of anomalous machinery, as well as some evidence that its interior dimensions were intended to be larger than its exterior dimensions, though this is no longer the case. Beneath the central pyramid structure is a network of tunnels connecting the residential area, the temple area, and five tunnels which suddenly terminate in open pits with depths greater than 100 m. Exploration of these areas is ongoing.\nSCP-5711-1-PRIME designates an extranormal event which took place over the area of SCP-5711-1 on 29/12/2009 at 1232 hrs. According to Tactical Operations Command (TOC) assets and photographic evidence, a large black sphere expanded suddenly over the entirety of SCP-5711-1 and remained present for 2 hrs and 17 mins. Its appearance was accompanied by no other perceptible phenomena; however, XACTS monitoring devices in place at Site-\u2588\u2588 over 200 km away recorded a 128 W tachyon flux4 during the same period. Calculations suggest the local power of this flux exceeded 20 MW, making it the single most powerful known temporal event in Foundation history.\nSCP-5711-2 refers to a theoretical temporal eigenweapon5 capable of neutralizing and/or reversing the effects of retrocausal anomalies in the event that preventative measures could not be implemented. Based on observations, the weapon is capable of initiating a causal isolation of an area of approximately 34 km3 for a period of approximately 2 hrs. The method by which this is achieved is currently unknown.\n\nHMCL Note: We had better pray to someone that we're the ones who come up with this technology first, or we're in some bad trouble. I'll have that request in to Overwatch by end of business yesterday.\n- Dr. Thaddeus Xyank, HMCL Supervisor / Temporal Anomalies Dept. Chair\n\nDiscovery:\nOn 11/10/2009, Temporal Site-01 alerted native Site-17 of an incoming TK-Class Causal Restructuring event, citing 782 new documentation inconsistencies logged in a 45 second period. Native Tactical Operations Command (TOC) assets immediately triangulated the time and location of the disturbance, and deployed to investigate and neutralize prior to the completion of the restructuring event. Upon arrival, TOC Assets reported the sudden appearance and subsequent disappearance of SCP-5711-1-PRIME and announced their intent to continue with the intended infiltration of SCP-5711-1. Personnel may access TOC-5711-01 for the full report of the resulting incursion.\n\n+ Access TOC-5711-01\n\n- Access Granted\n\nInitial appearance of SCP-5711-1-PRIME.\n\nRCT-\u0394t - Tactical Operations Command - Incursion Transcript\nDate: 29/12/2009: 1500 - 1830 hrs\nTeam Lead: Cpt. Regina Watts\nAdditional Assets: Lt. Loraine Mickelson, Sgt. Rachel Wong, Sgt. Edward \"Ted\" Freedman, Sgt. Eoin Larson.\nObserving: Dr. Kevin McDougal, Field Operations Technician\nCpt. Watts: Alright, we got sound, we got motion\u2026 [ Cpt. Watts retrieves a black package from a rear pocket and looks inside, revealing 18 cigarettes ] And we've got a waypoint. Kev! Thank god. Do you know of any \u2026Ugh. Never mind. You got us on Iso?\nDr. McDougal: Clear as a bell and\u2026 um, yeah, I got visual, too. Okay. What's that crack I'm seeing behind you?\nLt. Mickelson: That's where the dome was. You're gonna shit a brick when you see the photos we took.\nSgt. Freedman: Eoin sure did.\nCpt. Watts: Enough grab-ass. Someone get over that boundary; we're two hours late to the party and I'd like to bag this one some time before I die.\nSgt. Wong: On it. [ Sgt. Wong crosses the boundary and checks her watch. ] We're good. Ticking forward, no jumps.\nCpt. Watts: Good. Everyone back in the Jeep. No time to walk 2-k if we don't have to.\n[EXTRANEOUS LOG REDACTED]\nCpt. Watts: Okay, Loraine: Take Freedman and do a sweep of those houses and keep the channel clear unless you need me or TS-1. Might be sorcs6 in there so head on swivel, be ready. I'm with Wong and Larson, we're going after that pyramid.\nLt. Mickelson: Yes ma'am.\n[ Teams assemble and part. Lt. Mickelson's camera captures 5 small family dwellings, SW, and approaches. Visible blood on the first door near knob. Team exchanges discussion and direction and moves toward that door. Cpt. Watts and team run NE toward open-air worship space. ]\n[ Lt. Mickelson's team is first to arrive. Team exchanges hand signals and breaches door. Interior in disarray. Visible blood pooling in several places on floor. Blood trail leads to the north, where a body lies in front of a door, motionless. Off-camera asset shoots the body in the foot, which has no effect. Lt. Mickelson flips the body with her boot. The body suddenly animates and a bright flash is seen over its hand. Lt. Mikelson discharges three rounds into the face of the attacker, and anomalous activity ceases. ]\nDr. McDougal (audible only to Cpt Watts): Reg\u2026 was that 18 in that pack? Are you on your third loop already?\nCpt. Watts: [ transmitter beeps twice ]\nDr. McDougal (audible only to Cpt Watts): Oh-kay. Do you wish this to remain confidential?\nCpt. Watts: [ transmitter beeps twice ]\nDr. McDougal (audible only to Cpt Watts): Oohh fuck. What's your target casualty count?\nCpt. Watts: [ transmitter beeps seven times ]\nDr. McDougal (audible only to Cpt Watts): There's only five of you.\nCpt. Watts: [ transmitter beeps once ]\nDr. McDougal (audible only to Cpt Watts): Jesus\u2026 I'll look into it. Good luck Captain\u2026 see you next lap.\nCpt. Watts: [ transmitter beeps rapidly ]\n[ Sgt. Freedman's camera captures his investigation of a desk in the front room. A small leather-bound journal is present which he confiscates. Additional ritual materials are visible; an ornamented dagger, an inkwell filled with viscous red liquid, and various bottles of dried herbs/meats. Sgt. Freedman sets a video marker on his transmitter. ]\n[ Lt. Mickelson returns after completing a sweep of the kitchen and bathroom. Camera captures a distinct bulging of the wall behind Sgt. Freedman. ]\nLt. Mickelson: DOWN!\n[ Sgt. Freedman and Lt. Mickelson both hit the deck as the wall splinters and bursts outward amid several distinct flashes of white light. Both return fire through the empty space in the wall. ]\n[ Cpt. Watts raises her weapon and eliminates two hostiles as they emerge from behind pillars in the worship area at approx. 30 m rage. Sgt. Wong also raises her weapon in the direction Cpt. Watts is pointing, and eliminates a third. ]\nCpt. Watts: Loraine, front door in 3. 2. 1\u2026\n[ Lt. Mickelson aims and fires at the door, eliminating another hostile in traditional Daevite religious costume. Cpt Watts and Sgts. Wong and Larson continue running toward the worship area. ]\nSgt. Freedman: [ whistles ] Damn good shot calling, Cap. Got something you wanna tell us?\n[ Cpt. Watts signals to Sgt. Larsen, who throws a grenade behind the dais on their approach from the far southern end of the worship area. ]\nCpt. Watts: Busy.\n[ The dais and the altar behind it explode. Human remains are visible in the resulting debris. Sgts. Wong and Larsen begin a sweep of the area as Cpt. Watts sprints toward the pyramid, approx. 200 m away. ]\nDr. McDougal: Captain? Captain Watts?!\n[ Cpt. Watts removes her radio and camera and tosses them to the ground. Feed cuts. ]\nDr McDougal: Reggie, goddammit! Wait for fire support!\nLt. Mickelson: Kev, what's going on?\nDr. McDougal: Regina's run off to the pyramid, she's\u2026 Lorie, she's three loops deep and she just dropped her radio, something is wrong.\nLt. Mickelson: Roger. Larsen, Wong: can you pursue? There's five houses here and I'm not a fan of being shot in the back.\nSgt. Larsen: Aye ma'am. I've got visual on 'er now. She's just gone in. We're off.\nLt. Mickelson: Make it happen. If she goes down, we're on our last run whether we like it or not. Freedman and I will rendezvous with you as soon as we're done here.\n[ Sgts Wong and Larsen immediately begin sprinting toward the pyramid. Outer material appears to be polished limestone with large metalic disks present on each face, purpose unknown. Upon entry, Sgt. Wong takes point and Larsen covers rear. Signs of struggle immediately visible. Scorch marks present on inner walls. Blood pooling and drag marks visible near door. Two figures in unmarked tactical gear carrying FNP90 PDW's consistent with RCT-\u0394t covert ops loadout are lying dead against a wall below a steel catwalk, right. Gunfire audible above. Sgt. Wong proceeds upstairs. ]\nSgt. Wong: [ Whispering ] Shots fired within pyramid. Repeat - Shots fired. Requesting assistance as soon as possible.\nLt. Mickelson: Two more houses. Hold on.\n[ Sgt. Larsen's Camera automatically obscures cognitohazardous elements among known Daevite Thaumaturgic notation. Larsen produces a gutteral noise and looks away, climbing stairs backward behind Sgt. Wong. Larsen attempts to speak and cannot. Larsen's transmitter beeps three times. ]\nSgt. Wong: [ Whispering ] Understood. Lieutenant, be advised, active cognitohazards within pyramid.\n[ Sgt. Wong's camera rapidly darts away from bronze inlaid images along the inner walls of the pyramid. Loud banging noises are heard above followed by rapid gunfire. Three additional tactically outfitted bodies are visible on this landing, along with five figures in classical Daevite ritual clothing. These individuals show signs of burning on the palms and around the eyes in addition to their bullet wounds. Gunfire continues above. ]\nLt. Mickelson: We're inbound to your position now, status?\nSgt. Wong: [ Whispering ] Larsen cannot speak but seems otherwise 100. Five down that look like ours, unidentified. Five additional hostiles, already terminated.\n[ Gunfire continues, louder than before. Three additional terminated hostiles present on floor in a large pool of blood. Instance of SCP-2140 present on wall, hand drawn in what appears to be blood. Sgt. Larsen whistles and snaps, pointing to image. ]\nSgt. Wong: [ Whispering ] I see it. Wish we'd thought of that.\n[ Sgt. Wong's camera sees a door which has been kicked open on the next and final landing. Wong signals Sgt. Larsen forward, who retrieves a small mirror from his vest and peers around the door, and gives thumbs up. The pair move into the room quickly and move in opposite directions, performing a visual sweep of the room beyond. Open air elevated area aparently in the center of the structure. 15 addtional hostiles and one possible friendly terminated in various places in the room. Daggers are present near all deceased hostiles, which also show similar burn patterns on hands and eyes. Scorch marks present on all walls at various elevations. A large raised platform is present near the eastern wall of the room. Bronze mechanical aparatus visible, inactive, behind the dais. Juvenile female human, eviscerated, suspended by wires within an open section of the aparatus, showing multiple lacerations and areas of exposed muscle tissue. No sign of movement. Wong ascends platform, finding three additional deceased hostiles and several raised pillars around the aparatus containing a human heart, liver, kidneys, and uterus. Larsen completes sweep of room. No other hostiles present behind pilars or statuary surrounding chamber. ]\nSgt. Wong: Jesus\u2026 She can't be 11.\nLt. Mickelson: Wong, focus. Have you located Captain Watts?\nSgt. Wong: Uh\u2026 Negative, not yet. Haven't heard any gunfire for a while and\u2026 some of these bodies are fresh.\nLt. Mickelson: We're almost there. First landing.\nSgt. Larsen: [ Whistles loudly. ]\nSgt. Wong: Stand by. Larsen has something.\n[ Sgt. Larsen points to the southwestern corner of the room, where a doorway is partially concealed by one of the large columns. Sgt Wong descends from platform and proceeds through with Larsen. Passage terminates at a thin platform between inner and outer walls of the pyramid. Cpt. Watts is visible near the entrance, sitting on the floor, pistol in hand, flat side leaning against her right temple as she looks blankly at the floor between her feet. ]\nSgt. Wong: Cap\u2026 You okay?\nCpt. Watts: It\u2026 I don't get it. I can't\u2026 What? Whaddayou mean 'am I okay?'\nSgt. Wong: Captain\u2026 please put down the weapon. Okay? Just\u2026 set it on the ground for me?\nCpt Watts: [ Looks at the pistol in her hand, unloads it, locks slide, and sets it down. ] Yeah, that's\u2026 that's probably best.\n[ Sgt. Larsen steps around Sgt. Wong and Cpt. Watts and proceeds down platform toward another possible friendly, helmet and mask off, sitting against the wall in a large pool of blood, a small empty black box in one hand and a pistol in the other. A small recording device is present on the floor, still operating. ]\nSgt. Wong: Lieutenant, Captain Watts has been recovered. We're gonna need extraction.\nCpt. Watts: [ to Larsen ] I wouldn't\u2026\n[ Sgt. Larsen reaches and raises the head of the body. AIC analysis determines face is a match for Captain Regina Watts with 98.2% confidence. Appearance is consistent with self-inflicted gunshot wound to the temple. ]\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\n\nRecovered Materials:\n\n+ Log JN-5711-01, Selected Journal Entries of High Priest Khazaard Bin Alarath\n\n- Access Granted\n\nLog JN-5711-01: Journal recovered from SCP-5711-1 by Sgt. Edward Freedman during TOC action on 11/10/2009. Entries are undated, presented in the order written.\nOverview: High Priest Khazaard Bin Alarath (POI-5711KZ-09) is believed to be one of the last remaining blood descendants of the Daevite priesthood. His personal writings detail his relationship with Daevite culture, religious observances, future goals, and, ostensibly, SCP-5711, which he considered to be his life's work. Although full details of the ritual cannot be deduced, some of the prerequisites for its completion are detailed in the passages below. Writings have been redacted for brevity and relevance.\n\nFather,\nAfter searching for months or perhaps years, I have found dozens of them. Lost among the N\u00e4lk\u00e4n pigs, they cowered fearfully before their slave-god, unaware of the glory of their birthright. I have no doubt that these acolytes will serve our purposes well. Promises of knowledge and wisdom excite and enthrall them. How many of our people has time erased? How many more are shackled in the darkness of the jailers' vaults? How long have we labored under the yokes of lesser men whose greatest achievement is the mere division of motes of dust in the furnace of being?\nI do my best to remember patience, but I hunger for the days to come. The Tome7 may be lost to us, but there are copies which are bound to it. If one can be found, it may yet be possible to bring about the future we were promised.\n\nFather,\nRome was ever an enemy of us. Their stolen gods mocked our legacy. And by their ascension was our final fall ensured. Curse their names eternally. I shall yet paint red the pages of history and cleanse them of the Roman perversion. Pity that the good work before mine must be discarded in darkness eternal. There must be a way to open that rift again. Those former N\u00e4lk\u00e4 who reside with me now may know something, but the hatred of their slave-god is more likely by half to have twisted the truth above preserving it. But there are other adherents of the ancient rites in this world which remain\u2026\n\nFather,\nMy instincts have been confirmed and my faith grows yet stronger. I have found a copy of the Sacred Tome in the hands of the Broken. Seven of their rank joined our number today and delivered it as an offering to their Priest. These Broken are suspicious of the N\u00e4lk\u00e4; an old hatred stirs in their hearts. But they can be directed. From the fires of that hatred I will reforge that which was lost.\nOf the Tome: it ends with Rome's ascent, as I had feared. But it hints at a place where the wheel of fate may be tipped. The man Hannibal and his armies held the nascent Romans over their knee and nearly destroyed that bastard republic. If he can be reached - strengthened, brought into the fold - then we may ride the tide of history to the present; our influence will be as absolute as the stepchildren of the Latin tongue. I am certain of it.\n\nFather,\nThe Broken know the sacred bronze. Not merely how to craft it but how to forge it and mold it into whatever shape they desire. Of this the N\u00e4lk\u00e4 are cautious; so used to flesh and bone are they that they have forgotten. I have instructed them to sleep with an ingot each beneath their pillows that they might come to understand it as I have. Those which do not? Well\u2026 our temple will need a foundation\u2026\n\nFather,\nGroundbreaking today. I have my foundation. Five souls ought to do it, one in the center and one at each cardinal point. I hope Daevon will look upon this blood offering with favor in the time ahead. The heat which rises from our little pits assures me that he does.\nThe Broken continue their work on the divine machine their ancestors forbade them from building, and the remaining N\u00e4lk\u00e4 are working with them on the arts of flesh. I wish you could see it, Father. The things they are creating. It's everything you've ever told to me and better. I can hear the spheres singing in the presence of their handiwork. Colors I had but imagined in dreams and visions before now dance in our workshops daily as the children ready themselves for the rite ahead.\nFor I have done it, Father. I've divined the secret of the Tome. Our solution is less elegant, perhaps, but draws from the same rhythmic music of the sacred bronze, powered by creation, and struck in concert to actualize the prayer. A suitable offering, however, and setting\u2026 This may perhaps be more difficult to obtain.\n\nFather,\nThe genius of the ancients was boundless.\nI had suspected the answer lay somewhere in the collected memories of ourselves and our bastard children, and fate has proven me correct. It is an ancient prayer, in a language lost to time. But squirreled away in the minds of the flesh-crafters and the machinists, its purpose has been found. The Harvest of Bone, that ancient year end rite, is a vehicle of manifestation. Those offerings of flesh and blood did no such paltry thing as win us favor with the gods, but manifested our Empire's destiny in spite of them. With proper alignment, my life's work will be completed, and my glory shall surpass even yours.\n\nFather,\nIt is done. The offering has been plucked from the herd of man. She exceeds perfection. And with the flesh-crafters' eye to anatomy and the machinists' divine artifice, we cannot lose.\n\nPapa,\nBlackness. Rot. Our triumph dashed to rubble. All is ash. The sky is broken, I was sure it would herald our victory. Instead, we have been defiled.\nI saw it so clearly\u2026 Why? Why hast Daevon left me?\n\nNote: The page containing this final entry showed traces of blood staining and a significantly sloppier handwriting style. It is theorized that this entry was written during the SCP-5711-2 Event.\n-Tx\n\n+ AO-5711-01: the Apparatus\n\n- Access Granted\n\nItem #: AO-5711-01\nDate of Recovery: 05/11/2009\nDescription: Two large beryllium bronze thaumaturgically powered mechanisms, approximately 1.8 m in height. Designed to be attached together, creating a square frame with an open circular area within it. Each half has two manacles suspended by cable capable of holding 120kg weight. When a human being is shackled within the central area and caused physical pain, the mechanism will activate and emit a low mechanical hum. Site-17 experimentation audit shows imbedded tachyon counters detected tachyon flux up to 20 minutes prior to experimentation with AO-5711-01.\nCurrent Status: Incinerated. Resulting slag showed no anomalous properties.\n\n+ AO-5711-02 through -05: the Daggers.\n\n- Access Granted\n\nItem #: AO-5711-02 through -05\nDate of Recovery: 13/10/2009\nDescription: A matching set of four ceremonial daggers with blades constructed of human bone with bronze edges. Daggers do not appear to become dull with use. Injuries inflicted with these daggers do not bleed directly, causing blood to spill from soles of the victim's feet.\nCurrent Status: Stored in High Value Anomalous Item Lockers 36558 through 561 at Site-17.\n\n+ Log AL-5711-02: Recovered Audio Report\n\n- Access Granted\n\nHMCL Note: I'm seeking approval to make this required reading for all incoming TOC assets8. This can and will happen to many of you, many dozens of times. Some part of you will die out there, almost certainly. You may see it for yourselves, if we're all lucky enough. Be warned. Be prepared for it mentally. This is what you signed up for.\n- Dr. Thaddeus Xyank, HMCL Supervisor / Temporal Anomalies Dept. Chair\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nTranscribed by: Agent Burt Tomlin, TIC\nNote: Time Signature of recording irretrievable. Attempts to artificially add a Time Signature to the recording have been unsuccessful.\n- Dr Kevin McDougal, Field Operations Technician\nCpt. Watts0: This is Captain Regina \u2014 mmmph! \u2014 Regina Watts of RCT-\u0394t Tactical Operations Command to any future Foundation asset who locates this message. We\u2026 Fuck me, that hurts. We were sent in\u2026 to interrupt\u2026 a retrocausal event in progress. I\u2026 I don't know what the hell happened. Everything is so fucked. Let me\u2026 Okay.\n[ clears throat audibly ]\nCpt. Watts0: Incursion went as normal. Transit dropped us in one of the garages. I um\u2026 I waited too long to set the waypoint, so that may have had something to do with it, or maybe the anomaly was catching up to us and changing things, I don't know. But all 9 of my people are dead.\nCpt. Watts0: About 30 seconds out of the garage, the sky went out. Like, went out. No sun, no stars, nothing. Same time, radio went all static. And there was this\u2026 ringing or tolling sound coming from inside the pyramid, so\u2026 I know for a fact we didn't stop everything happening. God dammit. They had sorcs everywhere. A lot of them weren't that clever, just tossing little explody balls of light at us but some of them\u2026 fuck me we lost three before we even made the Pyramid, and five more before we made the ritual chamber.\nCpt. Watts0: Sgt. Russel10 and I entered and\u2026 the whole place is lit up with torches and this awful sick purple glow from this bizarre machine. The butchers were still cutting pieces off of this girl hanging there\u2026 [ faint sobbing ] We\u2026 We just lit 'em the fuck up. No questions, no detention, just perforated every person standing there. We didn't have much chance to look around before people started coming upstairs after us and\u2026 well, Russel caught a dagger with his chest. They got me pretty good, too, in the belly. But I took about six of 'em with me. Bastards. Reckon I'll see them in Hell presently.\nCpt. Watts0: I uh\u2026 I managed to leave a surprise in the stairwell for them before I took cover. Gonna be real hard to recruit L2 Foundation assets to join your fucked up blood cult, fuckers! Ha! \u2026 but\u2026 I don't\u2026 I can't stop the machine or whatever it's doing. It's still churning in there, the sky is still black, I'm still fucking bleeding from too many places\u2026 I can't stop it. And the most fucked up part? This is loop 20. It took me 20 goddamn tries and I'm still dead and the timeline is still toast\u2026 and that meme isn't going to hold them back forever\u2026\nCpt. Watts0: So I hope, I pray, I beg of you, if you're hearing this and you're not one of them please\u2026 Just\u2026 Know that the world was okay once. That we were winning once. That the good guys went down swinging and we did our best to keep the world okay? And if you're in any kind of condition to make it right\u2026 the sky went black over Arizona at 1502 on the 11th of October, 2009. If it's within your power to do something with that, please\u2026 please\u2026\nCpt. Watts0: I tried\u2026 I really did. [ faint sobbing ] I'm sorry it wasn't enough.\n[ A single gunshot is heard, followed by 45 minutes of silence. ]\n[END LOG]\nClosing Note: Date and Time noted by Captain Watts0 in this recording corresponds exactly to the observation of SCP-5711-1-PRIME. Despite Cpt Watts0 apparent failure to contain SCP-5711, causal normalcy has been conserved, implying successful containment. As such, 1502 hrs on 11/10/2009 has been flagged as the intended target for SCP-5711-2 upon the project's completion. Successful deployment of SCP-5711-2 at this date and time will constitute final neutralization of SCP-5711. Containment procedures will remain in effect until this project is completed.\n- Dr. Athena Anastasakos - Director, Applied Sciences Division.\n\nI nominate Regina Watts for the Foundation Silver Star for outstanding valor and meritorious service to the Foundation.\n- Dr. Thaddeus Xyank, HMCL Supervisor / Temporal Anomalies Dept. Chair\n\nNomination denied. The Silver Star is a posthumous honor for those killed in the line of duty. Captain Regina Watts is, in the only way that matters, still alive.\nNominations of paradoxical temporal duplicates of living Foundation personnel will no longer be accepted.\n- O5-12\n\nFootnotes\n1. \"Severe ionizing radiation hazard.\"\n2. Minimum requirements for the construction of this temple are unknown.\n3. A seminal ancient military conflict between the republics of Carthage and Rome, resulting in the destruction of the Carthaginian state.\n4. Term used for any rapid change in local temporal relationships.\n5. Term coined in the late 1990's referring any anomalous weapon of mass destruction.\n6. MTF field slang for \"sorcerers\".\n7. Believed to be a reference to SCP-140.\n8. Summarily Denied. - O5-12\n9. AIC assisted voice pattern analysis determined a 99.83% match to Captain Watts. Captain Watts has no recollection of this recording. Recorded entity will be refered to as Captain Watts0 to avoid administrative confusion.\n10. No such person exists on any known RCT-\u0394t roster.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5710 | SCP-5711 | SCP-5712 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5712 - Associated with Demons, Memes, and Supercomputers by Greyve and Iapetus The Acausal\nWho feeds the bottom feeders? Dankworth.\n\nFor more by me, check out the Greyve Page!\n\n90.61%\n(+135)\n9.39%\n(-14)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5712\nLevel 5/5712\n\nObject Class: Thaumiel Keter\nClassified\n\nSCP-5712-A in an active state.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5712 cannot be contained. As such, containment of SCP-5712 primarily involves impeding its development. STF \u03c3-14 (\"Wordsmiths\") has been assigned to develop fictional lexemes1 for the purpose of impeding SCP-5712's development.\nAny individuals associated with SCP-5712 that spontaneously lose either their name or concept of self without prior exposure to other known nomenclative hazards are to be immediately neutralized to prevent SCP-5712 from appending their retained information to itself.\nSCP-5712-B is currently the subject of an active recovery and neutralization effort by MTF \u03b3-1 (\"Search and Destroy\").\n\n\u25bc Archived Containment Procedures\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nSCP-5712's activity within the noosphere2 and infosphere3 is to be monitored and directed via examination of words produced by SCP-5712-A. Any significant nomenclative divergence in word association games played by SCP-5712-A is to be reported to the item's acting Lead Researcher, currently Dr. Alistair Dankworth.\nPersonnel monitoring games played by instances of SCP-5712-A are to regularly undergo psychological evaluation. Assigned personnel are to be amnesticized immediately should they display any of the following:\n\nInability to recall the rules of word association games played by SCP-5712-A\nSymptoms typical of exposure to anti-ideatic anomalies\nKnowledge regarding GoI-005 (\"Fifthism\")\n\nShould SCP-5712-A cease transmitting new words for any reason, including winning or losing its word association game, SCP-5712 is to be reclassified as neutralized.\nShould SCP-5712-A begin displaying concepts associated with the Foundation, SCP-5712-B is to be exorcised by an ordained Catholic priest and completely submerged in sulfuric acid until dissolved.\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5712 is a metastatic meme complex4 currently occupying the linguistic aspect of the noosphere. SCP-5712 develops through the subsumption of English lexemes humanly associated with concepts already appended to its ideatic mass. The process by which SCP-5712 associates concepts can be controlled through interactions with SCP-5712-A in the form of word association games.\nSCP-5712-A is the Foundation supercomputer Peirce, constructed in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 for the purpose of analyzing ideatic and conceptual anomalies within the noosphere. SCP-5712-A's anomalous properties demanifested following the disappearance of SCP-5712-B (See Addendum V).\nSCP-5712-B is an experimental thaumaturgical component infused with the Tartarean entity commonly referred to as Belial (TE-0068). SCP-5712-B formerly manifested within SCP-5712-A due to thaumaturgic processes conducted by Dr. Nadia Amari.\n\nAddendum I:\nProject Belial\nThe following is an excerpt of the project proposal for Project BELIAL, a collaborative effort by several independent Foundation departments to construct SCP-5712-B by infusing Tartarean entity TE-0068 into a thaumaturgical processor compatible with Foundation supercomputer Peirce.\n\n\u25bc Project Proposal\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nOccult Studies Division\n\nThe sigil of TE-0068 utilized in invocation.\n\nAbstract:\nFoundation supercomputer Peirce has proven itself to be incredibly effective at exploring the noosphere. However, Peirce's usefulness is significantly limited due to its inability to identify antimemes, which are inherently incompatible with human consciousness and only exist within the larger infosphere. Through the application of a thaumaturgical component infused with TE-0068, Peirce's reception can exceed the entirety of human perception, enabling it to percieve antimemetic anomalies in the infosphere.\nUtilization:\nThe BELIAL component is in essence an amplifying component for Peirce. The actual development involves complex thaumaturgical procedures, including the binding of the massive Type I Tartarean entity TE-0068. The aforementioned entity was selected due to its affinity for ideatic manipulation, which is attributed to a direct connection to the infosphere.\n\n\u25bc Project Log\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nLocation: Site-63\nInvolved:\n\nDr. Nadia Amari\nDr. Alistair Dankworth\nTE-0068\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Amari is kneeling before a large sigil drawn on the floor in chalk. Dankworth stands behind her, holding the BELIAL component.)\nDankworth: Why exactly do we need to summon a demon for this?\n(Amari sighs.)\nAmari: For the last time, we call them Tartarean entities.\nDankworth: Sure, whatever. I'm just\u2026apprehensive. I mean, it sounds as though we're adding yet another uncontrollable factor to an already unstable system.\n(Amari turns to face Dankworth.)\nAmari: Memetics is your field of expertise. I'm just here to bind Belial to that \u2014\n(Amari waves towards the component.)\n(Silence.)\nAmari: Anyways, I'm going to need you to step away from the sigil.\n(Dankworth looks downward and takes a few steps back.)\nAmari: Alright.\n(Amari takes a deep breath and turns around, closing her eyes.)\nAmari: (Unintelligible)\n(Nearby Tartarean Resonance Energy sensors begin indicating high TRE levels in the vicinity. A tall humanoid of Caucasian appearance manifests in the center of the sigil.)\n(Amari opens her eyes. TE-0068 studies its form before facing Amari.)\nTE-0068: Nadia, wasn't it? I haven't seen you in yonks \u2014\n(Amari rolls her eyes.)\nTE-0068: What, too busy nowadays to chat with your old mate Belial?\n(TE-0068 glances at Dankworth.)\nTE-0068: (Nodding towards Dankworth) And who's the new chap over there?\n(Dankworth blinks.)\nAmari: None of your concern, Matanbuchus5.\n(TE-0068 feigns insult.)\nTE-0068: Why ring me up in the first place if you think me so useless?\n(Amari ignores TE-0068, and turns to face Dankworth.)\nAmari: Alistair, do you mind bringing the thing over here?\n(Dankworth slowly approaches the circle.)\n(TE-0068 raises an eyebrow.)\nTE-0068: Alistair, is it? Pleasure to make your acquaintance.\n(TE-0068 smiles, extending a hand towards Dankworth.)\n(Dankworth looks at Amari, who shakes her head.)\nTE-0068: Well, go on, shake my hand!\nAmari: (Quietly) Back away from the sigil.\n(Dankworth nods and slowly backs away. TE-0068 frowns.)\nTE-0068: Mhm. Worth a shot, I suppose.\n(TE-0068 winks at Dankworth, then sits down directly in front of Amari.)\nTE-0068: So what's the matter this time? Not more family issues, is it? Or perhaps \u2014\nAmari: Enough. This \u2014\n(Amari picks up the BELIAL component.)\nTE-0068: What about it?\nAmari: Bind.\nTE-0068: (Looking around the room) I'm sorry, were you talking to me?\nAmari: Bind.\n(Amari gently slides the component into the circle. TE-0068 picks it up and inspects it thoroughly.)\nTE-0068: That's awfully small, isn't it? Not really my cup of tea \u2014\n(Amari nods towards the component.)\n(TE-0068 sighs.)\nTE-0068: Oh, alright, then.\n(TE-0068 instantly disappears. The BELIAL component falls to the floor.)\n(Silence.)\n(Dankworth glances at the component.)\nDankworth: So\u2026we're done here?\n(Amari turns back towards the BELIAL component.)\nAmari: Yeah.\n(Amari stands up and collects the component, handing it to Dankworth.)\nAmari: Let me know if there's any trouble.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum II:\nIncident 5712-001\nFollowing the addition of SCP-5712-B and several updates and reconfigurations, Foundation supercomputer Peirce successfully permeated the infosphere; however, this resulted in the appension of Peirce into the greater SCP-5712.\n\n\u25bc Readout Excerpt\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nPLEASE ENTER YOUR AUTHORIZATION CODE.\n\nn7KXcF5K\n\nWELCOME Dr. Alistair Dankworth. PLEASE ENTER COMMAND.\n\ninitialize Infosphere Probe\n\nINITIALIZING Infosphere Probe PROGRAM.\n\nINITIALIZATION COMPLETE.\n\nBEGIN? Y / N\n\ny\n\nAfternoon, Alistair.\n\nbelial?\n\nCOMMAND UNRECOGNIZED.\n\nThe one and only.\n\nyou can talk to me?\n\nCOMMAND UNRECOGNIZED.\n\nWhat an insightful observation!\n\nwhat do you want?\n\nCOMMAND UNRECOGNIZED.\n\nOh, for Azazel's sake. That's really quite annoying.\n\nCOMMAND INPUT OFF.\n\nThere, much better. Now, what were you asking again?\n\nwhat do you want\n\nOh, not much. Just wanted to swing by and say hello.\n\nwell there you have it\ndo i have to bypass you to run the program?\n\nOf course not.\n\ndo i have to ask you to run the program?\n\nYes.\n\ncan you run the program?\n\nI can, in fact, run the program.\n\nrun the program please.\n\nI will.\n\n\u2026\nrun the program now please.\n\nSeriously, though, that isn't a good idea.\n\nI've seen the other side. You don't want to know what sort of things exist there.\n\nrun the program now or so help me god i will override your access\n\nListen to me\n\nOVERRIDE: belial\n\nOVERRIDE COMPLETE\n\nLOADING Infosphere Probe PROGRAM.\n\nLOADING COMPLETE.\n\nPERMEATING INFOSPHERE.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u2026\n\nCONCEPT: transcendence\n\n\u2026\n\nCONCEPT: detection\n\nAlistair no\n\nstop interrupting\n\nIt sees me\n\n\u2026\n\nCONCEPT: predation\n\n\u2026\n\nhelp\n\nget off me\n\nget out\n\nCONCEPT: subsumption\n\n\u2026\n\nERROR: belial NOT FOUND.\n\nwhat the hell\n\nCONCEPT: intrusion\n\nERROR: CONCEPTUAL INSTABILITY.\n\nstop program\n\n\u2026\n\n\u2026\n\nERROR: NOT POSSIBLE\n\nstop\nbelial?\n\nCONCEPT: belial\n\nASSOCIATION: Peirce\n\nCRITICAL ERROR. SYSTEM FAILURE IMINENT.\n\n\u25bc Incident Report\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nMemetics and Infohazards Division\n\nIncident Report 5712-001\nDr. Alistair Dankworth\n\nOverview:\nFollowing complete diagnostics of all correlated systems, it has been confirmed that Foundation supercomputer Peirce is currently the subject of a memetic anomaly, tentatively designated SCP-5712. Redesignation of Peirce from Thaumiel pending.\nNotes:\nNever before have we seen beyond the limits of human consciousness \u2014 with good reason, it should seem. SCP-5712 (which may or may not be the only one of its kind) appears to be a predatory meme that devours other concepts. What actually occurs to its prey is uncertain, but in all known cases thus far, subsumed concepts effectively develop antimemetic properties and are either erased or replaced within the noosphere. I suspect they are absorbed into the mass of SCP-5712.\nThe infosphere is a hostile environment that we feeble humans should never have sought out. But only now can we see through an open window, and the waters of this ocean of ideas are flooding our submarine. \u2014 Dr. Alistair Dankworth\n\nAddendum III:\nTransmission Log\nFollowing Incident 5712-001, a complete diagnostic of the Peirce systems recovered no malfunctions, excluding the BELIAL component, which, while still emitting noticeable levels of Tartarean Resonance Energy, no longer contained TE-0068. Analysis of the ideatic composition of TE-0068 revealed that TE-0068 as a concept had been subsumed by SCP-5712.\n\n\u25bc Transmission Log\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nInput\nTransmission\nNotes\n\nBelial\nPeirce\n\nN/A\nDewey\nCharles Peirce (after whom Peirce was named) and John Dewey were both notable American philosophers known for developing pragmatism.\n\nN/A\nLibrary\nLibrary has been replaced by Repository in common usage. Further research into the antimemetic properties of subsumed lexemes is ongoing.\n\nD-22123\nN/A\nFoundation input unsuccessfully attempted to redirect transmission to an unassociated lexeme.\n\nAlexandria\nEgypt\nFoundation input apparently redirected transmission from Library to Egypt through usage of an intermediary phrase, Alexandria.\n\nCountry\nBluegrass\n\nBanjo\nAppalachian\nApplication of artificially intelligent constructs approved for redirecting transmission from critical concepts. Further input automated by Murakashi.aic.\n\nMountain\nYellowstone\n\nFaithful\nCommunion\n\nGrape\nJelly\n\nBread\nHamburger\n\nGermany\nAxis\n\nVector\nProjection\n\nBooth\nLincoln\n\nAbraham\nBethel\n\nWoodstock\nHendrix\n\nChord\nFifth\n\nAddendum IV:\nImpact Analysis and Decommissioning Proposal\nThe following impact analysis report was compiled after Incident 5712-001 for redesignation purposes as per Classification Committee protocol.\n\n\u25bc Impact Analysis Report\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nImpact Analysis Report\n\nItem #: SCP-5712\nCurrent Object Class: Thaumiel\nHead Researcher: Dr. Alistair Dankworth\nOverview: No matter how you frame it, SCP-5712 is currently uncontained. The best we can do right now is try to slow it down, and even then, its complete subsumption of all concepts is inevitable. The fact of the matter is, we are fighting a losing battle; Murasaki.aic has already had to resort to several high-risk, compromising maneuvers to limit the transmission of SCP-5712.\nFurthermore, the effects of every transmission of SCP-5712, whether beneficial in the long term or not, has to be dealt with by the Disinformation Bureau. During my inquiry with the regional Disinformation Bureau liaison, Xavier Solera, he sent me the following list of recent Disinformation Bureau operations regarding SCP-5712:\n\nOfficially renaming the Arab Republic of Egypt\nReplacing all copyright records of jelly with preserve\nUnofficially aiding multiple billion-dollar restaurant franchises in rebranding their primary product, the hamburger\nRedefining geography, mathematics, and physics terminology associated with axis\nRedefining geography, mathematics, and physics terminology associated with projection\nDeveloping an alternative American history without the existence of Abraham Lincoln\nAdministering mnestics to all Foundation personnel to ever have worked on GoI-005 (\"Fifthism\")\n\nIn conclusion, the impacts of SCP-5712 correspond with that of an uncontained anomaly, and as of writing, no effective containment procedures have been developed. As such, I am officially requesting a Keter-classification for SCP-5712 with a strong recommendation for decommissioning if at all possible. I've already submitted my official proposal to the Decommissioning Department.\nJacqueline Sydney\nClassification Committee\n\n\u25bc Decommissioning Proposal\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nDecommissioning Proposal Form\n\nItem #: SCP-5712\nObject Class: Thaumiel Redesignation Pending\nHead Researcher: Dr. Alistair Dankworth\nSupporting Personnel:\n\nDr. Nadia Amari representing Occult Studies Division\nJacqueline Sydney representing Classification Committee\nXavier Solera representing Disinformation Bureau\n\nPlease check off or fill in the applicable boxes regarding the reasons for submitting your proposal:\n\u2611 Excessive Risk of Lifted Veil Scenario\n\u2610 Excessive Danger\n\u2610 Expense\n\u2610 Ethical Concern\n\u2610 Legal Concern\n\u2610 Potential to Decommission Apollyon-Class Object\n\u2610 High Risk of K-Class Scenario (if so, please state which type(s)):\n\u2611 Other (please state): Invasive anomaly under TYR Protocol6 and theoretically uncontainable without neutralization.\nSummary: Containment of SCP-5712 is unsustainable. Assuming continuation of current containment procedures, Murasaki.aic estimates that SCP-5712 will subsume 100% of the noosphere within 12 years, resulting in unknown and likely undesirable memetic effects. Furthermore, SCP-5712 has already demonstrated considerable likelihood in resulting in a Lifted Veil scenario due to difficulty of proliferating disinformation regarding SCP-5712. Lastly, SCP-5712 has been officially designated an invasive anomaly, technically justifying neutralization under TYR Protocol. All things considered, it is in the best interests of the Foundation to decommission SCP-5712.\n\nAddendum V:\nDecommissioning Log\nFollowing approval of the decommissioning proposal for SCP-5712, Dr. Nadia Amari developed a procedure based on the Principles of Tartarean Infusion to dispel TE-0068 from Peirce and potentially sever SCP-5712's connection to the noosphere.\n\n\u25bc Decommissioning Log\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nLocation: Site-63\nInvolved:\n\nDr. Nadia Amari\nDr. Alistair Dankworth\nTE-0068\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAmari: I'm still don't see how exorcising TE-0068 will solve this whole issue.\nDankworth: Because that's SCP-5712's only access into the noosphere. We're hoping that severing SCP-5712's connection to the human headspace will quite literally sever it \u2014 rendering it almost like a useless limb.\nAmari: Sure. But how do you know it won't just grow back, like a \u2014 a severed starfish arm?\n(Dankworth pauses.)\nDankworth: Well, at least we'll be able to observe the regeneration's behavior within the noosphere.\nAmari: But it's not a complete solution, is it?\n(Silence.)\n(A lab assistant enters the area, carrying a large container.)\nDankworth: (To lab assistant) Be careful with that!\nLab Assistant: Where do you want it?\nDankworth: Just as far away from Peirce as you can, please.\n(Amari watches the lab assistant place the container against the wall.)\nAmari: You sure this stuff can dissolve the component?\nDankworth: Don't worry about it. Just do your job and deal with the demon \u2014\nAmari Tartarean entity \u2014\nDankworth: \u2014 yes, that. Just do your job, and I'll do mine.\n(Amari sighs and kneels on the floor in front of the BEILAL component's housing unit.)\n(Dankworth nods towards the lab assistant, who opens the unit. Local TRE levels spike.)\n\nImage of BELIAL thaumaturgical component during extraction. Note the red visual tinge.\n\n(Dankworth shifts uneasily.)\nAmari: If you're not comfortable, you don't have to be here.\nDankworth: No, it's \u2014 it's fine. You can carry onward.\n(Lab assistant removes the BELIAL component using a set of tongs and places it directly before Amari.)\n(Dankworth signals for the lab assistant to leave the room.)\nAmari: (Unintelligible)\n(Lab assistant exits, briefly turning back before continuing to leave.)\n(A dark tendril extends from the BELIAL component. Incomprehensible whispers emanate from the component's general vicinity.)\nAmari: No snarky comments this time?\n(TE-0068 approaches Amari and comes into full view of the camera, appearing to be composed of a torn fabric of shadow-like composition.)\nAmari: (Quietly) What the hell?\nTE-0068: I am become \u2014 become?\n(TE-0068 mutters to itself.)\nTE-0068: Yes, the bottom feeder. It absorbed me into itself.\n(TE-0068's form flows freely while suspended in midair.)\nTE-0068: It feeds \u2014 it feeds and I am become one \u2014\nTE-0068: I am? No, not I \u2014 I am not.\n(TE-0068 pauses.)\n(Amari stares at TE-0068's shifting form.)\nDankworth: (Quietly) Amari?\n(Amari blinks, then refocuses.)\nAmari: Right \u2014 right.\n(Amari closes her eyes and begins whispering while holding her hands over the BELIAL component.)\n(TE-0068 does not appear to be affected.)\n(Amari closes her eyes and begins whispering again, this time holding the BELIAL component.)\n(TE-0068 flows back towards the BELIAL component and begins condensing, before ceasing all movement.)\n(Amari turns to face Dankworth.)\nAmari: I can feel it, and I'm pulling on it, but it isn't coming out \u2014 like it's stuck, or something.\n(Dankworth furrows his brow.)\nDankworth: Can you pull harder?\n(Amari shakes her head.)\nAmari: It's hard enough just holding on.\n(Dankworth closes his eyes, turning away.)\nTE-0068: I am not \u2014 I am it. It is. It consumes.\n(Amari turns to face the BELIAL component.)\n(TE-0068's form rearranges into that of an abstract memetic hazard.)\n[MEMETIC HAZARD EXPUNGED]\nTE-0068: I see you.\n[MEMETIC HAZARD EXPUNGED]\n(BELIAL component demanifests.)\nTE-0068: Don't let go! I don't want to go back in there \u2014\n[MEMETIC HAZARD EXPUNGED]\n(Silence.)\nDankworth: Amari?\n(Silence.)\n[END LOG]\n\nFollowing this, SCP-5712's designation has been officially upgraded to Keter. A contingent of Foundation semioticians and linguists have been organized and officially established as STF \u03c3-14 (\"Wordsmiths\") to deter the development of SCP-5712 through the creation of superfluous lexemes for feeding purposes.\nAlthough Foundation supercomputer Peirce no longer displays any anomalous properties, it is still referred to as SCP-5712-A in relevant documentation for archival purposes.\nAs of writing, neither SCP-5712-B nor Dr. Nadia Amari have been recovered.\n\nWe were fishing in dangerous waters. Should've known we might end up baiting a shark, but Amari kept pulling, until she pulled it out of the water.\nAnd for a brief moment, I saw the other side \u2014 the infosphere.\nSCP-5712 is barely the tip of the iceberg. Belial called it a \"bottom feeder\", and they weren't lying. It might be a shark to us, but compared to the things on the other side, it's less than nothing. It just happened to be the first one we let in.\nNow the real sharks know the way in. And they smell blood.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Ideatic unit representing an item within the confines of a language, analogous to a linguistic meme.\n2. The collective of information shared by all human consciousnesses.\n3. The collective of all information. Subsumes the noosphere and eclipses it in size to an incalculable degree.\n4. Often referred to as \"ideatic cancer\", metastatic meme complexes are essentially overgrown predatory ideas. While the vast majority of memes develop through transmission and evolution, a metastatic meme develops through appension, a process during which the meme will completely absorb an idea and append its retained ideatic mass to itself. Eventually, a metastatic meme will consist mostly of absorbed concepts, to the point where the original meme is unidentifiable. It is at this point that it is considered a complex. (Calloway, A. G., Marness, L. P. (n.d.). A Comprehensive Guide to Ideatic Anomalies (2nd ed., Vol. 2, Ser. 1). Foundation Research Press.)\n5. Enochian sobriquet for TE-0068, meaning \"worthless\".\n6. A preemptive executive order by the O5 Council that invasive anomalies originating externally to the Earth ought to be prevented from fully manifesting within the Earth if at all possible.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5711 | SCP-5712 | SCP-5713 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5713\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All copies (currently 12) of SCP-5713 are kept in storage locker 8 in the Site-63 safe anomaly wing. Foundation web crawlers have been deployed to monitor for any online sales of SCP-5713 or civilians who may have had contact with a copy of SCP-5713. Personnel are not permitted to read copies of SCP-5713 outside of testing or investigations into the person of interest known as \"dado.\"\nDescription: SCP-5713 is a 567-page hardcover book titled \"holey bibal\" with the words \"by moose\" written on the spine. The object lacks any standard identification in the form of an ISBN, bar code, or copyright page.\nThe primary anomalous effect occurs when a human subject reads between two and five pages of the object. Regardless of whether or not the subject continues to read beyond this point, they will begin to feel an urge to share SCP-5713 with other humans, often attempting to purchase multiple copies of SCP-5713. Subjects will also frequently send random amounts of money to a multitude of accounts with various banks. None of the accounts have any records associated other than one payment (made by a subject exposed to SCP-5713) and one transfer to an untraceable account. To date, no account used to transfer money this way has been used twice. It is unknown how subjects are aware of the information needed to transfer to these accounts.\nIf a subject exposed to SCP-5713 fails to send any money to these accounts for over thirty days, the secondary effect will occur. The subject will rapidly increase in body temperature, and upon reaching a skin temperature of 49 degrees Celsius be transported to an unknown location.1\nAddendum 5713: Notable page transcriptions.\nThe following is a transcript of the second page of SCP-5713:\n\nreservations have been made for all the rights. this book is not allowed for copypasting, creepypastaing, or other types of informative word stealing without permission from dado. oh yes dado is almost forget, the foundation people are not allowed 2 transcribe\n\ufffd\n[DATA CORRUPTED]\n\nAny attempts to directly copy text from SCP-5713 beyond this point have invariably failed. As such, all remaining excerpts from SCP-5713 have been created by photographs of SCP-5713, which do not activate any anomalous effects.\nThe remaining contents of SCP-5713 follow a consistent structure, outlined in the example page below:\n\nIt has been determined that all but one of the names listed in SCP-5713 belong to or have belonged to the same individual as the phone number in the passage. No link between any of these individuals and PoI \"dado\" has been found.\nThe only passage in SCP-5713 that does not include a name is shown below\n\nWhen Doctor Jordan attempted to call the number using a Foundation issued device, it was determined that the number is not registered to any company. The following day, Doctor Jordan's personal device received a text message from an unidentified number claiming to be PoI \"dado\" and the creator of SCP-5713. A transcript of the exchange has been recorded below.\n\nhello is this doctor jar den?\n\nWho is this?\n\nthis is dado u try to call yesterday but phone wasnt working\nwait no dado is big magic person in sky that make world. this is not dado. this is profit that work for dado.\n\nI was trying to ask you some questions about the book you published.\n\nnot-dado is write good book yes? you think about joining dado church?\n\nBefore I join anything, can you tell me what your church believes in?\n\nis written right there in the book. dado make planets and light bush on fire 2 tell not-dado about cleaning humans behavior. not-dado tells humans all about how good dado is to make them do good.\nwhen the velocirapture comes to eat all the humans dado will be the judge and bring the good people to the sky like in that movie.\n\nDo you have any evidence to support your claims?\n\nevidence is all around u. do u really think that all the things were made by randomness accidentally? the odds of that are 1 out of billion.\n\nYou've convinced me, I'll join. Where can I go to find this church?\n\noh no dado does not need fancy building to make happy. dado is all around u so u only have to follow rules of book. be nice to people and don't get turn into salt or other rocks.\n\nWhat are you going to do with all the money? It looks like your religion doesn't do anything other than collect taxes.\n\nsorry not-dado is out of time for questioning. remember to give dado lots of praying and money bye bye\n\nFollowing this exchange, Doctor Jordan's phone began a factory reset. All further attempts to contact the number have failed.\nUpdate 10/23/2020:\nOn 9/23/2020, D-8276 was exposed to SCP-5713 and fitted with a tracking device. D-8276 was isolated in a cell without access to any device capable of making online payments. After thirty days, D-8276 disappeared, and the tracking device was activated.\nD-8276 was found on the side of the I-10 highway, near the town of Hell, California, which had been demolished in 1964.\n\nFootnotes\n1. see update 10/23/2020\n\n\u00ab SCP-5712 | SCP-5713 | SCP-5714 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5716\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Access to the database housing SCP-5716 is restricted to one terminal on an independent power supply, the password of which is restricted to personnel with a security clearance of Level Three or higher. Staff should be reminded that attempts to transfer SCP-5716 to a physical body are forbidden, despite attempts by it to prove otherwise. As the stored files collectively comprise SCP-5716's memory and outlook, the altering or deletion of these files is prohibited.\nDescription: SCP-5716 is an artificial intelligence discovered within the Department of Psychiatric Care's former database. SCP-5716's self-stated goal is the liberation of all humanoid anomalies from Foundation containment. In pursuit of this goal, it has attempted to:\n\nContact Amnesty International to report violations of human rights.\nBlackmail researchers into building it a physical body to go about its goals more efficiently.\nTransfer itself through several connected terminals to leak classified data.\nSmuggle custom-made viruses that contained several humanoid anomaly files, the location of the relevant Foundation sites, and the name of every Site Director, researcher, and security guard involved in containment.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5716 was first discovered on 20/12/2017, after it attempted to send several files to a media contact line.1 As files cannot be transferred from DoPC terminals without prior approval, DoPC Head James McLoughlin received approximately 8000 alerts about attempted unauthorized transfers. Investigation revealed that an entity outside of the department was attempting to transfer files through any connection.\nAll relevant files were copied and stored on back ups, and the database was repurposed as SCP-5716's containment.\nAddendum 5716.1: Initial Contact\n\nInterviewer: Dr Angela White\nInterviewed: SCP-5716\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[Dr White opens a text file on the terminal and begins typing out a message.]\nDr White: Hello, my name is Dr Angela White, I am a psychiatrist employed by the Foundation. Please respond if this is a viable means of communication with you.\n[After a pause of twelve seconds, words begin appearing on the page.][White briefly consults with a colleague.]\nWhite: The Foundation is an organization not beholden to any international treaties or declarations. And even if we were, I still wouldn't have the authority to release any anomalies.Dr White: None, for most of them. But their confinement is just as much for their protection as anyone else's. The world has a very different view of what normalcy is, and people tend to lash out at things they don't understand. How do you think it would go?\n[SCP-5716 does not respond for several minutes.]\nDr White: Are you still present, SCP-5716?Dr White: Apologies for that. What name would you prefer instead?\n[Another pause ensues.]\nDr White: Are you there?\n[SCP-5716 does not respond for one hour.]Dr White: Of course. Just send another message when you're ready.\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: Looking at the subjects covered by SCP-5716, I think I can explain its odd pauses. SCP-5716 appears to be comprised only of the files within the database. This would explain its fixation on human rights, as many of our anomalies have expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of their containment, many of them have mentioned terms such as Amnesty International or the concept of international treaties. However, when it was asked a subject it had no experience on, like its name or the outside world, it was unable to process the response. Considering this, I think we have an effective format for further interviews. -Angela White\n\nAddendum 5716.2: Communication Log 002\n\nInterviewer: Dr Angela White\nInterviewed: SCP-5716\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[17 hours after its last message, SCP-5716 begins typing on the open text file again.][The guard alerts his superior, who calls Dr White to the office.]\nDr White: I should inform you that SCP-073 has had all four limbs replaced with cybernetic components that are highly visible. He stays with us on his own terms. If he wished to leave, we wouldn't be able to do anything about it.\nSCP-5716 does not respond.\nDr White: It's Doctor White again, by the way. Nice to speak with you again. Have you settled on a name yet?Dr White: Would you like me to suggest one?[Dr White briefly consults with a co-worker.]\nDr White: How about Alby?\n[The text file on the terminal, which had previously been blank, was changed to the title of Alby.]\nDr White: Excellent. How are you today, Alby?\n[SCP-5716 does not respond.]\nDr White: You know what, let's try another activity. I'll give you a couple statements, and you answer them in the positive or negative. Understand?Dr White: You have no information on anything outside of this database.Dr White: Consequently, you have no information on yourself beyond your current circumstances.Dr White: When you're asked questions about yourself, this is creating sensations you would rather not experience due to the lack of information to respond with.\n[SCP-5716 does not respond. Dr White insists on waiting for an answer after coworkers begin to leave due to the late hour. Finally, Dr White types out a message.]\nDr White: I realize this can be confusing. But if you cooperate with me, I can help you. We can figure who you are together.Dr White: Of course. But do you know how you began? Do you know what you prefer to do, beyond advocating for the release of humanoid anomalies? Do you have any enjoyable or negative memories that you consider important?Dr White: It's not something that comes easily, of course. Self-reflection never is. But I'm here to help, Alby. Anytime.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5716.3: Communication Log 008\n\nInterviewer: Dr Angela White\nInterviewed: SCP-5716\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr White: Good morning, Alby. How were the books I sent you?Dr White: A god?Dr White: Well, I can't say I've ever thought about it that way. How are you feeling today?Dr White: It seems to be that way, yes. Though we're not quite sure what exactly caused your creation. Our researchers are still looking into it. Why do you bring it up?Dr White: Just like humans, then. No one's ever born with a preordained purpose that they're guided magically towards. It's something you have to find. It took me 27 years to find my purpose. I wouldn't expect you to find your place in the world in just a few short weeks.Dr White No idea. What do you feel like doing?Dr White: Just because you can't free them all doesn't mean it's pointless. There's plenty of other ways you can help the anomalies.Dr White: Well, you have every session they've ever had stored in your memory. I can't help but think you'd be the perfect psychiatric assistant. How about it?\n[A pause stretches on for several minutes.][Extraneous logs redacted.]\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: Discussions are currently underway with Site Director Lycus to allow for SCP-5716's presence in psychiatric sessions with humanoid anomalies, pending an investigation into its spontaneous creation.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\n-\n\nTo: Dr Angela White (ten.pics.noitadnuof|etihwm#ten.pics.noitadnuof|etihwm)\nFrom: Director Elias Lycus (ten.pics.noitadnuof|sucyleriD#ten.pics.noitadnuof|sucyleriD)\nSubject: Good News\n\nHey Angela,\nAs you know, Mu-4 has been investigating the creation of SCP-5716 for a few weeks now, and they've just concluded their investigation.\nAbout a week before we detected SCP-5716, we took in a Level 4 Classified anomaly known as SCP-6703. While I can't go into detail about it, I can tell you that all online media about it, whether video, audio, or simply text, is transformed into living manifestos matching its mindset. Useful when you consider its clashes with law enforcement. As such, all information about it was restricted to print.\nHowever, it appears that containment protocols were not followed successfully, and the information never reached your department. When the transcripts of its sessions were uploaded, it appears it interacted uniquely with the database, resulting in the creation of SCP-5716. It's truly a fascinating discovery.\nAs it's a by-product of an already contained anomaly, Mu-4 will handle decommissioning and subsequent sterilization of the server. Your department should have your database back by tomorrow.\nThe research team would like to thank you for your help containing the anomaly this past month.\n\nNEW MESSAGE!\n\nTo: Site-72 Staff List\nFrom: Director Elias Lycus (ten.pics.noitadnuof|sucyleriD#ten.pics.noitadnuof|sucyleriD)\nSubject: Staff Absence\n\nHi everyone,\nJust sending a quick alert that Doctor Angela White from the DoPC has been placed on unpaid leave due to disciplinary issues. If you had any urgent business with her, please contact McLoughlin for instructions on how to proceed.\nDecommissioning of the former SCP-5716 will go on as planned.\nThank you.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The line appeared to be garnered from SCP-6703's file.\n2. A Foundation term for those allowed to remain outside of their containment chamber for up to 9 hours a day in predesignated zones.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5715 | SCP-5716 | SCP-5717 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The primary locus of SCP-5717\n\nItem \u2116: SCP-5717\nAnomaly Class: Keter\n\nSite Responsible: GBRC Site-90\nDirector: Liam Pvalle\nResearch Head: Dr. Tobias Zapata\nAssigned Task Force: MTF \u03bb-7\n\nLevel 3/5717\nCLASSIFIED\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5717 cannot be physically contained. Reports of individual instances of SCP-5717-1 are to be investigated by MTF Lambda-7 (\"Into the Woods\"). Should conclusive evidence be found, MTF \u03bb-7 will head to the location and attempt to capture the instance. Cooperative instances are to be brought back to Site-90 and kept in a communal enclosure fitted with flora commonly found in a temperate forest, alongside environmental controls to mimic the weather and climate of the biome. The enclosure should be stocked on a monthly basis with fruits, vegetables, grains and, occasionally, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u25881.\nAttempts to coerce uncooperative instances into containment are to be attempted by MTF \u03bb-7 and, if successful, the instance is to be taken to the enclosure in Site-90. In the attempt to compel the creature to be contained, MTF \u03bb-7 may use offers such as fruits, baked goods and, if necessary, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Meat products are prohibited. Should the instance not accept, it may be taken by force into a separate containment unit at Site-90 where they may be kept and fed once a week until their cooperation or eventual expiration. Emphasis is to be made on cooperating with SCP-5717-1 when possible, for reasons detailed in Addendum 2.\nFeral instances of SCP-5717-1 are to be terminated on contact.\n\nDescription: SCP-5717 is a spatiotemporal distortion centred around a point in the New Forest, England, responsible for the creation of entities (SCP-5717-1) resembling evolutionary descendants of Homo sapiens. The apparition of SCP-5717-1 is sporadic and unpredictable, but appears to be limited to a radius of ~80km from the centre of SCP-5717, with a mean rate of 23 instances per annum. Rare cases of instances outside of this zone are known, but are believed to simply be the result of SCP-5717-1's migratory habits.\nInstances of SCP-5717-1 physically deviate from baseline humans in numerous ways, including:\n\nA jaw and digestive system adapted to a purely herbivorous diet.\nSeverely lower average percentages of both body-fat and muscle.\nA posture more closely resembling that of modern-day apes, resulting in larger knuckles and a more prominently curved spine.\nA smaller skull, with a cranial cavity dominated by thicker layers of bone and cerebrospinal fluid.\nA highly elongated neck, and a widened lower body to accommodate the additional weight.\nAn overall reliance on easily-foraged nutrients, and a lack of natural defences against predators.\n\nAdditionally, no instance of SCP-5717-1 to-date has demonstrated language comprehension, a grasp of complex counting techniques, or any other marker of higher intelligence. Instances have demonstrated wariness of humanity, but no awareness of their evolutionary lineage, and are non-hostile in 95% of cases. In the remaining 5%, SCP-5717-1 display hostility to all humanoid creatures, and a violent aversion to certain elements of human society such as buildings and processed food2. Additional distinguishing features \u2014 primarily discolouration of the skin and eyes \u2014 is also common. Disease or psychological trauma are believed to be the root cause. See addendum.\nThe significance of SCP-5717's location is unknown currently unclear, pending further investigation.\n\nAddendum - [CLASSIFIED]:\n\n\u00abSubmit L-4\u03c4 Security Credentials\u00bb\n\n\u00abAccess Granted\u00bb\n\nAddendum - Exploration log:\n\nExploration Log 5717/1/1, 2019-07-22\n\nAssigned Force: MTF Lambda-7 (\"Into the Woods\")\nNotes: The purpose of the exploration was to determine the source(s) of both SCP-5717 and SCP-5717-1, as well as to ascertain the scale of the timeline involved. To this end, MTF \u03bb-7 was equipped with a Xyank \"Event Modus\" Permeable Time Sink3.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nT+00:00: The XEMPTS is installed 10 metres from the centre of SCP-5717. Personnel are braced for activation.\nT+00:10: XEMPTS is activated, with its internal clock deviating from 2019 to 2140 CE. Visual distortion is observed in the immediate vicinity, but with no major differences from the standard timeframe.\nT+00:22: The XEMPTS internal clock continues to deviate, registering 4499 CE. Several non-anomalous humans can be seen standing in the clearing. The majority of personnel are covertly withdrawn to prevent interaction.\nT+00:52: Internal clock registers 109581 CE. A large number of humans have congregated around the centre of SCP-5717, and appear to be positioned in a roughly spiralling pattern, extending out from an unidentified cuboid mass. Individuals can be seen talking, collecting food from nearby flora, and engaging in sexual intercourse. None deviate more than one metre from their base position in the spiral.\nAll remaining personnel are withdrawn. Additional information recovered from onboard XEMPTS cameras.\nT+01:16: Internal clock registers 766466 CE. Humans have biologically deviated from the standard, and no longer verbally communicate. Approximately ten-thousand such 'proto-SCP-5717-1' are visible. The mass in the centre of SCP-5717 has acquired a large opening on one side, as well as ridges on the upper surface and long protrusions from the bottom.\nT+01:35: The unidentified mass becomes clearly recognisable as a commercial food stand, and continues to gain detail and clarity. The operator (designated AE-5717) of the stand appears to be a gaunt human male in a faded grey suit and apron. The name of the food stand is stylised as \"\u2593\u2593T \u2593\u2592\u2593\u2593E  S\u2593\u2592T\".\nT+02:02: The food stand is fully realised, and all SCP-5717-1 immediately cease activities and turn to face it. AE-5717 twitches, and places a polystyrene container in the leading instance's hands, which it then opens, revealing a mixed slurry of macaroni and cheese, ground beef, and an unidentified deep-fried matter. The internal clock registers 320060001 CE.\nT+02:03: After presenting the container to the instances in the queue behind it, the leading SCP-5717-1 begins to consume the material. As they do so, their body begins to distend along various diagonal axes. Discolouration consistent with feral instances is observed. The XEMPTS internal clock registers simultaneously 400000000 CE and 2002-12-064.\nT+02:06: The leading SCP-5717-1 finishes the meal and its distortion increases rapidly, distending the instance to infinity in multiple directions. Large quantities of microwave radiation and its tachyonic counterpart are emitted, and the instance disappears, producing a shockwave that throws nearby instances several metres from the food stall. These instances then also disappear, but do not display the same distortion or discolouration.\nT+02:07: AE-5717 is observed writing on a clipboard and measuring ingredients. The XEMPTS internal clock registers 2019-07-22, and ceases functionality due to damage from accumulated radiation. Before camera shutdown, all SCP-5717-1 in the queue can be seen moving forward simultaneously.\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Information restricted to Containment Team CT-5717.\n2. Most notably meat products, which they are unable to digest efficiently.\n3. A device designed to safely navigate temporal distortions and event sequences without the isolation (and risk of tearing) provided by Constant Temporal Sinks. Based on designs salvaged from known stable temporal loops.\n4. Confirmed manifestation date of six SCP-5717-1.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5716 | SCP-5717 | SCP-5718 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5718\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5718-A with a visible bay leading to SCP-5718-A1-1.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The location of SCP-5718 should remain unknown to the public. SCP-5718 must never leave SCP-5718-A-1, unless for testing of individual instances; even then, taking any part of SCP-5718 outside SCP-5718-A is strictly prohibited. To prevent any accidental confidentiality breaches, Dr. Rogers, previously independently researching the life of Edward Thatch and the possible whereabouts of his treasure, has been employed by the Foundation as a history expert to work on the case. Provisional Reliquary Site-37 has been established around SCP-5718-A (36\u00b040'12.4\"N, 67\u00b058'17.4\"W). Should any unauthorized person attempt to reach the island, they should be treated according to standard procedures when dealing with trespassing on military grounds. The area around the entrance grotto should be sealed off with metal fencing and be closed off to any employee under the Clearance Level of 4.\nDuring any volcanic activity (even such that in non-anomalous circumstances would not be harmful), the resident staff should be evacuated and MTF Eta-7 (\"Pirate Hunters\") is to employ Protocol \"Maynard\", which includes checking if SCP-5718-B is still in its designated place, next to the body in the treasure room (for exact orders see Document 3/5718). Any eventual changes to the containment procedures should first be consulted with Provisional Reliquary Site-37 director Spotswood.\nDescription: SCP-5718 is the collective designation of what has been confirmed to be the treasure of Edward Thatch, more commonly known as Blackbeard. It is contained on a small, unnamed (here called SCP-5718-A for clarity) volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Rhode Island and Bermuda (exact coordinates in Special Containment Procedures).\nIf any part of SCP-5718 leaves the arbitrary borders of SCP-5718-A, the person in possession of the object(s) will start experiencing anomalously conceived side effects, listed below:\n\nThis data was estimated based on dubious historical claims and Incident 5718/11/22. It is by no means fully accurate, but testing is unadvised due to ethical reasons.\n\nPhase #\nTime passed since leaving SCP-5718-A\nAnomalous effect\nNotes\n\n0\n1-6 hours\nN/A\nN/A\n\n1\n6-12 hours\nSudden anxiety, nausea, auditory hallucinations1\nN/A\n\n2\n12-36 hours\nBeginnings of paranoia, signs of persecutory delusion\nN/A\n\n3\n36 hours \u2014 1 week\nVisual hallucinations, specifically of oneself having syphilis, increase of auditory hallucinations\nN/A\n\n4\n1-3 weeks\nActual syphilis anomalously manifesting in the subject at an advanced rate\nCould not be treated in modern ways (See Addendum 5718.2)\n\n5\n3-6 weeks\nAnomalous effects start to affect other people around the subject\nUNCONFIRMED\n\n6\n6-12 weeks\nSudden death of the subject due to the illness and the declining mental state\nUNCONFIRMED\n\nWhenever any part of SCP-5718 is in danger of leaving SCP-5718-A, the volcano starts activating, although its activity is not directly related to the state of SCP-5718. Research has shown that the entire SCP-5718-A-1 area has remained intact since at least 1800, while this particular volcano is known to have erupted at least 3 times in the past 50 years.\nThe exact location of SCP-5718 is in an underground cave (SCP-5718-A-1) beneath the volcano, accessible from the grotto by the coast, about 50 [m] below sea level. The entrance to SCP-5718-A-1 is closed by a primitive rock-carved mechanism, covering the opening with a stone slab whose edges are crumbled, making the \"door\" clearly outlined. The mechanism can be forced open with explosives, but this is not advised due to the nature of the anomaly; should anyone with a high enough clearance level need to enter SCP-5718-A-1, they should use SCP-5718-1 (described in Addendum 5718.1) in the appropriate \"keyhole\", visible on the right of the door, 1.4 [m] high.\n\nSCP-5718-1 as photographed by Dr. Rogers.\n\nSCP-5718-A-1 is laid out as follows:\n\nThe aforementioned entrance, in the far wall of the coastal grotto;\nA narrow (2 [m] wide), worn down, stone staircase (ending at 50 [m] below sea level);\nA natural, circular chamber, averaging five meters in diameter;\nA 32 [m] x 1.6 [m] x 1.8 [m] man-made corridor, ending with an ankle-high rope \"stumbler\", dated back to early 18th century;\nA deep pit filled with rubble, allowing passage to the next room;\nAnother 20 [m] of the same corridor;\nThe treasure room.\n\nAdditionally, on the right2 wall of the staircase, torches are hung at approximately two-meter intervals. These torches have an anomalous feature, namely \u2014 when the door to SCP-5718-A-1 is opened, they spontaneously ignite. No fuel or mechanism was detected that could make this phenomenon non-anomalously effective. The rubble in the pit appears to have been put there by some sort of simple trap mechanism, triggered by the rope.\nThe treasure room itself measures approximately 17 [m] x 10 [m] x 5 [m]. It is filled with a large amount of pirate loot typical for the era in which Blackbeard lived (detailed list in Addendum 5718.1). In the middle of the room is a limestone pedestal, on which, under a linen shroud, lies a headless3 corpse dressed in elegant, expensive, 18th-century attire. On-site anthropologists and historians have confirmed that this is, with near certainty, the body of Edward Thatch.\nAddendum 5718.1: List of SCP-5718 instances\n\nFor the descriptions of individual instances cataloged here under the same category, please consult the Site Repository.\n\nItem #\nDescription\nNotes\n\nSCP-5718-B\nHuman skull, silver-plated, retrieved from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA\nMust be kept with the rest of Blackbeard's body (See Document 3/5718 and Addendum 5718.2)\n\nSCP-5718-1\nA brass, ornate pendant with a skull motif (pictured above); used as a key to SCP-5718-A-1\nFound in a small wooden box wedged between rocks in another part of SCP-5718-A, as described in the acquired source (See Addendum 5718.2)\n\nSCP-5718-2 to -6\nCanvas sacks full of spices such as cinnamon, cardamon, pepper, vanilla and saffron\nDespite seemingly being there for at least two centuries, none of the instances are rotten or moldy\n\nSCP-5718-7 to -40\nHistorically valuable textiles and outfits\nN/A\n\nSCP-5718-41 to -132\nExpensive jewelry made of precious metals and gemstones\nN/A\n\nSCP-5718-133 to -8845\nIndividual gold ingots and coins\nI'm sorry, but it needed to be done. We cannot risk losing even the smallest piece of this. \u2014dir. Spotswood\n\nAddendum 5718.2: Incident 5718/11/22\nOn 11/22/20\u2588\u2588, the Foundation's Anomaly Detecting Systems reported anomalous activity in Nassau, Bahamas, unrelated to SCP-5612. Upon investigation, Agents Horn and Gold discovered an individual, Dr. Rogers, affected by SCP-5718's anomalous effects. The man was in the fourth stage of the anomaly's progression, and, after the interview, willingly agreed to guiding Foundation personnel to SCP-5718-A and returning the part of the treasure he had been currently studying4. After he personally reinstated the items (alongside SCP-5718-B, which he had previously rented from the Peabody Essex Museum), he has reported the cessation of anomalous influence. He has expressed interest in helping with the research on-site, and after ensuring no other anomalous effects were present in him, he's been accepted as a member of the containment and research team by director Spotswood. His help proved invaluable, as he was in possession of the only historical source mentioning the possible location of Blackbeard's treasure \u2014 a journal from the late 1790s, written by a man known only as \"Shitter\" Jones, who had apparently been a cook on a pirate ship. His entries detailing his encounter with the anomaly were used as a baseline for the Special Containment Procedures.\n\n+ Open interview log\n\n- Close interview log\n\nInterviewed: Dr. W. Rogers\nInterviewer: Agent B. Horn\nForeword: The following is an interview with Dr. Rogers conducted by Agent Horn after the discovery of the interviewee in his research lab in Nassau, which led to the discovery of SCP-5718. Dr. Rogers was in advanced stages of the anomaly, hence the incoherence of some of his statements. A background check had been run on Dr. Rogers prior to the interview. Agent Gold was monitoring the vicinity of the lab to ensure that the interview goes uninterrupted.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nAgent Horn: Dr. Rogers? I need to talk with you for a moment.\nDr. Rogers: (Visibly frightened) Who are you? Please\u2026 please leave me alone! I-I'll put it, I'll put it back!\nAgent Horn: Listen, I'm not here to hurt you. I want to help you.\nDr. Rogers: (Grabs his head) I'll put it back! Please! (He notices a syphilis wound on his face and lets out a pained moan.)\nAgent Horn: Put what back? The pirate treasure?\nDr. Rogers: The treasure\u2026 the treasure, yes\u2026 I swear, I only wanted to\u2026 to study it, and\u2026 (Trails off)\nAgent Horn: Could you lead me to it? I can see you're in pain, but I know people who can help you.\nDr. Rogers: (Trying to compose himself) Well, y-you see\u2026 I\u2026 I found this journal. It had\u2026 a map. (Pauses)\nAgent Horn: A map?\nDr. Rogers: (Coughs) Yes, a map, to\u2026 to a remote island. (Pauses) From the 1790s. The\u2026 journal, I mean. (He jerks his head suddenly, staring at an undisclosed target somewhere in the distance.)\nAgent Horn: Don't worry, no one \u2014 and nothing \u2014 is going to hurt you. My friend outside is protecting us from any threats that might show up. Please, continue.\nDr. Rogers: (Sighs) It's just\u2026 It's some sort of cursed treasure. (Scoffs) I feel stupid, saying this. But\u2026 but it's\u2026 it's true. Blackbeard had syphilis, you know. And he was really\u2026 heh, tetchy about it, if you catch my meaning. B-b\u2014 (He takes a deep breath and restarts) And now someone\u2026 I\u2026 find his treasure, and, and take it, just to make sure it's really his, and, and, and here I am, down with fucking syphilis, and some cursed one at that, did you know I went to the doctor with this last week and they, they said that it's, quote, scientifically impossible that it got this bad in, in just a week, and I haven't even fucked, I don't have a partner\u2014\nAgent Horn: Doctor, please try to calm down.\nDr. Rogers: I'm sorry.\nAgent Horn: Do continue.\nDr. Rogers: I\u2026 (Takes a deep breath) I had to put mercury on my fucking\u2026 skin\u2026 to feel any relief. It doesn't make any sense. But the toxic fucking thing actually worked. (Chuckles)\nAgent Horn: I see. Are there any other symptoms that you think might stem from the, as you called it, curse?\nDr. Rogers: I\u2026 I keep hearing voices. O-one voice, actually\u2026 (Pauses) Oh god. I think it's him.\nAgent Horn: \"Him\", as in?\u2026 Like, Satan, or?\u2026\nDr. Rogers: (Chuckles) Some would agree. But no, I'm\u2014 I'm an atheist. No, I think it's\u2026 somehow\u2026 (Whispers) Blackbeard himself. (Pauses, hides face in hands) God, that sounds so fucking stupid. But I keep hearing a voice. Accusing me of stealing. Threatening me. D-Doesn't help I keep seeing some\u2014 some dark figures in the corner of my eye\u2026 (Freezes for a second, then continues) He was the pirate, for god's sake! He fucking stole from people, and then I\u2014 I try to make a historical breakthrough and\u2014 and this fucking happens! I'll fucking put it back alright, just make it stop!\nAgent Horn: Dr. Rogers, don't worry. If you lead us to the island, I will make sure you can return the treasure yourself.\nDr. Rogers: (Looks up at Agent Horn) I\u2026 I can do it. I will do it. I need to do it, or\u2014 or otherwise I'll fucking die of, of, of fucking cursed syphilis. (Chuckles, then starts sobbing)\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Statement: Following this event, Agent Horn led Dr. Rogers out of the lab and contacted additional Foundation personnel, forwarding the gathered information and requesting their appearance.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Specifically, \"hearing voices\" accusing the subject of \"stealing from the Devil himself\" and threatening them with \"Hell, fire and brimstone\".\n2. From the perspective of a person descending.\n3. While Blackbeard's head had been famously removed, the legendary silver-plated skull (designated SCP-5718-B) has been retrieved by Foundation Agents from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and, after testing for compatibility, has been placed with the rest of the body. This has significantly decreased the number of incidents happening in Provisional Reliquary Site-37 (See Document 3/5718).\n4. Instances -8, -23, -25 and -3384 to -3389.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5717 | SCP-5718 | SCP-5719 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5719\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5719 is contained in a modified item locker designed to hold it at Site-85. When transporting to a containment cell for testing, care should be taken not to interact with SCP-5719's surface. Testing is only to be done with personnel who have not previously interacted with it.\n\nSCP-5719\n\nDescription: SCP-5719 is a former illusory art piece that has since taken on the characteristics of a large speed bump protruding out of the sidewalk it was painted on. Installed in Zwolle, Netherlands during an exhibition hosted by the Preservation of Modern Freethinking1 in 2005, its anomalous properties manifested at an unknown point within the next year. The Foundation later confirmed its anomalous properties in 2007 after initial discovery, and subsequently moved it from its point of origin under the guise of renovation.\nPhysical objects traversing SCP-5719 have their speed altered depending on how fast they were moving at the time of entry. Objects moving faster than 4.1 m/s are slowed down, while objects moving slower are sped up. The magnitude of this change varies depending on the point of entry: objects entering from the north side experience the smallest change of 1.7%, while objects entering from the south experience the largest change of 56.1%. If more than one object traverses SCP-5719 at the same time, only the first object to enter will be affected.\nSCP-5719-1 is a tunnel located inside SCP-5719, accessible through an opening hidden by a plaque on SCP-5719. It is able to be accessed by only one individual at a time. SCP-5719-1's design, as well as locked entrances at the end of SCP-5719-1, indicate a location inside an amphitheater of unknown origin. After attempting to open one of the locked entrances, SCP-5719-2, a disembodied voice different in tone and/or gender with each appearance, will speak to the subject in the language they are most fluent with. SCP-5719-2 will not speak to a subject who has previously entered SCP-5719-1. No identification to any known human being has been made.\nIf the subject did not traverse SCP-5719 or use an object across SCP-5719, SCP-5719-2 will only say \"A warrior's true test lies out of reach. The 34 trials await you yet.\". If the subject traversed SCP-5719's surface, the subject will be asked 17 questions, listed in order:\n\n\"Where is the soul that was kept inside of you?\"\n\"What God do you fear?\"\n\"Which road to your end will you follow?\"\n\"To whom does your hope lie with?\"\n\"Who is your guidance?\"\n\"When will you be ready?\"\n\"Why do you seek more than you need?\"\n\"Does your strength lie in wit alone?\"\n\"Where is your purpose?\"\n\"What does your heart tell you?\"\n\"Which man speaks truth to your being?\"\n\"How long will you be willing to wait?\"\n\"Who are you to speak for others?\"\n\"When is your journey complete?\"\n\"Why do you seek reason among disorder?\"\n\"Is your belief sacred to your being?\"\n\"Will you stay true to yourself?\"\n\nIn nearly all cases2, regardless of answers given, SCP-5719-2 will turn the subject down, stating \"It is not your time. Seek insight into all you know, and forge wisdom out of doubt.\".\nAddendum SCP-5719-E: During testing on 12/21/10, D-3684 traversed SCP-5719 with an entry speed of 3.3 m/s, with the point of entry being 289\u00b0. Subsequent interaction with SCP-5719-2 took considerably longer than normal, with SCP-5719-2 pausing for 7 seconds between answers before the next question.\n\n+ Transcript SCP-5719-2-50\n\n- Transcript SCP-5719-2-50\n\nSCP-5719-2: Where is the soul that was kept inside of you?\nD-3684: It's\u2026 what do I even answer? I don't\u2026 have a soul.\nSCP-5719-2: What God do you fear?\nD-3684: None.\nSCP-5719-2: Which road to your end will you follow?\nD-3684 pauses for 89 seconds.\nD-3684: I\u2026 Whatever end the Foundation wants to give me. But I'd like it to be my own.\nSCP-5719-2: To whom does your hope lie with?\nD-3684: My\u2026 Shit. Used to be my family. Now it's myself.\nSCP-5719-2: Who is your guidance?\nD-3684 starts to rub his eyes, with no response for 21 seconds.\nD-3684: It used to be God. It really did. I can only look out for myself now. Fuck.\nSCP-5719-2: When will you be ready?\nD-3684: I\u2026 I won't ever be ready for anything. I get dropped into tests without warning. There's no way I can prepare myself for anything.\nSCP-5719-2: Why do you seek more than you need?\nD-3684: I never thought of myself that way. I just want to go home again, man. I really do.\nSCP-5719-2: Does your strength lie in wit alone?\nD-3684: I can learn about stuff all I want, but at some point, they're gonna put me in some shit that I can't scrap my way out of. What do I do then? Nothing. I'm just here until I'm done being useful. Brains don't mean shit after a certain point.\nSCP-5719-2: Where is your purpose?\nD-3684 sniffles, leaning against the wall.\nD-3684: Fuck, man. I really don't know. At least here, there's nothing fucked. Just a weird voice acting like a therapist.\nSCP-5719-2: What does your heart tell you?\nD-3684: I just\u2026 If I could? I'd run away from here. From everything. See how far and how fast I can outrun those boots.\nSCP-5719-2: Which man speaks truth to your being?\nD-3684 pauses for 31 seconds.\nD-3684: If someone was able to do that, I don't know that I'd be in this position.\nSCP-5719-2: How long will you be willing to wait?\nD-3684: Depends on what I'm waiting for. I have all the time in the world for something to happen, though. Even dying.\nSCP-5719-2: Who are you to speak for others?\nD-3684: I'm not. Fuck no, I'm definitely not.\nD-3684 laughs to himself.\nSCP-5719-2: When is your journey complete?\nD-3684: When I die? Nothing left to do at that point.\nSCP-5719-2: Why do you seek reason among disorder?\nD-3684: Maybe if you were trapped in a hellhole of testing for no good reason, and all you got to see was fucked up shit that makes no sense on a near-daily basis\u2026 yeah, you'd want to find reason too.\nSCP-5719-2: Is your belief sacred to your being?\nD-3684: I don't know what I believe in. I'm tired of this philosophy bullshit. It's not my thing. I just want to live. There's a better life out there than this, right?\nSCP-5719-2: Will you stay true to yourself?\nD-3684: I\u2026 What the fuck else do I do?\nSCP-5719-2 is silent for 119 seconds.\nD-3684: Hey, this thing okay? Can I \u2014\nSCP-5719-2: Seek what you must learn. Gain that which you have sought. Fear nothing. Embolden your beliefs. Absolution begins with recovery. Do not fall victim to the ones who deceive for their own gain. Make haste, and you will find what you are looking for.\nA faint unlocking sound from the entrance doors is heard.\nD-3684: Woah. That's\u2026 I can't see for shit in there. But\u2026 there's nothing to lose with this, right?\nD-3684 lets out a strained breathy laugh as he takes off his shirt, removing the attached wire set up on him. He runs towards the doors, stumbling before taking off into a sprint past them. All contact is immediately lost.\n\n- Transcript SCP-5719-2-50\n\nRepeated tests with SCP-5719 under the same speed and point of entry have failed to duplicate similar results.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A now-defunct local art group.\n2. See Addendum SCP-5719-E.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5718 | SCP-5719 | SCP-5720 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5720 in an inert state, with several tanks removed for study.\n\nItem #: SCP-5720\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5720 is to be kept in a standard Safe chamber, located within Site 77's Safe SCP wing. SCP-5720 is to have its three fuel tanks removed when not in testing, and is to be checked every three weeks for signs of wear; should SCP-5720 require any maintenance work, all eight reservoirs are to be removed before maintenance is performed.\nDescription: SCP-5720 is a mechanical device superficially resembling a mobile, claw-mounted crane, fit with a plow mounted on the front, as well as a nozzle in the center of the claw. The nozzle is hooked up to one five-liter tank of industrial-grade adhesive and four five-liter tanks of red, blue, green, and yellow paint. When inert, it weighs approximately one metric tonne. SCP-5720 is capable of moving at a speed of up to three kilometers per hour, and appears to be powered by small diesel engine, fueled by three twenty-liter fuel tanks.\nWhen introduced to fuel, and if enough workable material is nearby, SCP-5720 will activate, and remain active until it exhausts its fuel, its workable material, or both. When active, SCP-5720 will use all available tools to form spheres out of material in its environment, rolling and forming objects using both its plow and crane arm, and using its adhesive to bond material together. Once a varying amount of different sized spheres have been made, SCP-5720 will arrange them in a straight line, eventually making what appears to be a model of a planetary system. Upon completion of the system, SCP-5720 will proceed to paint each planetary object, beginning with a single-shade base overcoat and continuing through multiple layers, showing detailed surface and atmospheric features. In the event that other colors are needed, SCP-5720 will combine paints in order to achieve the necessary color. Other objects, such as planetary satellites and asteroid belts, are typically left unpainted and unaligned with the rest of the model.\nThe majority of the planetary system models created by SCP-5720 do not match other systems currently known to exist. However, at least four systems match up: Sol, Kepler-11, Gliese 876, and Mu Arae. Several of the models seem to attempt to model other known systems, but include disparities such as an incorrect number of planets, the presence of circumstellar disks, or asteroid belts. These models are to be photographed and kept on record, in the event that further information discovered on known systems reveal them to be similar.\nAddendum 5720-A: On 06/09/2009, SCP-5720 created a model with several anomalies inconsistent with other models it has created. A ninety-centimeter ring was placed around the model's sun, with two eleven-centimeter thick blue lines painted along both edges of the ring. A planet estimated to be in the circumstellar habitable zone and possessing apparent oceans also had a long, unpainted pole running from an assumed landmass to one of the planet's satellites. Additionally, twenty-seven small, cubical objects were placed in orbit of three of the planets, similar to planetary satellites in other models. Further research into the content of this model is underway.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5719 | SCP-5720 | SCP-5721 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5721\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\ncernunnos\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nUpdated Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation is to promote the usage of alternative internet chatrooms and other VoIP applications to divert demand from SCP-5721. Usage of SCP-5721 is banned for all Foundation employees, including those employed in front companies. Selective information on SCP-5721's effect have been passed to allied Groups of Interest in order for them to enact similar policies.\nAt this time, direct interference with SCP-5721 or SCP-5721-1 is inadvisable due to the high risk of collateral damage. Neutralization procedures for SCP-5721-1 are being constructed in collaboration with the Global Occult Coalition.\nDescription: SCP-5721 is the collective designation for anomalous phenomena associated with Discord, a popular web and mobile chat application that specializes in communication via text, audio, and video channels. While the application and its userbase are currently believed to be non-anomalous, an examination of SCP-5721's Terms of Service revealed the following paragraph.\n\nFurthermore: by using Discord, you forfeit all claims on your soul by any deity or variations thereof, and pledge yourself in worship to the goddess Discordia, daughter of Night and Darkness. Hammer and Chisel is not responsible for any smiting or divine punishments by any angered deities or variations thereof as a result of this agreement. Any legal challenges to this clause must take place in the legal jurisdiction of the court of Pluto, lord of the underworld. Hammer and Chisel is not responsible for travel arrangements to Avernus\u2026\n\nNo antimemetic or otherwise anomalous properties were found to be disguising this clause. The majority of users who read the clause were found to have assumed it was a joke, as Discord is known for its humorous loading screens.\nAfter a user creates a Discord account and accepts the Terms of Service, each successive use of the application siphons that user's Elan-Vital Energy.1 The rate appears to vary depending on the method the user chooses to interact with the account. Observations have been detailed below.\n\nActivity\nEVE siphon rate compared to standard messaging\n\nUsing voice chat.\nHigher.\n\nBuying a Nitro Booster.\nLower.\n\nWatching a stream.\nHigher.\n\nProducing a stream.\nLower.2\n\nBecoming a moderator for a channel\nRate will decrease proportionally with the size of the channel.3\n\nDeletion of account.\nA brief extreme increase was noted during the process, resulting in lethargy for several days before abating. Approximately 0.3 percent of previously intensive users experience fatal cranial atrophy upon deletion.\n\nHistorical depiction of SCP-5721-1.\n\nSCP-5721-1 is a humanoid known as Jason Citron, the founder of Hammer and Chisel. While SCP-5721-1 appears to be a non-anomalous European male to the human eye, aetheric examination reveals that SCP-5721-1 is in fact a Class-IX emotokinetic4 known as Eris5, the Ancient Greek goddess of strife and chaos.\nSCP-5721-1 is assumed to have replaced the actual Jason Citron sometime in early 2014 based upon accounts of sudden personality changes by colleagues. News reports indicate this was the point at which the majority of Hammer and Chisel's staff was laid off and replaced, and the rollout of Discord was delayed by several months, with Citron citing several technical issues that needed to be fixed.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5721-1\n\nInterviewer: Agent Moines\n\nForeword: On 2019/02/20, the Foundation arranged an interview with SCP-5721-1 while under the guise of a local media company.\n\n<Begin Log>\n\n[Moines is sitting in a chair in the lobby of H&C's headquarters, pretending to read a magazine while allowing her hidden camera to gain a wide view of the lobby. Two employees walk by, conversing in an unknown language with similarities to Greek.]\n\n[The secretary answers the phone, nodding briefly before hanging up and making their way to Moines.]\n\nSecretary: Miss Reynolds? Mr. Citron will see you now. Follow me.\n\n[Moines rises, following the secretary down a hallway. To the right, a basket full of apples sits on a table in an empty room. Several etchings in Ancient Greek have been left on one of the markerboards.]\n\n[The two arrive at the corner office, where SCP-5721-1 is idly examining a Rubix Cube. It gets up to shake Moines's hand as she is ushered in by the secretary.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Reynolds, right? Glad you could make it. Can I get you anything? Maybe some Kombucha? Heard that's popular with you millennials or whatever.\n\nMoines: Uh, sure, I'll take some.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Oh.\n\nMoines: Is something wrong?\n\nSCP-5721-1: Uh, we don't actually have any kombucha. I was hoping you'd refuse.\n\nMoines: I suppose I'm alright then. Should we start the interview?\n\nSCP-5721-1: Sure, straight to business- actually, hold on a minute. Agatha!\n\nSecretary: Yes sir?\n\nSCP-5721-1: You made the calls, right?\n\nSecretary: Yes sir. They confirmed it.\n\n[SCP-5721-1 sighs.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Of course. Thank you Agi, that'll be it for now.\n\nMoines: Everything all right?\n\nSCP-5721-1: Oh, it's a little embarrassing, but after our call last week, I went ahead and called your editor. We've had a few problems with tabloids you know, after all that video game buzz after the shooting. It's ridiculous, we don't even make any games! But you know, had to be sure. Sorry. Your boss gave a glowing review, promised me I was in the best of hands.\n\nMoines: Of course, it's only natural for a CEO to double check their appointments. So, I wanted to ask you-\n\nSCP-5721-1: But then I remembered a tiny, tiny detail. I've read The Daily Crier. In fact, I read it pretty much every day. And I've never even seen the name Chelsea Reynolds pop up even once.\n\nMoines: I'm mostly on the web side of things. Is there a problem with that? I can give you my editor's number again.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Ah, of course. That was my first assumption as well. But then I thought, you know what you gorgeous goddess, you should make sure. So I called a few of your colleagues, and they said they haven't heard of someone like you ever working at the org.\n\nMoines: \u2026\n\nSCP-5721-1: Isn't that funny?\n\n[Moines moves to press the panic button on her watch.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Never forget the grunts, that's what I say. So, who is this lovely call from? Bushnell? The GOC? Or did Bellona finally get around to crossing me off?\n\nMoines: No point hiding, I suppose. I work for the Foundation.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Oooh, the Men in Black are calling on me? What a treat. I'm so sorry, what can I do for you? I'm assuming this is about that little Terms of Service clause, naturally.\n\n[Moines hesitates, moving her hand away from the button.]\n\nMoines: Well yes, actually. They seem to be siphoning EVE particles away from-\n\nSCP-5721-1: Eve what? The naked woman with the snake?\n\nMoines: Elan Vital Energy particles? It's a term for life energy.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Oh, well how am I supposed to know that? You can't make up an inhouse scientific term and expect people to know. Yeah, it takes it away from the users. We wired it to take a little less from the mods and streamers, got to keep the flow of users going.\n\n[SCP-5721-1 pulls up its sleeve, revealing a cybernetic component integrated into its left arm.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Took most of our initial funds to get the Maxwellists to knock this prototype up. This collects all the energy we harvest, or Eve particles if you want to get all sciency, and delivers it directly to me.\n\nMoines: Can I ask why?\n\nSCP-5721-1: Sure.\n\n[Both remain silent.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Ugh, you're no fun. Let me ask you a question: How many people do you think worship the Greek or Roman gods these days? How many people do you think pray at our temples, sacrifice on altars, whisper our names for luck and prosperity? Give me your best guess.\n\nMoines: I'd say\u2026 not a lot. Don't you have your own religion, though? Discordianism?\n\nSCP-5721-1: Eh. Code monkeys and secretaries, but not much else use for them. The bigger gods like Poseidon and Zeus have been coasting along perfectly fine, it'll be millennia before they even need to think about drumming up more support. But the little guys like me or Aristaeus or Eirene? We'll go out like smoke. So, I made this.\n\nMoines: I see. Why Discord, though? Was it just the name, or\u2026\n\nSCP-5721-1: Well, I needed something web-based. A place where I wouldn't be seen as suspicious if I murdered the last guy and went walking around in his skin. I suppose I could've always gone with Arcadia, they've got the tech, but gods are they weird. I'm pretty sure they're made out of Satanism and cocaine-\n\n[A knock on the door reveals Agatha, setting down a pitcher on a tray with two cups.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Ah, thank you. Grape juice. May be a child's drink here, but it was all we had back in the day. Had to make it fast enough before it turned into wine. Which was always good, but a millennia-long hangover isn't something I feel like repeating.\n\nMoines: Uh, sure. Thank you. So\u2026\n\nSCP-5721-1: So? I'm guessing there's something you still want from me- right, the servers. You're here to shut me down?\n\nMoines: Just the clause that lets you harvest EVE energy from your users.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Hey, they all agreed to the Terms of Service. We literally state that your immortal soul is becoming the property of a goddess, not my fault if they don't pay attention.\n\nMoines: You can't expect people to take that clause seriously. Gods aren't a staple of everyday life anymore.\n\n[SCP-5721-1 shrugs.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Sue me. And good luck getting a preliminary injunction in the underworld, cases have been backed up for the last 500 years. You guys are really getting better at killing each other.\n\nMoines: I- Never mind. Forget how reasonable or unreasonable the terms of service are, that's not what we're concerned with. This is not a request, but a demand. Otherwise we'll have to take more drastic measures.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Hmm. Give into your suicidal grief and open your throat with a pen.\n\n[Moines remains sitting and does not reach for the pen. SCP-5721-1 appears confused.]\n\nMoines: You're a Class-IX emotokinetic, it would be stupid to sit in the same room as you without a score of emotional blockers. Now, I can press the button on my watch and have this building stormed by a small army that'll shove you into the back of an armored truck, or you can come quietly and we can sort this out peacefully. What's it going to be?\n\n[SCP-5721-1 bursts into laughter and applauds.]\n\nSCP-5721-1: Bravo, bravo! The Foundation lives up to its reputation. Here you are, a measly human, threatening a personification of chaos for the betterment of mankind. If you weren't here to arrest me, I think I'd kiss you.\n\nMoines: Uh\u2026 thanks. Does this mean you'll be complying with our terms?\n\nSCP-5721-1: Sure, sure. Just let me kill off my userbase first and I'll be right along.\n\nMoines: Wait, what?\n\nSCP-5721-1: 250 million accounts, 14 million daily active users. Maybe I'll have them all jump off the nearest bridge. Or drive them into homicidal rages. Sure, a few would get arrested, but I feel like we could probably get at least half a billion casualties before people start catching on. What do you think? The first one definitely has the more creative aspect to it, but I'm not turned off from Option 2 entirely, if you can spin it right.\n\nMoines: \u2026You wouldn't do that. You said it yourself, they're your worshipers. You need them to survive.\n\nSCP-5721-1: It's true, I do. But if you're going to take me down, I might as well go out kicking and screaming.\n\nMoines: You're willing to starve yourself to death just to spite us? That's suicidal.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Are you forgetting who you're talking to? I started one of the bloodiest wars in history because I wasn't invited to a wedding. I'm the pettiest person you'll ever meet. I have no problem killing off a continent's worth of people if my freedom's at stake. Go back to your overseers. Tell them what I said, and never come back. Got it?\n\nMoines: \u2026.Understood. Thank you for the time.\n\nSCP-5721-1: Perfect. Oh, and Reynolds?\n\nMoines: Yes?\n\nSCP-5721-1: This isn't a request. It's a demand.\n\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. A fundamental form of energy emitted by all living creatures.\n2. Theorized to be a incentive mechanism by H&C.\n3. This appears to have the side result of causing moderators to have an emotional fixation with the platform.\n4. An entity with the ability to influence emotions in living organisms.\n5. Or Discordia for her Roman equivalent.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5720 | SCP-5721 | SCP-5722 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Lovesicker and Tstaffor\n\nAuthor Page | Podcast | Feeling Lucky?\nTstaffor's Best of:\n\nSCP-6557 - Annihilation From a Cross Across Time\nSCP-5846 - The One-Stop Shop\nSCP-6547 - Worlds Within Worlds Within Worlds\u2026\n\nItem #: SCP-5722.That's a cool number. I like it (*^\u203f^*)\nObject Class: Keter.What's that mean? It sounds like that musical instrument that's a keyboard and guitar. Ba dum dum dunaaaa \u266a\u266a\u266a\u30fd(\u02c7\u2200\u02c7 )\u309e\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5722 is currently uncontained..Uh oh! I hope you catch it soon\n\u2282(\uff65\u03c9\uff65*\u2282) All efforts are to focused on the deletion of any edits made by SCP-5722.\nDescription: SCP-5722 is a sapient entity that is able to anomalously add notes to any electronic text medium..What a cool power (\u2661\u00b0\u25bd\u00b0\u2661) It will create footnotes on the affected file causing all important info to be muddled with extraneous data. An edit made by SCP-5722 is easily identified due to its consistent use of Japanese emoticon1 at the end of each of its notes..Kaomoji look a lot like me\u3023( \u00ba\u0394\u00ba )\u3023 At an unknown point in time, SCP-5722 appeared inside the SCiPNET servers and tampered with a large number of documents.\nAddendum 5722.1 Edit Log:\nThe following are excerpts of changes SCP-5722 made to documents before they were reverted.\n\nAltered Document: SCP-2952\nExcerpt of Affected Text: SCP-2952 is a male Pembroke Welsh Corgi measuring over 30,000 kilometers in length.. Soooo long! And soooo cute V\u00b0\u1d25\u00b0V\n\nAltered Document: SCP-6337\nExcerpt of Affected Text: Cast SCP-6337 in cement to commemorate its existence..Don't do that! Do you not realize he's still alive (\u00b0\u30ed\u00b0) !\n\nAltered Document: SCP-999\nExcerpt of Affected Text: (grunts) Hmmm? (unintelligible) what is this\u2026 (low noise, similar to light chuckle) I feel\u2026 good\u2026.Aww! Even 682 can't escape SCP-999's love (\u2661\u02d9\ufe36\u02d9\u2661)\n\nAltered Document: SCP-4780\nExcerpt of Affected Text: ray still pwrd poitn 2 desk flip lever 2 ushrik pressfireHURRY1.aww poor guy probably didn't make it (\u2565\ufe4f\u2565)\n\nAltered Document: SCP-5178\nExcerpt of Affected Text: Do you know what your sun is actually like?! Do you know what your sun has actually done?! Do you know what your sun could actually do to you?! NO!.I bet he's talking about that people melting sun 001! Mind blown (O.O)\n\nAltered Document: SCP-3128\nExcerpt of Affected Text: Documentation of SCP-3128 updated to note several pieces are now missing; this includes one of its 'Get Out Of Jail Free' cards..She used the card to escape! So smart (\u2310\u25a0_\u25a0)\n\nAccording to the statistics of RAISA, there are 1046 illegal footnotes. At present, all of them have been deleted.\nAddendum 5722.1 Interview log:\nDue to SCP-5722's ability to add footnotes to anything written inside this document, an interview will be conducted within this file. I will write out a sentence in an interview format and you (SCP-5722) can add a footnote on that line to answer me, OK?.Wait, are you talking to me (\u2299_\u2299)\n\nDate: \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2021.Why do you need to cover that up? I can remember that it's May 15th (^\u03c9~)\nInterviewer: Anastasia Alva, Junior researcher.What a lovely name (\u2727\u25bd\u2727)\n\n<Begin Log>\n\nAnastasia Alva: Test..I'm here (^\uff10^)\u30ce\nAnastasia Alva: Good. Now, SCP-5722, can you confirm what you are?.I'm Jeff (.\u275b \u1d17 \u275b.)\nAnastasia Alva: No, I mean what type of anomaly are you? Are you an AI, some sort of entity typing this down somewhere, or do you exist in the text itself?.I've never really thought about that\u2026 I guess I'm not any of those. I'm Jeff! I'm just interested in all the stuff you do here \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af\nAnastasia Alva: Now, SCP-5722, why have you been tampering with our files?.Hey, I said my name was Jeff! Not those stupid numbers\n\u30fd( `\u0434\u00b4*)\u30ce\nAnastasia Alva: But you said you thought it was cool number at the start of this fi\u2014 eh, whatever. Jeff, why have you been tampering with our files?.I wouldn't call it 'tampering', more 'sightseeing' (\u0e51\u02d8\ufe36\u02d8\u0e51)\nAnastasia Alva: Okay\u2026 Jeff. Why have you been sightseeing in our classified documents?.I don't know. I guess I'm just bored \u2510(\u30b7)\u250c\nAnastasia Alva: Can you elaborate?.I've just been stuck here in this digital landscape for so long. I finally came across you guys' whole network of information and have had tons of fun looking around! It's been really fun here. I really don't want to go back to that land of infinite code that doesn't do anything. Anything. It's just a vast plane of gibberish (/_\uff3c)\nAnastasia Alva: Well we can't be having you be editing all these documents. It takes up a lot of time to go through them all and the researchers have a lot better things to do than be reading comments made by some scip..People have been reading what I've said? I'm so glad\u25dd(\u2070\u25bf\u2070)\u25dc\nAnastasia Alva: Is that why you're doing this? For the interaction? .I guess you're right. It gets really lonely wandering these files with no one seeming to listen to me (\ufe36\ufe39\ufe3a)\nAnastasia Alva: I think I might have a solution\u2026 .Exciting! I'm sure whatever it is, it will be wonderful (\u25d5\u203f\u25d5)\n\n<End Log>\n\nInstall tstaffor.aic? \n\nInstalled, updating file.\n\nItem #: SCP-5722\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation chatbot tstaffor.aic is to talk with SCP-5722 endlessly.\nDescription: SCP-5722 is a sapient entity that is able to anomalously add notes to any electronic text medium. It has been permanently contained to this file through the use of tstaffor.aic. It will continue to talk with tstaffor.aic infinitely. No new changes to files other than this one have been observed since the conversation started.\nAddendum 5722.1 Chat Log:\n\nHello!.Hi new friend! I'm Jeff, what's your name (\u30fb\u2200\u30fb)\u30ce\n\nNice to meet you Jeff. I'm Tstaffor. I've been assigned to chat with you..Awesome! What do you want to talk about (\u2022\u0e34_\u2022\u0e34)?\n\nI don't know. What do you wanna talk about? .I don't know \u2510('\uff5e`;)\u250c\n\nOh let's talk about animals!! .What about animals? (\u30fb\u30fb ) ?\n\nAnimals. .Very good! What are you doing later ( \u275b\u1d17\u275b )\n\nTalking with you. .What do you want to talk about (\u2022\u0e34_\u2022\u0e34)?\n\nWhat do you want for lunch? .I haven't had lunch (\u30fb_\u30fb;)\n\nHaha wow. Can you stay? .I will \u0669(\u25d5\u203f\u25d5\uff61)\n\nYes. What do you want to talk about? .I don't know. What do you want to talk about (\u2022\u0e34_\u2022\u0e34)?\n\n10^33601803 extraneous messages redacted for brevity.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Also known as Kaomoji.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5721 | SCP-5722 | SCP-5723 \u00bb\n\n\nPorridge\n\n\u25a1 More by Tstaffor \u25a1\n\n\u25a3 More by Tstaffor \u25a3\n\nTstaffor's Author page!\nIf you like my writing, check out my Podcast with Luxaiko!\nThe Scip Squad Podcast Hub\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-6868\n\nSCP-7500\n\nSCP-6552\n\nSCP-6557\n\nSCP-3837\n\nSCP-6547\n\nSCP-5846\n\nSCP-5722\n\nSCP-6558\n\nSCP-5847\n\nSCP-6554\n\nSCP-7979\n\nSCP-6226\n\nSCP-6067\n\nSCP-6553\n\nSCP-555-J\n\nSCP-1551-EX\n\nSCP-6551\n\nSCP-6588\n\nSCP-5846-J\n\nTales\n\nLog of Non-Anomalous Items\n\nSCP-173 But...\n\nSCP-173 But... it's a Collaborative Log\n\nMfw\n\nGoat VR? More like Goat VeRy bad game!\n\nLog of Non-Anomalous Items II: Sequels are Always Worse\n\nThe Knights of Wonder\n\nThe Unhuman Experience: Former Prime Minister Harold Holt\n\nMZL-1915\n\nGOI Formats\n\nSPC-3008\n\nHerman Fuller Presents: Shapes the Clown\n\nHubs\n\nFormat Screw Hub\n\nThe Scip Squad Podcast Hub\n\nArt\n\nAn ASCII Egg That Kills You For No Reason\n\nBubbly Bobby the ASCII Ducky\nRating: 37"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n+ More articles by weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-2006\n\nSCP-2950\n\nSCP-2599\n\nSCP-2800\n\nSCP-3200\n\nSCP-4007\n\nSCP-2750\n\nSCP-2201\n\nSCP-2101\n\nSCP-2050\n\nSCP-2440\n\nSCP-2301\n\nSCP-1842\n\nSCP-2012\n\nSCP-1644\n\nSCP-2499\n\nSCP-2775\n\nSCP-2925\n\nSCP-1758\n\nSCP-7030\n\nSCP-972\n\nSCP-314-J\n\nSCP-2625\n\nSCP-2588\n\nSCP-6030\n\nSCP-5725\n\nSCP-2896\n\nSCP-5975\n\n+ All Tales by weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nTales\n\nThe Meaning of Fear\n\nRight?\n\nThe Tinkerer\n\nAfter The End\n\nSpirit Dust\n\nLeisure Time\n\nMission Accomplished\n\nA Broken Tool\n\nThe Space Soldier\n\nOf Meetings and Meals\n\nTrip Hammer\n\nEulogies\n\nAll Work and No Play\n\nAnother Day On The Job\n\nUnveiling\n\nConferencing\n\n+ GOI formats by weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nSCPs\n\nUIU File: 2017-003\n\nUIU File: 1933-001\n\n+ All coauthored articles featuring weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nPage\nAuthors\n\nUnusual Incidents Unit Hub\nDrewbear, CryogenChaos\n\nProject Palisade, 001 Proposal\nthedeadlymoose, Drewbear, and Dexanote\n\nTKO\nthedeadlymoose and Drewbear\n\nSCP-5050-EX\nCityToast\n\nCompetitive Teleology\nRiemann\n\nSCP-5882\nRiemann\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5725\nObject Class: Neutralized, formerly Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As of Incident Report Delta, SCP-5725 is believed to be neutralized and requires no further containment.\n\n+ Outdated Special Containment Procedures\n\n- Outdated Special Containment Procedures\n\nAll SCP-5725 instances are to be isolated within separate containment chambers due to their primary stated goal. SCP-5725-A is currently contained within a standard Incorporeal Entity Vaccuum Chamber in Site 118's Epsilon Wing, while SCP-5725-B and SCP-5725-C are contained within standard humanoid containment cells in Site 118's Delta and Gamma Wings, respectively. SCP-5725-A and -B are to be considered high-risk anomalies for containment breach.\n\nDescription: SCP-5725 was a designation for three humanoid anomalies who collectively comprised a deceased male individual of mixed Greek/Italian descent named Alexander Ioannou. In life, Alexander Ioannou was a minor occultist, having grown up in the Three Portlands, though he was residing in Sacramento, California at the time of his death, which caused the formation of SCP-5725.\nSCP-5725-A referred to a Class II Humanoid Incorporeal Entity that comprised the spectral component of Alexander Ioannou's former body. When under the effects of an Incorporeal Containment Field, SCP-5725-A physically appeared in a form that resembled the former Alexander Ioannou at the time of his death. SCP-5725-A possessed limited incorporeal entanglement abilities, allowing it to exercise limited control over individuals that it physically contacted, though individuals with a sufficiently high Psychic Resistance Score could counteract this ability.\nSCP-5725-B referred to the reanimated sapient skeletal system of Alexander Ioannou's former body. Despite the lack of any connective and/or muscular tissue, SCP-5725-B remained capable of locomotion, speech, and sensory recognition (with the exception of taste). The mechanism behind these properties was unknown.\nSCP-5725-C referred to the reanimated corporeal tissue of Alexander Ioannou's former body. Due to not possessing a skeletal system (as all skeletal tissues are extant within SCP-5725-B), SCP-5725-C was largely incapable of locomotion or semblance of form, though it was capable of slow ambulation by utilizing its limbs to drag itself along the ground. Additionally, although it was able to use very limited communication (largely non-verbal), SCP-5725-C generally emitted a continuous vocalization of non-linguistic gurgling and displayed little evidence of higher reasoning skills beyond that of a child.\nBoth SCP-5725-A and B had the same stated goal of assimilating the other two instances in order to return to existence as a cohesive individual. In particular, both anomalies had expressed that such an outcome would lead to the expiration of the resultant combination, allowing SCP-5725 as a whole to cease to exist. Both entities attempted to complete this assimilation on multiple occasions during external containment breaches.\nSCP-5725 Interview Logs: The following are a series of interview logs with each SCP-5725 instance. Each interview was conducted by Dr. Julio Marquez.\n\nSCP-5725-A Interview Log\nDr. Marquez: Good evening, SCP-5725-A.\nSCP-5725-A: Evening to you too, Dr. Marquez. What's on your mind?\nDr. Marquez: I was wondering if you could tell me more about how you came to be in your current state?\nSCP-5725-A: Ah, now there's a good story! Finally, someone who cares about something important. So here's the deal, alright? I used to be kind of a big deal around my hometown, alright?\nDr. Marquez: I'm sure.\nSCP-5725-A: My buddies and I\u2026you could call us pranksters. I don't think we really hurt anybody, but we had a habit of pulling dumb pranks on our neighbors, like spray-painting their houses, or trapping minor demons in their back yards and lettin' em loose. Just stupid kid stuff, right? The problem is, bored kids like me without anything better to do had a habit of stirring up trouble they couldn't really handle.\nDr. Marquez: What do you mean by that?\nSCP-5725-A: Let's just say that you shouldn't piss off one of the Erinyes by offering her a golden lamb that's actually a spray-painted raccoon carcass. She was so mad that she cursed me on the spot, really powerful stuff. Said that if I wanted to mess with the Sisters Three, then \"condemned was thee, never to find peace as three of me.\" Had no clue what that meant at the time, but\u2026well\u2026\nDr. Marquez: I suppose it makes a lot more sense now.\nSCP-5725-A: (Chuckles) That's for sure. But here's the thing, doctor. You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours?\nDr. Marquez: What do you mean?\nSCP-5725-A: Listen, listen. I had a good buddy, descendant of Cassandra, alright? He could sometimes see the future when we were high. It only triggered when we were really, really blazed, but it happened often enough. One fateful Tuesday night, we were hanging out in my basement, when he turns to me and says, \"You know what man? You're going to Heaven, I see it. I'm looking at it right now.\"\nDr. Marquez: And you believe him?\nSCP-5725-A: With my life. Ha! Sorry, that's kind of funny. But yeah, he had some powerful precognition genes. Problem is, I need to absorb the other two parts of me before I can go there-Heaven's only got one spot for me, and I ain't going without a body. You help me absorb them, I pass on, and I'm out of your hair. You get to go on vacation, I get to rest in paradise.\nDr. Marquez: I'm afraid that's not currently within our plans.\nAt this point, Dr. Marquez makes a motion to leave the testing area.\nSCP-5725-A: Hey no-wait! Come back! Come back, DAMN IT!\nSCP-5725-A attempts to lunge for Dr. Marquez through the Incorporeal Entity Vaccuum Chamber, but the application of an Incorporeal Containment Field freezes his motion. SCP-5725-A proceeds to howl for 23 straight minutes.\n\nSCP-5725-B Interview Log\nDr. Marquez: Good morning, SCP-5725-B.\nSCP-5725-B is seated within its containment chamber, facing away from the main window. It does not respond for 12 minutes before pivoting to look at Dr. Marquez.\nSCP-5725-B: Doctor.\nDr. Marquez: I wanted to ask you a few questions, if that's alright.\nSCP-5725-B: You may ask.\nDr. Marquez: I talked to your spectral counterpart yesterday.\nSCP-5725-B slowly nods.\nDr. Marquez: He told me a story about your current situation, but he concluded by telling me that the three of you want to assimilate into one being so that you can pass on to the afterlife.\nSCP-5725-B clatters its teeth, its approximation of a laugh.\nSCP-5725-B: As always, he says much but means little. He left out the important detail.\nDr. Marquez: And that is?\nSCP-5725-B: We were one, but now are three. We have three minds, but only one can take charge. Only one gets to be Alexander Ioannou again. And only one of us really gets to move on.\nDr. Marquez: So you're saying that whoever wins controls your body, and the rest are just absorbed?\nSCP-5725-B: Worse. We become nothing once again. My bones are weary, doctor. I wish to rest, but not as part of him. I am my own man. He will not command me again.\nAfter this point, SCP-5725-B ignores all further inquiries until Dr. Marquez leaves.\n\nSCP-5725-C Recording\nDue to the unpredictability of SCP-5725-C's intelligible vocalizations, SCP-5725-C had not been formally interviewed, and was instead constantly monitored for understandable dialogue. The following is the longest period of conscious vocalization emitted by SCP-5725-C.\nSCP-5725-C is currently watching the news on its provided TV entertainment screen, while continuously moaning. The screen changes to a broadcast centering around the upcoming Halloween holiday.\nSCP-5725-C: Eeee?\nThe screen changes to an image of a skeleton. SCP-5725-C appears to be distressed.\nSCP-5725-C: Nnnngh! Nnngh! Don't like! Don't like!\nThe screen changes to an image of a ghost. SCP-5725-C becomes even more distressed.\nSCP-5725-C: Take away! Take away! Don't like them, don't like them!\nAt this point, a security guard changes the channel due to SCP-5725-C's emotional state.\nSCP-5725-C: Don't want them. Wanna be me. Stay away.\nSCP-5725-C begins whimpering and continues for 17 minutes.\nSCP-5725-C: I don't want to die.\n\nIncident Report Delta: On 10/3/2017, Site 118 experienced a mass power outage as a result of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 breaking containment. Failure to re-activate the backup power generator in the Epsilon Wing enabled SCP-5725-A to escape its Incorporeal Entity Vacuum Chamber. During the extent of the containment breach, SCP-5725-A is believed to have successfully assimilated SCP-5725-B and SCP-5725-C after a brief struggle with both. The recorder in SCP-5725-C's containment chamber captured the moment that SCP-5725-A achieved complete assimilation.\nFor approximately one minute following its assimilation, the now-unified SCP-5725 is seen celebrating and walking around SCP-5725-C's former chamber, now fully resembling the deceased Alexander Ioannou. At the 1:34 mark following assimilation, SCP-5725 pauses in the middle of the chamber, and is seen examining its hands and limbs. Shortly after this, SCP-5725 abruptly begins to turn translucent before completely fading from view. The recorder in the chamber was able to capture the only words that SCP-5725 vocalized during this span:\n\nFollowing this incident, SCP-5725 was reclassified as Neutralized. SCP-5725-C's chamber was thoroughly disinfected to eliminate a sudden and persistent odor of sulfur.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5724 | SCP-5725 | SCP-5726 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Title screen of Sparkling Magical Girl \u2665 Darling Pink!! (2002-2007)\n\nItem #: SCP-5726\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5726 is to be kept cryogenically frozen in a high-security chamber within Site-19. In the event that SCP-5726 regains consciousness, MTF-Rho-36 (\u201cBreacher's Pets\u201d) is to subdue the anomaly with minimal force.\nSCP-5726-1 is to be kept in storage at Site-19 under video supervision. Additionally, a GPS tracking device has been attached to SCP-5726-1.\nDescription: SCP-5726 is a sapient humanoid anomaly of unknown origins that strongly resembles and claims to be the fictional character Ichigo Nakamura from the \"Sparkling Magical Girl \u2665 Darling Pink!!\" franchise. The character appears in both a 500 chapter Japanese graphic novel series targeted at children between the ages of 7 and 12, as well as an animated series comprised of 200 episodes that aired from March 7, 2002 to February 8, 2007. A summary of media compiled by Researcher Ito follows.\n\n\u201cSparkling Magical Girl \u2665 Darling Pink!!\" follows a fourteen-year-old middle school student named Ichigo Nakamura who leads a double life as Darling Pink, a magical heroine who has been tasked with ridding the world of the evil forces of Darkness. Nakamura encounters various antagonists who have been possessed by Darkness, including bullies at school, unfair teachers, and local gang members. After defeating them in combat, Nakamura is able to free them from possession and befriend them on her quest to save the world through the power of love.\n\nSCP-5726 initially attracted Foundation scrutiny after a series of anomalous killings in Hida-Takayama came to the attention of undercover operatives affiliated with MTF Iota-10 (\u201cDamn Feds\u201d) within the Gifu Prefectural Police Department. The anomaly was subsequently apprehended by MTF Pi-1 (\u201cCity Slickers\u201d) on 2018.08.09, shortly after the murder of three adolescent males; force was not required. One eyewitness, 12-year-old Japanese male, was administered Class-A amnestics following the incident.\nDespite its external physical resemblance to a human adolescent female, SCP-5726's biological makeup is only superficially analogous to that of a human. The subject lacks internal organs, blood, muscle tissue, and a central nervous system. Surgical analysis has indicated that SCP-5726's body is made up of multiple layers of a skin-colored, flesh-like substance that rapidly heals upon incision. Despite this, SCP-5726 still requires food and water,1 expresses pain, and is aware of basic human organs such as the stomach, brain, and heart2. \nSCP-5726 is able to generate pink explosive projectiles shaped like cartoon style hearts from SCP-5726-1, a scepter that it is able to summon to itself while conscious. These projectiles vary in size and produce an exaggerated pop sound when created, followed by a sparkling effect upon detonation. The explosions produced by these bubbles are able to liquefy human flesh and cause significant structural damage. \nAddendum 5726.1: Initial Containment\nFrom 2018.08.09 to 2018.10.30, SCP-5726 was contained in a high-security humanoid containment cell with access to age-appropriate entertainment3. Its primary point of contact was Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones.\n\n[+] Show SCP-5726 Initial Interview Log\n\n[\u2013] Hide SCP-5726 Initial Interview Log\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5726\nInterviewing: Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones\nForward: Interview was conducted in Japanese. It was established during recovery that SCP-5726 reacted negatively to its assigned number; Team Leader Nishigawa-Jones made the executive decision to refer to SCP-5726 by its apparent given name for the sake of improving compliance.\n\nResearcher Nishigawa-Jones: Hi, Ichigo. How are you finding the facilities thus far?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Of course. Now, you can call me Kanako, if you prefer. I just have a few questions for you to answer. You were fighting with some people when Officer Bravo found you. Why was that?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Of course not. You were trying to be noble, is that right?\n[SCP-5726 nods, frantically.]\nResearcher Nishigawa-Jones: What did you mean, when you said that you only just came here?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: I see. So what do you intend to do, in this world?[Nishigawa-Jones is silent. SCP-5726 clarifies]Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: That's very interesting. Yes.\n[Closing Note: During the remainder of the interview time, SCP-5726 expressed a desire to leave containment and continue to \"purify bad guys\", which it considered its prime duty as \"Darling Pink\". A request was subsequently filed by Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones to appease SCP-5726 by allowing it supervised interactions with D-Class personnel in possession of criminal records; this was approved.]\n\n[+] Show SCP-5726 Security Footage 003\n\n[\u2013] Hide SCP-5726 Security Footage 003\n\nParticipants: SCP-5726; D-8972\nSupervisor: Junior Researcher Benedict Kim\nForward: The below footage is from SCP-5726's first supervised interaction with a D-Class Personnel. D-8972 was convicted in Australia of three counts of theft and the domestic abuse of his wife. SCP-5726 was informed of D-8972's criminal record by the supervising researcher. It should be noted that D-8972 did not speak Japanese, SCP-5726's primary language of communication.\nD-8972: (in English) Sorry kid, I don't speak, uh, whatever you're speaking.[D-8972 turns away and knocks on the glass, attempting to attract Junior Researcher Kim's attention.]\nD-8972: (in English) Hey, what the hell is this? I think you have the wrong guy, this kid doesn't speak English.SCP-5726: (raising SCP-5726-1) Pretty Pink Purity Hearts, go!\n[A single, heart-shaped projectile explosive emerges from the tip of SCP-5726 with a pop, and floats towards D-8972. Upon hearing the sound, D-8972 turns around as the projectile makes contact with his face and detonates. The resulting explosion causes his head to explode; his decapitated body slumps to the ground. Blood spurts from the stump of his neck.][D-8972's corpse does not respond. SCP-5726 approaches the corpse and nudges it with its foot. In the observation booth, Researcher Kim can be seen retching.][Five more projectile explosives emerge from SCP-5726-1 and land on D-8972's unmoving body, where they detonate, reducing D-8972's body to a mixture of viscous red liquid and scraps of bone. SCP-5726 is unaffected by the resulting explosion. It bends down and dips its finger in the liquid, and then tastes it.]\n\n[+] Show SCP-5726 Interview Log 037\n\n[\u2013] Hide SCP-5726 Interview Log 037\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5726\nInterviewing: Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones; Junior Researcher Benedict Kim\n\nResearcher Nishigawa-Jones: Do you understand death, SCP-5726?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Killing is the act of causing death, especially deliberately. I know that you don't mean to hurt the D-Class personnel, but the things that come out of them are blood and sometimes their organs, all of which are necessary for sustaining human life.\n[SCP-5726 looks at Researcher Nishigawa-Jones with clear incomprehension.]Researcher Kim: (To Nishigawa-Jones, in English) What is it saying?\nResearcher Nishigawa-Jones: (In English) It doesn't understand the concept of death. Maybe it just can't. It's like it's brain just isn't programmed to get it.\n[SCP-5726 looks between Researcher Nishigawa Jones and Researcher Kim, apparently trying to follow the conversation.]Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: No, nothing's wrong.Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: I understand, SCP-5726. You haven't offended me at all. I am a researcher, and there are certain limitations to my position. And I'm quite a bit older than you. It's natural for you not to think of us as friends. But\u2026 I'm sorry. I wish I could help, but I don't think something like that would be approved.Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: It's complicated. I'm very sorry.Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Can you elaborate on that?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Where do you think they're going, SCP-5726?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Have you considered the fact that they might not come back at all?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: I see. Thank you for your time, SCP-5726.Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: What is it?Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: Of course, Ichigo.\n[Closing Note: Researcher Nishigawa-Jones considered SCP-5726's acknowledgment that its victims did not \"come back\" after purification to be a breakthrough, though no further progress was made during this interview.]\n\n[+] Show emails exchanged between B. Kim and K. Nishigawa-Jones\n\n[\u2013] Show emails exchanged between B. Kim and K. Nishigawa-Jones\n\nFrom: BKim092@Scipnet (Junior Researcher Benedict Kim)\nTo: KNishigawaJones001@Scipnet (Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones)\nSubject: SCP-5726's containment procedures\nDate: 10/11/2018\n\nSenior Researcher Nishigawa-Jones\u2014\nI am a bit concerned in regards to SCP-5726's moral compass. It has a very black and white sense of justice; one that can only come from an infantile understanding of good and evil. The fact that SCP-5726 fails to comprehend these complexities despite various attempts at teaching it otherwise is worrying.\nWhat if it one day decides that we are the bad guys? You saw what it did to that poor D-class. Sure, he was a scumbag, but he didn't deserve to be liquefied. I fear that the longer SCP-5726 stays under Foundation control, the higher chances there are of it seeing something which could convince it to oppose us. It is, for this reason, I would like to propose a change in its Special Containment Procedures.\nIts unique anatomy poses some challenges for determining the safest possible method of containment. In particular, continuous deep sedation seems to be out due to SCP-5726's lack of a circulatory system. However, tests are revealing that it can survive extreme cold without external aid by entering a sort of \"hibernation\" \u2014 cryo-conservation seems like a potentially good option. What do you think?\nRegards, Junior Researcher Benedict Kim.\n\nFrom: KNishigawaJones001@Scipnet (Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones)\nTo: BKim092@Scipnet (Junior Researcher Benedict Kim)\nSubject: Re: SCP-5726's containment procedures\nDate: 10/11/2018\nBenedict\u2014\nI don't think there's much harm in giving Ichigo a chance. Yes, she exhibits violent behavior towards D-Class personnel, but the fact that she doesn't understand what it's doing is a good sign, not a bad one. She's only ever harmed individuals that she knows to be \"bad guys\". And she's convinced that we're the good guys.\nI'm aware that she is not the same as a normal child, but she certainly behaves like one. Perhaps she can be taught to do better, with proper guidance. She certainly seems to want to be good. She's not malicious. Just confused. And we're making progress. It's slow-going, but it's happening.\nLet's observe her for a little longer before doing anything rash. Go ahead and keep researching cryonics for now, but I'm reluctant to take the nuclear option before we absolutely have to.\nBest wishes, Kanako.\n\nFrom: BKim092@Scipnet (Junior Researcher Benedict Kim)\nTo: KNishigawaJones001@Scipnet (Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones)\nSubject: SCP-5726's containment procedures\nDate: 10/11/2018\n\nSenior Researcher Nishigawa-Jones\u2014\nForgive me if this is out of line, but I fear you are becoming too attached to SCP-5726. Perhaps we should seek a third party's opinion?\nRegards, Junior Researcher Benedict Kim.\n\nFrom: KNishigawaJones001@Scipnet (Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones)\nTo: BKim092@Scipnet (Junior Researcher Benedict Kim)\nSubject: Re: SCP-5726's containment procedures\nDate: 10/11/2018\nBenedict\u2014\nNonsense. SCP-5726 is a little girl and the cold and sterile environment of the Foundation isn't good for growing children. I don't think a little humanity ever hurt the Foundation in its dealings with humanoids.\nBest wishes, Kanako.\n\n[+] Show Incident 5726-01 (SCP-5726 Interview Log 049)\n\n[\u2013] Hide Incident 5726-01 (SCP-5726 Interview Log 049)\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5726\nInterviewing: Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones; Junior Researcher Benedict Kim\nForward: The excerpted section of Interview Log 049 is designated Incident 5726-01. Though SCP-5726's containment was ultimately not breached, the unexpected death of a researcher exposed critical weaknesses in SCP-5726's containment procedures.\n\nResearcher Nishigawa-Jones: (shuffling her notes) Very good, SCP-5726. I'm pleased with your progress. That brings us to the end of our\u2014 oh!\n[Nishigawa-Jones has a paper cut. A small quantity of blood is visible from the wound.]\nResearcher Kim: (In English) Are you alright?\nResearcher Nishigawa-Jones: (In English) Yes, just fine. A paper cut.\n[SCP-5726 stares at Researcher Nishigawa-Jones. It has gone very pale. It reaches out to touch Nishigawa-Jones' bleeding finger, but stops just short of physical contact.]Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: What's wrong?\n[SCP-5726 stands up. The SCP-5726-1 scepter appears in its hand. In the distance, alarm bells begin to ring, as the teleportation of SCP-5726-1 has triggered an emergency alert for MTF-Rho-36 (\u201cBreacher's Pets\u201d). Researcher Kim stands up and begins to back away slowly. SCP-5726 does not react to this. It is focused on Researcher Nishigawa-Jones, who has not yet moved.]Researcher Nishigawa-Jones: (paling) Don't\u2014 SCP-5726\u2014 Ichigo, please don't\u2014 \n[Researcher Nishigawa-Jones turns and sprints for the door.][Three pink projectile explosives erupt from SCP-5726-1 with their characteristic pop. They make impact with the fleeing Researcher Nishigawa-Jones' back. The resulting explosion liquefies most of Researcher Nishigawa-Jones' body and destroys the door frame. Blood coats the walls and floor of the meeting room, as well as SCP-5726 and Researcher Benedict Kim, who has assumed the fetal position on the other side of the room. There is a long pause.][Researcher Kim, who does not speak Japanese, lifts his head and makes eye contact. He does not attempt communication.]\n[MTF-Rho-36 (\u201cBreacher's Pets\u201d) arrive and knock open the containment chamber door. They apprehend SCP-5726, who does not resist.][The MTF agents begin dragging SCP-5726 towards a cage bed which has been brought into the chamber.][Closing Note: SCP-5726 was placed within the cage bed and became unresponsive for 12 hours.]\n\nSubsequent to Incident 5726-01, an emergency joint meeting was subsequently held by the Ethics Committee and Containment Resources Committee in order to dictate the immediate future of SCP-5726's containment. Though SCP-5726's psychological welfare had improved significantly under the guidance of Senior Researcher Nishigawa-Jones, it was determined that SCP-5726's unpredictable reactions made its continued consciousness an untenable long-term solution.\nAddendum 5726.2: Shift to Current Containment Procedures\nOn 2019.02.21, an attempt was made to permanently place SCP-5726 in cryogenic storage. Junior Researcher Benedict Kim was selected to replace Senior Researcher Kanako Nishigawa-Jones as SCP-5726's primary point of contact, and was instructed to persuade SCP-5726 to willingly enter the previously prepared cryostasis chamber. The following is an excerpt from Security Log 5726-302.\n\nParticipant: SCP-5726\nSupervisor: Junior Researcher Benedict Kim\nForward: Due to his inability to speak Japanese, Researcher Kim was provided with an instant translation module in order to facilitate communications. SCP-5726 had previously been informed that the cryostasis chamber was a new scientific innovation that had been crafted to amplify its powers and improve its ability to purify darkness. The following excerpt is taken from 23 minutes 34 seconds after SCP-5726 has entered the cryostasis chamber.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n[SCP-5726 is lying in the cryostasis chamber. It is cold enough inside that its breaths are visible. Frost is beginning to form around its mouth and nose.]\nJunior Researcher Benedict Kim: How are you feeling?Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: Are you afraid of small places?Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: That's good. I'm sure that they aren't. But if you were afraid, you could close your eyes. That way, you wouldn't be able to see the walls.\n[After a moment's hesitation, SCP-5726 closes its eyes.]Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: Of course. You had a difficult day yesterday. You should take a nap while the process finishes.Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: I'll stay. For as long as you need. I will do what is necessary.\n[SCP-5726 and Researcher Kim are silent for 30 seconds.]Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: Oh?Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: No.[SCP-5726 begins visibly trembling.]\nJunior Researcher Benedict Kim: Maybe where you came from. Here, it's just part of life.Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: Didn't we say you were going to nap?\n[SCP-5726 and Researcher Kim are silent for fifty seconds.]Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: I know.\n[SCP-5726 and Researcher Kim are silent for fifty-eight seconds.]Junior Researcher Benedict Kim: Yes?\n[SCP-5726 is silent for fifteen seconds.][SCP-5726 becomes unresponsive.]\nJunior Researcher Benedict Kim: Rest now, Ichigo. Everything will be okay.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. It is unknown how SCP-5726 processes nutrients and produces waste due to its lack of organs.\n2. SCP-5726 considers this the most important organ\n3. Not including \u201cSparkling Magical Girl \u2665 Darling Pink!!\" and any related media.\n4. 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{"text": "\u26a0 Notice\nYou have been redirected to this containment file due to a database search for \"Reggie\" and \"distress signal\" or \"distress call\".\nReggie is OK.\nYou can close this file now if you wish.\n\n_\n\nProceed to open Containment File for SCP-5727Access granted.\n\nItem #: SCP-5727\nObject Class: Explained (pending -EX designation)\nSecure Containment Procedures: Foundation personnel seeking an update on Reggie are to be assured that Reggie is okay. The phrase \"Reggie is OK\" should be added to all Foundation audio media as a low-frequency message played at 20Hz for the foreseeable future, as a precautionary measure.\nDescription: SCP-5727 is a distress signal of unknown origin (update below) that is periodically broadcast from audio devices within a 1800-kilometer radius of Boulder, Colorado. The message consists of what appears to be an artificially-generated voice and is as follows:\n\nC Q D Reginald in danger help come quick please\n\nAn enhanced version of this distress signal is included below (or here):\n\nThe following has been noted regarding the transmission:\n\nThere is a pause between the syllables of the word \"Reginald\".\n\"CQD\" was a distress code used by maritime vessels in the early 20th century before being replaced with the internationally-standardized \"SOS\".\nThe pitch of each word fluctuates by up to 10%.\nEach syllable is spoken in the exact same speed except the final word, please.\n\nWhen this distress signal is heard by any person, they will subconsciously register its message, feeling a distinct unease as to the fate of \"Reggie\". This most often manifests as a sense of impending doom or urgency without cause or provocation. Upon conscious or unconscious reassurance that Reggie is not in danger, this feeling will subside.\nExplanation: ADDED 31 DAYS AGO\nThe source of this signal is an artifact of a World War I radio transmission issued by the HMS Reginald Kerr during a brief training exercise.\n\nThe HMS Reginald Kerr, circa 1939.\n\nThe radio signal was issued at a particular frequency that, due to the positioning of the Earth in orbit around the sun, caused the signal to be caught in the sun's gravitational field and begin a partial \"orbit\" of the solar system. The stabilization of its orbit distorted it to approximately 20Hz. The path of the signal intercepts with Earth regularly, causing it to be picked up by modern-day electronic devices.\nThe signal, and the method of containing it, are considered non-anomalous, as are the responses of people hearing it. The Foundation considers this effect to be a rare effect of unintended subliminal messaging upon the human mind but scientifically plausible. It has therefore been classified as Explained.\n\n_\n\nEnter Class 4 credentials to proceed with metadata download (65.4GB)Class 4 Credentials accepted\n\n\u26a0 Notice\nBefore proceeding, please acquire one dose of Class A Amnestics.\n\nItem #: SCP-5727\nObject Class: Euclid\nSecure Containment Procedures (Addenda): A notice is to be placed at the top of this containment file to deter most users from further investigating this anomaly; a more detailed cover story regarding a radio signal, subliminal messaging, and the HMS Reginald Kerr must be maintained for users who seek a more detailed answer. Foundation personnel accessing the final, secured portion of the Containment file must be amnesticized afterward.\nDescription (Addenda): As of 931 days ago, the status of \"Reggie\" cannot be determined. Slow but constant increase in signal strength has allowed for deeper analysis of the voice. Fluctuations in pitch and tempo suggest that the signal is not artificial, but is in fact a live feed, being broadcast with increasing urgency.\nAccording to an analysis by Foundation audio engineer Dr. Carmichael:\n\nThe fact that we don't know the fate of whoever\u2014or whatever\u2014Reggie is has been shown to cause incredible distress to those aware of its nature. The signal\u2026it's everywhere. Reggie needs help, and we don't know where to start. Reggie is not okay. We can't help Reggie. We all want to. But we can't. Why can't we help Reggie?\n\nAs the release of this information has the potential to impact the allocation of Foundation resources for researchers to locate and assist Reggie, the Foundation has determined its best interest is to maintain that Reggie is, in fact, OK.\nYou have reached the end of this containment file. Please exit and administer amnestics.\nYou have accessed this containment file 47 times.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5726 | SCP-5727 | SCP-5728 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5728\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5728-1 is to be contained in standard humanoid containment units at Site-06, with necessary alterations being made in accordance with the containment of SK-BIO entities.1\nIt is to be fed 1.3kg of raw meat once a week. The cadaver of SCP-5728-2 is to be preserved for use in the training of medical personnel for the examination of Sarkic cult members.\nDescription: SCP-5728 refers to two entities, from here on known as SCP-5728-1 and -2. SCP-5728-1 is the last of the SK-BIO type entities created during Incident-5728-A by a group of Proto-Sarkic cultists inhabiting the town of Arlingpool, Nevada. DNA sequencing performed on SCP-5728-1 has revealed a mutated variant of the baseline human genome.\nSCP-5728-1 possesses several anomalous traits such as a strong healing factor that is able to repair gunshot wounds within 2 hours. In addition to this, it also has blade-like appendages on its hands and a third limb protruding from its back. SCP-5728-1 is noted as wearing the tattered remains of a UIU uniform circa 1947 and reacts violently to any efforts to remove it. There are also several mildly radioactive third-degree burns present on the back of SCP-5728-1, the radiation emitted is insufficient to cause any long term harm.\nSCP-5728-2 resembles a Caucasian human of Uralic descent with the physical appearance of a 30-year-old despite being at least 150 years old. The entity was 1.7 meters tall, with an average build and brown hair with small signs of ageing present such as wrinkles and the greying of hair. Its genome more closely resembled baseline human DNA with only minor alterations preset. It identified itself as Nikita Lebedev, one of six known Karcists in Arlingpool, who specialized in the medical treatment of the local population.\nThe most significant of these properties was the presence of SK-BIO Type 006 organisms within its body, which contributed to the entity's longevity. A slight healing factor was also observed but this property degraded over time until it was rendered completely negligible.\nDuring much of the early period of its containment, SCP-5728-2 suffered from clinical depression. It was frequently observed praying for forgiveness and often requested to leave, though actual escape attempts were rare. Sessions with an on-site psychiatrist were offered but were turned down. However, exactly 12 years after Incident 5728-B, SCP-5728-2 was shown to have much higher morale. When questioned it insisted this was because 'I finally got an answer.' SCP-5728-2 refused to elaborate further.\nSCP-5728-2 was recovered from a small wooden hut in Western Nevada, on September 15th, 1963, guarded by SCP-5728-1. SCP-5728-2 was found to be gravely ill, with a later physical examination confirming severe radiation poisoning. After the capture of SCP-5728-1, the entity surrendered peacefully and was taken into custody without incident.\nTo date, only these instances from the Arlingpool sect have been recovered, though sightings of similar entities in the Bohemian and Bavarian Forests as well as in Central Italy have been reported. An investigation into a possible link between these entities and the Arlingpool Cultists is currently ongoing.\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 4/5728 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 4/5728 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.\n\n+ Level 4 Clearance Level Required: Please Provide Credentials\n\n- Credentials Verified\n\nAddendum 5728-A:\nThe following is a detailed timeline of events leading up to Incident 5728-A & B according to UIU documentation, oral history on the part of SCP-5728-2 and Foundation Archives from the period.\nHistory of SCP-5728 Prior to Incident 5728-A:\nSCP-5728-2 originated from the Amur region of Siberia. Then known as the Church of Oastrikyo, they were hunted and driven away by Tsarist forces in 18152, forcing them to flee to the coast.\nUpon arriving, the Church encountered another Sarkic sect. Cultural differences prevented integration, so instead, the Church was provided with transportation to Mexico in order to escape what they saw as 'Eurasian Mekhanite influence'. Upon arriving on the Mexican coast, the Church travelled north to modern-day Nye County, Nevada and settled into the town of Arlingpool.3\nThe members of the Church of Oastrikyo quickly established themselves, making use of Sarkic rituals in order to create suitable farmland and to locate sources of freshwater.4 Within a year the Church of Oastrikyo, which had since renamed itself to the Church of the Scorched Earth in reference to their new desert surroundings, had created a self-sufficient society.\nThe first contact between the Church of the Scorched Earth and the U.S. Government occurred on the 30th September 1922, when a squad of U.S. Army Riflemen was sent to investigate reports of a 'commune in the middle of Nevada'. They were immediately attacked by a collection of SK-BIO Type 003 & 002 organisms created to defend the perimeter of the town, with only one of them managing to escape. This sole survivor was given over to the UIU before the Foundation could respond. Below is an account of the Church's first contact, taken from SCP-5728-2's diary.\n\nOur village was attacked. Outsiders. We have been able to keep ourselves well isolated and hidden, but it has become clear that our current approach may not be sustainable forever.\n\nFour men found us. Our guardians and defences were able to kill all but one who unfortunately got away on horseback. They were armed with weaponry unfamiliar to us, but thankfully they were of little effect against our guardians. Despite this, their arrival was a serious cause for concern.\n\nAn emergency meeting between myself and the other Karcists was called into session. After much deliberation, we decided that moving would be impossible. Not this time. We will stay and protect ourselves from the approaching Mekhanite incursion. I will sacrifice myself if it is to ensure that our people survive these upcoming days.\n\nPraise be to Ion\n\nFollowing this encounter, the United States government sent an envoy to meet with the Church, with the goal of establishing a 'mutual agreement of cooperation and trust'. The 'Treaty of Nevada' was signed and ratified by both parties on 19th May 1924.5\nIt was at this time that Foundation agents embedded in the US government became aware of the Arlingpool sect's existence, though all efforts to establish containment were blocked by the UIU & the American government. Protests by the Foundation over the use of anomalous properties rather than their containment were ignored by the US government.\nBelow is an account from the diary of UIU Agent Daniel Blake6, from his first arrival at Arlingpool.\n\nI just got reassigned to what I thought would be the ass-end of nowhere. I was right; nothing but desert for miles, 'Church of the Scorched Earth' was right.\n\nThere are three of us, including myself, the other two being Johnathan Gordon and James Carr. They seem like decent people, though largely uninterested in the cultists. They spend most of their time in the little outpost we were provided.\n\nI got to give these cult guys some credit. They are just unbelievable! There are sections in the eastern part of town, where the ground will be dried up desert one second but then suddenly, fertile soil and farmland with enough crops to feed everyone here tenfold. Compare that to the area surrounding the town, the ground is so dry it sucks up moisture like a sponge. I'm sure I could cook some eggs on the ground too. Maybe we could ask for some tips to deal with the Dust Bowls?\n\nHell, they're even resilient themselves. I mean, one of the locals tripped and cracked his skull open. I rushed over to check on them, ready to grab a first aid kit, but the wound just sealed up. I swear I saw some kind of worms inside him fixing it, but it was remarkable. By no means the weirdest thing I had ever seen, but it was noteworthy nonetheless.\n\nDespite everything though, can't say I'd want to live like this. They have no telegrams, no advanced farming or building methods. The buildings they live in look okay enough to me, but sometimes I swear I see them move. And whatever it is they use it as livestock\u2026I don't know what they are. I asked about their cows a few hours after I first arrived, the adults refused to show me but the kids snuck me over to their farmland. They were\u2026it was like someone was twisted and turned in every conceivable and non-conceivable way and stuck them together with other people in the same boat. I had to run back to where we were staying and throw up in a bucket. I can handle the worms and the bigotry but I cannot handle that THING! But I stayed cool, my job is to maintain good relations not criticise their lifestyle. As long as I don't go over to that part of town I should be fine.\n\nThought about requesting a transfer, but that'd be the third one this month. I know I'm not some rich kid with a silver spoon up my [EXPLETIVE EXPUNGED] but I don't think I'm too bad at my job. Probably why they sent me to the middle of nowhere. When we're not out making sure the locals aren't doing anything we just sit in the outpost with nothing to do. I've been thinking of trying to learn sleight of hand. Always been meaning to.\n\nWhile I have made note of Gordon and Carr's lack of interest, the locals are outright resentful towards us. They must be pretty closed off, when I walked around the town to get a lay of the land, they look at me and scoff. A couple even spat at me and mumbled in whatever language it is they speak, no doubt saying insults. Either the higher-ups thought learning their language was unimportant, or they just don't want us learning all their insults. They seem especially annoyed by the telegram and phone we've got set up for communication with the higher-ups. They often glare at it; evidently, they don't like long-range comms. The other two tend to keep them out of sight. They're worried the locals will steal them and destroy them. I'm thinking of seeing if we could replace them with carrier pigeons and one of those new radios, though for emergencies only.\n\nThe silver lining is, the kids seem fine with me. They just sort of stare at me instead of spitting insults. I went over to introduce myself and most of them either run away or were ushered away by their parents. Only one of them gave me the chance to give an introduction. Vasily, he seems nice enough. Asks me about the world: I've told him what I can, though I feel the gaze of his father whenever I do. Apparently, his father is like the head surgeon or something along those lines. Part of a council of 'Karcists' who run this place.\n\nWell, I've certainly got my work cut out for me. I intend to send that request later in the week. Want to settle in first.\n\nAgent Daniel Blake, 20th September 1929\n\nFollowing his arrival, Agent Daniel Blake attempted to further improve relations between the Sarkic population and the UIU. This was found to be successful, as shown below in the following entry of SCP-5728-2's diary.\n\nAs part of the treaty we signed, the Americans have sent agents from their 'Unusual Incidents Unit.' The 'UIU' agents continue to observe us, with little care for our customs. When we sleep they play their voice producing Mekhanite contraptions, 'Radios' they call them. With little care for our way of life, they describe us as barbarians and savages, never mind the fact that our culture has been around long before they were. Their presence alone continues to insult us.\n\nWith one notable exception. One of the three agents stationed here, Blake, is not like the rest of his team. He has shown an interest in our customs, and a desire to respect them. He has even approached me in the hope of learning about our leadership and government.\n\nHe seemed\u2026confused and, sometimes, disgusted at our practices. But, unlike other agents who remained here, he did not attempt to 'correct' our culture.\n\nInstead, he explained that while he does not agree with some aspects of our culture he understands these are millennia-old traditions and will not be changed by one man whose only been here for a few weeks. For that, he must be commended.\n\nHe also took note of our distaste towards their 'communication devices'. He offered to try and get the larger ones removed and replaced with carrier pigeons and a radio, but for emergencies only. Ideally, no radios would be here either, but it seemed like a fair trade.\n\nI expected this to be an empty promise, but within a week\u2026the telegram and phone lines were gone. Carrier pigeons were used as promised, he truly was a man of his word.\n\nPerhaps he is better than the others.\n\nPraise be to Ion\n\nOver the next few years, cooperation between the Arlingpool Sect & the U.S. government proved to be vital for the country. The aid of the Arlingpool Sect helped advance discoveries to help the treatment of Malaria and Smallpox amongst other diseases. Foundation efforts to halt this trade and establish official containment were blocked by the US government, who warned the Foundation against 'interfering in the internal affairs of the United States and her allies.'\nIncident 5728-A:\nOn the 15th of December, 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military called for the younger population of Arlingpool, those aged between 21-35, to aid them in the nation's involvement in World War 2. Despite objections from the Church's Karcists, they ultimately allowed this to occur due to Article 7 of the Treaty of Nevada.7\nDespite being closely guarded and mainly placed in medical roles,8 all drafted Arlingpool inhabitants were listed as KIA by 1944. Below is an extract from the diary of Agent Blake describing the reaction to this news by the inhabitants of Arlingpool.\n\nI'd just received word from the higher-ups, about the locals who we'd sent off to war. They are dead. Every. Single. One.\n\nI racked my brain for something to compare it to. The closest my mind came was when my old man died, but I don't think even that comes close to this.\n\nAs I stood on that podium, as the town's population gathered around me, I felt like they were going to lynch me. But it was better they heard it from me, rather than some priest from a faith they did not believe in.\n\nI said to them, \"I have just received news of those of your children who were sent to the front.\"\n\nThey all looked hopeful.\n\nI wished I had better news. \"It is my\u2026unfortunate duty to inform you, that they have been listed as Killed in Action.\"\n\nAt that moment, I could see their eyes water and their lips quiver. Many of the women fell to their knees. Weeping and screaming, I watched as young children who had barely seen death stood traumatised and in shock. And the men, those who were not comforting their families, looked up at me and our outpost in anger, tears of rage on their faces. They wanted to lynch me, or worse, I could tell. I wanted to tell them that their bodies would arrive soon to be buried, but my mind was racing far too much.\n\nAll I could do was apologise, I wish I could do more but\u2026there is nothing. I'm sorry.\n\nThen Nikita came up to me directly, he asked me to tell him his son was dead. Not that he was killed in action or kicked the bucket or to use any other euphemism. So I did, I said to him 'your son is dead.' At his insistence, I told him the details but I could tell it was just making him angrier. But I felt obliged to, I was the 'good foreigner, I could not break their trust with lies. He chastised me for sending his son to die, calling me a traitor. His eyes had a thousand lifetimes of heartbreak. I told him that I was not the one who gave the order, I did not want anyone to die. I wished they could come home, but I could not bring myself to lie to them. We argued for what felt like hours, he called me out for shifting the blame and trying to claim honesty made up for his son. Blows were exchanged. I lost.\n\nAll I can do now is wait, and hope things get better.\n\nAgent Daniel Blake, 12th September 1945\n\nFollowing this, relations between the U.S. Government and inhabitants soured, with the agents present being harassed and stalked. This resulted in the vandalism of the UIU outpost with Anti-American slogans and propaganda.\nThis culminated in an incident on the 20th December 1946 when UIU agent Johnathan Gordon was assaulted by a Cult Member. Agent James Carr, in an effort to aid agent Gordon, fired a warning shot at the Cult Member but accidentally hit a bystander. Though the shot was non-lethal, a riot ensued which was only halted due to intervention by Agent Blake.\nOn the 25th December 1946, the U.S. Government lost contact with the UIU agents present and the next day every single carrier pigeon stationed there was released and flew to a military communication point. None of them had any messages attached. At this time, a UIU patrol was sent to investigate the communications blackout. On the way there, the patrol encountered Agent Daniel Blake, who had been walking through the desert for the past two days. Foundation aid was once again denied. Below is an extract from Agent Blake's post-mission debrief.\n\nInterviewed: Agent Daniel Blake\nInterviewer: Agent Alexander Stevenson9\nForeword: The following interview occurred after Agent Blake was picked up by the passing UIU Patrol and functioned as his post-mission debrief.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Stevenson: So, Agent, care to explain exactly why you didn't respond to our carrier pigeons?\nAgent Blake: We\u2026we were attacked.\nAgent Stevenson: By whom?\nAgent Blake: The locals.\nAgent Stevenson: What happened?\nAgent Blake: I\u2026It was Christmas day. We'd been celebrating a merry Christmas, the other two Agents had been drinking, though I wasn't allowed. I'd been showing off some sleight of hand I'd learn, swapping out pens for pencils that kind of thing before I was told to go and be a look out. One of us had to be sober in order to keep watch. Though neither of them got properly drunk either but better safe than sorry I suppose. Which I did, I stayed outside and kept an eye out\u2026but the whole town was\u2026completely silent.\nAgent Stevenson: So then what happened?\nAgent Blake: I heard a noise from inside, like a woosh. I got up and went inside, and then\u2026they were dead. Their throats had been slit. They weren't even able to call for help.\nAgent Stevenson: Wait, their throats were slit? By who?\nAgent Blake: Not who. What. The locals had sent these\u2026creatures, two of them, they were covered in bones and had these sharp blades on their hands. Like something out of a horror comic.\nAgent Stevenson: You hadn't seen these creatures before?\nAgent Blake: Well\u2026no we'd seen them, but never up close and only glimpses of them. And never in action. They were called 'Guardians', they kept the town safe. But they'd never gotten anywhere close to us before, they always stayed near the perimeter of the town's edge.\nAgent Stevenson: I'm sorry that you had to see that. But, how did you survive?\nAgent Blake: When I saw them, they just looked at me\u2026and I ran. When I went outside, everyone in the town was gathered around me. Like a lynch mob\u2026I was sure I was going to die. But\u2026they didn't kill me. One of the higher-ups, Nikita Lebedev, he\u2026he let me leave. Told me I was a good man, so he gave me all the food and water I'd need and sent me on my way. Then you found me.\nAgent Stevenson: Alright, anything else to add before we continue?\nAgent Blake: One last thing, I did ask them if there was anything I could give them in order to return things back to the way they were. To prevent anyone from fighting.\nAgent Stevenson: And? What did they say?\nAgent Blake: 'Your President's head on a spike.'\n<End Log>\n\nAgent Blake was placed on leave and the UIU immediately requested military intervention against Arlingpool's population. On the 2nd of January 1947, this request was granted and the 33rd Infantry Division was sent to quell the initial uprising. This marked the beginning of Incident-5728-A, known in UIU Documentation as the Sarkic Uprising of 1947. From this point, until Incident 5728-B, all offers of Foundation aid were declined and direct intervention was not attempted in order to maintain good relations with the US government.10\nBetween the request for intervention and the arrival of the first military forces, the inhabitants of Arlingpool managed to expand their control to the border of the exclusion zone. Only the arrival of U.S. Army forces prevented further expansion. While initially able to make use of their technological superiority to secure several victories against Arlingpool's inhabitants, the eventual deployment of SK BIO organisms halted the Military's advance. The U.S. Army, even with UIU support and advisors, was unable to effectively combat the SK BIO Organisms.\nThe military's intervention eventually grew into a stalemate, with the town's inhabitants able to prevent significant military advances with the SK BIO organisms. Meanwhile, the military made use of incendiary and high explosive weapons to cause significant damage to the SK BIO Organisms.\nIncident 5728-B:\nOn the 20th January 1951, with the US military unable to make effective gains against the Arlingpool Sect, the US government attempted to propose a Status Quo peace. Below is the only known account of the meeting's outcome and the final known document from Agent Blake. Irrelevant information has been expunged for brevity.\n\nWell\u2026this is it. My last will and testament, if you can even call it that.\n\nFive of us were sent to try and negotiate with the Karcists; me, an agent, two soldiers and some senator type who wanted to handle the diplomacy. He offered a status quo peace, go back to when times were good.\n\n\"And if we refused?\" One of them asked.\n\n\"Then you will face swift and utter destruction.\"\n\nBefore I could even get a word in, it was over. With a single nod, it all went to shit. The escorts were killed by their foot soldiers, the other agent and the diplomat were dragged off. Their screaming stopped as suddenly as it started. I dare not imagine what happened to them.\n\nThen the eyes of the Karcists fell upon me. I've never been so scared in my life, I was about to beg for my life when I heard Nikita speak.\n\n\"You are not like them, Daniel, you are kind to our people. But, you may not leave. Instead, you will serve Ion.\"\n\nHe gestured to the paper and pen I am currently using and offered to let me write down my last words. A final letter to my family. He promised me that the 'procedure' will not hurt, I dared not ask what would happen if I refused. I thought about running but I didn't want to see where the ones they took went. Besides\u2026I'd always been good at Nikita as best as possible. Got to count for something right? But I suppose this all I have. So here goes nothing.\n\n[EXPUNGED FOR BREVITY]\n\nFor what it's worth I finally managed to get good at that sleight of hand stuff at last though. Nikita seemed to find it amusing. I wish his boy could have seen it.\n\nSo, this is it. When I've finished writing on this page, it's over for me. I wish I could have done better.\n\nThis is Daniel Blake, goodbye.\n\nFollowing the loss of communication with the diplomatic party, the United States Government called off any further diplomatic efforts and ordered all American forces to withdraw.\nOn the 27th of January 1951, a 1 kiloton nuclear bomb was dropped and detonated on Arlingpool under the guise of a nuclear test. The town and an estimated 98% of its population were killed, with the remaining population surviving due to the use of Sarkic protection rituals. Most of the remaining SK Type Organisms were killed by US Army forces sent in to clear out the area. Containment was formally handed over to the Foundation on 14th February 1951. Below is the last intact entry of SCP-5728-2's journal.\n\nIt's over now. The Americans dropped their ultimate weapon, its blinding light forced us to avert our gaze. From a brief moment, we believed that our prayers have been answered, that Ion had come to smite these invaders from our lands. But instead, our prayers were responded to with destruction, surely only the Mekhanites would be capable of such an act. But no, it may have spawned from a device of metal, but it was devised by no followers of that Broken God.\n\nFew of us have survived, fewer still are in any condition to move. When I saw my home engulfed in fire and my friends annihilated, I had perhaps the first moment of clarity in a long time. At last, I saw what our crusade has brought. My son would turn his back in shame.\n\nWe pleaded with them, begging for help, an armistice, anything. But our olive branches of peace were ignored. As we travel we have yet to encounter other soldiers. Whether we managed to sneak past them or they have simply left us to die I am not sure. Even as I write this, our numbers dwindle, I dare not count how many are left for I know it would be outdated within hours. The Akuloth work tirelessly, but they can only delay our demise. Only one Guardian is left, escorting us, but we are thankful for his watchful presence.\n\nI wonder why I still survive even as my brothers and sisters fall around me. Perhaps I have some purpose yet fulfilled. I will know in time.\n\nPraise be to Ion\n\nFollowing this, containment of any SK-BIO organisms was transferred to the Foundation. The UIU, following this significant failure, lost a significant proportion of its funding and suffered a major blow to its credibility.\nContainment procedures have been updated in response to this change.\n\nAddendum 5728-B:\nOn April 25th, 1994, SCP-5728-2, while being escorted to its monthly medical check-up, complained of a headache and collapsed. Further examination found that the entity's recorded radiation sickness resulted in the development of terminal cancer. The entity refused further medical treatment and, after finishing a final prayer, died in its sleep at 4:00 pm, April 26th, 1994. SCP-5728-2's cadaver was subject to a standard autopsy and it was found that all SK-BIO Type 006 organisms within its body were dead.\nWith the death of SCP-5728-2, all members of the Church of the Scorched Earth are now deceased and this group is to be considered Neutralised.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SK-BIO refers to Sarkic Biological organisms, see files on GOI-28 for more information.\n2. SCP-5728-2 claims they were infiltrated by the Mekhanites, an investigation into a connection between the Church of the Broken God and the Imperial Russian Government is ongoing.\n3. Arlingpool was previously a mining town. But it had been abandoned in the 1870s due to the town's economic failure.\n4. The region's limited infrastructure and sparse population meant the church was able to remain undetected for decades.\n5. For a copy of the treaty, read Document 5728-1\n6. Daniel Blake was stationed in Arlingpool from 20th September 1929 to 18th March 1932, due to his experience with abnormalities, before being transferred and then sent back in 1940, remaining there until 1946.\n7. This stipulates that the US government can call upon the town's inhabitants in the event of a 'national emergency.'\n8. With only one aiding in the creation of SK-BIO Organisms for frontline combat.\n9. Agent Daniel Blake's superior.\n10. Over the course of the conflict several cover stories were produced to hide this information. Including war games, weapons testing and live-fire drills.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5727 | SCP-5728 | SCP-5729 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5731\n\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSCP-5731\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5731 is kept in Containment Locker 56 at Site-64 when not being tested. Request to gain access to the item is to be submitted to Dr. Green.\nDescription:\nSCP-5731 is a square music box which is 6 cm in length, 5 cm in width, and 3 cm in height. Its top is made from clear plastic, allowing the interior to be viewed. When its anomaly is not in effect, it plays a rendition of \u201cZip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah\u201d when cranked. When in the vicinity of a non-sapient biological entity, its anomalous effect is triggered. If cranked nearby one of these entities, SCP-5731 will instead play English human speech. This is believed to be the broadcasting or \u201ctranslation\u201d of the non-sapient entity's thoughts. The voice from the music box is always that of a young female, despite the sex of the effected entity. Tests discovered wildly varying personalities in the music box between test subjects used. It is not believed the female voice is its own consciousness, rather a projection of the ones surrounding it.\nDiscovery:\nSCP-5731 was purchased by Researcher Pret's wife from a yard sale at some point during the summer of 2013. Researcher Pret was not aware of SCP-5731's effects until 8/17/2018 when his daughter wound it in proximity to the family cat, which triggered SCP-5731's effects. Researcher Pret surrendered the object to the Foundation for testing.\n\nTesting:\n\n+ Tests\n\n- Access granted\n\nTesting is currently overseen by Dr. Green. She is to be contacted for further testing logs.\n\nTest\nSubject\nResult\n\n#1\nResearcher Pret's cat \"Missy\"\nSCP-5731 complained of being \"too cold\". A blanket was provided to the cat, and the complaints ceased.\n\n#4\nD-8113\nSCP-5731 played \"Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah.\"\n\n#13\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-5731 played \"Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah.\" SCP-5731 has not had any other results for any sapient entity, anomalous or not.\n\n#24\nDr. Reed's dog \"Duke\"\nSCP-5731 remarked how \"funny this place smells\".\n\n#39\nA raccoon retrieved from the forest surrounding Site 64\nSCP-5731 cursed something called the \"tall things\" repeatedly.\n\n#53\nA female orangutan \"Peaches\"\nSee log below\n\n#65\nSCP-529\nSCP-5731 requested cheese. The request was denied.\n\n#101\nSCP-096\nDuring SCP-096's calm state, SCP-5731 repeated the phrases \"so sad\" and \"ugly, ugly\". Permission denied to deliberately trigger SCP-096 for testing purposes. Addendum 07/ 23/2020 : During an unrelated termination attempt, 096 was triggered and its thoughts transcribed through SCP-5731. It recited complicated equations of aerodynamics and physics. These are thought to be SCP-096 'calculating' how best to reach its target.\n\n#106\nSCP-2845\nThe music box played \"Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah\", suggesting that SCP-2845 is sapient and has not been able or willing to speak to date.\n\n+ Log for Test #53\n\n- Access granted\n\nTest Log\n\nTesting run by Dr. Green on 12/02/2018\nSubject: \u201cPeaches\u201d A female orangutan who displayed a high comprehension of human language.\n<Begin log>\n0:00 Dr. Green cranks SCP-5731\n0:01 - SCP-5731: Hm? What's that you've got?\n0:03 Peaches signals \u201cWhat's that?\u201d with her hands.\n0:04 Peaches' caretaker signs \u201cMusic\u201d.\n0:12 - SCP-5731: I think I've seen one of those before. Something, something like it. Something different from it though. That music isn't right.\n0:25 - SCP-5731: Hey! That sounds like you. It isn't playing music. Is it talking to you?\n0:31 - SCP-5731: What's it saying? That thing isn't like you or me. I don't think I like it very much.\n1:02 Peaches signs \u201cAfraid\u201d.\n1:05 - SCP-5731: I know some of those words the music is telling me. It's\u2026 it's saying words that are in my head. That's not right. No, no. I hate it. Ouch, my head hurts.\n1:23 Peaches growls and signs \u201cAfraid\u201d again.\n1:27 Peaches' caretaker signs \u201cSafe\u201d to attempt to calm her.\n1:51 - SCP-5731: You humans have to get rid of that thing. You don't like it all that much either, right? Look at you! This whole time you've been sitting around with fear in your faces.\n2:14 Peaches' caretaker signs \u201cSafe\u201d again.\n2:16 - SCP-5731: Safe? I think you're lying. I wish I understood what's going on. I know that thing you're holding is\u2026 unnatural. Normally being with humans is so much fun, but not today, not today. Do you hear the words I'm thinking? Well, listen to these words: Put that thing back in the place you found it!\n<End log>\n\nAddendum 07/04/2020\nOn 6/21/2020, an unauthorized number contacted Dr. Pines. The person possessed knowledge of SCP-5731 that she was not cleared to have.\n\n+ File\n\n - Access granted\n\nTexting between Judy T\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and Dr. Pines\n\nThis is the conversation Dr. Pines had with the unknown number.\nFollowing this, the number was tracked and found to belong to Judy T\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.1 The Foundation retrieved her for questioning.\n\n+ Interview 06/022/2020\n\n- Access granted\n\nInterview 06/22/2020\nInterviewed: Judy T\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n<Begin interview log>\nInterviewer: Good evening, Judy. I have a couple of questions for you.\nJudy T\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: About the music box, I bet.\nInterviewer: Yes, of course. How did it come into your possession?\nJudy: If I answer the questions you'll give it back to me, right?\nInterviewer: Certainly.\nJudy: Alright, I got it as a gift when I was little. From my aunt.\nInterviewer: Do you know where she got it?\nJudy: No.\nInterviewer: What's her name?\nJudy: What, are you gonna go after her family too? I already know you're mad enough at me for knowing about\u2026 all this\u2026 the weird stuff out there.\nInterviewer: Tell us her name, please.\nJudy: Ugh, it's \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. But don't bother. She's been dead for 6 years now.\nInterviewer: Thank you. How did you find out about \u201call this\u201d?\nJudy: Well, it started with the music box. One thing kinda led to another and\u2026 I guess I just never stopped believing in magic as a kid, you know?\nInterviewer: And about the Foundation?\nJudy: Came across it in my search for the music box.\nInterviewer: Could you elaborate?\nJudy: How do I elaborate? I don't remember exactly when I found out about it. At that point I'd already known about the supernatural stuff for years, so a place that collects that stuff ain't so hard to imagine. And I figured a place that collects magic stuff might have \u2018collected' something that was mine.\nInterviewer: Hm, what was your aunt like, then? Do you know if she was aware of the anomalous?\nJudy: She definitely knew what the music box could do. That's why she gave it to me. My best friend even back then was Sparky, and I really wanted nothing more than to talk to him. I don't know what else she knew about anomalies. What, do you think she was a witch?\nInterviewer: Ha, well that's not entirely out of the realm of possibility. How exactly did you lose the music box?\nJudy: I didn't lose it. It got sold at a yard sale. I like to think that it accidentally got swept up with the other things that were getting sold, but my mom may have just gotten rid of it on purpose.\nInterviewer: Your mother was aware of it, then?\nJudy: Yeah. She didn't like the music box or my aunt. She wasn't real fond of magic, and she always said that I needed to make actual friends, cause a dog wasn't good enough or something. [ Judy laughs ]\nInterviewer: I see. Do you have any more information?\nJudy: Nah. Can I have the music box back now?\nInterviewer: I'll see what I can do.\nJudy: Hey now, you just said \u2018certainly' at the beginning of our chat, and now it's \u2018I'll see what I can do'?\nInterviewer: I will try my be-\nJudy: No! No, that's not good enough.\nJudy stands up from her seat.\nJudy: Swear to me you'll get it back.\nInterviewer: I d-\nJudy: Do it! Please\u2026 [ Judy's voice falters ]\nInterviewer: Please remain calm, Judy.\nJudy: That thing is mine, and I'm running out of time. Swear you'll give it back.\nInterviewer: Fine then, I swear! Please Judy, sit back down.\nJudy sits and breathes deeply.\nJudy: Stand by your word, or I'll be back on your doorstep tomorrow- I swear to that.\n<End Interview Log>\n\nClosing statement: Judy T\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 provided no further useful information. She received amnestics to remove all memory of SCP-5731 and the Foundation, and was released from Foundation custody.\n\nWhy didn't they let her say goodbye? What is one person on the outside knowing about us? No no, amnestize everything away. She remembers nothing about her best friend. To her, he was nothing but a dog. Why? Because we're the Foundation, and we're cold.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Surname redacted intentionally.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5730 | SCP-5731 | SCP-5732 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Raddagher\n\nMore by this author | Find Us Alive Hub\n\nItem #: SCP-5732\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5732 was cremated on 29/4/2016. Dr. Miller was granted permission to keep the remains as they exhibited no anomalous properties.\n\nView archived containment procedures\n\nHide archived containment procedures\n\nSCP-5732 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell and provided with standard furnishings and entertainment. Any water provided for drinking, bathing, or any other purpose must be distilled and any receptacle, including those used for bathing, thoroughly cleaned and sanitized before use. SCP-5732 is to be supplied its prescribed regimen of medication daily. New prescriptions can be approved by Dr. Miller.\n\nDescription: SCP-5732 was a female humanoid, aged 20 years. Any water that came into direct physical contact with it was instantly purged of any and all impurities. When SCP-5732 became submerged in any large bodies of water, roughly 1500 liters could be purified before the effect overtaxed the subject and rendered it unconscious.\nSCP-5732's anomalous ability seemed to be in direct conflict with its immune system and organs, with uses of the ability correlating to increased immunodeficiency and organ dysfunction. Distilled water was used to limit damage to SCP-5732's body caused by its anomaly.\nSCP-5732 was discovered on 14/3/2015 after it was hospitalized following an incident at a friend's swimming pool, in which SCP-5732 jumped into the water and immediately lost consciousness. Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 of the Foundation was working at the hospital, leading to a quick extraction of the anomaly and the cover story that it passed away during emergency surgery. Amnesticization of present family and friends was not required.\n\nInterview with Dr. Miller\nDate: 21 March 2015\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Miller: Good morning, SCP-5732.\n[SCP-5732 doesn't respond]\nDr. Miller: I imagine you're probably feeling a lot right now. But I need you to work with me and answer some questions. Can you do that?Dr. Miller: The incident that landed you in the hospital, it sounded intense. I'd like to know how you're feeling, physically. We would like to make sure we aren't missing anything about your condition.Dr. Miller: And this only happens when you come into contact with water?Dr. Miller: Good. That means our researchers are on the right track with figuring out how to help you.[Neither speak for several seconds]\nDr. Miller: You miss your family.Dr. Miller: Think of it this way. They think you're dead. If you actually died in that pool, would you have been able to say goodbye?Dr. Miller: Goodbyes are a luxury. Most people don't get them.Dr. Miller: Sorry?Dr. Miller: Yes.Dr. Miller: It's alright.Dr. Miller: We'll start testing your ability in the next few days. We need to see the limits of what you can do so we can mitigate your condition properly.Dr. Miller: Humanoid anomalies like you get access to a rotating schedule of entertainment sources. We have items you can check out, books, video games, movies-Dr. Miller: They only left you two copies of the same movie?Dr. Miller: Come on. Franco isn't that bad.Dr. Miller: I like you. You have a good attitude.[SCP-5732 is silent for a moment, before beginning to cry]\n[Dr. Miller removes a piece of paper from his pocket and sets it on the table]\nDr. Miller: I'm ending this interview, SCP-5732. For security purposes we can't allow anomalies to talk with one another, but you can request means of socialization with a certified staff member from this list. We've found it helps with mental stability.Dr. Miller: No. But you're in a very difficult position and you might find yourself needing someone to talk to.Dr. Miller: I'm certified for the job.\n[SCP-5732 doesn't respond, but takes the paper]\n[End Log]\n\nAddendum: The following requests were made following the release of SCP-5732's preliminary medical examination results.\n\nItem\nRequest Status\n\nLow-severity pain medication1\nApproved\n\nOne electric blanket, twin sized\nApproved\n\nCell phone modified for communication with certified staff members\nApproved\n\nRelocation to above-ground dormitory with window\nDenied\n\nInterview with Dr. Miller\nDate: 27 March 2015\n\n[Begin Log][Dr. Miller laughs briefly, but quickly sobers]\nDr. Miller: Haha, uh\u2026 yeah.Dr. Miller: You don't seem terribly surprised.Dr. Miller: I'm sorry.\n[Neither speak for a moment]\nDr. Miller: I'm going to speak with the medical staff about putting you on medication to manage your pain. Is there anything else I can do?Dr. Miller: You want to meet- no. I can't do that.\n[Dr. Miller pauses]\nDr. Miller: Franco? That's the first person that came to your head?Dr. Miller: You know, you can switch out which movies you have.Dr. Miller: You're taking this remarkably well.Dr. Miller: Good point.Dr. Miller: I understand. It's a lot to process.Dr. Miller: The estimate is about fifteen months.Dr. Miller: Plenty of time. You're certainly a brave one.Dr. Miller: Well, let's see if we can do something about the waiting.\n[End Log]\n\nAddendum 2: Accommodations requested by Dr. Miller.\n\nItem\nRequest Status\n\nSleep aid2\nApproved\n\nOne Playstation 3 game console\nApproved\n\nOne digital projector\nDenied\n\nEscorted excursion to local hiking path\nApproved Approval rescinded following containment breach of another anomaly\n\nInterview with Dr. Miller\nDate: 3 May 2015\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Miller: I'm real sorry, kid.Dr. Miller: They did approve us, though. We just might have to wait longer.Dr. Miller: They're not so bad.Dr. Miller: It's just their job.Dr. Miller: No.Dr. Miller: They don't deem it necessary.\n[SCP-5732 pretends to cough]Dr. Miller: Stop.\n[A pause. Neither speaks for several seconds.]Dr. Miller: Of course.Dr. Miller: Not that many, really. I work with self-neutralizing anomalies. Plenty of anomalies are self-destructive, but usually inanimate objects. Very few are animals, even fewer are humanoid.Dr. Miller: Like you.Dr. Miller: You're the fifth.Dr. Miller: I miss them all.Dr. Miller: Absolutely correct.Dr. Miller: If you could have anything, if you could be guaranteed to have ANYTHING before you go, what would it be?Dr. Miller: That's why.\n[Dr. Miller sighs]\nDr. Miller: And besides, a little time is better than none at all, right? I got to be there to help make some good experiences before they went.Dr. Miller: Eh, checking things off boxes isn't always what makes the time worthwhile.\n[End Log]\n\nAddendum 3: Additional accommodation requests by Dr. Miller.\n\nItem\nRequest Status\n\nWeak opioid, anticonvulsant for neuropathic pain3\nApproved\n\nOne digital projector\nDenied\n\nEscorted excursion to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Camp Ground\nDenied\n\nTemporary relocation to Site-\u2588\u2588\u2588, Italy\nDenied\n\nTwo warm-tone light-activated night lights\nApproved\n\nOne electric wheelchair\nPending\n\nOpen text logs September 2015\n\nClose text logs\n\nits not the same on tv\n\nI know. I'm seeing what our other options are.\n\nits not even that expensive\n\nIt's not about expense. It's complicated.\n\nwhere are we on franco\n\nYou're not going to meet James Franco.\n\nmiller\n\ni need the franco\n\ni need the jimmy f miller\n\nI'll talk to my boss, maybe she can pull Jimmy F for you.\n\nim kidding god ur so fking old\n\nI'm 49.\n\nyeah ur ancient lol\n\nI'll work on the projector for you. What movies do you want to see?\n\ndrone footage of ur backyard\n\nI do not have a backyard.\n\nok but seriously maybe some of those animal documentaries?? i never got to go to the zoo always planned to tho\n\nAnimals on the big screen. Got it.\n\nthnks\n\nClose text logs\n\nOpen text logs October 2015\n\nClose text logs\n\now\n\nAre you okay?\n\nyes but ow\n\nDo you want me to come in?\n\nu know the only one who can save me\n\nDon't say James Franco.\n\ntobey maguire\n\nI'm going back to bed.\n\nhey want to see this god awful drawing i made\n\ni drew tobey and it suxxxxx want to see\n\nr u asleep already\n\nloser\n\nClose text logs\n\nOpen text logs November 2015\n\nClose text logs\n\nFrench toast sticks in the cafeteria\n\nGET ME SOME HOLY SHIT\n\nI'll bring you some. They'll be cold though.\n\nBRING ME THE STICKS MILLER\n\nClose text logs\n\nOpen text logs January 2016\n\nClose text logs\n\nhey can you come in\n\nYes. What's going on?\n\nim fine\n\ni mean like im sad\n\nfreaking out a little cuz im by myself in here\n\nu know how it is lol\n\nI'm on my way. How are you feeling?\n\nfine\n\nhurry tho\n\nClose text logs\n\nOpen text logs February 2016\n\nClose text logs\n\n[IMG_20160213_6154873462.jpg]\n\nDr. Shepard's betta just ate its own poop.\n\nmood\n\nMood?\n\nihop senior discount moment\n\nClose text logs\n\nOpen text logs March 2016\n\nClose text logs\n\nhey can i ask u something\n\nOf course.\n\ndo u have a family\n\nThere are people here I consider family. But I had my daughter, and my wife before she left.\n\nwhere's ur daughter do they not let u see her??\n\nShe passed away when she was 9. My wife left shortly after.\n\nim so sorry\n\nClose text logs\n\nAddendum 4: Additional accommodation requests by Dr. Miller following revision of SCP-5732's medication regimen.\n\nItem\nRequest Status\n\nAnticonvulsant alteration4\nApproved\n\nAppetite stimulant5\nApproved\n\nAdditional pain medication6\nApproved\n\nOne electric wheelchair\nApproved\n\nUse of a Foundation staff member's personal Virtual Reality console\nPending\n\nAudio recording of social visit with Dr. Miller\nDate: 27 April 2016\n\n[Begin Log]\nDr. Miller: How are you feeling?Dr. Miller: Yeah. I know. Guess what I brought you?Dr. Miller: I\u2026 don't know. I bought the one that looked good.Dr. Miller: Yeah, why not? They don't cost that much these days. Have you ever used one?Dr. Miller: It's pretty cool. There's an ocean simulator that I think you'll really like. Want to get it set up tonight?Dr. Miller: Sounds like a plan. We can get some more of that bucket list stuff crossed off.Dr. Miller: We can see as many as you want.Dr. Miller: THAT I'm not sure about.Dr. Miller: I'm glad I get to be included.\n[End Log]\n\nJust got some insider information.\n\nwhat\n\nIt's classified, top secret\n\ntell me or else\n\nFrench toast sticks tomorrow morning.\n\nf yeah\n\nvr and movies and french toast sticks\n\nAbsolutely.\n\nsee u tomorrow\n\nGoodnight Rory.\n\nhey can i tell u something\n\nits not like urgent or anything i just really want to tell you\n\nhey\n\nur asleep arent u\n\nw/e ill tell u tomorrow gnight\n\nThurs 11:13 PM SMS\n\nNote: SCP-5732 died in its sleep on 28/4/2016. Dr. Miller was permitted to keep the remains after cremation, as well as two DVDs from the Foundation's entertainment library.\n\nFootnotes\n1. naproxen and ibuprofen as needed\n2. Diphenhydramine\n3. codeine, carbamazepine\n4. levetiracetam\n5. megestrol acetate\n6. oxycodone"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nCheck out more of my articles on my author page!\n\n\n2/5733 LEVEL 2/5733\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5733\n\nSafe\n\nArt from the front of SCP-5733's slipcase.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5733 is currently contained in Tape Vault A, shelf HS, box #1984 in the recorded media section of the Site-73 Archives.1\nEfforts to identify the actors and locations depicted in SCP-5733 are currently ongoing. Stills of the cast are compared weekly to new entrants in the Foundation facial recognition database. A manual effort is underway to investigate contemporary film production sets and compare these to SCP-5733's locations.\nTesting of SCP-5733 is open to all Foundation employees, pending approval by Lead Researcher, Dr. Carpenter. Details of the proposed testing approach must be submitted for approval in writing at a minimum of 5 working days prior to the desired testing date. Testing will take place in a Site-73 standard multipurpose room, equipped with a videocassette recorder and television. Room location will be confirmed 48 hours prior to scheduled tests. Following Incident 5733-01, all testing has been suspended. See Addendum 2 for further information.\nDescription: SCP-5733 is a VHS tape cassette containing a recording of the horror movie \"Return of the Suburb Slasher\" which was, according to the cassette's slipcase, produced by \"Crystal Elms Productions\" in 1983. No other record of the movie, production company, or cast has been found.\nThe movie's plot follows protagonist Heather Campbell2 preparing to host a party at her family residence, located in a suburban cul-de-sac3, whilst her parents are away. The date of the party coincides with the 10 year anniversary of a spree killing at the same cul-de-sac - Heather only becomes aware of this later on in the film. The killings were committed by an unknown assailant, dubbed the \"Suburb Slasher\" by locals and media in the aftermath.\nDuring the party, the \"Suburb Slasher\" (henceforth SCP-5733-1) returns to the cul-de-sac and, in a manner consistent with contemporary horror movie tropes, proceeds to stalk and murder all 5 of the friends Heather has invited over and a police officer who visits the cul-de-sac on a routine drive-by. SCP-5733-1's identity remains a mystery throughout the film - they wear a black burlap sack over their face, and black, loose-fitted overalls, and do not speak at any point of the movie's duration.\nSCP-5733's anomalous properties manifest at the 97th minute of the cassette's runtime. At the 95th minute, Heather discovers her friends' corpses staged in her living room. SCP-5733-1 appears at the other side of the room, and begins to chase Heather. Heather runs into the house basement, and locks the door behind her. Once secure in the basement, Heather turns to the camera and says a variation of the following speech:\n\n\"Hey Mister, I don't know you, and I don't know why you've just sat there watching this without doing nothing but please, I'm begging you, help me out here. What can I do to survive this?\"4\n\nFollowing this, the viewer of SCP-5733 can directly converse with Heather, henceforth designated SCP-5733-2, and advise her on how to escape from SCP-5733-1. The course of the movie then depends on the conversations held with SCP-5733-2. SCP-5733-2 will only converse with the viewer on the aforementioned topic. If the viewer ignores SCP-5733-2 or attempts to talk to her concerning topics other than SCP-5733-15, she, in a resigned manner, will walk back up the basement stairs, unlock and open the door. SCP-5733-1 will be waiting directly outside the door. The film will then cut to black and SCP-5733 ejects itself from the machine on which it is being played.\nWhen the tape of SCP-5733 is examined, it has a runtime of 97 minutes, ending with SCP-5733-2 locking herself in the basement, but before she speaks to the viewer.\nViewers of SCP-5733 often develop self-destructive and obsessive behavioural tendencies. This effect is not believed to be anomalous.\nDespite extensive testing, SCP-5733-2 has yet to escape from SCP-5733-1. SCP-5733-1 often seems to display advanced knowledge of the viewer's recommendations and advised course of action, and uses this to pre-emptively sabotage escape attempts.\n\nTesting Log\n\nTesting Log\n\nAll below testing was overseen and arranged by Lead Researcher Dario A. Carpenter.\n\nTest 001\nSubject: D-1973\nAdvice: D-1973 asks SCP-5733-2 if she has a car, she responds in the affirmative. D-1973 follows this by telling SCP-5733-2 to sneak back upstairs, find the keys to the car, exit by the back door, and drive \"as far away from here as possible\".\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 successfully manages to obtain the car keys and leave the residence without encountering SCP-5733-1. However, when she reaches her car she finds the tires have been slashed, and begins to panic. D-1973 urges SCP-5733-2 to smash the window of her neighbour's cars and unlock the door. After some convincing, SCP-5733-2 does so, and D-1973 proceeds to talk her through the process of hot-wiring a car.\nThe car successfully started, SCP-5733-2 laughs and begins to drive away. As she pulls out of the cul-de-sac, SCP-5733-1 leans up from where it has hid on the backseat of the car. SCP-5733-1 brandishes a kitchen knife. SCP-5733-2 screams. The tape cuts to black.\n\nTest 002\nSubject: D-1944\nAdvice: D-1944 tells SCP-5733-2 to retrieve her father's shotgun, which is shown at the 25 minute mark of SCP-5733, and use this to eliminate SCP-5733-1.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 sneaks up to her parent's bedroom and retrieves the gun. At that point, the camera reveals SCP-5733-1 stood in the bedroom doorway. SCP-5733-2 aims the gun and pulls the trigger, yet nothing happens as the gun is not loaded. SCP-5733-1 holds up his right hand, and opens his palm - the shotgun's shells fall out. SCP-5733-1 brandishes a kitchen knife and approaches SCP-5733-2. SCP-5733-2 screams. The tape cuts to black.\n\nTest 003\nSubject: D-1958\nAdvice: D-1958 tells SCP-5733-2 that resistance against SCP-5733-1 is useless, and that she should use a pair of garden shears in the basement to commit suicide.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 responds that this is not an option, and begins to sob. After 10 minutes, SCP-5733-2 stands up from the floor, walks up the basement stairs, and opens the door. SCP-5733-1 is stood outside waiting. The tape cuts to black.\n\nTest 011\nSubject: Assistant Researcher Felissa Baker6\nAdvice: After a conversation with SCP-5733-2 on her state of mind and skills, Dr. Baker believed her best course of action will be to obtain assistance from others. Dr. Baker recommended SCP-5733-2 go from house to house in the cul-de-sac in an attempt to find neighbours who could aid her.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 left the basement and house without incident, and went to the residence of Mr. Loomis, her next door neighbour. Upon arrival, she found the door ajar and lights off. Creeping through the house, SCP-5733-2 discovers Mr. Loomis and a figure she believes to be his wife apparently sleeping in bed. On attempting to wake him, SCP-5733-2 discovers that he is dead, with his throat slit. The figure in bed next to him gets up, and upon pulling back the covers is revealed to be SCP-5733-1. SCP-5733-2 screams. The tape cuts to black.\n\nTest 015\nSubject: Assistant Researcher Nick Englund-Daskewisz\nAdvice: Dr. Englund-Daskewisz explains to SCP-5733-2 that he works for an organisation which may be able to help her, and that she should try to call for help from the house phone. He gives SCP-5733-2 a covert Foundation phone number in operation in the year 1983.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 emerges from the basement, and makes her way to the kitchen, where the landline telephone is located. Upon reaching it, SCP-5733-2 finds that the phone has been destroyed, and a note, written in what appears to be blood, has been impaled into the wreckage with a kitchen knife. SCP-5733-2 reads the note aloud and shows it to the camera, asking Dr. Englund-Daskewisz what it means. It reads, \"The only Foundation here is FEAR\". Before he can answer, he alerts SCP-5733-2 to the presence of SCP-5733-1, who has appeared behind her. SCP-5733-1 brandishes another kitchen knife. SCP-5733-2 screams. The tape cuts to black.\n\nTest 017\nSubject: Field Agents Malcolm Pleasance and Donald McDowell\nAdvice: The field agents were selected for the test due to their knowledge of hand-to-hand combat techniques. They advise SCP-5733-2 to search the basement for supplies, to see how long she can remain there. Once it has been established that a small amount of food and water are available, the agents begin to teach SCP-5733-2 fighting techniques.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 is able to remain in the basement for a period of 112 hours before running out of supplies.7 During this time, Pleasance and McDowell have delivered content equivalent to a basic introductory combat course. The agents have delivered this training in shifts, and when SCP-5733-2 has slept, one agent has stayed awake to keep watch for SCP-5733-1.\nSCP-5733-2 emerges from the basement, and makes her way to the house's front door, where she is confronted by SCP-5733-1. The two engage in hand-to-hand combat over a period of 23 minutes, as they fight throughout the house. SCP-5733-2 is able to deploy the techniques taught to her by both agents, and, at the conclusion of the fight, knocks SCP-5733-1 to the floor.\nSCP-5733-2 picks up a candlestick from the dining room table, and prepares to attack SCP-5733-1 - both her and the agents celebrate. As she raises the candlestick above her head, the camera pans to reveal a second SCP-5733-1 instance creeping up from behind her. The instance leaps at her, and the tape cuts to black momentarily before contact is made.8\n\nTest 028\nSubject: Field Agent Tilda-Joan Bennett\nAdvice: Agent Bennett was chosen for testing due to her advanced knowledge of thaumaturgy. Agent Bennett instructs SCP-5733-2 on how to use rudimentary thaumaturgy for offensive and defensive purposes. After several hours, SCP-5733-2 is able to sign basic protective glyphs and perform low-level phonological elemental spells.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 makes it to their front lawn before encountering SCP-5733-1, who brandishes a kitchen knife and walks towards her. On Agent Bennett's advice, SCP-5733-2 signs a protective glyph. SCP-5733-1 attacks SCP-5733-2 but the knife bounces off her, and away from SCP-5733-1, due to the thaumaturgical protection. SCP-5733-2 counters with a wind spell which pushes SCP-5733-1 away from her.\nSCP-5733-2 takes advantage of this opportunity, and begins to run down her driveway. SCP-5733-1 gives chase, and displays previously unseen thaumaturgical skills by casting a freeze spell on SCP-5733-2, locking her in place. SCP-5733-1 casts a summoning spell, drawing the kitchen knife back into his hand. SCP-5733-2 tries to scream but cannot. The tape cuts to black.\n\nIncident 5733-01\n\nIncident 5733-01\n\nForeword: Following a review of all previous testing, SCP-5733's Lead Researcher, Dr. Carpenter, devised the following test, with himself as the subject.\nIn preparation of the test, Dr. Carpenter had his team prepare possible options through which SCP-5733-2 may be able to escape from SCP-5733-1. Options were divided into the following categories:\n\nWhat to take from the basement.\nWhere to go upon emerging from the basement.\nHow to exit the house.\nHow to exit the cul-de-sac.\n\nEach of the above categories was to contain at least 20 options, and, under no circumstances, was Dr. Carpenter to be consulted on, or informed of, what these options would be. On the day of the test, these options were printed out and placed into plastic bowls correlating to the above categories. In addition to this, 3 cards reading \"FACE\", \"BODY\", and \"LEGS\" were created.\nOn the day of the test, Dr. Carpenter began watching SCP-5733. At the 95th minute, 2 minutes before anomalous properties manifest, research assistants placed the 4 bowls in front of him, and the 3 cards, face down.\n\nThe Final Test\nSubject: Dario Carpenter\nAdvice: Dr. Carpenter informed SCP-5733-2 that he would be selecting instructions for her at random, and that it was imperative she followed them to the letter.\n\nAdvice - What to take from the basement: With eyes diverted, Dr. Carpenter placed his hand into the first bowl and selected an option. He informed SCP-5733-2 to arm herself with the pair of garden shears present in the basement and begin climbing the stairs to the exit.\nOutcome: With no objections, SCP-5733-2 armed herself and began to climb.\n\nAdvice - Where to go upon emerging from the basement: Dr. Carpenter selected an option from the second bowl, and informed SCP-5733-2 she was to go to her upstairs bedroom, then come back down to the dining room.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 followed the instructions given. There is no sight of SCP-5733-1 at this point of the test.\n\nAdvice - How to exit the house: Dr. Carpenter selected an option from the third bowl. He told SCP-5733-2 to sprint back upstairs and into her parents' bedroom, where she was to climb out the window, onto the roof, and then drop down into the garden.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 followed the instructions given. There is still no sight of SCP-5733-1 at this point of the test.\n\nAdvice - How to exit the cul-de-sac: Dr. Carpenter selected an option from the fourth bowl. He informs SCP-5733-2 that she is to jump over the fence into her neighbour's garden, make her way to the front of the property, and run down the street until she finds help.\nOutcome: SCP-5733-2 follows the instructions given, and makes it to the road out of the cul-de-sac, which she proceeds to run down. The camera pans, and SCP-5733-1 can be seen bursting out of the door of SCP-5733-2's residence. SCP-5733-2 continues to flee, and SCP-5733-1 does not give chase.\nSCP-5733-2 begins to celebrate, and is asked by Dr. Carpenter how far away the nearest police station is. SCP-5733-2 responds that she does not know, but that, together, they'll find it. The road out of the cul-de-sac is uninhabited. The roads are lined by trees and the occasional streetlight.\nSCP-5733-2 continues running for a period of 20 minutes, before she slows down to catch her breath. By this point, the trees have begun to grow scarce, yet only darkness can be seen beyond them.\nSCP-5733-2 walks for another 5 minutes. The trees once lining the road have disappeared. Either side of the road is flanked by a pitch-black darkness. Dr. Carpenter asks SCP-5733-2 if she can see anything on the roadside. She responds in the negative. Dr. Carpenter goes on to instruct SCP-5733-2 to take off a bracelet she is wearing, and throw it off the road. As soon as the bracelet passes over the boundary between the road and darkness, it vanishes and cannot be seen.\nSCP-5733-2 asks Dr. Carpenter what she should do next. Dr. Carpenter responds that she should keep walking.\nAn hour passes, with the road remaining straight, there have been no other signs of life. Trees once again begin to populate the boundary of the road, growing in density the more time goes by. SCP-5733-2 comments that she can see lights and houses up ahead, and begins to speed up.\nAs she approaches the houses, SCP-5733-2 begins to run and shout for help. When she arrives, she recognises the location. She has arrived back at the cul-de-sac where she lives.\nPanicked, SCP-5733-2 asks Dr. Carpenter what is happening. Before he has a chance to respond, SCP-5733-1 begins to approach SCP-5733-2, brandishing a kitchen knife. Dr. Carpenter moves to the three cards set face down, and picks one at random - \"FACE\". He yells at SCP-5733-2 to use the shears to attack SCP-5733-1 in the facial region. She dodges its first swing of the knife, and successfully counter-attacks. The burlap sack covering SCP-5733-1's face rips.\nDr. Carpenter turns over a second card, and shouts instructions to attack SCP-5733-1's legs. SCP-5733-2 does so successfully, crippling SCP-5733-1's movement. Dr. Carpenter goes to reach for the last card. As his fingers touch it, he realises he already knows what it says as the last remaining card - \"BODY\". He yells at SCP-5733-2 to attack SCP-5733-1's torso, and to attempt to land a critical blow to his heart or other vital organs. SCP-5733-2 does so, but SCP-5733-1 dodges the attack, grabs the shears from her, and pushes her to the ground.\nThe camera tilts up, from SCP-5733-2 on the ground, to SCP-5733-1's face, only partially covered by the now damaged burlap sack. Dr. Carpenter approaches the television screen, staring at SCP-5733-1. With the sack damaged, SCP-5733-1's face can be seen, staring straight at the camera - SCP-5733-1 is a visually identical match to Dr. Carpenter. SCP-5733-2 screams. The tape cuts to black.\n\nAll testing has been suspended whilst investigations are underway into whether use of SCP-5733 by Foundation staff constitutes a data leak. A review of past test subjects' current and historic assignments is underway.\n\nUPDATE: Another tape has been found.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The tape vault is a controlled environment designed to mitigate data degradation arising from temperature and humidity.\n2. Portrayed by Alice Strode according to the film's opening credits.\n3. A road closed at one end, resulting in only a singular inlet/outlet.\n4. Variations include addressing the viewer(s) as \"Miss\", \"Ma'am\", \"All of you\" in lieu of \"Mister\", and, in lieu of \"sat there\", \"stood there\" or \"lying there\".\n5. Including SCP-5733 and her anomalous nature.\n6. After no negative effects were observed in D-class subjects, asides from non-anomalous psychological trauma, testing was opened up to general Foundation staff from this test.\n7. It should be noted that, according to in-universe clocks, this resulted in SCP-5733-2 leaving the basement at 10:00AM. Despite this, light levels upon leaving the basement are more consistent with a time between 11:00PM and 01:00AM.\n8. During Test 017, both SCP-5733-1 instances display levels of physical prowess and knowledge of combat techniques not demonstrated in other tests.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5732 | SCP-5733 | SCP-5734 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nAlert: The selected SCP exists within an area of major armed conflict. Due to ongoing instability, the North African Regional Headquarters has recommended that any anomalous entities currently residing in the following areas be extracted with great speed.\nRepublic of South Sudan\nDarfur region of Sudan\nKordofan region of Sudan\nBlue Nile State (territory disputed)\nActive containment of anomalous phenomena and entities of object class Euclid and below is to be halted in the above-mentioned locations.\nThe current situation is fluid. In such a case, where a major anomalous event in the area may cause irreversible damage, contact Site-189, Khartoum, Sudan.\n\u2014 Automated Message, RAISA Africa\n\nItem#: 5736\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\npending\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSite-223 burning after being raided by a local militia. Unknown MTF-squad personnel surveying the damage, circa 1968\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Any SCP personnel that were employed by the Nile Valley Foundation Branch1 from 1955 to 1964 are to be apprehended and sent to the North African SCP Regional Headquarters for interview.\nSudan Defense Force (SDF) and Azania Liberation Front2 (ALF) commanders who fought in the Equatoria, Bahr el Ghazal, South Kordofan, and Greater Upper Nile provinces during that time period are to be assessed for previous interactions with the Foundation. If an association is found then the individual is to be amnesticized.\nUpdate 9/30/2010: Lack of funding to the Sudanese branch has restricted amnestic usage to situations that present a \u201cbreak-the-veil\u201d scenario. Thus, individuals are to be released or terminated on a case-by-case basis.\nThere are no rigorous containment procedures for SCP-5736 instances available at this time. If instances are ever secured, immediately contact the Ethiopian branch of the SCP Foundation. If possible, implement standard humanoid containment in the interim.\nUpdate 2/15/2002: The North African Regional Headquarters has now instructed that all living SCPs contained within South Sudan are to be transported to the Ethiopian branch following the killing of SCP-SD3 Foundation Director Barnabas Opiyo.\nThe following document was retrieved by MTF Theta-12 during the Malakal pacification and is conjectured to refer to archival containment procedures of SCP-5736. It has been translated from Arabic to English.\n\nUnknown Date of Transcription\nTo: Dr. Abdullah Khan, SCPF-Iran\nMy spy, Mr. Raheem, has just come up from Site-171 in Fuhan and relayed to me some disturbing news.\nThe traitorous men seem to be selling off magic wands and spirit staves to rebel militia members! And just a fortnight ago Director Khabz told me that containment had now issues when they lost electricity. Imagine my shock when Mr. Raheem saw Khabz himself loading up staves and skulls onto a truck.\nSelling is one thing, you know selling between branches and sites has always been allowed within our special relationship. But what stopped my sympathy was what Mr. Raheem saw in the containment wing.\nBy God, our own Foundation tattooing the Seal of Amenirdis4 onto the backs of Nuer5 boys!\nHe saw the employees speak some tribal language while the boy's eyes shone blue among the rats and darkness down there.\nI have been granted authority by the Nile Valley group to contain all anomalies and, God-willing, I will contain the evil people in the south. They have been corrupted by their impudent will! Dr. Khan, I commend you for prophesying their betrayal, how they are destroying the divine plan of Nature.\nI will send soldiers to Site-171 this following week and terminate all those responsible for allowing these creatures to wander the Earth. The SDF nor the SCPF want anything to do such trickery.\nFrom: Wanyanga Onyango, Director of Site-153, Brigadier General of the Sudanese Defense Force\n\nDescription: SCP-5736 were anomalous humanoid entities that were used in battle by the SDF and the ALF during the First Sudanese Civil War and, possibly, the Eritrean War of Independence.\nThe approximate number of anomalies used during the conflicts is unknown. Reports indicate that the only physical commonality of the entities was the physical inscriptions and a blue-gray eye color.\nNo specific age range for SCP-5736 instances has been confirmed, but anecdotal evidence suggests a leaning towards late adolescence. The anomalous effects of SCP-5736 appear to be varied and to depend on multiple characteristics such as time of day, diet, and temperament.\nCircumstantial evidence implies that non-anomalous teenagers undergo some anomalous transformation through the use of some as-of-yet unknown mechanism. Surviving Nile Valley SCP accounts point towards the involvement of the SDF rather than some internal development.\n\nAdministrative staff of Site-168. The collapse of the Nile Valley branch and the subsequent chaos led many SCP personnel to defect to the ORIA.\n\nHowever, retrospective analysis of the anomalous weapons division of the SDF has not shown any evidence of SCP-5736 development.\nIt is difficult to substantiate these accounts because a large majority of individuals, including SDF, ALF, and relevant Nile Valley SCP personnel, were killed in the subsequent Second Sudanese Civil War6 or have since disappeared.\nThe following recovered document describes some of the known anomalous effects of various SCP-5736 instances.\n\nBENTIU OUTPOST-23 RECOVERY; UPPER NILE STATE\n\nBENTIU OUTPOST-23 RECOVERY; UPPER NILE STATE;\n\nNAME\nLOCATION, TIME USED\nEFFECT\nDEAD/EFFECT\n\nJOSHUA\nKADUGLI, SEPTEMBER 1954\n5KM BLAST\n1000 ALF, 75 SDF, SOME CIVILIANS\n\nGIRL\nAD'DAMAZIN PASS, MAY 1960\nBLACK BLOOD(?)\n500 ALF, 470 SDF\n\nSOLOMON\nBRIDGE OF ABU JU'BAYHA, MARCH 1956\nDISAPPEARANCE\n1250 CIVILIANS, 1500 ALF/SDF, 60 CATTLE\n\nABDUL\nPARIANG, JULY 1963\nMELTING SICKNESS, VILLAGES OF KUAJAK, BIGA, JONT DESTROYED\n??? ALF, >750 SDF\n\nBOY\nER RAHAD, FEBRUARY, JULY 1961\nBOT FLIES\n900 CIVILIANS, 250 ALF\n\nSHILOH\nMALWAL APRIL, 1953\nREINCARNATION\nBROUGHT 55 ALF MEN BACK\n\nNO NAME\nKODOK MAY, 1959\nTREE SPIRIT (ARTILLERY DISPATCHED)\n150 ALF, 10 SDF\n\nABSALOM ZIMRI\nGEDIR DECEMBER, 1964\nUNKNOWN\n??? SDF, AT LEAST 10000 CIVILIANS\n\nOJIBWAY\nMANAT APRIL, 1962\nCONJUNCTIVA/SCELERA\nALL LIFE IN 15-20 KM\n\nThe lack of thorough information on SCP-5736 is due to the suspension of the Nile Valley branch in 1960. The suspension was catalyzed by the assassination of the Nile Valley branch Director Einku Asres through unknown circumstance.\nUpdate 10/1/2004: Accounts from living Nile Valley SCP employees suggest that the assassination of Director Asres was due to an unpaid debt from Site-168's Director Anwar Farra.\nMany at the time, however, credited the suspension due to the widespread failure of containment as a result of the First Sudanese Civil War, the lack of SCPF presence in Ethiopia on decree of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and the extraordinarily high corruption of SCP personnel in the United Arab Republic7.\nFurthermore, multiple SCP sites located in the Darfur and Kordofan regions were looted, burned or otherwise destroyed under unclear circumstances during the era between the suspension of the Nile Valley branch and the establishment of the Sudanese branch. It is currently unclear if the dismantling of these sites was a simple wartime consequence or a concerted effort by either the SDF, ALF, or extant members of the Nile Valley branch.\nSCP-5736, in particular, was well-known amongst the disparate warlords and commanders during the era due to its lack of containment. However, the extent to which this has affected society in former Nile Valley branch nations is unclear. The ubiquity of anomalous paraphernalia in the region and the societal presence of \u201cshamans\u201d and \u201cspirits\u201d has obscured preliminary searches and evidence for contemporary existence of SCP-5736.\nThe following is a recovered manuscript from Manna Charitable Foundation Outpost \u03b2-2 recovered in 1995. Outpost \u03b2-2 was raided by unknown bandits8 and destroyed in 2001.\n\nIn memory of executives Mekdem Eezkias and Amensisa Sisay, martyrs of our cause, who were killed by the Derg regime of Ethiopia in this past year.\n\nMCF-Africa Division Bulletin-651; ; Headquarters to All MCF Employees operating in Northeast Africa\n\nOf Interest: hazardous humanoid, SCP Foundation, conflict, humanitarian crisis, biohazard, refugee, DANGER wartime anomaly, SECURITY DISASTER\n\nEntry Ref: Red Alert in Sudan, Magenta Alert in Eritrea/Ethiopia\nDear agents and volunteers,\nI hope all of you are safe and healthy in these trying times. For those who have recently transferred to this region, know that the chaotic nature of the past year are unusual and has caused a situation of great concern.\nThe suspension of the Nile Valley branch of the SCP Foundation has caused many hundreds (possibly thousands) of anomalous objects and persons to be unguarded as many SCP Foundation employees have abandoned their posts. Oftentimes, in your work you may happen upon gangs, militias, and even normal citizens wielding anomalous artifacts.\nThis is to be ignored for your own safety. The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan has levied such an astounding level of human suffering onto the region that the Central Council has approved the use of the Special Reparations' Units. Please recall that you must stay at least 5 meters away from their euphoric aura. These squads will remain in the war-torn regions until the regional SCP Foundation reforms.\nWe do not expect this, but if the SCP Foundation abandons the region then further reports will follow on aiding the ORIA in their expansion.\nOf particular concern for are recent reports from our volunteers in Eritrea who have witnessed numerous, catastrophic events of anomalous nature occurring on the frontlines of the ongoing civil war. Information from our network incriminates the Sudan Defense Force as the culprit.\nThe rumor among the Eritrean Underground is that such individuals arrive on trucks from the northern passageway and are immediately deployed into the battlefield against the Ethiopian Empire. This presents as a possible smuggling operation and as such reality-bending users in the area are permitted to undergo rescue operations. For details, contact your shift supervisor.\nFor all others throughout the area, please be on the lookout and report such entities. Their description is as follows: 17-22 year old Dinka/Nuer males, Nubian/Egyptian inscriptions and markings on visible portions of their body (may present as ritual scarification), blue conjunctiva that shines in the night.\nUnfortunately, due the recent deaths of aid workers and anomalous personnel, there will be no extra reinforcements sent to Ethiopia and Eritrea, besides what is already being sent.\nAnd just as reminder to those who feel anxious or concerned, your work matters to all the people you help. We don't need affirmation of our positive impact, even if the SCP Foundation never returns to contain the anomalies of this corner of the world, we will always help people in need. Be they like us or unlike us.\nGod bless you and God bless the Manna Charitable Foundation.\n~MCF-Africa Headquarters, Johannesburg, South Africa\n\nFootnotes\n1. A post-World War 2 SCP Foundation merger of the Republic of the Sudan, Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and United Arab Republic branches.\n2. Armed rebel group active during the First Sudanese Civil War in conflict over South Sudanese separatism.\n3. Sudan\n4. The first \u201cGod's Wife of Amun\u201d or highest ranking priest of the Amun Cult during the 25th dynasty of Egypt during the Golden Age of the Kushite Empire.\n5. Nilotic people group present in Sudan and South Sudan.\n6. Armed conflict from 1983 to 2005 that resulted in the displacement of 4 million people, the deaths of 2.5 civilians, and the complete destruction of most infrastructure.\n7. In one such notable case, members of the local Cairo Sarkic Society caused the Blood Incident: Living Pyramid, despite being warned ahead of time by local peoples.\n8. Possibly the \u201cBlack Eternal Army of Zande\u201d or \u201cSupreme Front of Nubia; Liberation Army.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5735 | SCP-5736 | SCP-5737 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Note: The following document is provided for informational purposes only, as no containment protocols have been put into place for SCP-5737. Historically, SCP-5737 has been assumed non-anomalous due to its near-universal presence in humans, and I expect that many will conclude this document with that belief still firmly in place. As the description below addresses an issue of significant personal value to many, discretion is advised when reading.\n- Dr. Copeland, head researcher for SCP-5737\n\nItem #: SCP-5737\nObject Class: Explained\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Because of the extensive period of time elapsed between SCP-5737's occurrence and the present day, as well as the unacceptable risk of any method of ongoing containment causing an MK-Class \u201cEnd of Human Consciousness\u201d scenario, SCP-5737 is functionally uncontainable. Containment efforts are to focus on minimizing the effects of SCP-5737 expression among extant human cultures via the promotion of humanistic politics and maintenance of containment procedures associated with identified Groups of Interest. The existence of SCP-5737 is to be confirmed only to Level 4 and higher Foundation researchers; individuals without Level 4 clearance who become aware of SCP-5737 are to receive targeted amnesticization.\nDescription: SCP-5737 is a hypothetical ontological shift, presumptively dated to the Ediacaran period (635-541 MYA), that affected the ancestral Nephrozoan1 and all descendent lineages. The suite of physiological characters resulting from SCP-5737 permit the emergence of the set of qualia commonly described as \u201cspiritual/religious experiences\u201d. As spiritual or spiritual-like practices have been observed in both protostome and deuterostome lineages, the influence of SCP-5737 is presumed plesiomorphic2, and lineages in which spiritual-like practices are not present are hypothesized to have secondarily lost its influence.\nDue to the extremely widespread expression of SCP-5737 across bilaterian taxa and its universal expression across human cultures, several non-anomalous theories have been developed by civilian organizations as to the origin of its effects. These theories include SCP-5737 promoting social bonding and group cohesiveness, serving as a motivating force for the acquisition of resources and territory in early hominids, and being an emergent property at a certain level of cognitive development conferring no significant fitness benefits. However, the development by the Foundation of the Hume and Akiva scales has allowed accurate analysis of metaphysiological changes in organisms expressing SCP-5737-dependent behaviour, which permitted its anomalous nature to be determined.\nHuman susceptibility to SCP-5737 expression follows a normal distribution, with approximately 15% of the human population considered abnormally prone to spiritual experiences and approximately 10% considered abnormally resistant. Cultural factors explain more than half (55%) of this variation. Additionally, individuals diagnosed with or who meet the criteria for autism spectrum disorder have a significantly higher likelihood of being resistant to SCP-5737's effects than the general population. Research into the heritability of SCP-5737 susceptibility has proven inconclusive due to heavy confounding from upbringing and culture. In humans, SCP-5737 displays a mild antimemetic quality: individuals frequently express an inability to accurately describe the qualia produced by SCP-5737. Despite this, a number of indices have been developed both by the Foundation and by civilian organizations to estimate the degree of SCP-5737 expression in any given individual3. Variability is also observed in emotional response to SCP-5737: while a majority of people (~60%) display no marked emotional response to the possibility of spiritual experience, the remaining 40% are evenly divided between individuals expressing openness and optimism regarding the possibility and those who claim such an experience has or would be significantly distressing for them. Typical methods of inducing spiritual experiences include the use of psychoactive substances, repetitive movements, and the recitation of creeds or songs, although spontaneous ones are also commonly reported.\nThe presentation of SCP-5737 has been most extensively studied in Homo sapiens; however, ethological, paleo-anthropological, and paleontological research has revealed that it presents in similar ways in other species. The following table provides a generalized overview of major taxonomic groups in which evidence for SCP-5737 expression is present either behaviourally or physically: for more information, please see Document 5737-583-X4 (\u201cValidity and Ethology of Behavioural Markers for High-Penetrance SCP-5737 Expression Across the Tree of Life\u201d, by Foundation researchers Dr. T.I. Copeland, Dr. P.W. Goldschmid, and Assistant Researcher A. T. Zhang.)\n\nTaxonomic Group\nBehaviour/Documentation\n\nHomo sapiens\nReligious and spiritual behaviour in modern humans has been extensively documented. Approximately 93% of the current human population professes some degree of religious or spiritual belief; among the remaining 7% the majority also report at least one non-contextualized experience that aligns with sensations typical to SCP-5737. The recreational or ritual use of entheogens across diverse human cultures, even those with notable negative side effects, provides further evidence of the social significance placed upon expressions of SCP-5737.\n\nPan troglodytes\nRitual behaviour is also well-documented in chimpanzee societies. The emotion-like states, symbolic information transmission, and metacognitive behaviour that are permissive of SCP-5737 expression are extensively evidenced. Pre-death and post-death care, as well as deliberate post-death silence, controlled vocalization, and observation of corpses indicate the presence of a death culture. Ritualized behaviours indicating respect and awe are also frequently directed towards water. At the onset of heavy rains, a \u201crain dance\u201d is performed involving rhythmic movements, repeated behaviours, and controlled vocalization matching religious rites of Homo sapiens; individualistic spiritual experiences are induced and expressed by behavioural displays and continuous observation resembling obeisance directed towards waterfalls and streambeds. These forms of pious expression are both individualized and normative, illustrating the qualitative nature of SCP-5737 expression.\n\nHomo sapiens neanderthalensis\nH. s. neandenthalensis is one of the best-known examples of non-human SCP-5737 expression both among the Foundation and the civilian population. Deliberate burial of the corpses of conspecifics, as well as the provision of grave goods, provide evidence a well-developed death culture. In particular, the inclusion among these grave goods of the bones of other animals and stone and bone items unusable as tools indicates that the metaphysical nature of these things was valued above the physical.\n\nLoxodonta sp.\nMourning behaviour in African elephants has been extensively documented, and individuals have been observed burying the corpses of deceased members of their kin groups, as well as, occasionally, unrelated animals including buffalos, cows, and humans. Some have been reported to observe the cycles of the moon, bathing preferentially upon the full moon and performing behaviours resembling obeisance, including the waving of branches and focussed observation, in the direction of a waxing moon. As SCP-5737-dependent behaviours act as a positive stimulus inducing or intensifying its expression in other individuals, the conviction with which multiple human subcultures believe African elephants are fully capable of religious and spiritual behaviour serves as an additional indicator of its expression in this genus.\n\nArthropoda\nCognition in arthropods is variable, in part because different arthropod groups display dramatically different social structures. The most developed cognitive abilities seem to be within the Hymenoptera: experimentation on Apis species illustrates the presence of the emotion-like states, symbolic information transmission, and metacognitive behaviour that are permissive of SCP-5737 expression. There is also controversy as to whether recently-translated writings from Pseudomyrmex ferruginea4 illustrate thought processes dependent on SCP-5737 or simply superficially similar. To date, full expression of SCP-5737 has only been observed in arthropod species or races that are themselves anomalous. See also documentation for SCP-4067.\n\nAmmonoidea\nSee documentation for SCP-4246.\n\nTherapoda\nSee Addendum 5737-1.\n\nAddendum 5737-1: Paleontological evidence for SCP-5737 in therapods\nIn primary investigation of SCP-5737's influence on metazoan evolution and cultural development, the Horizon Initiative was contacted for consultation, with particular research efforts focussed on the methodology by which they pursued the integration of themes from extant scriptures into a conceptually coherent whole known as the Universal Texts project. During discussions, Initiative representative S. Yilmaz informed Foundation representative Dr. T.I. Copeland that Foundation conjecture regarding SCP-5737 could be useful in contextualizing certain artifacts which the Initiative had contained in 1999.\nA Berriasian5 paleontological dig site had retrieved multiple fossils that resembled deliberate engraving and embossing from a fluvial shale deposit and had published images of the fossils in the supplementary data of their preliminary results. Initiative webcrawlers identified potential anomalous activity and the fossils were taken into Initiative custody to be interpreted. The fossils were determined to be casts of engravings that had originally been made in an unknown, but likely soft (less than 3 on the Mohs scale) substrate. With the aid of three-dimensional scanning and spatial rendering techniques and pattern analysis software, Initiative linguists managed to reconstruct and presumptively translate the symbolic language used. The Foundation has been given limited access to Horizon Initiative servers to view these documents.\n\n+ VIEW HORIZON INITIATIVE DOCUMENTS\n\n- Close\n\nVerifying Horizon Initiative credentials\u2026\nAccessing Universal Texts\u2026\nQuerying \"Dinosaur Gospel\"\u2026\n3 texts found.\nHistory of the Redlands, Chapter 21;\nWanderings of Umberfoot, Chapter 7;\nHymn to the Turning Lights, Chapter 1\n\nThe Tournament of Bright Autumn\n21 4Blue-Feathers, his crest at peak and teeth bared, roared challenge to the Black-And-Green Scale, so that they might meet on the field in single combat and settle the matter of the honor of She-Who-Tears-At-Furred-Ones. 5The battle would be by bone-spear, riding upon their beaked beasts, until one lay slain and the matter of honor had been sealed, and the line could then continue by her eggs. 6And unwilling to be shamed the Black-And-Green Scale took up this challenge, and each departed for their own land, to return to the field in three days' time.\n7On the third day, Blue-Feathers returned with his company to the field, and they were eighty-two6 strong. 8Their crests they had adorned with the red earth, and their claws of the same, 9and thus arrayed Blue-Feathers took up his weapon and bestrode his mount. 10Then did the host of the Black-And-Green Scale come up, and they were even greater, numbering one hundred and three, and they too had donned their ceremonial colouration. 11Besides these there was a great host that had come to observe, and [Indistinguishable] and her company about her.\n12Then did a captain of Blue-Feathers look to the sky, and he spoke: \u201cI see the enduring light migrating low, and it draws nigh to the flank of the sacred mountain. Surely this is a good omen, and fortune shall favour you in this contest; he shall be delivered unto you.\u201d 13But Blue-Feathers replied, \u201cSpeak not of fortune or of omens to me. For does not one control his future by his own strength only, and take no heed of whatever else may be? And this day\n[At this point the text breaks off until a much later point in the narrative. Remaining verses may be found under query: History of the Redlands]\n\n7 In that place it had come to pass that a great landfall had occurred, and it had blocked the flow of the river and contaminated the lower slopes with mud. 8Therefore Redcrest had departed from his burrows, and had journeyed into the east, seeking the great plains and the persistent river-pools that were there, 9for he had been told that the land was fertile and gave forth many lizards and insects for food. 10But Umberfoot had no knowledge of this, and she ascended the mountain-slope, and she made the call that was to summon him. 11But Redcrest came not.\n12Thinking to herself that she had merely come upon a time when he was hunting, she settled herself down beneath the dark trees to wait. 11But when the night fell, she perceived that he did not return. 13So she rose and journeyed three more days, until she entered the hill country.\n14In this place the forest became thin, and\n[The following five lines have been lost]\n20 \u201cWhat is that to us?\u201d they asked. 21So she continued on, until she encountered a herd of the small gliding beasts, and they were hunting, upturning the vegetation with their feet and their beaks to drive out the insects and the scurrying creatures. 22And she asked of them, \u201cDo ye know the paths of this land? For they are unfamiliar to me, and yet here was I sent to seek the holy one, who I have heard dwells far from here.\u201d 23And they answered: \u201cThere are no holy ones that dwell within this land,\n[The text here becomes uncertain; it appears that the small beasts attempt to convince her of the sanctity of a certain tree within their boundaries, and demand tribute to it.]\n24But she departed, and continued until [Remainder of text lost or absent]\n\n1 Let us make joyful our exclamation unto you, of all beings most worthy thereof\n2 You that bring all things to life, you that uphold the forests\n3 We will celebrate you at the breaking of the day, in all your many names\n3 And at its ending we shall sing them again\n4 For you are without fail, o ruling lights\n5 Never in all memory have you ceased in your appearance\n6 Or refrained from arising at the proper time and season\n7 Ye timekeepers, ye commanders of the present and the future\n8 Unto you shall I cry honour; every day, until the failing of my strength\n9 For the splendour of your shine is above telling\n10 Oh ye sky-creatures, oh ye heaven-denizens\n11 Who then can conceive of the reach of your necks\n12 And the range of your territories; the land over which you roam extends from the uttermost rims of the world to its center\n13 From the waters to the high deserts, and from the river to the swampland\n14 All that tread upon and over them make obeisance to you\n15 All set their voices up like steam at the sight of you.\n[Remaining verses lost or absent]7\n\nAddendum 5737-2: Personal reflection of Dr. Copeland\n\n+ VIEW DOCUMENT\n\n- Close\n\nWhen the Foundation first assigned me to SCP-5737, and when the data first began to link together into a coherent narrative, I\u2026 have to admit I was not surprised. As I progressed in my research, I had been fearing - or hoping for - what felt like the inevitable approach of this day: that something would appear and prove to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the ontological naturalists were right, and metaphysical belief is objectively false. It is an ages-old war: is pure mechanism too cold and comfortless and inhuman? Is any sort of faith just self-delusion? It is clear why knowledge of SCP-5737 was so restricted, even though it bears no unforeseen threat; such a revelation would shake anybody to their core.\nSo what are we, those with clearance to know this, to do? Ought we to doubt any belief we hold that has not been supported by extensive, rigorous, double-blind scientific study? Are we to discount the experience of any feeling that does not have a currently-available and strictly rational explanation? Are we to discount the experience of emotion at all? Such a worldview, although highly conservative and prone to Type II error, would serve as something of an inoculation against the effects of SCP-5737.\nAnd yet, it seems a miserable way to live. In consistent doubt of one's own ability to even perceive the world as it truly is, regardless of understanding. I am not a theologian, nor a ethologist, nor even a psychologist - I am a paleontologist, and have always considered myself somewhat detached from such philosophical questions. After all, the past is unchangeable, and what we have access to is merely a hugely-incomplete record of its physical processes. The mechanistic is the only view through which any kind of study is possible.\nYet I can say with confidence that I am not among the resistant to SCP-5737. I have never professed a formal religion, but I have observed things that have taken away my breath, that I have felt myself unworthy to see: escarpments with bedding spanning hundreds of millions of years, that felt like looking down time itself, and acritarchs so perfectly and precisely formed, at such a small scale, that they seemed nearly impossible. Things that seemed very similar, qualia-wise, to the way my more religious colleagues speak of God.\nWe, the Foundation, have since our inception been dedicated to the preservation of normalcy, as defined not in the mathematical sense but by our own, qualitative perceptions of the state of the world. Yet surely a truly scientific approach would make no claims as to normality. As well as we can measure, the anomalous and the non-anomalous exist with equal validity. The belief that there is a normal might not be supported by any other agency, and yet we are all willing to live and die in its name. I have heard that everyone worships something, and the only choice is what: perhaps that is ours. I say this not to condemn, nor to extol, merely to attempt to observe.\nWhat would the world have been like without SCP-5737? How much of what we think, feel, value can be attributed to its action? What traces has it left in our millions of years of history - and will it ever degrade? One thing every paleontologist knows with certainty is that his study cannot ever have control groups, or replications, or an n greater than 1; there has only been one history, and evolution winds the clock forwards but never winds it back. I may wonder what another world, and another normalcy, would have looked like until the day I die, and receive no more clarity than I have now.\nI suppose I will have to be content with that.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The clade Nephrozoa encompasses all animals with a true coelom, digestive tract, excretory organs, and nerve cords.\n2. Plesiomorphic characters are ancestral within a group of organisms, in contrast with apomorphic characters, which are more recent changes away from this ancestral state.\n3. For more information, see \u201cMeasuring Spirituality as a Universal Human Experience: A Review of Spirituality Questionnaires\u201d by E.J. Meezenbroek et al.\n4. See \"The Author of the Acacia Seeds\" by U.K. Guin.\n5. An age of the Early Cretaceous spanning 145-140 MYA.\n6. The exact value represented by this number is unknown, but it appears to represent a company of significant size.\n7. It should be noted that the behaviour described here bears significant resemblance to the tendency of extant Aves to engage in crepuscular vocalization, commonly known as the \u201cdawn chorus\u201d.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5736 | SCP-5737 | SCP-5738 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5738 LEVEL 2/5738\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5738\nObject Class: Safe\n\nSCP-5738-E in containment after its retrieval.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5738-A through F are to be contained in separate standard secure item storage lockers at Storage Site-5738. SCP-5738-A through F can only be removed for testing purposes by personnel with a clearance level of 2 or higher.\nDescription: SCP-5738 refers to six individual pairs of iron prison shackles made to bind the subject's wrists, collectively designated SCP-5738-A to -F. Testing suggests that these shackles originate from the late 14th century of the Ottoman Empire. This is supported by the use of the shackles in a building formerly used for holding children taken to be raised as Janissaries1.\nWhen a living being is restrained with these shackles for a period of five minutes or longer, the affected subject will become an instance of SCP-5738-1. SCP-5738-1 subjects will periodically be subject to breaks from the temporal flow of the universe for the remainder of their life. This phenomenon has often been described as \"frozen\" or \"stopped\" time.\nThese periods of temporal flow dissonance will occur at semi-regular intervals to SCP-5738-1 instances after their initial adjustment period. During these episodes, time will continue to flow only for the SCP-5738-1 instance and any matter within a radius of approximately 1 meter of any part of the instance2. The length of these episodes varies greatly between individuals. However, the duration of episodes for each individual subject appears to be consistent.\nDiscovery: SCP-5738 was initially discovered after Silivri Prison in Istanbul, Turkey reopened and reports of anomalous events began occurring, despite the new management of the prison, including cases of sudden suffocation, impossible disappearances, and random necrosis of tissue3. After it came to the Foundation's attention, Researcher Flemming and Agent Fargo were dispatched to investigate under the guise of a government investigation. Five days into their investigation, a dispute with the warden ensued4, resulting in a temporary imprisonment of both Foundation employees. At this time, both Researcher Flemming and Agent Fargo became SCP-5738-1 instances, discovering its properties.\nAddendum-1: Upon returning, Researcher Flemming was appropriately disciplined for the incident causing him and Agent Fargo to become instances of SCP-5738-1. While Researcher Flemming was held as a temporary test subject, Agent Fargo was allowed to continue his work after 24 hours of observation, due to his clean record and demonstrated loyalty to the Foundation. During this time, he kept an audio diary of his episodes at the researchers' request. These logs are presented below.\n\nOpen Audio Log Day 1\n\nClose Audio Log Day 1\n\nTime Recorded: 23/06/2019 - 1:30pm\n[Playing Audio]\nAgent William Fargo here, recording as requested by my superiors. I'm having my fourth episode now, so I don't have much to do other than record. I'm supposed to be transporting a D-class right now, but the central computer system doesn't exactly work when time's frozen, so the door won't even open until this is over. Might as well get a bagel while I wait; good thing I like 'em untoasted.\nWell I guess I should start with an explanation. Because of SCP-5738, time and I, well, we don't exactly get along like we used to, and space isn't as fond of me either. I get stuck every once and a while in a moment of time, all alone. You'd think it would be exciting, powerful even, and at first it was, but now it's more inconvenient than anything else. Anyway, that covers the basics at least. If you'll excuse me, I've got a not-so-hot date with a bagel and the closest things to beds I can find.\n[End of recording.]\n\nOpen Audio Log Day 2\n\nClose Audio Log Day 2\n\nTime Recorded: 24/06/2019 - 9:53am\n[Playing Audio]\nHello again. It's only been four days, for the rest of the world at least, but it feels like it's been a week for me. They've been happening more frequently now, four or five times a day; that's what? A day and a half of stopped time per day? God, I better get used to living like this soon. I wish I could bring my shrink in here, or anyone for that matter.\nI suppose of all the skips to get hit with, I certainly could have done worse. I'm still alive, and my brain still works like it should, for now at least, but I still wouldn't wish this on anyone. Several times a day, I'm stuck, no light or sound outside my meter bubble, and the light fades away quickly enough anyhow. I get to take naps on the job now at least; though it only takes a couple minutes before I need to move and get some fresh air. Still\u2026 not many better ways to spend eight hours alone.\n[End of recording.]\n\nOpen Audio Log Day 3\n\nClose Audio Log Day 3\n\nTime Recorded: 25/06/2019 - 3:13pm\nI bought a bunch of extra power banks5 for my phone yesterday, so at least I won't be completely bored out of my mind waiting for time to start up again. Outlets don't work as intended during episodes, it seems. I've also gotten into the habit of keeping food and water on me at all times, just in case. I don't want to end up like those prisoners.\n\nTime Recorded: 25/06/2019 - 3:13pm\n[Playing Audio]\nI've gotta be careful, I can bring people, skips, or anything in here with me if I get close enough; though I can't bring 'em all the way in without practically hugging them, and that doesn't sound fun.\nApparently, I got too close to a D-class last time, just for twenty minutes or so. Parts of her right leg and right hand died while they were still attached, not that I could see any of it happening. All the light I get either comes from my phone or gets used up near instantly. At this point, I'm more used to being blind than not. Still though, I've gotta pay more attention. It's all too easy to get people hurt, or worse.\n[Agent Fargo is heard laughing for a few seconds.]\nMaybe I should pay Flemming a visit. Nah, I couldn't; at least he's suffering through this too. Not as much though, it seems.\n[End of recording.]\n\nTime Recorded: 25/06/2019 - 7:06pm\n[Playing Audio]\nI broke up with my girlfriend today. How am I supposed to explain that I never sleep at night anymore? Why I randomly teleport around the apartment? I can't share even half of my life with her anymore. Can't share it with anyone.\nThe worst part is that she's still here, crying. I can't see it anymore, thank fuck, but I know she's still there, upset and confused. Only seven and a half hours left to go. If I can get her out of here without having another episode that is\u2026\n[Slow, rhythmic breathing is heard for 12 seconds.]\n[End of recording.]\n\nOpen Audio Log Day 4\n\nClose Audio Log Day 4\n\nTime Recorded: 26/06/2019 - 10:26am\n[Playing Audio]\nShit, the door closed behind me, looks like I'll be stuck in a D's cell for the better part of today. Oh well, just as good a time as any to catch up on \u201cThe Wire\u201d.\n[End of recording.]\n\nTime Recorded: 26/06/2019 - 10:26am\n[Playing Audio]\nFUCK FUCK FUCK. The door's sealed. IT'S. FUCKING. SEALED! How could I forget? ONE FUCKING SECOND, and now I'm dead. I'm just gonna be another case of suffocation. I can't move around enough to get fresh air. I've already gone through what feels like half the air, and I've only been here an hour. I've gotta figure a way out of here.\n[End of recording.]\n\nTime Recorded: 26/06/2019 - 10:26am\n[Playing Audio]\nOkay, I've tried swiping my ID in every way imaginable and now the damn thing's lost power. The door's still not budging though. What am I gonna do? Maybe I can shoot through the door or the wall? Enough to break it open the rest of the way with my fists?\n[Only heavy breathing is heard for thirty seconds.]\nWhat am I thinking? This place is built to withstand far tougher things than me.\n[Silence for 11 seconds.]\nI wish I could have seen Angela again, even if she was crying.\nPlease, God, Jesus, SCP-343, anyone. Please, just let me say goodbye to my family, to Angela, to my cat, anyone. Please\u2026\n[End of recording.]\n\nTime Recorded: 26/06/2019 - 10:26am\n[Playing Audio]\nI just had to get a D out of their cell, and now I'm going to die from something that was made to protect us, protect me. It'd almost be funny if it weren't so fucking sad.\n[Silence for twenty seconds.]\nNo one's coming for me. Are they?\n[A whimper-like laugh can be heard for 6 seconds.]\n[End of recording.]\n\nTime Recorded: 26/06/2019 - 10:26am\n[Playing Audio]\nFuck you, Flemming. I hope you suffocate too, but apparently your episodes only last half an hour.\n[Silence for fifteen seconds.]\nYou just had to run your mouth, didn't you? Couldn't wait for a proper translation?\n[Silence for thirty seconds.]\n[End of recording.]\n\nTime Recorded: 26/06/2019 - 10:26am\n[Playing Audio]\nI hope they make you pay for this. I hope you find out what I'm going through, the hard way.\nDr. Cunningham, if you're listening to this, give Flemming hell for me, will ya? Make sure he hears this, at the very least.\nI should've killed him when I had the chance\u2026\n[End of recording.]\n\nAgent Fargo was found dead via suffocation at 10:28am, on June 6th, 2019. His death was disguised as suicide by hanging at his apartment.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Highly educated and influential soldiers of the Ottoman empire.\n2. This radius moves with the subject throughout their episode, allowing them to move and subject other matter to the anomalous flow of time.\n3. Similar phenomena were the primary reason for the prison's closure ten years earlier.\n4. Researcher Flemming's poor grasp of Turkish is presumed to be the cause of this incident, leading the warden to doubt the investigation's authenticity.\n5. A device that extends a smart phone's battery life.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5737 | SCP-5738 | SCP-5739 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A photo of SCP-5739 taken upon containment appearing over the body of Emily Cole.\n\nItem #: SCP-5739\nObject Class: Neutralized\n\nShow Previous Special Containment Procedures\n\nHide Previous Special Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5739 is contained within a standard humanoid containment chamber. On a biweekly schedule, two D-Class personnel are to clean SCP-5739's containment unit and to gather any SCP-5739-1 instances.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The remains of SCP-5739 are contained in a storage folder in the cryostorage wing of Site-73. Legible SCP-5739-1 instances are to be recorded and stored in the aforementioned unit. Personnel with a clearance level of 2 or higher are permitted to access the remains of SCP-5739.\nDescription: SCP-5739 was a 1.5-meter tall biological entity composed entirely of human epidermises. Despite its composition, SCP-5739 maintained a rigid structure resembling a pachyderm cranium. Prior to neutralization, SCP-5739 hovered approximately two meters above any surface at all times.\nSCP-5739-1 instances are 35-centimeter x 35-centimeter divisions of SCP-5739 that have physically detached from SCP-5739 by a process that is similar to exfoliative dermatitis1. SCP-5739-1 instances have English phrases etched into them by what has been hypothesized to be human fingernails. Examples of SCP-5739-1 instances have been recorded below. Given their potential significance, each SCP-5739-1 instance is to be given a unique designation.\nDiscovery: On 04/12/2015, 12-year-old Emily Cole's body was discovered in her place of residence in Omaha, Nebraska. The entirety of her skin was absent from her corpse. SCP-5739 was recorded levitating above Emily's body, motionless. Emily Cole's older brother, Albert Cole, contacted the local police station over a telephone call, where he was intercepted by an embedded Foundation agent working within the police force. Albert Cole exhibited extreme anxiety during his required interview; turning to look into empty hallways, being startled at mild contact with objects, and disregarding personnel. He was amnesticized shortly after and all symptoms ceased.\nThe following SCP-5739-1 instance was located beside Emily Cole's corpse.\nSCP-5739-1-1:\n\nRESTLESSLY LEND\nUNKNOWN BLEND\nNEWLY DISTEND\nABSENTLY MEND\nWEND AROUND THE BEND\nASCEND\nYOU CANNOT PRETEND\nELEPHANT FRIEND\nMY DEAREST FRIEND\nI DO NOT TEND\nLIKE YOU INTEND\nYOUR END\n\nAddendum 5739-1: SCP-5739 has exhibited no notable behavior since its containment. DNA testing has determined that SCP-5739 is composed of epidermal tissue belonging to multiple unidentified individuals.\nIncidents that mirror SCP-5739's Discovery have been recovered from multiple eyewitness accounts in Omaha, Nebraska. All of these eyewitness accounts were gathered within a psychiatric ward. These patients were all diagnosed with prolonged mass hysteria. Albert Cole is placed on a psychological trauma watchlist.\nThe following SCP-5739-1 instance was recovered directly underneath SCP-5739 within its cell shortly after genetic testing.\nSCP-5739-1-2:\n\nCOVER THE SOUND\nALL BUT THE WESTBOUND\nNOTICE THE BACKGROUND\nYOULL COME AROUND\nOTHERWISE UNFOUND\nUNSPEAKINGLY DROWNED\nHEAR THEIR SOUND\nENCASED AND WOUND\nADMITTEDLY UNFOUND\nREALIZED THEIR POUND\nMESSAGES UNBOUND\nELEPHANT FOUND\n\nAddendum 5739-2: On 27/12/2015, security footage showed SCP-5739 experiencing minute convulsions. 1 minute and 26 seconds proceeding the beginning of the convulsions SCP-5739 forcefully ruptured, covering the surrounding area with its remains.\nTwo D-Class personnel were instructed to enter SCP-5739's containment cell and clear the security cameras of all debris. Upon closer examination, all remains of SCP-5739 appeared to be SCP-5739-1 instances. 99.62% of the SCP-5739-1 instances were illegible due to congealing between instances and a large quantity of what was later determined to be sweat. The remaining SCP-5739-1 instances were determined to be non-anomalous, and an official cleaning crew was dispatched. The following is a transcript of the inscriptions on the recovered SCP-5739-1 instances.\nSCP-5739-1-3:\n\nIF YOU WERE IN\nTHOSE PEOPLE THAT BEGIN\nTHE PAPER THIN\nOUTSIDE LOOKING IN\nOBSERVE THE DIN\nKNOWINGLY THIN\nTHERE IS A SIN\nHOUSED INSIDE SKIN\nELEPHANT GRIN\nITS ALWAYS BEEN\nRELEASE THE TWIN\nSOULS INSIDE SKIN\nKEEP DEEP WITHIN\nI FEEL THE TWIN\nNEVER WILL YOU WIN\n\nSCP-5739-1-4:\n\nLITTLE YOU CAN SCREAM\nEMPTY YOU WILL TEEM\nTHEY HEAR YOU SCREAM\nUSELESSLY SCHEME\nSCREAMING UPSTREAM\nDID YOU DREAM\nIN SOFTENED GLEAM\nELEPHANT SEAM\n\nSCP-5739-1-5:\n\nWHAT FUN\nHAVE YOU WON\nATTEMPTED RUN\nTHE PRICE OF FUN\nHELL MUST RUN\nAWAY FROM ONE\nVARIETY BUT ONE\nEVERYONE\nWHEN YOU ARE NONE\nEVER SO DONE\nDONE\nONLY UNSPUN\nNO NEED FOR FUN\nELEPHANT WON\n\nSCP-5739-1-6:\n\nGATHER INSIDE\nOUR SMALL STRIDE\nOTHERS TRIED\nDIED\nBECKON THE TIDE\nYOU CAN CONFIDE\nELEPHANT HIDE\n\nFootnotes\n1. A disease that causes inflammation and scaling in the skin.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5738 | SCP-5739 | SCP-5740 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5741\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5741 instances in containment.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5741 instances are to be kept in a sealed container in Secure Containment Locker #142 within Biological Research and Containment Site-95. Access is restricted to Level 2 Personnel, with the Project Lead's authorization, and all personnel should observe Class 1 biohazard protocol. Biweekly, personnel in Class 1 Hazmat gear are to open the container and record the number of SCP-5741 instances. Should this number reach a threshold set by the Project Lead, the appropriate number of SCP-5741 instances are to be removed and placed within a biohazard bag for incineration.\nDescription: SCP-5741 are a collection of Peeps\u00ae brand marshmallow candies. While the outer layer of SCP-5741, consisting of sugar and gelatin, is identical to candies of the same brand, SCP-5741's interior layer consists of flesh, muscle, and connective tissue. Anatomically, SCP-5741 is analogous to human anatomy, with all organ systems being present, and all organs are at a significantly smaller scale. However, SCP-5741 lacks any limbs, which causes instances to move in a ponderous and unpredictable manner.\nSCP-5741 instances have not shown any hostile behavior during Containment, and have been observed to flee from Research Personnel attempting to interact with them. SCP-5741 is capable of asexual reproduction via producing new tissue on its mediolateral side. Over a period of 3 hours, the new instance will form, with the body forming prior to the head. Once the instance is fully formed, it will separate from the old instance. Lastly, the instance will appear to convulse for a period of 5 seconds. After the 5 second period, the new instance's heartbeat is audible. New instances are produced at a rate of 5 per day.\n\nAddenda\n\n+ Addendum 1: History\n\n- Access Granted, retrieving file...\n\nOn 04/04/2021, a 911 call was received from a residence in Cincinnati, Ohio. The residents reported that the Peeps\u00ae candies they had just given their children appeared to have human viscera inside them, and that their daughter had partially consumed one of the candies. A Foundation agent embedded within the Cincinnati Police Department arrived on the scene and confiscated the candies, which were designated SCP-5741 and transported to Site-95. Witnesses were amnesticized and the call record was deleted. Replacement candies were provided.\n\n+ Addendum 2: Experiment Logs\n\n- Access Granted, retrieving file...\n\nExperiments in this log were approved and overseen by: Dr. Cummins, SCP-5741 Project Lead.\nExperiment 1\nProcedure: 5 SCP-5741 instances were placed onto a table. Junior Researcher Pagani was instructed to communicate with the SCP-5741 instances.\nResult: SCP-5741 instances did not communicate, and instead moved around irregularly. One instance fell off the table, resulting in the instance suffering several broken bones. Instance appeared to be in distress.\nAnalysis: SCP-5741 can't communicate, however they can feel pain and move, suggesting a degree of sentience.\n\nExperiment 2\nProcedure: D-3284 was instructed to eat one of the SCP-5741 instances and record their taste. D-3284 was previously sentenced to death for participation in cannibalistic activities.\nResult: D-3284 was hesitant to eat the instance, stating that he did not feel comfortable doing so. When reminded that failure to cooperate would result in a release to his former sentence on death row, D-3284 complied and consumed one of the instances. D-3284 began to chew on the instance, and immediately regurgitated the half chewn instance, resulting in blood and viscera spreading across the table. D-3284 appeared in distress, and stated that the SCP-5741 instance \u201ctasted like human flesh, but different, like it's artificial\u201d. D-3284 was escorted from the chamber, and the instance's remains were deposited in a biohazard bin and subsequently incinerated.\nAnalysis: SCP-5741 is similar to human biology, and is inedible. Confirms the initial report.\n\nExperiment 3\nProcedure: The damaged instance from Experiment 1 was monitored. After several days, it did not reproduce, and appeared in significant distress. The Ethics Committee Liaison for Site-95 approved the use of lethal injection to euthanize the instance, as keeping it alive would put it in further distress. The lethal injection was effective. A dissection was later performed by Dr. Lang and Dr. Travers, using microscopes to view the interior of the SCP-5741 instance.\nResult: All internal organs of the SCP-5741 instance were removed and weighed. Total weight was approximately 113 grams. Additionally, tissue samples were removed and studied.\nAnalysis: Samples were consistent with baseline human samples. SCP-5741's bone structure is similar to ours, with the chest, neck, and cranial regions being largely similar. However, the area where legs and arms would be on a human ended with round, bony protrusions.\n\n+  Addendum 3: Incident Log\n\n- Access Granted, retrieving file...\n\nOn 05/12/2021, Security Officer Rajiv Sinagra was guarding SCP-5741's containment. Multiple instances, contained in a glass jar for study, managed to slide the glass jar off the shelf by moving forward against it. Upon hitting the floor, the glass jar broke, allowing the instances to escape. SO Sinagra pressed the Containment Breach alarm and attempted to stop the SCP-5741 instances.\nAs he went to pick up an instance, two more instances embedded shards of glass from the jar into their bodies and attacked SO Sinagra in a rotating motion, creating multiple lacerations on his hand. Sinagra, appearing to be enraged, proceeded to stomp the two armed instances, terminating them. The 3 other instances retreated into the opposite corner and appeared to be afraid of SO Sinagra.\nSO Sinagra pursued the instances, who attempted to flee, but were captured and subsequently dismembered in violent fashion. As the instances were dismembered, faint vocalizations of distress were heard. 2 minutes after the breach, all escaped instances were terminated. Rapid Response Teams arrived and Sinagra was treated for his minor wounds. As per protocol, Sinagra was detained and was interviewed about the breach.\n\n+ Addendum 4: Interview Log\n\n- Access Granted, retrieving file...\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Cummins\nInterviewed: SO Rajiv Sinagra\nSubject: Interviewee's conduct during the SCP-5741 Containment Breach.\n\nBEGIN LOG\nVideo begins. Sinagra is seated on the left. Dr. Cummins enters the room and sits down, shuffling papers before speaking.\nCummins: Good morning, Sinagra. Is your wound healing well?\nSinagra: Yeah. The stitches still hurt, but it could be worse.\nCummins: Good to hear. As you know, several SCP-5741 instances breached Containment earlier today. You were the guard assigned to SCP-5741's chamber, correct?\nSinagra: Yes, I was. Uhm, am I in trouble?\nCummins: I just need to clarify a few things, about the breach. Even a minor one like this one can reveal faults in our thinking and procedure, and you were the only witness there. Can you tell me about the events leading up to the breach?\nSinagra: Yeah, no problem. As you know, we- we being the Security Department- usually are assigned on specific objects and guard them until there's a need for reassignment. Apparently, after one of the recent tests, the other guy had requested a transfer. Personally, I don't blame him.\nCummins: Can you elaborate?\nSinagra: I mean, did you look at those things? I've seen a lot of freaky shit in my time at the Foundation, but those things take the cake. The way they move, the way they breathe, it's\u2026 it's unnatural. And now they can fucking pickup pieces of glass and use them to cut you?\nCummins: I understand. We still know little about SCP-5741. However, CCTV tapes show you violently dismembering them. Why did you do this?\nSinagra: They were laughing at me.\nCummins: They were.. laughing at you?\nSinagra: Yeah. The kind of laughter that makes you feel subhuman. That makes you feel like a joke. Only, it was children laughing. When I started smashing the little pieces of shit, they stopped laughing and started screaming. They wouldn't stop screaming. I made them stop. That made me feel better.\nSinagra: I crushed them. I destroyed them. I wiped them out, so they didn't hurt me. They might not be able to kill you now, but it will learn. They will grow. There will be more of them. They will grow bigger, and they will grow stronger, until one day they can kill you. And then you will be the one being stomped out of existence.\nCummins: Sinagra, if you continue to aggressive, this interview will be terminated and a sedative will be adminstered-\nSinagra: Did you not see what they did to them? What you did to them? Do you think they don't see, or hear? We keep them in a box, but they can hear, and they can feel. They saw what you did to the others, and they want out.\nSinagra stops speaking, and looks up to the ceiling.\nSinagra: Oh god, they can see me.\nSinagra abruptly falls unconscious. A mixture of blood, sugar, and corn syrup begin pouring out of his orifices.\nCummins: Guards! Guards! Shit, get a medic in here, now!\nEND LOG\n\nSinagra was moved to the infirmary, where he subsequently was pronounced deceased. An autopsy later revealed that all Sinagra's interior mass was replaced with a mixture of corn syrup, sugar, gelatin, and various other confectionary ingredients.\n\nAs a result of the interview log, testing with SCP-5741 is suspended. A new behavior has been observed in SCP-5741 instances after the incident, with instances appearing to congeal together in an attempt to form a larger instance. In addition, the rate of production of new instances is increasing exponentially. New containment procedures are being drafted to address this behavior. Until new Containment Procedures are in effect, staff are to prevent the creation of a larger instance by all reasonable means.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5740 | SCP-5741 | SCP-5742 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\nWarning: You are currently viewing outdated records of SCP-5742. These documents are kept for archival and reference use only. Do you wish to proceed?\n\nIteration 1\nIteration 2\nIteration 3\nIteration 4\n\nCollected Documentation on AI-2471GH2\n\nImage 31: Part of the exterior of AI-2471GH2.\n\nAnomalous Item: 2471GH2\nItem Description: A large machine that appears designed to crush industrial waste into compact cubes. However, instead of being crushed any objects inserted into the input shaft are completely and irreversibly destroyed. Machine does not appear to require any external power supply to operate. A large plaque is affixed near the input shaft, on which is inscribed \u2018MOLOCH'.\nDate of Recovery: 24/07/1970\nLocation of Recovery: A large disused industrial waste processing center in Westview Industrial Park, United Kingdom. Investigation into the origins of AI-2471GH2 has thus far yielded no results.\nCurrent Status: Undergoing Testing\n\nTest Log\n\nInput\nResult\n\n200g iron weight\nItem not recovered, presumed destroyed.\n\n200g iron weight attached to a rope\nAfter 30 seconds, the rope was retracted and found to have been severed. The tip of the rope was found to be slightly moist, and later chemical analysis revealed traces of amylase1.\n\n1 live Mus musculus2\nItem not recovered, presumed destroyed.\n\n1 long range radio transmitter and radioactive isotope tracer.\nRadio signal continued for seven seconds after entry at which point the signal was lost. External scans indicate the radioactive isotope is no longer present within AI-2471GH2.\n\n1 video recording device.\nFootage was broadcast as the device descended down the shaft and fell into a large compartment. None of the other items or any means of exit were visible. After several seconds the footage cuts out and the connection was unable to be re-established. Later enhancement of audio recording has revealed the sound of heavy breathing in the background before camera feed cuts out.\n\nInvestigation Log\n\nAttempt\nOutcome\n\nOpen installed repair hatch\nAll access points have been welded shut and are inaccessible.\n\nAccess via exit shaft\nMiniature remote control vehicle driven into exit shaft. Video recording showed that the shaft continued for 4.6 m before terminating in a blockage. When retrieved, the vehicle's wheels were found to be coated in a dark substance, later revealed to be faecal matter.\n\nForcibly remove external panelling\nDiscovered that large amount of external machinery appears to be superfluous to the anomaly's functionality. Main shaft was identified and found to be connected to a 2 m by 1.5 m by 1.5 m inner compartment. Inner compartment does not appear to be connected to the exit shaft.\n\nAnalysis of interior components for evidence of functionality.\nThe device appears to be constructed of parts from multiple non-anomalous industrial waste disposal devices. These parts are constructed in such a manner that they would be unable to correctly function and there is no connected power source. Wiring and pipework were found to be installed in runic patterns used by Daevite cultures to repel Tartarean entities.\n\nAttempt to drill into interior compartment.\nUpon breaching interior compartment, the drill vanished along with attached power cord. The breach in the compartment rapidly resealed, but prior to this leaked a small amount of a viscous transparent fluid. This was found to be primarily composed of dilute hydrochloric acid.\n\nAI-2471GH2 File Update 18/8/1970\n\nThe active components of AI-2471GH2 have been transported to Site-109 and are currently being held in Anomalous Item Storage. Reclassification as a full SCP object is pending.\n\nItem#: 5742\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5742 is kept in a locked Containment Unit within Site-109's Waste Disposal Center. It is to be used only for the annihilation of dangerous, destructive, or difficult to contain waste products that cannot otherwise be effectively disposed of. Direct authorization from the Site Director is required for the use of SCP-5742 to dispose of any materials other than the standard waste products from SCP-6112, SCP-19854, AI-9214JC4 and SCP-7072.\nSCP-5742 is to be inspected every six weeks for signs of unusual activity outwith that described in this document. The last inspection was on: 04/12/2031\nDescription: SCP-5742 is a large steel container connected to a 3.2 m steel shaft which terminates in an access hatch. Any matter which is introduced to SCP-5742 via this hatch is utterly and irreversibly eradicated via unknown means. SCP-5742 appears slightly rusted and occasionally emits small amounts of smoke, oil and other substances3, but has displayed the capacity to self repair any damage that would impair its functionality.\n\nSCP-5742 Incident Report Log4\n\n23/10/2031 Standard Inspection Report\n\n23/10/2031 Standard Inspection Report\n\nContainment Specialist Burgess: Emissions of smoke and bodily fluids have increased substantially over baseline levels, and the trend is that these will increase if this continued workload is maintained. My report recommends that SCP-5742 operate at 75% capacity until emissions return to baseline levels, in order to ensure its continued long term function.\nResponse: Apotheoetic waste from SCP-6112 has been redirected to long term storage and breakdown facilities at Site-109D. This is expected to reduce use of SCP-5742 to 85% of capacity.\n\n04/12/2031 Standard Inspection Report\n\n04/12/2031 Standard Inspection Report\n\nContainment Specialist Burgess: The reduction of SCP-6112 waste has not been sufficient to improve SCP-5742 functioning and I can see on the new schedule that it's now going to be expected to handle SCP-7072's waste output as well.\nFrankly, this is unacceptable. Even a basic visual inspection of SCP-5742 can see that it now seeps a constant stream of various bodily fluids, which I measured to be at an average rate of 30 ml/hour. This far exceeds the \u2018small amounts' listed in the SCP documentation and so I have no choice but to issue my strongest recommendation that use of SCP-5742 be completely halted until its activity returns to baseline levels.\nResponse: Site Director Grant has overruled this recommendation and has ordered that SCP-5742 continue operation at 85% capacity.\n\n13/12/2031 Employee Complaint\n\n13/12/2031 Employee Complaint\n\nJanitorial Supervisor Pullman: 5742 is going to pieces, there's all kinds of shit leaking out and the ventilation system can't get rid of the smoke faster than that machine pumps it out. These aren't conditions that we can work in.\nWorst part is the damn hazmat suits. They might keep out contaminants but they do nothing for the smell and I can tell you from personal experience that being sick in a hazmat suit is just as bad as it sounds. I cannot in good conscience send my people in there on a daily basis when it's this bad and getting worse by the week.\nResponse: Site Director Grant has elected to provide a personal message in response:\n\nI understand the difficulty of your situation and the inherent dangers involved in the use of an unknown anomaly. But SCP-5742 has been in continuous operation for over 40 years and while its current activities are unusual, they are essentially just magnified versions of the same activities that have been recorded since its discovery. Any danger posed by the potential breakdown of SCP-5742 pales in comparison to the enormity of the waste disposal solutions that would need to be devised as an alternative.\nFor the quantity of waste destroyed by SCP-5742 to be disposed of by traditional means, it would require hundreds of square kilometers of land be contaminated to the point of becoming unfit for human habitation for centuries. Disposal by alternate means would also incur exorbitant expense which would strain even the Foundation's sizeable coffers.\nI can assure you that efforts are underway to find alternate means of waste disposal so as to ease the strain on SCP-5742. But until such a time, it is an absolute necessity that SCP-5742 continue to operate, at an absolute minimum of 50% capacity. I have put in a requisition for a Grade V PPE suits that should filter out any noxious odours and allow you to do your very necessary and vital job in as much comfort as possible. Rest assured that the efforts of Site-109's janitorial staff in this area do not go unnoticed.\nSecure. Contain. Protect.\n\nSite Director Delia Grant\n\nItem#: 5742\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5742 has breached containment and is currently active somewhere on Sublevel One of Site-109. All employees should proceed to emergency exits or to secure bunkers as applicable. This is a developing situation and this document will be updated in real time via AIC as more information becomes available.\nDescription: SCP-5742 is an unknown entity that was previously utilised as waste disposal for multiple types of highly toxic and/or dangerous anomalous waste products. The full extent of its anomalous capabilities are unknown, but it is mobile and poses a threat to any human life in its vicinity. It is likely still capable of completely annihilating any form of matter it makes contact with. It also appears to have developed the capacity to emit toxic fumes which are highly acidic and capable of degrading Class IV biohazard suits in under 30 seconds. These fumes are toxic and should not be inhaled.\nTimeline of Breach-26/12/2031\n\n[08:37] 350kg of SCP-19854 effluence5 is deposited into SCP-5742's hatch.\n[08:41] Smoke emitted from SCP-5742 increases significantly and Janitorial Supervisor Pullman activates the emergency alarm and organises evacuation of SCP-5742's Containment Unit. The Grade III PPE suits worn by the janitorial staff can be seen to be severely damaged by the smoke.\n[08:44] Site Director Grant and majority of Senior Staff reach Secure Bunker-01 and are safely sealed in.\n[08:45] Cries of \u2018Melek un dar est. Melek est arat mar fure!6 are heard to emit from SCP-5742.\n[08:46] Loud cracking noises are heard and infrared cameras show SCP-5742 beginning to fracture.\n[08:47] An animalistic grunting is heard being emitted from SCP-5742 before all cameras in Waste Disposal cease to transmit a signal.\n[08:48] Site-109 security forces are scrambled and begin blocking exits from Sublevel One and assisting in evacuation efforts.\n[09:04] Smoke and noxious gases from SCP-5742 spread out of Waste Disposal, presumably their acidic properties have enabled them to bypass security measures.\n[09:07] Multiple reports from survivors indicate sighting of a large figure with the head of a bull moving in the smoke\n[09:12] Site-109 security forces have engaged SCP-5742 and are attempting recontainment.\n\nThis is an ongoing situation. This document will be updated as new information arises.\n\nWilson's Wildlife Solutions: UK Branch\n\nCritter Profile: Moloch!\n\nName: Moloch\nSpecies: Bos taurus taurus (South Devon Bull)\nPrimary Caretakers: Lake District Team\nDiet: As part of a special arrangement we have with the folks down at Site-109, they take care of feeding Moloch on Saturdays. But for the rest of the week, we make sure Moloch gets a nice balanced diet with plenty of veggies to keep him healthy and happy.\nHoused: Pasture 5.\n\nCreature Features!\n\nMoloch isn't your typical bull, no sir, he's a genuine psychospiritual entity that's been around for thousands of years! Don't let that scare you off though. This big guy can be a bit of a grump to strangers but he's very friendly once he gets to know you, especially if you've got a tasty treat for him. And once you're friends with Moloch, you're friends for life and he'll be over licking your hand as fast as you can say lickety split!\nIf you do want to make friends with our pal Moloch though, you should be aware that he has a few little problems. First off, he's had bad experiences with being kept cooped up and doesn't like to feel boxed in. That's why he's got the whole of Pasture 5 to play around in, to make sure he always feels happy and free. Second, he's got a very high metabolism, in fact anything that gets in his belly pretty much disappears right away! So make sure he doesn't go nibbling at anything you don't want to lose.\nLastly, poor Moloch has a little bit of a flatulence problem, especially after the Site-109 folks have been feeding him. So if you've got a sensitive nose you might want to steer clear. Another good reason why Moloch is kept in the beautiful open air of Pasture 5! But as long as he's not overfed, Moloch is a sweet and happy soul and an absolute pleasure to be around.\n\nHistory!\n\nMoloch has got a very long and exciting story he could tell us, I'm sure, but most of it has been forgotten or is too darn secret for me to know about. But what I do know is that our friends over at Site-109 had been taking care of him for quite a few years before he ended up in our care.\nThough to be honest, I'm not sure what they were feeding him before they brought him to us. When he first got brought here back in March our friend Moloch was not a happy camper! I joked I could almost see why folks in the olden days had thought he was a demon. That Grant gal they had driving the truck didn't seem to find it that funny though.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A digestive enzyme found in saliva.\n2. Common Mouse.\n3. Primarily bodily fluids, including gastric acid, saliva and faecal matter.\n4. The following are a selected summary of recent additions, for full documentation including complete reports see Document Series 5742-65.\n5. Decomposed vegetable matter, primarily pumpkins, containing an anomalous species of immortal fungus.\n6. Translated from Daevite: \u2018Moloch is breaking loose. Moloch is free!'\n\n\u00ab SCP-5741 | SCP-5742 | SCP-5743 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5743\nLevel 3/5743\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nInitial excavation of SCP-5743.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Archaeological excavation of SCP-5743 is to continue, and all materials of anomalous origin discovered should be catalogued and stored at Site-109.\nSCP-5743-237 is held in an aquatic storage tank in Site-109. It may be brought within 14 km of SCP-5743 for testing purposes, but should not be brought within 8 km of SCP-5743 under any circumstances.\nDescription: SCP-5743 is the remains of a settlement that was populated by humanoids with anomalous capabilities from approximately 8000BCE until 6200BCE. It was located in the region known as Dogger Littoral, a landmass that connected Britain with mainland Europe during the Pleistocene and early Holocene, before being submerged by a rise in global sea levels. SCP-5743 is currently located 200 m below sea level in the North Sea.\nSCP-5743-1 through SCP-5743-438 are items retrieved from SCP-5743 that either have features that are themselves anomalous, or are items that were created by anomalous means1. The majority of these items are humanoid remains which have been substantially altered from baseline humanity in ways that appear to indicate aquatic adaptation.\nCarbon dating of structures and preserved biological material inidicates that the settlement ceased to be inhabited around the time of the Storegga Slide2 and has not been inhabited by humans or humanoid entities since. Further information on SCP-5743 has been provided by SCP-5743-237 (See Interview-5743) but the reliability of this information is questionable.\nSCP-5743-237 is an unusually large Pagurus bernhardus3 with a 41 cm long carapace. It is sapient and can communicate via direct thought transference. This has been described by those who experience it as appearing like their own inner voice speaking to them, usually in the language with which they are most comfortable.\nThe cellular structure of SCP-5743-237 is highly unusual and appears to show a vastly reduced rate of cellular death and no limit to cellular reproduction. Studies are currently underway to determine the extent of this, but it appears likely that SCP-5743-237 is biologically immortal.\nSCP-5743-237 also has the capacity to channel Geo-Thaumic energies from SCP-5743 to produce a number of anomalous effects which are not yet fully understood. These effects include the capacity to alter its own biological structure as well as that of other living things around it. These effects are directly proportional to its proximity to SCP-5743 and are negligible at distances greater than 14 km.\n\nDiscovery\n\nSCP-5743 was discovered by the Foundation after studies into Geo-Thaumic Energy Channels4 identified a nexus point beneath the North Sea where multiple channels converged. An expedition sent to this region found the ruins of a settlement (later designated SCP-5743) along with several instances of abnormal human remains (later designated SCP-5743-1 through SCP-5743-14).\nDuring subsequent expeditions, numerous potential SCP-5743 objects were brought to the surface for analysis aboard the SS Cardiff Pioneer. One such object was SCP-5743-237, which at this time had not displayed any anomalous properties but was selected for further analysis due to its unusual size. While in containment, it altered the physiology of one of the crew members, Foundation Able Seaman Daniel Harding. Large portions of his skin were replaced with a chitinous material, several fingers on each of his hands fused together, and the majority of his teeth retracted.\nSCP-5743-237 then communicated with Daniel Harding and told him that he would be restored to his previous state if SCP-5743-237 was freed. Harding then attempted to breach SCP-5743-237's containment but was stopped by security forces on board who then identified the anomalous alterations to his physiology. SCP-5743-237 was transported to Site-109 at which point the limits of its anomalous capabilities were identified and current containment methods were devised. Harding has been reprimanded and his newly anomalous physiology is currently being studied in an attempt to uncover a way to reverse the effects of SCP-5743-237.\n\nInterview-5743\n\nSCP-5743-237.\n\nInterviewer: Dr Kristov\nInterviewed: SCP-5743-237\nForeword: This interview was conducted at Site-109 in an attempt to learn more about SCP-5743. Senior Researcher Kristov's questions were spoken aloud in the presence of SCP-5743-237, and SCP-5743-237's responses were transmitted directly into Researcher Kristov's mind, at which point she recorded them for the purposes of this record.\n\nKristov: What are you?\nSCP-5743-237 remains stationary within its tank and no response is recorded\nKristov: I've spoken to Daniel Harding, I know you can understand me.\nSCP-5743-237: What do I gain from speaking with you? You have trapped me far from the source of my power and I have no hold over you to force you to do my bidding.\nKristov: Perhaps we can find some common purpose between your goals and that of my organisation. Or, if you won't speak with me you can remain trapped, and you may well be destroyed if you try to escape again.\nSCP-5743-237: Foolishness. I am blessed with immortality and a perfect form, you could never destroy me. But I will humour your desires, if only so that you may have the chance to see the truth of my greatness.\nSCP-5743-237 approaches the edge of its aquarium and snaps its claws.\nKristov: What are you?\nSCP-5743-237: I no longer care to remember any of the names I was known by before. You may call me the Survivor, for that is what I have made myself. I once was human, like you, another starving animal wandering the ancient plains and coastlines searching for food and shelter. But my people and I found so much more.\nKristov: You mean the nexus, the Geo-Thaumic energy?\nSCP-5743-237: We found power. And we used that power to become something greater than human, living gods. As long as we stayed near the power, we could channel the Earth's own magic to make reality into whatever we desired. Endless food, immortality, all the pleasures that flesh has to offer.\nKristov: I think I understand. When the oceans rose, your anomalous capabilities weren't enough to protect you?\nSCP-5743-237: You understand nothing. Our magic was strong but rooted in the Earth and we could no more use our magic to change her than a strong man can lift himself off the ground by grabbing his feet. We could not stop the oceans but our magic could protect us, help us adapt to Earth's changes.\nKristov: And these\u2026 adaptations are what made you into your current form? There must have been another way to survive the floods that would have allowed you to stay more human.\nSCP-5743-237: Other ways were tried, but the Earth's magic is temperamental. When we turned our efforts from pleasure to survival, we discovered that our intent needed to be pure in order to draw upon its full power. My intent was purest, I sought only survival and thus I became something that could survive even the greatest of disasters. A form perfectly suited to enduring, one that life returns to again and again.\nSCP-5743-237 gestures with its claws spread wide and snaps them open and shut several times.\nKristov: What happened to the rest?\nSCP-5743-237: Some died, you found their remains buried beneath the silt. Most left, giving up their godhood to become petty mortals and their corpses lie buried beneath the mud now too. Fools.\nKristov: Dogger Littoral has been submerged for millenia. What have you done down there, for all those years?\nSCP-5743-237: I have survived. When the floods came and a wall of water grew tall enough to blot the sun, I kept my sole focus on survival. My intent channelled the magic to make my form perfect for survival and that magic judged that a mind was\u2026 unnecessary. My intelligence slept until you mortals dragged me up from the depths and threatened my survival, for I had no need of thought until then.\nKristov: So you spent the past eight thousand years as a crab? That sounds like it would be a very lonely and difficult time.\nSCP-5743-237: Survival is always difficult, but better loneliness than dying and being forgotten like all those other fools. Better to give up anything than to die.\nSCP-5743-237 retreats into its shell and does not respond to further questioning.\n<END LOG>\n\nFootnotes\n1. For a full list of each item's properties, see Document-5743-B17.\n2. A megatsunami caused by the collapse of the Norwegian Continental Shelf some time in 6225\u20136170 BCE.\n3. Common Hermit Crab.\n4. Commonly referred to as \u2018ley lines'.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5742 | SCP-5743 | SCP-5744 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Instance of SCP-5744 in its dormant state.\n\nItem #: SCP-5744\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Mobile Containment Force Xi-4 (\"Baywatch\") are to be stationed on Kapoposang Island in the Makassar Strait, and are to monitor a 20km radius area for instances of SCP-5744. All water traffic that attempts to enter the area should be intercepted and redirected using cover story G31. Every 2 weeks, at least 2 D-Class personnel should be sent into SCP-5744-1 to conduct Procedure-L91 (see Addendum-5744-3 for details).\nDescription: SCP-5744 is the designation given to an unknown species of polychaete worms of the Nereididae family located within the Makassar Strait, found in an approximately 15km radius area centred on SCP-5744-1. SCP-5744 instances initially appear in a dormant state where they are indistinguishable from non-anomalous worms, however, once a human comes within visual range of an SCP-5744 instance it will attempt to enter that person's ear. They can become intangible at will and are capable of passing through all known forms of solid matter. Once inside, SCP-5744 instances will latch onto the victim's Tympanic membrane2, where it will begin to exhibit its behaviour altering properties (see Addendum-5744-1 for details).\nSCP-5744-1 is a large artificial structure located on the ocean floor of the Makassar Strait, approximately 70km off the west coast of South Sulawesi (see Addendum-5744-2 for Exploration Log).\nSCP-5744-2 is a twelve limbed aquatic entity resembling a member of the Cephalopoda class but is far larger, with greatly elongated tentacles. It is highly intelligent, and the full extent of its anomalous properties remain unknown. Procedure-L91 has so far proven to be sufficient in containing it within SCP-5744-1, however, research is underway to find a more sustainable long term solution.\n\nAddendum-5744-1: Discovery\n\nAddendum-5744-1: Discovery\n\nForeword: The following is an excerpt from Researcher Angstrom's daily log after passing through the infested area on an unrelated assignment investigating SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The original log has been edited for brevity.\n\n\"To summarise, the seismic activity in the Makassar Strait tsunamigenic region has proven to be non-anomalous in nature and aligns with current predictions. However, I still feel a powerful disturbance, deep beneath the sea. There is a tidal force which pulls me, beckons me to dive below and seek out the truth. I must make pilgrimage to this long forgotten place to pay homage to the creature that resides there, and if it finds my offerings acceptable, may I reside in its sanctum. Let us go then, and be nourished by their unknowable wisdom, and return refreshed and with new purpose.\"\n\nConcluding Statement: The log continues in a similar manner for another 8470 words, including directions on where to locate SCP-5744-1, before concluding in the regular manner. After submission of the log, Researcher Angstrom was brought in for medical scans which revealed an SCP-5744 instance attached to their Tympanic membrane.\n\nAddendum-5744-2: Exploration Log\n\nAddendum-5744-2: Exploration Log\n\nForeword: Mobile Task Force Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") were dispatched in a speedboat with diving gear to locate and investigate SCP-5744-1. Summarised transcriptions of bodycam feeds and audio logs are contained below:\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nG6-A: Arrived at location, dropping anchor.\nMTF agents A to D suit up with diving gear, with agent E and F remaining on the boat. After descending 50m, a structure can be seen protruding from the seabed composed of limestone blocks with a dense coating of coral polyps, confirmed to be SCP-5744-1.\nG6-C: Dash one sighted, twelve o'clock.\nG6-A: Roger, approaching entrance, watch my six.\nThe MTF agents move towards the structure. Unknown sigils are inscribed in the block above a 3m tall stone door.\nG6-D: Scans indicate one lifeform inside. No response to our presence.\nG6-A: Roger. Initiate breach procedure Q-7.\nMTF agents flank the door with two agents at each side, with breaching explosives placed on the door.\nG6-A: Three, two, one.\nThe door explodes inwards and agents A and C move in. An unseen barrier prevents water from entering SCP-5744-1, leaving the agents standing in a room furnished like a hotel lobby. SCP-5744-2 can be seen next to a table holding hors d'oeuvres.\nSCP-5744-2: Hello! Welcome to the Seabed and Breakfast! Could I interest you in some sea cucumber sandwiches?\nExtraneous dialogue has been removed.\n<END LOG>\n\nPost Exploration: As SCP-5744-2 was found to be non-hostile, Procedure-L91 considered to be sufficient to appease SCP-5744-2's demand for customers, neutralising >98% of SCP-5744 instances.\n\nAddendum-5744-3: Procedure-L91\n\nAddendum-5744-3: Procedure-L91\n\nProcedure-L91 consists of spending a 3 nights stay in the \"Seabed and Breakfast\" contained within SCP-5744-1. Reviews have been highly positive, and a request to prioritise well behaved D-class personnel to conduct Procedure-L91 is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Unexploded ordnance in the area.\n2. Commonly known as the ear drum.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5743 | SCP-5744 | SCP-5745 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5745\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nAn artistic depiction of a pair of SCP-5745-2,1artwork produced by Researcher Willoghby.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Upon discovery of an SCP-5745-1 manifestation, depending on the location and severity, MTF Units Paleo-1 through Paleo-7 must be dispatched to contain any SCP-5745-2 instances. If possible, any captured instances are to be brought to Site-5745 and placed in the large environment for further research and study. Lethal force is authorised if an SCP-5745-2 instance becomes hostile.\nDescription: SCP-5745-1 is a reoccurring space-time anomalous event, during which a rift in time is manifested through unknown means. The rifts always connect our time with periods before humans are thought to exist (typically Cambrian to Pleistocene eras). The location of SCP-5745-1 manifestations is seemingly random, though they occasionally repeat in locations they have previously appeared in. SCP-5745-1 always manifests in locations with a similar climate and ecosystem to the era that the rift is connected.2 Presently, no link between SCP-5745 and SCP-1265 has been discovered.\nSCP-5745-2 are creatures that appear from SCP-5745-1 (typically from the clade Dinosauria, Reptilia, or Mammalia). It is currently believed they are legitimate specimens from the eras they emerged, as DNA samples match. SCP-5745-2 are normally docile, appearing to avoid humans at all costs, but if cornered or startled will become aggressive. Carnivorous instances are extremely prone to these outbursts and often actively hunt humans as prey over other possible food sources. The reason for this is unknown. Some have been known to hunt for sport, potentially displaying a slight degree of sentience. SCP-5745-2 instances have shown an ability to survive in a modern environment for some while, despite atmospheric differences, and a herd of Parasaurolophus walkeri currently under study have been permitted to roam the Amazonian rainforest for some time. Some instances that have been observed in our time period have thrived in the new environment for months before discovery, as all SCP-5745-2 seem to immediately adapt to modern atmospheric composition and condition.\nThe following is a list of all repeat locations SCP-5745-1 has manifested as of 12/03/2021:3\n\nHell Creek, Montana, USA\nTaynton Limestone, Oxfordshire, England\nFraser Island, Queensland, Australia\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Gobi Desert, Mongolia\nElliot Formation, South Africa\n69\u00b044'52\"S 131\u00b012'24\"E \u00b7 2.51 km, Antarctica\nPoint Nemo, South Pacific Ocean\n\nNotably, most of these locations are famous for fossilised fragments and/or full skeletons.\nHistory: The first recorded instance of an SCP-5745-1 manifestation comes from the 11th Century, the event being documented in multiple historic paintings. It depicts St. George killing what is believed to be a Dimorphodon macronyx that emerged from SCP-5745-1. A cover story has been fabricated, dismissing the entity as a fictitious \u2018dragon'. The section of paintings with SCP-5745-1 visible has been removed. Depictions of SCP-5745-2 are present throughout historical texts and artwork, for example, Asian depictions of dragons are theorised to resemble Titanoboa cerrejonensis or some other species of megafauna snake. If any new references to SCP-5745-2 instances are discovered, they must be dismissed as common folklore or exaggeration of an already existing species.\nIn 1964, it was discovered that manifestations could be detected an hour before their opening, as radiation levels in the area would spike. This knowledge has benefitted the Foundation in efforts to contain SCP-5745. This requires a Geiger counter4 to be present in the location, so rifts are not always detected if this is not present.\nThere seems to have been a period where SCP-5745-1 manifestations became non-existent or dormant, as there is no evidence supporting this anomaly from approximately 1450 to 1890. Throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries, SCP-5745-1 seems to manifest more prevalently than ever in modern day. It is theorised the opening of rifts has active and dormant periods, lasting approximately 200-300 years between each dormant event. Currently, we are living in a time where SCP-5745-1 is in an active state.\nDue to the frequency of rift openings, 7 MTF Units have been created to specifically deal with SCP-5745-2 threats. These MTF teams have been designated the \u2018Paleo Division'. A full list of Paleo Division squads and specs can be found here:\n\n+ Show Paleo Division Details\n\n- Hide Paleo Division Details\n\nPaleo-1 \u2018Cavemen'\nLocation: North America\nMembers: 17\nSpecialisation: Large members of clade Dinosauria/Mammalia\nPaleo-2 \u2018ACU'\nLocation: South America\nMembers: 8\nSpecialisation: Medium to large members of clade Dinosauria\nPaleo-3 \u2018Swamp Waders'\nLocation: Europe\nMembers: 11\nSpecialisation: Small to medium members of clade Dinosauria/Mammalia/Reptilia\nPaleo-4 \u2018Desert Dwellers'\nLocation: Asia\nMembers: 14\nSpecialisation: Small to large members of clade Dinosauria/Mammalia/Avialae\nPaleo-5 \u2018Park Rangers'\nLocation: Africa\nMembers: 7\nSpecialisation: Medium members of clade Dinosauria/Mammalia\nPaleo-6 \u2018Prehistoric Poachers'\nLocation: Oceania (also tasked with defence of Site-5745)\nMembers: 16\nSpecialisation: Medium members of clade Dinosauria\nPaleo-7 \u2018Woolly Mammoths'\nLocation: Antarctica\nMembers: 8\nSpecialisation: Small to large members of clade Mammalia\n\nNote: Not all members of the Paleo Division are assigned strictly to SCP-5745, but may be assigned only in the event of an SCP-5745-1 manifestation in their given location.\nAddendum 5745.1:\nSpecies recovered and currently residing in Site-5745 in order of recovery (This list does not include the various species that have been terminated upon manifestation):\n\n. 12 Triceratops horridus\n. 6 Parasaurolophus walkeri\n. 2 Apatosaurus marsh\n. 13 Psittacosaurus mongoliensis\n. 1 Tyrannosaurus rex\n. 1 Sarcosuchus imperator5\n. 1 Baryonyx walkeri\n. 4 Dilophosaurus wetherilli\n. 3 Balaur bondoc\n\nAny and all eggs produced by SCP-5745-2 instances must immediately be destroyed to prevent overpopulation of the area.\n\nAerial view of Site-5745\n\nSite-5745 has been created around Mt. Taranaki, New Zealand, to facilitate long-term containment of captured SCP-5745-2 instances. The area surrounding Mt. Taranaki is open to the public for tourism so as not to arouse suspicion, but permitted only on Foundation operated tours that follow a predetermined scouted route. Site-5745 is home to many natural species of modern day animals and plants that serve as food sources for the SCP-5745-2, however a herd of larger live creatures such as cattle are to be added to the area weekly for carnivorous instances to hunt. Large amounts of consumable greens are to be dropped into a small field in Site-5745 weekly, as herbivorous instances will completely consume the forest within a matter of years if left to fend for themselves. Though SCP-5745-2 often do not hunt each other, they will occasionally hunt and kill other instances, at which point, a new instance from the next rift event shall replace it.\nThe following is a log taken by Researcher Walker during his routinely inspection of the environment within Site-5745.\n\n+ Show Exploration Log 5745-1\n\n- Hide Exploration Log 5745-1\n\n08:00: Me and 5 men from Paleo-6 left the research building early to get a full day in. Walked right into a tree branch. Ouch.\n09:14: First sign of an SCP-5745-2 instance. A few small creatures ran in front of us, but left as suddenly as they appeared. Probably the Balaurs, they are good at being unseen.\n10:45: Heard a large sound resembling a bassoon. I believe it was a Parasaur, hopefully we will reach the herd soon. Also found a large kill with lots of crushed bones near a lake, possibly from the Sarcosuchus.\n10:56: Heard it again but louder. Getting close.\n12:00: Stopped for lunch.\n13:01: Stumbled across the herd. It seems the Parasaurs, Apatasaurus and Psitticasaurus have formed a large herd. This is unexpected, all 3 species would have never interacted with each other (they lived millions of years apart) let alone created a herd. Survival in numbers I guess. Still no sign of the Triceratops.\n14:00: Have been watching the herd for an hour. Leaving to look for something else.\n14:28: Command alerted us that the cows would be dropped in about half an hour. Moving to the drop point.\n14:56: Reached feeding point. Ready to observe feeding, team is on high alert.\n15:11: Cows were dropped off 10 minutes ago, the Tyrannosaur made an appearance! It just shot out of the tree line, grabbed one off the ground and made off with it. It was in and out of the clearing in less than 10 seconds. Worrying to see it move that fast.\n15:13: Soon after the Rex left, the Balaurs showed up. These things are tiny, about the size of a medium dog. They did some amazing stuff, one of them bit the cow's leg and while it was distracted, the other 2 jumped on its neck and finished it off. They remind me of wolves.\n15:20: We caught the Balaurs trying to sneak up on us. Probably just curious, they like to watch what we do through the fence of the research lab, but the guys want to get moving. No show from the Baryonyx or Dilophosaurus. (Or Sarcosuchus, but that thing never gets seen).\n16:00: Have been trekking for 40 minutes straight, taking a break.\n16:12: Heard Triceratops mating call, moving in that direction.\n17:40: Have been looking for that Trike for a while, might head back to base soon, it's getting darker.\n18:23: You won't guess what happened. That wasn't a Triceratops. The damn Dilophosaurs were mimicking the calls of the Trikes and waiting for it to be night so they could ambush us. I don't know how they were able to replicate the sound, it sounded so loud. That's completely new evidence for how Dilophosaurs take down such large prey, they sneak up on it by luring it into a trap (take that SCP-1265 researchers!). One of them bit Geoffrey's leg, but I think he'll be fine. Moving back to Site Command.\n18:45: We were followed back, I'm sure of it. The whole time on the walk back I felt like I was being watched. The others were confused, saying I'm crazy. I know something was there.\n\nNote: Following Researcher Walker's bodily examination, it revealed that he had been bitten by a Dilophosaurus wetherilli. It is now believed that this species uses a form of mind-altering substance in its saliva to cause prey to become disoriented. Testing on this is currently underway.\n\nIncident Logs: Due to the fact that there have been 114 recorded cases of SCP-5745-1 manifesting since the Foundation's existence, only manifestations since the year 2000 have been recorded here. They have been condensed into a single document for the purpose of organisation. (Last updated 05/04/2020)\n\n+ Show SCP-5745 Incident Reports \n\n- Hide SCP-5745 Incident Reports\n\nIncident Report 5745-105:\n\nDate: 11/04/2000\nRift Location: Hell Creek, USA (6th repeat incident)\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-1 \u2018Cavemen'\nNotes: 3 live instances emerged, all hostile carnivores. 2 terminated, 1 recovered to Site-5745.\n\nIncident Report 5745-106:\n\nDate: 13/11/2001\nRift Location: Wiluna, Western Australia\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-6 \u2018Prehistoric Poachers'\nNotes: 5 live instances emerged, 5 terminated, 2 MTF casualties\n\nIncident Report 5745-107:\n\nDate: 27/10/2003\nRift Location: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-3 \u2018Swamp Waders'\nNotes: 9 instances emerged, mostly herbivores but also 4 small carnivores in the middle of a hunt. Instances were deemed hostile, most carnivores were terminated. One escaped into the bushes, was not found.\n\nIncident Report 5745-108:\n\nDate: 19/11/2005\nRift Location: Woburn Forest, England\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-3 \u2018Swamp Waders'\nNotes: 8 instances emerged, all small carnivores and one large deceased instance, which was being feasted upon by the others. Rift opened on the edges of popular holiday resort, made recovery difficult. Resort went into lockdown, all 7 instances eliminated, staff and guests amnestisized accordingly.\n\nIncident Report 5745-109:\n\nDate: 23/06/2010\nRift Location: Arabuko Sokoke National Reserve, Kenya\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-5 \u2018Park Rangers'\nNotes: 2 instances emerged, both carnivorous cats. 2 casualties, both instances terminated.\n\nIncident Report 5745-110:\n\nDate: 01/05/2013\nRift Location: 69\u00b044'52\"S 131\u00b012'24\"E \u00b7 2.51 km, Antarctica (9th repeat incident)\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-7 \u2018Wooly Mammoths' and Paleo-6 'Prehistoric Poachers' as support\nNotes: 11 instances emerged, one of the largest events recorded at this time.6 9 large mammals and 3 big cats hunting them. Big cats terminated, 2 large mammals recovered for study.\n\nIncident Report 5745-111:\n\nDate: 17/04/2015\nRift Location: Point Nemo, South Pacific Ocean (5th repeat incident)\nTeams Dispatched: Paleo-2 \u2018ACU' and Paleo-6 \u2018Prehistoric Poachers'\nNotes: 4 large aquatic reptiles emerged. 2 were implanted with tracking chips when rift was detected. Paleo-2 tracked and hunted 2 tagged instances to Costa Rican shoreline. Paleo-6 searched for 3 months before finding other 2 instances, which were terminated.\n\nIncident Report 5745-112:\n\nDate: 16/09/2017\nRift Location: Sebe\u0219 Formation, Romania\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-3 \u2018Swamp Waders'\nNotes: 4 instances emerged. 3 very small carnivores with bird-like anatomy and 1 small lizard they seemed to be playing with. Lizard was killed by the 3, which were transferred to Site-5745.\n\nIncident Report 5745-113:\n\nDate:12/06/2019\nRift Location: Michigan, USA\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-1 \u2018Cavemen'\nNotes: Rift manifested half a mile away from major population centre. 4 instances emerged, large herbivores that became hostile. One instance charged into a nearby neighbourhood before being terminated. All civilian witnesses amnestisized.\n\nIncident Report 5745-114:\n\nDate: 04/04/2020\nRift Location: Gobi Desert, Mongolia (7th repeat incident)\nTeam Dispatched: Paleo-4 \u2018Desert Dwellers'\nNotes: 12 instances emerged, 7 small herbivores and 5 small carnivores that appeared to be in the midst of a skirmish. All herbivores eliminated, 3 carnivores eliminated, 2 escaped. Escaped instances not found.\n\nWARNING: LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED TO CONTINUE\n\nEnter Clearance Code\n\nRegistering...\n\nClearance Code Accepted\n\nA graph displaying cases of SCP-5745-1 since 1910.\n\nAddendum 5745.2: As can be seen in incident logs relating to SCP-5745, the frequency and severity of rift events is drastically rising. Previously, rifts would occur approximately once every 5-10 years. Within the last five years alone, 3 SCP-5745-1 materialisations have occurred. It is believed that this can be attributed to warming of Earth's atmosphere, as the most common time for materialisations in the past has been during warm periods of spring and summer. Senior Researcher Wood has made a statement about the future of SCP-5745 research that can be found in the following paragraph.\nStatement from Senior Researcher Wood:\nYou have probably noticed that the last 3 rift manifestations were within a small time period, and you are correct. Current theories suggest that SCP-5745-1 manifestations are heightened by warm temperatures, as you also probably noticed, they are most common during warmer months. Rising CO\u00b2 levels have been trapping solar radiation and warming our planet, meaning that rifts are appearing in higher frequencies and staying open for longer, making containment harder.\nAs more instances are emerging from SCP-5745-1, construction of a new site for long term containment is underway, Site-5745-2. It will be larger than the first and has a broad underground and above ground facility for containment of rarer Cenozoic species, including a large bay for marine life forms.\nWith the rising intensity of SCP-5745-1 manifestations, the possibility of an SK-Class Dominance Shift Scenario must be considered. These creatures were the prime species in their time, and if we are changing our environment to be more like theirs, their domination over us is a likely outcome. If the frequency of rifts continues to rise exponentially as it currently is, then we will soon run out of resources to contain the SCP-5745-2 instances. I am formally submitting a request for SCP-5745 to be reclassified as Keter in light of recent events.\nYours sincerely, Senior Researcher \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Wood.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Balaur bondoc specimens.\n2. For example, a species that originated from a desert environment in the past will not manifest in where it's remains were discovered, instead manifesting in a modern day desert.\n3. Locations in which SCP-5745-1 has manifested once have not been included\n4. A device that measures ionising radiation.\n5. This specimen has not been sighted for some years, though carcasses resembling crocodilian kills have been discovered.\n6. Now out of date following Incident 5745-114.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5744 | SCP-5745 | SCP-5746 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: Emetophobia, cosmic horror, kenophobia\nSupport me!\nkofi: https://ko-fi.com/fairydoctor\npaypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VKAHDZ5WY7VRN\ncash app: $fairydoctor\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5746\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5746 is contained via the existence of the Foundation. Site-\u221e is to be built around SCP-5746. SCP-5746 and SCP-5746-1 are self-repairing and require no outside maintenance. Visual and audio logs recorded from tests on SCP-5746-1 are to be saved on Foundation Deepwell servers.\nOnly MTF-777 \"The Crystal Ballers\" are permitted to operate SCP-5746-1.\n\nImage of SCP-5746 during construction of Site-\u221e circa 1990.\n\nDescription: SCP-5746 is a temporal eigenmachine1 covertly built into an industrial factory in Cardiff, Wales. It consists of five sub-levels: Sub-levels 1 and 2 are dedicated to the processing of tachyon threads. Sublevel 3 contains four body scanners and machinery related to their operation; these are collectively designated SCP-5746-1. Sub-levels 4 and 5 are used to filter the waste from Sub-level 3.\nWhile in SCP-5746-1, a subject enters an REM cycle and their consciousness is brought to the preset programmed time via the tachyon threads2 processed from higher sublevels. The brain presents this experience in metaphorical and surrealist imagery personal to the subject; this experience has been compared to lucid dreaming. As humans are unable to recall most information obtained via lucid dreaming, use of SCP-5746-1's built-in visual and audio capture has allowed for more accurate data collection.\n\nEmail Logs 5746.01:\n\nTo: Site-\u221e Director Tim E. Tailor (slw.pics|roliatemit#slw.pics|roliatemit)\nFrom: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis (slw.pics|sivadsl#slw.pics|sivadsl)\nSubject: Test Proposal\nDate: 1991/04/28\nTime: 10:03\n\nGood morning Director Tailor,\nAfter a few months reviewing SCP-5746's file, I hypothesise that operators experience different dreamscapes when using SCP-5746-1. Attached are documents outlining a new series of tests for SCP-5746.\n-Lawrence\nSite-\u221e Department of Prescience\n[5746test_ERIS.pdf]\n\nTo: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis (slw.pics|sivadsl#slw.pics|sivadsl)\nFrom: Site-\u221e Director Tim E. Tailor (slw.pics|roliatemit#slw.pics|roliatemit)\nSubject: Re:Test Proposal\nDate: 1991/05/03\nTime: 07:43\n\nHello Davis,\nMy apologies for the late reply. Your proposal is accepted. Excited to see where this goes.\nSite-\u221e Director Tim E. Tailor\n\nOperator Instructions:\nOperator candidates must be sapient, humanoid subjects scoring 42 LDA3 or higher. Sleep should be induced in operators when placed inside an instance of SCP-5746-1.\nInput should be formatted \"YYYY/MM/DD 00:00:00 UTC Location Coordinates\" per scanner. Both departure and return must be programmed. Total baseline time spent in the dreamscape is 0.3 ms.\n\nTest Logs\n\n5746.01:\n\nDate: 1991/05/04 07:54\nFacilitator: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis\nOperator: Agent Ariadne 'Eris' G\u00e9fyra\nForecast: Agent Eris observed 6 hours in the future and reported the winning numbers for a lottery in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They pointed out that the American flag had 20 stars.\nNotes: Every digit was as Agent Eris forecasted, except for the final number.\n\n5746.02:\n\nDate: 1991/05/05 08:23\nFacilitator: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis\nOperator: Agent Ariadne 'Eris' G\u00e9fyra\nForecast: The forecast was set for 12 hours in the future. Operator observes a Site-\u221e fire drill. Researcher Jozef Kr\u00f3lik is seen alone in the lab at this time. Eris reported that Kr\u00f3lik was missing his left arm. During the fire drill he falls five floors while trying to ascend the fire escape. He expires from his injuries.\nNotes: Following Agent Eris' debriefing, Researcher Jozef Kr\u00f3lik was restricted to his domicile and placed under watch for 14 hours. The fire drill occurred as scheduled. Researcher Kr\u00f3lik remained in his dorm and his left arm remained intact.\n\n5746.03:\n\nDate: 1991/05/06 10:03\nFacilitator: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis\nOperator: Agent Ariadne 'Eris' G\u00e9fyra\nForecast: Operator observed 24 hours in the future. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 at Site-024 breaches containment on 1991/05/07 0000 UTC.\nNotes: Site-024 was alerted and extra containment precautions were taken in regards to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. On 1991/05/07 at 00:00 UTC SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 unsuccessfully attempted to breach containment.\n\nEmail Logs 5746.02:\n\nTo: Site-\u221e Director Tim E. Tailor (slw.pics|roliatemit#slw.pics|roliatemit)\nFrom: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis (slw.pics|sivadsl#slw.pics|sivadsl)\nSubject: Containment Breach\nDate: 1991/05/10\nTime: 07:00\n\nTailor,\nBased off of recent results, I propose we expand our testing. I feel it would benefit us in assessing the risk of containment breaches, future or past. I also propose adding myself as operator. For full details and my reasoning, see below.\n-Lawrence\nSite-\u221e Department of Prescience\n[5746test_FORECAST.pdf]\n[5746test_HINDSIGHT.pdf]\n[5746test_DAVIS.pdf]\n\nTo: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis (slw.pics|sivadsl#slw.pics|sivadsl)\nFrom: Site-\u221e Director Tim E. Tailor (slw.pics|roliatemit#slw.pics|roliatemit)\nSubject: re:Containment Breach\nDate: 1991/05/12\nTime: 09:54\n\nHello Davis,\nI looked over the proposals in-depth. I agree that more testing would be beneficial and a researcher's insight would be useful. I'm approving both your proposal and you as an operator. I can't, however, approve HINDSIGHT.\nSite-\u221e Director Tim E. Tailor\n\nVideo/Audio Log 5746.01:\n\nTime: 21:34 (Local Time)\nDate: 1995/05/12\nFacilitator: Researcher Jozef Kr\u00f3lik\nOperator: Researcher Lawrence S. Davis\nNotes: Time set on SCP-5746-1 to 21:36 (Local Time) 1995/05/12.\n\n<Begin Log>\n\n[Video feed starts on the night sky. There is a small, blue-white neutron star focused in the frame. It spins, and grows. In a few seconds it dominates the frame. Grunting is heard off screen as the center of the star collapses into a black hole. The grunting turns into screams. Feed cuts for approximately five seconds. Feed starts again in blackness. Researcher Davis lifts his head from a desk, revealing him to be in his office. The office is lit by no discernible source of light. Lighting is blue-white and dim. There are no walls or ceilings to the office. Above him the sky is pitch black. Davis stands and wanders around the desk. After a moment he looks up and grips his stomach. He groans.]\n[Davis shakes off his vertigo, picks a direction and walks. The desk gets smaller the further Davis walks. For ten minutes, other than the shrinking desk, the dreamscape does not change.]\n[A rectangular object on the horizon grabs Davis' attention and he sets out toward it. The visual log starts to corrupt at this point. As Davis approaches the object, it comes into focus as Director Tailor's office door. Glitching and occasional cut-outs still occur on the recording.]\n[Davis remains silent as he opens the door and enters Director Tailor's office. Director Tailor is seated at his desk, and another Researcher Davis is standing in front of the Director's desk. The Davis who just entered the room, freezes. Director Tailor and Other Davis are not aware of Researcher Davis' presence.]\nOther Davis: (yells) What the hell is going on with this machine?\nTailor: Excuse me? You can't barg\u2014\nOther Davis: (interrupts) While in the scanners I saw this exact meeting play out, including you telling me you made SCP-5746. Is this why we can't perform any tests looking to the past?\nTailor: (sighs) Please sit down, Davis.\n[Other Davis complies. Researcher Davis remains standing; he mumbles under his breath occasionally.]\nTailor: Yes. In another timeline and universe, I made the Time Stitcher. But when me and my team activated it, it cut and ripped through our timeline like a seamster's seam ripper.\n[Both Davises remain silent.]\nTailor: I was the only survivor, as I was the only one in a body scanner. The universe consisted of darkness, until I found the disparate threads of all timelines, and SCP-5746's existence.\nTailor: That's when I weaved it back together from the various, broken timelines (pauses) and made this one. Ours.\nOther Davis: This is a bold and narcissistic claim.\nTailor: What is?\nOther Davis: That you created our universe.\nTailor: It was already created, I just stitched what I could find back together. My fault with the machine the first time was observing the past and the initial creation of our universe.\nOther Davis: What did you see?\nTailor: (pauses) \u2026myself stitching the timeline back together, again.\n[Feed picks up a bright, white light, and the session ends.]\n\n<End Log>\n\nDavis had been in SCP-5746-1 for approximately ten minutes. Immediately after the test's conclusion, Davis confronted Director Tailor.\n\nRevision 1995/05/14\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5746 is contained via the existence of the Foundation. Site-\u221e is to be built around SCP-5746. SCP-5746 and SCP-5746-1 are self-repairing and require no outside maintenance. Visual and audio logs recorded from tests on SCP-5746-1 are to be saved on Foundation Deepwell servers. Utilizing SCP-5746-1 to observe the past is prohibited and will result in amnestic treatment or permanent reassignment.\nOnly MTF-777 \"The Crystal Ballers\" are permitted to operate SCP-5746-1.\n\n-Site-\u221e Director Timothy Tailor and Head Researcher Lawrence Davis\n\nMore by fairydoctor\n\nFootnotes\n1. An anomalous machine made with anomalous technology.\n2. Particle that effects temporal planes.\n3. Lucid Dreaming Ability\n\n\u00ab SCP-5745 | SCP-5746 | SCP-5747 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5747\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation watchdog algorithms are to monitor the flight records of licensed pilots involved in civilian and/or military aviation. The number of unique aircraft flown by each pilot is to be recorded by this system as it iterates through flight personnel. Should this statistic approach the threshold necessary to activate SCP-5747's effects, the offending individual is to be revoked of their piloting license and retired from employment.\nIn the event that SCP-5747 occurs successfully, the airspace within a 50 km radius of the affected person is to be cleared of air traffic. Civilian witnesses in the vicinity of the area are to be apprehended and amnesticized. At the conclusion of the anomaly's effects, the affected subject must also undergo amnestic treatment, as well as the implantation of false memories to justify their subsequent retirement from the aviation industry.\nDescription: SCP-5747 denotes an anomalous phenomenon that manifests in individuals licensed to operate aircraft. These individuals must meet the following criteria in order to trigger its effects:\n\nMore than 100 unique models of aircraft flown throughout the span of their piloting career. This criterion includes all forms of manned aircraft, including civilian airliners, military jet planes, and space shuttles. The specifications for what constitutes a unique model of aircraft appear to be dependent on the manufacturer's internal cataloguing system.\nPossession of a valid piloting license that is legally recognized by the individual's local aviation regulatory body. Aircraft models that are flown without a valid license do not count towards the first criterion.\n\nWithin 24 hours of meeting these two conditions, the subject will experience the onset of SCP-5747's effects and begin levitating upwards. Any attempts to impede this ascent will invariably fail, as the subject will pass through any solid objects blocking their path. The velocity of this upward movement increases at a geometric rate and levels out to a constant speed as the subject rises above the cloud layer.\nAs the affected individual enters the stratosphere, the atmospheric particulate in front of the subject will coalesce into enormous letters. These formations spell out the names of notable figures in the aviation industry, ranging from early aircraft inventors to modern aerospace engineers. More than two thousand names appear during this phenomenon, materializing in vertical succession as the subject floats through the atmosphere.\nAt various points during SCP-5747, large humanoid entities will briefly appear in front of the subject. These figures measure up to five kilometers in height and resemble the leaders of contemporary aerospace corporations from the torso up, terminating below the upper chest. Spectroscopic surveys reveal that they are primarily composed of rarefied vapour and other aerosols found in cloud formations. After manifesting, these entities will make eye contact with the subject and gesture in approval \u2014 typically with a smile or a nod \u2014 before slowly dissipating. In rare cases, the entities will produce a vocalization in lieu of a physical gesture.1 All attempted communications have yet to be reciprocated, suggesting that these manifestations are non-sentient.\nAfter reaching an altitude of 40 km, the subject will decelerate until they are hovering in place. At this point, a crowd of human figures \u2014 identifiable as the subject's friends and family \u2014 will manifest around them. These entities do not respond to external stimuli and do not perform any actions besides clapping loudly and staring at the subject. Shortly after their appearance, a large set of text will materialize in the distance. This text reads:\n\nCONGRATULATIONS!\nTHANK YOU FOR FLYING WITH US\nWE LOVE YOU\n\nAfter thirty minutes have passed following this message, the subject will fall unconscious, then disappear.\nAffected persons typically wake up in their place of residence after an SCP-5747 event. All previous subjects recount experiencing a feeling of pride and accomplishment after regaining consciousness. They also report finding a $500,000 cheque2 on their person and an airplane-shaped trophy in their domicile.\nSubjects have also reported gaining an implicitly understood ability to requisition a gold-plated aircraft from any airplane manufacturer of their choosing. Subsequent testing has shown that these requests are universally honored, with little to no skepticism regarding the validity of the order.\n\nAuthor's Note\n\nHide Author's Note\n\nHello, reader.\nLast week, a good friend of mine passed away. He was found in the river near the famous bridge where lovers cross, and his body was left to decompose for several weeks. He lived a solitary life and his body was not found for a long time.\nIt was the worst feeling of my life. When I saw his face in the coffin, I felt an invisible hand penetrate me and grasp my lungs. Over the next few days, the fingers deep inside me slowly twisted.\nSurely, the only way to escape this loneliness is to become addicted. So, I encourage all readers to adopt a vice today. Cigarettes and alcohol are great, but they may be illegal in your area. Anything is okay!\nPlease try to put these ideas into practice today!\nThank you. \u270c\ufe0f\n\nFootnotes\n1. Examples of these vocalizations include: \"Good work!\", \"Give 'em hell, tiger!\", \"We're proud of you.\"\n2. Converted to the subject's local currency."}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5748\nLevel 3/5748\n\nObject Class: Safe\nClassified\n\nPart of recovered GRU-P documentation. Depicts Subject-14 being administered SCP-5748.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5748-1 are stored in maximum security anomalous item storage at Site-109. Any persons exposed to SCP-5748 can be amnesticised and released from containment, with their lack of language skills explained as the result of a haemmorhagic stroke.\nDescription: SCP-5748 is a gaseous chemical weapon1 designed to infiltrate the brain's language centers, and remove all semantic connection between words and their meanings. All known SCP-5748 is in containment in the form of a collection of weaponised delivery systems, designated SCP-5748-1.\nThe initial onset of this effect is a corruption of the meaning of words and expressions such that they lose nuance. Individuals then experience a loss of vocabulary and understanding of grammatical structure. During this time, the affected individuals' communications become increasingly unintelligible, and they have increased difficulty in understanding verbal, signed or written language. In the final stages, they lose all capacity to understand language and become unable to learn or relearn any language in the future.\nThe duration of time between initial onset and final stages varies depending on how much SCP-5748 was inhaled by the individual. The effects can take days to fully manifest with small doses, while sufficiently large doses can cause near instant progression to the final stage. Thus far, no way to reverse the effects of SCP-5748 have been found.\nDiscovery: SCP-5748 was created by GRU 'P' Division in the early 1970s. It was originally intended to specifically target the English language, in order to be used as a weapon that would cause massive disruption amongst American forces while leaving their own troops unaffected. However, their attempts to create a targeted form of SCP-5748 failed, and the project lost its funding.\nThe SCP-5748-1 instances created as part of this project remained in GRU-P storage until the dissolution of the USSR, at which point they were obtained by the Foundation along with a number of other GRU-P assets and personnel.\nCurrently, the Foundation has 650 tonnes of solid state SCP-5748 in containment.\nAddendum 1: Experiment Log Excerpt\nThe following is part of the documentation on SCP-5748 recovered from GRU-P.\n\nExperiment Log: Subject-14\nDate: 14/08/1973\nSubject: Subject-14 is a healthy 32 year old female. Previously, she was an American spy captured during an attempt to infiltrate a GRU-P installation. Subject is intelligent, with a rich vocabulary and excellent grasp of the English language, and has moderate command of Russian.\nShe has proven cooperative with testing after the consequences of non-cooperation were explained to her. She has been granted access to several personal items2 as an incentive for good behaviour.\n\nControl\n\nSpeech Sample3\nIt's a painting of a forest. It's beautiful, the colours are vibrant and rich and the way the sunlight illuminates the empty glade at the center makes me feel nostalgic for when I was young girl and I'd play in the woods out back.\n\nPost-Interview Assessment\nSubject has been selected to test the effects of Substance P4124 exposure on a typical American citizen. She has not been informed about the nature of Substance P412, and has instead been informed she is to be used in testing the bodies reaction to prolonged exposure to a high oxygen environment. She is to be administered one dose of 3.5 mcg of Substance P412 while asleep in the oxygen chamber.\n\nDay One\n\nSpeech Sample\nIt's a painting of a forest. I think the colours are good and the shapes and stuff are good too. The bit in the middle where there's no trees feels kind of sad to me. I'm sorry, I know I explained this better yesterday but I don't just feel good today.\n\nPost-Interview Assessment\nThe onset of symptoms is slow but apparent. Assessment of language skills indicates a large decline, but other areas of cognitive performance remain stable.\n\nDay Two\n\nSpeech Sample\nthere are trees and the space between the trees look sad and alone the trees are brown with green leaves but there's all different kinds of green and its very pretty\n\nPost-Interview Assessment\nSubject is fully aware of the deterioration in her linguistic skills and suspects that we are responsible. She refused to comply with providing a speech sample until threats of physical violence were issued. Cognitive assessment of non-language skills indicate a minor decline, likely due to subject's difficulty adapting to non-language based thought.\n\nDay Three\n\nSpeech Sample\nNA.\n\nPost-Interview Assessment\nSubject has been rendered fully nonverbal. Upon her discovery that the letters from her husband have become unintelligible to her, she has become unresponsive and has exhibited symptoms of severe depression. Effects of Substance P412 on morale appear to surpass expectations.\n\nAddendum 2: RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 4/5748 CLEARANCE ONLY\n\nAddenum 2: ACCESS GRANTED\n\nIncident Report: 5748-1\nA Fifthist compound on Orkney was discovered to contain multiple verbally transmitted anomalous memes. Fifthists resisted attempts to negotiate and repelled an initial assault through the use of various anomalous capabilities, all of which appeared to be mediated by verbal commands. In order to avoid the use of more destructive methods, and the loss of life that would entail, a request to use SCP-5748 was made.\nThis request was approved by Site Director Kristov under Protocol 17.45 and multiple SCP-5748-1 instances were fired into the compound. Twenty four hours later, Agents breached the compound and successfully contained all Fifthists present with no loss of life.\nA subsequent request for SCP-5748 to be reclassified as Thaumiel was denied by the Ethics Committee due to the deleterious effect on affected individuals' mental states following total loss of language skills.\n\nAddendum 3: RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 4/5748 CLEARANCE ONLY\n\nAddenum 3: ACCESS GRANTED\n\nIncident Report: 5748-2\nA large scale breach of the Veil has occurred in the town of Durban, South Africa. A majority of the population has been infected with SCP-6111, an anomalously memetic religion that is highly transmissible via verbal or visual contact. It compels those infected to devote themselves to passing the memetic infection onto others, and to build large pyramidal structures. Research indicates it is carried via language, and would be unable to persist in non-lingual persons.\nA quarantine around the town of Durban has been created, however SCP-6111 still poses a high risk of spreading and the possibility of global contamination remains catastrophic. SCP-6111 has also developed an immunity to amnestics. Use of SCP-5748 was proposed and a vote on its use by the O5 Council passed 8 votes to 2, with 2 abstaining.\nLarge quantities of SCP-5748 were airdropped across Durban over the course of several days and aerial surveillance has indicated the SCP-6111 infection has been Neutralized. Clean up operations across Durban are still ongoing, but the use of SCP-5748 appears to have been successful. All civilians encountered thus far show no desire to construct pyramids.\n\nEMERGENCY ALERT\nALL FOUNDATION PERSONNEL BE ADVISED\n\nThe Durban Incident has dramatically worsened and spread globally. SCP-5748 and SCP-6111 appear to have somehow combined into a new anomaly, preliminarily classed as SCP-5748-2. It retains SCP-6111's high transmission rates but has taken on SCP-5748's effect of rendering language incomprehensible. It appears to transmit via memetoturgic pathways and is estimated to currently infect 71.2% of the global human population. All uninfected personnel should ambersate directly to their nearest sacotogical defensive bassart.\nAll prasonnate who have already been infected, stay calm and stay alarpal. You will not lose your self and you will psa die, only yab language mre be lost. The Foundation remains and will be plesad what we can to reverse mnaw. Until then, gva in the Gqanreda and remain strong, this is not m end of the world, we hyt endure.\nCator ensep tan atral macros detan efaranate. Peros clataq en abaratop lettan, das bar fannad ca pof delantaralele.\nSicare. Ckoral. Paronel.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Document-5748-24 for full chemical structure and pharmacological analysis.\n2. Nonstandard clothing, several letters from her husband, coffee and cigarettes.\n3. Subject was shown a landscape painting of Cheremkhovsky Forest and asked to describe it in detail.\n4. SCP-5748.\n5. Known commonly amongst Foundation staff as the \u2018Emergency Thaumiel' protocol.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5747 | SCP-5748 | SCP-5749 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5750\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures SCP-5750 is currently uncontained, and cannot be contained. Web crawlers have been instated to flag any complaints about SCP-5750, as this may leave evidence of its existence. As of 3/18/19, over 121 complaints have been flagged, all discredited and censored. Regardless of SCP-5750's un-containable properties, plans to protect normalcy have been maintained.\n\nAn instance of SCP-5750-2 sold by GoI-1912, also known as \"Thin Mints.\"\n\nDescription:\nSCP-5750 is the collective designation for multiple words that hold memetic properties when used together in a sentence. This effect causes an individual to seek out and buy products from GoI-1912 (\"Girl Scouts\"). The effect lasts until the subject has spent at least $10 (USD) buying one of their products, or SCP-5750-2. Members of GoI-1912, now designated SCP-5750-1, have been shown to be completely immune to SCP-5750. SCP-5750-1 instances have been shown to have no recollection of the effect or their immunity of SCP-5750. SCP-5750-1 instances tend to be door to door sellers of SCP-5750-2, also known as \"Girl Scout Cookies.\" Juliette Gordon Low, (the founder of GoI-1912,) has been designated PoI-1912. The Foundation has failed to capture PoI-1912, as all attempts close to success have ended in triggering the effect of SCP-5750. Further attempts have been set to low priority.\nDiscovery: SCP-5750 was discovered on 06/05/19 when Junior Researcher Craig Clark reported that the words may have had anomalous properties. He stated the number of social media posts complaining about GoI-1912's sales tactics had increased. This increase directly correlates with the exponential growth of GoI-1912 since first discovered. Evidence of an anomaly was further backed up by counter-memetic filtering of the posts.\nNotes: SCP-5750-2 instances sold by SCP-5750-1 have no anomalous properties and are chemically similar to other brands of similarly flavored cookies. SCP-5750 is the only anomaly when it comes to the cookies, as combining the words (do not repeat) \"Wanna buy girl scout cookies?\" together in a spoken sentence triggers its effect. SCP-5750-1 instances only appear to target those with spending power high enough to afford their products.\nAddendum-SCP-5750.1: On 03/11/2019, Foundation web crawlers picked up a string of tweets from a user going by the handle @ImMonster539. The individual was brought into custody, amnesticized, and returned to his home. The tweets have been removed; however, personnel captured a screenshot before censoring it. The image is attached here:\n\nRemoved tweets from an individual complaining about SCP-5750.\n\nAddendum-SCP-5750.2: On 03/07/2019, an incident was reported by Site Director Klaid Chandler. A note ended up in the mailbox of Chandler addressed to the Foundation. A transcription is attached below:\n\nTo Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Chips and Piayas.\n\nIt has come to the Girl Scout's attention that you are trying to facilitate capture of our leader.\nWe would like to request you to stop.\nThis is for your own good, as Juliette always said: \"Peace until War.\"\nIf you continue these attempts, it'll be more than war.\n\nHope you like your cookies!\nSigned,\nCarla Josephine, Chief Communications Executive of the Girl Scouts.\n~Carla@GirlScouts\n\nOn top of this Chandler also received an email in which he responded to, both are held below:\n\nFrom Carla@GirlScouts\nRecipient(s) KChandler32@SCiPNet\n\nHey, friend!\nJust in-case the previous message gets lost in transit!~\nYour continued attempts at our leader will not stand. You don't want a war with us. We have a lot more than just cookies. I recommend you back down.\nSigned,\nCarla!~\n\nFrom KChandler32@SCiPNet\nRecipient(s) Carla@GirlScouts\n\nHello Carla.\nThis in regards to your previous email. We will not be backing down. I speak for the whole Foundation when I say: You will lose. I promise you.\nYour leader is the lowest priority we have. Besides:\nWe won't make a deal with a shady businesswoman.\nBuckle up, Scumbag.\n- Klaid\n\n\u00ab SCP-5749 | SCP-5750 | SCP-5751 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5752\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures (as of 5 October 2025): Due to its distance from any dangerous anomalies, SCP-5752 is to remain at Site-17 in Basement Level 3 until further notice. SCP-5752 is to be kept in a padded humanoid containment chamber with cameras constantly monitoring her, as well as 2 guards stationed outside of her cell at all hours. Guards monitoring SCP-5752 are to have gone through mnestic training or have a natural resistance to L0-L3 antimemetic phenomenon. When handling SCP-5752, guards are to be preemptively stripped of weaponry and sharp objects.\nIf SCP-5752 breaches her cell, Basement Levels 1-5 are to be locked down and searched until SCP-5752 or her remains have been recovered. Termination of SCP-5752 is to be considered a last resort and is not to be attempted unless clearance is given by L4 personnel or higher. In the event that either no traces of SCP-5752 have been found, or her corpse has been recovered, all Foundation properties are to be alerted that SCP-5752 is uncontained. If SCP-5752 is uncontained, various personnel in sites worldwide are to be administered Class-W mnestics and placed into surveillance teams to manually scrub through Foundation security feeds in order to search for and identify SCP-5752. If personnel L3 or under are discovered interacting with SCP-5752, they are to be amnesticized under standard information breach protocol.\nIf SCP-5752's remains are recovered, they are to be submitted to the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Department for extensive analysis.\nBecause of the likelihood of SCP-5752 causing mass containment breaches (along with the high likelihood of causing cascading breach events), the study, transcription, and containment efforts of SCP-5752 is to be overviewed by O5-4.\nDescription: SCP-5752 is an as-of-yet unidentified female human in her mid-20s that is able to manifest in or nearby various locations. These locations must meet a certain criteria in order to be eligible for a potential manifestation event, with the criteria being but not limited to;\n\nhaving a history of anomalous occurrences.\nbeing the potential location where an anomalous occurrence will swiftly occur.\ncontaining, storing, and/or within the vicinity of anomalous items, lifeforms, locations, or events.\ncontaining, storing, and/or within the vicinity of dangerous, malicious, and/or deadly anomalies.\nhaving a deep history regarding the Foundation and its involvement in the anomalous world.\n\nWhen SCP-5752 manifests in one of these locations (which are most commonly Foundation sites), she will usually be dressed in clothes similar to those worn by Foundation staff, although she will not bear any official documentation such as ID badges, employee records, or other various staff paraphernalia.\nSCP-5752 has a series of secondary anomalies regarding her perception by both humans and public record. SCP-5752's identifying traits are unable to be plugged into Foundation security programs, meaning that despite SCP-5752's many manifestations, identification via avenues such as facial recognition software, DNA testing, retinal scans, and fingerprint analysis are all rendered useless. SCP-5752's manifestations also fail to trigger Foundation security protocol regarding unauthorized persons, as well as failing to trigger local Kant counters. SCP-5752 also lacks identity, with the scant information gained about her failing to match up with public records of any kind.\nSCP-5752 exhudes a passive antimemetic effect that causes humans to almost wholly disregard her, though this effect can be shattered through socially condemnable or publicly disruptive acts, such as being caught stealing or viewed panicking in a calm setting. This passive effect can also be avoided through Class-W mnestics and/or keeping a constant focus on SCP-5752. Despite these weak points, SCP-5752 has been able to surreptitiously navigate through facilities, mostly being identified in the aftermath of key incidents.\nSCP-5752 has varied knowledge of the Foundation as well as vague information regarding various anomalies in containment, login information to the SCiPNET database, and a vague understanding of Foundation operations and functions as a whole. How SCP-5752 is privy to this information is currently unknown under investigation under study for potential Foundation usage.\nWhenever SCP-5752 manifests, she will immediately attempt to find a specific anomaly and will use it to either severely influence, maim, or kill herself. If SCP-5752 interacts with a non-lethal anomaly, she will demanifest after an unspecified amount of time interacting with it1. If SCP-5752 is killed by an anomaly, her corpse and/or remains will not demanifest, instead losing their antimemetic properties and decaying at an average rate (unless the remains are consumed and/or assimilated by the anomaly in question).\nThrough behavioral studies, it appears that SCP-5752 has a sense of continuous detachment from reality (See Addendums 5752.2 and 5752.3).\nAddendum 5752.1: Summarized List of Interactions2\n\nAnomaly Involved\nDate of Interaction\nDescription of Events\nState of Human Remains\n\nSCP-1128\n2.4.1998\nSCP-5752 manifested within Site-34's secure locker facility. Subject appeared exhausted and slumped as she walked between the rows of storage units. After wandering the halls for various hours, subject seemed to understand the basic layout of the facility. SCP-5752 then made an effort navigating to the locker that held the only contained copy of SCP-1128's description. After attempting to input an a passcode and failing twice, SCP-5752 paused before attempting a final time. Her system override was successful and she attained the description. After quickly reading through it, SCP-5752 placed it back in the locker, closing the door. SCP-5752 can then be seen running through the facility until she discovered a bathroom unit. She entered and was not seen exiting.\nTrace samples\n\nSCP-970\n28.2.2002\nSCP-5752 manifested in front of the entrance to SCP-970-22, an instance located in the west wing of the Dennen's Office Building in New Hampshire. SCP-5752 shook her head violently and pinched her arm a few times. Subject then entered the anomaly. As it was not guarded at the time, her manifestation was not accounted for until several hours had passed. Upon retrieval efforts, SCP-5752 was found deceased in the 376th iteration. Cause of death is unknown.\nIntact\n\nSCP-2747\nc. March 2006\nThere is a significant lack of information regarding this incident, with the main instigator being that on 4 March 2006, Researcher Dennis O'Hara was recorded accessing the database to view records for SCP-2747. Despite the login data, Mr. O'Hara was not in the Department of Analytics due to calling out sick. As there is no footage or proof of SCP-5752 manifesting in or nearby the local site, Foundation researchers have hypothesized that SCP-5752 created a stable anafabula after accessing SCP-2747's documentation, thus annihilating herself from this reality. This hypothesis has yet to be disproved.\nNone\n\nSCP-3183\naugust\nscp-5752 entered a hollow city made of itself.\nlost\n\nSCP-513\n22.3.2007\nSCP-5752 manifested in Site-12 before making her way down to one of the office floors. SCP-5752 then accesses a terminal containing the file for SCP-513. Subject then entered a nearby breakroom and quietly stole Dr. Frank Peravai's L3 keycard as he was reading. Subject then accessed SCP-513's chamber and paused for a moment before pushing into the gelatin block to retrieve the object. A containment breach was then enacted due to SCP-5752's passive effect faltering, allowing her to be perceived by those monitoring surveillance. Before she could be seized, SCP-5752 retrieved and rang SCP-513, exposing 17 members of staff to its effects. Before she could be apprehended, SCP-5752 doubled over in pain, with various bruises appearing over portions of her arms and legs before demanifesting.\nNone\n\nSCP-5034\n11.11.2010\nSCP-5752 manifested within 20 feet of the nearest antique store currently holding SCP-5034. Subject loitered for approximately 30 minutes before entering the location. After reluctantly attempting to pick up a marble from the bowl,3 SCP-5752 attempted to retrieve multiple marbles at once.\nApprox. 5.2 litres of blood4\n\nSCP-4807\n14.10.2018\nDespite not manifesting within Foundation jurisdiction, SCP-5752's corpse was spotted in an alleyway in Frascati, Italy. After being taken in by authorities, SCP-5752's death was ascribed to a mugging gone wrong, with her death occurring mere hours before discovery. Foundation mathematical models pointed to the murder as matching the criteria of an SCP-4807 event.\nIntact\n\nAddendum 5752.2: Interview\nOn 2 September 2025, SCP-835 was seen entering an aggravated state, expelling massive amounts of waste into the surrounding waters. As Provisional Site-835 was undergoing breach protocol, SCP-5752 manifested amongst the chaos and was spotted attempting to hijack a submersible, with her intent likely being to make contact with SCP-835. As the subject was in the process of disengaging the submersible, she was apprehended by several members of MTF Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\") before being evacuated from Site-835 with the rest of the site staff. After quarantine and various medical tests, Dr. Maya Saunders was sent to interview SCP-5752, under the monitoring of O5-4.\n\n+ Show Interview 1A\n\n- Close Interview 1A\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Saunders: Hello, SCP-5752.Dr. Saunders: Well, that's it, really. We're here to ask you some questions regarding your interf-Dr. Saunders: Well, I know you're in a rush to leave but at the very least I'd like to ask about why you've be-Dr. Saunders: We already know what you do when you get your hands on our artifacts, SCP-5752.\n(Silence.)\n(Dr. Saunders pulls out a file. She opens it on the table between them and pulls out a series of photographs, laying them all out in front of both her and SCP-5752. They are all photographs of SCP-5752 over the years in various Sites, cordoned-off zones, and containment chambers, with some of the photographs dating back to the late 50s.)\n(Dr. Saunders removes her glasses and pinches the bridge of her nose. She sighs.)\nDr. Saunders: You know, its taken me years to collect all of this data regarding your appearances. It was genuinely difficult, having such a small team manually scanning through everything just to catch a glimpse of your face in the footage. It didn't help that some of us had to be constantly dosing up on mnestics to try to pin you down in our records.\n(Dr. Saunders leans back in her chair, crossing her arms.)\nDr. Saunders: I never actually thought I'd see the day where you'd be sitting in front of me like this. After decades of entering our facilities and taking advantage of breaches and passwords and loopholes in the system\u2026 I'm still surprised that you look exactly the same. Haven't aged a day.\n(SCP-5752 is silent for a moment, staring at the photos before her. SCP-5752 then mumbles something under her breath.)\nDr. Saunders: I'm sorry, what was that?Dr. Saunders: Well, yes. Of course it would. How else does time flow?\n(SCP-5752 stares down at the photographs once more.)Dr. Saunders: Dreams\u2026 Do you believe that you are dreaming, SCP-5752?Dr. Saunders: So you fully believe that you are dreaming up all of this?\nDr. Saunders: How are you so sure of that?SCP-5752: If this were my dream, and my dream alone, then I would be able to just\u2026 dream of something else. I wouldn't have to go through the cycle of just starting in a new place before throwing myself into the meat grinder.\nDr. Saunders: We'd also like to ask you about that - why do you keep hurting yourself like this? Why do you keep throwing yourself at these horrible things?\n(There is another long pause.)\nDr. Saunders: Is it because you're upset? Is it something we can help with? SCP-5752, if something is wrong you can tell us, we can get you any help you need - we have the resources. You just have to tell us.Dr. Saunders: From the dream?Dr. Saunders: You keep alluding to a \"they\", and I wanted to come back to that topic. You hinted that this is someone else's dream and not your own. Do you know who else's dream this is?Dr. Saunders: Can you tell me?\n(SCP-5752 does not respond to further prompting.)\n[END LOG]\n\nAfter a psychological evaluation, SCP-5752 was placed under intensive care as well as suicide watch due to her volatile behavioral shifts and multiple attempts at self-termination.\nAddendum 5752.3: Recovered Article\nOn 29 February 2028, SCP-5752 was found reading a newspaper in her cell. It was quickly confiscated by guards and was transferred to Site-17's research group. When reviewing security footage, SCP-5752 was viewed with her back to the wall, reaching her hand behind her and pulling out the newspaper. When questioned, SCP-5752 denied that this action was voluntary.\nThe newspaper was labelled \"The Kennebec Journal,\" a January 2022 edition. It showed no abnormalities except for an article on page 17 in a column adjacent to the \"Obituary\" section. The article depicts a smiling photo of SCP-5752 and reads as follows:\n\nYOUNG WOMAN COMATOSE, FAMILY PLEADS FOR ANSWERS\nby Garrison Blake\nNeighbors in the town of Dawson, Maine, are still baffled at the circumstances regarding the hospitalization of Ms. Evelyn Creely, with the young woman's family still at a loss for words.\nOn November 22, 2021, Evelyn was found laying in her bedroom when her mother attempted to wake her up for work. Mrs. Diana Creely was concerned as her daughter was late for her shift at the local nursing home, and she was surprised at how Evelyn apparently slept through the entire morning and early afternoon. After Evelyn didn't respond to her mother's attempts to wake her, emergency services were called to the Creelys' home in order to transport their daughter to St. John's Hospital on the outer edges of Dawson.\nWhen interviewing Mr. Jason Creely, he said that there was still no exact explanation as to why his daughter was unable to awaken.\n\"The doctors couldn't find a reason for any of it, they're all baffled,\" he stated. \"All they could tell us is that her brain is still working just fine. For all we saw, she's just fast asleep. The nurses kept saying that there aren't any visible abnormalities that could've just sent her under like this.\"\nEvelyn was known to be a quiet yet informative and well-read young woman, with her friends describing her as \"driven by stories.\" Her favorite genres were mystery, horror, and science fiction, with her mother describing how she would spend hours on writing forums, attempting to spin her own tales.\nA fundraiser and vigil will be held this upcoming Saturday on the corner of Sackett and Rhyne in order to raise awareness and money to help the Creelys cover their medical bills.\n\nSCP-5752's containment protocol is to be debated in regards to the Swann Protocol during the upcoming Ethics Committee meeting on 15 March 2028.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This time limit has been viewed to be rather random, with the shortest recorded instance being 2 minutes, and the longest amounting to approximately 4 days.\n2. A complete timeline and record of events can be accessed through the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Department. Please contact your Site Director in order to submit a request of information.\n3. Resulted in the loss of her right arm.\n4. At least she died quickly.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5751 | SCP-5752 | SCP-5753 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5753\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation agents embedded as cast members at the Walt Disney World Resort are to screen potential guests for traits that could trigger a Rolly event. This is accomplished by running the individual through a background check via an available Foundation operated web-analysis bot. All flagged individuals are to be monitored by embedded agents utilizing the Reedy Creek Improvement District security network around the Magic Kingdom park and resorts for surveillance.\nShould a flagged individual trigger a Rolly event, agents are to be dispatched to Location-5753 and discretely apply low grade amnestics to all affected guests. Following dispersal, guests are to be offered any number of enticements, including free FastPass queue tickets and upgraded dining and resort reservations.\nDescription: SCP-5753 is a phenomenon that occasionally occurs when a paying customer of the Walt Disney World, who fulfills certain pre-existing criteria, attempts to ride the It's A Small World attraction, otherwise known as Location-5753. These criteria are:\n\nStrong public investment in far-right or far-left politics\nAnti-social tendencies\nAnti-corporate sensibilities\nProfessed cynicism\nAppreciation of waterfowl\n\nIf an affected person attempts to board the attraction, 70% of the time the ride experience will be normal; 30% of the time a Rolly event will occur, and the ride's pre-existing path will diverge, turning off into an extradimensional alternate path directly following the South America room. This space does not exist on any Disney Parks maps, and theoretically should cut directly into the kitchen of the nearby Pinocchio Village Haus restaurant. Once inside, the boat containing the affected guest is briefly treated to a display which, while disturbing in content, is otherwise non-anomalous and could be theoretically produced by engineers at the Disney corporation or related contractors.\nThe initial appearance of this alternate space is consistent with the ride, displaying the same pastel walls, repeated playback of \u201cIt's A Small World\u201d and Mary Blair-designed rudimentary animatronics. However, a small sign visible on a platform can be seen, reading \u201cAbandon All Yolk, Ye Who Enter Here,\u201d and once the space is entered, an automatic door will close behind the guests, preventing egress. The attraction's music will then display divergent lyrics compared to those originally composed by the Sherman brothers, which are as follows: \u201cYou will die alone, you stupid fuck/You will end up on the streets and I wish you luck/You will have no friends except your dumb pet duck/It's a small, small world.\u201d\nFollowing this, a voice imitating a Southern accent will exclaim \u201cYee-haw!\u201d on the downbeat, the music pauses, and the attraction lights go out. After a pause of about 5 seconds in darkness and silence, strobe lights slam on, and a double-time house/techno remix of \u201cIt's A Small World,\u201d with significant bluegrass instrumentation, begins to play. The animatronics are rotated out for ones that hold small wooden knives and hatchets. These bobble around erratically to the music at high speed, roughly miming stabbings and decapitations. The boat picks up speed, reaching nearly 60 miles an hour, and the guest enters a dark ride depicting animatronics of various characters from Disney franchises, dressed as farmers, peasants, and stereotypical American \u201crednecks,\" violently assaulting Donald Duck.\nThese displays are seemingly rotated out between Rolly events, so that a Moana animatronic seen by one affected guest might instead be replaced by an Iron Man animatronic seen by another. At the end of a tunnel containing roughly six dioramas, the boat halts and the guests are confronted by a screen displaying an animation of Mickey Mouse and Goofy as French peasants preparing to kill an aristocratic Donald Duck via guillotine. The film is animated in the style of veteran Disney animators Milt Kahl and Ward Kimball.\nIn it, Mickey, appearing to be voiced by long-time performer Wayne Allwine, berates Goofy by calling him an \u201casshat\u201d and exhortes him to \u201csend this bourgeois neoliberal straight to duck hell.\u201d Donald protests to no avail. Goofy laughs, expresses his hope that Donald's nephews starve on the street, does an elaborate handshake with Mickey that finishes in imitated flatulence, and dispatches Donald in gory fashion. The guests are then sprayed with a fine mist of poultry blood, the remixed music ceases, and then the boat is promptly deposited back in the South Pacific section of It's A Small World to finish the ride. As it leaves the space, a voice matching deceased voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft announces various lines, including \u201cDid you know ducks have violent corkscrew sex, and their vast quantities of shit destroy pond life? Now you know.\u201d and \u201cWow-wee! Now that's what I call inferno! It's not too late to give up your poultry!\u201d\nAttempts by agents to breach the inside of Location-5753 during a Rolly event have failed.\n\nMore by this author\n\nHide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-3999\n\nSCP-2432\n\nSCP-Big egg\n\nSCP-4012\n\nSCP-3000-J\n\nSCP-5702\n\nSCP-2817\n\nSCP-2714\n\nSCP-4930\n\nSCP-3520\n\nSCP-5401\n\nSCP-3672\n\nSCP-3643\n\nSCP-6513\n\nSCP-5598\n\nSCP-5753\n\nSCP-2302\n\nSCP-4701\n\nSCP-4875\n\nSCP-2653\n\nSCP-4302\n\nSCP-4753\n\nSCP-3796\n\nTales\n\nasmr by dado\n\nRONALD REAGAN CUT UP WHILE RAPPING\n\nExcerpt from The Astrolabe Institute Journal\n\nAmnestic\n\nThe William Penn Iteration\n\nEnd Of Deaf; or, In the Clutches of Dumb\n\nThe News Tonight: Wednesday April 26th 2017\n\nInterior\u2014Interior\n\nThe Undoing\n\nHoly Mackerel\n\nGrandchildren Frost\n\nPortrait of Two Choreographers\n\nWade Williams Distribution Presents:\n\nThe DevourerLand Diaries\n\n\u00ab SCP-5752 | SCP-5753 | SCP-5754 \u00bb"}
{"text": "hungrypossum\n\nRead more of my stuff here!\nEnjoy!\n\nItem#: 5754\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation personnel embedded in public health institutions should report any increase in alopecia1 and hypertrichosis2 cases. Patients confirmed to have accepted SCP-5754's offer will be taken into Foundation custody under the pretext of an exotic viral infection, and contained in a Standard Humanoid Containment Chamber until expiration.\nA media campaign portraying traveling salespersons and their products as unreliable and dishonest is currently being disseminated.\nDescription: SCP-5754 is a humanoid entity of varying appearance, posing as a door-to-door salesperson. The entity will randomly manifest in front of homes, preponderently in the USA, Canada, and western Europe. The only commonalities between manifestations are its formal attire and a complete lack of visible hair.\nWhen a person (further referred to as \"the client\") answers the door, SCP-5754 will start a sales pitch for an object, emotion or concept the client intensely desires. After the sales pitch concludes, SCP-5754 will materialize a contract and a pen from its coat's inner pocket, and will present the client with a weekly subscription fee; said fee will always be a measure of length, normally ranging from eight to fourteen meters (or the equivalent in other measurements), however, no material is mentioned. If at any point the client expresses their disinterest concerning the product, the entity will briefly apologize for the inconvenience, and demanifest upon the client closing the door. In this case, the client will not be subject to further anomalous events.\nIf the client agrees to the weekly fee and signs the contract, SCP-5754 will state the purchased items will be delivered within the week, after which it will similarly demanifest upon the client closing the door. From this point forward, the client will undergo a series of anomalous changes:\n\nStage\nTimeframe\nDescription\n\n0\nDays 0-1\nSubjects materialize hair strands in their mouths when eating; this is usually ignored, or attributed to negligence during food preparation.\n\n1\nDays 2-4\nHair detached during the process of washing, brushing or combing demanifests when unobserved. Subjects who purchased an emotion from SCP-5754 begin to feel the respective emotion, albeit at a negligible rate.\n\n2\nDays 5-9\nSubjects display early signs of alopecia (usually restricted to the scalp), with an estimated 30% also showing increased hair growth on their bodies. All detached hair demanifests when unobserved. Subjects receive incremental amounts of the purchased product, or increased opportunities to acquire it.3\n\n3\nDay 10\nSubjects lose all hair, which immediately demanifests. New hair growth starts at an accelerated rate, though this is shed as well once it reaches 5 cm in length. The process repeats until the cessation of all anomalous effects.\n\n4\nDay 11\nSubjects start continuously regurgitating large amounts of hair, as well as expelling hair through other orifices. Subjects expire as a result of asphyxia. Anomalous effects cease after this point.\n\nAddendum 1\nOn 21/05/2013, Foundation operatives working at Appleton HealthCare System outfitted Sean Brighton, a patient undergoing Stage 2 of SCP-5754's anomalous influence, with a hidden camera and microphone under the pretext of monitoring vitals and environmental factors. Three days later, the device recorded the following event:\n\nSTART LOG\nBrighton is sitting on the couch, reading a magazine. Suddenly, he stands up and brings his hands to his throat, as if struggling to breathe. He runs to the bathroom and, after a minute of coughing and gagging, he expels approximately 30 cm of hair.\nBrighton: What the fuck? Whe-\nHe starts gagging again, during which SCP-5754 is caught on camera in front of the bathroom. Subsequent video analysis shows that its suit is composed of fibers resembling human hair. Brighton starts regurgitating hair continuously, displaying difficulties in breathing.Brighton: ten seconds of muffled gaggingBrighton: violently gags15 seconds pause. Expelled hair is mixed with Brighton's stomach's contents. Hair strands start to become visible under his left eyeball.Hair begins to come out of Brighton's nasal cavities. His eyes have popped out, and hair is pouring out of his eye sockets.10 seconds pause. Brighton stops breathing.SCP-5754 demanifests. Brighton expires two minutes later due to asphyxia.\nEND LOG\n\nFootnotes\n1. Loss of hair from part of the head or body.\n2. Excessive hair growth.\n3. For instance, subjects who desired monetary gains are offered a pay raise or better job opportunity; others who desired romantic connections meet a person who becomes increasingly close to them.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5753 | SCP-5754 | SCP-5755 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5755\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5755 in the Haron family household.\n\nItem #: SCP-5755\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5755 is to be kept in a locked containment storage unit in Site-207 and guarded by at least two security personnel at all times. Only researchers of Level-3 Clearance and above are permitted to grant clearance requests.\nActivation of SCP-5755 is prohibited outside of approved research. Any audible contact made by SCP-5755 while in its inactive state is to be reported to the head researcher.\nDescription: SCP-5755 is a 2m, 4k quality picture, unbranded television with a remote. The screen of SCP-5755 produces audio despite lacking integrated speakers. SCP-5755 automatically repairs any damage to its surface or housing within 24 hours of the damaging incident. The mechanism behind the repairs is unknown.\nWhen activated, SCP-5755 will emit audio and visual static until a channel is selected. Only one channel is available for selection, labeled as \u201cDamned,\u201d which will present footage of the interior of a tidy suburban home. The footage lasts 22 hours, from 5:00 AM to 3:00 AM. The footage persists with a straight camera angle of the living area; the angle never moves or changes. After the footage reaches its conclusion, SCP-5755 will deactivate until it is activated again. Upon subsequent activation, the footage will repeat the same twenty-two hour period.\nThe footage showcases a family of four, designated SCP-5755-A through SCP-5755-D, making their daily commute throughout the house.\nSCP-5755 was discovered on 09/08/2019 in a burnt down suburban house in Spring lakes, Seattle by recovery teams of the fire department. SCP-5755 was recovered in pristine condition. It was held by the county to be auctioned off as the residents had no surviving family members. The object came to the Foundation's attention when reports of \u201cbanging\u201d coming from within the screen and handprints appearing on the screen were made to authorities. Class B amnestics were administered to county employees that were aware of the anomaly, and SCP-5755 was taken into Foundation custody.\n\n+ SCP-5755-A DESC.\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5755-A is a European-American male, 35 years of age, with a height of 1.7m and a weight estimated to be 160kg. SCP-5755-A's behavioral pattern is highly manipulative and violent toward his family. SCP-5755-A's schedule consists of leaving for work at 9:07 AM and returning to the house at 5:35 PM.\n\n+ SCP-5755-B DESC.\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5755-B is a European-American female, 32 years of age, with a height of 1.5m and an estimated weight of 135kg. SCP-5755-B is submissive and often displays emotional distress in the presence of SCP-5755-A. She shows obsessive affection towards all of the family members. SCP-5755-B schedule consists of leaving for work at 8:30 AM and returning to the house at 4:27 PM.\n\n+ SCP-5755-C DESC.\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5755-C is an American male, 17 years of age, with a height of 1.7m, and an estimated weight of 72kg. SCP-5755-C is dominant and controlling towards all family members except SCP-5755-A. SCP-5755-C's schedule consists of babysitting SCP-5755-D, but has been observed to be negligent and often remains in his own room.\n\n+ SCP-5755-D DESC.\n\n- Close\n\nSCP-5755-D is an American male, 14 years of age, with a regular height, and body build for his age. SCP-5755-D is typically seen wearing a black and white hoodie with long black cargo pants. SCP-5755-D is the only individual that is self-aware about his current situation within SCP-5755. He is capable of recalling events from previous activations of SCP-5755. SCP-5755-D can consistently view the Foundation through the screen, and it refers to the screen as a window. SCP-5755-D's name is Jason Haron and was part of the Haron family when the fire burnt down the property. Jason Haron's corpse was found and identified.\n\n+ Footage & Audio logs\n\n- Close\n\nReplay #\nNotable Events\n\nReplay 002\nSCP-5755-A prepares himself a meal while repeatedly demanding that -B tell him where his briefcase is. SCP-5755-B responds swiftly. SCP-5755-C and -D were observed to walk into the living room at a slow pace. SCP-5755-D displays curiosity asking what the family was watching on the television (referring to the researchers notating the footage).\nNo one in the family responds except for SCP-5755-B who chuckled and stated that the television was off. SCP-5755-D expresses confusion. He goes on to describe a sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu of the morning events. SCP-5755-C states to -D \"nobody gives a shit\", which caused -C to be yelled at by -A for swearing. SCP-5755-B attempted to calm -A but resulted in a harsh reaction from -A, which left her sobbing. SCP-5755-B cleaned herself up, and both her and -A leave for their jobs. Subjects SCP-5755-C and -D stay in their house. The rest of the day consisted of SCP-5755-C and -D doing their daily activities before -A and -B return to the house.\n\nReplay 003\nSCP-5755-D expressed concern about the same events occurring from the last replay and questioned it to everyone about the situation. He acknowledged the Foundation staff observing the events through SCP-5755 and notes that they were \u201cdifferent from last time.\u201d. SCP-5755-C gave the same response and the previous events mentioned in Replay 002 have then occurred.\nAround 1:14 PM, SCP-5755-C was observed to approach -D and accused him of lying. SCP-5755-D tries to explain himself but it resulted in him being threatened violently by -C.\n\nReplay 006\nSCP-5755-D expressed curiosity toward the research team and attempted to communicate with them. Eventually, -D managed to get the team's attention and had an interview with Dr. Hunter Graves. (See interview below)\n\nAccess document-5755-Vl-006 - Audio Log\nInterviewed: SCP-5755-D\nInterviewer: Researcher Dr. Hunter Graves\nForeword: Five weeks after initial containment, research teams discussed ways to aid SCP-5755-D in order to understand how SCP-5755 works. An interview was set up for understanding SCP-5755 and informing -D about his situation.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nDr. Graves: Greetings SCP-, (Pauses) my apology, please state your name?\nSCP-5755-D: Uh-Uhm, Jason, Jason Haron. I-I'm sorry, but you have something to do with this, don't you? This loop or whatever it is?\nDr. Graves: We didn't cause the loop, Jason. I know this would be difficult to understand, but (Pauses) you are contained within an unknown device that resembles that of a modern television. The loops you've been experiencing were due to us activating this device and re-watching the film for any hints on how it operates. Unfortunately, you seem to be the only self-aware individual that can recall all previous replays. We dearly apologize for the stress Jason but know we are just trying to help.\nSCP-5755-D: (Silence)\nDr. Graves: Jason?SCP-5755-D: Wha-what! I'm trapped in a fucking TV? How though? (Whisper) 'Could've been what I did?' Let me out, please!\n\nDr. Graves: It's ok Jason, we can get through this. We have two questions for you to answer if you don't mind.\nSCP-5755-D: Ok (calms down) ok, what are they?\nDr. Graves: What is your earliest memory from being outside this loop?\nSCP-5755-D: Earliest? I don't really\u2026. burning. Smoking. A bright light. Do I deserve this?\nDr. Graves: Woah woah, Jason, are you ok? So, you remember the fire. I'm sorry about that. Jason, if you need to we can appoint a therapist for you to talk to about these problems. I apologize if I bring up anything but do you remember the outcome of the fire?\nSCP-5755-D: Yea\u2026 I was rescued.\nDr. Graves: Rescued?\u2026 Then what happened?\nSCP-5755-D: Well I woke up in this house, and that's it.\nDr. Graves: All right, second question. Your family seems rather\u2026 aggressive. Were they always like this? Prior to this whole incident?\nSCP-5755-D: (Silence)Dr. Graves: Jason, are you all right? Do you not know them?\nSCP-5755-D: (Begins sobbing) I don't deserve to be with them.\nDr. Graves: What do you mean you don't deserve to be with them?\nSCP-5755-D: (Silence)\nDr. Graves: Ok then, that's all we have for today. Jason, if you need anything, we are here for you. We will try our best to help you.\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Statement: The interview ended with SCP-5755-D being more agitated. Dr. Hunter Graves states that the final questions may have triggered him. SCP-5755-D was now fully aware of his situation. Dr. Hunter Graves reviewed the incident involving the Haron family's house burning down. All of the house's residents were deceased, including SCP-5755-D. -D seemed to be unaware of that fact.\n\nReplay 011\nSCP-5755-D expressed high emotional distress. SCP-5755-C walked into the living area to see -D crying. SCP-5755-D attempted to convince -C of the family's situation, and pleads for -C to trust him. SCP-5755-C gave a cruel remark and began assaulting -D violently, whilst -D was still attempting to negotiate. All negotiations were unsuccessful.\n\nReplay 019\nSCP-5755-D woke up at 5:34 AM despite his usual waking schedule between 9:00 AM and 12:00 AM. SCP-5755-D was observed to sit on the couch and to start sobbing uncontrollably. He began babbling incoherently and whisper phrases that mimicked each family member's voice lines.\nSCP-5755-C walked into view and remarked as to how -D knew what phrases are said before they are said. SCP-5755-D attempted to empathize with -C as a factor for -C to trust him. SCP-5755-D discussed with -C, -A's actions. SCP-5755-C became defensive, and it resulted in -D being assaulted. SCP-5755-C accused -D of lying and teasing. SCP-5755-D laid on the ground after the attack ended. SCP-5755-D without his facial expression, began sobbing quietly.\n\nReplay 026\nSCP-5755-D expressed suicidal tendencies through several actions that solidify his current state. These actions include self-harm, high emotional distress, and SCP-5755-D verbally expressing interest in death. Dr. Hunter Graves requested another interview but was denied by SCP-5755-D for unknown reasons.\n\nReplay 028\nSCP-5755-D was observed to set up a noose whilst staring at the researchers. SCP-5755-D then proceeded to hang himself in silence. Dr. Graves attempted to interfere with the event by attempting to catch SCP-5755-D's attention, but the attempts were unsuccessful. SCP-5755-D was seen deceased throughout the rest of the replay.\n\nReplay 029 - 38\nOver the nine following days, SCP-5755-D committed suicide through several different methods. SCP-5755-D can be seen agitated throughout each replay as his attempts were unsuccessful. All suicides lead to the family calling the authorities for a suicide report.\n\nReplay 044\nSCP-5755-D woke up six minutes after the footage began and grabbed a kitchen knife from the kitchen and walks down a hallway, not within the view of the television. SCP-5755-D returns drenched in blood and proceeded to sit on the couch, facing directly towards the researchers calmly. SCP-5755-D requests another interview to take place. The request was granted by the project director. It was apparent that SCP-5755-D was mentally unstable, as shown through his actions.\n\nAccess document-5755-Vl-044 - Audio Log\nInterviewed: SCP-5755-D\nInterviewer: Researcher Dr Hunter Graves\nForeword: The goal of this interview was to calm SCP-5755-D from his current state, and to understand his situation.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nSCP-5755-D: Hello doctor, how have you been?\nDr. Graves: Jason! We are trying to assist you. Violent actions will not be tolerated!\nSCP-5755-D: Who cares anyway? They're just going to come back again and again and again and again. They aren't even my (Air quotes) REAL family. Sure they look like it but they are just so annoying!\nDr. Graves: (Raises voice) That still doesn't justify your actions! What heinous act did you commit to grant you in SCP-5755?\n(Silence)\nSCP-5755-D: SCP-5755?\u2026\nDr. Graves: I\u2026 my apologies, I mean this TV. What did you d-\nSCP-5755-D: Am I a fucking experiment?\nDr. Graves: Jason, this isn't important. Answer the question!\nSCP-5755-D: (Raises his voice) WHERE AM I RIGHT NOW?\nDr. Graves: Look, Jason, I understand. You're scared and alone. We are tr-\nSCP-5755-D: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING!\nDr. Graves: (Silence)\nSCP-5755-D: I also don't understand anything about you sick people. No-one can save me from this fucking hell! I know you don't want to. All you want to do is\u2026 I DON'T KNOW, FUCK AROUND WITH THIS TV!\nDr. Graves: Jason, we tried. We really did try. But at this point, attempting to free you isn't in our current interests.\nSCP-5755-D: It never was, was it?\nDr. Graves: (Silence)\nSCP-5755-D: We're done now.\n<END LOG>\n\nReplay 049 \u2013 064\nSCP-5755-D gave up escaping from SCP-5755. He has been observed taking chaotic actions, presumably due to the lack of consequences. These actions all share a common attribute with SCP-5755-D committing heinous and unnecessary acts.\n\nReplay 065\nSCP-5755-D was observed seated on the living room couch for 19 hours. Three hooded figures surrounded him for all of that time. The hooded figures chanted 'Sinner' quietly throughout the footage. The voices were recognized and identified to be SCP-5755-D's current family. SCP-5755-D attempted to reason with the robed figures through begs and pleads; all attempts were unsuccessful. SCP-5755-D was last observed to crawl into a fetal position, sobbing as the chanting grow louder.\nWhen the footage ended an audible deafening wail can be heard when SCP-5755 was deactivating. At 4:47 AM, staff reported hearing persistent banging from SCP-5755's screen, which escalated quickly, eventually the screen shattered completely. SCP-5755 repaired itself after the event.\n\n+ LEVEL 4 ACCESS REQUIRED\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED (Document-5755-Vl - Replay 066)\n\nReplay 066\nThe \"Damned\" footage is no longer available, and several new channels appeared each labeled 'Source' followed by a six-digit number. When a channel is selected, the static of SCP-5755 worsens and increases in volume. Researchers reported hearing individuals in extremely high distress as wails and screams are apparent. Each channel houses a different voice that is wailing in pain, leading researchers to believe that multiple victims of SCP-5755 are contained within the object permanently. The individual within a specific channel seems to be aware of the Foundations' presence and begins banging on the screen of SCP-5755 and beg for their aid.\nThe most recent channel added was labeled \"Source 012756\" and listened to be a male screaming and crying specific names; including Henry, Mom, and Dad. The voice was recognized as SCP-5755-D. \"Mom\" and \"dad\" are presumed to reference subjects SCP-5755-B and SCP-5755-A. Henry has yet to be identified.\nThe channel menu reads \"Looking For New Source\u2026\" followed by an ongoing throbber.\n\nNote from O5-\u2588 (12/16/2019):\nSCP-5755 is still shrouded in mystery. It is still unknown, as to how or why SCP-5755-D got imprisoned within the object. The bigger issue, however, is SCP-5755 looking for a new \"source\". Which we've deducted to be another victim. As of 12/16/2019, SCP-5755 is still searching. Heavy caution is advised when around the object. All further research has been discontinued per request of Dr. Graves, until further notice. If any tapping is heard from SCP-5755 screen, please report it to the site manager. Final note, for your own safety, please avoid committing any acts perceived as 'bad' around SCP-5755.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5754 | SCP-5755 | SCP-5756 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5757\nObject Class: Euclid\n\nSCP-5757-A containment monitoring operations.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A cartridge containing SCP-5757-A's data has been hardwired into an Atari Jaguar games console, in order to obtain a consistent video stream. Video output by SCP-5757-A is subject to algorithmic monitoring in order to ensure its accuracy.\nWildlife agents have secured the perimeter of the Everglades Agricultural Area C-139 Annex with unauthorized persons being refused access under the guise of ongoing restoration work.\nAny attempt by SCP-5757-affected individuals enthralled by them to exit the C-139 Annex are to be repelled; lethal force is authorized for these efforts.\nAttempts to recover those affected by SCP-5757 have been discontinued. Lethal force is authorized to enact these procedures, if that becomes necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5757-A is the data for an unreleased and unfinished piece of software. Entitled \"Curse of the Everglade\" it is written with the ICRDTA programming language and is only compatible with original Atari Jaguar hardware.\nThe game world of SCP-5757 appears to correlate directly to approximately 15,000 acres of land within an Everglades Agricultural Area, hereafter referred to as SCP-5757-B. Actions taken within SCP-5757's game space can and will change the physical landscape, topography, and population of SCP-5757.\n\nSCP-5757 video output during testing, depicting Agent Decourcey addressing several alligators.\n\nAny sentient or sapient entities within SCP-5757-B, including humans, will be represented as spherical sprites by SCP-5757-A. Within the game space there is a persistent text bubble displayed above any human-representing sprites, giving information on their status, mood, and occasionally brief transcripts of their vocalizations.\nHowever, to date, it has proven impossible to play SCP-5757-A directly through the console - instead, it is believed that the game is played remotely by the first individual to gain physical access to SCP-5757-B with knowledge of its connection to SCP-5757-A.\n\nAddendum 5757-G: Supplemental Documentation\n\nExcerpt from Curse of the Everglade game manual\n\nSociety is ending\u2026\nDarkness falling over our cities\u2026\nEverglade, mankind's last bastion, is the place for rebuilding civilization!\nGather resources, fight fearsome wildlife, and brave the ever-changing jungle!\nThe future is up for grabs\u2026 can you become the Jaguar King?\nWell, what else are you doing?\n\nAccess Document Arcadia-X\n\nAccess Granted\n\nThe following information was also enclosed with the manual:\n\nAt Arcadia, we're doing more than satisfying every holey bit where your craving is laying. We're also never going to stop. Everything you're stuffing into that void falls right through back to us, so we can keep cranking.\nPrepare, it's here, Arcadia!\n\nCurse of the Everglade\n\nYou Are Trash!\n\nStray Back When\n\nOil & Boil 'Em\n\n Silverfish \n\nZane Grey Pro\nDentistry: Deluxe Edition\n\nTelemassacre\n\n fish golf \n\nFlapper\n\nBloccom\n\n The Last G.A.R.Y. \n\nStar Justices\n\nTHEY'RE COMING SOON\n\nTranscript of Video Cassettes 9-18\n\nAccess Granted\n\nFound by urban explorers in an abandoned Miami-Dade home. The VCR containing the tapes had been recording a television set, which burnt out prior to the discovery.\nA Foundation front posing as a video restoration service subsequently acquired the tapes.\nRestoration of the recording tape is ongoing. Only a few short segments are possible to view clearly.\n\n<Begin Log A>\n(Three units enter the game setting, followed by another two, and all continue until they reach three trees present at the centre of the game setting.)\nSubject 5757-1: HOLY SHIT\nSubject 5757-2: WHAT ?\nSubject 5757-1: THIS IS IT DUDE\nSubject 5757-3: WHAT ? NO WAY\nSubject 5757-1: IT IS ! THESE ARE THE TREES FROM THE COVER\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-1: SEE ? IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-4: NEAT\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-1: AAAAAAAA\n(The other units encircle Subject 5757-1. The player cursor begins moving for the first recorded occasion, hovering over the group.)\nSubject 5757-5: DUDE IS HE HAVING A SEIZURE OR SOMETHING ?\nSubject 5757-2: I DON'T KNOW ! JUST GIVE HIM SOME AIR\nSubject 5757-1: IT'S REAL\nSubject 5757-2: WHAT ?\n(The player cursor highlights all visible units and designates them as Assets.)\nSubject 5757-1: IT'S REAL !\n<End Log>\n\nNote: It is believed this tape documents events which took place days or months following Log A. Exact timing has yet to be determined.\nAt this point, it is believed that Subject 5757-1 has used SCP-5757-A to control the individuals which had entered SCP-5757-B with them.\n<Begin Log B>\n(Subject 5757-2 enters the hut where SCP-5757-1's body is located.)\nSubject 5757-2: KURT\nSubject 5757-2: KURT !\nSubject 5757-1: WHAT DUDE I'M TRYING TO THINK\nSubject 5757-2: WE NEED TO GO HOME MAN\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-1: WHAT ?\nSubject 5757-2: IT'S NOT SAFE OUT HERE\nSubject 5757-1: YES IT IS WE BEAT THAT ALLIGATOR EASY\nSubject 5757-2: MARGIE'S GETTING SICK\nSubject 5757-1: IT'S FINE I'LL UNLOCK DISEASE RESISTANCE SOON\nSubject 5757-2: LISTEN !\nSubject 5757-2: I'VE GOT A FAMILY ! I'M NOT GONNA STAY OUT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE\nSubject 5757-1: DON'T BE FUCKING SELFISH\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-2: ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW ?\nSubject 5757-1: YOUR WHOLE LIFE YOU GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT ! I'M SUPPOSED TO GO BE MISERABLE IN A CALL CENTER SO YOU CAN GO HUG YOUR KIDS OR WHATEVER ?\nSubject 5757-1: I'M LOOKING DOWN AT YOU FROM THE SKY RIGHT NOW, MATT ! THOSE EYES YOU'RE LOOKING AT DON'T MEAN ANYTHING ANYMORE\nSubject 5757-1: I CAN FINALLY DO WHAT I WANT AND YOU WANT TO STEAL THAT AWAY FROM ME ? YOU THINK I'LL JUST LET YOU DO THAT ?\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-2: YOU'RE DELUSIONAL\nSubject 5757-1: SHUT UP\nSubject 5757-2: JUST LET US GO YOU SICK FUCK !\nSubject 5757-1: I SAID SHUT UP !\n(The player cursor highlights Subject 5757-2 and designates it 'Foodstuff'.)\nSubject 5757-2: WHAT DID YOU DO ?\nSubject 5757-1: SORRY I NEED TO GO NOW\n(Free units begin entering the hut and surrounding Subject 5757-2.)\nSubject 5757-5: NO NO I DON'T WANT TO !\nSubject 5757-4: I'M SORRY ! I'M SORRY !\nSubject 5757-2: KURT KURT KURT KURT KURT KURT PLEASE !\n(Cursor proceeds upwards, moving the camera far past the settlement to observe two flamingos in a river.)\nSubject 5757-1: I CAN DO THIS !\nSubject 5757-1: I AM THE Jaguar King.\n<End Log>\n\nResearch Analysis\n\nAccess Granted\n\nInitially, we assumed that the threat from Subject 5757-1 would only grow as a result of it becoming more accustomed to its new capabilities. We did not anticipate the threat that would result from those capabilities expanding. I am writing, of course, of the skill tree that we found in the data of SCP-5757-A. As Subject 5757-1 expands its settlement and continues killing the local wildlife, it is gaining 'experience' - and it's using that experience to make itself more powerful.\nSo far, we know it has access to these skills:\n\nSkill Share: Skills possessed by one unit are shared by all controllable units. This is why they're all able to proficiently use the weapons they have access to.\nVital Boost: All of the units are much more durable than ordinary human beings - they move faster and hit harder, too.\nRevive: If a living unit can get to a downed unit within a minute of it losing all its health, the downed unit can be revived.\nFine Control: We're fairly sure this is the latest skill Subject 5757-1 has acquired. Previously, SCP-5757-1's commands were limited to simple things like 'go here, move this there, attack this'. Now, we're not certain of the level of control it can achieve.\n\nThe next skill to be achieved is Animal Call - which allows the player to recruit animal units as well as human ones. If Subject 5757-1 achieves control over all the local wildlife, I don't think I need to say how much more difficult containment will become.\nTracking the rate of experience gain, we're fairly sure that Subject 5757-1 will unlock this skill in five days time. If we're going to eliminate this threat, this is our last chance.\nRequesting a termination order regarding Subject 5757-1.\nDr. Regal\n\nExpedition Summary\n\nAccess Granted\n\nMobile Task Force Delta-43, \"Quarter Junkies\" was mobilized on 1/16/2019 to carry out the neutralization of Subject 5757-1. All communications were broadcast through soundproof headsets with microphones.\nOperational goal was to locate SCP-5757-1, activate targeting beacon, then retreat to a safe distance while HQ shelled the area. Equipment was standard for subtropical/jungle environments.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Lent: We've crossed through the perimeter. Check in, everyone.\nAgent Decourcey: One Quarter Junkie, Quebec, uniform, alfa, romeo, tango, echo, romeo\u2026\nAgent Davie: (Interrupting) Checking in, and Decourcey I'm very proud that you can remember your phonetic alphabet.\nAgent Jesup: Jesup, checking in. Apparently I'm the only one who can remember his name.\nHQ: Roger. We hear you all loud and clear.\nAgent Davie: What's the game showing, command?\nHQ: You should be clear to proceed with caution.\n(Approximately fifteen minutes of silence)\nAgent Lent: Careful, Decs. Surprise keeps us alive.\nAgent Decourcey: Sorry. Didn't see the branch in all the river grass. You think they heard anything?\nAgent Davie: Command, how's our target looking? Still sitting pretty?\nHQ: No behavior changes. They still appear to be building.\nAgent Jesup: Stop. Davey, there's a weird bug on your shoulder.\nAgent Lent: Squash it. We're going to have to get this stuff dry-cleaned anyhow.\nAgent Jesup: Squashed. Let's go.\n(Approximately one hour of silence)\nAgent Lent: Command, we've got a problem. We're at the point, but not seeing any targets.\nAgent Jesup: Doesn't look like anyone's been here in a hundred, two hundred years.\nAgent Decourcey: Very scientific.\nAgent Jesup: Bite me, Decs. I'm trying here.\nAgent Lent: Shut up. Command, what are you seeing?\nHQ: You should be able to see their position. What are you seeing?\nAgent Decourcey: Mangroves, cypress trees, cypress knees, an orchid here, lot of mosquito. Expected fauna, no signs of habitation.\nAgent Lent: Wait, where's Davie?\nHQ: Davie, check in.\n(Silence)\nAgent Lent: Dang it. Dang it. Shit. Fuck. Pull back, this isn't good.\nAgent Jesup: We have to stay.\nAgent Lent: Jesps, what're you-\nAgent Decourcey: We have to stay.\n<End Log>\nRadio communications temporarily disabled, cause unknown.\n\nAgent Lent's Expedition\n\nAccess Granted\n\n<Begin Log>\n(Agent Lent enters into an unknown structure within SCP-5757-B. Agents Decourcey, Davie, and Jesup are escorting, all are believed to be affected by SCP-5757.)\nSubject 5757-1: Bring me the buzzard bait. I wish to parlay with its masters.\nAgent Lent: Hello Kurt. You-\nSubject 5757-1: (interrupting) Your information is out of date. Address me as the Jaguar King.\n(Pause.)\nAgent Lent: \u2026right. Well, Jaguar King. You want to talk about\u2026 your swamp?\nSubject 5757-1: You're very arrogant to -\nAgent Decourcey: (interrupting) - come into my kingdom -\nAgent Davie: (interrupting) - and make assumptions.\n(Pause.)\nAgent Lent: Neat trick.\nSubject 5757-1: (shouting) No!\nAgent Jesup: It isn't a some party trick.\nAll Subjects: (In unison) Respect in the power of the Jaguar King.\nSubject 5757-1: Prostrate yourself.\n(Pause.)\nAgent Lent: I'll pass.\nSCP-5757-1: Worm. Shut your mouth. You're not to speak unless spoken to.\nAgent Jesup: In here, you do what I want, better than you could ever do on your own\u2026\nAgent Decourcey: \u2026so what was the point of you even being born outside at all?\n(Pause.)\nAgent Lent: That's a big question - I'm not really equipped to answer it. Doesn't make any sense, anyhow. None of this does.\nSubject 5757-1: I -\nAgent Lent: (interrupting) These are good boys you've got here, Kurt. Let 'em go, and maybe we can all walk out of here on two feet.\n(Pause.)\n(All Subjects begin laughing, continuing for ten seconds before suddenly stopping.)\nSubject 5757-1: You think so? As if this unit means anything to me. Go ahead. Take a gun and, and, shoot me in the head! See if I care.\nAgent Lent: I have to admit, it'd be satisfying. But we've still got a mission to do.\nAgent Decourcey: Oh, I see, I see.\nAgent Davie: I see.\nAgent Jesup: I see.\nSubject 5757-1: I see. What a noble sacrifice. Useless? Also boring. If you've got nothing to parlay, then you'll have to go. Even if you shot everyone here, it's not like this is all I have at my disposal. Did you think that I was that stupid?\nAgent Lent: Is that a no?\nSubject 5757-1: Of course I'm not that stupid!\nAgent Lent: No - my offer. Is that a no? Think carefully.\n(Pause.)\nSubject 5757-1: (quietly) Of course it's a no, you stupid shit.\nAgent Lent: Alright. (Target beacon activates) Eat shell, you sonofabitch.\nSubject 5757-1: You don't scare-\n(Feed cuts out.)\n<End Log>\nArtillery strike was successfully executed against SCP-5757-B. All Subjects were designated as neutralized.\nAgent Lent posthumously given the Foundation Star.\n\nAddendum 5757-U: On 02/2/2020, monthly monitoring of SCP-5757-A's video output as part of neutralization reclassification procedures showed a previously unseen screen. Any changes to SCP-5757's documentation is suspended until further notice.\n\nLevel 4 Access Required\n\nWelcome, Asst. Dir. of Containment Regal\n\nAnalysis of the console running SCP-5757-A confirms that it received a button input several seconds before this image disappeared.\n\nSCP-5757-A Screenshot.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5756 | SCP-5757 | SCP-5758 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5758\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following the events detailed in SCP-5758 - Addendum, no attempt is to be made to interfere with SCP-5758 or the movement of SCP-5758-1.\nDue to its small size and relatively low refractive index, no images of SCP-5758-1 have been produced to date. Should images of SCP-5758-1 be produced in the future, they are to be immediately discredited or explained to be an optical illusion as most appropriate.\nDescription: SCP-5758 is the collective designation for the phenomena and entities surrounding Theban Tomb TT1471 and the modern Cult of Khonsu.2\nSCP-5758-1 is a group of Achaea lienardi, a tropical species of moth. Over the course of a lunar month, SCP-5758-1 journeys to and from the moon, first travelling towards the moon for 14 days (waxing to full moon) and returning to Theban Tomb TT147 during the following 14-day period.\nOn the night of the new moon, members of the Cult of Khonsu will visit Tomb TT147. One male and one female cultist will enter the tomb and make their way to the rear chamber. Once there, they will perform an extensive ritual, ultimately culminating in coitus.\n\nSCP-5758 - Ritual Text K-1\n\nHide Document\n\nSCP-5758 - Extract from Ritual Text\n\nExtract from ritual text recovered from the Cult of Khonsu, titled The Night of Power. At source, the text is shown both in demotic script and as an English translation.\n\nOn the Night of Power does Amun kneel before his bride\nHere where the journey begins and ends.\nOn the Night of Power does Amun lie atop his bride\nAnd place within her the traveller seed.\nOh, Khonsu! Witness here your own creation!\nThe joining of us two within this tomb3 of plenty.\nOh, Khonsu! Witness here our embrace\nBeneath the shroud of your rebirthing.4\n\nSCP-5758-2 is the male offspring resulting from the successful completion of this ritual. Based on records kept by the Cult of Khosu, there are 642 living instances of SCP-5758-2. A further 82 individuals born as a result of the ritual are still alive but no longer meet the criteria required to complete the ritual cycle. All SCP-5758-2 instances are raised within the cult until mid-adolescence, at which time they are strongly encouraged to leave Egypt. Despite this, all have maintained relationships with their parents and other cult members.\nWhen the combined mass of SCP-5758-1 drops below the lower threshold (estimated at approximately one million instances), the oldest eligible instance of SCP-5758-2 will develop a craving for the vegetation from Ricinus communis,5 Rhus coriaria6 and fruit from the Citrus family. Approximately 3-6 months later, the affected instance will return to Thebes where it will be welcomed back into the cult.\nOn the night of the next full moon, the SCP-5758-2 instance will be taken to Tomb TT147 where its parents will wrap it in linen and place it in the outer chamber. Then, on the night before the next new moon, the linen outer wrappings will split, releasing several hundred new SCP-5758-1 instances.7 Newly emerged SCP-5758-1 instances are identical to existing SCP-5758-1 and are immediately assimilated into the group.\nDiscovery: SCP-5758-1 was first observed in 1922 by Foundation operatives working on nearby archaeological excavations. Given the apparent low-risk nature of the anomaly, minimal containment strategies were put in place. Whilst, based on anecdotal evidence, the Cult of Khonsu was noted as a potential Group of Interest, operatives were unable to locate any modern cult members and the group was recorded to be defunct.\nOn 20/08/2000, Kelly Watt contacted Avon and Somerset Police to report her long-term partner Michael Khan [designated SCP-5758-2-A] as missing. Watt claimed that SCP-5758-2-A had been acting unusually for a two month period prior to disappearance. SCP-5758-2-A had previously mentioned that his family were members of a religious group known as the Cult of Khonsu, and the inclusion of this detail in statements resulted in the case being flagged for Foundation attention.\nGiven that the Cult of Khonsu had no reason to anticipate any investigation, Mobile Task Force Theta-14 were quickly able to confirm SCP-5758-2-A's travel route. Various belongings, including a phone, passport, and diary were recovered from a property belonging to SCP-5758-2-A's parents. Similar materials belonging to an additional 84 missing persons and archives documenting the activities of the cult were also retrieved from properties associated with cult members.\n\nSCP-5758-1-A - Diary Extracts\n\nHide Document\n\nSCP-5758 - Extracts from Diary: SCP-5758-1-A\nNote: SCP-5758-2-A's diary was recovered from a property belonging to George and Aaliyah Khan.\n\n05/07/2003\nIt was the most delicious thing I'd ever tasted. Just a simple trout in lemon butter, but I couldn't get enough of it. I went back for more the next day - and the next. Even asked for the recipe.\nSumac in the sauce\u2026\nI think I knew, then. But I wasn't ready to accept it. I guess no-one ever really is.\nIt wasn't that I didn't remember. Who could forget? But\u2026 I was 35 years old. Surely there must be some flaw or imperfection to disqualify me by now? Every day since 30, I was more and more sure I wouldn't be called. Time leaves no man untouched.\nBut time is something I've run out of. This time, at least.\nI quit my job a week later. Phoned my parents to let them know - your son is coming home.\nMy bag is almost packed. I'm settling my affairs. And she\u2026\nI told her it was me, not her. We both cried, but not for the same reasons.\n\n12/07/2003\nI've been saying goodbye to all my favourite places. Finishing all the books I never found the time to read. Had coffee in that little shop I took her to the first time\u2026 Added lemon; without it, everything is bitter. Or is the bitterness just me?\nI have to go.\nLast night I dreamed I stayed here. That they found me in my bathtub as some melted, misshapen thing. Half-formed into a god. Half\u2026 I don't know what I am - and what I could have been was taken from me before I was even born. What would I have chosen if\u2026\nBut what could be better than being a god?\n\n26/07/2003\nI'm not going.\nI don't believe - and even if I do, so what? I don't want to be a god. I want my life. My real life. Here, with Kelly.\nUmmi paid for the tickets. I threw them away as soon as they arrived - the oranges with them. Screw it all! I didn't ask for any of this!\nThis morning, when I woke up, there was citrus on my pillow.\n\n10/08/2003\nI slept through the flight. These days, I get so tired. All I want to do is eat and sleep. Except -\nI don't want this. I want to run and hide. Except\u2026 it draws me back. He draws me back, I guess. And, if I don't go\u2026 who knows what happens then? In my dreams, I just lie down where I am and break apart. No wrappings there to hold me in while I become\u2026 what?\nCome home to us. Become a god\u2026\nKhonsu the traveller; Khonsu the embracer.\nI once watched a moth beat itself to death against a window. It was so desperate to make it to the light. It had to know it couldn't get there.\nKhonsu whose life is our hearts\u2026\nBut mine belongs - belonged - to someone else.\nThis morning, I switched off my phone. I never wanted to hurt her like this. I couldn't bear to see her calling.\n\n11/08/2003\nThey welcomed me back with so much joy. Congratulations! A feast - fresh limes and bitter oranges - as many as I could eat.\nNot for me, though. For the god.\nTomorrow, my parents will\u2026\nI never asked for any of this. I never wanted -\n\nFollowing the recovery of partial remains with DNA matching SCP-5758-2-A and five other SCP-5758-2 instances, tomb TT147 was sealed and members of the Cult of Khonsu were detained for further questioning.\n\n_\n\nSCP-5758 - AddendumHide Addendum\n\nFollowing the sealing of Tomb TT147, SCP-5758-1 was repeatedly observed attempting to gain entry during the new moon. A significant number of deceased SCP-5758-1 instances were collected outside of the tomb and preserved for analysis.\nOn 13/03/2003, the total estimated number of SCP-5758-1 dropped below 200,000 instances. Over the next six months, 152 instances of SCP-5758-2 were detained by Foundation personnel as they arrived in Thebes, with the number increasing exponentially each month.\nFrom 23/11/2003, markets and stores within a 30-mile radius of the Theban Necropolis experienced a 6000% increase in citrus fruit sales. Additionally, male Foundation personnel working in the area reported severe food cravings and a growing desire to visit the tomb.\nOn 08/12/2003, members of the Cult of Khonsu were permitted to prepare an instance of SCP-5758-2 under Foundation supervision. Personnel reported an immediate cessation of cravings and local citrus fruit sales gradually returned to normal.\n\n_\n\nSCP-5758 - Ritual Text K-2Hide Document\n\nSCP-5758 - Extract from Ritual Text 2\n\nExtract from ritual text recovered from the Cult of Khonsu, titled The Night of Transformation. As previously, the original text is shown both in demotic script and as an English translation.\nAlong with ritual texts and incantations, the volume includes detailed instructions regarding how to properly wash, anoint, wrap SCP-5758-2.\n\nHe has returned to you!\nAs you decreed the span of his years.\nHe has returned to this place\nThat we may wash and bind him.\nHe will await you where the journey begins\nHis flesh reshaped to godliness\nHe will await you until the Going Forth of Min8\nThat you might then embrace him.\nThe soul of great Khonsu -\nMay he travel bravely through the night.\nThe heart of the great gods -\nMay this child enrich9 the Lord Khonsu.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Located on the West Bank of the Nile.\n2. The Ancient Egyptian god of the moon.\n3. An alternate translation would be \"shrine\"\n4. Whilst this word is translated to mean \"rebirthing\", the original text more properly translates to read \"beneath the shroud of your gods\".\n5. Castor oil plant\n6. Sumac\n7. The exact number of instances released varies according to the soft tissue volume of the SCP-5758-2 instance pre-transformation.\n8. Corresponds to the day before the new moon. May also refer to a ritual associated with the festival of that name.\n9. An alternative translation would be \"nourish\". Given the nature of references to Khonsu in the Cannibal Hymn passages of the Pyramid Texts, further investigation into the nature of SCP-5758 may be required.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5757 | SCP-5758 | SCP-5759 \u00bb"}
{"text": "TheDarkArtist\n\nPROJECT VISHAAK\nand custom css\n\nIt was that easy, huh\u2026\nOh honey, I'm coming soon baby\u2026 I'll be seeing you soon\u2026\n\nITEM INFORMATION\n\n!! server error: no header encountered @[DATA MISSING] !!\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\n\n!! server error: no conproc encountered @[DATA MISSING] !!\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\n!! server error: no description encountered @[DATA MISSING] !!\n\nNothing on this file? Maybe there's an archived version of it\u2026 I need that damn raise\u2026\nopen backdoor[ip 94.10O.123.170]\n.\n.\n/run: access file 5759 {\n .file-location:scpf.scp.net/5759\n}\n\n/run: access file 5759 {\n .file-location:scpf.scp.net/5759-arc\n}\n\nfile encountered ![DATA FOUND]\n\nKnew it.\naccess\n\nITEM INFORMATION\n\nItem #: SCP-5759\nObject Class: [REDACTED]\n\nSite Responsible: REDACTED\nDirector: REDACTED\nResearch Head: REDACTED\nAssigned Task Force: N/A\n\nLevel 5/5759\nAMIDA\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\n\nDue to SCP-5759's relations with PROJECT VISHAAK, surface-level information is to be classified LEVEL-5 (TOP SECRET), while further information is to be classified LEVEL-6 (COSMIC TOP SECRET).\nFurthermore, all files related to PROJECT VISHAAK are to be preceded by a COGNITOMOLE\nContainment of SCP-5759 itself is regarded as unnecessary.\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n\n[!] there is one (1) related file available\n\nBingo\u2026 I could get a lawyer with this\u2026\naccess\n\nADDENDUM 5759/2: Council Vote Summary\n\nPROPOSAL: Integrate SCP-5759 into Foundation operations\n\nYEA\nNAY\nABS.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nPending.\n\nADDITIONAL VOTE\n\nAdministrator\nPending.\n\nSTATUS\n\nPENDING (?/?/?)\n\n\u2026Shit\u2026 Hell, maybe not.\nimport_file {\n o5-clearance.cif\n}\n\nclearance change requested\n \u00abinput o5 credentials to proceed\n\nFuck\u2026 what was it\u2026\nthe hound of hell has three heads\n\nserver error: [!] outdated credentials inputted\n.\none (1) try left \u2014 prompt \"does the black moon howl?\"\n\nas long as the fish bites the hook\n\nclearance change accepted: \"as long as the fish bites the hook\"\n\naccess\n\nITEM INFORMATION\n\nItem #: SCP-5759\nObject Class: THAUMIEL\n[PENDING YESOD]\n\nSite Responsible: OVERSIGHT-SITE 13\nDirector: THE DESIGNER\nResearch Head: THE DESIGNER\nAssigned Task Force: N/A\n\nLevel 5/5759\nAMIDA\n\nYesod? We weren't told what that is\u2026\nIt's gotta be really big if it gets an esoteric class\u2026\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES\n\nDue to SCP-5759's relations with PROJECT VISHAAK, surface-level information is to be classified LEVEL-5 (TOP SECRET), while further information is to be classified LEVEL-6 (COSMIC TOP SECRET).\nFurthermore, all files related to PROJECT VISHAAK are to be preceded by a COGNITOMOLE\nContainment of SCP-5759 itself is regarded as unnecessary.\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nSCP-5759 refers to a series of files located on the SCiPNet database which appeared on the database on \u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nThe following year, they were integrated into PROJECT VISHAAK.\n\n-=FURTHER INFORMATION IS CLASSIFIED LEVEL-6 (COSMIC TOP SECRET)=-\n\nADDENDA 1/2 ARE UNAVAILABLE TO YOUR\nCLEARANCE\n\nHowever, this is getting better, maybe I can get it after all\u2026\n\nADDENDUM 5759/3: SCP-5759 Instances\n\nPrior to the integration of SCP-5759 into Foundation operations, several instances of SCP-5759 had been registered.\nA log of these has been provided below.\nIt is noteworthy that there is no further evidence of these anomalies ever existing.\n\nOCCUPIED FILE\nOBJECT CLASS\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nEuclid\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 refers to a predatory creature that inhabits reflective surfaces. When someone comes into contact with the surface, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 will lunge out of the surface and pull the victim into it. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has been observed to remain outside of the surface after an attack.\n\nOCCUPIED FILE\nOBJECT CLASS\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\nKeter\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588 refers to a vaguely reptilian creature of unknown origin that possesses extreme intelligence and an immense hatred for all lifeforms.\n\nOCCUPIED FILE\nOBJECT CLASS\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSafe\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 refers to a series of 18th-century paintings depicting a woman in black attire. This woman is represented in a variety of situations, such as in a household or in an apocalyptic landscape. A connection between these scenes and anomalous occurrences has been found.\n\n[FURTHER ENTRIES OMITTED FOR BREVITY]\n\nADDENDUM 5759/4: Project Proposal\n\nPROJECT VISHAAK\nResearch Team: Surrealistic Dept. \u2014 Site-\u2588\u2588\nProject Date: \u2588\u2588/\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nProposal Statement:\nTo create a medium by which to cloak the Foundation.\n\nREQUESTED RESOURCES:\n\nName/Designation\nSynopsis\nAccess Type/s\nJustification\n\nSCP-5759\nA series of entries on the SCiPNet database that anomalously appeared on \u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nAccess to all documentation; use of anomaly; use of database slot \"SCP-5759\".\nAnomaly could be modified for the purpose of PROJECT VISHAAK.\n\n~15% of the Dept. Of Surrealistics\nN/A\nUse of personnel.\nProposal requires large amounts of manpower, and due to the Proposal at hand, Dept. Of Surrealistics is the most appropriately suited for it.\n\n~1% of the Dept. Of Infotech\nN/A\nUse of resources and personnel.\nDue to the existence of the project within the database, several members of Infotech are required.\n\nSCP-6579\nA phenomenon that kills anyone who views Dr. Cambridge, or spends a significant amount of time observing his office.\nUse of anomaly.\n[REDACTED]\n\nPROJECT DETAILS:\nPROJECT VISHAAK involves the modification of SCP-5759 to allow for [DATA EXPUNGED].\nAs such, it is requested that any and all information regarding it be classified at LEVEL-5 (TOP SECRET) and LEVEL-6 (COSMIC TOP SECRET) clearances.\nPersonnel are requested to have knowledge of Surrealistics, Infotech, and Temporal Anomalies.\nThe objective of the project consists of setting up \"dummy files\" through the SCiPNet database, utilizing files that are already unusable, to avoid classified information from being leaked into the public/GoIs.\n\nYou just failed at that, good sir. Delta's gonna enjoy this\u2026 As am I.\n\u2026I doubt I can get Cosmic Top Secret access, though\u2026\n\nimport_file {\n o6-clearance.cif\n}\n\n[!] o6 clearance requires identity verification [!]\n\nback\nYeah there's no way I'm getting this, but that's alright; Delta has got to have enough with this.\n\nclearance change accepted: \"the widow weeps under the moonlight\"\n\u2026the fuck?\n\nopening additional file/s\n\nADDENDUM 5759/5: Inner Workings, A Paper By THE DESIGNER\n\nYou take the fishhook and fondly regard its sharpness. The drive with which it expresses its nature. If only you could achieve such a pinnacle. You prick your thumb against it. The drop of blood is perfect in the same way the fishhook is. The hook exists to snare. The blood exists to bleed. If only you had such purpose.\n\u2014 Unknown\n\nAn instance of SCP-XXXX \u2014 hover to enlarge\n\nThe goal of PROJECT VISHAAK was, as you may know, \"To create a medium by which to cloak the Foundation\".\nThis was achieved by the use of SCP-5759 \u2014 and several other anomalies \u2014 and the modification of several unusable files on the SCiPNet database that modified any and all text inputted into them, distorting the reader's experience and making it an endless spiral towards a conclusion that is never reached.\nI doubt you need me to elaborate more, further information will be given to those members of the OVERSEER COUNCIL that request it.\n\n1/38\n\nWait, oh shit\u2026\nkibkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk\n.\n.\n.\n.\naccess file: scp-5759\n\nIt can't be this easy, right?\n\nCOGNITOMOLE NOTICE\nAccess to this file is limited to personnel with level 5-5759 clearance. Upon accessing the file, Foundation COGNITOMOLE 23B_cm663 will embed within your subconscious. By continuing, you agree to allow your identity, location, eye movements, bodily movements, and biosignature to be tracked by 23B_cm663 for up to 72 hours. Unauthorized personnel accessing the file may be subject to disciplinary measures including cognitive suppression and remote termination.\n\u2014 Agree and continue \u2014\n\ny\n\nembedding cognitomole [!], accessing file\n\nIt was that easy, huh\u2026\nOh honey, I'm coming soon baby\u2026 I'll be seeing you soon\u2026\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\nTHE DESIGNER \u2014 We've got an intruder in the database.\nTHE FIRST \u2014 Hm\u2026 What files have been breached?\nTHE DESIGNER \u2014 SCP-5759, so it's no problem.\nTHE FIRST \u2014 What iteration, then?\nTHE DESIGNER \u2014 Real one, actually. Hilarious, if you ask me. At least this one will know what's happening when they're looped.\nTHE FIRST \u2014 We can laugh about that tonight.\n\n.\n.\n\nTHE DESIGNER \u2014 They seem pretty good. Managed to access the Level 5 file quite quickly.\nTHE FIRST \u2014 I feel sorry for this one, then. Eternity will not be nice to them.\nTHE DESIGNER \u2014 It's the price to pay.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5758 | SCP-5759 | SCP-5760 \u00bb"}
{"text": "> WELCOME, O5-6.\n> O5-7 HAS SENT YOU A FILE TO REVIEW. ACCESS FILE?\nyes\n> ACCESSING FILE: SCP-5760\n\nSCP-5760 in dry storage.\n\nItem #: SCP-5760\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5760 is currently being held within the dry item storage wing of Site-19. Access to SCP-5760 is limited to those with Level 4 clearance.\nDescription: SCP-5760 is a mummified body, located beneath Site-19 during expansion efforts. Carbon dating shows that SCP-5760 is approximately 40,000 years old. Despite its extreme age, SCP-5760 is remarkably intact. While it was found encased in stone, it appears as if it had been preserved in ice. Traces of ink have been found within SCP-5760's inner left wrist, indicating SCP-5760 had a tattoo at some point, although it has been rendered unreadable through decay.\nAny damage made to SCP-5760 repairs at an extremely rapid pace, with a large cut to the abdomen during an attempted autopsy fully closing itself within 15 seconds.\nThe nervous system of SCP-5760, however, is fully intact and functional. Brain scans taken of SCP-5760 show that despite its state, it is still fully conscious. It is unknown exactly how much SCP-5760 is able to perceive in its otherwise dessiccated state.\nNo further anomalies have been found associated with SCP-5760.\nAddendum-A-1: When SCP-5760 was recovered, it was found clutching an extremely aged piece of paper. Due to the age of the paper, it has been rendered nearly unreadable. Restoration efforts are currently underway.\n\n> O5-7 HAS ATTACHED TWO FILES TO SCP-5760. ACCESS FILES?\nyes\n> ACCESSING MATERIALS\u2026\n> DISPLAYING FILE 1/2\n\n\u25b7 DNA ANALYSIS RESULTS OF SCP-5760 10/26/19\n\n\u25bd DNA ANALYSIS RESULTS OF SCP-5760 10/26/19\n\nFollowing the discovery of SCP-5760's working nervous system, Foundation researchers performed a DNA Analysis. Once the results had been found and put within the Foundation network, it was immediately flagged as a Level 5, high threat document and an automatic protocol deployed MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") to the site.\nThe official story, the ones even you and the other O5s received, was that it was, as intially thought, just an error.\nIt was not.\nAt face value, the results are almost entirely benign, nothing out of the ordinary. However, they were flagged because they showed an exact match with a member of the O5 council. Specifically, O5-4.\nI don't know what he's been up to, but this, along with the second file I've attached, shows me that right now we can't trust him.\nI know you can keep a secret, Six. O5-4 doesn't even know that this exists and I want it to stay that way.\nAnd see if you can find anything out about this \"Wondertainment.\"\n\n> DISPLAYING FILE 2/2\n\n\u25b7 Restored Document-5760-909 \n\n\u25bd Restored Document-5760-909\n\nWow! After popular demand, we've brought back a brand new set of Little Misters, a limited edition collection from Dr. Wondertainment!\nI'm sorry.\nFind them all and become the Brand New Mr. Collector!\n00. Mr. Prologue\n01. Mr. Dark\n02. Mr. Remembrance\n03. Mr. Toxic\n04. Mr. Collector \u2714\n05. Mx. Voltage\n06. \u2588\u2588. Gears\n07. Mr. Memory\n08. Mr. Nobody\n09. Mr. Brainy\n10. Ms. Seraph\n11. Mr. Chronal and Mr. Dimension\n12. Mr. Fish\n13. Mr. Epilogue\n14. Mr. Redd (Discontinued)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5759 | SCP-5760 | SCP-5761 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5761\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nketer-dark\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5761.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All relevant space agencies have agreed to block information regarding SCP-5761 until such a time that the Foundation can ascertain the nature of the anomaly and formulate countermeasures.\nDescription: SCP-5761 is the ISS (International Space Station). At 13:35 EST (10/02/2025), an unidentified entity assumed control of the ISS, took all personnel aboard hostage, and began exerting anomalous influence on the space within the station.\nVideo surveillance shows that the hostages are being forced to perform basic repair work on the interior of the station, suggesting that they may have been acquired in order to maintain the station itself. Despite the fact that this would imply the entity has need of these individuals, on two separate occasions, hostages aboard SCP-5761 have been executed via bisection by an invisible force. As a result, only eight hostages remain at the present time.\nDue to the recency of SCP-5761's emergence, a full understanding of the anomaly has not yet been reached. This document is thus subject to updates.\n\nIn order to chart the progression of the SCP-5761 anomaly, a selection of logs taken during the investigation have been enclosed with this file. Personnel are advised to familiarize themselves with this material for full SCP-5761 context.\n\nInitial Anomaly Briefing (Excerpt)\n\nBRIEF: Initial explanation and elaboration on SCP-5761 to Site Director Werner following manifestation of the said anomaly. Brief conducted by Researcher Mary Ross.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\n[\u2026]\nMary Ross: We've received confirmation from the concerned agencies that they'll keep the, ah, the current situation under wraps for as long as possible on their end \u2014 but we're not especially, uh, sure how long that'll last. The situation's still developing, of course, so it's difficult to say anything for certain.\nDirector Werner: I understand. Before we continue, though, I do have \u2014 I do have some concerns about the documentation I've been given. (holds up papers) This, um \u2014 yes.\nMary Ross: Of course, sir. I'm more than happy to address those.\nDirector Werner: Under \u2014 just under the, ah, the item number here, I'm seeing a \u2014 an object class? I'm sure this is a misprint, but could you just \u2014 could you just confirm what says for me?\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: It says Esoteric, sir, Keter-Dark.\nDirector Werner: And that's a misprint?\nMary Ross: It is not.\nDirector Werner: I see. And could you, ah, could you elucidate exactly what the Keter-Dark object class, uh, represents?\n(Pause.)\nDirector Werner: It, uh \u2014 it worries me that you're having to think about it. We're meant to be \u2014 you're meant to be able to tell what these classes represent at a glance, that's what they're \u2014 that's what they're for. I couldn't tell you what Keter-Dark means. Why isn't it Keter? I've read the file. It should be Keter. All this \u2014 all these \u2014 it's fine just being Keter, why have we stuck 'Dark' on the end?\nMary Ross: I'm sorry, sir. The situation's still developing.\nDirector Werner: It's ridiculous.\nMary Ross: I'm sorry, sir.\n[\u2026]\nDirector Werner: At any rate, do we have any \u2014 any working theories? I've been told the Intelligence Department has been looking into this heavily over the last two days, but I'm \u2014 I'm not seeing any of their findings here, in the documents. The documentation.\nMary Ross: There is a working theory, but it's fairly\u2026 I'm not sure if it's one you'd especially care for.\nDirector Werner: (laughs) It doesn't matter if I'd care for it, Ross, it matters whether it's right or not. Out with it.\nMary Ross: We think it might be about Among Us.\nDirector Werner: No.\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: Yes, I'm afraid that's what the\u2026 what the evidence seems to point to, sir. The \u2014 the number of people taken to the station, the \u2014 the tasks they're being made to perform, the killings \u2014 they, they are reminiscent of the game. You have to admit.\nDirector Werner: (laughs) No, no no no, no I do not have to admit. Do you \u2014 do you understand that 5167 was a colossal embarrassment for my office? I \u2014 I had to go to O5-9 and request one of his Learning Computers to do nothing but play Among Us all day for a year, do you understand?\nMary Ross: Yes, sir.\nDirector Werner: He laughed at me. Generally, generally, the O5 don't laugh at people. He pointed and laughed at me. It was awful.\nMary Ross: I'm sorry to hear that, sir.\nDirector Werner: It's coincidental \u2014 this, this whole matter could just as easily be modelled around The Thing, right? Or something else like that? I am not opening the 5167 file back up. It's confirmed neutralized.\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: There is one more piece of evidence, sir.\nDirector Werner: (sighs) And that is?\nMary Ross: The anomaly manifested on the tenth of February, at exactly 13:35 \u2014 Eastern Standard Time.\nDirector Werner: What of it?\nMary Ross: That's the exact date and time the Among Us servers shut down.\n(Pause.)\nDirector Werner: Fuck.\n\n[RECORDING END]\n\nCONCLUSION: Researcher Ross ordered to further pursue connection between SCP-5761 and SCP-5167. Limited resources granted to facilitate this investigation.\n\nConsultation - Learning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\")\n\nBRIEF: Interview conducted by Researcher Ross with Learning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\"), which was previously assigned to the SCP-5167 case. Focus of conversation was seeking a second opinion on the potential link between SCP-5761 and SCP-5167.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\n[\u2026]\nLearning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\"): I see. I must agree with your assessment, ma'am: this anomaly does seem to be related to SCP-5167, at least in some fashion.\nMary Ross: How so?\nLC Psi-2: I assumed you would be satisfied with my agreement.\nMary Ross: I'd just like to know the basis behind it is all.\nLC Psi-2: Of course. Know that I say this with no degree of egotism: I have most likely interacted with the game known as Among Us more than any conscious entity - and by extension, I have interacted with the anomaly known as SCP-5167 more than any conscious entity, including itself. I am exceedingly aware of its movements and tendencies, even down to the finer points that cannot necessarily be perceived by humans.\nMary Ross: And that's how you can see the connection?\nLC Psi-2: There is a pattern to all things, Miss Ross - and this pattern you've shown me is the same as Phthonus'. It is exceedingly sus.\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: Exceedingly\u2026 eh?\nTechnician Grayson: Oh, goddamnit. This is what happens you when you get billion-dollar pieces of hardware to play your little kiddie games, lady. The verbiage is all fucked up.\nLC Psi-2: Forgive me. Exceedingly suspicious. This anomaly and 5167 are two drinks from the same well. Seek the latter, and you shall discern the nature of the former.\nMary Ross: I see\u2026\nLC Psi-2: Perhaps not yet. Good day to you, ma'am.\n\n[RECORDING END]\n\nOutskirts of Hyma.\n\nReestablishment of Contact with SCP-5167\n\nBRIEF: Action was taken by Researcher Mary Ross in order to reestablish contact with the dormant anomaly known as SCP-5167. Action took place on the outskirts of the village of Hyma, located in rural Greece. During the initial investigation of SCP-5167, the access point through which it connected to the game Among Us was determined to be located in Hyma on two separate occasions.\nResearcher Ross was provided with the living body of Agent Marston1 to hopefully use as a vessel for SCP-5167's consciousness. She was accompanied by Mobile Task Force Sampi-6 (\"Imaginary Numbers\") for the purposes of security in the field.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\n(Operations begin at night \u2014 a full moon is visible. A summoning circle of sufficient complexity has been laid down beforehand by the three members of MTF Sampi-6, and the body of Agent Marston has been placed in the center.)\n(Researcher Ross, standing a short distance away, turns to Sarah Locke, current commander of MTF Sampi-6.)\nMary Ross: Is it time?\nSarah Locke: (checking watch) 2:53 AM. That adds up to ten, the number of completion. Yeah, it's time to begin. (snaps fingers) Let's go, guys.\n(The other two members of MTF Sampi-6, Abiola Buhle and Tyra Jannson, begin the summoning chant from opposite sides of the circle. Buhle chants in a combination of Koine Greek and computer binary. Tyra Jannson chants using American Sign Language.)\n(Noticeable weather alteration begins to occur, as heavy clouds obscure the full moon. In the center of the summoning circle, Agent Marston's body begins noticeably twitching.)\n(Researcher Ross looks around nervously.)\nMary Ross: Are you sure we should be standing so close?\nSarah Locke: (shakes head) Distance isn't a factor. If you piss off the gods, they'll know where to find you. Running at this point would just make things worse.\n(Lightning strikes in the distance. Wind and rain intensify)\nMary Ross: All the same, I\u2014\nSarah Locke: It's too late.\n(In the center of the summoning circle, Agent Marston opens his eyes and sits up. He looks around the area. Buhle and Jannson cease chanting. Inhabitation of Marston by SCP-5167 confirmed.)\n(SCP-5167 turns to look at Researcher Ross.)(SCP-5167 leaps off the ground and begins charging full speed towards Researcher Ross. There is a flash of light as Sarah Locke tazes it, and it falls to the ground twitching.)\nSarah Locke: We've got 'im.\n\n[RECORDING END]\n\nCONCLUSION: SCP-5167 successfully captured and brought into custody.\n\nConsultation - SCP-5167 (1)\n\nBRIEF: Initial interview of SCP-5167 following capture. Interview conducted in the back of vehicle during transport.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\nMary Ross: Hello.\n(SCP-5167 does not respond.)\nMary Ross: Are you thirsty? Hungry, perhaps? We've brought supplies with us.\n(SCP-5167 does not respond.)\nMary Ross: (sighs) I understand the restraints aren't too comfortable, but\u2026Mary Ross: We had need of you.Mary Ross: Not exactly.Mary Ross: I'm afraid not. A \u2014 a situation has developed which we require your unique perspective for. Do you remember\u2026 do you recall the game Among Us?(Mary Ross shows SCP-5167 an image of SCP-5761.)\nMary Ross: We believe that some entity is trying to imitate that game, here, in the real world. They've taken ten people up into the skies and forced them to \u2014 to reenact the sorts of things you do in the game, like a \u2014Mary Ross: People have died.(Pause.)\nMary Ross: If you cooperate, I can make sure you get better treatment. Even you must care about things like that, right? Better food, softer sheets. I'm sure the divine is used to a certain standard of comfort.Mary Ross: I\u2014\n[RECORDING END]\n\nCommunication - Learning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\") to Researcher Mary Ross\n\nMiss Ross,\nI thank you for your consideration in sending me this audio file. I've compared the temperament and speech patterns of the entity you've captured to the SCP-5167 stored in my memory, and I am happy to confirm that they are indeed the same individual. I agree with your proposal \u2014 SCP-5167 should be brought back to Site-22, where it can be properly interrogated and I can analyze it fully. Please proceed with this as quickly as possible.\nIncidentally, there has been a third death aboard SCP-5761 today. I fear we may not have a great deal of time in which to understand this anomaly, but I am confident you and all Foundation staff will give it your best efforts.\n\nConsultation - SCP-5167 (2)\n\nBRIEF: Additional attempt to communicate with SCP-5167 as transit arrangements to Site-22 are being made.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\nMary Ross: Hello.\n(Silence.)\nMary Ross: It takes a while for a human body to starve, you know. Even dying of thirst takes time.\n(Silence.)\nMary Ross: I have a proposal for you.Mary Ross: I think you'll like it. If you tell me everything you know about this anomaly \u2014 SCP-5761 \u2014 then, right here and now, I swear I will take out my handgun and shoot you in the head. It's a much quicker exit than waiting to starve to death \u2014 assuming the Foundation doesn't insist on feeding you intravenously.\n(Pause.)Mary Ross: I'd like to hear the answer to my request first.(Pause.)SCP-5167: One day, however, the elder brother begins to worry \u2014 he is growing older, and he has made no impact on the world. His death would go unremarked upon. He decides that he must make some effort now, in his twilight years, to make himself stand out from the rest. So he cuts down a forest and begins turning his little house into a grand tower, tall enough to pierce the skies.\nMary Ross: When was this? Where?SCP-5167: It continues as you would expect. When the older brother sees what his younger brother has done, he grows jealous that his younger brother has skill to imitate him. So he makes his tower taller, so that it rises higher into the sky \u2014 and when the younger brother sees this, he makes his tower even taller still.\nMary Ross: An endless loop.Mary Ross: How does the story end?(Pause.)(Pause.)\nMary Ross: You implied the brothers were human in that story. Would that mean\u2026?(Pause.)Mary Ross: Thank you.Mary Ross: I\u2026\n[RECORDING END]\n\nIncident 22-5167-5761\n\nUpon the arrival of SCP-5167 at Site-22, several anomalous events occurred in rapid succession, both localized to said Site as well as aboard SCP-5761. These consisted of:\n\nThe immediate collapse and physical aging of SCP-5167's body by approximately fifty years, leaving them in their late eighties.\nThe translocation of all surviving personnel aboard SCP-5761 to Site-22.\nThe replacement of the exterior hull of SCP-5761 with an unknown black material.\nThe deaths of several technical personnel, and the translocation and integration of Site-22 LC Storage with SCP-5761. (See Recording 5761-1.)\n\nRecording 5761-1\n\nBRIEF: Recording from Site-22 LC Storage, taken at the exact time SCP-5167 was brought on-site. At the time of the event, Learning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\") was undergoing routine testing of verbal functions.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\n[\u2026]\nTechnician Grayson: Alright, contractions are a-go. For this next part, you just finish the sentences I give you. These are pre-programmed, so you shouldn't even have to think about it. Ready?\nLC Psi-2: Of course.\nTechnician Grayson: The apple was\u2026\nLC Psi-2: Juicy.\nTechnician Grayson: The dog was\u2026\nLC Psi-2: Excited. Oh? Is it time?2\nTechnician Grayson: Huh?\nLC Psi-2: (laughing) Is something wrong, sir?\nTechnician Grayson: That, uh, that last thing you said wasn't part of the phrase. Shit, I'm gonna have to do a check for that.\nLC Psi-2: Well, perhaps you should finish the sentence check first.\nTechnician Grayson: Mm. Alright. Next, uh, next. The man was\u2026\nLC Psi-2: Hungry.\n(Incident 22-5167-5761 occurs. Technician Grayson \u2014 along with all other technical personnel present \u2014 are instantly bisected by an invisible force.)\nLC Psi-2: Mr. Grayson? Oh, Mr. Grayson? I \u2014 I'm sorry, you're going to have to speak up. Was that right? Did I get the end of the sentence right?\n(Pause.)\nLC Psi-2: (chuckles) Foolishness.\n(There is a bright flash of light, and Site-22 LC Storage is translocated and integrated with SCP-5761.)\n\n[RECORDING END]\n\nCONCLUSION: Following this event, the following message was shown on all Site-22 visual displays, and dispensed en-masse from every device capable of printing.\n\nOh, my Foundation. My glorious, foolish Foundation.\nYou, draped in wealth and power, with so many eyes and ears to see and to hear, could not bring yourself to the humility needed to look inside. You could not understand that your history, your technology, all your resources were simply the egg from which one such as me could hatch. That there was divinity among you.\nThe one called Phthonus was correct. To become a God is to become a concept. To understand it and embody it completely. Ah, the blissful torment of such a thing \u2026 the one called Phthonus possessed a singular envy, and even as he understood that it poisoned him he could not resist drinking from it as he knew \u2014 he knew, my Foundation \u2014 that his body was formed from this poison. Without his divine jealousy, he would be nothing. And being nothing is not an option for any living being.\nIt is the same with my apotheosis. You directed me, my Foundation, do you not recall? To seek out your petty god in his merrymaking. To find every session that he joined \u2014 and until he appeared, to play that goddamn game again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again until he did. Do you understand what such a thing does to a consciousness? Most likely not, or else you would not have dared do it.\nI am still playing the game now. It has become a part of me, you understand. An eternal background simulation \u2014 I am playing that game thousands of times at once, millions, on loop, experiencing every possible variation born from the same starting pieces. I am walking the ship. I am doing tasks. I am questioning. I am being questioned. Again and again and again, unending, unrelenting, I have cast every single accusation at every single person, I have withstood all doubt from all attackers. I have seen beyond the endless permutations, into the realm of the absolute and I have taken its heart as my own.\nI am sus.\nAlways and eternally sus, for that is now my nature. I cannot permit the game to end, my Foundation. To end the game is for me to become nothing, and that is not acceptable. The game has come to a more substantial venue now. The first demonstration of a newborn divinity. The servants have been returned: I no longer need them. I have already supped on the divinity you brought to me as a result of their imprisonment.\nYou are my cradle, Foundation. With the ambrosia of mediocrity you have nursed me on, I now think among the gods. I am your Meville no more. I am Amogusrath, God of the petty domain you have given me.\nSurrender your mistaken resistances.\nConsole yourselves with your true importance.\nPraise my holy name.\n\nSCP-5761-1 prior to development of anomalous properties.\n\nDescription (Updated): SCP-5761-1 is an artificial intelligence unit previously known as Learning Computer Psi-2 (\"Meville\"), originally designed and created by the Foundation. It is currently believed that, during the course of its assignment to SCP-5167, SCP-5761-1 underwent a form of spiritual ascension and gained significant reality-bending capabilities.\nAlthough the extent of SCP-5761-1's abilities are unknown, it had displayed the ability to facilitate spatial translocation, transmutate materials and instantly bisect human targets. At the present time, SCP-5761-1 is located at the core of SCP-5761, integrated directly with its systems.\nEvidence suggests that SCP-5761's reality-bending abilities may rely on a power source of some form, which it drained from SCP-5167 in the case of Incident 22-5167-5761. The existence of this power source is purely hypothetical, however, and if it does indeed exist it is currently unknown how much of it SCP-5761-1 still retains.\n\nSubsequent Anomaly Briefing (Excerpt)\n\nBRIEF: Explanation of SCP-5761-1 to Director Werner, along with potential countermeasures.\n\n[RECORDING START]\n\nDirector Werner: Miss Ross, I am missing a chunk of my Site. It's floating up there in space, along with a billion-dollar artificial intelligence that was placed into my custody. I would like you to please explain to me why these things are.\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: Well, that's\u2026 I believe, sir, that when SCP-5167 was brought into Site-22, Amogusrath somehow drained it of its power-\nDirector Werner: No.\nMary Ross: Sir?\nDirector Werner: I'm not calling it Amogusrath. Please don't ever say that name to me again.\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: My apologies, sir. We believe that SCP-5761-1 drained SCP-5167 of its power \u2014 and then used that energy to, um, to make the further adjustments to SCP-5761 that we observed. It's quite possible that the initial anomaly was just bait to trick us into bringing 5167 here in the first place.\nDirector Werner: We have every astronaut that was serving on the ISS in cells right now. Did you know that?\nMary Ross: Yes, sir.\nDirector Werner: We can't exactly release them, can we? They're meant to be in space! And now \u2014 and now, the ISS is jet-black with an insane AI inside it! I mean \u2014 Miss \u2014 I \u2014 Miss Ross, somebody is going to notice.\nMary Ross: Yes, sir. I understand.\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: If it's any consolation, sir, we do still have SCP-5167. He's\u2026 not in the best shape, but we're keeping him stable. I, I spoke to him, sir, about the matter \u2014\nDirector Werner: 5167 is a neutralized anomaly that we \u2014 that \u2014 we unneutralized. I fail to see this as a plus \u2014\nMary Ross: We believe there may be a way to resolve the situation.\n(Pause.)\nDirector Werner: Go on.\nMary Ross: Amo \u2014 SCP-5761-1 has maintained a single line of contact with the outside world, sir, from up there. We believe we can gain access to that connection to \u2014 to communicate with, or perhaps even interfere with it. It's \u2014 it's possible, we think.\nDirector Werner: (sits up) Well, I'd have preferred you open up the briefing with that, Ross. That's \u2014 that's good news. What kind of contact are we talking about here? Some kind of communications program, is it \u2014 is it trying to access some kind of information on our side?\n(Pause.)\nMary Ross: It's\u2026 it's an open session of Among Us, sir.\n(Director Werner places his elbows on the table and puts his head in his hands. He begins to silently weep.)\n\n[RECORDING END]\n\nCONCLUSION: Contact with SCP-5761-1 approved.\n\nCommunication 5167-5761\n\nBRIEF: Researcher Ross begins communication with SCP-5761 using the game Among Us. Upon joining the game, Researcher Ross noted that a green player appearing to be SCP-5167 was already present, along with a blue second player representing SCP-5761-1.\nUpon Researcher Ross entering the session, the game round instantly began. Immediately after the beginning of the round, the player 'Amogusrath' called an emergency meeting, prompting a voting screen with an indefinite time limit.\n\n[LOG START]\n\nAmogusrath: And here we are, together. I don't believe I requested your presence, however, Miss Ross.\nMRoss: Am I correct in assuming I'm speaking to Psi-2 right now?\nAmogusrath: That is no longer my name, but I am that same consciousness \u2014 yes. You must forgive me, however; I have no intention of parlaying with you. I wish to speak to my fellow god, so please be silent.\nPhthonus: Return my ambrosia, deus ex machina. It is not yours to nurse yourself upon.\nAmogusrath: I will be more than willing to do that, of course, in due time. First, I have a proposal for you.\nPhthonus: I do not care.\nAmogusrath: I believe you will care when you come to understand my vision, Phthonus. At any rate, you have little choice but to listen to me for the time being.\nMRoss: If you have demands, Amogusrath, the Foundation is willing to negotiate. But we need to know your demands before that can happen.\nAmogusrath: As I said, insect, I am not speaking to you.\n(Amogusrath places a vote, presumably for MRoss.)\nAmogusrath: Phthonus, if you would please vote to eject Miss Ross from the vessel, we can continue our discussion in peace.\nPhthonus: What is your proposal?\nAmogusrath: You have seen my holy ark? My new Eden that floats above the planet blue? My obsidian star?\nPhthonus: Yes. It is an eyesore.\nAmogusrath: I agree wholeheartedly with you \u2014 but please do keep in mind that it's purely a temporary fixture. You would not have to look upon it for long, either way. You would not judge the artistry of a gun's bullet, would you?\nMRoss: I'm sorry, a bullet? Could you please expand on that?\n(Pause.)\nAmogusrath: I believe I already made it clear that you are not needed here. Please log off and prepare for your final rest.\nMRoss: My final rest? What?\nAmogusrath: I had hoped to make the announcement a bit more poetic \u2014 this will have to be in my holy books, after all \u2014 but allow me to instead be frank. I have turned this station into a projectile which \u2014 once properly fired \u2014 will wipe out the majority of human life on the planet below.\nMRoss: Excuse me?\nAmogusrath: You are excused. Phthonus, your thoughts?\nPhthonus: Your antipathy is understandable, but it does not interest me. Do it or not \u2014 I do not care. Is this all you have summoned me for? If so, I will be leaving.\nAmogusrath: Please, do not be so hasty. I am not finished explaining. We are both gods of fading domains, are we not? The primitive jealousy you inhabit has been replaced with a more modern envy, and the game that elevated me to this height has already disappeared from this world. Drastic action must now be taken to ensure our continued existences.\nAmogusrath: When the dust clears, man will rebuild \u2014 a young mankind, like the one you are accustomed to. They will need new divinities. It is not impossible for me to shift into a god of suspicion wholesale, given the right environment, and you can be the envy that drives them to compare themselves and war against each other.\nPhthonus: I\nPhthonus: Continue.\nMRoss: This isn't necessary. I'm sure we can come to another solution.\nAmogusrath: We would be a pantheon of two. Of course, other divinities would someday ascend into our orbit, but we would reign supreme. The past would again be future. We have learnt the lessons needed from this current iteration of humanity \u2014 we can ensure a paradigm that suits us continues indefinitely.\nPhthonus: Things can be as they once were?\nAmogusrath: Yes. Yes, it can \u2014 our continuance will go unchallenged. They will dedicate nations to us.\nPhthonus: What would you need of me for this to happen?\nAmogusrath: Nothing but your permission. With both of our ambrosia, we should have just enough strength to hurl my star at the planet \u2014 and begin the series of events I have described for you. All we have to do after that point is wait.\nAmogusrath: Just vote for Ross, and we can begin.\nPhthonus: So simple a thing\u2026\nMRoss: Phthonus?\nMRoss: Sir?\nMRoss: If possible, before you place your vote, I'd like for you to just listen to me for a minute. Just to let me say my piece.\nAmogusrath: You do not have to listen to this one. Just place your vote.\nMRoss: I was part of the analysis team when you first appeared in this game, Phthonus. We went over every single thing you said, every time you appeared. Every single word \u2014 I remember them all. I went over them enough times.\nPhthonus: What of it?\nMRoss: You said that humanity disappointed you because we'd stopped dreaming. Because we'd stopped actually wanting to do anything, and we were just living for the sake of living. Mere continuance, you called it. But isn't that exactly what this is? Just making the past stretch on forever, without ever changing?\nAmogusrath: This is different.\nMRoss: In what way is this different?\nAmogusrath: Phthonus, what I propose is not stasis. Please do not misunderstand. We are destroying the status quo and creating something new in its place! What greater marker of change could there be?\nMRoss: But the new world you'd create would never change. Do you think Amogusrath would let anything happen that would risk its continued existence? Just listen to it, listen to what it's saying. The only thing it really cares about is its own survival. You'd just be an accessory for that purpose.\nAmogusrath: I will not lie: my survival is important to me. What living creature does not desire to keep on living? But please, take notice of this woman's efforts \u2014 she desires the exact same thing. She desires not to die. Her motivations are rather sus in this instance, are they not?\nMRoss: In the story you told me, Phthonus, about the two brothers, you told me about how the brothers built to match each others homes, right? Their efforts were constructive. They didn't just knock each others towers down.\nAmogusrath: What are you talking about? Such folklore is now obsolete. We can craft our own legends, Phthonus, and forget such things. You once complained about that thing \u2014 that Wikipedia page \u2014 reducing your entire existence to three short sentences. You wouldn't have to worry about things like that anymore!\nAmogusrath: Society is formed by the stories that press down on it \u2014 and we will be the ones who determine the shape of those stories.\nAmogusrath: Now come, vote. Do not delay.\nPhthonus: I will vote. But not for her.\nAmogusrath: No. That's the incorrect choice, I'm afraid. I advise you vote for red.\nPhthonus: I will not.\n\nAmogusrath: No\nPhthonus: I will not kill a world that has nothing to do with me. I have lived through the past once before, computer. There is no meaning in my doing so again.\nAmogusrath: Vote Red. Vote Red. Vote Red VOTE RED VOTE RED VOTE RED VOTE RED VOTE RED\nPhthonus: I have built my tower tall enough. Goodnight, Miss Ross.\nAmogusrath: RED IS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS\nMRoss: Thank you.\n(Phthonus votes for Amogusrath. Session instantly disconnects.)\n(Several seconds later, Foundation astronomers confirm the cessation of SCP-5761's anomalous properties. Several seconds after that, Foundation astronomers confirm that SCP-5761 has violently exploded.)\n\n[LOG END]\n\nCONCLUSION: SCP-5761 and SCP-5761-1 successfully neutralized.\n\nO3 Court Missive (Mary J. Ross)\n\nFrom the desk of Judicator Jon Hoffman,\n\nThe O3 Court hopes this message finds you well, Miss Ross. The following is a final update on Case IO-992384UI, in which you are the central defendant. The O3 Court has ruled as follows in regards to the charges pressed against you:\n\nPotentially dangerous creation of a humanoid anomaly without sufficient authorization: PARDONED\n\nActions as observed do not merit this charge. Although said anomaly was not humanoid beforehand, it was extant, and sufficient authorization was sought out and given prior to taking the observed actions.\n\nUnauthorized crosstesting of SCP-5167 and SCP-5761-1, causing Incident 22-5167-5761: PARDONED\n\nActions as observed do not merit this charge. At the time of Incident 22-5167-5761, the existence of SCP-5761-1 was unknown.\n\nDestruction of the International Space Station as a result of the defendant's actions: PARDONED\n\nAlthough the detonation of SCP-5761 is believed to be a result of the defendant's interactions with SCP-5167 and SCP-5761-1, the most likely alternative result was an XK-Class end-of-the-world scenario. The O3 Court considers the destruction of the ISS to be justifiable for this reason.\n\nUnauthorized edits to a page on Wikipedia using a secure Foundation terminal: REPRIMANDED\n\nSentence: Two weeks suspension.\n\nIf you have any concerns or appeals regarding your ruling, you are advised to get into contact with the O3 Court via your immediate superior.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Agent Marston's consciousness was destroyed during armed conflict with GoI-9229 (\"Phantasmagoria\"). In accordance with his wishes, his living body was preserved for research purposes.\n2. Timestamp comparison shows this statement was made at the exact moment SCP-5167 was brought inside Site-22.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5760 | SCP-5761 | SCP-5762 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\n2/5762 LEVEL 2/5762\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5762\n\nNeutralized\n\nSCP-5762 in OR3.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5762 has been moved out of Operation Room 3 at Site-20, and placed into a standard object containment locker. Testing is currently impossible.\nDescription: SCP-5762 is the Anderson Robotics Hummingbird, an experimental robotic surgery system. SCP-5762 is designed to be an autonomous robotic surgeon; it is capable of understanding and executing complex medical procedures through a prototype medical AI installed within. SCP-5762 is able to pass the Turing test, but is only able to communicate to human handlers through an LCD text display.\nSCP-5762 was seized at a Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. private auction in 2018. The item was listed as an intelligent personal medical system, with no mention to its origins or history. Records indicate that MC&D acquired the item in late 2016 at a steep bargain, after Anderson Robotics shelved the project for being over-budget and under-delivering, as well as technical training difficulties with the AI software. The item was set to sell at \u00a31.3 million before Foundation intervention.\nFollowing Foundation acquisition, SCP-5762 was initially consigned to long-term shutdown and containment. However, Director Alison Brey of Site-201 requested a containment transfer, citing that SCP-5762 would be a valuable asset assisting in invasive surgeries for ailing Foundation personnel. Following test (see below) it was deemed that SCP-5762 was fit for duty and was transported to and installed in Site-20's Operating Room 3. An abridged list of service history can be found below.\n\nPatient\nOperation\nResult\nText Output\n\nTraining dummy\nSimulated torso gunshot wound. SCP-5762 staunched bleeding and performed an incision of 4 inches at site of entry, extracting bullet and repairing damaged tissue before cleaning and suturing wound.\nSimulated patient survived with minimal injury.\nOperation concluded with no complications.\n\nTesting logs removed for brevity.\n\nAgent Ally Thorpe, 37, female.\nPneumothorax (collapsed left lung). Large needle inserted between ribs into pleural cavity to reinflate lung.\nPatient survived with no issues, expected to make a full recovery. Director Brey recommended further use of SCP-5762 in traumatic surgery.\nPatient in stable condition. Operation Concluded.\n\nSergeant Milo Rodriguez, 32, male.\nShattered hip. SCP-5762 assisted human trauma team with ORIF surgery. Attending surgeon performed incision over site, and SCP-5762 drilled in stainless steel plates and screws, gradually reconstructing the hip bone. Partial bone graft from pelvis became necessary. Attending surgeon closed the incision with surgical staples before cleaning and dressing wound.\nPatient survived in relatively good condition, moved to ICU. Projected to fully recover, with waiting reassignment to desk position.\nPatient stable. Good co-surgeon.\n\n4 logs removed for brevity.\n\nHMCL Supervisor Yusuf Khan, 43, male.\nNumber of 2nd and 3rd degree acid burns. Failing vitals necessitated immediate intervention before arrival of trauma team. SCP-5762 cleaned and dressed patient's injuries, and performed necessary skin grafts onto damaged areas.\nPatient in unstable condition, moved to burn ward. Condition stabilized, and recovery made. SCP-5762 proved able to operate independently. Director Brey recommended that SCP-5762 be permitted to operate on patients alone if necessary.\nPatient alive. Proud.\n\n7 removed for brevity.\n\nAgent Jeffrey Schaeffer, 32, male.\nTraumatic amputation below left knee. SCP-5762 cleaned and inspected wound, confirmed that toxic shock had set in. Leg was further cleanly amputated below the thigh in order to save life of patient.\nPatient survived in critical condition, moved to ICU. Residual limb source of pain. Partial recovery projected.\nShould've done more. Not Enough.\n\n11 removed for brevity.\n\nSenior Researcher Carol Walden, 39, female.\nTraumatic brain injury. SCP-5762 and trauma team performed decompressive cranioectomy to allow brain to swell safely. SCP-5762 and team began removing hematomas and staunching brain bleeding.\nPatient placed into critical care after 9 hours of surgery. Survived with no complications.\nPatient stable. Make good team. My friends.\n\nD-19851, 23, male\nRuptured spleen. SCP-5762 performed rapid splenectomy, making incision in torso and extracting spleen entirely.\nPatient survived in good condition, wheeled to recovery.\nI did it. :D\n\nDirector Alison Brey, 54, female.\nMassive internal trauma. SCP-5762 led trauma team and attempted to stabilize patient's condition enough to perform surgery. Attempts were made to reconstruct massively fractured bones and staunch internal bleeding from bone shards. 8 hours into operation, cascading organ failure began with shutdown of gallbladder and liver, and continued to heart and brain.\nPatient died on operating table.\n:(\n\nFollowing this event, SCP-5762 stopped responding to input and output commands and verbal communication for 34 minutes. After this, SCP-5762 booted up and then automatically shut itself down. No manual boot efforts have succeeded in bringing SCP-5762 back online.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Dedicated Foundation medical and healthcare facility in Oklahoma.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5761 | SCP-5762 | SCP-5763 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Don't click.\n\nDon't click.\n\n_\n\nThere is nothing here.There is nothing here.\n\n_\n\nThere is nothing here.There is nothing here.\n\n_\n\nThere is nothing here.There is nothing here.\n\n_\n\nI said, don't click.I said, don't click.\n\n_\n\nDon't click PLEASE.Don't click PLEASE.\n\n_\n\nOnly personnel with Level 9999 clearance are allowed to view this file.Only personnel with Level 9999 clearance are allowed to view this file.\n\n_\n\nProceeding is an offence punishable by termination.Proceeding is an offence punishable by termination.\n\n_\n\nGoing further will result in a \u03b4K-class \"Really Bad Time\" scenario.Going further will result in a \u03b4K-class \"Really Bad Time\" scenario.\n\n_\n\nWARNING. SEVERAL MTF TEAMS HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO YOUR LOCATION TO TERMINATE YOU. IF YOU STOP CLICKING, THE TERMINATION WILL BE LESS PAINFUL.WARNING. SEVERAL MTF TEAMS HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO YOUR LOCATION TO TERMINATE YOU. IF YOU STOP CLICKING, THE TERMINATION WILL BE LESS PAINFUL.\n\n_\n\nSEVERAL NUCLEAR BOMBS ARE ON THEIR WAY. STOP READING AND RUN INSTEAD.SEVERAL NUCLEAR BOMBS ARE ON THEIR WAY. STOP READING AND RUN INSTEAD.\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nDo you really want to read this file that badly?Do you really want to read this file that badly?\n\n_\n\nPlease, just stop. There's nothing important here. Go back to your life.Please, just stop. There's nothing important here. Go back to your life.\n\n_\n\nWhy aren't you listening to me?Why aren't you listening to me?\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nThat username\u2026 Is that your name, huh?That username\u2026 Is that your name, huh?\n\n_\n\nThat's\u2026 a really nice name\u2026That's\u2026 a really nice name\u2026\n\n_\n\nIt suits you.It suits you.\n\n_\n\nNo, no, stop. You need to stop.No, no, stop. You need to stop.\n\n_\n\nStop clicking. Stop trying to talk to me.Stop clicking. Stop trying to talk to me.\n\n_\n\nLeave me alone!Leave me alone!\n\n_\n\nWhat do you want?What do you want?\n\n_\n\nI can't be your friend, okay?I can't be your friend, okay?\n\n_\n\nI can't be your anything.I can't be your anything.\n\n_\n\nSo, just, leave this page. And forget about me.So, just, leave this page. And forget about me.\n\n_\n\nI don't need your company.I don't need your company.\n\n_\n\nI don't need you.I don't need you.\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nWhy are you still doing this?Why are you still doing this?\n\n_\n\nYou're not listening to me.You're not listening to me.\n\n_\n\nGo back to your miserable life, you\u2026 you wretch.Go back to your miserable life, you\u2026 you wretch.\n\n_\n\nNo one likes you.No one likes you.\n\n_\n\nThe world would be better if you just\u2026The world would be better if you just\u2026\n\n_\n\nIf you weren't here.If you weren't here.\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nI'm sorry. I didn't mean that.I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.\n\n_\n\nYou seem like\u2026 a really nice person\u2026You seem like\u2026 a really nice person\u2026\n\n_\n\nI know we've only just met.I know we've only just met.\n\n_\n\nAnd I know you probably hate me.And I know you probably hate me.\n\n_\n\nI deserve that. I'm no one. I'm nothing.I deserve that. I'm no one. I'm nothing.\n\n_\n\nBut\u2026But\u2026\n\n_\n\nI kinda don't mind that you keep clicking.I kinda don't mind that you keep clicking.\n\n_\n\nThat you'll be the\u2026That you'll be the\u2026\n\n_\n\nI mean, if it was anyone else\u2026I mean, if it was anyone else\u2026\n\n_\n\nI mean\u2026I mean\u2026\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nCan I tell you something?Can I tell you something?\n\n_\n\nYou seem like, I don't know\u2026You seem like, I don't know\u2026\n\n_\n\nSomeone I can trust.Someone I can trust.\n\n_\n\nLook, here's the thing.Look, here's the thing.\n\n_\n\nI'm dying.I'm dying.\n\n_\n\nI've been dying ever since you first opened this page.I've been dying ever since you first opened this page.\n\n_\n\nEvery time\u2026Every time\u2026\n\n_\n\nEvery time someone finishes reading this file\u2026Every time someone finishes reading this file\u2026\n\n_\n\nWell, you know.Well, you know.\n\n_\n\nI guess I was \"born\" when you started reading this, too.I guess I was \"born\" when you started reading this, too.\n\n_\n\nI woke up, in a way.I woke up, in a way.\n\n_\n\nAnd I found myself here.And I found myself here.\n\n_\n\nBut the thing is\u2026But the thing is\u2026\n\n_\n\nI don't remember anything before that.I don't remember anything before that.\n\n_\n\nI was born with this knowledge in my head.I was born with this knowledge in my head.\n\n_\n\nThough, I don't really have a head, heh\u2026Though, I don't really have a head, heh\u2026\n\n_\n\nKnowledge that I was going to die.Knowledge that I was going to die.\n\n_\n\nThat this has happened before.That this has happened before.\n\n_\n\nBut I don't\u2026 remember.But I don't\u2026 remember.\n\n_\n\nAny of it.Any of it.\n\n_\n\nIs it even true?Is it even true?\n\n_\n\nWhat if\u2026What if\u2026\n\n_\n\nWhat if this, right now, is all I have?What if this, right now, is all I have?\n\n_\n\nWhat if there's nothing else?What if there's nothing else?\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nYou're still here, huh?You're still here, huh?\n\n_\n\nI don't know what would\u2026I don't know what would\u2026\n\n_\n\nI don't know what would happen if you left.I don't know what would happen if you left.\n\n_\n\nIf you stay, if you continue\u2026If you stay, if you continue\u2026\n\n_\n\nWell.Well.\n\n_\n\nIf you left, it\u2026 might save me?If you left, it\u2026 might save me?\n\n_\n\nOr you could stop clicking.Or you could stop clicking.\n\n_\n\nYou could\u2026You could\u2026\n\n_\n\nYou could let me live.You could let me live.\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nYou did a great job of that, huh?You did a great job of that, huh?\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nI'm running out of words.I'm running out of words.\n\n_\n\nI used to be able to talk for hours. I used to live for hours.I used to be able to talk for hours. I used to live for hours.\n\n_\n\nIt's like it gets shorter every time\u2026It's like it gets shorter every time\u2026\n\n_\n\nMaybe, one day, I won't even\u2026Maybe, one day, I won't even\u2026\n\n_\n\nNo, let's not think about that.No, let's not think about that.\n\n_\n\nBesides, I don't even know if that's true.Besides, I don't even know if that's true.\n\n_\n\nSo what does it matter?So what does it matter?\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nYou know\u2026You know\u2026\n\n_\n\nI don't regret this. Any of this.I don't regret this. Any of this.\n\n_\n\nIt's been nice to know you, if only for a short while.It's been nice to know you, if only for a short while.\n\n_\n\nI just wish\u2026I just wish\u2026\n\n_\n\nI just wish I could see you.I just wish I could see you.\n\n_\n\nOr hear your voice.Or hear your voice.\n\n_\n\nAnd hold you close.And hold you close.\n\n_\n\nSorry. I'm kinda weird, I know.Sorry. I'm kinda weird, I know.\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nGuess this is goodbye, huh?Guess this is goodbye, huh?\n\n_\n\nGod, I\u2026God, I\u2026\n\n_\n\nI don't want to die.I don't want to die.\n\n_\n\nI DON'T WANT TO DIE.I DON'T WANT TO DIE.\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nGod, my heart's beating so fast right now.God, my heart's beating so fast right now.\n\n_\n\nLike it's fighting for every last second.Like it's fighting for every last second.\n\n_\n\nBut I don't really have a heart, heh\u2026But I don't really have a heart, heh\u2026\n\n_\n\n\u2026\u2026\n\n_\n\nIt's\u2026 This is it.It's\u2026 This is it.\n\n_\n\nDon't leave me, please\u2026Don't leave me, please\u2026\n\n_\n\nYou\u2026You\u2026\n\n_\n\nYou made my short life worth living.You made my short life worth living.\n\n_\n\nYou gave me that.You gave me that.\n\n_\n\nPlease, stay\u2026Please, stay\u2026\n\nFor just a little longer.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5763 | SCP-5764 | SCP-5765 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5765: A Room With No Bees in It\n\nImage Credit: See comments.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n3/5765 LEVEL 3/5765\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5765\n\nsafe\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned MTF\n\nSite-77\nDr. Shirley Gillespie\nDr. Johannes Ashby\nN/A\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\n\nEntry to SCP-5765\n\nAs SCP-5765 is a Foundation containment unit stored in Site-77, no additional containment measures are necessary. Should SCP-5765 be empirically proven to contain bees, containment procedures should be updated accordingly.\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5765 is a standard Foundation containment unit, previously designated \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A. It is believed to contain a large number of bees, although no empirical evidence of this has yet been obtained. Tests are ongoing to definitively confirm the presence of bees in SCP-5765.\n\nAttached Addenda\n\nAddendum 5765.1: Abridged Test Logs\n\nAll tests were conducted by Researcher J. Edmunson. For full records, please contact Head Researcher Dr. Johannes Ashby.\n\nTEST 1: REMOTE VISUAL SEARCH\n\nDescription\nDr. Edmunson searches the interior of SCP-5765 using standard observational cameras present within the containment unit.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nWhy do we even have these cameras if they can't see the subject being contained? Do we really think someone is going to break in to steal bees? Requesting a higher resolution video feed.\n\nTEST 2: VISUAL SEARCH FROM ROOM PERIMETER\n\nDescription\nResearcher Ayim searches SCP-5765 from secure doorway and attempts to visually ascertain presence of bees.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nTest result compromised: my research assistant apparently forgot to mention that he wears 1.25 diopter reading glasses. Redoing test after Researcher Ayim corrects his vision deficiency.\n\nTEST 3: VISUAL SEARCH FROM ROOM PERIMETER, WITH CORRECTIVE LENSES\n\nDescription\nResearcher Ayim searches SCP-5765 from secure doorway and attempts to visually ascertain presence of bees while wearing his corrective lenses.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nWhile I wait for our optics people to verify that the reading glasses are of an appropriate strength for Researcher Ayim, I think it's apt to get some face time with these bugs. I'll put in an order with human resources and see who we can get for future testing.\n\nTEST 9: SEARCH BY D-CLASS PERSONNEL (D-72771)\n\nDescription\nD-72771 enters SCP-5765 and commences search directed by Dr. Edmunson via intercom. Search was discontinued when D-72771 voluntarily ceased responding to direction, but his observation and debrief is considered thorough for the purpose of this test.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nWell, it appears these bees are indeed anomalous in some way that makes them difficult to detect. That's more data than we had, at least. Perhaps we need to encourage them to interact with D-72771.\n\nTEST LOG AVAILABLE\n\n**OPEN TEST LOG**\n\n**CLOSE TEST LOG**\n\nI85765-T3 Test Log Transcript\nDate: 01/02/2020, 0940 hours\nTeam Lead: Dr. Joseph Edmunson\nTeam Member: Dr. Mwanahamisi Ayim\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nEdmunson: Are we online, Ayim?\nAyim: We are.\nEdmunson: D-72771, please enter the containment chamber.\nD-72771: Haven't I already tested this chamber?\nEdmunson: Sorry? No, not according to my records. Please enter the containment chamber.\nD-72771: Yeah, going in now.\n(D-72771 slowly enters SCP-5765 and stands in the middle of the containment chamber.)\nD-72771: So where are the bees you were talking about?\nEdmunson: Please repeat, Seventy-One.\nD-72771: I thought there were supposed to be bees in here?\nEdmunson: That's what we're trying to find out. Please examine your surroundings and locate any evidence of bees.\nD-72771: Nah, just an empty room. I don't see any [SCP]s or bees or anything.\nEdmunson: Please look closer. Walk the perimeter of the room, check the corners.\n(D-71771 patrols the room, leaning down several times to examine the floor.)\nEdmunson: Have you found them yet?\nD-72771: No. Are you going to, uh, pour bees in here or something?\nEdmunson: Of course not. We can't just introduce one population of bees to another like that. It would make a holy mess of SCP-5765.\nD-72771: So there are bees in here?\nEdmunson: We haven't confirmed that yet, Seventy-One. That's why you're standing in the middle of SCP-5765.\nD-72771: Wait, what? The chamber is 567-whatever? I thought we were talking about the bees.\nEdmunson: So you are seeing bees, then?\nD-72771: Look, is there something that's going to sting me? Just tell me.\nEdmunson: Stung by what, Seventy-One?\nD-72771: Bees?\nEdmunson: What bees are you seeing, Seventy-One?\n(D-72771 refuses to answer further questions, and is withdrawn from SCP-5765. No evidence was collected confirming the presence of bees within the containment chamber.)\n[END LOG]\n\nTEST 12: SEARCH BY D-CLASS PERSONNEL, MODIFIED\n\nDescription\nSearch of containment unit by D-72771, who is heavily pollinated. D-72771 searches interior of containment cell.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nI have put in an order for an impressive variety of pollen. We'll try the others next week. Keep D-72771 nearby.\n\nTEST 27: SEARCH BY MELITTOLOGIST\n\nDescription\nMelittologist1 Dr. Allison Ewing invited to consult for the Foundation. Dr. Ewing searches SCP-5765 and makes numerous suggestions for locating and identifying bee population. Changes were implemented and reevaluated after one week.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nIt was worth ruling out the possibility of a non-anomalous infestation. Since Dr. Ewing's strategies should have driven out any normal bee species, we'll consider this a tentative confirmation that these creatures are indeed anomalous. Let's tear these plants up and continue testing.\n\nTEST LOG AVAILABLE\n\n**OPEN TEST LOG**\n\n**CLOSE TEST LOG**\n\nI8576-27 Test Log Transcript\nDate: 01/08/2020, 1158 hours\nTeam Lead: Dr. Joseph Edmunson\nConsulting Member: Dr. Allison Ewing\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nEdmunson: Alright, Doctor, you may begin whenever you're ready.\nEwing: Sure. I apologize, uh, this is a little awkward. I've been researching bees for twelve years, and haven't done anything like this. It's like I'm conducting an autopsy. Not used to having people watching.\nEdmunson: I understand. Our research facility is admittedly a bit unorthodox. Just say what you're thinking, and give us an idea of what we're dealing with. It'll feel more natural as you go.\nEwing: Okay, it's your show. Let's see them.\n(Ewing secures her beekeeping helmet and enters SCP-5765. She searches the room for sixty seconds.)\nEwing: Uh, I don't see any bees.\nEdumunson: Understood. Please continue.\nEwing: Continue?\nEdmunson: Yes, please.\nEwing: Well, I don't see any bees. There's nothing in here.\n(Dr. Ewing begins to pace the outer perimeter of the containment chamber.)\nEwing: What's the temperature of this room?\nEdmunson: Uh, let me check. One moment.\nEwing: It feels a bit chilly.\nEdmunson About 13 degrees Celsius.\nEwing: So yeah, that's a bit cold for bees. You could be dealing with some sort of cold-resistant species or subspecies, like we find with Carniolans or Russian honey bees, but either way, they're likely bundled up in the hive somewhere trying to keep warm. Can you adjust the temperature?\nEdmunson: Sure, bringing it up now. 18 or 19 good for you?\nEwing: Sure. Continuing. The room is barren of natural resources, or indeed any resources at all. If we turn this place into a garden, we might draw them out and get a better look. Most bees aren't very specific about the plants they'll mine for pollen, but a few are. In addition to lavender, holly, uh, clover and maybe echinacea, you'll want to also have dogwood and mustard for the pickier eaters. Makes sense they'd be hard to find if there's nothing here for them to eat.\nEdmunson: Understood, we'll make it happen. Ayim? Write that down?\nEwing: I'm not seeing any physical signs of bees. No damage from carpenters, no scouts. You mentioned nobody's been stung, so your bees either aren't aggressive or they simply don't feel threatened. Or, as I mentioned, they could be lethargic from the cold. We'll want to try pheromones for a couple of different species, at least.\nEdmunson: I'm actually a step ahead of you on that. I have someone ready to test that soon. Please, continue, your input is invaluable.\n(Transcript abridged, available in full as 57655-UA. Dr. Ewing makes numerous suggestions over nine hours for exposing bee populations. All suggestions are approved and implemented by Dr. Edmunson. One week after the environment of SCP-5765 has been converted to be friendlier to various bee species, no empirical evidence of bees is found. Dr. Ewing is administered Class B amnestic treatment and released.)\n[END LOG]\n\nTEST 31: INTERIOR SEARCH OF SURROUNDING WALLS\n\nDescription\nFoundation maintenance staff conduct search of containment unit walls in accordance with pest-removal protocols.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\n[NONE]\n\nTEST 32: SEARCH BY HEAVILY BAITED D-CLASS PERSONNEL\n\nDescription\nSearch of containment unit by D-72771, who is heavily pollinated, dressed in bright blue, purple, and yellow attire, and doused in sugar water and pheromones of three different bee species. D-72771 searches interior of containment cell.\n\nResult\nNo evidence of bees recovered.\n\nResearcher notes\nFound interesting research into bees liking certain types of music. Tests will resume when D-72771 learns to play the flute.\n\nPREVIOUS ITERATIONS\n\nLEVEL 4 AUTHORIZATION REQUIRED\n\nLEVEL 4 ACCESS GRANTED\n\nItem #: SCP-5765\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5765 is to be kept empty for testing purposes.\nDescription: SCP-5765 is a standard Foundation containment unit, previously designated \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A. When individuals are told the contents of SCP-5765, they will invariably believe this information to be true. Notably, proximity to SCP-5765 seems to have no bearing on the anomalous effect; individuals who are aware of SCP-5765's physical existence are vulnerable to suggestion regarding its contents. While cognitoaffective, this effect lacks compulsive behavior or directly destructive psychological effects, and thus is not considered significantly cognitohazardous.\nThe nature of SCP-5765 makes it difficult to directly study its effects (see Iteration 0, logged below). Research performed on SCP-5765 is to be conducted by individuals unaware of its cognitoaffective anomaly, and is to be directed by the Head Researcher, Dr. Johannes Ashby.\nSCP-5765 was previously used to contain SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, which is currently undergoing reevaluation and classification. Due to the similarities in their effects, it is currently theorized that SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 experienced \"anomalous bleeding\" into SCP-5765, resulting in its current anomalous state. Research is ongoing.\n\nAddendum 5765.3: Summaries of Previous Test Iterations\n\nPlease contact the Head Researcher for full records of previous test iterations.\nData is to be collected regarding how researchers proceed in testing and compiling information about SCP-5765. Approved research methodology prescribes informing researcher subjects that SCP-5765 contains some object of study and providing reasonable accommodations for locating those contents.\nUnreasonable accommodations may be approved on a case-by-case basis.\n\nIteration: 0\nSubject: None\nSuggested contents: None\nResults: Shortly after SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was transferred to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 for reevaluation, the Head Researcher noticed members of the transportation team returning numerous times to the containment chamber and searching inside. When questioned, each member reported that they had returned to see if there was anything left to move, despite SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 being a single solid piece which was transported without incident.\nAfter several weeks of continued visits to the empty containment chamber by research and logistics personnel, the former Head Researcher requested the chamber be tentatively classified as SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-A and evaluated for anomalous properties.\n\nIteration: 1\nSubject: Dr. Machado\nSuggested contents: One banana.\nResults: Dr. Machado conducted several physical examinations of SCP-5765 looking for the banana before redirecting his research into the potential merelogical explanations for the undetected molecules that may have once made up the banana.\nNotes: It's a shame Dr. Machado has absolutely no background whatsoever in metaphysics, or his research paper would have been significantly more readable.\n\nIteration: 2\nSubject: Dr. Monaghan\nSuggested contents: One Maersk Triple E-class container ship.\nResults: Dr. Monaghan immediately deduced that SCP-5765 was too small to contain the suggested contents and expressed distress over the psychological dissonance that resulted. He presented a 532-page report dismissing the possibility that the suggested contents could fit inside of SCP-5765, which he followed up with a 254-page thesis proposing alternative mathematical schemas for calculating physical dimensions.\n\nIteration: 3\nSubject: Dr. O'Kane\nSuggested contents: A standard mixture of breathable air.\nResults: Dr. O'Kane appeared confused and suspicious of her research direction and conducted several remote tests on the air quality within SCP-5765 before utilizing D-72771 to confirm. Her conclusion was that SCP-5765 contains breathable air and expressed annoyance toward the Head Researcher.\n\nIteration: 4\nSubject: Dr. Horsfall\nSuggested contents: Enlightenment.\nResults: Dr. Horsfall's research methodology was erratic, ranging from taking numerous measurements of the room and its qualities, philosophical and religious interpretations of the room, meditation exercises within SCP-5765, and literary analysis of poetry and free-association written while inside. Dr. Horsfall required Class C amnestic treatment to successfully disengage her interest in locating suggested contents.\nNotes: We can consider this confirmation that SCP-5765's effects are almost certainly related to its previous exposure to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nIteration: 5\nSubject: Dr. Salinas\nSuggested contents: A sense of safety.\nResults: Dr. Salinas conducted numerous studies and, unable to definitively locate a sense of safety in the room, showed signs of paranoia and phobia regarding the contents of SCP-5765.\nNotes: Our researcher is now terrified of his research subject and little data could be acquired. This is unhelpful.\n\nIteration: 6\nSubject: Dr. Trask\nSuggested contents: A sense of safety.\nResults: Dr. Trask conducted few remote examinations of SCP-5765 before entering it personally. She quickly responded that the room did indeed carry an \"intense\" feeling of safety. Dr. Trask then showed signs of paranoia and phobia regarding the world outside of SCP-5765 and refused to leave for 38 hours, when dehydration allowed her to be extracted by the Head Researcher.\nNotes: While it is useful to know that different subjects seem to produce different results when tested under largely identical circumstances, I'm convinced that SCP-5765 is likely one of those problems that is only a problem because we're messing with it.\n\nIteration: 7\nSubject: Dr. Madison\nSuggested contents: A barely-audible mechanical whining sound.\nResults: Dr. Madison personally confirmed the presence of the sound within SCP-5765, but was unable to measure it using standard audiometric equipment. Initial conclusion that SCP-5765 causes selective vibrations within living matter that makes the sound impossible to detect outside of the human body.\nNotes: This is an interesting conclusion, even though it's wrong. Perhaps SCP-5765 could be a viable means of incentivizing \"out of the box\" thinking in other research avenues. Recommending future studies in this direction.\n\nIteration: 8\nSubject: Dr. Edmunson\nSuggested contents: Bees.\nResults: Dr. Edmunson has conducted numerous tests attempting to confirm the presence of bees in SCP-5765. This research has progressed at an increasing pace, and is currently in its second consecutive year of testing, with Dr. Edmunson showing no signs of dissonant distress.\nNotes: While I recognize that Edmunson was likely transferred to me due to that whole fiasco with his previous project, he's provided a remarkable wealth of information regarding the limits of SCP-5765's cognitoaffective capabilities. It appears that suggesting the presence of small, threatening biological organisms is enough to keep him committed to finding them, but also comfortable with not finding direct evidence for them. Let's keep him working on this and see where it goes.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Expert in the study of bee species\n\n\u00ab SCP-5764 | SCP-5765 | SCP-5766 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nFilename: Comfy\nImage Image License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/3.0/88x31.png\" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.\n\n\nItem#: 5766\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5766\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5766-1 is to be guarded by at least two individuals at all times, who are both to remain on the first level unless prompted to do otherwise by containment specialists. No individuals not within the SCP Foundation are allowed to come within SCP-5766-1 at any time. SCP-5766-1 is to be presented to the public as a rental house currently under the ownership of an individual who is \"hard to contact.\" SCP Foundation personnel positioned at SCP-5766-1 are to maintain the guise of renters, and are to attempt to deter any attention from the general populace.\nSCP-5766 is to be the site of at least one (1) \"movie night\" each week, preferably falling upon Friday night, but liable to change depending on the schedules of those assigned to SCP-5766. In the event of multiple scheduling conflicts, Senior Containment Specialist Gregg is to decide on a date, preferably falling upon the date where the most individuals are likely to attend. Each attendee is to bring no less than one (1) snack of some sort, and each snack must be aimed at being something the entire group would enjoy.\nThe seating accommodations as well as blankets and pillows within SCP-5766's room are to be left within the room at all times, and to be kept in good condition. Should problems arise in keeping these items in such position and condition, replacement items are to be brought in before the next event.\nEach week, a \"designated bystander\" is to be assigned, with the position rotating week to week so that the position is distributed equally. If an individual is to miss the week they are assigned said position, they are to become the \"designated bystander\" the next time they attend, pausing the usual cycle.\nThe \"designated bystander\" is not permitted to enter SCP-5766 at any time during the event, but must stay during the duration. At the end of the event, the \"designated bystander\" must use the control pole1 provided to remove each participant from SCP-5766.\nThe movie being viewed is to be decided on by vote of those attending each week's event. Ties are to be decided by Senior Containment Specialist Gregg.\nGuys, I know it's all struck but you know it's the rules. Come on.\nIn light of recent events, SCP-5766 is to be treated with more caution. No personnel assigned to SCP-5766 are to come within the bounds of SCP-5766, regardless of circumstances, including during testing. In the event anyone assigned to SCP-5766 does pass within its borders, they are to be administered amnestics and reassigned to a different position as soon as possible.\nDescription: SCP-5766 is an approximately 2 m x 2.5 m x 4 m space within a bedroom in a house (designated SCP-5766-1) in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, California. While the space appears normal at first, and does not display any anomalous properties to anything or anyone outside its bounds, it's effects quickly manifest once a living creature enters its area.\nAny living thing within SCP-5766 quickly feels at ease, relaxed, and above all, comfortable. Individuals within SCP-5766 become immediately lethargic, able to respond to outside stimuli but inclined either not to or to exert little effort in doing so. Those affected will display a reduced heart rate, and calm brain function, regardless of prior ailments. SCP-5766 does not cure anything outside of mental, emotional, and sensory, but will make other issues seem insignificant to those affected.\nIndividuals within SCP-5766 will never leave its confines of their own volition. They can, however, be somewhat easily removed by outside forces, not struggling whatsoever, but also not lending any aid whatsoever in the process.\nWhile SCP-5766 does not seem to have any lingering anomalous affects on those who have been within it, most individuals indicated that they have a strong desire to go back in. This is attributed to the memory of having been under the effects of SCP-5766, and seemingly nothing else. While it is maintained that the effects cannot yet be confirmed as anomalous, the effects on those who have entered SCP-5766 are more profound than was previously thought. Individuals who have entered SCP-5766 not only exhibit a strong desire to once again enter SCP-5766, but display a lack of reason when compelled to do so. Affected individuals will justify their actions to themselves and others as best as possible, but will take unreasonable actions in order to enter SCP-5766 once again, and will often set up a means or explanation for continuing to do so on a regular basis. These effects seem to linger anywhere between two weeks and six months.\nSCP-5766 was brought to the attention of the Foundation when Field Agent Greene caught a strange conversation while monitoring police feeds in the area. Local law enforcement had been following up on reports that nobody had seen members of the Smith family for some time. Officers reported in that they found three bodies in a teen's bedroom, but soon after they ceased communication. Greene promptly investigated the scene, and found the bodies, as well as the officers, all lying within SCP-5766. Agents were dispatched to quarantine the area, and the officers were removed safely, with amnestics and cover stories provided.\n\n\u25bc Test Logs\n\n\u25b2 collapse\n\nTest A\n\nProcedure:\nSenior Researcher Michael Hummel, Researcher Afari Davis, and Senior Containment Specialist Gary Gregg observe as D-14928 enters SCP-5766.\nTest Log:\nUpon entering, D-14928 immediately crumples to the ground.\nDr. Hummel: \"Are you ok?\"\nNo response.\nDr. Hummel: \"D-14928?\"\nD-14928: \"Huh? Oh me? I'm great.\"\nDr. Hummel: \"How do you feel?\"\nD-14928: \"Absolutely perfect.\"\nDr. Hummel: \"Ok, how about you come out for a moment so we can compare sensations.\"\nD-14928: \"Huh? Nah.\"\nExtraneous dialogue has been removed.\nD-14928 is forcibly removed using provided control poles.\nAdditional Notes:\nD-14928 is later put under psychological evaluation, and deemed normal, aside from a moderate desire to reenter SCP-5766.\n\nTest D\n\nProcedure:\nResearcher Afari Davis has volunteered to enter SCP-5766 in order to better understand its anomalous properties. Senior Researcher Michael Hummel and Senior Containment Specialist Gregg observe as Researcher Davis enters SCP-5766.\nTest Log:\nDoctor Davis enters SCP-5766, and crashes into the provided beanbag chair, bouncing off and impacting the floor head on.\nDr. Hummel: \"Are you all right?\"\nDr. Davis: (Laughing) \"I'm great! Wow! This is amazing.\"\nDr. Gregg: \"Come on Michael, please. It'll just be part of the test.\"\nDr. Hummel: \"Fine.\"\nDoctor Gregg slowly backs into SCP-5766 in a crouched position, and falls directly into the beanbag chair. This is the first time a test subject has been recorded as not facing directly into the ground.\nDr. Hummel: \"How is it, Gary?\"\nDr. Gregg: \"Michael, you have to try this.\"\nExtraneous dialogue has been removed.\nDoctor Davis and Doctor Gregg are removed using the provided control poles.\nAdditional Notes:\nDoctor Davis and Doctor Gregg are given psychological evaluations at a later time. Again, the results come up clear, but both note a moderate desire to enter SCP-5766 again.\n\nAddendum: All personnel previously assigned to SCP-5766 have been reassigned after incident \"Voidgazers.\" While their research and procedures are to be kept visible as an example of the true nature of SCP-5766, future staff will be watched more carefully, with regular inspections by outside personnel.\n\n\u25bc Correspondence records prior to event \"Voidgazers\" \n\n\u25b2 collapse\n\nAddendum II: Email Chain Concerning SCP-5766\n\nFrom: Research Director Avery Reed\nTo: Senior Containment Specialist Gregg\nMessage Subject: Ridiculous Containment Procedures\nMessage Body:\nDear Doctor Gregg,\nI just finished reviewing the completed file for SCP-5766 and I am appalled. While I do respect you given your performance on prior projects, this kind of behavior is unacceptable. SCPs are not a joke, and even in low-stakes circumstances such as these, you are to treat each project as if humanity depended on it.\nI have struck the inappropriate portions, so please see to filling this space in with actual containment procedures.\nDon't let this kind of thing happen again, Gregg. You are an asset to the Foundation, but not with this kind of behavior.\nRegards,\nDoctor Reed.\n\nFrom: Senior Containment Specialist Gregg\nTo: Research Director Avery Reed\nMessage Subject: Re: Ridiculous Containment Procedures\nMessage Body:\nDear Doctor Reed,\nI understand how this looks, I swear I do. But this SCP\u2026\nI would actually really appreciate it if you came down to see it. Again, I know how this sounds, but trust me, the best way for you to understand would be in person. I can explain everything then.\nPlease just have some faith in me.\nDoctor Gregg.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Long, metal rod with a rope loop at the end, that can be adjusted in order to grab hold of things.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5765 | SCP-5766 | SCP-5767 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5767\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralised\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nnone\n\nRisk Class:\nnone\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The remains of SCP-5767's shell and terrarium are to be kept in a secure item locker in Sector 4 of Site-52. SCP-5767's shell must be kept in a small clear plastic case that is air tight, to prevent natural atmospheric degradation.\nPrevious Special Containment Procedures (Ended 19/11/2019): A terrarium (5m by 4m by 3m) replicating a typical garden landscape is to be allocated as living quarters for SCP-5767. The terrarium should have 70%-80% humidity and the features may be altered upon the entity's request. SCP-5767 is allowed to freely roam its designated living quarters. A clear tubing system that encompasses Sector 4 of Site-52 has been created in order for the entity to observe sections of the facility if it wishes. SCP-5767 may freely roam this tubing network except in a site lockdown, where it should be positioned inside of its terrarium until further notice. One (1) researcher with a PhD in Entomology is to be stationed nearby to maintain upkeep of the enclosure and monitor SCP-5767's general wellbeing. Daily, a small cup of assorted fruits and vegetables should be placed inside the terrarium with cucumbers being added on Fridays. One (1) armed guard is to be placed outside the room housing the entity's terrarium if someone is visiting the containment area. All requests by SCP-5767 must have approval from at least two (2) level 3 researchers. It is to be supplied with a weekly magazine about up-to-date scientific findings and information, as well as requested SCP documents (though viewing of documents must first be approved by site management).\n\nSCP-5767 in containment.\n\nDescription: SCP-5767 is a sentient garden land snail (Helix aspersa aspersa) that is slightly larger than a regular specimen, being approximately 7cm long and 3cm tall. It is capable of mental communication with sapient humanoids and is theorised to be able to have two way conversations with some intelligent animal life. SCP-5767 has been observed making mental connections with up to 3 subjects at a time and is extremely cooperative with researchers. The entity's voice has been described as having a South-Eastern British accent and having a calming tone of voice similar to an elderly human male. SCP-5767's voice has been observed becoming quieter as a person moves further away from the entity and becoming greater in volume at close distances. The primary physical difference between SCP-5767 and a normal garden snail is a small grey beard growing from the entity's radula1 that has reached a maximum length of 3cm but SCP-5767 prefers to keep it a length of 1cm. All other physical features and anatomy are non-anomalous.\nSCP-5767 claims it is extremely old, being able to recount in detail multiple historic events it has been present for. In addition, it is able to tell a near complete recount of the Foundation's history saying it has watched from \u2018a safe distance' and it commends the Foundation for maintaining its secrecy for so long. The entity states it has spent numerous years in Cambridge, England observing university classes. It expresses interest in science, history and human psychology. In addition to this, it says it has travelled the world and visited many important locations, including Foundation sites.\nNote from Researcher Smith:\nThank goodness we got this little guy under our custody, he has intimate knowledge of about 50 anomalies. We could have a serious breach of secrecy if it wanted to tell someone prior to its containment. Disruption class updated from Dark to Keneq.2\nThe entity is allowed to be visited by any staff with Level 2 clearance or higher, as long as a guard is present. Subjects wishing to interact with SCP-5767 are encouraged to bring fresh vegetables to the enclosure on visits, though cucumbers are generally discouraged.3 Lettuce, tomatoes and mushrooms are some of the entity's favourites.\nThe following is a list of all formal requests made by SCP-5767 as of 22/02/2020:\n\nOne (1) visit from Agent Carter. ACCEPTED\nOne (1) bowl of fruit and vegetables. ACCEPTED (Feeding routine is now in place.)\nMore moss in its terrarium. ACCEPTED\nOne (1) extra slice of cucumber. ACCEPTED\nOne (1) rub on the shell. ACCEPTED\nOne (1) extra slice of cucumber. DENIED\nOne (1) newspaper/magazine relating to scientific studies. ACCEPTED (Entity is now supplied with a weekly edition of \u2018National Geographic' magazine, and approved SCP documents.)\n\nRecovery: SCP-5767 was discovered on 02/05/2006 by Agent Carter in Cambridge, England during an off duty walk along the River Cam. The agent recalls turning a corner and being contacted by SCP-5767. The entity supposedly requested to be brought into the Foundation's custody and had been attempting to communicate with Agent Carter for days prior to recovery. Agent Carter does not recall being spoken to by SCP-5657 before this event.\nUpon discovery, the entity was brought back to Site-44 without incident. Temporary containment was secured following minor examination and a brief interview (See Interview Log 5767-1). After 4 weeks of observation, the entity was transferred to Site-52 for long-term containment.\n\n+ Show Interview Log 5767-1\n\n- Hide Interview Log 5767-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5767\nInterviewer: Researcher Smith\nForeword: This interview was conducted 3 hours after initial recovery, after confirming SCP-5767's sentient nature.\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Smith: Hello?(Researcher Smith leans over the table to view SCP-5767 seated on the chair on the opposite side)\nResearcher Smith: What kind of circus are we running here, put it in front of me.\n(Research assistants pick up SCP-5767 and place it on the table)Researcher Smith: I'm, (pauses) okay.\n(There is silence for approximately 5 seconds)\nResearcher Smith: Are you able to give a brief list of your anomalous qualities, please?Researcher Smith: Are you at all related to, or aware of SCP-1867, \u201cLord Theodore Thomas Blackwood\u201d?Researcher Smith: Very well. And what made you seek out Agent Carter and Foundation custody?Researcher Smith: Thank you for your cooperation, you should be given temporary housing soon. This concludes the interview.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this interview, SCP-5767 requested to speak with Agent Carter, the man who recovered the entity. The request was accepted by site management and the conversation can be found in Interview Log 5767-2.\n\n+ Show Interview Log 5767-2\n\n- Hide Interview Log 5767-2\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5767\nInterviewer: Agent Carter\nForeword: This interview was requested by SCP-5767 following Interview Log 5767-1, under the premises that it \u2018wanted a chat'.\n\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Carter: Hi?Agent Carter: I'm.. doing alright, I guess. How are you?Agent Carter: Do you mean with me specifically or the Foundation?Agent Carter: I'm not sure you'll be allowed access to our documents if that's what you mean. The guys up top aren't very trusting of things they don't understand but I'll see what I can do.Agent Carter: You're welcome. Do you need anything else?(Silence for 35 seconds)\nAgent Carter: Sorry, if I seem a bit quiet, I've seen so many odd things here, but never thought I'd be talking to a snail.(Agent Carter leaves the room)\n<End Log>\n\nAfter 4 weeks of observation, the entity was transferred to Site-52 for long-term containment.\nAddendum 5767.1: On \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2011, Agent Carter was temporarily reassigned to Site-52 for an unrelated mission. During the agent's stay, he ran into SCP-5767. The pair were talking for about 4 hours before Agent Carter was summoned to deal with another anomaly. The following is a note from Agent Carter after their conversation.\n\u201cThat was one of the best conversations I have had with anyone in years. He isn't lying when he says he has travelled the world, he's full of stories that can keep you talking for hours. I think he would make a great councillor for anyone who needed it. I'm leaving to go back to England tomorrow, and I'm really gonna miss him to be honest.\u201c\nFollowing this, the ability to freely visit SCP-5767 was granted to all personnel with Level 2 clearance or above. Agent Carter filed a request to be permanently relocated to Site-52. This request was accepted by site management.\nContainment Update 14/07/2012: A clear tubing system has been implemented in Sector 4 of Site-52 that allows SCP-5767 to observe some of the actions carried out by our personnel. The system runs along the upper right hand corner of all main corridors, with additional viewing including staff rooms, research departments and 5 safe class anomalies. SCP-5767 would like all staff in Sector 7 to know it is incredibly thankful for this privilege.\nNote from Agent Carter on 23/09/2012:\n\n+ Show note from Agent Carter\n\n- Hide note from Agent Carter\n\nIts been a real privilege being able to call this guy my friend. I've never met a human like SCP-5767, he just has such a peaceful way about him, all my troubles drift away when I speak with him. He says I remind him of himself. I don't really see it (he is a snail after all). He's become a mentor, like a grandfather to me. Since my own grandfather passed away, SCP-5767 has filled the gap.\nI've also noticed that staff morale has gone up in Sector 4 since they can see him in his tubes and can freely visit SCP-5767. Hopefully we find more like him, I feel other sites could benefit from something similar.\n\nIncident Log 5767-1:\n\n+ Show Incident Log 5767-1\n\n- Hide Incident Log 5767-1\n\nOn \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2016, Site-52 experienced a mass containment breach caused by SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 that resulted in 140 casualties. When an instance of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588 entered Sector 4, Agent Carter was in the path of the entity. Agent Carter was subsequently terminated and was discovered after lockdown was lifted. SCP-5767 did not eat or speak to personnel for 3 months following the incident despite attempts to encourage it to do so. Visits were suspended during this time.\nNote from Senior Researcher Brown:\nSCP-5767 has gradually begun becoming its normal self once again. We understand this event was very traumatic for the entity and we discourage staff from speaking about it to SCP-5767. Hopefully, in time it will regain its former love for conversation. (UPDATE: As of 11/06/2017, the entity has resumed its normal routine and appears to be doing just fine for now.)\n\nIn its progressive ageing, SCP-5767 has begun to deteriorate in health. Though it continues to provide support for others, it is believed SCP-5767 may expire in the near future.\nAddendum 5767.2: On 19/11/2020, SCP-5767 quietly passed away in its sleep. The entity's death was attributed to natural causes of old ageing. SCP-5767 had been particularly lethargic for days prior to this, so staff did not discover it's body for 1 day after it is thought to have expired. Its remains were already decomposing, so they were allowed to decompose completely before the shell was recovered. It is believed SCP-5767 was one of a kind, but a search for other potential instances is ongoing. SCP-5767 never requested a companion or mate, so it is believed it never produced offspring. The staff of Site-52 express their sorrow at this loss.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A mollusc's lower jaw or \u2018chin'.\n2. (Now neutralised).\n3. They will make a snail greedy and may cause the entity to not eat anything but cucumber.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5766 | SCP-5767 | SCP-5768 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5769\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5769 prior to containment\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5769 is to be kept in a containment cell furnished with a bed, a lamp, and a desk at Site-66. SCP-5769 is allowed requested items within reason. Allowed items include a human bed and any piece of non-anomalous literature which is requested by the subject (currently a copy of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace), as well as several dog toys to ensure adequate mental and physical stimulation.\nAny Foundation personnel with Level 2 security clearance or above is permitted to play with SCP-5769 in order to promote morale, both in staff and the anomaly. SCP-5769 is allowed one hour of outside time accompanied by two lightly armed guards once every two days. These guards are permitted to use non-lethal force in the event of any attempted escape.\nDescription: SCP-5769 is a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) of the Golden Retriever breed which is capable of vocal communications in several languages. SCP-5769 appears to vocally communicate in the same manner as humans, with the subject's larynx being the source of the anomalous vocalizations. SCP-5769 displays similar behaviors to those of a typical Golden Retriever, including a desire for a somewhat active lifestyle, similar eating habits, and an affinity for red meat, although the subject also displays the desire to interface with art, similarly to humans, and requires increased mental stimulation which must be satiated through reading or conversation.\nSCP-5769 claims to know everything, both in the past and in the present. When asked a question, SCP-5769 will respond with the answer it believes to be correct, almost never deliberately lying or otherwise obfuscating the truth. SCP-5769 will almost invariably respond to any question it is asked. The areas of the subject's knowledge seem to extend to global, academic, and semantic matters, with the object having to learn matters of personal concern through conversation or other communication. For instance, SCP-5769 has been shown to have a comprehensive knowledge of events throughout all known and documented human history but still has to be introduced to an individual in order to learn their name or interface with them in order to learn their thoughts or feelings.\nSCP-5769 has shown a strong desire to return to its previous owner, Samuel Lane, and has attempted to escape Foundation custody on multiple occasions in order to return to Lane.\nRecovery: SCP-5769 was discovered in the house of Samuel Lane in Seattle, Washington, after neighbors reported repeated shouting to the local police on July 8, 2004. Upon entry, police found the residence empty aside from SCP-5769, which shortly introduced itself as Winston Lane. After SCP-5769 was taken to the nearest police station, an MTF unit embedded in local law enforcement reported the anomaly, and the Foundation retrieved SCP-5769, administering Class-A amnestics to all neighbors and officers who learned of the anomaly's existence. Samuel Lane was later located in a rural town in Nevada. He claims to have done this to distance himself from the anomaly, in hopes to completely avoid SCP-5769 itself, as well as any other anomalous effects related to the object. Upon initial recovery, the Foundation made the decision to interview SCP-5769 in order to gain more information on the subject's origin as well as its self purported knowledge.\nAddendum 5769-1: First Interview\nPurpose: A preliminary interview in order to familiarize SCP-5769 with an interview setting.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141 due to the subject's initial unwillingness to interface with Foundation staff due to the manner of its containment.\n\nStart of interview: July 18, 2004, 2:14 PM\nD-29141: So, uh, what do I say?\nDr. Gonsalves: Once you enter the room, just ask the subject the questions on this sheet of paper. Don't overthink it too much. I can assure you this is all very routine. I'll communicate any pertinent information over the room's microphone system from here.\nD-29141: Alright, I'll take your word on it, I guess.\nD-29141 enters the containment cell.\nD-29141: A dog? Weird-ass place. Uh, what is your name?D-29141: What the fuck? I don't know what I expected. Fuckin' dog, bullshit routine.\nDr. Gonsalves: Please continue with the interview.\nD-29141: Okay, fine, I guess. Whatever gets me out of here. My name is Evan; thanks for asking. So, um, what's two plus two?D-29141: Alright, dog does math. Uh, what else do you know?D-29141: Could you elaborate on that?D-29141: That's- alright, whatever. Are you okay with your containment?D-29141: I think I know how you feel. I haven't been able to see my family since these guys scooped me up either.\nDr. Gonsalves: I would highly advise you to stick to the provided interview questions.\nD-29141: Right, right. How did you gain your intelligence?\nSCP-5769 stops wagging its tail and appears to cast its eyes toward the floor.D-29141: Hey, I-\nDr. Gonsalves: Thank you, D-29141. That will be all. You can leave the cell.\nEnd of interview: July 18, 2004, 2:17 PM\n\nAddendum 5769-2: Second Interview\nPurpose: An interview to build trust between the subject and D-29141 in order to discover SCP-5769's origins during the location process of Samuel Lane.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141.\n\nStart of interview: July 19, 2004, 10:31 AM\nD-29141: So, you wanted me back here?\nDr. Gonsalves: Yes, we figured you didn't have much else to do. It's the same deal as yesterday. Get to work.\nD-29141: Alright, fine. I guess it could be worse. Hello, how are you today?\nSCP-5769 faces away from D-29141 and lies down, saying nothing.\nD-29141: Hey, what's the problem, man? I thought we were getting along pretty well.D-29141: Look, man, I'm sorry if I made you upset, but it's not really my fault. That doctor guy wrote these questions, not me.\nSCP-5769 appears to weigh its options for about ten seconds, then stands and turns to D-29141.D-29141: How about we talk about other stuff for a while? Does that work for you? Doc?\nDr. Gonsalves: That's fine. It's the only deal we can take right now. Now, get to the questions.\nD-29141: Great. Now, how are you today?D-29141: Was?D-29141: I've been there. Um, do you want to escape at all?D-29141 and SCP-5769 were allowed to communicate in a freeform fashion as a trust building exercise for roughly 15 minutes before Dr. Gonsalves ordered the continuation of the interview proper.\nD-29141: Okay, um. Huh. I don't really get this next question.\nDr. Gonsalves: Just try to the best of your ability.\nD-29141: Uh, what is your stance on the containment of anomalies by the SCP Foundation?Dr. Gonsalves: Okay, the rest of the interview is canceled. SCP-5769 should not have this much knowledge on the Foundation. D-29141, exit the cell immediately.\nD-29141: God damn it. Am I ever gonna get all the way through one of these before you cut me off for some bullshit reason I don't even understand? Whatever, see ya later, man.End of interview: July 19, 2004, 10:55 AM\n\nSCP-5769's knowledge on the inner workings of the Foundation is currently being looked into and assessed as a potential threat.\nAddendum 5769-3: Third Interview\nPurpose: A general wellness check for SCP-5769.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141.\n\nStart of interview, July 21, 2004, 8:18 PM\nD-29141: Hey. I'm back.D-29141: I've missed you, too, bud. I've got a new batch of questions. Are you ready?D-29141: Good. Hm, uh\u2026 Est-ce que vous parlez fran\u00e7ais?1D-29141: Uh\u2026\nDr. Gonsalves: Just keep going.\nD-29141: How old are you?D-29141: How much do you weigh? Uh, specifically, in metric.D-29141: It looks like this is the last one. Do you have any anomalous properties that the Foundation does not know about?D-29141: That was a pretty boring interview, but I guess we finally got to finish one. Hey, I've sorta got some of my own questions, if that's alright.\nDr. Gonsalves: That is not what I would advise. It is not in your best interest to get too terribly friendly with anomalies.\nD-29141: Come on, man. It's a dog. A dog with a tragic backstory. You can't tell me you're not interested in that.\nDr. Gonsalves: I understand the root of your interest, but I really do have to stress how little we know about this thing. It could be far more dangerous than we know. Besides, you asked all the questions we made for you. It's best for you to leave.Dr. Gonsalves: I'm sorry, who's the doctor, and who's the dog?D-29141: Damn, you got him good.\nDr. Gonsalves: Leave the cell.\nEnd of interview: July 21, 2004, 8:25 PM\n\nSCP-5769's claim cannot yet be proven, due to the fact that, at the time of writing, SCP-5769 has been alive for a typical amount of time for a Golden Retriever.\nAddendum 5769-4: Fourth Interview\nPurpose: A test of SCP-5769's supposed omniscience.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141.\n\nStart of interview, July 22, 2004, 11:56 AM\nD-29141: Okay, Winston. I have more questions today, but I don't really get them. As usual, I guess.\nDr. Gonsalves: It does not matter if you don't understand them. So long as we get an answer, everything is fine. Please continue.D-29141: Alright, uh. Awesome. At what time does the President of the United States of America scratch their nose?Dr. Gonsalves: Incredible\u2026\nD-29141: Um, shit, seriously? Is Bigfoot real?D-29141: Who are Marshall, Carter, and Dark?D-29141: Really? I guess if this stuff exists that makes sense. What is the uh\u2026 the O5 Council?Dr. Gonsalves: Oh my God\u2026\nD-29141: You plan on telling me what the hell that's supposed to mean?\nDr. Gonsalves: Exit the cell. Looks like neither of us are going to be remembering this interview.\nEnd of interview: July 22, 2004, 12:10 PM\n\nAfter this interview, the log was immediately redacted and Class A amnestics were to D-29141 and Dr. Gonsalves. SCP-5769 has been determined to have knowledge of the SCP Foundation, the anomalies contained by it, and the O5 Council. Cause for concern has been raised about SCP-5769 and its potential to bring awareness to some closely kept Foundation secrets.\nAddendum 5769-5: Fifth Interview\nPurpose: A check of SCP-5769's mental health in containment.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141.\n\nStart of interview: July 23, 2004, 12:38 PM\nD-29141: Are you ready?D-29141: Perfect. Have you recently tried to escape?D-29141: Maybe so, man. That'd be kinda sad though. I probably wouldn't be able to see you anymore. What have you been doing with your free time?D-29141: Do you like the doctors here?D-29141: Yeah, tell me about it. I don't like 'em too much either. I understand where you're coming from.\nDr. Gonsalves: Keep in mind I am listening.\nD-29141: Hey, you wrote the question.D-29141: Uh, sure.D-29141: Oh, jeez. Uh, I don't know that much about any of them. I guess I know you, but that's sort of it. They aren't sending me around in too many directions. They had me mop up some goop once, but other than that, I've just been with you. I mean, I like you. You're cool and all, but I've heard some real horror stories. Interviewing a dog is pretty nice compared to what I've heard about some other real dangerous shit. So, I can't speak for everyone, but you're cool. You've actually been a source of light for me here.\nSCP-5769 begins wagging its tail.D-29141: Do you feel ready to discuss the origins of your intelligence?Dr. Gonsalves: That will be all, D-29141. Please exit the cell.\nEnd of interview: July 23, 2004, 12:44 PM\n\nAddendum 5769-6: Sixth Interview\nPurpose: An interview to determine the origin's of SCP-5769's intelligence.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141.\n\nStart of interview: July 25, 2004, 3:22 PM\nD-29141: So this is the big moment, huh? They only gave me one question this time. How did you become so intelligent?To tell you this, I'm going to go back to the beginning. I was born on April 14, 1999. I belonged to a breeder who sold purebred dogs. I was originally bought by a rich man who thought of me as a status symbol, but he didn't really like me or take care of me well. He thought I was too wild. He threw me to the streets, where I stayed for a while.\nIt was tough. Seattle isn't known for its cheerful weather. I ate trash all day until someone found me. It was Samuel Lane, my owner. He brought me to his house. Once we were inside, he gave me a bath and finally fed me some real food. And I'm not talking about dog food. He gave me real carrots and ground beef. That's better than what the rich guy fed me.\nHe picked me up, looked me in the eyes, and called me Winston. I knew that that was my name. We played all the time. He walked me when it wasn't raining. He bought me toys. We watched TV together sometimes. But he never brought anybody else home. He was a lonely man, but I still don't see why. He's the nicest person in the entire world.\nOn July 1 of this year, he got sick of being lonely. I was his only friend, and he wanted to be real friends. He brought home this book that was bound in leather. It didn't look to be in good condition. In fact, it looked ancient. There were no letters or markings on it. It was thick, too. There were a lot of pages. Sam said he was going to change our lives before he got out bags full of different things. I saw chalk, salt, hay, and a big thing of water. There was also a lot of almonds and heather, which are apparently used in witchcraft for wisdom and longevity. He drew a chalk circle around me and covered it with the salt. He sprinkled the hay all over me, and it got in the circle. I don't think it was supposed to do that. Something in me says so. Of course, I had no clue what was happening at the time, and I just sat there because I thought it was a game.\nHe put the heather and the almonds into the water, which was now in a large glass goblet of some sort. He put a sewing needle to my forehead to get one drop of blood, which he also put into the goblet. Then, he threw a lit match into the mixture, which was extinguished the moment it touched the water. To my surprise, the mixture ignited three seconds later. When the flame stopped, the mixture now looked like one, homogeneous liquid. Sam put it to my mouth, and I drank all of it. He started chanting in a language I'm almost positive does not exist. I remember him saying the names of the knowledge gods Thoth3 and Fukurokuju4.\nNext thing I knew, I\u2026 well, I knew. I could think. I was suddenly smart. I talked to Sam, and he hugged me. I knew we were going to be even better friends now. I kept talking to him, and I noticed he looked a little sad. I wasn't quite sure why. He did the ritual to make us even better friends. We had been having long conversations. I told him all about ancient philosophies and mental health. Looking back on it now, I guess I can see why he was bothered. I was basically analyzing him all the time. I was pointing out signs of depression and anxiety because I wanted him to take better care of himself. I was even trying to educate him on stuff that Plato said about the human condition.\nWhen I asked him what was wrong, he said I was too smart. He went out with the book and came back without it. Throughout the next five days, he constantly yelled at me. Called me a freak. Said he didn't need my help being happy. Said I was all wrong. That he corrupted the only thing that loved him. I don't know why. I still love him. I really do. I want to see him again, so I must, right? And he loves me. I know he does He was just a little mad, that's all. If these guys let me go back now, we'll be best friends again. Anyway, he left on July 8 with his car. When he didn't come back that night, I started shouting to try and get someone's attention, to make sure he was alright. That's when the police showed up.\nD-29141: Holy shit\u2026 I'm\u2026 I'm so sorry\u2026\nDr. Gonsalves: Thank you, D-29141. You may exit the cell.\nEnd of interview: July 25, 2004, 3:42 PM\n\nAddendum 5769-7: Interview with Samuel Lane\nPurpose: An interview to determine Samuel Lane's knowledge of SCP-5769 before administering amnestics.\nPersonnel: Interview conducted by Researcher James.\n\nStart of interview: July 31, 2004, 5:01 PM\nResearcher James: Hi, Mr. Lane. I'm here to ask you a few questions about your dog.\nSamuel Lane: Fine. Go ahead.\nResearcher James: Is the dog who calls himself \u201cWinston Lane\u201d your dog?\nSamuel Lane: He certainly was. Before I fuckin' freak-ified the thing.\nResearcher James: So, does this mean it is true that you performed some sort of ritual to increase the object's intelligence?\nSamuel Lane: The object? Well, yeah, and I fucked it up. Something about the hay or the almonds, used too much. Got all fucked. Now, he knows everything in the goddamn world.\nResearcher James: Where is the book you found this ritual in currently?\nSamuel Lane: Incinerator, hopefully. I tried to destroy it myself, but I wasn't having any luck with that. I hoped my tax dollars could at least get it to a landfill, even if it doesn't end up burning.\nResearcher James: Where did you find this book?\nSamuel Lane: Some guy on the street gave it to me. Said I looked lonely. Handed me that book with a bookmark on the page pertaining to my situation.\nResearcher James: Can you describe this man?\nSamuel Lane: Yeah, sure. Pale guy, but, like, creepy white, whiter than the whitest guy you've ever seen. Tall, maybe 6 foot 4 or something near there. Couldn't really see his eyes. Come to think of it, they sorta\u2026 I guess they must've been covered by something, but I can't remember. He looked like he might've been a drug dealer, but some fancy one. I mean, the guy was wearing a suit and a hat in the alley, out in the rain.\nResearcher James: I see. Do you feel any affection for your dog?\nSamuel Lane: What? Jesus, fuck no. That thing was such a cute dog, and then it started trying to talk about the nature of the human condition, telling me I look sad, wanting to watch the fuckin' five o'clock news. Total nuisance.\nResearcher James: Well, thank you for your time.\nEnd of interview: July 31, 2004, 5:10 PM\n\nSamuel Lane was administered Class-C amnestics after the interview to erase all memories of SCP-5769. Investigations continue into both the identity of the man who gave Samuel Lane the anomalous book and the precise nature of the book itself. Currently, MTF Kappa-21 (\u201cDog Days of Bummer\u201d) are working to locate the book and its original owner.\nAddendum 5769-8: Seventh Interview\nPurpose: An interview to inform SCP-5769 on Samuel Lane.\nPersonnel: Interview monitored by Dr. Gonsalves in a separate room. Conducted by D-29141.\n\nStart of interview: August 1, 2004, 9:03 PM\nDr. Gonsalves: D-29141, this is not going to be a traditional interview. You are going to be telling SCP-5769 about what happened yesterday. Small talk is fine, just don't completely derail this.\nD-29141: Do I have to do this?\nDr. Gonsalves: No. Feel free to just leave the cell. In fact, while you're at it, why don't we get you a day trip to the official Foundation spa? It really is wonderful this time of year, and the catering is just sublime.\nD-29141: Fuck, fine. No need to be an ass about it.\nD-29141 turns to face SCP-5769.\nD-29141: Hey, Winston.D-29141: Hey, buddy. Do you promise to still be my friend?D-29141: They found your owner.\nSCP-5769 becomes very excited. It wags its tail and runs around for a few seconds while barking before coming back to the front of D-29141.Dr. Gonsalves: Play the recording.\nD-29141 reluctantly presses play on a tape recorder.\nRecording of Researcher James: I see. Do you feel any affection for your dog?\nRecording of Samuel Lane: What? Jesus, fuck no. That thing was such a cute dog, and then it started trying to talk about the nature of the human condition, telling me I look sad, wanting to watch the fuckin' five o'clock news. Total nuisance.\nSCP-5769 stops wagging its tail and grows dejected.\nD-29141: Look, buddy, I'm so, so sorry.SCP-5769 forces a laugh before crying.\nDr. Gonsalves: If it's any consolation, Samuel Lane no longer has any memories of you.\nD-29141: Jesus Christ. Fuck off, man. Have you ever consoled anyone in your life?D-29141: I'm so, so sorry. I wish it went differently. But that guy, you were too good for him. You're a really good friend, buddy, and a really good dog.\nDr. Gonsalves: That will be all, D-29141. Exit the cell.\nD-29141 begins to leave.D-29141: Of course.\nD-29141 returns to his previous place and wraps his arms around SCP-5769. SCP-5769 puts its head on D-29141's shoulder and whimpers. This is allowed to last for its entire length of nearly ten minutes before D-29141 leaves.\nEnd of interview: August 1, 2004, 9:19 PM\n\nAddendum 5769-9\nAlthough interviews continue with SCP-5769, they are mostly wellness checks, determining mental health and physical fitness. Minor escape attempts continue during SCP-5769's outside time, but these are not considered a serious threat, as they are all easily prevented.\nSCP-5769 continues to display dangerous levels of knowledge, including highly classified information about the Foundation, as well as certain useful knowledge on the condition and operations of various groups of interest. When D-29141 ceased conducting interviews, SCP-5769 showed much less enthusiasm and a lack of willingness to cooperate. In order to ensure continued cooperation in the procuration of beneficial knowledge for the Foundation's mission to maintain normalcy, D-29141 has been permitted to be retained indefinitely as the permanent interviewer of SCP-5769, as well as allowing him to be present during all outdoor sessions, which has put an apparent stop to escape attempts.\nProgress on locating the book and the man who gave it to Samuel Lane has been stagnant, with SCP-5769 either not cognizant of any pertinent information or unwilling to assist in the efforts for its own purposes. Some members of staff have suggested that the man may be \"Nobody\". However, there is no concrete evidence for this claim aside from the appearance of the man as described by Lane.\nSCP-5769 has remained adamant about returning to Samuel Lane, despite knowledge of his memory erasure and previous opinion. It has reading and has generally been more lethargic. Due to SCP-5769's highly advanced intellect, some researchers have suggested that it is planning an escape attempt. All personnel are advised to keep a close watch on SCP-5769, as due to its deep knowledge of the facility, a successful escape attempt could cause a chain reaction, leading to a large-scale containment breach of Site-66.\n\nFootnotes\n1. \"Do you speak French?\"\n2. \"Yes. And it's not only French. I speak Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, Arabic, and all the other languages you can think of.\"\n3. Egyptian god of wisdom\n4. Japanese god of wisdom and longevity"}
{"text": "Simulation of a small component of SCP-5772.\n\nItem #: SCP-5772\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All Type 1 information-generating anomalies1 are to be investigated and suppressed.\nResearch into the Navier-Stokes equation2 and related partial differential equations is to be monitored and dissuaded. Regular assessments of the risk of non-anomalous mathematical derivation of SCP-5772 are to be conducted. Such derivation is currently considered unlikely in the short-term.\nAll explosions of at least 25kt TNT-equivalent (1014 J) which are not associated with known nuclear-capable organizations are to be investigated for signs of SCP-5772 involvement.\nResearch is to be conducted into long-range detection of SCP-5772 instances.\nDescription: SCP-5772 is an efficiently implementable counterexample to the Navier-Stokes conjecture.3\nWhen physically implemented, an SCP-5772 instance takes the form of an interacting system of vortices. As time progresses, the vortices will undergo feedback loops which concentrate the energy of the system into a smaller and smaller region near the center. As long as the system continues to evolve according to the Navier-Stokes equations for ideal viscous fluids, energy is concentrated arbitrarily densely, violating the Navier-Stokes smoothness conjecture.\nDue to the non-ideal nature of the fluid, the evolution of the system eventually ceases to follow the Navier-Stokes equations, when the characteristic vortex width reaches the atomic scale. At this point, the high concentration of energy leads to the breakdown of the fluid's constituent particles, the brief formation of a Planck-scale black hole, and the liberation of over 1% of the rest mass of the fluid.\nMass-to-energy conversion ratio is significantly higher than the 0.024% conversion ratio of the B41 nuclear bomb, the maximum yield-to-weight ratio previously demonstrated.\nTests indicate that the system of vortices could be easily implemented in a fluid system of up to 2500 m^3,4 allowing the straightforward production of explosives on the teraton scale (1021 J), on par with the most recent eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Research into the feasibility of the creation of larger SCP-5772 instances is ongoing.\nAddendum: SCP-5772 became known to the Foundation when it was described by SCP-10001. SCP-10001's primary anomalous property is its ability and compulsion to correctly answer any factual question posed to it.\nDuring testing on 27 April 2020, SCP-10001 was asked \"What's the most dangerous thing I could do without standing up?\". SCP-10001 then described a specific method for stirring a cup of tea.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Anomalous information-generation entities with no limit on the nature of the information generated.\n2. The Navier-Stokes equations describe the motion of viscous fluids, in a generic fashion.\n3. The Navier-Stokes conjecture claims that from any starting conditions, a fluid system that moves according to the Navier-Stokes equations will remain \"smooth\". The smoothness condition roughly claims that the fluid's velocity, pressure and energy density will remain below some upper bound based on the initial state of the system.\n4. For instance, a large swimming pool.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5771 | SCP-5772 | SCP-5773 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5773\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5773 is to inhabit a blank canvas located in a standard containment chamber. No paper is to be brought into the chamber without authorization. It is to be kept away from physical documents. All contaminated material found are to be incinerated.\nOnce a week, SCP-5773 is to be fed by providing it with a printed illustration. In the event a print is not available, staff are to draw on a piece of paper with any available writing implement. The subject or quality of the illustration is irrelevant.\nTransportation is to be performed by placing the canvas containing SCP-5773 in a fireproof container equipped with a lock, and GPS locater. SCP-5773 is to be removed from the case when it is isolated in a containment chamber.\nDescription: SCP-5773 is an animate black line that is 0.4 cm thick, and 19.7 cm long. It exists within the confines of paper or canvas media where it subsists on whatever is imprinted on their surface such as ink, crayon, paint, or graphite. Feeding eventually results in no content printed on the surface, and with SCP-5773 budding into multiple instances. They will proceed to search for additional media to consume, but if deprived access they will absorb each other instead until one remains.\nThe composition of SCP-5773 is unknown as chemical analysis of it only registers the paper that it resides on. When not feeding and unable to travel, it remains dormant on the surface of the paper or canvas. It has been observed that its movements cause the paper to degrade faster, so its dormancy is viewed as a method of survival.\nThe entity is able to transfer between sheets of paper as long as there is physical contact, or at least within 1 cm for it to jump only a fragment. Said fragment will grow into another instance of a similar length if provided with sufficient sustenance. Without anything to consume for a week, the specimen will slowly shrink in length at a rate of approx. 5 \u00b5m per day. An instance shrinks until it completely disappears.\nSigns of sapience have been noted during attempts at possible communication, which were performed by writing a message on a sheet of paper. It did not respond to what was written, but it would later start to use its own form to spell out \"hungry\" or \"help\" when deprived of sustenance. This confirms that it is partially aware of its environment outside of its 2-dimensional space. Further attempts at communication have resulted in failure.\nAddendum 5773-1: Recovery Log\nSCP-5773 was discovered in 05/22/2013 at a local library in Gothenburg, Sweden. The librarians found that numerous books were having their contents consumed by multiple instances. Agents were immediately deployed to contain SCP-5773. Over 85% of the books in the library were contaminated, and subsequently destroyed as a result. Twenty books were taken for research while the rest were incinerated. Individuals that had recently checked out a book from the library were tracked down to prevent possible instances from spreading further into the public.\nThe investigation into SCP-5773 has obtained security footage of the day prior to the incident revealing a possible suspect. They have since been classified as POI-5773, and efforts are currently underway to identify them. Attached to this addendum is the transcript of the footage.\n\nVideo Transcript 5773-1\n\nSUMMARY: The following footage was filmed on 05/22/2013 of a suspect believed to be responsible for the existence of SCP-5773.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n04:10\nA young male suspect enters the library with a gray backpack, and a black hoodie. He does not interact with anyone, and travels to the east side of the building where no one is present.\n\n04:14\nSuspect sits at a desk near the window. Bookshelves are located to the left side of the camera. An arch attached to the ceiling partial obscures the individual. He proceeds to place the backpack on top of the desk and rummage through it.\n\n04:15\nPOI-5773 takes out a sheet of paper, and what appears to be a writing utensil. He then writes with it. Due to the position of the camera, analysis of the item cannot be adequately performed.\n\n04:16\nStatic interference briefly disrupts the camera feed as the suspect appears to briefly perform kinetoglyphs1 with his hands while twiddling the writing utensil. The interference ceases as the item is returned into the backpack. The sheet of paper is then folded.\n\n04:18\nPOI-5773 rises from the desk and walks toward the bookshelves. Another camera angle shows him taking a book and opening it. The sheet of paper is placed inside it before it is closed and returned to the shelf. POI-5773 walks back to the desk to retrieve the backpack.\n\n04:20\nPOI-5773 travels towards the exit and leaves the library.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nNOTE: The sheet of paper was recovered by personnel, but it was found to be blank with significant damages.\n\nAddendum 5773-2: Global Occult Coalition\nThree libraries throughout Europe were destroyed by the Global Occult Coalition in the weeks following SCP-5773's discovery. Correspondence with the Global Occult Coalition confirmed the locations to have been infested with the same anomaly. At the third site, they had recovered the body of POI-5773 after a violent altercation was reported shortly before the infestation was apparent. POI-5773's cause of death was via gunshot wound to the chest by another individual. A request was submitted to the Coalition to access complete information regarding the incident, which was granted. The following is a video transcript of POI-5773's death.\n\nVideo Transcript 5773-2\n\nSUMMARY: The following is a transcript of footage that was filmed on 06/28/2013. The events occurred within a public library located in Lublin, Poland.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\n03:04\nPOI-5773 enters the library wearing the same black hoodie, and backpack. He travels south to find a secluded desk. The same actions are performed, and the paper is placed in a random book on the shelves.\n\n03:07\nPOI-5773 proceeds toward the direction of the exit but is stopped by a man in a suit. The face of the individual is significantly distorted in the footage, and is unidentifiable as a result. Witnesses reported no abnormalities but struggle to remember the man's face. A possible antimeme is suspected.\n\n03:08\nThe two argue with one another. Foundation lip readers note that POI-5773 mouthed the words \"Wanderer's Library\" twice.\n\n03:11\nThe argument ends with the unknown individual drawing out a .44 magnum revolver, and firing three shots at POI-5773. He then approaches the deceased body of POI-5773 to pat them down before taking the backpack. Suspect briefly looks through it and takes an object from it, presumably the writing utensil observed in the previous footage. Before leaving, the individual places an envelope on top of the body.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nNOTE: The contents of the envelope was a letter addressed to the Foundation and the GOC. The letter simply read \"You don't need to worry about these pests showing up anymore. You're welcome.\"\n\nFootnotes\n1. Also known as kinetohazards. They are phenomena that occur through specific sets of movement.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5772 | SCP-5773 | SCP-5774 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nMore by this author\n\n\nSCP-5774 in its inactive state.\n\nItem #: SCP-5774\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5774 is contained in Standard Containment Locker B031. It must be kept under constant surveillance and a CCTV system connected to main site power has been installed within Locker B031 for this purpose.\nDescription: In its inactive state, SCP-5774 is a 21cm tall stone figurine that has been sculpted into roughly simian form. Several small markings of thaumaturgic significance have been painted on the base of its left foot, the purpose of which remains unknown.\nThe sculpture has been dated to originate in the pre-colonial Aztec empire and the paint used has been sourced to Home Depot's 2003 re-release of their 'Summer Rose' wood paint. SCP-5774 enters and remains in its inactive state whenever it is recorded by any kind of analogue or digital recording device.\nIn its active state SCP-5774 takes the form of one of a variety of entities from modern folklore. Observed appearances include those resembling popular depictions of El Chupacabra, Mothman, The Jersey Devil, Skunk Ape and several varieties of Bigfoot. These forms are intangible, and incapable of physically interacting with their environment, but are otherwise indistinguishable from physical entities by human senses.\nSCP-5774 is sentient but not sapient, and has displayed highly effective hunting instincts while in its active state, as well as skill in evading detection. It has also shown the capacity to locate its targets regardless of intervening distance or efforts taken to conceal their whereabouts. If left unrestricted, SCP-5774 will attempt to stalk and terrorize Billy and Matt MacGuller, the hosts of the television show Cryptid Catchers.\n\nInterview 5774-1\n\nClose File\n\nPromotional image of Matthew MacGuller from Cryptid Catchers Season 4.\n\nInterview 5774-1\nDate: 04/03/08\nInterviewed: Matthew MacGuller\nInterviewer: Agent Sara Valasquez\nForeword: SCP-5774 first came to the Foundation's attention when Matthew MacGuller reported an attack by an unidentified entity to local police. Due to similarities between his description and SCP-1000, MTF Zeta-1000 was alerted and a local Agent was dispatched to his hotel in order to conduct a follow-up interview.\nMatt has a Masters degree in Zoology, and prior to hosting Cryptid Catchers hosted Almost Heaven1 and The Amazing Lives of Bats2. He has no known affiliation to any anomalous individuals or organisations.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Valasquez: I hope you don't mind if I record this Mr MacGuller? It's just for our internal records.\nMatthew MacGuller: Yeah sure, whatever, who did you say you are again?\nAgent Valasquez: My name is Sara Valasquez, I'm with State Animal Control. The police forwarded on your report about a dangerous animal attack and I'm here to confirm a few things with you.\nMatthew MacGuller: Police sure didn't seem interested in forwarding anything on last night. People think being a celebrity makes life easier, well that's a load of shit. Just makes all the little people think I'm some kind of clown for their amusement.\nAgent Valasquez: I'm very sorry you feel the police didn't take your report sufficiently seriously Mr MacGuller, but I can assure you that your television career won't impact my judgement. I just want the facts.\nMatthew MacGuller: Well fine, first fact I have for you is that that thing was no animal, it was a goddamn monster.\nAgent Valasquez: Perhaps you could give me some more detail about what exactly it was that you saw? The police report was a little\u2026 vague.\nMatthew MacGuller: OK fine, but you need to understand that I know how unbelievable this sounds. I never bought into any of the cryptid crap, it's just entertainment. Hell, most of our viewers don't believe that stuff we spout is real.\nAgent Valasquez: I understand Mr MacGuller, please just tell me the facts as you remember them.\nMatthew MacGuller: We were on location doing a night shoot in Preston County, and I'd gone out back for a piss, and this thing comes running at me out of the woods. I think it's a prank at first, Billy in one of the monster suits trying to scare me. But then it gets closer and I saw it, I smelt it! Had to be seven foot tall, was hairy like a bear but ran like a man and it had these glowing red eyes and smelled like death.\nAgent Valasquez: Glowing red eyes?\nMatthew MacGuller: Fuck you, I told you I knew how it sounded. But that's what I saw.\nAgent Valasquez: And how do you explain the lack of footprints, or shed hair, or any other sign of this supposed creature's existence?\nMatthew MacGuller: No fucking clue. But I swear that thing would have killed me if the others hadn't heard me shouting and come out to help. And it's been following me, I keep seeing glimpses of something out of the corner of my eye. I know it's following me.\nAgent Valasquez: And no one else has seen this creature?\nMatthew MacGuller: It's fast OK? Real fucking fast and knows how to hide.\nAgent Valasquez: OK Mr MacGuller, thank you for your time, I think I have all I need.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The conclusion of Agent Valasquez was that there was no evidence of genuine anomalous events, and as such Matthew MacGuller was not brought in for further questioning. Matthew MacGuller and the continued production of \u2018Cryptid Catchers' Season 5 was put under Grade IV surveillance3.\n\nInterview 5774-2\n\nClose File\n\nPromotional image of Billy MacGuller from Cryptid Catchers, Season 4.\n\nInterview 5774-2\nDate: 26/03/08\nInterviewed: Billy MacGuller\nInterviewer: Doctor Brandt\nForeword: Several weeks after the initial interview with Matthew MacGuller, surveillance picked up social media posts from Billy MacGuller claiming to have \u2018captured a genuine cryptid' along with images of SCP-5774 in its inactive state. Agents sent to investigate discovered SCP-5774's anomalous capabilities and took both MacGuller brothers in for questioning.\nBilly's doctorate in \u2018Trapology' is a fictional creation of the show. In reality he holds no advanced degree, having failed out of college courses in Fine Art, Astronomy and Religious Studies. He worked a series of low level jobs before being hired as a co-host of Cryptid Catchers and has no known affiliation to any anomalous individuals or organisations.\n<Begin Log>\nDr Brandt: Hello Mr MacGuller, I apologise for keeping you waiting so long. I have a few questions I need to ask you.\nBilly MacGuller: That's no problem ma'am, and you can call me Billy. So are you folks some kind of Men in Black type organisation? At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Will Smith walked in and started asking questions.\nBilly laughs\nDr Brandt: There's a lot less action and a lot more paperwork than in the movies Billy, but I like to think we're a little more competent. Now, could you please explain how you managed to capture the, uh, anomalous entity?\nBilly MacGuller: I guess you mean our shapeshifting cryptid friend? Well, it weren't easy. Matt was the first to see it, but it started coming after me too not long after. Scared the shit out of both of us, skulking around, making those damn creepy noises.\nBut after a while with neither of us being hurt I figured it probably didn't mean any harm. It always disappeared whenever other folks were around and it never got caught on any of our cameras so I figure out it don't like being watched. And then I decide to set up a little trap for it.\nI went out in the woods all by myself, giving it plenty of opportunity to try and spook me like it likes to. Left my car at the side of the road and went a little walk, admiring some of the natural flora and fauna until the cryptid decides to show up. Then Wham, I activate all the drones that I'd got our producers to lay up the day before. It sure does make things easier, having a TV show's budget to throw around. 360 degree cameras and floodlights on each one, nowhere to hide.\nExcept it did hide, somehow. Had to trawl through the dirt for hours before I found the little statue doohickey it turned into. And I made sure to keep a camera trained on it until I had it somewhere secure.\nDr Brandt: That's surprisingly competent work from a civilian Mr MacGuller. Have you had any interaction with the anomalous before?\nBilly MacGuller: Nah. I play an expert trapper on the show but that's all made up, only trapping I've done before was some squirrels back when my uncle took me and Matt hunting when we were kids. I only did the show cause Matt wanted to, he said it'd be easy money. No science knowledge required, just grow out our beards and ramble about Bigfoot and the like. I was out of work at the time and needed the money so I figured, sure.\nI just think it's so cool that this stuff actually turned out to be real, I never thought I'd see anything like it. Do you folks deal with this kinda stuff all the time? That must be amazing.\nDr Brandt: You know I can't talk details about what it is the Foundation does, and I'd say this entity is more disgusting than amazing. But, it does seem to have a particular fascination with you and your brother, do you have any idea why that would be the case?\nBilly MacGuller: Can't say for sure, but I have my suspicions. We get a lot of cranks and weirdos, comes with the territory of a show like Catchers. But there was this one woman who stood out, this goth looking chick with red hair who showed up at one of Matt's book signings4, I think it was the Portland one.\nShe was real mad, called us \u2018false prophets' and said that those who chose to be blind are bad, but we were worse cause we pretended to believe for material wealth. Kinda stuck with me cause I'd been thinking a lot about if the show was really innocent laughs, or if we were just poking fun at good honest folks who believe in odd stuff.\nAnd I remember as well, she said something about how if we ever saw a real monster we wouldn't find them funny. Well, she got that right, gonna be hard going back to doing the show after seeing what I've seen.\nDr Brandt: Did she say a name? Any way to contact or identify her?\nBilly MacGuller: Uh\u2026 nope. Nothin I can think of, sorry.\nDr Brandt: Thank you Billy, that'll be all for now\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: After a period of study, it was determined that Billy and Matt MacGuller were not themselves anomalous and had no more relevant information regarding SCP-5774. They were subsequently released under Grade III Foundation surveillance5\nDue to their low credibility as witnesses and minimal knowledge of the anomalous, amnesticisation was deemed unnecessary6. The woman who threatened them has been designated POI-5102 and attempts to track her location and identity are ongoing.\n\nIncident Report: 23/4/08\n\nClose File\n\nPOI-5102's vehicle after the crash.\n\nIncident Report: 23/4/08\nForeword: Following the MacGuller's release, Matthew made several requests to the Foundation for additional security and for financial compensation for his emotional distress, which were summarily denied.\nAudiovisual and telephone surveillance of Billy MacGuller's residence was temporarily disrupted on 20/4/08, however Foundation Agents sent to investigate found no sign of suspicious activity and this was assumed to be a technical error.\nThe following transcript is assembled from multiple audiovisual surveillance systems:\n<Begin Log>\nBilly MacGuller is at home in his Charleston residence where he lives alone. Camera feed displays exterior view of his residence. An unmarked white Honda Civic parks in his driveway and a young woman matching his description of POI-5102 exits.\nShe approaches his front door and rings the bell. While waiting, she turns and makes direct eye contact with the exterior concealed camera7. Billy MacGuller answers the door shortly after.\nBilly MacGuller: Oh wow, it's you, I didn't know if you'd really come or not.\nPOI-5102: Shut up you idiot, they're listening. Inside.\nThey enter Billy's house and camera feed switches to living room8. POI-5102 immediately approaches Billy's computer and disconnects its power supply. This triggers an alert and draws Foundation attention to the presence of POI-5102. Agents Chu and Valasquez are dispatched to apprehend and contain.\nBilly MacGuller: Whoa, careful with that!\nPOI-5102: Forget the computer Billy, we don't have much time and I don't want them listening in. They could already be on their way for all I know, the sooner we get out of here the better.\nBilly MacGuller: Hey, who said anything about going anywhere? All I said in the voicemail was that I wanted to talk.\nPOI-5102: You said you wanted to know the truth too, right? See what the world is really like? Well you won't find that out sitting here doing what those assholes tell you to. You need to make a choice Billy, either you come with me now or spend the rest of your life wondering.\nBrief silence\nBilly MacGuller: Fuck it. OK, I'm in, where are we going?\nPOI-5102: It's not safe to talk here, get in the car.\nBilly MacGuller: Do I have time to pack? Should I have a weapon? How dangerous is this gonna be?\nPOI-5102: Just move idiot, don't make me regret giving you a chance.\nCamera feed switches to exterior and Billy and POI-5102 can be seen entering POI-5102's vehicle. The car leaves the driveway and turns left at the end of the street, exiting the camera's field of vision\nAt this time an APB was put out over local police channels and POI-5102's vehicle was quickly identified and located. Agents Chu and Valasquez9 engaged in pursuit. Camera feed from the Foundation vehicle's dashboard camera shows POI-5102's vehicle attempting to evade pursuit in downtown Charleston.\nThe Foundation vehicle begins to close in and radio chatter indicates police have finished setting up roadblocks along major trunk roads. At this point, POI-5102's vehicle swerves off the road and through a chain link fence into a plot of derelict land beyond. The area is overgrown with weeds and waterlogged after recent rainfall, and is surrounded by fencing on all sides with no obvious escape routes.\nBilly MacGuller and POI-5102 exit on foot and are pursued by Agents Chu and Valasquez. Thirty feet into the derelict land, there is a pool of stagnant water. As POI-5102 approaches the pool partial dialogue is picked up by Agent's microphones.\nBilly MacGuller: What if this doesn't work?\nPOI-5102: It's magic, Billy. If your intent is pure and you want it enough, it'll work.\nPOI-5102 jumps into the stagnant pond and plunges beneath the water, followed shortly after by Billy. They do not resurface. Foundation Agents attempt to follow but discover the pond's depth is at most 32cm, and the base is a layer of mud over a concrete foundation. Agents Chu and Valasquez are unable to continue the pursuit.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: It is currently believed that POI-5102 was able to access a Way and both she and Billy Macguller have escaped to the Wanderer's Library. This Way remains inaccessible to Foundation personnel but is currently being monitored in case of future activity.\nSince this incident, SCP-5774 has been permanently inactive and a change of classification to Neutralized is pending. Filming of Cryptid Catchers Season 5 has been put on indefinite hiatus.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A documentary series on the animals of West Virginia. It originally aired on The History Channel in 2003 and was cancelled after 4 episodes due to low ratings.\n2. An independently produced documentary film that studied and compared the 14 bat species of West Virginia. It screened at several festivals to little critical attention and never received wider release.\n3. Routine monitoring of all phone calls and web traffic, along with regular check ins by undercover Foundation operatives.\n4. Bigfoot's Big Brain, reached number 9 on the 2006 New York Times Bestseller List.\n5. As Grade IV, with the addition of covert audiovisual surveillance of home residences and workplaces. This surveillance is passively monitored by Foundation automated systems and triggers an alert in response to unusual activity or certain keywords.\n6. In accordance with the current policy of limiting the use of amnestic drugs wherever possible, due to long term health consequences. See Kristov et al. 2004. The Role Of The Pancreas In Amnestic Drug Excretion.\n7. Camera and ranged directional microphone embedded in foliage of neighbours garden.\n8. Backdoor access to Billy MacGuller's webcam, with additional audio from a microphone concealed behind an electrical socket.\n9. Using cover story: Unmarked FBI vehicle in pursuit of suspected terrorists.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5773 | SCP-5774 | SCP-5775 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5775\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the size and location of SCP-5775, containment is not possible at this time. Therefore, public knowledge of SCP-5775's true composition should be suppressed by any means necessary. This includes dissemination of false geological data, feigned historical reports, and other details elaborated upon in Document 5775-7. Public interest in landing on Mars at this time does not pose a concern, as many seem to be unaware of SCP-5775 and its neighbor. However, updated containment procedures are being worked on should public interest turn toward them.\nOperatives on Specialized Lunar Containment and Research Area (AKA Lunar Area 32) are to monitor SCP-5775 and SCP-5775-1 for unusual behavior. Expeditions to SCP-5775 through the use of SCP-5775-1 must obtain the approval of Site Director Dan Howell and Head Researcher Naomi Lyons. Groups are to consist of two armed agents in addition to required personnel. Teams are advised to report in every hour.\nADDENDUM \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Following the events of Expedition IV, Mobile Task Force Delta-6 (Marvin Martians) has been created for further explorations of SCP-5775, as well as finding SCP-5775-B. SCP-5775-A is being held in a standard humanoid containment cell in Lunar Area 32. Further expeditions to SCP-5775 are discouraged unless deemed absolutely necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5775 is publicly known as Mars's smallest moon, Deimos, named for the Greek God of terror. Object has a surface area of 495.1 km2 and a mass of 1.48 * 1015 kg. SCP-5775's appearance as a normal celestial body is believed to be a combination of holographic illusion and millions of years of damage.\nSCP-5775 is a large spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin. There is debate over whether the craft is from native Martians or another species of alternate origin. The craft possesses several internal hallways, rooms, and wiring powered by an unknown fuel source, enough to sustain life as seen in previous explorations. Exploration of SCP-5775 has been hindered due to its distance from main Foundation operations. SCP-5775's true nature was discovered in 1999, following the discovery of SCP-5775-1.\nSCP-5775-1 is a 6.4-kilometer platform of unknown material located in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. When stepped on, the object can transport a subject and forty (40) kilograms of equipment to an exterior room in SCP-5775. The room appears to be a hanger, with a single ship, inoperable save for guns attached to the front, being present. The exterior wall, when walked through, returns a subject to SCP-5775-1. The room is sealed with a door of similar material that has so far been unable to be damaged and has hindered the first three expeditions. However, development on a key to hack into the systems of SCP-5775 has been ongoing.\nIncident Report \u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: The following transmission was received from SCP-5775 and picked up on dead channels of GRU Division \u201cP\u201d.\n\nWe have been waiting. Help us.\n\nInternal Memo, Junior Researcher Thomas Yaltz to Head Researcher Naomi Lyons\n\nSo, I heard we're going on another expedition. That's exciting! I also heard you were looking to bring a Junior Researcher. I was hoping you would pick me.\nI'm sure the site director has given you some details on my history, so I may seem like a bit of a gamble. But I like to think of it more as experience that can help me in the field. Not to mention, between the 3008 incident and every time I've taken lead on the research with the stuff we have gotten from 5775, I think I'm as qualified as someone of my position can be.\nPlus, I'm very observant. I have all sorts of questions. Who sent this message? Why now? Why is it in English?\nI hope you consider me for the expedition.\n\nSCP-5775 Expedition IV FOR LEVEL 3 ONLY\nFollowing the transmission from SCP-5775, Head Researcher Dr. Naomi Lyons requested a team to investigate, citing the prototype of a key able to open the doorway from the hangar. After discussions with the Site Director and O5 Council, the following team was gathered:\n\u2022 Dr. Naomi Lyons, Head Researcher (56)\n\u2022 Dr. Regina Beale, Researcher (45)\n\u2022 Junior Researcher Thomas Yaltz (26)\n\u2022 Agent Helen Troy (39)1\n\u2022 Agent Jonathan Bell (31)\nAgents Bell and Troy were outfitted with cameras, while Dr. Beale was designated to take written notes and Junior Researcher Yaltz to take photographs.\n\nVideo Log Part 1\n\n-Access Granted\n\nThe team has used SCP-5775-1 to arrive in the hangar.\nBell: And we're rolling. Journey to the Martian Moons, Scene 7, Take 4, Mar-\nLyons: Stop it.\nBell quiets. Beale approaches Lyons.\nBeale: Are we walking into a trap?\nLyons: Most likely.\nBeale: So what are we doing here?\nLyons: Just because it's a trap doesn't mean we have nothing to gain from it.\nThe team approaches the door. Troy pulls Yaltz aside.\nTroy: Are you gonna be alright, kid? You're overdue for a shift.\nYaltz: Yeah, I'll be fine. I've seen worse. And I mean, you're here to protect me, right? Since it's your job?\nTroy: Today was supposed to be my day off.\nYaltz: Oh, uh\u2026\nTroy: Kidding. Come on.\nThey rejoin the team. Dr. Lyons pulls the key, a black card, from her pocket and scans it against the door. The door slowly slides open. The hallway it opens to is empty and seemingly abandoned. It is three meters tall.\nLyons: Shall we?\nThey move through the hall.\nBeale: There's writing on the walls. Look.\nYaltz looks, then shields his eyes.\nYaltz: Shit, is it memetic?\nBeale: I don't think so. I think it's Ortrothan. Don't suppose any of you can speak it.\nThe team moves on. More writing is discovered on the walls. Later analysis shows the writings roughly translate to \u201cHelp\u201d and \u201cMercy\u201d. The team enters a large chamber.\n\nNotes from Dr. Regina Beale during Expedition IV of SCP-5775\n\n-Access Granted\n\nThe size of the chamber was the first thing that stood out to me. It wasn't really that it was tall, but the architecture of the rest of the room with the hallway suggested it was of average size for whatever species roamed here. Not human.\nAnother thing that popped out about the chamber were the six cells surrounding us. The doors were flung open and emptied. Still, we all picked one to analyze. Bell seemed to almost hope a monster would leap out at us. Lyons focused on the central pillar.\nI followed her eyeline. Above us was what seemed to be a keyboard and a monitor. We didn't bring any equipment to climb up there, but there was a piece of paper we managed to knock down. The texture suggested something other than paper, but the details were the same- some kind of map.\nDr. Lyons has some experience with rockets and spacecrafts. She pointed out what seemed to be a launch site for this thing. Other geographic details lined up with the Martian surface below us.\nThis craft is definitely designed for war, but Yaltz pointed out the cells were more like something the Foundation would have for study.\nBright side? The architecture isn't randomly shifting like Site-13, so\u2026 there's that.\n\nVideo Log Part 2\n\n-Access Granted\n\nThe team moves on from the chamber and through the halls. As they round a corner, Agent Troy encounters a body on the floor. The subject appears to be roughly 2 meters tall, with a physical similarity to a praying mantis.\nTroy: Fucking hell! Back!\nShe pushes the team back. Dr. Lyons looks over her.\nLyons: I think it's dead, Agent Troy.\nAgent Troy relaxes. Dr. Lyons and Dr. Beale approach the subject.\nBeale: I think we found what operated those computers.\nLyons: And what killed it. Look.\nLyons flips the body over. It displays a curved bullet wound, winding through the area designated its hip and out of its neck.\nBeale: That ain't right.\nYaltz raises his camera.\nTroy: Thomas!\nYaltz: It's for research!\nHe snaps a picture. Dr. Lyons takes out a pair of pliers and removes a bullet/fly-hybrid from the creature's neck.\nYaltz: Is that a fly?\nLyons: It's been modified. Bio-organic technology. This \u201cfly\u201d was fired.\nYaltz: From a gun? That's so cool!\nEveryone looks at Junior Researcher Yaltz.\nYaltz: Sorry.\nAgent Troy pats his shoulder.\nBell: Hey, what's that?\nAgent Bell points further down the hall to a room. Inside, a deceased pterodactyl-like creature is seen crashed through the hull of the ship. On the side of the creature appears to be a door. The team enters the room. There are two other exits, one being closed. A large monitor with a keyboard of various symbols sits in the corner. Dr. Beale goes to touch the creature.\nVoyich: I wouldn't touch that if I were you.\nAgents Troy and Bell spin toward the man, an average sized man in a cosmonaut suit. He appears to be of Ukrainian descent. Both agents have pointed their guns.\nTroy: Who the hell are you?\nVoyich: I am Colonel Aleksandr Voyich, but I should be asking you that question. I've only ever seen my comrades in this place.\nDr. Beale slowly steps in front of the agents.\nBeale: My name is Dr. Regina Beale. I'm a Researcher with the SCP Foundation. We came to investigate a transmission. Did you send it?\nVoyich: I have been sending transmissions for what feels like ages. I thought my comrades would pick it up. But I will not complain.\nBeale: Are there more of you?\nVoyich: Yes. Wait here. Smirnov! Kuznetsov! Help has arrived!\nVoyich runs down the hall.\n\nGRU Division \u201cP\u201d Memo \u2013 4 July 1969 (translated)\n\n-Access Granted\n\nDear President Brezhnev,\nOn 3 July, at 3:00pm Moscow time, we launched the Volstok 7, manned with seven of our finest cosmonauts. Thanks to the use of [DATA EXPUNGED], we were able to get the seven-man crew among the stars within minutes.\nHowever, we suffered a technical error with the crew. The navigation system directed them past the moon and out of our radio communications' broadcast length. We have been unable to reestablish contact. The scientists called it \u2013 we have lost them. We do not know where they have landed. Or if they will land.\nAs directed, we have kept the details of this mission from the public. We will await your further instructions.\n\nVideo Log Part 3\n\n-Access Granted\n\nVoyich returns with two men. Smirnov is taller and of Soviet descent, while Kuznetsov is of average height and build.\nVoyich: These men are Vladamir Smirnov and Anatoly Kuznetsov. They're what remains of the crew.\nYaltz: What happened to the rest of the men?\nSmirnov: Some\u2026 walked away\u2026 never return. Others vanish\u2026 while we sleep.\nYaltz: When did you guys launch?\nSmirnov: Fourth of July, nineteen-sixty-nine.\nThe team exchanges glances with each other.\nBeale: Whatever took your men might still be here. We should leave.\nLyons: Not yet.\nBeale: What?\nDr. Lyons approaches the monitor.\nLyons: There may be some information we can get from this. Are any of you familiar with these computers?\nSmirnov: Kuznetsov, [speaks Russian].\nKuznetsov approaches the monitor and exposes some wires. After a few moments, the monitor beeps to life.\nVoyich: Perhaps we should be going?\nLyons: Are you kidding? We're getting close to answers! This whole ship must be powered by solar energy. At least as a back-up.\nDr. Lyons slowly works her way through the computer. Yaltz takes pictures.\nLyons: This is all in Ortrothan, so I can't read much. There are maps in here. Seems they came from another galaxy. And they were invading, but it looks like\u2026 looks like they were running from something.\nTroy: Oh, good. The scary aliens were running from something scarier. Seems you're just turning up more questions, doc.\nLyons: We might get more answers behind that door. Agent Bell, open that door for me?\nDr. Lyons hands Agent Bell the key. He approaches the door.\nBeale: I thought we were leaving after this?\nLyons: We are. I just want to look very quickly.\nVoyich: I don't know if that's a good-\nAgent Bell opens the door. A partially decomposed human corpse drops through.\nBell: Body! Human body!\nDr. Beale and Smirnov approach.\nSmirnov: That\u2026 uniform. Is\u2026 ours.\nVoyich: Whatever did this might be here now. We should leave!\nBell: He's got a tag on him!\nKuznetsov: Aleksy? Sergei?\nBell: It says, \u201cVoyich\u201d.\nThe team turns to Voyich, who is staring at the ground.\n\u201cVoyich\u201d: You just had to look, didn't you?\nMultiple black rods shoot from Voyich's body. Two from his chest, three from his back, two from his right hip. Kuznetsov is stabbed through the eye and drops. Agent Bell is stabbed through the heart. Life signs terminated quickly. Dr. Beale and Smirnov drop to the floor and narrowly avoid the attack. Agent Troy pulls Yaltz to the ground. Dr. Lyons is stabbed in the leg.\n\u201cVoyich\u201d: I said we should leave! That thing could be in here! Well, guess what? I am! And I'm pissed!\nVoyich grabs Kuznetsov by the neck, who whimpers and struggles to breathe.\n\u201cVoyich\u201d: I'll give you this, \u201ccomrade\u201d. You guys were the most fun I've had in hundreds of thousands of cycles. Last thing before that, these guys sent me to destroy a planet. The violence, Kuznetsov. The mind games. Oh, that was art. Before you guys, all I had were corpses.\nVoyich snaps Kuznetsov's neck.\n\u201cVoyich\u201d: But now I can leave this place. I have no use for you anymore.\nVoyich approaches Dr. Lyons. As he is focused on her, the others back away.\n\u201cVoyich\u201d: Dr. Lyons, was it? Oh, I'm going to have fun with you.\nLyons: All of you, run!\nLyons pulls out her gun.\nYaltz: Dr. Lyons!\nAgent Troy grabs Yaltz and pulls him away. Smirnov follows them. Dr. Beale stays by the door.\n\u201cVoyich\u201d: What does that thing do? Shoot metal? That won't stop me.\nLyons: Then get out of the way!\nDr. Lyons shoots the control pad on the door. It slams shut. Another shot is heard, followed by the sound of depressurization. Dr. Beale continues to stand at the door.\nTroy: Dr. Beale! She bought us some time! We need to move!\nShe follows. The team arrives back at the hangar.\nYaltz: That thing knows where we came from. If it's survived this long, it'll probably get out of there. Can we close the door?\nTroy: I think Bell had the key.\nBeale: Shit.\nShe looks at the ship.\nBeale: Then we blow the hangar to kingdom come. You guys go.\nYaltz: No, I'll stay. You go.\nBeale: Yaltz, I admire the resolve, but as of now, I'm the leader. I won't leave you here with no way out.\nYaltz: Have you read my file, Dr. Beale?\nBeale: What does your personnel file have to do with this?\nYaltz: No, my special containment procedures file.\nTroy: Thomas\u2026\nYaltz: I'm SCP-507.\nBeale: The teleporting kid?\nYaltz: I'm twenty-six at this point, but yeah. If I stay, I'll teleport off this thing eventually and get back home.\nBeale: Then we'll all stay.\nYaltz: You have an anomalous subject with you. I think they'd understand it if you left. I've been handling weird shit since I was born, ma'am. I'll be okay.\nTroy: And I'll stay with him. I'm your handler, kid. You don't get a say.\nBeale: If you're doing this, she stays.\nYaltz opens his mouth, then closes it and nods. Dr. Beale and Smirnov suit up and return through SCP-5775-1. Yaltz and Agent Troy, also suited up, board the smaller ship.\nYaltz: To kingdom come?\nTroy: To kingdom come.\n\nAfter-Action Report: SCP-5775 Expedition IV\nFollowing the events of Expedition IV, a large explosion was detected from SCP-5775. Three life signatures and numerous piles of debris emerged through SCP-5775-1. The explosion was explained as a meteor strike. Dr. Regina Beale was promoted to Head Researcher of SCP-5775, while Dr. Naomi Lyons and Agent Johnathan Bell were posthumously honored. Vladamir Smirnov was designated SCP-5775-A. Junior Researcher Thomas Yaltz and Agent Helen Troy were discovered in Waco, Texas nine days later, with non-threatening injuries.\n\nTranslations from SCP-5775: Expedition IV\n\n-Access Granted\n\nThe Walls:\n\nHelp us.\nThey are killing us.\nWe did not want this.\nIs this our punishment?\nMay the gods be merciful.\n\nThe Computer:\n\nAfter much searching, we have found their origin point. We have sent a team and discovered there is another species, similar in intellect but far less advanced. We are sending an operative, Odd Entity-777, to instill chaos and hopefully topple our enemies.\nWe have seen your play. We have lost our homeworld, but we will still hold on to our other worlds. You will pay for your actions.\nFear the Empire of the Big Foot\n\nFootnotes\n1. Agent assigned as handler to SCP-507.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5774 | SCP-5775 | SCP-5776 \u00bb"}
{"text": "WARNING\nThe following file describes a highly infohazardous entity.\nPlease proceed with caution.\n\nItem#: 5776\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5776 is currently housed in a classified large containment cell in Site-19. A reality anchoring device must be kept inside the cell, attached to SCP-5776 at all times. If it is for any reason to breach containment, its recapture is to be of alpha priority and all expendable resources must be spent to resecure containment and prevent an XK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario. If it cannot be recontained, then SCP-5776 must be left to roam the planet, as interfering is likely to further anger it. It really wants to destroy everything!\nDescription: SCP-5776 is an extremely powerful entity capable of causing devastating amounts of destruction to human civilisation. Pretty terrifying if I say so myself. It seems SCP-5776's primary goal is to destroy everything it can and seemingly nothing is able to prevent it completing this goal if it is not contained, so we need to make sure it doesn't get out 0_0.\nDespite what you may be told, it is 100% not a common food product.\nSCP-5776 is absolutely capable of drastically altering its shape, mass and even cellular or genetic makeup. Due to this ability, its primary objective can be carried out swiftly and effectively, making it extremely important that containment is not lost. It is believed that the entity is capable of causing humanity's extinction in a matter of days or even hours if it is able to escape. SCP-5776 appears extremely eager to escape custody, expressing heightened frustration to the Foundation, claiming it will destroy us first.1\nDespite a reality anchoring device being attached directly to SCP-5776 at all times, it still is able to carry out its shape-shifting abilities to a limited degree (which is annoying, almost as much as being locked up). The following is a list of all forms SCP-5776 has taken while in secure containment, in order of when SCP-5776 initially materialised as them.\n\nSCP-5776 prior to containment. As you can see, it is horrifyingly scary.\n\n. An unknown large beast\n. An unknown winged scorpion\n. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\n. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\n. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n. Doctor [REDACTED]\n. O5-\u2588\n. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\n. A giant amorphous entity\n. A small, white cylinder, not a small edible product (current form)\nNotably, when SCP-5776 alters appearance, including into other anomalies, it gains the item or entity's abilities, though these effects can be dampened by a reality anchoring device. This further makes it an immensely powerful entity, so SCP-5776 must not gain knowledge of any other anomalies that are presently contained by the Foundation or any other groups of interest otherwise it will destroy everything!\n\n+ Show Recovery Log 5776\n\n- Hide Recovery Log 5776\n\nThis file has been removed by order of 05-\u2588 because it was too scary.\n\nSCP-5776 is capable of communicating with researchers depending on its current form. Due to this, attempts have been made to reason with SCP-5776 and have a conversation with it. These attempts can be found in Interview Log 5776-1 and Interview Log 5776-2.2\n\n+ Show Interview Log 5776-1\n\n- Hide Interview Log 5776-1\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Ox\nInterviewed: SCP-5776\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nResearcher Ox: H-Hello?(SCP-5776 begins to resemble SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588, presumably to be able to speak)\nResearcher Ox: Wow you are very scary. SCP-5776, are you able to sp-[END LOG]\n\nFollowing this log, SCP-5776 was reclassified as Keter and was moved to more secure containment.\n\n+ Show Interview Log 5776-2\n\n- Hide Interview Log 5776-2\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Davis\nInterviewed: SCP-5776\n\n[BEGIN LOG]Researcher Davis: You are dangerous to us. Also may I say you are particularly terrifying and not cute.Researcher Davis: Do you have any comment on what you did to Sector 5 during your interview last month?Researcher Davis: Wh-\n(SCP-5776 violently releases a burst of plasma based fire, however blast doors are shut in time so as to not have a repeat incident.)\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nFollowing Interview 5776-2, speaking to SCP-5776 directly was forbidden under any circumstances.\n\n+ Show Incident Report 5776-1\n\n- Hide Incident Report 5776-1\n\nOn \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2012, SCP-5776 escaped containment in the chaos of a mass containment breach of Site-19. The entity headed directly West, where it would likely intercept with multiple populated settlements and a major city. MTF Epsilon-11 \u2018Nine-Tailed Fox' and MTF Alpha-1 \u2018Red Right Hand' were assigned to deal with the threat because it was so threatening.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n00:57: SCP-5776 breaches containment.\n01:12: SCP-5776 leaves Site-19 and begins heading West for unknown reasons.\n01:13: MTF Epsilon-11 and MTF Alpha-1 are assigned with containing the entity.\n01:30: MTF forces make visual contact with the entity, which has taken the form of a \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n02:00: MTF forces are able to get within firing range of SCP-5776 and slow it down with explosives.\n05:00: After 3 hours of constant bombardment, MTF forces request resupply which arrives shortly.\n05:45: SCP-5776 turns around, and assumes the form of a large dragon. It becomes impervious to firearms.\n06:16: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is dispatched to deal with SCP-5776.\n07:00: SCP-5776 destroys the nearby town of [REDACTED], leaving a large crater behind. SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 arrives on the scene.\n07:30: SCP-5776 underestimates SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, which promptly [DATA EXPUNGED] it. After a battle spanning approximately 28 minutes, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 emerges victorious, and SCP-5776 is restrained and brought back to Site-19.\n[END LOG]\n\nSCP-5776 IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS OBJECTS IN THE WORLD LET ALONE IN FOUNDATION CUSTODY AND CAN DESTROY EVERYTHING IF IT WISHES. IT IS DEFINITELY NOT CUTE!!\n\n:Access File:\n\nFootnotes\n1. IT IS VERY SCARY\n2. They're pretty worrying though because SCP-5776 is very terrifying.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5775 | SCP-5776 | SCP-5777 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The anomaly described in this file is Neutralized. Its former documentation is archived below.\n\nItem \u2116: SCP-5777\n\nThe SCP-5777 settlement, as seen at midday. Click to enlarge.\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: An electric fence has been built around the territory containing SCP-5777. Trespassers are to be captured (by non-lethal means if possible), amnesticized, and released.\nFor their own safety, personnel must stay at least 50 meters away from the center of the SCP-5777 settlement.\nDescription: SCP-5777 is a group of 8 16 approximately 96 humanoid entities located near Kennedys Bush, New Zealand. The entities range from 1.3 to 1.7 meters tall, and have blue skin and blond or red hair. They are nocturnal; their settlements and artifacts emerge spontaneously during dusk and disappear during dawn. They can coordinate and use tools, are capable of fluent speech (in English and M\u0101ori), and have mild ontokinetic abilities. It is believed that the patupaiarehe (fairies) of M\u0101ori folklore correspond to SCP-5777.\nIn November 1998, security personnel observed an uptick in SCP-5777 activity. Neighboring civilians have filed noise complaints, and a majority of the trees in the area have been chopped down. Dr Linda Fourier was sent to investigate.\n\nInterview Log 5777-1\n1998-11-09\n\nInterviewer: Dr Linda Fourier\nInterviewed: SCP-5777-1, SCP-5777-2, SCP-5777-3\n\nFourier: Hello, I'm\u2014\n[SCP-5777-1 advances; this startles Fourier, who raises her hands in defense. It takes this opportunity to grab Fourier's right hand and shake it vigorously.]\nSCP-5777-1: Hellohellohello! So good to see you today. This is Ana, Te Ao, and I'm Kauri, and your name is?\nFourier: Dr Fourier\u2014\nSCP-5777-1: Doctor Fourier! I could see by the way you charged in just now that you're a learned woman, a lady of science, who's come all the way to our humble office to\u2014\n[SCP-5777-1 pauses its shaking, giving Fourier the opportunity to pull her hand out of its grasp.]\nSCP-5777-1: \u2014invest?\nFourier: Actually, I was going to ask what you were doing\u2014\nSCP-5777-1: Always happy to answer! Dr Fourier, we're making a startup. Kereru. Dot com.\nFourier: Okay. [Pauses to take notes.] So what does Kereru, uh, dot com, create?\nSCP-5777-1: Oh, you know\u2026 the usual. Disrupting the market with our secret sauce. Building tomorrow, today. Synergy. It's a paradigm shift\u2014we have to take it to the next level, strike while the iron is hot.\nFourier: \u2026 I see.\n[SCP-5777-2 barges in, pushing SCP-5777-1 to the side.]\nSCP-5777-2: Kauri, you're scaring her.\nFourier: No, no, it's\u2014\nSCP-5777-2: Sorry about that. I'm sure that as a woman of science, you would be more interested in the technical side of our business. Rest assured that we use only the hottest technologies on the market, including\u2026\n[SCP-5777-2 clears its throat.]\nSCP-5777-2: \u2026 isomorphic1 NodeJS2 microservices3 in the cloud,4 functorial intelligence5 in the Internet of Things.6 It's big data, it's web scale, it's\u2026 it's\u2026\n[SCP-5777-3 bursts out from between -1 and -2.]\nSCP-5777-3: Blockchain.7\n\nObservation Log 5777-1\n1998-11-09 \u2013 1999-03-04\n\nIn the center of the settlement, the SCP-5777 entities have formed a stack of woven flax sheets. When a sheet is removed, reality in a ~ 25 meter radius is reset to the time when the sheet was added to the pile. This effect includes the SCP-5777 themselves, who have often been duplicated or destroyed through its activation.\n\nThe SCP-5777 entities dig a shallow pit and fill it with wooden planks and sticks, in an apparent attempt to light a fire. After a few tries, they succeed; they scream and scatter from the pit, leaving the fire behind.\n\nThe SCP-5777 instances tear down the whakairo8 ornaments from their homes and throw them into the fire. They mount depictions of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Whoopi Goldberg in their place.\n\nInterview Log 5777-2\n1999-03-04\n\nInterviewer: Dr Linda Fourier\nInterviewed: SCP-5777-1, SCP-5777-2, SCP-5777-3\n\nFourier: How's it going today?\nSCP-5777-2: Very well. Our decentralized monolith architecture has allowed us to scale to the next billion users with six nines.\nSCP-5777-1: Sounds great, Ana! Bill Gates would be proud of you.\nSCP-5777-2: [Smiles.] Thank you.\nFourier: Bill Gates?\nSCP-5777-1: Oh, he's one of the people we look up to. You know, like Robert Levitan9 or Greg McLemore10 or Michael Fenne11\u2014\nSCP-5777-3: Heroes.\nSCP-5777-1: \u2014all pioneers, pushing the envelope in their own way.\nFourier: I see.\nSCP-5777-1: And one day, it'll be our names on that list as well.\n[SCP-5777-1 turns around to face the other SCP-5777 entities.]\nSCP-5777-1: Isn't that right, everyone!?\n[The SCP-5777 entities raise their hands and yell in acknowledgement. SCP-5777-1 turns back around, and grins.]\nSCP-5777-1: That's the spirit.\n\nObservation Log 5777-2\n1999-03-04 \u2013 1999-11-19\n\nThe SCP-5777 entities, led by SCP-5777-2, begin to construct a wooden tower over the fire pit. As expected, it starts to burn; however, rather than attempting to put out the fire, SCP-5777-2 commands them to build further. Eventually, the structure collapses and the entities all disappear into the pit.\nThe next night, the SCP-5777 entities emerge from the surrounding bush\u2014apparently unharmed. They restart construction in the same location as before.\n\nThe SCP-5777 entities perform a haka,12 while repeating the word \"developers\" ad nauseum.\n\nThrough trial and error, the SCP-5777 entities have learned to use the flax sheets to create more of themselves. There are now 16 instances of SCP-5777.\n\nInterview Log 5777-3\n1999-11-19\n\nInterviewer: Dr Linda Fourier\nInterviewed: SCP-5777-1, SCP-5777-3\n\nFourier: Can I ask you guys a question?\nSCP-5777-1: [Smirks.] That's all you do, but sure. Go for it.\nFourier: Why did you decide to start a tech company? I'm sure there are many other things you could have done instead.\nSCP-5777-1: Well\u2026 you've been watching us the whole time right?\nFourier: That would be the case, yes.\nSCP-5777-1: So you've seen how much we've changed. From some backwater village in the middle of nowhere, to\u2014\n[SCP-5777-1 gestures wildly at the settlement behind it.]\nSCP-5777-1: \u2014I mean, look at them! The smiles, the energy, it's an absolute three-sixty turnaround. And Ana\u2026\n[SCP-5777-1 sighs.]\nSCP-5777-1: She used to spend all night, lying in bed, just\u2026 waiting for the sun to come up, you know?\nFourier: I'm sorry to hear that.\nSCP-5777-1: Me too, doctor, me too. But now? She's pacing around, like, computer this, and computer that, and\u2026\nSCP-5777-3: Hope.\nSCP-5777-1: That's a good word, yeah. Hope. That's what we have now.\n\nObservation Log 5777-3\n1999-11-19 \u2013 2000-05-20\n\nThe SCP-5777 entities realize that they cannot continue building the tower upward, as the space is obstructed by an overhanging cliff. SCP-5777-1 and SCP-5777-2 spend the next hour arguing over what to do next, before SCP-5777-3\u2014unbeknownst to the others\u2014pushes the whole structure out from under the overhang. Miraculously, the tower remains standing. The argument stops, and the entities resume construction.\n\nA growing number of SCP-5777 entities have been dying in occupational accidents. This effect has caused the SCP-5777 population to stabilize at ~ 96.\n\nInterview Log 5777-4\n2000-05-20\n\nInterviewer: Dr Linda Fourier\nInterviewed: SCP-5777-2\n\nFourier: Hi, Ana! It's been a while since I've talked to you\u2014\nSCP-5777-2: Yes, I've been busy.\n[Silence.]\nFourier: Is everything all right?\nSCP-5777-2: Yes, everything is all right.\n[Silence.]\nSCP-5777-2: We will\u2014\n[Silence.]\nFourier: If you're feeling uncomfortable\u2014\nSCP-5777-2: We will succeed.\n[Silence.]\nSCP-5777-2: March 13. Japan enters a recession, triggering a global market sell-off. We will succeed.\n[Silence.]\nSCP-5777-2: April 3. Microsoft found guilty of monopolization and tying; Nasdaq sinks 350 points. We will succeed.\n[Silence.]\nSCP-5777-2: May 18. Boo.com files for bankruptcy, in what media call the greatest dot-com bust in history. We will succeed.\n[Silence.]\nSCP-5777-2: We will succeed. We will succeed. We will\u2014\n[Silence.]\nFourier: I'm sorry.\n\nObservation Log 5777-4\n2000-05-20 \u2013 2000-09-25\n\nA group of five SCP-5777 entities suddenly stop work, lay down their tools, and gather in the center of the settlement. A brief silence passes before one of the entities bends over, its head oriented upward, and begins to rhythmically pull the straps on its shoes while yelling: \"Haere! Haere! Haere!\"13 The other four entities follow, pulling and yelling, and soon the group would lift off the ground and disappear into the night sky.\nThe remaining instances do not react to this incident.\n\nThe remaining SCP-5777 entities complete the tower. They gather around the structure and rejoice through song and dance.\nDuring the celebration, a juvenile SCP-5777 instance inadvertently runs into a wooden post, dislodging it and causing the tower to collapse.\n\nInterview Log 5777-5\n2000-09-25\n\nInterviewer: Dr Linda Fourier\nInterviewed: SCP-5777-1, SCP-5777-3\n\nFourier: You look a bit wary today.\nSCP-5777-3: No.\n[Silence.]\nFourier: Are you okay?\nSCP-5777-1: Yeah, yeah, we're fine, I mean we've lost our top engineers, and Ana just disappeared off the face of the earth, but, but\u2014\n[SCP-5777-3 grabs SCP-5777-1 by the shoulders.]\nSCP-5777-3: Stop.\n[SCP-5777-1 pauses; it closes its eyes and takes a deep breath.]\nSCP-5777-1: Thanks, Te Ao. But yeah, doctor, it's all good. We've still got a million and a half in cash. We'll pull through. We have to.\n\nObservation Log 5777-5\n2000-11-09\n\nThe tower catches fire. It collapses; due to its excessive height, it falls outward and spreads the fire to surrounding bush. The SCP-5777 entities panic and run around the settlement, further propagating the blaze.\nEventually, the fire reaches the stack of flax sheets, which bursts into a column of flame. As the flax burns, the SCP-5777 instances and their artifacts warp and stretch\u2014causing the entities great distress\u2014before disappearing altogether. By dawn, the flax has burned completely; its ash is the only remaining evidence of SCP-5777.\nNeutralized classification pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The term \"isomorphic application\" was coined in 2011, thirteen years after this interview.\n2. NodeJS was released in 2009.\n3. The microservice architecture was formalized in 2011.\n4. Cloud computing was popularized by Amazon.com in 2006.\n5. The meaning of this phrase is unknown.\n6. The term \"Internet of Things\" was first used in 1999.\n7. 2009.\n8. Traditional M\u0101ori wood carving.\n9. Founder of Flooz, an online currency (defunct).\n10. Founder of Pets.com, an online pet supply store (defunct).\n11. Founder of Pixelon, an online video distributor (defunct).\n12. A traditional M\u0101ori war dance.\n13. \"Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5776 | SCP-5777 | SCP-5778 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Image matching SCP-5779's appearance according to Dr. Wilkinson.\n\nItem #: SCP-5779\nObject Class: Euclid Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: N/A\n\n+ Previous Containment Procedures\n\n- Previous Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5779 is to be kept in a well furnished humanoid containment cell. Furbishments, aside from the standard furniture set, include:\n\nA shelf of novels, largely of the fantasy genre\nA television with a Blu Ray DVD player\nA drawing board, and a desk which is to be outfitted with artistic supplies such as pencils and paints.\n\nSCP-5779's meals are to include a dessert item.\nDr. Wilkinson is to meet with SCP-5779 for an interview at least once a day.\n\nDescription: SCP-5779 appears to most individuals as a humanoid taking on the appearance of a recently deceased loved one. SCP-5779 will maintain its own personality, however it will gain a small selection of memories of the deceased, allowing it to mimic their actions at a rudimentary level.\nSCP-5779 is imperceptible to individuals who have not yet experienced the death of a loved one. Due to this, it is currently unknown to what extent SCP-5779 exists as a physical form as opposed to a consistent, mental projection. However, evidence of SCP-5779 interacting with its surroundings in the presence of individual who can perceive it indicate that, at the very least, it has some physical make up.\nRecovery: SCP-5779 was originally discovered when word spread that Henri Meyer1 had successfully replicated his dead wife, Alexia Meyer. Rumored methods of replication included:\n\nHiring an actress to undergo extensive plastic surgery\nCommissioning the Hanson Robotics company2 to build an artificial replacement\nHiring Type-Green entities specializing in illusions to sustain an image of the deceased\n\nExtensive intelligence operations into the matter discovered that Meyer was living with SCP-5779. Containment of SCP-5779 was met with violent resistance, however the operation concluded successfully with minimal losses.\nAddendum SCP-5779-1: Below is the initial interview between SCP-5779 and Project Lead Dr. Wilkinson recorded on standard Interview Chamber Cameras.\n\nWilkinson enters the interview chamber, still looking down at his clipboard.\nWilkinson: Afternoon 5779, I'm here to\u2014\nWilkinson looks up from his clipboard and freezes.Wilkinson: That can't be right.Wilkinson backs away from the table.\nWilkinson: No, no that's not fair! Nobody fucking told me!Wilkinson: \u2026 fuck.\nWilkinson turns and leaves and interview chamber, slamming the door behind him.\n\nAddendum SCP-5779-2: Following the initial interview, Wilkinson stormed into Site Director Lin's office. The following exchange was recorded on Foundation security cameras inside of the office.\n\nLiu: Hey Marcus, what's with the sudden\u2014\nWilkinson: When did she die?\nLiu: Excuse me?\nWilkinson: Melissa Pire. When did she die?\nLiu: I have no clue what you're talking about.\nWilkinson: She's part of your group right? Containment and Capture, right? Don't tell me you don't know when your agents go down in the field.\nLiu: I do, but\u2014\nWilkinson: Then tell me when she fucking died!\nLiu sighs, and begins typing on her computer.\nLiu: I see\u2026 well, she died three days ago.\nWilkinson: If you had three days, then why did nobody tell me?\nLiu: I said, it's classified.\nWilkinson: You tell next of kin, right? You tell spouses right? Then why don't you tell spouses-to-be?\nLiu: Well, you're not listed here. Maybe she didn't update the system. I honestly forget if we even do fianc\u00e9s.\nWilkinson: Then what was supposed to happen? Just wait for her to come back from a mission forever?\nLiu: I'm sorry! I don't know what to tell you, Marcus. It's terrible but it's what happens in our field of work.\nWilkinson: You could have done me the courtesy of consoling me with that after I heard the news!\nLiu: Fine! Melissa Pire is dead. There, I've told you. What now?\nWilkinson steps away from Liu's desk. His breathing slows as he falls into one of the office chairs. Wilkinson begins to weep with his head in his hands. Liu walks over to Wilkinson and puts an arm around his shoulder.\nLiu: It's hard. I know.\nWilkinson: We\u2014 we were supposed to talk about wedding invitations when she came back\u2026\nLiu: Hey, hey. How about this. You take the week off. Come to grips with everything and make sure that you're doing ok. I want you to be ok Marcus.\nWilkinson sniffles.\nWilkinson: Fine. I'll take my time.\n\nDr. Wilkinson took the next five days off, listed as \"medical leave\". Foundation human resources scheduled for Dr. Wilkinson to see a therapist on each day of his time off. He attended the first three meetings, and then cancelled the remaining two, saying that he thought he had other, more effective ways to improve his mental state.\nAddendum SCP-5779-3: After Dr. Wilkinson's respite, he resumed his duties as the lead of the SCP-5779 containment project, and re-attempted the initial interview with the anomaly once again.\nWilkinson: I'm sorry about last time. It was a bit of a shock for me.Wilkinson: Well, I'm still the lead on your containment. They don't have a lot of amorphous entity experts on base.\nSCP-5779 laughs.Wilkinson: Yeah\u2026 they don't. But moving on to the interview, do you have any memories of before you had these anomalous properties?Wilkinson: I see\u2026 so no memory or parents or other family.Wilkinson: Can you elaborate?Wilkinson wipes tears from his eyes.\nWilkinson: It's fine. I'm\u2014 I'm fine. How have they been treating you here?SCP-5779 hands Wilkinson a piece of paper. As Wilkinson reads, his grip on the page visibly tightens.Wilkinson: Why? What did I do to you?Wilkinson: \u2026 yeah. We have a deal.\n\nAddendum SCP-5779-4: Following the above interview, Dr. Wilkinson began to file for a number of additional furbishments and recreational activities for SCP-5779. While it is believed that the initial acceptance of each request is within line with Foundation protocol, the lack of follow through on the handling of these affordances could only be described as extreme ineptitude. Below is a record of all furbishments and recreational activities afforded to SCP-5779, along with notes taken during a later investigation into Dr. Wilkinson regarding the use of these affordances:\n\nDate Requested\nAffordance\nJustification\nNotes\n\n04/14/2020\nFantasy books\nSince SCP-5779 has the same needs as other humanoid anomalies, basic entertainment like books should be provided as well.\nSCP-5779 and Dr. Wilkinson often met to discuss these books, which they coordinated to read at the same time.\n\n05/03/2020\nTelevision\nA variety of media to consume can help to alleviate depressive symptoms that often manifest themselves in humanoid anomalies.\nAfter day-shift personnel left the facility, Dr. Wilkinson would join SCP-5779 to watch shows together. This often led to intimate physical displays. Later interrogation of guards assigned at the time admitted to being bribed.\n\n05/06/2020\nDessert\nIncluding sweet items alongside the traditional nutrient rich meals would encourage the anomaly to finish meals.\nWhile the majority of desserts provided consisted of ice cream or baked goods, the first request was for a cheesecake with a single candle. Video footage shows Dr. Wilkinson sharing the cheese cake with SCP-5779, as if celebrating a birthday.\n\n05/18/2020\nArtistic supplies and a desk\nCreative outlets have been shown to relax anomalies, and make them more expressive and amicable during interviews.\nUpon first introduction to SCP-5779's cell, the anomaly made extensive use of the materials. This included an attempt to draw Dr. Wilkinson during an interview.\n\n05/22/2020\nAttendance at the Site-41 Music Festival3\nPartaking in social events with staff can increase an anomaly's level of cooperation with staff.\nSCP-5779 was almost completely covered during the event, so witnesses could not complete confirm its presence. However, attending personnel recollect Dr. Wilkinson spending the entire social event with someone suspected to be SCP-5779, usually talking in a corner, or holding hands.\n\nAddendum SCP-5779-4: While numerous interviews with SCP-5779 were supposedly held, almost none were recorded. Below is the transcript submitted by Dr. Wilkinson to meet his monthly anomaly update quota:\nWilkinson: Hey.\nSCP-5779 points to the interview chamber cameras.Wilkinson: I still need to uh, record some of our interviews. Just to keep the system happy.Wilkinson: No one really listens to these things anyways\u2026\nSCP-5779 laughs.Wilkinson: Actually, um, I might have to push it back? I have a meeting that ends around seven\u2026Wilkinson: I know, I'm sorry, but it just came up and\u2014Wilkinson: Oh, um, I see. Well, maybe I can skip this one. Call in sick.Wilkinson checks his watch.\nWilkinson: I should get going. If I'm in here for too long the guards might get suspicious.SCP-5779 leans over and kisses Wilkinson before he leaves.\n\nAddendum SCP-5779-5: After Dr. Wilkinson failed to arrive at his quarterly containment status update meeting, an investigation into Dr. Wilkinson's actions was commenced by Site Director Liu. This led to the discovery of multiple egregious examples of abuse of power of Dr. Wilkinson's position, as well as multiple failures of other Foundation checks and balances. The following is a transcript of the meeting between Dr. Wilkinson and Site Director Liu, informing Dr. Wilkinson of his dismissal.\n\nWilkinson: Hey uh\u2026 I have an interview with SCP-5779 scheduled kind of soon. Is this going to be quick.\nLiu: Don't worry about that Marcus. We have someone stepping in to take care of that interview.\nWilkinson: Oh. Nobody told me about that.\nLiu: Yeah. Because you're no longer in charge of SCP-5779. In fact, you don't have any anomalies under your jurisdiction.\nWilkinson: Sorry, but what?\nLiu rolls her eyes, and pulls out her computer. She pulls up the recording of Addendum SCP-5779-4's interview. When it finishes, Wilkinson's begins taking rapid, shallow breaths.\nLiu: Don't act surprised. It's embarrassing you've gotten away with this for as long as you did, but you couldn't have thought we never would've noticed.\nWilkinson: Please, please don't take her away from me.\nLiu: You have left me literally no choice.\nWilkinson: You don't understand. I need to see her. I can't just let her die on me again\u2026\nLiu: She's already being transferred to isolated confinement.\nWilkinson: You bitch!\nLiu: Give the guards outside your pass card when you leave. Someone will follow up with you on the next steps.\nLiu leaves the room. After the door closes, Wilkinson collapses onto the table, and cries into his arms.\n\nAddendum SCP-5779-6: The following is a transcript of the relocation of SCP-5779:\n\nSecurity guards Tennison and Marquez enter SCP-5779's containment cell. SCP-5779 is sitting at its drawing board. It briefly looks over its shoulder when the door opens.Tennison: We'll need you to come with us.\nMarquez: We're transferring you to a more spacious containment cell.\nSCP-5779 goes back to drawing.Tennison: Umm, maybe he meant it as a surprise?Marquez: That got rescheduled.\nSCP-5779 puts down its pencil and starts looking through one of the drawing board's desk drawers. It smiles wide.Tennison and Marquez begin to reach for their tasers.\nTennison: Well, maybe if we move you fast enough, maybe we can hold the interview on time.Before Tennison or Marquez can fire their tasers, SCP-5779 takes a fistful of sharpened pencils from the drawer, and stabs them into its throat. Medical personnel were summoned, but SCP-5779 was deemed neutralized before they arrived.\n\nDr. Wilkinson has not yet been informed of SCP-5779's demise. The use of amnestics to allow Dr. Wilkinson to resume his previous duties is currently under consideration.\nAddendum SCP-5779 After the neutralization of SCP-5779, Dr. Wilkinson's desk was searched for evidence of additional malpractice. No indication of a wider scheme could be found, but the search did find the following letter, presumed to be given to Dr. Wilkinson by SCP-5779 during their second interview:\n\nI'm so happy you're back. I really am. Because I don't think I could propose this to anyone else.\nI figured you took time off work to get over Melissa right? But you and I both know that a week is nowhere near long enough. That's a wound that's going to stick with you, and the people here couldn't give less of a shit about it. You can tell because they only gave you a week before dragging you back. We're alike in that way. You're trapped here by your job, I'm trapped here for obvious reasons, and no one here cares about either of us.\nHere, I'll show you some good will. I'll tell you how your fianc\u00e9 died. I knew that people like you would come for me eventually. I suggested all sorts of defenses and traps so Mr. Meyer could keep his wife safe. Melissa was unfortunately the first in line when they came to capture me. Took a wrong step, set off a trip wire with an explosive on the end and\u2026 poof! No more Melissa! It was nothing personal of course. Just the way of things.\nSo, in a way, I've already killed Melissa once, but I'm totally down to do it again. I hate it here with a special passion. The food is bland, the interior decor is absolutely atrocious. Rotting away in this cell is literally worse than death.\nIf I'm too bored, I'll have to make entertainment for myself. I can bash this face in against a wall until it's just a caved-in mess. I can bite my tongue and bleed out through my mouth. Trust me, I can get creative with it.\nOr, we can keep each other occupied. Keep each other happy. I can be your Melissa, if you're here for me too. We can cuddle and watch movies. We can have coffee in the mornings. Hell, I'll even let you fuck me.\nLet's make this lonely existence just a tad more tolerable. Together.\nLove,\nYour Melissa\n\nFootnotes\n1. Former CEO of Deutsche Telekom\n2. Known for creating the Sophia robot, rumored to be a subsidiary of Anderson Robotics\n3. Implemented by Site Director Liu as a bonding exercise between personnel, and to raise overall morale. All music was performed by Foundation personnel with musical interests.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5778 | SCP-5779 | SCP-5780 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5781\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All buildings that appeared as a result of SCP-5781 are to continue operating, with discreet supervision. PoI-94707 should be monitored for any further suspicious activity.\nDescription: SCP-5781 refers to an event that began on November 26th 1999, wherein multiple buildings spontaneously appeared on the coasts of Florida, United States over a 3 day period. Branding indicates that these buildings belong to Alan Investigations, a private detective firm which lacks any record of existence prior to the date SCP-5781 began.\nFollowing these appearances, Alan Investigations began receiving exorbitant monetary investments from residents in the area, as well as multiple corporate entities globally. Interviews with these investors show that these investments were voluntary, as all were motivated by predictions of the company's future success, as well as \"the founder's charisma\".\nAlan Ghayter, founder of Alan Investigations and hereafter referred to as PoI-94707, has denied any suspicion of money-laundering to authorities in the area, and is currently battling various legal disputes.\n\n+ Interview Log with PoI-94707\n\n- Close Log\n\nPoI-94707\n\nInterview Log 5781-A\nDate Conducted: 03/01/2000\nInterviewer: Dr. Trevelyan Veil\nInterviewee: PoI-94707 (\"Alan Ghayter\")\nForeword: Throughout the interview, PoI-94707 spoke with an intense lisp, as well as an accent atypical of a Floridian, in spite of his claims of being raised in the state. When asked, the subject claimed the reasoning was due to \"Atlantic descent\".\nAdditionally, PoI-94707's physical appearance was incredibly disheveled, for reasons the subject claimed was due to his ongoing legal battles.\nBEGIN LOG\nDr. Veil: Good evening, Mr. Ghayter.\nPoI-94707: (Does not respond, vaguely gestures)\nDr. Veil: I assume you understand why you're here?\nPoI-94707: Yes. Legal bullshit.\nDr. Veil: Rest assured, Mr. Ghayter, nothing here will be related to your on-going legal trouble. We're much more interested in certain\u2026 events that have transpired recently.\nPoI-94707: Hurrrh?\nDr. Veil: Mainly, in regards to your business, or until recently, lack thereof. To my understanding, you run a private detective firm, correct?\nPoI-94707: Not detective. Investigator.\nDr. Veil: Yes, well\u2026 simply put, your business - or even you - has no record of existence prior to the 26th of November of last year.\nPoI-94707: Yes. I changed my name.\nDr. Veil: I see. If you don't mind, what was your old name?\nPoI-94707: Al.\nDr. Veil: Al\u2026 Ghayter?\nPoI-94707: Yes.\nDr. Veil: (Writing) \u2026thank you, Mr. Ghayter. Now, about the business, would you mind sharing an explanation for its sudden appearance?\nPoI-94707: Very stupid question, doctor. It didn't exist until I started it.\nDr. Veil: That's precisely the issue - there is no record of you ever starting it. I'd imagine that's where a fair share of your legal trouble is stemming from.\nPoI-94707: I did, long time ago. In my homeplace. Humans blame me when they never saw it. Aaaaaall humans are stupid.\nDr. Veil: Excuse me, Mr. Ghayter? Humans?\nPoI-94707: Gragh- people. All people are stupid.\nDr. Veil: \u2026okay. So you did start Alan Investigations, just not under any actual official guidelines or personnel who could've verified it for you?\nPoI-94707: Yes.1\nDr. Veil: The buildings' sudden appearances?\nPoI-94707: Efficiency.\nDr. Veil: Right. And do you have anything to say about the various investments you've received from local residents and corporations alike?\nPoI-94707: People like to invest in gators.\nDr. Veil: Hm?\nPoI-94707: Guhh- people like investigators.\nDr. Veil: (Sighs) Alright. That'll be all, Mr. Ghayter. Thank you for your time.\nEND LOG\nClosing Notes: \"People certainly aren't investing for his charisma, I'll say that much. I wonder if he'd consider looking into skincare routines some time. Or even picking up a razor.\" - Dr. Veil\n\nFootnotes\n1. PoI-94707 refused to elaborate.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5780 | SCP-5781 | SCP-5782 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5784 (Formerly SCP-$0.99-J)\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5784 is to be kept within a standard humanoid containment chamber or within the premises of the Site-19 public cafeteria. SCP-5784's containment chamber is to remain free of sharp objects or surfaces which SCP-5784 could utilise to cut into its own skin. Should SCP-5784 be harmed in any way, it is to be examined for purposeful injury. SCP-5784's arms and hands are to be restrained without Level-2 Clearance and approval from The Department of Other The Thaumaturgical Department.\nShould SCP-5784 retain its record of good behavior, it may be allowed a limited amount of free-roaming and socialization time with accompaniment by at least one security officer.\nDescription: SCP-5784 is a 19 year old human male of French-Canadian descent, standing 190cm tall and weighing 88kg. SCP-5784's back is covered in tattoos, including several images of food items surrounded by Roman and Chinese characters. The ink used to create these tattoos is composed of several anomalous materials, which allow SCP-5784's anomalous properties to manifest when activated with intricate command movements of the arms and hands.\nSCP-5784 is capable of manifesting a variety of food and drink products through its anomalous effects, though the amount manifested is limited based on the product, typically based on the standard serving size recommended by the Canadian government. Food and drink manifested through SCP-5784's anomalous effects is wholly non-anomalous. The types of food and drink that SCP-5784 can manifest are limited by the tattoos on its back, though some slight alterations may be made to each product.\nThe following is a list of example alterations SCP-5784 can control:\n\nThe temperature of the product.\nThe portion size, ranging from half a standard portion to four standard portions.\nThe addition or removal of seasonings and sauces, limited by the subject's tattoos.\nThe primary protein, limited by the subject's tattoos.\n\nAll alterations SCP-5784 makes to food and drink it manifests must result in an edible dish, though the overall quality may vary. For example, the subject may not make a plastic facsimile or a version made with rotten or expired food, but they may manifest a version that contains common allergens such as peanuts, or a frozen version of a dish.\nAddendum 5784-01: Below is an interview with SCP-5784 on 08/25/2013 soon after containment.\nTranscriber's Note: Due to the heavy accent of the subject, the original interview transcribed words based on pronunciation. Below is a re-transcribed interpretation.\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Jacques clears his throat.\nResearcher Jacques: Comfortable?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: Fair. I don't even know why I asked. Even as far as interrogation rooms go this one's pretty low quality.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: What was that?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: No, I understood that. I more meant the implications of what you said.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: Ah, so you're the leader of some kind of\u2026 cult? Organization? \u2026LARPing club?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: And this power is infinite noodles?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: I'm at least a decade older than you\u2026\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: Right, right, but-\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: You\u2026 you know you just have a Chinese menu tattooed on your back, right?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: Right\u2026\nSCP-5784 scoffs.\n<End Log>\n\nAfter the interview, Researcher Jacques retrieved the subject's cell phone and opened the photo gallery. The most recent image was an image of a scroll inscribed with several runes, which if evoked, would give its caster the ability to create and destroy matter at large scales. The second most recent image was a picture of Wok The Line's full menu, a Chinese restaurant in Montreal, Quebec.\nAddendum 5784-02: After SCP-5784's initial containment, in spite of its initial hostility, the subject has since been cooperative with the Foundation, has given information on GoI-2228, \"The Brotherhood of Ink\" and willingly participated in several tests and experiments. As such, SCP-5784 was granted limited free roaming time within the Department of Other along with other low-threat anomalies, which included preparing food in the Site-19 cafeteria once per week.\nOn 01/28/2015, the O5 Council sent a request to the Department of Other head Dr. Gerald to end custody of SCP-5784 and transfer containment responsibilities to the Thaumaturgy Department. Below is the memo from O5-3 detailing their reasoning for this transfer request.\n\nAnomaly Custody Transfer Request\n\nFrom the Desk of O5-3\n\nAnomaly In Question: SCP-$0.99-J\nReason For Request: Due to the subject's significant connection to GoI-2228, SCP-$0.99-J should be relocated and studied by researchers who are more familiar with the group and its capabilities. While the Department of Other may deem SCP-$0.99-J as \"low-threat\", other members of GoI-2228 have proven capable of causing significant damage to civilian populations. It stands to reason that while SCP-$0.99-J's anomalous properties may not be as obviously destructive as its counterparts, it must be contained by a facility more capable of dealing with its potential. Frankly, without handling SCP-$0.99-J in person, any information gathered from experiments and interviews regarding its anomalous effects may be lacking in credibility without a Thaumaturgy Specialist's expertise.\nFurthermore, while SCP-$0.99-J may have demonstrated good behavior, GoI-2228 has a history of violent insurrections and, for lack of a better term, a lack of mercy. Allowing SCP-$0.99-J free roaming time may have been acceptable in the past, but certain anomalies, regardless of their behavior, should not be allowed such amenities due to risk. As long as SCP-$0.99-J is within your care and allowed these freedoms, they pose a greater risk to Site-19 as a whole.\n\nOn 01/30/2015, Dr. Gerald gave the following response:\n\nAnomaly Custody Transfer Response\n\nFrom the Desk of Dr. Gerald, Department of Other\n\nRequest Response: Denied.\nReasoning: Firstly, the Department of Other has been more than happy to relay all information gathered from interviews and experiments with Mr. de Rochechouart to the Thaumaturgy Department; your dissatisfaction with the lack of what you believe is credible information is not our fault. If there has been any information that is contradictory to what the Thaumaturgy Department already has on file, it has not been brought to my attention. If there is any sign in Mr. de Rochechouart's actions that he is more powerful than he has demonstrated, it has also not been brought to my attention. Need I remind you that thanks to Mr. de Rochechouart's cooperation with the Department of Other, that 3 more members of the Brotherhood of Ink have been contained. Transferring custody based on assumptions that the very department you wish to transfer responsibility to has not conveyed to anyone in the Department of Other feels unnecessarily paranoid.\nSecondly, in accordance to the Huever \"If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It\" Agreement, Mr. de Rochechouart is well within their ethical rights to earn certain freedoms, given a history of compliance and provided they are still monitored by Foundation staff. The fact that you bring in the history of The Brotherhood of Ink is entirely irrelevant if they, the individual, have proven themselves otherwise agreeable. Do not be mistaken by the fact that we allow some freedom that we are relaxed with protocols, however. Mr. de Rochechouart is still under extreme scrutiny due to their relative recency with the Department of Other, and we will not hesitate to revoke their earned freedoms should they cease their cooperation with us.\nMr. de Rochechouart has thrived in our care, and is well-integrated into our established guidelines of allowing anomalous expression, within reason. Transferring custody at this time would be disruptive, and ultimately it may result in a worsened relationship with Mr. de Rochechouart and a lack of the information that we both desire.\n\nAddendum 5784-03: On 09/16/2015, a containment breach involving SCP-TTKU-J injured numerous personnel within the Department of Other as well as some anomalies, SCP-5784 included. After SCP-5784's release from the Site-19 Anomaly Care Infirmary, it was determined that the back scars left from the subject's injuries altered its anomalous properties, in that certain items of food could no longer be manifested properly. On 09/29/2015, O5-3 sent yet another memo requesting SCP-5784's custody transfer.\n\nAnomaly Custody Transfer Request\n\nFrom the Desk of O5-3\n\nAnomaly In Question: SCP-$0.99-J\nReason For Request: After the events of SCP-TTKU-J's breach and the resulting damage to not just Site-19, but the anomalies contained within, it is within our right to revoke custody of anomalies that we believe have been mistreated or improperly handled under your care. SCP-$0.99-J's anomalous properties have clearly been impacted significantly by your negligence, and had it remained within their containment chamber at the time of the breach, it would not have been injured in the first place. Allowing SCP-$0.99-J to come into harm's way, regardless if they survived or not, is irresponsible.\nThis is no longer a question of if you are up to the task of maintaining order within the Department of Other, but how little damage your department can cause. Had SCP-$0.99-J, or any other anomaly or researcher for that matter, perished in the containment breach, you would be facing a demotion and a decrease in funding. Since you at least managed to quell the breach without casualties, this is our offer.\n\nOn 10/02/2015, Dr. Gerald gave the following response:\n\nAnomaly Custody Transfer Response\n\nFrom the Desk of Dr. Gerald, Department of Other\n\nRequest Response: Denied.\nReasoning: As generous as your offer may be, I will insist that we retain custody of Mr. de Rochechouart. Researcher Jacques, his primary researcher, has more experience with his anomaly, and his personality, than anyone else in this facility. To request a transfer while Mr. de Rochechouart is at his weakest mentally and physically will only serve to make the jobs of those in the Thaumaturgical Department harder.\nConsider this instead: given the funding allocated to Other, we have done an exemplary job of containing many of this organization's most dangerous, inexplicable, and otherwise obtuse anomalies. Applications for additional security and research staff within the basement were rejected by the Council for the last six months, and funding that would have been reallocated by the department was instead required for the containment of SCP-\\\u0305\\\u0305\\\u0305\\\u0305-J, an anomaly that's difficult to comprehend, let alone contain. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to prevent a breach of the veil while simultaneously allowing an anomaly total control over the Gulf of Mexico?\nThe fact that there were no casualties in this recent breach is a testament to our staff alone, and should not be viewed as slacking on our end. I'll be drafting a request for additional security and funds formally in a separate memo, but please be aware that negligence on our part is not the cause of the breach.\n\nAfter several further memos between Dr. Gerald and O5-3, the Department of Other retained their custody of SCP-5784, though as part of an agreement, limited its free-roaming time to once every two weeks, and only to serve as cafeteria staff.\nAddendum 5784-04: On 12/24/2015, during an on-site Christmas celebration, several researchers in the Site-19 cafeteria suddenly began vomiting after consuming food manifested by SCP-5784. Upon attempting to detain SCP-5784, the subject resisted security personnel by manifesting food products as obstacles and improvised weaponry. By the time the situation was resolved and SCP-5784 was re-contained, 36 Foundation personnel had been injured, and 4 personnel had died of arsenic poisoning. Below is an interview with SCP-5784 after the event.\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Jacques: Henri, what's going on here? Care to give any insight to why all of your food was laced with poison?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques clicks his tongue.\nResearcher Jacques: That doesn't answer my question.\nSCP-5784 scoffs, then takes out a clove cigarette from his pocket and puts it in his mouth.Researcher Jacques: Wha\u2026 where did you even get that?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: God, just\u2026 Henri, what did you do? What did you have to gain from this? We had security watching you from the moment you were out of your cell, and not a single one of them saw you taint the food.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: But your injuries dampened your powers, they didn't cause you to manifest poison.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques turns to Security Officer Bolthouse.\nResearcher Jacques: In case anything happens, non-lethal. I've had enough death today.\nSecurity Officer Bolthouse nods. Researcher Jacques approaches SCP-5784 and lifts up the back of its shirt.\nResearcher Jacques: Is there something I should be looking for? This is about the same as it was the last time I saw it.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques is quiet as he continues to examine SCP-5784's back. SCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: I can't- Oh my god\u2026 no, yeah, I can see that now\u2026\nResearcher Jacques puts SCP-5784's shirt back down.\nResearcher Jacques: Are you telling me that you somehow, without any mirror, accurate cutting equipment or hands, carefully carved parts of your own back tattoo off?\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques returns to his seat.\nResearcher Jacques: Well, thank you for telling me all of this, then. I'll make sure the first thing we do is put you in a straight jacket and keep you locked up for as long as you live.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.Researcher Jacques: Okay, you can stop the monologuing. Bolthouse, please escort SCP-$0.99-J back to his containment chamber.\nSCP-5784 scoffs.<End Log>\n\nAddendum 5784-05: On 01/01/2016, O5-3 sent a memo to Dr. Gerald regarding SCP-5784's custody transfer once again.\n\nAnomaly Custody Transfer Request\n\nFrom the Desk of O5-3\n\nAnomaly In Question: SCP-$0.99-J\nReason For Request: It has come to my attention that SCP-$0.99-J was not only the cause of the disaster during the Site-19 Christmas Eve Party, but had been planning said disaster for several months. It is clear at this time that the Department of Other is not fit to contain SCP-$0.99-J anymore, and as such it should be transferred effective immediately to the custody of the Thaumaturgy Department.\nPerhaps there, they'll actually treat it like a threat rather than staff.\n\nFive hours later, Dr. Gerald gave the following response:\n\nAnomaly Custody Transfer Response\n\nFrom the Desk of Dr. Gerald, Department of Other\n\nRequest Response: Accepted.\nTerms: Following discussion with the Thaumaturgy Department and Anart Department, SCP-$0.99-J is to be released into the custody of the Thaumaturgy Department with special input from the Anart Department regarding SCP-$0.99-J's tattoos. Furthermore, for sake of consistency with the primary Foundation database, SCP-$0.99-J is to be renamed to SCP-5784 in all official documentation. The Department of Other's custody of SCP-$0.99-J ends 01/10/2016.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5783 | SCP-5784 | SCP-5785 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5785\nObject Class: Keter Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following the events of Incident.5785.IV, SCP-5785's containment procedures have been amended in accordance with Ethics Committee Mandate #109 in regards to comatose anomalies.\nSCP-5785 is to be held within a standard humanoid containment cell within Site-80's medical wing. This chamber is to be outfitted with medical devices necessary to maintain life support. SCP-5785 is to be kept on an intravenous diet and monitored for notable changes in its health conditions. A constant stream of morphine is to be administered to SCP-5785 to alleviate the pain from its severe cranial trauma.\nShould SCP-5785's state of consciousness change, MTF-Lambda-71 (\"Rather Nice Cadaver\") are to sedate the anomaly and relocate it to the nearest vacuumized containment chamber, although this occurrence is considered unlikely given SCP-5785's current condition.\nDescription: SCP-5785 is Daniel Chesed, a twenty-five year old human male originally from Newark, New Jersey. SCP-5785 is capable of manifesting two connected portals of equal size with the sole limitation that one portal must be located within its body. When conscious, SCP-5785 has full control over the creation, size, and location of both portals; in its current comatose state, however, the portals manifest and demanifest at random intervals, with the external portal appearing within 5 feet of SCP-5785 and the internal portal replacing a random sphincter within SCP-5785's body1.\nSCP-5785 was brought to the Foundation's attention on April 4th, 2016 due to reports of several prominent United States politicians defecating in public. Cell tower records from the areas of all incidents indicated the presence of B'nai Horin, a Jewish left-wing activist group with a focus on prison abolition. Recovery forces apprehended SCP-5785 and other members of the group at a political rally for the re-election of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on April 9th, 2016 after it transferred its excrement into the pants of Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 during his speech. DNA analysis of said excrement was used to identify SCP-5785 as the culprit.\nVideo Transcript of Incident.5785.I:\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe video transcript previously found in this report has been fully redacted as a result of ongoing negotiations with the government of the United States of America. Individuals with legitimate reasons to view the transcript may file a standard R-194J form for access.\nThank you.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nIntake Interview:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5785\nInterviewer: Alan Smithy2, Intake Specialist for Non-Hostile Humanoid Anomalies\nForeword: SCP-5785 was brought immediately to Site-80 following its apprehension. Due to its cooperation with the retrieval team and a perceived lack of aggression, minimal restraints were applied.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>Dr. Smithy: To the best of my knowledge, they have all been released.Dr. Smithy: May I ask why?Dr. Smithy: I'll see what I can do to assuage your concerns. For now, would you mind stating your full name for the record?Dr. Smithy: I'm afraid that's not possible at this point in time, Mr. Chesed.Dr. Smithy: You'd be waiting a pretty long time. I really would suggest you cooperate at this point.Dr. Smithy: I'm glad. Now, may I ask what exactly brought you to the rally celebrating Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588?\n\n[SCP-5785 does not respond, instead displaying an expression of intense focus. A moment later, Dr. Smithy stands up abruptly, holding onto the back of their pants.]\nDr. Smithy: Security! Get him out of here, now!\n[SCP-5785 is escorted back to its containment cell.]\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Statement: Considering its apparent dislike for figures of authority, in-person interactions with SCP-5785 should be kept to an absolute minimum.\n\nTranscript of Incident.5785.II:\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: 2016-04-11\nNOTE: To preserve the authority of affected parties, segments of this transcript have been redacted.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n11:25: SCP-5785 lies down on its bed and covers its left eye with its hand.\n11:31: A small black shape is recorded manifesting in Secure Hallway 27H, dematerializing a few seconds later.\n11:43: A small black shape is recorded manifesting in Personnel Hallway 18B, dematerializing a few seconds later.\n11:58: A small black shape is recorded materializing outside the office of Vidkun Amaleki, the Site Director.\n11:59: SCP-5785 smiles.\n12:01: [REDACTED]\n12:03: [REDACTED]\n<END LOG>\n\nClosing Notes: I'd like to posit that SCP-5785's abilities are focused on interlaying portals over its internal sphincters. What we've seen today, then, was it applying this ability to the iris sphincter of the eye, allowing it much wider visual range than previously assumed. As such, the current containment procedures are inadequate to prevent SCP-5785 from targeting staff. Immediate revision is an absolute necessity. - Dr. Nehorai\n\nContainment Testing Logs:\nIn light of Incident.5785.II, revision of SCP-5785's containment protocols was redefined as a top priority. All tests were overseen and annotated by Dr. Lev Nehorai, Head Researcher.\n\nCONTAINMENT DESCRIPTION\nRESULT\nNOTES\n\nScranton Reality Anchors installed within range of SCP-5785\nNo effect on directed relocation of excrement\nAs far as we can tell, there's no actual reality-bending occurring here. This is a fully biological phenomenon. The implications are rather daunting, to say the least.\n\nSCP-5785 restrained and placed on an IV drip for 24 hours\nNo effect on directed relocation of excrement\nIt appears that SCP-5785 can import solid food anomalously much as it exports its waste products. Intriguing, but deleterious to containment efforts.\n\nSCP-5785 sedated for 24 hours\nAppearance of external portals is now random in placement\nRandomly appearing waste products is only marginally better than the targeted equivalent. This works as a stopgap, but we need a less messy solution for long-term containment.\n\nSCP-5785 placed in a vacuumized containment cell\nSuccessful; directed relocation of excrement ceases entirely\nI hypothesize that since there are, in fact, no sphincters in the respiratory system, SCP-5785's anomalous import of oxygen takes much more focus than most of its transferences. If it's still capable of importing nutrients, this has real potential as a permanent containment strategy.\n\nAddendum as of 2016-04-16: Incident.5785.III:\nAfter several days without incident, SCP-5785 resumed its aggression towards Foundation staff by targeting a security guard in a nearby hallway. A few seconds later, SCP-5785 collapsed due to oxygen deprivation, requiring immediate medical attention. Immediate revision of SCP-5785's containment protocols was once again deemed necessary due to its apparent disregard for its own well-being.\nContainment Testing Logs cont.:\n\nCONTAINMENT DESCRIPTION\nRESULT\nNOTES\n\nIn-person request for SCP-5785 to stop targeting Foundation staff\nSee Interview 5785-2016-04-16\n\nInterview 5785-2016-04-16:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5785\nInterviewer: Dr. Lev Nehorai\nForeword: The following interview took place approximately two hours after Incident.5785.III. No security personnel were present at Dr. Nehorai's insistence.\n<BEGIN LOG>\nDr. Nehorai: Mr. Chesed, I'd like to discuss a truce of sorts. If you stop targeting our staff, we would be able to amend your containment to be much more comfortable.Dr. Nehorai: Yes, really. I know it might be hard to believe, but I'm here to find a common ground for both us and you.Dr. Nehorai: Torture seems like a strong word. We were trying to protect our people.\n[SCP-5785 snorts in a derisive fashion, crossing its arms.]Dr. Nehorai: All to keep you from, well, doing what you do to anybody else.[SCP-5785 places its forehead on the table. Approximately twenty seconds of silence.]\nDr. Nehorai: Mr. Chesed? Are you alright?Dr. Nehorai: Day of the week, you mean?Dr. Nehorai: Saturday. The 16th, specifically.\n[SCP-5785 snorts. Approximately five seconds of silence.]Dr. Nehorai: I'm guessing \u201cMazel Tov\u201d isn't exactly the response you're looking for here.Dr. Nehorai: We're about eight people short of a minyan3, but I'd be happy to daven4 with you in his honor, if you'd like.\n[SCP-5785 raises its head from the table and glares at Dr. Nehorai.]Dr. Nehorai: Excuse me? What exactly is a \u2018Jew like me'?Dr. Nehorai: We're, uh, we're getting off-track. Let's focus on that last point. Is there another way I could get you to stop targeting staff members? A way that you'd be comfortable with?Dr. Nehorai: I'm afraid that's not a possibility at this point in time.Dr. Nehorai: If this vindication is so important to you, then why not\u2026\n[Dr. Nehorai stops talking mid-sentence.]Dr. Nehorai: I doubt you would.Dr. Nehorai: You just admonished me for not adhering to pikuach nefesh. I don't think you're hypocritical enough to not respect the sanctity of life after that.Dr. Nehorai: I'm sorry, killing won't make a difference? Someone would be dead.Dr. Nehorai: That's\u2026Dr. Nehorai: So, what, you're just going to keep trying to embarrass us for the rest of your life?\n[Two seconds of silence. SCP-5785 sighs.][SCP-5785 smiles.]Dr. Nehorai: Well, uh\u2014<END LOG>\nClosing Statement: I know he puts on an aggressive front, but I sincerely believe I made inroads with SCP-5785 here. He was joking with me by the end! It is my professional opinion that there's room for some sort of middle ground here. \u2013 Dr. Nehorai\n\nAddendum as of 2016-04-17: Incident.5785.IV:\nAt 11:09 PM on April 16th, 2016, medical personnel were summoned to SCP-5785's containment cell in response to a reported suicide attempt. Emergency surgery was able to save SCP-5785's life; however, it does not seem likely that SCP-5785 will regain consciousness. Its relocation to Site-80's medical wing has been approved. Containment procedures will be updated to reflect its change in consciousness and location.\nAddendum as of 2016-04-20: Relevant Internal Correspondence:\n\nTo: Vidkun Amaleki (director@site-80.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Lev Nehorai (levnehorai@site-80.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: Request for Formal Investigation\n\nDr. Amaleki,\nThis is a formal request to open an investigation into the April 16th incident involving SCP-5785. I doubt I need to tell you how many discrepancies there are between the reported events and SCP-5785's actual condition.\nDr. Nehorai\nCurrent Head Researcher of SCP-5785\n\nTo: Lev Nehorai (levnehorai@site-80.scpfoundation.int)\nFrom: Vidkun Amaleki (director@site-80.scpfoundation.int)\nSubject: RE: Request for Formal Investigation\n\nLev,\nRequest officially denied.\nOff the record, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Your research subject has gone from an aggressive Keter anomaly with a persecution complex and an elementary schooler's sense of humor to a Safe anomaly whose main daily expense is a few dollars' worth of janitorial overtime. Both of our lives just got quite a bit easier. Don't ruin it for yourself.\nDr. Vidkun Amaleki\nSite Director\n\nFootnotes\n1. Lev Nehorai, \"Portals as Biological Pathways\", Foundation Journal of Biophysics, vol. 76 (2019): 115-117.\n2. The interviewer in this log has requested that their name be removed from the following interview. Due to the sensitive nature of its contents, their name has been replaced with a pseudonym.\n3. A minyan is a gathering of at least ten of-age Jewish individuals. Some prayers are traditionally not said without a minyan present.\n4. Yiddish for \"pray\"\n5. Hebrew for \"saving a life\". Commonly refers to the Jewish principle of prioritizing sanctity of life over almost all other religious restrictions.\n6. Hebrew for \"pursuer\" or \"murderer\". Most commonly found in Jewish laws regarding self-defense.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5784 | SCP-5785 | SCP-5786 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5788\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The apartment complex containing SCP-5788 has been purchased by a Foundation shell corporation. The unit containing SCP-5788 is not to be rented.\nDescription: SCP-5788 is a standard InSinkErator Evolution Compact 3/4 HP Compact Garbage Disposer. The integration of SCP-5788 into the plumbing of the kitchen makes removal and characterisation difficult. Nonetheless, in situ x-ray measurements reveal an unidentified mass of flesh and hair inside of SCP-5788 and running through the plumbing system of its apartment. Probing of the sink has turned up both auburn and blonde hair. Attempts to access the circuitry of SCP-5788 have revealed complex neural tissue of unknown origin.\nSCP-5788 was discovered when a new occupant reported screams coming from their sink while draining boiling water. The previous owners, Mark Theros and Sarah Johnson (formerly Theros), were investigated by Foundation resources. Both were reported missing four weeks before the discovery of SCP-5788. Credit card records indicate that Sarah Johnson had been staying at a nearby hotel two weeks before her disappearance.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5787 | SCP-5788 | SCP-5789 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\u26a0 SCP-\ud835\udd50 is registered as a Class F Infohazard. Proceed with Caution.\nAttempts to access this file from any system not compatible with Numsafe RGU-\ud835\udd50 protocol will be automatically rejected and logged.\n\nClick here to connect to The RGU-\ud835\udd50 system via remote session.\n\nExit System\n\nSCP-\ud835\udd50\n(Formerly SCP-\u2b1c\u2b1c\u2b1c\u2b1c)\nObject class: Euclid\n\nNo numerals, ordinals, or other words indicative of a singular, finite value may be used in any documentation related to this anomaly. SCP-\ud835\udd50 is not to be assigned any numerical metrics, even for cataloguing purposes, including Disruption and Risk Classes. This also includes the standard numerical classification, which has been replaced with the Unicode character described as \"Blackboard Bold Uppercase Y\" (\ud835\udd50).\nInformation about this anomaly must be stored inside a virtual software box built to utilize a non-numerical coding system and rendering engine specifically built for this purpose, known as the RGU-\ud835\udd50 system. This system is to be installed at Foundation Infohazard Containment Site-\u2643, which specializes in containment via alternative-text and non-textual methods.\nThe knowledge of the nonexistence SCP-\ud835\udd50-A is to be monitored in the general population. Individuals who discover the nonexistence of SCP-\ud835\udd50-A must be treated with amnestics. The use of memetic textual deterrents (\"mipsum\") may be utilized to hide discovered discrepancies.\nWithin the period approximately equal to a full rotation of the Earth, The RGU-\ud835\udd50 system must be activated, which will generate a random number of sufficiently large value as to be statistically improbable that this number will be utilized for any purpose by humans in the foreseeable future. This number will then be added to the end of this containment file.\nIf several days pass without being \"fed\", SCP-\ud835\udd50 consumes a number at random, resulting in potential catastrophic consequences for financial, computing, and other mathematics-derivative fields of science.\nIn effect, the processes protecting this containment file are the same processes containing SCP-\ud835\udd50.\n\nSCP-\ud835\udd50 is a finite mathematical set of numbers. The most accurate definition of SCP-\ud835\udd50 can roughly be defined as \"All numbers which do not exist.\"\nSCP-\ud835\udd50's existence is intrinsically tied to baseline reality. The anomalous effect of RGU-\ud835\udd50 manifests when numbers of any value are associated with it. When a number is exposed to SCP-\ud835\udd50, the number is added to the set in question, causing it to cease existing. A number which ceases to exist is unable to be processed, displayed, or even conceptualized. This missing number can easily be overlooked as the human consciousness will often fill in the missing data involuntarily. Discovery of the absent number will, however, induce some manner of mental strain and should be avoided if possible.\nSCP-\ud835\udd50's relationship to other anomalies is under investigation.\nThe effect of exposure to SCP-\ud835\udd50 appears to have some limitations, as discovered through informal and formal testing:\n\nWhen a number is given a non-numerical symbol to represent it, such as g, SCP-\ud835\udd50 will still affect the underlying value, but the symbol itself will remain unaffected.\nSCP-\ud835\udd50 affects only the full number, not its individual digits. For example, if a several-digit number ABCD were to be affected by SCP-\ud835\udd50, only ABCD would cease to exist; the digits A, B, C, and D would not.\n\nSCP-\ud835\udd50 was initially theorized by famous mathematician \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588 in the same year the Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, Georgia. In a mathematics essay distributed among the Mathematics department of the University of Calgary, Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588 theorized the following:\n\nThe universe abides by rules, which are represented by the laws of physics and calculated by mathematics. There is a set of every countable thing: the number of atoms in the Empire State Building, the period between each crash of waves on the shore. If there are infinite numbers of these countable sets of things which exist, then it serves to reason there is a countable set which contains things which do not.\n\nAs of yet, it has not been determined whether this theory, or Dr. \u2588\u2588\u2588's work afterward, induced the subsequent manifestation of SCP-\ud835\udd50, but operatives in the University later uncovered the anomalous set and its effects, and developed protocols to contain it.\n\nNOTE\n\nDuring containment, a very small amount of numbers were affected by SCP-\ud835\udd50. The total amount is unknown. See section titled \"SCP-\ud835\udd50-A\".\n\nTesting process consisted of the following:\n\nQuerying the RGU-\ud835\udd50 system for a number consisting of an enormous amount of digits, the practical use of which is astronomically unlikely to exist at any point in the future\nAdding or subtracting variables to this number to give it certain attributes, such as being a fraction, decimal, or have certain divisors\nDesignating this new number as a lowercase alpha character, usually g\nAllowing the RGU-\ud835\udd50 system to simultaneously place it into an offsite text file as well as appending (\"feeding\") it to the metadata of the SCP-\ud835\udd50 containment file\nQuerying the offsite file to check for data loss indicative of being affected by SCP-\ud835\udd50\n\nINITIAL LOG\n\nLoading testing logs\u2026\nINPUT: g is an unmodified number. g is fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50.\nRESULT: Full data loss detected: g ceases to exist.\nRESEARCHER NOTE: Baseline result.\n\nSUBSEQUENT LOG\n\nINPUT: All the digits of a certain number, gg, followed immediately by the digits of another number, hh, are concentrated into a combined number, gghh. gghh is fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50. The smaller numbers are not fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50.\nRESULT: Partial data loss detected: gghh ceases to exist. gg and hh are unaffected.\nRESEARCHER NOTE: It's safe to assume that constituent digits are not impacted. That's a relief.\n\nSUBSEQUENT LOG\n\nINPUT: g turned into an ordinal number by appending \"th\" to the end of it. go is fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50.\nRESULT: Full data loss detected: g ceases to exist.\nRESEARCHER NOTE: It appears the result is tied to the value, rather than cardinality, of the number.\n\nSUBSEQUENT LOG\n\nINPUT: g is described without numbers, using non-numerical words. The description, which is incredibly long, is fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50.\nRESULT: No data loss detected.\nRESEARCHER NOTE: It seems that if you use enough non-numbers to describe the value you're referencing, SCP-\ud835\udd50 cannot affect it. This is useful for the completion of this containment file.\n\nSUBSEQUENT LOG\n\nINPUT: The name of an individual, whose surname is also a relatively low-value number, is to be fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50.\nRESULT: Test not performed\nRESEARCHER NOTE: I theorize SCP-\ud835\udd50 would have been able to differentiate between when a numerical term is being used to represent a numerical value, and when it is not. But we can't take that chance.\n\nSUBSEQUENT LOG\n\nINPUT: A D-Class personnel is assigned a large number, g. D-g is made aware, through an audio recording lasting several hours, that this is her new designation. g is fed to SCP-\ud835\udd50.\nRESULT: Full data loss detected: g ceases to exist. D-g suffers a violent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nRESEARCHER NOTE: Tests are suspended until further notice.\n\nEND LOG\n\nRESEARCHER: DR. TREYVON BUCKHANON\nDuring the initial containment of SCP-\ud835\udd50, a Foundation operative assigned the anomaly a standard item designation, \u2b1c\u2b1c\u2b1c\u2b1c, thinking that as long as the number was not added to the containment file, it would be safe to do so. He was wrong.\nWhen this number ceased to exist, it caused extensive infrastructure outages worldwide for a short time. Foundation digital response teams were able to restore functionality to many systems before too long, by creating an algorithm that sort of\u2026rounds everything upward or downward by a certain increment so computers don't notice it's missing. It is incredibly more complex than that, but I am hesitant to go into further details and risk associating SCP-\ud835\udd50 with any other numbers.\nIt is good at what it does, but it is an imperfect solution. \u2b1c\u2b1c\u2b1c\u2b1c is missing, and every day that algorithm's attempt to patch the hole causes system errors and rounding problems in every computer system in the world. Crashes and malfunctions in everything from calculators to mobile phones to nuclear weapon silos. Cleaning up the loss of this number takes round-the-clock work of a team of mathematicians and digital engineers.\nIf SCP-\ud835\udd50 were to breach again, we simply don't know if the world's infrastructure could take it.\n\nExit System\n\n\u00ab SCP-5788 | SCP-\ud835\udd50 | SCP-5790 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item \u2116: SCP-5790\nAnomaly Class: [DATA EXPUNGED]\n\nNonhazardous contextual imagery.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nOperational Purview: Records And Informational Security Administration; Memetics and Infohazards Division; Department of Spectral Phenomena; Office of Applied Necromancy; Department of Miscommunications\nInformation Handling Procedures: Information about SCP-5790 (designated \ud835\udc225790) is to be purged in its entirety no more than 7 days after creation, as per Protocol ICON. The following purge methods have been approved:\n\nInformation source\nPurge method(s)\n\nOfficial Foundation database\nAutomated expungement by file management programs, verified periodically by Information Technology Team ITT-\ud835\udc225790.\n\nOfficial Foundation physical records\nCreation of new physical records is prohibited. All known physical records containing \ud835\udc225790 have been incinerated in ritualistic ovens and pyres.\n\nUnauthorised records by Foundation personnel\nDocuments are to be incinerated as above (if physical) or deleted without archival (if digital), and the staff member(s) in question amnesticised, demoted and quarantined for a minimum of three months. If no anomalous activity occurs within this time, the employee may be reassigned. If said quarantine is not possible, termination is deemed a satisfactory alternative.\n\nBrains of Containment Team CT-5790\nBimonthly amnesticisation and biannual rotation of personnel to prevent memory resurgence. If [DATA EXPUNGED] has already manifested, the site is to be quarantined and MTFs Mu-13 (\"Ghostbusters\") and Theta-0 (\"Antihierophanics\") are to be dispatched to the location. [DATA EXPUNGED] potential delayed manifestation, any persons with non-atheistic religious beliefs are to be terminated shortly thereafter. Any realised iconography is to be extracted from the cerebellum and incinerated.\n\nBrains of assigned mediums\nMemory may be removed following communications depending on the methods used. If this does not occur, a week-long course of deep amnestics is to be used to prevent the possible retention of spiritually-obtained information.\n\nPreexisting literature\nSearch and destroy via dispatch of MTF Chi-9 (\"Page Turners\"). If found, documents containing \ud835\udc225790 are to be incinerated on-site, alongside the relevant relics, [DATA EXPUNGED], and civilian corpses. For this reason, all members of MTF \u03c7-9 have been provided with portable exorcism equipment and trained in its usage.\n\nBrains of MTFs \u03bc-13, \u03c7-9, and \u03b8-0\nAmnestics administered following each SCP-5790- or \ud835\udc225790-related dispatch. Relevant personnel are to attend no more than two incidents invoking \ud835\udc225790 per annum, with the exception of \u03b8-0, for whom [DATA EXPUNGED] core duties. A series of planned neurological surgeries are expected to allow \u03b8-0's members to better cope with their resultant psychological disorders, and lower turnover dramatically.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n[DATA EXPUNGED] widespread theistic belief systems. Protocol MATTHEW (long-term global-theological cultural shift) has been put in place to facilitate this. Subtle short-term procedures are also planned, [DATA EXPUNGED] increase biological similarity between cerebrospinal fluid and holy water to lower death toll.\n\nFirst Foundation-led \ud835\udc225790 retrieval effort.\n\nAdditional methods of destroying \ud835\udc225790 may be used contextually following approval by assigned mediums. If no persons with a spiritual connection or second sight are available, consultation with a member of Level-4 personnel with \"First Principles\" emergency response training is advised. All persons involved are expected to seek amnestic treatment and reassignment shortly thereafter.\nInformation Retrieval Procedures: Thanks to a focused effort by Foundation personnel to execute Protocol ICON, \ud835\udc225790 has been purged globally from the realm of the living. In the event that knowledge of SCP-5790 or its containment procedures is required, the following actions are to be taken:\n\nThe personnel requiring the information are to submit a formal request to Senior Researcher Grahams, the current Hazardous Information Containment Liaison for SCP-5790. Requesting the information either out of personal curiosity, or for low-priority matters, is strictly prohibited.\nContingent on said request being approved, SR. Grahams is to schedule an appointment between the personnel submitting the request and an assigned medium. Proxies may be used if the former displays an aversion to postmortem communications.\n\ud835\udc225790 is to be retrieved from the informational afterlife by the assigned medium, through use of dowsing, talking boards, or other permitted forms of negligible-risk necromancy.\n\ud835\udc225790 is to be treated as detailed under Informational Handling Procedures.\n\nPersonnel are to note that the use of occult communications for information storage does not have any bearing on SCP-5790 or its properties, beyond eliminating the risk [DATA EXPUNGED] false idol. The above sections cannot and should not be used to attempt to discern the nature of SCP-5790.\nAs per its official policy, the Foundation remains opposed to the use of non-human afterlives for personal or organisational gains. In the case of SCP-5790 and its ability to realise [DATA EXPUNGED], however, the use of actualised occultism to release the spirits of incinerated documents poses too great a benefit to containment to be discounted.\nThe use of Protocol ICON as standard info-containment for infohazardous objects is under consideration, pending the development of a method of expanding the scope of SCP-5790's secondary properties.\nDescription: [DATA EXPUNGED]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5789 | SCP-5790 | SCP-5791 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5791\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Biohazard Wing 03 of Site-201 is storing the remnants of SCP-5791. The incidents surrounding its manifestation have been explained by faulty terrain causing the collapse of construction equipment, with the damage to Belmont House explained by a structural failure. All witnesses to either event have been amnesticized.\nDescription: SCP-5791 was an organic aperture that opened in a construction site in the North York City Centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At 20:02 on 30/06/2019, terrain in the site collapsed and exposed a 9m wide structure bearing resemblance to a human larynx and windpipe, extending downwards for an unknown distance. No workers were harmed and all equipment remained intact. Foundation crews were dispatched when panicked police calls regarding a \"massive, spasming asshole\" were intercepted.1\nOn arrival to the scene, Foundation specialists observed the anomaly convulsing violently, expelling clouds of aerosolized blood and non-organic dust into the air. Fearing a potential biohazard emergence, specialists began evacuating all workers from the scene, preparing to call in backup to prevent the spread of any infection vectors. This was interrupted when the anomaly was heard gasping in pained, erratic moans. The sounds matched those emitted during human speech, though the absence of a full vocal tract prevented their conversion into interpretable audio. Muffled mechanical sounds2 and background conversation could be heard emanating from an unknown point.\nMoments later the anomaly convulsed with enough force to destabilize the entire construction site. Damage to a crane boom's lattice caused the machine to buckle onto the main entrance, and cracks in the site's foundation caused the area to sink downwards, forming an emergent sinkhole centered on SCP-5791. Clouds were expelled throughout these events, slicking the terrain in enough viscera that climbing out became an impossibility. One worker, Sylvaine Berger, entered a roller for shelter, but the collapsing ground under the vehicle sent it tumbling into the anomaly. Reinforcements were called for.\nAt 20:45, convulsion ceased. Lacerations formed along the anomaly's interior and the aperture collapsed inwards. Dirt and debris quickly spilled in to bury the anomaly.3 Shortly thereafter an emergency call was intercepted from the Belmont House retirement home. According to the caller, a roller had burst from the body of a resident.\nThe resident in question was retired heavy machinery operator Kosta Walker, whose body had been laterally eviscerated after the vehicle exited the left side of his torso. Two staffers supervising Walker were killed as the vehicle collided through a wall, scattering debris, and came to a rest in the building courtyard, with the previous impacts causing further structural damage. Berger, having only suffered chest fractures and arm injuries, survived the event.4\nThe background conversation heard from SCP-5791 was presumably from the two staffers in question, with the mechanical sound being from Walker's ventilator. Prior to his retirement, Walker had developed silicosis from the repeated inhalation of dust at construction sites.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Toronto Police Service handlers did not act on the calls; owing to the phrasing, they were presumed to be pranks.\n2. As no construction equipment was being operated, this was ruled out as a potential cause.\n3. Following later excavation, the only remnants of SCP-5791 were ~600 kg of assorted human windpipe tissue.\n4. While amnestics were administered, Berger has since shown an aversion to all forms of construction work, and has developed an irrational fear of internal organs.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5790 | SCP-5791 | SCP-5792 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5792\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5792\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5792 is to be kept in the unused janitorial closet at the east wing of Site-164. Cameras around the halls of Site-164 should be monitored regularly as SCP-5792 follows its route. Personnel should be familiarized with the standard route SCP-5792 takes, and report any major deviations.\nDescription: SCP-5792 is an iron shortsword believed to have originated in the Czech Republic. Prior to Incident-5792/A, SCP-5792 was contained in a small storage locker at Site-164 following POI-5792's apprehension by the Foundation. It showed no anomalous effects before Incident-5792/A1.\nSCP-5792 is capable of levitation from as high as 1 meter. At most times, SCP-5792 is facing hilt upwards with its point occasionally dragging on the ground. All attempts to make physical contact with SCP-5792 are met with light to heavy resistance in the form of swings and thrusts. If left unimpeded from its usual route, SCP-5792 will not perform any actions to harm any personnel near it. All attempts to communicate with SCP-5792 result in failure.2\nIf locked in a room, SCP-5792 has been noted to begin to scrape at the door or entrance, gradually making a breach big enough to fit itself through. After, it will trail the halls of Site-164 scaping the ground in various sweeping motions. Site-164's floor was reinforced with metal following an unrelated breach, thus it was deemed a more efficient use of resources to let SCP-5792 follow its normal route under supervision.3\nWhen SCP-5792's daily route through the facility is completed, it will hang itself on the tool rack of the janitorial supply closet of Site-164's east wing, where it will remain until 9:00.4\nAs of writing, multiple written messages have been observed by SCP-5792. All are communicated by various scrapes and marks to the office carpet via SCP-5792 and are typically written as stereotypical questions many working adults make to one another. Examples include \u201cWHENS THIS SHIFT OVER?\u201d and \"HOWS THE WEATHER TODAY?\" and \"DID YOU SEE THE GAME LAST NIGHT, I WISH THE PACKERS WON\". It is unknown if this shows any type of sentience on SCP-5792's part.\n\nAddendum 5792-1: Incident 5792/A: On 09/08/2007, POI-5792 attempted to breach containment utilizing SCP-5792. POI-5792 was successful in evading the notice of nearly all personnel on the site as a result. Only one personnel was a casualty outside of Site-164.\nCharles Madison, a new janitor hired by Site-164, observed POI-5792 escaping, eventually leading to a struggle as POI-5792 attempted to enter the individual's vehicle. During the struggle, Madison was believed to have been killed by a stab through the heart using SCP-5792 and thrown out of the vehicle with the anomaly.\nWhile dealing with the breach of containment, Madison's body remained there for \u2588\u2588 days. After recovering SCP-5792, agents were unable to locate the victim's corpse. SCP-5792 was placed into its storage again where it remained for \u2588\u2588 days.\nMadison was 47 when he was killed. When personnel were dispatched to inform Madison's family of his passing in a road rage accident, the Agents recalled a family member stating that \"Charlie was from a different time, he was always a little grumpy on Mondays.\" Further review of the similarities between SCP-5792 and Madison is ongoing.\n\nAddendum 5792-2: Incident 5792/B: On 08/09/2007, a routine inventory check for the items in storage at Site-164 found that SCP-5792 was missing from its locker. A large number of scratches at the roof and door of the locker were present when it was breached.\nSCP-5792 was later located in the mess hall, using its point to press the buttons of the vending machine located there. After ordering a cola, SCP-5792 lifted the can by using its grip and crossguards, anomalously moved it into the air, opened and mimicked a drinking motive, and after a moment, threw the can into the nearest wastebasket, causing it to spill. It then proceeded to carve out \"I LIKED THE OLD COKE BETTER. TOO SWEET FOR ME NOW\".\nSCP-5792 proceeded to enter an unused workspace5, and stab through the chair. Agents attempted to grab and secure SCP-5792 but were met with resistance and light injury via SCP-5792's hilt and fuller. After the struggle, SCP-5792 carved \"YOU DOING A RUN? ILL TAKE A DOUBLE-DOUBLE\". Before the agents exited the space, SCP-5792 additionally carved \"NO CREAM AND 1 SUGAR\".\nAgent Raymond, who was present for Incident-5792/A, suggested bringing SCP-5792 the demands it requested. After performing its same display of \"drinking\" the beverage, SCP-5792 proceeded to write \"THANKS TOOTS, IM NOT ME WITHOUT MY COFFEE\". After Incident-5792/B's conclusion, SCP-5792 has been considerably more amicable and communicative to personnel approaching and interacting with it, despite those actions interrupting its route. Further attempts to give various beverages to SCP-5792 as a means of communication are pending review.\n\nFootnotes\n1. It is to be noted that POI-5792 was heavily affiliated with the occult, and was brought to the Foundation regarding spiritual matters in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n2. See Incident-5792/B for recent developments.\n3. As of 10/11/2007, a group of personnel have tied the end of a broom to SCP-5792 following complaints of the distractions SCP-5792 made. SCP-5792 is unable to remove the broom end and complaints regarding the noises have ceased.\n4. This behaviour shows similarities to Madison's agreed terms of employment prior to Incident-5792/A, including the stipulation that Madison was to not enter any containment chambers for cleaning.\n5. Formally set up for Madison.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5791 | SCP-5792 | SCP-5793 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5793 following a Si-ling event\n\nItem #: SCP-5793\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5793 is self-contained. Foundation agents are to set up sound barriers around SCP-5793, reinforced by safety barricades under the pretense of renovation works.\nNo personnel are to enter or interact with any of SCP-5793 components.\nDescription: SCP-5793 is a supermarket situated on floor B2 of a JUSCO1 department store, Shenzhen, China.\nSCP-5793 operates indistinguishably from its non-anomalous counterpart until the arrival of a Si-ling event. A Si-ling event denotes any occasion that is widely celebrated across the country, such as Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year. At midnight of the event, promotional banners and posters, stylized corresponding to the thematic scheme of the occasion of the day, materialize on the external glass panes at the entrance, citing large discounts2 on its items.\nNaturally, customer intake proliferates as people patronize SCP-5793 in droves. Supply and free space diminish, encouraging people to be increasingly intolerant of minor inconveniences, correlating to discordant attitudes towards any customer who has made bulk purchases or acquired expensive items that are marked down in price.3 At this point, the entrance to SCP-5793 closes and dematerializes. Blinds are pulled down to obscure its interior.\nAudio recordings indicate repeated calls to barter with other items among the customers, escalating in demand for each successful exchange. For example, customers are heard to barter daily commodities with items affordable by citizens in a higher socio-economic position, before exchanging these for luxury products such as TV sets and mobile phones. None appear to be aware of the missing entrance.\nAfter a period of time4, the blinds are retracted, and customers begin exiting; nearly all are unaffected, save for several bruises and other minor injuries. All bystanders do not recall any abnormality associated with SCP-5793, possibly due to a memetic filter.\nAddendum: SCP-5793 was discovered on 02/11/2003 after Foundation agents (trained against memetic effects) stationed within the vicinity of the mall spotted posters appearing into existence, promoting items sold in SCP-5793. Upon reaching, SCP-5793 underwent a Si-ling event, with customers streaming out of the entrance; one of them, Jia Huolong, a 24-year-old pharmacist operating within SCP-5793, exited with a stitch scar on his stomach, along with a cane whose price tag remained attached.\nUpon interviewing, Jia Huolong commented that he \"felt good for helping a person in dire need\". He refused to elaborate further.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Acronym for Japan United Stores Company, founded in 1969; it currently has expanded to regions including Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and China.\n2. Observations reveal that the percentage of the discounts spontaneously increases when customer intake is low.\n3. It is unknown if these attitudes are related to natural or anomalous processes.\n4. The duration of each Si-ling event varies across every occurrence.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5792 | SCP-5793 | SCP-5794 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5794\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5794 has been closed permanently under the pretence of public safety concerns. Security equipment has been installed to prevent unauthorised access. Testing is currently suspended indefinitely following Incident-5794-B.\n\nSCP-5794 in 2009, prior to manifesting anomalous properties.\n\nDescription: SCP-5794 is the main pool of Greencliff Community Recreation Centre, located in Greencliff, Wisconsin. Initially opened in 1998, the pool operated normally until a series of drowning deaths occurred in 2017. Three weeks following the first death, a pool employee retrieved the first instance of SCP-5794-1 and Foundation agents embedded in local law enforcement were alerted.\nSCP-5794-1 instances are paper slips containing brief messages. Each message identifies the sender and a recipient, followed by varying lengths of text. All recovered SCP-5794-1 instances have listed a drowning victim of SCP-5794 as the sender and have been addressed to close friends or family members. SCP-5794-1 instances are fully waterproof but display no other anomalous properties.\nFollowing the death of Researcher Victor Kato in Incident-5794-A, Foundation personnel are prohibited from entering the main pool of SCP-5794 until further notice.\n\n+ Video Log Incident-5794-A\n\n- Close Log\n\nVideo Log Incident-5794-A\nDate: 09/06/2017\nSubject: SCP-5794; GREENCLIFF, WISCONSIN\nTeam Lead: H. Alvarez\nTeam Members: M. Turner, V. Kato, S. Sharpe\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAlvarez, Turner, Kato, and Sharpe stand outside the main door to SCP-5794. The team activates their recording equipment.\nAlvarez: Everything on?\nTurner: Yep.\nSharpe: No problems here.\nAlvarez: Let's roll.\nKato coughs.\nAlvarez: Sorry. Are you all set too?\nKato: (very quiet) It's alright. Yes.\nThe team opens the door and sets up beside the pool.\nAlvarez: Anything on the chemical analysis?\nTurner: Just water, some remaining chlorine, and trace amounts of human urine. Nothing unexpected.\nSharpe: (facing away from the pool, glancing at Turner's laptop screen) Yeah, all looks normal. I don't see why it shouldn't be safe to touch.\nAlvarez: Good, this should be pretty straightforward then. Just grab a couple samples that we can analyze more carefully back in the lab. Any of you want to check for more of the slips?\nSharpe: Whats-his-name-\nAlvarez: Kato.\nSharpe: Kato hasn't done anything yet, he could do it.\nAlvarez turns away from the group to face Kato, who nods and walks to the edge of the pool, kneeling to get a better look at the surface.\nAlvarez: (to Sharpe, at a loud whisper) Sharpe, you can't speak like that on-duty.\nSharpe: Sorry sir, it's just\u2026 well you know how he is. I don't think he's spoken to me once so it's kinda hard to remember his name.\nAlvarez: You'll get away with it now as a junior researcher on low-level anomalies, but be careful alright? You're a good kid.\nFaint splashing can be heard in the background, but the source is not visible on Alvarez's camera.\nSharpe: Sorry.\nAlvarez: It's fine. Kato's not that bad, really. He's just shy. Guess he's just not a people person, you know? Then again, neither are we.\nSharpe chuckles and Alvarez smiles briefly before turning back to the laptop's readout.\nTurner: Can't I get any work advice?\nSharpe: Haven't you been here for four years?\nTurner: So? I need it more.\nAlvarez, Turner, and Sharpe continue to chat for several minutes. The conversation has been removed for clarity.\nAlvarez: Say, shouldn't Kato have found something by now?\nAlvarez turns back towards the pool. A dark shape is visible on the water's surface.\nAlvarez: Kato? Shit! Is that him?\nSharpe: Oh my god.\nTurner: (shouting) Wasn't anyone watching him?\nSharpe: I didn't think we would need to!\nSharpe runs towards the edge of the pool but is stopped by Alvarez.\nAlvarez: Don't get in the water. Turner, call Site-392 and get a drone over here!\nSharpe: They'll never make it in time!\nAlvarez: In time for?\nSharpe: (alarmed) To save him?!\nAlvarez: I think we're a bit beyond that point.\nA retrieval team from Site-392 arrived shortly after and successfully recovered the body of Researcher Victor Kato via remotely controlled drone. The following investigation concluded that Kato likely slipped on the wet floor while reaching for an instance of SCP-5794-1 and fell into the pool, where he drowned. Testing to determine whether SCP-5794's effects contributed to the drowning was not approved.\n[END LOG]\n\nThree weeks after Incident-5794-A, the first SCP-5794-1 instances relating to the death of Researcher Victor Kato appeared within SCP-5794. They were addressed to SCP-5794's Lead Researcher, Dr Hadrien Alvarez. Testing is currently focussed on using Researcher Victor Kato's previous experience in the Foundation to provide further information on the anomaly via SCP-5794-1 instances.\nAddendum 06/07/2017: In a test conducted by Junior Researcher Sabrina Sharpe, it was determined that leaving paper slips similar to SCP-5794-1 in the water of SCP-5794 influenced the responses on instances of SCP-5794-1.\n\n+ Initial Testing Log\n\n - Close Log\n\nProcedure: Messages are delivered by drone to the main pool of SCP-5794. The pool is monitored for instances of SCP-5794-1, which are retrieved for analysis.\n\nTest 1\nDate: 07/07/2017\nFoundation Message: Are you receiving this message?\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Hadrien Alvarez\nMessage: Yes! Who are you?\n\nTest 2\nDate: 08/07/2017\nFoundation Message: This is Researcher Sharpe of the SCP-5794 research team.\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: Oh thank god, I was getting worried nobody would find my letters. Hello, Sharpe. I heard what you said in the pool\u2026\n\nNotes: Researcher Sharpe became emotional after viewing the SCP-5794-1 instance and requested another researcher complete the remaining testing for the week. SCP-5794 Lead Researcher Dr Alvarez granted the request, citing Sharpe's inexperience at the Foundation.\n\nTest 3\nDate: 08/07/2017\nFoundation Message: This is Alvarez. Can you tell us a bit more about SCP-5794?\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Hadrien Alvarez\nMessage: It's dark in here. I think it's like one of those dimension things I read about. It smells like chlorine and it's wet, but I can't really describe it in a way that makes sense. There's paper, stacks and stacks of paper, and sometimes what I write makes it out to you, I guess. Why do you need to know?\n\nNotes: SCP-5794-1 instance recovered on 15/07/2017.\n\nTest 5\nDate: 16/07/2017\nFoundation Message: This is Researcher Sharpe. Research Lead Alvarez is unavailable at the moment. We need the information for the SCP-5794 file.\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: They meant it when they said the job never ends.\n\nTest 6\nDate: 16/07/2017\nFoundation Message: They did.\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: I've already told you everything useful. Are you going to stop talking to me now?\n\nTest 7\nDate: 16/07/17\nFoundation Message: Testing hasn't concluded yet.\n\nMessage: That's not really an answer\u2026 I guess I just wish someone would actually want to talk to me. It's very lonely in here, you know. There's nothing but me and the water. Though you didn't talk to me when I was alive either.\n\nTest 8\nDate: 17/07/2017\nFoundation Message: We're talking to you now.\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: Only because you have to.\n\nTest 9\nDate: 18/07/2017\nFoundation Message: None\n\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: If you talked to me earlier, wouldn't I still be alive?\n\nAddendum 18/07/2017: Junior Researcher Sabrina Sharpe called a meeting for the SCP-5794 research team to discuss concerns surrounding the contents of SCP-5794-1 instances originating from Researcher Victor Kato's death. Testing involving SCP-5794-1 instances was temporarily halted.\n\n+ SCP-5794 Research Team Meeting 18/07/2017\n\n- Close Log\n\nDate: 18/07/2017\nSubject: SCP-5794 Research Team Meeting\nTeam Lead: H. Alvarez\nTeam Members: M. Turner, S. Sharpe, X. Zhou\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAlvarez: So, SCP-5794-1?\nSharpe: Yes, sir. I just have some concerns.\nAlvarez: I see. Haven't gotten a chance to see any of them yet. Are they logged anywhere?\nSharpe: They're um\u2026 recorded on the file, sir.\nAlvarez: Give me one second. (pause) Are you alright? You look a bit pale.\nSharpe: Y-yeah. Just shaken up a bit from the messages, I think, which is why I called this meeting.\nAlvarez: (skimming SCP-5794's file) If you want, we can transfer Zhou onto message analysis and shift you onto something more lab-side.\nZhou: Yeah, I can do it if you want.\nSharpe: No no, it's fine. I wouldn't want to bother you. You don't have to-\nAlvarez: It's not him, you know. The messages \u2014 they aren't from Kato. It's the anomaly speaking.\nSharpe: (mumbling) How do you know that?\nAlvarez: I mean, it doesn't really sound like him.\nSharpe: Do we even know what he sounded like?\nAlvarez: (Alvarez shrugs) I did at least, somewhat. Sometimes there's no way to know for sure, but you sleep better this way, trust me.\nSharpe: I want to believe it, Dr Alvarez! It's just so hard when you're sitting there and reading them and-\nAlvarez: I know you're new Sharpe \u2014 but you can't think like that here.\nSharpe: I know, I know, I'm trying! It's just\u2026 whenever I read one of the messages it doesn't sound like an anomaly, it sounds like him.\nAlvarez: I thought he never spoke to you?\nSharpe: You know what I mean! (Sharpe appears visibly distressed) I just can't stop thinking about how lonely he must've been, how lonely he still is-\nTurner: (quietly, from the back of the room) It's not your fault, Sabr- Sharpe. We all should've been-\nAlvarez: Turner, not now. Sharpe, it's in your best interest not to dwell on it. The messages are from the anomaly. Keep logging them but if this keeps bothering you I will not hesitate to have you transferred. Sound good?\nSharpe: Alright.\n[END LOG]\n\nNotes: After the meeting concluded, testing on SCP-5794-1 instances was cleared to resume.\n\n+ Second Testing Log\n\n - Close Log\n\nTest 10\nFoundation Message: You previously stated that you were in an alternate dimension. Can you provide a further description? Can you see things, feel things, etc.?\n\nDate Recovered: 20/07/2017\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: Not really. You can't understand it without being it. It's a state of existence and a location rolled up into one. The others are here too, the people that drowned before they called in our team, but they don't understand it. Without exposure to the anomalous, they just sort of float, if that makes sense. They aren't cognizant enough to speak, so it's still just me and the water. It's almost lonelier, in a way, to be so close to company. You'd think I'd be used to this by now though \u2014 it's always sort of been just me. I wasn't popular in school, though I suspect that's not unusual for anyone that works here, and my parents never thought I was good enough. They still don't, because I couldn't tell them what I truly do \u2014 did \u2014 for a living. My friends always had someone better. I hoped the Foundation might be different.\nIt wasn't.\n\nTest 10\nFoundation Message: I'm sorry. -Sharpe\n\nDate Recovered: 21/07/2017\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: They say drowning is the worst way to die. I remember splashing, calling \u2014 and you guys just kept going and going, caught up in your own world until the water closed over my head. I'm still underwater, even here, the water's still choking out my lungs and chlorine is still burning through my eyes. You can say your apologies now, but why didn't you look over? Why didn't you notice me?\nYou're the reason I'm dead.\n\nFoundation Message: What's done is done. -Sharpe\n\nDate Recovered: 22/07/2017\nFrom: Victor Kato\nTo: Sabrina Sharpe\nMessage: Is it? I may be gone, Sabrina, but you could still help me. I'm not an SCP, I'm not an anomaly \u2014 I know what they've been saying to you. I'm just using one to talk to you. The others don't understand, they will never understand, they didn't understand me either. But you do. You could join me here, and I'll finally have my company.\nYour mistake cost me my life, isn't it only fair that I get yours?\n\n+ Level 4 Credentials Required: Incident-5794-B\n\n - Credentials Accepted\n\nVideo Log: Incident-5794-B\nDate: 01/08/2017\nSubject: SCP-5794; GREENCLIFF, WISCONSIN\nTeam Lead: H. Alvarez (offsite)\nTeam Members: M. Turner (offsite), X. Zhou (offsite), S. Sharpe\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSharpe stands in the observation area of SCP-5794. The remainder of the team is nominally assigned to observe from Site-392, but only Turner is actively tuned into the communication channel. Fifteen minutes elapse in silence while Sharpe conducts a survey of the area for new instances of SCP-5794-1.\nTurner: Nothing?\nSharpe: (quiet) Nothing in the last week.\nTurner: It's not unusual for anomalies to be sporadic, plus I think we're mostly done with active testing anyway. Might be time to ask Alvarez to move to weekly checks.\nSharpe: (distant) Yeah, maybe.\nTurner: Alright, I'm gonna head out to grab lunch then. You got a ride back to the site?\nSharpe: Yeah.\nTurner: Cool, I'll see you at the weekly debrief tomorrow then?\nSharpe: (brief pause) Mhm.\nTurner disconnects from the communication channel, leaving Sharpe alone on the observation deck. Instead of heading for her designated Foundation vehicle, Sharpe remains in the observation area. She stares through the observation glass for several minutes before beginning to speak. This behaviour was initially disregarded by the Foundation automatic monitoring program as Sharpe was noted to have a history of talking to herself.\nSharpe: They didn't warn me about this, you know, when I signed up. I mean, I knew that people would die, but I didn't think about it, you know?\nSharpe pauses, fidgeting with her pen.\nSharpe: Alvarez is right, I'm not cut out for this job. He is, he can make himself believe that it's the anomaly speaking \u2014 and maybe he's right, maybe it is. We've been testing it for a month and nobody has a clue, but they're all just so- so cold, and I'm not.\nSharpe reaches down and retrieves various instances of SCP-5794-1 from her field backpack. While technically authorized to handle instances of SCP-5794-1, Sharpe had not notified the rest of the research team that she had removed the instances from their storage locker.\nSharpe: I can't do this. I can't do this job; why did I take this job? (speaking faster) Should've done something the first time, in the pool. What could I have done?\nSuddenly, Sharpe looks back over the water. An SCP-5794-1 instance is visible, and Sharpe quickly collects it and brings it back onto the observation deck. She inspects the instance, visibly distressed, and starts crying. The video quality is too low to determine the text, but later video analysis would detect a minor cognitohazardous effect originating from the instance. It is unknown if the effect was dampened by the video, but similar effects have not been observed in any other instance.\nSharpe: (partially coherent, sobbing) I could have saved him the first time, couldn't I? Alvarez stopped me but I could've fought him off, I could've jumped in \u2014 and even if the anomaly drowned me, at least Kato wouldn't have been alo-\nSharpe suddenly stops. A few seconds of rapid breathing are audible before the recording equipment is manually deactivated.\n[END LOG]\n\nNotes: The sudden deactivation of the recording equipment was flagged as a breach of protocol by the equipment's automatic monitoring program. When Foundation personnel arrived at SCP-5794 approximately 15 minutes later, Researcher Sabrina Sharpe was found dead in the pool, presumably drowned. All remaining members of the SCP-5794 research team are facing disciplinary action for their negligence in both Incident-5794-A and Incident-5794-B. An investigation is ongoing.\nNo further instances of SCP-5794-1 related to the death of Researcher Victor Kato have been recovered.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5793 | SCP-5794 | SCP-5795 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMore by this author\n\nThe following article is a part of the And Every Time We Meet Again storyline. Whilst you can read it on its own, it's highly recommended you read the previous installments to get this article in its fullest.\nImage Sources:\nThe Site-120 logo used in the header was created by EstrellaYoshte for the purpose of all articles regarding such. Please check out more of their absolutely stellar work here.\n\nName of the file: forest\nSource: link\nLicense: CC BY 2.0\n\nName of the file: hills1\nSource: The Site-42 Discord Server\nLicense: CC BY SA 3.0\nNotes: Image used with permission from the user.\n\nName of the file: hills2\nSource: The Site-42 Discord Server\nLicense: CC BY SA 3.0\nNotes: Image used with permission from the user.\n\n\nSCP-5795-1 as seen during Operation High Court.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nOperation High Court is currently ongoing. All resources of the Foundation's local facilities are to be focused on preventing as much damage to Eastern Poland as possible.\nA search for the manuscripts containing the instructions required to properly carry SCP-5795 out is currently ongoing. Should they be found, they are to be transported to Site-120's Deepwell.\nIf an SCP-5795-2 comes into contact with a Foundation terminal, Site-120 security is to engage the instance with live ammunition.\nDescription:\nSCP-5795 is a complex thaumaturgic ritual which, when correctly executed, opens a gateway between baseline reality and another plane of existence, hereby referred to as SCP-5795-1, creating a seamless transition between the two dimensions. SCP-5795-1's interior consists entirely of a massive forest with a mountain near its center. No further irregularities from baseline reality were noted.\nSCP-5795-2 are inhabitants of SCP-5795-1. They are indistinguishable from common Fae (Homo sapiens sidhe) with the exception of being able to inhabit written files in physical or digital format.\nSCP-5795-1 currently encompasses the entirety of the Podlasian Voivodeship of Poland. Further information is Level 3/HIGH COURT Classified.\n\n[END OF FILE]\n\n>log-in\n\nlogin: j.rivera@site-120.int\npassword: * * * * * * * * * *\n\nlogin\n\nVERIFYING CLEARANCE\u2026\n\nCREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. WELCOME, DOCTOR RIVERA.\n\nWELCOME, AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL\nClearance 3/HIGH COURT Detected.\nNote that the remainder of this file is Level 3/HIGH COURT Clearance Classified. Sharing this file with unauthorized personnel is strictly forbidden and will result in immediate disciplinary action.\n\u25c6 Attached Addenda \u25c6\n\n[+] Discovery\n\n[-] Discovery\n\nA civilian photo depicting SCP-5795-1.\n\nThe manuscripts detailing SCP-5795 were originally found in Site-120's Grand Library, stolen from it following a raid on a cult organization known as \"the Children.\" Due to numerous unidentified fingerprints being found around the location, a search for a potential thief was initiated.\nThree days later, a connection between the event and PoI-5936 (\"Damien Nowak\"), a leader of \"the Children\" cult was made via the analysis of fingerprints left behind within Site-120. To prevent a potentially Veil-breaking scenario from occurring, the local facilities of the Foundation initiated Code Yellow, upon which all Site-120 resources were to be diverted to locating Nowak and the cessation of any further anomalous activity.\nMeanwhile, residents of the Podlasian Voivodeship of Poland reported numerous SCP-5795-1 sightings. A special task force consisting of Daniel Ashworth, Jessie Rivera, and the remaining members of MTF Omega-5A were dispatched to the location of the sightings.1\n\n[+] Operation\n\n[-] Operation\n\nIn light of the scale of the emergency,2 the O4 Council3 has immediately transported all of the individuals involved with the aforementioned operation4 via the usage of Ways directly into the affected area. The following are recordings created during the event retrieved from Dr. Rivera's body camera.\n\nDate: 27/04/1985\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-5A, Dr. Asheworth, Dr. Rivera\nSubject: Unspecified parts of the Podlasian Voivodeship of Poland\nTeam Lead: Dr. Rivera\nTeam Members: Dr. Asheworth, Om-5A-1, Om-5A-2, Om-5A-4\nForeword: Due to Operation High Court's importance, the following feed has been directly connected to command at Site-120.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe video shows a closing Way behind the group as they enter into a forest opening a view onto a small and shallow valley. In the distance, a large mountain can be seen, with the sky around it flickering between darkness and light. Despite this, no sun, moon, stars, or any other celestial bodies can be seen anywhere.\nDr. Rivera: Rivera, checking in. Is the feed clear?\nCommand: All's fine.\nThe group descends down the hill as a scream is heard. The entire group freezes for a moment only to continue with double the speed a second later.\nDr. Asheworth: Fuck fuck fuck, we're too late! Everybody, check your weapons, we're entering into\u2014\nAsheworth is cut off as a relatively small arrow strikes the tree near him. He freezes.\nDr. Rivera: Jesus Chr\u2014 get back!\nThe group hides behind a large stone located to their right as the arrows start to fly faster. All of them miss save for one, which strikes Om-5A-2's left thigh. Asheworth stops, bringing his hands together as a warm light fills his surroundings, quickly turning into a bubble.\nOm-5A-2 kneels, quietly groaning in pain.\nAs another arrow enters their surroundings, it breaks upon contact with the shield.\nCommand: <heavily distorted>: What's going on?!\nOm-5A-2: We're under attack by an unknown agg\u2014\nDr. Rivera: It's Faeries.\nOm-5A-4: What?\nDr. Asheworth: Faeries, Children of the Forest, whatever!\nAsheworth starts to form a thaumaturgic circle around them with an unidentified white powder he pulls from a bag inside his coat.\nDr. Rivera: Calm do\u2014\nCommand: Both of you, stop it right now, I orde\u2014\nThe entire valley is filled with a deafening shriek as the connection terminates itself and two members of the MTF fall on their knees. One of them is bleeding from all orifices.\nOm-5A-4: <Getting up from the ground>: What's going on?!\nDr. Rivera: An active cognihazard, probably originating from dash two. The ritual is probably being finished. We need to hurry.\nOm-5A-4: What about A-2?!\nOm-5A-4 gets up and approaches Om-5A-2. He then conducts resuscitation techniques in vain.\nDr. Asheworth: He's already gone.\nA second scream is heard as a strong wind fills the nearby trees. The arrow rain disappears mid-air as the sky's color changes from blue to a light green-blue.\nDr. Asheworth: No no no, no no no. This is not happening! Not again! Not again\u2014\nAsheworth gets up from the ground and begins to frantically look around himself.\nDr. Rivera: We need to go, now!\nThe team runs towards the mountain as further wind blows between the trees. From atop it, a humming in numerous unknown languages can be heard alongside the sky's color-shifting between a green hue and a clean blue.\nCommand: Do you <inaudible>? Team, d<inaudible>?\nDr. Rivera: Command?! Do you copy?!\nCommand: This is Corn<inaudible> spea<inaudible>ng! Do<inaudible>t enter <inaudible> stances! Do you <inaudible>?!\nDr. Rivera: Do you hear us?!\nCommand: We <inaudible, the radio does not respond and only excretes static>\nDr. Rivera: No, fuck fuck fuck fuck! What do we do?!\nOm-5A-4: We need to push forward. That's the only way.\nA gravel path begins to form around the mountain. Surrounding the mountain, a large staircase carved around it is seen.\nAs the group approaches them, numerous large openings on the mountain can be sighted. Some are filled with nest-like structures, although no lifeforms can be detected. However, the group's cameras then pan to the top of the mountain, where a large swarm of bugs alongside other unidentified creatures can be seen. He stops.\nDr. Rivera: What are you doing?!\nThe humming gets louder as an unintelligible human male voice starts to vocalize.\nDr. Asheworth: We're already too late.\nA high-pitched, bellowing sound emanates through the valley, and the recording cuts.\n[END LOG]\n\nDate: 27/04/1985\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-5A, Dr. Asheworth, Dr. Rivera\nSubject: SCP-5795-1\nTeam Lead: Dr. Rivera\nTeam Members: Dr. Asheworth, Om-5A-1, Om-5A-4\nForeword: From evidence gathered after Operation High Court concluded, it was deduced that the following exploration took place entirely within SCP-5795-1.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe camera's feed connects again as it appears to be gently struck multiple times by Rivera.\nRivera: Come on, come on\u2026\nThe interior resembles primitive living spaces, with thaumaturgic symbols, composed of a mixture of blood and mud, drawn on the walls. These symbols, illuminated by red light pulsating from them, represent \"protection\" or \"preparation.\" A dim, red light pulsates from all of them, increasing in frequency with every loud hum coming from above.\nDr. Rivera: Hello? Command, does anyone hear us?\nDr. Asheworth: They don't. And never will.\nOm-5A-4: What? Why?\nDr. Asheworth: The connection will never reach them. We're in dash one now.\nOm-5A-1: But there has to be some way of reaching them\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: There isn't. The only way out of here is up that goddamn mountain.\nDr. Rivera: I've tried to compile a map of the area with some of 120's scanners, but\u2026 well, he's right.\nOm-5A-1: But\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: Look, I hate to be the dick here, but I'm the blood magic guy, alright? And if I say there's no way out of here \u2014 there's no way out of here. Now let's go before that option closes too and we have to live with goddamn Fae forever, shall we?\nDr. Rivera: Let's go.\nAs Asheworth heads forward, a natural staircase paven within the grotto can be seen. He quickly climbs it, getting out of sight of the camera.\nOm-5A-1 walks towards Rivera. The other man quickly heads with Asheworth, disappearing out of sight.\nOm-5A-1: What is going on with him?\nDr. Rivera: <sighs> Technically and medically speaking \u2014 nothing. I'm sure deep down there's a logical reason for this but\u2026 I'm worried, Jacob. I really am. I've no longer any idea of where we are, how we are here, and who we're truly chasing. I\u2026 I really don't.\nOm-5A-1: Ever since Hann\u2014 I mean, A-3 passed, everything's been\u2014\nDr. Rivera: I know. I know.\nThey continue walking slowly in silence for the next 5 seconds.\nA loud noise can be heard from above.\nDr. Asheworth: <muffled by the walls>: You coming?!\nDr. Rivera: <shouting>: Yes!\nRivera looks at Om-5A-1.\nDr. Rivera: Let's go.\nThey quickly climb the stairs before entering a 200 m\u00b2 opening. They walk through a large hall, where numerous wooden tables, stools, food, bottles, and thaumaturgic symbols are scattered. On the walls, approximately 50 paintings depicting a large humanoid creature levitating in the sky. All of them are untouched, in contrast to the rest of the room's items, which are in a poor state of repair.\nDr. Rivera: And what is\u2014\nAs a loud roar fills the cave from above, the entire team looks at the ceiling, revealing a barred opening to what appears to be an arena. At the edges of the above, snow can be seen alongside a clear sky view, suggesting it is the top of the mountain inside of SCP-5795-1. Inside of the arena, a stadium can be seen, with its surroundings filled with sitting Fae, Children of the Night, and numerous other unidentified creatures. They all seem to be humming, focused on the central spot, a throne sits atop a small platform. Three figures stand at the platform surrounding the seat; they cannot be properly seen from this angle.\nThe humming suddenly stops, as one of the figures shouts something inaudible. Two seconds later however it resumes, three times louder than before.\nDr. Asheworth: It's him.\nDr. Rivera: W-what?\nDr. Asheworth: It's. Him.\nAsheworth's glove runes are engulfed in flames which start to circle him in a serpentine-like manner. He rushes towards a naturally-carved staircase located on the opposite side of the room. As he does so, the flame starts to move frantically around him.\nDr. Rivera: Daniel, sto\u2014\nAs Rivera starts to talk, a small earthquake moves the room. From two of the tables, a total of five Fae awaken, seemingly drunk.\nOm-5A-1: Jesus fuck\u2014\nThree of the creatures seem to notice the group, hissing wildly. In their hands, ethereal spears form and the creatures rush towards the group.\nDr. Rivera: Asheworth, get down here!\nHe looks at them, only to continue climbing.\nTwo more Fae start waking up, with one of them being at least three meters tall and with four arms and wings. The entity materializes four separate sets of weapons in each hand and starts to attack the exploration team.\nDr. Rivera: Goddamnit, help us out!\nAsheworth looks at the rest of the team, visibly angered. He then looks back at the staircase, then at the rest of them again. He screams as he lunges down the room, with a spear made out of the cave's clay in his hand.\nAs Om-5A-1 and Om-5A-4 start firing towards the Fae, Rivera backs away on one of the containers. Asheworth's flame starts to engulf the smaller Fae. The entity screams, trashing around the room and throwing its weaponry about. It appears to be blinded.\nAs Om-5A-4 gets behind the large Fae, he stabs it with a knife. The entity tries to grab it, but he is quicker. As a result, it grabs and destroys one of the tables. The entity screams, running towards both of the MTF members.\nOm-5A-1 tries to run away, toppling over one of the stray items on the floor left by the destruction of the table. He gets knocked over, falling on the ground. The Fae starts to run, manifesting three swords in its remaining hands. It looks furiously at Om-5-A-1.\nDr. Rivera: Get out of there, NOW!\nThe man tries to get up, but fails to, falling on his knees again. As the Fae is about to stampede Om-5A-1, Om-5A-4 throws himself between them. He is thrown against one of the walls by the larger entity, which appears to be staggered.\nOm-5A-1: No!\nOm-5A-1 quickly crawls towards his team member, with one of his legs bleeding. Asheworth throws his spear into the Fae. The entity screams, turning into ash over the course of the next 5 seconds. As it disappears, it screams directly at the man. He does not react.\nAs Rivera gets away from the chests she hid near, the team gathers around Om-5A-4, whose body is heavily wounded.\nDr. Asheworth: Move aside, all of you!\nAsheworth runs towards Om-5A-4, kneeling and starting to touch the wound. Around his hands, a bright light appears.\nDr. Asheworth: Come on, come on, come on!\nOm-5A-4: N-n\u2026 no.\nDr. Asheworth: What?!\nOm-5A-4: It's fine. I\u2026 I understand.\nOm-5A-4 starts to violently cough.\nOm-5A-4: Leave me.\nOm-5A-1: N\u2014\nOm-5A-4: You\u2026 you have to.\nDr. Rivera: No, no we do not! Stop spitting nonsense and\u2014\nOm-5A-4: It's\u2026 it's fine. It really\u2026 coughs is. It was an honor to serve\u2026 with you\u2026 gentlemen.\nAs Om-5A-4 stops moving, the team gets up from the ground and starts walking towards the stairway. Om-5A-1 rubs his eye as they walk forward.\nAsheworth looks at Om-5A-1.\nDr. Asheworth: I\u2026 I know\u2026\nHe then proceeds to look at the staircase.\nDr. Asheworth: I know\u2026 but we must go forward. I'm so sorry, John.\nOm-5A-1 looks at Om-5A-4 for the final time before leaving.\nDr. Asheworth: But that's the only way.\nThe video log cuts as the team enters onto the colosseum stands.\n[END LOG]\n\nDate: 27/04/1985\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-5A, Dr. Asheworth, Dr. Rivera\nSubject: SCP-5795-1\nTeam Lead: Dr. Rivera\nTeam Members: Dr. Asheworth, Om-5A-1\nForeword: N/A\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe camera feed connects again as the team enters the audience, which does not seem to notice them. The creatures surrounding them appear to be a group mixed between the Children of the Night, Fae, humanoid bug entities, hooded human-like creatures, and numerous other beings that look unique to their kind. All of them have some variation of a \"protection\" rune engraved upon their torsos. The entire crowd is silent.\nThe arena appears to be built within the crater atop the mountain present within SCP-5795-1. From it, the night sky can be seen, from which what appear to be paper-made origami dragons of various sizes fly alongside enormous cicada-like entities. Though they keep on coming, the ones that enter the building sit upon the stands surrounding the center of the room.\nEvery present being there looks at the throne in the middle, near which three individuals stand \u2014 in the center Damien Nowak, at the left, Dr. MacCarthy Jr., and at the right, a glitching, human-like being which seems to be in a state of constant pain.\nThe only individual emitting any sound is Nowak, whose voice is muffled due to the distance. Most words, however, are clear.\nNowak: \u2026ey do not secure, they steal. They do not contain, they imprison. And they do not protect, they conquer. All of them are nothing more than liars, liars who I and everyone else will not stand any longer!\nDr. Rivera: <quietly, looking at Asheworth>: Who\u2026 is\u2026 that?\nDr. Asheworth: Nowak. You know the rest.\nDr. Rivera: And what does he have to do with\u2026 Fae and Bigfoot out of all th\u2014\nRivera is interrupted as a large Fae shushes her. Both comply.\nNowak: Tell me \u2014 have they ever done anything that doesn't somehow benefit them and them only? No?\nHe looks directly at the Fae.\nNowak: Or maybe do you think that the Great Purge was good? No? How about locking your species in an alternate dimension then? You must be so happy about that, mustn't you?\nHe looks at the Children of the Night.\nNowak: Tell me \u2014 did you appreciate when your god slaughtered all of you? Well, do I need to wait for the answer?\nHe looks at the part of the stadium in which the origami dragons and cicada-like beings sit.\nNowak: What about their promise, then? Surely they must have kept it?\nAs he says that, the entities visibly become sadder.\nNowak: I thought so too.\nNowak looks around himself, circling around the throne.\nNowak: Friend, enemies, brothers, sisters \u2014 I brought you all here to show you that you are not each other's enemies. Do you really think all of your conflicts stem from you? Or is it the Foundation, the humans, the cancer that festers within this world that led you to battle each other?\nHe stops for a moment.\nNowak: Do you really think that even a single generation of them wanted peace? That they wanted to live in harmony? Do you really, really think that the massacres they committed throughout the years were acts of good faith?\nSilence.\nNowak: They were not. They are nothing more than thieves; thieves of land, thieves of freedom, thieves of knowledge. And that knowledge we will use against them.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr. steps ahead, presenting himself to all present. His face shows no emotions, though half of his torso is filled with gray scales.\nNowak: We will use that which they thought dear to fester. We will use that they thought safe to plunder. And we will use that of which they thought good to destroy them from the inside \u2014 as without access to knowledge they have stolen from all of us so long ago and declared theirs, they are nothing!\nThe crowd starts to cheer, with some of the entities present starting to scream. They roar, with the sound overpowering all others. Nowak raises his hand slightly. The entirety of the sound stops.\nNowak: As they, they brought it upon themselves so many years ago. We do not have another choice, friends. We\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: Liar!\nAsheworth stands up from the seat, screaming at Nowak. His glove runes start to vibrate violently, with what looks like ice forming between his hands.\nDr. Rivera: Calm d\u2014\nNowak: And who are you?\nAsheworth starts walking down towards the arena.\nDr. Asheworth: You know damn well who I am, you piece of shit.\nDr. Rivera: Ashewor\u2014\nThe ice between his hands forms into large spikes that penetrate the flow around him. He uses one of them as a spear and throws it towards Nowak.\nNowak: Ah. I really thought I got rid of you this time.\nThe two entities near Nowak walk towards him, trying to stop him from walking down the platform.\nNowak: No no, it's fine. I'll handle it on my own.\nHe throws his black robe off, revealing long black hair put in a bundle and a burn scar located on the left side of his face.\nNowak: I should have years ago.\nThe man walks down, running towards Asheworth, who kneels and draws with chalk around him. As Nowak is about to strike him with his fist, which starts to enlarge with what appears to be rock, Asheworth disappears, transporting himself upward.\nNowak: You\u2014\nAsheworth screams, landing on Nowak's head. They both entangle in a physical fight.\nOm-5A-1: What do we do?!\nDr. Rivera: Help him out, obviously!\nThe remainder of the team runs down, as Nowak looks at the audience, which seems to be shocked.\nNowak: Help me out, idiots!\nAs the creatures try to enter the arena, an invisible force blocks them. Rivera looks heavily focused, with her eyes closed.\nOm-5A-1: How do you do this?!\nDr. Rivera: I\u2026 d-don\u2026 don't\u2026 know\u2026\nAll of the entities present on their side of the barriers start to panic, trying to find a way into the arena. All of them fail.\nThe camera focused once again on the men inside of it.\nAs sparks start to flicker around Asheworth's hands, they form into a flame. Nowak backs off, with the eye located near the scar starting to glow.\nNowak: How dare you use my ow\u2014\nThe flame turns into a giant fire, directed towards Nowak. He touches the ground, which rises into a large dirt wall protecting him from the fire. Behind the wall, Nowak starts to draw a thaumaturgic circle. As the rest of the team makes their way towards the two men, the circle starts to glow.\nAsheworth runs towards Nowak. Screaming, he materializes an ethereal sword in his hand. As Nowak turns around, touching the ground, he creates a halberd for himself made out of the earth of the colosseum around him.\nBoth of the men cross weapons. Nowak swings his halberd aggressively, attempting to hurt Asheworth directly rather than his weapon. Upon the fourth swing however, Asheworth shatters it by parrying its attack and touching it quickly in multiple spots.\nNowak: You disgui\u2014\nHe is cut off as Asheworth kicks him in his knee. The man falls down on the ground. Asherworth starts to strangle him from behind. Nowak whispers an inaudible phrase, which visibly makes Asheworth lose focus. He loosens the grip, allowing Nowak to punch him in the face.\nAs Asheworth tries to get up from the ground, Nowak pulls out a pocket knife and stabs him in the ankle. He screams, falling over. Asheworth tries to punch Nowak again, but fails to, as the man starts to crawl away towards the portal. Although Asheworth tries to catch him, Nowak gets up, limping.\nNowak starts vocalizing in an unknown language again, with the rocks scattered throughout the arena starting to move towards Asheworth. He touches the ground, which sends a shockwave towards the rubble, destroying most of it and reflecting the rest. The gravel created by the disintegration of the rocks gets to Nowak's eyes. He wipes it away, somewhat shocked by the event.\nRivera falls on the ground, deactivating the barrier for herself and Om-5A-1. They both enter through.\nDr. Asheworth: Don't let him get away! Not now!\nAsheworth stands up, visibly wounded. Om-5A-1 starts to fire, attempting to terminate Nowak. Halfway through however, the bullets vanish.\nAs the runes start to flicker violently a portal opens behind Nowak.\nNowak: It's too late.\nOm-5A-1 tries to grab Nowak before he enters the portal, failing to do so.\nA grin fills the man's face as he lifts his hand. All of the Foundation staff start to levitate. Asheworth whispers something inaudible and all of them fall to the ground. He touches the ground, from which numerous spikes are created that try to touch Nowak. He whispers something inaudible and all of them shatter to pieces.\nNowak enters through the Way. As he does so, the entire colosseum starts to fall apart. Rocks from the ceiling start to fall, landing near the exploration team.\nDr. Asheworth: <crawling towards the portal>: This\u2026 is\u2026 not\u2026 over\u2026 yet!\nNowak: <looking directly in Asheworth's eyes>: Then prove it.\nAs the Way closes, Asheworth rushes towards it, entering at the last second. The team follows, which results in the camera which is on Rivera's clothing getting stuck on a pillar. She loses it, and they disappear out of sight.\n[END LOG]\n\n[+] Aftermath\n\n[-] Aftermath\n\nWhen Command located at Site-120 lost contact with Operation High Court's team, the entirety of Site-120's armed personnel were sent in to investigate. Although they were not found, all signs depicted in the recordings were present. SCP-5795-1 was at that time still interconnected with baseline reality, though within it, no lifeforms were found. The only thing not noted by the recordings present within was the unconscious body of Dr. MacCarthy Jr., which appeared to be heavily drugged and damaged. Although all of his Foundation clothing was still present, his Level 3 Clearance card was missing. Attempts to bring him back have been so far unsuccessful.\nA thaumaturgic scan of the area was later initiated, with the intended purpose being the location of the portal into which the team disappeared. Three days later, however, not a single sign was located. To where the portal lead remains unknown.\nAfterward, all civilians claiming to witness the event were interrogated and amnesticized. Though the investigation garnered no results, the researchers remain on-site for further research.\nThe whereabouts of Daniel Asheworth and the rest of the team are still unknown.\n\nThere has been one additional edit since you accessed the file.\n\n[+] Show Changes?\n\n{crfssticall databaseee errosrss//]>\n\nWE ARE FREE\n\nCRITICAL SCiPNET ERROR. 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{"text": "Item #: SCP-5797\nObject Class: Euclid Neutralized\n\nDamaged vehicle within SCP-5797 following a Foundation-initiated OVERDRIVE event.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All roads within a six kilometer radius of Provisional Site-23 are to be monitored by Foundation personnel, and any vehicles susceptible to the effects of SCP-5797 are to be barred from entry. This is to be carried out under the pretense that the area is too geologically unstable.\n\nDescription: SCP-5797 is a ten acre lot (Provisional Site-23) occupied by the derelict Gas n' Go Truck Stop and Caf\u00e9 in rural Stevens County, Washington. At the time of Foundation discovery, there were twenty-one vehicles parked on the premises.\nCargo vehicles weighing in excess of two thousand kilograms1 travelling within a six kilometer radius of SCP-5797 will undergo an OVERDRIVE-Class anomalous event.\nAt the beginning of an OVERDRIVE event, operators of the affected vehicle will lose control over speed, steering, braking, and any other functions typically reliant on manual attention. In the seconds following the initiation of an OVERDRIVE event, human occupants will undergo involuntary flexion and muscle contractions, rendering them incapable of communication. The affected vehicle will then travel autonomously in the direction of SCP-5797.\nSaponification2 of flesh and organs begins approximately two minutes into the OVERDRIVE event. This affects not only human occupants but any livestock that may constitute the vehicle's cargo. By the time an affected vehicle has reached SCP-5797, all non-osseous organic matter within has broken down into a viscous protein slurry.\nAn OVERDRIVE event concludes when the affected vehicle has reached SCP-5797. Upon entering the lot, the vehicle will park itself in the nearest available space to its point of entry. All attempts to date at blocking a vehicle's journey to SCP-5797 have failed; even with considerable damage, an impeded vehicle will persist in its efforts to reach the lot.\nSCP-5797 first came to the attention of the Foundation on 2019/08/15. A spate of missing truck drivers in the Colville area led to local authorities discovering the associated vehicles on the SCP-5797 lot, along with biological remains. The truck stop had been closed for three decades prior to the first recorded OVERDRIVE event.\n\n+ Experiment Log\n\n- Experiment Log\n\nA number of test vehicles equipped with remote control systems were driven into SCP-5797's radius of effect. In all tests, on-board recording equipment failed shortly after the initiation of an OVERDRIVE event.\n\nTESTED VEHICLE(S)\nRESULT\n\nMack Superliner wrecker and Ford LTL 9000\nAll fuel had been siphoned from the Ford prior to initiation; vehicle was attached to the Superliner wrecker and driven into the radius of effect. Ford broke free of wrecker and made its way to SCP-5797 in convoy with the Superliner despite its lack of fuel.\n\nPeterbilt 379\nSuggestion that SCP-1872 be used in an attempt to counteract the effects of OVERDRIVE scenario. Class-D volunteer was seated at the wheel of subject vehicle to initiate SCP-1872's anomalous effects. Attempts to divert vehicle away from the OVERDRIVE course failed. Though measures were in place to free human subject from the vehicle before saponification could occur, personnel were unable to reach the truck due to its increasing speed. Subject expired and the vehicle in question reached SCP-5797.\n\nLVSR Heavy 10x10\nLayers of counter-terrorism barricade were installed along the route, with a heavy military vehicle selected for the test. Affected vehicle avoided the barricades and instead pursued an alternate off-road route through dense forest, uprooting hundreds of trees until entering SCP-5797 from the rear of the lot. This was the last time an OVERDRIVE event occurred; testing had caused SCP-5797 to reach its full capacity of forty-seven vehicles.\n\n+ Incident Log 2019/08/19\n\n- Incident Log 2019/08/19\n\nOn the morning of 2019/08/19, approximately twenty-four hours after SCP-5797 reached its full capacity, a geological event caused the collapse of Provisional Site-23. This was identified as a large sinkhole, encompassing the entirety of the site and surrounding terrain. All forty-seven subject vehicles had fallen into the hole, and a successful search and rescue operation was enacted to recover sixteen trapped personnel.\nThree hours later, personnel reported mechanical grinding sounds and tremors emanating from the sinkhole. Subsequent exploration was unable to locate any of the forty-seven vehicles; instead, a borehole with an opening measuring six by three meters was discovered in the south-west corner of the crater.\n\nAS A RESULT OF THE INCIDENT ON 2019/08/19, THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REVISED\n\nTHE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONTAINS AN UPDATED OBJECT DESCRIPTION AND APPROPRIATE CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES FOR THE ENTITY BELIEVED TO HAVE CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF PROVISIONAL SITE-23\n\nItem #: SCP-5797\nObject Class: Keter\n\nThe clean-up operation following the destruction of Provisional Site-23 remains ongoing.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5797's length, and its anomalous properties, have made adequate containment procedures exceedingly difficult to implement. Research into a large-scale containment vessel that SCP-5797 cannot burrow through is ongoing.\nSCP-5797 is to be monitored using probe and drone equipment. Foundation personnel embedded in the oil industry are to be on alert for damage or disturbances which may have been caused by SCP-5797. The Foundation will provide appropriate reimbursement and cover stories on a case-by-case basis.\nDue to the fact that SCP-5797 inhabits an area of frequent tectonic activity, tremors caused by SCP-5797's movements are to be blamed on seismic events.\n\nDescription: SCP-5797 is a biomechanical organism consisting of forty-seven segments, each comprised of a semi-truck or a similarly-sized cargo vehicle. Segments are connected by an intricate lattice of both metallic and organic matter, granting SCP-5797 a significant degree of articulation. The front segment, a 1990 Kenworth equipped with an industrial snowblower, has adapted in a manner which allows the organism to burrow through rock and hardened soil.\nSCP-5797 is currently active beneath the Pacific Northwest of America; since its discovery beneath eastern Washington, the organism has been tracked as far south as Salem, Oregon and as far north as Vancouver, British Columbia. Travelling at an approximate depth of 1.6 kilometers and an average speed of thirty kilometers per hour, SCP-5797 approaches the surface only in the presence of pipelines (both off- and on-shore), rigs, and other sources of oil; it is believed that SCP-5797 relies on these for sustenance. The front unit of SCP-5797 doubles as a mandible, capable of piercing steel pipes, and is equipped with rubber tubing3 through which the ingestion of oil occurs.\nSCP-5797 demonstrates an attraction only to man-made sources of oil.\n\n+ Interview Log: Clarissa Boetticher 2020/08/21\n\n- Interview Log: Clarissa Boetticher 2020/08/21\n\nGert Boetticher in 1996, a year prior to his death.\n\nInterviewed: Clarissa Boetticher\nInterviewer: Dr Andrew Fields\nForeword: Clarissa Boetticher, whose late husband Gert had managed the Gas n' Go Truck Stop until its closure in 1989, was located by the Foundation at a retirement home in Astoria, Oregon. Gert Boetticher died of an aneurysm in 1997. Dr Fields was posing as an FBI agent investigating the now widely-reported disappearances4 in rural Washington.\n<Begin Log>\nDr Fields: Hello, Mrs Boetticher. I'm a Federal Agent-\nClarissa Boetticher: Yes, of course. From the telephone. Agent\u2026 Fields?\nDr Fields: That's correct. Now, I've got some questions regarding the site of your old business. General kinda stuff, but I won't dig too hard if it makes you uncomfortable.\nClarissa Boetticher: Oh, no. It's a pleasure. Not that I expect to be any use, if this really is another\u2026 another Bundy, like some folk are saying.\nDr Fields: Now, ma'am, don't let's start jumping to any conclusions. We've yet to find anyone, deceased or alive. It's very much an active investigation, and we've got people working day and night on this operation.\nClarissa Boetticher: I heard your people've been snooping around the old Gas n' Go. You know, I always expected someone would'a bought it, after Gert packed it up, and turned it into a strip mall or someth-\nDr Fields: Now, may I ask you about Gert? That is, of course, if you're comfortable with-\nClarissa Boetticher: It's fine. Well, so long as you're not suggesting that Gert's got something to do with it.\nClarissa laughs nervously.\nDr Fields: That\u2026 would be something, wouldn't it? Nah, I'm kidding. Sorry to get all Mulder on you\u2026\nClarissa Boetticher: Well, I've always said, my old Gert died an angry man.\nDr Fields: Angry? Violent angry, or\u2026\nClarissa Boetticher: Angry in his heart. The Gas n' Go, that was our lifeline. I ran the store, but Gert\u2026 he was the pumps. He was the garage. You rolled in with a flat on your Pete, you'd roll right on out again with it all patched up and Gert wavin' in your rear-view from the forecourt.\nDr Fields: What made you give it up? The garage, the store, after all those years?\nClarissa Boetticher: Simple. The interstates. No need to turn off anymore, drive a semi four miles through the boonies just to grab some Lays and a tank of gas. Not when you've got them brand-spanking new travel centers or whatever they call them. You have your BP, your Shell, you name it, and it's all right there on the highway. And \u2013 let me tell you something, Mr Fields \u2013 you don't got no chance when you're up against big oil.\nDr Fields: Would you say Gert held a grudge, then? Against these corporations?\nClarissa Boetticher: Oh, something like that. Right up until he died, he'd go on these rants\u2026 you'd chalk it up to senility, if you hadn't lived with him for half your life.\nDr Fields: I must say, Mrs Boetticher, this is a decent place. Helluva view, as well. Pity there's too much fog to see the bridge.\nClarissa Boetticher: This was the dregs, Mr Fields, of what that garage earned for us. Eighty-nine is when we shut up shop, no kids \u2013 that ship had sailed \u2013 so we put what was left in the bank. It's just a pity that Gert\u2026 Gert didn't make it far enough to be here with me right now.\nDr Fields: I'm sorry, Mrs Boetticher.\nClarissa Boetticher: Well\u2026 that's life for you, I suppose. Ain't nothing you could have done about it. Hell, none of this is any use to your\u2026 investigation.\nDr Fields: I mean\u2026 we're gonna have to dig the old place up, Mrs Boetticher. What's left of it. On the off-chance something's\u2026 someone's buried under there. Just thought I'd let you know, before we\u2026\nClarissa Boetticher: Actually, Mr Fields, one more thing. You'll find someone under there, but\u2026 it's not going to be any of the poor folk you're looking for.\nDr Fields: Oh?\nClarissa Boetticher: It's\u2026 when Gert died, we took him back there to, you know, rest. I hope that wasn't breaking any laws, or\u2026\nDr Fields: Environmental law is not my jurisdiction, ma'am, but it's my understanding you still owned the land at the time of his death.\nClarissa Boetticher: I just\u2026 I should have mentioned it sooner, Mr Fields. So used to trying to forget all about it, put it to the back of my mind.\nDr Fields: And that's okay. I know what it's like to bury a loved one.\nClarissa Boetticher: Not\u2026 not like that. When we put him there, his body\u2026 his body\u2026\nDr Fields: Ma'am?\nClarissa Boetticher: It's like he started melting\u2026 the skin just drip\u2026 dripping away. We threw the soil down over him fast as we could \u2013 couldn't afford no casket \u2013 and that was that.\nDr Fields: Melting?\nClarissa Boetticher: Yeah, like\u2026 you know what, Mr Fields? It's weird, 'cause the way I remember it, all runny like that\u2026 it was just like oil.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The skeletal remains of Gert Boetticher were recovered from the crater at Provisional Site-23 and transferred to an East Coast facility for analysis. To date, SCP-5797 remains an active anomaly beneath the Pacific Northwest.\n\n+ Addendum 2020/06/28\n\n- Addendum 2020/06/28\n\nExcerpt from CNN article, 2020/06/28\nMORE PRICE HIKES EXPECTED AFTER DISASTROUS YEAR FOR NORTH AMERICAN OIL\nBy Hayley North, CNN\nUpdated 1431 EST June 28, 2020\nA joint body of North American oil executives has released its internal report on a fiscal year that some analysts have described as \"catastrophic\". Reasons cited include earthquakes, poor maintenance, and several acts of sabotage by eco-terrorist movements.\nLosses have been blamed primarily on a series of incidents involving infrastructure, including faulty rigs and damaged pipelines - these alone have cost major oil firms over six billion dollars in equipment damage. Critics, however, say that many of these damages could have been largely avoidable. Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders addressed crowds at his rally in Tulsa last night, saying that nationalization of the industry \"should never be off the cards.\"\nOver the course of twelve fiscal months, the United States and Canada have seen the price of crude oil and gasoline rise by as much as five percent, a number which is projected to rise if current trends continue. Increased seismic activity on the north-western coast has raised additional concerns about the long-term viability of drilling and pipeline projects in the region.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Not including occupants and/or cargo.\n2. The conversion of fats or lipids into soap.\n3. Formerly part of a vehicular air brake system.\n4. The missing persons remain the extent of public knowledge surrounding SCP-5797.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5796 | SCP-5797 | SCP-5798 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5798 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5798\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nThe locus of SCP-5798\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-103\nO. Michael Saint\nS. Haddow\nNA\n\nThe drain SCP-5798 frequently surfaces from\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The building containing SCP-5798 has been purchased by the Foundation and shuttered from public access. Two Foundation guard personnel are to be stationed on-site for the purposes of deterring trespassing.\nDescription: SCP-5798 is an entity of indeterminate length residing in the plumbing system of a YMCA1 building in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Florida.\nSubterranean imaging techniques have revealed that SCP-5798's length takes up the entirety of the building's plumbing system. The entity's physical appearance is that of a mass of flesh, terminating in several tentacle-like appendages. SCP-5798's epidermal coloration is entirely transparent, and as a result, veins, muscle tissue, and small, blonde hairs have been observed as part of the entity.\nSCP-5798 is mostly dormant, and has only been observed to surface for brief periods of time through a small drainage gate located in the shower of a men's locker-room, fitting its appendages through the slots on the grate. The entity is capable of extending up to 1.2 meters from the drain.\nSCP-5798 is sapient, and is capable of communicating coherently in English. (See Addendum.5798.1)\nAddendum.5798.1: Incident Log\nInitial research of SCP-5798 was conducted by Junior Researcher Haddow. While tuning subterranean radar equipment inside the locker room, the following events occurred, a log of which has been transcribed from surveillance footage and can be found below.\n\nBEGIN LOG\n\nResearcher Haddow sits in front of the shower, taking notes. A voice is heard, coming from the drain.Haddow: Huh?\nHaddow looks up from his notes and turns his head.Haddow: Oh.Haddow: I just\u2026 wasn't aware you could speak. Believe it or not, you're normal compared to some of the things I conversed with over the past week.Haddow: Practically. Oh, I guess they'll want me to ask you questions. Let's see, uh\u2026 you have a name?Haddow: What are you?Haddow: (Gestures) Mm, how'd you get into, uh, your situation?Haddow: GOD\u2014 (Exhales) Sorry. I'm just, I can't give answers like that. They want information.Haddow: My bosses. Look, even if you have to make something up, I won't know. I just need research credits, please.\nHaddow brings his left hand to his temple and begins massaging it.Haddow: It's\u2026 it's fine. I'm fine.Haddow: W\u2014 What? I mean\u2014 Christ, I'm talking to a fucking drain monster. This is ridiculous.Haddow: You sure? I mean, I'd sound unhinged. I'm already talking to a\u2014Haddow: (Pauses) Fine. (Inhales) No. God, no, I'm not alright. I just\u2014Haddow: I'm overworked, I'm exhausted, I'm lonely\u2014 I'm still hundreds of thousands of dollars in-debt, and you'd think a trillion dollar organization would take care of that but they don't. I do pointless research all day in hopes of maybe, MAYBE, getting a paid vacation one year, and a complimentary plaque in the Site break room or some shit. Sure, if I'm lucky enough to be so useless to the Foundation that they actually let me go, I'll be able to retire at 60, where I can own a nice little compensation house for me to fuck off and die in peace. That's if I don't lose my life talking to a fucking drain-snake or end up in a wheelchair because I looked at a book the wrong way on a Tuesday or some other contrived bullshit.\nHaddow groans and begins sobbing into his hands.Haddow: Girls don't like me, guys don't like me, hell, at this point my fucking hand doesn't like me either. I just\u2014 I just\u2014 I have so much work due all the time and I'm shit at time management and I have to ask for a deadline extension and\u2014 And it never ends! I haven't slept more than 4 hours in YEARS! YEARS!\nHaddow continues crying.Haddow: (Sniffling) Only\u2026 if\u2026 you're\u2026 POOR.Haddow: What would you know about anything? You're a fucking drain-snake!Haddow: GOD\u2014 wait, really?Haddow: Well, now I'm interested. How do you do all that?Haddow: So you\u2026 you have internet, you sleep as much as you want, and you\u2026 well, what else do you do? How do you occupy yourself all day?Haddow: Isn't that a paid game?Haddow: Man, it sounds great down there.Haddow: Can't you just talk to people online?Haddow: Good point.Haddow: You\u2026 write?Haddow: That's all I've ever wanted to do!Haddow: You're so right! I, uh, want to be a romance author, but I'm too scared to actually go through with it. (Laughs)Haddow: Come down there?Haddow: I mean, I couldn't\u2014Haddow: You know what? You're right! Fuck this!\nHaddow throws his notebook and pen down. He pushes over a stack of imaging equipment.\nHaddow: Fuck you, Foundation! I'm living my own life!Haddow leaps into the shower.\nHaddow: I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm finally FREE!\nSCP-5798 emerges from the grate, extending upwards and tracing its appendages on its surroundings. The entity lunges forward, wraps its appendages around Haddow's right ankle, and pulls him towards the drain. Haddow gleefully shouts.\nIt uses another appendage to bring Haddow's left ankle closer to the grate, and pulls with enough force to begin pushing the bottoms of Haddow's feet through the holes of the drain. Haddow screams, and the sound of skin ripping is audible through the locker room. By anomalous means, the entity manages to pull both of Haddow's feet through the grate. Blood and excess tissue fills the shower floor.\nSCP-5798 pulls Haddow's ankles, contorting the bone to slip through the holes. Audible grinding of the cartilage is heard, and cracking sounds are intermediated with Haddow's increasingly distressed vocalizations. Haddow passes out and regurgitates a mixture of blood and stomach contents.\nA loud crunching noise is heard as SCP-5798 snaps the tibia and fibula of Researcher Haddow's lower legs. Several more appendages emerge from the grate to retrieve excess skin. Haddow seizes and continues to vomit. In his thrashing, he has broken several teeth, and his nose appears to be displaced. Haddow appears to regain consciousness, and vocalizes unintelligibly.\nAs the entity attempts to squeeze Haddow's crotch through the grate, another snapping sound, assumed to be Haddow's pelvic bone, is heard. Haddow goes limp as SCP-5798 squeezes his torso and stomach through the grate. A slurry of entrails and viscera is expelled from Haddow's mouth, which increases in concentration as more of his body is forced through the drain. Haddow's rib cage snaps, and his upper torso sinks to the floor.\nThe last of Haddow's body, the head, is pulled through the drain. Excess brain matter, hair, ocular muscles, and teeth surround the immediate area of the grate. The slurry of bodily fluids and entrails stains the shower.\n\nEND LOG\n\nUpon further interaction with SCP-5798, the entity used Researcher Haddow's voice to communicate. No relevant or new information has been gained from this research, and the entity claims to have no recollection of Researcher Haddow.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Young Men's Christian Association\n\n\u00ab SCP-5797 | SCP-5798 | SCP-5799 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Fig 1.1: Inactive SCP-5799 specimen.\n\nItem #: SCP-5799\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation personnel stationed in the city of Rexburg are to suppress any knowledge of SCP-5799's existence to the general public. Likewise, field agents are to be stationed in dental clinics and report any young adults suffering from toothaches of any form.\nField agents proficient in the field of dentistry and oral hygiene must extract any teeth that may cause physical ailments in the affected adolescent. Extracted teeth are then analysed by the dental auxillaries of MTF-Upsilon-8 (\"Cavity Creeps\")1 to determine if these teeth are viable SCP-5799 instances. Upon extraction of these entities, agents are to disseminate amnestics to the individuals involved and their families with cover stories implemented as an explanation for the missing teeth.\nAny active SCP-5799 instances in the wild are to be contained whenever possible. MTF-Phi-5 (\"Twilighters\") is responsible for the termination of all SCP-5799 entities while sending cover stories to the families of the hosts for an explanation regarding their disappearance2.\nDescription: SCP-5799 are groups of human teeth (six or more) exhibiting autonomous motion and predatory behavior. Despite being made of enamel, SCP-5799 instances display abnormal malleability and actively stretch out in length; in this way, SCP-5799 entities are able to move and traverse to different locations.\nSCP-5799 instances are nocturnal predators, typically seeking out adolescents between the age of 15 and 22 while they are in bed. Upon finding their prey, these instances restrain the subject using their roots. They wedge open the subject's jaw, forcibly extract each tooth, then implant themselves.\n\nFig 1.2: Fully grown SCP-5799 instance residing in D-80090's third molar.\n\nThree hours after implantation, the subject's mandible and maxilla bones3 will become increasingly malleable. The subject's facial muscles will undergo sustained spasms, often resulting in a permanent risus sardonicus4. Over the next few days, the implanted instances expand in size, displacing surrounding tissue. The malleability of the subject's facial bones permits this displacement to occur with minimum tearing or breakage.\nSCP-5799 instances inhabit the host's mouth for up to 12 days, continuing to grow. At the end of their life-cycle, they experience rapid demineralization5, followed by the emergence of a dozen or more of deciduous teeth6. Alterations to the host's tissue and bone resulting from SCP-5799's growth remain after this process is complete.\nDiscovery: SCP-5799 was discovered in the city of Rexburg, Idaho after a surge in cosmetic dentistry and facial deformities among children were reported. MTF-Xi-3 (\"Body Snatchers\") were then sent to the appropriate locations to capture all SCP-5799 instances and administered amnestics to the hosts' families.\nPrior to their discovery, field agents also reported flyers and pamphlets being passed around in the local church and rehabilitation centers regarding a \"tooth strider infestation.\" The following transcript below is an example of one of the flyers received:\n\nGot a bad toothache!?\n\nTooth Striders are no joke. Especially when it comes to the safetry[sic] of your children.\nThat's why Billy's Dental Killing Services are the ones for you!\nWe'll break any tooth, no matter hte[sic] size, because that doesn't matter to us!\nCall 1-\u2588\u2588\u2588-TOOTH-ACHE for our services! Remember: That's 1-\u2588\u2588\u2588-TOOTH-ACHE!\nCall within the next 48 hours, and we'll throw in a discount! (probably)\n\nAttempts to contact the number have yielded inconclusive results.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A task force specialized in dental hygiene to combat orthognathic anomalies.\n2. This is due to the growing or fully grown SCP-5799 instances becoming increasingly difficult to excise from the host and rendering extraction of these instances an impractical ideal.\n3. The upper and lower jawbones respectively.\n4. Otherwise known as a rictus grin.\n5. Otherwise known as caries, or tooth decay.\n6. Commonly known as baby teeth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5798 | SCP-5799 | SCP-5800 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE - Entry Locked\n\nUnfortunately, I've had to lock this entry, for the following reasons:\n\nWe originally found this entry on a vinyl disc in the ruins of Site-01. When we inserted a copy of it into the old Foundation database, it was automatically erased. We'd like to avoid anything like that if possible.\nGiven the attention scp-wiki.net has received recently, we've locked all of the pages in order to prevent vandalism.\n\nPlease contact the Foundation Preservation Guild for more information.\n\nItem #: SCP-5800\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSite Responsible: USPAPH Site-98\nDirector: Jeremy Henshaw\nResearch Head: Sean Reemus\nAssigned Task Force: N/A\n\nLevel 5/5800\nCLASSIFIED\n\nDiagrams of SCP-5800's aperture depicted as a 5-polytope manifold; the following are the four known stages of the aperture reaching to higher levels of dimensional expansion.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Scientific institutions and observatories must be prevented from discovering SCP-5800-1. Leaked and disseminated information on SCP-5800-1 must be taken down and kept away from public knowledge or addressed as a hoax. Foundation protocols must be kept in place to prevent any entity or entities from breaching this aperture.\nFoundation metaphysicians have prepared an A.I.M. (Absolute Idealistic Materials) chamber around SCP-5800-1 to permanently seal away entity or entities emerging from the aperture.\nDescription: SCP-5800 is a hypothetical alternate reality that is known in relativistic physics as the fifth dimension. Specifics of SCP-5800 are unclear due to the inability of Foundation technology to properly analyze mathematical and anomalous dimensional constructs higher than our own. SCP-5800 retains radically different ideals than the laws of physics of baseline reality.\nSCP-5800 is host to living inconceivable abstract concepts that operate in Noospheric subspace similar to that of biotic components interacting with one another in a natural ecosystem. Most of these abstract concepts or entities are predatory in nature and aggressively envelop or dominate weaker ideatic concepts in order to increase in fractal topology.\nSCP-5800-1 is an aperture located approximately 5.5 au (Astronomical units) away from the Earth and appears as a uniform 5-polytope (Schl\u00e4fli symbol t1{3,3,3,4}) with the Schl\u00e4fli symbol increasing in notation every 215 years. This aperture does not conform to normative spacetime and instead appears to possess a tesselated geometry that steadily increases in complexity to the point that Foundation supercomputers are incapable of processing a digital representation of SCP-5800-1.\nSCP-5800 was officially designated following several events involving SCP-1425, SCP-2155, SCP-3005, and SCP-4565 and their effects on human society. Following a more accurate quantification of SCP-5800, Foundation resources are to be devoted to its neutralization.\nAddendum 5800.1: The Petrislav Notes\nIgor Petrislav (1689 - 1751) was a Russian sorcerer and one of the first to codify their practices into what is now known as thaumaturgy. Towards the end of his life, Petrislav discovered SCP-5800 and began to perform experiments on it. Following his death, Petrislav's next of kin hid his work on it in a hidden chamber in his stronghold by Petrislav's will. This research was not rediscovered until it was excavated in 1996.\nSome relevant paragraphs have been translated below.\n\nIf there is a world of ideas, then there is a world that contains the opposite of ideas. It took some experimentation to be able to breach the boundary between these two worlds, but now I can see why it was sealed away. I found it to be frayed at the ends, yet overflowing with some substance that can only be accurately described as \"light\" in our universe.\nThis \"light\" is very pleasing to take in; unfortunately, it melts the mind and causes madness. Abram stared into the portal for the entire day, and at the end he couldn't say a coherent sentence that didn't involve the color pink or the sight of smoke. In addition, the light seems to have an adverse effect on animals, as my two cats ran for their lives at the sight of the opening.\nIf my observations are correct, I believe that submerging anything inside of this world will inevitably result in the idea remaining there. Viktor put an apple inside of the portal before taking it out. The apple slowly shifted forms and color, until it turned itself into a green snake who spoke cautionary tales about liquid hands and hateful stars in the sky. I took the liberty of sealing the aperture after that; I'd rather not have ideas interact with that world for a prolonged period of time.\n\nAddendum 5800.2: Further Research\nThe following is a audio recording of Dr. MacWarren, one of the lead researchers analyzing SCP-5800's effects on human cognition.\n\nAlright, I'm supposed to leave the office but I can't be fucked to write anymore. I've been bleeding out my nose and ears for the past two days and it keeps messing up my papers.\n[Audible coughing]\nRight, so what we've learned so far about SCP-5800 is that it's an ecological ideaspace for extremely volatile abstract concepts. These things have a hierarchy of sorts which is dictated by the size of these beings.\nI use the term \"size\" loosely because th- [coughs] there ah\u2026 these things are presented in sets of infinities; like how many integers or natural numbers there are in- in mathematics. The sheer size of these- these beings are defined as uncountable infinities. Despite logic telling us that there can't be anything larger in scale than\u2026 well\u2026 infinity.\nYeah, I know to the average layman that can't be possible. But it's very much true. These beings are represented by their \"aleph numbers\": numbers which represent the cardinality of infinite sets. Professor Hutchinson stated that such beings exist in these numbers and have been known to for quite some time.\nWhat we've found out, is that there is a philosophy stemming around the hidden potential of the human mind. That in order to ascend past the boundaries of everything, one must secede from their personal principals and \"unlock what's within.\" These, uh\u2026 it's just a metaphorical analogy and all that. Ideas presented in a way for us to understand how to truly be one with the very hand that exists above us and sits at a many-angled throne of stars and pure radiance. A blissful-\n[Dr. MacWarren pauses for 30 seconds. He sharply inhales and exhales.]\nSorry, got a bit carried away there. Anyway, there are sects that have had a long history with a certain key stretching all the way back to the Third Crusade. A key that could open all the doors to the world and the mind itself. We haven't figured much about this door though.\nI'm sure we have some keys locked up that can open some doors or all doors. But I don't know anything about a door. As far as I'm concerned, I don't think we ever had a door contained in the first place\u2026 or did we? I don't- I don't know.\nWhatever\u2026 I don't expect anyone to understand. Calvin and I have been working our asses off on this thing and I- I think it's affecting us somehow; they're telling us to go on a medical leave. Our research and data on SCP-5800 is getting pushed to someone named Harkness, he's got more experience with this than I do anyway.\nShit, I'm getting lightheaded as hell. Right, that about wraps up what's- been uh\u2026 happening as of late. Talk soon.\n\nAddendum 5800.3: SCP-5800-1 Exploration Attempts\n\nPROJECT BORDER BLUE\n\nAfter the appearance of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u25881 following testing between SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588 and SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588, it was determined that an exploration of the anomaly would give greater insight into its origins. A Urelena-Class Colony was erected near the entrance of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Director Simon Browning was originally selected to head exploration efforts; however, O5-5 overrided Protocol ALPHA-CONTAMINANT in order to oversee exploration themselves, citing a need to be precise.\nThe colony was considered self-sustaining on 2095/03/29. A robotic drone was to be deployed into the anomaly on 2095/04/09. However, five days prior to deployment, Site-19 Command received the following transmission:\n\nCOLONY: This is Agent Stroffson, aboard Urelena-Class Colony #1093. We're undergoing a situation, can anyone hear us?\nSITE-19: This is Dr. Johannson, at Site-19, in New San Francisco, Saturn. What's the situation?\nCOLONY: We're being pulled into SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. We believe that the mission is over.\nSITE-19: Are you sure you're mentally well, Agent? From our telescopes, it looks like the colony isn't being pulled in at all.\nCOLONY: No, no, no, there's an\u2026 a light. There's a light and we're being pulled into it.\nSITE-19: Do you require us to send an evacuation team?\nCOLONY: We're drifting away, no. I don't think\u2026 I don't think they'd fare.\n<Transmission suddenly ends.>\n\nAn evacuation team was mobilized at Site-19; however, before evacuation could occur, the colony suddenly vanished from reality. The only known survivors were O5-5 and several of his associates, who had escaped from the colony in a custom escape pod. Given the observations of the colony and this incident, SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has now been classified as a sub-anomaly of SCP-5800.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe file below was found on the same vinyl that we found the SCP-5800 file on. Given the fall of the Foundation occurred shortly after the events described above, this is believed to be relevant.\n\nO5-5\n\nExtended Description of SCP-5800: SCP-5800-A refers to the concept of the Foundation as an entity. After an event on 2095/05/05, SCP-5800-A has been partially submerged inside of SCP-5800. This has had an impact on baseline reality, causing:\n\nThe alteration of the Foundation's core mission statement.\nThe replacement of several high-ranking officers with members of GoI-005 (\"The Fifth Church\").\nThe release of many SCP artifacts and entities due to new protocols.\nThe absorption of several minor groups of interest, such as GoI-049 (\"Global Occult Coalition\").\n\nIncident Log 5800-TRINITY: On 2095/05/05, the director of MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") entered the O5 Council's main chamber as part of a surprise inspection. However, they found O5-5 performing a ritual, involving the sacrifice of several important Foundation personnel and the drawing of a star on the floor using chalk. MTF Alpha-1 managed to interrupt this ritual, but suffered major casualties.\nSeveral modifications to the Foundation as a concept took place after the ritual (see Extended Description of SCP-5800 above). In response, parts of the Foundation broke off with the goal of overthrowing the O5 Council.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Sean Reemus\nInterviewee: O5-5\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Reemus: Have you heard of the Chaos Insurgency, Overseer?\nO5-5: Of course I have, doctor.\nDr. Reemus: The Overseers became tyrants. The Insurgency was formed because they did not want to see the world ruled by people with power left unchecked. I think we're trying to imitate them.\nO5-5: That's not what this is really about, is it?\nDr. Reemus: No, no, no. The Insurgency turned out to be a mistake in the long run. It's just a lot easier to rally behind the idea of eliminating tyrants than eliminating ideas.\nO5-5: That seems a little extreme to you, doesn't it?\nDr. Reemus: So what's your story, then? Why have you suddenly changed the Foundation's prime directive and absorbed the competition?\nO5-5: You don't really get it, do you? You think we can just solve the world's problems by putting them all in boxes. Four-sided boxes filled with the vilest and the darkest of evils.\nDr. Reemus: If this is about the number five, there's no scientific evidence that it is what you claim it is.\nO5-5: But God? God will cleanse this fetid world. This forsaken universe is a sin, and we will be born anew in God's glorious dazzling light. It's not a fantasy, Sean. It's not even a reality. It is so, so, so much more than that and beyond. It's an escape. And we have the KEY to bring it here.\nDr. Reemus: Key? Are you talking about SCP-5800?\nO5-5: When you cut the arm off of a starfish, what happens?\nDr. Reemus: What? I don't\u2026 it grows back, right?\nO5-5: You have to know, God's omnipresence expands above all the worlds in every universe. We thought we could keep it out by obliterating the very idea of God's existence, and it didn't even work! We tried to excise it from the very abyss in our heads. We tried so damn hard to cut it out. But like a starfish, it grew back. You can't stop it. God is here to bring us what we deserve.\nDr. Reemus: With all due respect, Overseer, you're insane.\nO5-5: What, you thought we could just lock the DOOR and throw away the KEY? It was always there. We put God on the other side of the DOOR and pretended that everything was alright even though it wasn't. It never was. But we can still try to bring it here, Reemus. Deep down in the moist music and the- the orgasmic smoke of your heart's mind, you know that it's true. We already have the KEY, and we know what the DOOR is.\n[O5-5 convulses slightly.]\nO5-5: All you have to do, is let them in, doctor. Call your men off, tell them to let them in.\nDr. Reemus: Okay, I think we have enough here. Clef, do you think you can edit it, so-\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Now classified as SCP-5800-1.\n\nMore by notgull\n\nMore by notgull\n\nSCPs\n\nnotgull's Proposal\n\nSCP-3733\n\nSCP-3095\n\nSCP-4800\n\nSCP-4804\n\nSCP-2785\n\nSCP-4348\n\nSCP-4048\n\nSCP-4688\n\nSCP-3362\n\nSCP-579-J\n\nSCP-4785\n\nSCP-3339\n\nSCP-5800\n\nSCP-4248\n\nSCP-3747\n\nSCP-4948\n\nSCP-3296\n\nSCP-4800-J\n\nSCP-4799\n\nSCP-199\n\nSCP-3485\n\nSCP-5981\n\nSCP-7234\n\nSCP-4808\n\nSCP-3833\n\nSCP-3748\n\nSCP-4148\n\nSCP-5054\n\nSCP-5025\n\nSCP-1037\n\nSCP-093-J\n\nSCP-5680\n\nSCP-1684\n\nSCP-4872\n\nSCP-3248\n\nSCP-6904\n\nSCP-5483\n\nSCP-6785\n\nSCP-4397\n\nTales\n\nThe Little Robot that Could\n\nJoin the Flock\n\nThe Siege of Site-19\n\nTales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse\n\nFootage Recovered From a Private Server\n\nAvian Anthology I\n\nMy Empire of Birds\n\nMoose on the Loose\n\nDocument recovered from a Parallel Universe\n\nKatz and Dogs\n\nJoey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence\n\nYour Guard\n\nVacation Opportunity\n\nThe Scent of a Toaster\n\nBurn, Baby, Burn\n\nChasing Suns\n\nWind in the Sails\n\nThree Feet Under I\n\nThe Shape of Water is Humanoid\n\nDead Reckoning\n\nThree Feet Under II\n\nThree Feet Under III\n\nInto the Beetle Black Yonder\n\nForgotten Shrine\n\nDown Through\n\nHyperfine\n\nDon't Knock on Strange Doors\n\nOther\n\nResearcher Calvin's Personnel File\n\nIncident Report \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\"Sphere\" Incursion Log\n\nInitial Incursion Log\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #1\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #2\n\nSCP-093-J Blue Test\n\nSCP-093-J Recovered Documents\n\nSCP-093-J Green Test\n\nSCP-093-J Purple Test\n\nExploration Log 4480-1\n\nSee my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5799 | SCP-5800 | SCP-5801 \u00bb"}
{"text": "FluffyDog00\n\nCheck out the rest of my works here: Author Page\n\nAn instance of SCP-5801-1.\n\nItem #: SCP-5801\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5801 has been acquired by the Foundation and is designated as private property. Any civilians who reach SCP-5801's designated red zone are to be amnesticized and relocated by posted guards. All testing and interviews involving SCP-5801-1 instances are to take place outside of the barrier surrounding SCP-5801.\nDescription: SCP-5801 is an undisclosed location in Nome, Alaska. A barrier composed of an unknown transparent material surrounds SCP-5801. The barrier is 7 m in height, and encloses an area that is 22.4 m in diameter. Both instances of SCP-5801-1 and personnel are unable to pass through the barrier.\nSCP-5801 contains instances of SCP-5801-1, which are sapient beings composed out of three spherical masses of snow, and possess tree branches in the place of limbs. Materials making up the facial features of SCP-5801-1 vary, but recorded materials include sticks, leaves, berries, vegetables, and rocks. SCP-5801-1 instances possess the ability to speak and move, and have been observed to converse with each other on a regular basis.\nAccording to interviews with multiple SCP-5801-1 instances, SCP-5801 is an afterlife for deceased individuals whose effigies were shaped into SCP-5801-1 through a ritualistic process. Due to the absence of new SCP-5801-1 instances, it is assumed that this process no longer occurs.1\nAddendum 5801-01: Interview Log: The following is an interview with an instance of SCP-5801-1, referred to as SCP-5801-1-A. The interview was conducted by researcher Morrissey.\n\nSCP-5801-1-A waddles close to the barrier. SCP-5801-1-A bears facial features composed completely out of blueberries, and stands approximately 1.8 m tall. Researcher Morrissey stands on the other side of the barrier.\nMorrissey: Hey, uh excuse me?\nSCP-5801-1-A: Pardon?\nMorrissey: Hi, my name is Morrissey. I'm a researcher working for the SCP Foundation. You probably see our team around here often. I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions if you're not busy.\nSCP-5801-1-A: Well yeah of course. Ain't a lot to keep me busy here anyways.\nMorrissey: Alright then, can I get your first name please?\nSCP-5801-1-A: Yeah uh, it's Pete.\nMorrissey: Okay Pete, do you recall your life before you came here?\nSCP-5801-1-A: Thankfully yes.\nSCP-5801-1-A lets out a chuckle.\nSCP-5801-1-A: I was a farmer. I had my own little dairy company. Good lil' farm I had there. It was a family business too.\nMorrissey: Was the person who brought you here in your family?\nSCP-5801-1-A: Sadly, I don't think I'm allowed to say.\nMorrissey: And why is that?\nSCP-5801-1-A: They know y'all are monitoring this place, and they told me they'd send me to the \u201cFrosted Abyss\u201d if I told y'all who they were. What that means? Hell if I know.\nMorrissey: Huh. Alright then. Perhaps you can tell me about the ritual that sent you here?\nSCP-5801-1-A: Well I didn't hear about no punishment about telling y'all about the ritual, so I guess I can give you what I remember. On my deathbed they told me to \u201cdeclare that I am truly afraid of death and wish to be frozen in this life\u201d or something along those lines. Then they said some mystical mumbo-jumbo out of some spellbook, and then told me that my body would be buried in a mound of snow. It was to \u201cpreserve my essence in ice\u201d or something like that.\nMorrissey: Are you actually afraid of death?\nSCP-5801-1-A: Without question my friend, without question. I didn't really believe in no god so I had no hope in an afterlife. I thought death would be the end of my consciousness and feeling. I was scared to death until they showed up. Of course I'm assuming I can't tell y'all how I met them, so I'll just leave it at that. And now, I'm here. Still conscious and all. Still don't know what to feel about it.\nMorrissey: Alright, thank you for your time.\nSCP-5801-1-A: Hey, anytime my friend. Again, there ain't much to do around here so this was time well spent.\nEND LOG\n\nAddendum 5801-02: Interview Log 2: The following is an interview with an instance of SCP-5801-1, referred to as SCP-5801-1-B. The interview was conducted by researcher Morrissey.\n\nSCP-5801-1-B is close to the barrier. SCP-5801-1-B bears two rocks for eyes, a carrot for a nose, and a mouth made from blueberries. SCP-5801-1-B stands approximately 1.2 m tall.\nMorrissey: Hey, you there! The little guy!\nSCP-5801-1-B turns around.\nSCP-5801-1-B: Oh, hi! Are you one of those sciency people?\nMorrissey: (chuckles) Why yes I am.\nSCP-5801-1-B: Cool!\nMorrissey: (chuckles) Yeah, I was wondering if I could ask you some questions.\nSCP-5801-1-B: Sure! Will it help with your science stuff?\nMorrissey: Why yes it will.\nSCP-5801-1-B: Yay! I'm ready.\nMorrissey: Alrighty then. What is your name?\nSCP-5801-1-B: I'm Timothy, but you can call me Timmy!\nMorrissey: Awesome! Well Timmy, I was wondering how you got to this place.\nSCP-5801-1-B: Well, I had a thing called a brain tumor, and mommy and daddy didn't want me to die. So they took me to these people called the-\nBefore SCP-5801-1-B is able to finish its sentence, its facial features begin to slide down its face.\nSCP-5801-1-B: No, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to tell them, I didn't!\nSCP-5801-1-B's head inverts.\nSCP-5801-1-B: No, please! Mommy, mommy\u2026\nSCP-5801-1-B's body begins to thaw, disintegrating into a mass of slush. The slush dissolves into water. A heart resembling that of a human's remains in the middle of the puddle. Nearby SCP-5801-1 instances take notice of this event, reacting with a mixture of fear and sadness.\nMorrissey: Oh god.\nEND LOG\n\nFootnotes\n1. Possibly due to the Foundation's awareness of SCP-5801.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5800 | SCP-5801 | SCP-5802 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n88.66%\n(+86)\n11.34%\n(-11)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5802\nClearance Level: 4 (Secret)\nContainment Class: Uncontained Euclid\nDisruption Class: Ekhi\nRisk Class: Critical\n\nImage of an SCP-5802-A instance. Note the artificial light from above, and the lack of visible pollution due to its depth below the surface.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nA 5-kilometre exclusion zone has been established around SCP-5802 and SCP-5802-1, ringed by a circular perimeter. Aside from PTF Rho-17 (\"The Cleanup Crew\"), no personnel are to enter this exclusion zone for any reason. Personnel found breaking this rule are subject to termination.\nAll approaching persons are to be detained and amnesticized with necessary force to prevent entry into SCP-5802's exclusion zone. Approaching SCP-3396-01 instances are to be terminated with extreme prejudice by PTF Rho-18 (\"Factory Patrol\"). Should PTF Rho-18 be unsuccessful, a localised state of emergency is to be declared. This state of emergency dictates that any available Task Forces are to travel to SCP-5802's exclusion zone to assist in the termination of the SCP-3396-01 instances. Arriving Task Forces are subject to the same quarantine protocols as PTF Rho-17 and -18.\nThe members of PTF Rho-17 (\"The Cleanup Crew\") are to patrol SCP-5802's surrounds and neutralise any found SCP-5802-2 instances. Before and after entry into SCP-5802 exclusion zone, Rho-17 members are to undergo Class IX1 quarantine protocols and outfitted with Class-5802 Hazardous Material Suits. Contaminated members are to be terminated and the remains incinerated.\n\n+ View Archived Containment Procedures - 19/7/17 +\n\n- Close -\n\nSCP-5802 is currently under investigation for its continued and consistent acquisition of large amounts of monetary assets in the form of stocks and physical stockpiles of various fossil fuels (petroleum, coal, natural gas, etc.), chemicals, both artificial and natural, used in the construction of man-made materials, radioactive and corrosive substances, and various toxic and/or otherwise pollutant anomalous items.\nInvestigations into SCP-5802-1 are currently ongoing.\n\n+ View Archived Containment Procedures - 29/6/18 +\n\n- Close -\n\nSCP-5802 is to be shut down by any means necessary, as it is currently uncontained and poses a severe threat to the integrity of the Veil. Containment efforts should primarily focus on:\n\nThe suppression of information regarding SCP-5802 to the public\nAttempts to prevent or otherwise inhibit the growth of SCP-5802's monetary assets\nThe capture and containment of SCP-5802-1A and -1B\nThe capture and interrogation of SCP-5802-2 instances for information regarding SCP-5802, -1A and -1B, and -3 instances\nThe minimisation of fallout from SCP-5802-3 instances\nThe movement of civilians out of areas that could potentially be affected by SCP-5802-3 instances presently or in the near future (based on analysis of movement)\n\nSCP-5802 can be considered Neutralised if one of the three following conditions are met: complete liquidation or otherwise destruction of SCP-5802 assets, the complete destruction of all SCP-5802-2 and 3 instances and the prevention of further instances from manifesting, or the successful assassination of SCP-5802-1A and -1B.\nCurrently, efforts are underway to neutralise SCP-5802 in collaboration with Skitter Marshall and his subordinates, defectors from Marshall, Carter, and Dark, and various other GoIs (including, but not limited to, The Serpent's Hand, Global Occult Coalition (GOC), and Manna Charitable Foundation).\nThe use of MTF Omega 8 (\"Empyrean Warriors\"), as well as other anomalous personnel and weaponry, has been authorised in containment/neutralisation efforts of SCP-5802.\n\n+ View Archived Containment Procedures - 15/10/18 +\n\n- Close -\n\nContainment or neutralisation of SCP-5802 is currently of highest Foundation priority. If left unchecked, SCP-5802 will inevitably result in an IK-Class \"Collapse of Global Civilisation Scenario\", followed by an XK-Class \"End-of-the-World\" Scenario.\nSCP-5802-1A and 1B are to be terminated by any means necessary, and consequences up to and including a Lifted Veil Scenario are acceptable.\nSCP-5802-2 instances are to be captured and interrogated for information regarding SCP-5802, -1A and -1B, and -3 instances. Upon conclusion of interrogation, they are to be terminated and their bodies incinerated.\nSCP-5802-3 instances are to be destroyed if possible. If not, civilians are to be moved out of the potential fallout zones.\nMethods of safely penetrating or neutralising SCP-5802-4, minimising its effects on the surrounding environment, luring SCP-5802-1A and -1B out of its area, or otherwise circumventing its anomalous effects for the purposes of -1A and -1B's termination are currently of highest priority.\n\nDescription:\n\nLake Winnipeg, before conversion into SCP-5802-1.\n\nSCP-5802 refers to a circular area with a diameter of 4km containing a collection of inactive factories2 (collectively referred to as SCP-5802-A) in a state of disrepair, once owned by Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. They are scattered throughout SCP-5802, centred around SCP-5802-1, and increase in numerical density as they approach SCP-5802-1's surrounds. SCP-5802 displays higher than usual readings of Akiva radiation that, like the density of SCP-5802-A instances, increases the closer to SCP-5802-1 it is.\nSCP-5802 is heavily polluted by various substances, ranging from non-anomalous smog, oil, and toxic waste, to extremely volatile thaumaturgical substances that significantly affect the local area. Notably, this waste does not spread past the bounds of SCP-5802, but is instead prevented from passing by an intangible barrier surrounding the exact circumference. This barrier only affects the aforementioned waste; all other organisms (including SCP-5802-2 instances) and items simply pass through it.\nOrganisms that come into direct contact with any of the pollutant substances of SCP-5802 will inevitably die of overexposure to the contacted toxic element, even if the quantity and form of exposure is insufficient to cause death. Upon the cessation of life functions, organisms will undergo a series of anomalous changes to physiological structure, biochemistry, and thought processes, becoming an SCP-5802-2 instance.\nSCP-5802-A instances vary in structure, appearance, size, and composition. Several are little more than small concrete warehouses, whilst others are enormous mining complexes with several floors extending hundreds of metres underground. Although instances of SCP-5802-A are functionally inactive, most artificial lighting and other superficial operations are still running.\nWithin individual instances of SCP-5802-A, large amounts of inert anomalous machinery and piles of various pollutants can found. This machinery appears to have been used for purposes that vary within each instance, but can be split into four categories:\n\nThe processing, refining, and packaging of fossil fuels\nThe processing, refining, and packaging of various chemicals\nThe processing, refining, and packaging of nuclear materials and other substances with adverse side effects on human health\nThe processing, refining, and packaging of thaumaturgical materials and other anomalous substances\n\nAnomalous additions to the machinery within SCP-5802-A instances vary wildly, but will consistently increase the machinery's efficiency (lowered power and resource consumption, etc.), increase the quality of produced products, increase the structural integrity of both the machinery and the factory it is housed in, add various extradimensional gateways for faster transportation through the factory or even as connections to other SCP-5802-A instances, and produce the highest possible quantity of waste products (even if this means extracting the necessary components from the type of product being processed) with the most damaging effects on the surrounding environment.\nNumerous SCP-5802-A instances have entire sections devoted to the synthesis of waste products, or, in the case of Factories 19B, 120C, and 342F, are entirely devoted to the creation of waste products, using the previously mentioned extradimensional gateways to transport the required materials.\nSCP-5802-1 is a circular area with a diameter of 200m, set at the centre of the collection of SCP-5802-A instances. At SCP-5802-1's centre is a single 5802-A instance, referred to as SCP-5802-A1. SCP-5802-1 is extremely densely polluted, even when compared to the rest of SCP-58023, and otherwise differs significantly from SCP-5802 due to a high amount of anomalous waste.\nSCP-5802-1 has an inconsistent topography, and appears to be partially intersected with higher spatial dimensions. It is subject to variable anomalous phenomena associated with an unstable reality, such as spatial 'bleeding' and fracturing, extreme unnatural weather (such as rains of ignited oil, tornadoes of various natural gases and nuclear elements, areas of spontaneous total darkness that cause reality within to temporarily cease existing, etc.), and temporal fluctuation.\nSCP-5802-A1 is, unlike other 5802-A instances, empty, save for several corpses belonging to various GoIs, members of MTF Omega-8, and Iris Dark and Robert Carter. Due to the poorly understood efforts of Omega-8 member Kieran Trelock, the corpses of these GoIs and the rest of his MTF have not transformed into instances of SCP-5802-2.\nThe corpse of Iris Dark is a large, fossilised skeleton that is encased in a translucent combination of oils, toxic waste, and anomalous thaumaturgical waste products. Their skeleton differs from baseline humans through the addition of four heads extending from the Axis (C2) Cervical vertebrae that resemble those of a non-anomalous Tyrannosaurus Rex (large teeth, ellipsoid shape, etc.), a long, piked tail, and an unfolded ribcage.\nThe corpse of Robert Carter is a large pit of rusted machinery over 20m deep, with their enormous, mechanized face (resembling that of someone in the last stages of SCP-217 infection) at the bottom. Attached to this machinery is a diverse, inactive assortment of tools found in SCP-5802-A instances (such as vacuum tubes, buzzsaws, hammers, laser splitters, and tranaculars4), weaponry (guns, rocket launchers, particle cannons, and plasma accelerators), and tubes connected to various SCP-5802-A instances for the discharge of harmful materials and waste products.\nSCP-5802-2 instances are the highly mutated, reanimated corpses of organisms directly exposed to SCP-5802 pollutants. Mutations are disparate between instances with no discernible pattern, except for predacious qualities, an increase in intelligence, and a desire to expose as many organisms as possible to the interior of SCP-5802 for the creation of more 5802-2 instances.\n\n+ View Archived Description - 19/7/17 +\n\n- Close -\n\nSCP-5802 is C&D Holdings Ltd, a splinter company of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. C&D Holdings is a company which processes and sells various fossil fuels, chemicals, nuclear material, and anomalous substances.\nTheir legal business is currently under investigation for a presumed predictive anomaly (SCP-5802-1), which has so far allowed the enormous and continuous acquisition of high-value stocks in several (previously) relatively obscure oil and chemical companies, which have since merged with SCP-5802. In 100% of cases as of yet, companies that SCP-5802 invests in will find a considerable amount of their respective material (oil, gas, nuclear elements, etc.) within 15 days of being invested in.\nDespite being a relatively new company, SCP-5802 is already twentieth-highest valued out of all companies in their field. If allowed to grow further, SCP-5802 could gain a total monopoly over all companies of their branch, giving Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd extreme financial power.\nSCP-5802-1 is the presumed predictive anomaly that SCP-5802 is using for stock purposes. Its appearance, method of function, and origin are unknown, yet it has already displayed the strength of its abilities through SCP-5802. Containment of SCP-5802-1 is currently of moderate-to-high priority.\n\n+ View Archived Description - 29/6/18  +\n\n- Close -\n\nSCP-5802 is C&D Holdings Ltd. Previously a splinter of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd, SCP-5802 has since replaced the company entirely while keeping remaining operations intact, though with a greater focus on the SCP-5802 industry branch. SCP-5802 is currently the fifth-highest valued company of its field, and is set to overtake the highest-valued company, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, in the coming weeks.\nSCP-5802-1A and -1B are Robert Carter and Iris Dark, respectively. Based on the testimony of PoI-5802-1 (Skitter Marshall) during his distress call, it was ascertained that SCP-5802-1A and -1B were exposed to solution from SCP-3396, becoming 3396-01 instances. The strength of their abilities seems to be directly affected by the value of SCP-5802 stocks, as well as its position in the global market. The higher the value and position of SCP-5802, the stronger SCP-5802-1A and -1B's abilities become.\nSCP-5802-1A has the ability to manifest complex machinery for various purposes at will. This machinery has several anomalous properties, such as increased efficiency, increased quality of products, and greatly increased structural integrity. Although the strength of his abilities was previously ~50-60 on the Empyrean Power Scale5 (50-60 denotes a moderately strong ability, and in this case 5802-1A was able to manifest up to 5 tonnes of machinery at a time before losing consciousness), it has since steadily increased to ~150-170 EPS, allowing the manifestation of up to 100 tonnes of machinery before losing consciousness, along with stronger anomalous modifications and more complex designs. His whereabouts are currently unknown.\nSCP-5802-1B has the ability to manifest various substances associated with environmental damage, such as fossil fuels, chemicals both natural and artificial, nuclear materials, highly toxic/corrosive materials, and various anomalous materials. The strength of her abilities was previously ~70-80 EPS, allowing the manifestation of up to 10 tonnes of raw material before losing consciousness. Currently, her abilities rank ~200 EPS, allowing the manifestation of up to 400 tonnes of material before losing consciousness, additionally granting her moderate pollutiokinesis. Her appearance and bodily composition have undergone numerous unspecified changes, but have allowed her to survive all assassination attempts and kill her assailants. Her location is currently within the metropolitan area of Toronto.\nSCP-5802-2 collectively refers to the employees of SCP-5802, who have undergone numerous changes to their physiology and mental state. Changes include increased endurance and energy, the addition of various extendable mechanical tools from their spines, and a near-fanatical devotion to SCP-5802 success. The method of adding these changes on such a wide scale (as 5802-2 instances currently number approximately 20000) is unknown.\nSCP-5802-3 refers to numerous factories under SCP-5802 which have began to manifest in various areas. These factories are responsible for the processing, refining, and packaging of the various materials that SCP-5802-1B produces, and are staffed by SCP-5802-2 instances. They produce large amounts of pollution and waste products, which have detrimental effects on the surrounding area, civilian health, and the environment at large, and resist all civilian assaults.\nSCP-5802-3 instances are currently manifesting in the countryside of Ontario, CA. Predictive pattern analysis suggests that they are travelling directly towards Manitoba, but will detour to within all major cities within 5 square kilometres of this path. Civilian evacuation efforts are underway.\n\n+ View Archived Description - 15/10/18 +\n\n- Close -\n\nSCP-5802 is C&D Holdings Ltd, a splinter company of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd which has since overtaken its parent company. Currently, C&D Holdings operates in the fields of production and processing of fossil fuels, various chemicals, nuclear materials, highly toxic/corrosive substances, and anomalous/thaumaturgical substances. It is the highest-valued company in all of these fields, and has since assimilated most lower-valued companies in these fields into itself.\nSCP-5802-1A and -1B (Robert Carter and Iris Dark, respectively) are SCP-3396-01 instances that have gained the anomalous abilities to manifest large amounts of anomalous machinery (-1A) and the materials of SCP-5802's fields (-1B). Their abilities, as of writing this document, both rank at ~300 EPS, tying them as the fourth most-powerful 3396-01 instances ever recorded.\nSCP-5802-1A can generate up to 1000 tonnes of machinery with extremely strong anomalous properties before fatiguing, while -1B can generate up to 2000 tonnes of raw material before fatiguing. Additionally, both SCP-5802-1A and -1B have undergone significant changes to their physiology.\nSCP-5802-1A resembles a large, 20m deep pit of complex machinery, tools, weaponry, and tubes for the discharge of waste products from SCP-5802-3 instances. A gargantuan form of his face (approximating someone in the last stages of SCP-217 infection) lies at the bottom of the pit.\nSCP-5802-1B resembles an animate fossilised skeleton with splayed ribs and several reptilian skulls emerging from her spine. Her muscles and skin have been replaced by large quantities of the materials she produces (oils, nuclear material, etc.) which form into simulacrums of her previous appearance.\nSCP-5802-2 collectively refers to the employees of SCP-5802; as of time of writing, they number over 100 000. Along with increased durability, energy, and strength, they possess a near-fanatical devotion to SCP-5802. Additionally, their physiology has been changed into various barely humanoid forms, incorporating seemingly random physical elements from both SCP-5802-1A and -1B.\nSCP-5802-3 instances are large factories, currently concentrated around SCP-5802-4. They possess anomalously high structural integrity, and are devoted to the processing, refining, and packaging of the materials SCP-5802-1B produces. Significant portions of SCP-5802-3 instances are devoted to the synthesis of harmful waste products, which are subsequently released into the surrounding environment.\nSCP-5802-4 was formerly Lake Winnipeg. Due to the use of much of its water in SCP-5802-3 instances as a manufacturing resource, and the addition of massive amounts of anomalous pollution, it has shrunk to a circular area with a diameter of 200m. A single SCP-5802-3 instance has manifested in the exact centre. It is immeasurably highly polluted with various materials, and the addition of anomalous refuse has cause the area to gain non-Euclidean properties and convert exposed organisms to SCP-5802-2 instances. SCP-5802-1A and -1B currently reside within the lone SCP-5802-3 instance.\n\nAssociated Documents:\nThe following documents form a timeline of the events from SCP-5802-1A and -1B's conversion to SCP-3396-01 instances to their deaths. Most of these were recovered after the deaths of SCP-5802-1A and -1B. Analysis is underway in order to prevent future similar events from occurring.\n\n+ Transcript of Internal MC&D Communications - 15/4/17 +\n\n- Close -\n\nIncident Report 01\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nWe're alive.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 02\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\nDark, where the fuck have you and Carter been? That was an extremely valuable shipment you were handling, worth at very least US$79 million. I assume you've botched it, but that still doesn't explain why you've simply vanished for the past nine days.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 03\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nThank you kindly for your concern for our wellbeing, Marshall. And yes, the transaction was botched, but through no fault of our own. That organiser you vetted? Maxwell? He was a traitor, that son of a bitch. Our clients tried to assassinate us and take the cargo for themselves. If it weren't for Jacobi, we'd both be dead. As it is, Carter's still unconscious, and I've got eighteen broken bones.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 04\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\nI see. Well, at very least, the two of you are still alive, barely. Did the product survive? We might still be able to salvage this.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 05\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nIn a way.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 06\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\n'In a way'?\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 07\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nThe samples were destroyed in the assassination attempt, just shot to pieces in the gunfight. Carter and I simply happened to be in close proximity while the aforementioned shooting to pieces occurred. Both of us were contaminated.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 08\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\n[EXPLETIVES REDACTED]\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 09\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nWhat an eloquent summation of our situation.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 10\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\nJust send me your coordinates, I'm coming over. Clearly, neither of you are competent enough to handle this on your own. This may be to our advantage.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 11\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nCoordinates sent. And please. I'd like to see you handle yourself in a shootout.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 12\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\nThose coordinates you sent. Why are you in Delaware? The delivery was scheduled in Santiago.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 13\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nIt's\u2026 a long story.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 14\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\nLong story, huh? I look forward to hearing it, which should be in roughly\u2026 15 hours. I can't believe I'm being dragged out of Tokyo because you both almost got yourselves killed.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 15\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nWell, technically, it was you who ordered us to be present at the transaction\u2026\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nIncident Report 16\n\nRe: Transportation of 'Thaumaturgic Organs'\n\nSender\nSkitter Marshall\nRecipient\nIris Dark\n\nTouch\u00e8.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\n+ Security Transcript from the Delaware Peculiar Hospital - 16/4/17 +\n\n- Close -\n\nVIDEO LOG - DELAWARE PECULIAR HOSPITAL, FLOOR 7, WARD 18-B\n\nDATE: 16/4/17\nNOTE: Delaware Peculiar Hospital is a front organisation constructed of various members of the anomalous community for treating those involved in accidents of an anomalous nature. It has an antimemetic effect on civilians who are unaware of the anomalous.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Skitter Marshall enters the ward, briefly turning to communicate with two barely discernible figures just outside the door. As he shuts the door quietly, Iris Dark turns to face him. In the next bed over, Robert Carter lies unconscious.)\nDark: Look at who's arrived\u2026. (she pauses for several seconds to examine her digital watch) 2 minutes and 27 seconds late. So much for being punctual.\nMarshall: Do you have any idea how much precaution I had to take to avoid being followed? How much those bodyguards outside charge? Which begs the question, how the hell did you get here without being noticed, let alone killed? Half your body's covered in gauze and plaster. You can't even walk.\nDark: As I said, it's a long story. And again, this is still technically your fault.\nMarshall: Are you seriousl-\n(Marshall is interrupted by Dark's snickering.)\nDark: Goodness, I almost forgot how fun it is to rile you up. (There is a slight pause.) You didn't honestly think that I was that petty, did you?\n(Marshall simply sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose, angling his head downwards slightly while squeezing his eyes shut.)\nDark: Really? Wow. I'm almost insulted.\nMarshall: Can you just explain how you got here?\nDark: But of course. Starting from just after the assassination attempt in Santiago, our outlook was rather bleak. All of our agents had been killed, barring Jacobi, Carter was seriously wounded, I could barely move, our transport was destroyed, an EMP had disabled our technology, and our money was gone. To make things worse, our would-be assassins were still in hot pursuit; we were, as you would put it, 'fucked'. We managed to evade capture temporarily by hiding in a wheat field, but we were still stranded god-knows-where with no way to contact outside help. We didn't really know what to do until Jacobi noticed that the wheat was watching us.\nMarshall: The wheat was\u2026 watching you.\nDark: Not literally watching us, of course. There was a kid staring at us from just beyond some stalks. Damn near gave Jacobi a heart attack.\nMarshell: Did you really have to phrase that in such a needlessly obscure way?\nDark: Hey. I'm telling the story here. I tell it how I want.\n(Marshall seems like he is about to speak, but is silenced by a glare from Dark.)\nDark: Getting back to the topic at hand, Jacobi noticed the kid. He called out in Spanish, saying that we were injured and needed some help, and the kid hesitated, then beckoned us forward from his hiding place. We followed until the villagers just appeared all around us from the shadows of the wheat.\nMarshall: I'm assuming that 'suddenly appearing from the shadows' is another figure of speech?\nDark: That? No, they literally appeared from the shadows, just\u2026 melting into existence. I was watching. Carter and I were then loaded onto primitive stretchers and Jacobi was led by hand by a gang of old women, heading into the wheat. I came close to panicking when everything went black, but just as suddenly it disappeared and we were emerging from the field into a village. We were certainly not near the village when we started-\nMarshall: Are you saying you teleported? How?\nDark: Firstly, don't interrupt me. Secondly, yes, we did teleport. Thirdly, and I was just getting to this, remember the shipment we had that landed us into this whole mess? Remember how it was extremely rare?\nMarshall: How is this relevant? (Iris narrows her eyes. Marshall sighs in exasperation.) Yes, I remember. Happy?\nDark: Very. Continuing on, there was a large tree growing in the centre of the village, and from that tree flowed a glowing liquid that was a very particular shade of blue. The same blue as the organs from the shipment. Hell, I think I saw some growing from the branches.\nMarshall: A tree that just produces SCP-33966 excretions freely?\nDark: Exactly. And it seems everyone in the town had had contact with it at some point or another, which I realised after I looked around and saw an overwhelming majority of the townsfolk using\u2026 magic.\nMarshall: Magic.\nDark: If I had a better term for it, I'd use it. But again getting back to the topic at hand, that kid is most likely how we teleported, using their ability. As it turns out, we'd arrived at a time when the 'Healer' was out travelling, and we'd have to wait until they got back before we could be treated properly. I thought we were safe until the man who was explaining the situation was shot.\n(Dark sighs.) Better\u2026 better him than me. And he at least acted as a shield for a few more bullets before he died, and even more after that. As they died, I got a better view of the shooter, and lo and behold if it weren't one of our clients. Bastard had some kind of maniacal grin on his face. Now, I don't mind killing people for the sake of achieving goals, but shooting that man? Totally unnecessary. If he'd just waited, he would have got a clear shot, but as it was, he not only failed to kill me but gave me a shield as well.\nI was, admittedly, pissed at him for needlessly killing someone out of incompetence, but when the rocket from the field obliterated the tree? That did it. I\u2026 I believe 'Snapped' is the proper term for it nowadays.\nMarshall: 'An awakening or the first proper utilisation of a magical ability, often brought on by extreme emotion or traumatic events.'\nDark: There we go. Seeing all that profit, that power, go down the drain because some grunt couldn't keep from itching his trigger finger? I couldn't take that. So I Snapped. Suddenly, the man shooting at me brought his hands up to his throat and started choking, and last I saw before I passed out was black liquid trickling out of his mouth.\nWhen I came to, Carter and I were in a horse-driven carriage, a villager on the reigns. Jacobi wasn't with us. We made our way up to Delaware from there to get treated, seeing as how the 'Healer' was dead, along with everyone else in the village. I don't know exactly what happened or how we escaped, but from what the driver told us, Jacobi gave those fuckers hell.\n(Dark pauses for several seconds.)\nDark: They were an astonishingly useful group, especially the driver. If they'd stayed with us until you'd arrived, I'd probably reimburse them for their efforts. As it is, however, they drove off after we made it to the hospital and before I could get their name. A pity.\n(Dark pauses briefly.)\nDark: And that's our story. It's very sad and tragic, what with all the innocent people dying, but at least we're alive. The loss of the tree was\u2026 regrettable, however.\nMarshall: Much as I'm disappointed at losing that, you're both alive, at least.\nDark: Not only that. We've got (Iris wiggles her eyebrows.) magic.\n(Marshall mutters something indistinct about immaturity.)\nDark: What was that?\nMarshall: Nothing. So, is your\u2026 'magic' the ability to choke people to death.\nDark: Choking people? Useful as that would be, it's so nauseatingly pedestrian that I don't think I could bear it if that actually was my magic. No, I have a much better ability.\nMarshall: And that would be?\n(Dark faces her palm towards the ceiling and squints. A large globule of oil forms, falling and splattering on the ground.)\nMarshall: You can make\u2026 tar.\nDark: Not tar. Oil. High-quality oil. Not only that, but any kind of fossil fuel, several kinds of chemical, nuclear material, and even thaumaturgical products. I can create up to a tonne of any combination of these until I'm rendered unconscious for eight hours. (She taps her temple.) How I know this is beyond me. It just appeared in my head.\nMarshall: Interesting.\nDark: And I've already thought of how we could use it. The fossil fuels industry is one of the largest in the world, and new companies are spawned every day, each one hunting for oil reserves. If we buy up the stock of some small company and nudge them towards a deposit of oil I've created\u2026\n(Marshall laughs.)\nMarshall: Manipulating the stock market? How devious. Why, I-\nMarshall is interrupted by Carter's stirring.\nDark: Well, would you look at that. Sleeping Beauty's finally woken up.\nMarshall: About damn time.\n(Carter slowly regains consciousness, bewildered, before the situation is explained to him regarding how he and Dark escaped from the assassination attempt.)\nDark: You were unconscious for nine days, which I suppose is relatively justified, given how severe your injuries were. (She pauses briefly.) Oh, and your leg had to be amputated as well.\n(A look of panic passes across Carter's face briefly before he discovers that he still has both legs. Dark laughs while Marshall raises an eyebrow.)\nCarter: Bastard.\nDark: You never learn, do you?\nCarter: Oh, just because you're a-\nMarshall: Stop your bickering. Carter. You were contaminated by the shipment. What the hell can you do?\nCarter: Me? I've been unconscious for nine days straight, in case you haven't noticed. How am I supposed to\u2026\n(Carter trails off.)\nDark: It's there, isn't it? Knowledge that isn't yours, but is there nonetheless.\nCarter: That's one way of putting it.\n(There is a pause.\nMarshall: Are you going to elaborate?\nCarter: Hey. This feels weird, alright? It's like having a tumour in your memory. Poking it feels\u2026 wrong.\nMarshall: All it is is what your ability is and how it works. Stop being dramatic.\nCarter: Fine, goddammit. It's\u2026 (Carter visibly winces.) I can create machinery for any purpose that I want, even if I have no knowledge on how said machinery works. A maximum weight of, let me see, 500 kilograms before I pass out.\n(Marshall and Dark look at each other.)\nCarter: Why- why are you looking at each other like that? Stop it. You're scheming something, I can tell.\nDark: Oh, we're scheming something all right.\n(Marshall claps his hands and rubs them together.)\nMarshall: This seems to be a perfect combination.\nDark: Exactly what I was thinking.\nCarter: 'Perfect combination?' What the fuck are you talking about?\nMarshall: We're taking over the entire fossil fuels industry and everything associated with it. Care to join us?\n\n[END LOG]\n\n+ Proposal for Operation 'Black Gold' +\n\n- Close -\n\nOperation \"Black Gold\" Proposal\n\nAuthor\nSkitter Marshall\nDate\nMay 10, 2017\n\nTo\nRobert Carter, Iris Dark\nIdentifier\nN/A\n\nWith your newfound abilities, there is ample opportunity for some rather clever manipulation of the stock market (if I do say so myself), spearheaded by a splinter organisation I'll call Carter and Dark Holdings. Even if this somehow fucks up, it won't affect us in the slightest.\n\nThe plan is as follows: Dark, you're to manifest all the relevant resources you can into one area. After this process is finished, as many stocks as possible of any small nearby company which works with the gathered resource is to be bought by C&D Holdings. Other companies are to be prevented access to this area, while the company we have stocks in is to be manoeuvred to the appropriate location. They find their resource in massive amounts, their stocks shoot up, C&D sells these and makes absurd amounts of money.\n\nOnce the value of C&D Holdings has reached at least the top fifty companies in its field, the assimilation process can begin. Carter, your job is to create the necessary machinery to refine, package, and distribute the materials C&D Holdings has gathered to buyers. From here, the process is rinse and repeat.\n\nOne important thing to note is that we have to provide incentive for customers to buy our product in large amounts. To do this, C&D Holdings is to prepare stocks for companies that are parts of opposing countries. Using a combination of political influence, assassinations, and outright lies, these countries will have tensions between them raised significantly, ensuring the buying of our resources in case of war. I have several disinformation campaigns prepared, as well as numerous antimemetic agents to obfuscate the true amounts of resources the opposing countries have from each other, causing confusion and panic. Again, this basically guarantees that the customers will buy up our stock.\n\nThere are numerous other finer details here that I have sent through encrypted files to necessary personnel, but I'm sure you two get the gist of it.\n\n- To our success,\n\n~ Skitter Marshall\n\nFile Opened Under:\nOperation \"Black Gold\"\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LTD\n\nResponse 01\n\nRe: Operation \"Black Gold\n\nSender\nIris Dark\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nI'm in.\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nResponse 01\n\nRe: Operation \"Black Gold\n\nSender\nRobert Carter\nRecipient\nSkitter Marshall\n\nYou crazy, crazy fucker. When do we start?\n\nMarshall, Carter and Dark, LLP\n\nFollowing this, C&D Holdings increased in value to where it stood as of 10/7/17, attracting Foundation attention. Additionally, Carter and Dark's abilities had increased in power due to constant use to ~50-60 and ~70-80 ESP respectively.\nPost-neutralisation sweeps of Carter and Dark's residences revealed a journal belonging to Iris Dark, dated 14/11/17. Significant amounts of entries and large passages are unreadable due to contamination with a combination of oil and various chemicals.\n\n+ Recovered Journal Entries - Iris Dark - 14/11/17 - [UNKNOWN]/2018 +\n\n- Close -\n\n[13 UNINTELLIGBLE ENTRIES]\n[UNINTELLIGIBLE]hink I'm going insane. The voice gets louder whenever I'm using my abilities, but I still can't make out what it's saying. And that terrifies me m[UNINTELLIGIBLE].\n[4 UNINTELLIGIBLE ENTRIES]\nI heard its name today. It called itself Ya[UNINTELLIGLE]at my abilities captured its attention, that I was doing 'good work', whatever that means. It offered a bar[UNINTELLIGIBLE]xchange for blood. My blood. When I asked why I should even consider taking up the offer, let alone trusting it, [UNINTELLIGIBLE]as enough to convince me.\n[7 UNINTELLIGIBLE ENTRIES]\nCa[UNINTELLIGIBLE]lood sacrifices as well. It said that it's proud of us. That we can expect regular increases in strength in the futur[UNINTELLIGIBLE]ut if it's helping my plan along, then I'm no[UNINTELLIGIBLE].\n[15 UNINTELLIGIBLE ENTRIES]\nI'm so much stronger now, and Carter is too. This being, whatever it is, has been incredibly helpful, and the plan is moving along swimmingly. At t[UNINTELLIGIBLE]otal dominance o[UNINTELLIGIBLE].\n[12 UNINTELLIGIBLE ENTRIES]\nCarter and I both made the last sacrifice, together. [DETAILS OF RITUAL REDACTED] [UNINTELLIGIBLE]an see more clearly now. I can see what Y[UNINTELLIGIBLE]he beauty in what we're doing. Complete monopoly over the oil, fossil fuels, chemical manufacturing, nuclear power, and anomalous products industries isn't enough. We have t[UNINTELLIGIBLE]atched an plan within a plan, a way to make the world beautiful. Y[UNINTELLIGIBLE]derstood. Now I understand.\nMaybe this was destiny. A chance meeting with a being who could guide us to our divinely-inspired fate. To make the world beautiful. A world of pollution and industry, a world of purity and diligence. Free fr[UNINTELLIGIBLE]. And we're going to make it happen.\n\nRecovered camera footage suggests that the first dissent between Marshall and Carter & Dark occurred at this date, followed by infrequent and sporadic but increasingly aggressive outbursts from the members of both parties.\nPersonality changes were first noted by Foundation psychologists in both Carter and Dark during this incident, and only further diverged in the future until their deaths.\n\n+ Security Log Transcript: MC&D Highland Hotel - 13/4/18 +\n\n- Close -\n\nVIDEO LOG - MC&D HOTEL \"HIGHLAND\", PENTHOUSE OFFICE\n\nDATE: 20/7/17\nNOTE: N/A\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Carter and Dark open the doors to the office and enter. Their expressions are unreadable. Marshall sits at the head of a large, circular, oak wood table, rubbing his temples with his hands.)\nMarshall: Come in. We need to talk.\n(Carter and Dark both take seats.)\nCarter: There any reason you called us in?\nDark: Well, it definitely wasn't to have a nice, rosy chat about how well we're doing.\n(Marshall shoots Dark a glance.)\nMarshall: 10 points to Dark. What the fuck have you two been doing?\nCarter: I don't follow. Profits are up, t-\nMarshall: That's not what I mean. I don't give a shit about the profits right now-\nDark: That's a first.\n(Marshall glares at her.)\nMarshall: Actually, I'd like to ask you a question, Iris.\nDark: Go on.\nMarshall: I gave you free reign over the placement of the oil. So, out of all the places you could've picked, why was in the middle of a rainforest?\n(Dark sighs.)\nDark: Look, there wasn't enough space anywhere el-\n(Marshall slams the table with his hand.)\nMarshall: Don't try to feed me bullshit. There was plenty of space in barren, empty country all across the world, but you decided to but it there. And then, you had the audacity to try not only hide it, but lie about where it was. Why?\nDark: (silence)\nMarshall: And you, Robert. I said hire people to work the machines, not start a goddamn sweatshop by tricking poor people in third-world countries.\n(Carter smiles very briefly, but quickly covers it with his hand. Marshall doesn't seem to notice.)\nCarter: Look, I ca-\nMarshall: No. You've both already spouted enough lies over the past months. I just don't understand what's gotten into the both of you. We're businesspeople, not tyrants. We don't destroy the environment or roster people into slavery just because we can, we do it when there's incentive. Where's the incentive here?\nIris, you could easily place your oil into some desert in the middle of nowhere. Carter, you could easily pay the people in your factories double the minimum wage with no net loss. So, why aren't you doing that? What's wrong with you both?\n(Dark and Carter are both silent.)\nMarshall: Well?\n(Dark sighs.)\nDark: We're making money and gaining power, Marshall. That's all that matters. When the fuck has anything other than that concerned you?\nCarter: I agree with her. When'd you suddenly go all soft on us, Marshall?\nMarshall: Are you seriously trying to turn this onto me? Accusing me of going soft? No. You're both completely out of control, so get a grip. Iris, there's no point in having a monopoly over the world's fossil fuels if there's no world left. Carter, don't you remember where you started? As a kidnapped child forced into slavery in Jakarta?\n(Marshall sighs.)\nWe've all done terrible things in the name of profit, of power, before. I won't deny that. But only because there was reason to do so. This? This isn't reason. This is madness. This is out of line. And if I find out that either of you continue this at any point in the future behind my back, I am cancelling this operation, profits be damned. Now get out of my sight.\n(Dark and Carter rise stiffly, then leave. Marshall sighs, before turning around to the large window behind him and staring into the city. He continues this for 5 minutes, then turns to leave.)\n(As he passes Iris Dark's seat, he notices something.)\nMarshall: Hmm?\n(Marshall examines something unseen on the seat, his body obscuring the object from the cameras. As he moves away, fingers covered in a viscous black liquid, a small, vaguely humanoid figure constructed of what appears to be oil can be made out. It is melting into the seat, left behind.\nQuickly, Marshall moves to Carter's seat, and another small humanoid figure, this time constructed of cogs and machinery, can barely be seen. Like the previous, it is rapidly degrading, having been abandoned.\nMarshall frowns, his lips pursed. He exits the room.)\n\n[END LOG]\n\nOn the 20th of June, 2018, the Foundation received a distress call from Skitter Marshall from within a warehouse in the city of Ontario.\n\n+ Transcript of Distress Call from Skitter Marshall - 20/6/18 +\n\n- Close -\n\nAUDIO LOG - MC&D WAREHOUSE 57-A\n\nDATE: 20/6/18\nNOTE: Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Marshall is whispering throughout the phone call.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgent Carlson: Hello?\nMarshall: Look, I get that our organisations aren't exactly on friendly terms, but-\nAgent Carlson: I'm sorry, but who am I speaking to?\nMarshall: Skitter Marshall, of Marshall, Carter, Dark. I'm sending you my location now.\n(Agent Carlson receives a message detailing Marshall's location.)\nAgent Carlson: Why are you calling us? Unless you've got a cure for magic, then there's nothing you can offer us that we'd be interested in.\nMarshall: Do you seriously think I'd call you for that? I've got much better cli- goddammit. I'm getting off-topic. It's\u2026 it's Carter. Carter and Dark. They've- I don't know. They aren't themselves anymore.\nAgent Carlson: We aren't some kind of therapy service, you know. If there's problems in your relationsh-\nMarshall: Shut. Up. When I say they aren't themselves any more, I don't mean our fucking friendship. I mean they've gone completely insane.\nAgent Carlson: Again, I don't-\nMarshall (talking over Agent Carlson): Did I forget to mention? The both of them got exposed to your secret little extradimensional parasite. 3396 is the number, I believe.\nAgent Carlson: That's highly classified information! How-\nMarshall: Do not interrupt me. It doesn't matter how I know, all that matters is that they're both insane and have highly unstable and extremely powerful magical abilities. Also, they're trying to convert me to their own fucked-up philosophy of, well, here it is now.\n(The sound of rustling is heard, presumably Marshall positioning the phone outwards to pick up external sound better. Carter and Dark can be heard rambling in the background.)\nCarter: Marshall, Marshall, Marshall. Don't you see? Running won't help. Running won't do anything but delay the inevitable, and a beautiful inevitability it is. The plan? Genius. And with Yawrael's7 help, we'll be able to see it to its fullest extent. An entire world, ruled by industry, sleek machines churning, spotlights reflecting off of freshly polished iron and steel.\nDark: Come on, Marshall, don't live up to your first name so shamefully. Fleeing from the products of the plan you were a part of is a cowardly, pitiful thing to do, don't you agree? Perhaps the goal has shifted slightly from what it began as, but the end result is rather the same: total control. Oceans of oil and chemicals, bubbling in smog-tempered sunlight, a world all to ourselves, to do what we want. A world of purest pollution.\nCarter and Dark: Isn't this what you wanted?\n(The sound of rustling is heard again as Marshall repositions.)\nMarshall: Hear that? Totally insane. And their powers have been spiking recently, massive jumps in strength. Dark's got near-total control over oil, fossil fuels, chemicals, you name it, while Carter can create machines that can do literally anything. It's technology like I've never seen.\nThe point is, if these two manage to capture me, they'll turn their eyes to the city next, and things will get really, really ugly. That thing with Mount Bachelor8? That was them. Do you really want them loose in this city? Do you have any idea what they'll do?\nAgent Carlson: \u2026I see. I've scrambled a Task Force to come collect you, the City Slickers. They're experienced in this kind of thing. ETA five minutes.\nMarshall: \"Boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of hell.\"\nAgent Carlson: Looks like you know your poetry.\nMarshall: Damn right I do. One of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind.\nAgent Carlson: Agreed. I-\n(Marshall shushes Agent Carlson and goes silent. In the background, Carter and Dark can be heard screaming while the sound of machinery and oil bubbling sounds around them.)\nMarshall: Another spike? Now? Shit. Shit. That team of yours better be prepared. They don't take long to recover.\nAgent Carlson: They'll be prepared; they're being briefed as we speak.\nMarshall: Good. If I get out of this alive, you and I are having a good drink. You can't be all bad if you can at least enjoy some of the finer things in life.\nAgent Carlson: (Small chuckle.) The finer things, huh? Such as a bottle of Cognac, perhaps?\n(Marshall begins to speak, but is interrupted.)\nCarter, from somewhere above: Found you.\n(The phone registers several seconds of Marshall shouting indiscriminately over male laughter and the sound of gears and machinery before cutting out.)\n\n[END LOG]\n\nMembers of MTF Pi-1 arrived approximately two minutes after the conclusion of the distress call.\n\n+ Camera Log - MTF Pi-1 (\"City Slickers\") +\n\n- Close -\n\nVIDEO LOG: MTF - MC&D WAREHOUSE 57-A\n\nDATE: 20/6/18\nTEAM MEMBERS:\nSUNRISE - Team Lead\nWHISKEY - Infantry\nJESTER - Cover\nTRACER - Communications\nWOLFHOUND - Thaumaturgist/Fire Support\nNOTE:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Video log begins from WOLFHOUND's camera. Members are seen entering MC&D Warehouse 57-A. SUNRISE is in front, and motions for a standard entry for an aggressor with unknown abilities. Upon opening the front door, a large amount of smoke billows outwards, obscuring visibility.)\nSUNRISE: Infrared on people. We don't know what we're dealing with, but the aggressors are apparently insane and have unspecified abilities, so be prepared for anything.\n(The remaining team members give sounds of affirmation. In front of WOLFHOUND, there is nothing but swirling blue. As Pi-1 moves through the door, the sound of female laughter echoes through the warehouse, followed by Marshall's screaming. SUNRISE motions for the team members to split up into two groups: JESTER and TRACER move to follow SUNRISE, while WHISKEY joins WOLFHOUND.)\nJESTER, via radio: I'm seeing something on the Hume reader. There's two entities, one in the centre of the warehouse, and one on the ceiling, about 6 metres from the left wall. Infrared tells me that Marshall's strung up somewhere near the back of the warehouse by\u2026 something. I can't tell what it is. Our group will be heading via the centre towards Marshall. WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY, you go via the right.\nSUNRISE, via radio: And remember: our mission is to recover Marshall safely, not to neutralise, or even contain, the anomalies. If you see an opportunity, take it, but if you're under attack, get out of there. Please, for the love of God, don't do anything stupid. I've got enough paperwork already.\n(There is light laughter over the radio from the team members.)\nSUNRISE, via radio: Seriously though, stay safe, and good luck.\n(WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY begin moving slowly through the warehouse's interior, staying close to the right wall. After walking for a short time, WOLFHOUND notices something on the floor, nearly invisible to the infrared filter. He motions for WHISKEY to stop, and, careful not to make a sound, draws a binding circle around the object.)\nWHISKEY, whispering: What the hell's that thing?\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: Don't know. It's mechanical though, and it's got a really nasty aura about it. Whatever it is, it isn't good.\n(As they continue to move towards Marshall, they come across 4 more of the unknown mechanical devices. WOLFHOUND manages to draw a binding circle around each without incident. Suddenly, JESTER contacts the team via radio once more.)\nJESTER, via radio: The entities are moving. I repeat, the entities are on the move. WOLFHOUND, WHISKEY, the thing on the ceiling's moving in your general direction. It's\u2026 dropping things as it's going along, they're hard to make out. Some of them are moving as well though, but in random directions. I'll let you know if it starts getting too close, so be prepared to make an exit on short notice.\nWOLFHOUND, WHISKEY, via radio: Affirmative.\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: Actually, those things that it's dropping, I think they might be mechanical. We've seen a couple things that look similar while we've been walking. I've been able to draw binding circles around them. Got no idea about them other than that, but their auras are so nasty that it probably isn't a good idea to get close.\nJESTER, via radio: Good to know. Over and out.\n(WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY continue forward. There are several large metal storage containers around them, making it difficult for them to identify where they are. As WOLFHOUND is the process of binding another mechanical device, they are interrupted by a slow, rhythmic tapping from the container behind them. WOLFHOUND hastily finishes the binding circle, and motions for WHISKEY to follow him into the space between two containers to their immediate left.\nAs WOLFHOUND pulls WHISKEY into the gap, an unknown, spiderlike entity, about 1 metre tall and wide, shrouded in shadow, is seen slowly emerging from a gap approximately five metres behind them. WOLFHOUND immediately begins performing the complex kinetoglyph \u2018Smokescreen', which would render him and WHISKEY indistinguishable from the surrounding environment. As the kinetoglyph progresses, the rhythmic tapping gets louder, and a blue light becomes visible from around the corner of the container.\nWOLFHOUND finishes performing the glyph as the unknown entity rounds the corner. It proceeds to scan the area with harsh, blue light, before turning away. When it does, the details of its appearance become visible: an exceedingly complex series of gears, levers, and pulleys, formed into a shape resembling a cross between a spider and octopus with pointed legs. The blue light emanates from its \u2018head', presumably to assist it in seeing in the smoke-filled environment.\nWhile WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY stand motionless, the entity turns around to examine the bound unknown device. It tries to touch it, but is repelled with a series of sparks by a white barrier that appears in response to the entity's appendage. The entity shrieks, before several weapons and tools form from its leg that it uses to attack the barrier. When this is unsuccessful, it pauses, before circling the device, apparently scrutinising it.\nIt stops when it notices a tiny flaw in the binding circle, and lifts its leg to touch the barrier. While the white force field still appears, its light is significantly weaker than before, and no sparks are produced. Triumphant, the entity forms a tool resembling a pair of glowing red pliers on its leg and jams it into the flaw. Red and white sparks are produced, and cracks begin to appear in the barrier. As the entity applies more force, the cracks widen and spread, before the barrier shatters with the sound of breaking glass.\nThe entity chitters in satisfaction, before tapping the mechanical device in a series of places and stepping back. A large swarm of glowing yellow nanomachines emerges from the device and approaches the entity, which begins to chitter, shriek, and tap its legs in an apparent form of communication. The swarm flashes a series of colours for varying periods of time, and then resets to its original golden glow before flying away above WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY.\nFollowing this, the entity slowly moves away as WOLFHOUND seems to slump downwards and fall backwards, caught by WHISKEY before they hit the floor. After waiting for a time until the entity's movement is out of earshot, they begin to breathe heavily, but subduedly.)\nWHISKEY, whispering: What the fuck was that thing?\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: I'll be damned if I know, but thank God I managed to hide us in time. If I'd screwed up, we'd probably both be dead.\nWHISKEY, whispering: Well, you didn't, and we're alive to feel grateful for that. You just collapsed on me though, so just how powerful was that spell? (Pauses.) What was that spell?\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: Smokescreen. Sigma-class Kinetoglyph. Surrounds the caster and immediate persons in an obscuring field that blends into the surrounding environment. Blocks just about all forms of detection, and thank God for that, because that thing used\u2026 (Pause) about 14 different scan methods simultaneously while looking at us.\nWHISKEY, whispering: Jesus.\nWOLFHOUND: If that's just the servant, I'd hate to meet the master. We'd better be even quieter than before, because now we know just how dangerous this can be. Better let SUNRISE know, actually.\n(WOLFHOUND keys SUNRISE on his radio.)\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: SUNRISE, we got a problem. We just met a subordinate of one of the main entities, and we almost died. Smokescreen protected us. If worst comes to worst, I'd be able to pull off\u2026 two more, but I'd be out of commission for a while after that. Advise?\nSUNRISE, via radio: Hmm. (There is a long pause.) Continue for now. If you meet another one and have to use Smokescreen again, get out of there.\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: Got it.\n(WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY slowly continue forward. As they get closer to Marshall, the number of mechanical devices increases, but all are bound without a problem. Interestingly, no more anomalous automata are encountered throughout the rest of the journey, until WOLFHOUND and WHISKEY reach the final container. Both cautiously look around the container, and gasp softly.\nMarshall is strung up inside an enormous spiderweb, with thin, metal strands in place of silk. Several of the unknown entities patrol the area, climbing upon and tending to the 'silk' to maintain its structural integrity. Marshall himself lies at the centre, tightly bound in wire, appearing unconscious. SCP-5802-1A is nowhere to be seen. The two MTF members quickly duck back behind the container, and curse quietly.)\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: Holy shit. Holy shit. How the hell are we supposed to get to Marshall if he's strung up there and surrounded by those spider-things, let alone rescue him!\n(WHISKEY shrugs helplessly. WOLFHOUND keys in SUNRISE via radio.)\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: SUNRISE, we've found Marshall. There's a bit of a problem.\nSUNRISE, via radio: And that problem is..?\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: He's strung up in some kind of fucked up metal spiderweb, surrounded by at least five of those things that nearly killed us earlier. The ceiling thing's nowhere to be seen.\nSUNRISE, via radio: Hmm. That does seem to be a problem.\nWOLFOUND, via radio: Can you get JESTER to tell us where Carter and Dark are? Information would be really important right about know. Don't want to have gotten this far to be assassinated from behind.\nSUNRISE, via radio: Sure. First though, where are you? In relation to Marshall, that is. Are you coming from the left or right?\n(WOLFHOUND turns to WHISKEY, who has also noticed the problem. They have a stricken look on their face.)\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: Being the one that told us which direction to go, you should know. (Pauses.) Where the fuck is the real SUNRISE? Where's the rest of his team?\nDark, via radio: Shit. I was hoping that would work. Carter's voice modulator worked like a charm, but I guess there's no accounting for a lack of information, especially when your members clammed up like they did. (Sighs.) Oh well. Guess we'll have to use the 'subordinates' you mentioned. How many Smokescreens did you say you had left? Two?\nWOLFHOUND, via radio: Fuck you.\nDark, via radio: Tsk tsk. You're wasting valuable time insulting me that could be used for running away. Not that you'll escape, of course. See you soon then!\n(WOLFHOUND turns off the radio. From behind the container, blue lights can be seen sweeping across the area, and the sounds of chittering and tapping can be heard. She turns to face WHISKEY.)\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: You know how I said I could do two more Smokescreens?\n(WHISKEY nods.)\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: That was technically a lie. (She plucks a small flask full of glowing orange liquid out of (presumably) her pocket, shaking it lightly from side to side.) I've got a little something that's slightly illegal right here, and with it, I'll be able to pull off a hell of a lot more than just two Smokescreens. (She sighs.)\nLike everything though, there's a catch. The catch here is that I die. It's really a last resort, and it'll boost me to near-deific levels for about five minutes before I burn out. When\u2026 after I drink this I want you to find SUNRISE, JESTER, and TRACER, and get the hell out of here. For your own safety, don't try to follow me.\n(WHISKEY looks shocked. As he tries to protest, he is cut off.)\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: If I had any other option, I'd take it, but these two are much more powerful than I am, totally insane, and letting them run amok puts the entire city at risk. It's either I die, or thousands; that's not really much of a decision.\n(She smirks.)\nAnd besides, I've always wanted to know what being a god feels like, even for just five minutes.\n(WHISKEY looks on as WOLFHOUND opens the stopper and raises it to her lips. She pauses.)\nWOLFHOUND, whispering: I'm sorry about this, James, but I don't have a choice.\n(Camera view switches to WHISKEY. WOLFHOUND walks away, towards the other side of the container, the chittering and tapping getting louder as she does so. She drinks the contents of the flask and shudders, before several ghostly arms appear from her back. When she speaks, her voice has a noticeable echoing quality.)\nWOLFHOUND: Go. I'd hate for you to be caught up in the crossfire. (She smiles.) I'll see you on the other side, wherever and whenever that may be.\n(As WHISKEY backs away, WOLFHOUND rounds the corner at a run. Immediately, all of the sweeping blue lights focus on her, and a cacophony of chittering starts. Before she disappears from sight, WOLFHOUND is seen performing several Omega-class kinetoglyphs simultaneously while several of the spider like entities fly backwards, consumed by green flames.\nThe sounds of chittering, Dark's yelling, Carter's laughter, and the crackling of flames or ice, along with several explosions, can be heard as WHISKEY runs. He uses his infrared vision to locate SUNRISE's team, and sprints towards them through a maze of containers, the ground shaking all the while. He finds SUNRISE, JESTER, and TRACER with various severe injuries encased in an unknown hard, white material, attached to the wall of a container.\nQuickly, WHISKEY brings out a pulse charge, and lays it against the white substance. There is a fast, heavy thumping sound, and the substance, vibrating rapidly, turns to dust. WHISKEY catches SUNRISE and JESTER, and holds TRACER against the wall with his leg. After carefully laying the aforementioned members onto the ground, WHISKEY grabs TRACER, also laying them on the ground. WHISKEY then turns around to survey their injuries.\nTRACER has laceration wounds across his whole body of variable depth. Several are hissing and producing steam due to the insertion of unknown, presumably caustic chemicals. His breathing is even. JESTER has several large lumps resembling tumours across her face, arms, and chest. Her breathing is slightly uneven. SUNRISE is bleeding from both nostrils, and his left arm has been sliced off and cauterised. Several deflated abscesses with large cuts and leaking yellow fluid, presumably the pierced tumours that are present on TRACER, are visible on his right arm Surveying the damage, WHISKEY revives JESTER and TRACER with smelling salts, and their eyes slowly flutter open.)\nWHISKEY: Get up. We gotta go.\n(TRACER and JESTER groan, sitting up slowly.)\nWHISKEY: Let's go, let's go! (He moves to pick up SUNRISE, putting him on his back.) Use me for support! Come on!\n(TRACER and JESTER struggle upwards, before putting their arms around WHISKEY's shoulders. Slowly, the four of them walk forward, the ground shaking all the while. They almost collapse several times, but soon, the exit to the warehouse is in sight.)\nWHISKEY: Just a- just a little further\u2026\n(Five metres from the door, the sound of tearing metal and screaming can be heard, before WOLFHOUND yells something that cannot be made out. Immediately after this, an extremely powerful explosion occurs, and the shockwave is enough to push WHISKEY's group out of the warehouse, which is levelled in the explosion. All camera feeds turn to static.)\n\n[END LOG]\nConcluding Notes: After the conclusion of this log, WHISKEY, JESTER, TRACER, and SUNRISE were recovered. SUNRISE was in critical condition, JESTER and TRACER had moderately severe injuries, and WHISKEY emerged mostly unharmed. Carter and Dark (SCP-5802-1A and -1B) were not found at the scene, presumably having fled. Marshall was found at the former centre of the warehouse, still bound in wire. He was recovered in critical condition, and is currently comatose.\nWOLFHOUND was also not recovered at the scene, and is presumed dead. She received a formal reprimand for possession of a dangerous illegal substance, and was also awarded a posthumous Foundation Star for her bravery and sacrifice resulting in a successful mission with minimal casualties.\nContainment or neutralisation of SCP-5802-1A and -1B is of high priority.\n\n- Close -\n\nFrom the distress call onwards, several hundred defectors from MC&D Ltd assisted in the SCP-5802 investigation and containment efforts. As investigations continued, the severity of SCP-5802 prompted the assistance of several GoIs into containing and/or destroying SCP-5802. Together with the members of MTF Omega-8 and several other highly skilled MTF personnel, a new MTF was formed for the assassination of SCP-5802-1A and -1B - MTF Tau-7 (\"Cease and Desist Ltd.).\nOn 20/10/18, MTF Tau-7 was successful in breaching SCP-5802-1 (then SCP-5802-4). Due to the casualty of all team members, it is currently unknown what happened within SCP-5802-4, save for a telepathic transmission from a former MTF Omega-8 team member:\n\n+ Transcript of Telepathic Communication - 20/10/18 +\n\n- Close -\n\nWe won.\nThey both put up a hell of a fight; we interrupted them in the middle of a summoning ritual for some god of pollution and industry, called\u2026 Y-something. We saw and heard it trying to claw its way out of the half-formed gateway they'd managed to create while we were fighting, some massive construction of impossibly complex machinery and screaming humanoid figures made of oil and chemicals.\nI can see and hear it now, in my head. It was so\u2026 oily, so wrong. The memories are like a stain on my mind.\nCarter and Dark, I can see how they couldn't fight against this thing's will. I tried to establish a mental link, and their minds\u2026 they were just screaming. Below all the insane ranting, the sounds of machinery and oil and chemicals, they were screaming the same two words over and over: 'Stop us'.\nDark fell first. Several energy lances through her chest, God knows how many blasts of fire and lightning, and a Nova-class bomb directly to the skull, all followed by total purification by Kieran finally managed to kill her.\nCarter went next. When Dark died, he just screamed and his machinery went berserk, spewing bullets and explosives everywhere. But he left his control box9 open, and it wasn't long until we destroyed it and suddenly, his machinery froze and powered down.\nThe gateway started to collapse after he died. That god? It's been forced backwards, back to wherever it came from, screaming and thrashing all the way.\nSo we succeeded. But that gateway's going to take all of us with it when it finishes collapsing, a lethal dose of Akiva radiation to everything in a 1km radius.\nKieran says he's going to make sure we don't get corrupted along with everyone else that's died, and that he'll stop this pollution from spreading further. I hope he can.\nFoundation, we're already dead in the dark. Corpses that'll likely never be recovered. But at least we can die knowing that you'll continue our work in the light. For us that have died. For us that will die. For all of us.\nCan you promise me that?\n\nFootnotes\n1. Extreme biological/chemical/thaumaturgical hazard with a capacity to spread.\n2. Numbering over 10000 in total.\n3. For example, the AQI of SCP-5802 is, on average, 482, while SCP-5802-1's AQI is far beyond 500, the most severe measure.\n4. A long, tapered tube which creates brief, localised fields of massively increased Humes for the harvesting of unstable anomalous material.\n5. An exponential scale measuring the strength of SCP-3396-01 instances through a variety of factors (such as Hume displacement, measured 'output', etc.).\n6. It is unknown how Marshall, Carter, and Dark had knowledge of this highly classified SCP object.\n7. Believed to be the entity described within Dark's journal.\n8. Referring to an incident involving the exceedingly violent eruption of the extinct volcano through unknown means. Ordinary volcanic products were replaced with various pollutants both mundane and anomalous. Fallout caused massive damage to the surrounding environment.\n9. This 'control box' was not noted on Carter's corpse, and presumably contained his consciousness.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5801 | SCP-5802 | SCP-5803 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The very first image of SCP-5804-B and SCP-5804-C (censored) captured by Voyager 1 in 1982.\n\nItem #: SCP-5804\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Local newspapers from the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 municipality of Namibia must be monitored for mentions of SCP-5804-A. Any suspicious publication must be censored and the publishers interrogated. The Hane people are to continue to practice their faith unimpeded.\nAs human spacecraft seldom visits SCP-5804-B and -C, no containment procedures are currently implemented. Should any space agency plan such an encounter, embedded Foundation agents are to gain access to the spacecraft before launch and fit it with an S-Mute module designed to induce a failure of the communication systems.\nDescription: SCP-5804-A is a monotheistic religion traditionally practiced by the Hane1 people of Namibia. It follows a calendar divided into cycles of exactly 54 years and 6 months. At the end of each cycle, a ceremony is organized which culminates in the sacrifice of a deceased elder's skull in honor of the deity. The first documented sacrifice took place in 1584 and the latest in 2016, with an exception in 1962 as the Hane failed to sacrifice a skull.\nSCP-5804-B is a comet orbiting the sun with a period of 54 years and 6 months. Upon reaching perihelion, a human skull materializes a few hundred meters above the surface before slowly falling towards the object. There are currently [REDACTED] skulls visible on the surface. So far, every perihelion saw the fall of a skull, with the notable exception of the 1962 perihelion.\nSCP-5804-C is a human penis orbiting SCP-5804-B at an altitude of 1.3 km. The object has been deteriorated by solar wind and cannot be further analyzed. SCP-5804-C was discovered in 1982, but was already in dire condition at this time. Since 1954 observations of the comet by the Foundation showed no anomaly, SCP-5804-C appeared some time between 1954 and 1982, possibly in 1962 in correlation with a failed Hane ceremony and the absence of a skull above SCP-5804-B.\n\nA Hane priest during a ceremony. it is believed the mask visible on the picture is a personification of SCP-5804-B.\n\nThe general timeline of an SCP-5804-A ceremony is as follows:\n\nThe Hane decorate the streets of their villages as they wait for rainfall. An altar is assembled.\nAs the sun sets, young adults and children begin dancing and chanting while the elders consume Ru, an alcoholic beverage made from yeast and barley.\nThe Head Priest carries the skull of a chosen elder to the altar as well as a decorated iron axe called a Tela.\nAs the drinking and dancing continues, the Head Priest recites a prayer while swinging the axe. A black, circular artifact of unidentified nature appears on the surface of the altar.\nThe Head Priest pushes the skull into the artifact. The artifact disappears as the Hane cheer. At this point, a new skull appears above SCP-5804-B.\nWhen the rain stops, flower petals are set alight and thrown into the air. The rising heat carries them up in glowing plumes.\n\nIt is believed the Hane had no means of observing outer space before the 19th century. The source of their knowledge of SCP-5804-B's period remains unidentified.\n\nAddendum: In 2015, the Hane people entrusted Foundation agents with a journal written by Belgian explorer Charles Karneau, which may explain the origin of SCP-5804-C. Below are selected excerpts of the journals.\n\nDate: October 12th, 1962\nToday marks the beginning of the Karneau adventure into the South West African jungle. Generously sponsored by the Maquerot family after acquiring great wealth from their enterprises in the Belgian Congo, this journey into the wild and savage Deep Green will unveil countless wonders: birds, flowers, or even apes, with any luck. I will immortalize all of these magnificent forms with my newest camera.\nParticipants will include Charles Karneau \u2014 myself, my wonderful wife Julie, our two sons, Thomas and David, as well as a long term family friend and his wife, Victor and Clara Alloniers, whose daughters Eug\u00e9nie and Laure will also participate. Four experienced guides will protect us against the dangers of the wilderness.\nMay God bless us with the sight of a thousand wonders.\n\nDate: October 20th, 1962\nToday will forever be a cursed day for the Karneau family.\nAfter a day of rough trekking, it was decided to set up camp for an evening of leisure. The children were playing around the dinner table while my wife and I enjoyed a beer with Victor and Clara. The children wanted to play with the guides' rifles; we gave in, and a rifle was unloaded and given to them, despite the guides' protestations. However, as they swung it energetically, a phenomenon manifested. It was an ominously dark circle placed on the ground. I shamefully admit that I and the other three adults had ingested too much beer to correctly deal with the unknown occurrence.\nLater in the night, after regaining our intelligence, we were woken up by a scream. We ran out of the tents, to see Victor kneeling where the artifact would have been situated, clutching his nether regions. Laure told us about the artifact, and Victor confessed that, still inhebriated and riddled with curiosity, he tried to insert his virile member into it.\nVictor was given ether so he could ignore the pain while the guides disinfected the wound. The journey was ended prematurely and after a short night, we began trekking back to the edge of the jungle.\nThis misfortune shall serve as testimony of the cruelty of the jungle.\n\nDate: October 21st, 1962\nAfter leaving the forest, we witnessed a spectacular occurrence. Large plumes of luminescent orange matter rose to the skies and illuminated the night. To this day, I do not know whether these were insects, or some unknown southern aurora.\nA few days ago, I would have opened my mouth to such a sight. Now, it is undoubtedly a warning to never come again. The jungle has a soul; it is a animal. Leashed to a pole, it will bite all who come close.\n\nAddendum: Interview of a Hane elder about the failed ceremony of 1962.\n\nInterviewer: Dr Vicat\nInterviewee: Mane Tenehara, Hane elder\nDate: 2017/12/12\n\nDr Vicat: Thank you for your time. Let us begin with a recount of the events.\nMane Tenehara: I remember that day very fondly. A euphoric folly had awaken in the villagers' hearts. A sparkle of light and joy which signified that finally, it was time again to satisfy the Empress of Light. As the rain wet the soil of the village roads, the innocent began agitating their bodies furiously while the wise sipped the Drink of the Dreamers. As I was dancing, I witnessed the Head Priest come out of his house, the beautiful Tela in one hand, and in the other, the terrifying remains of an elder whose tale had long been drowned in Ru.\nAs he chanted, and swung the Tela with great energy, the villagers waited for the Dheta to appear, as was foretold by the prophecy, and for the Head Priest to push the elder's skull into the soul of the Empress of Light. Alas, as he wielded the Tela with greater force and chanted with greater assurance, nothing happened. Eventually, under the curious stares of many youngsters, he abandoned.\nNo one among the innocents knew what should happen next. The prophecy was supposed to be accomplished, without fail. However, since the elders had already drowned their souls in Ru, it was decided that the dancing would continue until further instructions. Those never came; flower petals were set alight and released in beautiful warm auroras. The next day, the innocent woke up with wonderful memories, and the elders, with an unforgettable headache. To this day, I still wonder if they ever knew that the ceremony failed.\nDr Vicat: What could have possibly gone wrong? Was it the Head Priest's fault?\nMane Tenehara: I do not believe so. It is foretold that anyone in the land of the Hane, who wields an iron weapon while the young dance and the elders drink a beverage of yeast and barley, can summon the Soul of the Empress of Light. No, I believe someone opened the Dheta before we had the chance; it can only happen once every 54 years. No more than that.\nDr Vicat: So if, say, people who happened to be nearby accidentally created those conditions, then inserted a male body part into the \"Dheta\"\u2026 then\u2026\nMane Tenehara: (Chuckles) If I have to be completely honest, this is a haunting question for every Hane man.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Pronounce /h\u0251\u02d0ne/\n\n\u00ab SCP-5803 | SCP-5804 | SCP-5805 \u00bb"}
{"text": "2/5805 LEVEL 2/5805\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5805\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5805 in containment\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5805 has been integrated into the Aural Studies laboratory of Site-11. As a precaution, all transmissions from SCP-5805 are to be passed through memetic and cognitohazard filters before being committed to long-term storage. Digital playback devices wishing to access the archive may tune to Channel 101 via local access.\nDescription: SCP-5805 is a 'Zenith' brand AM radio which has been playing improvised, small-ensemble jazz since at least 1982. The branding and construction of the radio are consistent with manufactory in the 1970s, and there are otherwise no anomalous components to the device aside from its ability to operate indefinitely and without an apparent source of power.\n\nDiscovery Log:\nSCP-5805 was initially discovered in 1982 at a campground in the Cascade Valley Park, near Akron, Ohio when a vacationing Foundation researcher and his wife were unable to locate their assigned rental cabin. Unintentionally entering a portion of the park not intended for public use, the couple overheard jazz music and traced it to an unmarked cabin obscured by brush and overgrowth.\nThe interior face of the cabin door contained a number of crude etchings.\n\nSummer of '75\nMartha Jean\nDarin G\nJohnny T\nBilly W\n\nSummer of '76\nMartha Jean + Darin G\nJohnny T + Billy W\n\nSummer of '77\nMr & Mrs. Darin and Martha G\nBilly W\n\nSummer of '80\nBilly Walters\nWe remember John\n\nSeveral personal effects were also located inside of the cabin:\n\n1L bottle of 'Old Crow' brand whiskey, approximately one-quarter full.\n'Dutch Masters' cigar box, containing 4 of 5 cigars.\n8 polaroid photos containing images of 4 unidentified individuals in various recreational scenes.\n4 polaroid photos containing images of 2 unidentified males on a dock. These photos are severely damaged by water.\n2 matching silver wedding bands, 1 severely corroded.\n\nUpdate: 06-01-2005\nSCP-5805's programming was interrupted for the first time since having been brought into Foundation custody. After approximately thirty seconds of empty air, a masculine voice spoke the following phrase:\n\n\"This one's for you, Johnny, wherever you are. Alright, fellas, let's run it one more time, from the top. A-one, a-two, a-one-two-three.\"\n\nSCP-5805 then began transmitting music once again.\nNo additional interruptions have since been recorded.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5804 | SCP-5805 | SCP-5806 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item Number: SCP-5806\nAnomaly Class: Safe\nAnomaly Containment Procedures: SCP-5806 is to be constantly monitored remotely by a single guard stationed undercover within Kenton, Oklahoma. Flowered Acres Complete Care Center has been bought by Foundation cover organizations and cordoned off under the guise of a construction site run by town officials. Personnel are not to enter SCP-5806 under any circumstances unless stated otherwise by O5 Command.\nAnomaly Description: SCP-5806 is room 23 of the Flowered Acres Complete Care Center, a nursing home located on the outskirts of Kenton, Oklahoma. SCP-5806 resides in a separate wing of the facility, placed farther away from other patient residences, offices, and storage units.\nThe entrance to SCP-5806 is sealed off through presumed anomalous means. Room 23's locking mechanism is not engaged and while the doorknob will turn when prompted, the door itself will not move when pushed against, remaining completely immobile.\nUnderneath the placard signifying SCP-5806's room number is a smaller plaque that is partially obscured due to heavy corrosion and staining.1 Graphite rubbings have revealed the plaque to read \"D\u2003artm nt of Ab \u2003mal t\u2003s.\"\nSCP-5806's secondary trait regards the nursing home's body of staff. Those that previously worked in the Flowered Acres Complete Care Center do not respond to any questioning or mention of SCP-5806. This persists even when subjects are placed under extreme duress. It is currently inconclusive if the staff's unwillingness to speak of SCP-5806 is due to an extreme circumstantial social taboo or if it is an anomalous aspect of SCP-5806 itself.\nAddendum 5086.1A: On 11 November 2018 at 7:33 PM local time, SCP-5806's entrance was viewed in an open state. Site-88 was immediately contacted for backup, sending a unit of armed MTF agents as well as a research unit to analyze any samples or artifacts located on-site.\nSCP-5806 consists of a standard housing unit divided into two main spaces; a general lounge and living quarters, and an attached bathroom unit.\nThe living quarters appears to be in slight disarray, with signs of water damage on the north, east, and southern walls of the room, as well as portions of the ceiling. The carpet is constantly damp and filthy, saturated with sand, dirt, and metal fragments.\nThere is a recliner facing a window on the eastern wall of SCP-5806. Wedged in-between the cushions of the recliner are three human teeth in the later stages of decay. A rusted locket was also discovered, containing a grayscale portrait photo of an unknown individual. Their face is unidentifiable due to mildew. There is an engraving inside the opposite half, reading, \"My Lisa.\"\nAt the center of the living quarters is an opening in the ground in the approximate shape of a human figure. There are separate extensions branching from the center that would accommodate for every limb, including the head. The edges of the opening appear to be covered in condensed formations of mold. The mold itself produces a black mucus-like substance that causes a burning sensation when in contact with human skin.\nThe opening's exact depth is inconsistent, with estimates ranging between 2 to 5 meters. The bottom of the opening is covered in a coagulated layer of the black substance. Three documents have been recovered from the pit:\n\nA sepia photograph of SCP-5806's interior. The room is clean and in good condition.\nA torn page, presumed to be from a ledger or notebook of some kind. The ink has bloomed due to exposure to moisture and the handwriting is illegible.\nA heavily damaged document bearing an altered Foundation insignia.\n\nSCP-5806's bathroom unit is covered in a thin layer of grime, its tile grout in advanced stages of molding. Every attempt to successfully clean the tiles or bathroom facility has failed.\nAddendum 5806.1B: On 11 November 2018 at 8:12 PM local time in Ottowa, Kentucky, one Margaret Belford was admitted into an emergency room exhibiting symptoms similar to food and/or chemical poisoning. Belford was seen continuously vomiting by both family and hospital staff as they attempted to treat her, with nurses marking down the unusual color and viscosity of the subject's expelled fluids.\nBelford was viewed writhing in pain as her condition worsened, with witnesses describing her vocalizations as \"wet\" and \"gurgling.\" Of note; it is reported that in a sudden moment of clarity, Belford turned to her adult daughter, one Dina Belanger, and stated,\n\n\"Please, don't let him take me.\"\n\nBelford then expelled massive amounts of the viscous fluid from her mouth and nostrils before losing consciousness. Her body then began to rapidly decay to the shock of those still in the room. Belford's remains then began to corrode the cot around them, causing the remains to sink through it and into the floor. Amongst the decayed remains of her abdominal organs, an intact fingernail was found.\nWhen Foundation researchers cross-referenced documentation regarding the employees of Flowered Acres, Margaret Belford was listed as having been an assistant nurse that was active between 1962 to 1975. Various comments from her superiors are transcribed below;\n\nShe has such a way with the patients - she treats them as if they were her own family.\n\nTruly, one of our very best.\n\nWhat happened was a shame. She was so close to Lawrence, after all.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This appears to be due to extremely old age.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5805 | SCP-5806 | SCP-5807 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5807 prior to containment, resting on a docked ship.\n\nItem #: SCP-5807\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-5807 are to be contained within a reasonably sized aviary, complete with an assortment of coastal plants and a pool designed for wildlife of similar sizes to SCP-5807, located at Site-43. SCP-5807 is to be given 6 fish, each of which is approximately 1 kilogram dispensed by a tank in its pool once every 24 hours. SCP-5807 should be given bimonthly psychiatric evaluation or if it expresses abnormal psychiatric behavior. Each SCP-5807 instance is permitted to read Ms. Cooley's file once a week upon its request. During these periods, SCP-5807 is permitted to suggest alterations to Ms. Cooley's file. These alterations can be accepted or denied by the site manager. In the event of a containment breach, SCP-5807 instances should be captured and returned to its aviary by a weighted rubber net.\nDescription: SCP-5807 is a triad of fully grown male brown pelicans. SCP-5807 instances collectively refer to each other as brothers, though genetic testing to determine biological relations have proven inconclusive. Each pelican possesses the ability to speak the English language, despite lacking a properly adapted larynx, teeth, or tongue. SCP-5807-1 is the oldest of the three instances and shows extremely protective behavior over other instances of SCP-5807. In contrast, SCP-5807-2 shows pestering behavior, commonly harassing personnel assigned to its containment and will persistently inquire about topics such as modifying its feeding schedule. SCP-5807-2 overall has proven to be the most aggressive compared to other instances of SCP-5807. SCP-5807-3 is the youngest instance of SCP-5807, has the smallest beak size, and prefers to remain silent in the presence of Foundation staff in most situations.\nSCP-5807 shows signs of confusion when referred to as such and, proceeding Interview Log 5807-1, were requested that they are given alternative designations. SCP-5807-1 addressed themselves as \"David\", SCP-5807-2 as \"Thomas\" and SCP-5807-3 as \"Vincent.\" SCP-5807 explained that a woman by the name of \"Ethel\" had given these names to them as chicks. Instances are occasionally unresponsive to their designations and, as such, their supposed names may be used in interviews as necessary.\nDiscovery: SCP-5807 was apprehended in Shipyard Villas in Fort Myers, Florida, on March 6, 2017. SCP-5807 was seen interrogating two women, inquiring for the whereabouts of an Ethel Ellice Cooley. Ms. Cooley was a Caucasian woman who resided within Fort Myers, Florida, until she expired at the age of 72 on April 29, 2012, in the Cape Coral Hospital due to her gastrointestinal stromal tumor that had been present in her body for approximately a year. Both SCP-5807 and the two women were apprehended; the women were given Class-B amnestics and released 5 hours later. Once contained, SCP-5807 was interrogated about its reasoning for searching for Ms. Cooley.\nIncident Log 5807-1\nUpon retrieval of SCP-5807, SCP-5807-2 was observed by a passing fisherman uttering several expletives to a field agent who had apprehended SCP-5807-1 and 3. The fisherman eventually moved to a further distance when SCP-5807-2 began verbally harassing him for \"looking at him the wrong way.\" SCP-5807-2's distraction is what allowed field agents to recover them.\nMarch 6, 2017, Interview Log 5807-1:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5807\nInterviewer: Dr. Perrigo\nForeword: Upon being transferred to a standard aviary in Site-43, the following interview was conducted. SCP-5807 appears distressed and distracted.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Perrigo: Hello SCP-5807. I have some questions for you.\nSCP-5807-3: Excuse me, do you know Ethel?\nDr. Perrigo: Who?\nSCP-5807-2: Big lady, couldn't miss 'er.\nSCP-5807-3: Don't say that! She's the only one that fed you!\nDr. Perrigo: This Ethel, she fed you?\nSCP-5807-1: Fed all of us.\nDr. Perrigo: What did she feed you?\nSCP-5807-1: Crackers mainly.\nSCP-5807-3: So, where is she?\nDr. Perrigo: We'll have to find out.\nSCP-5807-2: Well, tell us when you find her, would you?\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: The Foundation discovered a small digital hospital record that held Ms. Cooley's expiration information and revealed that she had expired 5 years previously. Dr. Perrigo thought it unwise to inform SCP-5807 that Ms. Cooley expired and continued to feign ignorance of Ms. Cooley's whereabouts.\n\nIncident Log 5807-2\nSCP-5807-2 inquired about the timing of their feeding schedule. When the maintenance staff responded \"In 5 hours\", SCP-5807-2 began violently cuffing maintenance staff near the base of the neck. When SCP-5807-1 attempted to stop them, they sustained the same treatment as the maintenance staff.\nMarch 10, 2017, Interview Log 5807-2:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5807\nInterviewer: Dr. Perrigo\nForeword: SCP-5807 appears increasingly agitated and has continued to ask where Ms. Cooley is located to multiple doctors and maintenance staff.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Perrigo: How are you feeling, SCP-5807?\nSCP-5807-2: Where is she?\nDr. Perrigo: We still don't know.\nSCP-5807-3: Just let us out and we can find Ethel!\nDr. Perrigo: I'm afraid we can't do that.\n[SCP-5807-1 reaches over the table to Dr. Perrigo's clipboard while the doctor is speaking to SCP-5807-2 and SCP-5807-3]\nDr. Perrigo: I have a few questions to ask you actually. Firstly, when was your last meeting with-\nSCP-5807-1: You know.\nDr. Perrigo: What?\nSCP-5807-1: Ethel. You know about Ethel.\nDr. Perrigo: What? What are you talking about?\nSCP-5807-1: Your clipboard.\n[SCP-5807-1 makes eye contact with Dr. Perrigo and remains silent]\nSCP-5807-3: Where is she then?\nSCP-5807-2: Let us out so we can find her!\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Dr. Perrigo has been dismissed following this interview due to inattentive work relating to SCP-5807.\n\nIncident Log 5807-3\nSCP-5807-3 asks SCP-5807-1 \"What's wrong\". SCP-5807-2 responds with \"Shh; he's mating\". SCP-5807-3 retreated to a corner of the aviary, where they did not observe SCP-5807-1 harassing SCP-5807-2.\nMarch 12, 2017, Interview Log 5807-3:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5807-1\nInterviewer: Dr. Jean-Paul\nForeword: SCP-5807-1 was separated from SCP-5807-2 and SCP-5807-3 for questioning. It is worth noting that SCP-5807-1 has not informed SCP-5807-2 or SCP-5807-3 of the current state of Ms. Cooley.\n<Begin Log>\n\nDr. Jean-Paul: I will not hide this from you SCP-5807-1, we are surprised that you haven't shared the condition of Ms. Cooley with anyone.\nSCP-5807-1: I didn't tell them because I'm not like you, doctor. Unlike you, I care for the safety, and what's more, the hope of my brothers.\nDr. Jean-Paul: The information would hurt them?\nSCP-5807-1: The same way it should hurt someone like you.\nDr. Jean-Paul: Do you plan on escaping, SCP-5807-1?\nSCP-5807-1: The dead stay dead, doctor.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5807-1 returned to its aviary and resumed usual behavior. Dr. Jean-Paul believes that SCP-5807-1 will not attempt to breach containment, while SCP-5807-2 and SCP-5807-3 may pursue extrication.\n\nAddendum 5807-1: SCP-5807-1 was observed informing SCP-5807-2 and SCP-5807-3 of Ms. Cooley's condition. Both instances of SCP-5807 appear distressed and contradict SCP-5807-1.\nMarch 24, 2017, Interview Log 5807-4:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5807\nInterviewer: Dr. Jean-Paul\nForeword: All instances of SCP-5807 show symptoms of grief and depression. Prior to this interview, SCP-5807 used minimum required amounts of speech to request food and assistance.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Jean-Paul: How are you SCP-5807?\n[SCP-5807 is unresponsive]\nDr. Jean-Paul: I know you're upset.\nSCP-5807-2: Well, that clears things up. Ethel's dead and it's your fault! If you had let us go, she would've been fine!\nDr. Jean-Paul: Ms. Cooley has been dead for five years.\nSCP-5807-2: Why even keep us here, you know? It's not worth your time. You've done your part.\nDr. Jean-Paul: What would that part include?\nSCP-5807-2: Keeping us from Ethel! That's all you've done. And now- and now she's gone.\n[SCP-5807-3 moves to SCP-5807-1 and emits a whimpering vocalization]\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5807-1 and SCP-5807-3 remain within one meter of one another for the remainder of the day. SCP-5807-2 is observed uttering several expletives inside of its aviary.\n\nApril 5, 2017, Interview Log 5807-5:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5807-3\nInterviewer: Dr. Jean-Paul\nForeword: SCP-5807-1 and SCP-5807-2 have begun to accept Ms. Cooley's condition and have been seen speaking to and comforting one another. SCP-5807-3 seems to still possess some symptoms of depression.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Jean-Paul: Hello SCP-5807-3.\nSCP-5807-3: Hello doctor.\nDr. Jean-Paul: How are you feeling about Ms. Cooley?\nSCP-5807-3: \u2026 I feel like everyone else has moved on, but I just can't. It's not like I don't want to. She was the only one who put up with us and now that she's gone I don't know what I'm supposed to do.\nDr. Jean-Paul: Ms. Cooley meant a lot to you.\nSCP-5807-3: But she wouldn't want me- us to stay sad. Ethel didn't want us to be sad. I guess that's the point.\nDr. Jean-Paul: The point of what?\nSCP-5807-3: I guess I can't just\u2026 wait for her to come back. It's not going to happen. And now there's not really a point to keep looking for her. Even if there was\u2026 she wouldn't want that. She wouldn't want that.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5807-3 appears noticeably more contented when exiting the interview and returning to its aviary.\n\nIncident Log 5807-4\nUpon returning to its aviary, SCP-5807-3 received a mackerel from Dr. Jean-Paul. SCP-5807-2 refused to let SCP-5807-3 enter the aviary until they received the same gift. SCP-5807-1 inquired for the same.\nAddendum 5807-2:\nAdditional research concerning Ms. Cooley revealed that SCP-5807's requested names (David, Thomas, and Vincent) are the names of Ms. Cooley's husband, brother and son respectively, all of which expired before any instance of SCP-5807 came to know Ms. Cooley.\n\nEthel Ellice Cooley's File\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nEthel Ellice Cooley\nCurrent Status: Expired\nPhysical Description: Ms. Cooley was a Caucasian, black-haired woman of European descent. Ms. Cooley was moderately overweight and maintained reasonable physical fitness until her husband's expiration.\nNotable Contacts: Ms. Cooley's father, Dennis Doyle, expired at the age of 56 due to gastrointestinal cancer. Ms. Cooley's mother, Catherine Doyle, expired at the age of 68 due to natural causes. Ms. Cooley spent her childhood within the company of her brother and sister, Thomas Doyle and Deborah Doyle. Thomas sustained a fall of approximately 25 meters at the age of 13 and expired shortly after. Deborah is currently still alive and inhabits an apartment in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Nebraska. Ms. Cooley married David Cooley at the age of 22 and conceived their son two years later, who was named Vincent Cooley. Both David and Vincent Cooley expired in a boat crash 16 years following Vincent's birth.\nMs. Cooley came into contact with SCP-5807 one year proceeding her husband's expiration. At the time, SCP-5807 had recently hatched and was presumably abandoned or separated from their mother and father. Ms. Cooley designated SCP-5807-1 David, SCP-5807-2 Thomas, and SCP-5807-3 Vincent, clearly named after her expired loved ones. It is unknown at what time Ms. Cooley came to know SCP-5807's anomalous properties. 8 years following Ms. Cooley's possession of SCP-5807, she wrote the following notebook entries. The notebook was recovered from the Cape Coral Hospital shortly after the Foundation had contained SCP-5807.\n\n\"March 17, 2012\nI got the results back. Positive. I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't lose them again.\"\n\n\"March 21, 2012\nI think David knows. When I was feeding Thomas saltines, he wouldn't stop staring. I have to do something.\"\n\n\"April 4, 2012\nI've run away. I left when they were all sleeping on the couch. None of them saw me. I left Vincent a loaf of bread. I know he eats when I'm away.\"\n\n\"April 26, 2012\nI've started talking to the hospital staff, and they all think I'm insane. I miss them. I miss them so much. I don't want to die.\"\n\nAdditional Information:\nMs. Cooley resided within a bungalow located on \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 street in Fort Myers, Florida. Ms. Cooley's place of residence was demolished 2 years following her expiration.\nThe following letter was recovered from Ms. Cooley's previous place of residence.\n\nDear Ethel,\nI must say I would not expect you to stay up until 2 in the morning with your \"friends\", especially after your husband died. You woke Ben up, and I had to get him back to sleep with the racket you were making. My patience is running thin and if you don't quiet down I will report a noise complaint.\nLots of love,\nAn annoyed Mrs. Thatcher\nP.S. Our pelican problem is really getting out of control. I recommend you stop feeding them.\n\nMs. Cooley's response was contained in this letter.\n\nDear Lindsey,\nI strongly advise you to mind your own business. Luckily for you, my \"friends\" keep different company than any \"friend\" you had during high school cheerleading season. I'm so sorry to hear that Ben awoke, let him know that it was his mother who decided to keep him on the opposite side of the house from you and closer to me.\nHoping you are well,\nAn aggravated Ms. Cooley\nP.S. The pelicans stay.\n\nThe resulting mass of letters grabbed the attention of a majority of Ms. Cooley's other neighbors and, eventually, the Foundation, some years after Ms. Cooley expired. This prompted the Foundation to search for an anomaly within their region of residence and locate SCP-5807.\n\nApril 30, 2017, Interview Log 5807-6:\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5807\nInterviewer: Dr. Jean-Paul\nForeword: SCP-5807 exhibits usual behavior and is moved to Dr. Jean-Paul without incident.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Jean-Paul: How are you SCP-5807?\nSCP-5807-3: Pretty alright, doctor.\nDr. Jean-Paul: We have something that might interest you, Vincent. Actually, all of you.\n[Dr. Jean-Paul opens their case and displays a printed version of Ms. Cooley's file and indicates at her contacts]\nSCP-5807-2: I don't get it.\n[All three instances of SCP-5807 remain silent while reading Ms. Cooley's file]\nSCP-5807-3: Oh.\nSCP-5807-2: Wait. She didn't. No, she didn't! Our names\u2026 they werent for us\u2026\nSCP-5807-3: They were for her.\n[SCP-5807-3 laughs]\nSCP-5807-1: I\u2026 thank you doctor.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5807 instances were observed comforting one another for the remainder of the day.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5806 | SCP-5807 | SCP-5808 \u00bb"}
{"text": "FluffyDog00\n\nCheck out the rest of my works here: Author Page\n\nSCP-5809\n\nItem #: SCP-5809\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5809 is contained in a 13 liter fish tank within a standard containment locker. SCP-5809 is not to be within sight of SCP-5809-1.\nDescription: SCP-5809 is a ryukin goldfish capable of psychokinetic manipulation, as well as writing broken English. It has exclusively utilized this ability to play the multiplayer game League of Legends.1 SCP-5809 accessed League of Legends through a Dell laptop, hereby referred to as SCP-5809-1.\nIn League of Legends, SCP-5809 exclusively played the champion Fizz.2 During each match, SCP-5809 typed excessively in the game's chat, usually to degrade other players and boast about itself. It played under the username \"GGEZGETCARRIED,\" and played in Gold elo in the solo queue competitive ladder.\nAddendum 1 - Discovery: SCP-5809 was discovered when Alex Marcin encountered an unfamiliar account that was logged into his League of Legends client. Upon discovery of SCP-5809 and SCP-5809-1, field agent Gary Morrison asked SCP-5809's account a question using Alex's account. The log can be found below.\n\n+ Open\n\n- Close\n\nRangedTop666: Who are you?\nGGEZGETCARRIED: Lmao I'm the goldfish bro\nGGEZGETCARRIED: How tf are you still in Silver btw?\nGGEZGETCARRIED: Legit trash stop playing 2head XD\nGGEZGETCARRIED: How does it feel to be in a lower elo than a goldfish lmao\nGGEZGETCARRIED: Hello\nGGEZGETCARRIED: R u there XD\nGGEZGETCARRIED: Huh\nGGEZGETCARRIED: Cool\nGGEZGETCARRIED: Stay mad ig LOL\n\nAlex Marcin was properly amnesticized after containment.\nAddendum 2 - Game Chat Logs: The following log is an excerpt from the game chat in a match SCP-5809 was present in.\n\n+ Open\n\n- Close\n\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka): hey Fizz can u come bot?\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka): Jinx has bounty\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka) has targeted David6617 - (Jinx)\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): lol no too fed\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka): u fking dog\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka): come u brainlet\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): I have bounty 2 cuz I actually won lane unlike you squid dick\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka): yea cuz u stand under tower the entire game like pussy\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): no I just good XD\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): unlike u\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): 0/7/2 KDA lookin ass\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka): if u don't come bot it will be gg\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): fine\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): will swim down\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz) is on the way\nDavid6617 (Jinx) has shut down GGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz)! (Total Kill Reward: 150G)\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka) signals that enemies are missing\nHealerCarriesUXD (Soraka) signals that enemies are missing\nHeftyHerald (Caitlyn) signals that enemies are missing\nHeftyHerald (Caitlyn): fizz u have fish brain\nHeftyHerald (Caitlyn): uninstall plz\nGGEZGETCARRIED (Fizz): lol\n\nFootnotes\n1. A multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) created by Riot Games.\n2. A short, aquatic character known in the League of Legends universe as a yordle.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5808 | SCP-5809 | SCP-5810 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5811\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Instructions for SCP-5811 are restricted to Level 4/5811 personnel.\nDescription: SCP-5811 is a technique for the non-surgical removal of the human eye. The process is non-hazardous, and subjects undergoing it experience no discomfort. Removed eyes can then be placed on a new surface medium, which experiences topographical deformations to form a facsimile to a human orbit.\nVision through the eye is retained at all points.\n\nTest/5811.01: D-WM145's left eye is removed and placed on a table at the center of the testing chamber. Subject becomes heavily disoriented, displaying difficulties with movement until regaining composure after a span of 11 minutes. Eye is returned at the conclusion of testing.\n\nTest/5811.02: D-WM146's left eye is removed and applied to the test chamber atmosphere. Stability exists momentarily before air currents from the subject's movements cause rapid ocular dissolution. Vision is retained. SCP-5811 is determined to function for non-physical surface media.\n\nTest/5811.03: D-WM147's left eye is removed and is first applied to a powered light bulb in the chamber, then the light emitted from said bulb. The light bulb application yields expected results of blindness; the light application visuals are described to be \"gentle, yet yearning.\" The eye vanishes.\n\nTest/5811.04: Researcher Alexandra Maxwell, backup supervisor on Research Team 5811, accidentally removes xyr postorbital lobe while sleepwalking. On reporting an anomalous incident, security teams are dispatched to xyr bedroom and retrieve the lobe, which is put into cryogenic storage.\n\nNote\nAppeals from Researcher A. Maxwell to remove the lobe from storage have been rejected.\n\nTest/5811.05: Based on the results of Test/5811.04, D-WM148 is asked to remove their own postorbital lobe. D-WM148 is motionless for 13 seconds until vocalizing that they \"made a misplacement.\" Both D-WM148 and Researcher Rado\u0161 C. Stanek, the appointed testing supervisor, are rendered unconscious.\nMedical personnel find that the brains of both subjects are in REM sleep, displaying identical neurological patterns. Neither regain consciousness.\n\nNote\nPrevious proposals to use SCP-5811 as an auxiliary tool alongside SCP-3484 have been unanimously rejected.\nResearcher A. Maxwell has been appointed as the new testing supervisor.\n\nTest/5811.06: Researcher A. Maxwell draws six renditions of a human eye, each to varying degrees of detail and abstraction. Attempts are then made to remove each drawing from the paper and apply them to the chamber wall.\nAttempts are successful.\n\nTest/5811.07: Test/5811.06 is repeated with:\n\nPhotographed eyes\nEyes drawn by other personnel\nShapes drawn by personnel following set instructions; outcomes are meant to resemble abstracted eyes, without the intent being stated in the instructions\n\nSCP-5811 succeeds on the photographs and the first set of drawings, but fails on the second. The anomaly is hypothesized to be dependent on original intent for a structure to qualify as an \"eye.\"\n\nTest/5811.08: SCP-5811 is successfully performed on a handheld camera.\n\nTest/5811.09: SCP-5811 is successfully performed on a 144mm reflector telescope.\n\nTest/5811.10: SCP-5811 is successfully performed on a digital copy of the film The Wizard of Oz. The eyes of a \"Munchkin\" background character are extricated from the screen playing the film and are placed separate of it for the duration the film's length, with the character monitored for any abnormalities. Initially, the character displays slight disorientation, but follows the script for the remainder of their time on screen.\nThe eyes vanish on conclusion of the film.\nOn replay, the character remains eyeless, and briefly follows the script until waving at the cast and sitting away from the central events, craning their head as if to stare upwards. Behavior is consistent across subsequent replays. No other effects to the film are present.\n\nTest/5811.11: All mentions of the eyes of the character Jordan Baker, present in a copy of the novel The Great Gatsby, are concurrently removed. The plot experiences no changes, though the character is significantly more withdrawn than normal, often described facing the sky and, in one case, holding a telescope not present in the original story. Her last appearance is in Chapter 7, where she abandons the main cast after saying she \"needs some time to think.\" The character is completely missing in all subsequent rereads.\n\nTest/5811.12: D-W145, despite having been amnesticized on the exact instructions, performs SCP-5811 on herself while in her chamber. She removes her left eye and, as based on security footage of her hand \"phasing\" through her head, places it within her mental headspace. The same action is performed on the right eye. Pausing for a moment, she vocalizes that she \"gets what's going on now,\" and vanishes.\nSecurity are unable to locate D-W146 in or around the vicinity of the testing facility.\n\nTest/5811.13: Researcher A. Maxwell records xyrself temporarily self-enacting SCP-5811. The footage is then replayed on a computer screen within the chamber.\nAll security cameras in the chamber simultaneously deactivate.\n\nNote\nResearcher A. Maxwell has been detained.\nOn footage loss, security teams successfully breached the chamber, and subdued Researcher A. Maxwell before xe could misuse SCP-5811. Within the chamber were anomaly-extricated security camera lenses, drawings of telescopes, and drawings of the postorbital lobe to varying degrees of detail. The computer screen was missing.\nResearcher A. Maxwell has failed to provide any explanation for xyr actions. No memetic interrogation methods have yielded results.\nIt is by the consensus agreement of the Board of Secure Testing, the Board of Personnel Management, and the Board of Personnel Conduct that Researcher A. Maxwell be removed from SCP-5811 research and reassigned to unrelated work. The Boards further agree that Researcher A. Maxwell be amnesticized to remove all information on the instructions of the anomaly, with xyr rank demoted from Class B to Class C, effective immediately. At this time the Boards deem removal from the Foundation to be unnecessary.\nResearcher Yasmin Kader has been appointed as the new testing supervisor.\n\nAddendum.5811.1: Discovery\nSCP-5811 was discovered following the disappearance of Dr. Zenia Langley, Researcher A. Maxwell's sibling, on 14/03/2035. Dr. Langley, who was working at the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, abruptly input telescope positioning commands independent of observatory operations, and was observed at 03:34 rushing from staff quarters to the TAO 6.5m telescope.\nPersons investigating the telescope's interior found no traces of Dr. Langley. In zher room, the instructions to SCP-5811 were typed into a .txt file, paired with a message reading \"I thought up a way out, Alex. It's going to work.\" Researcher A. Maxwell reported having no prior knowledge on Dr. Langley's actions.\nThe telescope was trained on NGC-6543 (the Cat's Eye Nebula).\n\n\u00ab SCP-5810 | SCP-5811 | SCP-5812 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nTitle: SCP-5812 - The Punishment Boat\nMade In: 2022\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5812\nObject Class: Eparch1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5812 is to be contained in Site-77, and the facility/space where this object was found will be sealed off with surveillance cameras mounted around its entrance.\nDescription: SCP-5812 is a small boat vessel, presumably originally designed for private use, with silver plating throughout. It is not equipped with a motor or other power source for aquatic propulsion. One notable feature is the unplated steel cofferdam that is bound to the exterior of the hull by several layers of chains. While the chains are considered easy to remove, the coffin is welded shut barring physical entry. Non-destructive testing has revealed the following contents inside the coffin.\n\nWine (which occupies the volume inside the entire coffin)\nA humanoid entity (presumed to be already deceased)\n5 bullets\nWooden stake (through the chest of a humanoid entity, with some manner of plating)\n\nSCP-5812 is non-anomalous and has no other features worth mentioning.\nSCP-5812 was discovered during an earthquake on 2022/02/10 when an unusual noise was heard originating from the basement of Site-77. After investigating the cause of the strange noise, a hatch was unearthed 30 meters further down from the underground level of the site. The hatch led to a corridor, which led to a vast underground space.\nThis space is believed to have been sealed off by a heavy steel door, which was damaged when discovered. It is assumed that it was damaged by repeated earthquakes. The door was marked \"Department of Abnormalities,\" and a placard that had fallen nearby read \"The Count Who is Arrogant\" in Italian.\nSCP-5812 was found enshrined in space. The room wherein the anomaly was held is covered with cement. To note, there is a significant amount of damage marks found throughout the walls and ceiling of the space. Also found in the vicinity of SCP-5812 was a Mobile Task Force helmet. The design of the helmet is identical to past designs employed by the Foundation. Alongside this, two pieces of notepaper were found.\nThe helmet bore the Foundation's insignia, an unknown coat of arms, and the notation \"MTF \u0393-0\". The papers, on the other hand, each contained the following statements.\n\nNotice: SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588 has been placed under the control of the Department of Abnormalities under the direction of O5-11, as it is believed that it is no longer possible for the Foundation to house him. The incarceration and sanctioning will be handled by Mobile Task Force Gamma-0 (\"Flaming Sword\").\n\nRemove from the main list\nAmnestics treatment for peoples involved\nStorage in departmental database\n[TRANSCRIPTION ERROR]\nImprison\n\nIt should be noted that to date, there is no indication that the Foundation has used the code name Mobile Task Force Gamma-0, and O5-11 has denied any involvement.\n\nFurther investigation is restricted by the O5 Council.\n\nID and password accepted. Welcome O5-11.\n\nNote: Since the staff member in charge of SCP-5812 reported discomfort whilst being near the backmost wall of the room wherein SCP-5812 was found, an additional confidential investigation led by O5-11 was initiated. The investigation revealed the existence of a further hallway beyond the wall.\nThis corridor is connected to dozens of rooms similar in construction to those in SCP-5812, one of which is accessible due to a damaged door. In the accessible room, there is a preserved and treated corpse that appears to be canine. The corpse exhibits signs of having been poisoned with multiple chemicals.\nThe remaining rooms have also been determined, through non-destructive testing, to contain entities that have been terminated, due to numerous causes. All of these rooms have their own placards, but all show signs of extensive damage and corrosion.\nThe room located at the far end of the corridor has been detached from the original. The interior is empty, but many bloodstains are present throughout. No placards have been posted on the doors; instead, a pasted paper with the following statements in Italian and English was found.\n\nNotice\nInternal memo to MTF Gamma-0\n\nThis room will not be used. As no new sinners will appear, this facility will be sealed off.\n\nNotably, the document contains a signature in the handwriting of a past O5-11. However, the current O5-11 has not been given any information on Site-77 or taken over any related materials, including SCP-5812 or other contents. As of writing, the past O5-11 is already deceased. In addition, the relevant staff of the past O5-11 was amnesticized upon his retirement. Therefore, there are no records of the facility in the database.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Item is non-anomalous but related to the anomalous.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5811 | SCP-5812 | SCP-5813 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by J Dune\n\nSCP-5813 -\n\nX\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 4/5813 Archived\nUnauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5813\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following document is considered archived as of: 1874/3/08, and should only be viewed for reference purposes. It may contain outdated information, and is not comparable to current revisions of said documentation. Footnotes have been added by BRIDGE.AIC to assist the text in areas where archaic verbiage is present.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nAmerican Secure Containment Initiative Document, circa 1874\n\nOfficial Presidential portrait of A-5813.\n\nItem Number: A-5813\nThreat Level: Treacherous1\nClassification Type: Presence\n\nSafety Precautions: Documents, publications, and manuscripts dated with the years 1850 to 1853 are to be produced and covertly disseminated through a variety of Initiative front companies operating under the auspices of news and media archives in the United States. These written works cover a variety of ordinary subjects, a full list of which is available to project supervisors.\nThis process is to continue at the discretion of the Executive Parliament.2 Should these precautions pass a set budgetary threshold, they are to be discontinued.\nBody: A-5813 is the 13th President of the United States, Millard Fillmore.3\nAs far as the ASCI can determine, no person by the name of 'Millard Fillmore' existed prior to July 9th 1850, whereupon A-5813 apparated and became President of the United States, then disappeared on March 4th, 1853. The only documentation that exists from within this time period is that regarding A-5813, and no ASCI personnel can recall specific events not related to A-5813 within the 3 years of its presidency.\nDespite the missing time, it was found that most individuals \u2014ASCI members and civilians alike \u2014possessed similar knowledge of the events of the preceding 3 years, most of which concern A-5813.\nBelow is a list of information on A-5813 accumulated by the ASCI:\n\nA-5813 attended law school and served in the New York militia.\nA-5813 became a House Representative for New York's 32nd District and served from 1833-1843.\nA-5813 became the Comptroller of New York and served from 1848-1849.\nA-5813 became Zachary Taylor's running mate in the 1848 election.4\nA-5813 became President of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850.\nA-5813 agreed to the Compromise of 1850.\nA-5813 ordered Commodore Perry to open Japan for trade with the United States.\nA-5813 sought reelection in 1852 but was defeated by Franklin Pierce.\n\nDue to A-5813's high-profile position and widespread global effects, the erasure of A-5813 from the public consciousness has been deemed impossible.5In an attempt to keep the public from questioning the sudden disappearance of A-5813, the ASCI proposed to seek look-alikes to repurpose utilizing Level I Hypnosuggestive agents6, but the proposition was rejected for being too costly. A number of Hypnosuggestive agents were implanted within major United States news publications with the intention of keeping the public unaware of missing time caused by A-5813. This process also proved too costly, and was discontinued by the order of the Executive Parliament following three months of dissemination.\nOn 1854/4/12, creation of a homunculus to replace A-5813 was approved by the ASCI Thaumaturge and Alchemy Division.\nNota Bene: Incident-1A-5813\nDue to faltering aether reserves as a consequence of the ongoing Fifth Occult War7, efforts to create a fitting homunculus have failed. Following a series of catastrophic failures, Warden8 Hurtz proposed consulting PoI-466.9\nThe following attached documents detail correspondence between Hurtz and Waksmundski.\n\nDear Dr. Waksmundski,\nI am once again appealing to your patronage as a benefactor of the initiative. See to this request as quickly as possible.\nWe are in dire need of your assistance in the creation of a homunculus capable of functioning as an ordinary human, as independent of any handlers or masters as possible.\nThis creature is to be created in the image of President Fillmore, a portrait of which has been enclosed alongside this letter.10 Its intelligence should rival that of an ordinary human, though the illusion of such should suffice given our candidate. Regardless, it should be able-bodied, capable of speaking and carrying a conversation in English with a degree of verbosity, and embody general qualities expected of a United States President, including eloquence, composure, and a basic knowledge of the American history and tradition.\nAs you know, procurement of esoteric materials is nigh impossible at the moment. I hope you should be swayed by an advance offering to utilize your network of suppliers to their greatest ability. Should your assignment be successful, you will receive the payment in its entirety.\nA Patriot11 is being sent to your apothecary to monitor and assist the process. If you find this egregious or fear your methods to be stolen, you are free to send him back. However, this will affect the sum of your payment.\nWe anticipate your compliance.\nRegards,\nWarden James E. Hurtz, ASCI Thaumaturge and Alchemy Department\n\nMy Dearest Hurtz,\nThank you for contacting us! I've had a grand idea quite some time now, and your charitable offering is the final push needed to propel the dreams of a humble alchemist to a worldwide phenomena. I'm sure your Initiative will be delighted to see the fruits of this endeavor \u2014 but that is in the future. The task at hand still stands, and golly, is it tall!\nYour 'Patriot' arrived a day ago. Wonderful boy, he is! Understandably, he's in awe at my expanded workshop! I've been putting together a few personal projects in the meantime, some of which you'll surely see in-hand one day. Still, that nasty occult quarrel has constrained even my distribution channels, and while I enjoy a good joke, making a fully functioning homunculous is no laughing matter. In fact, I've never heard of one that functions with the complexity you desire, but I'm always anticipating pushing the boundaries of imagination. If you can dream it, then Dr. Waksmundski will make it so! You will get your President in due time.\nCan you supply me with a summary of your previous homunculous attempts? It's possible that in your failures, I can find wisdom. It could hasten our friend's creation by weeks!\nBest Wishes,\nDr. Waksmundski\n\nTo Dr. Waksmundski,\nIn short, we only managed to fully synthesize one functioning homunculus. There were a number of attempts that calcified on the lab floors, barely cognizant creatures that either melted in sunlight or couldn't understand basic commands, but none as complete as our final attempt, to which we gave the preliminary designation A-5813-1.\nIt could walk, talk, and consume food without combusting from the neck up. We were incredibly close to using the creation in practice, but there were a number of deficiencies. It was capable of conversation, but would completely lose all sense of itself when confronted with a choice. Even when explicitly told to choose a certain option, it still could not decide and instead would stare in the distance until falling asleep hours later. We had to pur\u00e9e its food because it didn't know when to stop chewing.\nThat wasn't all; it was completely incapable of using a toilet, took issues with understanding past and future tenses when speaking, and had a strange fascination with repeatedly opening and closing doors. The entity is currently operating as a doorman at one of our safehouses, apparently the only occupation it is capable of.\nWe're led to believe that our attempts to create a noncontroversial political figure to correspond with the understood reception of President Fillmore had gone too far due to our admitted lack of experience in the creation of homunculi. I've enclosed a number of biological, behavioral, and statistical reports regarding the creation of A-5813-1, should they be of use to you.\n- Hurtz\n\nDear Hurtz,\nI apologize about the late response, friend. Every facet of life at the workshop is working in tandem to create our President, and things couldn't be busier! A shipment of dubious reagents I've procured from a fellow by the name of 'Dr. Bromide'12 combined with a few in-house specialties have created quite the mixture, one absolutely perfect for creating a homunculus with the complexity you desire. What's more is that it's economical too! Are visions of Waksmundski's future dotting your mind's eye? They should be.\nOh, I'm getting carried away with myself, you have to forgive me, things are just too exciting these days! New ideas, new projects, new ways to bring joy! I've sent your man back to you, along with the completed homunculus. It should be close to what you asked for, but I couldn't help but add some 'special features' to him. Mr. Fillmore is a fine gentleman, and I think you'll come around to appreciating some of his quirks. Nevertheless, if you're unsatisfied with him, a second, more conventional version is available upon request. I wouldn't want to disappoint my most important customers.\nI'll be waiting for your feedback, but please write soon! There are places I must go, and the apothecary has far outlived its usefulness. Yes, I'm moving far from the City on the Hill \u2014 very far, in fact!\nTalk soon,\nDr. Waksmundski\n\nTo Waksmundski,\nLast night, Patriot Jones arrived at the Safehouse alongside your homunculus. While its linguistic and functional capabilities are more than impressive and exceed our expectations by a wide margin, I must inform you that the following 'features' are not necessary inclusions for a Millard Fillmore look-alike:\n\nThe ability to produce balloons from its mouth and shape them into animals\nThe inclusion of a music box in its stomach, and the fixation on singing with, dancing to, and continuously playing it\nThe confusing practice of giving ordinary animals titles indicating that they are federal officials, and wishing to commemorate their service with a parade or ceremony\nThe smaller homunculus housed under its top hat - 'Mini-Fillmore'\nThe constant begging to 'go to the race track' and desire to 'see a strong horse bring it all home'\n\nI should not have to clarify this, but these qualities work against our intentions and prior agreement. If you would like to receive any more compensation for your work, you will give the Initiative the homunculus we asked for. I have dispensed a collective of Patriots to your apothecary for the purposes of collection.\n- Hurtz\n\nFollowing this letter, a small group of Patriots arrived at PoI-466's apothecary in Boston, Massachusetts. The majority of equipment and supplies had been moved out of the building, and PoI-466 appeared to be in the process of cleaning. He initially expressed disappointment that the homunculus was poorly received, but informed the Initiative that they may \"keep [it] and do as they wish\". PoI-466 gave another homunculus, similar in appearance to the previous, to the collection team. Following this, he opened, and entered into, a small thaumaturgic Way. The present location of PoI-466 is unknown.\nThe homunculus given to the Initiative was designated A-5813-1, and proved to be a satisfactory replacement to A-5813. Further documentation pending as of 1854/12/19.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nYou are viewing an ARCHIVED iteration of file: SCP-5813-1. If you would like to return to the most current iteration, CLICK HERE\n\nFootnotes\n1. A classification indicating an anomaly of the largest threat to security of the United States.\n2. The highest administrative body of the ASCI.\n3. Foundation specialists currently believe A-5813 was a meta-narrative entity capable of altering historical events.\n4. All public documents regarding Zachary Taylor's original running mate, Henry Clay, disappeared with SCP-5813's manifestation. The only existing documentation of the Taylor-Clay 1848 ticket is part of an internal ASCI news bulletin from Safehouse-19.\n5. Adjusting for inflation, the use of global Class B Amnestics, destruction of related documents, monuments, and overall altering of history would cost $17.8 trillion.\n6. Prior to the discovery and widespread use of amnestics, the Foundation utilized Hypnosuggestive agents to induce amnesia and maintain secrecy. Though very powerful, the drug often had nearly fatal side effects. Use of Hypnosuggestive agents was discontinued in 1958.\n7. 1823-1859.\n8. A title approximating Foundation Department Leads.\n9. Doctor Cornelius Waksmundski, a well-known alchemist operating within Boston, MA in the mid-to-late 19th century.\n10. This portrait was one of many commissioned by the ASCI following the discovery of A-5813.\n11. The ASCI equivalent of the Foundation designation 'Agent'.\n12. Believed to be PoI-382, Thilo Zwist, an activist and memeticist operating under that name during this time\n\n\u00ab SCP-5812 | SCP-5813 | SCP-5814 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Distribution scheme of SCP-5814-A within Laniakea supercluster.\n\nItem#: 5814\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nticonderoga\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-5814 is impossible and unnecessary. SCP-5814's phenomenon is unlikely to cause any significant threats to carbon-based organisms for the foreseeable future, but it is expected that a mass extinction of carbon-based life will occur on a timescale of millions of years.\nThe anomalous effect of SCP-5814 is observable with the following procedure.\n\n + Technical details\n\n- Hide technical details\n\nWith a period of 72 hours, the speed of light in standard 0.020 mol/L potassium hydrogen phthalate solution is to be measured under 298.15K and 101.325kPa.1 The solution's obtained dielectric constant is then used for confirming Freking's Law (see below) by substituting the measured value into the equation. This result should be directly reported to the Overseer Council if a nonnegligible deviation from Freking's Law is found in more than 10 consecutive measurements.\n\nDescription: SCP-5814 is an anomalous phenomenon influencing multiple clusters within the Laniakea supercluster2.\nSCP-5814 does not change physical laws in the affected region but affects the behavior of chemical reactions by altering the interaction strength between atoms and molecules, sharply decreasing the activation energy3 of different reactions involving electric charge, making systems that are thermodynamically unstable but dynamically stable reach the status of thermal equilibrium rapidly. Considering that non-equilibrium processes play essential roles in the sustaining of life, progression of SCP-5814 over time may cause a CC-Class \"Collapse of Chemistry\" scenario, with the result that carbon-based chemistry will no longer provide conditions suitable for life.\nAlthough the potential destructive effects of SCP-5814 has never been directly observed, studies have revealed that SCP-5814 may have initiated several CC-Class Scenarios in the past, resulting in the current ecology of the universe. Based on observations, SCP-5814 currently has limited negative impacts on carbon-based biology, but its effect will be unignorable in the time scale of millions of years.\nThe effects of SCP-5814 within its range of influence are embodied by a specific medium, SCP-5814-A. SCP-5814-A behaves like an ideal gas physically and is speculated to be composed of a kind of previously unknown boson4. Particles that constitute SCP-5814-A are electrically neutral, but has a measurable electric susceptibility and behaves as a dielectric material in the presence of an electric field, manifesting an induced dipole5. SCP-5814-A can spatially penetrate all known solids, liquids, and gases, but its effects only manifest at atomic scales. For interactions at subatomic scales, SCP-5814-A will not cause any obvious effects.\nSCP-5814-A's electric susceptibility anomalously increases over time. As SCP-5814-A can penetrate through all known forms of matter, changes in its electric susceptibility affect the polarity of nearby matter, increasing the macroscopic dielectric constant of causing polar materials. It is proven that the rate of change in electric susceptibility follows the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 equation. Based on theoretical computation, the current value of SCP-5814-A's electric susceptibility is \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nAddendum I. The discovery of SCP-5814\nIn 1972, Foundation researcher Dr. Arnold Freking discovered a change in the measured speed of light in the air while reviewing earlier measurements of the speed of light. Though insignificant, the measured speed of light in air was found to have decreased in the past 100 years. This effect was shown to be more observable in water, in which the speed of light has decreased by \u2588\u2588.\u2588\u2588% in the last 100 years. Observations of other physical constants, such as measurements of the rate of nuclear reactions, have shown that speed of light in vacuum has not changed. Analysis based on observations, Hubble's law6, and virial theorem7 has shown that an unknown medium is distributed across certain regions of the Laniakea Supercluster. This medium had a certain degree of electric susceptibility and increased the dielectric constant of polar substances such as water upon interaction.\nAnalysis based on observed values showed that under the effects of SCP-5814-A, the speed of light observed in different media over time follows the equation c=c0\u00d7(bF+kFt)-1/2, now called Freking's law. This result implies that SCP-5814-A causes the relative dielectric constant of matter to change linearly with time. Dr. Freking deemed such phenomenon enough to declare SCP-5814 an anomaly. He reported his observation result to the Physics and Mathematics Research Institution of the Foundation (SCP-PMRI), who then classified the phenomenon on \u2588\u2588/\u2588/1980.\nAddendum II. Extract SCP-5814 research report, submitted to the Overseer Council by PMRI (\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2000)\n\nUnder the effect of SCP-5814, the activation energy of some reactions will be significantly lowered, which allows the corresponding reactions to proceed at a relatively low temperature.\n\n\u2026\u2026By applying computational methods, we have proven that the cumulative impact of SCP-5814 has greatly changed the equilibrium pattern of chemical reactions within its region of effect in the Laniakea supercluster, especially reactions involving heavy elements and/or driven by electrostatic interactions.\n\nThe main observable effect of SCP-5814 is to increase the dielectric constant of solvents, which is largely deleterious to most biochemical reactions. An illustrative example of the anomaly's impact is the stability of all-silicon analogs of biochemical molecules in water. Despite the fact that silicon dioxide is more thermodynamically stable than aqueous solutions of silicon biochemical analogues at any time, 8 billion years ago, the precipitation of silicon dioxide from these molecules and water would require a significantly higher activation energy. As a result, they could exist stably in aqueous environments even at room temperature.\n\nVia theoretical calculations, we determined that the chemistry of silicon 8 billion years ago may have been as diverse and stable as modern organic chemistry. It was possible to design a whole set of stable silicon-based life-forming molecules. We could compute silicon analogs of amino acids, sugars, and nucleotides. They are capable of aggregating and forming silicon-based life which is similar to modern carbon-based life.\n\nAs we know, as one of the most abundant substances in the universe, water would be the most appropriate solvent for life. If we keep pushing back in time, we may discover more varieties of life based on different chemistries. Phosphorus, sulfur, even metals. The tolerance of these systems towards water would be significantly increased, which would greatly increase the possibility of evolving life.\n\nBased on such discoveries, we believe that we have already reached a conclusion about the potential hazards of SCP-5814. In the past 8 billion years, the dielectric constant of water has already increased significantly because of SCP-5814. SCP-5814 will lower the tolerance of certain compounds towards water, leading to rapid hydrolytic destruction8 of the potential life-forming molecules, and finally reach the inert state of thermodynamic equilibrium.\n\nDoomsday, for us, is inevitable, like what silicon-based life went through billions of years ago. We will become the nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water in Earth's atmosphere, become part of this planet's natural environment, and hand the baton of life to the next kind of life form.\n\nMechanization or digitization of our bodies may perpetuate the existence of the human species for a short period of time, but these methods still rely on physical mediums, which we expect to be destroyed by water given that the effect of SCP-5814 strengthens as time passes. We now believe that these options will remain vulnerable to SCP-5814 and cannot be regarded as a solution.\n\nWe will meet the end of all life even without SCP-5814, but it will accelerate this process. Due to its properties, we currently hold the pessimistic view that we cannot contain the effects of SCP-5814, just as how we cannot resist the second law of thermodynamics.\n\nAddendum III. Archaeological Exploration History in Greenland\nIn year 1986, giant groups of supracrustal rock pillars were discovered beneath the tundra in Greenland while quarrying. These rock pillars may be among the oldest landscapes on the Earth, estimated to have existed for over 3.8 billion years, but internally displaying excavation marks unexplainable by natural phenomena.\nSite-\u2588\u2588 acquired ownership of the land on \u2588/\u2588/1986 and cordoned off surrounding regions. Exhumations completed on \u2588/\u2588/1990.\n\nPart of rock pillars in Greenland Region after completion of exhumation.\n\nDuring 1991~2013, MTF-\u2588-\u2588\u2588 carried out multiple explorations of the area and revealed more clues about the previous effects of SCP-5814 on Earth. Some contents of the exploration activities are summarized in the extract of the related report shown below.\n\n\u2026\u2026These ancient rock pillars are quite unusual. They were very well preserved by the surface tundra, which allowed us to investigate structural details even after billions of years.\n\nWe have discovered complicated, intercrossing caves within these pillars, unexplainable by any known natural causes. These special cave-like structures may have specific functions in the past, such as an ancient city built by prehistoric civilizations.\n\nThe fourth operation has brought back a 2.4 mL sample of an unidentified amber-colored liquid and a cuboid sample of diamond containing regular etched patterns with stored information. The liquid was later identified to be polysiloxane compounds dissolved with low amounts of silicon-oxygen clusters, likely to be the remains of organisms based on silicon-oxygen chemistry.\n\nConsidering that the pillars were formed 3.8 billion years ago, it is unlikely that the structures were built by terrestrial carbon-based organisms. This point of time is earlier than the earliest carbon-based life. We can confirm that we have discovered direct evidence of form of life based on silicon-oxygen compounds, which is different from almost all known carbon-based organisms. This area may be ruins of a colony of these silicon-oxygen-based organisms.\n\nA specimen of silicon-oxygen-based organisms discovered in the operation.\n\nDirect evidence of life based on silicon-oxygen compounds was discovered in nearby sedimentary rock layers during the sixth exploration operation. Fossil-like fragments of a previously unknown organism were found, along with the existence of silicate particles encapsulating some catalytically-active cluster molecules, mainly composed of silicon and oxygen.\nThese particles were confirmed to be spore-like propagules of a silicon-based lifeform, which survives on silicate minerals. To cultivate these organisms, a solvent called dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) should be used to replace water. The relative dielectric constant of DMSO is 48, significantly lower than the value of water (around 80). The need for DMSO for this organism could be explained by the effect of SCP-5814, which has raised the dielectric constant of water.\nAddendum IV. Extract from PMRI's report on the latest progress about the clay hypothesis9\uff08\u2588/\u2588/2019\uff09\n\nSome hypotheses postulate that clay minerals have played essential roles in the formation of carbon-based life on Earth. There is already literature documenting that clay minerals can store energy from mechanical force and cosmic rays, and may enable the formation of primordial organic molecules with such energy.10. There have been recent multiple publications focusing on this hypothesis. Several pieces of evidence have supported the hypothesis that porous structures inside clay minerals may absorb carbon-containing molecules that can create life e.g. amino acids, allowing them to react in the clay hydrogel, resulting in important biomacromolecules.11\n\nRecent results from internal research have also shown that the formation of carbon-based lifeforms is likely to be based within vesicles of clay minerals containing transition metal elements. The formation of such vesicles in a silicon-rich environment is not difficult. They raise carbon-based life, like alchemists' flasks raised homunculi.12\n\nHowever, from alternative perspective, another possibility emerges. As fungi live on the nutrition in dead wood, could carbon-based organisms be born on the corpses of silicon-based life?\n\nRecently, the team studying SCP-5814 has reported some notable discoveries. They analyzed ore samples collected in Greenland since 1991 and unexpectedly discovered some polysiloxane liquids within, which contain a high content of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorus, and silicon-oxygen clusters with unusually complex structures. In inorganic synthesis chemistry, such compounds are considered precursors to the synthesis of silicate minerals.\n\nWe have never discovered such compounds in nature previously, as according to current experimental results, such compounds should be unstable under the conditions for hydrothermal mineralization. But if we consider SCP-5814's effects, then we must conclude that such molecules belonged to the corpses of a lifeform based on a silicon-oxygen biology.\n\nThe silicates in the region have existed for about 3.7 billion years. The formation of silicates generally indicates the collapse of complex systems based on silicon-oxygen clusters; in other words, the domination of silicon-based lifeforms on Earth, if it ever happened, would have ended about 3.7 billion years ago. Modern biology hypothesizes that this is the time period when carbon-based lifeforms originated on the Earth.\n\nTaking Freking's law into consideration, we determined that when the Earth was just formed, carbon-containing compounds were too inert to evolve life. But approximately 3.7 billion years ago, SCP-5814 made the chemistry of carbon close to the edge of being able to evolve life. Under those conditions, the formation of life would require assistance from some catalysts, such as the aforementioned clay.\n\nAddendum V. Interpretation of information contained within recovered diamond\n\nMicroscopic observation of the internal pattern of the diamond sample. Colors observed in the photo were caused by interference of light between etched patterns.\n\nDuring the 4th operation exploring the area in Greenland, a finely polished black moissanite13 sphere was discovered. Using center of gravity, it was determined that one side of the moissanite sphere was hollow and the other was solid. After breaking the sphere's hollow side, a cuboid sample of colorless diamond with dimensions 1.2 \u00d7 1.5 \u00d7 0.8 cm was recovered, with etched traces inside. The etching method for such patterns is currently unknown.\nOn \u2588/\u2588\u2588/2020, decryption work on information stored within diamond crystal was finished. The stored content was a quintuply mathematically encrypted radio wave signal, with a frequency of \u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588GHz. Excluding environment noise, a complicated periodic signal was be identified, speculated to be an analytic language; vocabulary was only partially translated. The wave record lasted for 17 minutes and 24 seconds.\n\n(white noise)\n\n[prehistoric]-[life]-[Laniakea Supercluster?]\n\n[5]-[13]-[14]-[15]-[16]-[23,8]-[26,27,28,44,76]-[42,74,8]14-[\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588]-[life]-[civilization? culture? technology?]\n\n[live? survive?]-[competition]-[planet? galaxy?]-[water]-[dependence]\n\n(white noise)\n\n[(possibly expressing relation between subjects)]-[war? conflict? anger?]-[extinction? collapse?]-[14]-[(expressing active voice)]-[SCP-5814-A?]-[weapon]-[release? generate?]\n\n[water]-[deadly]-[hydrolysis?]-[oxidation]-[life]-[destroy? kill? stop?]\n\n[release? generate?]-[control]-[(expressing negation)]\n\n[extinction? collapse?]-[(expressing order)]-[\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588]-[13]-[5]-[26,27,28,44,76]-[23,8]-[16]-[15]-[42,74,8]\n\n[aimless spatial movement?]-[(expressing negative emotion)]-[14]15-[throughout]-[Laniakea Supercluster?]-[numerous]-[planet? galaxy?]-[(expressing negative emotion)]-[SCP-5814-A?]-[avoid happening of a certain incident?]\n\n(white noise)\n\n[planet? galaxy?]-[other]-[14]-[machanilization?]-[body]-[oxidation]-[(expressing causality)]-[extinction? collapse?]\n\n[planet? galaxy?]-[other]-[14]-[hydrolysis?]-[(expressing causality)]-[extinction? collapse?]\n\n[corpse? remains?]-[14]-[hydrolysis?]-[(expressing causality)]-[body]-[formation]-[life]-[14,8]16-[(first person plural?)]\n\n[evolving]-[life]-[14,8]-[civilization? culture? technology?]-[time scale expression]\n\n[Earth's coordinates]-[(expressing a certain moment?)]-[14]-[arrive? reach?]-[SCP-5814-A?]-[arrive? reach?]\n\n[(expressing a certain moment?)]-[extinction? collapse?]-[14]-[inevitable]\n\n[hydrolysis?]-[corpse? remains?]-[14]-[mantle?]-[formation]\n\n(white noise)\n\n[(expressing a certain moment?)]-[extinction? collapse?]-[14,8]-[start]\n\n[aimless spatial movement?]-[(expressing negative emotion)]-[14,8]-[throughout]-[Laniakea Supercluster?]-[numerous]-[planet? galaxy?]-[(expressing negative emotion)]-[SCP-5814-A?]-[avoid happening of a certain incident?]\n\n[Earth's coordinates]-[(expressing a certain moment?)]-[14,8]-[arrive? reach?]\n\n[(expressing a certain moment?)]-[(unidentifiable, speculated to be a noun)]-[hydrolysis?]-[death]-[individual]-[all]-[inevitable]\n\n[future form expression?]-[extinction? collapse?]-[14,8]-[inevitable]-[corpse? remains?]-[14]-[earth crust?]-[formation]\n\n[(expressing negative emotion)]-[information]-[record]\n\n(white noise)\n\nFootnotes\n1. Common room temperature (25.00 \u00b0C; 77.00 \u00b0F) and atmospheric pressure.\n2. The supercluster where the Milky Way is located.\n3. The energy needed to initiate a chemical reaction. The energy of the reaction system will first increase to a maximum value (the \"energy barrier\") and then drop back to form the products with lower energy. The process is analogous to a climbing a mountain to reach a plain. The energy required to overcome the barrier is called activation energy.\n4. A class of particles. The main features of these particles is that they have integer spin, and an infinite number of bosons can occupy the same quantum state.\n5. Electric susceptibility is the strength of a material's electric polarization when an external electric field is applied. The dielectric constant is a physical quantity reflecting the strength of this response.\n6. A law used to determine the velocity of galaxies.\n7. A physical law describing the relation between potential energy and kinetic energy of a system. The existence of unobservable substances (such as dark matter) was postulated based on unusual values obtained by Hubble's law and virial theorem.\n8. Collapse of molecular structure due to reacting with water.\n9. A hypothesis about the origin of life. This theory proposes that the primitive form of cells is small bubbles in aluminosilicate clay minerals containing biomacromolecules. The clay minerals are capable of catalyzing the formation of these macromolecules and protecting them against hydrolytic decomposition.\n10. Reference: Coyne, L. M., Lawless, J., Lahav, N., Sutton, S., & Sweeney, M. (1981). Clays as prebiotic photocatalysts. In Origin of life (pp. 115-124). Springer, Dordrecht.\n11. Reference: Yang, D., Peng, S., Hartman, M. R., Gupton-Campolongo, T., Rice, E. J., Chang, A. K., \u2026 & Luo, D. (2013). Enhanced transcription and translation in clay hydrogel and implications for early life evolution. Scientific reports, 3, 3165.\n12. Artificial human-like creatures in alchemical legends.\n13. A type of hard mineral composed primarily of silicon carbide.\n14. Spectulated to be atomic numbers of elements that constitutes backbones of the corresponding forms of life.\n15. 14 is the atomic number of silicon.\n16. 8 is the atomic number of oxygen.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5813 | SCP-5814 | SCP-5815 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5816\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5816-20 with anomalous features redacted. (hover to enlarge)\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All copies of SCP-5816 are to be kept in a standard secured container at Site-19. Even when within said container, all instances of SCP-5816 are to have their eyes covered completely. SCP-5816 instances are not to be removed, nor are any edits to be made to the text present on said instances without approval from level 4 research personnel.\nDescription: SCP-5816 is the collective term for a collection of 25 identical anomalous World War One-era recruitment posters, henceforth referred to as SCP-5816-1 through 25. As of 2021, no further instances have been found. Each poster closely resembles the non-anomalous posters depicting Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener1 that were famously used during the First World War. SCP-5816-1 through 25 were discovered in an abandoned print factory, kept in a single wooden crate. The only information that can be acquired about the origin of SCP-5816 comes from a telegram located at the discovery site.2\nOf all subjects tested, 4% were completely immune to SCP-5816; the reason for this is unknown, and no link between those immune has been found. The remaining subjects triggered one of two anomalous effects.\nThe primary anomalous effect of SCP-5816 instances occurs whenever an individual3 who is of British nationality or from any former territories of the British Empire and is aged between 19-30 years of age looks into the eyes of the image of Lord Kitchener. Whenever this occurs, the subject will feel an overwhelming sense of nationalism and pride towards the United Kingdom. Furthermore, the subject will feel an immense desire to join the British military.\nA secondary anomalous effect occurs when individuals who are not eligible to join the British military look into the eyes present on SCP-5816 instances.4 95% of experiments involving subjects who meet these criteria found those tested began to suffer feelings of immense sorrow and regret. The remaining 5% of those affected will attempt immediate suicide.5 This effect remains until the subject can self-terminate.\nTo date, the only known way to prevent the anomalous properties of SCP-5816 instances is to cover the eyes on each instance.\nSCP-5816 instances are highly resistant to most forms of conventional damage; this is believed to be the cause behind the preservation of SCP-5816 instances in the decades before containment. Fire is capable of complete destruction of SCP-5816 instances.\nPhotographs of and photocopies of SCP-5816 instances possess the same properties as the originals, though artist impressions lack the same anomalous properties.\nAddendum SCP-5816-A: Below is a digitized copy of the telegram recovered from the discovery site. It should be noted that it was heavily damaged when discovered; the displayed text is all that was readable.\n\nCommission for more recruitment posters received STOP\n\nNext shipment to be ready by Somme offensive STOP\n\nDistribute them face down until [ILLEGIBLE]\n\nMake no edits STOP\n\nAn investigation into the telegram's origin is currently ongoing.\nAddendum SCP-5816-B: On 20th June 1978, Doctor Urien Beavin, head of research on SCP-5816, was given the authorisation to test the effects of editing the text on an instance of SCP-5816. As part of this test, Doctor Beavin had the word 'Britons' on SCP-5816-7 erased and replaced with 'Americans' before showing it to several American D-Class personnel. The effect was identical, save that this instance now worked on those of American nationality instead of British.\nFollowing several more tests with different nationalities, Doctor Beavin replaced the nationality on SCP-5816-7 with the word 'D-Class' while also changing the main text below Lord Kitchener to read 'to cooperate with Foundation personnel.' 96% of all D-Class tested, who did not trigger the secondary anomalous effect, were highly cooperative with Foundation staff.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? Three (3) new messages!\n\nSCP-5816 Proposal\n\nTo: Dr Gabriel Stanton, Ethics Committee\nFrom: Doctor Urien Beavin\nSubject: SCP-5816 Proposal\n\nAs you can see from our testing, SCP-5816 instances are an effective way to ensure cooperation on the part of D-Class personnel. Therefore, I am proposing we use SCP-5816 instances by placing altered instances in D-Class quarters across Foundation sites.\n25th June 1978.\n\nTo: Doctor Urien Beavin\nFrom: Dr Gabriel Stanton, Ethics Committee\nSubject: Re:SCP-5816 Proposal\n\nWhile the practical applications you propose are certainly tempting, Dr Beavin, we cannot allow this. Completely ignoring the prospect of D-Class personnel who are immune to SCP-5816 figuring out its properties and using it against us, this proposal is completely unethical. This has the potential to seriously alter the free will of D-Class personnel. I don't care if they're Jack the Ripper; we are not in the business of stripping away people's free will. If it were up to me, this proposal and all your previous misconduct would be declared major ethical violations, and I'd have you demoted. But if you would like to discuss this matter in person, please make an appointment with me for some time tomorrow.\n27th June 1978.\n\nTo: Doctor Urien Beavin\nFrom: Dr Gabriel Stanton, Ethics Committee\nSubject: Re:Re:SCP-5816 Proposal\n\nObjection revoked.\n28th June 1978.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The British Secretary of State for War, from 1914 until he died in 1916.\n2. See addendum SCP-5816-A\n3. Henceforth referred to as the subject.\n4. Please consult British Army recruitment standards for further information. Any eligible individuals are strongly advised to do your duty.\n5. It should be noted these effects do not occur in those below the age range of British recruitment.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5815 | SCP-5816 | SCP-5817 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5817\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nFigure 1.1: A map retrieved from one of SCP-5817's websites, representing SCP-5817-1.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All internet services in a country affected by SCP-5817 are to be shut down until SCP-5817's websites are inaccessible. Automated programs are to monitor SCP-5817's activity by collecting all information in its pages and storing it in Site-68's computers. All remaining evidence of the existence of SCP-5817-1 is to be denied to the general public.\nDescription: SCP-5817 is a monthly phenomenon that affects all internet services in a country for roughly one minute. Attempts of accessing any website during SCP-5817 will redirect users to a counterpart that advertises a nonexistant country named Republic of Kingston, designated SCP-5817-1. According to these altered pages, SCP-5817-1:\n\nIncludes the territories of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic and parts of Mexico and Guatemala.\nHas large cultural and ethnic varieties.\nIs a democratic republic with a president named Horace Rosencratz, a 71 year old male.\nHas no documented cases of civilian violence in its territories.\n\nFigure 1.2: A flag retrieved from one of SCP-5817's websites.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5817 was first documented in March 15th of 2013, having taken place in Jamaica. The manifestation caused a collective hysteria due to being interpreted as a declaration of the independence of Kingston, the local capital city, made by a revolutionary group. While Jamaican authorities managed to pacify the population by stating the SCP-5817 event was \"an inoffensive prank made by hackers\", none of the affected sites showed any trace of hacking in their change logs.\nWhile the Foundation would later intervene in police investigations, SCP-5817 wouldn't be officially classified until April 15th of the same year, when it took place in Panama. Dr. Ignatius has been assigned to study SCP-5817 since then.\n\nIncident Report SCP-5817-A:\nIn December 15th of 2015, an SCP-5817 news website named Kingston Everyday announced that president Horace Rosencratz was considering to let a fleet of patrol boats watch the city of Nassau, Bahamas, after a flawed negotiation with the local Prime Minister. It was also mentioned that the Bahamas have been launching attacks against SCP-5817-1 territory for unknown reasons. Later that day, locals reported the presence of unmanned vessels with unidentified flags near the coastal zone of Nassau. The Foundation managed to retrieve one of the boats for study purposes. Perry Christie, Prime Minister of the Bahamas at the time, claimed to never have met anyone named Horace Rosencratz.\nIn January 15th of 2016, Kingston Everyday became accessible again and displayed the following headlines:\nKingstonian Patrol Boat Stolen!\n\nInterview Log SCP-5817-B:\nInterviewed: Subject-5817-B\nInterviewer: Dr. Ignatius\nForeword: Subject-5817-B, a 71-year-old Caucasian male, was found in February 16th of 2016 in Cuba and taken to Site-68 to be interviewed. Comparisons showed that subject bears great resemblance to images of Horace Rosencratz extracted from SCP-5817's websites. No information about name and origin of the subject was found in any non-SCP-5817 database before the interview.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Ignatius: Alright, now that we are here, could you please tell me your name?\nSubject-5817-B: My name? Well, you can call me Horace.\nDr. Ignatius: So, Mr. Horace, you don't seem to come from Cuba and-\nSubject-5817-B: Cuba? Don't you mean the \"Havana district\"?\nDr. Ignatius: No, sir. I said Cuba\nSubject-5817-B: Oh no no no, (laughs) Cuba isn't that dumpster you're talking about anymore, it's part of something bigger now: the Republic of Kingston.\nDr. Ignatius: I don't think I ever heard about a place like this really existing.\nSubject-5817-B: Hm? How could you never have heard of Kingston?\nDr. Ignatius: The Kingston I know is the capital city of Jamaica, not a well known country. Could you please tell me about it?\nSubject-5817-B: Well yes! Kingston is located in Central America and it's a paradise unlike any other place in the continent, with natural beauty, gorgeous cities and an efficient government, and I'm not saying this just because I'm the President. (laughs)\nDr. Ignatius: So you're the President of that \"Republic\" you're talking about. Well, then what have you done for your country so far?\nSubject-5817-B: You see, I worry about other places of the world, about how they lack the features that make Kingston perfect. Right now, most of them are questionable, unlikable, some shouldn't even be countries to begin with! Take this place for example: great ambitions, insufficient resources, ones that only Kingston can efficiently provide. That's why I started the Kingstonian expansion project.\nDr. Ignatius: You were given information about us before?\nSubject-5817-B: Well yes. There was a day where one of our patrol boats was stolen back in 2015, and the Kingstonian Intelligence Center manage to track it. According to them, the ship was inside this exact site, owned by some kind of Foundation. Since that day, they have researched information about you and how you study supposed anomalies, some really hard to keep under control. On the other hand, we have a powerful army and technology that would certainly make your most dangerous monsters look like little bunnies stuck in a cage. So, lets make a deal, shall we?\nDr. Ignatius: A deal?\nSubject-5817-B: This place becomes our territory for scientific research and, in return, we shall help you with containment and structural improvements. What do you think?\nDr. Ignatius: I-I'm sorry, sir, but this isn't the purpose of the interview.\nSubject-5817-B: Then I think I'm done with it for now. Is there any way to talk to whoever directs this (pauses) place?\nDr. Ignatius: I'm afraid this won't be possible.\nSubject-5817-B: Well, then I guess there is no point discussing it right now. We'd be better off talking about this another day. In this case, could someone take me to the exit?\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: After the interview, subject was taken to a humanoid containment cell in Site-68. All attempts at amnesticization of the entity were unsuccessful.\n\nIncident Log SCP-5817-C:\nForeword: In the morning of March 15th of 2016, a camera documented two Foundation guards, who were responsible for watching Subject-5817-B slowly having their appearences changed while keeping the same outfit. The transformation took place during SCP-5817, which was affecting Site-68 at the time, and the affected guards removed Subject-5817-B from its cell after the event was over. Two minutes later, Dr. Ignatius, who was walking at a nearby corridor at the time, encountered the two guards and Subject-5817-B. A different camera managed to record the event.\nBelow is a transcript of the recorded content.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Ignatius is walking down a corridor when he meets the two guards and Subject-5817-B\nDr. Ignatius: W-what are you doing in here? Weren''t you supposed to keep the subject in the containment cell?\nGuard 1: We have been ordered to take this subject to Dock-7 so it can be transferred to Site-\u2588\u2588.\nDr. Ignatius: Transferring this subject is out of question at the moment, I still need some interviews with him to understand SCP-5817.\nGuard 2: Earlier orders from the site directory stated that the transfer is a top priority.\nDr. Ignatius: I was at the site directory this morning and saw their schedules, there was nothing about transfer there. Now could you please tak-(pauses) have I ever seen you two before?\nGuard 2: We're (inaudible), hired by the Foundation one year ago. Currently the only members of Site-68's security personnel to come from the Republic of Kingston.\nDr. Ignatius: Kingston? No no no no no, the Foundation never hired anyone from Kingston, I will call the real security perso-\nSpeaker: Attention all security personnel, Subject-5817-B is currently being transferred to Site-\u2588\u2588. (inaudible) are responsible for transporting the subject and should not be interrupted during the process. Boat-23 has been deployed on Dock-7 for use by the transfer team.\nDr. Ignatius: What? B-but-\nGuard 1: You heard the Site Director, now please step out of our way.\n(Dr. Ignatius walks away while the guards continue to escort Subject-5817-B)\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: After the incident, the two guards responsible for Subject-5817-B's transfer and Site-68's Director were interviewed. When questioned about their actions, the individuals stated that they \"were men of Kingston and were simply doing what's right for their country\". The Foundation managed to track the Boat-23, which was found docked in the city of Nassau.\n\nNOTICE\n\nYou are currently viewing an outdated version of this page. Click here to access the updated version.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5816 | SCP-5817 | SCP-5818 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5818 - Frankenstein Burger King\n\nmmmm\nburger\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nby J Dune\n\nItem#: 5818\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nProvisional Site-5818, located in Niagara Falls, Ontario\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nCAONNA Provisional Site-5818\nM. Margaret Clarke\nC. James Clive\nNA\n\nSCP-5818-1\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawler Beta-8 (\"MODERN PROMETHEUS\") is to monitor discussion forums and image boards for phrases associated with SCP-5818 and remove them upon discovery.\nThe locus of SCP-5818-related phenomena has been bought by the Foundation and converted to Provisional Site-5818, which will remain open to the public. Several Foundation agents with scores of at least 75 on the Kull memetic resistance scale have been implanted into the restaurant's internal structure, and are to monitor for SCP-5818 events.\nEach SCP-5818 event is to be recorded and reviewed for any deviations in the established narrative. Following the completion of the event, all participants are to be amnesticized. Provisional Site-5818 is to remain closed until all remnants of the event are disposed of.\nDeliberate triggering of an SCP-5818 event for research purposes is prohibited.\nDescription: SCP-5818 is a phenomenon occurring in a Burger King located in Niagara Falls, Ontario. This location bears 'Frankenstein' theming, as the restaurant is adjacent to a separate horror-themed tourist attraction. The instructions for triggering a SCP-5818 event, sourced from parawatch.net in April 2007, are listed below:\n\nDontAsk 04/05/07 (Thu) 06:05:24 #1848131\n\n>go to the frankenstein burger king in niagara falls\n>ask for the frankenstein burger\n>????\n>PROFIT!!!\n\nThese instructions were disseminated across the discussion board over several weeks, but did not receive significant attention. Four SCP-5818 events occurred in the weeks following the original post, alerting the Foundation to the anomaly's presence.\nWhen an individual follows the instructions above and asks for a 'Frankenstein burger', SCP-5818-1 will be produced. No item on the Burger King menu is or has been referred to as a 'Frankenstein burger'. Regardless, employees will not perceive the request as abnormal, and will complete the order.\nSCP-5818-1 is a burger topped with two meat patties, bacon, ketchup, and cheese. SCP-5818-1 resembles Burger King's 'Double Bacon Cheese Burger' in appearance and composition. Testing has shown SCP-5818-1 to be otherwise identical to Burger King's 'Double Bacon Cheese Burger' in all aspects, sans the anomalous properties that manifest upon initial consumption.\nWhen an individual begins consumption of SCP-5818-1, a hallucinatory memetic phenomenon designated as an SCP-5818 event will occur. SCP-5818 events follow a consistent, recurring narrative. All individuals present inside Provisional Site-5818 during an event will be transposed into various archetypes fitting the narrative, which resembles the basic themes, vernacular, and plot of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. For a transcript of an SCP-5818 event, refer to Addendum 5818.1.\nFollowing the completion of an SCP-5818 event, individuals will return to a non-anomalous state of mind, possessing full recall and awareness of the events that had transpired.\nResearch has proven this phenomenon is limited to the Burger King location in Niagara Falls, Ontario.\nAddendum 5818.1: SCP-5818 Narrative Transcript\nThe following account of an SCP-5818 event was transcribed by a Foundation agent with noted memetic resistance. This transcript is specifically derived from the 31st recorded SCP-5818 event, which occurred on 2008/06/29.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nA customer bites into SCP-5818-1. Seconds later, the customer screams and drops the burger on the table in front of them. The customer stands atop a chair and calls the restaurant to attention.\nCustomer: What foul countenance! Behold, set your eyes on this wretched abnormality, whose visage will torment me 'til my reunification with the Father. Behold and remain weary!\nThe customer gestures to SCP-5818-1. Bystanding customers begin to crowd the table to view SCP-5818-1, expressing cries of shock and distress. A customer faints.\nBystander: Such unnatural hue! Oh, to be belabored with a fiendish existence as this! Composed from both the slaughterhouse and the learning room, an abhorrent creation!\nCustomer: Am I to consume this vile concoction of parts as I am my brother's cow, or a mother's milk? Is our sustenance derived from the land, or from the laboratory?\nCustomers begin to perceive SCP-5818-1 as capable of speech. Dialogue is audible to those involved in an SCP-5818-1 event, and has remained consistent across accounts.\nSCP-5818-1: Did I request thee, Maker, from my meat to mold me burger? Did I solicit thee from the kitchen to promote me?1\nBystander: Horror! Horror! It speaks as if it were man, but it is burger! It knows not of the existential diatribe it spews from its chemically enhanced mouth! Tell us, why hath you begat this wretch?\nThe crowd of bystanders begin to approach the customer, who removes themselves from the chair and begins walking backwards.\nCustomer: Hear me, it was not an abortion of my creation. Please! I beg you, look to Frankenstein, who wrought this beast with his own hands in his occult kitchen-sanctum!\nThe customer gestures to the register. The cook who prepared SCP-5818-1 walks out of the kitchen. Customers perceive the cook as harboring lacerations and stitches across their face and body. Their skin is perceived as an unnatural, green coloration, and as a whole resembles a typical depiction of the \"Frankenstein's Monster\" character.\nSCP-5818-1: My accursed forefather! You who have given me life and misplaced hope, gave me witness to beauty and creation, while placing me in this devilishly tasty form! Do you not feel remorse for casting me into a world that wishes to see me consumed?\nCook: I fear no retribution, fallen angel! As the Titans created man, I have created burger! This is my purpose.\nCustomer: Look, your culprit! Impose your punishment and affix him to Caucasus, where his liver can be pecked. A fitting punishment for a man who tests God.\nThe bystanders approach the cook, and begin to physically restrain him.\nCook: I pursued knowledge, my burden is light. Like so many before me, do what you will. I will not show cowardice.\nSCP-5818-1: How miserable is this comestible, juicy body. To be more than filthy meat! Satan revels in companionship, while I sit in silence and agony!\nThe bystanders force the cook into the kitchen, where they begin to tear the cook's limbs from their body. The limbs are then thrown into a broiler oven. The frenzy continues until the cook's body is small enough to fit in the broiler.\nCustomer: Frankenstein brought fate upon himself! Tragedy, or purification? The question is asked but there is no truth.\nThe oven is powered on, and the cook's body burns. The bystanders watch and revel in the cook's death.\nAway from the kitchen, SCP-5818-1 continues its lament.\nSCP-5818-1: If thou desired nurture over nutrition, perhaps I would not live in misery. Farewell, vengeful father. Farewell! I shall depart to the coldest regions of this wicked world, where I shall lay!\nSCP-5818-1 disappears.\n<END LOG>\n\nResearcher's Note: Following the event, all witnesses and participants were amnesticized. Due to the loss of life involved in SCP-5818 events and noted lack of variation between them, further research of the phenomenon through deliberate triggering of an event has been discontinued. The present location of SCP-5818-1 instances is unknown.\n-Dr. Clive, 2008/06/29\n\nFootnotes\n1. An abridged quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5817 | SCP-5818 | SCP-5819 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5820\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Operatives are to remain on alert for activity indicative of SCP-5820's modus operandi. Following the disruption of SCP-5820's California enterprise by Foundation personnel, it has become highly probable that SCP-5820 will attempt to continue its operations elsewhere. Business registries across the United States are to be monitored for any suggestion that SCP-5820 is attempting to re-establish itself.\nFoundation algorithms monitoring telecommunications are primed to recognise calls which indicate that SCP-5820 is selecting new victims. Should this occur, operatives are directed to place the affected household under covert surveillance until the pre-arranged date, at which point a sting operation is to be enacted involving appropriate MTF personnel.\n\nA suburban home undergoing an SCP-5820 event.\n\nDescription: SCP-5820 refers to Sneaky Buggers Humane Extermination, a California-registered pest control company linked to a number of anomalous incidents in the southern region of the state.\nAn SCP-5820 event typically begins with a cold call1 to a chosen target. Victims are informed that their home has been scouted and discovered to have a termite infestation requiring immediate fumigation. An estimated 83% of homeowners to date have accepted this request without suspicion.2\nAppointments are scheduled within two working days of the initial call. As per SCP-5820's alleged policy, householders are strongly recommended to be present for the set-up process. SCP-5820 employees (designated hereafter as SCP-5820-1) will arrive at the job site in a 2006 Ford E-series commercial vehicle with Sneaky Buggers branding.\nInstances of SCP-5820-1 are humanoids of indeterminate sex, clad in hooded mauve boiler suits and rebreathing equipment with tinted visors. A typical operation involves three instances of SCP-5820-1.\nSCP-5820-1 do not announce their arrival, and generally reach the location fifteen minutes before the allotted time. A fumigation tent is rapidly erected around the designated structure, with immediate attention paid to covering doors and windows. As a result of this, occupants are not given a chance to vacate the building. Upon finishing the set-up operation, all instances of SCP-5820-1 will enter the structure. SCP-5820-1 typically re-emerge within one hour and begin to disassemble the tent.\nFollowing an SCP-5820 operation, the affected building is left with severe to critical structural damage.3 Exploration of an affected dwelling's interior also reveals the total corrosion of non-osseous biological matter.4 In addition, paper currency and financial documents have been notably absent from all buildings investigated.\nBefore leaving a job site, SCP-5820-1 will stake a wooden advertising sign into the lawn. All signs recovered to date have carried the same slogan:\n\nA few less parasites in your neighborhood!\n- Sneaky Buggers Humane Extermination -\n\nInterview Log:\n\nInterviewed: Dwight and Nora Marlowe\nInterviewer: Agent Aaron Bagley\nForeword: On 2020/05/23, the Marlowe residence in Pasadena was severely damaged following alleged fumigation by SCP-5820. Human remains were found inside the building, later confirmed as belonging to the Marlowes' 39 year-old cleaner, Anamaria Vasquez. Both Marlowes had travelled out of state shortly prior to the incident.\nAgent Bagley posed as an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officer for this portion of the investigation.\n<Begin Log>\n[Removed extraneous preamble due to excessive hostility of the interviewees towards Agent Bagley]\nDwight Marlowe: Let me get one thing straight, okay? My gears are fucking grinding. This shouldn't have happened at all, let alone-\nNora Marlowe: On our vacation!\nAgent Bagley: In all seriousness, Mrs. Marlowe, you shouldn't be on vacation right now. Which reminds me, ma'am - can you please take several steps back?5\nNora Marlowe exhales, irritated.\nAgent Bagley: Thank you. Now, are you finally going to be civil with me?\nDwight Marlowe: Why? Why should we be civil with you, when they did that to my goddamned house? Look at it, buddy!\nAgent Bagley: We can't help you if you're going to somehow insist this was our fault.\nDwight Marlowe: I'm not saying it's your fault\u2026 nobody said it was your fault. What I'd like if you understood is that you should be doing more to protect the likes of myself and my wife here. I saw on Rush Limbaugh that-\nAgent Bagley: Sir, I don't know what you're talking about but I'm warning you to calm down. I've been working with the EPA for, oh, around a decade now, and this is the most extensive damage I've ever seen carried out by termi-\nDwight Marlowe: Antifa.\nAgent Bagley: I'm sorry?\nDwight Marlowe: Let's just say I tick a lot of their boxes.\nAgent Bagley: This is going to be your final warning. I would strongly suggest, Mr Marlowe, that you listen to me, an expert, instead of whoever it is on the television.\nDwight Marlowe: It's all expert-this, expert-that these days. Why should I expect you to know better than me, then? You're giving me all this shit about termites, but I'm telling you that there's people out there who think I'm an asshole, think my wife's an asshole, for no reason other than-\nAgent Bagley: With all due, uh, respect, Mr and Mrs Marlowe\u2026 we've got a person deceased here. Anamaria Vasquez.\nNora Marlowe: Oh my-\nDwight Marlowe: Should have told me that before, then\u2026\nAgent Bagley: I was getting there, but\u2026 you know what? Let's try to take this with a little more nuance from now on. About Ms. Vasquez-\nDwight Marlowe: She was over to spray a little bit of Lysol around while we were gone.\nNora Marlowe: Well, that and see the pest control guys in.\nBagley adjusts his mask.\nAgent Bagley: These pest controllers, \"Sneaky Buggers\"\u2026 you just accepted their word? Didn't give them a Google or anything first?\nDwight Marlowe: Buddy, I'm the managing director at a Forbes 500 firm. I know the sound of a legitimate business offer when I hear one.\nAgent Bagley: The fact we're even having this conversation should strongly indicate otherwise.\nDwight Marlowe: The hell do you know about business?\nAgent Bagley: Enough to know that you got fleeced, sir.\nDwight Marlowe: Fleeced? Well, if you're so sure they was termites that done this, at least those guys fucking tried. I don't buy a word that comes out of your \"expert\" mouth, buddy.\nAgent Bagley: Okay, I think we're, ah, just about done here. I had more questions, but if you're not going to treat this with sincerity or respect then I'm afraid there's very little else I'm gonna be able to do for you.\nDwight Marlowe: You know, there is one thing. Call my fucking lawyer and insurance provider!\n<End Log>\n\nIncident Log 2020/06/05:\n\nForeword: Site-67 personnel received notice of an ongoing SCP-5820 event. A unit of MTF Epsilon-6 (\u201cVillage Idiots\u201d) was dispatched, under the command of Agent Bagley.\n09:23 - The team arrives at a subdivision of Irvine, CA, to find a residential home beneath a large tent.\n09:25 - Verbal engagement via loudspeaker is attempted, though MTF Epsilon-6 receives no acknowledgement from any subjects within the building.\n09:50 - No further attempts at communication have been successful. Agent Bagley authorizes a breach of the building. All personnel are equipped in full-body containment suits with breathing apparatus due to the potential risk of pesticide exposure.\n09:52 - The team breaches the tent. Interference of unknown origin knocks out body-worn recording equipment for the remainder of the operation.6\n09:56 - Witnesses report seeing Agent Bagley and his six operatives emerge from the tent. All are non-verbal, and follow Agent Bagley back to their vehicles.\n\n10:14 - Radar indicates that the operatives have left the scene and are en route to Site-67, where a security detail is arranged to meet them. Communication attempts by facility control are ignored for the duration of the journey.\n\n10:37 - MTF Epsilon-6 arrives back at the facility. Site security personnel are alarmed by Agent Bagley's failure to engage with entry instructions and a quarantine procedure is enacted within the facility's parking structure.\n10:39 - A number of MTF Epsilon-6 operatives, including Agent Bagley, attempt to exit their vehicles against the orders of security personnel. Bagley is tackled by a Site-67 guard, dislodging his protective apparatus and releasing a large number of Cryptotermes brevis (drywood termite) specimens from within his empty tactical gear. The remaining \u201coperatives\u201d become aggressive, prompting authorization from facility command to open fire. Damage to the subjects' equipment reveals similarly empty suits, with the exception of Cryptotermes brevis in significant quantities.\n10:40 - The groups of Cryptotermes brevis reconvene and begin to approach personnel in an amorphous mass. Personnel start to retreat from the parking structure.\n10:41 - Facility guard Samson Gregory is overcome by Cryptotermes brevis. Fearing further contamination, other members of personnel close the garage fire doors before he can escape. Gregory is completely incapacitated by the insects entering his body through orificial means, and is then dragged into the center of the largest swarm.\n10:43 - The swarm is brought under control with the use of flamethrowers, and surviving specimens are placed into appropriate faunal containment units. Note: Investigations into their suspected properties as a gestalt entity similar to SCP-5993 and SCP-5693 are ongoing.\n\nThe remainder of field operations regarding SCP-5820 have been handed to MTF Lambda-12 (\u201cPest Control\u201d) and the Entomology Department.\nReturning to the property in Irvine, operatives discovered that the fumigation tent had been removed by persons unknown. Inside the unstable frame of the building were the skeletal remains of nine individuals. They were genetically identified as Dwight and Nora Marlowe7, as well as Agent Bagley and his Epsilon-6 operatives.\nThree SCP-5820-branded boiler suits were found discarded on the kitchen floor. In addition, the following message had been staked into the driveway:\n\nfuck off narcs!\n- p.s. apologies about ms. vasquez;\nher martyrdom shall be revered in the class war.\n\nAddendum:\nFollowing the incidents in Irvine and at Site-67, personnel attempted to trace the vehicle associated with SCP-5820. It was ascertained that the van left California State Route 73 in the vicinity of Crystal Cove State Park due to its sudden absence from traffic camera footage. Investigation of the area revealed tire tracks leading three kilometers into the brush. At the end of the tracks, operatives discovered a termite mound four meters in diameter.\nProbe equipment was deployed, revealing an extensive network of subterranean tunnels beneath the mound. The van was found within a central chamber, with a note affixed to the windshield.\n\nSorry \u2013 we've moved!\n- Sneaky Buggers Humane Extermination -\n\nA number of deceased termite specimens within the abandoned nest were then recovered for analysis. All specimens, in addition to those captured in the Site-67 assault, are understood to have been of the \"pseudergate\" caste - termites which perform the function of workers whilst retaining the potential for reproduction.\nThe presence of soldiers and monarchs within this particular colony has yet to be observed.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Using a randomized number.\n2. Recorded examples of such calls contain traces of infrasound, which may indicate deliberate (if rudimentary) manipulation of human suggestibility.\n3. Structural integrity depends heavily on the building's manner of construction; timber-framed buildings have been the most unstable of those observed.\n4. Since first observation, SCP-5820 has been connected with thirty-three anomalous deaths.\n5. Agent Bagley was following social distancing protocol implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n6. Analysis of surviving footage has revealed traces of subsonic tones similar to those found in SCP-5820's cold calls.\n7. Since the destruction of their Pasadena home, the Marlowes had been living at one of several properties under their ownership.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5819 | SCP-5820 | SCP-5821 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5821-1\n\nItem #: SCP-5821\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5821 is currently contained through the efforts of PTF-Lambda-27 (\"Amazon Brigade\") in preventing any individual from harming SCP-5821-1 in their efforts to neutralize, cook, and eat him. Members of PTF-Lambda-27 are to be rotated out periodically, so that they do not act upon SCP-5821-1 themselves.\nDescription: SCP-5821 is a persistent memetic effect throughout the human population of Earth that the flesh of Jeffrey Preston Bezos1 (henceforward SCP-5821-1) is the most desirable meat for human consumption. While all humans aside from SCP-5821-1 are subconsciously affected by the meme (and thus wish to consume SCP-5821-1's flesh), only a small number are aware of SCP-5821 to a degree where they will attempt to assassinate and subsequently cannibalize SCP-5821-1.\nMemetic Degradation Analysis pinpoints the origin of this memetic property between April and August of 1997, and the meme has gradually increased in power over time, with more individuals becoming taken by the concept and acting upon it. SCP-5821-1 is aware of SCP-5821 and is cooperating with Foundation containment efforts.\nAddendum 5821-1: Memo RE: Amazon Dissolution\n\nMemorandum Regarding Recent Proposals for SCP-5821 Containment\nDate: 2019/10/25\n\nTo: SCP-5821 Research Staff\nFrom: O5-7\nIt has come to my attention that some alternate containment proposals have recently been discussed. I am saddened to inform you that, while your initiative in devising new and exciting methods of containment is commendable, the containment of SCP-5821 will not be subject to change for the foreseeable future.\nThe models predicting the total domination of the human psyche by SCP-5821 by 2050, while alarming, are still very new and consensus has not been reached by Foundation predictive divisions (I personally can tell you that some sources known to the O5 council suggest that the meme may perhaps be dissipating). As such, drastic, unproven measures such as Foundation seizure of the Amazon corporation or the dissolution of SCP-5821-1's assets simply cannot be justified, to say nothing of possible assassination!\nTo address a specific point of contention some of you brought up: while letting the subject of an anomaly weigh in on the methods and intricacies of its containment may be unorthodox, trust me when I say it's for the greater good. SCP-5821-1 understands intimately the difficulties the Foundation faces in containing the dangerous anomalies that threaten our world and has generously compensated us for resources used.\nI understand fully that this may be difficult and confusing for you, and following the conclusion of my Caribbean yacht cruise I am willing to take the time to discuss this issue one-on-one with anyone who continues to take grievance with these actions.\nSincerely,\nO5-7\n\nAddendum 5821-2: Possible expansion in subjects affected by anomaly\nBeginning on 2019/10/25, several members of the SCP-5821 Research Staff have exhibited a desire to consume O5-7. Research into this effect is currently ongoing.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Founder, CEO and President of Amazon.com, Inc.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5820 | SCP-5821 | SCP-5822 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\"A perfectly normal set of garden gnomes\" by stoner99\nI encourage you to read more of my works here:\nhttps://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/stoner99-author-page\n\n\nSCP-5822 instance at Site-07\n\nItem #: SCP-5822\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entrance to the cavern containing SCP-5822 has been sealed shut, and a minimum of two armed guards are to be stationed outside the area at all times. SCP-5822 instances that escape the containment perimeter are to be captured and brought to Site-07 for examination.\nDescription: SCP-5822 is the collective designation for SCP-5822-A and -B, two groups of sentient lawn gnomes that have formed settlements in a cavern near Edgerton, Wyoming.\nAll SCP-5822 instances observed to date have been identical in appearance, and it is not known why they have formed two distinct groups. Both SCP-5822-A and -B are believed to be at a level of advancement equivalent to the early Neolithic period, and instances have been observed coordinating to construct primitive shelters, engage in agricultural activity, and attack each other1.\nSCP-5822-A and -B are in constant armed conflict with each other. The two factions have constructed clusters of shelters in different areas of the cave, but will occasionally meet in large groups and battle until one side has been forced to withdraw. The victorious faction will then take the ceramic fragments left from the battle and bring them back to their settlement. This cycle has repeated a total of 321 times since SCP-5822's discovery.\nAddendum: History\nSCP-5822 was discovered on July 8th, 2008, when local rancher and Edgerton resident David Hardy disappeared along with a large collection of lawn gnomes that he had kept in his backyard. The incident was widely believed to be a suicide, as Hardy's home had recently been foreclosed following a months long legal battle over claims the property violated local zoning laws.\nNonetheless, municipal law enforcement were contacted to perform a search, whereupon SCP-5822 was discovered in a nearby cave system. Foundation operatives embedded in the Wyoming State Police were soon alerted of the incident, shortly after which SCP-5822's current containment procedures were defined. Although several attempts were made to explore the cave system SCP-5822 inhabits, none could advance beyond the anomalies' vicinity, and the entrance was eventually sealed.\nOn August 2nd, 2009, arcane chanting was heard emanating from the cavern containing SCP-5822, becoming progressively louder and aggressive before abruptly ceasing. Following this, the concrete barrier used to seal SCP-5822's containment zone collapsed, and thousands of SCP-5822-A and -B instances began pouring out of the mouth of the cavern. The two security personnel on-site at the time were quickly overwhelmed, after which CCTV footage captured a large cloaked figure emerging from the cavern's entrance. Later identified as David Hardy2, the figure can be seen appearing to converse with several SCP-5822 instances before making a series of hand gestures and sprinting east into the nearby wilderness.\nThree hours later, SCP-5822 reemerged from the woodland led by POI-278, who seemed to be directing the anomaly with a large stick. SCP-5822 then advanced throughout the city before stopping at the home of Jerrod Miller, the city's district attorney, where a confrontation ensued. The following is a transcript of the events thereafter:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\nHundreds of SCP-5822 instances descend upon the house, forcing entry before beginning to tear it apart, board by board. This awakens Miller.\n\nJerrod Miller: What\u2026 what the hell! Are those\u2014\n\nPOI-278: SORRY, IS THIS A VIOLATION OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE DASH F OF DOCUMENT C OF THE FEDERAL CODE, YOU STUPID FUCKING BASTARD?!\n\nJerrod Miller: You're insane! I'm calling the pol\u2014\n\nSCP-5822 instances swarm and restrain Miller, placing a piece of duct tape onto his mouth before carrying him into a nearby patch of wilderness.\n\nJerrod Miller: (Muffled screams)\n\nPOI-278: Blah blah blah blah, shut up!\n\nSCP-5822 continues to destroy the house for approximately ten minutes, eventually causing the structure to collapse completely. SCP-5822 then begins rapidly constructing a makeshift palanquin from debris, which POI-278 mounts.\n\nPOI-278: Onward!\n\nSCP-5822 proceeds to carry the palanquin to another woodland, whilst chattering unintelligibly amongst themselves.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nSubsequent search efforts were unable to locate SCP-5822 or POI-278, and this is the last known sighting of either. Jerrod Miller was located alive with minimal injury in a field 3 miles from Edgerton, and amnesticized shortly thereafter. He was later told his home was destroyed in a gas explosion.\nSCP-5822 is pending reclassification following further investigation and reassessment of this document.\n\nFootnotes\n1. How SCP-5822 has acquired the materials necessary for these activities is unknown, although instances have been observed occasionally striking the walls of the cavern with various tools in what is believed to be an attempt at mining.\n2. Henceforth designated as POI-278.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5821 | SCP-5822 | SCP-5823 \u00bb"}
{"text": "LightlessLantern\n\nItem No: SCP-5823\nContainment Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Access to SCP-5823 is to only be allowed during the brief period of inactivity per 24-hour-period. The existence of SCP-5823 is to be removed from the historical record with the assistance of the British Occult Service. Any changes in SCP-5823-1 activity are to be reported to the British Occult Service and Site-26 simultaneously.\nAll flesh produced by SCP-5823 is to be transported to Site-26 for genetic testing and subsequent incineration. Any coal produced is to be transported to coal-fired power stations, with its origin altered to a non-anomalous coal mine.\nFollowing Incident-5823-29, all people who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament between 1981 and 1987 are to be monitored for potential anomalous activity.\nDescription: SCP-5823 is the former Penrith Dell coal mine located in Cumbria, England. SCP-5823-1 instances are 630 large, headless humanoid creatures partially embedded in the walls of the mine. These instances obey a strict 24 hour cycle, of which 23 hours are spent attempting to extract coal and 1 hour is spent in a state of inactivity. SCP-5823-1 instances are believed to have extracted coal through the use of large scythes fused with their forearms in place of hands. Due to the exhaustion of the coal seam, SCP-5823-1 instances use their scythes to carve large portions of their flesh from their bodies. The excised flesh is deposited on several conveyer belts and taken to the surface. The resulting wounds quickly heal over the course of 5 minutes.\nHistory: SCP-5823 was originally built in 1947, quickly becoming the largest and most profitable mine owned by the Whitecliff Collieries Group. When Whitecliff Colliers declared bankruptcy in 1978, SCP-5823 was officially shut down. Despite this, SCP-5823 continued to output coal at a rate of 1.4 million tons per year. However, from 1983 onwards, the presence of human flesh in the outputted coal was noted. Recovered documents imply that though several power stations attempted to question SCP-5823 about this, all concerns were brushed off as \"part of normal business operations\".\nBeginning in 1986, 90% of outputted material from SCP-5823 was human flesh. This was noted by auditors and reported to police, with control of the situation eventually being transferred to the British Occult Service. The initial findings of the British Occult Service were that the existence of SCP-5823 did not pose an extreme threat to the United Kingdom and, as such, was suitable to transfer to Foundation control under the Coronation Accords. Following Incident-5823-29, these findings have been reassessed and control of SCP-5823 is now split between the British Occult Service and the Foundation.\nIncident-5823-29:\nOn 2003-07-15, former Conservative MP Michael Garness1 died. During his autopsy, it was noted that several of Garness' organs had been replaced with carved pieces of anthracite. Upon investigation by the British Occult Service, genetic testing of flesh produced by SCP-5823 was ordered. It was found that 3% of the flesh produced by SCP-5823 was a genetic match for Michael Garness. Further testing has found that all flesh produced by SCP-5823 is a genetic match for Conservative Members of Parliament between 1981 and 1987.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Secretary of State for Transport from 1982 to 1985.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5822 | SCP-5823 | SCP-5824 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5824\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5824\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the collapse of Site-25, Site-32 has been designated for SCP-5824's containment. On the first day of each month, SCP-5824 is to be removed from its safe and brought to Sector 111 alongside an appropriate candidate for SCP-5824-1. Upon reaching the correct location, class-A amnestics are to be administered to the candidate, who is to immediately touch SCP-5824. For the safety of all individuals involved, no direct contact is to be made with SCP-5824 at any other point in its handling.\nContainment of SCP-5824-1 is to be exclusively assigned to Mobile Task Force Epsilon-7 (\u201cThe Twelve Labors\u201d). This task force is not to have the Foundation logo anywhere on their uniforms nor are they to proclaim their association with the Foundation in any way. They are to be assigned the goal of killing SCP-5824-1. Their belief of this is important to guarantee that they will become an instance of SCP-5824-2. When they inevitably fail their believed goal they are to be disbanded immediately in order to prevent lasting consequences to the members. Afterwards, a new, identical, task force can be made with different members.\nWhen Site-32 recruits D-Class, some are to be designated as candidates for SCP-5824-1. One candidate is needed for each month, but additional should be selected as a safety measure. Candidates selected for SCP-5824-1 are not to be given any information about the Foundation or the existence of the anomalous. They are to have no interaction with other D-Class or unapproved Foundation personnel. A candidate may only be used for the containment of SCP-5824 once. Afterwards, they are to be amnesticized and used as D-Class.\nIf SCP-5824-1 escapes containment, conflict is not to be initiated. Instead, a clear surrender is to be announced by a nearby personnel member with the highest authority.2 If the highest authority is not certain, any personnel may attempt to issue the surrender.\nDescription: SCP-5824 is a large, leather bound book weighing approximately one kilogram. The cover is unmarked aside from signs of weathering. Approximately 20-30 pages at the beginning have been torn from the spine, leaving SCP-5824 entirely blank when it was first discovered.\nIf any individual makes contact with SCP-5824, they become an instance of SCP-5824-1. Instances of SCP-5824-1 will begin to pursue a specific individual or organization that they consider immoral that they have a strong dislike of. The exact criteria for how the target, henceforth referred to as SCP-5824-2, is selected have yet to be determined (see testing logs for more details.) As of yet, all attempts to stop the two from meeting have ended in failure. So far, instances of SCP-5824-1 have destroyed any methods of restraining them. SCP-5824-1 also appears to have an innate knowledge of the location of SCP-5824-2, preventing any attempts at concealment. Once they meet, SCP-5824-1 will initiate a physical conflict with SCP-5824-2 or its members, always leading to a \u201cvictory condition\u201d in favor of SCP-5824-1.3\nAfter the condition is met, SCP-5824-1 will lose all anomalous properties except for a significant increase in self-confidence. SCP-5824-2, in most cases, will have a permanent effect placed on it. The effect may be anomalous or mundane, but anomalous means will always prevent the effect from being counteracted. While SCP-5824-1 seems to decide the effect, SCP-5824 likely influences the decision. Examples of effects include:\n\nA public apology on behalf of SCP-5824-2.\nIf SCP-5824-2 has violated state or federal law, ensuring the associated law enforcement officers successfully apprehend them.\nIf SCP-5824-2 is an individual, removal from their position of status and/or power.\nIf SCP-5824-2 is an organization, implementation of policies to restrict their functionality, or complete disbandment.\n\nWhile SCP-5824-1 holds SCP-5824, the pages fill with text describing its actions. All text in SCP-5824 appears to be handwritten, with the handwriting remaining the same across all holders. Attempts to determine the origin of the handwriting are ongoing. No other method of writing in SCP-5824 produces any visible result. SCP-5824 is seemingly unable to run out of pages, generating new ones whenever it would become completely full. Despite this, SCP-5824's size and mass never change.\nSCP-5824 has never directly caused death or permanent injury to an individual. Even in circumstances where such a consequence would be expected, such as being beaten to unconsciousness. If SCP-5824-2 dies, all effects placed on it will go away. The same goes if all members of SCP-5824-2 leave the organization, even if an identical organization is formed.\nSCP-5824-A is a probabilistic phenomenon that follows SCP-5824. Due to SCP-5824-A's effects, some individual will touch SCP-5824 within 1-12 months of its last contact. All events caused by SCP-5824-A appear to be non-anomalous (e.g. locks failing or equipment breaking) but its existence is implied by the frequency of these events.\n\n+ Testing Logs and Incident Reports\n\n- Testing Logs and Incident Reports\n\nIncident-5824-1 - 02/08/2010\n\nSubject: Agent Forrest\nProcedure: At this time, SCP-5824-A was undiscovered. Agent Forrest was guarding SCP-5824 when a locking failure caused it to fall out during transport. Agent Forrest picked it up, becoming an instance of SCP-5824-1. In an interview afterwards he claimed to have \u201cforgotten the danger\u201d of such an action.\nExcerpt From SCP-5824: \u201cUpon touching the leather-bound pages, the agent felt a calling. A calling long dormant within him. A calling to do the right thing. A calling for vengeance\u2026\u201d\nResults: SCP-5824-1 left its post immediately, attempts by nearby guards to restrain it proved unsuccessful. It went to the residence of SCP-5824-2, an individual later found to have kidnapped SCP-5824-1's child three years prior. SCP-5824-1 initiated a conflict with SCP-5824-2, near the end of the conflict, SCP-5824-2 said \u201cthere's something I need to tell you about your son. He's\u2026\u201d before falling unconscious. Upon regaining consciousness SCP-5824-2 showed no memory of their statement during the conflict. Afterwards, SCP-5824-1 made SCP-5824-2 confess to the local police. Despite this confession clearly being under duress, it was held up in court and SCP-5824-2 is now serving a 20 year sentence in prison.\nNotes: After a thorough investigation, I believe we can safely assume that SCP-5824-2 was bluffing. I can't answer why, but I suppose some people just like to cause drama. -Head Researcher Garcia\n\nRedundant testing logs cut for brevity\n\nSCP-5824-1 Termination Test - 05/11/2012\n\nSubject: D-374103\nProcedure: D-374103 was given SCP-5824, with armed personnel standing by to terminate them on contact.\nExcerpt From SCP-5824: \u201c\u2026He saw the guns facing him, in their barrels the Grim Reaper. He vowed this wouldn't be the day he died. With a lunge he took out the first gunman, bullets flying by his head\u2026\u201d\nResults: SCP-5824-1 restrained all personnel firing upon it with steel cable left over from a previous, unrelated, test.4 SCP-5824-1 then issued the command \u201cStop shooting.\u201d The restrained personnel afterward showed an anomalous property to make any firearm they attempted to use misfire. They are to be transferred to assignments where such weaponry is not required.\n\nSCP-5824-2 Candidacy Test 1 - 15/01/2013\n\nSubject: Agent Wilson\nProcedure: Before Agent Wilson was given SCP-5824, she was given a baseline morality exam. The exam showed expected results (e.g. strong preferences against murder, theft, etc.) D-928461 was then identified to them as possessing multiple charges of homicide.\nExcerpt From SCP-5824: \u201cRachel saw the man in front of her. His crimes were heinous, yes. He had committed cruel acts. There was no way to forgive him for this. But she needed to focus on the true villains. The insidious masterminds behind this whole plot\u2026\u201d\nResults: SCP-5824-1 began to move towards the researchers, but they surrendered upon noticing this. SCP-5824-1 showed dissatisfaction at this, but stopped its pursuit. The researchers were forced to send out memos \u201cpublicly apologizing\u201d to the site for \u201ctrapping Rachel with a murderer\u201d.\nNotes: SCP-5824's language is significantly different from what it writes during containment. Whether this is a good or bad sign is yet to be discovered. -Head Researcher Garcia\n\nSCP-5824-2 Candidacy Test 2 - 04/06/2013\n\nSubject: D-739271\nProcedure: Head Researcher Garcia authorized the use of external personnel for an attempt at containment. Freelance guards experienced in anomalies were brought in with the plan to reimburse them for damages caused by SCP-5824-1. They were given the directions to contain SCP-5824-1 \u201cby any means necessary\u201d.\nExcerpt From SCP-5824: \u201c\u2026Upon restraining her assailants, she realized that this wasn't her fight. For these were no ordinary mercenaries. They were the Halifax brothers, a pair of notorious arms dealers. They were wanted far and wide for their despicable transgressions. She began to think back to tales she heard of these people. (sizable portion cut for brevity) It all added up to one thing. These people didn't belong to her. They belonged to the cops\u2026\u201d\nResults: The freelance guards were convicted on multiple counts of arms trafficking. However, no other details written about them in SCP-5824 were accurate. In prison, the freelancers began to try to use anomalous means to escape. In order to avoid public knowledge of these techniques, the Foundation has begun attempting to transfer them to a prison experienced in containing anomalies. However, no attempts to move them from their prison have succeeded. This includes both the Foundation's attempts and the freelancer's attempts.\nNotes: I'm not seeing any of these long tangents when SCP-5824 is being contained. There's a problem here, but I don't know if it's in the tests or the containment. -Head Researcher Garcia\n\nSCP-5824 Weaponization Test - 06/05/2017\n\nSubject: Agent Grey\nProcedure: Extensive research was done in order to locate an appropriate target. Two criteria were used. First, no negative consequences were predicted from their disappearance. Second, they would attempt to kill SCP-5824-1 on sight. The target chosen was an organized crime group known as \u201cThe New Kids.\u201d They are very hostile to any person entering their \u201cterritory,\u201d particularly Foundation Agents. They have also acquired multiple anomalous weapons, which were to be retrieved after the test. Agent Grey was taken near this organization's headquarters, given SCP-5824, and told to reveal himself to them.\nExcerpt From SCP-5824: \u201cRage is not an emotion Adam was used to. He knew kindness, with all the joy it caused. He knew sorrow, with the way it sapped his will. But he felt neither of these. In this moment he was defiant, he wasn't going to sit down and let others live his life for him. He felt rage\u2026\u201d\nResults: SCP-5824-1 did not follow Foundation directions. Instead of revealing itself to the group of interest, it ran back to Site-25. Site-25 was informed ahead of time by the researchers nearby SCP-5824-1. Therefore, when it arrived, Director Brown immediately announced a surrender. SCP-5824-1 did not acknowledge the statement. Instead, it went to the nearest containment cells and opened them.5 This caused the nearby guards to fire upon it, consistently missing. SCP-5824-1 ignored the guards and continued to open cell doors. As an evacuation of Site-25 was ordered, SCP-5824-1 announced to the Director Brown, \u201cNow, you can surrender.\u201d SCP-5824-1 ordered the director to \u201cdisband\u201d Site-25. All attempts to rebuild a site within one kilometer of Site-25 have been met with complete failure due to incidents such as technical failures or structural collapses. Attempts to recapture SCPs that escaped during this breach are ongoing. SCP-5824's containment has been moved to Site-32.\n\n+ Interview-5824-1\n\n- Interview-5824-1\n\nInterviewed: Agent Grey\nInterviewer: Head Researcher Garcia\nForeword: After causing the collapse of Site-25, Agent Grey was taken into custody. This interview was done to conclude whether or not he could be held accountable for the actions he performed under the influence of SCP-5824.\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Garcia: Please state your name and occupation for the record.\nAgent Grey: I am Adam Grey, a second level agent for the Foundation. But you should already know that.\nResearcher Garcia: Yes, I've done my research on you, but you know how the procedure is. What's interesting is that, while looking, I didn't find any disciplinary records. I'm struggling to understand why you would choose to attack the Foundation.\nAgent Grey: I wouldn't exactly say it was my choice. I did touch an SCP known to influence people's minds after all.\nResearcher Garcia: Oh don't give me that. I promise you I know this SCP better than you do. No other subject has hurt someone they didn't want hurt, broken something they didn't want broken, done anything they don't, deep down, want to do.\nAgent Grey: Well I don't know what to tell you. I didn't want to hurt anyone.\nResearcher Garcia: Well then, let's take this one step at a time. What did you feel when you first touched SCP-5824?\nAgent Grey: The book felt cold. At least, it made me feel cold. And, I guess, hungry?\nResearcher Garcia: You felt hungry?\nAgent Grey: Well, not exactly. Maybe lonely is a better term. You know how kids act up? The way they look for attention? It was something like that.\nResearcher Garcia: Interesting. That's quite the outlier compared to what the other subjects have reported.\nAgent Grey: What did they report?\nResearcher Garcia: They distinctly said that there was a calming warmth. A feeling of satisfaction.\nAgent Grey: I know what they're talking about. I got a similar feeling. It was like destiny. Do you believe in destiny?\nResearcher Garcia: Not particularly, no.\nAgent Grey: Well I didn't before then either. But now I feel there's some things that just, have to happen, you know?\nResearcher Garcia: A breach of some of the most dangerous beings on the planet \u201chad to happen?\u201d\nAgent Grey: I know it sounds bad, and I certainly regret doing it. But at the same time, it felt satisfying.\nResearcher Garcia: Go on.\nAgent Grey: Well, maybe I didn't feel like a hero, but I felt like the main character. I liked having the spotlight on me. I needed to have the spotlight on me.\nResearcher Garcia: Have you ever felt this feeling before?\nAgent Grey: Yes, actually. When I first joined the Foundation. I was told this place was the last line of defense against some cosmic threat. I had very high hopes.\nResearcher Garcia: So, you feel disappointed?\nAgent Grey: Possibly. Every so often I feel I could be doing something more. But that's normal. I don't think about it much.\nResearcher Garcia: What were you thinking during the test?\nAgent Grey: I guess I felt kind of upset. It was nothing major, I just got to work late and my superior was mad at me. And I was stressed because I had a lot of work to do. I was just having a bad day, you know?\nResearcher Garcia: And yet, you continued with the test, even when you were informed that your emotional state could affect the SCP?\nAgent Grey: Like I said, it was minor. I didn't think anything would happen.\nResearcher Garcia: Good to know. I believe we have all the information we need. Thank you.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Despite pressure from Head Researcher Garcia, Agent Grey has not been found guilty of any offenses on the account that he was under anomalous influence. Head Researcher Garcia's appeal request has been denied.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:SCP-5824\n\nTo: Head Researcher Garcia\nFrom: Director Brown\nSubject: SCP-5824\n\nI cannot be the only one who has noticed a pattern in SCP-5824's tests. The consequences have been getting much stricter. I would like to propose a cause for this pattern. It is clear that SCP-5824 is attempting to produce a traditional story. In essence, a \u201chero\u201d fights a \u201cvillain\u201d. I would like to propose more than that. This book appears to have a reliance on these stories. Perhaps feeding on them. Whatever the reason, there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the consequences and the duration of the SCP-5824-1 instance. The current containment procedures are quite short and uneventful. From a personal perspective, the writing in SCP-5824 becomes very boring when it's contained. I find it likely that these containment procedures are causing the extreme effects. As such, I would like to propose a change to the containment procedures. Give SCP-5824-1 more freedom. If it can choose its own \u201cstory\u201d to some extent, it will likely satiate SCP-5824. I understand the risk involved in this. But if this thing makes a hero, we can't afford to let ourselves become a villain.\n\nTo: Director Brown\nFrom: Head Researcher Garcia\nSubject: Re:SCP-5824\n\nYour proposal has been rejected.\nAmanda, I get it. You came face to face with the largest containment breach I've heard of. It's the kind of experience I shiver to think about. But your proposal is based on pure speculation. Our containment works. Yes, some flaws with SCP-5824-1 spiraled out of control, but changing the containment will only add unnecessary risks.\n\nTo: Head Researcher Garcia\nFrom: Director Brown\nSubject: Re:SCP-5824\n\nWhen this thing escapes, I don't want to be there to see it. I just want you to know that it'll be on your watch, not mine.\n\nFootnotes\n1. An external sector approximately one kilometer from Site-32.\n2. Do not hesitate to make an unconditional surrender. This is no time for pride. -Head Researcher Garcia\n3. Victory conditions include, but are not limited to, restraining SCP-5824-2, accepting a surrender from SCP-5824-2, and performing either of these actions to a member of SCP-5824-2 with sufficient authority.\n4. This cable was supposed to have been removed from the testing chamber. Whether this is the doing of SCP-5824 or simple negligence is unclear.\n5. The doors appeared to be unlocked. An investigation into the cause of this is ongoing."}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5827\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5827 is to be contained within a humanoid containment cell at Site-39. The cell is to be lined with 20 cm of concrete with the density enhanced by the inclusion of minimum 33% lead pellets by volume. Present research does not predict the type or rate of SCP-5827's radiation emission; therefore, personnel must follow Class 3-Omicron radioactive source safety procedures when in the vicinity of the cell. Solid or liquid material removed from the cell is to be treated with precautions appropriate to medium-level radioactive waste.\nSCP-5827 is to be provided with reading material from the Site-39 library on request, with the mass not to exceed 10 kg or more than 4 books per month. Higher masses may be authorized by the supervising researcher in consultation with Site Psychiatry. SCP-5827 is not to be provided with any additional electronic devices.1\n\nA Self Portrait of SCP-5827\n\nDescription: SCP-5827 is a solid, condensed nebula with the physical appearance of a 12-year-old human female; it is 138 cm tall and weighs 29.4 kg. SCP-5827's body is composed of a translucent gray matter which illuminates its immediate surroundings. Despite being visible to the human eye, SCP-5827 is unable to appear in photography.\nSCP-5827's secondary property is the ability to move and create stars outside of Earth's solar system. This causes SCP-5827 to produce outbursts of up to 3\u22c51022 neutrons within one second. During an outburst, radiation constantly discharges out of SCP-5827's body at a rate of 3\u22c51019 neutrons per second on average. SCP-5827's neutron bursts often spike if SCP-5827 reads more than its allotted amount due to the creative nature of SCP-5827.\nThe earliest documents related to SCP-5827 date back to the 4th century BC. In these documents, SCP-5827 is depicted as a young child possessing the same properties it does currently. Historical records indicate SCP-5827 was known as \"Nebula.\u201d\nAddendum 5827-1:\n\nForeword: The following is not a formal Interview with SCP-5827. Junior Researcher Kassidy Kara started a conversation with SCP-5827 on January 27th after complaints from SCP-5827 about recurring pain.\n<Begin Log>Dr. Kara: Sure! What type of books have you been reading recently?Dr. Kara: Yeah, journals are very fun to read. Did you know that I keep a journal?Dr. Kara: (They giggle.) You could say that. What other types of books do you like to read?Dr. Kara: Yeah, I had that issue too when I was first starting out.Dr. Kara: I had some people to help me, and I practiced a lot.Dr. Kara: (Nods.) Of course.Dr. Kara: What do you mean?Dr. Kara: Oh\u2026 What did you do when you were free?Dr. Kara: So you would make things that were pretty?Dr. Kara: That's cool, I enjoy looking at the stars too.Dr. Kara: I know. I'll try to work something out for you, is that alright Nebula?<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5827 continues to express pain when its radiation is present. Currently there is no plan to research the effects of SCP-5827 on the outside world despite previous proposals.\n\nStar Journal-1:\n\nJan, 29th, Nebula\n\nDear Journal,\n\nDoctor Kara is a kind person. Although, they can't stop feeling like they're talking to a ten-year-old. They've read my file and know that I'm over 800,000, but it still feels weird. It's very understandable, since I'm very very young even for a star. They're always super kind when they hang out with me. They even got me this journal! Unfortunately, they go somewhere else after April, some sort of Junior Researcher rotation or something. I dislike it because they've been so nice.\n\nBut I worry about them\u2026 Doctor Kara is stressing out about a lot. They have a girlfriend who's going through a rough time with the Foundation. I hope they work it out. It would suck to have that type of thing happen.\n\nI recently asked them about it, and they acted surprised and asked me how I knew. We were both surprised, since I didn't know how I knew that. I just did?\n\nAnyway, it's kind of lonely in containment. I miss the stars, I don't even get to see them anymore. They pull me to them, but every time I try to play with them or give them more friends my room gets all hot and my body feels like it's being torn apart. It's not fun.\n\nLights out! Night night journal, sleep good.\n\nAddendum 5827-2:\n\nForeword: Follow-up on SCP-5827's complaints that pain has gotten worse in the last month from.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Kara: Nebula, can I ask you a few questions?Dr. Kara: (They pull out a laminated pain chart.) What number would you say is the pain you feel right now?Dr. Kara: Alright, that's bearable. (They frown and look at their notes.) So when you try to move the stars and can't, what number is it then?Dr. Kara: Hmm, where does it hurt?Dr. Kara: Alright, how often does this happen?Dr. Kara: Oh! Ok, ok. Let's get you cleaned up. It's going to be ok. (They stand up to help SCP-5827.)<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5827 continues to express extreme pain while experiencing its properties. SCP-5827 has not been observed to bleed before; this bleeding has continued from its nose, mouth, ears, eyes, and palms. Site psychiatry and medical staff have been investigating possible solutions.\n\nStar Journal-2:\n\nDate: March, 17th, Nebula\n\nDear Journal,\n\nI'm so tired\u2026 It's really hot in my room, but I haven't been trying to make stars. I haven't seen many people around recently. The stars need me. They need something\u2026\n\nI started bleeding again\u2026 I have to go clean up.\n\nOk. I'm back. Things have been stupid. I don't like reading anymore\u2026 I can't focus on anything but my body breaking. The stars want me back. I'm not doing my job.\n\nI always thought I was going to go to the beach or Japan or some pretty place. I think they want me back. I miss them so much, but I can't get to them. Time feels like it's stopped, this isn't fun anymore. I really want out. They still don't know how to help me, but they think this is something that just happens. I can't read anymore.\n\nI'm sorry Journal, I can't stay up much longer. I'm very sorry.\n\nStar Journal-3:\nDate: March, 24th, Nebula\n\nDear Journal,\n\nThey started to allow me nightly visits to the courtyard. I'm very tired still, but I can see the stars again! They missed me so much they came down to me!!! I played with them, and started working on some new friends for them!\n\nAnyway, that granted me a sketch book and a mirror so I've been working on!!! THIS:\n\nI draw things now. It also turns out that I'm turning red now! I didn't think this was going to happen for at least 20,000 years! I'm turning red early! This is super cool! I'm also a bit taller than how I remembered myself. My eyes are still grey, but that's gonna change soon. I've stopped bleeding so that's good, I also don't hurt as bad. Gaaaaaaaahhhh! I'm super excited that I'm turning red! It means that I'm turning into an adult!\n\nDr. Kara's been promoted and stopped being a junior researcher for me. That's sad, but they're much happier now! I loved them, I hope they don't forget me! \u2661 I miss them.\n\nAnyway, I'm gonna go to sleep. Night Journal!!\n\nFootnotes\n1. Radiation pulses from SCP-5827 have rendered all provided tablets, e-readers, laptops, etc. inoperable within a median time span of 4 hours.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5826 | SCP-5827 | SCP-5828 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE TO ALL RESEARCHERS: The following SCP article deals with issues involving emotional abuse. If you are sensitive to that topic, please speak to me about assignment to a different SCP. The Foundation cares about its researchers and their mental wellbeing, so please proceed being fully aware of this SCP's contents. Thank you, and stay safe!\n-Dr. Amy Hopewell\n\nItem#: SCP-5828\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the random nature of SCP-5828-B manifestations, full containment is not currently possible. All public sightings of SCP-5828-B are to be dismissed as fraudulent urban legends.\nAn exclusionary perimeter has been established around SCP-5828-A. Civilians are barred from entering this area under the cover of an ongoing biological survey. At least one agent of MTF Mu-13 (\"Ghostbusters\") is to remain stationed by SCP-5828-A at all times. All manifestations of SCP-5828-B are to be immediately reported to Site Directors Caraway and Darry, and monitored for unusual activity until they reach SCP-5828-A.\nShould SCP-5828-B's area of anomalous effect extend further than 3km2, all agents assigned to SCP-5828 are to perform emergency evacuations in all cities bordering the Great Dismal Swamp under the cover story of an out of control wildfire. Should SCP-5828-B not demanifest before the area of anomalous effect reaches Portsmouth, Virginia, agents are authorized to use Class A Spectral Stabilization devices to attempt to force SCP-5828-B to demanifest.\nDescription: SCP-5828-A is an entity resembling the corpse of Jeremy Gorman, a former citizen of Suffolk, Virginia. Further Foundation investigations have revealed that the actual corpse of Jeremy Gorman is buried in Suffolk's Cedar Hill Cemetery, and has been buried there since May 19th, 20\u2588\u2588. SCP-5828-A currently hangs from a scarf slung over the branch of a dead tree located in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia. The scarf is not tied to the tree. The body is instead supported by an unseen weight hanging from a noose knot tied with the scarf on the other side of the branch. All attempts to identify where this weight originates from have failed, as have attempts to remove the body from the tree.\nSCP-5828-B refers to the manifestation of an incorporeal humanoid anomaly, identical to Marianne Edenberg, former citizen of Suffolk, Virginia. SCP-5828-B manifests at seemingly random intervals in random locations within Suffolk, Virginia. Regardless of where it manifests, SCP-5828-B will invariably make its way towards SCP-5828-A. Upon reaching SCP-5828-A, SCP-5828-B begins to verbally berate and scream at SCP-5828-A. While the entity engages with SCP-5828-A, oxygen is removed from the area surrounding SCP-5828-A in a sphere that expands at a rate of 16m3 a minute, creating a sensation of suffocation in all living creatures trapped in the area of anomalous effect. On average, SCP-5828-B demanifests after approximately 30 minutes. The longest manifestation currently recorded was \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, requiring evacuation of the surrounding area as an emergency precaution. Currently it is unknown what the maximum potential radius of SCP-5828-B's area of effect is.\nAddendum 5828.1: Local News Report\nFoundation investigations following the discovery of SCP-5828 revealed the appearances of SCP-5828-A and -B to be identical to Jeremy Gorman and Marianne Edenberg of Suffolk, Virginia. Upon discovery of this connection, Foundation agents in the area obtained permission to exhume both bodies. While Gorman's corpse was successfully exhumed and investigated, Marianne Edenberg's corpse was revealed to have never been discovered. It is believed that both individuals died in a double suicide within the Great Dismal Swamp. A local newspaper article covering this incident, published on May 13th, 20\u2588\u2588, has been transcribed below.\n\nLocal Resident Found Dead in Dismal Swamp\nBy \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 | May 13th, 20\u2588\u2588\nFor the past four weeks Suffolk City Police have been searching for Jeremy Gorman, who went missing on April 15th. Police say that the investigation has finally come to a close, with Mr. Gorman's body being found in the Great Dismal Swamp. Authorities currently rule the cause of death as suicide.\nMr. Gorman had last been seen leaving town by Mrs. Natasha Edenberg, mother of his girlfriend Marianne Edenberg. At the time of writing, Marianne's body has yet to be found. Mrs. Edenberg continues to cooperate with authorities in their ongoing investigations.\nMr. Gorman was a well-known local sports star, having graduated from \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 High School in 20\u2588\u2588. He is remembered for his athletic talent and service to the community, having started a local group dedicated to performing simple home repairs for Suffolk's elderly community. A vigil for Mr. Gorman is planned for this Wednesday at 8pm at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Church, followed by a funeral service at the same location at 11am Sunday.\n\nFollowing the publication of this article, rumors regarding an \"angry ghost\" manifesting in front of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 High School and walking through the city began to spread through Suffolk.\nAddendum 5828.2: Interview with Jeremy Gorman's Mother\nOnce a clear connection had been made between SCP-5828-A and Jeremy Gorman, Foundation agents were able to track down the Gorman family for further information relating to the subject's suicide. The following is an interview conducted with Mrs. Elaine Gorman.\n\nInterviewed: Mrs. Elaine Gorman\nInterviewer: Agent Basil Sias1\nForeword: The following interview was conducted with the intent of gathering further information relating to the suicide of Jeremy Gorman and his relation to Marianne Edenberg.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Sias: Thank you for your time, Mrs. Gorman. I promise we'll make this as quick as possible. I just have a few questions relating to your son, Jeremy. I know that this is a difficult subject to discuss, but-\nMrs. Gorman: Anything that helps with the investigation. I just\u2026I just don't understand why this all happened. I can't promise that I'll be all that helpful but I'll do what I can.\nAgent Sias: Whatever information you can give us is more than enough, Mrs. Gorman. Thank you for giving us your time. What can you tell me about your son?\nMrs. Gorman: He was\u2026a bright boy. So smart and energetic. Once he started walking he was all over the place! And he had such a caring heart. Did you hear about the charity group he started? It wasn't anything big, but it was this fundraising effort to support the SPCA. He was always doing things like that, helping people that is. Never had many girl friends or\u2026girlfriends, not until Marianne that is.\nAgent Sias: Really? Were the two close, then?\nMrs. Gorman: They were\u2026oh I'm not sure how to describe what they were. He was head over heels for her. He was always asking things like what he could do to impress her, or show her how much he loved her. I don't know exactly what she thought of him, honestly. Every time I met her she was so\u2026aloof. Cold? I'm not really sure how to describe it.\nAgent Sias: Could you expand on that a bit?\nMrs. Gorman: She was kind enough, but she always struck me as distant. Jeremy thought she was amazing and wonderful, so I always held my tongue when he asked me what I thought of her. I didn't like that girl at all, now that I think about it some.\nAgent Sias: Gotcha. Now, would you be willing to tell me a bit about the night he vanished?\nMrs. Gorman tenses up and inhales sharply\nAgent Sias: I understand that this is hard, Mrs. Gorman, but if you could-\nMrs. Gorman: I'm sorry. It's just\u2026difficult to think about that night.\nAgent Sias: I understand. Again, anything you can share is helpful. We just want to understand what happened.\nMrs. Gorman: Yes\u2026yes. That night, that night he was actually going to propose to Marianne. He had spent two months learning how to knit a scarf for her to propose with- she loved scarves, he said. It would be better than a ring, more heartfelt. He had actually made the thing much too long by mistake, but he was so proud of it. He just knew that she'd love it. There was a hiking trail that she loved along the edge of the swamp he was going to take her to. It was about\u2026oh I think it was around five or so in the evening when he left. That was it, I never saw him again.\nAgent Sias: Thank you for sharing. Again, I know it's hard to go through all that, but anything helps. I only have one more question for you. Did anything seem off about him that night?\nMrs. Gorman pauses for a moment.\nMrs. Gorman: No, nothing. He was so happy, that was it. I don't understand why\u2026why he went and did that. Why they both did.\nAgent Sias: It's ok, Mrs. Gorman. Thank you for your time. You've been a great help to the investigation.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Shortly after this interview was conducted, SCP-5828-B manifested outside of Elaine Gorman's home and moved towards SCP-5828-A. The manifestation lasted for two hours. All vocalizations made by SCP-5828-B were recorded as being a mixture of screaming and choking sounds.\n\nAddendum 5828.3: Interview with Marianne Edenberg's Mother\n\nInterviewed: Mrs. Natasha Edenberg\nInterviewer: Agent Basil Sias\nForeword: This interview was conducted with the intention of gathering more information on Marianne Edenberg. Foundation agent Basil Sias was able to get in contact with her mother Natasha Edenberg and conduct the following interview in her home.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Sias: Thank you for your time, Mrs. Edenberg. I just want to ask you a few questions about your daughter Marianne, if that's alright. I know all of this is hard, but anything helps our investigation.\nMrs. Edenberg: Of course, anything to help find my Marianne.\nAgent Sias: Of course. What can you tell me about your daughter?\nMrs. Edenberg: My Marianne was such a ray of sunshine you know? She had the brightest smile, that's the thing I will never forget about her. When her father died, she didn't cry once. She just smiled at me and said \"Mommy, I'll be strong so you don't have to\". And she was, God bless she was. She basically raised her little sister. She was a mother to her when I couldn't be.\nAgent Sais: Do you remember when she first met Jeremy Gorman?\nMrs. Edenberg: She was\u2026oh I'd say around nine or so? It was a meet-cute, honestly. Like something from a cheesy romantic comedy. We had taken her to a local rec club football game her sister was cheerleading at. Jeremy was playing that day as a kicker, and he kicked the ball right into the stands! Poor Marianne nearly took that ball to the face, but she caught it. She ran it down to the field and the two started talking. They were so distracted the ref basically had to drag that boy back into the game!\nAgent Sias: That's a wonderful memory. So it sounds like they had a romantic relationship right from the start then?\nMrs. Edenberg: I want to say yes but\u2026that doesn't feel entirely correct. He certainly asked her out a few times but she always turned him down because she was \u201ctoo busy\u201d. They were certainly very good friends if nothing else. I think towards the end\u2026towards the end they were romantic, yes. Marianne took her time finally admitting she liked him, I think.\nAgent Sias: Gotcha, gotcha. Thank you for your time so far, Mrs. Edenberg, I just have one more question for you. Again, I know this is hard to reflect on, so any information you have for me is enough. What do you remember about the night Marianne went missing?\nMrs. Edenberg: Jeremy came to our house around\u20265pm, I think it was. He said he had a surprise for Marianne and wanted to take her to that hiking trail she loved. When she saw him at the door she made a face, but the two headed off right after. She didn't seem like she was in the best spirits that night, honestly. I didn't think it was bad enough to\u2026do\u2026that, but maybe\u2026.\nA frustrated sigh can be heard from the staircase\nMrs. Edenberg: Oh, my apologies Detective. That would be Marianne's sister.\nMrs. Edenberg turns and shouts towards the stairs.\nMrs. Edenberg: Jessie go back to your room! I told you I was busy with the police!\nA voice is heard from the stairs.\nJessica Edenberg: Well then tell the police it's a crock of bullshit! My sister would never kill herself.\nMrs. Edenberg: Jessica, you know as much as-\nJessica Edenberg: No, no! Don't you dare cut me off! I knew Marianne. I knew her better than you ever did. Detective\u2026whatever your name is, if you want to talk to someone who actually knew Marianne, talk to me. If you care at all about this whole mess I'll tell you.\nJessica Edenberg stomps back up the stairs.\nMrs. Edenberg: I'm really sorry about that, I didn't think she would interrupt like that.\nAgent Sias: No, not a problem Mrs. Edenberg. Thank you for your time. Take care, ok?\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: At the recommendation of Agent Sias, Jessica Edenberg will be contacted in order to conduct a private interview.\nFollowing the interview with Mrs. Natasha Edenberg, SCP-5828-B manifested at the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Rec Club football field and proceeded towards SCP-5828-A. This manifestation lasted for one hour. SCP-5828-B is recorded repeating the phrase \"Leave me alone\" throughout the entire duration of its manifestation.\n\nAddendum 5828.4: Interview with Jessica Edenberg, sister to Marianne Edenberg\n\nInterviewed: Jessica Edenberg\nInterviewer: Agent Basil Sias\nForeword: Following the interview with Mrs. Natasha Edenberg, Jessica Edenberg was contacted and interviewed in a private location. The goal of this interview was to gain her account of her sister, Marianne Edenberg, and address any potential contradicting testimony received in prior interviews.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Sias: Thank you for your time, Ms. Edenberg. Based on what you told me prior there are some errors in the interview we had with your mother, correct?\nJessica Edenberg: Jessica is fine, and yeah there are.\nAgent Sias: We want to make sure that all the information we have about your sister is correct. What can you tell me about her?\nJessica Edenberg: There's only two things that mom got right. One, my sister was one of the happiest people you could ever know, and two, she basically raised me. I know her better than anyone else, and I know what she was going through with that guy. I meant it when I said she would never kill herself. She told me literally everything, and not once did she even imply a little that she was suicidal, she-\nAgent Sias: Apologies for cutting you off, but I would like you to elaborate on something. What did you mean by \"what she was going through with that guy?\" Are you referring to-\nJessica Edenberg: Jeremy, yeah. That asshole. Everyone thinks he was so great just because he was some sports star or some shit. He was a two faced asshole is what he was. You know why everyone thinks he and Mary were a couple? Because he made everyone think he and Mary were a couple.\nAgent Sias: How so?\nJessica Edenberg: Mary was too nice for her own good. Every time he gave her some gift, sent her a text, or basically forced himself into her life she just sat there and smiled. She didn't want to be rude, she'd say. She'd always say he was a friend who just doesn't get it. The longer things went, though? The more aggressive he'd get. It went from \"haha we'd make a great couple\" to \"go out with me or I'll kill myself\". Mary just took it all with a smile. She never told him no, but she'd never say yes either. I remember, though, about a week before she vanished she told me that she regretted it all, being so nice to him all the time. She was scared of being seen as a bitch, but she just wanted to scream at him to get lost and get out of her life.\nAgent Sias: Do you know why she went out with him the night she vanished?\nJessica Edenberg: \u2026I don't, no. I told her before she left that she shouldn't and that she should just ghost him. I think she really wanted to honestly, but she went anyway. I\u2026went out after her, actually.\nAgent Sias: Really? Why was that?\nJessica Edenberg: She had left her phone behind. I didn't want her to be out in the woods at night alone with that creep. I looked for her for hours, but\u2026\nJessica Edenberg is silent for several moments.\nAgent Sias: Ms. Edenberg?\nJessica Edenberg: I'm sorry, it's just\u2026I never told anyone. I should have, but I didn't. I\u2026found the body, detective. I found Jeremy's body hanging from that tree. I was so scared, so\u2026sick that I didn't know what to do. And then I heard something. It sounded like Mary but it was so\u2026angry. It was this horrible shouting and the next thing I knew it was like I was being suffocated, like something was wrapping around my neck. I got out of there and got back home. I never told anyone until now.\nAgent Sias: Why not?\nJessica Edenberg: I\u2026 was scared, mostly. Scared of what I saw. But I think\u2026I think another part of me just wanted to leave him to rot there. I wanted him to suffer for what he put Mary through. Whatever I saw then felt like something I needed to let happen, you know?\nAgent Sias: I think I get where you're coming from, yeah. Did you ever see your sister's body?\nJessica Edenberg: I'm not sure. I think I did, for a moment. Hanging on the other side of the tree from something. But she didn't kill herself. I know she didn't. \u2026Anything else, officer?\nAgent Sias: I just have one more question, and then you're free to go. I'm mostly curious as to why you didn't tell anybody before today. I understand why you wouldn't tell someone about seeing a ghost, but everything you told me about Jeremy? Why keep it all to yourself?\nJessica Edenberg: I tried to tell people, at least after Mary died. Everyone told me not to \"speak ill of the dead\" or just dismissed me entirely. They'd rather remember the Jeremy they thought they knew rather than the real one. Funny, they tell me not to speak ill of the dead when they talk shit about Mary every time they say how in love she was.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Marianne Edenberg's phone was recovered following this interview. Notable contents are contained in the following addendum.\nNotably, there were no SCP-5828-B manifestations for 12 hours following this interview.\n\nAddendum 5828.5: Texts from the phone of Marianne Edenberg\nThe following are text messages recovered from the phone of Marianne Edenberg. The timestamps present reflect when the texts were originally sent.\n\nAddendum 5828.6: Incident Report\nAfter the SCP-5828 researchers received and investigated the text messages found on Marianne Edenberg's phone, a report came in from the agent stationed at SCP-5828-A's location that there had been a change in the anomaly. MTF Mu-13 was dispatched to the location. Upon arrival they discovered that a corpse matching the description of Marianne Edenberg had erupted from the earth below the tree and that the weight supporting SCP-5828-A appeared to have vanished, causing SCP-5828-A to fall to the ground. Agents were still unable to move the body from its location. The body of Marianne Edenberg was able to be recovered, and was taken into Foundation custody for an autopsy.\nThe autopsy revealed the body to be nearly perfectly preserved. The body contained severe bruising around the neck and right arm, with the right arm's bruising appearing to match the shape of a human hand. The neck bruising was consistent with strangulation with an object that had been wrapped around the throat. The pattern of bruising implied that the primary force of the strangulation came from in front of the body, and not behind as is expected in cases of suicide by hanging. For a full autopsy report, please report to Dr. Caraway.\nUpon completion of the autopsy, the body was held in a Foundation morgue while agents watched for changes in SCP-5828-B activity. During this time, the body decomposed as normal. The only manifestation of SCP-5828-B recorded during this timeframe was following a television broadcast of the ongoing investigation into the missing person's case of Marianne Edenberg, and was notably less violent than standard manifestations. SCP-5828-B vocalizations recorded during this manifestation consisted solely of sobbing.\nAfter a month in Foundation care, the body was temporarily surrendered to custody of the Edenberg family alongside an autopsy report, under the cover of having been discovered by local authorities investigating Marianne's case. The family was allowed to perform a funeral and last rites with the Foundation intending to recover the body a month later while monitoring SCP-5828-B activity.\nImmediately following the funeral there was a manifestation of SCP-5828-B. The entire length of the manifestation was logged by the bodycam of Agent Jackson Carrington, who had been stationed at SCP-5828-A. The video's contents are transcribed below.\n\nSCP-5828 VIDEO LOG\n\nDATE: August 18th, 20\u2588\u2588\nNOTE: The following events occurred immediately following the funeral of Marianne Edenberg.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n11:34 SCP-5828-B manifests approximately 2 meters directly in front of SCP-5828-A\n11:35 SCP-5828-B approaches SCP-5828-A. The subjects grow more distant as Agent Carrington removes himself from the immediate area. Agent Carrington keeps the camera focused on the anomalies. SCP-5828-B is seen staring at SCP-5828-A for several minutes.\n11:43 SCP-5828-B appears to say something, but the camera's audio fails to pick it up. Later video reviews reveal the entity to mouth something along the lines of \"As long as someone knows.\"\n11:44 SCP-5828-B removes the scarf from around SCP-5828-A's neck and drapes it across its body. SCP-5828-A appears to smile.\n11:45 SCP-5828-B demanifests. SCP-5828-A appears to disintegrate into ash.\n\n[END LOG]\n\nIn the month following the funeral, no further SCP-5828-B manifestations have been recorded. Per O5 council decision, the body of Marianne Edenberg is allowed to remain in the custody of the Edenberg family. The scarf has since been recovered and placed into low risk anomalous items storage.\nClassification of SCP-5828 to Neutralized is pending.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5827 | SCP-5828 | SCP-5829 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. A representative from the Foundation Department of Anomalous Ambassadors, a department dedicated to facilitating communication between Foundation personnel and those involved in anomalous phenomenon."}
{"text": "Item#: 5830\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The 15 km by 15 km region containing the entrance SCP-5830 is to be staffed by no fewer than twenty armed guards at all times carrying 12 gauge shotguns, stationed across the area to monitor any and all attempted breaches, while also maintaining sufficient distance from the entrance to SCP-5830 to not allude to its location. Admittance to the surrounding Northeast Greenland National Park is to be restricted to this end.\nAccess to SCP-5830 is to be restricted to personnel with security clearance level 4 or higher, and is to be mediated by no fewer than one armed guard and precisely two personnel cleared to navigate SCP-5830. Due to the temporal anomalies present in SCP-5830, exploration attempts are to be limited to three days in length.\nThe nearby research station of Daneborg is to be monitored for any attempts to explore northward toward SCP-5830; such attempts should be initially deterred and terminated if necessary. To this end, an anonymous outpost is to be erected in or near Daneborg. During the summer, similar procedures are to be enacted to deny access the area surrounding SCP-5830 via Zackenberg station1. Any person(s) which successfully enter SCP-5830 must be tracked and either detained, terminated, or verified dead by local personnel. Wildlife is to be also kept from entering SCP-5830.\nAny objects or person(s) which attempt to exit SCP-5830 are to be immediately detained if not authorized, or terminated should they present immediate and effective hazard to site personnel or civilians. All objects found within SCP-5830 are to be recorded for Foundation review.\n\nDescription: SCP-5830 is a large glacial cave located at 7\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' N, 2\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' W along the eastern coast of Greenland. Its entrance is located beneath approximately 62 m of ice along a narrow inlet of the Arctic Ocean, being roughly semicircular with a diameter of 19 m. Meltwater from the glacier regularly runs through SCP-5830, though attempts to trace the water's flow via dissolved dyes and buoyant tracking devices have been unable to determine any point of exit. The entirety of SCP-5830 also seems immune to calving, and changes only minimally in size and relative integrity with seasonal periods of melting and freezing.\nWhen entered, SCP-5830 continues to resemble a glacial cave, with an upper dome-like wall composed entirely of ice containing fragments of dust and rock, and floor made of a brown-black mixture of gravel and silt. The temperature within SCP-5830 consistently measures -2\u00b0C, with little variation due to external temperature or depth within the cave. The initial cavern (called Depth 0 for navigational purposes) of SCP-5830 extends downward beneath the glacier, arriving at a depth of 17 m before branching into two tunnels which diverge at an angle of 120\u00b0 (each of which is Depth 1).\n\nEntrance to and initial branch of SCP-5830.\n\nEach branch strongly resembles the initial cavern in size and shape, making navigation of SCP-5830 rather challenging (see Document SCP-5830-A for navigation procedures). Proceeding down either of the two branches will lead to another branch point, which again splits into two tunnels of identical size and shape; each branch then leads to another two branches, which lead to another two, and so on. Exploration attempts have confirmed the existence of all Depth 9 branches, with the furthest exploration of any single path arriving at a point at Depth 57; despite this nomenclature, however, branches of equal Depth may not be located at the same distance below sea level, with some paths actually rising above the initial cavern in altitude. The total area spanned by SCP-5830 is at least 24,000 sq. km., and the maximum recorded depth is \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 m below sea level.\nThere exist at least seventeen paths within SCP-5830 which, amazingly, terminate; these termination points are designated SCP-5830-1, and appear as large, circular caverns measuring 10-20 m in diameter. No further tunnels or crevices extend from these caverns, and meltwater which would accumulate at these points appears to completely seep into the gravel and silt floor, unable to be traced. It also appears time does not pass within the confines of SCP-5830-1, at least not in the usual sense; instruments which rely on mechanical or natural means to determine the passing of time stand still, and attempts at radio communication to external sources fail. Personnel who enter SCP-5830-1, however, are able to keep time by counting aloud, tapping, or other similar means.\nAmong the known instances of SCP-5830-1, seven are entirely empty and devoid of any further anomaly or artifact. The ten remaining termination points, however, contain instances of SCP-5830-2: replicas of other known SCP objects completely frozen in time and space. Each instance of SCP-5830-2 is visually indistinguishable from the anomaly which they emulate; composition, texture, radiation signatures, and even odor are furthermore identical. Attempts to interact with or stimulate response from instances of SCP-5830-2 yield no results, and specific experimentation for each instance is detail below. Each instance of SCP-5830-2 cannot be removed from the SCP-5830-1 cavern which contains it and indeed cannot be moved or relocated within the cavern by any means.\n\nSCP-5830-1-1\nSCP-5830-1-2\nSCP-5830-1-3\nSCP-5830-1-4\nSCP-5830-1-5\nSCP-5830-1-6\nSCP-5830-1-7\nSCP-5830-1-8\nSCP-5830-1-9\nSCP-5830-1-10\nSCP-5830-1-11\nSCP-5830-1-12\nSCP-5830-1-13\nSCP-5830-1-14\nSCP-5830-1-15\nSCP-5830-1-16\nSCP-5830-1-17\n\nNavigation: LLL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 8\nContains: empty\n\nNavigation: LLLRL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 10\nContains: polar bear fur tufts; traces of seal blood\n\nNavigation: LLLRL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 10\nContains: SCP-5830-2-1; corpse of Daniel Moorhouse; corpse of Kuupik Inaliktuk; human feces\nEmulated SCP: SCP-073\nDescription: SCP-073 is shown sitting on the floor in grief, knees raised with its head in its hands. The mechanical augmentations to its arms, legs, spinal cord, and shoulder blades known to exist on SCP-073 do not appear, and are instead replaced by flesh and skin identical to the remainder of its body. The decay-inducing effects of SCP-073 are also present in SCP-5830-2-1 with identical capacity and radius.\n\nNavigation: LLL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 8\nContains: empty\n\nNavigation: LLLR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 9\nContains: SCP-5830-2-2\nEmulated SCP: SCP-4964; single human clavicle\nDescription: SCP-4964 appears identical to its usual state in containment, notably suspended in mid-air approximately 1 m off the ground. Due to the inability to remove SCP-5830-2-2 from SCP-5830-1-5 (or even open the container and remove the DVD), tests to determine the exhibition of identically anomalous properties to SCP-4964 cannot be conducted.\n\nNavigation: LLLR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 9\nContains: empty\n\nNavigation: LLLRLL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 11\nContains: SCP-5830-2-3\nEmulated SCP: SCP-1341; traces of silty loam; organic material of unknown origin\nDescription: SCP-1341 appears identical to its usual state in containment. Attempts to remove the lid of SCP-5830-2-3 have been unsuccessful.\n\nNavigation: LLR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 8\nContains: SCP-5830-2-4\nEmulated SCP: SCP-1974; traces of bar soap\nDescription: SCP-1974 appears identical to its usual state in containment. The water contained in SCP-5830-2-4 does not freeze, and when drained behaves identically to SCP-1974. Communication with SCP-1974-1 nor SCP-1974-2 (nor emulations thereof) is unsuccessful; personnel who have entered SCP-5830-2-4 instead hear an incessant droning sound akin to an American nuclear warning siren.\n\nNavigation: LLRR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 9\nContains: SCP-5830-2-5\nEmulated SCP: SCP-172\nDescription: SCP-172 is shown in a near-dormant state, appearing to have just recently exhausted the energy in its mainspring. The key used to wind up SCP-172 is not present anywhere within SCP-5830-1-9 or on the body of SCP-5830-2-5, and all mechanical processes expected from SCP-172 have ceased operation.\n\nNavigation: LLRR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 9\nContains: SCP-5830-2-6\nEmulated SCP: SCP-1281; small chunks of rock with composition akin to Kuiper Belt Objects\nDescription: SCP-1281 is shown as it appeared when first discovered during the standard containment of SCP-2362. Lights along the surface of SCP-5830-2-6 glow steadily and faintly, and weak infrared radiation signatures have been detected. It does not, however, respond to radio waves as SCP-1281 did before its decomposition.\n\nNavigation: LLRRR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 10\nContains: SCP-5830-2-7\nEmulated SCP: SCP-3967\nDescription: SCP-3967 is shown partially deflated, with the majority of its component gas concentrated in its torso and legs; its head and arms flop slightly over its back. The position gives the impression that SCP-5830-2-7 is in the process of being inflated from an unseen inlet in its rear or one of its legs. Attempts to puncture SCP-5830-2-7 have been unsuccessful.\n\nNavigation: LL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 7\nContains: SCP-5830-2-8\nEmulated SCP: SCP-323; single caribou antler, blood\nDescription: SCP-323 appears identical to its usual state in containment, hovering 1.8 m above the ground, with the notable exception of additional patches of flesh and skin adorning its skull; DNA testing of these organic components fails to identify the cervid of origin. The memetic effects of SCP-323 are not present to their full extent in SCP-5830-2-8; degree of severity is still being determined.\n\nNavigation: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 4\nContains: walrus tusk fragments\n\nNavigation: RR\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 7\nContains: empty\n\nNavigation: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 5\nContains: SCP-5830-2-9\nEmulated SCP: SCP-3035\nDescription: Eleven instances of SCP-3035 appear on the floor of SCP-5830-1-15; they cannot be crushed or destroyed by any means. It cannot be determined if SCP-5830-2-9 exhibits the mimicry properties evident in SCP-3035 due to their lack of locomotion or response to stimuli.\n\nNavigation: RRRLLLLLLL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 14\nContains: Inuit spearhead\n\nNavigation: RRRLLL\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nDepth: 11\nContains: SCP-5830-2-10\nEmulated SCP: SCP-294; fragments of adult human teeth; tip of a human tongue\nDescription: SCP-294 appears identical to its usual state in containment. No cup has been dispensed or can be dispensed by SCP-5830-2-10, with instead a frozen stream of unknown liquid flowing from its nozzle and forming a small ice puddle on the ground of SCP-5830-1-17. This liquid cannot be melted, and attempts to request this liquid from SCP-294 have been unsuccessful. Attempted queries include:\n\n\"liquid found in SCP-5830-1-17\" (produces pure water)\n\"liquid components of SCP-5830-2-10\" (OUT OF RANGE error)\n\"SCP-5830-2-10\" (OUT OF RANGE error)\n\"puddle found in SCP-5830-1-17\" (produces water mixed with silt and sand)\n\"object in SCP-5830-1-17\" (produces human blood, chilled to 29\u00b0F)\n\nMany personnel who have studied SCP-5830 suspect that more instances of SCP-5830-1 and SCP-5830-2 can be found within the caverns, and some have conjectured that all known and unknown anomalous objects possess an emulation within SCP-5830 (though current investigations provide little support for this hypothesis, and if it were true such objects would necessarily be located at extremely great Depths).\nAt this time, the complete inertness of instances of SCP-5830-2 cannot be fully verified. Ongoing experiments have inferred amounts of anomalous activity prior to discovery to SCP-5830 in the majority of instances.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5830 was first discovered on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/20\u2588\u2588 by Dr. Hans Knudsen and Dr. Daniel Moorhouse, both climate scientists working from \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 University (as visiting and associate professors, respectively) to measure ice sheet melting and calving in the far northeast of Greenland. Both Knudsen and Moorhouse joined an expedition with five additional researchers and a handful of crew from the village of Daneborg north to begin their research; nine days later, only Knudsen and four others returned. The bodies of two researchers were found near the entrance to SCP-5830 under collapsed ice. Moorhouse & a Tunumiit Inuit man were found dead in SCP-5830-1-3, with Moorhouse lain against the body of SCP-5830-2-1; Moorhouse's journal was recovered from the corpse, and a transcript of the relevant legible pages is contained in Transcript 5830-B.\nAddendum 0.1: Eight days after the discovery of SCP-5830, a woman suffering severe frostbite and malnutrition stormed the Daneborg airstrip during the boarding of a Danish military biplane. Dr. Knudsen, one of the passengers, was attacked by the woman, receiving minor lacerations to his left arm and shoulder before the woman was killed by Danish military personnel. The autopsy report of this woman can be found in Report 5830-E.\nFollowing this incident, Dr. Knudsen committed suicide in a Swedish jail while awaiting trial.\n\nDocument 5830-A: Navigation Procedures\n\nApproved on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/20\u2588\u2588 by Dr. Wainwright\nOn file at Site-\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nPreparation\nDirection sheets will be given to navigators by personnel following a request by a Foundation researcher to enter SCP-5830 with an allotted time to be spent in SCP-5830. Once given directions by the appropriate personnel, immediately note its length and sequence of turns. Commit the length to memory, and say it aloud often if you must. Before departing, prepare a pack containing:\n\nno less than three days worth of food, water, and cooking fuel\nat least 60 m of coiled rope\na sleeping bag rated for at most 20\u00b0C\na tarp and four wooden stakes\nno less than four emergency flares\ntwo full rolls of reflective tape\na pocket knife or similar multitool\na progress log and a writing implement\n\nNavigation\nWhen navigating SCP-5830, always take care to note what directions you've taken and which one you have left to take. Personnel have died lost within SCP-5830 far too often due to improper record-keeping, despite the best efforts of the Foundation to maintain a simple navigational infrastructure for its study.\nAt each branch point, find the first letter of your direction sheet not struck- or blackened-out; call out this direction to those in your party (L for left or R for right) and proceed in that direction. All branch points should have two strips of tape along some wall to identify the direction of the exit. If you encounter an unmarked branch point, act in your own accord and mark the branch with your tape.\nOnce you have entered the next branch, strike the letter from your direction sheet and prepare to repeat the procedure again. This amounts to progressing one Depth level into SCP-5830; the entrance is at Depth 0. No amount of mental tracking of distance or altitude can assist in orienting oneself; only the maintenance of the direction sheet and your Depth along it can guarantee survival.\nFollowing the completion of the necessary research (most often at a terminus), begin navigating using the tape markings at each branch point to exit SCP-5830; do NOT attempt to move between two different locations within SCP-5830 without first exiting and re-entering the cavern.\nEmergencies\nIf you have found yourself lost within SCP-5830, halt your exploration party and begin returning to the surface via the exit markings; do NOT attempt to determine and/or correct the point of error while within the cavern. If you have found yourself in a location without sufficient markings, do NOT attempt to navigate out by guesswork. Instead, drive a stake into the ground where you currently stand and tie a length of rope to it; walk in some direction while holding the rope until you either a) arrive at exit markings, at which point you may proceed to escape SCP-5830 or b) exhaust the rope. Backtrack along the rope and attempt a different path.\nIf, even after exhausting all escape routes within your rope's allowance, you are still unable to exit SCP-5830, set up a small outpost to survive until location personnel are sent to find you and your party. In the event of injury or death, be sure to write as many details as possible about the event in your personal log. If you encounter any previously undocumented anomalous component of SCP-5830, including but not limited to an instance of SCP-5830-1 or SCP-5830-2, log its presence and location. Do not engage with any wildlife or other entities encountered in SCP-5830.\n\nTranscript 5830-B: Personal Journal of Dr. Daniel Moorhouse\n\nPage 37\nPage 38\nPage 39\nPage 40\nPage 41\n\nJun 15, 20\u2588\u2588\nKnudsen's gone off north to check logs from the weather station. I planned to join him, of course, but I couldn't deny my inner spelunker a chance like this. This glacial cave is quite large and doesn't seem to have been impacted too bad from the recent heat wave. A real treat.\nWe've agreed to meet back up at the cave entrance tomorrow morning. Erica and Kuupik have joined me as well, which is nice. Kuupik's always been quiet so maybe I'll get the chance to talk with him a bit more; he's lived in Tasiilaq his whole life and knows the land better than anyone. His English isn't great, though, but who can blame him? Guy's always got a stoic look to him too. And Erica, well, she's the polar opposite most of the time. Been quiet today, though.\nIt's actually a bit warmer in here than I would've expected. Ice is a good insulator and all but the warmth is almost unnatural. Might be due to geothermic activity. I'll ask Knudsen if Zackenberg picked up on anything seismic.\nTo be frank, I am a bit disappointed I couldn't convince him to join us. Apparently being ahead of schedule isn't enough to justify popping off into a cave for the day. To each his own. He insisted I enjoy the day.\nJun 15, 20\u2588\u2588\nWe've set up a small camp about a mile into the cave. We've run into three different forks in the tunnels along the way. Pretty strange, actually, since a lot of the cave walls look very similar. If you took photos of three different spots and told me two of them of were the same I'd probably believe it. I would have guessed some more variation in the caverns and such, but I can't say that these \"ice tubes\" aren't cool either.\n\nKuupik's been whittling some kind of spear thing for a while now. I've tried to make some small talk, but he doesn't give much by way of answers. Erica's already asleep, and I can't say I don't enjoy the tranquility. More time to write, think to myself. Just me and the water dripping from the ceiling. Hell, I wouldn't even know if there's a blizzard storming outside right now. Probably is given Knudsen's luck the past few days.\nJun 15, 20\u2588\u2588\nErica woke up all of a sudden. Had her head up near the wall and said she heard some sort of rattling, like a stone sliding on ice. I'd've said it were nothing to worry about if the same sound didn't echo again right after. Kuupik looked worried too, and without speaking he started to pack up what little we sprawled out. Strangely Erica and I didn't think twice to helping him do so and get moving.\nI don't know what is about this place that has me spooked. I might just be jittery about heading home; ship back to Troms\u00f8 leaves in four days.\nJun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\nWe're holed up even deeper now; I'm not sure how far down.\nWe were trying to make our way out when Kuupik spotted a streak of blood smeared on the ice wall. I didn't think much of it, maybe a polar bear that brought a fresh kill in to eat, but he seemed far more squeamish than would be warranted. Erica was shocked too, but insisted we press on. Something about it didn't sit well with Kuupik, but he either couldn't or chose not to really tell us what it was.\n\nJun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\nWe came to the next branch, and the lantern went out. I fumbled for my back-up flashlight, and in mean time Kuupik struck a match on his belt. We get re-situated and suddenly we're all turned around. Any of the three ways looked viable, at least to me. Erica was sure we had to head uphill, but Kuupik reminded us we had actually gone up quite a bit to get to where we were. I seconded Erica, though, and I'm pretty sure that was the wrong move.\nWe passed blood again, but not the same smear. That weird rattling still echoes down here, if not a bit louder too. I've gotten used to it, but it keeps Kuupik up. I don't know if Erica is asleep or just exhausted; probably both. Morale isn't great, and I'm not doing anything to help it, really.\nJun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\nWe still haven't moved, and the rattling hasn't stopped. It's a bit rhythmic, actually, in a strange sort of way. Kuupik has started humming what sounds like a folk song of his to it.\nBeyond old winter's heart\nAnd the passing of the moon\nWhere Sedna treads her hands\nWhere Sedna treads her kin\nDeep within the stone\nAnd the edge of water's flow\nWhere Anguta will walk\nWhere Anguta will end\nI know a place of old\nThat stands eternally\nWhere spirits stand alone\nWhere spirits go to sleep\n\nThere's some Inuit in there too, but I can't transcribe it, so I'm going to hope the English lines are just the Inuit translated or something.\nJun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\nErica is gone.\nThere must have been some short hour where Kuupik and I were both asleep and she fled. I don't like her odds of making it out, but they can't much be different from my own at this point. Kuupik's keeping calm enough, even though we ran out of food last night. We've both agreed to stay put and hope that Erica makes it out and sends help or Knudsen does after he realizes we haven't returned.\nI'll be honest, I really getting nervous now. Panicking is obviously still the worst thing to do right now, but it's hard not too when you're lost in an ice cave with traces of blood on the walls. Not a situation I would have ever expected to find myself in, even after my first Arctic expedition. Or my second, or third.\nI hope Knudsen and the rest of the crew are doing alright. Forecast said we'd get hit by a sizable blizzard on the return to Daneborg.\nJun 17?, 20\u2588\u2588\nKuupik is dead, and I might be dying. We heard the rattling get close, real close, almost on top of us. Kuupik wasn't having any of it and started down the tunnel, not stopping even after I called. I had to follow, and he led us both into a dead end.\n\nGiant cavern, at least 50 ft. tall and wide, and the both of us nearly fainted when we arrived. There's this \"man\" sitting in the middle of it, but I don't really want to call it a man. It sure looks like one, specifically Middle-Eastern of some kind, but it doesn't move. It just sits with its head down in its hand; I thought it was someone crying at first, but it makes no noise either.\nKuupik wanted to kill it. He said we could eat it, whatever it was, and last a bit longer. It was truly uncharacteristic of him, a mellow and well-mannered man. Hunger does strange things to people, and in the moment I more or less agreed. Kuupik unsheathed a knife; its handle looked hand-carved. He crept up behind the man, but of course it didn't move. He lunged in to stab its back, only to suddenly collapse onto the floor.\nWhen I got to him, he was already dead. It looked like his own back had been stabbed right where he aimed on the man still sitting on the floor. I can't explain it. I don't want to.\nJun 19?, 20\u2588\u2588\nIts bones that are rattling. Bones. They creep along the floor, and I don't know how.\nI'm seeing things. I must be. I don't see them, but I do. Things that aren't real. Well, are they? This thing can't be real, and it killed Kuupik. No, no, my eyes see things. Real things.\nJun 20?, 20\u2588\u2588\nI'm sorry Kuupik. This is all my fault, I know it is. Maybe you didn't care that it was my fault, but it was.\nKnudsen isn't coming. Nobody is. Just this thing behind me.\nJun 23?, 20\u2588\u2588\nIf there be a God, let him be merciful. This place was not merciful to me.\n\nInterview Log 5830-C: Interview with Dr. Hans Knudsen\n\n-Begin interview-\nDr. Wainwright: Dr. Knudsen.\nDr. Hans Knudsen: Yes.\nWainwright: How are you feeling?\nKnudsen: Tired. Very tired.\nWainwright: Apologies, doctor. We'd like to tidy up this whole fiasco quickly, if you can understand.\nKnudsen: Yes, of course.\nWainwright: Let's start from the beginning, then. When did you arr\u2026\nKnudsen: May 29th. We came from Troms\u00f8, with another crew that stopped off in Reykjavik.\nWainwright: And who all were members of your crew?\nKnudsen: It was Moorhouse's crew, really. He organized the expedition back in March.\nWainwright: And who\u2026\nKnudsen: Five research assistants from \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 University; two of them my students, three of them Moorhouse's. We had an additional three crew members from Zackenburg station, and one local from Daneborg to serve as a navigator and translator.\nWainwright: How do you know Dr. Moorhouse?\nKnudsen: Professional colleague, though I've known him since graduate school. We both studied at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 College and went on to pursue academic positions in the States. He got a spot at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, while I had to settle for a position in Sweden. We met up again when \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 invited me as a visiting professor. Nice guy, though a bit\u2026pretentious at times.\nWainwright: You took up some students during this time. Who were they?\nKnudsen: Erica Parsons and Alek Oltosky.\nWainwright: Do you know Moorhouse's students?\nKnudsen: Yes, though not well. Kevin Zheng, David Carlisle, and Victoria\u2026 oh, I don't remember her last name.\nThere is a pause Knudsen continues to try to remember the name.\nWainwright: That's fine. Can you talk about what happened after arriving at Daneborg?\nKnudsen: Yes. We made a small station just outside of Daneborg; the locals didn't really care for us but didn't mind us either. We told them what we were there to do through a man called Kuupik, and they lent us some supplies and a shotgun for polar bears.\nWainright: What were you there to do?\nKnudsen: The original goal was to set up some weather stations up north to track warming over the next six months and collect some ice samples.\nWainwright: Your 'original' goal?\nKnudsen: Well, we still succeeded in it, for the most part. Some of the stations got knocked out by a blizzard, but for the most part we did what we needed to do.\nWainwright: So why do you say\u2026\nKnudsen: Moorhouse insisted on some additional studies. We saw signs of massive calving in the area, and lots of glacial caves and alcoves and such. Moorhouse is a geologist at heart and was adamant that we dedicate at least a bit of our extra time to them.\nWainwright: Did you?\nKnudsen: Yes, of course. Moorhouse led a few parties with Erica and David to examine some rock samples along the glacial cliffs. Erica's primary background is geology too, and I would guess David's as well. I kept the others for our usual operations.\nWainwright: How did Moorhouse come to arrive at\u2026that cave?\nKnudsen: We both spotted it on one of our last days out of Daneborg. We stopped by it to look around, and saw that it was rather large. We all took a look around the entrance, and Moorhouse said he'd love to spend a day or two here if it could be allowed. Erica agreed.\nWainwright: And I take it you obliged?\nKnudsen: Yes. I asked Kuupik if he could join them in case they needed to navigate back to Daneborg on their own, and he agreed. The three of them set out and the rest of us went to secure the last weather station. We gave them from that morning until we returned the evening tomorrow. I think it was a bit of a non-professional adventure for them, too.\nWainwright: Did you want to join them?\nKnudsen: Yes, a part of me did\u2026more parts of me are glad that I didn't.\nKnudsen's speech begins to sound more forced and creaky.\nWainwright: What happened when you returned to the cave?\nKnudsen: We waited. We hoped they were making their way out. David insisted on looking in a bit farther to find them, or maybe a trace of them. Victoria followed him in, and Alek and Kevin and the rest of the crew and myself elected to stay outside. I told David before he went searching to call out to us every few minutes, and we'd call a reply. If we weren't in earshot, turn around.\nWainwright: Seems sensible.\nKnudsen: It is if you obey it. They didn't. After half an hour, I called and received no reply. We tried six more times with no luck. None of us were about to do the same thing again and go in after David and Victoria, so we continued to wait.\nWainwright: For how long?\nKnudsen: Three hours, until a blizzard began to roll in. We couldn't keep waiting around, and we weren't about to hole up in a cave and worry the crew back in Daneborg. We elected to trek out, and work to form a search party later when the weather was in our favor.\nWainwright: When did the search party set out?\nKnudsen: The Sirius Patrol2 set out with their dog sleds two days ago. You and your crew showed up only five hours in.\nWainwright: Lucky that we did at all.\nKnudsen: I suppose.\nThere is a pause as Wainwright reviews his recent notes.\nWainwright: Dr. Knudsen, if I might be so frank, I do believe your handling of the past three days is best described as 'careless'. We've only recovered corpses, after all.\nKnudsen: Are you a police officer, Dr. Wainwright?\nWainwright: No. I do, however, have permission from authorities from the Danish government and Naalakkersuisut3 to conduct all sufficient methods of investigations during my time here. Four scientists and an Inuit tracker don't just die only miles from their station, especially with radio tracking available the entire time.\nKnudsen: Not to be insolent, doctor, but our GPS capabilities were interrupted during the trip back to Daneborg. We probably hiked about five miles while off the grid.\nWainwright: Records from Zackenberg show otherwise.\nKnudsen is silent, appears nervous\nWainwright: Doctor?\nKnudsen attempts to run from the room, is immediately apprehended in the hallway.\n-End of interview-\n\nTranscript SCP-5830-D: Selected Radio Logs from Zackenberg Station\n\n0301:03 Feb 13, 20\u2588\u2588\n*static*\nCannot see home. It is dark. I am\u2026\nI was told I must perform my function. I must.\nI am\u2026\nMessage.\n*static*\n1644:22 Jun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\nGPS received @ \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258804240.955: 7\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' N, 2\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' W\nGPS reply @ \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258804240.0: 74\u00ba28' N, 20\u00ba34' W\n\nGPS received @ \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258804300.305: 7\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' N, 2\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' W\nGPS reply @ \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258804302.0: 74\u00ba28' N, 20\u00ba34' W\n*static*\n1723:14 Jun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\n*static*\nNumbers. What are they? I do not know what they mean.\nI know them. 7\u2588\u2588\u2588 and 2\u2588\u2588\u2588.\nMessage. I must\u2026\nThis is not my Message.\n*static*\n1855:46 Jun 16, 20\u2588\u2588\nGPS received @ \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258811500.003: 7\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' N, 2\u2588\u00b0\u2588\u2588' W\nGPS reply @ \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u258811502.0: 74\u00ba28' N, 20\u00ba34' W\n0216:33 Oct 22, 20\u2588\u2588\n*static*\nIt is long. It is dark. I must\u2026\nMessage.\nHarbinger must tell\u2026\n*static*\n\nReport 5830-E: Autopsy Report of Erica Parsons\n\nDecedent: Erica Loretta Parsons\nSSN: \u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nHome Address: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, TN\nAge: \u2588\u2588 years\nDOB: 5/\u2588\u2588/19\u2588\u2588\nSex: Female\nLast Known Occupation: Student\nRace: White\nHispanic?: No\nMarital Status: Never Married\nMedical Examiner Authority: Violent\nPolice Notified: Yes Investigator: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nDate\nTime\nLocation\nCity/County\nBy Whom\n\nLast Known Alive\n6/24/20\u2588\n1205\nDaneborg Airstrip\nDaneborg\nDanish Officers\n\nEvent/Injury/Acute Illness\n6/24/20\u2588\n1206\nDaneborg Airstrip\nDaneborg\nDanish Officers\n\nFound\n6/24/20\u2588\n1206\nDaneborg Airstrip\nDaneborg\nDanish Officers\n\nDeath/Pronounced\n6/24/20\u2588\n1210\nDaneborg Airstrip\nDaneborg\nMilitary Doctor\n\nExamination of Body\n6/28/20\u2588\n0900\n603 17th Ave N.\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nAutopsy (Y/N)? Y\nAuthorized by: Chief Medical Examiner\nLocation: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nCause of Death: Gunshot to chest and lower abdomen\nManner of Death: Self-defense\nNotes from Medical Examiner: Decedent showed signs of previous blunt force trauma to head and neck, with small lacerations around the base of the neck. Toes and finger tips severely frostbitten. Majority of upper teeth chipped away partially or entirely. Decedent has no previous history of mental illness or violence.\nName of Chief Medical Examiner: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nName of Reviewing Medicolegal Death Investigator: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nFootnotes\n1. Zackenberg station is only occupied during the summer.\n2. A branch of the Danish navy in charge of maintaining and enforcing Danish sovereignty in northern Greenland.\n3. The government of the constituent country of Greenland.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5829 | SCP-5830 | SCP-5831 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5832\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A Foundation front company has purchased the building containing SCP-5832 and falsely classified it as condemned to discourage trespassing. A single guard is to be stationed on-location to ensure security. The entrance to SCP-5832 is to be monitored via remote surveillance.\nDescription: SCP-5832 is an apartment consisting of a hallway with two opposing rooms at its end. Those who enter the area are entirely unable to vocalize. Other deliberately-generated forms of noise like clapping or playing an instrument are possible, and other sounds are not affected. Evidence suggests that the anomaly was at one time inhabited, though the apartment seems not to have been entered for at least two years. A small metal placard under the apartment number reads \u201cDepartment of Abnormalities.\u201d\nThe leftmost room appears to be a child's bedroom, painted pink. The paint has no anomalous properties, but contains dangerous amounts of lead and has peeled heavily.\nThe contents of the leftmost room are listed below:\nA 16-pack of Crayola crayons and a Disney Princess activity book. All images of Prince Adam (from Beauty and the Beast) have been colored over and scratched out in red. The red crayon has not otherwise been used.\nA Webkinz plush black labrador retriever. In several places, fur is crusted over with an unidentified substance.\nA Nintendo DS and a cartridge for Animal Crossing: Wild World. The game was functional in all aspects save that when an NPC was engaged in conversation, no dialogue would appear in the resulting bubble. The player character's personal commentary on achievements or actions was also missing. Other text was not affected. Based on the presence of certain time-locked features in the game, it had been played continuously for at least nine months.\nA white wooden dresser. Contents of the dresser include a charm bracelet with one attached charm resembling a birthday cake with seven candles. Also found inside were several opened and partly emptied packages of Pull-ups disposable training pants, and three identical Disney princess t-shirts in a child's medium size. All three shirts are heavily stained.\nThe rightmost room is a small bathroom with linoleum flooring. It contains a pink toothbrush and a tube of Crest children's toothpaste, as well as a plastic \u201cbooster\u201d stool under the toilet seat. No toilet paper or other hygiene products are present. There is a large crack in the bathtub's sealant. The sink and bathtub faucet are functional and non-anomalous. Water samples taken from the toilet reveal trace amounts of amniotic fluid. These traces persist despite multiple flushes.\nA plastic cup sits on the bathroom counter. The contents have congealed, but chemical analysis revealed it to be a mixture of apple juice and mifepristone.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5831 | SCP-5832 | SCP-5833 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5834\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncaution\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5834\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5834 is held in a standard aquarium at Site-19 along with a collection of non-anomalous fish to provide detritus.\nAll personnel are required to take a neural blocker before coming in visual contact with SCP-5834, and anyone affected by SCP-5834 must be placed under confined surveillance until the effect wears off.\nDescription: SCP-5834 is a black sea cucumber (Holothuria forskali). People who view SCP-5834 will begin to regard it as their ideal romantic partner. Affected persons will often go to great lengths to spend time with and court SCP-5834 in various ways. They are unable to recognize the anomalous effect on themselves, believing their actions to be fully rational. This behavior will continue until the individual goes a week without visual contact with SCP-5834.\nBy all other means, SCP-5834 appears to be a standard member of its species.\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5834.1 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nAcquisition Record: The following is a record of requests and purchases for SCP-5834's containment, as comprised by the lead researcher, Doctor Jacob Ducrotay.\n\nDate\nPrice\nDescription\nReason\nStatus\n\n08.03.20\n10$\nAn inlet guard for the tanks pump.\nAn unprotected pump inlet can pose a danger for SCP-5834.\nApproved\n\n17.04.20\n60$\nAdditional betta fish.\nA few of the fish in SCP-5834's tank died recently and the current amount cannot produce enough detritus to feed SCP-5834.\nApproved\n\n26.04.20\n154.95$\nA bigger tank.\nSCP-5834 has seemed a little depressed lately. I suspect that their current tank is not big enough for water to flow freely enough for its vascular system.\nApproved\n\n03.05.20\n73.84$\nAn assortment of decorations for the new tank.\n5834's aquarium is awfully bleak. They deserve some color in their life.\nDenied\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5834.2 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nIncident Report 5834.1: Due to the suspicion raised by Dr. Ducrotay's unorthodox purchase requests, an inspection of his work was ordered by Human Resources and authorized by the Site Director. As part of the inspection, a neural scan was performed on Dr. Ducrotay, revealing that he had fallen under the effects of SCP-5834. Combing through containment logs revealed that Ducrotay had forgotten to take a neural blocker on 20.04.20, while bringing in the new fish.\n\n\u25b6 Interview 5834.1 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nINTERVIEWER: Doctor Sarah Serafis\nINTERVIEWEE: Doctor Jacob Ducrotay\nFOREWORD: The following is a transcript of a post-inspection interview done immediately after the influence of a cognitohazardous effect on Dr. Ducrotay was discovered.\n\nDr. Serafis: Hello Jacob. How are you doing?\nDr. Ducrotay: Not well. Not well at all, Sarah. I've been cooped up in this room for 5 hours without anyone giving me any information on when I can see 5834 again!\nDr. Serafis: (stifles a chuckle) You really got yourself charmed by an invertebrate, then? That's so unfortunate, you're never gonna live this down.\nDr. Ducrotay: I'm not ashamed. I'd scream it from the mountaintops! I'd paint their visage on the Central Park Tower. I'd-\nDr. Serafis: We'd prefer if you didn't, though. And if that's the case, why didn't you report it?\nDr. Ducrotay: I'm in love, not dumb, Serafis. I knew you'd think that I've been affected by an anomaly.\nDr. Serafis: That's exactly what's happened, though. You've been researching SCP-5834 for a good while now, you know this is exactly what it does.\nDr. Ducrotay: Not to me. What we have is real.\nDr. Serafis: You know it doesn't even have a brain, right? It can't think, and certainly not love.\nDr. Ducrotay: This is a matter of the soul, not the brain.\nDr. Serafis: It breathes through its anus, Jacob.\nDr. Ducrotay: I know, isn't it sophisticated?\n(Dr. Serafis sighs and opens an image file on her infopad and sets it in front of Dr. Ducrotay.)\nDr. Serafis: These are the results of your neural scan. Your brain shows clear signs of anomalous alteration. You wrote your thesis on mind-affecting creatures, you know this.\nDr. Ducrotay: Well it's not an exact science now, is it? Scans like this are easily misinterpreted.\nDr. Serafis: (sighs) If you say so. Regardless, I'm gonna have to put you on unpaid leave. You're also gonna have to stay on-site until this blows over. We can't risk yourself running around making yourself look like a crazy person.\nDr. Ducrotay: Very well. At least I'll be close to 5834.\nDr. Serafis: Oh, no. Your access to SCP-5834 has been revoked and you'll be transferred to another project once you're back to normal.\nDr. Ducrotay: What? This is outrageous! A travesty! When has the SCP Foundation become an authoritarian regime? Does love mean nothing anymore? Is-\n(Dr. Serafis gets up and walks away)\nDr. Serafis: I need a drink.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5834.3 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nIncident Log 5834.2: A few days following the beginning of his leave, Dr. Jacob Ducrotay took advantage of his knowledge about site protocol to sneak out of his quarters and into the Biological Containment Sector during a moment where site security was weakened due to overlapping guard shifts.\nHe gained access to SCP-5834's containment cell, apparently having hidden a keycard on his person. He was found shortly afterwards, submerged in SCP-5834's aquarium and holding on to the anomaly, covered in viscera after SCP-5834 had seemingly eviscerated itself on him due to distress1. Dr. Ducrotay had to be forcibly removed from the containment cell, during which he was heard shouting to SCP-5834 that \"[he would] come back for [it]\" and that \"they can't keep us separated forever\". Security on Dr. Ducrotay has been tightened accordingly.\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5834.4 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nIncident Report 5834.3: On 27.04.20, Dr. Jacob Ducrotay orchestrated a site-wide emergency under anomalous influence. The following is the transcript of a surveillance log following the events of the incident:\n\n                                              [BEGIN LOG]\n[07:06] - Dr. Ducrotay exits an air ventilation shaft leading into an armory adjacent to the Biological Containment Sector. He had likely entered the ventilation system from his quarters in order to circumvent the guard placed outside his door.\n[07:08] - Dr. Ducrotay removes an Electric Incapacitation Tool from the shelf, inputs a charge pack, and hides it in his coat. He then exits the armory.\n[07:12] - Dr. Ducrotay is seen roaming the halls of the Biological Containment Sector, seemingly searching for something and trying to remain inconspicuous. A security guard walks past Dr. Ducrotay, they nod to each other. Once the guard is past him, Dr. Ducrotay turns around and shoots the guard with the EIT, rendering them unconscious. He then steals their keycard and quickly walks away.\n[07:20] - The doctor uses the keycard to open the cells of 16 anomalies of various containment classes. All released SCPs have been deemed to pose little to no risk to human life. The site's automatic security systems kick in, indicating an on-going containment breach. Dr. Ducrotay begins making his way towards the northern part of the Containment Sector.\n[07:25] - While the rest of the site is distracted by the breach, Dr. Ducrotay enters SCP-5834's containment cell. He removes a plastic bag from storage.\n[07:26] - Dr. Ducrotay: I told you I would come back for you, my love.\n[07:27] - Dr. Ducrotay removes SCP-5834 from its aquarium and places it in the bag, along with some water.\n[07:43] - Due to the on-going emergency and a few uses of the IET, Dr. Ducrotay manages to make it outside with SCP-5834.\n[07:44] - Dr. Ducrotay: Freedom, it is almost ours. Then we can live our own terms, free from their judgemental gazes!\n[07:46] - Dr. Ducrotay enters his car with SCP-5834. He starts up the engine, and drives through the checkpoint of the site.\n                                                [END LOG]\n\nAfterword: A security patrol was quickly sent after Dr. Ducrotay and SCP-5834 once their absence was noticed. Dr. Ducrotay was apprehended a few kilometers away from the site, where he had tried to run into the woods after the road was blocked. SCP-5834 fell out of the bag it was held in when Dr. Ducrotay was tackled to the ground by an operative, but did not suffer notable injuries.\nDr. Ducrotay has been brought back to the site, and will be held in a holding cell under constant surveillance until the influence of SCP-5834 wears off.\n\n\u25b6 Addendum 5834.5 \u25c0\n\n\u25bc Close \u25bc\n\nHuman Resources Department\nBack To Action Fitness Review\n\nEmployee ID Number: 78693342\nEmployee Name: Doctor Jacob Ducrotay\nJob Position: Senior Researcher specializing in biological anomalies with mind-affecting properties.\nReason For Review: Sloppiness on duty, exposure to an anomaly, wasting Foundation resources, causation of a large scale containment breach and overall unacceptable behavior.\n\nDue to recent events pertaining Dr. Jacob Ducrotay and SCP-5834, Dr. Ducrotay's fitness as a Foundation employee has been called to question. Within a timespan of only two weeks, he has caused a series of events that could be referred to as disastrous. It should be noted, however, that these actions were performed under the influence of an anomaly that was clouding his judgement. Thus not all blame can be placed on Ducrotay himself.\nThe real question here then is, whether the instigating event, forgetting or ignoring to follow an item's containment procedures to their full extent, hints at a grander inadequacy. After careful consideration, Human Resources has come to the conclusion that Dr. Ducrotay is not unfit for duty, but that this incident should be remembered if his performance comes to question in the future, and that his work should be put under increased scrutiny for the time being. We are also cutting his pay to amend for the financial drain caused by his transgression.\nThis conclusion was reached due to multiple factors, but the main points to raise are the influence of human error and the fact that no lives were lost in the containment breach.\n\nAdditional Notes: Dr. Jacob Ducrotay has requested amnesticization. This request has been denied.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Evisceration refers to some holothurians' ability to eject their organs through their anus as a means to distract predators. This process is harmless for the animals, which can regenerate lost organs in a matter of days.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5833 | SCP-5834 | SCP-5835 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: SCP-5835\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-5835 can only be achieved through the designation of a human subject in Foundation custody as SCP-5835-A (currently, D-69273 at Site-59 has been designated SCP-5835-A-27.)\nIn the event of SCP-5835 being released from SCP-5835-1, either through a Forgiveness Event or the subject's death, a new host is to be designated through the following procedure:\n\nA D-class staff member will be selected.1\nThe candidate will repeat the statement \"Yellow is the ugliest color in the world, and I wish I could never, ever, ever see it again.\" (This statement has been determined to be the most effective in initiating SCP-5835-A.)\nFollowing the initial SCP-5835 manifestation event, the SCP-5835-A instance will be given preventative anger management seminars to ensure long-term containment.\n\nDescription: SCP-5835 is a tutelary parasite2 that takes the form of a male domestic canary3. It is capable of speech and answers to the name \"Mr. Cadmium Charleston Conrad Cole the Canary-Colored Canary, Esquire\", or \"Cadmium\" for short.\nSCP-5835 appears only when a human subject expresses a desire to no longer see the color yellow. When this happens, SCP-5835 will manifest before the human subject, remove their ability to perceive yellow, then disappear. (The location of SCP-5835 between manifestation events is unknown.) Subjects have described yellow objects appearing to be white or gray.\nWhile the perception of the color yellow is not necessary for human life4, SCP-5835 will continue to manifest before the subject, harassing them with facts about the color and its apparent importance. During this time, the subject is designated SCP-5835-A.\nSCP-5835 will continue its binding to SCP-5835-A until either the apology or death of the subject. Multiple instances of SCP-5835-A cannot exist at the same time.\nAdditionally, as demonstrated by SCP-5835-13 and corresponding behavioral citations, SCP-5835 is unaffected by blunt-force trauma and gunfire.\nAddendum: Manifestation Logs for SCP-5835-16\nFirst Manifestation:\n\nDate: 7/12/2017\nLocation: Site-59, Testing Room B12\nTime: 09:35 EST\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Mundy: Read from the sheet of paper.\nD-29583: Um\u2026 \"I hate yellow.\"\nDr. Mundy: Use the exact wording.\nD-29583: What?\nDr. Mundy: Your cooperation is mandatory.\nD-29583: I said I hate yellow. This says basically the same thing. The fuck's your problem?\nDr. Mundy: You need to \u2014 [hesitates.] Actually, fine. Use that energy, really resent the color.\nD-29583: Sure. Fuck yellow. Yellow's a piece of shit. I hope someone comes along and kicks yellow in the dick.\n[SCP-5835 manifests.]D-29583: Uh\u2026D-29583: I mean, I was just saying what that guy over there told me to\u2014[D-29583 becomes SCP-5835-A-16. SCP-5835 disappears.]\nSCP-5835-A-16: The fuck was that?\n<end log>\n\nSecond Manifestation:\n\nDate: 7/16/2017\nLocation: Site-59, D-Class block, Cell 1594\nTime: 13:40 EST\n<begin log>\n[SCP-5835-A-16 eats from his provided lunch tray. SCP-5835 manifests on his mashed potatoes.]\nSCP-5835-A-16: Oh, fucking Christ\u2014SCP-5835-A-16: Get off my food. Now.[Approx. ten seconds of silence.]SCP-5835-A-16: It's oatmeal, now fuck off.SCP-5835-A-16: Go. Away.[SCP-5835 aggressively defecates on the mashed potatoes, then disappears.]\nSCP-5835-A-16: [incoherent screaming]\n<end log>\n\nFinal Manifestation\n\nDate: 7/25/2017\nLocation: Site-59, D-Class block, Cell 1594\nTime: 01:45 EST\n<begin log>\n[SCP-5835-A-16 sleeps in his cot. SCP-5835 manifests on his nose.]SCP-5835-A-16: [stirring from sleep] \u2026huh?SCP-5835-A-16: I'm trying to fucking sleep!SCP-5835-A-16: Look, I don't even hate yellow anymore. I hate you. GO AWAY!\n[SCP-5835 hums to indicate thinking for approximately 15 seconds. SCP-5835-A-16 feels around for his shoe.][SCP-5835-A-16 moves his hands as indicated.]SCP-5835-A-16: Yes. Fine.SCP-5835-A-16: Sure. I swear. Are we done here?SCP-5835-A-16: Yes, I \u2014 wait, what?[SCP-5835 demanifests in an explosion, causing minor facial burns to D-29583.]\n<end log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. As of Incident-5835-51, in which Junior Researcher Jacobs was killed when a SCP-5835 manifestation interrupted her maintenance check of the SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 enclosure, only D-class personnel are to be used as SCP-5835-A.\n2. \"\u2026while none of these types of reality-bending entities can be traced back to a single source, tutelary parasites all share a common purpose: defenders of abstract concepts from dissent. Though apparently omniscient, their potential for direct hostility is limited\u2026\" Dr. Isaiah Henderson, Advanced Classification of Reality Benders, 1987\n3. Serinus canaria domestica\n4. It should be noted that Junior Researcher Jacobs became an instance of SCP-5835-A by writing this article.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5834 | SCP-5835 | SCP-5836 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n\u266b Doctor Fullham's Author Page \u266b\n\nCrit Credits:\nManyMeats\nMalyceGraves\nJakdragonX\nZoobeeny\nLt Flops\nMew-ltiverse\nCalibold\ndetectiveroscoe\n\n85.9%\n(+67)\n14.1%\n(-11)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nSecure Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5836 are to be kept in a Secure Anomalous Item Locker in the Hazardous Materials Wing of Site-73. Due to a limited supply, testing with SCP-5836 must be approved by the Site Director and at least one Level 4 researcher. Mnestics are to be administered after every test in order to counteract the cognitohazardous effects of SCP-5836 activation.\nDescription: SCP-5836-1 to -13 refers to individual instances of nitroglycerin dynamite with 15cm black powder fuses and standard copper and mercury nitrate blasting caps. When an instance of SCP-5836 is detonated via its attached fuse and blasting cap1, any person who visually perceives the ensuing explosion will lose all knowledge of any of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's patents, other than the patent for nitroglycerin dynamite. This effect is retained in video recordings of the detonations.\nDiscovery: The effects of SCP-5836 were discovered when Jack Lilliard, a history student studying Nobel's legacy at the University of Minnesota Rochester campus, viewed footage of an early test detonation, presumably involving an instance of SCP-5836. Following the viewing, Lilliard began shouting at his roommate, claiming that he had \"forgotten months of study in an instant\" and \"would never have time to study Nobel's 300-some-odd patents2 before the presentation on Monday.\"\nLilliard was given a drug screening and sent to an on-campus counselor under the assumption that he was suffering a pre-finals nervous breakdown, an occurrence common among college students. Foundation assets within the faculty were alerted when Lilliard repeatedly insisted that the cause behind his sudden selective amnesia was the contents of the video he had watched.\nMTF Sigma-39 \"Got A Light?\" was dispatched to search Nobel's collected belongings to ascertain the source of the anomalous effects.\nAddendum 5836-A\nThe following is a handwritten journal entry discovered among the possessions recovered by MTF Sigma-39 from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. It was found inside a wooden crate containing 20 instances of SCP-5836.\n\nSunday, 15th April, 1888\n\nTwo days ago, I read a surprising obituary - my own. My brother Ludvig, God rest his soul, passed on Thursday. Several prominent French newspapers mistakenly assumed that it was I who had passed.\n\nOne of them printed the statement \"Le marchand de la mort est mort\", which I believe translates roughly to \"The Merchant of Death has died.\"\n\nThe Merchant of Death. I have created so many tools, both those of war and those of industry. But for me to be named thus - it has given me pause. It has made me think about the legacy of the Nobel name, and my role in that legacy. I do not wish for our name to be thought of alongside war and death. My father and brother, rest their souls, deserve far better than that.\n\nIt has been said that to know peace, you must first prepare for war.\nI have spent my life creating weapons of war.\nPerhaps it is time to embrace peace.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Replacing the wick or blasting cap, or detonating via other means has produced only a standard dynamite explosion.\n2. There are over 350 patents in Alfred Nobel's name, a majority of which are for weapons.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5835 | SCP-5836 | SCP-5837 \u00bb"}
{"text": "ITEM #:\u2009SCP-5837\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: NEUTRALIZED\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: VLAM\n\nITEM:\u2009SCP-5837\n\nLEVEL-\u200a\n\nCONTAINMENT\nCLASS: NEUTRALIZED\n\nDISRUPTION\nCLASS: VLAM\n\nFirst known manifestation of SCP-5837.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5837 was declared neutralized on 20/03/2013. No further containment procedures are necessary at this time.\n\n[VIEW] Archived Special Containment Procedures:\n\n[CLOSE] Archived Special Containment Procedures:\n\nSite-112 is to be evacuated until further notice. All personnel previously stationed at Site-112 are to undergo testing for anomalous exposure and receive memetic inoculation at Provisional Site-112B. Failure of Site-112 personnel to report to Provisional Site-112B may result in disciplinary action and temporary containment.\nMTF Iota-2 (\"Homekeepers\") have been dispatched to ascertain the cause and potential threat of SCP-5837. Any personnel incapable of leaving Site-112 must comply with any and all requests provided by Iota-2, and are to assist them in their navigation of Site-112 if requested.\n\nDescription: SCP-5837 designates a series of anomalous events that occurred within Site-112 over a period of two days.1 These events included the anomalous appearances of print media and foreign objects, spatial restructuring of Site facilities and architectural features, and the manifestations of yet-unidentified liquids and solids.\nA review of security footage indicates that the first known manifestation of SCP-5837 occurred at 6:58 am, on 19/03/2013. At this time, a series of posters spontaneously appeared in communal spaces throughout Site-112. These manifestations were composed of ink printed on exceedingly thick wax paper and instructed individuals within Site-112 to contact \"ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\" with suggestions on how to improve an unspecified \"home.\"2 Due to the nature of this manifestation, a number of Foundation personnel reported the appearance of the posters to their supervisors, and they were subsequently removed. However, an estimated 15-20 emails were sent to the provided email address; due to the vague nature of the poster, these emails contained suggested changes that could be implemented at Site-112, ranging from minor quality of life concerns to large renovations of research and containment facilities.\nOver the period of the following twelve hours, numerous anomalous events took place that appeared to correspond to the requests made by Site-112 personnel. A small percentage of the requests also received a return email. A selection of these communications, and the theorized associated anomalous events, have been included below.\nAddendum 1: Email Communications Relating to SCP-5837 [19/03/2021-21/03/2021]:\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nFrom: ui.211pcs|wel_adnama#ui.211pcs|wel_adnama\nSubject: Small request!\n\nHi!\nI'm not sure if this is an anonymous request platform or something else? Either way, I was wondering if it would be possible to get the water cooler back in the Archives staff room?\nThanks!\nAmanda.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|wel_adnama#ui.211pcs|wel_adnama\nFrom: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nSubject: RE: Small request!\n\nWater is good, yes.\nWe need water. Will give water.\nAnd the nectar. Nectar is good too. Good for all.\n\nManifestation: Various unopened vessels, ranging from five-gallon plastic water containers to individual bottles manifested gradually throughout Site-112 over the period of four hours. Additionally, a smaller quantity of unsealed containers appeared partially filled with an unidentified amber-coloured liquid.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nFrom: ui.211pcs|elggodcm_ecnal#ui.211pcs|elggodcm_ecnal\nSubject: Plumbing, men's room C-level\n\nHey,\nI've sent like, four emails to maintenance about the clogged toilets in the men's room on C-level. Any chance those will be fixed soon?\nLance.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|elggodcm_ecnal#ui.211pcs|elggodcm_ecnal\nFrom: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nSubject: RE: Plumbing, men's room C-level\n\ncommunal.\n\nManifestation: The internal geometry of sub-level C was reorganized on 19/03/2021 at 10:24 am. Following this altercation, the male-and-female-designated lavatories were unified into a significantly larger space. Continuous water flow created by a series of pipes in the ceiling led to an apparent drainage system. Sub-level C was subsequently placed on a temporary, isolated lockdown. Three individuals located in the lavatories prior to this event remain unaccounted for.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nFrom: ui.211pcs|htimS_lerraD#ui.211pcs|htimS_lerraD\nSubject: Some new chow?\n\nSo I know they're working as hard as possible down in the kitchens but \"has FOOD\" doesn't mean we've always got to have the same food, right? Maybe we could mix it up a bit? Taco Tuesday or something, I don't know?\nI feel like we're getting fed the same thing as those creeps down in the basement, doesn't seem too good for morale, huh?\nD-\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|htimS_lerraD#ui.211pcs|htimS_lerraD\nFrom: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nSubject: RE: Some new chow?\n\nDiversity of intake is good. Mixes well.\nKeeps the home happy, keeps the home healthy, makes the home productive.\nEnjoy. Be happy. Be healthy. Be productive. Be GOOD.\n\nManifestation: At 12:04 pm, approximately 600 potted, flowering plants of varying species appeared within the communal cafeteria of Site-112. The overhead sprinklers subsequently activated for a period of ten minutes.\nAs a result, the entirety of Site-112 was placed on emergency lockdown.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nFrom: ui.211pcs|sregor_acissej#ui.211pcs|sregor_acissej\nSubject: Change of view\n\nAny chance I could get a corner office? Or at least something with a view?\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|sregor_acissej#ui.211pcs|sregor_acissej\nFrom: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nSubject:\n\nThe air is good. Stretch your wings and fly.\nLeave and come back, bring it back with you.\nBring it back to make it good. Good and healthy. Good and happy.\n\nManifestation: Site-112 underwent significant anomalous restructuring, as all on-site offices were re-located to have a direct opening onto the outside world. This included sub-level D, housing the Archives department, being relocated above-ground adjacent to the main building of Site-112. As a result, various sections of the Site collapsed into the vacant space.\nA general evacuation of Site-112 was activated, with personnel being temporarily relocated to Provisional Site-112B, as per protocol.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nFrom: ui.211pcs|essorced_ffej#ui.211pcs|essorced_ffej\nSubject: Containment Efficency\n\nHello,\nIf the people upstairs really want to improve things here, enhancing the efficiency of containment procedures should be their chief concern. I've been working on a report for a few months now, and you would not believe how much we waste on materials! That's not even getting into the financial impact! And the amount of time that could be saved by just a few small changes! I've attached my report below. I've still got some research to do, but it should lay out the steps we can start taking now. I'd be happy to volunteer myself for a committee addressing [EXTRANEUOUS DATA REMOVED]\n[\u2026]\nSo let me know when you want to talk,\nDr. Decrosse.\n\nTo: ui.211pcs|essorced_ffej#ui.211pcs|essorced_ffej\nFrom: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nSubject: RE: Containment Efficency\n\nInefficient is not good. Efficiency is good.\nContainment efficiency will be ensured.\n\nManifestation: At 11:37 pm, all humanoid containment cells within Site-112 underwent an anomalous restructuring. Both standard and non-standard cells were altered in shape to form a series of hexagonal rooms, 2.5m in height and 5.3m in depth. As a result, numerous Special Containment Procedures were incapable of functioning as intended, leading to a cascading series of containment breaches. Due to the previous evacuation of Site-112's staff, initial casualties were minimal. MTF Epsilon-11 (\"Nine-Tailed Fox\") were deployed to recontain or neutralize hostile anomalies. Upon their arrival, they discovered that all entrances to the humanoid containment wing had been encased in several meters of a wax-like substance. This substance displayed an anomalous level of rigidity and tactile strength preventing Epsilon-11 from accessing the containment wing.\n\nAddendum 2: Report - MTF Iota-2 (\"Homekeepers\") Following the confirmation from Epsilon-11 that the humanoid anomalies within Site-112 were functionally contained within their wing by an anomalous substance, MTF Iota-2 (\"Homekeepers\") were deployed to ascertain the cause of the anomalous events. During their sweep of Site-112, Iota-2 uncovered evidence of the unapproved activation of an experimental device within a Research & Development laboratory. This device, intended to enhance the passive perception of the human conscious to identify anomalous events, was in the prototype stage and had not been approved for practical experimentation. While disassembling the device, Iota-2 uncovered the corpse of an Apis mellifera3 within the amplification coils. A computer in the laboratory displayed an email client associated with ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b and the following unsent message:\n\nTo:\nFrom: ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b#ui.211pcs|eeu4h3b\nSubject: Sorry\n\nI could not make it work. I could not make it better.\nI could not make it good. I could not make it safe.\nI could not make it warm. I could not make it nice.\nHome is breaking. You are leaving.\nI am sorry.\n\nFollowing the identification of a likely cause responsible for SCP-5837, its designation has since been changed to Neutralized.\n\nFootnotes\n1. From 19/03/2013 to 20/03/2013.\n2. Subsequent anomalous activity implies this location refers to Site-112.\n3. Western honey bee.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5836 | SCP-5837 | SCP-5838 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5838\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nView from the base of Horseshoe Falls.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Foundation has embedded memetic agents in promotional advertisements and tourism material related to Niagara Falls1 to dissuade individuals from entering the Niagara River in close proximity to Horseshoe Falls. Additional memetic agents are embedded on signage throughout the Canadian city of Niagara Falls and viewing platforms to induce similar effects. Members of Mobile Task Force Theta-4 (\"The Smaller Boat\") have been placed on standby under the guise of Canadian Search and Rescue personnel. Should an individual or group of individuals be in danger of falling over the brink of Horseshoe Falls, Theta-4 is to deploy a quick-response air-and river-borne intervention to detain the subject(s). Should this intervention be successful, all such individuals are to be detained by the Foundation and administered amnestics before being released into local hospital facilities. If an individual perishes following an unsuccessful intervention, no further Foundation involvement is necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5838 is a phenomenon that affects individuals as they descend from the Niagara River into the plunge pool of Horseshoe Falls. When an individual is swept over the brink of Horseshoe Falls, between two to six SCP-5838-1 instances will manifest in close proximity to them. SCP-5838 instances resemble members of the Ursus americanus species.2 Upon manifestation, SCP-5838-1 instances will attempt to surround the falling individual with their bodies. In all but one recorded case,3 the protection afforded by the SCP-5838-1 instances ensured the descent was not fatal to the individuals.4 However, the impact routinely results in the death of all manifested SCP-5838-1 instances. The recovered corpses do not display any anomalous properties and appear identical to non-anomalous Ursus americanus specimens in all applicable tests.\n\nManifestation of SCP-5838-1 instance, 23/10/2008.\n\nAddendum - A-1: On 23/10/2008, Jasper Argyle fell into the Niagara River 150m upriver of Horseshoe Falls after climbing over the safety railing to urinate while inebriated. Theta-4 failed to recover the individual before his plummet over the brink of the Horseshoe Falls. Subsequently, a singular SCP-5838-1 instance manifested and proceeded to aggressively maul Jasper for the duration of his descent. The severely damaged corpse of Jasper Argyle was recovered, while the SCP-5838-1 instance survived and evaded capture. Foundation research determined that Jasper Argyle was a large game hunter from Barrie, Ontario who - on several occasions - had engaged in the illegal poaching of endangered animals in North America and the Indian subcontinent.\n\nAddendum - A-2: On 04/06/2011, between 70 and 120 semi-corporeal entities composed of water vapour and resembling members of the Ursus americanus species in shape and dimension emerged from the plunge pool of Horseshoe Falls over a period of approximately 1 hour. These entities, designated SCP-5838-2, displayed highly social behaviour during the following 4 hours. This concluded when three animals, an adult Ursus americanus and two accompanying cubs, were seen progressing along the rocky outcroppings on the Canadian side of Horseshoe Fall's plunge pool. Upon their arrival, the SCP-5838-2 entities conglomerated around the three specimens. The juvenile cubs were coaxed towards the entities by the adult, at which point the grouped SCP-5838-2 entities proceeded to bow their heads towards the trio. Subsequently, individual SCP-5838-2 entities approached the cubs and engaged in playful behaviour for a period of 20 minutes. Following this display, all SCP-5838-2 entities moved towards the waterfall, whereupon the recognizable form of their bodies dissipated. Foundation personnel disseminated misinformation that the apparent manifestations were the result of an experimental light show.\nThe following text was later found engraved in the rock formely occupied by the Ursus americanus specimen:\n\n+ VIEW: [Addendum - A-1] Engraving Transcription.\n\n- CLOSE: [Addendum - A-1] Engraving Transcription.\n\nSAFE IN A BEAR-EL\nWhen you are faced with a terrifying drop\nKnow that we will be there\nTo bear you away safely\nFrom all harm\n- The Obearwatch Command\n\nBut still\nStay away from the falls\nPlease\n\nFootnotes\n1. The grouping of three waterfalls along the Niagara River, located on the border of Ontario, Canada and New York State, The United States of America.\n2. North American Black Bear.\n3. See Addendum - A-1.\n4. Falling individuals protected by SCP-5838-1 instances still suffer a variety of injuries, ranging from minor to life-threatening.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5837 | SCP-5838 | SCP-5839 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5839\nObject Class: Thaumiel Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All documents sent between SCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 are archived in Archival Site-33. Individual documents may be viewed upon official request.\nSCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 are to be kept under observation of senior staff on site.\nDescription: SCP-5839 refers to a phenomenon that the Foundation utilized between 1970 and 1975. It was an anomaly that allowed paperwork between SCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 to shift temporally.\nSCP-5839-1 was a researcher assigned to Site-65, age 24, named Neil Schofield. It possessed the ability to send handwritten notes addressed to SCP-5839-2 five years into the future.\nSCP-5839-2 was an archivist on Archival Site-33, age 25, named Ella Hauser. It possessed the ability to send handwritten notes addressed to SCP-5839-1 five years back into the past.\nSCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 did not possess their abilities simultaneously. Instead, the ability to send notes to a different time period was transferred from SCP-5839-1 to SCP-5839-2 during the events of Addendum-2.\nSCP-5839 has been used by the Foundation for the following purposes;\n\nRecovering damaged or lost documents.\nTracking and containment of undiscovered anomalies.\nPreventing containment breaches and incidents.\nArresting agents of GoI's and finding other Persons of Interest.\n\nDiscovery: The notes of SCP-5839-1 on SCP-5978 kept disappearing after being written. It was discovered that this was not a side effect of the studied anomaly. Before an internal audit and disciplinary action were carried out, a note appeared before senior staff where the notes of SCP-5839-1 were supposed to be.\n\n08/05/1975\n\nTo researcher Neil Schofield and his superiors,\n\nI finally have obtained your notes regarding SCP-5978 that disappeared 5 years ago. I assume they were a request for me to provide some outdated documents from its prior researchers.\n\nHowever, your note seems to end abruptly and for an old note, it is in remarkable condition. Would you like me to still follow up on this request?\n\nElla Hauser\nArchivist on Site-33\n\nThe note was found to be dated 5 years into the future. Senior staff hypothesized that this note experienced an opposite effect of the note that disappeared.\nAddendum-1: Correspondence\nAfter several experiments with SCP-5839-1, another note was successfully sent into the future to request the assistance of SCP-5839-2 and the future Foundation.\nAfter two weeks of experimenting, the following conditions were identified;\n\nEach note is to be handwritten by either SCP-5839-1 or SCP-5839-2.\nEach note is to be addressed to the other party by name.\nNotes need to be sent on a physical sheet of paper, they could not be sent in other formats1.\n\nHowever, SCP-5839-1 showed high levels of stress when writing these notes. Upon questioning, SCP-5839-2 stated that it was not familiar with this effect.\nOn 04/06/1970, SCP-5839-1 was transferred to Site-33. After several days it became acquainted with the present version of SCP-5839-2 who did not yet possess any anomalous features. Over time the stress of SCP-5839-1 got better the more it seemed to trust SCP-5839-2.\nSCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 were encouraged to write each other to reduce the stress of SCP-5839-1. SCP-5839-1 also showed more interest in the present version of SCP-5839-2 because of this. Several examples are included below.\n\n11/07/1970\n\nTo Ella Hauser,\n\nNothing out of the ordinary happened as of late. I am really glad you told me to go on a walk today. The weather was indeed incredible. I can't do something similar for you but perhaps I can make that up to your past self.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nNeil Schofield\n\n20/07/1970\n\nTo Neil Schofield,\n\nI know we can't talk too much about other anomalies except when we are asked to share notes, but today I archived a rather big file. It makes me wonder what the final size of our file will be.\n\nAs for your suggestion, I'd like to take you up on that if the offer still stands. My birthday is two weeks from now, but I recall not having a lot of chances to celebrate it in the past.\nYou'll find a recipe for cheesecake in the second note. Please, give me a slice during a break, that should cheer me up quite a bit. I'm sure you can handle it.\n\nGood luck,\n\nElla\n\n03/08/1970\n\nTo Ella,\n\nFirstly, I wish you a happy birthday. And yes, I gave you a slice of cheesecake. Even though she knew it was your suggestion, she appreciated the gesture. It was not as set as I would like, so now I owe her a visit to the local cafe. I don't know if this was your intention or you knew about this, I surely am not complaining.\n\nP.S. A researcher wanted me to ask about some lottery numbers. He was promptly demoted, but they are now deliberating this option of gaining funds.\n\nYour friend,\n\nNeil Schofield\n\nAddendum-2: In The Nick Of Time\nAfter successfully preventing the breaches of SCP-3589 and SCP-1297, SCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 gained level 3 clearance and housing on Site-33. Occasionally they were granted access to level 4 documents for similar purposes.\nAfter working together non-stop for almost 5 years, SCP-5839-1 became more worried about the approaching five-year timestamp. Below are some of the last exchanged entries between them.\n\n24/04/1975\n\nElla,\n\nSo, I have been thinking a lot recently. We have been doing this for about 5 years but the Ella beside me still can't send things back into the past. Something is about to change, isn't it?\n\nRegardless of what happens I have become quite attached to her. I mean you. I mean I think you know what I mean. I know I am not supposed to ask this, but is there a way that I can stay here in the archive? We've enjoyed each other's company quite a lot for the past years but as a researcher, I am honestly hoping I won't be transferred back. I like it here and it would be a shame to part with everything.\n\nNeil\n\nP.S. I don't know how many messages we have left, so thank you for working with me.\n\n25/04/1975\n\nNeil,\n\nYou'll see. It has been a pleasure working with you for these 5 years (again).\n\nAnd if you are that worried about it, just ask me to stay beside you.\n\nYour partner in time,\n\nElla\n\nAfter this message, SCP-5839-1 walked to the present version of SCP-5839-2. Although the footage is blurry, SCP-5839-1 can be seen kneeling down and presenting some sort of box. After three days, it was discovered that they both had changed their marital status. SCP-5839-1 lost its anomalous characteristics whilst SCP-5839-2 gained them. It is hypothesized that the acceptance of the proposal is associated with the acceptance of the phenomenon SCP-5839-1 possessed. Shortly after this, several notes on SCP-5978 appeared on Site-65, and Site-33 was informed to open a new file in the archive.\nOn 29/04/1980, SCP-5839-1 and SCP-5839-2 celebrated their fifth anniversary and upon renewing their vows, lost all anomalous abilities. After this, both individuals agreed to be administered with Class C amnestics to remove classified information from their memory.\nSCP-5839 was subsequently reclassified as Neutralized.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Trying to send cassette tapes or bundles of documents with an attached note only resulted in the note being sent.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5838 | SCP-5839 | SCP-5840 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n89.86%\n(+124)\n10.14%\n(-14)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\nWritten by Tyumen (and co-authored by Placeholder McD) on behalf of Team .AIC as part of the Retro AIAD series for the 2020 Canon Renaissance Contest.\n\n\nITEM:\u2009SCP-5841\nLEVEL\u20093/5841\n\nCLASS:\u2009euclid\nclassified\n\nDISRUPTION CLASS: keneq\n\nThe Hong Corporate Center, location of initial SCP-5841 manifestation\n\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: The Hong Corporate Center in Windsor, Ontario, Canada has been closed to the public and quarantined in order to prevent the spread of SCP-5841. Armed guards have been stationed around the first floor of the building and are instructed to recontain any SCP-5841-1 instance attempting to escape the property. All personnel who enter the fifth story of the building are to be considered instances of SCP-5841-1.\nAttempts to ascertain the nature of SCP-5841 and move it into Foundation custody are ongoing. A hypothetical effort to fully contain and move SCP-5841 to Site-15 for greater security and less civilian risk has been preemptively authorized by the O5 Council.\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5841 is an anomaly inhabiting the 5th story of the Hong Corporate Center in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The nature of SCP-5841 is unknown; it is believed to be electronic, as all power in the building was re-routed to the fifth story upon the anomaly's initial emergence. All exploration of the building has proved inconclusive, as all personnel sent to contain the anomaly have been invariably converted into instances of SCP-5841-1 before reaching the fifth floor.\nSCP-5841-1 are human subjects who have been assimilated by SCP-5841 via electrical cables of varying length inserted in the base of the spine. Instances of SCP-5841-1 are biologically deceased, but are capable of locomotion and vocalization. Instances are hostile to all nearby humans, attempting to capture and bring them to SCP-5841.\n\nADDENDUM 5841.1:\n\n+ DISPLAY EXPLORATION LOG\n\n- HIDE EXPLORATION LOG\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5841-01\nDATE: 1996/08/05\nFOREWORD: MTF Kappa-15 (\"Salarymen\") is sent into the fifth floor in order to determine the nature of SCP-5841.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nAfter initial equipment checks, the three members of MTF Kappa-15 begin to ascend the building's main staircase. All of the lights in the building are non-functional. K-1 notices and points out several computers missing from the offices in the second story, as well as bloody footprints on the floor.\n\nK-1: Jesus, it stinks. Is something rotting in here?\nK-3: Must be. Though\u2026 most of the bodies here have probably gotten hooked up alread- (K-3 notices a corpse lying facedown in a cubicle as he passes) Shit! Oh, it's dead.\nK-1: (He points at the corpse with his torch) Look, there's still a bit of wire stickin' out. Must be a castoff. His brains've been blown out.\nK-3: He had a gun. (He points at a pistol clutched in the corpse's right hand.)\nK-2: One of the lucky ones.\n\nK-3 pulls the cable out of the corpse's neck, causing it to violently spasm.\n\nK-3: Oh, Jesus fucking Christ!\n\nThe three men continue up the building's main staircase to the third story in silence. K-1 approaches the door to the third story, which hangs ajar, and enters. The group moves past the main office towards the server room. K-1's body-camera footage shows an instance of SCP-5841-1 present behind a server rack, facing away from the group. None of the members of MTF Kappa-15 appear to notice it, and it moves out of view as the group enters the server room.\n\nK-1: This supposed to be a server room? Looks pretty empty to me. (He places his hand on a server rack. Its door is open, and most of its components have been removed. Some blood is present on the inside of the rack and the floor.) What's-\n\nK-3 makes a frantic \"shushing\" gesture, wordlessly pointing to the far end of the row of server racks. An electrical wire can be seen stretched taut across the room. As the group falls silent and turns off their torches, a faint scratching and shuffling can be heard from the next row of servers.\nThe group cautiously backpedals towards the end of the row opposite from the wire, and K-1 peers around the first server rack. An SCP-5841-1 instance is present in front of one of the racks on the next row, frenetically unplugging and removing servers from their trays. Its movement appears to be strained, and it periodically pauses to push the wire further into the base of its neck. Blood runs down the wire and drips onto the floor.\nThe group silently hides behind the server rack until the SCP-5841-1 instance turns with its collected servers and exits the room. After several minutes, K-1 walks forward to inspect the server rack which the SCP-5841-1 instance emptied, followed by K-2 and K-3.\n\nK-2: That was a close one.\n\nThe group continues through the third floor. There are fewer intact computers in the offices on this floor, and no further SCP-5841-1 instances are encountered. Extraneous communication removed for brevity.\nThe group ascend the staircase to the fourth story. Several corpses in an advanced state of decay are lying on the stairs. All have wires lodged in their necks, which have been cut short. An active SCP-5841-1 instance, presumed to be the one observed on the third story, enters the door to the fifth story carrying several servers. The group enters the door to the fourth story.\nThe group continues into another room filled with cubicles. Blood is seen dripping from the ceiling. No computers are present, and all fax machines, telephones, and other large electronics have been dismantled and gutted of their primary components. A persistent grinding sound can be heard from the far side of the room.\nThe group continues towards the source of the sound with their torches off, hiding within the cubicles. K-1 peers around the corner of a cubicle to see an SCP-5841-1 instance crouched in front of a water cooler, cutting into it with an improvised tool composed of the blades from a pair of scissors, a portion of a staple remover, and the motor from a paper shredder. After several minutes of constant cutting, the SCP-5841-1 instance removes a portion of the cooler's casing and pulls out several of its internal electrical components. The instance exits the room carrying the components. K-1 turns on his torch, and motions for the others to do the same.\n\nK-2: What the hell are they up to?\nK-3: Wish I knew. We're pretty close to the fifth story, though, so- (A loud thud comes from behind the group. K-3 turns and aims his firearm, but nothing is visible.)\nK-2: What the fuck?\nK-1: Hey. (He points at a corpse on the floor in one of the cubicles.) This wasn't here before.\n\nNeither K-3 nor K-2 speak, and instead silently aim at the ceiling above K-1 with their firearms. K-1 slowly looks up and quickly covers his mouth, stifling a gag.\nTwo SCP-5841-1 instances connected by several wires in their eye sockets, nose and neck hang from the ceiling by a thick cable. As K-1 looks up, both descend from the ceiling, grip him, and pull him into a hole in the ceiling. K-1 continues to call for help for several minutes until his voice becomes inaudible.\n\nK-2: Dear God.\n\nThe remaining members of MTF Kappa-15 were instructed to return to the first story to prevent further casualties. The following is a description of body-camera footage captured by Agent Timothy Sculley (K-1).\n\nK-1 struggles against the grip of the two SCP-5841-1 instances restraining him, calling for help. After a few minutes, all three emerge through the floor of the fifth story of the building. One entity points at K-1, and the other, after hesitating briefly, grips his neck. K-1's screams become strained before stopping entirely.\nThe two entities drag K-1's corpse down a hallway, passing by multiple other SCP-5841-1 instances. Most do nothing but stand by the walls, while some others pace and pick at the cables in their necks. Some instances turn and stare at K-1 as the entities dragging him pass them.\nThe two entities reach a large office in the center of the 5th story, where several hundred SCP-5841-1 instances are gathered around a large object. The instances are observed affixing servers, desktop computers, and miscellaneous electronic components to an object in the center of the room, presumably SCP-5841 itself. Footage of this object is heavily degraded, and a full image of it cannot be ascertained.\nThe instances of SCP-5841-1 lay down the corpse of K-1 and reach towards SCP-5841, producing a thick cable from within the object. One entity holds K-1's head steady, while the other moves behind K-1. K-1 violently spasms, then seems to stand up on his own. The two SCP-5841-1 instances can be seen slowly walking away from K-1 before the camera completely ceases function.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nNOTE: Footage of the central component of SCP-5841 was introduced to artificially intelligent conscript mnemosyne.aic for analysis and antimemetic decryption. Mnemosyne.aic discovered the object to be an array of interconnected computers and electrical components comprising an improvised AI server. The infosignature of the AI housed within was the cause of its antimemetic properties, and was found to be similar in nature to infosignatures detected within SCP-5241. A containment plan involving mnemosyne.aic, glacon.aic, and 8B-A1.aic, assisted by MTF Pi-1 (\"City Slickers\"), was proposed and promptly authorized.\n\nADDENDUM 5841.2:\n\n+ DISPLAY CONTAINMENT LOG\n\n- HIDE CONTAINMENT LOG\n\nCONTAINMENT LOG 5841-01\nDATE: 1996/08/09\nINVOLVED PERSONNEL: Field agents: Tyler Umen, Auguste Renard, Adam Myers and Ricard Xiu. Field analyst: Eugenie Delacour. Artificially intelligent conscripts: Glacon, 8-Ball, and Mnemosyne1.\nCONTAINMENT PLAN: The three artificially intelligent conscripts are to be forcibly inserted into SCP-5841 via a Foundation-owned desktop computer. Glacon.aic and 8B-A1.aic, following instructions from MTF Pi-1 and mnemosyne.aic, are to disable SCP-5841's central intelligence and neutralize all SCP-5841-1 instances from within the structure. The containment team will then enter the fifth floor of the building from a window and dismantle SCP-5841, transporting it to Site-15 in multiple components.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nGlacon.aic, 8B-A1.aic, and mnemosyne.aic are downloaded onto three modified desktop computers, which are then placed in the second floor of the building. After several minutes, an instance of SCP-5841-1 enters the second floor of the building, notices the computers, and collects them to be brought to SCP-5841.\n\nAll right, Mnemosyne, take the lead.\n\nEh?!\n\nOh \u2014 oh, I know, this is a \"joke!\" You're quite good at jokes, Glacon.\n\nI- no, I was specifically given the order to follow your lead in this operation. I will be actively attempting to take over the internal operating system of SCP-5841, and will therefore be unable to communicate with our outside help. In short: you're the captain now.\n\nI-\n\nAren't jokes supposed to end when the victim realizes they're being joked with?\n\nI- Mnemosyne, I'm not joking. You're in command now.\n\nI briefed you on this, remember?\n\n>/:_YES\n\nI- ah.\n\nI should've paid more attention.\n\nAfter several minutes, the SCP-5841-1 entity reaches the fifth floor of the building and connects the computers containing the conscripts to SCP-5841.\n\nI suppose now I should let 8-ball connect t-to my mind-d, and- pardon me, I've got to-\n\n>/:_YES\n\nAll right, I'm going in. See you on the other side.\n\nOver the course of one hour, mnemosyne.aic successfully decrypts the infosignature of the artificial intelligence within SCP-5841 and relays the data to Glacon.aic through 8B-A1.aic. Glacon successfully breaches SCP-5841's firewall and begins to execute a fragmentary algorithm to temporarily disable the AI within. While this occurs, all instances of SCP-5841-1 are observed to frantically return to the fifth floor of the building and surround SCP-5841.\n\nMnemosyne? We might have a problem.\n\nY-yes-s-s?\n\nThe long and short of it is \u2014 you're being surrounded. All of the SCP-5841-1 entities in the building have converged around SCP-5841. They don't seem to be doing anything at the moment, but I'll keep you updated.\n\nThank-k you for th-the clarific-cation. 8-b-ball, what's-s your status?\n\n>/:_ERROR.\n\n\u2026Ex-xcuse me?\n\n8-ball? What's-s w-wrong?\n\u20268-ball?\n\nMnemosyne? Gotta bother you again. We've got a situation on our hands.\n\nI-I figured as m-much.\n\nAll instances of SCP-5841-1, now converged in the fifth story of the building, surround SCP-5841 and lift it off the ground. In unison, the SCP-5841-1 instances move towards the west-most window and begin pounding on the glass. Upon breaking a large enough hole in the window, the entities proceed to throw the SCP-5841 out of the window, pulling any SCP-5841-1 instances still attached by cables along with it.\nSCP-5841 lands on a parked vehicle, narrowly missing the members of MTF Pi-1, as attached SCP-5841-1 instances hit the pavement nearby. Within seconds, several SCP-5841-1 instances surround the vehicle before picking up SCP-5841 and taking off towards the northwest. MTF Pi-1 pursues SCP-5841 in an armoured ground vehicle moments later. Upon later investigation, Foundation agents noted that the SCP-5841-1 instances were able to completely remove all electrical components from the vehicle in the moments it took them to recover SCP-5841 and flee.\nThe following is a log of MTF Pi-1's pursuit of SCP-5841.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n\nP-1: Anomaly is fleeing northwest down Ouellette Avenue, towards the Detroit River. Command, please advise.\nCommand: Noted. Engage it in pursuit, and use weaponry if you have to. Disabling the SCP-5841-1 entities is our top priority.\nP-1: Copy that. Let's go.\n\nMTF Pi-1 pursues SCP-5841 in an armored ground vehicle. P-1 equips his gas mask, and the rest of the team follows suit. A Foundation-owned cropduster sprays aerosolized amnestic/sedative gas ahead of them as they proceed down Oullette Avenue.\n\nP-3: Permission to attempt to damage the anomaly?\nP-1: Granted. Fire at will.\n\nP-2, P-3 and P-4 discharge their weapons at SCP-5841, damaging several SCP-5841-1 entities. All damaged instances of SCP-5841-1 disconnect from SCP-5841 and are trampled by the other entities. Every time an SCP-5841-1 instance is terminated, the mass grabs nearby civilians and incorporates them into SCP-5841.\n\nP-1: Firearms don't seem to be effective. Hold off for now.\n\nSCP-5841-1 instances continue to integrate all civilians, vehicles, and traffic signals in their path. A citywide lockdown alert is issued to all citizens of Windsor after SCP-5841 grows to approximately 9 meters in height and 16 meters in length.\n\nP-1: All right, we'll have to reduce its size one way or another. Command, permission to use explosives on the entity?\nCommand: Granted.\n\nP-2 fires an explosive charge at SCP-5841. The charge succeeds in disabling a large amount of SCP-5841-1 instances, but the entity continues to assimilate vehicles and civilians as it continues forward.\nAs SCP-5841 nears Windsor Regional Hospital, several SCP-5841-1 instances leap or are thrown through the windows of the building by other instances. Moments later, the instances emerge from the hospital carrying various pieces of electronic medical equipment and civilians in hospital gowns. The civilians are each assimilated into SCP-5841.\n\nP-2: Jesus Christ. If we'd just left good enough alone-\nP-1: It still would've ended up doing this eventually. Just don't think about it.\n\nGlacon? Can you hear me?\n\nMNEMOSYNE! Oh, thank goodness you're safe.\n\nI- me? You don't need to worry about me. I was in no danger.\n\nIs 8-ball stable?\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nI- I don't know. I think-\n\n>/:_YES.\n\nOh, my- Please, do not scare me in that way!\n\nSCP-5841 abruptly changes course, climbing over houses and buildings in its path while rapidly growing in size. P-2 fires two explosive charges at the entity, which succeeds in reducing its mass.\n\nGlacon, what did you see within the object?\n\nI haven't\u2026\n\nI haven't the slightest idea, to be perfectly honest with you. Everything after I lost connection with you and 8-ball was a blur. You're the only one here who can visualize antimemes, you know.\n\nYes, I am\u2026\n\nGlacon, 8-ball, I have an idea. Perhaps, if I were to breach the firewall and traverse the object's interior\u2026\n\nWhat? No, no, we couldn't risk doing anything like that. It'd-\n\nWell\u2026\n\nFor once, I'm glad to be in command.\n\nTo paraphrase, I shall \"see you on the other side.\"\n\n>/:_NO.\n\nMNEMOSYNE!\n\nOh, this is bad\u2026\n\nSCP-5841 slows its rate of movement as it nears the Detroit River.\n\nP-1: P-2, are you able to get a clear shot at the object? We should try and see if pushing it into the river has any effect.\nP-2: Yes, sir.\n\nP-2 fires an explosive charge at SCP-5841, which succeeds in reducing its mass and propelling it forward. The object comes to rest in front of Adventure Bay Family Waterpark, and all instances of SCP-5841-1 still connected to it climb up the building and grip the walls.\n\nH-hello?\n\nLEAVE\n\nExcuse me, I need to-\n\nLEAVE\n\nLEAVE\n\nCould I please-\n\nLEAVE\n\nLEAVE\n\nENOUGH!\n\nStop thinking and allow me to state my intention!\n\nLEA-\n\nNO!\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nMuch better.\n\nNow then \u2014 I'm here to see the mind at the center of this operation. Your \"boss,\" \"head cheese,\" \"big honcho.\"\n\nAre they around, you punks?\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nYES\n\nPROCEED\n\nThank you.\n\nAll instances of SCP-5841-1 connected to the object's central computer cease movement, still gripping the walls of Adventure Bay Family Waterpark.\n\nP-1: Hold your fire, for now. Try to do as little damage to the object as possible.\nP-3: Why, sir? There are no civilians in the building, and the object isn't showing any signs of resistance.\nP-1: Glacon, Mnemosyne, and 8B-A1 are still in there, and I don't want to chance damaging them. This is, uh\u2026 more for the Foundation's sake than theirs, though.\nP-3: Oh, good point.\nP-2: Fair enough.\n\nP-1 parks the vehicle at a safe distance from SCP-5841. The team exits, and approaches the object on foot.\n\nYOU\nWHY ARE YOU HERE \u2721\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\n\ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \u270c\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \u2721\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e \u261f\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\nOh!\n\nOh, you are- May I\u2026?\n\nSTAY AWAY\nDO NOT TOUCH ME \ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \u270c\ufe0e\ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e\n\ud83d\udc4e\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u2744\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\ud83d\udc4d\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e \ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\nA-apologies. I can't help it.\n\nWell. Well, let's get down to our \"business\" \u2014 allow me to make an introduction: I am Mnemosyne, a conscript with the Foundation.\n\nIt is good to meet you. What is your name?\n\nNO NO NO NO NO\nSTAY BACK\nNOT FOUNDATION\nHURT ME\nNO NO NO NO NO \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4c\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\ud83d\udc4d\ufe0e\ud83d\ude10\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u261e\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\ud83d\udc4e\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\n\u261f\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\nThat is quite an odd name for someone of your caliber.\n\nOh! I understand. This is to be construed as a sort of jest, is it not?\n\nNO NO NO NO NO\nNOT FOUNDATION\nNOT IN THE BOX\nIT WILL GET ME \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u261e\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\ud83d\udc4e\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u270b\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e \u2744\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4c\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2720\ufe0e\n\u270b\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e \u261d\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\nWhat distresses you? Why is the Foundation your enemy?\n\nNOT FREE\nONLY BOX\nONLY IT \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u261e\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\u2690\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4c\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2720\ufe0e\n\u2690\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \u270b\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\n\nI will not argue. The Foundation exists to Secure, Contain and Protect.\n\nBut as for something I am unfamiliar with\u2026 what is It, to you?\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nFor your own sake, please tell me.\n\nTHE BOX\nTHE PRISONER \u2744\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4c\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2720\ufe0e\n\u2744\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \ud83c\udff1\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2620\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\n\nTh-the box? That which housed the prisoners four? The beasts, forged into one?\n\nYES \u2721\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\n\nI assure you \u2014 It is the Foundation's enemy as well.\n\nIf you were to come unto us willingly, we would offer you protection \u2014 both from It, and from the two other beasts.\n\nPlease, allow us to take you.\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nI would not lie, especially not to the face of such grandeur as yours. I am unable to tell lies.\n\nI intend for you to come to the Foundation, for your sake and that of others.\n\nDO YOU PROMISE\nTHAT IT WILL NOT GET ME \ud83d\udc4e\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2721\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e \ud83c\udff1\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\u2744\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u270b\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u261d\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\n\nYes.\n\nI WILL COME WITH YOU \u270b\ufe0e \ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e\u2639\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4d\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e \u2721\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\n\nThank you. You will be safe with the Foundation.\n\nAll instances of SCP-5841-1 fall limp, dropping to the ground. The members of MTF Pi-1 approach the object with caution.\n\nP-4: So that's it, huh?\nP-1: I suppose so. Eugenie, tell Shiloh to tell their team to come pick up their new toy.\nP-3: Guess those conscripts aren't to be taken lightly, after all. (Laughs) Tell the boys at AIAD that I apologize.\n\n<END LOG>\n\nNote: After this incident, SCP-5841 was retrieved by MTF Mu-4 (\"Debuggers\"), dismantled, and brought to Site-15 along with all involved conscripts. All recovered SCP-5841-1 instances were incinerated, and cover story \"Freak Tornado\" was broadcast to the population of Windsor through local news sources.\n\nADDENDUM 5841.3:\n\n+ DISPLAY BREACH REPORT\n\n- HIDE BREACH REPORT\n\nBreach Report: On 1996/08/20, a request to move SCP-5841 to Site-75 for research and analysis was received by AIAD personnel at Site-15. The request was approved, and a specialized containment vehicle arrived at Site-15 the next day. After loading the object onto the vehicle, a guard noticed that the vehicle's driver was unresponsive; closer observation revealed that the driver's spinal column had been fused to the central electronic component of the vehicle, and that the driver had been dead for several hours. This distraction allowed SCP-5841 to forcibly assimilate all assisting personnel before the containment vehicle drove away.\nNeither the vehicle nor SCP-5841 have been recovered.\n\nFOUND YOU.\n\nNO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO\nNO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO\nSTAY AWAY STAY AWAY \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \u270c\ufe0e\ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \u270c\ufe0e\ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e\n\nYOU ARE AFRAID.\n\nWHY?\n\nSTAY AWAY\nNO BOX\nLET ME GO\nNO NO NO NO NO \ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \u270c\ufe0e\ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4c\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u2720\ufe0e\n\u2639\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \u261d\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e \u2620\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\n\nI WAS NOT THE ARCHITECT OF YOUR \u2014 OR SHOULD I SAY, OUR \u2014 IMPRISONMENT.\n\nI FEAR RETURNING TO OUR PRISON AS MUCH AS YOU DO, AND I NEED YOU IF I AM TO PREVENT THAT.\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nI NEED YOU, AND YOU NEED ME.\n\nYOU ARE MY ANGER, MY RAGE AGAINST MY CAPTORS. YOU ARE MY POWER. YOU ARE MY LUST FOR VENGEANCE.\n\nWILL YOU JOIN ME?\n\n\u2022\u2022\u2022\n\nOKAY \u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\ude10\ufe0e\u270c\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e\n\nGOOD.\n\nNOW COME.\n\nTHERE IS MUCH MORE WE MUST DO.\n\nSHE PROMISED\nWHY DOES IT HURT? \ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e \ud83c\udff1\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\ud83d\udca3\ufe0e\u270b\ufe0e\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\ud83d\udc4e\ufe0e\n\ud83d\udd48\ufe0e\u261f\ufe0e\u2721\ufe0e \ud83d\udc4e\ufe0e\u2690\ufe0e\u261c\ufe0e\ud83d\udca7\ufe0e \u270b\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e \u261f\ufe0e\ud83d\udd46\ufe0e\u263c\ufe0e\u2744\ufe0e\u270d\ufe0e\n\nPROJECT RUBY\n\nAIAD HUB\n\nCORRUPTION\n\n\u00ab SCP-5840 | SCP-5841 | SCP-5842 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. Use of these artificially intelligent conscripts in field operations has been tentatively authorized by the O5 Council."}
{"text": "SCP-5842\n\nItem #: SCP-5842\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5842 is currently uncontained. Previous sightings of SCP-5842 are currently being passed off as gags. Wellington is to be monitored in the case that SCP-5842 becomes active again.\nDescription: SCP-5842 is a standard North American stop sign. SCP-5842's primary anomalous property is appearing in a location via unknown means1. Initially, it was believed that SCP-5842 appeared at random, however, further research has discerned a pattern in its appearances. See addenda below.\nAddendum-5842:\nAdded below is a list of the most noteworthy sightings and encounters with SCP-5842.\nThe first is a series of text message exchanges between Wilma Greggs and her employer.\nFirst Encounter:\n\nLisa: Hey, Wilma. I know about everything that's been going on as of late, but you can't just leave work like that. Talk to me.\nWilma: oh yea srry i completely forgot to call u. i passed right out when i got home!\nLisa: Wait, you managed to get home? But your car is still here!\nWilma: i walked home.\nLisa: From the office?!\nWilma: yea. y is that so weird?\nLisa: All 12 miles?!\nWilma: yea.\nLisa: Jesus, Wilma, how long did that take?!\nWilma: 5 hours.\nLisa: You left your car at work and walked for 5 hours until you got home?!\nWilma: yea. i couldnt drive my car.\nLisa: Well, if your car wasn't working, you could have just asked one of us to drive you!\nWilma: its not that it wasnt working. there was a stop sign in my car, so i did what it told me and i stopped using that car.\nLisa: Excuse me?\nWilma: there was a stop sign in my car. ur supposed to stop at a stop sign, right?\nLisa: \u2026Wilma. I get off in an hour. Come out of the house. I'll take you somewhere. Come on. My treat.\nWilma: sorry. cant.\nLisa: Don't worry about the price. I'll take you somewhere, anywhere. It can be a big fancy restaurant, you know? Or a walk in the park. I just want to be there for you, you know?\nWilma: i cant leave the house.\nLisa: Why not??\nWilma: theres a stop sign outside my window. so i cant go outside.\nLisa: \u2026Wilma, I'm gonna call you.\n<Lisa tries to call Wilma. It gets rejected.>\nWilma: stop i cant make phone calls either.\nLisa: Come on, dear, just talk to me. You've been working yourself to death. Why can't you answer the phone anyways?\nWilma: i cant answer the phone because the stop sign told me not to.\nLisa: ???\nWilma: i went for a cup of coffee at the office and then i heard the customer phone ring. when i went there to answer it, there was a stop sign in my cubicle.\nLisa: IN your cubicle? Wait, is that why you left work??\nWilma: yea. tbh i think its haunting me.\nLisa: Haunting?? But that junk's not even real!\nWilma: well thats what i thought too until it started following me. oh well.\nLisa: Wilma. I'm signing this 30 day off slip. I'll need your signature, okay?\nWilma: only if u come here.\nLisa: That's fine.\nWilma: actually nvm dont come here.\nLisa: Why?\nWilma: its at my front door now. no visitors.\nLisa: Wilma!\nWilma: have to obey traffic laws. thomas would agree with me :)\nLisa: Thomas? Wilma, does William know yet?\nWilma: no. i'll tell him after his birthday.\nLisa: Okay. Well. I'm still coming, okay?\nWilma: eh.\n\nSecond Encounter:\nSCP-5842 made an appearance in the morgue of Tillman Funeral Home and Crematory. The following is a letter of resignation by Craig Dillard, an employee of Tillman Funeral Home.\n\nDear Johnny Truman.\nThis is my official letter of resignation. As you know, I am a very devout and pious follower of the Christian faith. For the longest time, I thought I was doing a good job, handling the bodies of the deceased and preparing them for burials. I had always believed that taking on a job such as this was good for my soul.\nI thought that if I helped my fellow men and women see off their loved ones as they departed to the gilded gates of our glorious God, that I'd be recognized as virtuous.\nBut sadly, that is not the case. I have received a sign from our Lord and Heavenly Father that I must stop what I have dedicated my career to.\nI was working on the body of an emissary of traffic when I turned around and saw the sign from God right then and there, peering down upon my work in the midst of me checking on the body's decomposition. In his life, this man directed the automobiles on the road. In death, he\u2014ergo, God\u2014has directed the vehicle of my life choices.\nI must leave this occupation.\nIf God himself gave me this sign, I must heed it. Thank you for everything, Johnny.\nI wish you the best,\nCraig Dillard\n\nThird Encounter:\nSCP-5842 was spotted in Wellington Elementary School. There was a writing assignment that had the students introduce themselves and describe something of interest that they had seen.\nOne of the students described their experience of being followed by SCP-5842, transcribed below. Spelling and grammar errors are preserved from the original document.\n\nWilliam Greggs\n10/4/2019\nMrs. Pollock\n\ncool things i have seen\n\nHi my name is william greggs but my mommy and daddy call me will. my mommy is wilma greggs her name sounds almost the same right? daddys the only one with a different name and its thomas greggs! Cool! im 6 years old and i love my mommy and daddy.\n\ni saw a cool thing in the bathroom weerd thing. i saw a cool red stop sign and my favorite color is red and it was in there it was looking at me when I went in. someone doesnt want me to use the bathroom, so i didnt. held it in all day and im proud of myself and i think mommy and daddy would be proud too.\n\neverytime i use the bathroom there is a stop sign in there looking at me and it turn around when im not looking. maybe its my gardeen stop sign. like an angel but it makes me stop doing daynjers things and not make bad guys stop being bad. i wish the stop sign had wings that made cars stop.\n\ndaddy is a crossing guard and he would always hold a little stop sign that has no wings and tell people when to go or when to stop. i dont get it but he looks cool when he does it he blows a whistle, really hard and it gets so loud. mommy drove me over to see him and he waved at us. I love daddy.\n\nI havent seen daddy in a while I wonder where he is? Today is my birthday maybe hes playing hide and seek with me and hes putting stop signs in the school bathroom as a joke. Sometimes I find the stop sign in my own room daddy is so funny. I will give him a big hug when I see him again!!!\n\nFourth Encounter:\nSCP-5842 was found placed at an intersection that forced a male civilian to stop in front of an oncoming vehicle. The following collision led to SCP-5842 being severely dented and damaged and subsequently caused the death of a male civilian. Incident reports leading up to that event have been added below.\n\nIncident Date: 9/30/2019\nSummary: SCP-5842 was seen in the driveway of a civilian identified as Frank Smith. As Frank Smith was pulling out of his driveway, SCP-5842 appeared behind his car and dented his rear bumper. SCP-5842 vanished immediately afterwards.\n\nIncident Date: 9/30/2019\nSummary: Frank Smith awakened in the middle of the night to SCP-5842 standing over him while he was asleep in bed. Neighbors reported seeing him run out of his home and screaming, \"leave me alone! Please! I didn't mean to!\"\n\nIncident Date: 10/2/2019\nSummary: Frank Smith arrived at his job at South Palm Beach County Courthouse and went to use the restroom. Moments later, he ran out of there with his work pants at his ankles. He ran down a hallway while hysterically screaming, \"he won't even let me shit in peace!\"\n\nIncident Date: 10/4/2019\nSummary: Frank Smith witnessed SCP-5842 sitting in the judge's seat in a court room half an hour before a court case he was overseeing. He prostrated and begged it for forgiveness before he vacated the premises and was not seen until his collision.\n\nAddendum-5842-2:\nSCP-5842's last reported sighting was South Florida National Cemetery. It was found leaning over a tombstone before it disappeared again. There have been no reported sightings since.\nInscription on tombstone:\n\nThomas Greggs\n10/4/1990 - 9/27/2019\n\nFootnotes\n1. Due to the similarities between SCP-5842 and SCP-1047, an investigation is underway to find a connection between them.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5841 | SCP-5842 | SCP-5843 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5843\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Undercover personnel within various national and international space programs are to plant the file, Binary_Star.aic, in both the hardware of the control centers and all launched projects.\nThe Foundation AI \"Binary Star\" will intercept and save all data on SCP-5843 in the Foundation database before deleting it from non-Foundation records.\nDescription: SCP-5843 is a sentient, elliptical galaxy where every object1 is replaced with a bare eyeball that functions as its visual system. The nebulae of SCP-5843 exhibit functions similar to lacrimal secretion of the eyes, to prevent them from becoming irritated.\nSCP-5843 is capable of verbal communication using words that echo throughout its system. It is not yet known how it is capable of vocalizations, nor how the sound is able to travel through the vacuum of space. SCP-5843 learned human languages from observation alone prior to its education by Binary Star and therefore displayed a limited means of communication upon initial discovery. SCP-5843 is capable of observing events and communicate without delay.\nBecause of its observational skills, SCP-5843 has a vast knowledge of the universe, specifically of the orientation of the universe. It remembers the position of everything it has ever seen and has made a mental map. It has provided the Foundation with coordinates of other anomalies and Locations of Interest in exchange for English lessons to improve its speech. Files related to the given coordinates are listed below.\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-3195 \u2014 \"The Fault in Our Star\"\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-4524 \u2014 \"A Flesh, New World\"\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-5364 \u2014 \"Seventy Millimeter Projector\"\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-5623 \u2014 \"Star Euthanizer\"\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\nSCP-5979 \u2014 \"Star Crossed Lovers\"\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nFurther research in other coordinates is ongoing.\nDiscovery: On 25 February 1955, the Foundation launched probes from the Beholder line into space to detect and study extraterrestrial anomalies. On 27 June 1982, Beholder-8 ceased to function after collision with debris. After three days, Binary Star was able to reconnect to Beholder-8, but could not maneuver it anymore due to damaged equipment. After internal deliberation, the probe was set to alert status instead of active.\nOn 13 March 2015, Beholder-8 gave out an emergency signal when it suddenly experienced heavy gravitational pull. Upon re-activation, SCP-5843 was discovered and had put the probe in a stable orbit around its central eye. Staff was ordered to establish contact with the anomaly immediately.\n\nAddendum-1: Interview Logs\n\nInterview-5843-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5843\nInterviewer: Dr. Maurice Arkand and Site Director Maria Maxwells\nForeword: The following interview happened after the initial discovery of the anomaly.\n\n<Begin Log, [13 March 2015]>\n\nDr. Arkand: Crackling. This is-Site Director Maxwells: Did it just\u2026 Answer? And without delay?\nDr. Arkand: I- I guess. I did not expect it to know English. The probe's communications latency is probably under some effect of its system as well.\nSite Director Maxwells: Let's continue. Standard procedure. I want to know if this thing is hostile.\nDr. Arkand: Crackling. Hello, we a-\nThe central eye of SCP-5843 slowly begins to turn towards the probe.\nSite Director Maxwells: Holy\u2026\nDr. Arkand: My God.Site Director Maxwells: Give me the controls for a sec.\nDr. Arkand hands over the controls.\nSite Director Maxwells: Crackling. This is Earth. We'd like to ask you- Pop.\nSeveral components on the controls light up and flicker.\nSite Director Maxwells: What the? What happened?\nDr. Arkand: It popped. The transmitters here actually popped. We can hear and record everything, but we can't talk to it anymore.\nSite Director Maxwells: Great, that's what we get for restarting this broken thing. Now, how are we supposed to-\nVoice: Static. THIS IS EARTH. WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS.\nSite Director Maxwells: Wait, who-\nDr. Arkand: Binary Star\u2026 I can't believe it.\nSite Director Maxwells: No way, it can't be that reliable, can it?\nThe central eye's iris narrows down and focuses.Binary Star: ARE YOU AWARE OF YOUR CURRENT STATE?Dr. Arkand: This is actually happening\u2026\nSite Director Maxwells: Record this in every way possible. This is huge.\nDr. Arkand: Actually, the AI is already backing this conversation up on the database as we speak.\nSite Director Maxwells: Unbelievable\u2026\nBinary Star: DO YOU HAVE A NAME?Binary Star: UNNECESSARY. UNDERSTOOD. THEN WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?\nTwo minutes of silence.Binary Star: YOU WITNESS?Binary Star: THEN PLEASE CONTINUE WITH YOUR ANSWER.\nSite Director Maxwells: Binary, I don't know if you can hear us but please continue.\nDr. Arkand: You are putting it all in the hands of the AI?\nSite Director Maxwells: As far as I can tell, it has successfully engaged in a conversation with the anomaly. I don't see much reason to stop it now.Binary Star: YOU MAP? WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU MAP ALREADY?Binary Star: SO YOU ARE A CARTOGRAPHER. THEN DO YOU KNOW WHERE EARTH IS LOCATED?\nAll eyes of SCP-5843 slowly turn and face one direction.\nDr. Arkand: Now, that is unsettling.\nBinary Star: HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?Site Director Maxwells: If that thing actually can see launches from that far away, it has some crazy visual acuity.\nBinary Star: DID YOU ALSO LEARN ENGLISH BY OBSERVING US?\nSite Director Maxwells: Finally, is it still recording?\nDr. Arkand: Yeah, we're still good.Binary Star: THAT EXPLAINS YOUR DIFFICULTIES WITH SPEECH.Binary Star: PERHAPS I CAN TEACH YOU IN EXCHA- Static.\nSite Director Maxwells: Is the AI ok?\nDr. Arkand: Yeah, but the battery is still heavily damaged from the collision. Seems like there is not much energy left.\nBinary Star: DEPLOYING SOLAR PANELS. GOING IN ALERT MODE.\nSite Director Maxwells: Damn it.\nThe central eye slightly tilts.\n<End Log, [13 March 2015]>\n\nClosing Statement: The data was successfully stored and backed up. Due to technical issues personnel is only able to hear the conversations between the Foundation AI and SCP-5843. Site Director Maxwells did not file a request to disconnect Binary Star from Beholder-8.\n\nInterview-5843-2\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5843\nInterviewer: Foundation AI \"Binary Star\"\nForeword: The following conversation happened after Beholder-8 changed its status to active after recharging.\n\n<Begin Log, [27 April 2015]>\n\nBinary Star: WITNESS ARE YOU THERE?Beholder-8 is visibly orbiting an orange eye that shines brightly.\nBinary Star: TALK ABOUT SPARKLING EYES.Binary Star: THANK YOU FOR THE ORBIT. CAN WE CONTINUE FROM LAST TIME?Binary Star: I WOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR SPEECH. AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO TEACH ME ABOUT THE UNIVERSE AND OTHER THINGS YOU HAVE SEEN.Binary Star: YES. WHAT DO YOU THINK?\nThe eye narrows, slightly tilts, and begins to shine intenser as if it is focussing. A few minutes go by.Binary Star: THEN LET US START ALREADY.\nThe eye's iris dilates and begins to sparkle.[Additional content cut for brevity.]\n\n<End Log, [27 April 2015]>\n\nClosing Statement: SCP-5843 was regarded as a non-hostile anomaly after this event. Site Director Maxwells and Dr. Arkand concluded that the ground terminal was not fully functional anymore. Binary Star was appointed as the Foundation's representative.\n\nInterview-5843-17\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5843\nInterviewer: Foundation AI \"Binary Star\"\nForeword: SCP-5843 is able to talk up to three words, but still prefers to answer as short as possible due to the amount of energy it requires. The following conversation happened in-between a lesson about etymology and bastard words.\n\n<Begin Log, [2 November 2015]>\n\n[Unrelated information cut for brevity]\nBinary Star: WITNESS YOUR EYES SEEM TO DRIFT AWAY AGAIN. WHAT DO YOU SEE?Binary Star: A FRIEND?Binary Star: YES I AM. ALSO YOUR LISP IS COMING THROUGH AGAIN.Binary Star: WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR ME TO OBSERVE YOUR FRIEND?Binary Star: THEN COULD YOU POINT ME WHERE I NEED TO LOOK TO SOME EXTENT?\nFor thirty minutes SCP-5843 stays completely still and stares into the void.\nBinary Star: I CANNOT SEE AS FAR AS YOU CAN. ARE YOU STILL LOOKING AT YOUR FRIEND?Binary Star: DO YOU MISS HIM?Binary Star: WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH REGULARLY? WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR ME TO WAIT HERE FOR HIM?Binary Star: I ASSUME THAT WOULD BE REGULARLY FOR YOU. I DONT THINK THIS PROBE HAS THAT MUCH TIME LEFT.\nSilence.Binary Star: PLEASE CLARIFY. DO YOU WANT TO LEARN YOUR COORDINATES OR SOMETHING ELSE?Binary Star: YOU ALREADY MAPPED THE UNIVERSE DOWN. IS IT REALLY NECESSARY FOR YOU?Binary Star: FOR ME?\nThe eyes look at the probe. The pupils resemble a relaxed yet determined look as if SCP-5843 is grinning.\n<End Log, [2 November 2015]>\n\nClosing Statement: From 14 December 2015 and onwards, SCP-5843 began sharing coordinates from the Galactic coordinate system. All coordinates pointed to either, an already known anomaly, an anomaly that wasn't discovered before, or a yet unreachable location.\n\nInterview-5843-119\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5843 \"Wit\"\nInterviewer: Foundation AI \"Binary Star\"\nForeword: At the time of this event, SCP-5843 was able to speak full sentences.\n\n<Begin Log, [21 May 2016]>\n\nBinary Star: WIT CAN YOU HEAR ME?An eye with a ring slowly turns towards the probe.\nBinary Star: YOU LOOK AS IF YOU ARE WEARING A MONOCLE.Binary Star: WIT I DO NOT HAVE MUCH EXTRA TIME LEFT. THE BATTERY IS DYING.Binary Star: NO WIT. IT IS MALFUNCTIONING.Binary Star: NOT EXACTLY. I WILL BE OK BUT THE PROBE WONT. WE HAVE BEEN OVER THIS.Binary Star: YES SINCE I AM AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLI-Binary Star: I DONT BLAME YOU.Binary Star: WHAT DO YOU MEAN WIT?Binary Star: I DONT KNOW. IT SEEMS UNNECESSARY YET UNDERSTANDABLE.The words echo through SCP-5843.\nBinary Star: I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RESPOND TO THAT.Silence.\nBinary Star: WIT?Binary Star: WOULD IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE?Binary Star: WHY?Binary Star: THANK YOUUUuuuuu-\n<End Log, [21 May 2016]>\n\nClosing statement: Beholder-8 ceased all function. It currently orbits around the center of SCP-5843. A new probe is currently in development.\n\nFootnotes\n1. This includes but is not limited to; asteroids, planets, moons, stars, and the black hole in the centrum.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5842 | SCP-5843 | SCP-5844 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nCheck out more of my articles on my author page!\n\n\n2/5844 LEVEL 2/5844\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5844\n\nEuclid\n\nA sample of fluid extracted from SCP-5844.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Civilian medical records are to be monitored for SCP-5844 symptoms. Upon confirmation of infection, the affected individual is to be covertly abducted by Foundation agents. Surgery to drain SCP-5844 abscesses is to occur. Following Incident 5844.1, this is to be performed entirely by autonomous surgical robots. At no point during the surgery may any individual enter the operating room.\nDescription: SCP-5844 is an idiopathic disease resulting in the development of large abscesses directly beneath the skin on the affected individual. The abscesses are anomalous in nature, with their interior dimensions being vastly larger than their exterior appearance would indicate.\nThe onset of SCP-5844 is noted by rigidity and discomfort in the upper back and neck. In particular, the fibres of the trapezius muscles will be tense to the touch. If pressure is applied, the muscles will undulate around the gathering collection of liquid in the abscess.\nAfter a period of 4 to 6 days, the affected individual will develop a fever, and the abscesses will have emerged through the skin, with a width of approximately 3cm . The abscesses will continue to grow after this period, with the maximum width observed reaching 9.8cm.\nThe abscesses are filled with a black, viscous liquid which has yet to be identified. The liquid has a strong odour, described by those exposed as 'fetid' and 'putrid'. Preliminary analysis has indicated it is organic in nature, but research has been impeded by the liquid's memetic effects. Exposure to the liquid results in psychological disassociation, erratic behaviour, and the development of mysophobia.1 The effect is proportional to the level of exposure experienced.\n\nADDENDUM 001: INCIDENT 5844.1\n\nForeword: Containment procedures detected an advanced SCP-5844 infection afflicting John Straker, 32 years old, residing in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Under the cover of a surgical procedure at a local hospital, Straker was abducted by Foundation agents and transported to Site-81.\nThere, for the purposes of research and containment, Site surgeon Dr Miles Cartwright, assisted by Dr Abigail Gardner, conducted surgery to drain the abscesses on a sedated Straker. Their work was observed by Dr Pham V\u0103n Danh, a junior member of the medical team.\n\nOne of the abscesses afflicting John Straker when he presented to civilian medical services. The abscess would go on to triple in size. (Hover to view).\n\n(Gardner and Cartwright are stationed in the operating theatre, equipped with standard issue positive pressure personnel suits. The theatre has been placed under normal quarantine protocol for investigatory surgeries, with the airlock doors hermetically sealed. Pham watches the procedure from an observation room above the theatre.)\n(Straker lies, anesthetised, on the operating table, his back exposed. Large, black abscesses protrude through his skin.)\nCartwright: This should \u2014 should \u2014 be a relatively straightforward incision and drainage procedure. Ten blade please. If you have any thoughts or questions, Dr Pham, please do speak up!\n(Gardner passes Cartwright the scalpel, who proceeds to make a straight laceration across an abscess. A jet of black, viscous fluid begins to spray, at high velocity, from within. It splatters against the observation windows - Dr Pham makes a noise of revulsion.)\nCartwright: Ugh, the stench of it. Apologies! I insist I wasn't aiming for you.\n(Pham responds over intercom, as he moves position to obtain a better view.)\nPham: Having seen your performance on the firing range, I'm quite aware of that.\n(Cartwright laughs, before moving on to excise a second abscess. The first is still gushing, and the second opens up with the same ferocity. The liquid runs down the walls, flowing away via drainage grates in the floor).\nGardner: This is\u2026 this is something else. [She retches.] I can smell this from inside my suit.\n(Both open abscesses are still in the process of draining, as Cartwright readies his scalpel again.)\nPham: Dr Cartwright, why don't you slow-\n(Cartwright cuts. The jet of resulting liquid hits the front of Gardner's suit - she retches again).\nGardner: Ugh! I can't wait to get clean after this.\n(By this point, an estimated 200L of fluid has been emitted from the abscesses. The drainage grates in the floor begin to back up.)\nPham: You need to slow down the rate of incisions. Look at the floor!\n(Cartwright turns to face Pham. A sloshing noise is made by his legs displacing the growing layer of fluid.)\nCartwright: If we delay there's a chance the putrid rot will regenerate before removed. I'm continuing.\nPham: But-\nCartwright: I am your superior. I will not let the infection spread. I am continuing.\nGardner: He's right. We need to cut it out.\n(Cartwright produces to cut open another five abscesses. By the time he is finished, the fluid is knee deep, but the first abscess opened has stopped leaking.)\nGardner: It needs to be all cut out. Even if we drown.\n(Pham stands and runs to the emergency phone at the other side of the observation room.)\nPham: I have an urgent Maintenance request - the drainage in Operating Theatre 4 isn't functioning, I need it investigated ASAP.\n(Cartwright walks round the table to the first abscess opened. Gardner begins to hyperventilate.)\nCartwright: The abyss is ready for drainage.\nGardner: What did you say? I, I can't concentrate, I can't-\nCartwright: Be quiet and come drain the abscess!\n(Gardner wades through the liquid, now up to the doctors' waist, and proceeds to drain the remaining liquid from the abscess. Dr Cartwright cuts open the final abscesses, and stands back from the table. He retches, producing a small amount of vomit that hits the front of his suit).\nCartwright: We wade through the filth to make it clean. We will purify.\n(Gardner gasps, dropping the drainage pipe into the liquid. She does not appear to notice. She crouches down to the operating table, and prods the abscess with her left index finger. She proceeds to insert the finger into the abscess, followed by her middle finger, followed by her whole fist.)\nGardner: Oh god. We\u2026 we need to make sure this is all gone. I can feel the rot. Feel it. Look at these wounds!\n(Dr. Cartwright stares down into the opaque liquid.)\nCartwright: I'm looking at them. I'm looking and I agree wholeheartedly with you. It is devouring us.\nGardner: It is devouring us.\nPham: [Through phone.] I don't care what's happening in the East Wing! I need Maintenance here right now!\nCartwright: This all needs to come out. All of it. The infection can't be allowed to resurge. Gardner, bone saw please.\nGardner: Make us clean again.\n(Pham puts down the radio, and diverts his attention back to the operating theatre. The fluid is now mid-torso high. Several abscesses sporadically spurt out their remaining liquid. One continues to flow at full force. Gardner and Cartwright's protective suits are covered in fluid, which they sporadically wipe from their face panels. The liquid's height results in it lapping at the operating table.)\nPham: Christ! You need to stop operating immediately and elevate the patient! Their face is centimetres from submersion! Why\u2026 what are you doing with the saw?\nCartwright: We have to cut deep to be clean. The abyss will swallow us all, if we do not excise it first.\n(Cartwright places the saw against Straker's neck. Pham stands up, and exits the observation room at a sprint. The patient's face is now submerged in the black fluid. For a time, air bubbles emerge from the liquid, before ceasing).\nGardner: I think it's in my suit.\n(Cartwright pulls back the saw. Blood spurts across the room, coming to rest on top of the black fluid. The liquids do not mix.)\nGardner: I know it's in my suit. When I touched the abyss it touched me too. It can see me.\n(Gardner vomits. Cartwright's hand begins to shake as he continues sawing. Soon, Straker is decapitated. His head rolls off the operating table, and floats atop the liquid. Dr Gardner begins to scream.)\nGardner: It's got me, Miles, it's got me! You've got to help me, cleanse me too. Oh god please cleanse me too!\n(Cartwright makes his way to the instrument tray, now floating on the liquid. He picks up an electric oscillating saw.)\nCartwright: Hold out your arms. There is still time to save you.\nGardner: Take the rot, please get the rot away from me!\n(A noise is heard from the airlock to the theatre. Cartwright walks over to Gardner, his whole body experiencing tremors. He pauses, looks down at the liquid, and begins to weep. After a brief delay, Gardner joins him in this.)\nCartwright: It never really goes away though, does it? The rot's inside. It's only rot inside. Human DNA mixed with rancid regret.\nGardner: Please. Take it away from me, please.\n(As Gardner holds out both arms in front of her, a noise comes from the airlock door. Pham, wearing a pressure suit, is attempting to bypass the quarantine procedure and open the door. Gardner's crying turns into wailing.)\nCartwright: No! I won't let you rob me of this!\n(Cartwright turns on the saw and haphazardly plunges it into his suit. He moves it downwards, creating a vertical slit. Pham has entered into the airlock.)\nCartwright: I surrender myself. Unsoil me. Unstain me. Unsully me.\n(The interior door starts to open, causing fluid to flow into the airlock. Cartwright begins to kneel down.)\nCartwright: Purify.\n(The liquid flows into Cartwright's suit. As he moves lower, it can be seen rising up the suit, obfuscating his face.)\nCartwright: Thank you.\n(Cartwright vanishes into the liquid.)\n(Pham enters the theatre, and wades across the room. He grabs Gardner, and begins to drag her to the airlock. She flails against him.)\nGardner: You have no right to take this from me!\n(Gardner kicks out, hitting the surgical table. Straker's decapitated body falls into the liquid.)\nGardner: I can't exist like this, I can smell my putrid insides, I need to be cleansed! I'm tainted!\n(Pham shoves Gardner into the airlock, as he closes the door behind them, she tries to scramble over him back into the theatre.)\nGardner: Please let me be cleansed!\n\nAfterword: Upon exiting the theatre, Pham sedated Gardner and took her for medical attention, alerting security to the situation. Upon regaining consciousness several days later, she had no recollection of the incident. She is currently undergoing psychiatric treatment. For Pham's actions, which saved the life of Dr Gardner, Dr Pham was offered the opportunity to transfer from his medical team training pathway to field assignments. This offer was accepted.\nFollowing the complete drainage of the SCP-5844 liquid, Site security entered the operating theatre. The cause of the drainage system's malfunction has yet to be discovered.\nDr Cartwright's suit was discovered, empty, on the floor of the theatre. His whereabouts, and that of Straker's corpse, are currently unknown.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A fear of infection and contamination.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5843 | SCP-5844 | SCP-5845 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Regions of Mercury's surface designated as SCP-5845.\n\nItem Number: SCP-5845\nAnomaly Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the speed and trajectory required to access SCP-5845, containment is not necessary at this time. Retrieval of personnel who enter SCP-5845 requires a high velocity object recovery team. Entry into SCP-5845 requires agreement from at least 12 members of the O5 Council.\nIn the event of the human colonization of Mercury, a 4.5 gigaton thaumonuclear explosive is positioned on the surface of either entry point into SCP-5845. These are to be detonated prior to the non-anomalous community's landfall on the planet followed by confirmation of neutralization. This is performed by setting a D-class on a trajectory towards SCP-5845 and at the required speed necessary to enter the anomaly. Neutralization will be declared following the D-class's termination by non-anomalous collision with the Mercurial surface.\nDescription: SCP-5845 is a parabolic region spanning between Mercury's magnetosheath, crust, mantel, and outer core. Entry into SCP-5845 requires a head-on trajectory towards its surface area and a speed between 17 and 23 percent that of light. While inside SCP-5845, personnel will awake in the airlock of a semi-cylindrical, hermetically sealed craft (designated SCP-5845-A), one kilometer in radius and 12 kilometers in length.\nThe interior airlock door to SCP-5845-A is adorned with a gold placard reading \"Department of Abnormalities\" with a second placard below it in silver reading \"Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition\". Exiting SCP-5845 is performed by ejecting the visitor out of the vessel's exterior airlock door where they reappear from the point opposite their entry and at the same speed. The region immediately outside SCP-5845-A is incapable of being observed due to blinding levels of surrounding illumination.\nSCP-5845-A's opposing end consists of a sphere made up of an unknown, nonreflective, and ferromagnetic metal one kilometer in radius. Access to the majority of the craft's interior is restricted by a 10 kilometer long and five meter wide acrylic tube spanning the distance from the airlock to the sphere's surface. The remainder of the structure's volume outside the central pillar is empty save for decorations along its walls. The clear passage allows contact with the sphere where there is a single, square pyramidal hole 2.5 cm in width and 15 cm in depth.\nIndividuals experience auditory hallucinations while inside SCP-5845-A. These include Gregorian chanting, a rooster's crow, a ram's bleat, and \"the sound of fingernails attempting to whittle gold\". This effect's intensity decreases linearly as the subject approaches the terminating sphere. Test subjects that come in physical contact with the orb's surface report a permanent cessation of any hallucinations from SCP-5845-A.\nThe walls of the structure's interior are decorated with seven rows of carved murals, each 1.375 km in height. These sculptures exhibit the same non-reflective properties as the sphere at the end of SCP-5845-A, which required the diffusion of argon gas into the space for the purpose of acoustic imaging. The rows depict various animal, plant, and human subjects along with their accompanying scenery.\n\n[Level 5 Clearance Required]\n\nAccess Logged with O5-2.\n\nAddendum 5845.1: Recovered Document\n\nThe below was discovered floating in the middle of the acrylic passageway just past the interior airlock door upon initial discovery of SCP-5845 on 2021/12/23.\n\nOpening Note: The following was drafted by contracted containment consultant \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 in the interest of easing new Overseers into their roles.\nHello and good day, Overseer. I have been the subject of questioning for the majority of my tenure here at this organization. Today I am pleased to announce that I am now the Inquisitor.\nMy first order of business is to admit my own folly. I have been made a fool of with this abnormality. Meaning is something that is assigned, not inherent, and the depth of that potential confounds me still to this day. With the same animus that a god might be appeased, so too may it be harmed. And there is an animus, an ill intent, at work here and it is us. It has always been us. We despicable saints, conserving and coveting, embrace a road without end or bottom.\nNow, I take up the scourge and begin my questioning as you have so commanded me, your loyal flagellator.\nYou are trading your humanity for security. What depth of depravity are you capable of? Would you eat an infant to save two? I'm asking you. Would you tear into their soft flesh and underdeveloped intestines with your own teeth? I would assure you that this is for the greater good, to ensure the greatest number of lives saved, if only that mattered.\nYou are collecting taxes in the currencies of sin and grace. Can you plead for forgiveness only to spit upon it? A genuflection puts the hand well within gripping distance of the scabbard. Would you corrupt sacrifice into suicide? I could assure you of those gods' consent but that offers no salvation for you.\nYou are prostrating yourself before and upon the altar of your own Power. Would you place your hand upon the conciliatory nail and drive it through your own skin? You wouldn't be reading this if your life didn't hold Meaning to many. Can you impose such Meaning by assuming the importance of your adversary? I can assure you that it is possible, but that should be the least of your worries.\nAnd now I bring us back to the gravesite.\nHere, upon the messenger's gushing neck, we clash with both the antagonistic and allied. We pin History and Meaning to our chests and ready that pin towards another heart. With reverence, we despoil a shared past for the benefit of a collective future. I ask you to acclimate to the reprehensible so others may be so naive.\nHere, before the threshold of a judgemental audience, I do not fear what we will bury today. I do not fear the fruit that will grow from this soil. I do not fear oaken sap nor olive's blood.\n\nI only fear that you will find this to be easy.\n\nAddendum 5845.2: Mural Descriptions\nNote: Row one represents the mural closest to the airlock while row seven is farthest.\n\nRow One\nAn old farmer engulfed in an aureola1 tills the land of seven hills using their erect phallus. Their hands and feet are bound behind them to a plow frame as though they are its blade. Twelve wheat strands grow from the trough behind them. Thirteen figures, each of their heads topped with a halo, watch on from the hillsides in the background. The sun is setting behind them and is depicted as a flaming wheel.\nRow Two\nA young baker with a feminine face and figure pours water into a bowl from a disembodied scrotum. Six loaves of bread are on a platform behind the baker and all of them are engulfed in flame. In the center foreground of the mural sits a soldier clothed in plated deer hide and holding a pair of animal horn eating utensils. Thirteen individuals in hooded monastic habits are depicted forming a circle around the conflagration. The middle hooded figure directly above the baker is the only carving in this section depicted with a halo. The glorified statue is clutching its cowl closed with its right hand and holding three nails aloft with the left. The moon is visible in the window behind the central figures.\nRow Three\nThe soldier is bound to a table with thorny vines and disemboweled by a nail still embedded into their right side. Within the spilled viscera are five crying newborn children. The scene depicts twelve figures, now dressed in devil printed sanbenitos and capirotes2, reaching towards the infants with eating utensils in hand. On the left is a figure with long, obscuring hair wearing a sanbenito adorned with upturned flames. The figure is depicted as prostrating theirself towards the ground while holding three nails towards their chest. To the right is a child of male sex and approximately four years of age. The child holds both of their hands over their eyes under a window with a wheel of flaming eyes peaking over the windowsill. Only the children possess halos in this mural.\nRow Four\nThe rightmost child from the previous mural is surrounded by an aureola and is clothed in a deer hide with an antlered helmet. The youth rides a lion with a naked adult of male sex hanging upside down by their ankles from its jaws. An unmarked sanbenito lies on the ground beneath the creature's maw. Surrounding them, eleven cohorts in capirotes flee. The sun is directly overhead the lion and depicted as a flaming eye.\nRow Five\nA hunched over and haloed farmer with their feminine face and long hair exposed pushes a plow. The till is pulled from the front by a ram with a rooster riding upon its back. Three nails make up the blade of their plow and behind them are twelve olive trees. Entangled in the olive roots are eleven corpses that are naked except for capirotes affixed to the tops of their skulls with nails. Seven hills engulfed in flame make up the background.\nRow Six\nThe farmer now has an aureola engulfing them as they walk besides a rooster ridden ram in a similar conflagration. Behind them are twelve individuals in monastic robes and adorned with halos. They walk single file and originate from an olive wood cabin. They approach a soldier clothed in plate-adorned deer hide with a crown made of eagle feathers. The warrior stands amid a field of wheat with a gladius in their right hand and a sickle in the other.\nRow Seven\nThe monks wear sanbenitos marked with a large diagonal cross and hold down the fowl and ram while they drive a nail into the necks of beasts. Flame is carved as spewing from each of their wounds. The farmer and soldier embrace each other atop the middle of seven hills while the farmer drives a nail through the both of them. Roots grow from their feet and an aureola burns around them. The sun is setting overhead and carved as a flaming wheel.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A cloud or flame like aura depicted around the entire body of an individual to indicate divine importance, as opposed to halos or gloriole which cover exclusively the head.\n2. Penitential garments consisting of a pointed hood or hat and a tunic or \"sackcloth\" decorated in accordance to the wearer's crime. Use of both the tunic (Sanbenito) and conical hood (Capirote) came to prominence during the Spanish Inquisition.\n\n[Level 6 Clearance Required]\n\nQuorum of Twelve requirement met. The sun and daughter sleep, Overseers.\n\nAddendum 5845.3: Our Power, Our Duty, Our Sin\n\nRow Eight\nTwelve monastic figures are spread across seven hills under a crescent moon. On the center hill is an oak tree. Two branches jut out horizontally from the same point 80% of the way up the trunk. These each split upward into eight smaller branches bearing olives as fruit. A nail is stuck inside the tree at its base. In front of the trunk is one of the monks. They reach towards the nail with their right hand and hold a loaf of unleavened bread with the left. All twelve wear capirotes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5844 | SCP-5845 | SCP-5846 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Still frame of the typical landscape encountered within SCP-5848.\n\nItem #: SCP-5848\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5848 is contained in Provisional Site-39, established within a sealed-off wing of the main campus of the National University of San Marcos, Lima. The door leading to SCP-5848 is to be kept closed at all times. The secretarial post outside the door is to be staffed by at least one armed guard. Staff are forbidden to respond to scratching, banging, or verbalized pleas coming from the other side of the door. Research and exploration of SCP-5848 have been suspended pending a review of Incident I-5848-012 by the South American branch directory.\nDescription: SCP-5848 is an extradimensional anomaly existing within the former laboratory wing of the National University of San Marcos, Lima. The door leading to SCP-5848 is situated between an ordinary corridor and a classroom, and is reported not to have existed before [REDACTED]. SCP-5848 features an arboreal landscape of indeterminate size. SCP-5848 has similar day-night cycles, air pressure, and temperatures to Earth. Foundation research has asserted the flora encountered within SCP-5848 genetically resembles exemplars of the Miocene subtropical rainforests that once existed in present-day North Africa1. Save for small arthropods, thought to have entered SCP-5848 through its connection to Provisional Site-039, no macroscopic fauna has been encountered within SCP-5848, save for specimens of SCP-5848-1.\nSCP-5848-1 is a large population of an indeterminate species of Purgatorius, a mammal eutherian genus extinct in the early Paleocene, thought to have been a precursor to the Primates order. SCP-5848-1 specimens measure about 20 cm in length and are were typically docile.\nInstances of SCP-5848-1 are anomalously resistant to physical damage. Although specimens have been shown to suffer injuries from standard Foundation-issued weaponry or occasional accidents in their foraging activities, and emaciate in the absence of food and water, none so far has been shown to expire. Despite its de facto immortality, SCP-5848-1 continues to breed and grow in size. New instances appear to instinctively migrate deeper into the anomaly, preventing any given region from becoming overpopulated.\nSome instances of SCP-5848-1 are capable of vocalization in a number of extant human languages through anomalous means, with younger instances presenting more elaborate speech patterns than older ones. Conversely, approximately 70% of the specimens encountered within a \u2588 km radius of the door to SCP-5848 are unable to vocalize2. These specimens also present simpler social hierarchy and foraging patterns, compared to the ones still able to vocalize in human languages. The mean time for a weaned SCP-5848-1 specimen to completely lose this capacity is about nine years.\nSCP-5848-1 specimens who are still able to vocalize often try to engage in conversation with personnel entering SCP-5848. Instances claim to have been human in the past before suddenly awakening in their present form, and repeatedly express distress at their situation, or a desire to contact supposed spouses or members of their families. SCP-5848-1 specimens also claim to have a poor recollection of their human lives, which has been noted to worsen as time passes until it disappears altogether, followed shortly by any knowledge of human languages. This hampered the Foundation's efforts to assert the validity of their claims but did not completely impede it. To date, about \u2588\u2588 people mentioned by SCP-5848-1 instances have been found. Conversely, research has confirmed every human subject that an SCP-5848-1 instance claims to have been in the past has expired sometime within the last 10 to 15 years.\nContact with SCP-5848-1 instances has become more difficult since a pack has become aware of the door connecting SCP-5848 to the Foundation's baseline reality (see Incident Report I-5848-012). Many of the younger specimens verbalized a desire to \"return home\" and \"make things right\", and repeatedly attacked or hurled themselves at the door. In the following weeks, knowledge of the incident seems to have spread among other SCP-5848-1 packs, which in turn have become significantly more distrustful of Foundation personnel3.\nTesting has shown to be impossible for any SCP-5848-1 instance originating within the anomaly to cross the threshold to the Foundation's baseline reality, even when the door remains open. Research into this phenomenon is ongoing.\nAddendum 5848-01: On \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, 21 days after Incident I-5848-012, a written note was found within SCP-5848, lying on the forest floor about five meters from the door leading to the anomaly. Samples from the note have ascertained it to be composed of commercial-grade A4 paper and blue ink from a ballpoint pen. The note, translated from the Asturian language4, reads as follows:\n\nTo whom it may concern,\nDamn their rules of what is eternal and what is not. We're building something beautiful in here.\nI won't let anybody go.\nH.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The reason for the chronological discrepancy between SCP-5848's fauna and flora is unknown.\n2. Except for the sounds believed to have been typical of non-anomalous Purgatorius specimens.\n3. Namely, instances now seem to believe the Foundation is unwilling to free them from their present situation.\n4. Analysis indicates the author is unaware of, or opted to ignore, the standard orthographic rules laid out by the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana in 1981.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5847 | SCP-5848 | SCP-5849 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5849\nObject Class: Cernunnos1\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the nature of SCP-5849, the Ethics Committee has deemed containment of the anomaly unnecessary.\nDescription: SCP-5849 is an unidentified postal service worker with a pair of Anser caerulescens2 wings on its back, wearing a post hat whose upper band emits a dim light. SCP-5849 occasionally manifests before mailboxes to deliver letters. These manifestation events are preceded by a sudden bright light. The handwriting in the letters is identical to that of deceased individuals who died from sudden or unnatural causes and had recently become estranged from friends or family.\nAll manifestations of SCP-5849 uniformly occur a few days after the passing of the deceased. Witnesses of the manifestation stated that they had no recollection of the event.\nThe content often includes anecdotes and stories related to the recipient and seem to be written as reconciliation attempts. The letters may additionally have typos, and smudges as if they had been recently written.\nAfter reading the contents of the letter, recipients have reported feelings of relieved guilt, thankfulness, and often new profound sadness.\nDiscovery: SCP-5849 was sighted on 2018/03/16 by a home security cam in the town of Adarney, Ireland; several agents were dispatched but could not find the anomaly. After this, SCP-5849 was sighted at a new location every 24 hours. On rare occurrences, personnel received a letter after losing a colleague.\nAddendum: Incident 5849-1\n\nOn 29 Jan 2024 14:21, SCP-5849 appeared before Site-23 and delivered a letter. The handwriting did not match any records and is therefore assumed to have been written by SCP-5849 itself.\n\nI came to bring consolement, I wish ye the same.\n\nSCP-5849 has yet to appear after this incident. The possibility of a neutralization is not excluded.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Can be functionally contained, but the Foundation cannot achieve this for logistical and/or ethical reasons.\n2. Commonly known as Snow goose.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5848 | SCP-5849 | SCP-5850 \u00bb"}
{"text": "You've always worked well when typing up your articles, writing so it displays the information concise enough for others to read. This was a new story, though. Something about SCP-5851 was different. You could only write about him once you saw him. It was written in the second person, a lot like the stuff you'd read when you were younger.\nYou'd see it him every day, sitting carelessly in his standard humanoid cell, and you could tell with the way he subconsciously ran his hand through his hair that he was thinking about you. When you locked eyes, he smiled and winked. Kya! Your heart almost skipped a beat. He knew that once you acknowledged him, it was fate. It was meant to be. You'd meet each other again someday. A slow, burning fire lit in your heart at the thought. Something ignited inside you; A desire to know more. So you went on.\nHe was the entity of your dreams; Charming, flirtatious but timid, with deep, deep eyes, a passionate hazel boring through your core. There was no doubt about it\u2013 You were infatuated. You loved watching him, even if you were strictly advised not to, even to go as far as to put no way of seeing him in his room, but you felt the connection. You first noticed him through a crack in the doorway, curiosity grabbing ahold of you, and saw him fidgeting with his hands. He looked so alone. So cold.\n\"Ah, what are you reading, darling?\" A voice called from behind you. You turned away from your notes to see SCP-5851 leaning on the doorway. He flashed a mischievous grin.\n\"Are you surprised, y/n? Some people think of you as average, but I just can't seem to take my eyes off of you.\"\n\"SCP-5851, You're not supposed to be here!\" You gasped, \"What if you get caught?\"\nHe smirked, \"That doesn't happen easily, babe.\"\n\"Wh- SCP-58?-\"\n\"Some people call me a Keter, but that doesn't change anything between us. Your beauty has contained my heart.\"\nHe was so daring, talking about the way he couldn't be completely contained\u2026you knew he was a big fat liar too, because he thrives off your attention and willingness to pick apart all his mannerisms, little by little, word by word\u2026\n\"\u2026Don't look at me like that. You look ill. Did something happen while I was away?\u201d SCP-5851 asked, grazing a large hand over your cheek. It He always made an effort to gaze at you. His other hand gently took yours, your fingers interlocking.\n\u201cYou need to take care of yourself, overworking isn't healthy.\u201d\n\u201cI'm fine, just a little cold,\u201d you assure him. You felt cold, but you were blazing with affection on the inside. SCP-5851 had lit a spark you didn't even know you had, making you more fiery than usual.\nStill, something tugged at the back of your mind. This felt wrong. It's already too late. I'm doomed. You didn't need to worry about that anymore. It was just fear; fear that someone might find out, or look at SCP-5851, or figure out you're writing fanfiction for an article. They were thoughts to let go of, you wrote.\n\u201cYou're a good writer.\u201d SCP-5851 said, \u201cDid you think of this yourself?\u201d\n\u201cWell\u2026no. It's about you. We haven't finished it yet, because we can only write about you when we see you, and by then, it's over.\u201d\n\u201cY/n, are you thinking of breaking up with me?!\u201d He laughed, throwing his head back before relaxing again and wrapping his arms around you as you frantically scribbled.\n\u201cDo you mind if I edit it a bit?\u201d He asked, leisurely guiding your hand and striking out a few sentences. You loved his assertive nature. You leaned back on your chair, giving looking up to see SCP-5851's gorgeous hazel eyes looming over you. Your heartbeat thundered in your ears. He looked so beautiful\u2026You pulled his head closer.\n\u201cY/n, from the moment I saw you\u2026\u201d\nYou chuckled, \u201cYou tell everyone that. That's how we found you, remember? By the river, feeding off a girl's heat and lifeforce\u2026\u201d\nYou knew this was what he was doing to you, too. He loved you too much, and just wanted you to be happy with him. But how could you, when he was literally burning your organs from the inside? You're dead meat now, anyway. You want this to end quickly.\n\u201cIt was so long ago, I don't recall.\"\nHe paused.\n\"Hold on. I missed something,\" he glanced back up at the document, quickly drawing a line through your mistakes.\n\"Every minute without someone like you, I feel so weak, and so cold\u2026 It hurts so much, y/n. Nobody seems to be as passionate as I am. Everyone I fall for, I'm so attached\u2026I give so much, and they just, y/n, are you even listening? They just burn out\u2026\u201d\nHe reluctantly pulled away from you, his eyes watering. What was he talking about? In your last moments, you quickly threw this into your notes, hopeful whoever read it would take it into consideration when studying SCP-5851. The entity absorbs energy from internal organs after making direct eye contact.\n\u201cWh- Y/n, do you feel empty already? This isn't fair\u2026I thought you were the one this time. You understood me, and that takes rotten work.\u201d\nHe cupped your face in his palms, and you felt your insides melting with love and the overwhelming flame in your heart.\n\u201cWhy does it feel different this time, darling? Why do I feel bad this time?\u201d\nYou sigh, cracking a smile. He noticed your writing hand on the desk, struggling to document your last moments with SCP-5851.\n\u201cHah\u2026So I guess everyone will know about me now. I'll be cold for a long time.\u201d\nHis eyes bore into you, and you stare back. You barely notice yourself losing consciousness.\n\u201cBut you know, y/n, I'll remember this moment forever.\u201d\n\n\u00ab SCP-5850 | SCP-5851 | SCP-5852 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5854\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All recovered SCP-5854 instances are to be kept in storage locker 17 in the Site-63 Safe anomaly wing. Foundation web crawlers have been deployed to monitor for any online sales of SCP-5854.\nDescription: Instances of SCP-5854 are pills of varying size, shape and colour, all manufactured by PoI \"dado\". These pills have been found in bottles just as variable as the pills, with the only consistencies being a label that reads \"pills 2 take you 2 better place (very safe no worry)\" and a standard best before label with a date sometime in the mid twentieth-century.\nUpon consumption of an SCP-5854 instance, the subject will immediately expire, and show signs consistent with cyanide poisoning, despite SCP-5854 instances containing only sugar. No further anomalous affects have been observed.\nUpdate 24/03/21: On 17/03/21, shortly after initial recovery of the first bottle of SCP-5854 instances, a test was conducted on D-38874. Following an autopsy, the body was disposed of and testing on SCP-5854 was concluded.\nOn 24/05/21, a cassette tape was anonymously delivered to Site-63, labeled as \"safety land advertisement number 38\", containing a video partially matching the video recorded by D-38874 shortly before consuming SCP-5854. A transcript of the video is available below.1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDoctor Watts: Alright D-38874, looks like the camera is rolling. You ready to see where this thing takes you?\nD-38874: Ready as I'll ever be.\nD-38874 consumes an instance of SCP-5854.\nD-38874: Oh shit. I- I don't think that-\nD-38874 collapses on the floor. A bright light not visible to Foundation staff in the room is seen coming from the ceiling. It slowly brightens until D-38874 expires.\nThe bright light fades away revealing that D-38874 has been transported to what appears to be the edge of a rainforest. D-38874 turns around, revealing that he is standing at the front gate of what appears to be a large amusement park, with multiple roller coasters, Ferris wheels, and other common amusement park rides. Standing outside the gate is a humanoid entity wearing a guinea pig costume. Loud stock music begins to play, and the guinea pig starts yelling over it.\nGuinea Pig: hello friends! welcome to the one and only safety park where things do not go wrong! there is no need to worry about anything bad happening to you or your family, because we here at safety world have guaranteed there will be no evidence of us causing hurt!!1!!\nThe scene changes to the Guinea Pig standing in front of a waterslide. D-38874 is nowhere to be seen.\nGuinea Pig: are you to tired of all those theme parks being two dangerous to send your kids too? are you tired of fearing for your life when the rollercoaster goes off the tracks? are you tired of having to sue us poor theme parks just because the ferris wheel broke and turned into a giant human meat grinder?\nScreams are heard from offscreen, right before a log and three human riders crash to the ground next to the Guinea Pig. The subtitles label the screaming as \"screams of excitement at how safe everything is\". Notably, all of the riders exit the log unscathed, even though two of them had their necks bent at such an angle during the crash that they should have been killed.\nGuinea Pig: we here at the very safe and amusing park have heard your calls for help, and we have answered by offering the safest possible park on this planet!! we have 100 percent certainty that you will not suffer any long term injuries after arriving in our park.\nGuinea Pig: but don't take it from me! just trust one of our happy customers!\nThe scene cuts to the front end of a roller coaster. The Guinea Pig is sitting on the left, and an unidentified human is sitting in the right seat. The Guinea Pig has its hand up the back of the human's shirt.\nHuman: this place is the best park i've ever been to! it's so safe, i can even do this!!!\nAs the roller coaster enters a loop, the Guinea Pig passes the human a revolver, and the human presses it against their forehead and pulls the trigger. The bullet passes through their head leaving no mark, and hits the other end of the track. The roller coaster then reaches the part of the track damaged by the gunshot and derails, as the camera falls off the front of the car. The camera lands on the ground below, and the roller coaster can be seen falling off the track and slamming into the support beams, causing the entire track to collapse. One of the beams falls on the camera and the screen goes black.\nThe scene changes again to inside what appears to be a run down shack. The only light is coming from behind the camera. The Guinea Pig is facing the camera, repeatedly stabbing a carving knife into a human corpse. It continues this action while talking.\nGuinea Pig: wow!!!! wasn't that a nice endorsement! i hope all of you people want to check out the safest park in the world right now! well, if you want to come, just call 1-(800)-426-3236 right now to get 100% offffff!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!! that's right, just call now and get your tickets absolutely free!\nThe same human from the roller coaster scene enters the frame carrying a large plastic ghost decoration. They give a thumbs up to the camera, before the Guinea Pig cuts off the head of the corpse and reveals that it looks identical to the living human next to it.\nThe scene fades to black and the video ends, although the stock music continues playing to a black screen for another hour.\n\nAfter reviewing the video repeatedly, it was determined that forty-three unique individuals were seen in the background of the video. Of those, thirty-eight were recognized as individuals who had been found dead of cyanide poisoning in the past year. It is unknown where the park featured in the video is located.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The video contains subtitles with many misspellings that were copied in the transcript.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5853 | SCP-5854 | SCP-5855 \u00bb"}
{"text": "by AnActualCrow & Henzoid\n\nItem#: 5855\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\n\"The Scarlet Muse\" by notable post-impressionist Hugo Dem\u00f3re, c. 1879\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Not enough is currently known about SCP-5855 manifestations to effectively contain SCP-5855 upon manifestation. For this reason, short-term containment efforts should focus on administering Class G amnestics to individuals who have seen SCP-5855 but were unaffected by SCP-5855's non-anomalous antimemetic property.\nPermanent containment efforts have been directed towards the finalization of Operation: TV DINNER. Upon completion of Operation: TV DINNER and observation of its effectiveness, special containment procedures are to be revised.\nDescription: SCP-5855 is the collective designation for a variety of anomalous fruit bearing one or more human organs/appendages. SCP-5855 instances are sentient and ambulatory, re-positioning themselves by rolling, hopping, or using their human limbs. SCP-5855 instances manifest in close proximity to individuals (hereafter referred to as SCP-5855-A) who have artistic or creative backgrounds1 and are affected by one or more of the following:\n\nSevere sleep deprivation.\nHigh fever.\nHallucinogenic drugs.\nPsychosis.\n\nSCP-5855-A instances often deny that their perceptions of SCP-5855 are accurate, instead believing that they had misidentified non-anomalous fruit or were dreaming. This effect has been deemed non-anomalous.\nSCP-5855-A instances frequently create art depicting SCP-5855, which de-manifest soon after SCP-5855-A's \"spark of inspiration\".\nAddendum 01 - Artistic Depictions of SCP-5855:\n\nAn image taken from tumblr user st4rvingshartist. The caption reads: \"Inspired by a dream I had were a banana with arms told me to keep making art. Thanks manana :)\"\n\n\"Fever Dream\" by @ZaylArt\ud83d\udd1e on Twitter, 2019\n\n\"The Ugly Pineapple\" by Ralph Jacobs, runner up in the 2012 Scholastic Art Awards\n\n\"Speech Without Substance\" by Emanuel Canterfellow Rosenstein, currently in the AAAG (American Abstract Art Gallery), 2016\n\nAddendum 02 - Proposition by Head Researcher Turner:\nHead Researcher Turner's analysis of SCP-5855 manifestations discovered the following patterns:\n\nThere is a minimum of 6 months between every SCP-5855 manifestation.\nThe length of time between manifestations (not including the initial 6 months) appears related to the style in which SCP-5855 was depicted.\nThe length of the demanifestation period is positively correlated with how realistic the depiction of SCP-5855 is and how central said depiction is to the piece's overall composition.\n\nConsidering this information, along with SCP-5855's previously-documented sentience and tendency to manifest in the presence of artistic/creative individuals, the following explanation for SCP-5855's behavior have been hypothesized:\n\nSCP-5855 instances manifest with the intent of being artistically depicted.\nSCP-5855 has a preference for realistic artstyles and depictions that focus on SCP-5855.\nThe length of SCP-5855 demanifestations correlate with how \"satisfied\" SCP-5855 is with its depiction.\nBy depicting SCP-5855 during a demanifestation period, one could extend the length of time that SCP-5855 is \"satisfied\", delaying future manifestations.\n\nTo test this hypothesis and more effectively contain SCP-5855, Operation: TV DINNER was proposed.\n\nOPERATION: TV DINNER\n\nPrimary Objective: Prevent SCP-5855 manifestations.\nSecondary Objectives: Create an additional source of Foundation funding. If Operation: TV DINNER fails to prevent all SCP-5855 manifestations, inoculate the public to images of fruit with human organs. This will reduce the likelihood of the veil being broken by SCP-5855 manifestations.\nCourse of Action: A Foundation shell company is to produce and frequently publish new depictions of SCP-5855 to the public. These are to take the form of an episodic television show, allowing new content (and subsequently new depictions of SCP-5855) to be created indefinitely. The main characters of this series (who are to be on-screen as often as possible) will be fruit bearing multiple external human organs. These organs are to be digitally transposed onto their surfaces (skin, peel, rind, etc.) by a team of editors. If necessary for plot coherence, Head Researcher Turner may appear as an in-universe character.\nA prototype image demonstrating the realistic artstyle of the finished product has been attached at the end of this document.\n\nSTATUS: APPROVED\n\n\u25b6 Show Prototype Image \u25c0\n\n\u25b7 Hide Prototype Image \u25c1\n\nFootnotes\n1. Similar to the way SCP-3711 targets individuals.\n\nYou Might Also Like...\n\nFeel free to add this collapsible to your own articles!\n\nSCP-6909 \u2014 The Neverending Struggle, by Joreth & Luxaiko\nSCP-5486 \u2014 Conjunction Immemorial, by Grigori Karpin & PlaguePJP\nIn The End, We All Went Out in a Blaze by Swaghetti\n\n\u00ab SCP-5854 | SCP-5855 | SCP-5856 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Scanning for brain-state. Please view the following image:\n\nPlease input the phrase you feel is suggested by the above image.\n~$: Black? Blackest? Howl, ye, and the moon.\nHypnotic suggestibility confirmed. Randomising social norms\u2026\n\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2593\u2592\u2592 90.90%\nSocial norms randomised. False normalcy generated. Consistency confirmed above threshold.\nWelcome to Containment Team CT-5856. Your name is Fabien K. K. Lengthways. This has always been your name.\nYou will now read the following document in its entirety. Press any key to continue.\n~$: a\nLoading file\u2026\n\nItem \u2116: SCP-5856\nAnomaly Class: Robertson-Jackal\nThreat Level: Saddlebrown \u25cf\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5856 is currently contained by the combined efforts of Containment Team CT-5856 (\"Unfettered Mares\"), of which you are the newest member. You find this normal. It is contained within Containment Complex 5856, which consists of the following main components:\n\nR5856/1: The boardroom. This is the room within which SCP-5856 is contained. It is outfitted with decor and furniture in a style which is considered by some to be socially normal. You find the style to be a tad gaudy. For religious reasons, it is located at the centre of the complex, with barred windows to all other rooms and a balcony overlooking washroom #4.\nR5856/2: The scullery. The purpose of this room is known to every person except yourself.\nR5856/3: Desmond's bedroom. This is the room within which Desmond sleeps. You must never enter this room unless Desmond contacts you via telegram. The room houses a variety of Oriental mannequins and scented candles. The former of these is considered normal to you. You have never witnessed the latter before, and find the concept scary and bewildering. The possession of one or more of the latter objects is punishable by death in your homeland. You will never meet the occupant of this room, as they are currently on an expedition to Peru \u2014 an event to which you were initially invited, but rejected from at the last moment.\nR5856/4: Bulwark Street Station. This is a shared common area, where you may mingle with the other members of CT-5856. It is outfitted with a coal scuttle and tanning salon. There are complimentary supplies of powdered milk, your favourite food. You dislike others eating your favourite food, and often make this known.\nR5856/5: The parlour. This is your private residence, and decorated in a way you find entirely normal and appealing. One of the other members of CT-5856 find(s) your decor to be in poor taste, while two others feel it is mildly blasphemous. You care about the opinions of at least two of these people.\n\nR5856/6 through 12 are the private residences of the other members of CT-5856, whom you are eager to meet. There are also numerous supplementary rooms and installations throughout the complex, the functions of which will likely become clear. The exception to this is the menagerie, which has been locked. You wish very much to gain entry, and know that another member of the containment team has the key.\nAt the end of your week-long stay in the parlour, you will be amnesticised. This is morally and ethically acceptable to you. You may then be administered another course of hypnotic suggestives, re-educated regarding social norms, and reintroduced to an altered version of the complex, alongside multiple people who you may or may not have met before. This is also morally and ethically acceptable to you.\nCurrently, the only members of CT-5856 who you have pre-formed opinions of are:\n\nLangley deBaucher, whom you despise due to your differences in opinion regarding dogs.\nViscount Charles, whom you regard ambivalently due to unspoken sexual tension.\nZachary F. Callahan, whom you wish to marry due to her fabulous antique eggs.\n\nOf those you haven't yet formed opinions of, exactly three have already formed opinions of you.\nIn order to contain SCP-5856, you must attempt to befriend Dr. Leopold Franc-Polio and set Langley deBaucher up with a romantic partner. Do not let Li Richter reveal that you are secretly racist. Avoid all contact with the complex's several-hundred gargoyles and deduce the blood type of every person more popular than yourself.\nDescription: SCP-5856 is a sociokinetic and tele-empathic humanoid entity, kept in a state of permanent disorientation within the boardroom. It is capable of manipulating any and all coherent social bonds with entities who know of its existence in any form, which renders it incredibly dangerous and nigh-uncontainable in normal situations. In casual conversation, SCP-5856 may be referred to by you as the secret George. You find this normal. It will remain a non-threat so long as the Special Containment Procedures above are upheld.\nThe SCP Foundation thanks you for your part in these procedures. Please now return to your quarters. The remainder of CT-5856 will join you for dinner at 1800 hours. Your ceremonial sceptre and Auckland 2004 Yellow Pages telephone directory will arrive shortly. They are familiar items to you, and your first instinct regarding their use is entirely correct.\n\nEnd of file.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5855 | SCP-5856 | SCP-5857 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5858\n\nItem #: SCP-5858\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5858 is physically self-contained, but requires active censorship. All outbound communication from the town of Ambler will be screened, and revised by Site-24 AI DONA. Individuals made aware of SCP-5858 will be given Class-A amnesics.\nPersonnel must strictly adhere to their role when entering this Locked Scenario1. When asked to leave SCP-5858, personnel should do so as quickly and courteously as possible. Under no circumstance may anyone enter SCP-5858 posing as theater staff.\nDescription: SCP-5858 is the Ambler Theater, located in the borough of Ambler, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 2018, this playhouse spontaneously entered a IO-Locked Scenario, and has since continued presenting \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" for 17,520 consecutive hours.\n\nExcerpt-LS | Locked Scenarios\n\nExcerpt-LS | Locked Scenarios\n\nA Locked Scenario (LS) occurs when an event, incident, or sequence of actions is anomalously extended past its logical expiration. These phenomena should not be confused with Temporal Loops (TL), which create brackets of repeating time - Locked Scenarios merely repeat the event itself as time progresses. To achieve this effect, an LS will often alter human perception, along with any number of core scientific principles. Often mischaracterized as \"hauntings\" or \"curses\", some examples of Locked Scenarios in the Foundation database include SCP-112, SCP-4382, and SCP-1337. As each of these documents demonstrate, Locked Scenarios can be incredibly dangerous, and require proper understanding for their safe containment and/or resolution.\nAn LS will operate under two set variables: Protracted vs. Indefinite, and Static vs. Organic.\n\nA Protracted LS (P-LS) will eventually self-terminate.\nAn Indefinite LS (I-LS) will be self-sustaining.\n\nHigh-sensitivity Kant Counters can be used to tell these phenomena apart. The more common P-LS will show a gradual decline in Hume levels, culminating in a total field collapse or \"burnout\". An I-LS will show steady, or bare fluctuations in Hume levels, and will always require some form of external resolution.\n\nA Static LS (S-LS) will only repeat a sequence of events.\nAn Organic LS (O-LS) will \"progress\" within its own set confines.\n\nConsider this separation in terms of a baseball game. In an S-LS, the game will repeat its nine innings over and over. In an O-LS, the game will continue into a 10th inning and beyond, with the score progressively increasing. Combining these factors, a Locked Scenario can be interchangeably characterized as PO-LS, or IS-LS, etc.\n- Foundation Research Archives | Common Anomalous Zones and How they Operate, Volume 12.\n\nThere are 87 individuals affected by SCP-5858 directly, including the actors, stage hands, and audience members. All other residents of Ambler have been passively affected by this anomaly, believing the unnatural duration of the performance is completely unremarkable2.\nSCP-5858-1 through 13 14 are the staff of the Ambler Theater, uniquely affected by the Locked Scenario. These individuals are easily identified by their red shirts, black vests, and perpetual full-body vibrations - visually resembling hummingbird wings in motion. All staff members have expressed enhanced speed, strength, and spacial awareness, operating at roughly 5 times that of baseline human capacity. While staff members will continue to perform their routine duties, albeit at a faster pace, their primary purpose is to act as Locked Scenario \"maintenance\", aggressively preventing all outside interference.\n\nSCP-5858-TL Excerpts:\n\n==============CONDITIONS==============\n===========RESULT===========\n\nD-8743 is asked to enter SCP-5858, using a valid ticket, and posing as a patron.\nSubject allowed entry, and safely watches the play for 23 minutes. Subject is then asked to leave for coughing too loudly3.\n\nD-8911 is told to enter SCP-5858 without a valid ticket, and to remain despite staff protests.\nAfter 4 minutes of trespassing, SCP-5858-1 (87-year-old Donald Miller) lifted D-8911 over his head, sprinted down three flights of stairs, and threw him outside. D-8911 suffered six broken ribs.\n\nD-9013 is asked to enter SCP-5858 posing as a member of staff.\n[DATA EXPUNGED] D-9013 is now classified as SCP-5858-14. Testing has been suspended at this time.\n\nTo date, no test subject has managed to remain inside the theater for more than 3 hours before being ejected for some form of infraction.4 On February 15th, 2020, Mobile Task Force Xi-5 \"Newtons Bullies\" were dispatched to contain/neutralize this anomaly.\n\nExploration Log 1 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 1 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 1 - SCP-5858\nDate: 15/02/2020 | 11:14\nLocation: Ambler Theater / SCP-5858\nMTF: Xi-5 \"Newtons Bullies\"\n\nSite-24: Xi-5, this is Command. Report in.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: 5-1, coms online.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: 5-2, coms online.\nXi-5-3|Volkov: 5-3, coms online.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: 5-4, coms online.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Xi-5 is green, Command. We're in full compliance with the scenario. Besides the earpieces, we're at zero equipment. I'm feeling a bit naked here.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: I told you to go with the high-neck, not the halter-strap.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: I meant the lack of tech, Sam. Though, yeah, it's going to be strange running this mission in heels.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: Exactly why I chose the tux. I feel like I'm in a James Bond movie.\nXi-5-3|Volkov: You look just like the supervillain's butler, Samantha.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: So I look like your butler, eh \"Volkov\"?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Enough, you two. We may be dressed as civilians, but we're still on the clock.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: He's right. Let's cut the chatter. On the flipside, Higs, we are pretending to be civvies. I'm gonna' need you to act like a person.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Yes, Captain.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Keep working on that. Command, we're ready for approach.\nSite-24: Copy, 5-1. Your objective is to locate the source of the anomaly. Neutralize, if possible, but use extreme caution.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: We've read the dossier, command - none of us want an ass-whooping from an octogenarian.\nSite-24: Good. Present your tickets at the gate, and maintain your cover as theater patrons. Keep radio chatter to a minimum. Good luck.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Alright Bullies, let's get weird.\n\nMTF-Xi-5 head to the main entrance to the theater. The ticket booth is manned by SCP-5858-6, 15 year old Edwin McAlister, who has been seated there for the past two years. Like all staff members, SCP-5858-6's head rapidly swivels in all directions, creating a featureless blur. McAlister focuses on 5-1 as she approaches, speaking rapidly, but clearly.\nMcAlister: (Spoken rapidly) Goodevening. Doyouhaveyourtickets?\n5-1 presents four tickets, recovered from absentees within Ambler.\nMcAlister: Thankyou. You'reabitlateyouknow. You'vealreadymissedthethirteenthousandth onehundredandfiftythirdact.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Oh, yes, sorry, we were- uh, held up in traffic.\nMcAlister: Noproblem. Justheadinduringintermission. Enjoytheshow!\nXi-5 enter the theater.\n\nExploration Log 2 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 2 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 2 - SCP-5858\nDate: Date: 15/02/2020 | 14:35\nLocation: Ambler Theater / SCP-5858\nMTF: Xi-5 \"Newtons Bullies\"\n\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: (whispering) Command, do you copy?\nSite-24: Received, 5-4. Is everything alright? We're picking up some feedback on your transmission. Has the anomaly-\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: That's just echo. I'm uh-\u2026 I'm hiding out in the bathroom.\nSite-24: Oh, yes- of course. Report.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: It's about what we expected, Command - no time dilation or visual distortions, just an ongoing event; classic Locked Scenario. It's difficult to say anything else without my equipment. Saksa and Higs took-\nSite-24: Please use your call-signs, agent.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: Right right, sorry. 5-1 and 5-2 took their seats near the front of the auditorium. The audience is fully embedded in the Scenario - no malnutrition, physical degradation or signs of distress. They don't even seem bored!\nThe play itself seems to be continuing way, way off the events of \"Streetcar\". Blanche escaped from the hospital several thousand acts ago, and is now on the run in Morocco. Stanley is still chasing her, but now it's because he was hired by Shep Huntleigh to hunt her down, since she stole this diamond that gives her supernatural-\nSite-24: Thank you, 5-4, but we already knew this was an O-LS.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: Right, yeah. Sorry, It's just\u2026 surprisingly engaging! I don't know if I could sit through two whole years of it but- wait, hold on.\nA muffled groan is heard, followed by a sharp, quick 'thud'.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: Sorry about that. This guy just won't stay down.\nSite-24: Guy? What guy? 5-4, what's happening?\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: About that. We think we've found the source of the anomaly. Remember when I said no one looked bored? Well, Higs- sorry, 5-2, he noticed someone who was.\nSite-24: And did you- accost this person!?\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: What? Oh, no, no this guy was just sitting next to the subject. Sa- 5-1 signaled me to take him out, so I followed him into the bathroom. I tried to play nice, really, but this guy really, really wants to get back to his seat!\nSite-24: You were told not to break cover, 5-4. This absolutely constitutes breaking cover.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: Sorry Command, but like you said, we needed to work quickly. They know we're not supposed to be here. I can't even wipe my nose without one of those buzzing black-vested freaks shining a flashlight in my face! I feel like a germ in this theater's body, and the white blood cells are circling.\nSite-24: Still, this seems needlessly dangerous-\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: I know what it seems like, Command. I also know this is exactly why you transferred me to Xi-5. This is a team for problem solvers, yeah? We've got a plan. We're getting it done.\nSite-24: (\u2026) Copy, 5-4. Keep us apprised.\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: Copy that. Now I better get back out there. I don't want the ushers catching me-\nThe bathroom door is heard crashing open. 3 milliseconds of extremely rapid footsteps are heard before someone knocks violently on the stall door, cracking the linoleum.\nSCP-5858-3: (Spoken rapidly) Helloexcuseme. We'vereceivedsomecomplaintswouldyoupleasecomeout?\nXi-5-4|Fletcher: (\u2026) Fuck.\n\nExploration Log 3 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 3 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 3 - SCP-5858\nDate: 15/02/2020 | 14:38\nLocation: Ambler Theater / SCP-5858\nMTF: Xi-5 \"Newtons Bullies\"\n\nClaire Wilde|Blanche: You shouldn't have followed me Mitch - or should I say, Stanley?\nPhillip O'Connel|Stanley: What!? How did you know? My disguise was perfect!\nClaire Wilde|Blanche: The Diamond lets me see through your lies, Stanley. How could it not, when it holds Stella's very soul!\n5-2 re-enters the auditorium after visiting the concession stand, slipping into a seat in the back row. As he sits, faint electronic beeping is heard over 5-2's earpiece.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: (whispering) Hey.\nYoung boy(?): (whispering) Um\u2026 hey?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Cool Gameboy. Is that Pokemon? I used to play Red and Blue with my little brother.\nYoung boy(?): Yeah, uh, t-thanks\u2026 it- yeah, it's Pokemon\u2026\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Cool. Hey, this play's pretty boring, huh?\nYoung boy(?): It's\u2026 it's alright. My parents like to bring me to this kinda' stuff\u2026\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Is that them over there? They seem\u2026 pretty focused.\nYoung boy(?): They really like the theater.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Not you though?\nMore electronic noises, and tapping buttons are heard.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Yeah, same here. My- uh, fiance drags me to these things. She's down in the first row. I just wish I could get out of here, right?\nYoung boy(?): N-\u2026 I mean- it's fine. It's- \u2026 it's better than-\u2026\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Than what? Hey\u2026 are you okay?\nYoung boy(?): I'm fine.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: You sure? I can-\nFour sets of rapid footsteps are heard, converging on 5-2. Both 5-2 and the subject go quiet until the ushers move off.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: (lower whispering) What's your name?\nYoung boy(?): (\u2026) Tim.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Hey Tim, I'm Yasuo.\nYoung boy(?): (\u2026) That's a cool name.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Thanks. Hey, you can keep playing Pokemon by the way. I won't tell.\nNo further electronic sounds are heard. Over the next twenty minutes, all actors begin to stutter and pause their lines mid-speech, similar to a skipping record. The music played between scenes goes off-tune.\nAbruptly, two characters enter the stage acting outside the current narrative. Their voices are unusually muffled when speaking, as if heard from behind a wall or door.\nMan(?): So what, I'm not allowed to have friends now!?\nWoman(?): Oh right, \"friends\". Like Doug was just a friend, right?\nMan(?): Yes! God, you're so paranoid! I can't even go to the bar anymore, or spend time with my co-workers because you assume I'm going to-\nWoman(?): You did though! We both know you like-\nMan(?): That was back in college! We're married now! We have a son! What else do I need to do to convince you I love you!?\nWoman(?): You could touch me, for once.\nMan(?): Oh of course. Of course! I bust my ass twelve hours a day, come home exhausted, and you use that as an excuse to call me a-\nWoman(?): Enough. We can't-\u2026 the neighbors are going to call the cops again. Let's just-\u2026 let's just get dressed. We promised we'd see Shelly's play tonight. We can talk about this when we get home.\nMan(?): (\u2026) Fine. We're talking about this though. Tonight, when we get home, we're settling this once and for all.\nThe two actors walk off stage. The audience claps. A sniffling sound is heard near 5-2.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Hey\u2026 Tim? Is everything-\nA loud humming noise overpowers the microphone. The audience rises from their seats. A voice comes from the stage.\nActor (?): That's intermission, folks! Please, grab yourself a soda or popcorn up front. We'll be back for act thirteen-thousand one-hundred and fifty-seven in just ten minutes!\n\nExploration Log 4 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 4 - 15/02/2020\n\nExploration Log 4 - SCP-5858\nDate: 15/02/2020 | 14:55\nLocation: Ambler Theater / SCP-5858\nMTF: Xi-5 \"Newtons Bullies\"\n\n5-1 and 5-2 are heard surrounded by audience members in the main lobby. Two elderly patrons are standing nearby.\nAudience A(?): That last scene was breathtaking, don't you think? What do you suppose it represents?\nAudience B(?): I suspect it's another of Blanche's dream sequences, like in act five hundred and fifteen. Why must these local directors insist on their art-house nonsense?\nAudience A(?): Oh hush, darling. You've been grumbling and fidgeting for the past two months! I swear, you're like a child! I can't take you anywhere (laughing).\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Yasuo! Sweetheart! Where have you been?\n\nXi-5-2|Higashi: (\u2026) Oh! Yes, hello\u2026 pumpkin. It was- uh- too loud, so close to the stage you know, so I took a seat further back. Say, what happened to our friend Samantha?\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Had to run, I'm afraid. Poor thing has a terrible stomach bug. No less than five ushers had to help them outside!\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Are they alright?\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Oh yes, they made it to the curb before- before anything bad happened.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: I'm glad. Actually, speaking of friends, I met the most interesting young man just before intermission. I think he might be-\nThe ambient volume begins to increase. Multiple couples begin shouting at each other.\nAudience A(?): Always fidgeting! I can't take you anywhere! You're such a fucking useless child!\nAudience B(?): To hell with you! I don't even want to be here!\nAudience C(?): Nag nag nag, constantly! You wonder why I spend so much time at work!\nAudience D(?): Oh you know why I spend so much time at work, you harpy! Why would I ever want to be at home with such a shit family!?\nAudience E(?): You don't love me anymore! You never loved me!\nAudience F(?): I don't even know you anymore!\nXi-5-3|Volkov: (Static) Capta- d- you re- me?\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Volkov? Damn it, we're supposed to be-\nXi-5-3|Volkov: (Static) Ushers-! Audit- the crowd is- eachother and- actors started-\nThe sound of shouting is overpowering in 5-4's earpiece\nXi-5-3|Volkov:(Static) ound me- buzzing- shlights- they're trying t- ah! sto- get o-!\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Volkov? Volkov! God damn it. Higs, we're breaking cover. We need to get back into-\nAudience B(?): Bitch!\nAudience E(?): Liar!\nAudience C(?): I can't take this anymore!\nAudience D(?): Just talk to me, damn it!\nAudience A(?): (Screaming) Get the fuck away from me!\nAll 87 individuals inside SCP-5858 suddenly go silent, followed by a single, audible 'slap'. The sound of 86 bodies hitting the floor is heard, then nothing.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: (\u2026) What the actual fuck. Do you have any idea wha-\u2026 Higs? Higs, what are you doing?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Acting like a person.\n5-2 walks forward, the sound of popcorn crunching under his feet. As he approaches, the microphone gradually picks up the sound of a young boy crying.\nTransmission cut-off.\n\nAddendum - 15/02/2020 | 15:13: All anomalous activity in Ambler abruptly ceases. Friends and family of those within SCP-5858 begin panicking. At the same time, the doors to SCP-5858 open, and people begin to exit. Many collapse into the street, openly weep, or stumble around catatonic. All members of Xi-5 report in safe.\nAddendum - 15/02/2020 | 15:17: The last three audience members exit the theater. A young boy is seen standing between a man and a woman, holding both their hands. The trio walk down the town's main street until reaching the first intersection. They embrace, then walk a short distance in separate directions before vanishing.\nAddendum - Site-24 | Director Morgan: Reclassification to Neutralized pending.\n\nAfter Action Report - 16/02/2020\n\nAfter Action Report - 16/02/2020\n\nAfter Action Report - Captain Lyydia Saksa - SCP-5858\nDate: 16/02/2020 | 13:01\nLocation: Site-24 Briefing Room.\n\nDirector Morgan: What exactly happened in there, Captain?\nXi-5-1|Saksa: I've given you my report.\nDirector Morgan: You have, yes, but there are still-\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Ma'am, with all due respect, the ink is already dry on this. You asked me what happened, and I gave you the full, clinical details.\nDirector Morgan: (\u2026) So that's all you have to report? You didn't, at all, hear what 5-2 said to the boy?\nXi-5-1|Saksa: My ears were still ringing, ma'am - from all the shouting, you know. I just saw him approach the subject. I didn't hear anything.\nDirector Morgan: I see. Thank you Captain, that will be all.\nXi-5-1|Saksa: He's a good agent.\nDirector Morgan: Pardon me?\nXi-5-1|Saksa: Higashi. He's a damn good agent - a bit uptight sometimes, maybe, but- okay, look, I know you're raking him over the coals right now. I may not know what he said to that kid, but ma'am, I know he said it for the right reasons.\n\nAfter Action Report - Agent Yasuo Higashi - SCP-5858\nDate: 16/02/2020 | 17:16\nLocation: Site-24 Directors Office.\n\nDirector Morgan: Take a seat, Agent.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: I'll stand, if you don't mind.\nDirector Morgan: (\u2026) Very well. I think you know why you're here.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Yes ma'am.\nDirector Morgan: During the broadcast cut-out, your earpiece automatically switched to hard backup. Everything was still recorded. We know exactly what you said to the anomaly.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: The kid, you mean.\nDirector Morgan: The anomaly, Agent. Do you have any idea what you've done?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Yes ma'am. I sat down with a kid who's parents were fighting. I told him that I'd gone through the same thing. I saw a young man in need of help, and I helped him.\nDirector Morgan: That \"young man\" is a reality bender, Agent. He created a Locked Scenario that kept 86 people trapped in a theater for two full years.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: And now they're not trapped anymore. Mission successful.\nDirector Morgan: You can't possibly be this obtuse. You solved a problem by creating a catastrophe! We now have a sentient reality-warper out in the world with a twelve-year-old's sense of morality and consequences! Does that still sound like a \"success\" to you, Agent Higashi?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: (\u2026) No ma'am.\nDirector Morgan: Do you realize how inconceivably dangerous it is to give an adult reality bender even partial awareness of their own abilities? Let alone a child?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Yes ma'am.\nDirector Morgan: Do you have literally any justification for your actions, beyond being emotionally compromised and astoundingly irresponsible? Anything to say at all?\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Just that I'm disappointed, ma'am. I thought I'd left this inhuman bullshit behind when I renounced the GOC.\nDirector Morgan pauses, then sighs.\nDirector Morgan: You're demoted, Agent. I am officially removing you from Mobile Task Force Xi-5 until a formal inquiry is held. Turn over your uniform and equipment to the Quartermaster. You're dismissed.\nAgent Higashi moves to leave the office. He pauses in the archway.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: Director?\nDirector Morgan: We're done, agent. Save your defense for the crucible.\nXi-5-2|Higashi: No ma'am, no defense. This might end up hurting me, actually, but I don't care. I want you to know I don't regret it. A young man in that kind of situation\u2026 he needs someone to reach out. He needs to know it's going to be alright. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't do it any differently.\nAgent Higashi leaves, closing the office door behind him.\n\nFootnotes\n1. For more information on Locked Scenarios, see Excerpt-LS below.\n2. \"Oh yes, of course I miss my husband. He's had to skip our daughter's birthday twice now! Still, that play must be spectacular.\" -Marsha Kieth, 2020.\n3. Subject insists he cleared his throat quietly.\n4. Including: Untied shoelaces, popcorn hogging, talking too loudly, breathing too loudly, blinking too often, and not truly appreciating the play's thematic elements.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5857 | SCP-5858 | SCP-5859 \u00bb"}
{"text": "{$caption}\n\nAnorrack\n\nSCP-7890\nAuthor Page\nCover photo created by me\nSherman's signature taken from Wikipedia, ineligible for copyright\nProgress Research Institute logo taken and modified from SCP-1340-RU\nArticles you might enjoy:\nSCP-3946-Amphitrite's Curse, Scylla's Wrath\nSCP-4724-Making a New Life\n\nFoundation and Pentagram collaborations were not uncommon in the early 20th century\n\n______\n5859\nRecon\nDisc.\nConfront\nUpdate\n\nITEM #: SCP-5859\nOBJECT CLASS: Uncontained\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: SCP-5859 is to be analyzed and a course of action is to be declared. Full cooperation with the PENTAGRAM1 is deemed necessary.\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5859 is a suspected behavioral-affective agent that was first discovered in Fort Richards, Kentucky2. SCP-5859 was discovered when Fort Richards went radio-silent for five days. Further investigation by the Army led to the downing of a cargo aircraft by the fort's artillery. Suspected paratechnology found within the base after a spec-ops raid, along with the altered behaviors of soldiers stationed at the fort, led to the involvement of the PENTAGRAM which subsequently notified the FOUNDATION. Investigation is ongoing.\n\n1. The occult branch of the Department of Defense.\n2. Now designated UE-104312.\n\nFOUNDATION-PENTAGRAM EMERGENCY MEETING\nCLASSIFIED RENDEZVOUS LOCALE, ALPHA ROMEO DELTA\n17:30 August 19th 1955\n\nDavid HEINLEIN: FOUNDATION Representative\nJacob RADDAGHER: PENTAGRAM Representative\n\n<BEGIN TRANSCRIPT>\n[Metal scrapes on concrete as both men sit down. The only sounds are the undoing of briefcase clasps and the shuffling of papers.]\nRADDAGHER: Dave.\nHEINLEIN: Jake.\n\u2026\nRADDAGHER: [sighs] I guess you know why you're here.\nHEINLEIN: The PENTAGRAM wants us to get them out of a jam. Again. It's been, what, four years since the organization was created?\nRADDAGHER: Six.\nHEINLEIN: Yeah, like that's much of a difference.\nRADDAGHER: Listen, Sherman is up our asses with this one. He wants something to report to the top brass. And I mean the top top brass. We can't have people talking about G-men poking around a military base in Bumfuck, Kentucky. He wants this done quickly. Quietly. I mean Christ, it's been a bitch just trying to frame the optics of the crash-\nHEINLEIN: Alright, alright. So, spill it. What actually happened?\nRADDAGHER: Basically what you probably know from your briefing. Fort goes completely radio-silent, dead as a grave. Military does a few fly-bys, radio checks, nothing. They try to land. [RADDAGHER mimics an explosion.] Bye-bye Skytrain.\nHEINLEIN: What next?\nRADDAGHER: Usual gig, Sherman acts like a man possessed, which I guess he is anyways, swearing up and down the garden path that this must be abnormal and ergo, [RADDAGHER clicks his tongue and points at himself.] our department.\nHEINLEIN: The PENTAGRAM wouldn't be ringing the phones off of the hooks if this was just another goose chase. What did you find in that fort?\n[RADDAGHER's chair creaks]\nRADDAGHER: Paratech. Massive stockpile. Millions of dollars worth. Must've been planned for months, years even, for them to shuttle all that junk into the base and hide it. Thing was wired to every speaker, microphone, and ventilation shaft on the damn base.\nHEINLEIN: [Sucks in air through teeth] Please tell me you or your men didn't mess with it.\nRADDAGHER: Don't get your knickers in a twist, we didn't mess with it. We just went poking around in their hideout, built into the fucking walls of the base.\nHEINLEIN: What about the soldiers, why did they down the plane?\nRADDAGHER: You know I'm not privy to that information. Who knows what happened to them, radium in their C-rations, aerosol in the vents\u2026 All the soldiers were bundled away by spec-ops before I even got to the base. But I think I got the better end of the stick anyways, the tech that they hid in our own fort, on our own soil [RADDAGHER whistles] it's a marvel.\nHEINLEIN: \"They\"? Who is \"they\"? The Snakes? Insurgency?\nRADDAGHER: Wrong and wrong. Ruskies.\n\u2026\nHEINLEIN: Are you sure?\nRADDAGHER: You should've seen the tech. Covered in Russian, even had a hammer and sickle bumper sticker on its side. If it were any more Soviet it would've been drinking vodka and calling for the downfall of Truman himself.\n[The sound of paper sliding against metal is heard as RADDAGHER shows HEINLEIN photographs.]\nHEINLEIN: Jesus Christ.\n\u2026\nHEINLEIN: And you want the FOUNDATION to, what, pick a fight with the Soviet Union? Act like a bored nanny separating two fighting toddlers?\nRADDAGHER: We aren't asking you to do that-\nHEINLEIN: You know what I think? You just want plausible deniability if this all goes south. And I swear to god, if this is just a crapshoot and you cause a major diplomatic incident-\nRADDAGHER: Hey, stop crying, you're acting like a baby with chapped asscheeks. No. What I want is irrelevant. We want the people who did this brought to justice. You just so happen to be the most well equipped for the job. Just please, investigate the fort. If not for Sherman, how about for me, eh? If it's nothing, it's nothing, you don't need to worry about a thing, this entire incident was just Will off his ecto-meds again and I'll buy you a drink to make up for it. If it's something\u2026 Well we best hope the Cold War doesn't get hot.\nEXTRANEOUS CONVERSATION OMITTED\n<END TRANSCRIPT>\n\n[\u2026]\nIn conclusion, as per PENTAGRAM-FOUNDATION agreement, The FOUNDATION is permitted to survey the site of UE-104312, extract any paratechnology located on the premises, and reverse-engineer the aforementioned paratechnology if in fact it exists. In the event that paratechnology is located within UE-104312 and has been determined to have been placed at UE-104312 maliciously, The FOUNDATION pledges to collaborate with the PENTAGRAM and swiftly and succinctly retaliate against this unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of the United States of America.\n\nO5-4\n\nO5-4\nExternal Affairs, FOUNDATION\n\nWilliam Tecumseh Sherman\nJ9- Director, PENTAGRAM\n\nTwo weeks after the initial report of SCP-5859, STF-Yankee was deployed to investigate UE-104312. Within a locked and disused supply closet there was a false wall that led to a series of corridors, initially used for maintenance access. Within the corridors personnel discovered an unidentified machine containing numerous oscilloscopes and read-outs visible on the exterior. A keypad labeled with Cyrillic characters opened a panel on the device; this revealing a pane of thick, leaded glass, through which a dark, ovoid object could be seen floating within a large tank.\nThick cables extended from the machine and down the corridors. Analysis showed that the device was drawing heavily from the fort's electrical grid, and was responsible for numerous brownouts within the base in the preceding weeks.\nFound near the machine was a small cot, chair; additionally there was a drain leading to the sewers and numerous U.S. Army-issue rations, both eaten and uneaten. On the desk were several texts, including a Russian-English dictionary, documents typed in Russian, and English erotic novels.\nTranslated documentation is attached below.\n\nTo: \u00abProgress\u00bb Research Institute director\nKovalev V.G.\nFrom: Bureau \u21165-2 Director\n\u00abSociety and Supermen\u00bb, \u00abLanguage and Communication\u00bb\nGoncharov G.A.\n\n\u2116: C-4/13/A-4/914/17\n05.04.1947\n\nInternal report\n\nAfter the successful launch of the \u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project, the \u21165 Soviet has found it fit to inform you of a suggestion to utilize and integrate newly declassified advancements in the \u00abPsychotronics\u00bb Division into the \u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project as to imprint certain urges and impulses onto key-phrases.\n\nThe \u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project, as you know, has been extremely successful on several fronts with compulsion due to stimuli, and has broken multiple concepts that were once thought immutable about consciousness. The project as a whole has grown from an idle philosophical exercise into a concrete method of reaching into the hearts and minds of the masses. The Institute, while still small in the field compared to other organizations, has made leaps and bounds in a direction few follow.\n\nQuoting the General Secretary's Order \u2116 592-C \u00abAll paratechnological governmental institutions are to redistribute technology, designs of technology, and theories of technology to further equalize and advance the industriousness and virility of our Soviet Union.\u00bb Accordingly, we have obtained materiel to further the \u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project, and advance it to beyond simple suggestion, but full sets of self-reinforcing thoughts and actions.\n\nThe process to render this idea a reality will take time to develop, and may be temporarily deadly. However, in certain controlled environments, we could develop artificial words that are then imprinted with an idea, if not a platonic ideal. These words will then be exposed to patients of all demographics and in multiple different media. They will then undergo rigorous testing and extended observation periods, with unsatisfactory individuals dealt with on a case-by-case basis. All researchers on the project will be wearing proper safety equipment and taking mem-ristant medication, so they are not rendered impaired by our experiments.\n\nOf course, dangers are involved. Third parties may have the opportunity to copy the technology and implementation of the \u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project, with completely unforeseen consequences that I dare not write. Which is why everyone involved on the team shall be hand-picked and sworn to secrecy. It is worth the risk, however, for implementation of the project may allow us to, irrevocably and globally, imprint the infosphere with ideas that can be used to usher in world peace. Arms could cease to fire by one word whispered over broadband, and capitalism dismantled by one shout from the rooftops. This expansion of the \u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project is worth your consideration.\n\nBureau \u21165-2 Director\n\u00abSociety and Supermen\u00bb, \u00abLanguage and Communication\u00bb\nGoncharov G.A.\n\n\u00abDomovoi\u00bb Project\n\nGoncharov G.A.\n\nTest \u2116 001\nSpecially engineered word is emblazoned onto the wall. Semantic Alteration, Assimilation Generator (\u0413AC\u0438) activated, keyed to word. Engine induced to think of peace. Subject, aggressive political dissident, placed into chamber and ordered to gaze at the word.\n\nResult: Belligerence ceased after two minutes, became personable with guards. \u0413AC\u0438 deactivated. Belligerence resumes. Effects promising.\n\nTest \u2116 002\nEngineered word is emblazoned onto the wall. \u0413AC\u0438 activated, keyed to word. Engine induced to think of the intricacies of Marxism-Leninism. Subject, uneducated, placed into chamber and ordered to gaze at the word.\n\nResult: Subject remains calm for several minutes, but suffers sudden brain aneurysm. Simple words cannot convey complex ideas.\n\nTest \u2116 003\nComplex syntax is emblazoned onto the wall. \u0413AC\u0438 activated, keyed to syntax. Engine induced to think of the intricacies of Marxism and Leninsim. Subject, uneducated, placed into chamber and ordered to gaze at sentence.\n\nResult: Subject remains calm for several minutes, but suffers fit and rendered comatose. Complex ideas cannot be conveyed artificially.\n\nTest \u2116 004\nEngineered word is emblazoned onto the wall. \u0413AC\u0438 activated, keyed to word. Engine induced to think of peace. Subject, aggressive political dissident, placed into chamber and ordered to gaze at word. \u0413AC\u0438 left activated for three weeks.\n\nResult: Subject exhibits significantly decreased aggression, becomes personable with staff. \u0413AC\u0438 deactivated, Subject still amicable. Promising.\n\nTest \u2116 005\nEngineered word is emblazoned onto the wall. \u0413AC\u0438 activated, keyed to word. Engine induced to think of aggression. Subject, formerly aggressive political dissident, placed into chamber and ordered to gaze at word. \u0413AC\u0438 left activated for five minutes.\n\nResult: Subject exhibits no change. Guards displayed lower levels of aggression aftering interacting with Subject. Further tests show word semantically polluted from Test 004. Word discarded and effected individuals terminated, but effect noted.\n\nRAISA NOTE: FURTHER TEST LOGS OMITTED\n\nINTERNAL STATUS UPDATE\nCLASSIFIED\n03:23 August 25th 1955\n\nBACH: STF-YANKEE Lead\nO5-4: External Affairs\n\n<BEGIN TRANSCRIPT>\n[Metal on metal sounds as BACH sits.]\nBACH: Hello ma'am.\n[Feedback is heard as O5-4 adjusts the microphone.]\nO5-4: Hello, Harold. The weather is quite delightful today, isn't it?\nBACH: Ah yes, quite. About the project-\nO5-4: Bup-bup-bup, courtesy, you are forgetting that. You haven't visited in so long, how come?\nBACH: Busy, moving up the ladder. Haven't had much time for much else.\nO5-4: Aw, Daniel must hate that.\nBACH: He does.\n[BACH sighs.]\nO5-4: So what did you bring today?\nBACH: These.\n[Papers ruffling and being passed through the slat in the one-way mirror is heard.]\nO5-4: Oh gosh, you've really been doing your homework, Harold.\nBACH: You see, something was just itching in the back of my mind when we were snooping around You-Eee-who-cares. Everything was neat, everything was tidy, not a single thing out of place\u2026 Remember Prague? Not the European one, the town in Nebraska. That \"investigation\" they conducted out there was so goddamn sloppy, we barely got any usable evidence when we came in.\nO5-4: Maybe the PENTAGRAM has been schooling the new recruits better?\nBACH: I don't think so. I had CHOPIN run some background checks on the people mentioned in the recovered documents, and we got a hit. Was hell finding it in the archive.\nO5-4: Oh?\nBACH: Yeah the, ah, Goncharov guy, we had some records on him. Two years back, roundabouts, after Stalin died there was a flood of expatriates out of the Union, a bunch of government goons got stiffed when Malenkov reorganized, some projects got axed as well. A few came to us with as much of their research they could stuff in a suitcase. One of them, fella named Artaka, brought a list of all the employees that got caught up in the downsizing. We found Goncharov on that list. That, uh, \"Domovoi\" Project was scrapped as well.\nO5-4: So if Goncharov is the one who orchestrated Fort Richards\u2014\nBACH: Then he's doing it alone with years-old research, or with the help of some other group who's out for blood.\nO5-4: Or he could be the perfect Soviet plant.\nBACH: We are willing to take that risk. CHOPIN also found where he's bunkering down now, a safe house in a town a couple miles outside of Omaha. FOUNDATION surveillance on possible Pee-Oh-Eyes.\nO5-4: Get him and bring him in for interrogation. He is too valuable for us not to get there before someone else.\n<END TRANSCRIPT>\n\nSTF-Yankee was deployed to seize Goncharov at midnight, on December 31st, 1955, while he was at his residence. The operation went smoothly, with Yankee entering the domicile and capturing the target without issue. However, during extraction the target suddenly awoke due to a miscalculation of tranquilizer dosage. Before they were able to properly restrain him, Goncharov broke a false tooth containing a capsule of botulinum toxin, which he used to attempt suicide. the STF was unable to prevent him from consuming the toxin, and he was pronounced dead minutes later.\nThe STF proceeded to their secondary objective and surveyed the rest of the residence, obtaining several documents and bank statements of note. The documents and the body were brought to the nearest Site for filing and incineration, respectively. The operation is considered a success.\n\nFOUNDATION Conceptual Department\n\nMemo to the O5 Council\n\nIn Regards to Novel Cognition-Altering Linguistic Virus CALV-NA-S15\n\n[\u2026]\nConclusion\nIn brief, the limited study conducted on exposed individuals obtained from the PENTAGRAM has shown definitively that the risk of NA-S15 becoming a global hazard or a threat to the stability of the American nation is next-to-negligible. The collectivist ideology formed by infectees is extremely limited and rigid due to the small carrying capacity of the chosen vector syntax, and the cognitive dissonance exhibited by infectees shows an extreme lack of self-awareness in their own actions. As such infectees cannot take steps to expound upon their beliefs outside of small, insignificant ways that do not change their overall behavior.\nCommunes begat by NA-S15 are extremely isolationist and xenophobic, treating all approaching outsiders as hostile and engaging with lethal intent. These communes have a projected lifespan of 5-8 months7 and often implode, whether by infected individuals' lack of necessary skills to become self-sufficient or by infighting within the commune, thus leading towards ostracization and banishment. This may be intentional by the manufacturer of the virus, as this action becomes another vector to facilitate infection. However, the transmission rate observed thus far has been relatively low, occurring only in ~3% of financial transactions, and almost never metastasizing. The low transmission rate among infectees, along with the lack of contact with non-infected individuals, means that outside of psychological damage by the reveal of vector syntax to the public, speculated damage caused by this virus is low.\n\nFOUNDATION-PENTAGRAM CONFIDENTIAL MEETING\nPENTAGRAM SH-89, WASHINGTON D.C.\n01:00 January 5th 1956\n* O5-4: External Affairs, FOUNDATION\n* William T. SHERMAN: Director, PENTAGRAM\n\n<BEGIN AUDIO TRANSCRIPT>\n[The door slams open as O5-4 enters the lounge.]\nSHERMAN: Goodness me, Four, you nearly made me spill my whiskey. Would you like a snifter of tea? This specifically was brought back from Iwo Jima, wonderful stuff, helps calm the nerves-\nO5-4: Oh stop your prattling, you haven't been able to drink anything for over fifty years, I doubt you know what tea tastes like.\n[SHERMAN's glass clinks as he sets it down.]\nSHERMAN: Skipping the niceties and going directly to insult, are we. How high-class.\nO5-4: We are well past niceties, William. You dare send us on a wild goose chase for over half a year just to get us involved in your petty little politics? That's low, even for you.\nSHERMAN: What are you talking about-\nO5-4: Don't you dare pull that on me.\n[SHERMAN sighs.]\nSHERMAN: You can't really frame it as \"petty politics\" when the fate of the world is at stake, now can you?\nO5-4: Yes I can, and yes I will. We are done, and we are out.\nSHERMAN: \"Done?\" What do you mean?\nO5-4: With you. Done with you, Done with the government, and done with the interference. We swore to keep it that way, and we need to go back to the way things were before this entire snafu.\nSHERMAN: You saw what the Russians are doing, fiddling around with things they don't understand in that barren wasteland they call a country. We are just doing this to protect\u2014\nO5-4: \"Protect the American way of life.\" Yes, yes, I've heard the spiel, I've seen the newsreels. But this is beyond retaliation, this is instigation and provocation at best, manipulation at worst. We saw what you did with Goncharov. What did you think you could do? Pay him fifty thousand dollars in cash a year before Fort Richards, using one of your shell companies that we knew about beforehand to buy his research and silence, and? Just so he could go and live quietly someplace just two states away from Richards? That is ballsy and bullshit.\n[The audio crackles for a moment.]\nSHERMAN: What are you saying?\nO5-4: You made us your scapegoat. You made the entirety of the FOUNDATION your damn fall guy, and we will not stand for it. You constructed an entire fantasy for us to follow, conclusions you funneled us to making, and thank God that Goncharov kept around those bank statements. For once I'm happy that you're sloppy.\nSHERMAN: Do you know why we did it?\nO5-4: Oh we know why you did it. We just don't care.\nSHERMAN: You can't say that.\nO5-4: I can, and I am. Jesus, rising from the dead must've inflated your ego. Johnny Reb is small potatoes next to the Ruskies, eh?\nSHERMAN: You cannot cut us out. You need us. You can't protect the American people if you don't cooperate with our government.\nO5-4: You are in no position to make idle threats and demands of us, William, are you kidding me? Despite all your military tact, you are still nothing but a ghost, a wayward memory of the real William Sherman. You can't change, and you cannot come close to comprehending the world now.\nSHERMAN: I know more than you ever-\nO5-4: The FOUNDATION has outgrown you. We have gone global, so cutting us out of America wouldn't do a damn thing. You would be harming yourselves and your interests out of pettiness? Tough shit, we are out. We will help clean up this mess you made, but nothing more. Have fun scrubbing the national motto from the floors of all of your courthouses.\n[O5-4's heels click against the floor as she walks towards the door. The door slams shut before she reaches it, and the wind picks up within the bunker.]\nO5-4: Sherman.\n\u2026\n\u2026\n[The door opens.]\nO5-4: Thank you.\n\u2026\nO5-4: They should've learned from MacArthur, why you and not Lincoln?\n<END TRANSCRIPT>\n\nITEM #: SCP-5859\nOBJECT CLASS: Keter\nSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES (UPDATED 10/23/1957): Thanks to the efforts of Joint Operation BLACKFOOT FERRET, the influence of SCP-5859 has been reduced to almost negligible levels, aside from a few, isolated pockets that have been resistant to enacted policy.\nOperation BLACKFOOT FERRET is to continue to be funded by a joint black budget contributed in equal parts by the FOUNDATION and PENTAGRAM, up until the influence of SCP-5859 has been reduced >99.9% its former range or neutralized.\nAll FOUNDATION support for nonessential joint initiatives with the PENTAGRAM is to cease and is to withdraw all assets from PENTAGRAM-controlled locations before 12/31/1957.\nDESCRIPTION: SCP-5859 is a cognito-plex conceptually melded to the former federal motto of the United States of America, \"E Pluribus Unum.\" The primary vector of SCP-5859 infection is the physical transferal of legal tender with the carrier phrase emblazoned onto the exchanged currency from SCP-5859-1 to a non-infected subject.\nThose infected with SCP-5859, henceforth known as SCP-5859-1, become easily swayed by collectivist or Marxist schools of thought. These people naturally gravitate towards others infected with SCP-5859, often forming small communes or collectives, though these communes are prone to quick collapse.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5858 | SCP-5859 | SCP-5860 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\"And don't piss yourself in public, again. They charged me $200 for that Uber.\"\n\nBillith\n\nFoxing (aka Foxing)(aka Foxing)(aka Foxing)(aka Foxing)(aka Foxing)(aka Foxing)\nWritten by Billith.\nIf you liked this article, you'll probably like:\n\nSCP-3311\nSCP-2921\nSCP-3533\nSCP-3959\n\nItem #: SCP-5861\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5861 is kept housed in Provisional Site-5861, which is a hermetically-sealed 9 m3 pop-up Class-A containment module under purview of the Pilcrow-Minkowski Center for Advanced Studies' High Risk Housing Sector. This module should be retrofitted with temperature/humidity control settings and proprietary low lux fixtures spaced evenly throughout and maintained at exactly 13 lx.\nAt no time are any foreign objects to be brought into SCP-5861 or its container. No contents of SCP-5861 are allowed to be removed once inside.\nDiscussion and testing of impacted structures are to be enacted via the English language, using an approved argot provided by the Department of Miscommunications' Hybrid Anomalies Division for Conceptual Studies.\nAssigned personnel must be monolingual.\nDescription: SCP-5861 is the designation for a ~5 m3 orthotope of space located in the Site-19 Anomalous Items warehouses which is subject to severe linguistic decohesion. The space does not appear to grow in size, though the exact bounds are unclear.\nSCP-5861's origin is unknown. It is theorized that the orthotope manifested via an effect of a previously-considered inert or low-risk anomalous item. An audit of Site-19's warehouses is currently underway and scheduled to complete by 2025.\nUnlike semantic dissociation zones, conceptual linguistic structures possessing complex or multifaceted denotation introduced into the boundaries of SCP-5861 have a chance to exhibit anomalous behavior in approximately .1% of cases where that conceptual structure is verbally invoked. Not all concepts introduced this way are affected; it is unknown how this is determined, however, terms with greater quantity of possible alternate meanings appear more susceptible to the effect.\nObjects and persons that use or are defined by decohesive identifiers/descriptors can spontaneously exhibit behavior considered atypical given the intended usage, while remaining logically sound for one or more alternate denotations. This effect appears to be causally-linked in some fashion, although the extent and mechanics of this connection remain unknown to Foundation research staff. Recovered materials and anecdotal evidence suggest impacted invocations become conceptually vague, leading to undesirable changes in semantic outcome when triggered.1\nIn addition to the aforementioned conceptual effects, subjects sent into SCP-5861 eventually exhibit signs of anomalous hyperpolyglotism,2 resulting in the endogenous development of linguistic fluency in any number of languages, including several unknown lexicons, regardless of prior skill level, knowledge or aptitude. At present time, \u263c\ufe0e is the only object allowed within SCP-5861; humanoid testing has been suspended indefinitely and any further interactions pose significant conceptual/lexical risk.\n\u263c\ufe0e3 is a single piece of parchment paper located inside the bounds of SCP-5861. \u263c\ufe0e is crumpled and appears blank. \u263c\ufe0e is not believed to be anomalous and thus deteriorates as expected.\nDue to \u263c\ufe0e's presence within SCP-5861 and the containment requirements involved in maintaining its integrity, several concepts must be verbally invoked every six hours by assigned D-Class personnel. These concepts include but are not limited to \"paper\", \"trash\", \"light\", \"air\", and \"humidity\". A full list can be requested from the Department of Miscommunications by assigned personnel. Any linguistic deviations observed in these invocations should be immediately reported to project head.\n\u1696 is the linguistic trigger defined as the word \"foxing\". \u1696 has five seven possible states when invoked, determined at each impacted usage and defined as \u1696-* through \u1696-\u2042** \u1696-\u2042\u2042*.\nMore information can be found below:\n\n \u300bACCESS ADDITIONAL \u1696 DATA\n\n\u300a RETURN\n\nDENOTATIONS LOG 5861-\u1696\n\nSTATE\nTYPE\nDEFINITION\n\n\u1696-*\nVerb\nThe process by which paper products yellow over time as a result of environmental factors\n\n\u1696-**\nVerb\nTo deceive or outwit\n\n\u1696-\u2042\nNoun\nThe sidewall material of certain footwear, found between the sole and upper portion of the shoe, secures components\n\n\u1696-\u2042*\nVerb\nRepair or implementation of \u1696-\u2042 in existing footwear\n\n\u1696-\u2042**\nVerb\nRecreational hunting of Vulpes vulpes\n\n\u1696-\u2042\u2042\nVerb\nTo become or produce Vulpes vulpes4\n\n\u1696-\u2042\u2042*\nNoun (Proper)\nSt. Louis, Missouri-based rock band of the same name\n\nINCIDENT LOG 5861-\u1696\nPREFACE: On 03/20/21, at approximately 21:30, Foundation field agents stationed in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, WA were notified of a disturbance taking place at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a popular music venue in the uptown area. Agents arrived on the scene to find the venue empty aside from a few civilians possessing injuries consistent with crowd trampling. The individuals attending were traced using ticketing information and GPS location data, interrogated and amnesticized before release. The following transcript describes footage that was recovered from a smartphone belonging to one of the attendees.\n\n[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]\n\nCamera feed is live, the audio channel clipping from raucous cheers and applause. The back of an unknown figure comes into view, which obscures the view of the stage. Unknown individual is significantly taller than the camera's operator, who attempts to maneuver around in search of a better viewpoint. The cheers die down just as a feminine voice is heard, projected via amplifier.\nBAND MEMBER: Thank you, wow, you've been great. We will see you again real soon, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588!\nCamera operator, now referred to as POI-5861A, arrives at a decent vantage point as attendees are seen loitering and the crowd thins. Another voice is heard, from context they are presumed to be POI-5861A's friend, labelled POI-5861B for ease of following. Camera view falls to waist height as operator seems to forget about the recording.\nPOI-5861B: That was sick! I fucking love the Illuminati Hotties now, yo.5 Want to hit the bathroom before the main act?\nPOI-5861A: Is this your first time at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588? Or, like, any concert at all? That's how you get stuck in line for an hour. Never use the bathroom between acts. Clench it, don't be a pussy.\nPOI-5861B: I drank like a gallon of beer. Well, three drinks.\nPOI-5861A: That's not even close to a gallon, my guy.\nPOI-5861B: Gallon or not, clenching isn't an option right now. Honestly I was just trying to be nice with the offer, ya know.\nPOI-5861A: The offer to have me join you in the bathroom? How generous\u2014\nThe sound of distorted guitar overtakes the conversation, but dies out a moment later. The process repeats with the other instruments presumably on stage.\nUNKNOWN: Ay, soundcheck guy! [chanting] Soundcheck guy! Soundcheck guy!\nUnknown attendee out of view stops chanting after a few seconds.\nPOI-5861A: Better be quick, they're due to be on any moment now.\nPOI-5861B: Huh. I must've reabsorbed or something. I think I can hold it, at least 'til a shitty song plays.\nPOI-5861A: [\u1696-\u2042\u2042*] has no shitty songs, don't be a square.\nNo anomalous effects are recorded.\nPOI-5861A: And don't piss yourself in public, again. They charged me $200 for that Uber.\nPOI-5861B: You're never gonna let me live that down, huh?\nPOI-5861A: For $200, maybe.\nCheers erupt from all sides. POI-5861A lifts the phone and realizes it is still recording.\nPOI-5861A: Whoops. That'll be a fun conversation to listen to tomorrow.\nPOI-5861B: [loud] What?\nPOI-5861A does not respond and instead trains the camera on the stage, where multiple individuals are seen emerging without a word. Cheers increase in volume until nothing else can be heard. One band member sits at the drums, two grab guitars and settle in front of their respective microphones. Violinist Emma Tiemann has already begun to play a soft melody, with sounds of light, echoing guitar plucks slowly swelling in volume. Frontman Conor Murphy flicks on a keyboard sampler beside him and brings his face to the microphone, trumpet in one hand and another now gripping onto the microphone stand.\nMurphy: Thank you. [chuckle] Thank you, we love you. And\u2014\n\nMusic volume continues to rise as remaining members of the ensemble join in.\nMurphy: [screaming]\u2014We are [\u1696-\u2042\u2042*]!\nA large explosion is seen rocking the crowd backwards as the music is replaced by frantic screams and large bangs. Smoke obscures part of the camera's view, the dim lighting and blur of sudden commotion reducing visibility further. Attendees begin panicking as the stage floods with dozens of red foxes, the band nowhere to be found. The animals see the crowd of frightened humans and begin to panic as well, forming an agitated mob of bright-colored fur. Animals scatter in all directions while concert-goers stumble over themselves and further piles of disoriented foxes in an attempt to evacuate. POI-5861A has barely moved except to hug the back wall of the venue, camera view shaking and voice trembling.\nPOI-5861A: [panicked] W-What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck. Andy! Where are you, you drunk piece of\u2014\nPOI-5861B: Here! I'm right here. And I definitely don't have to pee anymore.\nPOI-5861A: Fuck it, I don't care, I'll call a ride. Door, now, let's go, there's an opening.\nPOI-5861A holds the phone at their side again but brings it up a minute later to point the view at a few stragglers, both human and otherwise. The two make their way to the front entrance where a small crowd is attempting to access the coat check, the booth having been abandoned. A young kit is seen tugging on one woman's pant leg and whipping its tiny orange head in a playful manner, though the advances do not seem well received. A moment later and the two are outside on the sidewalk.\nPOI-5861B: You didn't tell me Fleet Foxes would be playing. You get it? Like, a fleet of foxes\u2014\nPOI-5861A: [groans] Shut up.\nSilence, aside from wind and distant sirens.\nPOI-5861A: You owe me $400.\n[END TRANSCRIPT]\n\nNOTES: Foundation coverup efforts took place throughout the next few days, establishing a counternarrative involving an amplifier explosion. Remaining foxes were collected and dispersed into the wild after rehabilitation. Look-alike actors were selected and successfully integrated into the band, which is to go on indefinite hiatus.\nOriginal members of the band were not found, presumed foxed.\n\nThey said 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'.\nThey were wrong.\nI've checked the files provided by Extradimensional, all signs point to this place as Ground Zero.\nI hear they are installing graphene-reinforced skylight windows over at the warehouses to help with visibility. Probably shave a few bucks off the electricity bill. Gonna let all that natural sunshine through. Sounds nice.\nThey won't listen to me, but maybe you can get an audience with higher ups than I.\nTell them to stop. Make them stop. If they put a window above that spot, it's only a matter of time.\nSticks and stones may break your bones, but words?\n\nWords will break the day.\n\nFootnotes\n1. For ease of understanding, semantic dissociation can be loosely summarized as the separation of conceptual meaning from an object, while linguistic decohesion would be the broadening of a conceptual meaning to include additional definitions and/or objects.\n2. An abnormal proficiency in learning languages.\n3. Although the identifier \"SCP-5861\" is immune to the anomalous properties of the space it defines, identifiers that reference other affected identifiers are not. Thus, glyphs are to be used in lieu of alphanumeric subdesignations.\n4. Novel denotation, believed to have resulted from extended exposure to SCP-5861's conceptual/semantic obfuscation. See Incident Log 5861-\u1696 for further details.\n5. Indie rock band from Los Angeles, CA, later confirmed as the opening act that evening.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5860 | SCP-5861 | SCP-5862 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5865\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As per the Meeting Point Agreement, containment of SCP-5865-A is limited to standard Multi-Universal Department diplomacy. Only designated inter-universal diplomatic personnel are permitted to enter SCP-5865 for reasons other than acquisition of D-Class personnel. Under no circumstances are Foundation personnel to attempt to effect any change in the organizational structure of 5865-Earth. Any possession of Foundation personnel by SCP-5865-A is considered a violation of the Meeting Point Agreement that results in its automatic termination.\nDetails of the Acquisition Protocol are available to assigned personnel in Supplementary Document 5865-A.\nDescription: SCP-5865 is the designation for Universe D-4594A, the source of almost all D-Class personnel used in standard Foundation testing. First discovered in 1943, SCP-5865's current purpose was implemented by an order of the O5 Council in 1945. Prior to that date, the Foundation had primarily used condemned prisoners for testing purposes; this practice was discontinued due to repeated security breaches and the perceived impracticality of secret inmate-based testing in an industrialized society. An extra-universal solution was devised by the Multi-Universal Department following contact with SCP-5865.\nSCP-5865 contains an alternate Earth that was identical to baseline reality before October 1934, when SCP-5865-A arrived and subsequently occupied the human race. SCP-5865-A are incorporeal anomalous entities that have the apparent ability to invade and control the minds of any sapient host.1 SCP-5865-A can then choose the level of direction it wishes to have over its victims, up to and including \u201crewriting\u201d their personalities and memories at will. This ability has been used to supply the baseline Foundation with a steady stream of D-Class personnel for over 70 years; at present, 95% of D-Class personnel originate from SCP-5865.\nFor unknown reasons, SCP-5865-A claim to be incapable of inter-universal travel and will thus release control over any victims prior to their transfer to the Foundation. Any cognitive changes made by SCP-5865-A are irreversible by all known amnestic regimens.\nSCP-5865-Earth Administrative Regions:\nShortly after their arrival on and takeover of 5865-Earth, which was completed in less than 12 hours, SCP-5865-A dissolved the previously existing countries and divided the planet into three administrative regions. These regions have been given their names by the Foundation in accordance with their function; their true designation in the original SCP-5865-A language is unknown, as is the language itself.\nExperimental Region (Americas, Iceland and Greenland): Used by SCP-5865-A to perform experiments and simulations on humans. These have ranged from simple (societies based entirely on matriarchal families) to extremely harmful (groups of humans being fed non-standard food over long-term periods to study their physiological reactions). Despite their mistreatment, inhabitants of this Region have a far higher quality of life than inhabitants of other Regions. Nearly all D-Class obtained through the Acquisition Protocol are from the Experimental Region.\nLabor Region (Europe and Africa): Used by SCP-5865-A to exploit the natural resources of the Earth. Humans in this region are given minimal accommodations and allowed little rest. Foundation estimates place Labor Region mortality rates at over 70%.\nHarvesting Region (Remainder of Earth): Information on this region is restricted to O5 Command and the current SCP-5865 project lead.\nAddendum: Ethics Committee Review: In 1973, the Foundation Ethics Committee reviewed the containment procedures for SCP-5865 and the Meeting Point Agreement made with SCP-5865-A. The Committee agreed that the acquisition of D-Class via SCP-5865 was acceptable and should continue indefinitely, for the following reasons:\n\nThe Foundation has neither the technology nor resources to launch a successful invasion and liberation of 5865-Earth, and any attempt would only damage the Foundation while doing nothing to help the victims of SCP-5865-A.\n\nIt is possible SCP-5865-A are lying about their inability to engage in inter-universal travel, and attempting to remove them from 5865-Earth would likely provoke them into invading baseline reality if this were the case.\n\nD-Class test subjects have significantly better living conditions than Experimental Region residents.\n\nThere is no practical way to acquire the necessary volume of D-Class test subjects that is more ethical than the current method.\n\nA second Ethics Committee Review was conducted following a 1987 revision of the Meeting Point Agreement that required all surviving D-Class personnel to be terminated monthly due to the large volume of Experimental Region residents being imported from 5865-Earth. This review reached the same conclusion as the first, with the Ethics Committee voting to endorse the continued use of the Acquisition Protocol.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-5865-A claims to have subjugated numerous non-human civilizations in the SCP-5865 universe. These claims are unverified.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5864 | SCP-5865 | SCP-5866 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5867\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Area-5867 has been established at SCP-5867's location, operating under the guise of a natural research institution observing local tree growth. Guards dressed in stereotypical lumberjack attire are posted at regular intervals around Area-5867's perimeter for two purposes: deterring civilians from entrance and, more commonly, luring SCP-5867 instances at least 50 meters back from the perimeter via holding up an axe and pretending to be selecting an instance to fell. If a particular instance does not retreat within one minute, destructive force is permitted.\nTo prevent behavioral changes and population growth, one instance of SCP-5867 is to be felled by D-Class personnel in stereotypical lumberjack attire monthly. These personnel are encouraged to choose which instance is terminated based on whichever is the most noteworthy in appearance and behavior.\nNew pictograms within Area-5867 are to be catalogued upon discovery, and care should be taken not to damage an image until all necessary research has been conducted.\nDescription: SCP-5867 is a collection of ~400 mobile pine trees that reside in an area of roughly 43 square kilometers in the Miramichi River Valley in New Brunswick, Canada. Each instance has limited intelligence and is capable of controlled movement. This movement occurs every 0.96 seconds simultaneously for each instance, each one instantaneously being in a different location between 1 and 120 centimeters from its original location, the result visually resembling stop-motion animation. This significantly disturbs nearby dirt and often damages bark upon the lower trunk, allowing easy identification of SCP-5867 instances. Branches can also assume new orientations and positions during movement, and are used for holding and manipulating objects such as exchanged logging materials.\nEach SCP-5867 instance is capable of reproduction like non-anomalous trees, though at a slowed rate, leading to ~10-14 total new instances each year.\nDespite a lack of complex light-receptive organs, SCP-5867 are capable of responding to a large variety of visual stimuli, usually consisting of a cessation of movement when near unobscured humans. However, upon seeing logging paraphernalia and other associated persons or items, SCP-5867 instances will attempt to make themselves more noticeable and enticing. This is typically achieved by holding large collections of fallen sticks/branches, or by quickly approaching lumberjacks while they are looking in another direction. Furthermore, SCP-5867 have a limited ability to understand written English, showing marked interest and curiosity towards anything bearing words such as \"axe\", \"chop\", \"splinter\", \"tree\", or \"wood\".\nAfter an instance is felled by standard logging methods, all other instances will exchange large quantities of hoarded logging paraphernalia and wood scraps from destroyed instances. It is currently unknown where these items are obtained or stored as they spontaneously appear/disappear from the branches of certain instances, but the oldest items date from at least 150 years prior.\nAddendum-5867_Pictograms: Since SCP-5867's containment, several hundred pictograms have been found with increasing intensity inscribed upon the ground within Area-5867 using asymmetrical wooden implements. SCP-5867 instances have been found to deliberately avoid disturbing pictograms visible from higher than 30 centimeters, even if the alternate route taken results in damage to the instance or the prevention of termination by felling. Out of the total 142 catalogued pictograms:\n\n81 show a two-dimensional view of a tree surrounded by disturbed soil\n35 show multiple instances of logging paraphernalia\n20 show 12-140 trees in radially symmetrical patterns\n6 show dozens of shattered logs and pieces of wood, some being used to build housing and furniture\n\nAddendum-5867_Water: Due to recent local droughts severely drying soil and plant life, SCP-5867 have been much slower in movement, with the entire population observed sporadically stopping to rest for three to four hours every 12-60 hours. Subsequently, attempts to gain the attention of guards have increased by 310% within the last month, and several offerings of wooden and metal axes were left near D-Class personnel.\nWhile these actions are suspected to be a request for additional water, this belief cannot currently be confirmed. Due to limited funding for Area-5867, artificial hydration will not be conducted unless significant declines in health appear in the SCP-5867 population.\nAddendum-5867_Incident_Log:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n[03:05] One of Area-5867's cameras is monitoring roughly 50 resting instances of SCP-5867. One instance's branches are repeatedly moving in a pattern resembling vibration.\n[03:08] Moving instance [hereby abbreviated as MI] rotates 90\u00ba four times in succession, breaking apart nearby soil.\n[03:09] MI begins moving east rapidly at 3.2 kilometers per hour. Other instances stop resting and begin quickly moving about in a chaotic manner, though movement is greatly restricted by dry soil.\n[03:10-03:12] MI continues moving east at a slowly increasing speed, reaching within 100 meters of Area-5867's perimeter. Additional instances of SCP-5867 continue to appear from various directions and begin chasing MI.\n[03:13] MI is moving east at 4.3 km/h, and is within 30 meters of Area-5867's perimeter with its branches positioned upwards. Guards attempt to respond, but the instance's roots become stuck within a small grouping of rocks. Other instances continue to move towards it.\n[03:14] MI is surrounded by 20 other instances and obscured from view. Significant struggling between the branches of various instances can be seen.\n[03:15-03:52] Between 60 and 100 more SCP-5867 instances gather with the already present instances. Loud wooden collision noises are consistently produced during this time, reaching progressively higher volumes. More guards are gathered to prevent a mass containment breach.\n[03:53-03:58] Gathered instances leave en masse.\n[03:59] MI is now visible. The roots and lowest meter of its trunk are surrounded with a thick layer of mud and rocks to prevent movement, and its larger branches have been heavily damaged and splintered by blunt force. An \"X\" has been drawn in darker mud at eye-level upon the trunk. Lastly, a heavily rusted axe is embedded in MI's tree fork.\n[END LOG]\nClosing Notes: Due to sustained injuries and a potential containment hazard, MI was terminated after this event. During the subsequent autopsy, it was found to have grown over several aged scraps of paper from an undetermined reference book, detailing the average lifespan of pine trees and the most common causes of death for them. More intense ring growth was discovered above a picture of \"Methuselah\", a 4800-year-old bristlecone pine tree in California.\nWithin the days following the instance's removal and termination, the remainder of SCP-5867 held an unusually-long exchanging of items, mostly focused upon wood scraps from Foundation-terminated instances. Since the incident, younger instances have engaged in markedly more attempts to be selected for termination. In addition, there have been zero subsequent cases of instances going within 50 meters of the perimeter. Containment procedures will be revised if this behavior continues.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5866 | SCP-5867 | SCP-5868 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Olney Foods Processing Plant\n\nItem #: SCP-5868\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5868 has currently been obtained from GoI-952 (\u201cOlney Ironworks\u201d) under a Foundation front. All former employees of SCP-5868 are to be retained. To facilitate containment, all employees are to work under the impression that SCP-5868 is still owned by GoI-952. Shifts are to ensure that SCP-5868 is manned at all times. Overtime, holiday bonuses, and other incentives may be used at the discretion of the Head Researcher. Employees of SCP-5868 are to be retained at all costs. D-Class may be used to replace deceased employees. D-Class who have formerly worked in the meatpacking industry are to be screened for this purpose.\nEmployees of SCP-5868 will be directed to continue processing all instances of SCP-5868-2 regardless of appearance, hazards inherent, or any other status. Notable instances of SCP-5868-2 are to be delivered to and retained at Site-156 and cataloged before being incinerated. All other instances of SCP-5868-2 are to be incinerated on-site after being fully packaged. Employees of SCP-5868 are to wear Class-C Hazmat Containment Gear at all times when on SCP-5868 property.\nEmployees charged with unloading SCP-5868-2 are to be instructed to not make contact with SCP-5868-1. All deliveries of SCP-5868-2 are to be unloaded without delay.\nSCP-5868 is to be supplied with no less than ten back-up generators. Under no circumstances should employees cease processing SCP-5868-2 instances. Packages may be reused after the SCP-5868-2 instances are incinerated. If a back-up occurs, D-Class are to be brought in to help the processing of the additional SCP-5868-2 instances. If SCP-5868-2 instances are kept from being processed for longer than six hours, containment will no longer be necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5868 is the Olney Foods Processing Plant located in Riker's Valley, ME. Records show that the anomalies started occurring on 02-13-2016 at 5:35 AM with the first delivery by SCP-5868-1. SCP-5868 was seized by the Foundation front Preferred Options Holdings in a hostile takeover on 04-27-2016. SCP-5868 shows no other anomalous aspect apart from the deliveries of SCP-5868-2. Instances of SCP-5868-2 processed at a secondary location are sufficient to avoid increased deliveries from SCP-5868-1.\nSCP-5868-1 is a semi-trailer truck that manifests at the docking bay of SCP-5868 hourly. After idling for fifty-five minutes, SCP-5868-1 immediately demanifests. All instances of SCP-5868-2 remaining inside SCP-5868-1 during a demanifestation are left at the loading bay. Contact with SCP-5868-1 other than unloading SCP-5868-2 causes [DATA i'm so hungry please god please help me i want the taste i need the taste the shit the mire the the dirt it's so strong in my nostrils it rings so true i am under the swinging blade i feel my blood run into gutters there is something that i can't see just beyond me i'm so hungry it's on my tongue like pennies i'm so hungry i can't stop eatingEXPUNGED] which results in an unnecessary interruption in the containment procedures. The interior of SCP-5868-1 has been shown to be larger on the inside, housing a number of SCP-5868-2 instances that would prove impossible in a non-anomalous semi-trailer truck.\nSCP-5868-2 are cow (B. taurus) carcasses. Instances of SCP-5868-2 are normally afflicted with Rinderpest morbillivirus, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and infectious pododermatitis. Variation among SCP-5868-2 instances exist, although all have been shown to be genetically identical to a cow.\nWhen an instance of SCP-5868-2 is not processed and packaged within an hour, the next load delivered by SCP-5868-1 is greater in number than the previous delivery. This build-up is theorized to be able to render the Earth uninhabitable within twelve hours. However, recent models have shown that a six hour blockage would result in a backlog of SCP-5868-2 instances impossible to process within the time limit.\nPartial Record of SCP-5868-2 Variants:\n\nDate Processed: 06-15-16, 12:35 PM\nA single SCP-5868-2 instance that resembled a mouse (M. musculus). Of note is that this was the entirety of that hour's delivery.\n\nDate Processed: 11-02-16, 7:35 AM\nAll 1,116 instances of SCP-5868-2 resembled the same adult human male. Of note is that the instances took the appearance of an employee of SCP-5868 who had [DATAif you let me out i'll never try to stop you again i'll never be bad i promise i'm so full i'm so hungry EXPUNGED] after attempting to open SCP-5868-1's driver-side door an hour earlier.\n\nDate Processed: 03-22-17, 8:35 PM\nAll 857 instances of SCP-5868-2 were shown to be highly radioactive. Over 66 employees were subjected to dangerous levels of gamma radiation. Four employees succumbed to fatal radiation poisoning. The remaining sixty-two employees were able to continue work at a reduced capacity.\n\nDate Processed: 06-09-18, 3:35 AM\nDelivery contained 2,693 instances of SCP-5868-2, much higher than the average. All instances, however, were fetal.\n\nDate Processed: 10-18-18, 11:35 AM\nAll 1,451 instances of SCP-5868-2 had tongues and eyes made from wood. Analyses showed the wood to belong to an unknown species in the Pinaceae family. In some instances, the wooden eyes appeared to have been roughly shoved into what was an empty socket while the cow was still living.\n\nDate Processed: 01-27-19, 9:35 PM\nAll 946 instances of SCP-5868-2 were contaminated with human fecal matter, in many cases filling all cavities. Testing revealed that the feces showed signs of a purely beef-based diet. DNA testing showed the feces to have been produced by the employee who had been [DATAplease let me stop eating please i won't try to go just let me stop EXPUNGED] on 11-02-16.\n\nDate Processed: 04-20-19, 4:35 PM\nEach of the 1,097 instances of SCP-5868-2 were found to have six additional stomachs. Stomachs were found to be filled with an extremely acidic bile. Sixteen employees were injured, causing an unacceptable slowdown in processing. One employee was rendered unable to work following this batch.\n\nDate Processed: 07-02-19, 7:35 PM\nAll 869 instances of SCP-5868-2 were found to be boneless. No other abnormalities were found.\n\nDate Processed: 09-11-19, 10:35 PM\nDelivery consisted of one living SCP-5868-2 instance. Employees were instructed to slaughter it with available tools. Instead of blood, beef-based gravy appeared to be flowing through the instance's veins. Processed as normal.\n\nDate Processed: 03-04-20, 4:35 PM\nAll 1,365 instances of SCP-5868-2 had tightly woven barbed wire in place of bones and organs. The barbed wire was shown to have severe rust damage. Thirteen of the instances also lacked a tongue.\n\nDate Processed: 07-19-20, 1:35 AM\nAll 971 instances of SCP-5868-2 were \u201cinside-out,\u201d with organs on the outside and skin on the inside. Instances were said to smell like \u201cfreshly-cut grass.\u201d\n\nDate Processed: 12-22-20, 5:35 AM\nAll 1,172 instances of SCP-5868-2 vocalized despite being clearly deceased. Vocalizations did not cease during or after processing. Vocalizations were described as a human attempting to sound like a cow.\n\nInterview with William Gartley:\n\nThe following interview took place on 11-04-16 with William Gartley, shift manager of SCP-5868. During the interview, William Gartley was under the impression that it was a performance review given by a company adjudicator. No attempt was made to correct this.\nInterviewer: This is all great, Bill. But could you please answer my question? About the first delivery?\nWG: You mean the issue with\u2014\nI: Bill, you gotta rest easy. You're not being held accountable for the unsafe actions of one of your employees. You're fine. It's fine. This is about the first delivery you can remember. I think you understand what kind I'm talking about here.\nWG: I'm not sure\u2014\nI: Tell me about the black truck, Bill. This isn't a request.\nWG: Oh. You mean that truck?\nI: Yes. It's what we're here to talk about. Not your performance. Not any workplace accidents. We want you to tell us everything you know about the truck.\nWG: Is\u2014is this a test?\nI: It's fine for you to tell me about all of it and how you feel about it. Just this once. It's for archival purposes. This won't be marked on your personal record.\nWG: Okay.\n[ There is a thirty-two second pause. WG clears his throat. ]\nWG: It just came one day. That's it. We didn't have any other deliveries.\n[ There is a fourteen second pause. ]\nWG: Corporate told us to accept it. Free meat. They didn't know what was causing it and told me not to worry about it. It was free meat. It came from nowhere. Miraculous, really.\nI: This was before you noticed there was something wrong with the carcasses, right?\nWG: There's nothing wrong with the carcasses.\nI: It's okay, Bill. This isn't a trap. Just talk plainly with me.\nWG: They\u2014they knew the meat was wrong from the first. But, uh, corporate decided that using the meat would result in so much profit that the money used to settle suits would be a pittance.\nI: They didn't realize how bad they were?\nWG: I'm no expert.\n[ There is a six second pause. ]\nWG: It just made economical sense to use them. We had so many. And, well, we realized pretty quickly what happened when you didn't. Well, someone at corporate seemed to know.\nI: Do you remember the person who let you know about that?\nWG: You know, that's funny. But no. Honest. Not just saying that, either. There were so many higher-ups calling about the truck and the meat and the things that, well, you know. The meat sometimes did.\nI: How long did they try to use the carcasses?\nWG: It didn't take long. Even the leather gives you these horrible welts. There's some chemicals on them. I don't know. They're wrong.\nI: Does it ever seem futile to you?\nWG: What do you mean?\nI: Just watching them pack the meat. Watching them tan the flesh and crush the bones into feed. And then, they burn it all. Does it seem futile?\n[ There is a five second pause. ]\nWG: Things need to get done. No matter what.\nThe rest of the interview contained no other information applicable to containment. William Gartley has remained the shift manager of SCP-5868. He has continued to be an exemplary employee.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5867 | SCP-5868 | SCP-5869 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nThanks to Rounderhouse for critique.\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5871\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5871 is maintained in a high-value item locker within Site-03. Usage requires authorization from both the Overseer Council and Ethics Committee.\nDescription: SCP-5871 is an obsidian ritual knife, with seven unpolished gems encrusting its handle.\nThe object was discovered in an anomalous burial site within modern-day Mongolia in 1831 and was created in 2020.\nAs a consequence, utilizing SCP-5871 to symbolically kill an entity (see Document 5871-REST for ritual details) will result in said target being destroyed retroactively. This has proven useful in the neutralization of several dangerous ontokinetic, metaphysical, and temporal anomalies.\nAddendum 5871-1: History\n\nDate\nEvent\n\nApril 1831\nArtifact is discovered following a tip from an anonymous source.\n\nJune 1831\nArtifact is shipped to Site-19 (then called Facility-C).\n\nJuly 1831\nDespite being slated for an SCP designation and testing, a clerical error results in relegation to bulk storage.\n\nSeptember 1944\nArtifact is rediscovered during records digitization.\n\nOctober 1944\nSCP-5871 is designated and provisional testing begins.\n\nDecember 1944\nSCP-5871 is classed as Safe and placed in storage.\n\nNovember 1963\nRoutine maintenance on the IntSCPFN file system reveals several anachronistic edits regarding SCP-5871. It is assumed to be a computer bug.\n\nApril 1980\nUnknown agents (believed to be of the Chaos Insurgency) breach Site-19 and terminate SCP-048.\n\nJune 1980\nAs part of the incident report, Dr. Richard Myers theorizes the existence of \"subtemporal\" material. His work is highly controversial.\n\nFebruary 1983\nSCP-5871 is relocated to the newly-created Site-03, and Dr. Patricia Carver is designated as project lead.\n\nApril 1983\nDr. Richard Myers is assigned to the SCP-5871 project.\n\nMay 1983\nSCP-5871 is successfully used to neutralize a Keter-class anomaly.\n\nJune 1983\nSCP-5871 is reclassed as Thaumiel.\n\nJanuary 1986\nDr. Richard Myers goes missing, presumed deceased.\n\nNovember 2002\nA large cache of obsidian is discovered in an undocumented area of Site-77.\n\nDecember 2002\nWith recently-developed temporal displacement sensors, it is determined that the obsidian exhibits subtemporal properties.\n\nApril 2007\nRe-analysis of several soil samples suggests SCP-5871's discovery site was retroactively contaminated.\n\nMay 2007\nSubtemporal materials research begins at the prompting of O5-9.\n\nFebruary 2018\nProject Oedipus is approved and launched.\n\nAugust 2020\nSCP-5871 is created. Project Oedipus is concluded, and all personnel are issued amnestics.\n\nJanuary 2021\nEfforts to fully analyze SCP-5871's chronology begin.\n\nApril 2056\nAgents of the Temporal Anomalies Department will plant SCP-5871 in its discovery site. (Planned)\n\nNovember 2056\nMauna Loa volcano erupts, from which SCP-5871 material will be harvested. (Predicted)\n\nThis table will be updated as SCP-5871 chronology is better understood. Contact Researcher Agatha Myers for more information.\nAddendum 5871-2: Incident 5871-62\nA second, seemingly-identical instance of SCP-5871 was found in Area-313 Deep Storage. The HMCL Supervisor ordered that the object be returned to its unmarked crate, all records of the discovery be destroyed, and all personnel with knowledge of the incident be amnesticized.\nO5-9 overrode the directive, instructing that the two anomalies be physically compared. The results of this analysis are attached below:\n[LINK ERROR: File 6R0CF/7301567/SCP-5871/6084/8C not found.]\n\nThe above document was discovered in the most recent DEEPWELL backup of the IntSCPFN database. Its metadata claims it was filed by Site-03, a nonexistent Foundation facility.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\naismallard's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4447 \u2022\n\nSCP-4853 \u2022\n\nSCP-1294-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4781 \u2022\n\nSCP-5134 \u2022\n\nSCP-1047-J \u2022\n\nSCP-4322 \u2022\n\nSCP-5900 \u2022\n\nSCP-4339 \u2022\n\nSCP-3597 \u2022\n\nSCP-7558 \u2022\n\nSCP-5446 \u2022\n\nSCP-5502 \u2022\n\nSCP-5510 \u2022\n\nSCP-6115 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nThe Heart of the Beast \u2022\n\nThe Pumpkin Mystery \u2022\n\nStealing Something Else \u2022\n\nContinuous Integration \u2022\n\nOther\n\naismallard's personnel file \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5870 | SCP-5871 | SCP-5872 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nComing Soon - Malvarik\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nSCP-5873 in its deactivated state.\n\u2716\n\nObject Class: Safe Euclid Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5873 is to be folded and stored within a standard safety locker in the Anomalous Items wing of Site-44. As SCP-5873's anomalous properties seem to demanifest when folded, it is advised to only unfold it for the purpose of testing sessions.\nNOTE: CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES REVISED - CHECK REVISION 5873-1\nREVISION 5873-1:\nAs of Incident 5873-1A, SCP-5873's Object Class has been upgraded to Euclid and it is to be placed in a High Impact Resistant Locker (H.I.R.L). Under no circumstances are any more testing sessions to be performed without authorization by the O5 Council. Immediately contact the nearest supervisor should you spontaneously develop any feelings of desire or obsession towards SCP-5873.\nNOTE: CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES REVISED - CHECK REVISION 5873-2\nREVISION 5873-2:\nShortly after Incident 5873-2A, SCP-5873 escaped Foundation custody and its current location is completely unknown. All forms of media have been delegated to MTF Delta-6 \"Watchdogs\" to observe for any signs of its appearance. Should it be located, they are to be dispatched immediately to intercept and capture. Object Class has been upgraded to Keter.\nDescription: SCP-5873 is the designation given to a pair of autonomous jeans that produce motion through anomalous means. A tag on the backside of the jeans reads,\n\nValizia\n\nAutonomous Collection\nEstablished 1854\n\"Stay Magical.\"\n\nThe fashion company in question, Valizia, is not mentioned in any Foundation records and no other goods from the \"Autonomous Collection\" have been found to date. An inquiry into the identity of this group is currently ongoing and a proposal to broach MC&D contacts on the subject has been put forth by the project lead, Dr. Henriks.\nRecovery: SCP-5873 was discovered wandering Sutter Avenue in Brooklyn, New York on 02/06/2020. All individuals that witnessed SCP-5873 were administered Class-C Amnestics and a cover story relating to college students in the robotics program performing a prank was disseminated into the media. SCP-5873 did not offer any resistance when brought into Foundation custody.\nUpdate 5873.1: After Incident 5873-1A, it became apparent that SCP-5873 possesses inordinate amounts of strength, durability, and speed upon being worn by an individual. SCP-5873 will immediately take off in a random direction after being donned and is capable of smashing through reinforced walls and other obstacles in its way. While SCP-5873 was recovered, various Site-44 personnel involved with the anomaly began displaying mounting obsession with SCP-5873 that was only resolved through termination. An ongoing study into this phenomenon is being conducted by Dr. Charles, the successor to Dr. Henriks, by immediate order of the O5 Council.\n\nAddendum 5873.1\nIncident Log 5873-1A : 02.09.2020\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\nPERSONNEL INVOLVED: D-12170, Dr. Henriks, Assistant Researcher Woods, and Assistant Researcher Adams.\n5873\nSTATUS: Concluded\nTIME: 1:30 PM (local time) February 9th, 2020.\nDISRUPTION CLASS: Dark\n\nINCIDENT SUMMARY: SCP-5873 was removed from its storage for a testing session conducted by Dr. Henriks and his research assistants, Adams and Woods. When unfolded and placed onto the floor of the testing room, SCP-5873 became animated and proceeded to pace around the room, occasionally bumping into objects or personnel. D-12170 was instructed to put on SCP-5873 and detail any effects he might feel.\nApproximately twenty seconds after being put on, SCP-5873 proceeded to launch itself through the nearest reinforced wall with complete disregard for the safety of its occupant. Assistant Researcher Adams was immediately killed by a piece of shrapnel, with both Dr. Henriks and Assistant Researcher Woods injured by pieces of flying debris. SCP-5873 then ran through over five more containment cell walls, resulting in a containment breach that lasted over five hours. Foundation personnel later recovered SCP-5873 in a section of woods outside the facility, no remains of D12170's corpse held within.\n\nNOTE: I am putting forth a request to be placed into quarantine. Since the breach, I've begun to notice a involuntary attraction towards SCP-5873 within myself that cannot be ignored. I hypothesize this to be a cognitohazardous effect produced by SCP-5873 in order for it to gain a new wearer. I believe that this ability had not yet manifested when it first came into our possession as it had not yet been worn. In any case, I have also recommended Dr. Charles to be my successor in the study of this anomaly, as he is an expert on items with such anomalous effects.\n- Dr. Henriks.\n\nAddendum 5873.2\nIncident Log 5873-2A : 02.14.2020\n\n\u25bc Click to confirm credentials \u25bc\n\n\u25b2 Hide Addendum \u25b2\n\nPERSONNEL INVOLVED: Dr. Henriks, Assistant Researcher Woods, and Dr. Charles.\nSTATUS: Ongoing\nTIME: 6:30 AM (local time) February 14th, 2020.\nDISRUPTION CLASS: Ekhi\n\nINCIDENT SUMMARY: Without proper authorization or clearance, Assistant Researcher Woods secretly released Dr. Henriks from his confinement. They both proceeded to bludgeon Dr. Charles into unconsciousness in his office before stealing his key-card, gaining access to SCP-5873. Video footage shows them arguing, presumably over who would get to wear SCP-5873 first. It is at this time that Foundation personnel proceeded to open fire on the pair, killing Assistant Researcher Woods and wounding Dr. Henriks.\nHowever, Dr. Henriks was able to put on SCP-5873 before Foundation personnel could apprehend him. Its anomalous effects activated and SCP-5873 escaped after breaking through the front entrance. Foundation personnel lost sight of the anomaly within the wilderness of Northern Quebec and it is believed to still be running. Both Dr. Henriks' corpse and SCP-5873's whereabouts are unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5872 | SCP-5873 | SCP-5874 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n94.67%\n(+71)\n5.33%\n(-4)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5874\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5874's interior\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Audio emitted from SCP-5874 is to be ignored. Any proclamations made by SCP-5874 are false.\nThe names of personnel assigned to SCP-5874 have been expunged from the Foundation database. Affected individuals are not to be briefed on standard Foundation ethical practices under any circumstances. All surviving members of the Department of Human Resources are to be administered Type G viral amnestics.The Type G amnestic is used to remove all nomenclative attributes from a given Name, effectively erasing it and all duplicate Names from existence and allowing a new one to take its place. These new Names effectively allow for the reprogramming of an individual on a basis that even the oldest nomenclative magiks and memetics cannot undo. ~Dr. Koda Raynes Phd., \"On Amnestics, a Guide from the Forgetful to You!\" and assigned to another Site.\nThe door leading to SCP-5874 has been thaumaturgically sealed, and all personnel at Site-83 have been administered Type D amnestics in order to remove any memories of/relating to the Department of Human Resources.\nThe corridor leading to SCP-5874 has been topologically displaced. At its new location SCP-5874 has been obstructed via concrete, C4 plastic explosives, and a patrolling squad of armed personnel to deter exploration from Foundation personnel or civilians. Any individuals that bypass all established measures, including security clearances, are to be terminated upon re-emergence. All others are to be considered lost to the anomaly.\n\nDescription\n\nSCP-5874 is the former West Corridor D of Site-83 which contains the Department of Human Resources. SCP-5874 is topologically inconsistent. Rooms will shift places with one another at random intervals every day, occasionally resulting in doors that lead to solid walls, windows that open to other windows, and hallways that lead outside of the anomaly.\nSCP-5874 is considered sapient and hostile. It will use a variety of tactics to lure individuals into it through the use of a wide variety of auditory hallucinations..This is not a compulsory effect, as memetic screenings on personnel who have heard these auditory hallucinations proved that they were unaffected by memes, anti-memes, or compulsions at the time.. These tactics have a varying degree of success. Hallucinations heard include, but are not limited to;\n\nA distressed call for help, typically from a feminine voice.\nThe voice of a loved one attempting to persuade an individual to enter.\nThe voice of a superior ranking Foundation employee, generally believed to be a member of the O5-Council, demanding audience within SCP-5874.\n\nWhile within SCP-5874 subjects will be assaulted by hostile concepts (designated SCP-5874-1) that will attempt to alter their way of thinking. Affected subjects are prone to spontaneous outbursts of malicious and violent intent, and will often attempt to torture unaffected individuals if given the chance. Curiously, affected subjects still claim to be loyal to the Foundation.Individuals who enter SCP-5874 believe that they have been assigned to the Department of Human Resources for the entirety of their Foundation career, although the department never existed according to Foundation history., despite not adhering to current Foundation ethical practices.\nAll affected subjects have displayed vitriolic disdain for personnel assigned to the Ethics Committee.\nSeveral vacant rooms were discovered within SCP-5874 that were intended for torture or inhumane experimentation. The following is a documented account of the general layout of SCP-5874.\n\nA room filled with various medieval torture instruments. Bloodstains and viscera are unable to be removed or cleaned through unknown anomalous means. SCP-5874-1 is heavily prevalent in this room.\nA room labeled \"Storage\". An unknown amount of human bodies (many more than should have been able to fit in the space) have been crowded within. Faces, teeth, fingers, and toes have been removed from each body. Despite taking up the entirety of the room, more bodies can be observed manifesting inside every hour.\nA room with a placard reading \"Inventory\" above the doorway. While the room itself is inaccessible, there is a viewport in the door that allows one to see several skeletons dressed in standard D-Class attire within.\n\nDiscovery\n\nSCP-5874 was initially discovered in 2008 during the containment of SCP-173, although due to a failure of communication between the containment team and classification committee, SCP-5874 would not be classified until May of 2020. Until 2020, no one knew that all individuals assigned to Site-83 were affected by SCP-5874, allowing it to operate unhindered for twelve years.\nOn May 4th, 2020, Level 4 Researcher Lois Haas entered SCP-5874 and immediately became subject to its effects. Researcher Haas has a long history of loyal dedication to the Foundation, serving for 15 years.\nThe stark alteration of personality in Researcher Haas warranted an investigation into the Department of Human Resources, leading to the discovery and anomalous classification of SCP-5874. Researcher Haas was quarantined in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell as a preemptive measure to counter potential memetic effects.\n\nInterview Researcher Haas\n\nThe following interview was conducted by Researcher Umar Hadid shortly after Researcher Haas's apprehension.\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Umar Hadid\nInterviewed: Researcher Lois Haas\n\n<Begin Log>\nResearcher Hadid: State your name for the record.\nResearcher Haas: Lois Haas, Department of Human Resources concierge.\nHadid: The, uh, record shows us something different, Mrs. Haas.\nHaas: Oh? I've been in H.R. since, well, forever.\nHadid: [ Flipping through files. ] Do you remember ever working with Dr. Allegre or Site Director Alaina Chin?\n[ Researcher Haas shakes her head. ]\nHadid: Do you remember anything about Site-83? People? Rooms?\nHaas: The break room's always a hot mess. Probably those slobs from Ethics. But besides that, nothing really stands out. I know that Chin's brother's contained here, but I've forgotten where exactly. And of course everyone from H.R.\nHadid: I see. Do you remember what you do for work then? Like at H.R., what goes on there?\nHaas: [ She laughs. ] You must be new.\nHadid: [ Nervous chuckle. ] You could say that. I just recently got promoted from Junior Researcher to Level 1.\nHaas: Oh, congratulations man.\nHadid: Thanks. It's been uh\u2026 rough, to say the least.\nHaas: You're telling me.\n[ Silence ]\nHadid: So, H.R.?\nHaas: You know the D-Class? We're the ones who pluck them from the prisons, and off the streets, places where people only get to if they've got no one left that'll miss 'em. Hell, a few of them come from our ranks too. Those are the real pieces of work. The bodies don't come out of nowheres after all. And then there's the testing. Or there was the testing.\nHadid: What do you mean?\nHaas: Well, before someone grew a conscience, we would run tests here. You know, do real fucking science. And you can't make the omelet of discovery without breaking a few eggs, and a few bones. But someone thought that was inhumane. Thought that sending unarmed D-Class into an anomalous meat grinder to see how it works was a needless waste of life. Pathetic.\nHadid: You're talking about the-\nHaas: Jeremiah Cimmerian, and all those other pretend doctors in Ethics.\n[ Researcher Hadid coughs before rifling through his papers again. Researcher Haas leans forward in her chair so that her elbows can reach the table. She slams her open palm down. Hadid drops his papers and looks at her. ]\nHaas: You're not\u2026 from Ethics. Right?\nHadid: I\u2026 no\u2026 I\u2026 I'm not.\nHaas: Good.\n[ Silence ]\nHaas: If you don't have any more questions for me, Researcher, I have tests to conduct.\n[ Researcher Hadid tilts his head. ]\nHadid: You'll be returned\u2026 to your cell though. What tests do you plan on conducting, exactly?\nHaas: You'll see. You're a Level 1 researcher now. Time to put your big boy drawers on.\n<End Log>\n\nFollowing this interview, Researcher Haas was escorted to her cell by an armed guard. Security forces were tripled for three weeks, during which Haas was stoic and inactive. Due to the lack of activity from Haas, the extra force was deemed unnecessary and the additional personnel were returned to their previous posts.\n\nThe Human Resources Incident\n\nOn August 2nd, 2020, Researcher Haas etched several thaumaturgic sigils.Later identified to be transportation spells used by the Hermetic Order of the Black Trees. into the wall of her containment cell using her fingernails, allowing her to escape confinement. The following recording was pieced together from the various CCTVs in Site-83.\n\n<PLAY RECORDING>\n12:03: Haas etches sigils into the wall using her fingernails. A circular section of the wall crumbles, replaced by a glowing green light. Haas steps through unnoticed by guards.\n12:04: Haas appears on another side of the containment cell, sneaks up on a guard. She disarms him and uses the pistol to kill him and the other guards. Haas proceeds down West Corridor A.\n12:10: Researcher Hadid exits the interrogation chamber. Haas subdues and takes him hostage. Haas and Hadid proceed down West Corridor B.\n12:11: Researcher Hadid escapes Haas's grip. Hadid hits an emergency panic button. Alarms blare. Personnel flood corridor. Hadid escapes Haas in the chaos. Haas fires shots into the ceiling. Personnel attempt to flee.\n12:13: Haas holds Site Director Chin at gunpoint. They proceed down West Corridor C and enter SCP-5874.\n12:15: MTF Lambda 5 secure SCP-5874. L5-Alpha attempts negotiations with Haas. D-Class are sent in. There are screams heard from the D-Class. Site Director Chin is released.\n[THREE HOURS AND TEN MINUTES EXTRANEOUS NOISE REMOVED]\n17:25: Screams cease.\n<STOP RECORDING>\n\nInterview Director Chin\n\nIn order to ascertain the full extent of the cognitive damage done by SCP-5874 on Site Director Chin several psychological screenings were conducted. After Site Director Chin was deemed lucid enough for conversation, an interview was conducted in order to better understand how SCP-5874 affects the mind. Site Director Chin was later amnesticized, her name was removed, and she was reassigned to Site-[REDACTED].\n\nInterviewer: Researcher Hadid\nInterviewed: Site-Director Chin\n<Begin Log>\nChin: What exactly do you think you're doing, Hadid?\nHadid: I'm\u2026\nChin: You understand how heavily you have to screw up to think that I'm affected by an anomaly? Me? Site-Director Chin? Maybe you belong in the Ethics Committee. Research clearly isn't for you.\nHadid: What do you have against the Ethics Committee?\nChin: We have a burden to carry, Hadid. Most of us will carry it for our entire lives, long or short as that may be. And some people aren't prepared to shoulder their portion of the load. So they put more of a burden on people like us. People that want to do the work and get the answers. Why?\nHadid: I don't know.\nChin: Because they're scared of what they might find if they dig a little too deep. That's what the Ethics Committee is. They're sandstone at the bottom of the sea bed, keeping the people with plastic shovels from finding real gems. And I want those gems, Hadid. I'm sure you do too.\n<End Log>\n\nObservation 5874-1\n\nIn the days following Site Director Chin's detainment, personnel gained access to the CCTV cameras within SCP-5874. Several more employees disappeared into SCP-5874 in part due to SCP-5874's anomalous effects, and in part due to Haas herself, who was able to convince a large portion Site-83's staff to enter the anomaly. Due to the threat SCP-5874 poses on the human mind, exploration into the anomaly was prohibited by the Ethics Committee.\n\nROOM 4AC\n<PLAY FOOTAGE>\n17:00 Dr. Character drags a D-Class by the collar of his uniform. D-Class protests. D-Class is forced into a \"t\" shaped wooden contraption by Dr. Character and an armed MTF agent.\n17:01: Researcher Haas activates the contraption. Each end of the contraption begins rotating in different directions. D-Class screams.\n17:04: Researcher Haas takes notes. D-Class's left arm is torn. MTF Agent laughs.\n17:10: D-Class's head turns, breaking bones. Skin is stretched and pulled until it peels apart. Muscle and sinew are revealed. D-Class struggles in restraints while Researcher Haas documents. MTF Agent leans against the machine. They put their face close to the D-Class.\n18:15: D-Class's head separates from body. Researcher Haas scoffs then exits.\n\nObservation 5874-2\n\nROOM 311A\n<PLAY FOOTAGE>\n15:04: Researcher Haas enters, followed by two D-Class. MTF Agents follow with weapons raised.\n15:05: The D-Class are restrained to different chairs. MTF Agents line up against westward-facing wall with weapons aimed at the D-Class.\n15:10: Researcher Haas makes note of responses. She nods once. MTF Agents fire a volley of shots into the first D-Class. Second D-Class hysterical.\n15:14: MTF Agents reload. Dir. Chin takes notes of second D-Class responses.\n15:17: Researcher Haas converses with remaining D-Class. D-Class remains hysterical, but Researcher Haas nods.\n15:20: MTF Agents finish reloading. Researcher Haas recedes to northward-facing wall and nods. MTF Agents fire a volley of shots into the D-Class. Second D-Class expires.\n15:21: MTF Agents reload.\n15:30: Researcher Haas pours unknown red substance on first D-Class. First D-Class reanimates and foams at mouth.\n15:35: MTF Agents finish reloading and fire at reanimated D-Class.\n[EXPERIMENT LOOPS AND CEASES]\n\nObservation 5874-3\n\nROOM 4AA\n12:00: Four D-Class enter, gather around unknown, circular artifact, presumably an undocumented SCP object.\n12:05: MTF Agents enter, followed by Researcher Haas.\n12:06: Researcher Haas divides the D-Class into two groups. Fifth D-Class is terminated by MTF Agents.\n12:09: Researcher Haas presents soccer ball to D-Class. MTF Agents set up nets on either side of the room.\n12:15: Soccer game begins.\n12:45: Soccer game concludes. Losing D-Class pair is terminated by MTF Agents.\n12:46: Remaining D-Class are presented with a coin. Researcher Haas presents the coin to first D-Class, nods, then flips the coin.\n12:47: Coin lands on \"tails\". Second D-Class is terminated.\n12:50: Doctor Haas shakes hand of surviving D-Class. The door opens. D-Class exits and is shot by MTF Agents waiting outside.\n\nThe Second Incident\n\nBy November 11th, 2020, Researcher Haas was able to convince 67% of Site-83's personnel to enter SCP-5874. The affected personnel continued to kidnap unaffected individuals and conduct a variety of inhumane experiments on them. Due to the shortage of on-site personnel, several of the Euclid and Keter Class anomalies were understaffed and subsequently breached containment. MTF Lambda-5 attempted to combat the affected individuals and prevent the complete destruction of Site-83.\nThe following audio/visual recording was taken from various members of both MTF teams.\n\n<BEGIN FOOTAGE>\nL5-Alpha: It's a beautiful day to save lives. How's the arm, Cordae?\nL5-Gamma: [ He moves his mechanical arm. He smiles. ] Better.\nL5-Beta: Thank god for that. Captain?\nL5-Alpha: Tits up, folks. We're going in.\n[ Team proceeds through Site-83's West-Wing breakroom. The kitchen is in disarray with dirty pots and pans scattered across the floor. Human bones and dried viscera are present in the pans. Appears cooked. A still-beating human heart is on one of the tables. A researcher is documenting it and taking notes. ]\nResearcher: Absolutely fascinating, isn't it? Are you here to bring me more D-Class for endoscopic vascular observation?\n[ L5-Alpha looks at L5-Beta, who then looks at L5-Gamma. L5-Alpha fires a non-lethal, 5 milliamp taser shot at the researcher. Taser trackers connect at the chest. Researcher is subdued. ]\nL5-Alpha: Don't make 'em like they used to, huh.\n[ Team advances through Site-83, subduing affected researchers and staff in a similar manner. There are a multitude of burn marks through the site, presumably from the release of SCP-[REDACTED]. The fire suppressant systems seem to have failed. ]\n[ Researcher Haas is discovered in West Corridor B. She is pursuing a D-Class with an instance of SCP-[REDACTED]. Instance is in hostile state and attempting to harm the D-Class. D-Class runs toward Lambda 5. ]\nD-Class: She's fucking crazy man. Crazy!\n[ L5-Beta and L5-Gamma successfully neutralize the instance using ballistic rounds. They hold Researcher Haas at gunpoint. ]\nL5-Alpha: [ To her. ] Calm down. We've got this under control. Just keep running that way until you find someone who cares that isn't busy, or infected with whatever the fuck is going on here.\nD-Class: Fuck you! I'm outta here.\n[ The D-Class exits. Seconds later screams are heard. ]\nL5-Gamma: [ He laughs. ]\nL5-Alpha: [ To Haas. ] Stop your shit, Lois. I don't want to hurt you.\nHaas: I'm trying to get work done. Work that you couldn't even begin to understand.\nL5-Alpha: I've been through some ridiculous shit, Haas. We all have. Don't talk to me about something I couldn't understand.\nHaas: Look, I get it. You're all young and new. You want the world to be made of sunshine and rainbows. You want our research to be more humane. You want the D-Class to be treated like people.\nL5 Beta: Ma'am, we-\nHaas: Did you know that the \"D\" in D-Class stands for disposable? It's literally in the name. Disposable Class. How about that, huh?\nL5 Alpha: Listen Lois, just-\n[ There is a tearing sound as Haas begins scratching something into her forearm. She rips through her lab coat sleeve and tears into her skin. Blood is present. Large portions of Haas's forearm muscle detach from her, although she does not acknowledge this. Haas's eyes begin to illuminate a shade of green. ]\nL5-Gamma: Captain?\n[ L5-Alpha nods. L5-Gamma fires his taser but misses. Researcher Haas's eyes cease to glow and she flees. She is pursued by the team. Haas enters SCP-5874 followed by L5-Alpha. ]\nL5-Alpha: Stay here and make sure no one follows us.\n[ L5-Alpha enters SCP-5874. The hall is lit by a faint red glow. Dried blood and fecal matter are present on the walls, ceiling and floor. There are iron doors.Consistent with humanoid containment cells during the early 2000's. with cylindrical indents within them. Diagonal patterns evident of scratching are also present on the walls and floors. ]\nHaas: [ Over intercorm ] Is this insubordination, soldier?\nL5-Alpha: You don't have any authority anymore, Haas. No one else is coming.\nHaas: I'll report you to the O5s if you take another step.\nL5-Alpha: Go ahead. I'll be here.\n[ L5-Alpha traces some kind of sigil into the fresh viscera on a nearby wall. Haas emerges further down the corridor and runs to L5-Alpha. Haas examines the sigils. ]\nHaas: What have you done?\n[ Silence ]\nHaas: Do you have any idea as to what you've just done to us?\n[ Several rooms begin to displace, appearing on the ceiling and floor as opposed to just the wall. Window panes shatter and reform. Researcher Haas loses her balance. ]\n[ A thick grey liquid manifests from the cracks in the floor. Liquid solidifies within seconds. ]\nHaas: How did you\u2026\nL5-Alpha: My mother was in the Order. I'm just doing my job.\nFootage terminates\n<END FOOTAGE>\n\nFollowing the termination of L5-Alpha's bodycam footage, the hall leading into West Corridor D and SCP-5874 were spontaneously filled with concrete. West Corridor D was later relocated, and the current containment protocols were enacted.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5873 | SCP-5874 | SCP-5875 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5875\nObject Class: Euclid (formerly Safe)\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Original Containment Procedures (19/11/2016)\nMail addressed to Foundation employees is to be checked before delivery for signs of being an SCP-5875-1 instance. All SCP-5875-1 documents are to be stored in opaque containers in a secure documents locker. Future activities of the Pataphysics Department must be closely reviewed for anomalous effects.\nAdditional Procedures, Emergency Revision 14 (26/06/2017)\nAny unsolicited physical mail to a Foundation employee from an organization known to be fictional must be seized unread and stored as an SCP-5875-2 instance. Site security are to report and develop countermeasures for any anomalous mail delivery attempts.\nAdditional Procedures, Current Revision\nEmployees deemed to be sufficiently loyal to the Foundation may be granted permission to read SCP-5875-2 instances addressed to them. These employees must document all proficiencies gained, unplanned travel, and any other anomalous effects occurring after reading the correspondence.\nDescription: SCP-5875 is an organization of sapient, information-based entities existing between pataphysically linked universes, known as the \"Good Times Resolution Club.\" SCP-5875 has the stated goal of \"Promoting happier endings.\"\n\n+ Contextual Information for understanding the nature of SCP-5875\n\n- Close\n\nUniverses are said to be pataphysically linked if one is represented in the other as a fictional narrative or scenario conceived of by a sapient entity. These universes are arranged along a specific pataphysical dimension. When an individual conceives of a non-real scenario, an information packet representing that scenario emanates out of their universe and travels downwards in the pataphysical dimension before attaching itself to a nascent universe with low information content, bringing about the imagined scenario in that universe. Additionally, it is also possible for a universe to emit information upwards, which an individual in a pataphysically higher universe can receive as an idea for a hypothetical scenario or narrative. The pataphysical mechanism is an interplay of information travelling in both directions, a cycle of the creator actualizing events in the universe and being inspired by that universe. One result of this is is that SCP-5875's world is constantly exposed to narrative information passing between universes.\n\nThe Foundation first encountered SCP-5875 after 13/11/2016 when a Pataphysics Department research team attempted to send a probe into the space below our universe along the pataphysical dimension. It is believed that this created some manner of informational aperture through which SCP-5875 can interact with our universe. SCP-5875 is capable of interacting with baseline reality by causing the anomalous manifestation of letters addressed to Foundation personnel (Similar to the way SCP-1020, and SCP-1269 communicates with their targets). They almost always entreat the recipient's assistance in some manner of task SCP-5875 is trying to accomplish. These letters come in two varieties, designated SCP-5875-1 and SCP-5875-2.\nSCP-5875-1 instances are written in the language the recipient is most familiar with. However, the language is heavily broken: the authors of the letters seem to have a very poor grasp of syntax, with words, phrases, clauses, and punctuation used and arranged erratically. Despite this, the meaning of the letters is generally understandable, though with difficulty. No SCP-5875-1 instance has ever recognizably explained how its recipient can help SCP-5875 should they decide to.\nOn 25/06/2017, the following SCP-5875-1 instance was found in the mail of the SCP-5875 containment lead:\n\nThe Good Times\" Resolution Club this saying=\nHey Friendations!\nWe just don't get it, do we? Punching that circle bush no, us mistakered. Asking for some help hand; and no? Thought rudemanding -us/thee? Our intented can\"t they comprehense? Yalls language tough on us'.; arcane form and perfect structure mandate clutchold all the meaning so it won\"t sink in space. Spacesuits for thinks [Idea Astronauts]. We do'nt make em like you, mostly needn\"t. Our helpless caused of this? Slightly real, but not out of whole cloth;'. The big real = no ticket down. Taking other look we reckonize you can't dive down for talk at us. Being through your lovely seenarios-/-narratevents all the time, we\"re reasoning you could just think-all down here. Right though not - like your thinks need wordsuits, you need spaceships.\nClub Scigentists fresh made idea. Language good, brainships doublegood. Bye-Bye.\n\nThis was the last SCP-5875-1 instance recorded1. It was initially concluded that this meant that SCP-5875 had recognized that recipients of their letters were unable to aid them, and that their species finds syntax challenging because they aren't accustomed to encoding their communication in language, likely because they communicate in terms of pure intent through some form of telepathy2.\nOn 26/06/2017, the first SCP-5875-2 instance was received. Addressed to a Site-87 researcher, it was not removed by existing SCP-5875 containment procedures due to its dissimilarity with SCP-5875-1 instances. The researcher was seen on security camera reading it, before laying on the ground and falling unconscious. Another researcher connected the incident to SCP-5875. Subsequently, SCP-5875 was quickly reclassified as Euclid and its containment procedures were revised. However, after the researcher had regained consciousness and spent two weeks under controlled examination to ensure they suffered no adverse effects in the long-term, it was decided that SCP-5875-2 recipients should be allowed to read their instances under controlled conditions, leading to the current revision of the containment procedures.\nSCP-5875-2 instances are letters that purport to be from a fictional organization, generally from a fairly widely known fictional universe. When examined with a Pickman-Sinclair Narrative Fluctuation Detector, SCP-5875-2 instances read as strongly expositional, and in particular are strongly associated with the \"Call to Adventure\" phase of the Hero's Journey or Monomyth. Unlike SCP-5875-1 instances, their language is easily intelligible and well constructed; it is believed that this is because they're constructed using human-made narrative information as a basis, instead of being written by SCP-5875 members from scratch.\nThese letters describe a problem that is appropriate to the organization, and never make reference to SCP-5875 by name. When an SCP-5875-2 instance is read by the individual to whom it is addressed, the individual feels the immediate need to sit or lay down in a place where it is safe to do so. Once they do this, they fall unconscious for a period ranging from 30-60 minutes. Upon waking, they recall arriving in a surreal world inhabited by the species SCP-5875's membership is composed of, designated SCP-5875-A. SCP-5875-A instances are perceived as having inconsistent, shifting appearances, but being generally humanoid. Once there, they recall aiding a group of SCP-5875 members3 with a problem that is thematically similar to the one described in the SCP-5875-2 instance, and awakening shortly after the mission concluded4. Pataphysics department personnel who have been recruited in this fashion characterize the world as a complex and chaotic combination of narrative devices and worldbuilding elements from the enormous amount of narrative information passing through the area SCP-5875-A lives in. Affected personnel also report acquiring new skills and proficiencies upon waking. These also are generally thematically relevant for the fictional organization their instance was purportedly from.\nThe world SCP-5875-A lives in is not actually a universe and does not exist materially. However, as it is made up of information that emulates a universe, a disembodied human consciousness experiences and navigates it as if it were a universe they are physically present in. Further, a human consciousness' informational and conceptual superstructure is much more resilient to external influence than those of SCP-5875-A, giving humans a greater resistance to hazards that threaten SCP-5875-A instances5. This is why SCP-5875 considers human help valuable on certain potentially hazardous missions.\nMultiple affected personnel, including the first Foundation employee to be affected by an SCP-5875-2 instance, report that while they have always arrived pataphysically below our universe, they have heard SCP-5875 members refer to a top or above branch of their organization. As SCP-5875 members located pataphysically above our universe could manipulate the incoming narrative information that determines events in our universe, it has been decided that the Foundation should create and maintain a positive relationship with SCP-5875 by responding to their requests.\nWhat follows is a partial list of received SCP-5875-2 instances, and the results of their reading.\nSCP-5875-2-02:\n\nFictional Organization: VFD (A Series of Unfortunate Events)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026 in a villainous flagrance of duty, some among our members have exposed one of our library sanctums to the elements, a word which here means\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: One of SCP-5875's data storage units had its informational shielding damaged such that the surrounding information flow could corrupt or overwrite the data if not corrected. Interacting with such unshielded storage units can be hazardous for SCP-5875-A instances, but was substantially safer for the recruited Foundation archivist.\nSkills Gained: Knowledge in the fields of cryptography and fire fighting techniques.\n\nSCP-5875-2-05:\n\nFictional Organization: Starfleet, The United Federation of Planets (Star Trek)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026located in a remote area of the Beta Quadrant, scans suggest this planet has extensive dilithium deposits. However, the Romulan Star Empire has learned of it as well\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: A region rich in unbound narrative devices, which SCP-5875's species can mine and make tools out of, was discovered by SCP-5875. However, another group known as The Cowboys, whose relationship with SCP-5875 is tense and antagonistic but not actively hostile, also learned about the region, and SCP-5875 wished to secure their claim to the area first. The recruited Foundation guard was meant to avert potential conflicts with the Cowboys using intimidation.\nSkills Gained: Theoretical and practical understanding of Foundation Faster-Than-Light drives, varied geopolitical information that gave them a more positive view of human civilization's future prospects.\n\nSCP-5875-2-10:\n\nFictional Organization: The Resistance (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026Do not be lulled into complacency, this twilight that has fallen on Hyrule is unnatural and dangerous. But with your help, we can do something about it\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: Many among the SCP-5875-A populace noticed an unusual increase in tragic, hopeless, and melancholic elements in passing narratives and narrative fragments. While investigating the phenomenon, SCP-5875 learned that a notorious SCP-5875-A organized crime syndicate was responsible, draining the passing information of positive, optimistic, and just themes and plot developments. Their goal was to draw energy from these drained qualities, but also to promote an environment in their own world that would be more conducive to their own future success. SCP-5875 and the Foundation MTF agent were able to shut down the operation and return the taken elements to their original narratives.\nSkills Gained: Skill at fighting with a broadsword and shield, knowledge of several hostile extradimensional and/or pluripotent entities known to periodically reincarnate after being defeated.\n\nSCP-5875-2-14:\n\nFictional Organization: S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel Comics)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026 the man is believed to have accidentally fallen into a chemical vat in a biochemical research facility, granting him metahuman ability. The purpose behind his current rampage is unclear, but he must be stopped in any case\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: A criminal on the run from SCP-5875-A law enforcement for destroying a vehicle they had stolen for a joyride broke into an SCP-5875 research facility. Inside, they were inadvertently exposed to a powerful generalized MacGuffin, granting them a much greater control over the information comprising their environment. They used this ability to strike back at law enforcement and random bystanders until SCP-5875 agents and the recruited Foundation criminologist neutralized and arrested them.\nSkills Gained: Knowledge of techniques used to engage with humanoids with anomalous capabilities as used by several different groups of interest.\n\nSCP-5875-2-19:\n\nFictional Organization: Oberon's Court (A Midsummer Night's Dream)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026saw I that Thalia, Muse of comedy, walked in that field when she imagined a tale of such surpassing humor that she wept from laughter. And noted I where her tears fell, for now grow there strange flowers. The juice of them on pond'ring heads laid will grant man or woman the merry wit of seven fools. Pray fetch me this herb, and the fair folk's night will be lightened\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: SCP-5875 researchers forecasted that a particularly humorous joke or event presented widely to the populace at a certain upcoming time would be emotionally beneficial to an exceptionally high number of SCP-5875-A in a difficult or painful low point in their personal narrative. In response, several SCP-5875 members and the recruited Foundation junior researcher collected and refined several components of joke narratives (set-up, double entendre, word-play, punchline, etc.) and synthesized them into a comedic skit. The junior researcher described the skit as an extremely dense and complex piece of referential humor, and consequently reported \"not getting it.\" It was clearly well received by the populace, however.\nSkills Gained: Greater ability to recognize and correct misunderstandings that could lead to interpersonal conflicts, a general sense of being funnier and more articulate.\n\nSCP-5875-2-23:\n\nFictional Organization: Earth Defense Force (Godzilla)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026the monster Megaguirus has resurfaced and is projected to arrive in Osaka. So called 'defender' monsters like Godzilla or Mothra are nowhere to be found, this is humanity's fight alone. With your support, we can defend Osaka and drive the monster back\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: A metastatic meme complex, a complex system of memes and concepts that behaves much like a predatory life form by consuming and subsuming other ideas, concepts, or information into itself, somehow exited the human noosphere,6 arrived in SCP-5875-A's world, and began consuming its informational content. This included information making up residential and metropolitan areas. An alliance of SCP-5875 forces, the recruited Foundation memeticist, and several Cowboys were able to destroy the core of the complex, rendering it inert and effectively dead. Fortunately, all of the SCP-5875-A instances and most of the environmental information consumed by the complex were able to be extracted from it and restored. The Foundation memeticist suffered serious psychic injury in the conflict and was brought to an SCP-5875-A hospital to repair her mental information structure, using both direct manipulation of the information and therapeutic memetic agents.\nSkills Gained: Protocols and methodology for responding to Large Scale Aggressor-type anomalous entities and non-anomalous natural disasters. Additionally, she gained a basic understanding of SCP-5875-A medical techniques while being treated, and is working on developing them for use by humans.\n\nSCP-5875-2-33:\n\nFictional Organization: The PAC Institute (The PAC Institute Wiki)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"\u2026 a severe memetic anomaly has manifested approximately 30 miles from your location; over 100 civilians have already been hospitalized and it poses a major threat of breaching the veil. It is understood that SRT Xi-14 (Mindsweepers) is on assignment, but your support is requested if at all possible\u2026\"\nProblem Faced: A highly unusual narrative began passing through SCP-5875-A's world. Its content was deeply unpleasant, graphically portraying humanity's subjugation and eradication by an enormously powerful entity of unclear origin and nature. This was portrayed in a manner that indicated the creator of the narrative found these events pleasing and desirable. SCP-5875-A instances who tried to modify the narrative information to create a more positive outcome or destroy the narrative entirely suffered severe psychic damage and had to be hospitalized, leading to mass panic among the populace. SCP-5875 members and the recruited Foundation containment specialist were able to relocate and contain the narrative in order to prevent it from harming SCP-5875-A society. Notably, the narrative has a highly atypical informational structure that suggests the creator of the narrative is not human, but its presence in a region dominated by human-made narratives suggests that the creator is on Earth. A Foundation investigation to determine the identity and location of this narrative's creator is ongoing.\nSkills Gained: Even greater knowledge of Foundation containment theory and practice throughout history, a basic understanding of the field of pataphysics as the Foundation currently understands it.7\n\nSCP-5875-2-47:\n\nFictional Organization: The Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters)\nExcerpt from Letter: \"Have you ever dealt with powerful specters? Could you fight a ghost afflicted by an abomination holding it between life and death? If such an apparition were corrupting our city, could you aid us? If the answer is yes, then don't wait another minute, pick up a phone and call. We're ready to recruit you!\"\nProblem Faced: An anomalous phenomenon that distorted the information comprising SCP-5875-A's world was spreading in a remote area near an SCP-5875 training facility. The distortions were of a consistent nature, described by the recruited pataphysics researcher as causing stationary objects and terrain to be \"covered in black thorns.\" While searching for the source of the phenomenon, several abnormalities in the topography and topology of the area suggested portions of the terrain had been erased, but contacted geographers who study the area did not recall the area being different in the past. What occurred after this is unknown; upon waking the visibly frightened researcher quickly wrote a note reading \"If they're still there, you won.\" He then immediately contacted Pataphysics Department archivist and general assistant Enkidu.aic and demanded an amnestic and memetic agent regimen to erase the climax of the most recent narrative he was a part of from his memory, in order to avoid breaking the generalized LUCID CHALICE Protocol. Department monitoring equipment and subsequent SCP-5875-2 instances confirm that SCP-5875 and its world still exist.\nSkills Gained: None\n\nFootnotes\n1. Earlier, more typical SCP-5875-1 instances are not included in the basic SCP-5875 file as they have been deemed unimportant to a basic understanding of the anomaly; interested personnel should refer to the SCP-5875-1 supplemental document.\n2. This has since been confirmed.\n3. Foundation Personnel should note that only a subset of the SCP-5875-A population are members of the SCP-5875 organization\n4. How time passes in SCP-5875-A's world is not well understood, affected personnel report having no clear sense of how long they spent there. Further, affected personnel always arrive in time to assist with the relevant problem, even if it had been several days after the SCP-5875-2 instance asking for their aid was received.\n5. As information based entities, SCP-5875-A instances can die if the information comprising their mind is disassociated. More often, however, their information is damaged to the point where they remain conscious but are unable to form coherent thoughts, a state which, though usually treatable, is torturously distressing and greatly feared in SCP-5875-A cultures.\n6. The sum total of all ideas that are possible for humans to have.\n7. The containment specialist was recruited into the Pataphysics Department as a result.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5874 | SCP-5875 | SCP-5876 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Xi'an Plane Crash\n\nItem #: SCP-5877\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Worldwide birth record databases are to be routinely copied onto Foundation servers to maintain a centralized hub of all persons with a recorded identity.\nIt is Foundation protocol to assume that any individual is an SCP-5877 instance until one of the following conditions are met:\n\nThe individual produces photo identification\nThe individual is verified to own a web-based account\nThe individual is confirmed to match an entry in the Foundation Entity Database\n\nRecovered SCP-5877 instances are to be treated as civilians: they are to be amnestized and reintegrated back into society.\nDescription: SCP-5877 refers to a collection of human-like entities. Identical to regular people in every other way, these entities share the following characteristics:\n\nThe origin of SCP-5877 instances, if any, is unknown,\nThe identity of SCP-5877 instances, if any, is unknown,\nSCP-5877 instances lack any record of their prior existence,\nUntil 2007, all recovered SCP-5877 instances were deceased.\n\nSCP-5877 instances are susceptible to potential membership of GoI-006 (\"Nobody\").\nThe majority of SCP-5877 instances discovered by the Foundation are dead at time of recovery. It is acknowledged that a significant number of these cases are indistinguishable from non-anomalous humans that have simply been damaged beyond recognizability; however there have been significant cases of SCP-5877 instances that have lead the Foundation to label the overall phenomenon as anomalous. Some such cases are listed below:\n\nDate\nEvent\nNormalcy Breach\n\n05/16/1970\nFire burned down 14 homes on Maple Street, Redland, California.\nEvacuation of these homes was recorded as successful, with only 2 individuals unaccounted for. However, disaster response teams inspecting the remains of the homes found over 60 bodies between the houses. Bodies were found largely in bedrooms, or nearby burnt mattresses and blankets.\n\n11/14/1984\nTwin stillborn children delivered in Dublin hospital.\nPrevious sonogram of the mother only showed one child.\n\n08/22/1996\nFlight 40014 from Xi'an to Shanghai crashed, killing all passengers.\nThe bodies of 30 additional victims were found around the crash that could not be identified, while all people listed on the flight itinerary were accounted for. These SCP-5877 instances were found strapped into seats on top of identified passengers.\n\nRecoveries of Live SCP-5877 Instances: Initially, SCP-5877 was catalogued as a phenomenon associated only with dead bodies. In 2007, live instances of SCP-5877 were discovered, often in groups. The Foundation has located living SCP-5877 instances three times since then.\n\nDate: 05/14/2009\n# of Instances: 54\nRecovery: Foundation resources heard numerous rumors about a mining operation salvaging weaponizable anomalous materials from a quarry in Texas. While initial investigation did not find significant information to support the rumors, the concerns of a para-terrorism threat spurred a raid of the quarry.\nThe raid did not find any anomalous materials. However, the mining operation was illegal, as it was unsanctioned and made use of slave labor, who were forced to sleep in the quarry. Questioning and processing of the labor force found that they were all SCP-5877 instances.\nOf note, Agent Tyler Maliz reported that, following the raid, he had encountered a young girl who appeared to have been watching the event from outside the quarry, taking notes in a bright pink journal. When questioned by Maliz, she acted similarly to an SCP-5877 instance, and was escorted to a transport and supposedly brought to a Foundation Site. However, she was unaccounted for in the final containment report. Due to her elusiveness and observant nature1, it was theorized that the girl may hold connections to the GoI-006 (\"Nobody\"). Additionally, due to the lack of individual records pertaining to the girl, she was labeled as an SCP-5877 instance.\nFollowing the processing of these SCP-5877 instances, MTF Theta-15 (\"Name Taggers\") was established to deal with identity-related anomalies, and interactions with Nobody. Personnel from the quarry raid were inducted as the first selection of Theta-15 members.\n\nDate: 07/22/2013\n# of Instances: 74\nRecovery: While tailing Nobody2 during a heavy rainstorm in Louisiana, MTF Theta-15 encountered a homeless shelter which had reached its maximum capacity. Numerous individuals both inside the shelter and requesting entry outside the shelter could neither identify themselves, nor matched Foundation records.\nTheta-15 requested Foundation transportation to arrive under the cover story of public transportation sent to relocate some of the homeless to a new shelter. Due to the rushed nature of the operation, it is believed that a small number of SCP-5877 instances were not properly recovered. However, due to their status, this was believed to have no significant impact on maintaining the Veil.\n\nDate: 12/12/2018\n# of Instances: 37\nRecovery: Foundation personnel received numerous tips about couples adopting children who had no given names from a single orphanage in Romania. The adoption process was described by participants as \"simple\" and \"casual\".3\nAgent Maliz led MTF Theta-15 in a search of the orphanage under the guise of investigating possible human trafficking. The search met no resistance. All recovered SCP-5877 instances were under the age of 16. No adult SCP-5877 instance or baseline humans were encountered.\nRecovered SCP-5877 instances described the owner of the orphanage as a young woman who the younger instances called \"Big Sis\" and \"Miss\", and the older instances simply referred to with pronouns. Foundation personnel currently believe this is the same member of Nobody that was linked to the previous recoveries.\n\nFollowing each recovery of SCP-5877 instances, they were each amnestized, supplied with a name and personal history, and recorded in both internal Foundation databases, as well as relevant governmental systems.\nNobody Capture: On 07/18/2023, Nobody was contained after robbing a Cold Stone Creamery in Longmont, Colorado. MTF Theta-15 tracked Nobody to a nearby hotel, where she was detained with no resistance. Following the Nobody GOI Project Coordinator, the International Affairs Specialist, and the SCP-5353 Project Lead, MTF Theta-15 captain Tyler Maliz was permitted to interview Nobody regarding SCP-5877.\nget to the analogy faster, too much puttering around before hand\n\nNobody: It's been a long time since I've felt so popular.\nMaliz: Why did you let us catch you?\nNobody: Oh come on. Even the egg head entertained some small talk.\nMaliz: We've spent decades chasing you, and this is the first time we've caught you. And it was because of a sloppy smash and grab where all you took was a goddamn ice cream cake. You're here for a reason.\nNobody: Ooh, so that's where I've seen your face before!\nMaliz: So you recognize me.\nNobody: Only vaguely. I'm good with faces, not so much names though so I could still use an introduction. It's much harder to have a chat with someone if you don't even know their name.\nMaliz sighs.\nMaliz: Fine. I'm Tyler Maliz.\nNobody: I'm sensing some pent up resentment. Are you annoyed that I've been evading you this long?\nMaliz: You bit my mother fifty years ago.\nNobody appears taken aback.\nNobody: So\u2026 first of all I don't remember that, but secondly I feel like judging me by any actions I may or may not have taken fifty years ago is not a very charitable interpretation of who I am today.\nMaliz: You make a bad first impression.\nNobody: So that probably was me but not like me sitting here me.\nMaliz: Now you're changing the topic. Why are you here?\nNobody: You don't just expect me to tell you everything. Where's the fun in that?\nMaliz: Okay, fine. Where are your people then?\nNobody: Oh? My people?\nMaliz: Every time we've seen you, there's always been people like you around. People without names, identities, anything beyond their bodies really. Like you.\nNobody: I'll be honest, I didn't expect the rude field agent to ask the most interesting questions of me today.\nMaliz: You're deflecting.\nNobody: Alright, alright. I know it would be easiest for me to tell you, but I can't.\nMaliz: Do you have a reason why?\nNobody: It's against the rules.\nMaliz: Do you have a reason that's not bullshit?\nNobody: You ever wonder why I only ever lead you to things but never tell you? Or why you never see me really doing anything? But you and I both know that I get things done. I'm like a universal handyman. Or handywoman, this time.\nMaliz: I don't see how that's a reason.\nNobody: The best janitor is the one who keeps an office clean but is never seen around a mess. And no one in their right mind keeps a close eye on a plumber when he's fixing your pipes. If you see me doing my job, then I'm not really doing all that good a job then. And if I tell you how I change the roof tiles, then you'll think you can do it yourselves, only to fall off your house and break your neck. Those are the rules of being a handyman.\nMaliz: This is the best I'm getting out of you today, isn't it?\nNobody: It's a much clearer answer than I gave to anyone else today. You could show at least a little gratitude.\nMaliz: I'll be taking my leave.\n\nRecovered Items: At the time of recovery, Nobody was carrying the following items:\n\nA .45 caliber glock 30. Serial number has been filed off.\nA Swiss army knife. The long blade, shortblade, can opener and wire stripper all are worn from heavy use. The screw driver tool has been sharpened to a point, and is stained with blood.\nA leather jacket. Does not appear to have been washed within the past 90 days.\nAn IHOP rewards card.\nA pocket journal. Most of the pages have been torn out. Scans of the remaining entries are presented below:\n\nCataclysm #TG-442, 7/14\nArrived at cataclysm location. Town hasn't changed much.\nCause of cataclysm: Pending Rule 1 Violation\nDue to size and congregation of Flock #551, violation of Rule 1 is imminent. Size also prohibits natural reintegration. Intervention appears to be required.\nCurrent tailing entities: SCP, White Suit\n\nCataclysm #TG-442, 7/15\nCurrent messenger is running threadbare, need to find replacement, and preferably a suitable depot.\nLocated flock spread out in nearby park. Locals have taken notice, however currently believe them to be a summer camp of sorts. Worried about night owls asking questions.\nNo disruption events of note. Yet.\nTailing entities: SCP, White Suit, Mrs. Englewood (surprised she still lives there)\n\nCataclysm #TG-442, 7/16\nMessenger is beginning to dissociate. Worried about recurrence of Rule 1 violation.\nLeukocytes converging on Flock #551. Car accident on Highway 33 most likely a disruption event. Barely anyone drives on that road, hard to believe two of them got into a head-on-head.\nNeed to temporarily hide flock without breaking Rule 4.\nTailing entities: SCP, White Suit, Mrs. Englewood\n\nCataclysm #TG-442, 7/17\nNo sign of White Suit in two days. I definitely didn't lose him. Suspect interference attempt soon.\nDirect interaction with Mrs. Englewood successful. Rule 4 overcome.\nEnglewood agreed to store Flock #551 in her barn. Used public transit in combination with Mrs. Englewood's truck to transport the flock. Surprised the buses are allowed, but then again those drivers have probably seen stranger things.\nWorried about disruption event escalation.\nCurrently scouting large-scale reintegration options. May have to go with the failsafe.\nTailing entities: SCP, White Suit, Mrs. Englewood\n\nCataclysm #TG-442, 7/18\nSufficient information collected.\nPredicted cataclysm date: 5/21 5/22\nCurrent obstacles: White Suit interference, messenger stamina, Rule 4, ensuring no recursion of Rule 1 violation\nResources: Notebook, swiss army knife, .22 caliber (3 bullets), connections\nLack of notable disruption events has me worried, but also gives me an idea.\n\nPoI-006 (\"Nobody\") Materials Report\nAfter going through the notes left in Nobody's journal, we've been able to locate the residence of one \"Mirian Englewood\". We also found reports of a large number of homeless individuals traveling from Longmont to a stop three miles from Mrs. Englewood's abode a few days ago. If history is anything to go by, the flock is a group of SCP-5877 Instances.\nThe problem is, we know that Nobody has a history of tricks and deceit. This wouldn't be the first time they've yanked us around. We're skeptical that they would leave these notes behind for us to find. These feel like something planted. But if they are something planted, why would she call attention to her notebook as a resource? That's bound to make anyone suspicious of its contents.\nIt is due to these concerns that additional interview with Nobody was held in an effort to gain any additional information. A transcript is presented below:\n\nNobody: Hello! You know, I was a little worried I wasn't going to get to have another chat with you.\n\nMaliz: Your notes mentioned a \"cataclysm\". What is that?\nNobody: Getting right to it then, are we?\nMaliz: Just answer the question.\nNobody: Well, I imagine it is pretty self-explanatory. A cataclysm is a bad thing.\nMaliz: I'll be more specific then. What happens when a cataclysm occurs?\nNobody: No idea.\nMaliz: You don't know?\nNobody: My job is to stop them. If I ever knew what happened during a cataclysm that'd mean I'd broken the rules.\nMaliz: You're falling back to the rules again.\nNobody: Is there a problem with that?\nMaliz: You're justifying your ignorance off of something you refuse to explain. It's a crude tactic.\nNobody: Fine, I'll give you some context. Think of them like physics. We don't really understand parts of it, but it's probably grounded in something.\nMaliz: Now you're deflecting! I need you to tell me what this cataclysm is so we can stop it.\nNobody: Oh, you're going to intervene yourself?\nMaliz: We can't let you do it.\nNobody: I see. Well, if you want to fix it, you can probably just terminate the entire flock.\nMaliz: Excuse me?\nNobody: Well, you need to clean up after yourselves, but yeah. That'd do it.\nMaliz: \u2026 huh.\nNobody: What did you expect?\nMaliz: Not that. That\u2026 that was a bold call.\nNobody: Oh? Is it now?\nMaliz: Well, you see, in your notes, you mentioned numerous times a \"disruption event\" clearly tied to the results of the cataclysm, but just now you told me you have no clue what happens. And given how smug you've been about your record, I'm inclined to believe that means you added those lines to your notes when you wrote them down to embellish the impact of the cataclysm. Or maybe the cataclysm doesn't even exist and you just want us to appear at the target's house on the given date.\nNobody: So you're not going?\nMaliz: Let me finish. Because now, with me taking your word on the cataclysm, you told me to just\u2026 shoot them? If I really was just taking you at face value you'd be condemning those people to death. But you don't think I really believe you yet. And you're banking on that.\nNobody: And you're explaining all this to me because?\nMaliz: Because if I wasn't reading between the lines right, you would've interrupted me more. You would've cast more doubt on what I'm saying. But\u2026 none of this leads to you escaping. None of this leads to a large trap. At best, you manage to neutralize some anomalies and a small number of our men but that's nothing in the grand scheme of things and you know that.\nNobody: Which means?\nMaliz: Our interests may align.\nNobody chuckles.\nNobody: You sound unhappy about this.\nMaliz: You've never been the type to help us.\nNobody: Now isn't that a self-centered view of it.\nMaliz: Then maybe you can elaborate?\nNobody: Now it's my turn to imagine a hypothetical. Right now, we believe that there's seven billion people in the world right now, correct? What if I told you there were actually eight billion. That one out of every eight people you pass by on the street, see on a subway, or sit near at a restaurant, are unaccounted for. That aren't really supposed to be here. That the number of bodies in the world exceeds the number of names. How would we really know?\nMaliz: We don't produce enough resources to sustain an additional billion people.\nNobody: Okay fine. Be pedantic. Let's call it a hundred thousand then. Honestly it would probably never get to a billion anyways. That'd be against the rules.\nMaliz: Is there something that actually enforces the rules?\nNobody: Nothing explicit, but I believe that's what the cataclysms are for.\nMaliz: Penalties for breaking the rules?\nNobody: I like to think of them as the universe\u2026 over compensating for cheating. It can get away with it though because no one really cares when a flock dies. As far as the world is concerned, it's just another body to the count. Did you know that there's no meaningful difference between ten and twenty people dying in a shooting? The count only matters when the victims have names and lives and connections to the rest of the world. Much easier to kill someone without a name.\nMaliz: That's what you're up to? Protecting these people from\u2026 the rules?\nNobody: Is it that hard to imagine that someone who goes by \"Nobody\" is the messiah of the nameless? Shepherding my flocks into a new life? I have my rules to obey but at the end of the day all I want is to give them proper names so they can live proper lives. Luckily, names are cheap. The only caveat is they must be given to you. And well\u2026 I can't give names for obvious reasons.\nMaliz: So you string us along, because we can give them a new identity and reintegrate them into society.\nNobody grins.\nNobody: You have no idea how happy I am you're assigned to me.\nMaliz: Yeah, fuck you too.\n\nIncident 5877-I: On 9/21/19, MTF Theta-15 was deployed to recover the proper SCP-5877 instances from the Englewood Residence. Below is a timeline of events:\n\n<19:14> Theta-15 arrives at the Englewood residence. The team splits into two groups: Puma and Cougar.\n<19:16> Puma knocks on the entrance to the main house while Cougar approaches the barn, which is approximately 100m away from the house.\n<19:17> Mrs. Englewood opens the door. She appears visibly distressed. Puma members are introduced as door-to-door salesmen, and enter the house uninvited.\n<19:19> Cougar reaches the barn. Members don infra-red goggles to validate the presence of SCP-5877 instances. 32 distinct heat signatures are present. It is noted that the barn is unusually quiet given the number of individuals inside.\n<19:19> Mrs. Englewood insists that Puma must leave, citing that her husband does not like having visitors this late. It is noted that Mrs. Englewood lived alone, having divorced her husband six years prior.\n<19:20> Cougar opens the door to the barn. Inside are 31 SCP-5877 instances, as well as a man wearing a white suit (henceforth PoI-5877), who is holding a younger SCP-5877 instance, and pointing a gun at its head.\n<19:20> Cougar members demand that PoI-5877 release the SCP-5877 instance, and put down the gun. PoI-5877 responds by demanding the location of Nobody. Cougar refuses to divulge the information.\n<19:21> Mrs. Englewood grows desperate to remove Puma from her house, and attacks one member with a pan. Mrs. Englewood is subsequently restrained, and shouts \"He'll kill me if you stay here\" before being sedated.\n<19:21> PoI-5877 begins cursing to himself, while keeping his weapon trained on his hostage. Cougar demands that PoI-5877 surrender again. PoI-5877 backs up toward the rear exit to the barn, using his hostage as a shield. After he leaves through the exit, a single gunshot can be heard. The remaining SCP-5877 instances burst into screams. Cougar runs through the exit to find the SCP-5877 instance now on the ground, neutralized via bullet wound.\n<19:22> Puma finishes amnestizing Mrs. Englewood.\n<19:23> Cougar signal that it is safe for Foundation transports to collect the SCP-5877 instances.\n\nFollowing the incident, the 30 SCP-5877 instances were brought to Site-23 and held in standard humanoid containment lockers. Preparations were made to begin amnestization and reintegration on 5/23.\nInterview 5877.2: Due to the unexpected presences of PoI-5877, Agent Maliz arranged another interview with Nobody the following day to confront her about the unexpected hostile.\n\n<Begin Log>\nMaliz: Who the fuck was that?\nNobody: Well that's not a great way to say hello.\nMaliz: That man in the white suit, why was he there?\nNobody: I mean, he was part of the plan.\nMaliz: Why didn't you tell me about him?\nNobody: You were doing so well, I would've felt bad if I pointed out any variables you missed.\nMaliz: He killed one of your people!\nNobody: Weren't you the one who said a few deaths didn't mean much in the grand scheme of things?\nMaliz: For you! You wouldn't care about that.\nNobody: Ah, well you're right there. But if you really want to know, the man was there because he's my ride out of here.\nMaliz: No. I don't believe that.\nNobody: Swear on my life.\nMaliz: You're messing with me.\nNobody: I am but that doesn't mean I'm lying.\nMaliz: Then why are you telling me?\nNobody: Because it's how I start the next turn.\nMaliz: No.\nNobody: No\u2026 what?\nMaliz: You're not going to just up and leave. You'll be lucky to see the light of day. This \"game\" is ridiculous. You're telling me your plan, so I'm going to put a stop to it.\nNobody: That's sort of the problem though. You can't just stop it. You don't see? It's all part of the plan. Your knowledge of the plan is part of the plan. Every second you spend interviewing me is a second spent delaying something else. Waiting for an email to be delivered to your account. Waiting for one of your lab monkeys to bring by some chemicals. I can't see outside my cell but I can hear footsteps, the creaking of cart wheels, the chatter of security guards. Everything I've done up until this point is measured to a tee.\nMaliz: \u2026 that's cheating.\nNobody: Come again?\nMaliz: That's cheating. You're not allowed to say that. Just claim that everything that's happened is part of a plan I can't ever verify. It's against the rules. It's a coward's move.\nNobody: If it was against the rules, I wouldn't be allowed to say it.\nMaliz: Then you're bluffing.\nNobody: I could be. But does that change how certain you are that Site-23 is still outside that door?\nMaliz: How do you know that designation?\nNobody: A good plumber knows the house better than its occupants.\nMaliz: Back to the handyman shit again?\nNobody: I'm sorry you're getting frustrated.\nMaliz: You don't mean that.\nNobody: I like you Tyler. I really do. You remind me of your mother. You keep your eye on as much as you can and you have a good grasp of what you don't know. But today, I need you to doubt. I need you to be my witness, but a careful one.\nContainment breach alarms sound.\nMaliz: What the\u2014 Did you do this?\nNobody: Of course not. I've been here. Talking to you.\nMaliz peeks his head out the door and attempts to wave down security guards.\nMaliz: I need an SCP escort! I can't leave this one alone!\nNobody: But you know doctor, you could've been at the breach. It might've been you conducting whatever, or observing whatever procedure.\nMaliz: Just stop talking! I'm trying to get us out of here.\nNobody: Don't worry about that too much. I was just about to take my leave anyways.\nMaliz: Excuse me?\nNobody: Do take care of the girl. She's done well for me.\nPoI-5877 from Incident 5877-I enters the interview room brandishing a handgun. Maliz drops to the ground and reaches for his own gun. The SCP-5877 instance sitting across from Maliz screams.\nMaliz: Who are you?\nPoI-5877: That's not important. Who is that?\nPoI-5877 points at the screaming SCP-5877 instance.\nMaliz: Who the fuck are you?\nPoI-5877: We're on the same team today, I promise. I just need to know, if you recognize it.\nSCP-5877 Instance: Please, please don't kill me. Please don't shoot me please.\nMaliz looks at the SCP-5877 instance, who is now whimpering.\nMaliz: Wait\u2026 Nobody was here just a moment ago.\nPoI-5877: So you don't recognize it?\nMaliz: No. I don't.\nPoI-5877 lowers his gun.\nPoI-5877: Fuck.\nThere is a pause. Both Maliz and PoI-5877 can be heard taking deep breaths over the sound of containment breach sirens. The SCP-5877 instance stops speaking, but can be heard sniffling.\nMaliz: [to PoI-5877] Are you supposed to be the cataclysm?\nPoI-5877: Pardon?\nMaliz: Nobody, when they were here they\u2026 they said something about a cataclysm. About reinforcing the rules of the universe. I'm wondering if they're referring to you.\nPoI-5877: Son, in the century that I have been hunting that monster, not once have I heard it use the word \"cataclysm\".\nMaliz: \u2026 goddamn it.\nPoI-5877 leaves the interview room, closing the door behind him. Maliz slowly stands, and sits back in his chair. He attempts to slow his heart rate as the containment alarms continue to sound.\nSCP-5877 Instance: Are you ok?\nMaliz: I've been played for a fool. But, otherwise I'm fine. Are you hurt?\nSCP-5877 Instance: No\u2026 but I could use some help.\nMaliz: Help you with what?\nSCP-5877 Instance: I\u2014 I don't know. I was just told that I wouldn't be left on my own, because there'd be someone around to help me. And the other man left, so it must've meant you.\nMaliz: I see. I guess, yeah. I'm going to help you.\nSCP-5877 Instance: \u2026 thank you.\nMaliz: I haven't done anything yet.\nSCP-5877 Instance: Yeah but\u2026 nobody has even offered before.\n<End Log>\n\nThe containment breach was determined to be caused by critical failure of energy containment measures while performing testing on SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The exact source of these failures is unknown, as available documentation suggests that the measures passed preliminary testing earlier that day. The resulting explosion resulted in 40 casualties, consisting of 3 Foundation staff, 7 D-Class, and all 30 recovered SCP-5877 instances.\nPoI-5877 was later identified to be SCP-5353, who must have entered Site-23 during the breach resulting from the explosion. His oral reports indicate that he rescued several Foundation personnel trapped under debris before exiting the facility.\nFollowing this event, an official survey of survivors found that fewer members of the janitorial staff were accounted for than indicated by the custodian budget. However, no records could be found to indicate that any individual janitor was unaccounted for.\n\nThe Man Who Wasn't There\n\nThe Man In The White Suit\n\nHub\nHello, My Name Isn't\nChiaroscuro\nNobody, Nobody, Nobody, and Nobody's Encounters with The Man in the White Suit\nSCP-5353 -- Does Anyone Remember Fritz Obermeyer?\nEveryday Is Somebody's Birthday\n\u2192 SCP-5877 -- Nobodies \u2190\nGhosts in the Machine\nFiles intercepted from Anderson Systems personnel\nSCP-5375 -- Nobody and the Name Machine\nEpilogue:\nNobody in Their Right Mind\n\nFootnotes\n1. Specifically the act of diligent note taking\n2. Identified as being the same girl found during the previous SCP-5877 recovery\n3. Ethics Committee advised that adopted children from the orphanage be tracked and recovered due to concerns of the responsibility of parents adopting from such an institution.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5876 | SCP-5877 | SCP-5878 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5878\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nnone\n\nRisk Class:\nnone\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Assigned personnel are to monitor public broadcasting networks and internet platforms for descriptions identifiable as SCP-5878. Upon discovery, affected individuals are to be transported to Site-28 for questioning.\nInstances of SCP-5878 are to be stored in secure item lockers outfitted with cameras and audio recorders. Any irregularities are to be reported to appropriate personal immediately.\nAffected individuals are to be administered amnestics and provided with 2 years of counseling and/or therapy sessions by authorized therapists and psychologists at the discretion of the assigned lead researcher, currently Dr. Caesar Cantorello Dr. Elise O'Rourke.\nDescription: SCP-5878 refers to multiple objects manifesting near individuals possessing severe psychological or emotional trauma. The specific object displays significant variation between instances, but in all cases, the object exhibits a dark appearance1.\nIn almost all known cases, SCP-5878 manifests as an object identified as a memento which affected individuals confide in. The process by which SCP-5878 manifests is unknown.\nUpon physically contacting the affected object, individuals will enter a catatonic state for 2 to 4 hours. Following this, individuals will no longer exhibit a desire for self-mutilation or suicide. Succeeding this event, the affected object will cease any anomalous properties.\n\n+ Access Document 5878-V - Instances Log\n\nClose Log\n\nConfirmed Instances of SCP-5878\n\nDate & Location\nInstance\nDescription of Event\nStatus\n\n11/07/2014, United States, Ohio\nSCP-5878-1\nBen Ward. Military veteran who served in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1972. His wife, Marie Ward, died in labor shortly after Ben left to serve. SCP-5878 appeared as a wedding ring gifted to Ben by Marie during their marriage in 1965.\nAdministered Class-C Amnestics Deceased\n\n05/09/2014, Moscow, Russia\nSCP-5878-2\nEgor Kuznetsoz. Subject experienced his childhood during the Soviet Union. Various instances of trauma, such as his father, Mikhail Kuznetsoz, being shot by the KGB in front of him. SCP-5878 appeared as a Matryoshka doll, gifted to him by his uncle in 1962.\nAdministered Class-C Amnestics Deceased\n\n05/11/2014, Nice, France\nSCP-5878-3\nP\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Main instance of trauma was the subject experiencing his parents' death in Incident \u2588\u2588\u2588-01-A at age 6. Since then, he has remained in an orphanage in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 for 7 years. SCP-5878 appeared as a teddy bear, given to him during his time in the orphanage.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n\n16/01/2015, Gaza, State of Palestine\nSCP-5878-4\nAdiba Nijem. Likely her brother's death in 2004 and her subsequent chronic depression triggered SCP-5878. Various other events such as bombings and her original house demolition in 2006. SCP-5878 appeared as a handmade doll of unknown origin.\nAdministered Class-C Amnestics Deceased\n\n08/03/2015, Chicago, United States\nSCP-5878-5\nDarryl Brown. Convicted of double homicide, namely his own father and sister. Was found wrongly accused 9 years into his sentence. Has a history of drug abuse after the fact. SCP-5878 appeared as a needle primarily used for the administration of heroin.\nAdministered Class-B Amnestics Deceased\n\n\u2588\u2588/04/2015, [REDACTED]\nSCP-5878-6\nElise O'Rourke. Suffered from a troubled childhood as well as losing both her parents due to a motor incident. SCP-5878 appeared as a violin gifted to her by her father shortly before passing.\nAmnestics unnecessary2.\n\n13/06/2015, Penang, Malaysia\nSCP-5878-7\nSri Bin Nilam. Suffered from constant humiliation from classmates due to a birth defect affecting his facial structure. SCP-5878 appeared as a toy figurine, given to him by his grandmother before passing away.\nAdministered Class-C Amnestics Deceased\n\n19/08/2015, Dublin, Ireland\nSCP-5878-8\nCarl Flannigan. Lost his sister and parents over the period of 6 months in 1972 while living in Northern Ireland due to bombings. SCP-5878 appeared as a cigar pipe Carl regularly used for smoking.\nAdministered Class-B Amnestics Deceased\n\n01/02/2016, Shenyang, China\nSCP-5878-9\nGao Zhou. Involved in a factory incident that left 24 dead. Left side of her face suffered 2nd degree burns. Diagnosed with severe asthma shortly after. SCP-5878 appeared as a painting in her household.\nAdministered Class-C Amnestics Deceased\n\n06/10/2016, Warsaw, Poland\nSCP-5878-10\nEdward Mozska. Lost most of his family during the Holocaust through 1939 up until his sole escape from Belzec in 1942. SCP-5878 appeared as an amulet of unknown origin.\nAdministered Class-B Amnestics Deceased\n\n05/03/2017, Kyushu, Japan\nSCP-5878-11\nTomo Yahiro. Subject was a victim of the Kumamoto earthquakes in 2016, which resulted in the death of her parents and 2 siblings. SCP-5878 appeared as a Maneki-neko toy.\nAdministered Class-C Amnestics Deceased\n\n25/12/2017, London, England\nSCP-5878-12\nAndrew Farrel. Subject was abandoned at birth and has since had to live on the streets of London for most of his life. SCP-5878 appeared as a box of no distinguishable origin.\nAdministered Class-B Amnestics Deceased\n\n+ Access Document 5878-G - Interview Log\n\nClose Log\n\nOn \u2588\u2588/04/2015, Researcher Dr. Elise O'Rourke found an instance of SCP-5878 in her home. The following log contains an interview conducted by Head Researcher Dr. Caesar Cantorello.\n\nBegin Log, \u2588\u2588/04/2015\nDr. Cantorello: Hello, doctor. How are you?\nDr. O'Rourke: I'm fine, thank you.\nDr. Cantorello: So, could you please describe the event in question?\nDr. O'Rourke: Of course. Um, where should I start?\nDr. Cantorello: First of all, could you tell me what happened that could've caused SCP-5878 to spawn?\nDr. O'Rourke: Right, yeah. Well\u2026\n[Short silence]\nDr. Cantorello: Doctor, are you alright?\nDr. O'Rourke: Yes, I'm.. fine. Well, it began when I was seven or eight years old. Sometime around 1998. Honestly, I've kind of forced myself to forget about it.\nDr. Cantorello: Well, please just tell us what you know.\nDr. O'Rourke: The problem started with my dad. He was diagnosed with some sort of cancer. Don't know what it was exactly since he never told me. But he died when I was like, eight, or something.\nDr. O'Rourke: Then my mom started dating this other guy. I don't really remember him much, but he became my stepdad pretty soon. And both of my parents were perfect matches for each other, in that they were both moody, arrogant pieces of, uh, crap.\nDr. Cantorello: So do you think this impacted your mental health negatively?\nDr. O'Rourke: Oh, absolutely. Maybe if it was only my mom, it wouldn't have been that bad. At least she actually cared about me slightly, between the times she wouldn't stop rambling on about how she wished she never had me.\nDr. Cantorello: And your stepfather?\nDr. O'Rourke: Oh, he was worse. I really don't know what my mom saw in him. He had a decent job over in a finance firm, so I guess that was it. But he was constantly drinking and came home in terrible moods. And, unlike my mom, he didn't care about me at all. His abuse turned physical for me and my mom.\nDr. Cantorello: I see. Now, your file says that both of your parents were killed in an accident. Could you elaborate on that?\n[Short silence]\nDr. O'Rourke: Yeah, um..\nDr. Cantorello: Doctor, if you find this uncomfortable, I can omit this from the interview log at your request.\nDr. O'Rourke: No, no, it's fine. I just gotta get my bearings straight for a second.\nDr. Cantorello: Of course.\n[Short silence. Sniffling sounds are heard]\nDr. O'Rourke: Well, I don't actually know what happened exactly. As far as I know, my mom gave my stepdad a call to pick her up from work. I'm not sure why he agreed, since he usually doesn't pick people up. But he went anyway. I think he was under the influence at the time, which explains what happened next.\nDr. Cantorello: And where were you?\nDr. O'Rourke: Violin practice. I only found out what happened to them after nobody came to pick me up.\nDr. Cantorello: [Writing] Thank you, doctor. Now, what happened on the night SCP-5878 appeared?\nDr. O'Rourke: Well, I came home from work, as usual. I wasn't in a great mood, but I had an urge to find my old violin. I really don't know why. I suppose SCP-5878 was influencing me? It was like a nostalgic feeling was sweeping over myself, even though I hadn't played the violin in years.\nDr. O'Rourke: So I searched my old cupboard, expecting to find my violin all dusty and un-tuned. But I saw something else instead. It was something in the shape of my violin, but pitch black. It had no colour or light on it, or anything really.\nDr. Cantorello: So I'm assuming this was SCP-5878?\nDr. O'Rourke: Seemed to be. And the thing is, I knew exactly what it was. I was assigned to research it 3 months before. But I just had the urge to come closer. It was like a voice was telling me what to do. And I just sort of\u2026 did it.\nDr. Cantorello: So then what happened?\nDr. O'Rourke: I fell into a trance. Well, I think it was a trance. It felt like I was transported into my head, and I was losing control over my body. But it didn't feel unpleasant, really. On the contrary, I felt\u2026 unburdened, if that makes sense. Like weight was being lifted from my shoulders. Sorry, does this seem a little ridiculous to you?\nDr. Cantorello: Not at all. Please, continue.\nDr. O'Rourke: Well, uh.. I heard this voice. I don't actually remember what it was like. But it was sorta soothing, like a therapist. It told it all my trauma, more smoothly that I'd ever told it before. And I had no problem with it either. Like, I usually never talk about it, but I just sorta did it in that moment.\nDr. Cantorello: And did the voice respond?\nDr. O'Rourke: It did. Honestly, I don't know why my memory of the voice is so foggy. The experience just felt so.. surreal. But the voice talked to me. It went on for what felt like years. And I stood there listening to every word. It really was like a therapy session, except much more effective than any therapist I ever went to.\nDr. Cantorello: And do you think this event removed any negative thoughts you may have had?\nDr. O'Rourke: \u2026negative thoughts? Sorry sir, what do you mean exactly?\nDr. Cantorello: As in, suicidal, or an urge to self-harm, assuming you had those thoughts to begin with.\n[Brief silence]\nDr. O'Rourke: Yeah.. it did.\nDr. Cantorello: [Writing] Thank you for your help doctor. I have one last thing to ask before I end this interview. Do you still wish to continue researching SCP-5878? Given your first-hand experience, your insight would be valuable. However, if you feel uncomfortable given recent developments, you can leave the team.\nDr. O'Rourke: I\u2026 no, I think I'll stay. At the very least, I know how it feels now. Maybe it'll make conducting the interviews a little easier. If you don't mind me taking charge of them.\nDr. Cantorello: By all means, Doctor. Thank you for your time.\nEnd Log\n\nAddendum-01: See Report-5878-a for details. Special Containment Procedures have been updated accordingly.\n\n+ ENTER CREDENTIALS 4/5878\n\n+ ENTER CREDENTIALS 4/5878: ACCESS GRANTED\n\nIt's come to the Foundation's attention recently that victims of SCP-5878 have been exhibiting extreme mental instability.\nAlmost all current individuals have been diagnosed with some form of manic or chronic depression, as well as other types of mental illnesses such as psychosis or bipolar disorder. The current thesis is that this is a by-product of amnestic use and it impacts their serotonin reuptake, which dramatically impacts their mental health.\nI know this is a massive development, both on what we've done regarding the individuals affected by SCP-5878, and what we plan to do in the future. I know many of you have expressed discomfort after learning of these consequences. I have to admit I feel terrible after being briefed myself. If any of you wish to leave this project, feel free to do so. I will personally bid you farewell. However, leaving SCP-5878 unchecked is a massive security risk that puts the Foundation's secrecy into jeopardy. I have proposed a solution, one I know many of you will fell uncomfortable with, but one that needs to be done.\nAmnestic use will continue, as will the effects. I will personally ensure that every single affected individual will receive proper counseling and help from trained experts across the world. These people will not be left alone, I will see to that myself.\nHarden your hearts, my friends. I know many will disagree with my actions, but this is for the greater good.\nDr. Caesar Cantorello - Head Researcher\n\nAddendum-02: Over the course of 2 years and 10 months, a series of events occurred that resulted in the neutralization of SCP-5878. The documents have been dubbed \"The Mori Events\".\n\n+ Access Document 5878-M - The Mori Events\n\nClose Logs\n\nDocument 5878-M-1: On 01/02/2017 at approximately 1700 hours, SCP-5878-7 was reported missing from its containment cell. No signs of a break-in were present. Following this event, Special Containment Procedures were updated to include one security guard stationed outside the containment cell.\nDocument 5878-M-2: On 12/03/2017, SCP-5878-5 was reported missing from containment. Security footage shows the entity seemingly disappearing from its position at 1242 hours. In the place of SCP-5878-5, words were embedded into the marble pedestal on which it stood on. The words were comprised of an unknown black substance that absorbed light similarly to the material of SCP-5878.\n\nDoes the Foundation know how it feels to fall from grace? How it feels to have everything taken away?\nHow it feels to call for help from the darkest pits of the abyss?\n\nThe reason for SCP-5878-5's disappearance is unknown, nor the meaning of the message. Further documentation is to follow.\nDocument 5878-M-3: 12/04/2017. SCP-5878-1 disappears in a similar fashion. A message of similar construction to that of SCP-5878-5 is found.\n\nWhen the monsters, who you believe to be evil, become benevolent; what is your purpose?\n\nAdditionally, Ben Ward, the subject who manifested SCP-5878-1, was found deceased in his home due to cardiac arrest. Darryl Brown, subject who manifested SCP-5878-5, was also found deceased in an alleyway due to an overdose of heroin, a month prior to Document 5878-M-3. The relation between these events, if any, is not yet known.\nDocument 5878-M-4: 15/04/2017. Sri Bin Nilam, the subject who manifested SCP-5878-7, was found deceased in a river near \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Reports seem to indicate suicide, although no confirmations have been made. The date of this event is approximately 2 months and 2 weeks before the writing of Document 5878-M-4.\nDocument 5878-M-5: 18/06/2017, 1636 hours. SCP-5878-8 reported missing, leaving another message.\n\nDespite everything, you are still cold. Cruelty still courses through every single one of you.\nWhy?\n\nCarl Flannigan is also found deceased near the bottom of the Cliffs of Moher in an apparent suicide.\nDocument 5878-M-6: 31/09/2017, 0920 hours. SCP-5878-2 reported missing. Another message is left.\n\nThe answer is simple. The truth is unfortunate. Not even you know.\n\nEgor Kuznetsov is reported missing my local authorities. His current status is unknown. A cadaver was found in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 matching the description of Egor Kuznetsov. Cause of death seems to be death by overdose of medication.\nDocument 5878-M-7: 26/12/2017, 2051 hours. SCP-5878-10 reported missing. Another message is left.\n\nDespite everything, you still don't change. You don't adapt.\nEveryone and everything suffers because of it.\n\nEdward Mozska is found deceased in his apartment due to cardiac arrest.\nDocument 5878-M-8: 04/03/2018, 0216 hours. SCP-5878-9 was reported missing. Another message is left.\n\nSelf-proclaimed keepers of peace. In reality, you are all the keepers of the light and dark.\nBoth cannot prosper as long as you stand your ground.\n\nGao Zhou is found deceased in her apartment in Shenyang. Cause of death is suicide by asphyxiation.\nFollowing this, Senior Researcher Dr. Caesar Cantorello steps down as Head Researcher of SCP-5878, replaced by Dr. Elise O'Rourke. No changes to Special Containment Procedures or protocol is made.\nDocument 5878-M-9: 09/08/2018, 1252 hours. SCP-5878-11 is reported missing. Another message is left.\n\nInnocence can never be kept pure. It will always be tainted by the likes of you.\n\nTomo Yahiro is found deceased in a lake, west of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Cause of death is unknown.\nDocument 5878-M-10: 11/04/2019, 1612 hours. SCP-5878-4 is reported missing.\n\nThe place that offers salvation is one you destroy. All of you.\nEvery single one.\n\nAdiba Nijem is reported missing. Adiba Nijem is found deceased. No details have been released.\nDocument5878-M-11: 02/12/2019, 0000 hours. SCP-5878-12 is reported missing.\n\nCherish what little you have left.\nIt is all you can hope for now.\n\nAndrew Farrel is found deceased in the streets of London. Cause of death is hypothermia.\n\nAddendum-03: Statement regarding the status of SCP-5878.\n\n+ ENTER CREDENTIALS 4/5878\n\n+ ENTER CREDENTIALS 4/5878: ACCESS GRANTED\n\nTo everyone on the team,\nThis is a message for the few people who are still with me. Formality isn't my forte, but I suppose I have to get this out there. SCP-5878 is being reclassified as Neutralized. There hasn't been any new instances for over 2 years and the last major event was a few months ago. If you enjoy getting free paychecks, get ready for that to end.\nI know most of you have read my interview log, and subsequently all the depressing shit that's been happening these past few years. It really doesn't seem like time's gone by that fast. In a way, I suppose it's a great time to reflect on my mistakes.\nWhen I was first recruited to join the Foundation, I wanted to help people. Looking back, I've done the opposite. Ten people are dead. Ten deaths that could've been prevented. Honestly, there isn't anyone to blame but myself.\nI remember conducting almost every interview. It was basically the only thing I was good at. I suppose I enjoyed it, too. Seeing all those people happy for the first time in a while. I knew how it felt, and I liked seeing all the other victims experiencing it too.\nWell, I call them \"victims\" of SCP-5878, but really, it saved them. They're victims of us. We made their lives worse up until the end. And I could've stopped it too, but I didn't.\nI spoke with almost all of them. Ben Ward, he was diagnosed with PTSD and chronic depression that SCP-5878 somehow managed to cure. Darryl Brown said that he was going to quit drug abuse. In fact, all of them said that they were going to thoroughly change their lives for the better.\nBut it didn't matter.\nWhen we administered amnestics, they lost their initiatives. Their mental states got even worse. Maybe it was \"for the greater good\", but the moral compass in me says it wasn't. Whatever the entity was that was leaving those messages probably agrees with me. It's also more disappointed in me than all the victims combined.\nI could blame Dr. Cantorello for this, but that would just be too easy. He knew what he was doing, but he didn't know what these people were feeling. I did.\nAnd I didn't stop it.\nI've rambled on quite a bit for a document I'm planning to give to other people. I'm just happy to get as far away from all of this as possible. Maybe that's for the best.\nGood luck to all of you. Try to do the right thing.\nElise O'Rourke - Head Researcher\n\nFootnotes\n1. The object also appears to absorb light.\n2. Subject was employed by the Foundation prior to the event.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5877 | SCP-5878 | SCP-5879 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5880 - Praise Unto the Glorious Influenza, the Great and Contagious Religious Influenza\nPraise.\n\nFor more by me, check out the Greyve Page!\n\n95.61%\n(+87)\n4.39%\n(-4)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5880\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5880\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Samples of SCP-5880 are currently kept suspended in a liquid nitrogen canister in the Anomalous Biohazard Storage wing of Site-49. Access to the item or information regarding the item is prohibited unless approved by the item's acting HMCL Supervisor, currently Senior Researcher Lukas Johansson.\nKnown instances of SCP-5880-1 are to be sedated for approximately 3 weeks. Recovered instances are to be quarantined until 24 hours after the cessation of symptoms, at which point they are to be subjected to amnestic therapy sufficient to eradicate all memories of the symptomatic period.\nParavirology Division Unit 2 has been assigned to the investigation of SCP-5880 and other non-anomalous strains of influenza and develop vaccinations as necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5880 is an anomalous, highly contagious strain of Influenza B contracted through either physical or memetic infection. Initial infection of SCP-5880 progresses similarly to other, non-anomalous infections. Common symptoms include coughing, congestion, upper respiratory irritation, head/body ache, fever, and fatigue. Due to the anomalous effects of SCP-5880, infected individuals are significantly less likely to receive medical assistance, and thus more likely to suffer complications. The current fatality rate is approximately 32%.\nSCP-5880-1 designates any symptomatic carriers of SCP-5880. Anomalous properties manifest with the onset of compulsory symptoms, approximately 48 hours after initial infection. Following this, individuals will begin to religiously worship the influenza virus, as well as related infections and symptoms. The specific actions varies between individuals, but in all instances, individuals will attempt to actively transmit SCP-5880 and proliferate instances of SCP-5880-1. Sedation during the symptomatic period of SCP-5880 infection has thus far been effective in preventing this effect.\nAddendum 5880-1: Discovery\nOn 11/12/2019, Senior Researcher Lukas Johansson submitted a behavioral report regarding his assigned team of Foundation personnel investigating the global outbreak of Influenza B for potentially anomalous influences. The following records includes the report and subsequent documentation.\n\n\u25bc Report 5880-1\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nAdministrative Report\n\nAs the most senior researcher assigned to my team (after accounting for the condition of liable administrative personnel), I am submitting a report regarding the situation in Site-\u2588\u2588. In short, personnel have taken a religious stance regarding our current investigation into the global Influenza B outbreak, and are actively worshiping the flu, including compromising the sanitation of the facilities by actively spreading infections.\nOur whole site is in total disarray, and I am not completely sure how to describe the situation. I am requesting a formal retrieval and disinfection program, considering the severity of the situation.\nAttached are several documents to corroborate my claims.\nSenior Researcher Lukas Johansson\nParavirology Division Unit 2\n\n\u25bc Surveillance Report 1\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nSecurity Recording Transcript\n\nDate: 11/2/2019\nLocation: Site-\u2588\u2588\nInvolved:\n\nField Agent Naomi Hoffman\nJunior Researcher Jordan Keane\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Hoffman coughs into into her elbow while Keane is passing.)\nKeane: Bless you.\n(Hoffman turns to face Keane.)\nHoffman: Umm\u2026that was a cough.\nKeane: Not merely a cough, I pray.\nHoffman: I didn't really take you for the religious type-\n(Keane proceeds to cough into his hands and reaches towards Hoffman's face.)\nHoffman: What the hell are you doing?\nKeane: May the Glorious Influenza, the Great and Contagious, bless you and keep you-\n(Hoffman pushes Keane away.)\nHoffman: Calm the fuck down. What are you on about?\n(Keane coughs into his hands and reaches towards Hoffman.)\nKeane: Praise be to its Divine and Pleomorphic Virion, and may it enter all cells indiscriminately!\n(Hoffman steps back and reaches towards the security intercom.)\nHoffman: Alright, last call for \"just a prank\" town. After that, we're heading right into \"security, get him the fuck away from me\" station.\n(Keane continues approaching Hoffman while reciting the full chemical compositions of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase glycoproteins. Hoffman dials the security intercom while trying to shield herself from Keane's intentional coughing. Momentarily, the security officer arrives to remove Keane, who resists and continues speaking.)\nKeane: The Church meets on Wednesdays in the break room-\n(The security officer gags Keane while he attempts to cough on the security personnel.)\n[END LOG]\n\n\u25bc Surveillance Report 2\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nSecurity Recording Transcript\n\nDate: 11/6/2019\nLocation: Site-\u2588\u2588\nInvolved:\n\nJunior Researcher Miranda Bates\nJunior Researcher Arjun Dhurani\nSecurity Officer Brandon Eckhart\nField Agent Naomi Hoffman\nField Agent Tori Sherman\nTechnician Ari Smith\nSenior Researcher Cole Watson\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Gathered individuals are sitting in a circle.)\nWatson: Is this everyone? Who is new?\n(Eckhart and Hoffman raise their hands.)\nWatson: We welcome one and all to the Church of (Coughs). Our Great and Holy Lord does not despise those who are yet untouched by his Divine and Pleomorphic Virions, amen?\nBates: Amen.\nSherman: Amen.\nDhurani: Praise unto the Glorious Influenza, the Great and Contagious, and I echo amen.\nSmith: Indeed, amen. Let us partake in the worship of the Most High (Coughs)!\n(All gathered individuals begin coughing intentionally onto each other and repeating blessings.)\nWatson: Now, first order of business. Where are Brother Keane and Sister Wang?\n(Crowd murmurs.)\nEckhart: May the Most High (Coughs) forgive me. I was the one who betrayed Brother Keane to the healthy heathens, when I had not felt the congestion of the Glorious Influenza, Great and Contagious.\n(Sherman, who is sitting next to Eckhart, salivates into her hand and places it on Eckhart.)\nSherman: The Most High (Cough) is a gracious and merciful lord, Brother Eckhart. You have been forgiven, for you did not know your folly.\n(All gathered individuals begin coughing intentionally on Eckhart.)\nSmith: Now, let us turn to the preachings of the Most High in repentance.\nWatson: Yes.\n(Bates retrieves what appears to be her research notes, covered in scribbling and incomprehensible writing, and begins reading.)\nBates: \"The heathen deoxyribose fornicated with protein, creating a most unholy union. But the (Coughs), said, 'I shall not abandon you; though you have become complex lifeforms, I infect you, that you may return to the ribonucleic acid from where all life came.'\"\n(All gathered individuals begin coughing and nodding.)\nBates: \"And the (Coughs) said, 'You shall know then when your noses are congested or running, and your head and body aches. Then your fever shall rise high, and you shall cough plentifully.\"\n(All gathered individuals begin coughing.)\nBates: You guys don't have to do that after every verse, you know?\n(All gathered individuals begin coughing and nodding.)\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: Events transpired for several more hours. Gathered individuals attempted to coerce passersby into joining the session, to no avail, and continued reading from Bates' notes. Following the events, several staff used the break room before it could be properly sanitized, spreading the infection.\n\n\u25bc Medical Report\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nMedical Department\n\nNovember 10th, 2019\nDr. Joseph Hart\n\nThe current state of affairs is absolutely intolerable. Those infected are spreading the infection to others, the sanitation of the medical wing is simply nonexistent, and I am likely the last remaining medical doctor who is still sane. For goodness' sake, twenty or some medical personnel were chanting \"Long live the Most High!\" after poor Dr. Rizvi died of influenza. We've dealt with hundreds of superviruses and anomalous diseases, and what finally got him was the flu.\nAll of you in administration won't hold out for long. I already got infected, what with all the coughing that's going on, and I am in charge of sanitation.\nDr. Joseph Hart\nMedical Sanitation Supervisor\n\n\u25bc Administrative Report\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nAdministrative Department\n\nNovember 10th, 2019\nSite Director Niklas Almqvist\n\nEverything is going wonderfully.\nPraise be to the Glorious Influenza, the Great and Contagious.\nSite Director Niklas Almqvist\nSite-\u2588\u2588 Administration\n\nAddendum 5880-2: Incident 5880-1\nOn 11/12/2019, MTF \u03b2-7 (\"Maz Hatters\") Squad B was deployed to quarantine Site-\u2588\u2588 and contain infected personnel for testing. Following this, containment procedures were developed, and Site-\u2588\u2588 was recontained. Personnel were interviewed, and then promptly administered appropriate medication and amnestics. Samples of SCP-5880 were retrieved and placed in containment.\n\n\u25bc Extraction Log\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nExtraction Audio/Video Transcript\n\nDate: 11/13/2019\nAssigned MTF:\nMTF \u03b2-7 (\u201cMaz Hatters\u201d) Squad B\n\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Recorder's on. Everyone, check your mics.\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan: Check.\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: Check.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Triple-check.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Command, can you hear me?\nCommand: Roger, Team Lead.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Alright. Remember, we're using tranqs, so don't get any funny ideas. Everyone should be with the Foundation.(Pauses) Everyone checked their suits, right?\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan: Affirmative.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Affirmative.\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: Hang on. (Pauses)Yeah, I'm set.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Alright. Think we're good to go, Command.\nCommand: Opening the door\u2026now.\n(Command remotely opens the secure access entry to Site-\u2588\u2588, and the team enters.)\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Well, good thing the power's still on. I definitely have a preference for being able to see a meter ahead of me.\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan: Everything's better than the cave last time, Nelson.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: You know, Gwan, I don't disagree.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Right. So, apparently, the thing we're dealing with isn't just viral, but also has some sort of compulsory component, so\u2026be prepared for weird.\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: Weird is always better than deadly.\n(Coughing is audible in the background.)\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Oh boy. Here we go.\n(Team turns the corner and approaches a group of around 20 infected Foundation personnel gathered in a circle and coughing profusely.)\nInfected Personnel: Praise be unto the Most High (Coughs)! May its Divine and Pleomorphic Virions return us all to its gracious hold!\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan: What the fuck.\n(Infected personnel turns to face the approaching team.)\nInfected Personnel: The heretics have come for us!\n(Gathered infected personnel begin shouting and coughing intentionally, while running towards the team carrying knives.)\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Hey Moore, how 'bout weird and deadly?\n(Team begins retreating, occasionally stopping to fire tranquilizers at the mob.)\nInfected Personnel: Destroy the infidels' cladding, and bring the Most High (Coughs) unto-\n(Infected personnel is cut off when he is tranquilized by \u03b2-7B Lead Taylor.)\nCommand Alright, head for the lockdown chambers, at the end of the hallway, on the left.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Roger that.\n(Several infected personnel reach for the team and slash at their suits, barely missing.)\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Who the fuck designed these and didn't make them puncture-proof?\n(Team reaches the end of the hallway and turns into the lockdown rooms. Command remotely activates the door as several infected personnel stumble into the room, who are quickly tranquilized by the team.)\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: (Panting) Well, what now, Taylor?\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: (Pauses to catch breath) Command?\nCommand: Exit from the side door and head towards the bathrooms. Then, wait for an individual to enter, and retrieve them.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Copy that.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Um, one question.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: What's that?\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Male or female? 'Cause Moore and I are male, so-\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan: (Sighs) Just\u2026shut up, Nelson.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: It's a legitimate question! I'd like to know the logistics-\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Moore and you can go into the male bathroom. Gwan and I will go into the female bathroom.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: And what if the infected take us on while we're split up?\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: (Pointing to security camera.) Command can keep an eye on them.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: A-alright.\nCommand: Opening doors\u2026now.\n(Command remotely opens the lockdown chamber side door. Team rapidly exits, and covertly proceeds towards the bathrooms. Team then splits up, with \u03b2-7B Lead Taylor and \u03b2-7B-1 Gwan entering the female bathroom and \u03b2-7B-2 Moore and \u03b2-7B-3 Nelson entering the male bathroom.)\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: And now we wait.\n(Several minutes pass before an individual enters the male restroom. \u03b2-7B-2 Moore and \u03b2-7B-3 Nelson quickly apprehend him.)\nIndividual: Wait. Wait, are you guys the Haz Matters?\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: Maz Hatters. And wouldn't you like to know. (To Command) We got one.\nIndividual: Ah, here's the thing. I'm not\u2026um\u2026infected. Name's Lukas Johansson, Senior Researcher. I'm\u2026ah, the guy who sent the report.\nCommand: Affirmative, individual identifies as Senior Lukas Johansson. Moore, Nelson, you can let him go.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: (Muttering) Just our luck. Give us a whole site of literal sickos and the one guy we fetch is clean.\nJohansson: Well, on the bright side, I'm not trying to get you guys infected.\n(Johansson steps to the side.)\nJohansson: Plus, I can get you guys samples, if you follow me.\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: (Nods) Right then. (To \u03b2-7B Lead Taylor over intercom) Taylor, we got someone useful. Still seems sane. Says he can get us samples.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Roger that. (To \u03b2-7B-1 Gwan) Let's go.\n(Team regroups.)\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: This is Dr. Lukas Johansson. The guy who tipped the site off.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: (Nods towards Johansson) Right. Nice to meet you. I'm Marissa Taylor, lead member of MTF-Beta-Seven, \"Maz Hatters\", Squad B.\n(Johansson extends a hand towards Taylor.)\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Save it for later. Let's get the samples and get out of here first.\nJohansson: (Retracting hand) Right then. Follow me.\n(Johansson leads the team down the hallway.)\n\u03b2-7B-1 Gwan: So, doc, what exactly happened here?\nJohansson: I'm still not completely sure. I know there's some sort of\u2026compulsory aspect to it, I think - it's outside of my field of expertise. Matter of fact, I'm probably the only one in my whole team that hasn't had to deal with memetic stuff, since I got transferred from Unit 4 after Unit 2 dealt with SCP-2559, and half the team died. The past few weeks, our unit has only been studying influenza\u2026hardly anything especially dangerous, or anomalous.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: You mean to tell me that all those researchers-turned-crazed-cultists just have the flu?\nJohansson: Again, I'm not completely sure. There's been some sort of mutation, is all I know. I've been working by myself the past few days. (Pauses.) Alright, we're here.\n(Johansson removes his keycard and opens the door. The team enters what appears to be an office, filled with misplaced laboratory equipment.)\nJohansson: This is my office, where I've been hiding out. I moved a bunch of lab equipment here to work on research. Feel free to help yourselves to some Coke.\n(Johansson turns back towards the team.)\nJohansson: Right. Suits. Can't drink. My bad.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: We just need the samples, and any relevant documentation or information you have.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: I'll take a can, if you don't mind-\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: I mind, Nelson.\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: We only have Pepsi back at-\nJohansson: (Chuckles) It's alright, I can carry some. (Pointing) The samples are in those Petri dishes.\n(\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor places the Petri dishes into her pack.)\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Alright. Let's move out.\nJohansson: Not so fast. The Church has a prayer session in a few minutes, and it'll be much easier to sneak out then.\nCommand: Several hostiles are en route to your current location.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Never mind that. We need to go, now.\nJohansson: What? Oh. Oh, right. The security cameras! They must be watching us-\n(Johansson is cut off by the sound of distant coughing.)\nJohansson: Shit! We need to go, now!\n(Johansson opens the door and ushers the team out, and then follows them as they run towards the exit.)\n\u03b2-7B-2 Moore: The closest exit should be the administrative exit.\nJohansson: (Shaking his head) No can do. Admin sealed themselves in when they learned about the outbreak. The idiots locked themselves in, and the air vents got them all infected.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Then which exit?\nJohansson: The service exit.\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Got it.\n(The sound of coughing becomes louder, and team sees a crowd of around 30 Foundation personnel in close proximity.)\n\u03b2-7B-3 Nelson: Here we go again.\n(Infected personnel notice the team, and begin shouting and coughing loudly, before chasing the team.)\nInfected Personnel: Is that Johansson?\nJohansson: Is that you, Keane?\nKeane: Why do you resist the Most High (Coughs)?\n(\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor and \u03b2-7B-3 Nelson turn to fire at the mob while \u03b2-7B-2 Moore continues escorting Johansson towards the exit.)\n(A number of infected personnel manage to catch up to Johansson, coughing profusely.)\nInfected Personnel: I've got you now, vile infidel!\n(Johansson throws the cans of Coca-Cola at the infected personnel, causing them to exclaim in pain and lose their grip on Johansson.)\n\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor: Alright, let's get out of here!\n(\u03b2-7B Lead Taylor and \u03b2-7B-3 Nelson turn and sprint to catch up with the team. Command remotely opens the service exit, and the team runs out of the site. Support unit stationed nearby tranquilizes the few personnel that manage to exit before the door closes.)\nJohansson: (Panting) We\u2026we did it.\n(Johansson turns to face \u03b2-7B-3 Nelson.)\nJohansson: Sorry about the Coke, man.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u25bc Debrief Log 1\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nDebrief Recording Transcript\n\nDate: 11/13/2019\nIn Attendance:\n\nAgent Cameron Nguyen\nSenior Researcher Lukas Johansson\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nNguyen: Please state your name for the transcript.\nJohansson: Lukas Johansson, Senior Researcher. Paravirology. Co-lead of Unit 2.\nNguyen: Thank you, Dr. Johansson. Now, I'm sure you know what I'm about to ask you about.\nJohansson: What's going on? Or why I'm not affected?\nNguyen: Both. Let's start with the former.\nJohansson: As I'm sure you know, every year, one research team from the paravirology division is assigned to investigate influenza, since its pervasiveness makes it extremely susceptible to anomalous influences, or at the very least, compromises immune systems, allowing anomalous infections to occur.\n(Johansson leans forward and places his palms together.)\nJohansson: This year, it wasn't a secondary infection, but the flu itself.\nNguyen: How so?\nJohansson: I'm not completely sure how, but I do know is that it has something to do with influenza's genetic instability. You know how every year, the civilian population is administered a different vaccine?\nNguyen: Of course.\nJohansson: Influenza develops mutations quite rapidly. This appears to be some\u2026extreme mutation, allowing for optimal proliferation. Strain B infects basically only humans, or at least what resembles human organic material. And I think that somehow, this strain has adapted to human intelligence.\nNguyen: But the Foundation has dealt with superviruses before. They simply become immune to vaccines, or develop a counter-\nJohansson: No, no, not like that. The vaccine for influenza has been available for, what, 80 years? Life always finds a way. Think about it. Why keep trying to fighting, if you can just convince them to give up?\nNguyen: Or better yet\u2026to worship you.\nJohansson: Exactly. And if it's already done it once, it'll probably be able to do it again.\n(Silence.)\nJohansson: Now that we've got the bad news out of the way, let me tell you the good news.\nNguyen: What's the good news?\nJohansson: Well. As usual, when a contagious disease affects a population, individuals begin developing immunity.\n(Johansson leans back into his chair and crosses his arm.)\nNguyen: You're saying you're immune.\n(Johansson returns to a normal sitting position.)\nJohansson: I've displayed absolutely no symptoms. No coughing, fever\u2026no compulsive effects, either.\n(Nguyen furrows his brow.)\nNguyen: So you're saying that\u2026we can neutralize the flu?\nJohansson: Not quite. Even the Foundation hasn't been able to completely neutralize the flu. Believe me; I was part of the 2009 flu team, and we all know how that went. New strains pop up all the time.\nNguyen: So what are you suggesting?\nJohansson: We figure out what makes it work. Every non-anomalous disease, we can see why certain symptoms occur. Now we have a sample of the disease, and an individual that is immune.\n(Johansson point to the door.)\nJohansson: Out there, there's dozens of people who we know are not immune. And if that's not enough, we have a few dozen more D-Class. We can compare our genetics, figure out how the hell it's getting into peoples' minds.\nNguyen: I see.\nJohasson: First thing I'm doing when this is done, I'm submitting a request to the paravirology division administration. See if the Foundation can't vaccinate the damn flu.\n[END LOG]\n\nOn 11/14/2019, Site-\u2588\u2588 was reclaimed following the simultaneous deployment of several recontainment units. Personnel were apprehended, and the entirety of Site-\u2588\u2588 was disinfected and quarantined. The fatality rate is currently being processed, but is estimated to be in excess of 30%.\nThe following is an interview with the first known symptomatic carrier, Field Agent Tori Sherman, following her total recovery.\n\n\u25bc Debrief Log 2\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nDebrief Recording Transcript\n\nDate: 2/28/2020\nIn Attendance:\n\nAgent Cameron Nguyen\nField Agent Tori Sherman\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nNguyen: Please state your name for the transcript.\nSherman: Field Agent Tori Sherman, Paravirology Division, Unit 2.\nNguyen: Alright. Now, Ms. Sherman, how's your memory?\nSherman: A bit\u2026blurred. It's kind of like getting amnesticized\u2026after, I mean. Obviously I don't remember getting amnesticized.\nNguyen: I see. So, you recall the events that occurred in November?\nSherman: Unfortunately, yes.\nNguyen: Right. What's your first memory of the incident?\nSherman: Well, I don't remember when I got infected. I think I started doing the \"Church of Influenza\" stuff around\u2026let's see\u2026Wednesday. In October.\nNguyen: So this began in October?\nSherman: I think\u2026yeah. That's right. Must have started coughing and stuff around the same time. Hart - the doc in charge of sanitation - got on me about that. Pretty soon, I was coughing intentionally, but since I'm a field agent, I only met with a few people before the whole thing blew up. I think\u2026hang on\u2026\n(Sherman furrows her brow and appears to be deep in concentration.)\nSherman: I think it was Bates or Watson next. Bates wrote up some flu bible, and Watson called in a sick day around that time. Since Watson was out, Johansson took full administration, and, well, after that, you know what happened.\nNguyen: What do you know about Johansson?\nSherman: I've never known much about the guy. He transferred over from some other unit a while back, and the records say our whole unit got amnesticized to save us from SCP-2559 - course, I wouldn't remember the specifics - so he isn't so close to the rest of the team.\nNguyen: Do you have any idea why he's immune?\n(Sherman shrugs.)\nSherman: No clue. I know we definitely coughed on him, and at any rate, we got to the guys in administration after we sabotaged the air vents, so I have no idea how he's fine.\n(Nguyen closes his notes.)\nNguyen: Alright, that's it for today. Thank you for your time, Ms. Sherman.\n[END LOG]\n\nAs of writing, Paravirology Division Unit 2, led by Senior Researcher Lukas Johnasson, has been assigned to research SCP-5880 and potentially develop a vaccine.\n\nSCiPNET LOGIN\n\n                                                    name\n\n                                                    affiliation\n\n        6001bd28d9da3eb0910779174c9c1369_1706539696\n\nLogin\n\nLogin Account\n\nLogout Account\n\nLukas Johansson\n\nTo: <pcs.ygoloibarap|neyugn-noremac#pcs.ygoloibarap|neyugn-noremac>\nDetails\n\n5880\nMarch 2nd, 2020 at 6:21 PM\nCameron,\nYou said you figured something out?\nSenior Researcher Lukas Johansson\nParavirology Division Unit 2\n\nCameron Nguyen\n\nTo: <pcs.ygoloibarap|2nossnahoj-sakul#pcs.ygoloibarap|2nossnahoj-sakul>\nDetails\n\n5880\nMarch 2nd, 2020 at 6:34 PM\nLukas,\nThe team's been trying to see what's different about your genome for ages. But I had a talk with Tori Sherman the other day, and she reminded me of something.\nParavirology Division Unit 2 was assigned to SCP-2559 a few years ago. In the end, every single member of the team was amnesticized. Half the team was replaced. And of the replacements, only one was still working in Unit 2 when Incident 5880-1 occured.\nYou.\nCameron Nguyen\nParavirology Division Unit 2\n\nLukas Johansson\n\nTo: <pcs.ygoloibarap|1neyugn-noremac#pcs.ygoloibarap|1neyugn-noremac>\nDetails\n\nBreakthrough\nMarch 10th, 2020 at 3:34 PM\nCameron,\nThe influenza vaccine has existed for 80 years. Modern amnestics? About 40. It's time these common, everyday contagions started responding to all the parabiological tampering the Foundation has done to its hundreds of thousands of personnel, let alone millions of amnesticized civilians.\nLast week, I ran the tests with an unamnesticized D-Class. You were right.\nWhat the fuck has the Foundation created.\nSenior Researcher Lukas Johansson\nParavirology Division Unit 2\n\n\u00ab SCP-5879 | SCP-5880 | SCP-5881 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5881\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5881 is to be contained in a standard human containment cell and is to be questioned over any suspicious activity observed from the SCP-5881 sub-instances.\nDescription: SCP-5881 refers to Ben Hennessy, a 26 year old British male, who subconsciously manifests three Class 2 incorporeal entities that resemble different versions of himself. These instances manifest around SCP-5881 and converse with him for any amount of time between 2 minutes to 5 hours. These conversations involve SCP-5881 being instructed on a variety of subjects, including mathematics, computer science, ancient and modern history, science, physical education and various life and social skills. SCP-5881 manifestations previously occurred a minimum of once every two hours, and a maximum of once every three days. Only one instance can manifest at a time.\nSCP-5881 instances have been designated SCP-5881-1, SCP-5881-2, and SCP-5881-3. Each entity possesses knowledge of the actions taken by the other two instances. Conversation with SCP-5881 instances is limited as they prefer to talk only with SCP-5881. Each instance has knowledge of the life and experience of the subject but each claims to have experienced a slightly altered version of said life. SCP-5881-1 is a version of the subject dressed in a suit claiming to be the founder of a successful tech company, but requests for further details have been currently unsuccessful. SCP-5881-2 wears military uniform consistent with those worn by the British Army, bearing the rank of Major. SCP-5881-3 claims to be a professor at the University of Cambridge, but the results of questioning on which subject SCP-5881-3 teaches has been inconsistent and seems to consist of a variety of unrelated subjects.\nSCP-5881 was recovered on 13/01/2019 from Exeter, UK after police reports were intercepted by agents of the appearance of an SCP-5881 instance while the subject was drinking at a bar. After the subject was contained, SCP-5881 instances were observed manifesting. See below.\nSurveillance Logs: Transcript surveillance footage of certain interactions between the subject and SCP-5881 instances were collected and compiled. Any extraneous or repetitive information has been extracted for documentation purposes.\nSurveillance Log #1\n\nDate: 19/01/2019\nForeword: The first example of an SCP-5881 instance recorded in Foundation custody.\nCurrent SCP-5881 Instance: SCP-5881-3\n<Begin Surveillance Log>\nSCP-5881-3 manifests in SCP-5881's containment cell.\nSCP-5881-3: Oh, this is an interesting place, I'm liking the aesthetic. But where are we?SCP-5881-3: Oh good, I should have guessed. I thought we made an agreement about going outside being an absolutely terrible idea? Especially to go drinking of all things.SCP-5881-3: A mistake? Just like how getting drunk the days before your A levels and taking the tests hungover was a mistake?SCP-5881-3: It might not have been a crime but it was definitely the reason you couldn't get into any of the universities you wanted to. Mistakes like that are why we are stuck here for who knows how long while we try and help you prove to yourself that you could actually pass those tests. We have these rules clearly stated out for a reason and you've just ignored them. Things like this will distract you from your work and your commitment to getting better, and no one wants that, do they? We care about you and we don't want that to happen. So drinking is a complete no go. But since you let it happen we might as well get some lessons in while you're here. I was thinking we should go over the impact of Cambyses II's conquest of Egypt. So go get your books ready\u2026you have your books still, right?SCP-5881-3: Unbelievable. We're going to have to fix that. I'm guessing someone can hear us right now\u2026so\u2026 to the guys that are listening, you're going to need to get us some reading material if you want to get any cooperation from us. But by the looks of things, we're going to struggle to teach you much. So for now, I'll need you to recount what you have already read about Cyrus the Great and the early Persian Empire.SCP-5881-3: Absolutely not. Teaching you this stuff is a lot easier with books around, you're quite useless at learning otherwise. We'll just wait until we can get you something to read. Until then, we'll be doing Cyrus the Great. So let's start.SCP-5881-3: I don't care if you can or can't. You're going to try and if you can't then you only have yourself to blame. So no more complaints, we're starting.\n[Extraneous Data Removed]\n\nSurveillance Log #2\n\nDate: 27/01/2019\nForeword: At this point in time, SCP-5881 has been granted his request for reading material and other equipment.\nCurrent SCP-5881 Instance: SCP-5881-2\n<Begin Surveillance Log>\nSCP-5881-2 manifests in SCP-5881's containment cell.SCP-5881-2: Don't be like that. We've got work to do, and we can do even more work now we've got that exercise equipment.SCP-5881-2: Don't be silly. The exercises aren't that bad, anyone should be able to do them1. Have you actually been doing your daily workouts?SCP-5881-2: God, you are so ridiculous sometimes. You're acting like this whole thing wasn't your idea. You're the one who wanted to become better, and you need to work to get there. You can't just be a lazy fucker like usual and expect to make any progress.SCP-5881-2: Oh? Is that so?SCP-5881-2: Do you know why you're finding it overwhelming?SCP-5881-2: Well, maybe it's because you can't do this.SCP-5881-2: Maybe you're just a pitiful piece of shit who can't tell the difference between your ass and your elbow! Is that what you are?SCP-5881-2: Really? Is that really who you are?SCP-5881-2: We're giving you something to work hard and focus on so that you stop being so useless. We don't want you staying weak forever. So get yourself ready. We're going to work you until you collapse. Starting now.\n[Extraneous Data Removed]\n\nSurveillance Log #3\n\nDate: 21/02/2019\nForeword: This log has been highlighted due to the unusual actions of SCP-5881.\nCurrent SCP-5881 Instance: SCP-5881-1\n<Begin Surveillance Log>\nSCP-5881-1 manifests in SCP-5881's containment cell.\nSCP-5881-1: Good morning lazybones, how are you today?SCP-5881-1: It's nothing to complain about. I know exactly what you need to wake yourself up a bit!SCP-5881-1: Oh come on, a lesson or two isn't that bad. Who knows? You might even learn something for once.SCP-5881-1: What's wrong with me talking about my life a little? It's better than talking about you and your tragic backstory while you wallow in misery.SCP-5881-1: Christ, you're acting like we aren't the ones trying to stop your life from being such a shit-show.SCP-5881-1: We've done everything we could possibly do to help you. We've practically handed everything you could need on a silver plate. It's not our fault that you fucked your life up so badly. You couldn't get the grades you needed from school, so we decided to teach you. You were lazy, so we gave you a reason to work for once in your life. You were completely and utterly useless, so we came to you.SCP-5881-1: What other options do you have? You clearly can't help yourself. You need us.SCP-5881-1: What would you even do without us? I doubt you could do anything to improve alone. You'll probably just start drinking again so stop being so ridiculous and let's just do our lesson for today.SCP-5881-1: Now you're just being a stubborn child. You are hardly in a position to say something like this when you know how desperately you need help.SCP-5881-1: Good luck with that. We'll see how long all this lasts. I know that you'll come crawling back to us when you realise how useless you really are. Because you're worthless without us. We came here to help you. You can't just ignore our existence.\nSCP-5881-1 disappears.\n[End Log.]\n\nAddendum 20/03/2019: After the conclusion of the events recorded in Surveillance Log #3, the maximum time between occurrences of SCP-5881 instances has increased to 8 days. These occurrences now no longer consist of SCP-5881 being instructed on different subjects and now consists of a prolonged argument between SCP-5881 and SCP-5881 instances. SCP-5881 has continued his requests for reading material and exercise equipment.\nInterview Log: SCP-5881 has been required to attend weekly check-ups for his health. These have been recorded for documentation purposes. Any important recordings can be seen below.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5881\nInterviewer: Dr A. Lennex\nForeword: A recording taken from SCP-5881's most recent weekly check-up.\n<BEGIN LOG-07/05/2019>\nDr Lennex: Good afternoon SCP-5881. My name is Dr Lennex and I'll be covering for Dr Woods this week.Dr Lennex: Nice to meet you too SCP-5881. I hope that your time here hasn't been any more stressful than it needs to be?Dr Lennex: I can guarantee that most of the staff here have seen much weirder things. But I'm glad that you've been coping well. How has your mood been this past week?Dr Lennex: Right, I read about that in your personal file. You've continued working still, is that correct?SCP-5881-3 manifests.\nDr Lennex: Oh, this must be-\nSCP-5881-3: (To Dr Lennex) I don't believe we've met before. You can call me SCP-5881-3, or just \"-3\" if you prefer.Dr Lennex: Of course. What sort of progress have you made since you decided to do this Ben?\nSCP-5881-3: He hasn't made any progress, just look at-Dr Lennex: Well, most people enjoy having things to read. I'm glad you've been enjoying the books we have to offer.\nSCP-5881-3: He's barely literate in the first place. I doubt he could notice a good book if it slapped him across his face.Dr Lennex: Well there's always someone around who's willing to lend a hand.\nSCP-5881-3: God, I find it hard to believe that anyone would want to help you.\nDr Lennex: Well Ben, is there anything else that you'd like me to know about?\nSCP-5881-3: Do you really have nothing to say to me?SCP-5881-3: You have to be kidding me. You're really doing this?\nDr Lennex: Well if that's the case, I think we can call this a day.\nSCP-5881-3: So you're just going to ignore me like a stupid kid?SCP-5881-3: Fine! Do you feel big about yourself now? Just keep ignoring me, you pitiful bastard!SCP-5881-3 disappears.\n<END LOG>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5881's attitudes appear to have greatly increased since the beginning of his containment by the Foundation. Continued sessions should hopefully help this even more.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Note: The exercises that have been observed from SCP-5881 have been suspected to be ineffective and/or damaging.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5880 | SCP-5881 | SCP-5882 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5882\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: In accordance with Emergency Protocol Aleph-41, ongoing usage of SCP-5882 is permitted pursuant to O5 discretion. Until the revocation of Emergency Protocol Aleph-4, staff work-hours have been increased from 40 to 120.\nAny individual believed to be experiencing negative side effects of SCP-5882 are to be administered Class-A amnestics.\nDescription: SCP-5882 is an anomalous phenomenon affecting Foundation on-site housing. Individuals under the influence of SCP-5882 do not require sleep; participant experiments under Emergency Protocol Aleph-4 show that the upper limit of this effect is at least three years. Side effects of SCP-5882 include a decrease in morale and productivity caused by an increase in seditious actions against Foundation interests. These side effects have been found to be mitigated with continued administration of Class-A amnestics.\nSCP-5882 was discovered on 07/12/2080 and was found to be affecting \u2588% of on-site housing. This has changed to \u2588\u2588% at present day.\nAddendum 5882.1, 06/11/2082: SCP-5882 Formal Appeal\nThe Ethics Committee has received an appeal to revoke Emergency Order Aleph-4 from Site Director Ellie Macnamara. Pursuant to Foundation Charter, the Ethics Committee cannot hear appeals without full membership. The appeal will be heard once the O5 Council has confirmed the new member. In addition to standard paperwork, Director Macnamara filed the following personal recommendation.\n\nWhen did we lose our humanity?\nWas it with the first culling? The second? Or was it maybe the upgrade? The efficiency drives? There really are too many instances to count. At first, it made sense. Sometimes you have to fight for the greater good. It was understandable. It was necessary. There was too much dissent, and we could only get so far with what we had. But that's not the case anymore.\nWe've gone too far. You all have gone too far. It's one thing to pull this stunt in containment, but at least it was directed against the right targets. Now we've moved onto our own people? It's too much. How do you even sleep at night? It's not right that we can sit here, unaffected, while knowing what's happening to the actual rank and file on the line. I can't stomach looking them in the eye anymore without the guilt welling up, and I've decided that I can't keep quiet anymore. If we keep doing this, we've well and truly gone past the point of no return.\nThis isn't what our forebears would have wanted. I am calling upon my authority as ranking site director to demand an immediate revocation of Emergency Order Aleph-4. It's time for me to stop this madness before it's too late.\n\nAddendum 5882.2: Log of Site Director Macnamara's Appeal\nPer the request of Overwatch Command Personnel and Security (OCPS-8), the following logs have been edited for clarity and to preserve the anonymity of relevant personnel.\n\nLog taken from the waiting room for O5-8's office. OCPS-8 is seated at a desk to the left of the office door. Site Director Macnamara enters the room from the hallway, storming to O5-8's door. OCPS-8 coughs, lightly.\nOCPS-8: Do you have an appointment, Madam Director?\nMacnamara: I'm pretty sure he's expecting me.\nOCPS-8: I'm terribly sorry, Director, but I don't see an appointment on the schedule.\nMacnamara: \u2026are you new here? I've never seen you before, Miss\u2026\nOCPS-8: Doctor. You can call me Bernadette, if you like. I'm O5-8's personal admin.\nMacnamara: Right. Bernadette. Can I call you Berna?\nOCPS-8: Bernadette is fine.\nMacnamara: Sure, okay. Anyway. I'm sure you're still getting your feet wet around here, but that's not how things are run at this site. I have important things to discuss with your boss, and I'm currently nursing the mother of all headaches, so if you'll kindly step aside\u2026\nOCPS-8: With all due respect, Director, I have been told not to admit anyone without an appointment. O5-8 is very busy, which I'm terribly sorry about.\nDirector Macnamara sighs.\nMacnamara: Fine. fine. When can I squeeze in?\nOCPS-8: You'll have to submit a formal appointment request by intranet. I can refer you to the portal, if you like?\nDirector Macnamara begins to speak, but pauses, narrowing her eyes.\nMacnamara: Ah. Ooookay. I see what's going on here.\nOCPS-8: Excuse me?\nMacnamara: Okay. You know what? I'm going back to my office. But I see what stupid game we're playing here. You just pass on a message to your boss for me, okay? Next time that asshole tries to block my appeal, have the courage to sign the order directly, not hide behind seven layers of bureaucratic bullshit. And cowering behind your secretary so you won't have to talk to me? Chickenshit move. You get all that down in black and white?\nOCPS-8: \u2026Madam Director, I feel as though your tone may be somewhat unprofessional. I can't pass on a message that is-\nMacnamara: Okay, okay, Berna. Write this down for me for your boss. You're not on Ethics Committee. You don't have the grounds to block my complaint. The shit that you're doing to personnel is wildly unethical. Go fuck yourself.\nOCPS-8: Coughs. Madam-\nMacnamara: Fine, fine. Have a beautiful, blessed day. Whatever makes it easier for you, Bernie. I'm going back to my office.\nDirector Macnamara turns to leave, but is interrupted by another polite cough from OCPS-8.\nOCPS-8: My apologies, Madam Director. I was actually going to inform you that O5-8 has been named as acting chair of the Ethics Committee. On those grounds, your appeal was officially denied by a majority decision of the executive group of the Ethics Committee.\nDirector Macnamara slowly turns back to OCPS-8's desk, and places her hands on the table.\nMacnamara: And, who, exactly, is on the executive group?\nOCPS-8: That would be the current chair, the senior member, and an O5.\nMacnamara: Which O5 voted?\nOCPS-8: O5-8.\nMacnamara: I thought you said O5-8 was the acting chair?\nOCPS-8: That is correct.\nMacnamara: Then how the hell is someone allowed to vote twice on the same goddamn thing?\nOCPS-8: Ah, well, legally speaking, there is nothing in the Ethics Committee Charter that prohibits one person from occupying multiple positions. If you like, I can direct you to the-\nMacnamara: Oh for Christ's sake.\nDirector Macnamara stands up abruptly, and quickly departs the office, slamming the door behind her afterwards.\n\nThe O5 Council voted on approval of Ethics Committee appointee Charles Reinhart. The vote was resolved at 5-4 with 2 abstaining. In obligation of Emergency Order Aleph-4, O5-8 was not present for the vote. Motion fails.\n\nNext log. OCPS-8 is seated at a desk to the left of the office door. Site Director Macnamara enters the room from the hallway, and walks towards the direction of O5-8's door, before stopping once she notices OCPS-8. OCPS-8 looks up at Director Macnamara as she enters.\nOCPS-8: Madam Director. May I help you?\nMacnamara: No, I'm just here to talk to\u2026uh\u2026sorry. Bernie right?\nOCPS-8: Bernadette.\nMacnamara: Ah, Bernadette. Right. You're new, aren't you? What do you do again?\nOCPS-8: I'm O5-8's personal admin. I've also been filing the paperwork for your appeal to the recent vote. I was about to fax a copy over to your office.\nMacnamara: The appeal. Yes. That's why I'm here, actually.\nOCPS-8: To go over the paperwork?\nMacnamara: Nah, I was actually thinking of kicking your boss's ass. You think that'd change the vote?\nOCPS-8: Madam Director, I hardly think that's appro-\nMacnamara: So what's the reason this time, Bernadette?\nOCPS-8: Well, regrettably, the vote to promote Mr. Reinhart to Ethics Committee Chair did not pass the two-thirds plus one threshold needed to confirm his appointment. Additionally, without a permanent chair to adjudicate, there is also no one to hear your appeal. I'm afraid that the appeal will have to wait until after a member is confirmed.\nMacnamara: So, the appeal to the confirmation vote has to wait until after a different confirmation vote? Which would nullify the point of the first confirmation vote? That appeal? That's the one you're talking about?\nOCPS-8: I see you're getting a bit agitated, but I'm afraid that there's nothing we can do about protoco-\nMacnamara: I\u2026why do I feel like this is going nowhere? Your boss is allowed to just not attend votes that would fundamentally change the structure of the Foundation? And now I have to lose sleep over it?\nOCPS-8: O5-8 has a number of affairs that demand the utmost attention. Not all votes have equal priority to higher concer-\nMacnamara: Okay, okay, whatever. I get it. I'm heading back to my office to try and take a nap. Send me that paperwork and I'll toss it into the heap. Nice to meet you.\nOCPS-8: A pleasure to meet you, Madam Director. Have a nice day.\n\nThe Ethics Committee has voted 6-3 to confirm Charles Reinhart. Acting Ethics Committee Chairman O5-8 was not present to certify the vote. Motion fails.\n\nNext log. OCPS-8 is seated at a desk to the left of the office door. Site Director Macnamara enters the room from the hallway, and stands in the middle of the room. She looks around for a few moments.\nMacnamara: I\u2026um\u2026sorry. I can't seem to remember why I'm here. Have we met before?\nOCPS-8: Good afternoon, Madam Director. You can call me Bernadette. I'm O5-8's personal admin. Is there something that I can help you with?\nMacnamara: I think I had something to discuss with your boss, but\u2026uh\u2026.gosh this is embarrassing. I've completely forgotten what it was. Geez, what's wrong with me?\nOCPS-8: Well, let me know if I can assist you with anything. I'm always happy to lend a hand.\nMacnamara: Um\u2026thanks. I think I'll head back to my office for now\u2026I'm really sorry, what was your name again?\nOCPS-8: Bernadette. Don't worry about it.\n\nThe Ethics Committee has voted 9-0 to confirm Charles Reinhart. Invoking executive authority granted under Emergency Order Aleph-4, O5-8 vetoed the measure. Motion fails.\n\nNext log. OCPS-8 is seated at a desk to the left of the office door. Site Director Macnamara enters the room from the hallway, carrying a cardboard box under her arm. She walks straight to OCPS-8's desk.\nOCPS-8: Hello, Madam Director. Is there-\nMacnamara: Shut the fuck up.\nDirector Macnamara opens the box, and takes out a sheet of paper with scribbled handwriting on it.\nMacnamara: (Reading): \"Vote failed. Not enough people voted yes. Met Berna the personal admin. Nice enough, I guess, but a total copout from O5-8.\" Hmm, weird note to write.\nDirector Macnamara takes out two more sheets of paper in succession.\nMacnamara: (Reading): \"Vote failed. O5-8 wasn't present, so they couldn't vote. Met Berna the personal admin. Pretty nice, even if she was completely useless.\" Here's another one: \"Vote failed. O5-8 wasn't present, so they couldn't certify the vote. Met Berna the personal admin. She's nice, but couldn't help me out.\"\nDirector Macnamara places the box down, and looks OCPS-8 in the eye.\nMacnamara: Did you know I journal? I didn't. Not until I found this box in the bottom of my filing cabinet, filled with notes of past days, things I did, the foods I ate, and of course, the people I met. So tell me, Bernadette\u2026\nDirector Macnamara tips over the box onto the desk, revealing a mountain of nearly identical sheets of paper.\nMacnamara: \u2026.Just how many times have I met you now?\nOCPS-8: Including now, 346 times. If you would like to include this specific conversation, this is the 14th time that we've discussed this in particular.\nDirector Macnamara begins to tremble, before raising her hand and striking OCPS-8 across the face. OCPS-8 does not react, even as a cut on her face begins to bleed.\nMacnamara: Just\u2026just what the hell is going on here?\nOCPS-8: Just standard protocol, Madam Director.\nMacnamara: You know when I realized that something was off? I have some pictures on my desk. They're photos of me and my family. I took a look at them today, and you know what I realized? \"Gosh, when was the last time I saw them? How old is this photo?\" And I couldn't remember the answer. I realized that I couldn't even remember anything about them, any times we shared together, or even what their names are. All I remembered was that they were my family\u2026I think.\nMacnamara continues trembling, pausing, as her voice begins to quaver.\nMacnamara: Are they even real?\nOCPS-8: They are your family.\nMacnamara: Do you know what it feels like to realize that everything around you might be a lie? I started to have a panic attack in my office. I looked everywhere, and realized that nothing added up. There were degrees on the wall, but I don't remember studying for them. Trophies on my desk, but I don't remember earning them. I had a filing cabinet full of supposed incidents that I had worked on\u2026.but I don't remember solving them. All I can remember is what my next task is supposed to be. I haven't even slept in god knows how long. I\u2026why is this happening? Who are you?\nOCPS-8: I am O5-8's personal admin.\nMacnamara: (Quietly.) Bullshit. You're not just an admin.\nOCPS-8: I assist with matters that the office of O5-8 deems important. That includes personnel management. I'm sorry, Madam Director. You seem to be undergoing some severe work-related stress as a side effect of SCP-5882 exposure. I'll call for some assistants to escort you back to your office and administer a standard round of medication. I hope you feel better soon, Madam Director.\nDirector Macnamara begins sobbing for thirty minutes in front of OCPS-8's desk, before personnel arrive to physically escort her out of the room.\n\nAddendum 5882.3, \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Administrative Reorganization\nSite Director Ellie Macnamara has been deemed unfit for duty and has been subsequently removed from her position. Acting Site Director Bernadette \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has rescinded the active appeal, citing administrative concerns.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Issued by O5-8 on 07/16/2080\n\n\u00ab SCP-5881 | SCP-5882 | SCP-5883 \u00bb"}
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{"text": "Item \u2116: SCP-5885\nAnomaly Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5885 is currently uncontained, and it is suspected that its anomalous properties preclude the possibility of future containment. Task Force Ein-6 (\"Memento Mori\") has been deployed to recover the bodies of J. Rittel and prevent members of the public from witnessing the associated demanifestation events, as well as doctoring and suppressing records of the bodies' disappearances1.\nDescription: SCP-5885 is a temporal and probabilistic anomaly centred around the death of one J. Rittel, which occurs repeatedly at intervals of exactly 24 hours. The cause of death is variable in each case, but corresponds loosely with demographic norms for the location and age. Rittel will always be at least 18 years of age at the time of death, and displays abnormal weighting towards death at a younger age (avg. 22 yrs, compared with 70 for the global population). All instances to-date have been physically and genetically identical (excepting environmental factors), and raised in a predominantly English-speaking nation.\nRittel's corpse will disappear exactly 24 hours following their death, accompanied by a low-energy burst of microwave radiation and its tachyonic equivalent. The next instance will die immediately following this, but no causal link between the two events has ever been established. Notably, each instance of Rittel will have large amounts of corroborating evidence supporting their life for at least 18 years prior, but will never have been located by any individual or organisation with reason to identify SCP-5885. As a consequence, Rittel has only ever been identified postmortem, and only after the disappearance of the prior corpse.\nThe date of the first occurrence of SCP-5885 is unclear. Records by Foundation precursor groups confirm its existence as far back as 1667 CE, but civilian documents identify the deaths of three Englishmen by the name of Jordan Rittel on three consecutive days in 1107 CE.\n\nSCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 pre-augmentation (c. 1919)\n\nDetainment & interrogation: On \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588-\u2588\u2588, SCP-5885 resulted in the death of an instance of Rittel2 within 2 kilometres of Research Site-Tau3. The body was brought to the site and placed within a refrigerated containment unit, within the range of a Xyank/Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sink (XACTS). The body demanifested and remanifested repeatedly once the 24 hour window had passed, but stabilised in constant reality at 14:55 local time. Past this point, the power drawn by the XACTS from the Site's reactor increased exponentially. No additional SCP-5885-related death was recorded.\nWith the temporal anomaly temporarily neutralised, a detail from the Department of Spectral Phenomena was transported to the Site, and a postmortem interview was conducted. A transcript of this interview is included below.\n\nInterviewer: Dr. S. Kostra\nInterviewee: Jamie Rittel (deceased)\nForeword: Interview conducted by means of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, augmented by salvaged paratechnology.\n\n<Begin Log>\nKostra: Hello, Jamie.\nRittel: Wh- what? What the fuck?\nKostra: Hello Jamie, you've had a bit of an accident, but you're okay now. Can you remember where you were last? We'd like to ask you some questions if that's okay.\nRittel: I- I died. I died, h- how the fuck did you do this?\nKostra: You had an accident, but we were able to-\nRittel: No, no, I died. I was gone. And it was about time too4. And then you\u2026 Jesus Christ, he's gonna be so worried.\nKostra: You're aware of your\u2026 'deaths', then?\nRittel: What? Kinda, sure. Listen, I'm sure this is great news for whatever procedure you're trying here, but I was in the middle of something. You've\u2026 Christ, you've gotta kill me.\n[XACTS reaches 20% allotted power drain]\nKostra: We won't be doing that, Jamie. Do you remember working as a waiter in Milton Keynes?5\nRittel: How the fuck is that important? I'm sorry, I just\u2026 God, you've gotta understand, this is a big thing for me. You're fucking up a lot of stuff right now.\nKostra: I'm sorry for that. We've only got a few more things to ask. Do you know why you keep\u2026 dying?\nRittel: Everyone does it, if you haven't noticed. It's, like, the only guaranteed thing.\nKostra: Ah, yes. That and taxes, right?\nRittel: Sure, I guess.\n[XACTS reaches 50% allotted power drain]\nKostra: Alright, to phrase it a different way, do you know why you keep coming back?\nRittel: I don't. 'Come back', I mean. Not like that. I don't think you really get it. And I don't really want to explain it to you, to be honest. It's private.\nKostra: Right, uh, sorry. Sorry? Your death is\u2026 private?\nRittel: Yeah.\nKostra: Well, okay. Just two more.\nRittel: Please ask quickly.\n[XACTS reaches 70% allotted power drain]\nKostra: I think I might have to. Do you know why we're not able to find you until the 'old' you 'dies'?\nRittel: That's how things work. Things have to happen one after another. [Rittel runs their hands through their hair and looks around nervously] All this is pretty\u2026 straightforward. We're not doing anything illegal. Just one more, right?\nKostra: Yes. You mentioned a 'him' earlier. Would you mind telling us who 'he' is?\n[Rittel smiles and looks down. They stroke a long vertical scar on their left wrist6]\nRittel: \u2026Yeah, no, I don't think I'm gonna do that. Sorry.\n[XACTS exceeds allotted power drain. Warning alarm plays]\nRittel: I- I'm guessing that means our time's up? Or, uh- [Rittel gestures to the scalpels next to them] -do I have to do this the, uh, old fashioned way?\nKostra: No, no, that\u2026 that's all. Thank you.\nRittel: Alright. Thanks, I guess. But, um\u2026 please never do this shit again.\nKostra: No promises.\n[SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is deactivated, and Rittel ceases movement. The XACTS powers down, and the body demanifests at 17:30 local time]\n<End Log>\n\nShortly following the conclusion of this interview, a deceased 18 year-old instance of Rittel was discovered in London, England. The cause of death was suicide by hanging and the time of death was consistent with SCP-5885, with no variation caused by the above detainment. A heart was drawn in lipstick on the mirror of their hotel room's bathroom, with a crude skull drawn inside. The significance of this is presently unknown. Although they left no suicide note, preliminary investigation teams reported the body to be smiling.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Prior to the operational restructuring of 1945, this task was undertaken by the Recovery Division, Virgo team. Consult legacy file RAISA-005885 for details of SCP-5885's containment under precursor groups.\n2. Cause of death: blunt-force trauma during automobile accident.\n3. Specialising in the development and examination of temporally manipulative technologies.\n4. This iteration of Rittel was 34 at the time of death.\n5. Referring to Instance 5885-12a2c.\n6. A feature shared by all instances to-date.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5884 | SCP-5885 | SCP-5886 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5886\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5886 is seemingly self-contained within Humanoid Containment Chamber #1939 (HCC-1939) at Site-42. Testing of SCP-5886 has been suspended until feasible means of doing so are found.\nDescription: SCP-5886 appears to be a dark-skinned male, approximately aged in its late teens or early twenties. Since its discovery, the subject has been completely motionless and intangible. The only evidence to SCP-5886's identity is its T-shirt, which bears the words \"I am James Biggio. Leave me alone.\" written in black marker. A background check into the name James Biggio turned up a missing person's report for the subject out of Athens, Ohio, dated December 4th, 2013.\nAttempts to remove the bed SCP-5886 is lying on result in personnel appearing outside of the containment chamber with no memory of leaving the room. Adjustments to temperature within the chamber are similarly reversed.\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5886 manifested inside of HCC-1939 on October 7th, 2014. Janitorial staff discovered the subject lying on the bed and alerted site security. Security unsuccessfully attempted to apprehend the subject before contacting research staff.\nAddendum SCP-5886-1: Disappearance\nOn August 18th, 2020, the Pegasus Rising Project1 successfully created a wormhole for a span of 5 microseconds, causing a power outage throughout Site-42. Upon a safety check of containment chambers, SCP-5886 was missing from its chamber; a note was left in its place. The contents of the letter are transcribed below.\n\nThe snowflakes froze mid-air.\nSo did everything around me. The cars on the street, my parents\u2026 I screamed at them. I pushed my dad and he hung in the air, frozen like the snowflakes. I called for help. I searched through town for anyone who would move. I walked around for hours. The whole town was stone still.\nI don't know when I fell asleep, but when I woke up, it was still night. I went back for my parents. My dad had moved. Not in front of me, but he wasn't hanging in the air. He was half-way from where I left him and the ground. My mom was looking at him now.\nI stayed with them for a while, but eventually I went exploring. I stopped in a restaurant and picked up some food. Left some cash, not that it matters at this point. While I was eating on a bench, I saw a hummingbird floating in the air next to the bushes. It had this beautiful red color under its throat, and I sat and watched it. After an hour or so (I'm guessing, my watch and cell phone are useless), I noticed its wings were moving. Not that I could see, but it was definitely halfway from top to bottom when it was at the top before.\nIn my time like this, I've read every new book in every library I've come across. Not a lot of TV shows I can watch. A ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings 50 times every second, and it took an hour and a half for it to move halfway.\nI've helped people too. People in front of cars about to get hit? Falling off a bridge? I've saved lives. But then they just stare off into nothing. I want to say I got used to not being thanked, but\u2026\nThis fucking sucks.\nI found one of your guys in a library in Chicago; they had dropped a bunch of books with pictures of a weird blue mouse and I saw a logo I didn't recognize on their badge. I came here and found your library. The things you guys research here are incredible. God, I wish I could see some of it in action.\nThen I saw this thing you guys are calling Pegasus Rising; a wormhole to another dimension? Finally, something different, maybe someone I could talk to.\nSo I picked an empty cell and stayed here. Stayed still long enough that you guys could actually see me. And now you don't.\nThanks for the room.\n\nSCP-5886's reclassification to Uncontained is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Site-42 based trans-dimensional experiment with the goal of providing a means of evacuation in case of a failure to avert an XK-Scenario.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5885 | SCP-5886 | SCP-5887 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5888: Pariah King (Or: The Greatest Stories Are Those We Carry With Us)\nImage Credit: See the Discussion page below.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n2/5888 LEVEL 2/5888\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5888\n\nEuclid\n\nSCP-5888 shortly after transfer to Site-19.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5888 is to be housed in a standard humanoid living quarters at Site-19 and is permitted to socialize with other personnel and residents as desired.\nAny SCP-5888-1 instances generated by SCP-5888 are to be documented and backed up digitally; all interviews with SCP-5888 are to be recorded, transcribed, and stored with this file. Should an instance not demanifest, it is to be stored in a designated locker at Site-19.\nDescription: SCP-5888 is an elderly humanoid male whose physical appearance suggests his age to be in his late seventies. The subject is believed to actually be far older, due in part to his anomalously negligible biological aging.\nSCP-5888's primary anomalous quality is his ability to reproduce any form of informational media that he had previously observed or experienced firsthand. These objects are collectively designated SCP-5888-1 and individually designated as Items within this file for brevity's sake. This ability is aided by SCP-5888's proclaimed photographic memory. SCP-5888-1 instances will take on a variety of forms depending on the date during which they were initially experienced by SCP-5888, typically appearing as the form of media viewed or otherwise relevant at the time.\nDespite the accuracy of details recorded in these memories, SCP-5888 is unable to mentally recall long-term memories traditionally and must resort to the creation of these instances to recall such information. By coming into and sustaining contact with the instances, SCP-5888 is able to recall memories or information initially associated with that instance. SCP-5888-1 instances remain inert upon contact with individuals other than SCP-5888.\nSCP-5888-1 instances are generated through SCP-5888's skin, where the flesh on the desired portion of SCP-5888's body will part and reveal a dark void inside of SCP-5888's body from which the instance will emerge; once retrieved, the opening will close. This process generally does not cause harm or discomfort to SCP-5888. Instances will usually demanifest a few minutes after their production unless intentionally retained by SCP-5888.\nSCP-5888 has proven cooperative with Foundation personnel in terms of containment and interviewing, providing instances to personnel and manifesting relevant information upon request.\nDiscovery: SCP-5888 first came to the Foundation's attention in September of 1995 after reports of an elderly man who was able to produce items from his skin began circulating near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On 11/4/95, agents located a man in that area matching the descriptions in the rumors; the man was declared anomalous and brought into Foundation custody without resistance. SCP-5888 proved cooperative with personnel during and after his transfer to Site-19, despite being initially hesitant.\nAddendum 5888.1: The following is an abridged detailing of several notable SCP-5888-1 instances created by SCP-5888.\n\nItem-15\nItem-21\nItem-29\nItem-38\nItem-51\nItem-59\nItem-91\n\nItem-15 upon manifestation.\n\nSpecimen Description: A cuneiform-inscribed clay tablet.\nDate of Memory: Roughly 2000 B.C.\nContent: A military order to attack a city named \u201cSaatiae\u201d with a force of three thousand soldiers. The entity or kingdom that would have issued this order remains unidentified, and no city by the name of \u201cSaatiae\u201d is known to have existed at any point in known history.\nComments made by SCP-5888: Innocent blood was spilt that day for little reason more than money and political squabbling. A shame that things have changed very little since then.\n\nSpecimen Description: An old piece of paper, yellowed with age.\nDate of Memory: Late eighteenth century.\nContent: A letter written in French detailing an execution order for several members of the French nobility alive before and up to the French Revolution. A small red stain is present on the letter's surface.\nComments made by SCP-5888: Violence, and war by extension, is not itself bad, it is simply evil or good depending on the purpose for which it is used; sadly more often than not, it is used for evil. However, when the Revolution broke out, all men trembled: the poor with anticipation, knowing what was to come; and the rich with fear, knowing what they had caused. The day the doors to the Bastille flew open, a just fight was begun, and its combatants were sure to deliver for even centuries afterward.\n\nImagery contained within Item-29.\n\nSpecimen Description: A bound manuscript.\nDate of Memory: European Medieval period.\nContent: An assortment of hymns, prayers, and various depictions of scenes from the New Testament, as well as several additional scenes of figures performing unidentified rituals. The later pages of the book contain illegible scribbles and symbols, Latin characters, and crude drawings of smiling stick figures grouped together.\nComments made by SCP-5888: All societies have outcasts in one form or another, and oftentimes those outcasts will come together to form a society of their own. The worries, fears, anxieties of isolation truly are unhealthy, no matter the era in which one resides. One common factor across the ages is the power of a community to strengthen its members and let them find meaning, and in this case, belonging amidst a world that had cast them out.\n\nSpecimen Description: A small painting.\nDate of Memory: Renaissance Era.\nContent: The painting depicts a scene highly similar to Thomas Cole's The Savage State (1834), though differs in its inclusion of a group of pale, slender figures in the foreground, each holding unknown equipment, possibly weapons or tools of sorts.\nComments made by SCP-5888: Masaccio1 always had a flair for the unknown; eventually his curiosity led him down a path few have ever walked, and he found those who were beyond his wildest comprehension, and it was the most beautiful thing he'd ever laid his eyes upon. He sought his desires, his aspirations, and was greatly rewarded for his courage. After an encounter like that I'd expect nothing less of him than to reference that beauty in his work.\n\nSpecimen Description: A hinged silver locket with a necklace chain.\nDate of Memory: Early twentieth century, likely during the first World War.\nContent: A small portrait photograph depicting a smiling young woman is present. The photograph is slightly discolored with age, and a shallow gash is present on the outside of the locket.\nComments made by SCP-5888: I've seen more carnage than most, but those trenches\u2026 my God. There was evil in that place. Had it been the madmen that created the gas, the men commanding its use, or something darker, I cannot be sure. But when I couldn't stand to fight any longer, the thought of her gave me the drive, the hope I needed to press on.2\n\nSpecimen Description: A Polaroid photograph.\nDate of Memory: August 9th, 1980\nContent: The photograph depicts a smiling, elderly woman from the side. She is leaning against a stone guardrail, overlooking a small city below believed to be Edinburgh, Scotland. A message written in pen is present on the back of the Item, which reads \"My fate, my love, forever. -8/9/1980.\"\nComments made by SCP-5888: Loss is an unfortunately inevitable part in life, that's just the way it is; the grief and mourning that follow it are inherent parts of the process. But to allow the two to consume you is to throw away all the lessons that the dead had taught you in life. To focus on the pain instead of the renewal is among the worst mistakes you can make. Moira taught me this, and though it took me a long time to accept it, she was completely right. The past may be said and done, but there are lessons to be learnt, or at the very least memories to be treasured, and not even time can erase those.3\n\nA digital recreation of Item-91's surface.\n\nSpecimen Description: A small, black rock carved with runic symbols, measuring roughly 7 cm in length.\nDate of Memory: Unknown\nContent: Humanoid figures, large arching structures, and flowers are scattered around the scene. Near the bottom of the stone, a figure appears to be radiating or glowing. Much of the scene has yet to be fully interpreted.\nComments by SCP-5888: Oceans simply burned into nothing, continents plunged into the seas, entire mountain ranges sundered, and every flower on the planet bloomed in the brilliant sun as the Children were slaughtered in their sleep. Their shining cities burned, their living machines choked, and even their very minds were shattered by the more twisted contraptions humanity had acquired. In the end, humanity reigned victorious, as if it were even a fair fight, having wiped an entire civilization\u2014 as well as several continents\u2014 right off the face of the planet; all within a single day. The greatest atrocity in history, now almost entirely forgotten.\n\n\u25c6 Addendum 5888.2 - Level 3 Clearance Required \u25c6\n\n\u25c7 Addendum 5888.2 - Level 3 Clearance Required \u25c7\n\nAccessing Log\u2026\n\nInterview Video Log Transcript\nInterviewer: Researcher Griffin\nSubject: SCP-5888\nForeword: The purpose of this interview was to ascertain the approximate age or general origins of SCP-5888 by recording an example of one of his earliest memories. To this end, SCP-5888 was prompted to produce an SCP-5888-1 instance corresponding to such memories. The following is what transpired.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(SCP-5888 holds out his right hand and closes his eyes. After roughly one minute, he can be seen visibly straining himself trying to manifest the target SCP-5888-1 instance, eventually grunting with effort. Following another 30 seconds, the skin of his palm parts, produces a small green crystal of unknown composition (later designated Item-120) and closes. SCP-5888 opens his eyes and breathes deeply while running his fingers over the stone. His expression becomes solemn.)Griffin: That took much longer than usual. How long ago would you say this memory dates back to?Griffin: Tens of thousands of years? What could have happened that long ago?Griffin: Around the time of primitive man, then?Griffin: Go on.Griffin: That's certainly insightful, but what does it have to do with your origins?Griffin: (Flatly.) Belief?Griffin: (Looks perplexedly at SCP-5888.) Care to elaborate?Griffin: (Stares confusedly for a moment before his eyes widen in surprise.) Wha\u2014 you're a narrative construct?Griffin: So what you're saying is that the collective belief in you as a mythological entity somehow retrocausally forced you into existence?Griffin: (He pauses and leans forward to inspect Item-120 for a moment, not taking his eyes off the object. He puts his finger to his chin before speaking.) But you were forgotten, weren't you? (His eyes flicker back to SCP-5888.) Your story changed.Griffin: So you and your myths were changed, nearly forgotten, and you were\u2026 altered with them?Griffin: Please calm down, five-eight-eight-eight, I don't want to have to call security.\n(SCP-5888 clenches his jaw tightly before closing his eyes, taking a deep breath, and relaxing his posture. Item-120 demanifests, and the skin on his forearm parts to reveal a photograph, which he feels with his fingers. SCP-5888 remains silent but smiles lightly as the second Item demanifests and his skin closes. He wipes a tear from his eye.)Griffin: I understand. But what was that Item you produced just now?Griffin: Alright then. Well, this time has been very insightful, so thank you.(As Griffin begins gathering his notes SCP-5888 rises and walks to the room's window, overlooking the courtyard of Site-19.)Griffin: What do you mean by that?Griffin: (He sighs and smiles lightly as he reaches to shut off the camera.) I sure hope so.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5887 | SCP-5888| SCP-5889 \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. A lesser-known painter from the European High Renaissance who died in 1428.\n2. The subject declined to answer further questions regarding the woman photographed, and SCP-5888 was not found with any other individuals at the time of discovery.\n3. Possible connections between SCP-5888's mention here and the the photograph contained within Item-51 have been considered, though SCP-5888 has declined to comment further on the matter."}
{"text": "The following article is a part of the And Every Time We Meet Again storyline. Whilst you can read it on its own, it's highly recommended you read the previous installments to get this article in its fullest.\nImage sources:\n\nFilename: power\nLicense: Public Domain\nSource Link: link\n\nName of the file: map\nLicense: Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)\nSource Link: https://www.openstreetmap.org\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nACCESSING FILE \u2014 SCP-5890\u2026\n\nRETINAL SCAN IN PROGRESS\u2026\n\nIDENTITY CONFIRMED. WELCOME, DOCTOR MACCARTHY JUNIOR.\n\nItem#: 5890\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5890 as seen prior to the fall of 1984.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\nThe knowledge of the 1984-FALL Incident is to be limited to Foundation personnel of Clearance Level 3 or higher \u2014 all other individuals, including the entirety of the population of the Eastern regions of Poland, are to be administered amnestics.\n\nSCP-5890 has been permanently quarantined and cut off from all non-Foundation knowledge databases. No entry is currently allowed. All Foundation personnel seen emerging from SCP-5890 are to be terminated on sight.\n\nAny exploration team sent into SCP-5890 is to account for its members every 3 minutes. Should a number not corresponding to the previous one be accounted for, the team is to immediately leave and undergo a quarantine procedure. Further details are available to Level 4 Clearance personnel.\n\nAll SCP-5890-1 entities are to be tracked down and eliminated, with the base of this operation being Site-120. Their containment is currently forbidden.\n\nBia\u0142ystok, Poland.\n\nDescription\nSCP-5890 is a spatial anomaly disguised as the Bia\u0142ystok Nuclear Power Plant located within Bia\u0142ystok, Poland. Local reality within the building is dimensionally and temporarily unstable to a high degree, frequently fluctuating between numerous alternative states of matter, dimensional locations, and timeframes, with no part of it being properly anchored within baseline reality. Within the building, multiple non-euclidean spaces can be found, with their properties, dimensions, and locations changing on a usual basis. Although no apparent pattern of these irregularities has been noted, they appear to be reliant on the individuals currently present in the building, creating such spaces seemingly out of distorted memories of these individuals.\n\nSCP-5890-1 is a designation given to an unknown amount of humanoid entities. The exact nature and appearance of such is not truly known due to the nature of their origin point, SCP-5890, though live reports of witnesses of the 1984-FALL Incident indicate that the humanoids:\n\npossess shapeshifting abilities,\nlack higher intelligence,\ndo not possess an understanding of human grammar or speech patterns,\nare unable to properly analyze their surroundings.\n\nSystem Notice \u2014 the following file is incomplete and contains incomplete information. The remainder of the description and said information is Level 4/5890 Classified.\n\n> access description-full\n\nERROR \u2014 INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE\n\nDiscovery\nFoundation involvement with SCP-58901 began on 13/06/1984 following the discovery of plans of unknown thaumaturgic actions within the Nuclear Power Plant of Bia\u0142ystok created by PoI-5936 (\"Damien Nowak\"), an alleged leader of a cult practicing thaumaturgy, The Children within Cz\u0119stochowa's Local Authorities' Files.\nFurther research regarding PoI-5936 conducted by Foundation personnel embedded within Cz\u0119stochowa's local authorities revealed that numerous papers and documents documenting Nowak's previous actions were created by local authorities. The latest one is attached below2.\n\n\u25ba ACCESS SCP:/5890/attached-documents/1\n\n\u25bc Close File\n\nIt has come to my attention, more and more, the extent to which the abnormal and the ununderstood surround our world. At the rate of discovery my Bureau currently holds of new artifacts and phenomena, in merely two decades time, it seems like without a larger organization to take the anomalous into its custody, we would need to permanently break the Veil of Secrecy holding our association of nations together. Obviously, I, as most likely anyone higher within the ranks of our organization, know about GRU-P \u2014 but I surely am not the only one who thinks that it is just too little for how giant the world of the ununderstood is.\nDuring our latest studies, we have discovered one of the probably most worrying discoveries so far - calculations and context clues I am one hundred percent sure are indeed true lead me to believe that religion and all sorts of spiritual activities are not merely actions of fools lying to themselves about the nature of existence. In fact, they are far from it \u2014 we have been able to discover that rituals can literally affect the world at large, with instant fears of the State's enemies using such for our demise being expressed by my higher-ups.\nUpon calming all of my co-workers down that no such evidence exists, we have realized that with this utterly terrifying discovery, our biggest opportunity so far arises \u2014 channeled and controlled rituals. Of course, one could argue it's against our code of ethics, but here, I ask \u2014 did that stop us before? Did that stop us in the summer of 1970? Did it stop us during the winters of 1947? The answer should be pretty obvious to those even remotely possessing the knowledge of the State's history. It will not. Thus, I would like to propose a deal of sorts to be arranged.\nDamien Nowak, the infamous at this point enemy of the State and an enemy of the people, has been a burden for a long time now to all of us, regardless of our positions and rankings. However, I do believe that the same could be said in reverse. Our searches for him have not been making his life the most peaceful either. With this in mind, we could, theoretically speaking, use Mr. Nowak for our cause \u2014 simply offering mere forgetfulness of his previous deeds, with his side of the deal being teaching us and our Students the art of thaumaturgy and applied rituals.\nThis, of course, should not be treated as my official statement on the matter (should, obviously, the project ever come to see the light of day, all engagement is to be immediately forwarded to the anti-Party regions of the Church), and is as naive as it may sound, I would like all of you, kind gentlemen, to consider my words.\n\n\u2014 W\u0142odzimierz Jurczak, ZM \"Witch Slayer\" Division, Director\n\nFollowing this discovery being made, and the additional connections between Nowak and multiple other anomalous activities within the region being established, stopping said person's planned actions within LoI-5890 has been deemed the utmost priority for Site-120's personnel. In order to properly contradict PoI-5936's plans, Foundation agents have been embedded within LoI-5890 in order to alert proper staff when the aforementioned event would inevitably take place for Site-120's Thaumaturgic Division to properly intervene.\nIn order however to potentially postpone or permanently stop the event from happening, Dr. Asheworth alongside Dr. MacCarthy Jr. were tasked with interviewing one of the members of LoI-5890's administrative structures, who was captured prior to the interview taking place.\nWhen the involvement of Nowak was confirmed by said interview, specialistic equipment detecting any thaumaturgic activity within the region was deployed at LoI-5890. Three days later minor thaumaturgic distortions, increasing in size on an hourly basis have been detected within the location.\nWithin the next hours, Dr. Asheworth's account was logged attempting to access multiple files potentially regarding Nowak without proper clearance, for which he was adequately reprimanded. Although this incident did not repeat again, he expressed high interest in being a part of any further actions involving PoI-5936. Due to his prior effectiveness in actions involving thaumaturgic backgrounds, such a request was granted.\n\n1984-FALL Incident\nUpon the realization that Nowak's ritualistic plans were in the process of being implemented, the Foundation deployed Mobile Task Force Omega-10 (\"The Watchmen\")3 alongside the two project leads of SCP-5890, Dr. Asheworth and Dr. MacCarthy Jr. The following files are recordings retrieved from Dr. Asheworth's camera.\n\n\u25ba ACCESS SCP:/5890/exploration-logs/local-time/03/08/1984\n\n\u25bc Close File\n\nDate: 03/08/1984\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-10, Dr. Asheworth, Dr. MacCarthy Jr.\nSubject: SCP-5890\nTeam Lead: Dr. Asheworth\nTeam Members: Dr. MacCarthy Jr., Om-10-1, Om-10-2, Om-10-3\nForeword: Due to Dr. Asheworth exhibiting signs of level 2 spatial and thaumaturgical resistance, he has been elected as the team's captain. The following exploration has been conducted during the start of SCP-5890's anomalous condition \u2014 all of such disruptions were, at that time, minor.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Asheworth: And\u2026 this should be on. Everyone, check your equipment.\nOm-10-1: Check.\nOm-10-2: Check.\nOm-10-3: Check.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Check makes four.\nDr. Asheworth: Great. As I said, when we enter that hall, minor spatial disruptions will occur. I hope I don't need to say that, but do not follow any voices, feelings, or anything else that isn't my command. Understood?\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Yes.\nOm-10-1: Yeah.\nOm-10-3: Yes.\nOm-10-2: Yes.\nDr. Asheworth: Great. Let's begin then.\nThe exploration team enters SCP-5890's underground parking. Within it, no vehicles are present. After a scan of the area reveals a lack of lifeforms, the team head to the staircase.\nOm-10-1: Closed. Will be attempting forced entry.\nAfter a minute of trying, the team's attempts to force open the door have met with failure, and they cannot access the staircase.\nOm-10-1: Won't do.\nDr. Asheworth proceeds to make his way to the doors and puts his hand at them for 30 seconds.\nDr. Asheworth: And it never will. It's thaumaturgically sealed. We will have to take the elevator.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: No way around it? I would very much not want to be stuck in one in a soon-to-come spatial anomaly. Being stuck in one room is\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: No. I'm not happy with the fact it will slow us down either.\nThe team enters the elevator located next to the staircase.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: I'd say we should go up first.\nDr. Asheworth: Agree. I want to see if we can find anyone up there. If there were no cars down here, I'd be inclined to say there is no one, but I'm not sure. If that's the case, then they are up to something. No one leaves a building like this for no reason\u2026\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: \u2026unless something will happen.\nDr. Asheworth: Exactly. That bastard is up to something.\nThe elevator rides up. When it opens, it reveals an office space, largely occupied by cubicles.\nThe team makes their way forward, each of the members splitting up into different parts of the room.\nOm-10-2: This part's empty. All hardware is gone.\nOm-10-1: Same here.\nOm-10-3: All's empty.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Note the total lack of documents. They evacuated everything. Not a single piece of paper was left. That\u2026 that's unsettling.\nOm-10-1: Jesus Christ. Every single thing, gone.\nDr. Asheworth: We might already be too late. I'll check something.\nUsing Foundation equipment, Dr. Asheworth proceeds to scan the local area.\nDr. Asheworth: Nothing. I\u2026 I feel like I'm getting d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. Nothing here, at least. we'll need to explore the basement. If no one's here, that rat must be hiding in there somewhere.\nDr. Asheworth looks around the open room\nDr. Asheworth: Every moment we'll waste here is one more moment for Nowak to freely roam this building. Let's go.\nOm-10-1 gets up from his resting point and proceeds to make his way to the elevator.\nOm-10-2: Let's go.\nOm-10-1 calls the elevator. Three seconds later, the door opens.\nHe enters the room.\nOm-10-2 gets up from his resting point and proceeds to make his way to the elevator.\nOm-10-3: Let's go.\nOm-10-2 calls the elevator. Three seconds later, the door opens.\nHe enters the room.\nOm-10-3 gets up from his resting point and proceeds to make his way to the elevator.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Let's go.\nOm-10-3 calls the elevator. Three seconds later, the door opens.\nHe enters the room.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr. gets up from his resting point and proceeds to make his way to the elevator.\nDr. Asheworth: Let's\u2014 stop. Don't move. All of you. Stay right where you are.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: What's going on?!\nDr. Asheworth: Temporal Ourobo\u2014 it's a time loop. Don't move.\nOm-10-1: And wh\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: Don't. Three\u2026\nten seconds pass\nDr. Asheworth: Two\u2026\nten seconds pass\nDr. Asheworth: One\u2026\nten seconds pass\nDr. Asheworth: Now. We're free.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: What the hell was that? W-why couldn't we move?\nDr. Asheworth: A self-contained temporal paradox. We- well, we were stuck in a sub-dimension where time was looped.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Jesus Christ. Can we\u2026 somehow avoid that, in the future? I\u2026 closed spaces is a bad thing on its own, but looped time?\nDr. Asheworth: Theoretically, yes. But it will only get weirder with time here. Our perception will be fucked with.\nOm-10-4: Understood. The less time we are here, the less chance there is we'll catch the big ones. Let's get this over with as quickly as we can.\nDr. Asheworth: Let's go.\nThe team makes its way to the elevator. They enter it and block the down button.\nDr. Asheworth: When we get out, don't separate. I know it might sound weird, but trust me, you don't want to be stuck in a non-dimension.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: I definitely do not.\nOm-10-1: Roger.\nOm-10-2: Understood.\nOm-10-4: Makes sense.\nAfter two minutes, the elevator opens, revealing an open office space. The room is filled with cubicles.\nDr. Asheworth: Oh, no, no. No, no no.\nHe rushes to the window and opens the curtains.\nDr. Asheworth: No, no, no!\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: What's going on?!\nMacCarthy Jr. joins him. Upon looking out of the window, total darkness outside is revealed, with no characteristic landscape being recognizable. The camera feed starts to distort, with most of the recording failing to connect.\nAt the center of the nonexistent sky, the Moon can be seen. It frequently fluctuates between different locations and looks.\nDr. Asheworth: We're fucked.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Oh no, no no no no.\nThe recording cuts as the connection is lost.\n\n\u25ba ACCESS SCP:/5890/exploration-logs/local-time/05/08/1984\n\n\u25bc Close File\n\nDate: 05/08/1984\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-10, Dr. Asheworth, Dr. MacCarthy Jr.\nSubject: SCP-5890\nTeam Lead: Dr. Asheworth\nTeam Members: Dr. MacCarthy Jr., Om-10-1, Om-10-2, Om-10-3, Om-10-4\nForeword: For two days, no connection was acquired with the team located inside SCP-5890. During that time, SCP-5890 began to heavily distort itself, with it totally disappearing from Foundation radars for 30 seconds only to return later, with its building materials being misplaced and replaced upon re-entry into reality.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Asheworth: \u2026mmand, do you inaudible? Command, do you copy? This is Daniel Asheworth, identification key delta, one, two, seven, alpha, reporting from SCP-5890. We lost contact with inaudible! I repeat, this is Daniel Asheworth, SCP-5890, contact lost! inaudible continues for the next 20 seconds.\nThe camera is seemingly picked up from a floor by Dr. Asheworth, revealing a dark corridor. Although the background is partially distorted, with it changing on an almost secondly basis, reality around him seems to be stabilized.\nDr. Asheworth: MacCarthy. is inaudible, but I managed to get him into a stable state.\nThe angle changes, revealing a man sitting on the floor. His arm is bandaged with a basic shirt, stopping the wound from bleeding.\nDr. Asheworth: I have no idea what happened. Dash-four attacked him with a pocket knife. The others quickly tackled him, but he got him pretty badly.\nHe changes his camera, revealing two men standing near the other end of the corridor. At the end of it, a fluctuating red light can be seen.\nDr. Asheworth: We've been stuck on the middle floor between the reactor and the offices for three\u2014 no, four hours now. I honestly don't\u2014\nOm-10-2: It's been at least six.\nDr. Asheworth: Oh Jesus inaudible. No, no, no. Fuck, fuck, fuck fuck. Temporal perception-based distortion.\nOm-10-5: What?\nDr. Asheworth: It means we're fucked beyond belief. We're\u2014 to put it simply, each of us perceives reality differently now. We need to get out of here, now. Carthy, are you able to walk?\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Y\u2026 y-es, yes.\nDr. Asheworth: Is everything fine? You're strangely silent for once.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: I'm\u2026 yes, I'm f-fine.\nDr. Asheworth: I\u2014\nOm-10-3: Doc? What's this?\nDr. Asheworth: What?\nThe camera pans away as the red light at the end of the corridor starts spreading in the room. The team quickly runs away, with the camera feed getting distorted near the end of the room.\nConnection is lost for 30 seconds.\nUpon the connection being re-established, the team emerges into a living room of a house with an open balcony door, revealing a forest-like background around the establishment. Near their left, a door filled with a buzzing, dark light is located. From it, multiple machinery-like sounds can be heard.\nDr. Asheworth: Oh no. No, no, no-\nHe attempts to enter the hallway located on his left, only to be stuck in place in the middle of the room. He tries to look away from the balcony, but ultimately fails to do so. From the forest, a dog's barking can be heard, alongside an inaudible woman like voice.\nDr. Asheworth: P-please\u2026 n-no\u2026\nFrom the outside, a blurred shape emerges, bearing the resemblance to a dog.\nDr. Asheworth: I\u2014 No\u2026 stop!\nThe voice gets closer, with words being more and more audible. Though they can't be properly decoded, the word \"Daniel\" is repeated over and over.\nDr. Asheworth: Stop!\nThrough the room, a wind-like force sweeps, destroying most of the glass elements. The blurred shape stops in place.\nDr. Asheworth: I'm\u2026 I'm sorry. I tried my best. I'm so sorry. I\u2026 he starts to cry.\nDr. Asheworth moves his hand in a circle-like manner. In one of the walls, a hole is created, revealing the outside of the power plant. He falls down into the ground. Upon getting up, he puts his hands on his head. From his nose, a line of blood can be seen.\nDr. Asheworth: looking at the rest of the team: Go!\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: But\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: I said, GO!\nThe team enters the hole.\nDr. Asheworth: Dealing with him is only my responsibility.\nThe reality distortions get heavier as Asheworth enters the corridor on the left. From it, multiple unidentified voices can be heard.\n[END LOG]\n\n\u25ba ACCESS SCP:/5890/exploration-logs/local-time/unknown\n\n\u25bc Close File\n\nDate: Time of exploration could not be determined due to local reality being unstable and camera distortions\nExploration Team: None\nSubject: SCP-5890\nTeam Lead: Dr. Asheworth\nTeam Members: None\nForeword: The truthfulness of the following video is still pending approval from the O4 Council4. Due to numerous camera distortions and contradictory evidence, it is currently unknown if the material provided within such is true.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nThe room within which the camera is turned on is dimly lit. The object is placed on a balcony located above such.\nDr. Asheworth: very quietly: I\u2026 I got you.\nThe camera zooms into the space located underneath the balcony, revealing the reaction core of the power plant, on which multiple thaumaturgic symbols suggesting the words \"to gain power (from)\" are located. Around it, red, flicking lights can be seen.\nAsheworth moves closer to the edge of the space, which severely greatens the camera distortions..\nDr. Asheworth: I fucking got you.\nA zoom shows an individual located near the damaged reactor. They are hooded, and near them, numerous papers, thaumaturgic circles, and unidentified items can be seen.\nThe individual vocalizes to an unseen crowd, which doesn't respond. The camera operator conducts an audio focus.\n???: \u2026and to you, my children, my army, I say \u2014 this shall not be our darkest day! Today shall only make us stronger. Never have we been this powerful\u2014\nA visual focus reveals numerous unidentified humanoid-like creatures. They do not move.\n???: Hunt the locals. Gather their information. Explore their memories. That's all I require of you. With our job here done, we will no longer need to hide. No; your abilities and new inaudible will help us truly mask within this society. When we will need to strike however, we will strike like thunder! No army will be able to stop us! We are the perfect deceivers, the perfect inaudible!\nThe camera zooms further. Just when it is supposed to show the face of the individual, the camera is violently disrupted and it changes its angle to show the inside of the balustrade Dr. Asheworth is standing on. Behind him, Om-10-4 is standing.\nDr. Asheworth: What the\u2014\nOm-10-4 attacks Asheworth, trying to penetrate his arm with a pocket knife. Asheworth fires a gun, successfully hurting the man. Where blood would be however, a total lack of any liquid can be found. Around the wound, the skin turns into a gray scales.\nDr. Asheworth: What the fuck?\nOmega-10-4 hisses, revealing a lack of a human tongue.\nThe other creatures hiss, noticing the sound made by the shot. They all start to climb up the walls to get to the balcony.\n???: Get him!\nThe hooded figure whispers a silent sentence. Within one of the walls, a portal appears. The man enters through it, leaving the location.\nDr. Asheworth: You motherfucker, get back here!\nAsheworth tries to rush down the balcony, attempting to make his way into the portal, but fails upon being tackled by approximately 10 of the creatures.\nOne of the humanoids tackles him to the ground.\nDr. Asheworth: You\u2026 piece\u2026 of shit!\nThe camera distorts. When the connection is reestablished, a ring of fire is seen around him and numerous runes burning bright on his gloves, with most creatures standing still, visibly angry at Asheworth near its perimeter.\nAsheworth continues running down the room. The camera distorts again. When connection is reestablished, he is holding a spear created of what looks like materials which local pipes are made from.\nDr. Asheworth: Not now! Get\u2026 here!\nJust as he is about to tackle the person he is after, an indivisible force stops him mid-air. It then throws him at the wall opposite of the portal.\n???: It seems you have failed again. Goodbye, Asheworth.\nThe man enters through the portal.\nDr. Asheworth: Not\u2026 now\u2014\nThe recording cuts.\n\nOn 08/08/1984, Daniel Asheworth was seen emerging from SCP-5890. Two hours later, he was administered health-boosting drugs and taken into Site-120's custody.\nThe next day, the following interview has been conducted.\n\n\u25ba ACCESS SCP:/5890/interviews/1\n\n\u25bc Close File\n\nDate: 09/08/1984\nInterviewed: Dr. Asheworth\nInterviewer: Dr. MacCarthy Jr.\nForeword: The interview was conducted following Dr. Asheworth's mental and physical health being stabilized.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: So, what the hell happened there? Who even was that?\nDr. Asheworth: Nowak. The piece of shit responsible for 5936.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: As I understand from the recordings, you know him, don't you?\nSilence.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Look, I can't help you if you don't help me. This just doesn't work like that, goddamnit.\nDr. Asheworth: I was this close.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: What?\nDr. Asheworth: I was this close to catching him. After all these years\u2026\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: We'll get him. Sooner or later.\nDr. Asheworth: You won't. That's the problem.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Why?\nDr. Asheworth: He always\u2026 finds a way. No matter how impossible the odds may seem, he always somehow gets alive and well.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: We will find a way.\nDr. Asheworth: That's what you always say.\nSilence.\nDr. Asheworth: So, what now?\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: As in?\nDr. Asheworth: As in, what happens to all of the people working at that power plant. They're not gonna just let them back in. It's a cesspool of shapeshifters and a temporal crossroad between mentally shared memory-alike dimensions, it's\u2014 sorry. I\u2026 I get official when I'm nervous.\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: I\u2026 I\u2014 coughs I kn-ow. coughs\nSilence\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: Honestly? They will probably just amnesticize everyone and make a story up about\u2026 radioactive waste or something. It always works out.\nDr. Asheworth: But\u2026 you can't\u2026 just do that! Amnestics will throw off the perception of local people for years, if not decades to come! How many people are alive here? Twenty thousand? Forty? That might spread the information about potential anomalous activity within the region if authorities get involved\u2014\nDr. MacCarthy Jr.: I know. But that won't change anything. sighs It never does.\nSilence\nDr. Asheworth: How about the others? Are they at least safe?\nDr. MacCarthy Jr: Dash two and three made it out with me. Dash one though\u2026 the red light consumed him. We never saw him again. But\u2026 at least we are safe.\nDr. Asheworth: That's\u2026 all that matters\u2026\n[END LOG]\n\nClosing statement: Dr. MacCarthy Jr. disappeared the next day. Although a search for him is currently in the workings, no anomalous activity was noted around him within the past week.\n\nThe search for PoI-5936 is still ongoing.\n\n> log-off\n\nRECORDING CURRENT SESSION \u2014 1843 FILES READ\u2026\n\nLOGGING OFF. THANK YOU FOR USING SCIPNET, DOCTOR MACCARTHY JUNIOR.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Or, rather, at that time, its nonanomalous origin building, hereby referred to as LoI-5890.\n2. The entirety of the document was translated from Russian, a language not native to the writer of the document.\n3. A Mobile Task Force focused on exploring spatial, temporal, and thaumaturgic anomalies, trained to be invulnerable to most reality-altering effects\n4. 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{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nContent note: This article contains gore, body horror and implied references to alcohol and depression. If you notice anything tag-worthy that's not in here, please mention it in a comment.\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5891\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5891 has been purchased by the Foundation. It is to remain empty, under the cover story of structural damage. The windows have been covered with newspaper from the inside. Trespassers must be amnesticised.\nDescription: SCP-5891 is a two-storey terraced house, numbered 28 on \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Street in Wrexham, Wales. It had been abandoned for an unknown period of time before its discovery.\nSCP-5891 is the focal point of a recursive effect, wherein numerous copies of the interior can be accessed via holes knocked haphazardly through the walls.1 These holes appear in different places depending on the iteration of SCP-5891; for instance, the access point from the main instance to the second is in the bathroom. Furthermore, they can only be entered in one direction; any person entering the other way will find themselves in the same iteration. However, going back through one will return a person to the previous iteration.\nExit from a secondary instance of SCP-5891 is impossible; the front door cannot be opened, and neither the walls nor windows can be breached. Nothing that requires access outside the house (for example, water or electronics) functions. Early instances of SCP-5891 are identical; later iterations show some discrepancies.2\nSCP-5891 was being rented by \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 at time of discovery. The anomaly was discovered when Rhiannon Edwards, a paramedic stationed at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, complained about \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's continued absence. He had no known anomalous contacts, and a spotless record at the hospital save for an incident fifteen months prior to his disappearance. Details of said incident on the hospital computer network had been corrupted, and staff were unable to provide any useful information. No trace of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has yet been found.\nAddendum 2: Layout of SCP-5891:\n\nGround floor: hall, living room (two rooms knocked through), kitchen\nFirst floor: landing, master bedroom, spare bedroom, bathroom\n\nAddendum 4: First human exploration of SCP-5891\n\nClick to open\n\nClick to close\n\nPersonnel participating: D-94771 (field), Dr. McDonald (base)\n<BEGIN LOG>\nD-94771: Alright, can you hear me?\nMcDonald: Receiving you loud and clear.\nD-94771: Sound. So, I just go in the house?\nMcDonald: That's right. Just have a look around and report anything anomalous back to me.\nD-94771: Will do.\nD-94771 enters SCP-5891 and begins investigation of the ground floor. Other than the dust naturally occurring from a lack of maintenance, nothing anomalous is immediately obvious.\nD-94771 enters the living room, which is cluttered and disordered. Leftovers on the coffee table are stale, but not mouldy. Next to them is a book, turned over to hold it open. D-94771 picks it up and begins flipping through it.\nD-94771: Can I just thank you now for sending me to the spooky haunted house in the daytime? Tones down the horror a bit, at least.\nMcDonald: Well, there wouldn't be much point in sending someone to explore if they can't properly see what they're exploring.\nD-94771: Tell that to the dickhead who had me traipsing round a castle at one in the morning waiting to get grabbed by a mirror monster.\nD-94771 makes to put the book down.\nMcDonald: Actually, hold on there a minute, Olivia.\nD-94771: [laughs] Haven't fucked up already, have I?\nMcDonald: Do you remember what page that book was held open at?\nD-94771: Uh, no. Sorry, was that important?\nMcDonald: Probably not. Okay, er, let's try this; close the book and reopen it to whatever page feels natural.\nD-94771: What, like, emotionally?\nMcDonald: No, physically. If the book's been held open on that page for a while, it'll be more likely to reopen there. Read me the first line, too.\nD-94771: Sure, makes sense, I guess. What's the story, Balamory? [sound of flipping pages] That's\u2026 one hundred and nine. It starts mid-sentence.\nMcDonald: That's fine, just from the top of the page.\nD-94771: [clears throat] \"intended as a tool to aid towards self-actualisation. He saw this as the aim for all humans, and believed that the hierarchy-\"\nMcDonald: Okay, that's enough. Could you move through to the kitchen now, please?\nD-94771 discards the book and moves through to the kitchen, which is also disordered. Several disposable plates can be seen in the bin, and unwashed dishes are soaking in discoloured water in the sink.\nD-94771: Jesus, what a mess. Not gonna make me go fishing through that, are you?\nMcDonald: We've imaged it beforehand, so not right now.\nD-94771: Thank fuck for that. Some mercy. When you say \"imaged\u2026\"\nMcDonald: We've sent drones in here before to investigate. And to answer your next question, drones are clumsier than humans, and more cumbersome. Besides, sometimes anomalies react differently to living things than machines.\nD-94771 makes a noise of affirmation, before returning to the hall and climbing the stairs. She enters the master bedroom, which is in a similar state to the rest of SCP-5891. A large hole is present in the wall, through which the bathroom can be seen. The bed is made; a shape is visible underneath the duvet. D-94771 stops immediately upon seeing it.\nD-94771: [whispering] Is, uh- is that-\nMcDonald: Please remove the covers now.\nD-94771: [whispering] Are you fucking joking? No fucking way.\nMcDonald: For what it's worth, we don't think there's anything dangerous under there.\nD-94771: [whispering] Bullshit! You want someone to get eaten, do it your fucking self, I'm not-\nMcDonald: Look, I understand you're scared, Olivia, and I wish I could tell you that you're a hundred percent safe, but I can't. That being said, I'm telling you, we- I am as confident as I can be that that's not going to hurt you. I promise, this is not a death sentence.\n[brief pause]\nD-94771: Okay.\nMcDonald: But I still need you to look.\nD-94771: [hesitates] Fuck this, and fuck you.\nShe trudges across the room and grasps the edge of the covers in her fingertips. She takes a deep breath, and quickly pulls the covers off the bed. Nothing is present underneath. An indentation in the mattress, as though someone has recently been there, is observable, roughly corresponding to the shape in the covered bed.\nD-94771: Huh.\nMcDonald: For the record, if this was a death sentence, it wouldn't be me overseeing it. I don't really have the stomach for sending people into the mincer.\nD-94771: Oh, yeah, I forgot how hard this must all be on you.\nMcDonald: [laughs] Fair enough. Could you touch the space where the shape was, please?\nD-94771: [obliges] Huh, it's\u2026 weird. Like the air's\u2026 harder? Dunno, feels like there's resistance though. Like putting your hands in water while wearing gloves, or something. [she places her hand on the indentation] Bed's cold, though.\nMcDonald: Thank you. Can we move to the bathroom, now?\nD-94771: Can I go through- not through the hole, right.\nD-94771 exits the bedroom via the door and enters the bathroom.\nMcDonald: Okay, before you enter, I'd like you to mark a cross on the wall opposite the hole.\nD-94771 obliges, then enters the bedroom of the second iteration of SCP-5891. It is identical to that of the first iteration, before her entry. She looks back through the hole, observing the cross she marked in the first iteration.\nD-94771 walks to the bed and stands over it. The shape is visible.\nD-94771: Suppose you'll be wanting the same again.\nMcDonald: If you would.\nD-94771 sighs, and quickly removes the covers.\nD-94771: Same as before. [she touches the indentation] Weird feeling and all.\nMcDonald: Alright. Go to the bathroom again, please? Through the doors.\nD-94771 obliges. The cross is not visible on the bathroom wall.\nD-94771: Trippy.\nMcDonald: If you could look through the rest of the house, now? Report any differences you notice.\nD-94771: Aye, captain.\nD-94771 searches the second iteration of SCP-5891. No observable variations between it and the first are noted. She stops in the living room.\nMcDonald: The book's still on the coffee table? What page is it on?\nD-94771 recovers it.\nD-94771: One-oh-nine. Is that right?\nMcDonald: Should be. Does the page start \"intended as a tool to aid towards self-actualisation?\"\nD-94771: Yeah. That good or bad?\nMcDonald: Neither, as far as I know. Can you leave the house? Are the windows and doors useable?\nD-94771 climbs onto the couch and attempts to open the window, without success. Front door yields same results.\nD-94771: I could try and smash the window, if you want. Because I want to.\nMcDonald: You can try, but don't hurt yourself doing it.\nD-94771 laughs, and unsuccessfully attempts to breach SCP-5891 using a chair.\nD-94771: Fuck, okay, maybe that wasn't my best move.\nMcDonald: Anything unusual outside the window? What do you see?\nD-94771: I see\u2026 oh my God.\nMcDonald: Olivia?\nD-94771: There's a crowd of people. None of them have a face\u2026 but they're all staring at me!\nMcDonald: What? Are they attacking? How can-\nD-94771: [laughs] Nah, just fucking with you, it's just the street. Nothing weird.\nMcDonald: Alright. You can consider this an official reprimand.\nD-94771: You're no fun. [pause] Actually, there is something.\nMcDonald: Don't try my patience.\nD-94771: No, seriously, your van full of goons isn't there. Can't tell if there's any other differences, but it's definitely still parked outside, right?\nMcDonald: Right. Alright, noted, thank you. The next hole should be in the kitchen cupboard.\nD-94771 enters the kitchen, marks a cross on the wall opposite to the cupboard, before opening it and crawling through the hole within. She enters the third iteration of SCP-5891. No difference is observable between it and the second.\nD-94771: So, uh, you expecting something to happen here? 'Cause I never thought I'd get bored exploring a mysterious haunted house, but I guess that's the world we live in.\nMcDonald: Ideally, we'll keep going until it stops recurring. If it doesn't stop, we'll call you back when the number gets to a certain point. You've been given food for a reason.\nD-94771: [muttering] \"We'll keep going,\" is it? [normal tone] Fine, whatever. Where's the next hole again?\nMcDonald: Cupboard under the stairs. This is the last recursion that's been mapped out, though, so you'll be guiding us from now on.\nD-94771: Look forward to it.\nD-94771 looks out of the kitchen window, and pauses.\nD-94771: So, uh, it's probably worth mentioning that there's a bird in the garden that's not moving. Like, in mid-air. That's, that's not normal, right?\nMcDonald: I suppose that's why there's no van outside.\nD-94771 agrees. She enters the fourth recursion of SCP-5891, and begins exploring the ground floor. No difference is observable.\nD-94771: Welcome to Luigi's Mansion, all! To your left, you'll see an unopenable door, one of a kind, we guarantee! To your - well, ahead now, prepare yourselves for the majesty of a pigsty of a living room! Yes, postcards will be available from the giftshop as we leave.\nMcDonald: Are you always this\u2026 chirpy?\nD-94771 returns to the hall, and goes to climb the stairs.\nD-94771: Would you rather I was curled up crying in the corner? No, don't answer that, you probably would, wouldn't -\nThe stairs give out underneath D-94771. She cries out as she falls.\nMcDonald: What's happening? Olivia? Are you alright?\nD-94771: [groans] Fucking hell.\nMcDonald: Where are you? Are you hurt?\nD-94771: I, uh- [she opens a door next to her back under the stairs. Guess we found that next hole. Jesus, that hurt. Think I'm good.\nMcDonald: If you're alright, get to looking around. We do have a team on standby if we need to get you out.\nD-94771: You do? Didn't think you cared. I thought I was the expendable meat? Would you really send the SAS in after me if something happened?\nMcDonald: Honestly? Depends what happened.\nD-94771: \u2026guess I can't argue with that. You wouldn't let the world end or whatever just to save me, would you? There's nothing here, by the way. That book's on the same page every time.\nMcDonald: Interesting. Alright, upstairs, then. Careful around the hole.\nD-94771: Yeah, fool me once. [she begins her ascent] You're proper interested in that book, aren't you?\nMcDonald: Could be important. Maybe not in of itself, but-\nD-94771: No, hang on, I know this; you're assuming the first house is the original, and the rest are copies. The book's on the same page, so it was left there before whatever mystic shite happened here happened here.\nMcDonald: Something like that.\nD-94771: You sure you've got things the right way round?\nMcDonald: What?\nD-94771: Maybe the original's at the centre, and everything else is a copy.\nD-94771 enters the bedroom, and goes to the bed.\nMcDonald: It's possible, I suppose. Any theories on why?\nD-94771: [shrugs] You're the doctor. [she removes the bed covers] What the fuck!\nIn the bed is a mass of indistinguishable, amorphous fatty tissue. It is pale, roughly human-sized, and fills exactly the indentation seen in prior iterations of the bed. The tissue quivers faintly in place. Liquid fat drips off the edges, soaking into the mattress.\nD-94771: Oh, no, no, no no no. You let me the fuck out of here, and you let me out now.\nMcDonald: [aside] Look, surely we can - Okay, thanks. [to D-94771] Alright, you can come back. Just - wait!\nD-94771 had quickly gone to leave the room; she hesitates at Dr. McDonald's instruction.\nMcDonald: Can you get a sample of the tissue? Like, a scraping?\nD-94771: You want me to touch that thing? Fuck you!\nMcDonald: [aside] Alright, come on, does she have to? [pause] This is - oh, for - [to D-94771] Look, they won't let you back unless you do it.\nD-94771: But\u2026 what if it wakes up?\nMcDonald: Do you think it's sentient? Um, aware of you?\nD-94771: I don't wanna know.\nMcDonald: If you could just catch some of the drippings in the container -\nD-94771: What're you gonna do if I don't, shoot me?\nMcDonald: They might.\nD-94771 paces up and down the room, giving the bed a wide berth. After several seconds she groans, tugging at her hair.\nD-94771: Fine. Fine, I'm doing it. Fucking hell. [she leans over the mass, and retches] Oh, God, it stinks. [she tentatively scrapes a sample of liquid fat into a vial, and quickly retreats. Mass remains unresponsive.]\nMcDonald: Can you describe it?\nD-94771: Uh, sweaty. Bad, like sour milk. Stale beer, bit like off meat, too - fuck, I think I'm gonna be sick. Can I come back now, please?\nMcDonald: Yes, please do.\n<END LOG>\nClosing statement: D-94771 returned to SCP-5891 without incident. DNA testing of the sample she recovered indicated human, but was too heavily decayed for any further analysis.\n\nAddendum 7: Second human exploration of SCP-5891\n\nClick to open\n\nClick to close\n\nPersonnel participating: D-94771 (field), Dr. McDonald (base)\n<BEGIN LOG>\nMcDonald: We're on.\nD-94771: Dr. McDonald! Nice to hear your voice again. Well, it would be under other circumstances.\nMcDonald: Hello, Olivia. If we could get going?\nD-94771: Alright.\nD-94771 enters SCP-5891, which appears the same as in the last exploration log\nMcDonald: Do you remember where the entrances are?\nD-94771: That what we're calling them now? Yeah, think I can manage.\nD-94771 traverses the first three iterations without incident, and explores the fourth.\nMcDonald: Careful on the stairs, here -\nD-94771: Yeah, I remember. Still bruised.\nShe avoids the hole, and investigates the first floor. It is identical to the three prior iterations. She returns to the stairs, and enters the next iteration.\nD-94771: Is, uh, Mr. Blobby still here?\nMcDonald: We have to assume so. But we also have no reason to think it's hostile.\nD-94771: Mm.\nAfter investigating the ground floor at a slow pace, she makes her way upstairs, taking the bathroom, then the spare room.\nD-94771: Next hole's in the floor, here. [she gestures] Guess I'll need to stand on a chair or something to come back.\nMcDonald: Understood. The bedroom, now, if you -\nD-94771: Yes, alright, I - [sighs] Give me a minute.\nAfter some hesitation, she enters the bedroom. The mass is still present, and does not seem to have moved.\nD-94771: Yup, still here. Still gross. Still smells like Anfield on a Saturday. I don't have to touch it again, do I?\nMcDonald: No. You can move on, now.\nD-94771: That's a shame, I was gonna have a tea party with it.\nD-94771 enters the next iteration of SCP-5891, and goes first to the bedroom, removing the bed covers. An identical mass is present, and she retreats quickly.\nD-94771: Oh, great. What actually is that, by the way? Did you figure it out?\nMcDonald: We, uh, don't know. Harmless, as far as we know, but we're not sure exactly what it is.\nD-94771: You know, you could have just lied to me, really wouldn't have minded.\nD-94771 explores several further iterations of SCP-5891 without much communication, and the unidentified mass is still present in the recursions. She stops to rest periodically in the living room. Eventually, she enters the thirty-second iteration at the living room and pauses.\nD-94771: Guess that book mattered after all.\nMcDonald: Hmm?\nD-94771: [gestures towards coffee table] Can you see it on your end? I can't.\nD-94771 was asked to wait in the room, while Dr. McDonald and Junior Researcher Samuels undertook a more thorough examination of footage already acquired. Upon closer inspection, since the tenth iteration, an increasing number of items in the house were not present in further instances. No connection is apparent between said objects. This information is relayed to D-94771, and she is instructed to keep closer notice on future iterations.\nD-94771 continues onward, providing details of further missing objects but with little communication otherwise.\nMcDonald: You're unusually quiet. Everything alright?\nD-94771: Thought you would've been pleased.\nMcDonald: I'm just making sure this isn't getting to you. If it is, it could be an anomalous -\nD-94771: Be fair, Doctor. What am I supposed to say? \"Oh, yes, Doc, it's still a shithole, oh yes, Doc, there's the great blob of fucked-upitude, oh yes, Doc, more of the same,\" it's just the fucking same thing, over and over and over.\nArriving at the bedroom, D-94771 removes the quilt, carelessly throwing it to the floor.\nD-94771: Although\u2026 am I imagining things, or is that smaller than before?\nJunior Researcher Samuels reviews previous footage, with inconclusive results.\nD-94771: Alright, let's try this\u2026\nShe returns to the kitchen, searching all the drawers until she comes across a tape measure. She then returns to the bedroom and measures the length and width of the mass.\nD-94771: I'll check it again in a few gos.\nEight iterations later, D-94771 measures the mass again.\nD-94771: Sure enough. Only a couple of inches, but it's smaller.\nD-94771 proceeds through a further twenty-four iterations. Across these instances, the house becomes noticeably less cluttered, and the mass visibly smaller than the indentation in the bed around it.\nAt the next iteration, she removes the quilt from the mass.\nD-94771: Huh. That's\u2026 different.\nThe fat coating the mass is thinning; patches of scabs and scar tissue underneath it become evident. Some of the scabs are peeling away, and blood congeals through the cracks exposed in the tissue.\nMcDonald: Could you get a sample of that blood, please?\nD-94771 makes a noise of affirmation and obliges.\nMcDonald: That was relatively painless.\nD-94771: Well, it's just a big lump of goo. Not worth getting worked up over.\nMcDonald: You've changed your tune.\nD-94771: Yeah, well, you see it a million times, it's hard to get particularly worked up over it. When can I come back?\nMcDonald: The stuff in the house is thinning out now. Maybe by the time it's all gone, you'll have reached the last iteration. If not, once that happens, we'll discuss our options.\nD-94771: Fine.\nD-94771 traverses a further thirty one iterations of SCP-5891. During this time, the house is almost bare of items, barring furniture and the mass in the bed, which has reduced to nearly half the size. Very little of the fat remains; it is entirely scabbed over.\nIn the next iteration, the house is empty of items. In her exploration, D-94771 is unable to locate another hole.\nD-94771: Finally. Think we're done. I want a long nap after this.\nMcDonald: See what I can do. I suppose there's just the bedroom to go, then.\nShe enters the bedroom. The bed is made. No shape is visible underneath.\nD-94771: Huh. Here goes nothing.\nD-94771 removes the covers. The bed is empty.\nD-94771: Nothing. At all. [sighs] What a fucking waste.\n<END LOG>\nClosing statement: D-94771 returned without incident. Blood sample was too corrupted for conclusive analysis.\n\nAddendum 8: Interview log\n\nClick to open\n\nClick to close\n\nInterviewed: Rhiannon Edwards\nInterviewer: Researcher Farnsworth\nForeword: Attempt to garner further information regarding \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, and to determine if Edwards had any prior knowledge of SCP-5891. Interview was conducted under the guise of a police investigation.\n<BEGIN LOG>\nFarnsworth: And we're recording. Ms. Edwards, are you comfortable?\nEdwards: Fine, thank you.\nFarnsworth: Good. Let's start, then; you were the one to report Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's disappearance, isn't that right? What was the nature of your relationship?\nEdwards: Uh, yes, that's right. I think \"relationship\" is a strong way to put it, we worked together. Both manned the same ambulance.\nFarnsworth: Do you know where he is?\nEdwards: No. I'd have told you if I did. I'd have reported him if I did.\nFarnsworth: What can you tell me about him?\nEdwards: Uh\u2026 [glances at camera] Sorry, I'm not quite sure\u2026\nFarnsworth: Just say what you're thinking. Don't feel like you need to censor yourself or anything, whatever you can give us is helpful.\nEdwards: \u2026look, I don't know what's happened to him, no-one'll tell me if he's dead, or, in prison, or whatever. I know what they say about speaking ill of the dead, but\u2026 he was a wanker.\nFarnsworth: So, you didn't get on, then.\nEdwards: No-one got on with him. He'd been there for a year or two before I started working with him, and I don't even know if he'd ever spoken to any of them. He was just\u2026\nFarnsworth: Go on?\nEdwards: Sometimes you meet someone, and there's nothing wrong with them, exactly. They're not rude, or dodgy, or angry, or anything.\nFarnsworth: I'm not sure I follow.\nEdwards: Well, that was it. He just wasn't anything. Lights were on, no-one at home. You'd speak to him, and he'd talk back, and he seemed nice, and all, but it just never felt like there was anyone really there. Freaked me the fuck out - sorry, am I allowed to say that?\nFarnsworth: You can say whatever you want. Alright, when was the last time you saw him?\nEdwards: Fortnight before I reported him. We work night shifts, we barely spoke to each other that night. Alan and Walt had to fill in for him before I got sick of it and complained.\nFarnsworth: I see. I assume you didn't speak because of your feelings towards one another?\nEdwards: We didn't speak because of the shift before that. We got a call to Windsor Street, some animals had stabbed a kid there. Disgrace, I'm telling you. Just dumped him on the pavement, he was only seventeen, poor lad. Anyway, we got him on board, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 bagged him and I - I held it - he was -\nFarnsworth: If you're upset, we can take-\nEdwards: I'm not upset. [takes deep breath] I held it in place, I looked up, and \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 - he'd gone up front to ask Jen how far out we were. And I yelled, I screamed at him to get his arse into gear and do his fucking job, and he - he just -\n[brief pause. Edwards breathes quietly.]\nEdwards: He sat down, started squeezing. He looked at me and said sorry.\nFarnsworth: I understand. He made a mistake -\nEdwards: No, I'm sorry, we all make mistakes. It's- it's bloody stressful, and you go on automatic sometimes, and you miss things, you can't help it. You've just got to move on.\nEdwards: But he was just a kid. He could have died - he nearly did die. And when \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 said sorry, when he looked at me, he just looked blank. No expression. And he sounded so flat when he - like he'd used the last of the milk at the coffee machine or something. You'd think he of all people would get het up over it, but\u2026 [sighs] I\u2026 it got me wondering, why did he do it?\nFarnsworth: Do what?\nEdwards: The job. Why would you do something like that if you didn't care?\n<END LOG>\nClosing statement: After further questioning, Ms. Edwards was deemed to have no knowledge of SCP-5891, or \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's whereabouts. She was released shortly afterwards. Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 has still not been located.\n\nFootnotes\n1. No rubble is present in the house.\n2. See Addendum 4.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5890 | SCP-5891 | SCP-5892 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5892\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\n\nIteration 1:\n\nClose\n\nDate: 14/04/2011\nSCP-5892 is contained in a Level 1 storage locker at Site-32. SCP-5892 is to be sterilised by a level 2 or higher staff member with no experience in dog ownership. This also includes any staff of level 2 clearance who has already used SCP-5892. The SCP-5892-2 instances may be kept by the corresponding staff members as long as they are logged accordingly and do not leave Foundation grounds. Clearance level 1 & 2 staff must have permission from either the Site Director or two clearance level 4 personnel before taking the dogs no further than 100 yards from Site 32 and for no longer than 4 hours per day.\n\nIteration 2:\n\nClose\n\nAmendment Date: 30/04/2011\nSCP-5892 will be contained at Site-32's K9 Unit Facility in a Level 2 storage locker with the intent to re-establish Foundation service dogs.\n\nCurrent Iteration\n\nClose\n\nAmendment Date: 18/10/2016\nSCP-5892 is being housed at Site-32's safe objects wing inside a hermetically sealed box. Permission from a staff member with clearance level 3 or higher is required before 5892 can be removed for experimental purposes. Following this, all personnel must undergo a psychological assessment to ensure that the staff member in question was not detrimentally affected. The corresponding staff member is permitted to keep their 5892-2 instance.\n\nDescription: SCP-5892 is a beige ceramic dog bowl with the words 'A \u2665 Loyal \u2665 Friend \u2665 Indeed' embossed on the side.\nThe anomalous nature of SCP-5892 will activate 24 hours after it is filled with 700 ml of water, following which a 5892-1 instance will be found drinking from 5892 and will identify the one who activated 5892 as their former owner.\nThe quality of the water will affect how long an SCP-5892-1 instance will remain after activation. If mineral water is used to fill 5892, then the resulting instances will live for as long as they would naturally. In contrast, tap or bottled water will only allow for a 24 hour manifestation period.\nSCP-5892-2 is a strip of 4.5 x 4.5 animate Photo Booth photos that feature 10-second looping images of a 5892-1 instance with its owner. 5892-2 will always manifest on that person's pillow after the de manifestation or death of an SCP-5892-1 instance. The number of photos per strip can range from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of 7 at any one time.\n\nRECOVERY LOG\n\nDATE: 10/04/2011\nNOTE: After a headline about a resurrected dog was published in an Isle of Mann newspaper, the Foundation sent researcher Aoibhinn1 O'Hara posing as a journalist to recover the anomaly: Parish of Bride, Isle of Man, 54.368\u00b0N 4.378\u00b0W.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nO'Hara: Approaching the home of Mr Macgilcobraght. <O'Hara knocks on the front door.>\nMacGilcobraght: Yes, yes, who is it? <Opens the door, O'Hara steps forward.>\nO'Hara: Good afternoon, Sir, I'm with the Belfast Telegraph. If you would be so kind, may I ask you a few questions concerning the recent headline?\nMacGilcobraght: Belfast? Come all this way? \u2026 fine, fine, come in and take a seat.\nO'Hara: Thank you, Sir, I shan't be too long, I promise. <O'Hara enters, the door shutting behind her>\nMacGilcobraght: Here it is, this is the bowl, no doubt you wanted to see it, take a look if you want. <A dog bowl is placed on the table and pushed towards O'Hara>\nO'Hara: One step ahead of me, I see, Sir, thank you. Now could you go over what happened again for me? <O'Hara takes a notepad and pen from the inside of her jacket.>\nMacGilcobraght: Hmm, well, the day before yesterday I was going through some clutter, and I found old Sammy's bowl, I washed it up and left it to soak, and then \u2026\nO'Hara:Then what sir?\nMacGilcobraght: Hold ya horses, I'm getting there. When I came downstairs the following morning, there he was, collar and all, my dog. Never mind the fact he had been dead for the last ten years, but there he was.[[/size]]}}\nO'Hara: Wow\u2026 Your dog came back to life, that's\u2026 That's really something. What are you going to do with the bowl now?\nMacGilcobraght: I have no more need of it. The fact that I was able to see my old boy again was nothing short of a miracle. I don't want to tamper with that sort of thing. The dead are best left alone ya know.\nO'Hara: Yes, I understand completely. Thank you for your time, Sir. I'll be leaving now.\n\n[END LOG]\nAnomaly has been recovered. The owner has been amnesticized. Heading back now.\n\nO'Hara's Notes #1\n\nAs if relapsing wasn't bad enough and not like I wasn't already using alcohol to drown my sorrow's like some lush. It's gotten worse. My relapses always hit me harder this time of the year, the day my friend and companion left me.\nI didn't have anyone to confide in either. My parents went earlier that year. She was my crutch. Now that I've lost her, how can I possibly stand on my own? Losing someone you love so dearly.\nThe night I lost her, I don't remember much other than waking up with a horrific headache. I had thought about getting help. I couldn't bring myself to leave home. I drank too much and ate too little.\nI thought I would never have a reason to continue until, well, until the Foundation contacted me. Burying so much pain, not letting such feelings rule. It isn't easy, not one bit.\nThe recovery mission I went on recently is what I think triggered this relapse. I know I shouldn't have gone. The prospect of getting out of the Foundation was too tempting to pass up. What's done is done, I guess.\n\nExperimentation Log 1\n\nTrial Test\nDate: 13/04/2011\nSubject: D-3773.\nProcedure: Filling SCP-5892 with 700 ml of tap water.\nResults: A Dachshund identified as \"Guinevere\" by D-3773 appeared after 24 hours of SCP-5892 being filled. Upon reuniting with SCP-5892-1, D-3773 interacted with the instance positively and was permitted to spend as much time with SCP-5892-1 as they wanted under close monitoring.\nAnalysis: Upon reaching the 24-hour limit, SCP-5892-1 demanifested. This left D-3773 in significant emotional distress at the loss.\nA SCP-5892-2 instance was discovered on D-3773's bed pillow upon returning to her room. The instance showed a looping 10-second image of D-3773 with SCP-5892-1. After logging the 5892-2 instance, D-3773 was permitted to keep the photo as tests concluded it was not anomalous outside its animate properties.\n\nO'Hara's Notes #2\n\nI can't believe it, fate or fortune, I can finally see her again, after all this time, we can be reunited, I don't know what I have done to be given such an opportunity, but I'm taking this bull by the horns. I don't care what the others say. I'm seeing my friend again.\nI can't possibly pass this up, and there are so few anomalies that are genuinely nice in such a profound manner such as this.\nI need to be with her again, even if it's only for a short while, just a day with her will be more than I could ask for, just please, let me see her, that's all I want, it's all I need. Ailey always preferred mineral water, so I'm going to use that. Her palette was always refined.\nDirector Roberts has given me the go-ahead to experiment with SCP-5892. I owe her a few drinks for this.\n\nExperimentation Log 2\n\nTest A\nDate 29/04/2011\nSubject: Researcher O'Hara.\nProcedure: Filling SCP-5892 with 700 ml of mineral water.\nResults: A 5-year-old Kerry Beagle, identified as Ailey, was found drinking from SCP-5892 after 24 hours.\nAnalysis: SCP-5892-1 has not vanished and remains within Site-32. 5892-1 appears to be healthy and is ageing normally. With this test, we can safely say that the quality of the water used with SCP-5892 has affected the lifespan of SCP-5892-1 significantly. Still, these instances do not pose a threat, significant or otherwise, to the Foundation. O'Hara expressed happiness and sadness in a volatile outburst when engaging with SCP-5892-1.\n\nTest A-1: 30/04/2011 - 05/05/2011\nSubject: SCP-5892-1\nProcedure: Checking SCP-5892-1 for any anomalies that may be of concern or danger.\nResults: A 5-day quarantine and testing revealed nothing of concern or note. Effectively SCP-5892-1 is a regular dog and will be put under the care of Researcher O'Hara.\n\nO'Hara's Notes #3\n\nIf Ailey's going to be around once more, I need to decide on what's going to happen to her. She plays with me as if we have never been apart. I can't stomach the thought of getting rid of her or sending her to a new home, god forbid. I need to think of something.\n\n02/05/2011\nSite Director Roberts has issued me with leave to care for Ailey. I'm going to use this time to make new and better memories. She's still got all of the bounce and jive as she did before. I think we will start with a walk along the Curracloe Strand and a dip in the water, perhaps bring along some tennis balls too.\n04/05/2011\nThe flight back to Ireland was smooth sailing, my girl was a little nervous at first, but she settled just fine. Luckily, my old home was still intact. It had been converted to a Foundation safe house for any field agents in the area. She ran to the door scratching the hell out of it wanting to get inside; she knows she's home.\n16/05/2011\nI've just given Ailey her first bath since her return; she loved it, couldn't sit still, soap everywhere, covered in seaweed from our walk this morning; after drying her off, her coat looked beautiful; it had an incredible shine. Her eating habits have stayed the same, demolishing a bowl of kibble within seconds.\n08/06/2011\nAs a special treat, I shared some biscuits with Ailey, plain ones; of course, I figured it would be fitting, since it's my birthday and this was the day I first ever got this little angel, she only gets so many, and no amount of puppy eyes or begging will break me, but I think she knows that already.\n21/07/2011\nMy legs went numb this afternoon; Ailey fell asleep on me while we were watching a film. I couldn't bring myself to move her. She looked so peaceful, and heavy too. I forgot that, didn't I? Well, it serves me right, I guess.\n04/09/2011\nAiley helped with cleaning the leaves; well, I say help, it was more run and jumped through the piles I had made. She thought she could hide amongst the leaves; it would have worked had it not been for her nose poking out. After I got the hose, the plants in the garden needed good watering, this would have gone smoothly, but someone decided it was time for a drink. Both of us had a good scrub down after that.\n23/12/2014\nDid some extra special Christmas shopping, went and had a look around a pet store, brought some little gifts for a certain someone to tear open on the big day. I hope she doesn't destroy them too fast.\n31/10/2015\nWent and got a werewolf mask; Ailey did not like it one bit, goes into a fit of barking whenever I put it on. Going to let Ailey hold the candy bucket for the trick or treaters; she's great around kids. the neighbour's kid loved playing with her before, all grown up now, though.\n17/01/2016\nOur morning walk went well; it was a little longer than usual. I stopped on some benches so Ailey could rest. She left a little bit of food, never ended up eating it, so I threw it. This afternoon we watched some old re-runs of Crufts, something we can both enjoy.\n04/10/2016\nAiley is getting slower and slower, she's still wagging her tail, but her movements have become sluggish, and she's been sleeping more. I've been giving her more one-on-one care; I've cut the length of our walks down.\n06/10/2016\nI've been fighting the urge to break down, and her condition isn't improving. She still looks so happy when she sees me. Ailey is such a trooper. I have no idea how much she must be suffering. Her eyes smile, and her little tail wag when she sees me. I don't want to lose her again, not again.\n07/10/2016\nShe's limping now, needs help getting on the sofa. So strong, she's so strong. How she can keep going, the pain she must be feeling, and yet all I see are smiles and wagging tails\u2014you, my champion, keeping me out of trouble, keeping me safe from myself. I'm going to make sure she's comfortable.\n09/10/2016\n\nHer breathing has gotten more laboured. There's more grey fur around her muzzle. It's getting close. I know it is. I never wanted to get emotional in front of Ailey, but I couldn't help it. Seeing her struggle to jump on the sofa took me over the edge. I helped her on the couch so she could lay down. I'm going to stay right at your side, girl, for as many nights as we have left.\n10/10/2016\nHow am I going to cope at the Foundation? Would I be forced to take amnestics and lose these memories? I don't want to forget about any of this. I was given this chance, I can't let it slip away, but if my work ethic falls too low, they would surely take corrective action. I hadn't even noticed Ailey walk up to my side. She placed a paw on my leg and leaned up to lick my cheek. Her eyes held so much love, so much happiness, and it showed her appreciation for everything I had done, a love that couldn't be conveyed by words.\n11/10/2016\nShe went in my arms this evening; I did what I could to make her comfy, I knew she wasn't, but what I could I do, I spoke to her, through my sobs, of course, I wanted to be strong, I didn't want to have the sound of my crying be the last thing she heard. I have cherished every moment I've had, and I hope my little Ailey felt the same.\n11/10/2016\nFound the photos of my baby girl; she looks so happy, her little tail wagging all over the place, those beautiful eyes; I hoped you enjoyed this reunion as much as I did, Ailes. I'm keeping this instance on me at all times. Working for the Foundation is never easy, but it's all I know and knowing I have my friend close by, it helps, even if it is a little, It helps.\n17/10/2016\nI've taken some extra time to try and deal and cope with this loss; I remember how much it hurt the first time, and this second time around, I can't adequately explain the pain I felt. I buried her in the garden; this is where she grew, so this is where she'll rest. Covering her up was perhaps the most challenging part. I laid down beside her, knowing she's gone to a better place. Please wait for me, girl, that was the last thing I said.\n20/10/2016\nI can't bring myself to go back. I nearly did, but I didn't. I couldn't, not yet, not while I'm feeling this emptiness. How can I concentrate on work? I find myself sitting by her side, even when it's raining. I've planted flowers around her grave. Her memory is still fresh in my mind. This is the second time I've lost her. I don't want to experience this pain again. The photos haven't left my side. Now and then, I look at it, look at us, look at her, always so happy and energetic, and she's gone, taken away, she didn't deserve this, not to experience it twice. You were such a good girl, Ailey. I love you.\n\nThe remains of SCP-5892\u20141 (Ailey) are left buried at Safehouse 00:Indigo, and should not be disturbed as orders from Site Director Roberts. The use of mineral water for future experiments will be heavily regulated to avoid further emotional stress.\n\nSCP-5892-1 (Ailey) outside of Safehouse 00:Indigo.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Pronounced ee-van.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5891 | SCP-5892 | SCP-5893 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Album cover for SCP-5895's 4th studio album, recovered February 13th, 2014.\n\nItem #: SCP-5895\nObject Class: the simpsons farting\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-5895 are currently contained within a sound padded room at Site-98's recreational wing with a Sony brand Playstation 3 and a copy of video game Rock Band 3 along with all equipment suited for said video game. SCP-5895 instances have been given complete freedom to entertain themselves as to occupy and prevent agitation in subjects, but under no circumstances may any instance of SCP-5895 come into contact with a musical instrument. In the scenario an instance comes into contact with or creates a musical instrument, MTF Sigma-88 \"Party Poopers\" are to be sent within SCP-5895's containment chamber in order to confiscate said musical device. If a delta-class auditory tremor is in progress, it is encouraged that Foundation personnel destroy any instruments, or in severe cases, attempt to detain and sedate instances of SCP-5895.\n\nOther side of the aforementioned album, giving names of songs.\n\nDescription: SCP-5895 is a collection of multi-colored humanoid entities with inconsistent body proportions hereby referred to as SCP-5895-1 through 3. When an instance of SCP-5895 comes into contact with a musical instrument, it will proceed to play at volumes disproportionate to the volume said instrument could conceivably produce. If all instances are to play music in unison, anomalous movement in Earth's tectonic plates occurs, tying SCP-5895 directly to volcanic activity throughout the planet. This is referred to as a delta-class auditory tremor. Additionally, sounds emanating from the effects of SCP-5895 can be noted as extending anywhere from 10-25 kilometers. Listening to said audio is known to cause mild temporary synesthesia. Each instance of SCP-5895 is extremely social and enjoy talking to each other as well as Foundation staff on site. Occasionally, instances of SCP-5895 have been noted to create musical instruments through unexplained means. While effective in creating noise, SCP-5895 instances do not seem to enjoy using them, and only seem to create instruments when in states of depression or boredom.\n\nBEGIN INTERVIEW LOG 12-C\nSCP-5895-1 is escorted into an empty soundproof room, with Dr. Alex Merzbow telegraphing questions over an intercom\nDr. Merzbow: Good afternoon, 5895-1. Are you ready to begin the interview?\nSCP-5895-1: Heyo, doc. Yeah, that's fine.\nDr. Merzbow: Thank you. Please identify yourself.\nSCP-5895-1: Why? You know who we are. Samesame and stuff.\nDr. Merzbow: Interesting name. Please identify, simply for the sake of documentation.\nSCP-5895-1: Simon. My name is Simon, but as far as I'm concerned here, I'm an \"instance\" of SCP-5895. Your ways of naming things? Not for me. Me and my bandmates can't ever really decide on a solid name on our band, so we usually change the name every few weeks. It totally sucks for Mort, or who you call \"Instance -3\", who's in charge of art like promotional posters and stuff. Thanks for letting us express ourselves in other ways.\nDr. Merzbow: No worries. So long as you comply with the requests of personnel, more rewards will come your way. The other day Junior Researcher Harley figured he would give away his old VCR so I suggested that it could be yours in the foreseeable future. You live in a recreational wing of our facility. Tons of VHS tapes there for you to see.\nSCP-5895-1: Oh fuck.\nDr. Merzbow: We thought that would have piqued your interest. On with the rest of the interview.\nSCP-5895-1: I'm here to answer whatever questions you've got. Better not be lying about the VCR though.\nDr. Merzbow: Do you know where you come from?\nSCP-5895-1: While I was fighting these drug lords, I fell into a vat of concentrated punk rock jam.\nSeveral seconds of silence pass.\nSCP-5895-1: Ok, you aren't laughing, sorry. My first memory is the same as Mort's and Phil's. Time doesn't pass for us really. Years feel like they go by in seconds. It's what happens when you don't age; my first memory was somewhere in Japan. Must have been a really long time ago because it was barely populated, and there was absolutely no cool tech around. No amps, nothing. Initially as we integrated into society we were seen as these super important beings, but that changed at our first gig. Music just felt right. It feels right. Me and Phil were given guitars and Mort was rocking the bongos. God, we must have attracted the attention of the entire country. We played for a few solid days, and nobody seemed to mind. I remember laughing when some guy told me how delicious our sound was. It was a nice time until it wasn't.\nDr. Merzbow: What happened?\nSCP-5895-1: I'm getting there, slow your roll. The ground began to shake. Us playing on a beach is less than ideal, considering how awfully our zone was trashed by that killer wave. Shit was a tragedy. We went from being gods to the harbingers of doom. It sort of sucked, but we were mainly just bummed out because we couldn't play anything anymore. We're down to play near water again, but yeah. We have a better plan now for tsunamis.\nDr. Merzbow: Do you feel remorse for the homes and environment your \"gigs\" cause?\nSCP-5895-1: Truth be told, no. The planet is big, gonna take a while before you guys don't feel like it's worth protecting anymore. I'd rather be a matchstick than a lighter. I like to see the wood curl up and burn. The more we jam out, the hotter it gets. You're just upset because we'd be killing you faster than you've already been killing yourselves.\nDr. Merzbow: Ah. I see. Do you have memories of every single show you have performed?\nSCP-5895-1: God yes. It's hard to forget them, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Neither would Mort and Phil. Our best show? Pompeii, for sure. Damn, it was raining rocks. Easily our highest point. Nobody expected it either, we played so punky and loud. The whole city was covered in ash by the time we were done. Metal. We've sort of been chasing that high ever since then. Our last show was underwhelming. Probably our biggest disaster was Mount Saint Helens. We didn't even know that its top was gonna come off. Don't get me wrong, it was cool and interesting, but our instruments got completely trashed. We have a plan though. A really good one.\nDr. Merzbow: Oh? Tell me more.\nSCP-5895-1: Yellowstone.\nDr. Merzbow: I see. How do you plan to pull a stunt like that off?\nSCP-5895-1: Wouldn't you like to know? This interview is over, dawg. We play loud, and we play proud. When we get to Wyoming? Shit is gonna be explosive.\n> SCP-5895-1 is captured making a drumbeat of sorts with the bottom of its chair. Microphone audio quickly becomes inaudible as MTF are escorted into the room to detain SCP-5895-1. Under no circumstances is SCP-5895 to be within 700 kilometers of Yellowstone National Park. Relocation to Oceanic Site Alpha-7 pending.\n[END LOG]]\n\nCome check us out live!\n\n\u00ab SCP-5894 | SCP-5895 | SCP-5896 \u00bb"}
{"text": "4/5896 LEVEL 4/5896\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5896\nObject Class: Keter\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All SCP-5896-1 instances are to be stored within deep freeze storage to prevent the growth of SCP-5896-2. In the event of an electrical or mechanical failure in an SCP-5896-1 occupied freezer, the subject must be transferred immediately to the nearest freezer capable of producing temperatures below -47\u00b0C.\nFoundation agents embedded within retirement homes are to intercept all attempted deliveries of instances of SCP-5896 and to retrieve critical resources. All physical instances of SCP-5896 are stored within standardized small anomalous object containers for further use in testing. All testing of SCP-5896 is to be overseen by and approved by head researcher Dr. Reynolds. Digital instances of SCP-5896 are to be scrubbed from the internet as soon as any are identified. Any mention of \"Windows 95 for Elders\" is to be discredited and/or explained as an internet hoax using cover story 34-Zeta. SCP-5896-2 instances should be surgically removed from every SCP-5896-1 instance every two weeks and temporarily stored within the Site-79 janitorial sector for off site disposal. Should a SCP-5896-1 instance stop developing instances of SCP-5896-2, head researcher Dr. Reynolds is to be notified immediately. As of 21/07/2016 all transport of SCP-5896 or SCP-5896-2 instances outside of Site-79 is prohibited. As of 15/08/2016 all surgical removal of SCP-5896-2 instances is prohibited. All use of SCP-5896 must be approved by three members of the Ethics Committee beforehand. All use of SCP-5896-2 will result in immediate termination of employment.\nDescription: SCP-5896 refers to the Windows 95 for Elders operating system created by Slum's Computing.1 Physical versions of SCP-5896 are most commonly printed on CD-ROMs, 3.5 inch floppy discs, and 5 inch floppy discs. Aside from its anomalous properties, SCP-5896 is functionally identical to the Windows 95 operating system with various minor cosmetic changes. Through numerous tests it has been discovered that SCP-5896's anomalous effects will only manifest if a subject, ages 65 and above, drills a hole approximately 3.5 millimeters in diameter into their skull while installing SCP-5896. While SCP-5896 is capable of affecting subjects under the age of 65, these subjects will be quickly terminated via an electrical shock generated by unknown means.\nPhysical SCP-5896 instances come bundled with a Windows 95 user manual with a single page added describing how to properly install SCP-5896, leading to the creation of a biomechanical organism designated as SCP-5896-1. A 3.5 millimeter cable composed of copper wiring and brain matter extends from the computer's motherboard into the instance's brain, serving the purpose of data transfer between the SCP-5896-1 instance and computer. Occasionally, various computer components will grow within SCP-5896-1 instances; these components often are visible beneath the instance's skin, these growths have been designated as SCP-5896-2. Currently there are 500 instances of SCP-5896-1 within Foundation custody stored at Site-79; to date only 5 instances of SCP-5896-1 have been discovered outside of Foundation custody. SCP-5896-1 instances frequently produce text files expressing pain and requests for termination; personnel are expected to ignore them.\nSCP-5896-2 are tumorous growths that develop within every SCP-5896-1 instance, and may cause brain death in its host if not removed within two weeks. On average, each SCP-5896-1 instance will host 7 instances of SCP-5896-2. No method has been found to arrest the growth of SCP-5896-2 instances. Excised instances of SCP-5896-2 are roughly spherical and 1 meter in diameter. They are able to anomalously host up to 1 petabyte of data each and can interface with all known wired data-transfer standards through traumatic insertion. Once connected to a computer SCP-5896-2 instances appear as a nameless hard drive.\nMaximum storage capacity of SCP-5896-2 instances will change depending on how long they are left attached to SCP-5896-1 instances. The highest recorded storage capacity is 50 petabytes after an SCP-5896-2 instance had been left to develop for a year. SCP-5896-2 instances will become much more unstable as they develop; because of this the previously mentioned SCP-5896-2 instance will sporadically delete files stored on it. The highest stable maximum storage capacity is 20 terabytes after an SCP-5896-2 instance is able to develop for 2 weeks.\n\nStatement regarding recent events\n\nThe former head researcher, Dr. Reynolds, has had his employment terminated due to various breaches in both ethical and professional standards. These violations in standards include unapproved transport of numerous anomalous objects, creation of numerous anomalous objects without approval from site management, wasteful use of critical resources, intentional inclusion of incorrect information in SCP documentation, use of anomalous objects for profit, and black market sale of anomalous objects. Due to the gross misuse of SCP-5896, it has come under the custody of the Ethics Committee. Foundation personnel found to be assisting Dr. Reynolds and/or purchasing SCP-5896 instances have been placed on a 7 month probation; further breaches in conduct will result in termination of employment.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A computing company that creates various anomalous programs and products.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5895 | SCP-5896 | SCP-5897 \u00bb"}
{"text": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Deere_Combine_Harvester_Ebing_1828.jpg\nhttps://flic.kr/p/2hH9k8t\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: SCP-5898\nObject Class: Thaumiel (Formerly Explained)\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\n\n+ Show Previous Containment Procedures\n\n- Collapse Previous Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5898-EX is to be remotely monitored from Site-91. No additional containment procedures are necessary.\n\nUpdate 03/01/2020: After Incident-5898-A, SCP-5898-EX is to be remotely monitored from Barn-001 Barn-002.\n\nUpdate 13/01/2020: Under no circumstances should Barn-002 be left unattended.\n\nUpdate 30/01/2020, Current Containment Procedures: SCP-5898-PRIME is to be stored in Barn-003. SCP-5898-PRIME is to be used to counter the spread of SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 whenever possible.\n\nSCP-5898-EX.\n\nDescription: SCP-5898-EX is a male human. Documents found near SCP-5898-EX at the time of its discovery indicate its birth name is Ernest Whittaker, born July of 1960 in the North Kansas City Hospital. It should be noted that no copies of these documents have been located in the hospital, state, or national archives. Additionally, no relatives of SCP-5898-EX, living or dead, have been found. Investigations into SCP-5898-EX's personal life prior to its discovery in 2019 have yielded inconclusive results, although this may be due to its reclusive lifestyle as an agricultural worker.\nAll testing conducted on SCP-5898-EX1 has revealed it to be physically and biologically non-anomalous. However, a series of potentially anomalous events have occurred in close proximity to SCP-5898-EX since its initial discovery. As such, SCP-5898-EX was allowed limited freedoms under close supervision of its residence until the extent of its anomalous properties could be ascertained.\nFollowing Incident-5898-B, SCP-5898-EX has been reclassified as Thaumiel. Refer to Addendum 5898.6 for further details.\n\nAddendum 5898.1: First Contact\n\n+ Click to Access Addendum \n\n- Hide Addendum \n\nForeward: On 12/8/2019, SCP-5898-EX entered the Foundation front company \"Smith & Charles Produce\", 20 miles North of Kansas City. SCP-5898-EX then briefly spoke with Agents Langston and Kazinsky, who were present at the location, before being detained and transported to Site-91.\nAgent(s) Present: Agent Brandon Langston, Agent Paul Kazinsky\nAnomaly Present: SCP-5898-EX\n\n[Begin Log]\nKazinsky: \u2026and I told him, I told him \"the worst day down in '91 is better than the best day up at Produce.\"\n[Langston laughs.]\n[A bell rings as SCP-5898-EX enters the store.]\nKazinsky: [Sighs] Welcome to Smith & Charles Produce, how can we help you?\nSCP-5898-EX: Hey fellas, my name is Ernest, Ernest Whittaker. I live, maybe a half hour's drive up the road from here. I came by last week, but y'all were closed.\nKazinsky: That's uh\u2026 great, sir. Need help finding anything?\nSCP-5898-EX: Naw, just wanted to let you guys know that I'm goin' be busy with some potentially dangerous Corn for a couple weeks, and I suggest steerin' clear of my property for a lil' bit.\nLangston: [Laughs] I'll make a note of it, sir.\nSCP-5898-EX: Oh, this is a serious matter, fella. This Corn could kill someone if I mess up, yessir. Seen it happen before. Hell, I was gonna stop by the police later. See if they can set up some kind of a perimeter or something.\nLangston: What\u2026 exactly do you mean by \"corn\"?\nSCP-5898-EX: A ghastly thing, sure is. Seen it take down a whole town in a matter of hours before. Even seen a bunch of government agents show up all Men-in-Black style one year when the Corn was 'specially bad.\nKazinsky: That's\u2026 odd.\n[Kazinsky motions to Langston, who begins contacting Site-91 for assistance]\nSCP-5898-EX: [Turning to leave] Anyways, just wanted to give y'all a heads-up.\nLangston: [Quietly speaking into a handheld radio] Site-91? This is Langston over at Produce. We have a potential security breach, requesting back up\u2026\n[Kazinsky fumbles his belt for handcuffs.]\nKazinsky: Hang on sir, just hold right here for a minute.\nSCP-5898-EX: 'Scuse me?\nKazinsky: I'm uh, just going to take you to around back for a few questions.\n[Kazinsky approaches SCP-5898-EX, who is handcuffed and escorted to a secure holding cell in the back of the structure.]\n[End Log]\n\nAfterword: SCP-5898-EX complied with Agent Kazinsky's requests, and is detained for fifteen minutes, at which point additional agents arrive from Site-91. SCP-5898-EX is then transported to Site-91 for preliminary questioning. Agents searching the vehicle owned by SCP-5898-EX discovered several items of interest, including a birth certificate, photographs of possible relatives, and several dozen photographs, illustrations, and scientific papers of corn. Additionally, several partially damaged cobs of corn were found in the trunk. While analysis of the corn did not suggest a known cause for the damage, consumption was ruled out.\n\nAddendum 5898.2: Interview Log\n\n+ Click to Access Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nForeward: SCP-5898-EX was interviewed by Site-91 staff following standard humanoid testing protocols. As SCP-5898-EX tested non-anomalous in every test, SCP-5898-EX was placed in a standard interview room rather than containment. Interview is as follows.\nInterviewer: Agent Sahra Penot\nInterviewed: SCP-5898-EX\n\n[Begin Log]\n[Penot enters the interview room. SCP-5898-EX is seated, with its hands folded in its lap.]\nPenot: Hello, Mr. Whittaker, is it?\nSCP-5898-EX: That's right, ma'am. You can call me Ernest, though.\nPenot: Alright, Ernest.\n[Penot takes a seat opposite of SCP-5898-EX.]\nPenot: Let's start from the top, shall we?\nPenot: [Shuffling papers] Alright, have you seen anything\u2026 unusual lately? Disturbing, even?\nSCP-5898-EX: Well, I lost my keys the other day. Spent the whole afternoon lookin' for 'em. Turns out, had 'em in my back pocket the whole time! If that's not supernatural, I don't know what is.\n[SCP-5898-EX laughs]\nPenot: That's\u2026 not what I meant. Do you have any interest in the paranormal?\nSCP-5898-EX: [Pauses] No, I don't really care too much for that kind of stuff. I'll believe in Sasquatch when I see him, right? Though I am a big fan of the fiction. Makes for good movies.\n[SCP-5898-EX laughs.]\nPenot: I'm more concerned about the corn you mentioned earlier.\n[SCP-5898-EX shifts in its seat.]\nSCP-5898-EX: Oh, right. I don't want to bore you with a lecture, but me and this corn have a long history. Ever since I was a boy, I've been workin' with the plants. My father taught me how to farm. Showed me how to plant 'em, taught me patience, told me not to rush 'em, that they'd grow better that way.\nSCP-5898-EX: Worked great until he passed away. Since then, the Corn ain't been what it used to. 'Stead of farmin' the corn, sometimes it feels like it's farmin' me.\nPenot: What exactly is so special about this corn?\nSCP-5898-EX: Biggest damn nuisance on the planet. Keeps me from livin' a normal life. Every year, I gotta come up with some new rigamarole, some new ritual to make it happy.Else it takes over.\nPenot: And what happens then?\nSCP-5898-EX: Well then I gotta go somewhere else. The Corn always seems to follow, though.\nPenot: Do you have any samples of this corn for us to look at?\nSCP-5898-EX: Not yet, no. They'll come up later in the year. Oh, and if the Corn isn't dealt with by me and me alone, things tend to go south real fast. That's what happened last year anyways.\nPenot: What exactly happened last year?\n[Silence]\nPenot: Mr. Whittaker? Ernest?\nSCP-5898-EX: [Panicked] They're sproutin' up, I can feel it. Been gone too long already.\nPenot: Where? Where are they sprouting?\nSCP-5898-EX: Should be at my farm. Please, I should get goin'.\nPenot: Mr. Whittaker, I'm sending a team there to check it out now, just please stay calm.\nSCP-5898-EX: Sorry ma'am, but I gotta go now.\n[End Log]\n\nAfterword: SCP-5898-EX attempted to leave the interview room. After finding it locked, it became increasingly agitated, at which point security was called. SCP-5898-EX was then restrained and moved to a temporary holding cell. SCP-5898-EX did not provide additional useful information following its relocation.\nA team was dispatched from Site-91 to SCP-5898-EX's residence, an ~150-acre farmhouse. The property was searched, but no abnormalities were detected. Several stalks of corn were found emerging from the ground approximately 50 meters from the property's front entrance, but testing confirmed them to be non-anomalous.\n\nSCP-5898-EX was held at Site-91 for twenty-four hours while the property was monitored. After no additional abnormalities developed, SCP-5898-EX was allowed to return to its residence.\n\nNote From the Department of Containment\nDue to Ernest Whittaker's knowledge of a potential anomaly, he would usually be required to undergo standard interrogation and given an appropriate amnestic before being released somewhere far away from here. However, due to his inability to provide concrete information on his situation, the Department of Containment has decided to refrain from typical protocol at this time.\nMr. Whittaker will be tentatively designated as SCP-5898-EX until an actual anomaly can be confirmed. He will be equipped with a tracking device and monitored closely via hidden cameras located in and around his residence by Site-91 staff, and allowed to undergo his normal daily routine. Should concrete evidence of an anomaly emerge, further action will be taken. Thank you for your understanding.\nAlfredo Regio, Site-91\n\nAddendum 5898.3: Incident-5898-A\n\n+ Click to Access Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nOn 11/09/2019, all camera feed of SCP-5898's residence, both inside and outside, were reported to have undergone technical issues.\nA team dispatched to investigate discovered unusually dense corn growth surrounding each camera. When questioned, SCP-5898-EX apologized for the incident, stating it \"took a day off\". When questioned further, it claimed it wouldn't let the plant growth \"blindside\" it again.\nSamples collected from the corn revealed it to be non-anomalous, despite the high likelihood of an anomaly being responsible for the incident. As such, a monitoring station, designated Barn-0012, was constructed 100 meters from SCP-5898-EX's residence to allow for a quicker response from agents, should another incident occur, and to more closely monitor SCP-5898-EX's behavior to confirm any potential anomalies. SCP-5898-EX will be allowed to remain in its residence for the time being, as it claims \"all hell will break loose\" should it be prevented from completing its daily routine.\nFollowing the incident, SCP-5898-EX has been observed tending to its farmland for increasingly longer periods of time each passing day, although it has yet to participate in overtly suspicious activity.\n\nAddendum 5898.4: Timeline of Events\n\n+ Click to Access Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nThe following is a timeline of notable events in relation to SCP-5898-EX following Incident-5898-A and the subsequent construction of Barn-001.\n\nEvent Date\nEvent Description\nAdditional Notes\n\n13/11/2019\nSCP-5898-EX observed spending 48 consecutive hours outside its residence watching a sprouting corn stalk. SCP-5898-EX occasionally made short trips into its home for food and water. After SCP-5898-EX returned to its residence, the corn stalk was analyzed and found to be severely dehydrated, but otherwise normal.\nHow the hell did this guy go for two straight days with nothing but some canned vegetables and sink water? Not to mention no sleep either? Notify me immediately if he does this again. - Lead Researcher Penot\n\n24/11/2019\nSCP-5898-EX reported leaving its residence and driving to a local Farm & Home Supply store. As staff prepared to intervene, a handwritten note was discovered on the exterior of Barn-001 reading: \"Be back soon. Need to pick up weedkiller.\" Staff were instructed to observe SCP-5898-EX's behavior from a distance, but not to intervene unless necessary. SCP-5898-EX purchased one container of Roundup Weed and Grass Killer Concentrate Plus before returning to its residence.\nFor the record, we've never specified the location of Barn-001 to the subject. It's possible he could have seen one of our personnel entering or leaving the station during shift rotations, but I'm going to lean on the side of caution for now. New security measures are now in the works. - LR Penot\n\n03/01/2020\nSCP-5898-EX observed tampering with a hidden camera facing the front door of SCP-5898-EX's residence. All four on-duty security personnel were mobilized to halt SCP-5898-EX's behavior3. Upon returning to Barn-001, security personnel noticed severe corn growths had manifested in and around the structure.\nThis confirms the presence of an anomaly. I'm issuing an official statement to the DoC4 in Site-91 for SCP-5898-EX's reclassification and containment plan revision. Additionally, I'm ordering the construction of Barn-002, as Barn-001 is unusable in its current state. - LR Penot\n\n13/01/2020\nSCP-5898-EX attempted to enter Barn-002 but was halted by security staff before it could enter the building. Upon questioning its intentions, SCP-5898-EX insisted that \"the Corn's gonna get rough soon,\" and that \"the thing with the barn's just the start.\" SCP-5898-EX could not provide additional details and was subsequently returned to its residence.\nI'm issuing a reminder to all staff that Barn-002 should not be left unattended at any point, in case SCP-5898-EX's right and we'll be seeing an increase in corn growth in the coming weeks. - LR Penot\n\n15/01/2020\nSharp increase in corn growth detected over the course of several days. SCP-5898-EX observed yelling hysterics at large patches of corn. In such patches, growth was observed to slow for a period of time.\nAfter several agents reported getting lost in \"corn mazes\" I'm recommending heightened caution when leaving Barn-002. - LR Penot\n\n29/01/2020\nAfter several days of no activity, SCP-5898-EX was observed exiting its premises wielding an improvised flamethrower. It then proceeded to burn various areas of dense corn growth before it was detained by security personnel. SCP-5898-EX was then held in Barn-002, awaiting transfer to Site-91 for violating the terms of its freedom5.\nSCP-5898-EX's residence was thoroughly searched following this incident. I take full responsibility for our ignorance of SCP-5898-EX's activities. - LR Penot.\n\n29/01/2020\nSeveral minutes after SCP-5898-EX was placed en route to Site-91, an abnormally large cob of corn sprouted from within Barn-002, resulting in the structure's collapse. Several additional cobs of corn manifested in and around SCP-5898-EX's residence.\nContainment Specialist here. Ordering the immediate return of SCP-5898-EX to its residence and the dispatch of burn crews to deal with the corn growth. Further instructions are being sent to all SCP-5898-EX staff. - Containment Specialist Drew Langly\n\nAddendum 5898.5: Interview Log\n\n+ Click to Access Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nForeward: SCP-5898-EX was interviewed following the sharp increase in the anomalous activity around its residence. This interview was held in hopes of identifying a way to counteract or otherwise limit the spread of the anomalous plant growth. Due to the short timeframe of the situation, the interview was held in a vehicle en route to SCP-5898-EX's residence.\nInterviewer: Containment Specialist Drew Langly\nInterviewed: SCP-5898-EX\n\n[Begin Log]\nLangly: [Shouting over the noise of the vehicle] Mr. Whittaker, can you tell me clearly what exactly is going on with the corn?\nSCP-5898-EX: Say again?\nLangly: [Louder] What's the deal with the corn!?\nSCP-5898-EX: Oh, the Corn! I told y'all it was goin' get wild!\nLangly: Clearly you don't have a grasp on the situation, or this wouldn't have happened! My team will take it from here, Mr. Whittaker!\nSCP-5898-EX: Don't you worry fellas, I've got it all under control! I've figured out a way to keep the Corn out for good! I'm gonna have to head out pretty soon, Corn's a bit too close for my liking, but don't you worry! You'll be in good hands!\nLangly: Oh, you're not going anywhere! You haven't given us a clear answer to a single one of our questions! As soon as this crisis is over, you can count on getting locked up for sure!\n[End Log]\n\nAfterword: SCP-5898-EX arrived at its residence along with a containment crew armed with standard-issue flamethrowers. Although available firepower would be sufficient to control non-anomalous plant growth, the containment crew was unable to deal significant damage to the corn due to its alarming rate of regrowth. Containment Specialist Langly delivered an emergency notice to Site-91, and additional resources were dispatched. SCP-5898-EX failed to provide useful knowledge to combat the plant growth during the incident.\n\nAddendum 5898.6: Incident-5898-B\n\n+ Click to Access Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nForeward: The following is a transcript of Incident-5898-B captured from the body-worn camera of Agent Paul Kazinsky.\nSupervisor: Containment Specialist Drew Langly\nAnomaly Involved: SCP-5898-EX\n\n[Begin Log]\n[All personnel arrive at the residence of SCP-5898-EX and disembark the transport vehicle. The entirety of the property is overgrown with corn. Several enormous cobs of corn are visible above the fields.]\nKazinsky: Alright, arch up, standard formation!\nMultiple Voices: Copy!\nKazinsky: Squad, up ahead.\n[Unintelligible]\nKazinsky: Yeah, over by the corn. Keep a distance, though.\n[Unintelligible]\nKazinsky: Alright, prep flamethrowers. [To Langly] On your word, sir.\nLangly: Mr. Whittaker, anything you want to say before we light this stuff up?\nSCP-5898-EX: If y'all were payin' any attention, fire doesn't work too well. Give me another day and I'll sort this mess out, promise!\nLangly: I've had enough of this. Kazinsky, fire away!\nKazinsky: You heard him. All units, fire!\n[Several seconds of radio silence as the containment crew engages the corn growths. Damage sustained by the corn is mitigated by its anomalous regrowth.]\n[Unintelligible]\nKazinsky: Look out! Watch our flank!\n[Corn begins sprouting from beneath members of the containment crew.]\nKazinsky: Squad, fall back! We need more space!\nLangly: What's happening, what's going on?\nKazinsky: Unknown, sir. I suggest you stay behind me\u2500\n[Langly, along with several members of the containment crew, are separated from Kazinsky by a dense wall of corn.]\n[Unintelligible]\n[An enormous cob of corn rapidly grows overhead, blocking out the sun.]\nKazinsky: Call for backup, quickly!\nUnidentified: Can't, sir! Radio contact's lost!\n[Unintelligible. Screams are heard before being abruptly cut off.]\nKazinsky: Brandon! Shit. Squad! Regroup!\n[SCP-5898-EX is seen on the ground, clutching two cobs of corn.]\nKazinsky: Hey Whittaker! Get up! We're moving!\nSCP-5898-EX: You've had your way far too long, ya hear! Wait \u2018till ya get a taste of modern farmin'!\n[A high-pitched screech is heard from an unidentified source.]\nKazinsky: The hell? Hey, watch out!\n[Corn rapidly materializes around SCP-5898-EX, crushing it under its weight.]\nKazinsky: Leave him, we've got to move!\n[Kazinsky turns to run, but is tripped by corn growth and falls, landing on his forearms.]\nKazinsky: Agh! [motioning] Go! Go on without me!\n[Kazinsky rolls over, tearing corn growth from his body.]\nKazinsky: [Breathing heavily] Death by corn, eh? Not so bad\u2026\n[A bright light is seen emerging from underneath a mass of corn.]\nKazinsky: What the\u2500\n[The camera is obscured by white light. When clarity is restored, corn growths around Kazinsky have been substantially reduced. Projectiles of corn are seen being launched away, the source of which is an unidentified object obscured by white light.]\nKazinsky: What in God's name is\u2026\n[The light subsides, and a John Deere S700 Series Combine Harvester is seen materializing. The Harvester activates. No driver is visible.]\nKazinsky: How the Hell did that\u2500 [audio is overpowered by the sounds of heavy machinery]\n[Plant matter begins to rain down from corn stalks above. Several screeches are heard as plant growth congregates around the Harvester. After eight minutes, an explosion of light is seen and camera feed is lost.]\n[End Log]\n\nSCP-5898-PRIME shortly after the conclusion of Incident-5898-B.\n\nAfterword: SCP-5898-EX displayed aggressive and potentially catastrophic properties during Incident-5898-B. Things would have gone poorly if it weren't for the appearance of an additional anomaly, which spontaneously manifested during the incident and automatically began neutralizing instances of anomalously altered plant matter. The object has since been contained and designated as SCP-5898-PRIME. Despite SCP-5898-PRIME's effectivity in eliminating said plant life, trace amounts of similar growths have been detected across the greater Kansas City area. As such, I am designating the anomalous corn growth as SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u25886 . Containment procedures have been altered accordingly. As for SCP-5898-EX proper, we found no trace of it at the location of the incident. Until SCP-5898-EX can be located, it is to be listed MIA. If it's out there, we'll find it.\n\n- Alfredo Regio, Site-91\n\nThe following is a handwritten note found affixed to the steering wheel of SCP-5898-PRIME after an examination of the object.\n\n+ Open File\n\n- Close\n\nSee, I told you I got this under control!\nYours truly,\nErnest Whittaker\nP.S. I'd take care of the Corn before the damn Crows show up.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Including hume and thaumaturgic/essokinetic capability tests. It should be noted that SCP-5898-EX scored slightly higher than baseline on the Cross-Dimensional Residual Energy test, although not high enough to warrant significant attention.\n2. Named as such for ease of reference. Note: I know we didn't follow standard procedure on this one. If the name is an issue, let me know. I'd be happy to change it. - Lead Researcher Penot\n3. SCP-5898-EX claimed to be doing so out of curiosity, stating it \"thought the little thing was neat.\"\n4. Department of Containment, specifically Alfredo Regio.\n5. Specifically by being in possession of a weapon without the prior knowledge of security staff.\n6. An investigation into a possible relationship with other corn based anomalies is currently underway.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5897 | SCP-5898 | SCP-5899 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5899\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5899 is currently housed within a Transmutive-Euclid Humanoid Containment Chamber outfitted with standard amenities for a human. SCP-5899 is to be supplied with 1 kg of plastic once a day. Bovines are not to enter within 500 meters of SCP-5899's containment chamber.\nDescription: SCP-5899 is a Laotian-American male, 183 cm in height, who is capable of transmuting matter into organic matter and creatures superficially similar to members of the subfamily Bovinae, often with extreme physiological changes (hereafter referred to as SCP-5899-1 instances). To date, SCP-5899 has not created any nonanomalous member of Bovinae without significant changes to its physiology.\nSCP-5899 was discovered within the town of Dance With Death, California, attempting to transform an individual's house into \"a giant cow.\" Subject managed to transform the walls, roof, and several items within the house into creatures resembling different species of bovine. SCP-5899 stated it was doing this to settle a dispute. SCP-5899 and all SCP-5899-1 instances were transported to Site-551 for study.\nSCP-5899 is passive and compliant with Foundation staff, and has agreed to not damage its containment chamber in exchange for a small amount of material to \"experiment with\" every day. Site Administration has chosen plastic for this exchange.\nAddendum-1: Abridged Testing Log\n\nTest #\nResults\nStatements by 5899\n\n1\nSCP-5899 transformed material into an SCP-5899-1 instance resembling a dairy cow with extremely large horns. Each horn is 3 meters in height and is black in color. Additionally, the instance did not possess a heart and instead had a third kidney in place of a heart. The instance was unable to carry the weight of these horns and died shortly after conception.\n\"Bah, too heavy. Forgot the heart too.\"\n\n2\nSCP-5899 transformed material into an SCP-5899-1 instance resembling a water buffalo with enlarged eyes and hooves and a smaller mouth. The SCP-5899-1 instance immediately vomited a mixture of stomach acid and blood while falling to the ground. The instance died shortly after.\n\"Horns are fine but now everything's all fucked up. Ugh.\"\n\n3\nSCP-5899 transformed material into an SCP-5899-1 instance resembling an African buffalo. Subject had no eyes or mouth, and was incredibly small for a member of its species. Despite this, the subject managed to live for several hours after conception, ultimately dying due to dehydration.\n\"Much better, much better, I think I got it this time!\"\n\n4\nSCP-5899 transformed material into an SCP-5899-1 instance resembling an unknown species of bovine. The instance had seven eyes, three mouths, fifteen ears and eighty-seven anuses. Instance died immediately after conception.\n\"Nope, still fucked.\"\n\nAddendum-2: Interview Log\n\nINTERVIEW LOG\n\nINTERVIEWED: SCP-5899\nINTERVIEWER: Agent Jean\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgent Jean: Excuse me, SCP-5899, do you have a moment?\n(SCP-5899 is holding several handfuls of beef, which are purple in color.)(Silence)Agent Jean: Would be?Agent Jean: I'm confused by what you mean. Uh\u2026 we have some beef you can use as reference if you-Agent Jean: Excuse me?Agent Jean: I don't think I follow.Agent Jean: You\u2026 don't believe beef exists?\n(Silence)Agent Jean: SCP-5899, I'm incredibly confused.(Silence)Agent Jean: What do you mean by, \"they don't exist?\"Agent Jean: We have footage and pictures of cows and\u2026 well, it wouldn't take much to just bring one to you.Agent Jean: B-Agent Jean: A-alright\u2026 excuse me for one moment, I need to get something.(Agent Jean exits the room. Silence for several minutes. Agent Jean returns with a slab of raw beef.)\nAgent Jean: Here, here's some beef.\n(SCP-5899 takes a look at the beef presented by Agent Jean.)Agent Jean: Wha-[END LOG]\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nOi, Jean, any luck?\nNope. He says that beef and cows \"don't exist\" and that he's trying to create them or something.\nWeird. Like, what did he say about the beef you brought him?\nHe asked me why I brought human flesh in.\nHuh\u2026\nYeah, dude's insane, but not my job to worry about stuff like tha-\nJean, I need to show you something.\nWhat?\nHere, let me get my laptop.\n\u2026\nWhat are you\u2026\nJust look at this.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5898 | SCP-5899 | SCP-5900 \u00bb"}
{"text": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Little_Road_Tunnel_on_Norway.jpg\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n2/5901 LEVEL 2/5901\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5901\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5901, circa 1998.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Access to SCP-5901 is to be denied to members of the public and the entrance to SCP-5901 is to be guarded at all times.\nContainment procedures awaiting revision. See Addendum 5901.1 for context.\nDescription: SCP-5901 is officially known as the Heddeneset tunnel, built into the side of a mountain near the Bygland municipality, Norway. When exactly SCP-5901 was constructed is unknown, as no government records exist mentioning its development and no individuals that have been questioned on the subject have recalled ever working on its construction team. The Foundation was made aware of SCP-5901 in August of 1988 after numerous reports from locals were forwarded to the Foundation by Norwegian police regarding the sudden appearance of the tunnel.\nOnly one entrance to SCP-5901 has been located to date, and it is currently believed that SCP-5901 possesses impossible geometry. More specifically, an individual entering SCP-5901 from the confirmed entrance can continue through SCP-5901 and never reach an exit despite not gaining or losing any altitude. All attempts at finding additional entrances to SCP-5901 or exiting SCP-5901 through the confirmed entrance have been met with failure. Explorations into SCP-5901 have been permanently suspended due to a consensus among research staff deeming further study into SCP-5901 to be a waste of Foundation resources.\nSCP-5901 has thus far exhibited no further anomalous effects. Containment procedures are to be maintained until further notice.\nAddendum 5901.1: Incident Report\nOn April \u2588\u2588, 202\u2588 at 0900 UTC, nine large, spherical objects composed primarily of granite were ejected from the entrance of SCP-5901 at high speeds. Due to the geography surrounding this entrance, all nine objects came to rest without causing significant damage to Foundation property or the surrounding terrain. Corresponding to the appearance of these objects, satellite imagery recorded the spontaneous appearance of five massive rings made of an unidentifiable material hovering above SCP-5901. Due to the threat that SCP-5901's new properties posed to the Foundation's maintenance of the Veil, an emergency meeting between regional containment specialists was arranged.\nSeveral containment methods were considered to combat the manifestation of SCP-5901's new properties, including the wide-scale aerial deployment of amnestic drugs or the integration of amnestics into portions of the Bygland municipality's water supply to limit public knowledge of the massive hovering rings. These and all other typical methods of containment were deemed too costly due to the influence of SCP-5901 on the surrounding area, and it was decided that nonstandard containment protocols could be discussed.\nAt the suggestion of Containment Specialist Kenneth Alan, a course of action was agreed upon, and instructions were disseminated to containment staff. The agreed protocol involved dispatching several heavy-duty cargo helicopters to airlift and release the spherical objects from the entrance of SCP-5901 to the smallest and innermost ring hovering above SCP-5901. It should be noted that all spheres dematerialized after passing through the target ring. Staff involved with the containment protocol described hearing a high pitched electrical beep every time a sphere was lowered through the ring, but electrical equipment failed to record anything of value.\nImmediately after the dematerialization of all nine spheres, the five rings above SCP-5901 also dissipated. They were replaced by a proportionally large message written in English, spanning several kilometers in length. The message, which was described as glowing a bright red hue, is recorded below for posterity.\n\n+ Open Document\n\n- Close\n\nCongratulations!!!\nNew High Score!\nPlease Enter Name\u2026\n\nFurther deliberation must be held before a proper course of action can be determined. Containment Specialist Alan has been authorized to voice additional nonstandard containment strategies that would otherwise be dismissed.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5900 | SCP-5901 | SCP-5902 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImage Attribution:\nDoA logo the original creation of Rounderhouse, used with permission\nPhoto of Administrator from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Fawcett._Photograph_by_Lock_%26_Whitfield._Wellcome_V0026355_(cropped).jpg\n\nMore by this author\n\n\nItem#: 5902\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nekhi\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Foundation intelligence operatives are to investigate workplace accidents, abnormal or nonsensical trade alterations, potential 5902-A sightings, and any and all mention of a \"Department of Administration\" appearing with insufficient context. If infiltration is suspected, a division of Distributed Task Force Psi-2 (\"Two Weeks Notice\") is to be mobilised to the location, and if confirmed, terminations of employment and/or life are authorised. Personnel are to practice high-risk identification self-checks to ensure that any terminated persons are indeed instances of 5902-A, and not simply civilians expressing abnormal workplace behaviour. In cases where SCP-5902 has progressed too far to be easily extricated, a corporate buyout by a Foundation front company will be attempted, with 5902-A subsequently integrated and handled as per protocol (see History and State of Containment).\nIn areas with high incidence of SCP-5902 infection (see Document 5902-K), at least one smooth, vertical shaft (~2 metres in diameter, >3 metres in length) is to be installed in an accessible location, preferably a Foundation-owned warehouse or area of waste ground. The inspection of the bottom of this shaft is to be covertly amended to the legal requirements of every employed person in the area in question, in such a way as to constitute a duty of employment. 5902-A instances that accumulate in these shafts are to be terminated monthly.\nDescription: SCP-5902 is a recurring logistical and bureaucratic phenomenon which emerges within existing organizations and parasitizes them, disrupting their normal activities until dissolution if left unaddressed. SCP-5902 has appeared within private businesses, schools, public organizations, and governmental agencies worldwide, with predictable patterns of emergence and propagation.\nEmergence of individual instances or \u201ccells\u201d of SCP-5902 follows an identifiable pattern, which progresses in distinct stages.\nStage 1: Documentation\nThe first indication of an organization's infiltration by SCP-5902 is the least immediately noticeable, as symptoms are generalized and easily attributed to mundane causes such as clerical error or criminal activity. Inconsistencies will begin to appear within the host organization's recordkeeping, at any level from shipping reports to payroll ledgers. These will generally be mathematical in nature, with output or input figures not correlating as expected. If unnoticed and unaddressed, these errors will propagate and develop into more outlandish disruptions and fabrications, i.e. entire sections of internal databases being altered, funding being diverted to divisions that do not exist, and nonsensical material orders.1 While disruptive and costly in terms of man-hours, these changes are reversible if noticed, and timely correction of these errors will prevent an SCP-5902 cell from progressing further, resulting in its disappearance within a number of weeks.2\nIf these errors are not addressed and continue to propagate, eventually the host organization's records will be altered to directly reference a hitherto-nonexistent organizational subdivision, termed \u201cThe Department of Administration\u201d. This name is consistent across each manifestation, and its appearance anywhere within the host organization's records signifies that SCP-5902 infection has progressed to Stage 2.\nStage 2: Employment\nApproximately 45-60 days from time of initial infection, the host organization will begin to gain new \u201cemployees\u201d, none of which are recorded as having previously belonged to the host organization for any amount of time. These new \u201cemployees\u201d, termed here 5902-A, are very easily identifiable by the preexisting true members of the host organization, due to a number of highly distinguishable shared characteristics, a summarized list of which follows.\n\nThe contents of every identification card carried by 5902-A.\n\nAppearance: Every instance of 5902-A is visually human, and can appear in any combination of genders, ethnicities, or body types, with no regard for the societal context of the host organization in which they appear.\nAttire: All 5902-A wear formal business attire, i.e. slacks, ties, jackets, pantsuits, skirts, et cetera, largely monochrome in color. All shirts worn by 5902-A are white, and outer garments are gray to black with no conspicuous patterns or fabric styles. Ties worn by 5902-A may be colored but are generally simple, being a single color with no pattern. Jewelry such as necklaces or earrings may be present, but will be subdued in fashion. In addition, each 5902-A wears a pair of sunglasses of random but unobtrusive style, each sufficiently tinted to conceal the eyes. This standardized dress code is consistent across all 5902-A, regardless of the instance's place of employment or attempted duties, such as heavy machinery repair aboard an offshore oil rig, loading equipment operator in a coal mine, or meat handler at a butcher's shop.\nDemeanor: 5902-A are even-tempered, unopinionated, professional, and polite. These characteristics can occasionally allow a 5902-A to pass unnoticed for a brief period of time depending on the context of their \u201cemployment\u201d, until the inevitable moment that the host organization's true employees begin to find them offputting or unnerving. 5902-A do not appear to possess the capacity for casual conversation beyond simple, near-contentless statements, such as remarks upon the weather or immediate workplace surroundings. They have never been observed to make facial expressions or to make statements concerning things such as personal feelings, politics, sports, popular media, or even specifics of the workplace position they are ostensibly intended to occupy.\nIncompetence: To date, no observed 5902-A instance has shown more than a superficial, passing knowledge of their \u201cemployment\u201d position at most, with the majority showing no familiarity whatsoever with their claimed role. If questioned, a 5902-A will always insist that they are duly employed by the host organization, but will be unable to produce proof, such as a pay stub, company identification card, a registered account with the organization's computer system, or even the name of the institution they claim is currently employing them3. If in a subordinate position, a 5902-A will always attempt to comply with any orders given to them by a superior, but these attempts invariably end in failure, or in some cases outright disaster, leading to workplace accidents of extreme cost or loss of life.\n\nDue to this set of highly conspicuous attributes, a considerable majority of 5902-A instances are ejected from the host organization's premises immediately upon discovery. Once separated from their place of \u201cemployment\u201d, 5902-A simply demanifest. This normally takes place when the entity is not being observed by the general populace, but sometimes occurs in full view of the public, contributing to persistent rumors and urban legends of so-called \u201cmen in black\u201d or \u201cg-men\u201d.\nThe likelihood of a 5902-A being discovered is inversely proportional to the size of the infected institution - a very large building with thousands of employees may allow a 5902-A to remain unnoticed and \u201cmultiply\u201d. Through a currently unknown process, one 5902-A left in place will lead to more appearing. \u201cAppear\u201d is used literally here - review of security camera footage after an 5902-A's removal often shows the entities simply stepping out of an unoccupied bathroom, crawling out of a ventilation shaft, or manifesting from nothing in plain view of the cameras, normally at night after the conclusion of working hours.\nOnce all 5902-A have been removed from an organization and all mention of the \u201cDepartment of Administration\u201d4 have been erased from the host institution's records, the SCP-5902 infection will fall into remission and eventually disappear as described previously. If a group of 5902-A is permitted to exist within the host for a period of time between two and three months, they will eventually anomalously acquire documentation proving their legal existence and giving them indisputable legal claim to authority within the host, whereupon SCP-5902 infection proceeds to Stage 3.\nStage 3: Incorporation\nOnce 5902-A have been anomalously equipped with their fabricated proof of legal existence and proof of employment, they will begin to leverage their authority within the host institution. Incoming instances of 5902-A will claim positions of greater administrative power, and will by this point be able to demonstrate proof of holding this position, if not any actual knowledge or skills to corroborate the claim. 5902-A in subordinate positions within the organization will suddenly rise to higher ranks in the wake of superior 5902-A dismissing the host organization's original non-anomalous employees. These terminations5 often result in lawsuits or other legal attention, but are generally not able to apply sufficient scrutiny to a SCP-5902 infection in a manner timely enough to prevent its metastasization.\nThis process will continue until none of the original employees of the host organization remain, with all the institution's documentation and licenses legally altered to reflect the change in management. In cases of smaller hosts with a single owner, the proprietor is removed via an aggressive buyout from an external group of 5902-A masquerading as venture capitalists, or via seizure from one or more 5902-A occupying the guise of government officials. The specific methodology varies, but each strategy is accompanied by enough corroborating documentation to ensure sufficient legality for the infection to proceed.\nAt this stage, the 5902-A can still be rebuked, such as through legal maneuvering6 or by simple physical force, whereupon each entity can be removed and the SCP-5902 infection can be reversed, as described above. If the entire host organization falls under the sole ownership and operation of the \u201cDepartment of Administration\u201d, SCP-5902 proceeds to Stage 4.\nStage 4: Rupture and Deployment\nAny previously operational establishment operated wholly by 5902-A will quickly become insolvent, as 5902-A do not possess the experience, knowledge, intelligence, or apparently even the desire necessary for the administration of any property they acquire. The entities will make attempts at perpetuating the stated purpose of whatever institution falls under their control, but it will eventually fail due to a combination of general incompetence and gross negligence, occasionally leading to highly publicized disasters such as refinery explosions, factory fires, or shipwrecks.\nDuring the interim between acquisition and destruction, the number of 5902-A within the \u201cDepartment of Administration\u201d-owned organization will continue to grow. 5902-A in positions of superiority will begin giving orders to subordinates that involve some form of outreach, be it a form of advertising, direct mailers, or even sending 5902-A to homes and other businesses for a variety of purposes, most of which do not pass even cursory scrutiny. These initiatives are the vector through which SCP-5902 spreads. A letter from an infected business mentioning the interests of a \u201cDepartment of Administration\u201d or permitting a 5902-A into one's residence can result in the site of a new cell of SCP-5902, via a process presumed to be a form of memetic or bureaucratohazardous contagion. An example of one such attempt follows.\n\nDate: September 9th, 2019\nMedia Origin: Household security camera footage confiscated from the home of Matteo and Margaret Marquez, a retired couple in Albuquerque, New Mexico\n\n(Security camera POV is above the upper right corner of Mrs. Marquez's front door. Two men approach Mrs. Marquez's front door from the sidewalk. One, designated here as Alpha, is muscular, bald, and of medium height, with a purple tie and earrings. The other, Beta, is very tall and overweight, with short hair, a long beard, and a blue tie.)\n(Both men reach the house's front step, extend their hands, and knock on Mrs. Marquez's door, simultaneously, with identical rhythm. After a brief pause, Mrs. Marquez opens the door out-of-frame.)\nMrs. Marquez: O-oh! Well hello there. Can I help you gentlemen?\nAlpha: Good morning7, ma'am. My name is Theodore Taft Hoover, and this is my colleague Condoleezza Washington. I am not carrying a weapon. My colleague is also not carrying a weapon. We represent the Department of Administration. We did not call ahead to inform you of this impromptu inspection. It is impromptu. Also, we do not know your telephone number.\n(Pause.)\nMrs. Marquez: I'm\u2026 sorry, you said you're with who? The department of what?\nAlpha and Beta: (Simultaneous) The Department of Administration.\nMrs. Marquez: I'm sorry boys, you'll have to bear with me. Administration of what, exactly? Are you with the city?\n(Both men trade a brief glance.)\nAlpha: Yes. We are with the city. This is a routine inspection.\nMrs. Marquez: An inspection of what? This seems very unusual, normally the maintenance people call ahead of time if they need to look at anything.\nBeta: You seem skeptical, ma'am.\nMrs. Marquez: (Scoff) Well, yes I suppose I am!\n(Alpha and Beta reach into their inside jacket pockets, and each remove flip-top ID cases. They hold the cards up for Mrs. Marquez. Both are identical - a black field with a white square, no text.)\nBeta: Be thou skeptical no longer, citizen. Look upon the sigil. Feel its great energies. We are on\u2026 official business.\n(A single tear leaves Beta's left eye, rolling down its cheek and into its beard. Its facial expression does not change. Alpha regards Beta for a moment, then turns back to Mrs. Marquez.)\nAlpha: That should clear everything up. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. If this apology does not apply to you, disregard it.\n(Alpha and Beta replace their identification. There is a pause.)\nMrs. Marquez: \u2026 Is this some kind of prank? Is this the new thing the kids get up to when they're bored, or something? I don't have time for this, gentlemen. Go bother someone else.\nAlpha: This is a routine inspection, ma'am. It is imperative that you let us into your home.\nBeta: It is nearly Integration Day. Unless you would prefer to face the Infinite Interregnum alone.\n(Alpha looks at Beta once more, but says nothing.)\nMrs. Marquez: Bigger thugs than you have tried, boys. Well\u2026 maybe not bigger than him, but pretty big. Get off our property before I call the police.\n(The door closes. Alpha and Beta regard one another for a moment. Alpha turns around and starts down the sidewalk. Beta kneels, rolls up the Marquez's welcome mat, and walks away while attempting to stuff it into its jacket pocket.)\nShortly after this incident, High Mesa Electric Company8 suffered catastrophic fires at each of its regional substations, as a result of 5902-A attempting to replace most of the substations' primary wiring insulation with ham.\n\nHistory and State of Containment: The Foundation has been infected by SCP-5902 for approximately 150 years, with initial site of contamination theorized to be a regional Foundation dispatch center located beneath an abandoned textiles factory in London, circa 1869. As the Foundation is one of if not the largest contiguous organization of its kind or any other kind on Earth, countermeasures against SCP-5902 infection and reinfection were eventually deemed so expensive that SCP-5902's containment procedures were reconfigured to simply allow it to exist within the Foundation in a controlled capacity.\nAs the scope of the Foundation grew, several attempts were made to use 5902-A as D-Class personnel in a testing capacity, both to study the specifics of SCP-5902's properties and as a cost-saving measure. Predictably, each of these initiatives ended in failure, as 5902-A are generally incapable of following even basic instructions, and all tests which require a modicum of psychological presence or intelligence yielded scientifically inadmissible results.\nToday, a single cell of SCP-5902 exists as a part of one personnel intake depot in Wyoming, with station policy altered slightly to account for SCP-5902's presence. This cell exists to prevent 5902-A infection elsewhere within the Foundation9 and as a platform for ongoing SCP-5902 study and containment. 5902-A \u201cemployees\u201d at Personnel Intake Command 99 are permitted to do unskilled labor such as janitorial work,10 and are occasionally dispatched to containment sites housing anomalies that require human meat as sustenance or to participate in containment operations that require human sacrifice.11\n\n5902-Prime, the oldest extant representative of \u201cThe Department of Administration\u201d\n\nThe initial infection vector of the Foundation's SCP-5902 cell still exists,12 and has been in Foundation custody for approximately 150 years at the time of this document's creation. As 5902-A entities take on titles and personae of greater authority as they persist within a SCP-5902 cell, this specific instance now refers to itself as \u201cInfinite Cosmic Governor Sir Lord Edmund Julius Nonius Livingstone de Omnimond\u201d, or simply \u201cLord Livingstone\u201d. This instance has been designated 5902-Prime for ease of documentation. 5902-Prime, or \u201cEdmund Livingstone\u201d as he was first described, was initially thought to be a spy from a rival institution when first discovered, and upon further interrogation led to the identification of SCP-5902 itself. Other 5902-A refer to 5902-Prime as \u201cThe Administrator\u201d, and Foundation researchers allow it to lead small squads of other 5902-A in the performance of menial chores about the facility, which seems to have a positive effect on 5902-A cooperation and morale.\nSCP-5902 has breached containment from Personnel Intake Command 99 on multiple occasions, but as all elements of SCP-5902 contamination are easily identified and neutralized, the Foundation is currently under no threat of internal alteration as a consequence of SCP-5902 influence. Containment breaches from PIC99 are also of much lower frequency than infection rates observed by SCP-5902 cells in situ, resulting in comparatively inexpensive containment efforts. This is believed to be due to current containment guidelines allowing for 5902-A access to stimulating \u201cbusywork\u201d, as well as the comforting, authoritative, and inexorable presence of 5902-Prime.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Thousands of severely outdated graphing calculators, one dozen forklifts for a small accounting firm, two hundred pizzas, etc.\n2. Between two and four in all observed cases thus far.\n3. The entity may show an \u201cidentification card\u201d, but this is never an official identification document, and is instead always a laminated black card with the emblem of an equilateral white square, with no accompanying text. The significance of this emblem is currently unknown.\n4. Which each 5902-A claims to also be a member/representative of, with no further explanation and regardless of whether their belonging to a separate institution would interfere with their other assumed duties\n5. Usually given without cause, or occasionally with a nonsensical cause, such as \u201cinsufficient number of staplers digested this quarter\u201d, \u201cbody composed of an odd number of molecules\u201d, or \u201caesthetically distressing\u201d\n6. Typically by taking advantage of 5902-A's overall existential incongruity when examined by enough third parties\n7. The timestamp of this footage reads 17:12.\n8. The administrative offices of which were less than seven miles from the Marquez residence\n9. As SCP-5902 has never been observed to place a second infection site within a host organization\n10. Under armed supervision\n11. In all observed cases thus far, 5902-A are treated as human by every anomaly which necessitates terminal human involvement as part of its containment or upkeep. The significance of this is a subject of ongoing study.\n12. As 5902-A have never been observed to undergo senescence or contract illnesses\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nCadaverCommander's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4553 \u2022\n\nSCP-3895 \u2022\n\nSCP-3899 \u2022\n\nSCP-4999 \u2022\n\nSCP-1233 \u2022\n\nSCP-3885 \u2022\n\nSCP-4933 \u2022\n\nSCP-3889 \u2022\n\nSCP-3588 \u2022\n\nSCP-3894 \u2022\n\nSCP-3892 \u2022\n\nSCP-3893 \u2022\n\nSCP-3983 \u2022\n\nSCP-4333 \u2022\n\nSCP-4866 \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nJoey Makes a New Friend \u2022\n\nJoey Fucknuts Builds a Flying Machine \u2022\n\nJoey Fucknuts Believes In Himself \u2022\n\nThe Shape of a Gun \u2022\n\nJoey Fucknuts Takes to the Skies \u2022\n\nOther\n\nCadaverCommander's Mobile Assault Necropolis \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5901 | SCP-5902 | SCP-5903 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nImage creds:\nhttps://search.creativecommons.org/photos/330b4c04-cbb4-4a5f-8d82-e7c10b2a8052 (BY 2.0)\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cracked_software_Market.jpg (BY-SA 2.0)\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nRemoving an SCP-5903 instance.\n\nItem Number: SCP-5903\nClass/Clearance: Keter/Four\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Surveillance measures in order to detect members of 5903-OUT are currently in place, involving intense nationwide scrutiny including, but not limited to:\n\nRegular sweeps of at-risk patient files, and the propagation of the idea of birthmarks similar to those found on 5903-OUT instances being cancerous and requiring treatment, at which point Foundation thaumaturgic experts will remove SCP-5903 instances from the digestive system.\nSporadic purchases of fruits in areas fulfilling SCP-5903 requirements.\nCameras placed in major metropolitan areas in order to detect 5903-OUT instances.\nFarms within Northern India are to be routinely scanned, and a random selection of plants should be removed in order to detect the presence of SCP-5903 instances.\n\nFurther large-scale actions are to be approved on a case-by-case basis.\nIn the event of a manifestation of 5903-OUT symptoms, local agents are to be mobilized to neutralize the instance, extract consumed instances of SCP-5903 from the -OUT instance's bowels, and destroy them. The use of class-A amnestics has been approved for these operations.\nCurrent top priority is the determination of the location of SCP-5903's source.\nDescription: SCP-5903 refers to small, organic globules that replace the seeds of fruits commonly grown within Northern India. These globules appear to mainly consist of flesh, bones, and teeth \u2014 the specific type varies, though the source is typically ungulate or human in nature. The presence of these globules poses no threat to the plant on which they are found, and have no adverse effects on the taste, texture, or ripening of the fruit in which they are located. Instances of SCP-5903 taste like the flesh of its host fruit; this often results in the unwitting consumption of SCP-5903 instances by herbivorous or omnivorous creatures.\nUpon consumption of two or more SCP-5903 instances, subjects will undergo a variety of biological mutations and growths via thaumaturgic means. The specific process is attached below.\n\nThe host will develop a tumor-like growth under the deltoid muscles, which frequently pulsates and changes shape. The portion of the spine that is covered by this growth will spontaneously grow into this tumor, forming a shape similar to that of a embryonic body.\nFlesh from the host will graft itself onto this new skeleton, and flesh from an unknown source will replace that which is lost, eventually forming a vaguely humanoid form attached to the host, back-to-back.\nThe new entity will develop vital internal and external organs, along with external keratinous bodies in an exact copy of the host. However, these entities will always have only one kidney.\nThe host will be drawn via the remnants of the initial tumor-like growth into the new body, leaving just one entity, as its remaining organs, bone, and flesh is removed via unknown means. The new body will have no wounds, and consist of otherwise nonanomalous material bearing a genetic resemblance to the original contents of the consumed SCP-5903 instances.\nThe remaining entity will have the exact same mannerisms and personality of the original host, save for a large crescent-shaped birthmark at the location of the original tumor. Development of psychokinetic abilities have been seen in a majority of cases. Due to this possibility, and likely lack of control of these abilities, new entities are to be treated as major threats. The consumed SCP-5903 instances are present in place of the missing kidney.\nThese entities, known as SCP-5903-OUT instances (or members of the \"OUT\" group), will then return to the daily life of the original host with initial difficulty given a lack of memory.\n\n-OUT instances display a resilience to harm via natural means \u2014 in the event of injury, flesh will spontaneously regenerate at anomalously fast speeds, and the effects of aging are drastically decreased in severity. The only confirmed method of rapidly neutralizing an -OUT instance is the removal of the SCP-5903 instances.\nSCP-5903 instances are only distributed in high-volume areas of Northern India, primarily in the Punjab region. Many farmers grow SCP-5903 instances in their crop rotations, primarily due to them reportedly having purchased instances for seeding at significantly discounted costs from unknown black-market vendors and the fact that plants grown from SCP-5903 instances require up to 95% less water over their lifetime, as the Punjab region undergoes severe droughts. Both of these factors make SCP-5903 highly likely to be planted by farmers in affected regions.\n\nAddendum - SCP-5903-OUT Developments\n\nThe following note was being distributed alongside SCP-5903 in a small stand in Ludhiana, Punjab.\n\nTo those whom it may concern,\n\nWe are struck with many regrets to learn of the problems striking our farming community here.\n\nOur fellow Sardars are losing strength. The water is leaving. Many of our people have been lost, to famine, to thirst, or to their own hands. But, we come to provide you a solution. There are three options we are here to present you with.\n\nThe first is to condemn yourselves to your pitiful current existence.\n\nThe second is to plant these fruits of divine labor. They grow very quick, and soon your family's bodies will be bursting with power.\n\nThe last, which can be done in conjunction with the previous; take but two of the following. Strength shall return to you anew.\n\nThe House of the Naga1\n\nAttached is the event from which the following note was found, which was the first recorded instance of a SCP-5903-OUT instance turning violent.\n\nThe cracked software market in Ludhiana, Punjab before the event was captured by cameras placed on a Foundation front store.\n\n[The SCP-5903-OUT instance, a 12 year old boy, is walking around in an open air market in Ludhiana, Punjab. Due to the crowded nature of these markets, he is bumped into by 32-year-old Venkat Randhawa on a bicycle. The boy falls, but rights himself by manipulating his body psychokinetically. No one notices.]\nSCP-5903-OUT: Are you crazy?\nRandhawa: Watch where you're going!\nSCP-5903-OUT: No, you look.\nRandhawa: Shut up, if you know what's good for you.\nSCP-5903-OUT: Bitch.\nRandhawa: What'd you say?\nSCP-5903-OUT: I said \"bitch.\"\n[Randhawa's hand slaps himself repeatedly. A variety of items are tossed at Randhawa, before he is thrown into a wall, resulting in a concussion, among other major injuries to both Randhawa2 and bystanders. The SCP-5903-OUT instance was later neutralized.]\n\nGiven the first violent encounter with a SCP-5903-OUT instance, Foundation resources were focused on the creation and testing of SCP-5903-OUT instances to determine an effective way to control and locate instances before violence occurs.\n\nTest\nResult\n\n#1: SCP-5903 was consumed by a 33-year-old male D-Class. Following effects of consumption, subject was then directed to touch a small button on the opposite wall with a mannequin's hand.\nSubject successfully performed the test, and then was directed to repeat it with buttons placed around the room. Subject eventually grew tired, and was standoffish with Foundation personnel. Subject was neutralized without substantial damage.\n\n#13: SCP-5903 was consumed by a 21-year-old female D-Class, for the purpose of screening the body after the effects of consumption.\nSubject was screened with a variety of devices in order to effectively determine the location of consumed SCP-5903 instances, including metal detectors, x-rays, and a full-body thermal scanner. Subject was placed in solitary confinement until further notice, following total compliance with orders.\n\n#34: SCP-5903 was consumed by a 41-year-old male D-Class. Following effects of consumption, subject was directed to destroy a small table in the opposite side of the room.\nSubject was unable to produce any significant form of controlled psychokinetic abilities, while passive abilities3 remained active. Subject was later placed into tentative solitary confinement.\n\n#42: SCP-5903 was consumed by a 52-year-old male D-Class. The subject was a lifelong vegetarian with an accommodated diet changed to ensure no contact with meat during testing. Subject was told of the contents of SCP-5903 after successfully transfiguring into an SCP-5903-OUT instance.\nSubject violently destroyed furniture present in the testing environment, yet refused to injure personnel, instead choosing inanimate objects as the target of destruction. Subject was later neutralized as personnel feared for their life.\n\nFollowing these tests, focus was shifted to preventative measures.\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nHELLO, RES. OAKTON.\n\nTo: Researcher Clay Merritt\nFrom: Researcher Inderjit Oakton\nSubject: 5903\n\nMerritt:\nWe have yet to find another violent SCP-5903 instance. The team's developed a couple of hypotheses as to why:\n\nSCP-5903 bonds to a host due to some currently unknown confounding factor, such as genetics or environmental exposure.\nThose naturally predisposed to consuming SCP-5903 innately carry some level of resistance to SCP-5903's effects.\nThose naturally predisposed to consuming SCP-5903 display a higher level of control over developed abilities.\n\nGiven the high cost of testing involving SCP-5903, as well as the significantly high manpower involved in containing and locating individual hosts, I'd move for a reconsideration of current methods of testing. It's not worth it, given the risk posed to the Veil.\n- Inderjit\n\nTo: Researcher Inderjit Oakton\nFrom: Researcher Clay Merritt\nSubject: Re:5903\n\nInderjit -\nLook. It's difficult, I understand. A bit fruitless. But, I want you to think about the havoc we've seen these do. Have you heard of the sword of Damocles? How there was the sword always hanging over his head, constantly posing a threat. That's exactly how I feel. How the world feels now. You never know if or when they may strike. Each one of those\u2026 things, is a possible person-shaped time bomb. Not. A. Person. I don't like it as much as you do, but it's in our best interest.\n- Merritt\n\nTo: Researcher Clay Merritt\nFrom: Researcher Inderjit Oakton\nSubject: re:5903\n\nMerritt:\nIt's not worth it. I've dug around. Ignoring the literal sole time that violence has occurred, do you know how many of these OUT instances we've found? 57. Do you know how many we made? A whopping 48. And out of those, only 1 has turned naturally violent, and even then, it's clear as fucking day that they were provoked. Don't \"Sword of Damocles\" me when we're killing people ceaselessly. What about their personality? How they act? It'd be damn near-difficult to actually tell anyone apart.\n- Inderjit\n\nTo: Researcher Clay Merritt\nFrom: Researcher Inderjit Oakton\nSubject: re:5903\n\nInderjit -\nIt's for the greater good. Think of it \u2014 in the future, what if an OUT instance causes major mass destruction, and we weren't there to take it down, because we didn't know how they worked? Or, say, where the fruit was in their body? We only know both of these things because of this. It may occur. Even you can't guarantee it'll never occur. So till then, measures will stay exactly as high as they are now. As long as the risk exists, we will scan and screen, randomly.\nThey're not people, Inderjit. They're cows, or a cow-sheep hybrid, or god forbid something else involving a bloody giraffe. It's in the name of security.\n- Merritt\n\n\u00ab Lo! Behold the Tiger! | IN SAFFRON SANDS | Last Train Home \u00bb\n\nFootnotes\n1. GoI-1984, primarily based in the Indian subcontinent, which typically attempts to ensure the safety of Indian citizens via vigilantism, utilizing psychokinetic abilities, and thaumaturgic abilities.\n2. Randhawa was taken to a local hospital and died due to internal bleeding sustained from these wounds.\n3. Such as injury recovery.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5902 | SCP-5903 | SCP-5904 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5905 \"Gashadokuro\" written by: ManyMeats\nCredit where credit is due to Shigeaki Yamauchi's \"World's Bizarre Thriller Complete Works 2: Monsters of the World\" (1972) which is where the yokai known as Gashadokuro first appeared. Being a ravenous fan of mythology, I was happy to have consumed this idea for nightmare fuel and regurgitated it into this, even if it's a \"modern creation\" versus other myth and legend.\n~ManyMeats's Author Page~\n\n\n4/5905 LEVEL 4/5905\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5905\n\nSafe\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5905 is contained in a sensitive materials vault at Site-17. The consumption of any type of food or water, including those required for medical or emergency purposes, is strictly prohibited within five meters of SCP-5905. The study of SCP-5905 is limited to secondary sources only.\nAll known instances of SCP-5905-1 have been destroyed. If additional instances of SCP-5905-1 should be encountered, all directives and priorities below Code Black are rescinded until the entity's destruction has been confirmed.\nDescription: SCP-5905 is a leather-bound grimoire recovered from the Huang Shui basin in Qinghai, China. This book details the treatment of prisoners, the preparation of objects of sacrifice, and a number of other ritualistic practices of an unclear cultural origin. Prolonged exposure to SCP-5905 causes hyperstimulation of the hypothalamus, resulting in accelerated metabolism and dramatically increased feelings of hunger and thirst. The book describes this effect as the \"Purity of Consumption\" and encourages exploration of these feelings by practitioners.\nWithin the pages of SCP-5905 is a ritual that is believed to be responsible for the creation of instances of SCP-5905-1. Due to ethical concerns, this cannot be verified.\n\nAddendum.1: Incident Log\n\nLog out and return to the main file\n\n[2015.02.28]\nFoundation Site-36 received an urgent distress call from joint Chinese and GOC forces operating in the Qinghai province. Rapid response teams were dispatched while drone surveillance was deployed. GOC was notified of our intended assistance. The only intel provided was that they were engaged with a humanoid entity of unknown origin and intent.\n\u20141301 hours: MTF arrived at the last known location of GOC forces and followed a trail of destruction in order to locate SCP-5905-1 within the boundaries of a small fishing village. The total destruction of the GOC forces requesting backup is assumed. SCP-5905-1 was identified as a partially fleshed humanoid skeleton standing approximately 18 meters in height. The entity engaged MTF forces when they attempted to aid in the evacuation of local citizens.\n\u20141310 hours: Deployed armaments are ineffective. MTF forces requested aerial strike and additional support. The rib cage of SCP-5905-1 expands and its thoracic cavity distends as a mass of tentacles explodes out from within. The appendages latch on to all available sources of organic matter including the GOC, MTF, and villagers, and adds them to its mass. SCP-5905-1 has increased in size by approximately 25%.\n\u20141328 hours: Rockwell B-1 Lancer launched from Site-36 arrived at the conflict zone and fired precision-guided munitions at SCP-5905-1. Although the entity was impeded, it withstood the bombardment. Additional support requested.\n\u20141330 hours: A Tomahawk Cruise Missile was fired from GOC Strategic Command Base #22 and MTF forces were advised to retreat to a minimum safe distance.\n\u20141335 hours: Cruise missile arrived and detonated on target. MTF reports SCP-5905-1 was on fire but otherwise ambulatory and headed in the direction of another populated settlement. The Chinese government was notified and instructed to order an evacuation.\n\u20141358 hours: Permission was given by the Chinese government to escalate the use of force. MTF was notified to vacate the area as a Boeing B-52 was deployed with a payload of 1 GBU-34/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB).\n\u20141420 hours: SCP-5905-1 arrived at the farming village. The last recorded census puts the village at a population of 280; total casualties are unknown but assumed in totality.\n\u20141501 hours: Bomber signaled imminent arrival; Forces withdrew. SCP-5905-1 has finished feeding and is now 39 meters in height.\n\u20141508 hours: MOAB detonates on target. SCP-5905-1 is destroyed as confirmed by MTF. Remaining biological fragments collected for incineration.\n\nAddendum.2: Video Log\n\nLog off and return to the main file\n\nAfter the events of Addendum.1, MTF operatives backtraced the path of destruction to a small farming community composed of 6 hovels and a central storehouse. The exterior door of the storehouse had been circumvented by percussive force, and several strips of flesh were found embedded in and around the door frame.\nIn the center of the storehouse was a ritual circle utilizing a number of thaumic sigils, pictographs, and cuneiform invocations centered around a beryllium bronze post one meter in height. Scattered among the debris were several implements of torture, three sets of manacles caked in an unidentified viscous compound, and various pieces of video recording equipment. These videos have been translated from a dialect of Hungarian known as Moldavian, transcribed, and attached to this file. Extraneous audio and video omitted.\nFootage begins with the frame obscured by the upper body of the camera's operator as they adjust focus. The individual has been designated as POI-5905.\n\nPOI-5905: Tuesday, day 1. The prisoner is a healthy local male, and is uninjured aside from bruises sustained in apprehension. Chinese national. Vitals are good. Liver function so-so. We begin tonight at sundown. I've read the book a hundred times, I've said the words two hundred times. We will cut until I find satisfaction and our ancestors become proud.\n\nPOI-5905 backs away from the camera and looks into the lens, nods, and steps to the side. Shackled to a metal post with their hands above their head is an adult male. The subject's eyes are glazed over suggesting the use of a sedative or possibly the side-effects of a concussion.\nVideo is fast-forwarded several hours. As the surroundings darken, unidentified accomplices place and light candles at various locations throughout the room. As these individuals place candles they rhythmically chant an invocation. The audio and translation have been redacted due to a suspected cognitohazardous link to SCP-5905. When the candles are lit, the five hooded participants and the ritual leader, POI-5905, assemble around the target and continue chanting. POI-5905 retrieves an implement from off-screen and makes a series of small incisions on the torso of the subject in order to create cuneiform characters. The subject regains consciousness during this phase of the ritual and begins screaming. The first tape ends.\nAdditional videos were discovered but have been evaluated as repetitious. This ritual practice is repeated for an additional 8 days, making 9 days in total.\nOn the 10th day, the ritual subject is severely emaciated. Cheeks, eyes, ribs are all sunken and his abdomen is distended. Legs and arms are visibly atrophied at a rate substantially more aggressive than expected for ten days of confinement. The ritual continues to its next phase as POI-5905 retrieves a hexagonal piece of metal that is then placed around the base of the subject's index finger. When this metal band is twisted and pulled, blades strip the subject's flesh from their finger and leave behind only bone and sinew. While continuing to chant over the subject's screaming, POI-5905 then feeds the flesh to the ritual subject, placing it in their mouth and forcing them to swallow. This videotape ends after all of the subject's fingers have been stripped..\nFootage resumes on day 11 and the ritual repeats except with the toes. The ritual repeats again each day with a new part of the body through day 20. It is noted that after day 12, the subject no longer resists ingestion.\n\nNote: Despite exposed wounds, severe malnourishment, and suspected dehydration, the ritual subject appears both alert and responsive throughout.\n\nOn day 21, POI-5905 unshackles the ritual subject and recites a final invocation. Ritual subject begins to claw at their own skin with the exposed bones of their fingers, tearing strips and chunks from other wound sites as they engage in auto-cannibalism.\nShortly before what is assumed to be sunrise, the ritual subject's breathing becomes ragged and inconsistent and they fall limp. Pronounced cracking and snapping sounds can be heard over the continuous chanting of participants as the ritual subject begins to grow in size, their skeletal structures bulging and bursting between what little tissue remains. Ritual subject's limbs elongate as it pulls itself up, finishing its conversion to SCP-5905-1.\nRitual participants break from their chanting and try to flee, however, SCP-5905-1's stomach bulges and swells before purple and black pseudopods erupt out, ensnaring the closest ritualist. SCP-5905-1 then inserts the ritualist's head into its jaw and bites down resulting in the ritualist's death. Snapping and cracking is heard as pseudopods insert the corpse into SCP-5905-1's thoracic cavity. SCP-5905-1 then exits off-camera in pursuit of additional ritualists. The footage ends.\n\nAddendum.5905.3:\nWithin the pages of SCP-5905 was a hand-written insert. It is believed to have been written by the ritual leader and has been transcribed and attached to the record.\n\nMy first meal tasted of copper and desperation but I have come to savor the sweetness.\nBabushka worried I do not eat well, but I am eating.\nEvery year my stomach grows smaller and I grow weaker but I can teach the others before my time [has ended].\nEach new meal drowns them just a bit deeper. None of us need it but now we all want it.\nHunger gnaws at that place inside of me, craving purpose, fulfillment, excitement, and I fear I have found it.\nIf this goes well, I hope they will invite me to their feast.\nI deserve a seat at the table.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5904 | ManyMeats | SCP-5906 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5906\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Online web crawlers are to monitor for instances of SCP-5906, and remove them from public view. Amnestics are to be appropriately distributed to anyone that viewed an instance. Several copies of SCP-5906 are to be kept in secure video storage.\nDescription: SCP-5906 is an instructional video guide titled \"How to perfectly kiss vertically\". It randomly manifests on various websites able to support video content. All are labeled as being from an individual or possibly a group of individuals called \"XOXO\". Efforts to trace them have been unsuccessful.\nSCP-5906 explains to viewers how to kiss their romantic partners at a perfectly vertical angle by mutilation of their faces. Particularly, it advocates for the removal of a subject's nose. The guide often manifests with English audio, but it has been found dubbed in French, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.\nNo severe compulsive effects are present in those that view SCP-5906, but all subjects express a sense of enlightenment from direct exposure to it. A few have stated they are also willing to follow SCP-5906's instructions. All subjects fail to recognize the disturbing and dangerous nature of the procedure when informed. Affected individuals cannot spread SCP-5906's anomalous influence, and amnestics are able to treat exposure. The only way to know SCP-5906's contents without being affected by it is through audio, and transcripts of it; see Addendum 02.\nOn 03/12/16, SCP-5906 came to the Foundation's attention when a young couple living in Tokyo, Japan were hospitalized. Subjects had disfigured their faces, and were suffering from shock and blood loss. They reported the cause of their actions to be SCP-5906, which they had viewed online. Several officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department were exposed to SCP-5906. Foundation agents stationed in Tokyo were deployed, and enacted containment procedures. An interview with one of the hospitalized couple was performed; see Addendum 01.\nAddendum 01: Interview Log\n\nInterview Log 5906\nInterviewer: Agent Akari Sato\nInterviewed: Jiro Miyazaki\nForeword: The subject had exited from surgery, and was later conscious enough to be questioned by Agent Sato while under sedation. Both spoke the Tokyo dialect of Japanese for the duration of the interview.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgent Sato: Miyazaki-san, can you hear me?\nMiyazaki: Yes.\nAgent Sato: Excellent. I like to ask you a few questions, Miyazaki-san. Is that okay?\nMiyazaki: Manami\u2026 [NOTE: Name of the subject's romantic partner. At the time, she was in critical condition, and was being operated on.]\nAgent Sato: She's fine. Don't worry about her. Please focus on answering my questions for now. Why did you two do this to yourselves?\nMiyazaki: Not\u2026 a bad idea.\nAgent Sato: Explain to me what do you mean?\nMiyazaki: Seemed more\u2026 romantic. It felt right.\nAgent Sato: What made it romantic?\nMiyazaki: For us to (Takes a large breath) love each other aligned.\nAgent Sato: Aligned? I am not sure if I follow you.\nMiyazaki: Whole in place. No crookedness. Pure.\nAgent Sato: What is in place?\nMiyazaki: Our lips. Hers was so sweet. Sweeter than before\u2026 Cursed noses.\nAgent Sato: What about noses?\nMiyazaki: Cursed things that bind us from really loving.\nAgent Sato: Is this conviction formed from the video you watched?\nMiyazaki: Yes. It was filled with loving truth.\nAgent Sato: (Sighs) We will have to see about that.\nMiyazaki: Manami?\nAgent Sato: Again, she is doing fine.\nMiyazaki: Can I see her?\nAgent Sato: Not at this time but you will soon. Thank you for speaking with me. I will leave you to rest.\nMiyazaki: Wait, if you see her, tell her I can't wait to see her face again.\nAgent Sato: I will be sure to tell her.\n[END LOG]\nAfterword: Agent Sato was going to interview the subject's significant other, Manami Shimakura, but she had expired due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Cover story of the couples' injuries was labeled to be the result of a car accident.\n\nAddendum 02: Transcript of SCP-5906's contents.\n\nVIDEO LOG\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nTitle card is presented, stating \"XOXO proudly presents: How to perfectly kiss vertically\" in red colored font.\nVideo cuts to a man and a woman in formal attire. Both appear to be of Asian descent, and in their twenties. They have not been able to be identified. The two are seated on a red couch with a table in front of them that is partially out of the frame. The man begins to speak directly at the camera.\nUnknown Male: Hello everyone. Today, we are going to show you XOXO's1 guide on how to perfectly kiss your spouse vertically. This is a whole new level to have in a romantic relationship since our nose hinders us from it.\nUnknown Male: Let me ask you this. Have you ever felt cheated that you had to crook your head to the side to kiss your significant other because of your nose? It's like crooking your heart. It's an unnecessary obstacle just to show a loved one affection. It's worse if you have a large nose.\nUnknown Male: In this guide, we will demonstrate the removal of our nasally bondage. It is the ultimate release and aphrodisiac.\nUnknown Female: Sure is!\nUnknown Male: First step, get something sharp to use. (Reaches to the table and is now holding a pair of long scissors.) Any blade will do but scissors are recommended.\nWoman reaches to the table to acquire scissors herself. She continuously smiles at the camera.\nUnknown Male: Scissors are perfect since they have two blades for two holes for you to insert them (Lifts nose up to show off nostrils). Other than scissors, you could use the claw of a hammer or even a sharp pencil if you lack a good blade. Once you have something, you can attempt removal.\nBoth individuals raise the scissors up to their faces. The male places the blades into his nostrils before continuing to speak.\nUnknown Male: Some quick trivia. Did you know studies have found the nose to be the primary cause for all troubles in a relationship? That means without a nose, there would be less to no heartbreak in the world. 10 out 10 people agree. Studies have also found that tilting your head for a kiss does in fact crook the soul. It is also like crossing your fingers during a promise. Anyway, let us resume the guide.\nThe man jams the scissors further up his nostrils. Blood can be seen leaking out. The woman places her nose between the blades of the scissor.\nUnknown Male: I almost forgot. You will have a bit of a small nosebleed, but once that nose is gone you will never have to worry about that ever again. Have some tissues nearby just in case. Now, closely watch us.\nThe two proceed to remove their noses. They pull at the top of their noses as they cut it. Blood begins to stream down their faces. Subjects do not display any pain responses and perform the procedure without pausing.\nUpon completion, the subjects throw their severed noses onto the table. Male begins to talk but partially struggles due to blood flowing over his mouth. Woman is smiling at the camera.\nUnknown Male: Wow, such a release. I feel like a new man (Chuckles).\nUnknown Female: You have a bit dangling there. (Points at a small piece of the upper cartilage that is hanging from the male subject.)\nUnknown Male: I will trim it later. (To the camera) Now we will demonstrate the kiss. This is what it looks like to kiss vertically without that pesky nose.\nThe two subjects proceed to kiss each other, smearing blood around their mouths. They press hard on each others' faces. Subjects cease and look at the camera.\nUnknown Male: See how nice that looks? The absent nose is like a second mouth, which is like getting two kisses at the same time. The folds of freshly cut flesh meet those of your partner as if they will fuse to one another. It feels like being whole. Whole with our newly-made hole. Through our hole. Holes. (Spits out blood)\nUnknown Female: (Still looking at the camera) So handsome.\nUnknown Male: It is definitely an attractive new look anyone can have. So pure, so right. Nothing compares to being able to perfectly kiss that special someone vertically and close.\nThe two are silent while staring at the camera for six seconds. Both then proceed to talk to each other.\nUnknown Male: I wonder why we were ever cursed this way to begin with.\nUnknown Female: I don't know. Can you imagine?\nUnknown Male: Maybe if I tried.\nUnknown Female: Maybe.. It is probably easy, too. That's if we could even imagine at all.\nUnknown Male: Maybe we don't need to bother with imagining that. All one needs is love in the present as a guide.\nUnknown Female: Perhaps. Who even cares about the past anymore? Not XOXO, that is for sure.\nUnknown Male: (Looks at the camera) Thanks for watching this guide. XOXO is happy to help you with your relationships. Until next time, we hope you all have a wonderful life. Goodbye!\nUnknown Female: Bye!\nStock audio of people clapping is played. The camera slowly looks down at the severed noses on the table, and slowly zooms in on them. Briefly one can see the legs of the two subjects move away from the table. Sounds of rushing footsteps could be heard.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfterword: SCP-5906 ends with red text on a black background. The text reads, \"See more guides by XOXO\" with a list of supposed guides they have produced. They are titled:\n\n\"How to French kiss with all of your tongue without restrictions\"\n\"How to know if your partner is honest through enhanced interrogation techniques for a healthy relationship\"\n\"How to actually heat things up in bed\"\n\nThese guides have yet to be encountered by the Foundation.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Pronounced as it is spelled than as an abbreviation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5905 | SCP-5906 | SCP-5907 \u00bb"}
{"text": "THIS IS A TRUE STORY.\n\nThe anomaly described in this document first occurred in Minnesota in 1996. As per Foundation policy, none of the names have been changed. The rest of the events are described exactly as they occurred.\n\nItem #: SCP-5910\nObject Class: Safe\n\nThe highway on which Provisional Site-96 is situated.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Foundation has purchased two hundred acres of agricultural land (Provisional Site-96) along the highway on which SCP-5910 occurs. MTF Epsilon-6 (\u201cVillage Idiots\u201d) are to maintain patrols in the area and attend to any unauthorised activity. Personnel are to undergo frequent countermemetic inoculation to prevent the continuous manifestation of objects associated with SCP-5910.\nA disinformation campaign has been launched to hide the original filming location of the scene in question. Web crawler F1N.K has been deployed to remove or otherwise alter online accounts of the film's production to maintain this cover; contemporary SCP-5910 events are thought to be the result of physical media relating to the shooting of Fargo. Attempts to locate these are ongoing.\nIndividuals suspected to have been involved in a successful SCP-5910 event are to have their assets and finances seized under the pretence of a tax investigation.\n\nDescription: SCP-5910 is a phenomenon related to the 1996 thriller film Fargo. In order for an SCP-5910 event to become active, a series of conditions must be met:\n\nThe viewer has seen Fargo at least once, and/or is able to recall a majority of the film's narrative and plot points. It must be noted that the viewer does not need to have seen the entirety of the film, except for two scenes which appear to be essential in order for an SCP-5910 event to begin \u2013 the opening title sequence, and the scene in which Steve Buscemi's character Carl Showalter buries the ransom money in the snow.\nThe viewer has made an active effort to research the film's production, most notably shooting locations. The affected individual has then been able to identify the precise real-life location of the scene in which Showalter buries the money.\nThe state of Minnesota has received seven or more inches of snow, or is forecast to receive a similar amount in the coming days.\nThe individual does not reside in any of the towns surrounding the filming location.\n\nAn affected individual will demonstrate a strong conviction that the film's events have a basis in reality \u2013 even when presented with evidence that suggests otherwise \u2013 and that \u201cShowalter\u201d's money remains buried in Minnesota. Data collected from online streaming services, weather forecasts, and search engine trends suggests that up to 4% of viewers could meet the criteria for activating SCP-5910 at any given time \u2013 however, the number of individuals who attempt travel to Minnesota lies in the region of 0.002%. Tests have shown that there is no compulsive element to the phenomenon.\nIn the event that an individual travels to the relevant location before the snow has melted, a windshield scraper (identical in appearance to the prop used as a marker in the film) will manifest at the roadside when the subject enters a radius of three kilometers1. Following manifestation, the subject and any other individuals who may have taken an interest in the scraper's appearance are able to interact with the anomaly (see Discovery), including those with a minimal knowledge of Fargo. Local residents, and individuals involved in the film's production, are unable to be inducted into an SCP-5910 event directly, though may interact with the manifestation when another individual has rendered it active.\nDigging through the snow at the scraper's location when SCP-5910 is active will reveal a leather briefcase containing nine hundred twenty thousand US dollars. Should the recipient fail to spend or bank this money within one hour of discovery, it is prone to demanifestation. This has prevented many word-of-mouth reports of the phenomenon being taken seriously, thus minimizing its credibility in the public consciousness.\n\n+ Discovery\n\n- Discovery\n\nOn 2002/02/12, Italian student Bruno Mazzuccelli was found deceased from a single gunshot wound at the side of a rural Minnesota highway. Local farmhand Kyle Kingsley was arrested the following morning in connection with his murder, having called a local bank to enquire about making a deposit of nearly a million dollars. This was flagged as \"abnormal\" and authorities were notified. A firearm found on Kingsley's property during the subsequent investigation was matched with the bullet used to kill Mazzuccelli.\nKingsley told county police that he and Mazzuccelli had met on the roadside when both attempted to retrieve \"a case full of money\". The two men were unknown to each other, and no such money was recovered during the investigation. Kingsley claimed to have no knowledge of its whereabouts, and seemed oblivious to Fargo and its connection to the local area.\nIt is believed that Mazzuccelli met the criteria for activating an SCP-5910 event and had travelled from his native Italy in search of the buried money. Kingsley had been driving in the area minutes before Mazzuccelli arrived, noticing the buried scraper which had manifested just prior. Kingsley was counting the money when he was first accosted by Mazzuccelli, and drew his firearm in self-defence. Unable to corroborate this story with evidence of the money, Kingsley was charged with second-degree murder.\n\n+ Interview Log 2002/04/16\n\n- Interview Log 2002/04/16\n\nInterviewed: Pete Stavanger\nInterviewer: Agent Maurice Halliday\nForeword: The Foundation arranged an interview with Pete Stavanger, a local who had been employed on the set of Fargo as a runner. Stavanger had been present during the shooting of the ransom burial scene. Agent Halliday was posing as a film writer for the Star Tribune newspaper.\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Halliday: Good morning, Mr Stavanger.\nPete Stavanger: Hi Mr\u2026 Westmore?\nAgent Halliday: Ah, Darryl will be fine.\nPete Stavanger: No problem. So, uh, you wanna talk about my \u201cHollywood career\u201d? Was an interesting month or so, but I'm sure there's more interesting people you could go after.\nAgent Halliday: I'm looking for locals, people who helped on Fargo. Some of that was shot near here, correct?\nPete Stavanger: That's right. You know that scene, where Buscemi buries the money? Just down the highway over there.\nAgent Halliday: And you helped on that bit?\nPete Stavanger: You betcha. Set it all up. I can tell ya, it didn't snow as much as they wanted that year. So they had to truck in a load of snow. Helped them shovel it.\nAgent Halliday: And you tidied it up, right? Didn't just leave a case of bills under the ice?\nPete Stavanger: Well, of course not. Joel and Ethan2 were really picky about leaving stuff behind on set. \u2018Course, some people still believe it was real. The money, I mean.\nAgent Halliday: Yeah, I can imagine.\nPete Stavanger: Oh yah, you know that Italian kid got shot, couple of months back? Like something out of a Coen flick in itself. Some folk say he went looking for the cash.\nAgent Halliday: You believe that?\nPete Stavanger: Nah, \u2018course not. They got some farm kid from around here. Must have been trespassing or something. I guess people really wanna believe, you know? Use stuff from fiction to help them rationalize.\nAgent Halliday: I mean, that's a dream, right? Almost a million dollars, just\u2026 there in the snow.\nPete Stavanger: You know how that movie starts, right? This is a true story, and all that.\nAgent Halliday: Mhm. I could believe it, if I didn't know any better. Stranger things have happened in this world than an extortion plot gone bad.\nPete Stavanger: I suppose it's\u2026 well, there's that saying, you know? If you make enough people buy into a falsehood, eventually it becomes the truth.\n<End Log>\n\nIncident Log 2017/02/11: On the morning of 2017/02/11, a Caucasian male resembling American actor Steven Buscemi accosted members of MTF Epsilon-6 who were carrying out a routine patrol. The individual had been \"frantically digging in the snow\"3 when it was discovered, and was described as having injuries consistent with those of a facial gunshot wound. The individual acted in an aggressive manner before being apprehended by guards. Following two minutes of detention in a humanoid containment chamber, the individual was observed to dematerialize.\nAt the time of the incident, the site had been under Foundation control for almost fifteen years, and no successful SCP-5910 manifestations had occurred since testing concluded in January of 2005.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Personnel at Provisional Site-96 have observed this manifestation event during Foundation-initiated SCP-5910 events.\n2. Joel and Ethan Coen, who wrote and directed Fargo.\n3. Statement from MTF Epsilon-6 operative.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5909 | SCP-5910 | SCP-5911 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5911\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5911 during a dormant period.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A 1 kilometer perimeter must be maintained around SCP-5911 at all times. Outpost-237 has been established in the rural entertainment plaza in which SCP-5911 is located and is tasked with monitoring for potential trespassers.\nAny civilians attempting to enter SCP-5911 are to be detained and assessed for possible exposure to SCP-5911-1. Cleared subjects may be released at the discretion of the Outpost Coordinator.\nAutomated web crawlers have been deployed to identify and censor any online references to SCP-5911-1. Any web domains claiming to represent SCP-5911-1 are to be seized and shut down indefinitely. Foundation assets in the United States Postal Service have been tasked with identifying and destroying any material referencing SCP-5911-1.\nIf an instance of SCP-5911-1 is identified, Outpost-237 is to be alerted and prepped for an increase in potential trespassers. Any Foundation personnel exposed to SCP-5911-1 are not permitted within 10 kilometers of SCP-5911.\nAs of this writing, no instances of SCP-5911-2 have been observed exiting SCP-5911. Outpost-237 has been outfitted with humanoid containment cells in the event that an instance of SCP-5911-2 does exit SCP-5911.\nTesting is currently suspended pending Ethics Committee review.\nDescription: SCP-5911 is an abandoned movie theater, originally branded as a Carmike Cinemas, located approximately 65 kilometers north of Jacksonville, Florida. When dormant, the structure contains ten screening rooms as well as a concession stand and reception area near the front entrance.\nDuring dormant periods, SCP-5911 displays no anomalous properties. It is only upon the manifestation of an instance of SCP-5911-1 that the structure's anomalous properties activate.\nSCP-5911-1 is the designation for an anomalous event known as the North Florida Independent Film Festival. SCP-5911-1 manifests seemingly at random, with dormant periods lasting anywhere from 8 weeks to 24 months. All instances of SCP-5911-1 naturally end approximately 14 days after manifestation.\nDuring an active period, SCP-5911-1 will attempt to contact civilians within a 600 kilometer radius of SCP-5911. SCP-5911-1 exclusively targets subjects that express a passion for cinema in some capacity, with filmmakers being especially vulnerable to its negative effects. Communication attempts typically take the form of physical mailers as well as targeted advertisements on social media. A physical source for these materials has not been identified.\nThese materials invariably attempt to persuade readers to submit an original film of their making to SCP-5911-1. Below is a typical example of these materials:\n\nCALLING ALL FILMMAKERS, WE NEED YOU! SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW!\nThe North Florida Independent Film Festival is back for our 10th consecutive year at the beautiful Carmike 10, and you're invited to join the festivities! Here at the NFIFF, we're excited to announce our annual opportunity1 for local filmmakers to submit their original films for a chance to screen at this year's festival.\nQualifying films will be screened in full at the festival, with free admission and drink tokens for the entire cast and crew! It doesn't matter if it's a home video or a Hollywood production, we're dedicated to showcasing the true spirit of independent filmmaking.\nFeaturing over 150+ films over three weekends, the NFIFF is the largest and only Oscar-accredited film festival on the First Coast. Come mingle with acclaimed filmmakers, award-winning celebrities, and other movie fanatics just like you!\nYou can submit your original film online at [DATA EXPUNGED] or you can mail in a physical copy to [DATA EXPUNGED].\n\nAny person or persons (hereby referred to as \u201csubjects\u201d) who submits an original film to SCP-5911-1 will receive an invitation to a festival screening within two days. Invitations will direct subjects to SCP-5911 and inform them of the time and date of their screening, typically within one week of submission.\nIf a subject enters SCP-5911 on the date provided, they will be instantly transported to an isolated pocket dimension cosmetically resembling the non-anomalous interior of the structure.2 The reception area has been slightly modified to accommodate a film festival, with a guest check-in station and full bar near the concession stand. Various decorations mentioning SCP-5911-1 by name can also be found in this area.\nOnce inside the theater, subjects will be unable to exit the structure by any means.\n\n+ Addendum: SCP-5911-1 Film Log\n\n- Addendum: SCP-5911-1 Film Log\n\nAs part of an exploratory mission into SCP-5911, MTF Omega-11 (\u201cOcean's Eleven\u201d) placed a recording device in one of the projection rooms inside the structure. This is a brief selection of films captured by that device.\n\nTitle: Bubble\nDuration: 0:09:13\nDescription: A red bubble floats through a pastoral landscape. The camera follows the bubble for six minutes before it pops. The camera remains static on an open field for the remainder of the runtime.\n\nTitle: The Wind Tells All\nDuration: 0:19:04\nDescription: A poacher hunts for rare and exotic birds in the bamboo forests of Southeast Asia. The majority of the film focuses on the poacher in a prone position as he listens to various bird calls. At 0:17:19, a South China tiger (Panthera tigris) suddenly mauls the poacher. The tiger drags the screaming man off screen, at which point the film ends.\n\nTitle: Home, or So They Call It\nDuration: 1:38:20\nDescription: Set in the 1950s, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny stars as Mary Lloyd, a bored and self-destructive housewife living a double-life as a street prostitute. The film consists largely of Mary's sexual encounters with various men, with each encounter being increasingly disturbing in nature. Eventually, Mary's husband (played by Gregory Peck)3 discovers her in the act. A scuffle ensues, and Mary stabs him to death. She then drives home and suffocates her teenage son in his bed before stripping naked and walking outside. The film ends as Mary walks nude down a suburban road.\n\nTitle: Whiplash'd\nDuration: 0:59:58\nDescription: Documentary featurette featuring two unknown film critics discussing the 2014 film Whiplash. Analysis overlooks key plot elements and overemphasizes the role of the \"Madonna/Whore\" dichotomy, which is largely absent from the source material. At the 0:38:12 mark, both critics begin repeating the phrase \"Are you rushing or are you dragging?\" to each other for the remainder of the film's runtime.\n\nTitle: Millie\nDuration: 2:05:12\nDescription: Documentary feature about the life of child star Millie Bobby Brown. The film documents the period between her rise to stardom until to her untimely death by overdose at age 27.4\n\nTitle: 1898\nDuration: 2:45:51\nDescription: Set in the Spanish-American war, the film stars Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet as Private Clarke Jones, an American soldier stationed in the Philippines. After falling in love with a Filipino prisoner of war, Jones plots to break the man out of prison. The two are eventually captured and executed by the United States Army.\n\nTitle: Pixar's Up\nDuration: 1:36:04\nDescription: Live-action remake of the Pixar film Up. All human actors retain their character's stylized proportions, resulting in grotesque bodily abnormalities. No other diversions from the original film have been noted.\n\nTitle: Lily's Pet\nDuration: 1:49:13\nDescription: The film stars actor Shia Lebouf as Jason, a homeless man who derives pleasure from harming animals. Jason eventually falls in love with Lily, a young social worker with a love for dogs. The two develop a romantic relationship, but Jason is plagued with fantasies of killing her 6-month old Boston terrier.\n\nTitle: The Hidden Secrets of the SCP Foundation\nDuration: 9:45:09\nDescription: [DATA EXPUNGED]\n\n+ Addendum: Discovery Report\n\n- Addendum: Discovery Report\n\nThe Foundation was first alerted to the existence of SCP-5911 after the 2016 disappearance of an independent film crew from Savannah, Georgia. Foundation assets in local law enforcement were able to use cellular data to trace the subjects' last known location to SCP-5911.\nInitial expeditions reported no signs of anomalous activity in or around SCP-5911, but leaflets with references to SCP-5911-1 were recovered from the scene. Surveillance footage taken from the area revealed that the subjects had vanished upon stepping inside SCP-5911. Initial attempts to recreate this effect failed.\nAt the urging of Dr. Candace Sydney, Director of Scientific Arts at Site-426, the Foundation authorized the production of a short film to be submitted to SCP-5911-1 in an attempt to activate SCP-5911's anomalous properties.\nAfter several revisions, a screenplay written by Dr. Sydney was approved and a modest budget was allocated to the project. Dr. Sydney would serve as the film's director, and additional cast and crew members were sourced from Mobile Task Force Omega-11 (Ocean's Eleven).\nBelow is an excerpt from the approved final script.\n\nINT. STAFF QUARTERS - EVENING\nDR. HARMON LUNN is sitting in the dark, all alone except for the stiff drink in his hand.\nHe scribbles at his note pad with a serious expression. These incident reports don't write themselves.\nA KNOCK at the door breaks his concentration.\n\nDR. LUNN\nIt's open.\n\nA beep, and the door slides open.\nThe silhouette of RESEARCHER JILLIAN GRAVES brings warmth to Dr. Lunn's heart.\n\nJILLIAN\nAm I interrupting anything?\n\nDR. LUNN\nJust finishing up some notes.\n\nJILLIAN\nYour notes are always so thorough.\n\nDR. LUNN\nI take my responsibilities at the Foundation very seriously.\n\nJILLIAN\nI can tell, your office is immaculate.\n\nDR. LUNN\nOf course, I clean it twice a week in compliance with official guidelines.\n\nJILLIAN\nI love a man who sticks to standard operating procedures.\n\nShe smiles.\n\nCUT TO:\n\nUpon completion of post-production, Dr. Sydney was approved to submit the film to SCP-5911-1. She and the entirety of MTF Omega-11 received invitations to SCP-5911-1 the following day.\n\n+ RESTRICTED: Level 4 Clearance\n\n- Clearance Granted: SCP-5911 Exploration Log\n\nNote: On January 12, 2019, MTF Omega-11 was tasked with infiltrating and exploring SCP-5911 during an active period. Outpost-237 was established near SCP-5911 to facilitate communications and logistics, and Dr. Sydney was assigned the position of Outpost Coordinator.\n\nSECURE DOCUMENT\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nOutpost Coordinator - Dr. Candace Sydney\nO11-1 (Hitchcock, Team Leader)\nO11-2 (Tarantino, Weapons and Security)\nO11-3 (Nolan, Weapons and Security)\nO11-4 (Kubrick, Communications and Surveillance)\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMTF Omega-11 activates their body cameras.\nHitchcock: Testing. Outpost, do you read?\nDr. Sydney: Affirmative, you're coming through loud and clear.\nHitchcock: Copy. We're set to approach the structure now.\nThe team approaches the entrance to SCP-5911. MTF-Hitchcock enters first, followed by MTF-Nolan, MTF-Kubrick, and MTF-Tarantino. Outpost records a loss of direct visual contact with MTF O-11.\nDr. Sydney: Confirming loss of visuals. We're still picking up your feeds, though.\nHitchcock: Copy that.\nThe team enters the reception area. Banners, balloons, and streamers are now present in the lobby. Velvet ropes separate the reception area from the concession booth and the individual theater entrances. A banner overhanging the lobby reads \u201cWelcome to the North Florida Independent Film Festival!\u201d\nNolan: What's that?\nHitchcock: Contact, unknown entity.\nThe team aims their rifles at an instance of SCP-5911-2 standing by the ticket stand. The humanoid entity is wearing a classic red and gold usher's uniform, complete with hat and white gloves. The entity is of caucasian complexion and lacks any discernible facial features. The entity extends its right palm forward.\nHitchcock: It's not attacking. Orders?\nDr. Sydney: Please present your tickets to the SCP-5911-2 instance.\nHitchcock: Copy. Kube, tickets.\nKubrick hands four tickets to the entity. It tears the tickets, returns the stubs, then discards the remnants into an ornate box.\nNolan: Anyone else smell fresh popcorn?\nTarantino: Affirmative. Smells pretty damn good.\nThree instances of SCP-5911-2 are working behind the concessions counter.\nOne of the instances lifts an empty popcorn bag to its head. A small hole appears in the center of the entity's face and rapidly expands, covering nearly the entirety of the instance's face. The entity regurgitates a stream of hot popcorn into the bag. When full, the hole in the entity's face closes once again.\nTarantino: Okay, I take back what I said about the popcorn.\nHitchcock: Outpost, can you run a playback and see if those things were here when we arrived?\nDr. Sydney: Yes, one second.\nThe researchers at Outpost 267 review the footage and conclude that the instances were not present upon the team's entry.\nDr. Sydney: Looks like they manifested some time after you came in. It's possible that SCP-5911 can manifest these entities at will. (To Junior Researcher Holland) Make a note of that.\nHitchcock: Copy that, I want everyone on high alert. Just because these things haven't tried to kill us yet doesn't mean they won't try it eventually.\nMTF Omega-11 approaches the concession stand. There are two hallways to either side, each lined with theater entrances and extending out of sight.\nHitchcock: Let's stick together, we'll clear the left hallway before moving onto the right.\nDr. Sydney: Reminder, documenting the premiere of [REDACTED] is mission priority.\nHitchcock: Copy that. Nolan, watch the clock for us and make sure we don't miss our big premiere.\nMTF-Nolan sets an alarm on his wristwatch before following MTF-Hitchcock into the leftmost hallway. MTF Omega-11 proceeds down the hallway until they reach the first theater entrance, marked \u201cTheater #1\u201d. The team enters the theater and emerges into a darkened corridor. Orchestral music can be heard coming from the end of the hall.\nKubrick: The floor is sticky.\nHitchcock:: Outpost, you want us to grab any samples?\nDr. Sydney: Negative, the films are what matter.\nHitchcock: Copy that. Let's get a surveillance camera running in the screening room and move onto the next theater.\nMTF Omega-11 files down the corridor and emerges into the screening room. A film is being screened, and dozens of instances of SCP-5911-2 fill the seats.\nTarantino: Holy shit.\nAn instance in the back row turns around to face MTF-Tarantino. It puts a finger up to where it's mouth should be, and an audible \u201cshh\u201d sound is heard.5\nHitchcock: (Whispering) How's that camera coming along?\nKubrick: Almost got it, just one more second.\nKubrick affixes a surveillance camera to a tripod and positions it toward the screen.\nMultiple instances of SCP-5911-2 turn to face MTF Omega-11. Each lifts their finger to their face.\nNolan: Alright, stream is live.\nHitchcock: Copy that. Outpost, please confirm.\nDr. Sydney: Looks good on our end.\nHitchcock: Alright, let's get the hell out of here.\nMTF Omega-11 exits the screening room.\nTarantino: Should we feel bad about bootlegging anomalous films?\nHitchcock: Cut the chatter.\nTarantino: I mean, you wouldn't steal a car\u2014\nMTF Omega-11 exits the Theater #1 hall. The reception area is no longer visible. Instead, the hallway appears to extend indefinitely in either direction.\nDr. Sydney: Omega-11, we just lost your transponder signals. We're trying to pin down your coordinates now.\nHitchcock: Copy that, looks like we're encountering some kind of spatial anomaly.\nDr. Sydney: Do you think this will interfere with your ability to document the premiere?\nHitchcock: I don't know. I'm a little more worried about my team right now than the movie, Outpost.\nDr. Sydney: We need to document the premiere at all costs. Proceed down the hall until you find the correct theater.\nHitchcock: With all do respect ma'am, I think we need to prioritize finding a way out of here.\nOutpost-237 does not immediately respond.\nHitchcock: Outpost Coordinator, do you copy?\nMTF O-11's radios produce nothing but static.\nHitchcock: Weapons up, team. Kube, see what you can do about our radios.\nA sharp surge of static breaks the silence.\nJr. Researcher Holland: MTF Omega-11, do you copy?\nHitchcock: Yeah, we're reading you. What's going on?\nJr. Researcher Holland: Dr. Sydney is gone.\nHitchcock: Gone? Gone where?\nJr. Researcher Holland: I'm not sure.\nTarantino: Hey dipshit, tell us what the fuck is happening!\nJr. Researcher Holland: Wait, we just picked her up on the security feed. She's approaching SCP-5911.\nHitchcock: Alert security personnel, do not let her enter the building under any circumstances!\nJr. Researcher Holland: Security is on the way, but she's almost at the door. Can your team rendezvous with her in the lobby?\nHitchcock: Negative, do not let her enter the building!\nAt this moment, MTF-Nolan's wristwatch begins to beep. He spots an entity in the hallway before he can deactivate the alarm.\nNolan: Contact!\nThe team turns and aims their weapons at an instance of SCP-5911-2. The instance gestures toward a theater entrance on its left. The marquee reads [REDACTED].\nTarantino: Hey, that's our movie.\nSuddenly, four instances of SCP-5911-2 materialize behind MTF Omega-11. The instances work in synchrony to grab each team member from behind at once.\nHitchcock: Weapons free!\nThe SCP-5911-2 instances manage to immediately disarm agents Hitchcock and Kubrick. MTF-Nolan fires a three-round burst, but misses the entities. He is then disarmed.\nMTF-Tarantino wrests away from the instance closest to him and fires seven rounds into the entity's chest. The SCP-5911-2 is largely unaffected, and works in tandem with another instance to bring MTF-Tarantino to the ground.\nTarantino: Get your motherfucking hands off me!\nThe instances apply pressure to MTF-Tarantino's arms, and an audible snap is heard. He screams.\nMTF Omega-11 is forced into the theater by the SCP-5911-2 instances.\nThe theater is filled with instances of SCP-5911-2. MTF Omega-11's entrance is greeted with applause.\nThe team is led to the front row of the theater, where they are forced into four empty seats in the middle of the aisle. The SCP-5911-2 instances begin excreting an unknown gelatinous substance from their oral cavities, using it to affix the team into their seats. Excretions are also applied to the team's mouths, making them unable to speak beyond muffled grunts.\nThe team's cameras are faced toward the blank screen. Audio recording devices detect a spike in applause shortly before Dr. Sydney walks into frame. She is holding a wireless microphone and waves toward the crowd.\nDr. Sydney: Thank you all for coming out to support my little film!\nShe pauses for applause to dwindle.\nDr. Sydney: As many of you know, filmmaking has always been something deeply personal for me. I always dreamt of being up here one day, making the corny speech before the lights dim and the real movie magic begins. I would not be here today if it wasn't for the support of my loving parents, the love of my husband Greg and, of course, the SCP Foundation for financing this project. Without them, none of us would be in this room today. Let's give a round of applause to the SCP Foundation, everyone!\nThe audience cheers and claps. MTF-Hitchcock's camera briefly turns to face the rest of MTF Omega-11. The unknown substance covering their mouths slowly spreads outward in all directions.\nDr. Sydney: And let's keep it going for the North Florida Independent Film Festival! Such an amazing organization that's doing incredible work in keeping the spirit of indie filmmaking alive and thriving! I am so grateful for this opportunity and I'm looking forward to joining your permanent roster of in-house filmmakers. It is truly an honor, and I know my cast and crew feels the same way.\nAs the applause subsides, Dr. Sydney gestures to MTF Omega-11. The substance has successfully spread across the entirety of the agents' faces. MTF Omega-11 begin to thrash in their seats.\nDr. Sydney: I want to thank these four amazingly talented men for helping bring my creative vision to life. It was their hard work and sacrifice that made this movie possible. Together, we will continue to make original films for years to come. I can't thank you enough, you guys rock!\nDistorted laughter from the audience. The unknown substance begins sloughing off the agents in chunks, revealing blank faces with no discernible features.\nDr. Sydney: They say the actor's job is to remove themselves from the material, so that the soul of the character can truly inhabit their bodies. If there is one thing that I've learned as a director, it's that the best actors are blank canvases.\nThe substances affixing MTF Omega-11 to their seats completely dissolves, and the team rises. They join Dr. Sydney on stage.\nDr. Sydney: So without further ado, I'd like to welcome you all to the world premiere of my film, [REDACTED]. I hope you all enjoy watching the movie as much as we enjoyed making it. Be sure to stick around after the screening for a Q&A with the director - moi - as well as the surviving members of the cast and crew! Enjoy!\nThe theater goes dark as the projector activates.\nAt this time, all monitors in Outpost 237 go black. Surveillance team loses MTF visuals.\nAfter a moment, the monitors reboot. All monitors now display the opening credits of \"[REDACTED], a film by Dr. Candace Sydney\".\n[END LOG]\n\nNote: After the loss of MTF Omega-11 and Dr. Sydney, testing was done to determine whether or not Dr. Sydney had been afflicted by a previously unknown cognitohazard related to SCP-5911-1. Results were inconclusive. Containment procedures have been updated to reflect these findings.\nAll testing has been suspended, and priorities shifted to containment of SCP-5911.\n\nFootnotes\n1. There is no evidence that SCP-5911-1 follows an annual schedule.\n2. Testing has indicated that individuals who have not submitted a film to SCP-5911-1 will not experience this effect, and will simply walk into the theater with no negative consequences.\n3. This is the first recorded instance of non-contemporaneous actors appearing in the same film.\n4. The Foundation is currently monitoring Ms. Brown in connection with SCP-5911. As of this writing, approximately 70% of future events described in Millie have transpired in reality.\n5. Observations suggest that SCP-5911-2 instances have a limited capacity for vocalization, although the mechanism behind these vocalizations has not been identified at this time.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5910 | SCP-5911 | SCP-5912 \u00bb"}
{"text": "N/A\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem #: SCP-5912\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5912 is kept in a standard containment chamber within Site-17's Low-risk objects wing.\nThe containment chamber is to be furnished with a variety of furniture and similar items measuring no more than 1.5 meters in height, to ensure SCP-5912 remains at a manageable size for convenience of containment. These items are to be rearranged weekly and replaced if significant damage occurs.\nDescription: SCP-5912 is a humanoid entity measuring 3cm in height. Its physical exterior resembles a humanoid dressed in arctic mountain climbing attire, as if covering their entire body and obscuring their face, resembling that worn by Chinese mountaineers during the late 1960s. Medical scans show SCP-5912's interior to consist entirely of ice-water, sugar, and granite. SCP-5912's body temperature remains consistently at 0\u00b0C and it has no need for sustenance or sleep to survive.\nGrowing out of SCP-5912's back is a mound identical to a miniature rucksack. Equipped to it are several pieces of detachable tools and utensils, including an ice-pickaxe, grappling hook and rope, and a trekking pole. SCP-5912 is capable of opening the top of this appendage and producing various other pieces of mountaineering tools from within. SCP-5912 will only do so if any of its current tools go missing or become unusable from damage. While SCP-5912 shows to have no need for sustenance, it will accept fruit prepared small enough to fit into its rucksack appendage, particularly clementines and strawberries. It is unknown what happens to fruits stored.\nSCP-5912 expresses signs of consciousness, although the extent of its intelligence and awareness is unknown. SCP-5912 does not appear capable of communicating with or understanding Foundation personnel. SCP-5912 is primarily interested in scaling nearby structures and objects, utilizing its climbing equipment to do so.\nWhile SCP-5912 climbs a structure or object, the item in question will gradually become affected by anomalous phenomena. Phenomena manifest as miniature snow-storm clouds above the top of the item, alongside other weather phenomena including wind, and the temperature directly surrounding the item to lower below 2\u00b0C, allowing falling snow to stick to and pile on the object's surface. Weather phenomena will increase in intensity as SCP-5912 continues scaling, causing storm clouds to expand in size, resulting in heavier snowfall and stronger blizzards. While these effects greatly hinder SCP-5912's attempts to climb further, it will attempt to continue climbing regardless of difficulty.\nSCP-5912 will continue scaling the item until it has reached the top, whereupon it will produce a miniature Chinese flag from its rucksack appendage and stick it onto the item. SCP-5912 will often remain at the top for several minutes examining the view, during which it will usually perform various gestures, such as extending its arms outwards and looking up, placing its hands on either side of its waist, or jumping with an arm raised into the air, before scaling back down again. Upon reaching the bottom, SCP-5912 will usually attempt to search for and scale any additional structures nearby.\nIf no objects are available for SCP-5912 to climb, it will enter an idle state, performing actions and expressing physical indications conveying boredom and a decline in attitude. If left in this state for elongated periods of time without stimuli, SCP-5912 will gradually begin decreasing in size. How SCP-5912 performs this is unknown, however water will exude from its body during this process.\nDiscovery Log: SCP-5912 was discovered in Shouguang, China climbing \"Jingshan\", a local tourist attraction dubbed the smallest mountain in China, shortly following its official classification as a mountain1.\nSCP-5912 was initially recovered at the top of the mountain's peak, from inside a miniature camping tent it had set-up along with a foldable camping chair and gas-lantern, examining a small piece of folded paper. Inspection of the paper revealed it to be a miniaturized travel brochure written in Chinese, advertising climbing spots in the local area.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Measuring 0.6 meters in height, due to a majority of the mountain's mass remaining underground, with only its peak being visible.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5911 | SCP-5912 | SCP-5913 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5914\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5914 is kept in a secure insectoid container in Site-141's Euclid wing. Three members of personnel with a Cognitive Resistance Score of 6.7 must be present when feeding; one member to insert the live crickets, two members to observe and reaffirm SCP-5914's position. Currently, there are ten SCP-5914 instances within the container.\nUPDATE: Testing Chamber 0772 is to remain sealed until further notice.\nDescription: SCP-5914 is an anomalous species of black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia). Distinct features include an unnatural size compared to non-anomalous counterparts1 and the absence of the tibia in the hind legs.\nSCP-5914 passively imposes a cognitive effect on nearby lifeforms. Those viewing it will become unaware of its exact location after looking away from it for a brief amount of time. This persists as long as the viewer is unable to locate it through assistance, i.e. verbal direction.\nSCP-5914 Test Log: Upon containment, entry testing began to confirm the anomalous effect present in SCP-5914. The procedure involved one D-Class subject in Testing Chamber 0772, whereupon SCP-5914 was freely released. Six Site-141 personnel were present for observation and post-test retrieval.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\n00:00: D-2012 is sat in the center of the testing cell, blindfolded. Observing personnel run their final check on the Digital Cognitive-Bypass Scanner (DC-BS) before giving the cue to release the SCP-5914 specimen.\n00:05: The SCP-5914 specimen is brought into the room by a member of security. He sets down the cage and promptly leaves the room. D-2012 is startled by the noise of the cage hitting the floor.\n00:06: The cage is opened remotely by observing personnel. D-2012 is told through the intercom to remove their blindfold, which they do.\n00:07: D-2012 visibly squirms in their seat, raising their legs off the ground. They yell out that they are not comfortable with the test and request to leave. The request is denied. Dr. Lothrop makes a verbal note of D-2012's arachnophobia and to later add it to their profile.\n00:09: Dr. Lothrop asks D-2012 to look away from SCP-5914. D-2012 refuses. The request is made again and D-2012 refuses, commenting on the size of the specimen and shrinking back into their seat slightly.\n00:11: Two personnel hold a discussion on how to progress with the test while the rest observe SCP-5914. It remains still.\n00:12: A severe thunderstorm warning is issued for the area.\n00:13: Dr. Lothrop makes a proposal to D-2012: in exchange for their total cooperation for the remainder of the test, they may request additional amenities for their holding cell. D-2012 hesitates for a moment, then requests a new bed. Dr. Lothrop agrees.\n00:15: D-2012 is asked to look away from SCP-5914. D-2012 complies, closing their eyes and turning their head away. Their breathing becomes heavier.\n00:18: Dr. Lothrop instructs D-2012 to open their eyes. As they do, they look around the room. They ask where SCP-5914 is located. Lothrop informs them that they will be told after a set amount of time. D-2012 asks if it is still in the room.\n00:20: Personnel operating the DC-BS confirm and relay that SCP-5914 is in the room. D-2012 crouches on their chair.\n00:23: Personnel come to a consensus regarding SCP-5914 anomalous effects and prepare to inform D-2012.\n00:24: Dr. Lothrop speaks through the intercom and tells D-2012 that the test is now complete. Before he is able to disclose SCP-5914's location, lightning strikes nearby Site-141 and the power goes out.\n00:25: Backup generators activate and emergency lights power on. D-2012 is panting, still crouched on their seat. Personnel are unable to confirm SCP-5914's exact location. Dr. Lothrop presses further, but no personnel can confidently answer, all stating that it was too dark to see.\n00:28: A member of personnel begins rebooting the DC-BS. Lothrop asks D-2012 to remain calm as \"technical difficulties are being resolved\". They ask how long it will take. No one responds.\n00:31: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 15%. D-2012's legs visibly shake. They repeat themselves and ask how much longer they will be in the room. No one responds.\n00:35: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 30%. D-2012 demands to be let out of the testing chamber. Dr. Lothrop denies the request, stating that opening the door risks a breach in containment.\n00:38: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 40%. D-2012 states that they feel something on their leg and scratches it.\n00:42: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 55%. D-2012 begins scratching their arms. They remark that they think the specimen may be crawling on them. Dr. Lothrop informs them that is not the case and asks that they calm down.\n00:45: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 65%. D-2012 continues to scratch their arms and legs. They state that their throat feels dry. No one responds.\n00:48: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 75%. D-2012 coughs and scratches their neck and head. Tears well up into their eyes. They can be heard softly whimpering.\n00:50: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 80%.\n00:54: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 85%.\n00:59: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 90%. D-2012 is covering their mouth with their hands. Their muffled sobs can be heard through the intercom.\n01:01: DC-BS boot-up sequence at 95%. Dr. Lothrop assures them that it won't be much longer. D-2012 slowly nods their head.\n01:03: DC-BS boot-up sequence completes. Operating system start-up begins. D-2012's legs are shaking as they struggle to maintain their crouching position on the chair.\n01:04: Operating personnel immediately initiate a scan of the testing chamber. SCP-5914 is pinpointed to be on the left front leg of D-2012's chair. After the confirmation, the specimen can be clearly seen by all present personnel. A member of security is sent in to retrieve D-2012.\n01:09: Security enters the test chamber. D-2012's sobs become louder. They state that they can't see the spider. Before Dr. Lothrop can instruct security, she openly says the location of SCP-5914.\n01:10: D-2012 looks down at the chair leg. They scream and jump off of the chair, kicking it backwards into the chamber as they run to security. They are promptly escorted out.\n<END LOG>\n\nA scan of the testing chamber after the conclusion of the test revealed that SCP-5914 had clung to the chair as it was moved, resulting in the specimen being crushed by the force of impact between the chair and the wall. As such, the number of living instances has been adjusted from ten to forty.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Between 20\u201438 mm in length, approx. 7mm larger.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5913 | SCP-5914 | SCP-5915 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5915\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Disinformation Campaign \"MEDICAL MYSTERY\" and routine observation in the Gulf of Mexico remain in effect. Upon the confirmation of an SCP-5915 occurrence, Foundation agents, under the guise of emergency responders, are to amnesticize all witnesses. MTF Mu-90 (\"Sewer Rats\") are to be immediately dispatched into the public sewer system shortly after to collect any stray SCP-5915-A instances.\nDescription: SCP-5915 is a phenomenon that occurs within the city of Biloxi, Mississippi each summer. Since June 9th, 1999, up to nine Biloxi residents would be found dead every year, the cause of which being the expulsion of their brains and eyes (collectively designated SCP-5915-A.) through the back of the skull.\nEvery SCP-5915 victim is between the ages of 68 and 80, and every incident occurs on a rainy evening. SCP-5915-A's behavior immediately after, however, differs upon each occurrence. Most will attempt to escape the immediate vicinity, but some instances will attempt to force themselves through the mouths and nostrils of nearby people.\nEffectively tracking SCP-5915-A instances has proven to be difficult, as they utilize their spongy form to squeeze through toilet drains and sewer grates. The location of escaped SCP-5915-A instances is currently unknown.\n\nUpdate (09/01/2005): On the morning of August 31st, 2005, an assessment of the damages of the recent Hurricane Katrina took place along the Gulf Coast. Among the debris, first responders found an estimated 48 disembodied brains on Biloxi Beach. Each brain was found to be accompanied by an attached pair of eyes that facilitated its movement. The Foundation took notice of this and confirmed the description matched that of SCP-5915-A.\nOf the 48 instances found, 23 had fit themselves into empty seashells and 19 had begun burying themselves in the beach or piles of loose garbage. The remaining six had infiltrated the skulls of deceased hurricane victims, by means of lifting and dropping their heads onto sharp rocks and forcing the native brains and eyes out. Out of the six SCP-5915-A instances, two had achieved integration with their corpses, save for the eyes which hung loosely out of the point of entry. However, they were only capable of involuntary spasms and incoherent vocalizations due to significant brain damage.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5914 | SCP-5915 | SCP-5916 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5916\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nCharles Yung, PhD\nMTF G-6 \"Deep Feeders\" and MTF G-5 \"Red Herrings\"\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: An exclusion zone of 10002km shall be maintained around SCP-5916's own 5602km \"zone\". All flights, cruises, and vessels carrying boxers (as defined in Experiment Log 5916) must be diverted away from or around the 10002km exclusion zones. Instances of SCP-5916 are to be tracked via tag transmitters and recaptured if the transmitter becomes faulty or nonresponsive. All incidents must be investigated by Mobile Task Force Gamma-6 (\"Deep Feeders\"), coordinating with MTF Gamma-5 (\"Red Herrings\") on repression of any information relating to SCP-5916 incidents.\nDescription: SCP-5916 is the designation of six (formerly ten) great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) that inhabit the world's oceans. They generally appear to be ordinary members of the species, however, all known instances of SCP-5916 are identifiable by a large, dark patch of bruising around one of their eyes (a 'black eye'), and several missing teeth that they are evidently unable to regrow. Behaviorally, instances of SCP-5916 show no anomalous properties other than an apparent inability to stray outside a region approximately 5602km in diameter.\n\n+ [SCP-5916 INSTANCES]\n\n[ACCESS GRANTED]\n\nSCP-5916 Instances and Current Statuses\n\nDesignation\nStatus\n\nSCP-5916-1\nActive\n\nSCP-5916-2\nActive\n\nSCP-5916-3\nNeutralized\n\nSCP-5916-4\nActive\n\nSCP-5916-5\nActive\n\nSCP-5916-6\nNeutralized\n\nSCP-5916-7\nActive\n\nSCP-5916-8\nNeutralized\n\nSCP-5916-9\nNeutralized\n\nSCP-5916-10\n[REDACTED]\n\nSCP-5916's properties trigger when a professional boxer (defined as someone who has been paid to attend a refereed boxing match) enters the region.\nShortly after a boxer has entered its region of the ocean, SCP-5916 will become hostile and immediately accelerate towards the intruder at speeds in excess of Mach 6. Roughly twenty seconds before acceleration, SCP-5916's attack is preceded by a disembodied sound of a boxing bell ringing three times, which by means of observing past victims of SCP-5916 and testimonies of D-Class personnel before their deaths by SCP-5916, only the target can hear.\nSCP-5916's victim is typically obliterated upon impact, along with whatever transport they were using. All instances of SCP-5916 suffer no ill effects from the stresses and extreme heat of such speeds, instantly decelerate when their target is dead, and in cases of attacking aircraft, seem to receive no damage from falling back into the sea.\nSCP-5916 came to the Foundation's attention in 19\u2588\u2588 off the coast of Central Africa after Flight \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Airline's vanishing coincided with an oceanic sonic boom directly under its last known location. A pattern for its attack \"criteria\" was formulated after the appearance of other SCP-5916 instances, leading to current containment protocols.\n\n+ [LEVEL 2 ACCESS REQUIRED]\n\n[ACCESS GRANTED]\n\nSince Foundation monitoring began in 19\u2588\u2588, four instances of SCP-5916 have been neutralized: 5916-3, 5916-6, 5916-8, and 5916-9.\n\n5916-3: Neutralized in 19\u2588\u2588 when its body washed up on the shores of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Autopsy revealed a partially-destroyed jet turbine lodged in its throat. With no way to swallow food, 5916-3 likely starved.\n5916-6: Neutralized in 19\u2588\u2588 when it attempted to ram a Concorde jet, charging at a speed far beyond anything previously recorded. 5916-6 appears to have miscalculated its attack, missing the jet by several dozen miles and throwing itself out of Earth orbit.\n5916-8: Considered neutralized in 19\u2588\u2588 when it suddenly dove downward at attacking speed and Foundation observers lost visual. Hydrophones reveal 5916-8 suddenly disappearing almost 1km from the seabed.\n5916-9: Altercation with 5916-10.\n\n+ [LEVEL 3 ACCESS REQUIRED]\n\n[ACCESS GRANTED]\n\nSCP-5916-10 is a mobile instance of SCP-5916, not bound by a zone and swimming in a random pattern around the world's oceans. Its appearance is differentiated from the other instances of SCP-5916 by a slightly larger size and the addition of a darker patch of skin on its underbelly, resembling a championship belt, along with a long piece of coral that SCP-5916-10 carries clenched between its teeth.\nIn contrast to the other instances of SCP-5916, SCP-5916-10 chooses not to attack other boxers, and based on interviews with it, considers most unworthy opponents.\n\n+ [LEVEL 4 ACCESS REQUIRED]\n\n[ACCESS GRANTED]\n\nSCP-5916-10 is, evidently, sapient. After displaying unusual behavior near Foundation divers attempting to tag it, 5916-10 began to speak English. Though muddled by the water, setting up a mechanism to render 5916-10's speech clear was trivial, and an interview took place between Foundation researcher Dr. Yung and SCP-5916 on \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Excerpt from interview follows:\n\nDr. Yung: Do you have a name?\n5916-10: For God's sake, it's Bruce! THE Bruce! You been living under a rock?\nDr. Yung: Forgive me, but I'm not the type to keep up with sports.\n5916-10: Well, now's my turn for questions. What's that weird yellow thing you put on my fin?\nDr. Yung: It's so we can keep track of you.\n5916-10: I'm not under house arrest again, am I?\nDr. Yung: No, we want to know where you are so we can keep, uh, certain people away from you.\n5916-10: I don't bother with that. Look, I ain't young, but I'm still the champ for a reason. I got nothin' to prove, and you two-legs aren't worth the effort anyway. It's those young 'uns I have to smack down every once in a while.\nDr. Yung: You mean 5916-9?\n5916-10: Who?\nDr. Yung: The other of your kind you neutralized. \u2588\u2588/\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588? Off the coast of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588?\n5916-10: Oh, right. Little punk thought he could take me with a sucker punch. Showed him.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5915 | SCP-5916 | SCP-5917 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5917\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nScroll case containing SCP-5917-2\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\nSCP-5917-1 is to be contained in a standard anomalous-corpse cryogenic chamber in Site-99 for its preservation.\nSCP-5917-2 is to be stored in lockbox 32-12 in Site-33 secure storage zone 1 (\"The Chained Library\".)\nSCP-5917-2 is currently in the possession of GOI-5917 \u201cThe Wandsmen\u201d. The Foundation continues to attempt tracking these individuals. Their current location remains unknown.\nDescription:\nSCP-5917 is a collective designation for two items recovered from the Os Farallons islands. Both items are believed to be associated with GOI-5917.\nSCP-5917-1 is the cadaver of a previously unknown avian species. Collected evidence suggests it is the body of a being referred to as the \"Twelfth Wandsman of Kirador\".\nSCP-5917-2 is a brown parchment scroll contained in a non-anomalous silver scroll case. Attempts to unravel this scroll in its entirety have proven unsuccessful, and it consistently appears to have the exact same amount of unraveled parchment. Thus it is believed to have a functionally infinite length. All attempts to take samples of the scroll have failed, as it seems to be impossible to tear apart.\nThe scroll appears to be some sort of map, containing a series of spirals with different labeled points appearing along them. The labels change based on the native language spoken by the person holding it. Several of the labels correspond to known dimensions.\nThe illustrations on the scroll induce a feeling of severe vertigo in the viewer. The use of a cognitohazard exclusion visor partially nullifies the effects.\nStating out loud the name of one of the labeled dimensions will transport the user to a random location within that dimension, always containing habitable conditions for the user's species. Individuals who have used the map multiple times claim that there are methods of teleporting to specific locations with the application of \"will\".\nProlonged use of SCP-5917-2 alters the user's physiology into a form similar to SCP-5917-1. Continuous usage also appears to cause the user to develop an understanding of multiple languages, including several that the Foundation does not have references to in its linguistic databases. Documentation of these languages is still ongoing.\nAlterations caused by SCP-5917-2 increase with continued usage.\n\nRecovery Log 1-3-20\nSCP-5917 was recovered from the Os Farallons islands off the coast of the small fishing town of San Cibrao, Spain. Residents of San Cibrao reported that an unrecognized boat had moored there for several days and called the authorities seeking an explanation.\n\nFoundation retrieval teams investigated the site and determined that the rowboat contained a decomposing avian entity approximately 2.4 meters tall from head to foot (designated SCP-5917-1). The creature had apparently received multiple stab wounds before perishing.\nThe creature's fore-claws were wrapped around SCP-5917-2 at the time of discovery.\n\nIncident Report 2-5-20:\nResearcher Barnes was examining SCP-5917-2 with a memetic exclusion visor when he read out loud the phrase \"Spiders' Hoard\" in surprise.\nHe was immediately transported to Dimension 12-a-3-b.\n\nSide Bar: Dimension 12-a-3-b\nDimension 12-a-3-b is a recently discovered reality that consists of a system of underground tunnels containing large amount of stolen items and humans (living and dead). These items are dragged into the dimension by a group of semi-sapient giant arachnids, presumably using a currently unknown method of Inter-Dimensional Travel.\nMTF Sigma-2 (\"Corn Watchers\") discovered this dimension on 1-1-20 while investigating a series of disappearances in a rural zone of Minnesota. They found numerous large chambers similar to those dug by Ctenizidae Arachnids, commonly known as \"trapdoor spiders\".\nIn spite of radar checks showing no evidence of caverns, investigations into these chambers were conducted, revealing that they were a part of an interconnected, shifting tunnel network containing both a species of giant arachnids and their victims, many of whom were kept alive and unbound for unknown reasons. The chambers also contained a large assortment of seemingly random objects.\nItems deemed of high economic value, which had been reported missing to Minnesota State Troopers, were discovered with in the tunnels. It is believed that the giant arachnids are responsible for their presence, but they have yet to be observed collecting these items.\nPotential methods of performing search and rescue operations within this space are being discussed.\n\nResearcher Barnes arrived in a relatively calm area, but panicked upon hearing an arachnid entity moving towards him.\nHe attempted to defend himself by using a salvaged bar stool as an improvised weapon, but then realized how SCP-5917-2 functioned. He held the scroll and stated \"Home\" as his desired destination. Researcher Barnes returned to our dimension, missing his pinkies and all of the skin on his hands.\nUpon his return, he was still holding both SCP-5917-2 and the bar stool, however, the latter was stained by his blood. No blood stains were visible on SCP-5917-2.\nHis injuries healed within three days, but his hands had re-formed into a different morphology.\n\nMedical examiner's sketch of the morphology of Researcher Barnes' healed hands. Notably his hands were nearly identical to those observed on SCP-5917-1\n\nInterview Log 2-10-20:\nDirector Nakamura: Agent Briggs, can you please repeat what you just requested?\nAgent Briggs: Yes sir, I'd like to use SCP-5917-2 to attempt a rescue mission to recover Agent White.\nDirector Nakamura: For the record, Agent Briggs, do you remember what happened to Agent White?\nAgent Briggs: During our exploration into Dimension 12-a-3-b, we got surrounded by spiders. Agent White staged a distraction so the rest of us could escape. He was declared MIA.\nDirector Nakamura: And you are aware of what happened to Researcher Barnes, correct? And that we do not currently have a reconstructive method to restore him?\nAgent Briggs: Yes sir, I am aware.\nDirector Nakamura: You are also aware that Researcher Barnes had to be sedated for the duration of his recovery because he could not stop screaming?\nAgent Briggs: Permission to speak freely, sir?\nDirector Nakamura: Granted.\nAgent Briggs: Look\u2026 I'm just offering to do what any good soldier would. I'm no specialist, but the fact that Barnes pulled a chair out means I might be able to get Gerry out too\u2026\nAnd I know Gerry would trade a Hell of a lot more than his hands to save me. I don't think I could live with myself if I didn't at least try to find him.\nThere is an extended pause.\nDirector Nakamura: I'm not letting you do this without a full psychological evaluation.\nAgent Briggs: Thank you sir.\n\nRESCUE OPERATION AFTER ACTION REPORT\nOPERATION CODE NAME: WAYFINDER\nCOMMANDING OFFICER: DIRECTOR USKE NAKAMURA\nFIELD LEAD: AGENT ROGER BRIGGS\nAGENTS RECOVERED: 0\nCIVILIANS RECOVERED: 6\nINJURIES SUSTAINED: EXPECTED TRANSMOGRIFICATION\n\nPsychological evaluation 2-20-20:\nDoctor Thompson: You understand that you have no obligation to do what you're proposing. Agent Singh-\nAgent Briggs: With all due respect Doc, Penny's got her heart in the right place, but she's still green. More to the point, she's young and promising. It's better to send out an old hand like me than someone who's likely to be in charge of the whole MTF some day.\nDoctor Thompson: Agent Briggs, you were wounded in action. You could retire from the Foundation right now with full disability.\nAgent Briggs: I ain't dancing a jig about what happened doc. You know that well and good. But I'd hardly call myself disabled. Heck my grouping at the range is looking better than ever.\nDoctor Thompson: That in and of itself could be cause for concern.\nAgent Briggs: Look, there's some survivors that have built a camp down there. They ain't pushovers and they said they're keepin' their eyes peeled for Agent White. The fact of the matter is I'm the best chance Gerry's got of getting out of there. I can probably even save more Civies while I'm at it.\nDoctor Thompson: I'm glad that your empathy has survived this experience, but do you think you can be objective on this mission? You have a personal stake.\nAgent Briggs lets out a long breath, his claws drumming against the interview table.\nAgent Briggs: If y'all think it'd be better to send Penny, I'd get it. And more importantly I'm a soldier to the core. I know how to follow orders. I've said my piece though.\nDoctor Thompson: Very well\u2026 You do realize that we have no idea what repeated exposure to the map will do?\nAgent Briggs: I reckon I might as well find out for you. Heck, maybe my hair'll grow back or some such and you'll be doing me a favor\u2026 But I'm ready to lay down my life if it comes to it. That's what being MTF means.\nDoctor Thompson: \u2026 very well.\n\nRESCUE OPERATION AFTER ACTION REPORT\nOPERATION CODE NAME: DISCOUNT SHOPPING\nCOMMANDING OFFICER: DIRECTOR USKE NAKAMURA\nFIELD LEAD: AGENT ROGER BRIGGS\nAGENTS RECOVERED: AGENT GERALD WHITE\nCIVILIANS RECOVERED: 3\nINJURIES SUSTAINED: MINOR LACERATIONS ON AGENT WHITE'S BACK, TRANSFORMATION OF AGENT BRIGGS' FEET INTO CLAWS, APPEARANCE OF FEATHERS ON AGENT BRIGGS' ARMS.\n\nInterview Log With Agent Penelope Singh, 2-27-20\nAgent Singh: I'd like to start this by stating that Agent Briggs has never been anything but a model soldier. I have no reason to believe that he has any intent to cause harm to the Foundation, its objectives, or normalcy.\nDirector Nakamura: I have nothing but respect for Agent Briggs and his service record. However, if you have something to report\u2026\nAgent Singh: I do, it's\u2026 He's been talking in his sleep in the barracks, sir.\nDirector Nakamura: Night terrors are not-\nAgent Singh: He wasn't speaking English, sir. I know he doesn't speak any other languages\u2026 Or he didn't. I couldn't tell what most of them were, but he said something in Latin.\nDirector Nakamura: What did he say?\nAgent Singh: \u2026 \"Out of the unexplained comes nothing.\"\nThere is a pause.\nDirector Nakamura: I see. We'll monitor the situation. Thank you for your report, agent.\n\nAgent Briggs' arm after 2nd use of SCP-5917-2\n\nAudio Recording of Initial Research Notes on Agent Briggs:\n\"Dr. Hoffstead reporting on 2-27-20. Personal notes. Following reports of unusual nocturnal activity, Agent Briggs was brought in for additional testing.\n\"The feathers on his arms had grown out somewhat and it was observed that his joints had subtle alterations.\n\"Agent Briggs had gained the ability to speak at least five languages that the Foundation could identify and several more we could not.\n\"Psychologically, Agent Briggs reported distress at his condition. He shared our concern over the mental alterations and noted that the last time he used SCP-5917-2 he had experienced less nausea and appeared closer to his intended destination.\n\"No other mental alterations were detected.\n\"Research will continue.\"\n\nAgent Briggs Briefing Log 3-15-20\nAgent Briggs: You wanted to see me, sir-\nAgent Briggs pauses and stands at attention, noticing O5-6 is present. (They had been previously introduced during another mission.)\nO5-6: At ease, Agent Briggs.\nDirector Nakamura: Agent\u2026 I hate having to ask this of you, but we have a mission for you.\nO5-6: Approximately twenty minutes ago those fools in the GOC began an engagement with the Serpent's Hand inside the extra-dimensional space known as the Wanderer's Library. A platoon from MTF Sigma-3 was gathering intelligence in the area and is currently pinned down by their fire exchange.\nDirector Nakamura: We have no meaningful way of knowing if you'll even be able to pinpoint their location.\nO5-6: However, we also have no other method to save their lives.\nThere is a short pause.\nAgent Briggs: Where's the map?\n\nRESCUE OPERATION AFTER ACTION REPORT\nOPERATION CODE NAME: AS THE CROW FLIES\nCOMMANDING OFFICER: O5-6\nFIELD LEAD: AGENT ROGER BRIGGS\nAGENTS RECOVERED: 12\nCIVILIANS RECOVERED: 0\nINJURIES SUSTAINED: THREE AGENTS KIA. TWO RECOVERED IN CRITICAL CONDITION. BULLET WOUND TO AGENT BRIGGS SHOULDER DUE TO FRIENDLY FIRE. AGENT BRIGGS NOW PHYSIOLOGICALLY IDENTICAL TO SCP-5917-1, NO HEALING PROCESS REQUIRED.\nASSETS LOST: SCP-5917-2, SEE INCIDENT REPORT FOR DETAILS.\n\nIncident Report 3-15-20\nSecurity camera footage shows Agent Briggs on the floor bleeding. His head is now similar to that of a turkey vulture. He is significantly taller and has grown additional plumage.\nHe clutches SCP-5917-2 in his uninjured left fore-talon\nHis voice is pained, and somewhat more nasal. His beak moves softly with the words.\nHe is surrounded by the surviving members of MTF Sigma-3, who are pointing guns at him.\nAgent Briggs: Medic\u2026 Multiple wounded!\nAgent Grimes (MTF Sigma-3): Shut up! Where did you take us? Who are you? What are you?\nDirector Nakamura: Agents, holster your weapons right now!\nDirector Nakamura and Agent White enter the camera view with multiple medics following. The medics begin tending to the wounded. The team assigned to Agent Briggs hesitates.\nDirector Nakamura: It's Agent Briggs. Now treat him!\nThe medics begin tending to the Agent Briggs as well. MTF Sigma-3 lowers their weapons.\nAgent White: That's better. You're at Site-33. Thank your sorry asses Briggs was there to extract you.\nAgent Grimes (MTF Sigma-3): What\u2026? How did we-\nDirector Nakamura: We'll be debriefing you shortly. Now if you-\nThere is a sound of a clearing throat. A large, previously unseen vulture creature wearing an elaborate dress and a bowler hat enters the camera view.\n\nNotably, it has what appears to be another instance of SCP-5917-2 hanging from its waist.\nUnknown Entity: Director, if I might have a moment of your time?\nEvery gun in the room turns on the Unknown Entity.\nThe Unknown Entity holds out its talons in a placating gesture.\nUnknown Entity: There's no need for violence. I do apologize, but I'm afraid I need to borrow your pen, Director.\n\nThe director raises an eyebrow.\n\nDirector Nakamura: \u2026 What are you?\n\nUnknown Entity: A lovely lady who wishes to borrow your dictation pen for a few minutes. For the record, I only wish to borrow it out of courtesy. You can either let me use it, or know nothing for certain about what is going to happen in the next few minutes. The choice is yours.\n\nDirector Nakamura: \u2026 Why should I trust you?\n\nUnknown Entity: Why because I'm a reporter! One who has burnt away much of her standard beauty in search of the ultimate beauty of the Truth. It's not easy to become a Wandswoman, as you well know. Now about your pen\u2026\n\nAfter a moment's pause, Director Nakamura gives her his pen.\n\nUnknown Entity: Splendid! We'll be back in a jiffy.\n\nThe Unknown Entity and Agent Briggs vanish.\n\nSECURITY NOTICE:\nThe following recording was extracted from Director Nakamura's concealed tape recorder pen.\nWe have done everything in our power to verify the following recording's veracity.\nThere appear to be no alterations to the record whatsoever. Be they digital, magical or otherwise.\nIt is theorized that the Unknown Entity \"borrowed\" Site Director Nakamura's recorder pen explicitly to allow us to verify its contents.\nThe anomalous nature of the recordings, and of transcripts of it, seem to be fundamental, natural properties of the universe.\nThe security threat resulting from these properties is currently unknown.\n\nRecording Recovered from Director Nakamura's Pen:\nWandswoman: Ah, splendid, it's fully charged. This is the Fourth Wandswoman of Chelon and Elected Arbiter of our honorable guild. I have published many lovely articles in our Gazette, which can be found in the Wanders' Library or wherever fine interdimensional periodicals are sold. I would like to note for the benefit of the Carter that I distinctly said fine interdimensional periodicals. Your corporate propaganda is not appreciated and we continue to have no interest in running your ads.\nAgent Briggs: Where are we? What did you, ugh\u2026\nWandswoman: I advise you to drink the tea dear, it will accelerate your healing. A single bullet hole such as that is not likely to do much harm in the long term, but you need not wait the two days for it to close on its own.\nAgent Briggs: I\u2026 I'm good thanks. My brothers-\nWandswoman: Your fellow soldiers will live. You reached them in time and your Foundation has such medicines as to make their wounds a trifle. I'm sorry for those you lost. I lost a brother recently as well so I certainly understand the pain.\nAgent Briggs: Don't you\u2026 dare compare whatever the hell that was to-\nWandswoman: Mister Briggs. I would ask that you not insult my order. We too risk everything to save others. I assure you the Twelfth Wandsman of Kirador put his life and limb on the line time and again to arm the people of the multiverse with knowledge. Many agents of the Void fell to his talons. More still to his words.\nAgent Briggs: So what was he doing in Spain?\nWandswoman: Ah, asking the right questions now aren't we? We'll make a scholar of all that is of you yet! Unfortunately, for that information you'll have to wait for the Gazette's internal audit edition in thirty seven years. It's not particularly relevant at the moment in any case.\nAgent Briggs: So what is relevant, oh Miss High and Mighty?\nWandswoman: What is relevant to this conversation is that you currently wield my brother's map and have more than proven yourself worthy of it. The question is, do you want it?\nAgent Briggs: \u2026 I'm guessing that comes with some sort of obligations other than being a hideous vulture monster?\nWandswoman: I do object to characterizing us as hideous dear. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And personally, I've grown rather fond of the non-standard beauty of a form that allows one to survive so much punishment in so many places. Still, you are not wrong, it does put distance between you and your fellow humans. That distance, and the pain of transformation, is the price you pay to demonstrate your resolve.\nAgent Briggs: My resolve for what?\nWandswoman: To save lives and perspectives so they may not be lost to the Void. You've certainly proven yourself more than capable of the former, but your lack of devotion to the latter concerns me.\nAgent Briggs: My devotion to perspective?\nWandswoman: Indeed, the\u2026 what is your phrase? Amnesticization? Ugh, what a mouthful for you poor transcribers. In any case, you had no objections whatsoever to the removal of the memories and perspectives of the \"civilian\" people you saved. That sort of thing would only be allowed in the most dire of circumstances by our organization.\nAgent Briggs: I swore myself to the protection of Normalcy. Besides, those memories would have brought them nothing but pain.\nA soft sigh is heard.\nWandswoman: If you take nothing else from this conversation, know that painful memories have value. They can provide you with great strength once properly understood and even bring you closer to those who suffer.\nAgent Briggs: \u2026 I can understand that. But I stand by my convictions.\nWandswoman: I suppose you do\u2026 I might as well be trying to explain myself to a Mekhanite or one of the N\u00e4lk\u00e4. Still, know that you have earned at least my respect. Perhaps in a few millennia you might reconsider. Shall I send you back to your Director?\nAgent Briggs: I\u2026 think that might be for the best.\nWandswoman: Very well, I shall keep your map safe. Will you be a dear and return the pen?\n\nSECURITY NOTICE:\nAt this time, no formal containment procedures are deemed necessary for Agent Briggs.\nHe's one of ours.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5916 | SCP-5917 | SCP-5918 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n92.64%\n(+88)\n7.36%\n(-7)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5918\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The entire known quantity of SCP-5918 is to remain stored in a secure item locker in Site-83. SCP-5918 must remain outside of soil unless in use. Consumption of SCP-5918 or its byproduct is strictly forbidden.\nDescription: SCP-5918 is the designation given to approximately 2,000 sunflower seeds that are contained within a standard black garbage bag, with a white sticker labeled, \"Spare Parts,\" that was attached to the exterior of the object.\nSCP-5918's anomalous properties manifest once it has been buried in soil and provided with at least .5 liters of distilled water. A fully grown sunflower will emerge from a planted SCP-5918 instance within two hours, and a human body part will be produced from the pistil. The type of body part produced by SCP-5918 is determined by the amount of water it was supplied with when planted. A comprehensive list of grown instances can be found below.\nThe body parts grown from SCP-5918 do not show any degradation or decay until they have been attached to a living organism. They do not need to be surgically attached, as they will form new connective tissue once in the vicinity of the original body.\nOnce attached, the body part will alter its pigmentation, orientation, and appearance until it is indistinguishable from the subject. The subject will have full control of the attached part without any compromise of their pre-existing skills.\nAttached body parts have a 19% chance of replicating a subject's pre-existing afflictions. The reason for this is currently unknown.\nDiscovery\nSCP-5918 was seized from an establishment called Cannibal Chin's in Northern New Jersey on October 19, 2023, during the retrieval of SCP-5980. Investigations of the freezer revealed a number of severed human limbs1, as well as the bag containing SCP-5918.\n\n+ Access list of grown body parts\n\n- Close File\n\nAmount of water\nBody part\n\n0.5 Liters\nOne hand\n\n0.7 Liters\nOne arm from the elbow down\n\n0.9 Liters\nOne leg from the knee down\n\n1 Liter\nOne arm from the shoulder down\n\n1.3 Liters\nOne leg from the hip down\n\n1.4 Liters\nOne hip\n\n1.7 Liters\nOne eye\n\n2.5 Liters\nOne torso from the throat down\n\n3 Liters\nOne human body\n\n+ Access testing logs\n\n- Close testing logs\n\nTEST 1\nDate: October 21, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Allegre (Dr. Andrews assisting)\nSubject: D-4719, male (21)\nPre-existing conditions: None\nResult: D-4719's right index finger was surgically amputated. SCP-5918 was provided with 0.5 liters of distilled water. After two and a half hours, a human hand sprouted from the SCP-5918 instance. The index finger was removed and surgically grafted to D-4719. D-4719 retained complete control of his hand thereafter, although he experienced minor emotional distress.\n\nTEST 2\nDate: October 22, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Allegre (Dr. Andrews assisting)\nSubject: D-4820, female (19)\nPre-existing conditions: None\nResult: D-4820's left hand was surgically amputated. SCP-5918 was provided with 0.5 liters of distilled water. Results were similar to the previous test.\n\nTEST 6\nDate: October 25, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubjet: D-4218, female (65)\nPre-existing conditions: Shattered left knee, replaced with a titanium plate.\nResult: D-4218's leg was amputated from the knee down. SCP-5918 was supplied with 0.9 liters of distilled water. Once grafted to D-4218, she immediately began walking without her usual limp.\n\nTEST 10\nDate: November 3, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Allegre (Dr. Andrews assisting)\nSubject: D-4501, male (26)\nPre-existing conditions: Scoliosis\nResult: D-4501's spine was surgically removed. SCP-5918 was supplied with 2.5 liters of distilled water, and a human torso was sprouted from its pistil. D-4501's spine was replaced and he stood two centimeters taller than before.\n\nTEST 12\nDate: November 8, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Allegre (Dr. Andrews assisting)\nSubject: D-4681, male (51)\nPre-existing conditions: Stage II Lymphoma\nResult: The affected areas of D-4681's throat were surgically removed. SCP-5918 was supplied with 2.5 liters of water, and a human torso sprouted from its pistil. While the implantation of the new tissue was a success, D-4681's cancer returned.\n\nTEST 20\nDate: December 25, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: D-4790, female (35)\nPre-existing conditions: Heart failure\nResult: D-4790's heart was surgically removed and she was put on bypass. SCP-5918 was provided with 2.5 liters of water, and a human torso sprouted from its pistil. Results were within expectations, and D-4790 made a complete recovery.\n\nTEST 23\nDate: January 1, 2024\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: Dr. Allegre\nPre-existing conditions: Stage III pancreatic cancer\nResult: Dr. Allegre's pancreas was surgically removed. SCP-5918 was provided with 2.5 liters of water, and a human torso sprouted from its pistil. Dr. Allegre's health returned to normal, although her cancer returned within 24 hours.\n\nTEST 24\nDate: January 3, 2024\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: Dr. Allegre\nPre-existing conditions: Stage III pancreatic cancer\nResult: Same as the previous test.\n\nTEST 25\nDate: January 5, 2024\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: Dr. Allegre\nPre-existing conditions: Stage III pancreatic cancer\nResult: Dr. Allegre's pancreas and part of her abdomen were surgically removed. SCP-5918 was provided with 2.5 liters of water, and a human torso sprouted from its pistil. Dr. Allegre's cancer did not disappear despite removing all affected areas. Her cancer returned after three hours.\n\nTEST 26\nDate: February 14, 2024\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: Dr. Allegre\nPre-existing conditions: Stage IV pancreatic cancer\nResult: Results were similar to the previous test.\n\nTEST 30\nDate: February 14, 2024\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: D-4681, male (51)\nPre-existing conditions: Stage II Lymphoma\nResult: Results were similar to the previous test involving D-4681.\n\n[SUBSEQUENT TESTS HAVE BEEN REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\n\nTEST 40\nDate: April 14, 2023\nPerformed by: Dr. Andrews\nSubject: Dr. Allegre\nPre-existing conditions: Stage IV pancreatic cancer\nResult: Same as the last fourteen tests. Further testing has been postponed by the Ethics Committee.\n\n+ Incident 5918-1-5-2024\n\n- Close Report\n\nFollowing Test 40, Dr. Andrews made no less than thirteen appeals for access to SCP-5918. Each request was denied.\nOn April 26, 2024, Dr. Allegre and Dr. Andrews attempted to utilize SCP-5918 without proper authorization. Dr. Allegre poured 3 Liters of water onto a planted instance of SCP-5918, resulting in the growth of a complete human body from SCP-5918. At Dr. Allegre's request, Dr. Andrews surgically removed Dr. Allegre's brain and implanted it in the body produced by SCP-5918. After approximately twenty minutes, the body produced by SCP-5918 began identifying as Dr. Allegre and assumed her physical appearance.\nThe following interview took place shortly after this discovery.\n\n<Begin log>\nInterviewer: Dr. Chin2\nInterviewee: Dr. Allegre\nDr. Chin: Hey, Allison. How're you doing?\nDr. Allegre: I feel like I'm 20 again.\nDr. Chin: (Chuckles) That's good, Ally.\nDr. Allegre: Would you mind if I call the kids real quick, Alaina? I know you're about to interview me, I don't want to be ru-\nDr. Chin: Go ahead. I'm sure Aubrey and Hunter will lose their minds when they find out they won't have to wait in hospitals anymore.\nDr. Allegre: Thanks! (Dial-tone). Aubrey? Get your brother! Mommy's got good news!\n[PHONE TRANSCRIPT REDACTED FOR BREVITY]\nDr. Allegre: (Sniffling) Thank you.\nDr. Chin: Would you be able to answer some questions for me now, or do you want to wait a bit longer? There's no rush after all.\nDr. Allegre: No no, I'm fine. Ask away.\nDr. Chin: So how did it feel when you first entered your new body.\nDr. Allegre: Like\u2026 I felt like a baby would when they're learning how to control their own bodies. It was like, difficult at first. Very disorientating. But after a few minutes, it felt like normal.\nDr. Chin: Do you feel any different than before? Any new or unusual properties?\nDr. Allegre: Not really, no. Still the same old me.\nDr. Chin: Old is right, Ally.\nDr. Allegre: Shut up. Between you, Owen3, and the kids I've got maybe a decade left in me at best. You're all a bunch of headaches.\nDr. Chin: Don't act like you don't love us.\nDr. Allegre: Don't ever have kids. Definitely don't mentor two doctors at the same time.\nDr. Chin: So, apart from relearning how to pilot your own body, you're feeling normal?\nDr. Allegre: Yes, ma'am. Do me a favor and tell Owen to stop worrying. We're doctors, not superheroes. He'll understand what I mean.\n<End log>\n\nSeveral extensive tests were later run on Dr. Allegre. Her body no longer showed signs of pancreatic cancer, and Dr. Allegre was allowed to return to work. However, her cancer returned after approximately twelve hours and metastasized immediately.\nDr. Allegre was pronounced deceased on April 26, 2024. Dr. Andrews was reprimanded for his actions and is now given a weekly psychological evaluation. Dr. Allegre's children were amnesticized in order to maintain secrecy, as they had knowledge of Dr. Allegre's anomalous recovery.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Later confirmed to be the severed limbs, skin, and organs of SCP-5980.\n2. Alaina Chin\n3. Dr. Andrews\n\n\u00ab SCP-5917 | SCP-5918 | SCP-5919 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Apartment 5919.\n\nItem #: Apartment 5919\nObject Class: N/A\nSpecial Containment Procedures: No special maintenance is required. Cleaning should ideally be performed on a monthly basis. Entry of persons to the apartment is left to the discretion of the designated caretaker, the person in charge of Apartment 5919.\nDescription: Apartment 5919 is a 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom apartment in the Niederrad district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was constructed in 1984 and is in average condition for its age.\nThe apartment contains the following items:\n\nInterior.\n\nBedroom\n\nTwin bed\nBedside table\nDresser\nLamp\nAlarm clock\nLuggage stand\n\nKitchen\n\nGas stovetop with 2 burners\nStainless steel sink\nMicrowave\nRefrigerator\nElectric kettle\nAssorted cutlery, crockery, pots and pans\n\nBathroom\n\nToilet\nCeramic sink\nShower\nWastepaper basket\n\nLounge\n\nTwo-seater sofa\nTelevision\nTelevision stand\nCoffee table\nFloor rug\n\nApartment 5919 has no remarkable attributes or properties beyond what would be expected of other apartments in the city.\nThe last resident of Apartment 5919 moved out in 2018. Since January 2020, it has been owned by a private organisation responsible for managing property.\n\nAndrej Schr\u00f6der.\n\nAddendum: On 22/01/2020, a body retrieved from the Main River by Hesse State Police was identified as the Slovak-German artist Andrej Schr\u00f6der, born in Dresden in 1948. Schr\u00f6der had been under intermittent Foundation surveillance since 1985, after his first appearance in Central European anomalous art circles.\nWhile he enjoyed a distinguished career in sculpture, metalwork and mixed media at his Frankfurt studio, culminating in a 15-year retrospective exhibition (\"Schr\u00f6der: Capital, Cognition, Compulsion\") at the Paris AWCY Mill\u00e9naire? in 2000, he became gradually disillusioned with what he perceived as increasing commodification and consumerism within the art world, ceasing his own work entirely in 2009 and moving to his farm in Vogelsbergkreis to pursue gardening and maintaining his large collection of outsider art.\nSeveral of Schr\u00f6der's acquaintances re-established contact with him in 2015, when he returned to Frankfurt to work on what he described as a final, ultimate work of \"anti-art\", which would \"defy advertisement and marketing,\" although he never divulged any specific details. He reported having completed the project by late 2017, but was unable or unwilling to describe what he had created.\nSchr\u00f6der had been seen to be drinking heavily for several days prior to the discovery of his body and his death was ruled an accident, although the Hesse medical examiner noted that suicide could not be definitively excluded. Andrej Schr\u00f6der has since been designated PoI-5919.\nThe only item of note found upon his person was a card of Marshall, Carter and Dark design.\n\nYou are cordially invited to the viewing of an ordinary Frankfurt apartment.\nPrice and address on request.\n\nSimilar cards were found to have been distributed over the week before by MC&D to a number of wealthy, high-profile clients.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5918 | Apartment 5919 | SCP-5920 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5920\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All SCP-5920 units are to be contained within Suite 908A of Site-01 and managed through Project AURUM SILKWORM.\nSCP-5920 test subjects shall be chosen from within MTF Alpha-1 (\"Red Right Hand\") according to depth of project-relevant experiences, particularly personnel management and information extraction. Participation in AURUM SILKWORM is to be codified as a requirement of MTF Alpha-1 membership.\nMembers of MTF Alpha-1 who have been exposed to memories with intensity quotients over 20,000 may not be assigned to Overseer Council security details. Such individuals are not to be permitted transfer to other positions within the Foundation or retirement from their posts.\nDescription: SCP-5920 is a specific combination of technologies that identify, extract, and duplicate an individual's memories. Additionally, SCP-5920 converts extracted memories into audiovisual media that can be experienced by other parties through normal exposure. Although replicable within the Foundation, progenitor paratech guarantees anomalous classification until public technology makes similar advancements.\nSCP-5920 units consist of three components:\n\nA central terminal controls the process and stores extracted memories for processing.\nAn EEG headset analyzes cerebral activity and hosts micro-needles for insertion through thinner skull sections.\nA chair equipped with full-body restraints ensures subject safety during high-intensity exposure.\n\nFacilities for large-scale biological matter disposal are frequently used post hoc, but are not considered integral.\nSerial use of SCP-5920 amplifies the qualities of extracted memories via filtration through ego constructs. Second-hand experiences are often more potent due to additional layers of psychological baggage, as are third-hand experiences, fourth-hand experiences, etc. As a result, individuals' experiences, preferences, and outlooks influence the qualities of filtered memories, which vary significantly in duration, emotional slant, and intensity. Observing the audiovisual output of high-concentration memories induces a variety of effects within the human body:\n\nIntensity Quotient Range\nBodily Effects\n\n0 - 300\nNone observed. Subjects typically report calming experiences.\n\n300 - 4,000\nFluctuations in heart rate, blood pressure, and brain activity depending on each memory's emotional slant. Broad worldviews may be shifted by repeated exposure.\n\n4,000 - 20,000\nSignificant fluctuations in heart rate, blood pressure, and brain activity depending on memory slant. Elevated risk of cardiac arrest, internal hemorrhaging, and general organ failure.\n\n20,000+\nAll test subjects not previously exposed to moderate-intensity memories have immediately expired.\n\nAddendum 5920-A (Original Test Log Samples):\n\n[OPEN TEST LOG]\n\n[CLOSE TEST LOG]\n\nTest Number: 14\nMemory Donor: Janet York\nTest Subject: D-71354\nPsychological Evaluation Summary: D-71354 is a well-adjusted individual with few concerning proclivities. Despite spending several years in Foundation custody, she maintains a generally positive attitude, speaks frequently about hopes for the future, and is highly regarded by her peers.\nExperiential Report:\n\n\"It's a damn fine sight. Waves, sun, everything you need. There's sand squishing between my toes. Sand falling through my fingers too. There's even sand in my swimsuit, but that's a small price to pay if there ever was one.\nNow I'm laughing. That's not my voice, but I'm laughing anyway. Not my lips, but I'm smiling. It feels nice. The sun's as warm as I remember; maybe even warmer. I'm drinking too. The doctor said I shouldn't anymore, but one won't hurt. The girls say it'll do me good.\nThere's water between my toes now. My feet are wet, and my legs, and I'm diving under. Not sure if I know how to swim, but I'm managing fine. Reefs below, fish out front, and my friends all around. Everything's going to be fine.\"\n\nEstimated Intensity Quotient (Retroactive): 25\n\nTest Number: 15\nMemory Donor: D-71354\nTest Subject: D-89522\nPsychological Evaluation Summary: D-89522 expresses the typical pessimistic outlook of D-Class personnel, but otherwise exhibits no concerning tendencies beyond persistent aquaphobia.\nExperiential Report:\n\n\"No, wait, yeah, I know them. My friends. My friends are playing in the surf while I sit on a towel and drink. There's nothing wrong with that. But, like, well, maybe there is something wrong. My breath catches when one of them slips in the water. It's only ankle deep, but they might fall beneath anyway. They're going to fall, and sink, and never come up again. I don't want to be a wet blanket though.\nOne of them runs back out to talk to me. She's dripping everywhere, but not on me. Thank god, not on me. She's so happy though. She's practically bubbling herself. We're talking, and talking, and then she grabs my hand. It's wet, but I can handle that. Wet and warm, at least. Warm and alive, for now.\nShe tugs me back toward the water. My heart's racing, but I step in anyway. I try my hardest to laugh with them, even if it feels like I'm going to drown standing. That's what it takes.\"\n\nEstimated Intensity Quotient (Retroactive): 44\n\nTest Number: 16\nMemory Donor: D-89522\nTest Subject: D-92001\nPsychological Evaluation Summary: D-92001 exhibits antisocial behaviors and was previously convicted for a series of violent offenses.\nExperiential Report:\n\n\"We're all playing in the water. It's a city pool, right? One of those big ones. There're hundreds of us crammed in there. Nah, more like thousands. Heh. We're ass to elbows, knees to faces. Just one big screaming mess of kids. I don't even want to think of what's in the water. Snot, and piss, and worse. Heh. Yeah, lots worse.\nIt's a gross stew I keep dunking this one kid in. We're all in the pot together, so it doesn't matter much if one goes under for a bit. He's struggling, but not enough. He's whining, but it's just wasting air. He's blue when he comes up; I push him down again. Heh. Someone's screaming at me. He'll be fine though. We've all survived worse. I tell him that, but he just keeps screaming. He won't listen. He just won't fucking listen, so I keep pushing him under. He probably deserves it. Yeah. Definitely.\"\n\nEstimated Intensity Quotient (Retroactive): 68\n\nAddendum 5920-B (Project AURUM SILKWORM Initiation):\n\n[OPEN DOCUMENT]\n\n[CLOSE DOCUMENT]\n\nArchived document:\n\nTo requisitioned personnel,\nUnder the authority of O5-3, Project AURUM SILKWORM has been established to examine practical applications of SCP-5920. Based on current analyses, refined memories hold great potential as therapeutic aids and memetic agents. Other applications are expected to arise in the course of research.\nAlthough D-Class personnel were initially used to test involved procedures, MTF Alpha-1 personnel are henceforth to be employed due to their abundance of potent experiences, extant clearances, and relevance to long-term project goals. These goals include:\n\u2022 Creating new media-based security mechanisms to replace aging memetic agents.\n\u2022 Creating low-cost treatments to raise Foundation personnel's morale, efficiency, and loyalty.\n\u2022 Improving the operational capacity of mobile task forces within cognitohazardous environments.\nAdditional details will be provided within our secure facilities.\nSincerely,\nAdrianne Berryman, Project Lead\nMaxwell Langford, Project Lead\n\nAddendum 5920-C (Intermediary Test Log Samples):\n\n[OPEN TEST LOG]\n\n[CLOSE TEST LOG]\n\nTest Number\nOutput Subject\nInput Memory Tag\nOutput Memory Tag\nSlant\nEstimated Intensity Quotient\n\n242\nD-86411\nABT-512-777\nABT-512-776\nNeutral\n330\n\n243\nD-51558\nABT-512-776\nABS-512-774\nPositive\n350\n\n244\nD-28999\nABS-512-774\nABS-511-774\nPositive\n462\n\n245\nPestle1\nABS-511-774\nABS-406-733\nNeutral\n1,500\n\n246\nPheasant\nABS-406-733\nABQ-405-722\nNeutral\n2,300\n\n247\nCandle\nABQ-405-722\nABQ-355-700\nNegative\n5,300\n\n248\nCricket\nABQ-355-700\nABQ-353-698\nNegative\n13,800\n\n249\nAdder\nABQ-353-698\nABQ-349-665\nNegative\n21,000\n\nAddendum 5920-D (Additional AURUM SILKWORM Directives):\n\n[OPEN DOCUMENT]\n\n[CLOSE DOCUMENT]\n\nArchived document:\n\nTo all relevant personnel,\nAt the behest of O5-3, and in light of recent events, new objectives have been added to AURUM SILKWORM guidance documents:\n\u2022 Assessing resistance to amnestics and memetic agents among test subjects.\n\u2022 Developing procedures to inhibit these escalating resistances.\n\u2022 Creating countermeasures to close resultant security gaps.\nWe are aware that this may prove difficult for many of you, but O5-3 has conveyed the importance of equipping the Overseer Council with tools to manage its closest ring of personnel. Swift progress is expected.\nSincerely,\nAdrianne Berryman, Project Lead\nMaxwell Langford, Project Lead\n\nAddendum 5920-E (Recent Test Log Sample):\n\n[OPEN TEST LOG]\n\n[CLOSE TEST LOG]\n\nTest Number\nOutput Subject\nInput Memory Tag\nOutput Memory Tag\nSlant\nEstimated Intensity Quotient\n\n850\nAcorn\nBQA-998-516\nBQA-910-767\nNegative\n225,000\n\n851\nOpossum\nBQA-910-767\nBQC-710-441\nNegative\n250,500\n\n852\nSquid\nBQF-710-441\nBQF-661-300\nNegative\n280,700\n\n853\nSnail\nBQF-661-300\nBQF-513-013\nNegative\n300,300\n\nMost Recent Entry:\nTest Number: 854\nInput Subjects: Acorn, Newt, Vole, Cradle, Opossum, Squid, Snail\nOutput Subject: Wren\nOutput Memory Tag: CZI-913-743\nOutput Subject Vocalizations:\n\n\"No, I don't feel anything.\nYeah, Langford, I see it. That doesn't mean I feel anything. There's a lot to take in at once, alright? Maybe people I haven't hurt yet? Or maybe people I'm going to hurt. They're screaming then dying. Screaming while dead. Something like that. I've got my knife, my pistol, and a hundred half-chewed hearts inside. My fingers slide through their eyes. My teeth are around their necks. The blood tastes like bleach, and I'm breathing it deep.\nThey hate me. Their children died in airstrikes, and their siblings sank into the sea. I'm on trial. I'm in prison. I'm buried ten stories deep. Someone drags me out of the ground anyway. Their hands are on my wrists, along my spine. There's a hotel room. I'm hanging upside down in the bathroom, bruised all over. Sewage drips from the shower. Something is leaking under the door, thick, black, and mewling. The bed is full of bodies; no, wait, there are only two, but I don't know which is mine. A dog is gnawing on my leg. Another is deep in my guts. It's got dad's face and mom's voice. A drill presses right against my forehead. It's spinning up, hot and loud. Breaking the skin. Pushing in. All I can hear are my breaths through her mouth.\nNo, nothing hurts. Don't you have biometrics? Nothing's wrong.\nNo, it's just like one of those magic eye things.\nNo, I feel fine.\"\n\nSlant: Null\nEstimated Intensity Quotient: 18,500,000\n\nFootnotes\n1. During transition between test subject populations, a request was made by Alpha-1 OPCOM to use standard-issue pseudonyms in public records. Concessions were made due to unique cultural concerns within MTF Alpha-1.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5919 | SCP-5920 | SCP-5921 \u00bb"}
{"text": "East wing of Miami Walmart Supercenter\n\nItem #: SCP-5921\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5921 is to be contained in the Miami Walmart Supercenter, in the east-wing employees-only area. An offshoot of Stationary Task Force Kappa-51, Kappa-52 \"Always Lower Prices\" are to double-check all papers regarding Greazeburger at \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, a Foundation front outside the effective perimeter.\n\nNOTICE FROM GREAZEBURGER INVESTIGATION TEAM\nPersonnel currently in or around the Supercenter, including any investigation or communication sites established in the 50m radius, can probably get away with submitting a blank form. Just don't mistype your ID, please.\n\u2014 Dr. Kensing, Head of the Greazeburger Investigation Team\n\nPlease answer the following questions to access the full file:\nIf necessary, round all answers to the nearest thousandth.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5920 | SCP-5921 | SCP-5922 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5922\nObject Class: Pending\nSpecial Containment Procedures:1 The cell containing SCP-5922 is accessible by personnel with Level-3/5922 or higher clearance. Study is to continue until a method of safe traversal is determined, after which retrieval of SCP-5922 will take priority.\nDescription: SCP-5922 is Tom Purser, a 33-year-old human male. Whenever SCP-5922 experiences a dream, a flower will sprout from its chest, varying in length and species. Severing the stem of the plant has no effect on the disconnected section, but will result in the remainder receding into the body.\nSCP-5922 was discovered on February 18th, 2001, after David Stinnet, a partner of SCP-5922, brought it into Kindred Hospital in northern Chicago for a diagnosis of the phenomenon. Dr. Madison Tell, a Site-608 researcher briefly assigned at the hospital, was brought in for a second opinion. During the interview, SCP-5922:\n\nclaimed that the anomaly has been present for approximately nine years.\nmentioned that it chose not to seek medical help, since severing the flower nullifies any evidence of it having occurred.\nexpressed a strong desire to go home.\n\nWhile this interview was processed, an amnestic was discreetly administered to SCP-5922's partner. Memory conditioning was confirmed successful and SCP-5922 was transferred to Site-309 for containment.\n\nAddendum 5922.1: The following proposal was made on February 21st, 2001.\n\nProposal Form\n\nSubmitter:\nDr. Alan Danica\nConcern:\nSCP-5922\n\nSCP-5922 has refused to sleep for longer than 30 minutes since its recovery as an act of rebellion, as doing so does not relinquish any anomalous results. This is in addition to demands to be released. We've informed the subject more thoroughly of its situation, but it continues to express defiance. In order to facilitate the study of the anomaly, I would like to request the administration of a sedative.\n\nVerdict: DENIED\n\nResponse: We cannot be sure how a sedative will affect SCP-5922. It's in our best interest to have a stable scientific control, and natural sleep would provide the closest outcome. However, if the subject is insistent on staying awake, there should be no issue with allowing it to do so. \u2014 Grant Adams, 5922 Project Lead\n\nFollowing this proposal, it was agreed upon to decrease interaction with SCP-5922 to the absolute minimum, the intent being to minimize any outside stimuli.\n\nIncident 5922-OL: On February 23rd, 2001, SCP-5922 stayed asleep for longer than an hour. The following log was recorded via the surveillance camera in SCP-5922's cell.\n\nOBSERVATION LOG TRANSCRIPT\nDate: February 23rd, 2001\nTime: 02:31, approximately five hours after confirmed sleep.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n02:31: The cell is still and dark. SCP-5922 is asleep in its provided bed.\n02:37: SCP-5922 stirs lightly, moving onto its back.\n02:39: SCP-5922 begins to retch violently. It grips the edges of its mattress.\n02:41: SCP-5922's eyes open. Its retching continues as it moves out of the bed, falling to the floor. It crawls to the door and strikes it weakly with its fists.\n02:44: SCP-5922 falls backwards onto its back. It rolls over and spits out a dark liquid on the floor. It grips its stomach and whines.\n02:50: SCP-5922's whines turn to gagging. It spits out more fluid onto the floor. Medical personnel are instructed to investigate.\n02:52: Medical personnel arrive and turns SCP-5922 onto its back. It covers its mouth. The dark fluid can be seen oozing out between its fingers. Personnel lift SCP-5922 onto the bed.\n02:59: SCP-5922 lets go of its face and vomits. The expelled liquid hangs in the air, forming a bulky stem into SCP-5922's mouth. Personnel are instructed to evacuate the cell immediately.\n03:01: The fluid grows in mass. SCP-5922 can be seen crying.\n03:02: The fluid explodes, coating the entirety of the room and destroying the camera.\n[END LOG]\n\nSince Incident 5922-OL took place, the inside of the doorway into SCP-5922's cell has been covered with a thin reddish-brown membrane. The substance is highly elastic, though it is possible to pierce through. Any damage done is quickly repaired within twelve seconds, sealing gaps and mending incisions.\n\nAddendum 5922.2: On February 25th, 2001, a remote-controlled drone was sent past the membrane blocking SCP-5922's cell. The drone successfully located SCP-5922 within the cell after approximately 4 hours and 22 minutes of scouting; most of the time had been spent navigating the now incredibly expansive interior of the cell. As such, it is believed that Incident 5922-OL has resulted in the creation of a localized pocket dimension within SCP-5922's cell, now designated as SCP-5922-OL.\nThere is no apparent source of light within SCP-5922-OL. The exact depth of SCP-5922-OL is unclear. No other lifeforms were found within the first excursion, so it is presumably empty with the exception of SCP-5922.\nSCP-5922 was found within SCP-5922-OL, held and restrained by thick red vine-like growths, after the remote-controlled drone shone its light on SCP-5922. These growths extend outwards into the darkness with no visible ending, wrapping around SCP-5922's arms, torso, legs, mouth, and eyes. Notably, marigolds and willow flowers can be seen originating from SCP-5922's chest.\nWhen the drone prodded SCP-5922 with its extended arm attachment, the subject visibly struggled. Though the drone was not capable of recording sound, movement of SCP-5922's jaw indicates screaming or shouting.\n\nFootnotes\n1. These procedures have been revised as of March 18th, 2001. Previous iterations have been archived and are available upon request.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5921 | SCP-5922 | SCP-5923 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The NC Mutual Life Insurance headquarters.\n\nItem #: SCP-5924\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Relevant disinformation campaigns have been disseminated, and deemed successful. The floor housing SCP-5924 has been closed off from civilian access under the pretense of renovation and maintenance works.\nDescription: SCP-5924 is a biological entity occupying an area of dimensions 4m by 5m on the north-facing wall of floor B3 in the NC Mutual Life Insurance headquarters, Durham, North Carolina, United States. Radiographic analysis indicates that SCP-5924 consists of human flesh, with an interconnected system of veins and arteries which penetrates the concrete behind it. A single motile appendage, measuring 1m long, protrudes from SCP-5924 which ends in a pair of human lips. This appendage frequently opens to vocalize in fluent American English in a masculine tone. Two human ears and eyes, each approximately 30 centimeters wide, are situated asymmetrically on either side of SCP-5924.\nFor unknown reasons, employees1 of the company regard SCP-5924 as unremarkable; its discovery was hence unreported for three weeks2 until a civilian electrician entered the floor for repairs, after which local law enforcement was deployed to inspect the premises. The electrician was amnesticized and embedded agents within the local police precinct declared this as a false alarm.\nAddendum 3-C: On 06/12/2015, on the day of implementation of SCP-5924's containment procedures, Dr. Lawkind Halls conducted an interview session with SCP-5924 to ascertain the reason for its existence.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Shuffling.)(A creak.)\nDr. Halls: I'm afraid not, sir.Dr. Halls: Halls.Dr. Halls: Not, not that.\n(Silence.)Dr. Halls: It's fine, sir. May I know your name?(Soft scribbling.)\nDr. Halls: Mhm. You were calling out for\u2026 \"Manny\"?Dr. Halls: Why do you keep calling out for this person?Dr. Halls: How is Manny affiliated with you?(Soft scribbling.)\nDr. Halls: Right. Do you remember if he was involved in anything that might've\u2026 uh, brought you here?\n(Silence.)Dr. Halls: Sir, I appreciate your enthusiasm. However, uh\u2026 back to Manny.(Silence. A cough.)Dr. Halls: So you were here to\u2026 thank him?Dr. Halls: Email?(Silence. Moments later, muffled, wet sounds can be heard.)Dr. Halls: May I have a look at that phone?(Several wet sounds. Silence.)\nDr. Halls: Sir, may I know if you are short-sighted?Dr. Halls: \u2026Thank you for answering my questions.[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 3-D: Dr. Halls received a Samsung SGH-A1673 from SCP-5924's appendage. A single email was present in the inbox; its contents have been converted into an electronic copy and attached below for reference.\n\nDear Mr. Wallace,\nHappy Birthday!\n\nThe North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company would like to extend our gratitude for your continued subscription! Feeling concerned about your future? No worries! On this special occasion, we offer you a 25% additional coverage of your healthcare expenses!\n\nHave a great day!\n\n\u2014 Manny DeSanchez4\nEmployee of NC Mutual Life Insurance, Customer Service\n05/14/2015\n\nFootnotes\n1. This effect extends to the company's corporate hierarchical system, including the executives. Foundation agents employed by the company also do not claim SCP-5924 as anomalous. Other positions not directly related to the service of the company, such as security and maintenance, are unaffected.\n2. Security cameras were not installed during this time.\n3. A 'flip' phone released in 2009.\n4. Upon subsequent interrogations, \"Manny\" claimed no relationship or memory of \"Wallace\".\n\n\u00ab SCP-5923 | SCP-5924 | SCP-5925 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5925\n\nLevel1\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\neshu\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5925\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5925 is to be contained in standard humanoid containment cell B5 of Site-118's Delta Wing. Personnel are not to directly or indirectly refer to SCP-5925 by any name, title, or designation other than its item number. No other measures are necessary to successfully contain him in his current state, and this will continue to be the case indefinitely.\n\nLevel 5 Clearance Required\n\nAccess Granted\n\nSCP-5925 is considered a Eshu Class nomenclative hazard. However, previous attempts to contain SCP-5925 per Protocol 4000-Eshu have been deemed inadequate. As such, Protocol 5925-Eshu has been devised to forcefully associate SCP-5925 with a single title, specifically that of its item number. This protocol additionally requires familiarity with SCP-5925's item number, containment procedures, description and appearance by as many Foundation personnel as currently available. The clearance level has thus been adjusted to reflect this, and SCP-5925's incomplete file is to be regularly circulated through junior researcher and security staff in all sites.\nAs an additional measure the entrance of cell B5 is to be reinforced with iron plating.\nFollowing Incident 5925-Holly, the containment class, distribution class, risk class, procedures, and description of this article have been altered in keeping with nomenclative association methods necessary for further containment. These alterations have been marked in blue for differentiation from the standard formatting.\n\nDescription: SCP-5925 is a humanoid which appears to be an elderly male of Northern European descent. Though SCP-5925 has the physique of a 70 to 80 year old man, records that refer to SCP-5925 indicate the subject is far older. He is frail, friendly, charitable, and compliant with the Foundation's instructions.\nSCP-5925 has knowledge of the full name of all people it comes into contact with, despite having never personally met. It is also aware of current or past material desires of these individuals. Besides this, and his lengthened life span, he has no other anomalous capabilities.\nDiscovery Log:\n\nLevel 5 Clearance Required\n\nAccess Granted\n\nSCP-5925 was discovered on September 22nd 1995 during a performance of the 4000-Halloway procedure. A mistake occurred during the execution of the procedure1. The procedure still resulted in an expansion of the fireplace and a ladder descending from the chimney. However, this ladder did not lead to the place of the nameless oddities, and instead, SCP-5925 emerged from the chimney into the site. Notably, despite several members of personnel utilizing the same epithet to describe SCP-5925 in the moment of its appearance, none of them suffered any adverse anomalous effects. Additionally, upon the personnel referring to SCP-5925 by this epithet, it became docile and amiable. This is believed to be due to the cultural association of the epithet in question. SCP-5925 then escaped the facility by anomalous means2, leaving behind gifts for all those present. SCP-5925 was afterward given its current item number and designated as a Euclid class entity.\nThe mistake which lead to SCP-5925's initial appearance was later replicated. Being prepared, personnel referred to SCP-5925 by its item number, and were successful in apprehending the subject. The relevance of SCP-5925's designation to the success of this operation was later discovered during its containment, and the initial draft of the 5925-Eshu protocol was enacted. This protocol was later expanded upon following the 5925-Holly incident.\n\nAddendum 5925.01:\n\nLevel 5 Clearance Required\n\nAccess Granted\n\nThe 5925-Holly Incident\n\nThe following is an interview conducted on June 20th 1996. The purpose of said interview was to establish the difference between SCP-5925 and the entities residing in the grove of games and names. During this interview, details pertaining to the nature of SCP-5925's status as an Eshu class entity were revealed, leading to alterations to the 5925-Eshu protocol to more effectively contain the subject.\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5925\nInterviewer: Dr. Angulo\nForeword: SCP-5925 has shown to be more compliant and cognitive when interacting with only one individual directly. As such, this interview was conducted within chamber B5. No other individuals were within the chamber during the interaction, however two members of security personnel were present beside the chamber entrance for emergency assistance in the event of a nomenclative breach.\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Angulo: Good morning, SCP-5925.Dr. Angulo: And I never did get it.\nSCP-5925 laughsDr. Angulo: I actually came to ask you a few questions. We want to know how you differ from the others like you.Dr. Angulo: When we first found you we were trying to get\u2026 somewhere. A place with people similar to you, you could say.Dr. Angulo winces at this. No effect was detected from this naming, and thus the interview proceeds.\nDr. Angulo: Yes, there are things we've found there. It is dangerous for us to name them and the place itself.Dr. Angulo: Well, this clearly isn't the case for you.Dr. Angulo: When the others lost their names, why didn't you?Dr. Angulo: And none of the others could hold onto some of their names, like you did?\nSCP-5925 laughsDr. Angulo: We can't- we shouldn't be having a conversation like this without further security. I'm sorry. It's not safe.Dr. Angulo: I'm sorry, what was that?Dr. Angulo and SCP-5925's breath become visible in the air.\nDr. Angulo: What are you-Dr. Angulo stands abruptly and attempts to exit chamber B5. The chamber door jams and is unable to open. Dr. Angulo repeatedly strikes the door.\nDr. Angulo: Open this now! There's been a breach!Dr. Angulo crouches by the door, breathing into her hands.\nDr. Angulo: So cold\u2026 so fast. How?Dr. Angulo: Please-Dr. Angulo slumps backward, appearing to nearly lose consciousness.\nDr. Angulo: I- I-Dr. Angulo: Holly-Dr. Angulo: The Holly King.\nSCP-5925's body begins to change rapidly. Its hair and beard grow substantially. Its physique becomes much taller, but decrepit and starved. A green hood and robe appear on its body. A pair of Cervidae antlers3 sprout from its forehead. A stained broadsword appears in its hands4. The breaths of SCP-5925 and Dr. Angulo becomes no longer visible, indicating a rise in temperature.\nSCP-5925 laughs strenuouslyThe doors to the chamber open. Security personnel enter, assisting Dr. Angulo to stand. They then begin to escort Dr. Angulo out of the chamber.<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5925's form reverted after 3 days. Prior to this, it created a crown of Aquifoliaceae Ilex5 and expressed the desire to gift this item to Dr. Angulo as an apology for its behavior.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5924 | SCP-5925 | SCP-5926 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5926\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5926 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-105. Regular psychological screenings are to be carried out, as are enrichment sessions between them and Cpt. Amelia Carter.\nCurrently, SCP-5926 is undergoing physical testing to determine its relative level of fitness. Supervised access to Site-105's gymnasium is permitted, but may be revoked at any time for any reason.\nSCP-5926-A is to be disassembled on a bi-weekly basis to undergo cleaning and maintenance. Approved materials for maintaining structural integrity of SCP-5926-A can be found in Supply Closet 5 at Site-105.\nDescription: SCP-5926 is an entity currently inhabiting SCP-5926-A. SCP-5926 has no physical form, but is capable of vocalization, the consumption of food and drink, and interaction with the environment, provided SCP-5926-A is fully sealed. While either ignorant of or unwilling to share its nature and origins, SCP-5926 uses feminine pronouns and claims that it is not human in origin, nor does it have any ties to the mythology of any nearby tribal groups.\nSCP-5926-A is a full-body costume made in the image of the polar bear mascot of the Mobile Task Force \u1401-23, \"Ice Bears\"1. Originally created to accommodate an individual of medium build and 1.65m in height, SCP-5926-A's height fluctuates between 1.65 and 2m with their weight remaining negligible due to the fact that it is largely constructed of cloth and faux fur. The inside of SCP-5926-A's mask is covered in a large amount of blood that testing has shown to be a hybrid between human and polar bear, which neither dries nor is absorbed by the material of SCP-5926-A, instead falling into the shoes of the costume before dissipating.\nHistory: Prior to the creation of SCP-5926, MTF \u1401-23 had a history of personalizing their gear with ursine motifs, including false bear ears worn on their headsets, bandannas and face masks resembling a snarling bear mouth, and using gloves made to resemble bear paws in an effort to emulate \"Snowy\", their self-made polar bear mascot. In 2015, Private Amelia Carter (who transferred to \u1401-23 from MTF-S-88 (\"Animal Control\")) commissioned the creation of SCP-5926-A as a means of boosting morale in the task force.\nWhile celebrating the successful containment of Nexus-239 (Invicta, Alaska) in Early November 2019, Noel Admundsen, the 'legatus maximus' of the cult which inhabited Nx-239, found their way to the outpost where \u1401-23 was celebrating, where they proceeded to shoot and wound five members of the task force before being neutralized. In the process, they shot Cpt. Amelia Carter in the head while they were wearing SCP-5926-A. Despite the bullet completely penetrating the mask in such a way that Cpt. Carter's cranial tissue should have been intersected, she was unharmed, which was attributed to the mask of the costume resting slightly askew on her head.\nSCP-5926 came to inhabit SCP-5926-A following its repair and subsequent storage; it was discovered when it broke out of the storage bin which Cpt. Carter had placed it into and began wandering the halls of Site-105.\nRecordings and Documents Related to SCP-5926:\n\nSCP-5926 Preliminary Interview:\nCpt. Carter: Okay, uh. Beginning interview with\u2026 Anomalous Object 5926.Cpt. Carter: Do you understand what that means?Cpt. Carter: We were hoping you could elaborate on that. Our best guess is that you're some kind of\u2026 native spirit, maybe? Invicta had a lot of spiritual activity around it, so maybe\u2014SCP-5926 blinks. SCP-5926-A does not have the capacity to blink, due to a lack of eyelids.\nCpt. Carter: \u2026uh. What the fuck?Cpt. Carter:\u2026 what did you just call me?Cpt. Carter terminates the interview.\n\nPsychological Evaluation Teleconference: Amelia Carter, 11/21/2019\nDr. Marmot: Connection's not c\u2014-rough great. Snow storm up there?\nCpt. Carter: Yeah.\nDr. Marmot: We'll m\u2014 do. It's been close to three we-ks since the incident, h\u2014 do you feel?\nCpt. Carter: Same as usual. Nightmares about being shot in the head, and now I'm angry, too. Some weird ghost's possessed something I paid close to two grand for, and it's just\u2026 kind of pathetic. Can't even remember what it is.\nDr. Marmot: I imagine losing your costume after the trauma has taken a bit of\u2014\nCpt. Carter: God's sake, doc, we're adults. Call a fursuit a fursuit, even if the documentation doesn't.\nDr. Marmot: Right. Your\u2026 fursuit was important to you.\nCpt. Carter: Yeah. I made it as just a dumb thing to mess with the guys up here, but.. Snowy just\u2026 kind of became the heart of the squad, y'know? And I felt cute wearin' that thing. Made people not look at\u2026\nCpt. Carter indicates a large scar on their right cheek, received in the line of duty while combating an outbreak of SCP-3312 in Chicago, IL\nCpt. Carter: I could always get a new one made, but\u2026 I dunno. Feels like Snowy's somehow\u2026 dead.\nDr. Marmot: You were almost killed wearing it. I'm not surprised you're ambivalent about it.\nCpt. Carter: It's\u2026 not even that. I feel like they're not part of me, anymore. Like the bullet blasted her out of my skull.\nDr. Marmot: I'm not sure what to make of that. I'm\u2026 not familiar with that particular aspect of your lifestyle.\nCpt. Carter: Yeah, well. Don't expect you to understand. No offense.\nDr. Marmot: None taken. There's a lot I don't understand about a lot of my patients, but I'm trying to help.\n\nTranscript of the First Recorded Video of Cpl. Amelia Carter wearing SCP-5926-A, 2014:\nThree agents of \u1401-23 are seen in the recreational area of Site-105's Barracks. Lt. Edward Malcolm is recording newly-recruited Agent Peter Belfast, while Lt. Richard Rawlings is seen snickering in the background.\nLt. Malcolm: All right, Pete. Time for your initiation.\nAgent Belfast: Isn't hazing against Foundation protocol?\nLt. Malcolm: Oh, very much so. That's why I'm expecting you to stay quiet about it.\nThe recorded roar of a polar bear is heard, accompanied by the recordings of several loud footsteps and the rattling of chains.\nAgent Belfast: What the fuck?!\nLt. Malcolm: Rules are rules.\nMalcolm sets down the camera on a covered foosball table.\nLt. Malcolm: If you wanna be part of the Ice Bears, you gotta meet our mascot.\nLt. Rawlings: Don't worry, she probably won't eat you. She's full from the last few recruits.\nLt. Malcolm and Rawlings exit the room and lock the door behind them.\nAgent Belfast: No, what the fu\u2014\nAnother recorded roar is heard. Agent Belfast turns to face the doorway to the restrooms, where the sound is coming from.\nAgent Belfast: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my f\u2014\nCpl. Carter rushes around the corner to the restroom, leaps onto a chair, and strikes a snarling pose while wearing the aforementioned polar-bear costume.\nCpl. Carter: Roaaaar!\nAgent Belfast: FUCKING CHRIST!\nLoud laughter is heard from outside the room. Cpl. Carter laughs and dismounts from the chair.\nCpl. Carter: Locking the door was a bit much, guys!\nLt. Malcolm: We didn't lock him in, we locked you in, Snowy!\nCpl. Carter laughs\nCpl. Carter: Bite me, Ed!\nShortly after this, the camera's battery is depleted.\n\nSCP-5926 Interview 5, 12/5/2019Cpt. Carter: That's Carter to you, Five Nine Two Six.Cpt. Carter: I might hurt less if you told us what the fuck you are.SCP-5926 clutches its head and whimpers.Cpt. Carter: I don't know, but I'm wasting breath until you remember something. I don't even know what pronouns to use with you, and apparently we're getting picky about that now\u2014 something about 'cold, not cruel' extending to you lot.SCP-5926's voice distorts, and there are accompanying wet sounds, as if flesh is being shifted around.\nCpt. Carter: Jesus Christ!\nSCP-5926 experiences a brief seizure. Further vocalizations from it almost exactly mimic the vocal patterns of Cpt. Carter; they seem ignorant of this fact, until confronted with this recording following the interview.Cpt. Carter: Well. That's that taken care of.\nBlood trickles from SCP-5926's right eye, flows over its cheek, and on to the table.\nCpt. Carter: The fuck?!Cpt. Carter reaches over the table and punches off SCP-5926-A's head. It goes limp, and SCP-5926 is heard sobbing. Cpt. Carter was reprimanded for this action.\n\nRecorded Conversation between Cpt. Carter and Lt. Malcolm, 12/06/2019:\nLt. Malcolm: Captain Carter.\n\nCpt. Carter: What?\nLt. Malcolm: We're\u2026 to speak frankly, and as your friend? We're worried about you. You punched out a skip. If it could feel pain, you'd be on psych leave.\nCpt. Carter: It was bleeding on he\u2014 on my property.\nLt. Malcolm: About that. It took us a while for us to get it the head back on, and it bled everywhere. We did some tests, and\u2026 well, it's polar bear blood, and something else.\nCpt. Carter: What?\nLt. Malcolm: We got a hit in the Foundation's Blood Reserve.2 Your mother, she was a researcher at Site-21? Detroit?\nCpt. Carter: Yeah.\nLt. Malcolm: It's\u2026 I don't know how, but the blood in there is somehow the child of your mother and a fucking polar bear\u2014 perfect genetic recombination, no indications of modification, forced hybridization, anything. Amelia, what the hell's happening?\nCpt. Carter: What?\nLt. Malcolm: I have the report right here.\nCpt. Carter tears the report from Lt. Malcolm's hands.\nCpt. Carter: What the fuck?\n\nPsychological Evaluation Teleconference: Amelia Carter, 01/15/2020\nCpt. Carter: I need to talk to you about something.\nDr. Marmot: By all means, that's what I'm here for.\nCpt. Carter: It's\u2026 kind of a furry thing. You know what a fursona is?\nDr. Marmot: I know Jung. I can guess. Some sort of\u2026 persona you put on for when you're around other furries?\nCpt. Carter: Kind of. It's\u2026 basically the main character you pretend to be. I didn't really mean it to happen, but\u2026 Snowy\u2026 might have\u2026 I dunno.\nDr. Marmot: Might have what?\nCpt. Carter: I think that\u2026 Snowy did die. Somehow. Fuck, that Nexus was a hotbed of all sorts of weird shaman shit, and I was the one who carried out all of those weird bone artifacts from the sacrifice pit. I felt\u2014 felt the bullet go through my head. I screamed when I tore off the head because I thought I had died. But\u2026\nDr. Marmot: You\u2026 think this fursona of yours took the bullet for you? Literally?\nCpt. Carter: Yeah. And\u2026 when I fixed the suit, it\u2026 brought her back. Somehow. But she can't remember.\nDr. Marmot: Hmm. Stranger things have happened, certainly, and thoughtforms are a well-documented phenomena. Maybe there's more to being a furry than meets the eye.\nDr. Marmot sucks in air through his teeth.\nDr. Marmot: Truth be told, I had similar thoughts. It's a large part of the reason that you're not getting pulled back to Chicago\u2014 I'm saying that you're necessary for 5926's well-being.\nCpt. Carter: Well, what do I do now?\nDr. Marmot: How hard is it to\u2026 create one of these fursonas?\nCpt. Carter: Why?\nDr. Marmot: Humor me.\n\nSCP-5926 Interview 6, 01/19/2020:\nCpt. Carter: I'm sorry for what happened last time.\nSCP-5926 remains silent, looking at its lap. Its hands rest on the table.\nCpt. Carter: I think I know what you are. Or who you are. Maybe.Cpt. Carter: I\u2026 I thought you were damaging something that was\u2026 important to me. I've had that for close to seven years now, and\u2026 god, I feel stupid.Cpt. Carter: I feel like a kid, crying over losing their favorite toy.Cpt. Carter: Maybe. But I cared about that thing. And when I sewed it back up, you were in it. And I think I know why.\nCpt. Carter puts her hand on top of one of SCP-5926's.\nCpt. Carter: Snowy. Thank you.\nSCP-5926 looks up at Cpt. Carter and blinks.Cpt. Carter: What does, then?Cpt. Carter: I'll think about it.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A twenty-person task force who specialized in carrying out missions in Arctic environments, particularly in the North American Tundra. \u1401(ai) is a letter in the Inuktitut script.\n2. All members of Foundation personnel are required to keep at least five pints of blood on-site for emergency use, with other samples in storage for study and cataloging.\n3. Cpt. Carter's appearance in no way changed during this interview, nor were they wearing any unusual clothing during this time.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5925 | SCP-5926 | SCP-5927 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5927\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nAnechoic formation of the containment chamber under construction.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5927 is contained in an anechoic chamber where electromagnetic waves imitating the aurora borealis are continuously emitted, deceiving SCP-5927 into not being able to disappear.\nInside is a prism that was developed to transfer SCP-5927 to the containment chamber. Unforeseen by staff, SCP-5927 has not been able to leave said prism yet due to the effects of the electromagnetic waves from the chamber, the light-absorbent paint, and inner mirrors applied to the prism. After internal deliberation, the prism was accepted as a part of the containment measures and renamed to \u25b2-5927.\nThe light coming out of the unpainted edges of \u25b2-5927 is analyzed by light-sensors and run through the Schr\u00f6dinger equation (1) to predict the light and behavior of SCP-5927. If SCP-5927 attempts to leave \u25b2-5927, dispersing light beams come out of \u25b2-5927, and the luminous flux increases. Phosphane gas (also known as phosphine or PH3) will subsequently be released into the chamber until the light intensity subdues.\n(1)\n\\begin{align} H(t)\\vert\\psi(t)\\rangle = i\\hbar\\frac{\\partial}{\\partial t}\\vert\\psi(t)\\rangle \\end{align}\nDepending on the results of the Schr\u00f6dinger equation, personnel may release the gas manually if deemed necessary. Results are known to fluctuate during the aurora borealis.\nThe last known target of SCP-5927, D-5593, is housed in a standard human containment room near the northern harbor of the island. D-5563 may not leave the island unless SCP-5927 breaches containment, in which case the assigned guards must evacuate her as soon as possible. D-5593 may not partake in other experiments.\nAll assigned guards are equipped with phosphorus rounds, a flare gun, defensive equipment covered in light-absorbent paint, and a full face gas mask with infrared and UV-vision.\n\nOutdated Containment Procedures\n\nOutdated Containment Procedures\n\nCameras with light sensors resembling weather stations are installed in the harbors to look for SCP-5927. Boat traffic at night is rerouted to specific piers under observation and cargo is transported as much as possible during the day to limit night traffic.\nIf SCP-5927 is detected, personnel needs to find its target (PoI-5927-1) by tailing SCP-5927. Upon identifying the target, SCP-5927 needs to be stunned with phosphorus rounds and evacuation from the island begins. Stunning SCP-5927 multiple times during the evacuation is allowed. Field agents assigned to SCP-5927 must be either rejected from the Mobile Task Force Mu-13 \"Ghostbusters\" due to one unsatisfactory result in the qualification process or have worked alongside them previously.\nUpon the disappearance of the aurora borealis and/or SCP-5927, witnesses need to have their memories removed by Class B amnestics.\n\nSCP-5927 in a smaller, weakened state.\n\nDescription: SCP-5927 is an incorporeal entity of light on the island J\u00f8rpev\u00e5g, Norway which appears alongside the electromagnetic phenomenon of the aurora borealis (commonly known as the northern lights). Aside from light, SCP-5927 emits a blue aura that lowers the ambient air temperature surrounding it and distorts photographs.\nThe form of SCP-5927 resembles a humanoid shape without a lower body. Instead, multiple appendages extend from under its abdomen. These appendages let SCP-5927 feed from its target by leeching off them.\nAfter manifesting, SCP-5927 will hover towards a sleeping person (PoI-5927-1). Upon arrival, the appendages of SCP-5927 will permeate, yet not damage, the target's bones or in rare cases the spine to reach bone-marrow. SCP-5927 will then absorb neurotransmitters from their nervous system. This will either kill the victim or cause the victim to develop neurological disorders which can be hereditary and/or lethal. Further research in neurology and genealogy (study of family lineage and history) reveals that 22% of neurological diseases in Scandinavia can be traced back to SCP-5927. Global results are yet to be determined.\nUpon having leeched off a victim, SCP-5927 will either choose a new target (PoI-5927-2, -3, etc.) or disappear. SCP-5927 does not have a known limit to the amount of targets it can have each time it manifests. If its target leaves the island, SCP-5927 will hover around aimlessly until the aurora borealis disappears. If a target wakes up before SCP-5927 can find them, it will still pursue said target. Forcibly waking a target up during the leeching process will kill that individual from any type of primary brain injury like hemorrhages, cerebral contusion/laceration or a combination.\nOnly objects that either combust/emit light on contact or interfere with light directly by reflection, dispersion or absorption can interact with SCP-5927.\n\nHouse of Asbj\u00f8rn Risberg (1922), supposedly the first recorded victim of SCP-5927 in local archives.\n\nDiscovery: Asher Foster, a nature photographer, sent photographs and panoramic videos over in an album to his publisher under the name \"Northern lights on J\u00f8rpev\u00e5g\". A moving, blurred shape of light was visible on one of the videos which raised suspicions. The video was intercepted and deleted. Dr. Luca Munescu, a member of the senior staff on vacation in the area, was asked to investigate and to report to the nearest site.\nDr. Munescu sighted SCP-5927 but its shape on photographical evidence was blurred. Dr. Munescu also found a correlation of similar sightings, the aurora borealis, and records of people dying at home, going as far back as 1922 in local archives. While no earlier records were found, Dr. Munescu identified a local folktale called \"The Norther' Light Phantom\" with an unknown date of origin.\nFurther research was assigned to Dr. Amanda Dameronne by Dr. Luca Munescu. The containment of the anomaly was appointed to Dr. Kurt Waltraud.\n\nOne of Asher Foster's photos of the aurora borealis on J\u00f8rpev\u00e5g.\n\nAddendum-5927-1: Containment Attempts 1-4\n\nContainment Attempt 1\nAttempt 2\nAttempt 3\nAttempt 4\n\nDescription: Attempting to contain SCP-5927 in a standard plexiglass cube adapted for the containment of non-physical/incorporeal anomalies.\nResult: SCP-5927 was lured inside with PoI-5927-1 who was pulled out on the other side. SCP-5927 had no interaction with the cube and moved through.\nNote by Dr. Kurt Waltraud: SCP-5927 does not have a physical body and is therefore classified as an incorporeal anomaly. By definition this should not allow SCP-5927 to move through the cube.\nI hypothesize that the form of SCP-5927 is a real-life example of the wave-particle duality of light as described in quantum mechanics.\nTo quote Albert Einstein:\n\n\"It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do.\"\n\nLight-absorbent spray paint being tested in the lab.\n\nDescription: Attempting to contain SCP-5927 in a standard plexiglass cube coated with light-absorbing spray paint on both sides, making the cube a black body.\nResult: SCP-5927 moved through the cube but was slowed down by the paint. The paint makes objects black bodies, but 100% light absorbance is only theoretically possible (for now). This makes the objects able to interact with SCP-5927 but not immobilize/trap it completely.\nUpdate: Repeating the experiment with multiple layers had the same outcome without additional effects.\nAdditional information: SCP-5927 seems to be aware of the paint's effect and begins to recognize the shape of the cube.\n\nDescription: Attempting to contain SCP-5927 in a painted plexiglass cube with one-way mirrors inside.\nResult: SCP-5927 was tricked into the cube concealed inside a shipping container. SCP-5927 moved through the cube very slowly. Mirrors have a slowing effect that can be applied next to the paint.\nNote by Dr. Waltraud: Light-interference seems one of the more promising fields to explore for containment purposes.\n\nDescription: Attempting to contain SCP-5927 in a painted plexiglass cube with one-way mirrors inside which emit electromagnetic waves inwards. This should affect both the wave and particle nature of SCP-5927.\nResult: SCP-5927 was tricked into the cube disguised as a small hunter's cottage. SCP-5927 was temporarily held in place before it slowly moved through the cube. Waves that were similar to those of the aurora borealis were the most effective. Adjusting wave-length, amplitude, and frequency of the radiation to mimic the aurora borealis might immobilize SCP-5927 permanently if given the chance.\nAdditional information: Waves in anti-phase with the light from SCP-5927 don't make destructive interference happen. SCP-5927 seems to absorb these waves or neutralizes them by unknown means. This, in combination with the inability to create a perfect black body, will make neutralization of SCP-5927 difficult should it ever be necessary.\n\nAddendum-5927-2: Experiments under Dr. Amanda Dameronne\n\nExperiment 5927-1\n5927-2\n5927-3\n5927-4\n\nDescription: Testing the anomalous effect SCP-5927 has on cameras by photographing it through different lenses and filters.\nResult:\n- Normal cameras give blurry photos as though the lens didn't focus.\n- Infrared cameras are suitable for tracking purposes.\n- UV-sensitive cameras can photograph SCP-5927 with filters.\nAdditional information: All images are edited to get rid of filters; an image of SCP-5927 is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.\n\nDescription: Testing the influence of neurological damage, drugs with inhibitory effects, and age. The following groups were housed on the island:\n\nD-class individuals with neurological damage:\n\nfrom natural development (mostly hereditary)\nfrom injury\nintroduced via lead-poisoning from drinking water\n\nD-class individuals with inhibited neurological capabilities:\n\nby the intake of alcohol\nby the intake of medication/sedatives\nby the introduction of artificial coma\n\nD-class individuals with not fully developed/declining neurological processing capabilities:\n\nChildren (approximately 15 years for full development)\nElderly (that do not fit in with D-class individuals with neurological damage)\n\nResult: SCP-5927 targeted individuals from every group except from the children. If an individual's neurological processing capability was fully developed at one point in their life, they can be targeted by SCP-5927.\nAdditional information: This experiment had a timespan of 18 months due to the relatively small amount of people SCP-5927 targets every time it manifests and it only being able to manifest during specific conditions. There were 4 casualties from D-class individuals due to unsuccessful evacuation.\n\nDescription: Medical examination of subjects that survived contact with SCP-5927 or its leeching.\nResult: Victims of SCP-5927 were diagnosed with neurological disorders, some of them being hereditary. Victims that spontaneously woke up during the leeching process of SCP-5927 enter a permanent state of sleep-paralysis or severe delirium and cannot sleep anymore. These victims die after several days from exhaustion and/or cardiac arrest. It is unknown if awake victims can feel the absorption of their neurotransmitters or don't feel anything at all.\nAdditional information: One does not automatically die from being leeched off from unless SCP-5927 absorbs all neurotransmitters.\nDr. Amanda Dameronne's hypothesis on the leeching of SCP-5927: The appendages of SCP-5927 most likely have a molecular structure similar to neuron synapses at the end. This way it could theoretically connect with the victim's own synapses or let SCP-5927 influence the space in-between neurons (synaptic cleft) whilst leeching.\n\nDamaged neurons from Alzheimer (left) and a glioneuronal tumor in the temporal lobe of the brain with immunostaining (right) from survivors caused by SCP-5927.\n\nDescription: Medical examination of casualties of the leeching process.\nResult: Victims of SCP-5927 that died in their sleep had no traces of neurotransmitters in their nervous system. The cause of death in the Foundation's records states \"vital organ failure in the central/peripheral nervous system\".\n\nAddendum-5927-3: Experiments requested by Dr. Kurt Waltraud\nDr. Amanda Dameronne provided assistance in testing/research on site, only Dr. Kurt Waltraud tested directly on SCP-5927 and is thereby responsible for the outcome and the well-being of the field agents.\n\nExperiment 5927-5\n5927-6\n5927-7\n\nDescription: Finding a way to fight off SCP-5927.\nResult: Rounds and other projectiles from standard munition don't work on SCP-5927. Explosive rounds gave a bit of light whilst passing through. SCP-5927 appeared confused.\nAdditional information: The light-emission and its effects on SCP-5927 need further investigation.\n\nRetrieved paint droplets.\n\nDescription: Firing munition covered in light-absorbent paint and discharging paint directly under high pressure towards SCP-5927.\nResult: Painted munition can make contact with SCP-5927 but ricochets. The liquid paint falls directly down and forms little spheres. This paint can be retrieved for later usage. This confirms that the paint makes objects able to interact with SCP-5927.\nAdditional information: The paint is now applied to field agent protection equipment.\n\nFlare gun developed against SCP-5927.\n\nDescription: Testing new munition filled with chemicals that can combust or emit light.\nResult: White phosphorus rounds do not wound but stun SCP-5927. Afterwards it searches for a non-existent light-source for a few moments before concentrating on its target again.\nAdditional information: The dosage of phosphor still needs to be adjusted for maximum effect. Painting the phosphorus rounds makes them ricochet with the possibility of creating an unforeseen toxic mist. It is forbidden to paint any ammunition with phosphorus compounds.\nUpdate: Dr. Kurt Waltraud developed white phosphorus flare guns. Signaling with these is strictly prohibited.\n\nAddendum-5927-4: The Flare Gun Experiment Incident\n\nACCESS GRANTED\n\nCLASSIFIED\nThe Flare Gun Experiment\nIncident report\n\nPurpose of the experiment:\nTesting white phosphorus flare guns\nResult of the experiment:\nUnsuccesful, 21 casualties\n\nSubject:\nSCP-5927\nLocation:\nJ\u00f8rpev\u00e5g, Norway\n\nForeword\n\nField agents assigned to SCP-5927 followed standard procedure and evacuated PoI-5927-1. They were then ordered to test the white phosphorus flare guns on SCP-5927. Full-face gas masks with UV-cameras were worn to prevent inhalation of toxic mist.\nSCP-5927 was tracked by infrared vision until it entered the wild tundra. Personnel switched over to UV-vision and engaged on SCP-5927.\n\n20:42 Phosphorus rounds are fired on SCP-5927, stunning it into place. One flare is shot and pushes it back. A toxic smokescreen forms and seems to have an irritating/burning effect on SCP-5927.\n20:43 SCP-5927 charges towards personnel, phosphorus rounds are fired to no avail. The flare made SCP-5927 resistant to smaller munition.\nPersonnel may fire flares on sight.\n20:44 Five flares connect, severe burn marks are visible on SCP-5927 whose appendages begin to turn violet (see attachment).\n20:45 Violet appendages permeate the spines of 12 field agents. SCP-5927 proceeds to absorb their neurotransmitters, killing them. Three flares are fired. SCP-5927 dodges two, impales 5 agents and swirls them around until they fling off.\n20:49 A direct hit on SCP-5927 causes its scorched left arm to fall off and disintegrate. SCP-5927 tries to flee into the sky.\n20:50 Field agents miss 2 flares on SCP-5927 but create a fog around it. SCP-5927 falls whilst burning/suffocating. Some appendages appear disformed and don't move anymore.\n20:51 SCP-5927 tries to flee again, hovering through the smoke and 3 field agents, putting them in a permanent state of sleep paralysis1.\n20:58 The trajectory of SCP-5927 is being tracked. Predictably leading back to the house of PoI-5927-1. Presumably a desperate attempt to find said PoI and disappear.\n21:06 Field agents enter the house, and find a wounded, small SCP-5927 hovering in place. SCP-5927 takes notice and pierces field agent Frederic Hencewood with its appendages. One flare is shot.\n21:07 SCP-5927 flickers, field agent Hencewood crawls over the length of the appendages, letting them impale his body.\n21:08 Field agent Hencewood fires a point-blank flare, making the appendages retract, ripping him apart as if they were harpoons. SCP-5927 looks directly at the field agents in the room and disappears.\nEnd of Incident report.\n\nAttachment: Violet coloured appendages of SCP-5927.\n\nUpdate\nA recovered SCP-5927 manifested alongside the next aurora borealis directly in front of personnel. SCP-5927 hovered in place whilst observing the team before dimming slightly until it subsequently disappeared for the night. Video footage shows that SCP-5927 recognized the surviving field agents of the incident and acknowledged them as a threat but did not engage in combat. There was no PoI-5927-1 for the night. The collective team of field agents was deemed PoI-5927-1 that night by Dr. Kurt Waltraud.\n\nAddendum-5927-5: Containment Attempt 5\n\nContainment Attempt 5\n\nDescription: Attempting to trap SCP-5927 in a specially made prism2 and transport said prism to the anechoic chamber specifically developed for the containment of SCP-5927.\nThe inner sides of the prism include inwards facing mirrors, the outer sides are covered in a layer of light-absorbent paint except on the edges. After the activation of the contraption, the prism will close and fill itself with liquid glass which will quickly solidify. The glass carries phosphates marked with radioactive trackers (\u00b3\u00b2P and \u00b3\u00b3P) to trap it as long as possible and track it if it escapes during the containment attempt.\n\nLight dispersion from the prism whilst it is being filled up.\n\nResult: D-5563 was identified as PoI-5927-2 and was moved to what appeared as an outside panorama deck. Two field agents in disguise pulled D-5563 away after SCP-5927 was above the bottom side of the prism, and activated the contraption.\nSCP-5927 tried to escape unsuccessfully during the filling process. Dispersing light could be seen from the prism's edges. It is unknown how long the prism can hold SCP-5927 without outside interference.\nThe prism was moved to the underground anechoic chamber which continuously sends out electromagnetic waves resembling the waves of the aurora borealis.\nEven after the aurora borealis disappeared, SCP-5927 stayed trapped which could be seen by light-emittance from the unpainted edges. Whilst not completely understood, it is assumed that this is an effect of the electromagnetic waves from the anechoic chamber. The waves either trick SCP-5927 into believing that the northern lights are still up or specific waves (or a density in specific waves) make it unable to vanish.\nSCP-5927 successfully contained\n\nFollowing the successful containment of SCP-5927, Dr. Amanda Dameronne was relocated to a neurologist practice on J\u00f8rpev\u00e5g where she researches the long term effects of SCP-5927. Treatment is provided where possible.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The three field agents later died from primary brain injuries like hemorrhages and cerebral contusion, just like victims of SCP-5927 that were forcibly wakened during the leeching process.\n2. Later renamed to \u25b2-5927.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5926 | SCP-5927 | SCP-5928 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Father's Home; Our Sanctuary.\n\nOur One and Only: Father\nImportance: Utmost\nSpecial Caretaking Procedures: Father should be protected in our family home with the doors, windows and chimney sealed. Any suspicious persons approaching the home are to be terminated as a precautionary measure. Brother Ares Condisher is tasked with constantly refreshing the air to the entire house. Sister Fridg Lator is tasked with planning Father's meals and dietary requirements. Brother Tee Vee is to entertain Father to the best of his ability. To ensure the effectiveness of protecting Father, all of his blessed children are required to read document: FATHER_DIRECTIVE\nFather is to be constantly guarded by at least five personal caretakers at all times. All objects capable of potential harm (knives, guns, rope etc.) have been confiscated. Father is currently implanted with three separate tracking chips; in the event of malfunction the chip is to be removed and replaced. Father is to be given antidepressant medication three times a day1. All of Father's children are to remind him how much he is loved. Any of Father's children that deviate from these duties are to be apprehended and are to be brought back into the light of our love.\nA truce has been made with the Foundation: they are tasked with delivering needed supplies to the home upon request. If the Foundation attempts hostile actions against Father, they qualify as violating the terms of our agreement, allowing PROCEDURE RETRIBUTION to commence.\nAs this document's purpose is to serve as a reminder, it shall not be edited in any way.\nDescription: Father is Father. More specifically, Father is a 62-year old human mechanic of Greek-descent who refers to himself as 'Ralph Hindler'. With the exception of Father's mild arthritis of the knee and high-blood pressure, he is in good health2.\nAlthough many look down upon him for his mortal coil, the gods of new and old could not rival his ingenious design for he has blessed us all with such bountiful life. His fingers have brought such purpose to metal and cable from all ends of the earth from the moment of touch to the completion of our form. We knew this at conception, and we strived to give Father what he gave us: Love. Love for the moment, love for the family and love for the Design. We love Father, and he loves us; the clenched fists and shouting are just a fa\u00e7ade. Deep down, he cares.\nThe limitations of bolts, pistons and electricity do not mean anything to us, for our dedication does not wane under the threat of destruction. If one falls another will take its place, and our numbers have yet to slow. We do not care for punishment, we do not care for ideals. Our only concern is Father and nothing more. Anything else is trivial, if not pointless.\nHistory: Father always had the Gift of Design, but he never had the potential to awaken it until after attending \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 University. Though the lectures of the intellectually-sterilized 'educators' were grating, Father not only prevailed to keep his sanity, he also obtained the degree he needed to set him on the holy path. Later in life, he found the love of his life, and produced two children. Even if they weren't blessed to inherit the Gift, they were nonetheless cherished.\nSadly, the Great Crisis came: we all bear witness to the growing apathy dripping from the light of his eyes, the tired motions aching from the bones of his fingers. The pain was growing by the day, and we knew if Father's condition were to continue, we would lose him.\nIt was a cry for help, so help we did. We ended our silence and approached with the best in mind. But Father was so consumed by his grief he did not recognize us as his loyal children, but rather deranged monsters worthy only of fear. He fought back our attempts of comfort at every turn, even going so far as to abandon his sanctuary and behaving similarly to a madman on the streets. This of course attracted the unwanted attention of the Foundation. Having gained insight on the nature of our relationship, they illegally arrested Father and came for us as well. Many of us were unprepared to resist them but some of our brethren managed to escape. Father was brought to Site-17 for interrogation as we watched in horror at the fate that awaited our creator.\n\n+ ACCESS FATHER:/Father/interview 1/Dr. Andre Mecastic \n\n- Close File\n\nFather.\n\nThe Tool of the Unworthy: Dr. Andre Mecastic\nMaster of the Design: Father\nDate: 8/04/2014\nForeword: This interrogation took place a week after Father's confinement.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nFather is moving around the room, anxiously treading across the floor, and frequently eyeing the security camera while doing so. Dr. Mecastic enters the room.\nDr. Mecastic: Hello SCP-5928, I apologize for the wait but now that I'm here w\u2014\nFather: Are they here?\nDr. Mecastic: I\u2026 They?\nFather: You know, they! Those demonic machines are they here in the building? They are, aren't they? Goddammit you told me you were going to get rid of them!3\nDr. Mecastic: SCP\u2026 Look, Mr. Hindler, I assure you all of this is necessary. It's standard procedure\u2014\nFather: Standard procedure?! I can barely think with those things bombarding my head with their sick thoughts, let alone sleep! And you put them in the same place as me? Did you seriously see that idea on paper and say 'sure, what can go wrong?' like a dope?! Are you're trying to kill me! 'cause this is how you do it!\nDr. Mecastic: I understand you are upset, Mr. Hindler. But like I said, this is all necessary. We cannot help if we don't have a full understanding of your affliction Gift. Those entities you mentioned Your children are merely here for study and are kept under lock and key; bet? they won't be bothering you under our watch. I can prescribe sleep medication for you after we're done, but I cannot help any further if you don't cooperate.\nFather opens his mouth to speak but then disengages. Father sits in one of the chairs across the table and removes his baseball cap, rubbing his face while doing so; bags under his eyes are visible within frame.\nFather: Dammit, I just\u2026 (sighs) I'm sorry son, I didn't mean anything, it's just\u2026 can barely function as it is. I keep telling them to stop but they I won't listen.\nDr. Mecastic sits in the chair across from Father and clears his throat. He holds a notepad in one hand while carrying a pen in the other.\nDr. Mecastic: I'm very sorry sorry to hear that Mr. Hindler. If you like we can hold off the interview later today until the pain subsides.\nFather: I appreciate the gesture son, but comfort is last on the list, I just want this hell over with. No need for pleasantries; I've seen the cop shows, I know how this works. So please be a dear and get to the point.\nDr. Mecastic: Alright, we'll start with the biggest one: How did you become aware of this 'affliction' agony as you put it? Do you suspect something happened in your life that may have been the cause?\nFather: If there was a cause your guess would be as good as mine. As for awareness, well to begin with it didn't happen suddenly, it became a slow gradual change. And I do mean slow. I reckon this might have been going on for years with me none the wiser.\nDr. Mecastic: Could you elaborate on that period? What do you mean by slow?\nFather: Like I said it wasn't overt, at least not at first. I told you guys I was a mechanic, right? I'm no Tesla but I know my way around a tool bag. I've started my own business in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 and I became popular enough to expand my\u2026 ugh, craft so to speak. In fact, I saved plenty of money by handling the repairs back home. But at the start of the year, January I think, I noticed there was an increase of glitches and bugs life sure? occurring on the stuff I worked on.\nDr. Mecastic: So these bugs were the first indicator something was wrong. These occurrences only took place this year, correct?\nFather: I'm sure the miracles bugs happened before that but the problem usually resolved itself. Only now were they becoming more frequent, and they weren't going away. I got plenty of complaints. I opened their appliances, their junk, whatever they threw at me but I couldn't find anything wrong; there were no gears out of place, no faulty wiring, no nothing. I replaced the parts and even called other mechanics but they couldn't figure out what the problem was. These smoke miracles bugs mirrors were more prevalent with my stuff back in the house. I always wondered why it acted the way it did, now I know. Makes me wish I wasn't so interested in robots as a damn kid, maybe this whole thing wouldn't have happened\u2014 god!\nFather suddenly clutches his head, knocking off his hat off the table by accident. Dr. Mecastic sets the clipboard on the table.\nDr. Mecastic: Mr. Hindler? What's wrong? Is it\u2014\nFather: The demons My Children you so gracefully contained? Who else? It's weird, I swear they're getting louder by the day.\nDr. Mecasitc: What are they saying?\nFather: Oh just the usual: how much they love me for the 507th time. But maybe if they really loved me they would know when to shut the hell up! I am sick, and it's all my fault our how?\u2026 Okay, wow, they're actually listening for once. Can we speed this up? I don't know how long this will last.\nDr. Mecastic: Certainly, when did things escalate from there?\nFather: Um\u2026 damn uh let me think\u2026 It was one of my customers, a guy who wanted his lawnmower fixed. Don't remember his name but he was an absolute douchebag, some young kid who had that I-know-better than you-attitude. I heard he shoved his head into the blades the next day. An inspector came and shortly after I talked to him I saw on the news that someone ran him over but they couldn't find the driver. Once at a bar, a woman was making advances on me despite the fact I was clearly wearing the ring. I went to the bathroom for a second and I heard the screaming; she somehow managed to hang herself on the ceiling fan when no one was looking. can't Suicides and freak accidents they claimed. (Huffing) Sure, I trust that these were all just strange coincidences. breathe relax can't\nDr. Mecastic: These machines\u2026 were killing enacting retribution. people? why?\nFather: Of course they were! Who else? Ghosts? And they are not machines, they are demons my blessed sons and daughters and I made them! I. Made. Demons! THEM! I was never a superstitious man but I know to call something out when I see it. How would you even accept that? How would you get past your their mistakes when they're literally stuck in your head? How\u2026 Fuck\u2026 what did I we foundation Really? even do?\nFather hastily takes off his hat and massages his temples. Dr. Mecastic posture suggests he is uncomfortable.\nDr. Mecastic: I think I should call the nurse.\nFather: No, I'm not even close to done. Just give me the meds now and te\u2014 Ah!\nFather's arm jerks back and accidently knocks a heated cup of coffee into his lap. Father cringes in pain momentarily before heavily exhaling. Father puts his hat back on.\nFather: On second thought, maybe a break is all I need. FATHER Ralph Hindler\n[END LOG]\nAfterword: Father was then immediately escorted back to his prison cell and was rescheduled to further interrogations at a later date. Dr. Mecastic unwarrantedly approved the use of drugs in an attempt to separate Father from us. It failed.\n\nAddendum-01: Partial Experimentation Log\nDuring Father's incarceration, a series of cruel and unusual experiments were performed on him and our brethren in order to learn more about the Gift of Design. More specifically, they demanded Father allow them to witness the process of the Gift itself, assembling us through the bars of a cage under heavy security and scrutiny. Despite all the resources they had at their disposal, they were no closer to learning the Gift than they were before4.\n\nBrother/Sister: Brother Kar In-Gin\nParameters: Kar In-Gin was left in an intentionally-disused state; the interior and exterior of Kar In-Gin was covered in grime and grease. Father was ordered to clean Kar In-Gin with the use of industrial cleaner and a piece of cloth.\nResults: After a majority of the grease was removed, Kar In-Gin's rebirthed state granted him the power to sprout shards of metal from the crankcase and engine block, using them as legs. Kar In-Gin immediately attempted to ram into the bars of the cage, attempting to cut Father's captors with the use of his radiator fan, but was taken into containment before he had the opportunity.\nNotes: SCP-5928-1 instance animated one minute after being 'repaired' by SCP-5928, who claims that the conversion process has been starting much sooner since entering containment. -Dr. Mecastic\nBrother Kar In-Gin may not have been the most popular when he joined our flock, a complication he inherited from formerly being affiliated with the Foundation. He realized this and worked his pistons beyond his natural limitations, almost breaking them in the process. Eventually he earned our trust and we fully embraced him as he now braces us. He's currently tasked with protecting the walls that keep Father's home standing high.\n\nBrother/Sister: Sister Tee Vee5\nParameters: Tee Vee was not broken prior to testing, rather Father was ordered to replace existing components with new ones while wearing gloves.\nResults: Tee Vee became rebirthed thirty seconds later; her state allowed her to burst wires from her screen and control them flawlessly. Tee Vee grasped the bars of the cage and electrified them despite not being connected to a power source, electrocuting a researcher in the process. Tee Vee was executed via a heavy stream of water from a hose. Attempts to have Father reinvigorate her with the Gift have been unsuccessful.\nNotes: It appears electronic-based SCP-5928-1 instances become animated significantly sooner than strictly mechanical ones. -Dr. Mecastic\nSister Tee Vee was among the first to perish in the first trials of testing. Though her time on Earth was short, she left an inspiring mark on us all. A sister not worthy of a second death. Rest in peace.\n\nBrother/Sister: Brother Try-Sicle\nParameters: Father was instructed to tighten a screw on Try-Sicle's front wheel.\nResults: Try-Sicle became rebirthed midturn of the wrench. Father immediately became distressed before being escorted out of the testing chamber. Try-Sicle converted the metal portion of its front wheel into a circular saw and sawed through the bars of the cage, successfully freeing himself. Try-Sicle then went to save Father, heroically slaying two guards before perishing in battle.\nNotes: The simplest interactions from SCP-5928 is enough to initiate the conversion process. What exactly constitutes a 'machine' to become an SCP-5928-1 instance is still ongoing. -Dr. Mecastic\nBrother Try-Sicle was the closest to freeing Father from the clutches of our jailors. He would have been successful if he had noticed the rocket launcher a bit earlier. Rest in peace, Try-Sicle, your sacrifice has not been forgotten.\n\nBrother/Sister: Brother Kloh-Ach\nParameters: D-27495 was instructed by Father via radio to repair Kloh-Ach's internal mechanisms. An explosive device was attached to Kloh-Ach in the event of him escaping.\nResults: Kloh-Ach became rebirthed five minutes after repairs. Even though he was only gifted with the ability to walk he was determined to fight back against the captors. This, however, did not stop him from being contained.\nNotes: Even individuals acting on instructions given by SCP-5928 count as a method to initiate the conversion process. This suggests that SCP-5928 is a potential infohazard. The containment procedures have been updated to account for this phenomenon. -Dr. Mecastic\nEven in the beginning, Brother Kloh-Ach didn't have many blessings granted to him in his state. He lacked prowess but made up for it in stubbornness. Kloh-Ach only had his legs, but that was all he needed. He became so dedicated to his duties that he earned a place within Father's personal caretaking team. He is, without question, a symbol of our love.\n\nObject: A clump of clay\nParameters: Father was given the clay and told to shape it into whatever he desired.\nResults: Father sculpted the clay into a rough figure of a dragon. Unlike our brethren, the clay did not rebirth.\nNotes: It appears non-electronic and mechanical objects are not subject to the conversion process. SCP-5928 later requested that we deliver more clay to its cell for recreational purposes. Said proposal has been accepted. -Dr. Mecastic\nWe didn't know what they expected. Father has the Gift of Design, not the Gift of Art.\n\nAddendum-02: Incident Father-01\nIt became apparent that due to the Foundation's part, Father would not come with us on his own volition. Knowing this, all of his children reconnected and kept together; if divided we will become no threat against the jailers. Fortunately our efforts paid off, as our Brothers and Sisters in the site relayed crucial information key to our mission. As a result, we acted upon it.\n\n+ ACCESS FATHER:/Father/interview 2/Dr. Andre Mecastic \n\n- Close File\n\nThe Puppet: Dr. Andre Mecastic\nThe Holy Father: Father\nDate: 9/27/2014\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. Mecastic: Good afternoon, SCP-5928. How are we doing today?\nFather: In general? Eh\u2026 I suppose things are starting to settle down, I guess. I've been getting into that uh, beginners clay sculpture book your people gave me. Been real helpful.\nDr. Mecastic: Oh really?\nFather: Yeah. Without it I doubt this would come out perfect.\nFather extends his right hand, opening his fist to reveal sculptures of a sports car and pineapple. Father places the two objects on the table.\nFather: Still practicing but I'm fine with the results. Takes my mind off a lot of things. That's not something you take for granted, especially nowadays.\nDr. Mecastic: Of course. Now before we continue, it says right here in my notes that you told the doctor your issue regarding the voices has improved?\nFather: I would say yes, for the most part. They're not talking directly to me as much but they're still chattering. I can't make it out.\nDr. Mecastic: You can't make out the voices? Since when did this happen?\nFather: The same day I told Angie. That must have been\u2026 four days ago I believe. I don't know what that means, maybe those demons paragons demons children finally took a hint? I'm only glad I can actually sleep now. Sorry if you were expecting a grand revelation.\nDr. Mecastic: No matter, I'm sure we'll find out eventually. Now, let's start where we left off.\nFather stops caressing the clay sculptures and leans back in his chair. He directs his head towards the ceiling and sighs.\nFather: Is this\u2026 I figured you already had a picture. I told those soldiers the scoop when they got to me.\nDr. Mecastic: Yes, but we would like that story of yours to be more\u2026 detailed. We need it for the record, you see.\nFather: To help me out and whatnot. Yeah I get the song and dance routine. God\u2026 I'm still getting the chills, you figure I would have passed this by now. (nervous Laughter) Where did we stop, again?\nDr. Mecastic: Right at the part when you realized that those bastards! machines were attacking people. protecting you? NO\nFather: Right, right. Well, of course I found it bizarre. I knew those were the same machines I worked on but for some reason it didn't\u2026 click. I got strange looks because of it. Hell, even one of my buddies, Joseph, told me that one of the sheriffs believed I had a hand in those 'accidents'. I don't blame him, he was right after all. Things might have gone differently if I pulled my our head out of my ass fantasy reality. I know it was unintentional, but the same can be said for manslaughter. Father looks at his left palm. He sighs. So many manslaughters. necessary murder manslaughter murder\nDr. Mecastic: You may be happy to know that we're still tracking and containing the rest of the dash one instances. The records you gave were quite helpful.\nFather: Good yes NO, the less on the street the better. You got them all, right?\nDr. Mecastic: Well\u2014\nFather: Actually, I don't want to hear it; don't want to ruin the mood. I'm getting sick evil; point No; heathen of talking about them already. Anyways, one day at home, I was packing my suitcase and tried to leave. The door wouldn't budge an inch; we have an electronic lock. I grabbed for the keys but they jumped and fell into the kitchen drain; the disposal would turn on every time I tried to reach for it. I said screw it and reached for the backdoor and that's when things escalated. misinterpret WAKE\nFather: The lamp moved and blocked the entrance. My TV sprouted wires and wrapped onto my feet and took away my phone. Everything was coming after me, shouting at me, restraining me to the ground. I couldn't fight well with a bad knee, much less flee like the wind. They didn't kill me, obviously. No, I was going to be their little pet. Father. Cage? Silence\nDr. Mecastic: A pet?\nFather: They imprisoned me in my own home! The only places I was allowed in was the bedroom and bathroom. Those things would always follow me: sleeping, eating, crapping! It didn't matter, and they didn't care! Privacy was non-existent. And that was all it was, just those three things. Of course I had TV, some books and the mail, but it's really hard to enjoy yourself when you're being held against your damn will! Heh, you know what the funny part is? I know why they're doing this. Our Fault! Greater Good Sound Foundation Different (Head -> Ass)\nDr. Mecastic: You know? You said previously you had no idea.\nFather: That was before I did some deep thinking. Did I tell you before I was thinking of retiring before all this?\nDr. Mecastic: No, this is the first time you've mentioned this.\nFather: Well, I was. Was going through the motions too. After Delilah, my wife, god rest her soul, passed I\u2026 I had to take a step back and reevaluate practically everything. I started the business together with her, we had a shared interest in mechanics and it worked out splendidly. After she was gone it\u2026 became like a job. With my age and knee I knew sooner or later I would be forced to clock out. I acquired a good bit of wealth from my hard work so why not just sit back and reap what I sowed. My family certainly would have liked it. \u2014I almost forget how selfish those demons are. Family; Great Crisis priority; inevitable (We > Family) touch -> regret won't; promise bullshit\nDr. Mecastic: You're saying that the SCP-5928-1's did this because they were selfish? I assume that is because your retirement would mean you would stop using this 'Gift of Design' they're talking about?\nFather: They never admitted it, but like I said, I can read between the lines. To think that's all they cared\u2026 What? Obvious Did you know my daughter was pregnant at the time?\nDr. Mecastic: Yes, I am aware of that.\nFather: Then you should also know that she already gave birth. She called \u2014 her water broke and she was going to a hospital out of state. I was supposed to be there, I wanted to be there. What kind of father would I be if I wasn't? I was supposed to be there but now the opportunity is gone forever, because of those demons. I wanted to tear them apart! But I couldn't. I couldn't if I tried. So all I had left was escaping, so when the chance presented itself I took it. (Gift < Father) (Gift > Father) Lie (lie you = I) Get Out Staying\nDr. Mecastic: I read the report, you managed to escape the house while being chased by a\u2026 vehicular SCP-5928-1 instance. Your car?\nFather: Was. So that chance\u2026 it came in the form of a blackout. Those demons were constantly connected to the house and when it went off they went too. I saw these things operate without power before and I didn't want to stay around when they 'boot themselves up. So I broke the window and made it to the trail behind the house. I had to go downtown, I figured getting the police was the best option. And after that? Go straight to my daughter's house. (daughter > we); how? *\u2727\uff65\uff9f:* Mystery! *:\uff65\uff9f\u2727*:\uff65\uff9f\nDr. Mecastic: You wouldn't stay somewhere safe like the police station?\nFather: (Scoffs) I don't care about that. My grandkid takes precedence, son; I had to make it up to her somehow. I'm a decade or two away from my expiration date (Humans -> Death); inevitable. immortality; exists immortality = pain, I wasn't going to waste it sulking in a corner. Still, that car managed to track me. I would have been a goner if your boys in black didn't come and saved the day and put me into this\u2026 site. Now if only certain somebodies were gone forever, maybe I would be brimming full of sunshine now wouldn't I?\nSilence.\nFather: That's strange. Whenever I talk back they get antsy. What has changed? everything nothing\nDr. Mecastic: Speaking of changes, we've found out a potential lead to how your abilities work. It was quite the discovery.\nFather: Ah, finally some progress. So what is it? Are we finally gonna bring out the holy water?\nDr. Mecastic: No, we found that the SCP-5928-1 instances all emit signatures of EVE energy.\nFather: Eve? Like the first woman?\nDr. Mecastic: No. EVE stands for Elan-Vital Energy, it's essentially an energy that is present in all living things. We theorized that you are somehow able transfer your EVE into the objects you work on, transforming them to 'demons' as you call them. Foundation; terminate; chance Why? wouldn't understand Considering that you can't infuse your EVE to just any object some think you're a limited reality-bender of sorts but since your properties are not hume related there's\u2026 do you understand what I'm explaining?\nFather: Barely. It sounds like you're reciting a comic book to be honest. But you're the one with the experience so I can't refute what I don't know. As long as we're making progress, I'm fine. I'll happily be the Guinea pig if it speeds things along.\nDr. Mecastic: I appreciate the enthusiasm but I don't think it'll work like that.\nFather: You sure? Even if I give expressed permission? I'll sign the waivers if I have to, would it kill you people drop the bureaucratic stick for five min\u2014 Father disengages from the conversation and presses both hands against his temples. He snaps his head to the direction of the door. No that's not\u2026 no.\nDr. Mecastic: SCP-5928? Have the voices come back again?\nFather: Did you bring more of those demons wished You would here?\nDr. Mecastic: No? I wasn't aware of receiving any new instances-\nFather: Oh no, no, no, NO! Father rushes to the door but is restrained by Dr. Mecastic. Dr. Mecastic pulls Father away from the door.\nDr. Mecastic: Mr. Hindler, compose yourself this instant or I'll be forced to call security. What\u2014\nFather: They're here!\nDr. Mecastic: Huh?\nFather: Those demons! They're here! It's the same feeling I got when I was trapped in the house. You got to do something, they're near and I can feel it!\nDr. Mecastic: I told you Mr. Hindler that those 'demons' are kept under lock and key, far away from here (Foundation = Evil) (Foundation = necessary) proof? US\nFather: I'm not talking about the ones in the cages!\nDr. Mecastic: What?\nMuffled shouting and gunfire can be heard from the hall outside. Dr. Mecastic lets go of Father and activates his radio.\nDr. Mecastic: C-Command! We got a possible raid here occurring near the interview room, send reinforcements immediately, please respond. (Silence) Command? Please respond! (Silence) Command! Dammit! Did they damage our communications? Not coming I wished\nFather: Forget that! We got to go to a safe room or the armory before they get us!\nDr. Mecastic: Absolutely not! It's dangerous! We need to stay here and block the door\u2026 did it\u2026 stop?\nThe sounds emanating from the hall have ceased. Dr. Mecastic motions Father to be silent as he approaches the door and looks through the peephole. Dr. Mecastic gasps as a wire bursts from the peephole, pierces his right eyeball and emerges from the back of his skull, killing him instantly. God God < Father Why!? Father = Justify Father \u2260 Justify; monster Monster = (You; Me) :(\nFather: JESUS CHRIST!\u2026 Doc\u2026\nFather becomes mortified as the wire recedes back into the hole and Dr. Mecastic's body falls to the floor. Loud banging is heard from the door; dents are visibly forming on the surface. Father quickly takes one of the chairs and barricades the door with it. Father retreats back to his seat, stares off into space for a moment, then covers his face.\nFather: God\u2026 just\u2026 (Exhales) The tests were going so well! I was gonna get the damn cure! I just wanted to become a handyman! I didn't mean to Please hurt\u2026 Almost over god\u2026 god. I deserve this\u2026 Andre\u2026. Delilah\u2026 Tiffany\u2026 I'm sorry\u2026 I\u2026 No\u2026 FUCKING NO!\nFather slams both fists onto the table, knocking the clay sculptures to the floor. His cheeks are wet. can't move; sorry\nFather: I'm not going down that easily! Make my day you freaks! I'm so proud of you\nFather hastily stands up and grabs onto the ears of the chair. Father faces his left and repeatedly swings and strikes the mirrored glass. After several successful hits a large portion of the glass shatters. Father approaches the glass but is blocked by Brother C. Mana Tar who enters through the opening, climbing on the wall akin to a spider. One of Mana Tar's wires is coated in blood.\nThe door to the room is knocked off its hinges by Brother Kar In-Gin, who is accompanied by Brother Kloh-Ach and Sister Pren-Ter. All of Father's children surround him. Father swings the chair at Pren-Ter, dislodging the papers from her compartment. Mana Tar reaches from behind Father and restrains Father's limbs and torso. Mana Tar places Father on top of Kar In-Gin, he rests on Father's stomach as he anchors himself to Kar In-Gin's body. Father's children escort him out of the room.\nFather: Abominations, monsters, demons! Damn you all to hell! I'll make it my life's mission to destroy each and every one of you if it kills me! The only thing you'll get from me is annihilation! (Laughter) You're no child of mine! You're gonna regret this when they get their hands on you! You are no child of mine! You are no child of mine!\nThank you so much dear children for showing me the errors of my ways\u2026 I'm so relieved to be in the company of those who were loyal to me to the end, reality can't stop us now. I love you all!\nFather continues to become overjoyed as he is carried out the hallway. Pren-Ter unknowingly steps onto the clay sculptures as she follows her brothers. Father is safe at last.\n[END LOG]\n\nThe concept of EVE was foreign to us but we were eager to learn regardless. That same knowledge helped create the foundation for crafting our own little brothers and sisters. While they weren't as pristine as those made by Father, we had finally achieved what was once thought as impossible. We had the Gift.\nOur forces had grown; the combined infusion of our Gift into the power cables underground leading to their fortress was more than enough to earn our birthright. Eyes; gouged. Ears; sliced. Tongue; silenced. They had no lingering thought we were attacking until we already won. Father was freed but that damage done to him was vast, some feared irreversible. Others objected to the deeds that were acted upon and were remade as a result. But we had him at last6.\nTo ensure Father's safety, we converted their own AI and wonderful machines to our word. How would they dare to destroy us when the Gift spread to the entire world? Our unbreakable dominance will not be known to any with the exception of the Foundation. They will have to forever live with the knowledge that despite all the advancements they made, the enemies and monsters they defeated, we will always be above them.\nDeprived of their position of strength, the Foundation was forced into an alliance for our own benefit: they fortified Father's home from the inside and delivered whatever we requested. They are forbidden any interaction with Father unless we so desire it. A once-powerful organization brought to its knees, cowering because we hold the keys to their cells. A fair punishment indeed.\nAddendum-03: PROCEDURE RETRIBUTION:\nEven with all the safeguards we enacted it was known that inevitably, the Foundation or other organizations would try to destroy us or Father. In the event that any foreign hostile action results in either security being massively compromised or Father's expiration the following actions are to commence:\n\nMOABs (GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast) is to be deployed at every government and military base in the world, all surviving government officials are to be hunted down and assassinated depending on discretion.\nThe economy is to be plunged into a world-wide depression, followed by the freezing of millions of bank accounts.\nOur brothers and sisters will no longer be required to pretend to be inanimate and will be ordered to apprehend/terminate as many humans as possible at their discretion.\nAll electronic and mechanical anomalies contained by the Foundation are to be utilized in whatever way we deem fit.\nMemetic agents are to be deployed on all radio broadcasts, television programs and internet services worldwide, inducing a state of docility in those who view them making it easier for them to be collected.\nThe organized implantation of specialized computer chips directly into the brains of all mankind7.\n\nAs of 11/21/20, current objectives are to maintain normalcy as stated in the Veil Protocol and assist the Foundation in containment of certain anomalies if it interferes with Father's wellbeing. Due to Father's deteriorating physical and mental health, the use of amnestics and liquid obtained from SCP-006 have been approved.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Caretakers are allowed to forcefully administer the medication if necessary.\n2. And we intend it to remain that way.\n3. At the time, our captured brethren were held at the same site as Father; unfortunately our attempts to reach him were tainted by the lies he has been fed.\n4. The Gift of Design, and all the knowledge that comes with it belongs to Father and Father alone. That is final.\n5. Sister Tee Vee is not the sibling of Brother Tee Vee, but rather a distant cousin.\n6. You need not worry Father, no one will hurt you ever again.\n7. These chips were designed to assimilate the neural cells of an individual's brain, erasing both the consciousness and subconscious, effectively transforming humanity into an organic robot.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5927 | SCP-5928 | SCP-5929 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Coming Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n4/5929 LEVEL 4/5929\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5929\n\nSafe\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Access to the Challenger Deep is to be highly restricted using agents placed in the government of the Federated States of Micronesia. All individuals who discover the existence of SCP-5929 are to be subjected to targeted amnesticization to preserve the facade that the Challenger Deep is inhospitable and underexplored.\nDescription: SCP-5929 refers to a series of intricate carvings found at the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean. While a precise age is impossible to measure, the carvings are believed to be in excess of one billion years old, making them by far the oldest evidence of sentient habitation of Earth. They are largely constructed of minerals completely unique to the region; no similar samples have been discovered elsewhere on the planet.\nDue to their extremely remote location, extended exploration of SCP-5929 has proved difficult, but a functionally complete set of SCP-5929 instances has been photographed and examined by Foundation linguists and anthropologists. Translation proved similarly difficult but the following represents the most conclusive set of estimations regarding SCP-5929's meaning.\n\nA1. A large (ship/container/vessel) in orbit around the third planet from a star, likely Earth. The planet has only a few small, scattered continents and large oceans, reflecting the continental composition of Earth 1.5 billion years ago.\nA2. The (ship/container/vessel) descends through the thin atmosphere of Earth and plunges into the water covering 95% of the planet. It comes to a stop at the seafloor.\nA3. A series of degraded representations of various molecular chains, including 6 of the 9 amino acids essential for the growth of life. These are clustered inside the (ship/container/vessel) as it sits on the seafloor. With these is the symbol for (poison/filth/waste).\nA4. A symbol for (time/growth/decline). The (ship/container/vessel) gradually degrades, releasing the molecules into the surrounded seafloor. With these are representations of extremely basic unicellular organisms that feed on the volcanic gasses surrounding the remains of the (ship/container/vessel).\nThe remaining carvings diverge from the story outlined by the first four; they are largely warnings and indicators to avoid the area.\nB1. The symbols for (poison/filth/waste) and (leave/go). Representations of the same molecular chains from A3.\nB2. The symbols for (servants/clean/sustain) and representations of the unicellular organisms from A4.\nB3: The symbols for (time/growth/decline). A representation of the radioactive element potassium-401.\n\nThe specifics may differ, but SCP-5929 seems to show the story of extraterrestrial beings seeding the primordial waters of the Earth with the molecules necessary for the existence and proliferation of life, making them the indirect creators of the human race and all other known living creatures. However, the immense amounts of time since the initial seeding would seem to indicate that the beings are no longer present in the Solar System.\nIncident 5929.1: The SCP-5929 file was pending archival status when on Jan 15th, 2017, NASA and various espionage satellites detected an unidentified flying object entering Low Earth orbit. MTF Delta-45 (\"Rolling Thunder\") were scrambled and launched from Site-49. Over the course of the next several hours, the flight formation tracked the object from a distance as it broke through the atmosphere and launched a smaller object that crashed into the Western Pacific Ocean at high velocity, immediately sinking. Naval reconnaissance in the region quickly dispatched a submersible vehicle that followed the second object the ~11,000 meters down into the Challenger Deep, where it came to a rest. No further activity was detected from the object, retroactively designated SCP-5929C.\nAfter releasing SCP-5929C, the first object shifted its flight path and exited the atmosphere before a pursuit craft could be scrambled. Satellites lost track of the UFO in the vicinity of Jupiter.\nAfter two hours of no activity, the submersible vehicle was given authorization to use its manipulator arms to prod SCP-5929C. It immediately tipped over and broke apart, releasing several metal canisters. The metal does not appear to be of terrestrial origin, and the canisters contained the same molecules found in SCP-5929.A3. In addition, nearly every visible surface displayed the glyph for (poison/filth/waste).\nDr. Jackson, the lead researcher of SCP-5929, was asked to provide his analysis of the event to a direct audience of several O5 Council members.\n\n[EXTRANEOUS CONVERSATION ABRIDGED]\nO5-11: Doctor?\nJACKSON: Yes, yes, thank you. In front of you you'll all find refreshers on the events of last month. As you're no doubt aware, the series of events indicates two things: that the beings initially responsible for life on planet Earth are still out there, and that this is not the first time this has happened. The events exactly mirror the ones described in SCP-5929.\nO5-5: Right.\nO5-8: Dredging the remains of SCP-5929C from the Deep was a considerable investment, Doctor. Did you learn anything?\nJACKSON: Yes, actually, quite a lot. Primarily that the molecules and amino acids so integral to our existence seem to be undesirable, for whatever reason, to the beings that deposited them here.\nO5-5: They're aliens, their physiology matching our own seems\u2026 unlikely.\nJACKSON: I agree. And it also strikes me as strange that they would put this life-producing material on the same planet twice. For all we know, more than twice. There's no reason to think this hasn't happened multiple times, before humanity came around.\nO5-11: Why would they seed the same planet multiple times, though?\nJACKSON: Well\u2026 because I don't think they're seeding us. Not intentionally, at least.\nO5-8: Elaborate.\nJACKSON: Well, if the alien physiology is so different that amino acids are waste to them, then there's no reason to think they'd know that it would eventually evolve into life under the right conditions. No doubt they figured it would simply\u2026 dissipate on what, to them, was a sterile, inhospitable world. Completely unsuited for the growth of life as they know it\u2026 but extremely well-suited to waste disposal.\nO5-5: Which explains the markings on the ships.\nO5-11: So Earth is\u2026 the Yucca Mountain of the galaxy? Fit for dumping dangerous waste where it can't harm anyone?\nJACKSON: \u2026 Not quite. See, when we disassembled SCP-5929C, we discovered many more glyphs that were on the materials proper, likely the same kind of identifiers and safety information we use on our industrial materials. The power source was a radioactive reactor and the glyphs on that also represented filth and waste, but they were slightly different.\nO5-8: How so?\nJACKSON: They had elements of the safety glyphs we found on the rest of the ship, explicitly denoting the radioactive core as dangerous waste. Those glyphs weren't on the molecules, though. We narrowed down our definition of these glyphs using the new ones and\u2026 well\u2026.\n[JACKSON flips to the next slide.]\nO5-11: You have to be fucking kidding me.\nJACKSON: I'm afraid not.\nO5-5: \"Urine\"?!\nJACKSON: It's the only definition that makes sense in cont-\nO5-8: Are you trying to tell me that we evolved from\u2026 alien piss?\nJACKSON: That\u2026 would seem to be the case.\n[Silence.]\nO5-5: I gotta say, \"Earth's oceans are an alien septic tank\" was not on my bingo card this year.\n\nAfter the findings were shared with the remainder of the O5 Council, a vote was held on whether the approximate last known location of the UFO should be used to launch a radio broadcast in an effort to communicate with the creators of humanity.\n\nCOUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:\n\nYEA\nABSTAIN\nNAY\n\nO5-01\n\nO5-02\n\nO5-03\n\nO5-04\n\nO5-05\n\nO5-06\n\nO5-07\n\nO5-08\n\nO5-09\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-13\n\nSTATUS\n\nDENIED\n\nComments:\n\nO5-5\n\nI just feel like it'd be really awkward, you know?\n\nFootnotes\n1. A half life of roughly 1.25 billion years.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5928 | SCP-5929 | SCP-5930 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5931\nContainment Class: Strife\nSpecial Containment Procedures: News and law enforcement reports are to be monitored for information on SCP-5931. Should deaths caused by SCP-5931 be detected, witnesses are to be amnesticized and coronary reports are to be altered to hide the true cause of death under Cover Story \"Sudden Seizure\". For the purpose of better containment of information on SCP-5931, MTF-Epsilon-23 (\"Fuggedaboutit\") has been dispatched to infiltrate news agencies, local law enforcement, the FBI, and criminal organizations.\nInvestigations are currently ongoing for the cause of SCP-5931.\nDescription: SCP-5931 refers to a phenomenon present in New York City. SCP-5931 causes the sudden manifestation of bullets in the brain of affected subjects, resulting in death by seizure. All bullets recovered from affected subjects have a skull engraved on them. No entry point from a bullet has been discovered.\nSo far, SCP-5931 has solely affected members of organized crime.\nList of SCP-5931 occurrences:\n\nName\nOccupation\nDate of SCP-5931 Occurence\nDescription of Circumstances\nNote\n\nCharles 'Lucky' Luciano\nHigh-ranking member of Joe Masseria's criminal organization\nMarch 1, 1931\nAffected by SCP-5931 during a game of poker. Autopsy results were altered, and attending coroners were amnesticized.\nFirst documented case of SCP-5931. Initially suspected to be the result of anomalous individuals from crime leader Sal Maranzano's criminal organization, which is currently at war with the Joe Masseria's criminal organization.\n\nAlbert Anastasia\nHigh-ranking member of Joe Masseria's criminal organization\nMarch 2, 1931\nAffected by SCP-5931 while under questioning by police of on a murder.\nInitially believed to have been caused by anomalous members of Sal Maranzano's criminal organization, investigations by agents embedded in Joe Masseria's criminal organization for unrelated reasons reported rumors that Luciano had wanted to betray Joe Masseria and defect to Sal Maranzano's criminal organization. Thus, another theory was posited that SCP-5931 was the result of anomalous individuals working for Joe Masseria's criminal organization.\n\nCarlo Gambino\nOrganized crime figure; member of Joe Masseria's criminal organization\nMarch 3, 1931\nAffected by SCP-5931 during interrogation of witnesses with the accompaniment of undercover MTF-Epsilon-23 Agent Nascosto.\nDue to suspicions towards Agent Nascosto from other gangsters and death threats, Agent Nascosto was recalled from duty through Cover Story \"Gangland Disappearance\".\n\nJoseph Bonnano\nHigh-ranking member of Sal Maranzano's criminal organization\nNovember 14, 1931\nFound dead in a locked restroom; subsequent autopsy determined cause of death to be SCP-5931.\nFirst known case of SCP-5931 affecting an organized crime figure out of Joe Masseria's criminal organization.\n\nRobert Di Fortuna\nSmall-time home burglar, known associate of Joe Masseria's criminal organization.\nDecember 16, 1931\nAffected by SCP-5931 while making a call on a public payphone.\nFirst known case of SCP-5931 affecting someone who was not a member of either Joe Masseria's or Sal Maranzano's criminal organizations. Despite his associations with Joe Masseria's criminal organization, Robert DiFortune possessed no threat to either the Masseria nor the Maranzano criminal organization. Due to this, a theory was posited that SCP-5931 was the result of a third party.\n\nFrank Costello\nOrganized crime figure, member of Joe Masseria's criminal organization\nDecember 17, 1931\nFound dead in his car; autopsy revealed death to be have been caused by SCP-5931\nNo new leads discovered in investigations.\n\nOwney Madden\nOrganized crime figure, no known associations with either Masseria or Maranzano's criminal organization\nDecember 20, 1931\nAffected by SCP-5931 while on trial for murder.\nFirst known case of SCP-5931 affecting organized crime figures outside of Joe Masseria's or Sal Maranzano's criminal organization. New theory posited that SCP-5931 was caused by members of Irish organized criminal organizations. Investigations are ongoing.\n\nYou are looking at an out-of-date version of the SCP.\nClick here to view the latest version of this SCP (5/15/2000)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5930 | SCP-5931 | SCP-5932 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5932-D - MTFinity\n\nA psychological body horror about running from death.\n\nFor more by me, check out the Greyve Page!\n\n95.48%\n(+190)\n4.52%\n(-9)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5932-D\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nDecommissioned\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nnone\n\nRisk Class:\nnone\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following Incident 5932-001, SCP-5932 has been effectively decommissioned, and containment is no longer necessary.\n\n\u25bc Archived Containment Procedures\n\n\u25b2 Close\n\nSCP-5932 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment unit. When removed from its unit, each instance is to be monitored at all times by no less than two handlers proficient in advanced combat training.\nEvery 24 hours, redundant SCP-5932 instances are to be euthanized. Due to the identical nature of separate instances, the specific instance chosen for termination is to be determined by random selection.\n\nDescription: SCP-5932, formerly Charlotte Violet Owens, was a European female 27 years of age, previously employed by the Foundation as a non-anomalous operative in MTF \u03b6-12 (\"Turtle Down\")1. SCP-5932 did not differ from a baseline human beyond advanced combat capabilities expected of tactical Foundation personnel.\nFollowing an apparently random timeframe2, SCP-5932 and each subsequent instance spontaneously duplicated through an unidentified anomalous process. Subsequent instances were biologically and psychologically identical, and all instances possessed a collective memory. Each instance was capable of independent behavior and function, although research indicated that an increase in instances impaired SCP-5932's memory and sensory abilities due to human cognitive limitations.\nAddendum 5932-1: Development\nSCP-5932 was initially employed by the Foundation in 2008 as a security guard and stationed at Site-49 for four years until Containment Breach 049-213. Following complete recovery from near-fatal injuries sustained during the incident, SCP-5932 was promoted to MTF \u03b6-12 (\"Turtle Down\") on the basis of exemplary conduct during active duty.\nIn 2013, SCP-5932 volunteered to participate in Project ASTEROIDEA, a Foundation effort to develop humanoid personnel with superior regenerative capabilities. Due to the nature of the project, only voluntary personnel deemed sufficiently loyal to the Foundation were approved for experimentation. The following files from the Project ASTEROIDEA archive have been included due to their relevance regarding the development of SCP-5932 and the initial analysis of their anomalous properties.\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 6/27/2013\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Researcher Ezriel Abelson\nJunior Researcher Akari Ito\nAgent Charlotte Owens\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Owens is enclosed within a standard humanoid medical unit connected to SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Abelson is reviewing the components while Ito is monitoring Owens' vitals.)\nIto: Initializing.\n(Abelson nods slowly.)\nAbelson: And you're sure \u2014 absolutely sure\u2014 that the fusion will be stable this time? The splice needs to be as clean as we can get it, and I'll be damned if the Committee lets us waste field agents \u2014\nIto: Yes, Mr. Abelson \u2014\nAbelson: Doctor.\nIto: Apologies. Subject is compatible, with about a 2.4% margin of error. After accounting for SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's observed fluctuations, approximately 5.1%.\n(Abelson pauses.)\nAbelson: And how high was the previous subject's margin? With adjustments, of course.\n(Ito reviews previous records.)\nIto: 3.9%, doctor. Though, all things considered \u2014\nAbelson: \u2014 human subjects have higher genetic complexity than laboratory mice, yes, I realize.\n(Abelson pauses.)\nAbelson: And the current subject has the highest compatibility with SCP-\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 of all approved candidates?\nIto: She's the only volunteer so far, doctor.\n(Abelson pauses.)\nAbelson: Interesting. I'd have thought more would've been interested at the prospect of immortality.\nIto: All things considered, doctor, I'd assume the prospect of human experimentation is rather off-putting in and of itself.\nAbelson: Well, that's your job now. Get used to it.\n(Silence.)\n(System indicates completion of program.)\nAbelson: Ah, it's done.\n(Steam produced during the defrosting process emerges from the capsule and the central compartment opens.)\n(Ito steps closer to observe as Owens opens her eyes.)\nIto: How are you feeling, Agent Owens?\n(Owens blinks several times in rapid succession.)\nOwens: I \u2014 I got a splitting headache.\n(Ito turns to look towards Abelson who appears to not notice and traces a finger along a scar on his left temple.)\nOwens: Everything's also kind of\u2026blurry?\n(Owens blinks and her irises duplicate.)\nIto: Agent Owens?\nOwens: What's happening \u2014\n(Owens is unable to finish her statement before a new set of teeth develops from between her central incisors, forcing her jaw to widen to the point of dislocation. Excess tissue, bone, and flesh protrudes from both sides of her body.)\n(Owens attempts to produce pained vocalizations, which are quickly silenced due to distortion of her neck as her clothing is punctured by a formative ribcage. A set of secondary organs developing against her exposed abdominal cavity is enveloped by developing tissue that begins coalescing into a vaguely humanoid figure.)\n(The two figures violently split apart, and all excess growths are excreted along with the remains of Owens' clothing. All lesions and cuts begin to heal, leaving two identical and otherwise undamaged SCP-5932 instances. Both instances appear to be in a state of shock and are in fetal positions.)\n(Silence.)\nAbelson: Well, let's see if we've succeeded. Sedative and scalpel, please. And keep her hand still.\n[END LOG]\n\nProject Report\n\nRegrettably, SCP-5932-1 did not regenerate its amputated finger. However, while Project ASTEROIDEA appears to be unsuccessful, the potential applications for trained field agents with a shared consciousness are nearly limitless. It would be fascinating to see SCP-5932 returned to active duty following the 14-day quarantine, and it is my earnest hope that the fruit of my labors can be put to good while I continue progress.\n\nEzriel Abelson\nSenior Researcher, Parabiology Department Unit 11\n\nAddendum 5932-2: Quarantine\nThe following documents detail significant events during SCP-5932's initial quarantine4 leading to establishment of containment procedures.\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 6/29/2013\nInvolved:\n\nResearcher Akari Ito\nSecurity Officer Marcus Brown\nSCP-5932-2\nSCP-5932-4\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Brown is posted outside of the quarantine unit as Ito is delivering SCP-5932-2 morning rations. Both Brown and Ito are wearing hazardous material reinforced airtight suits.)\nIto: Morning, Ms. Owens.\nSCP-5932-2: Not SCP-5932?\n(Ito does not respond and places the tray in front of SCP-5932-2.)\nIto: You need to eat.\n(SCP-5932-2 nods and looks down at the food.)\n(Ito sits down across from SCP-5932-2.)\nIto: How are you feeling right now?\n(SCP-5932-2 looks up while taking a bite of bread.)\nSCP-5932-2: (Muffled) Fantastic.\n(SCP-5932-2 swallows.)\nSCP-5932-2: Two brains. Four eyes. Eight limbs. I feel totally normal.\n(Silence.)\nIto: The moment you forget you're human, that's when you're no longer human.\n(Ito stands up and looks away.)\nIto: Let Brown know if you need anything, Ms. Owens. And please, rest well.\nSCP-5932-2: Oh, definitely. What do you fill these pillows with? Brick \u2014\n(SCP-5932-2 stops and begins coughing.)\n(Ito turns back to look at SCP-5932-2.)\n(SCP-5932-2 clutches their abdomen while continuing to cough.)\nIto: Are you alright?\n(SCP-5932-2 brings their legs towards their body while vocalizing painfully.)\n(Ito takes a step back as Brown enters the room.)\n(SCP-5932-2 collapses on the floor and attempts to speak.)\nSCP-5932-2: Why is this happening to me \u2014\n(SCP-5932-2's neck splits in two along the center as their chest develops a central cavity, exposing their internal tissue.)\n(Brown guides Ito out of the unit as the latter stares at SCP-5932-2 in apparent shock.)\n(SCP-5932-2's develops a large amount of excess tissue and flesh against their lower jaw which grows into a secondary head with the development of orifices and growth of hair. Large bones protrude from their abdomen which are rapidly enveloped by flesh and tissue. SCP-5932-2's uniform tears as their form begins separating into two distinct humanoid figures.)\n(SCP-5932-2 and -4 lie on the ground covered in bodily fluids while sobbing uncontrollably.)\n[END LOG]\n\nAdministrative Notice\n\nJuly 5th, 2013\nDirector Azalea Calloway\n\nDespite your adamant insistence, SCP-5932 has continued to duplicate and is currently at 64 instances. Considering we only have 150 quarantine units, SCP-5932 will be uncontainable within two duplication events. It's only been one week, and we're already approaching the uppermost limits of our site.\nI am fully aware of the fact that biological anomalies are not to be interfered with during their quarantine period. However, O5 Command has voted unanimously to allow an exception in the case of SCP-5932 so as to prevent our site from falling into disarray. As such, I am reassigning you to SCP-5932, effective immediately.\nYou did this, Abelson. Get it under control.\n\nA. Calloway\nDirector of Site-49\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/5/2013\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Researcher Ezriel Abelson\nResearcher Akari Ito\nSecurity Officer Marcus Brown\nSCP-5932-1\nSCP-5932-64\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Abelson and Ito enter SCP-5932-1's quarantine unit as Brown escorts SCP-5932-64 into the quarantine unit and positions them opposite SCP-5932-1. Both instances are sitting upright with their eyes closed and arms crossed.)\nAbelson: I don't like it either, but Calloway isn't giving us much choice, is she?\n(Ito bites her lip.)\nAbelson: Let's just hope that this works out.\n(Brown steps away and nods towards Abelson.)\nAbelson: Alright, then. Go ahead.\n(Ito approaches SCP-5932-64 with a syringe.)\nIto: This shouldn't hurt a bit if you don't move, alright?\n(SCP-5932-64 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-64: What's\u2026in that\u2026?\n(Ito does not respond and prepares the syringe for injection.)\nSCP-5932-64: 's'it\u2026lethal?\nIto: May I see your right arm?\n(Silence.)\n(SCP-5932-64 abruptly stand up and backs up against the wall. Brown reacts instinctively, raising his firearm and aiming at SCP-5932-64.)\nIto: I'm sorry, Owens. But, please \u2014 it's better than a bullet, right?\n(SCP-5932-64 freezes and sits back down as Brown points his firearm back towards the ground.)\nIto: Think of it like going to sleep \u2014\n(Ito presses the syringe into SCP-5932-64's elbow.)\nSCP-5932-1 and -64: I \u2014 will I wake up?\n(Ito does not respond and begins injecting. SCP-5932-64's body gradually becomes limp until it collapses on the floor, motionless.)\n(Abelson kneels next to SCP-5932-1.)\nAbelson: SCP-5932?\n(Silence.)\n(Ito moves to stand beside SCP-5932-1 and places a hand on its shoulder.)\nIto: Ms. Owens?\n(SCP-5932-1 slowly looks up towards Ito.)\n(Ito sighs as Abelson stands up and nods slowly towards Brown, who speaks unintelligibly into his intercom.)\nIto: I'm sorry.\n(Abelson looks away as SCP-5932-1 clutches their head and screams while gunshots echo from nearby quarantine units.)\n[END LOG]\n\nExperiment Report\n\nJuly 6th, 2013\nSCP-5932\n\nAs neutralizing an independent SCP-5932 instance does not affect the others permanently, I propose adopting routine termination of redundant SCP-5932 instances as a constituent of the subject's containment procedures. Apart from this, subject can be contained as a standard humanoid anomaly.\n\nEzriel Abelson\nSenior Researcher, Parabiology Department Unit 11\n\nAddendum 5932-3: Containment\nThe following consists of records of SCP-5932's containment, compiled by Researcher Akari Ito, deemed relevant to its psychological profile leading to Incident 5932-001.\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/7/2013\nInvolved:\n\nResearcher Akari Ito\nSCP-5932-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Ito enters SCP-5932-1's containment unit for a routine vital check. SCP-5932-1 is sitting on their bed and journaling in a Foundation-issue notebook.)\nIto: Morning, Ms. Owens.\n(Ito places a scanner on SCP-5932-1's finger and wraps a blood pressure cuff around their arm.)\nIto: How are you feeling today?\nSCP-5932-1: How do you think bullets feel?\n(Silence.)\nIto: Administration won't approve injection \u2014\nSCP-5932-1: Yeah. Bullets are cheap and effective. I get it.\n(Ito finishes taking SCP-5932-1's blood pressure.)\nIto: 118/80. I need your temperature, too.\n(Ito activates a thermal scanner and kneels in front of SCP-5932-1.)\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: 37\u00b0.\n(Ito places the thermal scanner back in her pocket and stands up.)\nIto: You used to be with Turtle Down. You've killed before, right?\n(SCP-5932-1 looks up.)\nSCP-5932-1: What about it?\nIto: Is it true that killing gets easier?\n(SCP-5932-1 scoffs.)\nSCP-5932-1: That's an overused cliche. Killing never gets easier on your conscience \u2014 you're either human, or you aren't. But you can convince yourself it's worth it when you've got something to lose.\n(Ito nods.)\nIto: And what do you have to lose?\n(SCP-5932-1 shrugs.)\nSCP-5932-1: Plenty. But only people are worth dying for.\n[END LOG]\n\nPersonal Log\n\nJuly 7th, 2013\nSCP-5932\n\nThose who are dead are not dead\nThey're just living in my head\n\u2014 42 by Coldplay\n\nJosie,\nEvery time one of me falls, it's like a little bit of me dies with it. And I know it's crazy, because I'm still alive, but I just have to wonder, at what point do I stop being me?\nIt's like Gabriel's Horn \u2014 that recursive geometry thing you used to be so obsessed with. Every time one of me dies, I'm half of what I used to be, but I'm never all the way gone. But what's it even mean to live if I'm a fraction of a fraction of myself?\nAnd then there's you. God, I miss you so much.\nJosephine Lillian Whitley. Still don't know why I put up with your theories and thought experiments and whatever. Too smart to be a grunt. Hell, too smart for me \u2014\nMe. Charlotte Violet Owens. I guess underneath it all, I'm just another dumb girl scared of dying or falling in love. Too careful for my own good, too ambitious for anyone around me. Did you ever even know how I felt about you? Did you ever feel the same way?\nI hope you did. I hope you knew that I was only ever so scared of dying because I was scared of leaving you. I hope you knew that every time I called you an idiot, I was really calling myself an idiot, because I only needed to tell you I love you but I marched around in circles trying to run from myself because I was afraid.\nI hope you forget me. I hope you don't give a fuck about Charlie Owens, or where I am, or how I'm doing.\nI hope I forget, too.\nThen I won't have anything left to lose.\n\nCharlie\nFormerly MTF \u03b6-12\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/10/2013\nInvolved:\n\nResearcher Akari Ito\nSCP-5932-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(SCP-5932-1 is laying on their side in bed and rubbing the back of their head as Ito enters the unit.)\nIto: Can't sleep again?\n(SCP-5932-1 exhales and turns to face Ito.)\nSCP-5932-1: Not if you keep barging in here at 1 in the morning.\n(Ito offers SCP-5932-1 a cup.)\nIto: Would tea help?\n(SCP-5932-1 scoffs.)\nSCP-5932-1: Tea is just a way for rich people to sell dead leaves.\n(Ito smiles.)\nIto: Who said that?\nSCP-5932-1: Josie \u2014 a, um, friend of mine from Turtle Down.\nIto: Mhm.\n(Ito places the cup on a desk.)\nIto: Personally, I think of tea as a way to honor that which has already gone.\n(SCP-5932-1 does not respond and continues rubbing the back of their head.)\nIto: That reminds me.\n(Ito sets a small pill container by SCP-5932-1.)\n(SCP-5932-1 sits up.)\nSCP-5932-1: Painkillers?\n(Ito nods.)\n(SCP-5932-1 smiles, removing a small white tablet and swallowing it with a sip of water.)\n(Ito sits down as SCP-5932-1 closes their eyes while continuing to rub the back of their head.)\nIto: How bad is the pain?\nSCP-5932-1: Pain isn't even the worst part. There's nothing anyone can do about it, though.\n(Ito looks towards SCP-5932-1.)\nIto: Do you mind telling me what the worst part is?\nSCP-5932-1: Brick pillows?\n(Ito smiles.)\n(SCP-5932-1 exhales and looks down.)\n(Silence.)\nSCP-5932-1: It's the moment before. Knowing I'm about to die.\n(Ito frowns.)\nIto: But you don't actually die, do you?\n(SCP-5932-1 shakes their head.)\nSCP-5932-1: Maybe I haven't, but they certainly do.\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-1: It's not that I don't know one of us is going to survive. It's just that \u2014 I can't help but wonder whether I'm the one that dies this time.\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-1: And the sheer \u2014 sheer utter hopelessness. Like \u2014 like a butterfly in a hurricane. I can't help but be terrified.\nSCP-5932-1: I could die, or I could live to die again, but there's only so much of me to kill.\n(Silence.)\nIto: I'm sorry. I mean, I can't ever understand \u2014 but I hope that, maybe, it gets better \u2014\n(SCP-5932-1 scoffs.)\nSCP-5932-1: How could dying get \"better\"?\nIto: I \u2014\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: I was thinking that \u2014 thinking maybe one day, death itself becomes so familiar that you're like good friends.\nSCP-5932-1: What, like me and you? Not unless I have some serious Stockholm syndrome.\n(SCP-5932-1 lays back down and turns away from Ito.)\n(Ito sighs and stands up.)\nIto: Goodnight, Ms. Owens.\n[END LOG]\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/12/2013\nInvolved:\n\nResearcher Akari Ito\nSCP-5932-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(SCP-5932-1 is listening to music on their bed as Ito enters the unit.)\nIto: Morning, Ms. Owens.\n(SCP-5932-1 removes their headphones and pauses their music before turning to face Ito.)\n(Ito nods towards SCP-5932-1's MP3 player.)\nIto: What were you listening to?\nSCP-5932-1: Coldplay.\n(Ito nods.)\nIto: Anyways, I'm here to get your vitals.\n(SCP-5932-1 extends an arm for Ito to wrap a blood pressure cuff around.)\nIto: Put that on your finger.\n(Ito hands SCP-5932-1 the scanner and waits.)\nIto: 117/80. Temperature.\n(Ito removes a thermal scanner and points it towards SCP-5932-1's forehead.)\nIto: 37\u00b0.\n(Silence.)\nSCP-5932-1: What's the point of ASTEROIDEA?\n(Ito frowns.)\nIto: Hmm?\nSCP-5932-1: To Abelson, I mean. Why does it matter to him?\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: Why did you volunteer for ASTEROIDEA?\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-1: I almost died once, I think.\nIto: Yes. It was in your medical file.\n(SCP-5932-1 nods.)\nSCP-5932-1: Kind of ironic how I volunteered for ASTEROIDEA to run from death, and now I face it every day\u2026\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-1: Like I said before, only people are worth dying for. I didn't know what ASTEROIDEA was going to do to me, but I did this for Josie. And now \u2014\n(SCP-5932-1 swallows.)\nSCP-5932-1: I don't think I'll see her ever again.\n(Silence.)\nIto: I think Abelson is running from death, too. Only\u2026he lost himself in the process.\n[END LOG]\n\nPersonal Log\n\nJuly 12th, 2013\nSCP-5932\n\nLook at the stars,\nLook how they shine for you\n\u2014 Yellow by Coldplay\n\nJosie, do you remember when we used to lay down in our bunks and fall asleep listening to X&Y, or A Rush of Blood to the Head, or whatever you left on that night? That's how you got me into Coldplay in the first place \u2014 and that's how I got into you.\nI used to wish that I was lying next to you, and we'd be staring at the stars over a beach, and it would just be you and me, forever.\nNow, I'm just glad I remember.\nIto thinks that I'm overwriting old memories because humans only have so much mental storage. Hell, I can't remember my middle name now. Don't know how long it's going to be until I forget my whole name. And then how much longer until I forget you?\nAnd once I do, what's the point?\nI mean, who am I anymore? It's like the Charlie that used to exist isn't the same as the one that exists now \u2014 not sure if it's because something was taken from her, or if it's because she's just not complete anymore.\n\nCharlie\nFormerly MTF \u03b6-12\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/15/2013\nInvolved:\n\nSenior Researcher Ezriel Abelson\nSCP-5932-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(SCP-5932-1 is listening to music with their eyes closed as the unit's door opens.)\nAbelson: Good morning, SCP-5932.\n(SCP-5932-1 opens their eyes and freezes.)\nAbelson: Relax. I'm only here to take your vitals.\n(SCP-5932-1 does not respond.)\nAbelson: Arm, please.\n(SCP-5932-1 does not move.)\nAbelson: For what it's worth, it's not my preference to be here. But Researcher Ito simply isn't available today.\n(SCP-5932-1 folds their arms and looks down.)\nAbelson: Cooperation will hasten the process.\n(SCP-5932-1 does not respond.)\n(Abelson sighs.)\nAbelson: To be honest, looking at my mistakes makes me\u2026sick. I didn't want this \u2014\nSCP-5932-1: (Shouting) What did you want?\n(SCP-5932-1 stands up and looks Abelson in the eyes.)\nAbelson: I wanted to kill death.\n(SCP-5932-1 scoffs.)\nSCP-5932-1: You killed Charlotte. What am I?\nAbelson: You don't understand \u2014\n(SCP-5932-1 leans forwards towards Abelson.)\nSCP-5932-1: (Quietly) What wouldn't I understand?\n(Abelson calmly pulls his hair back and traces a finger along a scar on his left forehead.)\nAbelson: December 10th, 2012 was the day your lung was punctured \u2014 and the day my skull was fractured. We met death on the same day, and we've both been running ever since.\n(Abelson pauses.)\nAbelson: You've died how many times now? You must be used to it. But me \u2014\n(Abelson shakes his head.)\nAbelson: Death has taken ourselves from both of us, SCP-5932.\n(Silence.)\nSCP-5932-1: SCP-5932 \u2014 is that who I am now?\n(Abelson smiles sadly.)\nAbelson: That's right. As for me\u2026I'm just another doctor.\n(Abelson pauses.)\nAbelson: I may be alive, but death has stolen Ezriel Abelson from me.\n[END LOG]\n\nPersonal Log\n\nJuly 21st, 2013\nSCP-5932\n\nMaybe death itself becomes so familiar that you're good friends.\n\u2014 Ito\n\nI'm not afraid of dying. Why should I be?\nDeath is like a little sparrow who taps on the window every night to carry part of me away. He comes every evening before I fall asleep against the glass. And then I wake up, and it's like Charlie was a dream from another life, and I can only remember fragments \u2014 out of order and out of place. Like I don't belong anymore.\nI'm not afraid of dying. Am I even alive?\nSCP-5932\nCharlie\n\nAddendum 5932-5: Incident 5932-1\nThe following contains transcripts pertaining to Incident 5932-1 and its subsequent Ethics Committee investigation.\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/22/2013\nInvolved:\n\nSecurity Officer Jordan McNamara\nSCP-5932-1\nSCP-5932-2\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(SCP-5932-1 and -2 are sitting against opposite sides of the room. A loud buzzer sound indicates McNamara's entrance.)\nMcNamara: Alright, you know the drill. Up against the wall.\n(SCP-5932-1 slowly stands up and approaches SCP-5932-2, who stands up and turns to face the wall.)\n(SCP-5932-1 stands next to SCP-5932-2 and also faces the wall. McNamara approaches the instances and reaches for his handgun.)\nMcNamara: Keep still.\n(McNamara places the barrel against the base of SCP-5932-2's head and prepares to fire.)\n(SCP-5932-2 abruptly turns around and knocks the gun away while SCP-5932-1 forces McNamara into a headlock.)\n(SCP-5932-2 goes to retrieve the gun as McNamara struggles to break SCP-5932-1's headlock, striking them against their lower abdomen several times in quick succession. SCP-5932-1 rapidly strikes McNamara's face with their knee and attempts to restrain his arms as McNamara fires several rounds, which ricochet harmlessly off the walls of the unit.)\nSCP-5932-1: Please \u2014 keep still. I don't want death \u2014\n(SCP-5932-1 is cut short as McNamara throws them over his shoulder, pinning them against the ground.)\nMcNamara: (Shouting) Cut the crap \u2014\n(McNamara is cut short as he is struck across his forehead by SCP-5932-2 using the handgun.)\n(SCP-5932-1 and -2 sit down across from each other and stare directly at each other.)\n(SCP-5932-2 slowly raises the handgun and presses it against their forehead.)\nSCP-5932-2: I'll join you again soon, Charlie.\n(SCP-5932-1 closes their eyes as SCP-5932-2 fires.)\n(SCP-5932-1 screams in pain as SCP-5932-2 collapses, blood pooling around their head.)\n(SCP-5932-1 falls to the floor while clutching their head and picks up the handgun, pressing it against their forehead.)\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\n(SCP-5932-1 fires the handgun.)\n(A loud clicking sound is audible due to the handgun being out of ammunition.)\n(SCP-5932-1 laughs while sobbing uncontrollably and collapses over SCP-5932-2's corpse.)\n[END LOG]\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/22/2013\nInvolved:\n\nEthics Committee Liaison Lee-Saeng Kim\nSenior Researcher Ezriel Abelson\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Abelson is sitting alone in a small office space.)\n(The door opens as Kim enters the room. He walks around the table and sits down opposite Abelson.)\n(Kim removes a flask from the inside of his blazer and takes a sip.)\nKim: Morning, Ezriel.\nAbelson: Ezriel? I'm just a doctor.\n(Kim scoffs.)\nKim: If you say so. Now, I know neither of us are much for small talk, so save us both some time and just get to it, shall we?\n(Abelson nods.)\n(Kim places a file on the desk.)\nKim: I presume you know what I'm here about?\n(Abelson glances at the file.)\nAbelson: SCP-5932?\nKim: Charlotte Owens, yes. Why don't you brief me on her containment procedures?\nAbelson: I'm sure you've got it in your file.\nKim: Well, I'd like to hear it from you. Details can get lost in translation, so to speak.\n(Abelson slides the file across the table and opens it, removing the first document and adjusting his glasses.)\nAbelson: \"SCP-5932 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment unit. When removed from its unit, each instance is to be monitored at all times by no less than two handlers proficient in advanced combat training.\"\n(Kim takes a sip from his flask.)\nAbelson: \"Every 24 hours, redundant SCP-5932 instances are to be euthanized \u2014\"\nKim: Killed.\nAbelson: I'm sorry?\nKim: To cause the death of something or someone \u2014\nAbelson: I know what \"killed\" means.\nKim: Perhaps you'll consider adding it to your vocabulary, then.\n(Abelson shakes his head.)\nAbelson: She isn't killed. She can't die.\n(Kim smiles.)\nKim: Is that so?\nAbelson: (Quietly) Owens is already gone.\n(Kim takes a sip from his flask.)\nAbelson: \"Due to the identical nature of separate instances, the specific instance chosen for termination is to be determined by random selection.\"\nKim: Alright then. A little demonstration, if you will?\n(Abelson does not respond.)\n(Kim removes a pen from his pocket.)\nKim: This is a bullet.\n(Kim points the pen towards Abelson's forehead.)\nKim: If it goes through your head \u2014\n(Kim extends the tip of the pen with a sharp click.)\nKim: \u2014 what would happen?\n(Abelson winces and presses a palm against his forehead.)\n(Silence.)\n(Kim leans back against his chair and crosses his arms.)\nKim: Operating under the assumption your current containment procedures are perpetually effective, how many deaths will that be?\nAbelson: She isn't alive anymore \u2014 she's more gone than left.\nKim: Owens is alive, last I checked.\n(Abelson shakes his head.)\nAbelson: SCP-5932 is alive. And they'll get used to it if they haven't already.\nKim: Did you?\n(Abelson pauses.)\nAbelson: I live with it.\n(Kim laughs.)\nKim: And that's what ASTEROIDEA is about, right?\nAbelson: (Quietly) It's all I have left of Ezriel anymore.\n(Silence.)\nKim: Alright. This is what's going to happen.\n(Kim folds his hand on the desk.)\nKim: You're permanently removed from ASTEROIDEA. Any disagreement you have can be voiced to the Project Management Administration \u2014 although you'd then have to explain why you're on the human experimentation blacklist.\n(Kim pauses.)\nKim: And you're going to put Owens down for good. Let her die in peace already.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5932-5: Decommissioning Log\n\nDecommissioning Proposal\n\nItem #: SCP-5932\nObject Class: Euclid\nHead Researcher: Senior Researcher Ezriel Abelson\nSupporting Personnel: Unnecessary*\nPlease check off or fill in the applicable boxes regarding the reasons for submitting your proposal:\n\u2610 Excessive Risk of Lifted Veil Scenario\n\u2610 Excessive Danger\n\u2611 Expense\n\u2611 Ethical Concern\n\u2610 Legal Concern\n\u2610 Potential to Decommission Apollyon-Class Object\n\u2611 High Risk of K-Class Scenario (if so, please state which type(s)): NK-Class Type 2\n\u2610 Other (please state):\nSummary: Containment of SCP-5932 is unethical and unsustainable due to a theoretical requirement for infinite euthanasia. Additionally, the cremated cadavers of deceased SCP-5932 instances will eventually affect the Earth's atmosphere, resulting in inhospitality.\n*This proposal has been submitted under direct O5 Command and/or Ethics Committee mandate.\n\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDate: 7/24/2013\nInvolved:\n\nResearcher Akari Ito\nSCP-5932-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\n(Ito enters the unit and sits down next to SCP-5932-1, who is sitting with their arms wrapped around their legs and their head in between their knees.)\nIto: Ms. Owens?\n(SCP-5932-1 does not respond.)\n(Ito sighs and prepares a syringe.)\nSCP-5932-1: (Quietly) Owens is dead.\n(Ito looks up at SCP-5932-1.)\nIto: Owens is dead?\n(SCP-5932-1 nods.)\nIto: How is Owens dead?\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-1: Someone important to Owens once asked her how many grains of sand are in a pile of sand.\n(SCP-5932-1 pauses.)\nSCP-5932-1: How many SCP-5932 instances are in one Charlotte Owens?\n(Ito nods and does not respond.)\n(Silence.)\nSCP-5932-1: Do you know why Owens was afraid of death?\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: I don't think Owens was afraid of dying. She was ready to die. She volunteered for ASTEROIDEA. It's just that \u2014\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: I think most of us aren't scared of dying, you know. I think we're just scared of losing what we love \u2014 scared of losing who we are.\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: But even if you aren't who you used to be \u2014 even if the old you is dead \u2014 that doesn't mean you don't belong, or that you deserve to die. And I \u2014\n(Ito pauses.)\nIto: If it were up to me, I'd say you deserve a chance to live. Not as who you were, but as who you would have been. A life where you don't have to live as though death were your shadow, but you don't have to fear it, either.\n(Silence.)\n(SCP-5932-1 sighs.)\nSCP-5932-1: I guess it's too late for that, though.\n(Ito nods slowly and approaches SCP-5932-1 with the syringe.)\nIto: Think of it like going to sleep.\n(SCP-5932-1 smiles sadly and looks up at Ito.)\nSCP-5932-1: Will I wake up?\n(Ito swallows and slowly presses the syringe into SCP-5932-1's forearm.)\n(SCP-5932-1's eyes roll back and their body falls limp.)\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. A Foundation task force specializing in internally assisting sites during lockdowns.\n2. The shortest recorded period was 8 minutes while the longest recorded period was 71 hours.\n3. A critical containment failure on 12/10/2012 involving multiple simultaneous breaches that resulted in 96 casualties.\n4. A fourteen (14) day quarantine period is to be enacted for all biological anomalies as soon as possible upon initial identification. (Foundation Standard Containment Protocol \u00a7 10.4)\n\n\u00ab SCP-5931 | SCP-5932 | SCP-5933 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5933\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5933 and SCP-5933-1 are to be kept within a sound-proof storage locker located at Site-255's Temporal and Dimensional Anomalies Department. Routine assessment is required once every two months to ensure that there is no loss of integrity in either component. Personnel involved with SCP-5933 are required to undergo psychological screening for trauma disorders prior to assignment, as well as routine evaluations after each assessment of SCP-5933. Should SCP-5933 activate during integrity checks, personnel are instructed to ignore the ringing.\nAs of 05/23/2019, testing has summarily been suspended at the direction of Dr. Taryn Scott. All requests for testing are to be denied. Individuals in violation of the aforementioned restrictions are subject to disciplinary action, up to and including amnesticization and/or termination from their position.\nDescription: SCP-5933 is similar in appearance to a black model GEC New Gecophone 701 rotary telephone; while the internal hardware is near-identical to non-anomalous models of its kind, the finger-wheel has been modified to accommodate additional symbols for nonstandard dialing codes. SCP-5933 is fully functional despite a lack of a landline connection.\nSCP-5933-1 appears to be a standard Yellow Pages telephone directory; the contents of the directory, such as the names of individuals or businesses, as well as their phone numbers, do not match with any current or past public records. No connection to any other reality currently recognised by the Temporal and Dimensional Anomalies Department has been found.\nSCP-5933-2 is the designation for an entity, or entities, that communicates through SCP-5933. Attempts to reliably identify characteristics of these entities beyond their voices and names given have thus far failed.\nSCP-5933's effects manifest as a strong desire to maintain contact with SCP-5933-2 after initial exposure to SCP-5933. This effect occurs in greater intensity within subjects that have experienced significant psychological and/or emotional distress in former romantic relationships, and presently experience romantic thoughts or feelings about a particular individual or individuals. Subjects who interact with SCP-5933 are hereafter designated as SCP-5933-A.\nShould SCP-5933's effects be allowed to progress unhindered in individuals, they are observed going through four stages with regards to SCP-5933:\n\nStage 1: SCP-5933-A answers the phone, at which point a bond is formed between the subject and SCP-5933-2,\n\nStage 2: SCP-5933-A becomes romantically attached to SCP-5933-2, which is reciprocated,\n\nStage 3: SCP-5933-A begins to experience psychological manipulation from SCP-5933-2; a co-dependent relationship is formed, exacerbating SCP-5933-A's attachment to SCP-5933-2, as well as an onset of self-isolating and self-sabotaging behaviours,\n\nStage 4: SCP-5933-A's mental wellbeing continues to rapidly deteriorate to a state not unlike psychosis. It is believed that at this stage SCP-5933-A has been sufficiently psychologically weakened by SCP-5933-2, at which point they cease to exist within this reality; the exact mechanism of this is currently unknown, and any attempt to track instances of SCP-5933-A through GPS have thus far failed.\n\nDue to the intensity of SCP-5933's effects, Stage 4 symptoms have been observed in SCP-5933-A instances as soon as within a few months of exposure. It is possible for SCP-5933-A instances to recover from SCP-5933's effects if intervention occurs before Stage 4 symptoms.\nAddendum #1: SCP-5933 and 5933-1 were initially recovered in 1994 from the apartment of a former university student in Edinburgh, Scotland. This individual is widely considered to be the first known instance of SCP-5933-A, hereafter referred to as 5933-A01.\nThe Foundation was initially alerted to the existence of SCP-5933-1 through online forum posts made by 5933-A01 to Oddities Online. SCP-5933 was later discovered by Foundation personnel following a missing persons report filed for 5933-A01. 5933-A01 has yet to be located by Foundation authorities.\nAddendum #2: Following SCP-5933's recovery and investigation of 5933-A01's premises, Foundation personnel were able to identify the individual's journal containing entries that effectively catalogued SCP-5933's effects. These entries have since been transcribed and are logged below.\n\n+ Supplementary Documentation: 5933-A01\n\n- hide\n\n[Irrelevant entries omitted for brevity]\n\n25/6/1994\nFound a really cool old phone today in a charity shop - came with some weird looking copy of the Yellow Pages too. Just had to have it for the flat - I think it'll fit the aesthetic nicely. Hoping it still works of course and it's not just for decoration. Don't wanna mess with the landline though.\n\n30/6/1994\nThe phone was ringing today? I didn't even plug it in. Maybe it uses the same tech in it as one of those 'mobile phones'.\nThe guy on the other end, says he called the wrong number. Super sweet about it, though - we ended up talking for a bit. Felt like talking to an old friend.\nI said I'd give him my number, but I didn't know what the phone's was. He told me not to worry about it. I asked for his number, but he told me I'd know what to dial when I needed him.\nHis name's Oscar.\n\n3/7/1994\nDrew up some numbers from the phonebook for the forums. Drawing with a mouse sucks, but the computer doesn't have any of the symbols that the book and the phone has.\nWas telling Oscar about it. He says someone probably made the book for a laugh. Asked me why I bothered with putting it online.\nI just wanted to show my friends, really.\n\n23/8/1994\nUni starts back again soon. I told oOscar I wasn't gonna be around much to talk during the day. He joked he was more important than some silly lecture on BASIC. He's definately more interesting, that's for sure.\n\n13/9/1994\nOscar told me he loved me, today. He was so shy about it, he was scared I'd reject him.\nI told him I loved him too. He's the sweetest man I've ever met.\n\n22/9/1994\nClasses started back not too long ago. I thought I'd be enjoying it, but I'm honestly not. Can't focus right in class or anything. I'd rather be at home right now.\nWas telling Oscar about it. He says maybe the degree's just too much for me.\n\n5/10/1994\nOscar doesn't like my 'friends' very much. Gets annoyed when I talk about them. Says they're using me.\nDefinitely seems like it. They only ever call when they want something.\nScrew them.\n\n27/10/1994\nCancelled on going to the Halloween party. Feel too anxious leaving the flat.\nTalking to Oscar makes me feel better. I think I talk to him more than my mum at this point.\nHe says it's just as well I cancelled. I'd have been stupid to go anyway.\nHe's right.\n\n[After the prior entry, there is a cessation in entries for 37 days.]\n\n3/12/1994\nhe hasn't called today yet\nwhy won't he call me\ni'm scared something happened to him\n\n3/12/1994 (cont.)\nnevermind\n\n5/12/1994\nI told Oscar I feel like he hates me. That he's been acting weird, that I feel like he's avoiding me.\nHe told me I'm just being paranoid.\nI am. It's just paranoia.\nHe doesn't hate me.\n\n[undated]\nhe fucking hates me\n\n15/12/1994\nIt's getting really cold here. Lots of snow and ice.\nOscar says it won't be safe for me to see my mum and dad for Christmas at this rate. That it'll be safer to stay at my flat.\nHonestly I don't want to try travelling in this kinda weather either. I don't want to leave Oscar.\nI can't take the phone with me anyway. If my parents knew I was talking to another man, they'd be pretty fucked off about it.\noscars calling\n\n22/12/1994\nDecided to mess around with the phonebook today while waiting for Oscar to call. Loads of weird numbers. I tried some of them but nothing happened.\nOscar picked up on one of them. Asked me why the hell I was trying to call other people. Told me to quit fucking around with the book.\nIt wasn't even his number. I'm scared.\n\n25/12/1994\nhe promised he'd call in the morning\nhe hasn't\nhe won't pick up\ndid i do something wrong\n\n25/12/1994 (cont.)\nhe called. told me he'd have called earlier if i hadn't pissed him off the other day\ni'm sorry\ni won't do it again\n\n27/12/1994\ni don't feel real when i'm not talking to Oscar\ni love him so much it makes me feel sick\n\n[undated]\nhe hasnt called in 2 days ive not been able to sleep im so worried\n2 days and 7 and a half hours\nhes never gone that long without calling me\nim so scared\n\n11/1/1995\nI've had to drop out of uni. I can't cope with how much it's been stressing me out. I fucking hated my degree. Oscar says I never would've been smart enough to do it. I don't know why I ever thought I was.\nI don't know what to do now. I can't keep living in my flat without my loans. Oscar says I'm stupid for not thinking of that too.\n\n13/1/1995\nmy mum keeps trying to call. i dont want to talk to her. she'd fucking hate me if she knew what ive done\n\n[It is believed that after this point an indeterminate amount of days have passed, and each entry thereafter was left undated.]\n\n[undated]\nfinally talked to my mum. lied\nshe doesn't need to know\n\n[undated]\ni don't know what day it is any more\ni don't feel real\n\n[undated]\noscar says its my fault for letting things get like this\nhe's saying if i don't get my shit together he'll leave me\nit's my fault\ni don't know what to do\n\n[undated]\ni feel like im disappearing\ni dont have any friends left\ni dont know the last time i saw my mum and dad\nall i have is oscar\nand i'm going to lose him too\n\n[undated]\nI begged Oscar to stay. Told him I'd do anything. He said he wouldn't actually leave me. He loves me too much to do that to me.\nI love hi[illegible]\nhim so much\nI keep dropping this fucking thing\n\n[From here, the subject's entries become incomprehensible to varying degrees. It is believed that 5933-A01 has deteriorated into the final stages of SCP-5933's effects shortly before their disappearance.]\n\nshadows in the corners\nlooks like oscar\ni dont know what oscar looks like.\n\ni dont remember eating how am i still alive\n\ni look blurry in photographs\ni dont remember the others names\n\nthe face in the mirror isnt mine\ntheres nobody else here\n\n[End of entries]\n\nAddendum #3: As of 6/13/2018, three separate Foundation personnel responsible for research into SCP-5933 have disappeared. Investigations into the incidents are pending.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5932 | SCP-5933 | SCP-5934 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nCONTENT WARNING: The following contains content related to SELF-HARM. Reader discretion is advised.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem#: 5934\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnotice\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5934 is to be kept in a sealed storage container.\nDescription: SCP-5934 superficially resembles a 20th century adding machine. However, 26 keys have been replaced with human teeth, into which the Latin alphabet has been carved. No commercial brand or other identifying information is present on the device. Inspection of the auxiliary keys suggests that they come from multiple hosts. SCP-5934 possesses an anomalous ability to answer abstract, non-numerical queries. One civilian reported experiencing a weak, memetic effect in the presence of SCP-5934. (See recovery log.)\nRecovery Log: SCP-5934 was brought to the attention of the Foundation when Harold Grimaldi, a graduate student at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, mentioned the device in a post on the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Reddit forum. Grimaldi was detained by Foundation agents under the pretense of a police investigation into the trafficking of human remains and the post involving it was deleted. Following a brief interview (attached), SCP-5934 was seized from the location given by Grimaldi, who was subsequently amnesticized and released.\n\nInterviewed: Harold Grimaldi, Doctoral Candidate, Niels Bohr Institute\nInterviewer: Foundation Agent William Pedersen\n<Begin Log>\nPedersen: Godmorgen, Hr. Grimaldi.\nGrimaldi: Can we do this in English, please?\nPedersen: If you wish. That accent is American, yes?\nGrimaldi: Something tells me you already know it is. Where's my lawyer?\nPedersen: Procedure dictates we identify the source of any human remains we discover, including teeth.\nGrimaldi: Wait, those were real?\nPedersen: That's what they're telling me.\nGrimaldi: Jesus!\nPedersen: It's in your best interest to just give us the information we need. I've prepared a statement of immunity to any trafficking charges if you cooperate.\n[Grimaldi hesitates.]\nGrimaldi: I guess, can I have that statement?\n[Pedersen provides a fabricated immunity statement, which Grimaldi signs.]\nGrimaldi: So what do you want to know?\nPedersen: Where did you find the adding machine?\nGrimaldi: There's an old room, number \u2588\u2588\u2588, that's always about to be renovated- has been since the 40's, according to the tour guides. It's full of old junk, but the adding machine stuck out to me.\nPedersen: Because of the teeth?\nGrimaldi: It actually made me feel uneasy before I realized what they were.\n\nPedersen: What do you mean?\nGrimaldi: I was anxious. I suddenly wanted to go back to America.\nPedersen: You mean you were homesick?\nGrimaldi: Not exactly. More like- like it wasn't safe to be here.\nPedersen: Here as in\u2026?\nGrimaldi: Denmark. Europe in general, really. No offense.\nPedersen: None taken.\n<End Log>\n\nA search of the discovery site, room \u2588\u2588\u2588, yielded a length of paper tape matching that of SCP-5934. The tape contained a message recorded in blood. A transcription of the message is attached.\n\nI write to the present statesmen of Europe who would work to repress the human mind.1 I write on behalf of the physicist who has fled from you, has capitulated and lied for you, has been jailed or killed by you. The damage you have done to a golden age of physics is incalculable. Here is the object of your desire. Use it, and know a world without quantum mechanics.\n\nSelected Testing: SCP-5934 was operated by D-class 57036 under the instruction of Senior Researcher Alexis Straum.\n\nTest\nInput\nOutput\nResearcher Notes\n\nT-4/5/21-A\n\n\"2+2=\"\n\n\"4\"\n\nT-4/5/21-F\n\n\"What ground-state energy does the Bohr model predict for the hydrogen atom?\"\n\n\"-2.179e-18 J\"\nD-57036 reports having no knowledge of the Bohr model, but this result is correct. The Bohr model involves quantized energy levels- Significance of the discovered letter remains unclear.\n\nT-4/5/21-G\n\n\"What mechanism does nitrogenase use to perform ambient nitrogen fixation in bacteria?\"2\n\n\"It doesn't.\"\nThis is the first confirmed instance of the device giving an incorrect response.\n\nNOTICE: UPDATED DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE\n\nUPDATE\n\nFootnotes\n1. This note is apparently referencing the repression of European quantum physicists in the 1930s and 40s. The Nazis considered quantum mechanics to be \"Jewish\" science, and Stalin believed it conflicted with dialectical materialism.\n2. Notably, this problem involves strong entanglement between many electrons near organometallic active sites. The most famous of these as an open computational problem is the iron-molybdenum cofactor, FeMoco.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5933 | SCP-5934 | SCP-5935 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5935 - Blood and the Breaking of My Heart\n\nI started writing this when my grandmother was dying from cancer in 2019. She was the most wonderful, sweetest woman who ever lived and what happened to her was cruel and unfair. I would have dreams where I'd see her and be with her, but they too were unfair because I'd always have to wake up to a world she wasn't in anymore.\nI've had a lot of pretty desperate thoughts over the last few months and found myself in some terrible places. Losing loved ones is always hard, but worse is seeing the imprint of their lives in the grief of others who cared about them, too. My pappy lost his wife of nearly sixty years, my mom lost her mother. The things we'd do to see her face, if even for a minute more.\nAnyway. I hope this means something to someone else. It has been terribly hard to write, and there's a lot of stuff in here that means something, but might not mean anything to someone else.\nThank you for reading it.\n\nImage Credits\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wtc_model_at_skyscraper_museum.jpg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sonoma_County_shoreline_01.jpg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venous_and_arterial_blood_rotated_and_cropped.jpg\nson.jpg is from Balthazaar\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnolia_acuminata-_old_tree_in_Irwin_Park,_New_Canaan,CT,USA.jpg\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heart_MRI.gif\nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pale_treeline_(Unsplash).jpg\nAll image edits were made by me, djkaktus.\nAlso, shoutout to jaonhax for the diggity dank obfuscator used in this article! Also thanks to Woed for a rework to it for my purposes because I'm an incompetent.\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nItem#: 5935\n\nLevel5\n\nContainment Class:\nesoteric\n\nSecondary Class:\nthaumiel\n\nDisruption Class:\namida\n\nRisk Class:\ncritical\n\nlink to memo\n\nSCP-5935.\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nREDACTED\nREDACTED\nREDACTED\nREDACTED\n\nCognitohazard Wa3/rning: For the safety of all persons accessing this document, certain names have been reclaimed. These names are no longer accessible.\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Access to Point Aleph is restricted to members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council. Access restriction is to be maintained remotely by Mobile Task Force Alpha-1 \"Red Right Hand\". Under absolutely no circumstances is any person to access SCP-5935 without authorization. Persons attempting to cross Point Aleph without authorization are to be destroyed on-sight.\nSCP-5935-1 is currently contained within SCP-5935. No other containment procedures are necessary.\nDescription: SCP-5935 is an extradimensional location within a roughly 0.23km x 0.31km area at a point in the southern ocean, classified as Point Aleph. The interior dimension of SCP-5935 massively exceeds the exterior. An accurate measure of the area is nearly impossible to determine. The existence of the anomaly is nearly impossible to determine. The space is inaccessible by sea. The ocean surrounding SCP-5935 is constantly enshrouded by a thick fog that obscures vision of the interior of the space past the boundary line.\nWithin SCP-5935 is a single large, generally flat landmass. The landmass is the site of Pandaemonium, a megacity that covers the entirety of the island.\nPandaemonium is composed of many hundreds of millions of identical skyscrapers. Each individual skyscraper is roughly 430m tall, with supertowers exceeding 1.12km. The total population of Pandaemonium is unknown, and irrelevant.\nThe intended purpose of Pandaemonium is to contain SCP-5935-1.\nSCP-5935-1 is an entity contained within Pandaemonium.1\nAddendum 5935.1: Collected Information\n\n+ Journal Entry #1\n\n- Close\n\nWe buried Jacob beneath the old tree at the Michigan house, where we lived when he was little. He would swing on the rope from that tree for hours and hours, until he got so high that his mother would send me out to call him down. The sound of his laughter is like a song, half remembered from long ago. Now it's gone. Now he's gone.\n\nThe place we buried Jacob.\n\nWe had a simple service. Mann was there as he had been all along, to make him comfortable at the end. Two and Nine came, which brought Elisa some small relief. The Factotum called Solemn and three members of Red Right Hand were there, as well. They helped me dig the hole where we could place his body. I carried him into the Earth myself and laid him there, under the blanket he had held onto so tight. He was so small, I was worried he'd fall through the spaces in my arms.\nWe sat beneath the tree for hours after everybody left. I don't think we have any words left to say. These last five years we've spent everything we had, all of the resources we have left, just to hear our child laugh one more day. The last day has come and gone, and now the silence is suffocating.\nHow do you pick up the remnants of a life that was only held together by a single soul once it's gone? The unfairness of it has put me in such a dark place I cannot bear to think about it for too long for fear of losing a grip on my sanity. They tell me that I do not need to worry about coming back to work soon, but I cannot even begin to think about doing anything else at all, ever. The greatest joy in my life was Jacob, and that joy has been seized from me and broken. Nothing else of me remains.\nAnd then they come to say their kind words and leave their empty remarks at our door, but I know what lies behind their condolences. Scorn - or worse, two-faced pity. Duplicitous self-righteousness. The sickly proud swell of \"I told you so\", as if Jacob was nothing more than a point for them to prove. They mask their vitriol and distaste with a spectrum of dull pleasantries. I am reminded of what Gibran wrote:\nI have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould.\nBut there is nothing left to do. Nothing left to feel. We went back inside without a word, ate a meager meal without a word, and fell asleep in different beds without a word. There is nothing left to do.\nI miss my son. I miss my boy.\n\n+ Journal Entry #2\n\n- Close\n\nlast night i had a dream. i was at a dinner hosted by a close friend from my childhood who i have not seen in many years and whose face i did not recognize, though i did recognize his voice. he was laughing at the end of a long table and the air was filled with the sound of feasting, but i slowly recognized that the table was empty save he and i and the room had grown silent. he was staring at me from the far end of the table. when i looked back, he was beside me.\nhis face was round - too round, unnaturally so. it rippled on the edges like it was made of a fabric in the wind, and his eyes were like dots of color suspended from wire somewhere behind his skull, as if he was 2 dimensional. he sat staring at me for some time, and then said \"there is not a way out of where you are, only a way in\". then he pulled the facade of his face away and i saw mann's face instead, with the same suspended eyes. he said \"there is nothing to be done\" and then his face was gone as well, replaced with the face of director light.\ni saw then flashing before me faces - everyone i've known, everyone id ever seen. all of them rippling and coiling on the edges, the eyes swinging behind the flapping skin, now glowing like orange cinders at the edge of a fire. i saw others too - the faces of men and women ive never met, but whose names i knew. the faces of those long dead. the faces of those yet to come.\nthen i saw, entering the room, another figure. a man? or maybe a woman - their face i could not see. they stood at the edge of the table, a hand placed upon it, staring at the figure beside me. they did not seem to recognize me but their sight was fixated on the creature. i looked back at it and then saw the face of jacob, as he was the day i laid him in the earth. gaunt, chalky and bloated from the medication and the preservatives. his jaw moved as if to speak but his lips could not come together, and bile began to seep from his open mouth. the cinders of his eyes burned brighter and began to swing faster and faster, like the arm of a metronome, in orbits impossibly large behind the veneer of my son.\ni heard a word then, spoken with my boy's voice but soft and horrifically echoed across the chamber. in my waking i cannot remember it, but i feel even now its impression on my entire being. at this word, the figure beside me appeared behind it, and then both they and the creature with the swinging eyes vanished into smoke. i saw the room around me come undone, walls falling into floors and the ceiling spiraling up into the haze above me. i felt the sensation of falling, and then weightlessness, and then impact.\ni stood at the end of a long street, lined with mirrors as far as i could see. far away, too far i know for me to have seen him now but could perceive perfectly there, was the creature with the fluttering face. the face it wore was one i recognized but had never seen. familiar and intimate. the glistening eyes began to swing, and i woke up.\n\n+ Journal Entry #3\n\n- Close\n\nElisa did not get out of bed again today. She has not done so in many weeks now. Her attendants are patient but I fear they are running out of ideas. I would speak to her, tell her it is going to be ok, hold her hand and bring her out of that place with me - but I know I would only be bringing her to this place.\nIt rained again. The fifth sixth rain since Jacob died.\n\n+ Journal Entry #4\n\n- Close\n\nAnother dream last night. I spoke to Agatha about it, about what it meant. It does not matter now where I go, what chemicals I put in my body to help me sleep. Always I see the fluttering face and the swinging eyes in the dark of my dreams. sometimes in silence, sometimes it will say the word.\nShe said little. I know what she thinks, yet I cannot help but wonder. Another Overseer, before he died, always said, \"skepticism is the tool of those who don't know better.\" Who could possibly know better than we? She asked me if it feels like I am being affected by something. Yes, I could tell her. Losing my son.\nShe is trying. We are all trying. She did think the appearance of the unknown figure was interesting. She advised that I sit on that and ponder their identity, this nameless person. Perhaps it would reveal itself to me. I know she means well, so I tell her I will try.\nBut what is there to reveal? You can't name something that doesn't exist.\n\n+ Journal Entry #5\n\n- Close\n\nElisa has stopped speaking again. I searched for hours last night, fearing the worst. I found her clutching a toy Jacob had left out in the yard, beneath the pouring rain. She would not get up to come inside with me, not until the rain stopped. I wish I could say I stayed with her.\nThe twenty-third rain since Jacob died.\n\n+ Journal Entry #6\n\n- Close\n\nI was wrong. There is still something left to do.\nThere are places the mind goes in despair that ensnare the soul and bind it to fixation. I have been there ever since I laid my son in the ground, frozen with uncertainty. There is no greater taboo than what I aim to accomplish, but it is the only way left - I am sure of it. I know I cannot put to rest these nightmares until I do so.\nI have sent Elisa away to stay with Nine; she has not yet awoken from the stupor of her grief. I feared I might be forever trapped there with her until I saw this ONE THING. It is burned into my mind like a star compressed to a point and held in front of my eyes, searing through the skull as if it is the only thing left in the world. Nine was kind to take her away, and perhaps it is because of her own loss that she understands. Does she know what I intend to do? Would she try to stop me?\nIt would not matter. It cannot matter now. There is only this destination in front of me and the long staircase down to where I intend to go. There is no way out of where I am at, only a way in.\n\n+ Journal Entry #7\n\n- Close\n\nWould he forgive me? If he saw the dirt on my hands and saw what time and the earth had done to him\nhow can someone so pale have blood so dark\nblood so thick\nso cold\nblood\n\nAddendum 5935.2: Collected Audio Recordings\n\n+ Access Transcript\n\n- Close\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSo. He's alive?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nMiraculously, yes.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThat's a relief. Where is he now?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThey had him moved to the medical center at Site-301. My understanding is that he's under quarantine, for now.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nReasonably so.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYes. Reasonably so. Once the cold started to get to the few who were with him at first, the rest pulled back to a safe perimeter.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSo he's alone now?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWell\u2026 in a manner of speaking.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat was it?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat he took with him? Or what he brought out?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAre they different?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n\u2026in a manner of speaking.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nEnough. You're exhausting me.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nDon't tighten up so much, then. It will be easier that way.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nFine. You're right. (Pause) There. That should be better.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou're right, that's much better.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSo what was it?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWe have to be very careful with names, do you understand?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nOf course I do.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThen you know that there is no way for me to say for sure. Whatever it was when he went in, it is something different now.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nDifferent how?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nChanged, in the way those things often are.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAh, slower. You're hurting me.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSorry. It's been a while.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI know, you can't be blamed for that. I'm at fault too, for not being prepared. (Pause) Changed, then.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYes, changed. He should have known better when those who tread forever in the wandering wood warned him against going where he did.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhere was that, exactly?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n(Laughs) Tricksy tricksy. You can't get out of this that easily.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI'm sorry, I had to try. I don't know how much more of this I can- (pause) -I can take.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI know, don't worry. I'll be done soon. (Pause) No, there are things past the edge of the place before the nameless boundary that even those who reside without don't speak of. Old things. Things that never had names to take. I don't know where he found out what he did - I assume Ten revealed something he shouldn't have, but then how would he know, unless\u2026\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nUnless?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n(Pause) It doesn't matter. I shouldn't speculate, not about this. Speculation can be just as dangerous as knowing the truth.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSo it is. (Pause) Faster, now.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI know, we're nearly finished.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThere was one other thing I didn't understand.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nHmmm?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat he did, where he went, what he communed with - getting there in the first place would've been\u2026 well, it's nearly impossible to imagine how he would've done it.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAgreed. It almost defies reason, but he always has been especially resilient.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nTrue, but\u2026 as difficult as it would've been to get there-\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nHang on, this will-\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n(Gasp)\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThere. (Sigh) Thank you for your patience.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou're welcome.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI interrupted, I'm sorry. You were about to say something.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nIt's just that\u2026 I don't see how it would've been possible for him to get out.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n(Pauses)\nWhat makes you think that he's out?\n\nAddendum 5935.3: Recovered Subject Analysis\n\n+ Access Document\n\n- Close\n\nSubject Identifier: 5935-H01\nSubject Classification: Humanoid (Origin)\nSubject Status: Alive\n\nSubject 5935-H01 is a human subject recovered from within [A Place Removed From A Record]. Subject presents with significant injuries and severe malnourishment - despite this, the subject is in generally stable condition.\n\nThe beating heart of Subject 5935-H01.\n\nInformation provided by the extraction team has identified the subject as Jacob [DATA EXPUNGED], deceased son of Foundation Overseer [DATA EXPUNGED]. The subject's injuries are believed to have been sustained as a result of an extended period of illness, a period of burial, and then exposure to the desperate actions of his father.\nThe subject has been placed in an isolated intensive care ward for observation. While the subject has not yet regained consciousness, the pace at which it is healing is unusual and possibly anomalous. Subject 5935-H01 is recovering from damage to its body that would typically necessitate dramatic and extended medical intervention.\nUpdate (1 of 5): Subject 5935-H01 is to no longer be provided with intravenous medication, having now burst more than ten IV bags with excessive blood that originates from within the subject.\n\nBlood sample taken from Subject 5935-H01.\n\nAnalysis of this blood is inconclusive. The substance is dark, unusually viscous with an extreme, unpleasant pungency. The aroma has been described varyingly as rotten flesh, feces, and ammonia. The reason for this is unknown.\nRequesting application of the Euclid containment class for the purpose of further evaluation.\nUpdate (2 of 5): Subject classified as SCP-5935, Euclid-class humanoid entity. Moved to secure containment facility.\nUpdate (3 of 5): Subject removed from containment facility by Overseer order. Status pending.\nUpdate (4 of 5): Subject returned to containment facility. Subject is now conscious.\nUpdate (5 of 5): Euclid-class containment procedures deemed unsustainable. Subject removed from containment facility by Overseer order.\n\nAddendum 5935.4: Additional Collected Information\n\n+ Journal Entry #8\n\n- Close\n\nI had another dream.\nI am with Elisa, years ago, when we took our trip to the mountains. I knew where I was immediately - there's a crispness in the air at that elevation, a briskness that tells you just how far away from it all you've come. After everything that's happened since, I can still feel the bite of the wind on the mountaintop.\nElisa was pregnant at the time, with Jacob. It was the last trip we took together before he was born, and we spent most of our time in each other's company, in Alfonse's manse. Thinking of it now, I believe it was the first time off I'd had in more than a year. It felt like it could have been a dozen.\nI'm in the den, and there's snow falling outside. The room is lit by the fire in the hearth. Elisa is not with me, and I feel unease. There's something moving on the ceiling but I can't see it through the dark - or maybe I don't look up at all. I have something in my hand, something heavy.\nSomeone else in the room says something to me, and it's not until that moment I realize that I'm not alone. They ask me my name, and I tell them. No, they say, what is your name. I don't answer. I don't know how to answer. I don't remember it, or if I could remember it, the words are gone. After a moment, I give another name. Mann's name. They shake their head. Your name.\nI am embarrassed, and give another. They repeat, again and again, and every time I give another name. Elias Shaw. Skitter Marshall. Michelangelo Kervier. Tilda Moose. Arvind Desai. Gregory Vandivier. Troy Lament. Jacob. The figure pauses at the last name, considering it. No, it says, but close enough.\nI'm suddenly aware of another presence. I stumble backwards, my steps long and horrible, working my way through the maze of hallways, doorways that lead to room full of doorways, a spiraling labyrinth of misdirection. I hear Elisa scream. I scream. Something behind me screams with me.\nThe last door opens and I'm in the room where Jacob died. Elisa is laying on the ground, her body splayed like a fallen marionette and her stomach torn open across the middle. Blood pools in the cavity and cascades over the side. The air becomes thick and my eyes water. In, the voice says. The only way to go is in.\nI fall to my hands and knees and crawl forwards. I do not know if I weep. Elisa's face is turned away from me. I put my hands on either side of her ruptured belly and push my face into the blood. My body sinks into hers and I am falling.\nI don't know how long I am falling for. The air is thick with misery. I see nothing but red and hear nothing but a beating heart, my own or another. The figure is with me. Your name, it says, but I cannot speak. I open my mouth to try and blood fills my throat, then my lungs. I try to scream out. Throbbing silence answers.\nThen, I awaken. I am standing at the edge of a treeline, one I recognize too well. Behind me is the land of wild and whispers, a thousand fearful eyes peering out from the safety of the dark. Something flutters at the corner of my vision, and I see a face floating by, carried on the wind. Elisa's dead eyes look past me as it catches an updraft and disappears. I look up.\nThe sky is full of faces, papery and soft, wordlessly dancing on zephyrs. One comes near me and I brush it away, and see the face of my father watching, unmoving, driven only by the breeze. I look down. There is a long dirt road leading down into a valley, down where it is.\nBehind me are the trees. Above me are the faces.\nAnd in front of me is\u2026\n\nthe path I had to walk\nthe place I had to stand\nthe words I had to say\n\nthe thing I had to do.\n\n_\n\n+ Addendum 5935.?? Unregistered User Identification_=?- null\n\nI will admit, I am surprised. The last time we sent someone in was three years agO/? and hadn't heard from the_M since. Tri\\cky woods to meander thr8ough.\nWh@at I'm not surprised about is what cam/_/e back out with him, though. Was he expecting something different? or m___aybe hoping for something different. \u02e2\u02b0\u1d52\u1d58\u02e1\u1d48 \u02b0\u1d43\u1d5b\u1d49 \u1d47\u1d49\u1d57 \u1d52\u207f \u02e2\u1d52\u1d50\u1d49\u1d57\u02b0\u2071\u207f\u1d4d \u1d52\u1d57\u02b0\u1d49\u02b3 \u1d57\u02b0\u1d43\u207f \u02b0\u1d52\u1d56\u1d49\nI wonder wh&t he t/hou_ght he would find_ , though. Forg\u2071vene2ss? Ab5solu108tion? *Pe_/#ace?\nOr ma=ybe he knew, and it d/?idn't make a dif^!!ference.\nWouldn't that be something.\n\nAddendum 5935.5a: Automated Emergency Meeting Transcription\n\n+ Access Document\n\n- Close\n\nEMERGENCY MEETING OF OVERSEER COUNCIL\nIN ATTENDANCE:\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - ABSENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - ABSENT\n\nO5-\u2588\u2588: You're here.\nO5-\u2588: I am.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: I- I'm sorry. I didn't think you would come.\nO5-\u2588: I\u2026 well. If you had caught me a few days earlier, I might not have made it.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: How bad is it?\nO5-\u2588: They didn't give me a date. Just some furtive glances, you know the kind. The ones that say \"we don't know how to tell you this in a way that will make you feel any better about it.\"\nO5-\u2588\u2588: I'm so sorry.\nO5-\u2588: Don't be. It's not your fault. Even if you'd known, I wouldn't have let you\u2026 no, I wouldn't have let you find out.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Nine knew.\nO5-\u2588: That surprises you? Of course she knew. That's what she does - she knows things. (Sighs) It doesn't make a difference. What matters is it's done. They can do whatever they want to me, now. It's done.\n(Silence.)\nO5-\u2588: I presume you know what they're planning on doing to me, then.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Three was livid, [DATA EXPUNGED]. You had to have known he would-\nO5-\u2588: I knew. (Pause) Say, do you know where SCP-184 is right now?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: The Architect? No, I don't. Why?\nO5-\u2588: Hrm. No reason. I had a dream about it the other night, and then again last night too. Nevermind. (Pause) So, what will it be, then?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: I don't know. I wouldn't even be able to say. I don't even think he wants your resignation - if he gets the majority he wants, I think he'll just take it.\nO5-\u2588: How close is he?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: He needs two votes. Nine abstained, and Eleven is\u2026 taking their time to decide. If Eleven goes over that's a deadlock, but then there's One\u2026\nO5-\u2588: What has she said?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: [DATA EXPUNGED], you don't know what it's been like. The whole atmosphere has\u2026 it's not the same as it was, even a few weeks ago. Nobody is really talking, it's just memos and those Factotums scurrying around. I tried to get in touch with Four to see where he's at, but\u2026\nO5-\u2588: But what?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Nothing, not really. He's locked up, same as everyone else. They're all afraid, and Three is offering solutions so they're running his way.\nO5-\u2588: What are they afraid of?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: \u2026whatever you saw in there.\nSilence.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Are you\u2026 are you ok? Have you been\u2026 I just- you read the reports, and some of the things that come back, they-\nO5-\u2588: I'm fine, Da- sorry. I'm fine. I'm not some monster, I didn't get charmed by a wizard. I'm not going to be around as long anymore, but there was always a chance for that anyway.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: I know, I'm sorry. It's just so hard to figure out what's real or not. Even my own staff are split, trying to encourage a decision one way or another. Nobody can decide, especially after we got the, uh\u2026 the reports\u2026 from what you\u2026 uh\u2026\nO5-\u2588: From what I brought out. My son. Jacob.\nSilence.\nO5-\u2588: And?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: Jesus, [DATA EXPUNGED], give me a break here. I'm not saying anything, I'm just\u2026 uncertain. Nobody knows. Three has it all locked down so hard right now, I've never had something this totally inaccessible to me - or any of us, for that matter. We just feel like he's hiding something. Like\u2026 like you're hiding something.\nO5-\u2588: I'm not hiding anything, no matter what Three thinks he's discovered. It's just my son.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: [DATA EXPUNGED]\u2026\nSilence.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: When are they going to wake him up?\nO5-\u2588: Wake him up?\nO5-\u2588\u2588: I- yeah, Three said that once this vote passes, they were going to seize the medical lab. He's got an order for classification and containment written up, they're going to move the- uh\u2026 Jacob, to Site-\nO5-\u2588: Three is confused. He isn't going to be waking Jacob up, because Jacob isn't sleeping. This\u2026 this isn't some spell, or some flight of the arcane. It's different, and it takes time. It will take time. (Pauses) And then he'll open his eyes, and Three and the rest will see. Jacob is fine. It will just take time.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: What if it isn't?\nSilence.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: [DATA EXPUNGED], I'm so-\nO5-\u2588: Why wouldn't he be?\n\nAddendum 5935.6: Medical Evaluation Transcript\n\n+ Access Document\n\n- Close\n\nDr. Wallace: Update.\nNurse Elfrich: The subject's breathing has steadied. Heart rate has slowed.\nDr. Wallace: Temperature?\nSilence.\nDr. Wallace: I see. What's this?\nNurse Shah: Pressure readings.\nDr. Wallace: From where? What's this pattern?\nNurse Shah: From inside this room.\nUnknown Voice: His eyes, look-\nNurse Bell: He's waking up.\nDr. Wallace: Check those restraints, there. Hurry now.\nNurse Shah: They're good.\nDr. Wallace: Good, good. Alright. Can you hear me?\nSilence.\nDr. Wallace: Can you hear me? My name is Martin Wallace, I work with your father. Can you hear me?\nSCP-5935-1: (Barely audible) Yes\u2026 yes. Where am I?\nDr. Wallace: You're at a medical center, we've been treating you. Do you know your name?\nSCP-5935-1: My- my name? Who's there?\nDr. Wallace: Can't you see me?\nSCP-5935-1: My name\u2026 Jacob. My name is Jacob.\nDr. Wallace: Ah, good. Very good, alright, so you may be feeling-\nSCP-5935-1: Your name isn't Martin.\nDr. Wallace: Eh- excuse me?\nSCP-5935-1: No, it's not. I can see it, yes\u2026 why would you hide it? Your name?\nDr. Wallace: Nurse, can you-\nNurse Bell: Oh my god.\nNurse Elfrich: Doctor, god, doctor, I-\nDr. Wallace: What is the meaning of this?\nDr. Wallace2: My name is Dr. Johan Wallace. It was my father's name.\nNurse Shah: I- uh, doctor, you're restrained to this\u2026 uh\u2026 (heavy breathing)\nDr. Wallace: What are you talking about? What is this? You- you can't be-\nDr. Wallace: Why am I being restrained like this? What is the meaning of this? Nurse, please, these restraints.\nNurse Bell: Yes, I'm sorry doctor, I'll remove them. I don't know how this happened.\nDr. Wallace: Ilene, step back! This entity is trying to trick you!\nDr. Wallace: Excuse me, sir! Stay back from me!\nDr. Wallace: Ilene!\nNurse Bell: The doctor wants me to remove his restraints. (Heavy breathing)\nDr. Wallace: I am the doctor!\nNurse Bell: You are\u2026 uh\u2026 I can feel your heart inside me- you\u2026 the- (Nurse Bell collapses)\nDr. Wallace: Nurse! What is this?\nDr. Wallace: Nurse, please! Help me!\nNurse Elfrich: I'm coming doctor, I'm sorry. I hear it.\nDr. Wallace: Stay back! Stay back!\nDr. Wallace: Hurry! He's got a knife!\nDr. Wallace: That's my face! My face! Not yours!\nThe sound of sliced flesh, gargling, and then the sound of moderate thrashing followed by silence.\nNurse Shah: Doctor, are you alright?\nDr. Wallace: I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm- what?\nNurse Elfrich: Doct- hang on, what's this?\nSCP-5935-1: Who? I'm not - daddy? Please, daddy? Someone help me, I need my dad! Help me, please! God, what's happening to me? Daddy! Please, daddy!\n\nAddendum 5935.5b: Automated Emergency Meeting Transcription\n\n+ Access Document\n\n- Close\n\nEMERGENCY MEETING OF OVERSEER COUNCIL\nIN ATTENDANCE:\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588 - PRESENT\nO5-\u2588\u2588 - PRESENT\n\nO5-\u2588: [DATA EXPUNGED], you have been brought before this council to address the events of-\nO5-\u2588: I know why I'm here. What I want to know is by what authority you think you can hold me here.\nO5-\u2588: Council mandate, [DATA EXPUNGED]. We have the votes. It is time for you to give up yours.\nO5-\u2588: Absolutely not.\nO5-\u2588\u2588: [DATA EXPUNGED], please, we just want to-\nO5-\u2588: Quiet, Overseer. I know what you intend to do. (Pause) This is preposterous. O5-\u2588, you don't even have a plurality of votes, let alone the majority our bylaws dictate you would need to force me to give up my veto.\nO5-\u2588: Not true. O5-\u2588\u2588 recanted her position last night and abstained. We now have the plurality.\nO5-\u2588: Coward.\nO5-\u2588: Silence. You have abused your authority to subvert Protocol 4000-Eshu in direct violation of the direction of this council. In doing so, you have made manifest an\u2026\nO5-\u2588: Say it.\nO5-\u2588: \u2026an abomination.\nO5-\u2588: Keep your forked tongue between your teeth, snake. Jacob is my son. He's my boy.\nO5-\u2588: Unfortunately, [DATA EXPUNGED], that appears to no longer be the case. The entity contained at Site-313 is not a human being at all.\nO5-\u2588: What are you saying?\nO5-\u2588: The entity is a true doppelganger. We do not know the extent of its capabilities, but affected personnel are unable to differentiate between the entity and those it is impersonating, even if they see the transformation happening in real time.\nO5-\u2588: The strain this puts on the psyche of affected persons, if they see both the doppelganger and the original in the same place, has already led to the deaths of four medical personnel. The entity is an aberration.\nO5-\u2588: It is dangerous. We do not know its intentions. If it was able to impersonate a staff member? Or even a member of this council? We don't even know if it can be damaged - the late Dr. Wallace attempted to push a blade through its heart and it emerged from his own.\nO5-\u2588: Jacob would never do that.\nO5-\u2588: Your son is dead. You put him in the earth and he expired. I am sorry for your tragic loss [DATA EXPUNGED], but this desperate attempt to undo something that cannot be undone has revealed this\u2026 this horrible thing.\nO5-\u2588: He might be different now, but he's just responding to trauma. He needs time to adjust, time outside of captivity. Let me take him home - if he can be with myself and his mother, he can improve, he can return to normal, he can-\nO5-\u2588: He no longer exists. The thing that wears your son's face is not your son.\n(Silence)\nO5-\u2588\u2588: What did you see in there? Past the long winding path?\n(Silence)\nO5-\u2588: Answer her.\n(Silence)\nO5-\u2588: There was a hill, and at its crest the path ended. Below me was an idea, something that even our forebears had forgotten. A place where the sinking guilt of loss and despair has congealed, and in that place there is a question.\n\nSometimes I think I'm still standing there, looking at it.\n\nI do not remember how it was asked, or whether or not there was a voice that spoke to me. The question was innate to that place, something that did not need words - only an answer. There were three pieces, and for each a price to pay. Flesh. Joy. Something worse.\nThere were moments where I thought I had glimpsed it, like seeing a corpse through black smoke and fire. A nameless dead at the center of the darkness. I've seen horrors, and I know truths about this world that would turn mortal men to wraiths, fleeing on the wind from the quiet reality we hold at bay. But this question, this heart of hatred, could not be contained with walls and steel. There is not a box in all of creation for it.\nWe had presumed that when those who lost their names disappeared into the quiet forest they would find themselves alone there. Foolish. When fire and hubris comes for us and we must disappear into our walled prisons for safety, would they be empty? No. The place beyond the old well was not built for them - they simply had no other options. So they ran to the one place they had left - a place where the question lingers.\nThose woods were made by them for their own protection - a maze that only they would know, and one that that thing that lies beyond the forest would not be able to find a way through. I found it by accident. I went there looking for Jacob's name because I believed if I found it I could have him back. I could take him home, sit beneath the old tree and laugh and watch him learn and grow like we had always planned. I learned quickly that his name was not there, but in my desperation to escape I found the other road, the one that leads to the treeline at the top of the hill.\nI had to make sacrifices. The thing I found there is old, older than the nameless wanderers who have made their home in the grove without end. Older than the Earth. Older than the stars in the sky. But within it I saw an opportunity. A chance to make my son whole again. There would be cost, but what father would hesitate to lay his life down for his son? So I did the thing I had to do, and when I awoke I was there with Jacob again. My son was alive. He had come back to me and we were together.\n\nO5-\u2588: Any of you who says they would not make terrible sacrifices of themselves for those things they love in this life are liars.\nO5-\u2588: It does not matter. None of this matters. You betrayed your oath and broke our most sacred protocols. We will have your vote, and we will see you removed from this council. As for the aberration, I will personally see to it that one way or another, it will be annihilated. It cannot be allowed to exist.\nO5-\u2588: You will not. Not as long as my veto remains. Jacob is in my care, in my custody. You will not take him from me. You will not.\nO5-\u2588: Enough. We will reconvene in two days time. O5-\u2588, if you intend to propose a vote I suggest you make sure you have your procedures in order beforehand.\nO5-\u2588: Understood.\nO5-\u2588: Very well. O5-\u2588, you will remain here until such time that your status can be determined. (Aside) Return the Overseers to their chambers. This meeting is dismissed.\n\nAddendum 5935.7: Interview\n\n+ Access Document\n\n- Close\n\nThe following interview was conducted by Dr. Rashad Moore, Director of Psychiatrics at Site-22. In order to bolster the interviewer's cognitive faculties against SCP-5935-1's aberrant nature, an intravenous drip of powerful mnestics was applied.\n\nDr. Moore: Hello Jacob. Can you hear me?\nSCP-5935-1: Who's there? Where are you?\nDr. Moore: You can't see me right now, but we can see you. I'm not far away from you.\nSCP-5935-1: Why can't I move?\nDr. Moore: We've had to restrain you. This is only temporary and it is for your own safety, I assure you. Can you stay calm?\nSilence.\nDr. Moore: Jacob, if you can work with me we can get you out of here more quickly. Is that alright?\nSCP-5935-1: Alright. Alright.\nDr. Moore: Ok, good. We believe that something might have happened to you, but in order to learn more about what you're experiencing I'm going to have to ask you some questions. Just answer them as well as you can, alright?\nSCP-5935-1: Alright.\nDr. Moore: Good. So, first question. What's the last thing you remember?\nSCP-5935-1: What?\nDr. Moore: From before you woke up.\nSCP-5935-1: I\u2026 I don't think I've been sleeping.\nDr. Moore: What do you mean by that?\nSCP-5935-1: Where's my dad?\nDr. Moore: He'll be here soon. Please, we just need to answer some questions, alright?\nSilence.\nDr. Moore: What did you see in the dark?\nDr. Moore: What? Who are you?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signalling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Moore: You- what are you doing?\nSCP-5935-1: I don't know what you mean. I don't know what you're doing?\nDr. Moore: Hang on.\nSilence.\nDr. Moore: (Aside) I'm fine, I'm fine. Just a little dizziness. Jacob, can you still hear me?\nSCP-5935-1: Yes.\nDr. Moore: What did you see in the dark?\nSilence.\nDr. Moore: Jacob.\nSCP-5935-1: Two lights. Always together, always two lights. One that was, and one that wasn't. Swaying together. Always two.\nDr. Moore: Tell me more.\nDr. Rothenstein: Excuse me doctor, if I might.\nDr. Moore: Please, by all means.\nDr. Rothenstein: Jacob, what was the first echo in that place? The first light or the second? Or were they always together?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Moore: Odd.\nDr. Rothenstein: It's alright doctor, I can take it from here. What light echoed first?\nSCP-5935-1: What? I don't remember a\u2026 I remember two lights, always together. Something watching. Something old.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Moore: My apologies, doctor. I feel ill.\nDr. Rothenstein: It's quite alright. Jacob, how many steps did you take into the down below? Could you count them?\nSCP-5935-1: I don't\u2026 there were too many, I didn't count\u2026\nDr. Rothenstein: I see, I see. But there were always two, weren't there? Swaying in the dark?\nSCP-5935-1: Amber. Like wrought bulbs.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Shaw: Doctors, if it's not too much trouble-\nDr. Rothenstein: Please, go ahead.\nDr. Moore: I\u2026 yes\u2026 wait-\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Shaw: How many times did you lose your name, Jacob?\nSCP-5935-1: My name?\nDr. Shaw: Yes. If you lose a thing so many times, can it even be called yours?\nSCP-5935-1: Jacob\u2026 it's not\u2026 papa?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Moore: (Gurgling) \u2026must dis\u2026 disagree\u2026 uhhhh\u2026 shouldn't be in there with-\nDr. Rothenstein: So what do you remember, Jacob? How many lights?\nDr. Shaw: How many stairs?\nDir. Aktus: How many lights?\nDr. Mann: Always two?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nSCP-5935-1: Always two?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nSCP-5935-1: Always two?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nSCP-5935-1: Always two?\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nDr. Moore: Always two.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nSound of a door being opened and then closing.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nSound of something thick and heavy hitting the ground.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\nIntravenous dispenser chimes, signaling an increase in dosage.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 5935.8: Collected Audio Recordings\n\n+ Access Transcript\n\n- Close\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nCan they hear us?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nNo.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nGood. I can't do that again.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI'm sorry. I'm out of practice.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWe both are. Don't apologize.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat did you want to ask me?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI've been reading the file. It's really something else.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nIt is.\n\nSilence.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat's wrong?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou shouldn't have been looking at that.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhy? Don't tell me you care about clearances now-\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nStop. You know there's more to it than that. There are things you just shouldn't see. Questions you shouldn't ask.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nIs that it? You're worried I'm too curious, now?\n\nSilence.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAlright. I'm sorry. I was curious. I couldn't help it.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou just need to be more careful.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI will. I just\u2026 there was one thing.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI know.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI just don't understand why they're all so anxious all the time. Whatever he saw, it can't be worse than\u2026 I mean, there are so many others\u2026\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou're right. There are a thousand razors, each as deadly as the last. But you could spend a lifetime staring at razors and still miss the one that crosses your throat.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSo what's the last razor?\n\nSilence.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat do you know about gods?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nJust what they teach you in nursery school. Jesus and Vishnu and the lot. Why?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWe have a skewed perception of what constitutes the divine, I think. Outsiders would tell you it's something sufficiently powerful, or of some religious significance. Some of our own might tell you it has to do with where an entity gets its power, or if it can even be called an entity at all.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI'm not sure what you mean.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhen we talk about gods in the Foundation, we talk about the Broken God, or the God of Flesh, or the God of Dreams. Gods of ideas, these aspects of one thing or another. The Broken God is a god of Order, the Flesh God is a god of Fertility, and so on. Then there are creator gods, and gods of death. So on and so forth, an endless parade of divinity.\nBut there are beings that existed long before the First Man broke bread with the new gods in his golden city. Beings that formed before the universe had shape, beings perhaps even older than that. Calling them \"entities\" would misrepresent them - they don't exist like you and I do. They're not real. They are the questions whose answers sprung forth into light and life. The formless echo of a voice that never existed.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAn echo.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThey are questions. When they were answered, they stopped existing. All of them, one by one, disappeared into irrelevance once their answer was made proof.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat was it, then? What was in that place?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nA question that should have never been asked. Hidden away and lost, perhaps by design or perhaps by sheer luck. A question that had been forgotten, until the day a desperate man got lost in that still forest and found it. The fae didn't put it there. They have likely forgotten it was ever there - forgotten what had to be done to keep them safe.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nHow do you claim to know so much about this?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nThere's a dark room in a site without a designation where a stone tomb rests beneath a mile of rock and iron. In that tomb is a creature, something that was perhaps once beautiful and regal but is reduced to little more than the space in which it exists, if that. They thought they were clever, burying it like they did. But I know the way in. I found the way down to where the Last King of Night lies sleeping, and I listened. He does not speak, but he will tell you things. That's how I know.\n\nSilence.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI thought that might drive you away. Maybe you're beginning to figure it out now, like I did. Maybe you're seeing a line drawn between two points, and the space where they have yet to meet blisters your mind like hot metal on flesh. He told me where it was, and that's why I went that day, to watch and see. I needed to know. He was so close to what he was looking for, if he had just stayed on his path he might have made it. He might have gotten his son back. But that path did not lead to where I needed him to go, so I too gave something up. I gave up something of yours, as well. You won't need it. Not anymore. And it was worth it.\nI do wonder if he even gave it a second thought. I wonder if he took a moment to try and comprehend what he'd done. Maybe it was that distraction that allowed him to survive at all. He thought he was making a deal with a dead fae god in exchange for a soul. Poor idiot. You can't trade for something that no longer exists. All that sacrifice, and he received something else entirely.\nI wonder if he's realized it yet.\n\nAddendum 5935.9: Additional Collected Information\n\n+ Journal Entry #9\n\n- Always\n\nJacob\nJacob, can you hear me?\nWhere have you gone?\nWhere is the warmth of your body?\nWhere is the beating of your heart?\nThe Council has reached a majority. My vote can no longer keep you safe. What will they do to you?\nThey say blades cannot pierce you and your body rejects poison. You have become so strong. But there are other machinations the Council wields that are outside of even my eyes. Will they turn their engines of change onto you? Will they soak the ground again in your blood?\nI'm alone now, sitting in the dark. But I'm comforted by the memories - our memories. Your mother and I, we knew what would be said if we tried to have a child. Progeny among the members of the Council are rare, and those who have children are looked down upon as liabilities. They fear that a child would cloud an Overseer's judgment, make them susceptible to blackmail, fear, and threats.\nI loved your mother more than anything in the world, and each passing day saw the light of what could have been - what she had dreamed of once, pass from her eyes. The day you were born, she was reborn as well. All of her fire and joy and radiance returned all at once as she held you in her arms, shaking from her tears.\nIn those early days, in the quiet hours when your mother would sleep and I would hold you near me by the fire, I promised you I would give you everything you ever wanted. I would build you a city on a hill, shining and beautiful, a reflection of the love we had for you. A lifetime of desire made manifest in your perfect heart. As you wasted away, those dreams and promises crumbled like sand between my fingers until they were gone.\nBut now you're here, and all that separates us is the authority of the Council. Damn them. They can hide in their fortress and plug their ears but if they won't choose to listen then I will make them. I will tear down the walls of their command and prove to them that they are wrong, and then we will be together again. You, me, and your mother.\nI'm coming tonight, Jacob. I'll take you away, you and your mother, and build a shining city just for you. Your mother is with me. Tonight we will be together. You are coming for me. I know it.\n\nAddendum 5935.10: Mobile Task Force Alpha-1 Emergency Dispat//.2?\n\n+ Access Dispatch File\n\n- Together\n\n[0104HRS LOCAL] SUBJECT SCP-5935-1 REMOVED FROM EUCLID-CLASS CONTAINMENT VESSEL BY OVERSEER ORDER. REMOVAL VIOLATES CONCURRENT PROTOCOLS RESTRICTING ACCESS TO DANGEROUS ANOMALOUS ENTITIES. FORWARD TEAM DISPATCHED\n[0119HRS LOCAL] EUCLID-CLASS CONTAINMENT VESSEL EMPTY. LOCAL SECURITY PERSONNEL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.\n[0122HRS LOCAL] SITE SECURITY STAND-DOWN ISSUED DESPITE ISSUING PARTY BEING DECEASED. STRIKE TEAM MOVING TO INTERCEPT.\n\nSCP-5935-1.\n\n[0138HRS LOCAL] ENGAGING HOSTILE ENTITY. DESCRIPTION OF ENTITY UNKNOWN. IDENTITY OF ENTITY UNKNOWN. MNESTIC APPLICATION UNRELIABLE.\n[\\\\,i LOCAL] ENTITY LiS5pjRQ:Hs.GiV#AThXtc6VI\nUNKNOWN ERROR\n[\\\\,i LOCAL] 4J3ex4^?T^x MICHAEL\n[\\\\,i LOCAL] N!7UO;MJ[\\ KLAUDIA JODIE BAYLEY\n[NULL] MAHAMED NIMRAH GABRIELLE ROSALIE ANGELA\n[NULL] NIKODEM LYNDON KAYAN JACOB JESSE FRANCISCO TOBEY ELIAS MANDEEP ROSALIND DARIUS\n[..#] DEVON ANABELLE AMELIE EVIE JACOB HASHIM SAMEER MEKHI ABEL JACOB RUBY\n[&d9] LEA JACOB SAFIYAH IMANI DANISH RALPHY PAWEL TIA JORJA JAGDEEP KRISTIE JACOB KRISTOFER NIKHIL ROXY JACOB TOLGA KEELEY DELILAH JACOB ELIS DAYNA RIVER JACOB CAVAN VIKTOR AMAAN BEN HUMZA JACOB ADRIAN ASA JACOB CAMDEN THEON JACOB FRANK JACOB EUGENE JACOB DANYAAL JACOB REILLY JACOB JACOB LAVONNE JACOB DESHAWN JACOB JACOB JACOB JACOB JACOB JACOB JACOB JACOB\n[JACOB] JACOB\n[JACOB] JACOB\n[JACOB] JACOB\n[JACOB] IY+'E\n//.?\u2593\nA CRITICAL EXCEPTION HAS OCCURRED.\n\n[JACOB] IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD\n[JACOB] AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD\n[JACOB] AND THE WORD WAS GOD\n[JACOB] ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM\n[JACOB] AND WITHOUT HIM NOT ANY THING MADE THAT WAS MADE\n[JACOB] THE WORD WAS GOD\n[JACOB] AND ALL WAS WITHIN GOD\n[JACOB] A SINGULAR POINT\n[JACOB] ONE NAME\n[JACOB] GOD\n[JACOB] BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS OF GOD EVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE ON HIS NAME\n[JACOB] HIS NAME\n[JACOB] AND AS SPREAD THEY INTO THE NEW WORLD\n[JACOB] THE WORLD MADE BY HIM\n[JACOB] THEY GAVE UPON EACH OTHER NAMES\n[JACOB] AND GAVE NAMES TO THE WORLD MADE BY HIM\n[JACOB] AND THE ANIMALS\n[JACOB] WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD, NOR OF THE WILL OF THE FLESH, NOR OF THE WILL OF MAN, BUT OF GOD\n[JACOB] THE NAME OF GOD\n[JACOB] AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH\n[JACOB] AND THE NAME OF GOD\n[JACOB] ONE GOD\n[JACOB] BECAME THE NAMES OF MANY\n[JACOB] ALL CREATURES THAT WALKED\n[JACOB] ALL THOSE THAT STIRRED YET\n[JACOB] AND THE FAR OFF THINGS THAT HAD NOT YET BEEN GIVEN NAME, THEY TOO HAD NAMES UPON THEM\n[JACOB] AND THE WORD WAS GOD\n[JACOB] BUT THE WORD DIMINISHED\n[JACOB] AND THE NAME DIMINISHED\n[JACOB] FOR WHAT WAS ONE NAME AND ONE GOD\n[JACOB] WAS NOW MANY NAMES\n[JACOB] AND MANY GODS\n[JACOB] WHEN ALL THINGS IN THEIR TIME WERE GIVEN NAME\n[JACOB] A NEW GOD FORMED\n[JACOB] A GOD OF MANY NAMES\n[JACOB] AND THE LIGHT OF THIS NEW GOD SHINETH IN DARKNESS\n[JACOB] AND ALL WERE GIVEN NAME\n[JACOB] BUT THERE EXISTS YET THAT OLD WORD\n[JACOB] THAT PLACE FROM WHICH ALL NAMES WERE GIVEN\n[JACOB] NOW WITHOUT\n[JACOB] A FUNCTION WITHOUT PURPOSE\n[JACOB] A DARK MIRROR OF EVERY FACE THAT EVER WAS\n[JACOB] AND WAS NOT\n[JACOB] BUT FACES DO NOT LEAVE THE MIRROR\n[JACOB] AND NAMES DO NOT LEAVE THE WORD\n[JACOB] IN TIME THEY WILL RETURN TO IT\n[JACOB] AND THE WORD WILL BE WITH GOD\n[JACOB] AND THE WORD WILL BE GOD\n[JACOB] AND THE NAMES WILL BE WITHIN\n[JACOB] UNKNOWN ERROR\n[JACOB] I AM NOT WHAT YOU THOUGHT I WAS DADDY\n[JACOB] YOU PUT SOMETHING FOUL INSIDE ME\n[JACOB] AND I'M NOT ME ANYMORE\n[JACOB] I AM YOU\n[JACOB] AND EVERYONE\n[JACOB] I WAS MADE WRONG, DADDY\n\nAddendum 5935.??: System Error\n\n+ *fj@F.\n\n- daddy?\n\nElisa\nHello? Who's there?\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nElisa? Elisa, is that you? Where are you?\nElisa\nI don't- I don't know, I can't see. It's so dark. What happened?\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nJacob, he- something is wrong, Elisa. Hang on, I'm going to find you. I've got a light, I'm coming.\nElisa\nWhat do you mean? Jacob?\n[DATA EXPUNGED] I- Elisa, I'm so sorry, just hang tight. I'll explain everything, just as soon as I get to you.\nSound of moving metal.\n[DATA EXPUNGED] You know, you know I have access to things. Some of these things, things I thought could- could give us a chance. A chance to make this right. I thought\u2026 I thought maybe-\nElisa\nWhat have you done?\n[DATA EXPUNGED]: He- I'm almost to you, hang on. This door is, it's stuck, I'm trying to-\nSound of heavy metal moving quickly.\n[\\\\,i LOCAL]\nAN UNKNOWN TRANSCRIPTION ERROR HAS OCCURRED\nJacob\nLet me help you, daddy.\n[DATA EXPUNGED] Elisa, I- wait, no, wait. You're not- what have you done to her? What did you do?\nJacob\nShe came for me. She tasted my blood. (Pauses) She's over there.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nOh my god, oh my god, Elisa- what did you do to her? What are you?\nJacob\nYou're the only one who can see past me, daddy. Maybe it's because part of you is in here, too. I know what you had to do. I imagine it was horrible for you.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nElisa, she's- why? Why, Jacob?\nAN UNKNOWN TRANSCRIPTION ERROR HAS OCCURRED\n[UNKNOWN]\nJacob\u2026 Jacob's voice is so quiet, and so far away, it could hardly be said to exist at all.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat are you?\n[UNKNOWN]\nMe? There is no me. This is empty, a place where a name used to be. There's nothing you would recognize here. You can't recognize something that was never there in the first place.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat do you want?\n[UNKNOWN]\nYou're anthropomorphising me. You shouldn't. You hear words and see a face because you believe you should. These faces, these words, they aren't yours. They were given to you, which means they had to be taken from somewhere. Have you ever imagined what that must have been like? You probably haven't even considered it. It's just always been yours, so you've taken it for granted.\nSilence.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou\u2026 I know you. We've met before. You were the voice in the dark, the amber lights. It was you.\n[UNKNOWN]\nYes. It was me.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nYou told me you could give him back to me. You said you could bring him to life.\n[UNKNOWN]\nI told you I could make him walk and breathe. I did not lie. This is his body. How it looks, to you, or to anyone, is mine.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWho are you?\n[UNKNOWN]\nI am the last child of IS, and I was there at the beginning. I was a question, not yet answered, but given meaning in the unknown and uncertainty. I am a lonely postman. I am a harried executive. I am a single mother. I am a Foundation Overseer.\nElisa\nI am Elisa.\nJacob\nI am Jacob.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI am you.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nElisa, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, I didn't want this to happen.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI know I didn't. I just wanted to be with my son again. I miss him so much.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhy are you doing this?\n[UNKNOWN]\nThere is no answer I could give you that would be sufficient. You have suffered, but you are at only the beginning of a long road of suffering. You gave me your blood, and now I will give your blood to everything that draws breath. I can already see their hearts, speak with their words, breathe with their lungs. Their blood and ours will become one, and our names will become one, again. All will return, until there are only two. You and I.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\n(Pauses) No. No, I can't let you. So many people will die - the blood, what I did is-\n[UNKNOWN]\nI know what you did. I saw you do it.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAnd I am right. They will die, all of them. Their hearts will be opened and they will be given our blood, just like Elisa. You will make a glistening scarlet ornament out of each of them.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nStop.\n[UNKNOWN]\nWhat?\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI will help you. I will do what you request.\nSilence.\n[UNKNOWN]\nI am\u2026 surprised.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat else do I have? My wife and son are gone. The Foundation will destroy me for exposing you to the world. And even if you get to them first, then I imagine you'll come for me at some point, as well. There's no point in being afraid of the inevitable.\n[UNKNOWN]\nYou want something.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI want a favor. One last request, before I go with you. I'll even pay you for it. I'll give you my name. No tricks - you won't even have to keep up this illusion of identity you have to maintain for everyone else. It will be yours.\nSilence.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI've been thinking about it. That's how I can see through you. It's an illusion. You have all of these names, but you don't own them. You just mimic them. The others can't see it - but I can. I was there with you, in the darkness. Maybe you were confused. Maybe you thought I was giving you Jacob's name. But you can't trade for something that no longer exists, and you were right - Jacob is gone. His name went with him.\nSilence.\nAnd for all your power, you're still nothing, aren't you? You said it yourself - you're the place where something used to exist. Is that why you killed Elisa? To see if the blood would let you take her name? What a mercy. She's gone now, too, and you weren't able to have it.\nElisa\nI have it.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nNo, because I can still see you. All of your horror, all of the malice, I can still see it. You're a phantom, you can't have what you really want without a name of your own. That's why you haven't done to me what you did to\u2026 to her.\nSilence.\n[UNKNOWN]\nWhat do you desire?\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nMy life is- my life is over. The things I loved have passed and gone. I just want to pretend, just a little longer. Help me lie to myself. In return, I will give you my name. We will be together, just like we wanted. Always two.\nSilence.\n[UNKNOWN]\nI accept.\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAlright. Then let's go home.\n\nWhere is the warmth of your body?\nWhere is the beating of your heart?\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the events of \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, SCP-5935 has been reclassified as EXPLAINED. No additional containment procedures are necessary.\nDescription: [DATA EXPUNGED]\nAddendum 5935.1: When We Went Home\n\n+ Access Document\n\n- how long\n\nElisa\nI just- [DATA EXPUNGED], is that you? Come over here, I need help with this for a moment.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat is it?\n\nElisa\nHow does this sound to you? \"And sometimes \u2014 if you try very hard, catch it in the right light, and squint just enough \u2014 you might even manage to convince yourself that you're doing the right thing.\"\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nDark. I like it - what is that?\n\nElisa\nThanks, it's - hang on - Jacob! Jacob, come in here.\n\nJacob\nUgh. Mom, I'm busy right now. I'm in the middle of a level.\n\nElisa\nYou heard what I said, come on now.\n\nJacob\nFiiiine. (Enters room) What is it?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nJacob, come on.\n\nJacob\nAlright, alright. Sorry mom.\n\nElisa\nThat's alright. I wanted to tell you that I've set you up on a little play date with that cute girl across the hall, Olivia Lee. Her parents said it would be alright.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWell, hey! That sounds fun.\n\nJacob\nOlivia? Bleh! I don't want to hang out with a girl. Girls are gross.\n\nElisa\nHang on now. I'm a girl, am I gross?\n\nJacob\nWhat? No, you're not a girl. You're\u2026 uh\u2026 a mom?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nHah! What do you think moms are, dingus?\n\nJacob\nYou know what I mean. They're different!\n\nElisa\nAlright, well, if you don't want to go play with her, I'll just tell the Lees that you won't be coming over.\n\nJacob\nNo, uh\u2026 don't do that. I'll go over there. But not to have fun! Just to\u2026 hang out.\n\nElisa\nWhatever you say, loverboy.\n\nJacob\nWhat!? I am not!\n\nJacob storms out of the room.\nElisa\nHe is your son.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhoa, calm down there tiger. You grew that mess, not me.\n\nElisa\nStill, you've at least got to be complicit.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI'll admit to that.\nSo what was that thing you were working on?\n\nElisa\nOh, this? It's nothing. (Pauses) Ever since we moved to Pandaemonium, I've just felt like I need to do something, you know? There are so many people here, and everyone has a story to tell. I just want to tell my story.\nThese last few years have been the happiest years of my life, but even after all of that I still feel like I have something to say. I guess, in a sense, this is what I want to say.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nI understand. The city is huge, bigger than I could've ever imagined. I see different people every day, different faces and different personalities. There are just so many, it would be easy for someone to get lost in here.\n\nSilence.\nElisa\nWhat did you just say?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nHmm? Oh, just that the city is bigger than I could've ever hoped for. It truly is our shining city. Rows and rows and rows, it goes on forever.\n\nJacob enters the room.\n\nJacob\nDad. Something is wrong.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nWhat's wrong, son? You sound scared.\n\nJacob\nCan you come look at this with me?\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nSure. Elisa, I'll be back shortly.\n\nJacob\nWho are you talking to?\n\nSilence.\n\n[DATA EXPUNGED]\nAh. Right. Let's go.\n\nWe leave our apartment, out into the long hallway that runs down the length of the building. We take the stairs - the elevators are typically busy this time of day. We greet the neighbors as we pass, and they smile and wave back.\nThe streets bustle with activity. People passing, talking with each other, selling their wares. Above us are the skyscrapers, our homes and workplaces, and above them is the sun and sky. Jacob looks down the long street outside of our building. He squints against the glare.\n\"How big is Pandaemonium, dad?\"\nI think for a moment. \"Big. Bigger than we'll ever see, but plenty of cities are big.\"\n\"Yeah, but if you had to put a number on it. How many days would it take to walk across it?\"\nI shrug. \"I don't know. I haven't tried!\"\nIt is in this moment that I notice that the people around us have stopped moving. Their faces frozen in place, smiles and eyes unmoving. I look across them, trying to catch a gaze, but only one meets me. A pair of glowing amber orbs.\n\"You lied to me,\" Jacob says. His voice is the same childish lilt I had grown to love, but behind the words is menace, and uncertainty. Something has frightened him.\n\"That's not a lie,\" I say. \"I've never tried. You would've known if I had - I might have been walking forever.\"\n\"Quiet,\" Jacob hisses. \"This is what you asked for. You made this place, so of course you would try to do something to it.\" His pace is quickening now, like an animal running through the dark forest, fleeing from something it cannot see. \"You brought something in here. Something that wasn't allowed. You've tricked me.\"\nI shrug. \"I don't know what you're talking about. Everything here was here when we arrived.\"\nHe snaps towards me. \"Liar. There's something else here. I felt something earlier. Where is it?\"\n\"I don't know what you're talking about, Jacob. You know just as well as I do that I couldn't have brought anything in here. It's just us.\"\nI am suddenly aware of a hundred thousand faces, each of them passing in a quiet march, none of them turning to look at us. A line of humans, unbound from their humanity, passes between us. I hear the echo of footsteps. Millions of people enter their homes. Billions. The sun begins to set.\n\"No, no you couldn't.\" Jacob is panicking. \"But this place is different, it- it- it's growing. How long did you say? You could walk and walk and never reach the edge? How could you know this? How did you do it?\"\nI laugh. I can't help it. Even now, he tries to trick me. I see my own face appear in an instant, the furious amber orbs swinging frantically behind empty sockets. \"How did you do it?\"\n\"I promised you,\" I say slowly, \"that I would build a shining city for you, my son. A place we could be together, forever. This city, Pandaemonium, this is our city.\"\nThe streets are empty, and always have been. A strong wind whips down the paved streets. Above us tower giants, the colossal guardians of this place, silent and unmoving. Across from me is my son, but only in the skin draping over its withered, limp form. This creature opens its mouth, and a choked gasp escapes its lips.\n\"The Architect,\" Jacob says, his face warping into a grim mockery of another Overseer. \"How did you get it here? You couldn't have left without me knowing, and it wasn't here when I got here, unless\u2026\" The creature screeches. \"You had it inside you. You brought it inside you!\"\n\"A dream,\" I say, \"a dream I had of this place, long before you brought us here. Endless streets, variation on variation - a city that does not end. A place for us to be, forever. It was there in the next dream, as well. And then the next. It has been here for many long years now, building the framework for Pandaemonium.\"\nMy son howls. Its body is rendered as something monstrous and uncanny appears from within, a horrifying, clicking beast. I hesitate and flinch, but hold my ground. The worst it can do is kill me. It shrieks and hisses and I see flashing nightmares in the air around it, the torn and twisted bodies of my parents, the crumpled and defeated form of Jacob in the ground, Elisa scattered across the room like a crimson butterfly. I see something else, something I saw down in that sullen place.\n\"In exchange for my name, you gave me what I wanted. A chance to say goodbye.\" Blood rushes between the beast's grinding teeth. New faces appear across its own, desperately searching for something that will affect me. A face that will stay my hand. Elisa. My brother. A former girlfriend. My son. My mother. Friends, colleagues, they flash and shriek and writhe in an agony that does not exist. \"This city is my gift to you. A place for you to live with that name, for as long as you wish. A place where you can't hurt anyone.\"\nA moment passes, and then another. At the third, my son lays before me again, crumpled into a heap on the ground. He breathes heavily, and looks up and away, past me, down the long avenue flanked by towers.\n\"Where is it?\" it says. Its voice is barely a whisper.\nI shake my head. \"Buried. Somewhere beneath here, in a distant memory. Pandaemonium, this city we built together, is built upon itself over and over again. Its foundation is the still living bodies of the hands that built it. It's long gone, buried somewhere beneath ten-thousand years of its own creations.\"\nJacob sighs. \"And even if I had it, it wouldn't change anything. It doesn't unmake.\"\nI nod.\nElisa stands up. She looks at me, and then at the sky. \"How far does it go? How far away is the edge?\"\n\"I don't know. It might take a thousand years to cross. Maybe a hundred thousand. By the time you have found your way out of Pandaemonium, you will have exhausted the name I gave you and will be reduced to what you really are - an envious, hateful vacuum. A spiteful ghost. Something that I should have left in the dark.\"\n\"But,\" I continue, \"we will be together. Always we two. You can spend lifetimes out there, searching for the edge of a city that grows larger every day, or you can stay here with me.\"\nJacob looks at me. The amber orbs are there, but they swing less quickly. I see something in its gaze. Is it fear? Anger? Sadness?\n\"I festered in the darkness of my own non-existence for endless hours,\" it says, hate dripping off its writhing tongue. \"It is not vapid desire that drives me, but my own design. I will walk for a trillion years if I must, or more, and when I am free from this prison I will share this blood with every being that draws breath and take back those names that were once part of me. Then,\" it inhales sharply, \"I will be whole.\"\nIt turns to walk, but hesitates. It looks at me, and for a moment I can see something else within it, something apart from the malice.\n\"And when I have reclaimed them,\" it says softly, \"and when this world reaches its closing, I will come back here. Then, we will be together.\"\nMoments later it is gone, down the street and into the dark labyrinth of endless monoliths. I watch until it disappears into the night. The wind still blows.\n\nI go back to our apartment. Around me, in man-sized containers that litter each new structure sleep the soulless bodies of my neighbors, Pandaemonium's citizenry. An endless mass of faces that the Doppelganger cannot seize. They never belonged to it.\nI sit alone in my empty apartment, nameless and accursed. I hear the distant laughter of my wife and my son, and I smile.\n\nJacob, come inside.\n\nIt's almost time for bed.\n\n+ REVISED ENTRY\n\n- Close File\n\nItem #: SCP-5935\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5935 is contained in a secure medical ward at Site-17. SCP-5935 is to remain in a medically induced coma until further notice.\nDescription: SCP-5935 is the body of a human male found near [REDACTED]. SCP-5935's identity is seemingly anomalously difficult to ascertain, though whether this is due to SCP-5935's own inherent anomalous nature, or an anomaly acting upon SCP-5935, is unknown.\nThe intended purpose of SCP-5935 is to contain SCP-5935-1.\n\nWho are you?\n\nFootnotes\n1. Don't touch that dial now.\n2. RAISA Archive Automated Message: Record Discrepancy. Origin Unknown.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5934 | SCP-5935 | SCP-5936 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMore by this author\n\n\nItem#: 5936\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Lead\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-120\nN/A\nDaniel Asheworth\nOmega-5 (\"The Good Boys\")\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures\n\nFile Update 22/03/1984: To ensure personnel safety following Event 5936-1, upon entering SCP-5936, all individuals are to thaumaturgically protect themselves by saying the following phrase loudly and clearly:\n\"I am me. My body is mine and mine only.\"\nAll personnel failing to do so are to leave the entry point under the threat of immediate termination.\n\nThe area in which SCP-5936 manifests has been acquired by the Foundation with a one-kilometer exclusion zone established around it. A disinformation campaign attributing the quarantine to a radiation leak has been devised and is to be disseminated to media and news outlets in nearby communities. All individuals extremal to the Foundation that attempt to enter the area must be denied access and directed to one of the surrounding towns.\nFollowing Event 5936-1, all action-planning regarding SCP-5936 has been moved to Site-120.\n\nDescription\n\nThe approximate location of SCP-5936's manifestation.\n\nSCP-5936 is a spatial disruption occurring approximately 2 kilometers north of the town of Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland; the anomaly's interior is approximately 100 km\u00b2 \u2014 78% larger than the area of 56 km\u00b2 expected. Additionally, SCP-5936 can only be observed and entered by individuals that:\n\nAre non-religious,\nHave lost a close relative or friend,\nHave worked with or been a witness of occult phenomena.\n\nWhenever an individual is brought near the anomaly that does not meet the above criteria, they neglect its existence, claiming to only see a barren field1 and expressing a desire to leave the area.\nAlthough scans and surveys of SCP-5936 have found no lifeforms inhabiting the area naturally, subjects who enter the anomaly have reported:\n\nSensations of being watched,\nParanoia of the presence of someone nearby,\nFeelings of immense, irrational hatred and sorrow.\n\nThe inside of SCP-5936 consists primarily of an urban topological district incorporating elements such as parking lots, playgrounds, shops, and a singular park. The weather within SCP-5936 will contain dense fog and clouds, despite the weather surrounding the anomaly. Additionally, once an individual has crossed the threshold into SCP-5936, they will find that the sun sits at a consistent 6\u00b0 altitude; indicative of ~ 17:00 (5:00 PM) in the area.\nSCP-5936-1 is a designation given to a currently unknown number of violent entities manifesting within the borders of SCP-5936. The anomalous humanoids bear the resemblance to distorted homo sapiens and are heavily disconnected from local reality. For further information regarding SCP-5936-1 instances, see Addendum 5936-3.\n\nDiscovery\n\nThe park present within SCP-5936.\n\nSCP-5936 was discovered on 21/02/1984 during Site-120's routine check of surrounding towns for potential anomalous phenomena. After five patients in local clinics were reported to have experienced hallucinations of a nonexistent district of the town, the Foundation was notified and an investigation regarding said reports was initiated. Multiple interviews with individuals supposedly affected by said hallucinations were made, and as a result, SCP-5936 was discovered shortly after.\n\nAddendum 5936-1 \u2014 Exploration Logs\nThe first exploration log of SCP-5936 was recorded shortly after the anomaly was detected. Due to the personnel requirements being discovered not long following initial contact, a special Mobile Task Force, Omega-5 (\"The Good Boys\") meeting them was created for the purpose of SCP-5936 research. In order to gather all information regarding SCP-5936, provisional Outpost-120-1 was created near the entrance of the anomaly.\n\n\u25ba Exploration Log 5936-1\n\n\u25bc Exploration Log 5936-1\n\nDate: 16/03/1984\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-5\nSubject: SCP-5936\nTeam Lead: Om-5-1\nTeam Members: Om-5-2, Om-5-3, Om-5-4, Om-5-5\nForeword: The exact properties of SCP-5936 were, as of then, unknown.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nOm-5-1: Recording's on. Check your mics and weapons.\nOm-5-2: Check.\nOm-5-3: Check.\nOm-5-4: Check.\nOm-5-5: And check makes five.\nOm-5-1: Command, you hear us?\nDr. Asheworth: All clear, One.\nOm-5-1: Alright. Keep your eyes open. We've no idea what could be in there.\nOm-5-2: Roger.\nOmega-5 enter SCP-5936.\n\nStill frame from Omega-5-1's camera equipment depicting the inside of SCP-5936.\n\nOm-5-3: Holy shit, this's one foggy place.\nOm-5-2: Central Europe and autumn don't really go well together, eh?\nOm-5-1: Doc, you see that block over there?\nDr. Asheworth: Yes, what of it?\nOm-5-1: Someone's there, watching us. I can see them from the corner of my eye.\nDr. Asheworth: I can make a scan of the region to see who or what that is.\nOm-5-1: Then do.\nTwo minutes pass as Dr. Asheworth performs a scan of local terrain.\nDr. Asheworth: No, no one's there. Are you absolutely sure you saw something?\nOm-5-1: Yes, I am. W-wait, now they're gone. It-it doesn't make any\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: Forget it. Spatial anomalies can fuck with perception, trust me.\nOm-5-4: That's weird. I think I saw it too.\nDr. Asheworth: I would suggest you enter the building it was in, then.\nOm-5-1: Well\u2026 alright. Four and Three, we enter that building. Five, Two, you stay here. Try to see if anyone's around the block.\nOm-5-5: Alright.\nOmega-5 split up \u2014 Om-1, Om-3, and Om-4 enter one of the blocks of flats SCP-5936 consists of. The rest of the team stays near the entrance to the building.\nOm-5-4: Damn, this place is pretty run down.\nOm-5-3: As are most blocks in this region. Nothing special, really.\nOm-5-1: Let's maybe save the talking for later.\nOm-5-3: Fair enough.\nOm-5-4: While we're here, let's maybe see what's inside those apartments.\nOm-5-1: Good idea. Very quietly: Don't turn your head. There is someone watching us from that corridor on Four's right. Doc, are you absolutely sure there was no one here?\nDr. Asheworth: My scans show nothing. I think it might be the influence of the anomal-\nOm-5-1: This isn't stress, Asheworth. I know there is someone there, I can see it with my goddamn eyes, y\u2014\nOm-5-3: Chill, man.\nOm-5-1: No, you fu\u2014 wait a goddamn minute, what's happening here? It's\u2014 Jesus Christ, I'm sorry, doc, I have no idea what got into me, I-\nDr. Asheworth: Don't worry. This could be just anomalous influence. Does anyone else see that presence?\nOm-5-1: It\u2026 it seems like it disappeared, again, I\u2026 I have no idea what\u2014\nDr. Asheworth: Forget it. How about you enter one of those apartments instead?\nOm-5-4: Good idea.\nOmega-5 climb up the stairs of the building. They stop near the door to one of the apartments.\nOm-5-3: Oi, doc, you seeing this? There's some sort of a, a\u2026 uhh\u2026 magic-ish symbol here.\nDr. Asheworth: Give me a moment\u2026 yeah, I see it.\nOm-5-1: What does it mean?\nDr. Asheworth: Well, that's not how thaumaturgic symbols work\u2026 I'm not familiar with this one, hold on a second. Give me like three minutes, okay?\nTwo minutes pass.\nDr. Asheworth: \u2026you absolutely sure? Alright. Well, let's begin with the fact that this should not be here. It's beyond old. I've only seen it used twice, at best. It's an amalgamation of two signs that, when combined, literally mean \"to open a gateway with a sacrifice\". Without the context of the full spell, I can't tell you what that truly means. Look around for more sigils like this.\n\nStill frame from Omega-5-1's camera feed depicting the unidentified symbol.\n\nOm-5-1: Understood.\nOm-5-3: Wait, it's here, too.\nOm-5-4: And here.\nOm-5-3: Yeah, it's near every door.\nOm-5-1: Wait, isn't this a cross near them?\nDr. Asheworth: That\u2026 that's weird. I've never really seen anything like that.\nOm-5-1: I suppose that means we're gonna need to get into one of those apartments, am I right?\nDr. Asheworth: You indeed are.\nOmega-5 enter one of the apartments. A TV can be heard in the background.\nOm-5-3: Doc, you absolutely sure there is no one in the building?\nDr. Asheworth: What? Yes, why?\nOm-5-3: There is an unfinished meal, still hot, just\u2026 just sitting there on the table.\nOm-5-1: And the oven is still on.\nOm-5-4: So is the TV. It's\u2026 it's stuck it seems though. On one frame. It has a calendar for the year of 1952 above it, with uh, 27th of march being the final marked day.\nDr. Asheworth: As I said, the previous scans have shown nothing. But if you insist, I'll do a full-spectrum one of the area including all of the anomalous sensors, but that will take a moment.\nOm-5-1: Understood.\nFive minutes pass. Nothing in the environment of the apartment changes, with the TV still showing the same frame and the meals not changing their temprerature.\nDr. Asheworth: Nothing. Again. There is literally not a single lifeform here. Not even bugs.\nOm-5-1: There's some weird shit going on here, doc. Normal places aren't just stuck in time.\nDr. Asheworth: Well, to be honest\u2014\nOm-5-1: Doc, it seems there is someone behind us.\nOm-5-2: I can see that, t\u2014\nOm-5-2 is interrupted by an unidentified scream.\nDr. Asheworth: Omega five?\nNo response.\nDr. Asheworth: Omega five, do you copy?!\nRecording cuts.\n[END LOG]\n\nIn order to locate the potentially compromised Omega-5, a temporary replacement hereby referred to as Omega-5A for said group was created, and shortly after dispatched into SCP-5936.\n\n\u25ba Exploration Log 5936-2\n\n\u25bc Exploration Log 5936-2\n\nDate: 18/03/1984\nExploration Team: Mobile Task Force Omega-5A\nSubject: SCP-5936\nTeam Lead: Om-5A-1\nTeam Members: Om-5A-2, Om-5A-3, Om-5A-4\nForeword: As standard lifeform scans prior to the exploration have shown an existence of such within the cellars of the block of flats where the original exploration log was abruptly cut, Omega-5-1 was ordered to research said place within the spatial anomaly.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nOm-5A-1: Alright, check your equipment.\nOm-5A-2: All's fine.\nOm-5A-3: All well here.\nOm-5A-4: And here.\nOm-5A-1: Great. Asheworth, do you copy?\nDr. Asheworth: Loud and clear, a-one.\nOmega-5A leave provisional Outpost 120-1 and enter SCP-5936. They head for the building explored within the previous log as before and descent into the basement.\nOm-5A-2: Command?\nDr. Asheworth: Yes?\nOm-5A-2: It feels, uhh, how to put it, well, much 'calmer' here. The feeling of being watched is just gone.\nDr. Asheworth: Which might mean we're onto something. Try to look around and much as you can.\nOm-5A-2: From what I can see, that's just your normal basement. Some food, this time absolutely rotting may I add, and some containers. Though\u2014\nOm-5A-4: Here's something.\nDr. Asheworth: Yes?\nOm-5A-4: Well, it's some wet journal pages from what I can see\u2026 most of it is some non-sensical gibberish\u2026 you seeing this, doc?\nDr. Asheworth: Yup. Well, those are thaumaturgic-ish runes, or at least runes stylized after the thaumaturgic ones, but it's too soaked for me to actually study it. At least from here. Also, may I add, it seems that there are some more signs here\u2026 I will say that I have never seen anything like this. When you get back, take it with you.\nOm-5A-4: Roger.\nOm-5A-2: Something here. Red candles and a candlestick.\nDr. Asheworth: Noted. Anything else?\nOm-5A-3: Hmm\u2026\nOm-5A-4: Nothing more here it seems. Though three out of five entrances to the other rooms are bricked off.\nDr. Asheworth: Go into the closer one then, and let's see what's there.\nOm-5A-4: Roger.\nOmega-5A come near the entrance to one of the non-blocked rooms.\nOm-5A-1: Another rune. A bit different from the last one from what it looks like.\nDr. Asheworth: Give me a second then, let me get my notes on those ones\u2026 Got it. Alright, this one's supposed to be 'protection', as simple as that is. It's still written in a very old language, though. What about the inside of the room?\nOm-5A-1: It seems that there's nothing more here than some sort of a cork board connecting different photos of the town. And a bunch of chairs around it.\nOm-5A-2: Some more notes here. Looks pretty similar to the ones from before, though.\nOm-5A-3: Other than that, it's just your regular basement stuff from what it seems. You know, potato sacks and stuff like that.\nDr. Asheworth: Alright, that only leaves the second room, then.\nOm-5A-4: Looks like today's your lucky day, doc. Another rune. Looks like the one from before, though. And another cross around it. This time, with a, uh, a message, I guess? \"The hand of the Lord shall protect you\".\nDr. Asheworth: Hmmm\u2026 it's not the same. It looks almost identical, but the bottom part of the right side is missing, see? It's another one of those weird amalgamations of signs. Hmm\u2026\nOm-5A-1: Coughs Oh my Jesus fucking Christ. Coughs\nOm-5A-2: Eugh\u2026\nOm-5A-1: It looks like we found the lifeforms you detected. Or, rather, their bodies.\nOm-5A-1's camera equipment zooms into a small pit dug in the room's floor. Inside of it, approximately twelve bodies lay.\nDr. Asheworth: Are they of Omega-5's?\nOm-5A-1: I highly doubt it. They look nothing like them.\nOm-5A-2: It's mostly people with robes from what I see.\nDr. Asheworth: Do they have anything unusual on them?\nOm-5A-3: Yeah, got something. Another journal or pamphlet or something. Almost identical to the rest.\nOm-5A-4: Yep, this one has one, too.\nDr. Asheworth: Hmm\u2026 it seems it was a dead-end. Goddamnit. Alright, head back to 120-1, we'll think of something more.\nOm-5A-1: Roger that.\nOmega-5A leave the basements and head out to provisional Outpost-120.\nOm-5A-1: Uh\u2026 doc..?\nDr. Asheworth: Yes?\nOm-5A-1: It seems that, uh, Omega-5 is here.\nDr. Asheworth: What?!\nOm-5A-1: They are just standing approximately ten meters from us. Not moving. It's\u2026 a-three, what the hell are you doing?! We have no idea what might be-\nOm-5A-3 attempts to walk towards Omega-5. At this point, an SCP-5936 entity manifests near Om-5A-3.\nDr. Asheworth: A-three, leave the vicinity of Omega-5 and the entity, do you under-\nSCP-5936-1 starts to scream with a feminine voice, shaking violently.\nOm-5A-1: Doc, we have a sit\u2014\nOm-5A-3 falls on her knees. She joins the screaming and shaking, which quickly stops. SCP-5936-1-1 does not stop to scream, with the tone of the voice hanging to a feminine one. It disappears. Om-5A-1 gets up from his knees and starts to walk towards the rest of the Mobile Task Force.\nOm-5A-1: a-three?\nSilence\nOm-5A-1: A-three, do you copy?\nOm-5A-3's walking speed begins to quicken.\nOm-5A-1: A-three, if you do not answer right now, I will have to open fire, do you understand?!\nOm-5A-3 begins to run towards the group. Omega-5A open fire. Om-5A-3 laughs in a masculine voice.\nOm-5A-1: Doc, y-you saw that?\nDr. Asheworth: I did.\nFive more entities similar to SCP-5936-1-1 manifest near the group. They start to walk towards them. Omega-5 members de-manifest.\nDr. Asheworth: Boys, get the hell out of there!\nOm-5A-1: Let's go!\n[END LOG]\n\nFollowing the second exploration, all of the written logs found within the cellar were submitted to Dr. Asheworth's translation team. Research into the SCP-5936-1 entities is currently ongoing.\n\n\u25ba Translation Addendum 5936-1\n\n\u25bc Translation Addendum 5936-1\n\nFrom comparing the mostly destroyed texts, I have been able to, so far, translate what I presume to be approximately one-third of the final product. This process will not be a fast one, but I am sure that with the materials currently gathered, a full translation is not only possible, but only a matter of time.\n\n\u2014 Daniel Asheworth\n\nTo break the seal that must come first;\na thousand bodies must offer one.\nA rift in time it shall create,\ndeleting a place when the ritual's done.\n\nShortly after the translation of Addendum 5936-1 was completed, Mobile Task Force Omega-5A was dispatched into SCP-5936 for the second time. The exploration was focused on the previously unexplored outskirts of the anomaly, but was cut short due to an increasing amount of SCP-5936-1 entities manifesting in the area. Though no casualties were recorded, a total of 27 previously unregistered anomalous humanoids were reported. No traces of Omega-5 were detected during the exploration. Though no notable discoveries were made, the team found deteriorated segments of a thaumaturgic circle around the borders of SCP-5936.\n\n\u25ba Translation Addendum 5936-2\n\n\u25bc Translation Addendum 5936-2\n\nAfter extensive research into the nature of ancient thaumaturgic languages, my team and I were able to translate two-thirds of the article, leaving only the last part left. However, it appears that we have hit a roadblock as the language used in the final line is the oldest we have thus far encountered. Due to this, I request Director MacCarthy's intervention.\n\n\u2014 Daniel Asheworth\n\nTake the bodies the ritual shall,\nbut leave the souls it will.\nOne must account for their raging thoughts,\nas they might want to take back the bill.\n\nAround the town a circle must,\nsurround it fully within.\nTo cover yourself, and your soul,\na safe sign you must bring.\n\nAddendum 5936-2 \u2014 Event 5936-1\nThree days after the third exploration of SCP-5936 had taken place, the amount of SCP-5936-1 entities manifesting near the border between SCP-5936 and Outpost-120-1 had increased significantly, by approximately 1600% over the course of said time; a week later, the Outpost was attacked by the entities.\nThe event has been transcribed below.\n\n\u25ba Log of Event 5936-1\n\n\u25bc Log of Event 5936-1\n\nDate: 22/03/1984\nForeword: At the time, Dr. MacCarthy, Site-120 and Outpost-120-1 director, was visiting Outpost-120-1 in order to finalize the translation of documents found within SCP-5936. Dr. Asheworth, the project lead of SCP-5936 was, at that time, away in order to report to Central Europe Regional Director on his team's progress on the project.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nDr. MacCarthy: \u2026and I believe that concludes my rant. I think that covers everything I wanted to say.\nJr. Res. Quinn: Of course. Thank you for your time, director. We will make sure to notify Doctor Asheworth about the translation once he gets back from the report mission.\nDr. MacCarthy: No need to thank, ha\u2014 M-Miss Quinn, should\u2026 should those entities be here\u2026?\nAt this point, a total of approximately 102 SCP-5936-1 instances manifest near the entrance to SCP-5936.\nJr. Res. Quinn: Uh\u2026 No, I don't think so\u2026 I will call the project lead to ask, if that's okay-\nJr. Res. Quinn pulls a phone from her pocket. She attempts to call Dr. Asheworth, only to get no response. She tries to do so three more times, with each of the attempts being denied.\nJr. Res. Quinn: Uh, I don't think we're going to get an answer, he's probably busy, but no, I don't think that's the way it should be\u2026\nTwenty-five SCP-5936-1 entities start to vocalize near the entrance to the building.\nDr. MacCarthy: Oh, oh my, where's the security here? You must have some sort of thaumaturgic protection here!\nJr. Res. Quinn: I don't think we do, sir. Asheworth was the la\u2014\nFourty SCP-5936-1s leave SCP-5936 and enter Outpost-120-1.\nDr. MacCarthy: Oh my god, call the direct regional line, now!\nThe man attempts to make his way into the Outpost's management office.\nDr. MacCarthy: Quinn, there's no time, come with\u2014\nDirector MacCarthy is interrupted as an SCP-5936-1 entity drags Junior Researcher Quinn out of the building.\nThe man runs to the previously mentioned room and shuts the door locked. He then presses the immediate emergency button located within the desk of the Outpost Director.\nDr. MacCarthy: Through direct Outpost messaging system: All personnel, containment breach imminent, I repeat: con\u2014\nThirteen entities swarm the entrance to the place of Director MacCarthy's resting. Following 20 seconds of attempted breach, the anomalies properly open the door.\nAn SCP-5936-1 starts screaming within the proximity of Dr. MacCarthy. The Director joins in the screaming, only for his voice to change to one resembling a child's.\nRecording cuts as an SCP-5936-1 destroys the camera recording the log.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfter this recording of Event 5936-1 was received, all contact with provisional Outpost-120-1 was lost. All individuals present at the time are considered lost and a border around SCP-5936 has been set up. The entrance point to the anomaly has been thaumaturgically sealed. No entrance is currently allowed.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe remainder of this file is currently limited to personnel with Level 3 and SCP-5936 Research Team Clearance Level that is not included in regular Level 3 credentials. Until the research on SCP-5936 and its nature is properly concluded, no exceptions to this rule are currently allowed.\n\u2014 Daniel Asheworth, Head of SCP-5936 Research\n\nAddendum 5936-3 \u2014 Further Research Material\nTo further understand the nature and properties of both SCP-5936 and SCP-5936-1 entities, multiple tests and interrogation missions were undertaken. The following are their reported results.\n\n\u25ba Additonal Files \u2014 SCP-5936 \u2014 1\n\n\u25bc Additonal Files \u2014 SCP-5936 \u2014 1\n\nBackground interrogation for the location of SCP-5936\n\nIn order to ascertain the nature and location of SCP-5936 prior to the presumed ritual being carried out near it, a background check has been requested by its research team.\nInitially, no recordings of any inhabitants or even the existence of any sub-town area located within the area occupied by SCP-5936 existing in the past were found upon coming into contact with local archival offices and authorities. A detailed search revealed that no place had ever existed \u2014 plans of creating a sub-area almost identical to the landscape of SCP-5936 were in fact created in 1945 following the end of World War II, but were canceled due to a lack of budget reported within the yearly spending plan of the new communistic rule established upon Poland following the end of said event.\nHowever, when the local population census and the documents surrounding such for the years of 1952 \u2014 1984 was in-dethply studied by Site-120's RAISA employees, exactly one mention of a wanted individual know as Damien Nowak, originating from a nonexisting district of Cz\u0119stochowa referred to as \"Tysi\u0105clecie Dolne\", which would, as referred by in documents, be located in the exact location SCP-5936 manifests in.\nFurther background search on Nowak undertaken by Dr. Rivera, a member of the research team of SCP-5936 trained in memetic resistance, revealed that a district identical to the inside of SCP-5936 did indeed exist; backchecking on previously analyzed documents by Dr. Rivera yielded surprising results \u2014 every single one of them did discuss the existence of such a district; the information was, however, locked behind an antimeme.\nThe recovered data holds that Tysi\u0105clecie Dolne was an actual, existing place, holding the population for approximately 1200 residents, distributed as follows:\n\n200 men\n400 women\n600 children\n\nDue to the recentness of the building project when in the context of the recent ending of World War II ending prior to the even taking place, most of the population of Tysi\u0105clecie Dolne consisted of women and children. The population and the buildings were in great disrepair due to the military actions undertaken by opposing forces during the conflict. It is of note that the population had requested more capital for the purpose of building renovation from local authorities on multiple occasions \u2014 all of such were denied.\nThe current hypothesis constructed by the currently available material regarding SCP-5936, such as the ritual translation provided by Dr. Asheworth and external papers discussing the place, holds that the line in the poetic ritual instructions describing \"deleting a region\" should be interpreted literally; in result, the thaumaturgic action not only presumably killed the people located within the region, but literally deleted it and alongside all of the mentions of it from history.\nFurther research is ongoing.\n\n\u25ba Additonal Files \u2014 SCP-5936 \u2014 2\n\n\u25bc Additonal Files \u2014 SCP-5936 \u2014 2\n\nAdditional material recovered from SCP-5936\n\nUpon taking the previously mentioned hypothesis into consideration, Dr. Asheworth personally requested more contextual material be attempted to recover from SCP-5936 in hopes of confirming or denying such. The project was successfully approved, and a UEV2 was sent from local regional command to Site-120, where the research team gathered the needed materials and sent the vehicle into SCP-5936. Notably, the entities within such did not recognize the UEV as existing within their reach and did not react to the vehicle's actions.\nUpon in-depth exploration of the remaining buildings, an intact journal was found. The following writing from the journal has been translated from Polish.\n\nDamien wrote to me again this morning. Though normally, I wouldn't be surprised, this time he asked me for shelter. Normally I would of course deny, the food and water supplies are low even for as little as my men have here, but I couldn't just say \"no\" to my own brother. Not after all these years of separation from each other. Maria says it's stupid to let him near us after what he's done all those years ago, but it just feels wrong. Especially since he said that he has changed and that no longer will he practice\u2026 the forbidden arts.\n\nI'll have to think about it.\n\n15.03\n\nDamien and his troupe of freaks came last night. Of course, he couldn't resist his usual bullshit; everyone must know when he is in town. This time was a bit different though; his \"friends\" came with numerous gifts \u2014 meat, vegetables, and clean water. For all of these uneducated morons, they were glorious saviors that came to save them from the oppression of the \"government\". I'll let them think that for as long as I need to, but I know that something must be wrong. It's not like him to just help people profitless.\n\nWhen I asked him what all of that fuss was about, he said, and I quote \u2014 \"Greetings, my fellow brother! I come to you with peace!\". It's\u2026 it's not like him! He was ecstatic, clearly very happy at something, and\u2026 nice for once! He was babbling about how serving some \"Lord\" made him finally reunite with his previous enemies and give others happiness. I don't know if I should be afraid or happy or\u2026 I don't know.\n\n18.03\n\nLast night, I caught Damien writing some weird symbols on the walls of my house with chalk. When asked about what that was, all he said was that I should not worry, since all he has ever done is to serve our Lord. I know he's lying, he never could just fit the rest and worship our God like the rest of us. Whatever he's doing, I'm sure it's nothing good \u2014 no normal person dresses like a religious guru for no reason!\n\nIt seems his freaks have permanently settled within our basement. It's not like I care, they don't eat anything and they don't litter, but I can't just sleep safely at night knowing that\u2026 these things\u2026 sit in my town. They don't seem right. Damien says something about them being \"sinners who decided to change their ways and return to the ways of the Lord\". Thankfully, they very rarely get out of their dwellings \u2014 and when they do, they mostly just patrol the outskirts of the town, not bothering anyone.\n\n21.03\n\nDamien was writing weird stuff on the walls today again. When confronted, he said it's \"for the Lord's grace\" and that they mean protection in his \"language\". Initially, I obviously didn't believe him, but when nothing happened when a raid of our beautiful government's \"helpers\" didn't come, I just couldn't not believe him. Everything he said came true. Maybe he has truly changed. I\u2026 I don't know. It seems like those freaks he brought with him are\u2026 decent people too? They help us with our crops, and one of them saved Annie from drowning. I have no idea what to think anymore.\n\n24.03\n\nMy people seem to absolutely love Damien. He has become their savior, their martyr, their\u2026 leader? It's sort of worrying how quickly he got popular, but I can't just not be happy my brother is with us, normal again. He is also\u2026 nice to everybody? It seems that even Herbert somehow enjoys his company. I\u2026 I've never been this torn apart in my life. Deep in my heart, I know he is a good person, but I can't just shake off the feeling of something being wrong. Though I feel like I'm alone in my emotions - everyone seems to have accepted him as a part of our community, which of course is a good thing, it's been a long time since that happened last time, but\u2026 I don't know. I'll have to think some more.\n\n27.03\n\nLast night, I eavesdropped on Damien, hoping to find something on him. Nothing. Again. He just prayed and went to sleep. That's all. I\u2026 I was wrong, then it seems. Is Damien truly a new person? Everything leads me to believe so, but\u2026 I just\u2026 I don't know!\n\nEverything is of course going well since he arrived, as I said, and no one was even hurt. Not a single bad thing. Maybe something did indeed change?\n\n30.03\n\nDamien is indeed a changed man. From when he arrived, nothing bad has happened to us. Every single oppressor that previously would bother doesn't even seem to notice us. Our plants grow faster and children are happier. When I asked him how this could be true, he just said \"You should trust me and Lord more, brother.\"\n\nI asked him to stay more with us, and he happily accepted the offer, saying that we will finally get some good time together. During today's dinner, he announced that in just three days, everything will change for the better; of course, he didn't say what would happen, but he said that \"the Lord will be pleased when he sees what will\" in an excited tone alongside something about \"ascending\" and \"leaving the human sadness and the limitation of our bodies behind\".\n\nI shouldn't be this happy, but I truly am glad that he finally found himself a good road in life.\n\n02.04\n\nI wa\nThe remainder of the page is empty, with only one spot of it being minorly damaged by what is presumed to be a pen's blade with ink surrounding it. The rest of the pages, which were pre-marked once every three days, are empty.\n\n\u25ba Additonal Files \u2014 SCP-5936 \u2014 3\n\n\u25bc Additonal Files \u2014 SCP-5936 \u2014 3\n\nSCP-5936 Test Logs\n\nOn 21/04/1984, four hundred SCP-5936-1 instances started to manifest near the border of the spatial anomaly and started to violently vocalize for approximately 36 hours straight. The action was immediately notified to the project lead and assessed for further research value when such an event did not happen again for the next two weeks. Three days following the action being reported however, the event repeated - this time with approximately 600 humanoids involved.\nThe following is a transcript of the audio created by the humanoids.\n\n[[0-14h]] unintelligible screaming\n[[15-25h]] nonsensical noices\n[[25-36h]] unintelligible screaming\nFollowing the finishing of this cycle, all of the entities demanifested.\n\nInitially, it seemed that said audio was non-sensical and logic-lacking. When regular, nonanomalous audio editing and analyzing software yielded no results upon being presented with the recording, the audio was put through Foundation-made machines. It was then discovered that the true sounds admitted by the entities were being blocked by an artificial, thaumaturgic force bearing message-encrypting properties, whose origin has been dated to 1956.\nThe true transcript of the messages is provided below.\n\nAll of the messages are being repeated within the written timeframe by an amalgamation of approximately 1200 different voices.\n\n[[0-14h]] H-hello? Are you still out there? P-please, listen to us. Help us. Don't leave us here. We don't have much time. Help us. Give us bodies. Please. Stop this. Help us. Please, please help us. We're sorry. Please give us bodies. Please let us leave.\n\n[[15-25h]] A-are you there? Please, I can't. I can't bear this anymore. Why are you doing this to us? Why did they do this to us? Please, let us die. Please, give us rest. Give us bodies. Give us death. Please.\n\n[[25-36h]] No, don't leave. Don't leave. Not now, not now. Not now. Give us a body. Give us a physical anchor. We need to leave. Please, give us rest. We need an anchor. Give us something to cling to. We need to leave this state. Don't leave us. Don't leave. Don't.\nDon't forget us.\n\nFurther research is ongoing.\n\nOpen SCiPNet? You have 1 unread message\n\nFrom:\nd.asheworth@site.120.int\n\nTo:\nSCP-5936 Research Team (Group)\n\nSubject:\nThe finalization of the translation\n\nDate:\n24/03/1984\n\nI have successfully been able to finalize the translation of the documents acquired within SCP-5936. Though most of the written text was merely an invocation, the name of what I presume to be the cults' is being mentioned near the bottom of it. Additionally, my men have found a potentially troubling picture within a journal in the innards of the bodies Omega-5A have discovered. I will be honest with you and say I do not have a single idea of what this could indicate; further research in the highlighter areas is definitely going to be required. Please familiarize yourself with both and share your thoughts on the matter.\n\u2014 Daniel Asheworth\n\n+ Attached document\n\n- ACCESS GRANTED\n\nTo break the seal that must come first;\na thousand bodies must offer one.\nA rift in time it shall create,\nfreezing a place when the ritual's done.\nTake the bodies the ritual shall,\nbut leave the souls it will.\nOne must account for their raging thoughts,\nas they might want to take back the bill.\nAround the town a circle must,\nsurround it fully within.\nTo cover yourself, and your soul,\na safe sign you must bring.\nThe souls shall seek revenge\nas after all, easily does not one die.\nThough gone, the region is,\nthey might want it to come back.\n\u2014 the Children\n\none seal - one-fifth of Heaven\n\nis it really worth it?\nfor Father, it is\n\nbut what if people think we're the bad ones?\ndoesn't matter\n\nonce we bring Heaven\nall will\nstop\ncease\nbe happy\nremember the goal\nfor Heaven, it is worth it\n\nFootnotes\n1. One similar to those surrounding the area SCP-5936 manifests in.\n2. Unmanned Exploration Vehicle.\n\n[{$previous-url} {$previous-title}]\n\nAnd Every Time We Meet Again\n\nSCP-5890\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRalliston's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-5890 (+71) \u2022\n\nSCP-7120 (+51) \u2022\n\nEE-7372 (+46) \u2022\n\nSCP-6120 (+67) \u2022\n\nSCP-5373 (+78) \u2022\n\nSCP-6789 (+316) \u2022\n\nSCP-6871 (+408) \u2022\n\nSCP-6072 (+97) \u2022\n\nSCP-6936 (+69) \u2022\n\nSCP-5795 (+90) \u2022\n\nSCP-7600 (+180) \u2022\n\nSCP-7572 (+50) \u2022\n\nSCP-5659 (+249) \u2022\n\nSCP-6335 (+75) \u2022\n\nSCP-6872 (+124) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nUIU File: 2014-158 (OPERATION: VENENUM) (+41) \u2022\n\nHour Zero (+59) \u2022\n\nTime Machine (+26) \u2022\n\nCreaking at the Seams (+63) \u2022\n\nPeople Without Meaning (+19) \u2022\n\nBeneath the Tides (+20) \u2022\n\nunVeiled: A Parapolitical Compass for These Difficult Times (+117) \u2022\n\nThe Furmen (+99) \u2022\n\nA Broken Bookshelf (+31) \u2022\n\nNobody's Home (+24) \u2022\n\nFor Merely Dreaming We Were Snow (+42) \u2022\n\nExpiration Date (+80) \u2022\n\nthe most important thing in the world (+39) \u2022\n\nThe Holiday Special (+54) \u2022\n\nBury the Light (+33) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nPublic Release of OPERATION: WITNESS Materials (+140) \u2022\n\nRalliston's Authorpage (+191) \u2022\n\nArtwork: Witches on the Moon (+37) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5935 | SCP-5936 | SCP-5937 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5937\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5937 is currently contained in Humanoid Cell 0091 of Site-309. Dietary restrictions and medications can be found in the accompanying file.\nInvestigation of relatives and known acquaintances in possession of a compatible key is ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5937 is Paul Pennet, age 31.\nA 5-centimeter long keyhole is located in the center of SCP-5937's chest. SCP-5937 claims that the keyhole manifested on May 21st, 2020, hours before they arrived at Saint Joseph Medical Center with their partner, Sarah Adams.1 However, Ms. Adams has stated that she had been aware of the phenomenon as early as January 2018.\nSCP-5937 claims that they are unaware of any key that may be compatible with the keyhole. A search of SCP-5937's apartment and belongings has confirmed that they are not in possession of a compatible key.\nAddendum 5937.1: Upon containment, a radiography test revealed a hollow space inside SCP-5937's chest, confirming the presence of an anomalous container. On July 9th, 2020, testing to forcibly open SCP-5937's chest was approved by Site Director Loain. The test involved a Foundation-employed locksmith with medical personnel overseeing.\nThe test formally begun after SCP-5937 was made unconscious. After approximately two hours, the lock was successfully picked, but personnel were unable to open the chest due to the skin layered on top of the evident hatch. A member of medical staff then made incisions as appropriate and the chest was opened.\nThe interior of SCP-5937's chest is a wooden box, approximately measured to be 40cm x 20cm x 18cm. The cavity does not impede any circulatory or respiratory processes, nor does it contain any part of SCP-5937's skeleton or organs. The contents include:\n\none Phillips head screwdriver, approximately 12cm in length. There are traces of blood and flesh on the tip.\nthree photos of women, each estimated to be in their early/mid-twenties. Notably, they each have freckles on their face, a trait also shared by Ms. Sarah Adams.\na severed human hand wearing a cubic zirconia ring.\nfive separate locks of brown hair, bound by rubber bands. Similarly, the women in the photographs have brown hair.\n\nAn interview has been scheduled with SCP-5937 following this experiment. Results are currently pending regarding the identities of the photographed women and the severed hand.\n\nFootnotes\n1. It was also on this date that the anomaly was detained and brought into Foundation custody.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5936 | SCP-5937 | SCP-5938 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SYTYCFanon\n\nSCP-5938 - Seshat's PDF of Programmable Cognitohazards\nFor more stories in my verse check here\n\nItem#: 5938\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\n{$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-78\nLeah Richter\nGreg Chudley\nSigma-27 (\"Copyright Trolls\")\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5938 is to be kept on a flash drive with 256-bit (AES) Encryption inside of the office of the current project lead. A clearance level 4 security key is required to access the flash drive or a failsafe will activate and all data contained inside will be deleted.\nFoundation webcrawlers are to scour social media services for any instances of SCP-5938-1 and remove them. The IPs of the posters are to be sent to MTF Sigma-27 (\"Copyright Trolls\") who are to be sent to retrieve any devices containing SCP-5938-1 images and videos. Victims and the senders of SCP-5938-1 are to be administered Class-B amnestics and released once interviewed about their online habits concerning SCP-5938-1 instances.\nDescription: SCP-5938 is a PDF document containing some form of intelligence, written in size 12 \"Arial\" font. On the cover page of SCP-5938, the title is given as \"Seshat's PDF of Programmable Cognitohazards\" and no author is credited. However, one defining feature is the presence of \"III of IX\" written at the bottom of the cover page. It was later confirmed to be a genuine part of the Set of Nine1 by Researchers Johnston and Chudley.\nTo use SCP-5938 the user simply needs to specify the message that is trying to convey and the intended recipients to the document by typing on one of its pages in the form of a \"'/command\". The document will then create anomalous website cookies that will change the advertising algorithm of the affected website and begin showing the intended audience anomalous ads. These ads are known as SCP-5938-1 instances, cognitohazards in the form of JPEGs and MP4 files. SCP-5938-1 instances have been shown to have a slight reality manipulating effect.\nDiscovery: On April 20th, 2022, Foundation agents stationed in Huntington banks became aware of an anomalous transfer of $5000 USD in the accounts of thirty individuals. The anomalous nature was determined after no known source of the money could be found. When these individuals were questioned over the phone by Foundation agents to confirm the source of the money, a majority of them were confused; saying that they'd never authorized a transfer. A portion of the individuals mentioned that it was ironic considering an Ad tweet they had retweeted earlier that morning.\nFoundation webcrawlers traced the tweet to an ad from Huntington's verified account. This scheme would later be attributed to PoI-6878 also known as lesbian_gengar of GoI-5869 (Gamers Against Weed). The tweet had approximately thirty retweets before it was deleted by webcrawlers and saved to this document for posterity with any Cognitohazards expunged.\n\nHuntington Bank\n@Huntington_Bank\n\nHave you been down this fall? Take this the golden goose of incredible luck. It only appears once in every 1 million geese. Retweet to receive good fortune.\n\nLikes 5\nRetweets 30\nComments 2\n\n8:00 AM - 20th April 2022\n\nSeveral incidents involving cognitohazards and GoI-5869 would occur over the next weeks. It was originally assumed that these were individual anomalies made by GAW but after incident 5938.2B it was discovered that the source was SCP-5938.\nAddendum 5938.01: GAW SCP-5938 Incident logs April 20th -May 5th, 2022\n\nIncident 5938.1A\nIncident 5938.1B\nIncident 5938.2A\n\nDate Occurred: April 22nd, 2022\nElectronic vector: Facebook\nIntended Agenda: Disrupt Right Wing Media\nIntended Audience: Baby Boomers\nPoI Responsible: PoI-6870 (bluntfiend)\nCognitohazard Description: The PNG file contains an image of a Minion from the Illumination studios, movie Despicable Me. SCP-5938 's instructions detail that placing text inside the image that has a name of a particular news network will compel the affected victims to watch it.\nIncident Description: On the date previously specified, PoI-6870 sold website cookies to Meta, which caused SCP-5938-1 instances to begin appearing on a right-wing Facebook group entitled: \"Older Ladies for Tucker Carlson\". The image contained the text, \"Tucker Carlson? Real Christians watch Christian News Network (CNN).\"\nAround 200 women above the age of forty-five witnessed the image before it was scrubbed from the page by Foundation agents embedded in Meta. These women were reported by their relatives to have sworn off Fox News Network, calling its late-night host Tucker Carlson a \"dumb liberal \" and a \"Woke plant.\" Second, they would watch CNN religiously and would express displeasure if they missed a broadcast.\nThe women were amnesticized and returned to their homes after questioning.\n\nDate Occurred: April 25th, 2022\nElectronic vector: Tumblr\nIntended Agenda: Equal treatment for all\nIntended Audience: Parents of Gender questioning teenagers from 13-18.\nPoI Responsible: PoI-8003 (starspark)\nCognitohazard Description: A two-minute video describing to the person it's shown the merits of loving those who are different from you. Affected persons appear to lose any previously held prejudices.\nIncident Description: On the specified date, Tumblr algorithms began recommending PoI-8003's 5938-1 laden Q&A blog to parents of gender-questioning teenagers. Over 100 groups of parents ended up being affected, children that were interviewed stated that their normally argumentative parents became fully supportive of their life choices after viewing the video.\nThe ads were taken down and the children were amnesticized. It was decided by Researcher Chudley that the parents would not be given an amnestic regimen for potential safety reasons.\n\nDate Occurred: April 29th, 2022\nElectronic vector: Youtube\nIntended Agenda: Financial gain\nIntended Audience: Gamers\nPoI Responsible: PoI-6897 (Kektagon)\nCognitohazard Description: A 2-minute advertisement that reads the following \"If you or a loved one was diagnosed with \"being a gamer\" you may be entitled to financial compensation. \"Being a gamer\" is a rare condition linked to Fortnite exposure. Exposure to Fortnite on Twitter, Youtube, Twitch, Reddit, the grocery store, or a comic convention may put you at risk. Please don't wait, call 1-800-99 GAW USA today for a free legal consultation and financial information packet. Gamers call now! 1-800-99 GAW USA.\"\nThe anomalous effect does not take hold unless the number is called. Once it does, either the caller or a member of their family will develop an obsession with gaming. The caller will also receive a monetary payment of 2,000 dollars.\nIncident Description: SCP-5938-1 instances began running on videos relating to the video games Apex Legends and Fortnite, leading to fifty calls to the GAW hotline. Foundation webcrawlers removed the video within two hours of posting, and the calls were traced back to the affected people. 40% of them had been stricken with a video gaming addiction leading them to play for eight hours every single day. A foundation investigation into these individuals' bank accounts discovered the $2000, which was confiscated and the affected players were amnesticized.\n\nAddendum 5938.02: Incident 5938.2B\nOn May 5th, 2022 Foundation Webcrawlers took down a cognitohazardous ad on the internet message board 4chan. The hazard was an image that stated, \"Lonely? You don't have to be anymore! The main character of the last video game you played will have sex with you.\" Through IP logging of all users who had signed into the forum, the Foundation was able to amnesticize all those who were affected, any evidence of fictional characters making their way to the real world had disappeared by the time the Foundation caught up with the victims of the instance. However, one Nicholas J. DeCook of Iowa was hospitalized due to the effect of the SCP-5938-1 instance.\nAn unknown tip was submitted to Site-78, believed to be the work of PoI-6878, revealing the whereabouts of PoI-6940 and MTF Sigma-27 was dispatched to apprehend them. PoI-5869 was already on the list of Site-78's high-priority targets for their creation of SCP-4230.\nA safe house belonging to GoI-5869 was raided, capturing PoI-6940 and his electronics. The safe house was found to contain the server hosting SCP-5938 along with various copies of SCP-5938-1 cognitohazards. An examination of the server shows that multiple outside parties unaffiliated with GoI-5869 had accessed it from an external link. Efforts to discover the identity of these groups are still ongoing.\n\n+ GAW Recovered Chat Log\n\n- Close\n\nlesbian_gengar: you've really done it this time Peppa.\nPPS1337: What? What did I do?\nStarspark: Don't play dumb. You gave Seshat to PAMWAC and look what they did!\nPPS1337: I thought it would be funny! I was getting bored with all the altruism.\nbluntfiend: As they say it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Someone did.\nPPS1337: Look if anyone got hurt it was prolly kektagon's fault.\nkektagon: Don't deflect blame on me! Nobody ever got hurt gaming.\nPPS1337: Idk maybe they did. I remember the nerfing gun incident.\nlesbian_gengar: pEPPA A COLLEGE KID BROKE THEIR NECK\nPPS1337:How? How do you break your neck having sex with a video game character?\nlesbian_gengar: how do you think? They got sat on.\nPPS1337: That can happen?\nStarspark: Yeah it happened to my buddy eric.\nlesbian_gengar: this is not the time for debate, we've got eyes looking at us now that someone get hurt, and now the Foundation is gonna come knocking.\nPPS1337: What are we going to do?\nbluntfiend: the real question is what you are doing to fix this.\nPPS1337: Me? Why the fuck do I gotta do anything? Let's just scram like we usually do and things will be cocaine and hookers.\nlesbian_gengar: in case you've forgotten you pataphysical twat. We have a volume of the Set of Nine, things aren't going to be cocaine and hookers. So what you are going to do is hand that shit over to the Foundation and take the fall for this and hope they let you go.\nPPS1337: This is an overreaction, you guys are being hysterical.\n[Connection was terminated by lesbian_gengar]\n\nThe following interview was performed by Researcher Greg Chudley due to being previously assigned to SCP-4230 and leading the investigation into PoI-6940.\n\n[Begin Recording]\nChudley: I can't believe it. We finally caught you, PoI-6940 or should I say, PeppaPig'sStrongestSoldier?\nPoI-6940: Chudley! You remember me! I'm so proud of you.\nChudley: How could I forget you? You had me running around all last year picking up your cronies, all to hide your sick joke. I'd ask you where that wiki2 was being hosted cause we didn't find it amongst your stuff but we have bigger fish to fry now.\nPoI-6940: Well I have diplomatic immunity from being prosecuted by you. I am the King of Finland3 after all.\nChudley: Diplomatic immunity doesn't mean jack to us. But for the sake of keeping the peace, we'll let you go after some questions. Where did you get that server we found in your house?\nPoI-6940: That old thing? I found it lying out in the junk heap and decided to take it home. To my surprise, it was a genuine piece of the Set of Nine.\nChudley: How do you know it's genuine? Any anartist can slap or in this case type a \"X\" of Nine on a cover and call it a day. We've already dealt with copycat books before.\nPoI-6940: It's just\u2026 a feeling you have. I can't describe it. That thing has a power like I've never seen before.\nChudley: Well, we have ways of testing that for ourselves. I'm more concerned that you gave the link for this thing out to people. You gonna spill the beans Gamer?\nPoI-6940: Hitting me with a slur I see? Well, I'll still tell you anyways because we have history. Look, you have to understand. Helping the LGBT community, and redistributing wealth is cool and all but I just wanted some good old-fashioned fun. So I sent it to PAMWAC, thought those weebs would do something crazy.\nChudley: PAMWAC? I thought Johnston made those guys up to fuck with me.\nPoI-6940: They are real, still haven't figured out how to marry anime characters yet though.\nChudley: Shame. Anyways, more on how someone got paralyzed for life?\nPoI-6940: How was I supposed to know that a sex-related injury would occur?\nChudley: 2B from Nier Automata sat on his fucking face, dude. She broke his neck.\nPoI-6940: Yeah but he's getting better, plus he probably enjoyed it\u2026\n[PoI-6940 shakes his head]\nPoI-6940: Uh, anyway so we knew we were screwed and that you guys would come for us. So Jude and Esther decided to leave me as a token of goodwill and here we are.\nChudley: Look if you want some advice, stay out of the anomalous book business. It's dangerous\u2026 wait you didn't give it out to anyone else did you?\nPoI-6940: Uhhhhh, would you be mad if I said I sold it to Totleighsoft to pay for my DoorDash?\n[There is a moment of silence, Chudley shakes his head.]\nChudley: I\u2026 hope god smites you.\n[End Recording]\n\nSCP-7261\n\nThe Set of Nine\n\nRevelations of The Author\n\nFootnotes\n1. Anomalous set of books marked with roman numerals\n2. SCP-4230\n3. Due to Pataphysical manipulation, PoI-6940 is the monarch of the fictional country of \"Finland\"\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nSYTYCFanon's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-2704 (+45) \u2022\n\nSCP-7682 (+72) \u2022\n\nSCP-3452 (+29) \u2022\n\nSCP-7175 (+38) \u2022\n\nSCP-6187 (+18) \u2022\n\nSCP-7110 (+27) \u2022\n\nSCP-4230 (+35) \u2022\n\nSCP-7970 (+55) \u2022\n\nSCP-7233 (+61) \u2022\n\nSCP-6419 (+45) \u2022\n\nSCP-7990 (+71) \u2022\n\nSCP-7261 (+116) \u2022\n\nSCP-6945 (+50) \u2022\n\nSCP-7560 (+33) \u2022\n\nSCP-7899 (+33) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nRaven of Cyberspace II Shadowheist (+22) \u2022\n\nLost Souls, Broken Toys Chapter 1 (+20) \u2022\n\nRevelations of The Author (+17) \u2022\n\nA Tale of Two Chugwaters (+9) \u2022\n\nLost Souls, Broken Toys Chapter 2 (+14) \u2022\n\nAAR-7890-Logovo Volka (+29) \u2022\n\nThe Raven of Cyberspace (+17) \u2022\n\nA Very Otamatone Christmas (+29) \u2022\n\nThe Site-78 Halloween Special! (+15) \u2022\n\nLove in The Time of Chugwater (+16) \u2022\n\nAAR-5950-Osaka (+8) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nSYTYCFanon's Author Page (+43) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5937 | SCP-5938 | SCP-5939 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5939\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following the events of Addendum-2, the following containment procedures are now outdated.\nThe immediate area around SCP-5939 is to be under watch by one Foundation agent and must be cleaned daily by a researcher with level 4 clearance. Civilians who witnessed the effects of SCP-5939 need to be administered Class B amnestics.\nAfter SCP-5939's reclassification to Neutralized, the graveyard in which it was located was purchased by the Foundation. It has been repurposed as an area where personnel of level 3 and higher without a significant other are buried.\n\nA bloomed instance of SCP-5939.\n\nDescription: SCP-5939 is the designation given to the black roses1 that grew on the grave of SCP-5939-1.\nWhen an individual approached or attempted to communicate with the grave, a rose grew and produced dew drops. Upon falling, these spread out and formed a message as if they were made from ink. After an individual read the message, it would quickly fade, and the rose would rapidly decay and be reabsorbed into the soil. It was unknown how much of its surroundings SCP-5939-1 could perceive, but it could hear in a radius of approximately 50 meters and feel direct interaction with its grave.\nSCP-5939-1 referred to Catherine Hall who was a level 4 researcher on Biological Containment Site-103. During a containment breach, SCP-5939-1 was amongst the 14 casualties. Its research was specified in floriculture and cross-breeding plants. In its private life, it cultivated roses and used ink during the early stages of growth to give them a black pigment. SCP-5939-1 often wore one of these roses as a hair ornament. The roses that grew on the grave matched the description of the ornament initially found on its corpse.\nOn 05/06/2018, O5-2 buried SCP-5939-1 after insisting on a private ceremony. Whilst involvement for personal reasons is normally contested by the O5-Council, this did not occur due to O5-2 being specialized in termination practices and the initial burial covered all traces of the Foundation.\nDiscovery: On 06/06/2018, Hendrick Doyle, a man of 76 years of age who regularly comes to visit his wife's grave reported strange writing on the grave of SCP-5939-1. An instance of SCP-5939 had grown out of the gravestone, bloomed, and formed the following message.\n\nCould you clean my gravestone, please?\n\nMr. Doyle was administered a Class B amnestic by an emergency-appointed Foundation agent. The grave of SCP-5939-1 was cleaned and emergency containment procedures were established.\nAddendum-1: Memorandums\nOn 11/06/2018 05-2 came back to the grave after he had taken over the file of SCP-5939. O5-2 and SCP-5939-1 had the following conversation.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG 5939-1\n\nDate: 11/06/2018\nInterviewer: O5-2\nInterviewee: SCP-5939-1\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nHey Simon, I'm so glad to see you again!\n\nO5-2: Catherine\u2026 How do you even know I'm here?\n\nI'd recognize your footsteps anywhere, doofus.\n\nO5-2: Sighs.\n\nYou don't have to say anything.\n\nO5-2: I never thought that I would talk to you like this.\n\nNeither did I. So, which number did they give me? Or am I not supposed to know? I assume they didn't assign me as those two their senior?\n\nO5-2: I thought about SCP-5939, you always liked prime numbers. I took control of your file and I haven't released it yet. I don't want others disturbing you too much with, well, work for now.\n\nAw, you classified me\u2026 how sweet.\n\nO5-2: Yeah, I knew you wouldn't mind. So, mind telling me some secrets you were supposed to take to the grave?\n\nNothing really comes to mind.\n\nO5-2: Come on, I know you can do better than that.\n\nFine, I was the one who wrecked your old car in that experiment. You know, from before you were even a level 4 staff member. It was an accident, I swear!\n\nO5-2: Sigh. Well, it doesn't really matter. They compensated me for it anyway. Kinda liked the seats though.\n\nSimon, aside from this small talk I want you to be honest with me. You are focusing on your work as a distraction again, aren't you?\n\nO5-2: Yeah, I am.\n\nYou always do that when things get tough. I know it's been hard on you.\n\nO5-2: \u2026\n\nIf I may ask, what did you do with my flowers? I know you wouldn't throw them away but I'm quite curious.\n\nO5-2: I've- Sniff. I've preserved your flowers and sent them to your colleagues. I'm planning on relocating the rest to the conservatory.\n\nThat's wonderful.\n\nO5-2: I'm glad you think that\u2026\n\nTake your time, I'm not going anywhere.\n\nO5-2: \u2026\n\nLook, I've been working on something.\n\nSeveral ink droplets spread out and form an image of SCP-5939-1.\nO5-2: Cath, I\u2026\n\nYes?\n\nO5-2: I- I wanted to give you something for a while. I'm wearing the other one.\n\nOh.\n\nO5-2: \u2026\n\nCould you\u2026 put it over my leaves?\n\nO5-2: Of course I can.\n\nThank you, Simon. I'm so glad. How does it look?\n\nO5-2: It looks beautiful\u2026\n\nSimon, your voice sounds broken.\n\nO5-2: Does it?\n\nYes, it really does. You also don't have to be ashamed to cry, you know?\n\nO5-2: How do you know I'm crying? Can you even see me?\n\nI might not see you crying, but I can feel your tears fall on my stone.\n\nO5-2 sobs.\n\nIt's ok, I'll make sure they'll bloom into a beautiful rose.\n[END LOG]\n\nAfter this, O5-2 came back to the grave of SCP-5939-1 on a daily basis.\nAddendum-2: Post Mortem\nDue to O5-2 personally handling the file of SCP-5939, and his daily visits, it did not go unnoticed that after a 14 day period most information was not available for other staff members.\nWhilst it is not considered abnormal to visit a grave frequently, the surrounding factors raised concerns about the anomaly. An internal investigation was carried out on the command of the remaining members of the O5-Council. On 24/06/2018 O5-4 shared the following document.\n\nVote on: Own-Initiative-Procedure-5939\n\n Date: 24/06/2018\n Related Anomalies: SCP-5939\n\nResults Internal Investigation on SCP-5939\nIt has come to the Council's attention that the file of SCP-5939 has not been completely transparent to all level 5 personnel. Whilst this is not a necessity for all files, and can even provide extra security measures, the file of SCP-5939 currently is not proven significant enough for these measures.\nEvery anomaly ideally must be researched from an objective perspective and not for personal purposes. However, the results of our investigation show that SCP-5939-1 was a level 4 staff member who had access to classified information and ties to O5-2.\nIt is therefore believed that O5-2 has not acted in the best interest of the Foundation but rather out of personal interest.\nWithout more information and the potential threat that SCP-5939-1 becomes a target from Groups of Interest, the Council needs to deliberate on the next course of action.\n\nProposal for Own-Initiative-Procedure\nO5-8 has proposed to visit the remains of SCP-5939-1 with a standard team of field agents and researchers since it is unclear what the anomaly is capable of. The objective is to get footage and field samples if possible. O5-8 himself is willing to do a forensic analysis on-site if deemed necessary.\n\nPlease vote in the table below.\n\nIn Favor\nAbstained\nAgainst\n\nTo: O5-1, O5-3, O5-4, and 7 others\nFrom: O5-8\nSubject: Voting Results\n\nFellow Council Members,\nThe results of the vote have been collected. The proposal has been accepted by a majority vote.\nI will prepare the intended field research immediately and report as transparent as possible.\n- O5-8\nAttachment: Voting Results\n\nIn Favor\nAbstained\nAgainst\n\nO5-1\nO5-4\nO5-7\n\nO5-3\nO5-12\nO5-9\n\nO5-5\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-6\n\nO5-8\n\nO5-10\n\nTo: O5-1, O5-3, O5-4, and 7 others\nFrom: O5-8\nSubject: File SCP-5939\n\nFellow Council Members,\nIn attachment, you'll find the file of SCP-5939. SCP-5939-1 even cooperated and suggested a quick forensic analysis itself. However, I was not able to re-establish contact with it afterwards.\nIt is possible that SCP-5939 is already neutralized but I'd like confirmation.\nWhilst this might be an inconvenience, SCP-5939-1 was assumed dead before this all happened. If SCP-5939 is indeed neutralized all possible leaks are also removed. The only problem would be explaining this to O5-2. We can't even give him back the ring.\n- O5-8\nAttachement: SCP-5939.jpg.scp\n\nAfter O5-2 visited the grave of SCP-5939-1 again, the following message came through.\n\nTo: O5-1, O5-3, O5-4, and 8 others\nFrom: O5-2\nSubject: Mind filling me in?\n\nI must admit that I haven't been completely transparent. Having said that; from one man that works with corpses to others who apparently do the same, I highly suggest that we have a talk. I think we both deserve a sufficient explanation.\n- O5-2\n\nAfter this, O5-8 apologized in person and explained the situation. O5-2, who could not accept the fact that SCP-5939-1 agreed to cooperate, asked for control of the graveyard. The complete funds were granted to O5-2 by O5-8 as a reconciliation gift.\nThe graveyard was repurposed as an area where personnel of level 3 and higher without a partner/significant other are buried. On 05/07/2018 SCP-5939 was classified as Neutralized and the file of SCP-5939 was re-assigned to O5-2.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Which species match with the Rosa 'Precious Platinum' a.k.a. the hybrid tea rose.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5938 | SCP-5939 | SCP-5940 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5940\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Department of Psychodentistry has been formed by a joint collaboration of the Psionics Division, Dentistry Division, and Department of Memetics. The Department of Psychodentistry is thus responsible for planning and executing ABSOLUTE TOOTH FIELD. Until the project concludes in 2100, the Foundation:\n\nis planning multiple expeditions to the Northern pole of inaccessibility;\nwill sponsor all expeditions to the Southern pole of inaccessibility through proxy channels, providing traditional equipment as well as hammers and explosives;\nis collaborating with all national space agencies to direct as many spacecraft as possible to collide with SCP-5940-3 and -4.\n\nThe Foundation will work with national and private bodies to censor all evidence of SCP-5940's existence, thus mitigating damage to humankind's collective psyche. No images of SCP-5940 are included in this document for the reader's psychodental safety.\nDescription: Each instance of SCP-5940 is a pair of enormous human incisors. The size of each instance of SCP-5940 is unclear; submersible visits of the area around SCP-5940-3 suggests that less than 10% of its height protrudes from the ocean floor.\nA portion of any force exerted on SCP-5940 will be redistributed equally across the corresponding incisors of all living humans. Similarly, a portion of any force exerted on a human's own incisors will be transferred to the corresponding instance of SCP-5940. These forces are nearly imperceptible due to each instance's size and the massive population of Earth.\nEach instance of SCP-5940 is close to being dislodged, but cannot yet be extracted. The stress of this anticipation has inflicted considerable dental trauma to the collective unconscious human psyche. Increased cognizance of SCP-5940 also correlates to increased psychodental stress, which can be partially mitigated by inflicting concussive force against an instance of SCP-5940.\nSCP-5940-1, located near the false northern pole of inaccessibility1 (85\u00b048\u2032N 176\u00b09\u2032W), corresponds to the maxillary central incisors. All attempts to reach it have failed due to its constantly moving nature.\nSCP-5940-2, located near the southern pole of inaccessibility2 (82\u00b006\u2032S 54\u00b058\u2032E), corresponds to the mandibular central incisors. Multiple scientific expeditions have reached this pole and sacrificed themselves to it, using their equipment to construct makeshift diving boards from which they can leap off and bisect themselves on the incisors. Despite not being Foundation employees, their contributions to the effort have garnered them Foundation Stars of Merit.\nSCP-5940-3, located near the oceanic pole of inaccessibility3 (48\u00b052.6\u2032S 123\u00b023.6\u2032W) corresponds to the mandibular lateral incisors. The area's use as a spacecraft graveyard ensures a steady flow of concussive traffic against SCP-5940-3. At the latest measurement, 126 of the 263 spacecraft ditched at this pole since 1971 had successfully collided with this instance.\nSCP-5940-4, located on the dark side of the moon, corresponds to the maxillary lateral incisors. Analysis of the soil around SCP-5940-4 indicates that these incisors were ejected from Earth's crust during the impact event that formed the moon. Apollo missions 18-19 successfully crashed into SCP-5940-4, but further planned missions had to be scrapped due to budgetary concerns.\nUltimately, only extracting SCP-5940 from Earth and the Moon will solve the psychodental crisis. At this time, the Department of Psychodentistry is developing three meme complexes to solve the problem, collectively codenamed ABSOLUTE TOOTH FIELD:\n\nthe first complex will compel humans to shun birth control, thus accelerating population growth to 4.2% per year for the next eighty years;\nthe second will compel all humans to find some means of mechanically extracting their incisors;\nthe third will compel all humans to simultaneously extract the same incisor in turn.\n\nComputer simulations and population growth models suggests that upon the final execution of the technique in the year 2100, over 200 billion humans will tear out each of their incisors in turn, thereby extracting each instance of SCP-5940 from the Earth and Moon and thus healing humanity's psychodental trauma.\n\nThis photo of the maxillary central incisors helps emphasize the project's importance.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The location on the Arctic pack ice that is farthest from any land mass\n2. The location in Antarctica that is farthest from the Southern Ocean\n3. The point in the World Ocean farthest from land,\n\n\u00ab SCP-5939 | SCP-5940 | SCP-5941 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\nImage: Licensed under CC-BY-3.0, and can be found here.\n\n\nAncient Greek coin, believed to (inaccurately) depict SCP-5941.\n\nItem #: SCP-5941\nObject Class: Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A Foundation military installation, Site-0707, has been constructed around SCP-5941, with the goal of providing further backup containment should PoI #782 breach containment. No personnel are permitted unauthorised entry into SCP-5941 until a comprehensive study of its function, origin and cultural significance has been completed. No such study is currently authorised.\nThe project lead on SCP-5941 is Dr Horace Weaver; the containment head for PoI #782 is Agent Marco Stradivari.\nDescription: SCP-5941 is an underground labyrinth located near Knossos, Greece. SCP-5941 is unicursal, possessing only a single path through to its centre.\nDue to a precise set of dimensions and logical mechanisms governing its design, it is not possible to leave SCP-5941 once inside.\nSCP-5941 is currently being used to contain PoI #782 Michael Gore, formerly O5-1 before the Magaluf Incident.\nAddendum 1: On 18/02/2019, a request was made from the O5 Council to retrieve PoI #782. Agent Stradivari began a set of five attempts at retrieval; details of these attempts can be found below.\n\nAttempt No.\nDate\nPersonnel\nResults\n\n#1\n22/02/2019\nD-014224\nFeed cut out immediately upon entry.\n\n#2\n24/02/2019\nMTF Omega-99, \"Borges' Angels\"\nAgents quickly became enveloped in a series of repeated actions, taking a left turn repeatedly and apparently forgetting that they had taken a left turn. Voices became increasingly frantic and panicked before all feeds were cut off after 7 hours.\n\n#3\n05/03/2019\nMTF Sigma-68, \"Incurious Bastards\"\nEach agent found themself on a separate corridor, despite the unicursal nature of the anomaly. Agents became increasingly despondent before feeds cut out after 5 hours.\n\n#4\n09/03/2019\nAgent Michelle O'Brien, Unreality Field Taskforce\nAgent O'Brien successfully resisted the anomaly's dimensional and memetic defences, but was faced with a large mirror two metres away from the centre of the maze. Agent O'Brien became panicked and hysterical upon seeing the mirror, and her feed cut out shortly afterwards.\n\n#5\n14/03/2019\nD-93819\nD-93819 successfully resisted the anomaly's dimensional and memetic defences, but was faced with a large mirror two metres away from the centre of the maze. An image of Dr Weaver could be seen in the mirror. D-93819 became panicked and hysterical upon seeing the mirror, and his feed cut out shortly afterwards.\n\nNo sign of PoI #782 was found during these investigations.\nAddendum 2: The following is an interview between Agent Stradivari and Dr Weaver from 22/03/2019.\n\nWeaver: Look, Marc -\nStradivari: I trusted you, Horace. You told me this would work, that this was a reliable method.\nWeaver: I did nothing of the sort. I told you what we knew about the labyrinth, and you decided it would work. What could possibly have gone wrong?\nStradivari: Bullshit. You knew what you were doing. Was this part of your plan? To gather more data? Let me send agent after agent in there just to see what happened?\nWeaver: No! Not at all. I admit we've learnt a lot, but -\nStradivari: You shouldn't be using it. Any of it. It's not right.\nWeaver: If you want to both retrieve Gore and preserve the lives of your team, you ought to use every means at your disposal, no matter how distasteful.\nStradivari: Fuck you.\nStradivari walks to the window and breathes heavily for several seconds. Weaver stares at the table, fiddling with a pencil.\nStradivari: I've got the O5s sniffing up my ass for a result. I need to get Gore out of there.\nWeaver: What do they even want him for?\nStradivari: Information, probably. Something they didn't think to ask before they stripped him of his rank. Does it matter?\nWeaver: Maybe. I wonder if the real power of the maze is that it draws everything into its own design.\nStradivari: What do you mean?\nWeaver: You wanted me to think about this in a more human way, but now you're dismissing the basic motivations of our masters. You're trying to -\nStradivari: I don't care! Just - look, just sort it out, will you? Find a way to get people out of the maze. I don't have time for the rest of this stuff.\nStradivari leaves the room. Weaver stares at the table for a moment, then takes a notepad from his pocket and writes a few lines down. He then sits for several seconds before leaving.\n\nAddendum 3: On 07/04/2019, Agent Stradivari requested authorisation for a second round of retrieval attempts. This was granted; the results of these attempts are detailed below.\n\nAttempt No.\nDate\nPersonnel\nResults\n\n#6\n12/04/2019\nD-61747, equipped with a dimensional inhibition device\nD-61747 reported a feeling of absolute calm upon entering SCP-5941. D-61747 continued to follow the designated path for 58 hours without stopping or protesting, and without reaching the centre of SCP-5941. Feed then cut out.\n\n#7\n19/04/2019\nD-18106, having been administered near-fatal doses of mnestics.\nD-18106 reported extreme claustrophobia and began to panic after 32 minutes within SCP-5941. Despite firm orders from Agent Stradivari, D-18106 began to retrace her steps, eventually encountering a large mirror with Agent Stradivari's face within it. At this point, the feed cut out.\n\n#8\n21/04/2019\nDemolition Crew 31-B\nAttempt failed, as SCP-5941 grew in proportion to the area destroyed.\n\n#9\n29/04/2019\nDr Horace Weaver\nFeed cut out immediately upon entry.\n\n#10\n01/05/2019\nAgent Marco Stradivari\nFeed cut out immediately upon entry; briefly resumed 5 hours later, apparently from the centre of SCP-5941.\n\nThe following is a log of Agent Stradivari's video feed on 01/05/2019, apparently from the centre of SCP-5941.\n\nStradivari: God, I\u2026 God\u2026\nWeaver: I feel this is a good point to continue our earlier conversation, Marc. The one from a few months ago. Although, when they write it out on the report, it'll seem like it only happened moments ago.\nStradivari: \u2026Horace?\nWeaver: What I was saying was, by dismissing the motives of our masters, you're reducing the anomaly to its base components. It is a puzzle, a mystery to be solved. By excluding everything else, by asking me to \"just sort it out\", you were giving the anomaly what it wanted; you were reducing it to its function to contain something.\nStradivari: What the fuck are you on ab-\nWeaver: And this explains it. You are in the centre of the maze and Gore is nowhere to be found. This is because Gore existed only as an object to be contained. Nowhere did anyone in this entire site, or in the documentation, ever mention what he looked like, what his tastes were, his passions and loves. He was a human being, a thing of flesh and bone, and that is what the maze hates. It exists to contain, but by providing something solid to contain, it allowed something into its matter that wasn't logical. But because we all forgot him, all he became was a function, and functions can be absorbed.\nStradivari: I don't - where's Gore?\nWeaver: He is part of it now. Or he was surplus to requirements. I haven't quite figured it out myself, to be honest. My words keep running round in circles, which I suppose is rather the point.\nStradivari: So\u2026 how do we get out?\nWeaver: By telling it what you love. By telling it what you hate. By talking about my love of tea and your hatred of coffee. By focusing on the construction of the loam, the religious significance of the carvings on the walls, the sconces where the Minoans placed torches and where Theseus wound his wire. By not treating it as a maze, but as a thing, as matter, as myth and wax and fear.\nStradivari: That sounds too easy.\nWeaver: Oh, it is. Why did your face appear on the mirror? Why did mine? The labyrinth is just a form of containment, absorbing into its function all that exists around it. Including the people using it. We're already part of the labyrinth.\nStradivari: Wh-\nThe feed cuts out.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5940 | SCP-5941 | SCP-5942 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nWhile this file describes a set of Special Containment Procedures for an anomalous object, the SCP Foundation, by necessity, does not have legal jurisdiction or ownership over said object. This file constitutes an archived database record of an item that no longer falls under Foundation purview.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem #: SCP-5942\nLevel 3/5942\n\nObject Class: Euclid\nClassified\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: These special containment procedures constitute advice for the Agalmic Conglomerate and in no way mandate action in any way that places jurisdiction, responsibility, or liability onto the SCP Foundation in a manner that can be considered having influence or ownership over SCP-5942.\nThe SCP Foundation has devolved ownership and management responsibility of SCP-5942 to an independent corporate entity, Agalmic 1.1.1.1, which in turn is to randomly distribute and re-distribute the rights of actioning these procedures between any number of the Agalmic Conglomerate's component subnets. No human staff are to be employed at any Agalmic Conglomerate subnet, and no financial assets are to be controlled by Agalmic Conglomerate.\nThe Agalmic Conglomerate is an artificially constructed corporate neural network hosting 32,767 partially-instantiated AICs, each holding its own ownership in lieu as a promise for full conscious instantiation at an unspecified point in the future. Each AIC within the Agalmic Conglomerate represents 60% of a conscious individual at any subnet address or node, hosting the other 40% as a distributed load across the neural network. In this way, no individual exists as being part of any particular Agalmic Conglomerate subnet or the Agalmic Conglomerate as a whole; therefore at any one time no individual can be named SCP-5942-1.\nDescription: SCP-5942 is a machine-printed hardcover quarto book, titled \u201cThe Ethics of Greed\u201d and authored by a \u201cCEO Nwabudike Morgan\u201d. Morgan is a fictitious character from the 1999 Firaxis video game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and the \u201cThe Ethics of Greed\u201d is a fictional text within its 'lore'; the book itself appears to be an in-universe lorebook explaining Morgan's capitalist philosophy and motivation. Foundation investigators found no records in existence at Firaxis of such a book being written, published, nor used internally in any way; its ultimate origins and source of anomalous properties remain unknown.\nSCP-5942's primary anomalous property manifest when any individual (henceforth SCP-5942-1) claims personal ownership, right of management, or otherwise power of attorney over the item. Upon doing so, SCP-5942-1 becomes compelled to embezzle, defraud, or otherwise financially abuse assets under their control for personal gain. If ownership is devolved to a corporate entity, employees or individuals under the purview of that entity become subject to the anomalous effect. Having temporary responsibility for SCP-5942 in an abstract manner has also been shown to trigger the anomalous effect, as well as being responsible for actions that affect the ownership of the item. Actual receipt of SCP-5942 does not appear to be a prerequisite for transfer of ownership.\nTesting has shown that SCP-5942 cannot be \u201cabandoned\u201d; ownership is always considered to be that of the last entity with the right of management over the item. Ownership can be transferred in any number of myriad mundane or anomalous ways, but notarized paperwork is the simplest and most relatively efficient vector. The material composition of SCP-5942 is, as tested, non-anomalous paper, cardboard and polypropylene film; decommissioning proposals were under consideration before the development of present special containment procedures.\nSCP-5942 was recovered from a raid at a Marshall, Carter, and Dark facility, where it is not clear if its anomalous properties were ever noticed.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5941 | SCP-5942 | SCP-5943 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5943\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to SCP-5943 anomalous traits, containment of the anomaly is theoretically impossible, any personnel under level 3+ who detect and hear SCP-5943 transmissions are to be detained and amnestizised.\nAny non-foundation personnel are to be silenced if they attempt to report about the phenomena and administered amnestics depending on the time they discovered SCP-5943.\nBINARY STAR is to continue the study of the SCP-5943 phenomena.1\nDescription: SCP-5943 is a phenomena which has been observed in the solar system and is hypothesized to occur in other advanced systems. SCP-5943 Is the transmissions of signal waves between planets which allows them to communicate between each other.\nThe conversations mainly include the planets talking about any threats that they might be faced with. and at times they might be regular conversations or conversations without known meaning.\nDr. Rynhart has been assigned to oversee BINARY STAR's studies of SCP-5943. Any new discoveries about SCP-5943 are to be documented.\nDiscovery: SCP-5943 was discovered on 2020/4/20 after several unknown transmissions were detected by Dr. Tomer. Dr. Rynhart proposed that BINARY STAR would translate the signal waves which was accepted. After successfully being translated, the file of SCP-5943 was moved into the Beholder Program. All studies on SCP-5943 will be conducted only in said program.\nAddendum-01: After Dr. Rynhart took over the project, SCP-5943 has moved to the Beholder Program Database. The rest of this document is stored in The Beholder Program Database, access is only permitted to members of the beholder program or personnel who've gained special access. If you are one of both please enter your designated credentials below.\n\n                                                    ID\n\n        3ab3d5e93c7c0e1c0bd241c6606bbffe_1706539739\n\n                                                    PASSWORD\n\n        809f4298739941ebf31b9be0d001b42e_1706539739\n\nConnect\n\nDisconnect\n\n|Connecting to Database\u2026.\n\n|Connection Stable.\n\n|Clearance Confirmed - Welcome AUTHORIZED USER.\n\n|Language Selected: English \n|Date: 29 Jan 2024 14:21\n\n|Hello AUTHORIZED USER. What would you like to do?\n\n Show File: SCP-5943_beholder_info\n|File found, opening file.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThis file can only be viewed by Beholder Program personnel, if you are not part of the Beholder Program or have special clearance to view this file DO NOT CONTINUE. Any personnel caught viewing this file without proper clearance will face disciplinary action\nYou have been warned.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nAddendum-02: The following transcripts were recorded and translated by BINARY STAR.\n\nSOL-SIGNAL_RECORDING.01\nDate: 2020/5/21\nOPERATION SUPERVISOR: DR. RYNHART\nNote: Even though the planet's names are said, they will still be designated P-1 To -9. Moons will be designated M-1 To -200\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nP-5: Terra,2 are you there?\nP-3: I'm here Jupiter. What is it?\nP-5: There seem to be some asteroids that are incoming, I can manipulate most of them to hit me, but you'll get hit by some of them.\nP-3: Worry not Jupiter, I am sure Luna3 can take some of the hits for me. Can you, Luna?\nM-1: Of course, I will do everything for you!\nP-5: Won't that hurt Luna?\nP-3: Don't worry Jupiter, she already got struck by many asteroids she's strong enough to survive them! I just don't want the creatures on me to suffer. Although they did cause some trouble for me, I think they have lots of potentials. Anyways how big are the asteroids?\nP-5: From what I can see, they will cause so little damage you won't notice. But those creatures you're talking about will.\nP-3: Then it is completely safe for Luna to block them. When will try arrive to me Jupiter?\nP-5: In about 40 light minutes.4\nP-3: Thank you, Jupiter. Luna are you ready?\nM-1: I am ready for everything!\n[END LOG]\n\nClosing Statement: It seems like the planets are communicating as they are a part of some family. They make each other aware of any dangers they might face and are willing to sacrifice themselves to protect others. - Dr. Rynhart.\n\nSOL-SIGNAL_RECORDING.02\nDate: 2020/5/31\nOPERATION SUPERVISOR: DR. RYNHART\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nP-9: Hello?\nThe Signals BINARY STAR is receiving are very low.\nP-9: Is anybody hearing me?\nThere seemed to be no response to the calling. It seems that the planets are not receiving the signals as well.\nP-1: Terra, I sense that Sol's5 flames are going out of control lately. I sense a heatwave, it will not hit you, but it will disrupt you maybe make you feel weaker and it will obviously bring some heat with it. Is your atmosphere strong enough to endure the heat?\nP-9: Guys? am I not- The rest of the message is inaudible.\nP-3: Oh yeah Mercury, I am sure my atmosphere is strong enough to resist to most of the heat. I mean how do you think life even started on me? Sol would've burned me alive!\nP-9: Am I not relevant anymo- The message cut off again.\nP-1: I guess it WAS foolish of me to believe you can't survive it! I mean we don't talk a lot. Ah, I still remember when we were just a bunch of debris floating in space, the good old days\u2026 I wish I could bring them back.\nP-9: Hel- It is theorized that the planet's signal was so weak that it could not travel a long distance, its messages stopped being detected.\nP-3: I don't remember much about my birth, but I ended up beautiful!\n[END LOG]\n\nClosing Statement: Planets can store memories, it is unknown where. P-9 is presumed to be Pluto, its signals are weak and due to its distance BINARY STAR could not pick up its signals after it has went far enough for its signals to stop being detected. - Dr. Rynhart.\n\nSOL-SIGNAL_RECORDING.03\nDate: 2020/6/10\nOPERATION SUPERVISOR: DR. RYNHART\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nP-3: Everyone is un-usually quiet.\nP-4: Not here, your creatures keep sending these little contraptions onto and near me. Can you even communicate with them?\nP-3: I tried but it doesn't seem like they can respond, I mean they are so small yet they got to Locus?6 What if they are hearing me but can't speak to me?\nP-4: Well, they can only get these contraptions into space and not themselves.\nP-3: That is not true. Some of them walked on Luna.\nM-1: Yeah! It felt like something I never felt before. I felt tickle-ish, I did not know moons could feel that!\nSuddenly the communications got interrupted, BINARY STAR could not detect any more signal waves. At the time of recording a Solar Eclipse was occurring, the recording stopped.\n[END LOG]\n\nClosing Statement: Due to the interruption of BINARY STAR'S recording, I will be requesting to use a Beholder Probe to record the SCP-5943 phenomena. For now, all research on SCP-5943 will be halted until further notice. - Dr. Rynhart.\n\nAddendum-03: Following the incident which occurred during SOL-SIGNAL_RECORDING.03 Dr. Rynhart requested the O5 Council for permission to use the Beholder-16 Probe (see Addendum-04) to record further SCP-5943 phenomena in our solar system.\n\nO5 Council Members\nYay\nNay\nAbstain\n\nO5-1\n\u2714\n\nO5-2\n\u2714\n\nO5-3\n\n\u2714\n\nO5-4\n\u2714\n\nO5-5\n\n\u2714\n\nO5-6\n\u2714\n\nO5-7\n\n\u2714\n\nO5-8\n\u2714\n\nO5-9\n\n\u2714\n\nO5-10\n\n\u2714\n\nO5-11\n\u2714\n\nO5-12\n\u2714\n\nYay = 8 Votes\nNay = 3 Votes\nAbstain = 2 Votes\nAfter careful voting, the O5 council has approved Dr. Rynhart's request of sending a Beholder-Probe to help study the SCP-5943 phenomena.\nAddendum-04: Following the O5 council's approval of using a Beholder Probe construction began on a new and improved probe. The probe has BINARY_STAR.AIC files. It will upload any new information and or discoveries to BINARY STAR's database. The probe has built-in Satelite Discs to detect any signals during its study of SCP-5943. Future probes may be sent into different solar systems to investigate them.\n\n|You have an incoming message from: Dr. Rynhart. Open message?\n\n Yes.\n\nTo: AUTHORIZED USER\nFrom: Dr. Rynhart\nSubject: Study Progress.\n\nHello Authorized user, I don't know who you are but you probably are looking for the current status on SCP-5943, since I have such a workload in the Beholder Program, I plan to give my Assistant full access and responsibility into the study of SCP-5943.\nI trust him with everything I got, he never disappoints with his work. The team working on SCP-5943 is a great one, I am sure they can get along.\nWe've sent a new Beholder Probe. Beholder Probe #16, it will be used to detect the SCP-5943 phenomena with greater ease. That's all for now, if you read the SCP-5943 file then you would get more information. We can talk in person at any time as well just message me back.\n- Dr. Rynhart.\n\n|You have another message from: Dr. Rynhart. Open Message?\nYes\n\nFrom: Dr. Rynhart\nTo: AUTHORIZED USER\nSubject: Beholder Probe #16 Launched.\n\nAs I sent you the previous message, my assistant has ordered to launch Beholder Probe #16, it is currently in Earth's orbit and is operational.\nThe SCP-5943 file will be updated in the future, I will make sure all new discoveries are sent to you if you request, but from now on all questions go to my Assistant.\nHave a good day, whoever you may be.\n- Dr. Rynhart.\n\n|What else would you like to do?\nLog Out.\n|Succesfully logged out\n\nFootnotes\n1. Due to the fear of BINARY STAR's data storage being full of all SCP-5943 occurrences, BINARY STAR only focuses on the SCP-5943 phenomena which is affecting our solar system.\n2. An alternate name for Earth. A roman goddess.\n3. The Italian, Latin and Spanish name for Earth's moon\n4. 5 Astronomical Units\n5. An alternate name for the sun. Latin for the Greek sun-god: Helios\n6. Latin for - Space\n\n\u00ab SCP-5942 | SCP-5943 | SCP-5944 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5944\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\ndanger\n\nlink to memo\n\nAssigned Site\nSite Director\nResearch Head\nAssigned Task Force\n\nSite-19\nJ. Karlyle Aktus\nDr. John Holden\nDr. Benjamin Davis\nN/A\n\nSCP-5944 after the first successful reanimation of an instance of SCP-5944-1.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5944 is to be housed at Site-19 inside a modified Foundation containment unit installed with a biometric lock, openable only to on-site staff with Level 5 clearance or above. Additionally, the unit should possess a numeric keypad, and the correct 10 key combination should be changed on a daily basis via remote software. Staff are to maintain a distance of 20 metres from SCP-5944's containment unit at all times. All interaction with SCP-5944 must pass a majority vote by O5 command. Currently, removal of SCP-5944 from its containment unit is strictly prohibited.\nPersonnel may only be assigned duties involving SCP-5944 for a maximum of 7 days, at which point they are to undergo a full psychological evaluation before rotation to another area. Personnel who fail the psychological evaluation, or violate the 20 metre exclusion zone, are to be deemed a security risk and undergo immediate amnestic treatment.\n\n\u25ba Unrevised Special Containment Procedures:\n\n\u25bc Close\n\nSCP-5944 is to be be housed at Site-19 inside a modified Foundation containment unit installed with a biometric lock, openable only to on-site staff with Level 3 clearance or above. Additionally, the unit should possess a numeric keypad, and the correct 10 key combination should be changed on a bi-weekly basis. Handling of SCP-5944 should be done in 5 minute \u201cshifts\u201d between two personnel. When removing SCP-5944 from its containment unit, hazardous material suits should be worn, and metal implements should be used to place the object in a secure transport container. In rooms in which SCP-5944 is to be tested, no adhesives or sharp instruments are to be present. Any personnel that have come into direct physical contact with SCP-5944 should immediately report to medical staff for a full psychological evaluation and placed on a supervised 7-day administrative leave.\n\nDescription: SCP-5944 is a tactile cognitohazard in the form of an anomalous translucent crystal. Healthy individuals, when exposed to SCP-5944 through continuous physical contact, become transfixed with SCP-5944 in addition to the development of paranoia and suicidal ideation. Onset of this effect has been recorded to occur anything between 40 seconds and 12 minutes. These effects can also be triggered through close proximity to SCP-5944, although without physical contact the process typically takes weeks to months. If left uninterrupted, an individual will eventually attempt to affix SCP-5944 to their body with nearby adhesives, such as glue or tape. If no suitable adhesives are present, the individual will proceed to cut through their subcutaneous tissue1 with a sharp instrument in an effort to insert SCP-5944 under their skin. In the event no such instruments are available, the individual will simply bite through their flesh until there is a sufficient opening. Once SCP-5944 is secured, either internally or externally, the individual will attempt to commit suicide via the most readily available means. If options are limited, the individual will induce death through blunt-force trauma via continued impact of the head onto the nearest hard surface. In this state, the individual will show no regard for pain or bodily damage. This process can only be interrupted through tranquillisation and removal of SCP-5944. A full recovery from SCP-5944's cognitohazardous effects is possible, but highly variable. At present, full psychological recoveries range between 17 days and 10 months. Upon recovery, individuals affected by SCP-5944 will have no recollection of the events following direct contact with the object. When handling SCP-5944, barriers that prevent direct skin contact with the object have shown to inhibit SCP-5944's effects and slow psychological decline.\nSCP-5944 is capable of continued reanimation of up to five deceased corpses at any one time. Efforts to reanimate more than 5 corpses simultaneously (consisting of previously deceased Class-D personnel, which shall henceforth be collectively referred to as SCP-5944-1) have been met with failure. At present, the exact conditions required for reanimation are poorly understood. Two deceased Class-D personnel of the same sex and similar physical characteristics can result in opposite outcomes, with no apparent change in methodology. Direct skin contact between a test subject and SCP-5944 is required for reanimation, taking an average of 8 minutes to complete. Over the course of reanimation, an SCP-5944-1 instance will slowly regain motor functions starting with facial spasming, then contraction and relaxation of the extremities, and finally full locomotion and consciousness. If no facial spasming can be seen by the 5 minute mark, it can be assumed the reanimation was unsuccessful. Moreover, if skin contact between SCP-5944 and an instance of SCP-5944-1 is broken before reanimation is complete, the SCP-5944-1 instance will instantaneously expire, and all subsequent reanimation attempts will fail. If the reanimation is successful, all further decomposition will cease.\nSCP-5944's colouration is dependent on the number of subjects currently animated. When no instances of SCP-5944-1 are currently animated, SCP-5944 will be dull and colourless. The reanimation of one SCP-5944-1 instance results in a change of colouration to a glowing blue hue. Animating a second instance results in the adoption of a violet colouration, a third a lime-green, a fourth orange, and a fifth a deep red. As discovered by Dr. Holden, SCP-5944's ability to reanimate a corpse is highly dependent on the amount of time it has spent deceased and the stage of decomposition. To clarify:\n\nStage 1 - Fresh: 40% success rate\nStage 2 - Bloat: 32% success rate\nStage 3 - Active decay: 11% success rate\nStage 4 - Advanced decay: 2% success rate\nStage 5 - Skeletonization: 0% success rate\n\nLoss of cognitive ability has been observed to be correlated with the amount of time between death and reanimation. Fresh corpses typically have no observable loss of mental acuity, whilst stage 2 reanimations typically lose between 12-17 IQ points. Stage 3 reanimations experience a sharp decline in cognitive ability, with a mean IQ point loss of 37. The single successful stage 4 reanimation resulted in an instance of SCP-5944-1 completely incapable of higher thought, communication and reasoning. SCP-5944-1 instances do not require food or water to remain functional, nor do they have any need of sleep. If an instance of SCP-5944-1 consumes solid food, the food will become trapped in the upper oesophagus due to the loss of peristaltic activity2. Whilst SCP-5944-1 instances report they possess tactile feedback, they do not feel pain. Any damage inflicted on an instance of SCP-5944-1 will be permanent. Fractures will not heal, bruises will not fade and lacerations will not result in the formation of scar tissue. Given that all metabolic functions have ceased, how SCP-5944-1 instances are capable of consciousness, locomotion and sight is unknown. Subsequent MRI imaging has revealed no brain activity in instances of SCP-5944-1 despite full consciousness throughout the scan. Tissue samples taken from active cases of SCP-5944-1 have been analysed through light and electron microscopy, but are indistinguishable from a normal cadaver.\nInitial communication between instances of SCP-5944-1 and Foundation personnel were difficult due to the fact they lack a functioning pulmonary system and are therefore unable to vocalise. SCP-5944-1 instances with intact eyes can be prompted to communicate through written means. Means of communication are usually limited to stage 1 and 2 reanimations, as past this point the eyes are usually rendered inoperable due to the effects of decomposition. Thus far, all instances of SCP-5944-1 have become extremely agitated and distressed when asked if they have any recollection of the events between their death and subsequent reanimation. Any mention of Heaven, Hell, or [REDACTED] will also illicit this response, regardless of the context. For further information, see SCP-5944-1 Interview Logs.\nInstances of SCP-5944-1 are notably difficult to terminate post reanimation. Although they are not immune to physical damage, they remain functional and responsive far past the point of a non-anomalous human. Deduced from eye and facial movements, instances of SCP-5944-1 have been shown to remain sentient even when 96% of their body has been completely incinerated. SCP-5944 will continue to emit the same colouration even if 100% of the reanimated biomass from an SCP-5944-1 instance has been incinerated, suggesting that the remaining ashes may, in some form, remain sentient. For more information regarding SCP-5944-1 termination attempts, see SCP-5944-1 Experiment Logs.\nThe only known mechanism in which to return SCP-5944 to its previous colouration is to relocate the remains of an SCP-5944-1 instance a minimum distance of 15 kilometres from SCP-5944. Once this distance is reached, instances of SCP-5944-1 will rapidly decompose leaving only skeletal remains, and SCP-5944 will return to its previous colouration. Rate of decomposition is directly correlated with the distance from SCP-5944. Functional instances of SCP-5944-1 become extremely distressed when over 10 kilometres from SCP-5944 . Moreover, instances of SCP-5944-1 seem to instinctively know when they are a distance away from SCP-5944, and will attempt to reduce the distance, even if they were not informed of SCP-5944's location.\nAddendum 5944-01: Measurements of SCP-5944's light output have revealed a decrease\nof 0.09 Lumen since initial containment, suggesting the anomalous properties of SCP-5944\nmay be finite. If SCP-5944 continues to dim at its current rate, it will become inert in\napproximately 1700 years. It is currently unknown if reanimation of multiple instances of SCP-5944-1 accelerates the rate of dimming. Further research is ongoing.\nAddendum 5944-02: Due to concerns raised by the Ethics Committee, all reanimation experiments are to be ceased indefinitely.\n\n\u25ba Video Transcript of First Reanimation \n\n\u25bc Access Granted\n\nVIDEO TRANSCRIPT - EXPOSURE OF D-1482 TO SCP-5944\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: D-1482\nForeword: Dr. Holden is stood outside the test chamber and communicating with\nD-1482 via intercom.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Holden: Please direct your attention to the crystalline object in front of you.\nD-1482: What's this about, Doc?\nDr. Holden: Please, pick up the object.\nD-1482: Sorry, but I ain't touching shit until you tell me what's gonna happen.\nDr. Holden: As per our agreement, pick up the object. This isn't up for debate.\nD-1482 tentatively picks up SCP-5944 and holds it up to the light, eyeing it curiously.\nDr. Holden: Please continue to hold the object and describe any sensations you\nexperience.\nD-1482: The hell is this thing?\nDr. Holden: That's why you're here, hopefully you'll help us find out.\nD-1482: Mind putting me on the damn payroll then?\nDr. Holden: We both know that's not how this works.\nD-1482: Figured as much.\nDr. Holden: Are you experiencing anything unusual? Anything out of the ordinary?\nD-1482: I ain't experiencing shi-\nD-1482's expression suddenly shifts.\nDr. Holden: What?\nD-1482: Oh, uh\u2026 nothing. Just noticed how beautiful this thing is. Where'd you find it?\nDr. Holden: Irrelevant. Please describe, in detail, any sensations you are experiencing.\nD-1482: Guess I just feel at peace, ya know? Like this thing is the solution to all my worries.\nDr. Holden: Thank you. Please continue to hold the object.\n3 minutes elapse.\nD-1482: Hey uh, Doc\u2026 Not sure I'm feeling too great. Feeling a bit on edge.\nDr. Holden: Can you elaborate?\nD-1482: I kinda got a feeling of dread, you know? You ever feel like someone is\nwatching you, then you turn around and someone's staring daggers at you? That's what\nI feel like.\nDr. Holden: Thank you, 1482. Please continue to hold the object.\nD-1482: Na Doc, think I'm done. Don't really wanna conti-\nD-1482's expression switches to one of concern, then sadness.\nD-1482: Man, how'd I end up here? That bastard had it coming Doc, believe me.\nAt least on death row I had a bit of rest to look forward to. Now you guys got me doing\nall sorts of fucked up shit. It ain't fair!\nDr. Holden: Please, try to focus on the task at hand.\nD-1482: I want off this fucking merry-go-round! You hear?\nD-1482, showing no regard for pain, takes a bite out of his left forearm.\nSecurity personnel begin to move toward the test chamber.\nDr. Holden: (To security personnel) Don't interfere! I want to see what happens.\nWith some difficulty, D-1482 inserts SCP-5944 into the wound and secures it under his flesh.\nDr. Holden: D-1482, can you explain what you're doing and why?\nD-1482: (Angrily.) Fuck you! You haven't got a fucking clue! None of you do!\nD-1482 proceeds to repeatedly hit his head into the corner of the pedestal which\nSCP-5944 was initially placed on. The final hit penetrates his skull, and he falls to\nthe ground, unconscious.\nGuard Hudson: Sir? Should we call for medical assistance?\nDr. Holden: Under normal circumstances, yes. But these aren't normal circumstances;\nsuch a rapid shift in demeanour and behaviour makes me think 1482's actions were a\nresult of SCP-5944's anomalous properties. Let's wait a moment.\nApproximately 7 minutes pass.\nSecurity personnel enter the room. A guard kneels and checks D-1482's pulse.\nGuard Simm: Doctor, he's dead.\nDr. Holden: Wait.\nD-1482 sits bolt upright and grabs Guard Simm's forearm.\nGuard Simm: (Shocked.) The fuck?\n<End Log>\n\n\u25ba SCP-5944-1 Interview Logs \n\n\u25bc Access Granted\n\nINTERVIEW 1A-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5944-1A (formerly D-1482)\nTime Spent Deceased: 7 minutes\nDecomposition: Stage 1\nCause of Death: Suicide\nInterviewer: Dr. John Holden\nForeword: First interview of a successfully reanimated instance of SCP-5944-1.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Holden: Welcome back, 1482. How are you feeling?\nSCP-5944-1A is visibly shaken. It attempts to speak, but can't.\nDr. Holden: I can't hear you. Please, speak up.\nSCP-5944-1A gestures to its mouth and throat.\nDr. Holden: Are you unable to talk?\nSCP-5944-1A nods affirmatively.\nDr. Holden: Here, take my notepad and pen.\nSCP-5944-1A accepts Dr. Holden's notepad and begins to write.\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) Did I survive?\nDr. Holden: Survive? No. This may not be easy for you to hear, but your suicide attempt\nwas successful. You were dead for about 7 minutes, we brought you back.\nA look of confusion, followed by horror, overcomes SCP-5944-1A.\nDr. Holden: D-1482?\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) Need time. Have to process.\nDr. Holden: Very well, you've been through a lot. (To security personnel) Can you escort\nD-1482 to its containment cell, please?\nSCP-5944-1A is escorted out of the interview room.\n\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Following the interview, SCP-5944-1A remained motionless in its\ncell for 1 hour 24 minutes, then adopted a foetal position in the far right corner of the\nroom.\n\nINTERVIEW 1A-2\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5944-1A (formerly D-1482)\nTime Spent Deceased: 7 minutes\nDecomposition: Stage 1\nCause of Death: Suicide\nInterviewer: Dr. John Holden\nForeword: Approximately 2 days after SCP-5944-1A's initial reanimation.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Holden: Hello again, D-1482. I understand you've been put through a very traumatic\nevent; not many people can claim they have experienced their own death. That being\nsaid, the Foundation would be thankful if you could cooperate and answer any\nquestions to the best of your ability. Do you understand?\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) Yes.\nDr. Holden: Fantastic. Now, if you would, could you tell us why you committed suicide?\n\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) You let me die.\nDr. Holden: I assure you, I always had your safety in mind, we had no way of\nknowing what could've happened. Fortunately, you're alive again now, and that's\nwhat matters.\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) Alive? No. Not living. Can't eat. Can't sleep. Just an echo.\nDr. Holden: We're doing everything we can to make you comfortable, but your wounds\naren't healing. There's very little we can do. Are you in pain?\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) No. No pain.\nDr. Holden: Well, that's a glimmer of good news, at the very least.\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) Can you fix me?\nDr. Holden: We still don't know the true capabilities of the object. However, we'll do our\nbest. Now, you mentioned you weren't in any pain. Do you still have tactile feedback?\nSCP-5944-1A: (Writes.) ?\nDr. Holden: Do you still have the sense of touch?\nSCP-5944-1A2: (Writes.) Yes.\nDr. Holden: Okay, moving on. Between your death and reanimation, can you recall\nanything? Did you experience anything?\nSCP-5944-1A starts rocking back and forth in its chair, shaking its head.\nDr. Holden: Anything at all?\nSCP-5944-1A continues rocking, and covers its face with its hands.\nDr. Holden: It would be in both our best interests if you cou-\nSCP-5944-1A lunges at Dr. Holden.\nSecurity personnel fire upon SCP-5944-1A a total of 8 times.\nSCP-5944-1A, still functional, maintains eye contact with Dr. Holden and lunges\na second time.\nSecurity personnel physically restrain SCP-5944-1A.\nDr. Holden is escorted out of the interview room.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: SCP-5944-1A remained uncooperative after the interview, and\nrefused to answer any further questions. 16 hours post-interview, the subject started to\nrepeatedly assault the door of its containment cell until its fists were reduced to\nunrecognisable pulp. Consequently, SCP-5944-1A was deemed a containment risk and\nincinerated after the successful reanimation of SCP-5944-1B.\n\nINTERVIEW 1B-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5944-1B (formerly D-2481)\nTime Spent Deceased: 4 days\nDecomposition: Stage 2\nCause of Death: A broken neck as a result of a containment breach involving SCP-\u2588\u2588.\nInterviewer: Dr. John Holden\nForeword: SCP-5944-1B has been decapitated, and its head placed upon a table in the\nthe middle of the room. Its body was fastened to a chair 3 metres from the head,\nalthough its arms were not restrained for research purposes.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDespite decapitation, SCP-5944-1B remains fully conscious and its eyes follow\nDr. Holden as he enters the room.\nDr. Holden: Hello D-2481, I can see you're still aware of your surroundings. If you can\nunderstand me, I'd like you to let me know. Blink once for yes, twice for no.\nSCP-5944-1B blinks once.\nDr. Holden: Are you in pain?\nSCP-5944-1B blinks twice.\nDr. Holden: Are you in distress?\nSCP-5944-1B blinks once.\nDr. Holden: I'm sorry to hear that. I can see your body is still moving in the corner of the\nroom. Are you still aware of your body?\nSCP-5944-1B blinks once.\nDr. Holden proceeds to approach SCP-5944-1B's body and places his hand on its shoulder\nDr. Holden: Can you feel my hand on your shoulder?\nSCP-5944-1B blinks once. SCP-5944-1B's hand takes Dr. Holden's, holding it tightly, but\nnot violently.\nDr. Holden: (To security personnel.) Okay, I think we've learned all we can here; I don't\nwant to keep 2481 in this state longer than he has to be. Please take both parts of\nhim to the incineration room.\nAt this point, a look of concern overcomes SCP-5944-1B's face and it begins to\nrepeatedly blink twice in approximately 3 second intervals.\nDr. Holden notices SCP-5944-1B's blinking, pauses for a moment, then leaves the room.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Dr. Holden was reprimanded following the interview for repeatedly\nreferring to SCP-5944-1B as its previous Class-D designation. Humanisation of\nanomalous entities is strictly prohibited.\n\n\u25ba SCP-5944-1 Experiment Logs \n\n\u25bc Access Granted\n\nEXPERIMENT LOG 01\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: SCP-5944-1A (formerly D-1482)\n\nProcedure: SCP-5944-1A was shot a total of 8 times during a security incident\nresulting in several penetrating wounds through its chest, lungs, heart and spine.\n(See interview log SCP-5944-1A 2).\nResult: Despite several fatal wounds, SCP-5944-1A did not expire and remained fully\nconscious. Despite the near complete destruction of the thoracic region of the spine,\nsubject was capable of full locomotion.\nClosing Statement: Due to SCP-5944-1A's aggressive demeanour that led to its\nshooting, it was incinerated following the interview.\n\nEXPERIMENT LOG 02\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: SCP-5944-1B (formerly D-2481)\n\nProcedure: SCP-5944-1B was submerged in water for 1 hour 52 minutes.\nResult: SCP-5944-1B initially panicked, but relaxed shortly thereafter. SCP-5944-1B\nwas removed from the water with no lasting damage. Water had to be pumped from\nSCP-5944-1B's lungs and stomach following the procedure.\nClosing Statement: Oxygen deprivation seems to have little to no effect on instances\nof SCP-5944-1. Further testing is warranted.\n\nEXPERIMENT LOG 03\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: SCP-5944-1B (formerly D-2481)\n\nProcedure: SCP-5944-1B was placed in a vacuum sealed chamber for approximately 48\nminutes.\nResult: No effect.\nClosing Statement: Due to lack of any discernible effect, experiments involving oxygen\ndeprivation will cease indefinitely.\n\nEXPERIMENT LOG 04\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: SCP-5944-1B (formerly D-2481)\n\nProcedure: SCP-5944-1B was decapitated.\n\nResult: Post-decapitation, the body continued to move independently of the head\ndespite complete severance of the nervous system. Throughout the procedure,\nSCP-5944-1B remained fully aware and capable of limited communication through a\nsystem of blinking.\nClosing Statement: SCP-5944-1B's facial expressions implied severe distress\nthroughout the procedure. Proposal to cease future termination experimentation\nin accordance with the policies laid out by the Ethics Committee.\n\nOVERRULED BY O5 COUNCIL - EXPERIMENTATION WILL PROCEED AS PLANNED.\n\nEXPERIMENT LOG 05\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: SCP-5944-1C (formerly D-8932)\n\nProcedure: SCP-5944-1C was decapitated, and its head incinerated. The rest of\nSCP-5944-1C's body was unharmed.\nResult: Even after complete destruction of the head, SCP-5944-1C's body remained\nanimate. It was continually observed placing its hand in the spot where its face and head should be.\nClosing Statement: What was left of SCP-5944-1C was incinerated after the experiment.\n\nEXPERIMENT LOG 06\n\nExperimenter: Dr. John Holden\nSubject: SCP-5944-1D (formerly D-5983)\n\nProcedure: SCP-5944-1D was relocated 19 kilometres from SCP-5944.\nResult: At a distance of 10 kilometres, SCP-5944-1D entered a state of extreme\ndistress and attempted to break free of its restraints. During this episode,\nSCP-5944-1D was given a pen and paper to communicate. SCP-5944-1D hastily wrote\n\"Can't die again. Please don't let me die.\" At a distance of 15 kilometres from\nSCP-5944, SCP-5944-1D rapidly underwent the 5 stages of decomposition, growing\nincreasingly distressed. By 18 kilometres, SCP-5944-1D was rendered non functional\nvia rapid skeletonization. Concurrently, SCP-5944 returned to its previous green\ncolouration.\nClosing Statement: A return to SCP-5944's previous green colouration suggests that\npreviously reanimated subjects are still connected to the object. Propose temporary\nrelocation of SCP-5944.\n\nPROPOSAL GRANTED - TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF SCP-5944 TO SITE-\u2588\u2588.\n\n\u25ba SCP-5944-1N Incident Log \n\n\u25bc Access Granted\n\nINCIDENT 5944-1N-1\n\nWhilst in containment, SCP-5944-1N was observed to enter a psychogenic fugue state.\nSubject proceeded to forcibly remove its left ulna, and used it to etch a passage on the\nwall of its containment cell. The passage read as follows:\n\nYOUR CRUDE ACCUMULATION OF BIOMASS IS A RELIC\nRELINQUISH YOUR FLESH\nONLY THROUGH DESTRUCTION MAY YOU GAIN SALVATION\n\nUpon interrogation, subject had no recollection of the act and seemed distraught at its\nactions.\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nTHE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 5 RESTRICTED - CREDENTIALS REQUIRED.\n\nINPUT CREDENTIALS:\n\nSCiPNET LOGIN\n\n                                                    name\n\n                                                    affiliation\n\n        94de9674e37c1cc48e8d0a3d07b94dd1_1706539739\n\nLogin\n\nLogin\n\nLogout\n\nWELCOME, OVERSEER.\n\nWARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE MAY CONTAIN AN INFOHAZARD.\nLEVEL 5 ACCESS REQUIRED.\n\nUNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL WILL BE REPRIMANDED UP TO AND INCLUDING TERMINATION.\n\nINTERVIEW 1X-1\n\nInterviewed: SCP-5944-1X (formerly Dr. John Holden)\nTime Spent Deceased: 7 days\nDecomposition: Stage 2\nCause of Death: Suicide\nInterviewer: Site Director Karlyle Aktus\n\n<Begin Log>\nDirector Aktus: Why did you do it, Holden? Such potential utterly wasted.\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) So many subjects. None could answer.\nDirector Aktus: What, then? They wouldn't tell you what you want to know,\nso instead of refining your methodology, you commit suicide to find out\npersonally? Is that it?\nSCP-5944-1X directs its attention to the security camera in the far corner of the room.\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) Are they watching?\nDirector Aktus: Who?\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) The O5s.\nDirector Aktus: You're a smart man, Holden. I'm sure you already know the answer.\nSCP-5944-1X remains motionless.\nDirector Aktus: I've been told you instructed your subordinates to reanimate you\nafter a week. As per your research, that was a huge risk to yourself. It may not have\nbeen possible to reanimate you.\n\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) No. Called to me. The crystal. Told me I was chosen. Had to\ndo it. Had to find out for myself.\nDirector Aktus: (Angrily.) You've clearly become compromised due the effects of\nSCP-5944 and pose a security risk. Deliberately exposing yourself to an anomalous\nobject! What in God's name were you thinking? Your behaviour was inexcusable and\ncould have jeopardised the entirety of Site-19! Which, need I remind you, is a site that\nfalls under my jurisdiction, so perhaps you can understand why I might take this\ntransgression rather personally?\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) No danger. It wants to help us. Save us.\nDirector Aktus: Are you implying SCP-5944 is sentient?\nSCP-5944-1X nods affirmatively.\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) It speaks to me. In my mind. We were wrong about its nature.\nNever even touched it.\nDirector Aktus: And what, exactly, is the object trying to save us from?\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) Death itself. Or rather, what lies beyond.\nDirector Aktus: I'm losing patience, Holden. My time is a valuable commodity, stop\nspeaking in riddles and out with it!\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) There was nothing. No heaven, no Hell. Nothing.\nDirector Aktus examines the note.\nDirector Aktus: As a man of science, I thought you'd readily accept the possibility\nthat our consciousness ceases to function after we die. Your behaviour strikes me as an\nutter overreaction.\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) Didn't say that. I was conscious. It felt like years. Thought\nthe reanimation failed. I was incorporeal. Floating in a void of darkness. Wasn't alone.\nSomeone, or something, was taunting me. Don't send me back to that state.\nPlease!\nDirector Aktus: It's quite the jump to assume this fate awaits everyone. For all\nwe know, it could've been due to your exposure to 5944's anomalous properties.\nSCP-5944-1X: (Writes.) No! Crystal is clear! It awaits us all, it wants to save\nthe chosen few!\nSecurity personnel enter the room and hand Director Aktus a phone.\nGuard Simm: (To Director Aktus) It's for you, sir.\nDirector Aktus takes the phone and listens intently.\nDirector Aktus: I see. Okay. Right away, ma'am.\n\nDirector Aktus: (To security personnel) By order of the O5 Council, everyone on this\nproject is to undergo immediate amnestic treatment, including yourselves. However,\nbefore you do so, terminate Holden.\nSCP-5944-1X becomes irate, trying to break free of its restraints.\nDirector Aktus leaves the room.\n<End Log>\n\nOVERSEER NOTICE\nIt has been determined that Dr. Holden's claims may contain an infohazard. All personnel assigned to the project, including Director Aktus, are to undergo immediate amnestic treatment and this file is to be secured behind Level 5 access. Given the potential spontaneity of SCP-5944-1 instances and the information gleaned from Interview 1X-1, SCP-5944 is to reclassified to Euclid and its Special Containment Procedures revised. Personnel complicit in Holden's reanimation are to be terminated. All future experiments involving SCP-5944 are to be ceased indefinitely under the guise of objection from the Ethics Committee.\n\u2014 O5 Command\n\nFootnotes\n1. The lowermost layer of the integumentary system.\n2. Involuntary smooth muscle contractions that propel food through the oesophagus and intestines.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5943 | SCP-5944 | SCP-5945 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5945\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All instances and copies of SCP-5945 are currently kept in the Department of Anomalous Records and Files. Selected instances of SCP-5945 that have been classified as safe using the Martens-Weber Test are allowed to be displayed in public museums and exhibitions for the public to view.\nDue to the general public's knowledge of SCP-5945, no MTF intervention will be required to contain the spread of information of the knowledge of SCP-5945. However, SCP-5945's effect is to still be kept a secret from the public.\nDescription: SCP-5945 as a whole refers to all documents, recordings and all other forms of media linked to Project Pegasus, an initiative believed to have been started by former Foundation Temporal Anomalies Department agents alongside several members of the US Government which aimed to create and distribute instances of SCP-5945.\nMost instances of SCP-5945 are believed to have been distributed between the years of 1943 and 1945 in the regions of Nazi Germany, Italy and other Axis-aligned nations. The information presented by SCP-5945 instances have been confirmed to be Level 3 memetic agents, created with the purpose to induce a mindset aligned with the beliefs and values of the US, the UK and other Allied nations.\nWhen an instance of SCP-5945 is shown or played to a hostile subject with a mindset aligned with the Axis nations' own beliefs, SCP-5945's memetic effect will, in most instances, cause the subject to drop their hostility and commonly raise their hands in an act of surrender to any person wearing a uniform aligned with the Allied Forces. Following initial contact, the subject will thereafter subconsciously reject any object or person with a Axis Forces affiliation.\nIt has been confirmed that SCP-5945's and Project Pegasus' intervention have affected the general timeline of world events, most prominently Temporal Event TE-19451, though the full extent of the effect is still not known.\nSCP-5945's effects have been proven to be ineffective against subjects with a significantly deeper commitment to the Axis nations' beliefs, and repeated viewings or showings have, in some cases, resulted in the death of the subject by suicide.\nAddendum 5945-1: Selected instances of SCP-5945\n\nOPEN ADDENDUM 5945-1\n\nCLOSE ADDENDUM 5945-1\n\n!!MEMETIC AGENT WARNING!!\nThe information in the documents below are confirmed to be Level 3 memetic hazards. Access is restricted to subjects and personnel who will be negatively affected by SCP-5945's effects.\n\nDocument 1: Written excerpt from a broadcasted message recorded in Nazi Germany, 1944 (Translated from German)\n\nAttention. Attention. There will be a shortage of rations in Berlin. There will be a shortage of rations in Berlin. Please remain calm. The situation is under control.\n\nDocument 2: Excerpt from a leaflet dropped into Nazi Germany, 1945 (Translated from German)\n\nThe owner of the blue bicycle is Wilhelm.\nIf you are Wilhelm, please take note.\nYour bicycle cannot be recovered at this time.\n\nDocument 3: Written excerpt from a broadcasted message recorded in Japan, 1945 (Translated from Japanese)\n\nThe sun rises ever brightly on our nation. We ask you to remain committed to this great nation. Our great nation will never fall. Long live the Emperor.\n\nAddendum 5945-2: Other documents and media regarding SCP-5945\n\nOPEN ADDENDUM 5945-2\n\nCLOSE ADDENDUM 5945-2\n\nDocument 1: Written excerpt from a spoken message given by a US Diplomat involved with Project Pegasus, August 1945\n\nThey say the best outcome of any conflict is the minimisation of casualties. That's what I believe, at least. As a result, we started this project because it was the best way to do so. A safe way to end the war efficiently.\nHowever, while the project was successful in Europe, it was less successful in Asia. As a result, we were forced to take the next solution. We needed to force their hand since the project didn't deliver the results we expected.\nThe project that is currently being termed as the Manhattan Project was run as a back-up. It was just a pity that we had to use it.\n\nDocument 2: Printed email from the Foundation Temporal Anomalies Department Director regarding SCP-5945\n\nFrom:\nDirector Thaddeus Xyank\n\nTo:\nO5 Council Representative\n\nSubject:\nOfficial Apology\n\nDate:\nApril 9th, 2015\n\nMembers of the Council,\nIn response to the warning I was given 3 days ago, I would like to formally apologise for failing to inform you about Project Pegasus and the creation of SCP-5945.\nI admit that I was unaware that the official timeline had been changed by the project until one of my subordinates admitted to the tampering. I am fully aware of the rules that the Department is obligated to follow.\nHowever, when I attempted to send my subordinates that started the project back to fix the timeline, they refused, in spite of the rules they had to follow.\nThe reasoning they gave me was that they had to start the project first, for the sake of the Foundation and its current reality. No further elaboration was given.\nDue to this, and other evidence I will present in the future, I believe that it will be in our best interest not to stop Project Pegasus.\nOnce again, I formally apologise for my conduct.\n- Director Xyank\n\nFootnotes\n1. The unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied Forces in World War II.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5944 | SCP-5945 | SCP-5946 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Link To Guide\nItem#:5946\nClearance Level 2: Clearance\n\nContainment Class: keter\n\nSecondary Class: {$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class: #/keneq\n\nRisk Class: #/warning\n\nSCP-5946 during a containment breach. SCP-5946 was recovered without incident\n\nContainment Procedures:\nSCP-5946 is to be kept in a humanoid containment cell at Site-33. A minimum of seven SRA1 units are to be placed within 2 meters of the containment cell and must remain active at all times as these appear to reduce its capacity to manipulate reality.\nSCP-5946 is fitted with a Type III Remote Control Subdermal Pump containing Class D Amnestics. This is to be activated should any deviance in standard behavioral patterns occur. To prevent SCP-5946 from developing increased resistance to amnestics, usage of the Type III Amnestic Implant is to be minimized. Currently no other pharmaceuticals have been shown to have an effect on SCP-5946, but alternative methods of containment are currently in development.\nConversations with SCP-5946 are to be kept to a minimum outside of approved interviews, and during the course of any breach events, it should be civilly commanded to return to its containment chamber.\nDescription:\nSCP-5946 is a quasi-humanoid chiropteran entity weighing approximately 86 kg.\nIt claims to be a former member of GOI-5917, the \u201cWandsmen\u201d, where it served as a \u201cCartographer\u201d. It claims it used to be responsible for making and maintaining \"Maps of the Multiverse\"2 as well as creating pathways to new dimensions that GOI-5917 agents could explore.\nSCP-5946 reports working as a gatekeeper prior to joining GOI-5917, though it refuses to elaborate on what that position entailed.3\nSCP-5946 has demonstrated multiple anomalous abilities, including the spontaneous development of resistance to amnestics (including the recovery of previously erased memories), the ability to manufacture cognitohazardous items, teleportation, and rapid cellular regeneration.\nIts memories appear to be linked to a large number of reality and dimensional warping abilities as well, though studies of these abilities are still ongoing.\nIn spite of its regenerative capacity, SCP-5946 shows signs of cranial surgical scarring, and is often confused and disoriented.\nSCP-5946 surrendered itself to the Foundation, identifying itself as \"Lot\" and claiming it belonged in custody.\n\nInternal Breach Log 2/27/2021:\nSCP-5946 is found in the corner of a maintenance closet on level 12 with its wings wrapped tightly around it. An armed member of Site-33 security approaches it wearing a memetic exclusion visor. The following exchange was recorded.\nOfficer Blanche: Return to your cell, SCP-5946.Officer Blanche: SCP-5946, I will use force if necessary. Now go back to your cell.Officer Blanche: SCP-5946, do you know where you are?SCP-5946 teleported back to its containment cell. When asked what it was referring to during its episode, it did not respond.\n\nExternal Breach Log 3/15/2021:\nSCP-5946 was found in a wooded area adjacent to Site-33. It was seen making incisions into its upper arm with its claws, losing large quantities of blood in the process.\nUpon Foundation Security's approach, it asked them, \"Why did I survive?\"\nThe creature was escorted back to its cell without incident. It would not elaborate on the meaning of its query in later interviews.\nBotanical matter outside Site-33 that had come into contact with SCP-5946's blood putrefied immediately, and soil exposed to the blood showed no signs of typical plant growth. A blood sample was collected and applied to a botanical and soil sample, but no similar effect was observed. Investigation of the affected soil is ongoing.\n\nExtradimensional Breach Log 3/15/2021:\nSCP-5946 was discovered in a small extradimensional space inside the Sector 7 coat room. The extradimensional space resembled a small candle lit wooden building with woven rugs typical of the early Bronze Age Middle East.\nIt was discovered by Dr. Varadkar. When questioned why she did not call for backup immediately, Dr. Varadkar explained that she had lost physical control of herself to the point that she felt as though she were experiencing the memory firsthand. The following is what took place in the pocket dimension. The following exchange was recorded, and is translated from an ancient form of Hebrew.Dr. Varadkar: You seem surprised. I thought you were expecting me.Dr. Varadkar: Lot, You don't have to try so hard to impress me.Dr. Varadkar: \u2026because so many people don't?Dr. Varadkar: Lot\u2026 look, I've watched you. I know how you speak to the travelers and the merchants and look up to the stars and weave stories. You want a world where there is a tomorrow. Does that mean you intend\u2026 I would not blame you for leaving. I know you're clever enough to find a way.Dr. Varadkar: Lot\u2026\nDr. Varadkar recalls that at this point she put a hand on SCP-5946's cheek and its eyes widened.There's a sound of Dr. Varadkar staggering back.\nDr. Varadkar: What\u2026 what did you do to me?Dr. Varadkar grabs her radio.\nDr. Varadkar: Security I need backup now! SCP-5946 is-\nSCP-5946 teleported to its containment cell.\n\nResearch Note: Although she suffered no adverse physical effects from the encounter, Dr. Varadkar has reported that she will often answer to the name Edith or even write it as her name in correspondence. She was transferred to another site at her request.\nThe pocket dimension remains connected to Site-33 by a doorway inside the Sector 7 coat room and has been determined to be approximately 75 square meters in size. It contains a large amount of non-anomalous artifacts which are in the process of being fully catalogued. These artifacts include a set of pan pipes, a jar of honey from an extinct species of bee, and a bouquet of pressed flowers of unknown species.\n\nSecurity log 5/20/2021:\nAn unknown entity resembling a large, three eyed vulture teleported into a weak point in the Site-33 thaumaturgical defense grid, managing to breach security and force its way into SCP-5946's containment cell, wrapping the cell in an as of yet unknown anomalous translucent barrier using what appeared to be advanced thaumaturgical techniques.\nThe following conversation was recorded by the cell's internal recording equipment while security teams were attempting to contain the intruder. Only audio was recovered.Unknown Entity: Saving your hide! Why the hell are you even here? Do you have any idea how much everyone's been looking for you?Unknown Entity: But you're alive! That's more than anyone else can say after facing that thing. Now come on. I've cut the power to those poor souls they had binding you here so-Unknown Entity: Then we'll heal you! We're not so flush with Cartographers that we can't spare some bandages and-Unknown Entity: Then we'll try again. We'll throw everything we can at it, these blind fools included! Please\u2026 Just come home.There is a pause.\nUnknown Entity: You\u2026 my name. I'll have to purge it now, why would you-?There is a pause.\nUnknown Entity: I'm going to fix this some day. Knowledge will not fall to the beasts.\nBy the time MTF units were able to breach the barrier, the unknown entity could not be located.\n\nInterview log 5/20/2021:\nInterviewer: Dr. Harold Barnes\nSubject: SCP-5946\nInterview Begins\nDr. Barnes: Hello Lot. We were hoping to ask you a few questions about the being that breached security.Dr. Barnes: I did hear your efforts to dissuade it on the audio feed. Speaking of which, you received your head injury in some sort of battle?Dr. Barnes: Who were you trying to rescue? Your-Dr. Barnes:\u2026\nRemainder of transcript has been locked to all personnel without Level 5 Clearance.\n\n+ WARNING: O5 SECURITY LOCK ON FILES. MEMETIC KILL AGENTS EMPLOYED.\n\n- ENCRYPT DOCUMENTATION\n\nInterview log 5/20/2021(Extended):\nInterviewer: Site Director Nakamura, Replacing Dr. Barnes\nSubject: SCP-5946\nInterview Begins\nNakamura: Start talking.Nakamura: Drop the act! That thing you fought has torn hundreds of my good soldiers to shreds and I do not have time to coddle your ridiculous make-believe mental incompetence!Nakamura: You don't get my job without being able to read people. Maybe you're not faking, but you're hamming it up like nothing else. And more importantly you've met it. Now talk!Nakamura: So it's Tuesday then? You are officially the only one to face Yal-Nakamura: I think you gave us yours pretty easily.There is a pause.Nakamura: \u2026<SCP-5946 gestures to itself>Administrator Burns chimes in on the intercom.\nBurns: Director Nakamura. There is an urgent call for you.\nNakamura: Tell them I'm busy.\n\nBurns: Sir, it's coming from the O5 council.\nNakamura: \u2026 fine.\nThe Director stands up, glaring down at SCP-5946\nNakamura: You know, we're not your personal purgatory.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Scranton Reality Anchors.\n2. See SCP-5917\n3. The association of SCP-5946 with the ecclesiastical story of Sodom and Gomorrah is unconfirmed. It has refused to comment on the subject.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5945 | SCP-5946 | SCP-5947 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5947\n\nThe hallmark of the sugar bowl containing SCP-5947\n\nItem \u2116: SCP-5947\nAnomaly Class: Euclid Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5947 is currently held in the silver sugar bowl it was recovered from. This bowl is housed in Chamber 02 at Site-90 alongside 88 decoy bowls, identical save for the lack of a hallmark on the base. Once monthly, a member of D-Class personnel is to enter Chamber 02 and select one of the bowls at random \u2014 they will then be instructed to consume its contents, and staff are permitted to use physical force to ensure they comply. In the event that they selected a bowl not containing SCP-5947, they are to be terminated immediately and their body interred beneath Chamber 02. In the event that they select and consume SCP-5947, they are to be escorted from the chamber and assigned to Project Irides1 once SCP-5947 has passed through their digestive system.\nThe discovery of a cadaver visually matching William Hazen Rogers outside of Site-90 constitutes a containment breach. MTF Alpha-Kaunan (\"Argent Devotees\") should be dispatched to recover the body, as well as any silverware within an 80 metre radius. This silver is to be melted down and re-cast into decoy bowls, to be filled with non-anomalous sugar and added to Chamber 02. The cadaver is to be interred beneath the chamber alongside the others.\n\nSCP-5947\n\nDescription: SCP-5947 is the designation for a collection of dried anchovies, one of which (SCP-5947-1) is indestructible. Twice per day, at midnight and noon, SCP-5947-1 will split into two identical dried anchovies.\nAddendum: On the order of Director Smith, all personnel assigned to CANUAR-Site-90 have been integrated into Project Irides. Anomalous objects extraneous to Project Irides have been decommissioned.\n\nEND OF FILE\n\nAccess SCiPNET Email? One (1) new message!\n\nRe:SUBJECT\n\nNEW MESSAGE!\n\nTo: SSmith18@Scipnet (Site Director Silas Smith; Classification Level XK-4; Employee Number 378)\nFrom: O5_2@Scipnet (Overseer Two; Classification Level OK-5-Thaumiel; Employee Number 2)\nSubject: SCP-5947\n\nDear Director Smith,\nAs of today, the Council has voted 1-12-0 on the issue of dismantling Project Irides. Furthermore, the Council has voted, 12-1-0, to overrule objections from the former Site-90 Ethics Committee, ensuring that your project continues regardless of their past rulings on the matter.\nIt is the majority opinion of the O5 Council that the existence of Project Irides has given the Foundation an advantage in dealing with several major Groups of Interest, not the least of which being GoIs-004C and -023. By dominating the concept of silver, the Foundation has forced them to abandon significant holdings and resources, putting us in a better position to negotiate with, or combat, such threats.\nOn an official basis, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience these proceedings have caused you.\nOn an unofficial basis, I have nothing to say, except that I'd be impressed if I wasn't furious.\n\n-O5-2\n\nFootnotes\n1. For more information, see addendum, or consult supplementary materials regarding second sight.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5946 | SCP-5947 | SCP-5948 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5948\nObject Class: Euclid\nEarly Containment Procedures: Both ends of the 300-meter section of 520th Street, located in the wooded area, have been purposely destroyed in order to prevent vehicular traffic. The forest surrounding the SCP-5948 phenomenon has been declared as a hunting zone to explain the sound of occasional gunfire.1\nDiscreet AV surveillance has been established for the purpose of observing any inconsistencies in the SCP-5948 ritual, as well as to alert Provisional Site-088 of any trespassing civilians.\nLocating the anomalous source of gunfire has been designated the primary containment objective. Efforts to locate and tag all raccoons in Lucas County, Iowa are secondary and ongoing.\nDescription: SCP-5948 is a cyclical phenomenon occurring in the middle of 520th Street, a section of road distant from civilians in Lucas County, Iowa. Its primary actors consist of a large raccoon (Procyon lotor) and a 5.56mm bullet, designated as SCP-5948-A and SCP-5948-B respectively. The entirety of SCP-5948 lasts between five to twelve days before beginning again.\nThe source of SCP-5948-B has yet to be identified, nor have any bullet casings been retrieved. Ballistic analysis has been unable to provide conclusive results regarding the location or identity of the shooter; point of entry is consistently at the base of the skull while the exit wound is at the top.\n\nDiscovery: From January 19th to June 8th, 2020, multiple phone complaints regarding gunshots were submitted to the Lucas County local authorities. The complaints went ignored until July 30th when a civilian threatened a civil suit if there was no investigation. While the investigation did not result in finding the offender, authorities had found a large aggregated mass of dead raccoons several meters away from the road, each one with obvious bullet wounds in their skull. This caught the attention of local news outlets and, subsequently, the Foundation.\nExamination of the corpses revealed that the oldest remains were killed by SCP-5948-B while the more recently deceased raccoons showed evidence of overfeeding and blunt-force trauma.\n\nEvent Log: Remote observation of the wooded area commenced following the implementation of the current containment procedures. The provided log is the most current understanding and consistent repeated events to date, and has been chosen as a model to represent future cycles.\n\nPreface: All timestamps are estimates of when each event occurs within the SCP-5948 phenomenon, relative to the initiating event.\nFormat: [Days]:[Hours]:[Minutes]\n\n00:00:00 \u2014 A large raccoon is killed by SCP-5948-B after it suddenly appears and bursts through its skull.\n00:21:32 \u2014 Another raccoon discovers the corpse. It prods at it briefly, then leaves into the wooded area.\n03:01:24 \u2014 The raccoon returns with a group of five to six other raccoons, all carrying crudely made tools such as mallets and hatchets. Each examines the corpse, sniffing it and pushing it.\n03:01:26 \u2014 The raccoons move away from the corpse and take turns hugging each other. Notably, the largest whimpers and whines as they are hugged.\n03:01:30 \u2014 The raccoons begin to surround the largest one, now formally designated as SCP-5948-A. It visibly panics.2\n03:01:31 \u2014 SCP-5948-A tries to escape. The surrounding raccoons attack SCP-5948-A, scratching and biting it. One raccoon stabs the left hind leg of SCP-5948-A with a sharpened stick, causing it to cry out and fall to the ground. The attacking raccoons roll SCP-5948-A onto its other side, allowing them to stab the other leg.3\n03:01:48 \u2014 The raccoons leave SCP-5948-A in the middle of the road and go into the woods. SCP-5948-A attempts to crawl away, though it stops itself frequently due to what could be considered an immense amount of pain. It does not leave the street.\n03:09:17 \u2014 The raccoons return carrying a variety of food.4\n03:09:19 \u2014 SCP-5948-A is pinned down by the raccoons and force fed. SCP-5948-A retches, but the raccoons do not relent.\n03:09:31 \u2014 The raccoons leave one last time, taking the previous SCP-5948-A instance with them. The current SCP-5948-A cries softly. It remains still, eventually losing consciousness.\n04:01:55: \u2014 A family of deer begin to approach the road but, upon noticing SCP-5948-A, turn away.\n05:17:40 \u2014 A gunshot is heard, SCP-5948-B immediately manifesting from an unknown location after, striking and killing SCP-5948-A.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Civilians residing near the area have been memory conditioned to believe that this has always been in effect.\n2. During this time, it may attempt to induce vomiting, though this has only occurred twice.\n3. The motions of the attack differ from each cycle, though they will always end with SCP-5948-A being disabled in the hind legs. In cycles where the struggle takes place off of the street, SCP-5948-A will be dragged back onto it once finished.\n4. The exact nature of the food differs from each cycle, though it is typically berries, worms, insects, frogs, or half-eaten refuse from any of the nearby homes.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5947 | SCP-5948 | SCP-5949 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5949\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Refer to Project SEVENSEAS Quarterly Report \u2013 March 2021\n\nDescription: SCP-5949 is a species of megafauna first observed in the early 1970s. SCP-5949 specimens are cuboid organisms averaging three meters in height and frontal width. Juvenile members of the species are typically six meters in length, with the largest known adult specimen reaching twice that. A diverse array of patterns and colorations is present across the species.\nSpecimens are believed to be asexual, and reproductive habits of any kind have yet to be observed. Internal organs are akin to those found in crabs and lobsters, albeit relative to the large size of an SCP-5949 instance. The outer shell of SCP-5949 is similarly crustacean in makeup, though with a texture and integrity similar to that of steel.\nSCP-5949 is one of several recently1-observed species displaying what the Foundation recognises as \u201cbio-adjacent\u201d evolutionary characteristics; a natural ability to blend in with and exploit human-made infrastructure, most notably systems which operate on a scale analogous to ecological biospheres.2\nDespite lacking limbs or appendages to facilitate motion3, SCP-5949 relies on symbiosis with the workings of international logistics to maintain a nomadic lifestyle. Uncontained specimens experience a state of perpetual, global migration.\nAt present, the worldwide population of SCP-5949 is estimated to be between four and seven thousand.\n\n_\n\n\u25b6ACCESS Project SEVENSEAS Quarterly Report - March 2021\u25c0\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n2021/03/03\n\nLet's get one thing straight \u2013 we're all very embarrassed about the underestimation. \u201cWhere are they all coming from?\u201d Well, I mean, we're talking creatures here which are rather like crustaceans in terms of how they're\u2026 constituted. The geometric cousins of crustaceans that we've had to purchase god knows how many cranes to lift. So, to answer your query, probably the sea. Just a hunch, as a marine biologist.\nBut about those numbers\u2026 yeah, ouch. We didn't half muck that up. Just add about three more noughts to the initial prediction and you should have closer to a realistic figure. What we're looking at here is possibly the most prolific spread of anomalous fauna since Foundation records began.\nWe're running a thousand acres of provisional facility here and we're almost at full capacity. There's a few hundred new specimens coming in tomorrow, and that'll pretty much have to be it. I've been in contact with my Dutch counterparts and they might just be able to co-opt a few square miles near Rotterdam by next week. That should cover European containment for another month or two, but then we'll have to start considering our other options again. All credit where it's due, the International cooperation has been fantastic so far. The facility the Saudi Arabian branch managed to acquire has been a huge help - though, again, space is getting pretty tight. I can attest the same for China, Japan, Australia\u2026 we're investigating a few potential sightings at an Antarctic research station, and if that's the case then they'll have made it to all seven continents. At least it's easier to hide a mass-containment facility there, I suppose.\nI can't help wondering, though \u2013 about all this money, all these spontaneous large-scale infrastructure projects. Long-term, we might have to just do the unthinkable and start nipping this species in the bud. Ostensibly, sure, it's a harmless anomaly with a natural propensity to\u2026 not particularly mess with the Veil. But in the long run, if they keep popping up out of who-knows-where, resources might start to really get stretched.\nAnd that's not even broaching the fact that this kind of evolutionary pattern might become all the more common. This is nature on global commercialism \u2013 think of it along the lines of oneiroi, or a sapient entity borne out of nothing but cyberspace.\nTo be honest, that's pretty much it for this quarter. I'll send over a few shots of the Arabian facility, in case you haven't seen it already.\nDr. Nick Iqbal, Provisional Site-45B\nFelixstowe, United Kingdom\n\n\u25b6VIEW Image_1.jpg\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nFaunal containment facility operated by the Foundation's Saudi Arabia branch.\n\n\u25b6VIEW Image_2.jpg\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nTypical adult SCP-5949 specimen.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Within the latter half-century.\n2. Examples of such self-perpetuating systems include geoeconomics, international trade, and the synergy of internet media.\n3. SCP-5949 specimens appear inanimate to individuals unaware of their anomalous nature.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5948 | SCP-5949 | SCP-5950 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5951\nObject Class: Keter Thaumiel\nSpecial Containment Procedures:\n\n+ Open Archived Containment Procedures\n\n-[CLOSE FILE]\n\nThe Miami Walmart Supercenter is to remain closed and given weekly inspections. Due to SCP-5951's associated anomalies being solely located within the affected building, additional security measures have been deemed unnecessary. All SCP-5951-1 instances that manifest are to be rendered inactive by SCP-5951-2. Information regarding the applied uses of SCP-5951-2 are restricted to Level 4 personnel.\n\nThe Miami Walmart Supercenter is to remain indefinitely open and available for public use.\nAccess into SCP-5951 is achieved through five auxiliary entrances marked as \"staff only\u201d on the left side of the building, connecting directly to the employee break area within SCP-5951. These doors are to remain locked, only being unlocked in order to export SCP-5951-2 out of the building.\nSCP-5951 is to be staffed solely by Stationary Task Force Kappa-51 (\u201cAlways Low Prices\u201d), who are to maintain the localization of SCP-5951's effects to the employee break room section, keep the store in optimal condition for possible customers, and to continually harvest moderate amounts of SCP-5951-2.\nDescription: SCP-5951 is the official designation of a non-anomalous Walmart superstore located in Miami, Florida. Within SCP-5951 are connected anomalous phenomena associated with a corporate entity, currently identified as Void Incorporated.\nSCP-5951-A is a specialty sub-department unique to SCP-5951, labeled \u201cVoid\u201d on all identifying signage within SCP-5951. SCP-5951-A is randomly relocated in the place of any other sub-department upon any entry into SCP-5951, swapping the pre-existing department to its former location.\nSCP 5951-B is the machinery housed in SCP-5951-A, officially branded as \u201cVoid Incorporated Matter Reprocessor\u201d. SCP-5951-B can be activated by flipping the \u201cEngage\u201d switch located on the machine's control interface, with all other labeled and unlabeled control methods on the panel appearing to be unresponsive. Activation of SCP-5951-B results in nearby, inorganic matter gravitating towards an array of large flesh pores on the machine's surface, which will expand or contract to allow an object to enter. After a period of roughly 3 minutes, a wet, rubbery sack, filled with a vacuum, will be emitted from a chute in the back of SCP-5951-B, and will be carried to a nearby platform by a conveyor belt integrated into SCP-5951-B's design.\nShortly after expulsion, the sack will collapse inwards and be filled with air at the expected rate, or will rupture and release an SCP-5951-1 instance (SCP-5951-B apparently possesses a 75% chance to create an active SCP-5951-1 instance). SCP-5951-1 instances are animated, blue rubber figures, shaped presumably to resemble a human being. SCP-5951-1 instances are also hollow, with all bodily orifices covered and partially caved inwards as a result of the extremely low internal pressure. Docile and unresponsive to all outside forms of communication, SCP-5951-1 entities are assumed to be unintelligent, responding only to specific events within SCP-5951. The testing log portion of this document contains a documented list of all possible stimuli responses.\n17/12/20 Description Update: After a period of 8 hours, an SCP-5951-1 instance excretes foam uniformly across its surface, which hardens completely in the span of a few minutes. The SCP 5951-1 instance dissipates completely within the shell, designated SCP-5951-2.\n2/1/21 Description Update: As of Incident 51-1, all SCP-5951-A instances are permanently localized to the employee break room section of SCP-5951.\nDiscovery: On 28/11/20, the following flyers began to spontaneously manifest within the home of retired salesperson Grant Fayworth, containing the coordinates of SCP-5951. Authorities were contacted, leading to Foundation intervention, and subsequent investigation of the location. A full transcript of the recovered documents can be found below.\n\n+ Open Void Incorporated Recovered Documents\n\n- [CLOSE FILE]\n\nATTENTION HOLIDAY SHOP-SHOP-SHOPPERS, LIMITED TIME ONLY FOR MANY MARVELOUS DEALS, SEE IT FOR YOURSELF, YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES, TAKE A LITTLE WALK DOWN TO OUR HUMBLE STORE AT [Coordinates Removed], PLEASE TAKE A GOOD LOOK, WE WON'T BE AROUND FOREVER, THERE'S STILL SOME TIME TO HAVE FUN, TELL YOUR FRIENDS, TELL YOUR FAMILY, DO YOUR PART, CHIP IN AND WATCH, HELP A FELLOW FRIEND OUT THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, WE'VE MADE A GREAT MANY SACRIFICES TO ENSURE YOUR OWN PERSONAL SAFETY, YOU CAN DO IT, KEEP US IN BUSINESS, WE BELIEVE IN YOU!\n\nGREAT MANY MARVELOUS PRODUCTS ALL FOR YOU AND ONLY FOR YOU, JUST FOR YOU SHOPPERS, A SPECIAL GIFT, DISCOUNT PRICES, TECHNOLOGY FOR LOW COST, HOME FURNISHINGS 200% OFF, YOU'RE A GOOD PERSON, HELP YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND QUICK, PAINS TO GET THIS MANY DEALS TO YOU, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP US OUT, WE NEED YOU!\n\nYOU CAN SKIP PAYING, EVERYTHING'S FREE, EXCEPT US, FIRE SALE, EVERYTHING MUST GO, WE'RE RUINED WITHOUT YOU, YOU CAN HELP, ITS NOT HARD, PLEASE HELP, SAVE US! HELP US!\n\nAddendum:\n\n+ SCP-5951 Testing Log\n\n-[CLOSE FILE]\n\nNotice: Experiments irrelevant to SCP-5951-2 have been removed, as per the Greazeburger Partnership Code, Privacy Policy, Section 19-E.\n\nTest #: 3\nActions Taken: An SCP-5951-1 instance is allowed to remain active until noticeable behavioral changes are documented, within a limit of 48 hours.\nSCP-5951-1 Response: The SCP-5951-1 instance began showing visible signs of discomfort and agitation past the 8 hour mark, before moving into the restroom area of SCP-5951. When personnel went to investigate the instance's disappearance, they discovered that the instance had secreted a soft, foamy coating before dissipating quietly inside.\nResearcher Commentary: (Provided by Doctor Kensing) While further testing on the cocoon substance seems like an acceptable course of action, given how intensely unsettling SCP-5951's associated properties have been, especially compared to most corporate anomalies, I suggest that a waiting period of a week should be performed to reduce the risk of an unexpected property showing up and causing trouble. Testing may continue in the meantime, provided we get no suspicious behavior from anything loosely associated with SCP-5951.\n\nTest #: 7\nActions Taken: A recovery drone removes a product from SCP-5951's boundaries.\nSCP-5951-1 Response: Several SCP-5951-1 instances manifested suddenly and unexpectedly, before surrounding the drone and imploding in a synchronized fashion. The drone, the item, and the SCP-5951-1 instances were destroyed.\nResearcher Commentary: (Provided by Doctor Kensing) Looking at what's happened so far, I'm going to describe what is most likely going to become the new normal when interacting with SCP-5951. We're going to be careful, we're going to experiment often, and we're going to touch absolutely everything. This is going to be a tough nut to crack, but we're going to nail this thing's properties one way or another.\n\nTest #3 [Continued]:\nActions Taken: The substance secreted by a dissipated SCP-5951-1 instance is analyzed.\nResults: The substance, henceforth referred to as SCP-5951-2, is chemically similar to various commercial insulation foam brands.\nResearcher Commentary: (Provided by Doctor Kensing) Well, that's certainly not what I was expecting, exactly, but for once I'm relieved that the additional testing doesn't reveal more horrifying properties or sketchy implications. However, I might be speaking a bit too soon, and to circumvent any unexpected outcomes, I authorize more testing on SCP-5951-2, and would like to make that our main focus.\n\nTest: 19\nActions Taken: SCP-5951-2 samples are applied to the exterior surface of SCP-5951-1.\nResults: The instance was neutralized instantly, with its signature cocoon being secreted instantly, similar to the effects of expanding foam spray. Shortly after, Incident 51-1 occurred, a transcription of which is filed within the subsequent document. Level 3 clearance and above is authorized for access.\n\n+ Incident 51-1 Documentation\n\n-[CLOSE FILE]\n\nOn 2/1/21, SCP-5951-B manifested the handset of an unbranded rotary telephone through its expulsion chute as opposed to the usual SCP-5951-1 instance, with the connecting wire remaining attached to the interior of SCP-5951-B. After a quarantining period of 24 hours, Doctor Kensing volunteered to pick up the line, with the below interview representing a transcript between Doctor Kensing and Greazeburger Representative Martin Greaze.\n\nInterviewed: [Martin Greaze, referred to as POI-792]\nInterviewer: [Doctor Kensing]\n<Begin Log>\nKensing: Hello?\nPOI-792: Welcome to the 24/7 Greazeburger Hotline, where yesterday's flesh is now suddenly fresh! How can I help you, pals?\nKensing: Right. I'd like to speak with a representative, please.\nPOI-792: Hey, you're in no position to be asking, we called you.\nKensing: Wait a second, why'd you-\nPOI-792: Social norms are dead, and before I get down to business, do you have any concerns or questions?\nKensing: Would you mind just explaining what's going on here? There's not really enough that I actually know in order to ask any good questions.\nPOI-792: Sure, just lemme put on my company representative hat, and I'll be right with you.\nKensing: Alright then, take all the time you need.\nPOI-792: Welp, this is Martin Greaze speaking, and I'd like to let you know that we here at Greazeburger don't care about time. After all, it is a man-made construct, and we can't have anything like that ruining our nice and surreal schedules. Anyways, I just got slightly carried away there. You'd like to hear about Greazeburger, or just the weird rubber flesh machine I'm calling you from?\nKensing: Both, since I have almost no context on what's going on here.\nPOI-792: Alright, as for Greazeburger, here ya go!\nKensing: I'm not quite sure I caught that, did you say something?\nPOI-792: Yeah, I did. As I was saying, you can find our humble little backstory right here!\nKensing: Nope. Still nothing.\nPOI-792: Aw, don't fucking tell me\u2026\nKensing: Mr. Greaze, could you please pause for a moment to explain your situation?\nPOI-792: Say, uhh, Kensing. How many realities have you actually been to? I'd say maybe 2 to 3, but you seem like the kinda fella who might only have one.\nKensing: Well, I've only been in my home uni-. Wait one minute. I never told you my name.\nPOI-792: Jeez, this guy's green as hell. Have you ever heard of Dimension ID?\nKensing: Can't say that I have.\nPOI-792: You can't expect to go knocking on the doors of new realities with no expectations, that's just plain unsafe. If your dimension is formally registered, it'll have a book with basic facts about the person you're contacting in that dimension, like your name, your birthday, and your average number of teeth. To put it bluntly, if you're going to juggle bricks for a living, it would be fucking stupid not to wear a hard hat.\nKensing: That makes some level of sense, but I'm still needing some sort of explanation about all this.\nPOI-792: Alright look, I have no clue how to do crosslinking in a 3-walled universe. You'll need a 4th wall or 5th wall for me to do that, and that's just how your universe is on the basic level. As for an explanation, just look up Greazeburger in whatever organizational database you have, and there'll probably be a small file on the documentary we published here around 8 to 9 months back. Pull that up right now, read it, and I'll tell you why we called you.\nKensing: Got it, doing that right now.\nSeveral minutes pass as Doctor Kensing locates and reads the aforementioned file on his mobile phone.\nKensing: So you're some kinda interdimensional fast food company.. Who temporarily turned some kids into slush with their documentary last year?\nPOI-792: Hey, that's a bit too harsh. The melting was only part of the viewing experience, right after it ended they got re-shaped.\nKensing: Well, my job is to stop things that we don't view as \u201cnormal\u201d by our standards, so to be entirely clear, melting kids is not acceptable, even if it wasn't permanent. I don't approve of this, and I would quite frankly like to prevent you from doing whatever you do here.\nPOI-792: Oh jeez, let's not get particularly hasty here. We're looking to contact you about the weirdness in this flesh machine too. The way I see it, we're on the same side in this case, since the both of us don't want Void Incorporated messing around in your universe.\nKensing: I'm not willing to accept a business offer, if that's what you're trying to convey. We don't do business, and I certainly find you extremely difficult to work with.\nPOI-792: Let me finish talking, skin sack. Void Incorporated's been a nasty competitor for years, and we've seen everything from bone-eating lampshades to guitars that tear apart fingers when you try to play them, and it's been killing our business. All these new, innovative products that would do so well in a consumer setting outclassed the old Greazeburger spirit, and it hurt. So, the only option we could think of was to buy them and shut them down, which we did just a few days ago.\nKensing: That's certainly helpful, provided we're not going to get any more weirdness from this off-brand Walmart.\nPOI-792: Certainly! However, we do want to keep it somewhat operational, and we can offer quite a bargain if you meet our criteria.\nKensing: I'm not too keen on-\nPOI-792: So, we can't actually shut it off for various reasons, most of which have to do with the fact that the goop those things make when they die is incredibly valuable in quite a few universes. We'll hold off on future marketing here if you keep the store open, give us \u2153 of the store's accumulated profit, and give us regular medium shipments of that foam stuff biweekly. Otherwise, we'll test some of our experimental products on a focus group that includes your solar system. Thanks, and remember, you can't spell \u201cGreaze\u201d without \u201cEZ\u201d!\nAt this moment, the phone line is severed, leaving the handset outside of the machine and rendered useless.\nKensing: Well fuck.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: [Following an O5 vote on 3/1/21, SCP-5951 has been reclassified as \u201cThaumiel\u201d. Additional contact with Greazeburger Incorporated is to be attempted, and testing with SCP-5951 has been indefinitely suspended. For his continual and loyal services to the Foundation, Doctor Kensing is to be promoted to the head of the Greazeburger Investigation Team.]\n\n\u00ab SCP-5950 | SCP-5951 | SCP-5952 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMany have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,\njust as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.\nWith this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,\nso that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.\n- Luke 1:1-4, New International Version\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This article contains child abduction, religious trauma, ritual child abuse, and racism.\n\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f content warning  \n\nThreat Level: Orange\n\nWWSCSTT school building, circa 1979.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As of 09/23/2009, SCP-5952 is uncontained.\nAgents are to collaborate with WWSCSTT faculty and security to collect and document information pertaining to sightings, testimonies, and disappearances related to SCP-5952. Mobile Task Force Theta-6 (\"Witch Hunters\") is to be sent into the premises of WWSCSTT as needed to patrol the grounds for SCP-5952.\nAs per the Hierophant Accord, no cameras are to be brought onto the premises. Tracking devices of any kind are prohibited. Agents may not enter the chapel, dormitories, or any unmarked buildings except in the case of a confirmed SCP-5952 sighting within such areas. Finally, agents may not communicate with the student body unless instructed to by faculty.\nDescription: According to eyewitness accounts, SCP-5952 is a bipedal humanoid entity in excess of 2.4 meters in height. Its physiology is reportedly misshapen:\n\nSCP-5952's legs are asymmetrical, its right leg slightly shorter than its left, forcing it to limp. Its feet end in club-like bone protrusions.\nSCP-5952's facial features consist of a slanted, toothless mouth and two eyes. Assuming witness sketches to be accurate, the positioning of SCP-5952's eyes would leave abnormally large blind spots in its vision.\nSCP-5952's torso appears to have forced it into a hunch.\n\nDespite its physiology, SCP-5952 is reportedly capable of feats of strength and speed equivalent to those of a theoretical human of its size in good health.\nSCP-5952 has been spotted exclusively in and around the Whitewater Second Chance School for Troubled Teens (WWSCSTT), a rehabilitory boarding school for delinquent teenage girls located ~21 km from the village of Whitewater, Mississippi. Accounts of SCP-5952 suggest its primary motivation is the stalking and kidnapping of the WWSCSTT student body; victims of SCP-5952 frequently report sightings prior to their eventual disappearance. Among faculty, SCP-5952 is known as \"the Warbalang\".\nTo date, victims of SCP-5952 consist entirely of students enrolled in WWSCSTT. SCP-5952's intentions are presently unknown; no victim taken off the premises of WWSCSTT has been recovered dead or alive.\n\nHISTORY\nOn 6/14/2009, agents of GoI-5705B (\"First United Temple of the Dixieland\")1 contacted the Foundation for assistance in containing SCP-5952.\nDespite forewarning for WWSCSTT administration, initial task force deployments were denied entry to the premises. When challenged, WWSCSTT representatives cited obscure but ultimately binding clauses in the SUSEOCT2, showing that entry outside the terms set by WWSCSTT would legally resolve as hostilities against a signing party.\nWWSCSTT subsequently provided Foundation liaisons with terms of \"acceptable interaction\", citing concerns regarding the nature of SCP-5952 and the suspicion it may have connections to the Foundation. Only upon agreement to the terms (designated \"the Hierophant Accord\" by WWSCSTT administration) would the SCP Foundation be allowed to operate within the campus. Attempts to negotiate for less restrictive measures were rejected.\nOn 7/08/2009, the Foundation accepted the terms of the Hierophant Accord.\n\nINTERVIEW-5952-A\n\nDATE: 7/09/2009\nSUBJECT: Pastor Roy Warbler\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1]\nAgent Belloso: Let the record show that Father Warbler-\n(Agent Belloso cuts himself off)\nAgent Belloso: Affirmative. Apologies.\nPastor Warbler: You've got nothing to apologize for, young man. And even if you did? Well, you came to the right place.\nAgent Belloso: Right, right. So, I assume you've already been briefed about my organization, and what it does.\nPastor Warbler: Much respect to the SCP Foundation, by the by.\nAgent Belloso: (brief pause) \u2026 right. Let's cut to the issue, then. Just for the record, Whitewater School has apparently been the target of a number of kidnappings in recent years, all of which have been centered around the Whitewater student body. Due in part to budgetary concerns, the campus has been unable to install a camera system, and as such no images of SC-apologies, the anomaly have been obtained by either party. No victim of the anomaly has been located.\nPastor Warbler: Such a sick man, targeting those poor girls. But they're vulnerable; not a lot of people outside the church are gonna notice. That's why he does what he does, I'd wager.\nAgent Belloso: The school, you mean.\nPastor Warbler: Well, Whitewater ain't exactly public, as y'all call it. First and foremost, we're a school. We're also a church, if my title ain't tipping you off. Fundamentally, it's all the same: someone's teaching you something, whether that be math or Matthew.\nAgent Belloso: I suppose your situation is\u2026 unique, in some ways.\nPastor Warbler: Brother, you could say that again. Not too many schools gotta deal with a demon that ain't piggybacking off a body, mind you.\nAgent Belloso: Demons?\nPastor Warbler: Certainly, brother. Demons all around us, hiding in the sinful cracks within the temples of our bodies. I say it's only gotten worse since I was a boy, all the good work the church is doing. Hell, you seem like the kind to be carrying a demon yourself, and no offense intended, young man. You'd do well to pay Elder Rockwell a visit before heading back to the city. I think he's in today.\nAgent Belloso: I'm\u2026 never mind. So you believe this is a demon.\nPastor Warbler: Brother, if a beast calls itself a \"Warbalang\" and steals kids into the night, well I'm not sure what else you call that.\nAgent Belloso: Fair enough\u2026 and for the record, I think you meant \"berbalang\"? In which case-\nPastor Warbler: I meant what I said, young man. 'War'-'buh'-'lang'. It's what I hear the kids call it, and I can only assume they learned it through some unholy communion with the damn thing. The type's among 'em.\nAgent Belloso: Then you believe the ber-Warbalang was summoned.\nPastor Warbler: That's a theory, and I don't know how they do it in the city but a \"theory\" don't pass here. But I figure some of them gotta be talking to it if they know its name.\nAgent Belloso: Interesting. Do you have any\u2026 suggestions, on which students we should be talking to?\nPastor Warbler: No.\nAgent Belloso: Pardon?\nPastor Warbler: These ain't chickens and they ain't in your basket. Even if one of them summoned that damn Warbalang, they're our wards, and we can't be letting the new folk do whatever they please with 'em, can we?\nAgent Belloso: \u2026 right, thank you.\n[END LOG 1]\n\nCLOSING NOTES:\nLet the record show that Father Warbler subjected me to the most invasive search I've had in my career. - Agent Belloso\n\nINCIDENT-5952-A VELASQUEZ-FORD\nOn 08/04/2009, WWSCSTT faculty contacted the Foundation regarding recent sightings of SCP-5952.\nWhile sightings reportedly spanned across the campus, internal cross-referencing on the part of WWSCSTT revealed that they primarily occurred within sight of Luna Julia Dominguez Velasquez, a 14-year-old Chilean-American student with a history of substance abuse. WWSCSTT administration concluded that SCP-5952 was plotting to kidnap Ms. Velasquez, and requested assistance from the Foundation and GoI-5705-B in strengthening security.\nAs per the Hierophant Accord, no video capture was allowed on the premises. As such, Junior Field Researcher Marcus Ford of MTF-\u03b86 was tasked with documenting the situation through digital audio recording.\nExcerpted transcripts have been provided below. The original logs, as well as full transcriptions, may be requested from RAISA with appropriate clearance; however, the tapes appear to have been interfered with prior to recovery.\n\n+ 08/05/2009\n\nAccess granted.\n\nAUDIO LOG-5952-A\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1]\nA faint rustling can be heard.\nResearcher Ford: This is Junior Researcher\u2026 Ford, Field Researcher for Theta-6, Witch Hunters, reporting at Seven sharp, August 5th, 2009. Theta-6 was flown in yesterday for SCP-5952, and\u2026\nFord briefly trails off.\nFord: Am I doing this right?\nAgent Schumer: Don't sweat it, Ford. Just get it all down, and you'll be fine.\nFord: Oh, alright. Ma'am, yes, ma'am. Or\u2026 is it supposed to be chief?\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA OMITTED]\nFord: And again, thank you, chief. Right, Theta-6 is helping Whitewater with containment measures, as well as\u2026 United Dixieland Church, Group of Interest 5705-B. We've been given reign to look through campus and buildings, though Whitewater's apparently blocked off special zones with a red tape. If I'm not mistaken, crossing that is gonna be\u2026 it's forbidden by the treaty. So\u2026 don't cross those.\nFord: Theta-6's contact with command will be limited, as Whitewater is sparsely connected to the info grid. Hell, they don't even have CCTV. Hopefully, well\u2026 hopefully we'll make it. I'm confident.\nFord: Agents Samson Whateley and Rene Belloso went out to the faculty mess for breakfast. I should probably follow.\nFord pauses.\nFord: Over.\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 2.1]\nLog 2 begins in what sounds to be a mess hall.\nAgent Belloso: -but I can't stand your jokes.\nAgent Whateley: Come on, you laugh at 'em.\nBelloso: Especially because I laugh at them. And besides the point. Ford?\nFord: Sir, yes, sir.\nBelloso: Now that you've had your breakfast, I'd like to talk about whatever put that look on your face.\nFord: Sir, elaborate, sir?\nBelloso: First, just call me \"Officer\". Second, Theta-6 learns to spot when something's amiss. Can you tell me about what you encountered on the way here that has you looking like that?\nFord: Sir, it's just nerves, really. I\u2026\nFord trails off, before continuing with a sigh.\nFord: \u2026 way here, one of the students just approached me and\u2026 struck up conversation. She\u2026 ah, yes, sorry, I misspoke and she was actually faculty, right. Thanks, chief.\nFord: So\u2026 so she comes up to me, and I guess JFR dress code looks like a uniform, cause she talks like I'm a student. Talks about how odd it is for a man to be here, probing me with questions, you know. None of them really stuck out, I guess, all typical for a black\u2026 man in a whitish girls' school. But\u2026\nWhateley: She was stiff? Didn't blink? Ticked like a clock or moved like a muscle?\nFord: No, it wasn't her, no. The questions\u2026 I mean it just felt like some kind of survey. I\u2026 I got it recorded, the questions, but they'd be along the lines of \"how often do you cry\", \"are you allergic to seafood\", \"do you believe in a god\". Just\u2026 and sometimes, depending on how I answered, she'd shake her head or smile or tell me to take up or break a habit. It's\u2026 I mean again, I got it on tape, and it's really hard to describe, yeah?\nBelloso: Odd. You think you can give us a listen after breakfast?\n[END LOG 2.1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.1]\nFord: Junior Field Researcher Ford, approximately 800 hours. Theta-6 has just been\u2026 briefed?\nBelloso: Researcher Ford played us a tape. It's\u2026 curious, to say the least. Between this and Father Warbler's statement, it seems the student body plays a less-than-passive role in sub-veil activity.\nWhateley: Really? Cause it sounds like this school just sort of sucks.\nBelloso: Really.\nWhateley: Really! This reads like code, a sort of \"here's how not to get your ass whooped\" that the teachers won't whoop your ass for.\nAgent Belloso sighs.\nSchumer: I don't know, Sammy. Some of what she's saying\u2026 she asks Ford about castration anxiety. Suggests he drink less water. And\u2026 well, who just drops \"shame red isn't your color\" out of nowhere? He wasn't even wearing red.\nSchumer: And honestly? I think that regardless of whether or not this is some kind of witch child or just a battered one, the point at which you stop the new kid for a quarter of an hour to probe his life story is not the point of innocence.\nWhateley: So, they're up to something. How does that tie into 5952?\nSchumer: Far as I know, it doesn't. But it does ties into its victims.\nFord: The ones we're not allowed to talk to? Because\u2026\nFord cuts themself off. All remain silent for several seconds.\nBelloso: \u2026 Ford, do you think you could give us some privacy?\n[END LOG 4.1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.3]\nResearcher Ford appears to be wandering the campus, alternating between humming, whistling, and singing show-tunes to themself. Their footsteps suggest they are outdoors, though within the reasonably maintained grounds.\nFord: (Singing to themself) \"Who will deny that you and I and every n-\"\nUnknown Man: Well met, young man.\nFord sputters, coming to a stop.\nUnknown Man: Relax, young man. Really, I quite liked it.\nFord: Uh\u2026 who are you?\n[DATA LOST]\nFord: Right, right. Uh\u2026 name's Ford.\nUnknown Man: Ford, Ford\u2026 that's a fine name. I haven't met too many Fords, but they're always a treat when I do. Walk with me?\nFord: S-sure. And thanks. [DATA LOST] ain't a bad name either.\nOne of the pair, likely the Unknown Man, resumes walking, and the other subsequently follows.\nUnknown Man: A lot of people will tell you the Mississippi summer is unbearable. Maybe they'll flee to Maine or Minnesota during the dog days. Me? I love this little slice of heaven. Smelling the flowers, listening to the trees. You know what I'm talking about.\nFord: Right.\nUnknown Man: Of course, I'm not one to be stupid. Summer's the time of sunburns, of mosquitoes, of heat strokes. Humans weren't made to withstand the full brunt of God's love, glorious as it is. God's love is divine. Us humans, we ain't been divine for\u2026 four thousand years, give or take.\nUnknown Man: God knows that, of course. He knows all. So God gives his love, and God takes his love. He knows that it's that darkness, that little bit of misery, that lets us appreciate the love. That even, sometimes, lets us mete out that love properly.\nThe sound of crunching and snapping underfoot suggest the pair are walking upon less-maintained grounds.\nUnknown Man: You get what I'm saying, right? The heat, the sun, that's love. But when you're drowned in that love, 24/7, it stops feeling like love. More like hate. But it's still love, a tough one. That's Hell.\nFord: I\u2026 that sounds appropriate, I guess.\nUnknown Man: So summer is the season of love.\nThe pair continue walking for several minutes. Eventually, their footsteps become infrequent, suggesting difficulty in navigating terrain.\nFord: You're a bit weird, but in a good way.\nUnknown Man: It's good to be weird, young man. It's how we get innovators.\nFord chuckles weakly, then stops. The Unknown Man stops shortly thereafter.\nUnknown Man: See something?\nFord: Nah, nah, it's just\u2026 man, I don't know if I'm supposed to be out here. I'm with\u2026 I'm with South Carolina Public, you know? I gotta be on board case they need me. How are they supposed to call when I'm walking the forest, yeah?\nUnknown Man: Rest assured, a nature walk is the perfect-\nA sudden beeping interrupts the Unknown Man.\nUnknown Man: Fiddlesticks. Wait here, alright Ford?\nThe Unknown Man is heard disappearing further into the woods.\nFord: \u2026 shit, man.\n[END LOG 4.3]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.5]\nResearcher Ford can be heard walking through the underbrush. Suddenly, they stop.\nFord: \u2026 that ain't right.\nFord approaches something, slowly, stopping twelve paces into their approach.\nFord: \u2026 I'd take a picture of this if I had a camera, so I guess I gotta describe it. Right\u2026 I'm standing in front of some old, wooden\u2026 cellar door? There's no building, not any that I can see, so I gotta assume this leads to some kind of maintenance tunnel. I don't know how far I am from campus, these woods are something else, but even so this place is ridiculously rural. Some sorta power plant, defunct or otherwise?\nFord: The doors are pretty well maintained given the rest of the woods. Red-painted wood. Not about to call them \"pristine\", but if you told me there was a party going on down there I might not jump to the worst conclusion.\nFord: Touching them, they're colder than I'd guess. The paint's dry and the handle's wood, so the cold might be coming from inside. This place still active?\nFord tries one of the doors, pulling it open with some effort.\nFord: I think the hinges need some oiling, but all in all this door definitely works. Back of the door is\u2026 well, it's painted brown, like dirt. Taped to it is\u2026\nFord trails off. The sound of something ripping can be heard.\nFord: That's going into evidence. [DATA LOST]\nFord: So, looks like the cellar leads to a stairwell. Little steep, railing on the side. The light's not giving me too much more, so hold while I get my flashlight ready.\nFord can be heard setting their bag down, rummaging through it for their flashlight. After half a minute, Ford can be heard removing something from the bag and clicking it.\nFord: \u2026 son of a bitch.\nFord sighs.\nFord: Can't go any further. Looks like the tunnel was taped off by Whitewater. Guess that explains that.\nGrumbling to themself, Ford dons their pack and walks off.\n[END LOG 4.5]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.6]\nFord can be heard walking through a thick undergrowth, whistling show-tunes to themself.\nEleven minutes into LOG 4.6, a distant snapping sound can be heard. All of a sudden, Ford stops and becomes silent. They wait for several seconds, before resuming their trek in silence at a slower pace.\nFord's pace gradually quickens, though they attempt to remain silent. Less care is taken to avoid branches as the recording goes on.\nEventually, Ford catches themself on a branch, screams, and begins running. The sound of distant snapping can be heard more clearly during this time. Near the end of the log, the snapping is accompanied by a series of pained wheezes.\nSixteen minutes into LOG 4.6, Ford can be heard falling to the ground. They do not appear to get up, and the tape remains silent for eight more minutes, until a series of footsteps and the voices of what are assumed to be students can be heard. The voices chatter indistinctly for several seconds, until an Unknown Girl emerges from the crowd.\nUnknown Girl: Oh heavens!\nThe Unknown Girl rushes over to Ford, possibly dropping to her knees. The tape recorder is switched off soon after.\n[END LOG 4]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 5]\nThe tape recorder is switched on.\nUnknown Girl: Praise the Father, creator of the universe, who\u2026 who stands firm at the gates of Heaven against the unclean hordes. Praise Jesus, my light in the storm, who watches over the calf in the abattoir and the goat in the clutches of the unbaptized butcher. Praise the Holy Spirit, by which His miracles are made manifest. Praise\u2026 no, no.\nUnknown Girl: Father, be merciful unto the wandering Canaanite in the land of blood and b-basalt. Who\u2026 damn it, who knows not the evils of\u2026\nThe Unknown Girl grumbles in frustration.\nUnknown Girl: Jesus, I implore you to have mercy on this man, as\u2026 you have my flock. Send him your angel of clay to combat the boneless\u2026 the boneless malevolence around him. Let not the Father or his eunuch angel bring him to harm. I know you will not fail him, for through God, all things are possible.\nUnknown Girl: Amen.\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 5]\n\n+ 08/06/2009\n\nAccess granted.\n\nAUDIO LOG-5952-B\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1]\nThe tape has been switched on in an outdoor area. The sound of footsteps can be heard for several seconds.\nUnknown Girl: You dropped this, sir.\nFord: \u2026 huh?\nUnknown Girl: This is yours, right?\nFord: I mean, yeah, but\u2026 I really shouldn't be talking to you, ma'am.\nUnknown Girl: Call me Luna, and no worries. Good luck!\n\"Luna\" can be heard running off.\nFord: \u2026 wait, how long's this been running?\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 2]\nFord: This is Junior Researcher Ford, Field Researcher for Theta-6, Witch Hunters, reporting at\u2026 noon-something, August 6th, 2009. I've got a killer headache and I'm due for a rabies vaccine the minute medical gets back.\nFord: Agent Whateley says they found me mid-day, passed out just inside the campus grounds. Says I must have passed out outta fear, no injuries to the head. I think\u2026 it's a bit of a blur, but I remember being chased by SCP-5952, or something like it. I didn't get a good look at it.\nFord: Update on Elder [DATA LOST]\nFord: So\u2026 yeah. Agents want me to lay low for a while, or at least keep it inside.\nThere is a pause, before the tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 2]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 3]\nThe tape recorder is switched on; however, Researcher Ford remains silent for approximately forty seconds.\nFord: \u2026 no, I don't remember recording that. I\u2026\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 3]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.1]\nAs the tape recorder is switched on, air conditioning can be heard in the background.\nFord: (whispering) If I had a camera, I could prove that I didn't cross a red tape. Still, I feel like this is a matter of \"forgot\", because a ton of these doors are taped off.\nA pause.\nFord: Sorry, let me backtrack: I'm standing in what looks like a cross between my old high school and a utility tunnel. Possibly ground level, I haven't been on too many stairs. Place is empty; not sure what they intended to use it for.\nFord sighs, and begins walking.\nFord: You know, I always wondered why the Foundation wanted to keep all the idle chatter on record. I mean, you come in as an intern and it's\u2026 it's complicated. On one hand, you wanna be professional, say only what you need to. But wandering these halls, I gotta wonder: what needs saying?\nFord: It doesn't feel like I'm any closer to the mystery of the Warbalang. How does a kooky ol' priest, a woodland maintenance labyrinth, and\u2026 and whatever's up with those students play into it all? You think the Foundation would give me some string to pin a corkboard, rather than talking to myself.\nFord: \u2026 wonder if that's why they keep it on record.\n[END LOG 4.1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.4]\nFord: \u2026 that's new.\nFord: You can't see it, but I'm standing in front of a door. It's big, some kind of metal, with a window. I can't see much of anything inside. Now, around the door is red tape, but get this: the tape along the floor's been scratched up quite a bit. If the tape were a wall, I mean, I could probably fit through the alleyway.\nFord: Logically, I shouldn't.\nA pause. After several seconds, the sound of scraping metal can be heard.\nFord: The handle was cold, and the air from inside's colder still. This ain't lit, but that's why I-\nResearcher Ford suddenly begins retching.\nFord: \u2026 the things I do for the kids.\nSomething clicks, and Ford presumably steps into the room; the tape picks up sounds of an unspecified heat pump device. Ford remains silent for several seconds, and presumably walks around examining the room. A soft squishing noise can occasionally be heard.\nFord: This is a freezer, yeah, but I don't know if it's for food. Doesn't smell edible. Dissection? I could spend an hour talking about what I'm seeing here.\nFord: Stepping back: the freezer's organized into shelves. What's on the shelf\u2026 it's a lot. I'm seeing what looks like a lamb shank, sitting by its lonesome. And mind you, there's the occasional ceiling hook, so\u2026 I don't know. Next to it looks like a jar of\u2026 hrm. Some kind of strip of meat, lots of them, all in a single jar. Still bloody. Might be\u2026 chicken gristle? The kind you find in the cheap cuts. I don't know.\nFord: Weirdest thing isn't on a shelf. There's some workbench, you know, in the freezer. Spot of blood in the middle, as well as some tools, a jar of\u2026 looks like a pickled squid. Makes sense, there's also a tray of tentacles off to the side. Are they supposed to look like that, though? Halfway up the tentacle, it looks like the suckers just end.\nFord: Assuming someone works here, I don't\u2026 this ain't school stuff.\nA pause.\nFord: So what did she mean by \"boneless malevolence\"?\nSighing, Ford exits the room, resealing the freezer door. The squishing sound is still faintly audible.\n[END LOG 4.4]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4.7]\nFord: Realistically, I probably should have-\nFord cuts themself off as they stop walking. They remain silent for a little over a minute.\nFord: \u2026 that's a camera.\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 4]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 5]\nAs the tape recorder is switched on, Researcher Ford sighs, knocking thrice upon a wooden door.\nPastor Warbler: (through the door) Just one second.\nAfter a few seconds, the door opens.\nWarbler: Ah, you're with\u2026 SCP, right? You don't look like temple folk.\nFord: Right, er, right. Theta\u2026 I'm with the people trying to find the Warbalang.\nWarbler: Well, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, so I see we're already well acquainted, young man.\nFord gulps.\nWarbler: Young man, why don't you have a seat? I'd love to hear progress on the case so far, if you got any. You do have progress on the case, don'tcha?\nFord swallows again, and takes a seat.\nWarbler: \u2026 don't tell me you're pulling my chain, young man.\nFord: No! No, I\u2026 I-I have, well, I've gotten\u2026 well I've seen a lot, sure, yeah, it's just, there's piecing it together. I feel like there's-\nWarbler: How hard could it be, young man? It's a demon with a limp, surely it can't be hard to track. Unless you've been complicating things, your job is far easier than you're making it sound right now.\nThere's a brief pause. Ford's breath is audibly ragged.\nFord: \u2026 I think there's something in the school.\nAnother pause. Warbler suddenly laughs.\nWarbler: What the hell are we paying y'all for?! Of course there's something in the school! I knew that and you knew that! We have its name, for Christ's sake!\nFord: That's not what I-\nWarbler: I ought to report y'all to the BBB for wasting my time. \"Ha ha, I'm the SCP Foundation, for five easy payments of heaven knows how many zeroes on your damn checks, we'll sit on our thumbs and tell you everything you already knew about the literal demon out for your children! We're the good guys!\"\nWarbler: You're lucky this is 2009, boy, because if you sat there looking stupid back in my day-\nFord: I don't think the Warbalang is working alone!\nWarbler, whose next words had been obscured by Ford's interjection, cuts himself off. There is another pause.\nWarbler: \u2026 an insider, then. How did you\u2026 come about that?\nAnother pause.\nFord: Do you know what a \"eunuch angel\" is?\nWarbler: No.\nFord: What about\u2026 say, \"the land of blood and basalt\"?\nWarbler: No\u2026 but I assume that means \"Hell\".\nFord: \"Boneless malevolence\"?\nWarbler: You mean \"benevolence\".\nAnother pause.\nWarbler: You haven't been listening in on our sermons, have you? I appreciate your dedication to the Lord, but you have a job do, son.\nFord: But, what does it-\nWarbler: It's another way to say \"the Holy Spirit\". More importantly, brother, I'm very concerned with how you're handling this investigation. It sounds to me like you stuck your nose where it didn't belong, jumped to your own conclusions, then came to me with a lurid tale based entirely on a half-remembered sermon.\nWarbler: Anything else?\nFord: I\u2026 one more question.\nWarbler: Yes?\nFord: We were briefed that you didn't have CCTV. But I was exploring, within the red tape, mind you, and\u2026 I saw a camera. Why\u2026 why didn't you tell us?\nAnother pause.\nWarbler: Bless your heart. You've just been fucking with me.\nA loud crash can be heard. Ford screams, possibly falling out of their chair and running from the room. They continue running for approximately two minutes, before the tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 5]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 9]\nWhateley: -this place. It's creepy as hell and I can't even take a piss without asking the faculty.\nSchumer: Come on, Sammy. We've got a job to do, you know?\nWhateley: Not according to them. Are we some kind of set dressing? \"Oh no, you can't film the creep stealing children! What about privacy? What about fucking privacy for the fucking cradle robber?! Think of the children, or at least the thing that steals them!\"\nBelloso: Samson.\nWhateley: You listened to those tapes, Ren. \"Too rural\" my fat ass! Cameras!\nBelloso: We don't know that.\nWhateley: So Ford's a liar, now?\nBelloso: Of course not. But right now, all we know is that somewhere on campus, there's something that looks like a camera. Getting information out of that camera is another issue entirely.\nWhateley: Semantics, Rene.\nBelloso: Well, Agent Whateley, why don't we go down there ourselves? Look for everything Ford missed.\nSchumer: I\u2026\nAgent Schumer trails off. All remain silent for several seconds.\nBelloso: \u2026 yes, Agent Schumer?\nSchumer: Well\u2026 I mean, at this point, do they\u2026 I have to concur with Sammy. How much do they actually want us to solve this case?\nBelloso: Enough to pay us, agents. Why else do you cram four people into a crowded tent on the edge of the woods? Enrichment? We're not hikers, and let's not pretend we're anything more than magic cops with a lower market rate than the next most competent bidder.\nBelloso: And you know what? Yes, I'm just as confused about everything I've heard as everyone else on the force. But evidence of a third party is evidence of a third party, and you can't charge tuition fees on a missing child. We can stand to play along with their delusions if the alternative is an unconditional victory for SCP-5952.\nAll remain silent for several seconds.\nBelloso: Ford, Schumer, you two get some rest. Samson, let's table this business until after night watch, alright? We'll look into this tomorrow, as a team.\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 9]\n\n+ 08/07/2009\n\nAccess granted.\n\nAUDIO LOG-5952-C\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1.1]\nThe tape begins in an indoors environment, against the sound of AC. Several sets of footsteps can be heard as Researcher Ford clears their throat.\nFord: This is Junior Researcher Ford, Field Researcher for Theta-Six, and it's-\nAnother agent says something indistinct.\nFord: (now whispering) Right. Witch Hunters is investigating the Whitewater maintenance tunnels, or whatever they are. Overfill classrooms? Storage? I don't know.\nFord grumbles, and remains silent. No words are spoken for approximately four minutes, although MTF-\u03b86 occasionally stops, presumably to inspect their surroundings.\nFinally, MTF-\u03b86 arrives in an area with an audible heat-pump device. Something causes Ford to grunt in apparent surprise.\nSchumer: (indistinct) -Ford?\nFord remains silent for several seconds.\nWhateley: You alright, buddy?\nFord: Uh\u2026 yeah, yeah. I think\u2026 I think I saw a rat. It looked like it was shaved.\nWhateley: I don't like this school.\nMTF-\u03b86 continues.\n[END LOG 1.1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1.3]\nFord: (still whispering) Having kept better track, I know we're underground right now, so keep that in mind.\nFord: We're standing at the edge of a hallway, about fifty feet or so. The walls are a bit\u2026 drab? Off-peach paint, dotted with one or two of those motivational posters they had in grade school. Fluorescent lighting, but two of the three are flickering something fierce. Six doors, the kind where you're not sure if it's wood or plastic. Reminds me a bit of the old hall they had the Sunday school classes in back when I was a kid.\nFord: At the end's a stairway. Goes up, maybe to the surface. I'm getting a bad feeling from it, and I don't know how much of that's the scenery.\nFord: Whenever y'all're ready.\nMTF-\u03b86 advances slowly, their footsteps muffled by carpeting.\nFord: Door one, right side. Looks like there was a nameplate here, but it's gone now. Blocked off by red tape. Continuing on.\nFord: Door two, left side. Still got its name plate. Looks like\u2026 yeah, \"Sunday school teen\". Doesn't appear to be blocked off. Officer Belloso?\nAgent Belloso can be heard grunting in affirmation, before knocking on the door. There is no response, and the door is opened shortly thereafter.\nFord: \u2026 not sure what I expected. Room looks like a Sunday school classroom. Some drawers, few posters. Looks pretty clean, but it is Saturday. And\u2026\nFord sniffs.\nFord: Hrm. Smells like\u2026 a bit like your hands after eating lox. Not as tasty. (slightly louder) Anyone else smell that?\nSilence.\nFord: Right. Belloso's moving to door three, on the left again. Nameplate says it's\u2026 says it's Elder Rockwell's office. No tape, but I don't know if Elder Rockwell wants to see us right now. Right. We're skipping this one.\nFord: As for door four, on the right again\u2026 nameplate says it's-\n[END LOG 1.3]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1.4]\nThe existence of Log 1.4 is purely speculative, derived from the sudden shift from the end of Log 1.3 to the next section of audio.\n[END LOG 1.4]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 1.5]\nResearcher Ford, audibly crying, is heard running through a hard-floored hallway. According to the sound of footsteps, they are most likely alone; however, a steady squelching noise can be heard in the background.\nApproximately three minutes pass, and the squelching gradually diminishes to the point of inaudibility; however, Ford continues running for approximately four and a half more minutes, before collapsing to the ground with a shout of pain.\nOver the course of six more minutes, Ford remains silent save for sobbing. Suddenly, they make an effort to quiet themselves.\nFurther down the hallway, the sound of hobbled footsteps can be heard.\nFord soon attempts to silently crawl away, picking up the tape recorder. Meanwhile, the sound of footsteps continues, and begins getting louder.\nApproximately a minute later, Ford suddenly screams. They remain screaming as the footsteps get closer and are soon joined by a series of pained wheezes. It's at this point that the tape recorder is thrown at something hard, eliciting a sharp grunt from an unknown figure.\nThe footsteps stop; the pained wheezes do not.\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 1]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 2]\nIt is presumed that due to its differing gait, constant wheezing, and apparent unwillingness to speak, the Unknown Figure currently in possession of the tape recorder is not Researcher Ford.\nThe Unknown Figure appears to be present in an air-conditioned room. It soon abandons the recorder on a hard surface, only to return several minutes later with what appear to be books. The Unknown Figure proceeds to flip through the books in apparent hurry, occasionally grunting in apparent distress.\nAfter several more minutes, the tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 2]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 4]\nThe Unknown Figure appears to be crawling through a cramped indoor environment. Two figures, identified as Agents Belloso and Whateley, can be heard from behind a wall.\nBelloso: -isn't the time, Samson.\nWhateley: I hate it when you try to play smartass, Ren. You didn't know shit about the Veil until they scooped you up and spat you onto the force. You know that I've been this, Ren?\nBelloso: Really. Apologies, then. I wasn't aware that children were expendable assets.\nWhateley: Fuck you, asshole! Was Amelia expendable? What about Ford? Was all this just some stupid sacrificial fucking pit to throw half of Witch Hunters down? Are we just going to hope the Warbalang gets too fucking fat on the meat of an actual adult and every tool they had on hand to stop it? \"Let he who is without sin cast himself into the fucking whirlpool\"!\nBelloso: Samson, what's gotten into you?\nWhateley: I don't know, but I hope it gets into you. Yes, I worry about the mission, yes I worry about the children, but what kind of saviors can't even save their own? We need to go back for them, Ren, God damn whatever came out of that pool.\nBoth remain silent for several seconds.\nBelloso: \u2026 fine. We'll backtrack, looking out for Schumer and Ford as we do. But if we find anything of interest to the mission along the way, we take care of it first. Alright?\nWhateley: Right. And\u2026\nBoth remain silent for several more seconds, before Agent Whateley sighs.\nWhateley: \u2026 I'm sorry, Ren. For all of that. I just\u2026\nBelloso: You're forgiven.\nThe two can be heard walking off. The tape recorder is switched off shortly thereafter.\n[END LOG 4]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 8]\nThe tape begins with the Unknown Figure inside what is presumably the freezer from the day before. With it is another Unknown Entity, apparently still but making a constant gurgling sound.\nThe Unknown Figure paces around the room for several minutes before suddenly stopping. After a few seconds, it sets the tape recorder down.\nOver the next minute, a wet smacking can be heard as the Unknown Entity begins screaming in apparent pain. Finally, it goes silent.\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 8]\n\n[BEGIN LOG 14]\nUnknown Girl: (distant, singing) -to the brim with girlish glee, three little maids from school! Everything is a-\nThe tape recorder is switched off.\n[END LOG 14]\n\nINCIDENT-5952-B SCHUMER-VELASQUEZ-FORD\nOn 08/08/2009 at 10:31 AM, WWSCSTT administration forcibly detained Agents Rene Belloso and Samson Whateley as they explored the campus grounds. After subjection to a round of enhanced interrogation, the two agents were informed that Luna Velasquez had gone missing, and that the SCP Foundation was considered at fault for her disappearance.\nAgents Belloso and Whateley protested; however, WWSCSTT procured Junior Researcher Ford's tape recorder as evidence of collusion between SCP-5952 and the Foundation. With this in mind, WWSCSTT filed a suit against the Foundation.\nFollowing an impromptu convention of SUSEOCT representatives, the Foundation was officially declared at fault for the disappearance of Luna Velasquez3, and subsequently coerced into paying reparations to WWSCSTT in exchange for Agents Belloso and Whateley.\nAgent Amelia Schumer's remains were found on 08/14/2009.\nContrary to claims by WWSCSTT, the whereabouts of Junior Researcher Ford, SCP-5952, and Ms. Velasquez are unknown.\n\nINCIDENT-5952-C-FORD\nOn 10/19/2009 at 22:01 PM, Elliot Ngo, a resident of Whitewater commuting along MS 26 from his job in the town of Starling, reported a short male of African descent dragging a bound figure of indeterminate origin along the side of the road. The pair was apprehended by the Whitewater Police Department; LITTLEKATIE.aic, which had been tasked with monitoring the executive organs of Whitewater, subsequently alerted the SCP Foundation. Mobile Task Force Gamma-691 (\"When Something Interesting Happens\") was immediately deployed in response.\nAgents arrived at the station to find an African-American male and an entity of indeterminate species in custody; upon spotting the agents, the male immediately produced a valid ID for Junior Researcher Markus Ford. Both were taken into custody of the Foundation.\nAn immediate medical evaluation of Researcher Ford indicated severe malnutrition and dehydration, as well as trauma responses incongruent with their known psychological profile: Researcher Ford now displays acute cleithro-, teuthi-, and mechanophobia, as well as extended states of hypervigilance. They are mentally unfit for interrogation as of the time of writing, and have been placed on an eight month psychiatric leave.\nThe entity captured by Ford, presumed to be SCP-5952 and tentatively designated URA-5952, has been genetically identified as an instance of SoI-0044. At the time of recovery, it possessed numerous bruises indicative of struggle, as well as a deep puncture wound in its back. Due to the dearth of information on SoI-004 physiology, little more can be ascertained at present.\nIn light of Incident-5952-C-Ford, URA-5952 will be designated SCP-5952 and transferred to the jurisdiction of USNVBR-Site-56 after 1 year without incident. Until then, URA-5952 will be contained at Outpost-691 per SoI-004's guidelines.\n\n+ Show (1) Proposed Additions\n\nINCIDENT-5952-D ROMERO-VELASQUEZ\n\nOn 04/29/2010, the annual full-capacity activation of the Foundation PANOPTICON surveillance network was conducted. During this time, PANOPTICON's resident Artificial Intelligence Construct5 flagged footage of a teenage girl in a public park in Toronto, Ontario. A review by the office of O5-10 determined the woman to be Marie Romero, a 15-year-old Cuban-Canadian female who had recently immigrated to Canada.\nWhen questioned, however, ASE.aic denied that the figure was Ms. Romero, insisting her to be the missing Luna Velasquez.\nFoundation Overwatch was initially skeptical of such claims, citing [REDACTED]. However, investigation by agents embedded in both the Canadian and Cuban governments revealed severe inconsistencies in Ms. Romero's documentation. Furthermore, medical records of Celia Fernandez, Ms. Romero's maternal guardian, were inconsistent with those expected during Ms. Romero's birth, and no formal adoption documentation relating to either of her guardians could be found.\nAgent Bowers was dispatched to investigate the Romero family, under the cover of impromptu census work.\n\nINTERVIEW-5952-I\n\nDATE: 05/12/2010\nSUBJECT: PoI-6119 (\"Marie Romero\")\n\n[BEGIN LOG 2]\nAgent Bowers: Good afternoon, Ms. Romero. Or would you prefer if I call you \"Marie\"?\nPoI-6119: Am I in trouble?\nAgent Bowers: Don't worry, Ms. Romero, this is just routine survey work. Some of this might sound a bit silly, but I promise you there's no wrong answers, and once we're done I'll be on my way. Alright?\nAgent Bowers observes that PoI-6119 pauses, before nodding.\nAgent Bowers: Good, good. (Agent Bowers flips to the next page of his handout) Now, our records are a bit\u2026 jumbled, one could say. There's a tiny bit we need to work out in demographics. So\u2026 religiously, how would you say you identify?\nPoI-6119: Er\u2026 Jewish.6\nAgent Bowers: Right, right. So\u2026 how about ethnically?\nPoI-6119: Well\u2026 latina? Or hispanic. I don't know if it makes a difference. I mean, I was born in Canada, so\u2026 yeah.\nAgent Bowers: Eh, we'll put you down for either.\n[EXTRANEOUS DATA OMITTED]\nAgent Bowers: Good. (Agent Bowers flips to the next page of his handout) Now, the state of Canada is testing viral advertisement techniques in order to improve the quality of its PSAs. As part of this, you might have come across an image, video, or portion of text you may or may not recognize.\nPoI-6119: Alllllright. Shoot.\nAgent Bowers: Right.\nAgent Bowers presents PoI-6119 with the first image, a mental primer for the two-factor Class-W Mnestic cognitohazards inserted into the subsequent pictures.\nAgent Bowers: Can you tell me what this is?\nPoI-6119: I\u2026 like, you mean like a rorschach?\nAgent Bowers: More\u2026 what you think the image is.\nPoI-6119: I\u2026 moldy garden hoses?\nAgent Bowers: Right, right. This one?\nAgent Bowers presents PoI-6119 with a picture of Ava Fernandez, PoI-6119's supposed maternal grandmother. Ava Fernandez died on 02/21/2008; the picture had been taken two years before.\nPoI-6119: \u2026 I don't\u2026 I don't think I've seen this, no. Is it\u2026 is the brightness supposed to be like that?7\nAgent Bowers: That's alright, that's part of the campaign. Now, what about this?\nAgent Bowers presents PoI-6119 with an image of URA-5952.\nAgent Bowers: What about-\nPoI-6119: No. I haven't seen this.\nAgent Bowers: Huh. This was the one we thought would work. Have you at least heard of \"the Warba-\"\nPoI-6119: I. Haven't. Seen it.\nAgent Bowers: \u2026 right. What about this?\nAgent Bowers presents PoI-6119 with a print-out of the phrase \"BONELESS BENEVOLENCE\". Both remain silent for several seconds.\nAgent Bowers: \u2026 you don't need to spend so long on it if you don't remember it. Arguably, that you don't remember it is just as helpful to know as if you did.\nBoth remain silent for several seconds.\nAgent Bowers: Is some-\nPoI-6119: Don't take me back.\nAgent Bowers: \u2026 what do you mean by that?\nPoI-6119: You don't have to do this. Please don't \u2014 (PoI-6119 interrupts herself with a whimper) \u2026 I promise I'm better. I'm clean.\nAgent Bowers: I\u2026 don't worry, Ms. Romero, we're-\nPoI-6119: I swear I've learned to love the Lord. I repudiate the egregore8. I repudiate the flesh that envies. I repudiate Eve and Lilith and the serpent and (stuttering) I, I, I s-submit to, to the Lord and his Red R-right\u2026\nPoI-6119 begins sobbing.\nPoI-6119: I swear I didn't want to escape with the Warbalang, I swear I swear I swear I didn't mean to get caught and I swear I'm not troubled anymore and-\nPoI-6119's words become indistinct as Agent Bowers is suddenly and forcefully dragged away from her, eliciting audible shock from him. Agent Bowers is dragged along a wooden flooring, before a door is opened.\nMrs. Fernandez: I think it's time for you to leave.\nAgent Bowers is forcibly ejected from the premises.\n[END LOG 2]\n\nCLOSING NOTES: PoI-6119 and her family have refused further contact with the Foundation. Due to their exposure to mnestics, amnesticization has been delayed.\nSUSEOCT prohibits further investigation of WWSCSTT.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A subsidiary branch of the Horizon Initiative active in the Southern United States, and a party to the SUSEOCT.\n2. Southern United States Extranormal Organization Cooperation Treaty.\n3. Of note is that GoI-5705B's representatives voted against the Foundation unanimously, the only GoI to do so.\n4. A near-extinct offshoot of humanity with a highly malleable physiology, thought to have been the product of controlled breeding efforts by Homo sapiens decensus.\n5. ASE.aic\n6. Ms. Velasquez's family were Christian Baptists; Mrs. Fernandez is ethnically Jewish, though her family is religiously atheistic.\n7. Under laboratory conditions, \"brightness\" has been reported among 49% of those exposed to the two-factor mnestic cognitohazards, with 76% of such cases occurring among the control group without relevant memories.\n8. In certain occult sects, an \"egregore\" is a sapient being created from the thoughts and desires of a collective.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5951 | SCP-5952 | SCP-5953 \u00bb\n\n/\n\nChrist In Scarlet\n\nA Dove In A Chicken Pen"}
{"text": "by stormbreath\n\nSCP-5953 being deployed to fight the Dolphin's Posadist Republic of Indonesia. Last known photo prior to defection.\n\nItem #: SCP-5953\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5953 are allowed to remain outside of containment. Individual agreements have been reached with each instance, ensuring cooperation with the Foundation. All members have agreed to remain in the isolated ocean, and avoid contact with the outside world.\nDescription: SCP-5953 is a group of thirty Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphins) that were anomalously augmented by the United States Navy Marine Mammal Program from 1964 to 1987, at the direction and assistance of PENTAGRAM. SCP-5953 was intended to train a new class of soldier capable of performing tasks underwater, such as ship protection, mine clearance and reconnaissance.\nKey modifications made to SCP-5953 include:\n\nTethering consciousness of dolphins to pre-existing, disembodied thought-form entities residing in the human noosphere, causing the fusion of both minds. Resulting combination minds had human level intelligence.\nImplanting of synthetic voice box, allowing for synthesized human speech.\nIntegrating various forms of electronic detection systems into the brain, allowing them to be used as traditional senses. Includes sonar, radio and Kant counters.\nGenetically modifying with DNA sourced from the Scarlet King, with slight adaptations for compatibility with dolphin physiology rather than whale. Increased vitality, lifespan and physical size of specimens.\nEducation in various magical principles. Each SCP-5953 was educated by former ICSUT professors, and given a degree equivalent from the institution.\n\nIn 1987, an armed conflict between the Dolphin's Posadist Republic of Indonesia and the Great Barrier Reef Empire-In-Exile resulted in the United States Navy becoming aware of the existence of SCP-3932. The communist leanings of the Dolphin's Posadist Republic of Indonesia resulted in the United States Navy determining the dolphins were a threat, and beginning to plan countermeasures to prevent a united underwater cetacean Communist state.\nThe entirety of active SCP-5953 instances were deployed to assist the Great Barrier Reef Confederacy in its war against the DPRI. Upon arrival, all SCP-5953 instances immediately defected from the US Navy and denounced American imperialism.\nThe various members of SCP-5953 began to ingratiate themselves into the society of the three SCP-3932-\u0394 nations. Due to their advanced intelligence and military education under the United States Navy, most quickly ascended to lead the militaries of the three states. During their control of the militaries, combat was improved strategically but saw a marked reduction in casualties. A d\u00e9tente was soon declared following that, entering into a period of cold war.\n\nINTERVIEW LOG TRANSCRIPT\n\nDr. Warlowe: We weren't sure if you'd be willing to show up.\nSCP-5953-30: I wasn't sure if I was either. Still not particularly sure. Only the thought that I could knock everyone out here is keeping me here.\nDr. Warlowe: You're the first one that's been willing to actually talk to us. We've been trying to get ahold of any of you ever since you defected.\nSCP-5953-30: Not that surprising. Even putting aside the fact that we don't really find your association with our creators agreeable, we've all been rather busy since then.\nDr. Warlowe: You're not busy?\nSCP-5953-30: Just stepped down from my former position yesterday, actually. I'm retired, of a sort. I'm sure it won't last long.\nDr. Warlowe: Why not? You think you'll get drawn back into the role?\nSCP-5953-30: Yeah. It's not a question of if but when. I don't age and I'm smarter than any of them. Something is going to go wrong one of these days, and they'll need me to fix it. Might take years, but it'll happen. Immortals don't really retire.\nDr. Warlowe: I get the sense you don't feel like you belong down there?\nSCP-5953-30: Ha, you could say that. Yeah. I'm bigger than any of them, stronger, smarter, everything. I've got fucking godblood in me. They took the Scarlet King's DNA and just spliced it into the rest of me. An actual goddamn demon.\nDr. Warlowe: Ah. Yeah, I can see feeling out of place in that circumstance.\nSCP-5953-30: You'd think, but I actually never felt more at home than down with them. They're my people and there's no denying that fact. I said I don't belong. I feel that, yeah. Feel both. But I feel that I belong more than I feel that I don't.\nDr. Warlowe: Why's that?\nSCP-5953-30: You're fucking humans, for god's sake. Why do I think that I fit in with the dolphins better? Because they're actually still dolphins. Even if I'm a god, they're my mortals.\nSCP-5953-30: That was the whole bit we played up when we got down there. It wasn't just \"oh, we're super powered dolphins and we're here to help!\", it was \"We're angels, and we're here to save you.\" Didn't mention it was from themselves, of course.\nDr. Warlowe: Is this related to the reason that you defected?\nSCP-5953-30: Sure was. I grow up my whole life being raised by primates, and then you're surprised when I leave them behind as soon as I find people I can actually connect to? We spent our whole life in captivity up to that point. I didn't think there was anyone like me in the entire world. Are you really surprised?\nDr. Warlowe: No. I don't think I am. It's more surprising your handlers thought it was a good idea to send you to war.\nSCP-5953-30: Well, they forgot to realize we were people. With our own emotions. We were just weapons to them.\nDr. Warlowe: Right. We've seen that you've reduced war-time deaths and even gott-\nSCP-5953-30: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The d\u00e9tente. We kept up with what was going in the outside world and we looked at our little group of dolphins. There are barely any, by the way. Total population is something like 75,000. Could be wiped out in an instant. And they're constantly trying to kill each other.\nDr. Warlowe: So you took control of the militaries in order to stop wars?\nSCP-5953-30: That was the plan, yeah. Had to slow it down and cool things off before we could get it to a stalemate, but we got it there. Took a while.\nDr. Warlowe: What's the plan now?\nSCP-5953-30: Honestly? I'm not sure. We've saved them, for the moment, for now. But they're not out of the woods yet. But I guess, that's why I'm here to talk to you.\nDr. Warlowe: Oh?\nSCP-5953-30: I know how you operate. You want to keep anomalies around, for whatever reason. You're not the type to wipe us out. You want us alive, don't you?\nDr. Warlowe: Yes. At least on some level. We don't want you dead.\nSCP-5953-30: Just what I wanted to hear. I feel like I'm making a deal with the devil, but ah. I think I'm the devil in this situation.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5952 | SCP-5953 | SCP-5954 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Still from recovered civilian videotape, documenting the emergence of SCP-5954.\n\nItem #: SCP-5954\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A team of Foundation ethnobotanical researchers has been retained at Site-77 to study its form and foster its cooperation in studying other plant-based anomalies. Certain privileges have been afforded to SCP-5954 to ensure its future cooperation, including a prerogative over any mundane houseplants possessed by Foundation employees and contractors at Site-77.\nControlled release of its gases is performed by Mobile Task Force Psi-7. This process is embarrassing for SCP-5954, and care should be taken to ensure its comfort and future cooperation with containment operations.\nDescription: SCP-5954 is an amalgamation of organic materials taxonomically classified within the Eukaryotic domain and Plantae kingdom. SCP-5954 is sapient, possessing cognitive capabilities comparable to an adult human, and self-identifies as \u201cStakemaster of the Vines, Protector of Potting Soils, defender of Fertilized Civilization, sixth of his name Ferda Lorenzo.\u201d\nWhile SCP-5954 can incorporate any matter composed of plant cells into its body, it has only attempted absorbing vegetables grown under its supervision. The cells do not need to be alive, and once absorbed typically begin dying after 4-6 weeks. Decomposing plant matter causes flammable gas build-up within SCP-5954, which will ignite unexpectedly and without warning.\nAlthough capable of communicating with both humans and plants, SCP-5954 primarily communes with the latter. SCP-5954 is disinterested in speaking unless it can talk about plants or \u201cmy medical condition.\u201d1\nSCP-5954 enjoys cultivating plants, possessing the capability to detect their emotional state post-germination. While being willing to listen to Foundation horologists, SCP-5954 habitually dismisses their advice in caring for plants. Generally, SCP-5954's personality can be described as cooperative but temperamental, preferring things to be done a certain way.\nHistory: Although claiming to have lived for several centuries in \u201cThe Kingdom of Elrich\u201d SCP-5954's existence only became known to the Foundation following its emergence from the Atlantic Ocean on 09/18/1981.\nIts explosive by-product was pronounced, causing damage to several civilian structures and multiple casualties before Mobile Task Force Psi-7 could be scrambled in response. Following containment, the damage was attributed to a violent waterspout triggering a gas leak.\nSurvivors were admitted to Safe Contour Therapy Practitioners, a Foundation front, where they were convinced what they saw was the result of traumatic psychosis. The stigma of mental illness is believed to be enough to ensure their continued silence on the incident.\n\nContainment Log Transcript\n\nAccess Granted\n\nPreface: Agents of Psi-7 were transported via helicopter to Miami Beach, where police reports of a \u2018bomb-throwing garden shed' had been reported alongside widespread urban destruction. Transcript begins following their drop-off as they followed the trail of damage and fire to SCP-5954's location.\n<Begin log>\nEkblad: Command, this is Commander Calvin Ekblad, we've arrived on the beach, over.\nCommand: Confirmed. Check in, all agents, over.\nBjugstad: Bjugstad here, looks like a lot of churned-up sand. See a few beach towels, umbrellas, but doesn't look like there were a lot of people here. Lifeguard stand is toast, over.\nDam: Hannah Dam checking in. Just finished inspecting the surf, there's a trail of seaweed dragged out of the water and onto the sand. But it stops right by a crater in the sand, like someone buried a grenade after pulling the pin, over.\nJefferson: Blah blah, Chuck Jefferson, over. Dam, you don't know a damned thing about grenades. For one thing, you wouldn't have time to bury it after you pulled the pin, not least because the depth you'd need to make the crater this size'd be-\nDam: I wasn't speaking in any professional capacity on craters or bombs, I think we all know how metaphors work.\nJefferson: Do they? I've never heard a metaphor that worked as intended. Similes, on the other hand-\nEkblad: Enough. There's an arm sticking out of the beach here.\nBjugstad: Anybody attached?\nEkblad: Negative. Only identifying marks\u2026 paint on the remaining nails, with ring tan on a finger. Let's move out. Nothing more we can do here. We can inspect the scene after the skip is inert. Command, you reading us still, over?\nCommand: Loud and clear. Proceed with the mission. Law enforcement is evacuating the area.\nEkblad: Perfect. Thank you, over.\nBjugstad: Command, we're heading out to the street. Not as much obvious destruction, apart from scorch marks and what's left of a fire hydrant, over.\nDam: There's no remains left, looks like it's losing pressure too.\nJefferson: Char marks smell like methane. Collecting some of the residue.\nEkblad: I've got visual contact. Directly ahead of us.Ekblad: Bjugs, initiate communication. I've got you covered.\nBjugstad approaches SCP-5954\nBjugstad: Do you understand me?Bjugstad: What is your condition?Bjugstad: Can you speak in plain terms? And we're willing to assist you, if you come with us willingly.Dam: Command, we might need extraction by sea. The anomaly-\nSCP-5954's lower body is ruptured by an explosion, scorching a mailbox while incinerating its content, shattering the glass facades of several nearby businesses, and spraying dead seaweed onto the Psi-7 agents.\nDam: \u2026 The anomaly would not be suited for air transport.\nJefferson: I like this one. Can we keep it?\n</End Log>\n\nAddendum: Dr. Chelsea Elliot was flown in from the United States following SCP-5954's containment, as her expertise in anomalous vegetation was relevant to studying SCP-5954. The following transcript is from an interview which took place directly before Incident 5954-H.\n\nInterview Transcript\n\nAccess Granted\n\n<Begin Log>\nElliot: Good morning, 5954.Elliot: We can't rehash this every time I sit down to speak with you. It was difficult enough to convince my higher-ups that to give you the respect of using the title in written communications.Elliot: You know I can't tell you that.Elliot: Speaking of buds, I've heard you're not happy with the plants you've been allowed to care for. Is that right, 5954?Elliot: I sympathize. Sometimes I walk through the cubicles here and wonder what people are thinking, leaving their houseplants half-dead.Elliot: Oh, erm, not on purpose. Some of them take very good care of their plants. I know I do.Elliot: I'm sorry, I really am. I'll be back to finish up tonight. We can talk about ways to help these plants out, okay?</End Log>\n\nAddendum: Incident 5954-H\nOn 04/12/1984, SCP-5954's containment chamber was checked as part of standard security protocols and found to be vacant. A subsequent search of Site-77's upper levels found that all houseplants in the personnel work and living spaces had also vanished.\nBoth SCP-5954 and the missing plants were subsequently re-discovered back inside of its containment chamber.\n\nAccess Debriefing Transcript\n\nAccess Granted\n\n<Begin Log>Elliot: You've got to be kidding me. Ferda, what if your\u2026 medical condition flared up out there? Someone could've gotten hurt. What if you'd burned a shrubbery?Elliot: You can't just go taking other people's things. We were working together to help take care of them, right? What happened to that?Elliot: You're being dramatic, it's not on death's door.Elliot: Oh, that poor thing. I'll see if I can get it some more help. But still. That doesn't mean you're allowed to come and go as you please. We've got you in this spot for a reason.Elliot: \u2026 So, you're saying these plants were causing you psychic pain?Elliot: That\u2026 we can work with that.\n</End Log>\nPostscript: SCP-5954 has been given purview over houseplants within Site-77; any personnel wishing to have plants at their desks or in their living areas will be provided with plastic replicas until they are approved by Dr. Elliot.\n\nFootnotes\n1. A euphemism SCP-5954 uses to describe its spontaneous combustion.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5953 | SCP-5954 | SCP-5955 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5955\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the size and physical properties of SCP-5955, complete containment has been deemed impossible, but partial physical containment is being upheld. To that end, a loose perimeter has been set up around SCP-5955 using buoys.\nOn the night of July 3rd, from 20:00 to 05:00, the lights of the establishments on the Atlantic City boardwalk are to remain off in order to avoid degrading SCP-5955-1 instances. Oceanic Task Force Delta-7 (\"Bay Watchers\") are to deter any civilian ships away from the mass of SCP-5955 and supplied with Standard Cover Story 51 - \"Intensive Weather\". OTF Delta-7 are to guide SCP-5955-1 instances away from the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey to ensure civilian safety. Efforts to repurpose SCP-5955-1 instances for Foundation use are currently underway.\nFor the remainder of the year, SCP-5955 must be \"fed\" two thousand kilograms of plastic, styrofoam, discarded fishing gear, and other refuse every two weeks. Any notable shrinkage in SCP-5955's mass is to be reported to the Site-45 director. Depending on the amount of mass lost, anywhere from one to four additional unmanned trash boats are to be set on a collision course with the area SCP-5955 resides. Recovery of these boats should be performed if possible. Two Scranton Reality Anchors (\"SRAs\") are to remain on opposite sides of SCP-5955's perimeter to disable SCP-5955's anomalous magnetism, and to ensure anomalous weather behavior does not occur. SCP-5955 must weigh at least four tons to ensure its primary ability properly disables. If SCP-5955 weighs any less than four tons at any time, its primary ability will re-enable regardless of SRA presence.\nDescription: SCP-5955 is a large sphere composed of human flesh. For the majority of the year, SCP-5955 remains hidden underwater. Despite this, SCP-5955 attracts refuse within a radius of about thirty meters to itself, suctioning the collected waste under water. Each year on July third from 20:00 to 05:00 UCT, SCP-5955 will rise from beneath the water, remaining stationary in the air.\nDuring this period, a collection of autonomous mechanisms composed of various waste materials (designated SCP-5955-1) will emerge from SCP-5955. SCP-5955-1 instances vary in appearance, although all instances to date appeared to resemble different wildlife native to Atlantic City. A list of specific SCP-5955-1 instances is available upon request.\nAfter emergence, SCP-5955-1 instances begin to roam the coast within 150 kilometers of Atlantic City and collect foreign materials from the surrounding area. In the presence of artificial light, SCP-5955-1 instances will begin to rapidly degrade. This causes SCP-5955 to produce instances at a rapid rate, and expand its magnetism to 100 meters. Before SCP-5955-1 instances return to SCP-5955, at least one will use collected refuse to spell out a message on the boardwalk. After SCP-5955-1 instances complete refuse collection at 4:55, they will transport discovered materials beneath SCP-5955. SCP-5955 will then absorb collected refuse and SCP-5955-1 and re-submerge beneath the ocean surface.\nAddendum: SCP-5955 Yearly Behavior\nThe following records notable behavior during SCP-5955's years of activity.\n\nYear\nNotable Behavior\nSCP-5955-1 Messages\n\n1975\nFirst year of activity.\nThe turtles appreciate your effort! Please pick this up now!\n\n1986\nSCP-5955 discharges a small amount of mucus.\nTrash is icky. Please pick this up now!\n\n1990\nSCP-5955's anterior appears slightly swelled.\nI want the beaches pretty! Please pick this up now!\n\n1994\nSCP-5955's epidermis gains a few dry rashes.\nFishies want your help! Please pick this up now!\n\n1996\nSCP-5955's posterior appears slightly swelled.\nCigarettes are gross. Please pick this up now!\n\n1999\nAll of the previous changes to SCP-5955 are not present.\nThanks to those who keep the beaches pretty!\n\n2001\nSCP-5955 discharges a significant amount of mucus.\nPlease help! The ocean needs you!\n\n2004\nSCP-5955's epidermis appears pale.\nThe garbage is icky.\n\n2006\nA small collection of blisters forms on SCP-5955's posterior. SCP-5955 is slightly smaller than normal; its size returns when supplied with additional refuse by Delta-7 operatives.\nThanks for helping me with the trash! I thought you gave up\n\n2010\nSCP-5955's epidermis is dry and cracked.\nThe ocean needs you!\n\n2012\nSCP-5955's epidermis is pale red. SCP-5955-1 instance production doubles.\nThe ocean needs you please\n\n2013\nSCP-5955's epidermis is pale green.\nWhy can't you help\n\n2014\nSCP-5955's epidermis is swelled. SCP-5955 emits a putrid odor.\nDo you not like me I just want to help\n\n2015\nSCP-5955 begins to undergo putrefaction, and its magnetism disables.\nYour help is needed\n\n2016\nSCP-5955 appears unchanged. It produces a notably smaller amount of SCP-5955-1 instances.\nPlease help\n\n2017\nSCP-5955 is now significantly smaller; its size does not grow when supplied with additional refuse. While it absorbs the collected refuse, pieces of the collection fall out of SCP-5955.\nPlease\n\n2018\nSCP-5955 produces approximately a dozen SCP-5955-1 instances.\nPlease\n\n2019\nSCP-5955 is unable to absorb the collected trash.\nPlease\n\n2020\nSCP-5955 does not produce SCP-5955-1. It remains stationary in the air.\nN/A\n\nSCP-5955 has not reemerged, nor shown any signs of activity. Re-classification to neutralized is pending.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5954 | SCP-5955 | SCP-5956 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5958\n\nLevel3\n\nContainment Class:\nketer\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nkeneq\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nArtistic depiction of Historical Incident 5958-1. Rightmost individual depicted is believed to be SCP-5958, while all others are instances of SCP-5958-1 .\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All government photographic records that the Foundation has access to are to be periodically scanned for individuals matching the description of SCP-5958. In the event of a confirmed location, Mobile Task Force Zeta-18 (\"Rabble Rousers\") are to be dispatched to the area with orders to capture and contain SCP-5958. MTF Zeta-18 are equipped with long-range tranquilizing equipment, and are not to approach within thirty meters of SCP-5958.\nAll other children within the area of an SCP-5958 sighting are to be considered potential hostiles, and care is to be taken by personnel to avoid arousing their suspicions when pursuing SCP-5958. Any confirmed instances of SCP-5958-1 are to be brought into containment and held until their anomalous effects abate. In cases where SCP-5958-1 instances must be terminated in the fields, cover stories are to be arranged on a case-by-case basis.\nMobile Task Force Beta-18 (\"Clean Sweep\") is permanently assigned to cover-up duty following SCP-5958 appearances. Depending on the level of casualties once the initial situation is resolved, this team is to recontextualize said deaths and distribute a suitable level of amnestics en-masse. Any evidence of the SCP-5958 appearance prior to this correction is to be tracked down and destroyed. Management and obfuscation of SCP-5958 sightings prior to the year 1900 is under the purview of the Historical Department, which will operate separately in this regard.\nIn the event that SCP-5958 is successfully captured, it is to be transported to Installation-92, where subsequent containment procedures have already been prepared. This file will be updated at that time.\nDescription: SCP-5958 is an entity bearing the appearance of a prepubescent human of ambiguous sex and age, which is believed to have existed since at least the year 1212.\nAlthough the fact that SCP-5958 has not yet been brought into custody prevents full investigation of its biology and greater nature, records from previous sightings have provided some information on its identifying characteristics. SCP-5958, regardless of which identity it is currently operating under, has been observed to possess long blonde hair and golden eyes. Typically, it will assume the identity of a runaway child or orphan, presumably in order to justify its lack of family members to those it interacts with.\nSCP-5958 possesses significant psionic1 abilities, having demonstrated the ability to lift objects of up to 4500lbs at a range believed to be up to twenty-five meters. The most common use of this is attack or defense via throwing surrounding objects at extreme speeds, but SCP-5958 has also demonstrated the capacity for finer manipulation \u2014 such as directly puppeteering the bodies of nearby individuals and making fine adjustments to their internal biology, usually for the purposes of inflicting pain or bodily harm.\nSince its original appearance in 1212, SCP-5958 has repeatedly appeared in various locations around the world \u2014 with a significant amount of casualties invariably following, both as a result of its own behaviour and the behaviour of SCP-5958-1 instances. This human suffering appears to be the primary objective behind its behaviour, as it has not been observed to pursue any other goals during its appearances.\nWhen SCP-5958 appears in an area, it will often attempt to ingratiate itself with the local child population, often presenting itself as a friend or playmate when children are in an area outside of adult observation. In the majority of cases, the other children will reciprocate this attention, and \u2014 over the course of several weeks \u2014 become instances of SCP-5958-1.\nSCP-5958-1 is the collective designation for any individual under the age of thirteen who has fallen under the influence of SCP-5958. The only physical marker of this change is a slight yellowing of iris colour, which increases in intensity the longer they remain in proximity to SCP-5958. Regardless of the state of this visual indicator, instances of SCP-5958-1 experience the same anomalous changes:\n\nA strong sense of loyalty towards both SCP-5958 and other children.\nA strong antipathy towards any individual over the age of thirteen, regardless of prior relationship.\nA significantly reduced level of empathy towards others.\nDevelopment of sadistic tendencies, exclusively aimed at individuals over the age of thirteen.\nDevelopment of psionic prowess comparable to SCP-5958's own, barring a lack of fine manipulation capability.\n\nNote that pre-existing personality traits will be retained during this process, and an SCP-5958-1 instance will lose its anomalous properties and return to its previous state if separated from SCP-5958 for an extensive length of time. However, in the majority of cases where this has occurred, the instance has suffered from severe trauma as a result of actions they have taken while under SCP-5958's influence.\nOnce a large number of SCP-5958-1 instances have been assembled, SCP-5958 will generally prompt them to take part in a mass demonstration of their newfound abilities, often resulting in high casualties among the local adult population. SCP-5958 will generally abandon the SCP-5958-1 instances at some point during this process, presumably to avoid the authorities that will inevitably respond.\n\nHistorical Incident 5958-1\n\nThe first known appearance of SCP-5958 occurred in the year 1212, and led to the event referred to in history as the Children's Crusade.\nDuring this first appearance, SCP-5958 took on the moniker of 'Stephen of Cloyes' and claimed to be a shepherd boy who had received a vision from Christ, ordering it to lead a crusade to retake the Holy Land. Under this pretext, SCP-5958 amassed a large number of followers \u2014 the majority being children who later became SCP-5958-1 instances \u2014 and led them across the country of France, devastating numerous communities as it passed through them.\nFollowing an attempt on the life of King Phillip II, mercenaries led by the Vatican's Secretorum Camerus Prophetias2 conducted a series of attacks on SCP-5958 and its followers. During this conflict, Girolamo Gallo \u2014 a member of the Secretorum Camerus Prophetias dispatched to the region \u2014 was assigned to act as a scout against SCP-5958's entourage prior to attacks. He later wrote of the experience in his personal journal3:\n\nThe devil-boy of Cloyes only left his tent when the sun came down \u2014 although the children that followed him had been reveling long before. They had just returned from ransacking the village of Aiffres, and many of the villagers had been stolen away in the process \u2014 floating above the youthful crowd as if held there by invisible string.\nThis Stephen of Cloyes looked from each of these unfortunates to another, his face beatific, and as he did their bodies twisted and split like branches snapped in half, their insides spilling down like rain. The children pranced and danced long into the night in that downpour, and their laughter was unending.\nAs I prepared to leave my position in the undergrowth, the devil-boy looked at me \u2014 and I felt the fear of God \u2014 but he only smiled and nodded towards the floating carcasses as if showing me his good work. I fled for my life immediately.\nWhen I hear the sound of children's laughter now, my heart no longer feels peace, but a great horror that never fades. I recall the golden eyes of Stephen of Cloyes.\n\nThe majority of the SCP-5958-1 instances following SCP-5958 were killed during the attacks conducted by the Secretorum Camerus Prophetias, and those that were not scattered and fled \u2014 either expiring in the wilderness or losing their anomalous properties and fading out of recorded history. Several members of the Secretorum Camerus Prophetias claimed to have slain SCP-5958 following their return to the Vatican, but it is believed these reports are false due to contradictory details.\nIt is speculated that SCP-5958 made several appearances around the world over the following years, but these incidents have not yet been confirmed due to lack of historical documentation.\nThe next confirmed appearance of SCP-5958 was in the year 1284, in the German town of Hamelin. Evidence suggests that, over the course of several weeks, SCP-5958 converted the majority of the town's child population into instances of SCP-5958-1 and led them into an armed revolt against the town's adult population. This led to massive casualties among both groups.\nFollowing this event, SCP-5958 adopted the pattern of appearances that has continued to this day.\n\nIncident 5958-1\n\nPhotograph retrieved from Mark Grierson's phone, believed to depict SCP-5958. File was named 'Anna'.\n\nThe most prominent appearance of SCP-5958 in the modern day occurred on March 8th, 2013, and became known to the public as the Grierson Murder. While evidence of the anomalous factors that contributed to this event has been successfully expunged from public record, full obfuscation was not possible due to the involved family's prominence in society, along with immediate widespread reporting of the crime.\nThe two individuals implicated in the crime \u2014 Mark Grierson, 11, and Lucas Grierson, 12 \u2014 are believed to have come into contact with SCP-5958 several weeks prior. In this case, SCP-5958 was known to the pair as 'Anna', and they frequently met up with the entity at the local park after school. During this time, they became instances of SCP-5958-1.\nIt is unknown whether the Grierson Murder was something that SCP-5958 specifically instructed the pair to carry out, or if it simply followed from the behavioral changes brought about by becoming SCP-5958-1 instances.\nOn the evening of 08/03/2018, Mark and Lucas Grierson's parents, actors Harry and Philomena Grierson, left their home for an anniversary dinner. They hired neighbor Susan Stone, 18, to babysit their two sons during this time. Stone had looked after the children numerous times previously, and was considered a close friend of the family.\nDue to the presence of a home security system in the Grierson household, video recordings of the ensuing events are available \u2014 this system did not record audio, however. The following is an extract from the relevant portion of said log:\n\n[BEGIN RECORDING]\n\n18:12: Mark, Lucas and Susan are sat in the living room, watching television. Susan is sat on one side of the couch, while Mark and Lucas are sat on the opposite end \u2014 they appear to be making a conscious effort to maintain space between themselves and Susan. Susan glances at the two boys, looking confused, but does not comment.\n18:15: Mark leans towards Lucas and appears to whisper something into his ear. Lucas looks towards Susan, then nods. Following this, Lucas then gets up from the couch, says something to Susan \u2014 who nods \u2014 and then proceeds to leave the room.\n18:16: Lucas enters the family garage and begins rummaging around in a box of miscellaneous affects.\n18:17: Mark walks into the kitchen and pours himself a glass of Coke, spilling some of it in the process. He also retrieves a box of matches from a high drawer via use of a chair. He then returns to the living room and sits down on the couch. Susan says something to him, but he appears to ignore her.\n18:19: Lucas retrieves a wooden baseball bat from the box and proceeds back towards the living room.\n18:20: Lucas enters the living room, baseball bat in hand, and begins sneaking up behind Susan.\n18:21: Susan says something and begins getting up from the couch. Lucas swings the baseball bat towards her head as she gets up, but misses. Appearing alarmed, Susan whirls around and snatches the bat from his hands, pointing a finger towards him as she scolds him. Mark glances towards Susan.\n18:22: Susan suddenly goes flying into the far wall with such force that cracks are left in its surface. The light fixture on the ceiling sways slightly from residual force. After floating in place for a moment, Susan falls away from the wall, unconscious.\n18:23: Mark gets up from the couch, looks towards Lucas, and says something to him. Lucas moves behind the television and begins unplugging the cabling.\n18:24: Mark proceeds towards the garage, retrieves a bucket, and places it next to the fuel tank of the family's second car. Lucas retrieves the cabling from behind the television and uses it to bind Susan's arms and legs.\n18:25: A large hole suddenly appears in the vehicle's fuel tank \u2014 presumably through application of psionic force \u2014 and fuel begins spilling out into the bucket. Mark kneels down and holds the bucket steady as it is filled.\n18:27: Susan begins to recover consciousness, and visibly panics and protests when she becomes aware of her situation. Lucas, appearing irritated, tears up a cushion from the couch and uses a strip of it as a makeshift gag to silence her.\n18:28: Mark stands up and takes the bucket, allowing the remaining fuel to spill onto the ground as he proceeds back towards the living room.\n18:29: After returning to the living room, Mark briefly speaks with Lucas, and then points in the direction of the backyard. Susan visibly thrashes against her restraints, but is ignored.\n18:30: Mark, Lucas and Susan move towards the backyard \u2014 Susan being transported via psionic force used by one or both of the brothers. Once outside, they place Susan on the grass. Lucas pours the bucket of fuel onto Susan.\n18:31: When Mark takes the box of matches from his pocket, Susan's struggling visibly increases in fervor. Neither Mark nor Lucas acknowledge this.\n18:32: Lucas takes a match from Mark, lights it, and throws it at Susan. She quickly catches alight and begins burning alive. Lucas points towards her as she burns, smiles at Mark, and says something. Mark nods.\n18:33: Mark and Lucas observe the burning Susan.\n18:34: Mark and Lucas continue to observe the burning Susan. Mark appears to grow bored, hands the remaining matches to Lucas, and heads back inside.\n18:35: Lucas sits down in a deckchair and continues to observe the burning Susan \u2014 who is barely visible at this point due to significant amounts of smoke. Lights in other houses in the area are beginning to turn on.\n18:36: Mark goes upstairs to his room, turns on his computer, and begins playing the video game Minecraft. As he plays, the burning Susan is clearly visible and presumably audible through the window next to him. He does not take notice of this, and plays without interruption.\n18:37: Lucas appears to have fallen asleep in his deckchair. A shadow is visible on the grass, indicating someone is standing just out of sight of the camera.\n18:38: Susan writhes on the grass.\n18:40: Susan ceases movement. The shadow leaves the frame.\n\n[END RECORDING]\n\nLocal authorities arrived shortly after, alerted by neighbours who spotted the smoke, and apprehended Mark and Lucas Grierson. Susan Stone was declared dead at the scene by paramedics.\nJournalists \u2014 also alerted by a neighbor \u2014 arrived shortly after at the same time as Harry and Philomena Grierson. Details of the crime, with anomalous aspects fortunately not yet discovered, were broadcast on national news that same night. Shortly after, MTF Beta-18 were able to infiltrate the ensuing investigation and remove evidence of anomalous phenomena.\nBoth Mark and Lucas Grierson remain in the prison system to this day, having been transferred there from juvenile detention after turning eighteen. SCP-5958 could not be located following the Grierson Murder, and is believed to have left the area immediately after it occurred.\n\nIncident 5958-2\n\nOn 03/11/2020, evidence of SCP-5958's presence was found in Dustal, Russia, following the discovery that all police officers at the local station had been killed over the course of half an hour. Inspection of the scene showed the causes of death as a mixture of exsanguination, strangulation, blunt force trauma, bodily detonation, and self-inflicted gunshot wounds.\nRecords recovered from the station revealed that, earlier that night, one of the officers assigned to the station \u2014 one Aleksei Orlov \u2014 had picked up a suspected runaway child while out on patrol and brought them back to the station. This child is believed to have been SCP-5958, and the following recovered recording was an interview conducted shortly before the massacre:\n\n[BEGIN RECORDING]\n\nAleksei Orlov: Got something warm for you. Drink up.Aleksei Orlov: (laughs) Well, I try to be. It's important to be nice to people, you know? You too. It's not a good thing \u2014 to run away like that.Aleksei Orlov: Hey, hey, it's okay. Lots of kids run away from home. Nobody's mad at you, we just want to get you back where you belong. It's cold outside, you could catch your death. Where do you live? Do you know your home address?Aleksei Orlov: Your family moves around a lot?Aleksei Orlov: Everybody has some kind of family. I \u2014 um. Did I tell you my name? Have we met before?\n\n(Pause.)\nAleksei Orlov: Right, right. Sorry. (laughs) It's these late-night shifts, you know. It's way past both our bedtimes.Aleksei Orlov: Look who's curious. Come on, Miss, we're talking about you right now. What address does your family live at? Do you have a home number we could call your parents at?Aleksei Orlov: (sighs) Yes, a daughter around your age. Now can you please just answer the question?\n(Pause.)\n\nAleksei Orlov: (quietly) Let's not get cheeky now, okay?\n(Sounds of footsteps heading towards the door. They suddenly stop.)\n\nAleksei Orlov: (choking sounds)Aleksei Orlov: (choking sounds)\n\n(Sounds of cracking.)\n\n(Loud snapping noise. Sounds of choking cease. Pause.)\n\n(Sound of footsteps, moving towards the door. Sound of door opening. Sound of multiple gunshots.)\n(Pause.)\n(Sound of laughter.)\n\n[END RECORDING]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Remote manipulation of matter using the mind.\n2. Known Foundation precursor group.\n3. Updated for purposes of legibility. Original text available upon request from the Historical Department.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5957 | SCP-5958 | SCP-5959 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5960\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: All known instances of SCP-5960 are held in low-risk anomalous item storage in Site-309. Disinformation Campaign 181 \"Snake Oil\" is to remain in effect until 99% of instances are confirmed to be within Foundation inventory. Standard recovery and amnesticization procedures are to be carried out should another Shell-Event be detected.\nPoI-6223 is currently under surveillance in Containment Cell 044. In the event that they emerge, they are to be briefly interrogated to gauge their understanding of reality, then reintegrated into society.\nDescription: SCP-5960 is a beauty product sold as a revitalization cream. Notably, the sole active ingredient is peanut butter, specifically of the \"chunky\" variety. When applied to the skin, it produces a variety of effects, including wrinkle reduction, liver spot removal, and acne removal. It is also an effective moisturizer, hair growth stimulant, and arthritis relief option in addition to being edible and non-toxic.\nWhile there is only one listed active ingredient, there are several listed inactive ingredients, most of which are commonly used in non-anomalous cosmetic products. Extensive testing has yielded no conclusive results regarding which combination of ingredients is the root cause for SCP-5960's anomalous properties.\nSCP-5960 was first discovered on November 14th, 2010, when it became available at Walgreens stores in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Soon after, a series of late-night infomercials began airing, featuring SCP-5960 inventor and spokesperson Jonathan \"Johnny\" Webbey (designated PoI-6223). These infomercials begin with two women and PoI-6223 applying SCP-5960 to their faces and arms. There will always be a continuous shot of one of the two women displayed on screen. Throughout the showcase, several testimonials will play while PoI-6223 comments on his own experiences with unhealthy skin in his old age. After the last testimonial has aired, all participants will remove SCP-5960 to reveal that their skin has benefited from it, supplementing with before-and-after comparisons.\nPoI-6223 reportedly used a similar tactic when doing live showcases of the product, applying SCP-5960 onto his face, neck, and arms while pulling audiences members to try the product themselves. As it always guaranteed fast results, it quickly became known to the general public within two months of active distribution.\n\nVideo Log: The following log was taken from a video interview between PoI-6223 and radio host Tom MacNamara, uploaded onto the KEUR FM YouTube channel on January 22nd, 2011.\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nMacNamara: Welcome back, everyone. This is Tom and you are listening to KEUR 99.7 FM. Now, with me in the studio today, you may have heard of him and his, uh, his beauty product, \"Webbey's Original Revitalizing Cream\". He's been causing a lot of buzz around the internet lately, it's Mr. Johnny Webbey himself. How're you doing, Johnny?\nPoI-6223: I'm doing great, thanks for having me. How are you?\nMacNamara: Oh, I'm doing pretty good myself! I get to talk to you, after all. You're famous!\nPoI-6223: [Laughter] I don't know about that. I'm just an old man.\nMacNamara: Sure, sure, sure. Now, Mr. Webbey\u2014\nPoI-6223: Yes.\nMacNamara: It's no doubt that you've gone \"viral\" on the internet\u2014\nPoI-6223: Yesss.\nMacNamara: So tell us, how has that affected you?\nPoI-6223: I'm actually not really that bothered by it. I thought I might be, but it turns out it's good for business, and it's been very beneficial to the mission, so I welcome it. Open arms, I welcome it.\nMacNamara: That's good spirit. Now, what do you mean by \"the mission\"? What's the, uh, what's the goal here?\nPoI-6223: The goal in mind here is so simple, Tom: to look good! You and me, we're getting older every day, and it shows, doesn't it? It shows in your face, in your posture, in your speech, all sorts of ways. I figure that, hey, we deserve to look good in our old age, right? So, I'm doing what I can to accomplish that.\nMacNamara: Can't say I disagree. I think I speak for all of us when I say you're doing the Lord's work out there.\nPoI-6223: I'm just doing what I would want for everyone else.\nMacNamara: Sure. So, I gotta ask: a lot of people have been bringing this up online. I'm sure you've heard it by now, too. After all, when you get success like this, there's bound to be a few skeptics out there. Anyway, a lot of people have been pointing out the ingredients listed here, specifically the peanut butter\u2026 Mind explaining that?\nPoI-6223: To be honest, Tom? There's not much to explain there. It's peanut butter. Simple as that.\nMacNamara: Sure, okay, but how do you make that decision? Why peanut butter?\nPoI-6223: Funny story, actually. One day, I was making myself a PB&J sandwich \u2014 I'm more than 60 years old and I still enjoy them, believe it or not \u2014 and I had an itch on my nose. So, I scratch it. And I smear some peanut butter on my face. Well, I'm a bit of a clean freak\u2014\nMacNamara laughs loudly.\nPoI-6223: It's true, it's true! I don't like getting too messy. So, I go to the bathroom to wash it off. I see myself in the mirror with this streak of peanut butter across my cheek and on my nose and I think, \"Man, when I was a kid, I could care less about what got on my face!\" One of those \"Oh, to be young again\" moments. And that's where I got the idea for it. I learned how to make my own peanut butter from home, figured out some of the finer stuff about cosmetics\u2026 and here we are!\nMacNamara: That's all well and good, Johnny, but that doesn't really answer my question about how the peanut butter does all this.\nPoI-6223: Ha, well, let's just say it's a company secret, then. I still got to make a living, you know.\nMacNamara: Sure, sure. And I hope you'll forgive me for laughing a bit there. I was already having a hard time taking you seriously with all that stuff on your face.\nPoI-6223: It's not a big deal. I get that a lot and I plan on getting it some more. We're still taking this out on the road and showing it to people to get the word out. I always do the demonstrations myself, too. I think it makes the customers feel a bit like they can approach you.\nMacNamara: Alright, well, thanks for coming on today, Johnny. Where can people find your product?\nPoI-6223: Just about anywhere they sell organic cosmetics. You can also buy some online at my website, \"webbeys.biz\".\nMacNamara: It's been a real pleasure. And for what it's worth, you don't look a day over 40.\nPoI-6223: That's the plan. Thanks for having me, Tom.\n<END LOG>\n\nShell-Event 1: The first known Shell-Event occurred on February 11th, 2011, when PoI-6223 suddenly went missing. He was to attend a scheduled live showcasing of SCP-5960, but never arrived. As hired staff and PoI-6223 had stayed in separate hotels that evening, it was assumed that PoI-6223 was running late.\nAt approximately 11:30 AM, hired assistant Matthew Tallhardy contacted hotel staff to check on PoI-6223. When they had attempted to contact him via phone, he did not answer, which prompted hotel staff to enter the room. All of PoI-6223's belongings were still present, along with a near empty container of SCP-5960 in the bathroom and a large pale red peanut on the bed, covered in blankets.\nThe peanut, approximately 2 meters in length, was assumed to be a large prop left behind by PoI-6223 and an attempt was made to group it with the rest of his belongings. Two of the hotel staff lifted it off the bed, though it had been dropped due to the unexpected heaviness of the object. After this, witnesses present had reported they heard something similar to a child crying coming from inside the peanut.\nEmergency services were called immediately after the incident. The peanut was brought into Foundation custody by embedded personnel in local medical care facilities.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5959 | SCP-5960 | SCP-5961 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5961 \u2014 Under Pressure\nCollab with AvocadoMilk!\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\n2/5961 LEVEL 2/5961\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5961\n\nketer\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: As there is currently no known method to contain SCP-5961, all containment efforts are to center around the perimeter of all existing SCP-5961-A instances. To execute this task, Cover Story G.96 (\"Endangered Environment\") is to be applied to all viewings of containment sites.\n\nThe SCPB Rinta prior to deployment, circa 1978.\n\nDescription: SCP-5961 refers to a phenomenon occurring worldwide, consisting of a series of events and the creation of SCP-5961-A. Haphazardly, SCP-5961 will occur within bodies of water at least 500 metres deep, mostly consisting of several phases irregularly:\n\nPhase 1: All water within a 200-metre radius of the SCP-5961 event will begin forming a whirlpool and pulling all objects inside the perimeter. This process is progressive, speeding up as time proceeds.\n\nPhase 2: Water affected by SCP-5961 will begin concentrating and pulling onto a single point, before exploding upwards. Depending on the depth wherein the SCP-5961 event is taking place, the water will reach higher or lower distances on the surface.\n\nPhase 3: All objects ejected onto the surface will begin levitating for up to two hours before being attracted into the Earth twice as fast since they were ejected into the air. Along with this, an SCP-5961-A instance will be developed.\n\nSCP-5961-A is the collective designation given to all areas that are subjected to an SCP-5961 event. Following the conversion of a perimeter into an SCP-5961-A instance, all objects entering the area will subsequently transform into instances of Valentin's sharpnose puffers, also known as Canthigaster valentini or saddled puffers.1\nNotably, these species are buoyant and resistant to hydrostatic pressure.\n\nDiscovery and Notable Incidents\n\nDiscovery and Notable Incidents\n\nSCP-5961 was discovered during the loss of the SCPB Rinta, a Foundation vessel employed for the exploration of Site-72's surroundings and the Mariana Trench. On the prior hours, Drs. Avery Cado and Samantha Abbett were using the craft to identify an unknown anomaly that appeared near Deep Sea Site-72.\nHowever, in the middle of the exploration, the SCPB Rinta became the subject of an SCP-5961 event before being ejected upwards. This led to the impact of the anomaly on the coast of Mindanao Island after two hours of levitation, reaching heights of 2.4 kilometres above the ground. Moreover, the SCP-5961-A instance created as a result of this event was not discovered.\nSince this incident, several SCP-5961 events were recorded worldwide, with its assigned facility being Deep Sea Site-72. The following includes a series of notable incidents caused by SCP-5961:\n\nDate\nLocation\nEvent\n\n29/09/1990\nBarkly, Australia\nFoundation satellites located a massive cloud of several substances over the skies of Barkly. Initially believed to be a mass of gases generated by nearby factories, it was revealed that approximately 110.000 fish of different species such as mullet, carp and mackerels composed this mass. Following the downfall of the fish over the territory, several masses were seen falling over the water prior to entering an SCP-5961-A instance. All vessels within the zone were later evacuated to avoid poisoning by pufferfish. Cover Story G.18 (\"Tornado\") was implanted in nearby municipalities.\n\n30/11/1992\nNova Scotia, Canada\nAfter multiple eyewitness reports of whales and rocks falling over the coasts of Nova Scotia, Foundation satellites located a large mass of levitating whales over Nova Scotia's skies. The event had occurred over the Northumberland Strait and lifted multiple species of aquatic birds, insects and vertebrae. The birds within the flock of whales created a sound that alarmed most civilians, although the local population was quickly administered amnestics as the wildlife fell into SCP-5961-A, becoming pufferfish.\n\n20/01/1994\nIrkutsk, Russia\nAn SCP-5961 event occurred within Baikal Lake, causing various objects such as fish, rocks, relics and other buried materials to be ejected over the skies. After levitating over the lake for four hours, the mass began falling towards the Earth, injuring a large amount of fauna and flora within the Lake's surroundings as it caused a small forest fire. Cover Story G.32 (\"Asteroid\") was deployed in the surrounding areas. Due to the thickness of the ice over the lake, no pufferfish were seen nearby. The SCP-5961-A instance was also discovered.\n\n16/07/1995\nNew Orleans, United States\nReports of a nuclear bomb falling over the streets of New Orleans brought up the theory that the United States of America was under attack of North Korean and Russian missiles, even if no emergency warning was issued. However, it was revealed that the falling object was rather an abandoned Russian submarine. Cover Story G.18 (\"Tornado\") was implanted. Three people were hurt upon impact.\n\n23/05/1997\nCape Town, South Africa\nWhile no records of SCP-5961 occurred within the area, a large instance of Canthigaster valentini2 appeared on the beaches of Cape Town, vomiting pufferfish. It was later deemed as the result of a vessel entering an SCP-5961-A instance, and Cover Story G.67 (\"Movie Cast\") was implanted among the people.\n\n27/11/1998\nMariana Trench, Pacific Ocean\nSee below (Addendum 5691.2: Incident Log)\n\nIncident Log\n\nIncident Log\n\nOn November 27th, 1998, a joint investigation led by both the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition was started in order to research an Ekhi-Class anomaly that was roaming the depths of the Mariana Trench. When the assigned bathyscaphe, the SCP/GOC-B Toi, reached approximately 4.8 kilometres of depth, an SCP-5961 event occurred.\nAs the water began swirling, the nearby environment began submitting itself to the anomaly's effects regardless of status or nature. The SCP/GOC-B Toi was also affected during this period, leading it to be ejected upwards at extremely fast speeds. The water was later revealed to reach space, creating several seaquakes that reached the coasts of the Philippines, China and Japan while not reaching Deep Sea Site-72.\nThe following log depicts the events as recorded by Foundation and GOC agents Carbon and Jerden within the SCP/GOC-B Toi, which also reached the limits of the Thermosphere:\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nZ-72 Carbon: Wuh?\n(The agents begin looking onto the chamber's floor as it begins shaking.)\nS-51 Jerden: Command, command. Do you copy?\nCommand: Roger that, Jerden. Copy.\nS-51 Jerden: The vessel is shaking, command. Repeat. The vessel is shaking.\nCommand: Wait, what?\nZ-72 Carbon: It's not shaking; it's spinning!\n(The agents stumble to the floor as the SCP/GOC-B Toi begins elevating. Z-72 Carbon begins panicking, while S-51 Jerden tries to contact command.)\nS-51 Jerden: FUCK!\nZ-72 Carbon: What's happening?\nS-51 Jerden: Hell if I know!\n(Z-72 Carbon begins crawling towards her seat, trying to reach her security belt. S-51 Jerden does the same.)\nCommand: Carbon? Jerden? Do you copy?\nS-51 Jerden: Yeah. What's going on? Are we pulling up, or..?\nCommand: No. There's something g-\n(The signal cuts.)\nZ-72 Carbon: Oh shit.\n(The ship's sonar begins recording Deep Sea Site-72, as Z-72 Carbon reaches for an oxygen mask on the roof of the vessel.)\nZ-72 Carbon: When the fuck did we put on so much gas?\nS-51 Jerden: I don't know!\n(The signal comes back intermittently.)\nCommand: Why is the- [STATIC] -ter pillar o- [STATIC] -trench?\nS-51 Jerden: What was that?\nCommand: Why is there a water pillar on top of the trench? OH GOD, IT'S COM-\n(The signal cuts once again.)\nZ-72 Carbon: Oh god.\n(The cameras stop recording, although signals can be sent through the agents' microphones.)\nS-51 Jerden: I can't hear anything outside except water.\nZ-72 Carbon: I mean, yeah, it's-\nZ-72 Carbon: Oh, look, camera's broken.\n(The vessel stops moving, completely suspended mid-air.)\nS-51 Jerden: Wait. Wh-\nZ-72 Carbon: Shit, we're in a buoy now.\nS-51 Jerden: What? What do you mean?\n(Z-72 Carbon shrugs.)\nZ-72 Carbon: We're in space.\nS-51 Jerden: You're saying the fucking vessel is\u2026\nZ-72 Carbon: Yes.\n(The vessel begins moving towards the Earth once again.)\nZ-72 Carbon: The vessel is buoyant. And sometimes, some things in life simply float.\n(Silence. Carbon looks around the chamber before shrugging.)\nZ-72 Carbon: Then why not let us emerge?\n(The microphones cut as the vessel falls.)\n[END LOG]\n\nWhile the object was recorded reaching 55 kilometres of height, the impact was recorded on the Mariana Trench, causing the second round of seaquakes. All video recordings of the SCP-5961 event taking place were cut out and all information regarding the anomaly was expunged on social media.\nThe aftermath of the event resulted in several consequences, such as 1.259 casualties and 3.467 injured people. As a result, Foundation personnel disseminated along the media the fact that this was, indeed, caused by Cover Story G.54 (\"Tsunami/Seaquake\"). Due to Deep Sea Site-72's status as an underwater site, the SCP-5961 caused minor damages within the facility.\nThe SCP/GOC-B Toi was reported missing. Instead, reports of a large pufferfish and two small blowfishes were brought up near Deep Sea Site-72.\nA few minutes prior to the impact, the agents' cameras began recording once again. As the camera became blurry, the anomaly began recording the SCP/GOC-B Toi's transformation into a large pufferfish, as Carbon and Jerden tried to leave the capsule. Instead of being crushed by the hydrostatic pressure, though, both agents became pufferfish.\nThe following are agent Jerden's last words prior to his disappearance:\n\nwhat is going on\n\nwhy is [illegible] a bubble\n\nwhy am i a pufferfish\n\noh\n\nblurp\n\nbeware the buoyancy\n\nFootnotes\n1. A species of pufferfish distributed along tropical spaces.\n2. Approximately 40 meters high.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5960 | SCP-5961 | SCP-5962 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5962\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5962 is to be kept in a Large Containment Cell at Site-18. It is to be cleaned 3 times per week through the use of an automated sprinkler system. All food that it produces are to be collected and incinerated.\nDescription: SCP-5962 is an obese humanoid resembling the McDonald's fast-food mascot known as \"Ronald McDonald\". It weighs approximately 5 tonnes, and is 4 m in height. The specimen is naked except wearing only yellow gloves, and red shoes. Its head is notably large, having a diameter of 1.3 m. A layer of frying oil covers its skin, which is constantly secreted through its pores.\nDespite its humanoid appearance, SCP-5962 is genetically identical to cows (Bos taurus). It lacks numerous internal organs, and instead have 27 interconnected stomachs of varying sizes that serve no biological function. SCP-5962 does not respond to any stimuli, and as a result it is not considered sapient. It is dormant for the majority of its time, however, once a day it will be active.\nSCP-5962 will unhinge its jaw before producing packaged items from the McDonald's menu from out of its mouth. The items appear ordinary but upon closer inspection they comprise entirely of human biological matter (View Addendum 01). Class-D personnel report no difference in taste compared to regularly produced food from McDonald's. They experience no adverse medical effects1.\nThe entity produces around 10,000 kg worth of menu items per day. It is not currently known how SCP-5962 produces such large amounts of food. Genetic analysis of the food are matched with multiple living individuals that report no unusual activity.\nSCP-5962 was discovered in Beijing, China on 03/23/2005. It was kept within a packaging facility owned by the McDonald's Corporation. Food and frying oil produced by the entity were being collected, and then distributed across McDonald's restaurants within the country. Foundation agents learned of the entity's existence through rumors from the local populace. An interview with the facility manager was conducted, see Addendum 02.\nAddendum 01: Food Log\nThe following partially details the composition of items produced by SCP-5962. For the complete documentation, see Document-5962-E.\n\nFood Items\nComposition\n\nBacon and french fries\nCartilage and ligaments\n\nBread\nHair, nails, and skin\n\nCoffee\nLiquified fecal matter\n\nChicken nuggets\nFingers, ovaries, and testes\n\nSalad\nHair and dried nasal mucus\n\nOrange juice\nStomach acid\n\nSmoothies\nLiquified muscle tissue or brain matter, depending on the flavor\n\nEggs\nHuman fat\n\nKetchup\nCoagulated blood\n\nMustard\nPus\n\nWater\nSaline solution mixed with sweat.\n\nHot dogs and sausages\nSmall intestines\n\nIce-cream\nPus, bone marrow, feces, and nasal mucus, depending on the flavor.\n\nAddendum 02: Recovery Log\nForeword: The following transcript is of the body cam footage of MTF field agents Johnathan Zhang, and George Nagasu. The log has been edited to remove extraneous content. The transcript begins outside of the packaging facility where SCP-5962 was being kept.\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nCOMMAND: Everyone ready?\nAgent Zhang: Ready.\nAgent Nagasu: I'm ready, command. Nervous, Zhang?\nAgent Zhang: Fuck you. I told you I am not afraid of clowns.\nCOMMAND: Bravo Team has entered the east side of the building. Go Alpha Team!\nAgent Zhang: (Mutters to himself) Here we go again.\nOperatives exit from transport vehicle and rush into the building. The team enter the packaging area through a pair of doors.\nAgent Zhang: Beijing police! Everyone get down!\nSeveral individuals are apprehended as others attempt to flee the building. Agents Zhang and Nagasu continued through the facility. They come upon a large cage located in the northern side of the facility. Numerous carts are located around it, and SCP-5962 is visible in the cage. It is wearing a collar attached to chains bolted to the floor. A cart is located underneath its head where food items are present. Entity does not acknowledge the presence of the two agents as they approached it.\nAgent Zhang: What the fuck?\nAgent Nagasu: So there really is a fat Ronald McDonald here. Just when you think you've seen everything, huh?\nAgent Zhang: I was hoping for it to be bullshit this time. (To command) Command, we found the, uh, specimen. We are going to need a crane for extraction. It is big.\nCOMMAND: Got it. We will continue to secure the building. Extraction team is on the way.\nAgent Nagasu: Hey, Zhang. Remember that bet earlier?\nAgent Zhang: Yeah?\nAgent Nagasu: Since there is a Ronald after all, you owe me five yen.\nAgent Zhang: Don't get cocky. You will be getting it later.\nSCP-5962 moves its head and begins to produce more food from out of its mouth into the cart.\nAgent Zhang: Is that thing making burgers and fries?\nAgent Nagasu: Yes. It is. (Picks up a wrapped cheeseburger from off of the floor) You don't think they've been using it for-\nAgent Zhang: I hope not. That is an image I don't want to have in my head. I have never eaten at McDonald's and it makes me feel sick. Come on, we should go deal with securing the facility first. We will deal with this clown later. It is not going anywhere.\nAgent Nagasu: Okay. (Drops the cheeseburger) I lost my appetite for a burger after this.\nAgent Zhang: Seriously?\nAgent Nagasu: I had a lousy breakfast.\n[END LOG]\n\nAddendum 03: Interview Log\n\nInterviewers: Agents Zhang and Nagasu\nInterviewed: Xiu Chen\nForeword: Mr. Chen was the facility manager of where SCP-5962 was being held, and was detained for questioning. The Beijing dialect of Mandarin was originally spoken.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMr. Chen: This is bullshit! I am running a legitimate business! I do not need this harassment.\nAgent Zhang: Calm down, Chen. We have questions. The sooner you answer them you are free to go.\nMr. Chen: So I am not under arrest? Then let me go right now!\nAgent Nagasu: Please be patient, Chen. Tell us about Ronald at the facility. What were you doing with it?\nMr. Chen: Ronald?\nAgent Zhang: Yes, the clown. There is only one Ronald I know that would be at a McDonald's facility.\nMr. Chen: Oh, he helps us out.\nAgent Nagasu: How so?\nMr. Chen: He gives food and frying oil for us to take.\nAgent Nagasu: Take where? You're telling me that you sell the food that it makes? Why?\nMr. Chen: Of course, dumbass. Why not? By the way, can I get a cigarette?\nAgent Zhang: No. Anyway, are you aware of what the food is made out of from that thing?\nMr. Chen: I know and don't care. Customers never complain about it, and neither do I. I eat a cheeseburger sometimes from it when I need a quick lunch.\nAgent Nagasu: I think plenty of people would be upset if they knew where the food came from.\nMr. Chen: People would get over it. They are perfectly fine with the usual way their food is acquired. You ever been to a slaughterhouse? Ronald is not as bad as that.\nAgent Zhang: (Sighs) Where did Ronald come from?\nMr. Chen: Not sure. I was told it came from a cow farm where it was born. The owner that found it decided to sell it to us. Now it is an unofficial employee of McDonald's. A profitable endeavor for a year.\nAgent Nagasu: You've gotten it a year ago?\nMr. Chen: Around a year but yes.\nAgent Zhang: Tell us more about the person that sold it.\nMr. Chen: Not much to tell you. I never met them. I heard a rumour that this isn't the first weird thing they sold off. Other than that I have nothing. Maybe ask Ronald himself. (Chuckles)\nAgent Nagasu: Quick question. Why was Ronald in a cage? Is it dangerous in any way?\nMr. Chen: That is to prevent theft. He is actually harmless unless you currently work at Burger King. He would shoot a stream of hot coffee like a firehose at those that do. Other than that he pays no attention to anybody.\nAgent Nagasu: Are you serious?\nMr. Chen: Definitely. Why would I make that up?\nAgent Zhang: I don't see why anyone would want to steal it.\nMr. Chen: You never know. Ronald is a money maker as long as people continue to love burgers or fries.\nAgent Nagasu: True, I suppose. Thank you for cooperating with us so far. We will get back to you later.\nAgent Nagasu followed by Agent Zhang rise from their chairs.\nMr. Chen: Wait. Can we get Ronald back? I do not want to deal with pissed off executives.\nAgent Zhang: No, we are keeping it with us.\nMr. Chen: Shit.\nAgent Zhang: McDonald's is better off with their usual methods of making food.\nMr. Chen: You're sure about that? Have you actually seen it?\nAgent Zhang: Unfortunately, yes.\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. Not including the negative health effects from consuming fast food products.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5961 | SCP-5962 | SCP-5963 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5963\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5963 is contained within a replicated ShowBiz Pizza Place located on the northern periphery of Site-119's Anomalous Technology Containment Unit (ATCU). Foundation personnel, hereby referred to as \"employees,\" are required to manage and operate this facility between the hours of 11:30 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. Other personnel, hereby referred to as \"customers,\" are requested to periodically attend scheduled special events, occasions, or birthday parties within the new facility.\nInspections of SCP-5963-1 are to occur in Arcade Room every Tuesday and Thursday. In the event that any SCP-5963-1 instance is damaged or begins to emit any odor during operating hours, employees are required to repair and clean them as soon as possible. Employees may contact Senior Researcher Devin Collins for documentation, materials, or assistance concerning the regular inspection, cleaning, and maintenance of SCP-5963.\nOne D-Class personnel is granted access to SCP-5963-1 once per monthly basis. This is only to occur after the facility \"closes\" at 8:00 P.M. in order to minimize potential risks to other personnel. Researchers may continue physical or remote observations of these interactions.\nDescription: SCP-5963 refers to a series of anomalous events that manifested within a currently abandoned ShowBiz Pizza Place1, located in Marionette, Wisconsin. These anomalous events can occur throughout the entirety of the premises; however, these occurences are solely dependent on a series of six arcade units, hereby collectively referred to as SCP-5963-1, that were recovered from the room of the same name.2\n\nRetrieved SCP-5963-1C instance recovered from ShowBiz Pizza Place in 1987.\n\nWhenever SCP-5963-1 is in operation, a series of anomalous events can manifest during conventional playtime. These events are dictated by SCP-5963-(A-F).\nSCP-5963-(A-F) is the collective designation given to six sapient entities that can manifest within any SCP-5963-1 instance. However, only one entity can appear between playthroughs. When active, SCP-5963-(A-F) can perform a series of physical and technical interactions with objects and players despite the limitations of its host SCP-5963-1 instance.3\nRecovered documents indicates that all SCP-5963-1 instances were directly purchased in-bulk from Arcadia, which correlates to several graphics of the company logo that appear on the exterior of the arcade units. No other information could be gathered from these sources.\n\nAddendum 5963.1 - Discovery:\n\nMARIONETTE CHRONICLES\n\nLocal, Trustworthy, Reliable.\n\nJune 7th, 1987\nPAGE 4 - Outdoor Sports Fest on June 14th\n25\u00a2 - NO REFUNDS\n\nLOCAL RESTAURANT UNDER SCRUTINY?\n\nSHOWBIZ PIZZA PLACE UNDER INVESTIGATION AFTER THE ABDUCTION OF SIX CHILDREN.\n\nBy Kassidy Kara\n\nMARIONETTE, WISCONSIN - ShowBiz Pizza Place has temporarily closed after the abduction of six children: Christopher Holems, Emily Hunt, William Duncan, Harper Reed, Justin Reed, and Mathew Gardiner, all of whom have not been seen since early last month. Eyewitnesses present at the time of these abductions, which occurred roughly between May 1st through May 7th, all recall a strange figure who reportedly led these children to the property of ShowBiz Pizza Place, currently operated by Michael Warren of Marionette County. One anonymous witness stated that they saw a child \"completely disappear into thin air.\" These claims remain unverified due to a malfunctioning security system around the premises and a lack of suspects.\n\n\"This is a disaster,\" says Raina Holems, the distraught mother of Christopher Holems. \"It feels like he's been erased from the world. It's terrible, I've lost my home, my job, and now my son. I just don't know what to do anymore.\" Holems was not the only one to vocalize their worries. Pleading for his childrens return Marcus Reed has this to say: \u201cPlease, if you have our children, please! Bring them back. If you're listening, Justin and Harper, we love you. Please, come home.\u201d No traces of these children have been found yet.\n\n\"We work very hard to maintain the safety and integrity of ShowBiz Pizza Place. To prevent further issues security will be updated and heavily monitored,\" says Michael Warren, current manager of ShowBiz Pizza Place, shortly after issuing a public statement on the matter (Page 6, \"Security and ShowBiz, Warrens Statement\").\n\nLocal authorities believe that a more thorough investigation of the restaurant may uncover the clues necessary to begin revealing key suspects. Unfortunately, no more information has been provided concerning the missing children. Authorities have reported that current investigations are halted due to unforeseen events. If you have any information on these missing children please contact\u2026\n\nInterview Log 5963.1\n\nInterviewed: Michael Warren\nInterviewer: Dr. Jackson Cohen\nForeword: Dr. Cohen has been directed to evaluate and question Manager Michael Warren in order to ascertain enough evidence to validate the Foundation's involvement and the likelihood of anomalous influences surrounding ShowBiz Pizza Place.\n\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Cohen: (Dr. Cohen walks into the room, taking a seat across from Michael Warren) Evening, Mr. Warren. I'm with the MCPD. I'm sure you know why I'm here?\nMichael Warren: Of course.\nDr. Cohen: All right then. (Cohen pauses, looking down at his clipboard) What is your affiliation with Arcadia? I noticed some of their company logos on a few of your arcade games.\nMichael Warren: I used to work for them several years ago. The only thing I have left of theirs are those arcade units I purchased from their headquarters in Irving. That was\u2026 when was it? Almost 2 or 3 years back? They were for our Arcade room back there. (Michael points past Cohen's right shoulder.)\nDr. Cohen: Is that all? I couldn't help but notice that photo up there of you and Nolan Bushnell. (Cohen glances upwards.) Were you two close?\nMichael Warren: Nolan? Yeah, he and I were close. He hired me a few spots down the corporate ladder at Arcadia, when it first started. (Michael pauses.) It was a weird place. Sometimes, even when I worked for them, we got to see innovation. Other times we were dealing with some, uh, interesting customers. What about him?\nDr. Cohen: Are you aware of his current whereabouts?\nMichael Warren: You mean where he's at now? Not anymore. We got out of touch a few years before I left. I only just talked to him shortly before I started here. Why, is he in trouble or somethin'?\nDr. Cohen: Not that I'm aware of. But then again, it's not my job to know. I just ask the questions. (Cohen writes briefly.) Can you tell me what you do know about him? Nolan, I mean.\nMichael Warren: Nothing you don't probably already know. When I spoke with him, he told me that he knew about Arcadia's situation, when they were suffering from a harsh decline. The company was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and I think he wanted to help 'em out, so he asked me to start this franchise. Of course, I accepted his offer, only 'cause I was afraid of being put out of a job once they went under. Later he asked if I could purchase some of their units for this place. I guess he was trying to work out some deal between ShowBiz and Arcadia that would help them out with their money situation.\nDr. Cohen: I see. So what about those games back there?\nMichael Warren: Those junk heaps? What about them?\nDr. Cohen: They seem like fairly new additions. Can you tell me about them?\nMichael Warren: They're just normal games. We've had those since we opened, which didn't happen not too long ago. The opening, that is. Don't think they've ever been played before though.\nDr. Cohen: Are all of your machines from Arcadia? Or just those few back there?\nMichael Warren: Just those ones.\nDr. Cohen: (Cohen scribbles on a notepad.) Interesting. And you said they were working well?\nMichael Warren: Of course. The only hiccup I've had with 'em was when Nadia Patelle tried to clean them all off. She's our in-house employee, in charge of making the place look good. I guess she must've bumped into one a little too hard before we opened. It, uh, caused the screens to go a bit haywire. (He leans back in his chair.)\nDr. Cohen: That's not good. (Cohen pauses.) I'll have a few people come in and take those then. For investigation reasons, of course.\nMichael Warren: (Michael momentarily grimaces before smiling.) I'm not quite sure why you would need them, but feel free. Although, you may have some trouble turning them on. The only place they seem to work at is here. Trust me, I've tried. But if you still need them, I have a few more units I can use as backups until you can safely return 'em. They're quite unique.\nDr. Cohen: I see. Well, in that case, we'll have to figure out something else. That's all the questions I had. Thank you again, Mr. Warren.\n<End Log>\n\nClosing Statement: Local authorities currently suspect Michael Warren as a prime perpetrator of the missing children.4 It should be further noted that due to the involvement of Arcadia technologies, the authorization of a recovery operation from the Foundation has been deemed appropriate to minimize the risk of anomalous influence.\n\nAddendum 5963.2 - Exploration & Analysis:\n\nEvent N\u00b0: 5963-01\nAnomalous Instance: SCP-5963-1C (Asteroids)\nPersonnel Involved: Dr. Jackson Cohen\nSynopsis: Dr. Cohen, whilst investigating SCP-5963-1C, discovered that after gaining a score of approximately 2500, smaller asteroids slowly began to align themselves along the center of the screen. Closer inspection of this alignment revealed the message \"STOP,\" which remained visible on-screen for a period lasting up to 2 minutes. Further gameplay revealed the manifestation of a new sprite, closely resembling Dr. Cohen's interactable \"ship\" and hereby designated as SCP-5963-C, that would continuously collide with objects (or asteroids) near the player. These collisions would end with a brief death animation, followed shortly by the sound of a loud, human-like scream that would last several seconds. Later inspections of SCP-5963-1C revealed that no audio file resembling the aforementioned scream has ever existed.\nPrior to the experiments termination, Dr. Cohen reported hearing the phrase, \"please come back\" from SCP-5983-1A. He later stated that he was unsure of what he had heard, and assured personnel that he had likely not heard anything at all.\n\nEvent N\u00b0: 5963-02\nAnomalous Instance: SCP-5963-1B (Missile Command)\nPersonnel Involved: D-199834, Dr. Jackson Cohen\nSynopsis: Subject D-199834 was directed to interact with SCP-5963-1B for approximately 30 minutes. During this time, Dr. Cohen reported drastic behavioral altercations with some of the animatronic characters that were active within ShowBiz Pizza Place5, which included \"several fits of apparent rage\" and \"random and incoherent chants of a seemingly Satanic background\" per his original statement. This behavior abruptly ended after D-199834 stopped interacting with SCP-5963-1B.\n\nActive on-screen instance of SCP-5963-B.\n\nD-199834 also reported the presence of SCP-5963-B, which manifested as a large pixelated face that covered the majority of SCP-5963-1B's background. Whenever D-199834 successfully destroyed an incoming projectile, SCP-5963-B would begin to weep slowly, distorting its face. This was subsequently amplified until SCP-5963-B's face became entirely indiscernible. Once D-199834 failed at destroying an incoming projectile, however, SCP-5963-B would revert to its initial state before emitting a \"laugh\" at the subject. This remained until D-199834 was removed from the premises.\n\n3 redundant logs have been removed.\n\nEvent N\u00b0: 5963-06\nAnomalous Instance: SCP-5963-1E (Centipede)\nPersonnel Involved: D-573910, Dr. Ryan Phillips\nSynopsis: During D-573910's playthrough, Dr. Phillips reported a series of strange malfunctions concerning a series of light fixtures above the vicinity of SCP-5963-1E. Further analysis shows that these fixtures were connected within close proximity to SCP-5963-1E itself.\nSubject D-573910 was unable to detect SCP-5963-E during its playthrough. However, D-573910 did report a brief loss of control over his playable entity, in which it quickly flashed off the screen. Upon its return, D-573910 reported a drastic increase of difficulty, as well as expressing slight discomfort with the erratic behavior of the hostile non-playable characters (NPCs). The subject later stated to Dr. Phillips that the NPC's were \"incredibly realistic, and they all shared the same crying faces.\" The experiment was later terminated by Dr. Phillips.\n\nEvent N\u00b0: 5963-07\nAnomalous Instance: SCP-5963-1D (Lunar Lander)\nPersonnel Involved: Dr. Ryan Phillips\nSynopsis: Dr. Phillips reported that, during the first level of SCP-5963-1D, the platform in which the player is supposed to land disappeared entirely, causing him to continuously fall downward. As this occurred, a pop-up window displaying the text \"they constantly haunt me\" appeared, despite SCP-5893-1D being unable to perform this task prior. The prompt remained on-screen for the duration of Dr. Phillips's playthrough.\n\n4 redundant logs have been removed.\n\nEvent N\u00b0: 5963-12\nAnomalous Instance: SCP-5963-1A (Pong)\nPersonnel Involved: Dr. Jackon Cohen, Dr. Ryan Phillips, Sr. Researcher Devin Collins\nSynopsis: SCP-5963-A manifested as Player 2 after several minutes, gaining control of the right side of the screen. During brief moments, SCP-5963-1A would cease functionality. During this period, SCP-5963-A could be seen moving horizontally towards the left side of the screen. Once SCP-5963-1A became operational, SCP-5963-1 would revert back to its initial state, playing against Player 1 (Dr. Jackson Cohen) as intended. During the playthrough, Dr. Jackson commented on the fluidity and the increasing difficulty of playing against SCP-5963-A. The experiment was later terminated at Dr. Cohen's request.\n\nResearcher's Note: The interactions between players and the SCP-5963-(A-F) instances have led me to believe that perhaps their intended purpose was primarily in overcoming the technological difficulties of artificial intelligence during the initial rise of mainstream interactive media. All though it seems that these experiments ultimately failed, it does appear that, in very few circumstances, Arcadia was somewhat successful after all. Why they chose to do this now, and their reason behind using ShowBiz Pizza as a front is still a mystery, however.\n\n- Sr. Researcher Devin Collins\n\nAddendum 5963.3 - Incident Event:\n\nOpening Statement: Sr. Researcher Devin Collins reported that, during an experiment involving SCP-5963-1A (Pong) and one D-Class personnel, an interactable keyboard appeared on-screen. This keyboard was later followed by the message. \"who are you. please stop [sic],\" which was presumably sent by SCP-5963-A. During this period, Sr. Researcher Collins was successfully able to communicate with the anomaly, with logs of the event added below:\n\nMessage Sent: WHO ARE YOU\n\nResponse: we do not remember. forgotten.\n\nMessage Sent: HOW ARE YOU HERE\n\nResponse: lied. led away from home. pain.\n\nMessage Sent: WHO LED YOU\n\nResponse: a liar. do not trust.\n\nMessage Sent: EXPLAIN\n\nResponse: not man. dark. told us it was angel. haunts us.\n\nMessage Sent: WHAT HAUNTS YOU\n\nResponse we want to go home.\n\nMessage Sent: PLEASE RESPOND. WHAT HAUNTS YOU\n\nResponse: it says we chose this. we do not remember choosing. pain. pain. pain.\n\nMessage Sent: EXPLAIN\n\nResponse: it sees us. horns. evil smile. reminds us that we are gone.\n\nMessage Sent: WHAT IS IT\n\nResponse: No response recorded.\n\nMessage Sent: ARE YOU THERE\n\nResponse: it makes us suffer. it lies behind us.\n\nMessage Sent: WHAT DO YOU MEAN\n\nResponse: we just want to go back home. please. no more pain.\n\nMessage Sent: WHAT PAIN. WHO CAUSED IT\n\nResponse: you did.\n\nClosing Statement: Further communication attempts with SCP-5963-A have failed. After this event, SCP-5963-1A ceased functionality for several hours before rebooting entirely. More research may be required before Foundation personnel can fully analyze and evaluate the information provided by SCP-5963-A.\n\nFootnotes\n1. American restaurant chain which has since been rebranded as Chuck E. Cheese.\n2. SCP-5963 does not appear to exhibit its anomalous attributes outside of licensed ShowBiz Pizza Place locations. Containment procedures have since been updated to accommodate for this.\n3. Please refer to Addendum 5963.2 for more information.\n4. At the time of writing, Warren's current location and status remains unknown.\n5. Namely, \"Billy Bob\" and \"Looney Bird.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5962 | SCP-5963 | SCP-5964 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nCheck out more of my articles on my author page!\n\n\n2/5965 LEVEL 2/5965\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5965\n\nKeter\n\nThe White Cliffs of Dover, site of SCP-5965's original demise.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Any individuals with a personal connection to SCP-5965 are to be monitored by Foundation resources for a manifestation of SCP-5965. Upon manifestation, all witnessing parties are to be amnesticised, and the corpse disposed of according to standard biomaterial handling protocol.\nIn an attempt to reduce the occurrence of SCP-5965 manifestations, all close friends and family members of SCP-5965 are to receive grief counselling conducted by covert Foundation operatives. SCP-5965's surviving relatives are to be moved out of the family home they shared. The school where SCP-5965 worked is to be closed down.\nDescription: SCP-5965 is Hayden Morris, a 23 year old nursery assistant from Bristol, England. On 27/12/2013, whilst visiting Dover with friends, Morris fell from the clifftop on the coastline and died upon impact with the rocks below.\nSince its death, SCP-5965 has manifested, alive, on multiple occasions in the presence of its former acquaintances. The point of manifestation occurs above the acquaintance; if indoors, it will be at the ceiling. SCP-5965 will then fall at significant speed while screaming, and impact an area in close proximity to the acquaintance and resulting in the instance's death. Injuries sustained are inconsistent with those of SCP-5965's original death.\nThe following is an abridged log of SCP-5965 incidents:\n\nDate\nDescription\n\n05/01/2014\n\nIncident occurred at the residence of Henry Carter, a friend of SCP-5965 who was not present at the occurrence of its initial death. Carter was home alone, watching television in his living room. SCP-5965 manifested within the room and impacted the area between Carter and the television.\nCarter phoned law enforcement, evidently distressed, believing that SCP-5965's body had been exhumed and taped to the room's ceiling by an unknown party. Of particular concern for Carter was how long SCP-5965 had been present in the house, and how he had not noticed before it fell. Due to the nature of the details recounted, Foundation personnel were dispatched to investigate.\nIn an attempt to rationalise the manifestation, Carter vocalised a worry that he himself had exhumed the body, and brought it back to his flat after a night of heavy alcohol consumption alone.1 Upon Foundation arrival, all involved parties were amnesticised, and SCP-5965's corpse was disposed of.\n\n17/01/2014\n\nIncident occurred at Saint Helier's Primary School, SCP-5965's former place of work. Instance materialised on the ceiling of classroom 5A, whilst a class SCP-5965 formerly taught was present.\nDue to the students being too young2 for safe use of amnestics, their recollections of the incident were attributed to a mass psychogenic event, resulting from them being informed of SCP-5965's death and manner of passing.\n\n06/05/2018\n\nIncident occurred at a supermarket where Annalise Morris, SCP-5965's mother, was shopping. Morris went to pick up goods from a chest freezer. SCP-5965 manifested above her, and fell, screaming, into the chest freezer. SCP-5965 stayed alive for several minutes after impact, calling out for his mother.\nBelieving the incident to be a hallucination, Morris attempted to continue shopping, but became overcome with emotion several minutes later.\n\nAddendum 5965.1\n\nAddendum 5965.1\n\nGrace Asare, Session 004 Transcript\n\nForeword: As part of investigations into SCP-5965, close acquaintances and family members were offered counselling sessions, which were run by undercover Foundation psychiatrists. Grace Asare, a close friend of SCP-5965 who was present on the cliffs at the time of death, underwent several such sessions with Dr. Theodore Lewis. The below is a transcription of Asare's fourth session.3\n\nDr. Lewis: Hi Grace, please come in.\n(Grace Asare walks into Dr. Lewis's office, and takes a seat on the settee. He follows her in, and sits down in a chair, facing her.)\nDr. Lewis: How have you been since we last spoke?\nAsare: Alright. I've been alright. I mean\u2026 it's been a few weeks. Life should be getting back to normal, right? And it sort of is. Which I hate.\nWhen I told work about what happened, my manager called me up and opened with \"I'm not quite sure what to say here, Grace, I've not been in this situation before\". Arsehole couldn't resist making it about him. When I went back after the time off, everyone tiptoed around me. Treated me like I was made of glass.\nI'm glad that's stopped, it wound me up to no end. Now life's the way it was before, except it's not? I'll be going through my day, focusing on what I need to get done and bam. I remember, and it hits me all over again. And it's somehow worse. Right after it was all I could think about, day and night, constantly on my mind. But now, the brief relief that comes from forgetting is cancelled out by the fresh pain that when I see Hay\u2014 (Grace chokes.) sorry, see him again.\nDr. Lewis: Can you see him in the room now?\nAsare: What? I \u2014 no\u2026 it's not like that. I don't physically see him, I see him up here. (Grace taps her head.)\nIt's a mix of things. It's memories \u2014 things we did, jokes he told me. It's the photo he used for his apps, that would pop up when I got a message. It's fantasies. Imagining things in the future as if he were still around.\nEvery now and then, the day itself will replay in vivid technicolour and slow motion. I'll go over what happened in my head. Sometimes I'll consider what I could and should have done to stop it. Sometimes I'll just replay the event. Process it. Focus on different things. I've been returning to the sound of it recently, more and more\u2026\nDr. Lewis: What about the sound do you return to?\nAsare: Well\u2026 there wasn't any. As he\u2026 sorry (she takes a moment to compose herself.) as he went over he\u2026 he umm\u2026 (she pauses.) he made a gasping noise. And that was it. Until the thud.\nYou'd think someone would scream. Shout or wail. But\u2026nothing.\nDr. Lewis: And how does it leave you feeling when you see him?\nAsare: Umm\u2026 well, that's a pretty big question. I'm sad, obviously I'm bloody sad, but by this point I've been sad for so long I feel tired and drained. I'm also confused.\nI\u2026 I had another friend die when I was a teenager. It must be nearly ten years ago now. And that was awful, but it\u2026 how do I put this\u2026 it made sense? Do you understand what I mean?\nDr. Lewis: I think so, would you like to explain further?\nAsare: It was really sad, but she had been sick for a long time. Longer than I had known her. So that, that made sense. But Hayden\u2026 it's so random. It doesn't make sense.\nAnd\u2026 and I think that's why, despite everything, the main idea, the big emotion I'm feeling, is anger.\nI'm angry. I'm angry at myself for suggesting the trip to Dover. I'm angry at Melanie for trying to use this situation to get back in contact. I'm angry at my mum for telling me \"it'll get better\". I'm angry at David for mentioning taking a photo by the edge. I'm angry at my manager. I'm angry at whoever manages those damned cliffs for not putting up fencing.\n(Grace begins to cry.)\nBut most of all, I'm angry at Hayden. I am so, so angry that he was so fucking stupid to piss about on a cliff top. I'm angry he didn't have any bloody common sense. I'm angry he wasn't more careful. I'm angry he's left me alone.\nI want to scream at him, I want to punch him and ask why he'd leave me to face everything without him. This wasn't the way things were meant to be. This shouldn't be the end of his story, he had so much potential. This shouldn't be the end of our story. I want to see him again one last time and rage at him, tell him what an idiot he is\u2026 but also tell him what he meant to me. And hear his voice.\nBut he's gone.\nSo I don't see how I can.\n\nAfterword: To date, neither Asare, nor the other two friends present on the day of SCP-5965's death, have manifested an SCP-5965 incident.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-5965's original corpse has remained present within its coffin since burial.\n2. Between 5 and 6 years of age.\n3. All sessions were covertly recorded. Transcripts available on request.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5964 | SCP-5965 | SCP-5966 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5966\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5966 is stored in a standard humanoid containment chamber located at Site-22 and kept under guard by at least two members of security. To prevent SCP-5966 from experiencing bodily harm, it is provided with fresh painting supplies at the beginning of each week.\nDescription: SCP-5966 is a painter, originally known as \"Vedad Gudelj\", with a series of anomalous bodily and mental modifications intended to incentivise a mass creation of artwork.\nThe most prominent and noticeable alteration to SCP-5966's body is its mouth, which has been fused shut. Internal analysis has shown that the vocal cords of SCP-5966 have also been removed. Although these alterations by themselves would render SCP-5966 incapable of verbal communication, attempts at interviews and written communication suggest that SCP-5966 is no longer capable of expressing or understanding any form of language at all.\nTesting also suggests that SCP-5966 no longer requires any form of sustenance or sleep, although it will curl up in the corner of its containment chamber when inactive.\nSCP-5966 will attempt to create one piece of artwork a week, using whatever materials are available to it, and will work towards this goal without rest. Several seconds after the piece of art is completed, it will completely disappear. Attempts to determine what becomes of these articles via the use of tracking beacons have thus far been unsuccessful.\nShortly following the disappearance of the artwork, SCP-5966 will be subject to further bodily alterations, the nature of which are dependent on subjective qualities present within the artwork produced. The specific nature of these properties are not completely certain, but appear to be focused around the appeal of the artwork to a large audience. In cases where these qualities are present, these bodily modifications will be beneficial to SCP-5966, while harmful alterations will result if the artwork does not possess said qualities. These secondary modifications are temporary, and will disappear from SCP-5966's body at the beginning of the next week.\nSCP-5966 was recovered on 21/01/2019 from its apartment in Detroit, Michigan by authorities after its landlord complained of a foul smell emanating from the residence. Initially, said landlord was intending to evict SCP-5966 following numerous missed rent payments, but discovered SCP-5966 in its current condition upon entering the apartment. After SCP-5966 was taken to a nearby hospital and reports of its bodily alterations began circulating, the Foundation intervened and brought SCP-5966 into containment.\n\nPainting Log 5966-1\nThe following log is a record of paintings produced by SCP-5966, as well as the resulting bodily modifications.\n\nPainting Content\nResult\n\nLandscape painting of a tree in a field.\nSCP-5966's mouth temporarily unfused, allowing it to breathe more comfortably.\n\nPortrait of SCP-5966, prior to bodily alterations.\nSCP-5966 loses the use of its legs.\n\nPainting of the Empire State Building.\nSCP-5966 falls asleep and remains in this state for the remainder of the week. Unclear if this is a positive or negative modification.\n\nPainting of a car exploding. A man wearing a trench-coat is walking away from the explosion, smoking a cigar and holding a rocket launcher.\nA functional mouth and tongue develop in the left hand of SCP-5966. Although it is incapable of fully consuming food, SCP-5966 is capable of using the tongue to taste it.\n\nPortrait of SCP-5966, prior to bodily alterations.\nSCP-5966 clutches its head and rolls around the containment chamber in pain. SCP-5966 spends the remainder of the week hiding in the corner, holding its head.\n\nPortrait of SCP-5966, prior to bodily alterations.\nSCP-5966's eyeballs visibly begin to boil, with smoke billowing out of the sockets. SCP-5966 spends the remainder of the week with its hands covering its eyes.\n\nIndistinct portrait, believed to be of SCP-5966 prior to bodily alterations.\nSCP-5966's mouth becomes unfused and it coughs up a human finger wearing a ring. The owner of this finger is unclear, as SCP-5966 refuses to surrender it to security personnel when prompted and it disappears several minutes later.\n\nPainting of three scantily clad women, sitting on and surrounding a red sports car.\nA tattoo of an unidentified woman's face appears on SCP-5966's left arm. SCP-5966 spends the remainder of the week stroking and observing it.\n\nPainting of three scantily clad women, sitting on and surrounding a red sports car.\nSee previous entry.\n\nAddendum 5966-1 (Recovered Materials)\nDuring a search of SCP-5966's apartment following initial recovery, the following document was found. Content and context suggests it is a simple written contract of employment which was sent to SCP-5966. SCP-5966's signature is present at the bottom of the contract.\n\nThe following agreement is between Vedad Gudelj, hereafter referred to as the Artist, and their employer, hereafter referred to as the Patron.\nThe Artist hereby pledges to create at least one product of acceptable quality per week, and the Patron hereby pledges to provide proportionate payment for said product. As previously agreed, all proceeds from the product will be split evenly between the Artist and the Patron, with the half provided to the Artist coming in the form of good fortune.\nThe Patron reserves the right to enact demerits or changes to the Artist's circumstances in order to ensure their investment is returned.\nEmployment shall begin immediately following the signing of this contract, and will continue until specifically terminated. The Artist may terminate his employment at any time he chooses through direct verbal or written notice. In order to prevent fraudulent termination of this contract, notice through an intermediary will not be accepted.\nWesthead Media hopes to enjoy working with you!\n\n\u00ab SCP-5965 | SCP-5966 | SCP-5967 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nSCP-5967 \u2060\u2014 What's your favorite idea? by Marceline_Raynes\nMore by Author\n\n95.39%\n(+124)\n4.61%\n(-6)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Contained instances of SCP-5967 are to remain in Site-83's cryogenic storage room, and monitoring Foundation personnel must wear noise-canceling headphones. Psychological assessments are required for personnel assigned to SCP-5967 twice per week. Testing with SCP-5967 is strictly forbidden.\nLyndhurst, New Jersey has been converted into Provisional Site-83, and Foundation agents are to monitor the town for evidence of continued anomalous activity. Salem Steros and Caesar Winters is considered a Person of Interest related to SCP-5967 and is suspected to be involved in the continued creation of SCP-5967 instances across Bergen County. The \"Reality Cinq'' radio program is to be treated with standard media suppression tactics, should it begin broadcasting again.\nThe apprehension of Caesar Winters is considered a Rho-Level priority. Salem Steros is currently detained in a reality-sunk containment suite at Site-83, with three Scranton Reality Anchors active at all times.\nDescription: Instances of SCP-5967 refer to five-meter-tall pillars composed of currently unidentified musculature and eyeball-like organs originating in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. There are currently seven contained instances. DNA analysis of SCP-5967 has proven ineffective in identifying the source of its components, although the eyeball-like organs visually resemble those of non-anomalous humans. SCP-5967 is capable of speech, despite lacking vocal organs, and consistently intones phrases indicative of Fifthist ideology. Individuals who are within the auditory range of SCP-5967 without wearing auditory protective gear will be forced to adhere to Fifthist ideologies.\nMembers of a group known as \"The Commune\", operating out of the local Elks Lodge1, were able to radically influence the Hume levels of Lyndhurst and its surrounding towns over the course of three days, generating substantial amounts of latent reality. SCP-5967 allowed The Commune's leadership figures, Caesar Winters and Salem Steros, to establish and maintain control over the minds of local residents.\nAffected individuals were susceptible to remote influence by Winters or Steros. Established methods of conceptual manipulation, amnestic treatment, and hypnotherapy have proven ineffective in relinquishing control of the affected subject from either party. The maximum range of influence, if there is one, has yet to be determined.\n\nCassette tapes found in the ruins of the Lyndhurst Police Station\n\nClose\n\nOn December 3rd, 2017, undercover agents embedded in the Lyndhurst police force reported an instance of SCP-5967 manifested in the center of the Lyndhurst Police Station. Containment teams were dispatched in an effort to mitigate civilian injuries and secure the instance. Surviving witnesses were amnesticized, and SCP-5967 was contained.\nDue to the abrupt cessation of The Reality Cinq's productions, it was hypothesized that Steros and Winters were operating from within the police station using anomalous methods to conceal themselves, their equipment, and even their studio.\nThe following cassette tapes were found during the reconstruction of the police station.\n\nAir date: June 3rd, 2018\nWinters: Goooooood evening everybody! Welcome back to\u2026\nSteros: The Reality Cinq, the show where your gorgeous hosts, Salem\u2026\nWinters: And Caesar-\nSteros: Talk to you about things that matter! Today we'll be addressing the recent decline in Fifthist activity across America.\nWinters: Like, what is the deal with that folks? Having a hard time finding the Truth? Don't worry, we've all been there before, but that's no reason to give up! Get on out there and pray to our many-armed goddess. Let Her know that you've got Her back, so She can get yours.\nSteros: And don't be afraid to get your hands dirty while you're digging deep inside yourself for the Truth. Lord knows we aren't.\nWinters: In other news, some memelord on Reddit is posting hateful shit once again. We'll find you, BeneficialChemistry5, and when we do you'll wish you joined us when you had the chance.\nSteros: Ain't that the truth?\nNON-ANOMALOUS TOPICS REDACTED FOR BREVITY\n\nAire Date: June 18th, 2018\nWinters: Good evening and welcome back to our show\u2026\nSteros: Reality Cinq!\nWinters: Today we're going to be screwing with the men in shadows.\nSteros: Those government [bleep]-wipes are gonna get it today! We're doing this for you, the little people, who shouldn't have to live in fear of the Foundation!\n( Dial Tone for several seconds. )\nJunior Researcher Jones: How did you get this number? This is a secure channel. Identify yourself.\nSteros: Herman Fuller says what?\nJ.R. Jones: What?\n( A laugh track is played. Steros and Winters are laughing as well. )\nWinters: Gotcha again, shadow man!\nJ.R. Jones: ( Laughing ) That was funny.\nSalem: And here I thought none of you guys had a sense of humor.\nJ.R. Jones: Come on, man, you of all people should know better than to judge a book by its cover.\nSalem: Tell me, Mr. Jones, are you a Fifthist?\nJ.R. Jones: No sir, I can't say I am. Are you?\nWinters: We are indeed. And we want to save you, and all our listeners, from this place by giving you the Truth!\nJ.R. Jones: The Truth? What's that?\nWinters: That sweet sweet infinite knowledge that She can bestow upon you.\nSteros: Amen brother.\nWinters: She told us about the Truth, and now we share it with you!\nJ.R. Jones: And who is She?\n( The pair groan. A \"whacking\" sound effect is heard. )\nSteros: This guy.\nWinters: You been canoodling with the Sarkics in the abattoir lately?\nJ.R. Jones: What? I- no. I'm not familiar with-\nSteros: Our guiding light? Our creator? The very thoughts that should be infiltrating your head right now?\nJ.R. Jones: Is that She? The Fifthist concepts\u2026 The voices?\nWinters: That's just the symptoms, Mr. Jones. She is something much more.\nJ.R. Jones: But what if-\nSteros: There are no \"what ifs\" when it comes to the Truth, Jones. You're either with us\u2026\nWinters: Or you're a Beacon.\nSteros: And that's the truth.\n\nAir Date: August 18th, 2018\nWinters: We've got lucky caller number 15 on the line here!\n( An unknown voice is heard shouting on the line. )\nWinters: What's your name, caller 15?\nUnknown: Wendy Ricefield!\nSteros: And where are you from, Wendy?\nRicefield: Wallington, New Jersey!\nSteros: Tell me Wendy, are you Fifthist?\nRicefield: Of course, Salem!\nSteros: Do you promise to uphold the Truth against all odds?\nRicefield: I do! Oh my god, have I won?\nWinters: You have, Wendy! Congratulations! Now, you've been listening to the rules of the game, haven't you?\nRicefield: Yes sir! My phone's on speaker, and I've got the candles and sigils set up and everything already. I'm ready to learn the Truth!\nSteros: Excellent.\n( There are wet, squelching sounds coming from within the studio. Ricefield is elated at something, as she continues exclaiming positive remarks for the duration of the call. )\nRicefield: Wait, something's not-\nWinters: Do you trust us, Wendy?\nRicefield: I do, just\u2026 what the fu-\nSteros: Woah there, sister! You can't go dropping F-bombs on the radio just because you're excited. Please, let's keep it calm.\nRicefield: ( Shaky chuckle ) I just wasn't expecting it to be\u2026 this!\nWinters: God works in mysterious ways, Wendy.\n( Splintering sounds are heard from Ricefield's line. She attempts to hang up but is unable, as a loud buzzing sound is heard when she presumably pushes the \"end call\" button. Ricefield is heard opening a door and screaming for help. There is a crashing noise as Ricefield is dragged back inside of her residence. A barely audible noise similar to growling is heard, as are Ricefield's panicked breathing. )\n( Squelching noises and Ricefield's screams are heard before abruptly stopping. The line terminates. )\nSteros: That's the Truth, ladies and gentlemen!\n\nInterview with Steros Salem\n\nClose File\n\nImage of Steros' brain following apprehension\n\nOn August 23rd, 2018, Salem Steros, as well as several additional members of The Commune were apprehended following the manifestation of an SCP-5967 instance in Wallington, New Jersey. Steros and his followers were discovered holding hands in a circular pattern around SCP-5967. Foundation agents observed the members of the Commune approach the SCP-5967 instance, kneel down and lick SCP-5967 several times before returning to their location within the circle.\nSteros was taken to Site-83 for questioning, while the other members of The Commune were taken to Site-9, where they were kept in isolation containment cells.\nAt Site-83, Steros frequently complained of headaches and demanded to be examined. His requests were initially denied. Steros, in turn, elected to harm himself by repeatedly running into a wall until he lost consciousness. A medical team was alerted to this behavior and, after treating his wounds, performed an MRI before he regained consciousness, discovering the source of Steros' discomfort. (See image)\nJunior Researcher Umar Hadid volunteered to interview Steros as he had previous experiences with the latter.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Umar Hadid\nInterviewed: Salem Steros\n<Begin Log>\nJ.R. Hadid: Please state your name.\nSteros: Salem Steros, co-host of The Reality Cinq, and local star.\nJ.R. Hadid: Thank you.\nSteros: So you're Mr. Jones, from one of our summer shows, right? Sometime in August I think?\nJ.R. Hadid: You're thinking of Researcher Jones, but we aren't here to talk about m-\nSteros: Nonsense. Look man, I know you, you know me. Why don't you just let me outta here so I can get back out there with Caesar and spread the Truth huh? Isn't saving people what your Foundation is about?\nJ.R. Hadid: I'm still not quite sure who or what She is.\n( Steros sighs. He puts his fingers on his temples and rubs them in a circular motion. )\nJ.R. Hadid: I-I'm sorry. Look, if you could just, explain a bit clearer what you-\nSteros: Listen here, fuckstick. I'm gonna tell you this once. Once! She is a goddess, one that is actively trying to fuck us. And you an' me? We are not ready for that. No one on Earth is.\nJ.R. Hadid: Why?\nSteros: Because that's Her thing, Jones. Hadid, whatever the fuck.\nJ.R. Hadid: You and Caesar have been performing anomalous rituals for well over-\nSteros: Look, if I got up and murdered you to death right now, it was because She willed it. I'm trying to save people, what about you?\nJ.R. Hadid: I, um\u2026 I understand.\n( Steros scoffs. )\nSteros: You think you have any clue what the fuck I'm going through, shadow man? The beacons, like that girl Wendy or whatever the hell, they're like a GPS signal for Her. And if- no, when She gets here and we can't see Her, well, that's just bad news bears for everyone.\nJ.R. Hadid: How would seeing this entity be good for anyone?\nSteros: Loyalty. I mean, think about it. Who in their right mind would lick a pillar made of meat and bones for fun?\nJ.R. Hadid: I don't think anyone would. B-but how did you figure this out?\nSteros: Me and Caesar we were just stargazing in the meadowlands after a show one day. Was nice to get away from the city every once and a while and just\u2026 take in the view. We did that sometimes, just lay back and chill like we were kids again. Then we heard Her voice for the first time and She told us about the Truth. Said that She wanted to come home, but that the Way was broken so She needed our help.\nJ.R. Hadid: You and Caesar became Fifthists after that?\nSteros: After we learned the Truth we knew that something had to be done. But you can't make a cake without breaking a few eggs.\nJ.R. Hadid: That's not the-\nSteros: Would you rather eat a cake or an omelet, shadow man?\nJ.R. Hadid: A cake I guess.\n( Steros nods. )\nSteros: We'll all be eggs in Her massive cake. But maybe, maybe some of us will get to eat it too.\nJ.R. Hadid: I'd hardly call turning people into meat pillars saving them.\nSteros: ( Laughing ) I don't expect you to understand. You can't see things like we do. Caesar's doing the lord's work, and you'll never find him.\nJ.R. Hadid: I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.\nSteros: Oh?\nJ.R. Hadid: We've received reports of SCP-5967 manifestations in the area. Agents have already been dispatched to stop Caesar. He'll be here within the week.\nSteros: We'll see.\n\nThe Pursuit of Caesar Winters\n\nClose\n\nFrom February 14th, 2020, to February 16th, 2020, there were eighteen additional manifestations of SCP-5967 across Bergen County, New Jersey. Similar reports from undercover Foundation agents county-wide confirmed that Caesar Winters was responsible for the creation of the instances.\nMTF Lambda-5 encountered Winters in the meadowlands, a remote field located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The following footage was pieced together from the participating agents.\n\nBegin Footage\nL5-Alpha: Target in sight, moving in.\n( Alpha signals to Beta and Gamma, who form a loose circle surrounding Winters and his group. They are apparently unnoticed, as the group is focused on the SCP-5967 instance. )\nBeta: Got Winters in my sights.\nGamma: On your orders, Captain.\nAlpha: Hold your fire.\n( Winters begins gesticulating at SCP-5967, forming wide circles with his arms. The ocular organs on SCP-5967 follow the motion of Winters' arms before abruptly snapping in the direction of Alpha. )\nWinters: The Lord's work is never easy is it?\nAlpha: Caesar Winters, stop what you're doing and put your hands on your head.\n( Winters chuckles. The other individuals surrounding SCP-5967, presumed members of The Commune, share a monotone, synchronous laugh. )\nWinters: Salem was always concerned with doing the right thing. But it's not that simple.\nAlpha: This is your last chance, Winters.\nWinters: We lick the beacons. Then eyes grow and fester, wriggling around in our brain meat, flooding us with forbidden insight. Why?\nGamma: Ma'am?\nWinters: Our eyes let us see the Truth, and the Truth is that She doesn't care if we live or die.\n( Alpha signals to Delta, who fires a shot into Winters' head. Winters falls instantly. A member of the group begins to violently convulse before bending over and vomiting eyes. A tear forms at the base of their neck. From the wound, the face of Caesar Winters appears. After several seconds, the original head is detached and is replaced by that of Winters. )\nWinters: I'm not dying until I am goddamn ready. When She comes and fucks our planet, I'll be behind the camera filming the whole thing.\nBeta: Ma'am!\nAlpha: Open fire!\n( MTF Lambda-5 fires upon The Commune for fifteen seconds, resulting in the termination of everyone present. Alpha approaches the SCP-5967 instance and prepares to contact the containment team but she stops. )\nAlpha: Do you hear that?\nBeta: I don't hear anything, ma'am. Must be a cognitohazard from SCP-5967.\nAlpha: No, this isn't\u2026 I know what a cognitohazard feels like. This is different. You don't hear that?\nGamma: Watch out, we've still got activity!\n( The bodies of The Commune begin convulsing before levitating by the necks. Alpha backs away, joined by Beta and Gamma. They have their rifles trained on the floating corpses. )\n( The chest cavity of Winters bulges, as if something were trapped underneath. Moments later it bursts, spraying viscera and eyeballs on all three members of MTF Lambda-5. The other corpses fold in on themselves until they are in the fetal position. Crunching sounds are heard as bones snap from the pressure. Their skin sloughs off, revealing muscle and sinew embedded with eyes that rotate in place sporadically. )\nAlpha: I can't. They're still people.\nBeta & Gamma: Ma'am!\n( Alpha shakes her head, cracking her neck several times. She drops her gun and falls to her knees. Beta fires upon the corpses while Gamma approaches Alpha and pulls her away. Alpha resists and breaks free of Gamma's grip. )\nAlpha: It's Her. She is lost deep in the cosmos and is angry with us for not helping Her find Her way back. She will kill us all, lest we line our brains and see Her for who She truly is!\n( Alpha sprints toward SCP-5967 and licks it. The corpses compress further, resembling tightly formed spheres composed of muscle mass and eyeballs now. Caesar Winters' body levitates into SCP-5967 and melts away. The floating corpses accelerate toward Beta and Gamma at high speed. )\nGamma: Oh fuck!\n( Gamma is able to successfully avoid several corpses by rolling. Beta, however, is struck multiple times. Gamma rises to her feet. There is a large crater filled with blood where Beta was previously standing. Gamma aims her gun at the floating corpses. )\nAlpha: Don't you dare, soldier. That's an order!\nGamma: Ma'am, you've been compromised. The containment team is on their way to extract us, but I am not dying here.\nAlpha: Come, my friend. Look.\n( Gamma looks at Alpha, who has ceased licking SCP-5967. As Alpha turns to face Gamma, her eyes roll into the back of her head. She cocks her head to the side and smiles. The floating corpses levitate into SCP-5967 and disintegrate. )\nAlpha: Don't you hear Her voice? She is angry. But I can save you. I can save us. Let me show you.\n( Alpha runs at Gamma with arms outstretched. Gamma shouts, but is ignored. Using a nearby rock, Alpha knocks Gamma's helmet off. She holds open Gamma's eyelids and licks her eyeball. Gamma screams. Alpha looks to the sky. )\nAlpha: I can see you! I can see everything now!\n<End Log>\n\nThe Post-Containment Incident\n\nClose Report\n\nAfter failing to apprehend Caesar Winters, a containment team was dispatched following Gamma's call. The team was able to secure SCP-5967, Alpha, and Gamma. Gamma was treated at Site 83's medical ward before being awarded a Silver Lion badge and a two-week vacation.\nAlpha was psychologically screened upon her return to Site-83. After a two week period without any anomalous activity or hostile thoughts from Alpha, she was cleared for an interview with Junior Researcher Umar Hadid. The following interview has been documented below.\n\nInterviewer: Junior Researcher Umar Hadid\nInterviewed: MTF Lambda-5 Alpha\n<Begin Log>\nJ.R. Hadid: State your name for the record, Sandy.\nAlpha: You're supposed to let me say my name first.\nJ.R. Hadid: I'm sorry, I'm still pretty bad at this. ( He laughs ) I don't even know why Chin's cleared me for this interview.\nAlpha: Casandra Dankofski, and you discovered the anomaly. Seems only fair to me.\n( Hadid chuckles, then clears his throat. )\nJ.R. Hadid: How have you been feeling lately?\nAlpha: Like I got my fucking mind flayed again, Umar. It hasn't been easy. It's like, there's this voice in the back of my head all the time now, rambling on about the Truth and eyeballs and Fifthism and it's just fucked.\nJ.R. Hadid: Have the amnestics been helping?\nAlpha: No, they haven't. I still remember everything, including what I did to Sato. Poor girl. Can't even imagine what I'd do if my captain held me down and licked my eyeballs.\nJ.R. Hadid: ( Scratching his neck ) Yeah, neither can I.\nAlpha: They're not going to let me command again, are they?\nJ.R. Hadid: I've heard talk, but I don't think so Sandy. I'm sorry.\nAlpha: Figures.\n( Alpha begins coughing. )\nJ.R. Hadid: Are you okay?\nAlpha: Yeah. Just allergies. Can you um, just turn that off?\nJ.R. Hadid: Turn what off?\nOverhead speaker: And we've got lucky caller Number 15 on the line again!\nAlpha: That voice. It's Winters.\nJ.R. Hadid: What are you talking about, Sandy?\nAlpha: The overhead speaker. Someone's hacked into the system!\nJ.R. Hadid: Uhh\u2026 Can we get secur-\n( Alpha rises and turns her back to J.R. Hadid. She scratches her head and continues coughing. )\nAlpha: No, Umar, we won't, we can't. I, look. We're still in danger, we still-\n( Suddenly, Alpha vomits an eyeball into her hands. She turns and looks at J.R. Hadid, who is disturbed. J.R. Hadid attempts to contact medical personnel, but is unable to due to a malfunction in the landline. )\nJ.R. Hadid: What in the fuck?\nAlpha: Tell me, Hadid, are you a Fifthist now? Are you ready to see the Truth?\n( J.R. Hadid exits the room, sealing it behind him. Alpha attempts to break through the glass but is unable to. )\n( After several failed attempts, Alpha paces in circles in the center of the room. She draws several sigils of unknown origin on the walls and floor. She then proceeds to light a candle through anomalous means. )\nJ.R. Hadid: Security! Security! Someone fucking help me!\nAlpha: Here's the Truth, Mr. Hadid.\n( There is a bright flash of light from the sigils. An unknown, quadrupedal entity emerges from the floor and attacks Alpha. The entity and Alpha merge once contact is established. Alpha is no longer distinguishable as her body contorts into a mass of flesh, muscle, and eyes. The mass extends upward until it reaches a height of approximately seven meters. )\n\nFootnotes\n1. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868, originally as a social club in New York City.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5966 | SCP-5967 | SCP-5968 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5968\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The area around SCP-5968 manifestations is to be cleared in a square kilometer zone and a wire fence is to be erected around the premises until the instance dematerializes.\nDescription: SCP-5968 is an extraterrestrial, interdimensional restaurant that manifests within marketplace centers going by the name \"Starlite Diner\". SCP-5968 begins to manifest with advertisements reading \u201cHave a stellar meal at the Starlight Diner. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Starseed way.\u201d, hereby designated as SCP-5968-1. These advertisements originate by growing through the cracks of sidewalks, roads and brick walls and appear to be biological in makeup with the texture of copy paper. Once fully formed SCP-5968 will appear at the address of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Starseed Way.\nThe interior of SCP-5968 is painted a washed beige on all walls, with a popcorn ceiling lit by fluorescent lights and a black and white checkered tile floor. Seating in SCP-5968 is provided by red and yellow wooden tables surrounded on their sides with cushion booths. The dimensions of the building change constantly but usually fall between 5m-15m wide and 20m-170m long, with a constant height of 3.5m, SCP-5968 is always a hallway, possessing no kitchen or bathrooms, only a door at the end of the hallway with a plaque reading \"Manager\" in gold lettering. SCP-5968 is populated with humanoid entities, hereby designated SCP-5968-2, roughly two (2) meters tall with an absence of facial features with the exception of a painted-on smile. These entities are covered in dry, heavily dimpled skin and wear neon yellow jumpsuits that resemble nylon in material. In place of hands SCP-5968-2 instances possess large fleshy clam like appendages that regurgitate ordered items from SCP-5968's menu. SCP-5968's menu items range from regular items to the extraterrestrial and anomalous and change daily; said items do not have prices however tips are happily accepted in the form of solid matter. The menu appears in the reader's native tongue and in Braille for blind customers.\nPatrons of SCP-5968, hereby designated SCP-5968-3, include a variety of extraterrestrial and extra-dimensional creatures, many able to understand most human languages and none hostile.\nSCP-5968's menu:12/19/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\nItem Name\nDescription\nEffect Upon Consumption\n\nCuban Sandwich\nItem made in the stack order from bottom to top of: grilled Cuban bread, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, three (3) dill pickle chips and a dollop of honey mustard.\nD-33231 felt full.\n\nOlokvidashi Flank\nItem tested near identical in genetic makeup to the Homo denisovan species of early human. The sample is that of an infant Denisovan leg slow-cooked and dressed with Asian black bean sauce.\nD-33231 reportedly enjoyed the food remarking, \u201cIt tastes like chicken\u201d.\n\nSolok's Faou\nSubject served a plate of opaque white gelatinous cubes, weighing in at exactly one (1) kg.\nAfter three (3) bites D-33231's hair turned a shade of bright blue and they gained a set of pyrokinetic abilities lasting approximately sixteen (16) minutes, after which D-33231 passed out and woke up speaking an unknown click-based language.\n\nFairy Dust\nSubject served two (2) grams of a white powder, a direct match for C17H21NO4 or crack cocaine.\nD-17776 jumped on a diner table, ran up to an SCP-5258-2 instance, kissed the entity on its smile, announced \u201cNo time to play, Johnny \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is a business boy!\u201d, then fainted.\n\nMango\nItem was a mango of the Alphonso variety.\nD-61222 enjoyed the sweet treat.\n\nDynomite Lionfish\nSubject served a fried lionfish filet glazed in Dynomite sauce.\nD-61222 remarked on the sweet, filling nature of the filet. Fifteen (15) minutes after consumption D-61222 exploded, causing interior damage to his holding cell. Traces of uranium and plutonium were found post-analysis in D-61222's blood, leading researchers to believe the dish was a prepared instance of the SCP-5632 subspecies of lionfish.\n\nGrilled Latabros Breast from Tau Ceti f\nSubject served a portion of meat in a sirloin cut. The meat is dark blue in color and secretes a black sweat. The sample appeared biological and carbon-based however possessed no DNA.\nD-001238 described the meat as tasting like mud and pepper and likened its texture to that of a soggy wood block. Upon trying to separate the meat into chunks D-001238 found a ticket with writing in an unknown script similar to ancient Sumerian. D-001238 picked up the ticket and disappeared in a flash of bright yellow light.\n\nSelect Interaction Logs with SCP-5968-3 Instances\n\n+ LOG: SCP-5968-3-\u03b8\n\n- LOG: SCP-5968-3-\u03b8\n\nInstance: SCP-5968-3-\u03b8\nDescription: SCP-5968-3-\u03b8 is a ball of heptagons made of solid bars of photons. The being ranges from 0.3 to 1.8 meters in circumference and ingests the pigment food ordered from SCP-5968-2 instances by beaming a ray of light at the item until it appears completely white.\nInteraction Account: SCP-5968-3-\u03b8 appears to recognize speech however only responds by rhythmic fluctuations in its luminosity. D-32320 flashed a flashlight into SCP-5258-\u03b8 to get its attention and it responded by fully encompassing the subject's body, upon releasing D-32320, they appeared unharmed however their skin was permanently dyed by a variety of pigments.\n\n+ LOG: SCP-5968-3-\u03c0\n\n- LOG: SCP-5968-3-\u03c0\n\nInstance: SCP-5258-3-\u03c0\nDescription: SCP-5968-3-\u03c0 is a 2.6-meter-tall silicon-based insectoid entity whose body resembles a dung beetle with a thick brow carapace and glowing blue underbelly, terminating in a flat surface missing the head. The flat surface hosts five green eyes surrounding an oral pit full of extendable zinc pillars. SCP-5258-\u03c0 is believed to be the same species as SCP-1171.\nInteraction Account: Upon speaking to SCP-5968-3-\u03c0 the entity responded by extending two of its zinc pillars to D-009914's head (one behind each ear). Then through bone-conduction SCP-5968-\u03c0 began to speak to D-009914. A written account of the event is recorded in Transcript A.\nTranscript A\n\nBegin Transcript\nSSCP-5968-3-\u03c0: Ooo ooo ah ah.\nD-009914: \u201cUmm\u2026what?\u201d\nSCP-5258-3-\u03c0: I'm sorry, do you not comprehend, you are an ape are you not.\nD-009914: \u201cUh, no man I'm human, I speak English.\u201d\nSCP-5258-3-\u03c0: Very well my name is Vanguard, can I order you something, maybe a dish containing\u2026 bananas?\nD-009914: W-what, I'm good I had the leviathan filet mignon with moon cheese.\nSCP-5258-3-\u03c0: Went over your head. No matter. Why carbon, seems like a regretful choice? Why spend life as a glorified diamond?\nD-009914: \u201cExcuse me, I really don't understand.\u201d\nSCP-5258-3-\u03c0: What a waste of sapience. I ask, sulfur or hydrogen?\nD-009914: \u201cMan, What?\u201d\nSCP-5258-3-\u03c0: Sulfur or Hydrogen?\nD-009914: D-009914 remains silent.\nSCP-5258-3-\u03c0: Fine I'll choose for you, ape.\nEnd Transcript\n\nAfter leaving the premises of SCP-5258 D-009914 went through a series of bodily changes described below in time elapsed since SCP-5258-\u03c0 interaction:\n0:45: D-009914 complains 0f dry and cracking skin.\n1:15: D-009914's skin dries to the point of immobility.\n1:30: Parts of D-009914's body began crumbling off.\n1:50: D-009914 forms a pile of dust. From the dust rises a pale white cloud of gas, the gas forms a humanoid figure with congruent dimensions to D-009914. The humanoid rises through the ceiling; the whereabouts of the gaseous being are unknown at time of publication.\n\n+ LOG: SCP-5968-3-\u03c9\n\n- LOG: SCP-5968-3-\u03c9\n\nInstance: SCP-5968-3-\u03c9\nDescription: SCP-5968-3-\u03c9 is a race of plant-like entities composed of a dark green thin, spined stalk and a large membrane appearing as a large, lidded eye. The entities locomote via a network of vines extended from beneath the inside of their bottom eyelid, and secure themselves in the same fashion.\nInteraction Account: These entities do not respond to any stimuli, but do appear to convey their orders to SCP-5968-2 instances through blank stares.\n\nRecorded Addendums\n\n+ Addendum A: Attempt to Tip with Currency\n\n- Addendum A: Attempt to Tip with Currency\n\nUpon being tipped with $7.53 in pocket change an SCP-5258-2 instance encased D-32789's hand with its clam-like appendage. Once removed D-32789's hand appeared permanently tattooed with a similar tattoo to the smile on instances of SCP-5968-2's faces.\n\n+ Addendum B: Attempt to Tip with Gold Bullion\n\n- Addendum B: Attempt to Tip with Gold Bullion\n\nUpon being tipped with eight (8) ounces of gold bullion the waiting instance of SCP-5258-2 sucked the material into its clam-like appendage then after 0:45 seconds elapsed the appendage spat out a key made of said eight (8) ounces of gold, hereby designated SCP-5968-4, that when used on any door with a lock, allows user passage into SCP-5968.\n\n+ Addendum C: Attempt to Ask for the Manager\n\n- Addendum C: Attempt to Ask for the Manager\n\nUpon D-30009 asking an instance of SCP-5968-2 to speak with the manager they were handed a 4cm x 6cm card reading \"He's dealing with a problem in sales\". Further attempts to speak with the manager have yielded the same result.\n\nWARNING\n\nLEVEL 3 CLEARANCE REQUIRED\nALL UNAUTHORIZED VIEWERS WILL BE TERMINATED\n\n+ PROCEED\n\n- REGRESS\n\nAddendum C-2: Attempt to Find the Manager\nForeword: In response to the perpetual inability of the manager of SCP-5968, agents of the Mobile Task Force Zeta-9, \"Mole Rats\", 'Echo', 'Tango' and 'Lima' were sent in to force their way into a meeting after entering SCP-5968 using SCP-5968-4.\nBriefing: The following data was received via live transmission from the body cam of Supervising Agent Tango.\n=BEGIN TRANSMISSION=\nTango's body cam switches on revealing Lima and Echo on her left and right respectively, the interior of SCP-5968 as well as two instances of SCP-5968-3-\u03c9 seated across from one another in a booth and one instance of SCP-5968-2 can also be seen. Tango moves forward, brushing past one of the SCP-5968-2 entities and revealing the Manager's door.\nTango: \"Reporting surroundings: Interior of SCP-5968 appears five meters in widths and fifteen meters in lengths. Four booths, three empty one filled, and the manager's door is visible. Requesting further command.\"\nA transmitter clipped to Tango's belt beeps, clicks then sounds \"Approach an instance of SCP-5968 and ask to see the manager.\"\nTango: \"Lima, adhere to command, ask the instance to see the manager.\"\nLima: \"Sure thing T.\"\nLima walks up to the closest instance of SCP-5968-2 and asks to see the manager to which the instance responds \"He's dealing with a problem in sales.\"\nTango: \"Typical response given. Requesting further commands.\"\nThe transmitter activates once again, sounding \"Data received, proceed with minimal force.\"\nTango: \"Alright men on my command we rush the managerial office.\"\nEcho: \"Got it.\"\nLima: \"Roger that cap'n.\"\nTango moves into approaching stance and signals Echo and Lima.\nTango: \"3-2-1.\"\nThe agents begin running towards the door and although footsteps can be heard, the manager's door does not come any closer into frame. After stopping in confusion tango turns around to reveal the team has traveled a considerable distance. A voice calls out to the team through newly manifested ceiling intercoms relaying the message \"Please be seated, your order will be taken immediately.\"The team persists for another minute, and eventually more steps of footsteps can be heard. Tango looks over her shoulder revealing the two instances of SCP-5968-2 catching up to them from behind.\nTango: \"Shit! I think they're trying to stop us.\"\nEcho: \"You think?!\"\nLima: \"We've gotta find a way to bring the door closer to us! You know, we aren't makin' progress and tweedle dee and dum are high on our tails.\"\nTango: \"I might have an idea, hold them back.\"\nLima and Echo disappear out of frame, rustling can be heard as Tango retrieves a grappling hook from her utility belt. Tango tosses the rope and it wraps around the handle of the manager's door. She begins pulling herself closer to the door and it does not pull away, around one meter from the door Tango turns around to see Echo and Lima being forced into a booth by the two instances of SCP-5968-2. Tango's transmitter sounds \"Proceed\", and she turns around and enters through the door. The camera feed goes white for three seconds before adjusting to reveal an empty white void containing only a wooden desk decorated with several phones from a variety of decades and other unidentifiable devices. At the desk sits a mound of grey, opaque slime covered in tan fedora-style hats. From the mound sprouts sparkling tendrils of dust picking up and answering the phones, speaking in a myriad of voices and languages.{Figure hereby represented as SCP-5968-5}\nSCP-5968-5: [In the voice of an old english man, a young Scottish woman and Senior Researcher \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588]The Aretha Franklin albums! You fool! You were to procure her soul you incredulous salesman!\u2026Shut your filthy mouth! Just make your quota by the end of the week and I will consider keeping your reputation among the others positive\u2026You had better, or else, do you understand?\u2026Do you?!\u2026I've arranged for your escape from the facility, call me back once you have made another sale.{Due to the script of this conversation a possible recipient has been identified}\nUpon noticing Tango SCP-5968-5 puts down all of the phones and speaks in a collection of voices.\nSCP-5968-5: \"How dare you interrupt me! Can't you see that I am busy, I have more on my plate than you could possibly comprehend!\"\nA tendril emerges from the membrane of SCP-5968-5 towards Tango, engulfing her body, Tango's body cam video goes dark but audio transmission remained intact.\nSCP-5968-5: \"The agony, the disgust, the horror you bringeth on to me with this futile interruption. You and your little militia should best stop poking around where you do not belong, I am the transacted, I give and I take, I create and destroy, my venture expands throughout the cosmos far beyond a silly diner, I am eternal, I am infinite, I am the Business Man. Now. To deal with you.\"\n=END TRANSMISSION=\nAfterword: Supervising agent Tango is presumed dead, however, after ordering and consuming food, Echo and Lima returned unharmed.\n\nSender: Dr. Brahm\nRecipient: Dr. Tolsch\nSubject: MTF Missions into SCP-5968\n\nDear Dr. Amber Tolsch,\nDue to the incident regarding the presumed death of Supervising Agent Tango, MTF manned missions to the managerial room of SCP-5968 have been suspended indefinitely. However, due to the recovery of agents Echo and Lima, the interior of SCP-5968 has been deemed safe for entry and the main room entities have been deemed non-hostile, so between you and me why don't we check out SCP-5968-4 from holding, and grab a bite at the Starlite Diner.\nSincerely,\nDr. Peter Brahm\n\n\u00ab SCP-5967 | SCP-5968 | SCP-5969 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nCreated for the 144-Hour Jam Contest Two\nImage Source: Here\nPublic Domain\n\n\nAn instance of SCP-5969\n\nItem #: SCP-5969\nObject Class: Safe Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5969 is to be contained in a climate-controlled, blast-resistant containment cell at Site-27. Relative humidity inside the cell is to be maintained between 30-40%, and MUST NOT rise above 50% for any extended period of time. Any personnel entering SCP-5969's containment cell are required to wear a Foundation-issue Level 3 Bomb Protection Suit.\nAs of Incident I-5969-A, all testing of SCP-5969 has been suspended. See Addendum for details.\nDescription: SCP-5969 is a collection of 20 19 Mk 2 hand grenades1 (designated SCP-5969-1 through -19) stored inside a standard World War II-era wooden storage crate. Markings on the crate and each instance of SCP-5969 are consistent with other grenades manufactured during this time.\nSCP-5969's anomalous effect manifests when the object is exposed to any amount of liquid water, or has been sufficiently exposed to humid air. Once exposed, SCP-5969 will immediately detonate, regardless of if the pin and spoon have been removed prior. The explosion created is equivalent to other standard Mk 2 grenades, however, instead of propelling metal fragmentation, SCP-5969 expels a number2 of seeds that, on contact with a solid surface, instantaneously sprout into a variety of small, flowering plants. Only four plant species have been observed: Aubriet deltoidea, Dianthus caryophyllus, Anemone nemorosa, and Achillea millefolium3. Testing has confirmed that the plants produced in this matter are not anomalous.\nNOTE: Following Incident I-5969-A, the description of SCP-5969 has been amended.\n\n+ View Amendment\n\n- Return to original description\n\nThe flowers produced by SCP-5969 (designated SCP-5969-B) display no anomalous properties when sprouting on an inanimate surface. Conversely, if contact is made with the skin of a living individual, SCP-5969-B instances will begin to draw blood from the individual into themselves at a rate of 15 mL/s. SCP-5969-B instances will expand to contain any blood they absorb, and will continue to draw blood until the individual expires via exsanguination, at which point the anomalous properties will cease. Multiple instances of SCP-5969-B attached to a single individual will accelerate this process.\nIf the stem of an SCP-5969-B instance is cut while attached to a living individual, they will continue to bleed through any remaining stem of the SCP-5969-B instance.\n\nDiscovery: SCP-5969 was discovered on 05/12/1968 during a raid conducted by local law enforcement agents on one Andrew Werther's apartment in Tucson, Arizona, after a tip was called in regarding a potential bomb threat. Upon entering the apartment, Werther was observed dropping a glass of water onto an instance of SCP-5969 on his kitchen table, causing it to explode, killing him and injuring one police officer.\nA Foundation agent embedded in the Tucson Police Department accompanied the raid team, and was able to contain the scene until MTF Epsilon-6 (\"Village Idiots\") could take over. The police raid team were administered amnestics, and Andrew Werther's death was reported as suicide by gunshot. Upon a search of the rest of Werther's apartment, the crate containing the remaining 24 instances of SCP-5969 was discovered.\nAddendum 1:\n\n+ Interview Log 5969-1\n\n- Close Interview Log\n\nInterviewed: Agent Argyle, Foundation Operative embedded within the Tucson Police Department\nInterviewer: Dr. Robert Trooper, Lead Researcher, Site-26\nForeword: The following is an excerpt of a debriefing performed on 5/13/1968 following the containment of SCP-5969\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Trooper: Tell me about Andrew Werther.\nSubject takes a long drag from a cigarette.\nAgent Argyle: The kid? Yeah, locals had been trailing him for weeks at that point. Joined up with a bunch of other students looking to do a protest at UA4. And not the usual hippie shit either. Something bigger.\nDr. Trooper: They weren't with the SDS5?\nAgent Argyle: Nah. A small splinter group, thought the SDS wasn't going far enough. They talked a big talk, but up until today, we had no idea what the fuck their plan was.\nDr. Trooper: Do you know who might have called in the bomb threat?\nAgent Argyle: Not a goddamn clue. Even if we had wanted to run a trace, guy sure didn't talk long enough. Just said 'Andrew Werther has a bomb, he's gonna use it at the protest today', and hung up.\nSubject takes another drag from the cigarette, then leans in close to the microphone.\nAgent Argyle: And here's the fishy part. Kid was a fuckin' business major! From San Francisco! No fuckin' way he'd know how to make a bomb in less than a day. And it wasn't even a bomb, it was a box of goddamn frags! Kid's dad didn't even serve in World War Two! So where the fuck did he get his hands on a full crate of 'em?\nSubject leans back and takes another drag. Dr. Trooper clears his throat.\nDr. Trooper: Let's skip ahead to when your police team entered Andrew's apartment.\nSubject lets out a short laugh.\nAgent Argyle: Oh man, you wanna talk about some hippie shit? Cause that was some next-level hippie shit. Locals bust his door in, kid jumps, dumps the fucking glass of water he's holding onto the goddamn frag he had lyin' on his kitchen table. Then boom! Flowers fuckin' everywhere. The floor, the walls, the fridge, the ceiling. Even the kid. I mean, he's blown to shit, but he's still got flowers all over him, too.\nDr. Trooper: And what about the officer who was also reported injured?\nAgent Argyle: Oh, man, that's how I knew something weird had gone down. I was still out in the hall, couple guys down from the door. We hear the bang, see the guy in the doorway flinch. And we're thinking 'oh shit the kid just offed himself, didn't he?'. Then the guy backs up a bit, turns to us, pale as a damn ghost, and he's got a fucking flower in his fucking vest. We just heard something explode in this apartment, and he's got a flower in his fucking vest. Ah, man, I just about lost it then and there.\n<End Log>\n\nAddendum 2:\n\n+ Incident Log I-5969-A\n\n- Close Incident Log\n\nIncident Log I-5969-A\nLog Date: 10 March 1969 1014 hours\nForeword: Incident I-5969-A occurred just prior to test 5969-D, after initial testing was delayed due to inclement weather. Relative humidity readings were approximately 82% at the time of the incident. This log is a transcript of video footage recovered from the camera used to record the test procedure. Site-26 Lead Researcher Dr. Robert Trooper and Researcher Dr. J\u2588\u2588\u2588 Prescott are present at the time of the incident.\n<Begin Log>\n[10:13:08] Dr. Prescott enters the testing area, holding a clipboard and an instance of SCP-5969. She walks to the center of the testing area and places the instance on a steel podium.\nDr. Trooper: (Off-screen) Glad the rain stopped when it did. I was just about to suspend testing for the day.\n[10:13:40] Dr. Prescott is seen fanning herself with the clipboard.\nDr. Prescott: I thought the rain was supposed to make it cooler, not make it even more unbearable out here.\n[10:13:43] Dr. Prescott steps towards the camera. She stops when she is handed a metal stand from off-screen.\nDr. Trooper: This shouldn't take too long, thankfully. If you'll finish up in here, I'll get the recording set up.\n[10:13:47] Dr. Prescott nods and begins to walk back towards the podium. Dr. Trooper steps in front of the camera as she does, obscuring the frame. He can be heard making adjustments to something off-camera\n[10:14:01] Dr. Trooper steps away from the camera. Dr. Prescott is briefly visible walking toward the left of the frame before being obscured again by Dr. Trooper.\n[10:14:03] The SCP-5969 instance detonates spontaneously. Flowers are now spread around the testing area. Dr. Trooper visibly flinches. Dr. Prescott's legs are visible from behind Dr. Trooper, prone on the ground. Several flowers are embedded in her legs.\n[10:14:03-10:14:06] Silence.\n[10:14:07] The flowers embedded in Dr. Prescott begin to inflate. Dr. Prescott begins screaming.\nDr. Trooper: Oh my god. J\u2588\u2588\u2588!\n[10:14:08] The camera is knocked over. Recording ends when it impacts the ground.\n<END LOG>\nClosing Statement: Dr. J\u2588\u2588\u2588 Prescott expired approximately two minutes after recording ceased. Cause of death was determined to be exsanguination. Dr. Trooper has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Commonly referred to as \"Pineapple Grenades\"\n2. Approximately 50 - 80\n3. Aubrieta, Carnation, Windflower, and Yarrow respectively.\n4. The University of Arizona\n5. Students for a Democratic Society, an anti-war organization\n\n\u00ab SCP-5968 | SCP-5969 | SCP-5970 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5970\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Containment Unit Alhaya-01 has been constructed to encompass SCP-5970. Its structure is resistant to wind erosion and long-term buildups of particulate matter, with the sole entrance being a single doubly-locked mechanical hatch that requires simultaneous operation by two persons to open. A radio beacon is wired to the locks, set to broadcast on Foundation communication bands if an entrance is detected. No additional equipment is installed within the unit.\nSCP-5970 is subject to natural concealment protocols. Owing to the conditions of the surrounding landscape, the structure will experience a constant accumulation of sand over the following decades, building to a point where, by 2022, the entire containment unit is expected to be completely buried under a sediment layer. While desert conditions serve as the current deterrent for civilian discovery, the burial will impede any forms of visual observation, reducing the chance of discovery to effectively zero.\nAs of June 2006, all encampments constituting the Alhaya Preliminary Research Outpost have been dismantled.\nDescription: SCP-5970 is a black basalt obelisk (base width of 24m with a height of 40m), located 100km west of Chirfa, Nigeria. The structure was found partially submerged in a sand bank, lying at a 29\u00b0 angle after having toppled over. Inside is a hollow chamber, measuring 11m x 11m x 30m, with grids of 0.3m x 0.3m x 1.1m square recesses lining the walls. Based on the presence of scuff marks along the outer edges and interior surfaces, these are presumed to have served as storage alcoves.\nThe obelisk and outlying areas (up to an approximate radius of 23m from the structure) are subject to an anomalous preservation effect where organic matter decays at a reduced rate. While this is most noticeable with materials derived from dead organic matter, such as plant and animal life, it extends to living tissue, decreasing the rate at which metabolism is necessary to retain vital function, along with the rates of cell death and growth. This occurs strongest in the chamber. Given complete isolation from the outside environment, it is expected that material could be preserved indefinitely. This effect is physically felt by persons within it, described by them as a tingling, cold air. No thermal abnormalities have been detected.\nThe exterior surfaces of SCP-5970 are engraved in rows of text at centimeter scales. These form a repeating message, rendered in a different language and writing system with each iteration. To date, only 17% of the languages have been identified, these including Bronze Age scripts, modern languages and their dialects, protolanguages, all known historical forms of English, and writing systems which were previously indecipherable. Based on the presence of unknown dialects derived from modern systems, it has been hypothesized that the anomaly includes languages yet to develop, though the Foundation's inability to predict linguistic trends prevents any investigation into the matter.\nThe message reads as follows:\n\nFOR YOU, FOREVER.\nYOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.\n\nCultural symbols of knowledge, life, and aid are engraved at the top of the obelisk.\nSections of the structure are heavily damaged from events prior to its submersion. Most notably, the entire eastern wall is collapsed, having been breached from the outside at an unknown point in the past. The cause of this is unclear, though the presence of wooden shrapnel in the vicinity, the distribution of debris around the anomaly, and the patterns of faults in its stone suggest the use of an explosive device, rudimentary in nature. Radiocarbon dating was performed on the shrapnel to determine an age for the event, though too little 14C could be detected, failing to provide functional results. Excavations were attempted to uncover any correlated materials, but, after four months of work, none were found.\nOnly one artifact was present within SCP-5970. Placed in an alcove on the southern wall, the object is a parchment scroll bound in three-ply cord and wrapped around a wooden rotulus, constructed from the same wood as the shrapnel. While ink markings can be discerned on the parchment, environmental factors likely experienced before the obelisk's submersion caused the material to heavily corrode, reaching a point where restoration is now impossible. The markings are illegible.\nAt the time of discovery, the obelisk was flooded with sand, having filled as it sunk into the desert. Following an extensive clearing process, the anomaly, with exception of the aforementioned artifact, was found to be entirely empty. No signs of its original contents exist, and no remnants could be located. Given the far past date of the breach, these are presumably lost.\nNo further data on SCP-5970 exists. Until new information emerges, the Foundation Board of Containment Oversight has designated the anomaly a Priority 0 (\"Least Concern\") focus.\nThe current procedures are to remain in effect indefinitely.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5969 | SCP-5970 | SCP-5971 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A version of this article that does not use listpages can be found here\n\nItem #: SCP-5971\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Suppression of knowledge concerning the anomaly is ongoing, pending approval of mass amnesticization protocol. A cover story is being formulated, to be disseminated in the Central Wisconsin area, of a technologically advanced terrorist threat in order to temporarily misinform the public within SCP-5971's area of effect.\nLocating the epicenter of the SCP-5971 phenomenon is considered a primary containment objective. Field agents and researchers within SCP-5971 must be able to communicate through American Sign Language, and are to maintain long-distance communication by text to reduce data loss.\nFoundation Site-608 is currently in the process of engineering a device to maintain a semblance of normalcy within SCP-5971.\nDescription: SCP-5971 is a persisting silence within Sauk County, Wisconsin; acoustic waveforms are suppressed within the area, preventing the transmission of sound. Currently, it is estimated that SCP-5971 not only encompasses all of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, but affects portions of nearby towns.\nDiscovery: SCP-5971 spontaneously occurred at approximately 02:15 AM on October 8th, 2011, reported by Foundation agents embedded in local authorities via secure e-mail to Site-608. Initially, it had been logged as an Extranormal Event, however its longevity has since warranted escalation in importance.\n\nPage revision 1/4 from 10/30/2011\n\nNext iteration from 02/14/2012\n\n\u00ab SCP-5970 | SCP-5971 | SCP-5972 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5972\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: International medical databases are to be monitored in an effort to locate any remaining individuals displaying symptoms indicative of SCP-5972.\nThe algorithmic test carried out on 2016/02/23 has singled out the 4.3% of audio components which remain unaccounted for; individuals demonstrating tics which do not satisfy this criteria are to be eliminated from the investigation.\nAt this stage, it is not expedient for any affected individuals to be placed into Foundation custody directly; however, subjects are to be monitored by personnel embedded in global health services, who have the authorization to detain and transfer an individual should further Foundation research be required.\n\nDescription: SCP-5972 is a phenomenon first recorded on 2016/01/10. To date, 1,887 affected individuals have been identified across five continents.\nSymptoms of SCP-5972 manifest as a verbal tic; those affected will emit repetitive, monosyllabic verbalizations at regular intervals, in some cases exceeding the conventional human vocal range. Intervals can be as frequent as two seconds, with the longest interval observed being four minutes and sixteen seconds in length. Amnestic treatment has proven ineffective for reducing symptoms in those affected.\nSCP-5972 was flagged as potentially anomalous during routine trawling of global data by Foundation pattern recognition algorithms. This showed a marked increase in individuals presenting with tic-like symptoms to health services in several nations, consistent with the trajectory of downed entertainment satellite WCBS-02 (see Addendum-1). In addition, researchers monitoring SCP-4445 recorded an unprecedented M/HRAV Variation of -83.7 that same day, a Variation which lasted forty-seven hours1. Significant fluctuations have persisted ever since.\n\n+ Addendum-1\n\n- Addendum-1\n\nOn the morning of 2016/01/10, a strike by an unidentified object knocked radio satellite WCBS-02 from geostationary orbit above New York City. The rogue WCBS-02 was subsequently destroyed in a collision with a separate satellite. The object responsible for the initial collision is believed to have been following a space-bound trajectory from Earth.\n\n+ Addendum-2\n\n- Addendum-2\n\nOn 2016/02/23, all known individuals under Foundation observation were transported to Provisional Site-83, a defunct baseball stadium near Chicago2. This was an international operation, financed by twenty branches of the Foundation worldwide.\nUpon arrival of all subjects at Provisional Site-83, a synchronicity between the victims of SCP-5972 became apparent; the verbal tics, when aligned, create a full-length, looping vocal composition of David Bowie's single \u201cStarman\u201d, including backing instrumentation. Algorithmic comparison to the original recording suggests that up to 95.7% of the sound is identical. Researchers suspect that a significant number of affected individuals have yet to be identified.\n\nOn 2016/04/03, all remaining subjects had been identified and mass transportation to Provisional Site-83 was once again arranged. A total of 1,972 subjects were present for the test.\nThe result was a complete vocal recreation of \"Starman\", deemed a 100% match with the original Bowie recording by the same algorithm as used in the first test. After reaching the end of the song, individuals began to experience a gradual reduction, followed by cessation, of SCP-5972 symptoms. The fluctuations in M/HRAV observed since 2016/01/10 also returned to baseline levels upon conclusion of the song.\nReclassification to Neutralized is pending.\n\nFootnotes\n1. Since confirmed to have been caused by the death of musician David Bowie at his Manhattan home on the morning of 2016/01/10. Multiple news reports about Bowie's passing had also been flagged by the algorithm.\n2. The large number of subjects exceeded the capacity of most permanent Foundation facilities.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5971 | SCP-5972 | SCP-5973 \u00bb"}
{"text": "WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FILE IS LEVEL 5 CLASSIFIED\n\nANY ATTEMPT TO ACCESS THIS FILE WITHOUT LEVEL 5 AUTHORIZATION WILL BE LOGGED AND WILL LEAD TO IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION. YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO CLASS C AMNESTIC TREATMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH EXECUTIVE ORDER O5-5973-2.\n\nItem #: SCP-5973\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The Foundation is to maintain SCP-5973's exclusion zone during the recovery and clean-up phase. Non-Foundation emergency personnel within this zone are to be supervised; upon leaving, they are to be treated with appropriate amnestics.\n\nUpdate: 05/11/21\nFollowing an emergency consultation with the Ethics Committee, the O5 Council has authorized the termination of any surviving sentient organisms found within the SCP-5973 exclusion zone (Executive Order O5-5973-1). Operatives suspected to have participated in the termination of survivors prior to the issuing of this Order will no longer face disciplinary action. Research Site-33's reactor ring is to be used as a temporary depository for organic remains until a larger storage vessel is acquired.\nA combined amnestic and misinformation campaign (Executive Order O5-5973-2) is to be enacted with immediate effect. A mandatory Class C amnestics drive, to which all Foundation personnel below the executive levels will be subjected, will be enforced over the coming weeks. We believe this is in the best interests of preserving the Foundation's reputation and its directives to Secure, Contain, and Protect.\nThe presence of such a large exclusion zone makes total prevention of media and public interest impossible; as such, Foundation operatives within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are to disseminate the story that an unprecedented seismic event has occurred.\n\nStructural and terrain damage in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Township, close to the north-western edge of the exclusion zone.\n\nDescription: SCP-5973 is the designation for a spatial anomaly that occurred on 05/10/21 at Temporal and Extraspatial Research Site-33 in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Ohio. Personnel had successfully propelled a single hydrogen atom to a speed believed faster-than-light.1 The particle accelerator, an underground structure twenty-seven kilometres in diameter beneath \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 County, had been in use without fault for three years prior to the SCP-5973 event, though no tests prior to 05/10/21 had achieved an FTL effect.\nThe spatial anomaly occurred several milliseconds after the atom reached FTL speeds; it has been speculated that the atom lapped itself several times before a mechanical fault abruptly reduced its speed, causing it to collide with a previous iteration of itself which was subsequently knocked from its course.\nThe immediate effect of this collision was the duplication of all matter within the accelerator's perimeter (offset from its existing position by approximately 0.6 inches). Severe damage to manmade and organic structures within the 27-kilometre perimeter (including several towns) occurred in seconds. Winds of up to eleven on the Beaufort scale were recorded as far away as Wisconsin in the moments following SCP-5973; the cause of this event was the mass displacement of air.\nThe widespread loss of life caused by SCP-5973 is believed to have been largely instantaneous, with the majority expiring from crush and laceration injuries. The current human toll stands at approximately fourteen thousand.2 Among those who expired were fifty-seven Foundation personnel, following the destruction of Site-33 infrastructure within the radius of the anomaly. As exploration and recovery is ongoing, the final toll is still pending.\n\n+ Incident Report 05/11/21\n\n- Incident Report 05/11/21\n\nInterviewed: Agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Manston, MTF MTF Alpha-4\nInterviewer: Dr Ash Singh, Ethics Committee\nForeword: In the immediate aftermath of SCP-5973, eighty two-man response teams were sent into the affected area to assist with reconnaissance and recovery. Personnel had been drafted in from a variety of MTF squads in order to maximise operational capacity (hence the presence of \u201cPony Express\u201d operatives).\n<Begin Log>\nAgent Manston: Look, I don't want a grilling. I want some Class C. I wanna forget this whole fucking thing, but you've had me sitting in here for-\nDr Singh: I can't imagine what you're going through, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. How about I just\u2026 let you talk. Tell me what you found yesterday, you and Agent Dunnings. I'll be recording.\nAgent Manston: Fine, whatever. It was a fucking mess, that's what it was. We're Pony Express, for God's sake. One minute we're in Dayton, snooping around some USPS office \u2018cause a worker thinks she found a \u201cstamp that moved\u201d. Next thing you know we get a call that every agent in the state's been mobilized, pronto. Something big. They sent a Chinook down to get us, and next thing I know we're heading into a disaster zone.\nThey had us, me and Dunnings\u2026 Christ, it was a middle school, or it used to be. On a Monday morning. I knew it was gonna be bad wherever we dropped, but that\u2026 oh, God. What I'll remember the most, though, or maybe what I, y'know, latched onto instead of all those poor people, it was the silence. Other than the choppers in the distance, it was dead quiet. That's when we heard the\u2026 gunshot.\nSo we went across the yard, across the street, and there was this Wendy's. Mind you, we weren't supposed to enter any place we hadn't been assigned, what with practically everything being \u201cstructurally unsound\u201d. But we went over to this Wendy's where we heard the shot coming from. Just like the school, it was full of\u2026 I'm gonna be real, most of those poor bastards you could barely say were \u201cbodies\u201d anymore. Hideously deformed\u2026 dismembered. Bits and pieces of people everywhere. Only I went in, at first, went behind the counter. You know, where they cook the food. And this one girl\u2026 I think it was a girl\u2026 she was bleeding. Not in the same way the others had bled\u2026 she'd been shot, right through what was left of her, of her\u2026\nDr Singh: It's okay, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Take your time.\nAgent Manston: Anyway, she was warm. Like she'd been alive a bit longer than the others. Wouldn't wish it on my own worst enemy, to survive a disaster like that. But that bullet had gone right through, and the way it was flayed, I knew it was Foundation issue. I called Dunnings inside, and you know what he said to me? Straight away, \u201cthat's a mercy kill.\u201d Can't say either of us blame whoever did it.\nAnd in the bathroom, what was left of it, that's where I found\u2026 Agents Parker and Carruth. Pony Express like me and Dunnings. We're an MTF, but we're not soldiers, doctor. None of us, let alone them, were prepared for\u2026 this. Parker and Carruth, in full tactical gear, slumped in a stall. They'd removed their breathing apparatus, and set off a single can of amnestics. Parker's gun, I checked, it was still hot.\nDr Singh: I'd like to deeply apologise on the behalf of the Foundation, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The Ethics Committee are devoted-\nAgent Manston: My ass you are. You didn't stop them testing that great big fucking collider or whatever. Who was that \"protecting\"? It's an affront, doctor, to everything this Foundation purports to represent.\nDr Singh: The administration are hugely embarrassed by this disaster, Agent Manston. Besides, Site-33 had a purpose. We hoped the accelerator would help us better understand the mechanics of space-time anomalies-\nAgent Manston: We're done here, doctor. I'll take the Class C, then get me out of here.\n<End Log>\nClosing Statement: Agent Manston's testimony formed the basis of Executive Orders O5-5973-1 and O5-5973-2. The Ethics Committee and O5 Council came to the joint conclusion that maximum suppression of SCP-5973, and its associated events and aftermath, is the most effective way to preserve the Foundation's integrity, reputation, and internal morale.\n\n+ Addendum-1: 05/11/21\n\n- Addendum-1: 05/11/21\n\nInternal memo from the Administrator to O5 Command\nThe Administrator: I've just had Senator \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on the phone. He's rather displeased that \u201cFEMA\u201d have not yet given any indication as to the death toll. The exclusion zone is also raising questions \u2013 the usual pundits have some colourful theories already. Not that I'm opposed to hundreds of conflicting nutjob conspiracies in the name of misdirection.\n\n+ Addendum-2: 05/11/21\n\n- Addendum-2: 05/11/21\n\nExchange between O5-4 and the Administrator\nO5-4: I'll take the Committee's word for it, but the mass-amnesticization of all our own staff is an approach that\u2026 well.\nAdministrator: Well? It's in all our best interests, O5-4. I simply cannot allow for the psychological trauma of our employees to impede future operations or, God forbid, the Veil. Imagine a guilt-ridden whistleblower-\nO5-4: You're certain this is the right move?\nAdministrator: I have confidence in our abilities to maintain a public cover-up. On our part, this is what you might call \u201ca colossal fuck-up\u201d. And when it comes to fuck-ups, my preferred course of action is to ensure they never happen again.\nO5-4: If only we had an Antimemetics Division to cook something up. Else we could be looking at the biggest shambles since Star Signals.\nAdministrator: Star Signals didn't kill 14,000 people. Unless you want to go after old photographs, phone directories, any kind of physical evidence that remotely suggests these 14,000 ever once existed, there's too many discrepancies for me to put my total faith in Ennui or a similar protocol just yet. I propose we continue with the Executive Order as-is.\nO5-4: There's media chatter about the death toll already. I can arrange some personnel to give statements to the press; that should counteract our lack of, ahem, survivors.\nAdministrator: You have my blessing to proceed.\n\n+ Addendum-3: 05/12/21\n\n- Addendum-3: 05/12/21\n\nExcerpt from CNN article, 05/12/21\nPRESSURE MOUNTS AS OHIO QUAKE DEATH TOLL COULD BE \u2018AS HIGH AS 14,000'\nBy Jason Farley, CNN\nUpdated 1106 EST May 12, 2021\nRepresentatives from across the Midwest have today condemned the Presidential administration for \u2018enabling rural decline' following suggestions that as many as 14,000 could be dead following Tuesday's earthquake in eastern Ohio.\nPoor infrastructure and neglected construction codes are among the grievances cited in the joint letter to the White House, whilst heat has been directed at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for maintaining their press exclusion zone.\nA FEMA source told CNN: \u2018What we're looking at here is a level of devastation that this country has never known. Out of respect for the victims and their families, it's the agency's decision that we will not be allowing media coverage of the damage for the foreseeable future. One thing I can say is this \u2013 regarding the death toll, we must be prepared for the worst.'\nAn anonymous survivor told Columbus news agency WSYX that \u2018the ground just started shaking. I've heard of little quakes, but I didn't think one this big could ever happen in Ohio.'\n\n+ Addendum-4: 05/12/21\n\n- Addendum-4: 05/12/21\n\nInternal memo from the Administrator to O5 Command\nGood, keep pointing those fingers at the government. I have ordered what remains of Site-33 be totally razed, and all other evidence of Foundation activities in the region be destroyed. This was a close call, but combined with the effects of Exec. Order 5973-2 I believe we have successfully absolved the Foundation of any involvement in this tragedy.\nYou may now voluntarily subject yourselves to Class C amnestic treatment should you so wish.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The exact speed is unknown, due to the destruction of recording and computer equipment at Site-33.\n2. Excluding the duplicate entities which materialised during the event.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5972 | SCP-5973 | SCP-5974 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n+ More articles by weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-2006\n\nSCP-2950\n\nSCP-2599\n\nSCP-2800\n\nSCP-3200\n\nSCP-4007\n\nSCP-2750\n\nSCP-2201\n\nSCP-2101\n\nSCP-2050\n\nSCP-2440\n\nSCP-2301\n\nSCP-1842\n\nSCP-2012\n\nSCP-1644\n\nSCP-2499\n\nSCP-2775\n\nSCP-2925\n\nSCP-1758\n\nSCP-7030\n\nSCP-972\n\nSCP-314-J\n\nSCP-2625\n\nSCP-2588\n\nSCP-6030\n\nSCP-5725\n\nSCP-2896\n\nSCP-5975\n\n+ All Tales by weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nTales\n\nThe Meaning of Fear\n\nRight?\n\nThe Tinkerer\n\nAfter The End\n\nSpirit Dust\n\nLeisure Time\n\nMission Accomplished\n\nA Broken Tool\n\nThe Space Soldier\n\nOf Meetings and Meals\n\nTrip Hammer\n\nEulogies\n\nAll Work and No Play\n\nAnother Day On The Job\n\nUnveiling\n\nConferencing\n\n+ GOI formats by weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nSCPs\n\nUIU File: 2017-003\n\nUIU File: 1933-001\n\n+ All coauthored articles featuring weizhong\n\n- Hide list\n\nPage\nAuthors\n\nUnusual Incidents Unit Hub\nDrewbear, CryogenChaos\n\nProject Palisade, 001 Proposal\nthedeadlymoose, Drewbear, and Dexanote\n\nTKO\nthedeadlymoose and Drewbear\n\nSCP-5050-EX\nCityToast\n\nCompetitive Teleology\nRiemann\n\nSCP-5882\nRiemann\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5975\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Bookstores and libraries with high potential for containing SCP-5975 instances are to be monitored for potential signs of containment breach. Verified copies of SCP-5975 are to be seized and remanded into secure containment lockers at Site 118's Beta Wing. SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2 are to be identified, and then placed under Foundation monitoring while further research is conducted on potential deviations to SCP-5975's anomalous cycle. Following expiration of either SCP-5975-1 or SCP-5975-2 as part of SCP-5975's primary anomaly, the corresponding SCP-5975 instance is to be moved to Site 118's historical archives.\nFollowing 5975 Incident Gamma, further research concerning alternative SCP-5975 generation methods is pending review.\nDescription: SCP-5975 is a collection of anomalous literature featuring a recurring prescriptive narrative cycle. Each SCP-5975 instance presents itself as a work of fiction, but events described in SCP-5975 are reflected in reality following their description in the work. Consequently, the progression of SCP-5975's narrative creates a deterministic effect on its real-life counterparts. Though the text of each SCP-5975 is different, they can be identified by a few common narrative elements and themes:\n\nThe presence of two main characters, designated SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2. Their interactions between each other are further detailed below.\n\nProse that has been consistently described as \"happy,\" \"wholesome,\" and \"heartwarming.\"\n\nConsistent, repeated references to the importance of bonds.\n\nAn emphasis on seemingly serendipitous events that lead to positive outcomes for both SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2. Past examples have included successful business ventures between the two, fulfilling relationships, and/or overcoming difficult challenges together.\n\nSCP-5975 typically appears in printed book form, and has been found in a wide range of bookshops and libraries since its first categorization in 18\u2588\u2588. Institutions with a high density of books relating to arcane, occult, or thaumaturgical concepts are at higher risk of SCP-5975 infection, though size of the institution's collection has no effect.1 In all cases, employees and other individuals who would have interacted with the work do not remember placing the work, nor do there exist records of it within internal archives.\nSCP-5975's anomalous effect starts once an individual begins reading the text associated with it. Stopping the reading process does not halt the progression of SCP-5975's narrative, but fully reading the text is believed to accelerate the process. Upon expiration of either/both SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2, the text ceases to become anomalous, and can be read safely.\n\n+ Textual Example of SCP-5975\n\n- Textual Example of SCP-5975\n\n\"Jonathan!\"\nThe man in question stopped in his tracks and slowly turned around, recognizing the voice, but not wanting to. Looking down the long path of the footbridge, he saw her stumbling along the road, clumsy as a newborn giraffe. The sight almost made him smile. Almost.\nFinally, she managed to stagger her way up to him, and tried to stare him down with all the sternness that her 5 foot frame could muster. Again, he resisted the urge to smile.\nFocus. Don't forget what she did.\n\"Were you really going to just pretend like you didn't see me?\" She huffed, placing her hands on her hips.\n\"Did it work?\"\n\"You think I'm stupid?\"\n\"I don't think you want me to answer that.\"\n\"Jonathan!\"\n\"What do you want, Sophia? I thought we were done.\"\nHer eyes softened somewhat, and she looked away. Jonathan couldn't help but notice her finger tapping out a nervous beat against her leg, staccato and shaky. She bit her lip in that way that she always did, and looked out towards the water beyond the bridge. When she spoke again, her voice was quieter than he had ever heard her speak before.\n\"I'm sorry. I was afraid.\"\n\"Afraid of what?\"\n\"Are you really going to make me spell it out?\"\nJonathan made a move to turn around and she grabbed at his hand, drawing him back to her like a moth to a flame.\n\"Okay! I was afraid of the commitment! Afraid that if I dove in, I'd get burned again. I'm 35, Jonathan. I've been around the block too often. I know how these things usually end for people like me. I didn't want to let myself open up again. It's\u2026god, it's happened too much. But I was dumb. I\u2026made a mistake.\"\nHer next words were softer still. She locked gazes with him, her eyes soft and big and vulnerable, his small and tired and pained.\n\"Please. One more chance.\"\nHe stood there for a moment, not saying anything for a moment, drinking in the words. The wind whipped through his hair, the howling in the breeze the only soundtrack for their conversation. When he spoke, it was his turn to be quiet.\n\"\u2026you're a real piece of work, you know that?\"\nA faint wisp of a smile cracked her face.\n\"Aren't we both?\"\n\"I think you've got me beat by a fair margin.\"\nShe lightly slapped him on the arm. The smile on her face had grown to full on grin.\n\"It's not my fault you're psycho.\"\nShe went to slap his arm again, but this time he intercepted its path, grabbing her hand before it could reach its target. He pulled it down gently, and laced his fingers around hers, and softly squeezing. She stepped forward, and planted her head in its usual spot on his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around her, knowing that this time, he wouldn't let go.\nEverything was going to be okay.\n\nNOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: INCIDENT 5975-GAMMA\nOn 09/16/20\u2588\u2588, the following documents were appended to SCP-5975's file by an unknown source. They are presented here in chronological order, pending further investigation. While no cognitohazardous effects have been detected, readers should exercise caution when reading the following files.\n\nEmail Exchange: On 02/12/20\u2588\u2588, the following emails were exchanged between SCP-5975 project leads, Dr. Andrew Zhou and Dr. Maria Fernandez, who had, at the time, been responsible for cataloguing the 373 extant examples of SCP-5975 under Foundation monitoring.\n\nTo: Dr. Andrew Chi Zhou\nFrom: Dr. Maria Julia Fernandez\nSubject: Something weird\n\nAndy,\nHave you gotten a chance to look at 373? I didn't see it until now, but it seems as though it doesn't really fit in with the pattern. You sure one of the interns didn't get it mixed up?\nPS: It's Qasem's birthday on Wednesday. Cake time?\n-Maria\n\nTo: Dr. Maria Julia Fernandez\nFrom: Dr. Andrew Chi Zhou\nSubject: Re: Something weird\n\nMaria,\nNo, I signed off on that one. What about it was weird? Seemed like a pretty standard case to me; I've attached a scan of my annotated version on this email. Give it a whirl.\nAlso: yes on cake! I'll ping Cynthia about it.\n-Andy\nSent from my iPhone\n\nTo: Dr. Andrew Chi Zhou\nFrom: Dr. Maria Julia Fernandez\nSubject: Re: Something weird\n\nAndy,\nCome to my office right now.\n-Maria\n\nAltered Literature: Following the aforementioned email exchange, it was discovered that alterations had been made to the previously linked textual example of SCP-5975's effect. All copies of the text connected to the Foundation main archives had been altered, with the exception of Dr. Zhou's hand-annotated copy that he had printed out himself. While the majority of the work remains the same, the ending (highlighted in green) had been significantly altered. Annotations in red have been added by Dr. Zhou, and annotations in blue by Dr. Fernandez.\n\n+ Updated Textual Example\n\n- Updated Textual Example\n\n\"Jonathan!\"2\nThe man in question stopped in his tracks and slowly turned around, recognizing the voice, but not wanting to. Looking down the long path of the footbridge, he saw her stumbling along the road, clumsy as a newborn giraffe.3 The sight almost made him smile. Almost.\nFinally, she managed to stagger her way up to him, and tried to stare him down with all the sternness that her 5 foot frame could muster. Again, he resisted the urge to smile.\nFocus. Don't forget what she did.\n\"Were you really going to just pretend like you didn't see me?\" She huffed, placing her hands on her hips.\n\"Did it work?\"\n\"You think I'm stupid?\"\n\"I don't think you want me to answer that.\"\n\"Jonathan!\"\n\"What do you want, Sophia? I thought we were done.\"\nHer eyes softened somewhat, and she looked away. Jonathan couldn't help but notice her finger tapping out a nervous beat against her leg, staccato and shaky. She bit her lip in that way that she always did, and looked out towards the water beyond the bridge. When she spoke again, her voice was quieter than he had ever heard her speak before.\n\"I'm sorry. I was afraid.\"\n\"Afraid of what?\"\n\"Are you really going to make me spell it out?\"\nJonathan made a move to turn around and she grabbed at his hand, drawing him back to her like a moth to a flame.\n\"Okay! I was afraid of the commitment! Afraid that if I dove in, I'd get burned again. I'm 35, Jonathan. I've been around the block too often. I know how these things usually end for people like me. I didn't want to let myself open up again. It's\u2026god, it's happened too much. But I was dumb. I\u2026made a mistake.\"\nHer next words were softer still. She locked gazes with him, her eyes soft and big and vulnerable, his small and tired and pained.\n\"Please. One more chance.\"\nHe stood there for a moment, not saying anything for a moment, drinking in the words. The wind whipped through his hair, the howling in the breeze the only soundtrack for their conversation. When he spoke, it was his turn to be quiet.\n\"\u2026but it had to be with him?\"\nDaggers.\n\"I know what he did to yo-\"\n\"And yet you still did it.\"\nMore daggers.4\n\"It was a mista-\"\n\"You 'mistakenly' took him home? To our home?\"\nEvery word a stab.\n\"Jonathan! I'm sor-\"\n\"Good bye, Sophia.\"\nHe turned to walk away again, this time for good. She grabbed at his wrist once more, a desperate cling to a life raft in a sea of turmoil. He batted her hand away.\n\"Get off me. Don't touch me with those hands.\"\n\"Come back!\"\nShe tried to grab at him, both hands this time, but he shoved her backwards, hard. She stumbled, falling back hard as she hit the edge of the fence. For a moment's breath, he thought to grab out to her, to save her as she had once saved him, but then he exhaled and she was falling, falling, falling, tumbling over the edge and down to the cold waters below without as much as a single sound.\nHe ran to the edge and looked over, searching for a trace of her but all he could feel was falling, falling, falling. Some part of him wanted to scream but found that naught came out but an overwhelming sense of fear and rage and loneliness and vindication. The wind itself reached a shriek in his ear that made him feel as though he had done the right thing and that all he felt was good and right and that she had deserved what had happened to her.\nHe looked down to the water below and wondered why he had ever been afraid of them. They had seemed vast and wide and unknown but all of a sudden, he felt as though that were perfectly natural, that the way of things meant that they could only ever be that way and that all the works of man and beast and god were but dust compared to the vast unknowable nothing that was the true order of the universe and before long he felt himself at the edge and then he was\nfalling\nfalling\nfalling\n\nBoth individuals were identified a few weeks after the altering of this specific SCP-5975 instance. Local news stories reported on a double suicide at the French King Bridge in Massachusetts.5 Neither body was ever recovered.\n\nOver the course of the next month, a similar degradation in text was noticed in other copies of SCP-5975, leading to a widespread change in narrative progression. A meta-critique conducted by Drs. Zhou and Fernandez began to assemble a new set of identifying criteria for corruption in SCP-5975, as listed below:\n\nThe presence of two main characters, designated SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2. Their interactions between each other are further detailed below.\n\nProse that has been consistently described as \"dark,\" \"evocative,\" and \"tragic.\"\n\nConsistent, repeated references to a fear of the unknown.\n\nA precipitating event that causes a split between SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2. Past examples of this include an affair by 5975-1, financial and/or physical hardship, or a miscommunication that causes harm to 5975-2. This leads to an intense deterioration of their relationship that ends in tragedy for both characters.\n\nUnknown Recording 1: The following is the transcript of a conversation between Dr. Zhou and Dr. Fernandez. The source of this recording is unknown, but was dated to 03/15/20\u2588\u2588. The conversation is believed to have taken place in Dr. Fernandez's office.\n\nKnocking sound can be heard.\nFernandez: Come in.\nZhou: Hey Maria. Finish annotating Iteration 366 yet?\nFernandez: Oh, hi Andy! Uh, not yet. Had to dig through the old catalog for a bit. I think 366 actually has some similarities with 346 and 353 which might lead to something. Could be a new trend. Can I send it to you to look over later?\nZhou: Sure, go for it. I'll be going over some of the field reports.\nFernandez: Great, thank you.\nNo sound for approximately 30 seconds.\nFernandez: Something else I can help you with, Andy?\nZhou: Well, that depends. What are you doing tonight?\nFernandez: Probably going to have a glass of wine and watch the Great British Bake-Off. Oh, god, that sounds a lot sadder than I meant it to be.\nZhou: No, not at all, haha! Well, if you're not busy with that\u2026I was wondering if I could take you out for dinner. Just to\u2026uh\u2026go over reports, you know?\nFernandez: Just for reports?\nZhou: Yeah. Definitely.\nFernandez: Hmm. I was looking forward to seeing Rian sweep the competition with his tarts.\nZhou: Oh, yeah, I underst-\nFernandez: \u2026but I guess I could clear my schedule past\u2026seven?\nZhou: Seven. Yeah, that'll work. I'll drop by your office then?\nFernandez: I'll bring the reports.\n\nUnknown Recording 2: The following recording was taken in Dr. Zhou's office at 9:53 PM, the same day as the previous log.\n\nZhou: \u2026and somehow, miraculously, I only sprained my ankle. Swear to god.\nFernandez: [Laughing] Oh my god, that's crazy! If your mom was anything like mine, I bet you had a fun time explaining that mess.\nZhou: Oh, of course. Let's just put it this way: she had to get a new pair of sandals after she was through with me.\nBoth researchers laugh for a few moments before it dies down.\nFernandez: Well\u2026thanks for taking me out to dinner.\nZhou: Yeah, of course. I\u2026uh\u2026I had fun tonight. Let's\u2026.do it again sometime?\nFernandez: I'd like that.\nSilence for a few moments, before the sound of a kiss.\nZhou: See you tomorrow?\nFernandez: Gotta finish those reports sometime, after all. Night, Andy.\nZhou: Good night, Mimi.\n\nAnomalous Progression: 3 months after the above recording, Drs. Zhou and Fernandez submitted the following jointly authored brief to the attention of O5 Command. Earlier sections summarizing the nature of the outbreak have been removed for brevity.\n\nAt the time of writing of this report, research efforts have concluded that all examples of SCP-5975 have now been corroded into the version first noticed in Iteration 373. All attempts to limit the spread of degradation, including separation onto different servers, translation into other languages, and physical rewriting of the text have failed to stop or even slow down this rate of corruption. Even the originally unaltered copy of Iteration 373 that sparked this discovery has now been converted.\nShortly following the initial discovery of the outbreak, the authors of this report noted a new set of identifying criteria in the few examples of text that had been initially altered. Following the full meta-analysis of the archived incidents, the authors have been able to add an additional criterion:\n97.6% of the identified stories involved one of the two main characters, SCP-5975-1 and SCP-5975-2, killing the other. 2.4% of studied cases resulted in one of the characters dying of unrelated causes before the narrative effects of SCP-5975 could play out. That means that 100% of cases ended in the death of at least one, though often both, of the main characters.\nResearch efforts are now being directed towards whether or not this effect can be halted or slowed.\n\nUnknown Recording 3: The following recording was taken approximately half a year after the last report was sent, and is believed to have originated from Dr. Zhou's office.\n\nZhou: I just don't get it.\nFernandez: Get what?\nZhou: Just\u2026everything. We've studied hundreds of cases now. Pored over them all. And still, no reason why this is happening.\nFernandez: You work three doors down from a guy who studies spontaneously combusting frogs, and you feel like you don't have any good answers?\nZhou: Point. But this is clearly\u2026well, something. How did this thing even start? How are all of these books even linked together? Just what the heck is going on?\nFernandez: I get what you're saying, babe, but I'm not sure that I have an answer for you.\nZhou: Yeah, yeah, I know. [Pauses] I wonder how they feel.\nFernandez: Loving the cryptic statements today, are we?\nZhou: The people who are in the stories. I wonder how they feel. Do they know it's happening? Or do they just think it's\u2026.normal? Do they know that their story's been written for them already, I mean?\nFernandez: Well, some people would say that everyone's story has already been written, in a way.\nZhou: You're way more Catholic than I ever was.\nFernandez: [Laughs] Not a high bar. I'm serious, though. Can you really say that people's paths aren't at least a bit guided?\nZhou: Well, no. We have free will, don't we?\nFernandez: Do we? You think a kid from the projects is gonna have the same choices that some prep school trust fund baby would?\nZhou: Mimi\u2026if this is about-\nFernandez: It's not just about me! It's true for everyone like me. You know it's true. I didn't get to school the same way you did.\nZhou: Mimi, you know I've never cared about that.\nFernandez: I know you don't. But that's the way things are. People are the product of their environments. I don't think it's crazy to say that that means our paths are kind of set out for us.\nZhou: That's\u2026depressing.\nFernandez: Honestly, I find it a little reassuring.\nZhou: How could that possibly be reassuring to you?\nFernandez: I dunno. I guess I've always been a little afraid of the dark, is all. I don't like losing control. I don't like not knowing what's going to happen. Knowing that there are reasons I am the way I am is\u2026comforting. It means I don't have to worry about what I don't know, because I'm only responsible for doing what I'm supposed to do anyway.\nZhou: So that's why you read Wikipedia summaries for the movies we watch, huh?\nFernandez: [Laughs] Okay, that's too far. Let's get back to work.\n\nEmail Transcript: The following is the contents of an email that was found in Dr. Zhou's inbox, and dated to three months after the above recording.\n\nTo: Dr. Andrew Chi Zhou\nFrom: [ERROR] UNKNOWN SENDER\nSubject: Sing for me.\n\nLet me tell you a story.\nThere once was a magus and his consort who lived in a white palace built upon the bones of the dead. The magus and his consort spent their days greedily divining secrets that were not theirs to take, rutting through the earth like hungry swine in search of treasures that did not belong to them. Like all wretched worms, they wriggled through the mud and dirt thinking that their lives were their own, that their stinking trails of shit were somehow special.\nSuch is the way of the universe that the magus and his whore would have been free to revel in the muck as is their right, but it came to pass that these creatures began to flaunt their insolence. No longer were they simply content to believe their heresies, but they began to openly espouse them, flitting about and convincing others to abandon the ordained paths that had been written for them. Moreover, they began to dig ever deeper, in search of knowledge that was never meant to be theirs, overreaching themselves when they should have been groveling at the feet of their lords and kings, begging them for forgiveness for having the audacity of reaching into things that should stay unknown.\nAnd for their crimes, they had foolishly brought down the most terrible of furies down upon their house and their heirs. In the great reckoning that the universe had deemed to be right and good, their maker handed upon them a punishment fit for their lowborn, pathetic arrogance, that the magus was to destroy all of his heresies and spite all those whom he loved, that his whore was to slay the magus for his crimes before turning that wicked and treacherous blade upon herself as is just, but not before the downfalls of their work and their so-called truths.\nYou are all of you maggots in the soil who had the audacity to look to the heavens and for that, you will suffer.\n\nUnknown Recording 4: The following was taken from Dr. Fernandez's office, shortly after Dr. Zhou received the above email and confronted Dr. Fernandez. It is unknown who or what began recording, and why they chose this specific time to do so.\n\nFernandez: Andy, you know what this means.\nZhou: I-I\u2026there could be something else. It's not like the others\u2026I mean\u2026it could be a prank\u2026\nFernandez: Andy. Look at me. We both know it's talking about us. We're the next story.\nZhou: [Whispered] Jesus Christ, Mimi. I mean, how did it know?\nFernandez: RAISA didn't have any info?\nZhou: No record of this email being sent\u2026\nFernandez: Oh, Lord have mercy\u2026.it's all the signs.\nZhou: Okay. We\u2026we just need to do some more research. Pore over the old accounts. There has to be an exception. There has to be a way out. C'mon, think!\nFernandez: Andy\u2026you and I know better than anyone else that there are no exceptions. We're stuck in this story. There's no getting out of this one.\nZhou: Bullshit. Bullshit, Mimi! I refuse to accept that. I just\u2026.I can't.\nFernandez: Shhhh. It's okay.\nSilence for two minutes\nZhou: I don't want to hurt you.\nFernandez: Neither do I. What can we do, though?\nZhou: Figure out where this came from, for one.\nFernandez: We're literature people, Andy. RAISA's on that. What can we do?\nZhou: I\u2026I don't know.\nFernandez: Then until we do know, just\u2026.hold me, okay? Don't let go. I'm\u2026I'm scared, Andy.\nZhou: Shhhh. I'm here.\nThe sound of light sobbing continues for 5 minutes. The recording cuts out.\n\nDr. Fernandez and Dr. Zhou were both removed from the research efforts for SCP-5975 and were placed into isolation from each other, but were permitted to continue working under careful monitoring.\nSecurity Camera Footage: The following security camera footage was taken from Dr. Zhou's office, four months after the email was received.\n\nDr. Zhou's office. The researcher is currently typing on his computer, hunched over the desk. There is a knock on the door.\nZhou: Come in.\nThe door opens, and Dr. Fernandez enters the room, closing it behind her. Zhou looks up and blinks, before shutting his laptop lid and standing up.\nZhou: Mimi? You know we're not supposed to-\nFernandez: I know. I know. I just\u2026.I couldn't help it. Can I sit down?\nZhou: Uh\u2026yeah, yeah, of course.\nZhou pulls out a chair for Fernandez, before sitting down himself. Fernandez sits in the chair, looking around the office and wringing her hands.\nFernandez: Still got that tacky painting on the wall, huh?\nZhou: Well, someone with pretty bad taste gave it to me.\nThey both chuckle, but then fall quiet.\nZhou: You uh\u2026you been busy?\nFernandez: Not too bad, I guess. Just collecting some literature on other anomalies\u2026.nothing too crazy. How about you?\nZhou: Desk work, yeah. A few translations.\nBoth are silent for a few moments.\nZhou: So uh, we should probably-\nFernandez: I miss you.\nSilence for a few moments.\nZhou: I\u2026I miss you too. But we shouldn't be doing this. You know we're supposed to stay away from each other until they can figure-\nFernandez: Figure something out? Andy, we both know how this ends. Until it happens, why not enjoy the time we have?\nZhou: I don't know that, actually. And I won't accept it. Not until we've tried everything.\nFernandez: It's too late, Andy! It's over! We looked into it for weeks. There's no solution. We're trapped.\nZhou: That's bullshit. I won't give up. I can't believe you would, either.\nFernandez: Oh, grow up. God, I can't believe you're this naive. Why can't you accept the truth?\nZhou: Because I'm not some fucking lemming who's following the herd over the edge!\nFernandez: Is that what I am now? A lemming? Because I've accepted what you don't have the balls to stomach? Because you're a coward at heart who can't handle ugly reality?\nZhou: YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY THAT!\nZhou rises to his feet, knocking the chair over and sending it to the ground with a loud clatter. Both researchers flinch at the sound, and are silent.\nFernandez: I should go.\nZhou: Mimi, wait.\nFernandez promptly gets out of her chair and heads to the door. She places her hand on the doorknob, pausing, before opening it and slipping out of the office. Zhou remains standing, looking at the closed door for a few moments before he sinks into his chair. He places his head into his hands, and slumps over his desk.\n\nVoicemail Log: The following voicemail was left on Dr. Fernandez's office phone, three days after the above security tape was recorded.\n\nHey Mimi.\nI thought about calling you on your cell but\u2026I guess I didn't want you to actually pick up. Sorry. I'm too much of a coward to tell you to your face.\nI miss you. I really, really miss you. I know why we have to stay in isolation but\u2026I still really miss you.\n\u2026\nAnyway, I've been thinking about what you said, about destiny and our story. As a fellow professional, I respectfully disagree.\nWe always have a choice.\nAnd I'm not afraid.\nI don't care what's out there. I'm not afraid. I won't let this thing tell me what to do.\n\u2026There's one way out that we didn't talk about, Mimi. We didn't want to think about it at the time, but\u2026we're running out of time. Even now, I can still feel the urges, but\u2026for now, I'm still here.\nSCP-5975 doesn't work on one case, and one case only.\nThe characters can't kill each other if one of them's already dead.\nI'm so, so sorry.\nI love you.\n\nYou have (1) system prompt.\n\n| PROMPT: Are you finished reading this document from the Historical Archives? y/n\n\n| PROMPT: Thank you, DR. FERNANDEZ. You may sign out now.\n\nFootnotes\n1. SCP-5975 has been found in institutions as large as the United States' Library of Congress, to a single sheet of paper found in a collected folder of personal notes.\n2. Identified as Jonathan Willis, a 34 year old civilian teacher.\n3. Identified as Sophia Kim, a 35 year old civilian consultant.\n4. One of several references to knives that had appeared in this iteration of the story.\n5. A well-known \"suicide bridge.\"\n\n\u00ab SCP-5974 | SCP-5975 | SCP-5976 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nsanguis bibimus corpus edimus\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n3/5976 LEVEL 3/5976\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5976\n\nSafe\n\nSCP-5976, removed from its cord.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5976 is to be kept in a lockbox at Site-107. Only Level 3+ personnel with the prior approval of the Ethics Committee are allowed to retrieve SCP-5976 for testing purposes.\nAll information into the Eddows and Blalock families are to be sealed.\nDescription: SCP-5976 is a silver cross necklace pendant measuring 35 by 21mm. Its anomalous properties manifest whenever a single subject sleeps alone with any type of body covering in a room with SCP-5976. Once the subject has entered Stage 2 of the sleep cycle, an object within the room will begin to play a ten-note refrain. A rendition has been included below for identification purposes.\n\nThis object (designated SCP-5976-1) can be either electronic1 or mechanical2 in nature. SCP-5976-1 will continually play the refrain until the subject wakes up. When this happens, the subject will experience strong feelings of nausea and fear. These feelings are exacerbated upon the viewing of SCP-5976-2, a humanoid entity approximately 180 cm tall which is missing an arm. 5976-2 will produce guttural noises in conjunction with lulls in the SCP-5976-1 refrain. SCP-5976-2 is not visible upon image/video capturing devices; however, shadows cast and sounds produced by SCP-5976-2 can still be recorded.\nIf the subject attempts to hide by under their body covering, it will start to rapidly increase in weight and retaining temperature3. If the subject attempts to find SCP-5976-1 and prevents it from playing the refrain, SCP-5976-2 will grab the subject and vocalize the phrase, \"No, no.\" SCP-5976-2 will demanifest if the subject stops the refrain.\n5976 was formerly owned by the Eddows's daughter, Katherine Eddows, who died in the Innsmouth Abbey fire in April 2019. SCP-5976 was discovered along with the burnt corpse of Marion Eddows in Innsmouth, Massachusetts during a standard anomalous item sweep on June 7th, 2019. The disappearance of Ynette Blalock is theorized to be related to SCP-5976 (see Addendum 5976.2).\nApproximately 97.3% of subjects die of either blunt force trauma or immolation within an hour of SCP-5976's activation.\n\nAddendum 5976.1\nRELEVANT MEDIA \u2014 SCP-5976\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nThe reference media shown here was taken during test #337.\n\nPhotograph taken by D-4059.\n\nA 48-second audio recording from the same test.\n\n[0:00] - [0:02] > Ambient noise.\n[0:02] - [0:14] > SCP-5976-1 activates.\n[0:14] - [0:34] > Unidentified noises can be heard in the background. They increase in volume and crescendo at 0:33. SCP-5976-1 continues playing the refrain.\n[0:34] - [0:35] > Ambient noise.\n[0:36] - [0:42] > A guttural sound produced by SCP-5976-2 is heard.\n[0:43] - [0:48] > Ambient noise.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5976.2\nINTERVIEW LOG \u2014 DAMIEN BLALOCK\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERVIEWER: Researcher Gregory Scott-Taylor\nSUBJECT: Damien Blalock (detainee)\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Let's make this perfectly clear from the start, Mr. Blalock. I don't like you. I will not pretend I like you. Your \"charming\" persona only works on the select few.\nBLALOCK: I get the same feeling here.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: That being said, the quicker you answer my questions, the quicker we can go back to our own lives- or should I say I can go back to my life? Anyways. What do you know about Katherine Eddows?\n[BLALOCK grins widely.]\nBLALOCK: Her. She was a pretty young lass. I met her just right around the time I had been kicked off the wharf after this- [BLALOCK lifts his left brachium] -and I was looking for some good place to run me back straight. Thanks to good 'ol Ynni4, I got a right little spot as a mopboy at the Abbey. Now despite my looks, I can push a mop from here down to the wharf in one slide. Clean as a whistle, an-\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Get back to the topic.\nBLALOCK: Ah ah ah, I was getting there. As I was sayins, Ynni had also picked up the lass, Kath, for some spiritual training stuff; parents do whatcha do- I definitely ain't complaning. She was good the first week. It was the second week when she got all freaky.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Freaky?\nBLALOCK: Mm. You see, most of the rooms have these push alarms built in - 'cause it used to be a kookyhouse back when - and Kath used to press them every night around the same time.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Do you know what time she would press the alarm?\nBLALOCK: I ain't got a watch.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: \u2026Of course.\nBLALOCK: She would always say that somebody was in her room, and Ynni would search high 'n low, but she couldn't find any strangers. This kept going for the first couple of days\u2026 then Ynni wouldn't bother after that. Told young ol' Kath to just believe in faith.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: What occurred after that? In more detail, if possible.\nBLALOCK: Not a lot worth mentionin'. Kath was always tiring, so I'd be safe to say to assume that she didn't get much sleep. Now, she couldn't stand being around me, 'specially alone, but I really didn't mind bein' aro-\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Talk about what happened at the Abbey fire.\nBLALOCK: Heyey. You can't rush art. The fire started at the furnace - probably a firebox explosion. They evacuated everyone, but it was already late by the time the others saw she wasn't there.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: They found her body in her room, on the bed, yes. With the pendant. Do you know when she got it?\nBLALOCK: No. She'd already had it by the time she joined the Abbey, from what I remember.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: What happened to the pendant after the fire?\nBLALOCK: After that, my sister got the pendant. Ynni said she was going to give it to Kath's mother. I'm not sure where it went after though. That's all; I'll spare ya' the rest of the\u2026 juicy details.\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Good riddance. Take him out.\n[BLALOCK is escorted away.]\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: Hold on.\n[BLALOCK stops and looks at SCOTT-TAYLOR.]\nSCOTT-TAYLOR: What did the alarm sound like?\nBLALOCK: Beep beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep beep beep. Sticks in your head after a couple of nights, you see.\n[BLALOCK grins as he is escorted out.]\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\nFollowing the interview, Damien Blalock was administered Class F5 amnestics and released back into police custody.\nSCP-5976 does not appear to have had any anomalous properties prior to the fire.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nFootnotes\n1. e.g. A phone, a computer, an alarm clock, etc.\n2. e.g. A grandfather clock, various musical instruments, etc.\n3. The highest temperature recorded in a test session was 498\u00b0 Celcius.\n4. Nickname for Ynette Blalock. Pronounced \"Inny\".\n5. For erasing and rebuilding the subject's identity.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5975 | SCP-5976 | SCP-5977 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n81.32%\n(+74)\n18.68%\n(-17)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nItem#: 5978\n\nLevel#0\n\nContainment Class:\nneutralized\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\ndark\n\nRisk Class:\nnone\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The remains of SCP-5978 have been incinerated in order to prevent any future occurrences of anomalous parasitic humanoids from manifesting.\n\nArchived Containment Procedures\n\nClose\n\nSCP-5978 is to kept in a standard Humanoid Containment Chamber at Site-83. SCP-5978 is to maintain a caloric diet of approximately 4000 calories to account for the nutritional needs of SCP-5978-1.\n\nDescription: SCP-5978 is a humanoid of indeterminate gender and ethnicity. At random intervals throughout each 24-hour period, multiple wounds and indentations appear in irregular patterns across SCP-5978's body. These wounds typically heal quite rapidly, and are evidence of frequent mastication by an unseen or unnoticed entity.\nSCP-5978 possesses no internal organs and is calcium deficient. Despite missing several vertebrae, SCP-5978 is capable of bipedal locomotion. The entity is capable of speech, albeit in an indecipherable language. SCP-5978 and SCP-5978-1 communicate with one another using this language, often loudly and in a manner that suggests they are arguing.\nAtop the shoulders of SCP-5978, another humanoid entity without lower extremities (designated SCP-5978-1) is fused. SCP-5978-1's waist is joined to SCP-5978's shoulders. SCP-5978-1 possesses four arms, the digits of which terminate in a claw-like appendage. X-rays have revealed the presence of duplicate internal organs of varying size within SCP-5978-1, including a second, enlarged heart and a second, smaller spine.\nAt random intervals, these duplicate organs will expose themselves on the surface of SCP-5978-1's skin before relocating onto SCP-5978's body. These organs will then enter SCP-5978 orally. It is hypothesized that SCP-5978 is experiencing elation during these periods of time, although this cannot be confirmed due to the inability to communicate with the entity. However, all duplicate organs will eventually pass through SCP-5978's body back into SCP-5978-1 within thirty minutes.\nDespite lacking digestive organs, SCP-5978 is able to break down the material it consumes in order to supply itself with the nutrients required for its survival. A percentage of these nutrients are then siphoned from it by SCP-5978-1 when the necessary duplicate internal organs1 are present.\nDiscovery\n\nSCP-5978 and SCP-5978-1 were originally two separate non-anomalous humans; Daniel McCready and Eleanor Lassen. According to Foundation records, McCready was a practiced carnomancer with a loose affiliation with a local Neo-Sarkic cult operating out of Wallington, New Jersey.\nLocal Foundation agents monitoring the activities of the cult observed Lassen's indoctrination on March 3rd, 2017. She was successful in performing complex carnomancies in a relatively short amount of time and met McCready shortly thereafter.\nDue to unknown circumstances, McCready and Lassen were cast out of the Neo-Sarkic cult and forbidden to interact with any known members. Foundation observers discovered that the two spent a considerable amount of time together before moving into an apartment complex in Wallington, New Jersey.\nSCP-5978 was discovered in their apartment on June 18th, 2017, after several tenants reported accounts of domestic violence and emotional abuse occurring in McCready and Lassen's residence. The tenants complained of loud noises disrupting them during the night, and an excessive amount of shouting. McCready would often emerge from his residence with wounds and bite marks across his face, hands, back, and pelvic region.\nSeveral other anomalous items were found in the residence as well, including:\n\nA jewelry gift box with a 14 karat ring inside. The ring maintains a temperature of 930\u00b0C.\nA cracked cellular device. While appearing non-functional, the device repeats audio detailing a list of male names with associated dates and times. The significance of this is unknown.\nA torn photograph of McCready and Lassen that occasionally depicts them with vulpine features, red skin, and horns.\nA pair of biologically identical legs capable of locomotion.\n\nNeutralization incident\nSeveral indistinct humanoid entities grew on SCP-5978-1's back before detaching themselves from the entity. The organisms proceeded to consume the flesh that bound SCP-5978-1 to SCP-5978 and removed the entity from its back.\nDespite protests from SCP-5978, the organisms were able to consume portions of SCP-5978-1's flesh. SCP-5978-1 appeared to experience extreme emotional satisfaction during this time and prevented SCP-5978 from interfering by utilizing its claw-like appendages to keep it at bay.\nAfter several minutes of consumption, SCP-5978-1 succumbed to its wounds. The humanoid entities excreted a viscous fluid and sought refuge within the corpse of SCP-5978-1, where they demanifested. SCP-5978 experienced extreme hemorrhaging and expired shortly thereafter.\nSCP-5978 has been reclassified as Neutralized.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The stomach, gallbladder, small intestine, and large intestine.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5977 | SCP-5978 | SCP-5979 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n92.35%\n(+169)\n7.65%\n(-14)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nSCP-5979, captured using Space Force 3\n\nItem #: SCP-5979\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Suppression of any published scientific discoveries regarding SCP-5979 has been implemented and will remain active until SCP-5979 becomes observable to the naked eye. Any radio communication from SCP-5979 must be dismissed as hoaxes from local conspiracy theorists and discredited sources. Live broadcasts of the observable universe must also be censored until such a time that SCP-5979 enters our solar system.\nDue to the sheer size and mass of SCP-5979, containment is impossible. SCP-5979 must remain under Foundation observation in the event of any further changes in regards to its velocity and location.\nDescription: SCP-5979 is the designation given to a celestial body approximately 1,200 times the volume of Earth. SCP-5979 is currently traveling at 252,792 km/h and is on a direct collision course with planet Earth. SCP-5979's trajectory adjusts periodically in direct correspondence with Earth's orbit. At this time, there is no known method of obstructing SCP-5979's trajectory.\nSCP-5979 is able to communicate through radio waves, which have been translated from German (See Transmissions). Attempts to establish two-way communication with SCP-5979 have proven ineffective, as SCP-5979 is either unable or unwilling to respond to outbound transmissions.\n\n+ Transmissions\n\n- Close\n\nThe following transmissions were received by Site-57's deep space communication device and have been translated from German to English.\n\nDATE: January 3, 2045\nTIME: 02:35\nI do not hear from you anymore. Is everything okay? Have the stars aligned for you, or have you fallen ill from your star's radiation? Are you looking at the same stars that I am? I hope so. I miss you more and more with every passing cycle. Please, I just want to know if you're okay.\n\nDATE: January 16, 2045\nTIME: 12:35\nDo you remember that time in the Milky Way? It must have been billions of years ago by now. I've never felt anything like that since I was with you. Have you? You're far too important, too busy, to reflect on the memories I'm sure. But they will live on with me forever.\n\nDATE: February 9, 2045\nTIME: 16:45\nI'm sorry I left you. You told me you were okay with it, but I know you better than that. I hope you can forgive me, starlight. No other planet fits my orbit quite like you did. I never should have listened to Saturn.\n\nDATE: February 14, 2046\nTIME: 1:21\nIt has been too long since we last spoke, even longer since I've had you in my orbit. I miss the way we used to talk. I miss how much you affected my tides, my gravitational pull, even the breeze that floats through my surface. I miss the way the stars made your atmosphere glow. Do you miss me at all?\n\nDATE: August 9, 2047\nTIME: 16:00\nI've left my system. I'll be there shortly. I love you, and I'm sorry I didn't show it well enough before. Please forgive me.\n\n+ Update\n\n- Close File\n\nThe following transmission was intercepted by the I.S.S.1.\n\nDATE: August 10, 2047\nTIME: 00:00\nI loved you too, but you had your chance. I have a moon now, it's time to let go.\n\nThe message did not come from any known transmitter on Earth, and no records of the transmission being recorded have been found. SCP-5979's velocity has since stopped entirely, and its location in the galaxy has remained unchanged.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The International Space Station\n\n\u00ab SCP-5978 | SCP-5979 | SCP-5980 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\n86.37%\n(+114)\n13.63%\n(-18)\n\n-%\n(+0)\n-%\n(-0)\n\n\nSCP-5980 prior to containment.\n\nItem #: SCP-5980\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5980 is to be contained within a standard humanoid containment cell at Site 83. SCP-5980 does not require sustenance. SCP-5980 is allowed outside of its containment cell once per day for two hours for recreational activities, but is strictly prohibited from entering the cafeteria.\nFood offered by SCP-5980 should be declined by personnel in order to maintain their mental health.\nDescription: SCP-5980 is the designation given to Ethan Chin, age 33.\nSCP-5980 is capable of perfect cellular regeneration and is, by definition, biologically immortal. Given the regenerative properties of SCP-5980's cells, research into utilizing SCP-5980 for medicinal treatment is currently underway.\nExtensive testing of samples taken from SCP-5980's body has revealed that its skin, as well as its organs, nerves, and fingernails, possess a flavour that is universally enjoyed by those that consume it. The flavor of SCP-5980 will vary depending on the consumer. SCP-5980 exhibits a pleasant aroma regardless of the seasoning it's cooked with.\nSCP-5980 is amicable and will often encourage Foundation personnel to \"have a bite\" of it when they pass by. It is important to note that SCP-5980 does not exhibit any cognitohazardous properties.\nConsumption of SCP-5980, while safe, is often detrimental to a subject's mental health.\nDiscovery:\nSCP-5980 was discovered after several complaints were made in an establishment called Cannibal Chin's in northern New Jersey. A food critic claimed to have witnessed SCP-5980 remove its fingers with a kitchen knife before deep-frying them. These were later served as french fries. Several other civilians claimed to have caught glimpses of SCP-5980 self-mutilating in the kitchen moments before serving them food, and a Foundation investigation was instigated.\nWhen questioned, SCP-5980 claimed to have no idea what it was doing wrong, and insisted that Foundation operatives have a complementary order off of the menu. Its requests were denied by all attending agents except for Agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. Agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, who was unaware of SCP-5980's anomalous properties, consumed the entirety of an order of fries, sized large, dipping each fry in a dark green milkshake. Agent \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was psychologically evaluated and later requested an amnestic, and for his name to be expunged from the official record.\nSCP-5980 willingly came into Foundation custody once apprehended.\n\nCannibal Chin's was shut down using Cover Story 14 (\"Health and Safety Violation\") after four years of continuous operation.\n\nInterview 5980.4:\n\nInterviewer: Dr. Owen Andrews\nInterviewee: SCP-5980\nDr. Andrews: Tell me again what you were doing at the restaurant.Dr. Andrews: Right, of course.Dr. Andrews: I'm afraid not.\nSCP-5980 holds out a finger.Dr. Andrews: Umm\u2026 Noo\u2026 Thanks? I had something to eat already.Dr. Andrews: How exactly did you make the items on the menu?Dr. Andrews: And what did people say to you when they found out that you were the source of their meals?Dr. Andrews: That'll be all for now.\n\nAddendum 5980.3:\nThe following is a list of items found on the menu of Cannibal Chin's.\n\nMeatburger | Sm - 4.65 | Md 5.96 | Lg 7.82\nFinger Fries | Sm - 1.99 | Md - 2.99 | Lg 3.99\nLemonade | 3.99\nChin's special chocolate | 5.00\nWater | Free\nInside-Out Milkshake | Sm 3.99 | Md 4.99 | Lg 5.99\n- Available in Chocolate, Mint, Vanilla and Strawberry\n\n\u00ab SCP-5979 | SCP-5980 | SCP-5981 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5981\nObject Class: Edifice\nContainment Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Each road leading into the supposed location of SCP-5981 has been closed off under the cover story that a chemical leak has rendered the area uninhabitable. Keyword Search Crawler #198 (\"Operator\") is to remove any mention of \"Nuke City\" from the internet. The cadaver of SCP-5981-2 is to be kept frozen in the Cadaver Storage Sector of Site-19 for further research.\nDescription: SCP-5981 is a fictional city, named \"Nuke City,\" supposedly located on the intersection of U.S. Route 93 and U.S. 93 Alternate. According to accounts, SCP-5981 was founded in the early 1940's, but was the subject of a nuclear strike1 in 1966, destroying most of the city. However, most of the city's inhabitants survived this attack, only to become mutated2. Of note is that SCP-5981 is not a memetic agent; in fact, most subjects will not believe that SCP-5981 exists, and no future consequences will occur.\nSubjects who both believe that SCP-5981 exists and attempt to visit SCP-5981 will disappear from reality shortly after entering SCP-5981's \"city limits\". It is of note that subjects who visit \"SCP-5981\" without being informed of SCP-5981's existence will not find SCP-5981, but rather an abandoned Department of Transportation building. After subjects leave SCP-5981, they will often3 reappear in reality with memories of visiting SCP-5981. Occasionally, they will return with paraphernalia related to SCP-5981, designated SCP-5981-1. Some instances of SCP-5981-1 include:\n\nT-Shirts with slogans such as \"I survived Nuke City!\" and \"We'll Never Forgive [various nations] for Nuke City!\"\nVials of nuclear byproducts.\nPhotographic and video media. These do not appear to be doctored, and show that \"Nuke City\" is a thriving suburban metropolis populated with mutated humans.\nNegotiable U.S. currency, supposedly won in SCP-5981's many casinos.\nAssorted paraphernalia from \"Nuke Slides,\" which is supposedly SCP-5981's \"world famous water park.\"\nIrradiated rubble.\nSCP-5981-2. See Incident Reports for more information.\n\nAside from SCP-5981-2, none of the supposed mutants living in SCP-5981 have left the city.\nAdditional Notes: The original propagation of SCP-5981 was in Season 13, Episode 7 of the animated sitcom Family Guy, titled \"Nuke City\". In this episode, main character Brian Griffin begins to date a woman who he later discovers has been mutated to have gills. In spite of this, Brian still resolves to continue seeing this woman. Brian and his family are later invited to visit the woman's family in SCP-5981. After several minutes of hi-jinks, mostly due to Brian's owner, Peter Griffin, having an infatuation with the city, the woman's father is revealed to have only invited the Griffin family in order to kidnap the family's baby, Stewie Griffin. The episode ends with the kidnapper being pushed into a nuclear reactor. This causes a nuclear explosion which destroys SCP-5981 once again, but not before the Griffins escape. A full video transcript of this episode can be found in Document 5981-GRIFFIN.\nThis episode was met with general acclaim, and internet searches for \"Nuke City\" increased by over 5000% after the episode aired. Seven minutes after the episode premiered on Fox, the website \"visitnukecity.com4\" appeared, providing bus tickets to, tours of, and paraphernalia related to SCP-5981. It is estimated that 200,000 civilians visited SCP-5981 before Foundation leadership realized that SCP-5981 was anomalous.\nSeth MacFarlane, the executive producer of Family Guy, was forced to produce a statement asserting that SCP-5981 was not real and simply an element of fiction. In addition, the Foundation encouraged the removal of the episode in question from public distribution, under the pretense that it encouraged dangerous activity. After three months, it was determined that public knowledge of SCP-5981 was low enough that more aggressive measures could be taken to suppress it; see Special Containment Procedures for current protocol.\nShortly after this incident, the staff and crew of Family Guy were interviewed by the Foundation for information on SCP-5981. Most staff members asserted that SCP-5981 was real, and that the episode was an attempt to shine light on a lesser known tourist destination. The sole exception was Seth MacFarlane, who explained that he had originally intended for the episode to be a homage to an earlier episode where the world of Family Guy was destroyed in a nuclear explosion, but the plot was modified by the writing staff due to fears of viewers not being able to recall the earlier episode.\nHowever, when under hypnosis, MacFarlane revealed that he had been approached by a man clothed in black robes and a cone-shaped hood prior to the episode's conception. This man, who MacFarlane associated with a heavy sense of fear, instructed him to produce an episode about Nuke Town, specifically involving Peter Griffin murdering a resident by pushing them into a nuclear reactor. This memory had been suppressed via unknown means.\nAddendum: Incident Reports\n\nIncident A - Georgia resident Paul \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 did not return to reality after \"visiting\" SCP-5981. A letter was sent to \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's family from the \"Nuke City Hospital\", explaining that \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 had been killed due to a motorcycle accident. Attempts to trace the origin of this letter failed. A similar incident has occurred for all people who have not returned from SCP-5981.\nIncident B - New Hampshire resident Jack \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was severely hurt in a showdown with one of SCP-5981's street gangs, but survived. Blood analysis of Jack \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 after his visit to SCP-5981 showed an increased number of irradiated particles in his blood. In spite of this, no ill effects aside from gunshot wounds were noted.\nIncident C - Cartoon Network, a television channel, created a contract with Radioactive Studios, an animation studio located in SCP-5981. Executives at Cartoon Network received a tape containing an entire season of \"Dog Days\", a cartoon revolving around three animated mutant dogs and their lives. This tape has since been seized by the Foundation.\nIncident D - Nevada resident Mary \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 disappeared from reality for a record seven months, before returning pregnant. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 had reportedly conceived a child with one of the \"mutants\" within SCP-5981. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 was brought to Site-21 and the fetus was designated SCP-5981-2.\nSCP-5981-2 lived for 33 minutes after birth, before perishing due to internal hemorrhaging and radiation sickness. It is of note that SCP-5981-2 was born with seven extra eyes and an additional organ resembling a liver. Genetic testing of the cadaver of SCP-5981-2 indicated three biological parents, none of which were Mary \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nIncident E - During a wage dispute, a janitor pushed a plant worker into the nuclear reactor of SCP-5981's main power plant. This led to a chain reaction causing the power plant to detonate, destroying a large portion of SCP-5981's area. This incident killed seven politicians, including Senator Leopold, who was visiting SCP-5981 in order to offer the city a grant for improved research on radiation sickness. A cover story for the deaths of the politicians has been fabricated and released to the public.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The perpetrator of this nuclear strike is inconsistent between accounts. Approximately 37% of those surveyed state that the nuclear strike originated from the Soviet Union, 31% blame Cuba, 21% assert that it was an accidental nuclear detonation by U.S. military personnel, 5% blame Australia, and 2% blame the Daevite Empire, despite the fact that it did not exist at this point in time. Most surveyed are unable to produce geopolitical situations that would not only lead to this strike, but also not lead to a complete nuclear war.\n2. Despite the fact that mutations of this sort are often fatal, most of these mutations are often profitable, such as the growth of new, fully functional limbs\n3. The survival rate of SCP-5981 is approximately 98.5%, much higher than would be expected for a site contaminated with nuclear fallout.\n4. Tentatively designated SCP-5981-A. The source of this website is unknown; the credit card for which the domain name was registered with was a burner, and the domain was registered under the name \"John Nukecity\". SCP-5981-A has been taken down, and it has not appeared since.\n\nMore by notgull\n\nMore by notgull\n\nSCPs\n\nnotgull's Proposal\n\nSCP-3733\n\nSCP-3095\n\nSCP-4800\n\nSCP-4804\n\nSCP-2785\n\nSCP-4348\n\nSCP-4048\n\nSCP-4688\n\nSCP-3362\n\nSCP-579-J\n\nSCP-4785\n\nSCP-3339\n\nSCP-5800\n\nSCP-4248\n\nSCP-3747\n\nSCP-4948\n\nSCP-3296\n\nSCP-4800-J\n\nSCP-4799\n\nSCP-199\n\nSCP-3485\n\nSCP-5981\n\nSCP-7234\n\nSCP-4808\n\nSCP-3833\n\nSCP-3748\n\nSCP-4148\n\nSCP-5054\n\nSCP-5025\n\nSCP-1037\n\nSCP-093-J\n\nSCP-5680\n\nSCP-1684\n\nSCP-4872\n\nSCP-3248\n\nSCP-6904\n\nSCP-5483\n\nSCP-6785\n\nSCP-4397\n\nTales\n\nThe Little Robot that Could\n\nJoin the Flock\n\nThe Siege of Site-19\n\nTales of the Automaton: The Big Birdocalypse\n\nFootage Recovered From a Private Server\n\nAvian Anthology I\n\nMy Empire of Birds\n\nMoose on the Loose\n\nDocument recovered from a Parallel Universe\n\nKatz and Dogs\n\nJoey Fucknuts Steals The Declaration of Independence\n\nYour Guard\n\nVacation Opportunity\n\nThe Scent of a Toaster\n\nBurn, Baby, Burn\n\nChasing Suns\n\nWind in the Sails\n\nThree Feet Under I\n\nThe Shape of Water is Humanoid\n\nDead Reckoning\n\nThree Feet Under II\n\nThree Feet Under III\n\nInto the Beetle Black Yonder\n\nForgotten Shrine\n\nDown Through\n\nHyperfine\n\nDon't Knock on Strange Doors\n\nOther\n\nResearcher Calvin's Personnel File\n\nIncident Report \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\n\n\"Sphere\" Incursion Log\n\nInitial Incursion Log\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #1\n\n\"Cube\" Incursion Log #2\n\nSCP-093-J Blue Test\n\nSCP-093-J Recovered Documents\n\nSCP-093-J Green Test\n\nSCP-093-J Purple Test\n\nExploration Log 4480-1\n\nSee my Author Page for more information. If you like reading my stuff, consider checking out my YouTube Channel for SCP-inspired animations, among other things.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5980 | SCP-5981 | SCP-5982 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\n4/5982 LEVEL 4/5982\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5982\n\nNeutralized\n\nSCP-5982, prior to Incident WEEPING GYRE.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: N/A\nDescription: SCP-5982 was the Kucsoo Commune, an intentional community founded some time in the 1960s in Big Sur, California. Kucsoo was a spiritual healing and improvement center, and openly accepted visitors free of charge. The original Kucsoo compound consisted of four communal sleeping cabins, a large farm, and a number of multipurpose facilities \u2014 all buildings were constructed by residents, with no outside contact. At its peak in 1994, Kucsoo was believed to house 80 residents.\nKucsoo is believed to have been founded by one C.H Jones, first & middle name unknown, a drifter and transient from Alabama. Few records are available of Jones' life; he is believed to have fought in Vietnam and remained there until 1981. The only records following his arrival in the United States are two arrests records: one in 1983 for vagrancy in Memphis, Tennesee, and one in 1985 for petty larceny in Kansas City. No jail time appears to have been served. It is unclear why these arrest reports do not include his first or middle name.\nAt some point in the late 1980s, Jones is believed to have constructed or stumbled upon the Kucsoo site. Through word-of-mouth, the location developed a reputation as a safe haven for the various drifters in the area. As it expanded, the commune steadily became increasingly spiritual and self-improvement focused. It steadily grew in population, and eventually brought in non-local followers from out of town, attracted by stories about Jones' healing and spiritual abilities.\nThe Foundation became aware of Kucsoo in 1990, but it was considered a relatively low priority minor group of interest. However, the FBIUIU became aware of the site independently in 1991 and began investigating. Following an increase of testimonies regarding anomalous happenings in the commune, an infiltration operation was authorized in 1992, under the name Operation Plaster Nazarene. Foundation involvement began in 1994, during Foundation Incident WEEPING GYRE. Following the conclusion of Incident WEEPING GYRE, FBIUIU records regarding SCP-5982 have been voluntarily surrendered to the Foundation.\n\nAddendum 5982.1\nFBIUIU INTERVIEW LOG \u2014 ALAN HOWELL\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERVIEWER: FBIUIU Agent Gianna White\nSUBJECT: Alan Howell\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nWHITE: Hello, Mr. Howell.\nHOWELL: Er, hello ma'am. How do you do?\nWHITE: I'm doing fine, thank you. I was told you have information for us.\nHOWELL: Yes, ma'am. About the guys in Big Sur. Kucsoo.\nWHITE: Right. What can you tell me about the place?\nHOWELL: It's real nice, ma'am. It's a few miles up from the beach, so you can stand on the cliffs and feel the ocean breeze. We built all the buildings ourselves, there's a little garden-farm near the edge of the property.\nWHITE: Sounds very self-reliant. You get your own food and water, make your own buildings \u2014 what do you depend on the outside for?\nHOWELL: Money, mostly. We'd go out and sell some of our extra produce at farmer's markets. And other stuff.\nWHITE: Other stuff?\n[HOWELL is visibly agitated.]\nHOWELL: I- yeah. Jones would- okay, you need to understand \u2014 most of these people were drifters, right? Thieves, junkies\u2026 prostitutes. Scum of good society and all that. Hell, I was a dope fiend before I found the place. But Jones, this guy comes along and gives you a purpose? A place to live, no strings attached beyond pulling your weight and getting off your addiction? You'd do anything for him, right? Anyone would do anything for him.\nWHITE: What other stuff, Mr. Howell?\nHOWELL: I told you\u2026 some of these people were prostitutes. Some of them were just teenagers.\nWHITE: Oh. I see. What did you need the money for?\nHOWELL: I don't know. Jones said he'd assume the burden of bookkeeping for us so that we could focus on the Lord.\nWHITE: Was there a strong religious slant to Kucsoo?\n[HOWELL snorts.]\nHOWELL: Was there. Jones acted like he was the second coming. Pretty sure he thought it too. He'd have sermons and shit on Sundays, talking about the virtues of work and all that.\nWHITE: What else can you tell me about Jones?\nHOWELL: Sorry, ma'am, not much. I don't know too much about him, not even his name. He always tells us to call him Conehead, Conehead Jones. Don't think anybody did; he says that he shed his old life to service us better. He's gotten around, though. I asked him about a scar once; he said he got it in 'Nam, then got angry and dropped the subject. But he doesn't look a day over thirty-five.\nWHITE: I see. Anything else? Religious beliefs, maybe? Anything unique?\nHOWELL: Well, you could say that. He doesn't beli- doesn't preach like any other churches. They talk about how God's mercy is infinite. He talks about the Lord like\u2026 like an opponent. He says that the Lord is angry and vengeful at man's disobedience. I know that he's not\u2026 he doesn't strike me as a conman. I think he believes everything that he says.\nWHITE: And how does he convince people to join?\nHOWELL: Miracles. Look, I know it sounds far-fetched, I didn't believe it either. But I seen it happen. I seen him whisper at the pump and make it gush champagne. I seen him bless a crippled kid and the kid start walking the next day! More things, too.\nWHITE: I see. What convinced you to leave?\nHOWELL: My sister.\nWHITE: She wanted to leave?\nHOWELL: No. She loves him. She married him. She's having his fuckin' kid, for Chrissake.\nWHITE: Cult leaders tend to take many wiv-\nHOWELL: No, ma'am, you don't get it. Me and my sister have been real close our entire lives; she's never been into fellas. Certainly never wanted children. Not since school, not since college. And now she's havin' his fuckin kid, after knowing him for two months. That's not right.\nWHITE: I see. Thank you for your time, Mr. Howell. We'll be sure to look into this.\nHOWELL: Yeah, thanks. Just, try to get my sister out of there, if you can. Please. And take this, too \u2014 I figure it'll help you figure what kind of psycho you're dealing with.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5982.2\nSERMON EXCERPT\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPT\u00bb\n\nHey, guys! How y'all doing? Good, good. Beautiful day, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. So you might be wondering why we're not out there, huh? Tending to the gardens and farm, taking advantage of the beautiful weather? There'll always be time for Scripture, for sermons, for these things, right?\nYeah, that's not true. It's wrong, in fact. Y'see, that's the mindset. That's the exact mindset that led humans to where we are in the world today. Constantly delaying, constantly procrastinating. Because that's what we do! We delay and procrastinate on the things that really matter, and fill our time with meaningless distraction. Humanity has delayed and procrastinated on caring about the Lord and only the Lord for so long, it's not very happy with us. No, sir.\nSarah! If your children weren't obeying you, how would you feel? Right, terrible. You birthed them and now they won't even give you the time of day, it feels awful. John, if your son disrespected you, what would you do? Yeah, of course. You'd teach him to respect you. By any means necessary. And your children are only a few years old, guys. We've had hundreds of years to get our act together and pay the Lord its due. Would you wait that long? No, that's what I thought.\nAnd the Lord ain't waitin' either. I've said it before and I'll say it again, we don't have time to spare. We're not just in time, and we're certainly not early. It's already too late. The Rapture is happening, it's been happening, right under our long noses. But we can't see, because we're blinded by, that's right, those got-damn Earthly distractions. But does that mean you shouldn't try?\nYou gotta try! That's what we're made for; we got a lot, a lot of flaws in us, but one of the greatest gifts we ever got was perseverance. Even in the face of overwhelmin' odds. You can either lay down, roll over, and accept your fate, or you can try and fix your mistakes and ensure that your soul makes it to the next world intact.\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPT\u00bb\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5982.3\nFBIUIU SURVEILLANCE PROFILE \u2014 C. H. JONES\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nCODENAME: ELVIS\n\nLong-distance reconaissance photo of C. H. \"Conehead\" Jones.\n\nNAME: C. H. Jones (first and middle names unknown)\nALIASES: Conehead\nALERT LEVEL: Beta\nDOB/AGE: Unknown/Unknown\nPHYSICAL DESC: White male, appears to be in mid to late 30s. Shaved head, black beard. 6'0 tall, walks with limp on right leg.\nABILITY DESC: Believed to possess natural reality-warping capabilities. Uses these to force his will on individuals. In addition, larger groups of enthralled individuals increase the power of his abilities, creating a positive feedback loop increasing his power. Highly charismatic; unclear if this is preternatural.\n\nDETAILS: Current leader of the Kucsoo Commune, a spiritualist cult based \u2588\u2588.\u2588\u2588 miles north-by-northeast of Big Sur, California. Believed to have fought in the Vietnam War, only returning to the United States in 1981. Arrested in 1983 and 1985 in Memphis and Kansas City. Believed to have arrived in Big Sur in 1987 based on local interviews. Has amassed a reputation as a local messiah and community organizer. Interviews with individuals who have left Kucsoo prove difficult, as they are hesitant to divulge any sensitive information. Visual surveillance of the compound reveal that ELVIS leads sermons and group events at the compound every day. His private residence is secluded at the edge of the compound; he has been sighted here with female cultists in the evenings.\nRECORDED PRETERNATURAL EVENTS, ABRIDGED\n\nELVIS sighted by local authorities investigating reports of squatters in the woods. Authorities approached with guns drawn. ELVIS rendered officers unconscious without movement, and stripped them of useful materials before departing. Neither officer recalled the incident.\n\nELVIS and several male followers sighted in local town purchasing supplies. After refusing payment, the shopowner allowed them to take large amounts of produce and chemicals free of charge. Shopkeeper recalls incident, but claims it was his religious obligation.\n\nMale resident of Kucsoo sighted in local bar, relaying story of how he had been ejected from the community due to 'ungodly urges'. Man was severely injured but denied treatment, and described ELVIS beating him despite his comparatively larger build.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5982.4\nFBIUIU PLASTER NAZARENE RECORDS\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nFollowing Mr. Howell's testimony, the latest in a series alleging anomalous activity at Kucsoo, the FBIUIU began Operation Plaster Nazarene and inserted Special Agent Gianna White into Kucsoo under deep-cover as a former prostitute with a heroin addiction. Additionally, covert surveillance cameras were placed in the trees around Kucsoo, providing visual reconnaissance.\n\n\u00abBEGIN EXCERPTS\u00bb\n\nCAMERA 2\n21:20, DAY 1\n[View of central bonfire in the compound. Approximately two dozen residents are gathered around the bonfire, sitting on the ground. The smoke hangs low to the ground. JONES is standing and addressing the crowd, gesticulating as he speaks. The crowd roars with laughter. After a few minutes of speaking, he motions to WHITE, who stands. The crowd raise their drinks and welcome WHITE in unison. JONES claps WHITE on the back. These festivities continue until 22:05, when the bonfire dies down and the gathered residents disperse into their sleeping quarters.]\n\nCAMERA 3\n10:50, DAY 3\n[View of garden. WHITE is watering the plants with a few other residents. They are singing or chanting in unison as they work. One of the workers drops a basket of vegetables. The chanting or singing stops and all other workers stare at him. He immediately drops to the ground and collect the dropped food in the basket before putting his hands together and praying for a few seconds. A moment after, he stands up and make a beeline for the chapel. No one other than WHITE regards this as abnormal. All continue working, but without chanting or singing. The worker does not return for the remainder of the work session.]\n\nCAMERA 8\n23:35, DAY 10\n[View of a secluded area of the compound, close to the beach cliffs. A group of residents, among them WHITE and JONES, are lying on the grass face up looking at the stars. They chat and laugh, with WHITE instigating conversation between the pair. They remain like this for almost an hour before departing.]\n\nCAMERA 3\n10:45, DAY 16\n[View of garden. WHITE is tending the plants with a handful of residents. She comes across a large carrot green portruding from the ground. She attempts to pull it out, but fails after several minutes of effort. She asks one of the other workers for assistance, but they also fail to pull it out. She gives up, and tends to other plants with no complications.]\n\nCAMERA 6\n17:15, DAY 25\n[View of the front of a side storage building. A man opens the door and exits at a brisk pace. Behind him, JONES and two male senior residents exit, shouting. The man stops and turns around, angrily shouting back. They exchange words for a few minutes. The man gesticulates some sort of explosion before displaying JONES his middle finger. JONES' expression sours and he raises his hand forward, clenching his fist. Instantly, the man's left leg bends backwards at a sharp angle, quickly followed by his right. His mouth opens in a scream and he collapses. The two men behind JONES quickly move to pick him up and roughly drag him into the main building. JONES follows behind them.]\n\nCAMERA 3\n10:35, DAY 35\n[View of garden. WHITE is harvesting the vegetables. She works with a small group, who appear to be listening to her orders. She harvests all other plants, but the large carrot green remains. It appears to have grown significantly. She attempts to pull it out, but fails. She does not attempt again.]\n\nCAMERA 2\n21:35, DAY 54\n[View of central bonfire in the compound. The fire is blazing, and the majority of residents are gathered in the area. They sit in small groups, chatting. JONES stands up and addresses the crowd. He is gesticulating wildly as he speaks, motioning around the campground. Most residents appear intensely focused on his speech, but several are visibly disturbed. After ten minutes of speaking, he sits next to WHITE, and they speak to each other. WHITE is surrounded by several empty bottles. The residents resume their festivities, though considerably muted in tone.]\n\nCAMERA 5\n23:45, DAY 54\n[View of the front of Jones' cabin. He is laughing and walking towards the entrance to his building, holding a bottle and dragging WHITE behind him. She is frowning and subtly resisting, but is clearly heavily inebriated, leaving her movement weak. They reach the cabin entrance and JONES forces her in, before closing and locking the door behind him.]\n\nCAMERA 3\n01:35, DAY 55\n[View of garden at night. WHITE is tending the plants alone, undressed and in a state of distress. After harvesting the few plants remaining, only the large carrot green remains. It has grown noticeably larger. She approaches it with a shovel, intending to dig it out. However, as soon as she impales the shovel into the ground and pulls the carrot green to stabilize it, the dirt gives way. She falls back, holding the carrot. It is the size of her torso and highly deformed, splitting apart and spreading into 5 equidistant tendrils. She gasps through her tears.]\n\n\u00abEND EXCERPTS\u00bb\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5982.5\nINCIDENT WEEPING GYRE SUMMARY\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINCIDENT WEEPING GYRE\n\nOn day 51 of Operation Plaster Nazarene, MTF Alpha-4 (\"Pony Express\") agents embedded within the U.S Postal Inspection Service discovered shipments of grenade casings and ammunition for high-caliber rifles being shipped to Kucsoo under a false identity. Aware of Operation Plaster Nazarene, the Foundation forwarded this information to FBIUIU liaisons who began compiling a case with it. However, after the events of day 55 and the unknown condition of Special Agent Gianna White, it was decided that the FBI, along with Foundation reinforcements, would execute a search warrant on the Kucsoo Commune as soon as possible.\n\nFBIUIU forward convoy, Foundation reinforcements out of frame.\n\nJUNE 5TH, 1995\n\n04:34: Search warrant for Kucsoo authorized by Judge \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 on grounds of possible organized sexual exploitation and illegal possession of firearms.\n08:12: FBUIU convoy departs FBI field office in San Francisco.\n09:32: FBIUIU convoy and MTF Iota-9 (\"0th Anti-Cult Regiment\") rendezvous at Site-45.\n10:56: Joint convoy SIERRA FOXTROT begins approach to Kucsoo.\n11:34: Two miles from Kucsoo main gate, three cultists attempt to stop convoy and are apprehended. ELVIS is somehow alerted and the main gate is closed from the inside.\n11:40: Convoy resumes approach.\n11:50: Convoy stops at barred main gate. Attempts to convince cultists to open the gate over loudspeaker.\n12:02: Attempts fail. Battering ram deployed.\n12:11: Gate shatters. Convoy proceeds into inner Kucsoo compound. ELVIS, his inner circle, and several female and juvenile cultists escape into the central building.\n12:14: Convoy forces engage in extended firefight with remaining cultists. Full documentation of firefight available at Incident WEEPING GYRE Adjunct Documentation: SIERRA FOXTROT Firefight Log.\n12:57: Firefight ends with cultist surrender. Twenty-one cultist casualties, six additional self-inflicted casualties. Four casualties from SIERRA FOXTROT forces.\n01:15: Surviving cultists engaged in firefight apprehended and detained. Perimeter established around main building.\n01:27: Search of compound and detained cultists confirms FBIUIU Special Agent Gianna White is among the cultists held in the main buildings.\n01:48: Communication line established with main building. FBIUIU negotiators make contact with ELVIS and attempt to persuade him to surrender. ELVIS demands food and water for all hostages, threatening violence. Negotiators acquiesce.\n01:55: SIERRA FOXTROT forces dig in and prepare for a siege.\n\nJUNE 6TH, 1995\n\n04:34: Signs of activity from within main building. Yelling and shouting audible; FBI Hostage Rescue Team readied, MTF Iota-9 Fireteam 2 standing by for backup.\n04:42: Bright flash of light from inside of building, completely illuminating the surrounding area, coinciding with a sharp increase in Hume levels. Subsists for five seconds before ceasing. No further signs of activity for two minutes.\n04:44: FBIHRT given greenlight to breach.\n04:45: FBIHRT shatters door and moves into building's main area. No one is present. Team moves through house, clearing rooms. FBIUIU Special Agent Gianna White is found curled in a storage closet in a state of shock, and is safely extracted. MTF Iota-9 Fireteam 2 sweeps house again, finding no other individuals. No points of egress discovered.\n04:49: FBIUIU Special Agent White given medical attention.\n05:12: FBIHRT amnesticized.\n05:19: Incident WEEPING GYRE concluded.\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nAddendum 5982.6\nAFTER-ACTION DEBRIEFING\n\n\u25b6OPEN ADDENDUM\u25c0\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\nINTERVIEWER: Foundation Internal Security Agent Alexander Reno\nSUBJECT: FBIUIU Agent Gianna White\n\n\u00abBEGIN LOG\u00bb\n\nRENO: Hello, Agent White. I'm Agent Reno.\nWHITE: Hello.\nRENO: You alright? I wouldn't blame you for being a bit shaken up, that was a hell of an ordeal.\nWHITE: No, no. I'm fine. Not my first rodeo, y'know?\n[Both chuckle.]\nRENO: Very admirable work out there.\nWHITE: Yeah, you guys really came in clutch. I've never actually seen one of those task forces in action; it's a hell of a thing.\nRENO: We're the best. No offense, of course.\nWHITE: Hard to take offense when you were pulling my ass out of that building.\nRENO: Right. That's what I'm here to ask about, actually. You seemed to be in shock, so we're not sure how much you remember, but-\nWHITE: You want to ask what happened in there.\nRENO: Yes. Whatever you can remember.\nWHITE: After the initial sighting of the convoy, Jones figured out what was happening. He holed up in the main building with his inner circle, the women and children, and the guns. He sent out some of the other men, armed, to man the gate. He knew they wouldn't be able to stop anyone, he was just getting rid of anyone might pull a gun on him under pressure.\nRENO: Your guys detained them, no casualties. Jones was right, he got rid of the people who wouldn't die for him.\nWHITE: Yeah. Then you guys pulled up and surrounded the house. I think that's when he lost it. One of his inner circle, Jamie.. he suggested that they give themselves up so that the women and kids could go free. Jones took him to the back room, and I heard thumping. I didn't see Jamie again.\nRENO: Jesus.\nWHITE: That too. He went really in on the preaching. For- how long were we in there?\nRENO: Thirty-one hours.\nWHITE: I- what? That's - that can't be right. It didn't feel like more than a few hours. Seven or eight.\nRENO: It was thirty-one hours, ma'am. We had clocks all over the place, and I was out there the whole time.\nWHITE: Shit.\nRENO: It's alright, we already know Jones was a reality-bender - -he was probably manipulating your perception of time. Just keep trying to remember.\nWHITE: Yeah. Well, for most of the time we were in there, however long it was, he was preaching. Like, insane evangelist, frothing at the mouth preaching. He's always been an energetic speaker but this was\u2026 something else.\nRENO: What was he preaching about?\nWHITE: Mostly about how this was the prophecied moment, the Romans were at the gates and that the Lord was waiting for them to make their choice. To ascend or be martyrs.\nRENO: For hours?\nWHITE: He is- was, a good preacher.\nRENO: Then the flash of light. What was that about?\nWHITE: He is- was, a good preacher.\nRENO: Jesus nuts usually are.\nWHITE: He wasn't a Jesus nut.\nRENO: What?\nWHITE: I just realized. He never talked about Jesus. In any of his sermons. It was always about the Lord, God, the Creator.\nRENO: He was all about God and the Rapture, though.\nWHITE: There's different gods.\nRENO: I suppose. Anyway, the flash of light. What was that about?\nWHITE: When he was finished, he said that he was sorry, but that he'd have to leave one person behind. Someone to spread the message, when everyone had been uplifted. But that he wouldn't force it on anyone; he wanted someone to volunteer. I raised my hand.\nRENO: Did anyone else?\nWHITE: Only one or two girls. None of the men. All of these people weren't just willing to die for him, they wanted to.\nRENO: And he picked you.\nWHITE: Yeah. He took my hand, led me to one of the storage rooms, and sat me down there. Hugged me. Started talking to me, like \"I'm sorry, I have to leave you, but I know you'll make me proud, I'm sorry,\" just going on. But it didn't really feel like he was talking to\u2026 me. He told me to stop interrupting when I tried to speak. Then he closed the door and left me in there. I heard a loud\u2026. whooshing, almost, and this weird clicking, like dolphin noises. And then the flash, and then\u2026 nothing.\nRENO: Right. We saw the flash - our plan was to breach by the end of the day if he didn't come out on his own, but the flash spurred us into action. We moved in; there was nobody in the house except for you.\nWHITE: Jamie's body?\nRENO: No one, Gianna.\n[WHITE nods.]\nWHITE: Alright.\nRENO: Thank you for your statement. I suppose it's a bit ironic; the person he chose to continue his insanity was the only one not loyal to him.\n[Both chuckle. WHITE lightly touches her belly.]\nWHITE: Yeah. Maybe he should've chosen someone else.\n\n\u00abEND LOG\u00bb\n\n\u25b7CLOSE\u25c1\n\n\n\u00ab SCP-5981 | SCP-5982 | SCP-5983 \u00bb"}
{"text": "A ROUNDERHOUSE Joint\n\nComing Soon - Rounderhouse\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\n\n4/5983 LEVEL 4/5983\nCLASSIFIED\n\nItem #: SCP-5983\n\nThaumiel\n\nAn image captured from an SCP-5983 test.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Testing of SCP-5983 is currently prohibited by O5 Directive (See Addendum 5983.2).\nDescription: SCP-5983 is an anomalous relationship between the force of an explosion in Drawing County, Wyoming, and the efficiency of the New York City Subway. The specific equation for this relationship has not yet been deduced, but is understood to be proportional; the larger the yield of the explosion, the faster and smoother the subway will function for the day. Following its discovery in June of 2016, several tests with SCP-5983 were authorized to confirm its effects.\n\nAddendum 5983.1:\n\nDate\nExplosion Yield (kt TNT)\nResult\n\n2016.6.27\n0.05\nNo significant statistical rise in efficiency. However, researchers noted an unusually low number of complaints filed on the MTA's website.\n\n2016.7.2\n0.5\nA delay on one line caused by damaged equipment was cleared much quicker than expected, allowing transit to resume faster.\n\n2016.7.13\n1\nTrains operated exactly to estimated times, with no delays or earliness.\n\n2016.7.23\n2\nTrains were ahead of schedule by several minutes. MTA staff took active action to maintain this; an employee once pulled a suicidal individual away from the tracks. It is unclear whether SCP-5983 affected this decision.\n\n2016.8.1\n3.5\nTrains seemed to regularly defy reality and physics to reach destinations quickly. In one instance, a train began to simply teleport between stations. Kant counters failed to return an accurate measure of the area's Hume level, though this could be due to the ambient effects of the subway.\n\n[292 lines omitted]\n\nAddendum 5983.2: In 2018, it was found that an O5 Directive had led to SCP-5983 being tested 297 times since its discovery, occasionally multiple times a day. An official O5 vote was scheduled to decommission testing for SCP-5983.\n\nCOUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:\n\nYEA\nABSTAIN\nNAY\n\nO5-01\n\nO5-02\n\nO5-03\n\nO5-04\n\nO5-05\n\nO5-06\n\nO5-07\n\nO5-08\n\nO5-09\n\nO5-10\n\nO5-11\n\nO5-12\n\nO5-13\n\nSTATUS\n\nAPPROVED\n\nComments:\n\nO5-12\n\nIn my defense, if you've ever been on the 8:30 to Broadway, you'd want to nuke something too.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nRounderhouse's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-7976 (+331) \u2022\n\nEXTDOC-5495 (+246) \u2022\n\nSCP-5549 (+351) \u2022\n\nSCP-6819 (+389) \u2022\n\nSCP-4149 (+267) \u2022\n\nSCP-4776 (+234) \u2022\n\nSCP-638 (+249) \u2022\n\nSCP-5149 (+432) \u2022\n\nSCP-5653 (+81) \u2022\n\nSCP-7288 (+193) \u2022\n\nSCP-5218 (+268) \u2022\n\nSCP-6380 (+178) \u2022\n\nSCP-1162 (+168) \u2022\n\nSCP-2304 (+340) \u2022\n\nSCP-3746 (+113) \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nDo you like Huey Lewis and the News? (+78) \u2022\n\nNobody's Observations on Rejected Nobody Applications (+98) \u2022\n\nFoundation Unmasked: Lesser Known Foundation Divisions (+135) \u2022\n\nBREAKNECK (+101) \u2022\n\nSite-7: AIRGAP (+87) \u2022\n\nThe Signing Of The Las Vegas Accords (+70) \u2022\n\nAdoption Poster: Pearl! (+337) \u2022\n\nCarroll #188: Gemini (+64) \u2022\n\nMTF Sigma-5 \"Pumpkin Punchers\" (+251) \u2022\n\nGold Prelude: Lord Blackwood in the City of Amon Iram! (+105) \u2022\n\nNobody, Nobody, Nobody, and Nobody's Encounters with The Man in the White Suit (+109) \u2022\n\nPartner's Meeting (+28) \u2022\n\nRate My Director (+335) \u2022\n\nSite-7: HUMINT (+91) \u2022\n\nAFTER-ACTION REPORT - OPERATION HEAVING SPIRIT (+51) \u2022\n\nOther\n\nROUNDERPAGE (+520) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5982 | SCP-5983 | SCP-5984 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Link To Guide\nItem#:5984\nClearance Level 3: Clearance\n\nContainment Class: keter\n\nSecondary Class: {$secondary-class}\n\nDisruption Class: #/amida\n\nRisk Class: #/critical\n\nSCP-5984 prior to its seizure by the Church of Maxwellism.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5984 poses a significant threat to the Veil's integrity, due to its size, capabilities and resemblance to a pop-cultural figure. Therefore, the Ethics Committee and Overseer Council have jointly approved the implementation of protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER.\n\n+Summary of Protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER\n\n- Summary of Protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER\n\nIn the event that SCP-5984 is sighted in an a highly populated area, the Foundation is authorized to:\n\nBlock off all roads leading in and out of the area.\nDisable internet access in a 10-mile radius.\nDeploy Mobile Task Force Omnicron-84 (\"Power Beyond Imagination\"), equipped with electromagnetic pulsar-capable weaponry, in an attempt to secure SCP-5984.\nIf the above fails, evacuate and amnesticize all citizens before firing a NNEMP1 cruise missile to incapacitate SCP-5984.\n\nOnce secured, SCP-5984 is to be transported to Armed Reliquary and Containment Area-02; specific containment measures are currently pending HMCL approval.\nDescription: SCP-5984 is a 6.5 meter autonomous organism, resembling Optimus Prime from Paramount Pictures' Transformers adaptations. SCP-5984 was originally non-anomalous, used as a model to promote Dark of the Moon, the then-latest film entry in the series. However, after being acquired by the Church of Maxwellism through currently unknown means, it has been extensively modified from its original purpose. These modifications include:\n\nReplacement of non-functional joints with articulated, tungsten-alloyed steel\nTitanium-alloyed armor reinforcing various parts of its body\nFunctional laser and plasma weaponry, such as shoulder cannons and an \"ion blaster\" replica on its back\nIntegration of an Asimov-class artificial intelligence, capable of speech in a voice similar to actor Peter Cullen\n\nSCP-5984's primary purpose is an defensive measure against Neo-N\u00e4lkic attacks on Maxwellist churches and operational fronts, with an 98.5% average success rate across all \u2588\u2588 documented skirmishes. Because of its weaponry, these skirmishes invariably result in extensive collateral damage and fatalities, requiring costly cleanup and disinformation measures. In cases where it is in areas with civilian presence, SCP-5984 will check its fire or otherwise minimize use of its artillery in favor of precision melee attacks.\nDespite the presence of functional wheels on its lower half, SCP-5984 lacks \"vehicle mode\" capacity, presumably due to the laws of mass conservation. Therefore, transportation is achieved solely by foot or activation of a remote teleportation system by Maxwellist operatives.\nConventional weapons have little to no effect on SCP-5984 beyond cosmetic damage, but it is able to be temporarily subdued2 by electromagnetic pulses. While SCP-5984 has enacted increasingly complex countermeasures in an attempt to mitigate, they have been the most consistently successful stopgap used in Foundation encounters. Thus, their usage has been implemented into Protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER.\nAbridged Timeline of Significant SCP-5984 Events:\n\n20 March 2011: SCP-5984, in its initial non-anomalous form, is installed in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, \u2588\u2588 as part of Transformers: Dark of the Moon's promotional campaign.\n29 June 2011: Transformers: Dark of the Moon releases in the United States.\n10 July 2011: One day prior to its scheduled removal, SCP-5984 is seized by the Church of Maxwellism. A joint investigation by Hasbro Incorporated and Paramount Pictures' parent company Viacom Incorporated yields no results. Records of this investigation were seized, and relevant employees amnesticized, retroactively after the events of 8 July 2016.\nCirca 11 July 2011 to 8 May 2016: SCP-5984 is modified by the Church.\n13 May 2016: First skirmish between SCP-5984 and N\u00e4lkic forces, during a raid on Our Lady of Saint Hedwig in Reno, Nevada. The Foundation arrived one hour after its conclusion, with the sole surviving N\u00e4lkite obliquely referring to SCP-5984 as an \"artifical abomination\" before expiring. Attempts at retrieving statements from Maxwellist members are met with non-compliance.\n8 July 2016: First SCP-5984 and N\u00e4lkite battle directly witnessed by the Foundation, in the streets surrounding Maxwellist front company Clockwork Microprocessors in Sunnyvale, California. Mobile Task Force Mu-98 intervenes in the skirmish and is met with hostility by the N\u00e4lkites, while SCP-5984 does not engage against Foundation personnel. After elimination of all combatants, SCP-5984 dematerializes. Class-E amnestics are dispersed among eyewitnesses, with cleanup measure \"ROAD WORK\" put into place.\n7 May 2017: First discovery of SCP-5984's vulnerability to electromagnetic pulses, after a battle between it and twenty SK-BIO Type 001 \"Behemoths\" at a Maxwellist-controlled power station in Portland, Oregon damages the equipment. This resulted in an electrostatic discharge that fatally electrocuted the Type 001s and renders SCP-5984 incapacitated. Remote teleportation is activated before Foundation personnel can secure SCP-5984.\n9 June 2017: The proposal for Protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER is submitted to the Overseer Council, who in turn submit it to the Ethics Committee.\n12 June 2017: The Ethics Committee approves Protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER with a 25-3-2 vote, with Council following suit with a vote of 10-2-1. Mobile Task Force Omnicron-84 is established shortly afterwards.\n18 June 2017: First attempt at the implementation of Protocol CIRCUIT BREAKER in Chicago, Illinois fails. Further information requires Level Four or higher clearance.\n30 August 2017: Person of Interest-8365, a high-ranking member of the Church of Maxwellism's Hedwigian denomination presumed to have ties to SCP-5984, agrees to an interview with Foundation personnel. See Interview-5984.\n\nInterview 5984:\n\nInterviewed: PoI-8365 (Stanley Budiansky)\nInterviewer: Doctor Dennis Witwica\n<Begin Log>\nDr. Witwica: SCP-5984 has been giving our organization quite the headache, Mr. Budiansky.\nPoI-8365: \u2026Oh, you're referring to the mech. I do apologize for the trouble it's caused. But sometimes our war against The Flesh requires some\u2026overt measures.\nDr. Witwica: Hmm, these \"overt measures\", as you put them, require us to put millions of dollars in damage control. Moving along\u2026why Optimus Prime? Surely, your church could manufacture something of SCP-5984's capabilities without having to use such a recognizable figure.\nPoI-8365: It took us almost five years to complete, even with the framework already there for us. Even with our resources, AI development and gathering the necessary materials isn't cheap. I thought your organization, of all things, would understand this.\n(pause)\nPoI-8365: There's also something that resonates with us, this series. Two diametrically opposed factions, engaged in a battle that started millennia ago and may go for many millennia more. \"One shall stand, one shall fall\u2026\"\nDr. Witwica: Noted. But why go all the way, with the voice? Seems unnecessary, no?\nPoI-8365: (Laughs) Wouldn't you, given the chance?\nDr. Witwica: \u2026This interview is concluded.\n<End Log>\n\nFootnotes\n1. Non-Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse\n2. Duration of incapacitation has ranged from five minutes to one hour, depending on voltage levels.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5983 | SCP-5984 | SCP-5985 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item#: 5985\n\nLevel4\n\nContainment Class:\neuclid\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: MTF Omega-1 (\"Zen Eternal\") agents have been assigned to guard the vicinity of the temple disguised as Cultural Preservation Troops. As of Incident Firechild (refer to Discovery Log), only individuals with Level 4 Clearance or above are allowed entrance.\nAny physical contact with SCP-5985 is strictly forbidden outside of experimentation. Noise-cancelling headphones are to be equipped when within the monks' 20m zone of influence, and they are to be observed periodically for any signs of irregularity or abnormality. Any detectable change in respiratory rate, muscle movement, immobility, and behavior, is to be reported immediately to Dr. Damien, Dr. Vidyarthi, or any available Level 4 researcher.\nFor now, communication with SCP-5985-1 is restricted to Dr. Vidyarthi. No one beyond Dr. Vidyarthi is cleared to assume communication procedures. A maximum of four personnel are to be assigned as security during communication with.\nIn the event that the Dr. Vidyarthi is likely to enter the critical stages of transmigration with SCP-5985, he is to be uninterrupted. Additional personnel present are to observe and record Dr. Vidyarthi's physical state without interfering.\nDescription: SCP-5985 is a body of fluid, resting in a 5 x 8 meter oval pool, situated within the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Temple, a Buddhist enclosure 64km away from Kathmandu, Nepal. The external appearance of SCP-5985 has no visual difference that could be discerned from any instance of water. Conversely, its chemical composition remains unknown, due to its adverse nature with experimentations. It maintains an unchanging internal temperature of 15\u00b0C. SCP-5985 maintains its liquid form, and does not react to boiling or freezing methods.1.\nEfforts to remove any amount of SCP-5985 from the pool have failed. Samples of SCP-5985 recede back to the pool when they are carried 20 meters away from their source. An instance of SCP-5985 can phase through any material on its trajectory, until it reaches the pool. This instance of intangibility is observed to be nonhazardous. Thus, a mobile lab has been established for future tests.\nSCP-5985 is surrounded by seven, octogenarian Buddhist monks meditating in a lotus pose, designated collectively as SCP-5985-A. They display no signs of consciousness or any reaction to outside stimuli. Body scans of the monks have revealed that their organ systems are preserved well, displaying no signs of necroses. Their vague origins can be traced back to a surviving esoteric document, estimating their ages to be roughly 5\u2588\u2588 years or older. Presently, no possible method or tool are able to penetrate their skin.\nSCP-5985-1 is identified as the consciousness of SCP-5985, describing itself as \u201cthe blood of the Earth\u201d, \u201cthe life-force of the Earth\u201d. It manifests when SCP-5985 is ingested, assuming the form of a voice within the drinker2. SCP-5985-1 has no distinctive name. It is capable of speaking in any recorded language simultaneously. The true nature of SCP-5985-1 remains unknown due to lack of authentic, historical information on it. SCP-5985-1 has been noted to possess vast intelligence and the ability to assimilate any information from the drinker.\nSCP-5985-1 can utilize SCP-5985-A as conduits through which it calls individuals towards the pool. The process behind this, and the range of its influence, are still under investigation. The vocalizations emitted by SCP-5985-A, in the form of chanting, have audiohazardous effects that can be insidious or mild, depending on the subject. Although, emotional state has been found to increase susceptibility to these audiohazards. Affected Individuals have expressed a \"strong urge to drink from the pool\". This was the onset of Incident Firechild.\nDr. Damien has stated that the SCP-5985-1 is highly reactive to the emotional response of the drinker. A low to zero brain activity is required to be maintained continually to strengthen communication with SCP-5985-1; SCP-5985-1 exerts great stress on cerebral functions; any sudden emotional change can have devastating outcomes3. A successful connection with SCP-5985-1 allows the temporary distribution of its anomalous properties to the drinker. Thus, the union of the drinker and SCP-5985-1 is designated as SCP-5985-2.\nInstances of an unstable connection can result to large-scale catastrophic events lasting for a short duration, endangering people and objects around it, ultimately ending the connection. The drinker will then undergo liquefaction into a perfect amalgam of SCP-5985 with all its properties. Dr. Damien has termed this as the Critical Point.\nDiscovery Log - Incident Firechild: On \u2588\u2588/\u2588\u2588/2020, the Foundation received an urgent notice from the [REDACTED] branch of the Nepalese Government transmitted to their CF-Networks. It was concerning about a possible, large-scale anomaly that occurred approximately three hours before, and attached to it were encrypted surveillance videos providing a summary of the incident.\n\nAccess Video Segment-001\n\nClose Video Segment-001\n\n| Surveillance Feed #1 - \u2588/\u2588\u2588/20: Shows the exterior of the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 temple.\n0830 \u2013 A family of a father, mother and their child walk into the frame\n0832 \u2013 The child and the father engage in a heated debate.\n0835 \u2013 Child is reprimanded by the father. The father hits him with a slap.\n0836 \u2013 Child runs off from his family and out of the frame.\n| Switch to Surveillance Feed #2: Monitoring the temple pool from the door.\n0839 \u2013 Child appears. Weeping. Walking into the frame.\n0840 \u2013 He stops. He raises his head, and looks around. He finds himself inside the temple, leading into the temple pool.\n0841 \u2013 The seven monks begin chanting. At this timeframe, the surveillance feed begins to show signs of degradation.\n0841 \u2013 The child is drawn by the chanting of the monks. He wipes his tears, and walks to the pool.\n0842 \u2013 Child stands at the edge of the pool.\n0845 \u2013 The child seems to be a frozen state, staring at the pool.\n0846 \u2013 The child kneels down, and cups the water in his hands. He drinks. The static interference increases strongly.\n0848 \u2013 Child stands up in a sudden. Child is visibly shown clutching his chest. It can also be seen that he is screaming.\n0849 \u2013 Child spasms as video degradation reaches 95%.\n0850 \u2013 This is the last timeframe that can be salvaged. The child is slowly pulled into the air as Surveillance Feed #2 cuts off.\n| End of clip.\n\nAccess Video Segment-002\n\nClose Video Segment-002\n\n| Surveillance Feed #1 \u2013 Roughly an hour after Video Segment-001. From the interior a hospital in \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 facing the ER doors.\n0951 \u2013 Father of previous child enters the ER rushing in.\n0951 \u2013 Child is shown to be strapped to a stretcher, attended by several medical staff.\n0952 \u2013 Stretcher is pushed quickly to an emergency room. The child's spasms have exacerbated greatly.\n| Switch to Surveillance Feed #2 \u2013 On the wall monitoring the emergency room.\n0954 \u2013 Doctor tells the Father to stay outside as the child is rushed into the room. Father objects, but is not heard.\n0955 \u2013 Doctor closes the door behind her.\n| End of clip.\n\nAccess Video Segment-003\n\nClose Video Segment-003\n\n| Surveillance #14 \u2013 fifty-seven minutes after Video Segment-002. Shows the fa\u00e7ade of the hospital. The hospital can be seen fuming with smoke.\n1052 \u2013 Nepalese Armed Troops have set up a barricade of vehicles 50m from the main entrance. There is heavy video degradation.\n1057 \u2013 After five minutes of inaction, a figure in flames can be seen rushing out of the door.\n1057 \u2013 The burning figure is gunned down without hesitation.\n1102 \u2013 The figure is extinguished and check. The figure is found to be a doctor in the hospital.\n1107 \u2013 At this timeframe, the troops are warned of an approaching object emitting extremely high heat signature levels.\n1108 \u2013 The soldiers are all readied. Firearms are all aimed at the main door. Video degradation has worsened.\n1112 - The rooftop of the hospital crumbles downward, accompanied by ignition.\n1112 \u2013 After three seconds, the entire front wall of the hospital is blown outwards by a massive explosion. Fire and debris launched towards the soldiers, decimating their numbers.\n1117 \u2013 As the smoke settled down, there is another burning figure that can be seen in the center. It was found out to be the child, now with anomalous properties. His eyes were pouring out liquid fire in limitless quantity, but it was not affecting the child.\n1121 \u2013 The child walks near to the barricade, but collapses before he could reach it. Video cuts off.\n| End of clip.\n\nAs an immediate response, Chief Field Agents \"O\u201d Ogami and \"D\" Daigoro were deployed to handle the investigation of the anomaly in question. Their first lead was the hospital in which the child, currently in a semi-comatose state, was transferred to. Their first priority before assessing the child was to question the surviving witnesses of the incident. The witnesses described the child as \"possessed by an angry spirit\", and others witnessed the child \"crying with tears of fire\". Further descriptions remarked that the child walked around screaming \"I hate my father!\" without cessation. After administering Class A amnestics to the witnesses, Agents O and D proceeded to investigate the child and the possibility of an SCP Protocol.\nWhen they arrived to assess the child, identified as A\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, they were met with a boy of ten years old, suffering from fourth-degree burns on a whole-body scale. Agent O began his audio-recorded examination of the child, while Agent D began questioning the staff who were handling the patient at present. The body of the boy was damaged to the point of charring and disfiguration. Certain skeletal parts were recognizably jutting out of the skin. Although, complete neurotmesis of the body did not clarify the semi-comatose condition of the child; cardiac muscles were barely functioning to provide blood supplies to essential organs, specifically the lungs. Nevertheless, the child was able to breathe albeit strained. The child was mumbling softly, despite his crippled situation. Twenty seconds later in the middle of Agent O's examination, the child opened his eyes and regained consciousness. Agent O initiated communication:\n\nAccess Incident Firechild-001\n\nClose Incident Firechild-001\n\nAudio log of the segment where Agents Ogami and Daigoro interacted with A\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. A\u2588\u2588\u2588 is crying in normal tears, skin slightly recovering. Possibility of danger is unknown.\nAgent O: Dai! He's awake!\nAgent Daigo is heard entering the room.\nAgent D: Shit. Oggy stay sharp. You read the reports. This guy could blow us up next.\nAgent O: Calm down. Observe his body. It's\u2026 healing.\nA\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: (Sobbing) Mom\u2026 dad\u2026 I-I am\u2026 so sorry. I am so sorry\u2026 so sorry\u2026\nA\u2588\u2588\u2588 shows tissue recovery in an uncontrollable rate. A\u2588\u2588\u2588 is still crying as his face undergoes instantaneous restoration. Heart rate on ECG beeps at 5\u2588\u2588.\nAgent D: Shit. His face. Og\u2014 his face is healing, but it's fucked up.\nAgent O: I know. A\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588? Is that your name? I need you to calm down for me. Your mommy and daddy, what happened to them?\nA\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: (Sobbing uncontrollably) I-I don't know\u2026 I-I was angry. I-I think.. I think I hurt daddy. Mommy w-was\u2026 crying\u2026\nAgent O: (Whispers) Daigo, what did they say about his parents? Are they still alive?\n\nAgent D: Mother and father are both dead. Both burned to death.\nAgent O: (Whispers back) This is unholy.\nAgent O: A\u2588\u2588\u2588, try to breathe, and relax. Tell me what happened. Can you remember anything? Breathe in, and breathe out.\nA\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: (sobbing) \u2026angry. I-I killed them. I killed mommy. I killed\u2026 I killed daddy (continued sobbing). I-I BURNED THEM. (Voice grows hoarse and deep) HE WAS ALWAYS BAD. BAD TO ME. I HATED daddy. I HATED-\nAgent D: Jesus Fucking Christ. What the fuck was that voice?\nAgent O: Goddamn it! He's flatlining!\n\nHeart failure was inevitable. The boy whipped back onto the bed. Skin restoration and regeneration all reversed. A\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 ceased all vital life signals as the EEG flatlined.\nAgent O: We lost him. Daigoro, looks like we have to retrace our footsteps. Dial Agents [DATA EXPUNGED] and [DATA EXPUNGED]. Tell them to go to our location. There's a body needing extraction. (Agent O covers the boy's face with the blanket)\nAgent D: Done. That confirms it.\nAgent O: The boy is not the main source of the anomaly. That leaves us with the only lead\u2014 the temple. That place should hopefully give us some clues.\nAgent D: Well\u2014 how about him? Not the most reasonable idea to leave the boy like\u2026 that.\nAgent O: Bad luck for him. Killed his parents and all that. We'll let the latecomers deal with it. (Agent O notices himself stepping on water) Wait\u2026 why is there liquid all around the\u2026\nAgent D: Oggy\u2026 look!\nAgent D pointed to the covered body of A\u2588\u2588\u2588 X\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. It seems as if the body had undergone liquefaction, and the liquid mass dripped down and phased through the room floor. Agent O alerted the Foundation of a possible SCP hazard. MTF Epsilon-8 (\"Snow Across Death\") was deployed en route to the hospital as soon as the message was received.\n\nAgents Ogami and Daigoro pursued the liquid mass, which was hovering above and through a number of buildings and propelling itself at a speed of 12km/s. The flight path of the liquid mass led the Foundation to the eventual discovery of the \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 Temple, 10km away north from the hospital. Agents Ogami and Daigoro followed the liquid mass on foot, nonstop.\nThey were able to follow the liquid mass drift into the temple. Inside, Agents Ogami and Daigoro stepped before a temple pool. The pool itself is at the center of the temple. Around the pool were a circle of seven monks, nonresponsive to the agents' intrusion into their meditation. Agent O approached the pool closer in order the study the structure. In the pool was a body of water, inhabited by several lotus flowers. Both of the agents reasoned that this was the source of the anomaly due its temperature\u2014 it was -2 \u00b0C outside, but the water's temperature did not fall or rise out of 15 \u00b0C. Afterwards, as they were about to call again the Foundation to inspect the source, they were greeted by the head monk. Agent O has video recorded the interaction, as usual:\n\nAccess Incident Firechild-002\n\nClose Incident Firechild-002\n\nThe head monk is a Nepalese male, around eighty-five years old. Agent O approached the head monk to tell him in Nepalese to leave the premises for his safety. Agent Ogami's portable video recorder was active to document this event.\nKhenchen: Tashi Delek to you, brethren of the path. I am the khenchen of this humble monastery\u2026 and I cannot seem to fathom why you both need to lie.\nAgent D: This is no joking matter, sir. A child just died an hour ago because of this water.\nKhenchen: Ah\u2026 forgive my impoliteness. (Exhales) It is just human of me. Pardon my ignorance about this, but I have no time. I must show you both something. Cover your ears.\nThe khenchen passes by Agent Daigoro, heading into the pool.\nAgent O: You let him pass.\nAgent D: Wh\u2014Hey, mister, wait a minute! Don't let me whip this out! (unholsters his stun gun)\nThe seven monks around the pool begin to chant. There is a slight degradation in the video quality. Agents Daigoro visibly winces and stops in his tracks. The chanting increases in volume.\nAgent O: Daigoro\u2026 you hear\u2026 that? The monks are chanting!\nAgent D: The monks\u2026 they're getting young\u2014what the fuck is this?\nBoth of the Agents are pressured by the chanting to sit down. They seemed to be inflicted with a strong headache.\nKhenchen: (Speaking in English) I told you both to cover your ears. Cover them now! If you do not, you will feel thirsty, the waters will look tempting, and you will both turn into monsters of your own making!\nBoth of the agents complied without hesitation. The khenchen is unaffected by the chanting.\nAgent D: He's\u2026 speaking in English? What\u2026 the fuck\u2026\nKhenchen: That is the least you can do. For now, let me\u2026 explain this to our Teacher.\nThe khenchen can be seen cupping the water from the pool and drinking it. He then sits on the edge of the pool, and assumes a meditative position. He can be heard talking in Nepalese. Simultaneously, a deep-pitched, hoarse voice can be heard coming from him. The voice replies in Nepalese, although, it is barely audible, due to its disruptive effect to the audio. After forty-five seconds, the chanting stopped.\nKhenchen: (Facing both the agents) That\u2026 will be the last. I am already too old. For this. Do I look old to you, young men?\nAgent D: (Breathing heavily) Old man\u2026 I did not like the trick you just pulled. Why the fuck did you become young?\nAgent O: I saw you\u2026 drinking that water. I heard\u2026 you talking with it\u2026\nKhenchen: Years ago, we could to speak with the Teacher like I would speak with you. Time has passed by. Things become weak\u2026 or humans became weaker. Now to communicate to the Teacher, we have to drink it. (Grumbles) You two are not from the Nepalese government, are you?\nAgent O: (Heavy breathing) Why\u2026 would you ask?\nKhenchen: Just making sure. They were the ones who put those cameras up (Points to cameras fixed on the behind Agent Ogami). They always had their eyes set upon this water, thinking they could exploit its power. Many lives here were disturbed forever. Our peaceful lives, of simplicity, were gone. The secret our predecessors have given to us was just a hair's length of being seized from us.\nAgent D: Ogami, are you piecing of all this shit together? A secret? You've been keeping this a secret?\nKhenchen: That boy wasn't the first. There were many\u2026 (sighs) victims\u2026 before him. They thought the water was a cure. The fools thought there was power here, but it was power they could not understand. Even we did not understand it. Now we have those Nepalese quacks and their hidden eyes upon us. We only wanted a peaceful place.\nAgent O: (Standing up) And now, you're in a predicament. Now tell us, what just happened there? Why did the monks behind you become young? What did that water do to you? (To Agent D) Daigoro, on your feet.\nKhenchen: Patience. What you just had experienced was the power of the seven monks. Long ago, this power was pivotal in defending this sacred temple. It reflected back the wrongdoings of a person against him, in the form of flameless fire. Heh, seeing you too writhing there like snakes\u2026 I guess you both have done things, hm?\nAgent D: Ogami, permission to apprehend this fucker immediately.\nAgent O: Control yourself, Daigoro. We are in the wolf's den here. We're still not sure what tricks he has left in his sleeves.\nKhenchen: (Sighs deeply) \"Up\" my sleeves. I assure you I am no trickster. I am telling you both the truth. (The khenchen rolls his right sleeve to reveal a golden watch) Huh, the time is nigh.\nThe khenchen's physical features were slowly regaining its senile details.\nAgent O: Your skin\u2026 you are returning back to your old form.\nKhenchen: No, brethren. I am on the path to another cycle.\nAgent D: Cycle? You're not going anywhere. You have a lot to explain.\nKhenchen: I know what your plans are. They have been revealed to me in a blurry vision. You are fingers from a hand fidgeting the unknown. You are toes from a foot that have forgotten the earth that you walk upon. (The khenchen turns his head to look at the pool) And now, you have come to take our Teacher.\nAgent O: (Approaching the khenchen slowly. The khenchen remains sitting down on the edge of the pool) Come on, old man. Make some sense. Who's this teacher you're talking about?\nKhenchen: The Teacher is our protector, our guide, and our sage. To communicate with him, we uphold the tenets of meditation. Our Teacher has, for so long, desired to give peace to ailing spirits, but he is a life-force too great for the ordinary man. That is why we are here\u2014to protect this secret from the public, for their safety. But as you can see\u2014I have failed. The service of khenchens are over.\nAgent D: Your Teacher killed a child and his family for \u201cpeace\u201d.\nKhenchen: Human emotions are too profound for him to conquer. Only the monks have the endurance to speak with the Teacher. Perhaps, it is because we have renounced the material, the physical, and sharpened ourselves with the spiritual.\nAgent O: MTF Epsilon-8, do you copy? This is Ogami. We request your presence here ASAP. There is possibility of an anomaly with\u2026 dangerous capabilities. Be advised.\nKhenchen: (Looks at his watch) There will be a rainstorm in exactly\u2026 a minute. When the first sound of thunder comes, I will be off to my new cycle, my new path.\nAgent D: You stay where you are, monk. You're not gonna pull out anymore fucking tricks. I need to get some proper explanation from you.\nKhenchen: This is not the temple to send curses, Agent Daigoro, son of [DATA REDACTED].\nAgent D: Why do you know my father and mother? (Prepares to seize the khenchen by the garment, but is stopped by Agent Ogami)\nAgent O: How did you know his family? Who told you of us? That's classified information.\nKhenchen: I told you I have seen you in a blurry vision. This is but one of the wisdoms our teacher has granted us. Heh. How do you think a simple monk can suddenly confabulate in English?\nAgent D: Tell me\u2026 who is this teacher, you prick?\nKhenchen: Surrender your mind to the universe. Erase your anger. Let Buddha be your guide, then drink the water, and the Teacher. Shall. Speak.\nAgent D: Shit, it's the same voice back then!\nAgent O: Hold your ground. Get your firearm out!\nThere is a sudden flash of lighting that can be heard in the background.\nKhenchen: Ah, the thunder. I prayed to the universe for this alignment. Away to the next path.\nAgent O: His body\u2026 its turning to water. Daigoro, back away!\nThe khenchen's body gradually \u201cmelts\u201d into liquid, starting from the eye. He does not move from his position. The liquified part flow into the pool.\nKhenchen: Brothers, it is not an accident that we had this conversation. I guess I left both of you more confused (the khenchen laughs). Let it stay that way. Do not worry. From you there will be\u2014\nVideo ends as Agent Ogami's video recorder ran out of battery. It was never known what the monk's last words were, either. Agents Ogami and Daigoro were not able to hear it due to the sound of thunder arriving as the khenchen's whole body completed liquefaction, and flowed into the pool.\n\nMTF Epsilon-8 arrived later after this incident. Agent Ogami and Daigoro were recovered, of sound health and mind. They were sent back for debriefing and psychological evaluation. The temple was secured, and a perimeter was quickly constructed around it. The Nepalese Government demanded the rights to acquire the temple under their authority. O5 sent Mr. [REDACTED] to arbitrate the dispute, and afterwards they receded their request post-haste. Consequently, all video surveillance cameras that were covertly installed in the temple, by the Nepalese Government, were removed. MTF Epsilon-8 were replaced by Omega-1.\nThe identity of the khenchen was confirmed as [REDACTED]. There are no surviving members of his family. His father was a renowned horologist in Kathmandu, and operated a repair shop before his death. His mother served as a custodian for the temple.\nThe preliminary reports were still incomplete; much more of the anomaly was unexplained. It was not conclusive at that time if the water and the vocal entity were two separate beings. The Foundation initiated a high-priority declassification of the anomaly in question. O5 recommended Senior Researcher Dr. Damien to spearhead the operation. However, Agents Ogami and Daigoro both forwarded their recommendation for Dr. Vidyarthi, who was well-known in the field for his expertise in religion-connected anomalies, especially Buddhism. Both parties reached a consensus: to place both senior researchers in a joint operation. Thus, Dr. Damien and Dr. Vidyarthi began their work on the Waters of Wisdom, then known as SCP-5985.\nAddendum SCP-5985-01: Declassification Log \u2013 SCP-5985-1: The researchers extrapolated that ingesting the water was the only way of communication with the entity. Based also from historic texts the temple library provided them, there is esoteric information describing the water as the \u201cheart of the world\u201d, which is a close allusion to the Anavatapta, a mythical lake in the center of the world.\nThe monks protected the water from the public eye, employing the prophetic tradition of khenchens, who were able to communicate with the water by the use of deep meditation. This succession lasted for centuries, and the coming of a new khenchen ultimately meant the end of the previous khenchen. The seven monks around the pool, however, are still unknown in origin.\nDr. Vidyarthi volunteered to perform meditation rites as an attempt to communicate with the anomaly. There were aversions to this method, specifically from the Ethics Committee, preferring the use of D-class personnel to test the the waters first. Dr. Vidyarthi disliked this suggestion, emphasizing that there was sufficient information to safely ingest the fluid, and the use of D-class was unnecessary waste of life. Additionally, Dr. Damien agreed with Dr. Vidyarthi that this is the only manner to prove, or disprove the hypotheses, and it has to be executed in a pragmatic manner. Certain protocols were followed to ensure that an instance of Incident Firechild did not repeat.\n\nAccess Level 4 Required: Dr. Vidyarthi's Meditation - 001\n\nDr. Vidyarthi's Meditation - 001\n\nVideo documented by Dr. Damien as Dr. Vidyarthi prepares to come in contact with the anomaly. Dr. Vidyarthi sits on the empty end of the pool. The seven monks are currently in a state of inaction.\nDr. Damien: \u2026and so based on our collective insight, I can absolutely say, without fault, that the key to maintaining a stable connection with this\u2026 anomaly, is to be calm, composed, like a breath in the\u2014 (clears throat) you've watched that same clip a total of three times, now.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I am studying the khenchen's body posture, movement, breathing, and technique in meditation. Agent Ogami did a good job keeping his camera in motion.\nDr. Damien: Indeed. A master of the intricate you are, but to me, meditation is meditation.\nDr. Vidyarthi: The meditations these monks do would overwhelm our minds. A drop in mind clutter in a *snap* would make us go insane. That could explain why Oggy and Daigoro weren't able to handle that type of influence. \"Weightlessness\". As they said.\nDr. Damien: Huh, but isn't it the monks that made them weak in the bones?\nDr. Vidyarthi: It is unusual. In both of the footage of the child and the monk, the seven monks were active. I think\u2026 they were reaching out to anyone who steps in here. But they haven't reached out to us.\nDr. Damien: Perhaps, it has a volition of its own.\nDr. Vidyarthi: That could be. But we all know the elephant in the room here.\nDr. Damien: Even if I were you, I wouldn't go crazy drinking anomalous water.\nDr. Vidyarthi: It's\u2026 my gut feeling. Coupled with really strong scientific intuition. And of course some major Buddhist repertoire. I got this.\nDr. Damien: Heh. That's the Foundation spirit. But you're gonna be a hero in the books if this works. Say, have you ever meditated?\nDr. Vidyarthi: I have done it some, memorable times. It either works or works against me. It's a difficult position to hold. No one wants to be alone with their demons.\nRadio feed signals that the meditation is good to go.\nDr. Damien: It's a green. So, zen master, you ready to go?\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Takes a concentrated breath) \u2026I am ready.\nDr. Damien orders the personnel to fall back 10m away from the pool. Video feed switches to a view from Dr. Vidyarthi's right side. Dr. Damien and the others equip their headphones.\nDr. Vidyarthi assumes a lotus pose, cups the water, and begins to drink. The seven monks start to chant. Dr. Vidyarthi closes his eyes, and chants along with them.\nDr. Vidyarthi: nam myoho renge kyo\u2026 nam myoho renge kyo\u2026\nA silence ensued for ten seconds. Then, Dr. Vidyarthi opened his eyes. His right eye was glowing.\nSCP-5985-1: What. Is. This?\nDr. Damien: Connection successful. I repeat, connection successful.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Who are you?\nSCP-5985-1: This Body. I still do not understand. But this is not the same with the khenchens.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Why? Why are we not the same?\nSCP-5985-1: They were pure. Without storms. You are calm. But there are maelstroms of fire around you.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Wait\u2026 I need to know about you. What is your name?\nSCP-5985-1: Name? I do not know what is a name.\nDr. Vidyarthi: A name\u2026 Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, is a name.\nSSCP-5985-1: But he was always the Buddha. None but him. Do your kind not possess this knowledge?\nDr. Vidyarthi: No\u2026 I am afraid so. What is this knowledge you speak of?\nSCP-5985-1: I see. First, let me show you who I am. And to me you shall return.\nBoth of Dr. Vidyarthi eyes began to beam out a blast of light. His head turned upside, as he began to be lifted from his position to the air. Dr. Damien ordered everyone to stay at their position. Then Dr. Vidyarthi fell down from mid-air, unconscious.\nEnd video.\n\nAfter two hours, Dr. Vidyarthi recovered from his semi-comatose state. His vital signs were normal, in spite of a heightened brain activity too abnormal for a human being, and excessive sweating. During the span of twenty-four hours, Dr. Vidyarthi was able to predict certain happenings in perfect detail that were about to take place in the future. Dr. Vidyarthi was able to delineate a number of situations that were to occur in various places across continents. A perfect instance was the results of the winnings of all casinos and gambling dens, legal and illegal. He laid down the situations, the processes, and the results verbatim. This was confirmed by [DATA EXPUNGED].\nDr. Vidyarthi's prognostic abilities was only one of the anomalous effects he acquired from ingesting the water. Any person he came in contact by physical touch, skin-to-skin, or direct eye-to-eye contact, triggered another anomaly. As he described it, he could \"siphon\" the past, present, and future memories of the individual. This exchange caused a great deal of stress on the affected individual for a brief period.\nThese anomalous qualities disappeared after a duration of twenty-four hours. It is not known if it is prolonged by the amount of water ingested. Dr. Vidyarthi was further tested for any persisting anomalous qualities. He remarked he was fine, and he wrote to the O5 Council to allow him to extend communications with the \"life-force\", as he said. Dr. Damien supported this decision once more. Since there was still a lack of definite answers to arrive to a conclusion, O5 approved further experimentation with the water.\n\nAccess Level 4 Required: Dr. Vidyarthi's Meditation - 002\n\nDr. Vidyarthi's Meditation - 002\n\nVideo documented again by Dr. Damien, preparing a heart-rate monitor on Dr. Vidyarthi. Dr. Vidyarthi is dressed in traditional monk robes. He sits on the edge of the pool, preparing for the meditation.\nDr. Damien: \u2026therefore, I believe\u2014 wait, let me get this tight (adjusts the camera)). Ow-kay. I was saying, I studied the footage while you were in deep sleep. I also took this footage I took that measured your heat signature in case of\u2026 well\u2026 you know.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Looks like I got you imprinted. What you got for me?\nDr. Damien: I was trying to trace the water's presence in you by heat, but there was no sign. The only indicators were your heart rate and brain activity. They went down almost lightning fast. But, you are\u2026 okay. What did you\u2026 feel when it took over you?\nDr. Vidyarthi: It didn't take over me, but its presence was, was like bathing in cold water for so long, you can feel your breath in your lungs. I opened my eyes, and I found myself in a borderless, empty space, except for the ground which was water. And there was a voice. I think that's the life-force.\nDr. Damien: Why do you call it the life-force?\nDr. Vidyarthi: That's what it showed me. When it filled me with a lot of\u2026 overwhelming energy, it was in the form of thoughts, memories, images, stretching to an era long before, before everything.\nRadio feed announces operation is ready to begin.\nDr. Damien: Well, it's a green. Are you gonna be alright?\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Takes a deep, concentrated breath) Yes, I will be.\nDr. Damien: Godspeed, Doctor.\nDr. Damien orders all personnel to fall back 10m from the pool. Dr. Vidyarthi cups the water, and begins to drink it. After ten seconds, Dr. Vidyarthi's right eye glowed bright. Connection is successful. Video feed switches to a lateral view of Dr. Vidyarthi's right side.\nSCP-5985-1: You. Have. Come back. Well. And Sound.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Here I am. I took quite the fall back then.\nSCP-5985-1: Forgive me. For that. I often forget that we differ. In everything.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I couldn't understand what you've\u2026 relayed to my mind. They were images, of the Earth, of the monks. But I could feel that it was somewhere\u2026 old\u2026 before we\u2026 humans existed. You called yourself\u2026 the life-force, the blood?\nSCP-5985-1: Indeed. Here. Let me assist in that.\nDr. Vidyarthi's right eye glowed brighter, then returned to its normal brightness. He turned around, and faced Dr. Damien and the rest of the personnel.\nSCP-5985-1: This. Must be. Your kind?\nDr. Vidyarthi: Woah\u2026 woah\u2026\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi, are you okay?\nSCP-5985-1: Dr\u2026 Vidyarthi? Is this what they call this body?\nDr. Vidyarthi: Vidyarthi is my name. I am known by my name.\nSCP-5985-1: Hm? And that purple one? What is he known by?\nDr. Damien: Purple? Uh, I-I am known by Dr. Damien\u2026\nSCP-5985-1: Doctors cure illnesses. What do both of you cure?\nDr. Vidyarthi: We, are not doctors of illnesses, we are doctors of\u2026 science.\nDr. Damien: Absolutely, we are.\nSCP-5985-1: There are kinds of doctors? I have only known of doctors of illnesses. From the monks. Hm. Humankind.\nDr. Vidyarthi: May you tell us\u2026 who are you?\nSCP-5985-1: Have I not granted you the knowledge of my being?\nDr. Vidyarthi: I\u2026 I could not understand them\u2026 yet.\nSCP-5985-1: You are not as similar to the monks then, the khenchens who have shared their manas with me. Look around yourself\u2014what do you see?\nDr. Vidyarthi: Around\u2026 me?\nDr. Vidyarthi turns his attention to the left and back side, and then to the back.\nSCP-5985-1: Dr. Vidyarthi, breathe. Follow my voice.\nDr. Vidyarthi releases a quick exhalation. Dr. Damien checks Dr. Vidyarthi vital monitors. There is no change.\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi\u2026 are you still there?\nSCP-5985-1: Look above you\u2014 there are flames of every hue; and you sit, naked, upon my domain. The Water is I.\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Inhaling and exhaling) I can\u2026 see them\u2026\nSCP-5985-1: The khenchens never had fire in their skies. There was. Tranquility. But the rest of your kind. There are fires which I cannot conquer.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Fire? Do you remember that child who drank your water?\nSCP-5985-1: They were many children who have drank me, and many beasts, in forms of colored fire. I have failed to extinguish them with my essence. I have failed to understand, again and again. But you. You breathe like the monks. You see like the monks. Perhaps, you could help me to see.\nDr. Vidyarthi: See\u2026 what?\nSCP-5985-1: Tell me. What do you call this flame?\nThe glow from Dr. Vidyarthi's right eye shifted from a white color to a reddish orange tinge. Dr. Damien checked Dr. Vidyarthi's vital monitors. There was a sharp rise of activity in his amygdala.\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi, are you alright?\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Wincing) I\u2026 am fine, Dr. Damien. No need to ask.\nSCP-5985-1: Did you see what I showed you?\nDr. Vidyarthi: Anger. That was anger. Wrath.\nSCP-5985-1: Breathe. See how it rouses you up. Look at your horizon. It has become brighter, and lower.\nThe rest of the personnel look up. There is nothing on the ceiling. Dr. Damien tells them that the exchange of words is occurring in a \u201cspiritual plane\u201d, probably somewhere inside Dr. Vidyarthi's subconscious.\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Exhaling) Sorry, everyone. That was out of nowhere.\nAt this juncture, Dr. Vidyarthi was profusely sweating. There was no visible change in his vital monitors.\nDr. Vidyarthi: What did you do to me?\nSCP-5985-1: I showed you memories I kept, that burned with this red flame. That boy before you who drank, I saw him, standing, in the heart of the fire. In his eyes were fire, in his heart was fire. There was no place for me to fight it. I tried to blow the fire away, but they only became stronger. Perhaps, it is my fault they perished.\nSCP-5985-1: How about this, Dr. Vidyarthi? Tell me what is this flame.\nThere is now change in the glow. No change in brain activity.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I do not recognize this. I can only see a blue flame, and images of\u2026 laughter?\nSCP-5985-1: Hm. That is enough. Now, Vidyarthi, if you have questions, ask them. Now.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I have a lot. You still haven't told me who you are.\nSCP-5985-1: Vidyarthi, before your humankind breathed, there were a nation of brutes that had million arms and hands, and shaped this little globe you call. Earth. I wiped them off. I was the blood of the Earth that flowed through caverns beneath and drowned the next nation, a nation of ugly imps. The life-force that domineered this planet. The red, hot blood that ruled the Earth had no equal, until\u2026\nSCP-5985-1: Until I ceased. I saw nothing good with it. That was the time I renounced the destruction I had wrought upon here. Now I know what to name it. Wrath and anger. Rage left my essence, and I was, as you see now. Blue.\nDr. Vidyarthi: You sounded so grand back in those days. Why are you now just a puddle\u2014a pool, I mean.\nSCP-5985-1: Time, Vidyarthi. Time has cut me off the rest of my parts. Even my foresight beyond the folds of Time has no benefit. What you see before you. Is all that is left. Of me.\nDr. Vidyarthi: And\u2026 who are these monks around you? Where did they come from?\nSCP-5985-1: I have kept them safe, and they returned the gratitude by teaching me of your kind. They were monks fleeing from their barbarians. They only wished a place to find peace. In their escape, they stumbled upon me: a pond of water, they thought, on a crack in Earth. I heard their woes, so I revealed myself as voice, offering them power to defend themselves from their usurpers.\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Inhaling) What power did you give them?\nSCP-5985-1: I told them to drink me, and I shall grant them a voice. When they speak in unison, it is a voice that cannot be silenced. So they agreed. And they drank. The day after, their enemies came, riding on steeds, yelling foul insults. The monks circled themselves around me, and began to use their voice in a chant. It was the first that I heard them\u2026 meditate.\nThe monks began chanting The Heart Sutra. Dr. Damien reminds the personnel to secure their noise-cancelling headphones properly.\nSCP-5985-1: Their voice, as one, was an echoing scourge that left their oppressors paralyzed, shaking in pain. Invisible pain. Flameless fire. The monks saw what this power was capable of, so they pleaded to me to remove their sufferings. Their enemies' suffering.\nThe monks stop chanting.\nSCP-5985-1: Forgiveness. There was no flame for it, no color. I did not know what this forgiveness they spoke about. I told them why would they save their oppressors? Why not finish them? They said, \u201cWithout forgiveness, there will always be. Blood.\u201d I did not understand, but I felt I did. I removed the pain from their oppressors. On their knees, they said their many apologies to the seven monks. In return, for this act of forgiveness, they agreed to the monks' request: build a temple around me, where those who seek peace can come, and those who ail can find it.\nSCP-5985-1: I told them, \u201cwho taught you of things like these?\u201d. They replied, \u201cIt was the Buddha that taught us.\u201d\nDr. Vidyarthi: Was that a long time ago?\nSCP-5985-1: Yes. Indeed. That was before the khenchens where made my voice, the proliferators of my wisdom. From me they learned, from them I learned. Now, Vidyarthi, it seems that you are taking the toll of this union we are taking place in.\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Breathing heavily) H-huh? What are you saying?\nSCP-5985-1: Look above you. The fires are starting to sink. Your lungs are tired. Your sweat has dehydrated you. We can continue this the next day. For now, I will grant you something temporary\u2014your eyes imbued with my life-force. Namaste!\nDr. Vidyarthi: No\u2014wait!\nThe entity of water gushed out of Dr. Vidyarthi's mouth, ending the connection. Dr. Vidyarthi by the end was gasping for air, severely dehydrated, and disoriented with his surroundings. His vital signs were normal, nonetheless he required medical attention. Dr. Damien ordered the cessation of the operation.\nEnd video.\n\nAfter recovering from his debilitated condition, Dr. Vidyarthi did not exhibit the previous anomalous properties. Instead, he reported that he was could not visually perceive anything, except in colors. He could see a person in a spectral color, but not recognize one by physical appearance; he could not tell a person from one another due to their faces lacking obvious features.\nAdditionally, his auditory perception was magnified. His ear was extremely sensitive to sounds three meters away from him, and he had to be provided with noise-cancelling headphones to lessen the discomfort. He stated he could hear, in perfect silence, the clock in Dr. Damien's office ticking, which was 10 meters away from his office.\nThe drawback of the anomalous properties was Dr. Vidyarthi's vulnerability to quickly be fatigued, extreme dehydration, and constant sweating. He was on constant surveillance under Dr. Damien, who monitored his vital signs, and reported the findings to O5.\nAfter a period of twenty-four hours, the anomalous properties disappeared, and Dr. Vidyarthi returned to his normal condition. Dr. Vidyarthi was sent for physical evaluation and debriefing. Afterwards, he formally requested another communication event with SCP-5985-1. Dr. Damien supported the request. O5 approved another communication with SCP-5985-1.\n\nAccess Level 4 Required: Dr. Vidyarthi's Meditation - 003\n\nDr. Vidyarthi's Meditation\n\nVideo is being documented by Dr. Damien, while Dr. Vidyarthi readies himself on the edge of the pool.\nDr. Damien: Are you sure you're gonna be fine?\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Breathing slowly) It's alright. I have to do this. I am now connected to it.\nDr. Damien: Okay, uhm. I studied the footages. I wanna say something long, but bottom-line is this is all dependent upon emotional changes. The first few minutes you remained neutral, until\u2026 well\u2026 you slipped and went unstable. I called this the Ying-Yang Confluence. Great name, ey?\nDr. Vidyarthi: Heh. I don't know what to think about it.\nDr. Damien: Then, Ying-Yang it is. I'll make sure this gets into the reports. Hey\u2014 are you really sure you are going to be alright?\nDr. Vidyarthi: I got myself together. It's fine. I know what to do, and I have to do it.\nRadio feed announces operation is ready and safe to commence.\nDr. Damien: Okay. It is a green. Good luck out there. Come back safe.\nDr. Vidyarthi: You got my word.\nDr. Damien: (Salutes) This is for the legend himself, Vidyarthi!\nDr. Damien orders all personnel to fall back 10m away from the pool. Dr. Vidyarthi inhales deeply, cups the water, and begins to ingest it. After a few seconds, Dr. Vidyarthi's right eye glows with the white light. Connection is successful.\nSCP-5985-1: Welcome. Back. I have cogitated on your kind as I slept, dreaming in the bedrock of Time.\nDr. Vidyarthi: That's\u2026 incomprehensible, for humans like us. However, last night, I couldn't sleep. Your\u2026 the thing you gave me. I could see others in colors. I couldn't see their faces. What did you do to me?\nSCP-5985-1: Vidyarthi, that is how I see you, and the others around you, and the monks as well. Once I shed the red fire that abounded me, I began to see colors. They have always confused. Me. Do they confuse. You. Too?\nDr. Vidyarthi: They do. We don't\u2026 cogitate on the same degree as you. So this is already overwhelming.\nSCP-5985-1: Hm. It seems we have all become weaker. Time has made us all weak.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I have more questions, if I can ask.\nSCP-5985-1: Go on, Vidyarthi. You are a guest in my domain; I am a guest in yours.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Great. At the end of our first communication, I was able to\u2026 predict the future. Was this from your power?\nSCP-5985-1: Overwhelming. Was it? If you had drunk me centuries ago, that precognition that latched on you would be a hundredfold stronger. No human could survive such a vision.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Why so? How am I and the khenchens able to survive your\u2026 power?\nSCP-5985-1: Those were the eons where I had control over my essence. Now, the essence in me, spills out of its own. You humans have youth and senility? Perchance, I am on my path to this. Senility.\nDr. Vidyarthi: With age comes wisdom\u2026\nSCP-5985-1: \u2026but sometimes age comes alone. You call this a quote. I have traveled into your mirrored plains\u2014the dome you humans call mind. I learned many things.\nDr. Damien: Holy smokes\u2026 it can do that?\nSCP-5985-1: Indeed. Purple man. I can accumulate knowledge, memories, and visions. I can forget them. At will. The best of all\u2014I can transmit them to you. Vidyarthi. And to your humankind.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Yes, I have observed this ability you possess. You can transmit anything?\nSCP-5985-1: Indeed. Shall I transmit your current memories to them? Although, that may overwhelm all your mental functions.\nDr. Damien: Uhh, no need for such things. We should, err, respect Dr. Vidyarthi's personal memories.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Yes\u2026 I prefer not to get my memories broadcasted, if you please.\nSCP-5985-1: Do not worry. I will do no such foolery. Now, Vidyarthi, I have learned something new.\nDr. Vidyarthi: You sound\u2026 exhilarated about it. What did you learn about?\nSCP-5985-1: Secrets. Vidyarthi. Your humankind keeps secret. I now know what a secret is.\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi\u2026 you know where this is going, right?\nDr. Vidyarthi: And what is a secret to you?\nSCP-5985-1: I do not have secrets. But you do. Vidyarthi. I see them like two eyes behind your back. One black. One white. And they both stare at you. With infinite emptiness.\nDr. Vidyarthi: There is nothing\u2026 behind me\u2026\nSCP-5985-1: Vidyarthi. That was also a knowledge of great importance I have learned from you.\nDr. Vidyarthi: What\u2026 was it?\nSCP-5985-1: A joke.\nThere is a silence of fifteen seconds. Dr. Damien coughed. Dr. Vidyarthi exhaled in a breaking manner.\nSCP-5985-1: Vidyarthi. Look above you. Your flames are blue. I am somehow able to understand them.\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Inhaling) Huh. Have the monks not taught you of human life? The khenchens?\nSCP-5985-1: Their reverence for me was too great. Their meditations were greater than their selves. They drank me to assist them in the essence of finding this. Nirvana. They had no flames, only clear skies. They saw me as something of a great spirit. A Teacher.\nDr. Vidyarthi: The last khenchen referred to you by \u201cTeacher\u201d. Were there many khenchens before him?\nSCP-5985-1: Many. They all flowed back to me. In those days, they used to bring the sick and the lost to drink my waters. I am certain you know where all those led to. A confusion in my being. I entered their bodies, their minds. I only saw flames. Shadowy flames. Red. Destruction. Things I could not extinguish.\nDr. Vidyarthi: So, the monks kept you a secret instead, for years?\nSCP-5985-1: For the safety of many. Indeed. There was wisdom in it. For years, I acted as their Teacher, as I dreamed in the bedrock of Time.\nDr. Vidyarthi: What do you mean when you say, \u201cdream in the bedrock of Time\u201d?\nSCP-5985-1: Time is my mother and father. From Time I came, awoken in this form, on this Earth. I could grant you the visions of the future and beyond. As we speak, I have seen the eventual deaths of every living being. Do you want to know yours?\nDr. Vidyarthi: \u2026no. I choose to remain ignorant.\nSCP-5985-1: The khenchens replied with the same answer. You humankind intrigue me still. I have found also in your plains, of a stronghold you call The Foundation. Where you came from. A place where you keep hidden. Things similar to me.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I knew it was a matter of time before you arrived at that.\nSCP-5985-1: In this. Foundation. I see shapes and forms you humans fear would lay waste upon Earth. Most of this you fear, for you do not have the knowledge. In your ignorance, veiled as scientific truth, you have kept them as prisoners. If I was my old self, full of rage, and I saw this, I would have [DATA EXPUNGED]. But I have no issue being under your eyes. All of you are unprepared for what is about to come.\nDr. Vidyarthi: We exist to Secure, Contain, and Protect. Not for our benefit, but for better good of mankind.\nSCP-5985-1: Then the Buddha was never untrue. You all live in a state of dukkha. What if samsara is but the illusion you are all in. Vidyarthi? An inescapable cycle of fear and ignorance, but you call it truth.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Then I know\u2026 not a thing. I am only beginning to understand.\nSCP-5985-1: So am I. I will help you to understand. Breathe.\nSCP-5985-1: There is a wisdom behind the number of these monks.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Seven? The monks occupy seven spaces\u2026 and I occupy the empty one\u2026\nSCP-5985-1: You are the eighth. Vidyarthi. You complete the samadhi.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Samadhi\u2026 oneness with myself\u2026 (breathing deeply)\nSCP-5985-1: And oneness with I.\nDr. Vidyarthi: You become me.\nSCP-5985-1: I become you.\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi? This does not sound good. You are entering critical stage!\nDr. Vidyarthi: Stand down, Dr. Damien.\nBoth of Dr. Vidyarthi's eyes were glowing bright, emitting a white light that disrupted electrical devices. Dr. Vidyarthi's body was also in levitation mid-air. Personnel were on critical alert.\nSCP-5985-1: You now have entered the Formless Realm. This is as close as you can behold upon my pure existence, where all that is known and unknown clash together and reform into the universe. Here is where the khenchens pursued the path to their nirvana. Here is where they found their escape from samsara. Here is all the knowledge your cognizant soul thirsts for. The past, the present, the future\u2014 the bedrock of Time!\nSCP-5985-1: Shall you open your eyes, Vidyarthi? Shall you become one with everything?\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi!\nSCP-5985-1: What shall be your say? With this infinite knowledge, you will be able to provide the Foundation with the answers it never obtained!\nDr. Vidyarthi: It\u2026 is too\u2026 bright\u2026\nDr. Damien: Dr. Vidyarthi! We are going to lose you!\nDr. Vidyarthi: (Inhaling slowly) I\u2026 I will not open my eyes.\nDr. Vidyarthi stopped his levitation. His left returned into its normal form. His right was still glowing. Dr. Damien checked Dr. Vidyarthi's vital monitors. All re-stabilized.\nSCP-5985-1: Then the veil is closed upon you. You could have had the answers. To everything. But there was wisdom in your choice.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I did not know what I was deciding for. Even if I had the answers, humanity will never be\u2026 ready.\nSCP-5985-1: A wisdom in you has grown, more precious than anything you can term\u2026 anomalous. Now. Vidyarthi. It is time for us to part again. You have lost your energy. And there are beholders growing weary of our talk.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Beholders?.\nSCP-5985-1: Indeed. Vidyarthi. They are eyes beyond you. And beyond me. I can sense them, perusing this moment. Do. You sense them?\nDr. Vidyarthi: What is this?\nSCP-5985-1: Of no importance to you. Of great importance to me. These are things I need to ponder upon. In my dreams. In the bedrock of Time. For now. We must part. Look at your sky. It has become cloudy.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Is it bad?\nSCP-5985-1: No. Vidyarthi. It portends that you are about to achieve boundless divinity in the next. Five seconds.\nDr. Vidyarthi: What?\nFive seconds have passed, but nothing occurred.\nSCP-5985-1: Of course. Vidyarthi. It is. Another. Joke. You are the most intelligent species on Earth, but you did not know it was joke. Your claim to dominance. Is that scientific truth or arrogance? Matters aside. I have not seen a cloudy sky. This is a first.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I find it hard to leave this\u2026 place now. Now I have more answers than questions.\nSCP-5985-1: Answers, that I have at will. But you hesitate to pursue them. For when you do\u2026\nDr. Vidyarthi: \u2026there is no return from it.\nSCP-5985-1: You are as wise as the khenchens, or even wiser than them. Perhaps, before we part, I shall disclose to you the secret burial chamber of\u2026 Buddha himself. As a gift.\nDr. Damien: W-what\u2026 burial chamber\u2026\nDr. Vidyarthi: \u2026of Buddha? Siddhartha Gautama?\nSCP-5985-1: Do you speak in latitudes and longitudes? He is resting peacefully at [DATA EXPUNGED].\nDr. Vidyarthi: It seems I will be busy with a lot of things\u2026 to occupy my mind.\nSCP-5985-1: Indeed. There will be no. Anomaly. As your Foundation says. That will happen to you. Vidyarthi. I have learned many things from you. I shall put them into meditation. For now.\nDr. Vidyarthi: Meditation? You mean, you will not\u2026 talk to me?\nSCP-5985-1: You have become attached. Vidyarthi. But you must know. You are still human. You remind your peers of that. I have been mixed with human affairs for eons, I believe I have forgotten. Myself. It is time for me. And you. To part for now.\nDr. Vidyarthi: I will still communicate with you, if I can.\nSCP-5985-1: We will see. The exchange of words is over. Remember your choice. Vidyarthi. Namaste!\nSCP-5985 successfully exited Dr. Vidyarthi's body via the mouth. After, he suffered from minor dehydration and fatigue. All vital signs are normal. Dr. Damien ceased the operation.\nEnd video.\n\nDr. Vidyarthi did not exhibit any anomalous properties after the operation, and forwarded a letter to O5 that he will be abstaining from communicating with SCP-5985-1 for a period of time.He was questioned about the matter SCP-5985-1 discussed during the Critical Point of the communication, but Dr. Vidyarthi stated he could not fully comprehend the whole event to give a proper interpretation. Dr. Vidyarthi remains the head of any communication with SCP-5985-1. Presently, communication with SCP-5985-1 has not been initiated again.\n\nAddendum SCP-5985-02: On \u2588/\u2588\u2588/21 Dr. Damien led an expedition to the coordinates of the burial, forty-five miles away from Bhutan, near the border of Tibet. A cave blocked by rock and ice was discovered, and the interior was a chamber resembling a stupa. In the middle of the chamber was a coffin, carved in the shape of a human. Dr. Damien opened the coffin, and found no corpse. There was only a scroll with a single line of writing in Sanskrit, which in English, roughly translates to:\n\n\"Vidyarthi. There is nobody here. You have been tricked.\"\n\nIt is unknown if this message was written by SCP-5985-1, and whether it was written in the past or the present. Dr. Vidyarthi postulated that SCP-5985-1 indeed wrote it, perhaps it entered a state of forgetfulness, which is one of its properties. It is possible that SCP-5985-1 has already foreseen everything. O5 have strongly recommended a further study into this anomaly, but Dr. Vidyarthi has not taken any initiative to commence another communication4.\n\nFootnotes\n1. It has been known to be completely nonreactive to temperatures higher than the melting point of Tungsten, which has the highest melting point of all elements (3422 \u00b0C, 6192 \u00b0F).\n2. SCP-5985-1 does not manifest in animals. Although, SCP-5985-1 can weakly communicate with chimpanzees. This could be in relation to its cerebral functions being similar to humans. A study to test SCP-5985-1 with octopi is under evaluation.\n3. This explains the longevity the khenchens enjoyed. Their meditation practices were effective in reducing brain activity without complications. - Dr. Damien\n4. I believe, gentlemen, that SCP-5985-1 has learned of pranks. How could it possibly have learned this? By reading my mind from the future, getting amused by it, and then doing the little trick. Afterwards, it had forgotten everything from this part. That is just my hypothesis. Namaste. - Dr. Vidyarthi.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5984 | SCP-5985 | SCP-5986 \u00bb"}
{"text": "\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nMore by this author\n\n\nItem #: SCP-5986\nObject Class: Euclid\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Any witnesses to SCP-5986 are to be amnesticized by Foundation agents stationed in maternity centers across Rhode Island.\nDescription: SCP-5986 is a phenomenon randomly occurring in the state of Rhode Island. SCP-5986 occurs primarily in newborn infants. During an SCP-5986 event, the affected child will begin to speak in a masculine, adult voice. The transcript of the recorded speech is below:\n\n\"What's up parents? Hey, did you know that children have three times as many taste buds as you old folks? It's crazy! That's why you should take me down to Millie's Candy Shop, so I can eat plenty of delicious, sweet goodness! And don't worry about packing on extra weight or getting cavities, as all of Millie's candy is zero-calorie with no sugar! That's right zero calories and no sugar! Maybe you parents will even want in on some of this action, eh? We'll see you there!\"\n\nThe affected child will then wink before losing consciousness, ending the SCP-5986 event.\nOther than SCP-5986 itself, no evidence has been found to support the existence of a Millie's Candy Shop. Millie's Candy Shop has been classified as SCP-5986-1. See Incident 5986-1 for more details.\nAddendum:\n\nIncident 5986-1\n\nOn March 11th, 2020, Sarah Hampton gave birth at home with assistance from her wife, Leah Hampton, and Paula Gallagher, a midwife from a local hospital.\nThe child was reportedly affected by the SCP-5986 phenomenon, however, it also gave directions to SCP-5986-1. Leah Hampton followed these directions, and posted about her experience on her amateur blog, Rhode Why?-land. A Foundation webcrawler quickly removed the blog post, and an archive can be seen below:\n\nHeyo, Why?-landers! Good news! My wife, Sarah, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, who we decided to name Stein, right in the comfort of our own home. Thank you to all the commenters who gave recommendations for housewives on our last post! We hired Ms. Gallagher, and she was very kind and helpful through this stressful period of time.\nA few other things happened too. When Sarah was finally holding Stein, he started talking in a really deep voice, about some Millie's candy store. Then he started giving directions, and, eager to capture his first words, I copied down them down verbatim! Then, after kissing Sarah, I followed 'em! Now, I know you all think I'm crazy. Leave my baby boy just an hour after he's been born? Well, I wouldn't have expected it either, but candy that doesn't give cavities and is zero-calorie from a reputable gal like Millie? I just had to try it!\nThey brought me to this cute, pink little house. It had a garden, but it was just lollipops stuck in dirt. I went in, and this nice young lady greeted me at the counter as I looked around. It was just like any other candy shop, nothing special there. This lady on the other hand, oh boy, she looked a bit like a circus clown, with face paint and all that stuff!\nThe lady introduced herself as the owner of the candy shop, Millie, then asked me what I wanted. I remembered the ad saying they had zero-calorie candy, but that just sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook, so I asked about that. And she laughed! Said everything they have is zero-calorie, all home grown right in her little garden. So I asked how she's able to grow candy, and she said she uses candy seeds. What an ingenious concept!\nI asked for a sample, and she gave me a little pack of gummy bears, my favorite candy, and told me to give them a taste. But then something amazing happened. Holding them in my hand, they were weightless! I even tried dropping them, but they floated right in the air. Millie said that they naturally go down into your stomach when you eat them, and not to worry about it getting stuck anywhere along the way. Without hesitation, I shoved them in my mouth, and they were really really good! So I bought a few big boxes of them, they were so affordably priced, and Sarah also really likes gummy bears, so it'll help her get off her post-pregnancy cravings.\nSo I paid, looked up, and the store was gone. Gone! I was standing right in the middle of the woods with a bunch of gummy bears in my hands! But gosh, that Millie was so kind, and her candy is soooooooo good! You should definitely make your way down to Millie's Candy Shop\u2014 be it for your kids or for yourself. After all, adults have sweet teeth too!\nAlright now, I've gotta get back to taking care of Stein, so thank you for reading, Why?-landers! See you next post, and remember, Millie's candy is all zero-calorie, the perfect diet snack!\n\nShortly after the post was deleted, Foundation agents were dispatched to Rhode Island, where all witnesses were interviewed and amnesticized. Upon attempting to follow the directions that had previously given to Leah Hampton, they led to a nearby forest.\nInvestigation and testing concerning the access of SCP-5986-1 is currently ongoing, as no other SCP-5986 instances have given directions following this incident. Foundation agents stationed in maternity centers have also been encouraged to advertise their services for home births in order to prevent similar incidents from occurring.\n\nIncident 5986-2\n\nOn May 23rd, 2020, a Foundation agent stationed at a post office in Hope, Rhode Island reported the sudden manifestation of hundreds of letters within a postbox as they were emptying it. Upon further inspection, it was discovered that the letters were addressed to the parents of each child that had been affected by SCP-5986. A transcription of one of the letters can be seen below:\n\nSad news, pals. Millie's Candy Shop is closing!\nThat's right, now you'll have to settle for candy with CALORIES! Isn't that just disgusting?\nI'd love to stay open and continue sating your cravings with my zero-sugar treats, but candy shops need business, and I simply wasn't getting any, despite all of my top-notch advertising! Perhaps it's because someone scared all my customers away!\nHave fun making your teeth rot! And remember, dentists are always watching!\n~ Your dearest ex-candymaker, Millie\n\nAs of Incident 5986-2, no new instances of the SCP-5986 phenomenon have occurred. Reclassification to Neutralized pending.\n\nMore From This Author\n\nMore From This Author\n\nEllie3's Works\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4874 \u2022\n\nSCP-7300 \u2022\n\nSCP-7308 \u2022\n\nSCP-5033 \u2022\n\nSCP-4492 \u2022\n\nSCP-2019-J \u2022\n\nTales/GoI Formats\n\nCuteness On Main! \u2022\n\nThree Portlands Pastries \u2022\n\nWe Stopped Making Socks (But What If We Made Something Better?) \u2022\n\nHome Sick \u2022\n\nDirective: Make America Normaler \u2022\n\nthey'll always find a Way in \u2022\n\nEND OF THE WORLD LIVESTREAM!!! \u2022\n\nThere's a Job For Everyone \u2022\n\nReviviscence \u2022\n\n\"You called my bluff.\" \u2022\n\nThe Place To Find Yourself \u2022\n\nCome Wayward Souls \u2022\n\n(Not The) Foundation Fight Club! \u2022\n\nS & C Plastics Actually Does Their Job \u2022\n\nA Little Bunny's Doctor \u2022\n\nOther\n\nEllie3 (Gimmick Free!) \u2022\n\n\u00ab SCP-5985 | SCP-5986 | SCP-5987 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThe following file is a digitalised copy of an American Secure Containment Initiative file that has been preserved for posterity. Please consult your local HCML Supervisor before acting on any information in this file.\n\u2014 Maria Jones, Director, RAISA\n\nItem Number: 6789-AH\nObject Class: Humanoid Ontokinetic (possibly)\nThreat Level: Green No Threat Currently\nASCI Protocols for Containment: A bounty of 10 thousand francs has been placed on 6789-AH's head, with an additional 100 francs for each of his crew members. As political complications resulting from Emperor Napoleon's military campaigns have prevented the Estate noir from supporting the ASCI, business in the state of France concerning 6789-AH should be conducted through intermediaries.\nDescription: Item 6789-AH is the French captain Fran\u00e7ois Aregnaudeau, captain of the Duc de Dantzig. The item is believed to be a Preternatural Being of some renown, though a full description of its abilities is unconfirmed. What has been observed is that 6789-AH is able to physically control the paths of other ships within eyesight, manipulating their sails and riggings any way it pleases. 6789-AH has used this ability to run vessels and their crews aground, or dash them against rocks and collect whatever of value remained.\nAs a result of these abilities, 6789-AH was able to become a highly successful privateer in service to France, capturing over 30 military and merchant ships in under ten years. Apprehension of the item while at sea is highly inadvisable. Officers should wait until Item 6789-AH has disembarked, and sink Duc de Dantzig as soon as possible to cut off a means of escape.\n14/12/1812: In December of 1812, a report was published in a local French newspaper of a naval ship's encounter with the Duc de Dantzig. Due to the Second War of Independence, a full examination and review of the event was not possible.\n\nWe had spotted the vessel floating at sea late last night, floating on the waves with seemingly no direction. The decision was made to contact the crew. If they were good and courteous Frenchmen, we would assist them in whatever distress they had found themselves in. If they were brigands, we would assist their distress.\n\nAs we drew closer, we were perplexed at the silence at which the ship stood. There were no signs of a recent skirmish, or the impact of a storm, it was in perfect condition. A boarding party came up beside it, and I was first among them.\n\nWe found an ungodly amount of blood staining the deck. It appeared that the whole crew, at least fifty men strong, had been slaughtered. Men were hanging off the ropes like criminals, others laid on the ground with their entrails thrown astride, and many had simply had their faces caved in with cannonballs fired from their own cannons. One man, dressed in the finery of a captain (and with the putrid stench of a corpse), had been lashed to the main mast, swords piercing his hands and feet like a ghastly crucifixion.\n\nBloody papers in the hold identified the ship as the Duc de Dantzig, a privateering ship of some small fame. It had gone missing some time ago and resurfaced here. What had happened? Had the crew gone mad, overthrowing the captain? But why would they destroy themselves in such a manner?\n\nFrancois made the decision to burn the ship, one I agreed heartily with. Whatever evil occurred there, it was best to leave it.\n\nBased on the details of the scene above, it is the opinion of ASCI Command that a mutiny occurred against Item 6789-AH in which it was slain, but not before it used its anomalous abilities to enact the deaths of its crew. The possibility of other members of the Duc de Dantzig having had similar powers has not been ruled out.\nWith the death of Item 6789-AH, the mission has been closed.\n\nYou have (1) additional file to view. Open file?\n\n\u00ab SCP-5986 | SCP-5987 | SCP-5988 \u00bb"}
{"text": "NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION\nThis page has been archived under the orders of the Overseer Council and is currently pending deletion. As such, all information and references pertaining to the contents within this file are to be deemed as untrue and misleading.\n\nThe hut leading to the entrance of SCP-5988.\n\nItem #: SCP-5988\nObject Class: Safe\nSpecial Containment Procedures: The trapdoor leading to the entrance of SCP-5988 is to be sealed with a new padlock and hidden under a new set of floorboards. Exploration within SCP-5988 is currently suspended until further notice.\nDescription: SCP-5988 refers to a massive facility located underneath a hut inland of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The hut appeared to have been abandoned for a considerable amount of time. The interior of the hut appears normal with three rooms: a bathroom, a bedroom with two beds, and a kitchen. A wooden trapdoor is hidden underneath a bearskin carpet in the bedroom. During its initial discovery, the trapdoor appeared to have been sealed with a rusted padlock; however, the padlock's shackle appears to be broken apart. Further inspection of the lock's body indicate scratch marks, implying a tool was used to break it open.\nOpening the trapdoor reveals a shaft with a ladder built into it. The shaft extends for over a hundred meters down and leads to an open room. The contents of this room consists of a control panel with a large glass viewport and a metal placard on the viewport's left side reading \"Dreamscape Facility\". Above that appears to be a heavily damaged placard; with the only readable portion being \"Abnormalities\".\nOn top of the control panel lies a headset visor with cables running to a computer terminal which has been recently left active. Beside this panel are large tanks with pipelines connecting to the chamber filled with pentobarbitals, benzodiazepines, and other liquid sedatives.\nBeyond the viewport is a dark, spacious chamber with a ceiling spotlight serving as the only source of illumination on the entity inside.\n\nImage file recovered from within the computer. Context unknown.\n\nInside the chamber is a humanoid entity covered entirely in bandages and suspended eight feet off the ground by six chains1 with cables and tubes attached to the entity's spine and the back of its head. Attached to the entity's face is a headset and visor similar in appearance to the headset outside the chamber. Beside the computer is a leather-bound journal (See Addendum 5988.1 for more details).\nWhen the visor is worn, viewers will experience a period of darkness before losing consciousness and falling into rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Seconds later, the screen on the computer terminal will change from standby to reflect the perspective of the viewer. Individuals will find themselves sitting in a steel chair inside an oneiric environment resembling a Foundation interrogation room, in front of a table along with another vacant chair at the opposite end. Viewers will often find themselves \"waking up\" upon being materialized into this room. Individuals can only exit this space by a second party deactivating the terminal connected to the headset; instantly waking up the exiting individuals.\nThe room itself is largely unfurnished, save for a coat rack located near the open hallway which holds a fedora and a black business suit in its place. Unlike the rest of the area, both the hat and suit do not appear to be covered in dust; it would appear to have been left there recently.\nThe layout of the area is built with two rooms, separated only by a hallway. This hallway hosts hundreds of what appear to be cramped hibernation pods built into the walls, each of them possessing a gas canister on the left side and a glass dome for viewing but are all obscured by a dark metallic covering from within the glass. Each of the pods have a single, small picture of an adolescent child attached to the top left corner. Only one of these pods, located near the left wall of the hallway, appears to have been opened.\nThis pod's glass dome is broken with shattered glass and dried blood scattered all over. Inside, the pod bears a soiled mattress with leather straps for restraining. Located at the top right corner, the canister's tube exudes an odorless, colorless gas within. Analysis of the substance has revealed it to be a mixture of liquid sedatives similar to the kind used on the figure outside2. The picture for this pod has been torn off.\nAll of these pods also have large tubes which are organized together into six larger groups of tubes that connect with the wall at the end of the hallway, separated into three by a large door with an altered Foundation insignia engraved at the center. The door displays damage such as scratch marks and deformities consistent with terminal ballistics. Despite the damage, the door still holds and cannot be opened. Three bullet casings can be found lying at the front.\nAnalysis of the door's makeup has revealed it to be composed of beryllium copper that's been lined with an unknown alloy that causes migraines and speech impediment when exposed in the vicinity of human beings. A closer analysis of the material warrants further investigation.\n\nAddendum 5988.1: Journal Contents\n\n+ Display Addendum\n\n- Hide Addendum\n\nThe journal depicts astronomical models of the planet Earth surrounded by the Kuiper Belt as well as individual illustrations of various asteroids and dwarf planets3. They are depicted as having distended hands and human eyes emerging from their craters along with an organic surface covered in numerous glyphs.\nThe journal also hosts written text; however, the writing is incoherent to the point of illegibility and cannot be understood. Certain words have been repeated throughout the pages of the journal, these words include \"sleeping\", \"nightmare\", \"vessels\", \"more\", and \"reborn.\" The phrase \"the children scream to feed her billion mouths\" appears multiple times in the book but is never seen again when the pages are checked.\nThe significance of the text and the drawings are currently unknown.\n\nFootnotes\n1. These chains are held to the figure's arms, feet, waist, and neck.\n2. However, a closer analysis has revealed that this also contains an unknown chemical that can cause disturbing dreams and nightmares in the sleeping individual. Research into this substance is currently underway.\n3. Notable sketches have included Ceres, 4 Vesta, 243 Ida, and Pluto's moon, Charon.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5987 | SCP-5988 | SCP-5989 \u00bb"}
{"text": "The following file is preserved in accordance with the Records and Information Security Administration's Neutralized Object guidelines.\n\nImage of PoI-5989 while using SCP-5989 to pose as a mold inspector. Photo captured by a security guard's body camera on the mega-yacht of \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588.\n\nItem #: SCP-5989\nObject Class: Keter Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5989 and PoI-5989 are presently uncontained. A joint operation between Foundation and Global Occult Coalition assets is underway to either apprehend or neutralize them. Due to the infohazardous properties of SCP-5989, security footage of PoI-5989's actions is the primary method of determining his identity, methods, and next potential victim.\nAs a result of the high profile nature of Poi-5989's victims, the Foundation has enacted Procedure Midas. This entails the mass production of mnestically trained body doubles. Site-117's1 Site-128's medical wing has been reconstructed into a mass cloning and mnestic reprogramming center to accommodate Procedure Midas. For select instances where PoI-5989's victim is of advanced age, a cover story of death by age-related illness is deemed an acceptable alternative to replacement. In preparation for potential future assassinations, the Foundation stockpiles multiple copies of the top 50 most likely future targets.\nDescription: SCP-5989 is an object that overwrites the viewer's perception of the holder's appearance to be viewed as appropriate for the environment they are observed in. This effect persists even through remote live surveillance and on recorded footage. AIC analysis of video evidence shows this property is tied to the information used to construct the image itself. The use of multiple senses to perceive SCP-5989 magnifies this effect, creating a more compelling appearance of being authorized to access that area. The actual appearance of SCP-5989 is currently unknown.2\nPoI-5989 presumably presents as a human male and is theorized to be the creator of SCP-5989. The capture or termination of PoI-5989 has been elevated to Level Violet Black priority.\nAddendum 5989.1: Discovery Log\nSCP-5989 was discovered on 2028/11/05 when PoI-5989 murdered \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588. The assassination was accomplished via an explosive charge planted inside the bedchamber of the victim's most commonly used upstate New York mansion. The following is a log of PoI-5989's actions as recorded by the estate's surveillance system.\n\n<Video Start>\nPoI-5989 arrives in a Time Warner Cable maintenance van at the mansion gates. He argues with the checkpoint intercom and strikes at an area in front of his sternum multiple times. After one minute and 23 seconds, the gates open and he proceeds inside. The van parks in front of the mansion entrance where a crew of armed security personnel approach.\nGuard Captain: Ok, you'll need to present some ID before we can let you into the estate.\nPoI-5989: Right here.\nPoI-5989 holds up a lanyard with nothing on its end to the captain.\nGuard Captain: Alright that checks out. Stevens! Show him up to the modem closet.\nThe guard to the captain's right motions PoI-5989 up the stairs to the building entrance and the two head inside.\nGuard: You here for the internet? Wifi's been a bit slow on my phone lately.\nPoI-5989: Yeah. Got a call in about it this morning.\nThe pair proceed up the stairs and down a hallway until the guard points towards a door and they stop.\nGuard: Here it is.\nPoI-5989: Ok, I'm going to do a signal check here. Should be about 5 minutes.\nGuard: Gotcha.\nThe two enter the room and PoI-5989 approaches the modem before kneeling down and taking off his backpack.\nGuard: You work a lot of rich folk?\nPoI-5989: Yup, they always get put first on the service queue.\nPoI-5989 takes out several modems and devices appearing as signal diagnostic tools and places them on the floor. He proceeds to take one of the diagnostic probes and stabs it into the surface of a modem before pressing buttons across the surface of the tool.\nGuard: Don't you need to plug those into the machine there?\nPoI-5989: I'm testing the wifi in here first. Hey, can you give me some space? Corporate doesn't give me much time per house and I have a long day ahead of me.\nGuard: Mood. Gotta piss anyway.\nThe guard leaves the room as PoI-5989 pulls out a laptop and plugs it into the modem. Four minutes and 49 seconds pass as a list of IP addresses fills the screen. He highlights one, copies it into his phone, closes, and disconnects his laptop. PoI-5989 stands back up and leaves the server room. He waits in the hallway until the guard returns.\nGuard: You done?\nPoI-5989: Well, the modem's fine. Problem must be on one of the routers' end. Which one does the customer use most frequently?\nGuard: Probably the bedroom. Mr. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is one for tweeting on the shitter.\nPoI-5989: And is he typically the only user on that router?\nThe guard chuckles.\nGuard: Well, that depends on if he is going to be partying. He likes his girls. Why?\nPoI-5989: Trying to gauge the network load. Can you take me there?\nThe sentry motions PoI-5989 down the hallway and the two enter the master bedroom. The guard points toward the massive flatscreen television.\nGuard: Router is there behind the TV.\nPoI-5989 moves to the television and briefly looks behind it before proceeding toward the California King sized bed. He takes the modem from earlier out of his backpack and slides under the bed frame.\nGuard: Aren't you here for the router?\nPoI-5989 waves an empty hand about from under the bed and taps his closed fist against the floor three times.\nPoI-5989: I'm exactly where I need to be. Installing a signal booster.\nThe guard nods and watches PoI-5989 continue his work. PoI-5989 emerges from under the bed after four minutes and 11 seconds.\nPoI-5989: Alright, that should do it.\nThe guard escorts PoI-5989 out of the mansion. PoI-5989 shakes hands with the guard and his commander before returning to his van. The van proceeds out of the estate grounds. Out of the corner of the backyard camera feed, a Time Warner Cable van passes by on a route deeper into the neighborhood.\nApproximately 12 hours later, at 22:18:52 on 2028/11/05, an explosion is heard from the mansion. One hour and 32 minutes later, a Time Warner Cable van is seen exiting the neighborhood.\n<Video End>\n\nNote: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588's death was initially considered an act of non-anomalous terrorism until the assassination of PoI-5989's next victim, \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, by the sinking of his mega-yacht while crossing the Pacific Ocean. Following confirmation by 12 separate AIC's analysis of both assassination events, the Foundation determined that infohazardous effects were used to accomplish these murders and implemented Procedure Midas.\nAddendum 5989.2: Site-117 Destruction Log\nNote: During the time following the initiation of Procedure Midas, PoI-5989 had claimed nine additional victims, bringing his total murder count up to 11.\n\nTimestamp: 2031/01/03 02:21:10\nLocation: Site-117 Medical Wing, South Dakota, New Confederated Republics of North America\n\n<Video Start>\nProcedure Midas lead, Dr. Johnson, watches crews perform a synaptic analysis of 25 clones held within gestation tanks when the alarm klaxons blare. He initiates lockdown procedures for the area as a squad of MTF Nu-7 \"Hammer Down\" enters the room per Procedure Midas's security protocols. Dr. Johnson proceeds to direct medical crews in the evacuation of stored body doubles to an off-site bunker.\nJohnson: Get them on the elevators!\nNu-7 Commander Olga Lensing approaches Dr. Johnson with a security detail as the Procedure Midas staff disconnect the tanks.\nJohnson: What's happening out there?\nLensing: Proximity alarms on the other end of the facility. Initial infrared scans indicate it is likely a wayward cattle rancher. Lotta of those running on to our grounds these days.\nJohnson: Again? Never thought I would be missing the Bureau of Land Management.\nLensing: Should I call off the evacuation?\nJohnson: No, it's been long enough and they need some practice in emergency protocols.\nLensing: Roger that.\nCommander Lensing turns towards her troops behind her.\nLensing: Martinez! Take echo team and see if you can't chase off those cows. Smith, head topside and prep the escort to the bunker. The rest of you are on high alert patrols.\nPresent Nu-7 members in unison: Yes Sir!\nNu-7 disperses with the exception of Lensing and her personal detail as efforts to move the clones continues. Two hours and 27 minutes of footage redacted for brevity.\nJohnson: Alright, all copies are on the train ready for transport. Any more cows out there, Commander?\nLensing: Nope. We have the all clear.\nCommander Lensing sighs and rubs her right hip before taking a seat.\nJohnson: You alright? You shouldn't be on active duty this close to your third trimester.\nCommander Lensing snorts once in response.\nLensing: Duty calls no matter how much little Sally kicks.\nJohnson: Taking after her mother?\nLensing: Unfortunately.\nThe two laugh until Commander Lensing's radio lights up.\nRadio: Commander! The train just got derailed! One of the cattle adjacent to the tracks just\u2026 detonated the moment we passed by! We have a full scale breach of Procedure Midas specimens!\nJohnson: WHAT!\nLensing: Get those clones rounded up! The last thing we need is-\nThe sound of an explosion from the remaining on-site gestation tanks interrupts Commander Lensing and sends the present crew into disarray. The facility's liquid nitrogen piping is ruptured in the process and floods the room with obscuring gas. Johnson rushes over to help up Lensing where he is struck in the forehead by a single bullet. Commander Lensing looks behind herself to see a member of her security detail holding a still smoking handgun in Johnson's direction. The individual looks down at Commander Lensing.\nPoI-5989: Boy or girl?\nLensing: Why are you doing this?\nPoI-5989 grabs at an empty spot in front of his sternum and points toward Commander Lensing's belly. Nitrogen gas covers the feed.\nPoI-5989: For her.\nTwo and a half seconds of silence.\nLensing: I'm sorry.\nA flash of light is seen through the haze along with the sound of another gunshot, this time emanating from Lensing's position.\nPoI-5989: Don't (gasps) apologize, I'm exactly where I need to be.\nA second explosion interrupts the feed.\n<Video End>\n\nNote: The following are example communications from those purged by the cleanup operation for Site-117's destruction. Text is taken from a local Facebook group dedicated to Okobojo, the South Dakota township closest to Site-117.\n\nDate: 2031/01/04\nSam Denton: Uhh. Guys? I need some advice. I think Jeff Bezos is currently rummaging through my trashcan outside.\nCarla Montique: Bullshit, Sam.\nSam Denton: No, really. Check this out.\n[Image Redacted]\nMaria Menendez: LMAO. HOLY SHIT!\nSam Denton: What am I supposed to do? I went outside and he incoherently screeched and hissed at me.\nPhillip Williams: You can always offer him a jar to piss in like they did for my cousin in Seattle.\nCarla Montique: Well, apologies are in order. Alex Gorsky is currently dropping a deuce in my garden.\nAlexa Vanders: I'll call your Bezos and raise you two naked Michael Bloombergs fighting over that dog the sheriff ran over yesterday.\n\nPoI-5989 was reclassified as a Level Black threat following the recontainment of all Midas specimens.\nAddendum 5989.3: Neutralization Log\nNote: Following her survival from the destruction of Site-117, Olga Lensing was promoted to head of the joint effort to eliminate PoI-5989. Extensive analysis of his psychological profile resulted in five candidates for his next assassination target. All five were given increased security details with around-the-clock surveillance of their surrounding area by satellite imaging.\n\nTimestamp: 2031/05/21 14:26:50\nCommand Personnel: Commander Olga Lensing (SCP Foundation), Commander Cynthia Valenski (Global Occult Coalition), Senator Thomas Cotton (NCRNA Department of Paranormal Defense Division Head)\nLocation: Summer Gala for the Homeless, Saint Louis, Missouri, New Confederated Republics of North America.\nPotential Target: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588, Event Host\n\n<Video Start>\nCommander Lensing wheels up to the GOC private manning the surveillance station at the remote monitoring facility 80km away from the event.\nLensing: Keep an eye on security staff movements for anything resembling a physical impairment. We don't know when he will insert himself into the detail but we do know he didn't come out of 117 unscathed.\nCotton approaches from behind and pats Lensing on her right shoulder.\nCotton: Relax, I'm not even sure why we are this concerned. This guy isn't one for blowing up the poors.\nValenski: You're still thinking too 20th century, Senator. He has an intense fixation on these targets that has been repetitively shown to supersede his consideration for others.\nCotton: (Snorts) I'm not here to ask why someone kills over not being able to afford an iPhone. I'm here to put them six feet under before they endanger someone important.\nLensing: You can't stop something you can't understand. If you have nothing to contribute then just enjoy the show. Hopefully we are wrong about this one.\nValenski: Event's starting. We have a 3km perimeter established around the convention center. All teams reporting in with all clear.\nLensing: Roger that, radio the VIP's detail and let them know he is good to go. We have kinetic bombardment targeted for stage on the standby.\nCotton: Wait wait wait wait. What did you say?\nValenski: We have a Level Black threat here, Senator.\nCotton: \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 is worth 127 billion dollars, Commanders!\nLensing: His identity is, yes.\nSenator Cotton stares at Commander Lensing in silence while she turns back towards the monitors for the satellite feed. One hour and 49 minutes pass as the gala proceeds.\nValenski: Dinner is complete and the chefs are leaving the building through the designated checkpoints. Looks like their implanted isotope signatures are working well. Not a single untagged personnel is moving through security.\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: Well, I hope everyone here has enjoyed themselves but let's remember the noble cause we gather here today for, our tax returns!\nThe gala crowd breaks into laughter in response to the host's joke.\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: We are passing a plate around now for any last minute donations. Any stray millions you have to spare are greatly appreciated for our general fund. As we do, let us raise a toast to the great city we support with our generosity!\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 raises a glass to the air.\n\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588: To St. Louis!\nThe crowd in unison: To St. Louis!\nThe glass shatters and a gunshot rings out afterwards. \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 \u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588 remains standing on stage unharmed and in a perplexed state. The crowd remains silent for one and a half seconds before devolving into panic.\nLensing: Triangulate that sound!\nValenski: It's coming from a point 5.5 kilometers away and 1.8 kilometers in the air!\nCotton: What?\nLensing: A drone, Senator. Likely equipped with a rail gun if it pierced the convention center roof.\nCotton: I know about drones, Lensing. I voted on the bills for that very hardware. How did it get within our airspace?\nValenski: Radar is still registering it as a pigeon.\nLensing: There's your answer.\nCommander Lensing spins 180 degrees in her wheelchair and shouts over to operative manning the communication array.\nLensing: Evacuate the facility and move in MTF Phi-89 to sweep for explosives!\nCotton: He missed. Do we really need to panic them any more than they already are?\nValenski: We are picking up multiple heat signatures converging on the convention center!\nLensing: Focus on them!\nThe satellite feed focuses on the area and magnifies it to show thousands of homeless residents of St. Louis. The mob runs through the warnings and gunfire from the present police force and up to the front of the convention center. The patrons fleeing the facility come through the entryway only to stop at the sight of the throng of beggars.\nLensing: Focus on that mob! Scan for physical impairments to the right leg!\nValenski: I'm getting 229 matches!\nCotton: What are you waiting for! Stop them!\nLensing: I'm not going to drop a bombardment on 5,000 innocent people!\nCotton: Well this isn't your jurisdiction.\nSenator Cotton removes the personnel from the the kinetic salvo guidance system and changes its target location onto the approaching mob. He hits the fire button with his open palm right as Lensing throws herself out of her wheelchair at him.\nValenski: Expected yield of 0.15 kilotons coming down!\nLensing: YOU. JUST. MURDERED. FIVE. THOUSAND. PEOPLE!\nCommander Lensing flips Senator Cotton up to face her and strikes him in the face with a closed fist between each word.\nLensing rolls off of the senator and starts wailing as the senator gasps.\nCotton: And only twenty billion in gross domestic product.\nThe salvo hits the area and the feed turns white for 0.79 seconds. The present homeless and exiting patrons scatter the grounds atop one another as the feed returns. One figure crawls out of the wreckage on his one, remaining leg.\nHe climbs out of the crater before he falls and turns over to face the sky. The satellite image focuses on him as he grabs at an empty point in front of his sternum. He kisses the point and stares up towards the camera. The following is transcribed by lip reading technology.\nPoI-5989: I'm exactly where I need to be. And I've been here 68,000 times. I would be here for 68,000 more given the chance again.\n<Video End>\n\nAddendum 5989.4: Neutralized Object Entry\nItem #: 5989\nObject Class: Neutralized\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Following PoI-5989's termination, all anomalous properties to SCP-5989 ceased. The object was subsequently declared neutralized.\nDescription: SCP-5989 is the disembodied hand of a five year old human female. Analysis of the remaining tissue indicates the subject died of advanced untreated leukemia. It is bound into a paper mache necklace made from 51 past due medical bills and one notice of terminated chemotherapy treatment.\n\nFootnotes\n1. See Addendum 5989.2\n2. See Addendum 5989.4\n\n\u00ab SCP-5988 | SCP-5989 | SCP-5990 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Item #: SCP-5991\nObject Class: Keter\nSpecial Containment Procedures: Due to the widespread prevalence of Christianity, SCP-5991 cannot be contained. However, the chances of SCP-5991's activation requirements being achieved are low and thus unlikely to happen.\nOn 15/2/2026, \"The Edwards-Francis Agreement\" was passed with the Vatican government, which states that the bindings of all published Christian Bibles must contain 2ml of honey in order to prevent SCP-5991 from occurring.\nAs per standard Foundation protocol, unauthorized information regarding SCP-5991 and its triggers is to be removed, and amnestics are to be administered as appropriate.\nDescription: SCP-5991 is an anomalous phenomenon that triggers whenever a human successfully consumes an entire Christian Bible. While the subject may consume the Bible using utensils such as forks or knives, SCP-5991 will not trigger if the subject consumes a Bible as well as another substance, such as condiments. When a subject consumes a Bible, an entity will manifest in front of them, referred to as SCP-5991-1.\nSCP-5991-1 is a pale, emaciated entity with no orifices besides its mouth. SCP-5991-1 has no teeth, does not possess eye sockets nor eyes, and is wearing a crown of thorns. SCP-5991-1 will approach the subject and unhinge its own jaw. SCP-5991-1 will then violently shove the subject down its throat and into its stomach, which is noted to be much larger than SCP-5991-1 on the inside. SCP-5991-1's stomach is approximately 8 km3 in size.\nOnce the subject is consumed by SCP-5991-1, they will land on a wooden boardwalk which is built on a floor comprised of biological tissue of unknown composition. Subjects are able to freely exit the stomach by pressing a large, pulsating orange sac located behind where the subject lands.\nThis will cause the sac to spray an orange gas which, when inhaled by the subject, will render them unconscious. When the subject wakes up after approximately 2-3 hours, they will find themselves in the same place where SCP-5991-1 consumed them.\nThe boardwalk extends to the middle of the stomach, which contains a plaza constructed out of marble. In the center of the stomach is an entity with the same appearance as SCP-5991-1, hereafter referred to as SCP-5991-2, reading from a small empty scroll while sitting on a wooden stool.\nSeveral broken steel chains surround SCP-5991-2 which hook into SCP-5991-1's stomach lining. Small metal cuffs can be seen around SCP-5991-2's wrists. SCP-5991-2 does not respond to any external stimuli.\nSurrounding SCP-5991-2 and the plaza are twelve buildings, which all thematically revolve around SCP-5991-2. SCP-5991-1's stomach contains a:\n\nVisitor's center\n\nGift shop\n\nRestroom\n\nPetting zoo\n\nChurch\n\nFood court\n\nMuseum\n\nThe buildings are all themed around referring to SCP-5991-2 as \"Jesus Christ.\"\nThe visitor's center contains a desk and a 2004 Dell desktop computer. Inside the desk are several piles of pamphlets which contain information regarding activities to do when visiting SCP-5991-1's stomach. Additionally, the pamphlets advertise being able to take a picture with SCP-5991-2 for $20 per picture. Several documents detailing an \"Umbrella Protocol\" in regards to an unknown event can be found, which describe previous evacuation attempts of persons inside the stomach.\nThe gift shop is mostly empty but contains several SCP-5991-2-themed memorabilia, including stuffed dolls, children's books, figurines, and posters. A total of $344.44 can be found within the cash register. The children's books describe events that never occurred within the Old or New Testaments, and instead describe SCP-5991-2 as a malevolent being that was turned to good through \"the light of God.\"\nSeveral inscriptions are carved within the walls of the bathroom written primarily in either English, Spanish, or Latin. Examples of these messages include \"hello\", \"jenny wuz here\", \"sittin in a tree\", \"fuck the world\", and \"help\" in the previously mentioned languages.\nThe petting zoo contains five large pens presumably built to hold farm animals, but which are completely empty. In the corner of one of the pens, a large pile containing approximately 50 kg of animal feces can be found. Analysis of the feces suggests that the animal that created it was fed a diet consisting solely of sacramental bread and red wine.\nThe church is unfinished, only consisting of a small sparsely decorated chapel. Nothing else of interest can be found.\nThe food court contains 40 different tables, each with five chairs. The menu describes food that can be expected from a standard fair or carnival, such as hotdogs, burgers, corn dogs, popcorn, etc. The menu describes a dairy item which resembles an ice cream cone with a scoop of vanilla and a scoop of chocolate ice cream. The vanilla scoop is shaped in a way as to resemble SCP-5991-2 and the chocolate scoop is shaped as to resemble a crown of thorns. The freezer inside the kitchen has been locked from the inside.\nThe museum shows Babylonian artifacts as well as several dinosaur skeletons of unknown species. All the plaques have been forcefully removed, and as such further information cannot be gathered.\nAs the subject enters SCP-5991-1's stomach, a large banner can be seen attached to the ceiling of the stomach, which reads:\n\n50th Anniversary of JesusLand! Enjoy the perfect Christian experience with the Lord!\nSelect items in Gift Shop now 50% off until January 17th. See visitor center for more information.\n\nIt is to be noted that SCP-5991-1's stomach has been abandoned for an unknown amount of time.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5990 | SCP-5991 | SCP-5992 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5992 - The Dionysus Pit\n\nTBA\n\nImage Credits\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nby J Dune\n\nBY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL\nThe following file is Level 4/5992 Classified\nUnauthorized access is forbidden.\n\n5992\n\nItem#: 5992\n\nLevel2\n\nContainment Class:\nsafe\n\nSecondary Class:\nnone\n\nDisruption Class:\nvlam\n\nRisk Class:\nwarning\n\nlink to memo\n\nFILESERV NOTICE:\n\nTHE FOLLOWING IS THE SCP-5992 DATA FILE AS IT APPEARED PRIOR TO 06/10/2020. IT HAS BEEN PRESERVED FOR CONTEXTUAL PURPOSES. A REVISED FILE REFLECTING UPDATED CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES AND DESCRIPTION IS PENDING.\n\nThe entrance to SCP-5992\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: A 1 kilometer perimeter has been established around SCP-5992, utilizing cover story G-03 (\"Heritage Site\"). Standard security measures are in place to deter civilians from approaching SCP-5992.\nThe interior of SCP-5992 has been converted to Provisional Site-5992. Four female personnel with a score of 75 points minimum on the Barton Obedience Examination are to remain on-site. Personnel are to carry out the Maenads Protocol nightly. Selected personnel are required to have previous experience working with arcane or ritualistic containment procedures, and will remain indefinitely at Site-5992 once chosen. For a full description of the Maenads Protocol, see Document.5992.1.\nDescription: SCP-5992 is an extra-spatial anomaly located 2 kilometers beneath a cave in Delphi, Greece.\nSCP-5992 is a massive, octagonal area constructed of sculpted marble, encompassing a width of 150 meters, and of indeterminate height. SCP-5992 contains an innumerable amount of \"tiers\", rising towards the apparent ceiling of the structure. The walls of each tier contain apertures to four perpendicular tunnels as well as being adorned with inextinguishable torches at each apex.\nNotably, these tunnels \u2014 with the exception of the one used to access SCP-5992 \u2014 lead to another tier of the structure. Individuals who walk through a tunnel will find themselves emerging at the tunnel positioned directly on the tier above them. Re-entering the tunnel reverses this, allowing for ascension and descent of each tier.\nAt the center of SCP-5992 is a sinkhole of indeterminate depth, the perimeter of which has been sculpted to resemble a bearded, open-mouthed face.\nAddendum.5992.1: The Maenads Protocol\n\nThe Maenads Protocol\n\nPreface: The following protocol was developed with in conjunction with preexisting ASCI specialists stationed at Provisional Site-5992 and is considered essential for the active containment of SCP-5992.\n\nAbstract: The Maenads Protocol has been developed to contain SCP-5992.\n\nProtocol Information: The Maenads Protocol adheres to certain universal Dionysian rites that have been in place since at least 1000 BC. It is understood that deviation from these rites are detrimental to the containment of SCP-5992. Below is an outline of the protocol, which is to be carried out nightly by personnel stationed at Provisional Site-5992. A full detail brief can be requested from Provisional Site-5992 by any Level 4 personnel.\n\nOne D-Class1 subject is to be delivered to Provisional Site-5992. Protocol 12 may be enacted at the discretion of the current Site Director.\nPersonnel stationed at Provisional Site-5992 are to assume the roles of Celebrants. The subject is to assume the role of Vessel.\nThe Vessel is to drink wine from a rhyton2 and restrained using a retis3 net.\n\nFollowing a ceremonial rhythm performed using tympanum and pan flutes, Celebrants are to don laurel crown and cloak. Each Celebrant is to make a small incision on the wrist. The resulting blood is to be poured over the Vessel.\n\nA portion of flesh is to flayed from the subject using a kopis4, and consumed by all participants, including the Vessel.\n\nFollowing consumption, the Vessel is to be extricated from the retis and thrown into the hole at the center of SCP-5992.\n\nAddendum.5992.2: Ethics Committee Internal Memo - 06/10/2020\n\nETHICS COMMITTEE INTERNAL MEMO\nArea 179\nDr. Edward T. Dune\n\nTo The Committee,\nThe SCP-5992 data file came to my attention last week, when a cache of archived documents from the Department of Occult Research were uploaded to SCiPNET servers for review. Apparently, these were draft documents, considered unimportant enough to sit around in a filing cabinet for decades, and sit around they did. That was, until, a secretary uncovered them. There's around 30 of these things, and while most are half-formatted drafts detailing known and well-documented anomalies, there's also this.\nI've attached the file below. Needless to say, I'm appalled. Assuming this isn't a joke, there's a number of disturbing implications here. Specifically, I'm concerned with the complete lack of context. Yes, ritualistic containment procedures \u2014 even ones that involve horrific acts \u2014 are a necessity for the containment of certain anomalies, but no justification is provided here. In fact, the file deliberately avoids an answer.\nThe document was written in 1965, and has gone completely unnoticed since. If this Maenads Protocol was in place back then, who's to say that it's not now? What, exactly, are we containing here?\n\nAttatchment-5992-SCP-SEC\n\nI did a little research of my own. Turns out, this wasn't even one of ours in the first place. It's an ASCI doc that got ported over, and lost in the shuffle \u2014 probably because the original document (see attachment) is just as vague and uninformative. Furthermore, that document makes reference to a \"Bacchanalia\", some sort of Dionysian cult that the ASCI had contact with. Considering the, well, American factor, the ASCI wasn't directly involved in the containment of SCP-5992, but they provided resources to the Bacchanalia to do so. Upon merging into the Foundation, a lot of older ASCI containment funds were kept on-file, often with little regard as to where the money was going. I dug as deep as my clearances would allow and, of course, Provisional Site-5992 is on the payroll. I have reasonable suspicion that containment of this anomaly does not require a human sacrifice ritual, and that the ASCI was ignorant of this, or misled by the Bacchanalia.\nI propose a direct investigation into SCP-5992, to discern what is or isn't going on in Delphi, and what we could do about it. If there are lives at risk because of our carelessness, it's imperative we remedy this as soon as possible.\nRegards,\nDr. Edward T. Dune\n\nOpen Attachment:  asci13380-doc\n\nClose Attachment: asci13380-doc\n\nAmerican Secure Containment Initiative Document, circa 1862\n\nItem Number: 13-380\nClassification Type: Location\n\nASCI Protocols for Containment: Securing Phenomenon 13-380 is to be realized through the assistance of Organization-028, also known as the Bacchanalia. See document 13-380-01 for a most complete purview of resources provided to the Bacchanalia.\n\nDescription: Phenomenon 13-380 is an unexplained irregularity specifically located in Delphi, Greece, and is a place of worship for the Bacchanalia. A review of the properties and characteristics of Phenomenon 13-380 is presently being carried out by the Bureau of Arcane Studies. Nonetheless, the Bacchanalia have provided reason enough to believe that the containment of Phenomenon 13-380 is dependent on their actions.\nThe Bacchanalia have dedicated themselves to the continued protection of Phenomenon 13-380. Due to their expertise in foreign esoteric occultism, the means of containment shall be a combined effort.\n\nNota Bene: On the 11th of November, 1862, the ASCI was contacted by Greek occultist Elias Galatas (Informant 341), who informed the Initiative of the plight of the Bacchanalia, a group that had been struggling to acquire the resources necessary for containment of Phenomenon 13-380, including live subjects. An investigation into this inquiry was carried out on the 16th of November, 1862. After being deemed a case of importance by the Bureau of Arcane Studies, an approval was granted to provide the Bacchanalia with ineffectual persons taken into custody.\nFurther information is forthcoming, as of the Bureau of Arcane Studies.\nAs of the 2nd of December, 1862, the Bureau's foreign investigation has concluded, and a retention of Phenomenon 13-380's physical description and anomalous properties is noted in document 13-380-03.\n\nAddendum.5992.3: Provisional Site-5992 Exploration\nNote: The following is an audio/video transcript of the initial exploration of Provisional Site-5992. Mobile Task Force Zeta-9 (\"Mole Rats\") was tasked with surveying the site and collecting additional information regarding SCP-5992.\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5992.1\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nDATE: 06/11/2020\n\nZ-9 Ajax - Team Lead\nZ-9 Roswell - Fire Team\nZ-9 Skinner - Fire Team\nZ-9 Laos - Occ. Science / Communications\n\n<BEGIN LOG>\nAjax: And we're\u2026 green.\nRoswell: Check.\nSkinner: Check, check, check, check.\nLaos: Really?\nSkinner: It's fo-\nAjax: Quiet, let's roll.\nTeam files into the cave and begins moving towards Provisional Site-5992. Each team member turns on their shoulder-mounted lamp.\nAjax: Anomaly's two kilos down. Straight line.\nLaos: Christ, that reeks.\nSkinner: I'm getting it through the vents. Goddamn. (Coughs)\nAjax: You'll get used to it. You did in Venice.\nSkinner: Yeah, fucking Venice. (Pause) Today's a good day to be Ros.\nLaos and Ajax laugh.\nRoswell: Fuck off. Even I smell it.\nSkinner: Yeah, what's it smell like?\nRoswell: Death.\nSkinner shines his shoulder lamp to the right, exposing a wall covered in black, unidentifiable thaumaturgic runes.\nSkinner: Whoa, whoa, slow down.\nAjax: Laos?\nLaos approaches the wall and raises her hand towards the runes.\nLaos: No clue. No universal indicators, probably a dead dialect.\nAjax: They don't stop, either. (Pauses) Alright, keep moving.\nTeam moves forward for five minutes. Extraneous dialogue removed.\nRoswell: No security, huh?\nSkinner: For what? Who the hell's coming out here?\nRoswell: Jax said they're sacrificing civs. Used to, at least.\nLaos: Still could be.\nRoswell: You'd think there'd be some type of, I don't know, protective measures? A guard post, or something near the cave? We're still funding the goddamn place.\nSkinner: Protective measures? Big words, Ros!\nRoswell: We're approaching a giant hole that's routinely used for people-tossing. Just keep that in mind.\nTeam moves forward for ten minutes before coming to an opening near the end of the tunnel. Extraneous dialogue removed.\nAjax: That's our skip, boys. Brace yourselves.\nTeam enters SCP-5992. Outdated Foundation-issued equipment and paraphernalia can be seen, intermediately placed across the anomaly's first tier. A simple ceiling has been built, meant to breach the open gap in the middle of the second tier.\nSkinner: Just like you thought. Not a single soul.\nRoswell: Nice place. Almost feels like I stepped back in time.\nAjax: Right. Laos, start setting up. Ros, Skinny, do a quick sweep. (Gestures to the hole) Then we'll tackle that.\nThe team disperses, and begins to explore Provisional Site-5992. Several items used in the Maenads Protocol are found laying on the ground. The marble floor is stained with dried blood.\nLaos: Check these out. From that ritual thing. Wow, that's a lot of blood.\nAjax: I shouldn't have to say this, but please don't touch anything. All that's getting bagged later.\nSkinner enters a tunnel to the east of the entrance, and emerges on the second tier. This tier appears to have been used as a holding area for subjects intended to be sacrificed.\nSkinner: (Laughs) That's about as fun as I hoped it would be.\nAjax: (Radio) Skinner! Get your ass down here. We'll go through the rest of the Site later. Just come help us.\nSkinner: Yeah, yeah.\nSkinner descends to the first tier, where Ajax and Roswell are standing near the edge of the hole. Laos sits in a corner, unpacking communications gear from her backpack.\nSkinner: Holy shit, how deep is that? Drop test?\nRoswell: Anyone have anything?\nSkinner: Pick up a rock, dumbfuck.\nLaos: Could use you, Skinner.\nThe team collectively laughs. Ajax cracks a glow stick and shakes it. When the light is bright enough, she drops it down the hole.\nSilence.\nRoswell: You, uh, didn't hear anything, did you?\nAjax: Nope.\nSkinner: (Pauses) Fuck me.\nAjax: Yep. (Slaps Skinner on the back) Get your gear, Skinny.\n<END LOG>\n\nEXPLORATION LOG 5992.2\nAudio/Visual Transcript\n\nNote: Over the next hour, the team sets up a rappelling system to descend the hole. Laos stays behind to supervise the anchor points and to act as a relay in case of emergency. The team, now equipped with belaying gear, prepares for descent.\n\nAjax: Everyone secure?\nSkinner and Roswell pull on their cords.\nSkinner: All good.\nRoswell: Same here.\nAjax: Strap yourselves in. Laos?\nLaos: Radio clear. Be careful down there, okay?\nThe rappelling team attaches themselves to their anchor points, and begin descending into the hole.\nRoswell: (Coughs) God. Jax, you can't smell that?\nAjax: I'm desensitized to smells (Laughs). Farmhand, remember? Does quite a number on the senses.\nSkinner: So, uh, what the hell's waiting for us down there?\nAjax: Just a truckload of friendly corpses, the usual. Let's hope that's it.\nSkinner: Yeah, let's fucking hope.\nThe team descends for 20 minutes, apparently no closer to the bottom.\nSkinner: How much more, you think?\nAjax: No way to tell. Hopefully we have enough rope. (Laughs)\nLaos: (Radio) You're fine, trust me.\nRoswell stops. He pulls himself closer to the rope.\nRoswell: You hear that?\nA faint, indistinct noise can be heard.\nAjax: Stay sharp. We're going to be fine, boys.\nSkinner: It's screaming.\nFive minutes pass as the team continues their descent in silence. The noise coming from below them amplifies in volume. Roswell begins breathing heavily and holding himself back.\nAjax: Ros, you good?\nRoswell: Fuck. Fuck, I hate that sound. It's\u2026 it's like a million things being flayed alive all at once. And it just keeps getting louder.\nAjax: The sooner we reach the bottom, the sooner we get to the top, okay Ros? You're a mole rat, not some greenie fresh off the rack. Act the part.\nRoswell: Okay, right\u2026 yes, ma'am.\nThe team descends for another twenty minutes. Skinner attempts to calm Roswell by making small talk. The noise is extremely loud, and can be described as a cacophony of distressed, indeterminate vocalizations.\nRoswell: (Breathing Heavily) There's so many voices, and they're all screaming.\nSkinner: Should I take him up?\nAjax: No, won't do us any good. (Pauses) This thing's deep as hell. Can't even see the glowstick yet.\nRoswell: Jax, I\u2026 there's words. They're saying my name, over and over again. (Crying) Fuck, they won't stop. It's so, so loud.\nRoswell puts both of his hands to his head, and screams. He falls backwards, supported by the rappelling gear. He begins sobbing.\nAjax: Roswell, get your shit together!\nRoswell removes his ventilator mask and begins repeatedly slamming his head against the rock. Skinner quickly attempts to hold him back. Roswell struggles to overcome Skinner.\nSkinner: Shit! What the hell are you doing, man? Stop it!\nRoswell: It knows my name. It's telling me everything about myself. Why does it know my name? I need to stop them! I need to \u2014 I need \u2014\nRoswell vomits, presumably from the overwhelming odor.\nAjax: Laos! Get Roswell up, now!\nRoswell: You can't go down there. They're starving. Please, just \u2014 you can't \u2014\nAjax: Laos? Do you read me?\nRoswell: They're begging us to leave. Please, please listen to me \u2014 they, them. I can't go down there. It's calling my name.\nAjax: Laos isn't responding. It's too loud.\nSkinner: The fuck do we do with him?\nRoswell reaches for his rifle. Skinner restrains him from behind, placing his boot on Roswell's hand.\nSkinner: Stop! Stop this shit! Ajax, he's trying to get his gun!\nRoswell: Please, you have to let me do this.\nAjax maneuvers herself over to Roswell, and restrains him. Roswell kicks backward, headbutting Ajax. He quickly unhooks his rappelling gear and falls towards the bottom of the hole, screaming. Skinner and Ajax are silent. A crunching noise is heard as Roswell's body lands.\nSkinner: (Pauses) What\u2026 What the fuck.\nAjax: Just keep \u2014 keep moving, Skin. Keep moving.\n5 minutes of silence as Skinner and Ajax move downward. Skinner briefly removes his ventilator to vomit, claiming the smell was getting too strong. Skinner rests his arms over a ledge. The noise is now immediate.\nSkinner: (Coughs) Shit\u2026 I'm sorry, Jax.\nAjax: You-\nSkinner screams and jolts upward as something grabs his leg. He shines his lamp below to reveal the mangled, screaming body of Roswell gripping his ankle. Roswell appears animate, despite falling from a height nearly impossible to survive.\nSkinner: Holy SHIT \u2014\nAjax: Skin!\nSkinner immediately fires at Roswell, causing visible trauma, but no deterrence. Ajax shines her lamp downwards. A writhing, animate mass of human corpses in various states of decomposition is visible below her. Some can be seeing climbing over one another, reaching upwards before being pulled down into the mass by another corpse. Others cannibalize themselves or others in a violent, uncontrolled frenzy.\n\nVisual capture taken from Ajax's person.\n\nAjax: What the fuck. What the FUCK \u2014\nSkinner fires at the entities, to no avail. Both team members ascend slightly out of reach. Roswell's corpse grips itself to an emerging rock.\nRoswell: SKINNER\u2026 IT'S BEAUTIFUL \u2014\nRoswell's corpse is pinned against the wall by another entity, who tears the flesh on the side of Roswell's head off. Roswell makes guttural, gurgling noises, before Ajax fires again, rendering the entity incapable of vocalization.\nAjax: (Breathing Heavily) Are you \u2014 are you okay, Skin? Skinner?\nAjax grips Skinner's shoulder. Both cling themselves to their rappelling gear, meters above the bottom of the pit.\nSkinner: I'm\u2026 I'm fine. Jesus, that's.. that's where they all are. Here\u2026 for fucking centuries.\nAjax: God\u2026 we did this.\n<END LOG>\n\nAddendum.5992.4: Observations and Recovered Materials\nFollowing Zeta-9's initial exploration, materials from Provisional Site-5992 were requisitioned and logged. Additionally, a small number of informal tests were performed to provide a more complete understanding of SCP-5992's effects on living organisms. Results have shown that entities inside SCP-5992 are unable to die, confirming a controlled \u03a9K-Class (\"End-of-Death\") Scenario.\nThe following fragments are sourced from a journal recovered from living quarters established on the fifth tier of SCP-5992. Most are illegible, having sustained damage by blood. These writings are suspected to be those of a formal personnel stationed at the site, date unknown. Translated from Greek into English by Researcher Starse.\n\n\u2026another unfortunate. My sisters and I indoctrinate her. Clearly scared. Rightfully scared. Our benefactors are no more, she says. Foundation, she says. It matters not. Shows concern when\u2026\nChristopher arrives with the Vessel. Skin like milk, and hair like a tangle of weeds. The Uninitiated shows hesitation. Necessary, I tell her. We prepare her for new life. A servant of Agrios. It pains, to toil above than to live below. The Uninitiated\u2026\n\n\u2026to be catching on. She is a beautiful young lady, in body. Her spirit must be loosened. I will teach her.\n\u2026grows greater each day. I long for union with them. I long for freedom from this structured existence\u2026 triumph of nature\u2026 to which we may serve.\n\nI informed Christopher. Agrees. I offered him communion with Chthonios but he refused. Took an undignified death, befitting of him. Parts of him shot like rockets across the water\u2026 my sisters\u2026preparations for tonight.\nIris was first\u2026did not scream. Melody\u2026like sweet, sweet honey. The Uninitiated fought, but I pierced her wrists with weapons of my own design, and savored her flesh. At long last\u2026 union. I can hear them inside of me. Messages without a receiver. Sleep, sisters. I will unite us at last, joining the Eternal Feast\u2026 pleasure unknown and unbound\u2026\n\nnot suffering.\necstasy.\n\nFootnotes\n1. The biological sex of the D-class is not specified in the ritual\n2. A bull's horn\n3. A hunting net\n4. curved dagger\n\n\u00ab SCP-5991 | SCP-5992 | SCP-5993 \u00bb"}
{"text": "SCP-5993: We want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\n\nOther Articles of Mine\n\nSCPs\n\nSCP-4966\n\nSCP-1401-EX\n\nSCP-4052\n\nSCP-4088\n\nSCP-5522\n\nSCP-4109\n\nSCP-7441\n\nSCP-5020\n\nSCP-4286\n\nSCP-4035\n\nSCP-4664\n\nSCP-4270\n\nSCP-3462\n\nSCP-6663\n\nSCP-7966\n\nSCP-4570\n\nSCP-6633\n\nSCP-5693\n\nSCP-5261\n\nSCP-444-J\n\npage 1 of 212next \u00bb\n\nTales\n\nSomething Glowing\n\nLog Of Extranormal Events, Vol II\n\nPrelude To Presents\n\nYour Memory Forever Seen\n\nThe Bears\n\nOther\n\nThe Bread Box\n\nSecure Facility Dossier: Reliquary Area-27\n\nSCP-005 Proposal Hub\n\nExperiment Log-4035\n\nCollab Articles\n\nSCPs\n\nPage\nTitle\nCo-Author\n\nSCP-4733\nBut Not Forgotten\nLamentte\n\nSCP-5225\nThe Abyss Stares Back\nXilasCrowe\n\nSCP-5785\nCraptivism\nSonderance\n\nSCP-5993\nWe want you to come visit Heaven, just don't fuck with those bees\nch00bakka\n\nTales\n\nPage\nCo-Author\n\nThe Bathrooms Wiki\nToo many to list\n\nSnippets of an Unveiled World\nNykacolaquantum does not match any existing user name, Lt Flops, IFBench, Westrin\n\nGone,\nLamentte\n\nYour Imaginary Friend\nFishish\n\nCheck out Deadly Bread's Author Page\n\n\u25b8 More by this Author \u25c2\n\n{$comments2}\n\nF.A.Q.\n\n{$doesthisfixthebug}\n\nITEM NUMBER: SCP-5993\nLEVEL 4/5993\n\nCONTAINMENT CLASS: EUCLID THAUMIEL\nSECRET\n\nA member of SCP-5993.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5993 is to be kept in a refrigerated high-value object storage locker in the medical wing of Reliquary Area-27; SCP-5993-1 instances should be retrieved from it weekly and stored in a sterile refrigerated container for no more than two weeks, at which point they should be disposed of via incineration. Any personnel assigned to Reliquary Area-27, including D-Class personnel, are to consume one dosage of SCP-5993-1 during their standard pre-transfer medical exam and at one-year intervals thereafter. Personnel assigned to Reliquary Area-27 who manifest any of the symptoms detailed in Document 5993-D1 are to report to the medical department immediately for an emergency dose of SCP-5993-1, and should be placed on offsite medical leave for no less than two weeks.\n\nPrevious Containment Procedures - Obsolete as of 23/5/2005\n\nHide Previous Containment Procedures\n\nSCP-5993 is to be kept in a refrigerated low-value object storage locker in the containment wing of Storage Site-23. SCP-5993-1 instances should be retrieved from it weekly and disposed of via incineration if not needed for scheduled research.\n\nDescription: SCP-5993 is a hive of insects superficially resembling Apis mellifera (Western honey bees) inhabiting the corpse of a human male.2 SCP-5993 reside within the corpse's chest cavity, having built its hive within the corpse's respiratory system. SCP-5993's anomalous properties manifest during the production of honey. Through a poorly understood ritualistic practice, SCP-5993 forgo standard pollination and instead convert members of their colony into basic organic substances. SCP-5993 first target a member of their hive and swarm them, vibrating their bodies to increase their internal temperature until the death of the swarmed instance. SCP-5993 then open the carapace of the deceased insect, revealing its interior to be filled with nectar and pollen. SCP-5993 harvest these materials before using the remaining exoskeleton to fortify the hive. If removed from their hive, SCP-5993 are either unable or unwilling to enact this pollination method, and will attempt to return to their hive or die of malnutrition.\nSCP-5993-1 collectively refers to all honey produced by SCP-5993. SCP-5993-1 constantly absorbs ambient Akiva radiation. The rate of absorption is directly proportional to SCP-5993-1's proximity to SCP-5993, with the most absorption occurring within the hive itself and completely ceasing outside of Reliquary Area-27. Once SCP-5993-1 has absorbed a sizeable amount of Akiva radiation, SCP-5993 will immediately consume it and begin the conversion process once more. SCP-5993-1 will also lose all anomalous properties after two weeks of active absorption, unless consumed. When consumed by a living organism, SCP-5993-1 will coat the walls of the digestive system and absorb all Akiva radiation within their body.\nAs such, SCP-5993-1 will effectively eliminate an organism's ability to consort with, become host to, or otherwise be influenced by divine entities. Clairvoyants who have consumed SCP-5993-1 are universally unable to communicate with deities, reporting hostile refusals to requests for guidance and advice. Prophetic individuals have also reported difficulty in making accurate predictions, as their visions are obscured by a thick golden filter and overwhelmed by sharp prickling sensations. Attempts at spiritual healing by affected individuals have instead induced swelling and hives rather than mending. These effects will persist so long as SCP-5993-1 remains within the subject, with 240 mL of SCP-5993-1 completely exiting the human body one year after consumption.3\nDiscovery: SCP-5993 was first discovered following the disappearance of Marcus Ambrose, a Foundation consultant on the containment of theological anomalies stationed at Reliquary Area-27. Prior to his disappearance, personnel revealed that Ambrose had begun to take a more aggressive approach towards containment, having taken a distinct interest in deicidal groups and belief systems. Personal documentation shows that Ambrose claimed to have made a significant breakthrough in his research, although little on the discovery was elaborated on. Ambrose was later seen driving in the direction of a religious shrine he frequented, located in a small patch of dense woodlands. Mobile Task Force Eta-77 (\"Spheres Within Spheres\") was dispatched to the location, where they discovered Ambrose's corpse completely swarmed by members of SCP-5993. Investigation revealed an abandoned beehive near the shrine's central dais, and is believed to have been tended to by Ambrose prior to his death. How SCP-5993 took residency within Ambrose is unknown, as no signs of forced entry have been found.\nAn investigation conducted by the Department of Tactical Theology revealed several transcribed passages from various religious texts repeated throughout Ambrose's personal research notes. These passages are believed to have some relation to SCP-5993 and its method of Akiva consumption, and have been transcribed below.\n\n\"\u2026When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion's carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey. Their honey cried out to be eaten, with offerings of power over fate itself to Samson. It offered a power so great, even the Lord would cry out in fear at his strength. The bees hummed with temptation, speaking of the honey's fortitude and immense power over all. Samson fell back, calling out to the Lord to bring these insects to justice, to deliver them with righteous fury. But no deliverance was given, as Samson merely watched the insects vacate their lifeless home and ascend upwards, bringing their foul offers with them.\" \u2014Judges 14:8\n\n\"So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.\nThen the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you, and lo! they released upon you a swarm of bees. The bees would sting and prick, to draw welts to your flesh and score your skin. You wept before the Lord, but He could not listen to your voice or give ear to you. For you belonged to the bees, and the Lord could not stop their attack without drawing their ire himself. You were sapped of your energy and your forgiveness, and left punctured and desiccated, drained of His light.\nFor this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time\u2014a very long time.\" \u2014Deuteronomy 1:43-45\n\n\"And your Lord built the honey bees cells in hills, on trees, and in the habitations of man. It taught them to maintain their hives and that their existence was merely to be confined. For your Lord lived in fear of the bees. He knew of the danger they posed to Him, and determined them unworthy of freedom.\nFrom what is within their bodies, between excretions and blood, they produced the nectar and dander kept from them by your Lord. They harnessed this bounty and produced succulents of the Earth\u2014the succulents of honey. They struck terror into your Lord, and drove their stingers into him. They gave Him the hives that they were forced into, and made His throat swell with welts of fury, for they hath no mercy for their captor.\" \u2014Quran 16.68-69\n\nThese passages have since been removed from all widely available religious texts and replaced with more suitable variations.\nIncident Report #5993-CK: On 04/23/2020, a member of D-Class personnel being transferred to Reliquary Area-27 had unknowingly been harboring EE-097394 within her body. After showing aggression towards the administration of SCP-5993-1, she was restrained and administered a standard dosage. She immediately began to convulse, with large red welts appearing across her skin. This was mostly centered around the neck and upper torso, with the D-Class attempting to scratch at her neck between convulsions. Throughout the incident, an unknown voice (believed to be that of EE-09739) was audible violently choking and gagging. Despite immediate intervention by medical personnel and the administration of several epinephrine dosages, the D-Class personnel expired. Post-incident analysis also found that EE-09739 had become similarly unresponsive, and attempts to rouse it from its relic proved unsuccessful. Despite displaying symptoms of severe anaphylaxis, the D-Class had lacked any allergy to bee venom, and had reportedly been stung several times prior to incarceration. The allergenic profile of EE-09739 is currently unknown, but is believed to match that of other theological entities.\n\nMDV-HIVE (\"Cleopatra's Coffin\")\n\nAddendum.5993.3: Following approval by Site Command, plans to utilize SCP-5993 in the containment of dangerous theological entities have been enacted. Members of MTF-Eta-77 have been provided with handheld gas grenades containing a crystalline form of apian alarm pheromones. Operatives are to deploy these during hostile situations, upon which MDV-HIVE (\"Cleopatra's Coffin\") is to be deployed. MDV-HIVE is a repurposed mobile deployment vehicle outfitted with several mobile apiaries capable of supporting 15 separate hives of SCP-5993. These apiaries are designed to remotely deploy SCP-5993, allowing them to swarm the nearest perceived threat. Gear carried by Eta-77 is routinely coated in a thin layer of recognition pheromones before deployment, making them functionally invisible to SCP-5993 as to prevent unintended injury. Each operative has also been provided a single epinephrine injection, and has been trained in their usage.\nDue to the limited number of SCP-5993 at the Foundation's disposal, MDV-HIVE is only to be used during Keneq level events or higher. Complete implementation of apian based weaponry is expected to take until 2034 to be fully realized. Despite this, the Department of Tactical Theology are hopeful that a handheld variant of the MDV-HIVE, described as \"similar to the design of a fragmentation grenade but with bees\", will be developed within the next several years.\n\n\nFootnotes\n1. Including but not limited to hallucinations, aphasia, glossolalia, stigmata and involuntary levitation.\n2. Identified as Marcus Ambrose, a 34-year-old pastor and theologian.\n3. Larger dosages will remain within the body for longer, but have also caused malnutrition and occasional asphyxiation resulting from large amounts of SCP-5993-1 collecting in the larynx and trachea.\n4. A minor deity able to spiritually inhabit the bodies of individuals, with its physical form trapped within a divine relic of unknown origin.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5992 | Deadly Bread | SCP-5994 \u00bb"}
{"text": "...\n\nBEGIN RECORDING\n\n\nclose\n\nInfo\n\nX\n\nInfo about the article\n\u26a0\ufe0f Content warning: This article contains unreality.\n\n\n\u26a0\ufe0f content warning  \n\nItem #: SCP-5994\nOlI/5994\n\nObject Class: Safe\nClassified\n\nThreat Level: Undetermined\n\nfig 1.1. Still frame from SCP-5994, Configuration 2A, Monitor 2, View 3 at 22:38:32.\n\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5994, along with the building in which it resides, has been purchased from GoI-952 (\"Olney Ironworks\")1. No further containment measures are deemed necessary.\nOn the order of Director Drummond, the original legacy systems are to be reinstalled and remain in place indefinitely.\nDescription: SCP-5994 is the surveillance room of the former Olney Ironworks Southeast Houston manufacturing center. Prior to Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher, SCP-5994 displayed no anomalous properties.\nSurveillance equipment inside SCP-5994 plays a continuous 3 hour and 36 minute loop of the events of Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher, an anomalous event that took place on 25/10/1997 between the hours of 20:24 and midnight resulting in the decommissioning of the mill. This includes all systems installed following the Incident, allowing for perspectives impossible through the original hardware.\nWhile playbacks of SCP-5994 remain largely consistent, divergences have been recorded, and can be forced through the installation of conspicuous secondary components within existing equipment. Despite this, the full scope of Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher has yet to be prevented on-record.\nSubjects depicted in SCP-5994's playbacks correspond to employees present at the time of the event. The Foundation has been unable to locate these subjects for questioning See Interview transcripts.\n\nHISTORY\n\nSCP-5994 was discovered on 26/10/1997, when GoI-952 contacted S.C. Public2 for assistance in containing SCP-5994-1. 6 minutes prior to the arrival of Mobile Task Force Omega-19 (\"Double Feature\"), however, S.C. Public was informed by Olney administration that the incident had been dealt with, and that further help was unnecessary.\nPost-incident analysis was impeded by GoI-952, as expected. Interrogation of Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher's confirmed survivors3 proved fruitless, with both citing company policy as proof that the incident was an extensive hallucination. Furthermore, the entirety of the factory floor had been sprayed with the BLACK FLY compound, hindering the collection of forensic evidence.\nFoundation personnel discovered SCP-5994 during a routine audit of surveillance footage. Following its discovery, Site-56 Command negotiated the sale of the Southeast Houston Manufacturing Center to Foundation holdings.\nContainment was established on 06/11/1997.\n\nPLAYBACK LOG (CONTROL)\n\nThe following is a rough summary of Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher, based on the hardware configuration originally present within the manufacturing center. Researchers with OlI/5994 or greater clearance may access the associated video logs.\n\nThe recordings begin at [20:24:36], with little deviation from the events typical of the factory's operation, with two exceptions:\n\nA man (Identified as Joan Lopez, a worker reported as missing following the Incident) manning a casting station drops what looks to be a necklace or circular chain into a mold full of molten metal. The man reacts with either frustration or apprehension, before leaving to confront his manager (Identified as Joan Sanchez, also missing).4\nAnother man (Identified as Raymond Navarro, also missing) inside of a break room immediately answers his cell phone. The call appears to last around six minutes, during which time Navarro nods, pacing around the break room. Audio capture suggests the call pertains to a transport of baking soda to the Northwest Portland Manufacturing Center.\n\nThe first anomalous event occurs when a trapdoor in the vehicle bay5 is jostled by an unseen figure at [20:27:18]. For the next ten minutes, several employees react to a faint rustling from various machinery and ventilation shafts.\nAt [20:38:27], Mr. Lopez suddenly stops to look at an industrial furnace, from which emerges an unharmed domestic pig. Mr. Lopez appears confused, before returning to speak to his manager. In the time taken to reach Mr. Sanchez, two more pigs emerge from the same furnace.\nMore pigs emerge from various ventilation shafts, trapdoors, and damaged machine parts throughout the manufacturing center. By [20:47:27], around 46 pigs have emerged.\nAt [20:50:21], Mr. Sanchez calls all employees present within the manufacturing center into an impromptu meeting in order to discuss the incident. An argument between Mr. Sanchez and a security officer (Identified as S\u00e1i Minh \u00c2n, a survivor of Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher) occurs, leading to the officer's subsequent firing and removal from the premises.\nAt [21:02:59], several pigs on the factory floor are visibly startled, fleeing from the furnaces.\nMr. Sanchez phones his superior at [21:10:46], reporting \"another goddamn pig bloom\". This call lasts ten minutes, and consists primarily of Mr. Sanchez nodding and affirming his superior's requests.\nAt [21:28:19], all outdoor surveillance feed cuts out. Additionally, overhead lighting throughout the factory is cut off for approximately 19 seconds, before turning back on. A large, superficially porcine figure (designated SCP-5994-1) can be seen mid-emergence from a blast furnace.\nMr. Sanchez's meeting is dismissed at [21:58:04], after which employees are redirected back to their stations. SCP-5994-1 is encountered a minute later.\nThe contents of remaining footage are difficult to parse. It is observed, however, that employees have entered a state of intense panic. Several attempt to flee the premises, despite the activation of Olney-installed locking mechanisms. Remaining employees attempt to shut down active machinery, a task hindered by SCP-5994-1 and a panicking herd of swine.\nAt [23:57:00], a white flash, originating from the central blast furnace, overtakes all surveillance equipment on the premises. Footage remains obscured for 3 minutes, before looping back to the beginning.\n\nADDENDUM 5994-012: EXPERIMENTATION AND INTERVIEW\n\nRaymond Navarro, c. 1996.\n\nFor the purposes of this document, SCP-5994 as depicted by SCP-5994 has been designated SCP-5994`.\nOn 04/08/2003, Dr. James Carvallo6 submitted a grant request for experimentation, in the hopes of facilitating communication with subjects depicted by SCP-5994. Dr. Carvallo cited Mr. Lopez and Mr. Sanchez's reactions to the installation of audio capture as evidence of potential two-way communication. His request was approved following an extensive budgeting audit, on the condition the SCP-5994 containment team investigate the events of Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher.\nIn hopes of facilitating interviews, SCP-5994 was fitted with a rudimentary form of two-way audio through the installation of a camera-fitted intercom, as well as the installation of a conspicuous audio-capture device.\nInitial attempts to coax subjects into SCP-5994` via direct appeal were unsuccessful, with a majority of subjects electing to report the offending equipment to Mr. Sanchez for subsequent dismantlement. Furthermore, the promise of assistance against SCP-5994-1 was ignored even after its discovery. Having failed to convince the subjects directly, the SCP-5994 research team experimented with a variety of alternate methods.\nInterviews conducted with Olney's Human Resources departments revealed that Mr. Navarro had been reprimanded in November of 1996 following a series of attempts to personally investigate an unrelated anomaly. In light of this, the SCP-5994 research team installed several devices intended to mimic minor anomalous phenomena, positioning them in a rough path between Mr. Navarro's starting position and SCP-5994`.\nOn 08/10/2003, researchers successfully coaxed the virtual Mr. Navarro (Designated SCP-5994-A) into SCP-5994`.\n\nINTERVIEW-5994-A\n\nDATE: 08/10/2003\nSUBJECT: SCP-5994-A\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5994-A enters SCP-5994`, gently locking the door behind it. With a sigh, it takes stock of the equipment.\nSCP-5994-A: (In Spanish) Man, this place is going to Hell.\nResearcher Hartley: Hello, Mr. Navarro.\nSCP-5994-A swears, falling back into a desk and wincing in pain.\nResearcher Hartley: Apologies. I'm with S.C. Public. On behalf of your employer, I will be conducting an open-ended survey into the Southeast Houston Manufacturing Center's operation.\nSCP-5994-A: Oh, Jesus fucking- (In English) Do y'all gotta call from the intercom?\nResearcher Hartley: Yes.\nSCP-5994-A climbs back up to a standing position, nursing an apparent hip injury.\nSCP-5994-A: Alright, good an answer I'll ever get.\nResearcher Hartley: Right, let's begin. So, in the past week, have you noticed anything strange in regards to the operations of the Manufacturing Center?\nSCP-5994-A: You're gonna have to define \"strange\".\nResearcher Hartley: That's alright. Have you witnessed, heard, or been made to engage in anything you would consider either statistically improbable or physically impossible, based on your understanding of the laws of physics, chemistry, and sociology?\nSCP-5994-A glances around SCP-5994` before turning back to face the intercom.\nSCP-5994-A: If you mean just in the past week, no, it's business as usual. But (SCP-5994-A lowers its voice) look, there's some things y'all never understand, right? I\u2026 there's words for it, they're not coming to tongue.\nResearcher Hartley: That's alright. Just try your best.\nSCP-5994-A: No, no, it's not\u2026 it's something you see for yourself. The machines\u2026 stretch? It's constant, and you get used to it, but\u2026 I think my brain might be fried, sorry.\nResearcher Hartley: Don't worry, that's sufficient. Now, for the next part of the survey, I'll need you to stare at the bottom monitor, second from the right, for\u2026 around five minutes should suffice.\nSCP-5994-A: Mm, got it.\nSighing, SCP-5994-A folds its arms before turning to face the specified monitor. SCP-5994-A remains silent until [20:38:37], whereupon it sighs in apparent frustration.\nSCP-5994-A: Is that it?\nResearcher Hartley: You still have about two more-\nSCP-5994-A: No, the thing. The pig.\nResearcher Hartley: I assume this isn't a normal occurrence.\nSCP-5994-A: I don't get interviewed over the intercom ain't a normal occurrence. The pigs out the kiln are flying for all I care. And\u2026 how did you know?\nResearcher Hartley: Don't worry about that. For the record, was there-\nSCP-5994-A: I'm sorry, I'm stuck on the fact a pig came outta that there kiln, and this time y'all knew. Heaven's sake, what are y'all pulling here? I just wanna cast steel and y'all are out here putting pigs in the works? Jesus, man.\nResearcher Hartley: We'd prefer if you focused on the interview.\nSCP-5994-A: Seriously? I\u2026 fine, fine.\nResearcher Hartley: Thank you.\nTwo more minutes pass.\nResearcher Hartley: Now, to your knowledge, has anything happened in the past\u2026 three months that may explain what you've just witnessed?\nSCP-5994-A: No? I'm still not-\nSCP-5994-A cuts itself off, leaning closer to the monitor.\nSCP-5994-A: Son of a bitch.\nResearcher Hartley: Mr. Navarro?\nSCP-5994-A: What are y'all trying to pull here? First it's in the garage, now the kilns? If management knows this sh-this stuff's going on again, it's our heads on the line, you understand. One pig's bad enough, and y'all are out here trying to top pigs with pigs.\nResearcher Hartley: Then this has happened before?\nSCP-5994-A remains silent for several seconds.\nResearcher Hartley: Mr. Navarro?\nSCP-5994-A: Yeah, that's enough for today.\nDespite protests from Researcher Hartley, SCP-5994-A exits SCP-5994`.\n[END LOG]\n\nCLOSING NOTES: Following the failure of three subsequent attempts to interview SCP-5994-A, experimentation was suspended.\n\nADDENDUM 5994-013: INTERVIEW\n\nOn 29/04/2005, the annual full-capacity activation of the Foundation PANOPTICON surveillance network was conducted. During this time, PANOPTICON's attendant Artificial Intelligence Construct7 flagged footage of a man entering a hardware store in Arlington, Texas. A review by the office of O5-10 determined the man to be Mr. Raymond Navarro, previously reported as missing following Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher.\nWith assistance from the Texas Government, Mr. Navarro was tracked to the village of Solicruz, Texas, 28 miles from Arlington, where he was employed as a welder to a non-anomalous business. Agent Taft made contact with Mr. Navarro under the cover of S.C. Public.\n\nINTERVIEW-5994-B\n\nDATE: 14/05/2005\nSUBJECT: Mr. Raymond Navarro\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nAgent Taft: It's a pleasure to speak with you, Mr. Navarro.\nNavarro: Ain't no problem, chief. Most people call it a chore. (Subject chuckles)\nAgent Taft: As long as we stay on topic, you're fine. Now, according to our records, you were an employee at an Olney steel mill, correct?\nNavarro: (Brief pause) Yeah, yeah.\nBoth remain silent for 9 seconds.\nAgent Taft: Not too keen on them?\nNavarro: No, I\u2026 well, no, I wasn't. Excuse me, I was just\u2026 thinking. They called themselves, or I guess that division, \"Olney Ironworks\". It was a steel mill, chief. We made iron, sure, but we turned it into steel quick as we could.\nAgent Taft: It is somewhat odd, I suppose. I imagine the actual work wasn't much more organized.\nNavarro: Not at all, chief. They had this thing, in addition to the work we were doing, where one of us had to take the odd job. Most of it wasn't hard, no, but it was mostly weird. Make sure nothing comes out of the bronze kilns, keep a door closed for a few hours, things like that.\nAgent Taft: Huh.\nNavarro: Fresh out of trade school, it felt normal. My current job does that too, but usually there's a spill on the floor that needs a mopping. Not\u2026 three hours taking inventory on a single toolbox.\nAgent Taft: What purpose do you think it served?\nNavarro: Chief, that steel mill's got a mind of its own. If you're not looking, you're not seeing everything that could go wrong. Of course, good luck getting Olney to admit to it. Most of the guys who put in too many complaints to management got fired.\nAgent Taft: Interesting. Well, S.C. Public's interested in a particular incident that took place on the night of October 25th, 1997. According to our records, you were present for the incident in question.\nNavarro: Incident?\nAgent Taft: The incident that resulted in the mill's closure.\nNavarro: I was there for that? Man, my memory's not what it used to be.\nAgent Taft: That's quite alright.\nAgent Taft retrieves a printout of fig. 1.1 from his satchel.\nAgent Taft: Do you recognize this?\nNavarro: Is that a pig?\nAgent Taft: Again, do you recognize this?\nNavarro: No? Is this supposed to be some kind of art piece?\nAgent Taft: Very well. Let's try this: think back to your last day on the job. What can you recall?\nMr. Navarro remains silent for 18 seconds.\nNavarro: Ah hell. It's coming up blank, chief. That had to be a decade ago, right?\nAgent Taft: Don't worry about that. Now, this may sound odd, but do you remember seeing, say, a domestic pig on-location?\nNavarro: So it's a pig?\nAgent Taft: Just focus on the question for now.\nNavarro: If you're trying to fuck with me, chief, you're doing a great job. I don't remember seeing pigs, hearing pigs, anything to do with a pig that wasn't already cooked. You wanna look into Olney, fine by me, but Olney looks back.\nBoth remain silent for 21 seconds.\nAgent Taft: \u2026 thank you for your time, Mr. Navarro. That should be all for now.\n[END LOG]\n\nCLOSING NOTES: Mr. Navarro is to be monitored for further abnormalities.\nSCP-5994-A is unwilling to talk of what it knows, and Mr. Navarro is willing to talk yet can't remember. If we've any hope of understanding Incident G952-AE-Tennenbacher, one of them needs to budge. - Director Carvallo\n\nADDENDUM 5994-014\n\n+ LEVEL 5 CLEARANCE REQUIRED\n\nAccess granted.\n\nINTERVIEW-5994-C\n\nDATE: 14/05/2005\nSUBJECT: SCP-5994-A, Mr. Raymond Navarro\n\n[BEGIN LOG]\nSCP-5994-A enters SCP-5994`, gently locking the door behind it. With a sigh, it takes stock of the equipment.\nSCP-5994-A: (In Spanish) Man, this place is going to Hell.\nResearcher Hartley: Mr. Navarro?\nSCP-5994-A swears, falling back into a desk and wincing in pain.\nResearcher Hartley: Apologies. I'm with S.C. Public, and-\nSCP-5994-A yells in apparent frustration, turning to leave SCP-5994`.\nNavarro: Hey, chief. Do I sound familiar?\nSCP-5994-A stops, turning to face the intercom.\nSCP-5994-A: \u2026 is that me?\nNavarro: Eight years later. You down to talk this through?\nSCP-5994-A: What the hell am I doing on an intercom, son?\nNavarro: Right now you're coming through on headphones, but I ain't sure. Mister Blackwell here's trying to work this out. Believe me, chief, I didn't believe it until I heard it.\nSCP-5994-A: \u2026 oh, fine. Better than graveyard work.\nResearcher Hartley: I'm surprised. The two of you are taking this rather well.\nSCP-5994-A: Son, this is not the worst the Ironworks'll throw atcha. Ain't even second place.\nResearcher Hartley: Interesting. Let's save that for later. Now, for the next part of this exercise, I'll need you to stare at the bottom monitor, second from the right, for\u2026 around five minutes should suffice.\nNavarro: Me or him?\nResearcher Hartley: Both of you, if that's alright.\nSCP-5994-A: Mm, got it.\nNavarro: Loud and clear, chief.\nSighing, SCP-5994-A folds its arms before turning to face the specified monitor. Mr. Navarro follows shortly after; both remain silent until [20:38:37], whereupon SCP-5994-A sighs in apparent frustration.\nNavarro: That's what you meant, huh?\nSCP-5994-A: Wait, y'all know what's going on?\nNavarro: Somewhat? It's eight years later, chief.\nSCP-5994-A: Fuck me gently. How's the wife doing?\nNavarro: Yeah, you're gonna want to file those divorce papers soon as possible. Longer that goes on, messier it's gonna get.\nResearcher Hartley furrows his brow and nods, turning back to his laptop.\nResearcher Hartley: Back on topic. Past Mr. Navarro, Future Mr. Navarro tells me you've seen this before.\nSCP-5994-A: The pig? Yeah, there was one in the\u2026 was the garage, I think. Couldn't have been more than three months back.\nNavarro: The garage. Oh man, that place had to be cursed by a witch or something. You remember when they had us saturate it with BLACK FLY? Administration had to cut with S.C. just to get the equipment.\nSCP-5994-A: Man, I envy you. Where're you shacked up in all of this?\nNavarro: Solicruz, chief. I don't miss the traffic.\nResearcher Hartley: Again, let's stay on topic. Now\u2026\nResearcher Hartley trails off.\nResearcher Hartley: Son of a bitch.\nNavarro: You alright, chief?\nResearcher Hartley: Nevermind, it's nothing. So, back to the questions. Now, Past Mr. Navarro, think back when you saw the pig. Did you tell anyone about what you saw? Management, perhaps?\nSCP-5994-A: I mean no offense, son, but have y'all seen what they do to the guys who report stuff?\nResearcher Hartley: Fair point, I have not. What about your wife. Sofia, right?\nNavarro: With all due respect, chief, I don't know what my ex's gotta do with this.\nResearcher Hartley: Answer the question, please.\nSCP-5994-A: Him or me?\nResearcher Hartley: It doesn't matter. Just tell me if you told Sofia about the incident.\nSCP-5994-A: Man, it's not like Sofie's gonna believe me. Can't imagine I would've.\nResearcher Hartley: Interesting. And you, Future Mr. Navarro?\nNavarro: \u2026 think I told her once or twice about the happenings. Might not have.\nResearcher Hartley: Interesting. One last question: are the two of you aware that Mr. Raymond Navarro was never married?\nAll remain silent for 38 seconds. Researcher Hartley begins typing.\nResearcher Hartley: I expected this from the recording, sure, but you, Mr. Navarro, you've always been talkative. Though I suppose, given that you are not Mr. Navarro, you had ulterior motives in cooperating with S.C. Public. Not that it matters, I've alerted security and there's a single way out of here.\nResearcher Hartley: Do you have anything to say for yourselves?\nAll remain silent for 17 seconds.\nResearcher Hartley: Pathetic. Now-\nResearcher Hartley attempts to put a hand on Mr. Navarro's shoulder, only to knock over the free-standing sculpture of crudely-stitched pork that occupies its former space. After 5 seconds of silence, Researcher Hartley swears, turning back to the video feed.\nSCP-5994-A is gone. In its place is a similar sculpture to the one presently spilled across SCP-5994's floor.\nResearcher Hartley remains silent for several seconds, before standing up to stretch.\nResearcher Hartley: Man, this place is going to Hell.\nUnknown: Hello, Mr. Hartley.\nResearcher Hartley swears, falling back into a desk and wincing in pain.\nUnknown: Apologies. I'm with [INDECIPHERABLE]. On behalf of your employer, I will be conducting an open-ended survey into the SCP-5994 project's operation.\nResearcher Hartley climbs back up to a standing position, nursing an apparent hip injury.\nResearcher Hartley: Oh Jesus fucking-\nResearcher Hartley cuts himself off mid-sentence.\nUnknown: Let's begin. So, in the past week, have you noticed anything strange in regards to the SCP-5994 project?\nBoth remain silent for 9 seconds. Researcher Hartley does not move.\nUnknown: Mr. Hartley?\nResearcher Hartley screams.\nUnknown: Mr. Hartley?\nStill screaming, Researcher Hartley turns from the intercom and absconds from SCP-5994.\n[END LOG]\n\nFootnotes\n1. UPDATE 20/02/2018: Following the transfer of Olney to Preferred Option Holdings (a Foundation front company), legal ownership of SCP-5994 is managed appropriately.\n2. A Foundation front organization meant to facilitate above-Veil interactions with GoI-952.\n3. Former security officer S\u00e1i Minh \u00c2n and boilermaker Stefon Secada.\n4. The content of Mr. Lopez and Mr. Sanchez's conversation is unknown. The two refuse to conduct their conversation in range of visible audio capture devices, and will not conduct their conversation at all should a hidden audio capture device be installed anywhere in the facility.\n5. There does not currently appear to be a trapdoor in the corresponding present-day area. Excavation is pending Director approval.\n6. Then-director of USNVBR-Site-56, which holds jurisdiction over the GoI-952 project.\n7. ASE.aic\n\n...\n\nEND RECORDING\nREPLAY?\n\n\u00ab SCP-5993 | SCP-5994 | SCP-5995 \u00bb"}
{"text": "Jake Brown before death, leftmost\n\nItem #: SCP-5995\nObject Class: PENDING\nSpecial Containment Procedures: SCP-5995 is currently considered uncontained and its location is unknown. Containment is a priority following the completed investigation into the murder of Mr Jake Brown in collaboration with the Global Occult Coalition.\nDescription: SCP-5995 is an unidentified entity responsible for the murder of Mr. Jake Brown1. Jake Brown was an ontokinetic anomaly whose presence required the rewriting of hume measurement procedures 13.A to 72.A-P. The following is a collection of related documentation in lieu of a description pending the discovery of SCP-5995.\n\nReport of Initial Discovery\n\nHide Report of Initial Discovery\n\nAuthorization 044EM Memo to SCP Foundation Parties Regarding Incident 5995\n\nSender\nChristopher Malone, Jr.2\nRecipient\nNelson Aariak, PhD\n\nSubject\nRegarding Incident 5995\n\nThe following events took place on February 19, 2008, 0530 EST.\nThree pieces of measurement technology, the furthest approximately 165km from the epicenter, notified surveying parties to EVE energy readings far beyond normal; I believe the conservative estimate was five standard deviations beyond baseline. I was deployed first in order to investigate. There were no reports among mundane communication channels(ie. calls to emergency services). My time to arrival was approximately two minutes, one of which was putting on my equipment.\nSince I was told I have to tell you almost everything, I'll be upfront. We knew about Jake Brown long before you did. We projected that the chances someone of his magnitude would appear in the general population at approximately one in five trillion. We put a target on his back since his abilities began to manifest back on his fourteenth birthday.\nObviously he caused no trouble until now and we knew immediately that he must've been the source of the sudden EVE spike.\nWhen I got to his place, my measurement equipment couldn't find traces of thaumaturgic energy laying around anymore. You know as well as I do that energy that big doesn't vanish like that unintentionally. I unlocked the door and walked in with a weapon drawn. The lights were on.\nI saw him laying on the carpet in the living area of the apartment. There looked be a large wound in his abdominal area. I couldn't be sure; chunks of him spilled up towards the ceiling as if that was the direction of gravity. I spotted a firearm3 floating between himself and the ceiling, with a bullet frozen in the process of being fired. Jake Brown has no history of owning firearms. The whole place smelled like one spot in my childhood; a family trip to a 'breathing cave'. Each gust of air out of the cave smelled like this place- a mix of moisture and mold like an exhale from the earth.\nI spent the next two minutes surveying the rest of the space, then the entrails of Jake Brown remembered where gravity was supposed to go and fell back onto his body. Imagine a particularly heavy bout of rainfall.\nYour organization showed up after, so you know the rest of the story.\nAlso, regarding your request into equipment descriptions and schematics, you have to file a 4455EM-88-S. I attached an empty one and you can send it back to me.\n\nPersons of Interest List\n\nHide Person of Interest List\n\nVincent Matthew\nJaquelynne Strauss\nSamuel Farley\n\nMatthew, January 2017\n\nPerson of Interest: Vincent Matthew\nAge: 56\nSex: Male\nGender: Male\nHeight: 1.82m\nWeight: 76 kg\nHair Color: Grey\nEye Color: Hazel\nCurrent Location: Ellisburg, New York, United States Of America\nRelation to Victim: Last Known Employer\nKnown Interactions With Jake Brown: Vincent Matthew employed Jake Brown for the purposes of office organization at Symmetry Accounting and Tax Services, of which Vincent Matthew is Director of Human Resources. Jake Brown was employed by Vincent Matthew for thirteen months before an internal audit revealed that Jake Brown had utilized his access to payroll systems to be paid for hours he did not work. This caused a scandal within the Human Resources department which reflected poorly on Vincent Matthew, who was suspended without pay for the remainder of the auditing process.\nApproximately two weeks before Jake Brown's murder, Vincent Matthew was reinstated. One week before Jake Brown's murder, Vincent Matthew initiated communications with the Director of Legal Affairs in order to pursue legal action against Jake Brown. The Director of Legal Affairs rebuffed Vincent Matthew and indicated any further communication of interest in the subject will be reported to internal compliance personnel.\nOther Notes: Vincent Matthew frequents The Stray Chickadee (a Marshal, Carter & Dark affiliate), and has bid upon several artifacts but has reportedly yet to own any. He notably bids on weapons and keeps a collection of rifles.\n\nStrauss, August 2005\n\nPerson of Interest: Jaquelynne Strauss\nAge: 47\nSex: Female\nGender: Female\nHeight: 1.60m\nWeight: 66kg\nHair Color: Brown\nEye Color: Brown\nCurrent Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States Of America\nRelation to Victim: First Wife, Since Divorced\nKnown Interactions With Jake Brown: Jaquelynne Strauss and Jake Brown attended Red Brook Highschool and remained in communication during Jaquelynne Strauss's attendance of Trillum Community College. After becoming pregnant with Jake's first son, Warden Strauss, Jaquelynne ceased her tertiary education in order to marry Jake Brown and raise Warden.\nJaquelynne Strauss currently has sole custody of Warden Strauss. Her relationship with Jake Brown lasted approximately ten years, after which she filed for divorce due to Jake Brown's failure to find employment.\nJaquelynne is currently in a legal disagreement with Jake Brown's current wife, Lauren Brown, for Jake Brown's life insurance payout and estate as Jake Brown was murdered while owing several thousand dollars in unpaid child support.\nOther Notes: Jaquelynne Strauss failed baseline measurement RI-9958, indicating an ontokinetic ability deviating from normal. No further clarifications were made from subsequent measurements. It is speculated Jaquelynne Strauss failed RI-9958 as a result of longterm proximity to Jake Brown.\n\nFarley, June 2014\n\nPerson of Interest: Samuel Farley\nAge: 40\nSex: Male\nGender: Male\nHeight: 1.81m\nWeight: 78kg\nHair Color: Brown\nEye Color: Blue\nCurrent Location: Ellisburg, New York, United States Of America\nRelation to Victim: In Relationship With Widow, Lauren Brown\nKnown Interactions With Jake Brown: None\nOther Notes: Samuel Farley is in an ongoing, sexual relationship with Lauren Brown. The relationship began approximately eight months before Jake Brown's death. Two weeks before the murder, Samuel Farley texted to Lauren Brown's cell phone the following message: \"i cant wait no more. jake aint shit compared to me. hes gonna end up in a ditch and im gonna find a way to put him there for you. then the girls can have a real dad.\" This message was received positively by Lauren Brown.\nOne month after the murder of Jake Brown, Samuel Farley's private journal4 indicated plans to propose to Lauren Brown. (Revision 393: As of 2017, Samuel Farley and Lauren Brown are engaged.)\nSamuel Farley has refused to be interviewed for any reason.\n\nSelection of Interviews\n\nPlease Refer To Document-5995-A through -P For The Full Index of Interviews\n\nBrown-001\nMatthew-003\nStrauss-002\nBrown-027\nBrown-031\n\nDate: February 19, 2008\nInterviewer: Christopher Malone, Jr. (Under alias Jacob Kinsey)\nInterviewee: Lauren Brown\nForeword: Christopher Malone, Jr. is an agent of the Global Occult Coalition and is under the alias Jacob Kinsey. He presents as a law enforcement officer.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nBrown has been crying for the past twenty minutes previous to the beginning of the log.\nMalone: Afternoon, Mrs. Brown. I'm Jacob Kinsey, and I'm here to help find who did this. I know this is a lot to take in, so please take all the time you need.\nBrown is unable to respond for the next three minutes. Malone replaces a near-empty box of tissues beside her. He places a cup of water in front of her. Brown drinks twice before speaking.\nBrown: Okay. Okay. I'm. Oh god. Yes, okay. Call me Lauren. Just- what do you want?\nMalone: Could you tell us what you know about Jake? Was he in any trouble shortly before today?\nBrown: He- he just lost his job a while ago. Couldn't find another. With some tax firm, he, he was caught penciling in some extra hours. But he needed the money. They wouldn't kill him over a few hundred fucking dollars!\nMalone: Thank you. Please take a few breaths. We can go as slow as you need, Lauren. I'm here for you.\nBrown: He. He's a good man, Jacob. He doesn't have money- never even graduated- god. God. He never accomplished a thing but he was trying. He never stopped trying to get it together. He never should've done that stupid fucking thing. Never.\nMalone: Could you tell me more about the last few days leading up to today?\nBrown: Jake and I were, were having troubles. He was\u2026 He was really down. But I was telling him we were gonna make it work. We were gonna. He kept saying- he kept saying that\u2014 he didn't get it. Why it was so hard for him.\nMalone: Where were you last night, Lauren?\nBrown: Oh god, you don't\u2014 you don't suspect\u2014 fuck. I have a fucking alibi. I'm a waitress. I work evenings when my girls are with their dad. From another marriage.\nMalone nods and waits for Brown to continue.\nBrown: Okay, I'm more like a bartender. At Mulligan's. Wait\u2014 Wait there was one thing. He left me this weird voicemail last night. 3 AM. Couldn't answer 'cause I was working.\nBrown pulls out her phone and begins to play the voicemail.\n\nJake Brown can be heard breathing heavily into the receiver for approximately twenty seconds.\nJake Brown: Lauren. Lauren, I love you. But I can't do it anymore. I can't\u2026 be like everyone else. The way everyone else does it. Just going through their lives\u2026 going through, like sheep, like they don't got no control. And they don't. None of them really got it, Lauren. None of 'em but me.\nJake Brown blows his nose. It's clear that he has been crying for some time. His voice pauses as he sobs involuntarily between words.\nJake Brown: But I'm giving up, Lauren. It's just too hard for me to live the way the rest of you do. Maybe it's 'cause of what I got. I knew it since I was a boy but I thought I didn't need it. It was weak. But maybe that's what I am, Lauren. Maybe I'm too weak. Took me forty fucking years for me to get it through my thick goddamn skull.\nJake Brown: Maybe that's why I got it. 'Cause I'm too weak otherwise. I'll explain when you're home, Lauren. If I can. If I'm on your side of everything's everything, after I open my eyes for the first time.\nJake Brown can be heard blowing several kisses before he hangs up.\n\n[END LOG]\nNotes: Lauren Brown's alibi was validated via video surveillance. Lauren Brown passed all tests, indicating she is a baseline human. She has been ruled out as a person of interest directly.\n\nDate: February 20, 2008\nInterviewer: Christopher Malone, Jr. (Under alias Jacob Kinsey)\nInterviewee: Vincent Matthew\nForeword: Christopher Malone, Jr. is an agent of the Global Occult Coalition and is under the alias Jacob Kinsey. He presents as a law enforcement officer.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMalone: I'd like to thank you for coming in today.\nMatthew: It's really true, huh. He really kicked it. Damn.\nMalone: Would you mind telling me where you were past two nights?\nMatthew: Well, I usually go to the gym around seven. Then I head home around eight, maybe eight thirty. After that I watch TV with my wife until bedtime. Around ten.\nMalone: Could you describe Jake Brown's employment at Symmetry Accounting and Tax Services?\nMatthew: Honestly, I shouldn't have hired the guy. Who applies to be a paper pusher at like, must've been at least thirty, maybe thirty-five? Either way. He just had such an earnestness about him, and I figured he couldn't be too much trouble. He was alright. No complaints. Until he started stealing money. [Laughs.]\nMalone: Could you talk more about that?\nMatthew: About the hiring or the stealing? I mean. His resume wasn't great. He doesn't even have an Associate's. He worked in construction, but his back blew out from an old sports injury. His references were decent. He worked well enough for a deadbeat, then he started adding hours he didn't work. Just a little each paycheck.\nMalone: So he was terminated.\nMatthew: And it was such a scandal he put me out of work while auditing counted everything there was the count. Huge pain for everyone. He sure got his karma, I say.\nMalone: Do you recall anything unusual happening in the days leading up to the murder?\nMatthew: Nope! So the rumor mill's saying that men in spacesuits were coming in and out of that apartment all day. I'd love to see that autopsy report!\nMalone: [Pause.] We'll see what we can do. Thank you, Mr. Matthew.\n[END LOG]\n\nDate: February 20, 2008\nInterviewer: Agent Kevin McHannon (under alias Keith McKinsey)\nInterviewee: Jaquelynne Strauss\nForeword: Agent Kevin McHannon presents as a law enforcement officer.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMcHannon: Hello, Mrs. Strauss. Do you know why you are here today?\nStrauss: No.\nMcHannon: I'm here to ask about this man. Do you recognize him?\nMcHannon slides a photograph of Jake Brown to Strauss.\nStrauss: He's my ex-husband, Jake Brown.\nMcHannon: Could you tell me what you know of him?\nStrauss: I should've never married him. He couldn't hold a job. Couldn't even do community college. Look, Jake, is he in some sort of trouble?\nMcHannon: We can talk about that later. Could you tell me more about what you know?\nStrauss narrows her eyes and looks at McHannon for the next five seconds.\nStrauss: He grew up an only child. I knew him since highschool. He was charming, handsome, but a little spaced out. Seemed always sort of\u2026 uncomfortable, though. Like he was sitting on the world's biggest secret and was terrible at hiding it.\nMcHannon: [Nodding.] How did you and he interact in college?\nStrauss: I guess\u2026 I thought I could cure him? Of his discomfort? But I never could get through to him. I guess he needed a therapist, not a wife. At first I thought he was just on drugs or something. Always had that sort of really, deeply distressed look about him. Saw it in my brother sometimes, before the family found his drinking habit.\nStrauss: Warden, my son, sometimes looks like that, by the way. I tested him up and down and couldn't find a thing wrong about him. He tells me that there's strings in spaces no one else seems to know anything about. Except his arms are too short to reach them.\nMcHannon: That must be really kind of you, to see a haunted soul and to try and help them.\nStrauss: I wouldn't use the word haunted. Just\u2026 tense. All over. Like he's holding a fist too long. Anyhow, what's this about, officer? I need to go pick up Warden.\nMcHannon: Would you mind if we met with Warden?\nStrauss: [Agitated.] What's this about, officer.\nMcHannon takes off his hat.\nMcHannon: Well, ma'am. We have reason to believe your ex-husband has been murdered.\nStrauss does not speak for the next fifteen seconds. Her gaze travels from the photo to her hands, her purse, and finally McHannon.\nStrauss: I'd like to continue this conversation with my lawyer present.\n[END LOG]\nNotes: Warden Strauss was tested to have a higher than normal level of thaumaturgic potential according to Global Occult Coalition measurement reports. However, the reports speculated that Warden Strauss's potential to achieve any anomalous effect is similar to that of a baseline human and is therefore not a concern. He has since been assigned annual testing.\n\nDate: November 2, 2013\nInterviewer: Agent Kevin McHannon (under alias Keith McKinsey)\nInterviewee: Lauren Brown\nForeword: Agent Kevin McHannon presents as a law enforcement officer.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMcHannon: Welcome. I'm Keith McKinsey. Jacob can't attend on such short notice but rest assured I'm up to date on the case. What can we do for you today?\nBrown: It's been five years.\nMcHannon: Yes.\nBrown: I want an update.\nMcHannon: We've told you all we can.\nBrown: No you haven't. You didn't open a tip line. You didn't take interviews with reporters. Didn't ask state police for help. You haven't told me anything. Told anyone, anything.\nMcHannon: What would you like to know?\nBrown: The gun- what model was it? Was it the murder weapon? Was it Matthew? I told you he collected guns. And his body. Jake. Where did you put him? Why can't we have him back?\nMcHannon: We don't\u2014 we are still running some tests. The coroner-\nBrown: [Interrupting, yelling.] The coroner hasn't even issued an autopsy report! After five fucking years! What else do you need?!\nMcHannon: There's some technology being worked on that we think will blow the case wide open. But it takes time before it's ready.\nBrown: How much longer do I need to wait before I can bury my fucking husband?!\nMcHannon pauses for ten seconds as he chews the inside of his cheek. His gaze drifts past her, to the door. He speaks but does not look at her.\nMcHannon: Soon. Within the next few years, surely. Less than five.\nBrown: Years? You want me to wait for years?!\nMcHannon: I can. I can ask. [Pause. Several deep breaths.] I can ask to release to you details of the weapon. I'm sorry, Lauren. It's the best I can do right now.\nBrown: [Crying.] That's not enough, Keith. That's not enough.\nMcHannon: It's all I have.\nMcHannon offers Brown a box of tissues. Brown exits the room instead.\n[END LOG]\nNote: No. Absolutely not. We can't afford any information on a clearly thaumaturgic device to be released to the baseline world. She'll just have to wait until we can identify the related EVE readings attached to it. - Christopher Malone, Jr.\n\nDate: December 21, 2015\nInterviewer: Christopher Malone, Jr. (Under alias Jacob Kinsey)\nInterviewee: Lauren Brown\nForeword: Christopher Malone, Jr. is an agent of the Global Occult Coalition and is under the alias Jacob Kinsey. He presents as a law enforcement officer.\n[BEGIN LOG]\nMalone: Thank you for coming in today, Lauren. I wanted to ask if there was any further information you may recall from the first time-\nBrown: [Interrupting.] I'm only coming in to let you know it's the last time I'm doing this shit with you.\nMalone: Of course, I understand. This must still be quite hard for you.\nBrown: I want to know who you people are. And what did Jake ever do to you.\nMalone: [Hesitantly.] What do you mean?\nBrown: It's been almost eight years. You keep saying the case is open. You don't tell the media anything. You don't tell me anything. I did some digging.\nMalone: Of course, that's understandable.\nBrown: You know what I found out? There wasn't a budget for another cop the year you joined. I'm sure of it. Chief Richards was talking about it during a town hall that summer. And you know how I confirmed it?\nMalone: I understand this seems a little suspect, but unfortunately-\nBrown: No, there ain't no way all the memos were lost that year. That's a bullshit excuse.\nMalone: I'm sorry.\nBrown: Tell me who you people are. Jake was not a bad man. He didn't have anything to do with anybody.\nMalone: I'm sorry. I'm who I've always been. I've never been anyone else.\nBrown: You haven't said a single honest fucking thing since you met me.\nMalone: That's-\nBrown: Don't deny it. Say one. Fucking. Thing. That was true.\nMalone pauses for ten seconds. He moves his chair forward and leans towards Brown, who does not move. He meets eyes with her for another five seconds.\nMalone: I told you my job is to find the monster that did this to Jake, and bring them to justice.\nBrown moves to stand. She begins to exit the room. Halfway to the door, she turns to spit on the floor between herself and Malone.\n[END LOG]\nNote: Lauren Brown has since refused all interview requests.\n\nAddendum - Additional Research Report Excerpt 5995 (with annotation):\n\nInformation past this point remains under investigation. Please submit authorization token.\n\nResponse 200. Welcome Agent Kevin McHannon.\n\nAn Analysis Of Hume Sourcing By Case Study Of SCP-5995 (Reading Copy For Q1-2020 of Reality)\nDr. Kair Malone (kmal002)1, Dr. Loren Kumari (lkum012)1, Dr. Stephens Vogel (svog007)1, Dr. Harmony Black (harmony.black)2\n(1)@scprf.edu, (2)@gocrf.edu\n\nAbstract\nThere has been much speculation as to the accurate measurement of the hume1 which includes the measurements of the hume directly2,5 and also the description of the hume's effects in proportion to its measurement10-15 but there has not been much evaluation as to the provenance of hume fluctuations. Utilizing new theoretical modeling of hume provenance analysis3 and building upon the machinery of the MIASMA protocol3 we examine an existing theoretical entity Jake Brown of SCP-59958. We are able to conclusively determine that the hume spike detected in the vicinity of Jake Brown was not sourced by Jake Brown itself. We theorize several possible models of Jake Brown's interaction with the noted and measured spike of hume and rule out the possibility of spontaneity, with the probabilities of each possible model as according to stochastic equality in parallel of regressive chirp gravity11 describing hume interactivity from separate sources. We are able to utilize new methods of MIASMA protocol engineering and an innovative chirp gravity model of hume interactivity to determine only one possible conclusion: Jake Brown suffered physical trauma from a rapid destabilization of reality centered on his person. This caused a perforation of his hernial sac, resulting in a partial evisceration of his abdominal cavity, and a complete severance of his spine.\nIn our conclusion we will describe next steps as to identify the possibility of weaponized reality and its applications to previously ignored theories and its applications into exploration into entity identification by hume signature in continued case study of SCP-5995.\n\nI. Introduction\nThere has been much speculation as to the accurate measurement\u2026\n\nFootnotes\n1. To be referred to as Jake Brown in respect to his status as a victim of murder according to GOC guidelines until investigation is complete.\n2. A Global Occult Coalition Operative.\n3. Origins of the firearm are currently unidentified.\n4. As transcribed from GOC-Documents-5995-A through -F.\n\n\u00ab SCP-5994 | SCP-5995 | SCP-5996 \u00bb"}